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It’s the time of year when snakes are beginning to move back to their dens. Recently, a rattlesnake was killed in town. Please be aware of your surroundings and watch for them as they prepare to hibernate.
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Handloom downpour in Hyderabad
These exhibitions have artists from different parts of the country displaying some of the best products you can choose from
Are you one of those people who have been inspired by the recent handloom promotions and campaigns done across the city and wonder where you could get the best and a variety of handloom weaves for that quick and affordable wardrobe makeover?
Well, it’s just the right time for you to be excited about handlooms and if you aren’t, make most of a plethora of handloom exhibits and fairs that are on in the city. These exhibitions have artists from different parts of the country displaying some of the best products you can choose from. We bring you a glimpse of what’s in store, literally.
Swayambhar Nari is a handloom expo that has artists from the state of West Bengal putting up some very affordable clothes and accessories that are wonderfully crafted for enthusiasts. Sudheshna Paul, a member of the Swayambhar Nari organisation, takes us through the expo and shares, “Everything that we’re selling here at the exhibition is handmade. Our earings and the neck pieces, which have found many takers, are first designed on paper and then made out of metal, beads, colourful shells, threads and stones.
Even our sarees, kurtas and footwear are completely handmade. Some of the artists here are known for hand-painting on sarees, kurtas and even T-shirts. We also have leather bags that have the most beautiful hand-embroideries done on them. Other accessories include pretty home decor too. Then there are hand-painted umbrellas, kettles and other tiny show pieces here. We are here in the city after two long years, and hope these products find good homes.” At this particular exhibition, your designs can be painted or embroidered live too, onto a dupatta, umbrella, etc., of your choice. This handloom expo, which ends on August 25 has some of the most elegant designs at affordable prices.
The State Handloom Expo that is on at Shilparamam in Uppal is almost like a time travel back to several years ago. Their traditional handloom products are sure to remind you of the times of the past. “We have around 72 stalls set up at the expo wherein artists from different states and cities across the country including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Narayanpet, Gadwal and many others, have put up their works for sale. Most of these stalls have clothing that is hand woven,” the general manager of the expo tells CE, adding that it goes on till August 31.
On the other hand, the 10-day Indian Silk Gallery Handloom Expo at Kalinga Cultural Centre, Banjara Hills has been making noise for its one-of-a-kind sale. Their hand-woven silk products are favourites so you are sure to have a tough time choosing the final products that go into your shopping bag. There are over 50 stalls which will be showcasing and displaying attractive textures, and rich designs of silk, cotton and linen handloom products from 12 Indian states weaving clusters. If you have a wedding coming up or are looking for places to shop for the upcoming festive season or just need an excuse to own a traditional silk saree, you can trust this place for pure silk material. | https://www.indulgexpress.com/events/hyderabad/2022/aug/24/handloom-downpour-in-hyderabad-43443.html | 2022-08-24T18:23:08Z | https://www.indulgexpress.com/events/hyderabad/2022/aug/24/handloom-downpour-in-hyderabad-43443.html | true | 2 |
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Experlogix, whose CPQ software and document automation solutions simplify the most complex sales and other processes, today announced its plans to consolidate all Experlogix LLC and Xpertdoc Technologies products and services into a unified Experlogix brand. The brand transition follows an operating name change of Xpertdoc Technologies Canada to Experlogix Technologies Canada.
After the acquisition of Xpertdoc Technologies in December of 2020, Experlogix expanded its best-in-class CPQ offering to include integrated document generation and automation capabilities through Xpertdoc. Under the new corporate Experlogix brand, all customers — CPQ and document automation customers alike — can expect the same dedication and support of all products and services, now offered as a set of solutions.
Xpertdoc document generation and automation products will now be offered as part of Experlogix Document Automation. The Experlogix Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) product will now be sold as Experlogix CPQ.
The two existing company web domains will be merged to facilitate the transition into one brand. The new website will incorporate Xpertdoc content and support into Experlogix.com, with the transition of all digital properties currently slated for early 2023 of this year.
"CPQ and document automation share one common element: They help companies effectively manage complex processes to enhance their customer and employee experiences and accelerate revenue generation," said Bill Fox, CEO of Experlogix. "From the beginning, we knew we wanted to be one strong company with multiple product offerings. Now, as a singular brand, Experlogix can bring our team of over 300 experts and unmatched experience together to drive success for customers and partners."
The acquisition has enhanced value to customers and helped fuel significant company growth, including the addition of more than 100 new hires across multiple regions, 49% increase in year-over-year revenue, and support for over 600 companies worldwide — marking Experlogix's position as the No.3,079 Fastest-Growing Private Company in the U.S., as ranked in the 2022 Inc. 5000.
"We've grown from a small to a medium-size company that can still be nimble and flexible, with the resources and stability of a larger organization," Fox said. "As a combined entity, our goal is for the Experlogix brand to reflect that evolution and become more navigable for our customers, partners, and industry-watchers — allowing us to bring them into our vision of the future."
The announcement follows new leadership hires to bolster expertise, market expansion, and continued company growth, including:
- Beth Thornton, Chief Revenue Officer
- Renee Gregor, Vice President, Strategic Alliances and Partnerships
- Mark Conway, Vice President, Sales EMEA
- Angie Cox, Vice President, Sales North America
- Arjun Nukal, Chief Financial Officer
Experlogix will invite customers to an upcoming Community Summit North America in booth 406, where it will share more information on its world-class suite of products, partnerships, and powerful CRM and ERP platform integrations.
Experlogix solutions simplify and humanize the most complex products and processes to unlock workflow velocity and create a better customer experience. Experlogix CPQ makes configuration and other processes faster than you ever thought possible and simpler than you dared to imagine. Experlogix Document Automation simplifies and optimizes even the most complex document processes for companies worldwide, in any industry. Experlogix — simplifying the complex.
Experlogix is a global company headquartered in Salt Lake City, with European headquarters in Veenendaal, Netherlands. We're online at www.experlogix.com
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"The Misunderstood" from Christian Faith Publishing author Ekpo Bassey is an enjoyable discussion of faith and the human condition that explores God's word and hope for mankind.
MEADVILLE, Pa. , June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- "The Misunderstood": a potent reminder of the comfort one can draw from biblical study. "The Misunderstood" is the creation of published author Ekpo Bassey, a dedicated husband and father who grew up in Calabar, Nigeria, before moving to the United States in 1973 at twenty-seven years of age. Bassey is a graduate of New York Institute of Technology and Touro College.
Bassey shares, "From the Garden of Eden, where blaming games originated and through that, our God has been misunderstood. This is the main theme of this book, that we see how God is viewed as the originator of our problems. In reality, He is there to protect and save us from all unrighteousness. The problem we have is that we do not exercise the patience to wait on God's timing on whatever circumstances that we are challenged with. Therefore, we then apply human reasoning to our circumstances instead of viewing things in God's perspective. To borrow my spiritual father Charles Stanley's saying, we should obey God and leave all consequences to Him. If we learn to trust God and obey Him, even if it doesn't seem favorable to our human reasoning, we are positioned to be successful. I have a strong confidence in the Lord that this book will open the eyes of people to see that God is a loving Father to all."
Published by Christian Faith Publishing, Ekpo Bassey's new book will encourage and challenge believers as they consider the reflective text within.
Bassey shares in hopes of helping others to establish and nurture a deeper connection with their faith and in turn to trust in God wholeheartedly.
Consumers can purchase "The Misunderstood" at traditional brick & mortar bookstores, or online at Amazon.com, Apple iTunes store, or Barnes and Noble.
For additional information or inquiries about "The Misunderstood," contact the Christian Faith Publishing media department at 866-554-0919.
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The compound in psychedelic mushrooms helped heavy drinkers cut back or quit entirely in the most rigorous test of psilocybin for alcoholism.
More research is needed to see if the effect lasts and whether it works in a larger study. Many who took a dummy drug instead of psilocybin also succeeded in drinking less, likely because all study participants were highly motivated and received talk therapy.
Psilocybin, found in several species of mushrooms, can cause hours of vivid hallucinations. Indigenous people have used it in healing rituals and scientists are exploring whether it can ease depression or help longtime smokers quit. It’s illegal in the U.S., though Oregon and several cities have decriminalized it. Starting next year, Oregon will allow its supervised use by licensed facilitators.
The new research, published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry, is “the first modern, rigorous, controlled trial" of whether it can also help people struggling with alcohol, said Fred Barrett, a Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist who wasn't involved in the study.
In the study, 93 patients took a capsule containing psilocybin or a dummy medicine, lay on a couch, their eyes covered, and listened to recorded music through headphones. They received two such sessions, one month apart, and 12 sessions of talk therapy.
During the eight months after their first dosing session, patients taking psilocybin did better than the other group, drinking heavily on about 1 in 10 days on average vs. about 1 in 4 days for the dummy pill group. Almost half who took psilocybin stopped drinking entirely compared with 24% of the control group.
Only three conventional drugs — disulfiram, naltrexone and acamprosate — are approved to treat alcohol use disorder and there's been no new drug approvals in nearly 20 years.
While it’s not known exactly how psilocybin works in the brain, researchers believe it increases connections and, at least temporarily, changes the way the brain organizes itself.
“More parts of the brain are talking to more parts of the brain,” said Dr. Michael Bogenschutz, director of the NYU Langone Center for Psychedelic Medicine, who led the research.
Less is known about how enduring those new connections might be. In theory, combined with talk therapy, people might be able to break bad habits and adopt new attitudes more easily.
“There’s a possibility of really shifting in a relatively permanent way the functional organization of the brain,” Bogenschutz said.
Patients described life-changing insights that gave them lasting inspiration, Bogenschutz said.
Mary Beth Orr, 69, of Burien, Washington, said her psilocybin-induced hallucinations — flying over breathtaking landscapes and merging telepathically with creative people throughout history — taught her she wasn't alone.
Before enrolling in the study in 2018, Orr had five or six drinks every evening and more on weekends.
“The quantity was unacceptable and yet I couldn’t stop," she said. “There was no off switch that I could access.”
During her first psilocybin experience, she saw a vision of her late father, who gave her a pair of eagle eyes and said, “Go.” She told the therapists monitoring her: “These eagle eyes can’t see God’s face, but they know where it is.”
She stopped drinking entirely for two years, and now has an occasional glass of wine. More than the talk therapy, she credits psilocybin.
“It made alcohol irrelevant and uninteresting to me,” Orr said. Now, “I am tethered to my children and my loved ones in a way that just precludes the desire to be alone with alcohol."
Patients receiving psilocybin had more headaches, nausea and anxiety than those getting the dummy drug. One person reported thoughts of suicide during a psilocybin session.
In an experiment like this, it's important that patients don't know or guess if they got the psilocybin or the dummy drug. To try to achieve this, the researchers chose a generic antihistamine with some psychoactive effects as the placebo.
Still, most patients in the study correctly guessed whether they got the psilocybin or the dummy pill.
Paul Mavis couldn't guess. The 61-year-old from Wilton, Connecticut, got the placebo, but still quit drinking. For one thing, the talk therapy helped, suggesting to him that his emotional life stalled at age 15 when he started drinking to feel numb.
And he described a life-changing moment during a session where he was taking the dummy drug: He imagined the death of a loved one. Suddenly, an intense, incapacitating grief overcame him.
“I was crying, which isn’t typical for me. I was sweating. I was bereft,” he said. “As I’m trying to reconcile this grief, like, why am I feeling this?
"Instantly, I thought, ‘Drinking equals death.’” He said he hasn’t had a drink since.
Dr. Mark Willenbring, former director of treatment research at the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, said more research is needed before psilocybin can be considered an effective addition to talk therapy. He noted that talking with a therapist helped both groups — those who got psilocybin and those who didn’t — and the added benefit of psilocybin appeared to wear off over time.
“It’s tantalizing, absolutely,” Willenbring said. “Is more research required? Yes. Is it ready for prime time? No.”
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NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of LifeStance Health Group, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of LFST during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of all purchasers of LifeStance common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the documents issued in connection with LifeStance's June 10, 2021 initial public stock offering.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the number of virtual visits clients were undertaking utilizing LifeStance Health was decreasing as the COVID-19 lockdowns were being lifted, thereby flatlining LifeStance Health's out-patient/virtual revenue growth; (ii) the percentage of in-person visits clients were undertaking utilizing LifeStance Health was increasing as the COVID-19 lockdowns were being lifted, thereby causing LifeStance Health's operating expenses to increase substantially; (iii) LifeStance Health had lost a large number of physicians due to burn-out and, as a result, its physician retention rate had fallen significantly below the 87% highlighted in the initial public offering's registration statement, and LifeStance Health had been expending additional costs to onboard new physicians who were less productive than the outgoing physicians they were replacing; and (iv) as a result, LifeStance Health's business metrics and financial prospects were not as strong as the initial public offering's registration statement represented.
DEADLINE: October 11, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/lifestance-health-group-loss-submission-form/?id=31100&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of LFST during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is October 11, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Apple TV+ announced more than a month ago the production and release date of Gutsythe highly anticipated eight-part documentary series that follows Hillary Rodham Clinton y Chelsea Clinton while “celebrating the brave women who inspire them,” according to the official statement. This docuseries premieres on September 9 and in the first official preview, Hillary leaves powerful confessions about her personal life.
In the preview of the series, which will have eight chapters, Clinton is asked about her decision to stay with Bill Clinton after the incredible exposure of his affair with the White House adviser, Monica Lewinsky (the case can be followed in its fictional version in the series American Crime Story: Impeachment what they find in Star+). Hillary acknowledges that staying with a partner after her affair has become fully publicized isn’t “suitable for everyone.”
Based on the acclaimed New York Times bestseller, The Book of Gutsy Women, the production of Apple TV+ features Hillary and Chelsea on a “thought-provoking journey to speak with trailblazing women artists, activists, community leaders and everyday heroines who show us what it really means to be brave.” The series shows mother and daughter, Hillary and Chelsea, discussing issues that engage them both from their perspectives and in a unique look at the relationship, but also as they get into different topics and interviews.
Kim Kardashian, Megan Thee StallionDr. Jane Goodall, Gloria Steinem, Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson and many more will be part of this documentary series that, above all, seeks to connect with women who were revolutionary and representative of their community, but also highlights how the Clintons experience these interviews.
Back to the most interesting bit of the proposal, Clinton speaks with the Rev. Whittney Ijanaten, a chaplain who specializes in LGBTQ marriages. At that point, Ijanaten says, “You have a marriage that has been on public display from the beginning. You said the bravest thing you ever did was stay in your marriage. Clinton agrees that staying with her spouse was “brave,” adding: “That doesn’t mean it’s right for everyone.”
Gusty It is executive produced by Hillary Clinton y Chelsea Clinton for Apple by Hidden Light Productions in association with Left/Right LLC, along with Johnny Webb, Siobhan Sinnerton, Roma Khanna, Ken Druckerman, Banks Tarver and Anna Chai, who also serves as showrunner, with producers Kevin Vargas and Claire Featherstone, and consulting producers Huma Abedin and Bari Lurie.
This docuseries called Gutsy opens on September 9 in Apple TV+.
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The Reverend Benjamin Appiah, the Chairperson of the Brong-Ahafo Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana has cautioned candidates writing this year’s West Africa Senior High School Examination (WASSCE) against all forms of malpractices by obeying instructions.
He noted examination malpractices were not merely an offense, but sinful before God, and therefore advised the candidates to avoid that to strengthen their relationships with God.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the sidelines of a short presentation ceremony in Sunyani, Rev. Appiah said examination malpractices was also a form of corruption that could lead to the cancelation of papers, truncate the education of the candidates, and thereby ruin their future.
Rev Appiah had earlier presented food items to be distributed to two Senior High Schools (SHSs) in the Ahafo Region.
The Bechem Presbyterian SHS (PRESEC) received 20 bags of rice and six bags of maize, while the Techimantia Samuel Otu Presbyterian SHS got 10 bags of rice and four bags of maize.
“Proper preparation prevents poor performance,” Rev Appiah indicated and advised the candidates to review their notes, and urged them not to panic, assuring that they were only going to be examined on what they had already been taught in school.
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St. LOUIS — When Café Natasha closed its doors, a new one opened in its place and the owner behind this new place is a familiar one.
Natasha Baharami opened Salve Osteria after her parents retired from Café Natasha. This new eatery boasts fresh Italian and Mediterranean dishes, made fresh with top-notch ingredients.
You can get a larger entrée or dabble in the many vegetable-led small plates. Whatever you decide, it’s going to be the best!
Salve Osteria
3200 S. Grand Blvd in St. Louis
- Open Thursday-Sunday 3 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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The London-based luxury brand is highly-regarded for its stylish clothes and cheerful bags. Founded in 1856, Burberry has become one of the most sought after high-end retailers in the world. How sweet is the aroma of its anti-bribery and corruption policy?
1. The FCPA is curiously absent.
The UK Bribery Act is intended to support international efforts to combat bribery, corruption and facilitation payments. The Act applies to all UK companies wherever they operate in the world.
2. A warning about respondeat superior.
Burberry may be held responsible if its Business Associates pay bribes to obtain or retain business or some other benefit for Burberry. This is regardless of whether Burberry was aware of this activity and regardless of where in the world this activity takes place.
3. It’s a “no” for facilitation payments.
Bribery, corruption and facilitation payments are unethical, illegal and against Burberry’s Policy. Companies and individuals can be prosecuted by regulators in the UK for engaging in these activities.
This is similar to Disney, Unilever, Carlsberg, Apple, Novartis, Microsoft, Volkswagen, Airbus, GM, 3M, and Pfizer that all ban facilitating payments. Coca-Cola, Tesla, and ExxonMobil might approve some facilitating payments. Walmart doesn’t mention facilitating payments at all.
4. A realistic view on gifts.
Business Associates are discouraged from giving or receiving gifts or hospitality with any parties with whom they have a business relationship, or intend to do business. However, Burberry recognizes that in the luxury business there are occasions when exchanging gifts or hospitality may be appropriate. For example, gifts and hospitality may be appropriate in connection with marketing and public relations activities or to acknowledge an event.
5. The seven-step gift evaluation process.
In particular, Business Associates must always ensure that any such exchanges are transparent, proportionate, reasonable and bona fide. If the Business Associate answers ‘yes’ to any of the following self-approval questions then the exchanging of gifts or hospitality in the circumstances is probably inappropriate.
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View the full four-page Burberry anti-bribery and corruption policy.
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CHULA VISTA, Calif. (CNS) - San Diego Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to an arrest in the weekend shooting of a San Diego man, a Chula Vista Police Department spokesman said.
Shortly before 2 a.m. on Aug. 21, officers responded to a gunshot victim being dropped off at Scripps Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista, Sgt. Anthony Molina said in a news release.
Although hospital staff attempted life-saving measures, the man identified as 32-year-old Rudy Fimbres died, Molina said.
Molina said Fimbres "is believed to have been transient and living in the South Bay area of Chula Vista and San Diego."
Witnesses told police that the vehicle that dropped Fimbres off -- which contained three occupants -- was a late-model white Jeep Patriot with black rims, Molina said.
Police investigating the shooting death are asking the three occupants or any other witnesses to come forward.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477, or anonymously submit a tip via online or mobile application at http://p3tips.com/409. | https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/south-bay-news/reward-offered-in-chula-vista-shooting-death | 2022-08-24T18:45:59Z | https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/south-bay-news/reward-offered-in-chula-vista-shooting-death | false | 2 |
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'Restrictive practice' at Tas youth centre
Staffing levels at Tasmania's troubled Ashley Youth Detention Centre are at an all-time low, resulting in restrictive practices that breach a United Nations convention, the state's commissioner for children says.
An inquiry into child sexual abuse allegations in Tasmania's public institutions is holding seven days of hearings examining the facility, which has operated for more than 20 years.
Multiple former detainees have alleged they were raped, bashed and sexually assaulted at the centre, with one saying his medication was withheld until he performed sexual acts on staff.
The state government has in recent days stood by a commitment made in September to shut the centre within three years, despite calls from the national children's commissioner to close it immediately.
Tasmanian Commissioner for Children and Young People, Leanne McLean, said she received 45 requests for advocacy between February and mid-August this year in relation to restrictive practices and lockdowns.
She told the inquiry on Wednesday the centre was not meeting its obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
"The staffing situation at Ashley has continued to decline and we are now at an all-time low in terms of staff that are available to work on the floor," she said.
"My understanding is today we have moved back to restrictive practices, that young people may be cycling in and out of their rooms on an hourly basis.
"When you visit the facility to speak to young people ... through a small window hole in the door, it really is awful. I know the staff there don't like it either."
Health and Community Services Union assistant state secretary Lucas Digney said he was told restrictive practices had been used at the centre as recently as Monday.
There are currently 11 children in Ashley, with 10 on remand while their criminal proceedings progress.
Assistant manager at Ashley, Fiona Atkins, told the inquiry it was currently "extremely difficult" to staff the centre to the required standard due to stand-downs and cases of worker's compensation.
Counsel assisting the inquiry, Rachel Ellyard, has described Ashley as having a culture of brutality and dehumanisation and said commissioners were open to find the centre itself was a "monster".
Former and current senior bureaucrats are expected to give evidence at the inquiry on Thursday.
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Grand opening celebration slated for 8/27 in the neighborhoods of Eaglepointe and Marvella
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Century Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CCS), a top 10 national homebuilder and industry leader in online sales, is excited to announce four new model homes for tour at its sought-after Skye Canyon development—showcasing brand-new floor plans in the neighborhoods of Eaglepointe and Marvella. A model grand opening is slated for August 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and in total will offer tours of four fully furnished models—two at each community.
Explore Skye Canyon and view available homes at www.CenturyCommunities.com/SkyeCanyon.
Combined, Eaglepointe and Marvella at Skye Canyon boast six stunning two-story plans, featuring 3 to 6 bedrooms, beautiful open-concept layouts, exceptional craftsmanship, and stylish included fixtures and finishes, including the builder's Century Home Connect® smart home package. Homebuyers will also love access to an array of resort-style amenities, including community parks, a pool, and a fitness center.
"We're excited to have homebuyers tour and experience these new model homes, showcasing the versatile range of floor plans that we have between our Eaglepointe and Marvella neighborhoods in Skye Canyon," said Robb Beville, Nevada Division President. "This is also a great opportunity for buyers and agents to explore available new homes and learn about special offers, as well as check out the incredible community amenities that this development boasts."
More About Eaglepointe at Skye Canyon:
Spacious two-story homes with elegant and functional features like standard courtyards, dens, large lofts and more!
- 3 single-family floor plans from the high $400s
- 3 to 5 bedrooms, 3 to 4 bathrooms, 2-bay garage
- Up to 2,328 square feet
- Large lofts, dens and standard courtyards
- Models of the Residence 2328 (new!) and Residence 2126 floor plans
Sales Center:
10547 Valetta Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89166
Learn more at www.CenturyCommunities.com/Eaglepointe.
More About Marvella at Skye Canyon:
Beautiful two-story homes with contemporary open-concept layouts, generous lofts and more!
- 3 single-family floor plans from the mid $400s
- 3 to 6 bedrooms, 3 to 4 bathrooms, 2-bay garage
- Up to 2,114 square feet
- Prime location in northwest Las Vegas near Highway 95, the 215 freeway, Mt. Charleston and Paiute Golf Resort
- Models of the popular Residence 2114 and Residence 1859 floor plans
Sales Center:
8634 Felker Street
Las Vegas, NV 89166
Learn more at www.CenturyCommunities.com/Marvella.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 702-936-3020.
About Century Communities
Century Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CCS) is a top 10 national homebuilder, offering new homes under the Century Communities and Century Complete brands. Century is engaged in all aspects of homebuilding — including the acquisition, entitlement and development of land, along with the construction, innovative marketing and sale of quality homes designed to appeal to a wide range of homebuyers. The Colorado-based company operates in 17 states and over 45 markets across the U.S., and also offers title, insurance and lending services in select markets through its Parkway Title, IHL Home Insurance Agency, and Inspire Home Loans subsidiaries. To learn more about Century Communities, please visit www.centurycommunities.com.
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Along with cooler temperatures, falling leaves and football, fall also means it’s time for Drive-thru Flu Shot Clinics in North Georgia.
In September and October, health departments in the North Georgia Health District will give residents a quick, convenient and safe way to receive their annual flu shot. The flu shots are for people 18 and older and allow residents to stay safely in their vehicles while health department staff wear COVID-19 protective gear to administer flu vaccinations. Just roll up to the location and roll up your sleeve. It’s that simple. Clients driving through are encouraged to wear a mask.
The Drive-thru Flu Shot Clinics in North Georgia are:
• Whitfield County: Tuesday, Sept. 20, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Whitfield County Health Department, 800 Professional Blvd., Dalton. Call (706) 279-9600 for more details.
• Murray County: Tuesday, Sept. 27, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., First Baptist Church, 121 W. Market St., Chatsworth. Call (706) 695-4585 for more details.
• Gilmer County: Tuesday, Oct. 4, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., ETC Pavilion, 1041-1047 Legion Road, Ellijay. Call (706) 635-4363 for more details.
• Cherokee County: Tuesday, Oct. 4, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Woodstock Health Center, 7545 N. Main St., Woodstock. Call (770) 928-0133 or (770) 345-7371 for more details.
• Fannin County: Tuesday, Oct. 11, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., The Farmers Market, 811 Summit St., Blue Ridge. Call (706) 632-3023 for more details.
• Pickens County: Tuesday, Oct. 18, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Mount Zion Baptist Church, 1036 N. Main St., Jasper. Call (706) 253-2821 for more details.
“Now, as COVID-19 and the especially contagious variants of the virus continue spreading in our communities, it is more important than ever to protect against the flu, reducing the dangerous risk of having both illnesses at the same time,” according to the health district.
More details can be found at the North Georgia Health District website or by calling one of the health departments.
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RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pendo, the most comprehensive product experience platform, today announced highlights from its second quarter, which ended July 31, 2022. Notable milestones include the launch of a new roadmapping product and powerful features in Pendo Adopt, early momentum for Pendo's Product-Led Certification course and continued customer and revenue growth. Pendo now counts more than 2,600 paying customers, and more than 4,000 companies with Pendo Free accounts.
"We're seeing more companies than ever use Pendo to help drive efficient growth," said Todd Olson, CEO and co-founder of Pendo. "We're working hard at continuing to make enhancements and updates to our products, to launch new content and training offerings, and expand our global footprint to help those companies leverage product-led strategy to become more efficient businesses while delivering the best product experiences."
Highlights of the quarter include:
Revenue and customer growth: Pendo's growth in Q2 was driven by a record number of new six-figure deals, existing customer expansion, and higher-than-expected sales in Japan and Australia. The company also landed its first new customer paying more than $1 million. New customers include Level Access, Avison Young, WEX, Clipper Magazine, Registrar Corp., Australia-based Auror, and Chatwork of Japan; Japanese company NEC signed on as a reseller. Customers that expanded their relationships with Pendo include Varsity Tutors, ZoomInfo, Carnegie Learning, and WPP.
Product-led Certification: A new certification course, produced in partnership with Mind the Product, teaches product managers and business leaders how to apply product-led strategies to drive growth and elevate their careers and organizations. Those who complete the three-hour course and exam earn a "Product-led Certified" badge for their professional profile. In its first week, more than 3,500 people started the course.
Product enhancements:
- Cross-App Guides in Pendo Adopt: New capabilities help companies create and deploy step-by-step walkthrough guides across the multiple software applications that their employees use to do their jobs. Using powerful usage data, Pendo Adopt users can understand engagement with each guide, pinpoint where employees are getting stuck, and then deliver guides to drive the desired employee behavior and business outcomes.
- A new roadmapping experience: The new Pendo Roadmapping empowers product teams to combine customer feedback and market data to guide what they build next, and then communicate those plans to both internal stakeholders and customers. Pendo users can map their customer feedback requests to planned features and initiatives to show exactly how much revenue and input supports their roadmap decisions.
- New features in Data Explorer: Enhancements to Data Explorer give customers more power over their product data analysis, enabling them to compare and analyze an unlimited number of events to better understand the most and least used features. With additional data about devices in Data Explorer, customers can also gain insight into which devices, browsers, and operating systems their customers are using, and make better decisions about where to prioritize development efforts.
Pendomonium: Pendo's flagship annual event will be held live and in-person, on September 12-14, in Raleigh, NC. This year's product festival, with the theme of Product-Led Experience, provides an audience of product and digital leaders memorable experiences, new connections, and thought leadership and inspiration for their work. Headliners include Theoretical Physicist Dr. Michio Kaku and Writer Sophia Chang, and a product-inspired performance by improvisational hip-hop comedy group, Freestyle Love Supreme, involving the audience. Registration is now open.
Global momentum: A new central London office and EMEA managing director enable Pendo to meet rising local demand and empower European businesses to put product at the heart of their strategy. Pendo also held its first flagship event in Japan, the Digital Adoption Forum, drawing more than 1,200 people from Japan's top enterprise and startup companies. Speakers included executives from leading tech companies including Chatwork, Yappli, and Kokopelli.
Headcount: Pendo added several new executives during the quarter, including: Spencer Earp, managing director, EMEA, and Yezi Peng, vice president, revenue operations. Additionally, Sarah Collin was promoted to managing director, Australia, Bryon Coro to senior vice president, go-to-market operations, and Tiffany Chin to vice president, design.
Awards: Pendo made the Forbes Cloud 100 for the fifth year in a row and the Inc. 5000 for a fourth consecutive year. Pendo also earned placement on the following lists: The Triangle Business Journal's Best Places to Work, The Software Report's Top 100 Software Companies, and Best Leadership Teams by Comparably. Additionally, Olson was named a winner of the 2022 EY Entrepreneur of the Year for the Southeast, as well as a Top Power Player by Business North Carolina Magazine.
About Pendo
Pendo's mission is to elevate the world's experience with software. Pendo's product experience platform allows companies to make product intelligence actionable with speed and scale, giving rise to a new generation of companies that put product at the center of everything. Pendo customers include the world's leading companies, including Verizon, Morgan Stanley, LabCorp, OpenTable, Okta, Salesforce, and Zendesk. Through Mind the Product and customer communities, sponsored events and a podcast, Pendo aims to support the success of product and digital leaders everywhere. Pendo is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina and has offices around the world. For more information, visit: www.pendo.io.
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The deaths of four children in hot cars within one week this month have brought new attention to the tragedy and the support available for families.
It’s a tragedy the Crapo family knows too well. On a Sunday afternoon in the summer of 2019, Elizabeth and Austin Crapo and their five children returned home from church. The family had lunch and then laid down for a nap.
Shortly later, the family realized the youngest child, Marah, was still inside the van. CPR attempts were made but Marah passed away.
Her death was investigated and ruled an accident. However, the family’s tragedy made headlines and harsh judgment from strangers ensued.
“I failed in my job as a protector. I failed my child,” Austin Crapo said. “I promise you nobody could make me feel worse.”
“Every parent has made mistakes, no matter what it looks like. Sadly, some of the mistakes result in tragedy and none of us expect it,” Elizabeth Crapo added. “And all of a sudden, you’re part of this club no one wants to be part of.”
The Crapo family has found empathy and healing with other families who have lost loved ones through the nonprofit support group SRVIVRS.
They are honoring their daughter through acts of service, like delivering gift baskets to the first responders who came to their house that day.
Meanwhile, other parents who experienced similar tragedies are sharing their stories online through the Kids and Car Safety website.
“Parents are putting themselves out there, know that they’re going to be judged. But reading a real story is a very powerful thing for people,” pointed out Amber Rollins, the director of Kids and Car Safety.
Rollins supports families that suffered these tragedies. She’s also helping them advocate for technology that can detect a child in the back seat of a vehicle.
Parents recently sent a letter to Pete Buttigieg, secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation, urging the department to move forward with the hot car provision that passed in the infrastructure bill last year.
They want to make sure the most effective technology is mandated, so they don’t lose more children. Children like 2-year-old Thomas. His father wrote about the events the day he went to work and forgot his son was in the back seat. His father wrote about how the rear seat reminder in his track failed to protect his son.
After record-high deaths in 2018 and 2019, the number of children dying in hot vehicles dropped off significantly during the pandemic with people staying home. However, Rollins pointed out these deaths have still trended up over the last 30 years.
So far, at least 18 children have died in hot vehicles in 2022, with two other incidents under investigation. Four deaths happened within a week’s time this month. Rollins is concerned things like hybrid work schedules and the constant shifting of people’s daily routines will make that number increase again. | https://www.newschannel5.com/news/national/parents-who-lost-children-in-hot-car-tragedies-find-comfort-in-grief-support | 2022-08-24T18:54:43Z | https://www.newschannel5.com/news/national/parents-who-lost-children-in-hot-car-tragedies-find-comfort-in-grief-support | true | 12 |
Were you SEEN at the Living Resources/Building on Love Tribute to Transforming Lives event Aug. 21, 2022, at the 1863 Club in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.?
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If you can’t afford the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Watch 5, that’s alright. A new Galaxy Watch 4 update brings some of the forthcoming smartwatch’s aesthetic changes, including the watch faces.
A few weeks ago, Samsung announced the Galaxy Watch 5 and the Galaxy Watch Pro. Besides a temperature sensor and sapphire crystal lens, the upcoming smartwatch looks quite similar to last year’s lineup.
They both have a circular design and aluminum body — besides the Titanium on the Watch 5 Pro. The Galaxy Watch 5 and 4 also share the same Exynos W920 chip, 16GB storage, and 1.5GB RAM.
Now Samsung is bringing some of the new Galaxy Watch 5’s watch faces to the Galaxy Watch 4 in a new update.
Galaxy Watch 5’s Watch Faces Come to the Galaxy Watch 4
According to 9to5Google, the Galaxy Watch plugin app version 2.2.11.22081151 adds a few tweaks to the Watch Manager UI. However, the most notable change is the addition of the Galaxy Watch 5 watch faces to the Galaxy Watch 4.
In other words, last year’s Galaxy Watch lineup will get six new watch faces. These include:
- Pro analog
- Kinetic Garden
- Analog Utility
- Flower Garden
- Info Board
- Digital Neon
The upcoming One UI Watch 4.5 update for the Galaxy Watch 4 should add even more watch faces from the newer smartwatch.
With the update, Galaxy Watch 4 users don’t necessarily have to upgrade to the Galaxy Watch 5. Instead, they can now update the Galaxy Watch 4 plugin app to version 2.2.11.22081151 and wait a few weeks for the One UI Watch 4.5 update. | https://www.greenbot.com/new-update-brings-galaxy-watch-5-watch-faces-to-galaxy-watch-4/ | 2022-08-24T18:56:54Z | https://www.greenbot.com/new-update-brings-galaxy-watch-5-watch-faces-to-galaxy-watch-4/ | false | 1 |
“Why on earth would you want to be real?” See Tom Hanks, Cynthia Erivo in live-action ‘Pinocchio’ trailer
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Two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks is joined by Oscar and Tony winner Cynthia Erivo in the second trailer to Disney’s live-action Pinocchio.
The new snippet gives more of a plot and shows off the puppet-turned-boy brought to life in the film by Hanks’ Gepetto — and onscreen thanks to some computer magic.
Following the plot of Carlo Collodi‘s 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, which was spun into a Disney animated classic in 1940, the trailer shows Gepetto creating the wooden boy, who finds becoming real isn’t without its challenges. Benjamin Evan Ainsworth provides his voice.
Oh, and there’s that whole “nose grows when he lies” business. “A lie can really change a person,” says Joseph Gordon-Levitt voicing Pinocchio’s pal and “conscience,” Jiminy Cricket. “Kinda on the nose, if you ask me,” he quickly admits of his own advice.
Erivo plays the Blue Fairy in this retelling and sings “When You Wish Upon a Star” in the coming attraction.
Her fellow Oscar nominee Lorraine Bracco voices Sofia the Seagull. Keegan-Michael Key voices the scheming fox “Honest” John, and Luke Evans appears as the menacing Coachman. The movie reunites Hanks with his Forrest Gump director, Robert Zemeckis.
“Why on earth would you want to be real, when you could be famous!?” the showman fox tempts the puppet.
The live-action Pinocchio debuts on Disney+ Thursday, September 8, which is this year’s Disney+ Day — a celebration of the streaming service that kicks off the Disney fan expo D23 in Anaheim, California, that weekend.
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KARACHI: The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Wednesday announced to take to the court against the postponement of Local Body polls in the metropolitan and Hyderabad by the ECP.
According to details, JI Karachi Chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman said that the ECP made a ‘shameful’ decision with the Sindh government’s backing. The JI would launch public resistance campaign and go to the court against the decision of postponement, he added.
He added that there is no polling station in the city that cannot be operational, moreover no rain is predicted in the city on August 27,28. Two and a half years have passed but the PPP does not want to hold the LG polls, he added.
The JI leader said that earlier governments plundered cleanliness funds worth billions of rupees. What has the PPP government done for flood-affected people of Interior Sindh? he questioned.
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Raju Srivastava’s brother says doctors are positive about his recovery; good news is expected soon
Dipoo Srivastava, brother of Raju Srivastava, has shared a positive update on the ace comedian's health. Raju suffered a heart attack earlier this month and has been bravely fighting for his life.
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Fans as well as members of the entertainment industry have been keeping a close tab on the health updates of Raju Srivastava, who suffered a heart attack on August 10. Friends and family members of the ace comedian are sharing the latest news about his condition from time to time.
Amid the reports that Raju will soon be taken off the ventilator, his brother Dipoo Srivastava has refuted the rumours but has shared a positive update. Dipoo informed that the doctors treating Raju are positive about his recovery and that good news might come in any time now.
“It (the news of Raju to be taken off the ventilator) is not true. Raju ji is stable, doctors are doing their best and treating him. I request his fans to pray for him, we are expecting some good news soon. Doctors have said he will recover,” Raju’s brother told indianexpress.com.
The reports of Raju being removed from the ventilator started doing rounds after Sunil Pal’s statement. “I am not sure because I have not spoken to his family but I have heard he can be removed from the ventilator today. As of now, nothing is confirmed. It all depends on his health. He is my big brother and guide and we have to pray for his early recovery,” Sunil had said.
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Meanwhile, Shekhar Suman, who has been regularly sharing Raju’s health status with his fans on Twitter, said in his recent post that Raju’s organs are back to working normally.
“Today's update on Raju according to his family members..his organs are functioning normally. Though still unconscious, doctor says, he is supposedly improving steadily. Mahadev ki Kripa.Har Har Mahadev,” Shekhar had tweeted.
Raju is said to have suffered a cardiac arrest while working out at the gym. He is being treated at AIIMS in New Delhi.
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Alabama’s Nick Saban signs extension, overtakes Kirby Smart for highest paid public school coach
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The most successful coach in college football history didn’t have to wait long to once again be the highest-paid college football coach at a public university.
Nick Saban, the winner of seven national championships, received a one-year extension and raise on Tuesday from the University of Alabama, upping his annual salary to $11.7 million per year through the 2030 season.
The total deal is for eight years, $93.6 million, and puts Saban’s salary above Georgia head coach Kirby Smart as the highest-paid college football coach at a public university, according to The Athletic.
Smart signed a new 10-year, $112.5 million contract in July that averages $11.25 million per year over the next 10 years.
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“Our family is very happy to agree to a contract extension with The University of Alabama,” Saban said in a statement Tuesday. “Terry and I are very appreciative of the unmatched commitment the University has shown to this football program and our family over the last 15-plus years. This is our home, and we look forward to finishing our career at Alabama.”
Built into Saban’s contract are bonuses for appearing in and winning the SEC Championship Game, as well as an $800,000 bonus for winning a national championship.
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Saban is entering his 16th season as head coach of Alabama, bringing six national championships to the program. The Crimson Tide will once again enter the season as the preseason No. 1 a year after losing in the national championship game to Georgia.
“I love my job. I love it,” Saban told the SEC Network. “I love the relationships with the players, I love the competition, I love the preparation for the games. I just love it. I wish you all would ask all the other coaches who come up here because they tell the recruits I’m going to retire, why don’t you ask them how they know I’m going to retire?
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“When all I think about is what am I going to do if I retire because I love what I’m doing now. So how am I going to be happy not coaching?”
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EXPLAINER: NASA tests new moon rocket, 50 years after Apollo
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Years late and billions over budget, NASA’s new moon rocket makes its debut next week in a high-stakes test flight before astronauts get on top.
The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket will attempt to send an empty crew capsule into a far-flung lunar orbit, 50 years after NASA’s famed Apollo moonshots.
If all goes well, astronauts could strap in as soon as 2024 for a lap around the moon, with NASA aiming to land two people on the lunar surface by the end of 2025.
Liftoff is set for Monday morning from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
The six-week test flight is risky and could be cut short if something fails, NASA officials warn.
“We’re going to stress it and test it. We’re going make it do things that we would never do with a crew on it in order to try to make it as safe as possible,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The retired founder of George Washington University’s space policy institute said a lot is riding on this trial run. Spiraling costs and long gaps between missions will make for a tough comeback if things go south, he noted.
“It is supposed to be the first step in a sustained program of human exploration of the moon, Mars, and beyond,” said John Logsdon. “Will the United States have the will to push forward in the face of a major malfunction?”
The price tag for this single mission: more than $4 billion. Add everything up since the program’s inception a decade ago until a 2025 lunar landing, and there’s even more sticker shock: $93 billion.
Here’s a rundown of the first flight of the Artemis program, named after Apollo’s mythological twin sister.
ROCKET POWER
The new rocket is shorter and slimmer than the Saturn V rockets that hurled 24 Apollo astronauts to the moon a half-century ago. But it’s mightier, packing 8.8 million pounds (4 million kilograms) of thrust. It’s called the Space Launch System rocket, SLS for short, but a less clunky name is under discussion, according to Nelson. Unlike the streamlined Saturn V, the new rocket has a pair of strap-on boosters refashioned from NASA’s space shuttles. The boosters will peel away after two minutes, just like the shuttle boosters did, but won’t be fished from the Atlantic for reuse. The core stage will keep firing before separating and crashing into the Pacific in pieces. Two hours after liftoff, an upper stage will send the capsule, Orion, racing toward the moon.
MOONSHIP
NASA’s high-tech, automated Orion capsule is named after the constellation, among the night sky’s brightest. At 11 feet (3 meters) tall, it’s roomier than Apollo’s capsule, seating four astronauts instead of three. For this test flight, a full-size dummy in an orange flight suit will occupy the commander’s seat, rigged with vibration and acceleration sensors. Two other mannequins made of material simulating human tissue — heads and female torsos, but no limbs — will measure cosmic radiation, one of the biggest risks of spaceflight. One torso is testing a protective vest from Israel. Unlike the rocket, Orion has launched before, making two laps around Earth in 2014. This time, the European Space Agency’s service module will be attached for propulsion and solar power via four wings.
FLIGHT PLAN
Orion’s flight is supposed to last six weeks from its Florida liftoff to Pacific splashdown, twice as long as astronaut trips in order to tax the systems. It will take nearly a week to reach the moon, 240,000 miles (386,000 kilometers) away. After whipping closely around the moon, the capsule will enter a distant orbit with a far point of 38,000 miles (61,000 kilometers). That will put Orion 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers) from Earth, farther than Apollo. The big test comes at mission’s end, as Orion hits the atmosphere at 25,000 mph (40,000 kph) on its way to a splashdown in the Pacific. The heat shield uses the same material as the Apollo capsules to withstand reentry temperatures of 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,750 degrees Celsius). But the advanced design anticipates the faster, hotter returns by future Mars crews.
HITCHHIKERS
Besides three test dummies, the flight has a slew of stowaways for deep space research. Ten shoebox-size satellites will pop off once Orion is hurtling toward the moon. The problem is these so-called CubeSats were installed in the rocket a year ago, and the batteries for half of them couldn’t be recharged as the launch kept getting delayed. NASA expects some to fail, given the low-cost, high-risk nature of these mini satellites. The radiation-measuring CubeSats should be OK. Also in the clear: a solar sail demo targeting an asteroid. In a back-to-the-future salute, Orion will carry a few slivers of moon rocks collected by Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in 1969, and a bolt from one of their rocket engines, salvaged from the sea a decade ago. Aldrin isn’t attending the launch, according to NASA, but three of his former colleagues will be there: Apollo 7’s Walter Cunningham, Apollo 10’s Tom Stafford and Apollo 17’s Harrison Schmitt, the next-to-last man to walk on the moon.
APOLLO VS. ARTEMIS
More than 50 years later, Apollo still stands as NASA’s greatest achievement. Using 1960s technology, NASA took just eight years to go from launching its first astronaut, Alan Shepard, and landing Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon. By contrast, Artemis already has dragged on for more than a decade, despite building on the short-lived moon exploration program Constellation. Twelve Apollo astronauts walked on the moon from 1969 through 1972, staying no longer than three days at a time. For Artemis, NASA will be drawing from a diverse astronaut pool currently numbering 42 and is extending the time crews will spend on the moon to at least a week. The goal is to create a long-term lunar presence that will grease the skids for sending people to Mars. NASA’s Nelson, promises to announce the first Artemis moon crews once Orion is back on Earth.
WHAT’S NEXT
There’s a lot more to be done before astronauts step on the moon again. A second test flight will send four astronauts around the moon and back, perhaps as early as 2024. A year or so later, NASA aims to send another four up, with two of them touching down at the lunar south pole. Orion doesn’t come with its own lunar lander like the Apollo spacecraft did, so NASA has hired Elon Musk’s SpaceX to provide its Starship spacecraft for the first Artemis moon landing. Two other private companies are developing moonwalking suits. The sci-fi-looking Starship would link up with Orion at the moon and take a pair of astronauts to the surface and back to the capsule for the ride home. So far, Starship has only soared six miles (10 kilometers). Musk wants to launch Starship around Earth on SpaceX’s Super Heavy Booster before attempting a moon landing without a crew. One hitch: Starship will need a fill-up at an Earth-orbiting fuel depot, before heading to the moon.
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Gemini Daily Horoscope for August 25, 2022: Plenty of reasons to smile today
Dear Gemini, your daily astrological predictions for August 25, 2022 suggests, on the professional front, you will have to be clear about what objectives you want to achieve from hard work.
GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21) Today's favourable planetary position will give Geminis plenty of reasons to smile. You may succeed in proving your potential as a capable leader. On the professional front, you will have to be clear about what objectives you want to achieve from hard work. Today it would be necessary for you to observe traditions and live up to your family’s expectations. High hopes of Gemini natives to experience a different kind of romance are likely to be dashed today. Take special care of others' feelings because any wrong decision will not only affect them but also cause mental tension. Travelling may not be as much fun as you had anticipated, so go adequately prepared. Renovation work of a property owned by you is likely to enhance its market value. Gemini natives may find many takers for their unique and innovative ideas. The legal battle proves fruitful as you succeed in your efforts.
Gemini Finance Today Improvement in your financial position is indicated, as all problems get sorted out today. Consult an expert and increase your market understanding to strengthen your financial position. Stay away from lending or borrowing money for now.
Gemini Family Today The marriage of someone eligible in the family may be solemnized soon. Make sure you don’t neglect parental advice in an important matter. You are likely to follow your family’s example and uphold the values taught by your elders.
Gemini Career Today New project assignments are likely to give Gemini natives an opportunity to show true potential on the professional front. You are likely to set the foundation of new work and associations. Those looking to expand or change their job can also expect good news.
Gemini Health Today Don’t exert yourself beyond a point and take proper rest otherwise it will put some unnecessary pressure on your health. Take complete rest to regain your energy as a feeble body weakens the mind. Avoid shortcuts on the health front.
Gemini Love Life Today Suspicion is likely to deprive of enjoying a romantic affair. Disclosing budding affairs to casual acquaintances could also defame you. Remain discreet about your love life. You are likely to get unnerved by the thought of not meeting your beloved for even a short duration.
Lucky Number: 15
Lucky Colour: Sea Green
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New Exeter City signing Rekeem Harper said that he wants to use his loan spell in Devon to unlock his potential. The 22-year-old has joined the Grecians on a season long loan from fellow League One outfit Ipswich Town.
Having begun his career in the West Bromwich Albion academy, became only the second player born in the 2000s to play in the Premier League, back in 2017, when he featured for the Baggies in a 1-0 win over AFC Bournemouth.
But the attacker, who represented England at both under-17 and under-19, hasn’t quite lived up to his potential that he showed as a teenager. He joined the Tractor Boys on a permanent deal last summer, but ended up moving to Crewe Alexandra on loan in January.
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Having only featured once this season for Ipswich – an appearance in the Carabao Cup – he joins Matt Taylor’s men until the end of the campaign. He goes straight into the squad for Saturday’s trip to Accrington Stanley.
“I am delighted and this has been a long time coming,” he said. “This is my opportunity to come and help the boys and the team, and feel like Exeter’s goals align with my vision. It is perfect timing and I am very excited.
“My mentality is to treat every game as one going in the direction I want to end up, but playing this league already will help, is an invaluable experience and it will help me.
“I want the team to finish as high as possible and be an influence on the boys around me and get the best out of myself. I don’t just want to be a player with potential, I really want to use it for myself and get better each and every day. We want to finish as high as we can in the league and there are some really talented boys and I hope I can learn from the coaching here.”
After making his debut for the Baggies, Harper’s first senior loan spell came in the 2017-18 season when he headed to Blackburn Rovers, making nine appearances before returning to the Hawthorns. In 2019-20 he made 13 appearances at the West Midlands side which gained promotion to the Premier League, before playing 18 times for Birmingham City in the 2020/21 campaign.
He joined Ipswich Town on a permanent deal last summer, making his debut on the opening day of last season and totalled 18 first team appearances before a January loan move to Crewe Alexandra, where he played a further 15 matches.
Birmingham-born Harper has also represented England at both under-17 and under-19 level. His only appearance this season was 70 minutes in the Carabao Cup first round. Harper is City’s third addition in the transfer window following the July arrivals of Jamal Blackman and Kegs Chauke, and said that having spoken to former Grecians George Friend and Kane Wilson, he was convinced to ply his trade at St James Park.
On his game, he added: “I am all-rounded. I like to attack, get forward and score goals, take risks, and take players on. I do my job but most importantly will work hard. I cannot wait to play and meet the fans, and I am confident we can get three points at the weekend. Let’s go!.”
Head of Player Recruitment, Marcus Flitcroft said: “Rekeem is a player we have been monitoring for a while and have worked hard to bring to the football club. He fits the profile of player that we were looking for and know he will be a great addition to the squad.
“He has plenty of experience at this level and above despite his age and we hope that this loan spell with us will be hugely beneficial to Rekeem and ourselves. He’s a dynamic and composed midfielder that will add some real quality to us in all phases of play in the middle of the pitch.”
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SEATTLE (AP) — An analysis of Washington State Ferries data shows ferries are running behind schedule this year more than they have in the past decade, with a consistent decline in on-time performance.
Ferries spokesperson Ian Sterling told The Seattle Times every summer, with 50% more passengers traveling by ferry, it is not unusual to see a dip in on-time performance from June to September.
But the delays are more pronounced this year and passengers on the Anacortes/San Juans route are particular problems, according to WSF data.
While this route usually records more delays than others, in June, nearly half of all sailings on this route ran behind schedule. The newspaper reports this is a 40 percentage-point gap from WSF’s target to run on time for 95% of trips.
WSF attributes the lower on-time performance to a staffing shortage and a higher number of passengers on busy routes.
On weekends, especially holiday weekends like Labor Day, passengers on popular tourist routes such as Anacortes/San Juans and Port Townsend/Coupeville are more likely to face delays on Thursday and Friday afternoon leaving the Seattle area and returning on Sunday and Monday afternoon.
As of July this year, WSF had a 6% decline in staffing since 2019, when it was running at full capacity. There is a shortage of more than 100 people in the agency.
Hires in the last month have brought the gap down to 4%. Still, it will be some time before the new hires are fully trained to help plug staffing shortages.
Currently WSF’s biggest staffing shortage is in the engine room — the department has 45 fewer engineers — a decline of over 10% from 2019, when it was operating at full capacity.
WSF’s slow replacement of its aging staff also extends to the deck crew, which is needed to run sailings. Since 2017, 66 captains and 24 mates have left WSF. Over 80% were retirements. | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Washington-ferries-seeking-increased-delays-17395615.php | 2022-08-24T19:12:41Z | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Washington-ferries-seeking-increased-delays-17395615.php | true | 10 |
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The Scots Guards perform Eurovision 'Stefania' tribute for Ukraine's Independence Day
The Band of The Scots Guard have performed their rendition of Eurovision 2022 winning song Stefania in tribute to the people of Ukraine.
The performance, which is on behalf of the UK Armed Forces, took place in Horse Guards Parade earlier this week to mark Ukraine's Independence Day.
It's the day Ukraine marks its independence from the Soviet Union and this year also marks six months on from Russia's invasion of the country.
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The current set of troubles for Indian football began after the erstwhile AIFF president, Praful Patel, who was also a FIFA council member, refused to relinquish his post as the head of football in the country. His excuse for not exiting the stage was the long-drawn out pandemic, coupled with a court case regarding the AIFF constitution.
But on May 18, the Supreme Court intervened, and removed Patel from his post. The SC also appointed a Committee of Administrators (COA) to run the AIFF. The setting up of this COA is where the contentious relationship with FIFA began, which eventually led to the ban.
What is the ban, and how will it work?
As of now, the AIFF has been suspended by FIFA due to “third-party interference”. Third-party interference refers to a situation in which a member association of FIFA fails to remain independent, is co-opted, and no longer has control over its organisation. In this case, the SC’s diktat to the COA to run the AIFF was a textbook case of third-party interference, according to FIFA statutes.
The suspension means, firstly, no international football — and this applies to all national teams, across all age groups. It also applies to both men’s and women’s football, and to all club teams in India.
The suspension also impacts international transfers, as well as any courses or developmental programs that AIFF officials could, or were taking part in. This in effect means a total ban on all football-related activities outside India. However, the league in the country, as well as domestic transfers, can continue.
But why didn’t FIFA immediately ban India after the COA was tasked with running the AIFF?
When FIFA initially took stock of the case, it believed that the COA would not make any major changes to the AIFF constitution. It was made to believe this by the COA itself.
But when the first draft of the constitution was released, it was seen that the court-appointed administrators had altered the executive committee of the AIFF, the democratically elected body among state associations that runs the affairs of AIFF, as well as the way the executive committee would be formed, and who could vote or be voted for in its formation.
Chief among this was that the executive committee would comprise 50% of “eminent players”. Therefore, 35 state associations with voting rights would now have to contend with 35 eminent players who would have the same voting rights. This went against the FIFA statutes – and even though the world body agreed to 25% player representation in the committee, no changes were recorded on paper.
Secondly, the COA made changes in the wording of what India’s top league was, how relegation and promotion would work, and in laying down that the AIFF would be running the top league solely.
This had the potential to reopen the great battle in Indian football — over which league, the I-League or the Indian Super League, would be accorded the spot of India’s top promotion. The long battle had ended in 2018 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, with the ISL being made India’s top league and the I-League being demoted as a second division league.
While FIFA initially held off on the ban, these changes to how the AIFF functioned, without any scope of an executive committee present to ratify or challenge these decisions, were considered as third-party interference by the world governing body of football.
What does FIFA want?
In a letter addressed to the acting general secretary of the AIFF, FIFA has said that two main concerns need to be addressed in order for the ban to be lifted. First, the mandate of the COA would have to be repealed in full. Second, the AIFF administration would need to be completely in charge of its day-to-day running once again.
FIFA also stated in the letter that it wanted the AIFF constitution to be revised on the terms of FIFA and the AFC’s policies, and for the election to be held on current AIFF membership structures that are based on state associations only.
What’s the way forward now?
There is a hearing in the Supreme Court on Wednesday (August 17). It will essentially pit the judgment of the SC against the will of FIFA. An organisation that has in the past banned countries for far softer third-party interferences, FIFA will insist that all its demands be met or the ban would continue. A settlement on these issues will have to be reached, either in the courtroom or at a later date and time.
What will be the immediate impact of the ban?
The Gokulam Kerala’s Women’s team, which is currently travelling to Qarshi, Uzbekistan for the AFC Women’s Club Championship, may no longer be able to participate in the tournament. ATK Mohun Bagan, which was set to be part of the AFC Cup, may not be able to play in Asia’s second-tier club competition. Whether India makes the draw for the AFC Asian Cup is up in the air. The junior national team’s participation in the AFC Cup trials is in limbo as well.
But most importantly, FIFA has announced that the U-17 Women’s World Cup would no longer take place in India. Only days ago, the central government had announced the tournament, and tickets had gone on sale. The damage can be undone if the ban is lifted fast enough. But as of now, all rests on how matters proceed, and which side backs off. | https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-sports/fifa-india-football-ban-explained-8094435/ | 2022-08-24T19:19:12Z | https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-sports/fifa-india-football-ban-explained-8094435/ | true | 2 |
A former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Princewill Dike, has described the party as one apparently set for destruction.
The former Special Assistant on Student Affairs to former Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, is the latest prominent member of the APC to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
His defection to the PDP followed that of the APC state publicity secretary, Senibo Chris Finebone, who had two weeks ago, announced the resignation of his membership of the party.
Speaking with journalists in Port Harcourt, Dike said he decided to leave the APC when he realised that all his advices aimed at reviving the party in the state were not heeded.
He said: “A political Party is a vehicle for political power. When I observed that Rivers APC is heading to the precipice, I began lamenting. Alas, they tagged me a prophet of doom, as did Jeremiah by the Israelite.
“I didn’t stop at lamenting. But also proffered solutions on how to stir the ship away from the cliff. You know what?
“My advice was not heeded. Reminiscent of the Biblical allusion of God turning the counsel of Ahistophel to foolishness. You know. So, why should I continue to be in a party that is apparently set for destruction and have my political destiny wasted?”
The former APC chieftain called on the people of Rivers State to join hands with Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, to ensure the emergence of the PDP governorship candidate, Siminalaye Fubara, as the next governor of the state in 2023.
He added: “So we need to join hands with the dynamic governor to bring a successor that can continue from where he stopped the good work.” | https://leadership.ng/apc-is-a-party-set-for-destruction-says-ex-chieftain-in-rivers/ | 2022-08-24T19:19:22Z | https://leadership.ng/apc-is-a-party-set-for-destruction-says-ex-chieftain-in-rivers/ | false | 2 |
Poster campaigns emerge against BJP president in Dakshina Kannada
A poster in Kannada reads; “Along with Hindutva, we need the development of Mangaluru and for this, a leader with a long-term vision.”
BJP Karnataka unit president Nalin Kumar Kateel has found himself at the receiving end of criticism from people, believed to be his own party workers, over the lack of development in Dakshina Kannada despite it being a Hindutva bastion.
A campaign poster calling for Kateel’s ouster before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Mangaluru, scheduled on September 2, is also doing the rounds. A poster in Kannada reads: “Along with Hindutva, we need the development of Mangaluru and for this, a leader with a long-term vision.”
A senior BJP leader in the district, requesting anonymity, said: “For the last one month, especially after Praveen Nettaru’s murder, workers are demanding for his removal openly. Will these people talk if there are no grounds to do so? Like how there is no smoke without fire.”
Kateel could not be reached for comment.
However, others are not ruling out a growing wave of dissent against Kateel, who has found himself in the middle of several serious allegations, including one in which ill-gotten money was laundered through cryptocurrencies.
Known to be a close confidante of BJP national general secretary (organisation) BL Santosh, Kateel’s rise as the state president in 2019 had come as a surprise, but as a move to balance out the power equation which relied heavily on BS Yediyurappa, the then chief minister.
The dissent against Kateel came out in the open recently after the murder of BJP youth wing worker Nettaru on July 26. Kateel’s car was waylaid and several right-wing workers demanded that he be sacked from the party and his position as member of parliament.
People aware of the developments said this is the handiwork of fringe elements within the right-wing ecosystem in the communally sensitive district.
“There has been no problem with development in Dakshina Kannada and all eight assemblies in the region are with Kateel. The prime minister is coming to inaugurate the SagarMala initiative which can be partly credited to Kateel. And even Mangaluru is part of the smart city initiative,” said Sudarshan Mudabidre, Dakshina Kannada district BJP president.
Kateel’s term as BJP president has expired and the party is yet to announce a replacement who will shoulder the burden of getting it back to power in 2023 assembly elections.
It has been difficult, especially since the murders and piling allegations of corruption against chief minister Basavaraj Bommai and lack of development under his ternure.
“Right from 2019, when the BJP had come to power in Karnataka, the BJP state unit had a series of failure. Volunteers have become worser than that of football on the ground for leaders. He is kicked between the two fractions in the party. Which way to go? He’s frustrated (sic),” Chakravarty Sulibele, a prominent pro-Hindutva voice and ardent supporter of Modi, said in a social media post in July. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/poster-campaigns-emerge-against-bjp-president-in-dakshina-kannada-101661366895965.html | 2022-08-24T19:21:20Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/poster-campaigns-emerge-against-bjp-president-in-dakshina-kannada-101661366895965.html | false | 2 |
SmartRent (NYSE:SMRT – Get Rating) and Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ:AUR – Get Rating) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends and risk.
Profitability
This table compares SmartRent and Aurora Innovation’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares SmartRent and Aurora Innovation’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Risk and Volatility
SmartRent has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aurora Innovation has a beta of 2.56, suggesting that its share price is 156% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for SmartRent and Aurora Innovation, as reported by MarketBeat.
SmartRent presently has a consensus price target of 6.92, suggesting a potential upside of 92.66%. Aurora Innovation has a consensus price target of $9.13, suggesting a potential upside of 285.02%. Given Aurora Innovation’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Aurora Innovation is more favorable than SmartRent.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
46.0% of SmartRent shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.4% of Aurora Innovation shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.0% of SmartRent shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 18.8% of Aurora Innovation shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
About SmartRent
SmartRent, Inc., an enterprise software company, provides an integrated smart home operating system to residential property owners and operators, homebuilders, institutional home buyers, developers, and residents in the United States. The company’s products and solutions include smart apartments and homes, access control for buildings, common areas, and rental units, asset protection and monitoring, parking management, self-guided tours, and community and resident Wi-Fi. It also offers professional services to customers, which include training, installation, and support services. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.
About Aurora Innovation
Aurora Innovation, Inc. operates as a self-driving technology company in the United States. It focuses on developing Aurora Driver, a platform that brings a suite of self-driving hardware, software, and data services together to adapt and interoperate passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and trucks. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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(The Hill) – First lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 days after receiving a negative test in a “rebound” case of the virus.
The first lady tested negative on Tuesday before receiving the positive test result on an antigen test on Wednesday afternoon, her office said.
“The First Lady has experienced no reemergence of symptoms, and will remain in Delaware where she has reinitiated isolation procedures,” Kelsey Donohue, the deputy communications director for the first lady, said in a statement.
Biden first tested positive for COVID-19 eight days ago and was given the antiviral drug Paxlovid. She tested positive while on vacation with President Biden and their family in South Carolina. The first lady had mild symptoms and remained there until receiving a negative test, then joined the president in Delaware where he had continued his vacation.
Rebound cases can happen in patients who take Paxlovid when a patient tests negative for the virus, only to test positive again a few days later.
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The president had a similar rebound case after taking Paxlovid for his own COVID-19 infection late last month. He remained in isolation for another week because of the rebound case. | https://www.khon2.com/news/national/first-lady-tests-positive-in-covid-19-rebound-case/ | 2022-08-24T19:24:02Z | https://www.khon2.com/news/national/first-lady-tests-positive-in-covid-19-rebound-case/ | false | 24 |
Design thinking is an exciting framework incorporating a tried and tested set of tools and techniques that can be used to involve your users and stakeholders in digital projects in an engaging and valuable way. Design thinking can be applied to almost anything, from developing ideas for new digital products, to defining areas of content. You can even apply design thinking techniques in projects completely unrelated to digital customer experience, and even outside work!
There are many practical elements to consider when putting design thinking into action including how you structure workshops and selecting the right design thinking techniques. But at a deeper level to make design thinking a success you also need to have the right mindset. A design thinking session should feel very different to a traditional user involvement in a digital project, both for participants and facilitators.
An important element of design thinking is an underlying philosophy and mindset that emphasizes the value of having a diversity of contributions from a wide group of stakeholders and users. While traditional user research and requirements gathering for digital projects does stress the value of speaking to a diverse set of people, design thinking comes from a very different angle. It says that every contribution and idea has potential value; it embraces the chaos of gathering feedback, however crazy, conflicting, unstructured or tangential it seems; and it changes the role of the “expert” in the room to be a true facilitator who avoids influencing contributions. It is essentially a bottom-up rather than a top-down process.
Natural Design and Artificial Design
A good way to consider this philosophy and mindset is to think about natural design and artificial design. Design in the natural world such as a forest or a river is very chaotic.
If you look at a forest, for example, the tree branches can twist around each other in different directions. There are roots that straddle the surface but reach deep below, and a plethora of plants weave themselves between the trees. Overall, the design is twisted, tangled and chaotic.
But at the same time nature works with interaction between all the different parts to make up a whole which has its own inherent logic, but is also incredibly beautiful. There are also amazing examples of individual design – the bark of the tree, a leaf on a plant, and so on.
We then have artificial design, which is introduced by man. When we design a house, or a picture, or the layout of a website homepage, we approach this with structure and intent. We try to put some kind of order in the design to make it work for us. We have a problem in mind to solve, we have a frame of reference and experiences we draw upon. And we approach the design with a sense of logic. This approach has its advantages, but it’s essentially from a top-down perspective; we’d perhaps have some initial idea, but we’d then hire a web designer or specialist expert who then comes and designs a solution.
Related Article: How to Put Design Thinking Into Action
Learning Opportunities
We Don’t Need Another Design Hero
Design thinking workshops do bring structure to input and ideas, and one of the reasons they are so satisfying for participants is that there is tangible output at the end. But the earlier stages of design thinking are much more about embracing the chaos of natural design than the order of artificial design. It’s about gathering crazy and conflicting ideas and input from everybody involved in a digital product or website, and then facilitating collaboration and interaction between participants, just in the way every element of the forest contributes to the overall design of the natural ecosystem.
Design thinking should never be a top-down effort. It’s not about the hero, expert or leader coming up with a solution. In this respect the facilitator role is extremely important; digital consultants and UX experts who are used to interpreting research and defining solutions need to approach design thinking with a completely different mindset and underlying philosophy that values a far more collaborative approach.
Related Article: 6 Tactics to Make Design Thinking a Success
A Human-Centered Approach
There will be a diverse set of perspectives and a wide variety of opinions. People will not agree on everything.
But in the end, the design thinking process and all the different exercises that are carried out will convert all those into a common, acceptable and human-centered solution that will actually benefit the most people possible. And when that happens and participants can see their contribution is both valued and has made a difference, it’s genuinely a special moment. | https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/getting-the-right-mindset-for-design-thinking-embracing-chaos-and-collaboration/ | 2022-08-24T19:24:51Z | https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/getting-the-right-mindset-for-design-thinking-embracing-chaos-and-collaboration/ | true | 2 |
A man accused of shooting at a toddler and his father as they left a southwest Atlanta barbershop, hitting the child in the head, was arrested during a traffic stop Friday, police said.
Kentavious Wright, 24, was booked into the Fulton County Jail on a dozen counts, including criminal attempt to commit murder, aggravated assault, first-degree cruelty to children and multiple gang-related charges, online jail records show.
Police released body-worn camera footage of the arrest that showed multiple officers taking Wright into custody alongside his girlfriend. Officers searched the woman, whose identity was not released, and found a gun they say belonged to Wright.
He was interviewed before being booked into the Fulton jail, police said. No further information has been released about how investigators connected Wright to the shooting, which took place Aug. 3
The investigation began after the 3-year-old boy was seriously injured when he was shot in the head as he and his father left Off The Hook barbershop on Peters Street in their car, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported.
As the father and son traveled south on Peters Street, a Kia performed a U-turn after passing their car and began following them, police said. The Kia pulled alongside their car on the passenger side and someone inside opened fire at an intersection.
The father estimated the suspect fired five shots before he pulled away and drove to a fire station, according to the incident report. Three 9mm shell casings were recovered.
The boy was rushed to the hospital and was considered stable in the hours after the shooting, but police did not provide an update on his condition Wednesday.
Police did not share any further information about the circumstances around the shooting or say why Wright was pulled over Friday. According to jail records, he is also charged with three counts of committing offenses listed in Georgia’s Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act with the intent to gain membership or increase his status in a criminal street gang.
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Classes started Wednesday at Carroll College for the fall semester with students celebrating their first day back to the private, Catholic, liberal arts and preprofessional school.
The students were treated to coffee and muffins with Carroll President John Cech outside the Campus Center. Carroll offers more than 40 majors ranging from accounting to engineering to philosophy and history. | https://helenair.com/news/local/fall-semester-begins-at-carroll-college/article_5dfd1e89-fc5b-5bb8-917d-5b44acfd35e5.html | 2022-08-24T19:27:46Z | https://helenair.com/news/local/fall-semester-begins-at-carroll-college/article_5dfd1e89-fc5b-5bb8-917d-5b44acfd35e5.html | false | null |
Officials continue to test the systems within the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility as they’ve pushed back the completion of the process from the end of summer to the end of the year.
The process of commissioning remains in motion to prepare the federal laboratory in Manhattan for operation.
“Commissioning is the testing and validation of all the systems inside the facility to ensure everything is running properly,” said Stephanie Jacques, public affairs specialist for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility.
Jacques said on Tuesday that “we’re expecting (commissioning) to be completed later this year,” with no exact date established. In June, project manager Tim Barr said commissioning was set for completion by the end of the summer, although he also didn’t mention a specific date.
Jacques said no particular event has lengthened the process.
“It’s just the nature of commissioning,” she said. “As you test these facility systems, you have to make adjustments as needed.”
She supplied an example of the kind of testing and validation that needs to be done.
“Our HEPA (high efficiency particulate absorbing) filtration system needs to work with with other systems to make sure the air pressure in the facility stays where it needs to be,” she said.
Once operational, the $1.25 billion animal and zoonotic disease lab will play a leading role in the nation’s defense against agriculture- and livestock-related pathogens. The federal government officially selected Manhattan as the site for NBAF in January 2009.
Jacques emphasized that the actual operation of the NBAF is still some time away.
“Even after commissioning is complete and the (U.S. Department of Agriculture) takes ownership of the facility from the Department of Homeland Security, we still have a few more things to do before we can complete the transfer (of the science mission) from Plum Island to Manhattan,” she said, referring to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York state.
“It will still take at least a couple of years to make the transfer,” she said.
Jacques said after the commissioning process is complete, the USDA will enter into an “endurance period” for 60 days that involves testing the way people apply the standardized operating procedures and processes they’ve been practicing for years.
A number of other steps, including what’s called the “science preparatory phase,” will precede the transfer as well.
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Allied expands its line of industrial automation and control cabinet solutions for Industry 4.0 applications with a wide range of new ready-to-ship products from Delta Electronics, KIPP, Murrplastik and OnRobot.
FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allied Electronics & Automation, a trading brand of RS Group plc (LSE: RS1), a global omni-channel provider of product and service solutions, added four new industrial automation and control cabinet solutions suppliers to its line card of more than 650 trusted suppliers and further expanded its selection of more than 250,000 ready-to-ship solutions in categories extending from automation and control equipment to interconnect, passive, active and electromechanical components. The four newest Allied suppliers, Delta Electronics, KIPP, Murrplastik and OnRobot, are all internationally recognized for designing and developing high-quality component and equipment solutions vital to the continued expansion of Industry 4.0 in the global manufacturing industry.
Delta Electronics is a leading global supplier of energy-efficient power electronics, thermal management and industrial automation solutions. Its mission is to provide clean, innovative and energy-efficient solutions engineered to address global environmental issues, including climate change and sustainable development, and it offers some of the most energy-efficient power products in the global electronics industry, including switching power supplies with over 90% efficiency, telecom power supplies with up to 98% efficiency and photovoltaic (PV) inverters with up to 99.2% efficiency. Delta also offers the world's first server power supply certified as 80 Plus Titanium — which is the highest level of the voluntary 80 Plus certification program for energy-efficient computer power supplies, representing 96% efficiency at 50% load — and has been listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability™ World Index for 11 consecutive years. Allied is proud to offer a range of energy-efficient, ready-to-ship Delta Electronics solutions including power products, such as AC-DC power supplies, uninterruptible power supplies and power supply accessories, motors & motor controls, thermal management solutions and human-machine interfaces (HMIs).
KIPP is a global, family-owned and -managed company that leverages more than 100 years of German engineering and manufacturing experience to develop clamping tools, standard components and operating parts that set the industry standard for innovation, quality and dependability. Allied is proud to offer a range of long-lasting, ergonomic and ready-to-ship solutions from KIPP, including tools & hardware, such as adjustable ratchet handles, star grips, wing grips and cam levers, and enclosure, rack and cabinet solutions, such as indexing and sprint plungers and locating pins.
Murrplastik is an international company dedicated to developing and manufacturing innovative injection molded cable management, control cabinet and industrial automation products. The company has submitted more than 100 patent applications for its high-tech plastic products, including cable entry systems, cable drag chains and specialized conduits and fittings; universal marking and labeling solutions for single wires, control equipment, clamps, cables and conduits; and robotic dress packs for electronic wires and cables and hydraulic and pneumatic tubing with universally applicable fastening, conduit and protection elements. Murrplastik products are widely employed in the rail, automotive, toolmaking, packaging, woodworking and electrical, mechanical and medical engineering industries and are now available at Allied.
OnRobot designs and develops a comprehensive range of versatile products optimized for collaborative automation applications, or cobots, in small- and mid-sized manufacturing facilities worldwide. Solutions ranging from the OnRobot Eyes 2.5D vision system to palletizing and analytics software and electric, vacuum and magnetic grippers to force and torque sensors and tools including screwdrivers and sander kits are engineered to help these manufacturers achieve the enhanced flexibility, higher output and improved quality they need to grow their business. OnRobot's suite of collaborative automation solutions exhibits exceptional compatibility with virtually every robotic equipment brand to ensure quick and easy integration in applications, including packaging, quality control, material handling, machine tending, assembly and surface finishing. Solutions are also supported by the free Learn OnRobot e-learning platform, which makes it easy to deploy collaborative automation equipment regardless of skill level or previous robotics experience, and free, in-depth virtual or on-location product and integration training. Allied is proud to offer OnRobot solutions ranging from screwdrivers to Raspberry Pi, Arduino and development tools.
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Michael Burry, the hedge fund manager who made hundreds of millions of dollars betting that the U.S. housing market would crash, has dumped his stock portfolio and bought more than 500,000 shares of The Geo Group, the world’s second-largest private prison operator.
Burry’s ability to predict and profit from his trades ahead of the 2008 financial crisis helped inspire the best-selling book and blockbuster movie, “The Big Short.” He now owns just one stock, according to filings released on Aug. 15. At current prices, Burry’s position in Geo Group is worth about $3.9 million, Reuters reported.
Based on his (frequently deleted) tweets, Burry is betting on a deep recession in which unemployment and crime will rise, according to Luke Lango, a senior investment analyst for investing and financial news site InvestorPlace.
Another part of the bet could be political, Lango wrote. Former U.S. President Donald Trump supported private prisons, and private prison spending boomed during his administration. GEO Group stock more than doubled in the first months of Trump’s presidency.
News of Burry’s stock purchase sent Geo Group share prices up 12 percent.
The stocks that Burry sold included $12.9 million worth of Facebook parent Meta, a $19.7 million stake in Cigna Corp, $23.1 million stake in Bristol-Myers Squibb, $19 million in Booking and $18 million in Alphabet.
“It appears Burry could be making a simultaneous bet on economic collapse, rising crime rates and a coming ‘Red Wave’ in this year’s midterm elections with his purchase of GEO stock,” Lango wrote.
Burry frequently deletes his tweets, Reuters reported. He suggested on Twitter that the 18-percent gain in the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index since July 1 is likely to reverse.
“Can’t shake that silly pre-Enron, pre-9/11, pre-WorldCom feeling,” Burry wrote, referring to three events between February 2000 and September 2002 that contributed to a 75-percent decline in the Nasdaq.
Burry thinks stocks are doomed and he’s putting his money where his mouth is, Lango wrote. “He’s taken to Twitter numerous times to warn investors that the stock market crash is actually just getting started … This is perhaps the loudest warning shot yet for investors betting on a new bull market. Arguably the greatest bear market prognosticator of all time is 100% bearish on this market.”
Followers of Burry’s tweets were not that surprised, according to Lango. “He has warned for months that this stock market crash could get really ugly.”
Based on piecing together his tweets, Lango said Burry believes there will be disinflation in the short-term as inventory builds, but higher-than-usual inflation is here for the long term, powered by persistent commodity and labor shortages. And if inflation persists, stocks are doomed.
In addition, Burry believes poor U.S. government policies will exacerbate the negative economic impact of inflation, plunging the U.S. economy into a deep recession that will lead to a dramatic drop in corporate profits, yet to be priced into stocks. As corporate profits drop over the next 12 months, Burry thinks stocks will collapse.
Many companies such as JP Morgan have divested in private prisons and federal contracts.
A month after Trump became president, he rescinded a Barack Obama directive from Aug. 2016 to phase out federal use of private prisons. Share prices plunged 40 percent after the Obama directive. Stocks plunged again in 2021 when the Biden administration announced a similar measure to restrict the Justice Department’s use of for-profit prison.
Black people have been historically overrepresented in county jails and federal and state prisons, but the racial disparities in private prisons are even worse, according to UC Berkeley African-American studies Ph.D. student Christopher Petrella.
“The line connecting slavery and modern private prisons is straight and glaring,” wrote Hana M. Kiros, an opinion writer for Harvard University’s Harvard Crimson newspaper. Harvard University continues to invest in private prisons despite criticism.
Prison companies account for about 10 percent of federal and state prison beds, according to Moody’s Investors Service. But two-thirds of people held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are in private detention centers, S&P Global Ratings estimated in 2018.
“I doubt (Burry) holds GEO Group because it is the best stock with the most favorable risk/reward,” wrote Cavenagh Research, an investment blogger for Seeking Alpha. “Arguably, something else is going on that is not transparent to investors who simply read the SEC F13 filing.”
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
08-17-26-36-44
(eight, seventeen, twenty-six, thirty-six, forty-four)
Estimated jackpot: $550,000
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
08-17-26-36-44
(eight, seventeen, twenty-six, thirty-six, forty-four)
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NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces an investigation of potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) resulting from allegations that Twitter may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Twitter securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
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WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On August 23, 2022, CNN published an article entitled "Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless and negligent cybersecurity policies" which revealed that "Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users' personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy, according to an explosive whistleblower disclosure obtained exclusively by CNN and The Washington Post." The report also stated that the disclosure was "sent last month to a number of US government agencies and congressional committees, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice" and that the whistleblower is "Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko, who was previously the company's head of security, reporting directly to the CEO." The report further stated, among other things, that "[w]hat Zatko says he found was a company [Twitter] with extraordinarily poor security practices, including giving thousands of the company's employees — amounting to roughly half the company's workforce — access to some of the platform's critical controls." Finally, the report stated that the disclosure "also alleges that some of the company's senior-most executives have been trying to cover up Twitter's serious vulnerabilities, and that one or more current employees may be working for a foreign intelligence service."
On this news, Twitter's share price fell $3.15 per share, or 7%, to close at $39.86 per share on August 23, 2022, on unusually heavy trading volume.
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Phil Mickelson made his LIV Golf series debut earlier this year. The 2021 PGA Tour champion completed his defection and featured in the inaugural event of the multimillion-dollar series in June.
Having signed a LIV contract, Mickelson arrived at the Centurion Golf club in London as one of the highest-paid golfers in the world.
Mickelson was on the receiving end of some harsh criticism for joining the LIV Golf series. According to many fans and critics, the reigning PGA Tour champ ‘abandoned’ the PGA. Mickelson reportedly bagged a hefty paycheck to defect to the Saudi-backed multimillion-dollar series.
Amid all the chaos, Phil Mickelson claimed that he was positive about being a part of the LIV Golf series.
Speaking in an interview after his debut in the new series, Mickelson said that he was 'feeling good' about playing. The 52-year-old athlete mentioned that he had been on a hiatus from the sport for nearly four months. Mickelson said:
"I've had an awesome time, I've had a four-month break from the game. It's given me time to continue some of the work and therapy that I've been working on some areas I'm deficient in, in my life… It's given me time to reflect on what I want to do going forward, what's best for me, what's best for the people I care about."
"This allows me to be more present and engaged with people I care about. That is why, when I think about being a part of LIV Golf, I feel so good about it.”
It is pertinent to note that the controversy surrounding Mickelson’s association with LIV blew up recently. The player has been at loggerheads with the PGA as it suspended him along with several others for defecting to LIV Golf.
Mickelson, along with others filed a lawsuit against the PGA for its actions, which the players lost.
Phil Mickelson becomes the world’s highest-paid golfer
The PGA Tour’s suspension doesn’t seem to have affected Phil Mickelson’s earnings as he recently became the highest-paid golfer this year.
Mickelson joined 47 others at the inaugural LIV Golf tournament. Ahead of his debut, Golf Channel's Brentley Romine claimed that the 2021 PGA Tour champion’s LIV contract was worth around $200 million.
Mickelson reportedly received almost half the amount upfront from the Saudi-backed league. While Mickelson is yet to confirm the exact figure, Forbes recently listed him as the world’s highest-paid golfer.
According to the magazine, Mickelson bagged around $138 million on the pitch this year. It is worth noting that seven of the top 10 names on the highest paid golfers list are associated with LIV Golf.
While players, including Phil Mickelson, state they are happy with LIV Golf, the controversy surrounding their defection continues to grow.
Recently, ace players Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy came out to slam LIV Golf. Lashing out at the players for agreeing to participate in the Saudi-backed series, Woods and McIlroy asked other players to support the PGA. | https://www.sportskeeda.com/golf/i-feel-good-it-phil-mickelson-part-controversial-liv-golf | 2022-08-24T19:35:56Z | https://www.sportskeeda.com/golf/i-feel-good-it-phil-mickelson-part-controversial-liv-golf | false | 1 |
ATK Mohun Bagan squared off against Mumbai City FC in their second fixture of the 2022 Durand Cup on Wednesday, August 24. After falling prey to Rajasthan United FC in their tournament opener, the Mariners were desperate for three points to secure their stay in the tournament. Their opponents, Mumbai City FC, wanted to add to their win against the Indian Navy FT and continue to be on top of the table.
The Mariners were fielded in a 3-4-3 formation by Juan Ferrando as newly recruited Vishal Kaith made it to the starting line-up for the first time since joining the outfit.
The defense consisted of Pritam Kotal and Subhasish Bose on either side of Florentin Pogba. The midfield comprised of Carl McHugh and Deepak Tangri, flanked by Asish Rai and Ashique Kuruniyan. Liston Colaco and Hugo Boumous, alongside Joni Kauko, led the team's forward line.
The Islanders started without Jorge Pereyra Diaz. Greg Stewart led the attack with Vikram Pratap Singh and Bipin Singh flanking the Scotsman. Ahmed Jahouh was included in the starting XI.
ATK Mohun Bagan was quick to gain control of the game. However, Ferrando's side did not seem to break away in an attacking move, instead focusing on building up their momentum and opening up the opposition defense.
For most of the first half, ATK Mohun Bagan looked to dominate Mumbai City FC, who sat back waiting for an error on the opposition's part.
Their dominance was rewarded when Asish Rai's pace caught the defense napping. The full-back drilled his shot low onto the path of Phurba Lachenpa, who failed to get it under his control. The rebound was met by Colaco, who blasted it into the net.
Mumbai City FC sneak away with an equalizer against ATK Mohun Bagan
ATK Mohun Bagan cut down on their intensity at the start of the second half. They moved the ball from one side of the pitch to the other, looking to unsettle the Islanders' defense. However, the pace of their move hardly impacted Des Buckingham's side, who were steadily coming out in numbers to press the opposition players out of possession.
Within a few minutes of the resumption, Mumbai City FC turned on the heat as the side looked more eager to score the equalizer.
Jorge Pereyra Diaz was introduced in the second half alongside Lallianzuala Chhangte. The Islanders worked on their movements and were able to drive the ball further beyond the middle third.
As the second half reached its mid-point, the Islanders' intensity in the final third grew. In the 77th minute, Sanjeev Stalin whipped in a cross into the box. Diaz ran towards the far post and headed it down past Vishal Kaith.
With the tie now evenly balanced, Ferrando's side grew desperate as they sought all three points from this fixture. However, after the gaffer took off Hugo Boumous, Joni Kauko, and Ashique Kuruniyan, it was all down to Liston Colaco and Kiyan Nassiri to unlock the Islanders' defense in pursuit of a winning goal. The lack of a creative midfielder took away the sharpness from the Mariners' attack.
Mumbai City FC settled for more possession towards the end of regulation time and saw it through to the final whistle. The match ended in a draw, with ATK Mohun Bagan managing just one point in two games. | https://www.sportskeeda.com/indian-football/durand-cup-2022-atk-mohun-bagan-manage-point-mumbai-city-fc | 2022-08-24T19:36:09Z | https://www.sportskeeda.com/indian-football/durand-cup-2022-atk-mohun-bagan-manage-point-mumbai-city-fc | false | 1 |
Aug 24 (Reuters) - U.S. environmental group the Sierra Club
said on Wednesday the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) had approved https://elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/filelist?accession_num=20220823-3076
the Mountain Valley Pipeline's (MVP) request for four more
years to build the natural gas line from West Virginia to
Virginia.
"This comes after an overwhelming majority of commenters
asked the Commission to deny the extension request for the
303-mile pipeline slated to carry fracked gas across 11 counties
in West Virginia before crossing into Virginia," the Sierra Club
said in a statement.
The joint venture building the 303-mile (488-km),
2-billion-cubic-feet-per-day (bcfd) natural gas pipeline had in
June asked federal regulators for four more years, until October
2026, to complete the long-delayed project.
Mountain Valley -- owned by units of Equitrans,
NextEra Energy Inc, Consolidated Edison Inc,
AltaGas Ltd and RGC Resources -- is one of
several U.S. pipeline projects delayed by regulatory and legal
fights with environmental and local groups that found problems
with federal permits issued during President Donald Trump's
administration.
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Estee Lauder Cos EL has outperformed the market over the past 20 years by 7.86% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 15.7%. Currently, Estee Lauder Cos has a market capitalization of $99.70 billion.
Buying $100 In EL: If an investor had bought $100 of EL stock 20 years ago, it would be worth $1,842.87 today based on a price of $279.01 for EL at the time of writing.
Estee Lauder Cos's Performance Over Last 20 Years
Finally -- what's the point of all this? The key insight to take from this article is to note how much of a difference compounded returns can make in your cash growth over a period of time.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — LSU says new research shows that both LSU Campus Mounds are the oldest man-made structures in North America — going back as far as 11,000 years ago.
The two mounds on LSU’s campus stand about 20 feet tall and are among over 800 man-made mounds in the state, according to the university.
A study of the mounds says researchers believe that the mounds could have been used for ceremonial or cremation purposes. LSU said scientists are unsure what type of mammals were cremated or why.
Today, LSU has taken measures to protect the mounds with vehicle barriers, signage, temporary fencing, and rules discouraging people to walk on the mounds. There are also plans in the making by a committee to further protect the mounds through design to create a buffer between people and the structures.
The study was led by LSU’s Department of Geology & Geophysics Professor Emeritus Brooks Ellwood. Research of the campus mounds will be presented by Ellwood on Friday, Aug. 26. The presentation will be from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Dalton Woods Auditorium in the LSU Energy, Coast & Environment Building (93 South Quad Drive).
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GRAND HAVEN — Ludington's Madison Bearup qualified for the MHSAA Division 3 state swimming meet in the breaststroke during a double dual Tuesday night in Grand Haven.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Dozens of Islamic Jihad militants displayed life-sized replicas of their rockets during a parade in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, in a show of defiance after three days of heavy fighting with Israel earlier this month.
The flare-up left 49 Palestinians dead, including the militant group's top two commanders and 10 other fighters, before an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire took effect. The militants fired some 1,100 rockets, but no one on the Israeli side was killed or seriously wounded.
It was the deadliest exchange of fire since last year's war between Israel and Hamas, the militant group that has ruled Gaza for the last 15 years — and which did not take part in the latest fighting.
The militants drove pick-up trucks with different sizes of rocket replicas and posters of their slain commanders. People lined the streets, throwing flowers.
Israel and Western countries consider both Hamas and Islamic Jihad to be terrorist groups because they have carried out scores of deadly attacks over the years targeting Israeli civilians.
Many Palestinians view the militants as freedom fighters resisting Israel's 55-year military occupation of lands the Palestinians want for their future state. | https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Gaza-militants-hold-parade-after-latest-battle-17395658.php | 2022-08-24T19:42:24Z | https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Gaza-militants-hold-parade-after-latest-battle-17395658.php | false | 12 |
Shakira Reportedly Has Strong Feelings About Her Ex Moving On
After 11 years together, Shakira and soccer player Gerard Piqué announced their breakup in June 2022. Their joint statement (via Hello!) did not provide many details about the reasoning, simply asking that fans respect the privacy of their two children, "who are [their] highest priority."
Their love story seemed like something out of a movie, with the pair first being introduced while filming for Shakira's "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" music video. It seemed to be love at first sight for both of the stars. During an appearance on Spain's TV3 (via People), Piqué shared that he hoped his soccer team would make it to the World Cup final, just so he could see her again. Shakira was performing at the match, and Spain ended up taking home the 2010 championship.
In 2011, Shakira made the relationship official. She took to Twitter to share a picture with Piqué, with the sweet caption, "Les presento a mi sol." The words, which translate to, "I present my sun," made it perfectly clear where the couple stood. Although Shakira and Piqué's joint breakup statement also firmly established the status of their relationship, the former has made it clear that she's not quite ready to move on.
Gerard Piqué was caught kissing someone new
Just two months after his split from Shakira, Gerard Piqué has been spotted publicly kissing his new girl. Pictures of the soccer player and 23-year-old Clara Chia Marti began circulating on Twitter, prompting many reactions, including one from Shakira herself.
According to a source for Hollywood Life, Shakira was shocked by the photos. "Shakira can't believe Gerard would do something like this so soon after their break-up," they said. The source also noted that the couple had made a pact not to go public with any new relationships until one year post-split, for the sake of their children. "For him to put something like this out there feels so unnecessary."
The Sun reports that the couple has been "seeing each other for some time," implying the relationship turn-around may have been even quicker than we initially thought. Some fans even speculated that there could have been infidelity, and expressed frustration on behalf of the star. "Shakira is dealing with a tax crisis, her dad's health issues, her kids custody trial and her own heartbreak after getting cheated awn. And here is [Gerard Piqué] ... acting like nothing happened," wrote one. The "tax crisis" is likely in reference to the recent filings against Shakira for tax evasion, which could lead to her serving jail time. We're confident Shakira will "remember to forget" this rocky year. | https://www.nickiswift.com/978647/shakira-reportedly-has-strong-feelings-about-her-ex-moving-on/ | 2022-08-24T19:47:55Z | https://www.nickiswift.com/978647/shakira-reportedly-has-strong-feelings-about-her-ex-moving-on/ | false | 1 |
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TEMPE, Ariz., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®) has opened a Call-For-Presentations (CFP) for its annual international conference, ISM World 2023, an immersive experience May 7-10, 2023. The influential three-day, procurement and supply chain management conference will provide attendees educational and networking opportunities to further their professional development and organizational success. It will bring together global industry practitioners and thought leaders to network, collaborate, and discuss future trends in the profession.
Supply management leaders and practitioners are invited to submit presentations that generate innovative ideas, share an inspiring story, real-life case study, or incorporate a new technology or methodology. Submissions should include a brief two-minute video. The CFP will remain open for submissions until Friday, September 30 at 11:59 p.m. EST.
"Practitioners have an opportunity to share and submit proposals that present new knowledge, innovative tools and tips to prepare attendees for the future," said ISM® Chief Executive Officer Tom Derry. "Various perspectives are encouraged as today's practitioners are on the frontlines of delivering strategic value for their organizations."
Volunteer supply management practitioners and leaders on ISM® Committees and Councils will review completed submissions and evaluate based on the description as it aligns with the conference theme, the interest level of the audience, and presentation format.
Approved and selected speakers receive complimentary ISM World 2023 Annual Conference registration and corresponding recertification credit.
For more information and to submit a presentation proposal, please visit: ISM World Call-For-Presentations.
About Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®)
Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®) is the first and leading not-for-profit professional supply management organization worldwide. Its 50,000 members in more than 90 countries around the world manage about US$1 trillion in corporate and government supply chain procurement annually. Founded in 1915 by practitioners, ISM is committed to advancing the practice of supply management to drive value and competitive advantage for its members, contributing to a prosperous and sustainable world. ISM empowers and leads the profession through the ISM® Report On Business®, its highly-regarded certification and training programs, corporate services, events, the ISM Supply Chain Capability Model and the ISM Advance™ Digital Platform. The ISM® Report On Business®, Manufacturing, Services and Hospital, are three of the most reliable economic indicators available, providing guidance to supply management professionals, economists, analysts, and government and business leaders. For more information, please visit ismworld.org.
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Today, President Biden enacted H.R. 3967, a bipartisan Act crafted to improve health care and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances, such as in the water contamination crisis at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. Section 804 of the Act, cited as the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, states that individuals who resided, worked, or were otherwise exposed (including in utero exposure) may bring an action to obtain appropriate relief for harm that was caused by exposure to the water at Camp Lejeune.
Marine Corp Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina suffered a tainted water supply from 1953 to 1987. U.S. Marine Corp (USMC) service members and their families residing and working on the base were exposed to toxic chemicals at concentrations from 240 to 3400 times the levels permitted by safety standards, resulting in a wide array of serious diseases. As many as one million people have been impacted by this water crisis.
Key Elements of the Camp Lejeune Justice Act
The Camp Lejeune Justice Act provides for medical care and compensation to those affected by the contaminated water supply and establishes a fund for the clean-up of the camp. The Act removes the barriers of immunity under the Feres Doctrine which precludes service members from filing suit based on injuries incident to his/her service and North Carolina's statute of limitations. Those affected must provide sufficient evidence to show the contaminated water more likely than not caused or contributed to the cause of the harm.
Qualifications for Claims
- Stationed at Camp Lejeune for 30 days or more between August 1953 and December 1987
- Diagnosed with any of the following diseases
- Bladder cancer
- Breast cancer
- Esophageal cancer
- Kidney cancer
- Lung cancer
- Leukemia
- Multiple myeloma
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Hepatic steatosis
- Miscarriage
- Female infertility
- Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS)
- Renal toxicity
- Scleroderma
- Neurobehavioral effects
Originally Published 11 August 2022
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Joe Biden Answer To Inflation? Waste More Of Your Money
There are plenty of good reasons not to like the student-loan debt-forgiveness plan Joe Biden rolls out a few hours from now.
It’s a massive giveaway, it drives inflation, and the U.S. Government doesn’t have the money to begin with.
But let’s start with my favorite reason.
It ain’t LEGAL for Joe to do it.
Are you hearing THAT on the news today?
And who says Joe lacks the legal authority to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in debt?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for one. Quote, “People think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone, he can delay, but he does not have that power.”
Congress does but they’re not going to do it.
And how about Joe Biden’s own federal Department of Education, which studied the question last year and found (quote) “it does not have statutory authority to provide mass cancellation or forgiveness of student loan balances”.
It’s illegal. But in the last 18 months has that ever stopped the Capo of the Biden Crime family.
About 40% of Americans have a college degree.
And now many of THEM want the 60% of citizens who DO NOT…to pay off THEIR bad debts.
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Greek Parliament Appoints New Head Of National Intelligence Service - Reports
Faizan Hashmi Published August 25, 2022 | 12:10 AM
ATHENS (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 25th August, 2022) The Greek Parliament Committee approved the appointment of former Secretary General of the Greek Foreign Ministry Themistoklis Demiris as the new head of the National Intelligence Service (EYP) to replace Panagiotis Kontoleon, who was dismissed over a surveillance scandal, Greek media reported on Wednesday.
According to the Skai broadcaster, only lawmakers of the ruling New Democracy party spoke in favor of the appointment, while all opposition parties voted against.
Ambassador Theocharis Lalacos was reportedly appointed as the new Secretary General of the Greek Foreign Ministry.
A political scandal erupted in Greece late July regarding the wiretapping by Predator spyware of the mobile phone of Nikos Androulakis, the leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, and the surveillance of journalist Thanasis Koukakis.
Kontoleon and the Greek prime minister's general secretary, Grigoris Dimitriadis, were dismissed due to the scandal.
Greek media called the case "Kyriakos-gate" and "Greek Watergate" by analogy with the well-known political scandal of 1972-1974, which ended with the resignation of US President Richard Nixon.
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RICHMOND, Va. , Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - ChallengeU, an innovative high school dropout recovery program, changed the life trajectory of Richmond City high school students who were no longer in school. Students were able to graduate against all odds because of ChallengeU's ability to combine the power of building relationships through boots-on-the-ground coaching with the flexibility of online learning.
On Aug. 24, a special ceremony was held at The Kitchens at Reynolds to honor four graduates who, after overcoming difficult life circumstances, are eager to pursue their chosen careers at local educational institutions such as Reynolds Community College.
"We believe every student should be able to pursue a promising career and have an equal opportunity to be successful, even after dropping out of school," said Nicolas Arsenault, CEO of ChallengeU. He highlighted that ChallengeU partners with Imagine Learning to provide high-quality online courses aligned with state standards and delivered by state-certified virtual instructors.
One ChallengeU Graduate's Story
Jahneysha Gibbs was always up for the challenge when it came to her academics. However, during high school, balancing life and school became overwhelming. Between the loss of her grandmother, constantly moving to different cities, and switching from school to school, she slowly began to lose motivation, and dreams of a future seemed out of reach.
"A few months after I stopped going to school, someone called my mom and told her about the program. I had enough time to grieve and deal with the loss of my grandma and was willing to come back to school as long as I did not have to go back into the building," says Jahneysha.
She found the ChallengeU coaches to be consistent, engaging, and very adaptive to her different life situations. "I love ChallengeU and the coach relationships! They are so motivational and help you out in every way they can," says Jahneysha, who aims to enter the registered nursing program at Reynolds in the fall.
ChallengeU is assisting her with the application process, connecting her to a job at the Omni hotel, and will be providing an academic scholarship that will be applied to her post-graduation plan. "I have always wanted to help people. ChallengeU is helping me to learn more about the field of nursing and the different roles," she concludes. Now that she is across the finish line with high school, she wants to encourage others in similar circumstances. "It gets better, and if someone has the option to work with ChallengeU, they should definitely take it!"
"The opportunity to walk alongside these students as they have overcome various challenges has been a privilege that I am most grateful for," said Bria Jacobs, Lead Graduation Coach of ChallengeU in Richmond Virginia. "Our program is designed to meet youth right at the intersection of their current circumstances and their greatest desires for a bright future. We see our participants as future scholars, entrepreneurs, teachers, healthcare practitioners, and anything else that they set their minds to. The ultimate goal is for participants to see the light at the end of the tunnel and walk toward it with confidence and a solid support system committed to assisting them every step of the way."
"Working in partnership with public school systems in the U.S., ChallengeU is building a better, brighter future for students who have dropped out of school due to a variety of life circumstances," concluded Arsenault. "Walking across the stage to receive a high school diploma is a moment that every student should experience and celebrate. Our team at ChallengeU is honored to help make that important milestone a reality, as well as creating a pathway to be a productive member of the workforce."
About ChallengeU
ChallengeU is a dropout recovery program that partners with school systems to identify, re-enroll and graduate students who had previously dropped out of high school. Our intervention model combines the flexibility of online learning with the power of building relationships through in-person coaching. Our coaches provide wrap-around support in collaboration with local community organizations. We engage students in various levels of support, ensuring they will have the confidence and motivation to commit to working with us toward graduation and post-graduation opportunities. We advanced our mission in the USA based on the success of our operation, which has re-enrolled more than 24,000 dropouts in school systems throughout Canada. In 2022, ChallengeU was recognized as a B Corp Best For The World™.
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Shocking killing is tragic indictment of lawless Britain, says ESTHER KRAKUE
THE DREADFUL and senseless killing of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, a 9-year-old girl based in Liverpool, has shocked the country. She was yet another victim of a wave of gang-related crimes that are becoming too common in modern Britain.
The nightmare unfolded on Monday when a man allegedly broke into the terraced home Olivia shared with her mother, in an attempt to escape a masked gunman who was hot on his tail. That set in motion the horrific tragedy which unfolded; leaving two people seriously wounded, a gunman on the run, and an innocent child dead.
In a shocking twist of events, Merseyside police revealed that the intended victim was picked up by friends and driven to hospital, leaving young Olivia to die in her mother’s arms. Naturally, police have implored the public to come forward with any information which could bring Olivia’s killer to justice. But this heinous crime speaks of a more fundamental issue in Britain today.
Like me, you would be forgiven for not believing that this happened in a country that has been under Conservative leadership for the last 12 years. After all, aren’t the Tories the party of law and order?
Yet, Olivia’s brutal killing is only one of three-gun crimes that have come out of Liverpool this last week alone. Many videos have also been circulating online of rabid youths looting and wreaking havoc in businesses, in plain view of police officers.
And TO add insult to injury, recent statistics regarding knife crime in London shows that “74.4 per cent of all homicides were caused by knives or sharp implements in 2021, a 15.6 per cent increase from 2020”. This is simply unacceptable. I fear Britain is heading down a spiral of chaos and lawlessness. Clearly, respect for our authorities is at an all-time low.
However, what is even more clear are the structural issues plaguing our country’s police force; issues exacerbated by austerity cuts made under David Cameron’s government.
In fact, between 2010 and 2016, police staff working for forces in England and Wales reduced by a shocking 23 per cent. The detrimental effects of these cuts can be felt today.
Yet, while the Home Office has tried to address the issue of ineffective policing by committing an extra £1.1billion to “cut crime”, it is clear there is no quick fix. Spending is only one part of a range of issues that the next Tory leader must address.
Earlier this week, members of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) voted to go on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike in England and Wales from September 5. The havoc this will wreak on our justice system is immeasurable.
Criminal barristers, who represent defendants otherwise unable to afford lawyers, are the bedrock of a fair and just society. According to HM Courts and Tribunal Service, there are currently 58,271 cases waiting to go to trial. This will only get worse when the planned strikes come into effect.
Still, the striking barristers can hardly be blamed. Kirsty Brimelow QC, vice-chair of the Criminal Bar Association, revealed that barristers have seen a 28 per cent decrease in real income since around 2006. How can a party which claims to value law and order oversee such a decline in funding and income cuts for this vital arm of our judicial system?
However, the issues don’t stop there. Since 2015, around 60 per cent of prisons in England and Wales are overcrowded. A reality largely due to the fact that investment in modernising and making them larger and more fit for purpose has been lagging.
Yet, what I find the most astonishing is the Tories complete reluctance to address the elephant in the room. That is, the clear link between fatherless homes, youth crime and gang violence. In England and Wales alone, 76 per cent of young men sent to prison have absent fathers. And the trend is only getting worse.
In recent weeks, both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have drawn parallels between themselves and Margaret Thatcher. But one thing they are both forgetting is Thatcher’s championing of the traditional family.
How can either candidate claim to be a continuation of the Iron Lady’s legacy without acknowledging that fundamental role strong families play
in society?
So far, neither candidate has mentioned extra support for families, better tax incentives for married couples or even the extension of childcare subsidies to stay at home mothers.
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my favorite grandson Max pass away from cancer 3 months ago and enjoy your time left with best friend my prayers are with you and your friend it's going to be hard and enjoy his favorite place
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God bless u and your pup someday u will be together again l know this will happen we lost our boy Zeus to cancer 4 months ago it's like your heart is ripped out of your body I pray every day that when its my turn we will be together I believe it with all my heart so don't let go
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I am very sorry for your loss , my Havoc 12 years died in my arms at from cancer this year, 💔 I feel you
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Sonde Health has developed an enterprise vocal biomarker platform that enables any company to either license respiratory or mental fitness monitoring product or create a novel vocal biomarker product. Sonde scales data collection, feature development, model creation and clinical validation in collaboration with its partners and customers. Leveraging over 1 million voice samples from 80,000+ individuals, Sonde uses advanced audio signal processing and machine learning to sense and analyze subtle vocal changes due to changes in a person’s physiology to provide key insights into health and well-being.
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- The Department of International Relations and Cooperation's donation to Cuba is facing more troubles.
- The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria interdicted the government from proceeding with the R50 million donation.
- In an order published on Tuesday, the Constitutional Court dismissed the department’s application for direct access to appeal against the order.
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) has suffered another defeat in the courts over its controversial R50 million donation to Cuba.
In an order published on Tuesday, the Constitutional Court dismissed Dirco’s application for direct access to appeal the order by the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, which interdicted the government and the African Renaissance and International Cooperation Fund (ARF) from proceeding with humanitarian assistance to Cuba through the fund.
Dirco applied for direct access to the Constitutional Court to appeal against the order while simultaneously petitioning the Supreme Court of Appeal for direct access.
According to Dirco spokesperson Clayson Monyela, the decision of the latter is still awaited.
In a statement, Monyela said the legal proceedings in the review application against the decision to provide humanitarian assistance is continuing in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.
“In its order, the Constitutional Court did not pronounce itself on the merits of the case, as it was dealing with the application for direct access, which is a procedural matter. The Constitutional Court made it clear in its order that it will not hear the matter at this stage of the process, with the result that the matter should first be ventilated and heard in a different court,” he said.
Previously, International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor said Cuba faced chronic food, fuel, medicine and electricity shortages.
Even President Cyril Ramaphosa said health items, and not money, would be donated to Cuba.
ARF, which is located within the Department of International Relations and Cooperation and legally constituted to implement humanitarian assistance of this nature, is coordinating the project.
Meanwhile, Monyela said any suggestion that the order given by the Constitutional Court is a “victory” in the case is erroneous.
“The substantive matters relating to the review are still to be addressed in the high court process, which is currently ongoing, and all legal routes remain available to the government, including to appeal the matter in the Constitutional Court once the legal proceedings have taken their course,” he said. | https://www.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/Politics/Government/dirco-hit-with-another-legal-blow-over-its-controversial-r50m-donation-to-struggling-cuba-20220824 | 2022-08-24T20:12:43Z | https://www.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/Politics/Government/dirco-hit-with-another-legal-blow-over-its-controversial-r50m-donation-to-struggling-cuba-20220824 | false | 1 |
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China Pushes to Expand Power Grids as Sichuan Battles Drought
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,(Bloomberg) -- China’s top energy officials are calling for the addition of more power-generation capacity and cross-province grids as a severe drought drains Sichuan’s main reservoirs, prompting outages and shutting down key factories.
The National Energy Administration acknowledged supply challenges caused by high temperatures and a lack of hydroelectricity generation in a statement reviewing its power system.
China will accelerate hydro and nuclear power projects while pushing for more transmission lines across regions and expanding renewable capacity such as wind and solar in the next few years, the agency said. It pledged to balance supply and demand nationwide by 2025.
Sichuan, which relies on hydropower for 82% of its power generation, is seeing its worst drought in more than a half century as temperatures have soared above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). Water levels in its main reservoirs have reached bottom, more than halving hydropower capacity, Zhou Jian, deputy chief engineer of State Grid Sichuan’s regulation and control center, said in an interview with state broadcaster CCTV.
The province has activated its highest emergency response and ordered industrial production halts to ensure that electricity can be supplied to households, impacting the supply of automobile parts and key materials. City street lamps are “lit every other day,” while shopping malls, subways and office buildings have turned off display lighting for advertising and landscaping, CCTV reported.
The extreme weather isn’t limited to Sichuan. China has sent the highest alerts for hot weather for 32 days through Aug. 21. More than 2,000 enterprises in Wuhan have responded to the call to save electricity in the past week, according to local media reports.
Other parts of the country are facing different weather-related challenges. Northern China is seeing heavy rainfalls and deadly floods, shutting down mines and disrupting coal transportation. The southeastern province of Guangdong later this week is expected to see Ma-on, a tropical storm that is moving up from Southeast Asia.
The impact of the severe weather is reverberating through energy and commodity markets. Scorching heat and drought have become the biggest threat for China’s autumn harvest, as rice and corn plantations in the south were hit hard, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
Sichuan is seeking help to buy more energy from other provinces, and local coal miners have received government emergency calls to boost output. Sichuan Coal Industry Group said it has shifted more work to night time to save power, and it has more than doubled the thermal coal supply.
But the province lacks the coal capacity to cover the gap from the drop in hydro production, BloombergNEF analyst Nannan Kou said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. It’s also a power exporter, so it doesn’t have the infrastructure to receive enough from other regions.
“The situation is only going to get better when the weather conditions are eased,” Kou said.
Temperatures in Sichuan are expected to remain high Tuesday and Wednesday before rain and cooler weather arrives from Thursday.
Some companies that shut down production last week are slowly restarting operations in the region. Toyota Motor Corp. said it was gradually resuming production at its plant in Chengdu on Monday. Robert Bosch GmbH said output at its auto-parts facility in the city has resumed, while manufacturing at its power-tools site is still disrupted.
But the impact for many sectors may linger. The province is a major producer of polysilicon, a major component of solar panels, and lithium chemicals used in electric vehicle batteries. Both products had already seen prices skyrocket even before the drought because of strong energy transition demand.
About 5,000 to 7,000 tons of lithium production is impacted at the moment, and if disruptions continue for longer it may force cathode producers and eventually battery makers to scale back output, Rystad Energy analyst Susan Zou said in a Bloomberg Television interview.
“Even if there’s no further extension of power cuts from Friday, lithium producers may not be able to immediately resume full operational rates,” she said.
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With construction going on in my home, a puppy to train, and learning to care for goats, I never made a summer getaway this year. So, these last couple of weeks I decided on a stayworkation that involved me abandoning “work” and wrestling with the wooded portion of the property, which I really have not managed properly before now. The thorny vines, underbrush and fallen trees made it slow and treacherous. I have scratches and a rash (either poison oak or ivy or both,) and I have discovered muscles I didn’t know could get sore. I’ll write more about that in my next column for Martha’s Kitchen Garden. But the work has been exhilarating. I wake up in the middle of the night thinking that I am in the woods and not in my bedroom. I have done much more than I knew I was physically capable of and that is the greatest thing that I have learned this month.
I can be obsessive when I get obsessed… but when my way-back friend DJ Jeannie Hopper, a long-time community radio producer currently working for Laura Flanders, showed up on Wednesday and told me we were going to Asheville on Thursday to visit Davyne Dial, the General Manager of WPVM 103.7, I dropped my loppers and we drove a little further up the mountain range. In Asheville you can listen to local music and news shows as selected national programming from the Pacifica Network. A great reason to actually visit the station is the lobby that serves as a radio museum. Davyne was very generous with her time and her knowledge. I learned quite a bit listening to her talk about becoming a licensed radio station, and what it takes to keep it running. She is an inspiration to me, and a possible mentor, as I work toward establishing the Listen & Be Heard Network here in Greenville.
All has not been quiet at L&BH while I was cutting thorny vines. Cyndi Combs is a former staff member of L&BH Weekly in Vallejo, CA. Since those days she has become the most popular massage therapist there. She has posted her first article here for the column Lighten Up!, something that we should all remind ourselves to do. Welcome back Cyndi!
I am currently kitchenless, so I have been going out to eat a bit, and last night I took in a bit of an erotic poetry slam with my dinner, at the Radio Room. Wits End Poetry is one of the longest running poetry events in the South and they have a faithful and encouraging crowd. I was first on the open mic list, so I gave them a little foreplay and came on home long before the climax of the night.
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Copiosa Coin (COP) traded 0% lower against the U.S. dollar during the 1-day period ending at 16:00 PM E.T. on August 24th. Over the last seven days, Copiosa Coin has traded down 1.6% against the U.S. dollar. One Copiosa Coin coin can now be bought for about $0.0091 or 0.00000042 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. Copiosa Coin has a market cap of $3.66 million and approximately $59,361.00 worth of Copiosa Coin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his long-awaited plan to deliver on a campaign promise to provide $10,000 in student debt cancellation for millions of Americans — and up to $10,000 more for those with the greatest financial need — along with new measures to lower the burden of repayment for their remaining federal student debt.
Borrowers who earn less than $125,000 a year, or families earning less than $250,000, would be eligible for the $10,000 loan forgiveness, Biden announced in a tweet. For recipients of Pell Grants, which are reserved for undergraduates with the most significant financial need, the federal government would cancel up to an additional $10,000 in federal loan debt.
Biden is also extending a pause on federal student loan payments for what he called the “final time” through the end of 2022. He was set to deliver remarks Wednesday afternoon at the White House to unveil his proposal to the public.
If his plan survives legal challenges that are almost certain to come, it could offer a windfall to a swath of the nation in the run-up to this fall’s midterm elections. More than 43 million people have federal student debt, with an average balance of $37,667, according to federal data. Nearly a third of borrowers owe less than $10,000, and about half owe less than $20,000. The White House estimates that Biden’s announcement would erase the federal student debt of about 20 million people.
Proponents say cancellation will narrow the racial wealth gap — Black students are more likely to borrow federal student loans and at higher amounts than others. Four years after earning bachelor’s degrees, Black borrowers owe an average of nearly $25,000 more than their white peers, according to a Brookings Institution study.
The action drew praise from a wide spectrum of Democrats, but appeared unlikely to completely appease any of the factions that have been jostling for influence as Biden weighs how much to cancel and for whom.
Biden has faced pressure from liberals to provide broader relief to hard-hit borrowers, and from moderates and Republicans questioning the fairness of any widespread forgiveness. The delay in Biden’s decision only heightened the anticipation for what his own aides acknowledge represented a vexing set of political and policy choices. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Biden’s intended announcement ahead of time.
The White House emphasized that no one in the top 5% of incomes would see any loan relief.
The continuation of the coronavirus pandemic-era payment freeze comes just days before millions of Americans were set to find out when their next student loan bills will be due. This is the closest the administration has come to hitting the end of the payment freeze extension, with the current pause set to end Aug. 31.
Details of the plan have been kept closely guarded as Biden weighed his options. The administration said Wednesday the Education Department will release information in the coming weeks for eligible borrowers to sign up for debt relief. Cancellation for some would be automatic, if the department has access to to their income information, but others would need to fill out a form.
Current students would only be eligible for relief if their loans were originated before July 1, 2022. Biden is also proposing capping the amount that borrowers must pay monthly on undergraduate loans at 5% of their earnings, down from 10% previously. The Education Department is to post a proposed rule to that effect, which would also cover the unpaid monthly interest for borrowers who remain current with their monthly payments — even when the payments are $0 because their incomes are low.
The Biden administration plan would also raise the income floor for repayments, meaning no one earning below 225% of the federal poverty level would need to make monthly payments.
“The positive impacts of this move will be felt by families across the country, particularly in minority communities, and is the single most effective action that the President can take on his own to help working families and the economy,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday in a joint statement with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Tweeted Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the House Progressive Caucus: “This will bring real relief to 43 million people and is a MASSIVE step in the right direction.”
The Justice Department released a legal opinion on Wednesday concluding that the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act gives the Education secretary the “authority to reduce or eliminate the obligation to repay the principal balance of federal student loan debt.” The legal opinion also concluded that the debit could be applied on a “class-wide” basis in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Still, some conservative groups were considering potential legal challenges.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden was initially skeptical of student loan debt cancellation as he faced off against more progressive candidates for the Democratic nomination. Sens. Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., had proposed cancellations of $50,000 or more.
As he tried to shore up support among younger voters and prepare for a general election battle against President Donald Trump, Biden unveiled his initial proposal for debt cancellation of $10,000 per borrower, with no mention of an income cap.
Biden narrowed his campaign promise in recent months by embracing the income limit as soaring inflation took a political toll and as he aimed to head off political attacks that the cancellation would benefit those with higher take-home pay. But Democrats, from members of congressional leadership to those facing tough reelection bids this November, have pushed the administration to go as broadly as possible on debt relief, seeing it in part as a galvanizing issue, particularly for Black and young voters this fall.
A survey of 18- to 29-year-olds conducted by the Harvard Institute of Politics in March found that 59% of those polled favored debt cancellation of some sort — whether for all borrowers or those most in need — although student loans did not rank high among issues that most concerned people in that age group.
Republicans responded swiftly to Biden’s decision on student debt relief Wednesday, calling out the administration for “selling out working families” to appease to the progressive wing of the party.
“Today’s announcement is an insult to every American who played by the rules and worked hard to responsibly pay off their own debt,” Sen. John Barrasso, chair of the Senate Republican Conference, said in a statement.
Republican Leader Mitch McConnell called the move a “slap in the face,” for working American families.
“President Biden’s inflation is crushing working families, and his answer is to give away even more government money to elites with higher salaries,” McConnell said. “Democrats are literally using working Americans’ money to try to buy themselves some enthusiasm from their political base.”
Biden’s long deliberations have led to grumbling among federal loan servicers, who had been instructed to hold back billing statements while Biden weighed a decision.
Industry groups had complained that the delayed decision left them with just days to notify borrowers, retrain customer service workers and update websites and digital payment systems, said Scott Buchanan, executive director of the Student Loan Servicing Alliance.
It increases the risk that some borrowers will inadvertently be told they need to make payments, he said.
“At this late stage I think that’s the risk we’re running,” he said. “You can’t just turn on a dime with 35 million borrowers who all have different loan types and statuses.”
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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Jacki Lyden.
Five hundred years ago, a German cartographer gave a name to the newly discovered landmass blocking Europe's western passage to Asia. He called it America. It was a nod to the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
Surely, an honor like that could belong only to one of the greatest travelers in history, a selfless adventurer and a master of navigation and science.
Historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto would beg to differ. He presents the sobering account of the second-rate self-promoter in his new book "Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America."
Thanks for coming to the program.
Mr. FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO (Historian; Author, "Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America"): On the contrary, thank you.
LYDEN: Of course, we're referring to Vespucci here as Amerigo, but many of us in school will have learned the American pronunciation of Amerigo.
Mr. FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO: Well, Amerigo is a good pronunciation because it sounds like America. But Amerigo is the correct pronunciation in the sense that that's the way Florentines pronounced it and Amerigo Vespucci was a Florentine.
LYDEN: Amerigo Vespucci's reputation back in 1507 when the Americas were named was what? It seems to have been stellar at the time. What was he credited with discovering?
Mr. FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO: He was credited with just about the most fantastic achievement that you could have it at that time. He was credited with being equal to the greatest of the ancients. Particularly, he was specifically hailed by the people who bestowed his name on this hemisphere with being the new Ptolemy, the modern equivalent of the most famous and revered geographer of the Ancient world.
And you go to remember, this is the time of the Renaissance in Europe. So to be equal to the greatest of the ancients was just about the biggest career move you could make it at the time.
LYDEN: And yet, as a young man in Florence, you write that he was, in fact a huckster and even a pimp. Your line(ph) is Amerigo Vespucci, who gave his name to America with a pimp in his youth and a magus, a magician in his maturity.
Mr. FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO: Yes, he's like what (unintelligible) nowadays. In modern America, we would think of the kind of spoiled college kid who's wasted his opportunities, wasted his education. And he resorts to making his living amongst the low-lifes of Florence. He becomes this sort of Mr. Fix-it of Florence. If you've got something shady, something dodgy that you want done, you go to Amerigo and you ask him to fix it for you. It's not just being a pimp. I mean, he was a pimp, you know, there are three letters addressed to him in his youth, which you can only interpret and expressed on rather unguarded language. People writing to him saying kind of - I'm paraphrasing here - thank you very much for what you did for me. I really like the brunette. Could you fix something up for me?
So he clearly is, you know, procuring myriad treasures, women(ph) of clients. But he's also dealing as a small-time commission agent in jewel deals. Just about everything that isn't quite crucial in Renaissance Florence Amerigo handled.
LYDEN: Let me ask you, how did Vespucci come to make this incredibly dangerous and difficult voyage of 1499?
Mr. FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO: Historians always wondered why did Vespucci want to go and why did they want to take him because, you know, he knew nothing about the sea. The only voyage he's ever made as far as we learned in his life up to that time was from Florence to Barcelona, just across the short stretch of the Mediterranean. But one thing that Vespucci really did there was pearls, was jewels, especially pearl.
And in 1498, Columbus had discovered a really rich pearl fishery off the coast of Venezuela, and that's what the voyage of 1499 was bound for. They were going out there to see if they could get some of those pearls. And, by golly, they did. They came back with thousands of dockets worth of pearls, and Vespucci managed to pocket quite a few.
LYDEN: Well, what are Vespucci's claims to fame? Was it his uncanny ability to compute longitude to guide his travels? And you say that this was pure nonsense. You call it flimflam.
Mr. FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO: Yeah, well, I mean, he did claim to be able to read longitude by celestial observations. In fact, he claimed to be able to do it by a method, which in theory was very well known at the time - the lunar distance method. But only in theory this is a great system, it requires instruments of tremendous accuracy in order to be able to make the right measurements in the first place.
So it's, practically, impossible if he could have made these calculations and did he aim the calculational longitude that he actually recalled and sailed wildly and accurately. It would have actually placed him several thousand miles west of the position that he was in when he took the measurement. There I'm afraid I can't go along with the view that Vespucci was, you know, sort of the prophet of the use of longitude.
LYDEN: But did he discover South America as a continent, which was his great claim?
Mr. FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO: Columbus had beaten him to that discovery in 1498, and Columbus had actually accurately identified the southern part of the Western Hemisphere as a continental landmass of enormous proportions and he even called it something very close to calling it as a New World. He called it Another World. And one of Columbus' - few of his friends back in Spain beat Vespucci to the coining(ph) of the name New World.
So really Vespucci didn't actually achieve anything but contemporaries who admired him credited him with. He didn't really do anything that justified the greatness of his reputation except being an absolutely first-rate pompous(ph).
LYDEN: Well, I'd say that Amerigo Vespucci was perhaps the first great American salesman. And since this is a capitalistic society, perhaps he was the perfect person to have lent his name to our shores.
Mr. FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO: Sure, that's true. Yes, certainly the land of the sleek oil salesman in the hot star(ph) league. You know, maybe a pimp and a jewel agent doesn't have a bad patron saint. But, I mean, I do think that there's more to it than that. I mean, I think that America is, and one of the greatnesses of America is that you, you know, you kind of are allowed to reinvent yourself here. You are allowed to wipe your slate clean. Amerigo Vespucci, who was the greatest makeover artist of all time, isn't a bad namesake for this country.
LYDEN: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto is the Prince of Asturias professor of history at Tufts University. His new book is titled "Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America" and he joined us from the studios of WCBE in Richmond, Virginia.
Well, thank you for brining Amerigo Vespucci back to life.
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Indiana’s new abortion law will go into effect on Sept. 15, which would ban abortion in nearly all cases with limited exceptions including rape and incest.
Indiana was the first state to pass new legislation restricting reproductive rights after Roe v. Wade was overturned on June 24.
Dr. Katherine McHugh, a practicing doctor who provides abortion services in Indiana, spoke with ABC News’ podcast “Start Here” about how her practice has been shifting following the overturning of Roe v. Wade and how the new state law will impact her practice.
START HERE: Dr. McHugh, can you just tell me about where you work and what the last couple months have been like?
MCHUGH: Yeah, absolutely. Thanks so much for having me and for taking on this issue. I am primarily in Indianapolis, although I travel all over the state of Indiana providing abortion care. And over the last two months, we have seen a real change in our patient demographic. We've seen an influx of patients from outside of the state, they are coming to us from other states that have already banned abortion.
And this has all been in the setting of anticipating an abortion ban in Indiana as well. So we've been able to increase access over the last few months and been very fortunate that we have been able to take care of a lot of people that needed healthcare and at the same time, working with collaborative networks and strengthening those referral places because we know that we will be sending our own patients away in just a few short weeks.
The patients that we're seeing are the ones that can afford childcare, that can afford the gas money, they can afford to take time off of work. We're also seeing much earlier patients, patients whose pregnancies are much earlier in their gestation. People are scared. People are nervous about what it means to be pregnant in a place or in a time when all of their options are not available to them. So that is probably the most common thing that I talked about with patients, is how scared they are to be pregnant.
START HERE: That makes me curious, if there's this fear of pregnancy from women seeking abortions, I'm wondering about the fears of women who are pregnant who aren't seeking abortions or don't know if they want an abortion. Is it getting more complicated, for example, for women I was mentioning earlier, who are suffering miscarriages or other abnormalities early on?
MCHUGH: That has been a complicated topic for physicians and certainly a very challenging experience for patients. Patients who have a miscarriage that is diagnosed, but the fetus still has a heartbeat– that is very complicated in states like Kentucky and Ohio that have what they're called heartbeat bans, which means that they can't have an abortion after the time that you can see fetal cardiac activity. So that means that even if the patient is bleeding, even if the cervix is open, and there is no way that the pregnancy is able to continue, they cannot interfere, the physicians cannot interact.
START HERE: Oh, there's still technically a heartbeat.
MCHUGH: There is a heartbeat even though there is not a viable pregnancy. I've seen several people coming from surrounding states where the physicians in those states are unclear enough about the legality of interfering in what is, in the legal sense, a continuing pregnancy even though medically speaking it is not a viable pregnancy, that the patients have to come to Indiana where that doesn't exist yet. It doesn't have that same legal impact here in Indiana.
I saw a patient recently who came to me from out-of-state and she had a situation where she was pregnant, and she was bleeding so she went to an emergency room and had an ultrasound to evaluate what was going on. What the doctors there saw was that her pregnancy was inside the uterus, so it wasn't an ectopic pregnancy, but she had significant bleeding and the cervix had started to open. The pregnancy already had and still had a heartbeat. She was about seven weeks pregnant.
So at this point the doctors were faced with a really challenging moment where they didn't know what they were allowed to do legally. Could they offer what is standard of care, which would be to offer some sort of termination of this pregnancy? And they decided they could not. The reason that this situation would warrant terminating a pregnancy is called an inevitable abortion or a pregnancy that is not able to be continued. And in the intervening time, the woman or the pregnant person can lose a lot of blood and become infected, can get very very sick and can even die from this.
START HERE: So it feels like you’re sentencing this woman to, best-case scenario, a very painful miscarriage, worst-case scenario is much worse than that. And those are the two options.
MCHUGH: Exactly right. And so this is a very common scenario we diagnose inevitable abortion all the time. For this particular patient, she was able to come to Indiana, she saw me in one of my clinics, and we were able to provide that pregnancy termination for her, save her uterus and potentially save her life. But in her home, state physicians did not feel that they were legally able to do that. So they sent her away.
START HERE: Wow, I see and then they come to you because right now it's legal where you are. But on September 15th, I believe, this new law goes into effect in Indiana. It outlaws virtually all abortions that are not the result of rape or incest or that endanger the life of the mother. Even in those circumstances, though, there are timelines to deal with. And I found this interesting, there are also timelines for fetal abnormalities, right, what happens in those situations?
MCHUGH: Yeah, great question. That part of the new law echoes our previous laws, where we had the ability to terminate a pregnancy up to 22 weeks. However, what's different is under the new law, if the government doesn't agree with the medical opinion that this was a lethal anomaly, suddenly instead of it just you know, quote unquote being a medical decision that is controversial, now it's a felony. So this becomes much more complicated to navigate from a medical perspective. You know, it's already very complicated and very emotional to tell a patient with a desired pregnancy that the baby they're carrying is not going to live, that they are carrying a baby with profound anomalies that is not able to live outside. That is a devastating day for everyone involved.
And now we are also faced with telling patients that offering them their options which include abortion, which is a compassionate way to treat this pregnancy and this fetal anomaly, and yet if the government does not agree with our medical diagnosis or medical plan of care, treatment plan, then we have the threat of a felony charge which carries six years in jail.
START HERE: So if the stakes are that high for someone like you all of a sudden, what are you going to do starting September 15th?
MCHUGH: After this ban goes into effect, I will no longer be able to provide abortion care in Indiana. This is an integral part of my practice and reason for going into obstetrics and gynecology and so I will move that part of my practice out of state.
START HERE: Oh, you're gonna have to like move your practice because of this?
MCHUGH: Yeah, the closest state to me is Illinois, so I will work to find a place in Illinois where I can work. The rest of my career will also adjust, to accommodate for the travel and so forth.
START HERE: It’s the moment that your state becomes one of the states that you have been helping up until now.
MCHUGH: Exactly right.
START HERE: Dr. Katie McHugh in Indiana, for now, thank you so much.
MCHUGH: Thanks so much for having me. | https://abcnews.go.com/US/doctors-refusing-potentially-life-saving-abortion-treatment-legal/story?id=88791452 | 2022-08-24T20:37:42Z | https://abcnews.go.com/US/doctors-refusing-potentially-life-saving-abortion-treatment-legal/story?id=88791452 | true | 3 |
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The conviction of two men for conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer shows that jurors in a deeply divided nation can still reach agreement in politically charged cases, according to experts.
But it leaves unanswered questions about the potential for violence by extremists with a vendetta against government and law enforcement, they say.
“I hope it will be a deterrent in the future, but we need to see some softening of the rhetoric before we can accurately predict that,” said Michael Edison Hayden, spokesman for the nonprofit Southern Policy Law Center, which monitors hate groups.
A federal jury in Grand Rapids, Michigan, returned guilty verdicts Tuesday against Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. on two counts of conspiracy. Two others in the plot, Kaleb Franks and Ty Garbin, pleaded guilty earlier. Franks’ sentencing hearing is set for Oct. 6, Fox’s for Dec. 12 and Croft’s for Dec. 28. Garbin is serving a six-year term, but prosecutors Wednesday asked a judge to cut that to three due to his “remarkable” assistance to the government.
Prosecutors said they planned to grab Whitmer at her vacation home and blow up a bridge to stop police from responding.
A different jury in April deadlocked on Fox and Croft while acquitting two other men. That outcome prompted worries that the overheated political landscape was hampering jurors’ ability to put aside biases, particularly when the FBI — a frequent target of right-wing activists and commentators — was involved.
Some legal observers criticized the government’s handling of the case and questioned the wisdom of retrying it. Barbara McQuade, a former federal prosecutor, said refusing to do so would have been “the coward’s way out.”
“We’re seeing an escalation of threats of violence against public officials,” McQuade said. “The only way to stop that is by holding people accountable when they engage in acts like this, threatening to harm public officials.”
The case unfolded against a backdrop of nationwide polarization.
Whitmer, a rising Democratic star, had exchanged barbs with former President Donald Trump and was unpopular with conservatives, including over her policies early on during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trump and other Republicans had accused the FBI of being a tool of Democrats. He described the Whitmer kidnapping plan as a “fake deal.” Jury selection in the retrial of Fox and Croft happened the day after federal agents searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate for classified documents. During the trial, a man apparently angered by the search tried to breach the FBI’s Cincinnati office and was killed.
Even so, the jury in Michigan’s Western District — a blend of urban, suburban and rural areas representing a broad political spectrum — delivered “a real statement that citizens of our country aren’t going to put up with violent actions against public officials,” said Mark Chutkow, a former Detroit federal prosecutor.
Less clear is what, if any, effect the case will have on anti-government extremism and white-hot partisanship. Following the verdict, Whitmer renewed her call to “lower the temperature.”
“This is about every American who is serving the public, who’s dealing with threats, whether it’s an election worker or it is a police officer or a teacher,” she told reporters Wednesday after a back-to-school event in suburban Detroit. “This continued political rhetoric that is aimed at inspiring people to hurt their fellow Americans is dangerous.”
The convictions of Croft and Fox could be another rallying cry for far-right extremists, although likely not as potent as 1990s sieges in Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho, said Jon Lewis, a research fellow with George Washington University’s program on extremism.
“It’s possible that individuals in anti-government spaces could leverage this as an example of continued tyranny, abuse of the rights of Americans,” Lewis said.
A more concerning outcome could be an increase in lone-wolf attacks as extremist groups become more wary of the potential for infiltration by undercover operatives, he said.
“It’s much harder with the lone actor,” Lewis said. “He doesn’t tell anyone his plans, he has legal access to firearms.”
The George Washington program is tracking cases against 49 people charged with “offenses related to the boogaloo movement,” a loose confederation of believers in a second civil war, he said.
Far-right paramilitary groups were gleeful about the first trial’s outcome and probably are unhappy with the convictions, said Mark Pitcavage, senior research fellow with the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. But history suggests guilty verdicts are less likely to incite violent reactions than arrests perceived as unjust, he said.
It’s equally doubtful that the case will bring about a calmer tone in politics, Pitcavage said.
“We’re in such a heavily polarized society right now and few people seem to want to step back from the brink,” he said.
The most significant ripple effect, he said, might be what was avoided: another defeat and further damage to the FBI’s credibility.
Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor in California who has followed the Michigan case and criticized the government’s performance in the first trial, said the convictions vindicated the bureau’s investigation.
“Obviously there are folks who are always going to distrust the FBI,” he said. “But this is a big win.”
The convictions may boost public understanding of the FBI’s tactics in combating domestic terrorism, particularly use of undercover operatives, said Dennis Lormel, president of the Society of Former FBI Agents.
“I understand the concerns abut overreaching, especially with the rhetoric about the FBI being politicized,” Lormel said. “But the opportunity to insert FBI employees or cooperating witnesses is critically important. If we lose that, we will be in a lot of trouble, we’ll see more terrorist attacks.”
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Associated Press reporters Mike Householder in Novi, Michigan, and Ed White in Detroit, contributed to this story. | https://www.counton2.com/news/national-news/ap-whitmer-kidnap-plot-convictions-unlikely-to-curb-extremism/ | 2022-08-24T20:39:15Z | https://www.counton2.com/news/national-news/ap-whitmer-kidnap-plot-convictions-unlikely-to-curb-extremism/ | true | 40 |
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About 6 million households in California face water restrictions this summer. But after years of drought conditions, some residents are adapting by planting yards that use less water.
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Soon after the Russian invasion, the hoaxes began. Ukrainian refugees were taking jobs, committing crimes and abusing handouts. The misinformation spread rapidly online throughout Eastern Europe, sometimes pushed by Moscow in an effort to destabilize its neighbors.
It’s the kind of swift spread of falsehood that has been blamed in manycountries for increased polarization and an erosion of trust in democratic institutions, journalism and science.
But countering or stopping misinformation has proven elusive.
New findings from university researchers and Google, however, reveal that one of the most promising responses to misinformation may also be one of the simplest.
In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, the researchers detail how short online videos that teach basic critical thinking skills can make people better able to resist misinformation.
The researchers created a series of videos similar to a public service announcement that focused on specific misinformation techniques — characteristics seen in many common false claims that include emotionally charged language, personal attacks or false comparisons between two unrelated items.
Researchers then gave people a series of claims and found that those who watched the videos were significantly better at distinguishing false information from accurate information.
It’s an approach called “pre-bunking” and it builds on years of research into an idea known as inoculation theory that suggests exposing people to how misinformation works, using harmless, fictional examples, can boost their defenses to false claims.
With the findings in hand, Google plans to roll out a series of pre-bunking videos soon in Eastern Europe focused on scapegoating, which can be seen in much of the misinformation about Ukrainian refugees. That focus was chosen by Jigsaw, a division of Google that works to find new ways to address misinformation and extremism.
“We have spent quite a bit of time and energy studying the problem,” said Beth Goldberg, Jigsaw’s head of research and one of the authors of the paper. “We started thinking: How can we make the users, the people online, more resilient to misinformation?”
The two-minute clips then demonstrate how these tactics can show up in headlines, or social media posts, to make a person believe something that isn’t true.
They’re surprisingly effective. Subjects who viewed the videos were found to be significantly better at distinguishing false claims from accurate information when tested by the researchers. The same positive results occurred when the experiment was replicated on YouTube, where nearly 1 million people viewed the videos.
Researchers are now investigating how long the effects last, and whether “booster” videos can help sustain the benefits.
Earlier findings have suggested that online games or tutorials that teach critical thinking skills can also improve resiliency to misinformation. But videos, which could be played alongside online advertisements, are likely to reach many more people, said Jon Roozenbeek, a Cambridge University professor and one of the authors of the study.
Other authors included researchers at the University of Bristol in the U.K. and the University of Western Australia.
Google’s effort will be one of the largest real-world tests of pre-bunking so far. The videos will be released on YouTube, Facebook and TikTok, in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. All three countries have accepted large numbers of Ukrainian refugees and their citizens could be vulnerable to misinformation about refugees.
Jigsaw CEO Yasmin Green said the work on prebunking is intended to complement Google’s other efforts to reduce the spread of misinformation: “As the scourge of misinformation grows, there’s a lot more we can do to provide people with prompts and features that help them stay safe and informed online.”
While journalistic fact checks can be effective in debunking a particular piece of misinformation, they’re time and labor intensive. By focusing on characteristics of misinformation in general instead of specific claims, pre-bunking videos can help a person spot false claims on a wider variety of topics.
Another method, content moderation by social media companies, can often be inconsistent. While platforms like Facebook and Twitter often remove misinformation that violates their rules, they’re also criticized for failing to do more. Other platforms like Telegram or Gab boast a largely hands-off approach to misinformation.
Social media content moderation and journalistic fact checks can also run the risk of alienating those who believe the misinformation. They might also be ignored by people who already distrust legitimate news outlets.
“The word fact checking itself has become politicized,” Roozenbeek said.
Pre-bunking videos, however, don’t target specific claims, and they make no assertions about what is true or not. Instead, they teach the viewer how false claims work in general — whether it’s a claim about elections or NASA’s moon landings, or the latest outbreak of the avian flu.
That transferability makes pre-bunking a particularly effective way of confronting misinformation, according to John Cook, a research professor at Australia’s Monash University who has created online games that teach ways to spot misinformation.
“We’ve done enough research to know this can be effective,” Cook said. “What we need now is the resources to deploy this at scale.” | https://www.wspa.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-pre-bunking-shows-promise-in-fight-against-misinformation/ | 2022-08-24T20:45:53Z | https://www.wspa.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-pre-bunking-shows-promise-in-fight-against-misinformation/ | false | 54 |
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that his administration will forgive up to $20,000 worth of student loan debt for borrowers who received Pell Grants.
People who didn't receive a Pell Grant are eligible for up to $10,000 in loan forgiveness, the president said on Twitter.
The government will only cancel debt for people making less than $125,000 a year.
Biden said Wednesday that 43 million people will benefit from his loan forgiveness program and about half of them will have their debt completely wiped out.
"That's 20 million people who can start getting on with their lives," he said.
In addition to canceling student loan debt, Biden will extend the repayment pause until Dec. 31. He said this will be the last extension of the pause, which began due to the pandemic.
Biden's plan will also allow people with undergraduate loans to cap their repayment at 5% of their monthly income.
It's still unclear how the plan will be implemented. Biden is expected to make a formal announcement Wednesday afternoon.
Many people were hoping to get information ahead of Biden's announcement. Borrowers reported that their loan provider's website went down Wednesday morning.
Despite the apparent excitement of potentially getting student loan debt canceled, not everyone was happy.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called Biden's plan unfair.
"President Biden's student loan socialism is a slap in the face to every family who sacrificed to save for college, every graduate who paid their debt, and every American who chose a certain career path or volunteered to serve in our Armed Forces in order to avoid taking on debt," he said.
McConnell also claimed the plan would make inflation worse.
Biden disputed that claim and attacked Republicans for approving tax cuts that he says the wealthy benefitted from under the last administration.
“I find it interesting how some of my Republican friends who voted for those tax cuts...think we shouldn’t be helping these folks," Biden said.
Approximately 43 million Americans have federal student loan debt, which totals $1.6 trillion. | https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/biden-to-reportedly-cancel-10k-in-student-loan-debt | 2022-08-24T20:46:32Z | https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/biden-to-reportedly-cancel-10k-in-student-loan-debt | false | 2 |
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked the federal government from enforcing a legal interpretation that would require hospitals in the state to provide abortion services if the health or life of the mother is at risk.
Texas sued Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Xavier Becerra last month, arguing that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, a federal law commonly referred to as EMTALA, doesn’t require doctors to provide abortions if doing so would violate a state law.
In a ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix temporarily blocked the government from enforcing the guidance in Texas, saying the guidance would force physicians to place the health of the pregnant person over that of the fetus or embryo even though EMTALA “is silent as to abortion.” He also said the guidance couldn’t be enforced against members of two national anti-abortion medical organizations, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Christian Medical and Dental Associations.
Performing an abortion creates an “emergency medical condition” in the fetus or embryo, the judge wrote.
“Since the statute is silent on the question, the Guidance cannot answer how doctors should weigh risks to both a mother and her unborn child,” the judge’s order said. “Nor can it, in doing so, create a conflict with state law where one does not exist. The Guidance was thus unauthorized.”
The Department of Health and Human Services said it was reviewing the legal decision to determine its next steps.
A similar case is playing out in Idaho, where a federal judge suggested Monday that the state’s abortion ban might violate EMTALA. A ruling in that case is expected later Wednesday.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the Texas decision, “a blow to Texans,” saying pregnant women in Texas may now be denied appropriate treatment for conditions such as dangerously high blood pressure or severe bleeding.
“It’s wrong, it’s backwards, and women may die as a result. The fight is not over,” Jean-Pierre said in a prepared statement. “The President will continue to push to require hospitals to provide life-saving and health-preserving reproductive care.”
The Department of Health and Human Services issued the guidance in July, weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that abortion is not a constitutional right.
The agency cited EMTALA requirements on medical facilities to determine whether a person seeking treatment might be in labor or whether they face an emergency health situation — or one that could develop into an emergency — and to provide stabilizing treatment.
Texas argued that the EMTALA guidelines also violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which says some laws must be narrowly tailored to serve a compelling government interest if they affect individuals’ religious freedoms.
In Texas, a ban on abortion at all points of a pregnancy is scheduled to take effect Thursday. It has narrow exceptions for saving the life of the unborn child or woman, preventing a serious health condition from being aggravated or caused by the pregnancy, or removing an ectopic pregnancy.
Texas clinics have already stopped offering nearly all types of abortion because of uncertainty over whether the state’s 1925 ban can be enforced. The state also has a ban on abortions after embryonic cardiac activity can be detected, which is generally about six weeks into a pregnancy and often before a woman realizes she’s pregnant.
In his ruling, Hendrix said the Department of Health and Human Services’ guidance went beyond the bounds of EMTALA by allowing some abortions before they threaten the life of a pregnant person.
“The Guidance itself cites an ‘incomplete medical abortion’ as a potential emergency medical condition that may require abortion,” Hendrix noted. “Since the Guidance permits a physician to immediately complete a medical abortion — regardless of whether the unborn child is still alive and before it presents a threat to the life of the mother — it goes beyond Texas’s law.”
Even in cases where the pregnancy does threaten the life of the mother, Texas law generally requires physicians to choose procedures that maximize the chances that the fetus will survive, the judge wrote.
“The Guidance gives Texas hospitals and physicians license — much more, requires them — to violate Texas abortion laws if their medical judgment says an abortion is required to stabilize the patient in a situation prohibited by Texas law,” Hendrix said.
Like Texas, Republican-led Idaho’s abortion ban is set to take effect on Thursday. But the Idaho law has a few key differences: It starts after cardiac activity is detected, it includes ectopic pregnancies, and it has no exception for conditions that could seriously damage the mother’s health.
The Idaho law effectively makes it a felony to perform any abortion in “clinically diagnosable pregnancies.” Physicians can defend themselves in court by arguing that an abortion they provided was necessary to prevent the pregnant woman’s death or was done in a case of rape or incest and the woman reported the crime to law enforcement and gave a copy of the report to the physician. Law enforcement reports are sealed in Idaho during investigations and can take months or longer to obtain.
The U.S. Department of Justice sued Idaho earlier this month, saying its abortion ban violates EMTALA.
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Find more AP coverage of the abortion issue: https://apnews.com/hub/abortion | https://www.upmatters.com/health/ap-health/judge-blocks-enforcement-of-biden-abortion-guidance-in-texas/ | 2022-08-24T20:48:17Z | https://www.upmatters.com/health/ap-health/judge-blocks-enforcement-of-biden-abortion-guidance-in-texas/ | true | 15 |
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Multnomah County health officials in Portland, Oregon, are drafting a proposal that would ban the sale of flavored nicotine products.
Multnomah County Health Officer Dr. Jennifer Vines said Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury asked the health department earlier this month to create a policy proposal to review in September, KGW reported.
Any proposal would go before the county board for final approval.
Vines said although the age to purchase these products is 21, teens are getting them.
“Seventeen percent of the time, we find tobacco retailers in Multnomah County selling to someone who is underage," she said.
The fruit flavors hook young people into trying the products, and then they become addicted, she said.
“The bottom line here is one of health,” Vines said, noting cases across the county of severe lung disease linked to vaping.
Last year, the Board of Commissioners in neighboring Washington County voted to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products. That ban is on hold after a temporary injunction prohibited the enforcement.
Mo Hassan, who owns Mo’s Smoke and Vape in Southeast Portland, said he hopes the ban doesn’t happen.
“For a lot of smoke shops in the area, they will have to close,” Hassan said. “That’s the main thing for our business.”
Public comment is being sought online at the Multnomah County website. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/County-drafting-plan-to-ban-flavored-nicotine-17395874.php | 2022-08-24T20:54:52Z | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/County-drafting-plan-to-ban-flavored-nicotine-17395874.php | false | 10 |
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The annual OB Rag summer fundraiser is in our third day and we can announce we’re over half way to our goal of $2,000!
Actually, as of this writing, we’re raised over $1,150 in donations and pledges.
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- Where else can you get Judi Curry’s provocative reviews of local Peninsula restaurants? And her insights into daily life in South OB?
- Not to mention Geoff Page’s stellar reporting on the OB – Point Loma Pier. Geoff and the Rag broke the news of how seriously deteriorated the pier was a few years ago, and Geoff surmised then that the pier was so rotten it would have to be replaced. Just recently, the city announced it would indeed replace the iconic pier.
- The poetry of Ernie McCray – where else?
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- Kathy Blavatt’s wonderful photography and teaches on how to make a garden grow add dept to our pages.
- Over the last year or so, the Rag has also become a sounding board for disgruntled members of other neighborhoods dissatisfied with how city hall was treating them. Mat Wahlstrom has recently joined our bevy of writers, bringing perspectives from Hillcrest and beyond.
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- Where else can you get Judi Curry’s provocative reviews of local Peninsula restaurants? And her insights into daily life in South OB?
- Not to mention Geoff Page’s stellar reporting on the OB – Point Loma Pier. Geoff and the Rag broke the news of how seriously deteriorated the pier was a few years ago, and Geoff surmised then that the pier was so rotten it would have to be replaced. Just recently, the city announced it would indeed replace the iconic pier.
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Breast cancer survivor shares story in hopes of empowering others
By KCAL/KCBS Staff
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ORANGE COUNTY, California (KCAL/KCBS) — A local woman in remission from stage-four breast cancer says that when she first discovered a lump in her breast, at 29-years-old, she was denied a mammogram due to her young age, and now her story is going viral on social media.
“I was in the best shape of my life. I was internationally modeling,” Philecia La’Bounty told CBSLA.
La’Bounty said that at 29-years-old, she never thought she’d be diagnosed with cancer.
“Even when I was diagnosed, it was really hard to process because I had no other symptoms. I had clean bloodwork,” she said.
After discovering the lump in her breast, she went to a free clinic in Long Beach to have it checked out. La’Bounty said she was told it was just a benign cyst.
When she asked for a mammogram, the doctor submitted her request, but it was denied because of her young age and the fact that she did not have a family history of cancer.
“I was like, ‘Okay.’ They said, ‘You’re okay, trust what they say, trust the doctors,'” she told CBSLA.
The now 35-year-old said she wishes she would have trusted her gut instinct back then. Within eight months, she said the lump grew much larger and doctors finally approved a mammogram.
She was then diagnosed stage-four breast cancer that had spread to her lungs, lymph nodes and sternum. La’Bounty said she will likely be on chemotherapy drugs for the rest of her life.
“I don’t like being the example, but if it means I can save somebody else, that’s all I want,” she said.
La’Bounty, who is now in remission, says she wants other young women to know something she didn’t know when she was just 29-years-old, that everyone can go get a second opinion.
“Find another doctor,” she said.
La’Bounty’s TikTok posts documenting her recent visits with her new doctors have gone viral. She hopes that by sharing her story, the message empowers other people to know that their voice matters when it comes to their health.
“You have every right to fight for your health care, and if you’re not feeling okay with what you’re getting, find it elsewhere, because it’s out there,” La’Bounty said.
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What you need to take care of on Thursday, August 25:
The dollar seesawed between gains and losses, ending the day mixed, but little changed across the FX board. The American currency advanced at the beginning of the day but shed some ground after Wall Street’s opening, as US stocks managed to post modest gains.
The US reported July Durable Goods Orders, which stayed virtually unchanged at $273.5 billion, missing expectations of a 0.6% increase. However, the reading on Nondefense Capital Goods Orders excluding Aircraft increased by 0.4%, beating the 0.3% expected.
Meanwhile, US Treasury yields edged sharply higher. The 10-year note yielded as much as 3.1269%, while the 2-year note yield peaked at 3.393%. The dollar eased during US trading hours despite yields holding at the upper end of their range.
The EUR/USD pair settled around 0.9960, little changed for a second consecutive day. GBP/USD trades just below the 1.1800 threshold. The AUD/USD trades at around 0.6900, down for the day, while USD/CAD trades at 1.2965.
Spot gold stands at around $1,750 a troy ounce while crude oil prices extended their advance, with WTI now trading at around $95 a barrel.
The dollar posted modest gains against its safe-haven rivals. USD/CHF stands at 0.9660 while USD/JPY trades at around 137.20.
The focus now shifts to the Jackson Hole Symposium. The US Federal Reserve’s annual event will host economists and policymakers from around the globe in which they will discuss global issues. Market players will try to reassess their estimates on potential rate hikes across major economies, alongside the risk of steeper economic downturns.
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BALTIMORE -- A Texas man was sentenced to six months in federal prison Tuesday for threatening a Maryland doctor who has been a prominent advocate for COVID-19 vaccines, a federal prosecutor said.
Scott Eli Harris, 52, of Aubrey, Texas, pleaded guilty in February to threats transmitted by interstate communication. U.S. Attorney for Maryland Erek L. Barron announced the sentence, which will be followed by three years of supervised release, in a news release Wednesday.
“While we are all entitled to our own opinion, no one has the right to threaten the life of someone because of race, national origin, or because of holding different views,” Barron said in a statement. “Threats like these will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
According to Harris' plea agreement and statements made in connection with the plea hearing, Harris sent a threatening message from his cellphone to the doctor. Court documents identify the doctor only as “Dr. L. W., who had been a vocal proponent of the COVID-19 vaccine.”
Harris’ message included violent statements, such as: “Never going to take your wonder drug. My 12 gauge promises I won’t. .… I can’t wait for the shooting to start.” Harris' message also made reference to the doctor’s Asian American background and national origin.
“Mr. Harris is embarrassed by his conduct and sincerely apologizes for the harm he has caused,” Harris’ attorney, federal public defender Elizabeth Oyer, told The Baltimore Sun after his plea hearing. | https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/texan-months-threats-maryland-vaccine-advocate-88808464 | 2022-08-24T21:03:47Z | https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/texan-months-threats-maryland-vaccine-advocate-88808464 | false | 10 |
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unum Group's (NYSE: UNM) President & CEO, Rick McKenney along with Unum EVP and CFO, Steve Zabel, will represent the company at the 2022 Barclays Global Financial Services Conference.
McKenney and Zabel are scheduled to speak at the conference in New York at 10:30 a.m. EST on Wednesday, September 14, 2022. They will discuss the company's business strategy and future growth prospects. A live webcast of the presentation will be available on the Investors section of Unum's website, www.investors.unum.com, on the News and Events page.
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From 'frupidity' to 'swag bucks,' 16 secret terms only Amazon workers know, and what they mean
From "frupidity" to "swag bucks," Amazon workers have their own internal language.
Many company terms refer to secretive productivity measurements and employee programs.
Insider compiled a list of 16 code words and acronyms used by Amazon employees and what they mean.
1. Swag Bucks, also called Swaggies
"Swag Bucks," also called "Swaggies" or "Amazon Bucks," are a kind of company currency that can only be spent inside Amazon. Its physical description varies across warehouse locations — one Amazon worker told Insider they have been rewarded with monopoly-like bills featuring Bezos' face in the center. As a way to encourage productivity, workers can spend them on items like T-shirts, lanyards, and water bottles from Amazon.
2. CRaP
A company acronym for "Can't Realize a Profit," Amazon CRaP items include bottled water, paper towels, and snack foods. Usually selling for less than $15, these bulky items are costly to ship — leading to slim or no profit margins. In 2018, Amazon cut back on selling CRaP products in order to focus on more profitable items.
3. Hire to Fire
Amazon has a goal to get rid of a certain percentage of employees every year, and three managers told Insider they felt so much pressure to meet the goal that they hired people to fire them. The practice is informally called "hire to fire," in which managers hire people, internally or externally, that they intend to fire within a year, just to help meet their annual turnover target.
4. Water Spider
In a warehouse, "water spiders" are workers tasked with keeping work stations fully stocked. At Amazon, this means carrying boxes of goods to a "stower" who then places the items onto merchandise racks. Once the rack is filled, a robot rolls it away and replaces it with an empty one. When a customer orders something from Amazon, the robot brings the rack to a "picker" who sends the ordered product on a conveyor belt to a "packer" who then boxes it up, a process broken down by The Atlantic in 2019.
5. Stow Rate / Pick Rate / Scan Rate
Hourly productivity rates calculated for each worker, depending on their role in the warehouse lineup. If a worker falls behind on their rate, they can be written up and eventually fired, a system that The Wall Street Journal coined "Bezosism."
6. Power Hours
Power hours are when managers try to pump up warehouse workers to work even harder for 60 minutes, sometimes motivating them by saying workers in other departments have been talking smack or outperforming them. At the end of the hour, staff members can be rewarded with swag bucks or prizes.
7. Make Rate
A phrase used by Amazon workers to describe keeping up with the hourly stow, pick, or scan rates expected of them. Strict time constraints and high productivity targets have led delivery drivers and warehouse workers to take drastic measures such as peeing in bottles, Insider previously reported.
8. Focus
Amazon's "coaching" program for underperformers. Insider previously reported on an internal memo that shows Focus is part of a strategy to meet its goal to get rid of a certain number of employees each year, usually 6% of its corporate workforce. In most cases, being enrolled in Focus prevents an employee from applying for other positions within the company, according to employees and internal memos and emails viewed by Insider.
9. Forte
Amazon's employee-feedback program. This year, Amazon rolled out new Forte performance ratings based on a number of factors, including job-specific skills and peer reviews, Insider's Eugene Kim and Ashley Stewart reported.
10. Day One
Jeff Bezos' philosophy for running Amazon like it's always the company's "day one." That means fighting off stasis and always working within the vitality of a startup, something that's become Amazon's "mantra for longevity," according to Insider contributors Ram Charan and Julia Yang.
11. Peak
Peak season at Amazon lasts from Black Friday to Christmas. Thirty current and former Amazon workers across the US, the UK, and Europe told Insider about the "brutal" reality of working during the holidays, when 60-hour weeks are mandatory and ambulance calls are common.
12. S-team
What Amazon workers call a group of roughly two dozen senior executives at Amazon that work closely together on key business decisions.
13. VTO / UPT
Company acronyms for "voluntary time off" and "unpaid time off." Sources told Insider that when workers dip into "negative UPT," meaning they have taken more than their allotted UPT, Amazon can be ruthless. If there's not enough work to go around, managers will sometimes offer unpaid voluntary time off, or VTO.
14. URA
One of the key pieces of Amazon's review process is a metric called "unregretted attrition rate," or URA, which represents the percentage of employees that managers aren't sad to see leave the company — whether they part ways voluntarily or otherwise. Amazon's CEO closely follows URA metrics, according to internal documents obtained by Insider.
15. OV / HV
Employee performance measurements that stand for "overall value" and "highly valued." Under OV ratings, Amazon managers group their employees in three broad buckets of performance grades — top tier (TT), highly valued (HV), and least effective (LE), according to internal documents reviewed by Insider.
16. Frupidity
"Frupidity" is a term used within Amazon that combines the words "frugal" and "stupidity," according to former Prime Gaming VP, Ethan Evans. Frugality is one of Amazon's 16 leadership principals that the company incorporates into nearly every business decision, as Insider's Eugene Kim previously reported. However, Evans wrote in a July 2022 blog post that the principal has caused management to say no to some short-term expenses, such as company swag, even if they create long-term value. Hence, "frupid" decisions are made in the name of saving money, Evans claims.
Read the original article on Business Insider | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/water-spider-swag-bucks-15-125535798.html | 2022-08-24T21:07:06Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/water-spider-swag-bucks-15-125535798.html | false | 1 |
LANCASTER CO., S.C. — Several students at Indian Land High were suspended and are facing charges after officials conducted a random search of the school on Wednesday.
District officials say metal detectors as well as a gun and drug sniffing dog were used to conduct the search.
Three separate students were found in possession of contraband and will face school discipline as well as potential legal consequences from law enforcement, according to a news release.
Officials say two knives, marijuana and other drug paraphernalia as well as beer was confiscated.
Per Board policy, all students involved will be placed on an immediate suspension from school.
Officials say these random and unannounced searches will continue throughout the district to detect and deter weapons and drugs on campus.
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Party City is hiring 20,000 people, expecting an epic Halloween
By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business
Party City expects Halloween will be back with a vengeance this year — in a good way.
The seller of themed party products, clothing, decorations and other paraphernalia said it has upped its seasonal hiring ahead of the costumed festivities because it anticipates Halloween sales to be much more robust this year as celebrations return with pre-pandemic fervor.
Party City is hiring 20,000 workers in the coming weeks, outpacing the number of new employees it has hired in past years during this time period. The retailer last year hired 17,000 workers ahead of the Halloween season.
New positions, including team leaders, supervisors, sales and stock associates and cashiers, will be available in more than 750 Party City retail stores nationwide and in 150 Halloween City pop-up locations. The chain is opening more Halloween City pop-ups than in past years, increasing the need for more staff.
The company said about 10% to 15% of these temporary hires will be offered permanent jobs at the end of the season.
In a mood to celebrate
Celebrations of all kinds have come roaring back as more families reclaim their pre-pandemic lifestyles and Covid restrictions continue to ease.
“There’s been a lot of pent-up demand and people are so ready to celebrate, ” said Odette Welling, vice president of merchandising at Party City.
Specifically for Halloween, Welling said customers are picking up decorations and costumes well in advance, and some clear favorites have emerged.
She said two decorative items are already standouts: A 7-foot animatronic talking lava demon with fog effect and an animatronic zombie raccoon that pops out of a trash can.
“Yorrik, our 5-foot skeleton is always very popular,” Welling added. “Yorrik is already selling very well compared to last year. We like to say we have a Yorrik for every home in America.”
Movies and social media will again heavily influence costume trends this year. “Jurassic World, Hocus Pocus 2, Top Gun costumes will be big,” she said. “Top Gun has been a huge success in costumes even before the sequel.”
Celebrities and their social media antics have also inspired costumes in 2022. “Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian’s wedding is an example. We have full chest tattoos this year for Halloween.”
One item that’s already in big demand — thanks to Harry Styles wearing it during a Madison Square Garden concert last week — is a Party City pink cowboy hat.
“Sales of that feather hat have blown up,” Welling said.
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At least three house churches in China were raided by Chinese authorities recently with their leaders being arrested and detained on trumped-up charges.
International Christian Concern (ICC), a U.S.-based persecution watchdog, reports authorities raided the Xi'an Abundant Church, the Linfen Holy Covenant Church, and Changchun city's House of Light Church.
Xi'an Abundant Church
On Aug. 17, Pastor Lian Chang-Nian and his wife Guo Jiuju, his son Pastor Lian Xuliang and wife Zhang Jun along with their 9-year-old son, Preacher Fu Juan, and sister Xing Aiping from Xi'an's Abundant Church were taken to Shilipu police station after their homes were raided.
The following day, the adults were handcuffed and brought to their church for a staged photoshoot. The authorities later announced the verdict for their crimes of illegal gathering, illegal venue, and illegal collection of funds. A church member who witnessed the photoshoot said Pastor Lian had apparently been mistreated since he had several injuries to his head and arms, according to the ICC.
While the pastors' wives and sister Xing were released that same evening, the Lians and Preacher Fu were still missing. The father and son duo are being held under residential surveillance at a designated location in Shaanxi province for "fraud."
Linfen Holy Covenant Church
On Aug. 19 around 7:00 pm, 70 members of Linfen Holy Covenant Church in Shanxi province were enjoying an outdoor family event when 170 police officers conducted a raid with overwhelming force. After being searched, their cell phones confiscated, all of the members were arrested and led away by the police, the ICC reported.
In the meantime, police also searched church coworkers Li Jie and Han Xiaodong homes, confiscating documents and books. Li, his wife Li Shanshan, and Han went missing after the raid. Another member, Hou Guobao was also arrested.
Nujiang Ethnic Nu Christians
On Aug. 19, the families of ethnic Nu Christians Wang Shunping and Nu Sangdeng received criminal detention notices for the two Christian men. Wang and Nu were detained for "allegedly organizing and sponsoring illegal gathering" by Fugong County's Public Security Bureau in Nujiang Prefecture, according to the ICC.
San Luopo and two Christian women from out of town were also reportedly detained but no official document has been issued.
Changchun City's House of Light Church
The ICC also reported the House of Light Church in Jilin province's Changchun was raided by police during its Aug. 21 Sunday worship services. The authorities dispersed all of those in attendance before arresting Pastor Zhang Yong (aka Guo Muyun), elder Qu Hongliang, and brother Zhang Liangliang.
Due to the violent nature of the raid, two female members suffered heart attacks and first responders were called to the scene.
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The detained Christians were later released early in the morning on Aug. 22, though the men were treated brutally while in detention. The ICC reported the men must report back to the police on Saturday.
Beijing's Ongoing Crackdown on House Churches
The latest series of crackdowns come a week after Chengdu-based Early Rain Covenant Church and Beijing Zion Church saw their members arrested during a Sunday service. It is unclear why Beijing has launched this new wave of crackdowns on house churches, the ICC reports.
"Just like what the newly elected president of the Patriotic Association of Chinese Catholics, Beijing Archbishop Joseph Li Shan, said, 'The church authority needs to submit to the Chinese Communist Party regime; one must listen to the party.' This latest round of persecution seeks to strictly control people's thoughts," Father Francis Liu from the Chinese Christian Fellowship of Righteousness told the watchdog.
According to Liu, the churches that were raided over the weekend mostly follow reformed tradition, which stresses the church's independence, whereas some evangelical or charismatic house churches he knows firmly advocate for patriotism.
"Xi Jinping's regime is fearful of many things; one thing being people with religious beliefs," said Gina Goh, ICC's Regional Manager for Southeast Asia. "They want to ensure Chinese citizens are loyal to the CCP's ideology and nothing else. This fear translates into church crackdown, 're-education camps' for Uyghurs, and demolition of Buddhist statues. House churches are bracing themselves for potentially the worst clampdown since the Cultural Revolution."
As CBN's Faithwire reported last month, authorities in China's Hebei province destroyed an underground Catholic church after its leader refused to fall in line with the country's communist regime.
After the congregation failed to comply with the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, a state-sanctioned organization giving President Xi Jinping control over parishes in the communist country, authorities demolished the church while its leader, Dong Baolu, was in the hospital for hemiplegia.
Catholic churches – like all houses of worship in the country – are only allowed to operate in China if they are registered with the communist government and under its control.
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President Yoweri Museveni has this afternoon received a Special message from the South Sudan President, H.E Salva Kiir at State Lodge Nakasero.
The message was delivered to him by South Sudan ‘s Special Envoy who is also the country’s Minister in charge of Presidential Affairs, Hon. Dr. Banaba Marial Benjamin.
President Museveni and the South Sudan Envoy discussed bilateral matters concerning our two countries.
In his capacity as one of the Guarantors to the South Sudan Peace Process, President Museveni has been invited to attend the graduation ceremony of the first batch of the Unified Forces slated for 30th August 2022 in Juba.
Hon. Banaba noted that this long-awaited graduation will mark a fulfilment of a critical milestone in the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan.
The Special Envoy was accompanied by Hon. Joseph Losuba Wongo, the South Sudan Minister of Federal Affairs among others dignitaries.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Resident Matching Program® (NRMP®) is pleased to announce the return of its national in-person stakeholder conference, Transition to Residency, on October 6 – 8, 2022 on Coronado Island near San Diego, CA. The conference provides an opportunity for members of the medical education community, including learners, to network, collaborate, and have in-depth conversations about the transition to residency and opportunities for improvement and challenges it faces.
"We're looking forward to welcoming attendees to Coronado Island and providing a forum for in-person learning, collaborating, and networking," said NRMP President and CEO Donna L. Lamb, DHSc, MBA, BSN. "In its 70th year of matching, the NRMP has seen numerous improvements and innovative changes, and we are excited to share with conference attendees how the organization has evolved since 1952."
70 Years Strong. The Transition to Residency conference will launch a year-long anniversary campaign that examines how the NRMP has served and supported the medical education community for seven decades and its vision for the next 70 years. Attendees will have the opportunity to reflect on The Match and provide commentaries that may be incorporated into offerings shared with the medical education community throughout the remainder of 2022, through 2023.
Commitment to Equity and Well-Being. This year's conference theme is Illuminating Equity in the Transition to Residency, and the meeting will offer several breakout sessions focused on equity, social and environmental influences on applicant experience and well-being, and innovative projects and research. The meeting also will showcase three nationally recognized speakers who will entice the audience with their personal experiences and share real-life examples for how to improve equity, mental health, and wellness in the workplace:
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Online registration for the conference is available until Monday, October 3, 2022. Onsite registration will be available the day of the conference.
The National Resident Matching Program® (NRMP®) is a private, non-profit organization established in 1953 to oversee The Match® at the request of medical students to provide an orderly and fair mechanism for matching the preferences of applicants for U.S. residency positions with the preferences of residency program directors. In addition to the annual Main Residency Match® for more than 47,000 registrants, the NRMP also conducts Fellowship Matches for more than 70 subspecialties through its Specialties Matching Service® (SMS®).
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