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A rabid fox was caught on security camera footage attacking a woman outside her home in upstate New York.
In the soundless footage, timestamped July 25, the fox can be seen approaching Sherri Russo, 61, from behind before taking a bite of her lower leg.
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Russo, who appeared to be talking on the phone, immediately kicks the fox off with her foot, but the small creature darts back to attack her leg again.
As the two battle, the fox gets hold of Russo’s arm and is seen flailing around as the woman tries to shake it off.
Russo is then able to slam the fox to the ground, but, again, the fox charges back at her. However, this time, Russo kicks the creature and sends it flying in the air.
Not deterred, the fox comes back at the 61-year-old and latches on to her arm again. Russo is then seen desperately trying to get the fox off her as she swings her arm around.
Eventually the fox lets go, and Russo gets one more kick at the animal before it scurries off.
The footage was shared on social media by Russo’s cousin, Ed Russo, a meteorologist for WHP-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who noted that the fox tested positive for rabies, CBS News reported.
“A cousin of mine was attacked by a rabid fox in Ithaca, NY. She’s OK. But geez this video is crazy!” the meteorologist shared on Twitter in what now appears to be a deleted post. The video has since been widely shared on social media.
He later stated in a comment on Facebook that his cousin was able to get a rabies shot. The fox was later captured and euthanized.
Foxes, along with bats, skunks, and raccoons, are the most common animals to carry rabies, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They can infect humans through bites or scratches.
The rabies virus can be fatal if the disease reaches the brain but is treatable if one receives medical treatment after exposure before symptoms begin to show, the CDC notes.
Earlier this year, a rabid fox bit nine people on Capitol Hill, including Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA), Breitbart News reported. That fox was also caught and euthanized.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has obtained hundreds of Iranian drones capable of being used in its war against Ukraine despite U.S. warnings to Tehran not to ship them, according to Western intelligence officials.
It’s unclear whether Russia has begun flying the drones against Ukrainian targets, but the drones appear to be operational and ready to use, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.
The reported shipment marks the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has obtained hundreds of Iranian drones capable of being used in its war against Ukraine despite U.S. warnings to Tehran not to ship them, according to Western intelligence officials.
It’s unclear whether Russia has begun flying the drones against Ukrainian targets, but the drones appear to be operational and ready to use, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.
The reported shipment marks the latest sign of what appears to be closer military cooperation between the longtime allies.
It also underscores warnings from critics of the ongoing negotiations for Iran to resume its compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal that the United States left in 2018. An agreement for Iran and the U.S. to return to the deal, which would grant Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief in return for curbs on its nuclear program, is inching forward.
Opponents of a deal say lifting sanctions on Tehran could enable Russia to strengthen its war effort in Ukraine and circumvent penalties imposed after the February invasion by funneling oil and other products through Iran.
The arrival of the drones in the Ukraine war was first reported by The Washington Post.
Ukraine has made great use of drones for surveilling and attacking Russian targets in the six-month war, relying on technology supplied by the U.S. and other partners, including Turkey. An explosive device carried by a drone last month struck the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet on the Crimean Peninsula, injuring several people. Supporters of Ukraine have also raised money to buy drones for the war effort.
Facing economic sanctions and limits on its supply chains due to its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has increasingly turned to Iran as a key partner and supplier of weapons. The White House first publicly warned last month that Iran was planning to supply Moscow with “hundreds” of armed drones. Days later, it alleged Russian officials had visited Iran twice to arrange a transfer.
Speaking last month, Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein-Amir Abdollahian, said Tehran had “various types of collaboration with Russia, including in the defense sector.”
“But we won’t help either of the sides involved in this war because we believe that it (the war) needs to be stopped,” he said.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The signs of increased cooperation between Moscow and Tehran have added to concerns about the nuclear talks. President Joe Biden’s administration this week responded to Iran’s latest offer to resume compliance with the previous agreement.
There is now expected to be another exchange of technical details followed by a meeting of the joint commission that oversees the deal. The developments, including stepped-up public messaging campaigns by both Tehran and Washington, as well as Israel, which is opposed to a deal, suggest that an agreement could be near.
The Israelis continue to have broad concerns about reviving a deal they had vehemently opposed in 2015, but are also wary of language included in the proposed European text that covers additional items, according to diplomats familiar with Israel’s position.
Israel has made its stance clear in public statements this week by Prime Minister Yair Lapid and in private conversations in Washington involving Israel’s national security adviser and its defense minister, Benny Gantz, who will meet Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, on Friday.
Israeli officials worry a return to the deal will boost Iran’s cooperation with Russia, including potentially allowing Moscow to evade Ukraine-related sanctions by exporting energy through Iran if the sanctions are eased, said the diplomats, who were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
They said Israel is concerned about provisions related to the expiration of restrictions on Iran’s atomic program that will remain the same as in the initial agreement. That means what had been a 10-year or 15-year ban on certain activities would now be only a 3-year or 8-year ban.
Among other concerns:
—Iran’s “breakout time” — the period it would need to produce a nuclear weapon — has been reduced from one year to six months.
—an Iranian demand that the International Atomic Energy Agency close its investigation of alleged safeguard violations. Israel and other skeptics of the deal worry the IAEA may be pressured to drop the inquiry even if Iran continues to stonewall its inspectors. Europe is eager for a deal, given it would mean renewed access to Iranian oil that could replace the loss of Russian energy imports severely curtailed by war-related sanctions. American officials have assured Israel that the U.S. will not pressure the agency’s chief, Rafael Grossi, to end the matter before Iran has answered the outstanding questions. The U.S. and others pressed Grossi’s predecessor to drop an investigation into Iran’s previous nuclear work after the original deal was agreed to in 2015.
—Iran’s demand for guarantees that the U.S. would not reimpose sanctions for at least five years if a future administration pulled out of the deal, provided Iran remained in compliance. Diplomats say Iran has signaled a willingness to reduce that period to 2 1/2 years, but there are questions whether the Biden administration could make a promise that would bind a future president or Congress.
—the potential for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to earn money from international contracts even if that group isn’t removed from the U.S. list of “foreign terrorist organizations.” It operates a massive number of companies under U.S. sanctions that can also also penalize foreign businesses from entering contracts with them. Iran is seeking a removal of a requirement that forces companies to ensure any investments they make in Iran are not with entities controlled by the Revolutionary Guards.
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Associated Press writer Josef Federman in Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report.
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Actress Regina Hall responded to actor Will Smith’s Oscars apology with a thank-you.
Regina Hall, who co-hosted the ceremony, thanked Will Smith for apologising in a video message after the 53-year-old actor hit comedian Chris Rock during this year’s Oscars ceremony after he made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
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“Life happens. I always say any time I feel like someone genuinely, like you know, offering an apology – I mean, what what can you say to that but thank you? I mean, it’s great,” Regina Hall, 51 – who co-hosted the ceremony alongside Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes – told “Entertainment Tonight”, reports aceshowbiz.com.
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Last month, Will Smith blamed being “fogged out” and “fuzzy” for not saying sorry to Chris Rock at the time. The Hollywood star resigned from the Academy in the wake of the row and was subsequently banned from the Oscars and all of the organisation’s events for the next decade.
Will Smith said: “I’ve reached out to Chris and the message that came back is that he’s not ready to talk … when he is, he will reach out. So I will say to you, Chris, I apologise to you. My behaviour was unacceptable and I’m here whenever you’re ready to talk.”
The actor also apologised to Chris Rock‘s mother and his entire family. The movie star – who won the Best Actor gong at the Oscars for his performance in ‘King Richard’ – said, “I just didn’t realise how many people got hurt in that moment, so I want to apologise to Chris’s mother. I want to apologise.”
Oscars producer Will Packer subsequently praised Will Smith for his public apology.
He said: “I love the fact that he’s being so transparent about his process. Clearly he is going through his own personal rehabilitation. I’m pulling for him. I’m pulling for him to continue his own process, but I think this is for him. He needs to do it.”
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Two historical panels have been unveiled at Cockburn Square at the Muskoka Wharf in Gravenhurst honouring the man who historian and author Richard Tatley calls the “father of Muskoka.”
The panels, unveiled Wednesday, are thanks to the work of the Gravenhurst Municipal Heritage Committee to honour Alexander Peter Cockburn. The panels promote the steamboat era, in which Cockburn played an important role, as well as the square at the Wharf which bears his name.
Michael Wayling, Chair of the heritage committee, explained that Cockburn first visited Muskoka in 1865 and soon after moved to Gravenhurst where he established himself as a businessman and politician. On top of operating a general store, Cockburn served as MP and MPP for Muskoka and during that time he pressured the government to improve rail and water links to the area. He said that Cockburn also published pamphlets describing the natural beauty of the area and started a steamship business in the north and south areas of the district. “A booming resort industry developed in the Muskoka region that has continued to this present time,” Wayling said. “That makes it easily understood why he is often referred to as the father of Muskoka.”
“This committee is incredible for what they’ve done for this community to memorialize so many of our heritage sites in town,” Mayor of Gravenhurst Paul Kelly said. Two centuries-old wheelhouses were designated as heritage properties in May while the iconic Gravenhurst arch received the same treatment in July. “We’ve been very, very lucky in the Town of Gravenhurst to have a very active heritage committee,” Kelly continued. “This is just another great example of the work they do to preserve the history of the Town of Gravenhurst.”
Tatley, who also sits on the committee, says Cockburn deserves a lot of credit for promoting the tourism industry locally. “He was, apparently, the first man to sense Muskoka’s possibilities for recreation,” he said. “You have to remember that back in the 1860s it wasn’t fashionable for city people to go off to the wilderness for a summer holiday. City people who went on holiday in those days went down to a fashionable place by the lake like Coburg or Port Stanley where there was a nice beach.”
According to Tatley, who is set to publish an autobiography on Cockburn later this year, says his “life’s work” was to promote Muskoka “in every possible way.”
However, when Cockburn died in 1905 at the age of 68, Tatley says he was “more or less forgotten.” He was a part of the heritage committee when the gazebo at the Muskoka Wharf was named after A.P. Cockburn. He hopes that, along with the panels that now sit directly beside the gazebo, will teach more about Cockburn’s legacy.
“As a local historian and a longtime admirer of Alexander Peter Cockburn, who did so much for Muskoka, I’ve been scheming for a long time to see if we could get something, somewhere in Muskoka, for a man who, in effect, was the foundation of everything that we are today,” Tatley said. | https://www.mymuskokanow.com/120544/featured/father-of-muskoka-honoured-by-gravenhurst-municipal-heritage-advisory-committee/ | 2022-08-25T21:59:11Z | https://www.mymuskokanow.com/120544/featured/father-of-muskoka-honoured-by-gravenhurst-municipal-heritage-advisory-committee/ | false | 1 |
Treaty promises seismic shift on high seas
Most of the planet's ocean and the bounty of life it supports lack basic protection but that could be about to change under a landmark conservation treaty being thrashed out in New York.
Australia is among the nations that have gathered to negotiate the first global treaty on ocean biodiversity.
If adopted, possibly this weekend, the pact will offer new safeguards for the high seas - the parts of the ocean that no country "owns".
These areas lie more than 200 nautical miles from shore, beyond the exclusive economic zones of the world's nations. Together they cover almost half of the earth's surface and account for two-thirds of the global ocean.
Pepe Clarke co-ordinates ocean conservation efforts for WWF International and says it's jaw-dropping that an area so vast has never been afforded basic protections developed nations began demanding in their realms in the early 1970s.
"If you want to build a mine somewhere in Australia, of course you need to do an environmental impact assessment and seek government approval. If you want to develop an offshore oil field in Australian waters you have to do the same," he says.
"But in the high seas, there's currently no globally agreed process for assessing the environmental impacts of an activity before it goes ahead. Nor is there any process that looks at cumulative impacts."
The treaty under negotiation in New York will change that, ensuring there is a global responsibility to ensure potential environmental impacts from planned high seas activities are assessed.
Crucially, that will include industrial-scale fishing, the most significant, direct human impact on the high seas to date.
The other game changer if the treaty gets up will be a system to set up networks of marine protected areas in the high seas.
"Currently we can't have a Great Barrier Reef Marine Park or a Coral Sea Marine Park in the high seas because there's no global framework for doing that," Mr Clarke says.
He says that must change if the world is to achieve one of the primary ambitions of another crucial work in progress - a new UN-led global framework to manage all aspects of nature through until 2030.
The Global Biodiversity Framework is expected to include a commitment to protect at least 30 per cent of the planet - across the land and the sea - by then.
"At the moment we don't have a global framework for the high seas that would actually allow us to hit that target," Mr Clarke says.
"We could protect 30 per cent of areas within national jurisdiction but that wouldn't take us even close to protecting 30 per cent of the world's ocean. If governments are going to reach that 30 per cent target by 2030, they need this treaty."
Australia is one of 50 states that has publicly committed to an "ambitious" high seas treaty.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has already committed Australia to goals of protecting 30 per cent of the country's land and ocean territory by 2030 and wants Australia to take a global leadership role in ocean protection.
WWF International director-general Marco Lambertini says the remaining UN member states must get behind the treaty.
"The high seas epitomise the tragedy of the commons," he says.
"Because they don't 'belong' to anyone, they have been treated recklessly with impunity. We need a common governance mechanism for our ocean to ensure that nobody's waters become everybody's waters - and everyone's responsibility.
"Fifty nations have already pledged to achieve an ambitious ocean treaty that would lay the groundwork for protecting 30 per cent of the ocean and assess the environmental impact of activities on the high seas."
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FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz criticized Republican challenger Scott Jensen on Thursday for repeated comments that equated masking rules and other restrictions the governor imposed early in the COVID-19 pandemic with the rise of authoritarianism in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
Walz said such casual Holocaust comparisons, especially in today's charged political environment, are unacceptable. A stream of Jewish community leaders have also said Jensen was offensive and distorted history by minimizing the Holocaust.
“Being wrong is one thing,” Walz told The Associated Press in an interview at the opening of the Minnesota State Fair, one of the many events canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic. “Being told by people who know this issue that you’re wrong, and then continuing on, that becomes a character and a judgment issue."
Jensen, a family physician and former state senator, built his campaign, especially in its early days, on a platform of vaccine skepticism and opposition to the Walz administration's management of the pandemic.
Jensen's latest remarks drew attention this week when a local Jewish website, TC Jewfolk, posted video of his speech in April to a “Mask Off Minnesota” event, at which he talked about gradual erosions of freedom in Germany in the 1930s, and compared it with Walz's gradually increasing restrictions in the early months of the pandemic.
“And then the little things grew into something bigger. Then there was a night called Kristallnacht. The night of the breaking glass. Then there was the book burning, and it kept growing and growing, and a guy named Hitler kept growing in power, and World War II came about," Jensen told the group.
Jensen stood by his statements in a defiant social media video Tuesday.
“When I make a comparison that says that I saw government policies intruding on American freedoms incrementally, one piece at a time, and compare that to what happened in the 1930s, I think it’s a legitimate comparison," Jensen said. "It may not strike your fancy, that’s fine. But this is how I think and you don’t get to be my thought police person.”
Jensen returned to the theme that night at a Republican Jewish Coalition event, saying the governor's restrictions were all about compliance and control.
Ethan Roberts, director of government affairs for the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas, said comments like Jensen's trivialize the Holocaust.
“Generally speaking, no one should ever compare things to the Holocaust unless we're talking about genocide. Full stop,” Roberts said. “Such comparisons are inflammatory. They're deeply, deeply historically inaccurate.”
The Holocaust wasn't a story about incrementalism, Roberts explained, it was a story about genocide. And to equate it with masks that were intended to protect people is “an extremely bad analogy,” he said.
Jensen is far from the only politician to get in trouble for Holocaust comparisons. Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, of Colorado, was condemned last year for accusing Gov. Jared Polis of sending “brown shirts” to shut down restaurants during the pandemic, and for accusing President Joe Biden of sending “needle Nazis” to coerce vaccinations.
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, apologized last year after comparing House floor coronavirus safety measures to how the Nazis made Jews wear stars of David and sent them to the gas chambers. GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, of California, called the comparison “appalling.” Earlier this year, Republican Rep. Warren Davidson, of Ohio, apologized to Jewish groups after comparing mask and vaccine mandates to Nazi practices.
There’s been a steady increase in the use of Holocaust and Nazi analogies across the country over the last few years, said David Goldenberg, Midwest regional director for the Anti-Defamation League.
“At the end of the day, there is no logical comparison to be made, and regardless of how passionate someone might feel, they have to realize it’s a bad and deeply offensive comparison," Goldenberg said.
Jensen wasn't available for an interview Thursday, with his campaign citing a busy schedule of State Fair events. He left a campaign event early on Wednesday before reporters could ask him about the controversy, but his running mate, former Minnesota Vikings center Matt Birk, was dismissive.
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Patients and healthcare workers must not be left to pay the price of political irresponsibility in Northern Ireland, a Stormont minister has warned.
Health Minister Robin Swann highlighted the implications of the current powersharing impasse after formally telling Stormont colleagues he will need to overspend by £400 million to continue delivering effective services.
Mr Swann said the lack of an agreed budget – a consequence of the Stormont crisis – is exacerbating the problems within the already stretched healthcare system.
A budget for 2022/23 had not been agreed by the Stormont parties prior to the ministerial executive imploding in February.
Before that, ministers had agreed in principle that any new spending plan would need to allocate increased funding to the region’s crisis-hit health service.
In the absence of a functioning Executive, departmental funding is being distributed using emergency arrangements on the basis of last year’s budget settlement.
This means the health department is not receiving the uplift it might have otherwise expected if an Executive was in place.
Mr Swann’s department received more than £6 billion in last year’s budget. However, he also secured an additional £1 billion as the year progressed as a result of in-year redistribution exercises.
On Thursday, the minister said he could not even rely on receiving that extra £1 billion this year.
“We need a budget now, health needs the surety of a budget,” Mr Swann told reporters on a visit to the Ulster Hospital on the outskirts of Belfast.
“I can no longer continue to run the health service on the never-never, because that’s basically what I’m asking officials to do at this minute in time.”
Earlier, Mr Swann outlined the implications of the ongoing absence of a budget in a letter to Finance Minister Conor Murphy, which was also circulated to other ministers in the zombie administration.
Stormont is currently without a properly functioning Executive due to the DUP’s decision to block its operation in protest at Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol.
There is no first or deputy first minister in place, and, while other ministers are in post, they are limited in the decisions they can take.
Northern Ireland currently has the longest waiting lists in the UK and the latest statistics, released on Thursday, show that waiting times continue to increase.
Mr Swann is also facing the prospect of widespread industrial action by healthcare staff later in the year as several unions demand inflation-proofed pay increases.
On Thursday, the Royal College of Nursing announced it is joining colleagues elsewhere in the UK in balloting members on strike action.
In his letter, seen by the PA news agency, Mr Swann said the lack of a 2022/23 budget means he is facing three key funding pressures that add up to £400 million.
These are £80 million to address waiting list pressures, £200 million to cover recommended salary increases for staff, and £120 million created by issues such as energy price inflation.
The minister said there is a need for sustained increase in funding, along with transformation of service delivery, in order to “bridge the gap between supply and demand”.
Mr Swann said not overspending by £400 million would require him to actively stop some clinical activity, to halt additional recruitment, and not pay existing staff the 2022/23 salary increase.
He made clear he will not take any of those steps.
“All of these measures would take us in the directly opposite direction to that which is required to address the major challenges in health and social care. To be clear, I will not be implementing them,” he wrote.
The minister said he will continue to direct his department to deliver effective healthcare even though there is a “clear risk” of overspend.
Answering media questions at the Ulster Hospital, Mr Swann said technical and legal questions remain unanswered over whether he has the authority to direct officials to take actions that would see his department overspend its projected allocation.
Asked whether the UK Government should step in to pass a budget for Northern Ireland at Westminster, Mr Swann said he is “not precious” about how the budget is passed, as long as it is.
“It would be irresponsible for us that either our staff or our patients would have to suffer because of political inadequacies in Northern Ireland,” he added.
“We saw that in 2020 (at the end of the last powersharing impasse). I for one as a politician here in Northern Ireland, I for one as current Health Minister here in Northern Ireland don’t want us reverting back to that place where patients and our staff actually pay the price for inaction in politics.”
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Social media influencers are known for sharing everything from fashion trends to travel inspirations. But their influence spans far beyond trivial pursuits ahead of this school year.
Every year, teacher Tara McGowan creates a wish list for her classroom on websites like Amazon and Donors Choose. They're full of supplies for students that her school in Laurel, Maryland, doesn't provide.
Typically, she relies on friends and family for help. But this year, she turned to influencers too, and it made a significant difference.
McGowan teaches kindergarten at a Title I school, meaning most of her students come from low-income families. That makes her mission to provide them with everything they need in class — from crayons to pencils — even more crucial.
"You never want to make them feel less than because they don't have something," McGowan said. "So having things readily available for them is so helpful."
McGowan's wish list was featured on the anonymously run Instagram account called "Things I Bought And Liked," which has over 500,000 followers. But that was just one of the many influencers participating in the effort to help out.
For the past month, Hayden Cohen has been encouraging his 325,000 followers to clear over 50 lists for teachers. He says he's seen a ton of success so far, but he knows there's still a lot of demand for help.
"I probably got over 2,500 emails from people submitting their lists," he said. "Then countless other direct messages from people responding with their Amazon wish list."
It's become common for teachers to create these lists as a budget for supplies isn't guaranteed at every school.
This is McGowan's first time in 12 years of teaching that she's even getting a budget — $200.
"That $200 sounds like a lot of money at times, but it gets spent very quickly," she said.
Another problem most teachers face is not being able to afford many supplies due to low pay — an issue compounded by inflation.
According to the nonprofit Adopt A Classroom, teachers spent an average of $750 out of pocket during the 2020-2021 school year on supplies. This year, that number is expected to climb.
Teachers like McGowan say their reliance on donations to do their job is troubling, especially after working through all of the challenges brought on by the pandemic.
"It's a global problem in education," McGowan said. "We expect a lot from our teachers, but how we're getting there and where it's coming from and how it's getting funded can get a little gray at times."
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The San Francisco 49ers have given the city of Santa Clara their “best and final offer” to resolve a years-long legal battle over the management of Levi’s Stadium.
After a $3.3 million settlement failed to get the stamp of approval from the Santa Clara City Council last week, the NFL team is upping the dollar amount by $700,000, meeting some of the city’s demands but rejecting others, according to a letter from 49ers spokesperson Rahul Chandhok to interim City Manager Rajeev Batra.
Santa Clara and the 49ers have been at odds over the publicly-owned Levi’s Stadium for years, with this latest dispute starting in 2019 after the council voted to remove the team as the manager of non-NFL events at the stadium. The council had concerns over fraud, claiming the team overstated its management abilities and was not complying with state wage and conflict-of-interest laws. The 49ers responded by suing the city, and because of the unresolved litigation the team continued to manage the stadium.
In the $3.3 million settlement denied by the council last week, the team offered Santa Clara a $650,000 payment to the city’s general fund and a $650,000 transfer from the Stadium Authority’s discretionary fund to the general fund. It also offered an additional $2 million for public safety costs.
City officials then came back with six demands, according to Chandhok’s letter:
- Refund $450,000 in interest previously paid by the stadium authority to the management company, which is run by the 49ers.
- Pay $250,000 for the stadium authority’s new accounting system.
- Transfer $13 million from the stadium authority’s litigation reserves to the city’s general fund.
- Pay for the costs of food buffets for Stadium Building License members, which grants individuals the rights to purchase season tickets.
- Be more transparent on items such as ticket surcharges.
- Delay the settlement of all litigation.
Instead of refunding the $450,000 spent on interest and paying $250,000 for a new accounting system, the 49ers are offering Santa Clara a one-time $700,000 payment that will go straight to the city’s general fund. The team also has agreed to be more transparent with the city.
But the 49ers are refusing to meet the rest of the city’s requests.
According to Chandhok’s letter, transferring the $13 million litigation reserve would “violate the stadium’s lease,” and paying the costs of the food buffets is something both “parties have not yet had an opportunity to fully discuss, or even understand, one another’s legal positions.”
Holding off on settling any litigation could also be disastrous for both parties, Chandhok said.
“Delaying this settlement will worsen, not improve, our settlement proposal,” he wrote. “If the termination litigation are not resolved by the end of this month, the Forty Niners will be forced to increase our litigation spending — and that will reduce the settlement proceeds to the general fund. As we have explained, we can either spend our money on lawyers or pay it to the general fund to settle this issue.”
Chandhok estimates that both parties have spent roughly $8 million in litigation costs fighting the lawsuit.
Mayor Lisa Gillmor, one of the harshest critics of the 49ers at the city, could not be reached for comment. Vice Mayor Suds Jain and Councilmember Anthony Becker declined to comment.
The council is set to discuss the new settlement offer on Aug. 30 during the closed session portion of the meeting.
Chandhok told the Mercury News that if they don’t agree to the settlement, the lawsuit will continue.
“The city would be opting to continue litigation and risk losing $20 million instead of taking a deal that brings in $13M in the midst of a massive city deficit,” he said. “And the lawyers will start shopping for beach houses.”
Earlier this year, the 49ers settled a 2018 lawsuit they filed against the city that alleged the team had overpaid more than $1 million for parking at the city-owned golf course near the stadium. The team paid the city $325,000, according to settlement documents.
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Silvio rising: At 86, Berlusconi returns to Italian politics as potential kingmaker
By Rob Harris
London: Silvio Berlusconi once joked that when a pollster asked Italian women if they would have sex with him, 33 per cent said ‘Yes’, and the remainder replied: “Again?”
The billionaire property tycoon, media magnate and three-time prime minister of Italy has displayed an obsession with staying young through make-up, hair transplants and alleged facelifts.
And now, at almost 86, having been convicted of tax fraud, expelled from the Senate and officially barred from public office, his name will once again appear on ballot papers for the general elections on September 25.
His centre-right Forza Italia party is expected to poll up to 10 per cent, casting him as a likely kingmaker in the next government.
“I think that, in the end, I will be presenting myself as a candidate for the Senate, so that all these people who asked me will finally be happy,” he told RAI radio earlier this month.
After withdrawing support for the coalition led by former European Central Bank president Mario Draghi in July, Berlusconi’s party is poised to return to power as part of a right-wing coalition led by Giorgia Meloni’s neo-fascist Brothers of Italy, and including Matteo Salvini’s anti-immigration League.
Berlusconi, who says sorting out who leads the coalition should happen after the election, has dismissed suggestions he is worried about the possibility of Meloni, 45, whose motto is “God, country and family”, becoming prime minister.
Noting the agreement between the parties that whoever wins the most votes chooses the prime minister, he said: “If it is Giorgia, I am sure she will prove capable of the difficult task.” She would be the first woman to hold the office.
Berlusconi has urged voters to back his party, casting himself as a responsible pro-EU, centrist amid a surge of nationalist populism. Someone who could make a right-wing coalition more moderate.
“Every vote for Forza Italia will strengthen the moderate, centrist profile of the coalition,” he told Il Giornale, a daily newspaper owned by his family.
Berlusconi first served as prime minister from 1994 to 1995, then again in 2001-2006 and 2008-2011. He has dominated public life for even longer, as head of a vast media and sports empire which has included the country’s largest private television network, newspapers, football team AC Milan, a film distribution company and an advertising buying firm.
He was elected to the European Parliament in 2019 but rarely attended it. He remains on trial over corruption charges for allegedly paying guests to lie about his notorious “bunga-bunga” sex parties while prime minister. This reportedly involved orgies in the basement of his villa near Milan, complete with pole dancing and striptease. He denies the allegations.
In a short-lived tilt at becoming president earlier this year, he even introduced himself to some younger, independent MPs and senators as “the bunga-bunga guy”.
His comeback is the result of his “sense of duty”, he told news website POLITICO, in written answers to questions last week. He said Italy needed the values that only his party represents to restart the economy.
“My parents taught me that when I feel strongly in me the sense of duty to do something, I must find the courage to do it,” he said.
In March this year, he pledged his devotion to his 32-year-old girlfriend, Forza Italia MP Martina Fascina, in a symbolic “festival of love” ceremony. But he’s yet to officially tie the knot amid an inheritance row with his family. She is the deputy leader of his party.
His social media campaign has played on 1990s nostalgia and a strong pitch of tax cuts and higher pensions. And even without a formal institutional role, if his party polls as high as pollsters predict, Berlusconi will hold considerable power in the next government.
Brothers of Italy is comfortably ahead of the other two parties, with polls suggesting it will attract around 24 per cent of the vote, while the League is on 12 per cent and Forza Italia around 8 per cent.
After a decade of political instability, it appeared Draghi had steadied the government and secured the trust of the EU as Rome looked to recover from the COVID pandemic. But his cabinet became increasingly fractious and his strong stance on Russian sanctions and oil and gas embargoes had made some of his power-sharing government nervous, sparking speculation the Kremlin may have played a hand in bringing down the government.
Both Berlusconi and Salvini have traditionally been close to the Russian president. A Naples tie maker claimed in May that a blue and white spotted tie worn by Putin at Russia’s Victory Day parade was a gift from Berlusconi. The pair have stayed in each other’s holiday homes and skied together.
Other gifts have included a four-poster bed from Putin to Berlusconi, which an escort wrote about in a tell-all book claiming she had sex in with the Italian leader in 2008. Berlusconi was said to have given Putin a doona cover featuring a life-sized image of both of them.
After the collapse of Draghi’s reign, Italian newspapers reported that both Berlusconi and Salvini’s parties had contact with the Russian embassy in the weeks leading to withdrawing their support, despite the war in Ukraine. Berlusconi has denied talking to the Russian ambassador while the League has denied any wrongdoing.
Two former prime ministers, Enrico Letta and Matteo Renzi, have called for an inquiry into the alleged interference by the parliament’s intelligence committee.
Letta, now head of the centre-left Democratic Party, said the Berlusconi and Salvini must explain their relationship with the Kremlin.
“We want to know if it was Putin who brought down the Draghi government,” he said. “If that was the case, it would be of the utmost gravity.”
Stefano Stefanini, Italy’s former ambassador to NATO, said last week that Salvini and Berlusconi clearly had sentiments of friendship and ties with Putin’s Russia.
“Their support for the Italian, European and NATO position on Ukraine has been, at best, halfhearted,” he said.
Berlusconi says he would “not participate in any government” if he was not absolutely sure of its “democratic correctness, sense of responsibility and loyalty to Europe and the West.”
The outcome of the election could reverberate across Europe, and beyond. Under Draghi, Italy stood firmly alongside Germany and France in a show of European unity against Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. A new Italian government could send a much murkier message, altering the dynamic for Europe.
Leila Simona Talani, a professor at the Centre for Italian Politics at King’s College London, said it was unclear how a new government that included Salvini and Berlusconi would position itself on Russia, despite pledging to maintain support for Ukraine’s struggle and deepen integration with the EU.
“It’s possible that they will be not so much in favour of sending weapons to Ukraine and sustain the effort against Russia,” she said. “It is not totally clear, I mean they agree and say that they are obviously pro-Atlantic Alliance, supportive of the US, but I don’t think we really know.”
Talani said Draghi’s resignation was not the disaster that has been described because an early election would give a fresh mandate to a new government and avoid months of stalemate and instability.
“The elections will be quick, which is good for international investors too, and it’ll be a shorter campaign,” she said. “The elections were in another six to eight months, so this is a moment that had to come. Now there should be a new government by October, which is better than a very heavy long campaign.”
Talani said it was not clear that the right-wing parties would form a majority and did not rule out a broader group made up of people from the centre, left and centre-right succeeding instead. But she said it didn’t matter that a potential right-wing populist government called itself “pro-EU”, the real problem would be their policies.
“For example, the problem is, they want to introduce tax changes, which is very low for everyone at the same level,” she said. “Which means that we will not have enough money to repay the debt and we’ll be in trouble... which will not help us in Europe.”
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QC Life) - More than 50 years after “The Andy Griffith Show” went off the air, there are still so many people who love the show and love the characters, especially in North Carolina.
Andy Griffith was from Mount Airy, which provided the basis for the town of Mayberry.
Now, a new book takes a look back at the life and career of the woman many people know best as Thelma Lou.
Betty Lynn moved to Mount Airy back in 2007. She loved the town and she loved her fans.
Betty Lynn passed away in October of last year and at the time she was putting the finishing touches on her autobiography.
“Becoming Thelma Lou: My Journey to Hollywood, Mayberry and Beyond,” is being released on Monday, which would have been Betty’s 96th birthday.
Jim Clark is one of the co-authors who worked with Betty Lynn. He joined us to talk about the book and her legacy.
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What you'll need:
From Scitoys
- A popsickle stick or similar small piece of wood or plastic.
- A 9 volt battery clip.
- A 9 volt battery.
- Some transparent sticky tape.
- A glass of water.
- A volt meter.
- One foot of platinum coated nickel wire, or pure platinum wire.
Okay, so platinum coated nickel wire isn't exactly a household item. You can order one online for 15 bucks.
1. Cut and Wind the Wire
Alright. Let's get started. From SciToys:
The first step is to cut the platinum coated wire into two six inch long pieces, and wind each piece into a little coiled spring that will be the electrodes in our fuel cell. I wound mine on the end of the test lead of my volt meter, but a nail, an ice pick, or a coat hanger will do nicely as a coil form.
2. Ready the Battery
A little fancy finger-work here...
Next, we cut the leads of the battery clip in half and strip the insulation off of the cut ends. Then we twist the bare wires onto the ends of the platinum coated electrodes, as shown in the photo. The battery clip will be attached to the electrodes, and two wires will also be attached to the electrodes, and will later be used to connect to the volt meter.
3. The Popsicle Stick and Electrodes
The electrodes are then taped securely to the popsickle stick. Lastly, the popsickle stick is taped securely to the glass of water, so that the electrodes dangle in the water for nearly their entire length. The twisted wire connections must stay out of the water, so only the platinum coated electrodes are in the water.
4. Hook Up the Volt Meter
Now connect the red wire to the positive terminal of the volt meter, and the black wire to the negative (or "common") terminal of the volt meter. The volt meter should read 0 volts at this point, although a tiny amount of voltage may show up, such as 0.01 volts.
5. Voila. A Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Congrats, you've just built the future in your kitchen in about half the time it takes to watch The Office. Now you just have to use it:
To operate the fuel cell, we need to cause bubbles of hydrogen to cling to one electrode, and bubbles of oxygen to cling to the other. There is a very simple way to do this.
We touch the 9 volt battery to the battery clip (we don't need to actually clip it on, since it will only be needed for a second or two).
Touching the battery to the clip causes the water at the electrodes to split into hydrogen and oxygen, a process called electrolysis. You can see the bubbles form at the electrodes while the battery is attached.
Now we remove the battery. If we were not using platinum coated wire, we would expect to see the volt meter read zero volts again, since there is no battery connected.
The platinum acts as a catalyst, allowing the hydrogen and oxygen to recombine.
The hydrolysis reaction reverses. Instead of putting electricity into the cell to split the water, hydrogen and oxygen combine to make water again, and produce electricity.
For more detailed info on the battery and how it works, hop over to SciToys. And enjoy having the future of alternative energy in your kitchen. | https://home.howstuffworks.com/build-hydrogen-fuel-cell.htm | 2022-08-25T22:18:27Z | https://home.howstuffworks.com/build-hydrogen-fuel-cell.htm | false | 1 |
Mid-South Hero: Woman becomes advocate for those with Down syndrome
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - This month’s Mid-South Hero has a passion for empowering and equipping individuals for a better life and a better future.
Martine Hobson is a native Memphian, and after the birth of her daughter Laurie, she found a new calling in life – helping others.
“After she was born I just became really passionate about the rights of individuals with Down syndrome and fighting for their rights and making sure that they got everything that they deserve and the same opportunities as everyone else, which is their birthright,” Hobson said.
With that passion, Martine went to work. As a volunteer for the Down Syndrome Association of Memphis and the Mid-South, she spent countless hours making sure those with Down syndrome had opportunities in the classroom, the voting booth, and in the work force.
Now serving as the executive director of the association, Martine has helped countless families on this new journey.
“I’d never met anyone with Down syndrome and so I had no idea the abilities they have, how witty they can be, how smart they are – if they’re just given the opportunity,” she said. “But then I think I wanted to share that with other parents – new parents that are frightened like I was, and unsure of what the future might hold.”
The Down Syndrome Association uses programs that are designed to empower and educate individuals with down syndrome. Martine has even helped spearhead some of these programs, like “I Can Bike,” which teaches individuals how to ride a bike in just one week, or the “Be Safe” program, which teaches individuals how to approach and interact with police officers in the community.
“Police officers that have not had an experience with someone that has Down syndrome might not understand.”
“I think awareness is so important because a lot of people, if they haven’t had contact with people that have down syndrome they have preconceived ideas. And a lot of those are low expectations that they can’t do very much, which it’s the exact opposite.”
“I just wish people would get out and meets some folks with Down syndrome and get to know them as the person that they are. Really get to know them. They would be so surprised at how very smart they are.”
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A Connecticut woman with cancer sued Vermont on Thursday for allowing only its own residents to take advantage of a state law that lets people who are terminally ill end their own lives.
Lynda Bluestein, 75, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who has terminal fallopian tube cancer, and Dr. Diana Barnard, of Middlebury, Vermont, argue in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Burlington that Vermont’s residency requirement violates the U.S. Constitution.
The Vermont law allows physicians to prescribe lethal medication to state residents with an incurable illness that is expected to kill them within six months.
Bluestein said in an interview Thursday that she is not yet at the point where her life expectancy is less than six months, but that it is her third bout with cancer and she watched her mother die of the disease.
“She said, “I never wanted you to see me like this.' I don’t want my children to see me like that, either,” she said. “I’d like their last memories of me to be as strong as possible, to interact with them and not in an adult diaper curled up in a fetal position, drugged out of my mind.”
Barnard said in the lawsuit that she would like to be able to offer the end-of-life option to her patients who live in New York. The two women have been advocates on the issue in New York and Connecticut, which have no laws in place to allow for medically assisted suicide.
The lawsuit — filed by the group Compassion and Choices, which describes itself as an organization that “expands options and empowers everyone to chart their end-of-life journey" — argues that the residency requirement violates the commerce, equal protection, and privileges and immunities clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
Bluestein and Barnard are asking the court to block enforcement of the residency provision.
Compassion and Choices says the Vermont lawsuit is the nation's second to challenge residency requirements for such laws. Ten of the 11 jurisdictions nationwide that have authorized medical assistance to help people end their lives have a residency requirement, the group said.
The organization in March settled a similar lawsuit in Oregon that resulted in the suspension of the residency requirement in that state.
The office of Vermont Gov. Phil Scott referred questions to the attorney general's office, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Bluestein is a retired community public health professional who worked with women and children. She was diagnosed with cancer in March 2021. At the time she was given six months to three years to live and is undergoing treatment.
Bluestein said she met a woman with advanced lung cancer in a survivor group in Connecticut who moved to Vermont to take advantage of the state's law.
“Every other day or so, she’s telling me, she said, ‘Don’t wait until the end,’” said Bluestein, who noted her friend established Vermont residency and died this year with the help of the law.
For Bluestein, moving to Vermont would be too complicated, she said.
Under Vermont’s Patient Choice and Control at the End of Life Act, passed in 2013, once a determination has been made that a patient has fewer than six months to live, the patient may ask their physician for a prescription for a medication that would hasten death. The process requires both oral and written requests, witnesses and the second opinion from another physician.
Physicians and pharmacists are not required to participate in the actual suicide.
In a January report, the Vermont Health Department said that between May 31, 2013, when the law took effect, and June 30, 2021, 116 people took advantage of the law. Of the total, 77% had cancer. | https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/Woman-sues-over-residency-requirement-for-17398741.php | 2022-08-25T22:24:26Z | https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/Woman-sues-over-residency-requirement-for-17398741.php | false | 56 |
By Chadd Cawson
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
When the calls come in, Columbia Valley Search and Rescue (CVSAR) heads out. Last week within a 48-hour period on Aug. 9 and Aug.10, CVSAR responded to three calls.
The first call involved a nighttime search for a mountain biker reported missing on the trails at Panorama. The mountain biker was found and had sustained serious injuries due to a crash. CVSAR provided first-aid on scene and transferred the patient to paramedics for further care, with the patient taken to hospital by transported by STARS air ambulance.
The second call, in the early hours of Aug, 10, involved a medical evacuation from the Kootenay River. The person was transported with the help of Glacier helicopters of Invermere. In case extra support was needed, CVSAR had a ground team standing by.
The day did not slow down for the team as, later that afternoon, another rescue was needed for a person who had gone over Lower Bugaboo Falls.
Columbia Valley and Golden search and rescue crews extracted the persons, with CVSAR providing medical attention on site. With the help of Bighorn Helicopters, the patient was transferred to Invermere District Hospital. Due to privacy provisions, no names were released.
The CVSAR team is volunteer-based and available to help in search and rescue situations anywhere in the Columbia Valley on the unceded territories of the Secwepemc and Ktunaxa Peoples and the land chosen as home by the Metis Peoples.
All CVSAR volunteers are dedicated to saving lives through search, rescue, emergency disaster response and mountain safety education and are used when specialized skills are required when accessibility into the backcountry is limited.
“Having a skilled SAR team in the Columbia Valley is an immeasurably huge asset; just ask anyone who was on the receiving end of desperately needing help,” said Nancy Loraas, Columbia Valley Search and Rescue manager.
“What the public often doesn’t realize is that Columbia Valley SAR is 100 per cent volunteer, which means that their members do not get paid for either their training nor during their callouts, which can happen at any hour, day or night,” Loraas said. “The diversity of skill sets required of volunteer SAR members is vast and it takes years and years of practise to hone them to reach response ready capabilities.”
CVSAR volunteers are often tasked to respond through the request of the RCMP, BC Ambulance Service, local fire departments and the BC Coroners Service. Donations to CVSAR are always appreciated and can be made online at https://columbiavalleysar.ca/ or sent via etransfer to giving?columbiavalleysar.ca. Donations can also be sent by mail to Box 2123, Invermere. Tax receipts will be issued for all donations.
Before going out to enjoy the great outdoors, know your limits and remember accidents happen. When they do, call 9-1-1. To help prevent accidents and increase safety, remember to follow Adventure Smart’s Three T’s: trip planning, training and take the essentials.
To download their Trip Plan app, visit www.adventuresmart.ca.
Chadd Cawson is a Local Journalism Initiative Reporter who works for
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The well-being of physicians across Canada has significantly decreased with many doctors reporting poorer mental health than before the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey suggests.
The Canadian Medical Association’s national physician health survey, released Thursday, indicates that 53 per cent of respondents reported symptoms of burnout, including emotional exhaustion.
The reported burnout rate among doctors was 1.7 times higher than it was in the association’s previous survey in 2017.
The survey suggests that one-quarter of respondents were experiencing severe or moderate anxiety and almost half of the respondents were struggling with depression.
Forty-nine per cent of physicians who participated in the survey also indicated they were likely to reduce or modify their clinical hours in the next two years.
The association’s president, Dr. Alika Lafontaine, said the participants’ responses “reflect the current state of the health-care system,” adding the COVID 19 pandemic exacerbated many challenges physicians have been facing for years.
“People pulling back full-time clinical practice, people doing different things in order to mitigate burnout, more pervasive negative sentiment towards the direction that the health-care system is going and then just how this is affecting certain types of physicians more … family physicians in particular are really struggling,” he said in a recent interview.
The online survey involved 4,121 physicians, medical residents and medical students who participated between Oct. 13 and Dec. 13, 2021.
Lafontaine, who is a practising anesthesiologist in Grande Prairie, Alta., said doctors are resilient but the stress levels they face are very high.
“We’ve been trained in situations where stress is a normal part of work,” he said. “We know that providing care in the medical system is a stressful job, but that stress has just completely gone out of control.”
The survey suggests 36 per cent of physicians have had thoughts of suicide at some point in their life, compared to 18 per cent of doctors saying they thought about suicide in 2017.
Fifty-seven per cent of all respondents said they always or often feel fatigued at work, and only 36 per cent of respondents saidthey always or often get optimal sleep.
Lafontaine said provincial governments across Canada have had an “obsession with efficiency” over the last two decades, and health-care providers have not received the support they need to make sure their work environments are sustainable.
He said health-care providers, administrators and governments should start working toward pan-Canadian solutions.
“And then make sure that we have the right priorities: focusing on sustainable work environments, making sure that high-quality, high-safety patient care is provided,” he said.
Lafontaine, who was recently elected as the first Indigenous president to the Canadian Medical Association, said the federal government can help by working toward more collaboration in health human resources.
—Maan Alhmidi, The Canadian Press
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Woman sues over residency requirement for assisted suicide
A Connecticut woman with cancer sued Vermont on Thursday for allowing only its own residents to take advantage of a state law that lets people who are terminally ill end their own lives.
Lynda Bluestein, 75, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who has terminal fallopian tube cancer, and Dr. Diana Barnard, of Middlebury, Vermont, argue in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Burlington that Vermont’s residency requirement violates the U.S. Constitution.
The Vermont law allows physicians to prescribe lethal medication to state residents with an incurable illness that is expected to kill them within six months.
Bluestein said in an interview Thursday that she is not yet at the point where her life expectancy is less than six months, but that it is her third bout with cancer and she watched her mother die of the disease.
“She said, “I never wanted you to see me like this.’ I don’t want my children to see me like that, either,” she said. “I’d like their last memories of me to be as strong as possible, to interact with them and not in an adult diaper curled up in a fetal position, drugged out of my mind.”
Barnard said in the lawsuit that she would like to be able to offer the end-of-life option to her patients who live in New York. The two women have been advocates on the issue in New York and Connecticut, which have no laws in place to allow for medically assisted suicide.
The lawsuit — filed by the group Compassion and Choices, which describes itself as an organization that “expands options and empowers everyone to chart their end-of-life journey” — argues that the residency requirement violates the commerce, equal protection, and privileges and immunities clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
Bluestein and Barnard are asking the court to block enforcement of the residency provision.
Compassion and Choices says the Vermont lawsuit is the nation’s second to challenge residency requirements for such laws. Ten of the 11 jurisdictions nationwide that have authorized medical assistance to help people end their lives have a residency requirement, the group said.
The organization in March settled a similar lawsuit in Oregon that resulted in the suspension of the residency requirement in that state.
The office of Vermont Gov. Phil Scott referred questions to the attorney general’s office, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Bluestein is a retired community public health professional who worked with women and children. She was diagnosed with cancer in March 2021. At the time she was given six months to three years to live and is undergoing treatment.
Bluestein said she met a woman with advanced lung cancer in a survivor group in Connecticut who moved to Vermont to take advantage of the state’s law.
“Every other day or so, she’s telling me, she said, ‘Don’t wait until the end,’” said Bluestein, who noted her friend established Vermont residency and died this year with the help of the law.
For Bluestein, moving to Vermont would be too complicated, she said.
Under Vermont’s Patient Choice and Control at the End of Life Act, passed in 2013, once a determination has been made that a patient has fewer than six months to live, the patient may ask their physician for a prescription for a medication that would hasten death. The process requires both oral and written requests, witnesses and the second opinion from another physician.
Physicians and pharmacists are not required to participate in the actual suicide.
In a January report, the Vermont Health Department said that between May 31, 2013, when the law took effect, and June 30, 2021, 116 people took advantage of the law. Of the total, 77% had cancer.
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Joe E. Tata, affable Peach Pit owner Nat on Beverly Hills, 90210, dies at 85
Joe E. Tata, the actor best known for his role as the friendly Peach Pit diner owner Nat Bussichio on Beverly Hills, 90210, died Wednesday at 85.
His daughter Kelly Katharine Tata announced his passing on a GoFundMe page she set up last year to support her father's battle with Alzheimer's disease. "My father and I are forever grateful for the love and support of family, friends, and fans," she wrote.
Tata's 90210 costar Ian Ziering, who played Steve Sanders on the hit teen drama, also paid tribute to his late friend and colleague in a heartfelt Instagram post Thursday. "In the last few months we've lost Jessica Klein one of 90210's most prolific writers and producers, Denise Douse who played Mrs. Teasley, and now I'm very sad to say Joe E Tata has passed away," he wrote alongside a photo of Tata as Nat. "Joey was truly an OG."
Ziering went on to describe Tata as "one of the happiest people I've ever worked with," adding that he was "as generous with his wisdom as he was with his kindness."
Tata's limitless optimism also carried over on set too. "Though the peach pit was a 90210 set, It often felt like the backdrop to the Joe E Tata show," Ziering wrote. "The stories of days gone by that he would share, incredible experiences in the entertainment industry that he was a part of would keep us all captivated. He may have been in the back of many scenes, but he was a leading force, especially to us guys, on how to appreciate the gift that 90210 was."
A Bronx native, Tata played Nat on Beverly Hills, 90210 for its entire run, from 1990 to 2000. He also reprised his role on the CW's 90210 reboot. His other TV credits included the Adam West Batman series, Lost in Space, Mission: Impossible, Magnum P.I., and The Rockford Files.
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Few showers tonight; dry for German-American Fest
Published: Aug. 25, 2022 at 5:50 PM EDT|Updated: 44 minutes ago
A few showers are possible tonight through Friday morning, though weekend events such as German-American Festival ought to stay dry the entire time -- with low humidity as an added bonus Saturday. Sunday will be sizzling once again at or near 90F -- same with Monday, though rain chances spike as we enter next work week and continue into Tuesday. The system responsible for those showers will also usher in cooler air in the low-80s, and maybe even 70s, for highs from Wednesday onward.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia will grant visas to those holding tickets to the World Cup in neighboring Qatar, the kingdom has announced.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement late Wednesday those registered for Qatar’s Hayya fan card will be able to apply for multiple-entry visas 10 days before the tournament starts. Those granted visas will be able to stay for up to 60 days in Saudi Arabia.
The Hayya card is mandatory for ticket holders going to the World Cup in November and December.
The ministry added that pre-entry to Qatar was not required, though those coming will have to have medical insurance coverage.
Saudi Arabia’s website for visas is visa.visitsaudi.com.
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Best TSA-approved accessories for quick traveling
Between turbulence, flight delays, limited leg room and overly-chatty seatmates, plenty of things can make flying a hassle. But having to wait at baggage claim when you arrive at your destination for your checked bags may be the worst. That’s why so many people prefer traveling with a carry-on bag rather than a large piece of luggage that must be checked. If you’re looking for a carry-on that can fit on most planes and satisfy the TSA folks, check out these fabulous carry-on suitcases and bags for your next flight.
What are the guidelines for carry-on luggage?
Carry-on bags aren’t just small rolling suitcases. You can bring a backpack, duffle bag, or any other bag as a carry-on. The size matters more than the shape or style. It’s crucial to understand the size guidelines for carry-on bags so you’re not stuck with a bag that’s too big to fit in the overhead bin.
Domestic
Domestic airlines all have their own rules regarding the size of carry-on bags and luggage, so it’s essential to consult the website of the airline you’re flying to determine the size restrictions for your flight. Generally, carry-on bags should be no larger than 22 inches by 14 inches by 9 inches, including the handle and wheels.
Carry-on bag size is restricted to ensure that the bags will safely fit in the overhead bin. Most airlines don’t have guidelines for the weight of carry-on bags, though, so as long as you can lift them into the overhead bin, you’re good to go.
Keep in mind that not every airline permits full-size carry-on bags, so verify you can bring your bag on board before you get to the airport.
International
As with domestic flights, international airlines each have their own size guidelines for carry-on bags. In most cases, they require the same measurements as domestic flights do (or similar.) However, some airlines require smaller bags, so always double-check before you pack.
TSA carry-on bag restrictions
The Transportation Safety Authority doesn’t have guidelines regarding carry-on bag size. However, the TSA has specific rules about what you can and can’t bring in your carry-on.
TSA limits the amount of liquid you can pack in a carry-on bag. Each passenger is allowed to bring a quart-sized plastic bag with travel containers that each hold up to 3.4 ounces.
You can also declare larger amounts of liquid, gel or aerosol medications at a TSA checkpoint. Baby food and formula fall into this medically necessary category, so you can pack these items in your carry-on bag outside the plastic bag.
TSA doesn’t allow knives, box cutters, guns, flammable items, dry batteries or other banned items found on the TSA website in any carry-on bags.
Best TSA-approved carry-on bags and accessories
Under $75
Narwey For Spirit Airlines Foldable Travel Duffle Bag
This compact, lightweight bag is perfect for weekend trips. It’s waterproof and can hold more than 45 pounds with ease. It also has external pockets to provide quick access to must-have items. Sold by Amazon
Rockland Melbourne Hardside Expandable Spinner Wheel Luggage
This 20-inch bag is lightweight but still extremely durable. It has multidirectional, double-spinner wheels to make pulling it easy. The interior mesh zip pocket and elasticized pocket can keep your belongings organized. Sold by Amazon
Travel Select Amsterdam Expandable Rolling Upright Luggage
Featuring polyester and a PVC backing, this rolling suitcase holds up well to the rigors of air travel. It has a retractable push-button handle for pulling and top and side handles for carrying. Its inline skate wheels provide smooth, quiet rolling. Sold by Amazon
$75-$100
SwissGear Energie Hardside Carry-on Luggage
This expandable suitcase is perfect for longer trips but still meets most airlines’ carry-on guidelines. It’s made of lightweight polycarbonate and features a self-repairing zipper. It’s also equipped with TSA-approved locks and a power pack mesh pocket with an external USB charging port. Sold by Amazon
Betsey Johnson Designer Carry On Weekend Duffle Bag
This fun designer duffle bag is available in five different patterns and collapses a bit to fit in the overhead bin. It has two wheels and an ergonomically designed handle that make it easy to maneuver. It’s also extremely lightweight, so it’s easy to lift. Sold by Amazon
Kenneth Cole Reaction Out of Bounds Four-wheel Spinner Carry-on Bag
This hard-sided bag has four premium multidirectional wheels that make it easy to push or pull through the airport. It’s made of durable, lightweight ABS and has reinforced corners to help with shock absorption. You can choose from 15 colors. Sold by Amazon
SwissGear 1900 Scansmart 17-inch Laptop Backpack
If you’re traveling with your laptop, this backpack allows TSA agents to scan your computer in the bag. It has a large main compartment, as well as a padded tablet pocket and an RFID-protected compartment. It also has two easy-access exterior pockets for items you need to grab quickly. Sold by Amazon
$100-$200
Osprey Transporter Boarding Bag Carry-on Luggage
This bag fits well under airplane seats, so it’s a convenient option if you don’t want to use the overhead bin. It has a front organizer pocket for items you need quick access to and a padded laptop sleeve in the back. The detachable strap allows for over-the-shoulder carrying. Sold by Amazon
Travelpro Maxlite 5 Hardside Spinner
This sleek carry-on bag has a polycarbonate shell that offers impact-absorbing flexibility. Not only is it durable, but it’s also lightweight and easy to maneuver. It has TSA-approved locks and hold-down straps that help keep items secure and compact when packing. Sold by Amazon
Samsonite Winfield 2 Hardside Luggage
With four multidirectional wheels, this carry-on bag is easy to push or pull during your travels. It has side-mounted TSA-approved locks to secure your bag and a full-zip interior divider to organize your items. You can choose from more than 10 colors. Sold by Amazon
$200-plus
Pathfinder Gear 22-inch Rolling Drop Bottom Duffel
This convenient rolling duffel has an extra-large main compartment that provides plenty of space for your belongings. It also features an ergonomic, push-button telescopic handle. The oversized corner-mounted wheels move easily over uneven terrain. Sold by Amazon
Delsey Paris Chatelet Hardside Luggage with Spinner Wheels
With a lightweight, durable polycarbonate shell, this carry-on bag won’t crack or break as you trek through the airport. It has four spinner wheels that roll in multiple directions to allow for easy maneuvering and a recessed TSA-approved lock to protect your belongings. It also comes with a removable hanger, laundry bag and shoe bag. Sold by Amazon
Briggs and Riley ZDX Upright Rolling Duffle Bag
This highly durable rolling duffle bag is backed by a lifetime performance guarantee that covers even airline damage. It has a large top pocket with RFID protection and a power pocket that allows a USB cord to pass through it. It also has an easy-access pocket for your ID, boarding pass and other items you need to grab quickly. Sold by Amazon
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Students from Colorado and Indiana will have the opportunity next week to hear from NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren aboard the International Space Station. The two space-to-Earth calls will air live next week on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency's website.
Lindgren attended the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, earned a master's degree from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, and received a doctorate from the University of Colorado in Denver. The astronaut will answer prerecorded questions from students across Colorado at 1:10 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 30. The call will be part of Denver Museum of Nature & Science's Scientists in Action broadcast series that engages students by connecting them with working scientists in the field. It will reach school districts, homeschool learning pods, senior community groups, and youth-serving community organizations across Colorado. Media interested in covering the event should contact Maua O'Neal at: maura.oneal@dmns.org or 303-370-6407.
Lindgren also will answer prerecorded questions from students at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis at 10:10 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, Aug. 31. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis hosts immersive exhibits in the arts, sciences, and humanities, including a replica of the International Space Station in the Beyond Spaceship Earth exhibit, which students can visit during the downlink experience. Media interested in covering the event should contact: Kim Harms at: kimh@childrensmuseum.org or 317-334-4003.
For more than 21 years, astronauts have continuously lived and worked aboard the space station, testing technologies, performing science, and developing the skills needed to explore farther from Earth. Astronauts living in space on the orbiting laboratory communicate with NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston 24 hours a day through the Near Space Network Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS).
As part of Artemis, NASA will send astronauts to the Moon, to prepare for future human exploration of Mars. Inspiring the next generation of explorers – the Artemis Generation – ensures America will continue to lead in space exploration and discovery.
See videos and lesson plans highlighting research on the International Space Station at:
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In a rematch of Super Bowl LVI, the Los Angeles Rams travel east to take on the Cincinnati Bengals in their final 2022 preseason game. The game comes on the heels of two midweek joint practices between the championship titans and Sean McVay flew the team out Tuesday for the scrimmages. Bengals coach and ex-Ram, Zac Taylor, shares McVay’s approach to to preseason games, opting for oversight on full contact practices to scrutinize team development.
Sean McVay is reportedly going to play his starters and key reserves in the Wednesday and Thursday scrimmages. It’s a total about face from LA’s preseason game norm of sitting starters and key reserves, preferring to allow roster battle/bubble candidates to garner the reps. McVay prefers to work his starters in a controlled atmosphere, getting them full speed and semi-live reps against stout competition. After Monday’s practice, McVay said in video press conference.
“The goal is really to get good work in positively, push one another... The goal is to really get a chance to practice (with) another really good football team where we positively push one another and really kind of test a lot of our rules that we have structurally offensively, defensively and in the kicking game. So that’s kind of the intent ... You can get good competitive work, a lot of situational stuff where we can kind of manipulate it (in a way) that sometimes doesn’t always unfold the way that you’d like ideally offensively and defensively. You’ll end up accumulating over 90 reps over the course of a couple days...”
Roster bubble about to burst, for different reasons
These live practices may be the final arbiter on which players make the opening roster, 38 players are battling for what realistically are 10 openings. It is tough to defend any proposition that asserts McVay and the Rams are waiting for the performances of the final preseason game to fill out the squad.
One thing to keep in mind over the next two days is that the Rams will get a better feel for where they want their final roster during this time, and perhaps far more so than even in the last preseason game.
— Jourdan Rodrigue (@JourdanRodrigue) August 24, 2022
Injuries will play a big role in how player decisions end up being made. Guard Logan Bruss is out for the season. Edge Daniel Hardy suffered an in-game high ankle sprain and is out for a month. Off ball linebacker Travin Howard, safety Quentin Lake, wide receiver Van Jefferson, and edge Chris Garett have not participated in camp and may start the season with some kind of injury designation. Defensive tackle Bobby Brown only has his reputation tweaked, but still must sit out a six game suspension for PED abuse. And in what could either be nothing serious or a terrible end to great preseason story, guard Chandler Brewer sat out Monday’s practice with swelling in a lower extremity.
Rams 1st-string RG Coleman Shelton missed practice today with “a little swelling. He’ll be OK,” Sean McVay says. Jalen Ramsey and LB Ernest Jones stayed home with a stomach bug.
— Greg Beacham (@gregbeacham) August 22, 2022
While these circumstances vary in their final outcomes, they will open roster spots for players farther down the food chain. Edges Keir Thomas and Benton Whitley, off ball line backer Jake Gervase, tackle AJ Arcuri, wide receiver Lance McCutcheon all are in line for a possible berth. None of them were considered as strong contenders when training camp opened.
How to follow the game
Date: Saturday, August 27
Kickoff: 3 p.m. PST
Location: Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio
Watch: Live on NFL Network, LA local station ABC7, Spanish broadcast on Estrella TV (KCRA), and affiliates, including KFMB (San Diego), KQCA (Sacramento), KSEE (Fresno), KBAK (Bakersfield), KSBW(Monterey), KTVX (Salt Lake City), and KGMB (Honolulu).
Live stream: LA Rams official app, NFL Plus, Hulu Live, fubo TV, Sling TV, Peacock, DIRECTV STREAM (formerly known as AT&T TV), and many others.
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Prince Albert Police make arrest in stabbing case
Police in Prince Albert have arrested a 26-year-old man in connection with a stabbing incident in the city.
Officers responded to calls of a stabbing at a multi-unit residential building on Aug. 19 in the 500 block of 28th Street East, according to a police press release. As a result of the call, a 26-year-old woman was taken the to hospital in serious condition.
Police responded to a second stabbing on 28th Street and 6th Avenue East. A 63-year-old man was taken to hospital by Parkland Ambulance, according to police.
On Wednesday, Aug. 24, police arrested a suspect.
Reno Keenatch has been charged with aggravated assault and breach of probation in connection to the incident with the 63-year-old man.
He made his first court appearance on Thursday, Aug. 25.
Police are still investigating.
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Living wage in Manitoba’s major centres higher than new scheduled minimum wage: report
New data from the Manitoba Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows that while the province plans to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour over the next two years, more could still be done. | https://www.iheartradio.ca/ctv-news-content/prince-albert-police-make-arrest-in-stabbing-case-1.18421362 | 2022-08-25T22:46:28Z | https://www.iheartradio.ca/ctv-news-content/prince-albert-police-make-arrest-in-stabbing-case-1.18421362 | false | 2 |
The Buffalo Bills wrap up their preseason with a road date against the Carolina Panthers.
The pregame narrative: The Bills look to close out the preseason with a perfect 3-0 record. The Panthers, meanwhile, are 1-1 and can use this game to enter the regular season with some positive energy.
Check out our Bills vs. Panthers picks for Week 3 of the preseason on August 26.
Bills vs. Panthers preseason picks overview
- Bills +6.5 (-109)
- Over 39.5 points (-117)
Bills vs. Panthers preseason picks
Best bet: Bills +6.5 (-109)
Don’t lay this many points in a preseason game. Just don’t do it.
The reason why the spread is so large for this preseason finale is that the Bills are resting their starters and the Panthers aren’t. Carolina head coach Matt Rhule said the starters will play into the second quarter which gives the team an edge over Buffalo’s backups.
Read more: Buffalo Bills betting preview
But that doesn’t mean the Bills are going to be a pushover.
Case Keenum will likely see a large workload and he’s been strong. The second-string passer was the highest-graded quarterback in Week 2 of the preseason, according to PFF.
The 34-year-old went 16-for-18 with 192 passing yards and a score in the squad’s 42-15 win over the Denver Broncos.
Even No. 3 QB Matt Barkley has shown well in the preseason. The 2013 third-round pick went 7-for-8 with 65 passing yards last game.
Buffalo’s backups have played well enough to warrant some optimism. Take the points with the Bills.
Key stat: Buffalo has a preseason-best 879 yards of total offence.
Quick pick
Over 39.5 points (-117): Buffalo hasn’t had many issues moving the ball, ranking first in the NFL in preseason points per game (34.5). Carolina, on the other hand, hasn’t been nearly as productive (16.5 points, good for 26th), but we expect their offensive efficiency to improve this week.
Baker Mayfield is the newly appointed starting QB and a strong performance would go a long way in convincing the fan base that he’s the guy. With Carolina’s starters receiving extended run, we think the two teams will clear this number.
Odds as of 4:53 p.m. on 08/25/2022.
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Some per capita payments delayed
NESPELEM — Some per capita payments to Colville tribal members are being delayed because of a computer uploading error.
The delay affects a majority of the 3,289 payments made via direct deposit, said a tribal announcement.
“This delay is very unfortunate,” said Colville Business Council Chairman Jarred-Michael Erickson. “We know our members count on receiving these per capita payments.”
Payments were uploaded Aug. 11, with Monday, Aug. 15, set as the payment date. An error was discovered Monday afternoon after the payment process had begun.
“To prepare the payments, an electronic file was converted from one format to another format and uploaded to the tribes’ bank,” said the announcement. “During this procedure, which is the same process as has been used in the past, the file became inadvertently corrupted. As a result, many payments that went out to members’ banks as direct deposits were incorrect.”
The tribe said banks are returning payments. As returns are received, staff in the enrollment and accounting offices are working to correct the error and resubmit proper payments as quickly as possible.
“This process will continue until all payments are disbursed correctly,” said the tribe.
“Staff is working hard to get these payments out correctly, and have already begun fixing the problem so it will not occur again in the future,” said Erickson. “We are very sorry for all of those it has impacted and we thank you for your patience.”
Lower Pine project nearly finished
OKANOGAN — The paving project on Lower Pine Street was 95 percent complete as of the Aug. 16 Okanogan City Council meeting.
Rudnick and Sons, East Wenatchee, is doing the work.
The project includes street and sewer main replacement work.
In other business, the council:
- Heard a report from Okanogan County Emergency Manager Maurice Goodall on the county’s all-hazards mitigation plan. The council declared support for the plan and adopted it.
- Learned Public Works Director Shawn Davisson is continuing to work on funding for portable generators to run well Nos. 4 and 5 in case electricity goes down for an extended period.
- Approved the annual capital improvement plan for Okanogan Legion Airport.
- Authorized Mayor Wayne Turner to sign a grant application to the state Transportation Improvement Board for street crack sealing.
- Heard a reminder about the Okanogan Legion Airport Fly-in on Sept. 24.
- Learned the Okanogan Chamber of Commerce plans a Town Tidy Up event Sept. 30.
- Learned Okanogan Harvest Fest is Oct. 1.
NCW Libraries warns of phone scam
WENATCHEE — NCW Libraries is warning people about a phone scam in which someone is impersonating a library representative and seeking payment.
“Please note that NCW Libraries, all 30 of its branches, bookmobiles and mail order library, never personally call patrons to collect library fees for lost and damaged material, or to discuss personal account information,” said the library district.
NCW Libraries does make automated calls to inform people that their library materials are ready for pickup or that materials are overdue, but the calls are used only if a customer has selected phone notices as the preferred communication method, said the district.
“Phone scams like this are not uncommon and do not indicate any breach of NCW Libraries’ customer data,” said the library system, which suggests people who receive such calls file a report with the Federal Trade Commission at https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/assistant.
Waters charged with forgery
OKANOGAN — Thomas Lawrence Waters, 31, was charged Aug. 16 in Okanogan County Superior Court with forgery.
A report by Omak Police Officer Shane A. Schaefer was filed with the charging document as a probable cause statement.
According to the report, Schaefer was contacted by Wayne Evans, Omak, about an overdraft on his bank account for a purchase of $496.24 at Home Depot. Evans gave the officer the name of a possible check thief, a woman he had let watch a child at his house while he gave someone else a ride.
Another woman later allegedly told Evans she had seen Waters trying to sell items for pills. Some of the items were the same as those purchased at the store, the report said.
Waters, when contacted, allegedly said he found the checkbook in an abandoned car and threw it away after one check was written, according to the report.
Schaefer’s report indicates a store video, his body-worn camera video of an interview with Waters and a picture from a previous case show the suspect with the same hairstyle.
Bail for Waters was set at $25,000 during an Aug. 15 preliminary hearing.
Omak will buy two police vehicles
OMAK — The city council on Aug. 15 agreed to buy two police vehicles through the state purchasing cooperative.
An ordinance will be presented to the council once a firm price is known.
The cost is estimated at $140,000 for both.
In other business, the council:
- Rejected all the lone bid it received for the Fifth Avenue sidewalk improvement project. The city was unable to secure adequate funding.
- Learned Derting and Appel attorneys filed a petition to exclude certain agricultural land from the city.
- Learned the sewage treatment facility earned an excellence award from the state, and that employee Nick Buckner passed all required testing and now is a certified sewer treatment operator.
- Learned Susan Ortiz has been hired as police records clerk.
- Learned Officer Gary Miller is leaving the police department.
Indian taco vendor OK’d for fair
OKANOGAN — After a series of misunderstandings and some miscommunication, a food vendor received permission to set up at the Okanogan County Fair.
The vendor was not identified by fair officials.
The application originally was rejected by Michael Egerton, the head of the Fair Advisory Committee and food vendor approvals, because the foods listed in the application being too similar to those being sold by previously approved vendors.
“We try not to double or triple up on foods at the fair,” Egerton said. “We try to keep things diverse and open.”
According to a social media post on Facebook, one of the foods on the vendor’s menu is Indian tacos.
Egerton said that after the Aug. 18 committee meeting, he normally would have talked to the vendor about the application and why it was denied. However, he was absent because he was attending an Oroville School Board meeting; he is a member of that board.
Egerton also is a food vendor; tacos are among his offerings. Elephant ears, which are similar to fry bread used in Indian tacos, also will be sold by a vendor.
Questions and racial concerns were raised on social media following denial of the application. The issues were apparently solved after a phone call between Egerton and the vendor on Aug. 19.
After a description of the foods and cooking process, and clarification on the process of approval, Egerton said he was more than convinced the vendor would be a great addition to the fair.
“I’m really looking forward to seeing her at the fair,” Egerton said.
Milfoil treatments planned Sept. 1
OROVILLE — Eurasian milfoil treatments are planned Sept. 1 on Lake Osoyoos by the Okanogan County Noxious Weed Control Board.
Airboats will be used, which are loud and create a lot of wind, said the board. Lighter objects should be removed from docks and near the shoreline so they’re not blown away.
Treatments will impact water usage and recreational access on the lake, the board said. Warning signs will be posted.
More information is available from the board at 509-422-7165.
Applicants sought for council vacancy
OKANOGAN — Applicants are sought by Sept. 1 for a vacancy on the Okanogan City Council.
Position No. 4 was vacated when Wayne Turner was appointed as mayor Aug. 2 after the resignation of Mayor Jon Culp.
“This is an opportunity for a community-minded individual to serve their community and city,” said a city announcement. “To be considered for this position, an applicant shall be a registered voter and reside within the City of Okanogan for the past year.”
Applications are due by 2 p.m. Sept. 1 at city hall, 120 N. Third Ave. Application forms are available on the city’s website, at city hall or can be mailed by contacting the clerk’s office, 509-422-3600.
Qualified candidates may be invited to make a short presentation about their interests and backgrounds at the Sept. 6 council meeting, which starts at 7 p.m. at city hall.
Moses Lake woman dies in crash
MANSFIELD — A Moses Lake woman died Aug. 13 when her car went off Highway 17 and rolled over several times Aug. 13 about 15 miles southeast of Mansfield.
Stephanie M. Starkweather, 35, was southbound at 1:57 a.m. when her car went off the road on a curve, said the Washington State Patrol. It rolled over multiple times down an embankment and caught fire, said the patrol.
It’s not known whether she was wearing a seatbelt.
Paving projects set for Highway 20
WAUCONDA — A paving project on Highway 20 over Wauconda Pass is expected to last until Aug. 30.
Work runs from milepost 271 to milepost 297, west of Reevas Basin Road to Gardner Creek Road east of Tonasket.
The work schedule is from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Thursday with flagger-controlled traffic and delays of 20 minutes. Travelers should plan for longer-than-normal travel times, said the state Department of Transportation.
To the west, a paving project on Highway 20 between Easy Pass Trailhead and Early Winters Campground will continue until Aug. 25. Work runs from 6 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with flagger-controlled traffic and delays of 20 minutes.
Tribe plans Employee Appreciation Week
NESPELEM — Employee Appreciation Week is Aug. 29 to Sept 1 for the Colville Confederated Tribes.
Dress-up days are planned, including action hero Aug. 29, horror movie person/character Aug. 30 and movie team/group Aug. 31
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NEW YORK (AP) — Novak Djokovic will not play in the U.S. Open, as expected, because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and thus is not allowed to travel to the United States.
Djokovic announced his withdrawal from the year’s last Grand Slam tournament on Twitter on Thursday, hours before the draw for the event was revealed.
“Sadly, I will not be able to travel to NY this time for US Open,” Djokovic wrote, wishing luck to his fellow players, and said he would “keep in good shape and positive spirit and wait for an opportunity to compete again.”
Play is scheduled to begin at Flushing Meadows on Monday.
Djokovic is a 35-year-old from Serbia who owns 21 major championships, one behind Rafael Nadal for the men’s record. Three of Djokovic’s Slam trophies came at the U.S. Open, in 2011, 2015 and 2018.
He also was the runner-up there a half-dozen times, including last season, when his pursuit of the first calendar-year Grand Slam in men’s tennis since 1969 ended with a loss in the final to Daniil Medvedev.
Foreign citizens who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 are currently unable to enter the U.S or Canada, and Djokovic has said he won’t get the shots, even if that prevents him from playing in certain tournaments.
The U.S. Tennis Association has said all along it will follow government rules about vaccination status for this year’s Open. There is no vaccine mandate at the tournament for players or their support teams — meaning that an unvaccinated American would be allowed to compete — and spectators will not be required to wear masks.
“Novak is a great champion and it is very unfortunate that he will be unable to compete at the 2022 U.S. Open, as he is unable to enter the country due to the federal government’s vaccination policy for non-U.S. citizens,” said Stacey Allaster, the U.S. Open tournament director. “We look forward to welcoming Novak back at the 2023 U.S. Open.”
Djokovic missed the Australian Open in January after a protracted legal saga ended with his deportation from that country because he isn’t vaccinated against COVID-19. He also sat out four significant tournaments in North America in 2022, including in Montreal and Cincinnati recently.
He did play in the French Open, where he lost in the quarterfinals to Nadal, and at Wimbledon, where Djokovic won the title.
After beating Nick Kyrgios in the Wimbledon final on July 10, Djokovic said he “would love” to participate in the last Grand Slam tournament of the year at Flushing Meadows, but he also acknowledged, “I’m not planning to get vaccinated.”
About three weeks later, Djokovic posted on social media that he was holding out hope of getting the chance to play in the U.S. Open, writing: “I am preparing as if I will be allowed to compete, while I await to hear if there is any room for me to travel to US. Fingers crossed!”
Djokovic has spent more weeks at No. 1 than anyone else in the history of the ATP rankings. He is No. 6 this week, in part because no rankings points were awarded at Wimbledon this year.
Among the other players who will not be at the U.S. Open for various reasons are No. 2-ranked Alexander Zverev, the 2020 runner-up in New York; 2016 champion Angelique Kerber; 2019 French Open finalist Marketa Vondrousova; Gael Monfils and Reilly Opelka.
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“Republicans are facing dimming prospects for an overwhelming sweep in the House this fall, according to independent analysts and strategists across parties, as Democrats defy a long-predicted red wave in early contests by capitalizing on abortion’s rise as a campaign issue and a renewed focus on former president Donald Trump,” the Washington Post reports. | https://mirtesen.ru/dispute/43142890019/GOP-Prospects-Narrow-in-the-House | 2022-08-25T22:54:45Z | https://mirtesen.ru/dispute/43142890019/GOP-Prospects-Narrow-in-the-House | true | null |
Over the last six years, B.C. spent nearly $400 million on contracts with private surgical and diagnostic imaging clinics.
According to a report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the province awarded $393 million in contracts to private clinics to provide services within the public system.
“We’ve seen some positive recent moves by the B.C. government to enhance access to MRIs and reduce surgical waitlists in the public health care system,” says report author and health policy analyst Andrew Longhurst. “But these numbers show a troubling continued reliance on contracting out to for-profit clinics.”
Annual payments rose from $47.9 million in 2015/16 to $75.4 million in 2020/21, an increase of 57 per cent. The report found the largest annual increase was 21 per cent in 2016/17, the year following the BC Liberal government’s plan to increase surgical privatization.
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Longhurst was also concerned about extra-billing, a practice where clinics bill patients privately for medically necessary procedures that are already covered by the public health care system. Extra-billing violates both the Canada Health Act and BC Medicare Protection Act.
“Instead of tackling unlawful extra-billing head on, the province’s strategy has been to increase outsourcing to private surgical clinics but make those contracts subject to compliance with provincial and federal law. In other words, we’re using one form of privatization — outsourcing, or contracting out — to curb another — two-tier health care where those who can afford it pay privately,” Longhurst said.
In emails obtained by Longhurst through a freedom of information request, B.C.’s Deputy Health Minister Stephen Brown discussed continuing contracts with the owners of False Creek Surgical Centre despite an audit finding it had engaged in extra-billing.
Health Minister Adrian Dix was asked about the report at a news conference on Wednesday (Aug. 24). Dix took issue with the report, calling its findings inaccurate.
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“To do a report that talks about diagnostic care and MRI, and not say that the number of public MRIs has gone up dramatically while the number of private MRIs has gone down dramatically, and to say that is the corporatization of health care is just not accurate.”
Dix pointed to the government’s efforts to increase public MRIs, knee replacements and hip replacements in recent years.
“It’s always patients first. The best way to serve patients is to build a public health care system. That’s precisely what we did, what we’re doing, and what we’re continuing to do. People may want to make a point, but the evidence goes overwhelmingly in the other direction.”
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Facebook parent culls large Proud Boys network from sites
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook parent Meta says it has removed a network of accounts linked to the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group it banned in 2018.
Meta said on Thursday that it recently uncovered and removed about 480 Facebook and Instagram accounts, pages and groups linked to the Proud Boys. That brought the total number of Proud Boys assets it has removed to around 750 this year, it said.
Although the group has been banned from Meta’s platforms, the company said it has seen repeated attempts by its members at evading the ban. People behind the efforts are not identifying themselves as Proud Boys openly, creating front groups and using Facebook or Instagram to steer people to other, less moderated platforms, it said.
Such tactics are commonly used by extremist groups and those spreading misinformation as they try to evade social media companies’ crackdowns.
While the Proud Boys and other extremist groups have at times found homes on smaller internet platforms that cater to right-wing audiences, none come close to the reach of Meta’s properties, where they can recruit members more easily.
The former leader of the Proud Boys and other members of the group were charged this summer with attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.
Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and four others were charged with seditious conspiracy for what authorities say was a plot to forcibly oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power during the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.
The seditious conspiracy indictment alleges that the Proud Boys held meetings and communicated over encrypted messages to plan for the attack in the days leading up to Jan. 6. On the day of the riot, Proud Boys members carried out a coordinated plot to storm past police barricades and attack the building with a mob of Trump supporters, the indictment says.
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Dianne Feinstein International Terminal to recognize Senator's efforts in returning ownership of ONT to local authority
ONTARIO, Calif., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ontario International Airport (ONT) will honor a major influencer in the airport's return to local ownership by naming its international terminal after U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).
The Ontario International Airport Authority (OIAA) Board of Commissioners on Thursday unanimously approved the official naming of both its current Federal Inspection Station (FIS) facility and future terminal the Dianne Feinstein International Terminal. A formal dedication for the new name will take place this fall.
The new name will remain after a new international terminal is constructed. Plans for that facility are under development.
"We are honored to dedicate the current and future international facilities to Sen. Feinstein, whose years of support and advocacy were so critical in ONT's return to local ownership. She understood the importance of this airport not only to this community, but to air travel across Southern California and beyond. We are grateful for her work in bringing all sides together to ensure that Ontario International be returned to the community and region it serves," said Alan D. Wapner, President of the OIAA Board and Mayor pro Tem for the City of Ontario. "With her many years of service to our country, this is a very deserving honor."
Said Sen. Feinstein: "I was so proud to play a role in the expansion of Ontario International Airport, and I'm so pleased to watch ONT continue to grow its footprint in the region. I recall flying into Ontario every month when I served on the California Women's Board of Terms and Parole in the 1960s. Back then, ONT was just a regional airstrip, but today Ontario is a major international airport and an economic engine, and I'm honored to have helped spark that evolution."
Sen. Feinstein helped bring together leaders from the Inland Empire and Los Angeles following local concerns over a sharp decline in flights at ONT while under the jurisdiction of Los Angeles World Airports. In 2015, an agreement was reached to transfer ownership back to Ontario, and it was Sen. Feinstein who would later introduce legislation allowing that transfer to happen.
Since ONT's official return to local ownership on November 1, 2016, the airport has become one of the aviation industry's great success stories. In the first three years, passenger volumes increased 33%, and over the past five months, have exceeded pre-pandemic levels. New destinations since 2016 include Taiwan, El Salvador, Honolulu, Charlotte (NC), Austin (TX), and Newark, as well as the return of nonstop service to New York/JFK. Among the accolades the airport has received is the designation of Fastest-Growing Airport in the U.S., four years running, by Global Traveler.
On the cargo side, ONT has emerged as a global supply chain hub and now ranks among the Top 10 freight airports in North America.
About Ontario International Airport
Ontario International Airport (ONT) is the fastest growing airport in the United States, according to Global Traveler, a leading publication for frequent fliers. Located in the Inland Empire, ONT is approximately 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles in the center of Southern California. It is a full-service airport which offers nonstop commercial jet service to 33 major airports in the U.S., Mexico, Central America and Taiwan. More information is available at www.flyOntario.com. Follow @flyONT on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
About the Ontario International Airport Authority (OIAA)
The OIAA was formed in August 2012 by a Joint Powers Agreement between the City of Ontario and the County of San Bernardino to provide overall direction for the management, operations, development and marketing of ONT for the benefit of the Southern California economy and the residents of the airport's four-county catchment area. OIAA Commissioners are Ontario Mayor Pro Tem Alan D. Wapner (President), Retired Riverside Mayor Ronald O. Loveridge (Vice President), Ontario City Council Member Jim W. Bowman (Secretary), San Bernardino County Supervisor Curt Hagman (Commissioner) and retired business executive Julia Gouw (Commissioner).
OIAA Media Contact:
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Amazon Prime’s monthly free games have become a highlight for subscribers of the service, and the premium subscription regularly offers high-profile games for Prime members. In the August set of free games with Prime, there was Starcraft: Remastered from Blizzard as one of six games, along with several indie games. Previous months have also featured AAA games such as Dead Space 2, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion and Dragon Age: Inquisition, among others. Now Amazon has unveiled its free games for September, and it’s a long list.
Amazon officially introduced its free games with Amazon Prime in September, and a batch of well-known games will be released as part of the free promotion. September’s free games include several popular AAA games, including Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Origins and the Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition, topping the monthly offerings. Football Manager 2022 will also join the Amazon Prime promotion along with other smaller games such as The Dig and Defend the Rook included in the eight-game list.
Amazon’s Assassin’s Creed: Origins will be joined by future content planned for the newest installment of the Assassin’s Creed franchise. The announcement of the games in September also revealed that Prime members will be able to claim in-game content for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla starting on September 13. Prime is currently offering a “Charlemagne Kit” for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, in which Prime members can purchase free cosmetics. Amazon has also confirmed that exclusive Prime content will be available for two other games in September — Skull & Bones and Rainbow Six Siege.
Free Amazon Prime Gaming Games for September 2022
Assassin’s Creed Origins Football Manager 2022 Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition The Dig Defend the Rook We. The Castle of Revolution on the coast Word of the Law: Death Mask. Collector’s edition
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Amazon’s newest batch of monthly games is coming out as the online marketplace continues to move at the forefront of the gaming industry. Amazon published the long-awaited appearance of the popular MMORPG Lost Ark in North America, South America and Europe when it launched in February. Amazon is promoting its Prime subscription for gamers, offering not only free games, but also exclusive cosmetics and bonuses for popular current games such as League of Legends and World of Warcraft. The Amazon Prime September library contains many games that should appeal to a large number of players. | https://www.somagnews.com/amazon-prime-gaming-presents-free-games-for-september-2022/ | 2022-08-25T23:01:02Z | https://www.somagnews.com/amazon-prime-gaming-presents-free-games-for-september-2022/ | true | 1 |
A Connecticut woman with cancer sued Vermont on Thursday for allowing only its own residents to take advantage of a state law that lets people who are terminally ill end their own lives.
Lynda Bluestein, 75, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who has terminal fallopian tube cancer, and Dr. Diana Barnard, of Middlebury, Vermont, argue in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Burlington that Vermont’s residency requirement violates the U.S. Constitution.
The Vermont law allows physicians to prescribe lethal medication to state residents with an incurable illness that is expected to kill them within six months.
Bluestein said in an interview Thursday that she is not yet at the point where her life expectancy is less than six months, but that it is her third bout with cancer and she watched her mother die of the disease.
“She said, “I never wanted you to see me like this.' I don’t want my children to see me like that, either,” she said. “I’d like their last memories of me to be as strong as possible, to interact with them and not in an adult diaper curled up in a fetal position, drugged out of my mind.”
Barnard said in the lawsuit that she would like to be able to offer the end-of-life option to her patients who live in New York. The two women have been advocates on the issue in New York and Connecticut, which have no laws in place to allow for medically assisted suicide.
The lawsuit — filed by the group Compassion and Choices, which describes itself as an organization that “expands options and empowers everyone to chart their end-of-life journey" — argues that the residency requirement violates the commerce, equal protection, and privileges and immunities clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
Bluestein and Barnard are asking the court to block enforcement of the residency provision.
Compassion and Choices says the Vermont lawsuit is the nation's second to challenge residency requirements for such laws. Ten of the 11 jurisdictions nationwide that have authorized medical assistance to help people end their lives have a residency requirement, the group said.
The organization in March settled a similar lawsuit in Oregon that resulted in the suspension of the residency requirement in that state.
The office of Vermont Gov. Phil Scott referred questions to the attorney general's office, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Bluestein is a retired community public health professional who worked with women and children. She was diagnosed with cancer in March 2021. At the time she was given six months to three years to live and is undergoing treatment.
Bluestein said she met a woman with advanced lung cancer in a survivor group in Connecticut who moved to Vermont to take advantage of the state's law.
“Every other day or so, she’s telling me, she said, ‘Don’t wait until the end,’” said Bluestein, who noted her friend established Vermont residency and died this year with the help of the law.
For Bluestein, moving to Vermont would be too complicated, she said.
Under Vermont’s Patient Choice and Control at the End of Life Act, passed in 2013, once a determination has been made that a patient has fewer than six months to live, the patient may ask their physician for a prescription for a medication that would hasten death. The process requires both oral and written requests, witnesses and the second opinion from another physician.
Physicians and pharmacists are not required to participate in the actual suicide.
In a January report, the Vermont Health Department said that between May 31, 2013, when the law took effect, and June 30, 2021, 116 people took advantage of the law. Of the total, 77% had cancer. | https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Woman-sues-over-residency-requirement-for-17398741.php | 2022-08-25T23:03:11Z | https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Woman-sues-over-residency-requirement-for-17398741.php | false | 56 |
Researchers with Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have created implantable beads capable of destroying tumors in mice. The method utilizes Rice’s cytokine “drug factory” and a checkpoint inhibitor drug to do the heavy lifting. They found during testing that the implants could eradicate advanced-stage tumors in just a few days.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen researchers come up with amazing ways to fight cancer. We’ve also previously seen researchers working with cancer-killing viruses, which recently begun human trials. But, allowing doctors to implant beads with drugs directly next to the cancerous tumors could cut down on the legwork of getting the medicine to the right place.
New implantable beads can eradicate tumors
The researchers published their findings in the journal Clinical Cancer Research this week. The research is the latest in a string of successes we’ve seen with cytokines. The trials in mice have proven so successful that the implantable beads have been approved for clinical trials in ovarian cancer cases starting this fall.
Amanda Nash, one of the Rice graduate students involved with the trials, says the team wanted to create a therapy that could be used for multiple types of immune systems disorders, as well as multiple types of cancer. The team seems to have hit paydirt, too, with the beads and the drug they rely on actively working to eradicate mesothelioma tumors in mice quite well.
The researchers detailed the design of the cytokine factories in a media release post on Rice University’s website. The factories include implantable alginate beads that are loaded with cells that have been genetically engineered to produce natural IL-2. IL-2 stands for Interleukin, a natural compound that activates white blood cells when your body fights cancer.
Once delivered, the cells produce IL-2 at increased levels, allowing your body to fight off cancer. It can also be implanted with minimally invasive surgery, so doctors can deliver high doses of IL-2 directly to the tumors. In the mice-based studies, the researchers placed the beads directly next to the tumors, inside a thin layer of tissue called the pleura.
The researchers also ran some preclinical looks at the implantable beads’ efficacy against ovarian cancer. And it seems the FDA was impressed enough to approve trials set to kick off later this year. It will be interesting to see how this treatment platform progresses. And I’ll be intrigued to see how well it does against ovarian cancer during those new clinical trials this fall. | https://bgr.com/science/incredible-new-drug-factory-implants-kill-tumors-in-mice-in-under-a-week/ | 2022-08-25T23:04:10Z | https://bgr.com/science/incredible-new-drug-factory-implants-kill-tumors-in-mice-in-under-a-week/ | true | 1 |
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New pipe arrives at water transmission line break in northern St. Clair County
The Great Lakes Water Authority announced Thursday that new pipe to repair a water transmission line break north of Port Huron has begun to arrive at the site of the break.
On Aug. 13, a 120-inch water transmission main that distributes drinking water from the Lake Huron Water Treatment Facility to communities in the northern part of the authority's service area suffered a break, resulting in boil water advisories for Burtchville Township and several other southeastern Michigan communities, according to the Great Lakes Water Authority.
Nearly all the advisories were lifted Saturday, but new replacement pipe for the break is continuing to arrive. The first order of 120-inch pipe, a total of 16 feet, arrived on Aug. 14, while another 16-foot segment arrived Thursday, the authority said.
The authority expects necessary remaining 32 feet of pipe to arrive over the weekend. The authority will determine a repair timeline for the transmission line once all the new pipe arrives.
The water authority said while some water pressure was restored immediately after the water main break, customers in the affected areas should expect lower water pressures than normal. Areas affected by boil water advisories should limit outdoor water usage until the line is repaired.
The authority said workers are using the opportunity of having a open, unpressurized pipe to conduct inspections of the several miles of existing pipe on either side of the break.
Contact Laura Fitzgerald at (810) 941-7072 or lfitzgeral@gannett.com. | https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/news/2022/08/25/new-pipe-arrives-at-water-line-break-in-northern-st-clair-county/65420358007/ | 2022-08-25T23:08:08Z | https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/news/2022/08/25/new-pipe-arrives-at-water-line-break-in-northern-st-clair-county/65420358007/ | true | 2 |
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Shaquem Griffin did not make it in the NFL, but he made it TO the NFL.
And that’s why he will go down as one of the most respected, revered players in college football history.
When he announced his retirement from football on Wednesday, I really didn’t think about all the plays he made as a linebacker at UCF; I thought much more about all the lives he impacted.
He may have only one hand, but, my God, Shaquem has more heart than any athlete I’ve ever covered. He not only made history when he became the first player with one hand to ever be drafted into the modern-day NFL, he became an international role model to millions of amputees across the planet.
Even though Shaquem was the American Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year as a junior and was the Peach Bowl Defensive MVP in the monumental victory over Auburn during his senior season, he originally didn’t get invited to the NFL’s annual scouting combine in 2018. The league only acquiesced because of immense public pressure and because Shaquem begged the league to let him come. He responded by putting on a prosthetic left hand and bench-pressing 225 pounds 20 times. Then he ran a 4.38 40-yard dash — the fastest time any linebacker had run in 15 years.
By the time UCF’s Pro Day rolled around in 2018, the national media was all over the story. The NFL Network had a camera crew at UCF and ESPN had two camera crews.
Quite honestly, I can’t recall many of the plays Shaquem made during his brilliant college career or his short-lived NFL stint, but I will always remember the smile on 13-year-old Annika Emmert’s face that afternoon four years ago as she watched her hero perform at UCF’s Pro Day.
Annika was born with the same congenital birth defect as Shaquem and wore a prosthetic on her right arm. She had driven down with her family from St. Augustine in hopes of meeting Shaquem. As you would expect, Shaquem not only met with her, he embraced her and spent several minutes talking to her.
“Meeting him in person was so much fun and so special,” Annika said that day. “His motto is ‘Against all odds.’ I follow him on social media and every time he posts something, he always ends it with the hashtag #AgainstAllOdds. Everything he does is an inspiration to someone like me. What he’s done and what he can do is amazing. … If he can do it, I can do it.”
No doubt about it — Shaquem Griffin will be remembered partly for the quarterbacks he sacked and the tackles he made, but he will mostly be remembered for the millions he inspired. …
Short stuff: The new Florida Gators team photo caused quite a stir among social media critics who were blasting the Gators for having more staff members in the photo (140) than players (116). I’m not saying that new coach Billy Napier’s staff is bloated with unnecessary personnel, but do the grad assistants really need grad assistants? My operatives within the program tell me that Napier not only has a coffee coordinator, he has separate cream and sugar coordinators as well! But, ahem, the schools can’t afford to pay the players and instead are begging the boosters to foot the bill for NIL compensation. … Tom Brady is back at Tampa Bay Bucs training camp, but he is still ducking the media. He hasn’t answered questions since he was implicated in the tampering scandal involving Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross. When it comes to dealing with controversy, it seems, the G.O.A.T. is as quiet as a lamb. …
Did you want to puke as much as I did a few days ago when Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam tried to justify quarterback Deshaun Watson’s 11-game suspension by saying, “I think in this country, and hopefully in the world, people deserve second chances.” It’s one thing to get a second chance; it’s quite another thing that Haslam rewarded Watson with an unprecedented guaranteed contract worth $232 million. The Cleveland Clowns strike again. … By the way, I also saw where Watson has to undergo counseling treatments in light of the sexual-misconduct allegations made by the dozens of female massage therapists. May I recommend that he see a doctor of creepology. …
From David Whitley of the Gainesville Sun: “Defrocked Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt finished an impressive 23rd out of 415 entries in his first World Series of Poker event. Expect NCAA investigators to charge him with illegally recruiting the blackjack dealer.” … Fox Sports quietly announced they are re-hiring Urban Meyer by utilizing a picture-perfect Friday afternoon news dump designed so that Fox’s decision to bring back Meyer as a college football analyst would get lost in the weekend shuffle. My question for Fox executives: If you’re so embarrassed about hiring Meyer that you really don’t want anybody to know about it, then why are you hiring him in the first place? …
Poor Scott Frost just can’t catch a break. The former golden-boy UCF coach who is now on the hot seat at Nebraska got barbecued again last week when he jokingly said Nebraska’s new offensive line coach Donovan Raiola is working his boys so hard that the linemen were vomiting “15 or 20 times” per practice. Vomiting during practice used to symbolize hard work, but now it symbolizes player abuse. And even though Frost was obviously joking, he had to walk back the comments after a firestorm on social media. Reason No. 945 why Frosty should have stayed at UCF. … Speaking of UCF, I have a prediction: New Knights starting quarterback John Rhys Plumlee will account for more total yardage this season than former Knights quarterback Dillon Gabriel accounts for at Oklahoma. …
Fear not, NBA Hall-of-Famer Dennis Rodman says he is going to Russia in order to negotiate the release of Brittney Griner? If the Worm could somehow pull it off, they should also put him in the WNBA Hall of Fame, not to mention awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize for Diplomacy. … From Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “The Trail Blazers will not send their TV or radio broadcasters on road trips, instead having them announce games from home. There you have it — the NBA season’s first non-traveling call.” … Can we get a standing ovation for Brooklyn Nets management for actually having the audacity to stare down a bratty NBA superstar (Kevin Durant) and force him to come crawling back. It almost makes me want to root for the Nets this season, but not quite. …
Last word: “He was always under control. I said to him once, ‘Leonard, make sure that you never let them see you sweat.’ And he said, ‘Coach, quarterbacks don’t sweat. Quarterbacks perspire.’” — Late great Kansas City Chiefs coach Hank Stram on iconic Chiefs quarterback Len “Lenny The Cool” Dawson, who passed away Wednesday at 87.
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'She-Hulk' Episode 2 finally acknowledges 'Eternals,' possibly hints at major X-Men member
At long last, the MCU has addressed the dead Celestial sticking out of the ocean.
Well, it only took seven film and television projects, but we finally have an acknowledgment of the dead Celestial sticking out of the ocean in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The events of Eternals got a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shoutout in the second episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law shortly after Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) loses her job as the deputy district attorney of Los Angeles following the courtroom brawl with Titania (Jameela Jamil) in last week's season premiere.
**SPOILER WARNING! Spoilers for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Episode 2, "Superhuman Law" hulk out below!**
Essentially blacklisted from every other firm throughout the city, the newly-minted superhero begins to consider occupations outside the world of law. While the character scrolls through an article entitled "10 Offbeat Jobs for a Fresh Start" on her laptop, you can clearly see a pair of clickbait-y headlines for related stories on the right side of the web page.
One of these articles posits the following question: "Why is there a giant statue of a man sticking out of the ocean?"
That's no man, that there is Tiamut, whose birth was supposed to bring about the destruction of the planet until Sersi and the other good-hearted Eternals put a stop to the birth of a literal god, prompting Arishem to kidnap them and judge humanity's worthiness to keep on living. In any case, the article might be intended as a cheeky nod to fans who have been complaining for months about the universe remaining coy when it comes to the fallout of Eternals.
Now, let's talk about the second related story, which carries a faint whiff of Eau de Mutant as the X-Men prepare to be folded into the wider Marvel mythos following Disney's buy-out of 20th Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios) several years ago. The headline declares: "Man fights with metal claws in bar brawl."
Unless we're very much mistaken, we'd say the MCU just made its first reference to James Howlett, aka Logan, aka Wolverine. Aside from a serving as a subtle signpost that mutants are indeed on the road up ahead, this Easter egg could also be a little inside joke from Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, who got his start as a Hollywood producer on the original X-Men film, which features a "bar brawl" involving Hugh Jackman's cigar-smoking hero with the mutton chops and Adamantium skeleton.
While no live-action X-Men projects have been announced just yet, Phase 4 of the MCU has been steadily laying the groundwork for the introduction of mutants via Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (a cameo from Sir Patrick Stewart's Professor Charles Xavier) and Ms. Marvel (changing Kamala Khan from an Inhuman to a mutant). And a reboot of the animated series from the early '90s is scheduled to premiere on Disney+ in the fall of next year.
The first two episodes of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law are now available to stream on Disney+. New installments drop every Thursday.
Looking for more sci-fi comedy? Check out SYFY's Resident Alien, which is rolling out new episodes every Wednesday and can be watched next-day on Peacock. | https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/she-hulk-episode-2-addresses-eternals-hints-at-wolverine | 2022-08-25T23:15:50Z | https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/she-hulk-episode-2-addresses-eternals-hints-at-wolverine | true | 1 |
MARKET UPDATE
Incremental Chinese stimulus
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US $146 billion ($1 trillion yuan) focused on infrastructure spending
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Volumes remain near the lows for the year
10yr 3.1% (Climbing)
More clarity today on how hawkish the Fed intends to be
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Kansas City Fed President Esther George at Jackson Hole
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“may have to take rates above 4%”
Balanced Portfolios are down in 2022
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Year to date
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S&P 500 -13%
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U.S. Gov’t and Corporate Bonds -12%
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The only years that have seen both stocks and bonds at a loss by end of August
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Tesla TSLA
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3-for-1 stock split today
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California set to vote on the ban of gasoline powered cars by 2035
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California is the largest auto market in the U.S.
Earnings
Nvidia NVDA -3%, guide lower for gaming
Salesforce CRM -5%, guide was light
Snowflake SNOW +16%, beat and raise, short squeeze
Autodesk ADSK +6%
Splunk SPLK -1%
Williams-Sonoma WSM +3%, EPS beat
Dollar General DG -2%, EPS beat, not raising guide
Dollar Tree DLTR -8%, reported in-line but cutting guide
Peloton PTON -16%
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CRYPTO UPDATE
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp (DTCC): Project Ion
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Huge institutional adoption piece
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DTCC process virtually every trade in $40 trillion US stock market
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Joining crypto-revolution
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Testing private blockchain - Project Ion
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Processing +100,000 trades per day
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Big implications for settlement times
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Potential to avoid meme-stock-fiascos
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Global crypto traffic
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Traffic on exchanges dominated by US, 14.3%
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South Korea, 6.5%
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Russia, 4.9%
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Turkey, 3.5%
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ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta-based rapper has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for a 2021 firearm possession charge, federal prosecutors said.
U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee on Wednesday sentenced Ibnisa Durr, who performs under the name Paper Lovee, to seven years and four months, followed by three years of supervised release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia said in a news release. Durr, 26, of Atlanta, pleaded guilty on May 25 to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Investigators identified Durr as the suspect in a shooting on May 30, 2021, and issued a warrant for his arrest, the release stated. The department’s Fugitive Unit tracked him down three months later and tried to detain him while he was getting into a car. Durr fled, leading police on a high-speed chase during which he crashed into two police cars and an uninvolved motorist’s vehicle, according to the release, which said he later also tried to flee on foot and toss a bag containing a loaded firearm over a guardrail.
“His reckless conduct seriously endangered the lives of innocent motorists and officers,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan. Prior to his arrest, Durr had been convicted of robbery and aggravated assault, Buchanan said.
Paper Lovee is best known for his song “No Socks,” which features Lil Baby and was released in 2018. Other songs include “90s Baby,” and “Walk Down.” | https://www.woodtv.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-atlanta-rapper-paper-lovee-gets-7-years-for-gun-possession/ | 2022-08-25T23:20:49Z | https://www.woodtv.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-atlanta-rapper-paper-lovee-gets-7-years-for-gun-possession/ | false | 33 |
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LOS ANGELES — California air regulators voted Thursday on a historic plan to address climate change and harmful pollution by moving the nation's largest auto market away from the internal combustion engine.
The regulation will phase out the sale of new gasoline-powered cars, trucks and SUVs in the nation's most-populous state, culminating in a total ban of new sales of the vehicles by 2035. The ban will not prevent people from using gas-powered vehicles or apply to the used car market, but California officials say it will dramatically cut the state's climate-warming emissions and famously dirty air by speeding the transition to electric vehicles.
"California now has a groundbreaking, world-leading plan to achieve 100% zero-emission vehicle sales by 2035," said the state's governor, Gavin Newsom. "It's ambitious, it's innovative, it's the action we must take if we're serious about leaving the planet better off for future generations."
The regulation, which was approved by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in a Thursday vote, could have massive repercussions for the country's auto-manufacturing industry and the broader fight against climate change.
Transportation is the largest source of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions in the country, and scientists have said in increasingly dire language that drastic cuts to those emissions are crucial to providing a livable future on the planet.
President Joe Biden has set a goal of making half of the nation's new sales zero-emission by 2030. The recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act aims to move consumers that way by providing tax credits to people looking to buy new or used electric vehicles, but there are so many caveats — on everything from the buyers' income level to which models can qualify — that many electric vehicles may not be eligible for the benefit.
Auto industry analysts say the unprecedented move by California could help push the auto market to achieving that goal. Thirteen other states, including Oregon, New York and Colorado, typically follow California's auto emissions standards, which are already the most stringent in the country. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Wednesday that his state will set a similar goal of banning new gas-powered car sales by 2035.
"I think, for automakers, they will probably look at this and think this is kind of what they're going to target for most of the country," said Jessica Caldwell, the executive director of insight at the car data company Edmunds.
Auto makers want uniformity, Caldwell said. They don't want to be selling one type of car in one state and others in another. But the transition to electric vehicles, which have been on the market for decades, has been slow.
Electric vehicles account for just 5.6 percent of new-car sales between April and July, according to the latest quarterly report from Cox Automotive, an industry consulting firm. That was a record pace, the report noted, spurred by high gas prices, but supply issues remain.
Reaching 100 percent emission-free new vehicle sales by 2035 will be "extremely challenging," said John Bozzella, president and CEO of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents large automakers.
"Whether or not these requirements are realistic or achievable is directly linked to external factors like inflation, charging and fuel infrastructure, supply chains, labor, critical mineral availability and pricing, and the ongoing semiconductor shortage," he said in a statement. "These are complex, intertwined and global issues well beyond the control of either CARB or the auto industry."
A nationwide shift to electric vehicles would have major health benefits beyond its impacts on global climate change. More than 4-in-10 Americans live with unhealthy air, according to the American Lung Association. And research finds that the negative effects are disproportionately borne by people of color, regardless of income.
A report by the American Lung Association earlier this year found that a nationwide shift to zero-emission vehicles by 2035, as California is seeking, would generate more than $1.2 trillion in public health benefits between 2020 and 2050 and avoid up to 110,000 premature deaths.
Arezou Rezvani contributed reporting from Los Angeles.
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Amazon.com, Inc AMZN is shutting down its primary healthcare service at the end of 2022.
What Happened: Neil Lindsay, Amazon Health Services senior vice president, said the decision to shutter Amazon Care “wasn’t made lightly and only became clear after many months of careful consideration,” reported GeekWire, which cited an internal company memo.
Lindsay said the service was not a “complete enough offering for large enterprise customers” it had been targeting and “wasn’t going to work long-term.”
Amazon Care will no longer be offered after Dec. 31, according to Lindsay.
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Why It Matters: Launched in 2019 as a health care program for Amazon employees at the headquarters in Seattle, Amazon Care expanded its presence nationwide this year.
Last month, it was announced that the Jeff Bezos-founded e-commerce giant was acquiring 1Life Healthcare Inc ONEM, which operates under the name “One Medical” for $3.9 billion. One Medical provides primary-care services in-person as well as virtually.
Amazon said the business model for Amazon Care wasn’t working before it agreed to acquire One Medical, reported GeekWire.
Lindsay said that Amazon Care employees will have an “opportunity to join other parts of the Health Services organization or other teams at Amazon.” He said that the company would support employees looking for roles outside of Amazon.
Price Action: On Wednesday, Amazon shares closed 0.1% lower at $133.80 in the regular session and were mostly unchanged in the extended trading, according to data from Benzinga Pro.
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Amazon is shuttering its telehealth service
Updated: 6:18 PM EDT Aug 25, 2022
Related video above: New Amazon website shows you how to protect yourself from online attacksAmazon on Wednesday said it is shuttering its telehealth service, Amazon Care, as the company rethinks its approach for expanding into the health care industry.Launched in 2019, Amazon Care promised to virtually connect patients with a clinician "24/7, 365 days a year," according to its website, and also offered some in-person services in certain cities. It was initially built for Amazon's employees as well as for enterprise clients.After gathering feedback from customers and their employees, the company determined that Amazon Care "isn't the right long-term solution" for customers, and it will cease to be offered at the end of this year, according to a memo to staffers from Neil Lindsay, SVP of Amazon Health Services."This decision wasn't made lightly and only became clear after many months of careful consideration," Lindsay wrote in the memo, a copy of which was provided to CNN Business. "Although our enrolled members have loved many aspects of Amazon Care, it is not a complete enough offering for the large enterprise customers we have been targeting, and wasn't going to work long-term."Amazon has long sought to disrupt the health care industry and broaden its reach into the lives of consumers. The tech giant acquired an online pharmacy in 2017 and relaunched it as its own digital pharmacy in 2018. Amazon also partnered with JP Morgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway to offer better health care services to workers at the three companies, though this effort shut down last year.As Amazon does away with the telehealth service, it's investing heavily in another similar effort. Last month, Amazon said it had entered an agreement to acquire One Medical in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $3.9 billion. The membership-based primary care services promises customers "24/7 access to virtual care" and operates in a dozen major U.S. markets. Like Amazon Care, One Medical works with companies to offer health benefits to their employees.In his memo, Lindsay said the company will take what it has learned from its Amazon Care project and "will continue to invent, learn from our customers and industry partners, and hold ourselves to the highest standards as we further help reimagine the future of health care."
Related video above: New Amazon website shows you how to protect yourself from online attacks
Amazon on Wednesday said it is shuttering its telehealth service, Amazon Care, as the company rethinks its approach for expanding into the health care industry.
Launched in 2019, Amazon Care promised to virtually connect patients with a clinician "24/7, 365 days a year," according to its website, and also offered some in-person services in certain cities. It was initially built for Amazon's employees as well as for enterprise clients.
After gathering feedback from customers and their employees, the company determined that Amazon Care "isn't the right long-term solution" for customers, and it will cease to be offered at the end of this year, according to a memo to staffers from Neil Lindsay, SVP of Amazon Health Services.
"This decision wasn't made lightly and only became clear after many months of careful consideration," Lindsay wrote in the memo, a copy of which was provided to CNN Business. "Although our enrolled members have loved many aspects of Amazon Care, it is not a complete enough offering for the large enterprise customers we have been targeting, and wasn't going to work long-term."
Amazon has long sought to disrupt the health care industry and broaden its reach into the lives of consumers. The tech giant acquired an online pharmacy in 2017 and relaunched it as its own digital pharmacy in 2018. Amazon also partnered with JP Morgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway to offer better health care services to workers at the three companies, though this effort shut down last year.
As Amazon does away with the telehealth service, it's investing heavily in another similar effort. Last month, Amazon said it had entered an agreement to acquire One Medical in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $3.9 billion. The membership-based primary care services promises customers "24/7 access to virtual care" and operates in a dozen major U.S. markets. Like Amazon Care, One Medical works with companies to offer health benefits to their employees.
In his memo, Lindsay said the company will take what it has learned from its Amazon Care project and "will continue to invent, learn from our customers and industry partners, and hold ourselves to the highest standards as we further help reimagine the future of health care." | https://www.mynbc5.com/article/amazon-shuttering-its-telehealth-service-amazon-care/40994504 | 2022-08-25T23:26:30Z | https://www.mynbc5.com/article/amazon-shuttering-its-telehealth-service-amazon-care/40994504 | false | 17 |
Which tax preparation software is best?
When the taxman comes to the door, there’s no need to turn your house into a rummage sale just to pay your dues. All you need is the right tax preparation software. The best software for you should only be as complex as your finances. Otherwise, you can end up paying more for no extra benefit.
The best tax preparation software for the average person is Intuit TurboTax Deluxe Federal And State 2021. It covers all the most common deductions and credits and has an easy-to-understand interface.
What to know before you buy tax preparation software
Tax preparation software complexity
Some people’s taxes are simple enough to take 15 minutes once a year, while others must carefully track income and expenses all year. Varying levels of software match those needs.
- Basic software is for those with little to no complication and small incomes. If you’re filing taxes for the first time, start here.
- Advanced software is for those with complications and good-sized incomes. If you’re married with dependents and have a few revenue streams, go with this.
- Premium software is for those with several revenue streams and many complications. If you’ve ever considered an accountant due to your tax complexity, this is your best bet.
- Self-employed software is for freelancers and gig workers, etc. It covers the basics of expenses on top of premium offerings.
- Small-business software is more for year-round accounting than tax-time inputs.
- Business software is also for year-round accounting but for those with bigger businesses.
Operating system compatibility
Most tax preparation software can be used on only one operating system. The most common operating systems are Windows, found on the majority of computers, and macOS, found on Apple computers. Most tax prep software comes with a version for each, so make sure you order the right one.
What to look for in quality tax preparation software
Easy data import
The best tax preparation software makes importing your data as simple as possible. This can include uploading a picture of your files rather than needing to input them manually or letting you import your various accounts’ info.
E-filing
Most tax preparation software includes the ability to e-file your taxes with the Internal Revenue Service. Double-check that yours does before you buy, or you’ll have to print and mail your return instead.
Customer support
Tax preparation software customer support includes the usual help with technology issues, but the best also includes support for those with tax questions. Software that includes tax question customer support is a lifesaver for those new to filing taxes and those with complex returns.
How much you can expect to spend on tax preparation software
Basic tax software can be found for free, as you aren’t required to pay the IRS to file your taxes. More advanced software can cost as little as $20 or as much as $100-plus. All-year accounting software usually starts around $100 and can cost $1,000-plus.
Tax preparation software FAQ
Should I do my own taxes or hire an accountant?
A. Neither course of action is better than the other. It comes down to how complex your taxes are, how good you are with numbers and whether you’re willing to spend the time it takes to prepare everything.
If you run a business and it’s your first tax time after opening it then you may want to hire an accountant who can both do your taxes and explain to you how to do them on your own next year.
If you have multiple sources of income and complicating factors such as being married, having kids and paying student loans, it’s a bit of a toss-up. An accountant is more expensive than software, but you save time and effort and might get a bigger refund.
If you have one income source and few to no complicating factors, free tax software or services that walk you through the steps are probably best.
I’ve never done taxes before. Where do I start?
A. The first step is to collect every piece of information you have on what money came in and what money went out. The more information you have, the more complex software you need. If you’re really lost, hire an accountant.
What’s the best tax preparation software to buy?
Top tax preparation software
Intuit TurboTax Deluxe Federal and State 2021
What you need to know: This is an excellent balance of simplicity and depth for those with more complex returns.
What you’ll love: It covers 350-plus deductions and credits and walks you through each of them while skipping those that don’t apply to you. You can import most of your tax files quickly and easily, including previous returns if you’ve used this software before.
What you should consider: This is last year’s version. The 2022 version comes out in November. Some consumers had issues installing it. State filing can be prepared but not e-filed.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Dell and Staples
Top tax preparation software for the money
What you need to know: If your taxes are simple, there’s no need for anything more complex.
What you’ll love: It covers simple income for both single and married people, whether filing jointly or individually. It also covers basic tax deductions and credits for those with dependents, such as children. It’s available for Windows and macOS systems. State taxes are available for an extra fee.
What you should consider: Like TurboTax, this is last year’s version with the 2022 version coming in November. A few customers found the font too small and the interface confusing.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Dell and Staples
Worth checking out
Intuit QuickBooks Desktop Premier Plus With Payroll
What you need to know: This is the best software you can get if you run a small business with employees.
What you’ll love: This software covers everything you need to keep your finances clean and precise, from tracking expenses to preparing your taxes. It can even create paychecks and lets you set up direct deposits for your employees. Your data is automatically backed up.
What you should consider: It’s only available as a yearly subscription and it’s among the most expensive. It’s complex and can take time to get the hang of.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Dell and Staples
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WHO says investing in primary healthcare key to Africa's cities resilience
By IANS | Published: May 21, 2022 03:15 AM2022-05-21T03:15:03+5:302022-05-21T03:40:08+5:30
Kisumu (Kenya), May 21 African municipal authorities should invest in programmes that aim to shield the low-income urban ...
Kisumu (Kenya), May 21 African municipal authorities should invest in programmes that aim to shield the low-income urban population from disease outbreaks as a means to tackle poverty and inequality, a WHO official said at the ninth Africities summit underway in Kenya's western city of Kisumu.
Adelheid Onyango, the Director of Universal Health Care and Healthier Populations at the WHO, said on Friday that universal access to quality healthcare services among city dwellers was a prerequisite to attaining equitable growth and cohesion, Xinhua news agency reported.
"African city managers should invest in primary healthcare services in order to reduce a disease burden that was taking a heavier toll on residents of informal settlements," Onyango added.
She said curbing air pollution and providing safe drinking water to urban dwellers would cut down on expenditure dedicated to treating infectious diseases such as cholera, typhoid and pneumonia, urging municipal authorities to promote non-motorised transport, encourage city residents to exercise and consume organic food in order to tame the growing threat of non-communicable diseases like cancer and diabetes.
She added that the ninth edition of the Africities summit which runs until Saturday has created a platform for policymakers, city managers and investors to discuss innovative financing for primary healthcare in urban centres.
According to Onyango, adequate funding combined with reforming healthcare policies and investments in grassroots campaigns would reinvigorate action on the growing disease burden in African cities.
She stressed that routine immunisation for children, revamping maternity services and improving access to contraceptives was key to boosting health outcomes for women, children and adolescents residing in African cities and towns.
Onyango urged city managers to invest in surveillance in order to boost action on disease outbreaks whose frequency and intensity have been linked to climate change and pollution.
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A Fort Payne man faces 50 possession of child pornography charges after a tip came in to police.
Timothy William Estep, 33, was arrested and charged Wednesday.
The tip was submitted to a Fort Payne Police Department detective who is a member of the Alabama Internet Crimes against Children’s Task Force. That led to a search of Estep’s home and the discovery of evidence, police said.
Estep is being held in the DeKalb County Detention Center. Bond was set at $750,000. | https://www.waaytv.com/news/fort-payne-man-charged-with-50-counts-of-child-porn-possession/article_3f3d1c7a-24c0-11ed-b3f0-6733b4a72727.html | 2022-08-25T23:30:23Z | https://www.waaytv.com/news/fort-payne-man-charged-with-50-counts-of-child-porn-possession/article_3f3d1c7a-24c0-11ed-b3f0-6733b4a72727.html | true | null |
SBS Biotech topped the advertisers’ list in print followed by Maruti Suzuki India.
According to TAM's latest AdEx report (January-June 2022), print advertising space has registered a 90% rise in first half of 2022 as compared to first half of 2020.
According to the report, services sector topped with 16% share of ad space followed by education with 13% share during January-June 2022. Top 3 sectors together accounted nearly 40% share of ad space in print.
Additionally, out of 86,000 advertisers, SBS Biotech topped the advertisers’ list in print followed by Maruti Suzuki India. Ranking of Patanjali and Ruchi Soya shot up to the top 10 list of January-June 2022 compared to January-June 2021.
Top 10 categories accounted for 35% ad volume share in both April-June 2020. Out of this, six out of top 10 categories moved up in ranking during January-June 2022. Only, the cars and coaching/competitive exam centre category maintained its rank in first year of 2022. Two out of the top 10 categories were from the auto, retail and education sectors each.
Further, as per the report, there were 54,000-plus advertisers and 70,000-plus brands who advertised exclusively during January-June 2022 in print as compared to January-June 2021. B C Hasaram & Sons and LIC-IPO were the top exclusive advertiser and brand respectively in January-June 2022 compared to January-June 2021. | https://www.afaqs.com/news/media/print-ad-space-sees-90-rise-in-january-june-2022-tam-adex | 2022-08-25T23:30:27Z | https://www.afaqs.com/news/media/print-ad-space-sees-90-rise-in-january-june-2022-tam-adex | false | 1 |
Guardians first. Steven Kwan doubles to deep right field. Amed Rosario singles to shallow infield. Steven Kwan to third. Jose Ramirez reaches on a fielder's choice to second base. Amed Rosario out at second. Steven Kwan scores. Oscar Gonzalez singles to center field. Josh Naylor grounds out to shallow infield to Ty France.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Guardians 1, Mariners 0.
Mariners first. Julio Rodriguez walks. Jesse Winker singles to center field. Julio Rodriguez to second. Mitch Haniger homers to center field. Jesse Winker scores. Julio Rodriguez scores. Eugenio Suarez strikes out swinging. Ty France flies out to deep left field to Steven Kwan. Carlos Santana flies out to left center field to Steven Kwan.
3 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Mariners 3, Guardians 1. | https://www.darientimes.com/sports/article/Cleveland-Seattle-Runs-17398878.php | 2022-08-25T23:34:08Z | https://www.darientimes.com/sports/article/Cleveland-Seattle-Runs-17398878.php | false | null |
Pounding the Stone for the 2022 Bureau Valley football team as team captains are:
Senior Isaac Attig - halfback/quarterback//corner back
Junior Jon Dybek - guard/defensive tackle
Senior Cam Lillie - center/DL
Junior Connor Scott - linebacker
Pounding the Stone for the 2022 Bureau Valley football team as team captains are:
Senior Isaac Attig - halfback/quarterback//corner back
Junior Jon Dybek - guard/defensive tackle
Senior Cam Lillie - center/DL
Junior Connor Scott - linebacker | https://www.shawlocal.com/friday-night-drive/news/2022/08/25/meet-your-bureau-valley-captains/ | 2022-08-25T23:38:24Z | https://www.shawlocal.com/friday-night-drive/news/2022/08/25/meet-your-bureau-valley-captains/ | false | null |
Iceland is to give away another 40,000 food vouchers worth £30 each to help pensioners during the cost-of-living crisis.
The supermarket has been awarded a further £1m in funding through the Rothesay Foundation to offer another wave of vouchers, and pensioners are being encouraged to apply as quickly as possible because the vouchers will be distributed on a first come first served basis.
The deadline for applications is September 16, and the vouchers can be used on food and household items, although alcohol and tobacco are excluded. All vouchers expire at 11.59pm on December 31, 2022.
To qualify for the voucher, you must be of state pension age, living independently or with a carer and relying solely on state pensions and benefits. However, only those who live in one of 16 specific areas nationwide can apply, with the areas being Birmingham, Croydon, Glamorgan, Glasgow, Greater Manchester, Huddersfield, Lambeth (London), Liverpool, Newcastle North, Newport, North Wales, Sheffield, Strathclyde, Sunderland, West Midlands and Wirral.
This is the second time Iceland has handed out the vouchers, which can be used in 269 of its 1,000+ stores. To claim a voucher call the Summer Cheer hotline on 0800 098 7877 (lines open 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday). Vouchers will arrive by post within seven days of application.
Richard Walker, Managing Director of Iceland Foods, told the Mirror: "Since the launch of the partnership last Christmas, the cost-of-living crisis has taken hold of the UK, and now more than ever, people are struggling to access the food they need. No one should ever have to worry about how they are going to eat or drink, and we hope that the support we can offer across the UK will help pensioners access and enjoy a worry-free meal during this difficult time."
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DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge ordered both Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk to turn over more information to opposing lawyers in their tussle over Musk's agreed-to-then-abandoned $44 billion deal to acquire the social platform.
Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick on Thursday ordered Twitter to provide Musk’s attorneys more data regarding the company’s estimates that less than 5% of the accounts on its platform are fake. The judge also rejected Musk's attempts to shield details about analyses he used in his attempt to terminate the deal.
That work was done by data scientists who examined live-feed information from Twitter about public user accounts to test the company's daily-user counts.
Musk claims that Twitter has failed to provide enough detail about the number of fake accounts on its platform, and argues that up to 30% of Twitter’s “monetizable daily active users,” or mDAU, could be spam or bot accounts. Twitter says the mDAU metric helps it measure the number of accounts on its platform that advertisers can target, thus making them “monetizable.”
Musk, the world’s richest man, agreed in April to buy Twitter and take it private, offering $54.20 a share and vowing to loosen the company’s policing of content and to root out fake accounts. Twitter shares closed Thursday at $41.05.
Musk indicated in July that he wanted to back away from the deal, prompting Twitter to file a lawsuit to force him to carry through with the acquisition.
The judge rejected more comprehensive data requests from Musk’s attorneys as “absurdly broad,” noting that a literal reading of the request would require Twitter to produce “trillions upon trillions of data points” reflecting all data collected on roughly 200 million accounts over three years.
But McCormick did order Twitter to produce information on 9,000 accounts that were reviewed in connection with company’s fourth-quarter audit, a data subset that has been described as a “historical snapshot.”
McCormick also ordered Twitter to turn over documents regarding other metrics, regardless of whether they expressly address mDAU. Musk’s attorneys have suggested that a comparison of Twitter’s mDAU with other metrics, such as “User Active Minutes,” could support their theory that the company has fraudulently misled investors and securities regulators about the scope of activity on its platform. | https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/Judge-orders-more-document-production-in-17398856.php | 2022-08-25T23:41:12Z | https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/Judge-orders-more-document-production-in-17398856.php | true | 33 |
Attorneys for the city of Baraboo are arguing that a corporation within the municipality has no claim for excessive taxation after the paperwork was incorrectly filed.
According to court documents filed in Sauk County Circuit Court civil court, Walmart filed its claim six days before paying its 2021 tax bill. An affidavit from City Clerk Brenda Zeman, supported by documentation, shows Walmart lawyers filed the claim Jan. 18. A receipt of payment shows Walmart paid its property taxes Jan. 24.
The argument by attorney Storm Larson, of Boardman & Clark LLP, of Madison, was heard by Circuit Court Judge Michael Screnock during a motion hearing Wednesday.
According to Wisconsin Statute 74.37(2)(a), “a claim for an excessive assessment may be filed against the taxation district…which collected the tax.” The Wisconsin Court of Appeals decided that claims have to be filed after tax is collected because the claim is to recover unlawful taxation against the entity, Larson argued.
The case filed May 23 is the second in two years brought against the city by Walmart Real Estate Business Trust. The first was filed in August 2020.
These cases use what opponents have dubbed the “dark store loophole.” Corporations which operate big box stores make claims against municipalities that their property should be assessed as its value if it were “dark” or not operating and receiving any revenue.
Those opposed to the tax practice are hanging hopes for a stop to the “dark store” method via the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The judicial body is expected to make a ruling later this year which could stop retailers, such as Walmart, from avoiding paying the amount municipalities assert is the company’s tax burden.
One of the most vocal opponents has been the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, which has pushed the issue in the courts. Members of the organization argue the loophole allows corporations to skirt their tax burden and instead hand the bill over to residents already paying for their own property within cities.
Walmart has a number of ongoing lawsuits in counties throughout Wisconsin. The company filed a similar case last year against the city of Burlington in Racine County, arguing that its store there should see its assessed value reduced from $8.6 million to $4.5 million. If it were to win that case, the taxes paid for that store would drop from $160,000 to roughly $80,000. Like in any municipality, the local government would either have to reduce services provided to its citizens or increase taxes on property owners.
According to Sauk County Land Records, Walmart in Baraboo sits on nearly 22 acres of land. City Assessor Michael Weymir, of Tyler Technologies Inc., assessed the building. Its taxable value was more than $9.48 million in 2020.
Attorney Christopher Strohben of Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown, of Milwaukee, argued in the initial lawsuit that the store should not be valued at more than $5 million.
Attorneys in that case met Aug. 1 to argue over the inclusion of documents. The lawsuit remains ongoing. Circuit Court Judge Wendy Klicko set the next hearing for Nov. 1.
In 2021, the property was assessed at more than $9.53 million. Walmart attorneys objected via the Board of Review, which evaluated and determined the assessment as correct. At more than $22,000 per $1,000 of assessed value, the city taxed Walmart a total of $212,859 for the property.
Again, attorneys with Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown claim that the assessment is too high and instead the tax bill for the property “should be no higher than $132,423.” The difference is about $80,500.
Larson argued that not only has Walmart defaulted due to its misstep in timing, but that because the deadline for filing a claim was Jan. 31, its lawyers cannot proceed and the case must be dismissed.
Screnock told Walmart attorney Russell Karnes and Larson that if the documents are reviewed and he finds the claim was served before taxes were paid, he is bound to rule to dismiss both a claim for excessive taxation and a claim for nonuniform tax assessment, which were brought forward by Karnes. He ordered Karnes to produce an affidavit from the corporation by Sept. 30 and gave Larson the chance to respond by Oct. 14.
Karnes has until Oct. 28 to respond, after which Screnock will provide a written decision.
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Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
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Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
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Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
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Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
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Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
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Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
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Tractors, food vendors, merchants, and others were at the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for the 2022 Badger Steam and Gas Engine Show between Aug. 19-21.
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A diver in Canada was recently fined 12,000 Canadian dollars, which equals $9,250 American, for swimming too close to a killer whale pod in 2020. Thomas Gould “knowingly interacted” with the pod of seven Northern resident orcas around Prince Rupert Harbour in British Columbia, Canada, according to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
This is the largest amount fined for this kind of offense, which broke Section 7 of the Marine Mammal Regulations of Canada’s Fisheries Act. It is illegal to swim, dive, or interact with marine mammals, and vessels must keep at least 650 feet away from orca whales in British Columbia waters, according to the Fisheries Act.
According to the DFO, this particular pod of orcas has been frequenting Prince Rupert Harbour for 10 years. There are signs in the area warning boaters of the regulations, and to steer clear of the mammals. According to evidence in the case, per Newsweek, Gould’s boat tried several times to speed ahead of the pod. He also entered the water near the pod at least twice.
“Watching whales and other marine mammals in their natural surroundings gives Canadians an opportunity to better appreciate these beautiful animals,” the DFO said in a statement. “But when humans get too close, we risk disturbing and even harming them.”
Why Interacting With Killer Whales is Such a Serious Offense
Orcas, also called killer whales, are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act in the United States. In Canada, they’re protected under the Species At Risk Act as well as the Marine Mammal Regulations. They are found in every ocean in the world, according to NOAA. There is not enough data on orcas to know if every ecotype is threatened, but specifically, the Southern Resident Population of orcas is considered endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
Orcas were long targeted by hunters, fishermen, and, yes, theme parks and aquariums. Now, orcas have to survive food limitations, habitat contamination, chemical spills, and disturbances from boats and other water vessels. Globally, NOAA estimates there are around 50,000 killer whales, with the Southern Residents numbering only 75.
Killer whales, despite being called killer whales, are generally curious, social, and highly emotional animals. A killer whale will usually stay in its familial pod for its entire life. Additionally, orca pods can go back at least four generations.
Three Orcas Prove They’re Not to be Messed With
In late July, a video surfaced of three orca whales hunting down a great white shark. The footage is almost unbelievable, if we didn’t already know that killer whales are nothing to sneeze at. Two orcas circle the shark, while a third comes up from below and takes a huge bite.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Isleworth Healthcare Acquisition Corp. (the "Company") (Nasdaq: ISLE; ISLEW) today announced that it has cancelled its special meeting of shareholders that was previously scheduled for August 26, 2022, and that it will redeem all of its outstanding ordinary shares that were included in the units issued in its initial public offering (the "public shares"), effective as of the close of business on August 29, 2022, as the Company will not consummate an initial business combination on or prior to September 1, 2022.
Pursuant to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, if the Company does not complete its initial business combination by September 1, 2022, then the Company will: (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) promptly redeem the public shares within ten business days thereafter, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Company's trust account including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account (less taxes payable and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public shareholders' rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) thereafter, subject to the approval of the Company's remaining shareholders and its board of directors, dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case to the Company's obligations under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.
The per-share redemption price for the public shares will be approximately $10.01.
The public shares will cease trading as of the close of business on August 26, 2022. As of the close of business on August 26, 2022, the public shares will be deemed cancelled and will represent only the right to receive the redemption amount.
The redemption amount will be payable to the holders of the public shares upon delivery of their shares. Beneficial owners of public shares held in "street name," however, will not need to take any action in order to receive the redemption amount.
There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to the Company's warrants, which will expire worthless.
The Company expects that the Nasdaq Stock Exchange will file a Form 25 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") to delist the Company's securities. The Company thereafter expects to file a Form 15 with the Commission to terminate the registration of its securities under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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Certain information contained in this press release may be deemed to constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements relate to expectations or forecasts for future events, including, without limitation, the redemption of the Company's public shares and the Company's subsequent dissolution and liquidation and its delisting from the Nasdaq Stock Exchange and its termination of registration with the Commission. These statements may be preceded by, followed by or include the words "may," "might," "will," "will likely result," "should," "estimate," "plan," "project," "forecast," "intend," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "seek," "continue," "target" or similar expressions. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results in the future to differ materially from the Company's historical results and those presently anticipated or projected. The Company wishes to caution investors not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which such statements are made, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events or circumstances arising after such date. The Company assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements except to the extent required by applicable securities laws. If the Company does update one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be drawn that the Company will make additional updates with respect to those or other forward-looking statements.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nine new leading food businesses join the U.S. Working Group for Broiler Welfare, bringing the group to 16 members. The doubling of members demonstrates the drive of food businesses to achieve higher welfare practices for broiler chickens based on consumer and investor demand. The Working Group now includes Applegate, Aramark, Compass Group, Earth Animal, Giant Eagle, HelloFresh US, Martha Stewart & Marley Spoon, Natural Grocers, Nestlé USA, Panera Bread, Pret a Manger, Shake Shack, Sodexo, Sprouts, Target and Whole Foods. Collectively these businesses purchased over 540 million pounds of chicken in 2021.
Facilitated by Compassion in World Farming and Blue House Sustainability Consulting, the Working Group aims to support food businesses in exploring workable strategies and creative solutions for transitioning supply chains through the welfare standards outlined in the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC). Jointly, the Working Group members stand to improve the lives of over 111 million chickens annually.
The Working Group is collaborating with Perdue Farms, the fourth largest chicken producer in the U.S., to assist members in meeting their animal welfare commitments over the next few years. Since 2016, Perdue has continued to make improvements, shifting broiler chicken supply chains to improve welfare standards in alignment with the BCC as consumers increasingly desire these products. The company was the first major poultry company to install a Controlled Atmosphere Stunning unit, which provides a more humane slaughter method than traditional practices and has plans to convert other facilities.
"Many of Perdue's Animal Care practices are aligned with the Better Chicken Commitment core tenants. As part of Perdue's commitment to continuous improvement, we will continue in our collaboration with Compassion in World Farming and this Working Group to ensure that existing and future new customers can offer products from animals raised according to BCC committed standards in order to meet the demand," said Bruce Stewart-Brown, SVP Technical Services and Innovation, Perdue.
"Core to our mission is procuring high-quality and responsibly sourced ingredients but creating systemic change as an individual player that doesn't raise or process chicken can be challenging," said Jeff Yorzyk, Director of Sustainability at HelloFresh US. "As a member of this Working Group led by Compassion in World Farming, we look forward to partnering closely with our peers and engaging suppliers in ways that will accelerate the implementation of the BCC."
"The Working Group is developing needed tools to assist us in our commitments and work from communication fact sheets to auditing and labeling protocols," said Kristen Smith, Director of Sustainability, Earth Animal. "We appreciate the candid conversations with Compassion in World Farming and other members about common challenges and potential solutions, which help to inform our strategy and approach and to educate other companies in our industry as well."
The Working Group came together in 2021 to explore practical strategies and creative solutions that will enable member companies to progress toward their commitments. Compassion USA anticipates this group's ongoing efforts and learnings will continue the positive momentum and motivate widespread progress among the more than 200 U.S. brands that have committed to improving their welfare standards in alignment with the BCC.
"Bringing leading food businesses together in the Working Group allows for real collaboration, innovation and progress toward higher standards of welfare for the more than 9 billion chickens raised in the U.S. annually," said Tessa Hale, U.S. Head of Food Business, Compassion in World Farming. "The expansion of the Working Group reflects the desire for meaningful change in how we treat the planet's most-farmed animal. In addition to our many new food business partners, we are thrilled to collaborate with several top chicken producers, such as Perdue, who are leading the way in animal welfare practices."
"At Whole Foods Market, we've long maintained rigorous Quality Standards across our Meat Department and take the issue of broiler chicken welfare seriously. We sincerely appreciate the important work of Compassion in World Farming, and we're excited to join the Working Group to share what we've learned about raising the bar for broiler welfare and to join with others in pushing for systemic change," said Karen Christensen, SVP of Merchandising for Perishables, Whole Foods Market.
Compassion USA's food business managers and animal welfare specialists are working with others to dig into the research, answer questions and raise chicken welfare standards. For Working Group membership information, email Tessa.Hale@ciwf.org.
- For more information or to schedule an interview, please email Ronnika.McFall@ciwf.org.
- To learn more about Natural Grocers and their meat standards, please visit www.naturalgrocers.com/standards/meat-standards.
Notes to Editors:
Blue House Sustainability Consulting is led by Mindy Gomes-Casseres, an expert with more than 20 years of experience in helping global Fortune 500 companies craft leading sustainability strategies and communications.
Compassion in World Farming was founded in 1967 by a British dairy farmer who became horrified at the development of intensive factory farming. Today Compassion is a global movement dedicated to ending factory farming and achieving humane and sustainable food. With headquarters in the U.K., we have offices across Europe, the U.S., China and South Africa. To find out more about Compassion in World Farming, visit www.ciwf.com
The Better Chicken Commitment (BCC) is a science-based policy designed to address the four most significant welfare concerns negatively impacting broiler chickens under today's production practices. Two versions of the North American BCC developed for food companies in the U.S. and Canada address the same welfare concerns but allow flexibility in how companies roadmap their supply chains to meet the BCC and later show continued compliance. To learn about Compassion in World Farming's assessment of the progress made by leading food businesses against their commitments to source higher welfare chicken, visit www.chickentrack.com.
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NYSE: NGVC) is an expanding specialty retailer of natural and organic groceries, body care products, and dietary supplements. The products sold by Natural Grocers must meet strict quality guidelines and may not contain artificial colors, flavors, preservatives or sweeteners, or partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated oils. The Company sells only USDA-certified organic produce and exclusively pasture-raised, non-confinement dairy products, and free-range eggs. Natural Grocers' flexible smaller-store format allows it to offer affordable prices in a shopper-friendly, clean, and convenient retail environment. The Company also provides extensive free science-based Nutrition Education programs to help customers make informed health and nutrition choices. The Company, founded in 1955, has 163 stores in 21 states. Visit www.NaturalGrocers.com for more information and store locations
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Kelowna has a new millionaire.
On a Friday night in July, Joshua Alexander’s life changed forever at the Playtime Casino downtown. He couldn’t believe his eyes when his $5.25 bet on a Powerbucks progression slot machine (Wheel of Fortune) turned into the jackpot worth more than a million dollars.
Gateway Casinos and Entertainment also presented Alexander with a night’s stay at Grand Villa Casino in Burnaby with dinner at Atlas.
In a presentation on Thursday (Aug. 25) morning, Alexander was presented with his winnings by BCLC representatives.
“It feels great, I’m quite happy,” said Alexander.
Alexander was sitting at home playing video games on that Friday night when his Dad asked him if he wanted to go to the casino, so he joined him alongside his girlfriend and cousin. In the first few minutes at the casino, he joked to his girlfriend that it would be nice to win the $16,000 jackpot.
Within 20 minutes, he had became a millionaire.
“I was at home playing my PS5 and [my Dad] showed up randomly and wanted to go to the casino,” said Alexander. “I was like ‘I’ll shut my PS5 off, why not?’ and came here and not even 20 minutes later this happened.”
When he hit the jackpot, he said his girlfriend “started freaking out,” and he was “in disbelief and mind-blown.”
“I feel like the machine was louder than it was before,” said Alexander. “It took me probably 15 minutes to realize what happened.”
Alexander didn’t get much sleep the night of the win and he asked himself “Did I do that? Did that really happen?”
The 29-year-old plans to travel to see his dream locations like California, Australia, and Mexico, but also has promised his dad a new truck.
“I’ll probably take a week off, I haven’t been on vacation for awhile,” Alexander said.
He works in construction and his boss also told him to take a week off work.
Four months ago at the same casino, Alexander won $2,300.
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By — Dee-Ann Durbin, Associated Press Dee-Ann Durbin, Associated Press Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/labor-board-files-complaint-against-starbucks-for-withholding-raises-from-unionized-stores Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Labor board files complaint against Starbucks for withholding raises from unionized stores Economy Aug 25, 2022 7:29 PM EDT The National Labor Relations Board says Starbucks is violating U.S. labor law by withholding pay hikes and other benefits from stores that have voted to unionize. The labor board’s Seattle office filed the complaint late Wednesday against Starbucks. The complaint is based on charges filed by Workers United, the union trying to organize Starbucks’ 9,000 company-owned U.S. stores. The complaint adds to an already lengthy paper trail in the acrimonious relationship between Starbucks — which opposes unionization — and Workers United. More than 220 U.S. Starbucks stores have voted to unionize since late last year. The complain is one of at least 20 that NLRB regional offices have filed against Starbucks alleging unfair labor practices. Starbucks has also filed complaints against the board and the union. Last week, the company asked the NLRB to halt union elections entirely, saying it has evidence that a regional office improperly coordinated with union officials. A decision in that case is pending. In the case filed Wednesday, the NLRB said Starbucks violated labor law by offering raises and benefits — including increased training, career development opportunities, expanded tipping and even looser dress code policies — only to non-union stores. READ MORE: Starbucks fights expanding unionization effort at its stores Starbucks announced the $200 million in added worker pay and benefits in May after a series of meetings with workers around the country. At the time, Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz said U.S. labor law requires union stores to negotiate their own contracts with the company. “We do not have the same freedom to make these improvements at locations that have a union,” Schultz said in a conference call with investors. Starbucks reiterated that argument in a statement Thursday. “Wages and benefits are mandatory subjects of the collective bargaining process,” the company said. It rejects the union’s argument that it could offer the wage and benefit enhancements to unionized stores at any time. But in its complaint, the NLRB’s regional office said Starbucks’ action violates laws that prohibit interfering with employees’ rights to organize. The complaint seeks back pay for affected employees. It also would require Schultz to hold an employee meeting and a read a statement explaining workers’ right to organize. The regional complaint will be heard by an administrative law judge at the NLRB. Once a decision is reached, either side can appeal to the full National Labor Relations Board in Washington. By — Dee-Ann Durbin, Associated Press Dee-Ann Durbin, Associated Press
The National Labor Relations Board says Starbucks is violating U.S. labor law by withholding pay hikes and other benefits from stores that have voted to unionize. The labor board’s Seattle office filed the complaint late Wednesday against Starbucks. The complaint is based on charges filed by Workers United, the union trying to organize Starbucks’ 9,000 company-owned U.S. stores. The complaint adds to an already lengthy paper trail in the acrimonious relationship between Starbucks — which opposes unionization — and Workers United. More than 220 U.S. Starbucks stores have voted to unionize since late last year. The complain is one of at least 20 that NLRB regional offices have filed against Starbucks alleging unfair labor practices. Starbucks has also filed complaints against the board and the union. Last week, the company asked the NLRB to halt union elections entirely, saying it has evidence that a regional office improperly coordinated with union officials. A decision in that case is pending. In the case filed Wednesday, the NLRB said Starbucks violated labor law by offering raises and benefits — including increased training, career development opportunities, expanded tipping and even looser dress code policies — only to non-union stores. READ MORE: Starbucks fights expanding unionization effort at its stores Starbucks announced the $200 million in added worker pay and benefits in May after a series of meetings with workers around the country. At the time, Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz said U.S. labor law requires union stores to negotiate their own contracts with the company. “We do not have the same freedom to make these improvements at locations that have a union,” Schultz said in a conference call with investors. Starbucks reiterated that argument in a statement Thursday. “Wages and benefits are mandatory subjects of the collective bargaining process,” the company said. It rejects the union’s argument that it could offer the wage and benefit enhancements to unionized stores at any time. But in its complaint, the NLRB’s regional office said Starbucks’ action violates laws that prohibit interfering with employees’ rights to organize. The complaint seeks back pay for affected employees. It also would require Schultz to hold an employee meeting and a read a statement explaining workers’ right to organize. The regional complaint will be heard by an administrative law judge at the NLRB. Once a decision is reached, either side can appeal to the full National Labor Relations Board in Washington. | https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/labor-board-files-complaint-against-starbucks-for-withholding-raises-from-unionized-stores | 2022-08-25T23:52:25Z | https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/labor-board-files-complaint-against-starbucks-for-withholding-raises-from-unionized-stores | false | 11 |
To all those outsourced Indian Americans in Trump’ office.. #TRAINGATE » « Kickass Bharatanatychari 8642:\nThis Blogger in the Wall\nWhen blogposts start coming thick like pusses coming out… this wall gets jam – punishing punishment, and pardon is an impossible prospect!!!!! Well a bane.. A pain.. It is what it is or we made it like a rack so what A 58-year-old man charged with murder in connection with Friday’s deadly shooting of a 24-year-old woman in Chinatown made his initial appearance at Honolulu District Court this morning.
Tony Johnson appeared before Judge Kristine Yoo via video conference from the courthouse cellblock on charges of one count of second-degree murder in the death of Alize Agresor-Ayala.
Johnson, who is also known as Samuel Carter, Michael Carter, Tony Carter and “Chicago,” was also charged with one count of attempted second-degree murder, unlawful ownership or possession of a firearm and two counts of carrying a firearm in the commission of a separate felony.
His aggregate bail is set at $2 million.
The shooting occurred in the 100 block of North School Street shortly before 11:20 p.m. Friday.
Honolulu police have said a woman was arguing with another male prior to the shooting.
Agresor-Ayala sustained a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to The Queen’s Medical Center where she was pronounced dead early Saturday.
Police noted Johnson and the shooting victim were acquaintances.
He has a criminal record of six felony convictions for theft, drug paraphernalia, robbery and fraudulent use of a credit card. | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/08/25/breaking-news/man-58-charged-with-murder-in-shooting-of-woman-at-chinatown-bus-stop-appears-in-court/ | 2022-08-25T23:52:52Z | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/08/25/breaking-news/man-58-charged-with-murder-in-shooting-of-woman-at-chinatown-bus-stop-appears-in-court/ | false | 1 |
Outreach at Minnesota State Fair on Military Appreciation Day
Stop by our booth in Dan Patch Park on Military Appreciation Day at the Minnesota State Fair to learn about your VA health care eligibility and benefits.
When:
Tue. Aug 30, 2022, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm CT
Where:
Dan Patch Park
1265 Snelling Ave. N.
St. Paul , MN
Cost:
Free
Veterans, service members, family, caregivers and friends! Stop by our booth in Dan Patch Park on Military Appreciation Day (August 30) at the Minnesota State Fair to learn more about our suicide prevention program, health care eligibility and benefits for Veterans, and our research program!
Booth time: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Date: 08/30/2022
Location: Minnesota State Fair; Dan Patch Park | https://www.va.gov/minneapolis-health-care/events/48864/ | 2022-08-26T00:09:49Z | https://www.va.gov/minneapolis-health-care/events/48864/ | true | null |
Revealed: The Sick Trick Biden's Using to Cancel Student Debt Is a Slap in the Face to Veterans
President Joe Biden’s latest ploy to buy votes to bolster his failing party into 2022 has supremely dishonored the men and women who offered up their lives in order to defend our nation.
According to the legal opinion that Biden is using to support his $300 billion-plus student loan cancellation, the potentially listless college student is considered on the same level as a military veteran who risked everything, many of them suffering heinous injuries and losing dear friends, to earn their just compensation from a grateful nation.
This isn’t a joke, though it seems like it should be a cruel, and tasteless one. But Biden’s legal team has cooked up the justification that the 2003 HEROES Act (Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students), which was designed explicitly to grant relief to those student loan borrowers either serving in or being impacted by war or natural disaster, was meant to offer relief for college students.
The 2003 law @POTUS is using to justify #studentloanforgiveness was explicitly designed for members of the military who were volunteering to sacrifice their lives after 9/11. https://t.co/OwHf9w02mT pic.twitter.com/auvkcwJL4e
— Cole 🇺🇸 (@ctlyle1) August 24, 2022
Lisa Brown, the U.S. Department of Education General Counsel wrote a memo to Secretary of Education Miguel A. Cardona providing the administration’s legal justification, “Specifically, the HEROES Act authorizes the Secretary to ‘waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to the student financial assistance programs’ if the Secretary ‘deems’ such waivers or modifications ‘necessary to ensure’ at least one of several enumerated purposes, including that borrowers are ‘not placed in a worse position financially’ because of a national emergency. 20 U.S.C. § 1098bb(a)(1), (2)(A).”
Brown’s opinion, around which the entirety of Biden’s actions is based, directly repudiates the far more conservative reading of the HEROES Act that was published under Former President Trump’s Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in which General Counsel Reed Rubinstein argued:
“Congress does not impliedly delegate a policy decision of massive economic and political magnitude — as blanket or mass cancellation, compromise, discharge, or forgiveness of student loan principal balances, or the material modification of the repayment terms or amounts thereof, surely would be — to an administrative agency.”
Rubinstein had earlier quipped, “we are obligated to recognize and give effect to the principle Congress “does not . . . hide elephants in mouseholes.”
In an interview with CBS News’ Steve Portnoy, Cardona was direct in stating “I have the authority under the HEROES Act to ensure that folks are not worse off after the pandemic than before.”
I asked @SecCardona about @jasonfurman‘s warnings that the debt forgiveness plan will encourage higher tuition, more borrowing …
And about widespread criticism of the administration’s use of emergency powers to enact the relief. pic.twitter.com/h8xhdxO3eJ
— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) August 24, 2022
Apparently, there is a bit of a difference of opinion here. Democrats seem to be imminently capable of finding anything they need to in order to justify their continued hold on power. And as dangerous as predictions are in the political sphere, this is a decision from Biden that could find itself heard before a conservative Supreme Court of The United States, according to Forbes.
The only questions that remain in that particular regard are Who, what person or group, is going to step up and take the unenviable position of fighting the government not to give $10,000 to 43 million people?
And will the Supreme Court Justices have the courage to make another decision that will place them firmly in the crosshairs of the radical left?
Twitter User Rising Serpent noted that “Once you allow the government to use an emergency, they’ll keep creating emergencies to use against you.”
Once you allow the government to use an emergency, they’ll keep creating emergencies to use against you. https://t.co/vqREq3ziF2
— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) August 24, 2022
Aptly, we can also remember the words of President Gerald R. Ford who before Congress in August of 1974 warned, “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
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Qantas to raise fares by 20 per cent after Alan Joyce revealed airline’s billion dollar losses
Qantas will raise fares by more than 20 percent and charter fewer flights, just a day after the controversial airline announced a “staggering” drop in profits.
Customers pay an extra 10 percent on domestic fares and 20 percent on international fares, with travelers paying an additional $300 for some flights.
A flight from Melbourne to Sydney would cost $250 instead of $230, while flying from Brisbane to the Harbor City could rise from $269 to $295.
Qantas has attributed the price hike to rising fuel prices and unprecedented levels of sick staff as it works to recover from recent hits to its reputation.
The airline has been plagued by delays, cancellations, long boarding times and baggage handling issues since international borders reopened last November.
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said that on average at least 320 pilots are sick every day, in addition to a number of flight attendants, baggage handlers and ground staff.
On Thursday, Mr Joyce announced that Qantas had suffered a $1.9 billion loss and failed to provide adequate customer service to customers (photo, passengers in Sydney)
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce (pictured) said an average of at least 320 pilots call in sick every day, in addition to a number of flight attendants, baggage handlers and ground staff.
On Thursday, Mr. Joyce disclosed that the airline had suffered a $1.9 billion loss and failed to provide adequate customer service to customers.
In a press conference, the CEO acknowledged that Qantas needed to do better and said seven-day Covid isolation periods were the root cause of staff shortages.
“All this resulted in much publicized problems: long queues, delayed flights and lost bags,” he said on Thursday.
“It was incredibly hard on our people and very frustrating for our passengers.
“It just wasn’t good enough, and we apologized for that.”
Joyce announced that the Qantas Group had an underlying tax loss of nearly $1.9 billion and a pre-tax statutory loss of just under $1.2 billion.
He said the Covid-19 pandemic had cost the flagship airline more money in the past three years than it had made in the past five years.
The CEO said the numbers were “staggering” and admitted it had been a difficult year.
In a press conference, the CEO acknowledged that Qantas needed to do better and said seven-day Covid isolation periods were the cause of staff shortages (photo, passengers in Sydney)
Mr Joyce has rejected calls for him to resign and said the airline had apologized for the mistakes (pictured, a passenger arrives at Sydney International Airport)
“That brings our total losses since the start of the pandemic to more than $7 billion and puts lost revenues to more than $25 billion,” he said.
‘Last year was a challenge for everyone. It is remarkable that we were able to manage this.’
In the same press conference, Joyce responded to calls from the Transport Workers Union (TWU) for him to step down as CEO after giving all frequent flyers a $50 “apology voucher” for slip-in service standards earlier this week.
He rejected the calls, saying the airline had apologized for its mistakes and acknowledged that Qantas had not delivered what customers expected.
“I think I have more resignation requests than any other CEO and probably every other public figure out there,” he said.
“I think (former CEO) Geoff Dixon had that before I got the job, and I’m sure the next CEO will have to save the same team in order to manage or work with.
“We’re the only airline I can say that does that regularly and that’s the right thing to do, and we’ll continue to do it.”
On Sunday, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce personally apologized in a video and email to his members and offered a $50 travel credit for frequent flyers.
Joyce said he was confident the airline would recover from “huge” losses by the end of this year and return to pre-Covid levels.
He said the airline was racing to get more planes out of storage as more people start traveling again after months of border closures.
On Sunday, the CEO offered frequent flyer customers a $50 “apology voucher” and apologized that the return to flying had not gone smoothly.
“Over the past few months, too many of your flights have been delayed, canceled or lost bags,” he said in a video on Sunday.
“There are good reasons for that, but when it comes to what you expect from Qantas, it’s not good enough.”
The $50 travel credit can be used by passengers when purchasing a Qantas round-trip flight
Qantas’ frequent flyer site crashed Monday morning as thousands rushed to claim their sorry credit, denying travelers access to benefits.
The travel credit can be used by passengers when purchasing a round-trip flight from Qantas.
Frequent flyers with silver status and above also have access to the Qantas club or international business lounge.
QantasLink topped the list for canceled flights in April this year with 591 followed closely by Qantas with 426, data from the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics revealed.
May was even higher with one in every 13 Qantas flights canceled or 7.6 percent of the airline’s total flights, up from 5.1 percent the previous month. | https://whatsnew2day.com/qantas-to-raise-fares-by-20-per-cent-after-alan-joyce-revealed-airlines-billion-dollar-losses/ | 2022-08-26T00:22:04Z | https://whatsnew2day.com/qantas-to-raise-fares-by-20-per-cent-after-alan-joyce-revealed-airlines-billion-dollar-losses/ | false | 1 |
Metro Boomin Says Life After Mom's Death Is A 'Nightmare That Never Ends'
By Tony M. Centeno
August 25, 2022
Metro Boomin hasn't said much about his late mother since she was killed in an alleged murder-suicide plot by her spouse. Nearly three months after the horrific incident, the St. Louis, MO native has opened up about her death.
On Wednesday, August 24, Metro Boomin took to his Instagram Story to reflect on the loss of his mother, Leslie Joanne Wayne. In his posts, Metro said he still can't believe there's a reality without his mom and feels like the nightmare replays every time he wakes up each day. He also reflected on the tight, lifelong bond he had with his mother.
Please keep Metro Boomin in your prayers. I can’t imagine the pain he has had to live with these last couple months.
— Hip Hop All Day (@HipHopAllDayy) August 24, 2022
The whole world loves you Metro ❤️🙏 pic.twitter.com/fzwAqJH0iN
"This don't even feel like real life no more it's like a nightmare that never ends and starts over every time I wake up," he wrote in his Instagram Story. "My mom was and still is my best friend in the universe and anybody who really know me know I've always been a momma's boy my whole life."
"This gotta be what hell feel like cause it's like my soul just burning and everything around me constantly burning," he added.
Metro Boomin's mother was reportedly murdered back in June after her spouse, who was not the producer's biological father, killed her and then took his own life. Her body was discovered right outside of Atlanta, however, no other details about the incident were reported. Metro was understandably distraught by the news and hadn't spoken out about it since she passed.
He didn't remain completely mum though. He resurfaced on social media last month after he helped the family of a security guard, who was killed in the recent mass shooting in Buffalo, pay off the mortgage for their home. | https://www.iheart.com/content/2022-08-25-metro-boomin-says-life-after-moms-death-is-a-nightmare-that-never-ends/ | 2022-08-26T00:24:54Z | https://www.iheart.com/content/2022-08-25-metro-boomin-says-life-after-moms-death-is-a-nightmare-that-never-ends/ | false | 1 |
Professional Bull Riding is bucking its way into Sioux City this weekend
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Professional Bull Riding is “bucking” its way into the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City.
The event is happening August 26-27.
Today, workers were getting the arena ready. They helped dump and scatter truck loads of dirt in preparation for Friday night.
One of the professional bull riders, Mason Moody, has been around the rodeo for as long as he can remember. The event in Sioux City has special meaning for him.
“I mean it’s an awesome feeling to be close to home because we travel all over the country, and to be able to be close to home where your family can come watch you, some of your friends. It’s always good knowing you’ve got a little bit of home team support I guess in a way you could call it, so I’m ready, I’m ready for it,” said Moody.
Being a bull rider isn’t for everyone, but the feeling of unity before the show is a key part of riding for Moody. He says the atmosphere in the arena-- during the prayer and national anthem-- gives him chills, and prepares him for his eight-second ride.
“We’ll be singing in the arena just as loud as the crowd is, so I mean to hear that it kind of just sends chills down your bones, and kind of makes you get ready to perform to your best ability, because you know that the people, are kind of as one here you know. We’re all here to praise God and to praise our country for letting us be able to do what we do,” said Moody.
Moody is excited to compete in Sioux City. He says it’s a great family event.
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Somewhat Sunnier beginning Saturday
Published: Aug. 25, 2022 at 6:27 PM CDT|Updated: 58 minutes ago
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) -The atmosphere above remains very moist. A stalled front nearby will still be a focus for additional scattered showers to form from time to time through Friday. The front will dissipate, and reform into a warm front that will move north through the state on Saturday. This will allow for the atmosphere to dry out a little, bringing sunnier skies and hotter temperatures. There will still be enough moisture in the atmosphere where an isolated shower could still happen on the weekend, but for the most part, sunnier and hotter.
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NACD Celebrates Milestone of 1,000 Certified Directors
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the authority on boardroom practices representing more than 23,000 board members, rang the Nasdaq stock market closing bell today, August 25, 2022, at 4:00 p.m. (EDT) in celebration of reaching the milestone of 1,000 NACD Certified Directors.
President and CEO Peter Gleason was joined by Sue Cole, chair of the NACD board; Graeme Roustan, NACD Corporate Directors Institute board member; the NACD senior leadership team; and nearly 60 NACD Certified Directors as they rang the Nasdaq stock market closing bell.
"Ringing the closing bell at Nasdaq is the perfect way to celebrate the strides NACD has taken to continue to educate and prepare corporate directors," said Gleason. "The ceremony is a great way to commemorate the accomplishment of the first 1,000 NACD Certified Directors. We are honored to be joined by certified directors to ring the bell in celebration of their accomplishments and look forward to the continued growth of the program."
Over the last two years, NACD has defined a new standard for director education in response to the convergence of a fast-moving, dynamic business environment with changing expectations for the role of the board. Individuals that have become NACD Directorship Certified® have demonstrated to investors and peers that they are committed to and educated about the profession of directorship.
NACD recognizes the nearly 60 certified directors that joined in ringing the closing bell in person, and the 1,000 and still growing number of certified directors across the United States and around the world that have committed to ensuring the highest standards of leadership in the boardroom.
A replay of the live event is available here.
About NACD Directorship Certification
Individuals that have achieved NACD Directorship Certification have demonstrated their knowledge and competency in directorship through coursework and a rigorous certification exam. The NACD Directorship Certification requires recertification every two years through 32 hours of continuous learning at recognized programs.
Learn more about NACD Directorship Certification and how NACD is partnering with leading academic institutions such as founding partner Stanford University's Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Columbia Business School Executive Education, and The Wharton School's Aresty Institute of Executive Education to support directorship certification.
About NACD
For more than 40 years, NACD has been on the leading edge of corporate governance, setting standards of excellence that have elevated board performance. NACD arms today's directors with insights and education that drive their mission forward, while preparing a new generation of boardroom leaders to meet tomorrow's biggest challenges. NACD is a community of more than 23,000 directors driven by a common purpose: to be trusted catalysts of economic opportunity and positive change—in businesses and in the communities they serve. To learn more about NACD, visit www.nacdonline.org.
About The NACD Corporate Directors Institute™ (CDI)
The NACD Corporate Directors Institute (CDI) is an independent sister organization to NACD. CDI owns the NACD Directorship Certification program, including the examination and ongoing recertification requirements. The Institute confers the certification credential on those who meet the Institute's requirements, developed in consultation with experienced board members, including those on the institute's board of directors.
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N. Korea claims recent fever outbreak caused by flu, not coronavirus
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's outbreak of suspected COVID-19 cases in the northeastern province of Ryanggang earlier this week was caused by influenza, its state media said Friday.
Earlier, the North said four fever cases suspected of carrying "malignant epidemic" were reported Tuesday in Ryanggang Province bordering China, just two weeks after it declared victory over the coronavirus crisis that began in mid-May.
"According to information from the State Emergency Epidemic Prevention Headquarters, it made clear that all the fever cases that occurred in Ryanggang Province were influenza," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
Health authorities urged people to wear masks and report to relevant authorities without traveling or moving if they show symptoms of fever, saying that influenza can easily occur in all areas of the country.
The fever patients returned back to normal body temperature and the lockdown of the area was lifted, according to the KCNA.
On Aug. 10, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared victory over COVID-19 and ordered the lifting of the country's "maximum emergency anti-epidemic" measures.
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CITRONELLE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Citronelle Police Department is looking for a missing girl.
India Newman, 17, was last seen Thursday, Aug. 25 near Lebaron Avenue in Citronelle. Newman was last seen wearing tan pants, a dark-colored pullover and white shoes. Newman was also seen sporting a pink backpack, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
Newman is 5-foot-4 inches tall and weighs about 118 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes, according to ALEA. If you have any information about Newman’s whereabouts, call the CPD at 251-866-5596.
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Which Alterna product is best?
Alterna products address many hair concerns for all hair types and textures with luxury formulas free of harsh chemicals. Whether you want to maintain your hair’s health with vegan solutions or need targeted treatments that bring dull or damaged hair back to life, the Alterna brand is apt to have something for you.
The best is the Alterna Caviar Anti-Aging Replenishing Moisture Hair Care Set. It comes with a gentle shampoo and conditioner that restores your hair’s moisture as it protects against further damage.
What to know before you buy Alterna products
About Alterna products
Alterna is a luxury hair care brand launched in 1997 to serve discerning industry professionals. The brand’s formulas are science-based and eco-certified.
Alterna products do not contain parabens, phthalates, harsh sulfates, mineral oil or other harsh chemicals. Its solutions are safe to use on colored or chemically treated hair. The products are not tested on animals, and while not all Alterna formulas are vegan, the brand does sell a line that is.
The main Alterna product lines
Alterna has three main product lines for your consideration.
- My Hair My Canvas: This vegan line lets you experience luxury ingredients such as vegan botanical caviar to elevate your hair care routine without involving animals.
- The Alterna Collection: These products concentrate on your scalp’s health to get rid of dryness as they moisturize your skin.
- The Caviar Collection: This luxury-focused line uses sustainably sourced caviar from black sturgeon in France to deliver anti-aging formulas that restore, moisturize and style your hair.
Know your hair care needs
Consider narrowing your list of concerns down to two or three items, so you can more easily select the formulas that will deliver your desired results. There are 10 common hair issues that Alterna products can help you address.
- Oily
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What to look for in quality Alterna products
Made for your hair type
There are four main hair types, and Alterna products serve each one.
- Straight: This mane naturally falls straight with minimal to no waves. While it is hard to damage, it also struggles to hold a curl and is apt to get oily.
- Wavy: This pattern sits between curly and straight. While it often holds curls and other styles made with heated tools, it can also get dry and frizzy.
- Curly: This coif is usually voluminous with naturally curled strands, but it is prone to dry out and frizz easily.
- Coiled: Whether loose or tight, each beautifully coiled strand needs moisture-rich products as they are often fragile and easily damaged.
Helps you achieve your hair goals
Whether you want to maintain your naturally amazing hair or need to achieve defined goals, look for Alterna products that will help you do at least one of these things:
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- Boost shine: If your hair has lost its luster and you want to revive it.
- Repair damage: If you struggle with breakage and split ends from chemical, heat or color damage, it needs some serious solutions.
- Second-day hair: If you need your mane to settle into that perfect second-day look from Day One.
- Natural and air-dried hair: You want to ditch the styling tools for an easier but no less beautiful, natural look.
Several benefits in one
Take note of your hair care goals and go for the Alterna products that address as many of them in as few products as possible. That will help you develop a routine that is not only sustainable but affordable.
How much you can expect to spend on Alterna products
Full-size items typically range between $25-$55, depending on the product’s line, size and ingredients.
Alterna products FAQ
Which Alterna products are best for curly or textured hair?
A. The Caviar Replenishing Moisture Collection is a great fit. It is also a fantastic solution for those with dry hair.
Which Alterna product line is best for those with damaged hair?
A. The Restructuring Bond Repair Collection is a good fit for those with damage caused by coloring, chemical treatments and heat.
What are the best Alterna products to buy?
Top Alterna product
Alterna Caviar Anti-Aging Replenishing Moisture Hair Care Set
What you need to know: This shampoo/conditioner set gives your hair the hydration it needs for optimal shine, balance and manageability.
What you’ll love: The shampoo softens and adds shine to your hair. It also locks in moisture and protects against damage. The conditioner contains lipids and sea silk for even more locked-in hydration.
What you should consider: It might be a little costly for some to use daily.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Alterna product for the money
Alterna Caviar Anti-Aging Anti-Frizz Nourishing Oil
What you need to know: This formula smooths your frizz and flyaways while adding shine.
What you’ll love: This lightweight oil is ideal for loose or tightly coiled, straight, wavy and curly hair. It protects your frizz-prone mane for up to 72 hours as it adds shine and vital nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids, minerals and vitamins without leaving greasy buildup behind.
What you should consider: It also comes in a dry oil mist for those who prefer that to the oil.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Dermstore, Sephora and Ulta Beauty
Worth checking out
Alterna Caviar Restructuring Bond Repair Leave-In Heat Protection Spray
What you need to know: This solution provides heat protection as it repairs and reduces breakage and split ends.
What you’ll love: It is ideal for wavy, curly, tightly coiled, loosely coiled or straight hair. It uses Alterna’s exclusive caviar bond-enforcing technology to help restore your hair as its vitamins and nutrients protect it from further damage.
What you should consider: It comes in a serum and cream for those who prefer those formulas to the mist.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Dermstore, Sephora and Ulta Beauty
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MEDIA ADVISORY - Minister to announce improvements to regional immigration programs to attract and retain newcomers
TIMMINS, ON, Aug. 25, 2022 /CNW/ - The Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship, will make an announcement regarding changes under the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP) and other regional immigration programs to support community partners, employers and candidates throughout Canada. A stakeholder town hall and media availability will follow the announcement.
Minister Fraser will be joined by:
- VivianeLapointe, Member of Parliament for Sudbury
Notes for media:
- Media are asked to arrive no later than 11:45 a.m.
- Out-of-town journalists may join by dialing:
- Toll-free dial-in number (Canada/US): 1-866-206-0153
- Local dial-in number: 613-954-9003
- Participant passcode: 2773109#
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But we might know which of the masks will be crowned the winner, given a quick look at the well-known betting website Sportsbet.
Odds for the outright winner have Mirrorball placed as the fan favourite with odds currently placed at $1.20.
But who is under the mask?
As well as listing the odds for who might take out the crown in the upcoming finale, Sportstbet has also offered up their odds on who might be beneath the remaining masks.
Our predicted winner, Mirrorball, is widely thought to be Melody Thornton, who has odds sitting at $1.25. A former member of The Pussycat Dolls, Melody's voice matches well to the high-pitched and melodious voice of Mirrorball.
However, she's not the only guess - she's followed on the Sportsbet ladder by Samantha Jade, Chloe Lattanzi, and Dannii Minogue, who are paying $8.50, $10, and $13 respectively.
Odds are also in place for the other two remaining masks: Rooster and Snapdragon.
Snapdragon is widely believed to be Sheldon Riley, who has odds at $1.12.Ge
He's also speculated to possibly be Australia's famous drag queen, Courtney Act, or Australian Idol alumnus Anthony Callea.
Meanwhile, the best guess for Rooster seems to be Hugh Sheridan, paying $1.20.
Strangely, Hugh is followed on the list by Paul Kelly, with odds at $8.50. While these two performers are wildly different, it just goes to show how surprising the reveals on the show can be.
Sportsbet is usually a pretty reliable source when it comes to guessing these things, with a track record of accurately predicting the winner of shows like The Bachelor, Survivor and I’m A Celebrity.
And we have no reason to think The Masked Singer will be any different!
This article first appeared on our sister site, WHO. | https://www.newidea.com.au/masked-singer-australia-winner-leaked | 2022-08-26T00:44:03Z | https://www.newidea.com.au/masked-singer-australia-winner-leaked | true | 1 |
Quando Rondo Mourns His Friend Lul Pab's Death After Shooting
Quando Rondo is still going through it after his friend Lul Pab was fatally shot during an ambush in Los Angeles on Friday evening.
On Sunday, August 21, the Georgia native took to Instagram to mourn Pab in a series of Instagram posts. In his timeline post, Rondo uploaded an old photo of them together with the caption, "My Cuz 😢……." In addition to that, he also posted two Instagram Stories dedicated to Pab. One was a photo of them together with 2Pac’s “Life Goes On” playing in the background and the other featured them together with Future's "The Way Things Going" off his new album I Never Liked You .
“You hurt my heart cuz," Rondo wrote in the second IG Story.
Quando Rondo was with Pab while he was shot and killed during a shooting in the Beverly Grove neighborhood of L.A. According to police, both men were at a gas station when three suspects approached them from the alley and opened fire. Although he was believed to have been hit by the gunfire, Quando made it out untouched unlike Pab, who was placed in the rapper's black Cadillac Escalade. Pab was eventually rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
"We don't know why or how this happened, all we know is that the victim vehicle, they pulled up, they were pumping gas and it looks like they probably finished pumping gas and the suspects approached from the alley, got out of the car and started shooting at those victims," LAPD Lieutenant John Radke said.
The suspects fled the scene in a white vehicle, and are still on the run. No arrests have been made in the case yet. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2714996712183/quando-rondo-mourns-his-friend-lul-pab-s-death-after-shooting | 2022-08-26T00:46:08Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2714996712183/quando-rondo-mourns-his-friend-lul-pab-s-death-after-shooting | false | 2 |
In 1973, Ocean Shore Elementary School parent Marilyn Wells completed her school-mandated parent volunteer hours by bringing music education to her sons’ classrooms. When her children aged out of the school, the other parents raised funds for her to continue teaching music to their children.
Like many school districts in America, eliminating music programs was often Pacifica School District’s easiest way to make ends meet when faced with budget cuts. Music education in the district still depends on parent-driven fundraising. Proposition 28, appearing on California ballots this November, seeks to cement music and arts education into public schools. Even if it passes, one-third of PSD’s music program will continue to rely on parent fundraising.
In the 1990s, PSD eliminated its middle school music programs due to budget cuts. Pacifica-raised actor and comedian Rob Schneider stepped in to foot the bill in 1996 and launched an era of reliable middle school band programs. The foundation paid for two band directors and upgraded the band room at Ingrid B. Lacy Middle School.
Schneider’s foundation footed 77 percent of PSD’s band program bill until 2011, when its income stream slowed. After much community uproar, PSD was able to absorb the instructors’ salaries into its budget and, with the help of a group of parents, saved the program.
Now, PSD Middle School Band and Elementary School Music is funded by the Pacifica Education Foundation. PEF throws fundraising events like PEFathon Fun Run, Winter Gala and Donation Week and accepts donations from community members. It also applies for grants related to music, arts, science and technology.
The district receives $114,000 from PEF, which supports the pay of one teacher, supplies, instruments, new music and field trips, according to Thomas Stafford, the district’s visual and performing arts coordinator. The district itself pays $237,500 for the salaries and benefits for the other teachers.
Ben Gower is one of those teachers. For the past six years, he has taught the music and band program for Ocean Shore Elementary and Ingrid B. Lacy Middle schools.
“Music programs are expensive and there’s just no way around it,” he said.
Instruments like tubas, bass clarinets and French horns can cost $5,000 each, which is practically his entire annual budget for instruments. He’s able to concoct a full band by repairing old instruments and having students rent others. He also fundraises for his band program to supplement the funding he receives from the district and PEF.
It’s well worth the effort for Gower, who has personally experienced the power of music.
“Music changed my life around,” he said. “It gave me something to really focus on when I was in middle school, it gave me something that I really liked doing. All of a sudden I was able to have a whole bunch of new friends.”
It’s worth it for parents like PEF President Emily Hennessy, too.
“It really helps to develop skills that complement everything. Being able to interact with each other and building confidence in addition to learning a skill set,” she said.
Though PSD is making lots of music these days, Hennessy says PEF and the district have ambitions to do more. Right now, prekindergarten through second grade classrooms do not receive music programming. The district and PEF hope to bring music to the youngest students soon.
In November, Californians will vote on Proposition 28, the Art and Music K-12 Education Funding Initiative. The proposition would require K-12 public and charter schools to have annual funding for music and arts programs. The minimum funding amount would be at least 1 percent of the state and local funds that school districts received last fiscal year.
In 2021-22, PSD received $2.67 million from the state and $1.92 million from local funding. Prop 28, therefore, would require the district to spend at least $45,865 on music and arts education annually, an amount it already greatly surpasses.
According to Vote Yes on 28, only 1 in 5 public schools in the state has a full-time teacher for art or music. Though a step toward supporting arts education, the minimum amount required by the bill would not support even one teacher and classroom for a district like PSD.
Supporters of the bill include former Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer, former Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner, former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Universal Music Group, and California Teachers Association.
A “no” vote on the bill would favor retention of schools’ flexibility to spend what they want on music, allowing them to reduce music programs if they wanted to focus on other priorities. At the moment, no groups or individuals have released statements or spent money to oppose the bill.
“I don’t think that music is for everyone,” conceded Gower, “but I think everyone deserves the chance to try it and experience it themselves.” ▪ | https://www.pacificatribune.com/news/pacifica-parents-will-remain-key-to-keeping-local-music-programs-in-tune/article_6fea7ab4-23af-11ed-a956-77961db83063.html | 2022-08-26T00:51:01Z | https://www.pacificatribune.com/news/pacifica-parents-will-remain-key-to-keeping-local-music-programs-in-tune/article_6fea7ab4-23af-11ed-a956-77961db83063.html | true | 1 |
VISTA Eye Specialists joins Qualitas Health Family to further strengthen Qualitas' healthcare foothold in Asia Pacific
PETALING JAYA, Malaysia, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VISTA Eye Specialists (VISTA) officially joins the Qualitas Health integrated network of clinics in Asia in a collaboration borne out of the attraction towards values that they share - to provide the Malaysians with access to quality healthcare services, technology, and a superior service experience - plus a passion to become a leading healthcare provider in the Asia-Pacific region.
In a bid to boost its position as one of the fastest growing multidisciplinary healthcare companies in the region, Qualitas Health (Qualitas) welcomes VISTA into its ever expanding integrated network of over 350 General Practitioner clinics, dental clinics, medical imaging centres, rehabilitation centres and ambulatory care centres in Malaysia, Singapore and Australia, with the goal to widen its healthcare offerings.
"Amid the growing demand for outpatient services spurred on by the evolution of medical and technological developments in preventive care and early diagnostic services, the role of primary healthcare will need to continue to expand. Now, with VISTA's 23 years of track record in the field of Ophthalmology joining Qualitas, we are now better equipped to match these demands in our existing and future markets in the region," explains YBhg. Dato' Dr. Noorul Ameen Mohamed Ishack, the Executive Chairman and founder of Qualitas.
"This coalescence of the two organizations will undoubtedly create a synergy that will help the group promote its healthcare business more effectively globally and help cement Qualitas' position as one of the most reputable and fastest growing multidisciplinary healthcare companies in the region," he adds.
Well known for their drive towards technological excellence, VISTA has become one of the leading and largest Eye Specialists in Malaysia with 13 clinics, and has won numerous awards for not just its clinical and business excellence, but its contributions to the community.
"This collaboration allows VISTA to leverage the Qualitas network to scale up and introduce better medical technologies to patients," says Mr. Lim Boon Siong, Executive Director of VISTA. "Most importantly, it enables both parties to build off each other's unique strengths, knowledge and expertise, and through the experienced teams of doctors, Ophthalmologists, managers and healthcare staff, allows for the birth of a new era in Malaysian and Asian Pacific Healthcare industry. We believe this collaboration can let Malaysians receive better medical care, allowing both organizations to become stronger together, and eventually help the group achieve the goal of putting Malaysia on the healthcare map."
About VISTA Eye Specialist
Founded in 1999, VISTA is committed to changing lives through premium vision care, employing modern technology and clinical practices to provide safer vision correction procedures with the best possible results, "From Blur to Clear".
About Qualitas Health
A significant presence in urban and suburban markets in Malaysia coupled with unique synergy of corporate expertise, multidisciplinary medicine and strong local relationships has made Qualitas Health Malaysia one of the reliable and fastest growing healthcare companies.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nine new leading food businesses join the U.S. Working Group for Broiler Welfare, bringing the group to 16 members. The doubling of members demonstrates the drive of food businesses to achieve higher welfare practices for broiler chickens based on consumer and investor demand. The Working Group now includes Applegate, Aramark, Compass Group, Earth Animal, Giant Eagle, HelloFresh US, Martha Stewart & Marley Spoon, Natural Grocers, Nestlé USA, Panera Bread, Pret a Manger, Shake Shack, Sodexo, Sprouts, Target and Whole Foods. Collectively these businesses purchased over 540 million pounds of chicken in 2021.
Facilitated by Compassion in World Farming and Blue House Sustainability Consulting, the Working Group aims to support food businesses in exploring workable strategies and creative solutions for transitioning supply chains through the welfare standards outlined in the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC). Jointly, the Working Group members stand to improve the lives of over 111 million chickens annually.
The Working Group is collaborating with Perdue Farms, the fourth largest chicken producer in the U.S., to assist members in meeting their animal welfare commitments over the next few years. Since 2016, Perdue has continued to make improvements, shifting broiler chicken supply chains to improve welfare standards in alignment with the BCC as consumers increasingly desire these products. The company was the first major poultry company to install a Controlled Atmosphere Stunning unit, which provides a more humane slaughter method than traditional practices and has plans to convert other facilities.
"Many of Perdue's Animal Care practices are aligned with the Better Chicken Commitment core tenants. As part of Perdue's commitment to continuous improvement, we will continue in our collaboration with Compassion in World Farming and this Working Group to ensure that existing and future new customers can offer products from animals raised according to BCC committed standards in order to meet the demand," said Bruce Stewart-Brown, SVP Technical Services and Innovation, Perdue.
"Core to our mission is procuring high-quality and responsibly sourced ingredients but creating systemic change as an individual player that doesn't raise or process chicken can be challenging," said Jeff Yorzyk, Director of Sustainability at HelloFresh US. "As a member of this Working Group led by Compassion in World Farming, we look forward to partnering closely with our peers and engaging suppliers in ways that will accelerate the implementation of the BCC."
"The Working Group is developing needed tools to assist us in our commitments and work from communication fact sheets to auditing and labeling protocols," said Kristen Smith, Director of Sustainability, Earth Animal. "We appreciate the candid conversations with Compassion in World Farming and other members about common challenges and potential solutions, which help to inform our strategy and approach and to educate other companies in our industry as well."
The Working Group came together in 2021 to explore practical strategies and creative solutions that will enable member companies to progress toward their commitments. Compassion USA anticipates this group's ongoing efforts and learnings will continue the positive momentum and motivate widespread progress among the more than 200 U.S. brands that have committed to improving their welfare standards in alignment with the BCC.
"Bringing leading food businesses together in the Working Group allows for real collaboration, innovation and progress toward higher standards of welfare for the more than 9 billion chickens raised in the U.S. annually," said Tessa Hale, U.S. Head of Food Business, Compassion in World Farming. "The expansion of the Working Group reflects the desire for meaningful change in how we treat the planet's most-farmed animal. In addition to our many new food business partners, we are thrilled to collaborate with several top chicken producers, such as Perdue, who are leading the way in animal welfare practices."
"At Whole Foods Market, we've long maintained rigorous Quality Standards across our Meat Department and take the issue of broiler chicken welfare seriously. We sincerely appreciate the important work of Compassion in World Farming, and we're excited to join the Working Group to share what we've learned about raising the bar for broiler welfare and to join with others in pushing for systemic change," said Karen Christensen, SVP of Merchandising for Perishables, Whole Foods Market.
Compassion USA's food business managers and animal welfare specialists are working with others to dig into the research, answer questions and raise chicken welfare standards. For Working Group membership information, email Tessa.Hale@ciwf.org.
- For more information or to schedule an interview, please email Ronnika.McFall@ciwf.org.
- To learn more about Natural Grocers and their meat standards, please visit www.naturalgrocers.com/standards/meat-standards.
Notes to Editors:
Blue House Sustainability Consulting is led by Mindy Gomes-Casseres, an expert with more than 20 years of experience in helping global Fortune 500 companies craft leading sustainability strategies and communications.
Compassion in World Farming was founded in 1967 by a British dairy farmer who became horrified at the development of intensive factory farming. Today Compassion is a global movement dedicated to ending factory farming and achieving humane and sustainable food. With headquarters in the U.K., we have offices across Europe, the U.S., China and South Africa. To find out more about Compassion in World Farming, visit www.ciwf.com
The Better Chicken Commitment (BCC) is a science-based policy designed to address the four most significant welfare concerns negatively impacting broiler chickens under today's production practices. Two versions of the North American BCC developed for food companies in the U.S. and Canada address the same welfare concerns but allow flexibility in how companies roadmap their supply chains to meet the BCC and later show continued compliance. To learn about Compassion in World Farming's assessment of the progress made by leading food businesses against their commitments to source higher welfare chicken, visit www.chickentrack.com.
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NYSE: NGVC) is an expanding specialty retailer of natural and organic groceries, body care products, and dietary supplements. The products sold by Natural Grocers must meet strict quality guidelines and may not contain artificial colors, flavors, preservatives or sweeteners, or partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated oils. The Company sells only USDA-certified organic produce and exclusively pasture-raised, non-confinement dairy products, and free-range eggs. Natural Grocers' flexible smaller-store format allows it to offer affordable prices in a shopper-friendly, clean, and convenient retail environment. The Company also provides extensive free science-based Nutrition Education programs to help customers make informed health and nutrition choices. The Company, founded in 1955, has 163 stores in 21 states. Visit www.NaturalGrocers.com for more information and store locations
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‘House of the Dragon’: King Viserys Actor Explains His Succession Decision in Episode 1
House of the Dragon is a Game of Thrones prequel that explores the history of the Targaryen family . The family has had a long lineage of kings and queens as the Iron Throne continues to be passed down from one generation to the next. In episode one of House of the Dragon , King Viserys Targaryen reveals who he chooses as his heir, and the actor, Paddy Considine, explains the reasoning behind this decision.
King Viserys announces his new heir in ‘House of the Dragon’ episode 1
House of the Dragon episode one takes place almost 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones . Viserys Targaryen has become the new king but has only a daughter, Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock), meaning he has no true heir. If the king were to die, his brother, Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) , would take the throne. During the episode, Viserys’ wife and son die during childbirth, meaning there is still no true heir.
Many on the king’s council do not believe the brutal and short-tempered Daemon is fit to be next in line for the throne. Viserys then decided to name a new heir after Daemon infuriated the king by toasting his son’s death. The king decides to name Rhaenyra his heir, even though a woman has never ruled.
Paddy Considine explains why Viserys made his decision
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter , Considine explains the king’s decision to move away from his brother and toward his daughter. He says that while Viserys is taking a risk by making a woman the next ruler, he truly believes she is suitable for the position, and he isn’t doing it simply out of spite for Daemon.
“He absolutely understands that Daemon cannot be king and that’s it,” Considine says. “He does not have the temperament. Daemon would burn everything. He’s way too volatile. ‘My next real choice is my daughter and I’m taking a big gamble because she’s female. But I trust that there’s something inside of her, that she has the best of her mother,’ who was the love of Viserys’ life. He feels instinctively that he can entrust her and that she would listen enough to understand what it takes to be a ruler of that kingdom. It’s almost like giving your kid a burden and knowing that on the surface looks like a gift but that it’s a curse. It’s like I’m giving you something that is gonna be the most difficult thing you are ever going have to do in your life. I’m burdening you with all this shit. She’s the only one that he believes in and can trust. I don’t think it’s particularly political and I don’t think it’s to snub Daemon. I just think he believes she’s the one.”
So far, there hasn’t been much of an indicator that Rhaenyra is queen material, but she doesn’t want to perform the role that most women do in Westeros. Targaryen’s are unpredictable, so it’s unclear what side of the coin she will land on.
The Targaryen civil war is approaching
King Viserys’ decision will have repercussions throughout Westeros and within the Targaryen family. House of the Dragon will cover the events of the Targaryen civil war, which begins with this unprecedented move from the king. It will be intriguing to see how Rhaenyra handles this new responsibility and the upcoming conflict.
Episode one of House of the Dragon is now streaming on HBO Max.
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Antigo boys soccer preview: Optimism abounds as Robins return to the pitch
The 2022 edition of the Antigo Red Robins boys soccer team is back on the pitch this week, beginning its regular season with optimism that despite the loss of a strong senior group from a season ago, it can finally move into the realm of contender in the Great Northern Conference.
Or at least get in the GNC win column.
The storyline is likely a bit tired. The Robins have never won a GNC game on the field, winning one by forfeit in 2011 after Mosinee used an ineligible player, and coming ever so close in 2019, ending in a tie with Rhinelander.
A year ago, Antigo tied its own school record for wins with five and lost four others by a combined five goals, including a devastating 1-0 playoff loss at home to Ashland. Along the way, injuries and quarantines caused the team to play without some of its top players for a number of contests.
The improvement into the realm of a competitive, albeit not yet GNC-contending team, has been so evident, veteran head coach Ben Wilhelm picked himself up a Coach of the Year honor in 2020.
But the challenge to turn that corner and start winning conference games has been a tough undertaking, perhaps tougher than expected.
It all starts with numbers, and Antigo’s roster is up this season from a year ago, with 25 players out for soccer. Wilhelm enters his 10th season at the helm and is perhaps the most optimistic of all that this is the year.
“We have a bigger roster than last year so that’s at least one reason to hope for a better GNC record,” he said. “We’re a definitely a team on the edge. I’m hopeful this could be a banner year for us in conference.”
Lakeland is the overwhelming conference favorite. The defending GNC champs return Offensive Player of the Year Yaroslav Myshchyshyn, who earned the honor as just a sophomore. The now junior leads a powerhouse Lakeland team that returns a total of four other All-Conference performers.
As far as the rest of the GNC, it’s a bit of a mystery, but Mosinee, Medford, Rhinelander and Northland Pines were all strong a season ago in what has become in a very solid soccer conference from top to bottom.
“I think our chances against Pines, Medford and Mosinee are really good,” Wilhelm said. “And I think Rhinelander and Lakeland will be challenging but on the right day we could prevail.”
Tasked with replacing four All-GNC players of its own, Wilhelm has watched his team put in a good offseason of work, as well as getting off to a strong start on the practice field.
“Contact days and open gyms were the best attended in four years so that’s encouraging to see,” he noted. “We have 25 on the roster and an average of 17 at those optional preseason dates. It’s tough to see the seniors go, but this first week shows we will be ready to continue on in a strong way.”
Now the job has been to find who will step up in key positions. Frank McKenna was an honorable mention goaltender a season ago, moving into that position is a sophomore in Logan Griese. It is the second straight season the Robins must replace a senior keeper, with McKenna taking the reins from Cordell Umland the year prior.
“Goalkeeper is a tough spot to fill no matter what,” Wilhelm explained. “But our past two senior keepers have been very intentional about bringing up their successors, working with the younger guys offseason and preseason.”
Griese was not out for soccer as a freshman, but had an outstanding Middle School career. Throw in the time spent with McKenna and Umland, and he should be good to go. Sophomore Jacob Adamski will be the backup.
As far as returners, junior Nolan Bunnell, a strong midfield leader, along with senior Cole Umland, a reliable center-mid, lead the way. At defense, senior Sam McCann and junior Michael Preboski are both solid and have plenty of experience.
Riley LeVeque and Jeremiah Grant are both seniors in their second year of soccer. LeVeque will be counted on at defense, while Grant will see playing time at wing. Aiden Anderson is three year veteran and fast midfielder.
Sophomores back for another season include Ezra Santiago, who looks to be a big contributor at forward, along with fellow forwards Trenton Walbeck and Adamski. Johnny Wissbroecker is a sophomore midfielder, with Connor Umland and Wyatt Beaber sophs on defense.
Back to the senior group, the last member is a newcomer to the soccer pitch, in Karl Busse. The former cross country runner brings speed and endurance to the field and could be an “X” factor for the team this season. Wherever he plays, it will be outside where the Robins can utilize his running ability, either at back or midfield.
Remaining upperclassmen include Garrett Kufner, who is new to soccer, but brings a track background, who will likely be used in a utility role.
Other newcomers to the roster include a pair of sophomores in Jack Stronstad and Max Kufner, who both look to be assets to the squad, along with a freshman group that totals seven, in Parker Chaney, Diego Flores Martinez, Matt Seefeldt, Tucker McCann, Kayden Jaje, Ved Patel and Jameson Anderson.
There’s lots of promise and lots of questions marks, some of which will be answered this week. Antigo opens with a pair of home games, the first on Tuesday against a strong Shawano team, the second is what should be a very winnable contest on Thursday, versus Northland Lutheran.
Saturday, the team travels to the annual Gresham Tournament. By the time Saturday wraps up, the identity should be in place for the 2022 Robins.
“Our away tournament at Gresham is always a learning experience for younger players and a chance to play the whole bench across three games on the day,” Wilhelm added. “I’m hopeful we could finally win that for once. That would set a really great tone for the rest of the season.” | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2715006359664/antigo-boys-soccer-preview-optimism-abounds-as-robins-return-to-the-pitch | 2022-08-26T01:00:43Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2715006359664/antigo-boys-soccer-preview-optimism-abounds-as-robins-return-to-the-pitch | true | 1 |
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Everything that could have gone wrong did last Friday night for Greenwood.
With eight starters returning on defense heading into the Top-6 matchup against A.C. Flora, Greenwood’s defense seemed poised to deal with an explosive A.C. Flora offense that features one of the best running backs in the state. But as the game progressed, the Eagles were struggling to fill their gaps at the second level, allowing 178 rushing yards in the loss.
“That was the most disappointing thing. We have eight guys back on defense, and we just weren’t ready to play,” Greenwood coach Chris Liner said. “We played an elite back that you can’t let get to the second level, and we weren’t filling our gaps at linebacker, we weren’t filling our gaps at outside linebacker, we weren’t making calls up front. If you watch the o-line vs the d-line battle, they did not push us around.
“When you don’t have a guy filling gaps, it doesn’t matter how good your defensive line is because they can’t cover every gap. ... I’m not worried about it at all, it’s just disappointing because I know we’re better than that.”
Offensively, the night didn’t prove much better for Greenwood, as the Eagles fumbled the ball nine times. Though they recovered the ball 67% of the time, the fumbles stalled drives, pushing them into second or third and long situations.
“We’re at a stage right now, especially with nine, it’ll be 10 this week with Ve (Morton) out, new starters, that we can’t beat ourselves. We aren’t good enough to overcome undisciplined penalties, and we have to do a better job of protecting the ball,” Liner said. “That’s the big thing this week. The focus has been on ball security, not beating ourselves by having mindless penalties and force the other team to beat us, doing the little things better than they do. ... We’ve done a good job so far.”
Along with turnovers and fumbles, Greenwood had a devastating loss to its offense, when star fullback Morton went down in the second quarter with a broken ankle.
With the senior fullback out roughly until region play starts, Greenwood is turning to junior Deterrious “Tank” Gary.
“Tank is one of our toughest kids. He’s very humble, but he’s a really good runner,” Liner said. “He wasn’t daunted by the task at all. If we had 11 tanks on offense, we wouldn’t lose. He’s that kind of kid... Certainly, you can’t replace Ve, Ve is a special talent, but Tank did a really good job of doing what Tank can do well.”
After a disappointing start to its season, Greenwood continues to face off against tough opponents, as it hosts Sandy Creek, who is the No. 6 team in Georgia’s 3A.
Liner said Sandy Creek is very similar to South Pointe, who has ended the Eagles season the past two years.
Against Newnan, the Patriots finished with 219 yards on just 27 carries while featuring four different ball carriers. They are led by dual-threat quarterback Geimere Latimer, who threw for 205 yards and three touchdowns while running for another 88 yards. Defensively, they are led by Marcellius Pulliam at linebacker, who has offers from several Power-5 schools including Clemson and Auburn and three-start cornerback Kaleb Cost, who is a North Carolina commit.
“They’re extremely fast and extremely athletic and extremely physical,” Liner said. “We have our absolute work cut out for us. They are an elite team in Georgia, and that’s why we’re playing them. We’ll see how good they are Friday. We know that they’re really good and that’s exciting.”
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Gloucester has a well established, long list of some of the greatest athletes, but there is one woman who really tops the list as one of the greatest of all times.
I’ve had the pleasure of watching my three granddaughters play tennis at Bass Rocks for the past six years. Under the direction of Avis Murray and her incredible coaching staff, including coach Derek Geary and coaching assistants Caleb and Chris, children from the smallest to the oldest fine tune their tennis skills each week. They are engaged and focused. It doesn’t matter if it’s the 6-year-olds or the 14- to 16-year-olds, these kids are eager to enter the court, ready to play.
Thank you Avis for shining your light and inspiring so so many children throughout your amazing athletic career. Your athletic experiences are a true gift to this community; sharing photos and stories of your own tennis career with these young athletes is so valuable. They all look up to you and it’s easy to understand why they want to return week after week.
Thank you to coach Derek Geary, assistant coaches Caleb, Chris, and the entire Bass Rocks group for your continued support, guidance and patience.
These kids are learning many valuable lessons from each of you. What a thrill it is to watch them play.
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Treasury Management: A Guide to Navigating Downturns
by Jeff Amico, Maggie Hsu, Ed Lynch and Emily Westerhold
Crypto markets can be volatile. Over the past year, prices have swung wildly, only recently rebounding from a brisk “winter.” Up, down, sideways – it’s impossible to know which way the winds will blow. What people can control is, however, the way they prepare for such vicissitudes.
Treasury management is the practice of stewarding a project’s resources over time. The goal is, generally, to ensure a going concern can remain a going concern – that it has enough cash on hand to continue operating. This might involve paying near-term expenses such as payroll and rent, or making longer term strategic investments, such as acquisitions and R&D. Regardless of the expenditure, treasury management should carefully consider and aim to achieve a projects’ core operating goals.
Treasury management is a core function of any organization, but it is particularly relevant today given the uncertainty of present market conditions. From decentralized autonomous organizations, or “DAOs,” to traditional startups, teams are reckoning with a market environment featuring high inflation, low yields, and a tightening of financing options across both public and private markets. In light of this new normal, teams should place greater emphasis on conservative cash management principles in order to weather storms and emerge stronger on the other side of them.
Here is a basic framework that teams can follow to do so.
1. Calculate monthly cash burn
The first step is to develop a realistic financial model. In accounting terms, that means tracking projected inflows and outflows on a monthly basis (e.g., “net burn”). More plainly, it means calculating how much cash a given project is expected to spend each month, relative to how much it is expected to earn. This analysis should specify the component parts that drive both earning and spending. For example, the expense side should break out the cash-spend across key operating functions (engineering, business development, legal, etc.), as well as any expected non-operating outflows (financing costs, taxes, other one time payments, etc.). The revenue side should similarly break the inflows down into operating and non-operating categories. This will help determine their relative predictability over time.
Conservative assumptions will help ensure a project does not overestimate its runway. This is particularly true when projecting revenue. In a downturn, revenue is likely to fall – or at least growth may slow – as customers scale down their budgets or, worse, potentially go out of business. Even revenue assumed to be recurring or contractually committed may become more difficult to collect. While this sort of financial planning does not always apply to the many crypto projects and early stage ventures that have yet to make money, factoring in these probabilities can help projects plan more realistically for the longer term.
Shrewd financial planning is a routine exercise for traditional startups – and it’s increasingly relevant for DAOs as well. DAOs differ from traditional startups in many regards, including their organizational structures and degree of decentralized control. In many cases DAOs may be comprised of various unaffiliated entities who are working together toward some shared purpose and who receive budgets from the broader DAO. Traditional companies are, on the other hand, likelier to have cash on the balance sheet from various financing rounds. Nevertheless, as DAOs continue to evolve and take on more sophisticated operating structures, it is critical that they too have visibility into their overall financial health. This will ensure they can meet operating expenses as they come due, including contributor payments, incentive programs, and more. It will also provide transparency into the operating state of the organization, enabling better decision making. While teams like MakerDAO have led the way on this type of analysis to date, we expect this will eventually become table stakes for all successful DAOs in the future.
2. Maintain operating expenses in cash
Once the rate of cash burn is determined, a project can begin developing an overall treasury management plan. The core objectives here are: capital preservation, liquidity, and income, in that order.
Priority number one is to cover near-term operating expenses. It’s critical to optimize for the safety and accessibility of capital before exploring opportunities for yield. This typically means maintaining at least 12 months – ideally, 18 months – of operating expenses in a basic cash account (e.g., bank deposit or money market account) or, in the case of a DAO, in high-quality stablecoins. This capital will earn relatively little yield, but it will be available to meet near-term liabilities as they come due. Be conservative.
In addition to maintaining near-term expenses in cash, projects should also ensure they match assets and liabilities by currency. In other words, if liabilities are denominated in USD, then a corresponding amount of liquid assets should also be denominated in USD. This is particularly relevant for companies or DAOs who hold crypto assets but have expenses denominated in dollars. To avoid having to sell depreciated assets in a down market, teams should ensure they are regularly converting assets into the appropriate currency to cover ongoing operating expenses; of course, they must also ensure they’re conducting any asset sales in a manner that complies with applicable regulatory restrictions and has the appropriate legal wrappers in place to enable them to pay taxes, where applicable. Always have what you need on hand.
Apparently, diversification is fairly uncommon. A recent study from Chainalysis, a crypto tracking firm, shows that 85% of DAOs store their entire treasury in a single crypto asset – typically their native governance token. Among those who do hold stablecoins, the majority hold 10% or less of their reserves in stablecoins. While some DAOs have limited operating expenses, for those that do have material operations, it’s possible they may be forced to sell their native tokens at depressed prices to cover operating expenses, or cut back on core strategic initiatives. That would be suboptimal.
Some projects may be reluctant to sell crypto for fiat currency or stablecoins out of a concern that it sends a negative signal to the market. These are project-specific decisions, and ones that depend on each project’s unique set of circumstances. They should always take account, however, of any regulatory and tax considerations.
Projects can avoid negative outcomes – like having to sell native tokens in a down market, or cutting back on strategic initiatives – by maintaining a sufficient cash buffer. Managing cash appropriately ensures projects can cover expenses for potentially prolonged periods, which may be critical during a downturn where access to financing markets can be challenging. Planning ahead also allows projects to maintain focus on core operating goals, knowing their working capital remains safe from loss.
3. Develop plan for additional capital
For companies holding cash in excess of their 12-to-18-month operating budget, it may make sense to explore opportunities for incremental yield. As with the working capital budget discussed in the previous section, this exercise should be informed by the project’s liquidity needs over time. The diagram below provides a high-level look at various products and when they might become appropriate to consider. In general, products offering greater yield become more appropriate as a project moves from operating cash (for meeting day-to-day needs) towards strategic cash (for pursuing growth and other opportunities).
Each product has different risk, yield, and liquidity profiles. Before allocating among them, it’s useful to develop a basic plan to guide the overall approach.
Here’s a template investment plan we often share with traditional portfolio companies – ones that fall in the left-hand column above – when discussing this topic. While some of these considerations may be inapplicable to earlier stage companies, DAOs, and other projects, they are nonetheless instructive for learning how companies with larger balance sheets think about managing cash.
In general, traditional companies allocate excess cash toward safe holdings. These include products such as money market instruments and investment-grade fixed income securities (rated BBB or higher). In a given portfolio, these companies typically diversify assets across maturities, credit quality, sectors, and issuers. For a sense of what this looks like, below is a breakdown of allocations among mid-to-late stage companies with up to $100 million in assets with Silicon Valley Bank.
While we’ve seen some corporate treasurers take on additional risk in recent years, a more conservative strategy is often advisable. This is particularly true in the current rate environment, where yield is beginning to return to many traditional credit and banking products. For example, yields on certain money market instruments are beginning to approach 150 or 200 basis points in some cases, making them an attractive option for managing cash. A portfolio anchored around these types of assets is likely to be well-suited for many companies.
Meanwhile, for DAOs managing on-chain treasuries, a variety of money market and fixed-income products have emerged in recent years that may be appropriate to consider. These include products such as Compound, Element Finance, and Goldfinch, among others. For longer-term cash, it may make sense to explore staking with high-quality protocols like Lido and others. As with more traditional products, however, it’s important to consider the risk, yield, and liquidity profiles of these options before allocating to them. It’s also important to evaluate any technical or operational risks that may arise when interacting with assets or protocols on-chain to ensure a project isn’t exposing assets to risk of loss.
4. Build out operational capacity
With a strategy in place, it’s time to build out the various operational pieces needed to put the plan into action. For companies with more traditional treasury management plans, this includes finding a banking partner and an investment advisor, and putting in place internal processes to ensure proper custody, reporting, valuation, controls, tax, and audit requirements.
Projects don’t have to figure everything out all on their own. The banking partner should be able to help provide investment vehicles that fit within a company’s investment policy. The banking partner may also be able to recommend more sophisticated investment advisors to help maximize returns within specified risk parameters. Always consult with an accounting firm or auditor on proper practices and procedures as they relate to accounting for investments and related earnings.
For DAOs or companies holding crypto, the diagram below lays out the key operational pieces that may be required as well as some of the leading options in each:
At a minimum, a secure wallet setup is necessary to ensure assets are always safely custodied. This is particularly relevant any time assets are being deployed into other protocols or otherwise moving on-chain. Options range from traditional custodians such as Anchorage or Coinbase to decentralized or multi-sig options, like Entropy or Gnosis.
Beyond custody, DAOs will typically also need some form of governance approval from tokenholders before executing a treasury management strategy. Tools like Snapshot and Tally can be used for voting, while forums like Discourse and Commonwealth can help facilitate community discussion.
DAOs can also tap into the emerging suite of on-chain analytics products to monitor the state of their strategy over time, including Nansen, Dune and Flipside Crypto. Payroll and operations-related tools like Opolis, Coordinape, and Utopia can also be used to manage budgets and track spending over time.
And finally, given the complexity of this task, it may be worthwhile to consult with firms who provide advisory services on this topic. These range from traditional advisors such as Silicon Valley Bank to more crypto-native firms such as Reverie, Alastor, Gauntlet, and Llama, among others. Teams should also make sure to conduct regulatory analysis of various strategies and engage outside counsel as appropriate.
5. Monitor and make adjustments as necessary
Finally, teams should actively monitor their cash positions and adjust their strategies as necessary. This requires updating burn projections to ensure cash is being managed properly. Teams should also regularly confirm that their strategies remain oriented around their core principles (capital preservation, liquidity, income). Doing so will ensure they do not take on unnecessary risk as their strategy evolves over time.
Tl;dr
Treasury management is an integral part of any projects’ long-term success. To maximize the chances for success, both cash management and longer-term capital allocation should be both well defined and well executed. The goals are capital preservation, liquidity, and income, in precisely that order.
Under current economic conditions, it’s important to think critically about potential unforeseen business expenses that may arise outside of the course of normal operations. Once a project has a conservative estimate of the capital required to keep running, it should earmark an available cash balance equal to at least 12 months – or better, 18 months – of net cash outflows. Any remaining cash reserves can then be allocated according to a policy that should clearly define the relevant stakeholders, the specific roles of each stakeholder, the institutions involved in executing the strategy, and the reporting requirements associated with any holdings. After a strategy is put in place, the performance of holdings should be monitored and the suitability of the strategy periodically evaluated as it relates to the ever changing needs of a project.
Preparation now prevents pain later on.
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Acknowledgements: Special thanks to Silicon Valley Bank for allowing us to share a breakdown of investment policies among a subset of its asset management group’s clients.
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MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions, global supplier of integrated solutions from our Circuitry, Assembly and Semiconductor divisions that provides capabilities in electronics design and manufacturing, has announced a brand new webinar entitled, “Conformal Coatings – A Green Evolution: From Solvent to Bio-Based”.
The event is to be hosted live by Saskia Hogan, global product manager for Conformal Coatings at MacDermid Alpha’s Electrolube. Saskia’s webinar is a comprehensive programme covering traditional solvent-based coatings through to the evolution of today’s bio-based materials. This one-off webinar will be presented live by Saskia on the 15th September at 10am (EDT)/3pm (BST), via GlobalSpec. Guests can register to join Saskia and learn more about how different conformal coatings perform and their vital role within electronics protection and reliability.
Guests will also gain more knowledge about many different coatings including; solvent-based, two component, solvent free, and bio-based coatings. Additionally Saskia will explain the impressive performance offered by Electrolube within some of the harshest environments found in the EV and ADAS automotive applications as well as in military and many other industries.
The conformal coatings webinar delves into the pioneering new bio-based coatings which are derived from renewable sources and provide a real alternative to non-bio-based materials, without any compromise on performance. The greener coating innovations are some of Electrolube’s most versatile coatings ever, offering high level performance and marginally higher levels of protection than conventional coatings in the most demanding and harshest of environments.
Saskia Hogan said: “The webinar is a testimony to Electrolube’s 80 years in electro-chemical manufacturing, covering the full scope and extensive range of coating options available to manufacturers to improve the reliability, lifetime and performance of devices in end-use environments, whether they require chemical, salt mist, corrosion, humidity, corrosive gas, solvent or high temperature. resistance. I will be talking about the different coating options for electronics protection and increased reliability as well as 2K coatings and the new bio-based range to help guests understand more about the performance advantages of greener coatings as well as their sustainable benefits.”
Register now to join Saskia on the 15th September via GlobalSpec (10am (EDT)/3pm (BST)) and find out more about the different options available and how they differ in terms of performance.
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– Company expects to be EBITDA positive in 2023 –
SAN DIEGO and TORONTO, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - StateHouse Holdings Inc. ("StateHouse" or the "Company") (CSE: STHZ) (OTCQX: STHZF), a California-focused, vertically integrated cannabis enterprise, today announced its financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 ("Q2 2022" and "YTD 2022", respectively), and provided additional business updates. The unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements for Q2 2022 and corresponding management's discussion and analysis are available for download from the Company's investor website, statehouseholdings.com, and on the Company's SEDAR profile. Unless otherwise indicated, all dollar amounts in this press release are denominated in U.S. currency.
"The second quarter was a landmark period for StateHouse, as we completed the acquisition of Loudpack to create a leading, fully integrated California cannabis company," said Ed Schmults, Chief Executive Officer. "We then launched the first phase of a major integration initiative, which was completed before the end of the quarter and resulted in significant annual cost savings. One-time costs related to closing the Loudpack acquisition impacted profitability in Q2 2022, but with the integration activities underway, we exited the quarter in a much stronger competitive position. While California cannabis market conditions are currently challenging, particularly in wholesale, we are continuing to aggressively reduce costs and optimize operations, developing new consumer packaged cannabis products and expecting to generate material positive EBITDA(1) in 2023".
Q2 2022 Highlights
- Total net revenues were $34.6 million, a 125% increase over the $15.4 million realized in the three months ended June 30, 2021 ("Q2 2021"). The increase reflected the acquisitions of UL Holdings Inc. ("Urbn Leaf") and LPF JV Corporation ("Loudpack"), which were completed in March and April of 2022, respectively;
- Gross profit before adjustments for biological assets, was $14.7 million, a 110% increase as compared to $7.0 million in gross profit realized during Q2 2021. Consolidated gross margins during Q2 2022 were 42.6% of revenues, compared to 45.6% of revenues in Q2 2021, with the gross margin reduction primarily due to the year over year selling price declines on bulk cannabis in the California market and the addition of manufacturing revenues which typically operate on lower margins, partially offset by greater sell through of in-house manufactured products at Company owned retail stores;
- On April 4, 2022, the Company completed the acquisition of Loudpack to form one of the largest vertically integrated cannabis enterprises in California;
- On May 11, 2022, the Company announced new retail store openings in San Francisco and Grossmont, California;
- On May 19, 2022, the Company acquired a further 50% interest in its retail store in Seaside, California, bringing its interest in the store to 100%; and,
- On May 31, 2022, the Company announced initial integration measures that are expected to generate approximately $10.3 million of annualized cost savings.(2) (3)
Subsequent Events
- On July 25, 2022, the Company officially changed its name from Harborside Inc. ("Harborside") to StateHouse Holdings Inc. to honor its pioneering history and reflect its future direction in California's cannabis sector. The Company's subordinate voting shares were also reclassified as common shares on this date;
- On July 28, 2022, the Company announced that it reached a Partial Payment Installment Agreement with the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") to resolve and reduce legacy federal tax obligations related to the Internal Revenue Code Section 280E, resulting in a one-time non-cash gain of approximately $16.1 million. The Company continues to negotiate with the IRS over additional tax repayments; and,
- On August 15, 2022, StateHouse completed the transition to a common technology platform for its California retail stores, e-commerce and home delivery.
Operations Update
StateHouse has established a leading integrated cannabis platform that, when fully optimized, will minimize exposure to the volatile bulk cannabis market and allow the Company to operate as a focused, integrated CPG business with proprietary production, processing, brands and retail stores. In conjunction with the continuing reduction of costs, the Company expects to emerge with a scalable, controlled, profitable and more predictable cannabis business(2).
By the end of Q2 2022, StateHouse was well underway with initial integration measures that are expected to generate approximately $10.3 million of annualized cost savings. (2) (3) As a result of this first phase of integration, StateHouse is now operating with a greatly reduced cost base. Following the initial integration measures, the Company has initiated additional cost reductions which are expected to result in a further $8-10 million in annualized savings. (2) (3)
Improvements were also completed across the Company's operations. In cultivation, the Company has converted to a perpetual harvest program, with crop yields at the Salinas facility up 78% from last year through the first half of 2022, while also winning seven awards for quality, including three awards at the Emerald Cup and four medals at the California State Fair, including two golds and two silvers. At the Greenfield Campus, the adoption of best practices has led to enhanced efficiencies and improved gross profits. At retail, despite competitive pressures related to sales discounting, gross margins have held steady as the Company moves further towards its goal of in-house branded products representing 40% of total retail sales. On the administrative side, the Company is introducing a new ERP system for cultivation, rationalizing external relationships and suppliers and progressing on the consolidation of its finance and accounting systems into one common platform. With new management and a highly motivated team, StateHouse is revitalizing existing customer accounts and aggressively pursuing new ones.
As a result of the significant synergies and cost savings either achieved to date and financial forecasts of the Company, management expects StateHouse to generate materially positive Adjusted EBITDA(1) in 2023.
Management is also exploring the potential sale of various non-core assets, which is expected to generate approximately $5-8 million of non-dilutive capital,(3) to strengthen its balance sheet and fund its growth objectives.(2)
Management Departure
Ahmer Iqbal, Chief Operating Officer, is leaving the Company effective September 30, 2022 to pursue other opportunities. StateHouse's management team and Board of Directors thank Mr. Iqbal for his contributions to the Company and wish him the best in his future endeavours. Mr. Iqbal's duties will be assumed by other members of the management team upon his departure.
Notes:
(1) This is a non-IFRS reporting measure. For a reconciliation of this to the nearest IFRS measure, see "Use of Non-IFRS Measures" and "Non-IFRS Measures" in the Company's management discussion and analysis for the period ended June 30, 2022. See "Non-IFRS Measures, Reconciliation and Discussion".
(2) This is forward-looking information and based on a number of assumptions. See "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information" below.
(3) These targets, and the related assumptions, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. While StateHouse believes there is a reasonable basis for these targets, such targets may not be met. These targets represent forward-looking information. Actual results may vary and differ materially from the targets. See "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information" and "Assumptions" below.
About StateHouse
StateHouse, a vertically integrated enterprise with cannabis licenses covering retail, major brands, distribution, cultivation, nursery and manufacturing, is one of the oldest and most respected cannabis companies in California. Founded in 2006, its predecessor company Harborside was awarded one of the first six medical cannabis licenses granted in the United States. Today, the Company operates 13 dispensaries covering Northern and Southern California and one in Oregon, distribution facilities in San Jose and Los Angeles, California and integrated cultivation/production facilities in Salinas and Greenfield, California. StateHouse is a publicly listed company, currently trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange ("CSE") under the ticker symbol "STHZ" and the OTCQX under the ticker symbol "STHZF". The Company continues to play an instrumental role in making cannabis safe and accessible to a broad and diverse community of California and Oregon consumers.
Non-IFRS Measures, Reconciliation and Discussion
This press release may contain references to "Adjusted EBITDA" and "Adjusted Gross Profit" which are non-IFRS financial measures. Management believes that these measures provide useful information as they represent the value of incremental sales.
Adjusted EBITDA is a measure of the Company's overall financial performance and is used as an alternative to earnings or net income in some circumstances. Adjusted EBITDA is essentially net income (loss) with interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, non-cash adjustments and other unusual items added back. This measure can be used to analyze and compare profitability among companies and industries, as it eliminates the effects of financing and capital expenditures. It is often used in valuation ratios and can be compared to enterprise value and revenue. This measure does not have any standardized meaning according to IFRS and therefore may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies.
Adjusted Gross Profit exclude the changes in fair value less costs to sell of the Company's biological assets. Management believes this measure provides useful information as they represent the gross profit based on the Company's cost to produce inventories sold while removing fair value measurements which are tied to changing inventory components and levels, as required by IFRS.
There are no comparable IFRS financial measures presented in StateHouse's financial statements. Reconciliations of the supplemental non-IFRS measures are presented in the Company's management's discussion and analysis for the period ended June 30, 2022. The Company provides the non-IFRS financial measures as supplemental information and in addition to the financial measures that are calculated and presented in accordance with IFRS. These supplemental non-IFRS financial measures are presented because management believes such measures provide information which is useful to shareholders and investors in understanding its performance and which may assist in the evaluation of the Company's business relative to that of its peers. However, such measures should not be considered superior to, as a substitute for or as an alternative to, and should only be considered in conjunction with, the most comparable IFRS financial measure. For more information, please see "Use of Non-IFRS Measures" and "Non-IFRS Measures" in the Company's management's discussion and analysis for the period ended June 30, 2022, which is available under the Company's profile on www.sedar.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of the applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation. To the extent any forward-looking information in this news release constitutes "financial outlooks" or "future-oriented financial information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, the reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on such information. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and are based on expectations, estimates, and projections as at the date of this news release. Any statement that involves discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans", "budget", "scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements. In this news release, forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements relating to generating positive EBITDA by 2023, total amounts of annualized cost savings, the successes resulting from the Company's integrated cannabis platform, amounts of in-house branded products sold, the implications of the sale of non-core assets, and the Company's future profitability, potential cost reductions, and potential asset sales.
These forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company at the time such statements were made. Actual future results may differ materially as forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of the Company to materially differ from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors, among other things, include: implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's operations; fluctuations in general macroeconomic conditions; fluctuations in securities markets; expectations regarding the size of the cannabis markets where the Company operates; changing consumer habits; the ability of the Company to successfully achieve its business objectives; plans for expansion and acquisitions; political and social uncertainties; inability to obtain adequate insurance to cover risks and hazards; employee relations; the presence of laws and regulations that may impose restrictions on cultivation, production, distribution, and sale of cannabis and cannabis-related products in the markets where the Company operates; and the risk factors set out in the Company's management's discussion and analysis for the period ended June 30, 2022 and the Company's listing statement dated May 30, 2019, which are available under the Company's profile on www.sedar.com. Although the forward-looking statements contained in this news release are based upon what management of the Company believes, or believed at the time, to be reasonable assumptions, the Company cannot assure shareholders that actual results will be consistent with such forward-looking statements, as there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements of beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change, except as required by law.
The Company, through several of its subsidiaries, is directly involved in the manufacture, possession, use, sale, and distribution of cannabis in the recreational and medicinal cannabis marketplace in the United States. Local state laws where the Company operates permit such activities however, investors should note that there are significant legal restrictions and regulations that govern the cannabis industry in the United States. Cannabis remains a Schedule I drug under the United States Controlled Substances Act, making it illegal under federal law in the United States to, among other things, cultivate, distribute or possess cannabis in the United States. Financial transactions involving proceeds generated by, or intended to promote, cannabis-related business activities in the United States may form the basis for prosecution under applicable United States federal money laundering legislation.
While the approach to enforcement of such laws by the federal government in the United States has trended toward non-enforcement against individuals and businesses that comply with recreational and medicinal cannabis programs in states where such programs are legal, strict compliance with state laws with respect to cannabis will neither absolve the Company of liability under United States federal law, nor will it provide a defense to any federal proceeding which may be brought against the Company. The enforcement of federal laws in the United States is a significant risk to the business of the Company and any proceedings brought against the Company thereunder may adversely affect the Company's operations and financial performance.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities in the United States. The Company's securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act") or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to U.S. Persons unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available.
Assumptions
In developing the financial guidance set forth above, StateHouse made the following assumptions and relied on the following factors and considerations:
- The targets are based on StateHouse's historical results including its year-to-date consolidated results of operations.
- The targets are subject to continued cultivation improvement.
- Targeted revenue at our retail dispensaries through the end of the year is based on our YTD results.
- Both retail and wholesale revenue sustainability and growth depend on a variety of factors, including among other things, location, competition, legal and regulatory requirements. Prices are projected forward at recently realized wholesale and retail prices.
- Cost of goods sold, before taking into account the impact of value changes in biological assets (which are non- cash in nature, and, accordingly, are excluded from calculations of Adjusted EBITDA, have been projected based on estimated costs of production and capacity available from a vertically integrated supply chain. Cost of goods sold relating to inventory purchased from third parties have been projected in line with historical levels.
- Selling, general and administrative expenses in future periods are assumed to decrease as a percentage of revenues due to inherent scalability of selling, general and administrative expenses and our cost cutting initiatives outlined above. Additionally, total selling, general and administrative expenses include an allocation for corporate overhead and public company costs.
The CSE has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this news release. Neither the CSE nor its Market Regulator (as that term is defined in the policies of the CSE) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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NFTify (N1) traded up 1.6% against the U.S. dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 20:00 PM ET on August 25th. NFTify has a market capitalization of $217,345.00 and approximately $99.00 worth of NFTify was traded on exchanges in the last day. One NFTify coin can currently be bought for approximately $0.0107 or 0.00000050 BTC on major exchanges. During the last seven days, NFTify has traded down 2.4% against the U.S. dollar.
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Jamie Ford, a best-selling author from Great Falls, visited Cassiopeia Books on Central Avenue on Thursday evening, August 25, 2022.
Ford signed copies of his latest book, “The Many Daughters of Afong Moy,” which has already been optioned for a TV series.
“The book is about inherited trauma,” said Ford. “That sounds really heavy so I tend to call this my epigenetic love story. I start with the genetic line of a woman named Afong Moy. She was a real historic figure she was the first Chinese woman to come to America in the 1830’s. She was brought over and she toured up and down the east coast from Buffalo, New York, to Cuba.”
Ford shares insight about his new book:
Ford earned New York Times best-selling status for "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet."
On the day it was released, it received a strong endorsement from a book club powerhouse, as "Today" show co-host Jenna Bush Hager named it as her latest book club pick.
On being named a Read With Jenna Book Club Pick, Ford said: “It’s a big deal. Jenna is the heir apparent to Oprah as far as book clubs. She has a huge voice in the industry.”
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Cabral Gold drills 11.6 g/t gold over 6.4 metres at Cuiu Cuiu, Brazil
Cabral Gold Inc. [CBR-TSXV; CBGZF-OTC] reported assay results from five diamond drill holes testing the Machichie Main zone discovery within the Cuiu Cuiu gold district, Brazil.
Highlights are as follows. DDH303 returned the following intervals in primary intrusive basement rocks: 6.4 metres of 11.6 g/t gold from 123.6 metres, including 1.1 metres of 60.0 g/t gold, 3.8 metres of 1.3 g/t gold from 81.9 metres and 1.9 metres of 2.2 g/t gold, from 76.8 metres.
DDH279 returned the following intervals in primary intrusive basement rocks: 16 metres of 2.9 g/t gold from 112.4 metres, including 1.1 metres of 29.7 g/t gold, 3.6 metres of 3.4 g/t gold from 232.6 metres, including 0.5 metres of 14.9 g/t gold, 3.2 metres of 2.7 g/t gold, from 77.2 metres and 3.0 metres of 1.1 g/t gold, from 138.5 metres.
DDH302 returned 7.3 metres of 5.0 g/t gold from 202.5 metres, including 1.8 metres of 18.5 g/t gold. DDH300 returned 15.7 metres of 1.6 g/t gold from 176.2 metres, including 0.8 metres of 8.9 g/t gold, and 0.5 metres of 12.5 g/t gold. DDH301 returned 12.2 metres of 1.4 g/t gold from 215.6 metres.
These diamond-drill results from Machichie provide further evidence of the continuity of the Machichie Main zone at depth and indicate that this zone also contains a significant amount of high-grade gold mineralization
Alan Carter, President and CEO, commented, “These drill results from the eastern part of the Machichie Main zone extend the mineralized zone to depth, it remains open down-dip on every section. All five follow-up diamond-drill holes at the Machichie Main zone cut broad zones of alteration including significant zones of high-grade mineralization. This is very similar to the style of mineralization found within the Central and MG gold deposits, as well as the new PDM discovery. Recent trenching to the west also suggests that the Machichie Main zone extends for more than 900m along strike. To the west, it coalesces with a major north-east trending vein array. Combined, the Machichie W, Machichie SW, Machichie Main zone and Machichie NE target areas are now referred to as the Machichie Complex, which is likely to grow into a significant deposit.”
The Machichie target is located 500 metres northwest of the MG gold deposit. The current drill program testing the Machichie Main zone was designed to expand the zone of mineralization down-dip and along strike.
The results from the initial five diamond-drill holes at the Machichie Main zone confirm that the mineralized zone is open at depth, and also demonstrated down-dip continuity.
Further drilling will be required to define this area further, but the Machichie region now has multiple mineralized areas that may combine to form the next new significant gold deposit at Cuiu Cuiu. The recent trenching to the west suggests that the Machichie Main zone could extend at over 900 metres from east to west, and it remains open to the west. The new northeast-trending vein arrays and Machichie NE remain open in all directions and have been only subjected to scout drilling to date.
All mineralization encountered at Machichie to date remains open down-dip and along strike. The Machichie Complex could prove to be the next significant gold deposit at Cuiu Cuiu.
Results are pending on 12 diamond-drill holes at MG. Results are pending on eight additional follow-up diamond-drill holes at Machichie. Results are also pending on six diamond-drill holes at the Indio.
The company has a 100% interest in the Cuiu Cuiu gold district located in the Tapajos Region, within the state of Para in northern Brazil. Two gold deposits have so far been defined at Cuiu Cuiu and contain NI 43-101 compliant Indicated resources of 5.9Mt of 0.90 g/t (200,000 oz) and Inferred resources of 19.5Mt of 1.24 g/t (800,000 oz). | https://resourceworld.com/cabral-gold-drills-11-6-g-t-gold-over-6-4-metres-at-cuiu-cuiu-brazil/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cabral-gold-drills-11-6-g-t-gold-over-6-4-metres-at-cuiu-cuiu-brazil | 2022-08-26T01:39:20Z | https://resourceworld.com/cabral-gold-drills-11-6-g-t-gold-over-6-4-metres-at-cuiu-cuiu-brazil/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cabral-gold-drills-11-6-g-t-gold-over-6-4-metres-at-cuiu-cuiu-brazil | false | 1 |
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Shares of CF Industries Holdings Inc.
CF,
+4.36%
rallied 4.36% to $117.40 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
+1.41%
rising 1.41% to 4,199.12 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+0.98%
rising 0.98% to 33,291.78. This was the stock's fifth consecutive day of gains. CF Industries Holdings Inc. hit a new 52-week high, surpassing its previous peak of $113.49, which the company achieved on April 13th.
The stock outperformed some of its competitors Thursday, as Yara International ASA ADR
YARIY,
+3.52%
rose 3.52% to $21.74, Scotts Miracle-Gro Co.
SMG,
+3.21%
rose 3.21% to $75.59, and Sociedad Quimica y Minera De Chile S.A. ADR
SQM,
+3.87%
rose 3.87% to $105.89. Trading volume (4.2 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 2.9 M.
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