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Libya’s capital remains tense day after more than 30 killed in violent clashes
Militias patrolled nearly deserted streets in Libya’s capital on Sunday, a day after clashes killed over 30 people and ended months of relative calm in Tripoli.
The fighting broke out early on Saturday and pitted militias loyal to the Tripoli-based government against other armed groups allied with a rival administration that has sought to be seated in the capital over recent months.
Residents fear the fighting, that capped a months-long political deadlock, could explode into a wider war and a return to the peaks of Libya’s long-running conflict.
Libya has been plunged into chaos since a Nato-backed uprising toppled and killed long-time dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. The oil-rich county has been split between rival administrations, each backed by rogue militias and foreign governments, for years.
The current stalemate grew out of the failure to hold elections in December and Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah’s refusal to step down.
In response, the country’s east-based parliament appointed a rival prime minister, Fathy Bashagha, who has sought to install his government in Tripoli for months.
Saturday’s fighting was focused in the densely populated city centre and involved heavy artillery. Hundreds were trapped and hospitals, government and residential buildings were damaged.
The health ministry said at least 32 people were killed and 159 wounded in the clashes.
Among the dead was Mustafa Baraka, a comedian known for his social media videos mocking militias and corruption. He was shot reportedly while live-streaming on social media. It was not clear whether he was targeted.
One woman who was trapped along with many families in a residential apartment told The Associated Press: “We see death before our eyes and in the eyes of our children.
“The world should protect those innocent children like they did at the time of Gadhafi.”
Militias allied with Tripoli-based Mr Dbeibah were seen roaming the streets in the capital early on Sunday. Their rivals were stationed at their positions in the outskirts of the city, according to local media.
Much of the city has suffered nightly power cuts. Several businesses were closed on Sunday and the state-run National Oil Corp ordered its employees to work remotely on Sunday.
Residents were still weary of potential violence and most stayed in their homes on Sunday. Many rushed to supermarkets when the clashes subsided late on Saturday to stock up on food and other necessities.
“It could be triggered in a flash. They (the militias) are uncontrolled,” one Tripoli school teacher said.
“Our demand is very simple: a normal life.”
Mr Dbeibah’s government claimed the fighting began when a member of a rival militia fired at a patrol of another militia in Tripoli’s Zawiya Street.
It said the shots came amid a mobilisation of Bashagha-allied groups around the capital. The claim could not be independently verified.
Militia clashes are not uncommon in Tripoli. Last month, at least 13 people were killed in militia fighting. And in May, Mr Bashagha attempted to install his government in Tripoli, triggering clashes that ended with his withdrawal from the city.
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NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V. acquired a new position in shares of Syneos Health, Inc. (NASDAQ:SYNH – Get Rating) during the 1st quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm acquired 2,500 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $202,000.
Several other large investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in SYNH. Jackson Grant Investment Advisers Inc. bought a new position in Syneos Health during the 1st quarter worth $26,000. Independence Bank of Kentucky bought a new position in Syneos Health during the 1st quarter worth $28,000. First Horizon Advisors Inc. increased its position in Syneos Health by 59.6% during the 4th quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. now owns 391 shares of the company’s stock worth $39,000 after buying an additional 146 shares during the period. CENTRAL TRUST Co bought a new position in Syneos Health during the 1st quarter worth $44,000. Finally, Lansing Street Advisors bought a new position in Syneos Health during the 1st quarter worth $59,000. Institutional investors own 98.38% of the company’s stock.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
Several research firms have recently issued reports on SYNH. Evercore ISI reduced their target price on Syneos Health to $73.00 in a report on Tuesday, August 9th. Barclays reduced their target price on Syneos Health from $90.00 to $80.00 in a report on Wednesday, August 3rd. Robert W. Baird reduced their target price on Syneos Health to $89.00 in a report on Tuesday, August 9th. TheStreet lowered Syneos Health from a “b” rating to a “c+” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 18th. Finally, Citigroup reduced their target price on Syneos Health from $80.00 to $70.00 in a report on Wednesday, August 3rd. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and six have issued a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Syneos Health has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $84.67.
Syneos Health Stock Performance
Syneos Health (NASDAQ:SYNH – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, August 2nd. The company reported $1.13 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.08 by $0.05. Syneos Health had a return on equity of 14.04% and a net margin of 5.13%. The firm had revenue of $1.36 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.39 billion. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.86 earnings per share. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 6.0% on a year-over-year basis. Equities research analysts forecast that Syneos Health, Inc. will post 4.54 EPS for the current year.
Insider Activity
In other news, CAO Donna Hildebrand Kralowetz sold 1,149 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, July 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $73.16, for a total transaction of $84,060.84. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief accounting officer now directly owns 6,805 shares in the company, valued at $497,853.80. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. In other news, COO Michael Lee Brooks sold 1,002 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, July 28th. The stock was sold at an average price of $78.00, for a total transaction of $78,156.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief operating officer now directly owns 47,552 shares in the company, valued at $3,709,056. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, CAO Donna Hildebrand Kralowetz sold 1,149 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, July 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $73.16, for a total value of $84,060.84. Following the transaction, the chief accounting officer now owns 6,805 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $497,853.80. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last three months, insiders have sold 22,403 shares of company stock valued at $1,646,313. 0.34% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
Syneos Health Profile
Syneos Health, Inc provides biopharmaceutical outsourcing solutions company in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. It operates through two segments, Clinical Solutions and Commercial Solutions. The Clinical Solutions segment offers services for the development of diagnostics, drugs, biologics, devices, and digital therapeutics in the Phase I to IV of clinical development.
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PROVO, Utah — BYU banned a fan who yelled a racial slur at a Black player on the Duke volleyball team during a match Friday night, the university said in a statement Saturday.
The fan was sitting in the BYU student section but was not a student, and has been banned from all athletic venues on campus, the statement said.
"We will not tolerate behavior of this kind. Specifically, the use of a racial slur at any of our athletic events is absolutely unacceptable and BYU Athletics holds a zero-tolerance approach to this behavior," the statement said. "We wholeheartedly apologize to Duke University and especially its student-athlete competing last night for what they experienced. We want BYU athletic events to provide a safe environment for all, and there is no place for behaviors like this in our venues."
The player, Rachel Richardson, who is the only Black starter on the team, was called a racial slur "every time she served," Richardson's godmother, Lesa Pamplin, said in a tweet.
"For far too long, individuals have been subjected to racist slurs, taunts, and threats like the unfortunate incident that happened to my goddaughter, Rachel Richardson, at BYU. It is unfortunate that this incident has only received attention after I tweeted about it," Pamplin, a candidate for circuit court judge in Fort Worth, Texas, said in an emailed statement.
"Every American should be enraged that a young lady was subjected to hateful, demeaning language, and we should be even more outraged that it took a tweet from me in Tarrant County, Texas, to bring this incident to light," the statement continued.
Pamplin tweeted that Richardson "was threatened by a white male that told her to watch her back going to the team bus. A police officer had to be put by their bench."
Richardson is a 19-year-old sophomore from Ellicott City, Maryland.
Duke said its match Saturday against Rider was moved from BYU's Smith Fieldhouse to a different venue in Provo.
"First and foremost, our priority is the well-being of Duke student-athletes," Duke athletic director Nina King said in a statement. "They should always have the opportunity to compete in an inclusive, anti-racist environment which promotes equality and fair play. Following extremely unfortunate circumstances at Friday night's match at BYU, we are compelled to shift today's match against Rider to a different location to afford both teams the safest atmosphere for competition."
Duke and BYU are playing in a four-team, round-robin invitational along with Rider and Washington State. BYU beat Duke 3-1 on Friday.
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After making a silly mistake, it's not uncommon for a person to say, "Oops — I was on autopilot." In his new book, The Hidden Brain, science writer Shankar Vedantam explains how there's actually a lot of truth to that.
Our brains have two modes, he tells NPR's Steve Inkseep — conscious and unconscious, pilot and autopilot — and we are constantly switching back and forth between the two.
"The problem arises when we [switch] without our awareness," Vedantam says, "and the autopilot ends up flying the plane, when we should be flying the plane."
The autopilot mode can be useful when we're multitasking, but it can also lead us to make unsupported snap judgments about people in the world around us. Vedantam says that when we interact with people from different backgrounds in high-pressure situations, it's easy to rely — unconsciously — on heuristics.
3-Year-Old Bigots?
Racial categorization begins at an extremely early age. Vedantam cites research from a day-care center in Montreal that found that children as young as 3 linked white faces with positive attributes and black faces with negative attributes.
"Now, these were children who are 3 years old," Vedantam says. "It is especially hard to call them bigots, or to suggest that they are explicitly racially biased or have animosity in their hearts."
Vedantam says the mind is hard-wired to "form associations between people and concepts." But he thinks that the links the children made between particular groups and particular concepts were not biologically based — those judgments came from culture and upbringing.
"We tend to think of the conscious messages that we give children as being the most powerful education that we can give them," Vedantam says — but the unconscious messages are actually far more influential.
He says that for every 50 times a year a teacher talks about tolerance, there are many hundreds of implicit messages of racial bias that children absorb through culture — whether it's television, books or the attitudes of the adults and kids around them.
"And it's these hidden associations that essentially determine what happens in the unconscious minds of these children," Vedantam says.
'Take Back The Controls'
In American society, colorblindness is often held up as the ideal. And though it's a worthy aspiration, Vedantam says it's a goal that isn't rooted in psychological reality.
"Our hidden brains will always recognize people's races, and they will do so from a very, very young age," Vedantam says. "The far better approach is to put race on the table, to ask [children] to unpack the associations that they are learning, to help us shape those associations in more effective ways."
Most of us think of ourselves as being conscious, intentional, deliberate creatures. ... I have become, in some ways, much more humble about my views and much less certain about myself.
Going back to the autopilot analogy, Vedantam says it's not a problem that the brain has an autopilot mode — as long as you are aware of when it is on. His book, The Hidden Brain, is about how to "take back the controls."
So if the human psyche is just a big constellation of conscious and unconscious cognition — which thoughts represent the real you?
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"I have become, in some ways, much more humble about my views and much less certain about myself. And it may well be that the hidden brain is much more in charge of what we do than our conscious mind's intentions."
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Three people are hospitalized after a shooting at the Sikh temple in Stockton, California Saturday evening.
The incident occurred at approximately 6:42 p.m. (9:42 p.m. ET), according to Joseph Silva, spokesperson for Stockton Police Department.
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Three people are hospitalized after a shooting at the Sikh temple in Stockton, California Saturday evening.
The incident occurred at approximately 6:42 p.m. (9:42 p.m. ET), according to Joseph Silva, spokesperson for Stockton Police Department.
When officers arrived, they located three victims. Silva said there was an event taking place at the temple when the shooting occurred.
The victims were transported to a hospital with what appear to be non-life-threatening injuries.
Both the suspect and the victims are Sikh, according to authorities.
A motive for the shooting is unknown.
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Profund Advisors LLC grew its stake in shares of DiamondRock Hospitality (NYSE:DRH – Get Rating) by 24.4% in the 1st quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 29,174 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after acquiring an additional 5,722 shares during the quarter. Profund Advisors LLC’s holdings in DiamondRock Hospitality were worth $295,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of the company. State Street Corp boosted its position in shares of DiamondRock Hospitality by 6.6% during the fourth quarter. State Street Corp now owns 11,990,109 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $115,225,000 after buying an additional 746,724 shares during the last quarter. Principal Financial Group Inc. boosted its position in shares of DiamondRock Hospitality by 83.0% during the first quarter. Principal Financial Group Inc. now owns 10,465,589 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $105,703,000 after buying an additional 4,745,842 shares during the last quarter. Pzena Investment Management LLC boosted its position in shares of DiamondRock Hospitality by 21.8% during the first quarter. Pzena Investment Management LLC now owns 6,565,872 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $66,315,000 after buying an additional 1,174,806 shares during the last quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. boosted its position in shares of DiamondRock Hospitality by 2.0% during the fourth quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 3,555,217 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $34,166,000 after buying an additional 68,177 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Schroder Investment Management Group boosted its position in shares of DiamondRock Hospitality by 11.3% during the fourth quarter. Schroder Investment Management Group now owns 3,308,325 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $31,793,000 after buying an additional 336,301 shares during the last quarter. 99.54% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
DiamondRock Hospitality Stock Down 5.0 %
DRH stock opened at $9.01 on Friday. DiamondRock Hospitality has a twelve month low of $7.68 and a twelve month high of $11.15. The company has a quick ratio of 1.93, a current ratio of 1.93 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.74. The stock has a market cap of $1.90 billion, a P/E ratio of 40.95 and a beta of 1.60. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $8.86 and its 200-day moving average price is $9.54.
DiamondRock Hospitality Cuts Dividend
Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth
DRH has been the topic of several recent analyst reports. Citigroup increased their price objective on DiamondRock Hospitality to $10.00 in a research report on Monday, August 22nd. Evercore ISI reissued an “in-line” rating and issued a $10.00 target price on shares of DiamondRock Hospitality in a research report on Monday, July 11th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised their target price on DiamondRock Hospitality from $11.00 to $12.00 in a research report on Wednesday, May 18th. Stifel Nicolaus dropped their target price on DiamondRock Hospitality from $12.00 to $11.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Tuesday, July 26th. Finally, Barclays dropped their target price on DiamondRock Hospitality from $11.00 to $10.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, July 7th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have assigned a hold rating and three have issued a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $10.75.
About DiamondRock Hospitality
DiamondRock Hospitality Company is a self-advised real estate investment trust (REIT) that is an owner of a leading portfolio of geographically diversified hotels concentrated in top gateway markets and destination resort locations. The Company owns 31 premium quality hotels with over 10,000 rooms. The Company has strategically positioned its hotels to be operated both under leading global brand families as well as unique boutique hotels in the lifestyle segment.
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Women's Volleyball Season Preview
We let no Gamecock sport go unnoticed at Gamecock Scoop. We are committed to making sure our readers are well informed on the entirety of Gamecock athletics. South Carolina's first serve took place on Friday, August 26 and we wanted to give you a primer for the upcoming season.
The Gamecocks are entering their fifth season under head coach Tom Mendoza. Coach Mendoza has guided Carolina to three NCAA births in his first four seasons, with the Gamecocks advancing to the second round twice. The Gamecocks have never advanced past the second round in program history dating back to 1973. Prior to Coach Mendoza's arrival in Columbia, the Gamecocks had not made the NCAA Tournament since 2002 when they were led by the program's all-time wins leader Kim Hudson. Carolina is 39-37 in SEC play dating back to 2018. Prior to Mendoza, the Gamecocks did not have a winning record in conference play from 2009-2017. The last time the program had a winning SEC record in three consecutive seasons was 2000-2002. The Gamecocks have advanced to the NCAA Tournament ten times in program history and won the Metro Conference in 1984, the program's only conference title. In short, there is room in the trophy case. We can't project this year's Carolina team to win the SEC, but they should contend for a top 5 league finish.
The Roster
Coach Mendoza brought in four freshmen and two transfers along with a trio of 2021 freshmen that led Carolina to a 14-15 record and the first round of the NCAA Tournament. SEC coaches tabbed the Gamecocks 6th out of 13, (Vanderbilt does not compete in volleyball- in addition to football), in their preseason poll. The Gamecocks have a preseason RPI rank of 41.
Amongst the returners, setter Claire Wilson, pin hitter Lauren McCutcheon and defensive specialist Morgan Carter all look to improve solid freshman seasons. Wilson and McCutcheon were the only two Gamecocks to play in every set last fall. As mentioned above, Shane Beamer is not the only Carolina coach to nab some impact transfers. Jenna Hampton is a Grad Transfer from Penn State and has already been selected to the preseason All-SEC team, the only Gamecock to earn that honor. Hampton is a libero and led the Big 10 with 4.83 digs per set. Delaney Hans joins Hampton as a Grad Student playing her final year of college volleyball at Columbia. Hans decided to stay in the SEC after playing 70 matches at Georgia. Hans had her best seasons in the final two years in Athens, combining for 784 assists and 259 digs in 157 sets.
Of the four freshmen, three are homegrown products in Tireh Smith, (Moncks Corner), Kimmie Thompson, (Simpsonville), and Alayna Johnson, (Kershaw). They are joined by Pennsylvania native, 6'4 blocker Megan Holland.
The Schedule
The SEC is a grind in almost every sport, and volleyball is no exception. Kentucky won the National Championship in 2020 and Florida is a long-standing power in the sport. Those two programs along with Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi State were picked to finish above Carolina in the SEC. South Carolina plays 18 conference matches that are capped off with a trip to Lexington for two contents against Kentucky.
The Gamecocks open the season at home in the three-match round-robin Carolina Classic. (*** Since this article was written Carolina beat Omaha, Sacred Heart, and Winthrop to start the season 3-0). The first week of September features three road matches against ACC foes UNC, Wake Forest, and Clemson. South Carolina did defeat Clemson 3-0 last season. On September 16-17th Carolina will head to Miami to take part in the Hurricane Invitational, where they will play the host Hurricanes and then Oregon. The Ducks are currently ranked 19th. USC will return home to face Florida in two matches to start SEC play on September 24-25.
Our best guess is that the Gamecocks will make a return trip to the NCAA Tournament and greatly improve on last season's 6-12 SEC record as this squad should be Coach Mendoza's best team. | https://southcarolina.rivals.com/news/women-s-volleyball-season-preview | 2022-08-28T14:09:40Z | https://southcarolina.rivals.com/news/women-s-volleyball-season-preview | false | 1 |
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Massive change to Covid rules could FINALLY see the hated isolation period slashed from seven days - as the unusual way footy tragic Anthony Albanese 'leaked the news' is revealed
- Anthony Albanese tells Souths Covid isolation period is set to be cut to five days
- This would let Souths star Damien Cook, who tested positive, play next game
- National Cabinet will have to approve reduction from seven days on Wednesday
- NSW is pushing hard for the change and eventually want isolation scrapped
Covid sufferers are set to see their enforced isolation period cut from seven days to five, according to an inside tip the prime minister gave his footy side.
Under the current seven-day isolation rule South Sydney hooker Damien Cook was set to miss Friday's NRL grudge match against the Sydney Roosters having tested positive to Covid on Saturday.
However, Rabbitohs fanatic Anthony Albanese revealed to the club the isolation period is likely to be reduced to five days when National Cabinet hold talks on Wednesday - making him free to take the field.
Anthony Albanese (pictured at a Rabbitohs match) told his NRL club South Sydney that the Covid isolation period is likely to be reduced from seven to five days this week
If the Covid isolation period is reduced to five days, it will allow Souths hooker Damien Cook, who tested positive to the virus on Saturday, to play against arch rivals the Roosters on Friday
Mr Albanese attended the South Sydney game against the North Queensland Cowboys at Accor Stadium on Saturday night where he informed the club of the likely change.
At this stage however nothing has been finalised.
The move to reduce the isolation period has been most vocally pushed by New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet - as the state struggles with workforce shortages that are putting a dent in the economy.
It is understood other state premiers are also in agreement and are likely to rubber stamp the move.
Elsewhere the UK and many European nations have scrapped mandatory isolation periods altogether.
The USA's Centre for Disease Control recommends a five day period of quarantine, but sufferers are no longer forced by law to stay home.
Mr Perrottet has also argued for the isolation period to be abolished but at this stage that appears unlikely with health officials strongly opposed to the proposal.
Most Australian states and territories relaxed isolation requirements from 14 to seven days at the end of last year (pictured, Sydneysiders in August, 2021)
At the moment, Australians can still be fined up to $11,000 for breaching seven-day isolation rules.
Most Australian states and territories relaxed isolation requirements from 14 to seven days at the end of last year as the first Omicron wave increasingly sidelined workers, constraining services, businesses and supply chains.
University of South Australia epidemiologist Adrian Esterman said it's too early to shorten mandatory isolation.
'Two-thirds of people are still infectious after five days,' he told AAP.
But Mr Perrottet said Australia's pandemic response must evolve along with the virus and that he doesn't not oppose scrapping pandemic leave payments for workers who are struck down by the virus.
'If the state government, federal government, mandate isolation and deprive people of their living, the (government) should compensate them, and I'm not resiling from that point,' he said.
Reducing the isolation period was raised at a national cabinet meeting last month but wasn't backed by medical experts as the BA.4/5 Omicron variant wave's was continuing to wreak havoc.
'The advice that is there from the Chief Medical Officer, Professor (Paul) Kelly, was that now is certainly not the time for that to be reconsidered,' Mr Albanese told Adelaide radio station FIVEaa on July 18.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews agreed, declaring mandatory isolation would be abolished at some stage but it wasn't the 'right thing to do' in the middle of winter.
In a statement to AAP, a Victorian government spokesman said: 'We will consider the advice from AHPPC (Australian Health Protection Principal Committee) on isolation periods and consider any changes they recommend.'
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has been a vocal proponent of reducting the Covid isolation period
Meanwhile, the inclusion of the fleet-footed Cook will bolster Souths' chances against their most bitter rivals at Allianz Stadium on Friday night in the last round of the regular season.
Although both teams are set to make the finals and can't much improve their respective positions on Friday the two clubs have the most storied, and perhaps most fierce, rivalry in the NRL.
The clubs which have territory butting up against each other in Sydney's inner south and east are foundation clubs of the league competition.
Having been bought up not far from South Sydney's spiritual home of Redfern Oval Mr Albanese has often spoken about his lifelong devotion to the team.
'I was raised with three great faiths - the Catholic Church, the Labor party and South Sydney Football Club,' is a favourite quote of the prime minister.
Souths versus Easts, now called Sydney City Roosters, is one of the longest and most bitterly contested rivalries in the NRL | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11154155/Anthony-Albanese-tells-South-Sydney-Covid-isolation-set-cut-five-days-National-Cabinet.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-28T14:14:20Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11154155/Anthony-Albanese-tells-South-Sydney-Covid-isolation-set-cut-five-days-National-Cabinet.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 2 |
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Tampa Bay Rays, RHP Tyler Glasnow agree to two-year extension of MLB
The Tampa Bay Rays have agreed to a contract extension with righthanded pitcher Tyler Glasnow through 2024, the team announced on Friday.
Glasnow will earn $5.1 million this year. He will receive $5.35 million next season and $25 million in 2024, the first year he would be eligible for free agency.
“It seems to be such a good partnership,” Glasnow said. “I’m glad I can just sit here and talk about it. This is such a great opportunity in a place where I really want to be. I don’t want to leave yet, I’m not ready to go yet. exactly where I want to go to be.”
The 6-foot-8 Glasnow would receive $1 million for winning the Cy Young Award, $500,000 for finishing second, and $250,000 for finishing third through fifth. There is also a $50,000 making All-Star team bonus and a $1 million assignment bonus if traded.
“It gives me a lot of confidence to know that they have that confidence in me and that they are willing to give me a contract of this magnitude,” Glasnow said. “I want this to be a discount in a way. I want to make it much better than it is.”
The Rays Ace underwent Tommy John surgery on August 4, 2021 and last appeared for the Rays on June 14, 2021, against the Chicago White Sox.
The 29-year-old threw 21 pitches to a pair of minor leaguers for Tuesday’s game against the Los Angeles Angels, with a top speed of 97 mph.
“I think it’s easy to be very optimistic,” Glasnow said on Tuesday. “I felt really good, my velo was good, the performance was good, but again, if I’m not comfortable and I don’t feel 100 percent and ready to go then I’m not. I’m not going push it.”
The Rays currently top the American League wildcard standings. With the regular season ending in just over a month, Glasnow is not ruling out a return this season.
“It’s going to be the hardest thing for me to come to the decision,” Glasnow said. “I really want to come back. I want to help the team, especially the position we are in, but I’m not going to jeopardize the rest of my career.”
A healthy Glasnow entry into 2022 AL All-Star Game starter Shane McClanahan would give the Rays a powerful top of the rotation.
“Shane is pitching at Cy Young level this season and Glas did the year before,” said Rays president of baseball operations Erik Neander. “Then you look at the other guys and what they’re doing, it’s definitely exciting to think about.”
This report uses information from The Associated Press.
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WINTON GROUP Ltd cut its stake in shares of Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (NYSE:HLX – Get Rating) by 18.7% during the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 83,029 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock after selling 19,160 shares during the quarter. WINTON GROUP Ltd’s holdings in Helix Energy Solutions Group were worth $397,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of the stock. Hennion & Walsh Asset Management Inc. boosted its stake in Helix Energy Solutions Group by 1.7% during the first quarter. Hennion & Walsh Asset Management Inc. now owns 161,621 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock worth $773,000 after acquiring an additional 2,728 shares in the last quarter. Teacher Retirement System of Texas boosted its stake in Helix Energy Solutions Group by 19.5% during the fourth quarter. Teacher Retirement System of Texas now owns 27,576 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock worth $86,000 after acquiring an additional 4,501 shares in the last quarter. Guinness Atkinson Asset Management Inc boosted its stake in Helix Energy Solutions Group by 26.4% during the first quarter. Guinness Atkinson Asset Management Inc now owns 25,508 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock worth $122,000 after acquiring an additional 5,328 shares in the last quarter. Commonwealth Equity Services LLC boosted its stake in Helix Energy Solutions Group by 54.3% during the fourth quarter. Commonwealth Equity Services LLC now owns 17,669 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock worth $55,000 after acquiring an additional 6,215 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Profund Advisors LLC lifted its stake in shares of Helix Energy Solutions Group by 14.4% in the fourth quarter. Profund Advisors LLC now owns 50,429 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $157,000 after buying an additional 6,360 shares in the last quarter. 86.81% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
Analyst Ratings Changes
A number of research analysts have weighed in on HLX shares. Cowen raised their price objective on shares of Helix Energy Solutions Group from $6.50 to $7.50 in a research note on Wednesday, July 27th. Cowen raised their price objective on shares of Helix Energy Solutions Group from $6.50 to $7.50 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 27th. Evercore ISI raised shares of Helix Energy Solutions Group from an “in-line” rating to an “outperform” rating and raised their price objective for the company from $6.00 to $8.00 in a research note on Wednesday, July 27th. Capital One Financial raised their price objective on shares of Helix Energy Solutions Group to $6.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 27th. Finally, StockNews.com lowered shares of Helix Energy Solutions Group from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Saturday, August 20th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $7.25.
Helix Energy Solutions Group Stock Performance
Helix Energy Solutions Group (NYSE:HLX – Get Rating) last announced its earnings results on Monday, July 25th. The oil and gas company reported ($0.14) EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.16) by $0.02. Helix Energy Solutions Group had a negative net margin of 17.62% and a negative return on equity of 7.24%. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned ($0.09) earnings per share. Equities research analysts forecast that Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. will post -0.5 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Helix Energy Solutions Group Profile
Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc, an offshore energy services company, provides specialty services to the offshore energy industry primarily in Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, the Asia Pacific, and West Africa regions. The company operates through three segments: Well Intervention, Robotics, and Production Facilities.
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South diva Kajal Aggarwal has not just left a mark on us through her south films but also has bagged a huge fan following all over India since she made her debut in the Bollywood industry through Rohit Shetty’s 2010 release ‘Singham’. The actress is also known for making sure she boldly keeps across what’s on her mind.
Well, with stardom comes a series of controversies in a star’s life and that’s something undeniable. At times such controversies either die down fast or remain forever as an imprint. One such controversy of Kajal was her 2011 ‘n*de photoshoot’ with FHM magazine.
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The 2011 controversy of Kajal Aggarwal was about her photoshoot for the September issue of men’s glossy FHM India. The photoshoot for the cover of the magazine showed the actress completely topless covering her assets with her hands. But in reality, Kajal claimed to have never taken any such images.
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According to the news outlet Hindustan Times, Kajal Aggarwal had stated that her cover photo was tampered with and the bustier she wore was removed showing her being topless. She said, “I did not do the photo shoot this way, it’s been morphed by the magazine for publicity.” Well, it was later when an official statement was released by Kabeer Sharma the executive editor of FHM India refusing the actress’s statement. He said, “This accusation is shocking and preposterous. FHM has never in its history morphed a photo of a celebrity. We have a form duly signed by Kajal, in addition to SMS/email exchanges with her confirming the shoot. It is baffling why she chose to deny a shoot that she willingly did.”
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Below are the results from Saturday’s WWE house show from the Massmutual Center in Springfield, MA, courtesy of WrestlingBodySlam.com.
WWE Undisputed Tag Team Titles Match- The Uso’s (c) retain over The Street Profits
Ciampa defeated Cedric Alexander
WWE United States Title Match- Bobby Lashley (c) retains over AJ Styles and Theory
IYO Sky (WITHOUT Bayley & Dakota Kai) defeated Asuka via a quick roll-up and put feet on the ropes for leverage
Riddle defeated Seth Rollins in a Street Fight after driving him through a table then hitting the RKO
Kevin Owens defeated Chad Gable (w/ Otis) after an Otis distraction backfires allowing Owens to hit Gable with a Stunner
WWE Intercontinental Title Match- Gunther (c) (w/ Ludwig Kaiser) retains over Ricochet
The New Day (Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods) and Drew McIntyre defeated The Brawling Brutes (Sheamus, Ridge Holland & Butch). The heels announced before the match that McIntyre will not be competing due to the injuries he sustained on SmackDown, but halfway through the match McIntyre showed up to hit Claymores Ridge Holland. | https://wrestlingheadlines.com/wwe-house-show-results-from-springfield-ma-8-27-22/ | 2022-08-28T14:36:51Z | https://wrestlingheadlines.com/wwe-house-show-results-from-springfield-ma-8-27-22/ | false | 1 |
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Arthur Jay Bolt, “Art” of Bonita Springs, Fla., passed away at his home Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022.
Born in Chicago, Ill. on Feb. 5, 1943, Art graduated from Timothy Christian High School and attended Morton Junior College and General Motors Training Institute.
Because of his life-long love of automobiles, Art’s careers included being a mechanic, service writer, service manager and salesperson. Art later relocated with his family to southwestern Michigan and owned and operated Quality Refuse Service and Lakefront Enterprises. He served on the South Haven City Council, was a director of Chemical Bank, and sat on the Board of Public Utilities and Brownfield Redevelopment Commission. As a Rotarian of over 40 years, Art was involved in multiple service projects aiding people in Nicaragua. Upon eventually moving to Florida, he joined the Bonita Springs Fire Dept as a CERT volunteer and assisted the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) with canine training.
Art is survived by his wife of 60 years, Cindy Bolt; brother-in-law Hil VanDenend; sister Brianna Brown; and brother Robert (Dorothy) Vitter; children, Marcia (Jim) Leach and David Bolt; grandchildren, Jeff (Jennifer) Vanderheiden, Ian (Laura) Leach, Tyler (Katie) Leach, Victoria (Tyler) Black and Aria Bolt; as well as 8 great-grandchildren. He is preceded in death by his parents, an infant brother, and sister Liz Swittens.
Art was always very involved in his community and his church, a committed Christian who believed his whole life was part of God’s plan. He was a good friend to many and will be greatly missed.
A service honoring Art’s life will be held at 10 a.m., Sept. 3, 2022 at the Senior Services of Van Buren County’s Senior Village, 8337 M-140 Hwy., South Haven, MI. Memorial gifts may be sent to First Presbyterian Church, Bonita Springs, FL or South Haven Rotary Club, South Haven, MI.
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By Simon Peach, PA Chief Football Writer
Scott Parker believes Bournemouth’s young squad are “struggling for air” and face more defeats like the 9-0 hammering at Liverpool unless help arrives before Thursday’s transfer deadline.
Having overseen promotion as Championship runners-up last season, the Cherries began their Premier League return with a 2-0 home win against Aston Villa.
But the fixture list has not been kind and a 4-0 defeat at reigning champions Manchester City was compounded by last weekend’s 3-0 home loss to in-form Arsenal.
Things would get even worse on Saturday afternoon as they suffered an Anfield annihilation as Liverpool recorded a record-equalling Premier League win.
Asked if he hoped that the 9-0 defeat was the lowest point of Bournemouth’s season, Parker said: “At this present moment in time, yeah for sure. Definitely.
“But at this moment in time, where we currently are, I can see some more, to be honest with you.
“We need to make a decision. That’s just where it is. I think I’ve been clear on that from the minute I stepped in.
“I’ve been clear throughout all of that in terms of how this season could look for us, these experiences what we’re going to face, what they may look (like) and I stick by that. And that is exactly what it will look like.
“We need to make a decision and try and help this group, this young group, who at times are struggling for air.
“Every one of us – me, my staff, the fans – we need to make that decision, really.”
Parker spoke well in the bowels of Anfield given what had just unfolded on the pitch – a performance that underlined the need for new faces before the deadline after what has been a quiet summer.
“I don’t know (if there will be more signings),” the deflated Cherries boss said. “We’ve been trying to do that.
“There’s millions of reasons why and there’s loads of circumstances why this is not just as straightforward as not being able to sign players because players don’t want to come or whatever it is.
“There’s a lot of issues here for the reasons why we’ve not been able to do that and it just depends whether them issues resolve or we make a decision. That’s it, really.” | https://www.echolive.ie/nationalsport/arid-40949495.html | 2022-08-28T14:50:31Z | https://www.echolive.ie/nationalsport/arid-40949495.html | false | 11 |
(The Hill) – The White House has stepped into tricky legal territory with a plan to erase $10,000 in federal student loan debt for millions of borrowers.
The plan is expected to face legal challenges, which would cause uncertainty for borrowers who stand to benefit from the new policy.
At the same time, there are also expected to be challenges for those planning to sue the administration over the plan.
Demonstrating standing in the case in particular is seen as a hurdle, leading some to doubt a future challenge will be successful.
The Biden administration relied on the 2003 Heroes Act enacted following the Sept. 11 terror attacks to underpin its plan. It argues that because of the COVID-19 emergency, the law gives the Education Department the authority to both suspend loan repayments through Dec. 31 and cancel loan debt for many borrowers.
Groups like the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way have opposed Biden’s plan in part due to the threat of legal challenges.
“We’re very concerned that it is going to get held up in court and leave borrowers in limbo,” said Lanae Erickson, senior vice president for social policy, education and politics at Third Way.
There has been discussion for months about the administration’s legal authority to cancel student loan debt, as progressives increased pressure on Biden to take action. The initial expectation was that the Biden administration would use the Higher Education Act to justify executive action on student loans.
Biden on Wednesday announced plans to cancel up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt for borrowers making under $125,000 per year, and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients. The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel released a memo outlining the legal justification.
The Heroes Act was passed in 2003 with bipartisan support and gives the Education secretary the authority to waive debt obligations amid a war or national emergency. The law was passed with veterans fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan in mind, but the administration believes the coronavirus pandemic is covered by the law because it was declared a national emergency.
“They very clearly narrowed their decision to this very specific national emergency hook,” said Dalié Jiménez, a law professor at University of California Irvine. “I think they did that probably to avoid a legal challenge or prevent it as much as possible.”
“It’s strategically a much better thing to do, and I think it narrows the possibility of successful challenges considerably,” Jiménez said.
Erickson, however, argued that there remains a “very high likelihood” that the action will ultimately be struck down.
“It is still very vague congressional language and I don’t think Congress thought when it was passing Heroes that it was giving the department the authority to wipe out student debt,” she said.
When White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked Thursday if the administration is prepared for potential legal challenges, she declined to get into what she called a hypothetical scenario.
Bharat Ramamurti, deputy director of the National Economic Council, said Friday that Biden did not want to move forward with loan forgiveness unless he was certain he was on firm legal footing.
“Of course people can challenge actions in court, it happens all the time,” Ramamurti said. “It’s going to be up to the courts to decide whether those are valid claims or not. But we believe we’re on very strong legal ground.”
There are questions about who could demonstrate standing in a case.
“It’s an obvious standing hurdle. It seems plausible to me that some plaintiffs could overcome it,” said Richard Re, University of Virginia law professor. “If someone can show that this measure will cost them something financially, that would probably be the strongest way to have a challenge be heard on the merits.”
Re and others have suggested that loan servicers could potentially sue to stop the loan forgiveness. Erickson said that borrowers who fall just outside the income bracket for the loan forgiveness — such as those who make $126,000 per year — may also be able to sue.
Should they retake control of the House of Representatives in the upcoming midterm elections, Republicans could also file a lawsuit against the student loan forgiveness plan as early as January, she said, like the suit then-House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) filed over the Affordable Care Act in 2014.
Conservative critics of Biden’s announcement acknowledge there is uncertainty over who would have standing to bring a lawsuit in this case, but they largely agreed that the policy itself is unconstitutional and contradictory.
Critics pointed to comments last July from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) when she cast doubt on the president’s authority to unilaterally wipe out student loan debt.
“People think that the president of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone, he can delay, but he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress,” Pelosi said.
Akash Chougule, vice president of government affairs at Americans for Prosperity, argued using the Heroes Act to justify the measure is a “misreading of the executive branch’s authority,” noting that a former Obama administration counsel for the Education Department determined in a memo earlier this year that the executive branch likely does not have the power to cancel student debt.
Chougule also suggested the administration was hypocritical in describing the COVID-19 pandemic as an emergency that necessitated the loan forgiveness since the White House moved to lift the Title 42 immigration policy on the grounds that the pandemic was no longer an emergency that required the rapid expulsion of migrants.
“The difficulty, I think, is I don’t know who has standing to sue,” said Neal McCluskey, a policy analyst at the CATO Institute. “So, the most direct harm it seems to me is on taxpayers because they’re not getting repaid and they have to cover government spending.”
Alex Gangitano contributed. | https://www.fourstateshomepage.com/news/national/white-house-faces-legal-questions-with-student-loan-forgiveness-plan/ | 2022-08-28T14:51:12Z | https://www.fourstateshomepage.com/news/national/white-house-faces-legal-questions-with-student-loan-forgiveness-plan/ | true | 15 |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — From fire departments to governments, from school districts to corporations, from local utilities to grassroots organizers around the world, Twitter at its best is a tool to get a message out quickly, efficiently, directly.
It's also a constant risk-and-reward calculation.
A recent bombshell whistleblower report from Twitter's former head of security alleges that the social media company has been negligently lax on cybersecurity and privacy protections for its users for years. While worrisome for anyone on Twitter, the revelations could be especially concerning for those who use it to reach constituencies, get news out about emergencies and for political dissidents and activists in the crosshairs of hackers or their own governments.
“We tend to look at these companies as large, well-resourced entities who know what they’re doing — but you realize that a lot of their actions are ad hoc and reactive, driven by crises,” said Prateek Waghre, policy director at the Internet Freedom Foundation, a digital rights nonprofit in India. "Essentially, they’re often held together by cello tape or chewing gum.”
Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who served as Twitter’s security chief until he was fired early this year, filed the complaints last month with federal U.S. authorities, alleging that the company misled regulators about its poor cybersecurity defenses and its negligence in attempting to root out fake accounts that spread disinformation. Among Zatko’s most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users.
Waghre said the allegations in the complaint about India — that Twitter knowingly allowed the Indian government to place its agents on the company payroll where they had "direct unsupervised access to the company's systems and user data" — were particularly worrisome. He also pointed to an incident earlier this month where a former Twitter employee was found guilty of passing along sensitive user data to royal family members in Saudi Arabia in exchange for bribes.
The consequences of privacy and security lapses can range from inconvenience and embarrassment — such as when an Indiana State Police account was hacked and tweeted "poo-poo head" earlier this year — to much worse. In October 2021, a Saudi humanitarian aid worker was sentenced to 20 years in prison because of an anonymous, satirical Twitter account that the kingdom says he ran. It's possible that the case is linked with the men accused of spying on behalf of the kingdom while working at Twitter.
As an advocate for dissidents and others detained in Saudi Arabia, Bethany Al-Haidari has been concerned for years about Twitter’s user privacy safeguards. The new whistleblower allegations make her all the more worried.
“Given what we know about how social media is used around the world, that is incredibly problematic,” said Al-Haidari, who works for The Freedom Initiative, a U.S.-based human rights group. The possibility of hackers or governments exploiting the alleged cybersecurity lapses at Twitter to get users’ identities, private messages or other personal information “is quite disturbing to me,” she said.
Chinese-Australian artist and activist Badiucao, who regularly publishes art that criticizes the Chinese Communist Party, expressed concern about the whistleblower’s allegations, noting that many users provide their phone numbers and emails to Twitter.
“Once that personal information is leaked, it could be used to trace your identity,” he said. Badiucao said he regularly receives death threats and propaganda from what appears to be bot or spam accounts.
But the artist plans to keep using Twitter, saying it's probably the best option Chinese-speaking activists and artists have for a "shelter for free speech.”
Twitter says the whistleblower claims present a “false narrative” about the company and its privacy and data security practices, and that the claims lack context. “Security and privacy have long been company-wide priorities at Twitter and will continue to be,” the company said in a statement.
Despite the heightened concerns sparked by Zatko's claims, none of the groups The Associated Press spoke to this week plan to stop using Twitter. Security experts say while the whistleblower's claims are alarming, there's no reason for individual users to delete their accounts.
High-profile Twitter users and world governments may be at greater risk than average users, experts say. In 2020, for instance, Twitter suffered an embarrassing hack by a teenager who accessed the accounts of then-President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and a number of tech billionaires including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Musk is currently embroiled in a battle with Twitter as he tries to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy the company.
Yet another security incident raised alarms for Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University communications professor who follows Twitter closely. In 2017, a Twitter customer support worker deactivated then-President Donald Trump's account for a few minutes during their last day on the job. While the account was restored quickly, Grygiel said, the incident showed how vulnerable Twitter was when it comes to governments, heads of state and military branches that use the platform.
“Am I surprised and shocked by the whistleblower’s allegations? I’m not,” said Trav Robertson, chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, which uses Twitter to communicate with about 18,700 followers. But he argues that it's especially important for people not to assume that “the constant attacks on our emails, our databases, our Twitter accounts, our Facebooks” are the new normal. "When we become desensitized to it, we fail to be proactive,” he said.
At the City of Denver’s fire department, public information officer JD Chism acknowledges concern over security issues. But the department has to weight that risk against the way Twitter has become integral to communicating emergencies to the public. The department’s Twitter feed hosts real-time updates on fires and consequent road closures and injuries, alongside retweets from other agencies warning of dangers such as flash floods.
For now, the department will keep using Twitter as it always has, Chism said, “It’s good for taking care of people, and that’s what we are here for.”
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CJI Lalit-led bench will hear pleas of Siddique Kappan & Navlakha, PILs on Monday
CJI Lalit-led bench will hear pleas of Siddique Kappan & Navlakha, PILs on Monday
New Delhi: The Chief Justice of India U U Lalit-headed bench will hear the bail plea of Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, a petition of activist Gautam Navlakha and some important PILs on Monday, his first working day in the Supreme Court as the CJI. Justice Lalit was sworn in as the 49th Chief Justice of India on Saturday, a non-working day in the Supreme Court.
According to the cause list uploaded in the apex court website, CJI Lalit will hold the bench in the court number one with Justice S Ravindra Bhat on Monday. Kerala-based journalist Kappan, arrested in October 2020 while on his way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh, where a young Dalit woman had died after allegedly being gang-raped, has approached the top court seeking bail in the case. A Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court had earlier this month rejected his bail application. Kappan was booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in the alleged Hathras conspiracy case.
His plea, on being mentioned for an urgent hearing, was directed to be listed on August 26 by former Chief Justice N V Ramana last week. Chief Justice Lalit, along with Justice Bhat, will also hear an appeal filed by human rights activist Navlakha, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, against the Bombay High Court order of April 26, rejecting his plea that he be placed under house custody instead of being lodged in prison.
The case against Navlakha and other arrested accused pertains to the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune on December 31, 2017. Police had alleged that the event was funded by Maoists. A bench headed by Chief Justice Lalit is scheduled to hear a number of fresh PILs on various issues. The top court is also scheduled to hear a batch of pleas challenging the Karnataka High Court verdict which dismissed the petitions seeking permission to wear Hijab inside the classroom saying Hijab is not a part of the essential religious practice in Islamic faith.
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Shares of Tertiary Minerals plc (LON:TYM – Get Rating) crossed below its 200-day moving average during trading on Friday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of GBX 0.18 ($0.00) and traded as low as GBX 0.10 ($0.00). Tertiary Minerals shares last traded at GBX 0.11 ($0.00), with a volume of 6,450,719 shares trading hands.
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Separately, Shore Capital restated a “house stock” rating on shares of Tertiary Minerals in a research note on Friday, July 15th.
Tertiary Minerals Stock Down 6.5 %
The firm has a market capitalization of £1.65 million and a PE ratio of -1.08. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is GBX 0.13 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 0.18. The company has a quick ratio of 5.71, a current ratio of 5.71 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 51.87.
Tertiary Minerals Company Profile
Tertiary Minerals plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the identification, acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral deposits. The company engages in the development of a multi-commodity project portfolio, including precious metals, base metals, and industrial minerals. It owns interests in the Storuman fluorspar project located in north central Sweden; the Lassedalen fluorspar project located in the south-west of Oslo, Norway; the Pyramid gold project located in the northwest of Reno, Nevada; the Paymaster polymetallic project that includes claims covering an area of 390 acres located in southwest of Tonopah, Nevada; and the Kaaresselkä and Kiekerömaa gold projects located in Finland.
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785kgs of crystal meth was stopped from leaving SA by SARS customs officials. Photo: yannis marigo / Flickr
Millions of rands worth of crystal meth, destined for Australia, was seized by customs officials at OR Tambo Airport.
785kgs of crystal meth was stopped from leaving SA by SARS customs officials. Photo: yannis marigo / Flickr
Customs officers from the South African Revenue Service (SARS) based at OR Tambo International Airport stopped 785kgs of crystal meth from leaving SA.
In a statement released on Sunday, 28 August, SARS said the consignment was destined for Australia. The package was declared as a ‘Multi-Purpose Anti-Slip Mat’. Upon physical inspection, it was found to be concealing crystal meth with a street value of R236 million.
The case was handed over to the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations (Hawks) after the detection and seizure of the drugs. The Hawks will be investigating the matter further.
SARS Commissioner Edward Kieswetter lauded the customs officers for stopping the crystal meth from leaving SA. He further sent a warning out to syndicates who use the country’s ports of entry/exit to commit these crimes.
“I want to send a clear warning to the criminal syndicates that are using our ports of entry/exit to commit this type of crime, that our officers are alert and working very hard to stamp out such criminality. The excellent cooperation with other law enforcement agencies at these ports is enabling all of us to deal a deadly blow to these illegal activities,” said Kieswetter.
Meanwhile, it was reported that undocumented who were disguised as street vendors and sold drugs were arrested following a sting operation in Delmas, Mpumalanga.
Police spokesperson Brigadier Selvy Mohlala said on 26 August a sting operation was conducted in Delmas by multi-disciplinary stakeholders consisting of members of the SAPS from Delmas (Visible Policing and Detectives), SAPS members from the District office, Department of Home Affairs (Immigration officers) and AAA Security Company.
During the said operation, which was mainly carried out in Sarel Celliers in Delmas as well as in Botleng, great successes were achieved. The successes included the arrest of five suspects aged between 22 and 33 for possession of illegal substances (drugs), according to Mohlala. Read the full story here. | https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/crystal-meth-seized-or-tambo-airport-28-august-2022/ | 2022-08-28T15:00:32Z | https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/crystal-meth-seized-or-tambo-airport-28-august-2022/ | true | 1 |
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Last week, the Yolo County Fair made its grand return after two years away due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While a version of it returned last year, it was not the same vendor and was a lot less attended than in regular years past.
2022 saw the return of so many Yolo County Fair community favorites including events such as the Vocal Showcase, the opening night Gala, the Future Farmers of America auctions and livestock competitions, a two-day Demolition Derby and all the attractions provided by Midway.
Please enjoy some of the best photos the Daily Democrat staff took at the Yolo County Fair.
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About game: SPQR (Deluxe Edition) is an updated release of the classic GMT game of warfare in the age of the Roman Republic, designed by Richard H. Berg and Mark Herman. The deluxe edition contains the five scenarios, maps and counters from the original SPQR, plus nine additional scenarios with the needed maps and counters, taken from various expansion modules.
SPQR – the acronym for Senatus Populusque Romanus , the Senate and the Roman People, the power behind the state – portrays the development of the art of war from the end of the Macedonian era through the heyday of the Republic of Rome, prior to the changes in the army wrought by Marius and the collapse of the republic. The main modules and battles covered are: SPQR (Cannae, Zama, Cynocephalae), Pyrrhic Victory (Heraclea & Ausculum), Consul for Rome (Trebbia, The Metaurus) as well as many more.
It is important to remember that SPQR is the second volume in the Great Battles of History Series. As such, it uses the same “basic” system as the preceding and further titles in the series, i.e.: troops activation & sequence based on Generals ratings and initiative system; battle resolution based on units types, direction of attack, size of units, etc.; Cohesion and Troops Quality as decisive metrics of troops experience and value; Rout and Rally actions and many more mechanics making this system pretty detailed simulation. You will find also many historical notes within the materials, so that you can see what questions of military history arose from the individual battles.
Would you stand-up to the task and manage to prevail against odds, leading your forces to the victory in the field?
Number of players: This is a great 2-player operational level game – I will go that far that can even call it a simulation. At the same time, it plays very well solo and can be used also in that mode.
Playing time: Many Great Battles of History (GHoH) volumes featured battles huge in size and complexity. The situation is similar with SPQR – although maybe not to the extent Alexander the Great Battles are depicted. That means that one scenario easily could take the whole afternoon. A few smaller engagements (there are such too!) can be played in more reasonable, 2-3 hours slot.
Complexity: As I played various wargame titles – including many GBoH positions – I would rate this as a medium-complexity title. I agree, that the rulebook is long and there are some specific situation you need to take into account when playing (legion rules for example). Still, just organize a session with an experienced player and he will quickly introduce you to all nuances of the game.
What I like: Game theme – I am fan of antiquity and Rome especially. While for the most of the players the first association would be imperial period, the republican times, with Punic Wars especially, gives a lot of interesting insight into the Roman tactics & strategies. Simulation value – I truly appreciate the depth and breath of the design. Authors went to great lengths to on one side give as much accuracy and realism to the game as possible, while on the other to make this title still playable. Components & additional materials – it is great too see not only beautiful counters as well as nicely prepared maps but also compilation of all additional modules which significantly extends the number of battles we can play. Rulebook – I am fan of Mak Herman’s design and historical notes so I always read his rulebooks with great pleasure. Of course, the material itself might seem very long and daunting; but look how much space the examples take and how logically all the sections are grouped. Also, once you read it once and then play, further GBoH rulebooks will be pretty straightforward for you. What I do not like or would like to see in the game: The clutter on the map – sometimes the map can be very crowded with all those additional tokens like Cohesion Hits, No Missiles, Rout, TQ-Check, Leader Wounded, etc. Especially when you have many counters one to another, a tweezer can be very helpful. The length of some of the scenarios – I mentioned it through the review couple of times but will add once again – some of the scenarios are hardly playable due to enormous size and time investment needed to bring them to the table. I would also appreciate many more smaller set-ups which can be used as a training scenarios. For whom? With all my sympathy, this is definitely not a game for an entry level wargamer. At the same time, if you already played some hex & counter games, that one would be a great continuation – especially starting with the smaller engagements.
More about the game:
And now let us have a look at the components – all pictures / videos taken during my plays:
Set-up of Bagradas Plains (255 BC) scenario.
Legio III formed in Triplex Acies . On the left Roman Units, on the right Allied Units.
In the heat of battle Legions are trying to repeal the Elephants attack .
Game Turn track with losses on both sides.
VERDICT:
I acquired SPQR after buying Alexander and before Cataphract . I position the game on my preference list somewhere in the middle. While I appreciate the Roman Republican army system and its depiction in the game, I find some of the battle too large to play in the reasonable time. The smaller ones are really nice and you can bring them to conclusion within an evening.
If you have heard about Great Battles of History and was thinking if this is not too overwhelming for you, you should definitely try. The question is whether SPQR should be the first title to bring to the table. Personally, I would suggest smaller designs like Hoplite or Cataphract . Also, if you are a solo wargamer, you should find the system really well suited for that type of play.
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City Council addresses future water needs
By Jinifer Rae
Freelance Writer
As Mountain City continues growing with increased businesses and population, an obvious growing pain would be the need for more local resources.
One of these concerns was mentioned briefly at the August City Council meeting. During the meeting, the need for an additional supply source of water was mentioned.
Currently, Mountain City obtains water from three local springs, Lowe’s Spring, Rambo Spring, and Silver Lake. These three sites have served the residents well for several years, but an additional supplemental source is required to obtain water.
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) website, “Large cities and towns usually get their water from surface water supplies or a mix of surface and groundwater supplies.”
The CDC reports that the majority of American cities obtain water from three sources, surface water, groundwater, or recycled.
City Council Alderman Lawrence Keeble assures residents that there is currently no water shortage for Mountain City’s current residents.
“We are looking to the future,” Keeble said. “With the population’s current growth, there will be a need, and we are looking at wells to fill future water needs.”
The discussion of a well was mentioned at the council meeting with possibly accessing an aquifer near Ralph Stout Park.
The online Environmental Protection
Agency’s interactive Sole Source Aquifer Map confirms there is indeed an aquifer in Mountain City. However, deciding what locality will be dug requires far more than just accessing a site.
Aquifers are a precious commodity, and while a well can be drilled, the recharge rate must be considered first. The recharge rate refers to how fast the aquifer can refill after collecting rainwater. This may seem simple enough, but if drained too quickly, the aquifer could dry out faster than desired, resulting in less water available for usage. To help protect Mountain City’s precious resources, City Council approved a survey company to evaluate where water could be accessed.
Jordan said the company “will be doing an extensive survey of the area for the best place for a well.”
The cost of the approved survey is $166,000. Monies needed to pay for the survey will be acquired from the Town of Mountain City’s Water fund.
The timeframe remains elusive as to when the survey will be completed. Once completed, the real work will
begin, starting the construction.
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Aidan O’Brien’s sights set on Leopardstown.
Luxembourg is on course for what is shaping up to be a mouthwatering Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown on Saturday week.
The one-time Derby favourite ran a fine race to be third in the 2000 Guineas on his reappearance, but missed Epsom with a setback and only made his return to action at the Curragh earlier this month.
While not a wide-margin winner of the Royal Whip, Aidan O’Brien was at pains to say how happy he was afterwards and that significant progress was expected.
Now he is set to clash with Vadeni, Onesto and possibly Mishriff in the Royal Bahrain-sponsored showpiece on the opening day of Irish Champions Weekend.
O’Brien said: “The Irish Champion Stakes is the plan for Luxembourg. Everything has been good with him and I’m very happy with him since his last run. So far so good.
“He was just ready to go racing, we were so delighted he got to the races and then we were delighted he had to fight.
“He had to run the last three furlongs hard because Willie’s filly (McCreery, Insinuendo) took him on, which was good.
“We’re delighted with him and everything has been good since.”
Luxembourg is a best-priced 5-1 second favourite behind 6-4 market leader Vadeni following the news on Sunday that Baaeed will not take his chance.
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Sit Investment Associates Inc. lessened its position in BlackRock Credit Allocation Income Trust (NYSE:BTZ – Get Rating) by 8.8% in the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 4,454,712 shares of the investment management company’s stock after selling 431,920 shares during the period. BlackRock Credit Allocation Income Trust accounts for about 1.5% of Sit Investment Associates Inc.’s portfolio, making the stock its 6th biggest holding. Sit Investment Associates Inc.’s holdings in BlackRock Credit Allocation Income Trust were worth $55,951,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of BTZ. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. increased its holdings in BlackRock Credit Allocation Income Trust by 4.6% in the 4th quarter. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. now owns 166,539 shares of the investment management company’s stock worth $2,506,000 after purchasing an additional 7,360 shares in the last quarter. Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc. grew its position in shares of BlackRock Credit Allocation Income Trust by 3.6% in the 4th quarter. Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc. now owns 55,455 shares of the investment management company’s stock valued at $835,000 after buying an additional 1,939 shares during the last quarter. Raymond James & Associates grew its position in shares of BlackRock Credit Allocation Income Trust by 0.8% in the 4th quarter. Raymond James & Associates now owns 707,128 shares of the investment management company’s stock valued at $10,642,000 after buying an additional 5,643 shares during the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE grew its position in shares of BlackRock Credit Allocation Income Trust by 0.3% in the 4th quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 4,689,575 shares of the investment management company’s stock valued at $70,578,000 after buying an additional 15,107 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC grew its position in shares of BlackRock Credit Allocation Income Trust by 12.2% in the 4th quarter. Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC now owns 28,532 shares of the investment management company’s stock valued at $429,000 after buying an additional 3,100 shares during the last quarter.
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In case you weren’t angry enough about what the federal government has been doing to Americans for the past few years, this thread from Ann Bauer that reads as a letter from the government to a small cabinetmaker oughta do the trick.
She managed to hit each and every point just perfectly.
Take a gander:
Hey small cabinetmaker, you have to close the shop your family has owned for 100 years – because of a virus that mostly affects 80-year-olds. I know your staff is mostly guys in their 30s, but whatev. Also Home Depot can stay open and sell cabinets. Because. But wait! We'll x/1
— Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) August 27, 2022
Target, Home Depot, Walmart … all of these big box stores were AOK but you small businesses? SORRY, gotta shut ya’ down to keep ya’ safe. But don’t worry, we’ll pretend we care about you and come up with some government spending program.
That will go to mainly wealthy politicians and our pals.
Ahem.
give you a loan – PPP – to pay those guys while you're closed for 2 weeks, or 4 or maybe 4 months, or 6. All you need to do is rush to your bank and fill out mountains of paperwork. And yes, wealthy politicians will be at the front of the line for these funds, plus we're not x/2
— Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) August 27, 2022
Banks that were so overwhelmed they couldn’t keep up with the demand.
Keep going.
putting in appropriate safeguards, so scammers will get a ton of it, but give it a try! You might get lucky.
See? We gave you a loan that almost, but not quite paid your 4 guys' salaries plus benefits and maybe kept your business afloat. Except….shoot. We closed down the x/3
— Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) August 27, 2022
Oops.
the country, well, OK, really the world, and printed gobs of money, so when you're finally allowed to open there MIGHT be a tiny bit of inflation. Also, um, supply chain problems. Sure Home Depot will yet again be ahead of you in line for items because, well, they stayed open x/4
— Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) August 27, 2022
Tiny bit of inflation.
HA HA HA HA HA
Nailed it.
because SCIENCE. So good luck with all that. Lumber prices, no tools, workers gained weight staying home and two of them have type 2 diabetes now – which your self-funded health plan is covering. Yup, sorry. Them are the breaks.
Now, we need to relieve the stress on people x/5
— Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) August 27, 2022
Oh, that’s right, the stress.
SO MUCH STRESS.
who have *really* suffered: master's degree students who are carrying student debt from their undergrad degrees. Sure, maybe they should've tried a community college first, then gone to a university. But some people NEED the experience of a small same-minded school like, say, x/6
— Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) August 27, 2022
This.^
Grinnell. What's wrong with you? Are you against education? We're only going to forgive $10K of their debt. On your taxpayer dime. Well, maybe $20K. And they don't have to pay anything, no matter what their balance yet this year. Because, election. Sshh. We did not say that! x/7
— Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) August 27, 2022
Oh, really, you object to this, guy who apprenticed with his father from the age of 18 and sustained a business that is now a hair's breadth from going under for good? You don't want your money going for these student loans? You, sir, are a bigot. And remember that PPP loan x/8
— Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) August 27, 2022
Bigots.
Fascists.
Nazis.
Good times.
And a Trumper!
Hey people, YMMV. If you're in a state where some cabinetmakers stayed open, substitute piano tuners, cafe owners, bookstores, wicker basket shops… You get the idea. Apply as needed.
— Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) August 27, 2022
Yup, our government did ALL of this (and more).
Infuriating, ain’t it?
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A caller to 911 in Salt Lake City said a man had come into a brewery in his underwear, tried to steal beer and was running around in the street, posing a danger to himself and to drivers. Police tried to detain the man. Soon, Nykon Brandon was dead.
After the Salt Lake City Police Department on Friday released body-camera footage of the Aug. 14 fatal encounter and the 911 recording, activists on Saturday were asking why an unarmed person wound up dead and were accusing police of using disproportionate force.
“Stealing a beer does not equate to the death penalty,” said Lex Scott, founder of Black Lives Matter-Utah. “I don’t care if this man robbed 10 banks in one day. He didn’t deserve to die. He deserved to make it to court.”
The death of Brandon, who was 35, comes as the United States is still seeing uncounted numbers of police killings of unarmed people, many of whom were suffering a mental health crisis. Activists have called for reforms, saying rather than armed police who can often escalate situations, a better solution would be for special mental health crisis teams to respond.
Brandon’s Facebook page says he’d attended Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and worked for a firm that sells appliances, plumbing and hardware. Many people who posted on his page expressed shock and grief over his death.
The 911 caller said a man had come to Fisher Brewing, attacked a person at the door and was “running around crazy. Very erratic. He just jumped in and out of the road.”
“Definitely mental health issues,” the caller said. “So if you’ve got mental health resources, send them out.”
Instead, bodycam footage shows a police officer get out of his patrol car and order Brandon to stop. When he resists and puts up a fist and appears to reach for the officer’s holstered pistol, another officer pushes Brandon to the ground and the two officers try to pin him down. “Stop,” one of the officers says repeatedly as Brandon is on a gravel bed between the road and the sidewalk and continuing to push against the officers.
No de-escalation attempts by the police are visible or audible in the footage from nine body-worn cameras, even though an executive order signed by Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall two years ago requires all Salt Lake City Police Department officers to use de-escalation techniques before using force.
“De-escalation tactics are no longer suggested or preferred — they are mandatory prior to using force to effect an arrest unless it would be unreasonable to do so,” Mendenhall said in announcing the police reforms, which were prompted in part by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020.
Salt Lake City Police Department spokesperson Brent Weisberg said of the Aug. 14 incident: “As the body-worn camera video shows, this is a situation that rapidly unfolded. It was a chaotic situation and our officers were required to make very fast decisions to get a situation under control that was very tense.”
Before Brandon walked into Fisher Brewing, he had been taken by South Salt Lake Police to a detox facility after they received a report of a man acting confused and scared at a park just after 1 p.m. on Aug. 14, KUTV reported.
Officers determined he was intoxicated, took him to the facility and cited him for public intoxication. But the facility is not a detention center and patients can leave at their will, KUTV reported.
The Salt Lake City Police Department officers encountered Brandon at 3:22 p.m. In the videos, he’s not heard speaking during his struggles with the officers, except for maybe a couple of words that are unclear.
A minute later, a third officer arrives. Video shows Brandon grabbing onto his holster and gun. They finally manage to cuff Brandon’s hands behind his back as he lies on the gravel belly down.
“We want to help you,” an officer says. “You’ve got to stop fighting with us.”
After a few seconds, Brandon stops moving. An officer taps Brandon on the shoulder with his gloved hand and asks “Can you hear me?” three times. Brandon does not respond.
“Get him in recovery,” an officer commands, and the others roll Brandon onto his side.
“Come on man,” an officer says. All the camera footage released by the police goes dark at that point.
Salt Lake City Police said in a press release that officers began to perform medical aid at 3:27 p.m. A minute later, they administered the first of multiple doses of Narcan and started performing chest compressions.
“At 4:16 p.m. SLCPD is notified that Mr. Brandon died. The exact time of death is unknown,” the news release said.
The police department said a thorough investigation was being conducted by an outside agency and that the department’s own internal affairs unit would conduct a separate investigation.
Rae Duckworth, operating chairperson for Black Lives Matter’s Utah chapters, wants to know why the released footage doesn’t show the officers trying to help Brandon.
“We don’t even have proof they actually administered aid. We don’t have proof that they actually administered Narcan,” Duckworth said.
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How to utilize sales to combat inflation
Even though the price of gas is dropping and there has been some relief for families, inflation is still remarkably high. The cost of everyday items, such as pens, markers, glue, tape, sneakers and other essentials, is considerably more than it was last year at this crucial time. Purchasing back-to-school supplies has been elevated from a chore to a burden in many homes.
While it is possible to absorb some of the costs by cutting back in other areas, that is not an ideal strategy. It is better to look for sales because that means you will actually be spending less, not just creating hardships in other areas of your budget.
What is inflation?
Understanding the difference between price and inflation is similar to realizing that daily weather is not climate change. Inflation happens on a large scale. If avocados are in short supply or in high demand, the price will climb. However, just because the price of avocados rises does not mean there is inflation. This is because, at the same time, the cost of other items may go down to maintain an overall balance.
In many ways, inflation works like a see-saw: one end of the see-saw is the cost of things, and the other end is wages. When you add weight to one end, say the cost-of-living increases, you must balance that out by increasing wages. However, to pay for increased wages, the price of things must go up. So it’s a constant progression of rising prices and rising wages that keeps the see-saw balanced.
Why is inflation so high right now?
Normally, inflation is a gradual progression. The cost of things inches up, and wages increase similarly to maintain balance. However, there are times when something happens, and the effect is like dropping an anvil on one end of the see-saw. It disrupts everything and creates chaos and we have to struggle to regain balance.
Looking back over the past couple of years, we can find many disruptive factors that helped create our current situation. Covid-19 brought the world to a halt. People stopped going to restaurants and supporting live entertainment, manufacturing plants shut down, supply chains fractured, there was a demand for higher wages, a war broke out in Eastern Europe and more. All of these events culminated in creating the inflation we are experiencing at the moment.
The cost of school supplies has risen drastically
Oddly enough, one of the hardest hit areas is school supplies. While some items have only experienced a nominal price increase, other essentials, such as tape and writing implements, have gone up substantially since 2021. According to the National Retail Federation, the total expected spending for back-to-school supplies has risen 11 billion dollars since 2019. Families are cutting back on other areas to prioritize their back-to-school spending.
The savvy shopper can find relief right now
The good news is ripples decrease in power the further they travel. We are already seeing signs that the economy is striving for a balance, so relief might not be too far off. Taking advantage of sales can be the strategy that helps get you through the tail end of this unpleasant financial strain. This is especially true with essentials, such as back-to-school supplies.
12 back-to-school deals to help balance your budget
Here are some back-to-school deals that can help keep your personal finances balanced this fall while inflation slows.
Even if you aren’t returning to school, these one-subject notebooks are a great buy. Each has 70 spiral-bound sheets of wide-ruled paper with a durable cardstock cover, making them perfect for jotting down ideas. Sold by Staples
Paper Mate EverStrong #2 Pencils
There are 144 wood-cased pencils in this set, making up six packs of 24. That’s enough for a student to get through several years of school. The pencils have reinforced lead and latex-free erasers. Sold by Amazon
Staples Two-Pocket Presentation Folders with Fasteners
Presentation folders give you quick access to your work. These waterproof, tear-resistant folders are available in various colors so you can create your own organizational system. They also feature fasteners to secure your papers. Sold by Staples
Expo Vis-a-Vis Wet Erase Markers
You can use this box of 36 wet erase markers on whiteboards, laminated sheets, storage containers and other nonporous surfaces. The fine point allows for detailed writing and you can easily remove the ink with a damp cloth. Sold by Amazon
Index cards are a study essential for nearly every grade. The 100 lined-ruled cards in this pack have blank backs for drawing. Sold by Staples
Post-it flags are slightly different from Post-it notes. They allow you to quickly highlight important information without writing it in the textbook or on a document. These brightly colored study tools come with 80 Post-it flags in a dispenser, and two dispensers are in each pack. Sold by Amazon
Staples’ school glue is a non-toxic, permanent white glue suitable for porous and semi-porous surfaces, such as paper, wood, ceramics and more. It comes in a 4-ounce container and is washable. Sold by Staples
This box of 120 ballpoint pens will ensure you have enough ink to last for years. The pens have a thick barrel for easy gripping and the ultra-low viscosity ink delivers a smooth writing experience. Sold by Amazon
Crayons are one of the few school items that seem impervious to inflation. However, they still go on sale, which makes them an even better bargain. This box has 24 vibrant, nontoxic crayons. Sold by Staples
You want your highlighter to be bold and bright. These markers from Bic are exactly that. The chiseled tip allows for broad underlining, and the fluorescent pink ink makes all highlighted areas stand out. They are non-toxic and can last up to 8 hours without a cap. Sold by Amazon
The best erasers are soft, so they don’t tear your paper. These pink wedge erasers are gentle on paper and allow you to remove mistakes without damaging the page. Sold by Staples
Bic Gel-ocity Quick Dry Black Gel Pens
Gel pens are a step up from normal ink pens. They are smooth, quick-drying writing implements that can make homework fun. These retractable models have a medium point and a full-length grip for comfort. Sold by Amazon
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Best new features of Android 13
Google’s next major update to the Android operating system for smartphones — Android 13 — launched a few weeks ago. Among the biggest features is a function that lets you control your connected smart devices right from your lock screen — without having to unlock your phone. Next time you want to dim your lights, start your washing machine or change your thermostat’s temperature you can do it faster and easier.
In this article: Google Pixel 6 Pro, Google Nest Hub (Second Generation) and Google Nest Learning Thermostat.
How do I set up lock screen control?
This feature isn’t on by default, so you need to dive into your settings to turn it on.
- First, get to your settings by swiping down on your screen twice, then tapping the icon that looks like a cog.
- Secondly, scroll to the display section of your settings.
- Thirdly, in the display settings, there’s a section called “lock screen.” Access that.
- Finally, turn the “control from locked device” setting on.
However, enabling this setting is only half the battle. For your Android 13-running phone to control connected devices, you need to go into your to-be-controlled devices’ settings and turn on the ability for them to be controlled in this manner. Each device has a different settings structure so there’s no general guide for this. But, if you look through their settings long enough, you’ll find it eventually.
What else is new in Android 13?
There are many updates in Android 13, but some of the best are:
- Cross-app customization: Non-Google apps can automatically match your phone’s theme and colors.
- Multilingual: You can choose which language is used on a per-app basis rather than being stuck with one across your phone.
- Update media player: The visuals of your music and podcasts will be more true-to-form based on what you’re listening to.
- Updated Bedtime mode: Several updates have come to Bedtime mode, including being able to trigger dark mode and wallpaper dimming based on the time.
- Enhanced security: Security has improved in multiple ways, such as being able to only share specific photos with apps rather than your entire library and auto-clearing your clipboard if it has sensitive information.
- Improved connectivity: Android phones and tablets and Chromebook laptops now have a suite of improved connectivity features that make it easier to seamlessly shift from one device to the other.
What’s the best Google Pixel to buy?
This is Google’s current flagship phone, packed with all the best technology such as fast charging and 24-plus hours of battery life. It also has the largest 6.7-inch 4K and 120-hertz screen.
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The Google Pixel 6 takes only a small step down from the 6 Pro. It has the same fast charging and long-running battery, but with a smaller 6.4-inch HD and 90-hertz screen.
Sold by Amazon
The Google Pixel 6 is yet another step down, with a smaller 6.1-inch HD and 60-hertz screen. It also lacks support for wireless charging and isn’t as water resistant.
Sold by Amazon
The Google Pixel 5 has both better and worse specs than the 6a. Screen-wise, it’s almost identical with a 6-inch HD display, though it has a 90-hertz refresh rate. Battery-wise, it doesn’t last as long, but it supports wireless charging and can use its power to charge other devices.
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Again with the Google Pixel 5a comes specs that are better and worse than the 5. The screen is larger at 6.34 inches and its display is slightly higher quality, but it doesn’t have the 90-hertz refresh rate. Its battery lasts longer, but it can’t charge wirelessly or charge other devices.
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The Google Pixel 4a with 5G is the oldest current model of Pixel that can still take advantage of the current best data speeds, 5G. It has a 6.2-inch HD screen but its battery is the weakest and shortest lasting yet, plus it doesn’t have wireless charging.
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If you don’t need the fastest data speeds, then the 4a is your best bet. It has a 5.8-inch HD display with a solid camera and a fast-charging capable battery.
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If you don’t need the fastest data speeds but still want the best possible specs, consider the 4 XL. It has a larger 6.3-inch display with a quality between HD and 4K and a 90-hertz refresh rate. It also has a better battery with wireless charging capability.
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The Google Pixel 4 is the oldest model still supported by Google. Its specs aren’t good enough for more than basic calls, texts and web surfing, but it’s also practically free compared to most modern smartphones. If you just want the basics, it’s hard to do better.
Sold by Amazon
What’s the best Google smart home device to buy?
Google Nest Hub (Second Generation)
This is the ultimate Google-based smart home hub. It can play music, show you footage from your doorbell, play videos from streaming services and can even make video calls.
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This powerful speaker is built for music lovers. With Android 13 you can control the volume, skip between songs and scrub through your podcasts. It comes in five colors so it can blend on or become your new centerpiece.
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Google Nest Mini (Second Generation)
This is mostly meant to serve as an auxiliary speaker away from your main rooms, such as a bedroom or a bathroom. However, it’s still capable of outputting high-quality music and easily controlling all your smart devices.
Sold by Home Depot
Google Nest Learning Thermostat
This thermostat goes beyond just being able to change the temperature of your rooms by voice. It learns what temperatures you prefer and when you prefer them so it can automatically adjust, both for comfort and to maximize energy conservation.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Doorbell cameras have become practically a requirement in current times. Google’s version lets you easily access the feed anywhere at any time, plus it has backup protocols if your Wi-Fi goes down. It comes in battery-operated and wired forms.
Sold by Amazon, Dell, Home Depot, Kohl’s and Staples
Google Chromecast With Google TV
With all the streaming services available now, it can be difficult to keep track of them. This Chromecast puts them all under one controllable roof and lets you manipulate other aspects of your TV too, such as the power and volume.
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Each fall and spring, the William M. Staerkel Planetarium hosts speakers who talk about their corner of the world of science.
The James B. Kaler Science Lecture Series is named after a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois’ Astronomy Department who delivered an annual talk for the series for about 30 years.
This academic year, the planetarium will begin the series with the premiere of a full-dome show followed by a Q&A session with one of the show’s producers.
Tickets for Kaler Science Lectures are $2 for all attendees and free for members of Friends of the Staerkel Planetarium.
Nicolás Yunes, professor in the Physics Department at the UI, produced “Einstein’s Gravity Playlist” while he worked at Montana State University.
MSU’s School of Film and Photography, the School of Music, Taylor Planetarium and the eXtreme Gravity Institute all collaborated on a production that interweaves their disciplines and highlights the beauty of science.
During the film or show, Lucia (played by Alisa Amador), a graduate student in physics, discusses the history of general relativity, the theory formulated by Albert Einstein to explain how gravity works.
Although Isaac Newton was able to formulate a law of gravitation that worked well for our everyday lives and explained the motions of the moon and planets, there were known inconsistencies in Mercury’s orbit, and the law didn’t explain how massive objects were connected by this force.
Einstein determined that this invisible “tether” that attracts two objects is caused by the warping of the fabric of space and time.
Earth moves through space at nearly 20 miles per second.
Without the sun, Earth would move in a straight line.
Since the sun’s mass curves spacetime, Earth’s motion is similar to going around a whirlpool.
That whirlpool isn’t sucking Earth in because our planet isn’t slowing down, so our planet stays in a stable orbit around the sun.
Lucia shows the evidence supporting this theory, including how light moves around the sun or around distant galaxy clusters.
She also presents the relatively recent discovery of gravitational waves emitted by merging black holes.
These gravitational waves were converted to music that the audience can hear during the show.
After the screening, Professor Yunes will discuss the production and scientific background of gravitational waves.
The show will air again at the planetarium at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights through the rest of September.
The William M. Staerkel Planetarium at Parkland College presents live sky tours and full-dome videos for the public, private and school groups.
Sensory-friendly programs, shows in Spanish, Pink Floyd light shows and space-suit shows are also available.
Find the public show schedule at parkland.edu/planetarium.
Contact the staff at planetarium@parkland.edu to book a show or to rent a telescope.
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NFL
Justin Fields vocal after hype-inducing end to Bears preseason
Justin Fields had a half to remember on Saturday. The sophomore quarterback led the Chicago Bears to a win in their final preseason tilt against the Cleveland Browns with a sprinkling of moments sure to have fans riding the hype train.
Justin Fields went 14-for-16 for 156 yards that resulted in three touchdowns all in the first two quarters. The Bears were unable to score in the second half as he sat the rest of the way, but it was enough to hold onto a 21-20 win.
After the game, Fields acknowledged the obvious improvement from the Bears side to conclude their preseason, via Pro Football Talk:
“We’re continually getting better, each and every day,” Justin Fields said after the Bears-Browns game. “We’re going to get back to work next week and keep building.”
During his time on the field, Fields emphasized that the team was trying to operate to their fullest extent as if it were a regular season game. The fact that it yielded a 21-6 edge bodes well for their early season prospects.
“This week was like a mock game in the regular season week, so we’re coming into the regular season off a good game,” Fields said. “It gives all the guys confidence.”
Credit also goes to the offensive line, who gave Fields time in the pocket he wasn’t always afforded last season. He rewarded them with pinpoint accuracy and dynamic plays that could translate once the games start to matter. The Chicago Bears are far from being considered Super Bowl contenders next season, but if Justin Fields and the rest of the offense can take a major leap they’ll be surprising a few teams. | https://clutchpoints.com/bears-news-justin-fields-vocal-after-hype-inducing-end-to-chicago-preseason/ | 2022-08-28T15:30:02Z | https://clutchpoints.com/bears-news-justin-fields-vocal-after-hype-inducing-end-to-chicago-preseason/ | false | 1 |
Canadian Natural Resources Limited (NYSE:CNQ – Get Rating) (TSE:CNQ) was the recipient of a large growth in short interest in the month of August. As of August 15th, there was short interest totalling 22,800,000 shares, a growth of 32.3% from the July 31st total of 17,240,000 shares. Currently, 2.0% of the shares of the company are sold short. Based on an average daily volume of 3,060,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 7.5 days.
Canadian Natural Resources Stock Down 1.5 %
Canadian Natural Resources stock traded down $0.89 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $56.90. The company had a trading volume of 2,115,945 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,314,054. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.29, a current ratio of 0.85 and a quick ratio of 0.65. The firm has a market capitalization of $63.93 billion, a P/E ratio of 7.47, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.55 and a beta of 1.50. Canadian Natural Resources has a fifty-two week low of $31.71 and a fifty-two week high of $70.60. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $52.58 and its 200-day moving average is $58.20.
Canadian Natural Resources Cuts Dividend
The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, October 5th. Shareholders of record on Friday, September 16th will be given a $0.5822 dividend. This represents a $2.33 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.09%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 15th. Canadian Natural Resources’s dividend payout ratio is 31.10%.
Analyst Ratings Changes
Institutional Trading of Canadian Natural Resources
Several large investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. West Family Investments Inc. bought a new stake in Canadian Natural Resources in the 4th quarter valued at $204,000. Whittier Trust Co. boosted its holdings in Canadian Natural Resources by 692.3% in the 1st quarter. Whittier Trust Co. now owns 2,971 shares of the oil and gas producer’s stock valued at $184,000 after purchasing an additional 2,596 shares during the period. Brinker Capital Investments LLC boosted its holdings in Canadian Natural Resources by 7.9% in the 4th quarter. Brinker Capital Investments LLC now owns 7,549 shares of the oil and gas producer’s stock valued at $319,000 after purchasing an additional 550 shares during the period. Paradigm Financial Partners LLC bought a new stake in Canadian Natural Resources in the 4th quarter valued at $216,000. Finally, Mraz Amerine & Associates Inc. boosted its holdings in Canadian Natural Resources by 0.4% in the 1st quarter. Mraz Amerine & Associates Inc. now owns 70,417 shares of the oil and gas producer’s stock valued at $4,364,000 after purchasing an additional 300 shares during the period. 68.45% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
About Canadian Natural Resources
Canadian Natural Resources Limited acquires, explores for, develops, produces, markets, and sells crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids (NGLs). The company offers synthetic crude oil (SCO), light and medium crude oil, bitumen (thermal oil), primary heavy crude oil, and Pelican Lake heavy crude oil.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A typical birthday celebration might include things like dinner and gifts you can buy at the store— but Jessica Honnell of Russellville wanted something closer to her heart this year.
In life, we've all had to make some tough choices, a concept Honnell is all too familiar with.
"Last September, my family was in a car accident," Honnell said.
The accident would forever change her family's life after her husband, Wes Honnell, died from a traumatic brain injury as a result of it.
"He was the love of my life [and] the most precious gift that God has ever given to me," Honnell described.
Still, in a clearly stressful situation, Honnell made the choice to donate Wes's organs in hopes that his legacy would continue to live on.
"His heart, and he donated tissue and like many different organs," Honnell said.
Just about everyone's eyes were filled with tears on the day Jessica met the man who received her husband's heart.
David Beaird, the recipient, said that he couldn't quite put into words how grateful he was for this family.
He had congestive heart failure for about four years and his condition gradually worsened over time.
"On a good day, I might be able to walk 10 [or] 15 feet where I'd have to stop and rest for a couple of minutes," he explained.
Recently, his cardiologist gave him a startling prognosis of six months to live if he didn't get a heart transplant.
After a first failed attempt, Beaird finally found a donor.
"You cannot express enough gratitude," Beaird said, emotionally. "Like I said, she gave me a new leaf in life."
On Saturday, family and friends watched as Honnell listened to Beaird's heartbeat for the first time.
"I had many nights of laying my head on my husband's chest and hearing his heartbeat, so even though he's in heaven, now it felt very familiar and a safe place," Honnell recalled.
Her birthday is on Monday and she said that all she wanted was to hear her husband's heartbeat again and meet the recipient of his heart.
While it might not bring the love of her life back, Honnell said that she was just happy Beaird has another chance to continue to live his life.
"Two families became one today and in a really beautiful way and I'm just grateful for that," Honnell said.
Since his heart transplant, Beaird has made major improvements— he's able to hunt fish and soon will be able to walk his daughter down the aisle.
All of this, of course, was only made possible thanks to Honnell and doctors at ARORA, an organ donation and tissue bank in Arkansas.
The staff here were able to help Honnell through the process.
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Opinion
The government’s jobs and skills summit must tackle the labour shortage
By Ross McEwan
The challenge the Australian government’s jobs and skills summit must address is clear. We have an economy approaching full capacity with a lack of workers now a critical issue. Nine in 10 companies surveyed by NAB say the worker shortage is holding them back. A third of them are desperate to fill empty roles.
While inflation and cost of living pressures are having a real impact on many Australians, the single biggest hurdle to growth is labour shortage. It’s all about getting more people in jobs.
As Australia’s biggest business bank and one of the country’s biggest employers, we have a strong interest in seeing the jobs and skills summit succeed. The summit is an important initiative bringing together government, unions and businesses to find tangible actions that can be implemented quickly.
Our customers and colleagues tell us that three areas need to be addressed.
The first is skills and labour. Australian business and institutions must identify the skills and labour needed in the future. Then we must plan how to get them. Our education curriculums need modernising. This is the only way we will keep up in the technology fields.
NAB is working hard to develop talent through our technology internships and training. But we still can’t fill roles – in fact, we have about 800 technology and operations roles vacant right now. And our brand for recruiting is a good one. This is an issue that needs so much more than business-led training.
The renewable energy sector is another area that requires us to equip Australians with new skills.
This will help us achieve net zero emissions and make the most of environmental and economic opportunities. We can also do more to expand employment opportunities to give every Australian a
chance, particularly the most disadvantaged. University places and career opportunities for Indigenous Australians should be demand-driven not subject to caps.
Over and above addressing how we educate and train people, we need to make it easier for skilled and unskilled migrants to come here. We welcome the government’s efforts to clear backlogs for priority skilled areas, and all visa applications need to be processed faster. We need to counter fears around border closures and signal Australia is open for business. When I was in Europe and the US last month, some of the people I spoke to weren’t sure whether we were truly back to “normal” again, with open borders and relaxed restrictions. Longer term we need quicker and easier pathways to permanency.
The second focus area is productivity and wage growth. Productivity improvements are the only way to achieve sustainable wage rises. We could do this by removing unnecessary regulation and make it easier to run a business. Many small business owners have told NAB they have to spend 12 hours every week on government administration. Let’s cut red tape and give them hours back to grow their business and invest in their people.
The awards system is complex and time-consuming for small business. A small business, such as an independent supermarket, may be paying staff a total of 126 different rates of pay. That makes it too easy to get wrong. There must be a better way.
We must make enterprise bargaining simpler and more efficient so that business productivity gains can translate to real wages growth. To address complexity in our own business, NAB is in discussions with our colleagues and the union as we work to simplify our enterprise award and make it easier to understand and pay our colleagues fairly.
The third essential issue for economic growth is equal opportunity for women. We need to transform paid parental leave in support of a shared responsibility approach between men and women. We need to provide all parents with the same access to parenting leave entitlements, including primary, secondary, adoption, foster and kinship carers. NAB has adopted this approach because it reflects the diverse needs and ensures families can manage their lives and their work. We should also support government policies to subsidise and improve access to childcare. Cheaper childcare removes financial disincentives to return to work.
This national conversation on jobs is timely and what Australia needs right now is actions to address the situation. To maintain strong growth and a competitive edge, we need nationwide leadership. This summit can produce fast and co-ordinated action, the kind that we saw during the
pandemic. Business, government and unions must – and can – unite to keep the economy firing.
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The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange fell today after steep falls on Wall Street on Friday. The Tel Aviv 35 Index fell 1.64%, to 2,026.53 points; the Tel Aviv 125 Index fell 1.51%, to 2,081.08 points; and the BlueTech Global Index fell 1.53% to 420.06 points. The All Bond corporate bond index fell 0.14% to 373.61 points. Turnover totaled NIS 1.09 billion in equities and NIS 1.01 billion in bonds.
On the foreign exchange market, the Bank of Israel set the representative shekel-dollar rate down 0.852% on Friday, at NIS 3.259/$, and the representative shekel-euro rate was set down 0.869% at NIS 3.252/€.
On the market, Opko Health Inc. (NYSE: OPK; TASE: OPK fell 6.09% for the biggest fall on the Tel Aviv 35 Index today. Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. (Nasdaq:NVMI; TASE:NVMI) fell 4.81% and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA; TASE: TEVA) fell 4.45%. Shikun & Binui Holdings Ltd. (TASE: SKBN) fell 3.64%, Delek Group Ltd. (TASE:DLEKG) fell 2.45% and Azrieli Group (TASE: AZRG) fell 3.58%. Bank Hapoalim (TASE: POLI) fell 0.60% on the day's biggest trading turnover and
Bank Leumi (TASE:LUMI) fell 0.28%.
Only two stocks on the Tel Aviv 35 Index rose today. First International Bank of Israel (TASE:FTIN1; FTIN5) rose 0.13% and Energix Renewable Energies (TASE: ENRG) rose 0.39%.
Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on August 28, 2022.
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E Fund Management Co. Ltd. lowered its holdings in Costco Wholesale Co. (NASDAQ:COST – Get Rating) by 0.9% during the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 5,081 shares of the retailer’s stock after selling 47 shares during the quarter. E Fund Management Co. Ltd.’s holdings in Costco Wholesale were worth $2,926,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.
A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of COST. Norges Bank acquired a new position in Costco Wholesale in the fourth quarter worth $2,323,746,000. State Street Corp lifted its stake in shares of Costco Wholesale by 10.2% during the fourth quarter. State Street Corp now owns 18,301,225 shares of the retailer’s stock valued at $10,389,605,000 after acquiring an additional 1,697,920 shares during the period. BlackRock Inc. lifted its stake in shares of Costco Wholesale by 3.1% during the fourth quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 31,078,322 shares of the retailer’s stock valued at $17,643,166,000 after acquiring an additional 944,199 shares during the period. Aaron Wealth Advisors LLC lifted its stake in shares of Costco Wholesale by 45,712.3% during the first quarter. Aaron Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 392,153 shares of the retailer’s stock valued at $681,000 after acquiring an additional 391,297 shares during the period. Finally, Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its stake in shares of Costco Wholesale by 3.5% during the fourth quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 7,372,449 shares of the retailer’s stock valued at $4,173,133,000 after acquiring an additional 246,857 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 67.52% of the company’s stock.
Costco Wholesale Stock Down 3.4 %
Shares of NASDAQ:COST traded down $18.95 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $531.82. 1,886,777 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,610,136. The company has a quick ratio of 0.48, a current ratio of 1.04 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.32. The company has a market cap of $235.58 billion, a P/E ratio of 41.88, a P/E/G ratio of 4.54 and a beta of 0.69. Costco Wholesale Co. has a one year low of $406.51 and a one year high of $612.27. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $516.94 and its 200-day simple moving average is $519.76.
Costco Wholesale Cuts Dividend
The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, August 12th. Investors of record on Friday, July 29th were issued a dividend of $0.09 per share. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, July 28th. This represents a $0.36 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.07%. Costco Wholesale’s payout ratio is presently 28.35%.
Wall Street Analyst Weigh In
Several brokerages have recently issued reports on COST. Robert W. Baird cut their price target on Costco Wholesale from $600.00 to $560.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, May 27th. Oppenheimer upped their price target on Costco Wholesale from $535.00 to $600.00 in a research note on Thursday, August 4th. Telsey Advisory Group cut their price target on Costco Wholesale from $615.00 to $590.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, May 27th. Raymond James increased their target price on Costco Wholesale from $560.00 to $600.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Friday, August 5th. Finally, StockNews.com raised Costco Wholesale from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, July 15th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twenty-two have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $576.68.
Insider Buying and Selling
In related news, VP James P. Murphy sold 2,500 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $464.00, for a total transaction of $1,160,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the vice president now directly owns 37,730 shares in the company, valued at $17,506,720. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. In other Costco Wholesale news, CFO Richard A. Galanti sold 1,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, July 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $505.60, for a total value of $505,600.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer now directly owns 25,750 shares in the company, valued at $13,019,200. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, VP James P. Murphy sold 2,500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 22nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $464.00, for a total value of $1,160,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the vice president now owns 37,730 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $17,506,720. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last three months, insiders sold 5,300 shares of company stock worth $2,609,904. 0.22% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.
Costco Wholesale Company Profile
Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Australia, Spain, France, Iceland, China, and Taiwan. It offers branded and private-label products in a range of merchandise categories.
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NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Rapper Wiz Khalifa cut short a concert in suburban Indianapolis as people began fleeing the outdoor venue, leaving three with minor injuries, following a disturbance, police said.
People started exiting the Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville about 10:30 p.m. Friday after a reported disturbance on part of the amphitheater’s lawn, with some of them shouting about a possible shooting, The Indianapolis Star reported.
Police said in a news release early Saturday that no weapon was found following a sweep of the area at the venue about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Indianapolis.
The disturbance happened about 45 minutes into Wiz Khalifa’s show that was part of the Vinyl Verse co-headlining tour with fellow rapper Logic, according to The Indianapolis Star. The music stopped and Wiz Khalifa and his band left the stage immediately.
Three people reported minor injuries and were taken to hospitals for treatment after concertgoers “self-evacuated” the amphitheater, where all exits were opened in accordance with the venue’s emergency procedures, police said.
In a parking lot outside, some audience members were making cellphone calls as others wept and held each other, the newspaper reported.
Live Nation, the concert promotion company that owns and operates Ruoff, released a statement Saturday thanking “staff and local authorities for acting quickly to support everyone in attendance.”
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — As hopes faded of rescuing 10 men trapped in a flooded Mexican coal mine, evidence mounted that the current administration's populist policies have driven the revival of the dangerous, primitive mines that continue claiming lives.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador enacted a plan two years ago to revive coal-fired power plants in northern Mexico and give preference to buying coal from the smallest mines. The purchases were part of the president’s policies to give more income to the poorest Mexicans.
In doing so, the administration resuscitated a form of coal mining so dangerous that lawmakers in both houses of Mexico’s Congress had tried to ban it a decade ago.
Experts say that mines so narrow and primitive that only one miner at a time can be lowered into a narrow shaft — and only one bucket of coal extracted — are inherently unsafe. At some pits, known as “pocitos,” or “little wells,” air is pumped in and water pumped out through plastic hoses. Some don’t even have that. There are usually no safety exits or auxiliary shafts.
Fifteen men were working inside the Pinabete mine in Sabinas, Coahuila, about 70 miles (115 kilometers) southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas, on Aug. 3. A wall of water from an abandoned mine next door — and possibly wastewater pumped in from a nearby town — filled the single shaft about 40 meters (yards) deep. It blew out so many wooden supports that they have formed floating barriers to rescue crews.
Five workers managed to escape as the mine flooded, but there has been no contact with the rest.
Promoting coal is part of López Obrador’s effort to shore up the state-owned power utility, the Federal Electricity Commission, headed by old-guard politician Manuel Bartlett. Not only was the policy questioned by environmentalists; many also said it endangered miners.
“Manuel Bartlett’s brilliant idea of buying more coal from the smallest producers, and less from big producers, gave rise to a black market that wound up in the exploitation of mines that lack the safeguards needed to protect the lives of the workers,” Miguel Riquelme, the governor of Coahuila state and member of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, said after the accident.
The government utility had defended its decision to buy about two-thirds of coal for power generation from small mines.
“We had to have the mindset of favoring the smallest (producers) because we had to make their economic conditions more equal,” Miguel Alejandro López, the subdirector of purchasing for the company, said in July, describing the orders he got under López Obrador. “Because as he (the president) has said, one of this country’s main failings is inequality.”
López said small mine owners were required to submit proof they complied with labor laws, which in Mexico govern mine safety.
But even the president acknowledged that the Pinabete mine had not complied with the few existing safety and labor standards.
Accidents at small coal mines have been depressingly frequent.
In June 2021, seven miners were killed at a similar small mine in Muzquiz township, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas. The shaft at the Micarán mine also flooded and partially collapsed, and it took days to recover the miners' bodies.
The operations resemble wildcat mines from the U.S. Old West: Horizontal coal faces spread out from the bottom of the shaft and are shored up with wooden poles.
At some mines, the pit-head winches used to extract miners and coal are run off old car engines placed on blocks.
Lawmakers already knew the dangers of the narrow, unreinforced vertical shafts; explosive gas accumulations and flooding risks are common.
As far back as 2012, Mexican legislators tried to pass laws to do away with such primitive mines. The 2006 tragedy in the nearby Pasta de Conchos mine, where 65 miners died after a gas build-up caused a fire and explosion, was still fresh in their minds. That was a larger mine where gas monitoring proved to be insufficient.
A 2012 Senate bill proposed “the outright ban on vertical coal mines, also known as ‘pocitos,’ because that is where the greatest risks occur.”
In 2013, a bill in the lower house stated, “Coal mining activities have generalized risks, because their techniques are artisanal and rudimentary … Risky mining practices must be minimized or eliminated.”
It is unclear why those laws were never passed.
Mine safety activist Cristina Auerbach noted that coal is politically sensitive in Coahuila, especially among the impoverished communities that once made a living from it.
“Coal is a political issue in Coahuila, not an economic one,” said Auerbach.
She said that from 2006 through last year at least 80 miners had died in accidents in Coahuila. “The smallest businesses in the coal region are the most precarious, like Pinabete,” she said.
But small-scale coal mining appeared to be dying out in Coahuila until López Obrador directed the Federal Electricity Commission to ramp up purchases.
“The region was revived with the new purchase orders from the federal commission,” said Diego Martínez, a professor of applied earth sciences at the Autonomous University of Coahuila.
López Obrador wanted to eliminate subterfuge and corruption in coal purchases, but apparently failed at that; one man was arrested in connection with the Pinabete mine accident after it was found that the mine was apparently registered under different names or titles on purchase contracts and in labor department records.
No one has been sentenced for the 2006 deaths at the Pasta de Conchos mine.
It is not the first time that Coahuila coal mines have been accused of illegal practices; miners make as little as $200 per week, and even when the few government inspectors have found violations, it has been hard to shut them down.
López Obrador said that the Pinabete mine contract with the Electricity Commission said explicitly it could not be subcontracted, but apparently was anyway.
Auerbach, the mine safety activist, said that hundreds of “high risk” small mines continue operating.
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A Westamerica Bancorporation (NASDAQ:WABC) insider lowered their holding by 20% earlier this year
Looking at Westamerica Bancorporation's (NASDAQ:WABC ) insider transactions over the last year, we can see that insiders were net sellers. That is, there were more number of shares sold by insiders than there were purchased.
Although we don't think shareholders should simply follow insider transactions, we do think it is perfectly logical to keep tabs on what insiders are doing.
Westamerica Bancorporation Insider Transactions Over The Last Year
The Senior VP & Human Resources Division Manager, George Ensinger, made the biggest insider sale in the last 12 months. That single transaction was for US$59k worth of shares at a price of US$58.60 each. That means that an insider was selling shares at around the current price of US$58.42. While insider selling is a negative, to us, it is more negative if the shares are sold at a lower price. Given that the sale took place at around current prices, it makes us a little cautious but is hardly a major concern. The only individual insider seller over the last year was George Ensinger.
The chart below shows insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year. By clicking on the graph below, you can see the precise details of each insider transaction!
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Insider Ownership Of Westamerica Bancorporation
For a common shareholder, it is worth checking how many shares are held by company insiders. I reckon it's a good sign if insiders own a significant number of shares in the company. Westamerica Bancorporation insiders own about US$61m worth of shares. That equates to 3.9% of the company. We've certainly seen higher levels of insider ownership elsewhere, but these holdings are enough to suggest alignment between insiders and the other shareholders.
So What Do The Westamerica Bancorporation Insider Transactions Indicate?
There haven't been any insider transactions in the last three months -- that doesn't mean much. We don't take much encouragement from the transactions by Westamerica Bancorporation insiders. But it's good to see that insiders own shares in the company. Therefore, you should definitely take a look at this FREE report showing analyst forecasts for Westamerica Bancorporation.
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Home :: News :: Hua Chunyan won one prize in Ting Zeru Compet.Champ H\nDear Daughter! Thank you always supporting Mama, Hua. Let’ t share Hua is going there at now, here! (Screenshot video ) I believe so, with Mame & Haiwei, together with her sister team in Hoh Chung Tech college is making a very best team Hahain!\nLing Y Mannion fumble costs Vikings in final preseason game; Broncos beat Vikings 23-13
DENVER (AP) - Third-year defensive tackle McTelvin Agim's spot on the Denver Broncos roster is all but assured. Still, he went into the final tune-up determined to stand out in case he finds himself looking for work.
Agim forced two fumbles and broke up two passes in the Broncos' 23-13 preseason win over the Minnesota Vikings on Saturday night, and his best play, a strip-sack of Sean Mannion, led to Baron Browning's 17-yard fumble return for a touchdown just before halftime.
"That was my mind-set," Agim said, "just put the best film out there so all 31 other teams see it, as well."
They'll be impressed, but it won't matter. Agim isn't going anywhere.
Both teams rested their starters in the preseason finale, and none of the four backup quarterbacks threw a touchdown.
Browning, whom the Broncos (2-1) moved from inside linebacker to the edge this year, stunted up the middle and nearly pried the ball from Mannion's grasp himself as he swept past him in the final minute of the first half.
Agim was right there to slap the ball out as he wrapped up Mannion from behind for a 10-yard sack. Browning reached back, grabbed the ball with his right hand and zipped into the end zone to give Denver a 17-7 lead.
"That was a killer," Vikings rookie head coach Kevin O'Connell said. "Sean's trying to get ready check the ball down. We coach real hard to have two hands on it in the pocket."
Mannion got the Vikings, who went winless in the preseason, to midfield for Greg Joseph's 46-yard field goal as time expired, cutting Minnesota's deficit to 17-10 at halftime.
Joseph's 58-yarder five seconds into the fourth quarter made it 17-13 and the Vikings were driving again when safety rookie safety Dalarrin Turner-Yell returned from a concussion check to sack Kellen Mond on fourth-and-goal from the Denver 5.
Brandon McManus capped the scoring with a pair of field goals over the final 3:19.
With Kirk Cousins sitting out again, Mannion was 9-of-16 for 121 yards and Mond went 10 for 17 for 102 yards in the second half.
Like Cousins, Russell Wilson didn't play at all in the preseason. Brett Rypien was 14 for 21 for 137 yards in the first half and Josh Johnson threw for 107 yards on 11-of-14 passing.
Wilson dressed out in full pads and even put on his eye black to watch the action from the sideline with Denver's other resting starters were decked out in street clothes.
He also had a headset and a microphone to listen to rookie head coach Nathaniel Hackett calling the offensive plays and consulting with offensive coordinator Justin Outten.
"So, he got to hear how I talked to the coaches and how I call plays," said Hackett, whose first real-game experience with Wilson will be in the opener at Seattle.
Rypien drove the Broncos to the Minnesota 8 on Denver's opening possession but his throw over the middle to K.J. Hamler on first-and-goal was tipped by Myles Dorn and intercepted by Luiji Vilain.
Johnson drove Denver on a pair of drives that ended in field goals. McManus' 40-yarder made it 20-13 with 3:19 remaining.
That's when Denver's defense, which collected five sacks, showed up again.
Rookie Nik Bonnito recorded consecutive sacks of Mond, Agim batted down his fourth-and-27 pass with 2:07 remaining, and Denver took over at the Vikings 8. McManus added a 31-yard field goal in the waning seconds.
Minnesota's first touchdown came on Bryant Koback's carry on fourth-and-goal from the 1. Officials initially ruled he was stuffed by Turner-Yell but the Vikings won the challenge, giving them a 7-3 lead.
Montrell Washington's 11-yard TD on a reverse gave Denver the lead for good at 10-7.
Not so special teams
The Broncos have been dreadful on special teams for several years and things didn't look much different Saturday night as returner Jalen Virgil muffed the opening kickoff, knocking the ball out of bounds at the 2.
In the third quarter, Broncos snapper Jacob Bobenmoyer inexplicably carried the ball several yards across the goal line for a touchback that left punter Sam Martin perplexed as to why he didn't just down the ball inside the 10.
Injuries
Vikings: DL T.Y. McGill Jr. (ankle) and LB Troy Dye (foot) both were injured in the first quarter and didn't return. WR Jalen Nailor was ruled out with a concussion early in the third quarter. WR Bisi Johnson left shortly thereafter with what O'Connell feared was a serious knee injury.
Broncos: WR Brandon Johnson (ankle) left in the first quarter.
Up next
The Vikings open the season at home against rival Green Bay on Sept. 11.
The Broncos open at Seattle in Wilson's homecoming on Monday, Sept. 12.
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MARINES in Vietnam used to deal with the insanity around them by imagining that it wasn’t real life. It was an acid drenched inversion of reality and they would count down the days until their tour of duty would end and they would return to “The World”.
As I enter the third week of August in Marbella, I can empathise with what they went through.
After two years of what I refer to as ‘This, That and the Other’, which meant tourist numbers were down, the ‘Holiday Genie’ was let out of the bottle. ‘If you build it, they will come’ ran the phrase in ‘Field of Dreams’ and for Marbella this season, it was a case of ‘If you open it, they will come. Eventually. When they get through the horrendous traffic and find a place to park’.
As a long term Marbella resident, I always avoid Banus at this time of year. Driving towards Marbella and obvserving the traffic queueing to get into ‘The Port’, I had the realisation that I was witnessing a classic case of Lemming like behaviour. When you can clearly see that your original destination is packed to the rafters and yet still plough on. Let’s face it. If they are queuing a mile away from the entrance you are unlikely to find a parking spot or free table at a restaurant.
Away from the madding crowds, every summer sees the arrival of ‘Hobson’. One of my closest friends, he is the Cheech to my Chong, the Eric to my Ernie and, more aptly, the Rum to my Coke. We have an almost telepathic sense of humour, especially at lunch, where he finishes my sentences while I finish his sardinas.
It was during one of our traditional beach Sunday lunches that I experienced a ‘grit your teeth and don’t respond to the Madrileños’ moment.
Our large group were enjoying a relaxed afternoon and the conversation turned to the recent fires and the brilliance of the firefighting planes’ pilots. We obviously began to hum the Dambusters theme. At which point the sour-faced Madrileño couple on the next table turned and began to shhh and scold us.
“This is a restaurant. Not your living room!”, piped up the polo wearing pijo.
At which point Hobson had to restrain me from going into full Withnail in the Penrith Tea Room mode.
“We’re going to buy this place and put in a f**king jukebox!”
Considering that the national press was full of reports of people whipping out automatic weapons and letting loose in beach clubs earlier in the month, I can only assume that the mirthless Madrid couple were either heavily armed themselves (Bazooka in the Burberry bag perhaps) or were sporting the latest in Casual Kevlar Beach Body Armour.
‘Only a few days to go before they scurry back to Salamanca, dear boy’, advised Hobson, reaching for the ice bucket…
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The Spaniard’s 74th minute shot hit Ezri Konsa and looped over Villa keeper to settle a game of few chances.
Villa struggled to create opportunities against a disciplined visiting defence and did not look like getting a leveller after falling behind
Defeat leaves them 16th in the table ahead of Wednesday’s trip to leaders Arsenal.
Analysis
That is followed by a home match with champions Manchester City and the fear for Gerrard is that things are likely to get worse before they get better.
The Villa boss had stressed the importance of getting a positive result against the Hammers to quieten the “external noise”. That is now only increase after a toothless display against a team who arrived at Villa Park bottom of the table and having failed to score a goal in their opening three matches.
The Hammers showed little interest in attacking during the opening half and only marginally more in the second. But while the manner of their goal was lucky, Villa’s failure to seriously test Lukasz Fabianksi during the 90 minutes was more troubling.
An illness to Tyrone Mings saw Gerrard name his fifth different centre-back pairing of the season, with Konsa replacing the former skipper.
Douglas Luiz and Philippe Coutinho kept their places after strong showings in Tuesday’s Carabao Cup win at Bolton, with the return of Matty Cash at right-back in place of Ashley Young the only other change.
Villa started the brighter, though it took until the 13th minute for them to muster an effort on goal, Ollie Watkins cutting inside and hammering a shot which hit Zouma and deflected behind.
From the corner, the hosts thought they had taken the lead, Konsa slotting home after Coutinho had headed against the post. But celebrations were cut short by a raised flag, the assistant having correctly spotted Lucas Digne’s delivery had gone out of play.
Villa were on top but struggling to ask searching questions of the visiting five-man defence. Watkins was unable to get any power on a header from a Coutinho cross, before Gianluca Scamacca headed Douglas Luiz’s free-kick over his own bar. When Coutinho then shot straight at Fabianski from 25 yards out, it rather summed up the home side’s increasing lack of ideas.
At least Villa were trying. When Pablo Fornals volleyed 15 yards wide of the home goal late in the half, it drew ironic chants from the visiting supporters.
The second half began with a similar lack of goalmouth action before Cash and Digne combined to deny the Hammers the opener 10 minutes in.
Jarrod Bowen looked like he had only Martinez to beat after being sent clear when McGinn slipped but Cash first did enough to force the forward to check inside, before Digne slid in to block the shot.
Gerrard brought Buendia off the bench and he almost picked out Ings with a through ball.
But with 16 minutes to go it was the Hammers who broke the deadlock, albeit in fortuitous fashion. Fornals found space to shoot 25 yards out and Konsa’s block only sent the ball looping over Martinez and into the net.
The visitors visibly grew in confidence and Villa never looked like finding a way through, substitute Jacob Ramsey’s late shot straight at Fabianksi their only effort on goal.
Key Moments
74 GOAL Pablo Fornals breaks the deadlock, his shot deflecting off Ezri Konsa and over Emi Martinez.
Teams
Villa (4-3-1-2): Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Chambers, Digne, McGinn, Kamara, Luiz (Ramsey 66), Coutinho (Buendia 66), Watkins, Ings (Bailey 78) Subs not used: Young, Augustinsson, Nakamba, Iroegbunam, Archer, Olsen (gk).
West Ham (5-4-1): Fabianski, Johnson (Coufal 23), Zouma, Kehrer, Cresswell, Emerson (Benrahma HT), Soucek, Rice, Bowen, Fornals, Scamacca (Antonio 66) Subs not used: Lanzini, Downes, Cornet, Ogbonna, Coventry, Areola (gk). | https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/aston-villa/2022/08/28/aston-villa-0-west-ham-1---report/ | 2022-08-28T15:57:56Z | https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/aston-villa/2022/08/28/aston-villa-0-west-ham-1---report/ | true | 1 |
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ATLANTA (AP) — Scottie Scheffler returned to East Lake on Sunday morning looking every bit like the No. 1 player, pulling away with four birdies in six holes to complete the third round with a 4-under 66 that gave him a six-shot lead in the Tour Championship. Scheffler was delivering a steady diet of pars that put him in a tight battle with Xander Schauffele until a second stoppage due to lightning in the area Saturday. At the time, he was one shot ahead. And then he was gone. Scheffler holed birdie putts from about 5 feet on the 13th and 15th holes. He stuffed his approach to 2 feet on the 17th and then made a superb escape from the left rough over the water that left him a long pitch he nearly holed on the par-5 18th. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2718098963761/hard-work-dedication-drive-gabrielle-privitera-and-usf-men-s-soccer-as-2022-regular-season-kicks-off-on-thursday | 2022-08-28T16:03:10Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2718098963761/hard-work-dedication-drive-gabrielle-privitera-and-usf-men-s-soccer-as-2022-regular-season-kicks-off-on-thursday | false | null |
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US warships transiting Taiwan Strait consistent with US policy: Report
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The passage of two U.S. warships on Sunday through international waters in the Taiwan Strait is very consistent with the US one China policy and seeking a free and open Indo-Pacific, a White House official said.
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The passage of two U.S. warships on Sunday through international waters in the Taiwan Strait is "very consistent" with the U.S. "one China policy" and seeking a free and open Indo-Pacific, a White House official said.
"This was planned long ago," John Kirby, National Security Council spokesperson, said on CNN, of the first transit of the strait by U.S. warships since House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier this month, enraging China.
"This was planned long ago," John Kirby, National Security Council spokesperson, said on CNN, of the first transit of the strait by U.S. warships since House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier this month, enraging China.
The passage by the two vessels is "very consistent with our one China policy, very consistent with our desire to make sure that we can continue to work toward a free and open Indo-Pacific," he said.
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EuroHockey Championship qualifiers: England cement place in 2023 finals with 11-0 win over Slovakia
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Report: Corporal punishment to discipline children unnecessary
Sunday August 28 2022
Dar es Salaam. A new report from Save the Children has suggested that physical and humiliating punishments are detrimental to the development of the children.
The report dubbed: Cost Effective Investment on Early Childhood Development was presented on Friday during the breakfast debate organized by Policy Forum.
During the presentation, Save the Children said caregivers, community members and teachers should adopt alternative positive discipline methods instead of physical and humiliating approaches.
Tabling the presentation, Save the Children director of program development and quality Jane Mbagi Mutua said research found that more caregivers and teachers agreed that physical punishment is not necessary for disciplining children at End line than at Midline.
“At End line, 58 percent of caregivers in the treatment compared to 69 percent in the control group agreed that physical punishment is necessary for disciplining children, as did 58 percent treatment group I as compared to 59 percent of treatment II,” she said.
According to her, for treatment areas, the increase was equivalent to five percent as compared to the midline.
She said a higher proportion of female caregivers than males in treatment areas reported using violence-free parenting strategies in the past month.
Furthermore, she said caregivers in both treatment areas stated that beating a child for disciplinary reasons does not constitute violence.
“Respondents justified that using physical punishment to correct their children as long as the child was made aware of why they were being punished, and the intensity of the punishment was minimal. However, if the child was repeatedly hit for no reason, that would mean violence,” she said.
But, reached for clarifications yesterday, Ms Mutua said research had three categories with the baseline standing for foundation; midline for the middle and endline for final evaluations.
“You collect data at the foundation stage to determine the magnitude of the problem. At the middle data are collected to measure the progress of change following undertaken interventions,” she said.
“At the end of the project, data is collected to provide final evaluation at which interventions have worked out,” she added.
Furthermore, she said treatment groups during research are referred to members of the community given intervention measures or capacity building training in order to bring change.
According to her, control groups are members of the community facing a similar challenge but no intervention is extended to them.
“For Instance, village ‘A’ could be trained on discipline, abandoning corporal punishment and violence against children etc which is referred as a treatment group,” she said.
“Another village facing similar challenges could be denied the services, therefore, it is referred to as a control group. But, when data is collected from the control group, change could be seen despite absence of intervention measures,” she said.
Likewise, collected data from the treatment group will provide changes made after being subjected to intervention measures, noting that whenever there were no changes indicates that provided interventions had no impacts.
“But, if the percentage of people in the group who believed on physical and corporal punishment decreased as compared to the percentage in the control group due to interventions made, the conclusion would be that undertaken measures had positive impacts,” she said.
“Therefore, Save the Children said physical and humiliating punishments are detrimental to children development. Our encouragement for community members, caregivers and teachers is to use alternative positive discipline methods and not physical and humiliating methods,” added Dr Mutua.
According to her, teachers and parents should realise that it is detrimental to children development when physical and humiliating punishments are applied.
She said it is wrong to compare the discipline of children in the past years to those of the present years, noting that the two were facing different challenges.
“In the past there were no internet as compared to recent years where there is a huge flow of information. There is however a balance between then and now,” she said.
“We shouldn’t throw everything that used to be part of discipline. However, we are against physical and humiliating punishment because beating a child for instance teaches violence,” she added.
Ms Mutua said violence is a counter product, emphasizing that a balance should be found between what worked without damaging a child and what is currently done.
Detailing on the centre of the problem, she said parents have nowadays absconded parenting roles, noting that children are nowadays left at home with housemaids.
“Children are bringing themselves up. You can’t compare without looking at the environment the children were growing up. The past and present environments are completely different, but it is about finding a balance, but in doing so physical and humiliating punishments should not be part of it,” she said.
“This is because, apart from damaging children, they teach them violence. Beating shouldn’t be done to children at all, it is not acceptable whether at school or at home,” she emphasized.
She outlined several alternative disciplined methods including talking to children, withdrawing privileges, explaining reasons of withdrawal and consequences of what they are doing.
She was seconded by Mr Godwin Mongi who said study was supposed to come up with a plan to prepare and establish the national program.
The plan could provide citizens with the guideline on children upbringing and development, protection, parents’ roles, investment and nutrition issues, according to him.
“Beating a child after doing mistakes kills brain capabilities and thinking abilities. The society is responsible in making them better future citizens,” she said.
Also, Ms Florah Emmanuel from the Tanzania Women Lawyers Association (Tawla) said her organization have been receiving under numerous cases of defilement involving children staring 11 years old.
“When asked children say they were scared to report the violence to their parents fearing to be beaten. Parents should friendly talk to children in order to encourage them to report challenges they were facing,” she said.
Mr Joachim Paul said corporal punishment cultivates the spirit of fear and diminishes children confidence from tender age.
“This is dangerous in building the nation of confidence people especially in standing against issues they believe,” she said.
When contacted, a parent, Ms Lucy Tomeka said punishment to children is rooted from the Holy Bible, noting that Proverbs 13:24 says, “Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.”
“So, being the first child my parents were blessed with, it was their clearly God-given to never spare the rod on my poor black behind. And I mean never. I was flogged fro all small wrongdoings,” she told The Citizen.
“I’m doing the same to my boy. But, not everyone has the right to whip my child even his teachers in school. I would go to school whenever such reports reaches me,” he said.
“Parents are supposed to design and execute disciplinary measures fitting their children. Otherwise, there are times children should have feelings that parents are there to protect them,” she added.
But another parent, who preferred anonymity, said children need a slight flogging to scare them from misbehaving.
“Gifts could be withdrawn as part of punishment, but moderate whipping should continue at the very moment they do mistakes,” she said.
She said the ongoing technological development require parents to have tough decisions against their children, noting that laughing at children’s mistake is like a bomb that will have huge consequences upon exploding.
“Children are very clever, whenever they are punished for their wrongdoings they may not make verbal admiration, but a sense of regret can be seen on their faces,” she said.
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These days it is difficult for Middle Tennesseans to avoid the effect inflation is having on our wallets. Inflation skyrocketed to an annual rate of 8.5% in July, the highest level in more than 40 years – and we are feeling the impact every time we fill up our gas tank, stock up on groceries or buy clothes.
Many economists predict that high inflation will remain with us for the rest of this year, and perhaps into 2023. That is not good news for most of us living in and around Tullahoma, where the median income is a little more than $48,000, according to the 2020 U.S. Census. Every dollar counts.
Though we have no control over the prices we pay for everyday household goods and services, there are a few practical steps we can take to lessen the financial pain of inflation:
1. Revaluate your spending
The federal government’s Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures the rate of inflation, is a national average. The CPI is based on prices for 80,000 goods and services in 75 geographic areas that cover 93% of the country’s population.
This is important to know because inflation in Tullahoma is likely very different from the rest of the country, and even nearby Nashville. Inflation also will affect each person or family differently. For example, some rent an apartment while others own a home; some feed a large family, others just feed themselves; some have a long commute to work, others don’t.
The best way to determine inflation’s impact on your income is to take a close look at your spending. To do that, compare your spending – organized by category, such as groceries, gas, utilities, for example – over the past several months to the same time last year by downloading monthly statements for your savings, checking and credit card accounts. The data will give you invaluable insight into how inflation may be reducing your purchasing (and saving) power.
2. Take advantage of free online budgeting tools
Once all financial information is at your fingertips, now you can really dig into where rising prices are taking the biggest bite of your income. Nearly every credit union and bank provides free online budgeting tools so take advantage of them to organize your expenses and create a budget or spending plan.
This process will help you decide if there are nonessential expenses that can be eliminated. The cut may be painful, but you only have to make it once. Also, review which expenses could be cut back. Look closely at what you are spending on discretionary expenses such as dining/take-out, entertainment (movies, sporting events), clothing/fashion and high-tech gadgets, to name a few. Most people are surprised at how much they can save when they step back and re-evaluate spending in those areas.
3. Find lower-cost alternatives
This is the step in your spending analysis where you can get creative by making small changes that could add up to big savings without affecting your quality of life. Here are a few things to consider:
● Used or new: Can you find quality used merchandise on eBay, Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace instead of buying the same thing new?
● Monthly subscriptions: Can you live with less expensive monthly packages for your cable, cellphone or other subscriptions (streaming services, magazines, etc.)?
● Groceries: Can you better plan meals to take advantage of sales that grocery stores offer each week?
● Vacation: Can your vacation be closer to home so you drive instead of fly?
● Auto insurance: Is it time to do some comparison shopping to see if you can get a lower bill?
● Entertainment: Instead of going to the movies, would renting movies online make a dent in your budget?
4. Hold off on major purchases
If inflation is taking a significant bite of your income, consider preserving your savings by delaying major purchases, such as a car, home improvements or furniture. Maintaining a healthy cash reserve (and emergency fund) may be a smart move if you are faced in the future with a large, unexpected expense.
Nobody knows with any level of certainty how long prices will continue to rise. But if you follow these tips, you will be in a better financial position when inflation begins to fall.
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Answering questions in an online “Ask the White House” forum in 2004, he explained that in preparing desserts not just for the first family but for parties, receptions and dinners, he was often called on to prepare thousands of pastries. He said he planned the number of pastries according to who would be in attendance.
“Over the 25 years I’ve been here, I’ve noticed that Democrats usually eat more than Republicans,” Mesnier said. “I’ve also observed that if the guests are mostly ladies, they will usually eat more pastries than men.”
At Christmas time, he was known for the elaborate gingerbread houses he made to help decorate the White House. He said he also needed to make more pastries than usual for holiday parties because some tended to “disappear into pocketbooks or pockets” and often ended up as Christmas tree ornaments in people’s homes.
Mesnier grew up in Bonnay, a village in eastern France, in a family of nine children and began his career as an apprentice at age 14. White House archives describe him leaving home with a cardboard suitcase and five francs to begin his apprenticeship at the Patisserie Maurivard in Besançon, France. He later worked in Paris and the German cities of Hanover and Hamburg before landing a job at the Savoy hotel in London.
In 1967, he became a pastry chef at a hotel in Bermuda and while living on the island met his future wife, a vacationing schoolteacher from West Virginia. A decade later, he was working at The Homestead resort in Virginia when he heard that the White House was looking for a new pastry chef.
When asked in 2004 about working at the White House, he said: “You don’t think about free time, spare time, etc. Because your time is at the White House. Any time you are needed you have to be there.”
“It could be Christmas day, Easter, your birthday, your mother’s birthday, your child’s birthday — you are going to be at the White House if you are needed,” he said.
“The White House always comes first.”
He is survived by his son, George Mesnier. | https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/us-politics/ap-roland-mesnier-pastry-chef-for-five-presidents-dies-at-78/ | 2022-08-28T16:30:04Z | https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/us-politics/ap-roland-mesnier-pastry-chef-for-five-presidents-dies-at-78/ | true | 23 |
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The headquarters from which this company dedicated to genetic engineering, and with a murky history also related to food safety, experiments with its own dinosaur sanctuary.
“In other installments we saw humans blowing up dinosaurs and many dinosaurs eating people, but now it’s different. We are in a context in which we have to survive together against the effects of genetic technology, ”explained the also screenwriter and director of the Star Wars saga.
The theme of coexistence, with more or less difficulty, between these creatures and humans is one of the main axes of a production that shows dinosaurs in cities, towns and rural environments around the world.
“It is no longer a theme park with dinosaurs but a world totally affected by them,” explained actor Chris Pratt (Owen Grady), who added that this film resembles “a James Bond production” because you can go “from a desert from the mountain to being in Malta or other continents” in a matter of seconds.
And he could not define it better because, just a few years after Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom the dinosaurs escape and spread around the world, there is even a black market that trades with them, which transports the viewer’s imagination to a kind of global dystopia.
With plots that strike a chord with the most loyal fans of the saga, a good dose of special effects and delve into the consequences of genetic engineering, Jurassic World: Dominion It has been the film of the summer and, possibly, of the year. | https://codelist.biz/2022/08/28/the-film-of-the-year-burgos-daily-news/ | 2022-08-28T17:03:47Z | https://codelist.biz/2022/08/28/the-film-of-the-year-burgos-daily-news/ | false | 4 |
Some two Supernumerary Police Officers have been suspended by the Nigeria Police Force for misconduct.
The officers, Obaze Blessing and Obaze Emmanuella Uju were suspended for discreditable conduct and violation of social media policy of the Force.
The officers, biological sisters, were thrust into the limelight after TikTok videos of them looking sexy in their uniforms and bikinis went viral two weeks ago.
Trouble began on August 3 when the younger sibling shared different sexy pictures with her older sister, stating that she missed her on TikTok account.
The videos went viral two weeks ago after they made it to Twitter and Instagram.
Subsequently, their TikTok following surged as they gained over 500000 TikTok followers overnight.
Meanwhile, the TikTok account no longer exists.
The first picture she shared saw them pose in front of a station while sporting the all-black police uniform.
In another photo, the ladies wore bikinis as they had a lovely time at the beach.
The officers were suspended with immediate effect, the force's public relations officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said in a statement on Friday.
According to the Force, the action of the two is in breach of the provisions of the Police Act, 2020, and the Nigeria Police Guidelines for Recruitment/Promotion/Discipline of Supernumerary Police (SPY) 2013 by the Inspector-General of Police.
“It is important to mention that in line with Section 25 (2) (3) of the Police Act, 2020 and the Nigeria Police Guidelines for Recruitment/Promotion/Discipline of Supernumerary Police (SPY), 2013, issued by the Inspector-General of Police (Guidelines for SPYs), the mode of dressing of SPY police mandates its SPY officers above the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police not to wear uniforms. Similarly, extant laws delineate the Supernumerary uniform.
“The suspended supernumerary officers – Obaze Blessing with SPY number 5709 and Obaze Emmanuella Uju with SPY number 5708, adorned themselves in conventional police officers' uniforms contrary to the code regulating the SPY service. One of them similarly adorned the rank of Superintendent of Police which is contrary to extant laws.
“Above all, they portrayed themselves in the viral video and other videos as undisciplined and unprofessional, in contravention of the Police Social Media Policy, with acts glorifying ill-gotten wealth and ill morals, which has received wide condemnation from members of the public.”
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the remix of Rema’s hit with Selena Gomez
The Afrobeats star and pioneer has teamed up with the planetary pop star. Her album Rave & Roses peaked at No. 1 in over sixteen countries
MILAN – Still immersed in the incredible success of his debut album, Rave & Roses, the pioneer and young star of Afrobeats Row publishes a new version of his hit “Calm Down“, With the participation of the world pop icon Selena Gomezcurrently nominated for a Grammy and Emmy: “Calm Down (with Selena Gomez)” accompanied by a lyric video.
Since its release, Rave & Roses has peaked at No. 1 in over sixteen countries, is currently at # 1 of Shazam Italy, entered the Top 10 of the Billboard World Music chart, in the Top 10 of the Apple Music and Shazam charts within a week of its release and entered history as the ‘Afrobeats highest rated debut album in Nigeria.
Rave & Roses is divided into 16 tracks and contains a selection of international artists, including the American singer Chris Brown, 6LACK, the British rapper AJ Tracey and the French singer Yseult. Coining a new subgenre called Afrorave, Rave & Roses is a masterpiece of its genre and its musicality, in which Rema opens up and lets us explore her particular and wonderful universe.
Rema is currently on a major US tour, which includes several sold out stops in Los Angeles and two nights at New York’s Irving Plaza, following performances at the UK’s Strawberries & Cream and Wireless festivals this summer. Rema will also be touring the UK and the European Union during the autumn, including its first headlining show in London.
Since its debut, Rema has completely revolutionized the cards at stake, quickly becoming one of the most important and internationally recognized names of the new wave of Afrobeats stars. The young pioneer stands out for his ability to range between various influences, citing African, Indian and Arabic music as an integral part of his sound.
With the signature of the likes of Timberland, Barack Obama, Rihanna, Drake, Skepta and FKA Twigs, Rema has given her personal touch to everything she has created and her debut album proved to be worthy of it all. the clamor that surrounds it.
Watch the “Calm Down (with Selena Gomez)” lyric video and listen to Rave & Roses above and stay tuned for more on Rema.
About Rema
Rema is already a superstar. Backed by Barack Obama and Drake, her songs, like “Iron Man” and “Dumebi”, have already changed the cards. Continually demonstrating a wisdom that goes well beyond his 21 years, Rema is paving the way for his generation and his mission to take Afrobeat to the world is at the heart of everything he does. To some of him his success with him may seem immediate, but his musical journey began when he was a young teenager. Rema, aka Divine Ikubor, was born and raised in Benin City and rose to prominence thanks to his unrivaled voice, his blend of genres and his ease of showing himself for who he is. After grabbing the covers of The Fader and Dazed & Confused, he continues to enrich his career by becoming one of AppleMusic’s Up Next artists in 2020, joining the FIFA 2021 soundtrack and attracting the attention of radios around the world. world. Rave & Roses offers us a glimpse into the history of Rema, the superstar who tries to juggle life, fame and love by creating a pleasant and exciting sound experience.
About Selena Gomez
Nominated for Grammys and Emmys, Selena Gomez is one of the most culturally and globally celebrated artists, actresses, producers, entrepreneurs and philanthropists of her generation. As a recording artist, Gomez has sold more than 210 million singles worldwide and over 45 billion global streams. Selena received a Grammy nomination for her latest project Revelación, her first fully Spanish EP. Gomez has landed multiple film and television roles with prominent directors, including Adam McKay and Jim Jarmusch, and has starred with prominent actors, including Timothée Chalamet, Robert Downey Jr. and Bill Murray. As a producer, she produced the hit Netflix series “13Reasons Why” and the acclaimed Netflix docu-series “Living Undocumented”. Gomez is executive producer and participates in the HBO Max cooking series “Selena + Chef”. Currently, Selena is executive producer and star of the critically acclaimed Hulu series “Only Murders in the Building,” alongside comedy legends Steve Martin and Martin Short, which returned for a second season this summer. Gomez received a Critics Choice Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series and a SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series. | https://codelist.biz/2022/08/28/the-remix-of-remas-hit-with-selena-gomez/ | 2022-08-28T17:05:32Z | https://codelist.biz/2022/08/28/the-remix-of-remas-hit-with-selena-gomez/ | false | 1 |
NEW YORK (AP) — For one day, movie tickets will be just $3 in the vast majority of American theaters as part of a newly launched “National Cinema Day” to lure moviegoers during a quiet spell at the box office.
The Cinema Foundation, a non-profit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners, on Sunday announced that Sept. 3 will be a nationwide discount day in more than 3,000 theaters and on more than 30,000 screens. Major chains, including AMC and Regal Cinemas, are participating, as are all major film studios. In participating theaters, tickets will be no more than $3 for every showing, in every format.
Labor Day weekend is traditionally one of the slowest weekends in theaters. This year, the August lull has been especially acute for exhibitors. Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas, cited the scant supply of major new releases in its recent plans to fill for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
But, if successful, National Cinema Day could flood theaters with moviegoers and potentially prompt them to return in the fall. Before each showing, ticket buyers will be shown a sizzle reel of upcoming films from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony, United Artists Releasing, Universal, and Warner Bros.
“After this summer’s record-breaking return to cinemas, we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing,” said Jackie Brenneman, Cinema Foundation president, in a statement. “We’re doing it by offering a ‘thank you’ to the moviegoers that made this summer happen, and by offering an extra enticement for those who haven’t made it back yet.”
After more than two years of pandemic, movie theaters rebounded significantly over the summer, seeing business return to nearly pre-pandemic levels. Films like “Top Gun: Maverick,”“Minions: Rise of Gru,”“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and “Jurassic World Dominion” pushed the domestic summer box office to $3.3 billion in ticket sales as of Aug. 21, according to data firm Comscore. That trails 2019 totals by about 20% but exhibitors have had about 30% fewer wide releases this year.
Organizers of National Cinema Day described the event as a trial that could become an annual fixture. While some other countries have experimented with a similar day of cheap movie tickets, the initiative is the first of its kind on such a large scale in the U.S. | https://www.wtrf.com/news/national-news/most-us-movie-theaters-agree-to-sell-3-tickets-for-1-day/ | 2022-08-28T17:13:00Z | https://www.wtrf.com/news/national-news/most-us-movie-theaters-agree-to-sell-3-tickets-for-1-day/ | true | 82 |
Tamil Nadu on Sunday saw 525 fresh Covid-19 infections, pushing the tally to 35,67,160.
The toll remained unchanged at 38,034 as no fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours, a medical bulletin said here. As many as 596 people got recuperated from the virus in the last 24 hours, aggregating to 35,23,858 leaving 5,268 active cases.
Chennai added 83 cases, the highest among districts, followed by Coimbatore 68 while the remaining were scattered across districts. Ariyalur, Tenkasi, Ramanathapuram, and Perambalur each recorded one case. As many as 21 districts reported new cases below 10.
The state capital leads among districts with 2,245 active infections and overall 7,87,220 coronavirus cases. A total of 22,732 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, pushing the cumulative number of tests so far to 6.88 crores, the health bulletin said. | https://www.outlookindia.com/national/tamil-nadu-register-525-new-covid-19-cases-with-no-fatality-news-219517 | 2022-08-28T17:20:34Z | https://www.outlookindia.com/national/tamil-nadu-register-525-new-covid-19-cases-with-no-fatality-news-219517 | true | null |
Fewer people are becoming teachers in Michigan, so Jackson Public Schools needed an aggressive approach to attract new teachers in an increasingly competitive market, Superintendent Jeff Beal said.
So, JPS offered prospective hires a $10,000 sign-on bonus that’s paid out in three yearly installments to encourage teachers not only to come to the district but to put down roots there and build a career.
The incentive is essential at a time when fewer students in Michigan are graduating with teaching degrees, Beal said, adding job openings attract a fraction of the number of candidates they did 10 to 15 years ago.
“It incentivizes becoming part of the Jackson culture and really become embedded in what we do,” Beal said. “We see districts in other counties reaching in, emailing teachers directly, trying to recruit teachers away.”
While quantifying a teacher shortage in Michigan is complicated from a statistical standpoint, superintendents throughout the state, like Beal, know first-hand there is a legitimate shortage in the number of qualified teachers, if you follow the application process or need a teacher in a more specialized area like special education.
Michigan’s 115,800 teachers employed in 2021-22 were 18,000 more than five years ago, state data shows, after the number of teachers had been in gradual decline in the previous decade.
The statistics don’t differentiate between full-time certified teachers and full- and part-time substitutes filling regular positions, and the Michigan Department of Education doesn’t track job vacancies in schools.
But, there has been a significant decline in the number of students completing Michigan teacher programs since the early 2000s, from more than 8,100 in 2005-06 to about 2,200 in 2019-20, federal data shows.
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With fewer young teachers graduating and applying for jobs, school districts have tried everything from financial incentives to grow your own programs providing a path for current staff members to become a certified teacher or formerly certified teachers to become certified again.
With eight alums ready to join Ann Arbor Public Schools’ teaching staff this fall, Superintendent Jeanice Swift said programs like its Pioneer High School Trailblazer mentoring class have been innovative in attracting current students to become teachers by offering a glimpse of what it’s like. It also demonstrates the value of working in the district they grew up in, she said.
“We want to attract from among our own students - those who really are interested in serving children and would like to get their education degree and come back with us,” Swift said.
Trailblazer and Pioneer High School alum Emma Packard moved east to earn her teaching degree from Boston University. But she’s back home, starting her first year of teaching second grade at Ann Arbor’s Eberwhite Elementary School this year.
Packard credits Trailblazers, started by her father, Don, for preparing her for teaching in what has always been her dream teaching destination.
“(Trailblazers) made me realize how much I liked not only the content and organization of school, but especially building relationships with students, especially those who were on the fringes of fitting in, either academically, socially, or both,” Packard said.
“Without Trailblazers, I wouldn’t have seen elementary teaching as an attainable, real profession, and I certainly wouldn’t have known I had a passion for it, let alone a knack for it.”
What does a teacher shortage look like?
A shortage of qualified teacher candidates looks different for each Michigan district struggling to fill its rosters this fall.
The state’s top five areas of shortages reported in 2019-20, based on the number of teacher permits, approvals and authorizations in all subject areas, include career and technical education (994), special education (792), elementary education (724), school social workers (429) and science (211).
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The 13 retiring teachers Sault Ste. Marie Area Public Schools had to replace made for a busy summer of hiring in the district that has experienced a 38% decline in teacher staffing since 2018, Superintendent Amy Scott-Kronemeyer said.
Career and technical education teachers and secondary science teachers are the district’s most in-demand positions, she said, but candidates are difficult to attract in the Upper Peninsula.
“We have to pull those individuals from industry and industry tends to pay at a greater level because typically they’re year-round employees,” Scott-Kronemeyer said. “The demand, the intensity, the way teachers sometimes are treated today, makes it not as appealing.”
In Muskegon County, Whitehall District Schools are having trouble finding middle and high school science and special education teachers, Superintendent Jerry McDowell said, in addition to having a lack of applicants for subjects like art and physical education.
At Grosse Ile Township Schools in Wayne County, Superintendent Valerie Orr said there are two unfilled positions heading into the year, with the district struggling to fill openings in areas like special education.
The COVID-19 pandemic put additional strain on teachers’ demands, causing many to retire and fewer candidates to apply for jobs, Orr said. A lack of substitute teachers also has resulted combining classrooms or canceling specialized subjects, like art, physical education and music.
“The teacher shortage is a crisis, and everyone needs to understand the impact of that on our children,” Orr said. “It is going to get worse, and we know this by studying the number of individuals enrolled in teacher prep programs.”
How do you grow teachers?
The proportion of teachers leaving their districts for another Michigan school district or from public schools altogether increased from 5.2% in 2010-11 to 8.7% in 2019-20, according to a policy brief from Michigan State University’s Education Policy Innovation Collaborative.
With fewer new teachers completing university programs and current teachers moving to other districts or professions, Michigan schools face a changing and competitive landscape in attracting new teachers and retaining the ones they have.
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In an effort to help, the 2022-23 state education budget includes $305 million for a Future Educators Fellowship, which will provide grants of up to $10,000 per year for up to 2,500 students in teacher prep programs who commit to being teachers in Michigan after graduation.
It also includes $175 million for grow your own programs for districts to recruit and train teachers from the ranks of paraprofessionals and other support staff.
The development of a grow your own program in Washtenaw County involving the Washtenaw Intermediate School District, through Eastern Michigan University, attracted AAPS, Swift said. The district is participating to help seven staff paraprofessionals earn their special education teaching certification, hopefully by next spring, while they keep working in the district.
EMU’s involvement in this grow your own program is one of several initiatives that could help the College of Education recover from a 23.5% decrease in admissions, from 362 in 2020-21 to 277 in 2021-22, Dean Ryan Evely Gildersleeve said.
Along with groups of 22 to 25 students per year participating in the special education certification program, EMU collaborates with school districts across the state in its Pathways for Future Educators program, which identifies students as early as middle school who have an aptitude to move into education.
The program helps enroll them in a teacher preparation program, guaranteeing them an interview with the home district they were recruited by upon completion.
Efforts to find new teachers, wherever they are or whatever age they may be, requires universities like EMU and Michigan school districts to evolve and work together, Gildersleeve said.
“We need to have multiple pathways that meet needs of groups who have historically not been invited to participate in or contribute to the education of Michigan children and families,” he said.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A woman died in a shooting Saturday evening in Clinton, Missouri.
At around 6:15 p.m. the Clinton Police Department responded to a report of a shooting at a residence in the 400 Block of Louise Avenue and located Ashton Christine Alexander, 28, with apparent gunshot wounds, police say. Alexander died on the scene.
A suspect was taken into custody on a 24 hour investigative hold. Both the victim and the suspect lived at the residence, police say.
The Clinton Police Department continues to investigate the case.
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Russia's defense ministry has said nine shells fired by the Ukrainian artillery in two separate attacks landed on the nuclear plant's grounds.
The United Nations and Kyiv have called for a withdrawal of military equipment and personnel from the plant to ensure it is not a target. | https://www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/Ukrainians-get-iodine-tablets-on-nuclear-fears--41636863/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=20220828 | 2022-08-28T17:25:23Z | https://www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/Ukrainians-get-iodine-tablets-on-nuclear-fears--41636863/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=20220828 | false | null |
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TONIGHT - Neighborhood Watch Meeting: Stop the Bleed
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210 N. Lincoln Ave
OPD Training Facility (Gardner/Jones Rooms)
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We are lucky to have two world-class UNESCO-recognized parks on our doorstep: Kluane and Glacier Bay.
They are very different environments. One is famous for humpback whales and sea otters while visitors look for grizzlies and mountain sheep in the other.
They also offer very different economic models. Parks have a higher mission than merely fostering economic activity, but they do not exist in isolation from society. Parks hold great potential in our quest for a northern economy that is sustainable, in both the financial and environmental senses. And parks in a democracy rely ultimately on voter support for their budgets and protective regulations.
So let’s compare the two parks from an economic point of view, looking at their attractions, brands, indigenous engagement, service models and economic results.
We will start with results and work back from there to explain the differences.
Park results are particularly tricky to measure. It is difficult to come by reliable figures on the gross domestic product generated in the Alaska panhandle by Glacier Bay or in the Yukon by Kluane.
Visitor numbers are a guide, but a very rough one. In the 2019-20 fiscal, the last summer season before the pandemic, Parks Canada reported attendance of 29,055 for Kluane. The National Parks Service reported 672,087 for Glacier Bay.
However, about four-fifths of Glacier Bay visitors arrive by cruise ship and do not set foot on land. And daytrippers to Kluane will recall they did not have to register, and are not included in Kluane’s number.
Nonetheless, one can say that over the last twenty years around 10 million people have experienced Glacier Bay and made a contribution to the upkeep of the park, either directly or through their cruise ship tickets. Whether they retained what they saw about climate change and retreating glaciers, or became bigger supporters of national parks, is a tougher question.
Kluane, on the other hand, is experienced by far fewer people. For us locals, this is one of the magic things about Kluane. You can go on a spectacular hike, on a well-marked trail at the height of tourist season, and see no one at all. It’s like being an oligarch strolling your private mountain range.
In terms of attractions, I find it impossible to rank the parks. Both have jaw-dropping mountains and glaciers. Who is to say if watching humpback whales and sea otters is more or less uplifting for your soul than watching grizzlies and mountain sheep?
But from a crass marketing point of view, Glacier Bay has an in-built advantage: whales. People love whales, as the cruise ship companies know very well. Nothing looks as good on a brochure as charismatic megafauna. And the rich marine environment means you are practically guaranteed to see whales from your cruise ship. If you paddle, it’s hard to avoid seeing hundreds of sea otters up close.
The grizzlies and mountain sheep of Kluane are more coy.
The two parks also differ in brand. John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, first visited in 1879 and used his enormous influence in the then-new parks movement to position Glacier Bay in the American popular imagination. He was aided in this by ecologist William S. Cooper and early National Geographic editor Eliza Scidmore. Between them, Glacier Bay is as close to a household name in national parks as a park can be (megastar Yosemite Park perhaps excepted).
No Canadian Muir or Scidmore has so far succeeded in planting the much newer Kluane Park in the Canadian psyche in the same way.
In terms of indigenous engagement, both parks are making serious efforts to address their colonial roots. In both countries, the 20th century concept of the park required excluding indigenous people and banning traditional harvesting activities. The National Parks Service has been working hard with the Huna Tlingit, including a spectacular new longhouse and an arrangement to allow seabird egg harvesting again. Parks Canada is working with both the Kluane as well as Champagne and Aishihik First Nations.
Where the parks differ most is in their service models for visitors. Glacier Bay offers a full pyramid of options. At the base are the 80 percent who visit by cruise ship. This is relatively economical – Alaska cruises can be less than $600 per person on sale – and requires no physical effort or hardship. In the middle are those who fly on Alaska Airlines or take the state ferry to Gustavus. They can camp in the park or stay in the park’s lodge before taking a day boat tour past the whales to the glaciers. Guide-book author David Bahr estimates around one percent of visitors don their PFDs and rain gear and paddle the park. At the very top of the pyramid are the people who leave their private jets at Gustavus Airport while visiting a high-end lodge.
Kluane has a more stripped-down product offering. The main offering is self-guided hikes, either day trips or overnighters. It is possible to get a boat tour of Kathleen Lake, do a rafting trip on the Alsek, or jump in a plane for a flightseeing trip to Mount Logan. But relatively small numbers of visitors do these activities.
So what does all this mean?
Kluane can’t be Glacier Bay. It doesn’t have Muir, a century of National Geographic publicity and cruise ships can’t reach it. Nor, perhaps, would we want that.
But what about stealing the idea of Glacier Bay’s lodge? Picture a hotel owned and run by local First Nations on Kathleen Lake, employing local people with a bigger suite of tours and activities.
I suspect it would be a cash cow, and would also expose many more visitors to the wonders of Kluane Park and First Nations culture.
Such an idea may be far in the future. In the meantime, we Yukoners can enjoy a UNESCO World Heritage site while barely having to share it at all.
Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist, author of the Aurore of the Yukon youth adventure novels and co-host of the Klondike Gold Rush History podcast. He is a Ma Murray award-winner for best columnist. | https://www.yukon-news.com/opinion/yukonomist-comparing-the-incomparable/ | 2022-08-28T17:32:29Z | https://www.yukon-news.com/opinion/yukonomist-comparing-the-incomparable/ | false | 1 |
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NEW YORK — A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for $12.6 million Sunday, blasting into the record books as the most ever paid for sports memorabilia in a market that has grown exponentially more lucrative in recent years.
The rare Mantle card eclipsed the record just posted a few months ago — $9.3 million for the jersey worn by Diego Maradona when he scored the contentious "Hand of God" goal in soccer's 1986 World Cup.
It easily surpassed the $7.25 million for a century-old Honus Wagner baseball card recently sold in a private sale.
And just last month, the heavyweight boxing belt reclaimed by Muhammad Ali during 1974's "Rumble in the Jungle" sold for nearly $6.2 million.
All are part of a booming market for sports collectibles.
Prices have risen not just for the rarest items, but also for pieces that might have been collecting dust in garages and attics. Many of those items make it onto consumer auction sites like eBay, while others are put up for bidding by auction houses.
Because of its near-perfect condition and its legendary subject, the Mantle card was destined to be a top seller, said Chris Ivy, the director of sports auctions at Heritage Auctions, which ran the bidding.
Some saw collectibles as a hedge against inflation over the past couple years, he said, while others rekindled childhood passions.
Ivy said savvy investors saw inflation coming down the road — as it has. As a result, sports memorabilia became an alternative to traditional Wall Street investments or real estate — particularly among members of Generation X and older millennials.
"There's only so much Netflix and 'Tiger King' people could watch (during the pandemic). So, you know, they were getting back into hobbies, and clearly sports collecting was a part of that," said Ivy, who noted an uptick in calls among potential sellers.
Add to that interest from wealthy overseas collectors and you have a confluence of factors that made sports collectibles especially attractive, Ivy said.
"We've kind of started seeing some growth and some rise in the prices that led to some media coverage. And I think it all it all just kind of built upon itself," he said. "I would say the beginning of the pandemic really added gasoline to that fire."
Before the pandemic, the sports memorabilia market was estimated at more than $5.4 billion, according to a 2018 Forbes interview with David Yoken, the founder of Collectable.com.
By 2021, that market had grown to $26 billion, according to the research firm Market Decipher, which predicts the market will grow astronomically to $227 billion within a decade — partly fueled by the rise of so-called NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, which are digital collectibles with unique data-encrypted fingerprints.
Sports cards have been especially in demand, as people spent more time at home and an opportunity arose to rummage through potential treasure troves of childhood memories, including old comic books and small stacks of bubble gum cards featuring marquee sports stars.
That lure of making money on something that might be sitting in one's childhood basement has been irresistible, according to Stephen Fishler, founder of ComicConnect, who has watched the growing rise — and profitability — of collectibles being traded across auction houses.
"In a nutshell, the world of modern sports cards has been going bonkers," he said.
The Mantle baseball card dates from 1952 and is widely regarded as one of just a handful of the baseball legend in near-perfect condition.
The auction netted a handsome profit for Anthony Giordano, a New Jersey waste management entrepreneur who bought it for $50,000 at a New York City show in 1991.
The switch-hitting Mantle was a Triple Crown winner in 1956, a three-time American League MVP and a seven-time World Series champion. The Hall of Famer died in 1995.
"Some people might say it's just a baseball card. Who cares? It's just a Picasso. It's just a Rembrandt to other people. It's a thing of art for some people," said John Holden, a professor in sports management law at Oklahoma State and amateur sports card collector.
Like pieces of art that have no intrinsic value, he said, when it comes to sports cards, the worth is in the eye of the beholder — or the pocketbook of the potential bidder.
"The value," Holden said, "is whatever the market's willing to support."
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A single eagle feather sits on the kitchen table in Simon Monteith’s home.
Next to it is an array of household products including hydrogen peroxide, dish soap, food colouring and a baking dish.
The scene depicts the two worlds the nine-year-old walks.
From a science perspective, feathers aid in thrust, enabling flight. From a First Nations perspective, an eagle feather is a symbol of respect.
“I like to look at things from two or more perspectives,” says Simon.
For the past two years, the Cree youth from Opaskwayak Cree Nation in northern Manitoba has been virtually inviting others into his Winnipeg home to share his love of all things science related.
Using his kitchen as a backdrop, Simon has produced roughly 60 educational videos and posted them to social media under the moniker Simon The Scientist.
The project started at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when Simon approached his mom about creating a video to help explain the virus to other children and youth. It expanded into content on geology, technology and chemistry.
Jacqueline Monteith says her son has always had the ability to understand complex concepts in an original way.
“It’s fascinating that a kid has a unique ability to teach scientific concepts or complex concepts to other children in a very unique way. Kids teaching kids is a way that children will understand as opposed to adults trying to teach children,” says Monteith.
Simon’s love of science came at an early age.
“It wasn’t really a specific thing that made me interested in science. It’s just sort of who I am,” he says.
Simon hopes to reach groups who are under-represented in the sciences field.
For Rob Cardinal, this same goal was what prompted him to help found IndigeSTEAM, an organization providing Indigenous-led and culturally relevant programming to Indigenous youth and other under-represented groups.
The organization takes its name from the acronym STEM: science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The group incorporates arts, architecture and agriculture in their programming to form STEAM. This represents areas where Indigenous peoples have been innovators for thousands of years.
“Knowledge is knowledge. Our ways and culture are so applicable in these times,” says Cardinal.
A 2020 study from the Conference Board of Canada found Indigenous students are more engaged with a curriculum that bridges Indigenous ways of knowing with Western science.
The board tracked more than 100 different programs in Canada aimed at helping Indigenous learners succeed in STEM. The study found while there has been a push to reach Indigenous students in early years, there is still a gap in preparing students in high school for post-secondary studies in STEM.
Indigenous people make up four per cent of adults in Canada, but less than two per cent of those working in STEM.
There is a lack of financial, technical and community resources, says Doug Dokis, director of Actua’s Indigenous Youth in STEM program.
The national education organization is one of the country’s largest STEM outreach organizations. It has built relationships with 200 Indigenous communities to provide programming to about 35,000 youth.
While work is being done on the ground and through various programs, there still hasn’t been a cohesive national effort to improve Indigenous educational outcomes and participation in the STEM fields, added Dokis, who is Anishinaabe from Dokis First Nation in Ontario.
Dokis says in recent years, the industry has relied on Indigenous knowledge when it comes to climate and land sustainability.
“Indigenous people have always known about STEM at the highest level. Indigenous knowledges are now becoming a focal point for addressing some of the current social, environmental and economic challenges that society as a whole in Canada faces.”
Cardinal says it’s important for Indigenous youth to have role models.
Cardinal is Blackfoot from Siksika First Nation and an astrophysicist. After discovering a comet, Cardinal says one of his elders told him that he had an obligation to his nation to share his knowledge, prompting him to shift into a mentorship role.
Cardinal hopes to show youth there is a space for them in the sciences.
“Give them some inspiration and give them some pride.”
Back in Winnipeg, Simon is becoming a mentor in his own right.
He wants to turn his passion project into a television show to reach more youth. He has submitted a business plan to Pow Wow Pitch, a competition for Indigenous entrepreneurs, and is a semifinalist.
“(I want to) help support the ideas of other kids so they can do what they want, which might not be science or might be science, but I want to help kids find their dream.”
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Rick Tyler, a Republican strategist and analyst, said the environment looks “not even close” to a red wave election year.
“The enthusiasm is just not there,” Tyler said. “Last time Republicans had a good year, they were six points ahead in the generic poll. Now we’re barely two points ahead. So it’s definitely not going to happen.”
RealClearPolitics averages of polls measuring whether voters would prefer Republican or Democratic control of Congress show the GOP slipping from a 4.8-point advantage in late April to less than a point as of Friday. At around this point in 2010, when Republicans saw historic gains in Congress, generic polls showed a four- to-six-point advantage for the GOP.
Punctuating the narrowing polls was the result in a special election on Tuesday. New York’s 19th Congressional district — which includes suburban areas and went for former President Trump in 2016 but President Biden in 2020 — is representative of the kind of battleground districts that Republicans are hoping to flip across the country.
But while Republican Marc Molinaro stuck to the party’s points about inflation and the economy, topics that Republicans have repeatedly said are top-of-mind for voters, Democrat Pat Ryan narrowly won the seat after focusing heavily on abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this summer.
Former GOP Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.) said on Newsmax Thursday that after the special election, “Republicans have to start paying attention.”
“The problem is, where Republicans have to pick up in order to win the Congress is in districts like that,” Santorum said. “If you look at the national polls, if you look at a lot of these races like in my home state of Pennsylvania — if this is a red wave year, the polls are not showing it right now.”
Democrats celebrating the win in New York also point to recent special House elections in Minnesota and Nebraska as evidence of enthusiasm. Candidates there overperformed historical trends in GOP-leaning districts, even though they ultimately lost those races.
And in wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision and the controversy surrounding Trump over Jan. 6 and the FBI seizing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Democrats are aiming to emphasize negatives on Republicans rather than make the election a referendum on Biden or Democratic leadership.
“MAGA Republicans hope voters ignore their dangerous extremism, but NY-19 shows us that voters will reject their extreme agenda,” Democratic National Campaign Committee spokesperson Tommy Garcia said in a statement.
Top Republicans have already started tempering expectations of taking back the evenly divided Senate as GOP nominees who were boosted by Trump show signs struggling.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said last week that the House is more likely to flip control than the Senate, citing “candidate quality.”
Tyler blamed Trump for the shifting dynamic.
“Donald Trump has turned this campaign from a referendum on Joe Biden, inflation, high food prices, high gas prices and affordable housing into a referendum on him,” he said.
Weaknesses for GOP candidates along with results from recent elections have led election analysts at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics and the Cook Political Report to shift several forecasts for key congressional midterm races toward Democrats. Cook revised its expected GOP gain in the House from 15-30 seats to 10-20 seats, and its Senate outlook from Republicans having an edge to a toss-up.
That marks a stark contrast from nine months ago, when House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) predicted that 2022 could be even more of a Republican wave than in 2010, when Republicans won a staggering 63 seats.
Republicans have since warned House members not to measure the drapes early and that the election will be tough, but GOP lawmakers are still largely operating on the assumption that they will win control of the chamber.
A Senate loss and only a small GOP majority in the House would “lead the media to say, ‘You know, this was a split decision,’” Tyler said. “No mandate, no red wave, no rejection of Biden’s policies. That’s a disaster for the Republican Party.”
Other GOP operatives downplay those fears, saying that the New York special election was an outlier case complicated by high Democratic turnout in primaries happening the same day, and noting that there are still months to go before the midterms.
“Anyone who thought retaking the majority was going to be easy needs to buck up,” National Republican Congressional Committee Communications Director Michael McAdams said in a statement. “Majorities are won in November not August and we look forward to prosecuting the case against Democrats’ failed one-party rule.”
Sarah Chamberlain, president and CEO of Republican Main Street Partnership, cautioned against looking at the New York special election as an indication for what may happen in November. Many voters did not even know the election was happening, she said, or were on vacation.
“I would not red flag it yet. We’re going to wait to see and do some more polling, but I think things are fine,” Chamberlain said.
Republicans have beat expectations before. Despite Democrats having more than a six-point edge on the generic ballot in 2020, Republicans gained House seats and squeezed Democrats into the slimmest majority in the lower chamber in a century.
Democrats are also spending millions on defending seats rather than being offensive in their House map, a GOP strategist noted, with the record number of Democratic House members retiring rather than running for reelection this year helping the GOP expand its pickup opportunities.
Kyle Kondik, managing editor at Sabato’s Crystal Ball, said that weaknesses in GOP Senate and gubernatorial candidates, as well as many Republicans’ position against abortion, has given Democrats the opportunity ”to make the election more of a choice than a referendum.” But he cautioned against fully reevaluating the midterm environment before Labor Day, and that Republicans could still flip both chambers even if they fall below expectations of a “red wave.”
“It is possible that the Democrats’ addition of more college-educated voters, at the expense of losing more non-college voters, has skewed some of these special elections, as the college cohort is a more reliable voting bloc,” Kondik said. “That said, if the GOP had some big enthusiasm edge over the Democrats — and if it was bringing a lot of lapsed GOP voters back into the fold — one would think they’d be doing better than they are.” | https://www.wytv.com/hill-politics/red-wave-hits-breaker-gop-midterm-worries-rise/ | 2022-08-28T17:59:42Z | https://www.wytv.com/hill-politics/red-wave-hits-breaker-gop-midterm-worries-rise/ | false | 18 |
After spending nearly three decades of saving lives as a nurse in intensive care units and emergency rooms, Paula Harbison has spent the last three years finding satisfaction as Good Hope’s school nurse.
Since she was a little girl, Harbison said that she felt like it was her calling to be a nurse, and has spent the last 32 years fulfilling that calling. First, as a nurse in the intensive care unit at Caraway Methodist Medical Center in Birmingham from 1990 until 2000, and then 18 years in the “float pool” at Cullman Regional Medical Center where she split her time between the emergency room, ICU, and cath lab. But, it was during her first ten years that Harbison said she gained the most experience.
“I’ll tell everybody that Caraway is where I learned to be a real nurse, because we did deal with all that trauma. and it’s kind of like an adrenaline rush and you don’t realize, you just jump in and do it and take care of the sick and do what you need to do. Then when it’s all over with, it’s like ‘Wow, did I really just do all of that?’” she said.
Despite the stress that comes with working as an intensive care nurse, Harbison found satisfaction in saving people’s lives. So much so, that when she and her husband moved to Auburn in 1994 and 1995 so he could attend school, Harbison continued to work in Birmingham.
“We’d have a gunshot patient come in, and it might take five or six of us to take care of them because they were so sick. But, then once you get them stabilized, and then you see them through for weeks and weeks and weeks, and then you see them get better ... you know, and to get them back. It’s just a good feeling to know that you were part of that,” she said.
She may no longer be treating gunshot victims or people experiencing heart attacks, but Harbison said that the experiences she was able to gain from those years were needed when she took her position at Good Hope three years ago.
“I think my critical care experience has helped me in a lot of the decision making in the school system. You know, as far as broken bones or to know when to call a parent to tell them to come get their child,” she said.
But still, Harbison said that after spending her entire career in one type of environment, the sudden change of scenery was jarring. Dealing with children made her much more aware of how she administered care.
“In many ways it was very different to me — and working with children — I hate to say that it was scary, but it just made me more cautious about caring for them because they’re children. I don’t know if intimidating is the right word, but to a degree it was to me because it was something that I had never done before,” she said.
Harbison said one aspect that she was not prepared for was how great the need was for nurturing and love with students. While she does have to prescribe the occasional dose of tough love, Harbison said that it’s ‘a different kind of tough love’ and admittedly spoils her students. She said the ones she sees often are the ones she becomes most attached to. She makes those students goodie bags on holidays. “I can’t help it, I love them. They’re like my kids,” she said. For Harbison, it is this connection with students that is one of the more crucial aspects of her job.
“Anybody can give out a pill or give out a band aid, but to develop a bond ... you know, to where they feel safe that they can come and talk to you even if they’re not sick. They just feel safe. It’s a safe place for them to come to and tell me how their day is or if something’s not right at home or their anxieties. Sometimes you just sit and talk to them and talk them through. and that’s all the way from elementary to high school, because you never know what they’re going through or what their triggers or stressors are,” she said. | https://www.cullmantimes.com/news/community-heroes-you-never-know-what-theyre-going-through/article_f152c1ba-242c-11ed-95fd-03811acc62a3.html | 2022-08-28T18:02:04Z | https://www.cullmantimes.com/news/community-heroes-you-never-know-what-theyre-going-through/article_f152c1ba-242c-11ed-95fd-03811acc62a3.html | false | 1 |
Former central Ohio superintendent arrested for kidnapping in West Virginia
A former Columbus-area superintendent was arrested Thursday in Huntington, West Virginia after police alleged that he attempted to kidnap two children.
William Morrison, 59, of Huntington, was charged with two felony counts of kidnapping resulting from an incident that occurred on Aug. 17, when local police allege he lured two children into his vehicle in Huntington.
In 2017, Morrison was released from his contract as superintendent of the Columbus-area Hamilton Local School District after Columbus police found crack cocaine in his car.
On August 17, Two children, a 9-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl, reported that they were approached near an intersection by a man in a dark-colored Subaru Forester offering them $20 to babysit a child.
Police say Morrison was a stranger to the children, and that he then lured them into his car.
After driving to another area, police allege that he asked the boy to get out of the car and inspect his tire. When the boy exited the vehicle, the man drove off with the girl still inside.
The man ignored the girl’s demands to be let out but the girl was able to open a passenger door and exit the vehicle a few blocks away, a release said. Neither child reported being injured by Morrison while they were occupants in his car.
The Huntington police initially asked for the public’s help on Facebook in identifying the suspect based on security photos of the Subaru Forester, which had a rear donut tire, but posted Friday that Morrison had been identified and arrested.
The release said the investigation is ongoing and more charges are possible.
In 2017, Morrison, who was 54 at the time, also faced criminal charges for drug possession in addition to losing his job as Hamilton Local Schools superintendent. Morrison took a plea deal to participate in the Franklin County Municipal Court’s special drug court and pleaded guilty to possession of a counterfeit controlled substance and was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 176 of them suspended.
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Strictly’s Tony Adams turned down the show six years ago as he wanted to be taken seriously
‘The money was good!’: Footballer Tony Adams reveals he was rejected ‘to be taken seriously as a coach’ six years ago – even before his appearance in this year’s line-up
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Strictly Come Dancing star Tony Adams has revealed that he turned down an offer to appear on the series six years ago before signing up for the upcoming 20th series.
The former England footballer, 55, said that despite the ‘good money’ he feared he would not be taken seriously as a football coach if he signed up for the Saturday night show.
The 2016 series in question featured politician Ed Balls, Laura Whitmore, fellow sportsman Greg Rutherford and eventual winner Ore Oduba.
‘The money was good!’: Strictly Tony Adams revealed that he originally turned down the show six years ago because he ‘wanted to get serious as a football coach’
Tony, who later went on to coach teams in Azerbaijan and Spain, said: the mirror: ‘One of the main reasons I turned down opportunities to go on Strictly Come Dancing – despite the money being offered was good – was because I was concerned that I wouldn’t be taken seriously as a football coach after that.’
Tony is now up to the challenge, however, joining Fleur East and Will Mellor in this year’s lineup, adding: ‘To say I’m excited is an understatement’
“The temptation of the sequins and the call of the salsa makes me swap my battered old football boots for strictly soft ones. I can’t wait to meet my partner. God help her!’
Could have been: The 2016 series featured politician Ed Balls, Laura Whitmore, Greg Rutherford and eventual winner Ore Oduba (pictured along with partner Joanne Cliffton)
The Arsenal footballer has won a whopping 66 caps for England and remains the only player to captain a team of three top titles (League Championship, League Cup and UEFA Champions League) in three different decades.
It comes after fellow contestant Matt Goss said he’s not afraid of the “Strictly curse” and that he just wants to have fun on the dance show.
The Bros’ lead singer, 53, has said his girlfriend Chantal Brown is backing him on the BBC match and is unimpressed by the alleged curse that has seen several contestants split up with their partners over the years.
Solid: Matt Goss, 53, has said his girlfriend Chantal Brown supports him on the show and is unimpressed by the alleged curse where several contestants cheat on their husbands with their dance partners
He told The sun: ‘The Strictly curse is none of my business, I’m there to learn and that’s it, I respect the dancers and their abilities. I want to do my best.’
The singer, who recently ended an 11-year residency in Las Vegas, added: “Chantal is very supportive, she wants me to break it and she comes to watch.
She says, ‘Go and have the best time. I want you to have a great experience’.
Matt started dating his girlfriend Chantal, a jewelry designer, earlier this year and recently told The Daily Mail that she’s “sensitive, kind and makes me laugh.”
He added that he wants to get as far as possible in the dance competition and spoke of his “huge” respect for his fellow competitors.
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BETHANY, Ill. (WCIA) — A solider from Moultrie County is back home after spending 10 months deployed to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.
Sergeant Sean Clark, a member of the U.S. Army Reserve’s 345th Military Police Company, celebrated his return by visiting Okaw Valley Elementary School, where his daughter Brooklyn is a student. He spoke about the support he got from students, which included sending his company treats around Christmas and Easter.
Clark said he’ll never forget it.
“It was the greatest feeling when those things came in the mail, and when I started handing them out, everybody just lit up,” Clark said. “It made a really special Christmas for them, especially after being gone from their families.”
Clark said he brought back to Illinois an American flag that was flown over the base. He presented the flag to the school. | https://www.wcia.com/news/local-news/local-solider-returns-home-after-10-month-deployment/ | 2022-08-28T18:12:04Z | https://www.wcia.com/news/local-news/local-solider-returns-home-after-10-month-deployment/ | false | 1 |
Viavi Solutions (NASDAQ:VIAV – Get Rating) issued an update on its first quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Friday morning. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.22-$0.24 for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $317.00 million-$331.00 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $328.38 million.
Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth
A number of equities analysts have recently commented on the company. Susquehanna dropped their price objective on Viavi Solutions from $20.00 to $18.00 and set a positive rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, August 12th. StockNews.com upgraded Viavi Solutions from a buy rating to a strong-buy rating in a report on Monday, August 15th. Susquehanna Bancshares lowered their price objective on shares of Viavi Solutions from $20.00 to $18.00 and set a positive rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, August 12th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. dropped their target price on shares of Viavi Solutions from $18.00 to $15.00 and set a neutral rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, July 14th. Finally, Needham & Company LLC downgraded shares of Viavi Solutions from a buy rating to a hold rating in a report on Tuesday, July 19th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, two have given a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of Moderate Buy and a consensus price target of $18.00.
Viavi Solutions Stock Performance
Shares of VIAV stock traded down $0.57 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $14.55. The stock had a trading volume of 1,004,058 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,742,031. Viavi Solutions has a one year low of $12.65 and a one year high of $18.14. The firm has a market cap of $3.29 billion, a PE ratio of 291.00 and a beta of 0.77. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $14.28 and its 200 day simple moving average is $14.91. The company has a quick ratio of 2.42, a current ratio of 2.72 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.92.
Insider Activity at Viavi Solutions
In other news, EVP Paul Mcnab sold 12,103 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, June 9th. The stock was sold at an average price of $14.46, for a total value of $175,009.38. Following the sale, the executive vice president now directly owns 31,178 shares in the company, valued at approximately $450,833.88. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. 1.63% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.
Institutional Investors Weigh In On Viavi Solutions
Large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Millennium Management LLC raised its position in Viavi Solutions by 589.4% in the 2nd quarter. Millennium Management LLC now owns 1,819,734 shares of the communications equipment provider’s stock valued at $24,075,000 after purchasing an additional 1,555,765 shares during the last quarter. Capital World Investors raised its holdings in shares of Viavi Solutions by 9.6% in the first quarter. Capital World Investors now owns 6,830,000 shares of the communications equipment provider’s stock valued at $109,826,000 after buying an additional 598,000 shares during the last quarter. Citadel Advisors LLC lifted its position in Viavi Solutions by 182.7% during the 2nd quarter. Citadel Advisors LLC now owns 827,810 shares of the communications equipment provider’s stock worth $10,952,000 after buying an additional 534,999 shares in the last quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP lifted its position in Viavi Solutions by 2.4% during the 1st quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP now owns 21,420,992 shares of the communications equipment provider’s stock worth $344,451,000 after buying an additional 506,113 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Renaissance Technologies LLC grew its holdings in Viavi Solutions by 80.6% during the 2nd quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC now owns 627,000 shares of the communications equipment provider’s stock worth $8,295,000 after acquiring an additional 279,900 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 93.76% of the company’s stock.
Viavi Solutions Company Profile
Viavi Solutions Inc provides network test, monitoring, and assurance solutions to communications service providers, enterprises, network equipment manufacturers, government, and avionics customers worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Network Enablement (NE), Service Enablement (SE), and Optical Security and Performance Products (OSP) segments.
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Chicago and Connecticut are no strangers to meeting in the postseason, having met now for three straight years.
They’ll face each other in the semifinals of the WNBA playoffs when the best-of-five series tips off on Sunday in Chicago.
The teams have split the previous two meetings, with Chicago winning last year en route to the franchise’s first championship. The Sky won last season’s playoff series 3-1 on their way to the championship and followed that up this year by going 4-0 during the regular season against Connecticut.
But those games were decided by an average of just 4.5 points.
“I think we probably snuck away with a couple games maybe we shouldn’t have won and we did,” Sky guard Courtney Vandersloot said. So, we’re not going into this series like, ‘Yeah, we beat them four times.’ And we’re very aware of that and we know what to expect from them. We just have to match their intensity, work really hard and play our game.”
Connecticut, which has never won a WNBA title, is in the semifinals for the fourth consecutive season hoping to return to the Finals for the first time since 2019, when it fell to Washington.
“This group wants to take another step, and there’s not one person that’s going to pick us to beat Chicago,” Sun coach Curt Miller said. “So we’re going to go with the underdog mentality and give it our best shot.”
Connecticut advanced Wednesday night with a 73-58 Game 3 victory at Dallas after splitting two games with the Wings at the Mohegan Sun arena. It was a character-check for the Sun, which last won a winner-take-all playoff game in 2004.
Chicago faced two elimination games against New York and also needed a Game 3 win on the road, beating the Liberty 90-72 to advance.
Sky center Emma Meesseman said that’s not the way they want the next series to play out. Last season, Chicago won despite being the lower seed. This year, the Sky are tied for the league’s best record with Las Vegas at 26-10, a game ahead of Connecticut, and will have three of the five games at home, if needed.
“If we can avoid the extra games, we want to do it,” Meesseman said. “We don’t want to wait until we have that pressure of having our backs against the wall or having the extra pressure of like, we have to do it or we go home. We just want to have that actual feeling, like the energy to be ready from the first game. So we just don’t want to wait, until it’s do or die.”
The series features two of the league’s top stars in Chicago’s Candace Parker and Connecticut’s Jonquel Jones, who have both stepped up their games in the postseason.
Parker, a two-time league MVP, raised her scoring from 13.2 points in the regular season to 14.3 in the first round and scored 14 points, grabbed 13 rebounds and had eight assists in the deciding game.
Jones, last season’s MVP, went from 14.6 points to 16.7 points per game against the Wings. She had a 11 points and 10 rebounds in Wednesday’s series-clinching win.
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Sam Fender joins celebrity dating app to find love after getting cosy with pop star Raye
SAM Fender is looking for love after enjoying a string of dates with singer Raye.
The Geordie hitmaker, 28, has joined the exclusive celebrity app Raya and describes himself as a songwriter and musician based in London.
He has set up a profile, following in the footsteps of Niall Horan, Jack Whitehall and Channing Tatum, which is linked to his official Instagram account, featuring several photos of himself, including with a bulldog, all sound tracked by Many Times from Dijon.
Meanwhile the Brit Award winner does not shy away from his rock star status and has included his Rolling Stones cover from last year among his snaps.
It comes after the Hypersonic Missiles singer was getting to know singer Raye, 24, earlier this year after the pair were spotted getting cosy at a Brits afterparty.
Sam and Raye were snapped in an intimate clinch backstage at the O2 in February, where Geordie Sam picked up the gong for Best Rock/Alternative act from Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood.
The duo later partied at Sam’s private Brits bash at hipster joint Four Quarters, in Peckham, south London, with all of Sam’s mates and US Good 4 U chart-topper Olivia Rodrigo.
A source said: “Sam and Raye met each other on the music scene and got on really well.”
But settling down could prove tricky after Sam recently announced a headline Australian tour in November following his second studio album Seventeen Going Under.
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Sam recently announced on Twitter that an extra date had been added in Sydney after selling out in the city along with Brisbane and Melbourne.
It comes as Sam is set to close Portsmouth’s Victorious Festival alongside Anne-Marie and Nothing But Thieves on Sunday before heading to Chicago to support Florence and the Machine.
The North Shields-born singer was first tipped for success when he won the Critics’ Choice award at the Brits in 2019 before scooping his first Ivor Novello Award in May for Best Song Musically And Lyrically with track Seventeen Going Under.
He’s been massively successful in music - now he will be hoping he can reap the rewards when it comes to his love life. | https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/19629107/sam-fender-dating-app-girlfriend-star-raye/ | 2022-08-28T18:22:43Z | https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/19629107/sam-fender-dating-app-girlfriend-star-raye/ | false | 3 |
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