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OPINION:
The last two weeks watching Crown evidence on the livestream from the Royal Commission of Inquiry – Abuse in Care has placed a burning spotlight on the entrenched and tyrannical abuse of the State upon Māori here in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
We must not avert our eyes or hearts from the trauma, pain and suffering so many survivors have endured at the hands of the state over decades. Their powerful voices cannot be silenced or swept under the carpet with just an apology and compensation.
The Crown must atone for the racism, abuse, hostility and damage they have unleashed upon our people through its institutions who were supposed to protect and care for our tamariki/children.
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Advertise with NZME.Instead, they created a pathway to prison, homelessness, drugs and alcohol, mental health issues, suicide, poverty and separation from their culture and whānau.
Whānau who have been harmed should be at the centre of justice being seen to be done.
A class action should be filed holding the State to account. Criminal charges against the Crown need to be laid as it must take responsibility for the destruction it has caused to so many whānau, hapū and Iwi.
The leadership of Oranga Tamariki mentioning the Puao-te- ata-tu report in oral submissions before the commissioners at the hearing was nugatory. It has never been implemented.
Bureaucrats cannot hide behind quoting Section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act, the legislation that binds the chief executive to commit to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. It only means something if it is actioned. They haven't.
Instead of propping up an oppressive and inhumane system, it should be dismantled. Māori need to have control over ourselves. Being contracted to Oranga Tamariki is not the same as having Māori Mana Motuhake and Tino Rangatiratanga over ourselves or our kāinga.
How many more reports does Cabinet need to see?
The irony of the hearing timing is not lost of me either.
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Advertise with NZME.In the same week the Crown gave evidence responding to reported abuse, the power of the Children's Commissioner (which has long challenged Oranga Tamariki) has officially been usurped.
Labour passed the Oversight of Oranga Tamariki System and Children and Young People's Commission Bill. It replaces the Children's Commissioner with the Children and Young People's Commission.
Media report that it was opposed by National, Act, the Greens and Te Pāti Māori. What does that tell you?
In our submission signed by Dame Tariana Turia, Dame Areta Koopu, Dame Iritana Tāwhiwhirangi and chairwoman of Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency, Merepeka Raukawa-Tait, we opposed the bill.
We are not alone. Te Puna Rangahau o te Wai Ariki - Aotearoa Centre for Indigenous Peoples and the Law research also emphasised the need to wait and give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the Indigenous Declaration).
Legislation is meant to be a safeguard for us all - instead it has been used as a weapon of destruction for decades against Māori.
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Advertise with NZME.May the survivors of State and church abuse receive the justice that they so rightly deserve.
Arohanui ki a ratou katoa.
Lady Tureiti Moxon is chairwoman of the National Urban Māori Authority and managing director at Te Kohao Health. | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/lady-tureiti-moxon-charges-should-be-brought-against-the-crown/WFCQT7JIUL64NOTP6FOZHVJ4LA/ | 2022-08-28T18:27:32Z | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/lady-tureiti-moxon-charges-should-be-brought-against-the-crown/WFCQT7JIUL64NOTP6FOZHVJ4LA/ | true | 3 |
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She began to realise her future in music was in jeopardy, noting: “I was grieving that for years believing I would never sing again.”
Twain went years without a diagnosis, desperately going from doctor to doctor until eventually a neurologist diagnosed her with spasmodic dysphonia, a lifelong neurological condition that she described as “nerve damage to my vocal cords”.
The dysphonia had originally been caused by the Lyme disease.
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"My Account on China" and "On the Move" provides overseas audiences with authentic stories to understand China's changes and development.
"Latin Youth in Rural China" records three young Latin Americans' field trip to China's southwestern province of Sichuan to investigate the country's rural development model. The Argentine Ambassador to China also joined the trip and shared his thoughts on China's rural revitalization through his journal.
"The China Path: A Panoramic Decoding" gives viewers a comprehensive picture of China through world leaders' and global thinkers' insights on the country's governance.
"Classic Quotes by Xi Jinping" brings an entirely new avenue in five languages to discover the stories behind the classics and to discuss the cultural foundation of the Chinese people, in order to help viewers understand how Chinese wisdom helps underpin the governing of the evolving nation.
From Poverty to Prosperity: The Chinese Path to Modernization
Through a range of programming, CGTN seeks to explain how China has eliminated extreme poverty and pursued its path toward modernization.
From bustling metropolises to far-flung villages, the progress and challenges on China's modernization path have never stopped. "Modernization for 1.4 Billion"discusses the process and characteristics of China's unique path to modernization and brings together global experts to discuss its international significance.
Documentary "The Road to Common Prosperity" by Dr Robert Lawrence Kuhn showcase the transformations in China from various angles.
The 12-episode series "China by Numbers" builds on statistics and uses the numbers to showcase the transformations of China in a wide range of angles including economy, poverty alleviation, infrastructure, education, science and technology, culture, and sports.
Diverse and Inclusive: The Beauty of Chinese Culture
A number of new shows will take a deep dive into China's culture and history. They discuss the vital role of cultural exchanges in mutual learning and respect among nations.
"The Vibe" offers a refreshing perspective on the cultural exchanges between China and the rest of the world.
"Foodwise" and "Why We Love Dunhuang" unroll the vibrant cultural tapestry of China, and take viewers on a journey to the essence of Chinese culture.
"The Song, Painted" decodes traditional Chinese aesthetics via the lifestyles depicted in Song Dynasty paintings using virtual art technology, while "Inheritors" shines a light on China's rich Intangible Cultural Heritage and the tales behind it.
CGTN also unveiled "China Box," an interactive video product which will come in October. China Box provides a new video watching experience by creating a virtual world, where users can choose the avatars they like and enjoy thousands of videos.
2022 China Documentary Festival in Africa
CGTN has launched the 2022 China Documentary Festival Global Screening in Africa, the first time the festival has featured a special event for a specific region, in the presence of the ambassadors to China of Benin, Cameroon, Gabon, Senegal, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
Thirty broadcasters and institutions from 20 African countries will join the festival to screen stories for African audiences.
Since the 2022 China Documentary Festival was launched in June, more than 50 documentaries produced by CGTN have been screened or streamed for global audiences. They include award-winning productions in English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Russian.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's new moon rocket remained on track to blast off on a crucial test flight Monday, despite a series of lightning strikes at the launch pad.
The 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System rocket is the most powerful ever built by NASA. It's poised to send an empty crew capsule into lunar orbit, a half-century after NASA's Apollo program, which landed 12 astronauts on the moon.
Astronauts could return to the moon in a few years, if this six-week test flight goes well. NASA officials caution, however, that the risks are high and the flight could be cut short.
In lieu of astronauts, three test dummies are strapped into the Orion capsule to measure vibration, acceleration and radiation, one of the biggest hazards to humans in deep space. The capsule alone has more than 1,000 sensors.
Officials said Sunday that neither the rocket nor capsule suffered any damage during Saturday's thunderstorm; ground equipment also was unaffected. Five lightning strikes were confirmed, hitting the 600-foot (183-meter) towers surrounding the rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The strikes weren't strong enough to warrant major retesting.
"Clearly, the system worked as designed," said Jeff Spaulding, NASA's senior test director.
More storms were expected. Although forecasters gave 80 percent odds of acceptable weather Monday morning, conditions were expected to deteriorate during the two-hour launch window.
On the technical side, Spaulding said the team did its best over the past several months to eliminate any lingering fuel leaks. A pair of countdown tests earlier this year prompted repairs to leaking valves and other faulty equipment; engineers won't know if all the fixes are good until just a few hours before the planned liftoff.
After so many years of delays and setbacks, the launch team was thrilled to finally be so close to the inaugural flight of the Artemis moon-exploration program, named after Apollo's twin sister in Greek mythology.
"We're within 24 hours of launch right now, which is pretty amazing for where we've been on this journey," Spaulding told reporters.
The follow-on Artemis flight, as early as 2024, would see four astronauts flying around the moon. A landing could follow in 2025. NASA is targeting the moon's unexplored south pole, where permanently shadowed craters are believed to hold ice that could be used by future crews.
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Serena Williams’ fellow players have been queuing up to praise her impact on and off the court ahead of her farewell to tennis.
Although she has not completely shut the door on future appearances, the US Open looks set to be her swansong, bringing the curtain down on a 27-year career.
The majority of the players at Flushing Meadows were not born when Williams made her professional debut in 1995 and have only known the sport with her as its dominant figure.
Naomi Osaka’s father was inspired by the success of Richard Williams in raising two champion daughters and followed his blueprint.
“I think that her legacy is really wide to the point where you can’t even describe it in words,” said Osaka.
“She changed the sport so much. She’s introduced people that have never heard of tennis into the sport. I think I’m a product of what she’s done. I wouldn’t be here without Serena, Venus, her whole family. I’m very thankful to her.
“I honestly think that she’s the biggest force in the sport. That’s not intentionally trying to make Federer or Nadal smaller. I just think she’s the biggest thing that will ever be in the sport.
“There’s definitely been a lot of barriers that I’m sure she had to fight to break down. We can now easily go through that because of her.”
Williams’ impact as a black pioneer in sport is a huge part of her legacy, and her influence is reflected in the diverse make-up of the game now, particularly among American players.
Williams was already a six-time grand slam singles champion when Coco Gauff was born, and the 40-year-old’s attitude on and off court has had a big impact on her teenage compatriot.
“Before Serena came along, there was not really an icon of the sport that looked like me,” said Gauff.
“So growing up I never thought that I was different because the number one player in the world was somebody who looked like me.
“Then, on a more personal level, I got to have a couple of conversations with her later on in life. I think it’s just the way that she handles herself. She never puts herself down. I love that she always elevates herself.
“Sometimes being a black woman in the world, you kind of settle for less. I can’t remember a moment in her career or life that she settled for less. I’m trying to learn to not settle for less.”
Williams has played only sparingly over the past few years and it is hard to know what to expect when she takes on Danka Kovinic on Monday night.
Having achieved so many wins through sheer competitive desire, Williams is certainly not at Flushing Meadows just to soak up the plaudits, and she retains an aura, even if players now believe they can beat her.
Iga Swiatek, the latest woman to take over from Williams as world number one, is trying to learn from the American’s demeanour.
The young Pole said: “It’s still pretty surreal when I see her. I still feel like I’m just a kid who’s watching.
“Mentally, for sure she’s the one who’s going to show you how to use your position and how to kind of intimidate with being number one. I’m trying to do that. I don’t know if it’s going well or not. We’ll probably see in a couple of months, maybe next season.
“She’s the great example. Especially also with how she copes with having business and playing at the same time or being a mother and playing at the same time. It’s just amazing.
“I think it’s great that we have somebody like that in our sport who cleared the path and showed us that you can do anything. The sky’s the limit.”
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SNAP, EBT outages reported across the country
Published: Aug. 28, 2022 at 12:51 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(Gray News) - An outage affecting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has been reported across the country, according to Down Detector.
The program, known as SNAP, provides nutrition benefits to supplement the food budget of low-income families so they can purchase healthy food. Electronic Benefits Transfer, known as EBT, is an electronic system similar to a debit card that allows a SNAP participant to pay for food using SNAP benefits.
This story is developing and will be updated.
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Monetary gains: Avoid carelessness in working relationships. Have a healthy competition. Will get the support of peers. Desired results will be achieved. Achievements will be made. Talent will flourish. Will make a proper place from the performance. Profits will increase. Professionals will be pleased. Will speed up business work. Avoid reacting in a hurry. Be cautious. Will follow policy rules.
Love life: Will increase nobility in relationships. Will be excited about love affairs. Will be close allies. Will increase humility and kindness. Will meet friends. Will take care of everyone's interests. Will be alert. Loved ones will be happy. Will be emotionally strong. Entertainment is possible.
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Lucky numbers: 2, 7 and 9
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Ruby's Diner
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Carolina 4, Kannapolis 1
Columbia 4, Salem 3
Augusta 6, Myrtle Beach 5
Fredericksburg 23, Down East 8
Charleston 7, Fayetteville 1
Delmarva 4, Lynchburg 2
Charleston 3, Fayetteville 2
Salem 5, Columbia 4, 10 innings
Augusta 10, Myrtle Beach 2
Fredericksburg 6, Down East 4
Kannapolis 11, Carolina 4
Delmarva 12, Lynchburg 11, 10 innings
Carolina at Kannapolis, 1 p.m.
Down East at Fredericksburg, 1:35 p.m.
Charleston at Fayetteville, 2:05 p.m.
Salem at Columbia, 5:05 p.m.
Lynchburg at Delmarva, 5:05 p.m.
Augusta at Myrtle Beach, 6:30 p.m.
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Kannapolis at Lynchburg, 6:30 p.m.
Fayetteville at Down East, 7 p.m.
Columbia at Carolina, 7 p.m.
Delmarva at Fredericksburg, 7:05 p.m.
Myrtle Beach at Charleston, 7:05 p.m.
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Hawaiian native Nicole Scherzinger always finds a piece of home anywhere she finds herself. Last month, she traveled to Portugal for the Concert for Earth festival, where she was a performer. During her time in the South American country, the singer found her way to nature for a much-needed reset. She noted that the serenity in the Azores forest reminded her of her hometown. In an Instagram caption, she wrote,
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Artichoke Basille's Pizza
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First time buyers: Peace, pomeranians and a big back yard in Waikanae
Finding an affordable property is hard – but there are still some gems out there. Each week, Homed is featuring a first-time-buyer friendly home on the market that might (just about) come in within budget.
There's a cottage behind the white picket fence at 51 Old State Highway 1, Waikanae, because Peter Larkin and his late wife, Adrienne, moved one there 30 years ago.
The former beach-side cottage still has the feel of the ocean about it, with its sea foam green walls and tempestuous Axminster carpet that Larkin, a professional carpet layer before moving to Waikanae, laid himself.
“It’s a lovely area,” says Larkin, who became the caretaker at Waikanae school a few weeks after moving to the area.
Originally from Christchurch, the couple came to Waikanae in the early 90s to further Adrienne's dog breeding business and decided to stay.
Larkin had considered himself a “city bloke” until they moved in. The property was originally surrounded by fields – and there is still plenty of surrounding green space.
The Larkins were lured north by Pomeranian dogs, which Adrienne bred for nearly 40 years. Two breeders she liked working with were in Waikanae and Ngāruawāhia, so instead of sending their stud dog north when he was needed, they decided to move closer themselves.
“We never had kids, unfortunately. We just had dogs,” says Larkin. “[Pomeranians] are lovely little dogs.”
Adrienne’s Pomeranians were much sought after, too. Dogs from her kennels have been sent all over the world.
Larkin has only one little dog left now, Serinda. She follows him everywhere around the house.
“She’s my little shadow.”
The community is a friendly and caring one, and Larkin has close ties to it, with many friends at the school and in local businesses.
Even though he’d retired from the school, staff and pupils supported him when he needed them most.
"When my wife died, they shut the school for a half-day so the children could come to the funeral if they wanted to, which some of them did. All the staff came, every one.
“That was a real honour, I didn't expect that."
It was the same when he retired. The school put on a special assembly in his honour, and the local community put on an event at the boat club – he had to make speeches at both.
“They told me I had to have different clothes for each one, but I wore the same ones.”
With a secure garden at the back, Larkin says the home would suit a family, because “the kids can play and you don’t have to worry about them getting out”.
He says you “soon tune out” the noise from nearby train tracks. The old State highway is very quiet now, too, since Transmission Gully went in, and behind the house is a retirement home which is also very quiet.
It’s got the best of the suburbs and the lifestyle blocks.
“It’s a peaceful area, really.”
The three-bed, 110m² home sits on 1104m² of land, which it might be possible to subdivide at the rear, as access is possible from the lane behind.
You might also be able to give the property a second access there anyway, as the lane leads to the local shops and the train station. With access to the lane, it’s a short walk to the Waikanae North Playground, and a short drive to Waikanae Beach on the other side of the new State Highway 1.
Included in the chattels of the home are some tools, and about “a quarter of a cord” of wood that Larkin won’t be taking with him, as there’s no fire at his new home.
The property is for sale by negotiation. The RV on the property is $575,000, however, the listing, which is with Sharalyn Fraser for Howard and co, says that does not reflect the higher market value.
Homes.co.nz does not give an estimate for the property. Properties behind Larkin’s are in the $1.08 – $1.19 range, so offers are expected to fall somewhere between the RV and the average for the area. | https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/first-homes/129692261/first-time-buyers-peace-pomeranians-and-a-big-back-yard-in-waikanae | 2022-08-28T19:20:26Z | https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/first-homes/129692261/first-time-buyers-peace-pomeranians-and-a-big-back-yard-in-waikanae | false | 1 |
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DUBLIN (AP) — In the postgame analysis, free beer at the Nebraska-Northwestern game in Ireland was the right call.
The freebies flowed for two hours during Northwestern’s 31-28 victory on Saturday, and the catering company for Aviva Stadium hailed its workers for keeping the refreshments coming.
Levy UK + Ireland said Sunday the problem was with its payment provider, and not with the stadium’s internet connection.
“Due to technical issues caused by our payment provider, SumUp, we were unable to process card transactions for two hours at Aviva Stadium,” the company said in a statement.
It said the problem “was solely down to the external network system which the payment provider operates on to process transactions. This was not a technical issue isolated to Aviva Stadium or indeed Ireland.” The stadium went cashless in 2021.
Levy, a sports and hospitality caterer whose other clients include English Premier League soccer clubs, did not give an estimate of lost revenue.
“Our team at Aviva Stadium were extremely quick to ensure that the fan experience was upheld and food and beverage kiosks were kept open serving customers for the entirety of this period,” it said. “We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this caused customers and would like to thank our employees at Aviva Stadium for the spirit they showed in keeping everything going.”
SumUp posted on its Twitter account minutes before kickoff that it was “experiencing issues with logins, payments, and other services.” Two hours later, it posted that the problem was resolved. It apologized to clients “for any disruption to your day.”
Ronan McGowan got “three or four” plastic cups of Guinness “but it took 40 minutes, I missed the game. It wasn’t good. In fairness, most people didn’t have cash. They did the right thing, under the circumstances.”
McGowan said people were also “ordering a lot of drinks,” which slowed everything.
Nebraska fan Elena Kuiper was already in line when she realized the beer was free. Afterward, she said “news traveled fast.” Her husband, Scott, said a man sitting next to him moved quickly.
“He took off right away and went up there to go get one,” he said Sunday at Dublin Airport.
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Destiny 2‘s King’s Fall raid offers a myriad of weapons for all players to obtain and showers them with loot (before the weekly lockout kicks in). In addition to drops from all five encounters (and the intro area) and three secret chests, players can also obtain a chest that drops a guaranteed Deepsight weapon each week, as spotted by content creator Skarrow9.
Players may already be familiar with the guaranteed red-border chest in a raid thanks to Vow of the Disciple (also discovered by Skarrow9), and for those who already know how to get it, the process is going to be relatively similar in King’s Fall. There are nine possible symbols spread around the Dreadnought, and players must shoot three randomly selected ones each time they load into the raid. To unlock the red-border chest, though, the fireteam has to complete the whole raid in one go, without any checkpoints.
The nine symbols are spread from top to bottom of King’s Fall, from the first jumping puzzle to Oryx’s boss room. To know which three runes to shoot, head to the area with the portal that leads into the actual raid and look for the three symbols on the ceiling and walls. You’ll need to shoot a panel that will light up each symbol. The panels glow with Hive flames, so they’re relatively easy to spot even in the dark. Here’s what you need to know to find the guaranteed chest.
Guaranteed Deepsight (red-border) chest in King’s Fall in Destiny 2
Here are all the symbols that may appear, based on a screengrab from the Ishtar Collective. Since there are no clear-cut names for all the Hive symbols, we’ve edited the image to include the number of each symbol based on the order they appear in the raid.
All Hive symbol locations for the guaranteed Deepsight chest in King’s Fall
- First: In the pendulum jumping puzzle, jump to the first pendulum and look around to spot this symbol below the ledge you came from.
- Second: After you get the first secret chest (right after you finish the tombship puzzle by standing on the plates), look above the door where the secret chest is to shoot this one. After you’ve cleared the barrier on the tombship, you can also try to reach the ledge on the right to find it.
- Third: After completing the Totems encounter, head to the room on the left (from the spawn) and look for this symbol on a ledge. Standing on the nearby platforms helps you get a better view of it.
- Fourth: In the Warpriest encounter, go up the stairs on the right side to find a ledge with this symbol on the wall on the right of the door.
- Fifth: After jumping past the last hole in Golgoroth’s Cellar, turn around to find this symbol on the hole.
- Sixth: In the Golgoroth boss area, jump down to the ground (where the blights fall) and look to your left to find a hidden room with this symbol on it.
- Seventh: In the jumping puzzle after Golgoroth, head to the area with the third hidden chest to find this one on a wall by it.
- Eighth: At the end of the jumping puzzle, look above you and on the ceiling of a nearby doorway to spot this symbol.
- Ninth: Once you enter the area with the Sisters/Oryx encounters, look behind you and above the doorway to snag the last symbol. | https://dotesports.com/destiny/news/how-to-get-a-guaranteed-red-border-deepsight-chest-in-kings-fall-in-destiny-2 | 2022-08-28T19:33:05Z | https://dotesports.com/destiny/news/how-to-get-a-guaranteed-red-border-deepsight-chest-in-kings-fall-in-destiny-2 | true | 1 |
John Terry has taken to social media to wax lyrical about West Ham United midfielder Declan Rice. The 23-year-old starred in the Hammers' first win of the season – where he assisted Pablo Fornals' winning goal against Aston Villa.
Rice, who was released by Chelsea when he was a teenager trying to break through the academy, has less than two years remaining on his contract in east London. The Blues and Thomas Tuchel are huge fans of Rice and have a long-standing interest in his services.
A move this summer was always going to be difficult and is viewed as unlikely. However, next summer – when he will have a year remaining on his contract with West Ham – he could be available for a much cheaper price.
READ MORE: Thomas Tuchel handed 'special' Anthony Gordon verdict as Chelsea's interest in £60m bid analysed
It's understood Rice does not want to sign a new contract with the Hammers right now. David Moyes, though, is determined to keep hold of his star midfielder.
"If I had heard something [on Rice's future], I would not tell you," Moyes said to reporters earlier in the summer. "But the best thing to say is that 'no we've not', and let me tell you, he is not for sale. So, that may shut down any questions about Declan, but we do expect questions on him because he is doing so well.
"Is he irreplaceable? Well, I had to sell Wayne Rooney early when I was at Everton. I thought Wayne was irreplaceable but what happens in football is you move on. That is what happens at football.
"Sometimes things like this do happen but we've got no intention of letting that happen at this present time here at West Ham."
One man who would love Rice at Chelsea is former captain Terry, who posted on Twitter to express his admiration of the England international. He tweeted: "@_DeclanRice covers every inch of the pitch. What a player (clapping emoji)."
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More adoption will grow passive MF industry
5 min read . 12:17 AM IST- Mutual fund industry leaders discuss the merits of passive investing and point to the need for continuous user education to promote it
The demand for passive investing has grown exponentially over the past few years, even as innovations have ensured that mutual funds (MF) now meet the needs of most investors. What is now needed, according to industry leaders, is continuous user education to promote further adoption of passive MF schemes.
The demand for passive investing has grown exponentially over the past few years, even as innovations have ensured that mutual funds (MF) now meet the needs of most investors. What is now needed, according to industry leaders, is continuous user education to promote further adoption of passive MF schemes.
Passive investing, which is the most basic form of putting one’s money in MFs, aims to mirror the index and not beat it. From ₹50,000 crore in assets under management (AUM) in 2017, when the overall mutual fund industry stood at ₹20 trillion, the share of passive funds’ AUM has grown to around ₹6 trillion today.
Passive investing, which is the most basic form of putting one’s money in MFs, aims to mirror the index and not beat it. From ₹50,000 crore in assets under management (AUM) in 2017, when the overall mutual fund industry stood at ₹20 trillion, the share of passive funds’ AUM has grown to around ₹6 trillion today.
Speaking at the Mint Mutual Funds Conclave 2022, Radhika Gupta, managing director and chief executive officer, Edelweiss Asset Management Ltd, and vice-chairperson, the Association of Mutual Funds in India, said the industry has come a long way from active versus passive debate. “Today, the passive strategy doesn’t need to challenge or beat active to prove that it’s noteworthy."
According to DP Singh, deputy managing director and chief business officer at SBI Mutual Fund, the percentage of passive funds will outpace the active eventually as more and more fiduciary money will come into the former segment.
“But that doesn’t mean that the interest of people has gone down into active. We believe that for a decade or, at least, there will be enough alpha generation opportunities in active funds," said Singh.
For further growth in passive funds, Pratik Oswal, head of passive funds, Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company Ltd. (MOAMC) said the need of the hour is “adoption".
“As a fund house, we can invent, but ultimately, customer adoption happens over time. We have 27 index products, and we’ve been inventing. The need right now is to go out and educate people on what index is, and how it can really simplify the equity buying process," said Oswal.
Singh and Gupta echoed similar views while emphasizing the need for simple products.
“I keep joking that my large and mid-cap index fund and one debt fund can solve the need for most investors," said Gupta.
Singh, meanwhile, suggests that for further growth in passive funds, Indian benchmarks need to become more broad-based. “We still have the benchmarks for 30-50 stocks out of 7,000 stocks. There are structural issues, which will get fixed, and new innovations will come into the market," said Singh.
Two common ways of investing passively in the equity market are to either opt for an index fund or an exchange-traded fund (ETF). Both essentially mirror an index.
Considering the emergence of passive funds as an investment product for retail investors, the markets regulator recently introduced a ceiling for the tracking error of index funds and ETFs other than debt ETFs/index funds at 2%. The tracking difference was set at 1.5%.
When asked if a solution for retail investors, for now, is to stick with index funds instead of ETFs, Singh said, “That is there, but expenses on index funds are generally higher and investors don’t have live NAV (net asset value) and intraday benefits."
Gupta, however, said that index funds are a good solution for most investors. “Most Indian investors are doing SIPs in index funds. They are long-term buy-and-hold investors. So, an index fund works perfectly fine. The expense may be 5-15 basis points more, but it’s still a very, very small cost."
The growth in passive investing has not been limited to equity funds but has extended to debt and commodities as well. Recently, silver-based ETFs were introduced in the Indian market, and a blend of silver and gold has also been launched.
On opportunities in newer commodity ETFs such as oil, Oswal said, “For products like silver and oil, there’s a lot of demand, but these are still niche. "
On the possibility of a passive hybrid scheme like a balanced advantage fund, Gupta said such funds are on the anvil.
Singh opined, “BAF are basically asset allocation funds. So, different asset allocation funds can keep on coming, where you put in different indexes. So, in asset allocation, you can make a number of permutations and combinations, and that will keep on happening."
Over the past few years, the passive debt category has gained popularity in a big way. As per industry estimates, the debt ETF and index fund market already commands a volume of ₹80,000 crore. Edelweiss MF-managed Bharat Bond ETF, which invests in bonds of government companies, is itself a ₹50,000 crore program.
“One of the interesting things that the Bharat bond program has done is to put the spotlight on long-term debt investing. When we started the program, 2023 (scheme), which was a very short and popular series but for the 2030 bond we really struggled to raise money. Cut to today, all big products are 2030, 2031 and 2032. Today, it is about can we do a 15-year kind of product," said Gupta. Bharat bond and other target maturity funds have so far largely focussed on government securities, state development loans and AAA bonds.
On scope for target maturity funds going deeper into the AA arena, Radhika said, “Having AA and A papers would be very good for the development of the bond market because finally, ETFs create an extra layer of liquidity. But given the regulatory framework and liquidity in these papers, I see that is a very hard case."
On newer opportunities in international funds, Oswal said, “The story so far has only been investing in the US. But there are many opportunities in emerging markets." | https://www.livemint.com/mutual-fund/more-adoption-will-grow-passive-mf-industry/amp-11661711652019.html | 2022-08-28T19:35:17Z | https://www.livemint.com/mutual-fund/more-adoption-will-grow-passive-mf-industry/amp-11661711652019.html | true | 2 |
StakeCubeCoin (SCC) traded down 1.2% against the dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 14:00 PM ET on August 28th. During the last seven days, StakeCubeCoin has traded down 4.4% against the dollar. One StakeCubeCoin coin can currently be purchased for approximately $0.23 or 0.00001165 BTC on popular exchanges. StakeCubeCoin has a market capitalization of $2.40 million and $5,110.00 worth of StakeCubeCoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.
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FOUR police officers were injured in a vehicular crash as they left duties at a breakfast party at the Brian Lara Stadium on Sunday morning.
The officers, who are constables attached to the Court and Process Branch in Port-of-Spain, were seriously injured in the two-vehicle smash-up.
The collision occurred at around 10.30 a.m. when the officers, who had assisted in extra duties at the FOC fete at the stadium, were exiting the stadium at the North Exit and turning into the Reform Connector Road.
They were seated in a white Nissan Caravan owned and driven by one of the officers, when it collided with a gold Nissan Cefiro with two occupants.
Both vehicles landed in a drain roadside, with the Nissan Caravan overturned.
Within minutes of the crash, senior superintendent of the Southern Police Division Richard Smith and other senior police officers who were exiting the stadium responded to the scene.
Smith told the Express that the driver of the Nissan Caravan was pinned behind the steering wheel while two officers fell out of the vehicle and into the drain.
One of the officers suffered extensive shoulder injuries, while the others suffered head and limb injuries. | https://trinidadexpress.com/newsextra/4-cops-injured-in-crash-after-brian-lara-stadium-fete/article_d94785dc-26f3-11ed-892b-03bf6fcdafbd.html | 2022-08-28T19:40:55Z | https://trinidadexpress.com/newsextra/4-cops-injured-in-crash-after-brian-lara-stadium-fete/article_d94785dc-26f3-11ed-892b-03bf6fcdafbd.html | true | 2 |
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Peche responds to Ninety One’s RoR: You can do better – eradicate performance fees
It was inevitable that last week’s explosive exposé on asset managers with Sean Peche of Ranmore Funds was going to create waves. Alec Hogg’s interview with Peche unpacked a critical analysis of the fees that South African asset managers charge in spite of underperforming funds. Below Sean Peche responds to Ninety One’s right of reply.
Sean Peche’s detailed response to Ninety One’s right of reply:
Dear Ninety One,
Firstly, thank you for engaging so that we can achieve the desired objectives of increased transparency and fairness for South African retail investors.
1. Your reporting does not highlight that in Ninety One’s case all funds with a performance fee class also offer a fixed fee option. The conclusion that investors have no choice regarding the kind of fee structure they are subject to is misleading and untrue.
Firstly, I could not find anywhere on your website that explained the difference between the classes: A, E, G and H but I trust you will forgive me (and all retail investors) for thinking A class is the best class available – A team, A grade etc. It appears not.
I also note that the Opportunity “A” class July ’22 fact sheet advises that fixed unit classes are available, but when I visited “www.NinetyOne.com/feechanges” as requested, I received the message, “Page not found, oops….something went wrong”
2. Your reporting claims that 83% of assets in the unit trust industry which are non-income funds are invested in performance fee classes, but this statement incorrectly assumes that all assets in a fund have performance fees. In fact, only 22% of the fund assets are invested in performance fee share classes.
I used the A classes or default fact sheet for each of the top 10 funds that any retail investor would see when visiting each fund manager’s website. Perhaps you could tell us where you get the 22% number from, because the fact sheets that I looked at only disclosed the fund AUM and not the class AUM. Had the Opportunity Fund A class fact sheet disclosed the class AUM as only being 22% of the fund AUM, I would certainly have questioned whether I’m looking at the most desirable class.
But you raise an interesting point – wholesale investors are more sophisticated than the retail investors and you say they make up 78% of AUM.
So if the sophisticated investors don’t want performance fees, why is the industry selling them to unsuspecting retail investors?
3. Your reporting implies that that the SA top ten funds have average total expense ratios (TERs) of 1.5% and that this reflects the experience of the average retail investor. This is misleading, as almost 90% of assets in SA unit trust funds are held via platforms and priced wholesale at significantly lower TERs.
I simply used the TERs off of the default or A class fact sheets that reflects the cost any direct retail investor would experience. I certainly did not encounter any disclosure of better wholesale pricing being available on any of the fund manager’s websites, nor that I could pay a lower fee by investing via a platform – is this still true after the platform fee? However, if as you suggest, direct retail investors are paying higher fees than wholesale, then where is this disclosure and why are retail investors being prejudiced? This is certainly not how we treat investors in the Ranmore Global Equity Fund.
4. Your reporting compares one-year performance with fact sheet TERs. This is misleading as TERs disclosed on fact sheets represent average TERs calculated daily over a three-year period. This was standardised across the industry via the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA) to avoid investors making decisions on shorter-term fees, which could be skewed by future over or underperformance.
I take your point about the TER being the three year average, except I couldn’t see any disclosure to this effect on your Opportunity Fund factsheet. I’m sure you’ll also agree that the management fee and performance fee comprise the vast majority of the TER and that a one year TER doesn’t usually differ materially from the three year TER.
Please do also take the opportunity to explain how a 0.93% performance fee has been earned per annum for three years when the three year return for the Opportunity Fund to July ‘22 was 7.9% p/a and the benchmark was CPI + 6%, so 10.8%. It would also be most helpful if you could also confirm that Ninety One calculated performance fees on a gross basis (before management fees) in sharp contrast to international norms (even for hedge funds) where performance fees are calculated on the performance on a net basis (after management fees).
5. Your reporting failed to highlight that all funds that invest in equities, including tracker funds and Ranmore, collect fees when short-term returns are negative. These funds are not designed for short investment holding periods, hence implying that only performance fee classes collect fees during periods of negative performance is misleading and untrue.
I think every retail investor understands that management fees are charged all the time, even when short term returns are negative. What I think they most definitely do NOT understand, is why performance fees are charged when funds underperform the benchmark and even worse, when they underperform the benchmark and suffer negative absolute returns. If performance fees are charged in these circumstances internationally, ESMA requires a “prominent warning” to investors.
You are also quite correct, these funds are not designed for, “short investment holding periods” but then please take the opportunity to explain to us all why the A class of the Ninety One Opportunity Fund talks of “the daily performance fee…” In other words, why does the performance fee crystallise daily for a long term investment? Not even hedge funds crystallise performance fees daily. ESMA recommends the matching of performance fee crystallisation frequency with the recommended investor time horizon. That seems entirely reasonable to me but it seems Ninety One disagrees, so an explanation would be most helpful.
6. Your reporting failed to accurately present fees on a like-for-like basis. You were often comparing wholesale fees with retail fees. If you were to accurately compare retail fees consistently across the funds you referenced in your reporting, you would not have concluded, as you did, that fund costs in the UK are dramatically lower than fund costs in South Africa. We highlight some further detail on a like-for-like comparison below:
- In respect of UK fund fees, the Ninety One UK Alpha Fund A class ongoing charges figure (OCF) is 1.58%; Fundsmith Global Equity R Class OCF is 1.59% and Ranmore Global Equity Advisor OCF is 1.44%.
- In respect of SA fund fees, the TER for the Ninety One Equity Fund A class is 1.85% for the performance fee class and 1.75% for the G fixed fee class. In addition, your reporting did not account for the fact that SA funds include 15% VAT while the UK funds are VAT exempt.
- Eight out of the ten largest funds in the UK are tracker and passive funds, with the ninth investing 90% of its assets in passives. These nine funds account for 82% of the assets of the top 10 funds in the UK. Therefore, posing a 0.5% TER as a like-for-like comparison for active fees in SA is illogical and misleading.
I do accept your point about UK funds being VAT exempt.
I can’t have been comparing wholesale fees to retail fees because I don’t even know where to find these wholesale fees you talk of.
In my interview, I did specifically highlight the UK top 10 as including many trackers so I’m afraid I respectfully disagree here. You’ll also notice I talked of “less than 0.5%” I was being generous.
What I don’t understand and what you haven’t addressed, is how at tiny $60m fund like mine can have a lower TER than a R63bn giant like the Ninety One opportunity fund with all the benefits of the scale of the fund’s fixed costs. I estimate my TER falling below 1% at $200m and that’s only 5% of the size of the Opportunity Fund.
I stand by my point that investing in UK funds for UK investors is cheaper than investing in SA funds for SA investors and there really is no reason why this should be the case (other than high fees caused in part by performance fees).
You mention the Fundsmith R class but that’s a cross border, non advised class. Fundsmith’s T class is for direct retail investors and that KIID reflects an “OCF” of 1.04% (nothing about wholesale).
You may know that I am no fan of passive funds, frequently referring to them in my writing as “driverless cars” and “who wants to be a passenger in a driverless car during a storm (and right now I think we’re in a storm)?”
So we’re on the same side of the fight against passive funds BUT unfortunately comparing the fees for active funds to passive funds is the reality of the world in which we live. We must embrace reality.
As active managers, our only hope of surviving is to offer something different and treat our clients, fairly and transparently.
Based on what I’ve seen, I think the South African Fund management industry needs to do better on both these counts.
So please join me and let’s eradicate performance fees, reflect fair benchmarks and radically improve disclosure. Our country needs that and our savers deserve it. If we don’t do so urgently, passives will wipe us out. Far better you’ll agree, if this “storm” wipes them out.
While your reporting, conversation and analysis show deficits and inaccuracies, we trust, now that you are aware of the facts, you will adhere to professional standards of journalism and make the necessary rectification.
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In realisation of the importance of food consumption in the lives of human beings, a renowned food giant, “Nestle Foods” has promised to improve and optimise the business of food production in Nigeria through its “Out-of-Home” arm, code-named: Nestlé Professional business”.
This was demonstrated in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, recently where over 200 caterers and food vendors, under the umbrella of Association of Caterers and Food Vendors, were assembled and trained in the business of food production, during a product education workshop.
The workshop themed: “The Business of Food”, according to the Nestlé Professional Manager, Funmi Osineye, was organised to educate, celebrate, and provide tips on how to grow their food service business and cook tasty meals that will delight their customers while providing them with the necessary support and MAGGI products to cook Nigeria’s favourite dishes.
While addressing the participants, Osineye said: “This partnership provides the opportunity for Nestlé to share some of her expertise in Nutrition, Health and Wellness developed over 150 years to help individuals and families live healthier and happier lives. We are delighted to share this knowledge with our partners and use the occasion to introduce our new affordable and pocket-friendly Maggi 100g powder in Chicken and Star Seasoning variant for small food business owners. Nestlé Professional will continue to build partnerships with caterers and food vendors for better service to the industry.”
Activities at the event kicked off with the Cooking Masterclass, a session where knowledge and techniques with particular attention to complexity of food systems was shared, like food-preneur, food styling and food plating. | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/improving-food-business-in-nigeria-our-priority-says-nestle-professional/ | 2022-08-28T19:50:03Z | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/improving-food-business-in-nigeria-our-priority-says-nestle-professional/ | false | 1 |
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(The Car Connection) — For the 2022 model year, more automakers built their cars to better withstand and avoid crashes, according to the latest ratings announced Thursday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
More than 70 models earned a 2022 Top Safety Pick+ designation, which is considered the most rigorous independent safety rating in the automotive industry. Last year at this time, 49 models earned the accolade. Another 37 models in 2022 testing earned the next highest rating of Top Safety Pick, bringing the total to 108 models out of about 223 tested.
Every 2022 Volvo and Genesis model earned a TSP+, marking a rare sweep for the brands, though it’s easier to accomplish with lineups that consist of only five key models. Hyundai Motor Group, the parent company of Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis, earned the most total safety picks, with 11 TSP+ and 10 TSP awards.
Only seven domestic models out of 71 earned a 2022 TSP+, while two pickup trucks, the Ram 1500 and Ford F-150, picked up TSP nods.
Much like the five-star NCAP safety ratings overseen by the NHTSA, the TSP designations are meant to streamline safety tests to give car shoppers a standardized baseline when assessing cars. The ratings also encourage automakers to make safer cars.
“Our awards make it easy for car buyers to find models that will protect them in a crash and increase the odds they’ll never be in one,” IIHS President David Harkey said in a statement. “By shooting for Top Safety Pick+, automakers are showing that they’re committed to the same goal.”
To earn a TSP+, vehicles must earn top “Good” ratings in all six crash tests, including the driver’s side and passenger’s side tests that simulate hitting a stationary object like a light pole head-on. Side impact, overall front impact, head restraints, and rollover tests round out that portion of testing.
IIHS Top Safety Pick testing
“Our tests are designed around the types of crashes happening in the real world that may not be reflected by the government’s crash tests,” Joe Young, director of media relations for the IIHS, explained in an interview. “The original IIHS side crash test was designed due to concerns that the government’s side crash test was not capturing all the side crashes that occur in the real world. A big part of that was the changing vehicle fleet, with taller vehicles becoming more popular. IIHS’s barrier was designed to replicate an SUV or pickup striking a vehicle, rather than a shorter car.”
The IIHS is a nonprofit agency funded by the insurance industry, which has a business case for minimizing the incidence and intensity of car crashes.
There are other distinctions in ratings between the two crash-test agencies. Unlike the NHTSA safety assessments, the IIHS rates the efficacy of automatic emergency braking systems and headlight visibility.
“The need for headlight testing emerged due to current regulations allowing too broad a range of headlight performance,” Young said.
Automakers initially had a tougher time meeting the headlight criteria launched in 2016, but compliance has increased even as the standards have become more rigorous. To qualify for a TSP+, cars must have standard headlights that rate at “Acceptable” or “Good” in IIHS testing.
IIHS Top Safety Pick testing
Additionally, a TSP+ car must earn either “Advanced” or “Superior” ratings in significantly slowing down or avoiding crashes with vehicles and pedestrians in 12-mph and 25-mph tests. An effective automatic emergency braking system minimizes impacts from rear-end collisions, the most common crash, and more sophisticated systems slow or stop cars from hitting objects peripherally, such as a child darting from between parked cars into a street or a car speeding through a perpendicular intersection.
The IIHS predicts the standard technology will prevent 42,000 crashes and cut in half the number of rear-end crashes by 2025. The major automakers made a voluntary commitment to equip at least 95% of new cars sold with AEB as standard by September of this year. To avoid penalizing automakers before the deadline, the IIHS doesn’t mandate AEB as standard equipment to earn a TSP+.
That’s changing next year, however. The IIHS will add a nighttime pedestrian crash prevention component to the AEB rating, and “Advanced” or “Superior” ratings will be required for a TSP+ designation. Pedestrian crash fatalities have increased 51% since 2009, according to the IIHS. Additionally, headlight ratings must be at least “Acceptable” across the board to earn any TSP award.
IIHS Top Safety Pick testing
The IIHS continually resets the safety bar as more automakers meet or exceed the requirements for TSP awards. In 2021, it updated the side crash test for the first time in nearly 20 years. Simulating a T-bone crash, the test is conducted at higher speeds and with a heavier barrier to reflect larger SUVs and trucks proliferating on roadways in the past two decades. Beginning in 2023, a “Good” rating on the new test will be required to earn a TSP+.
Expect some TSP growing pains in the name of ever-evolving safety standards.
“We expect to see a drop in the number of vehicles earning our awards in 2023,” Young said.
But it should make cars safer overall.
“Automakers have consistently responded when we introduce new tests and strengthen our award criteria,” Young said. “We expect to see them continue to improve crashworthiness, front crash prevention systems and headlight options as they strive to earn our safety awards under the tougher criteria in 2023.”
IIHS Top Safety Pick testing
The full list of 2022 winners is below, and will be updated throughout the year:
TSP+
Small cars and SUVs
Chevrolet Trailblazer
Ford Bronco Sport
Honda Civic sedan and hatchback
Honda Insight
Hyundai Tucson
Mazda 3 sedan and hatchback
Mazda CX-5
Mazda CX-50
Mitsubishi Outlander (built after June 2021)
Nissan Rogue
Toyota Corolla sedan and hatchback
Toyota Corolla Cross
Toyota RAV4 Prime
Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid
Subaru Forester
Volkswagen Tiguan
Volvo C40 Recharge
Volvo XC40 and XC40 Recharge
Cars
Honda Accord
Kia K5
Kia Stinger
Nissan Altima
Nissan Maxima
Subaru Legacy
Subaru Outback
Luxury cars
Acura TLX
Audi A6 and A6 Allroad
Audi A7
Genesis G70
Genesis G80
Genesis G90
Lexus ES 350
Lexus IS
Mercedes-Benz E-Class
Tesla Model 3
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Biden-Harris team says goodbye to one of its highest-ranking Black women at Small Business Administration
Natalie Madeira Cofield, an assistant administrator at the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), headed the agency’s Office of Women's Business Ownership.
One of the highest-ranking Black women within the Biden-Harris administration departed on Friday.
Natalie Madeira Cofield, an assistant administrator at the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), headed the agency’s Office of Women’s Business Ownership. She was the first Black woman to hold the position at a time when Black women are the nation’s fastest-growing entrepreneurial demographic.
In an interview with theGrio, the presidential appointee reflected on coming into the office amid the economic and health crises brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, during which Black women saw a sharp decline in business ownership.
“The work that I did at SBA came during a time [when] women and our economic recovery was at the bottom of the totem pole,” said Madeira Cofield, who explained that women’s ownership was at the “most dire state that it had been since the 1980s.”
During her tenure, Madeira Cofield funded the largest expansion of the Women’s Business Center network in the history of SBA – a total of 146 locations were added across the country – in every state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
Women’s Business Centers (WBCs) are operated by SBA and designed to help women start and grow their small businesses. As the agency notes, the networks seek to “level the playing field” for women entrepreneurs.
“I was honored and proud to be able to do that work because every woman in every state in the United States of America should have a Women’s Business Center that they can walk into to seek counsel and support,” said Madeira Cofield.
The Howard University graduate is also credited for tripling the number of Women’s Business Centers on the campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions. She also distributed more than $70 million in direct grants to nonprofit organizations.
Other highlights from her time as assistant administrator include establishing a two-day inaugural Women’s Business Summit with more than 20,000 attendees and remarks by Vice President Kamala Harris, and establishing the first WBC in the historic Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, also known as Black Wall Street.
Madeira Cofield said she found her work at SBA to be “meaningful.” She said she is especially proud of the work she did to elevate the Office of Women’s Business Ownership directly under the leadership of Small Business Administrator Isabel Guzman.
“This is a move oftentimes that you see with organizations that take diversity, equity and inclusion seriously,” she said. “In prior circumstances, the Chief Diversity Officer …. there might be multiple layers above them, and they never have the ear of the highest executive. In this instance, we were able to move the office to be a part of the administrator’s office and report directly to the administrator.”
She added, “To actually go through the process of doing all the organizational, all the structural, all the policy, all the internal politics of moving this office, it really ferments the important role that women play as the fastest-growing entrepreneurial segment in the country.”
Tene Dolphin, executive director of the National Women’s Business Council, in a statement, applauded Madeira Cofield’s work at SBA’s Office of Women’s Business Ownership and her “remarkable strides in uplifting women leaders.” Dolphin noted that Madeira Cofield “built her career on supporting women business owners across the country.”
Before entering SBA, Madeira Cofield was an award-winning entrepreneur and “economic activist” who counseled CEOs of billion-dollar organizations, executives of global brands, White House officials, mayors, and community activists and leaders. She has been responsible for supporting the deployment of more than $200 million in funding for entrepreneurs and ecosystems throughout the country.
Madeira Cofield told theGrio she entered SBA as an entrepreneur and advocate and is leaving the administration to continue that work.
“I think that there is a lot of work that can continue to be done on the outside of the administration as an advocate, ally supporter, and a champion for continuing to raise certain comments, questions, concerns, and needs that our community has in a way that I wasn’t able to in the administration,” she said.
Madeira Cofield said she is looking forward to seeing her successor “command a level of attention that I know my predecessors wanted, but the synergy of politics wasn’t there for them to make that type of power move.”
“The time is now. The occasion and the need for equity for women continue to be at the forefront of everyone’s conversation, so it commands that level of attention and that level of leadership,” she added.
Madeira Cofield said the work at SBA is especially critical for Black women entrepreneurs. As she noted, 80% of Black households are led by a Black woman who is the primary income breadwinner.
The work of the Office of Women’s Business Ownership, she said, “allows for that 80% of households across the country to have more disposable income [and] to have more economic power.”
“Despite the fact that nearly 60% of Black businesses are started and run by a Black woman today, we still see nearly a third of the revenues of our male counterparts,” she noted.
“We are seeing exponential growth, but we still have work to do as it relates to the equity of access to contracts, access to capital and access to market and opportunity to really close that gap.”
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Soccer-Lewandowski at the double again as Barcelona stroll past Valladolid
Barcelona extended their lead right before halftime through Pedri, who riffled a curling strike into the top-left corner after a nice pass by Dembele from the right touchline. Lewandowski scored Barca's third in the 65th minute, with a brilliant back-heel that deflected off a defender before beating goalkeeper Jordi Masip.
Robert Lewandowski scored his second consecutive brace as Barcelona breezed past Real Valladolid with a comfortable 4-0 LaLiga victory on Sunday. It was Barca's second win from three games in the new season and moved them up to second in the table with seven points, two behind leaders Real Betis and provisionally one ahead of Real Madrid, who face Espanyol later on Sunday.
Lewandowski and Ousmane Dembele both went close for Barca, hitting the post in the first half, but it did not take long for them to open the scoring, as Lewandowski stroked home from close range from a perfect Raphinha cross to the far post in the 24th minute. Barcelona extended their lead right before halftime through Pedri, who riffled a curling strike into the top-left corner after a nice pass by Dembele from the right touchline.
Lewandowski scored Barca's third in the 65th minute, with a brilliant back-heel that deflected off a defender before beating goalkeeper Jordi Masip. The Poland striker had a golden opportunity to complete a hat-trick in added time, but Masip made a great stop to keep out his close range shot.
Substitute Sergi Roberto, however, was in the right place at the right time to strike home the rebound and wrap up the points.
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With 28% CAGR, Legal Marijuana Market Size to Hit $97 Billion by 2026 | Legal Marijuana Industry Growth, Statistics, Share, Trends, Analysis & Forecast Report by Facts & Factors
[223+ Pages Report] According to Facts and Factors, the demand analysis of Global Legal Marijuana Market size & share revenue is likely to grow about USD 97 billion by 2026, at a CAGR of approximately 28% between 2021 and 2026. The key market players are listed in the report with their sales, revenues and strategies are Canopy Growth Corporation Aphria Inc., Aurora marijuana Inc., Maricann Group Inc., Tilray Inc., Cronos Group Inc., OrganiGram Holding Inc., VIVO marijuana Inc., TikunOlam Ltd., The Green Organic Dutchman Holdings Ltd., Terra Tech Corp., Medical Cannabis Inc., Stenocare A/S, Cannabis Science Inc., HEXO Corp and amongst others.
NEW YORK, United States, Aug. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to Facts and Factors has published a new research report titled “Legal Marijuana Market by Product Type (Buds/marijuana Flower, Cannabis Extracts, Oil, Tinctures) & Others, Species (Cannabis Indica, Cannabis Sativa, Cannabis Hybrid), Strains (THC, CBD, Balanced THC and CBD), Purchase Channel (Online, Offline), Application (Medical, Recreational, Cosmetics) & Others, End-Use Industries (Pharmaceutical, Food, Beverages, and Tobacco, Personal Care, Research and Development Centers), and Geography - Global & Regional Industry Perspectives, Comprehensive Industry Analysis, and Forecast 2020 - 2026” in its research database.
“According to the latest research study, the demand of global Legal Marijuana Market size & share in terms of revenuewas valued at USD 22 billion in 2020 and it is expected to surpass around USD 97 billion mark by 2026, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 28% during the forecast period 2021 to 2026.”
What is Legal Marijuana? How big is the Legal Marijuana Industry?
Market Overview:
Marijuana is produced from the dried flowers and leaves of the cannabis plant, which are also referred to variously as hemp, weed, dope, or cannabis. Marijuana contains both psychoactive compounds like Tetrahydrocannabinol, also known as THC, and non-psychoactive active compounds like cannabidiol (CBD). Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the compound responsible for the mind-altering effects of marijuana (CBD). One of the drugs that are abused the most frequently all over the world is marijuana. Marijuana is obtained from the hemp plant, and the "drug" is most frequently produced in the flowers (also known as "buds") of the plant. The seeds, leaves, and stems of the plant contribute only a very small amount to the final product.
Marijuana is a product that is sold and consists of a combination of dried hemp plant leaves, stems, flowers, and seeds. In most cases, it is green, brown, or grey in hue. A psychoactive substance is anything that can produce an altered state of consciousness, such as alcohol, cocaine, or ecstasy. Marijuana, like these other types of medications, is known to have the potential to cause adverse side effects.
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Market Dynamics:
The demand for legalized marijuana is rapidly increasing, especially in countries where marijuana for medicinal purposes and for food & beverages is legal. CBD isolates will see even more development in the coming years thanks to a recent novel food ruling in Europe. Furthermore, children who consume cannabis are only prescribed oil because it has proven to be effective in the treatment of conditions such as epilepsy. Owing to shifts in government policy, the market for legal marijuana is expected to skyrocket. Several new cannabis start-ups are pursuing R&D, research, and manufacturing. The privatization of cannabis retail stores is anticipated in several provinces.
Several provinces that previously selected a single supplier are now encouraging several suppliers to submit bids. Over the forecast period, these factors are expected to drive the market. The increasing legalization of cannabis in several countries is a major factor driving market development. Marijuana's efficacy for medicinal purposes is gaining traction around the world as a result of recent legalizations in several countries. Medicinal hemp is used to treat chronic diseases like cancer, arthropathy, and neurological conditions like depression, panic attacks, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease. The high prevalence of cancer is expected to be a critical factor driving the need for marijuana legalization.
However, the various contradictory conclusions about smoking cannabis, such as mucus composition, persistent cough, and respiratory infections like COPD, will serve as a market restriction. The wide legalization of marijuana in this manner will have a variety of consequences for the economy and culture of the countries where it is legalized. Legalization requires policymakers to apply application-based regulations to marijuana production and distribution, meaning that it contributes to the country's GDP. Legalization also aids in the eradication of gangs and black-market traffickers, as well as the reduction of related crime rates.
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Legal Marijuana Market: COVID-19 Impact Analysis
The World Health Organization has designated the year 2019 as the "Year of Healthcare Emergence." In an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus, the government of the United States declared it a pandemic, and many other countries instituted travel restrictions and prohibitions on airlines. Marijuana may be helpful in mitigating the mild side effects of covid-19. As a consequence of this, there has been a significant increase in the market for marijuana, which is frequently utilized in medical applications. This is because of the epidemic in research and development efforts.
The rapid increase in significant research and development operations to better understand the application spectrum of legalized marijuana primarily used for medicinal purposes should bode well for market expansion in the next few years. Not only for the treatment of COVID-19, but also for a variety of other conditions. It is possible that during the next few years, a greater number of countries may pass legislation to decriminalize marijuana, which will result in an expansion of the field of medicine in which it can be used therapeutically. The use of these materials in the production of a vaccine to treat Covid-19 has yielded encouraging results thus far. It is anticipated that market shares would return to normal levels by the year 2020. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over eighty percent of people around the world consume some kind of marijuana or cannabis for therapeutic reasons. As a direct consequence of this, the rising levels of tolerance for cannabis as well as its cultivation and production in developing nations are helping to propel the growth of the medical cannabis market.
Legal Marijuana Market: Segmentation Analysis
The legal marijuana market is segmented based on product type, species, strain, purchase channel, application, and end-user.
As per product type segmentation, the market is divided into Buds/marijuana flower, cannabis extracts (oil, tinctures), others. Based on species type segmentation, the market is classified into Cannabis Indica, Cannabis Sativa, and Cannabis Hybrid. Based on strain type segmentation, the market is classified into THC-dominant, CBD-dominant, Balanced THC, and CBD. Based on purchase channel segmentation, the market is classified into online, offline. In terms of application, the market is split into Medical (Chronic Pain, Mental Disorders, Cancer), Recreational, Cosmetics & Others. As per the end-user type, the market is bifurcated into pharmaceutical, food, beverages, and Tobacco, personal care, research, and development centers. The use of medical marijuana is critical for a variety of reasons.
Medical marijuana is provided to patients with chronic illnesses including Parkinson's, cancer, Alzheimer's, and a variety of neurological disorders. The demand for cannabis oil is rapidly increasing, especially in countries where medical marijuana is legal. CBD isolates will see even more development in the coming years thanks to a recent novel food ruling in Europe. Furthermore, children who consume cannabis are only prescribed oil because it has proven to be effective in the treatment of conditions such as epilepsy. The adoption of new and advanced technologies, which has made them more multifunctional, has provided the industry with many lucrative growth opportunities in the coming years.
The global Legal Marijuana market is segmented as follows:
By Product Type
Buds/Marijuana Flower
Cannabis Extracts
Oil
Tinctures
Others
By Species
Cannabis Indica
Cannabis Sativa
Cannabis Hybrid
By Strain
THC-dominant
CBD-dominant
Balanced THC and CBD
By Purchase Channel
Online
Offline
By Application
Medical
Chronic Pain
Mental Disorders
Cancer
Recreational
Cosmetics
Others
By End-User:
Pharmaceutical
Food, Beverages, and Tobacco
Personal Care
Research and Development Centers
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Competitive Landscape:
Some of the main competitors dominating the global Legal Marijuana market include -
Canopy Growth Corporation Aphria Inc.
Aurora marijuana Inc.
Maricann Group Inc.
Tilray Inc.
Cronos Group Inc.
OrganiGram Holding Inc.
VIVO marijuana Inc.
TikunOlam Ltd.
The Green Organic Dutchman Holdings Ltd.
Terra Tech Corp.
Medical Cannabis Inc.
Stenocare A/S
Cannabis Science Inc.
HEXO Corp
Key Insights from Primary Research:
According to the analysis shared by our research forecaster, the Legal Marijuana market is likely to expand at a CAGR of around 28% during the forecast period (2021-2026).
In terms of revenue, the Legal Marijuana market size was valued at around US$ 22 billion in 2020 and is projected to reach US$ 97 billion by 2026.
New developments in technology, such as DNA sequencing and genetic mapping of cannabis, present numerous growth opportunities.
Medical Marijuana is in high demand, particularly in nations that have legalised its medical use, on the basis of geography.
North America's market growth will be 89% during the projection period.
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Competitive Landscape – Top Key Vendors and Other Prominent Vendors
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Regional Analysis:
North America was in charge of the global marijuana business in 2020. During the forecast period, the region will provide many opportunities for market vendors to expand. Over the projection period, legal cannabis market expansion in this area will be fueled by the legalization of cannabis and the growing number of patients who require medical cannabis. During the projection period, North America will account for 89 percent of market growth. The expansion of the target market is likely to be aided by favorable government laws and the launch of newer pharmaceuticals by drug makers. Major businesses' increased investments in R&D operations, as well as their acquisition operations for company development, are likely to bolster the expansion of the legal marijuana market and meet business in North America.
By Region
North America
U.S.
Canada
Rest of North America
Europe
France
UK
Spain
Germany
Italy
Rest of Europe
Asia Pacific
China
Japan
India
South Korea
Rest of Asia Pacific
The Middle East & Africa
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Rest of the Middle East & Africa
Latin America
Brazil
Argentina
Rest of Latin America
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In 2019, BBC crime thriller The Capture became both a critical and ratings success, keeping viewers on the edge of their seats each week. This led to a follow-up series being commissioned and three years later, it is finally here.
The Capture explores the mad-capped world of digital intelligence and surveillance. The first instalment saw an ambitious young DCI (played by Holliday Grainger) enter the terrifying world of deepfake technology. The new six-part series builds on these themes in an exciting original story.
Here is everything that you need to know about the new series ahead of its release. You can get more TV news and other story updates straight to your inbox by subscribing to our newsletters here.
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Who is in the cast of Series 2 of The Capture
Holliday Grainger plays DCI Rachel Carey
Returning to the lead role of DCI Rachel Carey is Holliday Grainger. The first series of The Capture saw Grainger's character join the mysterious Correction, who have been behind the deepfake alterations to real-life events.
Grainger is probably best known for playing Robin Ellacott in the BBC adaptations of JK Rowling’s Strike novels, but you might also recognise her from a brief-but-star supporting turn in Patrick Melrose, or from appearing alongside Alia Shawkat in Animals.
Paapa Essiedu plays Isaac Turner MP
One of the new stars introduced in series 2 - Paapa Essiedu - plays Isaac Turner MP, a young politician who has grand ambitions. On joining the new series, Essiedu said: “I’m so excited to be coming on board with The Capture. Ben (Chanan) has written one of the freshest and most prescient scripts of recent times and I can’t wait to see what this incredible cast and crew can do with it.”
He is known for appearing in Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You, Mike Bartlett's Press, Gangs of London and The Lazarus Project.
Indira Varma plays Khadija Khan
Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi star, Indira Varma, plays Newsnight presenter, Khadija Khan, in the second series of The Capture.
Previously, the actress has had starring roles in This Way Up, Torchwood and Luther.
Ron Perlman plays CIA Chief Frank Napier
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Comic book aficionados will recognise Perlman as Hellboy in the two original films from Guillermo del Toro. He has also appeared in the likes of The Name of The Rose, Sons of Anarchy and Don't Look Up.
Ginny Holder plays DI Nadia Latif
Death in Paradise star Ginny Holder reprises her role as DI Nadia Latif. Her character and Grainger's DCI Rachel Carey will continue to be at odds in series 2.
Holder has previously had roles in Holby City, Doctors and DCI Banks.
Ben Miles plays Commander Danny Hart
Also returning for series 2 is Ben Miles, who plays Commander Danny Hart. In series 1, Danny had a complex relationship with the lead character of DCI Rachel Carey. Their bond will be further explored in the second series.
Miles is a well-known face on British television and has previously starred in The Crown, Coupling and The Forsyte Saga, amongst other shows.
Lia Williams plays DSU Gemma Garland
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Williams' most well-known television role is that of Wallis Simpson in The Crown. However, she has a more prolific career on stage.
What is the plot of The Capture series 2
The official BBC synopsis explains that “Britain is under siege: hacked news feeds, manipulated media, and interference in politics. Entrenched in the UK’s own ‘Correction’ unit, DCI Rachel Carey (Grainger) finds herself in the middle of a new conspiracy - with a new target. But how can she solve this case when she can’t even trust her closest colleagues?”
When does series 2 of The Capture begin?
The Capture returns to BBC One at 9pm on Sunday, August 28. The second episode will follow at the same time on Monday, with subsequent episodes continuing to air on Sundays from then on.
The full six-part series will be available on BBC iPlayer as a boxset from Sunday, August 28.
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EXPLAINER: Why the term ‘genocide’ matters in Ukraine war
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden declares Russia’s Ukraine war “genocide,” it isn’t just another strong word. Calling a campaign that’s aimed at wiping out a targeted group “genocide” not only increases pressure on a country to act, it can oblige it to. That’s partly because of a genocide treaty approved by the U.N. General Assembly after World War II, signed by the United States and more than 150 other nations. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2715721774755/open-conversation-waco-isd-brings-emotional-support-dog-to-university-high-school | 2022-08-28T20:25:52Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2715721774755/open-conversation-waco-isd-brings-emotional-support-dog-to-university-high-school | true | 12721 |
Chicago police warn community about robberies on West Side, urge safety
CHICAGO - Chicago police are investigating two robberies that happened on Chicago's West Side in mid-August.
In each of the incidents, four men driving a black Chevy Blazer with Illinois temporary tags were involved.
The first robbery was in the Humboldt Park neighborhood in the 800 block of North Kedzie on Aug. 11 around 2:27pm.
Police say the victim was exiting the Chase Bank when two offenders with "machine guns" and one with a handgun, each wearing masks, stole the victim's gold chains and cash. The men then re-entered their vehicle being driven by a fourth man and drove off.
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The second robbery happened around 11:35 a.m. on Aug. 12 in North Lawndale in the 1200 block of South Komensky.
Police say, four men in a black Chevy Blaze approached the victim. Three offenders were armed with "Draco" rifles and took the victim's gold chains, wallet and cash. The men re-entered the car and drove away.
On Aug. 15, in the 200 block of North Waller, police found a black Chevy Trail Blazer with Illinois temp tag 121aa392 Exp. 09/22, completely burned out around 10:12 p.m.
Investigators found that the burned out Chevy was the vehicle used in each of the robberies.
Police want to remind the public how to stay safe:
- Remember any unique physical characteristics (scars, limp, acne, teeth, etc...)
- Never pursue a fleeing assailant, provide the information to the police
- Never resist a robbery. Value your life over any and all property.
- If approached by a witness to the incident, request contact information
- Dial 9-1-1 immediately and remain on scene when possible
- Do not touch anything until police arrive. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicao-police-warn-commnity-about-string-of-robberies-on-west-side | 2022-08-28T20:32:16Z | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicao-police-warn-commnity-about-string-of-robberies-on-west-side | false | 1 |
A complaint claiming that ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ violates the copyright of the 1983 magazine article that served as the inspiration for the first movie was launched against Paramount.
According to Variety, the lawsuit was launched in June by Ehud Yonay’s widow and son, Shosh and Yuval Yonay, who claim that the studio produced the sequel without first renewing the rights to the work. Variety further reports that in their petition to dismiss, Paramount contended that it did not need to acquire the rights because the non-fiction article’s facts and ideas cannot be protected by copyright and “Top Gun: Maverick” is a work of fiction with essentially nothing in common with it.
“Any similarity between these vastly different works derives from the fact that Top Gun is an actual naval training facility…Plaintiffs do not have a monopoly over works about Top Gun,” the studio’s lawyers argued.
Yonay’s piece was used as the basis for the 1986 film adaptation of ‘Top Gun,’ which was licensed by Paramount. After 35 years, copyright law enables authors to regain their creations.
Variety reports that Yonay passed away in 2012, but his widow and son filed a notice in 2018 terminating the studio’s copyright to the article.
According to Variety, the complaint goes to great effort to show how many claimed parallels there are between the article and the sequel. The complaint asserts that Yonay employed “vivid and cinematic” language to breathe life into what may have otherwise been a mere recitation of facts.
Paramount, in turn, stresses the dissimilarities between the two works. Additionally, according to the motion of the studio, some similarities are just everyday features that nobody could claim to possess.
Paramount stated, “Elite fighter pilots loving to fly and being dedicated to their craft and competitive, are facts described in the article…plaintiffs do not have a monopoly over these (unremarkable) facts merely because Yonay once reported on them.”
Variety further reports that the Yonays have requested a court order that would prevent Paramount from making money off of the movie, which has earned $1.4 billion worldwide. According to Paramount, the injunction should be rejected since they have little prospect of succeeding in their allegation of intellectual property infringement.
On September 26, a hearing is scheduled.
(ANI) | https://www.gg2.net/producers-fight-copyright-lawsuit-for-tom-cruises-top-gun-maverick/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=producers-fight-copyright-lawsuit-for-tom-cruises-top-gun-maverick | 2022-08-28T20:33:42Z | https://www.gg2.net/producers-fight-copyright-lawsuit-for-tom-cruises-top-gun-maverick/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=producers-fight-copyright-lawsuit-for-tom-cruises-top-gun-maverick | false | 3 |
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The U.S. Navy sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in the first such transit publicized since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier in August, at a time when tensions have kept the waterway particularly busy.
The USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville are conducting a routine transit, the U.S. 7th Fleet said. The cruisers “transited through a corridor in the Strait that is beyond the territorial sea of any coastal State,” the statement said.
China conducted many military exercises in the strait as it sought to punish Taiwan after Pelosi visited the self-ruled island against Beijing’s threats.
China has sent many warships sailing in the Taiwan Strait and waters surrounding Taiwan since Pelosi’s visit, as well as sending warplanes and firing long-range missiles. It views the island as part of its national territory and opposes any visits by foreign governments as recognizing Taiwan as its own state.
China said it tracked the movement of the ships. “Troops of the (Eastern) Theater Command are on high alert and ready to foil any provocation at any time,” said senior Col. Shi Yi, spokesperson for the People Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, speaking on CNN on Sunday, said the transit sent a “very clear message, very consistent message … that the United States Navy, the United States military will sail, fly and operate wherever international law permits us to do so.”
Kirby also noted the transit was “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.”
The U.S. regularly sends its ships through the Taiwan Strait as part of what it calls freedom of navigation manoeuvres.
The 100 mile-wide (160 kilometre-wide) strait divides Taiwan from China. | https://jamaicainquirer.com/us-sails-warships-through-taiwan-strait-in-1st-since-pelosi-loop-jamaica/ | 2022-08-28T20:36:02Z | https://jamaicainquirer.com/us-sails-warships-through-taiwan-strait-in-1st-since-pelosi-loop-jamaica/ | false | 25 |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — At least nine people were wounded in separate shootings at a bar in Los Angeles and a Sikh Temple in Stockton, authorities said.
A man opened fire Sunday inside a crowded bar in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights, wounding six people, including one who is in critical condition, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
Witnesses told police people were fighting at the Holiday Bar when a man pulled out a gun and fired into the crowd.
“It is unknown who he was arguing with,” LA police Lt. Letisia Ruiz told KTLA. “When he produced the handgun he shot into the crowd and that’s when individuals got struck by gunfire.”
Four men and two women were wounded, Ruiz said. A suspect, whose name was not immediately released, was arrested.
In the Northern California city of Stockton, three men ages 27, 28 and 32, were wounded Saturday during a shooting between two groups at a Sikh temple where an event was being held, the Stockton Police Department said Sunday in a news release.
Officers responded to reports about a shooting at the temple on the 1900 block of Sikh Temple Street and found the three victims who were shot after “a disturbance with another group resulted in an exchange of gunfire,” the department said Sunday in a statement.
Two men are being sought in the shooting. Police said that the victims and the two unidentified suspects are Sikhs.
The victims were taken to the hospital for what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries. | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/6-wounded-in-Los-Angeles-bar-shooting-3-shot-at-17403639.php | 2022-08-28T20:37:52Z | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/6-wounded-in-Los-Angeles-bar-shooting-3-shot-at-17403639.php | false | 11 |
(NerdWallet) – It’s a terrible feeling to arrive at a checkout screen and realize that the cost far exceeds the original listed price.
This practice of adding fees throughout the checkout process is called “drip pricing,” and the travel industry is one of the worst offenders. Airlines add baggage and seat selection fees. Hotels drop resort fees at the last minute. And Airbnb listings carry cleaning fees, service fees and taxes that can balloon the cost of a booking, making it harder to answer the question: “How much is an Airbnb?”
NerdWallet analyzed 1,000 Airbnb bookings across major cities in the U.S. to understand the prevalence and impact of Airbnb fees on prices. For each booking, the base cost of the room was collected, along with additional taxes and fees.
Overall, base price accounted for 68% of the total cost of bookings, with taxes and fees making up the remaining 32%. This discrepancy means that travelers looking to comparison shop on the vacation rental platform should essentially ignore base prices and focus instead on the total charge at checkout.
For comparison, baked-in fees on hotel rooms average 4.4% of the total cost, according to our analysis of hotel resort fees. Hotels do carry other annoying fees, such as those for parking and pets. Yet overall the difference between the listed price and final price on hotels is less dramatic than on Airbnb listings.
How Airbnb prices are displayed
Airbnb likes to tweak its interface, changing how prices and fees are displayed, making it hard to know exactly how prices will appear on any given search. In general, the base price of a property is displayed prominently. On desktop, the total price for the reservation is also included, while on the mobile app it is hit or miss.
Take two Airbnb properties in the Los Angeles area for example. One has a slightly higher base price at $215 than the other at $200. Yet the total price, which includes taxes and fees over two nights, is actually lower for the “higher” priced property, $559 vs. $662. Essentially, the base price is unhelpful in understanding the real cost.
Unlike many hotel brand search engines, which include a “display total price” option or similar, Airbnb does not allow users to search by total price. Instead, you can see only the base price before fees and taxes are added.
Even the property detail page will usually exclude taxes. So, it takes a few taps or clicks to see the total price. This makes it difficult to compare these prices between properties, especially when using the mobile app, where switching between tabs isn’t an option.
Here are some tips to help compare total costs:
- Always compare costs on the final checkout screen.
- Open multiple tabs, if possible.
- Avoid the mobile app for comparison shopping.
How to minimize Airbnb fees
The most straightforward way to avoid extra Airbnb fees is to follow through with the steps outlined above. By comparing final prices rather than base prices, you can make sure you’re accounting for the impact of fees on your trip. You’ll end up choosing properties with lower fees by carefully comparing total prices.
Here’s another tip, if it’s feasible: Stay longer. Although longer stays will cost more overall, the impact of cleaning fees will be lower compared to single-night stays.
Furthermore, taxes are lower or waived for stays of 30 days or more in some locations. So the impact of taxes and fees on these longer-term stays is less pronounced. And many properties offer discounts for longer stays.
Not everyone is planning to stay a month in an Airbnb, of course. So if none of these strategies work and you can’t find a short-term rental without huge fees, it’s always worth considering a hotel. Although resort fees and other add-ons can pop up during hotel bookings, the lack of a cleaning fee makes hotels the more budget-friendly option in some short-term situations.
Airbnb pricing, recapped
It’s annoying to find a higher rate at checkout than you anticipated, but it doesn’t have to be the end of the world. Since service fees, taxes and cleaning fees are built into nearly every Airbnb booking, they might as well be baked into the base nightly cost — but they’re not.
As long as you’re comparing total costs, it shouldn’t matter if the base price is $1 and the cleaning fee is $99 or the other way around. It might feel yucky to pay more in fees than the cost of the “room,” but from a financial perspective, it’s a wash.
Don’t get sucked in by low base prices and ignore the final price. Compare the cost per night across listings by doing a little math after seeing total charges. And consider staying longer at one booking rather than jumping between several if the fees are adding up. | https://www.wkrg.com/national/just-how-much-do-fees-impact-airbnb-prices/ | 2022-08-28T20:42:32Z | https://www.wkrg.com/national/just-how-much-do-fees-impact-airbnb-prices/ | false | 19 |
LONDON, Ontario (AP) — Calgary Flames forward Nazem Kadri brought the Stanley Cup to his hometown mosque on Saturday.
It was a day filled with pride and joy for the 31-year-old Kadri, who won the title with the Colorado Avalanche this past season.
“That’s the goal, to inspire and motivate the youth. This young generation is looking for role models so I do the best I can and I’m just happy I get to share it with everybody,” he said.
“I didn’t expect this kind of turnout. I’m very grateful for all the supporters.”
Kadri began his day with the Cup at London Muslim Mosque. He said the mosque is part of his background.
“It’s part of my roots, it’s part of who I am,” he said.
“For all these people, I know they’re on my side, (it) just shows they came over here for me — just very grateful for them.”
Hundreds of people, many in Kadri Toronto Maple Leafs jerseys and T-shirts, gathered shortly before noon at the mosque alongside Kadri’s family and loved ones. He was welcomed by a loud ovation.
Munir El-Kassem, the religious director at the Islamic Centre in London, and Faisal Joseph, a lawyer, activist and longtime member of the community, addressed the crowd, sharing stories of Kadri’s character and what he’s meant to the community, especially the Muslims of London.
Mayor Ed Holder also spoke to the crowd, declaring Kadri as “the greatest Londoner.”
After Kadri paused to autograph T-shirts, jerseys and pictures, the celebration moved to Victoria Park, on the Kiwanis Memorial Bandshell stage. A number of Lebanon flags — the country Kadri’s family is from — were held high, along with a couple of Canadian flags.
Holder presented Kadri with the key to the city.
“There’s a reason why I’m not just celebrating this with my family. I wanted to come out here and share with you guys,” Kadri told the crowd. “You’ve been supporters of mine from Day One and I can’t tell you enough how much that means to me.
“I’m hoping that this inspires and motivates kids to pursue your dreams because I never thought this was possible. I had some great support and people made me believe. If you believe, you can achieve. To see everybody come here and support me just inspires and motivates me even more, so we’re going to try to run this thing back (when) I’m going to Calgary.”
Kadri’s message of hope hit home with the Muslim youth in attendance.
“I think it’s really an amazing experience for the Muslim community and it’s really inspiring for us,” said 15-year-old Zayan Khan. “If he can win the Stanley Cup as a Muslim, he inspires more Muslim people to achieve their dreams.”
Kadri’s visit was a welcome celebration in a community that was rocked by tragedy last year. Four members of a Muslim family were run over by a truck and killed in what police described as motivated by anti-Muslim hate.
“It’s difficult. We’re still dealing with the scars and the sorrow that comes from the horrific attack that happened last year to our community,” said Hassan Mostafa, a family friend who sits on the board of directors of Kadri’s foundation.
“Does celebrating this erase all of that? Absolutely not. But it’s great to have something tremendous like this to celebrate. Our community needs something like this, and we’re so excited and so proud.”
Kadri has faced his share of racism and Islamophobia, especially in this past postseason.
After a collision with St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington in Game 3 in the second round that knocked Binnington out of the series with an injury, Kadri was the target of numerous threats and racist comments on social media.
Kadri’s father, Samir, said his son’s strength to push past the noise makes his accomplishment even greater.
“I could say that it’s sweet, but it’s not like revenge or anything like that to be honest with you, I don’t feel that that’s the way it is,” he said. “I feel that it’s definitely unbelievable to be able to experience that, especially when you’re going through the trials and tribulation of race.
“I felt it myself immigrating from Lebanon back in the ’60s and going through the school system here and dealing with that type of stuff. I know my son has dealt with it, but I feel that there is more of a link, you know, where people will realize, ‘Hey, you know, maybe they’re really not any different.’ This kind of helps in that case. We’re blessed for that.”
Kadri set career highs with 59 assists and 87 points in his third and final season with the Avalanche. He had seven goals and eight assists in 16 postseason games during Colorado’s title run.
Kadri signed a $49 million, seven-year contract with the Flames last week.
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More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-nazem-kadri-brings-stanley-cup-to-hometown-mosque/ | 2022-08-28T20:54:58Z | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-nazem-kadri-brings-stanley-cup-to-hometown-mosque/ | true | 33 |
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The U.S. Navy sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in the first such transit publicized since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier in August, at a time when tensions have kept the waterway particularly busy.
The USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville are conducting a routine transit, the U.S. 7th Fleet said. The cruisers “transited through a corridor in the Strait that is beyond the territorial sea of any coastal State,” the statement said.
China conducted many military exercises in the strait as it sought to punish Taiwan after Pelosi visited the self-ruled island against Beijing’s threats.
China has sent many warships sailing in the Taiwan Strait and waters surrounding Taiwan since Pelosi’s visit, as well as sending warplanes and firing long-range missiles. It views the island as part of its national territory and opposes any visits by foreign governments as recognizing Taiwan as its own state.
China said it tracked the movement of the ships. “Troops of the (Eastern) Theater Command are on high alert and ready to foil any provocation at any time,” said senior Col. Shi Yi, spokesperson for the People Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, speaking on CNN on Sunday, said the transit sent a “very clear message, very consistent message … that the United States Navy, the United States military will sail, fly and operate wherever international law permits us to do so.”
Kirby also noted the transit was “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.”
The U.S. regularly sends its ships through the Taiwan Strait as part of what it calls freedom of navigation maneuvers.
The 100 mile-wide (160 kilometer-wide) strait divides Taiwan from China. | https://wgnradio.com/news/international/ap-us-sails-warships-through-taiwan-strait-in-1st-since-pelosi/ | 2022-08-28T20:56:24Z | https://wgnradio.com/news/international/ap-us-sails-warships-through-taiwan-strait-in-1st-since-pelosi/ | true | 25 |
After spending a period of time dividing attention between the Campeonato Brasileiro and the knockout stages, Corinthians will be able to focus only on the straight points competition in the next two weeks, with three games in a row in São Paulo. This period starts this Monday, at 9:30 pm, against Bragantino, at Neo Química Arena, for the 24th round.
Without winning for three rounds in the competition, with two defeats and a draw, Timão needs to improve their results in the second round if they want to fight for something, as Vítor Pereira himself says.
– Now we have the possibility, in the next game, of starting to score points and taking advantage there at the front of the table to fight for something – said the coach after the semifinal first game of the Copa do Brasil, against Fluminense.
Corinthians players before the match against Fortaleza — Photo: Rodrigo Coca / Ag.Corinthians
With four points conquered in four games, Corinthians has the 11th position in the return table.
To try to stay alive in Libertadores and Copa do Brasil, Vítor Pereira had to give up the Brasileirão a little. The coach spared holders in national championship games. See the latest results:
- 07/30 – Corinthians 1 x 0 Botafogo (beginning of the return of the Brasileirão)
- 02/08 – Corinthians 0 x 2 Flamengo (first leg of the Libertadores quarterfinals)
- 06/08 – Avai 1 x 1 Corinthians (21st round of the Brasileirão)
- 08/09 – Flamengo 1 x 0 Corinthians (Return of Libertadores quarterfinals)
- 08/13 – Corinthians 0 x 1 Palmeiras (22nd round of the Brasileirão)
- 08/17 – Corinthians 4 x 1 Atlético-GO (return of the quarterfinals of the Copa do Brasil)
- 08/21 – Fortaleza 1 x 0 Corinthians (23rd round of the Brasileirão)
- 08/24 – Fluminense 2 x 2 Corinthians (Brazil Cup semi-final leg)
Before starting the sequence shown above, Vítor Pereira’s team was in second place, four points behind Palmeiras, which remains in the lead. Now, Timão is fourth, 11 behind its rival, and tied with Athletico and Inter – fifth and sixth, respectively.
After catching Bragantino, Corinthians welcomes Internacional at home and then goes to Morumbi to face São Paulo.
G-6 score on return:
- 11 points: Palm trees*
- 10 points: Flamengo
- 9 points: International
- 8 points: Fluminense* and Athletico*
- 4 points: Corinthians
* Have already played this round.
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The battle lines for the 2022 November election are set.
One party wants to raise your taxes to fund special interests.
The other will not raise your taxes. (RELATED: MURDOCK: Democrats Handed Republicans Two Giant Gifts Ahead Of November)
You choose.
Every single Democrat in both the House and Senate voted for a $700 billion tax increase for massive new special interest spending. Every one.
Any senator could have said no to the pork barrel spending, to the Biden $400k tax pledge-breaking tax increases, to the deployment of 87,000 new IRS agents. Any three House members could have done so. They chose not to.
President Joe Biden’s most famous and oft-repeated promise was that he would never allow any tax increase on any American earning less than $400,000 a year.
Biden’s signature on the “Inflation Reduction Act” means that he lied his way into office. The bill increases taxes on crude oil (gasoline), the production of U.S. natural gas and coal. It hikes taxes on businesses, which will reduce the value of the life savings of 58% of Americans who save in an IRA, 401k or other retirement plan.
Americans have seen their incomes fall as inflation has roared faster than the average pay increase. Life savings have been damaged as the stock market has fallen.
What is the Republican response? What is the new Contract with America?
To start, the vast majority of Republicans in the House and Senate have signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge committing them publicly, in writing, to oppose any and all tax increases. This is a commitment Democrats refuse to make.
Since 1994 when 90-plus percent of Republicans signed and kept the pledge, no tax has been increased if the Republicans controlled the House or the Senate.
On the state level 16 GOP governors including Ron DeSantis, Glenn Youngkin and Kristi Noem have signed the pledge.
Stopping the bleeding is a good start. But what tax cuts will Republicans champion?
First, Republicans will start by repealing the Biden tax increases and making the Republican tax cuts of 2017 (Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) permanent.
Biden will likely veto it, but will have to allow some to pass, just as former President Barack Obama allowed Republicans to extend the Bush tax cuts for two years and then to make 85% of the Bush tax cuts permanent.
After he left office Obama had to watch as Republicans abolished six major Obamacare tax hikes.
With TCJA, America saw that the reduction of the corporate income tax rate from 35% (higher than China’s 25%) to 21% created a boom that in 2019 drove a 6.8% increase in the median income of a family of four, a larger jump in income than all eight years of Obama. In one year.
Republicans will move to take the corporate rate from 21% to 14% making the U.S. more competitive in world trade and sending a signal Americans will not be yoked to the global tax cartel trying to destroy U.S. sovereignty via a 15% “global minimum tax.”
Republicans will restore the policy of American energy dominance, abolishing Biden’s taxes on coal, oil and natural gas and opening up America for energy exploration and pipelines increasing jobs, keeping energy costs low and protecting America from the fate of Germany—now dependent on Russia for their energy as they shut down nuclear and coal plants.
The right to “be your own boss” will be restored nationwide. Republicans will end the Democrat war on self-employment, independent contracting and small businesses. The Democrats in California largely banned independent contractors, including tens of thousands of independent truck drivers.
Republicans argue America should compete with the rest of the world by having the lowest taxes and regulatory cost, not the lowest wages.
Watch Republicans pick up a good idea from Texas Senator Ted Cruz, to allow money families save in a 529 account (savings for education) to also be used for home schooling and home learning expenses. Obama tried to destroy these tax-exempt savings plans. Republicans will expand 529s, a vital household savings tool. Homeschooling is a powerful vote-moving issue and Democrats will have no answer to this 529 expansion.
Republicans will call to repeal the funding for 87,000 new IRS agents. Florida Senator Rick Scott has signaled that Republicans will campaign against the supersizing of the IRS.
In a recent open letter he notified prospective IRS employees not to get too comfortable: “This will be a short-term gig. Republicans will take over the House and Senate in January, and I can promise you that we will immediately do everything in our power to defund this insane and unwarranted expansion of government into the lives of the American people.”
Can Republicans credibly promise to repeal the Biden explosion of spending and taxes? There are two models to follow. When Clinton increased taxes and spending the Republicans won the Congress in 1994 and forced Clinton to sign a cut in the capital gains tax and to reform welfare by block-granting it to the states. Clinton’s spending plans were culled back, and federal spending as a share of GDP stabilized.
When Obama taxed and spent for the first two years, he lost the House in 2010 and much of his Senate support. Republicans forced a two trillion-dollar spending cut from Obama’s spending plans over a decade in return for agreeing to a debt ceiling increase. The Bush tax cuts were extended and 85% of them made permanent.
A Republican Congress alone cannot undo all the damage. But they can begin to turn the ship of state around.
Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform.
The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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Man Utd transfer target Cody Gakpo CONFIRMS interest with Erik ten Hag eyeing two new strikers with Antony to join
PSV EINDHOVEN star Cody Gakpo has CONFIRMED Manchester United are keen on signing him.
That’s despite the Red Devils closing in on an £84million swoop for Ajax ace Antony.
Erik ten Hag is eager to bolster his squad with two top attackers before deadline day.
And a deal for Brazilian wide-man Antony, 22, is finally on after Ajax rejected several previous offers.
United’s bid falls just short of their club-record £89m move for Paul Pogba from Juventus in 2016.
But it appears Ten Hag is still not finished in the market.
Cristiano Ronaldo remains keen on ditching his Old Trafford teammates after they failed to qualify for the Champions League.
And United are hoping to end the transfer window with another forward after signing Antony.
Reports claim Ten Hag is interested in a swoop for Barcelona’s Memphis Depay - who flopped in a previous spell at United under Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho.
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The Holland international, 23, was linked with a move to the Theatre of Dreams earlier this month.
But PSV’s reported £40m asking price was holding United off from making a bid.
Yet with the Dutch side dropping down to the Europa League after defeat in their qualifier against Rangers, Gakpo could now be available for a cheaper fee.
And the player himself is adamant United are ready to pounce with just days left in the market.
Gakpo declared: "There are also other options, United are a serious option.
“I can hear it all. I try to shut myself off from it, but it's difficult."
Should Gakpo join alongside Antony, it would leave United with seven senior attackers for just three positions.
And that would increase the likelihood of Ronaldo quitting for a fresh start.
However, additional reports claim it could be Anthony Elanga who is sacrificed - at least for this season.
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With the annual brace of holidays approaching, it's a good time to remind dinner guests and hosts of a few basic rules of etiquette, beyond the obvious ones: arrive on time, use your napkin, help clear the table, say thank you when you leave.
Thomas Blaikie, author of To the Manner Born: A Most Proper Guide to Modern Civility, offers a few tips.
First, for the host or hostess, don't make the menu too complicated, he says.
Blaikie cites a story by Nigella Lawson about a dinner she once attended where the hostess was trying to impress the famous food writer.
"There was course after course and huge, great long gaps between each one," Blaikie says. "And after about the fourth course [Lawson] heard the poor hostess sobbing in the kitchen because she was just so overwhelmed by all these terrifically complicated recipes she was trying to cook."
The lesson, he says: "Keep it very simple and very straightforward."
Now, if you're a guest, what to do if you spill red wine on the white table cloth?
"I think that the polite host will always blame themselves. 'Oh, you know, my table's a bit wobbly. We've been meaning to get that mended for a long time.' You should always make your guests feel that it's not their fault and just make light of it."
And what about fussy guests, who aren't satisfied by what they're served, should they speak up?
"They've very annoying, these picky eaters," Blaikie says. "I think it's good manners if you go to dinner to do your best to eat what you're given."
What if it's something as horrible-sounding as a mother-in-law's cranberry relish (mixing in onion, sour cream, sugar and horseradish)?
"I don't think guests should be expressing their dislike of your food — outrageous!" Blaikie says.
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Kiran Desai's novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize. Her mother, Anita, has been short-listed for the prize three times. Her books include Fire on the Mountain, Clear Light of Day and In Custody. Kiran was born in New Delhi and moved to the United States as a teenager.
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From NPR News, this is WEEKEND EDITION. I'm Andrea Seabrook.
The elephant has its trunk, writes author Chip Walter. Bombardier beetles manufacture and precisely shoot boiling hot toxic chemicals from their tails. Peregrine falcons have wings that propel them unerringly through the air at 70 miles an hour to their catch. These traits define these creatures and determine the way they act. But, Walter asks, what you unique traits shape and define us?
Walter is the author of the new book, "Thumbs, Toes and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human."
Thanks for joining us.
Mr. CHIP WALTER (Author): Thank you, great to be here.
SEABROOK: So I gather that thumbs, toes and tears are three of these traits that make us human. Define human for us from an evolutionary point of view.
Mr. WALTER: Anything that helps to define and explain the particular creature that we are as human, and we are remarkable and so different from the other creatures. What made me think about it was, you look around at other animals and you see defining traits about them. So you look at an elephant and you say, there's that trunk, that's what really is different about them. So I'll bet if I look closely at that I can figure a lot of things out about that animal.
So I thought, well, what are the things that are unique to us? You know, the physical and behavioral traits. I mean, there's obviously lots of things that we do that are different from other animals. But I thought, if you kept pushing it back and asking what are the baseline traits that we have, then you would arrive at these six. And the six are, you know, our big toe, which seems as about as homely as you can get.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. WALTER: And then you have thumbs, opposable thumbs, which a lot of people think about.
SEABROOK: Okay. So, toes, thumbs - what else?
Mr. WALTER: Right. We cry. We cry tears of emotion. We're the only creature that does that. And we kiss and we laugh. And then, of course, the thing that we're doing right now, which is we make these odd, intricate noises at one another that somehow we understand. And that's because we have very unique throats; these kind of long, elegant throats with a hundred muscles in them can make more sounds than any other creature.
SEABROOK: So I think I've seen chimps use tools, kiss. You know, they use these things, albeit rudimentary, aren't they doing these things?
Mr. WALTER: Well, there's a continuum in evolution. It's never like, you know, it stops here and starts there. So these are called homologs by scientists, you know, where you see the kinds of behavior that may have led to the behavior that we have. But chimps do not have - and they are our closet relatives - they do not have the fine motor control that we have in our fingers and our thumbs. And if you sit and you rotate your thumbs widely, chimps cannot do that. And they can't touch the very tips of their small fingers.
They have opposable thumbs, but they don't have thumbs that are opposable in our particular way. And the way that we have it enables us to grip and hold things like a baseball or like a bat. This gave us the ability to make tools, which, strangely enough, actually led to creating a brain that was primed for language.
SEABROOK: Explain to me how making tools led to a bigger brain.
Mr. WALTER: Well, think about when you make a tool. You have to do things in sequence, you know. So if you've been to IKEA, you know that if you don't get A to B and B to C, you've got trouble.
(Soundbite of laughter)
SEABROOK: Big trouble.
Mr. WALTER: Right. Right. We've all been there, right?
SEABROOK: Right.
Mr. WALTER: And so you have to be able to say, well, before I have to pick up something and then I have to bring it down and hit something, and so the first thing it does is it kind of causes you to think linearly. And then in the course of even thinking that way, you have to be able to say, well, all right, I'm going to do this thing first and then I'm going to do this next thing. And then that makes - you have to be the subject of the sentence, the thing that you're hitting is the object of the sentence, and it makes you see the world in the way that we later had to manipulate ideas in order to make language.
SEABROOK: So you're saying that the act of doing things in order makes talking about them possible?
Mr. WALTER: Yeah, it begins to shape the brain so that it sees the world in a way that it can control and manipulate objects. And then later, that capability enabled us to control and manipulate thoughts and ideas.
SEABROOK: So many things have been said about animals before that have been disproved, like that they have no higher thought, no use of tools, no emotion. They were thought to have no emotion for many decades.
Mr. WALTER: Right.
SEABROOK: And now it's generally thought that all of those have been debunked. Even octopi have...
Mr. WALTER: Right.
SEABROOK: ...higher thought. You know, many animals use tools.
Mr. WALTER: Right. Right. I guess one of the differentiations with regard to tools is there seems to be quite a few animals that will use tools or they'll use other objects around, you know, to accomplish the things that they want. What we haven't found is that there isn't any creature that makes tools and takes the objects around them and reshapes them. So there's obviously a qualitative difference between what we do and other creatures do.
SEABROOK: You end your book with an epilogue about cyber sapiens.
Mr. WALTER: Yeah.
SEABROOK: Do you see that technological evolution actually changing what humans are fundamentally?
Mr. WALTER: I think what it is going to represent is another stage in evolution. Whenever the first tool was made, that changed the evolutionary picture completely, forever. Once you had a creature that could start to make tools and manipulate the world, then that changes the evolutionary picture.
SEABROOK: And we're starting to be able to manipulate the DNA, too.
Mr. WALTER: Right, right. I mean, we're actually playing with the genetics, so we're changing ourselves. And so I think the next step is that you start to see a blurring of the lines between biology and technology, between reality and virtual reality, between humans and machines. And that's, you know, a result of a kind of cultural evolution that is linked to our technological evolution.
So now what's happening is that you're getting to the point where we're really being able to play with ourselves, what makes us tick, and the technologies around the world are beginning to meld and blur so that soon, for example, with nanotechnology you'll have machines that are working at the molecular level, which means that they're working at the sub-cellular level.
So I think that what we'll see is that the real evolution isn't going to be physical, and it's not going to be DNA-driven, it's going to be technological. We may evolve essentially into a different creature that forsakes its DNA, and we use the machines that we create, albeit extremely tiny machines, to pretty much create a new kind of creature.
SEABROOK: Chip Walter is the author of "Thumbs, Toes and Tears, and Other Traits that Make Us Human." Thank you so much for joining us.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tom Brady made a succinct, strong statement in his brief preseason debut.
He’s not rusty at all.
Five days after ending a planned, 11-day training camp break, Brady went 6 of 8 for 44 yards in the no-huddle offense and led the Buccaneers to a field goal on his first and only drive before watching the Indianapolis Colts’ backups rally for a 27-10 victory on Saturday night.
“I’ve played a lot of football in my day — a lot of practices, a lot of games, and a lot of seasons,” Brady said. “I’m ready to go.”
In his first interview since returning to practice Monday, Brady did not elaborate on why he needed time off. He used a profanity while saying there are many things he must deal with at age 45.
Still, football remains front and center for the seven-time Super Bowl champ and three-time MVP.
First-year coach Todd Bowles wanted to give Brady about 10 snaps. As usual, Brady surpassed expectations by running an 11-play, 66-yard drive almost flawlessly. He even converted a fourth down on the series, which had just one hiccup: settling for a 30-yard field goal.
It wasn’t just Brady under the microscope in this preseason finale.
Receivers Mike Evans and Julio Jones and running back Leonard Fournette all played, though they, like Brady, watched the final 55 minutes from the sideline.
“If you go up-tempo in the preseason, teams are less likely to pressure you,” Bowles said. “You’re able to get everybody involved early. We wanted everybody to get a good feel for the game and get in sync.”
Indy played most of its starters about one quarter and Matt Ryan, the 2016 MVP with Atlanta, led the Colts to the go-ahead score — a 1-yard TD run by Deon Jackson — on his final series before taking a seat in his first home appearance at Lucas Oil Stadium.
“Good finish to the preseason,” Indy coach Frank Reich said. “We wanted to come in here and accomplish some things. We saw some things we wanted to see, got guys out.”
Tampa Bay retook the lead on Ke’Shawn Vaughn’s 1-yard TD run.
Without Brady, though, the Bucs didn’t stay in front.
Phillip Lindsay’s 2-yard run gave Indy a 14-10 halftime lead and Sam Ehlinger’s nifty 45-yard TD run on the second play of the second half helped the Colts pull away as Brady and Ryan started contemplating the more challenging and meaningful matchups that now loom.
“I’ve known Tom for a long time and I’m always impressed with his consistency, his dedication to take care of himself, it’s amazing,” Ryan said. “He’s throwing it as good as he ever has and to me that’s incredibly impressive.”
LINE DANCE
Tampa Bay’s biggest concern heading into the regular season will be protecting the 45-year-old Brady after the offensive line took two more hits Saturday.
Center Robert Hainsey (left ankle) and guard Nick Leverett (shoulder) left early and did not return. Bowles said both would have X-rays in the next two days but declined to speculate how much time, if any, they might miss.
Hainsey started Saturday in place of injured Pro Bowler Ryan Jensen, who was carted off the practice field on the second day of training camp. The Bucs also need replacements for recently retired Pro Bowl guard Ali Marpet and guard Aaron Stinnie, who has a season-ending knee injury.
TOUGH BREAK
Backup safety Armani Watts looked as if he might win a spot on the Colts’ 53-man roster — until injuring his right ankle on Saturday’s opening kickoff. Watts was eventually carted off the field and did not return.
“It’s an ankle injury that’s going to keep him out for the year,” Reich said. “He’s going to have to have a procedure done. I don’t want to confirm all the details but it was a pretty significant injury.”
STAT PACK
Buccaneers: While Evans didn’t catch a pass, Jones had one reception for 20 yards. Fournette had two carries for 13 yards and one catch for 2 yards. … Vaughn had nine carries for 36 yards. … Blaine Gabbert was 5 of 7 for 46 yards.
Colts: Ryan was 5 of 7 for 59 yards and was sacked once. Backup Nick Foles finished 3 of 5 for 24 yards. … Michael Pittman Jr. caught three passes for 29 yards. … Indy’s top two running backs, Jonathan Taylor and Nyheim Hines, did not play.
UP NEXT
Buccaneers: Open the regular season at Dallas on Sept. 11.
Colts: Visit Houston on Sept. 11.
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Elastos (ELA) traded 1% lower against the U.S. dollar during the 1 day period ending at 16:00 PM E.T. on August 28th. In the last week, Elastos has traded 9.7% lower against the U.S. dollar. Elastos has a market cap of $34.71 million and approximately $324,544.00 worth of Elastos was traded on exchanges in the last day. One Elastos coin can currently be bought for approximately $1.71 or 0.00008531 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges.
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Army Struggling to Fill Ranks, Accepts Man Who Failed Entrance Test Ten Times Into Special Military Program
Chaz Andrews has wanted to join the Army since he was 19, but he has failed the service’s academic test more than 10 times over the past decade.
Now, at age 29, Andrews thinks he has a real shot to pass, thanks to a new Army program that gives lower-performing recruits up to 90 days of academic or fitness instruction to help them meet military standards.
“I didn’t want to give up on it,” he said during a recent break in his classroom schedule at Fort Jackson, where he is one of more than 300 recruits who have been allowed to enlist in the new Army prep course. And if Andrews, who is from Brooklyn, New York, is able to raise his test score, he will be allowed to continue on to basic training.
The program, which began in early August, is one way the Army is hoping to fill the ranks as it struggles with recruiting efforts that are expected to fall dramatically short of the goals this year. Army officials have described the situation as dire, with some predicting the service may fall 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers short of its recruiting target on Oct. 1, or as much as 18 percent to 25 percent.
Military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the totals are preliminary and could change, said the initial recruiting goal was as much as 60,000 this year, but more realistic expectations later put it at about 55,000. With one month to go, officials are predicting they will come in about 45,000, though it could get better if there is a surge at the end.
Gen. James McConville, the Army chief, traveled to Fort Jackson on Friday for a firsthand look at the pilot program. He and others have acknowledged the recruiting problems and say they are due to a confluence of events and conditions.
The coronavirus pandemic kept recruiters out of schools, fairs and other public events, limiting their in-person contact with students.
Unemployment has been low, other corporate jobs pay well and offer good benefits, and according to estimates, just 23 percent of young people ages 17 to 24 are physically, mentally and morally qualified to serve without receiving some type of waiver. Moral behavior issues include drug use, gang ties or a criminal record.
Those academic and physical fitness requirements are the ones the prep course will address.
“We have some young men and women that want to serve, that have some challenges on the academic and physical side here. And what we want to do is give them that opportunity,” McConville said. He added that the Army will not reduce standards to get more recruits into the service, but will do more to help soldiers make the grade.
Inside the classroom, about 30 recruits in Army fatigues are in their first week of the initial three-week session. On the board, “TAXES” is scrawled in large letters, and students are going through math problems tied to the 6 percent sales tax. Down the hall, others are tackling rates of speed, calculating how long it will take to travel certain distances.
Other classes focus on reading comprehension and vocabulary. Students get study breaks and personal time. Recruits who failed the fitness standard get classes on nutrition, exercise, physical therapy, sleep habits and other health skills leading to safe and healthy weight loss.
The fitness training is for recruits who are between 2 percent and 6 percent over the body fat standards for their age and gender. The Army routinely allows recruits to go to basic training if they are up to 2 percent over because they will automatically lose weight and gain muscle during basic training.
The instructors — some former drill sergeants — are in uniform but wear casual ball caps and have toned down their normal cadence. Noting that the sergeants can often be a bit abrasive, commanders said they instead looked for those who can be mature instructors with good temperaments and communication skills.
Staff Sgt. Jonathan Tenorio, who was a drill sergeant and is now an instructor, said it’s less screaming and directing, and more speaking and teaching.
But this is still the Army.
So students’ days start around 5 a.m. and physical training is first on the schedule. They also are learning how to wear their new uniforms, how to march and how to figure out ranks and other basics of Army culture. And they are learning to live with less social media time — they get to have their phones only certain parts of the day, not during classes or at night.
Every week they are tested. And every three weeks they can move into basic training if they successfully pass the military’s academic test — which is called the Armed Services Voluntary Aptitude Battery — or if they meet the physical standards. They can stay in the program and keep testing for up to 90 days, but have to leave the Army if they don’t pass by then.
Brig. Gen. Patrick Michaelis, the base commander, said many struggle with test-taking skills. The prep course, he said, doesn’t teach answers to the test, instead it focuses on improving their testing skills.
Outside the classroom building, 2nd Lt. William Paschall, a math instructor, said he’s seen progress. At the start of the week, he asked how many understood a problem on the board and few hands went up. At the end of the week, nearly all raised their hands.
So far the success rate has been high. In the academic program, 75 percent of the 333 students tested so far improved at least one category, which can allow them to move on to basic training. In the fitness program, 73 of the 152 students who began the program have already met the goal and been able to move to basic training.
A dozen students met with McConville, telling him their individual stories. Most said they’ve been trying to get into the Army for a couple of years, but were stalled by the academic test. “This is giving me a second chance,” said one. Others talked about looking for a better life and a good job and, as one said, “my final opportunity to get out of the town I lived in.”
Daysia Holiday, 23, said her goal is to become a Green Beret. She’s taken the academic test and failed three times in the past two years, and sees this as her best chance. Holiday, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said many of her peers didn’t make it out of high school, with some “dead or in jail,” and she wants to set an example for her five younger siblings.
Over time, McConville said he expects the program will expand. Commanders say they believe they can put up to 10,000 through the classes, and it could be set up at three other Army training bases. Other changes could broaden the course so that those who fail both the physical fitness requirements and the scholastic test might be able to get in. Right now, recruits have to meet standards in one of the two.
One week into the course, Andrews is optimistic. “I’ve been trying to do this since I was 19,” he said.
Will he succeed? “Yea, most definitely,” he said. “It’s very helpful.”
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Casio Computer Co.,Ltd. (OTCMKTS:CSIOF – Get Rating) saw a significant drop in short interest during the month of August. As of August 15th, there was short interest totalling 992,500 shares, a drop of 22.2% from the July 31st total of 1,276,200 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 9,925.0 days.
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Video: Bald eagle gives 'flying' show in TSA line at North Carolina airport
Updated: 2:25 PM CDT Aug 28, 2022
A bald eagle surprised travelers going through security at a North Carolina airport on Monday. Elijah Burke captured the moment on video when a bald eagle and its handler went through the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.Watch the video in the video player above. TSA officials said they were alerted the bird was coming before it arrived, and it returned to its cage after a brief show for agents and other passengers in line. The bird is known as "Clark the Eagle" and resides at the World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park, Missouri, near St. Louis.Clark was hatched at the World Bird Sanctuary in St. Louis and was born with scale deformities on his claws, rendering him "non-releasable," according to the nonprofit organization's website.All of his siblings were successfully released into the wild, but Clark now represents the organization as a flying ambassador, with performances at baseball games and other events across the country.There was no word on where Clark was headed through Charlotte, but he was sure to arrive to many more smiles.
A bald eagle surprised travelers going through security at a North Carolina airport on Monday.
Elijah Burke captured the moment on video when a bald eagle and its handler went through the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
Watch the video in the video player above.
TSA officials said they were alerted the bird was coming before it arrived, and it returned to its cage after a brief show for agents and other passengers in line.
The bird is known as "Clark the Eagle" and resides at the World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park, Missouri, near St. Louis.
Clark was hatched at the World Bird Sanctuary in St. Louis and was born with scale deformities on his claws, rendering him "non-releasable," according to the nonprofit organization's website.
All of his siblings were successfully released into the wild, but Clark now represents the organization as a flying ambassador, with performances at baseball games and other events across the country.
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In 1979, at the age of 25, Aimee Liu published the book Solitaire, a memoir of her teenage anorexia.
"In those days, doctors simply said, 'I think you need to gain a little weight, dear,' and that was about as much treatment as any of us got," Liu says.
Despite little awareness of eating disorders and few treatment options at the time, Liu managed to recover from anorexia and was considered cured.
But six years ago, she again stopped eating.
In her new book, Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders, Liu writes about how her recovery from anorexia set off new waves of self abuse.
She says that mid-life women are prone to eating disorders in the same way that adolescent girls are. Life changes and outside pressures can cause a loss of identity, and that struggle is often what triggers the disorder in many women.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Julio Rodríguez was a few minutes late for his own party, the result of dealing with Seattle traffic that will be part of his daily routine at home for likely the next decade — and potentially much longer.
When Rodríguez arrived Saturday to discuss his massive contract extension, several teammates and coaches who have embraced the 21-year-old in his debut season were seated in the back of the room.
“This is not about the contract and how long it is. I would love to be a Mariner for the rest of my career and playing for the Mariners fans,” Rodríguez said. “I’d love to be here for the rest of my career, play with a lot of these guys here and be managed by Scott (Servais), have Ty (France) as my baby sitter. I genuinely mean that. I love being here.”
Rodriguez signed the 26th contract in baseball for $200 million or more on Friday, ensuring a long-term future as a cornerstone for the Mariners. It’s a unique and complicated contract that could reach nearly $470 million and is befitting a burgeoning star with the talent and charisma to entice a region desperate for winning baseball.
It wasn’t lost on anyone in attendance that Rodriguez’s deal in Seattle almost never happened. Only a last-second effort when Rodriguez signed in July 2017 at age 16 landed him in Seattle when it seemed like the Angels were his destination.
“It feels very cool to just drive around the city and see (No.) 44 jerseys,” said Rodriguez, who hails from the Dominican Republic. “And it really touched my heart because as I said, I come from a place, Loma de Cabrera, 20,000 people, and there was more people in the stands yesterday than was in my hometown. So it feels pretty special to me.”
As much as the sides didn’t want Saturday’s event to focus on the contract, it is a unique deal. The first conversations happened in early July about whether Rodríguez would be interested in a deal that cemented his future in Seattle. The response from his representatives was that it had to be unique considering the player.
What started as a basic straightforward type contract and grew over the process of the conversations wasn’t finished until just before the official announcement on Friday night.
“We started with something that looked very basic and came out with something that looked like hieroglyphics,” Seattle president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto said. “But again, the uniqueness of trying to capture what Julio has a chance to achieve in his career and to be fair with him about what that could look like in the end was a challenge.”
There wasn’t back and forth. It was a collaborative evolution of the deal that Seattle’s needs, Rodríguez’s potential and created different points of flexibility.
But it is complicated.
At its most straight forward, the deal is a $209.3 million, 12-year contract starting next season. It could be worth $469.6 million over 17 years if he wins two MVP awards.
The contract includes seven seasons, a five-year player option, an eight-year club option with award escalators and the possibility the option could extend to 10 years.
Keep following.
If the club option is exercised, the deal would be worth $309.3 million for 12 years. If Rodríguez earns two MVP awards by 2028 or finishes among the top five in voting four times, the deal would boost to $469.6 million, including postseason award bonuses.
If Seattle turns down a one-time team option for 2030-37 — which must be exercised after the 2028 World Series — there is a mutual option that could be exercised after the 2029 Series calling for $168 million from 2030-36. There also is a player option that guarantees $90 million from 2030-34.
Get all that?
“The very first conversation set the tone,” Rodríguez’s representative, Ulises Cabrera, said describing the development of the deal. “If we are going to look at this in the typical lens, that is not going to work. And so there’s going to be points probably in this conversation that what I say won’t make sense. And what you say won’t make sense, either. But we’re going to have to just be comfortable with that because, right now, we’re kind of starting something that we don’t have any blueprint to point to.”
The contract also includes a full no-trade clause. Some of the escalators tied to the deal and MVP voting were suggestions from Rodríguez’s side, and betting on his continued upswing in production.
“There were a lot of pathways that helped us lead Julio to various stops along the way, and what could we do to recognize his potential at that (point),” Dipoto said. “And what we did was we focused on a variety of different contracts that had been done around the league and we stole from parts of those, and then we created something in that space, recognizing that no one’s ever really done this before.”
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jake Cave homered, doubled and drove in four runs as the Minnesota Twins beat the San Francisco Giants 8-3 to finish a three-game sweep Sunday.
Cave gave the Twins a 3-2 lead with his second homer of the season in the fourth inning. He added a two-run double in the fifth to cap a five-run rally that put Minnesota on top for good.
The Twins have won three straight following a six-game losing streak that knocked them out of first place in the AL Central.
Devin Smeltzer (5-2) earned his first win since June 23, when he was part of Minnesota's rotation. Smeltzer threw 2 2/3 scoreless innings in relief of starter Aaron Sanchez.
Michael Fulmer and Jorge López each pitched a perfect inning to end it.
Giants starter Jakob Junis (4-4) gave up six earned runs and nine hits in 4 1/3 innings. The outing completed a rough month for Junis, who went 0-2 with a 7.13 ERA in five August starts.
Brandon Crawford singled three times and drove in a run for the Giants, who have lost eight of 10 and ended an eight-game road swing 2-6.
The lead changed hands five times before the Twins broke it open in the fifth. Max Kepler, Jose Miranda and Gio Urshela each had an RBI double before Cave drove in two more with another double.
Kepler and Carlos Correa both went 2 for 4 with a double and an RBI for Minnesota. Correa was 8 for 12 with two runs and four RBIs in the series.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Giants: 3B Evan Longoria left in the fifth with a tight right hamstring.
Twins: 2B Jorge Polanco (knee) remained sidelined after he was removed from Saturday's game with patellar tendinitis.
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Giants: LHP Carlos Rodón (12-6, 2.81 ERA) will face the Padres on Monday in the opener of a three-game series at home. The two-time All-Star is 4-0 with a 1.44 ERA in his last five starts. He threw a three-hitter with 12 strikeouts in a 3-1 victory at San Diego on July 9.
Twins: RHP Dylan Bundy (7-6, 4.56) will take the mound Monday as Minnesota opens a three-game series with the Red Sox at Target Field. In their first meeting this season, Bundy gave up one run in 5 1/3 innings on April 18 as the Twins won 8-3 in Boston.
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Newcastle in race against time for £63m Alexander Isak to be eligible vs Liverpool – with bank holiday causing hold up
NEWCASTLE are desperately hoping for Home Office clearance to play new striker signing Alexander Isak at Liverpool on Wednesday.
While Toon chiefs have registered the £63million club record Swedish frontman, boss Eddie Howe cannot select him until he has received his work permit after arriving from Real Sociedad.
But with the majority of civil service staff off for today’s bank holiday, it leaves only a tiny window for Howe to get the green light.
Prem rules say that players must have all paperwork approved and lodged with the FA by noon on the last working day before a match.
That means Newcastle effectively have just a three-hour period between 9am and midday on Tuesday to get clearance to allow Isak to feature at Anfield.
It is understood that Newcastle have asked for a “priority appointment” for Isak but while the FA will do everything to complete his registration, the final decision rests with the Home Office timetable.
Isak was in attendance at Molineux on Sunday but had to watch on from the stands as his new side grabbed a last-minute point at Wolves thanks to Allan Saint-Maximin's pearler.
The 1-1 draw means Toon remain unbeaten but Howe will be desperate to have Isak available with Callum Wilson missing through injury.
Isak is also eager to get underway after revealing his delight at signing for the Magpies.
He said after joining: "I'm delighted to have it done. It was a big, big decision for me but it is a decision I am really happy with.
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"It is a great, historical club that I think anyone would like to play for, with amazing fans.
"They were a big part of why I came here - and also the club's project, which is one that I really believe in.
"You always want to go into a team and know how they play.
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(WHTM) – If you haven’t already ordered your three rounds of free COVID tests from the federal government, now is the time – the test kit ordering program is set to expire soon.
According to COVID.gov, ordering through the program will be suspended on September 2 “because Congress hasn’t provided additional funding to replenish the nation’s stockpile of tests.”
Through the program, U.S. households are able to order 16 free rapid antigen COVID-19 test kits that are shipped through the United States Postal Service. Three rounds of free COVID-19 test kits have been offered through the program: the first in January offering four test kits, the second offering another four in March, and the final round in May with eight.
The tests available are rapid antigen at-home tests, not PCR tests, that can be taken anywhere with results available in 30 minutes. These tests from various companies can also be used whether or not you have COVID-19 symptoms or are vaccinated against COVID.
Nexstar’s WHTM has reached out to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for comment on the pending suspension of the program.
If you haven’t claimed all 16 of the COVID tests you’re eligible for, you have less than a week to request them.
To order your tests, go to COVIDtests.gov and select “Order Free At-Home Tests.” You’ll be taken to a form where you can enter your name and residential address. (If you’re having trouble getting the website to recognize your address, check here for common issues.)
Once you’ve completed the form, and as long as you provided your email address, you’ll receive two confirmation emails from USPS, one for each of your packages. Delivery updates will later be sent to your email.
More than 20,000 no-cost antigen and PCR COVID-19 testing sites are available to everyone in the U.S., including the uninsured, at more than 20,000 sites nationwide.
If you decide to purchase an at-home test from a pharmacy, your insurance may cover up to eight tests each month.
Find more information on free COVID testing resources by calling 1-800-232-0233 (TTY 1-888-720-7489).
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brian Rini, MD, is the Chief of Clinical Trials at Vanderbilt University and is recognized globally as a leader in genitourinary oncology, kidney cancer, and clinical drug development. Rini will join Vial's Oncology CRO Advisory Board as a scientific advisor.
Vial's mission is to disrupt the clinical trials industry with superior trial management and tech-enabled CRO solutions. Vial's CRO distinguishes itself by leveraging Vial's nationwide site network of top investigators to ensure faster, higher-quality trial outcomes for sponsors. In addition, their tech-enabled trial management system streamlines study startup processes, has a centralized pre-screening call center, and has an unparalleled approach to patient recruitment.
On joining Vial's Oncology CRO Advisory Board, Dr. Rini shares, "I have devoted my career in Oncology and kidney cancer research to making an impact in patients' lives. To do that, we need to run efficient and effective clinical trials. Using technology to streamline processes, manage data, and communicate effectively can set us up for tremendous success and discover cures for our patients much quicker."
Dr. Rini brings a wealth of knowledge to Vial's Oncology CRO Advisory Board and will serve alongside members Dr. Arati Rao, Dr. Antoni Ribas, and Dr. Guru Sonpavde. At Vanderbilt, Dr. Rini is an Ingram Professor of Medicine and leads kidney cancer clinical research efforts. In addition to advising Vial's Oncology CRO, Rini has served as chair of the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). His commitment to kidney cancer research led him to help found the Kidney Cancer Programmatic Panel for the DOD CDMRP. Rini secured more than $20 million in grant funding for basic, translational, and clinical investigations of kidney cancer. To date — this is the largest source of support for kidney cancer in the nation. Dr. Rini also co-hosts the Uromigos podcast which broadcasts the latest developments in GU oncology and critically discusses issues of drug development.
See the full release here.
About Vial: Vial is a tech-enabled, next-generation CRO that promises faster and higher-quality execution of trials. The Vial Contract Research Organization (CRO) delivers on the promise of faster trials through its innovative technology platform that powers trials end-to-end from site startup to database lock. The key to Vial's tech-enabled platform is Vial's modern, intuitive Electronic Source and powerful tooling for CRAs that enables considerable efficiencies. Vial operates across multiple Therapeutic Areas (Dermatology CRO, Ophthalmology CRO, Oncology CRO, and Gastroenterology CRO). Vial is a San Francisco, California-based company with over 125 employees and has run over 750 trials from Phase I through Phase IV.
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Kyle Sandilands blasts 'joke' newspaper columnist who called him out for saying monkeypox is a 'big gay disease' - and insists the science is on HIS side
Kyle Sandilands has accused a journalist of trying to shake off his own scandal by accusing him of homophobia after he made jokes about monkeypox last week.
The Sydney Morning Herald columnist Andrew Hornery called out Sandilands on Saturday for referring to monkeypox as 'a big gay disease that only the gays get'.
Sandilands, 51, said Hornery was 'trying to pass the hot potato' after he was accused in June of trying to 'out' Rebel Wilson by seeking comment from her representatives about her relationship with girlfriend Ramona Agruma before they had gone public.
Kyle Sandilands (pictured) has accused a journalist of trying to shake off his own scandal by accusing him of homophobia after he made jokes about monkeypox last week
'All the gays hate him, remember, because of the Rebel Wilson outing and he's trying to throw the blame onto me because I dared let all the gays know [to] watch out for the monkeypox,' he said on The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Monday.
Sandilands stressed he 'didn't say anything bad' about the gay community, and simply stated the fact that monkeypox is primarily being spread among gay men.
The outbreak, which so far has reached 80 countries outside of Africa, where the virus is endemic, is largely being transmitted among gay and bisexual men.
Monkeypox, which is spread through close contact with an infected individual and the pus-filled sores common to the disease, is rarely fatal.
The World Health Organization has already called upon men who have sex with men to limit their number of sexual contacts to help put the lid on the outbreak.
The Sydney Morning Herald columnist Andrew Hornery (pictured) called out Sandilands on Saturday for referring to monkeypox as 'a big gay disease that only the gays get'
Sandilands, 51, said Hornery was 'trying to pass the hot potato' after he was accused in June of trying to 'out' Rebel Wilson (right) by seeking comment from her representatives about her relationship with girlfriend Ramona Agruma (left) before they had gone public
KIIS FM newsreader Brooklyn Ross said Sandilands was doing a public service by making it clear monkeypox was spreading primarily within the gay community.
'The health community has said recently that not enough media was reporting on monkeypox being the gay virus. They were all a bit worried [to say it],' he said.
Sandilands added: 'They [the media] are all so woke, they don't want to offend anyone. But, hey, heads up, gays: watch out for this disease.'
He went on to call Hornery, who has long been a critic of Sandilands, a 'hater' and a 'joke', and accused him of omitting the fact he had said last week 'everyone can get' monkeypox, but that it's primarily a concern of the gay community.
'[He] hen-pecked out sentences just to get the gays to hate me. Well, guess what, dog? I got the gays. And you're gay yourself and you've got no support!' he said.
Sandilands then launched into an expletive-laden rant against Hornery that had the KIIS FM censor slamming the bleep button, before moving on with the show.
Sandilands stressed he 'didn't say anything bad' about the gay community, and simply stated the fact that monkeypox is primarily being spread among gay men
Newsreader Brooklyn Ross (centre) said Sandilands was doing a public service by making it clear monkeypox was spreading primarily within the gay community. (Right: Jackie O)
The latest statistics released by the Australian Health Department on August 25 show 106 monkeypox cases have been detected across Australia since May.
Earlier this month, federal Health Minister Mark Butler said 450,000 extra vaccine doses would arrive by the end of 2023.
The virus is spread through skin-to-skin contact or from touching contaminated objects.
It can cause sores, lesions, rashes, aches, fevers, swollen lymph nodes and other symptoms.
The World Health Organization says the number of cases globally has declined by more than 20 per cent over the past week.
The Australian Radio Network (ARN) has defended Sandilands after the KIIS FM host was slammed for joking about monkeypox.
His commentary, which aired on Tuesday, caused a stir among some on social media on Saturday after being called out in Hornery's 'Private Sydney' column.
ARN management responded to the criticism in a statement, chalking Sandilands' comments down to his 'colourful vernacular'.
'Kyle is renowned for his colourful vernacular,' an ARN spokesperson said.
'We appreciate that those unaccustomed to his expressions may consider the content opinionated, and the range of topics discussed on the show are not to everyone's taste.'
During the segment, Sandilands encouraged Ross, who is openly gay, to get vaccinated against monkeypox.
When Ross said he wasn't planning on getting the shot because he was in a committed relationship, Sandilands said he was 'rolling the dice'.
'What's wrong with you gays?' he said, before joking that Ross' longtime boyfriend Damien could be unfaithful, putting the newsreader at risk.
The shock jock then got Damien to call in to the studio to discuss the topic further.
Sandilands' commentary, which aired on Tuesday, caused a stir among some on social media on Saturday after being called out in Hornery's 'Private Sydney' column
After speaking to Damien and urging him to get vaccinated, Sandilands then phoned the show's medical expert Dr Sam Hay, known as Dr KIIS, for professional medical advice on monkeypox and the vaccine.
'Is it true that if you eat bananas, your chance of getting monkeypox skyrockets?' Sandilands quipped, before bursting into laughter.
At one point, he also joked that Dr KIIS should turn away monkeypox patients.
'If I was a doctor, I'd put a sign up, "No monkeypox patients admitted." I think you can do whatever you want as a doctor,' he said.
'You don't have to have every Tom, Dick, and bloody dirty monkeypox victim coming in there, do ya?'
The father of one also joked he 'wasn't letting any gays' near his newborn son Otto.
In a column for Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday, gossip reporter Hornery wrote that Sandilands had 'deeply offended the marginalised groups he claims to have long championed, including gay men'.
Sandilands was also criticised on social media, with one listener tweeting: 'He was semi-joking but at no point did he clarify this so [it] inflamed the stigma with his audience.'
'His monkeypox comments show his absolute ignorance and incorrect belief that it's not already circulating among non-gay men,' tweeted another.
Last month the World Health Organization called on gay and bisexual men to consider limiting their sexual partners to reduce the spread of monkeypox.
Advising people on the steps they could take to avoid the virus, its director Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said: 'For men who have sex with men, this includes, for the moment, reducing your number of sexual partners, reconsidering sex with new partners, and exchanging contact details with any new partners to enable follow-up if needed.'
Experts said the WHO was right to issue the warning at the time, as most cases were being spotted in the LGBT community.
But they cautioned it was also important to ensure one group was not singled out.
The virus, spread via physical touch and scabs, can just as easily spill over into other groups.
Sandilands encouraged Ross (centre left), who is openly gay, to get vaccinated against monkeypox. (Sandilands is pictured with Ross and two of their friends)
Sandilands has been an outspoken supporter of the LGBT community for years.
Last year, he banned NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet from The Kyle and Jackie O Show over the conservative catholic politician's anti-gay marriage stance.
'How can someone run a state like New South Wales and be anti-abortion and anti-gay rights,' he raged on-air at the time.
In 2018, he and co-host Jackie 'O' Henderson attended the Sydney Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras with Ross.
They appeared on the KIIS FM float together, with Sandilands dyeing his beard pink and covering himself in glitter.
In 2017, he angrily blasted Australian rugby star Israel Folau for saying that gay people will 'go to hell unless they repent for their sins'.
In 2018, he and co-host Jackie 'O' Henderson attended the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras with Ross and Sandilands' then-girlfriend Imogen Anthony (all pictured)
Sandilands labelled the footballer 'a c**k' and an 'idiot' and compared Folau's comments to 'a hate crime'.
'Let's just get one thing straight, just because you believe one thing doesn't mean you can go pushing your dopey ideas out on others... young gay kids hear rubbish!' he raged at the time.
That same year, Sandilands savaged a 'homophobic' caller after they claimed homosexual couples having kids was 'the pinnacle of cruelty.'
'Well you are a f**kwit,' he clapped back, promptly terminating the call. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11154917/Kyle-Sandilands-slams-joke-journalist-monkeypox-criticism.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-28T22:45:26Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11154917/Kyle-Sandilands-slams-joke-journalist-monkeypox-criticism.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false | 4 |
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Most of his outfield work is done in batting practice via sheer repetition. Being a middle infielder has imbued him with the necessary athleticism and technique. Now it’s just mentally downloading a database of balls off the bat from teammates in BP to develop the feel of a ball’s flight.
“It’s different,” manager Rob Thomson said in praising Maton. “It’s difficult. But sometimes you’ve got to do it.”
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It become a normal part of the deal for the younger Phillies, who want to be part of what has the chance to be a special season.
“Versatility in the game now is a big thing,” Maton said. “It’s starting to really come out, and a lot of people play a lot of different positions just so it opens up for other guys to have off days and however it works out. I take pride in being able to go out there and play anywhere.”
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How to Install Chrome on Ubuntu with One Command (Terminal, CLI)
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Open up Terminal (CTRL + ALT + T) and run the following command:
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And follow the prompts for your passwords.
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If you prefer to install Chrome via the graphical user interface, follow the instructions below.
How to Install Chrome on Ubuntu via the GUI (with step-by-step screenshot instructions)
We’ll show you every step of the way to help you install Chrome on Ubuntu – everything you need to do (with screenshots). These screenshots were taken from Ubuntu 22.04, so by the time you’re reading this they might be slightly different, but the instructions will still work.
Step 1: Go to the Google Chrome page and click on Download Chrome
First, go to the Chrome page and click on the “Download Chrome” blue button.
Step 2: Download the Chrome installation file for Ubuntu
After you click the Download button, you’ll get a pop-up window asking you which version of Chrome for Linux you need. Select the first option (Debian/Ubuntu) and click on the Accept and Install button.
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Step 3: Find and Open the .deb installation file for Chrome
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Or you can also use Terminal and just run the purge command “apt purge google-chrome-stable”.
How to Update Chrome on Ubuntu
When installing Chrome, your repo list will be updated with a Google Chrome repository. This means that you can update Chrome while updating all other software with the apt update and apt upgrade commands, or you can use Ubuntu Software Center (the Updates tab), and you can also use Software Updater.
Google Chrome is just like any other app on your Ubuntu software, so there’s no special method to update it.
FAQs about Installing Chrome on Ubuntu
Here are some frequently asked questions with answers about installing Google Chrome on Ubuntu:
Why is there no 32-bit version of Google Chrome for Ubuntu?
Ever since mid-2016, there’s (sadly) no longer a 32-bit version of Google Chrome for Ubuntu. However, some alternatives do have a 32-bit version you can use like Chromium.
How to make Google Chrome the default web browser in Ubuntu?
When you first installed Chrome, you’ll get an option to make it the default browser by clicking on that checkmark. If you want to do this later, you can do so by using the “Default Applications” app. Press the Windows key or open “Show Applications”, type in “Default Applications” and open the app. For “Web” select “Google Chrome” and that’s it.
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- 64-bit Ubuntu 18.04+
- An Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that’s SSE3 capable
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Joe Flacco got his only game action of the preseason and led the Jets offense to three points — but also helped the Giants put seven points of their own on the MetLife Stadium scoreboard — in a mixed-bag four possessions as the Green & White's starting quarterback during their 31-27 win over the Giants on Sunday afternoon.
Flacco wasn't in uniform for the Jets' season opener at Philadelphia, then suited up and warmed up but did not play on Monday night against Atlanta. But with the possibility that Zach Wilson's rehab might not be completed by opening day, Sept. 11, vs. Baltimore at MetLife Stadium, it seemed a natural opportunity for head coach Robert Saleh to get Flacco — plus all his first-teamers on offense and defense — quality playing time into the second quarter in their annual summer soiree against the Giants.
"Initially you want to go out there, go through pregame, and get the feeling you're getting ready for a game and all those kinds of things," Flacco said of his 21 offensive snaps over those four series. "And you want to go out there and have a few good drives and feel good about it."
Flacco's first three drives pretty well filled that bill. On the first offensive series of the game, the 15th-year quarterback directed a 10-play, 51-yard drive that ended only when RB Michael Carter lost a fumble at the end of a reception.
Drive No. 2 was four plays and punt, but it opened with a 20-yard connection from Flacco to veteran TE Tyler Conklin. And the third possession, starting in plus-territory after CB Michael Carter II intercepted Giants QB Tyrod Taylor, picked up another first-play first down on rookie Breece Hall's 11-yard run before stalling and bringing on K Greg Zuerlein, who drilled a 49-yard field goal attempt down the middle to give the Jets a 3-0 lead with 2:39 left in the first quarter.
But Flacco made a crucial error on his fourth drive early in the second quarter when he rolled to his right looking for an open receiver. He thought Carter was that receiver out of the backfield but the QB didn't see LB Austin Calitro lying in wait. Calitro snared Flacco's toss and took it down the left sideline for a 35-yard interception-return TD and a 10-3 Giants lead.
That play ended his day of activity with 12:18 left in the first half. He finished with seven completions in 12 throws for 76 yards and the one INT. He wasn't sacked.
"It's definitely aggravating the way things ended there, just the way we turned the ball over," he said. "I was trying to hold on as long as I could and I feel like Michael was kind of breaking up the field as I was heading toward the out-of-bounds line. I just tried to get it up over his head and I kind of yanked it right to the guy's chest. So definitely annoying that that happened."
Mike White took over the Green & White offense from there and looked right at home on an eight-play, 75-yard drive to the tying touchdown, scored when White hit WR Braxton Berrios, who slipped a tackle and took the pass 21 yards down his left sideline for the score. On the drive, White completed all four of his passes for 54 yards and with the TD pass he had a "perfect" 158.3 passer rating for the game at that point.
On White's second series of the first half, he completed two more passes in four attempts, with one of them a pretty 16-yard hookup with WR Denzel Mims over the middle for the second-and-10 conversion
White's final first-half foray was a two-minute drill — actually a 1:04 drill with three timeouts from the Jets 35 — before intermission. His first play was a pass on the slant to Mims, who caught it for 13 yards. His second play was another laser, to TE Lawrence Cager for 19 yards to move the Jets into Zuerlein's range.
But White and the Jets wanted more. He then went to Jeff Smith twice, for 14 yards and a 19-yard TD strike as the Jets took the lead back at 17-10 with 26 seconds left in the half.
See the best images from the preseason finale against the New York Giants.
White played into the top of the fourth quarter, getting no points on his two second-half drives before turning the offense over to Chris Streveler (more on Comeback Chris in other stories on newyorkjets.com). For the game, White completed 13 of 17 for 170 yards and the two TD passes, with no sacks or INTs, for a 146.7 rating,.
The preseason is the preseason, of course, but White never doubts the value of getting some reps with the offense in game situations, and especially game-winning situations.
"When you close out a preseason with a performance like today, it helps," he said. "We can carry that confidence and momentum into the season. But I thought it was good. I was presented with a lot of different situations that I learned a lot from and I'll build on the positives and learn from the negatives and not let it happen again.
Flacco surely agrees, but he and his offensive mates and Saleh will be answering a slightly different set of questions for the next two weeks before opening day arrives: Did the ones get enough playing time this preseason?
This is the first time this group of five [starting O-linemen] has been out there," Saleh said. "There are no excuses. The mindset, the mentality, the physicality — all of it needs to get better. At the same time, I am not discouraged. We have a really good group of guys and there is no doubt that they will get to where they need to go. If anything, it's a good little wakeup call."
As for Flacco and if he's personally ready for Season No. 15 that could start with him as the Jets' starter, he said:
"Yeah, for sure. Listen, there are plenty of guys around the league that don't even play in the preseason anymore. I think it's very beneficial to go through getting ready for a game, going out there and getting live reps all the time. But, yes."
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 28, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Phoenix has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Riverside County in southern California...
* Until 300 PM PDT.
* At 242 PM PDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Desert
Center, and is nearly stationary.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
Riverside County.
This includes the following highways...
CA Interstate 10 between mile markers 107 and 109.
CA Route 177 between mile markers 1 and 13.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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NASA plans to test launch its newest rocket — one it hopes will eventually take astronauts back to the moon. But the rocket's big price tag has some critics skeptical about its future.
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NASA plans to test launch its newest rocket — one it hopes will eventually take astronauts back to the moon. But the rocket's big price tag has some critics skeptical about its future.
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WATCH: Two thieves needed barely one minute to swipe a catalytic converter from a vehicle parked in a Bergen County resident's driveway, home security video shows.
It begins when an Infiniti sedan pulls up to a home on East Passaic Street in Rochelle Park.
Two passengers emerge wearing ski masks, hoodies and gloves. One of them has on a Reebok top and striped pants. The other carries what looks like a reciprocating saw with a light on the end.
As his companion keeps a lookout, the tool wielder climbs under the front of the parked SUV, then reaches beneath the side.
He emerges with the part seconds later and hands it to the lookout, who tosses it into the trunk of the getaway car as they hustle in.
They're gone in a little over 60 seconds.
It was the second of two catalytic converter thefts in town that night, Rochelle Park Lt. James DePreta said. The other was at Marinus and West Passaic streets, he said.
Both vehicles were Hondas, the lieutenant said.
Recent media reports have claimed that claim catalytic converter thefts are increasing, but it's really nothing new.
Thieves have been cutting out converters and selling them for scrap for years. The explosion of home security video has only made it more visible.
The highly-prized emissions-control devices help remove nitrogen oxide and other potentially toxic pollutants from a vehicle’s exhaust while reducing engine noise. Their honeycomb interiors are coated with a trio of precious metals -- rhodium, palladium and platinum – that have become black market prizes.
Rhodium alone can sell for upwards of $20,000 an ounce, over 10 times more than gold.
For thieves, it could mean from $50 to several hundred dollars from a chop shop or other buyer who resells the converter to a recycler. Some recyclers themselves even advertise on Facebook.
For motorists, it could mean a replacement bill of up to $2,000.
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ANYONE who recognizes -- or sees -- either or both of the thieves in the video is asked to call the Rochelle Park Police Detective Bureau: (201) 843-1515. Police also ask citizens to immediately report suspicious activity or crimes they see being committed.
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TIPS to help prevent catalytic converter theft (courtesy of Allstate):
- Install an anti-theft device;
- Use motion sensor lights and cameras;
- Etch your license plate number or VIN onto the part, which could alert a scrap dealer that it's stolen and identify you as the owner;
- Park in well-lit areas close to public entrances.
SEE: Catalytic Converter Theft (Allstate)
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- Phishing scams. The design of QR codes makes it impossible for the user to know where the code will direct them after scanning, allowing scammers to send victims to phishing websites or downloads that will infect devices with malware. After scanning a code found in an email, text or on a flyer, some victims are directed to a website that requests personal information that can lead to identity theft, compromised passwords for online accounts or downloads that track the user’s activity on the device. Many phishing attempts begin with notification of ‘suspicious activity’ on one of their online accounts and include a link or QR code for the user to verify their identity. In reality, the information provided is going to a scammer, which they then use for other purposes. Read more on phishing scams.
- Utility and government impostors. Many consumers report they are contacted by their utility company, the Social Security Administration or the IRS regarding an outstanding debt they must immediately pay in full. The representative claims that failure to pay the unpaid bill will result in either arrest, additional fines or shutting off access to electricity, gas or water. According to the impostor, the regular payment portal for these services is currently offline, but the victim can submit payment through another portal which, conveniently, they can access by following a link or scanning a QR code. The payment portal the victim is directed to often mimics the real portal down to the finest detail, providing a false sense of security that it is legitimate. Learn more about impostor scams.
- False sense of security. Reports to Better Business Bureau and additional screenshots, emails, and texts detail how scammers include a legitimate QR code for the company or entity they are claiming to represent to give victims a false sense of security. These QR codes route to the official website for the organization, leading victims in receipt of these communications to more likely believe that the scammer is a legitimate representative. Other codes will direct the victim to an ‘employee profile’ that includes official logos, badge numbers, professional headshots and additional information designed to ease any fears the victim may have. Once the scammer is confident that they have convinced their target, the likelihood that the victim will provide whatever information or money is requested drastically increases. Learn how to spot a fake website.
How to avoid QR scams
Confirm QR code before scanning. If you receive a QR code from a friend via text or a message on social media from a workmate, be sure to confirm with that person they meant to send you the code to verify they have not been hacked. Keep in mind what you know about the person messaging you. Are they active in cryptocurrency investments, or is this message a little out of character? How often do you talk to this person, and does it make sense they would come to you with this opportunity? Trust in your intuition and avoid scanning any QR code until you know they sent it on purpose.
Do not open links from strangers. If you receive an unsolicited message from a stranger that includes a QR code, BBB strongly recommends against scanning it. If the message promises exciting gifts or investment opportunities under the condition you ‘act now,’ be even more cautious. Scammers use this type of language consistently and rely on their targets to make immediate decisions before taking the time to verify its authenticity.
Be wary of short links. Suppose a shortened URL appears when hovering your camera over a QR code. In that case, there is no way of knowing where it will direct you once the link is followed. Make sure you are confident that the QR code is legitimate before following short links, as it may send you to a malicious website. Once on the website, look at the URL and verify the domain and subdomain make sense for the organization that supposedly operates it. Scammers often switch around the domain and subdomains for URLs or slightly misspell one word to make websites appear legitimate.
Check for tampering. Some scammers attempt to mislead consumers by altering legitimate business ads or placing stickers on the QR code. Keep an eye out for signs of tampering and, if discovered, have the business check that the posted QR code is genuine. Most businesses permanently install scannable QR codes in their establishments using laminate or placing it behind glass. They will often include the business’s logo in the code itself, often in the middle.
Sources: BBB.org, BBB Heart of Texas
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Yesterday Garrett Mitchell made his first MLB appearance when he entered the game in the eighth inning as a defensive replacement. Today, Mitchell gets his first MLB start as the Brewers go for the series win against the Cubs. He'll start batting 9th behind Eric Lauer, who the Brewers hope can give them another good start this afternoon. Meanwhile, the Cubs will start Adrian Sampson in the rubber match today.
Here are the lineups for today.
New guy's in center.
— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) August 28, 2022
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Here is today's #Cubs starting lineup for the rubber match. pic.twitter.com/HbASYJ3oam
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The University of Colorado on Friday named David Capps as its new chief information security officer for the university’s four-campus system as part of its ongoing effort to support and increase security.
Capps will join CU on Tuesday after 10 years of working at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he served as vice president director of technology and risk compliance, according to a news release from CU. He previously worked at Fordham University as director of IT planning and strategy. Capps has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in computer information systems from Missouri State University, and a doctorate in education in organizational leadership from Vanderbilt University.
Capps’ annual salary will be $220,000.
In his new role at CU, Capps will oversee the reporting and implementation of technology risk, controls and compliance testing. He will report to CU System Associate Vice President and Chief Information Officer Scott Munson.
“I’m excited to join CU and learn more about the security environment here,” Capps said in the news release. “Each campus has unique needs. I see the CISO role as being a trusted partner — meaning first, we have to understand the needs of each campus and its priorities, how security impacts them and how we can support them as a partner.”
Dan Jones, who served as the CU system administration CISO for more than 10 years while also serving on the CU Boulder campus, will continue as the associate vice chancellor for integrity, safety and compliance at CU Boulder. He will assist with Capps’ transition in the role, the release said.
“Dan has been an incredible partner to all campuses and system over the years, and I cannot thank him enough for his leadership and support,” Munson said in the news release. “I’m also looking forward to David joining our team and enhancing our information security efforts.”
CU President Todd Saliman said he and campus leadership are excited to support the investment CU is making in cybersecurity.
“Our focus on aligning and strengthening cybersecurity across CU is a priority that is essential to the university’s future,” Saliman said in the news release. “Information security is critical at CU, and we’re happy to have someone with David’s experience and expertise as part of our team.”
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Aminatta Forna was just 11 when her father was hanged for treason in Sierra Leone. His real crime was being a popular leader of the opposition in a country sinking under one-man rule and headed for civil war.
Forna fled with her family to Britain, and from there she gazed back until she could return, as an adult, to write a memoir, The Devil That Danced on the Water. Her next book was a novel, Ancestor Stones, which tells the story of an unnamed country in West Africa, as seen through the lives of four sisters and spanning eight decades.
"The book is set in Sierra Leone," Forna tells Renee Montagne as part of a weeklong series of conversations on war and literature. "I chose not to name it when I wrote the novel because I simply wanted people to enter the stories and not overlay upon them what they thought they knew about Sierra Leone" — that is, a war-torn country of summary executions, amputees and child soldiers.
Forna, who spent a year in Sierra Leone researching Ancestor Stones, found that women have a distinctly different perspective of war.
"I spoke to a lot of women about their experiences of war .... The experience of war is different for women. Every woman in that country lived under the constant threat of rape and sexual assault. In my family's village, on a single day when the rebels invaded, every single woman was raped and some of them were taken away."
When men talked about the civil war, "it was very much about what they did and where they were. 'This area was taken over and then I went here.' Whereas the women talked much more about the emotional truths of war — what was really happening as opposed to what was simply happening in newsreel terms."
One scene vividly captures the desperate reality of war. It takes place in a camp where refugees have been waiting a long time for a shipment of food to arrive. But when the crates are opened, it becomes apparent that there has been a mix-up.
The boxes were full of lipsticks, hundreds of them, in their gold coloured cases. The men in blue helmets immediately surrounded the vehicle and prepared for a riot. All of us had such hunger in our bellies. But a moment later they pushed back their helmets and lowered their sunglasses, to make sure what they were seeing was really true. The women rushed forward, myself among them, to snatch up these shining lipsticks. The many miles between us and our lost homes, our rotting feet, the grass and leaves with which we had tried to line our stomachs, the emptiness of the future: for a short while all was forgotten. We stood in the sun, laughing and ribbing each other, painting our mouths in vivid colours.
"War does reduce people to terrible circumstances, and it's that attempt to hold on to moments of pleasure, moments of joy in these tiny things ...." Forna says.
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OAKLAND – When A’s shortstop Nick Allen played with one of his travel ball teams as a young kid, he was given the number 10, which he kept for several more years.
Allen remembers that the number 10 was also being worn at that time by Miguel Tejada, who had it when he Baltimore Orioles, the Houston Astros, San Diego Padres and finally the San Francisco Giants in 2011.
“Growing up, he was definitely one of the big shortstops in the game,” said Allen, who turns 24 in October, of Tejada. “It was really cool seeing him play.”
Tejada, a six-time MLB All-Star, is slated to be at the Coliseum on Sunday for the A’s ceremony honoring the 2002 team that won a then-AL record 20 consecutive games.
The event is not only an opportunity for fans to see the team one more time, but is also a chance for current A’s players to familiarize themselves with members of that 103-win squad. Tejada, for instance, was the AL’s Most Valuable Player that year after he hit 34 home runs to go with an OPS of .861.
Here are five facts that might have been forgotten about the 2002 A’s 20-game win streak.
1. BILLY IRONMAN: Then-A’s closer Billy Koch, who is scheduled to Sunday, made 13 appearances in the 20 games between Aug. 13 to Sept. 4, 2002. The results? Nine saves, a 3-0 record, and a 1.93 ERA over 14 innings. He had 10 strikeouts and nine walks in that time.
Still, Koch only had one blown save during the streak. That came in the 20th game as he gave up an RBI single to Luis Allcea with two outs in the top of the ninth, as the Royals tied the game 11-11. Of course, Koch ended up with the win after Scott Hatteberg’s solo home run with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning.
2. FOR STARTERS: The A’s received mostly outstanding starting pitching during the streak, as the Big Three of Mark Mulder, Tim Hudson, and Barry Zito combined to earn the wins in 11 of 20 games.
The A’s best starting pitcher during the streak, though, was Cory Lidle. He went 3-0 and allowed just one earned run over 30⅓ innings pitched over four starts, which included a complete game on Aug. 21 in a 6-0 A’s win over Cleveland.
Lidle died Oct. 11, 2006, in a plane crash in New York. His wife, Melanie, and their son Christopher are attending the ceremony on behalf of Cory.
3. LABOR DISPUTE: A work stoppage loomed near the end of August as MLB and the Players Association frantically worked to finalize a new collective bargaining agreement.
Just eight years earlier, the 1994 strike by the players wiped out the remainder of that season, plus the playoffs and the World Series both being canceled. Could it happen again?
Finally, with just hours to spare before a strike deadline set by the union, the MLB and MLBPA came together on a four-year agreement on Aug. 30, and baseball’s schedule continued without a hitch. The key economic issues that had to be resolved at that time were revenue sharing and a luxury tax on payrolls.
The A’s went on to win their 16th straight game on Aug. 30., a 4-2 home victory over the Minnesota Twins and captured four more games in a row to set the AL record. Maybe none of it happens if baseball doesn’t find labor peace at the last hour.
4. NOT PULLING AWAY: The A’s entered their Aug. 13 game with Toronto with a more-than-respectable record of 68-51 but were still in third place in the AL West. The first-place Seattle Mariners were 72-46 and the Anaheim Angels were 70-48.
The A’s moved into a three-way tie for first place on Aug. 20 after their seventh straight win, a 6-3 victory over Cleveland. Oakland moved into sole possession of first place on Aug. 23, one game up on Seattle, with a 9-1 win over Detroit.
Even by the end of the 20-game streak, the A’s weren’t in a comfortable position. With their 12-11 win over Kansas City on Sept. 4, the A’s were only 3½ games up on the Angels. Seattle had fallen seven games back by that point.
After some spotty play in the middle of September, the A’s were neck and neck with Anaheim again. Finally, Oakland righted the ship and wound up winning the division by four games over the Angels, who would go on to win the World Series that year.
5. THE VOICE: A’s play-by-play announcer Ken Korach’s calls on Tejada’s walk-off hits in the 18th and 19th games of the winning streak will live on forever. Korach, though, only got that opportunity because Bill King decided to remain on a scheduled vacation he had planned around Labor Day.
As the A’s streak was nearing record proportions, someone mentioned to King that he might want to return from his vacation a bit earlier than expected. King, though, didn’t believe was the right thing to do to Korach, who remained the A’s main radio play-by-play voice for some of the streak’s most memorable moments. | https://www.redbluffdailynews.com/2022/08/28/five-forgotten-facts-about-the-oakland-as-20-game-win-streak-in-2002/ | 2022-08-29T00:02:42Z | https://www.redbluffdailynews.com/2022/08/28/five-forgotten-facts-about-the-oakland-as-20-game-win-streak-in-2002/ | false | 4 |
Adrian Sampson handed off the baseball to Chicago Cubs manager David Ross, visibly unhappy at his removal.
Sampson had retired the first Milwaukee Brewers hitter in the fourth and mostly had held them in check. He allowed one run in the third when three consecutive batters in the heart of the Brewers lineup reached with two outs.
Otherwise, Sampson was trending toward what has become a typical start for the Cubs: keeping his team in the game and giving it a chance to win.
But Ross opted to bring in left-hander Sean Newcomb, who allowed six runs in one-plus innings Sunday in the Cubs’ 9-7 loss.
Ross cited the Brewers’ hard-hit balls off Sampson and traffic on the bases as his motivation to bring in Newcomb. Sampson acknowledged being surprised at the early hook, then added: “I always try to reiterate the same message. I want to stay out there as long as I can, so you’ve got to trust what’s going on and then just get ready five days later.”
Sampson’s short outing ends up benefiting the Cubs in their next series. He and left-hander Justin Steele won’t travel with the team to Toronto because they don’t meet Canada’s COVID-19 vaccination requirements to enter the country. The same requirements are in place to return to the United States.
The Cubs will place Steele and Sampson on the restricted list before the three-game series against the Blue Jays begins Monday at the Rogers Centre.
After speaking with his family and friends, Steele said he decided he didn’t need to get the vaccine. He said he didn’t believe he would have made his start Wednesday anyway because of back tightness, which continues to improve.
Steele anticipates the soonest he would start is Friday in St. Louis. Ross previously indicated the Cubs would shuffle the rotation after a day off Thursday, and he was noncommittal on when Steele would next pitch.
The Cubs will be allowed to bring up a fully vaccinated replacement player for Steele. That player does’nt need to be on the 40-man roster; anyone recalled as a replacement player because of COVID-19-related roster issues can be returned without being optioned or designated for assignment.
Left-hander Brendon Little and right-hander Jeremiah Estrada were in the visitors clubhouse after Sunday’s loss as the Cubs prepared to leave for Toronto. The three-game series gives the Cubs an opportunity to look at Little and Estrada in the big leagues as 40-man roster decisions loom. Both players would need to be added to the 40-man roster if the organization wants to protect them from the Rule 5 draft in December.
Estrada has struck out 40.4% of batters while posting a 1.30 ERA between High-A South Bend and Triple-A Iowa this year. Little, the Cubs’ first-round pick in 2017, has a 4.15 ERA in 29 appearances for Iowa.
Before Sunday’s game, the Cubs were not expected to replace Sampson on the active roster because he was not scheduled to start in Toronto. According to MLB’s COVID-19 rules, starting pitchers who are not fully vaccinated and not lined up to start in their team’s series in Toronto cannot be replaced on the 26-man roster.
However, the Cubs are able to replace Sampson because he did’nt throw four consecutive innings in Sunday’s start.
“I have no idea what the roster rules were,” Sampson said. “I’m not making the trip, which is unfortunate, but pitching the day before, I wouldn’t have pitched anyway. But I want to get the ball. I want to stay out there as long as you can. So that’s my whole mindset coming into today.”
Steele and Sampson will return to Chicago and rejoin the team in St. Louis for the weekend series against the Cardinals. Sampson said his decision not to get vaccinated was for personal reasons.
“Kind of waiting to see as more info came out, and then the season comes along and it’s just like the last thing you want to think of,” Sampson said. “The timing of it worked out because I’m pitching (Sunday). If I was lined up to pitch in Toronto, it would have made it worse for the guys. Someone’s got to bear the load a little bit.
“I think people should choose what you want to do and hopefully get some appreciation from one another and not look down on someone because of the decisions they made. But everyone’s been very accepting of people’s decisions here. It’s nice. You don’t feel like they’re trying to single you out or anything.”
Last year the Cubs were one of a handful of teams that failed to reach the 85% vaccination threshold for players and other on-field personnel in order to relax some COVID-19 restrictions.
“Time gives everybody a chance to form decisions,” Ross said of the team’s improved vaccination rate. “Information continues to come out about helping guys make the right decision.
“So, yeah, only two guys. You’d like it to be no one, but at the end of the day, we trusted everybody makes the best decision for them and it gives other guys opportunity as well.”
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The death toll from an accident when a truck drove off a dike and slammed into a community barbecue in a village south of Rotterdam rose to six Sunday and police said a further seven people are in hospital, including one in critical condition.
Three men and three women were killed, ranging in age from 28 to 75, police said.
Police spokeswoman Mirjam Boers said the truck driver, a 46-year-old Spanish man, is suspected of causing the accident that happened early Saturday evening in the village of Nieuw-Beijerland. His identity was not released, in line with Dutch privacy laws.
The large truck the man was driving left a small rural road and careered down the bank of the dike and plowed into the village gathering. Boers said the driver was not under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash.
“We are investigating what could have happened,” Boers said.
Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima said in a tweet that they were shocked by the accident that they said caused “an unimaginable sadness in this close-knit community. The affected families are in our thoughts and we wish the injured strength on their way to as good a recovery as possible.”
Forensic investigators worked into the night Saturday around the truck where it stopped at the bottom of the dike. Later, a crane and a tow truck hauled it back onto the road.
Photos of the scene showed bunting hanging between trees and chairs scattered around trestle tables with plates still on them.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte also expressed sorrow in a tweet, saying, “My thoughts go out to the victims and next of kin of this terrible drama. I wish them much strength.”
Local Mayor Charlie Aptroot visited the scene Saturday night.
“My condolences go out to the victims, their families, eyewitnesses and first responders,” he said in a statement.
He added that he had spoken to many of the people at the scene and expressed “appreciation for the way in which people are there for each other.” | https://www.wvnstv.com/news/world/ap-dutch-police-6-dead-after-truck-hit-community-barbecue/ | 2022-08-29T00:05:27Z | https://www.wvnstv.com/news/world/ap-dutch-police-6-dead-after-truck-hit-community-barbecue/ | false | 27 |
Unclaimed Baggage, unclaimed luggage in free translation, is a store specializing in the sale of items found in bags that remain at airports because they have not been collected by the owners within a period of time. This store is located in Scottsboro, Alabama (USA). She also markets the articles through the website.
Read more: Free baggage check can make the ticket more expensive
This is a practice that arouses a lot of curiosity from customers to know how it really works and what is sold, for example, so we are now going to answer some of these frequently asked questions.
Learn how Unclaimed Baggage works
What does the store sell?
You can find many items at very affordable prices. Therefore, those interested find electronics, clothes, accessories, cosmetics and even the bags themselves are seen for sale. Generally speaking, it is a place where you can find a diversity of brands from all over the world. The only disadvantage found is about clothes and shoes, since there is no variety of sizes, as they are unique pieces.
How do they receive these articles?
First, it is worth mentioning that the store does not sell stolen goods, so it works legally. They receive bags that have been in US airports for at least 90 days.
Do airlines gain from this?
They go to great lengths to locate luggage, since when a bag is declared lost, companies have to pay compensation to the customer. In this way, they suffer a great loss each time.
What is “The Baggage Experience”?
In the physical store, customers can be invited to open one of the lost bags and find out what’s inside. You never really know what the content might be, so this can be a pretty funny experience. It is quite common to find strange items such as a fire suit, an Egyptian funeral mask and, oddly enough, one of the suitcases accommodated a live rattlesnake!
What happens to items that are not sold?
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