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Gorbachev rose through the Communist ranks to become a reforming titan of 20th Century politics
Like the last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus and the Soviet predecessor Tsar Nicholas II before him, Mikhail Gorbachev oversaw the collapse of a once great power.
The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, who has died at the age of 91, did not fight his reformist corner until the dissolution of the communist state in 1991.
In fact, Gorbachev signed his own letter of resignation just six years after taking charge and a year after winning the country’s only presidential election.
He took over a Soviet Union in turmoil in 1985 — eventually paving the way for the end of the Cold War in 1991 and the rise of current president Vladimir Putin at the turn of the millennium.
Promoted to Secretary General in 1985, Gorbachev promised revolutionary anti-Stalinist reforms and, although his efforts failed to prop up an ailing Soviet Union, he eventually helped end the Cold War with the US.
Ronald Reagan (L) and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev (R) at the first summit in Geneva, Switzerland, November 19, 1985
Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev was born in 1931 in the remote village of Privolnoe in southwestern Russia during the rule of Joseph Stalin.
Despite his grandfather fulfilling Stalin’s dream of collectivization by forming the village’s first communal farm, the Soviet famine of 1932-33, in which forced harvesting killed an estimated five million people, was an early reminder for the future Soviet leader.
Two of Gorbachev’s uncles and an aunt perished from the shortages and both his grandfathers were sent to the infamous Gulag labor camps a few years later.
This did not stop his family’s dedication to the communist cause – Gorbachev’s father Sergey received the prestigious Order of Lenin award for harvesting more than 800,000 kg of grain in 1948.
This allowed Gorbachev, who excelled both academically and politically during his youth, to be admitted to Moscow State University in 1950 to study law without passing a single exam.
Here he met his wife Raisa, who later became a passionate Marxist-Leninist philosophy teacher before assuming the position of First Lady.
The couple sent daughter Irina to an “ordinary” school, in her words, in Stavropol instead of a school reserved for party officials.
The eventual demise of Stalin in 1953 brought Gorbachev’s new hero to the fore when Nikita Khrushchev, arguably the first “reformer” of the Soviet leadership, took charge as the first secretary of the Communist Party.
The initial “de-Stalinization” of the Soviet Union lasted only 11 years, with Gorbachev quietly working his way up to political office.
He rose through the ranks under Leonid Brezhnev, first heading the Stavropol region for seven years before being promoted to the coveted Central Committee in 1978.
Mikhail Gorbachev meeting workers at the Peugeot factory near Paris during his visit to France, October 1985
When he became General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1985, Gorbachev was finally able to flex his reformist muscles without fear of retaliation from the party’s hardliners.
‘Glasnost’, or ‘openness’ – introduced in 1986 – was a major ideological shift in Soviet thinking, in stark contrast to Stalin’s authoritarian rule.
Freedom of the press and expression were possible in the minds of citizens for the first time as Gorbachev implemented several anti-corruption measures and encouraged control of the Kremlin.
It didn’t gain the Soviet leader’s fans among the Communist Party’s hardliners, but set up Gorbachev’s historic “Perestroika,” or Reconstruction Plan, as further liberal reforms were implemented – much to the delight of then-US President George W. Bush.
He released Stalin in a furious tirade in 1987, saying: “To remain true to historical truth, we must see both Stalin’s indisputable contribution to the struggle for socialism and the abuses committed by him and his entourage, for which our people paid a high price and which had serious consequences for the life of our society.
“The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage towards the party and the people for the massive repressive measures and acts of lawlessness is enormous and unforgivable.”
The Soviet Union had given up on dreams of becoming a global socialist superpower and was instead liberalizing and consolidating under Gorbachev.
He took the unprecedented step of withdrawing troops from the disastrous 1988 Afghan invasion after the Soviet Union invaded the country nine years earlier as part of the Cold War.
Undoubtedly, his isolationism – combined with ‘glasnost’ – inspired the revolutions of 1989, when the peoples of Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany rose up against Moscow.
The Brezhnev Doctrine allowed the Kremlin to intervene in any socialist state – but Gorbachev virtually abandoned the policy, meaning citizens could revolt without fear of repression.
Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died aged 91, talks to US President Ronald Reagan in 1985
Yet, amid anger from the traditional wing of the Communist Party, Gorbachev simply said in 1988: “The Soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.”
In Gorbachev’s camp, this meant further yielding to NATO and restoring relations with the US.
He first met then-US President Ronald Reagan in Geneva in 1985 and laid the groundwork for stronger Washington-Moscow relations — and ultimately the end of the Cold War — at three subsequent summits.
Two decades after the first historic meeting, he would consider Reagan “a great president, with whom the Soviet leaders could begin a very difficult but important dialogue.”
After comfortably winning the presidency in 1990, he proposed plans for further decentralization and privatization of the economy.
However, this meant that the reformist leader eventually fell between the old guard and new liberal challenger Boris Yeltsin, both of whom urged the leadership to choose between binary communism and capitalism.
It was Yeltsin who eventually ushered his country into a new era — something political scientist Francis Fukuyama called “The End of History” — and Gorbachev out of office.
Months later, Yeltsin — presumably backed by Washington — signed a decree dissolving the Soviet Union, along with 11 republic leaders.
However, the last Soviet leader did not just disappear from politics.
A fierce critic of Putin, he said in 2016 that the current president rules through “friends from school, with people he played football with on the same street.”
The expiration of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in August 2019 – after 32 years of operation – was a reminder of Gorbachev’s rare ability to seek peace with the US – something neither his predecessors nor successors achieved. | https://whatsnew2day.com/gorbachev-rose-through-the-communist-ranks-to-become-a-reforming-titan-of-20th-century-politics/ | 2022-08-31T03:01:21Z | https://whatsnew2day.com/gorbachev-rose-through-the-communist-ranks-to-become-a-reforming-titan-of-20th-century-politics/ | false | 1 |
Qld donor conception law reforms urged
Queenslanders conceived by donor should have the legal right to access their donor's identity and medical history when they turn 18, a report says.
A parliamentary committee has called for sweeping law reforms to ensure all people can access their own genetic histories in a report released on Wednesday.
The Legal Affairs and Safety Committee says "attitudes towards donor conception and expectations around anonymity have changed" and proposed laws should also be retrospective.
"A person not knowing their genetic origin may negatively impact on their sense of identity and wellbeing and that early disclosure of donor conception status is important to their formation of identity," said the report, tabled in parliament on Wednesday.
Queensland birth certificates should show the method of a person's birth if it is by donor, the report said.
The certificates of people already born by donor should be amended as well.
To avoid the risk of consanguineous relationships, the report said, people should know the gender and birth year of any donor siblings.
That change could help alleviate some of the "fear or hesitancy that donor-conceived people may hold about forming relationships in general".
The report recommended donors be provided with genders and birth dates of biological children upon request.
But it said any attempt to make contact should be subject to mutual consent.
The report called for the state government to set up a central donor conception register within the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
That register should be mandatory for fertility clinics and people in private donor arrangements should be encouraged to use it.
Donors who are currently anonymous should be added to that list, and the destruction of donor records should be prohibited.
"Ultimately, at the heart of this issue lies the central legal and ethical dilemma: does a person's right to know their genetic history outweigh a person's right to privacy? The committee has found that it does," Queensland MP and committee chair Peter Russo wrote.
The committee said the Queensland register should be linked with those in other states and territories and donors should also be provided with genders and birth dates of biological children upon request.
The report also called for the government to fund counselling and other support for donor conceived-people and donors themselves.
"The committee heard of donor-conceived people continually searching the faces of strangers looking for genetic similarities," Mr Russo wrote.
"We heard of people being refused records and information and of people conducting comprehensive searches through social media trying to connect with biological family.
"We heard from people who were so uncertain of their genetic history that they were apprehensive to embark on relationships themselves.
"The recommendations in this report will make it possible for donor-conceived people to be provided with important information -- including medical information -- about their donor, and information about donor siblings."
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Raider Elliott thankful in career season
Adam Elliott might have begun his short stint in Canberra as damaged goods following some off-field issues, but he's looking to cap his stellar reputational repair job with an impactful NRL finals campaign.
His career in limbo not even a year back when Canterbury tore up the last two years and $1 million of his contract following personal indiscretions, Elliott has quickly become a key piece of a resurgent Raider line-up poised to book their place in the top eight on Sunday.
After completing his short and sweet one-year stay in the capital, the 27-year-old lock will begin a three-year deal in Newcastle, which he earned with a career-best season averaging 94 run metres and 2.5 tackle busts per game.
He'll also head to the Hunter as a much-loved teammate, which Elliott says is all you can ask for.
"Coming down here I was confident I'd be able to find my way into this team and hold the spot down and I hope I've been able to add value to the side," he told reporters.
"I just want to be remembered as a player my teammates wanted to play with. I've been in the game long enough now to know that you could be going the best you've ever been and people are still gonna knock you.
"You can be going not so great, and some people will still be saying how good you are.
"As long as your teammates want to play beside you each week, that's all that really matters and as long as these boys want to keep playing with me to the end of the season, that's all I care about."
Elliott is one of a number of departing Raiders who farewelled GIO Stadium as their home ground at the weekend, joined by Josh Hodgson (bound for Parramatta), Ryan Sutton (Canterbury) and Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad (NZ Warriors).
Replicating his brilliant Canberra experience through the rest of his career has become a priority moving forward, he said.
"It's been the most enjoyable year of football I've had my whole career," Elliott said.
"It's been really refreshing for me being here and I'm definitely sad I'll be leaving but it's something I'll always be very proud of moving forward, and I'll be back here at the drop of a hat.
"It's a very tight-knit group here ... everyone sort of says that ... it's not until you actually come inside these four walls and you see how much the boys care about each other.
"I feel very lucky that I've been able to be a part of it and have a taste of it ... now it's something I want to carry for the rest of my career." | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11163025/Raider-Elliott-thankful-career-season.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-31T03:08:39Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11163025/Raider-Elliott-thankful-career-season.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false | 2 |
A new 10,000sq m community facility that could host conferences, and cultural and sports events has been proposed by Racing Tauranga to try and retain its Greerton racecourse amid an uncertain future.
The proposal comes as Tauranga City Council considers what to do with the 85-hectare piece of land encompassing the Tauranga Racecourse, Tauranga Golf Club and Tauranga Equestrian Sports Association.
The council's Greerton Maraawaewae Study has already sought feedback from the Tauranga community to identify the best future use of the reserve for the growing city.
After several options were put out for feedback, housing was ruled out and city council commissioners stated their's, and the community's, preference to remove the existing racecourse to create an active reserve and greater green space for the area.
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Advertise with NZME.However, in Racing Tauranga's submission to the council this week, chairman Carl McComb said the option to enhance the status quo as part of the initial community consultation was "significantly under-represented" with respect to the activities of existing users. The consultation also "under-stated the interests of tangata whenua and iwi" who previously threatened legal action on the matter.
The club supported an "enhanced status quo" as it best reflected "the original intent of our forebears in the creation of the Racecourse Reserve", McComb said.
Original land owners Ngai Tamarāwaho previously threatened a Treaty of Waitangi claim if the council went ahead with housing plans. When the study was first launched last year, it was done in partnership with government housing agency Kāinga Ora.
The hapū did not include the reserve in its Treaty claim because, in 1873, the land was specifically established for the purposes of providing a racing venue and open green space for the community.
While the Crown ultimately owns the land, Tauranga City Council is charged with its administration.
Racing Tauranga has leased the land without issue since its inception and is halfway through its current 33-year lease. The club had been guardians of the reserve for 150 years, McComb said.
"The club is committed to continue to operate a financially sustainable horse racing venue at no cost to the ratepayers for the betterment of the New Zealand racing industry while
providing entertainment for the Bay of Plenty community through the exciting sport of
thoroughbred horse racing."
McComb said Racing Tauranga offered greater community use "of this vital greenspace" via its submission.
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Advertise with NZME."We believe [an enhanced status quo] is a positive, timely and cost-effective outcome for both the community user and the existing lessees and can be achieved through our proposed concept which clearly illustrates the scope available on our site."
Racing Tauranga proposed the design and build of a 10,000sq m facility to accommodate a "comprehensive multi-purpose space catering for indoor sports, cultural events, concerts, exhibitions, and conferences, and including viewing facilities and administration for racing".
The complex would be fully integrated "with multiple access and viewing points enhancing diversification of use of the grounds".
Carparking would be established around and up to the new buildings as well as within the course itself, via a tunnel for cars on the northern side adjacent to the Cameron Rd
entrance and a tunnel for pedestrians into the renewed facility on the western side of the
track.
The equestrian activity in the centre of the racetrack would be retained and the existing McKinley's Paddock that is already being used as a community park would be enhanced further.
"This proposal offers multiple opportunities for the community while still retaining the
reserve status. It does not require controversial government law changes of the Reserve
Act or use of the Public Works Act," McComb said.
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Advertise with NZME."Instead, any funds that might become available can be invested in an existing Crown
controlled site to meet the needs of a growing city."
McComb said racing contributed more than $1.6 billion a year to the New Zealand economy and Tauranga Racecourse was a strategic racing venue "committed to the continuation of racing in the Bay of Plenty".
"More than 100,000 people use the racing club buildings and grounds each year. Aside from the popular race days that attract thousands, there are many community organisations that benefit from the affordable venue provided by the club."
Permanent users of the existing grounds include Tauranga Tai Chi Club, Tauranga Tae Kwan Do Club, Tauranga Indoor Archery Club, Journey Vineyard Church, and the Tauranga Harbour City Lions Club Book Fair Committee.
McComb listed 21 regular non-profit users such as Life Education Trust, combined groups Christmas lunch for the underprivileged, and NZ Police dog training and armed offenders training.
"Many of these groups cannot afford market rents or the hire fees charged by other venues, including council-operated venues."
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Advertise with NZME.Ngai Tamarāwaho representative Buddy Mikaere said he envisioned community and sports events such as kapa haka being held at the proposed future facility.
As an iwi representative, Mikaere is also a Racing Tauranga club member. He supported the submission, saying he believed an enhanced status quo was the best option and addressed more community wants and needs than the other options.
"I think they [the community] are gaining more with this option. The population is growing out there. The retaining of green space is really important."
Mikaere accepted Ngai Tamarāwaho "giving up the land", but "let's keep it as something the whole community can use, not just sections of it".
Thoroughbred Racing New Zealand has already expressed its expectation of a single racecourse to serve the Bay of Plenty, which currently has one in Tauranga and another in Rotorua.
A Greerton Maraawaewae Study commissioners panel is expected to hear community views and consider all submissions in November.
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Glanbia plc (OTCMKTS:GLAPF – Get Rating) was the recipient of a significant drop in short interest in the month of August. As of August 15th, there was short interest totalling 12,400 shares, a drop of 17.3% from the July 31st total of 15,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 124.0 days.
Glanbia Stock Performance
Shares of OTCMKTS:GLAPF remained flat at $13.10 during trading on Tuesday. The company had a trading volume of 500 shares, compared to its average volume of 842. Glanbia has a 12-month low of $10.80 and a 12-month high of $17.70. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $11.17 and a 200-day moving average of $11.80.
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Several analysts recently issued reports on GLAPF shares. Barclays increased their target price on Glanbia from €16.50 ($16.84) to €17.20 ($17.55) in a research report on Tuesday, August 23rd. Berenberg Bank cut their target price on Glanbia from €15.00 ($15.31) to €14.00 ($14.29) in a research report on Tuesday, July 19th.
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BENGALURU: Srinivasan Ramarao, 85, was critical and had to be taken to a hospital on Tuesday. The senior citizen lay unconscious in a car even as his family members and neighbours frantically looked at ways to get out of the swirling waters at Rainbow Drive Layout.
In the absence of an ambulance, Ramarao had to be ferried in one of the two inflatable boats (pressed into rescue service in the area ) till the gate and taken in a fire vehicle. Doctors at the hospital, however, declared him brought dead.
Sridharan, Ramarao's son-in-law, lamented that had the layout near Sarjapur not been inundated, the senior citizen would have survived. Ramarao, a retired government official, fell inside his house, severely injuring his nose and eventually lost consciousness. Sridharan called up a community emergency response team, which rushed to his house with a doctor, who suggested hospitalisation.
Till 4th Cross, Sridharan drove Ramarao in a car, but there was no way he could go further as the road was under water. BBMP alerted the National Disaster Rescue Force and an NDRF team arrived with two boats to evacuate people. From 4th Cross to the gate, nearly 200 metres away, Ramarao was carried on a boat.
Sridharan said he had called an ambulance, which did not turn up and the situation was such that the family had no patience to wait. The police and fire staff said they would help with transportation to a private hospital. Sridharan said the flooded streets delayed admission, resulting in the loss of a loved one.
Since May, this is the third time that Rainbow Drive Layout is reeling under floods. While residents say overflowing lakes nearby are to blame, BBMP says multiple properties are sitting on stormwater drains. Trilok Chandra, special commissioner, BBMP said the tahsildar has served notices on property owners and initiated an inquiry. "He would submit a report in a week's span," he added.
Meanwhile, a few residents have filed a writ petition in the high court seeking the handing over the layout's maintenance from private developers to competent authorities like BBMP or BDA.
Another resident of the layout said during last two floods, community members employed tractors to move in and out. However, this time the rain impact was such that tractors too couldn't enter as water threatened to enter the engines. Hence boats were deployed. | https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/karnataka-rains-85-year-old-man-waiting-in-car-fails-to-reach-hospital-dies/articleshow/93892019.cms | 2022-08-31T03:19:24Z | https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/karnataka-rains-85-year-old-man-waiting-in-car-fails-to-reach-hospital-dies/articleshow/93892019.cms | false | 1 |
Elderly women targeted in Mill Creek jewel theft scam
MILL CREEK, Wash. - Two elderly women fell victim to a scam, where the suspects took their jewelry in broad daylight in their own Mill Creek driveways, according to police.
According to the Mill Creek Community Association (MCCA), two women, ages 70 to 80, were targeted while shopping or banking and followed back to their homes. In both cases, a suspect approached both women, telling them it was her birthday and to celebrate, she wanted to give some jewelry to anyone she met.
The woman would then put fake necklaces, bracelets and other jewelry on the victims.
"The woman got out-- and she's the key-- she's the person who's the conductor of what seems to be a well-orchestrated event, which came hard and fast at my mother-in-law, who was totally unsuspecting," said Mark Horner, the son-in-law of one of the victims.
Then, when the victim protested, the woman removed the fake jewelry and all the real necklaces, bracelets, and rings that the victim was wearing.
"They're gonna go in there and they're gonna distract and deceive, first try to gain some trust, and just overwhelm her with all these competing forces for her attention. Distract her enough so she doesn't realize what's going on," Horner said.
The woman then got back into the car with the jewelry.
Horner's mother-in-law said the female suspect was traveling with two men and a young child. They were in a large, black SUV, according to Horner.
It may help to speak with an elderly loved one who may be more trusting or who may have a hard time understanding what is happening.
Mill Creek police advise:
- Please be alert and aware of your surroundings while getting out of your car, even in your driveway.
- Do not approach people you do not know. If people need directions, give them directions from a distance.
- Do not let strangers touch you. If they get too close, back away, get inside, and call 911.
- Keep your garage door closed and your doors locked at all times.
It helps police if you are able to get a vehicle description and license plate.
It's unclear if these scammers are connected to a similar incident that occurred in Bremerton, where a woman was offered fake jewelry from a stranger as collateral for a loan, only for the victim to learn that the jewelry was fake and worthless when she tried to sell it.
Other instances involving fake jewelry scams have been reported in King and Kitsap Counties. | https://www.q13fox.com/news/police-warning-of-scam-after-jewelry-was-stolen-from-2-elderly-women-in-mill-creek | 2022-08-31T03:19:41Z | https://www.q13fox.com/news/police-warning-of-scam-after-jewelry-was-stolen-from-2-elderly-women-in-mill-creek | true | 1 |
The small northwest Iowa city of Sheldon planned to make the opening of a time capsule one of the centerpiece events of its 150th anniversary this weekend, but it ran into a slight problem.
No one is sure where the time capsule is buried.
“We’re trying to find instructions on exactly where it’s at before we just start digging,” said Sheldon Chamber of Commerce Director Ashley Nordahl. “We think we know where it is, but to dig up concrete in the park when we have such a big event going on, we’re just postponing that to a little bit later in the year.”
The time capsule was buried 50 years ago during Sheldon’s centennial celebration and over time its specific location became a bit fuzzy. Event organizers had planned to open the time capsule during a town birthday celebration Friday morning featuring birthday cake and coffee. They then planned to place new items inside the capsule and rebury it.
The other events will go on as planned, with the time capsule unveiling delayed until workers can find it. To do that, the city will hire a company with an underground radar system that helped the nearby city of Sibley find its time capsule earlier this year.
“We still have every intention of finding it and digging it up,” Nordahl said. “It’s just a little more involved than what we originally had planned.”
Sheldon, a city of 5,178 people about 160 miles northwest of Des Moines, was founded in 1872. | https://www.wvnstv.com/weird/ap-iowa-town-asks-where-did-we-put-our-time-capsule/ | 2022-08-31T03:20:02Z | https://www.wvnstv.com/weird/ap-iowa-town-asks-where-did-we-put-our-time-capsule/ | true | 35 |
NEW YORK, United States, Aug 31 – Four-time champion Rafael Nadal overcame dropping the first set to defeat Australian wildcard Rinky Hijikata at the US Open first round on Tuesday.
Nadal triumphed 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3 over his 198th-ranked opponent to register his 65th career win in New York.
The 36-year-old Spaniard, who is chasing a 23rd Grand Slam title and third of 2022, next faces Fabio Fognini.
Nadal holds a 13-4 career lead over the Italian but Fognini famously defeated him from two sets down in the third round of the US Open in 2015.
“I’m very happy to be back. It’s a long time that I played here. I thought that maybe I’d never be back,” said Nadal whose last appearance in New York saw him win the 2019 title.
World number three Nadal came into this year’s tournament under an injury cloud after an abdominal strain had forced him to forfeit his Wimbledon semi-final against Nick Kyrgios.
Before Tuesday, he had played just once, a first-up loss to Borna Coric in Cincinnati and he looked rusty at the start on Tuesday.
Hijikata, making his Grand Slam debut, surprisingly broke for a 4-3 edge and claimed the opener in the 10th game on the back of 11 fearless winners.
However, Nadal was quickly back in business with breaks in the second and eighth games of the second set bringing him level in the contest.
A break in the fourth game of the third for a 3-1 lead was enough to secure a two sets to one lead.
He wrapped up the tie on a fifth match point, sealing the victory with searing forehand pass to progress in a tournament missing his longtime rival Novak Djokovic who was banned from the US over his refusal to be vaccinated. | https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/sports/2022/08/31/nadal-overcomes-scare-to-reach-us-open-second-round/ | 2022-08-31T03:24:57Z | https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/sports/2022/08/31/nadal-overcomes-scare-to-reach-us-open-second-round/ | true | 1 |
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At least 68 Occupy Wall Street protesters rang in the new year in jail, arrested for tearing down barricades at Zuccotti Park before just before midnight on Saturday. Protesters clashed with police as they apparently were attempting to re-occupy their former New York headquarters. Police say at least one person assaulted an officer and demonstrators claim they were pepper-sprayed. Around 500 people showed up on New Year’s Eve to take down the barricades. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/nyc-police-arrest-occupy-protesters | 2022-08-31T03:26:43Z | https://www.thedailybeast.com/nyc-police-arrest-occupy-protesters | true | null |
Record heat hits Southwest: More high temps forecast for Labor Day weekend
A prolonged and intense heat wave has begun to swelter much of the Southwest this week — and by early next week, dozens of records are likely to have been set.
What to expect: The heat wave is forecast to culminate with a dangerously hot Labor Day weekend across much of California, Nevada, Oregon, and surrounding states in the West.
Threat level: In Death Valley, Calif., which saw flash floods earlier this summer, September heat records could be threatened or toppled, with a high at or above 125°F this weekend.
- The San Diego, Sacramento and Los Angeles areas could also reach record-high heat levels this week, per the National Weather Service.
- "Widespread high to very high heat risk is anticipated across interior NorCal, impacting the entire population," the agency said in an online forecast discussion.
- Reno is also expecting an extended period of unseasonable heat, warming to near-record temperatures by midweek, the NWS said.
The big picture: This heat wave is likely to break daily, monthly and even all-time records and is forecast to do so for several days in a row across a large region.
- Wildfire risks are already climbing in several states, with red flag warnings in effect in California, Oregon and Washington.
By the numbers: Nearly 31 million people are now under excessive heat warnings, according to NWS.
- Another 11 million are under heat advisories, with 14 million under excessive heat watches.
Why it matters: Extreme heat is a major public health threat, increasingly taking a toll on children, pregnant people, the elderly and other vulnerable populations, and making summers deadlier.
- Some cities like Los Angeles and Sacramento have opened cooling shelters for residents to find refuge from the heat.
Our thought bubble: The culprit for the heat wave is a large heat dome, or area of high pressure, building over the region and growing more intense with time. Even states that saw beneficial monsoon rains, such as Arizona and Nevada, are under heat warnings.
- Extreme heat events such as this one are becoming more common and intense due to human-caused climate change. This is just the latest of several heat waves to hit the Southwest this summer.
What they're saying: "We are feeling the heat today, but the worse is yet to come with an extended heatwave through at least early next week," the NWS office in Los Angeles said Tuesday.
- "This will result in very dangerous heat given 1) extreme afternoon highs, 2) oppressive overnight lows and 3) long duration heat," the NWS forecast office in Sacramento said in an online forecast discussion.
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Dutch commandos traveled to Indiana for training in urban warfare and got more than they bargained for. Three commandos were shot in downtown Indianapolis, and one died.
According to the Indianapolis Star :
Three men were shot in the heart of Indianapolis’ entertainment district early Saturday morning [August 27], leaving two of them in critical condition, according to Indianapolis police. The three are Dutch soldiers in Indiana for training, according to the Netherlands Department of Defense.
[Shooting in downtown Indianapolis leaves 3 Dutch soldiers injured, by Kayla Dwyer, Indianapolis Star, August 27, 2022]
One of the soldiers later died.
The shooting occurred around 3:30 a.m. in the 100 block of South Meridian Street, near the intersection of Meridian and Maryland streets. Police believe a disturbance between the three victims and another person or people led to the shooting and that there is no threat to the public.
The men are members of the Korps Commandotroepen, or Commando Corps, which is a special defense unit of the Royal Netherlands Army, according to the defense department. The incident happened during the military’s free time, in front of the hotel where they were staying, the department says.
The commandos were in the state of Indiana to train in urban warfare. From CNN:
The Dutch soldiers had been training at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, a 1,000-acre complex southeast of Indianapolis that is being used for training by the Department of Defense ”as well as other allies,” the Indiana National Guard told CNN affiliate WISH in a statement.
[3 Dutch soldiers were wounded in a shooting outside an Indianapolis hotel, authorities say, by Liam Reilly, CNN, August 28, 2022]
Maybe that urban training center should be moved to downtown Indianapolis.
So what actually occurred? There’s not much information on that. From the BBC:
Police believe the shooting followed an earlier disturbance in downtown Indianapolis, but gave few details…The city’s law enforcement agencies are still investigating the shooting and have so far not made any arrests.
[Indianapolis: Dutch commando dies after shooting outside US hotel, by Leo Sands, BBC News, August 30, 2022]
Will they ever arrest anyone for it?
The incident took place just before 04:00 (08:00 GMT) on Saturday outside the Hampton Inn Hotel in the city’s entertainment district, where the three soldiers had been staying. Officials believe the shooting followed a previous altercation including one or multiple other people at another location in the city.
The city’s mayor told reporters on Monday that the attack may have been a drive-by shooting. ”As I understand it there was a scuffle — a kerfuffle — at a bar and the Dutch guardsmen had returned back to their hotel,” said Mayor Joe Hogsett. ”What they were doing outside I’m not altogether sure — but I’m told the alleged perpetrators did a drive-by shooting and ultimately three were victimised by that shooting.”
The dead commando has been identified.
The deceased soldier has been identified by police as Simmie Poetsema. A spokesman for the Royal Netherlands Army told the Indianapolis Star newspaper on Monday that his family were at his bedside when he succumbed to his injuries. | https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/dutch-commandos-travel-to-indiana-to-train-in-urban-warfare-and-get-shot-in-the-city-of-indianapolis/306316 | 2022-08-31T03:41:39Z | https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/dutch-commandos-travel-to-indiana-to-train-in-urban-warfare-and-get-shot-in-the-city-of-indianapolis/306316 | false | 2 |
Daughter of slain underworld boss follows her MOTHER into OnlyFans with provocative shower selfie debut: 'You asked, I listen'
- Carl Williams' daughter Dhakota has revealed she's joining OnlyFans
- She's following in the footsteps of her mother, Roberta, who made a similar move
- Roberta boasted 'see a side of me you've never seen before'
The daughter of slain underworld king and drug lord Carl Williams has revealed she is joining OnlyFans just days after her mother made the same risque announcement.
Dhakota Williams took to Instagram on Wednesday morning to inform her 40,000 followers that she had joined the adult online platform.
The 21-year-old made the announcement by posting a provocative photo of what appeared to be her naked in the shower.
'You asked I listened ...', the caption read with a link to her newly created OnlyFans account, where she is charging $35 a month.
Dhakota Williams shared a provocative photo of herself apparently in the shower covered in suds this week
Dhakota hit out at online bullies earlier this year when she revealed she had been fat shamed since she was nine years old.
'I've never once addressed fat shaming because I cbf (can´t be f***ed) even giving it the energy,' she wrote on Instagram in June.
'But these people online have been calling me fat since I was about nine-years-old and I'm fed up.
'It's such a shame that I´ve had to learn not to give a f**k instead of people having to learn to be nice.'
'This is a child we're talking about, teaching herself not to (care) because of nasty people, not these grown adults teaching themselves to be decent humans.'
Dhakota also posted a topless picture back in June, posing alongside her mother, Roberta.
Dhakota, left, shared a topless photo with her mother back in June
Roberta foreshadowed her daughter´s move earlier in the week after the gangland widow revealed on Instagram that she had joined OnlyFans.
'Who's ready to see another side of me,' the 53-year-old teased before directing her followers to her newly created page.
Dhakota was tellingly among the 1000 people who liked the post.
Roberta continued to tease her followers on her new OnlyFans account.
'Dared to do it. See a Side of Me You´ve Never Seen Before!!!,' she wrote.
Roberta is charging $30 a month to subscribe to her page.
Dhakota Williams liked her mother's post where she announced her OnlyFans account (above)
Dhakota Williams at her 21st birthday party with Roberta
It comes after she appeared in the County Court just last week for organising the 'terrifying and traumatic' blackmail of a filmmaker in 2019.
The court was told on Friday that she hired men to get money from Ryan Naumenko after she had not been paid for her role in a reality TV show about mob wives.
Mr Naumenko was repeatedly punched and kicked by the men, who were told by Roberta Williams to 'kill the c**ts, he has no money'.
Williams received a community corrections order after pleading guilty to blackmail and recklessly causing injury. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11163125/Dhakota-Williams-follows-mother-Roberta-OnlyFans.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-31T03:43:40Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11163125/Dhakota-Williams-follows-mother-Roberta-OnlyFans.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 2 |
BELMONT — Redistricting often creates atypical campaigns: districts might be combined or moved, and incumbents — rather than take on challengers — sometimes face one of their colleagues. In such races, the advantages of incumbency are swept aside as candidates’ records can be compared directly.
In the newly formed Belknap District 4, Reps. Travis O’Hara and Michael Sylvia — currently representing Districts 9 and 6, respectively — vie for the Republican nomination to a single seat.
The race is closely watched for several reasons.
The new Belmont district is the only race in the county delegation with more incumbents than open seats and without any challengers. In this race, the typical strengths of incumbency — name recognition and established record, especially — could pose as weaknesses.
Yet there is also an imbalance to this incumbency factor. Sylvia is the chair of the Belknap County delegation and running for his sixth term in Concord. O’Hara is in his first reelection campaign against an opponent who sparked his involvement in politics in the first place.
Next, because of the New York Times’ coverage of Croydon’s “come-to-Jefferson moment” with the Free State Project, the spotlight on some candidates’ status as Free Staters has intensified in primary races this fall.
Finally, Gunstock Mountain Resort is top of mind for many voters in the primary.
This race is about far more than recent mountain events. Each candidate's service and responsibilities extend far beyond their role appointing the Gunstock Area Commission, the volunteer group with oversight of the mountain. Nor do the voters of one district speak for where the entire county stands on any given issue.
Nevertheless, its incumbency face-off and Sylvia’s prominent role as county delegation chair mean that this race — more than any other county contest — will be seen as a referendum on how a divided delegation mobilized in the mountain’s turmoil.
O’Hara, a business consultant with an accounting degree, is a Laconia native who moved to Belmont as a teenager when he and his now wife became young parents.
He became interested in politics during Donald Trump's presidency by calling up his state representative at the time, who happened to be Sylvia.
“I wanted to watch a little closer because everyone was freaking out about things,” O’Hara said. “[Sylvia] actually told me to come to the county meetings and that's what got me involved with politics.”
O’Hara said that his approach to politics is rooted in his outgoing and accessible nature.
“I'm not scared to speak my mind,” O’Hara said. “But I'm not the type of person that will be mad over someone with a different opinion than me.”
He emphasized that the will of his constituents takes precedence over his own personal stance.
“If there's a vote that, in my gut, I would want to vote for, but my people don't want me to, I would vote against it,” he said.
In his first term, O’Hara was appointed to the Special Committee on Redistricting and the House Transportation Committee. He highlighted his vocal support to increase the amount of Meals and Rentals Tax revenue distributed to municipalities. In the upcoming session, he is passionate about adoption rights — namely, decreasing the restrictions on who can adopt so that anyone equipped and enthusiastic to do so can.
He also plans, in concert with other reps., to reintroduce legislation to make the GAC an elected position. He believes this will increase citizen engagement with and awareness of Gunstock as a county-owned asset.
O’Hara was one of the 10 delegates who attended an emergency Aug. 1 meeting that ousted controversial commissioner David Strang and brought back Gunstock’s management team. Sylvia did not attend and has challenged the legality of the meeting and its actions.
O’Hara distinguishes himself from Sylvia largely in approach, rather than in policy.
“I'm willing and able to go out and listen to the people more and, you know, actually respond to emails and try and always be available to the people,” O’Hara said. He said, during the campaign, he’s heard complaints from Belmont residents that Sylvia is not a responsive communicator.
When it comes to the delegation, O’Hara said he feels that many delegates’ personal agendas have gotten in the way of good governance.
“I'm not saying Sylvia is a bad person, a bad leader,” O’Hara said. “We just need someone that can reach across the divides among our party on the delegation and be honest with both sides... There's zero communication right now from leadership.”
He said he is ready to listen and collaborate practically. "If both sides are honest, they always can find common ground,” he said.
Sylvia is a retired FedEx employee first elected to the legislature in 2012. He declined to do an interview or provide a written statement for this story.
Sylvia is a member of the House Judiciary Committee. According to his website, his policy agenda includes government transparency and civil asset forfeiture reform. It also emphasizes his high scores from the House Republican Alliance and, during his career, customer service and team leadership experience. Sylvia describes himself as someone who works toward “smaller and more accountable government which uses less coercion and is more reliant on voluntary interactions.”
In the last term, Sylvia sponsored an unsuccessful Right to Know law reform where municipalities would have to disclose how much they offer or pay for property sales and leases. He additionally sponsored a bill to legalize cannabis possession and home cultivation.
In January, Sylvia proposed a constitutional amendment — which received 13 total votes, with 4 from Belknap County representatives — for New Hampshire to secede from the United States.
Sylvia is a member of the Free State Project, a Libertarian movement of “liberty activists” who are migrating to New Hampshire, a small state with Libertarian leanings. Their mission is to permeate and overtake politics to create a haven of limited government.
Sylvia does not put his status as a member of the project on his website beyond noting his membership in Lakes Region Porcupines, a Libertarian-associated service group. He has appeared on the project’s podcast and website, been praised by movement leaders — notably for the secession amendment — and attended the movement’s “Porcfest” festival several times. He moved to the Granite State in 2010; his blog describes himself as a refugee to New Hampshire from Democratic New York.
Sylvia has advocated for more stringent government control of county-owned Gunstock and its management. His blog states that government should not try to run a competitive business, though he signed a pledge not to lease or sell the area. The Gunstock Area Commission’s Audit Subcommittee was founded as an olive branch to Sylvia and other delegates who thought the delegation should have more direct oversight to Gunstock’s finances. The GAC’s Legal Services Subcommittee, which led an internal investigation into past GAC litigation, was formed per a request from Sylvia.
Sylvia supports former commissioner Strang, who has contested that he resigned: tension between Strang and the management led to their mass resignation, and they conditioned their return on his departure. Sylvia and Strang have both accused Gunstock’s management of financial malfeasance — Sylvia maintains that they walked out because they might face accountability.
State representatives serve two-year legislative terms in the 400-member New Hampshire House. It is a nearly volunteer post, paying just $100 per year, plus mileage. Representatives in Belknap County also perform duties in county government as part of the Belknap County Delegation. The 18-member delegation is responsible for approving the county budget, which is drafted by the County Board of Commissioners. The delegation also appoints members of the GAC, the five-member, non-partisan body tasked with overseeing mountain operations, similar to a board of directors.
The state primary is Sept. 13 and the general election is Nov. 8. | https://www.laconiadailysun.com/news/elections/in-new-belmont-house-district-4-two-incumbents-compete-for-single-nomination/article_33dc8556-289d-11ed-88c2-8bea3f0f9ea5.html | 2022-08-31T03:43:50Z | https://www.laconiadailysun.com/news/elections/in-new-belmont-house-district-4-two-incumbents-compete-for-single-nomination/article_33dc8556-289d-11ed-88c2-8bea3f0f9ea5.html | false | 1 |
Laverne Cox and her funny reaction when she is mistaken for Beyoncé at the US Open
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Tremendous surprise was the star of the Netflix series Inventing Anna, Laverne Coxbeing mistaken for the singer Beyonce.
It all happened when the 50-year-old actress attended the US Open 2022 sporting event wearing a black mask, gold earrings and her curly hair in a tail at the nape of the neck.
The photo shared by a user on Twitter of Laverne with the caption “Beyoncé at the #USOpen” went viral in a matter of minutes.
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Given the shocking number of comments, the American artist turned to her social networks to clear up the confusion.
Laverne on her resemblance to the singer
“I wasn’t mistaken for Beyoncé at the US Open tonight and then trended on Twitter as the internet laughs at the mistaken identity,” the actress wrote on her Instagram profile.
In addition, the artist shared -in an ironic tone- a video modeling her outfit, to the rhythm of the song of the wife of Jay Z“Pure/Honey”,
the protagonist of Orange is the New Black was not the only star who met at Arthur Ashe Stadium, where the tennis player Serena Williams received a standing ovation before starting the contest in which she was the winner against her opponent Danka Kovinic.
Famous as, among others, Bella Hadid, Ana Wintour, Ashley Graham, Bill Clinton Y Hugh Jackmanwere also photographed enjoying the sporting event.
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China’s Top Steel Mill Faces Severe Challenges in Coming Months
Bloomberg News
,(Bloomberg) -- The world’s top steelmaker, Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., said it’s facing “severe challenges” in the third quarter after first-half earnings missed estimates.
Echoing remarks from rival Angang Steel Co Ltd., the company warned Tuesday that margins have been squeezed after steel prices plunged more than raw material costs. The industry is contending with a deepening crisis in China’s property sector, which is crucial to demand, and the impact of virus flare-ups across the country.
Baosteel reported that net income shrank 48% in the first half. The steel giant made similar comments in June, which were followed on Monday by Angang’s warnings over falling demand, supply shocks and the impact of the virus, which are heaping pressure on the sector.
Earnings of China’s 25 listed steel mills in the second quarter were down more than 70% compared with last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The profits were similar to those made in the same period of 2020, when the industry was first hit by the pandemic.
Stimulus measures announced by the government have yet to arrest the industry’s decline amid a slowing economy. Chinese banks are facing losses as mortgage boycotts sweep the property sector, while economists turn more bearish on their growth forecasts for the country.
Baosteel said steel prices and demand may rebound marginally in the fourth quarter as the virus is gradually brought under control and government stimulus takes effect.
Despite warnings of a bleaker outlook ahead, there are some signs that the steel market may be on the mend. China’s steel-industry purchasing manager index (PMI) has risen during August to 46.1, up by more than a third since July. There’s been a marked boost to production and new orders this month, with requests for exports also rising.
Iron ore nudged up 0.3% to $97.65 a ton in Singapore as of 10:15 a.m. local time, with prices down more than 40% since their March peak. Prices in Dalian ticked up 0.3% after closing 4.5% lower on Tuesday, while steel rebar and hot-rolled coil inched up in Shanghai.
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Dodgers quiet Timmy Trumpet for now, beat Mets 4-3
NEW YORK (AP) — Gavin Lux and the Los Angeles Dodgers quieted Timmy Trumpet at least for now, edging the New York Mets 4-3 Tuesday night in a matchup of NL division leaders.
The Mets lost with Trumpet, who performs Edwin Diaz’s entrance song “Narco,” at Citi Field and ready to blare away if the closer got into the game. But Diaz didn’t get in and Trumpet instead played a more muted version of “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” on his horn in front of the Dodgers’ dugout during the seventh-inning stretch.
Minutes after the Mets lost in the first major league game the Australian-born Trumpet had attended, he tweeted that he’ll be back at the ballpark Wednesday night, hoping for another chance to sound off.
Lux drove in three runs, including a tiebreaking single in the seventh inning. The hit drove in Freddie Freeman and came immediately after Joely Rodriguez (0-4) intentionally walked pinch-hitter Will Smith.
The Dodgers won despite stranding 12 runners, one shy of their season high, and leaving the bases loaded in the sixth and seventh.
Heath Hembree, making his Dodgers debut, earned the win by stranding a pair of runners in the sixth, when he whiffed James McCann for the final out.
Jake Reed, Los Angeles’ fifth pitcher, notched the save in the ninth, when he allowed a leadoff single to Eduardo Escobar before getting Daniel Vogelbach to hit into a double play and retiring Brandon Nimmo on a comebacker.
It was the first big league save for Reed, who was claimed off waivers from the Mets in mid-July and recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City earlier Tuesday.
The Dodgers scored their first three runs on consecutive pitches in the third. Joey Gallo was plunked by Taijuan Walker with the bases loaded and Lux followed with a two-run single that drove in Mookie Betts — with his 100th run of the season — and Max Muncy.
Mark Canha hit his 100th big league homer and Starling Marte also connected for the Mets. Marte helped create a run in the first inning, when he bunted and Nimmo scored from first on pitcher Andrew Heaney’s two-base throwing error.
Francisco Lindor snapped an 0-for-20 streak with a fifth-inning single for the Mets.
Walker allowed three runs in 5 1/3 innings. Heaney surrendered two earned runs in five innings.
GALLO’S RETURN
Gallo started at designated hitter, batted fifth and stuck out twice in three plate appearances in his first game in New York since the Dodgers acquired him from the Yankees Aug. 2.
Manager Dave Roberts said he sensed Gallo — who hit .159 with 194 strikeouts and a .660 OPS in 421 at-bats with the Yankees the last two seasons — was more comfortable in Los Angeles. Gallo, who declined to speak to reporters Tuesday afternoon, entered the game hitting .205 but had three homers, seven RBIs and an .840 OPS in 44 at-bats.
“(From) talking to him, he’s much more relaxed and I think he’s playing really well for us,” Roberts said. “Every time up to bat, I feel confident he’s going to hit the ball hard somewhere. He’s having really good at-bats.”
CANHA’S MILESTONE
Canha became the 974th player to hit at least 100 homers in the majors. Fans in left field gave him a warm ovation as Canha trotted to his position in the fifth. Canha nodded and gave a pair of appreciative gestures.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: LHP Clayton Kershaw (lower back) felt good following a bullpen session Monday and will start Thursday’s series finale. It will be Kershaw’s first start since Aug. 4. … 3B Justin Turner and C Smith were out of the starting lineup after the Dodgers arrived in New York early Tuesday morning following Monday’s 10-inning win over the Marlins.
Mets: RHP Carlos Carrasco (left oblique) threw 55 pitches in a simulated game Monday and could return to the rotation this weekend.
UP NEXT
Dodgers: LHP Tyler Anderson (13-2, 2.69 ERA) is in the midst of a season-long three-start winless streak despite posting a 2.45 ERA in that span.
Mets: RHP Jacob deGrom (3-1, 2.15 ERA) has struck out 46 and walked just two in 29 1/3 innings spanning his first five starts after missing 13 months with various injuries.
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MADRID (AP) — Gibraltar authorities said Tuesday that a cargo ship has been beached to prevent it from sinking after it collided with a liquefied natural gas carrier in the Bay of Gibraltar.
A government spokesman said that the situation was under control and the ship was not in danger. He said there had been no environmental impact so far. The government said booms had been placed in the area to contain any possible fuel seepage.
No one was injured in the collision. The crew of the cargo ship — the 178-meter (584-foot), Tuvalu-registered OS 35 — remains on board.
A Gibraltar government statement said the cargo ship sustained “significant damage to the vessel’s starboard side," including a gash below the waterline measuring approximately 10 meters (32 feet) by 4 meters (13 feet).
The statement said the Adam LNG carrier appeared to have suffered no significant damage, except for a superficial dent.
It said a specialist marine salvage team from the Netherlands was due to arrive in Gibraltar later in the day to conduct a full on-site assessment.
The spokesman, who was not authorized to be named, said the cargo vessel was resting on the seabed in 17 meters (56 feet) of water close to the coast. The ship was carrying steel bars.
The Gibraltar government said it had set up a 200-meter exclusion zone around the stricken ship but that the Gibraltar port had reopened and was functioning as normal.
Gibraltar, a British territory located on southern tip of the Iberian peninsula, is a busy shipping port. | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4642195 | 2022-08-31T03:52:55Z | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4642195 | false | 38 |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Evening" game were:
01-22-25-28-38
(one, twenty-two, twenty-five, twenty-eight, thirty-eight)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Evening" game were:
01-22-25-28-38
(one, twenty-two, twenty-five, twenty-eight, thirty-eight) | https://www.greenwichtime.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Take-5-Evening-game-17408971.php | 2022-08-31T03:58:30Z | https://www.greenwichtime.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Take-5-Evening-game-17408971.php | true | null |
Canadian Radio Stations Pull Arcade Fire Music As Band Kicks Off Tour
Arcade Fire’s music is being pulled from some Canadian radio stations amid sexual misconduct allegations against lead singer Win Butler. According to Ottawa City News, a representative for the CBC says they will “pause” playing Arcade Fire on its CBC Music FM radio station, as well as the SiriusXM CBC Radio 3 station “until we learn more about the situation.”
The program director of Indie88 in Toronto also confirmed that his station made “a quick decision over the weekend to pull the band’s music” but has “not yet had a fulsome internal conversation about the permanence of this decision.”
On Saturday, Pitchfork ran a lengthy report where four people came forward accusing Butler of having inappropriate sexual relationships with them. They were all between 18 and 23 at the start of the encounters, which took place during overlapping periods from 2016 to 2020 when the singer was between 36 and 39.
Arcade Fire kicked off their tour tonight in Dublin at the 3Arena with Feist and Beck opening. Neither Beck or Feist have commented on the allegations, and the evening was apparently uneventful. According to a photo of Feist’s merchandise tent, her team will donate “all proceeds” from merch sales the domestic violence organization Women’s Aid Dublin. That donation is reportedly not unique to this Arcade Fire tour, however.
Butler has denied any non-consensual sexual activity. In a statement via a crisis public relations firm, he called accusations of non-consensual sexual activity “revisionist, and frankly just wrong” and gave an apology. “I’m sorry I wasn’t more aware and tuned in to the effect I have on people,” Butler said. “I fucked up, and while not an excuse, I will continue to look forward and heal what can be healed, and learn from past experiences.” | https://www.stereogum.com/2198055/canadian-radio-stations-pull-arcade-fire-music-as-band-kicks-off-tour/news/ | 2022-08-31T04:02:41Z | https://www.stereogum.com/2198055/canadian-radio-stations-pull-arcade-fire-music-as-band-kicks-off-tour/news/ | false | 1 |
NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local):
10:35 p.m.
Rafael Nadal’s first U.S. Open match since 2019 ended with a four-set victory over a player making his Grand Slam debut.
Nadal improved to 20-0 in matches at major tournaments this season by beating Australian wild-card entry Rinky Hijikata 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3 across more than three hours in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday night.
Nadal did not show any serious lingering effects from the torn abdominal muscle that forced the 22-time Grand Slam champion to pull out of Wimbledon before he was supposed to play in the semifinals. That does not go down on his record as a loss, because he did not take the court for the match.
Nadal has won the U.S. Open four times, including three years ago. He then did not return in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic or last year because of an injured left foot.
The 21-year-old Hijikata was a wild-card entry who played college tennis at North Carolina.
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9:20 p.m.
Emma Raducanu’s defense of her surprising 2021 U.S. Open championship has ended with a first-round loss to Alizé Cornet.
Their match in Louis Armstrong Stadium ended with a 6-3, 6-3 score.
Raducanu is only the third woman to lose her opening match in New York a year after winning the title.
The others were 2004 champion Svetlana Kuznetsova and 2016 champion Angelique Kerber.
Raducanu dealt with blisters on her racket-holding right hand and took a medical timeout after the first set for treatment from a trainer.
She also was simply outplayed by Cornet, a 32-year-old from France who ended Iga Swiatek’s 37-match winning streak at Wimbledon.
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8 p.m.
Andrea Petkovic shared a hug with her opponent, soaked up a warm ovation from the fans and then headed into retirement.
A little more than a week before her 35th birthday, Petkovic ended her career with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 loss to No. 13 seed Belinda Bencic.
The German won seven singles titles and reached as high as No. 9 in the rankings. She made her decision recently and teared up as she explained it afterward.
Petkovic said she still loves the game but “it’s more the body that is not allowing me to play tennis anymore in a way that I want to play it, train the way I want to train, just play a full season really.”
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7 p.m.
Serena Williams won’t be doing double duty at the U.S. Open — at least, not yet.
She and sister Venus are not on Wednesday’s schedule for their opening match in the women’s doubles tournament. First-round doubles matches will continue Thursday, when the Williams sisters will play unless weather or other factors cause delays.
Serena Williams plays her second-round singles match Wednesday night against No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit. In what could be the final tournament of her career, she is also playing doubles with her older sister for the first time since the 2018 French Open. They have won 14 Grand Slam championships as a team, most recently at Wimbledon in 2016.
They will face the Czech pair of Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova in the first round.
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5:10 p.m.
Venus Williams has been eliminated in the first round of her return to the U.S. Open.
Williams lost 6-1, 7-6 (5) to Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium in Arthur Ashe Stadium, where younger sister Serena won a night earlier.
Venus Williams, 42, was given a wild card into the tournament she first played in 1997, where she was runner-up. She missed the event that she won in 2000 and 2001 last year with an injury.
Williams fell to 0-4 in singles matches this year. She has won at least one match every year since 1994.
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3:50 p.m.
The Wimbledon women’s champion is out in the first round of the U.S. Open.
Elena Rybakina lost 6-4, 6-4 to Clara Burel of France, who came through qualifying to earn a spot in the main draw.
Rybakina was seeded only 25th, with her victory in the most recent Grand Slam not boosting her in the rankings because no points were awarded at the tournament this year. The men’s and women’s tours took that step after the All England Club barred Russian and Belarussian players from competing because of the war against Ukraine.
Rybakina, who was born in Russia but represents Kazakhstan, said before this tournament she thought that was unfair, adding she didn’t even feel like a Wimbledon champion.
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3:10 p.m.
Carlos Alcaraz moved into the second round of the U.S. Open when his opponent was forced to stop because of injury in the third set.
The No. 3 seed led Sebastian Baez 7-5, 7-5, 2-0 when the Argentine player motioned he couldn’t continue because of leg pain or cramps.
Alcaraz’s U.S. Open ended last year in a similar manner. He reached the quarterfinals at 18, the youngest man to get that far in New York in the professional era, before stopping in the second set of his loss to Felix Auger-Aliassime because of an upper right leg injury.
Alcaraz has followed that by winning four ATP titles this year.
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1 p.m.
Serena Williams will be back under the lights in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Wednesday.
Williams will play the leadoff match of the night session in the main stadium, the U.S. Tennis Association announced Tuesday.
She will face No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit of Estonia. They will be followed by defending men’s champion Daniil Medvedev against Arthur Rinderknech of France.
Williams beat Danka Kovinic on Monday night to begin what could be the final tournament of her career. That helped draw the largest crowd ever for a U.S. Open night session, which had more than 29,000 fans.
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12:30 p.m.
Top-ranked Iga Swiatek powered into the second round of the U.S. Open, beating Jasmine Paolini 6-3, 6-0.
No. 8-seeded American Jessica Pegula also raced through her opening match, like Swiatek needing just more than an hour before beating Viktorija Golubic 6-2, 6-2.
Swiatek is just 5-4 since her 37-winning streak earlier this year, but the two-time French Open champion got sharper as the match went on Tuesday while supported by a number of Polish fans wearing red inside Louis Armstrong Stadium.
She is trying to become the first player since Serena Williams in 2014 to win seven titles in a year.
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11:10 a.m.
A day after Serena Williams won her opening match at the U.S. Open, sister Venus will begin her tournament on the same Arthur Ashe Stadium court.
Top-ranked Iga Swiatek was among the players on court when the second day of the event began Tuesday morning. Garbiñe Muguruza and Jelena Ostapenko were other Grand Slam champions with early starts.
Play in Ashe was set to begin at noon with No. 3 seed Carlos Alcaraz facing Sebastian Baez of Argentina. Then it was the 42-year-old Venus Williams, returning to the tournament she first won 25 years ago. She facing Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium after a one-year absence at Flushing Meadows.
Rafael Nadal was in night action, along with defending women’s champion Emma Raducanu and two-time winner Naomi Osaka.
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DEAR DR. ROACH: Both my husband and I just had the flu. We initially suspected that it was COVID, but the tests were negative. My symptoms, especially cough and runny nose, hung on for over two weeks. I visited an urgent care clinic where I was told I most likely had the (seasonal) flu, and I was prescribed an inhaler as well as a cough suppressant. The physician indicated that they have seen a lot of flu cases this summer. I am thinking the rise is because of people wearing masks and staying home these past couple of years, which could thereby weaken our immune systems.
When I filled my prescriptions at the pharmacy, the pharmacist told me that they started flu vaccines in August. We typically get our seasonal flu vaccines in October to ensure its effectiveness through February and March. Considering these unusual times, would it make sense to get the vaccine earlier this year? My husband and I are over 65. -- S.A.
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The World Health Organization recently announced the vaccine composition for the 2022-2023 flu season, with two influenza A viruses (H1N1 Victoria and H3N2 Darwin) and two influenza B viruses (B/Victoria and B/Yamagata). All the flu vaccines this year are quadrivalent, meaning they cover all four of the recommended strains. However, the timing is even more of a guess this year than ever.
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New Delhi: IAS officer Shah Faesal has been selected for an appointment in the Union Culture Ministry, an official order said on Tuesday.
A office memorandum issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) said: “Shah Faesal, IAS (AGMUT: 2010), who was recommended for Central deputation by the Ministry of Home Affairs, has been selected for appointment as Deputy Secretary in the Minstry of Culture, Delhi under the Central Staffing Scheme for a period of four years from the date of taking over charge of the post or until further orders, whichever event takes place earlier.”
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Gabrielle Union, 49, shows off a chiseled figure in a skimpy black bikini as they romp in the ocean during Ibiza getaway with husband Dwyane Wade, 40
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Gabrielle Union showed off her chiseled physique, enjoying a day at the beach with husband Dwyane Wade in Ibiza on Monday afternoon.
The actress, 49, stunned in a skimpy black bikini with a tie top and thong bottoms.
She wore a black hat with a white decal over her long black curly locks.
Beach day! Gabrielle Union showed off her chiseled physique and enjoyed a day at the beach with husband Dwyane Wade in Ibiza on Monday afternoon
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The former Miami Heat star showed off his washboard abs by going shirtless and donning a patterned swimsuit. He added a black bucket hat to the look.
Bikini babe: The actress, 49, stuns in a skimpy black bikini with a tie-top and thong bottoms
Gabrielle and her husband: Dwayne Wade, 40, joined his beautiful wife in the water
Fit: The former Miami Heat star showed off his washboard abs by going shirtless and donning a patterned swimsuit
Sun protection: he added a black bucket hat to the look
Ladies photo: A number of ladies stood together for a photo early in the day
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Under the cabana: Union and Wade relax under a cabana to get out of the sun
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The couple appeared on the beach after the couple went out in the idyllic vacation spot.
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Bikini Summer: Gabrielle Union took to Instagram to share her gorgeous holiday look as she soaked up the nightlife in Ibiza, Spain this weekend
Enjoying the music: The 49-year-old LA’s Finest actress posed in a baby blue bra top paired with a light green long flowing skirt while on a yacht at the Lio Club Ibiza Marina
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The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination also called on the Biden administration and state governments to do more to buttress those rights.
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The committee, referring to the recent court decision, called on the United States to adopt “all necessary measures” at both state and federal level “to address the profound disparate impact of (the decision) on women of racial and ethnic minorities, Indigenous women and those with low incomes,” and provide safe, legal access to abortion under existing U.S. commitments to human rights.
It called on the U.S. to ensure that women seeking an abortion — or the health care providers who assist them — “are not subjected to criminal penalties.”
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“The U.N. provided a blueprint to address structural discrimination; now the Biden administration must act to build out our domestic human rights infrastructure,” he said.
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“The legacies of colonialism and slavery have a real-world lingering impact on present day racial disparities and injustices and we must address them head on,” he said.
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DEL MAR — Flightline joined some exclusive company on Tuesday when he was installed as the 1-5 morning-line favorite for Saturday’s $1 million Grade I Pacific Classic at Del Mar.
Cigar, who brought a 16-race winning streak into the 1996 Pacific Classic, is the only other horse to be 1-5 on the morning line in the race’s history, which dates to 1991. He went postward at 1-10 and was upset by longshot Dare And Go.
Flightline, a 4-year-old Tapit colt, has won his four career starts by a combined 43½ lengths. He’s never gone two turns yet, though, so there is some hope for the other five horses that were entered at the post-position draw held at the Brigantine, which overlooks the track.
The horse’s jockey, Flavien Prat, believes he’ll have no problem navigating the mile-and-a-quarter distance. The trainer is pretty confident, too.
“I’m confident or we wouldn’t be (running), so I think he’s not going to have a problem with the two turns,” John Sadler said. “But that’s why they run the races, let them see how it goes.”
The second choice on the morning line is the Bob Baffert-trained Country Grammer, who won last year’s Hollywood Gold Cup at Santa Anita, finished a close second in the $20 million Saudi Cup in February and then won the $12 million Dubai World Cup a month later.
Country Grammer, a 5-year-old son of Tonalist, is listed at 4-1 and would extend Baffert’s record to seven victories in the Classic with a win. He goes into the race off of a second-place effort behind Royal Ship in the Grade II San Diego Handicap at Del Mar on July 30.
Sadler has tremendous respect for all the horses in what he describes as “an excellent field.”
“I’ve watched them run a lot,” he said. “Country Grammer is terrific at a mile and a quarter, he’s proven at that distance. Stilleto Boy, I’ve watched a lot and he’s a good horse. Runs every time. Express Train the same thing, and Royal Ship, too.”
Despite the 1-5 price, Sadler said he’s not feeling any added pressure heading into what is the richest thoroughbred race in the West.
“I don’t feel pressure by the odds,” he said. “With a horse this good, you always want everything to go well. We’re just hopeful that we get a good trip and everything stays good. We have three or four more days to go. You just hope everything stays the same.”
Sadler was pleased when Flightline drew the No. 5 post position.
“It’s a good post. I’m very pleased with that,” he said. “We thought most of the posts would have been good because it’s a relatively small field. He’s tactical. He doesn’t have to have the lead and he doesn’t have to be way back either. So we’re perfectly happy with five.
“Everybody asks me, ‘Well, what do you want?’ If you think about what you want you jinx the post. So we’ll just let it happen. You have that good long run, you’ve got a quarter-mile run into the first turn, so you have time to work out a nice trip.”
Sadler was asked where he’d like to see Flightline positioned early in the race.
“It will be pretty much up to the jock (Flavien Prat),” he said. “He’s ridden him every race and he’ll decide what he wants to do. It will kinda be determined by what everybody else is doing. If somebody’s gunning, I’d imagine he’ll be off of it, and if it’s slow he’ll be up on it.”
The 66-year-old native of Long Beach hasn’t decided if he’ll give Fightline another race before the Breeders’ Cup or train him up to the $6 million Classic on Nov. 5 after Saturday.
“We have an option,” Sadler said. “I did run my last Breeders’ Cup Classic winner (Accelerate in 2018), we ran in the Awesome Again (at Santa Anita). That won’t be decided until after he runs this weekend. We’ll face that when we get there.”
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The field for Saturday’s $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar, listed in post-position order with jockeys and morning-line odds:
Extra Hope, Tyler Baze, 30-1
Country Grammer, John Velazquez, 4-1
Royal Ship, Mike Smith, 8-1
Express Train, Victor Espinoza, 12-1
Flightline, Flavien Prat, 1-5
Stilleto Boy, Juan Hernandez, 20-1
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Hernandez, Guerrero homer to back Gausman, Jays top Cubs 5-3
TORONTO (AP) - Teoscar Hernandez hit a three-run homer, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. also went deep and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Chicago Cubs 5-3 on Tuesday night.
Kevin Gausman pitched six solid innings to win his second straight decision as the Blue Jays won back-to-back games after losing their previous three. Toronto is in position for an AL wild card.
Guerrero finished with three hits and two RBIs.
Back in the lineup after sitting out Monday because of a sore left foot, Hernandez homered for the first time since Aug. 18 at New York.
“I've been battling for the last couple of weeks with injuries and all that stuff, not having a good time at the plate or on defense,” Hernandez said. “I tried to do the best that I can and I did it today and it feels great.”
Hernandez also contributed defensively, making an exceptional sliding catch on Franmil Reyes' sinking liner to end the fourth inning.
“I didn't think he had any chance but he made a heck of a play,” Gausman said.
Willson Contreras and Christopher Morel hit solo home runs for the Cubs, but Contreras left in the sixth inning after aggravating his sore left ankle. Contreras limped around the bases after his fourth-inning homer.
“He feels better after getting some work on it,” Cubs manager David Ross said. “We'll see how it looks tomorrow.”
Gausman (10-9) allowed two runs and five hits, walked one and struck out nine, including five straight Ks in the second and third innings.
“I had a really good feel for my split pretty early in the game so we relied on that a lot,” Gausman said.
Gausman allowed two home runs for the second time in 25 starts this season. He's given up nine homers on the year.
David Phelps got two outs in the seventh but left after issuing back-to-back walks. Anthony Bass came on and got Nick Madrigal to fly out.
Trevor Richards got two outs in the eighth and Jordan Romano wrapped it up for his 28th save in 32 chances.
Facing his former team for the first time, Cubs right-hander Marcus Stroman allowed one run and three hits in five innings, leaving with a 2-1 lead.
“My sinker was good today,” Stroman said. “When my mechanics are on and my sinker is going, I feel like I can always roll against any lineup.”
Left-hander Brendon Little (0-1) made his big league debut when he replaced Stroman in the sixth but gave up the lead before recording an out. A replay review confirmed that leadoff batter Bo Bichette had been hit by a pitch and Matt Chapman reached on an infield single before Hernandez hammered a first-pitch homer to right, his 19th.
“Things got a little out of hand really fast,” Ross said.
Contreras opened the scoring with his 21st homer. Seiya Suzuki reached on a two-out single, but Hernandez robbed Reyes to end the threat.
Stroman escaped a bases-loaded jam in the first by retiring Hernandez on a fielder's choice. That was the first of 10 consecutive outs, a streak that ended when Stroman hit Danny Jansen on the left arm in the fifth. Jansen advanced on a passed ball and tied it 1-1 when he scored on Guerrero's two-out single.
Morel broke the tie with a leadoff homer in the sixth, his 13th, but Hernandez answered in the bottom half.
Morel cut it to 4-3 with an RBI double off Bass in the seventh. Guerrero connected off Michael Rucker to begin the bottom half, his 27th.
CENTURY CLUB
Hernandez's home run was his 100th hit of the season. It gave the Blue Jays a major league-leading eight players with at least 100 hits. It's the first time in team history Toronto has eight players with 100 or more hits before Sept. 1.
20-20 VISION
Contreras is the first catcher in Cubs history to hit 20 or more home runs in consecutive seasons.
WOE CANADA
The Cubs have lost five straight in Toronto, dating to 2014.
DROPPING IN
With the roof open at Rogers Centre, a brief rain shower fell before the start of the third inning, with some in the crowd of 33,759 seeking shelter on the concourses. The rain stopped by the end of the inning.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Blue Jays: George Springer was the DH.
ROSTER MOVES
Chicago added RHP Jeremiah Estrada from Triple-A Iowa as a substitute player. Estrada replaced LHP Justin Steele, who went on the restricted list Monday. Steele couldn't be replaced until three days had passed since his most recent appearance of four or more innings. Steele pitched 5 1/3 innings against the Brewers last Friday.
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The iShares US Energy ETF has posted impressive gains so far in 2022 as key holdings like Exxon and Chevron post record profits amid rising oil and gas prices. However, the upward trajectory of these stocks has recently slowed after the US Inflation Reduction Act was passed, which is expected to curb future appetite for fossil fuels. As a result of the cost-of-living crisis and climate change, investor sentiment is forecasted to decrease in the long term.
The iShares US Energy ETF [IYE] has outperformed the broader market in 2022. The fund soared 47.2% year-to-date to close at $45.64 on 29 August, compared to the S&P 500’s 15.9% decline over the same period.
In the last three months, however, iShares’ US Energy ETF’s performance has stayed flat, as energy stocks slipped amid increasing fears of a global recession. The fund has pulled back 7.4% since hitting a 52-week high of $49.31 during intraday trading on 8 June.
The ETF, which had $2.1bn in assets under management on 30 August, tracks an index composed of US equities in the energy sector, giving investors exposure to companies that produce and distribute oil and gas.
It has benefited from the gains seen in energy majors so far in 2022 as the cost of oil spikes alongside increased demand, due to factors including the war in Ukraine and supply issues. On 9 August, when oil pipeline flows to parts of central Europe were halted due to a pay dispute, the fund’s shares rose 2%.
Oil and gas prices have been so volatile in 2022 that hedge funds have reduced their trading activity in the area to the lowest in seven years, according to Reuters analysis. The iShares US Energy ETF has a three-year beta — a measure of systematic risk — of 1.53, suggesting it’s a riskier prospect than the general market but potentially more profitable. The sector has been one of this year’s rare winners amid a gloomy broader picture, with the fund returning 53.69% year-to-date as of 30 August.
Exxon and Chevron lead gains in IYE ETF
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At the end of July, Chevron and Exxon both hit headlines and attracted criticism, when they posted record quarterly profits in the wake of soaring energy prices, which has sharply hit consumers’ pockets.
Exxon announced Q2 profits of $17.9bn, a record quarterly figure and close to four times more than the same period in 2021. Chevron, meanwhile, posted a record $11.62bn at its Q2 earnings release.
The positive earnings reports were a boost to both stocks. Shares in Exxon are up a hefty 57.5% year to date, while Chevron’s share price is up 38% over the same period. However, Exxon and Chevron shares have both tailed off from earlier peaks, suggesting a reversal may be on the cards. In July, Stewart Glickman, an energy equity analyst at CFRA, told Reuters. “Right now... the biggest fear you should have if you’re an energy investor is that we get a sharp recession.”
The rise of ‘anti-ESG’ ETFs
Given the cost-of-living crisis, the climate crises and spiralling prices at the pumps, there’s been a vocal backlash against oil companies’ profits this year – including from US president Joe Biden, who commented: “Exxon made more money than God this year.”
On its website the iShares US Energy ETF states that it does not explicitly seek to follow a sustainable, impact or ESG investment strategy. For this reason, it has been termed a so-called ‘anti-ESG’ ETF, along with the recently launched Strive US Energy ETF [DRLL], backed by venture capitalist Peter Thiel and hedge fund manager Bill Ackman.
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Franklin Mutual Series explains how global investing may provide a path to better returns.
Companies outside the United States provide many of the products we use or consume every day—even some of our most iconic brands. When was the last time you drove somewhere without seeing a Toyota car? How many of your friends have Samsung televisions? Have you recently used a BP filling station, or drank an imported beer? These products are so popular in American markets, investors may not consider that if they focus exclusively on the US market, they are missing out on opportunities in many successful foreign-owned companies. Maintaining an investment portfolio that includes a mix of US- and non-US domiciled companies can help investors capture best-in-class opportunities across the world’s markets and offer strong participation across the entire market cycle.
There are many potential benefits to investing globally. First, a global allocation widens the opportunity set from which to source investments. As of March 31, 2022, 37% of the global market capitalization, as represented by the MSCI ACWI IMI index, was located outside of the United States.1 When you widen your investment horizon, you’ll find a number of best-in-class companies, like chipmakers in Asia or luxury goods or pharmaceutical companies in Europe. In addition, in countries with less-efficient markets, there can be greater investment opportunities. That’s because many non-US markets have fewer analysts covering locally domiciled companies, and a relative lack of high-quality research can inhibit efficient pricing. Investors are thus able to identify potential opportunities that others have missed.
A common refrain we’ve all heard is “buy low, sell high.” A stock that is trading at a deeper discount versus its perceived value than its industry peers can offer more upside potential. These valuation gaps can be prominent across regions, too. A US-based industrials company may be trading at a premium versus its non-US peers due to differences in demand, taxes, regulation or other regional discrepancies. A global portfolio may open the door to uncover and invest in these deeply discounted companies.
Information technology companies are a main driver of US market performance. The sector makes up over one quarter of the S&P 500 and MSCI USA indexes. This year’s decline in technology stocks reflects a combination of factors, with rising interest rates being an important and somewhat misunderstood culprit.
Most investors know bond prices and interest rates are inversely linked, but they may not consider the effect interest rates have on equity prices, particularly long-duration growth stocks like technology companies. Higher long-term rates can hurt growth stocks. When the discount rate increases, the current value of the future stream of cash flows falls, potentially taking the stock price with it. This can help fuel a rotation into value-oriented stocks, which are generally less affected by rising rates and may start to look more appealing to investors by comparison.
Not all regional markets are as technology-heavy, and therefore as growth-heavy, as the United States. The United States has historically underperformed value-oriented regions, such as Europe, when technology stocks are out of favor. The chart below shows the MSCI USA Index performance versus the MSCI Europe Index. On a rolling 10-year basis, European equities outpaced US equities, except for during the tech bubble during the late 1990s and the technology stock rally coming out of the global financial crisis of 2008-2009.
The performance pattern of US versus European stocks is similar to the return pattern of US growth versus US value stocks. Generally, when the United States underperforms other regions, it is during a time when growth is out of favor versus value.
It’s no secret that different types of assets do well in different types of economic environments. History has shown moderate inflation can be good for value stocks. While inflation is currently well above what is considered moderate and has been stickier than expected due in part to supply chain issues, we expect these pressures to eventually abate. What may be left is modest inflation fueled by consumer demand, which is healthy and normal, and usually coincides with moderate economic growth. A moderately growing economy has been beneficial for many value companies, as it provides the fuel these cyclically oriented companies need to grow, improve their organizations and thrive. As we continue throughout the current economic cycle, we may see value stocks strengthen once again, leading to a shift in which regions dominate equity performance.
Despite the recent outperformance of US-based companies and US investors’ home-country bias, we believe investors will still benefit from proper diversification for a well-balanced portfolio. This means US and non-US exposure, and investment in value and growth stocks. Casting a wider net and investing opportunistically across multiple regions, including those which have been out of favor, is a good way, in our view, to be well-positioned regardless of the current economic climate.
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Bigg Boss 14 contestant Sonali Phogat’s death has left his fans and followers in shock. On August 23, the hospital declared her dead on arrival, however later, a murder angle was added to it. Things got murkier when her autopsy report declared ‘blunt force injuries. And soon Goa police called it a murder case and began the probe. As of now, a few people have been arrested in Sonali Phogat’s murder case and it including two of her associates- Sudhir Sangwan, Sukhwinder Singh, who have admitted to mixing chemicals in her drink.
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ZHANGJIAGANG, China, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2022 Yangtze River Culture Festival kicked off on Aug 27 in Zhangjiagang, a port city in East China's Jiangsu province, and will run until October. The annual gathering has become a habit for artists, scholars and inheritors of intangible cultural heritages in the Yangtze River Basin, according to the Organizing Committee of Yangtze River Culture Festival. As the event has been held for 19 consecutive years, people cannot help to ask why the small city is so influential in the whole Yangtze River region.
There are 181 bends of more than 90 degrees in the main stream of the Yangtze River, and the last one forms Zhangjiagang Bay. Today, here is an ecological scenic spot where the river can be seen and nostalgia remembered. Not far away is the Shanghai-Suzhou-Nantong Yangtze River Bridge, which began operations in 2020, with the high-speed trains on it running between Shanghai and northern Jiangsu. Especially on the bridge, people can enjoy the magnificent river and the city skyline on the riverbank.
Despite that Zhangjiagang, about 130 kilometers away from Shanghai, is only a county-level city in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, it is always ranked among the top three county-level cities in China in terms of economic strength. It is generally believed that the spirit of Zhangjiagang people's striving for the first comes from their riverside life experience featuring the courage to make the tide.
Zhangjiagang was founded just 60 years ago, but archaeological discoveries show that it was where the first civilization in the Yangtze River Basin emerged. During the Tang and Song dynasties, it was an important port for Sino-foreign exchanges, with palmette patterns typical of the western style appearing on excavated porcelain.
The young Zhangjiagang city is not only seeking to elevate its economy to the next level, but more importantly to build itself into a highly civilized city. Since the 1990s, a high level of civilization has been its pride, and the Yangtze River Culture Festival is one of its major initiatives.
Liu Pengchun, an artist who has attended the festival many times, said that artists from the Yangtze River Basin have diverse living habits, but the festival organizers manage to meet their different needs, which attracts people to the festival. Zhangjiagang boasts the best group of volunteers in China.
Another reason why the festival can be echoed across the basin is that Zhangjiagang respects cultural expression, where the diversity of Yangtze River culture can be fully showcased on the stage.
In recent years, the concept of preserving the Yangtze River and promoting its culture has gained unanimous recognition in China. Themed "Integrate, Promote, Share", this year's festival allows the audience to interact online and offline, learning about the diverse and splendid cultural relics exhibitions, intangible cultural heritage displays, cultural performances and more from the Yangtze River Basin.
In 2014, BBC producer Simon Reeve recorded the colorful Yangtze River culture with his documentary 'Sacred River: Yangtze River' in which he also expressed his concerns about over-exploitation. It is a pity that he has never been to Zhangjiagang. Zhangjiagang is an indispensable choice for anyone who wants to understand the Yangtze River and the Chinese people living along it today.
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New Zealand all-rounder Colin De Grandhomme announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on Wednesday.New Zealand Cricket (NZC) released an official statement, confirming the retirement of the right-hander. The decision comes after Adelaide Strikers had selected him in the Big Bash League (BBL) draft, but NZC had stated that he had not asked for a No Objection Certificate (NOC).The Zimbabwean-turned-Kiwi cricketer explained several factors for taking the decision.
“I accept that I am not getting any younger and that the training is getting harder, particularly with the injuries. I also have a growing family and am trying to understand what my future looks like post-cricket. All of this has been on my mind over the past few weeks,” the NZC release quoted de Grandhomme.
De Grandhomme departs from the international arena after 29 Tests, 45 ODIs, and 41 T20Is for the Kiwis. He registered 1,432 runs in Tests at an average of 38.70, including two centuries against West Indies and South Africa. He also scalped 49 wickets at 32.95 in his short but effective career.“I’ve been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to play for the BLACKCAPS since debuting in 2012 and I’m proud of my international career – but I feel this is the right time to finish,” De Grandhomme added. | https://www.lokmattimes.com/cricket/news/colin-de-grandhomme-announces-sudden-retirement-from-international-cricket-a475/ | 2022-08-31T05:18:21Z | https://www.lokmattimes.com/cricket/news/colin-de-grandhomme-announces-sudden-retirement-from-international-cricket-a475/ | true | 1 |
Tracy Spiridakos is wishing her on-screen husband, Jesse Lee Soffer, the best of luck as he says goodbye to his Chicago PD family.
The Jay Halstead actor announced on Aug. 29 that this year will be his last with the show. The news came as a shock considering Soffer has been a pivotal star since PD’s debut in 2014. But an Instagram post by co-star Spiridakos seems to share that he’s leaving on good terms.
“I guess the word is out…Jesse, what can I say, you’re the absolute best. Thank you for your kindness, your guidance, and your friendship. You’re the greatest onscreen husband a girl could ask for,” she wrote alongside a photo her herself with Soffer. “I’ll miss being on set with you every day. I can’t wait to see what the world has in store for you next. #upsteadforever”
Tracy Spiridakos’ touching tribute came less than a day after Jesse Lee Soffer made his major announcement.
“I want to thank the incredible fans for their unwavering support during the past 10 years and want to express my deepest gratitude to Dick Wolf and everyone at Wolf Entertainment, Peter Jankowski, Matt Olmstead, Derek Haas, Michael Brandt, Rick Eid, Gwen Sigan, NBC, Universal Television, my fellow castmates, and our incredible crew. To create this hour drama week after week has been a labor of love by everyone who touches the show,” she shared in a release. “I will always be proud of my time as Det. Jay Halstead.”
Jesse Lee Soffer Will Leave ‘Chicago PD’ This Fall
While Jesse Lee Soffer will appear in Season 10, neither he nor the series has announced when or how he will exit. However, per Variety, Soffer will not stay with Chicago PD for the entire run. He will retire his character sometime this fall.
Luckily, Soffer will be the only major character to leave the series this year. The other stars, including Jason Beghe, Tracy Spiridakos, LaRoyce Hawkins, Patrick John Fleuger, and Mariana Squerciati, will remain in the story.
Dante Torres’ Benjamin Levy Aguilar has also been promoted to series regular. For those who don’t remember, Torres is a rookie cop who appeared last season during the episode New Guard.
In the story, Torres worked with Halstead on the beat, and his extensive knowledge of the Chicago gangs made his mentor worry that he was a dirty cop. By the end, he proved to Halstead and the rest of the Intelligence Unit that he was on their side. And now that we know that Soffer is making his big exit, we can assume that the new actor will be filling his spot in the story.
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Actor and well-known film critic Kamal Rashid Khan was rushed to Shatabdi Hospital in Mumbai’s Kandivali neighbourhood on Tuesday after complaining of chest problems. Kamal, also known as KRK, was detained late on Monday night by Mumbai’s Malad Police in relation to one of his contentious tweets from 2020. He arrived from Dubai, and the Mumbai airport held him. He was then required to stay in judicial detention for 14 days by a court.
However, a recent report stated, ‘Kamal Rashid Khan was brought to Shatabdi Hospital in the Kandivali area of Mumbai evening after he complained of chest pain’.
Following KRK’s detention, his attorney said that the film critic was arrested because of remarks he made against Akshay Kumar, a producer and actor in the film Laxmi Bomb. He was also the subject of a lookout notice.
Meanwhile, the National Commission for Women urged that charges be brought against the film reviewer by the Maharashtra Police for uttering sexist statements. KRK has gained notoriety for making remarks about cricketer Virat Kohli’s mental state and accused his wife, actress Anushka Sharma of the same.
He tweeted, ‘Virat Kohli is the first cricketer in India, who is having problem of depression. Ye Hai Result Ek Heroine Se Shaadi Karne Ka. She must have put in his head that he is having depression problem’. He received harsh criticism from Virushka fans for making such a remark about the couple. | https://www.eastcoastdaily.in/2022/08/31/hours-after-arrest-krk-admitted-to-hospital-over-chest-pain-complaints.html | 2022-08-31T05:28:33Z | https://www.eastcoastdaily.in/2022/08/31/hours-after-arrest-krk-admitted-to-hospital-over-chest-pain-complaints.html | true | 1 |
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Dublin: Two 16-year-old Kerala-origin boys living in the UK, have "tragically drowned" in a lake in Northern Ireland, local media reported.
The deceased teenagers identified as Reuven Simon and Joseph Sebastian, were among a group of six friends who had cycled to Enagh Lough outside Derry, for a swim on Monday evening, Ireland's public service broadcaster RTE reported. It is believed the incident occurred after some of them went swimming, the media outlet said.
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Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) also said that a rapid-response paramedic, five emergency crews, a hazardous area response team and an ambulance officer were dispatched to the scene. NIAS also tasked the air ambulance to attend to the incident, according to RTE.
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Police said a second boy was also recovered from the water "after extensive searches by Foyle Search and Rescue and police divers. "He was sadly pronounced dead at the scene", the media outlet said.
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The Raymond School District is accepting applications to fill a vacancy on their Board of Directors.
The opening is for Position 4, vacated by Ron Bell, who ran unopposed and was elected in 2019 for the position.
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Applications for the board seat will be accepted until September 15, 2022 with an appointment to follow at an upcoming meeting.
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This summer marked the 10th anniversary of Miller v. Alabama, a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision banning mandatory sentences of life without parole for children.
The decision recognized that youths are both less culpable for their crimes and more capable of rehabilitation than adults, because of significant differences in their brains and behavior. The court relied on science showing that youths’ brains — specifically the part responsible for executive functioning — do not fully develop until the mid-20s, while the emotional part of the brain still runs full speed ahead.
The end result: Emotions and hormones are peaking, and the brain is not capable of pumping the brakes. These differences counsel against imposing extreme prison sentences on children who commit even very serious crimes.
As we mark this anniversary, Missouri is poised to execute Kevin Johnson, a man sentenced to death for a crime committed when he was only 19 years old. The science is clear: Youth under 25 are different than adults. They are less culpable and more capable of change. Yet, Missouri continues to seek death for late adolescents. Last week, the Missouri Supreme Court set a Nov. 29 execution date, despite his pending litigation.
Missouri has made progress since the Miller decision. Many people once sentenced to die in prison for crimes committed as children are now home. Thanks to a class-action lawsuit the MacArthur Justice Center brought against the parole board, the board is now educated on why youth matters. It has reformed the hearing process for youths sentenced to life without parole.
To be clear, the reforms do not mean people are automatically granted parole. Instead, they have to demonstrate readiness for release — and even then, they are at the whim of the board’s discretion. And, unlike other states and every other country in the world, in Missouri life without parole is still an option for adolescents convicted of first-degree murder.
Our juvenile lifer clients are making the most of their second chance. While incarcerated, they grew, reflected and improved themselves — even before they could hope to see the free world again. They are succeeding. They are working and paying taxes, reconnecting with family, getting married and meeting their grandkids. They are giving back to their community and mentoring at-risk youths.
We have yet to see one be rearrested.
Yet Missouri plans to kill Kevin Johnson, who was only a couple of months older than many of our clients who have come home.
Kevin’s youth does not excuse his actions. But his youth does lessen his culpability for the crime.
According to court records, on July 5, 2005, police went to Kevin Johnson’s family home to serve a warrant. While there, Kevin’s 12-year-old brother Joseph collapsed and suffered a heart attack. Police prevented his mother from helping her son, who did not get prompt medical attention and died shortly after. Later that same day, Kevin saw one of the officers and said “You killed my brother,” and shot and killed the officer.
Kevin’s youth does not excuse his actions. But his youth does lessen his culpability for the crime. Grieving his brother’s death, teenage Kevin was distraught and traumatized. Kevin also had a documented frontal lobe impairment that exacerbated the developmental characteristics attributable to all youths. His emotions were at their apex, and his ability to regulate them at rock bottom. Like any youth, he had limited ability to consider and weigh the consequences of his actions against the immediate impulse to act on his anger.
Today, Kevin is not that 19-year-old kid; he is a grown man who is extremely remorseful for his crime.
Kevin shares a lot with our clients who are now productive members of society. He earned his GED soon after entering custody. He is the commissioner of the prison sports leagues and also works in a learning center, where he assists other prisoners to complete courses in anger management, emotional therapy and trades.
And Kevin is a dedicated father to his daughter, Khorry, who is expecting his first grandchild. He has never had a serious disciplinary violation. When Kevin is not working, he reads, writes and mentors younger prisoners. But Kevin will never have the same chance to put his growth, rehabilitation and education to greater use.
It is not too late to stop this injustice.
Kevin has an application pending with the Conviction Integrity and Review Unit of St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell. Kevin’s defense team has detailed a former prosecutor’s practice of eliminating Black jurors from service in Kevin’s case and other capital cases, as well his office’s disparate practice of seeking the death penalty in homicide cases involving white victims or Black defendants.
Missouri, do not make the irreversible mistake of executing a youthful offender in the face of science and law telling us that even children who commit very serious crimes deserve a meaningful and realistic opportunity for release from prison—not a death sentence.
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The Goldman Sachs Group cut shares of Sonic Healthcare (OTCMKTS:SKHHY – Get Rating) from a neutral rating to a sell rating in a research note issued to investors on Sunday, The Fly reports.
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AAP leaders constantly changing their statements on issue of Delhi excise policy: BJP MP Manoj Tiwari.
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Parliament protester who pulled off police officer's mask given supervision
A protester who pulled a mask off the police officer over a skirmish line during the Parliament occupation in February, then punched the officer in the eye, has been given supervision by the court.
Anthony Sean Woods, 23, had pleaded guilty to aggravated assault on police and assault for both the punch and pulling off the mask.
He was part of the group on Parliament grounds when police moved in on February 10. About 120 people were arrested in the first wave of arrests.
Woods had reached over other protesters to grab the mask of an officer and pull it off. When the officer looked up, Woods punched him in the left eye.
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Wellington District Court judge Andrew Nicholls sentenced him to six months’ supervision, telling him he took a dim view of assaults on police.
He said there was a useful restorative justice meeting between Woods and the officer and his family that had ended with the officer wishing Woods well.
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Knights duo escape sanction following NRL’s toilet cubicle footage investigation
Knights duo Kalyn Ponga and Kurt Mann have reportedly escaped sanction following the pair’s toilet cubicle saga.
Ponga and Mann were filmed by a member of the public being escorted from a toilet cubicle by security in a Newcastle Hotel earlier this month.
Both the NRL and the Knights launched investigations into the matter, but according to The Daily Telegraph, the superstar fullback and utility will face no penalty from the NRL.
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It remains unclear whether Newcastle powerbrokers will sanction the players internally with Knights director of football Peter Parr previously stating he will support the Ingerity Unit’s decision.
“We contacted the Integrity Unit, they will now run the process and we will support them in that,” Parr said the day after the vision emerged.
“We haven’t discussed any punishment yet because we don’t know if there is any punishment to be had... we don’t have to make any decisions on that yet, we don’t even know if punishment is necessary yet.”
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The NRL drug tested the pair as a part of their investigation with many calling for the Maroons star to be stripped of the club’s captaincy.
Both players claimed Mann was assisting Ponga to the toilet because he was feeling sick, denying any wrongdoing.
Mann was sidelined with a quad injury at the time and is yet to return to the field, while Ponga has been ruled out for the season due to multiple head knocks.
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An overseas oil and gas company has bought into three proposed offshore wind farms in NSW including one off the coast of Newcastle.
Norwegian company Equinor has struck a deal with Australian developer Oceanex Energy who is looking to develop the offshore wind projects – the proposed $10 billion Novocastrian Offshore Wind Farm will be located just over 20 kilometres off the coast and consist of 130 turbines which will generate 2,000 megawatts.
The wind farm is in the feasibility phase and would see strong winds offshore generate electricity that will be transmitted subsea and underground to existing nearby grid connection pints in the Hunter Valley.
Oceanex wants to see construction start in 2028 and be finished by 2031.
It would provide more than 3,000 direct jobs during construction and then 300 jobs during it’s operational life of 30 years.
Once the relevant declared areas have been announced by the Commonwealth Government, the two companies intend to submit feasibility licence applications for offshore wind acreage in Newcastle, the Illawarra and Eden.
Equinor is a huge company accounting for more than 70 per cent of Norway’s oil production but is increasingly getting involved in offshore wind to gradually decarbonise its operations.
The company is developing offshore wind clusters in the UK, the US Northeast and in the Baltic Sea.
Vice President Business Development Renewables Asia & Pacific in Equinor Lars Johannes Nordli said they’re committed to investing in Australia due to the net-zero target by 2050 and the desire the country has to accelerate renewable energy.
“Our ambition is to apply our industrial offshore experience and broad energy competence to create long-lasting value and supply homegrown renewables power to Australia by working closely with a strong local partner such as Oceanex in New South Wales,”
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department sought a search warrant of former President Donald Trump’s residence in Florida after obtaining evidence that highly classified documents were likely moved around and concealed and that Trump’s representatives had falsely claimed all sensitive material had been returned, according to a court filing by the department Tuesday.
The filing, which came in response to Trump’s request for an independent review of materials seized from his home, Mar-a-Lago, paints the clearest picture yet of the department’s exhaustive effort to retrieve the documents before taking the extraordinary step of searching a former president’s private property on Aug. 8.
Among the new disclosures in the 36-page filing were that the search yielded three classified documents in desks located inside Trump’s office, with more than 100 documents in 13 boxes or containers with classification markings in the residence, including some at the most restrictive levels.
That was twice the number of classified documents the former president’s lawyers turned over voluntarily while swearing an oath that they had returned all the material demanded by the government.
The investigation into Trump’s retention of government documents began as a relatively straightforward attempt in 2021 to recover materials that officials with the National Archives had spent months trying to retrieve. Tuesday’s filing made clear that prosecutors are now unmistakably focused on the possibility that Trump and those around him took potentially criminal steps to obstruct their investigation.
Investigators developed evidence that “government records were likely concealed and removed” from the storage room at Mar-a-Lago “and that efforts were likely undertaken to obstruct the government’s investigation,” prosecutors wrote in the filing.
It included one striking visual aid — a photograph of at least five yellow folders recovered from Trump’s resort and residence marked “Top Secret” and another red one labeled “Secret.”
But department officials are not close to filing charges, if they ever will. And it remains unclear what specific materials the government recovered in the search — or what actual risk to national security was posed by Trump’s decision to retain the materials.
While the contents of the filing provide important new information about the timeline of the investigation, much of the information was referenced, in less detail, in the affidavit used to obtain the warrant, which was unsealed by a federal magistrate judge last week.
The most important disclosures concerned the actions of Trump’s legal team at his behest.
The Justice Department effort began in May, after the FBI examined 15 boxes of documents the National Archives had previously retrieved from Mar-a-Lago after months of asking Trump’s representatives to return missing records. The bureau found 184 classified documents in that initial tranche.
On May 11, the department lawyers obtained a subpoena to retrieve all materials marked as classified that were not turned over by the former president.
On June 3, his team presented FBI agents with 38 additional documents with classified markings, including 17 labeled top secret; they also provided the department’s national security division with a written statement by one of Trump’s lawyers on behalf of his office who was serving as the formal “custodian” of the files. While that person’s name has been redacted in government filings, multiple people have identified her as Christina Bobb.
Bobb’s statement was attached to the department’s filing Tuesday. In it, the lawyer wrote that “based upon the information that has been provided to me,” there had been a “diligent” search and all responsive documents to the subpoena were being returned.
But law enforcement officials soon developed evidence that statement was untrue — and said their investigation cast serious doubt on the sworn statement.
The FBI “uncovered multiple sources of evidence indicating that the response to the May 11 grand jury subpoena was incomplete and that classified documents remained at the premises, notwithstanding the sworn certification made to the government on June 3,” the Justice Department filing said. “In particular, the government developed evidence that a search limited to the storage room would not have uncovered all the classified documents at the premises.”
The Justice Department obtained further subpoenas for surveillance videos of Mar-a-Lago, and the search warrant affidavit revealed that it had been working with multiple civilian witnesses. The result was the search warrant executed Aug. 8.
The filing noted “the FBI, in a matter of hours, recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the ‘diligent search’ that the former president’s counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform,” a fact that it said “calls into serious question the representations made in the June 3 certification and casts doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter.”
Trump and his allies have claimed that, as president, he had virtually limitless power to declassify documents. But prosecutors said that Trump’s lawyers never “asserted that the former president had declassified the documents or asserted any claim of executive privilege.”
Tuesday’s filing, which was released minutes before a midnight deadline imposed by a federal judge, accompanied a sealed list of the documents, many of them highly classified, that Trump retained at Mar-a-Lago. That inventory, filed earlier in the day, is likely to be far more detailed than the brief list included in the search warrant unsealed at the request of Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The department, inundated by the torrent of misinformation and vitriol unleashed on federal law enforcement officials by Trump and his supporters, has been using legal filings, rather than social media or public comments, to disclose the evidence and legal reasoning behind their actions. On Monday, prosecutors sought permission to extend the length of their response, which was quickly granted.
Trump’s legal team, which has been slow to respond to the government’s actions since the search, is requesting the appointment of an independent arbiter known as a special master to review the trove of materials seized by the FBI. The president’s lawyers waited weeks to even file the special master request, which was intended to halt the examination of the documents, allowing the government to complete its initial assessment — potentially rendering the request moot.
On Tuesday, the Justice Department argued that a special master was “unnecessary and would significantly harm important governmental interests, including national security interests.”(BEGIN OPTIONAL TRIM.)It also argued that the judge lacked jurisdiction over the matter and that Trump “lacks standing to seek judicial relief or oversight as to presidential records because those records do not belong to him.”
Yet, over the years the former president has frequently taken legal steps simply to delay and disrupt the opposition, and the court could temporarily block investigators’ access to the evidence, to hinder the separate effort to determine the national security risks posed by his possession of the documents.
(END OPTIONAL TRIM.)The Trump appointee overseeing the request, Judge Aileen M. Cannon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, had already signaled that she was inclined to appoint a special master but wanted to first hear from the Justice Department.
On Monday, the government said it had set aside materials that could potentially be covered by attorney-client privilege, although Trump’s lawsuit had raised executive privilege, a different issue. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for Thursday in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The department’s decision to use a court filing as a vehicle to provide a more extensive explanation of the government’s actions — and a rebuke of Trump’s rotating roster of legal representatives — evolved over the past few days and lawyers wrangled over small details until moments before it was filed, according to people familiar with the situation.
Garland, they said, remains deeply wary of speaking too much, cautioned by the example of James Comey, the former director of the FBI, whose high-profile pronouncements during investigations into Trump and Hillary Clinton were regarded as an egregious violation of departmental policy norms.
But after the Mar-a-Lago search, the department’s senior leaders quickly realized that Trump would otherwise seize on their silence with distorted claims.
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US life expectancy lowest in decades after dropping nearly a full year in 2021
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN
After a historic drop in 2020, life expectancy in the United States took another significant hit in 2021.
According to provisional data published Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, life expectancy at birth dropped by nearly a year between 2020 and 2021 — and by more than two and a half years overall since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Life expectancy at birth fell to 76.1 years, the lowest it has been in the US since 1996, and the biggest 2-year decline in a century.
Covid-19 was the driving factor, with deaths from the virus contributing to half of the decline from 2020 to 2021, according to the report from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.
The death rate from Covid-19 was higher in 2021 than it was in 2020, so it wasn’t particularly surprising that life expectancy would fall again, Bob Anderson, chief mortality statistician for the CDC, told CNN.
Also, drug overdose deaths reached a record high in 2021, killing about 109,000 people. And deaths from unintentional injuries — about half of which are due to drug overdose — was the second-leading cause of the decline in life expectancy.
Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, also said it wasn’t surprising, but it is frustrating.
“It is distressing to see a continuing negative impact of drug overdose on the life expectancy of Americans. These deaths often occur in young adults and therefore represent a tragically high number of years of life lost and devastating impact on individuals, families, and communities,” she said. “We have the science and the tools available to help us reverse this trend and reduce the number of overdose deaths in this country. But these tools are not being used effectively.”
Even if expected, the scale of the decline is still extraordinary. In 2021, mortality rates due to influenza and pneumonia decreased, and if not for these “offsetting effects,” the decline in US life expectancy would have been even greater, according to the report.
“Mortality generally, mainly since the 1950s, has changed rather slowly,” Anderson said. Changes of more than a few tenths of a year have been considered substantial.
An ‘astounding’ decline
The recent decline among American Indian and Alaska Native people is particularly “astounding,” Anderson said.
The life expectancy for this group plunged by nearly 2 years between 2020 and 2021 and a startling 6.6 years since 2019 — more than twice as much as it did for the total US population.
At 65.2 years, the life expectancy for American Indians in 2021 was equal to the overall US life expectancy in 1944.
“When I saw that, in the report, I just — my jaw dropped,” Anderson said.
“It was hard enough to fathom a 2.7 year decline over 2 years overall. But then to see a 6.6 year decline for the American Indian population — it just shows the substantial impact that the pandemic has had on that population.”
Deaths from Covid-19 directly were the leading contributor to the decline in life expectancy among American Indian people in 2021, but deaths due to drug overdose and other unintentional injuries, as well as chronic liver disease, which is often caused by alcohol abuse, were nearly equal contributors for this group.
When it comes to the pandemic, Anderson said, “I’m not just talking about Covid-19 necessarily, but also the other factors that seem to have increased during the pandemic.”
Experts say the pandemic exacerbated already existing disparities for American Indians and others.
Dr. Matthew Clark, a chief medical officer with the Indian Health Service, said the findings of the new CDC report are concerning, but it has been known that American Indian and Alaska Native people “suffer disproportionately with regard to health outcomes for a broad variety of conditions.”
There are “unique aspects to addressing health outcomes” in these communities, he said, and this data should be viewed as a “call to action, an opportunity to redouble our efforts” to address a broad range of factors that impact the health of these populations and engage with tribal communities to find solutions.
“Even in the midst of a very concerning report like this, I do think that there’s hope,” Clark said, and “there is an opportunity to move the needle in the other direction.”
To do that, the goal should be to explore the root causes of those disparities for American Indians and others, said Ruben Cantu, an associate program director with Prevention Institute, a nonprofit focused on health equity.
“A lot of the talk is going to be around the pandemic,” Cantu said. “But we need to think about what has driven the conditions that have allowed certain communities to be more vulnerable” in the first place, like crowded housing, poor access to health care and low-income jobs that don’t allow for paid sick leave.
A separate study, published as a preprint in June, found that the decrease in life expectancy in the US over the course of the pandemic was “highly racialized” and substantially larger than it was for a set of comparable countries. In fact, that study found that life expectancy increased slightly between 2020 and 2021 for the set of 21 peer countries.
Demographic differences
The new data from the CDC highlights differences in life-expectancy trends by race and ethnicity, as well as by gender.
In the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, life expectancy declined least among White people. In the second year of the pandemic, however, this group saw the second-biggest decline in life expectancy — and deaths due to Covid-19 contributed to the drop among White people more than any other racial or ethnic group.
Once the most vaccinated group, the share of the White population that is fully vaccinated with their initial series now lags behind that of the Black, Hispanic and Asian populations, CDC data shows.
Life expectancy in 2021 was highest among both Asian women (85.6 years) and men (81.2 years), the CDC data shows. Hispanic women were the only other group with a life expectancy greater than 80 years.
In the total US population, life expectancy fell more among men than among women in 2021, widening a gap that has been growing over the past decade. The disparity in life expectancy between men (73.2 years) and women (79.1 years) is now nearly six years.
The life expectancy for American Indian men in 2021 was 61.5 years, lower than any other group. Black men had the next lowest, at 66.7 years.
A recent project by the Prevention Institute focused on the mental health and well-being of men and boys. It found that men and boys of color — especially Black and Native American men — “start out with higher rates of trauma and mental health challenges,” Cantu said, which can make them more vulnerable to other conditions.
“Over the last five or six years, we’ve heard a lot more about diseases of despair — things like substance use, alcoholism and suicide — and a lot of those things are connected,” he said. “It helps to point out how vulnerable certain communities can be to a lot of other conditions.”
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France witnessed the second hottest summer since 1900, according to the country's meteorological service.
Meteorologists from Meteo-France said on Thursday that the months of June, July and August of this year, the national average temperature will probably be 2.3 degrees Celsius above the reference value, dpa news agency reported.
This was the second hottest summer in the country since 1900, after an even hotter summer in 2003.
According to Meteo-France, the country had suffered from three heatwaves in the past three months which it described as particularly intense and long.
Overall, these heatwaves would have lasted 33 days, a record.
Temperature records were also broken in various places in the country.
According to the data, there was significantly less rain in France this summer.
The national average was around 20 per cent below the average for the years 1991 to 2020.
Due to climate change, there are more hot days.
According to the weather service, France has been struggling with more and stronger heatwaves for the last few decades.
Drought will also be exacerbated by climate change as hot temperatures lead to evaporation.
The weather experts warned in their statement that a summer like this one could become normal in France after 2050 if high emissions continue.
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Japan to further ease border curbs to exploit weak yen
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- Fumio Kishida100th~101st Prime Minister of Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will further ease border controls from Sept. 7 by raising the ceiling for daily entrants to 50,000 and freeing up entry for travellers from all countries on package tours without the need for guides, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters after returning to work from a COVID-19 infection, Kishida said Japan will proceed with further easing steps, taking into account virus infections in and outside of the country, travellers' demand and border controls adopted by other countries.
"From the standpoint of making use of merits from the weak yen, we'll ease border controls further," Kishida told reporters.
Japan's yen has been trading at its lowest in more than 20 years against the U.S. dollar and other major currencies, a potential boom for Japanese businesses exposed to international tourism.
Japan began a phased reopening to tourists in June after a more than two-year ban. But visitor arrivals had been limited to 20,000 per day and had to be part of packaged tours accompanied by guides at all times to ensure compliance with infection controls.
Kishida has pledged to bring Japan's border measures, among the strictest in the world during the pandemic, more in line with other wealthy democracies.
(Reporting by Tetsushi Kajimoto; Editing by Lincoln Feast.) | https://news.yahoo.com/japan-further-ease-border-curbs-054558214.html | 2022-08-31T06:56:29Z | https://news.yahoo.com/japan-further-ease-border-curbs-054558214.html | false | 4 |
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Kidambi Srikanth scored a stunning straight-games victory over world No. 4 Lee Zii Jia but Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen suffered a shock defeat in the opening round of the Japan Open Super 750 badminton tournament, in Osaka, on Wednesday.
Srikanth, a former world No. 1, recovered from his early exit in last week's World Championships, to outwit fifth seed Lee 22-20, 23-21 in his men's singles opener which lasted 37 minutes.
It was his first victory over the Malaysian in four meetings.
The 21-year-old Sen, a 2021 World Championships bronze medallist, however, squandered an opening game advantage and went down 21-18, 14-21, 13-21 to world No. 21 Japanese Kenta Nishimoto.
The fast-rising men's doubles pairing of M R Arjun and Dhruv Kapila, who rose nine places to No. 26 after a quarter-final finish at the World Championships, also lost. They were beaten 21-19, 21-23, 15-21 to the Korean combination of Choi Sol Gyu and Kim Won Ho after wasting a match point in the second game.
In other results, the mixed doubles pair of Juhi Dewangan and Venkat Gaurav Prasad lost 11-21, 10-21 to Chinese top seeds Zheng Si Wei and Huang Ya Qiong in 23 minutes.
It was a gritty performance from world No. 14 Srikanth, who is often guilty of not being able to close out narrow matches despite doing all the hard work in setting up the points.
On Wednesday, the Indian ace again found himself in a similar position when he almost wasted a 15-11 advantage by allowing Lee to grab three game points, but held his nerve to reel off five points on the trot and leave his younger opponent stranded and seal the opening game.
Stung by the opening game reverse, Lee showed purpose after the change of sides. He opened up a 2-0 lead early on and ensured at slender one-point advantage in the interval.
He stepped up a gear to move to 14-11 but soon things changed as Srikanth grabbed a 18-16 lead and stood just two points away from victory at 20-18.
It seemed there would be another twist in the tale as Lee saved two match points and earned himself a game point but Srikanth ensured there were no hiccups as he pocketed the required three points to shut the door on the Malaysian.
In the other singles, Lakshya was by far the better player in the opening game as he quickly ran up a 7-2 lead and jumped to 15-9 at one stage, before pocketing it game comfortably.
The Indian made a good start to the second, opening up 8-4 lead but soon lost control as Nishimoto dished out a sensational fightback to win nine of the next 10 points to roar back into the contest.
Suddenly the momentum completely shifted as Lakshya seemed clueless even as Nishimoto dominated from the start to keep moving ahead as the Indian crumbled in the decider.
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Japan PM apologizes for party's church links, will cut ties
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday his ruling party will cut ties with the Unification Church following a widening scandal triggered by former leader Shinzo Abe's assassination last month, and apologized for causing the loss of public trust in politics.
Widespread cozy ties between members of Kishida's governing Liberal Democratic Party, many of them belonging to Abe's faction, and the South Korean-born church have surfaced since Abe was shot to death while giving a campaign speech in July.
The suspect, Tetsuya Yamagani, who was arrested at the scene, allegedly told police he killed Abe because of his apparent link to the church. In a letter seen by The Associated Press and social media posts believed to be his, Yamagani said he believed his mother’s large donations to the church had ruined his life.
Some Japanese have expressed understanding, even sympathy, as details of the man’s life emerged, creating deep implications for the political party that has governed Japan virtually uninterrupted since World War II.
While religious groups must abide by law, “politicians are strictly required to be careful about groups with social problems,” Kishida said. Members of his Cabinet and other key posts have agreed to review their past links and cut ties with the church.
“As president of the LDP, I honestly express my apology" for causing the public's doubts and concerns over the continuing revelations in media reports about the party's extensive ties to the church, Kishida said.
The Unification Church, which was founded in South Korea in 1954 and came to Japan a decade later, has built close ties with a host of conservative lawmakers over their shared interests of opposing communism. Abe's grandfather and former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi was a key figure who helped the church's political unit in Tokyo.
Since the 1980s, the church has faced accusations of problematic recruiting, sales of religious items and donations, which often lead to financial strains on the followers' families and, according to experts, mental health of adherents' children. The issues led to the government's decision to cut ties with the church.
Abe sent a video message last year to the Universal Peace Federation, an international group affiliated with the church, which experts say may have motivated the suspect in Abe's shooting. Abe had praised the federation's co-founder Hak Ja Han Moon, who is also head of the church, for her effort in promoting traditional family values.
Experts and cult watchers also say that the church has promoted its key agendas such as the opposition to women's advancement and same-sex marriage to influence policy.
Kishida shuffled his Cabinet earlier in August to purge seven ministers linked to the church. Among them was Abe's younger brother Nobuo Kishi, who acknowledged that church followers volunteered in his election campaign. Dozens of LDP members have since come forward with their ties to the church and related organizations.
Kishida said at the news conference that he has instructed LDP Secretary General Toshimitsu Motegi to survey the party fully over any other members' ties to the church. Kishida said he is rushing the effort but it may take time because the review will span decades.
Kishida apologized for the loss of public trust because of the scandal and his lack of explanation for organizing a state funeral for Abe, one of most divisive leaders in Japan’s postwar history.
The state funeral scheduled for Sept. 27 has split public opinion. The only other state funeral in postwar Japan was for former Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, who signed the San Francisco Treaty that restored ties with the Allies and ended the U.S. occupation of Japan.
Kishida’s Cabinet last week allocated at least a 250 million yen ($1.8 million) budget to invite about 6,000 guests for the funeral at the Budokan arena in Tokyo.
Kishida insisted that Abe deserved a state funeral because of his achievement in raising Japan's global profile as its longest-serving postwar leader. He said Japan must respond with courtesy to “outpouring of condolences” from foreign leaders and legislations. | https://news.yahoo.com/japan-pm-apologizes-partys-church-032909743.html | 2022-08-31T07:05:10Z | https://news.yahoo.com/japan-pm-apologizes-partys-church-032909743.html | true | 35 |
Working on a show such as the gritty gangland series Kin brings a range of emotions with intense storylines and for Charlie Cox, there have been some days where it has been particularly tough to shoot scenes.
Cox, who is also known for his role as Matt Murdock in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, plays Michael Kinsella in the RTÉ series which follows a Dublin family embroiled in gangland war.
Some have criticised the show in the past for seeming to glamourise gangland violence, but when Cox read the script, he felt it highlighted how “gruesome and uncomfortable and painful” that life can be.
With his character, the actor says he wants to portray the sense that he is “so far beyond” the possibility of exiting a life of crime.
“You should feel when you watch him do the things he does, a sense of reluctance and grief and frustration and anger and fear,” he explains ahead of the release of series two.
With the show comes some difficult scenes and while filming episodes two and three last year, the 39-year-old admits there was a period of time when he was almost "dreading" going to work.
"There was a period of time when I was like, 'wow. I'm really kind of dreading going to work," he says.
“I loved the creative process, I was loving the storytelling and I believed in it so much but sitting in those feelings. When you do a funeral scene, you’re doing a funeral all day. You’re sitting in that grief all day.”
It can be a “very uncomfortable” emotion to be living in and often lingers after scenes finish, the actor says.
“My feeling with this show, particularly what happens at the beginning is that if anything, it shines a light on how devastating to a family and to a community that life can be.”
His involvement in the crime drama series came during lockdown when his wife and producer, Samantha Thomas, asked him to read the show while they were in the States.
“I said to my wife, is there a version that they would consider hiring me and we can keep the family together and we can all go to Dublin and make the show?
“I’d read it and I’d also just finished watching Normal People and was really moved by that and reminded of the kind of storytelling I wanted to be involved in.”
While first getting acquainted with the Irish ways, the British actor says the strangest thing he has noticed about Irish people is the ability to agree by simply breathing in.
“It’s that thing where people agree with you by breathing in. I’ve tried to put it in the show a couple of times. The first time, I was in a car with a guy, and I was chatting to him…I thought he was asthmatic,” he jokes.
“He kept doing [it]. I’ve tried to put it in the show but it keeps feeling really fake, so I haven’t quite got it down.”
As for nailing the Dublin accent, Cox was “terrified” about getting it wrong and spent hours listening to podcasts and even took inspiration from ex-soccer player Shane Supple.
“I listened to Shane in an interview and there was a texture in his voice that I felt was unexpected for Michael and I felt like it was close to what I wanted to try and do with him and his voice,” Cox says.
“Not to copy and repeat but he has a clarity — he’s very clear about what he wants to say but there was a complete lack of ego. The opposite of a Conor McGregor-type thing.
"That was the closest I found to something that would suit Michael.” | https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40951082.html | 2022-08-31T07:12:15Z | https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40951082.html | true | 1 |
After a massive decline in theatre shows for Raksha Bandhan, Akshay Kumar is facing another challenge as BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has sent a legal notice to the team of Ram Setu, including Jacqueline Fernandez and Nushrratt Bharuccha, for “distorting facts” in the yet to be released movie. According to the Hindustan Times, the former Rajya Sabha MP sent a legal notice on Sunday accusing Hindi cinema of having a habit of misrepresenting facts. The politician had tweeted, “Mumbai cinema [or is it sin-e-ma] wallas have a bad habit of falsifying and misappropriation. Hence to teach them Intellectual Property Rights, I have through Satya Sabharwal Adv issued Legal Notice to Cine Actor Akshay Kumar (Bhatia) and 8 others for distorting Ram Setu saga.” According to a report by ANI, his advocate said in the legal notice, “My client in 2007 has successfully argued before the Supreme Court for the preservation and protection of the Rama Setu and had opposed the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project of the Government of India which envisaged rupturing the Rama Setu, on August 31, 2007, the Supreme Court was pleased to pass stay order against any plan to demolish or damage the Rama Setu. This was on the grounds that faith and worship is a constitutional imperative.” The notice said that stated that Swamy got to know about the film and believes the court proceedings are an integral part of saving Ram Setu. “If the same is being picturised in the addressee’s film, then my client has contributed in the film vide the court proceedings initiated and my client is bound to be recognised for the same with correct picturisation of original facts and the original petitioner’s name used anywhere in the film,” read the notice. The politician wants the script and frames related to the landmark in order to prevent any “falsification of facts”. The notice demanded that the BJP leader be credited for his contributions to the Ram Setu case in the opening credits of the film. The politician also demanded to receive the final script and an invitation to watch the film before it releases for the public. The film is an action-adventure drama that follows the story of an archaeologist investigating whether Ram Setu is a myth or a reality. The film is expected to release in theatres on October 24. | https://dailytimes.com.pk/990137/bjp-leader-wants-to-be-named-in-opening-credits-of-akshay-kumar-jacqueline-fernandezs-film-ram-setu/ | 2022-08-31T07:13:23Z | https://dailytimes.com.pk/990137/bjp-leader-wants-to-be-named-in-opening-credits-of-akshay-kumar-jacqueline-fernandezs-film-ram-setu/ | false | 1 |
Tesla was the highest-scoring brand in J.D. Power’s 2022 U.S. Tech Experience Index Study, which evaluates advanced-tech features in new cars.
The study ranks brands by problems per 100 vehicles, the same metric used in J.D. Power’s annual Initial Quality Study, which is considered an industry benchmark. Included for the first time, Tesla achieved the highest score in the study’s history—681 points out of a possible 1,000.
However, Tesla’s score is considered unofficial, because it does not allow J.D. Power access to owner information in the states where that permission is required by law, meaning it does not meet the full criteria for awards. Polestar also wasn’t officially ranked, but its score of 608 points would have put it near the top.
“The disruption from high-tech entrants such as Tesla and Polestar further accentuates the necessity for innovation,” a J.D. Power press release said. “It is also essential because new-vehicle technology is a leading reason for purchase.”
The results burnish Tesla’s image as a high-tech innovator. The Tesla Model 3 (and by extension the Model Y that followed) was seen as a tech leader when launched—not just in battery and propulsion tech but in its user interfaces. More recently, Tesla has tried to maintain that image with increasingly outlandish features like steering yokes and touchscreen gear selectors on the Model S and Model X.
Genesis, which offers a fingerprint reader on its GV60, performed at the top among officially ranked brands—even though that feature in general was noted the most problematic in the study’s history. Perhaps that’s because Genesis also offers a phone-based digital key feature, which ranked high in both desirability and execution in the study.
This shows that new tech features must be properly executed to be worthwhile. J.D. Power recently found that while EV powertrains aren’t a problem, all the other tech that automakers tend to pack into EVs is.
But, as J.D. Power noted in this study, tech features are also part of the appeal here, and one facet of the strong consumer interest in EVs noted in another of the organization’s recent studies. So it’s a balancing act for automakers between delivering more tech without souring customers on the EV experience.
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The U.S. won the latest battle in its women’s hockey tug of war with Canada.
Megan Keller had a goal and an assist and Hilary Knight moved closer to the all-time world championship points record in a 5-2 win over Canada to cap the preliminary round on Tuesday.
Trailing 2-0 after the opening period, the U.S. scored five unanswered goals against the defending champions with Lacey Eden producing the winner at 3:14 of the third period.
The Americans ended Canada’s run of wins against them at five straight — including the most recent world and Olympic finals — with their biggest margin of victory over the Canadians since a 4-1 win Dec. 14, 2019.
“For us, it doesn’t really matter what happened in the past,” U.S. forward Kelly Pannek said.
“This game, the score is what it is, but how we worked and how we got those goals, we got down, but our mentality was never down. We never were out of the game mentality.
“We stuck together. I think that is more important than getting five goals. It’s the way we did it.”
The U.S. went unbeaten in four games to top Pool A, which featured the top five seeds in the tournament.
The Americans take on Hungary, the No. 3 seed in Pool B, in a quarterfinal matchup Thursday.
Canada, with three wins and a loss, meets Pool B runner-up Sweden.
In Thursday’s other quarterfinals, Finland takes on Czechia, which went undefeated to top Pool B, while Switzerland and Japan square off as the fourth and fifth seeds in Pool A.
Saturday’s semifinals are followed by Sunday’s medal games.
U.S. captain Kendall Coyne Schofield’s insurance goal in the third period was her first of the tournament.
Pannek also scored and Nicole Hensley stopped 26 shots for the win.
Knight’s empty-netter was her 85th career world championship point and one back of the record held by Canada’s Hayley Wickenheiser.
Knight already holds the all-time goals record with 50.
With three goals and two assists in four games in Denmark, Knight vaulted over Canada’s Jayna Hefford to move into second in the all-time points table.
“Those are two Hockey Hall of Famers, so when you put Hilary Knight into that conversation, she’s a no-brainer Hockey Hall of Famer when her career is said and done and there’s still a long way to go,” Coyne Schofield said.
Sarah Fillier and Ella Shelton scored for the Canadians, who didn’t generate as many scoring chances from close range as the Americans and were often muscled off the puck by the U.S.
“I don’t think it was necessarily inside the dots. We were losing battles along the wall against them,” Canadian head coach Troy Ryan said.
“We’ve got to be better along the wall to get pucks inside the dots.”
Canada downed the U.S. 5-1 in the preliminary round in last year’s world championship in Calgary before edging the Americans 3-2 in overtime in the final.
“I never believed and our staff never believed, that the outcome of this game would really have a big impact in the rest of this event, but how we handle whatever happens was going to have a big impact,” Ryan said.
“We lost so it’s going to be how we handle that loss, that’s going to determine success moving forward.”
Emerance Maschmeyer stopped 28 shots in the loss.
“Every time you lose against the U.S., it’s always a sting,” Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin said.
“No time to panic for us. It’s a game. It’s part of the process. It’s never going to be perfect. It’s just a matter of us being resilient.”
Savannah Harmon threaded a cross-ice pass under a Canadian stick to Eden, who wired the puck top shelf for the go-ahead goal in the third.
The Canadians couldn’t produce an equalizer on a subsequent power play with Coyne Schofield serving a boarding minor.
Schofield then scored her team’s fourth goal on a tip-in from the slot at 13:28.
“Lacey had a heck of a shot. Skill play, but the trench work ultimately wins you games,” U.S. coach John Wroblewski said.
“I was very happy for our captain to score down in that area. Great storyline for us to have her be the one to give us that two-goal lead, which was obviously massive.”
Defender Renata Fast’s roughing penalty with just under four minutes to go hampered Canada’s chances for a late comeback.
Canada outshot the U.S. 16-8 in the second period, but the Americans scored twice to pull even.
After a Jessie Eldridge tip deflected off Hensley’s left post, the U.S. scored on its subsequent rush with Pannek redirecting a Cayla Barnes shot at 11:11.
The Americans halved a two-goal deficit with a power-play goal at 4:16.
READ MORE: ‘This group just stuck with it’: Winning world juniors gold special for Canada
The puck cycled out to Keller, and her shot deflected off Canadian defender Ashton Bell and by Maschmeyer.
With Pannek serving a roughing minor, Shelton flipped the puck over a prone Hensley during a goalmouth scramble for a power-play goal at 18:12 of the first period.
Fillier spun and banged in a rebound off a Renata Fast shot from the point at 3:29 for her team-leading fourth goal of the tournament.
With two wins and two losses, Finland ranked third in Pool A with a 4-0 win Tuesday over short-staffed Switzerland (1-3-0-0).
The Swiss were minus five players, including four with illness.
The Swiss hockey federation said on its website that captain Lara Stalder had tested positive for COVID-19, and the other three negative.
Canadian and U.S. players wore masks Tuesday for post-game interviews.
“Knowing that there are some cases in the tournament, it was an easy decision for us to do the right thing and put our masks on,” Schofield said.
Czechia blanked Sweden 3-0 to go undefeated atop Pool B, five points up on the runner-up Swedes.
Germany secured the fourth and final playoff berth in the pool with a 3-2 victory over host Denmark.
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Since July this year, Pakistan has been vacillating between two points: how to repeat Sri Lanka’s experience of turmoil and how to circumvent the same. Apparently, forces are trying to push Pakistan over the edge of economic bankruptcy compared to the forces trying to pull the country out of any such economic crisis. Pakistan is stretched between the two. Silent spectators are the people of Pakistan. On August 29, the Pakistanis were stunned to hear a leaked audio call made by Shaukat Tareen to Mohsin Leghari. Tareen had been the Finance Minister for the former government run by the Pakistan Tehreke Insaf (PTI) at the Centre, whereas Leghari is the current Finance Minister for the PTI-led provincial government in Punjab. The audio call revealed that Tareen was issuing directions to Leghari to write a letter to the central government about the projected incapacity of the provincial government from fulfilling its budgetary promise in the wake of recent floods. Tareen also mentioned that, on his advice, Finance Minister for the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Timor Jhagra had already done the same. Tareen claimed that the letter from Punjab would also reach the IMF through social media, as was the case with the letter from KPK. Whether or not Leghari followed the precedent, the call made the intent clear: Tareen wanted two provinces (out of four) to stand in revolt against the Centre on the budgetary commitment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Tareen knew, as he expressed, that the provincial snub would undermine the Centre’s efforts to secure the next tranche of the IMF loan, especially when Pakistan was already late in obtaining so. Consequently, Pakistan would be left with one of two choices: either it would be declared bankrupt or it would resort to a mini-budget. In either case, the situation would be ripe for the PTI to score political mileage by enflaming people into revolting against the central government. The Sri Lanka experience would be visited upon the Pakistanis. The consequent disorder would not only discredit the political parties running the central government from the common platform of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), but it would also pressurize the central government to succumb to the demand of the PTI to hold general elections immediately. Two birds will be killed with one stone. The leakage of the call was not a happenstance. PTI’s Fawad Chaudhry had got a hint to the prospective trickle. He was quick to appear on a tv talk show just a day (or two) earlier to announce that the PTI would welcome both KPK and Punjab reneging on their promises to the Centre on the question of their financial commitments. The provinces would seek excuses for the floods wreaking havoc on their areas. Tareen’s call also divulged the reason for extending the excuse, and it was to attempt to erode the credibility of the central government in the eyes of the IMF. Nevertheless, after the audio call was made public, Asad Umar made a futile effort to defend Tareen publicly by saying that the flood in KPK was a reality, hence the justification for the written letter. Umar, however, failed to justify the intent of Tareen, who wanted to seek revenge from the incumbent central government. He was also doing spiteful efforts to gratify the PTI Chairman. Tareen could stoop so low to achieve the political objectives of the PTI was unimaginable. Nevertheless, Tareen’s attempt laid bare several other modus operandi adopted by the PTI. For instance, the way the party has been trying to restore its image in the eyes of western countries generally and the United States (US) especially by hiring a US-based lobbying firm. The PTI had to do that because it vociferously attributed its ouster from the Centre to a conspiracy hatched by the US, which was in collaboration with the local actors such as the PDM and the Pakistan Army. Interestingly, one wonders why the PTI failed to hire any lobbying firm to raise the issue of Kashmir at the international level after India abrogated Article 370 and made Kashmir’s reorganization in August 2019. At that time, the PTI was running the central government and it kept mum. Now, to make its voice heard, the PTI has hired the services of a lobbying firm. Similarly, one can comprehend the reason for which the Afghan Taliban have suddenly started blaming Pakistan for permitting the US drones to cross its air space and launch missile attacks in Afghanistan. PTI’s Shireen Mazari was the instigator of doubting Pakistan’s stance that the country did not permit its air space to the US drones to reach Afghanistan. She tends to make her opinion the final word. Though Pakistan repudiated the allegation, the Afghan Taliban persisted with the idea that the July 31 mini-missile strike against Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul was made possible with the help or permission of Pakistan. Consequently, the Afghan Taliban also harbour grievances against Pakistan. The PTI seems to have so far not tolerated the fall from the Centre – the plummet that took place on April 10 through the democratic way of the vote of no-confidence. Now, the PTI is on the revenge course no matter what the cost. The underlying assumption is that the PTI is a party of the purified, who can do no wrong. Interestingly, on the one hand, the PTI members have tried to undermine Pakistan’s effort to secure loans from the IMF to run economic affairs; on the other hand, the PTI members have opened the vista for criticizing Pakistan at the regional level. What the PTI wants to do with Pakistan is yet to be seen. The writer can be reached at qaisarrashid @yahoo.com | https://dailytimes.com.pk/990184/shaukat-tareens-indiscretion/ | 2022-08-31T07:13:54Z | https://dailytimes.com.pk/990184/shaukat-tareens-indiscretion/ | true | 1 |
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Sindh and Southern Punjab players in action during their National T20 Cup at Rawalpindi Stadium on Tuesday. RAWALPINDI: The National Twenty20 Cup 2022-23 was off to a sparkling start on Tuesday with match two between Central Punjab and Balochistan going down the wire and Balochistan coming out victorious on the last ball. Irfan Khan Niazi’s epic 31-ball 57 not out went in vain as Central Punjab fell just two runs short of the 187-run target. In the first match of the day at the Pindi Cricket Stadium, Sindh’s Sarfaraz Ahmed and bowlers inspired their side to a commanding win over Southern Punjab. Central Punjab fall agonisingly short despite Irfan’s late blitz: All-rounder Irfan Khan Niazi, a product of the Pakistan Cricket Board’s age-group programme, led Central Punjab’s fightback and had his side in touching distance of the win with four needed off the last ball after the last over began with 19 remaining. He had arrived at the crease with 127 required off 64 with established players in Ahmed Shehzad (17 off 19) and Abdullah Shafique (15 off 18), and former U19 captain Qasim Akram (13 off nine) back in the pavilion, and added 61 with Tayyab Tahir (51 off 33) and 41 with Faheem Ashraf (18 off eight). It was the stand between Tayyab — who struck seven fours and a six — and Irfan that proved to be pivotal as they scored 61 at 9.38 runs per over, before Faheem and Irfan added 41 at a blistering 15 runs per over. Irfan, who shared the player of the match award with Abdul Wahid Bangalzai, smashed three sixes and as many fours. Balochistan’s Wahid and Shan Masood hammered 54 each to help Balochistan post a towering 186 for four after their captain Yasir Shah elected to bat. The two had come together in the fourth over with 36 on board following the dismissals of Haseebullah and Asad Shafiq on back-to-back deliveries. Asad and Haseebullah promised a good start as the two kept the run rate hovering around 10 an over. Asad, especially, looked in solid touch as he hit 23 runs (five fours) at a strike rate of over 191. Wahid and Shan added 111 runs together at over eight runs per over, blasting 13 boundaries between them. Wahid, who scored at over 138, sent four deliveries flying above the boundary rope and dispatched three off the 39 he faced for fours, while Shan, who scored at exactly 150, struck six fours in his 36-ball knock. Ahmed Daniyal took all four of Balochistan’s wickets. Sarfaraz, bowlers hand Sindh 42 runs win: A fighting 42 off 32 by player of the match Sarfaraz Ahmed and a dominant show with the ball saw Sindh defeat Southern Punjab comprehensively in the tournament opener. Southern Punjab opted to chase after winning the toss and kept Sindh’s scoring rate in check with wickets at regular intervals as Sindh exhausted all their batters and managed 147 with two balls spare. Openers Sharjeel Khan (24 off 19) and Saim Ayub (30 off 20) added 38 runs together before the former was undone by leg-spinner Ali Majid. Wicketkeeper-batter Sarfaraz walked in the middle with three wickets down for 73 in the 10th over and made his experience count. He cracked six fours and scored at a strike rate of 131. Over the course of his innings, Sarfaraz batted with the tail and was his side’s last wicket to fall when he was caught off Sameen Gul, who returned the innings’ best figures of three for 24. Sameen’s other two wickets were Anwar Ali and Mir Hamza. Pacer Mohammad Ilyas was the other bowler to account for three batters. He sent Omair Bin Yousuf, Sohail Khan and Danish Aziz back to the pavilion and gave away 29 in his four. Left-arm wrist spinner Faisal Akram returned two for 26. Southern Punjab were never really in the run chase and were bowled out for a paltry 105 in 16.4 overs. They lost their top three inside the powerplay and were three down for 29 in just 5.3 overs with Sohail Khan, Anwar Ali and Danish Aziz accounting for Zain Abbas, Zeeshan Ashraf and Sohaib Maqsood. Their problems were amplified in the ninth over with leg-spinner Zahid Mehmood accounting for Salman Ali Agha and Moinuddin in the space of four balls. Danish Aziz took his second wicket in the 12th over by sending Muhammad Imran back. Right-arm pacer Sohail Khan finished with three wickets to his name. He removed Sameen Gul and Faisal Akram on successive deliveries. The only notable batting performance in the run chase came from Sharoon Siraj, who struck 36 off 27. Brief scores: Match 2 – Balochistan beat Central Punjab by 2 runs Balochistan 186-4, 20 overs (Shan Masood 54, Abdul Wahid Bangalzai 54, Asad Shafiq 23, Amad Butt 21; Ahmed Daniyal 4-28) VS Central Punjab 184-5, 20 overs (Irfan Khan Niazi 57 not out, Tayyab Tahir 51; Amad Butt 3-29) Player of the match — Abdul Wahid Bangalzai (Balochistan) and Irfan Khan Niazi (Central Punjab) Match 1 — Sindh beat Southern Punjab by 42 runs Sindh 147 all out, 19.4 overs (Sarfaraz Ahmed 42, Saim Ayb 30, Sharjeel Khan 24; Sameen Gul 3-24, Mohammad Ilyas 3-29, Faisal Akram 2-26) VS Southern Punjab 105 all out, 16.4 overs (Sharoon Siraj 36; Sohail Khan 3-15, Danish Aziz 2-22, Zahid Mehmood 2-26) Player of the match – Sarfaraz Ahmed (Sindh) Today’s fixtures: 0930 — Northern vs Sindh 1400 — Central Punjab vs Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. | https://dailytimes.com.pk/990252/balochistan-and-sindh-score-victories-as-national-t20-cup-begins/ | 2022-08-31T07:15:51Z | https://dailytimes.com.pk/990252/balochistan-and-sindh-score-victories-as-national-t20-cup-begins/ | true | 1 |
U.N. monitors head to troubled Ukraine nuclear plant
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - A team of international nuclear inspectors was heading Wednesday to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant caught in the middle of the fighting in southern Ukraine amid international concern of a potential accident or radiation leak.
Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said he hoped to establish a permanent mission in Ukraine to monitor Europe’s largest nuclear plant.
“These operations are very complex operations. We are going to a war zone. We are going to occupied territory. And this requires explicit guarantees from not only from the Russians, but also from the Republic of Ukraine,” Grossi said in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv before the monitoring the mission’s departure.
“We have been able to secure that. ... So now we are moving.”
The power plant has been occupied by Russian forces and operated by Ukrainian workers since the early days of the 6-month-old war.
It was recently cut off temporarily from the electrical grid because of fire damage, causing a blackout in the region and heightening fears of a catastrophe in a country haunted by the Chernobyl disaster.
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Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said Kyiv is seeking international assistance to try and demilitarize the area.
“We think that the mission should be a very important step to return (the plant) to Ukrainian government control by the end of the year,” Galushchenko told The Associated Press.
“We have information that they are now trying to hide their military presence, so they should check all of this.”
Zaporizhzhia is a vital source of energy for Ukraine and remains connected to its power grid. Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of shelling the wider region around the nuclear power plant and the risks are so severe that officials have begun distributing anti-radiation iodine tablets to nearby residents. Grossi met Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the mission that is expected to last several days. The inspectors from the IAEA, a United Nations body, were due to reach the Zaporizhzhia region, 450 kilometers (280 miles) southeast of the Ukrainian capital, later Wednesday.
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China sets October start for congress seen as Xi coronation
China's ruling Communist Party will hold its five-yearly congress beginning on October 16, with Xi Jinping poised to secure an historic third leadership term and cement his place as the country's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.
The Politburo announced on Tuesday the start date for the congress, which typically lasts about a week and takes place mostly behind closed doors at the Great Hall of the People on the western side of Tiananmen Square in central Beijing.
Xi, 69, has steadily consolidated power since becoming party general secretary a decade ago, eliminating any known factional opposition to his rule. He is expected to exert largely unchallenged control over key appointments and policy directives at a Congress that many China-watchers liken to a coronation.
Despite headwinds that have buffeted his path to a third term - from a moribund economy, the Covid-19 pandemic and rare public protests to rising frictions with the West and tensions over Taiwan - Xi is poised to secure a mandate to pursue his grand vision for the "rejuvenation of the Chinese nation" for years to come.
Since assuming power, Xi, the son of a communist revolutionary, has strengthened the party and its role across society and eliminated space for dissent.
Under Xi, China has also become far more assertive on the global stage as a leader of the developing world and an alternative to the US-led, post-World War Two order.
"He will take China to an even more Sino-centric approach to policy, particularly foreign policy," said Steve Tsang, director of the University of London's SOAS China Institute. "He will also reinforce the importance of the party leading everything in China, and the party following its leader fully," Tsang said.
Xi's likely ascendancy to a third five-year term, and possibly more, was set in 2018 when he eliminated the limit of two terms for the presidency, a position that is set to be renewed at the annual parliamentary meeting in March.
On Wednesday, the website of the party's official People's Daily posted an infographic highlighting Xi's vision, including one of his signature pronouncements: "Party, government, military, people, education; east, south, west, north, central: the party leads everything."
Key personnel
A day after the 20th Party Congress, Xi is expected again to be conferred the roles of General Secretary of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
With little change expected in broad policy direction, key outcomes from the Congress will revolve around personnel - who joins Xi on the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) and who replaces Premier Li Keqiang, who is set to retire in March.
Contenders to be premier, a role charged with management of the economy, include Wang Yang, 67, who heads a key political advisory body, and Hu Chunhua, 59, a vice premier. Both were previously the Communist Party boss of the powerhouse southern province of Guangdong.
Another possibility for the premiership is Chen Min'er, 61, a Xi protege who is party chief of the vast municipality of Chongqing but has never held nationwide office.
The makeup and size of the next PSC, now at seven members, will also be closely watched.
Two current members have reached traditional retirement age, and China-watchers will look for whether the inclusion of any new member reflects a need to accommodate alternative viewpoints, although under Xi the notion of "factions" in Chinese politics appears largely to have become a relic.
"After putting his loyalists into positions of power with this party congress, Xi will have a bigger mandate to push through whatever policies he wants," said Alfred Wu, associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.
Beyond the congress
After the congress, many in China and globally will watch for Beijing's efforts to stave off a protracted economic downturn, which raises the chance Covid curbs being eased, although a lack of widespread immunity among China's 1.4 billion people and the absence of more effective mRNA vaccines remain constraints.
Beijing's strict "dynamic zero" Covid policy has led to frequent and disruptive lockdowns that have frustrated citizens, battered its economy and made China a global outlier.
Investors will also watch for how Beijing copes with souring relations with the West.
Xi's stated desire to bring Taiwan under Beijing's control will also be in focus during a third term, especially with tensions heightened following U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent Taipei visit. Taiwan's democratically-elected government strongly rejects China's sovereignty claims.
Since assuming power, Xi has quashed dissent in the once-restive regions of Tibet and Xinjiang and brought Hong Kong to heel with a sweeping national security law.
Few China-watchers expect Beijing to make a military move on Taiwan anytime soon, and there is little sign of preparing society for such a high-risk step and the blowback it would provoke, such as heavy Western sanctions.
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SYDNEY, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Video Intelligence Platform provider, VisualCortex, today announced it has joined NVIDIA Metropolis, a partner program focused on bringing to market a new generation of vision AI applications. NVIDIA Metropolis nurtures a rich ecosystem and offers powerful developer tools to supercharge vision AI applications that are designed to make the world's most important spaces and operations safer and more efficient.
As part of NVIDIA Metropolis and the NVIDIA Inception program, which nurtures cutting-edge startups, VisualCortex is on a mission to make video data actionable throughout the enterprise for all video-rich industries and business functions.
Unlike camera-side or point solutions, which typically focus on one video analytics challenge per deployment, VisualCortex delivers a highly performant enterprise-grade platform to facilitate any real-time or historical video analytics use case. To offer its customers highly scalable and cost-effective solutions, VisualCortex takes advantage of the NVIDIA DeepStream software development kit and NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs, including the A100 and the H100, once it becomes available. VisualCortex is an early adopter of the new NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ platform for edge-based AI implementations.
VisualCortex CEO and Co-Founder, Patrick Elliott, said that NVIDIA's support for its vision AI ecosystem was outstanding.
"NVIDIA provides amazing depth and quality of support for AI start-ups," said Elliott. "This includes access to resources for our development team – from exclusive tools and technical training, to direct collaboration sessions with the NVIDIA developer team. Our ability to gain early insights into NVIDIA's upcoming products and services, as well as make valuable connections with other vendors and partners throughout the NVIDIA ecosystem, accelerates our growth and go-to-market success. We're thrilled to be part of NVIDIA Metropolis."
NVIDIA Metropolis makes it easier and more cost effective for enterprises, governments and integration partners to use world-class, AI-enabled solutions to improve critical operational efficiency and safety problems. The NVIDIA Metropolis ecosystem contains a large and growing breadth of members who are investing in the most advanced AI techniques, most efficient deployment platforms, and using an enterprise-class approach to their solutions. Members have the opportunity to gain early access to NVIDIA platform updates to further enhance and accelerate their AI application development efforts. Further, the program offers the opportunity for members to collaborate with industry-leading experts and other AI-driven organizations.
About VisualCortex
VisualCortex is making video data actionable in the enterprise. As the world's best Video Intelligence Platform, VisualCortex provides the stability and scalability to productionize computer vision technology for the first time. Unlike camera-side or point solutions, VisualCortex can be used for any video analytics use case in any industry. VisualCortex's production-ready cloud-based environment transforms video assets into analyzable streams of data at scale.
The VisualCortex platform delivers the artificial intelligence smarts, governance and usability, enabling organizations to connect any number of video streams, repositories and use existing commodity hardware. An intuitive user interface, out-of-the-box reporting, range of configurations and integrations empower non-technical people to produce, analyze and act on insights derived from computer vision throughout the enterprise. Organizations can easily combine these AI-generated video insights with other data sources and systems to facilitate both real-time operations and strategic analysis. The VisualCortex Model Store also provides a secure marketplace for customers, partners and independent machine learning experts to share quality controlled computer vision models.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Young people are following the news, but aren’t too happy with what they’re seeing.
Broadly speaking, that’s the conclusion of a study released Wednesday showing 79% of young Americans say they get news daily. The survey of young people ages 16 to 40 — the older of which are known as millennials and the younger Generation Z — was conducted by Media Insight Project, a collaboration between The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the American Press Institute.
The report pokes holes in the idea that young people aren’t interested in news, a perception largely driven by statistics showing older audiences for television news and newspapers.
“They are more engaged in more ways than people give them credit for,” said Michael Bolden, CEO and executive director of the American Press Institute.
An estimated 71% of this age group gets news daily from social media. The social media diet is becoming more varied; Facebook doesn’t dominate the way it used to. About a third or more get news each day from YouTube and Instagram, and about a quarter or more from TikTok, Snapchat and Twitter. Now, 40% say they get news from Facebook daily, compared with 57% of millennials who said that in a 2015 Media Insight Project survey.
Yet 45% also said they get news each day from traditional sources, like television or radio stations, newspapers and news websites.
The poll found that about a quarter of young people say they regularly pay for at least one news product, like print or digital magazines or newspapers, and a similar percentage have donated to at least one nonprofit news organization.
Only 32% say they enjoy following the news. That’s a marked decrease from seven years ago, when 53% of millennials said that. Fewer young people now say they enjoy talking with family and friends about the news.
Other findings, such as people who say they feel worse the longer they spend online or who set time limits on their consumption, point to a weariness with the news, said Tom Rosenstiel, a University of Maryland journalism professor.
“I wasn’t surprised by that,” Bolden said. “It has been a challenging news cycle, especially the last three years.”
About 9 in 10 young people say misinformation about issues and events is a problem, including about 6 in 10 who say it’s a major problem. Most say they’ve been exposed to misinformation themselves.
Asked who they consider most responsible for its spread, young people pointed to social media companies and users, politicians and the media in equal measure.
That may surprise people in the media who believe they are fighting misinformation, and are not part of the problem, Bolden said. A significant number of people disagree.
“Whether that’s accurate or not, the people in this business have to deal with that perception,” he said.
He suggested that it’s important for news organizations to better explain what it is that they do and how coverage decisions are made, along with taking a step back to make clear how government functions, as well as holding leaders to account.
The percentage of people who say “news stories that seem to mostly create conflict rather than help address it” and “media outlets that pass on conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated rumors” are a major problem exceeded the number of people concerned about journalists putting too much opinion in their stories, the survey found.
That would seem to point a finger at cable news outlets that fill air time with debates on particular issues, often pitting people with extreme points of view. New CNN chief executive Chris Licht has recently called on his network to cool the overheated segments.
“There are people who have grown up in this world of political food-fight media, and this is the only world they know,” said Rosenstiel, who worked on the survey as Bolden’s predecessor at the press institute. “They might have heard their parents talk about Walter Cronkite, but they haven’t seen that.”
The topics people ages 16 to 40 say they most follow in the news? Celebrities, music and entertainment, at 49%, and food and cooking, at 48%, top the list. At least a third follow a wide range of other issues, including health and fitness, race and social justice, the environment, health care, education, politics and sports.
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The AP-NORC poll of 5,975 Americans ages 16-40 was conducted May 18-June 8, using a combined sample of interviews from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population, and interviews from opt-in online panels. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 1.7 percentage points. The AmeriSpeak panel is recruited randomly using address-based sampling methods, and respondents later were interviewed online or by phone. | https://www.wkrn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-survey-finds-young-people-follow-news-but-without-much-joy/ | 2022-08-31T07:22:27Z | https://www.wkrn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-survey-finds-young-people-follow-news-but-without-much-joy/ | true | 34 |
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - A team of international nuclear inspectors was heading Wednesday to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant caught in the middle of the fighting in southern Ukraine amid international concern of a potential accident or radiation leak.
Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said he hoped to establish a permanent mission in Ukraine to monitor Europe’s largest nuclear plant.
“These operations are very complex operations. We are going to a war zone. We are going to occupied territory. And this requires explicit guarantees from not only from the Russians, but also from the Republic of Ukraine,” Grossi said in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv before the monitoring the mission’s departure.
“We have been able to secure that. ... So now we are moving.”
The power plant has been occupied by Russian forces and operated by Ukrainian workers since the early days of the 6-month-old war.
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Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said Kyiv is seeking international assistance to try and demilitarize the area.
“We think that the mission should be a very important step to return (the plant) to Ukrainian government control by the end of the year,” Galushchenko told The Associated Press.
“We have information that they are now trying to hide their military presence, so they should check all of this.”
Zaporizhzhia is a vital source of energy for Ukraine and remains connected to its power grid. Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of shelling the wider region around the nuclear power plant and the risks are so severe that officials have begun distributing anti-radiation iodine tablets to nearby residents. Grossi met Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the mission that is expected to last several days. The inspectors from the IAEA, a United Nations body, were due to reach the Zaporizhzhia region, 450 kilometers (280 miles) southeast of the Ukrainian capital, later Wednesday.
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WhatsApp Web has a new feature, which many users will appreciate. It will now let users filter their chats which are unread, meaning when you turn on this option, only the unread chats will be visible. The option is live on iOS as well, though we could not spot a similar setting on Android.
WhatsApp Web users should see a three-line option next to the ‘Search or Start new chat’ box, which is visible right at the top. When you tap on this, it switches to an ‘unread chats’ menu. We were able to see the option on both Windows and MacBook laptops, so if you are a regular WhatsApp Web user it should be visible now.
The new feature is especially useful if you are part of a lot of groups, either for work purposes or personal reasons. This way you can quickly see all unread chats and reply to the ones that might be urgent. This is also a cleaner and less distracting view on the WhatsApp Web version where sometimes you might spend a lot of time scrolling up and down trying to figure out where a particular chat is.
The feature will be particularly useful for those who have a lot of unread WhatsApp chats and might give them an easier way of managing these.
In other news, WABetaInfo reports that WhatsApp’s latest Android beta update brings an option to let users send messages to themselves on other linked devices. The feature is currently under development. According to WABetainfo, “WhatsApp is working on bringing the ability to view your own chat from a linked device in a future update of the app.” It has not been released to early beta testers yet. A future version of the WhatsApp Desktop beta will likely support this ability.
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...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 8 PM PDT
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The judgment, delivered by His Lordship Mr Justice Trevor Ward, Q.C., arose from a constitutional motion filed in January 2021 by Jamal Jeffers, a citizen of the Federation, and the St Kitts & Nevis Alliance or Equality Inc. (SKNAFE) a community-based non-profit organization founded by Tynetta McKoy. The Attorney-General was the named Defendant, as is the requirement in constitutional motions of this nature.
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Stunning drone footage from the very roof of the world has been captured by a Chinese team of photographers and mountaineers using a DJI Mavic 3 drone, which was launched from the top of Mount Everest and flown up to an altitude of 9232.88 metres.
The mind-blowing vision was filmed by Chinese vision company 8KRAW (opens in new tab) using a DJI Mavic 3, a high-performance drone known for its capabilities in extremely technical and challenging conditions such as those encountered at high altitudes, and a 4/3 CMOS Hasselblad camera.
The release of the film, simply titled Flying over Everest and jointly produced by DJI and 8KRAW, is the culmination of several years’ work on the world’s mightiest mountain. Check out the footage here:
The team reached the summit of Everest on 27 May and the video, which was released this week, shows mountaineers approaching the highest point on planet Earth in fantastic conditions, before the pilot sends the DJI Mavic 3 soaring right over the 8,848.86-metre peak until it reaches an altitude of more than 9km above sea-level. Viewers are then treated to a panoramic tour of the surrounding Himalayan mountain range set against the backdrop of a bright blue sky.
On Instagram, top British mountaineer Kenton Cool (opens in new tab) (who has summited Everest 16 times) described the video as: ‘The best footage I’ve ever seen of Everest and surrounding area….simply unreal!!!’
The lightweight build and folding design of the DJI Mavic 3 made it the best drone to be taken up onto the roof of the world, and the quality of the material captured on the professional-grade 4/3 CMOS Hasselblad camera makes this video totally unprecedented.
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Notices will be issued to the concerned employees as to why an ambulance was not provided to ferry the pregnant woman to hospital, he said.
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Later she was shifted to Hatta by a government ambulance, but after not getting proper treatment there, she was shifted to the Damoh district hospital where she was now under medical supervision, he added.
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Play PlusWord, the Telegraph's new daily crossword puzzle
Play PlusWord now at telegraph.co.uk/plusword, where a new crossword puzzle is published every day at midnight.
2022 has seen word-finding challenges take the puzzles and crosswords world by storm. Such brainteasers have existed for years, from the decades-old game of Bulls and Cows, via the Mastermind board game of the 1970s, through to the recent Wordle craze. All have at their heart a simple code-breaking challenge: using a series of guesses to identify a series of four or five letters, numbers or colours, then being told after each guess whether each letter, number or colour is a) part of the series and b) in the correct position.
We are pleased to have launched our own word-finding game, PlusWord, which marries the challenge of a code-breaking puzzle to the content of our famous crosswords. PlusWord is easy and fast to play, and consists of a miniature version of our Quick Crossword, in which some squares are coloured; the letters in those shaded squares let you work out the additional five-letter PlusWord.
The initial concept for the game came about almost two decades ago, in the form of a cryptic crossword compiled for some friends, in which a group of cells in the middle of the grid acted as a further puzzle in which a number of coloured cells led to a Wordle-style challenge.
Fast-forward to the present day and PlusWord was born on Christmas Day 2021, when somewhat the worse for wear and, keen to escape for a short while the many relatives which had descended on us for the day, sorting through the contents of an old filing cabinet brought to light the 18-year-old code-breaking crossword. An hour or so of frenzied work later, my in-laws and assorted other family members were somewhat bemusedly tackling the first PlusWord puzzle. Perhaps it was best for the sake of my marriage that those who completed it didn’t see the pointedness of the final answer: SCRAM.
Each PlusWord is simple to play and should take only a few minutes to complete. We think you’ll enjoy it, and hope that, like our Christmas guests, you stick around to play each new crossword puzzle. Give it a try here at telegraph.co.uk/plusword.
How to play PlusWord - our new crossword puzzle game
Step one
Solve the crossword, then use letters in the shaded squares to complete the additional PlusWord.
Step two
A letter in a green square appears in the same column in the PlusWord as it does in the crossword.
Step three
A letter in a yellow square appears in the PlusWord, but in a different column than it does in the crossword.
Step four
There is only one possible answer for the PlusWord; it may be that the PlusWord contains letters that aren’t found in the crossword, but it can always be worked out logically and without guessing.
How to check the PlusWord answer
The Telegraph reveals the solution to the previous day's puzzle every PlusWord in the Front Page newsletter. You can sign up here.
PlusWord can be found in the newspaper every day and online. Get playing now: telegraph.co.uk/plusword, where a new puzzle is published every day at midnight.
This article is kept updated with the latest information.
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Franklin Academy played a home game Friday night against a tough 3A opponent with even tougher field conditions due to the amount of rain in the area over the past week.
The Cougars started slow but was able to maintain through the first half only being down 22-16 at the half.
The Trojans used their depth to wear down the Cougars in the second half as they pulled away to a 52-22 victory.
Cade Ingram led the Cougars in receiving with 106 yards and a touchdown while Cade Bailey caught a touchdown pass as well.
Running back Addison Spradling added a touchdown on the ground as well.
Quarterback Kyler Roberts led the Cougars on the ground attack with 69 yards rushing and 132 yards through the air.
FA coaches said this was a tough game against a very good opponent and feel as if all the guys really played well.
The Cougars return to the field Friday night at Tensas.
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President Ramaphosa Congratulates President Joao Lourenco on His Election as the President of Angola
President Cyril Ramaphosa has sent his warmest and most sincere congratulations to President João Lourenço and the people of the Republic of Angola on his re-election as the President of the Republic of Angola.
President Ramaphosa said the election results reflect the trust and confidence the Angolan people has in him.
“I am looking forward to working with President João Lourenço to strengthen the strong and cordial bilateral relations between our two countries as well as in matters of mutual interest in the African continent and our region, the Southern African Development Community (SADC).” President Ramaphosa added.
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Watertown senior libero Kallie Feder (left) and junior defensive specialist Olivia Gwidt receive the serve during a Badger Conference volleyball match against Stoughton on Tuesday. The Goslings won in four sets.
Watertown senior libero Kallie Feder (left) and junior defensive specialist Olivia Gwidt receive the serve during a Badger Conference volleyball match against Stoughton on Tuesday. The Goslings won in four sets.
Watertown’s volleyball team rallied for a 13-25, 25-19, 25-17, 25-22 win over Stoughton in a Badger Conference match on Tuesday at WHS.
Kylei Braatz had 17 kills to lead the Goslings. Abby Walsh added 12 kills and three blocks. Cassidy Peplinski led the back row in digs with 17. Amara Denault added 16 digs and served seven aces. Annalesse Hesse added four kills. Payton Roets put up 37 assists and added 15 digs, four aces and two blocks.
"A bit of a slow start again for us in the first set, but nice to see our passing improve over the course of the night finishing with 91 team digs,” Watertown volleyball coach Erin Steuerwald said. "Kylei Braatz was on fire for us in several sets leading us with 17 kills. She's got a huge reach and can really be tough to stop when she gets on a roll.
"Amara Denault really carried the team though for us in our final sets, getting us a string of serves both in the third and fourth set. We really couldn't have done it without her seven aces and solid serve receive. Definitely some areas to improve in, but it just feels great to get our first program conference sweep under our belt."
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FX Rates, Harsh Economy Disrupting Delivery Timelines for Nigeria’s Property Developers
By Felix Onajite
For players in Nigeria’s real estate sector, it’s been half a decade in the winter. Hit hard by the recession of 2016 which caused a 6.86% decline in the sector compared with the growth of 2.11% recorded in 2015, the post-recession fragile convalescing period was dealt a further blow by the Covid-19 pandemic. Post Covid, the sector is confronting another monster in the free fall of the naira and the accompanying inflation.
The rapid depreciation in the value of the local currency has continued to have telling impact in all sectors of the Nigeria’s economy – from aviation to manufacturing and everything in between – and for real estate, the past few years and months, many say, have been traumatic.
The bulk of input materials in the sector are imported. In the last 12 months, the naira has gone from less than N400 to the dollar to N700 to the dollar at parallel market. The rapid in drop in naira value has translated to spike in prices, which naturally means that the end product is increasingly being priced of the reach of many potential buyers.
Sources in the industry say the sale of some of the high-end properties have also been put on hold since the naira began its more recent free fall.
For developers, it is double whammy. Assets whose sale are dollar-denominated have remained on the shelf months after expression of interest. Some projects with timeline delivery have been delayed or stopped mid-way into construction. The bulk of facilities available to developers are short term, and for those denominated in dollar, loses begin to accumulate long before workers mobilize to site.
“Assuming you brought in $1 million and you change to N500 million today,” said Dr. Alex Otti, former Diamond Bank CEO, “but tomorrow you have to take it back, and you have to spend N700 million to get the $1million, from that point of view, you understand that it’s tough.”
Historically, some of the biggest challenges in the sector have been high interest rates and forex volatility. Recent spike in inflation have prompted the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to raise rate to 14 percent in bid to contain it. But such measures work better when the inflation trigger is excessive demand due to too much money in circulation. In Nigeria’s case however, people are struggling to get by, and inflation has little to do with demand, but everything to do with supply challenges. Thus, despite CBN’s efforts inflation surged to 17-year high in July at 19.64%, up from the 18.6% recorded in the previous month of June 2022.
Real estate has not been spared, and compounded by exchange rate volatility, the sector has continued to battle headwinds.
“Most of the loans available, we get are at double-digit rates and this makes it very difficult to get a decent return on investment,” lamented Uzo Oshogwe, Managing Director of Afriland Properties Plc. “The loan tenure is another challenge faced by developers; Short-term loans are not suitable for infrastructural projects which are long term in nature.”
Oshogwe who highlighted the effects of the volatility of the dollar on projects, said, “the private sector, federal government and all relevant regulatory agencies need to come together to develop a framework that will hedge against these challenges and agree on key measures that will promote cheaper constructions and drive infrastructural development in the country.”
It is not in doubt that the sector in Nigeria has huge potential. A 2020 real estate industry report 2020 by Agusto and Company valued the sector at $3.96 trillion. But the sector, like Nigeria’s itself, has remained a clay foot giant hobbled by lack of access to funding, inflation, forex volatility among others.
The devaluation of the naira has affected the cost of building materials as a spike has been recorded over the past few months due to the Nigerian construction industry heavily dependent on the foreign importation of raw materials and equipment for construction. With the naira on a free fall, the cost of purchasing these raw materials and equipment have spiked, and so has property prices while wages have not increased and unemployment is rising.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) GDP report Q1 2022 report showed that quarter on quarter, GDP of the real estate services (nominal terms) came at -26.75% in the first quarter of 2022, an indication of the struggle it is facing.
Abdullahi Adamu, Managing Director of HXH Limited, a leading residential development company in Nigeria, in a recent interview opined that the cost of building materials, especially imported ones, has increased and this will be passed on to off-takers, leading to delays and higher prices of real estate products.
“The scarcity of skilled labour, price hikes, foreign exchange constraints and supply chain bottlenecks are among the challenges that the sector is facing. Not to mention the complex work of managing the multiple vendors required to complete a single unit. These factors have resulted in not just significant costs overrun and increased project costs but also setbacks in the pace of construction and consequential delays in the delivery of homes.
“Also, existing projects may suffer some setbacks including delays because of the naira depreciation. Similarly, new housing projects will be impacted depending on source of funds.
“But I tell you, despite the challenges, this is the best time to invest in real estate, buy properties because of the appreciation value. The cost of property will double by next year,” he said.
In his own intervention, Adeniji Adele, an estate surveyor and valuer, blamed the crisis in the foreign exchange market on the bad implementation of various government policies over the years as a result of double standards and inconsistency.
Adele, who is the president of International Real Estate Federation, Nigeria chapter, noted in an interview that, “the market reacts negatively to the continued rise in exchange rate which has affected cost of building materials and labour in the built environment; so real estate pricing will never be the same again.
“The market price has gone up, while cost of borrowing is higher and financial institutions are not willing to lend to grow real estate stock as they prefer to advance facilities on short-term basis.”
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A sum of 36078233 shares traded at recent session while its average daily volume was at 4.82M shares. Chimerix Inc. shares reached a high of $2.68 and dropped to a low of $2.10 until finishing in the latest session at $2.33.
The one-year CMRX stock forecast points to a potential upside of 69.34. The average equity rating for CMRX stock is currently 1.60, trading closer to a bullish pattern in the stock market.
Guru’s Opinion on Chimerix Inc. [CMRX]:
Based on careful and fact-backed analyses by Wall Street experts, the current consensus on the target price for CMRX shares is $7.60 per share. Analysis on target price and performance of stocks is usually carefully studied by market experts, and the current Wall Street consensus on CMRX stock is a recommendation set at 1.60. This rating represents a strong Buy recommendation, on the scale from 1 to 5, where 5 would mean strong sell, 4 represents Sell, 3 is Hold, and 2 indicates Buy.
Maxim Group have made an estimate for Chimerix Inc. shares, keeping their opinion on the stock as Buy, with their previous recommendation back on April 29, 2021. While these analysts kept the previous recommendation, Cowen raised their target price from $10 to $18. The new note on the price target was released on April 23, 2021, representing the official price target for Chimerix Inc. stock. Previously, the target price had yet another raise to $21, while Wedbush analysts kept a Outperform rating on CMRX stock.
The Average True Range (ATR) for Chimerix Inc. is set at 0.27, with the Price to Sales ratio for CMRX stock in the period of the last 12 months amounting to 368.57. The Price to Book ratio for the last quarter was 7.28, with the Price to Cash per share for the same quarter was set at 0.45.
CMRX Stock Performance Analysis:
Chimerix Inc. [CMRX] fell into the red zone at the end of the last week, falling into a negative trend and dropping by -1.69. With this latest performance, CMRX shares gained by 6.39% in over the last four-week period, additionally sinking by -58.69% over the last 6 months – not to mention a drop of -67.41% in the past year of trading.
Overbought and oversold stocks can be easily traced with the Relative Strength Index (RSI), where an RSI result of over 70 would be overbought, and any rate below 30 would indicate oversold conditions. An RSI rate of 50 would represent a neutral market momentum. The current RSI for CMRX stock in for the last two-week period is set at 48.55, with the RSI for the last a single of trading hit 46.65, and the three-weeks RSI is set at 49.00 for Chimerix Inc. [CMRX]. The present Moving Average for the last 50 days of trading for this stock 2.25, while it was recorded at 2.33 for the last single week of trading, and 4.29 for the last 200 days.
Insight into Chimerix Inc. Fundamentals:
Operating Margin for any stock indicates how profitable investing would be, and Chimerix Inc. [CMRX] shares currently have an operating margin of -4573.52 and a Gross Margin at +76.35. Chimerix Inc.’s Net Margin is presently recorded at -8753.71.
Return on Equity for this stock declined to -244.64, with Return on Assets sitting at -187.02.
Chimerix Inc.’s liquidity data is similarly interesting compelling, with a Quick Ratio of 2.00 and a Current Ratio set at 2.20.
Chimerix Inc. [CMRX] Insider Position Details
There are presently around $119 million, or 63.90% of CMRX stock, in the hands of institutional investors. The top three institutional holders of CMRX stocks are: RUBRIC CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP with ownership of 7,084,604, which is approximately 47.596% of the company’s market cap and around 0.80% of the total institutional ownership; BLACKROCK INC., holding 5,778,626 shares of the stock with an approximate value of $13.46 million in CMRX stocks shares; and SUVRETTA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC, currently with $12.28 million in CMRX stock with ownership of nearly 90.547% of the company’s market capitalization.
Positions in Chimerix Inc. stocks held by institutional investors increased at the end of August and at the time of the August reporting period, where 65 institutional holders increased their position in Chimerix Inc. [NASDAQ:CMRX] by around 16,581,070 shares. Additionally, 63 investors decreased positions by around 17,922,935 shares, while 19 investors held positions by with 16,571,478 shares. The mentioned changes placed institutional holdings at 51,075,483 shares, according to the latest SEC report filing. CMRX stock had 25 new institutional investments in for a total of 8,564,252 shares, while 27 institutional investors sold positions of 7,543,707 shares during the same period. | https://dbtnews.com/2022/08/30/maxim-group-lifts-chimerix-inc-cmrx-price-estimate-who-else-is-bullish-2/ | 2022-08-31T08:17:25Z | https://dbtnews.com/2022/08/30/maxim-group-lifts-chimerix-inc-cmrx-price-estimate-who-else-is-bullish-2/ | true | 589 |
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