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BEATRICE- The Ashland-Greenwood volleyball team opened up the season with a pair of matches in a triangular at Beatrice on August 25. In their first match, the Bluejays fell to the Orangemen 2-0 and then rebounded to knock off Crete in straight sets.
“We bounced back very well,” A-G Head Coach Megan Rossell said. “I feel our serve receive got stuck a few times against Beatrice and we got that cleaned up with Crete so we were able to run more. Our defense really impressed me in both matches.”
In the first set against Crete, A-G and the Cardinals were neck and neck. In the end, the Bluejays tightened up and pulled out the 25-21 set win.
The confidence from that first set victory carried over into the second where A-G was unstoppable. They were able to blow away Crete by a final of 25-16 to win the match.
Emma Keith powered the Bluejays offense with six kills while Lauren Gerdes and Presley Harms right on her heels with five kills apiece. Earning three kills was Jadah Laughlin and Marley Glock had two kills.
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On top of leading the team in kills, Keith piled up four aces. Finishing with two aces was Harms and Jaycee Fangmeyer had one.
Coming up with two blocks was Gerdes and Glock had one.
Defensively, Raeghan Craven led the team with 17 assists and five digs. Ending with six digs were Glock and Keith, Laughlin had five, and Fangmeyer had four.
In the first match of the year, the Bluejays battled hard with Beatrice but just couldn’t find a way to get a lead at the end. As a result, they lost to the Orangemen 25-22 and then 25-23.
The senior Harms led the team with five kills. One back of her was Keith with four kills, Gerdes and Glock had three, and Laughlin ended up with two.
Registering three blocks in the match was Gerdes. Harms, Craven, and Glock all finished with two blocks.
Getting 15 assists and nine digs was Craven. Also getting nine digs was Keith, Glock and Craven each had five digs, and Fangmeyer came up with three digs.
This week the Bluejays went on the road to take on Class B No. 5 Waverly on August 30. They play at Nebraska City at 7 p.m. on Sept. 1 and then are at the Syracuse Triangular at 9 a.m. on Sept. 3. | https://wahoo-ashland-waverly.com/community/ashland/ashland-greenwood-splits-games-in-first-triangular-of-the-year/article_8a73f01e-295d-11ed-b5d3-1f9e3cee0df5.html | 2022-09-01T11:31:27Z | https://wahoo-ashland-waverly.com/community/ashland/ashland-greenwood-splits-games-in-first-triangular-of-the-year/article_8a73f01e-295d-11ed-b5d3-1f9e3cee0df5.html | false | 1 |
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Samsung Galaxy A series has just received one of its most affordable phones of the year. The Galaxy A04s comes as a small update over the Galaxy A04 from earlier this month and a direct successor to last year’s Galaxy A03s.
Pricing is yet to be revealed, but since it is an entry-level A series phone, we expect it to cost around $150 – $200.
Design and Display
The entry-level phone design is signified by the waterdrop notch selfie camera and a thick bottom bezel upfront. This is on top of a fairly basic 6.5-inch IPS LCD panel with 720p resolution, but the 90Hz refresh rate is commendable as it is also an upgrade over last year. The power button on the side doubles as a fingerprint sensor.
Internals and Storage
Samsung has not officially revealed the chipset, but considering the CPU configuration, it is most likely the Exynos 850. It is not only faster than last year’s Helio P35 on the A03s but also far more efficient than A04’s 28nm Unisoc chip. You can either have 3 or 4GB RAM with 32GB/64GB/128GB storage options along with a microSD card slot.
For software, you get a lighter version of Samsung UI called One UI Core 4.1 on top of Android 12.
Cameras
The back has a triple camera setup which comprises a 50MP primary sensor in the middle which is flanked by a duo of 2MP shooters for depth sensing and macro photography. Video recording is limited to 1080p at 30 FPS just like the Galaxy A04.
The waterdrop notch holds a single 5MP selfie camera.
Battery and Pricing
Battery capacity is no different from its siblings at 5,000 mAh. It still lacks fast charging, but the micro-USB port has finally been upgraded to USB C.
As mentioned earlier, there is no word on pricing yet, but we expect it cost somewhere between $150-$200.
Samsung Galaxy A04s Specifications
- Chipset: Samsung Exynos 850
- CPU: Octa-core (4×2.0 GHz Cortex-A55 & 4×2.0 GHz Cortex-A55)
- GPU: Mali G52
- OS: Android 12, One UI Core 4.1
- Supported Networks: 2G, 3G, 4G LTE
- Display:
- 6.5″ IPS LCD with 720 x 1600 pixels resolution; 270 ppi, 90Hz refresh rate
- Memory:
- RAM: 3GB, 4GB
- Internal: 32GB, 64GB, 128GB
- Card slot: yes
- Camera:
- Rear (Triple): 50MP (wide) + 2MP (depth) +2MP (macro)
- Front: 5MP
- Colors: Black, White, Green, Copper
- Fingerprint sensor: Side-mounted
- Battery: 5,000 mAh
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Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. grew its position in Q2 Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:QTWO – Get Rating) by 75.8% in the 1st quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 6,705 shares of the technology company’s stock after purchasing an additional 2,890 shares during the period. Crossmark Global Holdings Inc.’s holdings in Q2 were worth $413,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Wasatch Advisors Inc. increased its stake in shares of Q2 by 37.5% in the 4th quarter. Wasatch Advisors Inc. now owns 4,112,578 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $326,703,000 after buying an additional 1,120,845 shares during the period. Conestoga Capital Advisors LLC boosted its position in shares of Q2 by 36.8% in the 1st quarter. Conestoga Capital Advisors LLC now owns 2,316,267 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $142,798,000 after purchasing an additional 623,364 shares during the last quarter. Champlain Investment Partners LLC boosted its position in shares of Q2 by 33.6% in the 4th quarter. Champlain Investment Partners LLC now owns 2,146,140 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $170,489,000 after purchasing an additional 540,000 shares during the last quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA boosted its position in shares of Q2 by 12.7% in the 1st quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 1,325,774 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $81,734,000 after purchasing an additional 148,983 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Stephens Investment Management Group LLC boosted its position in shares of Q2 by 24.5% in the 1st quarter. Stephens Investment Management Group LLC now owns 770,920 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $47,527,000 after purchasing an additional 151,917 shares during the last quarter.
Analyst Ratings Changes
QTWO has been the topic of several recent research reports. Stephens raised their price target on Q2 to $55.00 in a research report on Thursday, May 26th. Truist Financial reduced their price target on Q2 from $125.00 to $85.00 in a research report on Wednesday, May 4th. Morgan Stanley reduced their price target on Q2 from $55.00 to $50.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research report on Monday, August 8th. Piper Sandler lifted their target price on Q2 from $41.00 to $45.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Friday, August 5th. Finally, Raymond James reduced their target price on Q2 from $75.00 to $65.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, August 5th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have issued a hold rating and six have given a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Q2 presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $71.92.
Q2 Stock Performance
Q2 (NYSE:QTWO – Get Rating) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, August 3rd. The technology company reported ($0.24) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.20) by ($0.04). The company had revenue of $140.31 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $140.22 million. Q2 had a negative net margin of 19.84% and a negative return on equity of 9.16%. Equities analysts predict that Q2 Holdings, Inc. will post -0.8 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Insider Activity at Q2
In related news, CRO Michael A. Volanoski sold 2,593 shares of Q2 stock in a transaction dated Friday, June 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $40.25, for a total value of $104,368.25. Following the sale, the executive now owns 69,136 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $2,782,724. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. 3.50% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
Q2 Company Profile
Q2 Holdings, Inc provides cloud-based digital banking solutions to regional and community financial institutions (RCFIs) in the United States. The company offers Q2 Consumer Banking, a browser-based digital banking solution and comprehensive financial institution branded digital banking capabilities; Q2 Small Business and Commercial, a mobile and tablet digital banking solution; Q2mobile Remote Deposit Capture, a partnered solution that allows remote check deposit capture.
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One last name to know on PennLive’s list of Penn State’s 25 most intriguing players and coaches going into the season. Defensive end Adisa Isaac and running back Nick Singleton, two Lions who were not on the 2021 team, were under consideration for No. 1 and both ranked high on PennLive’s list.
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Handelsbanken Fonder AB lessened its stake in Leggett & Platt, Incorporated (NYSE:LEG – Get Rating) by 34.7% in the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 16,400 shares of the company’s stock after selling 8,700 shares during the quarter. Handelsbanken Fonder AB’s holdings in Leggett & Platt were worth $571,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Other large investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP increased its stake in Leggett & Platt by 5.5% during the 4th quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 1,629,727 shares of the company’s stock worth $67,075,000 after buying an additional 85,638 shares during the period. Millennium Management LLC boosted its holdings in Leggett & Platt by 784.5% in the fourth quarter. Millennium Management LLC now owns 1,162,916 shares of the company’s stock valued at $47,866,000 after purchasing an additional 1,031,432 shares during the last quarter. Silvercrest Asset Management Group LLC grew its stake in Leggett & Platt by 16.2% during the 4th quarter. Silvercrest Asset Management Group LLC now owns 864,755 shares of the company’s stock valued at $35,535,000 after purchasing an additional 120,845 shares in the last quarter. D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc. increased its holdings in Leggett & Platt by 274.8% during the 4th quarter. D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc. now owns 642,510 shares of the company’s stock worth $26,446,000 after purchasing an additional 471,078 shares during the last quarter. Finally, GW&K Investment Management LLC raised its position in shares of Leggett & Platt by 0.9% in the 1st quarter. GW&K Investment Management LLC now owns 591,805 shares of the company’s stock valued at $20,595,000 after purchasing an additional 5,340 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 71.79% of the company’s stock.
Insider Buying and Selling at Leggett & Platt
In other news, Chairman Karl G. Glassman sold 26,401 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, August 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $40.53, for a total transaction of $1,070,032.53. Following the completion of the transaction, the chairman now owns 852,950 shares in the company, valued at $34,570,063.50. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. 1.57% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.
Wall Street Analyst Weigh In
Leggett & Platt Trading Down 1.3 %
NYSE LEG opened at $38.22 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.11, a quick ratio of 0.80 and a current ratio of 1.57. Leggett & Platt, Incorporated has a one year low of $33.19 and a one year high of $49.76. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $38.34 and a 200-day simple moving average of $37.35. The firm has a market capitalization of $5.10 billion, a PE ratio of 13.45 and a beta of 1.31.
Leggett & Platt (NYSE:LEG – Get Rating) last issued its earnings results on Monday, August 1st. The company reported $0.70 EPS for the quarter, meeting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.70. The company had revenue of $1.33 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.33 billion. Leggett & Platt had a return on equity of 23.85% and a net margin of 7.31%. Leggett & Platt’s quarterly revenue was up 5.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.66 earnings per share. On average, equities analysts forecast that Leggett & Platt, Incorporated will post 2.71 earnings per share for the current year.
Leggett & Platt Dividend Announcement
The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, October 14th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, September 15th will be given a $0.44 dividend. This represents a $1.76 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.60%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, September 14th. Leggett & Platt’s dividend payout ratio is presently 61.97%.
About Leggett & Platt
Leggett & Platt, Incorporated designs, manufactures, and markets engineered components and products worldwide. It operates through three segments: Bedding Products; Specialized Products; and Furniture, Flooring & Textile Products. The company offers steel rods, drawn wires, foam chemicals and additives, innersprings, specialty foams, private label finished mattresses, mattress foundations, wire forms for mattress foundations, adjustable beds, industrial sewing and quilting machines, and mattress packaging and glue drying equipment, as well as machines to produce innersprings for industrial users of steel rods and wires, manufacturers of finished bedding, big box and e-commerce retailers, bedding brands and mattress retailers, department stores, and home improvement centers.
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There’s a lot of discussion about one-night stands these days. People seem to have strong opinions on the matter, both for and against. But what if you’re curious about having a one-night stand yourself? Are they always risky, or is there a way to do them safely? In this article, we’ll explore the ins and outs of safe one-night stands. We’ll talk about how to find someone to hook up with, what precautions to take, and how to have a good time without putting your safety at risk.
What is a one-night stand?
A one-night stand is a sexual encounter that typically lasts for just one night. The people involved usually don’t have any kind of emotional connection to each other and are not expecting anything more than sex. One-night stands can happen between two people who know each other or between strangers.
Why do people have one-night stands?
There are lots of reasons why people might want to have a one-time sexual encounter. Maybe they’re curious about sex and want to experience it without the commitment of a relationship. Or maybe they’re in town for a business trip and they’re feeling lonely. Some people just enjoy the thrill of hooking up with someone new. Whatever the reason, there’s nothing wrong with wanting to have a one-night stand.
How do you find someone to have a one-night stand with?
If you’ve decided that you want to have a one-night stand, the next step is finding someone to do it with. If you know anyone in your social circle who might be interested, that’s great. But if not, don’t worry. There are plenty of other ways to find someone to hook up with.One option is online dating. There are a number of dating apps and websites that can help you find someone in your area who’s looking for a casual hookup. Once you’ve found someone you’re interested in, send them a message and see if they’re up for it. If they are, then exchange a few messages to get to know each other a bit before meeting up in person.Another option is going out to bars or clubs. This can be a bit more hit-and-miss, but if you go to the right kind of place and strike up conversation with the right kind of person, you might just find someone who’s looking for the same thing you are.
What kind of girls would be suitable for a one-night stand?
There is no hard and fast rule here. It all depends on what you are looking for and what your personal preferences are. But as a rule of thumb, several types of girls are ideal for the Safe One-Night Stand:
The party girl
She’s up for anything and everything, and she loves to let loose. She’s probably not looking for anything serious, which makes her the perfect candidate for a one-night stand.
Dating recently divorced women
These women are often looking for a rebound, and they’re usually not interested in anything long-term. They just want to have some fun and let off some steam.
The bar girl
If you pick up a girl at a bar, odds are she’s looking to get laid. Just be sure that she’s not too drunk, or you might end up regretting your decision in the morning.Once you’ve found someone who you think is suitable for a one-night stand, there are a few things you should do to make sure that everything goes smoothly.
Summary
In this article, we’ve looked at the ins and outs of safe one-night stands. We’ve talked about how to find someone to hook up with, what precautions to take, and how to have a good time without putting your safety at risk. Overall, we think that recently divorced women are a perfect match for the Safe One-Night Stand. They’re often looking for a rebound and they’re usually not interested in anything long-term. So if you’re considering having a one-night stand, be sure to keep these things in mind. And most importantly, have fun! | https://www.therwandan.com/safe-one-night-stand-what-you-need-to-know/ | 2022-09-01T11:47:01Z | https://www.therwandan.com/safe-one-night-stand-what-you-need-to-know/ | false | 1 |
India bond yields rise, debt supply in focus
By Dharamraj Lalit Dhutia
MUMBAI, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Indian government bond yields ended higher on Thursday, as traders trimmed bond holdings to make room for Friday's debt sale.
The benchmark 10-year government bond yield ended at 7.2146%. The yield fell 10 basis points in last three sessions and ended at 7.1893% on Tuesday. The new 10-year 7.26% 2032 bond yield ended at 7.1859%, after ending at 7.1757% on Tuesday.
Indian financial markets were closed on Wednesday.
"Market has been ignoring the negative news like rising U.S. yields or inflation worries and has reacted to positives," said Rajeev Pawar, head of treasury at Ujjivan Small Finance Bank.
"With debt auction due tomorrow, traders were light today, and I expect bond yields to remain supported around 7.18%-7.20% levels currently," Pawar added.
New Delhi is scheduled to raise at least 330 billion rupees ($4.15 billion) through sale of bonds, and the auction includes 130 billion rupees of 7.26% 2032 note, which is expected to replace the existing benchmark paper soon.
The 10-year U.S. yield rose above 3.20% on Thursday, as investors continue to expect aggressive rate hikes from the U.S. Federal Reserve in coming months.
Meanwhile, the benchmark Brent crude contract came off by nearly $10 per barrel in last three trading sessions to $95 per barrel, easing concerns over inflation.
Intraday, bonds were little changed after data showed India's economy grew 13.5% in the April-to-June quarter, below a 15.2% forecast by economists in a Reuters poll.
Most of the market participants do not expect softer growth reading to alter the Reserve Bank of India's rate hike trajectory to contain inflation.
Nomura expects the RBI to hike repo rate by 35 basis points and 25 bps in September and December, while Barclays expects 25 bps move in both policy reviews.
The RBI had raised repo rate by 50 basis points in August to 5.40%, which took its aggregate hikes to 140 bps in May-August. The next policy decision is due on Sep. 30.
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LONDON (AP) — Microsoft’s plan to buy video game company Activision Blizzard faced a potential setback Thursday after British regulators said their antitrust inquiry needed to take a closer look at the blockbuster deal after identifying competition concerns.
The Competition and Markets Authority said it was worried the $69 billion deal would hurt rivals by restricting their access to Activision Blizzard games. It also worried that the combined company would stifle competition in the emerging cloud gaming market.
The authority gave both companies five days to come up with proposals to address its concerns, otherwise it would escalate its investigation with more scrutiny.
The watchdog had opened an initial inquiry in July to assess whether the deal would result in a “substantial lessening of competition” in the United Kingdom.
The all-cash deal is set to be the largest in the history of the tech industry. It would give Microsoft, maker of the Xbox console and gaming system, control of popular game franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush.
“Following our Phase 1 investigation, we are concerned that Microsoft could use its control over popular games like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft post-merger to harm rivals, including recent and future rivals in multi-game subscription services and cloud gaming,” the watchdog’s senior director of mergers, Sorcha O’Carroll, said in press statement.
Microsoft President Brad Smith said the company is “ready to work with the CMA on next steps and address any of its concerns.”
Competition regulators around the world are subjecting the transaction, which was announced in January, to a barrage of scrutiny. Until now, only Saudi Arabia had announced its approval for the $69 billion deal.
Competition watchdogs from New Zealand to Brazil are still examining the purchase, as are U.S. regulators emboldened by President Joe Biden to strengthen their enforcement of antitrust laws.
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Aramco may take stake in Renault's future thermal unit - source
PARIS, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Saudi Aramco could take a stake in Renault's future thermal engine unit, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
Aramco's possible partnership was first reported by Le Monde.
Reuters revealed on Tuesday that China's Geely Automobile Holdings and an oil group were in talks over taking stakes in the fossil-fuel engine unit that Renault plans to separate from its electric vehicle (EV) business, according to two sources.
Aramco declined to comment. (Reporting by Gilles Guillaume; editing by Richard Lough and Tassilo Hummel)
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Bank of Montreal Can boosted its holdings in ASML Holding (NASDAQ:ASML – Get Rating) by 105.3% during the first quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The fund owned 75,469 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after acquiring an additional 38,711 shares during the period. Bank of Montreal Can’s holdings in ASML were worth $51,677,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Other large investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Covestor Ltd purchased a new stake in ASML in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $26,000. Piscataqua Savings Bank raised its position in ASML by 90.9% in the first quarter. Piscataqua Savings Bank now owns 42 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $28,000 after purchasing an additional 20 shares during the period. Rise Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in ASML in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $47,000. Stonehage Fleming Financial Services Holdings Ltd purchased a new stake in shares of ASML during the first quarter worth $39,000. Finally, Valley National Advisers Inc. increased its position in shares of ASML by 78.4% during the first quarter. Valley National Advisers Inc. now owns 66 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $44,000 after acquiring an additional 29 shares during the period. 19.04% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
ASML has been the topic of a number of recent research reports. Wells Fargo & Company cut their price objective on ASML from $750.00 to $600.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, July 15th. Piper Sandler dropped their target price on ASML from €767.00 ($782.65) to €630.00 ($642.86) in a report on Thursday, May 26th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft increased their target price on ASML from €475.00 ($484.69) to €525.00 ($535.71) and gave the company a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday, July 21st. Argus initiated coverage on ASML in a report on Wednesday, June 29th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $590.00 target price on the stock. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. dropped their target price on ASML from $925.00 to $794.00 in a report on Thursday, July 21st. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have given a hold rating, eleven have assigned a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $747.91.
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ASML Cuts Dividend
The firm also recently announced a semi-annual dividend, which was paid on Friday, August 12th. Investors of record on Friday, August 5th were issued a dividend of $1.3991 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, August 4th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.2%. ASML’s payout ratio is 13.63%.
ASML Company Profile
ASML Holding N.V. develops, produces, markets, sells, and services advanced semiconductor equipment systems consisting of lithography, metrology, and inspection related systems for memory and logic chipmakers. The company provides extreme ultraviolet lithography systems; and deep ultraviolet lithography systems comprising immersion and dry lithography solutions to manufacture various range of semiconductor nodes and technologies.
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During Drug-Free Pain Management Awareness Month, Foundation for Chiropractic Progress Calls for Expanding Access to Effective Non-Pharmacologic Care
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- During National Drug-Free Pain Management Awareness Month in September, the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP) cautions that although opioid prescriptions for noncancer pain are down by one-third in the U.S. since new federal guidelines were enacted, the growth of non-opioid painkiller prescriptions has increased, effectively trading one potentially risky drug for another.
F4CP, a nonprofit dedicated to informing and educating the general public about the value of chiropractic care, is a founding sponsor of National Drug-Free Pain Management Awareness Month, which occurs every September to raise awareness of safe solutions before opioids for neuromusculoskeletal pain.
According to a study published in June in JAMA Network Open, researchers found that the odds of prescribing a nonopioid pain medication started to significantly increase in 2016, which was the year that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised its prescribing guidelines to limit opioids for chronic, noncancer pain. Prescriptions for nonopioid painkillers, including non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, analgesics or antipyretics, anticonvulsants and antidepressants increased by 8% in 2017 and 9.7% in 2018. During the study period, the number of opioid prescriptions decreased by nearly one-third.
"While it is encouraging that physicians are prescribing fewer opioids, simply replacing one drug with another is not the answer to safe, effective, long-term pain management," said Sherry McAllister, DC, president of F4CP. "Instead, patients suffering from acute or chronic pain should seek out natural, drug-free methods first to improve symptoms and quality of life without the risk of dangerous pharmacologic side effects or dependency."
The prescribing study did not include drugs from the benzodiazepine class, yet prescriptions for these drugs for pain-related complaints have also increased, according to a JAMA Open Network study published in 2019.
At the same time, drug overdose deaths increased a staggering 30% between 2019 and 2020, according to a report from the CDC, with increases involving benzodiazepines and all types of opioids, both prescribed and illicit. Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids alone nearly increased by five times from 1999 to 2020. Currently, an estimated 187 people a day die from opioid overdoses.
Mental Illness a Contributor
Mental health conditions, such as depression or anxiety, can exacerbate physical pain and increase the risk of overdose or death. What is concerning is that nearly half of U.S. adults (44%) report that they have experienced physical pain that they believe was worsened due to mental or emotional pain, according to the results of a Harris Poll conducted on behalf of F4CP and released in July.
The link between worsened physical pain and mental health is more common among younger poll participants. For example, the Harris Poll shows that more than half of 18-to-34-year-old (53%) and 35-to-44-year-old participants (61%) report they have experienced physical pain they believe was worsened by mental or emotional pain. Another disparity between participants is that 48% of women report worse physical pain due to mental or emotional pain compared to only 39% of men. Women ages 35 to 44 most often reported the link (69%) while men ages 65 and older least often reported greater physical pain due to mental or emotional pain (17%).
Expanding Access to Safe, Natural, Drug-Free Care
Neither physical pain nor mental health conditions should be managed in isolation. Due to their close association, a holistic approach to pain management is needed to better control symptoms. Pharmacological interventions, however, that offer only superficial relief and create potential mental or behavioral health problems, such as dependence, addiction and escalation, should be avoided.
Chiropractic care has been demonstrated to effectively manage physical pain while positively contributing to mental health. Symptoms of depression, for example, such as high cortisol, high adrenalin, insomnia, agitation and anxiety, can be attributed to over-activation of the sympathetic nervous system. After reviewing studies, researchers in 2020 determined that spinal manipulation, also known as a chiropractic adjustment, activates the parasympathetic system to counterbalance the activity of the sympathetic system and thus reduce depression symptoms. Stimulating the parasympathetic system is also considered an effective therapy for major depression as it releases neurotrophins essential for antidepressive therapies, including brain-derived neurotrophic factor and nerve growth factor, according to researchers.
In addition, patients who pursue chiropractic care first to manage their pain often use conservative, cost-effective approaches. In the journal, Spine, this year, researchers showed that Medicare beneficiaries with chronic low back pain who chose spinal manipulation first were 2.5-times less likely to increase their healthcare utilization – such as hospitalizations and surgery – as compared to those who received opioids.
Given these outcomes, F4CP urges doctors of chiropractic (DCs) to serve their communities by sharing educational resources and to build greater chiropractic awareness at the grassroots level. For example, DCs could contact their local legislative body (Board of Supervisor or City Council) to request a proclamation in their city/town/state to designate September as Drug-Free Pain Management Awareness Month.
"Choosing natural, drug-free care to manage pain benefits every healthcare stakeholder, but none more than patients," said Dr. McAllister. "For this reason and many others, we call on our doctors to urge government officials, health insurers and employers to explore opportunities to expand access to chiropractic and other evidence-based, non-pharmacologic care, not only in September, but in every month, every year."
A not-for-profit organization with nearly 32,000 members, the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP) informs and educates the general public about the value of chiropractic care delivered by doctors of chiropractic (DC) and its role in drug-free pain management. Visit www.f4cp.org/findadoc; call 866-901-F4CP (3427).
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Bear Necessities: What does Alex Leatherwood’s addition mean for offensive line?
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The Chicago Bears were the most active team on the waiver wire following final roster cutdowns, where they landed former first-round offensive lineman Alex Leatherwood.
The Bears were interested in Leatherwood during the 2021 NFL draft, but they traded up for quarterback Justin Fields. In that same draft, Chicago also traded up to select offensive lineman Teven Jenkins.
Which makes it interesting considering Leatherwood is now seemingly in a competition with Jenkins and fellow 2021 draft class mate Larry Borom at right guard and right tackle, respectively.
While Leatherwood played both right guard and right tackle in his rookie year with the Raiders, Leatherwood dominated at guard in his collegiate career at Alabama. It looks to be his natural position, so it’ll be interesting to see where the Bears have him fitting in.
The fact that Leatherwood only lasted one year in Las Vegas — as a new regime takes over in 2022 — isn’t a glowing review. He has a lot of work to do if he hopes to become an impactful offensive lineman down the road. Which is why coming to Chicago is a good situation.
The Bears appear to have their starting offensive line set, which means Leatherwood won’t be expected to contribute immediately. And if Jenkins or Borom ultimately prove to not be the answer at their respective positions, it opens the door for Leatherwood.
With Chicago claiming Leatherwood off waivers, they inherit his contract from Las Vegas. He still has three years left on his rookie deal, and he’s owed $5.9 million guaranteed.
Leatherwood wasn’t brought here to be a reserve. He was brought here to be an impact player down the line. We’ll see how that impacts the offensive line moving forward.
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Native son. Baseball great. Special Olympics advocate. Family man. Business leader. Author. Harmonica virtuoso. Gentleman.
Carl Erskine is all of these and so much more to the people of his hometown, Anderson.
The life of Erskine, now 95 years old, has been chronicled by journalists, biographers and baseball enthusiasts. But a new project by Ted Green does a marvelous job of capturing the significance of his remarkable journey.
Green’s documentary, “The Best We’ve Got: The Carl Erskine Story,” premiered Aug. 11 at Paramount Theatre in downtown Anderson. It was the perfect venue for the premiere, given that Erskine returned to his hometown after his Major League Baseball career and has lived here since.
Perhaps the best part of the documentary isn’t about what Erskine accomplished but how he accomplished it. His enduring legacy will be kindness, engagement and civility.
Perhaps unwittingly, Erskine was thrust into the national conversation about race in his rookie year of 1948, when he played on the same Brooklyn Dodgers team as Jackie Robinson, who had broken Major League Baseball’s color barrier the year before.
To Erskine, the color of Robinson’s skin made no difference. It was the way the Anderson native had been raised. One of his closest boyhood friends, Johnny Wilson, was Black. Erskine knew firsthand about the obstacles Wilson faced in their childhood and later as a college and professional athlete.
So, to Erskine, being a teammate of Robinson’s was natural. Nothing forced, just two men among a team of two dozen working together toward a common goal.
Erskine’s social awareness grew with the birth of his son, Jimmy, who has Down syndrome, and he was at the forefront of the Special Olympics movement.
Through it all, Erskine’s bride from 1947, Betty, has been at his side. There they were together, side-by-side, at the Paramount premiere Aug. 11. When Carl Erskine makes a commitment, he makes it for life.
Green’s documentary crystallizes it all: Erskine’s childhood in Anderson, his relationships with Wilson and Robinson, his baseball career, his family and his special relationship with the Special Olympics.
What shows through in the end is the essence of Carl Erskine: his humility, quiet confidence, sense of humor and, above all, his humanity.
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New Delhi [India], September 1 (ANI): As a strong proponent of 'Aatmanirbharta', especially in strategic sectors, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Karnataka and Kerala on September 1-2, said officials on Thursday.
The visit will include PM Modi marking his presence at Sri Adi Shankara Janma Bhoomi Kshetram, the holy birthplace of Adi Shankaracharya, at Kalady village near Cochin Airport at around 5. 15 PM today.
After that, at around 6 PM, the Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone and dedicate to the nation various projects of Kochi Metro and Indian Railways worth over Rs 4,500 crore.
At 9:30 AM on September 2, the Prime Minister will commission India's first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant at Cochin Shipyard Limited in Kochi.
In what will mark a significant step towards self-reliance in the defence sector, Modi will commission the first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier as INS Vikrant.
Designed by the Indian Navy's in-house Warship Design Bureau (WDB) and built by Cochin Shipyard Limited, a Public Sector Shipyard under the Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways, Vikrant has been built with state-of-the-art automation features and is the largest ship ever built in the maritime history of India.
The Indigenous Aircraft Carrier is named after her illustrious predecessor, India's first aircraft carrier which had played a vital role in the 1971 war. It has a large amount of indigenous equipment and machinery, involving major industrial houses in the country as well as over 100 MSMEs. With the commissioning of Vikrant, India will have two operational aircraft carriers, which will bolster the maritime security of the nation.
Thereafter at 1:30 PM tomorrow, the Prime Minister will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of projects worth around Rs 3,800 crore in Mangaluru.
During the event, he will also unveil the new Naval Ensign (Nishaan), doing away with the colonial past and befitting the rich Indian maritime heritage.
The Prime Minister will inaugurate the Phase I extension of the Kochi Metro Rail Project from Petta to SN junction. The total cost of the project is over Rs 700 crore. Kochi Metro Rail project will be one of the most sustainable metro projects in the country with nearly 55 per cent of its energy needs being met by solar power.
"The Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone for the Phase -II stretch of the Kochi Metro rail project from JLN stadium to Infopark, having a length of 11.2 kilometres and covering 11 stations. The total estimated cost of this project is around Rs. 1,950 crore. The proposed Phase II corridor of the Kochi Metro Rail Project is aimed at catering to the growing transportation needs of Kochi City and is planned in such a way that it connects the District Headquarters, Special Economic Zone and IT Hub of the city with the existing metro rail network," read a statement by Prime Minister's office.
On completion, the combined Phase I and Phase II metro network will link the major residential and commercial hubs in the city with major transit hubs such as railway stations and bus stands, thus reinforcing the concept of multi-modal integration and last-mile connectivity.
PM Modi will dedicate to the nation the doubling of the Kuruppanthara-Kottayam-Chingavanam rail section, completed at a cost of nearly Rs.750 Crore. With this, the entire stretch from Thiruvananthapuram to Mangaluru is fully doubled now, promising faster and seamless connectivity.
Significantly, lakhs of devotees bound for Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa Shrine can conveniently alight at Kottayam or Chengannur railway station in the doubled section and proceed by road to Pamba. Prime Minister will also dedicate to the nation the newly electrified rail section between Kollam - Punalur.
The laying of the foundation stone for the redevelopment of three Railway stations in Kerala - Ernakulam Junction, Ernakulam Town and Kollam will be done by PM Modi.
The total estimated cost of these station redevelopment projects is around Rs 1,050 crore. These railway stations will be equipped with state-of-the-art amenities and world-class facilities such as dedicated arrival/departure corridors, skywalks, solar panels, sewage treatment plants, energy-efficient lighting, rain-water harvesting and intermodal transport facilities.
Modi will also inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of projects worth around Rs 3,800 crore in Mangaluru.
The Prime Minister will inaugurate the project worth over Rs 280 crore for mechanisation of Berth No. 14 for handling containers and other cargo, undertaken by the New Mangalore Port Authority.
The mechanized terminal will increase efficiency and reduce the turnaround time, pre-berthing delay and dwell time in the Port by around 35 per cent, thus giving a boost to the business environment. Phase I of the project has been successfully completed, thereby adding over 4.2 MTPA to the handling capacity, which would further increase to over 6 MTPA by 2025.
He will lay the foundation stone of five projects worth around Rs 1,000 crore, undertaken by the Port. The integrated LPG and Bulk Liquid POL Facility, equipped with state of an art cryogenic LPG storage tank terminal, will be capable of unloading full load VLGC (very large gas carriers) of 45,000 tonnes in a highly efficient manner.
The facility will bolster Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana in the region while reinforcing the port's status as one of the top LPG importing ports in the country. Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone of projects for the construction of storage tanks and edible oil refinery, construction of bitumen storage and allied facilities and construction of bitumen and edible oil storage and allied facilities.
These projects will improve the turnaround time of bitumen and edible oil vessels and reduce the overall freight cost for trade. Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone for the development of the Fishing Harbour at Kulai, which will facilitate safe handling of fish catch and enable better prices in the global market.
This work will be undertaken under the umbrella of the Sagarmala programme and will result in significant socio-economic benefits for the fishermen community.
Prime Minister will also inaugurate two projects undertaken by Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited viz BS VI Upgradation Project and Sea Water Desalination Plant.
The BS VI Upgradation Project, worth around Rs 1830 crores, will facilitate the production of ultra-pure environment-friendly BS-VI grade fuel (with sulphur content less than 10 PPM).
The Sea Water Desalination Plant, set up at a cost of around Rs 680 crore, will help reduce dependency on fresh water and ensure regular supply of hydrocarbons and petrochemicals throughout the year. Having a capacity of 30 Million Litres per Day (MLD), the Plant converts seawater into water required for the refinery processes. (ANI)
PM Modi to inaugurate multiple development projects in Karnataka, Kerala
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Asia Cup 2022: Rohit Sharma overtakes Virat Kohli, becomes India's second most-successful T20I skipper
Asia Cup 2022: Rohit Sharma overtakes Virat Kohli, becomes India's second most-successful T20I skipper
Dubai: Rohit Sharma on Wednesday overtook Rohit Sharma to become India's second most successful T20I captain. He reached this feat during his side's Group A match against Hong Kong in Dubai during the ongoing Asia Cup 2022. Now, Rohit Sharma has 31 wins in his 37 T20I matches as captain. He has only lost six. His win percentage as skipper in this format is a massive 83.78.
MS Dhoni remains India's most successful T20I captain of all time. He captained India in 72 games, out of which the team won 41, lost 28, tied one and two produced no result. His win percentage in the format is 59.28. Virat Kohli has now slipped to third. In his 50 games as skipper in T20Is, he won 30 of them, lost 16. Two matches ended in a tie while two produced no results. His win percentage as a skipper in this format is 64.58.
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Coming to the match, put to bat first by Hong Kong, Team India posted 192/2 in their 20 overs. Virat Kohli showcased glimpses of his old self and hit 59* off 44 balls, decorated with a four and three massive sixes. Then in the final few overs, Suryakumar Yadav exploded, smashing a brilliant 68* off 26 balls with six fours and six sixes. Pacer Ayush Shukla (1/29 in four overs) was Hong Kong's bowlers' pick.
Chasing 193, Hong Kong had posted 51/2 in their powerplay. Babar Hayat (41 off 35 balls) and Kinchit Shah (30 off 28 balls) played some solid knocks. But it was not enough to help Hong Kong shock the mighty Indians as they fell 40 runs short of a win. They finished their innings at 152/5 in their 20 overs. India earned direct qualification to the Super Four Phase of the tournament.
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Ravindra Jadeja (1/15 in four overs) was the pick of the bowlers for India. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh and Avesh Khan also took a wicket each. Suryakumar Yadav was adjudged as 'Man of the Match' for his brilliant knock.
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When Emma Serner met and fell in love with Italian enologist Andrea Guerra in Tuscany, the young couple began to dream about starting their own vineyard together. "We were both very invested in climate topics and environmental questions," said Serner, who was interning at the vineyard Guerra was working at. "But I really felt like it would be impossible to do in the south of Europe. Climate change really has become drastic and it's affecting agriculture in a very severe way."
In recent years, heat waves, drought and smoke from wildfires have wreaked havoc on vineyards around Europe, making it increasingly difficult to produce the same legacy wines that producers have consistently been churning out for centuries. Last year, southern European winemakers faced historically low harvests due to bad weather.
Serner suggested heading up to her home country of Sweden and setting up a vineyard on the island of Gotland, a southern province with warm, mild summers where her grandmother owned a summerhouse.
But Guerra wasn't sure. "He had never heard of Gotland," Serner said, "He asked, 'What is it? Are there polar bears?' You know, all the southern European myths about Sweden came up. And then he started asking very intricate questions about soil composition, climate, air humidity, UV radiation and the average temperature. After quite a while, he said he was still very sceptical, but there is potential."
They took a leap of faith, and today, Serner and Guerra are the co-founders of Långmyre Vineri – a 10-acre vineyard on Gotland, with a collection of 26,000 vines. They are part of a small yet growing cohort of Swedish winemakers whose collective land area spans between 370 to 500 acres. "It was really just a fantasy," admitted Serner. "But things kind of escalated quite quickly."
Emma Serner and Andrea Guerra started Långmyre Vineri on the Swedish island of Gotland (Credit: Joel Nilsson)
As the world gets hotter, cool climate viticulture is becoming increasingly attractive. Since the late 1800s, the average global temperature has risen about 1C, which might seem incremental but has significant repercussions for the wine industry. "A 2C global increase in temperature could remove 55% of wine growing regions worldwide and 4C could remove over 70% of these regions from production," said Debbie Inglis, the director of the Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute in Canada, citing a 2020 study.
Once seen as experimental and at the fringe of what's possible, a commercial wine industry in regions just below the Arctic circle is taking advantage of the warmer summers. In the last decade, southern Sweden, Denmark, Nova Scotia in Canada and even parts of Norway have become emerging wine destinations, a development spurred by hotter summers and the introduction of disease-resistant hybrid grape varieties that can resist the frigid winters.
"During the last 20 years, we've had the opportunity to harvest grapes on yearly basis," said Lotta Nordmark, a horticulturist and researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, about the Swedish wine industry. "In earlier years when you tried to grow wine in Sweden, it wasn't guaranteed that you could get a good harvest every year."
Sweden has been dabbling in viticulture since 1999, but wine makers didn't start hitting their stride until around 2010 when cold-hardy hybrid grapes like Solaris were introduced via Germany, according to Sveneric Svensson, the chairman of the Swedish Wine Association. "Solaris was born in Frankfurt, but it's really too warm for it there," Svensson said. "In Sweden, because it's colder, it's got a slow and nice development that doesn't ripen that brutally."
Winemakers like Serner and Guerra believe that hybrid grape varieties are the future of sustainable wine (Credit: Joel Nilsson)
From an environmental standpoint, hybrid grapes are disease resistant cultivars that don't require much or any pesticides or fungicides – the main reason why Serner and Guerra decided to set up shop in southern Sweden instead of Italy. "We firmly believe that these hybrid varieties are the future of sustainable wine growing," said Serner. "People are so fixated with making the same wine from the same varieties, even though the recipe that was written 200 years ago was made when the world looked different."
In old wine countries like Italy and France, there are strict appellation rules dictating what type of grapes can be grown and where. But the problem is that with the changing climate, some of these legacy grapes no longer thrive as well as they did before.
"If you grow the conventional varieties, you can try to be organic, but you will have to spray at one point because they will get sick," said Serner. "We didn't want to be locked in that situation." Many emerging wine regions, on the other hand, do not have regulations on grapes – a freedom that many winegrowers find to be more sustainable in the long run.
On Sweden's largest vineyard, Arilds Vingård, head winemaker Joe Roman estimates that 90% of their grapes are of the Solaris variety, which can be made into bright white or sparkling wines with high levels of acidity. Roman, who grew up in California and studied wine making in Oregon, also chose to work in the Swedish wine industry because of its predilection for hybrids. "It's much better for the planet. You spray much less," he said.
Joe Roman estimates that 90% of Arilds Vingård's grapes are of the Solaris variety (Credit: Clarissa Wei)
Located on a peninsula in southern Sweden, Arilds looks like a classic European vineyard. Rows of perfectly manicured vines sit neatly on 74 acres of land; a cluster of glamping tents for guests is situated in the middle. Near the entrance, a restaurant and bar is packed with visitors in sundresses and cargo pants sipping on a range of estate-made white, sparkling and rosé wines.
And they're not the only ones offering an all-inclusive experience. Further north in the neighbouring province is Ästad Vingård, a resort and vineyard with a Michelin-starred restaurant on its property, where patrons can take guided vineyard tours before heading to dinner or enjoying an underwater sauna. The estate specialises in sparkling wine; winemaker Claes Bartoldsson estimates they've churned out around 25,000 bottles this year. The plan is to eventually multiply that production number by 10. "Last year we had the biggest harvest here ever and the rest of Europe was a disaster," said Bartoldsson, citing reports of flooding, hail and diseases down south.
"Last year we had the biggest harvest here ever and the rest of Europe was a disaster."
Touring the two Swedish vineyards in the summer is a novelty for Scandinavians who have never thought to associate their part of the world with wine. It's just warm enough to inspire shorts and a T-shirt, but rarely gets so scorching hot as to force people to seek refuge in the shade. By contrast, at least one wine festival was cancelled this year in Bordeaux, France, as officials temporarily banned outdoor and non-air conditioned gatherings due to extreme heatwaves.
At both Arilds and Ästad, wines made from Solaris grapes are the highlights; they taste bright and floral, with notes of green apple, elderflower and pear. "Many of the Solaris wines taste very much like Sauvignon Blanc in New Zealand. You have the freshness and it's very crispy wine," said Jeanette Bohman, owner of Swedish Wine Center, a bar dedicated to highlighting wines in the region. Bohman admits that the quality of local wine wasn't exactly up to par a decade ago but has really matured in the last six years. "We have about 80 different Swedish wines at the wine bar," she said. "They're all good in some way. They have their own taste. They have their own character."
Långmyre Vineri makes sustainable wines like Come May rosé and Pinta white (Credit: Joel Nilsson)
The wine scene in Denmark is similar – albeit a bit older. "We first saw winemaking in Denmark in the '90s," said Kristian Rise, the beverage manager of POPL Burger, a Copenhagen burger restaurant owned by Rene Redzepi of Noma. "I remember having snowstorms in October when I was little. This doesn't happen anymore and is therefore great for winemaking."
In his spare time, Rise makes his own wine, and he and his father tend to 150 Rondo grapevines, a hybrid dark grape with a flavour profile of red berries, dark spicy fruit and rhubarb. "Typically, dark skinned grapes have a hard time ripening here but Rondo can survive the colder late summer and still yield good colour and aromas," he said. He predicts that the Danish wine scene will only continue to grow, comparing it to that of Germany.
Yet despite the optimism, the market for Scandinavian-made wine remains quite limited. "We are not yet competitive on an international market," said Nina Højgaard Jensen, an award-winning Danish sommelier, pointing out that the wines simply have not had enough time to cultivate "a sense of place" compared to their southern European counterparts.
Price relative to quality is another limiting factor. "[Swedish wine] is quite good but not extraordinary good," added Per Karlsson, a Swedish wine writer and co-founder of BKWine Magazine, noting that a single bottle can sometimes cost up to 30 euros. "Labour is expensive and quite frankly, even if though it's slightly warmer today, it's still a challenging climate. There is also a huge challenge from a marketing perspective. People tend to drink wines that they're familiar with."
Climate change and hybrid grapes have inspired winemakers to experiment with different wines (Credit: Joel Nilsson)
That familiarity, however, might eventually change as the climate crisis alters the chemistry of wine. Hotter temperatures make grapes produce more sugar, which is then converted to alcohol.
"We've seen slightly higher alcohol in many places. There's been a move worldwide from roughly 12%, maybe 100 years ago as an average, to about 14% today," said Gregory Jones, wine climatologist and CEO of Abacela Winery in Oregon. High alcohol levels are desirable if the producer is going for a full-bodied dry red wine, but in places like Champagne, growers have had to adapt drastically in order to retain brightness in their sparkling wines. One of the distinguishing features of cool climate wine is its relatively low alcohol content – an envious and harder-to-achieve trait for producers located down south.
Growers located closer to the poles have a clear advantage when it comes to making white and sparkling wines. "You can say that Nova Scotia is a carbon copy of Champagne 25 years ago," said Jean-Benoit Deslauriers, head winemaker of Benjamin Bridge in Nova Scotia, Canada. "As things migrate with the climate crisis, all of a sudden we have this textural lushness in our wine that is a by-product of a longer growing season."
Growers located closer to the poles have a clear advantage when it comes to making white and sparkling wines
Jones agreed. "Maybe not an absolute carbon copy but very close," he said. "Similar to the United Kingdom, Nova Scotia has warmed enough over the last 25 years to have longer growing seasons that allow fruit to ripen to levels seen in Champagne a few decades ago."
The shift in growing conditions might sound romantic, but winemakers up north are careful not to glorify the effects of climate change. "Climate change is more of a problem for others than a benefit for us," stressed Svensson. While producers in colder climates are spared from intense heat waves, they have their own set of challenges like early frost, mildew and rot. Exceptionally frosty springs can cause bud damage to the vines, and cold weather can ruin entire harvests. "In Ontario, they're estimating this year that the crop level will be down by 50% because of winter damage," said Inglis of the Canadian wine industry.
Sveneric Svensson: "Climate change is more of a problem for others than a benefit for us" (Credit: Clarissa Wei)
A changing climate is not discriminatory, and no one is spared from the extreme fluctuations in weather. "The net impact for society is overwhelmingly negative," said Kimberly Nicholas, an assistant professor of sustainability science at Lund University in Sweden. "If we were to experience 4C of global warming, Sweden would be the epicentre of Pinot Noir. But if we get to a world with four degrees of warming, we're not going to have a functional world. We're not going to have wine industry that can exist and thrive."
If anything, climate change is forcing winemakers from all over – not just in Arctic nations – to look at alternatives. "We might have to take North African grapes up to Italy because it doesn't rain anymore," said Swedish winemaker Sofia Ruhne, the second-generation owner of Terreno – a winery in the Chianti region of Tuscany, Italy.
To mitigate the impact of heat waves, Ruhne has expanded her Italian estate into high-altitude areas – an investment that she said has paid off already. "You can really see the difference," she said, noting that her high-altitude wines are less alcoholic and more acidic. She is also now conducting experiments on how to best grow wine grapes in the outskirts of Stockholm in Sweden, near a hotel she and her family owns. "The soil outside Stockholm is very fertile because it hasn't been cultivated that many years," she said. "However, vines usually tend to thrive in struggling soils, so we really need to find the right varieties."
Diversification is the key to resilience, and the experimentation happening just below the Arctic Circle might provide valuable lessons to other emerging wine regions around the world. "I don't necessarily think it will be the great new wine region of the future," said Karlsson. "But it is a really interesting place where people will continue to experiment with new kinds of varieties, which will potentially bring big benefits to the rest of the world."
Långmyre Vineri vineyard is certified organic in Sweden under KRAV standards (Credit: Joel Nilsson)
In keeping with this spirit, Serner and Guerra at Långmyre Vineri in Gotland have chosen not to put all their grapes in one basket. Instead of defaulting to Solaris, the cultivar of choice in Scandinavia – they have a selection of five different hybrid grapes including a dark grape called Merlot Kanthus, which is a crossing with Merlot. "In a blind tasting with a Merlot grown in the same conditions, you would never be able to tell the difference," Serner said. "Sweden is such a young wine country that it's too soon to already have one variety that we all grow."
It's been six years since Serner and Guerra first met. Now, they're engaged to be married, and it's safe to say they have achieved their dream of making wine with minimal impact to the environment. Their vineyard is certified organic in Sweden under KRAV standards, one of the strictest ecolabelling schemes in existence.
"Sweden will definitely continue to be one of the most sustainable wine countries in the world because we're all growing resistant varieties," said Serner. "Even though we're not all certified, the practices and the vineyards are organic."
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'Rampant chaos': Lebanon state sector eroded by grinding crisis
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Beirut (AFP) – Even as he battles Lebanon's summer heat without air-conditioning, judge Faysal Makki tries not to drink too much water because the toilets at the Justice Palace are broken.
His printer still works, but if he wants to use it he needs to bring his own paper and ink cartridges because the ministry can no longer afford office supplies.
State institutions have reached a state of disrepair that mirrors Lebanon's broader unravelling amid a political crisis and economic turmoil branded by the World Bank as one of the worst globally in modern times.
Even in the corridors of power, the paint is peeling and the lights are off.
"There is no paper or ink or pens or envelopes or functioning bathrooms or even running water," Makki, who has been a judge for 21 years, told AFP.
"I try not to drink water on the job so I won't have to go home or to the nearby offices of the syndicate of lawyers just to use the bathroom," he said.
Staff are sometimes trapped in a lift because of power cuts, or are forced to light their way down dark staircases with their mobile phone flashlights.
#photo1Makki said one colleague broke her arm when she tripped and fell down the stairs.
Ever more civil servants have gone on strike or just stay home with their employer's blessing, because the commute to work would eat up their entire salary or more.
"The basic requirements for a public institution are no longer available," said Makki.
'Embodiment of poverty'
Lebanon's downward spiral has been met with inaction from authorities, who have yet to chart a path out of the three-year-old economic crisis they are widely blamed for.
Parliament, which has yet to approve a 2022 budget, has rarely convened since it was elected three months ago.
#photo2Lebanon's president and prime minister have failed to agree on a new government since the outgoing cabinet's mandate expired in May.
With the Lebanese pound losing more than 90 percent of its value against the dollar on the black market in recent years, public sector salaries have slumped as low as $40 a month.
A 50-year-old mother of two who has worked for the interior ministry for 26 years says she now has little incentive to go to work.
The civil servant in a district east of Beirut, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, says she now only goes into the office once every two weeks, just above the threshold for a de facto resignation.
Without electricity, employees there have to climb seven flights of stairs in the dark to reach the office, the woman said.
"The tiles on the stairs are chipped," she said. "Every time you go up or down, you risk breaking your neck."
#photo3Inside the office, "there is no air conditioning or paper or photocopy machines or pens. You have to take a bottle of water with you to the bathroom because there is no running water."
The woman, whose salary dropped from $1,600 a month to about $75, said she never imagined things would get this bad.
"The embodiment of poverty is being an employee of the Lebanese state," she said.
'Total collapse'
Across Lebanon, decaying institutions have deprived citizens of the most basic services.
#photo4Power cuts at the parliament have forced lawmakers to postpone sessions, and the General Security agency at one point this year ran out of passports.
The Lebanese army can barely afford to pay and feed its soldiers, forcing many to quit or take up second jobs.
At the environment ministry, the damage caused by the massive and deadly August 2020 Beirut port explosion has yet to be fully repaired.
"The doors are still broken, so they don't close," Environment Minister Nasser Yassin told AFP, adding that the dividing walls and false ceilings are also still in disrepair.
Some meeting rooms have no lighting, and employees bring their own toilet paper.
The main municipality building in the northern city of Tripoli -- which was torched last year by demonstrators angered by the economic crisis -- is a standout example of state decay.
#photo5Employees there work in offices with crumbling, soot-covered walls, no cooling and barely any lighting.
"Things are only going to get worse," said Riad Yamak, the former Tripoli mayor who was removed in September following a political dispute.
"We are heading towards total collapse and rampant chaos."
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Napatech™ (OSLO: NAPA.OL), the leading provider of programmable Smart Network Interface Cards (SmartNICs) used for Data Processing Unit (DPU) and Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) services in telecom, cloud, enterprise, cybersecurity and financial applications worldwide, today announced an extension of its sales and marketing collaboration initiatives with AMD that will make Napatech's hardware-plus-software SmartNIC solutions available to AMD customers worldwide through both direct engagements and global channel partners.
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OEMs, enterprises and data center operators across a wide range of industries are adopting SmartNIC solutions to achieve levels of performance, security, latency and energy efficiency that are unachievable with servers or appliances equipped with traditional "foundational" NICs. As the leading provider of field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based SmartNICs, Napatech leverages the extensive portfolio of AMD Xilinx FPGAs, in combination with its own commercial-grade software suites, to accelerate and offload a variety of workloads in cybersecurity, financial systems, mobile infrastructure, data centers, network appliances and monitoring solutions.
Many companies that can benefit from Napatech's SmartNIC solutions are already customers of the extensive AMD processor portfolio, leveraging EPYC™ processors in servers or Ryzen™ processors in workstations. The expanded collaboration between AMD and Napatech is designed to enable AMD experts and channel partners to propose and architect end-to-end solutions for these companies, spanning their network infrastructure as well as their processor subsystem. Fine-tuning the balance of workloads between the processor and the SmartNIC through true system-level design results in optimized performance, system cost and energy efficiency for the target applications.
End-users who adopt Napatech's SmartNIC solutions benefit from a true "IT" experience, whereby they simply install a card, load a driver, and achieve seamless acceleration of common applications, both commercial and open source, with no need for custom programming at either the application or FPGA level.
As one example of the benefits of Napatech SmartNIC solutions based on AMD FPGAs, a tier-one global cybersecurity OEM that needed to scale the performance of their security appliance leveraged Napatech's Link-Capture™ software running on the NT200 SmartNIC with AMD Virtex® UltraScale+™ VU9P FPGA. This company achieved industry-leading performance measured in terms of packet rate, lossless throughput, low latency and millions of simultaneous flows. Similarly, an edge data center operator increased the performance of virtual switching for traffic between Virtual Machines (VMs) via the Link-Virtualization™ software running on the NT100 (Virtex UltraScale+ VU5P). This resulted in a doubling of VM density and a 49% reduction in data center OPEX calculated over a five-year period.
"Programmable SmartNICs, including IPUs and DPUs, are a critical part of modern network infrastructure and data center designs. The demand for these innovative technologies is rapidly increasing as services must be distributed as close as possible to the applications they support, without impacting CPU performance," said Bob Laliberte, Senior Analyst and Practice Director at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). "We expect that this expanded collaboration between AMD and Napatech will accelerate SmartNIC adoption across a wide range of use cases, given the global reach of the AMD sales team and their channel partners."
"Napatech is the leading merchant supplier of FPGA-based programmable SmartNICs with an extensive AMD FPGA-based product portfolio targeting networking and data center applications," said Sina Soltani, Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Sales at AMD. "We are excited to make their solutions available to our customers and prospects via our global sales, marketing and channel organizations."
"GL Communications Inc, a leading telecom test equipment provider, is a proud user of Napatech SmartNICs based on AMD FPGAs to drive feature rich Protocol Emulators and Analyzers at up to 100 Gbps, permitting wire speed capture and analysis for 100,000+ simultaneous sessions," said Vijay Kulkarni, CEO at GL Communications. "As an established Napatech customer, we have found that their solutions provide the performance and feature velocity required for our markets, so we are delighted to see the announcement of their new partnership with AMD."
"FPGA-based SmartNICs comprise the majority of SmartNIC ports currently deployed in network infrastructure and data centers," said Napatech CEO Ray Smets. "We are excited to be working closely with AMD as a long-term supplier of the FPGAs used in our SmartNICs, and we look forward to working with them to increase the adoption of these solutions worldwide."
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A brush fire in Castaic quickly spread to more than 4,600 acres Wednesday, Aug. 31, prompting evacuations and the closure of the 5 Freeway in both directions while crews planned to work through the night to contain the blaze.
DETOURS: NB traffic is being turned around at median gate in #Castaic. Possible alternatives are NB Route 14 or WB Route 126 to NB U.S. 101. SB traffic diverted to EB Routed 138 to SB Route 14 to reach SB I-5 near #SantaClarita. Avoid I-5 in Castaic. @CHPFortTejon @CountyofLA
— Caltrans District 7 (@CaltransDist7) September 1, 2022
The blaze, dubbed the Route fire, was reported around noon near Lake Hughes Road, according to Los Angeles County Fire Department Capt. Sheila Kelliher.
Evacuations were initially ordered for about 100 spaces at the Paradise Ranch Mobile Home Park and all structures south of Templin Highway along Upper Ridge Route Road. They were later expanded for all structures north of Lake Hughes Road, east of the 5, the LA County Sheriff’s Department said.
The LA County Office of Emergency Management posted information on evacuations.
Two evacuation centers had been opened by the evening. One at West Ranch High School, 26255 West Valencia Boulevard in Santa Clarita at 8 p.m., and another at Frazier Mountain High School, 700 Falcon Way in Lebec at 9 p.m.
#RidgeFire still burning at 4,620.
Evacuations lifted south of Northlake Hills Elementary School.EVACUATIONS STILL IN PLACE:
NORTH OF NORTHLAKE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SOUTH OF TEMPLIN HIGHWAY
(includes Paradise Ranch Mobile Estates)
EAST OF 5 FWY
WEST OF CASTAIC LAGOON— SCV Sheriff (@SCVSHERIFF) September 1, 2022
Evacuation update for the #RouteFire: There are now mandatory evacuations north of Lake Hughes and east of I-5. @RedCrossLA is working to set up an evacuation center at @CastaicHigh for residents. @SCVSHERIFF @LACoFDPIO @CaltransDist7
— Supervisor Kathryn Barger (@kathrynbarger) September 1, 2022
The freeway would remain closed through the night, southbound lanes from Vista Del Lago, and northbound from Parker Road, said California Highway Patrol Capt. Ed Krusey.
Within an hour of the fire being reported, it jumped to 60 acres, and by 4 p.m. the blaze had grown to 600 acres, according to the Sheriff’s Department. It was later measured at 4,625 acres with no containment, fire agencies said.
As the evening approached, crews were working amid 103 degree weather, with winds blowing about 11 mph.
“With this heatwave its very hot and dry,” said Angeles National Forest Battalion Chief Seneca Smith. “We moved (the Fire Danger Risk) from high to very high about two weeks ago and there’s good reason for that.”
Trevor Howard, an employee at Castaic Truck Stop along Castaic Drive, said that smoky air and flames were visible just outside the windows of the business — though he had not received any order to evacuate by the evening.
Around 1 p.m., Howard said that the truck stop’s overnight lot had already reached capacity with truckers planning to stay the night and wait out the road closures. The lot typically doesn’t reach capacity until 6 p.m., but by then many truckers had found themselves stranded in Castaic.
“There’s some frustration,” Howard said. “They can’t keep doing what they are supposed to be doing, which is drive.”
Helicopters would continue to make retardant drops through the night, reinforcing defense lines and establishing additional lines if hot spots flare up, said LA County Fire Deputy Chief Tom Ewald.
Authorities during a news conference had no confirmation on the number of structures damaged, though news footage showed at least one home burning.
Eight firefighters sustained heat-related injuries amid the triple-digit temperatures, six of whom were taken to a hospital. Ewald anticipated more heat emergencies on Thursday.
“We’re in this for awhile, it’s probably not the only fire we’ll be dealing with this week in LA County,” he said. “We have 4,000 square miles of Los Angeles County to cover”
An advisory warning of potential health dangers from smoke was issued by air quality regulators.
SMOKE ADVISORY: #RouteFire burning near #Castaic is affecting our air quality: https://t.co/Y158OoPtBX
Información en español: https://t.co/ctPFfWWfN8
South Coast AQMD emite un aviso de humo por el incendio forestral cerca de Castaic pic.twitter.com/PQF1wlXRir— South Coast AQMD (@SouthCoastAQMD) September 1, 2022
The cause of the fire was under investigation.
Staff writer Quinn Wilson contributed to this story.
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- Gross margin meets expectations
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- Sequential retail sales improvement compared to FY22 throughout the quarter and into August
- Taking a more conservative approach to back half with revised expectations for adjusted EPS of $6.25 to $7.00
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Genesco Inc. (NYSE: GCO) today reported GAAP earnings from continuing operations per diluted share of $0.59 for the three months ended July 30, 2022, compared to $0.74 in the second quarter last year and $0.05 per diluted share three years ago, prior to the pandemic. Adjusted for the Excluded Items in all periods, the Company reported second quarter earnings from continuing operations per diluted share of $0.59, compared to $1.05 last year and $0.15 per diluted share pre-pandemic.
Mimi E. Vaughn, Genesco board chair, president and chief executive officer, said, "We are pleased with our second quarter performance, which combined with our first quarter results, represent a strong start to Fiscal 2023 on top of last year's stimulus-induced spending environment. Strength from our Schuh and Johnston & Murphy businesses and careful expense control helped offset softness late in the quarter versus expectations at Journeys to deliver earnings ahead of projections. While we've seen nicely improved trends through August and we saw a good start to the back-to-school season, sales didn't achieve levels contemplated in our previous guidance. With these current trends and in light of the current impact inflation is having on consumer discretionary spending we believe it's prudent to take a more conservative approach to our back half outlook. We remain confident that our footwear focused strategy has created a much more resilient and fundamentally stronger business that we believe is better positioned to successfully navigate more difficult market conditions and outperform in favorable economic backdrops."
Thomas A. George, Genesco chief financial officer, commented, "Our second quarter results were highlighted by solid revenue growth when compared to pre-pandemic levels as top line grew 10% versus the same period in Fiscal 2020 despite having 5% fewer stores. With gross margin in line with our expectations combined with the work we've done reshaping and reducing our cost structure, we more than doubled operating income, which along with $176 million in share repurchases over the past three years, allowed us to achieve adjusted EPS of $0.59 this quarter compared to $0.15 in the second quarter of Fiscal 2020. While we are pleased with the long-term direction of the business, the current operating environment has led us to take a more cautious approach to our guidance. We now expect adjusted earnings per share for Fiscal 2023 to range between $6.25 to $7.00. We believe somewhere close to the middle of the range is where we will land."
Second Quarter Review
Net sales for the second quarter of Fiscal 2023 decreased 4% to $535 million from $555 million in the second quarter of Fiscal 2022 and increased 10% from $487 million in the second quarter of Fiscal 2020, prior to the pandemic. The sales decrease compared to last year was driven by decreased comparable sales, as the Company continued to anniversary the significant stimulus distributed a year ago, which especially benefitted Journeys Group, and by foreign exchange pressure on the Schuh business from the strengthening dollar, partially offset by increased sales in the wholesale channel. Excluding the impact of lower exchange rates, net sales decreased 1% for the second quarter of Fiscal 2023 compared to the second quarter of Fiscal 2022. As a result of store closures during Fiscal 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Company's policy of removing any store closed for seven consecutive days from comparable sales, the Company has not included second quarter comparable sales for Fiscal 2022, except for comparable direct sales, as it believes that overall sales was a more meaningful metric for that period.
Overall sales for the second quarter this year compared to the second quarter of Fiscal 2022 were down 7% at Journeys, down 4% at Schuh and down 10% at Licensed Brands as we repositioned the distribution mix, partially offset by a 22% increase in sales at Johnston & Murphy. On a constant currency basis, Schuh sales were up 9% for the second quarter this year.
Second quarter gross margin this year was 47.5%, down 160 basis points compared with 49.1% last year and down 110 basis points compared with 48.6% in Fiscal 2020. The decrease as a percentage of sales as compared to Fiscal 2022 is due primarily to increased markdowns in the Journeys business as they returned to a more normalized promotional environment and higher freight and logistics costs in the Johnston & Murphy business. Additionally, the Company had the reversal of inventory reserves in the second quarter last year at Johnston & Murphy as the brand began to recover from the pandemic making for a difficult comparison this year.
Selling and administrative expense for the second quarter this year increased 30 basis points as a percentage of sales compared with last year but decreased 180 basis points compared with Fiscal 2020. Adjusted selling and administrative expense for the second quarter this year increased 30 basis points as a percentage of sales compared with last year but decreased 200 basis points compared with Fiscal 2020. The increase as compared to Fiscal 2022 is due in large part to one-time benefits for rent credits and government relief in the second quarter of Fiscal 2022. Excluding these one-time benefits last year, decreased performance-based compensation expense more than offset the deleverage in selling salaries and marketing expenses.
Genesco's GAAP operating income for the second quarter was $9.1 million, or 1.7% of sales this year, compared with $12.9 million, or 2.3% of sales in the second quarter last year, and $3.0 million, or 0.6% of sales in the second quarter of Fiscal 2020. Adjusted for the Excluded Items in all periods, operating income for the second quarter was $10.0 million this year compared to $21.1 million last year and $4.7 million in the second quarter of Fiscal 2020. Adjusted operating margin was 1.9% of sales in the second quarter of Fiscal 2023, 3.8% in the second quarter last year and 1.0% in the second quarter of Fiscal 2020.
The effective tax rate for the quarter was 11.3% in Fiscal 2023 compared to 11.1% in the second quarter last year and 70.7% in the second quarter of Fiscal 2020. The adjusted tax rate, reflecting Excluded Items, was 19.5% in the second quarter of Fiscal 2023 compared to 25.1% in the second quarter of last year and 45.2% in the second quarter of Fiscal 2020. The lower adjusted tax rate for the second quarter this year as compared to the second quarter last year reflects a reduction in the effective tax rate the Company expects for jurisdictions in which it is profitable combined with the impact of foreign activity for which it has historically been unable to recognize a tax benefit.
GAAP earnings from continuing operations were $7.7 million in the second quarter of Fiscal 2023, compared to $10.9 million in the second quarter last year and $0.8 million in the second quarter of Fiscal 2020.
Adjusted for the Excluded Items in all periods, second quarter earnings from continuing operations were $7.7 million, or $0.59 per share, in Fiscal 2023, compared to $15.3 million, or $1.05 per share, in the second quarter of last year and $2.5 million, or $0.15 per share, in the second quarter of Fiscal 2020.
Cash, Borrowings and Inventory
Cash and cash equivalents at July 30, 2022, were $44.9 million, compared with $304.0 million at July 31, 2021. Total debt at the end of the second quarter of Fiscal 2023 was $48.9 million compared with $20.0 million at the end of last year's second quarter. The $288 million decrease in net cash position over the past 12 months was driven primarily by replenishment of inventory totaling $150 million and significant share repurchases totaling $135 million. Inventories increased 55% in the second quarter of Fiscal 2023 on a year-over-year basis, as outsized stimulus demand and supply chain limitations resulted in extremely low inventory last year. Inventories increased 14% this year when compared to the second quarter of Fiscal 2020, prior to the pandemic, driven by late arriving Spring inventory, back-to-school product, core carryover product and vendor cost increases.
Capital Expenditures and Store Activity
For the second quarter, capital expenditures excluding the new corporate headquarters building were $9 million, related primarily to investments in retail stores and digital and omnichannel initiatives. Depreciation and amortization was $11 million. During the quarter, the Company opened four stores and closed six stores. The Company ended the quarter with 1,412 stores compared with 1,439 stores at the end of the second quarter last year, or a decrease of 2%. Square footage was down 2% on a year-over-year basis.
Share Repurchases
The Company repurchased 826,034 shares during the second quarter of Fiscal 2023 at a cost of $45.4 million or an average of $54.99 per share. The Company currently has $54.9 million remaining on its expanded share repurchase authorization announced in February 2022.
Fiscal 2023 Outlook
The Company revises its Fiscal 2023 full year guidance:
- Sales are now expected to be down 3% to flat, compared to FY22, versus prior guidance of up 1% to 3%.
- Adjusted diluted earnings per share from continuing operations in the range of $6.25 to $7.002, with an expectation that adjusted diluted earnings per share for the year will be near the mid-point of the range, versus the prior expectation for adjusted diluted earnings per share to be near the mid-point of $7.00 to $7.75.
Please refer to the Q2FY23 conference call and Q2FY23 Summary Results presentation for details regarding guidance assumptions.
ESG Report
Genesco recently published its inaugural ESG Report on www.genesco.com outlining the Company's most recent ESG work, policies and metrics. "We are proud of the progress we've made on ESG," said Vaughn. "Our business continues to incorporate ESG as a factor in key operating decisions such as redesigning and reducing shoe box sizes and participating in energy reduction programs at the store level. We're committed to do more and look forward to updating you on our future progress."
Conference Call, Management Commentary and Investor Presentation
The Company has posted detailed financial commentary and a supplemental financial presentation of second quarter results on its website, www.genesco.com, in the investor relations section. The Company's live conference call on September 1, 2022, at 7:30 a.m. (Central time), may be accessed through the Company's website, www.genesco.com. To listen live, please go to the website at least 15 minutes early to register, download and install any necessary software.
Safe Harbor Statement
This release contains forward-looking statements, including those regarding future sales, earnings, operating income, gross margins, expenses, capital expenditures, depreciation and amortization, tax rates, stores openings and closures, ESG progress and all other statements not addressing solely historical facts or present conditions. Forward- looking statements are usually identified by or are associated with such words as "intend," "expect," "believe," "anticipate," "optimistic" and similar terminology. Actual results could vary materially from the expectations reflected in these statements. A number of factors could cause differences. These include adjustments to projections reflected in forward-looking statements, including those resulting from the effects of COVID-19 on the Company's business, including COVID-19 case spikes in locations in which the Company operates, additional stores closures due to COVID-19, weakness in store and shopping mall traffic, restrictions on operations imposed by government entities and/or landlords, changes in public safety and health requirements, and limitations on the Company's ability to adequately staff and operate stores. Differences from expectations could also result from stores closures and effects on the business as a result of civil disturbances; the level and timing of promotional activity necessary to maintain inventories at appropriate levels; our ability to pass on price increases to our customers; the imposition of tariffs on product imported by the Company or its vendors as well as the ability and costs to move production of products in response to tariffs; the Company's ability to obtain from suppliers products that are in-demand on a timely basis and effectively manage disruptions in product supply or distribution, including disruptions as a result of COVID-19 or geopolitical events; unfavorable trends in fuel costs, foreign exchange rates, foreign labor and material costs, and other factors affecting the cost of products; the effects of the British decision to exit the European Union, impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war, and other sources of market weakness in the U.K. and Republic of Ireland; the effectiveness of the Company's omnichannel initiatives; costs associated with changes in minimum wage and overtime requirements; wage pressure in the U.S. and the U.K.; weakness in the consumer economy and retail industry; competition and fashion trends in the Company's markets; risks related to the potential for terrorist events; risks related to public health and safety events; changes in buying patterns by significant wholesale customers; retained liabilities associated with divestitures of businesses including potential liabilities under leases as the prior tenant or as a guarantor; and changes in the timing of holidays or in the onset of seasonal weather affecting period-to-period sales comparisons. Additional factors that could cause differences from expectations include the ability to renew leases in existing stores and control or lower occupancy costs, and to conduct required remodeling or refurbishment on schedule and at expected expense levels; the Company's ability to realize anticipated cost savings, including rent savings; the amount and timing of share repurchases; the Company's ability to achieve expected digital gains and gain market share; deterioration in the performance of individual businesses or of the Company's market value relative to its book value, resulting in impairments of fixed assets, operating lease right of use assets or intangible assets or other adverse financial consequences and the timing and amount of such impairments or other consequences; unexpected changes to the market for the Company's shares or for the retail sector in general; our ability to meet our sustainability, stewardship, emission and diversity, equity and inclusion related ESG projections, goals and commitments; costs and reputational harm as a result of disruptions in the Company's business or information technology systems either by security breaches and incidents or by potential problems associated with the implementation of new or upgraded systems; the Company's ability to realize any anticipated tax benefits; and the cost and outcome of litigation, investigations and environmental matters involving the Company. Additional factors are cited in the "Risk Factors," "Legal Proceedings" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sections of, and elsewhere in, the Company's SEC filings, copies of which may be obtained from the SEC website, www.sec.gov, or by contacting the investor relations department of Genesco via the Company's website, www.genesco.com. Many of the factors that will determine the outcome of the subject matter of this release are beyond Genesco's ability to control or predict. Genesco undertakes no obligation to release publicly the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Forward-looking statements reflect the expectations of the Company at the time they are made. The Company disclaims any obligation to update such statements.
About Genesco Inc.
Genesco Inc., a Nashville-based specialty retailer and branded company, sells footwear and accessories in more than 1,410 retail stores throughout the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, principally under the names Journeys, Journeys Kidz, Little Burgundy, Schuh, Schuh Kids, Johnston & Murphy, and on internet websites www.journeys.com, www.journeyskidz.com, www.journeys.ca, www.littleburgundyshoes.com, www.schuh.co.uk, www.schuh.ie, www.schuh.eu, www.johnstonmurphy.com, www.johnstonmurphy.ca, www.nashvilleshoewarehouse.com, and www.dockersshoes.com. In addition, Genesco sells footwear at wholesale under its Johnston & Murphy brand, the licensed Levi's brand, the licensed Dockers brand, the licensed Bass brand, and other brands. Genesco is committed to progress in its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, and the Company's environmental, social and governance stewardship. For more information on Genesco and its operating divisions, please visit www.genesco.com.
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‘Insulated from pain’: MPs claimed £200,000 to pay utility bills on second homes last year
Exclusive: Taxpayers’ support to heat MPs’ second homes ‘adds insult to injury’, say campaigners
MPs charged taxpayers almost £200,000 for energy bills and other utilities at their second homes over the past year, new analysis by The Independent has found.
Campaigners said the findings showed that Britain’s elected representatives were partly “insulated” from financial pain during the cost of living crisis, since much of their energy costs are covered by the public purse.
Politicians with seats outside of London are allowed to put utility bills on expenses at one of their homes – whether it is in the capital or in their constituency.
MPs claims for gas, electricity and water amounted to just over £195,000 in 2021-22, according to analysis of data from by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA).
Over the past three years, MPs have claimed just over £692,000 to cover these utility costs at one of their homes – with £538,000 alone going on heating bills.
Tory leadership favourite Liz Truss – under pressure to provide more support with soaring energy bills if she becomes PM next week – has charged taxpayers £2,367 for gas, electricity and water costs at one of her homes over the past three years.
Ms Truss’s rival Rishi Sunak did not claim for household utility costs, but ministers and other senior figures in line for top jobs are among the 301 MPs who have put utility bills on expenses over the past year.
Suella Braverman, tipped to be Ms Truss’s home secretary if she wins the Tory contest, claimed £7,160 for household utilities since 2019-20, IPSA figures show.
Education secretary James Cleverly, reportedly in line to be promoted foreign secretary, has racked up £4,142 in energy and water bills in the same three-year period.
Among the senior Labour MPs claiming for utilities, deputy leader Angela Rayner has received £2,318 to cover energy and water bills since 2019. Shadow climate secretary Ed Miliband has received £2,270 for household utilities in the same period.
The End Fuel Poverty Coalition – an umbrella group representing 60 charities, unions and civil society organisations – questioned whether MPs could understand the full impact of the soaring bills.
Simon Francis, co-ordinator of the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, told The Independent: “On the basis of these findings, it looks like MPs will stay warm this winter – unlike the reality for millions of their constituents.”
Ruth London, from Fuel Poverty Action, said MPs would not be “affected” in quite the same way as their constituents when energy price cap rises 80 per cent in October.
“It adds insult to injury that people are paying their wages – and paying for support with some of their bills – while suffering from the policies they are passing,” she said.
Ms London added: “There’s a problem when the people making the rules, the people passing legislation on energy, don’t get affected by the problem in quite the same way.”
The total amount claimed by MPs for energy and water as a business cost in 2021-22 fell from the previous year’s total of £234,000. But the figure charged to the public purse is expected to soar in the months ahead.
Average annual energy bills set to climb above £3,500 from October, and predictions they could top £4,200 when the price cap is raised in January.
The Taxpayers’ Alliance think tank called for a limit on the amount that MPs can claim for utilities on their second homes. The group argued that current rules mean politicians have no incentive to conserve energy use during the cost of living crisis.
Darwin Friend, policy analyst at the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said the public would be “rightly concerned” about MPs’ unlimited ability to claim for gas and electricity costs at one of their properties.
“With energy prices soaring and the tax burden at a 70-year high, taxpayers will rightly be concerned that their hard-earned cash is being used to insulate MPs from the cost of living crisis,” said Mr Friend.
Truss and other senior MPs have been contacted for comment.
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Starbucks has opened a new branch in a Surrey town as the coffee company expands across the county. The international chain has opened in an old bank in Banstead.
The High Street branch in the former home of Santander, opened on Wednesday, August 31 and has created six new jobs. The new employees will team up with colleagues in areas such as Worcester Park, and Reigate.
To celebrate the new opening 50 lucky customers will be handed complimentary reusable cups every day during the first week of Starbucks opening. Cristiano Sobral, district manager for Cobra Coffee who operate the store, said: “We are delighted to welcome these new colleagues to our Banstead store and link them into our local team which includes store colleagues in Worcester Park, New Malden, Reigate, Dorking and East Oxted.
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“This opening will bring the Starbucks experience to Banstead and we are looking forward to being part of the local community,” he added.
The store, which is located just a few stores down from the nearby Costa chain, will be open to customers between 7am and 6pm between Monday and Saturday and on Sunday’s between 8am and 5pm. Comfortable seating is offered inside and free wi-fi is available to customers.
As well as a number of dairy-free options the store has signed up to Too Good To Go, a food app which connects customers with restaurants and stores that have unsold food. Customers can also order food through the Starbucks app on their phones meaning they can skip the queues.
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Best men’s walking boots 2022 UK: how to choose a men’s walking boot, best from On, Berghaus, Salomon
Keep your feet safe, comfortable, and stable as you hit the hiking trail with one of these excellent pairs of walking boots
Best men’s hiking boots 2022
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If you are serious about your walking, we can not stress enough that a pair of weather Converse will not serve you when you’re trekking (no disrespect to that brand, which is terrific for schlepping around down).
You need to invest in a sturdy pair of walking boots. Why?
A good pair of hiking boots can make your life a lot easier when tackling a variety of terrains on your adventures.
Hiking boot technology has come a long way over the years, and even some of the most affordable boots on the market today offer excellent waterproofing, weatherproofing and durability for the day-to-day wearer. More simply - you’ll be a lot more comfortable, and your feet will be safer from injury. You’re also likely to cut down on blisters and bunions - a welcome relief to those who know that pain.
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For the more adventurous amongst you, newer versions of popular hiking boots have been refined over the years to provide excellent comfort and wearability in the toughest of conditions.
Best men’s hiking boots at glance
- Best luxury hiking boot: Danner Mountain Light II
- Best lightweight hiking boot: On Cloudrock Waterproof Hiking Boots
- Best barefoot hiking boot: Vivobarefoot Tracker FG
- Best affordable walking boot: Tog24 Ingleborough Men’s Vibram Waterproof Boots
- Best technical hiking boot: Berghaus Hillmaster II GORE-TEX Boots
- Best for icy terrain: Salomon Predict Hike Mid GTX
- Best all-rounder: Jack Wolfskin Force Striker Texapore
- Best for all-day comfort: Scarpa Mistra II GTX
- Best for trail runners: Salomon Cross Hike GORE-TEX
- Easiest boots to pack: Arc’teryx Mens Aerios FL GTX Shoes
What to look for in a hiking boot
Inevitably this question turns to how you might use your boots – but it’s important to pay attention to the types of materials used and the boot’s weights to ascertain which option to go for. If you’re in scrubby, muddy woodland terrain, you might want a more durable, heavy-duty boot.
If you’re in wintery, snowy conditions, look for warmth and padding as a key priority. If you’re looking to cover rocky, stony ground with a lack of traction, look for something that can provide you with dynamic, flexible grip.
How much money do I have to spend?
We’ve included a range of options below, covering price-points from around £60 to £200+. Our advice would be to refer to the point above and spend based on your needs. If you’re buying boots to wear on your dog walks, the technology included in the most basic pairs of boots will probably be enough.
If you’re on multi-day hikes or treks, look at spending a bit more for added comfort and protection. There’s nothing worse than uncomfortable, or more importantly, inappropriate boots for the conditions you’re in, and our advice would be to get to know the materials, weights and feels of different fabrics and styles to find what’s right for you.
Get kitted out for all of your hiking adventures
The best men’s walking shoes are rounded-up here, and you can keep yourself dry with the best men’s waterproof jackets, or the highest rated waterproof trousers.
We have detailed guides to the best backpacking tents for your adventures here. Want to steady your stride? These are the best walking poles for hiking.
Keep it comfy with the best camping folding chairs, and sleep on the best air beds around, as listed here. And keep things illuminated with a great camping head torch.
Danner Mountain Light II
Key Specs – Fabric: Leather; Weight: 1750g; Waterproof technology: GORE-TEX; Colour options: 2
Something of an icon in the hiking community these boots are a wonderful marriage of traditional and modern design.
The Kletterlift sole from Vibram meant that we remained fall-free on hikes across scree, bog and mud. The one-piece leather assembly, meanwhile, meant that our feet remained protected from unwanted ingress.
Danner’s boots are hailed for their durability, and you can be confident that if well treated these boots will last you several years.
On Cloudrock Waterproof Hiking Boots
Key Specs – Material: Fabric membrane, Missiongrip rubber sole; Waterproof technology; GORE-TEX; Weight: 620g; Colour options: 2
Swiss running shoe specialists On are well-known as a company for creating versatile, high-performing running shoes for those looking to take their exercise to a new level.
This is a lightweight hiking boot option from the brand that performs well in the weight stakes – they’re some of the lightest men’s boots we’ve tested thanks to a durable membrane and a super light ‘MissionGrip’ outsole.
With the brand’s focus on combining a running shoe ethos and a hard-wearing hiking boot construction, we were impressed with the overall design of the boot.
Vivobarefoot Tracker FG
Key Specs – Fabric: Leather; Weight: 460g; Waterproof technology: recycling PET lining; Colour options: 1
Vivobarefoot are a brand with a mission – to spread the word of the benefits of barefoot running, walking and hiking.
Made to tackle any terrain, this is a lightweight boot which features a removable thermal insole and is created with the minimum amount of separation between your foot and the terrain as possible.
We liked how much grip it provided, whilst at the same time being lightweight, breathable, fully waterproof and importantly constructed using completely ethically sourced materials.
Tog24 Ingleborough Men’s Vibram Waterproof Boots
This is a vintage look leather boot, with a full-grain leather upper coated with a waterproof membrane and a quick-wicking lining to banish moisture accumulating when on long walks.
We liked the design of the Ingleborough, named after the second highest mountain in the Yorkshire Dales. A no-nonsense, affordable boot that’ll take you where you need to go.
Berghaus Hillmaster II GORE-TEX Boots
Key Specs – Fabric: Leather, GORE-TEX; Weight 708g; Waterproof technology: GORE-TEX; Colour options: 1
We thought this Berghaus boot sits at both an optimum price-point for serious walkers and at a technical level to provide all most people would need from their hikes.
Launched in 1994, the Hillmasters have become Britain’s bestselling walking boot, and this latest version offers up memory foam in the collar, to allow the boot to mould to the shape of your foot, as well as supple leather and a breathable GORE-TEX lining to keep your feet warm, dry and cushioned.
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Key Specs – Fabric: Textile, Synthetic; Weight: 376g; Waterproof technology: GORE-TEX; Colour options: 5
This boot offered trainer-like comfort from its first day of use, whilst providing assured protection against rugged terrain.
We were particularly impressed with the Contagrip outsole which provided us consistent grip while hiking through a frost-bitten glen.
The Predict’s lightweight credentials should make it an awesome companion for those who prefer to breeze across the hills.
Jack Wolfskin Force Striker Texapore
Key Specs – Fabric: Reflex Foam, Vibram outsole, polyester upper; Weight 468g; Waterproof technology: Texapore; Colour options: 3
An innovative ‘force-plate’ improves stability in this Jack Wolfskin offering, meaning that less effort is required on uneven and unpredictable terrain.
It offers excellent grip on tougher hikes, whilst being comfortable and lightweight enough for more athletic day hikes.
A good all-rounder, and an excellent option for people looking for a light boot for day-to-day activity.
Scarpa Mistra II GTX
Key Specs – Fabric: Leather, Vibram outsole; Weight 600g; Waterproof technology: GORE-TEX; Colour options: 1
Another good mid-range option, this is a walking boot made with comfort in mind. Ideal for longer periods of wear due to the exemplary underfoot cushioning – also great if your foot shape needs something with a little extra padding.
Definitely a great option if all-day comfort is high on the priority list; great for travelling and causal walking in warmer conditions.
Salomon Cross Hike GORE-TEX
Key Specs – Fabric: Polyester, GORE-TEX membrane; Weight 396g; Waterproof technology: GORE-TEX; Colour options: 3
The Cross Hike offers a Contagrip on the outsole, which means it has multi-directional lugs offering exceptional grip on low-friction terrain.
Led by the brand’s experience of developing shoes for trail-running, we like the quick-lace system which provided an easy-on, easy-off experience and the well-developed GORE-TEX maintaining excellent water and weatherproofing credentials.
We’d recommend these boots for people who are used to the Salomon system, or perhaps are keen trail runners looking to take that concept to a more sturdy, heavy-duty shoe.
Arc’teryx Acrux TR GTX Boot
Key Specs – Fabric: GORE-TEX, Vibram Outsole; Weight 550g; Waterproof technology: GORE-TEX; Colour options: 1
A technical trekking boot at the higher end of the market, this offering from Arc’teryx is exactly what you’d expect from the brand – well considered, well-made and lightweight enough for packability, climbing and efficiency of movement across all terrains.
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UNION, N.J., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) today announced the successful completion of its previously disclosed financing agreements.
The Company has secured more than $500 million of new financing, including its newly expanded $1.13 billion asset-backed revolving credit facility ("ABL facility") and a new $375 million "first-in-last-out" facility ("FILO facility"). The refinancing of the ABL facility was led by J.P. Morgan, and Sixth Street Partners is serving as the Lender and Agent for the Company's FILO facility. The enhanced liquidity is expected to be utilized to support immediate strategic priorities to drive traffic and sales and gain back customer relevance, including rebalancing the assortment and inventory position.
Sue Gove, Director & Interim Chief Executive Officer, commented, "Together with Sixth Street, J.P. Morgan and our banking partners, this new financing will bolster our liquidity and strengthen our balance sheet. We are pleased to announce this critical step in moving Bed Bath & Beyond in a positive direction by strengthening our financial positioning. We are committed to utilizing our resources to better serve our customers, drive growth, and recapture market share to deliver returns for all stakeholders."
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. and subsidiaries (the "Company") is an omnichannel retailer that makes it easy for our customers to feel at home. The Company sells a wide assortment of merchandise in the Home, Baby, Beauty and Wellness markets. Additionally, the Company is a partner in a joint venture which operates retail stores in Mexico under the name Bed Bath & Beyond.
The Company operates websites at bedbathandbeyond.com, bedbathandbeyond.ca, buybuybaby.com, buybuybaby.ca, harmondiscount.com, and facevalues.com.
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MOSCOW (AP) — The chairman of the board of Russia's largest private oil company Lukoil has died with Russian news agencies on Thursday citing sources saying that he had fallen from a hospital window in what may have been a suicide.
A Lukoil statement said Ravil Maganov “passed away after a severe illness” but did not give further details.
Russian news reports said his body was found on the grounds of the Central Clinical Hospital, where Russia's political and business elite are often treated. He appeared to have fallen from a sixth-story window, the reports said.
State news agency Tass cited an unnamed law enforcement source as saying Maganov had committed suicide and that he had been admitted to the hospital after a heart attack. The news site RBK also said police were investigating the possibility of suicide.
Lukoil was one of a few Russian companies to publicly call for an end to Russia's military operation in Ukraine, calling in March for the “immediate cessation of the armed conflict.” | https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Russian-top-oil-executive-dies-reports-suggest-17412239.php | 2022-09-01T12:20:14Z | https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Russian-top-oil-executive-dies-reports-suggest-17412239.php | false | 20 |
BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Grom Social Enterprises, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GROM) Curiosity Ink Media today announced that celebrated kids’ TV writer, McPaul Smith (Backyardigans, The New Mickey Mouse Club), has been tapped to develop Curiosity’s new animated preschool series, Baldwin, based on its intellectual property of the same name. The Baldwin franchise, which invites preschoolers on the adventures of a young, switcher train who takes to the rails to reunite with his father, kicks off in earnest beginning October 1st, with the publishing debut of Baldwin’s Big Adventure. The selection of Smith to pen the series was announced today by Darren Marks, Chairman and CEO of Grom Social Enterprises, Inc. Investor relations information on Grom Social Enterprises, Inc. is available at https://investors.gromsocial.com.
McPaul Smith brings a trove of experience in kids’ and preschool entertainment to his new role. He began his writing career on MTV’s game show, Remote Control, before serving as head writer on the iconic PBS show, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. He then wrote for PBS’s Reading Rainbow and Disney Channel’s The New Mickey Mouse Club, prior to joining Nickelodeon, where he held a number of roles, including head writer and lyricist for the animated musical series, The Backyardigans. He has written songs for the Disney Channel shows, Bear in the Big Blue House and Book of Pooh, and for Sprout House on Universal Kids.
Smith also served as an executive at BBC America, where he led a team of producers, writers and editors in creating the network's on-air promos, trailers and hosted day-part packaging. More recently, McPaul created live-action games for the syndicated kids’ variety series, Wonderama, wrote scripts for the PBS animated series, Arthur and Molly of Denali, and was head writer on the Netflix animated show Charlie’s Colorforms City. He has co-created several kids’ podcasts for Pinna and written and produced songs for the new preschool video series, Hippo Park.
“McPaul Smith is representative of the high-caliber talent that Grom and Curiosity are recruiting to bring our original IP to life,” said Marks. “His incredible biography in both kids and preschool entertainment will certainly be put to great use, as we introduce Baldwin to the programming marketplace and help underscore the premium quality of our programming. On behalf of all of us at Grom and Curiosity, we welcome him with open arms!”
About Curiosity Ink Media
Curiosity Ink Media is a global media company that develops, acquires, builds, grows and maximizes the short, mid, and long-term commercial potential of Kids & Family entertainment properties and associated business opportunities. Driven by a best-in-class leadership team, Curiosity Ink Media’s multi-faceted I.P. library is designed to amass ongoing value through strategic stewardship, partnerships, and highly targeted market entry. For more information, please visit https://curiosityinkmedia.com/.
About Grom Social Enterprises, Inc.
Grom Social Enterprises, Inc. is a growing social media platform and original content provider of entertainment for children under 13 years of age, which provides safe and secure digital environments for kids that can be monitored by their parents or guardians. The Company has several operating subsidiaries, including Grom Social, which delivers its content through mobile and desktop environments (web portal and apps) that entertain children, let them interact with friends, access relevant news, and play proprietary games while teaching them about being good digital citizens. The Company owns and operates Top Draw Animation, which produces award-winning animation content for some of the largest international media companies in the world. Grom also includes Grom Educational Services, which has provided web filtering services for K-12 schools, government and private businesses. For more information, please visit https://gromsocial.com.
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This press release contains statements, which may constitute “forward-looking statements.” Those statements include statements regarding the intent, belief, or current expectations of Grom and members of its management team as well as the assumptions on which such statements are based. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. Important factors currently known to management that may cause actual results to differ from those anticipated are discussed throughout the Company’s reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission which are available at www.sec.gov as well as the Company’s website at www.gromsocial.com. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events, or changes to future operating results.
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All Quiet on the Western Front, the famous novel by Erich Maria Remarque, is getting an adaptation from Netflix that is coming very soon.
The harrowing tale of the First World War has been adapted into a film numerous times, with Lewis Milestone’s 1930 version, which starred Louis Wolheim and Lew Ayres, one of the all-time classics and an early Academy Award recipient.
Now, celebrated German director Edward Berger, the mind behind titles such as Deutschland 83, Patrick Melrose, and Your Honor, is reviving Remarque’s work for Netflix, based on a script he co-wrote with Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell.
While speaking to Netflix Queue, Berger explained that he was excited about telling the story from the German perspective: “What a challenge and what an opportunity!”
The film is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival before it arrives in German theatres on September 29th. Following its release in Germany, it will make its way into theatres in selected countries before reaching Netflix on October 28th.
Felix Kammerer plays the protagonist, Paul Bäumer, a volunteer who enlists in the war effort alongside his classmates, unaware of the life-changing horror he is about to face. Also featuring in the cast in Daniel Brühl of Inglourious Basterds and A Most Wanted Man fame.
Netflix’s synopsis reads: “All Quiet on the Western Front tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world-renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque”.
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Birthday parties are an excuse for over the top celebrations, whilst we're surrounded by our closest friends and family. But one is understandably upset after being uninvited to the 30th birthday bash of someone whom she considered as a " close friend ".
Expressing her anger online, the woman fumed as her friend revoked her right to attend her 30th birthday bash due to the presence of her ex-boyfriend. The grieving man revealed to the birthday girl that he had an "issue" with his ex's attendance. Taking the issue online, the woman explained: "close friend uninvited me from 30th because of my ex-boyfriend."
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"One of my closest friends is celebrating her 30th birthday this Saturday and has invited me to the party (I live abroad so it was amazing luck that I happened to be here for it)," she said.
"I told her I’ll come at 7pm after I breastfeed my 10-month-old before his bedtime, after which I’ll leave him with my parents and join the celebration.
"However, yesterday she rang me and told me that she completely forgot about it, but before knowing I was going to be here for her celebration, she invited my ex-boyfriend."
Whilst the friend proceeded to ask if she had any issues regarding his attendance, she explained that she had "none whatsoever"
"The whole thing seems like a lifetime ago to me and I have long since moved on with my life," the woman said.
"She told me that she’ll ask my ex as well as she doesn’t want anyone feeling uncomfortable."
Wanting to put the past behind them, the woman was obviously angered as the ex requested that the pair do not cross paths.
The woman explained in the Mumsnet post : "She then called me back and said that he apparently has an issue with me being there and asked me to come earlier and leave before he arrives. "
Unfortunately, this wasn't an option for the mum as it would coincide with previous plans.
The woman expressed her upset: "She’s not close to my ex at all, whilst me and her are very very close.
" expected her to say, 'Ok then, just come as we discussed originally and your ex can grow up and sort himself out' or something of the sort.
"Instead, she then told me 'that’s okay, we can meet on Monday instead'.
After describing her upset about the matter, the friend proceeded to apologise.
The woman explained: "She essentially told me that she feels really bad that she invited him.
"I made it a point that I really want to be there and his behaviour is infuriating but she ended the conversation saying, 'Don’t be angry, I really wanted you to be here as well but what can you do'.
"I feel betrayed, I feel like she chose my ex instead of me, I can’t believe that she essentially uninvited me from her 30th because of someone whom she only saw once recently," she added.
"I felt very hurt and came to the conclusion that her friendship with me is not a priority to her anymore and that I should accept it and move on."
Despite the woman clarifying that her ex had blocked her on all social media as he "took [their] breakup really bad at the time, fellow Mumsnet users weren't impressed about the ordeal.
"Wow, this is utter madness and you are not being unreasonable to feel hurt and betrayed," one person wrote.
Another said: "She obviously does not value the friendship as you do. And surely she knows how shitty she's being. She's playing dumb."
"I wonder if she is closer to your ex than she is letting on," a third suggested.
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ORANGE, Calif. and ROCKLIN, Calif., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Luna, the leading in-home physical therapy (PT) platform, today announces the launch of a value-based savings program for orthopaedic practices to reduce post-acute care costs by 55-70%.
Top orthopaedic groups are turning to Luna to reduce costs and deliver this innovative, in-person form of care, including Hoag (Orange County), Resurgens Orthopaedics (Atlanta), and dozens of others.
While hospital-at-home continues to shake up healthcare, the latest rapid-growth sector is outpatient PT-at-home - a more cost effective approach over traditional home health, which consists of the same high quality PT services that patients typically receive at a clinic - delivered in the comfort of their own home.
A recent study showed that Luna's outpatient in-home PT saves an average of $3,000 per case for post-surgical rehab for bundled care cases, equating to Medicare savings of 55%-70% per case.
"These significant savings demonstrate why Luna is the future of healthcare," said Mike West, former CEO of Rothman Orthopaedic Institute. "For orthopaedic surgeons, the rehabilitation experience should act as an extension of your practice, but that kind of compliance isn't always easy to come by. With Luna, surgeons and orthopedic groups can ensure that patients receive the highest quality care and make meaningful progress."
"Orthopaedic surgeons are turning to Luna for a cost effective post-surgical PT-at-home experience for their patients, without compromising quality," said Palak Shah, Luna co-founder and head of clinical operations. "We are committed to an innovative, tech-enabled approach to rehabilitation. Our superior data, algorithms, and technology, together with our team of exceptional therapists, deliver a high quality, precision experience for post-surgical care with faster recoveries - and is 55-70% less than the average cost of home health."
Luna works with orthopaedic surgeons and their teams to identify and set protocols, care pathways, and escalation triggers. Depending on the surgeon and the type of surgery performed, Luna technology automatically assigns specific protocols or care pathways to patients. Physical therapists have a seamless way to access this information and track progress in real-time with phase-specific escalation questions via the Luna app. All of this is shared with the surgeon's team to ensure the highest standards of care.
Luna operates in 43 U.S. markets and 24 states. To date, Luna has partnered with innovative health systems, including Emory Health, SCL Health, UCLA Health, and Scripps Health, to activate outpatient in-home physical therapy for their patient communities.
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NAPFA's "Playbook Masterclass" Series and Allianz's "Conversations That Matter" Project, both produced by Impact Communications, get nod from "Wealthies" judges
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Impact Communications, Inc., a full-service marketing and PR firm that works exclusively with independent financial advisors and allied institutions such as custodians, independent broker/dealers, consulting companies and fintech firms, has been named a finalist for the Digital Campaign of the Year in the Marketing/PR Firm category of the WealthManagement.com Industry Awards for their work on the NAPFA Playbook: Masterclass Series, produced in partnership with the National Association of Personal Financial Planners (NAPFA). The Masterclass Series provides NAPFA Members and other interested financial advisors with a series of marketing presentations and discussion sessions that help advisors build their marketing acumen and put theory into practice. The Masterclass series provides hands-on learning and real-world examples to help advisors expand their email list, build drip marketing and lead nurture sequences, spike online visibility and authority, and fuel social media and other digital campaigns.
The awards are judged by a panel of independent judges made up of top names in the industry and overseen by WealthManagement.com editor-in-chief David Armstrong. Honoring the individuals, organizations, and companies that help financial advisors build better businesses and create better outcomes for their clients, the 8th iteration of the event received a record-breaking number of nominations; nearly 1,000 entries were received from 350 companies.
Impact Communications was selected as a finalist in the category that pays tribute to the industry's most creative digital marketing campaigns, and to the imaginative contributions coming from marketing and PR firms serving organizations in financial services. The winners in each category revealed on September 8, 2022, at the grand gala and awards ceremony taking place at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York City.
Marie Swift, President and CEO of Impact Communications, and Jonny Swift, Vice President of Impact Communications, co-manage and co-host the ongoing NAPFA Playbook project. They collaborate with a series of experts to create focused sessions that provide hands-on learning and real-world experience for advisors. Sessions are organized in series of three focus areas where experts explain the "what" and "why" of a specific marketing strategy, then dig into the "how" to do some or all of what's been explained as a good tactic, then in the final session of that Masterclass the advisors complete an exercise to put theory into practice – culminating in an interactive review of participants' implementation with real-time feedback. The sessions remain on the NAPFA website for advisors who want to watch and learn from on-demand.
Swift and Swift also host and produce NAPFA's Mindset Mastery podcast, interviewing thought leaders in the financial services industry, well-being and mental health professionals, and other subject matter experts on how listeners can master their own mindsets to innovate in business settings, best serve their clients, and thrive in life overall.
Impact Communications is also proud of the work they did in partnership with the advisor services division at Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America. This work is showcased in the Wealthie's Service category for Insurance Companies and is a tribute to the Conversations That Matter project (work began in March 2020 and continues today). Allianz won a Wealthie last year for the initial work done on The Conversations That Matter project. This year, the Wealthies judges gave a finalist nod to the 2021 Conversations That Matter project extension which hinges on a new Special Report called Mastering The Conversation: A Guide to Excellent Communication. The guide contains insights and advice from fourteen experts in the financial planning community. A free, ungated download is available here: https://tinyurl.com/MTCGuide.
In addition, several additional Impact Communications' clients have moved from nominee to "finalist" in this year's Wealth Management Industry Awards for 2022. Advyzon was given the nod for their Platform Enhancements in the Portfolio Management, Accounting, and Performance Reporting category; their Quantum® Rebalancer in the Rebalancing category; and Platform Enhancements for the Unified (All-in-One) category. Finance of America Reverse LLC has progressed to the final round in the "Disruptors" category for their CE and Educational Components for financial advisors. HCR Wealth Advisors has gone to the final round for RIA Chief Technology Officer of the Year with their CTO Alyssa Phillips in the spotlight, and for Rising Star of the Year with their Managing Director Michelle Katzen. The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) progressed for their DEI Training and Certificate Program in the Industry Associations category.
Founded in 1993 by Marie Swift, who prior to Impact Communications was Director of Corporate Communications for a nationally-known wealth management firm and regional office for one of the largest independent broker/dealers in the country, Impact Communications works with a select group of fintech companies, financial institutions such as custodians and independent broker/dealers, RIA networks and membership organizations, OSJs, allied consulting entities, wealth management firms and independent advisors. Private coaching, on-camera training, branding and customized websites, content creation, and personalized media strategies enable Impact clients to reach their overarching goals. For more information about Impact Communications, please visit www.ImpactCommunications.org.
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Impact Communications, Inc.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani became the first player in major league history to hit 30 home runs and record 10 pitching wins in the same season as the Los Angeles Angels rallied for a 3-2 victory over the New York Yankees on Wednesday night.
Ohtani’s three-run shot to center off a 97.9 mph fastball by Gerrit Cole (10-7) in the sixth put the Angels on top after they had been held to two hits the first five innings. It was the third time in the past four games the reigning AL MVP went deep.
The Japanese two-way phenom went 5 for 11 with two homers and five RBIs in the three game series against the Yankees and AL MVP favorite Aaron Judge. The New York slugger was hitless in two at-bats but drew two walks after going 4 for 7 with a pair of homers and four RBIs the first two games.
Patrick Sandoval (5-9) struck out seven and allowed two runs in seven innings to win for the second time in his last three starts.
Jimmy Herget, who got his fifth save, walked Judge and Giancarlo Stanton to lead off the ninth, but struck out Josh Donaldson and Gleyber Torres before Oswaldo Cabrera grounded out to shortstop Andrew Velazquez to end the game and give the Angels their fifth win in the last six games.
The Yankees entered August with the AL’s best record and an 11 1/2 game lead in the AL East, but went 10-18 during the month with minus-12 run differential. New York has a six-game lead over Tampa Bay going into a three-game series with the Rays starting Friday.
Cole, who grew up in nearby Newport Beach, had a seven-game winning streak against his boyhood team snapped and lost for the first time in six career starts at Angel Stadium.
The right-hander was unable to overcome two Yankees’ errors in the sixth. David Fletcher got aboard on an infield single and advanced to second when third baseman Josh Donaldson overthrew the bag at first. Mike Trout then reached when shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa booted a grounder.
Ohtani, who nearly connected for a two-run shot in the first inning before center fielder Aaron Hicks jumped up at the wall to snag it, got all of Cole’s pitch on a 2-0 count to clear the bases.
Ohtani, who is also the first Japanese-born player to hit at least 30 home runs in consecutive seasons, pumped his fist while rounding first base.
Cole went seven innings and allowed three runs (two earned) and six hits with four strikeouts.
The Yankees had only one hit the first four innings before breaking through in the fifth. Donaldson led off with a double down the left-field line after the ball caromed off the glove of third baseman Matt Duffy. Donaldson advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored when Gleyber Torres lined a double into the right-field gap.
Hicks’ sky high sacrifice fly deep to left field brought in Torres to make it 2-0.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: RHP Jameson Taillon suffered a left forearm contusion after X-rays were negative for a fracture. Taillon was hit on a line drive by Magneuris Sierra during the second inning of Tuesday’s game. It will be a couple more days before Taillon will know if he will have to miss a start. … 1B Anthony Rizzo was not in the starting lineup as he continues to deal with back pain. … RHP Luis Severino (lat) will make a rehab start for Class A Tampa on Friday. … LHP Nestor Cortes (groin) threw a bullpen session before Wednesday’s game.
Angels: RHP Michael Lorenzen (right shoulder strain) will make a rehab start for Class A Inland Empire on Friday. Manager Phil Nevin said they would like to see Lorenzen make 90 pitches.
UP NEXT
Yankees: Begin a three-game series at Tampa Bay on Friday. RHP Domingo Germán (2-2, 3.19 ERA) has allowed three runs or fewer in seven straight starts.
Angels: Continue their homestand with three games against Houston starting Friday. LHP Reid Detmers (5-4, 3.47 ERA) is 3-1 since the All-Star break.
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Star Indian shuttler HS Prannoy breezed into the quarterfinals with a stunning straight-game win over former world champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore but it was curtains for Kidambi Srikanth at the Japan Open 2022 Super 750 tournament in Osaka on Thursday. (More Badminton News)
A former world number 8, Prannoy, who had reached the quarterfinals of the world championships last week, continued his rampaging run as he saw off eighth seeded Loh 22-20, 21-19 in a 44-minute second round men's singles match.
This was Prannoy's third win over the world number 7 Singaporean in four meetings. The 30-year-old Indian will next face Chinese Taipei's Chou Tien Chen, who won the bronze medal at the world championships last week, in the quarterfinal stage.
Prannoy, currently ranked world number 18, has beaten Chen in their last two meetings, but overall, he is 3-4 behind. Srikanth, who had shocked world number 5 Malaysian Lee Zii Jia on Wednesday, however, couldn't extend his run as he went down 10-21, 16-21 to local favourite and world number 17 Kanta Tsuneyama.
The Japanese had defeated Srikanth at the Korean Open in 2019 in their only meeting prior to this. In a battle between two highly-skilled gladiators, it was Prannoy who showed nerves of steel as he fought back from 11-19 and 6-14 down in the two games to come up trumps against his young rival.
Prannoy made a good start but quickly lost momentum with his opponent recording five straight points from 7-8 to move to a 11-8 lead at the break. Loh continued to dominate the rallies after resumption with his fast-paced game helping him to sit comfortably at 19-11 at one stage.
But Prannoy had other ideas. The Indian soon produced a six-point burst to draw parity at 17-17, and even though Loh grabbed three game points, the Singaporean erred twice with his backhands going to the net. Then, Prannoy reeled off the remaining points to earn the bragging rights.
In the second game, Loh once again came out with all cylinders blazing to zoom to a 11-4 advantage. He rode on short rallies, while the Indian faltered with his length as his cross-court returns went wide.
But Prannoy showed his steely resolve as he soon scripted a brilliant recovery to claw back at 16-16 after a net exchange. Prannoy tried to take off the pace in the rallies and make Loh move around with his angled returns. He also produced some solid body attacks, which Loh couldn't negotiate, and his net play was also superior than his opponent.
The Indian soon grabbed two match points. Loh saved one before sailing wide as Prannoy continued to impress with his never-say-die attitude. | https://www.outlookindia.com/sports/japan-open-2022-hs-prannoy-stuns-loh-kean-yew-to-quarterfinals-curtains-for-kidambi-srikanth-news-220392 | 2022-09-01T12:34:56Z | https://www.outlookindia.com/sports/japan-open-2022-hs-prannoy-stuns-loh-kean-yew-to-quarterfinals-curtains-for-kidambi-srikanth-news-220392 | false | 13 |
Tineco will participate in IFA for the first time, showcasing a next-generation wet/dry vacuum, a spot cleaner with hands-free Spot Mode, and a toaster with a touch-screen
BERLIN, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tineco, the leading provider of floor care and smart home devices, will introduce three new smart home appliances at the 62nd International Consumer Electronics Fair (IFA): the CARPET ONE Spot upholstery cleaner, the FLOOR ONE S7 PRO wet / dry vacuum cleaner, and the TOASTY ONE smart toaster. Tineco will showcase these and other products at IFA in Hall 7.1A, Stand 107.
TOASTY ONE: A dual-slot smart toaster with touch screen that can toast 2 slices of bread differently
With the smart TOASTY ONE, two slices of bread can be toasted to the same or to different levels of crispiness. Users set their desired shades on the toaster's 4-inch touch screen. The toaster comes with two of Tineo's patented technologies: IntelliHeat™ and GoldenCrispy™. The patented IntelliHeat algorithm fine-tunes the toasting process by recognizing the condition of the bread, automatically adjusting the heat output, and then toasting the bread to the chosen level. The whole family can use the touch-screen to save up to eight unique preferences for quicker toasting. Tineco's GoldenCrispy technology guarantees the desired results every time. The TOASTY ONE locks in moisture and provides a crispy texture on the outside while the inside remains airy and flavorful. Built-in auto-lifts and a removable crumb tray further simplify the operation.
The TOASTY ONE (MSRP $339) is expected to be available from mid-September 2022 on tineco.com and Amazon.
CARPET ONE Spot: Smart cordless upholstery cleaner with spot mode
The CARPET ONE Spot is Tineco's latest addition to its carpet cleaner range. The most remarkable feature of this unit is the "Set-and-Go" Spot Mode which allows the device to independently detect, scrub and remove stubborn stains by itself. Gone are the days of repeatedly bending down and manually scrubbing to clean carpets and upholstery. Thanks to its rechargeable battery, the CARPET ONE Spot is ideal for damp dirt and spilled liquids on carpets, stairs, upholstered furniture, and car interiors – free from the hassle of plugging in and dragging the power cable around.
The iLoop™ Smart Sensor detects the level of dirtiness and automatically adjusts the roller speed and water flow needed. It lights up blue when the area is clean. Equipped with a powerful brushless motor, a motorized cleaning head, and powerful suction, the unit cleans dirty spots with ease. After each use, at the press of a button, the machine flushes the interior of the hose as well as the brush head to eliminate odors and dirt.
Tineco offers two CARPET ONE Spot models – an advanced model (MSRP $499) and the Essentials model (MSRP $399), both expected to be available beginning November 2022 on tineco.com and Amazon.
FLOOR ONE S7 PRO: The latest generation in Tineco's award-winning wet/dry vacuum cleaner series
Thanks to its SmoothPower system, the newest FLOOR ONE wet & dry vacuum intelligently predicts movement and assist users via two motors on the brush head, making pushing and pulling even easier. Dual-edge cleaning and a row of headlights on the brush head make cleaning along baseboards and hard-to-reach corners a breeze.
Like all FLOOR ONE smart floor washers, this model features the iLoop™ algorithm to constantly adjust suction power and water flow according to the levels needed for a perfect cleaning. As a result, clean water and battery power on the S7 PRO run simultaneously for up to 40 minutes, with no interruptions. The 3.6-inch LCD screen features Tineco's on-board assistant which provides vivid guidance while displaying the iLoop indicator and operating status.
The FLOOR ONE S7 PRO converts tap water into electrolyzed water that can be used for deep cleaning on hard floors – no additional cleaning solution is required. The vacuum's self-cleaning cycle now comes equipped to flush with electrolyzed water and dry with high-speed centrifugal force to prevent the spread of mold or bacteria.
The FLOOR ONE S7 PRO is expected to be available beginning December 2022 on tineco.com and Amazon.
About Tineco
Founded in 1998, Tineco dedicates itself to the engineering of premium household electronics that are helpful, easy to use, and smart. With over two decades of experience in the home cleaning industry, Tineco never stops innovating and is ready to create an easy smart life for everyone.
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HANOVER, Md. (AP) _ Ciena Corp. (CIEN) on Thursday reported fiscal third-quarter earnings of $10.5 million.
The Hanover, Maryland-based company said it had profit of 7 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 33 cents per share.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 35 cents per share.
The developer of high-speed networking technology posted revenue of $868 million in the period, which also missed Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $907.8 million.
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Poland to seek equivalent of $1.3 trillion from Germany for World War II
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s top politician said Thursday that the government will seek equivalent of $1.3 trillion in reparations from Germany for the Nazis’ World War II invasion and occupation of his country.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the Law and Justice party, announced the huge claim at the release of a long-awaited report on the cost to the country of years of Nazi German occupation as it marks 83 years since the start of World War II.
“We not only prepared the report but we have also taken the decision as to the further steps,” Kaczynski said during the report’s presentation.
“We will turn to Germany to open negotiations on the reparations,” Kaczynski said, adding it will be a “long and not an easy path” but “one day will bring success.”
Poland’s right-wing government argues that the country, which was the war’s first victim, has not been fully compensated by neighboring Germany, which is now one of its major partners within the European Union.
Germany argues compensation was paid to East Bloc nations in the years after the war while territories that Poland lost in the East as borders were redrawn were compensated with some of Germany’s pre-war lands. Berlin calls the matter closed.
Top leaders including Kaczynski, who is Poland’s chief policy maker, and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attended the ceremonial release of the report at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, rebuilt from wartime ruins.
The release of the report was the focus of national observances of the anniversary of the war that began Sep. 1, 1939, with Nazi Germany’s bombing and invasion of Poland and was followed by more than five years of brutal occupation.
A team of some 30 economists, historians and other experts worked on the report since 2017. The issue has created bilateral tensions.
The war was “one of the most terrible tragedies in our history,” President Andrzej Duda said during early morning observances at the Westerplatte peninsula near Gdansk, one of the first places to be attacked in the Nazi invasion.
“Not only because it took our freedom, not only because it took our state from us, but also because this war meant millions of victims among Poland’s citizens and irreparable losses to our homeland and our nation,” Duda said.
In Germany, the government’s official for German-Polish cooperation, Dietmar Nietan, said in a statement that Sept. 1 “remains a day of guilt and shame for Germany that reminds us time and again not to forget the crimes carried out by Germany” that are the “darkest chapter in our history” and still affect bilateral relations.
Reconciliation offered by people in Poland is “the basis on which we can look toward the future together in a united Europe,” Nietan said.
Poland’s government rejects a 1953 declaration by the country’s then-communist leaders, under pressure from the Soviet Union, agreeing not to make any further claims on Germany.
An opposition lawmaker, Grzegorz Schetyna, says the report is just a “game in the internal politics” and insists Poland needs to build good relations with Berlin.
Some 6 million of Poland’s citizens, including 3 million Jews, were killed in the war, and its industry, infrastructure and culture suffered huge losses.
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AP writer Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed.
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Pink diamond expected to sell for over $21 million at auction
Published: Sep. 1, 2022 at 8:20 AM EDT|Updated: 18 minutes ago
(CNN) - A unique piece of jewelry is up for grabs, but you may have to break the bank for it.
Sotheby’s is auctioning off the Williamson Pink Star diamond which is considered “among the rarest of all gemstones.”
Officials describe the diamond as “fancy, vivid, pink.” It weighs 11.15-carats, which is bigger than most diamonds of that color.
It is expected to bring in at least $21 million.
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The official exchange rate of the US dollar and euro against Azerbaijani manat as of September 1, 2022 was set at 1.7 and 1.7021 manat, respectively, Trend reports via Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA).
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Few of us want summer to end, but there's some good news coming this winter: holiday discounts. Major retailers including Best Buy and Walmart say the holiday shopping season will be packed with promotions to entice inflation-strained customers.
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1. Ukraine
Shelling near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine has prompted the shutdown of one of its two working reactors. The plant, which was disconnected from the country's power grid last Thursday, has six reactors, only two of which have been functioning. If the safety systems at the facility were to fail, the reactor would heat up swiftly and trigger a meltdown. Fighting around the complex has threatened the possibility of a nuclear accident for months, prompting global concerns. The shutdown comes as a team of international experts is traveling to the area for a planned inspection of the facility. A Ukrainian official accused Russian troops of trying to disrupt the inspection, calling the shelling "the actions of a terrorist state."
2. Mar-a-Lago
Former President Donald Trump argued in a court filing Wednesday that the classified material found at Mar-a-Lago were presidential records and should not have been a cause for alarm -- and should not have led to the search of his Florida residence last month. The Justice Department had said that the search was undertaken after the FBI developed evidence that Trump's lawyers had concealed materials after claiming all classified documents had been previously turned over. Meanwhile, Trump's legal team is calling on the government to provide Trump himself with copies of the materials the FBI seized during the search. A federal judge has scheduled a high-stakes hearing for later today to consider Trump's request for a "special master" -- or third-party attorney -- to review documents that the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago.
3. Covid-19
The FDA has authorized updated Covid-19 vaccine booster shots from Moderna and Pfizer. The new boosters combine the companies' original vaccine with one that specifically targets the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants. This is the first time updated Covid-19 vaccines have received emergency use authorization in the US. Pfizer's updated vaccine is a 30-microgram dose authorized for people age 12 and older. Moderna's updated vaccine is a 50-microgram dose authorized for people age 18 and older. Once approved by the CDC, the updated booster shots could be administered within days to certain populations, including people who may have received a booster just a few months ago.
4. Air travel
Major US airlines have updated their customer service agreements to offer meals and hotels when flights are canceled. Carriers tweaked their policies after receiving pressure from the Biden administration to step up consumer rights in the wake of a summer plagued by flight cancellations and delays. American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, JetBlue and Southwest have all published updates to their customer service policies this week. The updates come on the eve of the Labor Day weekend travel rush and as airlines have canceled more than 45,000 flights since the start of June, according to data from FlightAware.
5. China
China has committed "serious human rights violations" against Uyghur Muslims in its northwestern region of Xinjiang, which may amount to "crimes against humanity" according to a long-awaited report released Wednesday by the UN. The detailed 45-page report comes four years after a committee of UN experts called attention in 2018 to "credible reports" that more than 1 million Uyghur and other Muslim minority peoples were interned in extrajudicial camps in Xinjiang for "re-education" and indoctrination. Human rights groups are calling this a groundbreaking moment in the effort to hold the Chinese government to account. China, however, has fiercely denied committing human rights violations.
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Serena Williams' final act
Williams is reminding the world why she just may be the greatest women's tennis player of all time in what could be her final act. Tonight, she will step on the court with her sister Venus in doubles play.
The 'world's largest food fight'
Thousands of people were covered in tomatoes after a massive food fight in the streets of Spain. Watch the video here.
Microbreaks at work can increase well-being
This is your reminder to get some fresh air during your workday. A 10-minute walk midday can increase vigor while decreasing fatigue, experts say.
Dazzling pink diamond could fetch more than $21 million at auction
At 11.15 carats, this rare gem is described as one of the world's purest pink diamonds.
This care home recruits babies to cheer up elderly residents
Babies are being asked to visit this care home whenever they want -- and they receive baby formula and diapers during their cheerful visits.
TODAY'S NUMBER
21 million
That's how many people in the Chinese metropolis of Chengdu will be impacted by a sweeping citywide lockdown today due to stringent zero-Covid measures. To slow the spread of the virus, businesses will be shut down and all residents in the capital of Sichuan province in southwest China will be ordered to stay at home from 6 p.m. today, except for mandatory Covid testing.
TODAY'S QUOTE
"Thank you to all Alaskans who have put their faith in me as the first woman in Alaska's history to represent our state in the House of Representatives. Tonight, we've shown that we can win as a campaign that is pro-choice, pro-fish, pro-worker, and pro-Alaska."
-- Democrat Mary Peltola, sharing a victory message on Twitter Wednesday after voting results determined she is set to make history as the first Alaska Native in Congress. Despite Peltola's win against former Gov. Sarah Palin, the two will face off again in November to fill the state's lone House seat for the next full term.
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Ashley Cain has said today is the 'hardest day' as he continues his charity bike challenge at the start of Childhood Cancer Awareness month. Ashley, from Nuneaton, is midway through his European mission - cycling from from London to Paris, Geneva and ending in Rome.
He is doing so to raise money for the Azaylia Foundation, set up to help raise funds for other children fighting cancer in memory of his eight-month-old Azaylia daughter. Speaking on his Instagram, Ashley said: "Today is the start of World Childhood Cancer Awareness month. Today is a hard day for me, it is a big reminder of my amazing little princess."
"It is a big reminder that I don't have her with me anymore. It is a big reminder for me of why we are doing these things (charity challenges) to help these children because they do desperately need it.
READ MORE:Who is Ashley Cain? Former footballer, reality star and Azaylia Foundation campaigner
"Today is a tough, difficult and hard day but today we are going to go out on the roads and evoke that change for these children." While he continues his cycling challenge, his appearance in the new series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins is about to hit TV screens.
Back in November last year, CoventryLIve reported that he would be one of the celebrities to take part in the gruelling Channel 4 show, which will hit our TV screens at 9pm on Sunday. TV personality Calum Best, javelin Olympic gold medallist Fatima Whitbread MBE, and professional dancers AJ Pritchard and Curtis Pritchard are in the line-up.
Also taking part is Olympic sprinter Dwain Chambers; Taekwondo Olympic gold medallist Jade Jones, professional boxer Shannon Courtenay and Paralympic high jumper Jonathan Broom-Edwards MBE. It is not known yet how far Ashley will make it on the show, which puts stars through their paces to see if they can pass SAS Selection.
SAS Who Dares Wins' Ant Middleton joined Ashley Cain as he ran from Nuneaton to Trafalgar Square in London to mark the first anniversary of the tragic death of his baby daughter, Azaylia.
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Deal signed to set up Bangladesh’s 2nd waste-to-energy project
An agreement was signed on Thursday between the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB), the Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) and Chinese firm U&D to develop the country's second waste-based power plant.
The power plant will generate 6 MW of electricity from garbage of Narayanganj city and adjoining areas.
Welcoming the deal, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister M Tajul Islam said more such projects will be set up in different city corporation areas.
Earlier, a similar agreement was signed in December last year between the BPDB, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and the Chinese firm CMEC to develop the country's first ever waste-based power plant in Dhaka with electricity generation capacity 42.5 MW from the garbage in the capital.
As per the agreement, Narayanganj City Corporation will supply 600 metric tons of garbage to U&D plant to generate 6 MW electricity, which the BPDB will purchase at a rate of US20.19 Cents (about Tk 20 per unit) for a period of over 25 years.
A number of associated agreements were signed between the parties to implement the projects under which the NCC will also provide 10 acres of land to set up the incineration and power plant at Jalkuri in Narayanganj city while the U&D will complete the construction of the project and start commercial operation within 15 months from the financial closing.
The agreement was signed at a function at a city hotel while State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid, NCC Mayor Salina Hayat Ivy, and Power Secretary Habibur Rahman spoke on the occasion.
Tajul Islam said the government has a plan to set up similar projects even in rural areas as part of the move to save the rivers from pollution.
"If we could not protect our rivers from pollution, they would die in course of time", he said at the event.
Nasrul Hamid said similar projects will also be taken up in all other City Corporation areas across the country. | https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/deal-signed-set-bangladeshs-2nd-waste-energy-project-488234 | 2022-09-01T12:48:31Z | https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/deal-signed-set-bangladeshs-2nd-waste-energy-project-488234 | false | 1 |
There are many personal obstacles as well as outside distractions that derail us from our mission of becoming healthy and fit, and I am here to... | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2721692146981/fit-for-life-it-ain-t-easy | 2022-09-01T12:48:41Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2721692146981/fit-for-life-it-ain-t-easy | true | null |
Temperatures will be in the upper 80s and lower 90s through the next several days as we enter an unsettled weather pattern. Later this afternoon, a rain system will move towards us from the southwest, providing mainly areas in NE Oklahoma with the chance for isolated showers & storms later today. Rain chances should increase for all of us as we head into tomorrow morning with lows in the upper 60s. The chance for rain will stick with us through Friday and into Saturday, but there will be more dry time than not. In fact, some of us may not see any rain at all through Labor Day Weekend. We’ll monitor a separate rain system into next week, and as always, we’ll keep you updated. | https://www.fourstateshomepage.com/weather/weather-forecast/small-rain-chances-today-and-through-the-weekend/ | 2022-09-01T12:48:59Z | https://www.fourstateshomepage.com/weather/weather-forecast/small-rain-chances-today-and-through-the-weekend/ | true | null |
The stock market is packed with excellent investment ideas right now. Some of the finest companies I know have seen their share prices slide way down since the inflation panic started in November 2021.
As an example, the three companies listed below are pioneering innovators with fantastic long-term business prospects. The inflation crunch may hurt for a while, but they are in a position to disrupt their target markets. Yet, their stocks have suffered giant corrections in recent months. When you put tremendous growth prospects together with bargain-bin stock prices, it adds up to no-brainer buying opportunities.
1. Sweet, sweet Lemonade
The insurance industry is incredibly ripe for disruption. Getting the right insurance plans to fit your needs can be a difficult process, and nobody likes to pay huge premiums to protect their cars, homes, or other properties. When the time comes to file a claim, that can be a downright hostile experience. Yet, some of this coverage is required by law, so there's no way around it.
That's where Lemonade (NYSE: LMND) comes in.
This company wants to take the pain out of insurance by automating everything. Using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning tools, Lemonade analyzes risks, insurance plans, and outcomes from the past to shape the renters and auto coverage plans of the future. You sign up through an online form, claims are settled by machines, and you don't have to fight human insurance agents to get what you need out of Lemonade's services. These are early days in Lemonade's ambitious growth story. The company is unprofitable, but top-line sales are skyrocketing:
Don't let that plummeting earnings chart scare you away. Economies of scale are about to kick in, and the company is only getting started in the auto insurance market. Lemonade's management team expects the next quarter to show record losses, followed by a sustained uptrend. In the long run, this AI-powered business model should translate into low operating costs and near-optimal risk management. Just give those computers some time to learn the ropes.
And the target market is gigantic. Lemonade's revenues added up to just $171 million over the last four quarters, based on $110 million in net insurance premiums. Sector giant Progressive collected net premiums of $46.9 billion and revenue of $47.7 billion over the same period. Lemonade can build a massive business by taking just a tiny handful of customers from Progressive and friends. I believe that the company will achieve much more than that in the long run, so the stock is a no-brainer buy today.
2. Universal Display is already everywhere
And the future looks even bigger. I'm not kidding.
Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screens are already found in pretty much every high-end smartphone worth its salt, including the entire Apple iPhone line. The technology is also familiar in mid-range handsets nowadays. OLED panels are also making inroads in the living room, starting with top-shelf TV sets. Next, we should see OLED-based lighting panels making a similar journey from pricey novelty to an everyday necessity.
Universal Display (NASDAQ: OLED) develops the technology behind those ultra-efficient OLED panels, doling out licenses to screen builders around the world. The company also acts as a materials reseller, controlling the supply of the chemicals that go into making these ultra-efficient digital screens and lighting panels.
Generally speaking, Universal Display's royalties and material fees are based on the total area of OLED panels that are built with its technology. That's why big-screen TVs are such a powerful upgrade from the small-screen world of tablets and smartphones.
And like I said, that's just the beginning. In the long run, I expect to see OLED panels in essentially every place you'd use an LCD screen today -- and more. You see, OLED screens can do things that old-school displays would never dream of. For example, you can bend or roll up an OLED screen with the right type of surface materials or build transparent screens where the image appears to float in mid-air. And yeah, the pixels emit their own light, as the technology's name implies, which is why you can use them for household lighting.
OLED is an exciting technology with numerous real-world use cases, and I can't wait to see where Universal Display will go from here. The company is turning the concept of video screens upside down and inside out.
3. Netflix is just taking a chill pill
Good old Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has changed the world before. Its iconic red DVD mailers smashed the video store industry more than a decade ago. Netflix could have rested on its laurels but chose to abandon the DVD rentals space altogether when broadband internet connections became fast and common enough to support an all-digital video-streaming business instead.
Almost exactly 11 years after the Qwikster event established video-streaming as a serious business operation for Netflix, things have changed. Netflix is still the global leader in streaming media subscribers, award-winning content productions, and digital media revenues. Walt Disney is catching up fast, but with a lower-priced subscription service that is automatically easier to sell in a price-conscious market. Other rivals are attempting to set up shop as producers of top-quality TV shows, family-friendly fare, and other niches. But Netflix is running far ahead of the competition, paving the way to tremendous business growth as the streaming industry takes the baton from cable, broadcast, satellite, and movie theater publishers.
In fact, Netflix stands at an important crossroads right now. The company is shifting its focus away from maximum subscriber growth and toward profitable growth for the long haul. Many investors have failed to notice this crucial strategy update, and this misunderstanding led to a massive share price drop when the seemingly all-important subscriber growth slowed down in 2022.
So Netflix is exploring new products while focusing on bottom-line profits and top-line revenues with a newfound intensity. The stock is now trading 68% below last November's all-time highs, exploring share prices not seen since early 2018. At the same time, the core business is healthier than ever. Netflix's trailing earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) stand at $20 billion today -- equal to the company's total sales in 2020.
Netflix is going places, and the massive sell-off in 2022 made no sense at all. We are looking at a game-changing investment opportunity here, folks. I have been adding to my Netflix holdings over the summer, and I highly recommend you do the same. Digital media is the future, and Netflix is leading the way there, even if the stock chart is sending different signals.
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Shares of Similarweb Ltd. (NYSE:SMWB – Get Rating) hit a new 52-week low on Tuesday . The company traded as low as $7.55 and last traded at $7.55, with a volume of 210 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at $7.83.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
SMWB has been the topic of a number of research reports. Cantor Fitzgerald initiated coverage on Similarweb in a report on Tuesday, May 24th. They issued an “overweight” rating and a $17.00 price objective on the stock. Barclays cut their price objective on Similarweb from $22.00 to $14.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, August 11th. Finally, JMP Securities cut their price objective on Similarweb from $32.00 to $20.00 in a report on Thursday, May 12th.
Similarweb Price Performance
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After dominating the field on Sunday afternoon against Saint Francis, the No. 21 West Virginia women’s soccer team hopes to continue the momentum against No. 16 Auburn on Thursday night from the Auburn Soccer Complex.
After bouncing back from a tough loss at No. 10 Penn State on Aug. 25, West Virginia (2-1-1) beat Saint Francis on Sunday, 3–0.
The first half started off strong against Saint Francis as West Virginia senior forward/defender Julianne Vallerand, with an assist by junior midfielder Lilly McCarthy, made the game winning goal at the 12th-minute.
During the second half, West Virginia’s McCarthy, at the 67th-minute, and midfielder senior Aaliyah Scott, at the 81st-minute, made two more goals making the final total, 3-0 WVU.
There were three yellow cards that were given to Saint Francis sophomore defender Tomke Dziesiaty and junior defender Rory Schaeffer, at the 67th and 76th-minute, and West Virginia sophomore defender Lisa Schoppl, at the 81st-minute.
West Virginia is led by McCarthy with one goal, one assist, seven shots, and with 211 minutes played.
Auburn (2-0-2) is heading into the match with two back-to-back ties from the No. 2 Florida State Seminoles last Thursday, 1-1, and Wake Forest last Sunday, 0-0.
Even though it was a scoreless match, there was some excitement in the second half as four yellow cards were given out to Wake Forest sophomore midfielder Emily Morris and graduate student midfielder Giovanna DeMarco, at the 80th and 89th-minute, and to Auburn junior forward Maddie Simpson and sophomore midfielder Carly Thatcher, at the 62nd and 85th-minute.
Auburn is led by junior midfielder Anna Haddock with two goals, two assists, eight shots, and with 311 minutes played.
Alongside the matchup against Auburn, West Virginia head coach Nikko Izzo-Brown will be coaching against her daughter, Tigers’ junior midfielder Sammie Brown on Thursday.
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CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) — California wildfires erupted Wednesday in rural areas, racing through bone-dry brush and prompting evacuations as the state sweltered under a heat wave that could last through Labor Day.
Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency with temperatures expected to be 10 to 20 degrees above normal, and urged people to help reduce demand for electricity by turning their thermostats up to 85 degrees (29 Celsius) if they won’t be at home over the holiday weekend.
The Route Fire in Castaic in northwestern Los Angeles County raged through about 4,625 acres (1,872 hectares) of hills containing scattered houses. Interstate 5, a major north-south route, was closed by a blaze that burned several hundred acres in only a few hours.
Media reports showed a wall of flames advancing uphill and smoke billowing thousands of feet into the air while planes dumped water from nearby Castaic Lake. There were no immediate reports of damage to buildings but a mobile home park with 94 residences was evacuated.
An elementary school also was evacuated. Temperatures in the area hit 107 degrees (42 Celsius) and winds gusted to 17 mph (27 kph), forecasters said.
Eight firefighters were treated for heat-related problems, including six who were sent to hospitals, but all were in good condition, Los Angeles County Fire Department Deputy Chief Thomas Ewald said.
More injuries were expected as crews cope with extreme heat that was expected to stretch into next week, Ewald said during a news conference Wednesday night.
“Wearing heavy firefighting gear, carrying packs, dragging hose, swinging tools, the folks out there are just taking a beating,” he said.
Aircraft would continue to drop water and fire retardant on the blaze overnight and winds could shift to the north through the night, causing the fire to burn back on itself, Ewald said.
Ewald also said there could be other fires in LA County as the searing heat continues. Bulldozers to cut firebreaks will be staffed around the county Thursday as a precaution, he said.
“This is the fire that’s burning right now. But we have 4,000 square miles (10,360 square kilometers) of LA County that we have to consider for tomorrow,” he said.
Another fire burned at least four buildings, including a home, and prompted evacuations in the Dulzura area in eastern San Diego County near the Mexican border. It swiftly grew to more than 1,600 acres (647.5 hectares) acres and prompted evacuation orders for at least 400 homes, authorities said.
State Route 94 was closed. The Mountain Empire Unified School District will be closed Thursday, officials said.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that the Tecate port of entry with Mexico closed three hours early on Wednesday night because of the fire and wouldn’t reopen until conditions improved to ensure “the safety of the traveling public.” Travelers could continue to use the 24-hour Otay Mesa crossing.
No injuries were immediately reported, but there were “multiple close calls” as residents rushed to flee, said Capt. Thomas Shoots with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
“We had multiple 911 calls from folks unable to evacuate” because their homes were surrounded by the fire, Shoots told the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The National Weather Service said many valleys, foothills, mountains and desert areas of the state remained under an elevated fire risk because of low humidity and high temperatures, which set several records for the day. The hottest days were expected to be Sunday and Monday.
Wildfires have sprung up this summer throughout the Western states. The largest and deadliest blaze in California this year erupted in late July in Siskyou County, near the Oregon state line. It killed four people and destroyed much of the small community of Klamath River.
Scientists have said climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. Across the American West, a 22-year megadrought deepened so much in 2021 that the region is now in the driest spell in at least 1,200 years. | https://www.ksnt.com/news/national/ap-california-wildfires-prompt-evacuations-amid-heat-wave/ | 2022-09-01T13:02:38Z | https://www.ksnt.com/news/national/ap-california-wildfires-prompt-evacuations-amid-heat-wave/ | false | 35 |
A pilot who died when his plane crashed into a field has been named as a Falklands war hero and Parachute Regiment veteran who recently starred in a BBC documentary. Emergency services were called to Shobdon Airfield, in Leominster, Herefordshire, after the fixed wing light aircraft plummeted from the skies at 10am last Friday (August 26).
Despite the efforts of medics, the pilot, named locally as 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment veteran Chris Waddington, was pronounced dead at the scene. The hero pilot Mr Waddington, who lived in Herefordshire, recently appeared in a BBC TV show to mark 40 years since the Falklands War.
Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story was the story of 10 ordinary men who fought alongside each other on the front line.
Mr Waddington, 59, was among them. He was a second lieutenant at the time of the war in 1982, the most junior officer rank.
He had only recently finished his training at Sandhurst when, at the age of 19, he was called to lead a platoon of 20 men into the first battle of the Falklands War.
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He was nicknamed ‘Boy Wonder’ such was his enthusiasm for his job. After coming of age in the war, he remained a paratrooper for more than 20 years, serving in Bosnia and Iraq.
In recent years he has followed his passion of recreational flying, owning a Pitts biplane, and he also worked in private security.
That aircraft was frequently seen in the skies of his home county and in 2020 he performed stunts as part of the final Clap for Our Carers event an he had also taken part in air shows from 2015, and had owned the plane for 22 years.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch has now launched an investigation into the crash.
West Mercia Police confirmed last week no one else was on board, there were no other injuries and no other aircraft was involved.
West Midlands Ambulance Service said they sent one ambulance, a paramedic officer and the Midlands Air Ambulance and found the pilot still in the plane.
A spokesman added: “On arrival we discovered a fixed wing light aircraft that had come down at the airfield. There was one male patient still within the aircraft.
"Sadly, it quickly became apparent nothing could be done to save him and he was confirmed dead at the scene.”
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Project Timeline Moved Forward
TULSA, Okla., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ClearSign Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: CLIR) ("ClearSign" or the "Company"), an emerging leader in industrial combustion and sensing technologies that improve energy, operational efficiency and safety while dramatically reducing emissions, today announces that the Company has received the purchase order to proceed with the next phase of the twenty burner project announced on March 29, 2022 for a California refinery.
The purchase order is for the purchase of four burners for testing, the multi burner test and other ancillary items. The timing and scope of this order is due to the acceleration of the project timeline. The engineering and computer modelling for this project has been completed and the remaining timeline for this project has been accelerated. The Company expects an additional purchase order for the manufacture and supply of the remaining sixteen burners during the fourth quarter of this year.
"We are encouraged to have been notified that this project timeline has been shortened," said Jim Deller, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of ClearSign. "We are looking forward to having another significant installation of our best in class ultra low NOx technology in the ever important California market, and this time in two heaters of a notable refinery. I also thank our partner Zeeco Inc. for seamlessly working with us and our client through the full engineering, fabrication, and scheduling requirements of this top tier project."
ClearSign Technologies Corporation designs and develops products and technologies for the purpose of improving key performance characteristics of industrial and commercial systems, including operational performance, energy efficiency, emission reduction, safety and overall cost-effectiveness. Our patented technologies, embedded in established OEM products as ClearSign Core™, and ClearSign Eye™ and other sensing configurations, enhance the performance of combustion systems and fuel safety systems in a broad range of markets, including the enrgy (upstream oil production and down-stream refining), commercial/industrial boiler, chemical, petrochemical, transport and power industries. For more information, please visit www.clearsign.com.
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The organization that each person has in their computer is very particular and, in addition, making changes is not something they want to do. An example of what we’re saying is that if things are downloaded from the Internet to the wrong folder, it can take extra effort to search for what you’ve got. Browsers have one assigned by default, and it may not be the right one for you. If this is the case for you, here’s how to change this in Google chrome. Google’s development is one of the most used today, and as it couldn’t be any other way, it includes by default a folder in which downloads are saved if no change is indicated in this regard. This is the one that is considered logical by many, the so-called Downloads, but there are not a few who do not use it or simply store what they download on a different disk. So proceeding to change the destination is a great idea in this case – to avoid having to do this every time you want to save something from the Internet. Modify the default downloads folder of Google Chrome Achieving this is not something particularly complicated, since the necessary tools for it are included in the browser itself. Obviously, carrying out this process does not include the operation of the software, because the speed of accessing the Internet or downloading content does not vary. Therefore, a configuration parameter is simply modified. These are the steps you have to take to make the change we are talking about safely and very quickly: Open the Google Chrome browser as usual and, once you see the application interface on the computer, click on the icon with three vertical dots in the upper right. Now, several options appear in the drop-down menu, among which you will see you have to choose Settings. On the left, look for the Download section and click on it. Then, in the Location option, click on the change button. A window opens in which you can find the new folder where you want what you download from the Internet to be saved. Once chosen, click on Select folder. Once this is done, you have finished and ideally you should restart the browser so that you are sure that the changes have taken effect. In the event that you want to return to the initial configuration of Google Chrome or change the folder chosen for downloads, you only have to follow the steps that we have indicated by changing the destination option. So what you do is something that can be seamlessly reversed so that you always have the settings you need. >
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Viktor Perton is an eternal optimist. It's easy to lose your negative train of thought while listening to him. It's an infectious kind of happiness.
"The battle is no longer between left and right," Mr Perton said, quoting a British trade minister.
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Mr Perton, Chief Optimist at the Centre of Optimism located in Victoria, was in Armidale on Thursday addressing a room filled with people in the NOVA building on Faulkner Street.
His visit was part of the two-day Spring into Optimism Festival, designed to get people thinking more optimistically, especially about StartUps, following a tough few years of drought, floods and COVID.
During the event on September 1-2, a Thursday night panel discussion included Armidale Regional Council Mayor Sam Coupland and New England MP Adam Marshall.
The festival's organiser Dr Lou Conway is the Director of University of New England's SMART Region Incubator which supports StartUps across the New England region.
Dr Conway said she is hoping the festival will foster more curiosity from locals to either invest or become more interested in emerging businesses with their new ideas.
"The StartUp community are naturally positive because they're growing," she said.
"It's really about building the broader community because if we can't operate in a supportive community, it's actually harder."
Enticing customers to trial new technology, getting wealthy individuals to invest their capital, and sourcing local talent are all part of the barriers StartUps face, she said.
Andrew Murray was also at the event. He is a chairman on the board of the well-established bronze-block production factory in Uralla.
Mr Murray is surrounded by so many optimists at his work that he says he needs to train people to think more negatively.
"Sometimes you have too many optimists in the room that they actually forget to have a look at the risks involved in a project," he said.
"So you've got to go through a process of saying, 'I know you're very enthusiastic about this, but maybe we need to just consider the negatives'."
Attendee Jess Spence said people have the option of thinking negatively or positively when faced with a tough situation.
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"Optimism is born out of adverse situations," Ms Spence said.
"So when you're put in a crappy situation, you have a choice about how you react to that.
"You can choose either to react positively, which is what optimism is, or you choose to react negatively and wallow in the situation.
"And so reacting positively is what breeds optimism so you have an optimistic outlook on things and you then end up on top of the situation," she said.
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Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff Major General Lucky Irabor has approved the hosting of the African Military Games in Nigeria tagged “Abuja 2024”. The President Organisation of Military SPORTS in Africa, OSMA Nigeria’s Major General Maikano Abdullahi disclosed this at a Media Parley in Abuja before his departure to the Democratic Republic of Congo on working visit.
Major General Maikano who doubles as Vice President of the International Military Sports Council, CISM who described the approval for the hosting of the Military Games in Abuja by General Irabo as a most welcome development said a total of eighteen Sporting events will be competed for by the participating countries. He said the Republic of Niger will host the maiden edition of the General Lucky Irabo Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff Sahel Games for Peace and Solidarity 2023 in Niamey scheduled to come up by April.
Meanwhile, the President Organisation of Military Sports in Africa OSMA has arrived the Democratic Republic of Congo,Kinshasa on a week-long working visit. The Military Sports Chief’s tour of duty to DRC is to access the level of the country’s Armed Forces preparation for the forthcoming 2023 Great Lakes African Military Games involving ten member countries. While in the Republic of Congo he will commission the OSMA Central Liason Office in Brazzaville as well as to revive African Military Basketball Championship fixed for a later date to be hosted by the Republic of Congo.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2022
NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- W. P. Carey Inc. (W. P. Carey, NYSE: WPC), announced today that it has entered into a note purchase agreement to issue:
- €150 million of fixed rate senior unsecured notes with a 7-year term maturing on September 28, 2029, and an interest rate of 3.41% in a private placement offering; and
- €200 million of fixed rate senior unsecured notes with a 10-year term maturing on September 28, 2032, and an interest rate of 3.70% in a private placement offering.
W. P. Carey anticipates funding to occur on or about September 28, 2022, and intends to use the net proceeds from the issuance of the notes primarily to reduce amounts outstanding under its unsecured revolving credit facility. Other potential uses include refinancing existing indebtedness, funding potential acquisitions, developments and investment opportunities, and general corporate purposes.
The notes are expected to be sold in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933. The notes have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or any state or other jurisdiction's securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state or other jurisdictions' securities laws. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of these securities, nor shall there be any offer or sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction where, or to any person to whom, the offer, solicitation, or sale of these securities would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
W. P. Carey ranks among the largest net lease REITs with an enterprise value of approximately $25 billion and a diversified portfolio of operationally critical commercial real estate. Having completed its merger with CPA:18 on August 1, 2022, W. P Carey's portfolio includes 1,390 net lease properties covering approximately 170 million square feet and a portfolio of 84 self-storage operating properties (on a combined company basis as of June 30, 2022 and after certain planned dispositions of CPA:18 properties). For nearly five decades, the company has invested in high-quality single-tenant industrial, warehouse, office, retail and self-storage properties subject to long-term net leases with built-in rent escalators. Its portfolio is located primarily in the U.S. and Northern and Western Europe and is well-diversified by tenant, property type, geographic location and tenant industry.
Certain of the matters discussed in this press release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, both as amended by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements regarding the closing of the offering. These statements are based on the current expectations of our management and are subject to change. There are a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Other unknown or unpredictable factors could also have material adverse effects on future results, performance or achievements of W. P. Carey. Discussions of some of these other important factors and assumptions are contained in W. P. Carey's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and are available at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov, including Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors in W. P. Carey's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and in Part II, Item 1A. Risk Factors in W. P. Carey's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. In light of these risks, uncertainties, assumptions and factors, the forward-looking events discussed in this communication may not occur. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release, unless noted otherwise. Except as required under the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the SEC, W. P. Carey does not undertake any obligation to release publicly any revisions to the forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this communication or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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Understanding how contact patterns arise from crowd movement is crucial for assessing the spread of infection at mass gathering events. Here we study contact patterns from Wi-Fi mobility data of large sports and entertainment events in the Johan Cruijff ArenA stadium in Amsterdam. We show that crowd movement behaviour at mass gathering events is not homogeneous in time, but naturally consists of alternating periods of movement and rest. As a result, contact duration distributions are heavy-tailed, an observation which is not explained by models assuming that pedestrian contacts are analogous to collisions in the kinetic gas model. We investigate the effect of heavy-tailed contact duration patterns on the spread of infection using various random walk models. We show how different types of intermittent movement behaviour interact with a time-dependent infection probability. Our results point to the existence of a crossover point where increased contact duration presents a higher level of transmission risk than increasing the number of contacts. In addition, we show that different types of intermittent movement behaviour give rise to different mass-action kinetics, but also show that neither one of two mass-action mechanisms uniquely describes events.
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Intensive field measurements for characterizing the permeability and methane release with the treatment process of pressure-relief mining
Characterizing the permeability evolution and methane release is of great significance for the safe mining of the high gas outburst seams, as well as coal and gas simultaneous extraction. It contributes to reduce methane emissions from coal mining for greenhouse effect control. Theoretical analysis, laboratory testing, and numerical simulation are widely used methods to characterize the permeability and methane release with the treatment process of pressure-relief mining. However, these methods cannot fully reflect the complexity of filed practice. In this study, we report the effectiveness of protective coal seam (PCS) mining and the pressure-relief area in the protected coal seam (PDCS) based on detailed and integrated field measurements in a Chinese coal mine. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first time to measure the permeability coefficient and gas pressure evolution in the PDCS during the process of PCS longwall mining. The evolution of the permeability coefficient in the pressure-relief area during PCS mining can be divided into four stages: slowly decreasing, sharply increasing, gradually decreasing, and basically stable. The maximum permeability coefficient is 322 times of the initial value and stabilized at 100 times after the goaf compacted. The gas pressure evolution in the PDCS indicates that the strike pressure relief angle is 52.2° at the active longwall face zone, and 59.3° at the installation roadway side. The inclined pressure relief angles at the lower and upper sides of the longwall face are 75° and 78.9°, respectively. The residual gas content and gas pressure of the PDCS in the pressure-relief area are reduced to less than 6 m3/t and within 0.4 MPa, respectively. The field measurements further prove that pressure-relief mining can prevent coal and gas outbursts in PDCSs. The field observations in this paper can serve as benchmark evidence for theoretical analysis and numerical simulations, and also provide insights into realizing safety mining in similar conditions.
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Swept-source OCT for corneal graft quantitative evaluation in the eye bank and the correlation of the measurements to pre-excision values
Quantitative evaluation of the human corneal grafts stored in the tissue banks is usually limited to endothelial cell density and central thickness. Swept-source OCT (SS-OCT) is capable of measuring the central curvatures of the corneal tissue prepared for transplantation without loss of sterileness, providing insights on its refractive state. The aim of the paper is to compare in vitro SS-OCT measurements with pre-excision values. Hand-held keratometry and ultrasound pachymetry was performed on 22 corneas before excision of corneoscleral button and insertion in the vial with Eusol-C solution (AlchimiaS.r.l, Nicolò, Italy). After 12 to 36 h of hypothermic storage the corneas were examined within the vials with custom built SS-OCT system maintaining a sterile environment. The anterior and posterior central curvatures, and central corneal thickness (CCT) were measured. Rotation of the corneoscleral button was controlled by making a 6-o'clock mark during excision. Mean pre-excision CCT was 626.45"‰Â±"‰28.71 µm and 468.05"‰Â±"‰52.96 µm when measured with SS OCT (r"‰="‰0.55; p"‰<"‰0.001). Respective values for average keratometry were 7.74"‰Â±"‰0.39 mm and 7.92"‰Â±"‰0.57 mm (r"‰="‰0.6; p"‰="‰0.22). Although high differences were observed in corneal thickness, keratometric radius of curvature at the flat (r"‰="‰0.42; p"‰<"‰0.001) and steep (r"‰="‰0.62; p"‰="‰0.014) meridian of the anterior corneal surface, as well as corneal anterior astigmatism (r"‰="‰0.3; p"‰<"‰0.001), showed good correlation with pre-excision values. SS-OCT is capable of providing quantitative evaluation of the human corneal grafts in hypothermic storage. Good correlation between curvature measurements before excision and during banking in the vial indicates its clinical utility.
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Mutant Goat with Human Face is Being Worshipped Like a God in India
The goat born in the village Nimodia on the outskirts of Jaipur, the capital of the state of Rajasthan, India, was initially described looking like a grumpy old man by the locals, but was later on worshipped as an "avatar of god", according to NewsBreak. One of the videos taken...
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Ecological and human health risk assessment of heavy metal(loid)s in agricultural soil in hotbed chives hometown of Tangchang, Southwest China
To determine the heavy metal(loid)s (HMs) contamination of agricultural soil in hotbed chives hometown of Tangchang, 788 topsoil samples were collected and analyzed for their heavy metal(loid)s concentration. The index of geo-accumulation (Igeo), pollution index (PI) and potential ecological risk index (EIi) were used to assess the degree of pollution. Correlation analysis and principal component analysis (PCA) were used to determine the sources of soil HMs. Human health risks estimated with hazard index (HI) and carcinogenic risk (CR) indices based on ingestion, inhalation and dermal exposure pathways for adults and children. The mean values of Cd, Hg, As, Pb, Cr, Cu, Ni and Zn were 0.221, 0.155, 9.76, 32.2, 91.9, 35.2, 37.1 and 108.8 mg kg−1, respectively, which did not exceed the threshold values of the risk screening value for soil contamination. The potential ecological risk of soil heavy metal(loid)s was low level and there was no significant human health risk. Based on PCA, Pb and Hg may originate from transportation and atmospheric deposition, Zn, Cr and Ni may originate from natural sources and industrial activities, and Cu and Cd may originate from agricultural activities. Overall, from the perspective of HMs content, the soil quality in this study area was at a clean level. This study provides a reference and a basis for formulating effective measures to prevent and control HMs enrichment in agricultural soils.
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Smart low interfacial toughness coatings for on-demand de-icing without melting
Ice accretion causes problems in vital industries and has been addressed over the past decades with either passive or active de-icing systems. This work presents a smart, hybrid (passive and active) de-icing system through the combination of a low interfacial toughness coating, printed circuit board heaters, and an ice-detecting microwave sensor. The coating's interfacial toughness with ice is found to be temperature dependent and can be modulated using the embedded heaters. Accordingly, de-icing is realized without melting the interface. The synergistic combination of the low interfacial toughness coating and periodic heaters results in a greater de-icing power density than a full-coverage heater system. The hybrid de-icing system also shows durability towards repeated icing/de-icing, mechanical abrasion, outdoor exposure, and chemical contamination. A non-contact planar microwave resonator sensor is additionally designed and implemented to precisely detect the presence or absence of water or ice on the surface while operating beneath the coating, further enhancing the system's energy efficiency. Scalability of the smart coating is demonstrated using large (up to 1"‰m) iced interfaces. Overall, the smart hybrid system designed here offers a paradigm shift in de-icing that can efficiently render a surface ice-free without the need for energetically expensive interface melting.
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High-dimensional multinomial multiclass severity scoring of COVID-19 pneumonia using CT radiomics features and machine learning algorithms
We aimed to construct a prediction model based on computed tomography (CT) radiomics features to classify COVID-19 patients into severe-, moderate-, mild-, and non-pneumonic. A total of 1110 patients were studied from a publicly available dataset with 4-class severity scoring performed by a radiologist (based on CT images and clinical features). The entire lungs were segmented and followed by resizing, bin discretization and radiomic features extraction. We utilized two feature selection algorithms, namely bagging random forest (BRF) and multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS), each coupled to a classifier, namely multinomial logistic regression (MLR), to construct multiclass classification models. The dataset was divided into 50% (555 samples), 20% (223 samples), and 30% (332 samples) for training, validation, and untouched test datasets, respectively. Subsequently, nested cross-validation was performed on train/validation to select the features and tune the models. All predictive power indices were reported based on the testing set. The performance of multi-class models was assessed using precision, recall, F1-score, and accuracy based on the 4"‰Ã—"‰4 confusion matrices. In addition, the areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUCs) for multi-class classifications were calculated and compared for both models. Using BRF, 23 radiomic features were selected, 11 from first-order, 9 from GLCM, 1 GLRLM, 1 from GLDM, and 1 from shape. Ten features were selected using the MARS algorithm, namely 3 from first-order, 1 from GLDM, 1 from GLRLM, 1 from GLSZM, 1 from shape, and 3 from GLCM features. The mean absolute deviation, skewness, and variance from first-order and flatness from shape, and cluster prominence from GLCM features and Gray Level Non Uniformity Normalize from GLRLM were selected by both BRF and MARS algorithms. All selected features by BRF or MARS were significantly associated with four-class outcomes as assessed within MLR (All p values"‰<"‰0.05). BRF"‰+"‰MLR and MARS"‰+"‰MLR resulted in pseudo-R2 prediction performances of 0.305 and 0.253, respectively. Meanwhile, there was a significant difference between the feature selection models when using a likelihood ratio test (p value"‰="‰0.046). Based on confusion matrices for BRF"‰+"‰MLR and MARS"‰+"‰MLR algorithms, the precision was 0.856 and 0.728, the recall was 0.852 and 0.722, whereas the accuracy was 0.921 and 0.861, respectively. AUCs (95% CI) for multi-class classification were 0.846 (0.805"“0.887) and 0.807 (0.752"“0.861) for BRF"‰+"‰MLR and MARS"‰+"‰MLR algorithms, respectively. Our models based on the utilization of radiomic features, coupled with machine learning were able to accurately classify patients according to the severity of pneumonia, thus highlighting the potential of this emerging paradigm in the prognostication and management of COVID-19 patients.
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Visualizing localized, radiative defects in GaAs solar cells
We have used a calibrated, wide-field hyperspectral imaging instrument to obtain absolute spectrally and spatially resolved photoluminescence images in high growth-rate, rear-junction GaAs solar cells from 300 to 77Â K. At the site of some localized defects scattered throughout the active layer, we report a novel, double-peak luminescence emission with maximum peak energies corresponding to both the main band-to-band transition and a band-to-impurity optical transition below the band gap energy. Temperature-dependent imaging reveals that the evolution of the peak intensity and energy agrees well with a model of free-to-bound recombination with a deep impurity center, likely a gallium antisite defect. We also analyzed the temperature dependence of the band-to-band transition within the context of an analytical model of photoluminescence and discuss the agreement between the modeling results and external device parameters such as the open circuit voltage of the solar cells over this broad temperature range.
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Body size has primacy over stoichiometric variables in nutrient excretion by a tropical stream fish community
Ecological Stoichiometry (ES) and the Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE) are the main theories used to explain consumers' nutrient recycling. ES posits that imbalances between an animal's body and its diet stoichiometry determine its nutrient excretion rates, whereas the MTE predicts that excretion reflects metabolic activity arising from body size and temperature. We measured nitrogen, phosphorus and N:P excretion, body N:P stoichiometry, body size, and temperature for 12 fish species from a Brazilian stream. We fitted competing models reflecting different combinations of ES (body N:P, armor classification, diet group) and MTE (body size, temperature) variables. Only body size predicted P excretion rates, while N excretion was predicted by body size and time of day. N:P excretion was not explained by any variable. There was no interspecific difference in size-scaling coefficients neither for N nor for P. Fitted size scaling coefficients were lower than the MTE prediction of 0.75 for N (0.58), and for P (0.56). We conclude that differences in nutrient excretion among species within a shared environment primarily reflect contrasts in metabolic rates arising from body size, rather than disparities between consumer and resource stoichiometry. Our findings support the MTE as the primary framework for predicting nutrient excretion rates.
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Integrable quantum many-body sensors for AC field sensing
Quantum sensing is inevitably an elegant example of the supremacy of quantum technologies over their classical counterparts. One of the desired endeavors of quantum metrology is AC field sensing. Here, by means of analytical and numerical analysis, we show that integrable many-body systems can be exploited efficiently for detecting the amplitude of an AC field. Unlike the conventional strategies in using the ground states in critical many-body probes for parameter estimation, we only consider partial access to a subsystem. Due to the periodicity of the dynamics, any local block of the system saturates to a steady state which allows achieving sensing precision well beyond the classical limit, almost reaching the Heisenberg bound. We associate the enhanced quantum precision to closing of the Floquet gap, resembling the features of quantum sensing in the ground state of critical systems. We show that the proposed protocol can also be realized in near-term quantum simulators, e.g. ion-traps, with a limited number of qubits. We show that in such systems a simple block magnetization measurement and a Bayesian inference estimator can achieve very high precision AC field sensing.
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Localized efficacy of environmental RNAi in Tetranychus urticae
Environmental RNAi has been developed as a tool for reverse genetics studies and is an emerging pest control strategy. The ability of environmental RNAi to efficiently down-regulate the expression of endogenous gene targets assumes efficient uptake of dsRNA and its processing. In addition, its efficiency can be augmented by the systemic spread of RNAi signals. Environmental RNAi is now a well-established tool for the manipulation of gene expression in the chelicerate acari, including the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae. Here, we focused on eight single and ubiquitously-expressed genes encoding proteins with essential cellular functions. Application of dsRNAs that specifically target these genes led to whole mite body phenotypes-dark or spotless. These phenotypes were associated with a significant reduction of target gene expression, ranging from 20 to 50%, when assessed at the whole mite level. Histological analysis of mites treated with orally-delivered dsRNAs was used to investigate the spatial range of the effectiveness of environmental RNAi. Although macroscopic changes led to two groups of body phenotypes, silencing of target genes was associated with the distinct cellular phenotypes. We show that regardless of the target gene tested, cells that displayed histological changes were those that are in direct contact with the dsRNA-containing gut lumen, suggesting that the greatest efficiency of the orally-delivered dsRNAs is localized to gut tissues in T. urticae.
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Carbon Monitor Cities near-real-time daily estimates of CO emissions from 1500 cities worldwide
Building on near-real-time and spatially explicit estimates of daily carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, here we present and analyze a new city-level dataset of fossil fuel and cement emissions, Carbon Monitor Cities, which provides daily estimates of emissions from January 2019 through December 2021 for 1500 cities in 46 countries, and disaggregates five sectors: power generation, residential (buildings), industry, ground transportation, and aviation. The goal of this dataset is to improve the timeliness and temporal resolution of city-level emission inventories and includes estimates for both functional urban areas and city administrative areas that are consistent with global and regional totals. Comparisons with other datasets (i.e. CEADs, MEIC, Vulcan, and CDP-ICLEI Track) were performed, and we estimate the overall annual uncertainty range to be ±21.7%. Carbon Monitor Cities is a near-real-time, city-level emission dataset that includes cities around the world, including the first estimates for many cities in low-income countries.
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Viral cross-class transmission results in disease of a phytopathogenic fungus
Interspecies transmission of viruses is a well-known phenomenon in animals and plants whether via contacts or vectors. In fungi, interspecies transmission between distantly related fungi is often suspected but rarely experimentally documented and may have practical implications. A newly described double-strand RNA (dsRNA) virus found asymptomatic in the phytopathogenic fungus Leptosphaeria biglobosa of cruciferous crops was successfully transmitted to an evolutionarily distant, broad-host range pathogen Botrytis cinerea. Leptosphaeria biglobosa botybirnavirus 1 (LbBV1) was characterized in L. biglobosa strain GZJS-19. Its infection in L. biglobosa was asymptomatic, as no significant differences in radial mycelial growth and pathogenicity were observed between LbBV1-infected and LbBV1-free strains. However, cross-species transmission of LbBV1 from L. biglobosa to infection in B. cinerea resulted in the hypovirulence of the recipient B. cinerea strain t-459-V. The cross-species transmission was succeeded only by inoculation of mixed spores of L. biglobosa and B. cinerea on PDA or on stems of oilseed rape with the efficiency of 4.6% and 18.8%, respectively. To investigate viral cross-species transmission between L. biglobosa and B. cinerea in nature, RNA sequencing was carried out on L. biglobosa and B. cinerea isolates obtained from Brassica samples co-infected by these two pathogens and showed that at least two mycoviruses were detected in both fungal groups. These results indicate that cross-species transmission of mycoviruses may occur frequently in nature and result in the phenotypical changes of newly invaded phytopathogenic fungi. This study also provides new insights for using asymptomatic mycoviruses as biocontrol agent.
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Comparison of surgical outcomes of posterior surgeries between cervical spondylotic myelopathy and ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament
Retrospective multicenter study. To compare the surgical outcomes and complications of posterior decompression between individuals with cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) and those with ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL). Setting. Seventeen medical institutions in Japan. Methods. This study included 814 individuals with CSM (n"‰="‰636) and OPLL (n"‰="‰178) who underwent...
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Localized, time-dependent responses of rat cranial bone to repeated mild traumatic brain injuries
While it is well-established that bone responds dynamically to mechanical loading, the effects of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) on cranial bone composition are unclear. We hypothesized that repeated mTBI (rmTBI) would change the microstructure of cranial bones, without gross skull fractures. To address this, young adult female Piebald Viral Glaxo rats received sham, 1×, 2×"‰or 3×"‰closed-head mTBIs delivered at 24 h intervals, using a weight-drop device custom-built for reproducible impact. Skull bones were collected at 2 or 10 weeks after the final injury/sham procedure, imaged by micro computed tomography and analyzed at predetermined regions of interest. In the interparietal bone, proximal to the injury site, modest increases in bone thickness were observed at 2 weeks, particularly following 2×"‰and 3×"‰mTBI. By 10 weeks, 2×"‰mTBI induced a robust increase in the volume and thickness of the interparietal bone, alongside a corresponding decrease in the volume of marrow cavities in the diploë region. In contrast, neither parietal nor frontal skull samples were affected by rmTBI. Our findings demonstrate time- and location-dependent effects of rmTBI on cranial bone structure, highlighting a need to consider microstructural alterations to cranial bone when assessing the consequences of rmTBI.
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Effect of MA01 rhamnolipid on cell viability and expression of quorum-sensing (QS) genes involved in biofilm formation by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
A group of biosurfactants, called rhamnolipids, have been shown to have antibacterial and antibiofilm activity against multidrug-resistant bacteria. Here, we examined the effect of rhamnolipid biosurfactants extracted from Pseudomonas aeruginosa MA01 on cell growth/viability, biofilm formation, and membrane permeability of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ATCC6538 bacterial cells. The results obtained from flow cytometry analysis showed that by increasing the concentration of rhamnolipid from 30 to 120Â mg/mL, the cell viability decreased by about 70%, and the cell membrane permeability increased by approximately 20%. In fact, increasing rhamnolipid concentration was directly related to cell membrane permeability and inversely related to cell survival. Microtiter plate biofilm assay and laser scanning confocal microscopy analysis revealed that rhamnolipid, at a concentration of 60Â mg/mL, exerts a reducing effect on the biofilm formation of Staphylococcus aureus. Real-time PCR analysis for monitoring the relative changes in the expression of agrA, agrC, icaA, and icaD genes involved in biofilm formation and related to the quorum-sensing pathway after treatment with rhamnolipid indicated a reduced expression level of these genes, as well as sortase A gene. The results of the present study deepen our knowledge regarding the use of microbial natural products as promising candidates for therapeutic applications.
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Assessing related factors to fasting blood sugar and glycosylated hemoglobin in patients with type 2 diabetes simultaneously by a multivariate longitudinal marginal model
The multivariate marginal model can be used to simultaneously examine the factors affecting both FBS and HbA1c using longitudinal data. The model fitted to multivariate longitudinal data should prevent redundant parameter estimation in order to have greater efficiency. In this study, a multivariate marginal model is used to simultaneously investigate the factors affecting both FBS and HbA1c with longitudinal data for patients with type 2 diabetes in Northern Iran. The present research is a retrospective cohort study. Overall, 500 medical records with complete information were reviewed. The multivariate marginal model is used to determine the factors associated with FBS and HbA1c using longitudinal data. Data have been analyzed in R-3.4.0 using 'mmm2' package. Given that the coefficients for the interactions of rtype with the intercept, time, family history of diabetes, history of hypertension, history of smoking, insulin therapy, systolic/diastolic blood pressure and duration of disease at first visit are significantly different from zero (P"‰<"‰0.05), the effect of the independent variables on the two response variables is different and different coefficients should be used for each. Therefore, the interactions of these variables with rtype are kept in the final model. The coefficients for the interactions of rtype with sex, age at first visit, history of high cholesterol, and weight are not significantly different from zero (P"‰>"‰0.05), indicating that their effect on the two response variables is similar and only one coefficient should be used for each. We examined the similarity of coefficients when fitting the longitudinal multivariate model for the relationship between FBS/HbA1c and sex, age, history of high blood cholesterol, and body weight. If an independent variable has similar effects on both responses, only one coefficient should be estimated, which will increase the efficiency of the model and the reliability of the results.
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One shot ancient character recognition with siamese similarity network
Ancient character recognition is not only important for the study and understanding of ancient history but also has a profound impact on the inheritance and development of national culture. In order to reduce the study of difficult professional knowledge of ancient characters, and meanwhile overcome the lack of data, class imbalance, diversification of glyphs, and open set recognition problems in ancient characters, we propose a Siamese similarity network based on a similarity learning method to directly learn input similarity and then apply the trained model to establish one shot classification task for recognition. Multi-scale fusion backbone structure and embedded structure are proposed in the network to improve the model's ability to extract features. We also propose the soft similarity contrast loss function for the first time, which ensures the optimization of similar images with higher similarity and different classes of images with greater differences while reducing the over-optimization of back-propagation leading to model overfitting. Specially, we propose a cumulative class prototype based on our network to solve the deviation problem of the mean class prototype and obtain a good class representation. Since new ancient characters can still be found in reality, our model has the ability to reject unknown categories while identifying new ones. A large number of experiments show that our proposed method has achieved high-efficiency discriminative performance and obtained the best performance over the methods of traditional deep learning and other classic one-shot learning. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2721907902128/hole-doping-in-a-negative-charge-transfer-insulator | 2022-09-01T13:12:09Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2721907902128/hole-doping-in-a-negative-charge-transfer-insulator | false | 1 |
‘Bombshell’: D.C. national security attorney says U.S. DOJ filings on Mar-a-Lago raid expose Trump
By Richard Madan and Alexandra Mae Jones
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Washington, D.C. (CTV Network) — A late-night filing of legal briefs outlining previously unknown allegations about the FBI raid on former U.S. president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort exposed gaping holes in his version of events, according to an expert.
The U.S. Department of Justice is accusing Trump of obstructing its investigation to retrieve sensitive documents, taking the extraordinary step of releasing a photo of files marked “highly classified” and “top secret” that it says were seized from his Florida home.
The DOJ says it has evidence that “government records were likely concealed and removed,” and that “efforts were taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.”
The filings suggest criminality, but don’t prove it. No legal actions have been announced.
“The former president and several of his lawyers … have a lot of criminal exposure here,” Bradley Moss, a national security attorney in the Washington, D.C. , area, told CTV National News Washington Correspondent Richard Madan on Wednesday.
“Mostly for false representations to the FBI and to NARA (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration), as well as the efforts to keep these documents located at Mar-a-Lago and to conceal them from the government.”
Earlier this month, the FBI exercised a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, seizing numerous classified documents. Trump and his lawyers claim the documents discovered at the resort in Palm Beach, Fla., had been previously declassified when he was in office.
However, legal briefs filed by the U.S. Department of Justice filings say that this argument was never made in the months that NARA was attempting to get the former president to return the documents, with the details pointing to a new potential charge: obstruction of justice.
Moss, who primarily deals with employees within the government, military or intelligence community and has experience going through security clearance disciplinary actions, said he was blown away when he read the filings late last night.
“Boom! That’s what went through my mind,” he said. “Bombshell. This was a complete evisceration of the Trump team’s legal arguments.”
He said that because the government was able to file documents about the raid itself, it was able to be more transparent with details that the public likely wouldn’t have seen for months.
“The government was allowed to outline a lot of facts that otherwise would not have come out in this pre-indictment phase during a criminal investigation,” he said of what is alleged in the documents. “They were allowed to walk you through a lot more details on how this investigation unfolded, what the problems were with the Trump team’s responses as they were trying to work through the problem with the records, and how the obstruction angle came into play.”
The filings laid out how the government said it learned that records were being moved, and attempted numerous times to have those records returned, only to receive just some of the missing documents each time.
“After they went in June with the subpoena and they got the sworn affidavit from Trump lawyers saying that’s it, there’s nothing more, the government found evidence that there were in fact documents still on the property, located in areas other than the storage room,” Moss said the filings suggest. “And sure enough, that’s what the search warrant found.”
He said that Trump essentially “puts himself in these situations.
“It could’ve been written off as a small mistake if, after being told that these records were still at Mar-a-Lago, he had turned everything back over to the archives in 2021. It would’ve been ‘no harm, no foul.’ But Donald Trump doesn’t work like that.”
The filings claim that Trump’s lawyers fought to delay the return of documents, battling with NARA and the FBI for months, only to still provide just some of the documents when presented with a subpoena. According to the filing, a Trump lawyer stated at the time that all of the documents had been stored in one storage room, and that there were none in any private space.
“Finally, it took a search warrant to recover the remaining 100 classified records sitting in places like Donald Trump’s desk in his personal office,” Moss said.
“It’s significant criminal exposure. There are people who have gone to jail for less under the espionage act. And in respect to obstruction — to what extent did Donald Trump lie to his lawyers? To what extent did the lawyers act irresponsibly or possibly lie to the FBI? That’s the kind of information we still don’t know for sure.”
While the criminal element is suggested, it’s not proven in the filings, and hasn’t been tested in court.
Trump’s lawyers “absolutely” need their own lawyers now, he said.
“And as I’ve said for many years and others coined it before me, ‘MAGA’ in my view stands for ‘Make Attorneys Get Attorneys.’ This is not the first Trump lawyer to get in trouble and it probably won’t be the last, but yes, if I was Christina Bobb, if I was Alina Habba, if I was Evan Corcoran, I’d be hiring a lawyer right now to protect myself from potential criminal exposure, because they all became material fact witnesses in this ongoing criminal probe.”
Whether Trump will be indicted on obstruction charges — after having avoided charges in an obstruction investigation related to an investigation into whether his 2016 presidential campaign had colluded with Russia — remains to be seen.
“It is my view, based off the information we already have, that Donald Trump could be, and in my professional opinion, should be indicted,” Moss said. “Though I do not believe it will happen before the mid-term elections in November.”
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CINCINNATI (Cincinnati Business Courier) - Factory 52, the $100 million redevelopment of Norwood's former U.S. Playing Card factory, has signed its first restaurateurs to open eateries in the Gatherall Food Hall. PLK Communities, the developer of Factory 52, announced Tuesday it had signed three restaurateurs for the Gatherall, a food...
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Former Pakistani PM gets extension of protection from arrest
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say a Pakistani court has extended former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s protection from arrest until September 12. Thursday’s development comes more than a week after police filed terrorism charges against the country’s popular opposition leader on charges of threatening police and a female judge in his speech to a rally last month. In Pakistan, terrorism charges can be levied against anyone accused of threatening a government official or Pakistan’s military and security institutions. Khan came to power in 2018 and lost the majority in the parliament in April. He has alleged that he was ousted through no-confidence under a U.S. plot, a charge Washington denies. | https://ktvz.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/09/01/former-pakistani-pm-gets-extension-of-protection-from-arrest/ | 2022-09-01T13:15:20Z | https://ktvz.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/09/01/former-pakistani-pm-gets-extension-of-protection-from-arrest/ | true | null |
Meeting will discuss council's £17 MILLION budget funding gap
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Ways to address a budget deficit of £17 MILLION will be discussed at meetings next week.
North Somerset Council's Executive will gather for the first in a series of formal meetings to discuss, develop and agree the organisation’s medium term financial plan and the authority's budget for 2023/24.
It comes as the council says it faces increasingly tough decisions to set a balanced budget for the financial year ahead, with the gap - about 10 per cent of its net budget - to close.
The council says, in common with businesses and households, it is seeing its own costs rise steeply with increasing energy prices and sharp inflationary rises in many areas.
These cost increases, coupled with the increasing and sustained demand for services, are placing already constrained finances under such pressure that service reduction is fast becoming inevitable in the year ahead, it added.
The council says it has already made significant savings over the last 13 years of austerity.
Additional funding allocations from central government to support Covid recovery have come to an end and have not been replaced with revised measures to help tackle the inflationary increases, meaning the council is having to make budget preparations for the year ahead with no certainty of the amounts of funding it will receive to support service delivery.
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Cllr Ash Cartman, the council’s executive member for finance, said: "The financial challenge we face eclipses anything we’ve seen til now.
"Against a history of keeping council tax increases among the lowest in the region for many years, our base funding levels have always given us significant budgetary challenges compared with our neighbours, but this year takes things to a new level.
"There is no money down the back of the sofa, and none forthcoming from central government to help councils with massive inflationary impacts. Belts have been tightened for a long time and we are running out of options to set a balanced budget for the year ahead."
Cllr Cartman called on the Government to address funding shortfalls in the coming months.
"The government needs to act to support local services and help us to manage the exceptional inflationary and demographic pressures we are facing," Cllr Cartman said.
"Only with fair long-term funding and the right powers can councils deliver for our communities."
Next week’s meeting will be the first opportunity for councillors to discuss the budget challenge in a public forum, and more meetings will take place over the autumn and winter enabling democratic decisions to set a balanced budget for the financial year ahead.
Cllr Cartman added: "We have more work to do over the autumn to develop budget proposals for the year ahead, but given the scale of the challenge, we are considering significant reductions to service delivery in some areas – regrettably, that’s inevitable in the current climate.
"I just think it’s important that we share this news now, and begin to have the difficult conversations about the measures we’ll need to take to balance our books.
"We want this to be an open and transparent process."
The first report to be discussed by councillors to develop budget proposals for the year ahead will be presented at next week’s Executive meeting, on Wednesday, September 7, starting at 6pm.
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Jefferies raised the price target for the EVgo Inc. (NASDAQ:EVGO) stock to “a Hold”. The rating was released on July 07, 2022, according to finviz. The research report from Credit Suisse has upgraded the stock from Neutral to Outperform, with a price target set at $14. The stock was initiated by Cantor Fitzgerald, who disclosed in a research note on April 28, 2022, to Overweight and set the price objective to $14. In their research brief published April 21, 2022, Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. analysts initiated the EVgo Inc. stock to Buy with a price target of $16.
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The latest trade, Performances and Moving Averages give us the following Picture
The share price of EVgo Inc. (NASDAQ:EVGO) raised 0.64% to close Wednesday’s market session at $9.49, higher as compared to yesterday’s close. The stock price fluctuated between $9.36 and $9.8303 throughout the trading session with the volume trading being 3654148 shares, which represented a significant variation when compared to the three months average volume of 3.22 million shares. The firm’s stock price fluctuated -2.06% within the last five trades and 12.57% within the last 30 trades, which was a significant change from the beginning of this year. Despite the fact that the share price decreased -8.66% in the last 6 months and 3.38% was added to its value over the previous 3 months. EVGO stock is trading at a margin of -4.95%, 12.78% and -4.62% apart from the 20-Day, 50-Day and 200-Day Simple Moving Average prices.
As of the close of trading, EVGO deals in the Consumer Cyclical domain. The stock is trading -51.55 percent below its 52-week high and 79.73 percent above its 52-week low. For example, looking both at the price and the high and low measurements of 52 weeks will give you a clearer picture of the direction the price is heading. The firm’s Weighted Alpha is -26.2. A positive weighted alpha indicates the firm has done well over the course of the year, whereas one below 0 indicates that the firm has done poorly.
What Does EVgo Inc.’s Profitability and Valuation Ratios Tell Us About the Stock?
With regard to the profitability of the company, the profit margin is -52.60 percent, and the company has reported a gross margin of -16.00 percent. The profit margin, also known as the revenue ratio or gross profit ratio, is an efficiency figure used to estimate the business’s profitability by comparing net income and sales. The higher the number, the more profits are generated for the company and vice versa.
The stock’s market cap achieved a total value of $2.73 billion as of the last trading session. Market capitalization is the total value of all outstanding shares of a corporation and it is used to measure a company’s market value. Forward price-to-earnings is calculated using predicted earnings for the next financial year’s P/E determination. The stock has achieved an effective Price-to-Sales Ratio of 90.58 that mirrors the cost to be found for sales by the market.
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Almost all investors and traders prefer to invest in shares controlled by the management of a corporation as a management company will be more likely to run the business itself and to never conduct things against the management’s desires and will always try to do what is best for their shareholders. Currently, 0.20 percent of EVgo Inc. shares are owned by insiders, and 55.00 percent are held by financial institutions. Shevorenkova Olga, the Chief Financial Officer at EVgo Inc. (EVGO) has sold 34,463 shares of firm on Aug 16 at a price of $11.95 against the total amount of $0.41 million. In another inside trade, Levy Jonathan Maier, Chief Commercial Officer of EVgo Inc. (NASDAQ:EVGO) sold 10,000 shares of the firm on Aug 16 for a total worth of $0.12 million at a price of $12.04. An inside trade which took place on Aug 15, Chief Executive Officer of EVgo Inc. Zoi Catherine sold 42,083 shares of firm against total price of $0.48 million at the cost of $11.52 per share. | http://www.bovnews.com/2022/09/01/why-evgo-inc-nasdaqevgo-stock-went-up-3-38-in-last-year/ | 2022-09-01T13:15:29Z | http://www.bovnews.com/2022/09/01/why-evgo-inc-nasdaqevgo-stock-went-up-3-38-in-last-year/ | false | 16544 |
Anjali Arora has been facing a lot of backlash ever since the MMS controversy came to light. The Lock Upp contestant was reportedly the face in the viral video while she continuously has been denying her involvement. Amidst it all, she is now breaking her silence on trolls and giving it back like a pro. Scroll below for all the details.
Netizens have been passing some lewd remarks ever since Anjali’s name surfaced in the latest controversy. She was recently even spotted at Haji Ali Dargah, seeking blessings from the almighty, but trolls did not even spare her there and termed it a ‘publicity stunt.’
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In the latest conversation with TellyChakkar, Anjali Arora reacted to trolls and said, “They have the right to like and dislike you and one just needs to be strong to take the negative comments and to be honest, one shouldn’t pay attention to it.”
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Anjali Arora continued, “Some would appreciate your work, some wouldn’t and as a public figure, this is a small price you pay as compared to the love and care you get from the fans and audience!”
Meanwhile, Anjali was recently even trolled for hoisting the Indian flag on Independence Day because she was dressed in a crop top and denim that flaunted her mid-riff. The Kacha Badam fame beauty has been handling it all with utmost grace.
Previously, she reacted to the MMS controversy and broke down in front of the media. She also mentioned how the entire row has impacted her image and haters have been trying to defame her. She requested the viewers to not circulate her name as her younger brothers may also come across such content.
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2 Palestinians Killed In West Bank During Clashes With Israeli Troops
Two Palestinian men were killed early Thursday during clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank. The clashes began in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus in the northern West Bank, when Israeli troops arrived to arrest a wanted man.
One of the Palestinian men, identified as Samer Khaled, 25, was shot in the neck and died in the Ein Beit al-Ma’ refugee camp near Nablus. Reports said he was killed by Palestinian gunfire and not by Israeli soldiers.
In a separate incident, a 26-year-old Palestinian man was killed during clashes with Israeli troops who entered the West Bank city of al-Bireh near Ramallah to seize money suspected to be used for terror purposes. Yazan Afaneh was from the Qalandiya refugee camp, north of Jerusalem. He was shot while Israeli troops dispersed riots by Palestinians in al-Bireh. According to the Israel Defense Forces, troops had entered to seize money suspected to have been intended for terror purposes.
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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society urges patients to utilize its free support services every step of the way
RYE BROOK, N.Y., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leukemia, a blood cancer, is the most common cancer diagnosed in children and adolescents and the second leading cause of all cancer deaths. For good reason, during two national awareness months in September – Childhood Cancer and Blood Cancer Awareness Month – the global leader in the fight against blood cancers, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is urgently reminding patients and their families to learn about its free support services available all year-round.
Every 180 seconds someone in the US is diagnosed with a blood cancer. LLS is the leading source of free blood cancer information, education, and support for patients, survivors, caregivers, families, and healthcare professionals.
"When someone is diagnosed with blood cancer, every minute matters — to them and their families, to the healthcare professionals treating them, and to us at LLS," said Gwen Nichols, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at LLS. "We know time becomes more precious and so we support patients' and survivors' needs, strive to help improve the quality of their lives, and try to inspire hope every step of the way."
The organization offers free one-on-one support including:
- LLS Information Specialists are highly trained oncology professionals who provide free, personalized assistance to patients, families, and healthcare providers. LLS Information Specialists are ready to help at (800) 955-4572, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. ET or by live chat/email on LLS.ORG.
- LLS Clinical Trial Nurse Navigators are registered nurses with expertise in blood cancers who conduct comprehensive clinical trial searches and personally assist patients, parents, and caregivers throughout the entire clinical trial process.
- LLS's registered dietitian has expertise in oncology nutrition and provides patients, parents, and caregivers with free nutrition consultations.
LLS also offers financial assistance, a podcast, peer-to-peer support, online chats, webcasts, videos, caregiver support, education and outreach programs like Myeloma Link, the LLS Scholarship program, which provides up to $7,500 to cover tuition, and so much more.
LLS Community is an online gathering place for patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals to share experiences and provide support. Once registered, patients can ask questions, provide and receive support, and share stories with others who are going through similar experiences.
While many children survive leukemia, the treatments are harsh and outdated. Through LLS's recently launched Dare to Dream Project, LLS is taking on children's cancer from every direction, disrupting the status quo with a bold vision for young patients – to not only survive their cancer, but thrive in their lives after treatment. The project aims to power innovative research, new, safer treatments, support services, and advocacy.
Cruz Perez-Jimenez, of El Paso, TX knows the devastation of childhood cancer all too well. Diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia at just four years old, he endured approximately one year of treatment that came with grueling side effects no child should have to experience.
Today, Perez-Jimenez is proud to call himself a survivor, especially after all he overcame. He gives back through LLS's advocacy network and shares his heroic story with others battling blood cancer. He hopes to one day attend medical school and work in the oncology field himself.
"Cancer almost killed me, but it can't take away who I am and who I will become," said Perez-Jimenez.
According to Dr. Nichols, "Every action can make a difference and lead the way to a future without blood cancers." And, LLS offers some ways to help the fight against blood cancer including:
- Donating at LLS.ORG to help more patients and families.
- Registering for one of our inspirational Light The Night community events this fall to bring light to the darkness of cancer.
- Becoming an advocate or exploring volunteer opportunities.
- Following LLS on social media (@LLSusa) and sharing our stories or contributing your own with #BloodCancerAwarenessMonth
To learn more, visit www.LLS.org.
Blood cancer patients and their families should contact the LLS Information Resource Center at (800) 955-4572, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., ET.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® (LLS) is a global leader in the fight against cancer. The LLS mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma. LLS funds lifesaving blood cancer research around the world, provides free information and support services, and is the voice for all blood cancer patients seeking access to quality, affordable, coordinated care.
Founded in 1949 and headquartered in Rye Brook, NY, LLS has regional offices throughout the United States and Canada. To learn more, visit www.LLS.org. Patients should contact the LLS Information Resource Center at (800) 955-4572, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., ET.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Patrick McCaw has three NBA championship rings from the start of his career with Golden State and Toronto. Norris Cole was part of two title-winning teams in Miami.
And right now, both have the same plan: Take the USA’s call, while awaiting the NBA’s call.
McCaw and Cole are on USA Basketball’s roster for the FIBA AmeriCup tournament that starts Friday in Recife, Brazil. The tournament runs through Sept. 11, or about two weeks before NBA training camps begin, and both McCaw and Cole are hoping that these games lead to two things — a gold medal, and a springboard back to the league.
“I think it’s more about representing the USA for me right now,” McCaw said. “I want to make it back to the NBA. I know that’s a process. And I know one day, whenever, next week, next month, next year, when it’s supposed to happen, it’ll happen. But right now, I’m just focusing on this USA, wearing these three letters, giving my all to this team and representing the United States of America.”
McCaw has appeared in only five NBA games in the last 2 1/2 years, his career largely derailed by a series of injuries that he says are no longer concerns. Cole last played in an NBA game in April 2017 and has spent the last five seasons overseas — with Israel, China, Montenegro, Italy, France and Puerto Rico among some of the places where his passport has been stamped.
“I still have the ability,” Cole said. “God has still blessed me with the ability. I still have the fire, the hunger and I still feel like I have something to prove, things that I would like to accomplish as a player. That feeling of winning a championship, the mission, the goal, the work to try to get to that point again, that’s what drives me as a competitor. And I want that feeling again.”
They are at different points in their careers. McCaw, a 6-foot-7 wing, turns 27 on Oct. 25. Cole, a speedy 6-foot-2 point guard, turns 34 on Oct. 13.
But they have plenty of similarities. Golden State raved about McCaw when he broke into the NBA there and was part of championship teams in 2017 and 2018 with the Warriors; McCaw then was part of the Toronto title the following season, when the Raptors beat Golden State. Cole also won championships in his first two NBA years, during the LeBron James years in Miami.
“We’ve been around winning,” Cole said. “Patrick has that working for him. He knows what winning looks like and anytime you’re around winning it rubs off on you. He has that, he has a fun personality, and I think he definitely deserves another shot. I definitely believe that he deserves to be on an NBA roster.”
AmeriCup is the championship for the teams in the FIBA Americas region. There were 12 nations that made it through qualifying; those 12 are split into three groups of four. The top two finishers in each group, plus the best two third-place teams, make it to the quarterfinals.
McCaw, Cole and Jodie Meeks — also part of that 2019 Raptors team — all bring NBA titles to this roster. The other nine players selected: Zylan Cheatham, Gary Clark Jr., Will Davis II, Anthony Lamb, Frank Mason III, Jeremy Pargo, Elijah Pemberton, Craig Sword and Stephen Zimmerman.
“It’s a good mixture of guys,” said U.S. AmeriCup coach Alex Jensen of the Utah Jazz. “You get the balance. And a big thing is, this sounds simple, but getting guys who enjoy the chance to play. They enjoy playing. So, they come here and it means more to them. And that should help bring us together.”
In training camp at Las Vegas, Cole won just about every sprint he was in and was clearly the on-court quarterback at point guard. And McCaw’s talent was obvious, even in a gym alongside plenty of other highly skilled players. Spine and knee issues, he insists, are behind him, and that means his confidence is returning — which will only help his quest to get back to the NBA.
“I’ve been off the radar,” McCaw said. “I think this is a huge step because people are going to be able to watch these games and see where I’m at now. That’ll help, for sure. It was injuries that set me back. It wasn’t anything else in the way, or life, or me changing the type of person I am. It was injuries. And it was tough dealing with them. But this trip to Brazil, I definitely think it’ll open up some doors again.”
Cole hopes for the same opportunity.
“Just a chance, that’s all I ask,” Cole said. “I have a lot I can bring to a team. I want to continue to show that.”
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Ford recalls SUVs; heating and cooling fans can catch fire
Published: Sep. 1, 2022 at 9:09 AM EDT|Updated: 11 minutes ago
DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling nearly 200,000 large SUVs because the heating and cooling fan motors can fail and catch fire.
The recall covers Ford Expeditions and Lincoln Navigators from the 2015 through 2017 model years.
The Dearborn, Michigan, company says in government documents that it has reports of 25 fires caused by the motors, which are behind the glove box.
Dealers will replace the front blower motor assembly at no cost to owners, who will be notified starting Sept. 12.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The following commentary was sent to the Journal & Courier by Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, referencing his August 2022 trip to Taiwan and South Korea.
As I return from our trip to Asia this week, I have much to report. The world has never been smaller and more connected, and we have made even more inroads in ensuring that Indiana is at the forefront of the global economy. At every stop, every meeting, every visit in Taiwan and South Korea, we are hearing the same message: Indiana is leading the way in building the industries and economy of the future.
Our strong STEM universities, such as Purdue University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, make us an ideal partner in cultivating a skilled talent pipeline.
Our current investments and partnerships are giving us great momentum in advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, electric vehicles, agbiosciences and life sciences.
And, our focus on innovation and new technology will well position the state’s economy and, more importantly, Hoosiers for the next 5, 10, 15 and 20 years.
This week, we have once again connected the state with eager partners across the globe, and it is abundantly clear — together we can provide the technology, the talent and the 21st century solutions to meet the demands of today and tomorrow in exciting fields.
In Taipei, our delegation was met with much enthusiasm as I was the first US governor to visit since the pandemic. Taiwan has long been a global leader in chips and microelectronics, and I affirmed in my discussions with President Tsai Ing-wen and top government officials that Taiwan is building on this expertise and aims to build partnerships with states or countries that can work together to advance next generation industries, such telecommunications, electric vehicles, semiconductors, cybersecurity and sustainable energy.
Indiana is, of course, a natural fit, and we are pushing forward. As the first state to sign a memorandum of understanding on semiconductors and supply chain resiliency with Taiwan, we will work in close collaboration with the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs to accelerate and future-proof these 21st century industries, while advancing academic cooperation and economic development and investment.
Similarly, South Korea’s economy is robust and technology-driven, and we have a shared focus on the futures of mobility and energy. In Seoul, we met with executives of Samsung SDI, including President and CEO Yoonho Choi, and Stellantis to celebrate their transformational, $2.5 billion EV battery plant being built in Kokomo. While in South Korea, we also met with prospective companies and shared the many advantages of doing business in Indiana such as customer-centered growth and innovations. And, at the American Chamber of Commerce’s Korea Digital Innovation Forum, we were able to highlight Indiana’s technology ecosystem to the country’s tech industry heavyweights.
Indiana’s economic momentum and our ability to deliver on these key partnerships is a testament to our businesses, our industry partners, and our academic institutions. That collaboration was underscored by the presence of our travel companions, Purdue University President-elect Mung Chiang and Dean of College of Engineering Mark Lundstrum, who serve as an example of the partnerships we have in research and development, private sector and academia. They too are focused on furthering our global partnerships, and I’m pleased to report that Purdue signed three new agreements in Taiwan focused on encouraging international cooperation in education, research, and industry partnerships and building a robust talent pipeline.
Indiana’s story is one I couldn’t be more proud to tell in Taiwan and South Korea, because we have such a compelling story to share. The partnerships strengthened and built during this past week will lead to more chapters in that Hoosier success story and more opportunities for our state to lead innovation nationally and globally in the months and years ahead. | https://www.jconline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2022/09/01/holcomb-building-economy-of-future-with-strong-friends-valued-global-partners/65466159007/ | 2022-09-01T13:23:28Z | https://www.jconline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2022/09/01/holcomb-building-economy-of-future-with-strong-friends-valued-global-partners/65466159007/ | false | 2 |
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s top politician said Thursday that the government will seek equivalent of $1.3 trillion in reparations from Germany for the Nazis’ World War II invasion and occupation of his country.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the Law and Justice party, announced the huge claim at the release of a long-awaited report on the cost to the country of years of Nazi German occupation as it marks 83 years since the start of World War II.
“We not only prepared the report but we have also taken the decision as to the further steps,” Kaczynski said during the report’s presentation.
“We will turn to Germany to open negotiations on the reparations,” Kaczynski said, adding it will be a “long and not an easy path” but “one day will bring success.”
Poland’s right-wing government argues that the country which was the war’s first victim has not been fully compensated by neighboring Germany, which is now one of its major partners within the European Union.
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Germany argues compensation was paid to East Bloc nations in the years after the war while territories that Poland lost in the East as borders were redrawn were compensated with some of Germany’s pre-war lands. Berlin calls the matter closed.
Top leaders including Kaczynski, who is Poland’s chief policy maker, and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attended the ceremonial release of the report at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, rebuilt from wartime ruins.
The release of the report was the focus of national observances of the anniversary of the war that began Sep. 1, 1939, with Nazi Germany’s bombing and invasion of Poland and was followed by more than five years of brutal occupation.
A team of some 30 economists, historians and other experts worked on the report since 2017. The issue has created bilateral tensions.
The war was “one of the most terrible tragedies in our history,” President Andrzej Duda said during early morning observances at the Westerplatte peninsula near Gdansk, one of the first places to be attacked in the Nazi invasion.
“Not only because it took our freedom, not only because it took our state from us, but also because this war meant millions of victims among Poland’s citizens and irreparable losses to our homeland and our nation,” Duda said.
In Germany, the government’s official for German-Polish cooperation, Dietmar Nietan, said in a statement that Sept. 1 “remains a day of guilt and shame for Germany that reminds us time and again not to forget the crimes carried out by Germany” that are the “darkest chapter in our history” and still affect bilateral relations.
Reconciliation offered by people in Poland is “the basis on which we can look toward the future together in a united Europe,” Nietan said.
Poland’s government rejects a 1953 declaration by the country’s then-communist leaders, under pressure from the Soviet Union, agreeing not to make any further claims on Germany.
An opposition lawmaker, Grzegorz Schetyna, says the report is just a “game in the internal politics” and insists Poland needs to build good relations with Berlin.
Some 6 million of Poland’s citizens, including 3 million Jews, were killed in the war and its industry, infrastructure and culture suffered huge losses.
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Abu Dhabi: The UAE on Thursday confirmed the detection of 481 new cases of COVID-19 and no deaths, bringing the total number of infections to 1,015,879 and keeping the fatality tally at 2,341.
In its latest update, the Ministry of Health and Prevention announced that 540 infected patients have fully recovered, taking the overall recoveries to 994,898
The newly detected infections were identified after 260,132 PCR tests were conducted across the country as part of the ministry’s plan to expand the scope of screenings.
The ministry wished patients speedy recovery and urged community members to cooperate with health authorities and adhere to precautionary measures to ensure everyone’s safety and health. | https://gulfnews.com/uae/health/uae-reports-481-new-covid-19-cases-0-deaths-and-540-recoveries-1.1662021760038 | 2022-09-01T13:25:43Z | https://gulfnews.com/uae/health/uae-reports-481-new-covid-19-cases-0-deaths-and-540-recoveries-1.1662021760038 | false | null |
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WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre recently received a message of support from Scott Arfield of Rangers Football Club.
Based in the city of Glasgow, Rangers are one of the biggest teams in Scotland and also a historic European Football club. Growing up just south of the city, Drew has been a diehard fan of the team his entire life.
Ahead of his undisputed title match this Saturday, the former WWE Champion got some words of encouragement from Rangers player Scott Arfield whilst speaking to WWE UK.
"Drew, how you doing? Scott Arfield here. We heard you got a big fight coming up for the Championship, we've got a big game Saturday, you've got a big night ahead of you, we're all in this together my man. Come on!!" (From 0:01 to 0:13)
Drew McIntyre reacted to Scott Arfield's message with a blue heart emoji.
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The Scottish Warrior will be wrestling on British soil this Saturday as he faces off against Roman Reigns in the main event at Clash In The Castle in Cardiff, Wales.
Drew McIntyre on his and Rangers' successes
In recent years, both the WWE star and his football club have achieved huge accolades, from Rangers winning their first league championship in 10 years, to McIntyre winning the WWE Championship.
During a recent interview with Sky Football, Drew McIntyre spoke of the parallels between him and the famous football team.
"It’s interesting to watch my career and Rangers you know parallel each other. You know I get fired from WWE those who know my story, Rangers get relegated to the bottom league, every year I fought up, they fought up. Eventually, I became WWE Champion, Rangers won the title, stopped Celtic (Rangers' rival team). So things are good for Drew, things are good for Rangers, it's a good time all around." (H/T Sportskeeda)
As well as Drew McIntyre's huge title match this Saturday, Rangers also have their biggest game of the new season as they face off against their biggest domestic rivals, Celtic, in a game known as 'The Old Firm Derby'.
Who do you see leaving Clash At The Castle as the Undisputed Champion this Saturday? Give us your predictions in the comments section below.
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Star Indian batter Virat Kohli on Wednesday became the player with the highest average in the T20I format of cricket. He accomplished this feat during his side's Group A tie against Hong Kong in Dubai during the ongoing Asia Cup 2022.
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In this match, Virat Kohli showed glimpses of his old self and hit 59* off 44 balls, consisting of one four and three sixes. Now in 101 matches, Virat has scored 3,402 runs in T20Is at an average of 50.77. He has 31 half-centuries in the format, with the best individual score of 94*. He has a strike rate of 137.12.
He has overtaken Pakistani batter Mohammed Rizwan, who has an average of 50.14 in 57 matches. They are followed by Devon Conway of New Zealand (average of 47.20 in 23 matches), star Pakistan batter Babar Azam (average of 44.93 in 75 matches) and Indian batter Manish Pandey (average of 44.31 in 39 matches).
Coming to the match, put to bat first by Hong Kong, Team India posted 192/2 in their 20 overs. Virat Kohli showcased glimpses of his old self and hit 59* off 44 balls, decorated with four and three massive sixes.
Then in the final few overs, Suryakumar Yadav exploded, smashing a brilliant 68* off 26 balls with six fours and six sixes. Pacer Ayush Shukla (1/29 in four overs) was Hong Kong`s bowlers` pick. Chasing 193, Hong Kong had posted 51/2 in their powerplay.
Babar Hayat (41 off 35 balls) and Kinchit Shah (30 off 28 balls) played some solid knocks. But it was not enough to help Hong Kong shock the mighty Indians as they fell 40 runs short of a win. They finished off their innings at 152/5 in their 20 overs.
India earned direct qualification to the Super Four Phase of the tournament. Ravindra Jadeja (1/15 in four overs) was the pick of the bowlers for India. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh and Avesh Khan also took a wicket each. Suryakumar Yadav was adjudged as 'Man of the Match' for his brilliant knock. | https://www.dnaindia.com/cricket/report-asia-cup-2022-virat-kohli-overtakes-mohammad-rizwan-to-become-batter-with-highest-average-in-t20i-cricket-2981548 | 2022-09-01T13:34:36Z | https://www.dnaindia.com/cricket/report-asia-cup-2022-virat-kohli-overtakes-mohammad-rizwan-to-become-batter-with-highest-average-in-t20i-cricket-2981548 | false | 2 |
Regency Centers (NASDAQ:REG – Get Rating) issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $3.92-$3.96 for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of -.
Wall Street Analyst Weigh In
REG has been the subject of a number of research reports. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft cut their target price on shares of Regency Centers from $83.00 to $72.00 in a research report on Monday, July 11th. Credit Suisse Group started coverage on Regency Centers in a report on Wednesday, June 22nd. They issued a neutral rating and a $56.00 price target for the company. Evercore ISI boosted their price objective on Regency Centers to $72.00 in a research note on Monday, August 15th. Morgan Stanley raised their target price on Regency Centers from $57.50 to $62.00 and gave the stock an equal weight rating in a research note on Monday. Finally, Compass Point decreased their price target on Regency Centers from $75.00 to $67.00 and set a neutral rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, June 22nd. Six analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have issued a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of Hold and a consensus price target of $69.91.
Regency Centers Stock Performance
Regency Centers stock opened at $60.84 on Thursday. Regency Centers has a fifty-two week low of $55.78 and a fifty-two week high of $78.78. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.60, a quick ratio of 0.87 and a current ratio of 0.87. The stock has a market cap of $10.49 billion, a P/E ratio of 21.50, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.41 and a beta of 1.10. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $63.64 and its 200-day moving average price is $62.79.
Regency Centers Dividend Announcement
Institutional Trading of Regency Centers
A number of hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of REG. Captrust Financial Advisors bought a new position in Regency Centers during the second quarter valued at approximately $151,000. Brinker Capital Investments LLC boosted its stake in shares of Regency Centers by 5.3% in the 1st quarter. Brinker Capital Investments LLC now owns 3,215 shares of the company’s stock valued at $229,000 after purchasing an additional 161 shares in the last quarter. Private Advisor Group LLC bought a new position in shares of Regency Centers during the 1st quarter valued at $243,000. Verition Fund Management LLC purchased a new position in Regency Centers in the 2nd quarter worth $245,000. Finally, Prudential PLC bought a new stake in Regency Centers in the first quarter worth $273,000. Institutional investors own 90.32% of the company’s stock.
Regency Centers Company Profile
Regency Centers is the preeminent national owner, operator, and developer of shopping centers located in affluent and densely populated trade areas. Our portfolio includes thriving properties merchandised with highly productive grocers, restaurants, service providers, and best-in-class retailers that connect to their neighborhoods, communities, and customers.
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Industrial and Commercial Display Solutions Provider Adds Education Focused Digital Signage Software Provider To Broaden Service Offerings
HSINCHU, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AUO Display Plus (ADP), a wholly-owned industrial and commercial display subsidiary of Taiwan's AUO Corporation (TWSE: 2409), has acquired the long-running cloud-based digital signage software company Rise Vision (www.risevision.com), strengthening ADP's growing portfolio of partners and enabling them to help organizations communicate better using digital signage solutions.
As a leading provider of industrial and commercial displays, ADP expects to bolster its range of smart display solutions with value-added software capabilities and provide customers with more choices and flexibility while extending Rise Vision's SaaS (Software as Service) business reach to more applications and areas like retail, enterprise and hospitality.
"Rise Vision partners with ADP to provide digital signage solutions that help organizations communicate better," said Brian Loosbrock, CEO of Rise Vision. "With easy to use software, compatibility with a wide range of hardware, and 500+ professionally designed templates, organizations can be up and running in minutes."
The acquisition of Rise Vision provides ADP with deeper expertise in the education market and subscription-based SaaS services, tapping into Rise Vision's expertise to enable a new service for ADP's worldwide customer base.
"The acquisition of Rise Vision is an important milestone for ADP," said SH Liao, President of ADP. "The demand for SaaS applications is growing rapidly, and the integration of software and hardware will become a major competitive factor. Rise Vision's business model can help our customers succeed in their respective vertical markets.
"The partnership will provide us with an opportunity to expand the depth of solutions we can provide in the future," said Loosbrook. "Rise Vision will continue to provide easy to use software, new templates added each week to save customers hours of content creation time, amazing customer service, and simple, affordable pricing. We're excited to start this new chapter in our long history with ADP."
About AUO Display Plus
AUO Display Plus is AUO's industrial and commercial display subsidiary and offers a complete end-to-end display service, from R&D to sales and customer service. AUO Display Plus integrates its leading display technologies with value-added software solutions for retail, enterprise, education, transportation, and healthcare. AUO Display Plus collaborates with partners in different domains to co-create complete solutions and one stop services that help businesses accelerate their smart transformations and create greater value. Headquartered in the Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan, AUO Display Plus operates global offices in Mainland China, Japan, the United States, and Europe.
About Rise Vision
Rise Vision is used in 100+ countries, by organizations of all sizes, highly rated, and deeply dedicated since 1992 to making it easy for organizations to communicate better using digital signage. With easy to use software, compatibility with a wide range of hardware, and 500+ professionally designed templates organizations can be up and running in minutes. Rise Vision adds new templates each week saving organizations hours of content creation time allowing them to focus on the message they're communicating. Rise Vision is based in Ontario, Canada with affiliates in the U.S.
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This writing finds me on a hunt for my dog Waylon. He disappeared after I let him out early Sunday morning and hasn’t been seen since.
Neighbors and friends are keeping watch for him, posting his picture on Facebook, and my cousin has been out on his four-wheeler searching as well. It goes without saying that I’m deeply grateful for everyone’s help.
I adopted Waylon from the Caring Hands Humane Society in Newton, Kansas last May, and he is still wearing his shelter tags. He’s been microchipped, but thus far I’ve not been successful in making contact with the agency where he’s registered. I plan to double down on my efforts again today.
It sure is quiet around the farm without Waylon, and his nemesis, my little cat Lily, is lost without him. A few evenings ago he attempted to take on our bull after it had gotten out. After hearing him furiously barking, I looked out the window and saw him trying – without success – to scare away this behemoth of an animal.
I’d had the door to the storm cave open, airing it out, and I quickly ran outside and shut it, just in case the bull took a mind to chase Waylon through the yard. I didn’t want either one falling down the cave, although in hindsight, I doubt the door would have supported the bull’s weight anyway. To his credit, the bull stayed relatively unruffled, and after a few annoyed head tosses in Waylon’s direction, the over-excited canine was finally convinced that he should come into the house.
A subsequent text to my cousin brought him in a hurry on his four-wheeler. It was just light enough to be able to see the bull run through the yard, narrowly missing the clothesline full of clothes, and back to the pen where he belonged. Our evening’s entertainment, free of charge! Technology really is great for life’s little emergencies, especially when living on the farm. While we sometimes long for “the good old days,” most of us probably would want to take our four-wheelers and phones with us if we could step back in time!
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The whole incident brought to mind a little black cat I had a few years ago. She was chock full of personality, her eyes fairly gleaming with naughtiness. As a half-grown kitten, she liked to get in the feedlot and raise cain with the cattle.
She’d run in and amongst them, right at their feet. A couple of times she had the entire herd kicking up both dust and hooves, running wildly about the lot. I never ratted her out to my cousins, but I think she did wise up with age. She also was fascinated with vehicles – the bigger the better – and liked to play “chicken,” running right across the path of a moving vehicle at the very last second.
She, too, disappeared, much to my regret, but I always think her lack of fear probably brought about her demise. She was a rescue cat that greatly added to my life in the four years that I had her.
With the exception of cucumbers, garden produce is not quite as abundant as in years past, due to the drought. Nonetheless, friends and neighbors are kind to share what they have.
Area gardeners say their tomatoes are slow in coming on this year. I’m thankful I froze a lot of tomatoes last year, and am still dipping into those, along with a beef we butchered two years ago. Back when I was working cattle with my dad, nothing tasted so good as a steak dinner after spending a few hours with some cantankerous cows!
Aside from our animal antics, things are much the same here in south-central Nebraska: very dry conditions and some wonderfully mild temps interspersed with a few hot days. Although irrigation is wrapping up, pivots in the area continue running.
Ours works well – watering crops and giving free car washes to passersby – after we replaced the end gun. Gravity irrigation continued this past week also. In the evenings I like to walk to the edge of the field and hear the sound of water gurgling through the rows.
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Integration between EHR and virtual care platform has positive impact on care team and patient experiences at Institute for Population Health
PETALUMA, Calif., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carium, a leading virtual care platform, announced it launched an integration with an electronic health record (EHR) at the Institute for Population Health (IPH) in less than four weeks in partnership with Smartlink Health Solutions.
IPH is an HRSA Designated Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Detroit, MI with a mission to advance positive health outcomes in populations and communities. Prior to this integration, the team at IPH was manually alerting clinicians of patients with abnormal vital readings captured through remote monitoring.
By integrating the virtual care platform with their EHR, they streamline workflows, and positively impact the care team and patient experiences by:
- Creating a more complete patient record. Incorporating data from within a patient's daily life, such as blood pressure or weight, creates a more complete record of patients' health and medical history.
- Enabling clinicians to better diagnose. With the right data at the right time, the IPH care team can better monitor, assess, alert, intervene, educate, coach and communicate with patients.
- Eliminate clinic RPM enrollment burden. Physicians at IPH click-to-order virtual services like RPM directly through their EHR, seamlessly enrolling patients to Carium.
- Reduce administrative burden. The discrete data automatically flows to their EHR, enabling the IPH team to easily run required quality reports.
"The integration between Carium and our EHR allows us to be there for our patients every day," said Chief Operation Officer at Institute for Population Health, Anthony Harris M.S.W.. "Our patients know we care and are keeping an eye on them, and it's also a great tool for accountability."
Integrations in healthcare can be excruciatingly difficult, but through our partnership with Smartlink Health Solutions, this cloud-based integration required minimal effort on the part of IPH's team and was complete in less than four weeks.
"The integration process was easy, straightforward, and the project team was very responsive," said Chief Information Officer Technology Services at Institute for Population Health, Mark Lynn. "By incorporating the timely data from patients' daily life into our clinicians' workflows, they're able to communicate more efficiently, and make recommendations or adjustments in real-time when necessary."
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Morven Christie will make a return to ITV in new Jed Mercurio thriller Payback, after her 'sudden' exit from The Bay left viewers confused.
Acclaimed actress Morven played lead character DS Lisa Armstrong in The Bay, which was an instant hit with millions of viewers, so it came as a big shock when she was replaced by Marsha Thomason for the third series, despite there still being loads of unanswered questions about Lisa.
Morven confirmed she'd left The Bay on Instagram back in spring 2021, Bye Lisa. You were a gift. Thank you Daragh Carville, thank you beloved @leehavenjones for bringing me in, and biggest love EVER to the crew the crew the crew who had my back and have my heart."
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Fans were left wondering why Morven left The Bay, with Lisa's departure referenced in just one line when her ex colleague DS Karen Hobson told newcomer Jenna that Lisa's "kids had grown up," and she'd "moved on."
Well now , ITV viewers will get to see Morven in another leading role, this time as Lexie Noble, a woman who becomes embroiled in perilous police operation to topple a notorious crime lord, after her husband launders the criminal's illegal earnings on a vast scale.
Expectations are already high for Paycheck, which will be filmed in Edinburgh and Glasgow, given that it crimes from Jed Mercurio’s HTM Television, Jed being the man who has given us the likes of Lie of Duty, Bodyguard, Vigil and Trigger Point.
An ITV teaser for what to expect reads: "With an idyllic family lifestyle in the suburbs of Edinburgh, Lexie is unaware her husband, Jared, has been laundering Cal Morris’ illegal earnings on a vast scale. Jared’s every move is being monitored by financial investigators DC Jibran Khan and DCI Adam Guthrie, who are determined to use the Noble family to bring Cal Morris to justice.
"A partner in Jared’s business, Lexie is forced into working for Cal, at the same time as the police net inexorably tightens. Soon Lexie finds herself walking a treacherous tightrope between Cal and the police in which her safety, and even her life, are in grave danger."
Discussing her new on screen alias, Morven said: "I fell in love with Lexie from the first page, and I’m absolutely delighted to be working with Peter and this wonderful team in my hometown.”
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so they raised prices only to put the original price back in, at ad supported? Wow, that’s pretty blatant greed right there.
A New Ad-Based Tier Won’t Fix What Ails Netflix
from the must...drive...quarterly-growth dept
As a publicly traded company, it’s simply not good enough to provide an affordable service that people genuinely like. The pressure to deliver quarter over quarter growth often takes on a tendency toward auto-cannibalism; price hikes, customer support cuts, dumb ideas justified through greed, all designed to goose growth, but often at the cost of brand reputation and service quality.
That’s the metamorphosis currently underway at Netflix. After years of explosive growth, the company lost nearly a million subscribers between April and July. In part due to new competition in streaming, but also because Netflix executives are stuck in this auto-cannibalism loop; sacrificing what’s popular about the service (affordability, no ads, few weird restrictions, decent content) to feed Wall Street’s insatiable maw.
After years of affordable rates and no ads, Netflix has been raising prices. On the flip side, they will soon provide users with an ad-based tier. It’s estimated to be around $7 to $9, and will feature around four minutes of advertising each hour, a metric that will inevitably sneak skyward as Wall Street demands it:
Sources told Bloomberg that this ad-supported tier will feature four minutes of commercials per hour (I can’t wait for eight minutes of commercials during the next Stranger Things finale). Also, the company is expected to run ads before and during programs, but not after. A timeline for the rollout is unclear, but Bloomberg says that the tier will first be released in “at least a half dozen” markets in the last three months of 2022 with a larger release in 2023.
An ad based tier might goose subscription numbers on the short term, but it’s not going to cure what’s causing broader defections. Customers are leaving for competitors because Netflix’s catalog quality has deteriorated, the price for the service has gone up, and the company’s increasingly looking to nickel-and-dime its subscribers in a way that’s reminiscent of traditional cable.
It’s most apparent with the company’s dumb crackdown on password sharing. For years, Netflix made it very clear that password sharing wasn’t just good, free advertising, but something it encouraged:
But now that it’s struggling to meet Wall Street’s insatiable appetite, the company has started framing password sharing as some kind of massive drain on the company, and will soon nickel-and-dime users with extra fees if they share the password outside of the house.
But Netflix already limits the number of concurrent streams per account, making you pay more money for a higher tier if you want to have multiple people streaming simultaneously. Between this and generic, repeated price hikes, Netflix had already more than compensated for the cost of password sharing. Which is to say the password sharing crackdown is really just a transparent effort to nickel-and-dime users.
Many still think Netflix is a value (the standard tier is $10, the Basic plan is $15.50, and a Premium subscription is $20 a month). But with growth stalled and most innovation in the rear view mirror, Netflix is now on a familiar path toward both nickel-and-dimey turf protection, and forgetting the traits that made the service so popular in the first place.
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KUAISHOU ANNOUNCES NEW LICENSING DEAL WITH WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kuaishou and Warner Chappell Music (WCM) have entered into a dynamic new licensing agreement to make WCM's music available on Kuaishou products in priority markets around the world.
Kuaishou recently hit more than 180 million monthly active users (MAU) outside of China, with both Kwai in Latin America and MENA and SnackVideo in South and Southeast Asia becoming some of the most popular apps in these regions. Under the deal, Warner Chappell's music will be available for use on these platforms, offering exciting new content to Kuaishou's userbase.
Warner Chappell Music Senior Vice President of Global Digital, Natalie Madaj, said: "As the digital ecosystem continues to evolve in exciting new ways, social-sharing apps like Kuaishou are changing how people experience and discover music around the world. We're very proud to be partnering with the team to bring our catalog of songs to Kuaishou's engaged userbase and talented music creators."
Kuaishou Head of Overseas Partnership and Communications, Calvin Liu, shared: "We're always looking to partner with innovative music companies and this deal with Warner Chappell will give our millions of users access to new music to express themselves across our Kuaishou platforms."
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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin appeared to walk awkwardly as he laid flowers at the open casket of ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, sparking fresh health concerns.
The first and last president of the USSR, Gorbachev died in Moscow at the age of 91 on Tuesday.
Today, Putin made a rare public appearance as he laid flowers in front of the Soviet leader's open coffin.
In footage played on state TV, the president can be seen laying a bouquet of red carnations at Gorbachev's coffin, next to a large black-and-white portrait of the former communist dictator.
He walks jerkily with his left arm swinging and his right 'gunslinger' arm tightly clutching the flowers.
His shoes squeak loudly as he approaches. In front of the casket, he pauses for several seconds while reporters' camera flashbulbs sound in the background.
He looks into the casket, then at the portrait, and then back to the casket.
The Kremlin chief, 69, bows several times while making the sign of the cross.
His strange appearance sparked a number of comments on social media, with one person joking: "The guy in the box looks healthier than the standing stiff."
Others pointed out that the video appeared to have been filmed in a bunker, with no one close to the Russian president.
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"Bit worried about being in a crowded room then," one person wrote.
Putin has been increasingly isolated in recent years since the start of the Covid pandemic, with many commentators remarking on how his closed-off Kremlin is to blame for his insane decision to invade Ukraine.
His office announced today that the Russian president will not attend Gorbachev's funeral, citing that he is "too busy".
It follows reports Putin is set to deny Gorbachev a state funeral, in what many see as a snub to the elder statesman.
In comparison, when Putin's predecessor Boris Yeltsin died in 2007, Putin granted him a nationally televised funeral and declared a day of national mourning.
This should come as little surprise given Putin's coldness towards Gorbachev, whom he blamed for the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the loss of Russia's former territories.
Putin even claimed in a 2005 speech that the collapse of the USSR was the "major geopolitical disaster of the century".
We've all been orphaned. Just not everyone has realised it
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Vlad's spokesman Dmitry Peskov today announced that the service would have some "state elements" such as a guard of honour, but seemed to again rule out a state funeral.
He added that Putin would be flying to Kaliningrad, a Russian territory bordering Poland and Lithuania, later on Thursday.
For his part, Gorbachev had slammed the actions of Putin in his later years, reportedly telling a friend in recent months that his life's work had been undone by Russia's leader.
Prominent Kremlin critic and journalist Alexei Venidiktov told Forbes Russia that all of Gorbachev's reforms have been turned "to zero, to ashes, to smoke," by the recent war in Ukraine.
Veneditkov, whose radio station was shut down by Russian authorities in March, shared a picture of himself with Gorbachev on Twitter with the caption: "We've all been orphaned. Just not everyone has realised it."
Tributes poured in for peacemaker Gorbachev following the news of his death at a Moscow hospital earlier this week.
But Putin's office shared only the briefest of messages, simply expressing "deepest condolences" at the news of his death.
Hailed in the West for his role in ending the Cold War and the nuclear arms race, as well as opening up his country, he was hated by many Russians for bringing about the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the ensuing economic chaos of the 1990s.
Some Ukrainians have also hit out at his canonisation by the West, bringing up his support for Putin's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
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‘We’re not as bad as it seems’: Carlos Sainz insists Ferrari can close the gap to Red Bull ahead of Dutch GP
Ferrari could not compete with Red Bull’s pace at Spa-Francorchamps but Sainz is hopeful that gap was a one-off
Carlos Sainz believes Ferrari can close the gap to Red Bull this weekend at Zandvoort after Max Verstappen stole the show with his victory in Belgium last weekend.
Even though Red Bull star Verstappen started the race in 14th, by lap 12 he was in first and in the end won by 18 seconds to team-mate Sergio Perez, with the RB18 a class above all the other cars on the grid.
Championship leader Verstappen also showed superior qualifying speed at Spa-Francorchamps by a margin of eight-tenths of a second to Sainz’s Ferrari.
Yet Sainz - who finished third last week despite starting on pole - is hopeful that was a one-off and this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix will show a return to the tight battles of the first half of the season between Ferrari and Red Bull.
“It’s a new weekend, going back to where we were before the summer break - I don’t think we are as bad as it seems,” he said in the FIA press conference.
“I’m pretty sure we can be back on form this weekend and fight for pole and the win. We’re learning a lot race by race. The team has produced a very strong car which was our main target, to get back to the top and fighting to the top of the grid. We’ve achieved that.
“Racing at the front there’s things we can improve but I see a very solid atmosphere in the team. Hopefully next year we can fight for more race wins and Championships.”
Sainz also praised Red Bull’s RB18 car - with Lewis Hamilton among those heaping praise on chief designer Adrian Newey - but refused to entertain the idea that the seismic gap at Spa will be repeated in the remaining eight races of the season.
“They’ve been raising the bar race-by-race but it didn’t seem too far away when we out-raced them in Austria,” the Spaniard noted.
“I don’t believe they’ve improved so much as they did in Spa. I do think we can do things better, we can learn something from such a difficult weekend.
“We’ve done 14 races this year, all of them we’ve been within a tenth and then there’s one which has been eight-tenths. Maybe I’m being too optimistic that it won’t happen again...”
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State Street (NYSE:STT) Is Paying Out A Larger Dividend Than Last Year
State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT) will increase its dividend from last year's comparable payment on the 13th of October to $0.63. This takes the dividend yield to 3.7%, which shareholders will be pleased with.
State Street's Payment Expected To Have Solid Earnings Coverage
If the payments aren't sustainable, a high yield for a few years won't matter that much.
State Street has a long history of paying out dividends, with its current track record at a minimum of 10 years. Taking data from its last earnings report, calculating for the company's payout ratio shows 31%, which means that State Street would be able to pay its last dividend without pressure on the balance sheet.
Looking forward, EPS is forecast to rise by 32.2% over the next 3 years. The future payout ratio could be 31% over that time period, according to analyst estimates, which is a good look for the future of the dividend.
State Street Has A Solid Track Record
The company has a sustained record of paying dividends with very little fluctuation. The annual payment during the last 10 years was $0.72 in 2012, and the most recent fiscal year payment was $2.52. This means that it has been growing its distributions at 13% per annum over that time. Rapidly growing dividends for a long time is a very valuable feature for an income stock.
We Could See State Street's Dividend Growing
Investors who have held shares in the company for the past few years will be happy with the dividend income they have received. It's encouraging to see that State Street has been growing its earnings per share at 5.6% a year over the past five years. State Street definitely has the potential to grow its dividend in the future with earnings on an uptrend and a low payout ratio.
We Really Like State Street's Dividend
In summary, it is always positive to see the dividend being increased, and we are particularly pleased with its overall sustainability. Distributions are quite easily covered by earnings, which are also being converted to cash flows. All in all, this checks a lot of the boxes we look for when choosing an income stock.
Investors generally tend to favour companies with a consistent, stable dividend policy as opposed to those operating an irregular one. However, there are other things to consider for investors when analysing stock performance. Taking the debate a bit further, we've identified 1 warning sign for State Street that investors need to be conscious of moving forward. Is State Street not quite the opportunity you were looking for? Why not check out our selection of top dividend stocks.
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In 2005 Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James got unlucky after the team signed Larry Hughes as his second option for $70 million.
LeBron James, the kid from Akron, was the hope of Cleveland. He was the messiah expected to lead the franchise to its first championship.
With that hope, the team picked him as the first overall draft pick in 2003. Bron went on to win the Rookie of the Year. Effectively proving to Cleveland fans and management his worth.
In his Sophomore season, James averaged 42.4 minutes and registered 27.2 points, 7.2 assists, and 7.4 rebounds. He shot 47.2% from the field while attempting 21.1 shots per game.
To put things into perspective, Steve Nash, the regular season MVP in 04-05, averaged 50.2% field goals on 11.4 attempts.
Yet, LeBron’s exceptional performance was not enough to help Cavs qualify for the playoffs. Seeing their crown prince struggle, the management decided to bring in a number 2 who could help Bron carry the team.
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Cleveland Cavaliers’ newest GM Danny Ferry signed the Wizards’ shooting guard to ease LeBron James’ workload
In 2005, Danny Ferry replaced Jim Paxson as Cleveland’s GM. His first decision as the general manager was to sign Larry Hughes.
A 6’5″ shooting guard, Hughes averaged 22 points, 4.7 assists, and 6.3 rebounds per game in 2004-05. He wasn’t just the second-best scorer on the Washington squad, trailing Gilbert Arenas by 0.5 points per game. But he also led the entire league in steals per game.
It was only natural for the Cavs management to consider such a prospect who was both offensively and defensively sound. Though they were pursuing Ray Allen as well, they ended up settling with Hughes.
His contract was estimated at $70 million over 5 years. The Wizards offered him a counteroffer of $70 million over 6 years but it wasn’t enough to keep Larry loyal to Washington.
Larry Hughes ended up being one of the worst signings in Cavaliers history
To be fair to Danny Ferry and Larry Hughes, Cavs did make the playoffs in 05-06. However, Hughes’ contribution to LeBron’s first career playoffs appearance was, to put simply, not enough.
He appeared in only 36 games in his first season with James and averaged 15.5 points. Apart from his contribution on the scoring end, Larry was a liability on defense.
He was poor at defending the perimeter and was easily dominated in the paint. Even his steals average had fallen to 1.5 per game. The steal champ of 2004-05 wasn’t even the best in his team anymore.
Larry’s career never was the same after his move to Cleveland. One of Washington’s big three, his steady decline that started in 2005-06 continued until the 2011-12 season, after which he quietly retired.
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Reading scores saw their largest decrease in 30 years, while math scores had their first decrease in the history of the testing regimen behind the study, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, a branch of the U.S. Education Department.
The declines hit all regions of the country and affected students of most races. But students of color saw some of the steepest decreases, widening the racial achievement gap.
Much of the nation’s standardized testing didn’t happen during the early days of the pandemic, so the findings released Thursday gave an early look at the impact of pandemic learning disruptions. Broader data is expected to be released later this year as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation’s Report Card.
“These are some of the largest declines we have observed in a single assessment cycle in 50 years of the NAEP program,” said Daniel McGrath, the acting associate commissioner of NCES. “Students in 2022 are performing at a level last seen two decades ago.”
The study reflects two years of upheaval in American education as schools shut down for months at a time amid COVID-19 outbreaks. Many students spent a year or more learning from home, and virus outbreaks among staff and students continued the disruption even after kids returned to the classroom.
In math, the average score for 9-year-old students fell 7 percentage points between 2020 and 2022, according to the study. The average reading score fell 5 points.
The pandemic’s upheaval especially hurt students of color. Math scores dropped by 5 percentage points for white students, compared with 13 points for Black students and 8 points for Hispanic students. The divide between Black and white students widened by 8 percentage points during the pandemic.
Decreases were more uniform in reading: Scores dropped 6 points for white, Black and Hispanic students.
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A man accused of attempting to kill a woman by pulling her onto the tracks while 'seriously drunk' at King's Cross Underground Station has been remanded in custody.
Arthur Hawrylewicz, 41, is alleged to have tried to kill Maria Osifeso in the horrific incident that took place on the Hammersmith and City Line on Bank Holiday Monday.
Hawrylewicz, from Cardiff, is said to have injured himself in the process too after being hit by a train in the aftermath of allegedly dragging the woman onto the tracks.
British Transport Police (BTP) said officers (reportedly pictured attending the incident) were called to the Hammersmith and City Line at 1.26pm on Monday afternoon, following reports of a 'serious incident'
Prosecutors claimed that the defendant was 'seriously drunk' and showed 'suicidal intentions' while the offence was being committed.
Appearing in court from HMP Wandsworth, wearing a grey tracksuit and top, he spoke only to confirm his name, address and date of birth.
Prosecutor Mr Robert Simpson told the court: 'The offence was committed whilst the defendant was seriously drunk and had suicidal intentions, hence his risk of committing further offences.
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British Transport Police (BTP) said officers were called to the Hammersmith and City Line at 1.26pm on Monday, following reports of a 'serious incident'
British Transport Police confirmed that officers were called to the Hammersmith and City Line at 1.26pm on Monday 29 August, following reports of a 'serious incident'. Above: Officers are reportedly pictured attending the incident on Monday
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ABDU ROZIK took social media by storm last year following a string of viral videos.
The Tajikistani became a global phenom in 2021 following a public feud with TikTok sensation Hasbulla Magomedov.
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Who is Abdu Rozik and why is he famous?
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Poland demands USD 1.3 trillion war reparations from Germany
Poland's top politician said on Thursday that the government will seek equivalent of some USD 1.3 trillion in reparations from Germany for the Nazis' World War II invasion and occupation of his country.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the Law and Justice party, announced the huge claim at the release of a long-awaited report on the cost to the country of years of Nazi German occupation as it marks 83 years since the start of World War II.
“We not only prepared the report but we have also taken the decision as to the further steps,” Kaczynski said during the report's presentation.
“We will turn to Germany to open negotiations on the reparations,” Kaczynski said, adding it will be a “long and not an easy path” but “one day will bring success”.
He insisted the move would serve “true Polish-German reconciliation” that would be based on “truth''.
He claimed the German economy is capable of paying the bill.
Germany argues compensation was paid to East Bloc nations in the years after the war while territories that Poland lost in the East as borders were redrawn were compensated with some of Germany's pre-war lands. Berlin calls the matter closed.
Poland's right-wing government argues that the country which was the war's first victim has not been fully compensated by neighbouring Germany, which is now one of its major partners within the European Union.
''Germany has never really accounted for its crimes against Poland,“ Kaczynski said, claiming that many Germans who committed war crimes lived in impunity in Germany after the war.
Top leaders including Kaczynski, who is Poland's chief policy maker, and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attended the ceremonial release of the report at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, rebuilt from wartime ruins.
The release of the three-volume report was the focus of national observances of the anniversary of the war that began September 1, 1939, with Nazi Germany's bombing and invasion of Poland that was followed by more than five years of brutal occupation.
The head of the report team, lawmaker Arkadiusz Mularczyk, said it was impossible to place a financial value on the loss of some 5.2 million lives he blamed on the German occupation.
He listed losses to the infrastructure, industry, farming, culture, deportations to Germany for forced labour and efforts to turn Polish children into Germans.
A team of more than 30 economists, historians and other experts worked on the report since 2017. The issue has created bilateral tensions.
The war was “one of the most terrible tragedies in our history,” President Andrzej Duda said during early morning observances at the Westerplatte peninsula near Gdansk, one of the first places to be attacked in the Nazi invasion.
“Not only because it took our freedom, not only because it took our state from us, but also because this war meant millions of victims among Poland's citizens and irreparable losses to our homeland and our nation,” Duda said.
In Germany, the government's official for German-Polish cooperation, Dietmar Nietan, said in a statement that September 1 “remains a day of guilt and shame for Germany that reminds us time and again not to forget the crimes carried out by Germany” that are the “darkest chapter in our history” and still affect bilateral relations.
Reconciliation offered by people in Poland is “the basis on which we can look toward the future together in a united Europe,” Nietan said.
Poland's government rejects a 1953 declaration by the country's then-communist leaders, under pressure from the Soviet Union, agreeing not to make any further claims on Germany.
An opposition lawmaker, Grzegorz Schetyna, says the report is just a “game in the internal politics” and insists Poland needs to build good relations with Berlin.
Some 6 million of Poland's citizens, including 3 million Jews, were killed in the war. Some of them were victims of the Soviet Red Army that invaded from the east.
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