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Delta Apparel, Inc. (NYSEAMERICAN:DLA – Get Rating) saw a large decrease in short interest in the month of August. As of August 15th, there was short interest totalling 18,400 shares, a decrease of 9.8% from the July 31st total of 20,400 shares. Approximately 0.3% of the company’s stock are short sold. Based on an average daily volume of 18,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.0 days.
Delta Apparel Price Performance
Shares of NYSEAMERICAN:DLA traded down $0.58 during trading on Thursday, hitting $18.20. 116 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 18,875. The company has a current ratio of 2.30, a quick ratio of 0.77 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.71. The firm has a market capitalization of $125.85 million, a PE ratio of 6.59 and a beta of 1.61. Delta Apparel has a 1-year low of $18.10 and a 1-year high of $33.74.
Delta Apparel (NYSEAMERICAN:DLA – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August 4th. The textile maker reported $0.88 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.19 by ($0.31). Delta Apparel had a net margin of 4.65% and a return on equity of 13.35%. Sell-side analysts predict that Delta Apparel will post 3.17 earnings per share for the current year.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
Institutional Inflows and Outflows
Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Invenire Partners LP acquired a new stake in shares of Delta Apparel during the 4th quarter worth about $2,352,000. Western Standard LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Delta Apparel by 22.5% in the 1st quarter. Western Standard LLC now owns 311,001 shares of the textile maker’s stock worth $9,013,000 after acquiring an additional 57,129 shares in the last quarter. G2 Investment Partners Management LLC grew its position in Delta Apparel by 205.4% during the 1st quarter. G2 Investment Partners Management LLC now owns 61,070 shares of the textile maker’s stock worth $1,819,000 after acquiring an additional 41,070 shares during the last quarter. Wilen Investment Management CORP. increased its holdings in Delta Apparel by 3.0% during the 2nd quarter. Wilen Investment Management CORP. now owns 390,746 shares of the textile maker’s stock valued at $10,843,000 after purchasing an additional 11,197 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP increased its holdings in Delta Apparel by 1.6% during the 1st quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 549,128 shares of the textile maker’s stock valued at $16,359,000 after purchasing an additional 8,900 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 56.96% of the company’s stock.
Delta Apparel Company Profile
Delta Apparel, Inc, through its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, sources, and markets activewear and lifestyle apparel products in the United States and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Delta Group and Salt Life Group. It offers on-demand digitally printed apparel products under the DTG2Go brand; silhouettes and fleece products; performance shirts that keep athletes dry under the Delta Dri line brand; ringspun garments; Delta Soft apparel products; and heritage, mid- and heavier-weight tee shirts under the Delta Pro Weight and Magnum Weight brand names, as well as polos, outerwear, headwear, bags, and other accessories.
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FARGO, N.D., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pedigree Technologies announces the addition of two new Tracking Tags to its OneView platform. By attaching to outdoor tools, equipment, and remote assets, these Bluetooth® tags offer customers increased visibility at a fraction of the cost of GPS devices. The tracking tags will connect and sync with truck and trailer GPS devices, Pedigree applications on handsets and tablets, Pedigree's Cab-Mate ELD, and yard-based receivers.
Businesses can only make money if they deploy their equipment and tools efficiently. Pedigree's Tracking Tags are one tool that solves the dilemma of "Where's my stuff". These tags are far less expensive than GPS trackers, so monitoring your lower-valued assets becomes affordable. Bluetooth tags are small, weatherproof, long battery-life devices that are quickly installed on most anything including tools, ladders, light equipment, bins, and iron attachments.
Using Bluetooth wireless signals, the tags repeatedly transmit messages with an asset's unique identifier. These signals are picked up and displayed on the OneView platform along with other vehicle- and asset-based GPS devices that are being monitored. The OneView platform can also display common industrial tool tags from leading manufacturers.
The Tags are purpose-built for the harsh environments found in the industries Pedigree serves: transportation, construction, oil and gas, and heavy equipment. The PT TAG 20 and PT TAG 5 each have a signal range of up to 200 meters. Both models are designed for a long-life of consistent operation with batteries that last 20 and 5 years, respectively. Installation of these small, compact devices is quick and simple.
Pedigree Technologies is challenging the telematics status quo. Traditional solutions overlook the complex operating environments of Heartland industries such as transportation, oil & gas, and heavy equipment. These enterprises require a 360-degree view into all service and supply chain assets, not just fleets. Using telematics as a foundation, we integrate and layer smart technologies to offer a more expansive view into assets, inventory, and business-critical systems. The power of Pedigree is to connect the unconnected, all through a single pane of glass.
Key solutions include ELDs, asset tracking, fleet management, maintenance, dispatching, IoT sensors, and more. Pedigree provides 24x7x365 domestic customer service and employs more than 90 professionals across the country. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Fargo, North Dakota. For more information about Pedigree Technologies visit PedigreeTechnologies.com or to learn more about Bluetooth Tags read, "Where's My Stuff?" – Listen to Your Bluetooth® Tags. For more information about this release or Pedigree Technologies, please contact Deidra Schwindt at Deidra.Schwindt@PedigreeTechnologies.com.
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A new docuseries about Armie Hammer arrives on Discovery+ Friday, promising to delve deep into the headline-making accusations leveled against the actor over the past year, in addition to his wealthy family’s dark past.
The trailer for “House of Hammer,” which dropped earlier this month, includes clips of conversations with the actor’s ex-girlfriends Courtney Vucekovich and Julia Morrison, who provide screenshots of text conversations, voice memos and photos to back up their accounts of the alleged abuse they endured. The trailer ends with the huge kicker that Hammer’s aunt, Casey Hammer, will also be featured in the docuseries, speaking out about her own family.
“On the outside, we were a perfect family, but magnify ‘Succession’ a million times and it was my family,” she says in the clip. “If you believe about making deals with the devil, the Hammers are top of the totem pole.”
The series, directed by Elli Hakami and Julian P. Hobbes, will use a trove of archival content and interviews from survivors and family members to help expose the “debauchery, deceit, abuse, addiction and corruption” within five generations of Hammer men, according to the series’ official logline.
Hammer, who has starred in blockbuster films such as “The Social Network,” “Call Me by Your Name” and most recently, Disney’s “Death on the Nile,” is the great-grandson of oil tycoon Armand Hammer. Last year, he was dropped by his agency WME after facing a slew of accusations of sexual abuse and improper behavior by numerous women.
The allegations against the actor first made headlines in early 2021 when screenshots of text messages shared on social media seemed to show Hammer’s cannibalistic fetishes. What followed was a firestorm of similar accounts from other women, including a more serious accusation of rape from a woman who came forward and is being represented by attorney Gloria Allred.
Hammer has incessantly denied all the accusations leveled against him, but the actor has been ousted from Hollywood ever since. After his career downfall, Variety recently learned that Hammer is currently living in the Cayman Islands selling timeshares.
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Vulnerable people in Birmingham are paying hundreds of pounds for a private dentist after waiting up to 18 months for NHS treatment. A report by Healthwatch on NHS dental services in Birmingham found many people were now running up hundreds of pounds worth of debt and being forced to call A&E.
Healthwatch interviewed over 700 people across Birmingham and found around 60% had been trying to get an NHS dentist for over a year. Fear of cost (53%), actual cost (61%) and difficulty getting an NHS dental appointment (74%) were the main reasons for not seeing a dentist even when they had a problem.
The report found many interviewees had now been forced to go private in order to receive treatment but were racking up huge debts. Ahead of a cost of living crisis a representative for Healthwatch said more should be done to protect the most vulnerable members of society.
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One interview respondent said: "At the moment there aren’t any NHS dental services in Birmingham at all. I am disabled taking steroids which make my teeth weak and during the pandemic I have broken two teeth.
"I am immunosuppressed and this makes it likely that I will develop an abscess under my tooth, leading to sepsis again. All dentists I have been in touch with are not willing to take me on and see me the same week as a private patient, yet say they are not taking NHS patients although they all advertise that they are taking on NHS patients.
"I was under the impression that not only was this immoral but also illegal." Another said: "Over Christmas, I was in extreme pain with a wisdom tooth that had to be extracted. I had to go private as no NHS dentists were open and the dentist which I eventually used would only treat me immediately as a private patient.
"If I wanted NHS treatment by this dentist, I would have to wait weeks. I had to pay £240 which I had to borrow from a friend.
"I am still in pain even though the tooth has been extracted and they were going to pull the wrong tooth until I corrected them."
Richard Burden, Chair at Healthwatch Birmingham and Solihull said resources need to be aimed at those places where there are significant gaps in access. Mr Burden said: "What the report showed is that although there are big problems right across Birmingham, where those problems are at their most acute is in more deprived areas and they are being felt the most by people who are most vulnerable.
"Whether they be simply people who just cannot afford the cost of dentistry whether on the NHS or privately or because there isn't the capacity in the areas where they need it. The local commissioners of NHS dentistry in Birmingham need to be directing resources where there are those gaps."
The report also found that 43 per cent of people who identified as having a disability told Healthwatch they cannot find a dentist taking on NHS patients with 63% trying to get an NHS dentist for over a year. Mr Burden continued: "People with disabilities or mental health problems often expend the greatest need and that's why the system at the moment is too clunky to be able to deal with that so we are saying to the NHS that they need to look at a Birmingham based system."
In response Councillor Mariam Khan, Cabinet Member for Health and Social Care at Birmingham City Council has called on the Government to act. Highlighting the number of children who are also struggling with access to dental care she said: “Backlog Britain is holding Birmingham back and our children are paying the prices.
"From GPs and A&E to courts, passports and driving licences our country is stuck in a queue. And now we know that children in Birmingham are ending up in hospital because they can’t get the dental treatment they need.
“Tooth decay goes hand-in-hand with poverty, and sadly 34% of children in east Birmingham, which includes the community of Alum Rock which I represent, have dental decay. This is a statistic that must be changed, and good access to dental care is at the heart of this."
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If you are tired of the huge markups at your local bullion dealer or jeweler, but want to directly own and trade precious metals, perhaps the new CyberMetals website is for you. Operated by A-Mark Precious Metals (NASDAQ:AMRK), in business since 1965, and backed by $8 billion in annual physical bullion sales to retail customers all over the world, this new online platform launched in February may be the best design yet for those avoiding paper bullion ETFs (and the difficulties of getting physical metal delivered for your stake) or lacking the capital to trade futures at an exchange like the COMEX.
You can buy/sell metals 24/7 with minimal spreads, and either has your order delivered to your doorstep or vaulted and insured (with third-party accountants auditing your holdings) for a very small fee annually (lower than the expenses charged at many managed bullion ETFs) at locations in Dallas or Las Vegas. If you are investing less than $10,000 into precious metals, the new CyberMetals offering and cost structure may be the strongest available option to own physical gold, silver, platinum and palladium directly, in my opinion. Not having to deal with vaulting (hiding) your coins and bullion is a terrific option, with the ability to actually change your mind and have the physical metal delivered whenever you want.
Another way to profit from growth in precious metals pricing and the CyberMetals unit in future years is through a stock position in A-Mark. I hold shares in AMRK in anticipation of a major bottom in precious metals quotes and the potential for a boom in the physical bullion business, given a prolonged recession and/or high inflation are the new economic reality. We could be at the start of a period of expansion in precious metals interest similar to the 1970s boom. As cryptocurrencies turn to bust, everyone will be looking for a better way to move their wealth out of failing paper currencies like the U.S. dollar.
We have so much debt that cannot be repaid in the U.S. economy, the only way out of our leverage and IOU mess is through dramatically higher rates of inflation. This "soft default" on Treasury debt scenario was discussed a couple of weeks ago here. My argument is precious metals will again prove their worth, as they have for thousands of years, as the go-to investment when government-invented currencies decline.
The 2022 demise of cryptocurrencies will also refocus attention on the monetary metals as the main uncorrelated financial choice, functioning currency, store of wealth, no counter-party risk, premier private and portable asset surviving every type of government over centuries of history. What if a long-term demographic trend of intense buying by all types of consumers, businesses, and investors is about to begin, a function of cratering stocks and bonds? Why not look forward and invest into tomorrow's trend today?
A-Mark is a one-of-a-kind investment to ride precious metals interest in the near future. It has "sneaky" leverage to rising bullion quotes without using much debt from: (1) its business model setting as one of the top retailers/dealers of physical metal and coins in the world through JM Bullion and a number of other dealer names; (2) its large holdings of inventory, which should climb in value with precious metals pricing, and (3) the excellent chance CyberMetals will turn into a hit with small traders and bullion buyers.
The robust rise in its stock quote since 2019 (from around $5 split-adjusted) could be a hint of even bigger gains to come. Currently, Wall Street believes business sales and profitability are about to turn lower as the pandemic-induced demand for "safe haven" gold/silver coins fades back to pre-COVID levels. I disagree and think a big turn HIGHER is on the cusp of becoming reality for the operating business and shareholder worth. The emergency monetary policy mess supporting record Treasury debt issuance (all a function of the Washington response to COVID-19 pandemic issues) may take 5-10 years to return the markets, economy and rates of inflation back to normal. And, outlier odds exist (and have grown) regarding another major black swan event hitting the markets/economy. For example, can the U.S. economy teetering near recession stand a war between Russia and America over the future of eastern Europe, or a China/U.S. conflict over Taiwan's political status? There's a small chance we may never return to a "normal" money printing regime, as debts and paper currency creation spiral out of control after 2022. Either way, you may want to own as much gold/silver as possible over the next decade to ride out the turbulence and protect your wealth.
If I am right, A-Mark is well prepared to capitalize on a precious metals bull market. At the end of June, A-Mark held $1.18 billion in current assets with $458 million in unrestricted inventories (representing about 60% of the equity market capitalization at $31 per share) vs. $952 million in total liabilities (about half in different forms of debt). The balance sheet setup is quite bullish, both liquid and conservative in nature. Plenty of cash and inventory is available to grow the business, including the CyberMetals unit.
In my research, I keep returning to the high level of income generation during 2022. Wall Street seems content discounting into the stock quote a major slowdown by the A-Mark operating business, a forecast that has yet to materialize. Reviewing basic P/E ratios, both trailing and forward estimates, AMRK appears to be too cheap vs. reality. It's hard to compare to other bullion dealers, with most serious competitors privately owned, or smaller parts of large companies. Below I am contrasting P/Es vs. the world's largest gold miners, some mining royalty firms, profitable online sellers of goods, and successful hybrid store/online retailers. Again, A-Mark is not exactly like any of these alternatives for a business model, but I think a combination of them all gets you to the right spot for precious metals retailing margins and worth. To be honest, a P/E around 5x on trailing and forward results is a head-scratcher vs. a median average for the comparison group above 15x, especially if business trends start to pick up.
On enterprise value (equity + debt - cash) to trailing EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), a ratio under 5x appears to be a real bargain vs. the median comparison group average above 11x.
Lastly, using forward analyst estimates for EBITDA over the next year, Wall Street is projecting reduced profitability will increase this basic EV ratio closer to 8x, only a slight discount to the 9x median comparison average. Yet, if estimates of a slowdown in the underlying business prove off base, and earnings start to climb in 2023, AMRK is again selling far cheaper than one would expect at $31 per share today.
The quarterly report for Q4 out yesterday has been the excuse for widespread selling today (Thursday, August 31st), with about 1 in 20 outstanding shares trading hands. Revenues slightly missed expectations, almost entirely caused by the continued short-term drop in metals pricing this summer. Earnings actually beat expectations by a large degree. However, investors are blindly selling anything having to do with precious metals in August. Fear of Fed tightening and falling liquidity in the markets is the reason. I get it. Yet, for investors looking 6-12 months down the road, an economic recession in 2022 will almost surely "require" an incredible new cycle of easing soon, or we get a deep recession/depression next year. Who wants to sign up for that? I can guarantee Fed governors would prefer high inflation rates to 15% unemployment in America, with that final choice approaching fast.
Technically speaking, August momentum signals for AMRK were actually quite positive going into the earnings release. And, I would categorize intermediate-term momentum as relatively bullish. On the 18-month chart below you can see the fairly healthy and constructive zigzags in indicators like the Accumulation/Distribution Line, Negative Volume Index, and On Balance Volume. I rate the momentum picture at least a B+ score vs. other equities during 2022's bear market decline. So, a rising gold/silver market could easily ignite oversized buying interest in the stock from its ultra-low valuation today.
Management declared a forward $0.20 quarterly dividend and a special $1.00 per share payout after another strong fiscal year ended in June. The $1.80 rate annually works out to about 6% for a forward yield if you buy the stock now.
If you have a precious metals portfolio or are searching for long-term hedges against insane levels of currency debasement since 2020, I suggest you consider buying a stake in A-Mark Precious Metals. In effect, you can sit on the dealer's side of the table when customers of all kinds show up wanting to invest in physical bullion and coins. Expanding metals pricing, leveraged with lower-cost inventories, alongside rising margins on each sale when times are good, could generate a double and triple in the AMRK stock quote over the next few years. If we get an honest boom in metals with gold rising 5x in price ($10,000 an ounce) and silver 10x ($200 an ounce) over the coming decade, AMRK has the potential to 10x or 20x your investment from a purchase in August-September 2022. I have moved my A-Mark rating to Strong Buy.
If the CyberMetals idea becomes a hit in the near future, Wall Street will reverse course, and start to put a premium growth valuation on the business, instead of today's discount multiples. Current analyst pessimism is built on the assumption gold/silver/platinum/palladium will fall in price, as small coin collectors/bullion investors become less interested. What if the opposite is unfolding into the end of 2022? Under a bullish precious metals trend scenario, the new and exciting CyberMetals marketplace for serious investors wanting physical metal trading 24/7 at low cost could be a supercharged growth catalyst not available in other gold/silver asset alternatives.
What are the downside risks of an investment in AMRK? Two main variables come to mind. Basically, declining interest in precious metals by small retail buyers of physical, and sliding precious metals quotes, in general, could deflate the bullish AMRK proposition. If you believe such is the future, from an economy stabilized and growing without inflation, I understand you may want to avoid A-Mark.
However, with the U.S. sitting on a record aggregate debt to GDP number today, the Fed restricting loan origination with rising interest rates, and inflation at a 40-year high, do you really want to gamble in your portfolio that the economic world won't blow up? The Fed is driving the economy close to the edge of a cliff, hoping and praying like the rest of us that no new bearish reason to sell or panic is around the corner. Trump could be indicted and some citizens could violently revolt in protest, a financial crisis implosion in stocks or bonds could happen in September-October as recession hits harder, and new wars appear somewhat likely soon.
To me, gold/silver hedges against calamity and inflation, which have proven great stores of wealth during past periods of economic destruction (like the 1970s stagflation years), may be the most valuable assets to buy/own today. If you want to stay invested in regular stocks and bonds, you need to have intelligent hedges. Ignoring the real potential for trouble in our world may be the worst financial stance you can take. You will not get a do-over if our economic world falls apart. (Yes, I am trying to scare you into action.) Weak gold/silver prices currently are a long-term gift for smart investors, with valuations vs. other asset classes, U.S. money supply, and Treasury debt extremely low. What's not to like about A-Mark, if a major precious metals bottom is forming, and sales/income are set to improve markedly next year?
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ITZY is reaching new horizons with latest hit album Checkmate, sets record.
As reported by The Korea Times, the group's fifth EP CHECKMATE passed the 1 million mark on August 31, 2022, according to JYP Entertainment, citing data from the country's benchmark Circle Chart.
The album was released on July 15, the EP has also earned the group its first top 10 spot on the Billboard 200 main albums chart after being ranked on No. 8 later in the month.
Furthermore, the quintet kicked off their first CHECKMATE world tour with concerts in Seoul last month.
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ITV This Morning star Rochelle Humes has bravely shared how she suffered with "deep shame" during childhood. Rochelle discussed the decrease in two-parent families during the penultimate episode of the week.
Rochelle felt "deep" shame growing up without her father, she bravely admitted. She recalled: “I remember, so I grew up raised by my mum and my mum only.
“When I was younger, it was kind of the thing that I was almost a little embarrassed about it.” She admitted: “So they’d be like, ‘oh who’s your dad?’ and I’d be like, ‘oh he’s never here, I don’t really know him that much.'”
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“And it was always something that I felt sort of deep shame about as a child, which is an odd thing,” she continued. “But now, I’m surprised it’s only one in four is what they’re saying, one in four families.
“I’m actually surprised at that because I feel it’s almost rare to say, ‘Oh my mum and dad have been married for 30 odd years’, that’s quite rare now.”
Rochelle has been one of a few stand-in hosts on the daily ITV show, which airs each weekday from 10am til midday on ITV1. Her co presenters during this summer have included the likes of Craig Doyle and Vernon Kay.
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How to apply for Lancashire school places for your children as applications go live
Online applications for Lancashire school places have gone live today (September 1).
Parents and guardians can now apply online for children either starting primary school or moving to secondary school in September 2023.
The vast majority of applications are now submitted online as parents do find this a very convenient method. Last year, 98% of the applications made for primary and secondary school places were submitted online.
County Councillor Jayne Rear, cabinet member for education and skills, said: "Applying for your child's school place online is quick, easy and secure.
"Now that the application process is live, parents and guardians can go and familiarise themselves with the process and look at the admissions criteria of the schools they're considering.
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"It is important to remember that having a child already at a school does not mean that their sibling will be automatically allocated a place. You must still apply.
"I would encourage parents and guardians to apply as soon as possible, rather than rushing your application close to the deadline, to allow for time to sort out any issues or get any advice.
"If you need support in making your application, get in touch with our admissions team who will be happy to help."
Applications opened today, Thursday 1 September 2022, and as for all schools nationally, the closing dates are 31 October 2022 for secondary schools, and 15 January 2023 for primary schools.
Children start primary school in the September after their fourth birthday.
For more information go to www.lancashire.gov.uk/schools
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* Translation by Yehoshua Siskin (http://inthelandoftheJews.blogspot.com)
It's the 1st of September and the new school year is upon us. Yet the school year does not really begin in September; it's already in session, and has been so for two months. Summer vacation is the time of year when the most critical schooling takes place. It's the time when children receive instruction about real life through observation of their parents, seeing how they speak, work, drive the car, play with them in the park or vacation with them in a hotel. During summer vacation, our children learn by watching us how to relate to the world that exists outside of school. They study us carefully up close, and the lessons they learn from our behaviors will last a lifetime.
Clearly, summer vacation is so long that we run out of patience. In spite of this, just before we "deposit" our kids once again into the hands of their teachers (thanks to all of you!) we need to remember that the connection between parents and their children is the most significant connection of all. Even after we read at the beginning of each school year about "the best teachers," there is no doubt that, throughout the course of our lives, our most influential teachers are our parents.
Indeed, nearly every connection can be severed. A friendship can fade away, a marriage can end in divorce, a contract can be breached -- but the ties between parents and children can never be undone. Even when there are arguments and sharp words are exchanged between them, parents and children remain forever attached to one another.
This is such a strong connection, so powerful and fundamental that the Torah portion we read this week uses it as a paradigm for the connection between us and God. *"You are children of the Lord your God."* In other words, despite the occasional distance or even rift between us and our parents, or between us and God, we will always be the children of our parents, and we will always be God's children as well..
May everyone enjoy success in the school year.
And may everyone enjoy a successful month of Elul
Elul, a magnificent time for new beginnings
As we approach the launch of 5783, there are many Elul customs and halakhot. Here are a few of them.
1. *Recitation of Psalm 27.* From today until the end of the Sukkot holiday, it is customary to recite the powerful words of this psalm near the conclusion of morning and afternoon prayers. The psalm opens as follows: *"The Lord is my light and my salvation -- whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life -- whom shall I fear?"*
2. *Blowing of the shofar.* Throughout the month of Elul, on Rosh Hashanah, and at the conclusion of prayers and fasting on Yom Kippur, the shofar is blown. The shofar is associated with "shipur" (improvement) and is meant to awaken us and remind us of what is essential as opposed to nonessential, of what is eternal as opposed to temporary.
3. *Recitation of Selichot (prayers for Divine forgiveness)*. Sephardim begin to say Selichot starting tonight or early tomorrow morning, while Ashkenazim will join them in the final days before Rosh Hashanah. The focus of the biblical passages and ancient piyutim (liturgical poems) that comprise Selichot are atonement and self-purification, Divine mercy and compassion.
4. *Increase of prayers, psalms, and good wishes to one another.* It is customary to increase our prayers and reading of psalms this month and, already, to wish each other ketiva vechatima tova -- may you be inscribed and sealed (in the Book of Life). These practices are an acknowledgement of the power of our words.
5. *Focus on the "Rosh" in Rosh Hashanah.* It's the time of year to focus on the rosh or head -- that which we cannot do without. Therefore, this is a most appropriate time to check the status of tefillin and mezuzot and wish success to those who are returning to the eternally sustaining practice of Torah study. Above all, we need to attach ouselves to the essence of Elul, which is to search our souls and examine our spiritual condition just as a business is annually evaluated by examination of its gains and losses during the previous year. We do not want to live solely by ingrained habits, but rather stop and ask ourselves where we want to be in the new year.
Not to just go with the flow, but to grow. This is a month of reconciliation, closeness, and love. After the sin of the golden calf and the breaking of the Tablets of the Covenant, these are the days when Moshe Rabbeinu asked for and was granted forgiveness, ultimately returning to the people with a whole new set of Tablets on Yom Kippur. He taught us that it is always possible to rectify our sins, especially at this time of year.
Awareness is the first step to rectifying
Eating is one action where we can make the most of commonplace and essential events to see if there is room for improvement and change.
In parashat Eikev, the mitzvah of Birkat Hamazon, the prayer recited after a meal, is first mentioned: *"And you will eat and be satisfied -- and you will bless."* I once heard Rabbi Miki Yosefi suggest that the Hebrew word for food, מאכל (ma'achal), could be considered an anagram where the mem stands for "mah," the aleph stands for "eich," the kaf stands for "kama" and the lamed stands for "lama." Together, these four words can guide us toward a proper relationship with food.
*Mah* (what). What goes into our mouths? Is it kosher, healthy, and nutritious?
*Eich* (how). How do we eat? Ideally, when we are calm and sitting down, and not while we are engaged in a million other pursuits.
*Kama* (how much). How much do we eat? "And you will eat and be satisfied -- and you will bless." In other words, we need to know when to stop, before we explode -- to take control of food and not allow food to take control of us.
*Lama* (why). Anyway, why do we eat? So that our bodies will have the strength to do good things. If we have this in mind, if food gives us the energy we need to make the world a better place, then eating becomes a holy act.
Eating is just one example.
Iin every facet of our lives we must internalize and hold Torah close to our hearts
The head and the heart
According to a famous saying, the longest distance in the universe is not between planet earth and some remote galaxy but between the head and the heart. There are many things we know intellectually but have difficulty internalizing and bringing into the heart.
The dire warnings on cigarette packages are clear for all to see, but does that mean such messages necessarily influence people to stop smoking? Videos we see on TV urging caution on the roadways are of critical importance, but does that mean all of us stop looking at our cell phones while driving?
Knowledge is not enough. We need to change when we understand the truth and live in its light. This is relevant when it comes to staying on a diet or to getting up at the same time each morning; it is relevant to upholding eternal truths as well.
In lasr week's Torah portion Moshe Rabbeinu stands opposite the nation and declares: "And you shall know this day and take it into your hearts, that the Lord He is God in heaven above, and upon the earth below; there is none else."
Our commentators ask us to pay special attention to the word order in this declaration: "And you shall know this day," followed by "and take it into your heart." The first stage is to know, but the second stage is to immediately take this knowledge into the heart. To remove the barrier between knowledge and action, to succeed in living according to what we know and want. Everyone is invited to think of examples of how they would benefit from closing the gap between head and heart. | https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/359111 | 2022-09-01T16:28:38Z | https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/359111 | false | 1 |
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Beaufort Co. Sheriff’s Office searching for man reported missing by family
Published: Sep. 1, 2022 at 12:20 PM EDT|Updated: 19 minutes ago
BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WTOC) - The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help finding a man reported missing by his family on Thursday.
Phillip Stein, 87, was reported missing from Sun City by family members earlier Thursday.
He was last seen leaving his home at approximately 9:30 Thursday morning, driving a silver-colored 2022 Honda CRV with South Carolina license plate 232115W.
He is 5′5″ and weighs 180 pounds. He is believed to be wearing a turquoise shirt and gray and black shorts.
Anyone with information should call the Beaufort County dispatch at 843.524.2777.
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RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Indivior PLC (LON: INDV) September is National Recovery Month, a time to educate about substance use disorder (SUD) and the effectiveness of evidence-based treatment and counseling, and let people know that recovery is possible.
Substance use disorder is a chronic disease which affects a person's brain and behavior, leaving them unable to control their use of substances such as legal or illegal drugs, alcohol, or medications.1 It is also a disease of epidemic proportion; according to the latest provisional data released by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), more than 104,000 people reportedly died from a drug overdose in the 12-month period ending March 2022, with 78,828 of these deaths resulting from illicit opioids, like fentanyl.2
"At Indivior, we are committed to helping those suffering with substance use disorders break the cycle of addiction," said Christian Heidbreder, Chief Scientific Officer. "By reducing stigma, increasing access to evidence-based treatment, and normalizing substance use disorder as a disease, we can move more people on the path to active recovery and help them to reclaim their lives."
Despite the significant progress made during the last two decades defining addiction as a disease, advancing our understanding of how it affects the brain, and advocating for evidence-based treatment, recent estimates suggest that only 13.4 percent of people nationwide who may benefit from medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) receive it.3 People in urgent need of help are often unaware of their treatment options, have limited access to treatment and counseling, or simply do not seek it out because they are afraid of being stigmatized.4 Lack of access to treatment continues to drive the treatment gap, especially among under-served and marginalized communities.5
"Recovery from substance use disorder is possible," said Terry Horton, MD, FACP, FASAM, Vice President, Patient Insights and Advocacy at Indivior. "But advocacy and patient support are critically important," he continued. "As stakeholders, our policy response to the opioid epidemic should seek to normalize treatment and categorize addiction like any other chronic medical condition. Only then can we transform access to treatment, resource it, and deliver it to the people who need it most."
Indivior looks toward a future where there is no longer a stigma of addiction and where people have access to evidence-based treatment for SUD in order to manage it like other chronic diseases.
More information on National Recovery Month can be found here.
Indivior is a global pharmaceutical company working to help change patients' lives by developing medicines to treat substance use disorders (SUD) and serious mental illnesses. Our vision is that all patients around the world will have access to evidence-based treatment for the chronic conditions and co-occurring disorders of SUD. Indivior is dedicated to transforming SUD from a global human crisis to a recognized and treated chronic disease. Building on its global portfolio of OUD treatments, Indivior has a pipeline of product candidates designed to both expand on its heritage in this category and potentially address other chronic conditions and co-occurring disorders of SUD, including alcohol use disorder and cannabis use disorder. Headquartered in the United States in Richmond, VA, Indivior employs more than 900 individuals globally and its portfolio of products is available in over 40 countries worldwide. Visit www.indivior.com to learn more. Connect with Indivior on LinkedIn by visiting www.linkedin.com/company/indivior.
1. Substance Use and Co-Occurring Mental Disorders. (n.d.). National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/substance-use-and-mental-health#:%7E:text=A%20substance%20use%20disorder%20(SUD,drugs%2C%20alcohol%2C%20or%20medications
2. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm, Accessed on August 24, 2022
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4. National Drug Control Strategy, The White House, Office of National Drug Control Policy, 2022
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6. NIDA. 2021, August 31. Drug overdose deaths in 2020 were horrifying. Radical change is needed to address the drug crisis. Retrieved from https://www.drugabuse.gov/about-nida/noras-blog/2021/08/drug-overdose-deaths-in-2020-were-horrifying-radical-change-needed-to-address-drug-crisis
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BEIRUT (AP) — Forty years since Hezbollah was founded at the height of Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the group has morphed from a ragtag organization to the largest and most heavily armed militant group in the Middle East.
The Iranian-armed and funded Hezbollah, which has marked the anniversary with ceremonies in its strongholds in recent weeks, dominates Lebanon’s politics and plays an instrumental role in spreading Tehran’s influence throughout the Arab world.
But the Shiite powerhouse, once praised around the Arab world for unrelentingly standing against Israel, faces deep criticism on multiple fronts.
At home in Lebanon, a significant part of the population opposes its grip on power and accuses it of using the threat of force to prevent change. Across the region, many resent its military interventions in Iraq and in Syria’s civil war, where it helped tip the balance of power in favor of President Bashar Assad’s forces.
There is no specific date on when Hezbollah was founded, starting as a small, shadowy group of fighters helped by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. But the group says it happened during the summer of 1982.
The 40th anniversary comes this year as Hezbollah officials have warned of a possible new war with Israel over the disputed gas-rich maritime border between Lebanon and Israel.
Over the years, Hezbollah has boosted its military power. It boasts of having 100,000 well-trained fighters. And now its leader says they have precision-guided missiles that can hit anywhere in Israel and prevent ships from reaching Israel’s Mediterranean coast, as well as advanced drones that can either strike or gather intelligence.
“Hezbollah has evolved tremendously in the past four decades in its organizational structure, global reach, and regional involvements,” says Middle East analyst Joe Macaron.
Hezbollah’s biggest achievement over the past 40 years was its guerrilla war against Israeli forces occupying parts of southern Lebanon. When Israel’s army was forced to withdraw in May 2000 — without a peace deal like the ones it reached with Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinians — the victory brought Hezbollah praise from around the Middle East.
“Who would have imagined that our enemy could be defeated?” Hezbollah’s chief spokesman Mohammed Afif said a press conference held in July to mark the anniversary.
But since the withdrawal, the controversy over Hezbollah has steadily grown as its role has changed.
In 2005, Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the most powerful Sunni politician in the country at the time, was killed in a massive truck bomb in Beirut. A U.N.-backed tribunal accused three Hezbollah members of being behind the assassination. Hezbollah denies the charges.
Hezbollah was blamed for other assassinations that followed, mostly targeting Christians and Sunni Muslim politicians and intellectuals critical of the group. Hezbollah denies the accusations.
“Hezbollah’s danger to Lebanon is huge,” says journalist and former Cabinet minister May Chidiac who lost an arm and a leg in a 2005 assassination attempt with explosives placed in her car. She said Hezbollah has been expanding Iran’s influence in Lebanon, “and this is a long-term plan that they have been working on for 40 years.”
Asked if Hezbollah is to blame for the attempt on her life, Chidiac said: “Of course. There is no doubt about that. All these assassinations are linked.”
Lebanese have been sharply divided by Hezbollah’s determination to keep its weapons since Israel’s withdrawal. Some call for its disarmament, saying only the state should have the right to carry weapons. Others support the group’s stance that it must continue to be able to defend against Israel.
Hezbollah fought Israel to a draw in a 34-day war in the summer of 2006. Israel today considers Hezbollah its most serious immediate threat, estimating that the militant group has some 150,000 rockets and missiles aimed at it.
In early July, the Israeli military shot down three unmanned aircraft launched by Hezbollah heading toward an area where an Israeli gas platform was recently installed in the Mediterranean Sea. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned that Israel will not be allowed to benefit from its gas fields in the disputed maritime border area before a deal is reached with Lebanon.
Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, the incoming head of Israel’s Northern Command, described Hezbollah as a “serious threat,” due to both its proximity to Israel and its arsenal.
“This is a very strong terror army,” he told The Associated Press in Jerusalem. “Not as strong as the Israeli military, not as strong as the Israeli air force. We are in a completely different place when it comes to our military capabilities. But it can do some significant damage. I have to say that.”
Afif, the Hezbollah spokesman, said that “as long as there is an aggression, there will be resistance.”
In 2008, the government of Western-backed Prime Minister Fouad Saniora decided to dismantle Hezbollah’s telecommunications network. Hezbollah responded by capturing by force Sunni neighborhoods in Beirut. It was the worst internal fighting since the 1975-90 civil war ended and marked a breach in Hezbollah’s pledge never to use its weapons at home.
Perhaps the most controversial decision Hezbollah has made was by sending thousands of fighters to Syria since 2013 to back Assad against opposition fighters, as well as against al-Qaida-linked fighters and the Islamic State group.
The intervention “meant becoming entangled in the internal conflict of a neighboring Arab country rather than fulfilling Hezbollah’s claimed mandate of resistance against Israel,” Macaron said.
Across the Arab world, it cemented an image of Hezbollah as a sectarian Shiite force fighting mainly Sunni insurgents and spreading Iran’s power.
Hezbollah was also accused of helping Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, leading at least six Arab countries to list the group as a terrorist organization.
Within Lebanon, Hezbollah has used its powerful support among the Shiite community and tough tactics to gain political dominance.
In 2016, it secured the election of its Christian ally Michel Aoun as president, then it and its allies won a parliament majority in subsequent elections.
But that also sealed its role as part of a governing system whose decades of corruption and mismanagement have been blamed for Lebanon’s economic collapse, starting in late 2019. With the currency crumbling and much of the population thrown into poverty, the political elite, which has been running Lebanon since the 1975-90 civil war ended, has resisted reforms.
Massive protests demanding the removal of those politicians began in late 2019, and days afterward, hundreds of Hezbollah supporters attacked the protesters in downtown Beirut, forcing them to flee. In October, Hezbollah supporters and a rival militia had an armed clash in Beirut over investigations into the 2020 devastating explosion at Beirut’s port.
Voters punished Hezbollah and its allies in this year’s elections, making them lose their parliamentary majority.
One former senior figure in Hezbollah, Sobhi Tufaili, pointed to the new image of the group as part of the system in a recent interview with a local TV station.
“There is a ship full of thieves,” he said, “and Hezbollah is its captain and protector.”
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RFM allots P1.2B to expand milk, growing segments
FOOD and beverage firm RFM Corp. approved a P1.2-billion capital expenditure (capex) budget to expand the production capacities of its milk segment and institutional businesses.
Jose Ma. A. Concepcion III, chief executive officer of RFM, said in a press release on Thursday that “this P1.2-billion capex approval is one of the biggest set of capex since the purchase of the Royal pasta brand in 2014.”
“[T]his capex is expected to support the double-digit growth of our Selecta Milk offerings as well as support the growing consumer and institutional businesses that are expected to double in five years,” he added.
The company’s board of directors also approved a cash dividend of P200 million or almost P0.06 per share.
“The investment into more production capacity for milk and other high growth segments will support RFM’s sales growth momentum even as there are uncertainties in the global economy at present,” Mr. Concepcion said.
He also said the company’s ice cream joint venture will be expanded to meet volume growth over the long term.
RFM is the maker of Selecta Milk, Royal, and Fiesta pasta and sauces and White King mixes, flour, and bread. It is also a 50% owner of the Unilever RFM Ice Cream joint venture that sells Selecta, Cornetto, and Magnum brands.
Mr. Concepcion said that on top of cash dividends, the company also plans to use its excess cash to fund the capex over the next 15 months.
The latest payout brings RFM’s total cash dividends to P854 million or 65% of the company’s net income last year, with a total of more than P0.25 apiece.
“This has a dividend yield of 6.5% at the P3.9 per share prevailing stock price,” the company said.
The record date of the cash dividends is on Sept. 15 while its payment date is on Oct. 11.
Revenues of the company climbed by 17.4% in the second quarter to P4.57 billion and by 17.1% in the first half to P8.47 billion, which the company attributed to its ice cream, milk, and institutional businesses.
Mr. Concepcion said that “our strategy of focusing on our core strengths and brands has yielded good topline and bottom line growth over the past years and we are deploying the extra cash that we have accumulated to further feed into that growth of our core growth drivers.”
RFM recorded an attributable net income of P355 million in the second quarter, down 3.5% from P368 million a year ago, but its first-half attributable profit of P687 million was just slightly lower than last year’s P688 million.
“We have been carefully passing on the cost of higher inputs and also tightening on expenses to manage our margins,” Mr. Concepcion said.
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City banker who tried to sue 'racist and sexist' bosses for £800,000 after colleagues called her a 'ladette' LOSES sexual discrimination case after tribunal heard 'she was oversensitive to office banter'
- Zhuofang Wei sued the London branch of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
- She lost her £800k sexual harassment case after male boss asked her to babysit
- Judge branded Ms Lee, earned £175k a year, as 'oversensitive' and 'unreliable'
- The bank had 'elements' that were 'degrading' to women but ruled 'office banter'
An 'oversensitive' female city banking executive who complained after her male boss jokingly asked her to babysit for him and colleagues called her a 'ladette' has lost a sexual and racial harassment case.
High-flying Zhuofang Wei tried to sue the London branch of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for £800,000, claiming she was victim of discrimination.
At an employment tribunal the 'highly regarded' executive complained about an office 'quote book' in which amusing sexually suggestive comments were recorded and then voted on at Christmas parties - with the winner being awarded a trophy.
However, this complaint was dismissed after Ms Wei, who earned £175,000 a year, admitted she had joined and the tribunal ruled that was a 'willing participant'.
Ms Wei, who was educated at top US universities Princeton and Stanford, also insisted she had been 'belittled' when boss Wayne Lee called her his 'little sister'.
'Oversensitive' city banking executive Zhuofang Wei (pictured) lost her case against the London branch of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for £800,000, after claiming she was victim of discrimination
She complained that Mr Lee, a managing director at the bank, was being 'tokenistic' when he nominated her for an important role.
And she alleged he had discriminated against her by asking her to babysit, moaned about him reprimanding her, and complained that he was 'dismissive' of her when he disagreed with her at a meeting.
But a judge dismissed all her discrimination claims, branding her 'oversensitive' and an 'unreliable witness' who sometimes 'embellished or distorted the truth'.
Although Ms Wei was found to have been sexually harassed when colleagues called her a 'ladette' and 'one of the boys' she won't receive compensation as the panel concluded she had brought the claim too late.
She was also found to have been victimised by CIBC by having her redundancy date brought forward 11 days and will receive some compensation for that.
The central London tribunal heard that Ms Wei, known as Fang by colleagues, had started working for the bank in April 2018 having previously had roles at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse.
The hearing was told there were 'elements' of CIBC's branch in London which were 'degrading' to women but these were 'office banter and loose language'.
Ms Wei complained that Mr Lee, a managing director at the London branch of CIBC (pictured), was being 'tokenistic' when he nominated her for an important role
One female worker at CIBC described an 'old schoolboy environment where there was a lot of banter'.
For example, for a decade, chief administrative officer Paul Atkinson kept a 'quote book' with his team, in which amusing sexually suggestive comments were noted down.
It was heard there was a running joke about an assistant whose skirt blew up at a social do to reveal she wasn't wearing underwear and during a Christmas game Keith White, chief risk officer, said his assistant was the person 'most likely to have a one-night stand'.
Chinese Ms Wei, who has degrees from Princeton and Stanford in the USA, complained about the quote book when she brought her case to the tribunal but admitted she had joined in.
Ms Wei insisted she only took part to 'fit in' - however the tribunal found she was a 'willing participant' who saw it as 'lighthearted fun' and even continued to put quotes in about one woman who openly felt 'bullied' by it.
The book is no longer used by the branch, with staff admitting it is 'inappropriate'.
Ms Wei, Executive Director in the Strategic Planning and Business Management team, claimed Mr Lee suggested she babysit for him on three times which Ms Wei felt offended by.
She also accused him of 'looking down' on Chinese people and when he nominated her as Master of Ceremonies at a work event she claimed the role was 'tokenistic'.
She also accused another boss of telling her not to wear a 'figure-hugging dress' as he 'needed to focus'.
But these claims were rejected by the tribunal which found that Mr Lee had been joking about the babysitting and had been genuinely supportive of her.
The dress comments were never made, the panel concluded.
The tribunal heard Ms Wei's dismissal from the bank in March 2020 came after she went for a new role in a planned Luxembourg office after Brexit but was not offered a pay rise she thought she deserved.
Ms Wei, who was due to combine the roles of chief operating officer and chief risk officer, 'naively' believed she would be receiving a combined sum of two salaries 'in the region of €450,000'.
However, she was not offered an increase on her £175,000 salary as that, along with her £72,000 bonus she received, was in line with market rates.
She refused the job offer in early 2020 and as she had been preparing for it for months, her London job was redundant and she was made redundant in March 2020.
However, she threatened legal action against the bank and bosses brought her redundancy date forward by 11 days.
Employment Judge Holly Stout ruled that Ms Wei's claims of racial and sexual discrimination were without merit, however she was victimised by the redundancy change.
'The Tribunal found Ms Wei in a number of respects to be an unreliable witness as there were a number of aspects of her evidence that embellish or distort the truth', the judge said.
'We have in mind in particular how she exaggerated her evidence about the quote book.'
Ms Wei, who was due to combine the roles of chief operating officer and chief risk officer, at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in London 'naively' believed she would be receiving a combined sum of two salaries 'in the region of €450,000'. Pictured: A CIBCO building in Toronto, the capital of the province Ontario in Canada
Judge Stout added: 'We consider that there were elements of the [bank's] culture that were discriminatory towards and/or degrading of women, but that these elements were confined to "office banter" or "loose language" rather than being symptomatic of any general culture of less favourable treatment of women.
'We further find that Mr Lee did not in general have a discriminatory attitude towards Chinese women.'
It was heard Ms Wei was harassed when colleagues referred to her as a 'ladette' and 'one of the boys' in relation to her attending social activities, however this claim was too late so she won't get compensated.
Judge Stout added: 'This harassment is an example, in our judgement, of what we have termed 'loose language', by which we mean poorly chosen and stereotypical language that was well-intentioned.
'They should have chosen their words more carefully, and by not doing so they caused offence.'
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Taiwan fired warning shots at three Chinese drones over Kinmen
The Taiwanese military said it used live fire for the first time to repel ‘civilian’ drones from the Chinese mainland that were hovering over Taiwan-controlled islands near the city of Xiamen.
Taiwan’s military yesterday fired warning shots at three drones from China flying around the Taiwan-controlled Kinmen islands, after which the drones returned to the city of Xiamen.
- According to the Kinmen Defense Command, three “civilian drones” were hovering on Tuesday evening over the islets of Dadan, Erdan, and Shiyu — three Kinmen islets that are within 10 miles of the Chinese city of Xiamen.
- Taiwanese forces first fired warning flares, before firing a live round at a returning drone. Flares have been used previously, but this was the first time that Taiwan used live fire to warn a Chinese drone.
- Earlier this month, video footage showing Taiwanese soldiers throwing rocks at a Chinese drone over Kinmen went viral on Chinese social media sites.
Taiwan says drone incursions have increased since China launched unprecedentedly large military drills after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit. President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文 Cài Yīngwén) has called some of the drone missions “gray zone” warfare activity.
Taipei is promising a tough response to recent Chinese displays of force and to this week’s drone incursions. At a press briefing in Taipei today, Major General Lin Wen-huang (林文皇 Lín Wénhuáng) said: “For PLA aircraft and warships that entered our territorial sea and airspace within 12 nautical miles, our armed forces will exercise the right to self-defense and counterattack.”
- There are so far “no indications that any Chinese military aircraft or warships have gone within 12 nautical miles of Taiwan’s main island,” says the Wall Street Journal, “though the PLA did designate live-fire zones inside the 12-mile boundary for drills it conducted earlier this month.”
More broadly, Taiwan plans to spend more money on its military. Last week, the Taiwanese government proposed a 13.9% increase in defense spending to about $19.4 billion, or 2.4% of projected GDP, up from the roughly 2.2% Taiwan spent in 2021.
- Taiwanese military officials have said that anti-drone defenses will be strengthened.
- In the U.S., the Biden administration plans to ask Congress “to approve an estimated $1.1 billion arms sale to Taiwan that includes 60 anti-ship missiles and 100 air-to-air missiles,” reported Politico on Monday.
China’s official response to the drone incident has been muted. In response to a question about Taiwan asserting its right to counterattack PLA ships, aircraft, and drones, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhào Lìjiān 赵立坚 today dismissively said (in English, Chinese) that “Taiwan is a province of China and it does not have a ’defense ministry,’” and that “the act of the Taiwan authorities to heighten tensions does not mean anything.”
- On August 10, China released its first “white paper” on Taiwan under the rule of Xí Jìnpíng 习近平, and it did not renounce the use of force. | https://thechinaproject.com/2022/08/31/taiwan-fired-warning-shots-at-three-chinese-drones-over-kinmen/ | 2022-09-01T16:46:55Z | https://thechinaproject.com/2022/08/31/taiwan-fired-warning-shots-at-three-chinese-drones-over-kinmen/ | false | 2 |
LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — Three puppies in northeast Florida were saved from a burning house after a delivery driver noticed a fire in the home whose owner was away, fire officials said.
The driver for Amazon was delivering a package on Tuesday when she noticed smoke coming from the home and called 911. Firefighters rescued the pups from the home and revived them from smoke inhalation, according to Columbia County Fire Rescue. Firefighters contained the fire to the room where it was started.
“Thank you to the Amazon driver who noticed the smoke and called 911," Columbia County Fire Rescue said in a Facebook post. “Since the homeowner was not at home at the time, she saved the home and the puppies' lives!"
The county is located about 60 miles (about 97 kilometers) west of Jacksonville, Florida.
It's not the first time a delivery driver has come to the rescue.
In January, a newspaper delivery woman in Georgia saved the lives of three adults, four children and several household pets after she noticed smoke billowing from the family's garage. In July, a UPS driver administered emergency CPR to a girl who had nearly drowned in a swimming pool near Soap Lake, Washington. | https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Delivery-driver-s-actions-save-pups-from-Florida-17412742.php | 2022-09-01T16:47:12Z | https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Delivery-driver-s-actions-save-pups-from-Florida-17412742.php | false | 40 |
The Baltimore Orioles and Cleveland Guardians will square off in the final game of their three-game series on Thursday in Cleveland. With that said, it’s a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes an Orioles-Guardians prediction and pick we have laid out below.
Baltimore is currently in fourth place in the AL East, surprising everyone with a 68-61 record. This young team is exciting and fun, and sit just two games out of the final AL Wild Card spot. Top prospects are making their way to the big league club, which should excite the fan base and worry the baseball world for the Orioles’ future.
Cleveland has surged forward in the AL Central this summer, overtaking first place with a 68-60 record. Cleveland holds a game and a half lead over Minnesota in the division. The team’s pitching has been the strong point of the season, and they are sending their ace to the mound in this one.
Here are the Orioles-Guardians MLB odds, courtesy of FanDuel.
MLB Odds: Orioles-Guardians Odds
Baltimore Orioles: +1.5 (-142)
Cleveland Guardians: -1.5 (+118)
Over: 7.5 (-102)
Under: 7.5 (-120)
Why The Orioles Could Cover The Spread
Baltimore has been relying on younger players for the majority of this season. Tonight, one of those youngsters, Kyle Bradish, will take the ball. Bradish, acquired in the Dylan Bundy deal, has had mixed results in his first season. The 25-year-old has gone 2-5 with a 5.63 ERA in 80 innings across his 16 starts. Bradish has been victimized by the long ball, surrendering 15 home runs in those 16 starts. Still, Bradish throws hard, averaging 94.8 mph on his fastball, and has promising offspeed stuff. Bradish is coming off his best start yet, tossing eight shutout innings against Houston, and owns a 4.26 ERA in his last seven starts, showing there is promise here.
Baltimore’s bullpen has continued its excellence, ranking fourth in the league with a 3.16 ERA. It may seem like a broken record at this point, but new closer Felix Bautista has been unbelievable, with a 1.55 ERA, 10 saves, and 76 strikeouts in 58 innings. Lefty Cionel Perez, a waiver claim this offseason, has a 1.59 ERA in 53 innings, a true breakout season. Setup man Dillon Tate has quietly been one of the better options in the league, with a 2.70 ERA in his 55 appearances.
Offensively, Anthony Santander is the straw that stirs the drink in the absence of Trey Mancini. Santander has 23 home runs and 73 RBI to lead the team and is second with a .257 batting average. Behind Santander are a ton of interesting pieces. Ryan Mountcastle has lived up to the billing as a first-round pick, ranking second on the team with 18 home runs, 66 RBI, and adding 24 doubles. Austin Hays and Cedric Mullins lead the team with 29 doubles. Mullins leads the team with a .264 batting average and 29 stolen bases. Jorge Mateo, in addition to his stellar defense, has hit 12 home runs and stolen 28 bases. Baltimore is tied for eighth with 79 stolen bases.
Why The Guardians Could Cover The Spread
Shane Bieber, the team’s ace, will take the mound tonight. Bieber leads the team with a 3.02 ERA, striking out 153 batters in 152 innings across 24 starts. Bieber has only walked 5.3% of his batters faced this season, ranking in the 87th percentile. Despite a loss of velocity over the last two seasons, Bieber continues to produce at a top-of-the-rotation pace. Batters have hit .295 against a diminished fastball, but have not hit higher than .237 against Bieber’s other four pitches. Bieber also excels at limiting home runs, allowing just 11 home runs in his 24 starts. Cleveland’s bullpen ranks fifth in the league in ERA with a 3.17 mark. Closer Emmanuel Clase has been one of, if not the best closer in the league, with a 1.15 ERA and 30 saves in 58 appearances. Trevor Stephan has pitched to a 2.32 ERA in 50 appearances, striking out 65 in 50.1 innings. James Karinchak is back to his 2020 self, with a 1.17 ERA and 41 strikeouts in 23 innings.
At the plate, Cleveland is led by third baseman Jose Ramirez, who has hit 26 home runs and 106 RBI, bashing 39 doubles. Ramirez is slashing .284/.353/.547, putting himself in the MVP conversation. Andres Gimenez has hit 15 home runs and stolen 15 bases, leading the team with a .302 batting average. Rookie Steven Kwan has hit .295, second on the team, stealing 12 bases and hitting 21 doubles. Josh Naylor is second on the team with 16 home runs, adding 18 doubles and five stolen bases without being caught. Amed Rosario has hit 22 doubles, and seven triples, adding 12 stolen bases while hitting .283. Rookie Oscar Gonzalez has impressed in his 57 games, hitting .285 with 20 doubles.
Final Orioles-Guardians Prediction & Pick
Advantage to Bieber in this one.
Final Orioles-Guardians Prediction & Pick: Cleveland -1.5 (+118), over 7.5 (-102) | https://clutchpoints.com/mlb-odds-orioles-vs-guardians-prediction-odds-and-pick-9-1-2022/ | 2022-09-01T16:48:54Z | https://clutchpoints.com/mlb-odds-orioles-vs-guardians-prediction-odds-and-pick-9-1-2022/ | true | 1 |
It's hard to be in a relationship, but it's even harder when you don't trust the person. When this girlfriend feels like she can't trust her boyfriend and decides to physically stalk him, she takes to the popular Reddit forum to ask:
I (21)F have been dating my bf (21)M for almost 5 years we've had our ups and down in the past but only 3 really big arguments all of which involved his questionable relationships with other women.
We've drawn the line on what we both view as cheating and what isn't we both agreed sexting is a no. But after catching him msging explicit role-playing with someone he said he viewed as a sister things have been tense. | https://www.someecards.com/lifestyle/relationships/woman-boyfriend-stalk/ | 2022-09-01T16:49:26Z | https://www.someecards.com/lifestyle/relationships/woman-boyfriend-stalk/ | false | null |
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Enjoy the day! The weekend is looking less and less as pleasant.
Today
Sunny, with a high near 90. East northeast wind around 5 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with a low around 69. Northeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Friday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 92. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the morning. | https://williamsonsource.com/weather-9-1-2-2022-pleasant-storms-on-the-way/ | 2022-09-01T16:50:00Z | https://williamsonsource.com/weather-9-1-2-2022-pleasant-storms-on-the-way/ | true | null |
Apex Legends players have been complaining about the Season 14 ring changes. From pros to casuals, it’s hard to find a positive opinion. But Jacob ‘HisWattson’ McMillin is one of few in favor of the changes.
Apex Legends Season 14 came with a whole slew of gameplay changes, many of which have been positively received. But the ring changes have been a hot topic in the community.
A vast majority of players at every skill level feel like the ring changes were a mistake, but FURIA player HisWattson thinks these changes are a big step in the right direction.
Ring changes are hitting Apex Legends pro play hard
C9 Zach ‘Zach’ Mazer put out a tweet that shed light on how much the seemingly minor ring changes have affected pro play. According to him, the “edge playstyle” is disappearing from high-level play.
In the replies, HisWattson defends the changes and claims “it’s better now than it was before” and that, “You shouldn’t be able to sit in the zone for 5+ minutes”.
C9’s Jamison ‘PVPX’ Moore certainly didn’t agree. He isn’t “asking for a revert”, but said the current ring is not okay. And, while Zach agreed with HisWattson’s sentiment on not having players be able to sit in ring for minutes at a time, neither of C9’s players are very happy with the changes.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a fully positive opinion of the ring changes from an Apex Legends pro, but HisWattson is one of the few to speak out in favor of the Season 14 ring.
Winning Apex Legends pro games in a different way
Out of all the Apex Legends pro teams, FURIA is the most aggressive team statistically speaking. They tend to take as many fights as they can, a playstyle that differs greatly from most other pros.
Scott ‘Pandxrz’ Maynard, HisWattson’s teammate, had the most eliminations in the event, and FURIA always topped the kill charts. Meanwhile, HisWattson earned MVP at the event for his performance despite FURIA getting second place overall.
FURIA don’t tend to win games by sitting back and playing the edge of the ring; they take every fight they can and take wins through brute force.
The Season 14 ring changes force teams to get into the circle fast, and they cause big fights to break out much earlier than before. And, considering that’s how FURIA played before the ring changes, HisWattson’s fairly unique perspective on the topic lines up with how he plays. | https://www.dexerto.com/apex-legends/apex-legends-pro-hiswattson-explains-why-hated-ring-changes-are-actually-good-1920651/ | 2022-09-01T16:50:37Z | https://www.dexerto.com/apex-legends/apex-legends-pro-hiswattson-explains-why-hated-ring-changes-are-actually-good-1920651/ | false | 1 |
Shares of Regions Financial Corp.
RF,
-1.47%
sank 0.09% to $21.67 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around dismal trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
-1.03%
falling 0.78% to 3,955.00 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-0.43%
falling 0.88% to 31,510.43. This was the stock's fourth consecutive day of losses. Regions Financial Corp. closed $3.90 below its 52-week high ($25.57), which the company reached on February 16th.
Despite its losses, the stock outperformed some of its competitors Wednesday, as Bank of America Corp.
BAC,
-0.93%
fell 1.41% to $33.61, Wells Fargo & Co.
WFC,
-1.03%
fell 0.97% to $43.71, and PNC Financial Services Group Inc.
PNC,
-0.27%
fell 0.82% to $158.00.true Trading volume (8.1 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 6.8 M.
Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use. | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/regions-financial-corp-stock-outperforms-competitors-despite-losses-on-the-day-01661980715-0ab3c474f34e | 2022-09-01T16:50:38Z | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/regions-financial-corp-stock-outperforms-competitors-despite-losses-on-the-day-01661980715-0ab3c474f34e | true | 3658 |
NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chardan, a global investment bank, has announced the launch of its Chardan Equity Facility (ChEF) product, an innovative financing solution used to support the unique needs of its clients. The ChEF enables companies to raise equity on a periodic basis after becoming public, outside the context of a traditional underwritten follow-on offering.
Companies that have recently announced ChEFs include Senti Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNTI), a synthetic biology platform company, that has entered into a $50 million ChEF, and Dragonfly Energy (Nasdaq:CNTQ), an energy-storage solutions company, which has announced an agreement to enter into a $150 million ChEF.
"The ChEF is ideal for newly public or soon-to-be public companies (i.e., de-SPACs) currently facing a challenging and uncertain capital markets environment who want the flexibility to raise capital quickly and efficiently. Chardan's transactional expertise and success raising billions of dollars for innovators worldwide over the past two decades enables us to be an ideal partner with the ChEF," said Jonas Grossman, Chardan's President and Managing Partner.
The recently announced ChEFs further demonstrate Chardan's commitment to creative solutions for companies seeking access to capital. Since 2002, Chardan has raised more than $30 billion for companies, including nearly $10 billion for healthcare companies. Additionally, Chardan is a leading sponsor, underwriter and adviser of SPAC transactions, having advised or underwritten nearly 150 SPAC transactions.
About Chardan
Chardan Capital Markets, LLC (Chardan) is an independent global investment bank specializing in healthcare, disruptive technologies, and SPACs. Our range of services include capital raising, merger and acquisition advisory, strategic advisory, equity research, corporate access, and institutional trading. Headquartered in New York City, Chardan is a registered broker-dealer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and is a member of the following: FINRA, SIPC, NASDAQ and the NYSE Arca, Inc.
Learn more about Chardan at www.chardan.com
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Mr Samuel Kow Donkoh, President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSG) has announced that the Society is in the final stages of receiving approval from government to stock and supply antigen tests for COVID-19.
He said the PSG had already received a grant of GHc315,000.00 from the global fund for implementation of the COVID-19 testing in community pharmacies across the country.
Mr Donkoh said this at the opening of the 2022 Annual General Meeting of the Society in Tamale to review its performance over the past year and discuss issues that would strengthen the role of medicines in the country's development.
The week-long event, which would end on September 4, is on the theme: “Optimising the Pharmaceutical Workforce in a Rapidly Evolving World”.
He led the new pharmacists to take the Membership Oath as he swore them into the Society.
It was attended by Alhaji Shani Alhassan Saibu, the Northern Regional Minister, who represented President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Nanton-Naa Mahamudu Bawa V, who represented Ya-Na Abukari II, and pharmacists across the country.
The Northern Regional Minister, joined by the other dignitaries, cut the sod for the construction of the PSG's pharmacy centre.
Mr Donkoh appealed to the Ministry of Health to expedite action on the approval of pharmacists to administer vaccines at community pharmacies in the country.
“Pharmacists' training has been enhanced to the health care demands of our time and it will be a great loss to the nation if their total potentials are not harnessed to the benefit of patients and the health system,” he said.
Mr Kwabena Boadu Oku-Afari, the Chief Director of the Ministry of Health, said the Ministry was working to ensure that community pharmacists were involved in activities of COVID-19 antigen testing and vaccinations.
The Ministry would collaborate with the PSG to expand the scope of pharmaceutical practices for the health and wellbeing of the population, he said.
Madam Mansa Nettey, the Chief Executive Officer of Standard Chartered Bank, who was the main speaker, said young pharmacists were top-notch talents capable of driving the next phase of the profession.
She appealed to relevant pharmaceutical bodies to ensure that no pharmacist was paid below the recommended minimum remuneration provided by the PSG.
She said pharmaceutical training must be leveraged on research, innovation and new models to ensure the industry met the world class standards, while calling on pharmacists to serve with pride to positively affect lives and save humanity.
Ya-Na Abukari II, Overlord of Dagbon, in a speech read on his behalf, said self-medication was on the increase due to media advertisements with claims of endorsement by the Food and Drugs Authority.
He advised the pharmacists to promote positive health behaviours coupled with drug prescription instructions to improve the health of citizens to reduce loss of manpower.
He appealed for support for local pharmaceutical companies to enable them to expand their businesses to reduce the cost of health care and provide employment for more people.
GNA | https://www.modernghana.com/news/1180802/pharmacists-to-stock-supply-antigen-tests-for.html | 2022-09-01T16:59:31Z | https://www.modernghana.com/news/1180802/pharmacists-to-stock-supply-antigen-tests-for.html | true | 4 |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Bird flu has returned to the Midwest earlier than authorities expected after a lull of several months, with the highly pathogenic disease being detected in two commercial turkey flocks in western Minnesota and a hobby flock in Indiana, officials said Wednesday.
The disease was detected after a farm in Meeker County reported an increase in mortality last weekend, the Minnesota Board of Animal Health said. The flock was euthanized to stop the spread. The board later reported that a second flock in the county tested positive Tuesday evening.
They were the first detections of avian influenza in Minnesota since May 31, when a backyard flock was struck in Becker County. Indiana’s case was its first since a backyard flock there tested positive June 8, which had been the last detection in the Midwest before this week.
However, there have been several detections in western states in July and August, including California, where a half-dozen commercial farms have had to kill more than 425,000 chickens and turkeys since last week. There have also been cases in Washington, Oregon and Utah, plus a few in some eastern states.
“While the timing of this detection is a bit sooner than we anticipated, we have been preparing for a resurgence of the avian influenza we dealt with this spring,” said Dr. Shauna Voss, the board’s senior veterinarian. “HPAI is here and biosecurity is the first line of defense to protect your birds.”
The Indiana State Board of Animal Health reported that a small hobby flock of chickens, ducks and geese in northern Indiana’s Elkhart County tested presumptively positive on Tuesday, though final confirmation from a federal lab was pending.
Across the country, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 414 flocks in 39 states have been affected since February, costing producers over 40 million birds, mostly commercial turkeys and chickens. The disease has struck 81 Minnesota flocks this year, requiring the killing of nearly 2.7 million birds.
Minnesota produces more turkeys annually than any other state.
This year’s outbreak contributed to a spike in egg and meat prices, and killed an alarming number of bald eagles and other wild birds. It also affected some zoos. It appeared to be waning in June, but officials warned then that another surge could take hold this fall.
The disease is typically carried by migrating birds. It only occasionally affects humans, such as farm workers, and the USDA keeps poultry from infected flocks out of the food supply. A widespread outbreak in 2015 killed 50 million birds across 15 states and cost the federal government nearly $1 billion. | https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/deadly-bird-flu-returns-to-the-midwest-earlier-than-expected/ | 2022-09-01T16:59:47Z | https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/deadly-bird-flu-returns-to-the-midwest-earlier-than-expected/ | false | 34 |
The 239-acre Eden Family Farm, located just off Pine Creek Road in La Crescent Township, has been in continuous agricultural operation since 1920, and received Century Farm recognition for 2022 at the Houston County Fair on Aug. 18.
Each year, the Minnesota State Fair and the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation work in conjunction on the Century Farm program to honor Minnesota families that have owned their farms for at least 100 years, are at least 50 acres in size and are currently involved in farming.
Century Farm families receive a commemorative outdoor sign, as well as a certificate signed by the president of the State Fair, president of the Minnesota Farm Bureau and the governor of Minnesota. The county presentation was made by Christopher and Jane Bjerke of Farm Bureau Financial Services in Caledonia.
The Century Farm Program was created in 1976 to promote agriculture and honor historic family farms in the state. There have been nearly 11,000 farms recognized as Century Farms and nearly 450 Sesquicentennial Farms since they began being recognized in 2008.
Current owner, Bernard J. Eden, was unable to be present for recognition at the fair, but accepted the award during a recent visit at Bethany Saint Joseph Care Center, where he currently resides for a short stay.
After Jane Bjerke visited with him, she commented that “Bernard is a true gentleman.” When asked what he thought about the century farm, he stated “Is many years. Please share that people are good people. Tell about the good things.” During the recognition at the fair, Bernard Eden’s nephew Gregory Wegner also shared history of the family farm.
One of the earliest property owners of this land was the Southern Minnesota Railway through a land grant to the Territory of Minnesota through an act of the U.S. Congress in 1857.
The year 1854, some seven years before the Civil War, is the earliest property abstract for the Eden Farm. Fortunately, Bernard Eden and his late brother Ti (Theodore III) preserved this valuable document over the years.
On July 14, 1920 Theodore Eden Jr. (II) and his brother Herman joined in a partnership to buy 240 acres of land consisting of forest, Pine Creek bottoms and tillable ground. The seller was Anna E. Schlabach, the wife of George Schlabach. The stone for the original foundation of the Eden barn, constructed in 1920, was cut from a quarry located near the northeast corner of the property. Not long after, a granary building emerged nearby. Both buildings remain standing, fully intact, to this day.
The brothers owned the farm for five years, then Theodore and his wife Sophie bought out Herman’s share of the property and owned it for 43 years. They had seven children, namely Ray, Henry, Eleanor, Theodore, Viola, Helen and Bernard. Bernard “Bernie” was born August 6, 1934 on the family farm, and has lived there his entire life except when he served in the Army.
Upon the death of Bernie’s father in 1968, Sophie inherited the farm. After a year, the farm was passed on to her two sons Bernie and Theodore III “Ti”, who worked the farm in a partnership lasting for 40 more years.
The sudden and tragic death of Bernie’s brother Ti in December of 2009 would lead to Bernie’s retirement not long after. In 2012, Bernie arranged for a public auction of his farm implements, which symbolized another big change on the farm.
After Bernie’s retirement, crop land rental arrangements were made with three area farmers including the Duwayne and Robert Johnson family, the Eugene and Jon Bauer family and the Erik Abnet family, who continue the tradition of corn and hay production to this day, and are good stewards of the land.
Last year Bernard’s huge cornfield was planted on April 22, 2021, a day before a big rainstorm so the field really soaked up the rain. It was a bumper crop last fall. Plus, there were five cuts of hay in one season. Bernie commented, it was the biggest cut since 1960.
Bernie is the current owner of this farm. His nephew Gregory Wegner and wife Paula have been caregivers for Bernie since March of 2021 and want to arrange things so that Bernie will be able to spend his last days on the farm where he was born. Part of Wegner’s motivation behind why they chose to be caregivers is that Gregory spent an important part of his childhood summers on the Eden farm.
In 1928, Theodore and Sophie deeded one acre of land to the La Crescent School District near the southeast corner for the construction of the Toledo School. The land donation was needed because a fire had destroyed the nearby country school located at what locals called the cat tail swamp area on Pine Creek Road. Bernie and his siblings attended this school.
While dairy farming remained a central part of life on the farm, the Eden’s also raised beef cattle, along with chickens and pigs. Bernie and brother Ti recalled frequent trips with the truck to the slaughter house in Eitzen, and also delivered their cans of milk to the creamery in Nodine. Crop production centered around corn, alfalfa and hay, which remains true to this day.
The Eden farm is located next to the Pine Creek Golf Course. As a kid, Gregory Wegner would pick up golf balls from the big Eden cornfield, which runs parallel to the first fairway.
Wegner explained, “This was brought to an abrupt end one day when Sylvester “Lefty” Krajewski, the long-time founder of the course since 1953, caught me trying to sell these golf balls to passing golfers as they left the first hole.
Lefty angrily lectured me that I was cutting into his bottom line since selling golf balls in the clubhouse was an important source of income for him. Wegner added, “Lefty and I had a real good laugh about this years later. Now, as an old man of 72, I am returning to the long and quiet rows of corn. Yes, I once again pick up golf balls in Bernie’s corn field.”
Wegner explained that now, he and Bernard donate refurbished golf balls to boys and girls golf teams of area high schools.
To date, over 500 golf balls each have been accepted by the La Crescent, Caledonia, Aquinas and Winona Senior High schools. “Bernie gets a real kick out of this and so do I,” Wegner commented, adding that they are awaiting word from two high school golf programs in Rochester. | https://www.hometownsource.com/caledonia/community/eden-family-farm-recognized-as-a-century-farm/article_7e596240-299f-11ed-8ca7-4bac28c332ec.html | 2022-09-01T17:00:27Z | https://www.hometownsource.com/caledonia/community/eden-family-farm-recognized-as-a-century-farm/article_7e596240-299f-11ed-8ca7-4bac28c332ec.html | true | 1 |
- Pique recently announced split from Shakira
- Speculation about reasons for breakup have upset him
- Defender yet to make appearance this season
WHAT HAPPENED? Since Pique announced his split from Shakira in June, rumours about his personal life have appeared in the Spanish media. He is now threatening to fight back against those reports with potential legal action.
WHAT THEY SAID: "Gerard Pique has always respected the activity of the media and their right to information, and is fully aware of the fundamental role they play in our society," part of a statement from Pique read. "However, in recent weeks there have been interferences that go beyond the limits of legality, for which our client has been forced to request precautionary measures of removal and take legal action against those who alter their family life and violate the rights of their children."
THE BIGGER PICTURE: Off-field distractions have been twinned with on-field disappointment to start the season for Pique. The veteran is yet to make an appearance for Barcelona, following the arrivals of Jules Kounde and Andreas Christensen in the summer.
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WHAT NEXT FOR PIQUE? Barcelona are next in action when they travel to Sevilla on Saturday, though Pique will likely be watching on from the bench once again. | https://www.goal.com/en-sa/news/gerard-pique-shakira-separation-legal-action/blt3eda818519a4c3ec | 2022-09-01T17:00:31Z | https://www.goal.com/en-sa/news/gerard-pique-shakira-separation-legal-action/blt3eda818519a4c3ec | false | 18 |
Debate on whether popular sports drink Gatorade is green or yellow goes viral & it’s completely divided people
IT'S common practice to refer to different types of Gatorade by it's color rather than flavor.
This universal practice has led to some confusion as people have recreated the viral blue and black dress debate, but this time with Gatorade colors.
The TikTok account for Tennessee Football shared a video which showed players debating about the color of Lemon-lime Gatorade.
"Is this Gatorade yellow or green?" one player asked his teammates, sparking a supposed age old debate.
He explained: "There’s been a lot of talk going on about what color lemon and lime Gatorade is and honestly man, I’m not here to sugar coat things bro, if you think this is yellow I need you to reevaluate your eyesight."
"It’s yellow, you’re psychotic. It’s yellow, bro. HOW IS THAT GREEN? LOOK AT THE GRASS," said one football pro, after his friend cornered him on the field.
Another Tennessee footballer agreed, calling the drink "highlighter yellow."
However, others agreed with "team green," branding the liquid "neon green."
When another player also answer yellow, the host of the video became exasperated.
He asked: "Where do you see yellow? Do you know what yellow looks like?"
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His fellow player stopped a passing golf cart and held the bottle up to it for comparison.
"Take a green grape, put it next to the Gatorade, you will see it’s the same exact color, bro," responded the original player.
The video included photographic evidence of the phenomenon, which had TikTok users questioning their eyesight in the comments section.
"It was yellow till you put that grape beside it," commented one confused viewer.
Another follower wrote: "Now I’m wondering if grapes are actually yellow."
"Not gonna lie, the green grape next to it has me re-evaluating my eyes," said another user.
A fourth person said: "If you tell me to grab you a yellow Gatorade, you're getting Lemon-Lime. Tell me to grab a green Gatorade, you're getting Fierce Green Apple!"
"Chartreuse, a color I have not seen. Looks to me like yellowish green!" commented another follower. | https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/19681090/debate-gatorade-green-or-yellow-divided-people/ | 2022-09-01T17:01:39Z | https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/19681090/debate-gatorade-green-or-yellow-divided-people/ | true | 4 |
By Staff Reporters
Sport Minister, Kirsty Coventry has pledged further government funding towards the national netball team, the Gems, who have been rewarded with US$11 000 for their Netball World Cup qualification.
The minister reaffirmed support as the country is set to participate in its second consecutive tournament.
Following their triumph over Zambia in a third place playoff in last week’s tournament in South Africa, the Gems will be among the four African countries to grace the global tournament.
Speaking at the Gems welcome reception organised by Spar in Harare Wednesday, Coventry said the team deserved US$11 000 as an appreciation gesture for representing the country well.
“As a Ministry we have come up with a new modified tier system of being able to give recognition to our athletes and teams when they come back from different ventures,” Coventry said.
“And that is allowing me to celebrate our Gems in a small way and show a small appreciation by awarding the team US$11 000.
“Today we witness the gains of hard work, resilience and preparation yielding the much-desired result in a team sport proving that with the right ingredients, it can be done. Not just for the Gems but for any other dedicated and committed team. I believe, therefore, this is the right time for us all to rally behind the Gems, support and ensure optimum participation of the Gems at the World Cup come Cape Town 2023,” said Coventry.
The former swimming world champion applauded retail giants SPAR for sponsoring the Gems, and encouraged other corporates to rally behind the team as they prepare for next year’s World Cup
“It is indeed uplifting to note that there are corporates which still believe in the potential residing in Zimbabwe sport.
“I would like to take this opportunity to invite other corporates to join Spar Zimbabwe in cushioning the Gems towards and during the 2023 World Cup preparations,” she said.
The ministry also pledged financial support as the side gears for the 2023 event.
“We know this, next year there is going to be support needed. We are ready to stand behind you, we are ready to walk beside you on this road to the 2023 Netball World Cup,” she said.
The Zimbabwe Netball Association president, Letitia Chipandu, applauded the Gems for their hard earned qualification, saying the team was now enjoying the fruits of efforts made over the years.
Proud netball sponsors Spar Zimbabwe general manager, Cypren Borerwe, said they are proud of the achievement by the Gems and look forward to continue supporting the team.
“Yes, most definitely we are looking ahead and hopefully we will continue with our partnership and sponsorship of the Gems all the way to the Netball World Cup in Cape Town next year, so definitely the partnership is ongoing,” Borerwe said.
Spar was proud with achievement done by the Gems and said their union will continue.
“Obviously we take pride in the work that has been done by the Gems and we feel that the Gems deserve all of our support and we obviously look forward to them continuing on that route,” said the general manager .
The 2023 Netball World Cup will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from July 28 to August 6. | https://www.newzimbabwe.com/heroic-gems-rewarded-coventry-pledges-more-state-funding-towards-netball-team/ | 2022-09-01T17:04:48Z | https://www.newzimbabwe.com/heroic-gems-rewarded-coventry-pledges-more-state-funding-towards-netball-team/ | false | 1 |
Like Serena Williams, Candace Parker is turning back the clock in WNBA playoffs | Opinion
Candace Parker was “hyped” as she walked back onto the court after halftime. Not by the Chicago Sky’s ruthless dismantling of the Connecticut Sun, which would even their semifinal series.
But by another game, one half the country away.
“I’m a Serena Williams fan,” Parker said. “To watch her dominate and play in this fashion, to beat the No. 2 player in the world, that’s crazy.”
No less crazy than what Parker is doing.
As Williams continues what could be her final run at a major championship at 40, an age when her peers have long since left the court, the 36-year-old Parker is playing some of the best basketball of her stellar career.
“When you have generational talents, they’re just too good and too dominant,” Sky coach James Wade said. “With the experience, it’s like Napa Valley. Great wine just ages well, and you can say the same thing about those two icons.”
Candace Parker lets playoff stats do the talking
Parker’s 22 points on Wednesday night led the Sky, who had all five starters score in double figures, and her three blocked shots were as many as the entire Sun team had. It was her 25th 20-point playoff game, trailing only Diana Taurasi (43) and Maya Moore (28).
Parker is averaging 16.8 points, 11.4 rebounds and 5.2 assists in the playoffs, an output over five games that only Brittney Griner has matched in the WNBA’s 26-year history. She leads the playoffs with 2.8 blocks per game, is second in rebounds, fifth in assists and ninth in scoring.
“It just talks about the mentality you have in the game, the mental strength. I know you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but we can better our tricks a little bit,” Parker said.
“I think the game slows down,” she added. “I think it’s working on the things you’re really good at, and playing more that mental game. I didn’t get to see (Williams’) whole game -- I’m going to go back and probably watch the whole match – (but) it’s impressive to see what she’s been able to do at this age.”
Parker is not as physically dominant as she was at Tennessee, where she led the Lady Vols to consecutive NCAA titles while winning Player of the Year honors in 2007 and 2008. Nor is she as overpowering as she was early in her WNBA career, when she was the MVP as a rookie in 2008 and again in 2013.
But she is, in many ways, even better. She has slowed, or staved off, the inevitable physical decline that age brings with added focus on her off-the-court work.
“Her fitness and strength and the intangibles she’s added late in her career is impressive,” said Connecticut Sun coach Curt Miller, who coached Parker when he was an assistant with the Los Angeles Sparks in 2015.
“It’s not to talk about in ‘15 she wasn’t,” Miller said. “But she is really fit and plays with a really high motor and is physical. Again, she doesn’t take plays off anymore. It’s impressive to watch, and I think it’s a big credit to her commitment to her fitness, nutrition, strength and conditioning.”
Knowing what it takes to win a championship
Parker’s experience also gives her a master class-level knowledge of the game, an understanding of what it takes to win a championship that she didn’t have earlier in her career.
Being the best player on the floor isn’t enough. She also has to lead before and after the games. In practice and in shootarounds. In the film room and in the training room. That, as much as her stats, is what makes her indispensable in this, the 14th year of her WNBA career.
“I don’t think there’s enough words. I think that’s your job to find them,” Sky center Emma Meesseman said.
Though Parker does not know how much longer she’ll play – she'll let her body tell her that – she knows she is closer to the end of her career than the beginning. But the urgency she feels has less to do with her age and more with knowing how precious these opportunities are, for any player.
It took Parker nine years to win her first WNBA title, and another five to win her second last year.
"This time of year is my favorite," Parker said. "I remember being in college and coach getting mad at me in the regular season because I was like, `I just can’t wait until the NCAA tournament.' Same thing for the WNBA playoffs. It’s so fun.
“There’s only four teams playing. Everybody has to watch us.”
There are players we watch, and those who command our attention. Even in the twilights of their careers, Williams and Parker are putting on the best show there is.
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Five Below (NASDAQ:FIVE – Get Rating) had its target price lifted by research analysts at Truist Financial from $154.00 to $156.00 in a research report issued on Thursday, The Fly reports. Truist Financial’s price objective indicates a potential upside of 21.99% from the company’s previous close.
FIVE has been the topic of a number of other research reports. Citigroup lowered their price target on Five Below from $187.00 to $170.00 in a report on Thursday. KeyCorp lowered their price target on Five Below from $190.00 to $172.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday. Craig Hallum lowered their target price on Five Below from $190.00 to $185.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Monday. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft increased their target price on Five Below from $204.00 to $205.00 in a report on Thursday. Finally, Morgan Stanley lowered their target price on Five Below from $150.00 to $140.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, July 20th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have given a hold rating and fifteen have given a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $174.95.
Five Below Stock Performance
Five Below stock opened at $127.88 on Thursday. Five Below has a fifty-two week low of $109.49 and a fifty-two week high of $221.00. The company has a market capitalization of $7.10 billion, a P/E ratio of 27.44, a PEG ratio of 1.32 and a beta of 1.33. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $127.61 and a 200-day simple moving average of $143.36.
Hedge Funds Weigh In On Five Below
A number of hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Acadian Asset Management LLC acquired a new position in Five Below in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $28,000. SJS Investment Consulting Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Five Below by 238.2% during the first quarter. SJS Investment Consulting Inc. now owns 186 shares of the specialty retailer’s stock valued at $29,000 after buying an additional 131 shares during the last quarter. Canada Pension Plan Investment Board raised its holdings in shares of Five Below by 93.0% during the first quarter. Canada Pension Plan Investment Board now owns 193 shares of the specialty retailer’s stock valued at $31,000 after buying an additional 93 shares during the last quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Five Below by 2,876.9% during the second quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. now owns 387 shares of the specialty retailer’s stock valued at $43,000 after buying an additional 374 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Archer Investment Corp bought a new stake in shares of Five Below during the first quarter valued at approximately $48,000. 96.51% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Five Below Company Profile
Five Below, Inc operates as a specialty value retailer in the United States. It offers accessories, including socks, sunglasses, jewelry, scarves, gloves, hair accessories, athletic tops and bottoms, and t-shirts, as well as nail polishes, lip glosses, fragrances, and branded cosmetics; and items used to complete and personalize living space, such as glitter lamps, posters, frames, fleece blankets, plush items, pillows, candles, incense, lighting, novelty décor, accent furniture, and related items, as well as provides storage options for the customers room.
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KABUL — One of the most striking sights at the National Museum of Afghanistan these days isn't inside the museum, but by its front gates.
Young, armed Taliban guards protect the entrance, searching visitors before they enter the museum grounds.
The last time the Taliban were in power, at the direction of then-leader Mullah Muhammad Omar, they smashed ancient statues and other objects in this museum that they deemed un-Islamic and idolatrous.
That was in 2001 — the same year the Taliban also blew up two ancient, colossal Buddha statues carved into a cliffside in the city of Bamiyan. By the end of that year, the Taliban were toppled.
And so when they returned to power a year ago, many cultural heritage advocates worried about the fate of the museum and its irreplaceable treasures.
"The National Museum of Afghanistan was, once upon a time, the finest museum in Central Asia, and that is not an exaggeration," says Laura Tedesco, a cultural heritage and preservation specialist with the State Department who has worked with Afghan museum staff over the years.
She recalls visiting when the galleries were full of prehistoric figurines, ancient Buddhist artifacts and life-size human figure statues — all of it capturing the country's diverse blend of cultures over millennia.
"The artifacts on display were exquisite and Louvre-worthy in their quality," says Tedesco. "The diversity of culture evidenced in those artifacts is unique to Afghanistan because it was this cultural crossroads, and armies and thinkers and religions and influencers crisscrossed [it]."
Changes at the museum
After the Taliban seized control of the capital last August, the museum closed. Museum staff and others were uncertain the group would honor its pledge months earlier to protect the country's cultural heritage and prevent the looting of ancient artifacts.
When the museum eventually reopened in December, it was a hopeful sign to cultural heritage advocates that things might be different this time under Taliban rule.
The museum used to draw an array of visitors, from foreign dignitaries to busloads of schoolchildren. Now, with Afghanistan's economy in ruins, few seem to come by anymore. In a recent two-hour visit to the museum, NPR encountered no other visitors.
A museum employee says things are going fine, and with the arrival of the Taliban, "there was no obstacle for our work. Everything is going as normal as it was before." NPR is not naming museum employees for their security.
In walking through the museum, NPR saw displays of centuries-old ceramic bowls glazed in vibrant greens and blues, and ancient urns with Quranic verses meticulously etched into the sides.
There are hoards of coins, some so gold they almost glow. One room features wooden totems from a remote part of Afghanistan, and old weapons embellished with intricate mother-of-pearl inlay.
A large sign in English on the third floor reads "Buddhist Heritage of Afghanistan." But there are only three small, plaster Buddhist heads on display, dating back to 2nd and 3rd centuries.
Much of the rest is labeled contemporary, including a marble coffee table with jasper inlay, and the year 2000 carved into it.
Another employee dismisses it all as "kids' art."
He points to a television. "We used to show a film about the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas on that TV," he says — adding that it's been unplugged since last August.
Ideology isn't the only threat to Afghan cultural heritage
As the Taliban advanced toward Kabul last year, archeologist Gil Stein watched with great trepidation from afar. As the director of the Chicago Center for Cultural Heritage Preservation, he'd had conversations with museum staff over the years about emergency plans, including what to do in case the Taliban took over again.
"One of the first things that [museum staff] did was they took all of the early Buddhist art off display in the galleries, and they put it into the storerooms," says Stein. "The second thing is, they started to be very, very careful in their public communications."
So far, it's hard for experts to know what to make of the Taliban's pledge to protect cultural heritage. In more remote parts of the country, Stein and others worry about the security of less visible sites without the means to take precautions to protect objects.
And ideology may not be the only threat. Looting of ancient sites has caused destruction for decades. And in the case of the massive ancient Buddhist complex at Mes Aynak, about 25 miles south of Kabul, it sits atop a copper deposit believed to be one of the biggest in the world.
This archaeological site was already in danger due to proposed Chinese mining activity that was agreed under a previous Afghan administration. The mining stalled, but this week, the Taliban acting minister of mines and petroleum said officials are "working quickly" to revive and resume the project. For a cash-strapped Taliban government, the lure of business opportunities may overwhelm other considerations.
"One of the biggest risks to Afghan cultural heritage right now is not necessarily the Taliban blowing up or smashing statues, but rather out of the need for economic development, they simply are not going to care about the damage that might be done," says Stein. "It's a perfect storm of risks."
But he says there's reason for hope that heritage can be protected under the Taliban.
"It is possible," he says. "It would be a terrible mistake for the West to write them off completely. There is space to negotiate things. I think that's almost always true in Afghanistan, but we all have to be very cautious on it because, in so many domains, the Taliban have been violating their promises."
Under the Taliban, so far, it seems the museum is being spared the worst from its past. But it's also not clear that it can return to what it once was anytime soon.
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KEY WEST, Fla., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Better Than Sex - A Dessert Restaurant is ready to seduce your senses with the launch of their enhanced Between My Red Velvet Sheets Cheesecake. The brand that reimagined intimate dining with desserts being the main event will be serving up their newest version of the red velvet cheesecake starting on Thursday, September 8, 2022. The cheesecake will be available at all six Better Than Sex locations.
"We are ecstatic to introduce a newer version of our Between My Red Velvet Sheets Cheesecake with its silky and sensual texture," said Len Johnson, CEO & Co-Founder of Better Than Sex. "We've massaged the recipe for this creamy cheesecake that we're sure will delight the senses and is one that guests can indulge in with that special person or persons."
At Better Than Sex, size matters. The newest version of the Between My Red Velvet Sheets Cheesecake takes cheesecake with considerable girth and lays it on top of a seductively dark chocolate cookie crust. The cheesecake is covered in a silky chocolate frosting and a tease of strawberry that will tantalize your senses.
Better Than Sex restaurants invite guests to an intimate ambiance with their dimly lit dining rooms. Their tables generally accommodate two to four guests to keep the experience cozy. The dessert restaurant offers private booths and tables that are enclosed on three sides. Throughout the dining room, guests can feast their eyes on lovers' art, partial nude profiles, and other sophisticated-sexy décor that spur on romantic dining experiences for every sense.
In addition to their sensual desserts, Better Than Sex is known for their signature chocolate & caramel rimmed drinks, allowing you to lick and sip. All locations feature wine and beer with four locations offering spirits. For those who want to be sweet and sexy at home, all locations offer third-party delivery. Menus may vary by location.
For more information, visit www.betterthansexdesserts.com or follow them on Facebook or Instagram.
Better Than Sex - A Dessert Restaurant was conceived in Key West, FL by husband and wife duo Len and Dani Johnson. What started as a desire for dessert and a passion for baking has turned into a franchise with locations in Greenville, SC; Key West, FL; Los Angeles; Nashville, TN; Orlando, FL; Savannah, GA; and Plano, TX. The brand serves up desserts and beverages with a little naughty on the side.
Better Than Sex – A Dessert Restaurant offers an intimate speak-easy atmosphere and caters to date-nights for a mature audience.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the European Union opens its new office in San Francisco, California, a global centre for digital technology and innovation. The office will reinforce the EU's cooperation with the United States on digital diplomacy and strengthen the EU's capacity to reach out to key public and private stakeholders, including policy makers, the business community, and civil society in the digital technology sector.
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, Josep Borrell, said: "The opening of the office in San Francisco responds to the EU's commitment to strengthen transatlantic technological cooperation and to drive the global digital transformation based on democratic values and standards. It is a concrete step to further reinforce the EU's work on issues such as cyber and countering hybrid threats, and foreign information manipulation and interference."
As a world leader in digital solutions and in developing policies and rules that support a human-centric vision of the Internet and digital technologies, the EU has focused on creating valuable partnerships in like-minded countries around the world, notably with the United States.
The opening of the office is a result of the 2021 EU-US Summit shared commitment to strengthen transatlantic technological cooperation and is a core part of the Conclusions on Digital Diplomacy, adopted by the EU Foreign Affairs Council in July of this year.
The EU office in San Francisco will seek to promote EU standards and technologies, digital policies and regulations and governance models, and to strengthen cooperation with US stakeholders, including by advancing the work of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council.
The office will work under the authority of the EU Delegation in Washington, DC, in close coordination with Headquarters in Brussels and in partnership with EU Member States consulates in the San Francisco Bay Area. It will be headed by Gerard de Graaf, a senior Commission official who has worked extensively on digital policies, most recently on the EU's landmark new platform laws, the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act. The office will initially be co-located with the Irish Consulate.
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Leeward Financial Partners LLC acquired a new stake in Shopify Inc. (NYSE:SHOP – Get Rating) (TSE:SHOP) in the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The firm acquired 391 shares of the software maker’s stock, valued at approximately $264,000.
Other large investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. Maryland Capital Management increased its stake in shares of Shopify by 45.7% in the first quarter. Maryland Capital Management now owns 319 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $216,000 after buying an additional 100 shares during the period. Polen Capital Management LLC raised its stake in shares of Shopify by 188.9% in the first quarter. Polen Capital Management LLC now owns 54,902 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $37,112,000 after acquiring an additional 35,901 shares during the period. Makena Capital Management LLC lifted its holdings in Shopify by 19.2% during the 1st quarter. Makena Capital Management LLC now owns 16,954 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $11,460,000 after buying an additional 2,731 shares in the last quarter. Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC boosted its stake in Shopify by 66.6% in the first quarter. Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC now owns 2,898 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $1,959,000 after acquiring an additional 1,158 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Biondo Investment Advisors LLC increased its holdings in shares of Shopify by 128.4% in the first quarter. Biondo Investment Advisors LLC now owns 2,805 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $1,896,000 after purchasing an additional 1,577 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 54.64% of the company’s stock.
Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth
Several brokerages recently commented on SHOP. TD Securities dropped their price target on Shopify from $40.00 to $39.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, July 28th. Jefferies Financial Group reduced their price target on Shopify from $47.50 to $40.00 in a report on Wednesday, July 27th. National Bankshares set a $75.00 target price on shares of Shopify and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, June 30th. Citigroup cut their price target on shares of Shopify from $43.20 to $37.00 in a report on Tuesday, July 26th. Finally, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group reduced their price target on Shopify from $53.00 to $40.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, July 28th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, seventeen have issued a hold rating and nineteen have assigned a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $72.49.
Shopify Stock Performance
Shopify (NYSE:SHOP – Get Rating) (TSE:SHOP) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, July 27th. The software maker reported ($0.14) EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.10) by ($0.04). Shopify had a negative return on equity of 1.61% and a negative net margin of 38.01%. The business had revenue of $1.30 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.33 billion. As a group, analysts predict that Shopify Inc. will post -0.46 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Shopify Profile
Shopify Inc, a commerce company, provides a commerce platform and services in Canada, the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. The company's platform enables merchants to displays, manages, markets, and sells its products through various sales channels, including web and mobile storefronts, physical retail locations, pop-up shops, social media storefronts, native mobile apps, buy buttons, and marketplaces; and enables to manage products and inventory, process orders and payments, fulfill and ship orders, new buyers and build customer relationships, source products, leverage analytics and reporting, manage cash, payments and transactions, and access financing.
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Triple H continues to get the black-and-gold band back together. After it was confirmed Brian “Road Dogg” James was replacing Jeff Jarrett as the executive in charge of WWE live events, word went around the long-time NXT creative producer Ryan Katz was also on his way back to the company. James and Katz were both released along with others from Haitch’s NXT team back in January.
A former independent wrestler who worked as “G. Q. Money” for XPW in the aughts, Katz originally worked with WWE doing motion capture for video games. His most high profile on-screen moment was probably as a fellow student in Team Hell No (Kane & Daniel Bryan)’s Anger Management class*.
Katz has been podcasting with Road Dogg, and it was on the latest episode of Oh...You Didn’t Know that he confirmed he’s been re-hired by Triple H. He doesn’t really know what he’ll be doing, but to hear James tell it, there are lots of places Katz will be able to help out the new regime.
Katz: It’s going to be interesting because I’m still trying to figure out if that is exactly what I’m doing or not.
James: The job you did before, I don’t know if you had a billet or a title but you wore a ton of hats and I knew for a fact that when the regime changed, they’d have you back because I know the people who run the Performance Center valued you.
Will more names be returning behind-the-scenes? We’ll keep you posted.
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Shares of Archer Daniels Midland Co.
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inched 0.37% higher to $87.89 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around grim trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
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- The claim filed on behalf of Mr. Nasib Hasanov against the Georgian National Communications Commission has been in most respects satisfied in favour of Mr. Hasanov
"The new decision issued by a Georgian court in the case brought by Nasib Hasanov against the Georgian regulator followed an earlier decision of the ICSID Arbitration Tribunal in the case brought by Mr. Hasanov against the State of Georgia. The decision announced on April 19, 2022 dismissed the Georgian government's jurisdictional objections and the case has now moved to a full hearing on damages and compensation," commented NEQSOL Holding press service.
TBILISI, Georgia, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Earlier this week, Tbilisi City Court issued a new decision in the case of "Nasib Hasanov v. Georgian National Communications Commission" that satisfied all but several claims the representatives of Mr. Hasanov had filed against the Georgian National Communications Commission ("GNCC") on July 5, 2021.
The two defamatory articles against the claimant were posted on the GNCC website as well as on the official Facebook page, in English and Georgian. By approaching the Tbilisi City Court, Mr. Hasanov's representatives sought to prove that the press releases published by the Georgian National Communications Commission on March 24 and 26, 2021 were substantially false and intended to defame and damage claimant's business reputation. After extensive hearings, the Tbilisi City Court decided to satisfy Mr. Hasanov's claim on August 12, 2022, confirming that most of the Commission's statements were false and without basis.
It further ordered the Commission to publish on its official website and Facebook page the information regarding the Court's decision, confirming that the statement made against Mr. Hasanov were false and defamatory.
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Alight Inc. (NYSE: ALIT) is -27.10% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $6.31 and a high of $13.34 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The ALIT stock was last observed hovering at around $7.90 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.02% off its average median price target of $12.00 for the next 12 months. It is also 34.33% off the consensus price target high of $12.00 offered by 3 analysts, but current levels are 28.36% higher than the price target low of $11.00 for the same period.
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Currently trading at $7.88, the stock is -4.41% and 3.33% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.21 million and changing -0.25% at the moment leaves the stock -12.51% off its SMA200. ALIT registered -28.30% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -22.21%.
The stock witnessed a 5.07% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -5.85%, and is -2.23% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 3.12% over the week and 3.56% over the month.
Alight Inc. (ALIT) has around 16000 employees, a market worth around $4.30B and $2.99B in sales. Fwd P/E is 11.73. Profit margin for the company is 0.20%. Distance from 52-week low is 24.88% and -40.93% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (2.10%).
Alight Inc. (ALIT) Analyst Forecasts
Analyst recommendations provided by FactSet shows that the consensus forecast for Alight Inc. (ALIT) is a “Buy”. 3 analysts offering their recommendations for the stock have an average rating of 2.00, where 0 rate it as a Hold and 0 think it is a “Overweight”. 3 of the analysts rate the stock as a “Buy”. 0 analysts have rated the stock as a Sell or Underperform.
Alight Inc. is expected to release its quarterly report on 11/08/2022.The EPS is expected to grow by 38.20% this year
Alight Inc. (ALIT) Top Institutional Holders
The shares outstanding are 457.85M, and float is at 428.93M with Short Float at 3.58%.
Alight Inc. (ALIT) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider purchase by Massey Richard N, the company’s Director. SEC filings show that Massey Richard N bought 10,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Apr 01 at a price of $9.54 per share for a total of $95389.0. Following the purchase, the insider now owns 0.39 million shares.
Alight Inc. disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on Mar 31 that FOLEY WILLIAM P II (Director) sold a total of 189,329 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on Mar 31 and was made at $10.02 per share for $1.9 million. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 12.87 million shares of the ALIT stock.
Still, SEC filings show that on Mar 30, FOLEY WILLIAM P II (Director) disposed off 302,305 shares at an average price of $10.18 for $3.08 million. The insider now directly holds 13,064,102 shares of Alight Inc. (ALIT). | https://newsrts.com/2022/09/01/which-institutions-own-shares-in-alight-inc-alit/ | 2022-09-01T17:17:11Z | https://newsrts.com/2022/09/01/which-institutions-own-shares-in-alight-inc-alit/ | true | 2147 |
Oscar Health Inc. (NYSE:OSCR) went down by -2.79% from its latest closing price compared to the recent 1-year high of $18.89. The company’s stock price has collected -6.49% of loss in the last five trading sessions. Barron’s reported on 03/03/21 that Oscar Health, Backed by Josh Kushner, Falls Below Its IPO Price
Is It Worth Investing in Oscar Health Inc. (NYSE :OSCR) Right Now?
Opinions of the stock are interesting as 2 analysts out of 7 who provided ratings for Oscar Health Inc. declared the stock was a “buy,” while 0 rated the stock as “overweight,” 3 rated it as “hold,” and 1 as “sell.”
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The average price from analysts is $8.07, which is $1.44 above the current price. OSCR currently public float of 150.86M and currently shorts hold a 5.35% ratio of that float. Today, the average trading volume of OSCR was 1.82M shares.
OSCR’s Market Performance
OSCR stocks went down by -6.49% for the week, with a monthly jump of 20.11% and a quarterly performance of 41.06%, while its annual performance rate touched -57.47%. The volatility ratio for the week stands at 3.45% while the volatility levels for the past 30 days are set at 5.07% for Oscar Health Inc. The simple moving average for the period of the last 20 days is -4.77% for OSCR stocks with a simple moving average of -6.98% for the last 200 days.
Analysts’ Opinion of OSCR
Many brokerage firms have already submitted their reports for OSCR stocks, with BofA Securities repeating the rating for OSCR by listing it as a “Underperform.” The predicted price for OSCR in the upcoming period, according to BofA Securities is $4.50 based on the research report published on June 15th of the current year 2022.
BofA Securities, on the other hand, stated in their research note that they expect to see OSCR reach a price target of $6, previously predicting the price at $12. The rating they have provided for OSCR stocks is “Neutral” according to the report published on May 26th, 2022.
Goldman gave a rating of “Sell” to OSCR, setting the target price at $9 in the report published on February 14th of the current year.
OSCR Trading at 15.99% from the 50-Day Moving Average
After a stumble in the market that brought OSCR to its low price for the period of the last 52 weeks, the company was unable to rebound, for now settling with -64.90% of loss for the given period.
Volatility was left at 5.07%, however, over the last 30 days, the volatility rate increased by 3.45%, as shares surge +12.76% for the moving average over the last 20 days. Over the last 50 days, in opposition, the stock is trading +52.41% upper at present.
During the last 5 trading sessions, OSCR fell by -6.49%, which changed the moving average for the period of 200-days by -45.57% in comparison to the 20-day moving average, which settled at $7.00. In addition, Oscar Health Inc. saw -15.54% in overturn over a single year, with a tendency to cut further losses.
Insider Trading
Reports are indicating that there were more than several insider trading activities at OSCR starting from Quane Alessandrea C., who sale 11,300 shares at the price of $5.01 back on Jun 06. After this action, Quane Alessandrea C. now owns 131,018 shares of Oscar Health Inc., valued at $56,657 using the latest closing price.
Blackley Richard Scott, the Chief Financial Officer of Oscar Health Inc., sale 19,546 shares at $5.01 during a trade that took place back on Jun 06, which means that Blackley Richard Scott is holding 264,307 shares at $98,002 based on the most recent closing price.
Stock Fundamentals for OSCR
Current profitability levels for the company are sitting at:
- -29.61 for the present operating margin
The net margin for Oscar Health Inc. stands at -31.14. Equity return is now at value -43.50, with -15.40 for asset returns.
The liquidity ratio also appears to be rather interesting for investors as it stands at 1.32. | https://newsheater.com/2022/09/01/oscar-health-inc-oscr-reveals-an-earnings-mystery/ | 2022-09-01T17:17:46Z | https://newsheater.com/2022/09/01/oscar-health-inc-oscr-reveals-an-earnings-mystery/ | true | 17415 |
'Every day I grieve a little bit more': Leeds librarian's battle to deal with husband's dementia induced hallucinations and violent outbursts
A woman from Guiseley who has seen five members of her family affected by dementia has spoken of caring for her husband who suffered from violent outbursts.
Before being moved into the care system, Carol Cook cared for her husband Colin who suffered from hallucinations and violent outbursts as a result of his dementia.
Both her husband and ex-husband are living with dementia, and her mother, mother-in-law and aunty all died with the condition.
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Former library manager Carol, 66, said: “He’s 78 and for the past three years has been in the care system, with most of that time spent in a nursing home. The six months before he went into care were the most difficult for me.
“He was having hallucinations and could sometimes turn violent – he wasn’t safe and neither was I. Now I visit him every day and it’s hard, but I love him and want to be with him."
Colin was diagnosed with diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the age of 65, a month before he retired. He was later diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, which Carol describes as “the dominant condition”.
“I honestly don’t know how I’ve coped. You just have to. I’d been coping with his Parkinson’s for many years before the dementia diagnosis, so you just adapt.” she said.
Having previously cared for her mother who died from the disease, Carol described her husband’s diagnosis as being “déjà vu”.
“I’d seen the effects of dementia before with my mum, Colin’s mum and aunty, so there was an element of déjà vu when it came to Colin. I thought to myself, ‘I’ve been here before’ and I’m just going to have to get on with it,” she said.
“Every day I grieve a little bit more, and it’s an on-going grief that never goes away. When someone dies, the grief does eventually get better, but with dementia it doesn’t – it gets compounded as the condition progresses.
“Having said that, I do still get occasional glimpses of the man I married. I’ll arrive at the nursing home and say, ‘hello gorgeous man’ and he’ll reply ‘hello lovely lady’ which is what we’d always say to one another. I call those moments ‘golden nuggets’ – and you store them in your heart.”
Carol is set to join hundreds of fundraisers going the extra mile for Alzheimer’s Society at Leeds Memory Walk.
The forthcoming Memory Walk on the historic Temple Newsam Estate will be Carol’s first. She will be accompanied by her daughter Heather, son David, his wife Laura, and their two children Bethany, 13, and Isla, eight.
Carol added: “We’re calling ourselves The Grandies, a name chosen by my grandchildren. We’re all looking forward to what I’m sure will be a wonderful day. We’re hoping to have a lot of fun while raising awareness of dementia.”
Alzheimer’s Society is encouraging people in and around Leeds to join Carol and her family on Saturday, October 1, to help people affected by dementia through some of the hardest and most frightening times.
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Shares of Eastman Kodak Co.
KODK,
-2.77%
slipped 1.28% to $5.41 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
-1.76%
falling 0.56% to 11,816.20 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-0.19%
falling 0.88% to 31,510.43. This was the stock's fourth consecutive day of losses. Eastman Kodak Co. closed $2.42 below its 52-week high ($7.83), which the company achieved on October 19th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Wednesday, as Canon Inc. ADR
CAJ,
-2.26%
fell 2.81% to $23.88, HP Inc.
HPQ,
-2.75%
fell 7.68% to $28.71, and FUJIFILM Holdings Corp. ADR
FUJIY,
-0.77%
fell 0.49% to $50.79. Trading volume (458,919) remained 548,448 below its 50-day average volume of 1.0 M.
Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use. | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/eastman-kodak-co-stock-outperforms-competitors-despite-losses-on-the-day-01661977843-96f785c165b0 | 2022-09-01T17:21:25Z | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/eastman-kodak-co-stock-outperforms-competitors-despite-losses-on-the-day-01661977843-96f785c165b0 | false | 7 |
European stocks decreased Wednesday, as the Stoxx Europe 600 index
SXXP,
-1.80%
finished down 1.12% to 415.12.
The French CAC 40 index
PX1,
-1.48%
dropped 1.37% to 6,125.10, the FTSE 100 index
UKX,
-1.86%
dropped 1.05% to 7,284.15 and the German DAX
DAX,
-1.60%
weakened 0.97% to 12,834.96.
Of the Stoxx Europe 600 constituents, publishing company Wolters Kluwer N.V.
WKL,
+0.10%
saw the largest decrease Wednesday, as shares fell 6.2%
Shares of multiutilities firm Hera S.p.A.
HER,
+0.04%
and non-ferrous metals company KGHM Polska Miedz S.A.
KGH,
-4.84%
fell 6.0% and 5.6%, respectively.
bioMerieux S.A.
BIM,
-2.21%,
a medical equipment/supplies company, and food retail company Dino Polska S.A.
DNP,
-2.39%
rounded out the top five largest decreases as their stocks fell 5.6% and 4.4%, respectively.
L.E. Lundbergfoeretagen AB Series B
LUND.B,
-4.73%,
an investment advisors company, saw the largest increase of the Stoxx Europe 600 constituents, as shares gained 6.0% on Wednesday.
Shares of software firm Temenos AG
TEMN,
-7.26%
and advertising/marketing/public relations company Adevinta ASA
ADE,
-2.53%
increased 4.9% and 4.7%, respectively.
UniCredit S.p.A.
UCG,
-1.09%,
a banking company, and networking business Nokia Corp.
NOKIA,
-0.66%
rounded out the top five largest increases as their stocks increased 4.5% and 4.4%, respectively.
The pound
GBPUSD,
-0.68%
was down 0.14% against the dollar, and the euro
EURUSD,
-1.08%
was up 0.50%. Brent crude
US:BRN00
declined 0.76% to $97.10.
The yield on the 10-year gilt
TMBMKGB-10Y,
2.882%
fell 3.47 basis points to 2.801%, and the yield on the German 10-year bund
TMBMKDE-10Y,
1.562%
declined 0.022 basis points to 1.54%.
Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use. | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/european-stocks-continue-losing-streak-fall-for-fourth-day-01661961696-6af9c2cad8ed | 2022-09-01T17:22:08Z | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/european-stocks-continue-losing-streak-fall-for-fourth-day-01661961696-6af9c2cad8ed | true | 1 |
Prosecutors in St. Louis County, Missouri, have filed a request to vacate the murder conviction of Lamar Johnson, who has been behind bars for more than 27 years for a crime they believe he didn't commit, officials said Wednesday.
Johnson was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole after he was convicted of murder in the killing of Marcus Boyd in 1995.
But an investigation by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner alleged misconduct by prosecutors and police at the time. The sole eyewitness who testified at trial later recanted, and two other people later signed sworn affidavits confessing to involvement in Boyd's murder.
Gardner's office had previously asked for a new trial for Johnson, but a judge ruled in August 2019 that the court did not have the authority to do so because the motion was filed after the mandated deadline of 15 days after the verdict.
The new motion from the circuit attorney's office invokes a year-old state law that allows a judge to set aside a judgment at the request of prosecutors when there is "clear and convincing evidence of actual innocence."
"We are hopeful that the court will hear our motion and correct this manifest injustice on behalf of Mr. Johnson to strengthen the integrity of our criminal justice system," Gardner said Wednesday in a statement.
Johnson's defense attorneys echoed those sentiments in a statement Wednesday.
"We hope that today's detailed motion marks the beginning of the end of Lamar's road to freedom," Johnson's defense attorneys said in a statement. "We have long said the truth always finds a way, and that Lamar only needed a chance to tell it. The time has finally come."
Dwight Warren, the prosecutor who led the case at the time, told CNN in 2019 that the allegations of prosecutorial misconduct were "outlandish" and a "one-sided hatchet job."
Johnson, who is from St. Louis, already spent more than half his life in prison over the killing of Boyd, who was fatally shot in 1994 on the front porch of his apartment by two masked men.
At the time, police said Johnson and another man, Phillip Campbell, shot Boyd after what witnesses suggested was a drug dispute.
But Campbell and a man named James Howard later signed sworn affidavits admitting they killed Boyd and that Johnson was not involved, according to court documents.
Campbell, who died in recent years, was sentenced to seven years for his role in Boyd's death, according to Johnson's attorney, Lindsay Runnels. He served less than six years, she said. Howard was serving a life sentence for a homicide committed after Boyd's murder, she said.
A 2019 report from the Conviction Integrity Unit in Gardner's office cited many errors and examples of misconduct by police and prosecutors that deprived Johnson of a fair trial. Conviction integrity units have been created in various US cities to review post-conviction claims of innocence and exonerate wrongfully convicted defendants.
"Johnson's case is ultimately about innocence," the report said. "Johnson did not shoot Boyd and had nothing to do with Boyd's murder, and he should not be in prison for the crime. Imprisonment of an innocent person constitutes a 'manifest injustice.'"
The 70-page report concluded that the lone eyewitness to the shooting received more than $4,000 in payments from prosecutors "to identify Johnson as one of the shooters." The payments were listed as moving expenses, utilities, storage and other items.
The witness, Greg Elking, later said the state also helped him resolve several outstanding traffic violations. The report highlighted that information was not disclosed to Johnson's defense lawyers at the time of his trial.
Warren in 2019 told CNN the witness "may have been compensated out of fear for his life and we may have relocated him, but this was 25 years ago and I cannot tell you with certainty."
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Jewel, Third Eye Blind, Styx and more share memorable moments about their first cars; Cover Song Challenge gives fans a chance to win concert tickets
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Concert season is back and Mercury Insurance (NYSE: MCY) and Live Nation have partnered once again to connect music fans with the artists they love through Mercury's "My First Car" series, a personal look at some of the world's best known musicians and the fond memories behind the wheel of their first car.
"We know that many music fans have been anxiously waiting for the moment they could see their favorite artists back on stage," said Erik Thompson, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Mercury Insurance. "Not only do fans have the opportunity to see live shows again, but the return of Mercury's 'My First Car' video series allows them to connect with their favorite artists in a way that was once only granted by a VIP experience. Through the shared experience of reliving fond memories of our first cars, we thought it would be fun to ask artists about their favorite moments behind the wheel."
Featured musicians for this year's Mercury Insurance 'My First Car' Series include:
- Styx
- Train
- Jewel
- Third Eye Blind
- George Thorogood
All of the artist videos, including the new season trailer, are available at https://www.mercuryinsurance.com/myfirstcar/
Mercury recognizes the powerful connection music has and the fun that is singing along to your favorite artist's songs. Today, Mercury announces the "Cover Song Challenge" singalong contest that gives fans a chance to win tickets to a FivePoint Amphitheatre show this season by posting a video of themselves singing along to one of their favorite songs.
Fans who sing a song from any artist in the 2022 FivePoint Amphitheatre lineup and post their performance on Instagram Reels or TikTok using the hashtags #coveredwithmercury and #sweeps are eligible to win two free tickets to a 2022 concert at FivePoint.
"We are really excited and ready for the return of live music and there's no better way to celebrate than gifting fans tickets to a show," Thompson said.
For more information on how to enter to win as well as access to Mercury Insurance's 2022 concert series, visit https://www.mercuryinsurance.com/music/.
Mercury Insurance (NYSE: MCY) is a multiple-line insurance carrier predominantly offering personal auto, homeowners, renters and commercial insurance through a network of independent agents in Arizona, California, Illinois, Georgia, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia, as well as auto insurance in Florida. Mercury writes other lines of insurance in various states, including business owners and business auto, landlord, home-sharing, ride-hailing and mechanical protection insurance.
Since 1962, Mercury has provided customers with tremendous value for their insurance dollar by pairing ultracompetitive rates with excellent customer service. Mercury has earned "A" ratings from A.M. Best and Fitch, as well as ranking highest in the J.D. Power 2021 U.S. Insurance Digital Experience StudySM and four consecutive "Best Auto Insurance Company" awards from Insure.com. For more information visit MercuryInsurance.com or follow the company on Twitter or Facebook.
Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) is the world's leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. For additional information, visit https://www.livenationentertainment.com/.
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Harrowing video caught the moment a New Jersey collapsed to the ground after learning her 2-year-old daughter had died after being left in the family’s car for hours in searing 90-degree temperatures.
A WABC news chopper filmed the unidentified mom on the ground outside her Franklin Township home Tuesday — soon after a neighbor said she heard her “screaming in pain and anguish.”
A local cop bends down to try to console her, with the footage showing them rocking side to side while embraced in a tight hug.
The mom was so distraught she was eventually taken away in an ambulance, neighbors told NBC New York.
The child’s parents had both been unaware that their toddler had been left to her death in the hot car until cops knocked on their door, neighbors also told NBC New York.
“They were just screaming in pain and anguish,” neighbor Treana Huntley recalled to WABC.
“I heard the dad screaming uncontrollably and then I heard the mom start wailing, really sobbing,” Huntley said.
“It was gut-wrenching… Just hearing that pain from another mother,” she said. “I wouldn’t wish that on anybody.”
The toddler was found in a car seat in the back of the gray Honda Civic just after 2:20 p.m. Tuesday, officials said.
One of the first neighbors on the scene was a local firefighter who attempted CPR, but the girl was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.
Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office said “further investigation is on-going to determine the exact length of time the child was in the vehicle, and the circumstances surrounding the events leading to this incident.”
However, sources told NBC New York that the toddler appears to have been left in the car more than seven hours. It was not clear where the parents thought the child was at the time, the outlet noted.
The temperature at nearby Somerset Airport at 2 p.m., just before the dead girl was found, was 90 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
It is already being listed as the 22nd hot-car death so far this year in a heartbreaking tally kept by the organization Kids and Car Safety.
“This is the kind of tragedy that doesn’t discriminate. It has to do with a failure of the brain’s memory, in many cases,” the group’s Sue Auriemma told NBC New York.
“Unfortunately the worst mistake a parent can make is thinking this can’t happen to them.” | https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/nj-mom-collapses-after-learning-toddler-died-in-hot-car/ | 2022-09-01T17:36:27Z | https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/nj-mom-collapses-after-learning-toddler-died-in-hot-car/ | false | 1 |
Disneyland has rolled out the green carpet with more artificial turf over the past few weeks and months as part of a drought-fighting water conservation effort that has largely gone unnoticed — and that’s the goal.
But sharp-eyed Disneyland fans may start noticing the change from natural to synthetic grass throughout the park starting this week.
New artificial turf around the Mickey floral planter at the Disneyland entrance and the Haunted Mansion front lawn will be unveiled on Friday, Sept. 2 when Halloween Time kicks off at the Anaheim theme park.
Disneyland’s phased approach of adding artificial turf in select locations every few weeks is about to pick up speed as a drought-tolerant approach to saving water.
The Mickey floral planter with Halloween colors and the Haunted Mansion Holiday ride overlay will be unveiled on Friday when the spooky season kicks off — and with it large swaths of new artificial turf in high-profile locations.
Disneyland has been reducing the amount of real grass that needs to be mowed with artificial turf that needs regular brushing over the past decade. The first major installation was in 2012 when Cars Land opened at Disney California Adventure with artificial turf in front of Sarge’s Surplus Hut and Flo’s V8 Cafe and in the queue line at Luigi’s Rollickin’ Roadsters.
The high-end artificial turf used at Disneyland is harder to spot than the low-cost versions found in residential neighborhoods that look like synthetic green carpeting with visible seams. Disneyland uses eight different types of artificial turf with gray, brown and off-white blades intermittently woven in to look more natural.
SEE ALSO: 6 ghost pepper treats turn Disneyland into the Hottest Place on Earth this Halloween
Disneyland fans may be surprised to realize they’ve been staring at artificial turf with their own two eyes and never noticed.
Grounds crews converted the natural grass to artificial turf around the “Storybook” letters floral display on the hillside of the Storybook Land Canal Boats over a three-day period in July. Swapping out the grass for turf on the Storybook hill saves 81,000 gallons of water a year, according to Disneyland officials.
Grass bands around the perimeter of Disneyland Town Square floral beds designed to protect the flowers from curious visitors along with smaller grass planters near Disneyland City Hall were converted to turf in early August.
Disneyland’s garden team worked closely with event planners and Walt Disney Imagineering on the turf projects. Hardscape artificial turf is harder to tear up or trench – which becomes a major issue when seasonal events like the Candlelight Processional are held in Disneyland Town Square.
Artificial turf has also been added to the Adventure Tower lawn at the Disneyland Hotel and to service dog relief areas throughout the theme parks.
SEE ALSO: Disneyland’s Silhouette Studio returns for first time since pandemic
Not all former grass areas at Disneyland have been converted to artificial turf. Sometimes bushes, plants and flowers that use less water than grass are planted instead.
When the Disneyland horticulture crew does plant grass, it tries to use warm climate grass rather than cool climate grass — which uses 50% less water.
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Underscoring California's Leadership Position in the EV Sector, Indoor and Outdoor Tracks Will Be Offered to Show-Goers
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An unprecedented selection of test-driving opportunities in electric- and gas-powered cars, crossovers, SUVs and trucks will be presented to guests attending the 115th anniversary Los Angeles Auto Show®, which will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from November 18 to 27.
An LA Auto Show record-setting number of indoor electrification drive tracks will be offered from a wide variety of well-known domestic and import automotive manufacturers. This comes as California reaffirms its position as the country's leader in EV ownership, as borne out by new information released by VELOZ, a non-profit organization focused on accelerating the electric car movement through public awareness and education.
Citing new data generated by the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the California Air Resources Board (CARB), VELOZ recently reported:
- From 2011 to 2022, California accounted for 42 percent of the country's registered EV sales (1,135,387 of the 2,642,028 total)
- The state currently offers 79,023 EV charging stations.
The emerging presence of electrification at the Los Angeles Auto Show also comes as California regulators in August approved new guidelines mandating that all new vehicles sold within the state be zero-emission by 2035. That noteworthy new regulation further underscores California's longstanding role as a precedent-setter in the country's efforts to transition to reducing emissions.
"Given California's leadership position as the nation's preeminent market for electric vehicle ownership, it's essential that the Los Angeles Auto Show provides opportunities to experience an expansive selection of new vehicles from the driver's seat," said Los Angeles Auto Show President Terri Toennies. "This year's show will feature more indoor and outdoor driving tracks than ever before, allowing consumers to comparison shop and experience the power, performance and handling capabilities of these vehicles."
In total, more than one million square feet of indoor and outdoor space will be utilized, presenting an unparalleled experience for both car shoppers and the automotive brands looking to reach them.
Experiencing the Los Angeles Auto Show will extend beyond cars, crossovers, SUVs and trucks, with displays of micro-mobility transportation, providing attendees with an up-close look at the newest products in urban air mobility, electric scooters, e-bikes, and more.
The Los Angeles Auto Show will be cashless again this year; tickets can be purchased online at laautoshow.com/tickets or at on-site ticketing kiosks with a credit or bank card. Individual tickets, family and VIP packages include:
- Any Day General Admission Tickets: Adult $22, Senior $12, Child $6
- VIP Early Entry on Saturdays and Sundays: Adult $45, Senior $24, Child $12
- VIP Guided Tours on Select Weekdays and Weekends: Adult $100, Child $45
- Wednesday/Thursday Thanksgiving Family Four-Packs: $65
Special programs and ticketing options for military personnel and first responders are also available. For groups of 20 or more, please contact the Los Angeles Auto Show directly for group ticket pricing.
For additional information, please visit laautoshow.com.
Founded in 1907, the Los Angeles Auto Show (LA Auto Show®) is widely recognized as one of the most influential shows globally. Reflective of its location, the show celebrates the love affair Angelenos have with their cars and offers a global platform to industry technology and innovation, synonymous with California.
The show runs for 10 full days over the Thanksgiving period and is a must-attend destination for many industry influencers, car enthusiasts and families wanting to enjoy a day out over the holiday season. Held annually at the Los Angeles Convention Center, the LA Auto Show contributes several hundred million dollars to the local economy, stimulates the local job market, and is the number one revenue generator for the LA Convention Center.
Taking place on November 17, AutoMobility LA media and industry day will include a range of groundbreaking industry announcements and reveals. Doors open to the public November 18-27. LA Auto Show is owned and operated by ANSA Productions. To receive the latest show news and information, follow the LA Auto Show on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn and sign up for alerts at laautoshow.com.
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Portage police made two arrests Tuesday afternoon after a robbery and pursuit, which left one officer injured.
Police say at around 1:01 p.m. officers were called to the area of the Port Crossing Apartments in reference to an armed robbery, which had just occurred. The victim stated he had met with two individuals, later identified as 20-year-old Keshawn McLaurin of Chicago and 24 year-old Keyante Hayes of Portage to sell two firearms to the men. During the attempted sale, McLaurin was inspecting one of the firearms being sold, which was loaded. McLaurin then pointed the weapon at the victim and told him he was now taking the firearms. McLaurin and Hayes then fled the complex in a Ford Fusion.
A Portage officer in an unmarked police vehicle observed a Fusion with occupants matching the suspects’ descriptions traveling northbound on Willowcreek Road near Robbins Road. As soon as the officer made a U-turn to follow the suspect vehicle it began fleeing and refused to stop. As the vehicle approached the Indiana Toll Road overpass, a Portage officer performed a P.I.T. (Precision Immobilization Technique), causing the vehicle to come to a stop. The vehicle pursuit lasted just under two minutes.
The driver, Hayes, was taken into custody, while the passenger, McLaurin, fled over the guardrail and down the embankment.
Officers pursued McLaurin down the embankment, but lost sight of him, due to the thick vegetation. During the foot chase, an officer sustained an incapacitating lower leg injury requiring transport to the hospital.
At that point officers set up a perimeter with the assistance of the Indiana State Police, Ogden Dunes Police, Porter County Sheriff’s Department, Burns Harbor Police, and Valparaiso Police. The Lake County Aviation Unit also responded to the area to assist with the search.
Due to the possibility of Mr. McLaurin being armed, area schools were notified and safety precautions were taken per their policies.
After around fifty minutes of searching utilizing K-9 Teams, a helicopter, and a drone, Mr. McLaurin was located bedded down in the wooded area and taken into custody without any further incident. | https://wimsradio.com/2022/09/01/portage-police-arrest-2-after-robbery-pursuit/ | 2022-09-01T17:38:32Z | https://wimsradio.com/2022/09/01/portage-police-arrest-2-after-robbery-pursuit/ | true | 1 |
ROCKLAND, Mass. (WXIN) — Thousands of baby strollers are being recalled because the brakes pose an amputation hazard.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the recall involves all UPPAbaby all-terrain RIDGE jogging strollers. The recall was initiated after the company got a report of a child’s fingertip being amputated. The child was not in the stroller while it was in use.
The company discovered that the stroller’s rear disc brakes have openings that can cause amputation or laceration if a non-occupant child’s fingertip gets caught in the openings while the stroller is in use. To remedy this, the company is providing free replacement brake discs for both wheels.
The recalled strollers have an extendable canopy with a mesh window and zipper pocket, disc hand brake system and an adjustable handlebar with a wrist strap. The brand UPPAbaby is on the front of the stroller, and RIDGE is on the side of the stroller frame.
Recalled strollers have a black frame and a fabric color scheme that is white (“BRYCE”), charcoal (“JAKE”), or slate blue (“REGGIE”) and have black tires.
You can find the serial numbers of the recalled products on the right side of the stroller frame above the rear wheel of the stroller. The number begins with “1401RDGUS”. The model number “1401-RDG-US” is printed on the left side of the stroller frame above the rear wheel of the stroller.
The strollers were sold at BuyBuyBaby, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Pottery Barn Kids and other children’s stores and specialty stores nationwide and online at Amazon.com from October 2021 through August 2022.
Anyone with the recalled stroller should stop using it until they get replacement brake discs. They can contact UPPAbaby toll-free at 844-823-3132 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or email support@uppababy.com. | https://www.wvnstv.com/news/national-news/strollers-recalled-after-childs-fingertip-amputated/ | 2022-09-01T17:44:38Z | https://www.wvnstv.com/news/national-news/strollers-recalled-after-childs-fingertip-amputated/ | true | 24 |
ROSWELL, Ga. — Top officials from six North Fulton County communities will meet with members of the public later this month at a multi-city town hall on proposed changes to the county’s Local Option Sales Tax (LOST).
Every 10 years, the county and its cities – now 15 in number – renegotiate how money collected from the 1 percent tax is distributed. Most often, the pot is generally apportioned based on each city’s population, with the county keeping a small portion for administrative fees.
But now, Fulton County has announced is wants to increase its share of LOST proceeds from 4.9 percent to 35 percent – a move some mayors say will cost municipalities millions in funding for city services. The county has argued that with the incorporation of nearly every parcel of land into the formation of cities, it has lost millions in revenue. At the same time, county officials say they are still obligated to provide the same services, like the Health Department, Sheriff’s Office, assessments and other duties, that require funding.
At the town hall meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. Sept. 21 at Roswell City Hall, citizens and officials can share their concerns about the proposed allocation changes.
The town hall meeting will include the mayors of Roswell, Alpharetta, Johns Creek, Milton, Mountain Park and Sandy Springs, and will be moderated by WSB-TV Reporter Steve Gehlback.
All Fulton County Commissioners have been invited to participate in the town hall.
The town hall will take place in the Roswell City Council Chambers at City Hall, 38 Hill Street, Roswell GA 30075. | https://www.appenmedia.com/news/north-fulton-mayors-to-discuss-lost-at-town-hall/article_574329fc-2a1c-11ed-ab83-7b800d8ecea9.html | 2022-09-01T17:49:37Z | https://www.appenmedia.com/news/north-fulton-mayors-to-discuss-lost-at-town-hall/article_574329fc-2a1c-11ed-ab83-7b800d8ecea9.html | true | 1 |
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A federal judge awaited arguments Thursday on whether to appoint an outside legal expert to review government records seized by the FBI last month in a search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home.
Lawyers for Trump say the appointment of a special master is necessary to ensure an independent inspection of the documents.
This kind of review, they say, would allow for “highly personal information” such as diaries or journals to be separated from the investigation and returned to Trump, along with any other documents that may be protected by claims of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege.
The Justice Department says an appointment is unwarranted because investigators have completed their review of potentially privileged records and identified “a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information.”
The government says Trump lacks legal grounds to demand the return of presidential documents because they do not belong to him. The department has also expressed concerns that the appointment could delay the investigation, in part because a special master probably would need to obtain a security clearance to review the records and special authorization from intelligence agencies.
The hearing before U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon was scheduled for 1 p.m.
Cannon had said on Saturday, before the latest arguments in the matter, that her “preliminary intent” was to appoint a special master. It was not clear whether she might make a final determination Thursday or how her view might be affected by the fact that the Justice Department says it has already reviewed potentially privileged documents.
It was also not clear who might serve as that outside expert. In some past high-profile cases, the role has been filled by a former federal judge.
Cannon was nominated by Trump in 2020 and confirmed by the Senate 56-21 later that year. She is a former assistant U.S. attorney in Florida, handling mainly criminal appeals.
More on Donald Trump at https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump | https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2022/09/01/trump-documents-judge-to-hear-arguments-on-outside-expert-2/ | 2022-09-01T18:03:30Z | https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2022/09/01/trump-documents-judge-to-hear-arguments-on-outside-expert-2/ | true | 24 |
Ohio For Responsible Gambling has free resources to help Ohioans dealing with gambling addiction.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and experts say the suicide rate among those experiencing problem gambling is the highest of all addictions.
"There's a strong connection between a person's mental health and gambling activity," said Stacey Frohnapfel-Hasson, prevention chief, Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. "For those living with gambling disorder, up to 38% will consider ending their lives."
The 2017 Report on Problem Gambling Services shows that nearly one in ten Ohioans who gamble are currently experiencing or are at-risk of developing a gambling problem. That's more than 900,000 Ohioans.
Derek Longmeier, executive director, Problem Gambling Network of Ohio, wants to make sure Ohioans understand the risks of problem gambling and educate themselves on setting limits, especially as Ohio is set to legalize sports betting on Jan. 1, 2023.
"The challenges of problem gambling and suicide go far beyond the person placing a bet," he said. "Families, children, businesses, and schools all feel the loss and pain that comes with a person's gambling addiction."
Longmeier emphasizes the importance of early detection. Because problem gambling doesn't have physical symptoms, he says it's important for people to have a keen eye to issues like:
- Lying or hiding how much time and money is spent gambling
- Showing a sudden decrease in work performance
- Asking for loans or bailouts to get out of debt
- Using money for core expenses like food and rent for gambling
- Acting anxious or agitated
- Withdrawing or isolating themselves
- Having extreme mood swings
Anyone having suicidal thoughts should call the new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Additionally, the Problem Gambling Helpline is available 24/7 at 1-800-589-9966 or texting 4HOPE to 741741. Specialists can connect callers with treatment options in their area within 24 hours. Those wanting to learn more about problem gambling can visit www.beforeyoubet.org; it features a free online quiz to help people better understand if they have a potential problem with gambling and healthy tips to help keep playing responsibly.
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so just because he is his families sole provider; he shouldn't face consequences for his actions? sorry but that's not how it works.
He should have thought about being a family man, before he murdered an innocent man. His wife and brother, should have stopped him from being an idiot! Too many ppl are angry and think they have to prove they're tough these days! Let's see who's tough now!!!??🥵😞 I feel for the victims family, plus I feel the trigger happy criminals family, because they are victims too. When PPL commit these crimes, they don't think about their families?
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The following story may contain trigger words for some. Please read with discretion. If you or someone you know is suffering through a mental health episode, the 988 Lifeline is now active across the United States. This new, shorter phone number will make it easier for people to remember and access mental health crisis services. You can also dial 1-800-273-TALK (8255) as well.
Even for the most physically fit of us, life can sometimes become so trying that it feels unbearable to carry on. Having suicidal thoughts is something that many Black Americans share at an alarming rate, and too many of us aren’t getting the message in time that it does in fact get better with help and guidance.
We were inspired by how important that message is thanks to a recent moment of revelation by Los Angeles Clippers guard John Wall, who opened up candidly about how the last few years of his life brought him to the point of contemplating suicide.
Thankfully, support from his teammates and immediate family enabled him to address those feelings openly as a way of getting help for himself in addition to encouraging others who might be in his situation.
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“Darkest place I’ve ever been in,” Wall said during a garden dedication at the Salvation Army of Wake County a few weeks back (seen above) in tribute to his late mom, Frances Pulley. He continued by adding, “At one point in time, I thought about committing suicide. I mean, just tearing my Achilles, my mom being sick, my mom passing, my grandma passed a year later, all this in the midst of COVID and at the same time, me going to chemotherapy, me sitting by my mom taking her last breaths wearing the same clothes for three days straight laying on the couch beside her.”
Speaking on his situation in particular, Wall added, “We’re all going through times, nobody’s got it easy, but I don’t think a lot of people could get through what I went through.” He went on to reiterate the importance of support being a key factor in overcoming such a dark burden, further stating, “To get back on top where I want to be and seeing the fans still want me to play, having the support from my hometown, this important period means a lot. I went to find a therapist. A lot of people think, ‘I don’t need help, I can get through it at anytime,’ but you’ve got to be true to yourself and find out what’s best for you.”
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We thank John Wall for his strength and honesty in sharing such a dark period of his life with the world. Stories like his, along with other celebrities who’ve overcome suicidal thoughts, could do a lot in helping reverse an alarming rate of deaths by suicide amongst Black Americans currently affecting our community.
Read on for a look at 8 famous Black people that found a way to push through and get help with suicidal thoughts:
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1. Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
Source:GettyOne of Hollywood’s highest-paid actors and a pillar of physical perfection today, The Rock once revealed that at 15 he almost witnessed his own mom commit suicide. That was on top of dealing with his own depression after early pro football dreams came to an abrupt end. As you can see, he never gave up and became a shining example of the life that can await you on the other side of darkness.
2. Taraji P. Henson
Source:GettyThe global pandemic had major effects on all of us individually, and for some like Taraji it even led them to feeling like life is worthless. The celebrated actress relied on advice from her best friend to help shake the mental funk, and it’s an easy step that only takes one call to someone you know that cares.
3. Jada Pinkett Smith
Source:GettySmith revealed on her hit Facebook Watch series Red Table Talk that she experienced suicidal thoughts during two times in her life, and on both occasions it was due to regressed rage. It was identifying the problem first, then going on a journey to heal herself, that ultimately freed Jada from the hold depression had on her.
4. Kid Cudi
Source:GettyCudi has discussed his bouts with depression and suicidal thoughts very openly over the years, and we even honored him during Black History Month as a pioneering mental health advocate. He’s a hero for those who struggle on-and-off with curing their depression in pursuit of equilibrium, making them feel comfortable in knowing the journey isn’t a lonely one.
5. Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child
Source:GettyA 2018 trip to a mental health facility began the healing process for this DC3 member to rid herself of being, in her words, “too comfortable with the thoughts of suicide.” After silently struggling for over a decade with the group’s 2006 disbandment amongst other things, Michelle got help and eventually penned a book about overcoming her struggles.
6. Mary J. Blige
Source:GettyThe Queen Of Hip-Hop Soul has always kept it real, especially in the lyrics of her hit music, about past struggles with alcohol abuse that drove her into serious depression. It was fan support during those early years that Mary credits to helping make the decision to live on and inspire those in similar circumstances with her God-given gift.
7. Wayne Brady
Source:GettySomeone as funny as Wayne Brady can surprisingly be struggling with depression silently. It took a nervous breakdown on his 42nd birthday to get him on a path of healing that he continues even at his current age of 50.
8. Erica Campbell of Mary Mary
Source:GettyWe hear her inspire thousands on a daily basis with her radio show, Get Up! Mornings With Erica Campbell, in addition to singing as one half of the iconic gospel duo Mary Mary. However, many who saw the 2018 docu-series, We’re The Campbells, are aware of the singer’s suicidal thoughts at the age of 12. Through prayer, which she practices religiously to this day, she was able to focus her young mind on the light towards a better future. | https://blackamericaweb.com/playlist/black-public-figures-overcame-suicidal-thoughts/ | 2022-09-01T18:07:17Z | https://blackamericaweb.com/playlist/black-public-figures-overcame-suicidal-thoughts/ | false | 16 |
Monticello Man Sentenced for Secretly Recording Young Girl
BUFFALO -- A Monticello man was sentenced to prison for secretly recording a young girl in her home.
A Wright County judge has sentenced 27-year-old Matthew Winter to three years and three months in prison. Winter pleaded guilty to five counts of interference with privacy against a minor in July.
The 14-year-old child reported the incidents at her school in April. She reported finding cameras in her bedroom and bathroom, including a camera in the floor vent of her bedroom, a charging cube containing a camera in an electrical outlet, and cameras in the bathroom where she showers.
Wright County officers met with Winter and confiscated his phone. He allegedly admitted to knowing there were things on his phone that shouldn't be there, including nude photos.
Court records show investigators found an SD card containing more than one million still images of the girl and four videos.
There is no jail booking photo currently available.
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MONTVALE, N.J., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Inc. announced Accel Marketing Solutions inclusion on the annual Inc. 5000 list, the most distinguished ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. Accel Marketing Solutions is a leading national marketing agency specializing in attorney and law firm marketing, and has seen a significant spike in growth (228%, to be exact) over the last few years. The Inc. 5000 list provides potential clients and prospective connections with defining insight into the country's most industrious privately-owned companies.
In fact, the Inc. 5000 list has been the definitive list for the country's up-and-coming businesses for over four decades, and in that time, they've recognized several now-distinguished companies such as Patagonia, Under Armour, and Microsoft.
For inclusion on this list, a company must meet several criteria. To start, the company must be based in the United States, privately owned, and on record of receiving revenue by March 31, 2018. Only companies that received at least $100,000 in revenue in the year 2018 and at least $2 million in revenue by 2021 will qualify. Of those companies, only those with the highest rate of growth between 2018-2021 will make the list.
Of the recent announcement, CEO of Accel Marketing Solutions, Inc. Elliot Stern said, "I am honored to learn of Accel Marketing Solutions' inclusion on this list of leading independently-owned businesses, but not necessarily surprised. Our national law firm marketing agency is committed to helping attorneys and law firms throughout the country maximize their potential, and we believe this inclusion serves as further proof of our unwavering dedication to our clients. We have a formula that works, and it gives me great pleasure to say that our clients see a return on their investment, time and time again."
The companies included on the 2022 Inc. 5000 list are not only successful, but have also shown great resilience through turbulent times and have ultimately benefited their communities, as they've added more than 68,394 jobs to the economy over the past three years. To learn more about the Inc. 5000 list or to view Accel Marketing Solution's inclusion on the 2022 listing, please visit inc.com. #lawyer #lawyers #attorney #attorneys #marketing
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Aug 31, 2022
Japan Boosts Missile, Defense Budget to Counter China and Russia
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,(Bloomberg) -- Japan plans to enlarge its arsenal of missiles that can hit military assets from China, North Korea and Russia as part of a defense spending program that will rank among the world’s biggest.
The Defense Ministry sought a record 5.6 trillion yen ($40.5 billion) for the next fiscal year in a financing request made Wednesday. Although the number is only a slight increase from a year ago, the ministry said the actual figure for the fiscal year is expected to go much higher as it prices in yet unspecified costs for scores of programs.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has said it’s looking to double defense spending over five years to counter increased threats from its three nuclear-armed neighbors whose militaries are also among the world’s biggest in terms of personnel. That could rank Japan’s military budget third, behind only the US and China, from ninth now, according to data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, or SIPRI, which tracks defense spending.
As part of its plan to bolster its defenses, Japan is revamping standoff missiles that can be fired from land, sea or plane to hit targets such as ships. It also plans to increase the ranges of some of these missiles, theoretically allowing them to strike targets within China, North Korea and eastern part of Russia.
Japan’s pacifist constitution constrains what its military, known as the Self-Defense Forces, can do. But some in the ruling party, including former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, have argued that Japan consider missile systems that would allow it to preemptively hit enemy rockets, seeing this as a defensive move.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China’s rumblings toward Taiwan and North Korea’s nuclear weapons have raised alarm in Japan and helped build public support for more spending.
Katsuhisa Furukawa, a senior analyst with the Open Nuclear Network who has written about Japan’s missile program, said the country has been steadily advancing its standoff weapons program.
China has provided a reminder of what’s at stake by firing ballistic missiles that landed near Japan’s southwestern islands during military maneuvers around Taiwan this month. Kishida has warned that Taiwan is at the frontline of the standoff between China and the US and a contingency in the Taiwan Strait would have enormous consequences for Japan.
One of the systems that is being updated is the Type-12 surface-to-ship missile. The current version has a range of about 200 kilometers (124 miles). The range of that missile is set to be extended to about 1,000 kilometers and modifications made to reduce its profile on radar, according to specialist publication Naval News.
The main contractor for the missile, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., expects a ground-launched version of the revised missile to be ready by 2025, with a ship-launched and air-launched version to follow, defense specialist publication Janes said. There was no budget estimate given in the Defense Ministry’s request for the costs of the missiles.
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DeSantis Issues Fierce Warning About Worrying Detail He Noticed in Gov. Hochul's Speech
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, has a novel way of getting rid of her Republican opposition: busing them to Florida.
Earlier this month, Hochul called out three Republicans from the Empire State who she thought needed to get lost. Former President Donald Trump, a native New Yorker who’s already moved to Florida, was one. So was her GOP opponent in this November’s election, Lee Zeldin; Duchess County executive Marc Molinaro rounded out the troika.
“Trump and Zeldin and Molinaro — just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK? Get out of town. Because you don’t represent our values,” Hochul said during a speech, according to the New York Post. “You’re not New Yorkers.”
Meanwhile, down in Florida, GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis — the governor consistently accused of “divisive rhetoric” by the opposition — is the loudest voice calling out Hochul’s “ridiculous” rhetoric.
“You have the governor of New York saying all Republicans need to get on a bus and leave the state and come to Florida,” DeSantis said during a news conference Tuesday.
“Who would say something so ridiculous? To say if you don’t agree with me, then you don’t even have a right to be here.”
The remarks came as DeSantis warned Floridians about the Internal Revenue Service’s new push to extract tax revenue from everything that moves and works in these United States; as the governor said, “They go after people they don’t like.”
The relevant portion of the speech begins at 15:50:
DeSantis noted Hochul is hardly alone, referring to a recent speech by President Joe Biden in which he referred to GOP positions as “semi-fascism” and told Democrats they needed “to vote to literally save democracy once again,” according to the Associated Press.
“And now you have Biden,” DeSantis said.
“He’s going to say … the majority of the country by the way that opposes his policies are somehow semi-fascist.”
There’s a reason why this kind of rhetoric from Democrats like Biden and Hochul is more than just ridiculous.
A survey from YouGov released this week found that 43 percent of U.S. adults believe a civil war is likely within the next decade. Only 35 percent said it was unlikely, with 22 percent being unsure.
Among Democrats, there seems to be a growing consensus that a serious conflict and divisiveness can be averted — provided, of course, everyone just thinks like them or gets the hell away from them.
Sure, New York is generally a Democrat-leaning state, although this is because of the outsized influence of New York City; go upstate and things start looking a lot more red, politics-wise. It’s not that long ago, after all, that Republican George Pataki was governor of the state; his term ended in 2006. It was even more recent that a Republican was mayor of New York City. Michael Bloomberg didn’t change his affiliation to independent until 2007.
Yet, Gov. Hochul’s message to her opponents isn’t just that she wants them to lose. She literally told them to get out of the state she’s governing because they “don’t represent our values.”
This was coming, mind you, from a governor who wasn’t elected to the post. (Hochul was lieutenant governor under Andrew Cuomo — and when things went bad for the “Luv Guv” and he had to resign, she inherited the position.) If there’s anyone who shouldn’t be telling elected officials to get out of her state — and, by association, telling their supporters they’re unwelcome in New York — it’s her. She’s fanning the flames of division that Democrats claim to abhor.
Shockingly, this is somehow better than what our president is doing; his method of energizing the Democratic base is telling them their fellow Americans are engaged in “semi-fascism” and that it’s their duty “to vote to literally save democracy once again.” This is demagogy of the worst sort — and yet, totally in line with the leftist narrative these days.
But remember: Ron DeSantis is the one with the “divisive rhetoric.” Did he tell liberals to leave Florida? Nope. Did he say his opponents didn’t belong in his jurisdiction and ought to take a bus to New York? Of course not. It’s just that he has the temerity to be an unapologetic conservative — or a “semi-fascist,” in Biden-speak. If anyone wants to wonder why Americans think we’re careening toward civil war, they need look no further than New York or the White House.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Wednesday it has spent 13 million U.S. dollars in August to help over 150,000 households, most of them in south and central Somalia, amid drought and inflation.
The charity said the households received enough money to buy food for a month, the first in a series of monthly payments intended to provide emergency relief to people pushed out of their homes by the severe drought battering the country.
“The purpose of cash assistance is to help the most vulnerable people to survive and to minimize debt,” the ICRC said in a statement.
It said each family was given 90 dollars to cover the cost of food or other necessary items, through a program the charity runs.
The United Nations has warned that a historic fourth consecutive failed rainy season, skyrocketing prices, and an underfunded humanitarian response have resulted in a 160-percent increase in the number of people facing catastrophic levels of food insecurity, starvation and disease in Somalia.
The ICRC said the drought has persisted for four consecutive rainy seasons, and that its economic impact on the vulnerable communities is aggravated by the protracted armed conflict and rising food and fuel prices.
“With the next rain due in October, rural families, stripped of their livelihoods, continue to flee to towns, hoping to receive help from relatives and aid groups,” the ICRC said.
More than 30,000 people were displaced in May, 100,000 in June, while July recorded 83,000, according to United Nations data.
Since January 2021, more than 1 million people are believed to have been displaced because of the drought.
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Offshore drilling firm Aquadrill has extended a charter hire agreement with Diamond Offshore Drilling to provide its Vela drillship for operations in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico for a drilling contract with a minimum duration of 225 days.
Aquadrill - ex-Seadrill Partners - said the deal also included three market-based extension options for an additional five to seven wells.
According to the drilling contractor, the charter hire for the MPD outfitted 7th generation drillship will be extended if the optional term is exercised.
"The terms of the charter hire agreement are consistent with the current management services agreements in place between [Aquadrill] and the Manager [Diamond Offshore Drilling]. Further, the resulting financial benefits for the company are as if the company had entered into the drilling contract directly," Aquadrill said.
The total contract value for the firm 225-day minimum term of the drilling contract is expected to be $88 million, with start expected in mid-January 2023.
While Aquadrill did not say who the end client was, the Diamond Offshore fleet status report issued Wednesday shows the client is Beacon [Offshore Energy].
According to the fleet status report, Diamond Offshore Drilling currently manages the rig on behalf of Aquadrill for end-client Woodside in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. This contract is set to expire in December 2022.
Earlier in August, Aquadrill extended the charter hire agreement for its Auriga drillship with Diamond Offshore Drilling after reaching an agreement on the one-year mutually agreed option in the current underlying drilling contract. The end client is BP. Read More.
The Vela, previously far known as the West Vela, is a sixth-generation drillship with operational history in the U.S Gulf of Mexico. It was built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea.
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Which hard-sided cat carriers are best?
Dogs are generally eager to jump into the car and go for a drive. They seem to love nothing more than sticking their heads out the window to catch the breeze. Cats, on the other hand, prefer the comforts of home — it’s often a struggle to round them up, bundle them into the car and drive to where you need to go.
So before you end up with multiple scratches and are seen as the worst pet parent, get a good-quality cat carrier with hard sides. The Van Ness Calm Carrier E-Z Load Sliding Drawer is an excellent choice, as it’s easy to get your cat inside.
What to know before you buy a hard-sided carrier
The size of your cat
Since not all cats are the same size, you must consider their dimensions when looking for a carrier. An excellent way to determine this is to measure your cat’s height from the floor and how much space it needs to turn around. The carrier’s internal space should be large enough for the cat to comfortably stand and turn in. Keep in mind that cats might be in the carrier for long periods, and if they can’t stretch their legs, it could cause cramping or discomfort.
You can also throw in some cat toys if there is space.
The closure mechanism
Cats are inquisitive and quickly learn how things work. That’s why you must ensure that the closure mechanism is challenging to paw open. Most use a system where you must unlatch two points to open the door or have several clips that can’t be manipulated.
The number of openings can also make your life a lot easier when you need to take your cat out or put it in the carrier. One opening at the front is tricky, as a cat can (and will) brace itself against the edges.
A better strategy is to get a carrier with two openings or a carrier where the hard top easily comes off the base. It’s easier to put a cat inside from above than from the front, but it’s best if the top part comes down over them onto the base.
Hard-sided is the way to go
There are plenty of carriers, from cat backpacks and cardboard to strollers and rolling carriers. But the best and safest way to transport your feline friend is in a hard-sided carrier. It keeps the cat safe from external dangers and also lowers stress levels because visibility isn’t that great.
However, if you plan to fly with your cat, you must check with the airline on its rules. Some carriers are too large for in-cabin flights, as they must be stored underneath the seat in front of you. The maximum dimensions on certain airlines are 18.11 by 11.02 by 9.45 inches.
What to look for in a quality hard-sided carrier
Indestructible plastic
Your cat’s safety should be the top priority, regardless if you’re going to the vet around the corner or flying across the world. By nature, a hard-sided carrier is made of plastic, but a good-quality carrier is nearly indestructible. It can withstand several drops and bangs (preferably without a cat inside) and shouldn’t chip or break at any point.
Normal wear and tear, such as scratches and scuffs, is expected. But that should in no way compromise the carrier’s integrity.
It comes apart for easy storage
Cat carriers are for a specific purpose and probably won’t be used often. They are bulky and difficult to store, but a good-quality carrier can easily come apart. You’d be surprised how much space you save by simply popping off the top and stacking it on the lower base. If it doesn’t detach from itself, you could store other items inside to make room.
Maintenance and cleaning
While it doesn’t happen often, cats occasionally soil the carrier. Any cat owner can attest to the challenge of getting the cat urine smell out of anything. A good-quality carrier is easy to clean and is effortless if it comes apart.
Mild soap and lukewarm water usually do the trick, but if harsher chemicals are needed, ensure that the carrier is appropriately dry and odor-free before the next use. For more comfort, line the carrier with absorbent padding. Your cat will be comfortable, and the liquid and odor are repressed when an accident happens.
How much you can expect to spend on a hard-sided carrier
The price depends on its size and features. A regular carrier with plastic sides and a metal door costs $20-$30, while a larger carrier with multiple access points runs $50-$80.
Hard-sided carrier FAQ
Do carriers come with padding?
A. It’s rare to find a hard-sided carrier with padding inside. If your cat wants something soft to sit on, you can put a folded-up towel or a thin piece of foam inside.
How do you secure a carrier in your vehicle?
A. Most people put it on the front or back seat, but that also depends on its size. For added safety, some carriers have a protruding handle at the top through which you can feed the seat belt.
What’s the best hard-sided carrier to buy?
Top hard-sided carrier
Van Ness Calm Carrier E-Z Load Sliding Drawer
What you need to know: This cat carrier is the perfect solution if you struggle to get your cat inside.
What you’ll love: It looks like a regular cat carrier but has a special mechanism where the bottom slides out. This is perfect if your cat has trouble getting in or out and makes it easy for the vet to take a look. It has a metal door in the front that clips into the carrier’s sides.
What you should consider: The door can’t open without sliding the drawer.
Where to buy: Sold by Chewy
Top hard-sided carrier for the money
MidWest Spree Hard-Sided Cat Kennel
What you need to know: This sturdy carrier will keep your beloved pet safe with ample room to move around.
What you’ll love: Made of robust plastic, this carrier has a door on the front that’s secured with four latches. It can open in two directions or be removed entirely.
What you should consider: It will be a tight fit for larger cats, as it is best suited for cats weighing around 11 pounds.
Where to buy: Sold by Chewy
Worth checking out
Catit Cabrio Multi-Functional Cat Kennel
What you need to know: Your cat will travel in style with this sleek carrier that opens multiple ways.
What you’ll love: The robust carrier has a see-through plastic door in the front with a kibble and water holder inside. It swings wide open for easy access, and the top lid is divided into two parts that disconnect to open the carrier completely.
What you should consider: Some reviewers said that the hinges on the top section aren’t as sturdy as expected.
Where to buy: Sold by Chewy
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CLEVELAND, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Technological innovation is transforming the global material handling equipment industry. This trend and more are discussed in the new study Global Material Handling Equipment. As companies around the world confront a variety of workforce challenges and face intensifying competition, they are increasingly turning to newly developed material handling technologies. The automated guided vehicles (AGVs) segment has seen particularly impressive innovation gains in recent years, sparking increased interest:
- In March 2022, Gaussin unveiled the world's first hydrogen-power automated guided vehicle, which will be used in port applications
- JBT unveiled a groundbreaking AGV for warehouse freezer applications (an underserved market) in April 2021, and the machine can operate -10F and 110F and offers a lift capacity of 2500lb
- In March 2022, Flux Power introduced its advanced C48 Lithium-Ion battery pack for AGVs and automated mobile robots (AMRs), which is easier to service than predecessors and offers lower ownership costs, longer run times, and sustained high performance
With the introduction of these and other more capable models, manufacturers are greatly strengthening the capabilities of new models by incorporating a variety of advanced technologies. While some improvements are targeted, others fundamentally changes with a particular machinery is capable of. As companies face worker shortages, high labor costs, worker retention issues, and the limited availability of skilled operators, they will increasingly turn to AGVs and other advanced material handling equipment.
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A University of Calgary scientist is hoping to determine whether Mars was ever capable of supporting life.
Ben Tutolo, an associate professor in the Department of Geoscience and Faculty of Science, began his research earlier this year and is using data from the Curiosity rover that’s been exploring the Red Planet for the past decade.
The Canadian Space Agency, as part of the NASA-led Mars Science Laboratory mission, is funding the three-year study.
“The mission is to follow the water and understand — were ancient environments on other planets, like Mars, habitable?” said Tutolo, who is conducting the research alongside professor Steve Larter and associate professor Rachel Lauer.
“What we’re doing with the Curiosity rover is exploring the rock record there (to) understand if these rocks at that time were ultimately habitable.”
Tutolo said Curiosity has been providing a steady stream of data and has been collecting and analyzing samples as it slowly makes its way up Mount Sharp in the Gale Crater.
The rover, which had travelled almost 28 kilometres as of May 1, has multiple analyzers that can determine the chemistry and mineralogy of the rocks or soil surface on Mars. Its Canadian-made Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer has analyzed 1,211 samples and sent 2,659 results back to Earth.
“It’s scooping up, drilling samples … it can utilize in situ like a roving geologist who would also have a geochemical laboratory in the field,” Tutolo said.
The focus of the research is to study the geological transition from the oldest lake sediments where Curiosity began its exploration to younger layers of sediment farther up.
Tutolo said the geological evidence from the oldest rocks in the crater show they are from a river-fed lake that contained water.
The newer specimens have found magnesium sulphate salts, which were likely the result of the water evaporating as the planet became drier, he said.
“Obviously the transition has happened. There are no oceans or lakes on the planet today,” Tutolo said.
He said the team is also conducting field research at the Basque Lakes near Cache Creek, B.C., which contain the same sulphate minerals found on Mount Sharp on Mars.
However, Tutolo said the fact that the Mars crater is 3.5 billion years old means there might not be a definite answer to whether life did exist there.
“They have all been degraded in some ways. They’ve all been transformed by the geological processes working overtime in the crater so … there will be no smoking gun,” Tutolo said.
But he said if the rock record shows it was theoretically habitable, then it can still answer some questions.
“If it was habitable, then we could start putting together scenarios for how life could have originated in such an environment and if it did originate, how it could potentially thrive in such an environment,” he said.
“I think what we can do as objective scientists is read the story that is written in the rocks and understand and lay the foundation and paint the picture of whether it was possible.”
—Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press
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Emily Atack gets MARRIED to pop star hunk – but not all is as it seems
EMILY Atack looked incredible as she posed in all white at a church with a very famous pop star hunk.
The 32-year-old shared a couple of selfies revealing her flawless make-up look complete with a smoky eye.
Actress Emily wore her signature blonde hair pulled back showing off a pair of sparkly hanging earrings that complimented her "wedding" look.
Emily's date was none other than Blue singer Duncan James and there's no denying the two stars make a very good looking couple.
But they were actually filming scenes for the upcoming series of The Emily Atack Show.
Captioning the photos, Emily wrote: "Heavenly morning working with @mrduncanjames."
Former The Inbetweeners star Emily has been hard at work this week shooting for the third series of her ITV2 show.
Yesterday she showed off an awkward tan line fail and - despite her recent holiday to Marbella with mum Kate Robbins - it was all for the show.
Emily later wowed her followers with a very glam look, and told them: "It's for a character, but would happily have my glam like this every day."
Last week Emily was spotted with mum Kate as they soaked up the sun and the sights in Marbella.
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Also on the family trip was her sister Martha but her new boyfriend, Big Brother star Liam McGough, was absent.
Earlier this month Emily took the big step of introducing Liam to her family.
Liam, who has been dating Emily since July, first emerged on telly in Big Brother eight, but now works as a tree surgeon. | https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/19681729/emily-atack-duncan-james-married/ | 2022-09-01T18:30:13Z | https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/19681729/emily-atack-duncan-james-married/ | true | 3 |
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Tennessee Titans vs. Arizona Cardinals: Live game updates, score in NFL preseason
The Tennessee Titans serve as hosts to the Arizona Cardinals in their third and final preseason game Saturday at Nissan Stadium (6 p.m. / WKRN-2 in Nashville).
The two teams held a joint practice Wednesday at Saint Thomas Sports Park before the Titans, who are 1-1 in the preseason, wrapped up training camp with a practice Thursday.
Coach Mike Vrabel said Thursday rookie quarterback Malik Willis had gotten better with his timing and mechanics this week.
Willis, who started in each of the first two preseason games, is locked in a battle with Logan Woodside to back up Ryan Tannehill.
The Cardinals lost to Baltimore 24-17 in their second preseason game last Sunday. They beat Cincinnati 36-23 in their first preseason game.
Arizona beat the Titans 38-13 in the first game of the 2021 regular season.
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Follow along below for live updates of Titans-Cardinals from Nissan Stadium:
Tennessee Titans vs. Arizona Cardinals live updates, score
Fourth quarter
FINAL: Jarrett Guarantano is sacked as the clock strikes zero on the regular season. Titans win 26-23. Read more about it here:
GAME RECAP: Malik Willis shines for Tennessee Titans but Logan Woodside scores winning TD in preseason finale
0:52 left: Preseason moments are sometimes fleeting, but Logan Woodside gets one drive on Saturday, with 3:52 left and the Titans down 23-19. Woodside orchestrates a 12-play drive that is punctuated by a Woodside 9-yard touchdown run inside the final minute. Titans 26, Cardinals 23.
It's been an interesting night in the QB2 race. Malik Willis played nearly the entire game and played well. Woodside is the incumbent but has struggled in the preseason before that drive. What does Jon Robinson and Mike Vrabel do?
Third quarter
5:32 left: Jarrett Guarantano is in the game for the Cardinals, and his first pass goes for 74 yards. Big night for Cardinals WR Andy Isabella, who has 5 catches for 115 yards. Three plays later, Guarantano throws a 2-yard TD pass to Greg Dortch.
6:29 left: Malik Willis back out in the second half and leads another scoring job. Titans lead 16-10.
Second quarter
Halftime: Excellent drive by Malik Willis and the Titans offense culminates in a 14-yard TD catch by Treylon Burks, his first of the preseason. Cardinals add a field goal as time expires, and Tennessee's lead is 13-10.
3:48 left: Ryan Stonehouse has been excellent tonight with a 51.6-yard average on five punts.
9:57 left: Touchdown Titans! Julius Chestnut muscles his way into the end zone, with a helpful shove from Corey Levin. Two-point attempt is no good as Malik Willis is overwhelmed by the Cardinals' blitzing front.
10:34 left: Malik Willis is off and running for 50 yards. That was a special play. Titans have first and goal.
First quarter
0:49 left: It's another poor start for the offensive line. Willis is sacked again to halt a drive near midfield. Cameron Thomas , the third round pick out of San Diego State, has both sacks for Arizona.
4:01 left: Trace McSorley was 7-for-7 for 71 yards in the Cardinals' opening drive against the Titans' backup defense, and the drive ends with a Darrel Williams TD. Knowing the players are completely different, that looked a lot like last year's regular season opener. Arizona 7, Tennessee 0
11:36 left: Malik Willis completes passes to Treylon Burks and Robert Woods, but a sack stalls the Titans' first drive. Arizona's starting QB is former Penn State QB Trace McSorley, who is battling Jarrett Guarantano for the No. 3 QB job.
Pregame: Malik Willis will start for Tennessee for a third consecutive preseason game. We are 15 days away from the season opener against the New York Giants, but don't expect stars such as Derrick Henry, Ryan Tannehill and Taylor Lewan tonight.
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This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Tennessee Titans vs. Arizona Cardinals: Live game updates, score in NFL preseason | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2722325119805/tennessee-titans-vs-arizona-cardinals-live-game-updates-score-in-nfl-preseason | 2022-09-01T18:34:47Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2722325119805/tennessee-titans-vs-arizona-cardinals-live-game-updates-score-in-nfl-preseason | false | 1 |
Emails obtained by the Washington Post and the organization Documented show that Ginni Thomas, a longtime far-right activist with close ties to the conservative dark money network, "messaged two Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin: state Sen. Kathy Bernier, then chair of the Senate elections committee, and state Rep. Gary Tauchen," the newspaper reported.
"Bernier and Tauchen received the email at 10:47 a.m. on November 9, virtually the same time the Arizona lawmakers received a verbatim copy of the message from Thomas," the Post added. "Ginni Thomas' political activism is highly unusual for the spouse of a Supreme Court justice, and for years it has raised questions about potential conflicts of interest for her husband. She has said that the two of them keep their professional lives separate."
But watchdog groups and Democratic lawmakers have questioned that claim and demanded that Thomas, at the very least, recuse himself from election-related cases—something he notably didn't do while his wife was engaged in attempts to keep former President Donald Trump in power.
"Reminder that Clarence Thomas heard election cases while his wife conspired to overthrow democracy," Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) tweeted Thursday. "Clarence Thomas is corrupt as hell and should resign from the Supreme Court."
House Democrats have also called on the party leadership to launch impeachment proceedings against the right-wing justice, a demand backed by more than 1.2 million people across the U.S.
Christina Harvey, executive director of Stand Up America, said in a statement Thursday that "if Clarence Thomas had any shame, he would resign immediately."
"But he doesn't," Harvey continued, "so Congress must act immediately to pass a code of ethics for the Supreme Court that would require justices to recuse themselves in cases where they have an actual or apparent conflict of interest."
The latest revelations from the Post add to the newspaper's previous reporting about Ginni Thomas' messages to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Arizona Republicans in the wake of Trump's election loss.
"Ginni Thomas didn't just push Mark Meadows to overturn the election or urge lawmakers in Arizona to ignore the popular vote," tweeted the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. "She also pushed Wisconsin lawmakers to ignore Biden's victory in the state."
"Despite all this, she's still on a federal board," the group added, referring to Thomas' spot on the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board. Trump appointed her to a five-year term on the board in May 2020.
Thomas' actions in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential contest have drawn the scrutiny of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol, an attack fueled by Trump's lies about the presidential election.
The Post reported Thursday that the House panel "asked Thomas to sit for a voluntary interview in June."
"The committee also sought a broad range of documents from her, including any related to plans to overturn the election and all communications with members of Congress and their staff and Justice Department employees," the Post noted. "At the time, Thomas indicated she would comply. 'I can't wait to clear up misconceptions. I look forward to talking to them,' Thomas told the Daily Caller, her former employer."
"Less than two weeks later, on June 28, Paoletta told the committee that while Thomas remained willing to sit for an interview, he did not believe there was 'sufficient basis' for her to do so," the Post added.
The House committee is expected to kick off a new series of hearings on the January 6 attack this month. | https://www.rawstory.com/mark-zuckerberg-is-not-grounded-in-real-values-and-is-derailing-in-real-time-leadership-expert/ | 2022-09-01T18:36:50Z | https://www.rawstory.com/mark-zuckerberg-is-not-grounded-in-real-values-and-is-derailing-in-real-time-leadership-expert/ | true | 4 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee seeking financial records from former President Donald Trump has reached an agreement that ends litigation on the matter and requires an accounting firm to turn over some of the material, the panel's leader announced Thursday.
The long-running case began in April 2019, when the House Committee on Oversight and Reform first subpoenaed a wealth of records from Trump’s then-accounting firm, Mazars USA. The committee cited testimony from Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, that it said raised questions about the president's representation of his financial affairs when it came to seeking loans and paying taxes.
Under the agreement, Trump has agreed to end his legal challenges to the subpoena and Mazars USA has agreed to produce responsive documents to the committee as expeditiously as possible, said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., who heads the committee.
“After numerous court victories, I am pleased that my committee has now reached an agreement to obtain key financial documents that former President Trump fought for years to hide from Congress,” Maloney said.
Trump is facing investigations on several fronts, including the storage of top-secret government information discovered at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home and whether the former president's team criminally obstructed the inquiry. In Georgia, prosecutors are investigating whether he and allies illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 presidential election. Meanwhile, congressional committees are following through on investigations that began when he was president.
The settlement over Mazars follows a July decision by a federal appeals court in Washington that narrowed what records Congress is entitled to obtain. The court said the committee should be given records pertinent to financial ties between foreign countries and Trump or any of his businesses for 2017-18.
The appeals court also ordered Mazars to turn over documents between November 2016 and 2018 relating to the Trump company that held the lease granted by the federal government for the former Trump International Hotel, located between the White House and the Capitol.
In the decision, the court said Trump's financial records would “advance the Committee’s consideration of ethics reform legislation across all three of its investigative tracks,” including on presidential ethics and conflicts of interest, presidential financial disclosures, and presidential adherence to Constitutional safeguards against foreign interference and undue influence.
The House investigation dates February 2019, when Trump's former personal attorney, Cohen, testified to the committee that Trump had a history of misrepresenting the value of assets to gain favorable loan terms and tax benefits.
Cohen served time in federal prison after pleading guilty in 2018 to tax crimes, lying to Congress and campaign finance violations, some of which involved his role in orchestrating payments to two women to keep them from talking about alleged affairs with Trump.
But his testimony prompted the committee to seek key financial documents from Mazars, and in April 2019, the committee issued a subpoena to Mazars seeking four targeted categories of documents.
The following month, Trump sued to prevent Mazars from complying with the subpoena. The case has been winding its way through the court system since.
Mazars earlier this year said it had cut ties with Trump and warned that financial statements the firm had prepared for Trump “should no longer be relied upon” by anyone doing business with him.
Another House committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, has been seeking Trump's tax returns and waging its own litigation. In that case, a three-judge appellate court panel agreed last month with a lower court's decision in favor of Congress and that the Treasury Department should provide the tax returns to the committee.
The Justice Department, under the Trump administration, had defended a decision by then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to withhold the tax returns from Congress. Mnuchin argued that he could withhold the documents because he concluded they were being sought by Democrats for partisan reasons. A lawsuit ensued.
After Biden took office, the committee renewed the request, seeking Trump’s tax returns and additional information from 2015-2020. The White House took the position that the request was a valid one and that the Treasury Department had no choice but to comply. Trump then attempted to halt the handover in court. | https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/House-committee-reaches-deal-to-get-Trump-17413147.php | 2022-09-01T18:36:51Z | https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/House-committee-reaches-deal-to-get-Trump-17413147.php | false | 24 |
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JERSEY CITY, N.J., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WallachBeth Capital LLC, a leading provider of capital markets and institutional execution services, announced today that bio-Affinity Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIAF) (NASDAQ: BIAFW), a cancer diagnostics company that develops noninvasive, early-stage diagnostics to detect cancer and diseases of the lung, and is researching targeted therapies to treat cancer, priced its initial public offering of 1,282,600 units of securities at $6.125 per unit. Total gross proceeds from the offering is estimated to be $7,855,925 before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other estimated offering expenses.
Each unit, which has no stand-alone rights and will not be certificated or issued as a stand-alone security, consists of one share of common stock, one tradeable warrant to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $7.35 per share, and one non-tradeable warrant to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $7.656 per share. Each warrant is immediately exercisable and will expire five years from the date of issuance. The shares of common stock and the tradable warrants may be transferred separately immediately upon issuance. In addition, bioAffinity has granted the underwriters a 45-day option to purchase up to 192,390 shares of common stock, and/or 192,390 tradeable warrants, and/or 192,390 non-tradeable warrants, or any combination of additional shares of common stock and warrants representing, in the aggregate, up to 15% of the number of the units sold in this offering to cover over-allotments in this offering.
The shares and the tradeable warrants will begin trading on September 1, 2022, on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the ticker symbols "BIAF" and "BIAFW," respectively. The Company intends to use the net proceeds for the commercialization of its diagnostic called CyPath® Lung, a non-invasive test for the early detection of lung cancer that has completed a clinical trial showing 92% sensitivity and 87% specificity in detecting lung cancer in individuals at high risk who have lung nodules less than 2 centimeters. Proceeds also will be used for development of tests, additional clinical trials, regulatory filings, and for working capital and general corporate purposes.
WallachBeth Capital, LLC and Craft Capital Management, LLC are co-managers and co-book running managers for the offering.
bioAffinity's registration statement relating to these securities was declared effective as of August 29, 2022, by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus. Copies of the final prospectus may be obtained on the SEC's website, http://www.sec.gov and by contacting WallachBeth Capital, LLC, Attention: Capital Markets, 185 Hudson Street, Jersey City, NJ 07311, by telephone at 646-998-7608, or by email at cap-mkts@wallachbeth.com.
About bioAffinity Technologies, Inc.
bioAffinity Technologies, Inc. is a Delaware corporation addressing the need for noninvasive diagnosis of early-stage cancer and diseases of the lung, and targeted cancer treatment. The Company develops proprietary noninvasive diagnostic tests and cancer therapeutics using technology that preferentially targets cancer cells and cell populations indicative of a diseased state. The Company's first product called CyPath® Lung is a non-invasive test that has shown high sensitivity and specificity for the detection of early-stage lung cancer. CyPath® Lung is marketed as a Laboratory Developed Test by Precision Pathology Services. Research and optimization of the Company's platform technologies are conducted in its laboratories at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
About WallachBeth Capital LLC
WallachBeth Capital offers a robust range of capital markets and investment banking services to the healthcare community, connecting corporate clients with leading institutions, creating value for both issuers and investors. The firm's experience includes initial public offerings, follow-on issues, PIPE offerings, and private transactions. WallachBeth Capital is a leading provider of institutional execution services, offering clients a full spectrum of solutions to help them navigate increasingly complex markets. The firm's website is located at www.wallachbeth.com.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the securities described herein, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for John Eastman, a lead architect of some of Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in power after the 2020 election, said Wednesday they advised their client to assert attorney-client privilege and invoke his constitutional right to remain silent when testifying before a special grand jury investigating possible illegal election interference in Georgia.
Charles Burnham and Harvey Silverglate confirmed in a statement that Eastman had appeared before the panel in Fulton County, complying with a summons from the district attorney. They declined to comment on the questions or testimony, citing respect for the secrecy of the grand jury process.
Eastman is one of a number of Trump advisers, attorneys and allies whose testimony Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has sought to compel in the case. Former New York mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, who’s been told he may face criminal charges in the investigation, testified in mid-August. U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, is fighting his subpoena. Willis filed petitions last week seeking the testimony of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump-allied attorney Sidney Powell, among others. And conservative attorney L. Lin Wood Jr. said this week he’s been told Willis wants him to appear.
Willis’ investigation began early last year, shortly after a recording of a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger became public. In that call, Trump suggested the state’s top election official could “find” the votes needed to overturn his narrow loss in the state. But it has become clear that the scope of the probe has broadened considerably since then.
In their statement Wednesday, Eastman’s attorneys accused Willis of embarking on “an unprecedented path of criminalizing controversial or disfavored legal theories.”
As Trump and his allies began a campaign to spread false claims about the election, Eastman circulated what was essentially an academic proposal challenging the workings of the 130-year-old Electoral Count Act that governs the process for tallying the election results in Congress.
The first part of the plan was to put in place a slate of “alternate” electors in seven battleground states to sign certificates falsely stating that Trump, not Democrat Joe Biden, had won their states. Willis has told the 16 Georgia Republicans who joined that effort that they are targets of her investigation.
The second part of the proposal involved convincing then-Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to count some of the electoral votes won by Biden when presiding over Congress the certification of election results on Jan. 6, 2021. But Pence refused to stray from his ceremonial role that day, even as Trump supporters broke into the Capitol, chanting for him to be hung.
Wood, who sued unsuccessfully to block the certification of Georgia’s election results, said Wednesday that he’s willing to testify before the special grand jury.
Wood said a lawyer who represents him in a separate matter told him late last week that Willis’ office wants to subpoena him to testify. But he said he hadn’t received a formal request and didn’t know when they would want to see him.
“If they want to ask me questions, I’m happy to answer them,” Wood told The Associated Press by phone. “I have nothing to hide.”
Wood has long been known for his representation of high-profile clients — including Richard Jewell, who was wrongly accused in the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta — particularly in defamation cases.
In a document filed last week seeking to compel Powell’s testimony, Willis noted that Wood hosted meetings at his home in South Carolina “for the purpose of exploring options to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere.” Powell asked Wood, who’s licensed as a lawyer in Georgia, to help find Georgia residents who would be willing to serve as plaintiffs in lawsuits contesting the election results in the state, the petition says.
Wood said he didn’t know Powell well at the time but that she got in touch and asked if a group could meet at his home in late November 2020. He agreed to reach out to some prominent Georgia Republicans on Powell’s behalf, but said he doesn’t remember exactly who he called and whether they ended up joining any lawsuit filed by Powell.
The lawsuits filed by Powell and Wood were among many that were filed around the country in the wake of the 2020 election, many of them claiming that widespread election fraud had occurred. The lawsuits were ultimately dismissed, and state and federal election officials have consistently said there was no evidence of widespread fraud in the election.
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Associated Press writer Farnoush Amiri in Washington contributed to this report.
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EU welcomes UN report on China's human rights abuse
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell welcomed on Thursday a UN report on what it said was a "rigorous review" of evidence suggesting systemic abuse of Muslim minorities in China.
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EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell welcomed on Thursday a UN report on what it said was a "rigorous review" of evidence suggesting systemic abuse of Muslim minorities in China. The report released by the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said that Uyghurs in the Chinese province of Xinjiang and other predominantly Muslim groups were routinely placed in reeducation camps where they were subjected to torture, rape, forced labour and abortion.
"The EU welcomes the release of the assessment report of human rights concerns in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region... The report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights underscores the serious human rights violations occurring in Xinjiang," Borrell said . He quoted the 48-page report as saying that the suspected abuse of Muslim minorities in China might amount to "crimes against humanity."
"The EU joins the call by UN experts reporting to the Human Rights Council to closely monitor, report, and assess the human rights situation in China," Borrell added. Wang Wenbin, a spokesperson with the Chinese Foreign Ministry, told a daily news briefing on Thursday that the damning report was "orchestrated and produced by the US and some Western forces and is completely illegal, null and void."
A group of 60 Uyghur organizations from 20 countries are calling for an immediate response to put an end to atrocities against Uyghurs, following the release of a report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). A groundbreaking United Nations report published on August 31 says the Chinese government has committed abuses that may amount to crimes against humanity targeting Uyghurs and other Turkic communities in the Xinjiang region.
The report by the outgoing UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet contains victim accounts that substantiate mass arbitrary detention, torture, and other serious human rights violations and recommends world to take action to end the abuses. Munich-based World Uyghur Congress, in a statement, said Uyghurs are calling for seven concrete actions by governments, multilateral bodies, and corporations.
"This UN report is extremely important. It paves the way for meaningful and tangible action by member states, UN bodies, and the business community," said World Uyghur Congress President Dolkun Isa. "Accountability starts now." "This is a game-changer for the international response to the Uyghur crisis," said Uyghur Human Rights Project Executive Director Omer Kanat. "Despite the Chinese government's strenuous denials, the UN has now officially recognized that horrific crimes are occurring." (ANI)
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German elite division outfit RB Leipzig have confirmed the move of Ilaix Moriba to Valencia until the end of the 2022-23 season.
Instead of moving to the Bundesliga side, he will stay in Spain – where he hopes to get regular playing time under manager Gennaro Gattuso.
“Ilaix Moriba is returning to Valencia CF on loan for the remainder of the season,” a statement from the Leipzig website read.
“The Guinea international is already used to wearing the Valencia kit, having spent last year there on loan. Moriba made 18 appearances across all competitions for the side last season (12 starts, 1 assist).
“Moriba moved to Leipzig from Barcelona in August 2021, making six appearances for RBL (3x Champions League, 2x Bundesliga, 1x DFB-Pokal) prior to his first loan stint at Valencia.
“All the best in Spain, Illaix!”
All things being equal, he could be in Valencia’s squad for Sunday’s Spanish elite division outing versus Getafe at the Mestalla.
Moriba moved to Leipzig in August 2021 from FC Barcelona but he was unable to tie down a regular place in the squad.
“I wanted to come here, and I thank the club for everything that they've done,” he told the club’s website during his first spell.
“I want to thank the president and everybody who has made it possible for me to come here.
“I just want to give my all on the pitch. Every time that I play, I try to do the best that I can. I try to do my best for the team every time that I play, and give the coach what he needs.
“We are going to try to make the fans happy and put Valencia CF where the club deserve to be.”
After representing Spain at U17 and U18 levels, the 19-year-old switched allegiance to Guinea.
He made his bow for the Syli Nationale in a 3–0 friendly loss to Rwanda on January 3, 2022. Also, the midfielder featured for the West Africans at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon where his country was eliminated at the Round of 16 stage by the Gambia.
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Fashion & Apparel Champion Invented the Hoodie Nearly 100 Years Ago. Now It's Ready to Talk About It The brand is looking toward the future as it seeks to engage Gen Z consumers The brand is celebrating its legacy while courting new consumers.Champion By Leslie Blount6 mins ago Champion is calling an audible on its penchant for modesty. Enjoying your content? You Have 1 Free Article Left. Register to continue reading! Register Today! Leslie Blount Leslie Blount is an Adweek contributor who writes about brands and culture. Recommended articles | https://www.adweek.com/commerce/champion-invented-hoodie-100-years/ | 2022-09-01T18:54:23Z | https://www.adweek.com/commerce/champion-invented-hoodie-100-years/ | false | null |
Americans will soon have pizzas delivered by driverless vehicles created by Nuro - thanks to New Zealander and accidental entrepreneur Dave Ferguson - back in his home country this week for the first time since the Covid outbreak to accept a 2022 Kea World Class Award.
Nuro is a robotics firm, and will release a range of products over time. But for the moment its first product - the driverless delivery vehicle - is getting all the buzz.
And in footage from tests - which have included a trial for select Domino's customers in Houston last year - it certainly looks nifty. An app alerts a customer when a Nuro is pulling up outside their house (using a mix of cameras, mapping lasers and microphones to guide itself). You walk up to the vehicle, then punch in a pin code into a touchscreen to open a compartment holding your Hawaiian, or whatever you've bought online.
The six-year-old Nuro has a working prototype with regulatory approval to "drive" on public roads in the US state of Texas, and is working with partners including FedEx, Domino's, pharmacy chain CVS and grocery giant Kroger.
Ferguson and co-founder Jiajun Zhu have raised more than US$2 billion from backers including Softbank, Google and Tiger Global Management (run by Chase Coleman, one of the late billionaire Julian Robertson's "Tiger cubs").
And the pair have 1400 off their own staff, and BYD - the Chinese giant billed as the world's largest EV maker - as their manufacturing partner at its plant near Los Angeles.
If all goes to plan, they'll be a mass rollout beginning in a couple of years.
And forget reaching "unicorn" status (venture capital slang for a startup that's reached a private equity value topping $1b), Nuro's most recent capital raise, last year, was at a US$8.6b ($13.8b) valuation.
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Advertise with NZME.Ferguson never set out to be the next Elon Musk.
He arrived at Otago University in 1997 with plans to complete an LLB.
"I thought I was going to be a lawyer," he says.
A friend suggested he would enjoy throwing a computer science paper into his pre-law year.
He took to the computer science school. "I got to work with a professor there, Dr Margaret Jeffries, who got the first robot ever for the department. And that was what really inspired me and got me pumped about robots, and that sort of everything snowballed from there."
Said snowballing led to a PhD in Robotics and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in the US. "It was like a Disney World of robotics, it was and still is, and I just was totally hooked," Ferguson says.
"I participated in a bunch of different robot applications, including a big competition called the Darpa Urban Challenge, where we had robots racing each other in a mock urban environment. And from that point, I really became very, very excited about self-driving vehicles in particular."
(Darpa is the US Government's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, which supports R&D across a broad spectrum of startups. It provided key funding during Rocket Lab's early stages.)
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Advertise with NZME.Ferguson went on to join Google's self-driving car project - today known as Waymo - as a principle engineer and machine-learning lead before leaving in 2016 to co-found Nuro with Zhu (also a principle engineer on Google's driverless car project).
The pair's first-generation driverless car was a modified Prius. Now, with their third-gen model, they've designed their own vehicle from scratch.
While there are numerous self-driving vehicle initiatives, Ferguson says the like of Kroger like Nuro's total focus on driverless delivery.
The fact there are no humans involved (Waymo is working on a driverless taxi, designed to have people in the backseat) has also made it a lot easier for Nuro to navigate the complex regulatory landscape and gain all the necessary approvals to drive on Californian public roads.
Dubbed a "giant toaster-shaped vehicle" by the Washington Post, the 700kg, battery-powered Nuro putters along at low speed and can carry around 110kg of cargo.
"Our vehicles are equipped with dozens of sensors," Ferguson says.
"We use both short and long-range cameras - similar to the eyes we have - and lidar [laser imaging, detection and ranging] to shoot lasers and create a 3D point cloud of the whole environment. We also use radar to get distance and velocity measurements for other vehicles."
Thermal cameras are also in the mix, used to detect the heat signature of people and animals - particularly at night.
"And we also have microphones for emergency vehicles or siren detection," Ferguson says.
The plethora of complementary sensors adds up to a system that can maintain a detailed virtual map of the Nuro's world at all times. The fully-automated technology saw the US Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration grant Nuro a special exemption from the usual requirement for side mirrors.
Nuro's flexible design has also appealed. Domino's could make one of its two compartments a pizza warmer and the other a fridge for drinks, for example. There's also the option to sub-compartmentalise with lockers, so you can't swipe another customer's order.
One Nuro observer called its lineup of anchor clients "a rebel alliance against Amazon".
Ferguson won't comment on that, but he does note that Amazon - which has trials for drones and other autonomous delivery technology - may loom large in e-commerce, it only accounts for a small fraction of the total US$5.6 trillion US retail market, 90 per cent of which is still local and in-person.
"We're trying to really energise local commerce", the Kiwi expat says. He sees fleets of Nuros giving firms an affordable delivery mechanism for goods sold online.
And he also reels off stats on how it's good for the planet, and your time.
"Every year in the US there are 93 billion personal vehicle trips that people take for shopping and running errands," he says.
"So almost 100 billion trips where you really don't need anyone in those vehicles at all.
"You get your time back, and it's faster and safer and more sustainable. It's a massive societal benefit. And it's a huge market." | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/dave-ferguson-the-kiwi-at-the-wheel-of-a-14-billion-driverless-delivery-vehicle-startup-nuro/BRENE6D26KWHBFFAWTLDPALWRI/ | 2022-09-01T18:57:39Z | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/dave-ferguson-the-kiwi-at-the-wheel-of-a-14-billion-driverless-delivery-vehicle-startup-nuro/BRENE6D26KWHBFFAWTLDPALWRI/ | false | 2 |
NEW YORK (AP) — The family of a Marine killed in Afghanistan has revived a defamation lawsuit against Alec Baldwin over comments the actor made online.
The sisters and widow of Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum allege Baldwin subjected them to online threats and harassment after he posted and commented on a photo shared online by one of McCollum’s sisters, Roice McCollum, who had been in Washington during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.
Baldwin had donated $5,000 to the family after learning of the death of Rylee McCollum in a bombing at the airport in Kabul in August 2021, just weeks before his daughter was born. Baldwin had contacted Roice McCollum via Instagram, according to the lawsuit.
In January 2022, Baldwin saw that Roice McCollum posted a picture of demonstrators from former President Donald Trump’s rally taken on the day Congress counted the Electoral College votes from the 2020 presidential election, according to the complaint.
Baldwin sent her a private message and confirmed she had organized the fundraiser for her brother, the lawsuit said. She responded that her participation in the protest was “perfectly legal,” according to court documents.
Baldwin told Roice McCollum he would share her photo with his 2.4 million Instagram followers and wrote: “Good luck,” according to the lawsuit.
In the lawsuit, Roice McCollum said she “did not take part in, nor did she support or condone the rioting that erupted” at the Capitol, and was cleared of any wrongdoing after meeting with the FBI.
The family’s lawsuit was initially filed in Wyoming but dismissed by a judge there in May for lack of jurisdiction because Baldwin made the posts in New York and they weren’t directed specifically at a Wyoming audience.
The current lawsuit was filed in New York on Friday and seeks a combined $25 million in punitive and compensatory damages.
Baldwin had asked for the case to be dismissed in Wyoming, saying he was expressing his political opinion and that claims by McCollum’s sister Cheyenne McCollum and his widow Jiennah McCollum should be dismissed because he did not make any statements about them.
In an email, Luke Nikas, an attorney representing Baldwin, said “Mr. Baldwin donated several thousand dollars to Ms. McCollum to honor her husband, and now she’s suing him for more because she disagrees with his political opinion about the insurrection that occurred on January 6th at the U.S. Capitol Building. We expect to prevail in this lawsuit, as we did the last time they filed it.” | https://www.rochesterfirst.com/entertainment-news/slain-marines-family-revives-alec-baldwin-defamation-suit/ | 2022-09-01T18:57:50Z | https://www.rochesterfirst.com/entertainment-news/slain-marines-family-revives-alec-baldwin-defamation-suit/ | false | 32 |
Chris Brown and Jordin Sparks still can perform “No Air” live without skipping a beat 15 years after the song’s release.
Chris Brown ended his One Of Them Ones tour with a classic R&B track that is revered by his fans. The tour ended in Las Vegas last night, and fans were delighted to see the American Idol season six winner, Jordin Sparks, grace the stage for their hit “No Air,” which was a major hit for the duo back in 2008.
What was special about her appearance was that this was the first time in more than ten years the two shared a stage for that track. The moment was not lost on the Arizona native either, who took to Instagram to post, “15 YEARS LATER: @chrisbrownofficial and I returned to the stage to perform ‘No Air.’”
“Thank you Chris for having me at the final stop of your One Of Them Ones tour, ended it with a bang in Vegas!!! The crowd was lit!!! Loved hearing you scream every word of this song!!! My heart,” she added.
“I LOVED# this song. I remember one summer in NYC, my friends and I were in her apt with no ac, hot and miserable and just broke out singing this song. Random but it was the best summer and this song will always bring me back there much love!” one fan said, and another added, “was here for this! And I cried when he brought you up on stage! Such a beautiful surprise.”
The track took the world by storm and peaked at No. 3 on the charts in the US and climbed into the Top 10 rankings around the globe. Even after so many years, it remains an R&B favorite with fans.
“No Air” music video currently has 357 million views on YouTube and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. | https://guyanainquirer.com/chris-brown-jordin-sparks-sings-no-air-flawlessly-for-first-time-in-15-years/ | 2022-09-01T18:57:51Z | https://guyanainquirer.com/chris-brown-jordin-sparks-sings-no-air-flawlessly-for-first-time-in-15-years/ | false | 10 |
"ALMOST EVERYTHING"… SET FOR RELEASE SEPTEMBER 23RD VIA CLADDAGH RECORDS/UME
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, Liam Neeson, Imelda May, Bono, Hozier, and more bring the work of seminal Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh to life on a new record, Almost Everything… , due September 23rd via Claddagh Records/UMe.
Originally released on Claddagh Records in 1964, the double album also features the only recording of the revered Irish poet reading his most celebrated poems. Now remastered and reimagined this new two-part album includes the original recordings and Kavanagh's poetry read by some of Ireland's most famous figures including Jessie Buckley, Aidan Gillen, Lisa McGee, Lisa Hannigan, Evanna Lynch, Sharon Corr, Kathleen Watkins, Christy Moore, Rachael Blackmore and Aisling Bea set to a truly wonderful music composition.
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For many of us, Patrick Kavanagh joined our life's journey as we sat at hard desks in cold classrooms struggling to make sense of so much. Kavanagh made poetry real. He opened our minds to life, soil and soul.
In the 1960s, At the age of 19, Garech Browne set up Claddagh Records to record and preserve Irish cultural heritage, fearing that it would be subsumed by the fast-emerging pop culture. The first albums on the new label were music, including The King Of The Pipers by Leo Rowsome and The Liffey Banks by Tommy Potts. There was also a new group who wanted to call themselves The Quare Fellas but took advice and became The Chieftains.
And then Browne wanted to record an album of the spoken word.
By this time, Patrick Kavanagh was an established poet and writer, having won critical acclaim, primarily for The Great Hunger (1942). Browne had encountered the poet in various hostelries off Grafton Street and in 1963 he broached the idea of an album with Kavanagh. Many meetings followed, all informal, Browne recalled: "The small matter of money resulted in protracted negotiations and general haggling, not, I imagine, unlike the jostling Kavanagh was used to on a fair day in his native Monaghan."
Browne was offering £50 but the poet wasn't budging. It would have to be £100 or nothing. A contract was eventually signed in the Halcyon Hotel on South Anne Street where half-board was costing the poet just over £3 a week. Under his signature Kavanagh wrote: "One hour approx. of verse and prose of my own."
It was then decided, in 2021, to remaster the Kavanagh tapes and to invite a number of people to read the poet's works.
And here it is, the original Kavanagh album with all the evocative earthiness of the poet's voice together with a wonderful selection from some of Ireland's best-loved and most recognizable names from the worlds of music, film, arts and literature.
Almost Everything… is a two-part album. The first features 15 celebrities reading Patrick Kavanagh's poetry against the backdrop of a truly stunning musical composition. The second is a remaster of the iconic 1964 album from Claddagh Records Almost Everything which is the only ever recording of Patrick Kavanagh reading his own poetry.
Side One opens with the poet singing "If You Ever Go to Dublin Town" and features prose, while Side Two has Kavanagh reading a wonderful selection of his poems, 19 in total. The recordings took place on October 16, 1963. The sleeve notes include fellow poet John Montague's description of Kavanagh as "a writer who already has his place among the Irish immortals, both as a personality and a poet."
The physical formats of this album include a booklet containing all the poetry one will hear on the album.
The vinyl format of this release contains two truly unique vinyl sleeves. The first hosts a printed collage of sketches of all the celebrated readers around Patrick Kavanagh, with Kavanagh himself visible through the cut-out square on the cover itself. The second vinyl sleeve is an exact replica of the original 1963 release.
Track List: Patrick Kavanagh Almost Everything…
CD1 (Read by Guests)
1. On Raglan Road (read by Bono)
2. Stony Grey Soil (read by Michael D. Higgins)
3. Memory of My Father (read by Liam Neeson)
4. Canal Bank Walk (read by Imelda May)
5. Peace (read by Hozier)
6. Inniskeen Road: July Evening (read by Lisa McGee)
7. In Memory of my Mother (read by Kathleen Watkins)
8. The Hospital (read by Lisa Hannigan)
9. Pegasus (read by Rachael Blackmore)
10. October (read by Christy Moore)
11. Shancoduff (read by Aisling Bea)
12. Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin (read by Evanna Lynch)
13. Extract from 'The Great Hunger' (read by Aidan GIllen)
14. A Christmas Childhood (read by Sharon Corr)
15. Epic (read by Jessie Buckley)
CD2 (read by Patrick Kavanagh)
1. Autobiographical Prose
2. The Same Again
3. Jungle
4. Narcissus and the Women
5. Epic
6. God in Woman
7. Kerr's Ass
8. Peace
9. The Hospital
10. On the Death of Jim Larkin
11. Extract from 'The Great Hunger'
12. Living in the Country: Part One
13. Dear Folks
14. Miss Universe
15. About Reason, Maybe
16. To Hell With Commonsense
17. October
18. Come Dance With Kitty Stobling
19. Prelude
20. Having Confessed
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Fox Sports’ Shannon Sharpe Rips ‘Pr*ck’ and ‘Horrible Person’ Aaron Rodgers After Joe Rogan Interview
Fox Sports commentator Shannon Sharpe was less than pleased about Aaron Rodgers’ recent appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast and blasted the quarterback as a “prick.”
Rodgers appeared on Saturday’s edition of The Joe Rogan Experience where he spoke at length about his decision to defy the NFL’s Covid policy and remain unvaccinated.
During the interview, Rodgers admitted to misleading the media about getting vaccinated.
“I’d been ready the entire time for this question and had thought about how I wanted to answer it. And I had come to the conclusion I’m going to say: ‘I’ve been immunized.’ And if there’s a follow-up, then talk about my process.”
“But, I thought there’s a possibility that I say ‘I’m immunized,’ maybe they understand what that means, maybe they don’t. Maybe, they follow up. They didn’t follow up. So then I go the season them thinking – some of them – that I was vaccinated.”
On the Monday edition of Skip and Shannon: Undisputed, Sharpe laid into Rodgers’ revelations.
“He can use all the semantics that he wants to, Skip. He lied and he purposefully lied because he thumbed the nose because he didn’t like the NFL’s policy. He knew that. Okay, you want to use the term ‘immunized?’ Okay, fine. But you know, you were supposed to mask up around other people in the building at press conference and you didn’t,” he began.
“So you were leading people to think because you were immunized, you were leading to the media and the other people around you, that you were vaccinated and you weren’t. So you want to use all the semantics and words because what — Aaron Rodgers thought that he was above this policy,” Sharpe added.
He lamented about Rodgers consistently acting above the law.
“Aaron Rodgers thought ‘I’m Aaron bleepin’ Rodgers. I’m a three time league MVP. I’m a Super Bowl MVP. I’m one of the handful of best players in all of football. This is not applicable to me. This is applicable to you guys,'” he said.
“He wanna blame the woke and the cancel culture. No, this was all about Aaron Rodgers thinking that the NFL Covid policy was not applicable to him. Nothing more, nothing less,” Sharpe added.
Sharpe did not mince words when describing his views of Rodgers despite his status as a legendary quarterback.
“He’s a top five quarterback — when it’s all said and done, you can make a case. He might be a top five player, if he can get another championship, that’s undeniable. But as a person, he’s a horrible person. He’s a liar,” he said.
“He’s arrogant. He’s aloof. For lack of a better word — He’s a prick. And I am so over him,” Sharpe concluded.
Listen above via Skip and Shannon: Undisputed.
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No, the Illinois winner of the $1.34 billion Mega Millions lottery ticket sold July 29 in suburban Des Plaines has not yet come forward.
“For a prize of this magnitude, it’s not unusual for the winner to take a while to claim,” Illinois Lottery Director Harold Mays Mays previously said in a statement. “I’m sure they’re going through a range of emotions.”
And while that person has 12 months to do so -- and can remain anonymous if they so choose, according to Illinois Lottery Officials -- a more pressing deadline is coming up: How to get paid.
According to Illinois Lottery's Winner's Handbook, "Lotto, Mega Millions and Powerball winners have 60 days after the date of the drawing to choose the cash option or annual payments."
The $1.337 billion prize would be paid annually over 29 years if the winner picks the annuity option. If the winner opts for cash, they will receive an estimated $780.5 million.
"Failure to choose a payment option within the 60-day time period will automatically result in annuity payments,"
As of Sept. 1, the clock is ticking. The winner now has only 26 days to decide.
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In a free society, armed agents of the government should never be able to break down the doors of a home and terrorize innocent people.
Yet that’s what deputies of Chad Bianco’s Riverside County Sheriff’s Department evidently did to Chen-Chen Hwang, 67, and her husband, Jiun-Tsong Wu, in Lake Elsinore.
According to Allyson Vergara of the Southern California News Group, on Aug. 5, 2021, “deputies broke down multiple doors inside” of the couples’ home “and spent hours rummaging through the couple’s belongings.”
The armed deputies then arrived at their second home, where Hwang was, and demanded entry into her home because they believed the couple was involved in growing illicit marijuana.
“She did not grant permission to search their second home, but saw deputies photographing the home and doing a warrantless search of the garage for up to 15 minutes,” reports Vergara, citing a complaint the couple made against the deputies.
The deputies, who didn’t have a warrant, reportedly suspected the couple of wrongdoing because of suspicions about their utility usage.
“The deputies believed the defendants were stealing power to grow marijuana because their power consumption was low, and they said as much,” said attorney Alex Coolman.
The actual reason their power consumption was low, however, is that they use solar panels and are described as “thrifty” in their energy usage.
Needless to say, deputies found nothing implicating them as criminals.
“The way the sheriff handled this situation was unreasonable and illegal,” attorney Alex Coolman said. “Nobody’s home should be broken into based on a hunch about their use of electricity.”
The couple filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the county in March. The county has since settled the case for $136,000. “This was a very strange and frightening incident,” Hwang said in a statement. “We did nothing to deserve this, and it made us feel unsafe in our own homes.”
This is the sort of unprofessional and disgraceful conduct one might expect from a rogue regime, but it shouldn’t happen here in the United States, in California or the Inland Empire.
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VINchain (VIN) traded down 0.1% against the US dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 14:00 PM E.T. on September 1st. VINchain has a total market capitalization of $1.37 million and $115,795.00 worth of VINchain was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One VINchain coin can currently be bought for $0.0023 or 0.00000012 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges. Over the last seven days, VINchain has traded down 8.2% against the US dollar.
Here is how similar cryptocurrencies have performed over the last 24 hours:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00005053 BTC.
- BITCOIN ADDITIONAL (BTCA) traded 1.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $19,795.24 or 1.00000000 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded up 5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded 4.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.86 or 0.00004355 BTC.
- Mammoth (MMT) traded 0% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.02 or 0.00005163 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded up 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00005050 BTC.
- yOUcash (YOUC) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.51 or 0.00002583 BTC.
- FTX Token (FTT) traded down 1.2% against the dollar and now trades at $26.46 or 0.00133662 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded 0.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $6.62 or 0.00033428 BTC.
- Geegoopuzzle (GGP) traded 4.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $17.23 or 0.00087028 BTC.
VINchain Coin Profile
VINchain (VIN) is a coin. VINchain’s total supply is 840,108,901 coins and its circulating supply is 590,108,901 coins. The official message board for VINchain is vinchain.io/blog. VINchain’s official Twitter account is @VINChain_io and its Facebook page is accessible here. The Reddit community for VINchain is https://reddit.com/r/VinChain and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. VINchain’s official website is vinchain.io.
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The India Fund, Inc. (NYSE:IFN – Get Rating) saw a significant decline in short interest in the month of August. As of August 15th, there was short interest totalling 22,300 shares, a decline of 10.1% from the July 31st total of 24,800 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 76,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.3 days.
Institutional Inflows and Outflows
Several institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Bank of America Corp DE increased its holdings in shares of The India Fund by 3.2% during the fourth quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 240,721 shares of the investment management company’s stock worth $5,079,000 after buying an additional 7,487 shares in the last quarter. Raymond James Financial Services Advisors Inc. increased its holdings in The India Fund by 424.0% in the fourth quarter. Raymond James Financial Services Advisors Inc. now owns 63,588 shares of the investment management company’s stock valued at $1,342,000 after purchasing an additional 51,453 shares during the period. Lazard Asset Management LLC increased its holdings in The India Fund by 1.3% in the fourth quarter. Lazard Asset Management LLC now owns 2,320,800 shares of the investment management company’s stock valued at $48,968,000 after purchasing an additional 29,623 shares during the period. Nwam LLC acquired a new stake in The India Fund in the fourth quarter valued at $220,000. Finally, Saba Capital Management L.P. increased its holdings in The India Fund by 3.2% in the fourth quarter. Saba Capital Management L.P. now owns 341,587 shares of the investment management company’s stock valued at $7,207,000 after purchasing an additional 10,524 shares during the period. 12.62% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
The India Fund Stock Down 0.2 %
IFN traded down $0.03 during trading on Thursday, hitting $17.49. 115 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 102,047. The India Fund has a twelve month low of $15.61 and a twelve month high of $23.78. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $17.11 and a 200 day moving average price of $17.94.
The India Fund Cuts Dividend
About The India Fund
The India Fund, Inc is a close ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Aberdeen Standard Investments (Asia) Limited. The fund invests in public equity markets of India. It seeks to invest in stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The fund employs a quantitative and fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking and asset allocation approach to create its portfolio.
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