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During the transition period and until 31 December 2020, the Withdrawal Agreement meant that SPC protection in the UK was governed by the EU SPC Regulation (Regulation (EC) No 469/2009). Since leaving the EU on 1 January 2021, the UK has transposed EU SPC law into UK law, as far as possible, via The Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.
Marketing authorisations
Prior to 1 January 2021, an application for an SPC required details of the first Marketing Authorisation issued within the EEA for the relevant product. An EEA Marketing Authorisation covers all EU member states. The date of this Marketing Authorisation determined the term of additional protection granted by the SPC.
From 1 January 2021, it is required that a UK SPC is to instead be based on a UK Marketing Authorisation. For SPC applications filed from this date, it will be necessary to:
a) obtain a separate UK Marketing Authorisation, and
b) provide details of the earliest EEA Marketing Authorisation, if this pre-dates the UK Marketing Authorisation.
It is possible to apply to the UK MHRA for marketing authorisations for different UK territories, i.e. either the UK as a whole, Northern Ireland only or Great Britain (i.e. England, Scotland and Wales) only. This is based on the continuing application of EU law in Northern Ireland under the Northern Ireland Protocol.
For UK SPC applications filed on 1 January 2021 and later, its term will begin from the date of the earliest Marketing Authorisation obtained in either the UK or EEA. EEA Marketing Authorisations which were granted before 1 January 2021 will be converted automatically to equivalent UK Marketing Authorisations.
Paediatric extensions
For products that have been tested for paediatric use in accordance with a paediatric investigation plan (PIP), EU law provides for a six month SPC extension. From 1 January 2021, a paediatric extension is available based on equivalent provisions in the UK's Human Medicines Regulation 2012. It will still be required to make the request for an SPC extension at the same time as filing the SPC application, or up until two years before expiry of the SPC.
Unlike under EU SPC law, evidence of EEA authorisations covering the product is no longer required under UK provisions. It is only necessary to show that the product is authorised in the UK. In line with the territorial protection provided by UK SPCs, a paediatric extension will only apply to UK territories where the Marketing Authorisation is associated with a PIP.
SPC stockpiling and manufacturing waiver
The SPC stockpiling and manufacturing waiver provides an exemption to infringement of an SPC in the final six months preceding its expiry. The waiver, which came into force on 1 July 2019 due to amendment of the EU SPC Regulation, permits third parties in Europe to manufacture biosimilar or generic versions of products under SPC protection for either export to countries where no equivalent or parallel SPC protection exits and/or stockpiling of the product in Europe in order to allow for quick entry into the market to improve access to medicines.
The waiver was originally proposed to be incorporated into UK statute. However, the proposal has been amended subsequent to a stakeholder consultation. A more restricted proposal is that UK-based companies will only be permitted to manufacture biosimilars or generics for export to countries outside of the EU. This proposal has not yet been passed by parliament.
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Brazilian citizens eagerly await the release of consultations from the Amounts Receivable Systemof central bank.
The consultation system was interrupted after the strike of the civil servants of the central bank, a few months ago. However, even after the demonstrations ended, the entity did not comment on the return of consultations.
The BC reported that around R$ 8 billion were forgotten by Brazilians in financial accounts. In the first phase, R$ 4 billion were available for return. Therefore, in this second phase, the money forgotten in banks totals about R$ 4 billion.
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Amounts Receivable System
The system is a program carried out by the Central Bank with the objective of informing Brazilian citizens about forgotten amounts in their checking or savings accounts at financial institutions. In addition, the amounts improperly charged in credit fees are part of the system.
Where does forgotten money come from?
O central bank forgotten money comes from:
- checking or savings accounts that were closed (but still had a balance available);
- amounts improperly charged from fees, installments or credit operations;
- Capital quotas and apportionment of net surpluses in credit unions; and
- Amounts related to closed consortia that were not withdrawn.
How to check the amounts receivable
At the outset, it is important to make it clear that the Query money forgotten in banks should be carried out on the new Central Bank (BC) platform.
The consultation and request for withdrawal of forgotten money from the Central Bank is “temporarily suspended for improvement”, according to the Central Bank’s website. In addition, as previously reported, the servers strike hindered the possibility of consulting the values in May.
The citizen who has already made his initial consultation received a specific date to return to the website of the valorareceber.bcb.gov.br.
From now on, if you haven’t already done so, it is necessary to access the website above and make the consult amounts receivable using your CPF number and your date of birth. For consult forgotten money you must have access to the Gov.br account, silver or gold level. This is a must if you want to see how much you have available.
After performing the initial consultation, you must access the website above and follow the following steps:
- Log in;
- Consult amount receivable; the institution that must return the amount; or the origin of forgotten money;
- Click on the option “Request here”, to receive via Pix, or on the option “Request via institution” to get in touch and agree on the bank institution.
New Amounts Receivable rules
The system Amounts Receivable has some changes after completion of the first phase. One of them is that it will not be necessary to carry out the scheduling. In this way, the citizen will be able to request the withdrawal of the money at the time of the first consultation.
In addition, the system will rely on new information passed on by financial institutions. In other words, those who did not have amounts receivable in the first stage must consult again the System as the data will be updated and there may be a new amount available for you to withdraw. | https://playcrazygame.com/2022/09/02/values-receivable-did-the-central-bank-release-a-new-query-on-the-forgotten-money-today-09-02-check-out/ | 2022-09-02T02:13:24Z | https://playcrazygame.com/2022/09/02/values-receivable-did-the-central-bank-release-a-new-query-on-the-forgotten-money-today-09-02-check-out/ | false | 5 |
The Navy has selected the first woman to serve as a chief of the boat — the senior enlisted advisor to the commanding and executive officers of a submarine.
Master Chief Information Systems Technician (Submarine) Angela Koogler, who joined the Navy in 2002, became the chief of the boat for nuclear ballistic missile submarine Louisiana Aug. 22. The submarine is based out of Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in Washington.
“If you have something in your mind that is your goal, you can’t let one person or one obstacle stop you,” Koogler said in a Navy news release. “You have to keep driving for it. And sometimes instead of running those obstacles over, you might have to go around them. You might have to find a different path that works for you.”
Women were barred from serving on submarines until 2011, when female officers were permitted to serve on subs. Female enlisted personnel began serving on submarine crews in 2016. Koogler was assigned to guided-missile submarine Michigan in May 2016 and subsequently completed a tour with Submarine Squadron 19.
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“Every time I was up for orders, I was always looking for something different and challenging,” Koogler said. “Then when it was announced that enlisted women could apply for submarines, with some encouragement from my Sailors, I went ahead and applied.”
According to Submarine Squadron 19 Command Master Chief Travis Brown, Koogler was an ideal candidate because of her drive and ability to quickly adapt.
“Koogler only has 36 months on board a submarine, but I knew she was the perfect candidate to be the first woman COB,” Brown said in a Navy news release. “In 36 months, she walked off a submarine as a qualified diving officer of the watch, and everything in between, while also learning how to lead submarine Sailors.”
“We kind of pushed her a little bit because it’s always spooky if you’re going to be the first person to do anything,” Brown said. “But this is a huge glass ceiling busted in the submarine force. Now there’s a path to the top of the submarine force.”
Koogler, who is shooting to become a command master chief, said that gender shouldn’t stop sailors from serving in specific fields, so long as job performance isn’t impacted.
“We need to keep breaking down the barriers so that it just becomes all Sailors,” said Koogler. “A Sailor is a Sailor to me, and we shouldn’t have to define their gender. It’s important to integrate everybody, and it shouldn’t matter as long as they get the job done.” | https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-navy/2022/09/01/this-sailor-is-the-first-woman-to-serve-as-chief-of-the-boat/ | 2022-09-02T02:17:44Z | https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-navy/2022/09/01/this-sailor-is-the-first-woman-to-serve-as-chief-of-the-boat/ | false | 2 |
Hawaii County to open waitlist for housing voucher program later this month
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Waiting list applications for the Housing Choice Voucher Program will be opening up soon, according to Hawaii County’s Office of Housing and Community Development (OHCD).
The program provides rental assistance to very-low-income families, the elderly and disabled.
OHCD officials said eligibility is based on the total gross income and family size. It is also limited to U.S. citizens and specific categories of non-citizens with eligible immigration status.
Applications will be accepted beginning on Sept. 19 at 9 a.m. through Oct. 3 at 4 p.m.
The department said applications must be completed and submitted electronically through the department’s online portal. There is no cost to apply and only one application per family is allowed on the waiting list.
For those who are unable to complete the online application, you can contact OHCD at (808) 959-4642.
For more information on the Housing Choice Voucher program, click here.
To access the county’s portal, click here.
Copyright 2022 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved. | https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/09/02/hawaii-county-open-waitlist-housing-voucher-program-later-this-month/ | 2022-09-02T02:21:03Z | https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/09/02/hawaii-county-open-waitlist-housing-voucher-program-later-this-month/ | false | 1 |
Oklahoma's top education official wants to strip a former teacher of her credentials after she tried to give students access to books that may be banned in schools under a new state law.
In a letter he tweeted on Wednesday, Oklahoma Secretary of Education Ryan Walters called on the state board of education to revoke the teaching certificate of Summer Boismier, a former teacher at Norman High School.
Days earlier, Boismier resigned her position at the school following a complaint from a parent who suggested that Boismier had made political comments in the classroom.
According to the Norman Transcript, Boismier put paper over her classroom bookshelves with the message, "Books the state doesn't want you to read," in response to HB 1775, a state law enacted in May that restricts what public school educators can say about race and gender.
Boismier also posted a QR code that directed students to the Brooklyn Public Library's Books Unbanned project, which gives young people across the country access to books that may be outlawed in their schools.
Republican-led states like Oklahoma are increasingly banning specific books or attempting to limit the discussion of topics such as race and sexuality in schools.
Boismier declined NPR's request for comment about Walters' call to revoke her teaching certificate.
She previously told Gothamist that posting the QR code for her 10th-grade students was an effort to allow them to read materials that were restricted by the state.
"I saw this as an opportunity for my kids who were seeing their stories hidden to skirt that directive," she said. "Nowhere in my directives did it say we can't put a QR code on a wall."
Wes Moody, a spokesperson for Norman Public Schools, said the issue did not center around the QR code Boismier displayed in the classroom, but didn't specify what the issue was. A statement from the district alleged that Boismier made "personal political statements" and made a "political display" in the classroom.
But Walters, in his letter, suggested that Boismier gave students access to "banned and pornographic" material – without giving specifics – and cited that as justification to revoke her teaching certificate. "There is no place for a teacher with a liberal political agenda in the classroom," he said, adding that officials must "ensure she doesn't go to another district and do the same thing."
Walters did not reply to NPR's request for an interview.
Rob Crissinger, a spokesperson for the Oklahoma State Department of Education, told NPR that the department is not currently planning to file an application to revoke Boismier's teaching certificate.
"There is a process in place, and we understand Norman is reviewing this matter at the local level at this time," Crissinger said. "Based on their review, we will proceed accordingly but there is no reason to speculate on anything regarding Norman Public Schools until their local review is concluded."
Moody said Norman High School students never had access to pornographic material and added that the district had no response to Walters' letter.
The district, in its statement about Boismier's resignation, said some colleagues shared her concerns about HB 1775. "Like many educators the teacher has concerns regarding censorship and book removal by the Oklahoma state legislature," the statement said. "However, as has always been our expectation, we want our classrooms to be places where ALL students feel welcome."
If Boismier were to face any discipline from the state board of education, she would be the first teacher to do so for violating HB 1775, according to NPR member station KOSU.
Linda E. Johnson, president and CEO of Brooklyn Public Library, said in a statement to NPR that the library continued to support Boismier.
"The democratic principles on which both our nation and public libraries were founded include the right of every individual to seek information from all points of view," Johnson said. "Brooklyn Public Library stands firmly with Summer Boismier and all who champion free expression, intellectual freedom, and the right to read."
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Will Chileans vote for one of the world’s most progressive constitutions?
Chileans go to the polls on Sunday in a referendum that could lead to the country adopting a constitution enshrining gender equality, action on climate change and Indigenous rights, says reporter John Bartlett in Santiago
When Chile’s current constitution was written, the country was ruled by a brutal military dictatorship. Its leaders pursued some of the world’s most extreme rightwing economic policies, making it one of the richest countries in South America but also among its most unequal.
The constitution, which enshrines free market fundamentalism, was overwhelmingly rejected by Chileans two years ago, kickstarting a process to replace it with a new one fit for the 21st century.
Reporter John Bartlett tells Nosheen Iqbal that this Sunday Chileans will be asked to approve or reject the new text, which would enshrine gender equality, action on climate change and Indigenous rights.
If it is approved, it will have far-reaching consequences for a country increasingly distancing itself from the Pinochet era.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Coast Guard Academy officials and a lawyer for several cadets are disputing each other's accounts of what happened to seven students before and after they were forced to leave the Connecticut campus last month after refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
The New London academy said in a statement Thursday that school officials helped the seven cadets make travel arrangements and “funded travel to the location of their choice.” Officials also said all seven cadets are living in safe locations, either having returned to their families or staying with families of other cadets.
The statement contradicted comments made earlier this week by Michael Rose, a lawyer for several of the cadets. Rose told The Day newspaper that school officials did not help the students with travel arrangements, did not give them any money for travel and that one of the cadets was forced to live in his truck because he is estranged from his family.
The academy disenrolled the seven cadets last month for failing to comply with the military’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate, after their requests for religious exemptions were denied earlier this year. The cadets, whose names have not been released, were required to leave the campus by Aug. 19.
Cmdr. Krystyn Pecora, an academy spokesperson, acknowledged later Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press that the academy did not give the cadets travel funds before they left campus, but rather will reimburse them later when the cadets file their expenses, per the school's general travel expense policy.
Pecora also said officials were surprised to learn about the cadet who Rose said was forced to live in his truck, saying the student told officials he would be living with a fellow cadet's family.
Rose said the student lived in his truck for four days while he figured out where he was going to live, because he could not stay with his family due to an ongoing dispute. Rose further said the student had informed academy officials that he had nowhere to go before leaving campus. The cadet is now staying with a high school friend in another state.
The academy also said in its statement Thursday that all seven cadets left the school “at their own convenience” throughout the day on Aug. 19, based on their individual travel arrangements. Rose had said the cadets “were escorted to the gate like they were criminals or something.”
Rose, who is based in Summerville, South Carolina, acknowledged Thursday that he was wrong about officials escorting cadets off campus. But he said officials had threatened to have armed guards take one of the cadets off campus if he didn't leave by Aug. 19.
The academy noted that though the students are disenrolled, they have not yet been formally separated from the Coast Guard and are continuing to receive benefits and pay — about $1,600 a month, minus certain expenses including uniforms and books. It was not clear how long the separations will take.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin last year made the COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for service members, including those at the military academies, saying the vaccine is critical to maintaining military readiness and the health of the force. Several lawsuits are challenging that mandate, including two in South Carolina and Texas involving some of the Coast Guard Academy cadets that Rose represents, as well as cadets from other academies.
The seven Coast Guard academy cadets filed for religious exemptions to the vaccination mandate in September 2021. They were told in March that their applications were rejected. They appealed that decision, but were denied in May and ordered to report to the academy clinic for vaccination, the academy said.
The seven cadets ultimately refused to follow that order and were told in June that they would be disenrolled for failing to follow the mandate and vaccination orders. They appealed their disenrollments, but were notified on Aug. 15 that their appeals were denied. The students were then told to leave campus by Aug. 19, the academy said.
Rose said the students were told on Aug. 18 that they had to leave campus the next day, and many scrambled to make arrangements. | https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Accounts-differ-in-unvaccinated-Coast-Guard-cadet-17414127.php | 2022-09-02T02:31:24Z | https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Accounts-differ-in-unvaccinated-Coast-Guard-cadet-17414127.php | false | 34 |
World's Longest Canal Open to Tourists in N. China's Cangzhou Downtown Section
CANGZHOU, China, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cangzhou city downtown section of the world's oldest and longest man-made river, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, is open to navigation for tourism on September 1 and will give visitors a chance to appreciate the masterpiece of ancient China's artificial waterway, announced an official with the Cangzhou city government of north China's Hebei Province.
"We and more than 230 representatives from all walks of life in the city gathered to witness the historic moment of the opening of tourism in the Cangzhou central urban area of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal," said Xiang Hui, mayor of Cangzhou at the opening ceremony, adding that the Grand Canal is now ushering in a new century of revival.
The opening of the 13.7- kilometer long Cangzhou section of the Grand Canal is an important move to advance the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in North China.
The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is 1,794 kilometers (1,115 miles) long and has a history of over 2,500 years. It starts in Beijing in the north and ends in Hangzhou in the south, and served as a significant transportation artery in ancient China. About one-eighth of the Canal runs through Cangzhou, 180 km away from Beijing. A stretch of over 1,000 km of the canal was declared a world heritage site in 2014.
Cangzhou, known as "Northern Town of the Grand Canal", has upgraded the supporting projects along the Grand Canal, newly built 12 tourist piers, six landscape walking bridges, and renovated 8 existing main bridges. The city strives to provide a one-of-a-kind destination for tourists at home and abroad by taking the Grand Canal as the center and takes efforts into preserving historical and cultural projects such as the Hundred Lions Garden, Canal Park, Nanchuanlou Cultural Block, Garden Expo Park, Children's entertainment, sports park, catering, and accommodation facilities.
To make Grand Canal regain its vitality, Cangzhou has actively implemented water diversion and water replenishment projects in recent years. Based on the diversion of180 million cubic meters of water in 2021, another 300 million cubic meters of water was completed this year. More than 67,000 stems of arbor trees were planted on both sides of the Canal, with a green area of 2,065 mu (1.37 square kilometers), forming a vibrant ecological corridor, and reinforcing the greening and upgrading projects. Cangzhou has truly "protected, passed down and made good use of" the Grand Canal culture and made this precious heritage blossom into a new era.
Fifteen cruise ships have lined up by the piers for their first rides. From September 1st, tourists will be able to experience Cangzhou's historical and cultural relics along the Grand Canal.
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Biden calls Trump a threat to democracy
President Joe Biden declared Donald Trump is a ‘threat to the country’ in a speech that contained his harshest rhetoric to date about his predecessor in the Oval Office and the MAGA movement.
‘Equality and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise,’ Biden declared at the top of his remarks before Philadelphia’s Independence Hall.
He called out Trump by name, slamming the former president for his false claim the 2020 election was stolen and berating those who support Trump.
‘Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represented extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,’ Biden said to great applause from his supporters.
He made it clear he doesn’t think every Republican is ‘extreme’ or a threat but said ‘there’s no question that the Republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.’
‘And that is a threat to this country,’ he said.
He berated them for refusing to accept his presidency.
‘MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They did not believe in the rule of law. They did not recognize the will of the people,’ he said. ‘They refused to accept the results of a free election.’
‘You can’t love your country only when you win,’ Biden said.
The president was hounded by protesters who, outside the national park, chanted: ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ and ‘F*** Joe Biden.’
During his remarks, viewers could hear siren noises, shouts and someone yelling on a bullhorn in the background.
The president even addressed the hecklers: ‘Notwithstanding the folks you hear on the other side – They’re entitled to be outrageous. This is a democracy.’
‘Good manners is nothing they’ve ever suffered from,’ he added.
President Joe Biden declared Donald Trump is a ‘threat to the country’ in a speech that contained his harshest rhetoric to date about his predecessor in the Oval Office and the MAGA movement
‘Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represented extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,’ President Joe Biden said during his speech
Jill Biden joined President Biden on stage after his remarks
Naomi Biden and her fiance Peter Neal, who are getting married in the White House in November, flew with the president and first lady to Philadelphia for President Biden’s speech
The president painted a picture of a dystopian society of Republicans win the 2022 and 2024 elections.
‘MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards; backwards to an America where there is no right to choose no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love,’ he warned.
‘They promote authoritarian leaders and they fanned the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.’
And, Biden charged, Republicans will try to steal elections again.
‘They see their MAGA failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections. They’re tried everything last time to notify the votes of 81 million people,’ he said.
‘This time they’re determined to succeed at thwarting the will of the people.’
Ahead his remarks, the White House said Biden wasn’t giving a political speech. But he took direct aim at Trump, who is mulling a 2024 challenge to Biden, and at Republicans, who are attempting to win control of Congress in the midterm election.
‘We need everyone to do their part. So speak up, speak out, get engaged, vote, vote, vote,’ the president said during his speech.
And Biden vowed to stand up for the republic, setting himself up as the defender of democracy.
‘I will not stand by and watch. I will not let the will of the American people be overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless evidence treat claims of fraud. I will not stand by and watch elections in this country stolen by people who simply refused to accept that they lost,’ he said.
‘As your president I will defend our democracy with every fiber of my being and I’m asking every American to join me.’
Biden also directed comments specifically at MAGA Republicans who refuse to accept the 2020 election results, after court cases, state ‘audits,’ and dozens of court suits failed to uncover massive fraud.
Since Biden took office, Trump allies have been able to install people who deny the election results in state capitols in several states, and scores of GOP officials still won’t say Biden’s election was legitimate.
‘They embrace anger. They thrive on chaos. They live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies,’ Biden said in another one of his MAGA attacks.
He specifically called them out for denying his election win.
‘This is a nation that respects free and fair elections. We honor the will of the people – we do not deny it,’ the president said.
Then he rolled out a line that seemed aimed straight at Trump.
He said he wouldn’t allow the will of the American people to be ‘overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless evidence-free claims of fraud. I will not stand by and watch elections in this country stolen by people who simply refuse to accept that they lost.’
Biden brought the trappings of the presidency with him: two Marines came out ahead of him to stand at attention during his entrance. ‘Hail to the Chief’ played him on stage. Jill Biden accompanied him on the trip.
The president also used a historic backdrop to make his point: he spoke outside of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, the site where the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were debated and adopted by America’s founding fathers.
Red and blue lights bathed the building as Biden spoke. Several American flags lined the stage.
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Trump, meanwhile, remains a force to be reckoned with in the Republican Party, pushing his influence in primaries across the country, where his MAGA supporters can make or break a candidate.
Trump’s record in those races is mixed – he took down his top target, Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney in her August primary, but other Republicans who voted for his impeachment have gone on to primary victories.
And now there are rumblings of worry from some in GOP leadership, who fear the federal investigation into whether Trump took classified documents from the White House will affect them at the ballot box in November.
But Trump still has his defenders. The former president will be in Pennsylvania on Saturday, when he holds a campaign rally for the state’s Senate and gubernatorial candidates in Wilkes-Barre.
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy issued a stark warning to voters ahead of Biden’s remarks, issuing his words of warning from Biden’s hometown of Scranton.
‘Winter is coming,’ were McCarthy’s omnious words.
‘Families are barely able to make ends meet,’ he said. ‘Electricity and energy costs – they are consuming household budgets. Citizens are forced to make agonizing choices every single day just to pay the bills.’
‘You know more than 20 million American households – that’s about one in every six families – have fallen behind on the utility bills,’ McCarthy added.
Voters have listed the high price of food and gas as one of their top concerns. Inflation, which hit record highs earlier this year, has started to drop off. Gas prices also have declined in recent weeks – fueling Democratic hopes that voters won’t take out their anger and frustration on them at the ballot box.
Democratic hopes for the midterms are rising. A new Wall Street Journal poll on Thursday showed the party has made gains among independent voters and Americans have an improved view of President Biden, who has seen his approval rating notch upwards in the last few weeks.
Biden has been targeting Trump supporters as he campaigns for Democrats.
The president, in August, accused Trump and ‘extreme’ Republicans of ‘semi-fascism’ at a fundraiser for Democrats.
‘What we’re seeing now, is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy,’ Biden told about 100 wealthy donors. ‘It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the – I’m going to say something – it’s like semi-fascism.’
Biden said Trump and MAGA Republicans were ‘destroying America.’
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He’s kept up his ‘soul of democracy’ argument throughout the last campaign and into his first years in the presidency.
On the first anniversary of the January 6th insurrection on the Capitol, Biden said the country is in a battle for its soul.
‘I said it many times and it’s no more true or real than when we think about the events of January 6th: We are in a battle for the soul of America. A battle that, by the grace of God and the goodness and gracious — and greatness of this nation, we will win,’ Biden said in remarks in the Capitol building.
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Preparing for all fire exposures, not picking and choosing only one, is vital for improving home and building survival chances.
What your community needs to know
Wildfires spread primarily by:
- Ember generation and deposition. Burning or smoldering pieces of material generated during a wildfire event can land on combustible material.
- Radiant heat. The heat from the fire raises the heat of a combustible material until that material reaches ignition temperature and burns.
- Flame impingement exposure (conduction). The flame from a fire touches a combustible material and the material burns.
- Convection. The transfer of heat by moving hot gases ignites combustible material.
Of these 4, embers (sometimes also called firebrands or flaming sparks) contribute to a significant percentage of home ignitions. These pieces of burning material lofted into the air by winds generated during the wildfire event can be small or large. According to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) research, embers can be carried by winds and deposited several miles downwind PDF from the wildfire. During a wildfire, there can be millions of them generated that could impact a structure.
How embers cause structure ignition
4 primary areas where embers can lead to structure ignition are:
- Landing on the structure.
- Entering the structure.
- Landing on the landscape surrounding the structure.
- Landing on nearby fuels (fences, sheds, woodpiles, etc.)
Make sure these areas are routinely and carefully mitigated. During a wildfire, embers can land on buildings and the surrounding landscape. Also, embers can reach a building’s interior through a point of entry, such as a window or vent.
During a wildfire, millions of embers can land on a home and the landscape surrounding the home. That is why it is so important to make sure that the home and parcel surrounding the home, including landscape, fences, outbuildings, etc., are routinely and carefully mitigated.
Interdependent factors
Residents must meticulously protect every potential part of the home and parcel that could become a point of entry for embers. There are many interdependent factors that influence the fire spread. An ember ignition can start a catastrophic chain of events. A single home catching fire can result in neighborhood destruction.
Smoldering
Sometimes embers smolder in flammable materials for many hours PDF before leading to the ignition of fire on areas such as a roof or deck or areas outside the structure of a home or commercial building. Visible flames may not appear until hours after the wildfire flame front has passed.
Take action
To learn about 40 steps that should be taken to mitigate the potential of structure ignition by embers during a wildfire event, check out Table A in Appendix A of the NIST report “WUI Structure/Parcel/Community Fire Hazard Mitigation Methodology.”
Ember research is helping with understanding and mitigation
To protect lives and property, it is important to continue research about the way embers can ignite structures to understand the following:
- Their trajectory.
- How they can be generated.
- The size of embers that can be lofted during a wildfire event.
I recently examined an ember generated by the Marshal Fire in Colorado. The ember, part of a child’s plastic playhouse, was 3 feet wide. It landed in vegetation surrounding a business in Superior, Colorado, one-quarter mile away from the wildfire and started a fire in the mulch.
Current NIST ember research includes:
- A Case Study of the Camp Fire Timeline PDF.
- Studies using an emberometer.
- Wind-Driven Fire Spread to a Structure from Fences and Mulch.
Other organizations performing ember research include the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station and the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety.
More research about embers generated during wildfires could help to develop even more effective mitigation improvements in building and home construction and outbuilding and landscape maintenance, including new types of building materials to be used in home and commercial construction. It will also be incorporated into land use and building code development in wildfire-prone areas.
In addition, researching fire spread at the parcel-level to make sure fire — in some cases started by embers — does not destroy structures could result in communities that are much more resilient (sustaining less damage and recovering more quickly) from wildfire events.
You can guide them with practical, affordable steps they can take to make their buildings and homes safer with proven fire mitigation measures highlighted in NIST’s research PDF including:
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- Caulking or sealing all openings in the structure.
- Using metal or stone fence materials where a house and wooden fence meet; 5 feet from the house to the wooden fence.
You can also show them that ember hardening should not be viewed as a structure-only activity. The parcel should also be assessed and hardened appropriately to limit fire pathways to a home or business, such as:
- Ember to mulch next to shed to shed building.
- Ember to mulch next to house to building.
- Ember to gutter to roof and rest of building.
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At the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Thursday, Sri Lanka put up a remarkable effort to defeat Bangladesh (183/7) by two wickets in a thrilling Group B encounter and advance to the Asia Cup 2022 Super Four.
Bangladesh’s participation in the competition was over as they lost both of their matches, but Sri Lanka and Afghanistan advanced to the Super Four from Group B.
Both teams traded blows with one another throughout the whole first innings of the game, but Bangladesh ultimately succeeded in posting a respectable score of 183/7 in 20 overs. Bangladesh was given the opportunity to bat first and Mehidy Hasan Miraz (38 off 26) was elevated to open the innings. He provided them with a strong start. But in the middle overs, Sri Lanka battled back, taking wickets at regular intervals.
The innings then gained momentum when Afif Hossain came on and grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck on his way to a 22-ball 39. Before being bowled in the 17th innings, he held a 57-run standoff for the fifth wicket off the bat in 37 balls.
With the momentum still going, Mosaddek Hossain (24 not out off 9) and Taskin Ahmed (11 off 6) hammered 24 runs off 11 balls for Bangladesh’s eighth wicket, bringing the score to 183-7. Wanindu Hasaranga de Silva took 2/41, while Chamika Karunaratne scored 2/32 for Sri Lanka.
While wickets were coming from the other end, Sri Lankan batsman Kusal Mendis performed a valiant effort (60 off 37) to keep his team in the game. After Mendis was out, it was up to captain Dasun Shanaka to maintain the momentum, which he accomplished with a pivotal knock (45 off 33) before being dismissed in the 18th over.
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Records: Vashon 1-0; Ritter 1-0.
Rankings: Vashon, No. 6 small school STLhighschoolsports.com, No. 3 Class 4 Missouri Media; Cardinal Ritter, No. 4 small school STLhighschoolsports.com, No. 3 Class 3 Missouri Media.
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By Darlington Gatsi
ZIMBABWEANS based in the United Kingdom (UK) have come to the rescue of a Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) supporter in Gokwe, who was injured last week after violence erupted during a campaign rally.
So far, US$500 has been raised to meet Christopher Hamandishe’s medical expenses.
The elderly Hamandishe was allegedly abducted by an unidentified gang of men, who later torched his leg resulting in severe burns.
The incident, which got widespread publicity on social media, triggered the fundraising initiative spearheaded by Chris Goshomi who is based in the UK.
“Our community members came across videos which were going viral on social media of an elderly gentleman who was burnt in Gokwe in some alleged political conflicts. The videos were gruesome,” Goshomi told NewZimbabwe.com.
“We were really touched about the plight of the gentleman who is above 70 years of age. Our communities in West Yorkshire area decided to pull resources together to get him treated.
“We have some very highly organised community groups in Leeds, where people work together regardless of their political, religious or any other affiliation.
“The people felt is was very important that we pull resources together, and in a few days we were able to raise US$500, which we have now sent to the victim.
“This is an unprecedented act of unity, love and tolerance and we hope this gives communities a different perception of life.”
The violence attracted widespread criticism, amid calls for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to openly castigate lawlessness.
Political analysts predict the political situation will deteriorate as the nation braces for do-or-die elections next year.
We hope the message behind our collection also reaches the perpetrators, so that they can understand that this barbarism can only achieve nothing but perpetual poverty in the country, said Goshomi.
CCC blames Zanu PF activists of unleashing violence to disrupt the planned programme.
The orgy of violence in Gokwe witnessed several CCC supporters being injured
Four journalists were also hurt during the skirmishes. | https://www.newzimbabwe.com/uk-diasporans-help-pay-medical-bill-for-elderly-ccc-supporter-injured-in-gokwe-by-election-violence/ | 2022-09-02T03:18:41Z | https://www.newzimbabwe.com/uk-diasporans-help-pay-medical-bill-for-elderly-ccc-supporter-injured-in-gokwe-by-election-violence/ | true | 1 |
LONDON - Chelsea have signed Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Barcelona, with the Gabon striker signing a two-year contract to seal a return to the Premier League, the two clubs said on Thursday.
The transfer was announced well after the 2200 GMT (6am Singapore time) deadline but Chelsea had submitted the paperwork to the Premier League in time after the former Arsenal striker arrived in London late on Thursday.
Barcelona said they reached an agreement where Chelsea paid €12 million (S$16.7 million) to bolster their front line with Aubameyang, who previously thrived under manager Thomas Tuchel at Borussia Dortmund.
"I'm really happy. It's an honour to be part of this team and I can't wait to start. I have some unfinished business with the Premier League so it's good to be back," Aubameyang said in a statement.
He scored 13 goals in 24 games for Barcelona, but was surplus to requirements after they signed Poland striker Robert Lewandowski from Bayern Munich and needed to offload players to comply with LaLiga's financial rules.
Aubameyang is no stranger to the Premier League, having spent four years at Chelsea's London rivals Arsenal, scoring 92 goals in all competitions.
The 33-year-old was the league's joint top scorer in the 2018-19 season and led Arsenal to the FA Cup title in the following campaign.
However, the Gabon international had a fall-out with Arsenal and their manager Mikel Arteta last season over disciplinary issues. He was first stripped of the captaincy before having his contract terminated ahead of a February move to Barcelona.
Chelsea have been playing without a recognised striker after Romelu Lukaku moved back to Inter Milan on loan in the close season while Timo Werner returned to RB Leipzig.
Chelsea also announced the signing of Swiss international Denis Zakaria from Juventus on a season-long loan, with the English club having the option to make the central midfielder's stay permanent at the end of the season.
Midfield reinforcements were the need of the hour at Chelsea, with Tuchel saying N'Golo Kante's hamstring injury is set to rule him out for several weeks while Ruben Loftus-Cheek is also sidelined.
The London club, 10th after five games, have signed a number of high-profile players in the transfer window, including Raheem Sterling and Kalidou Koulibaly.
Meanwhile, full-back Marcos Alonso, who joined Chelsea in 2016 for around £23 million (S$37.2 million) and had one year left on his contract, has joined Barcelona as part of the deal according to media reports. REUTERS | https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/football-unfinished-business-aubameyang-returns-to-premier-league-with-chelsea-transfer | 2022-09-02T03:20:11Z | https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/football-unfinished-business-aubameyang-returns-to-premier-league-with-chelsea-transfer | false | 2 |
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Dequan Finn threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score to lead Toledo to a 37-0 rout of Long Island University on Thursday night in the season opener for both teams.
It was the first shutout for Toledo since Sept. 14, 2019.
Finn was 21-of-28 passing for 216 yards. He scrambled to his right and then threw a 69-yard touchdown pass to a wide open Jamal Turner and later added a 40-yard scoring throw to Jerjuan Newton. Finn also led the Rockets in rushing with 12 carries for 64 yards that included a 7-yard touchdown run.
Jonathon Batzke had three of his five punts for the Rockets land inside the 5-yard line.
Toledo held LIU, a FCS program, to just 113 yards of offense. Luca Stanzani and Derek Green were a combined 14-of-26 passing for 68 yards.
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The Fijian Media Association says it has no issues and supports the decision by the Fijian Elections Office to have a media watch and analysis of coverage in the lead-up to this year’s General Election.
Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem earlier today told the media that there were issues this week in the coverage of the Electoral Amendment Act.
He says the issues range from lack of coverage of critical explanations regarding the practical aspect of the changes under the Electoral Amendment Act to misconstrued statements and misleading headlines.
Saneem also raised concerns about the lack of urgency by some media to publish critical information.
He adds they will be releasing their media watch analysis constantly to help the Fijian media and keep the public informed as well.
The FMA while welcoming the scrutiny says it is not new as the media has been one of the most heavily scrutinised industries in the country.
The association says the media continues to provide various viewpoints and voices to be heard in the country and adds that media remains accountable to its viewers, readers and listeners and will continue to do its work despite the various enormous challenges the industry faces at this time.
FMA goes on to say that its members constantly choosing and weighing news and what is of priority importance to its viewers at a particular time and what can be reported later.
The body, which has all major media outlets as its members, says media continues to strive for accuracy and balance and where it has fallen short it will take responsibility. | https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/news/media-body-welcomes-scrutiny/ | 2022-09-02T03:36:01Z | https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/news/media-body-welcomes-scrutiny/ | false | 1 |
Hastings' sister city Guilin in China has been hit by a series of extreme weather events including flooding and heatwaves.
It comes as the city of Chongqing in China has been struggling through unprecedented temperatures of up to 45C which has resulted in a drought and parts of the Jialing River drying up through the city.
Many other parts of the country have also been sweltering through heatwaves including Guilin which is about 900km south of Chongqing.
Guilin is located toward the south of China and has been experiencing temperatures around 40C. Fortunately, it has not resulted in droughts.
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Advertise with NZME.Hastings District Council's longest serving councillor Kevin Watkins, who has travelled to Guilin many times, has been in contact with friends in the city.
"There are massive extremes happening," he said.
"Every year they do get one or two days where they get a lot of rainfall and it floods, even up to car window height [in the city].
"In June they had extreme rainfall - probably the most rainfall they have had in more than five years - and that flooding became very expensive for a large part of the city."
He said rain had now been replaced by very dry conditions, and higher than usual temperatures.
"We are having a long and hot summer. But so far there is no drought," Watkins' friend from Guilin said, in a message.
Hastings also has two friendship cities in China which are not official sister cities.
Both of those cities Mianyang and Dezhou are also sweltering through unusually high temperatures.
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Watkins said if people wanted to pass on messages to the Guilin foreign office (similar to a district council) he could do so, and asked that messages be sent to Hastings District Council's Facebook page. | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/massive-extremes-hastings-sister-city-in-china-hit-by-floods-heatwaves/HZRL7ZTLHGOMFV7NT52CVC5JEQ/?c_id=2&objectid=12549109&ref=rss | 2022-09-02T03:36:23Z | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/massive-extremes-hastings-sister-city-in-china-hit-by-floods-heatwaves/HZRL7ZTLHGOMFV7NT52CVC5JEQ/?c_id=2&objectid=12549109&ref=rss | false | 4 |
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The upcoming film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story features her 1980s pictures.
Having Daniel Radcliffe in the lead role of Al is apparently not enough to sway them.
Promos for the movie have focused on Evan Rachel Wood’s portrayal of Madonna and her intimate interactions with Daniel, including a makeout session.
The readers can’t decide if Madonna and Al were dating or not.
In a word, no.
It’s quite unlikely that they ever crossed paths.
This film is NOT biographical; it’s satirical.
The fictitious Al has shady dealings with famous people, has a hedonistic lifestyle, and resides in an ostentatious house.
The real Al never used foul language or smoked cigarettes.
This muddle is on purpose.
No doubt, Madonna has been fielding many inquiries about Al today.
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VOL. 46 | NO. 35 | Friday, September 2, 2022
White House: How about a COVID-19 boost with that flu shot?
Updated 2:41PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration hopes to make getting a COVID-19 booster as routine as going in for the yearly flu shot.
That's at the heart of its campaign to sell the newly authorized shot to an American public that has widely rejected COVID-19 boosters since they first became available last fall.
Shots of the updated boosters, specifically designed by Pfizer and Moderna to respond to the omicron strain, could start within days. Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were meeting Thursday to decide who should get the modified doses and when the shots will be eligible. The U.S. government has purchased 170 million shots and is emphasizing that everyone will have free access to the booster.
White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said this latest round of shots will offer protection during the busy cold and flu season, with the hope of transitioning people to get the vaccine yearly. Typically, at least half of U.S. adults get a flu shot.
"We expect them to provide more durable protection over time," Jha said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press. "The goal very much is to get to a point where people get their COVID shot on a regular basis, the way they do their flu shot."
Community health workers in North Carolina, home to the country's lowest COVID-19 booster rate, like the strategy, especially because of confusion among some people about vaccine schedules.
"I believe in keeping things simple," said Marty Stamey, an outreach coordinator for the Mountain Area Health Education Center in western North Carolina. "I've heard a lot of people say, 'I think I'll just wait and try to do it like the flu shots.'"
The White House plan also relies in part of on local health departments, providers and community groups to reach out and encourage people to get the updated booster. Pharmacies, health providers and state or local health departments are preparing to send text messages to millions of people that will encourage them to get a booster this fall, White House officials said.
Jha said he recommends most Americans get the booster by the end of October.
Still, this latest vaccination campaign faces several challenges.
A majority of Americans got their first and second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine when it was released last year but they've been more reluctant to get a booster jab, with less than half getting their first booster since it became available late last year.
Congress also has not moved forward on President Joe Biden's $22.5 billion request earlier this year for the COVID-19 response. Republicans criticized the request, pointing to the $1.9 trillion already spent on responding to the pandemic. Running short on funds, the government announced it would stop shipping COVID-19 tests to people's homes after Friday.
And COVID-19 funding is drying up for many of the community groups that received millions of federal tax dollars to hire workers who spent months reaching deep into neighborhoods with door knocks, mobile vaccine clinics and posters encouraging people to inoculate against COVID-19.
White House officials say those local leaders deserve a lot of credit for stamping out misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine and convincing many around the country that the shot will protect them.
"Those are the really critical messengers," Jha said.
That on-the-ground work has been crucial to getting people vaccinated in the rural, Spanish- and Haitian-speaking communities that the Migrant Clinicians Network has reached throughout Texas, California and Maryland with its $8.5 million federal grant.
"Simply having the vaccines available is one thing, but getting the shots in the arms is another," said Amy Liebman, a chief program officer for the nonprofit group.
Some of those local health organizations, too, are now stretched as they work to get low vaccination rates among children under 12 up. Only a third of 5- to 11-year-olds received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine since becoming eligible late last year. Meanwhile, just 7% of children under 5 have gotten a first dose since it was made available this summer.
Dr. Niharika Khanna at the University of Maryland School of Medicine has just started making progress on convincing new mothers that the vaccine is safe and effective for their babies.
Her program, which has hired more than 269 health workers and administered more than 12,000 vaccinations and boosters across Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, isn't quite ready to transition back to pushing COVID-19 boosters.
"All of these people, all of these relationships we've carefully cultivated are at risk for falling apart," Khanna said. "Today if you were to say to me switch to booster, I'd say no. I need another two to three weeks to really get these people going."
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AP White House Correspondent Zeke Miller contributed to this report. | http://www.tnledger.com/editorial/article.aspx?id=157031 | 2022-09-02T03:42:09Z | http://www.tnledger.com/editorial/article.aspx?id=157031 | false | 39 |
Sarah Michelle Gellar has never forgotten how shock jock Howard Stern ferociously grilled Freddie Prinze Jr. in 2001 about getting married in his mid-20s, and that he had such little faith in the pending nuptials that he bet Prinze the marriage wouldn't last 10 years. Two decades later, Gellar's ready to collect on that bet.
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer star took to Instagram on Thursday and posted a photo from their wedding in Mexico and simply captioned it "20," as in two decades of marriage. She also took to her Instagram Stories and posted screen shots of Prinze's interview on The Howard Stern Show, in which Stern tells the actor, "So you will marry Sarah Michelle Gellar even though you know that it won't last."
Prinze said "absolutely it will last" but Stern wasn't buying it, so much so that he told Prinze, "I wanna make a written bet with you. In about 10 years you're gonna hunt me down and go, 'Howard, I owe you money.'" Prinze agreed and said he wanted to get the bet in writing, but Howard continued grilling Prinze, 25 at the time, about tying the knot.
But, not only did she post the screen shots of the interview, Gellar also tagged The Howard Stern Show and said, "What do you think?!?!" followed by "I think you owe us."
Prinze also reposted Gellar's Stories and added, "She will never forget." He also included two laugh crying emojis.
Prinze and Gellar's marriage has more than endured. It has thrived. They met while filming 1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer, and they started dating three years later. They got engaged soon after and tied the knot in Mexico in 2002. They've since welcomed two children -- Charlotte Grace, 12, and Rocky James, 10.
So, what makes their marriage work? Prinze and Gellar told ET back in 2020 that not sharing a bathroom is instrumental to a good marriage!
"That's my best advice," Gellar quipped. "Don't share a bathroom."
Prinze added, "If they stop making you laugh, then your days are numbered."
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LOS ANGELES — Firefighters were unable to begin lifesaving efforts on actor Anne Heche for 45 minutes after she crashed into a home on Aug. 5, according to fire department records and time-stamped recordings of radio communications.
Heche, 53, was removed from life support and died Aug. 14, nine days after the fiery crash.
The recordings, which the Los Angeles Fire Department provided to NBC Los Angeles under the California Public Records Act, reveal that firefighters couldn’t get access to Heche’s car for at least 20 minutes and that it took at least 20 more minutes to pull the car out of the burning building to rescue her.
“Given the heavy fire and smoke conditions, it wasn’t that you could clearly see into the vehicle or clearly be able to access it,” Deputy Fire Chief Richard Fields told NBC Los Angeles.
“Heavy smoke conditions, heavy fire conditions, which makes it very difficult for us to just see each other on the inside of a working structure fire,” he said.
Heche, known for her role in "Donnie Brasco" and other films, died of inhalation and thermal injuries, the Los Angeles County medical examiner ruled last month. The manner was found to be an accident.
A death certificate lists Heche’s date of death as Aug. 11. Her spokesperson said Aug. 12 that she was brain-dead but was being kept on life support so her organs could be donated.
Heche crashed her Mini Cooper into the home in Mar Vista, a neighborhood in the west side of the city, around 10:56 a.m., the fire department has said.
It said at the time that firefighters took 65 minutes “to access, confine and fully extinguish the stubborn flames within the heavily damaged structure, and rescue one female adult found within the vehicle.”
According to the recordings released to NBC Los Angeles, the first fire engine arrived at the scene at 11:01 a.m., and within seconds dispatchers radioed a report that a person was trapped in the car that had crashed into the house.
“There is a person stuck inside the vehicle,” the dispatcher said.
The first engine directed arriving paramedics to immediately treat a woman firefighters had found in the home. Fields, the deputy fire chief, said the patient was initially identified was a resident of the home, not the driver of the car.
At 11:18 a.m. one of the firefighters working on the fire radioed that no one else was inside, according to the recordings. “We do have no patients at this time,” the firefighter said.
Four minutes later, at 11:22 a.m., after overlapping radio messages from firefighters inside, one of the incident commanders began to ask again about the driver.
“Let me clear this up — so, you do have a patient in the car?” the incident commander said over the radio.
At 11:25 a.m., a firefighter can be heard saying through an oxygen mask that he had found the driver.
“We have identified one patient, inaccessible at this time. He’s pushed up against the floorboard!” the firefighter said, according to the recording.
Fields said the patient, now known to be Heche, had collapsed below the front seats of her Mini Cooper.
Once she was found and confirmed to be alive, firefighters used a heavy-duty tow truck to pull the car — with Heche still inside — out of the smoldering home. She was removed from the wrecked vehicle around 11:49 a.m., records show.
“We have one patient in the auto, being assessed, about to be loaded up on the gurney for transport,” a firefighter said over the radio.
The Los Angeles County coroner’s office said its death investigation hasn’t been finalized.
Heche was treated first at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center before she was transferred for specialized care to the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills Hospital. She was in a coma, her representative had said.
The fire department said that even if Heche’s presence in the wrecked car had been confirmed immediately, it is unlikely that firefighters would have responded differently.
An after-action presentation prepared for fire department staff members noted that it took 30 minutes to fight the fire to the point where a rescue could be made.
“I would imagine, just based on some of the very experienced officers that were initiating the firefight, that they made the best effort they could to try to identify that someone was in the vehicle,” Fields said.
“Our firefighters were doing everything,” he said.
A spokesperson for Heche had no comment Thursday. A representative for Homer Laffoon, Heche’s oldest son, also declined to comment. | https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/anne-heche-was-trapped-burning-home-45-minutes-records-show-rcna45990 | 2022-09-02T03:47:24Z | https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/anne-heche-was-trapped-burning-home-45-minutes-records-show-rcna45990 | false | 1 |
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NSW premier Dominic Perrottet joked this week that it almost cost his Liberal party an election, but the new Allianz Stadium is a sight to behold.
The $874 million rebuild of the Sydney Football Stadium was 20 per cent over budget but was delivered on time and will feature its first NRL game on Friday night.
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The roof covers grandstands and weighs 2000 tons, consisting of more than 4000 individual pieces of steel.
There are 51 suites, two outdoor terraces, 84 outdoor boxes and seven private function rooms,
Billionaire Justin Hemmes’ Merivale has the food and beverage contract and they are offering half price on everything between 5-7pm on Friday.
The concourse will have Merrivale-owned Totti’s food available, while bars serve Furphy, Stone & Wood and VB on tap.
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That prompted Roosters supremo Nick Politis to issue a blunt message to their cross-town rivals - “it’s our home, not their home”.
The Roosters’ high-performance centre and football offices are situated inside Allianz Stadium and Politis made sure a sign was erected which read “home of the Sydney Roosters” last month when signing a 25-year deal to use the stadium.
Souths were also told they couldn’t use Allianz Stadium for their captain’s run and they responded by questioning the quality of the playing surface.
The promise to rebuild Allianz and Accor Stadium was a polarising issue at the 2019 New South Wales state election and saw Labor call the vote ‘a referendum on the $1.6 billion pledge’.
Liberal won the election comfortably but reneged on their promise to redevelop Accor Stadium, much to the ire of rugby league boss Peter V’Landys.
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The National Working Committee (NWC) of Labour Party (LP), represented by Mr Abayomi Arabambi, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, has presented a certificate of return to the LP governorship candidate of the state, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, and also inaugurated and the Lagos State executive committee led by Comrade Olukayode Sarako at a press conference in Ikeja Tuesday.
While addressing journalists, Arabambi noted that Awamarid is a placeholder, hence the need for the substitution primaries conducted recently which produced Rhodes-Vivour as the gubernatorial candidate of the party.
He stated that the party had done the necessary documentations with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) regarding the new candidate, stressing that the party had zero-tolerance for “unscrupulous and dubious politics that Awamaridi was allegedly exhibiting.
The NWC member said: “For a candidate for election to emerge in a political party, it has to go through a constitutional process.
“The emergence of Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour as the 2023 Lagos State governorship candidate followed all the necessary laws, regulations and guidelines as provided in the LP constitution; the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the INEC guidelines.”
Arabambi added: “LP officially reaffirms with all authority that the winner of the substitution primary election on the platform of our party as the governorship candidate in 2023 in Lagos State is Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour
“Simply to put the records straight, Awamaridi was the chairman of the LP of the Lagos State Caretaker Committee at one point.
“He was made a placeholder for the governorship primary election, thus his name was submitted as the governorship candidate since Lagos LP was yet to finally conclude all the required processes.” | https://independent.ng/lagos-guber-lp-presents-certificate-of-return-to-rhodes-vivour/ | 2022-09-02T03:57:18Z | https://independent.ng/lagos-guber-lp-presents-certificate-of-return-to-rhodes-vivour/ | false | 1 |
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday tentatively declined to overturn the jury conviction of disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy. That leaves the former Silicon Valley star a step closer to serving prison time.
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila won’t make that decision final until Oct. 17, when he is scheduled to sentence Holmes in the same San Jose, California, courtroom where a jury found her guilty of duping investors in her much-hyped blood-testing startup.
Holmes, 38, faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, plus restitution, for lying to investors about a Theranos technology she hailed as a revolution in healthcare but which in practice produced dangerously inaccurate results.
Amy Saharia, one of Holmes’ lawyers, tried to persuade Davila that the jury of eight men and four women had acted irrationally during their seven days of deliberations. The judge concluded that the jurors drew reasonable inferences from evidence presented at the trial, although he said he would still review some cases Saharia presented before making a final decision.
Thursday’s 90-minute hearing marked the first time Holmes has returned to the court since her Jan. 3 conviction. The verdict ended a nearly four-month trial that recounted Holmes’ remarkable rise from a Stanford University dropout in 2003 to a lionized entrepreneur once worth $4.5 billion before it all unraveled in 2015. | https://www.fox21news.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-judge-declines-to-overturn-elizabeth-holmes-guilty-verdict/ | 2022-09-02T04:01:08Z | https://www.fox21news.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-judge-declines-to-overturn-elizabeth-holmes-guilty-verdict/ | false | 36 |
Fabiola Campillai was the victim of a tear gas canister fired by a police officer during the 2019 social outburst protests in Chile.
This Thursday, the Oral Court of San Bernardo found former Carabineros Captain Patricio Maturana guilty of «unlawful coercion resulting in serious and severe injuries.»
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The ruling of the court’s three judges was unanimous. Judge Marcela Nilo said the police officer «acted without necessity, without making a proportional use of force, without obeying his protocols, without rendering aid to the victim and with abuse of his position.»
The Prosecutor’s Office has asked for 12 years of prison. Sentencing is expected to be announced on October 10.
Currently, a senator, Campillai, received a tear gas canister in the face fired by Maturana while waiting for a bus. She was hit in the head, and as a result, her senses of sight, smell, and taste were removed, and her skull was deformed.
Hoy los tribunales declararon culpable a Patricio Maturana, ex Carabinero que cobarde y arbitrariamente cegó a la senadora Fabiola Campillai.
Las violaciones a los DD.HH. cometidos durante la revuelta del 2019 no pueden quedar impunes.
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— Felipe González �� (@kingluifeee) September 1, 2022 Today the courts found Patricio Maturana guilty, a former Police officer who cowardly and arbitrarily blinded Senator Fabiola Campillai. The human rights violations committed during the 2019 revolt cannot go unpunished. Let us advance in justice and dignity.
At court, it was argued that Maturana’s action was unjustified, as the November 2019 incident occurred when the protesters were at a great distance and not causing trouble.
The militarized police dismissed Maturana for failing to assist the victim, and he was arrested in August 2020.
Campillai, who advocates for human rights as an activist, was elected senator last year. She is the only woman to have won a Senate seat independently, with no political party support.
Human rights organizations have denounced the heavy-handed police response during the 2019 protests.
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BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Modi on Thursday claimed that Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao insulted his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar during the press conference on Wednesday.
“Nitish Kumar had invited KCR (as the Telangana Chief Minister is popularly known) to come to Patna to announce his name as a Prime Ministerial candidate but KCR refused to take his name forward. When Rao did not announce his name, Nitish Kumar stood from the chair but KCR then asked him to sit for a while… no bigger insult than this,” Modi said.
Sushil Modi further said that both Nitish Kumar and KCR have been dreaming to become prime minister in daylight.
During the press conference, Nitish Kumar stood from his chair after a reporter asked KCR about the possibility of the Bihar Chief Minister being named prime ministerial candidate of the opposition parties for the 2024 Lok Sabha election. KCR had said that he is not the only leader in the opposition camp to take the decision.
He further said that the opposition leaders will sit together to elect a leader for the prime ministerial candidate against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Meanwhile, Neeraj Kumar, MLC and chief spokesperson of JD-U said: “Sushil Modi is trying to twist this. He is talking against CM Nitish Kumar to get some post in BJP. When he was in power with CM Nitish Kumar, Sushil Modi himself projected Nitish Kumar as a prime ministerial candidate. He officially said that Nitish Kumar is a PM material. As he is in the opposition in Bihar, he is saying things like this. BJP leaders are unable to digest the unity of opposition leaders. They are feeling the heat and hence giving such a statement in desperation.”
“Nitish Kumar never projected himself as the prime ministerial candidate. Also, our party’s national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh or state president Upendra Kushwaha did not project him as a PM candidate. BJP leaders are unnecessarily raising this point,” Kumar said. | https://www.telugu360.com/kcr-insulted-nitish-kumar-says-sushil-modi/ | 2022-09-02T04:06:14Z | https://www.telugu360.com/kcr-insulted-nitish-kumar-says-sushil-modi/ | true | 4 |
Misconceptions about autism remain despite greater community awareness, according to a doctor due to visit Albury next week.
Clinical psychologist Richard Eisenmajer will present his workshop Talking Autism Spectrum Disorders both on Monday evening and Tuesday morning at Commercial Club Albury.
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Dr Eisenmajer said he aimed to help teachers, integration aides, parents and family members better understand how people on the spectrum think, see and perceive things.
"Really I make a pitch that people on the spectrum are different, their brains are wired differently - not badly, just differently," he told The Border Mail.
"The main issue is try to get yourself into their shoes, to see how they perhaps see an issue or a problem and then with that information, with that understanding, does that change your practice, either your parenting or your teaching style?"
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In 2009 Dr Eisenmajer established The ASD Clinic in Melbourne, which provides assessment, counselling and practical behavioural interventions for clients of all ages and their families.
He has more than 25 years' experience and says exposure through articles and television characters has increased awareness of autism, even though some depictions are stereotypes.
A common misunderstanding was people on the spectrum didn't like touch, had poor eye contact and lacked empathy.
"I would argue most of my clients can do all those things but there might be some quirks," Dr Eisenmajer said.
The COVID restrictions and lockdowns had made face to face consultations difficult but telehealth provided another option.
"I think it's been a boon actually for regional and rural families who now sometimes don't need to make a three-hour trip and can sit in their lounge room and have a chat with a professional, it's a new world," he said.
The workshops, being held by Aspire Support Services and Family Relationships Support for Carers, begin at 6.30pm on Monday, September 5, and 9.30am on Tuesday, September 5. Tickets can be bought via trybooking.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - Eli Manning threw three touchdown passes and the New York Giants won an all-or-nothing game to claim the final spot in the NFL playoffs, beating the Dallas Cowboys 31-14 on Sunday night.
The regular season went down to the last game, and it was coach Tom Coughlin's Giants (9-7) who won the NFC East and returned to the postseason for the first time since 2008.
The loss left Jerry Jones' Cowboys (8-8) out of the playoffs for the second straight year.
New York won three of its final four games and earned a wild-card home game next Sunday against the Atlanta Falcons (10-6).
The Cowboys lost four of their final five games in their first full season under coach Jason Garrett.
CHIEFS 7, BRONCOS 3
DENVER (AP) - Tim Tebow fell short in his latest comeback bid, yet his Denver Broncos are still going to the playoffs.
Former Bronco Kyle Orton got his revenge in leading the Kansas City Chiefs to a 7-3 win over Denver on Sunday, but it's the Broncos who clinched the AFC West and are headed to the postseason, where they will host Pittsburgh next Sunday.
After congratulating their former starting quarterback, the Broncos celebrated the end to their six-year playoff drought once San Diego beat Oakland 38-26 later Sunday.
Losers of their last three games, the Broncos finished 8-8, same as the Raiders. They win their first division title since 2005 on a tiebreaker.
RAVENS 24, BENGALS 16
CINCINNATI (AP) - Ray Rice had a pair of long touchdown runs that gave the Ravens their third AFC North title and the No. 2 seed in the playoffs.
Baltimore (12-4) will get a first-round bye followed by a playoff game at home, where the Ravens are 8-0 this season.
Despite the loss, the Bengals (9-7) also got into the playoffs, securing the final wild card as the Jets and Broncos also lost. It's Cincinnati's third playoff appearance in the last 21 years. The Bengals will be at Houston on Saturday.
With Paul Brown Stadium packed with Bengals fans for the first time all season, Rice made the biggest plays on a blustery afternoon. He had a career-best 70-yard touchdown run on the fourth play.
Rice also broke a 51-yard touchdown run with 5:41 to go and finished with 191 yards on 24 carries.
CHARGERS 38, RAIDERS 26
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Philip Rivers threw three touchdown passes and Richard Goodman returned a kickoff 105 yards for another score as Oakland's playoff hopes ended.
The Raiders (8-8) went into the final day of the season needing to win and get help to end an eight-year playoff drought. They got the assistance they needed when Denver (8-8) lost 7-3 at home to Kansas City but were unable to do their part by beating the Chargers (8-8). The Broncos won the division based on record versus common opponents.
STEELERS 13, BROWNS 9
CLEVELAND (AP) - Isaac Redman replaced an injured Rashard Mendenhall and ran for a touchdown as Pittsburgh limped into the AFC playoffs.
Redman scored on a 7-yard run in the third quarter for the Steelers (12-4), who finished tied with Baltimore for first in the AFC North but lost the tiebreaker because the Ravens beat them twice. Pittsburgh visits AFC West champion Denver next Sunday.
The Steelers had to survive two fumbles by Redman in the second half and a pass into the end zone by the Browns (4-12) on the final play that was batted down.
Mendenhall hurt his right knee in the first quarter on a short run and didn't return. His status for the postseason is unknown.
Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger passed for 221 yards on a severely sprained ankle.
PATRIOTS 49, BILLS 21
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - Tom Brady led the Patriots back from a three-touchdown deficit as they scored 49 straight points and clinched home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs.
Brady finished the regular season with the second most yards passing in NFL history, 5,235, after throwing for 338. Drew Brees, who last week broke Dan Marino's record of 5,084 with the Miami Dolphins in 1984, added 389 Sunday for the New Orleans Saints and ended with 5,486.
The Patriots (13-3) finished the season with eight straight wins. But for the second straight game, they fell behind early. They beat the Miami Dolphins 27-24 after trailing 17-0 at halftime then rallied after the Bills (6-10) scored touchdowns on their first three possessions, drawing boos from the home fans.
JAGUARS 19, COLTS 13
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Indianapolis locked up the top pick in April's NFL draft, setting the stage to select Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck.
Maurice Jones-Drew ran for a season-high 169 yards, clinching the NFL rushing title and breaking Fred Taylor's single-season franchise record in the Jaguars' victory.
The Jaguars (5-11) became the first AFC South opponent to sweep Indianapolis (2-14) since 2002 and gave outgoing owner Wayne Weaver a victory in his final game.
The Colts may have been the big winners, though. Indy would have dropped to the No. 2 spot in the draft with a victory in Jacksonville. Instead, owner Jim Irsay will have the choice to draft Luck and give the team a young quarterback to join four-time MVP Peyton Manning.
TITANS 23, TEXANS 22
HOUSTON (AP) - Matt Hasselbeck threw two touchdown passes, but the Titans' slim playoff chances ended when they did not get the helped they needed from several other teams.
The Titans (9-7) have their first winning record since 2008 in Mike Munchak's first season.
Houston (10-6) will head into its first postseason on a three-game losing streak. The Texans were locked into the No. 3 seed in the AFC playoffs and coach Gary Kubiak played mostly reserves in the second half. Houston hosts Cincinnati on Saturday.
Rookie starter T.J. Yates left the game after one series with a shoulder injury and was replaced by Jake Delhomme. Kubiak said Yates could have returned if necessary.
The Texans pulled within a point late in the game on a 5-yard TD pass by Delhomme, but failed on a 2-point conversion that would have won it.
DOLPHINS 19, JETS 17
MIAMI (AP) - Mark Sanchez threw three interceptions and the Jets were eliminated from the AFC wild-card playoff race.
Each turnover led to a field goal, and the Jets gave up six third-down conversions during the Dolphins' 21-play, 94-yard drive for their only touchdown.
The Jets (8-8) came into the game needing a win along with losses by three other teams to reach the playoffs. Instead, they finished the season with three consecutive defeats, a big step backward for a team that reached the AFC title game each of the past two years.
The Dolphins (6-10) completed their third consecutive losing season, their longest such stretch since the 1960s.
SAINTS 45, PANTHERS 17
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Drew Brees threw for 389 yards and five touchdowns, and New Orleans set a slew of NFL and club records.
The NFL single-season records set by the Saints (13-3), who head into the playoffs on an eight-game winning streak, included offensive yards with 7,474, team yards passing with 5,347 and first downs with 416. The Saints are home to Detroit on Saturday night.
Brees, who was 28 of 35, finished with a record 468 completions this season, breaking Peyton Manning's 2010 mark of 450. He finished the season completing 71.6 percent of his passes, breaking his own 2009 NFL record 70.6 completion percentage.
Tight end Jimmy Graham had 97 yards receiving, finishing with 1,310 yards for the season, a record for tight ends later broken by New England's Rob Gronkowski.
The Panthers finished 6-10.
PACKERS 45, LIONS 41
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Backup quarterback Matt Flynn threw a touchdown pass to Jermichael Finley with 1:10 left to finish off his record-setting day of 480 yards and six TD passes.
With Aaron Rodgers resting for the playoffs, Flynn set club single-game records for yards passing and touchdowns. It was an ideal afternoon for the Packers (15-1) who got to rest their starting quarterback and several other big-name players without losing momentum.
Flynn barely got the Packers past Matthew Stafford, who threw for 520 yards with five touchdowns and two interceptions. Playoff-bound Detroit (10-6), has lost 21 straight road games to the Packers, including the postseason.
The Lions are at New Orleans on Saturday night.
FALCONS 42, BUCCANEERS 24
Julio Jones caught two touchdown passes in a span of 26 seconds, Michael Turner ran for two scores and Atlanta put up a team-record 42 first-half points to cruise to a 45-24 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday to clinch the No. 5 seed in the NFC playoffs.
The Falcons (10-6) and Detroit (10-6) are the NFC wild-cards. Atlanta, which beat Detroit on Oct. 23, won the tiebreaker with the Lions for the more favorable seeding. The Falcons will play at the winner of Sunday night's Dallas-New York Giants game in the first round of the playoffs.
Josh Freeman threw two interceptions and lost a fumble in the first half as the Buccaneers (4-12) closed their season with their 10th straight loss, leaving the status of coach Raheem Morris in doubt.
The Falcons are at the Giants next Sunday.
CARDINALS 23, SEAHAWKS 20, OT
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Larry Fitzgerald's spectacular one-handed grab set help up a 28-yard field goal by Jay Feely to give Arizona its fourth overtime victory at home in the last nine weeks of the season.
Arizona (8-8) finished the season 7-2 after a six-game losing streak left it 1-6. Seattle (7-9) had rallied to tie the game after trailing 20-10 early in the fourth quarter.
Fitzgerald caught nine passes for 149 yards after one reception for 2 yards in the first half. John Skelton completed 22 of 40 for 271 yards and a touchdown with one interception for Arizona.
BEARS 17, VIKINGS 13
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Charles Tillman's interception return in the second quarter gave Chicago (8-8) the lead for good, and the Bears stopped their five-game losing streak despite 3 1/2 sacks by Jared Allen.
Allen finished the season with 22 sacks, behind Michael Strahan's NFL mark of 22 1/2 for the Giants in 2001.
Joe Webb relieved Christian Ponder at quarterback for the Vikings (3-13) for the third time in the last month, but the scrambling Webb wasn't able to keep the Vikings from matching the worst record in franchise history.
EAGLES 34, REDSKINS 10
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Michael Vick threw three touchdown passes, including a 62-yarder to DeSean Jackson, as the Eagles closed the season with four straight wins.
The Eagles (8-8) are hoping to carry the momentum from their strong finish into next season. But they can't be satisfied after entering the year with Super Bowl aspirations.
It's the first time since 2007 that Philadelphia didn't qualify for the postseason and just the fourth time in coach Andy Reid's 13 seasons. The Eagles set a franchise record for total yards on offense with 6,386.
The Redskins (5-11) finished in last place in the NFC East for a franchise-worst fourth straight year. It was Mike Shanahan's worst full season in 18 years as a coach.
49ERS 34, RAMS 27
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Michael Crabtree caught two touchdown passes, one from kicker David Akers on a perfectly executed trick play, and San Francisco wrapped up the No. 2 playoff seed in the NFC and a first-round bye.
Crabtree and Vernon Davis had big days for a team short of pass catchers and Tarell Brown had a pair of interceptions that led to touchdowns as the 49ers (13-3) beat the Rams (2-14) for the second time the last five games. | https://www.buccaneers.com/news/sunday-s-nfl-capsules-6845185 | 2022-09-02T04:09:22Z | https://www.buccaneers.com/news/sunday-s-nfl-capsules-6845185 | true | 1 |
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Lufthansa Pilots Begin Strike Today, May Cancel 800 Flights
Chinedu Eze with agency report
Germany-based mega carrier, Lufthansa may cancel about 800 flights as its pilots begin strike today.
Reuters reported that this was disclosed by labour union, Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), which stated that the pilots would lay down tools due to escalation of an ongoing wage dispute that would further plague a summer of travel chaos.
The union, Vereinigung Cockpit, said pay talks had failed and that the strike would affect pilots for the passenger airline as well as its cargo division.
Lufthansa declined immediate comment.
Reuters also reported that strikes and staff shortages had already forced airlines including Lufthansa to cancel thousands of flights this summer and caused hours-long queues at major airports, frustrating holidaymakers keen to travel after COVID-19 lockdowns.
Vereinigung Cockpit is demanding a 5.5 per cent pay rise this year, for its more than 5,000 pilots and automatic inflation compensation thereafter.
“We have not received a sufficient offer today either. This is sobering and a missed opportunity,” said VC spokesperson Matthias Baier.
Earlier on Wednesday, pilots at Lufthansa’s subsidiary Eurowings voted in favour of strikes but first want to continue wage negotiations with their employerChinedu Eze with agency report
Germany-based mega carrier, Lufthansa may cancel about 800 flights as its pilots begin strike today.
Reuters reported that this was disclosed by labour union, Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), which stated that the pilots would lay down tools due to escalation of an ongoing wage dispute that would further plague a summer of travel chaos.
The union, Vereinigung Cockpit, said pay talks had failed and that the strike would affect pilots for the passenger airline as well as its cargo division.
Lufthansa declined immediate comment.
Reuters also reported that strikes and staff shortages had already forced airlines including Lufthansa to cancel thousands of flights this summer and caused hours-long queues at major airports, frustrating holidaymakers keen to travel after COVID-19 lockdowns.
Vereinigung Cockpit is demanding a 5.5 per cent pay rise this year, for its more than 5,000 pilots and automatic inflation compensation thereafter.
“We have not received a sufficient offer today either. This is sobering and a missed opportunity,” said VC spokesperson Matthias Baier.
Earlier on Wednesday, pilots at Lufthansa’s subsidiary Eurowings voted in favour of strikes but first want to continue wage negotiations with their employer | https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/09/02/lufthansa-pilots-begin-strike-today-may-cancel-800-flights/ | 2022-09-02T04:13:40Z | https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/09/02/lufthansa-pilots-begin-strike-today-may-cancel-800-flights/ | false | 1 |
Hooker leads Tennessee over Ball State, 59-10
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Hendon Hooker threw for 222 yards and two touchdowns and ran for two more scores to lead Tennessee to a 59-10 season-opening victory over Ball State Thursday night.
Hooker, in his second year as the Volunteers' starter after transferring from Virginia Tech, had 211 yards passing by halftime along with a 38-0 lead. Eight different receiver caught passes in the first 30 minutes. He was replaced by Joe Milton midway through the third quarter.
Jaylen Wright led the Tennessee ground game with 86 yards and a touchdown.
The Cardinals' bruising running back Carson Steele was limited to 27 yards on 11 carries.
Making his first career start at quarterback for Ball State, redshirt junior John Paddock threw for 269 yards and a TD.
The Vol defense came up with three turnovers - two interceptions and a fumble.
NUMBERS GAME
Hooker extended his streak of games with having thrown a touchdown pass to 13, tied with Tony Robinson (1984-85) for second all-time in Vols' history behind Heath Shuler's 18 (1992-94)... Hooker's two TD passes gave him 33 in his two-year career at Tennessee, 10th on the all-time list... Vols receiver Cedric Tillman had his streak of seven consecutive games with a touchdown reception come to an end. Tillman is Tennessee's all-time leader... Tennessee has scored 45 or more points in its last four games, tying a school record set in the last four games of the 1993 season.
THE TAKEAWAY
Ball State: The best thing to come out of Thursday night's game in renovated Neyland Stadium was the $1.5 million game check that will help the athletic department. The Cardinals, picked to finish last in the Mid-American Conference West Division can set their sights on improvement after the lopsided loss.
Tennessee: With the embarrassing 2019 season-opening loss to heavy underdog Georgia State still fresh in the minds of Volunteer fans, they were able to exhale when Tennessee, under second-year head coach Josh Heupel, showed it was focused and prepared. The Vols made positive strides that they will be able to take into next week's trip to play No. 17 Pittsburgh.
UP NEXT
Ball State: The Cardinals will jump into the MAC season next Saturday when they entertain rival Western Michigan.
Tennessee: The Vols will head to Pitt Sept. 10 with revenge on their minds. Last year, Tennessee gave up 27 points in the second quarter and lost a 41-34 decision to the Panthers.
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Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in northern mountains have triggered floods that have killed at least 1,208 people, including 416 children, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)
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Willow Smith is speaking out against the pushback she received as a Black woman, after releasing her latest rock album, Lately I’ve Been Feeling Everything. In a new interview with Glamour UK, the 21-year-old musician shared her thoughts on the double standard.
“When I wanted to do a rock album, there were a lot of executives that were like, ‘Hmm…’ she tells the publication. “If I had been white, it would’ve been completely fine; but because I’m Black it’s, ‘Well… maybe let’s just not’ – and making it harder than it needs to be.”
She adds, “If I go through that, every single other Black artist is getting the pushback [too].”
Willow shared that being a Black woman in the rock music space and receiving hate is not a surprise -- as she witnessed her mother, Jada Pinkett Smith, go through it as the leader singer of the metal band, Wicked Wisdom.
“Oh, my goodness. She was getting death threats. It was a crazy amount of stuff going on,” the "Meet Me at Our Spot" singer says about her mother’s backlash.
“I remember being like, ‘Yo! People are really upset about this, they’re mad that a Black woman wants to do metal and is in the space,” she says before adding, “Like that was activism.”
The hate that Jada received didn’t discourage Willow. In fact, after witnessing her mother play Ozzfest, the “Transparent Soul” singer said she was inspired to join the rock scene.
“That was my first experience with music touring. And just watching her as a Black woman in this crazy metal scene. I was like, ‘Hell, yeah!’ I loved it,” she says.
Willow didn’t always perform rock music. But after pushing herself outside of her comfort zone, she was ready to commit.
“I love all different kinds of music, I don’t like to box myself into anything,” she tells the magazine. “I was trained to be an R&B singer so I went in that direction. But I’ve always had a huge affinity for rock music ever since I was just a wee bean.”
The Red Table Talk host urges other Black people to take the same risk saying that the key is for, “People of color, women and all marginalized communities [to] step out of the boxes that society wants to put us in. Not even just in music, but in every part of our lives – that’s the special sauce.”
For Willow, that is part of the way a change in the music industry and Hollywood can be made.
“For a long time, women have been looked at and expected to be in these boxes. It’s up to the people who have been a part of the oppressing, but it’s also up to us to step out of that. That’s scary, and it’s sometimes dangerous,” she says.
“We need to make better spaces for each other and stop expecting other people to make spaces for us," she adds. "We need to start holding our sisters, and start listening to each other the way that we wish other people would.”
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If the majority of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals thinks Mississippi did anything “race-neutral” in the 1950s and 1960s, then it doesn’t much know this state’s history.
During those decades, Mississippi was at its racially worst. White Mississippi resisted court-ordered desegregation of schools and congressionally ordered protections of voting and other civil rights. The Ku Klux Klan used violence, and Citizens Councils used economic intimidation to try to preserve a political and social system based on a belief in white superiority.
To think that this same state would be progressive enough during that era to rid Mississippi law of what was an admittedly racist provision in the state’s 1890 constitution is ludicrous.
Yet, that’s the argument the majority on the appeals court accepted when it ruled that Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban for certain felony convictions was constitutional because in 1950 and 1968 state lawmakers amended the list of disenfranchising crimes in ways that the court believes made the ban race-neutral.
Judge James Graves, who is Black and from Mississippi, was incredulous of the reasoning used by his fellow jurists on the Court of Appeals. To think that “a virtually all-white electorate and legislature, otherwise engaged in massive and violent resistance to the Civil Rights Movement” would cleanse the 1890 constitution of any part of its discriminatory intent defies reason, said Graves in his dissent.
Nevertheless, as a result of this flawed decision, Mississippi will continue to operate with voting rules for felons that are arbitrary.
For many crimes, voting rights in this state are withheld even decades after the offenders have served their sentence. For other crimes, offenders are able to vote even while they are behind bars.
Even if the courts are not going to force Mississippi to change the law, the Legislature should do so anyway out of logic and fairness. For a few violent crimes, such as murder and rape, a lifetime ban on voting is an appropriate part of the guilty party’s punishment. But for most crimes, particularly those of a nonviolent variety, voting rights should be automatically restored when offenders have completed their entire sentence.
That’s the way it works in most states.
Mississippi, with the highest incarceration rate in the world and one of the stingiest attitudes when it comes to forgiveness, is disenfranchising a disproportionate share of its population. That’s just not right, and it may contribute to the difficulty felons experience when they leave prison and try to integrate back into law-abiding society. They are made to feel like perpetual outcasts.
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Parker Rothbart was the low medalist for Marin Academy in the Wildcats’ inaugural girls golf match, a 182-219 loss to St. Ignatius at the par 36 Presidio Golf Course on Thursday.
Rothbart led the way for the Wildcats with a 46, followed by Elsa Anderson’s 56 and Stephanie Zola’s 57.
• Taylor Bridges shot a 3-over par 39 to lead Redwood past San Marin, 166-215, at Indian Valley Golf Course on Wednesday.
Leilani Brennan carded a 42 for San Marin.
Girls volleyball
Lindsey Jones and Elsa Snipes both posted double-digit kills as Archie Williams outlasted Marin Academy in five sets Wednesday, 25-21, 13-25, 25-20, 23-25, 15-11.
Jones had a team-high 13 kills and added four digs while Snipes had 12 kills and 18 digs. Libero Phoebe Galland piled up 32 digs and served out three aces. Setter Reese Fraser had 15 assists, seven blocks, 13 digs, four kills and three aces for Archie Williams (8-0).
MA (3-3) was led by setter Gabby Grujix’s 32 assists and 16 digs. Sophia Iannuccillo had six kills and six blocks. Kate Lane added 12 kills and 15 digs.
Girls tennis
San Domenico launched into the season with a 6-1 victory over Redwood Christian on Wednesday. The Panthers claimed singles wins by Lily Reeser and Blanca Rosello Cuevas. San Domenico swept doubles play with wins by the teams of Eva Laborde-Turner and Mariah Nyberg, Mina Swaim and Nina Polyakova, and Mia Cheng and Olivia Ginsberg.
• Redwood remains undefeated after Thursday’s 7-0 victory over San Rafael. The Giants (1-0 MCAL, 4-0 overall) got rolling with a quick 6-0, 6-0 victory at No. 2 doubles by Audrey Markowich and Emily Melbordis.
The Giants’ Annesley Krawitt defeated the Bulldogs’ Shaylee McCulley, 6-1, 6-0, at the top of the singles ladder to clinch the sweep.
Men’s soccer
Diego Grande tallied a goal and an assist as Dominican University defeated Cal State East Bay, 4-2, Thursday. Grande and Brian Sanchez had the helpers on the opening goal, scored by Louie Galdamez at the 30 minute mark.
Aboubacar Cisse and Dominic Galletti followed with goals as the Penguins (2-0-0) padded their lead to 3-0, before East Bay came back with two goals within 11 minutes. Grande secured Dominican;’s victory with his first goal of the season.
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Iran sends nuclear talks response; US casts doubt on offer
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran sent a written response early Friday in negotiations over a final draft of a roadmap for parties to return to its tattered nuclear deal with world powers, though the U.S. cast doubt on Tehran’s offer.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said in a statement that “the sent text has a constructive approach with the aim of finalizing the negotiations.”
However, as in the last round of written proposals and counters, Iran offered no public acknowledgment of what it said. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all matters of state in the country’s Shiite theocracy, largely has been silent in recent weeks on the negotiations.
In Washington, the State Department confirmed it received Iran’s response through the European Union, which has served as an intermediary for the indirect talks after then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord in 2018.
“We are studying it and will respond through the EU, but unfortunately it is not constructive,” the State Department said, similarly not elaborating on what the proposal contained.
The 2015 deal saw Iran greatly curtail its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. Under the deal, Iran could have only 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 3.67% under constant scrutiny of International Atomic Energy Agency surveillance cameras and inspectors.
Now, however, the last public IAEA count shows Iran has a stockpile of some 3,800 kilograms (8,370 pounds) of enriched uranium. More worrying for nonprofileration experts, Iran now enriches uranium up to 60% purity — a level it never reached before that is a short, technical step away from 90%. Those experts warn Iran has enough 60%-enriched uranium to reprocess into fuel for at least one nuclear bomb.
While Iran long has maintained its program is peaceful, officials now openly discuss Tehran’s ability to seek an atomic bomb if it wanted. Meanwhile, a series of attacks across the wider Mideast since the deal’s collapse have raised tensions of a wider conflict breaking out.
Both the U.S. and Iran have tried to portray the ongoing negotiations as bending in their favor on issues like the American sanctions targeting Tehran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Earlier this week, Iran’s hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi maintained that an IAEA investigation into traces of man-made uranium found at undeclared nuclear sites in the country must be halted.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
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High School football kicks off Thursday night
NELA squads get their seasons underway
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MONROE, La. (KNOE) - A handful of Northeast Louisiana teams competed in their season openers. Ouachita fell on the road to Rummel 42-28. River Oaks beat Beekman Charter at home 29-18. Rayville hosted Delhi Charter and lost 50-26. St. Frederick won in Alexandria against Holy Savior Menard 21-7. Cedar Creek lost on the road to Glenbrook 12-6.
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With Russia's invasion of Ukraine dragging into its seventh month, a number of oddities are emerging from this odd war. One of the most perplexing is the question of why a major cyber warfare power like Russia has launched so few and such ineffective cyber attacks against Ukraine and its sympathizers. New Atlas looks into the digital battle for Ukraine and its implications for the future.
When Russia rolled into Ukraine on February 24, 2022, many observers expected a very different war than the one we see being waged today. Not only was the outcome supposed to be a blitzkrieg that would last only four days, but many experts thought that Russia would mount such an all-out cyber war against Ukraine that the invasion might not even be needed to make Kyiv give in to Moscow's demands.
The offensive has bogged down and turned into six months and counting of hard ground combat, but the digital war never really went anywhere. This is surprising because Russia, along with the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Israel, Iran, and North Korea, has for decades been developing sophisticated offensive and defensive cybernetic capabilities and has on a number of occasions demonstrated the willingness to use them.
Cyber war
We use the internet so much in our daily lives that it's become not just commonplace, but ubiquitous. Though we are constantly reminded of the dangers of hacking, it's very easy to forget that the digital realm is an invisible global battlefield where everyone from great powers to lone amateurs do combat with one another using binary code instead of guns and bombs.
The idea of cyber warfare is much older than many people realize. In fact, the concept was already being considered when computers were gigantic machines with less computing power than a television remote control. As far back as 1954, the science fiction B feature Gog was released with a plot revolving around a computer that was hijacked by a foreign power to steal US government secrets and indulge in a sideline of murder.
It's an idea that evolved as computers grew in sophistication, and in July 2010 a breakthrough was achieved when the suspected US/Israeli Stuxnet virus infected the computers at an Iranian nuclear weapon plant. How Stuxnet got into the facility is still unknown to this day. The computers at the plant weren't connected to the internet, but the virus could have been introduced in a Wi-Fi tablet, a thumb drive, by a human agent, or in a chip built into a component. However, when it activated it took over the processing plant and ordered the centrifuges used to enrich uranium to spin out of control and destroy themselves.
Russia's cyber invasion
According to cybersecurity firm Mandiant, Russia was launching cyber attacks against Ukraine weeks before the first tanks rolled across the border. However, instead of causing radar scanners to blow up, scrambling GPS signals, or crashing fighter jets into the ground, these were low-key, albeit sophisticated operations by hacktivists and organizations with links to the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR), Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), and Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU). In addition, there were attacks launched from proxy sympathizers in places as far away as Brazil.
The first attacks were by what is known as wiper malware, which erases the hard drives of devices that it infects. These were aimed at multiple government, non-profit, and information technology organizations in Ukraine. Designated Whispergate, it was disguised as ransomware, but instead of allowing recovery, it activated when the infected device powered down temporarily and then downloaded a malicious .exe file to destroy targeted data. Another attack was malware called Gamaredon that didn't just go after Ukraine, but Ukrainian and associated targets around the world.
When Russian troops invaded on February 24, a cyber attack was launched at over 10,000 satellite internet modems that are part of the American satellite firm Viasat's network in Ukraine and other parts of Europe. Traced by the US, British, and EU governments to Russia, this attack was followed on March 1 by widespread cyberattacks on Kyiv-based media at the same time a missile struck Kyiv's television tower.
A few days later, an unidentified Ukrainian nuclear power company, as well as media firms and government offices, was the target of a cyber attack. This is according to Microsoft, which was monitoring Ukraine's cybersecurity situation. On April 12, the Ukrainian government reported a failed Sandworm malware, a variant of Industroyer 2, attack on the power grid aimed at causing a power blackout.
In addition to these incidents, financial services, border control stations, and even the internet infrastructure were attacked, disrupting banking services, causing power outages, and interfering with the distribution of medicines, food and relief supplies. There were even phishing attacks on the government and military, as well as the detection of surveillance software on various networks that stole information from the government and private citizens regarding social media and banking transactions. Another common attack were Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) campaigns against telecommunications companies.
The information war
Most of these attacks were designed to disrupt systems or as espionage to gather data about Ukraine and its NATO supporters, but another major digital front was Russia's information war against Ukraine and the rest of the world.
Manipulating information to gain an advantage in war has been around since the first Australopithecus started shrieking and shaking branches at his rivals across the waterhole, but 21st century cyber warfare has sped up the process to near-instantaneous and extended its reach across the globe.
Part of Russia's cyber offensive has involved compromising websites, social media platforms, and messaging services to either deface them or to plant false information as part of a propaganda campaign, with the goals of demoralizing Ukrainians, sowing division between Ukraine and its neighbors, and bolstering support for Russia.
Many of these campaigns have involved setting up false narratives backed by doctored images and documents, though some have been pretty bold, such as planting a false message on a Ukrainian television channel Ukraine 24 claiming that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had surrendered complete with a deep-fake video.
Other messages posted claimed that Zelenskyy had committed suicide, and that Ukraine's Azov Regiment had vowed revenge against Zelenskyy. By March, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) had shut down five bot farms hosting 100,000 social media accounts being used for propaganda campaigns.
What went wrong?
These cyber operations may seem impressive, but they were not only nowhere near what was expected, they proved to be ineffective. Though Russia's cyber war was disruptive, sometimes frightening, and resulted in the loss of tens of millions of dollars, the whole thing never rose above the level of a series of pranks. And pranks have never won a war.
What has been apparent over the last six months is that few, if any, of Russia's cyber attacks have been launched in support of a clear military objective. There were no assaults on military command and control systems, no critical infrastructure attacks, and nothing that could put real pressure on Ukraine to force concessions from the country or its friends.
Instead, the Russian cyber campaign has been low-key and independent of the conventional military invasion. Why?
Part of the reason could be that Russia hasn't been able to coordinate its military operations with the planning and precision that NATO forces have mastered. NATO land, sea, air, and space forces are designed to operate as a single fighting unit that grows more interconnected with each technological generation – not just within each country's forces, but across the entire alliance.
Such coordination was anticipated during the first days of the Russian invasion, but the advance soon bogged down and devolved as the Russian forces fell back on their standard practice of relying on artillery to achieve their objectives. This showed that such precision coordination is still beyond them and this likely extends to the extremely detailed and time-sensitive planning for cyber operations if they are to work to achieve conventional military objectives.
Another problem is that conventional and cyber warfare are very different. Conventional war aims to destroy things and seize territory. Land is the vital objective and when an army attacks, the results are self-evident. A burned out tank or a crater where a radar station once sat are hard to ignore.
In cyber war, the objective is information. Land is irrelevant. The goal is to capture as much important data as possible and to deny it to the enemy, either by erasing or corrupting it. In the same way, conventional war aims to destroy the enemy's infrastructure, while in cyber war the digital warrior depends on that infrastructure and wants to preserve it whenever possible. Why destroy the enemy's internet when you want to use it yourself?
The result is that these two schools of war often act at cross purposes, so it may be that Russia decided to let the cyber corps sit in the back seat for now and concentrate more on intelligence objectives.
Ukraine defenses
Another factor may be Ukraine's cyber defenses. 2022 is not the first year that Russia has attacked the country. Ukraine has been Russia's digital test bed since the revolution in 2014 that toppled the pro-Moscow government. This has made Ukraine Russia's cyber sandbox, but it has also made Ukraine a laboratory for developing defenses.
The fog of war makes reliable reports difficult to find, but Ukraine has been able to fend off or limit damage from Russian attacks and has even managed limited counter-attacks. In addition, Ukraine's internet is highly decentralized and many of its assets are located in other countries. Indeed, the whole point of the internet was to build a computer network that would remain functioning even in the event of an all-out nuclear attack. Ukraine's commercial networks being hardened before the invasion have only added to this intrinsic robustness.
One ironic factor is that Ukraine still relies on Cold War technology for its weapon systems. In many ways, this is a disadvantage, but when radar systems use radio valves instead of microchips, they can be as invulnerable to cyberattack as a coal-burning steam engine.
On the opposite end of the technical scale, the introduction of the smartphone and other portable communication devices with reliable encryption makes the information war much harder to wage. Propaganda is easier to spread today, but it is also easier to refute, as has been seen in the West when the release of fraudulent documents in an election saw them debunked in less than an hour.
The implications
The implications of Russia's cyber war in Ukraine are many. In the short term, they show that cyber warfare has been oversold and that the example of Ukraine is likely to be repeated – at least in situations where the defender has a degree of technical sophistication and the backing of advanced cyber powers with assets like America's NSA or Britain's GCHQ.
We also probably won't see pure cyber wars where digital attacks take the place of conventional war. It may be that cyber attacks will take a secondary role in diminishing an enemy's tangible goods, but a primary role in fighting in the realm of information.
However, cyber war has many advantages. The attacks can come with incredible speed, range, and precision. Their effects can be unnoticeable until it's too late to do anything about them. They can be easily denied, launched from neutral territory, and even blamed on innocent third parties. They can also involve the entire world in a rapid escalation that would be impossible with conventional forces.
And behind all of this is the example of Stuxnet physically crippling a nuclear facility. In an increasingly digital world where we let cybernetic servants control our microwaves, regulate the heat in our homes, listen to our private conversations, and drive our cars and fly our planes, it may be that one day the effects of a cyber war will be very tangible indeed. | https://newatlas.com/military/russia-cyber-war-ukraine/ | 2022-09-02T04:48:33Z | https://newatlas.com/military/russia-cyber-war-ukraine/ | true | 1 |
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BOSTON (AP) — Rob Refsnyder hit a game-ending single in a four-run ninth inning for Boston as the Red Sox rallied to beat the Texas Rangers 9-8 on Thursday night.
The Red Sox trailed 8-3 in the eighth and 8-5 entering the ninth. Boston promptly loaded the bases with none out against Jonathan Hernández (1-1). Rafael Devers hit a two-run double and Kiké Hernández hit an RBI single to tie the game before Refsnyder completed the comeback with a drive to left.
Refsnyder took a wide turn around first before a swarm of teammates caught him and piled on after storming out of the dugout. The Red Sox entered Thursday having lost 7 of 10.
“I think we’ve all been trying to do our best and working hard. A lot of the guys have been frustrated, so it was nice to come through and it’s always nice to celebrate with your teammates,” Refsnyder said.
Jeurys Familia (2-1) worked a scoreless ninth for a Boston staff that was constantly in trouble. The Rangers stranded 12 runners as they dropped their fifth straight.
Adolis Garcia hit a two-run homer in the eighth to help put Texas in position to stop its skid.
In the bottom half, Devers began Boston's comeback with an RBI double. He scored on a single by Christian Arroyo, who also drove in three runs.
“That last inning was what we expected out of the lineup — swing at strikes. If not, keep the line moving,” Boston manager Alex Cora said.
Rookie Rangers starter Glenn Otto struck out a career-best eight batters and departed after Alex Verdugo homered leading off the sixth to get the Red Sox within 4-3.
Veteran Rich Hill started for Boston and allowed four runs on five hits and four walks.
Garcia drove in three runs for the Rangers. Corey Seager had an RBI single in the third and a run-scoring double in the fifth.
LATE NIGHT
Refsnyder said he had an extra cup of coffee before the game after a rough night. The Rex Sox got home late after concluding a three-game series at Minnesota, and he was greeted at home by a grumpy toddler.
“I didn’t sleep well at all. My son was pretty cranky — we got in at like 5:30 in the morning, so maybe I shouldn’t sleep very well more often,” Refsnyder said.
NEW KID?
A boy stationed in the front row in center field, prepared with a glove and clad in a No. 9 Red Sox jersey, caught Verdugo's homer in the sixth. The boy leapt several times in celebration and high-fived fans in all directions. The play was reviewed for potential fan interference, but umpires quickly confirmed the home run.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rangers: Transferred RHP Josh Sborz (right elbow sprain) from the 15-day injured list to the 60-day IL, ending his season. ... Recalled OF Nick Solak from Triple-A Round Rock and added RHP Jesús Tinoco from Round Rock to the expanded roster.
Red Sox: RHP Nathan Eovaldi (right shoulder inflammation) has resumed throwing but manager Alex Cora wasn’t ready to offer a potential return date. Cora said the club was going to continue to be cautious with Eovaldi, who missed 33 games earlier in the season with inflammation in his lower back. ... Recalled C Connor Wong from Triple-A Worcester and added RHP Eduard Bazardo to the expanded roster.
UP NEXT
LHP Dallas Keuchel (2-8, 8.84 ERA) makes his second start for the Rangers and faces Boston RHP Nick Pivetta (9-10, 4.40) Friday night in the second of the four-game series.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Daily Game" game were:
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Daily Game" game were:
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Three-Hour Football Preview Special Airs LIVE Saturday, September 3rd at 12 noon ET from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio on HBCU GO and Features Interviews with NFL, HBCU Alumni and Icons Including Deion Sanders, Doug Williams, Troy Vincent, Carl Francis, Will Packer, Tracey Edmonds, Keisha Knight Pulliam and More
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Byron Allen's Allen Media Group (AMG) FREE-streaming digital platform, HBCU GO -- the leading media provider for the nation's 107 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) will launch its inaugural football season with an event special featuring the nation's top Gridiron NFL and Black College Football Hall of Famers and HBCU Alums. The "The HBCU GO Sports Kickoff Show" is not your average game day program. This star-studded special offers fans an exclusive look at the cultural engagement that can only be experienced at an HBCU football game. The pre-season show will air LIVE on Saturday, September 3 at 12 noon/ET on the AMG platforms HBCU GO, theGrio television network, theGrio Streaming App, Sports.TV, Local Now, and on broadcast television stations throughout the U.S.
Led by legendary HBCU sports analyst Charlie Neal, with color commentary by Jon Kelley and sideline reporting by Ashley Holder, the HBCU GO sportscasters will provide insight about the nation's HBCU conferences, the Black College Football Hall of Fame and authentic, thought-provoking analysis of the competition on the field. The all-star team will offer viewers a taste of what they can expect every Saturday this fall from the action-packed Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) and the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (CIAA) football schedule.
This three-hour football preview special will showcase the college marching bands, provide player profiles, game highlights, exclusive interviews and cameos from NFL and HBCU alumni and icons including: Pro Football Hall of Fame member and Jackson State University head coach, Deion Sanders, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Doug Williams, NFL legend and current Executive Vice President, Troy Vincent, NFL Players Association Communications and Brand Manager Carl Francis, film and television producer Will Packer, Emmy and NAACP award-winning film and television producer Tracey Edmonds, actress Keisha Knight Pulliam, and many more.
"The HBCU GO Sports Kickoff Show is another great milestone for America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities," said Byron Allen, Founder/Chairman/CEO of Allen Media Group. "We at Allen Media Group are one-thousand percent committed to building the HBCU sports conferences into great American franchises."
"The HBCU GO Sports Kickoff Show" will be broadcast live from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio – also home to the Black College Football Hall of Fame
For more information about HBCU GO visit HBCUGO.TV or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram.
About HBCU GO
HBCU GO is a cultural lifestyle destination and leading sports media provider that embraces and represents the voice of Black Excellence every day of the year through an all-new platform that captures the rich history, diversity, perspectives, and cultural experiences at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). HBCU GO also provides a platform for emerging creatives in media production, branding, and broadcasting. We offer our viewers the best in live sports, original series, documentaries, films, comedy, and edutainment programming produced by African-American leading producers, directors, and students from select HBCUs.
Launched in 2012, the free-streaming service HBCU GO was purchased by Byron Allen in 2021 and is part of Byron Allen's Allen Media Group (AMG). AMG is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Charleston, SC. AMG owns 27 ABC-NBC-CBS-FOX network affiliate broadcast television stations in 21 U.S. markets and twelve 24-hour HD television networks serving nearly 220 million subscribers: THE WEATHER CHANNEL, THE WEATHER CHANNEL EN ESPAÑOL, PETS.TV, COMEDY.TV, RECIPE.TV, CARS.TV, ES.TV, MYDESTINATION.TV, JUSTICE CENTRAL.TV, THEGRIO, THIS TV, and PATTRN. AMG also owns the streaming platforms HBCU GO, THE GRIO STREAMING APP, SPORTS.TV, THE WEATHER CHANNEL STREAMING APP, and LOCAL NOW -- the free-streaming AVOD service powered by THE WEATHER CHANNEL and content partners, which delivers real-time, hyper-local news, weather, traffic, sports, and lifestyle information. For more information, visit www.entertainmentstudios.com and www.hbcugo.tv
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Manchester United beat Leicester 1-0 on Thursday night, hours before the summer transfer window closed.
United defeated Leicester at the King Power Stadium and Jadon Sancho's first-half goal proved to be the matchwinner. United were never threatened by the hosts throughout the match and they looked comfortable and in control across the full 90 minutes.
It was another clean sheet and three points for Erik ten Hag, who was given the club's trust regarding recruitment this summer, which led him to sign Tyrell Malacial, Christian Eriksen, Lisandro Martinez, Casemiro, Antony and Martin Dubravka.
Four of Ten Hag's signings have Eredivisie pedigree, including Eriksen who came through Ajax's academy.
Elsewhere, Ethan Galbraith, James Garner and Tahith Chong left the club on deadline day.
Follow the live blog below for the day's breaking United news.
United player ratings vs Leicester as Varane and Martinez good
David de Gea
Much better with the ball at his feet and denied James Maddison with a fine save in his best display so far this season. 7
Diogo Dalot
Did superbly to start the move Jadon Sancho finished to score and was proactive in attack, slick on the ball but booked. 7
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Did not put a foot wrong all night and it is perverse to think he was briefly fourth-choice centre-back in pre-season. Another superb performance. 8
Martinez is showing why United fans love him already
It came in the 26 th minute; a flurry of slick and sharp passes inside their own third that quickened when Lisandro Martinez broke the lines to send Tyrell Malacia foraging forward. Defence to attack.
“United, United, United,” the away-dayers roared. This was a glimpse of the identity Erik ten Hag was hired to install, an incisive and progressive approach played out well within earshot of the United following. David de Gea was even unflustered in playing the ball outside of his area. A new United way, perhaps.
The mood at United has shifted as drastically as their budget in the second half of August. The supporters continue to chastise the Glazer family and demand their removal and those chants will not abate. United supporters greeted the full-time whistle with another rendition of "We want Glazers out".
Eriksen sends warning to United dressing room
Christian Eriksen has warned his United teammates need to be more ruthless after beating Leicester.
United defeated Leicester 1-0 on Thursday night and Jadon Sancho's first-half goal proved to be the matchwinner. United were never threatened by the hosts throughout the match and they looked comfortable and in control across the full 90 minutes.
Erik ten Hag's side also beat Southampton 1-0 at the weekend and it was a similar type of performance at the King Power Stadium. United have failed to extend their advantage in both of their last two wins and that's something Eriksen discussed. | https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/man-united-transfer-news-live-24910754 | 2022-09-02T05:19:40Z | https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/man-united-transfer-news-live-24910754 | false | 1 |
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What is K3OS and how does it relate to K3s?
Discover the potential benefits of adopting K3OS, a lightweight Linux distribution developed to run Kubernetes workloads in low-resource environments.
Kubernetes is an open source, extensible container orchestration system that has become the de facto standard to scale, manage and schedule containerized applications. With K3OS and K3s, IT teams can get Kubernetes up and running quickly, without needing to understand its internal intricacies.
What is K3OS and why should you care?
K3OS is a lightweight Linux distribution developed by SUSE Rancher specifically for Kubernetes workloads, with an emphasis on the edge and other low-resource environments. K3OS enables IT teams to build production-grade Kubernetes clusters based on K3s, a Kubernetes distribution that can run on systems with as little as 512 MB of RAM thanks to its minimal resource requirements.
K3OS comprises a single binary that includes everything needed to run Kubernetes so that users can easily deploy Kubernetes clusters. It enhances security by providing the option to serve cluster deployments over HTTPS without installing client certificates on individual nodes. K3OS also features a chroot operation that enables users to run pods in read-only mode.
The benefits of K3OS
K3OS provides organizations and IT teams many benefits, including the following:
- Fast installation. K3OS installs quickly -- Rancher claims it starts up in less than 10 seconds with K3s available.
- Seamless management. IT admins can manage K3OS within Kubernetes without logging in to remote nodes.
- Better security. K3OS contains only the components required to run Kubernetes in Linux distros, minimizing the attack surface.
- Simple configuration. IT admins can configure K3OS with a single configuration file.
- Multi-architecture support. K3OS offers support for multiple architectures, including x86-64 and Arm.
What is K3s?
K3s is a lightweight Kubernetes implementation certified by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. At less than 40 MB in size, K3s is ideal for resource-constrained environments, such as IoT and edge computing architectures. It's a distribution of the original Kubernetes project developed by Google.
With K3s, users can deploy clusters from scratch on bare-metal servers without installing any additional tools or packages. This creates an intuitive interface to deploy, manage and scale applications across multiple nodes simultaneously using standard Docker commands like docker stack deploy.
At installation, IT admins can configure K3s via environment variables or command-line arguments. Nodes can either operate as part of the control plane or join an existing cluster as a worker node with the same binary. Because K3s separates runtime from workloads, admins can stop and start K3s without affecting running applications. Admins can also easily upgrade or reconfigure K3s by changing the flags in the startup file and restarting K3s.
Advantages and downsides of K3s
One of K3s' top benefits is ease of installation and configuration. It's also less resource intensive and more lightweight than full-fledged Kubernetes.
But K3s also has some drawbacks: Its streamlined design offers fewer features, and it could face stability issues over time as a relatively new project.
The need for a hybrid Linux and Kubernetes distribution
K3OS is a Linux distribution designed specifically to manage Kubernetes clusters. It combines a Linux distribution with a Kubernetes distribution -- when you start a K3OS node, Kubernetes is already running. As Kubernetes clusters consist of several nodes, K3OS therefore provides an easy way to set up Kubernetes clusters on any host.
Patching and upgrading Linux and Kubernetes is always necessary, but performing these processes separately can create challenges:
- Kubernetes patches are often applied without patching the underlying Linux OS, which can pose serious security threats to Kubernetes clusters.
- Despite Kubernetes' ability to handle individual reboots, uncoordinated OS upgrades can cause multiple nodes to go down simultaneously. As a result, the Kubernetes master might lose quorum and disrupt the application workload.
How does K3OS compare with K3s?
K3OS and K3s both enable users to easily deploy Kubernetes clusters. They're designed to eliminate the heavy lifting of installing and configuring an OS when deploying Kubernetes clusters.
K3OS extends K3s' functionality by adding the ability to run entirely from read-only media and does not require state to be stored on disk. It also enables single-binary deployment for OS and Kubernetes components.
With K3OS, IT admins can quickly deploy single-node Kubernetes clusters. K3OS can be used with any virtualization software -- such as VMware vSphere, OpenStack and Hyper-V -- to eliminate conflicts between an organization's chosen hypervisor and container platform.
How does K3s compare with standard Kubernetes?
K3s and Kubernetes have several things in common. They're both open source orchestration platforms that can manage large container deployments.
However, K3s is more lightweight and simpler to use than standard Kubernetes. This makes it a good choice for small deployments or for developers who are new to container orchestration.
Kubernetes, in contrast, is more complex and designed for large deployments. While it offers more features and flexibility than K3s, it can also be more difficult to use. | https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/tip/What-is-K3OS-and-how-does-it-relate-to-K3s | 2022-09-02T05:22:10Z | https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/tip/What-is-K3OS-and-how-does-it-relate-to-K3s | false | 2 |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
2-4-8-3-5
(two, four, eight, three, five)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
2-4-8-3-5
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October’s Very Own Relaunches OVO Essentials With New Collection
O ctober is almost here and Drake’s clothing brand is here for it. OVO Essentials is being relaunched and aims to have everyone prepared for whatever the fall may bring.
As per Hypebeast Champagne Papi and crew are bringing back OVO Essentials. Originally released in 2018, OVO Essentials was inspired by travel and the demands of ‘life on the road’. For Fall/Winter 2022, OVO Essentials has been entirely redeveloped with new and improved fabrics sourced and produced in collaboration with advanced European factories. The new drop is timely as the consumers have embraced brands whose intention is to provide aspirational and accessible solutions to complete your wardrobe.
The OVO Essentials drop sticks to the athleisure script with all the staple offerings covered. Included are hooded sweatshirts, crewnecks, t-shirts, long sleeve t-shirts, sweats, and shorts in the everyday colors of black, grey, and white. Additionally, we get a polo shirt that features wordmark buttons and OVO Owl logo embroidered on the left chest. Thankfully the pricing isn’t flagrant at all, and you get pieces starting at the $60 mark.
You can shop the new offerings here and get a better look at the entire collection of elevated basics below.
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But in 2022 that tailwind has turned into a strong headwind. At issue is the question of what DocuSign can do for an encore? DocuSign has a big goal of achieving $5 billion in revenue. However, that would mean the company will have to generate more than twice the revenue it’s currently delivering.
Perhaps the company's earnings report on September 8 will provide some clues. Investors will be looking for growing revenue to be sure. But they’ll also want to see the company return to profitability. Earnings per share turned negative in the last two quarters.
I think Jea Yu was asking the right question in his article, “How Low Can DocuSign Go?” As painful as it might be for investors who jumped on DOCU stock in the middle of its rally, my fellow MarketBeat contributor was correct, it’s important for investors to pay attention to the floor right now. Here are some reasons to support that thought.
Building More Use Cases
DocuSign became a pandemic stock because it made all businesses adopt a digital model in weeks rather than years. DocuSign being the clear leader in the e-signature category benefited as businesses needed to conduct business online. But that also came with the question, what’s next?
DocuSign’s answer to that question is the Agreement Cloud. As DocuSign says the Agreement Cloud gives a business “everything you need to connect and automate your entire agreement process.” By this the company means not just electronic signatures but creating entire “smart contracts” online including tracking of negotiations, agreements, amendments, and more.
Of course, hearing the words “smart contract” makes me immediately think of blockchain and all the possibilities that continue to emerge there. However, with the cryptocurrency world having its own issues perhaps that’s a concern for another day.
This isn’t to say that DocuSign isn’t growing. Revenue last quarter was up 25% year-over-year. While the rate of growth is slowing, as would be expected, the company has a base of customers that will allow it to continue to deliver stable revenue.
But stable doesn’t get the company to its $5 billion goal. Nor will it do much to excite growth-minded investors.
Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks?
A cliché works because it points to a truth. And this truth was conveyed by analyst Jim Cramer. Agree with him or not, he made the point that DocuSign perhaps missed an opportunity to grow through acquisitions in related areas such as identity and cybersecurity.
And that brings up a different question which continues to hang over the company. That is are they setting themselves up as an acquisition target? As Jea Yu wrote in the article I reference above, the abrupt departure of the company’s CEO in June gave that theory more legs.
DOCU Stock Looks More Like a Trade More Than an Investment
With a beta of over 1 (1.21) and short interest of over 8%, it looks like traders may have a good time with DOCU stock. It’s also a reason to stay away.
I view DocuSign as a Hold for now. There are too many things that are unclear about their growth strategy, not the least of which is the naming of a new CEO. But I also believe there could be some value to buying shares if the stock were to fall below $50 per share. At that point, you could start legitimately wondering about the floor being too low rather than what the ceiling could potentially be.
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More than 60,000 Ganesh idols immersed in Mumbai in a day
The BMC has earmarked 73 natural water bodies including stretches of the seashore and set up 152 artificial ponds for immersion this year.
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More than 60,000 Ganesh idols were immersed in Mumbai on the second day of the ten-day festival which started on August 31, the civic body said on Friday.
Many devotees bid adieu to the lord after one-and-a-half days.
As many as 60,473 idols were immersed in the sea, other water bodies as well as in artificial ponds on Thursday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a release.
It included 60,122 household Ganesh idols. As many as 24,196 household idols and 172 community Ganesh idols were immersed in artificial ponds (set up to avoid pollution of natural water bodies), said a BMC official.
No untoward incident was reported anywhere during the immersion on Thursday. The BMC has earmarked 73 natural water bodies (including stretches of the seashore) and set up 152 artificial ponds for immersion this year. A National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team has been stationed in Lalbaug area in Central Mumbai which draws huge crowds during the Ganesh festival, an official said.
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Ford on Wednesday announced a sweeping recall of its heavy-duty trucks and Lincoln Continental sedans for a rearview camera that fails to meet safety regulations.
While many automakers have had to update rearview camera systems recently for various software issues, the latest Ford recall involves a hardware issue. An internal lens on the rearview camera can fog up due to a coating that degenerates from the sun’s rays. A foggy or cloudy image projection will only get worse, resulting in an opaque camera view.
The issue affects 277,040 vehicles equipped with a surround-view camera system. The bulk of the recall affects the 2017-2020 Ford Super Duty Series (F-250, F-350, and F-450). The 2017-2020 Lincoln Continental full-size sedan is also affected, and the recall encompasses about 13,000 Lincolns.
Ford acknowledged 7,625 warranty reports related to the issue on Super Duty trucks, and 1,236 reports on the Lincoln Continental. That camera system was replaced in 2020, which is why more recent Super Duty trucks aren’t affected. The Continental was discontinued.
Ford has led the automotive industry with recalls this year, issuing 50 recalls affecting 7.2 million vehicles, Automotive News reports. This is the second extensive recall of the Ford Super Duty this year. In February, Ford recalled the 2017-2022 Super Duty for a potential fractured driveshaft. It encompassed nearly 250,000 trucks equipped with gas engines.
Owners can expect notification by mail as early as Sept. 12, and they’ll be instructed to bring the vehicle in for a new rearview camera free of charge. Reimbursement will be provided to owners who have already had the work done. For more info, owners can contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332 or visit Ford’s recall site.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A man tried to kill Argentina’s politically powerful Vice President Cristina Fernández outside her home, but the handgun misfired, the country’s president said.
The man was quickly overpowered by her security officers in the incident Thursday night, officials said.
President Alberto Fernández, who is not related to the vice president, a former president herself, said the pistol did not discharge when the man tried to fire it.
“A man pointed a firearm at her head and pulled the trigger,” the president said in a national broadcast following the incident. He said the firearm was loaded with five bullets but “didn’t fire even though the trigger was pulled.”
The vice president did not appear to have suffered any injury, and the man was overpowered within seconds as he stood among a crowd of her supporters.
Gina De Bai, a witness who was near the vice president during the incident, told The Associated Press she heard “the sound of the trigger being pulled.” She said she didn’t realize it was a handgun until the man was rushed by security personnel.
President Fernández called it “the most serious incident since we recovered democracy” in 1983 after a military dictatorship and urged political leaders, and society at large, to repudiate the attempted shooting.
The attack came as the vice president is facing a trial for alleged acts of corruption during her 2007-2015 presidency — charges that she vehemently denies and that have led her supporters to surround her home in the upscale Recoleta neighborhood of Argentina’s capital.
Video broadcast on local television channels showed Fernández exiting her vehicle surrounded by supporters when a man is seen extending his hand with what looks like a pistol. The vice president ducks as people around the apparent gunman appear shocked at what is happening.
Unverified video posted on social media shows the pistol almost touched Fernández’s face.
The alleged gunman was identified as Fernando André Sabag Montiel, a Brazilian citizen, said an official at the Security Ministry, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He does not have a criminal record, the official said. ading that the weapon was a .32-caliber Bersa.
The president declared Friday a holiday “so the Argentine people can, in peace and harmony, express itself in defense of life, democracy and in solidarity with our vice president.”
Supporters of the vice president have been gathering in the streets surrounding her home since last week, when a prosecutor called for a 12-year sentence for Fernández as well as a life-long prohibition in holding public office in the corruption case.
Shortly after the incident, government officials were quick to decry what they called an assassination attempt.
“When hate and violence are imposed over the debate of ideas, societies are destroyed and generate situations like the one seen today: an assassination attempt,” Economy Minister Sergio Massa said.
Cabinet ministers issued a news release saying they “energetically condemn the attempted homicide” of the vice president. “What happened tonight is of extreme gravity and threatens democracy, institutions and the rule of law.”
Former President Mauricio Macri, a conservative who succeeded the left-of-center Fernández in the presidency, also condemned the attack. “This very serious event demands an immediate and profound clarification by the judiciary and security forces,” Macri wrote on Twitter.
Patricia Bullrich, president of the opposition Republican Proposal party, criticized President Fernández’s reaction to the attack, accusing him of “playing with fire.” She said that “instead of seriously investigating a serious incident, he accuses the opposition and the press, decreeing a national holiday to mobilize activists.”
Tensions have been running high in the Recoleta neighborhood since the weekend, when the vice president’s supporters clashed with police in the streets surrounding her apartment amid an effort by law enforcement officers to clear the area. Following the clashes, what had been a strong police presence around the vice president’s apartment was reduced.
When Fernández leaves her apartment every day at around noon, she greets supporters and signs autographs before getting in her vehicle to go to the Senate. She repeats the same routine every evening.
Following the incident, allies of the vice president quickly pointed the finger at the opposition for what they said is hateful speech that promotes violence. In recent days, several key officials have said opposition leaders were looking for a fatality.
“This is a historic event in Argentina that must be a before-and-after,” Buenos Aires Gov. Axel Kicillof said.
Regional leaders also condemned the attack.
“We send our solidarity to the vice president in this attempt against her life,” Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said on Twitter.
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, who is a candidate in that nation’s presidential election next month, also expressed solidarity with Fernández, calling her a “victim of a fascist criminal who doesn’t know how to respect differences and diversity.”
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Associated Press writer Daniel Politi in Santiago, Chile, contributed to this report.
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PARIS: Goals from Neymar and Kylian Mbappe helped Paris Saint-Germain stay top of the Ligue 1 table with a 3-0 victory at Toulouse on Wednesday. Christophe Galtier’s reigning champions were never seriously threatened by their newly-promoted opponents and remain above Lens and Marseille on goal difference. The fearsome front three of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Mbappe have now scored 18 times between them already this term. “‘MMN’? We can only be satisfied with their performances,” said PSG coach Galtier. Toulouse frustrated PSG early in the game, with goalkeeper Maxime Dupe making two smart stops from Mbappe and tipping a Messi shot wide. But the away side did take the lead in the 37th minute, as Neymar raced onto Messi’s through ball and slotted into the bottom corner. The Brazilian’s ninth goal of the season was initially ruled out for offside, but that decision was overturned after a lengthy VAR review. PSG did not take long to score again after half-time, as Messi broke clear into the area before laying the ball off for Mbappe to slot home through the legs of Dupe. The capital side eased off later in the second half, with Neymar and Messi both substituted. Summer signing Hugo Ekitike almost grabbed his first goal for the club, but was denied by Dupe, who finished the match with 10 saves. But he was beaten again in the 90th minute when Juan Bernat powered a left-footed strike high into the top corner. Lens, who also have 13 points from five games, continued their fine start with a 5-2 home thrashing of Lorient to move into second place above Marseille on goals scored. Florian Sotoca scored his first goals since an opening weekend hat-trick against Brest with a double, while Wesley Said, Salis Abdul Samed and Lois Openda also found the net. Marseille remained level on points with the top two as Senegalese midfielder Pape Gueye netted the only goal in a 1-0 win over Clermont. They could have stayed in second spot, but Alexis Sanchez missed a late penalty. Nice finally claimed their first victory of the campaign as Nicolas Pepe scored a match-winning penalty on his second appearance since joining on loan from Arsenal. Earlier Wednesday, Monaco slumped to a surprise 4-2 home defeat against Troyes. Philippe Clement’s Monaco have only mustered five points from five matches so far this term after last weekend’s impressive draw at PSG proved to be a false dawn. Elsewhere, 10-man Reims claimed a 4-2 victory at Angers as on-loan Arsenal forward Folarin Balogun scored his fourth goal of the season from the penalty spot. | https://dailytimes.com.pk/991164/neymar-mbappe-score-as-psg-see-off-toulouse/ | 2022-09-02T06:02:35Z | https://dailytimes.com.pk/991164/neymar-mbappe-score-as-psg-see-off-toulouse/ | true | 8 |
Wedbush raised the price target for the Express Inc. (NYSE:EXPR) stock to “a Neutral”. The rating was released on May 11, 2018, according to finviz. We previously noted in another research note published on November 30, 2017 by B. Riley FBR Inc. that reiterated the stock to a Neutral with a price target of $9 for EXPR stock. The research report from Wolfe Research has reiterated the stock to Peer Perform, with a price target set at $6. The stock was reiterated by UBS, who disclosed in a research note on June 02, 2017, to Sell and set the price objective to $6. In their research brief published April 18, 2017, UBS analysts reiterated the Express Inc. stock to Sell with a price target of $8.
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The share price of Express Inc. (NYSE:EXPR) dipped -20.83% to close Wednesday’s market session at $1.52, lower as compared to yesterday’s close. The stock price fluctuated between $1.45 and $1.79 throughout the trading session with the volume trading being 10657337 shares, which represented a significant variation when compared to the three months average volume of 2.75 million shares. The firm’s stock price fluctuated -24.75% within the last five trades and -10.59% within the last 30 trades, which was a significant change from the beginning of this year. Despite the fact that the share price decreased -68.79% in the last 6 months and -45.32% was subtracted to its value over the previous 3 months. EXPR stock is trading at a margin of -27.29%, -23.09% and -50.77% apart from the 20-Day, 50-Day and 200-Day Simple Moving Average prices.
As of the close of trading, EXPR deals in the Consumer Cyclical domain. The stock is trading -75.16 percent below its 52-week high and -6.75 percent above its 52-week low. For example, looking both at the price and the high and low measurements of 52 weeks will give you a clearer picture of the direction the price is heading. The firm’s Weighted Alpha is -74.6. A positive weighted alpha indicates the firm has done well over the course of the year, whereas one below 0 indicates that the firm has done poorly.
What Does Express Inc.’s Profitability and Valuation Ratios Tell Us About the Stock?
With regard to the profitability of the company, the operating margin is currently at 1.60 percent and the profit margin is 1.00 percent, and the company has reported a gross margin of 30.90 percent. The profit margin, also known as the revenue ratio or gross profit ratio, is an efficiency figure used to estimate the business’s profitability by comparing net income and sales. The higher the number, the more profits are generated for the company and vice versa.
The stock’s market cap achieved a total value of $108.74 million as of the last trading session. Market capitalization is the total value of all outstanding shares of a corporation and it is used to measure a company’s market value. The price-to-earnings ratio for Express Inc. (NYSE:EXPR) is 5.51. The price-to-earnings ratio is a method of assessing corporate values by comparing them to their per-share profit. Forward P/E stands at 4.34. Forward price-to-earnings is calculated using predicted earnings for the next financial year’s P/E determination. The stock has achieved an effective Price-to-Sales Ratio of 0.06 that mirrors the cost to be found for sales by the market.
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Blackman advances to final in World Juniors 50m free
TRINIDAD AND Tobago’s Nikoli Blackman goes for gold in the FINA World Junior Swimming Championships men’s 50m freestyle final on Friday.
Blackman, 17, advanced to the medal race after placing fourth in the second semi-final at the Videna Aquatic Centre in Lima, Peru on Thursday.
The TT swimmer clocked 22.83 seconds and was the sixth fastest swimmer coming out of the semis. He swam out of lane five.
Topping the advancing field was Croatian Jere Hribar (22.35), Portuguese Diogo Ribeiro (22.45) and Frenchman Nans Mazellier (22.53) respectively.
The final splashes off at approximately 8.20 pm (TT time).
In the earlier round, Blackman was second fastest in the 12th and final heat, clocking 22.97 seconds, swimming out of lane five.
Winning the heat was Hribar, who touched the wall in 22.42.
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Wolfe Research raised the price target for the Outfront Media Inc. (NYSE:OUT) stock to “an Outperform”. The rating was released on March 29, 2022, according to finviz. We previously noted in another research note published on September 25, 2020 by Citigroup that upgraded the stock from a Neutral to a Buy with a price target of $18 for OUT stock. The research report from Morgan Stanley has downgraded the stock from Overweight to Equal-Weight, with a price target set at $13. The stock was reiterated by Imperial Capital, who disclosed in a research note on March 20, 2020, to Outperform and set the price objective to $24. In their research brief published February 19, 2020, Imperial Capital analysts reiterated the Outfront Media Inc. stock to Outperform with a price target of $35.
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The share price of Outfront Media Inc. (NYSE:OUT) dipped -2.10% to close Wednesday’s market session at $17.70, lower as compared to yesterday’s close. The stock price fluctuated between $17.69 and $18.37 throughout the trading session with the volume trading being 3178929 shares, which represented a significant variation when compared to the three months average volume of 1.63 million shares. The firm’s stock price fluctuated -5.65% within the last five trades and -2.96% within the last 30 trades, which was a significant change from the beginning of this year. Despite the fact that the share price decreased -33.91% in the last 6 months and -13.99% was subtracted to its value over the previous 3 months. OUT stock is trading at a margin of -6.97%, -1.76% and -23.65% apart from the 20-Day, 50-Day and 200-Day Simple Moving Average prices.
As of the close of trading, OUT deals in the Real Estate domain. The stock is trading -39.71 percent below its 52-week high and 10.14 percent above its 52-week low. For example, looking both at the price and the high and low measurements of 52 weeks will give you a clearer picture of the direction the price is heading. The firm’s Weighted Alpha is -33.1. A positive weighted alpha indicates the firm has done well over the course of the year, whereas one below 0 indicates that the firm has done poorly.
What Does Outfront Media Inc.’s Profitability and Valuation Ratios Tell Us About the Stock?
With regard to the profitability of the company, the operating margin is currently at 16.50 percent and the profit margin is 7.70 percent, and the company has reported a gross margin of 74.50 percent. The profit margin, also known as the revenue ratio or gross profit ratio, is an efficiency figure used to estimate the business’s profitability by comparing net income and sales. The higher the number, the more profits are generated for the company and vice versa.
The stock’s market cap achieved a total value of $3.01 billion as of the last trading session. Market capitalization is the total value of all outstanding shares of a corporation and it is used to measure a company’s market value. The price-to-earnings ratio for Outfront Media Inc. (NYSE:OUT) is 20.85. The price-to-earnings ratio is a method of assessing corporate values by comparing them to their per-share profit. Forward P/E stands at 14.64. Forward price-to-earnings is calculated using predicted earnings for the next financial year’s P/E determination. The stock has achieved an effective Price-to-Sales Ratio of 1.79 that mirrors the cost to be found for sales by the market. The firm managed a Price-to-Book ratio of 2.39, which equates the market value of a stock with its book value.
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The president of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade), Alexandre Cordeiro de Macedo, sent a document to André Mendonça, minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), to warn that the body will ask Petrobras for new information before opening a case against the state company for alleged violations of the economic order.
In the official letter, obtained by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, Macedo says that the request will be sent to Petrobras this Friday (2). In it, Cade will ask for “detailed information on the impacts of Petrobras’ posture, specifically considering the Notice to the Market published at the end of July related to the formation of fuel prices”. The response time will be two weeks.
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At the end of July, Petrobras’ Board of Directors approved changes to its pricing policy, giving the state-owned company’s Board the power to oversee readjustments. The group is the one with the most government representatives.
In view of this, Cade may initiate an administrative proceeding against Petrobras to investigate possible infractions in the sale of fuels at refineries above the competitive price.
On the other hand, Mendonça wants to know whether the state-owned company’s new pricing policy has had any impact on fuel prices, especially diesel.
In the STF, Mendonça is the rapporteur of a Direct Action of Unconstitutionality (ADI) brought by President Jair Bolsonaro against the states, except Tocantins, which contest the reduction of ICMS rates. In this ADI, Mendonça asked CADE to provide elements on Petrobras’ pricing in order to better understand the price of diesel.
This is because the federal government claims that a decision by the National Committee of Secretaries of Finance, Finance, Revenue or Taxation of the States and the Federal District (Consefaz) caused the price of fuel to rise. Mendonça wants to understand if there was a maneuver for the states to interfere in the collection of ICMS, as the president claims. | https://playcrazygame.com/2022/09/02/cade-will-sue-petrobras-for-possible-abuse-of-prices-in-refineries/ | 2022-09-02T06:19:22Z | https://playcrazygame.com/2022/09/02/cade-will-sue-petrobras-for-possible-abuse-of-prices-in-refineries/ | false | 1 |
BERLIN, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dreame Technology ("Dreame"), a global leading company in smart home cleaning appliances, is displaying its industry-leading technologies and products to European customers at IFA 2022 in Berlin from Sept. 2-6. Dreame, whose cleaning products are widely popular in the European markets, are introducing their advanced technologies at the exhibition as better understand the needs of European users.
Dreame considers the exhibition a window to showcase new products and an important occasion to exchange with industry insiders. Joining the exhibition is also an important step for the brand's global development.
Dreame is presenting products of three main categories at IFA: cleaning robots, wet and dry vacuums, and cordless stick vacuums. The company's latest products are ushering in a new era of fully automation in home cleaning, thanks to its innovation success with lightweight motors and technologies of AI Action and DualBoost 2.0 and more.
Highlighted at the Dreame IFA booth is the new flagship robot: DreameBot L10s Ultra. DreameBot L10s Ultra is capable of completely automated, hands-free cleaning. With Dreame's advanced motor technology and exclusive DualBoost 2.0, DreameBot L10s Ultra provides thorough cleaning and features various functions, including vacuuming, mopping, automatic dust collection, mop washing, mop drying, water refilling, and cleaning solution adding. The large dust bags of 3L can free users from emptying the dust bag for around 2 months.
With Dreame's advanced AI Action, 3D structured light, and powerful RBG cameras, DreameBot L10s Ultra can accurately assess the environment and adjust path to clean effectively and avoid obstacles. It can support Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant. Users can just speak to their favorite voice assistant to start cleaning whenever they want. The lite model, DreameBot L10s Pro, which sports many of the same features (though without the automation provided by the base station) is also on display.
The Dreame H12 Steam cordless steam wet and dry vacuum cleaner is designed to provide hard floor cleaning that eliminates even the toughest dried-on messes, with steam cleaning, hot water cleaning, and cool water cleaning,
At its core, H12 Steam features world-class high-speed motors with a maximum speed of 180,000 revolutions per minute. Powered by a high-capacity 8x 4,000mAh battery pack, the wet and dry vacuum delivers up to 45 minutes of hard floor cleaning. Dreame's also ensured convenience and a user-friendly cleaning experience with an advanced mess detection system, an edge-cleaning design, one-press self-cleaning and brush drying, an intuitive LED display, helpful voice prompts, and strong forward traction.
Another headlining wet and dry vacuum being presented is the Dreame M12. Adopting an advanced water circulation system and a powerful motor to deliver robust mopping and suction, it goes beyond hard floor cleaning with an ingenious detachable main unit which is usable as a handheld vacuum once its extension is attached.
Other new products on display include DreameBot D10s Pro, equipped with AI Action, intelligent path planning, obstacle avoidance, and DualBoost 1.0 auto-empty; DreameBot X10 Ultra equipped with AI Action, auto-empty, mop-washing, mop drying, automated mop installment and removal, and other advanced features; and the J10 cordless stick vacuum with incredibly powerful suction, a long-lasting battery, high-quality filtration, and an assortment of useful attachments. Dreame's array of already popular products, including T20, T30, D9 Max, D10 Plus, and W10 Pro, are also included for visitors to interact with at Dreame's booth.
"The whole team at Dreame is excited to be participating in IFA this year. We believe it is an important opportunity for us to show off our hard work and dedication to innovation and product design," said Yu Hao, CEO and founder of Dreame. "From the beginning, we have always insisted on placing consumers' needs at the core of our R&D efforts and building products. We hope to solve their problems and create completely new cleaning experiences."
Due to the rapid market growth and popularity of Dreame products throughout Germany and other European markets, following IFA 2022, Dreame plans to set up an office in Germany. This move should allow them to further develop their coordination with German retailers, build up a localized team to further expand their brand advantages, and better serve local consumers.
About Dreame
Established in 2017, Dreame Technology is an innovative product company that focuses on smart home cleaning appliances with the vision to empower lives through technology. The company is a global leader in smart technologies, owning over 1,300 authorized patents in the fields of high-speed digital motors, fluid mechanics, robot control, and SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping). Currently, the company focuses on four product categories: automated cleaning robots, wet and dry vacuums, and cordless stick vacuums and high-speed hair dryers. Its products are sold in more than 100 countries and regions, including China, the United States, Germany, France and South Korea.
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Welcome to "On the Bright Side", a weekly column where we highlight some of the good news that happened this week.
Life is tricky these days, what with the pandemic, the wars, climate catastrophe and the skyrocketing cost of living. It can be easy to get caught up in the doomscrolling, but what good does that do?
Let's put those things aside for a moment and recall a few good stories from this week.
First job in 10 years: 'I've got my mana back'
For the first time in a decade, Isaac Te Rito is working full-time, and says he has his "mana" back.
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Before, he was living day-to-day, but now he has something to wake up for.
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Topp Twins tribute extravaganza announced amid entertainers' cancer battle
While the news of the Topp Twins' cancer is heartbreaking, there is a speck of light in the darkness.
New Zealanders are rallying together to show their support for two of the country's biggest stars.
Taking place on November 7 at The Civic in Auckland, New Zealand's top musicians and comedians will pay tribute to Dames Lynda and Jools Topp as they continue their battle against cancer.
Staring Tami Neilson, Anika Moa, Ria Hall, Dame Hinewehi Mohi, Troy Kingi, Jackie Clarke, Annie Crummer and Don McGlashan, the stars will perform Topp Twins songs but with a twist.
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In a first for Aotearoa, Cardi the gentoo penguin is the first successful recipient of this surgery in April this year at the Eye Institute in Auckland.
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Artists release 26 new songs celebrating te reo Māori
Waiata Anthems Week is returning in 2022, with 26 new waiata released to champion te reo Māori.
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The Kiwisaver U-turn
Lastly, the Government's U-turn on new KiwiSaver tax fees is also worth a mention.
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SINGAPORE - Analysts on Friday reiterated their buy calls on ComfortDelGro, citing rising ridership of public transportation and decent dividend payouts.
This is despite the stock being dropped as a component of Singapore's Straits Times index for falling below the top-30 listed companies by market capitalisation and liquidity on the bourse.
ComfortDelGro was replaced by liquor giant Emprador, which has a primary listing on the Manila bourse and a secondary listing here.
Emperador's free float of 15.1 per cent just passed the 15 per cent requirement for inclusion on the ST index, while ComfortDelGro fell below the threshold.
Emperador is the world's largest brandy producer and the eighth-largest Scotch whiskey producer globally based on volume in 2021. Its product portfolio includes The Dalmore and Jura whiskeys, as well as brandy under the Fundador and Emperador brands.
At some $8.3 billion on Aug 22, it ranks No. 20 by market capitalisation, thus meeting one of the many STI inclusion rules.
ComfortDelGro had a market cap of $3.1 billion on the same day, making it the smallest amongst the ST Index constituents.
The STI rejig saw ComfortDelGro's stock slide three cents to $1.37 bu midday on Friday, while Emprador gained two cents to 51.5 cents.
But analysts are not perturbed.
"We reiterate our Add call on ComfortDelGro, as we expect further earnings recovery in coming quarters, driven by improved monetisation of its Singapore taxi business, higher rail ridership, and increased charter activities as tourism recovers," CGS-CIMB said in a Friday morning report. "ComfortDelGro also offers an attractive dividend yield of 5.9 per cent."
Maybank agreed.
"Fundamentally, we remain upbeat on ComfortDelGro's sequential earnings recovery along with higher rail and taxi ridership," it said. "Any price weakness is an opportunity to accumulate the stock with dividend yield of about 5 per cent."
CGS-CIMB estimates that ComfortDelGro will to achieve 27 per cent year-on-year earnings per share growth this year, with its key geographies returning to a "new normal" post-Covid-19 reopening.
ComfortDelGro recently announced that its net profit for the first half to end-June rose 30.4 per cent to $118.7 million, boosted by a one-off exceptional gain and rising ridership in all countries except China.
It declared an interim dividend of 2.85 cents per share and a special dividend of 1.41 cents per share.
Revenue for the first six months increased 6.7 per cent to $1.86 billion as the world gradually emerged from the pandemic. | https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/brokers-maintain-buy-call-on-comfortdelgro-despite-its-sti-exit | 2022-09-02T06:24:32Z | https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/brokers-maintain-buy-call-on-comfortdelgro-despite-its-sti-exit | true | 2 |
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Ok, acupuncture is normally supposed to be calming and therapeutic. But when a bald person covered in needles is out to kill you… Well, good luck, Charlie. Directed by The Signal’s David Bruckner, the Hellraiser reboot is described as a “new story in the Hellraiser universe.” The film stars Sense8 star Jamie Clayton as Pinhead and Grand Army’s Odessa A’zion as protagonist Riley. “It’s the tale of a young woman, who’s struggling with addiction and compulsive behavior, that comes in contact accidentally with the box and unfortunately begins to dabble with it,” describes Bruckner of the upcoming reboot to Entertainment Weekly. “And chaos ensues.” A new Cenobite named The Masque will debut in the horror movie and is considered “a tease of really what’s to come.” Written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, the eleventh installment of the spooky franchise arrives on Hulu on October 7, 2022. | https://www.vulture.com/2022/09/hellraiser-movie-casting-release-date-details.html | 2022-09-02T06:30:52Z | https://www.vulture.com/2022/09/hellraiser-movie-casting-release-date-details.html | false | 1 |
Indiana University President Pamela Whitten responded with confusion when asked on a Bloomington, Ind., public media radio show if she was brought to the Big 10 school to eliminate tenure.
“Oh my gosh,” she said, with a laugh. “Where did that come from?”
IU’s first woman president reacted similarly when the questioner refined his query to focus specifically on her three-year tenure as president at Kennesaw State University in Georgia from 2018-2021.
“I truly don’t have the slightest idea,” she said. “I will say there was talk in the legislature in the state of Georgia about that. … So, perhaps they’re conflating the conversation that happened amongst the general assembly in the state of Georgia.”
Whitten reassured those concerned about tenure’s fate at IU.
“That never was an issue at the University of Georgia or Kennesaw State or Michigan State, the schools I worked at,” she said. “And certainly, it is not an issue here. I will say, publicly, ‘I have no, no intent or interest in pursuing that.’”
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Whitten’s tenure pledge, however, strained credulity for some in the IU community.
Ten months before Pamela Whitten arrived in Bloomington, the University System of Georgia (USG), which includes Kennesaw State, launched a controversial process that ultimately made the state system the first in the nation to gut the tenure process.
Kathy Schwaig, who was KSU provost and senior vice president for academic affairs under Whitten, chaired the Post-Tenure Review Working Group that was charged with recommending updates to the board’s 24-year-old tenure policy, “to ensure all faculty remain productive throughout their career,” Insider Advantage reported.
The group’s recommendations, which the New York Times called “a direct challenge to the hallowed tradition of tenure,” were adopted by the USG Board of Regents in October 2021.
Two months later, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) ran an update on the matter titled University System of Georgia Eviscerates Tenure.
“In an unprecedented action, the board of regents of the University System of Georgia in October voted to adopt changes to its post-tenure review policy that make it possible to fire tenured faculty without a dismissal hearing,” the AAUP said.
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In October 2021, the AAUP issued a report titled “Academic Freedom and Tenure: University System of Georgia” that charged the new policy effectively “abolished” tenure in the state’s public colleges and universities.
“It would allow any USG institution to dismiss tenured professors for ‘failing to remediate deficiencies identified through post-tenure evaluation without affording a hearing before a faculty body,’” the report began.
AAUP President Irene Mulvey called the board’s action “an attack on tenure and academic freedom.”
The report also alleged “flagrant violations of AAUP standards of academic governance,” arguing USG faculty should have played primary roles in developing any changes.
“Instead, the USG administration and governing board initiated, pushed through and imposed a new faculty evaluation policy without meaningfully involving the faculty and over the strong objections voiced by the system’s critical faculty governance bodies.”
In March, the AAUP governing council voted to censure USG.
Through their unilateral actions, Mulvey said in a March 7 article in Inside Higher Ed, the regents told the academic community that they do not view academic freedom as important for public higher education.
“The removal of protections for academic freedom will have a devastating effect on the quality of education in the USG system, and on recruitment and retention of faculty and students,” she said.
The organization called upon the USG regents to rescind the changes “so that essential academic freedom is protected.”
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In their first year at IU, Whitten and IU Provost Rahul Shrivastav, who followed her from Georgia, encountered unrest and turmoil unseen on campus since the antiwar ‘60s and ‘70s, when Bloomington was known as the “Berkeley of the Midwest.”
In December 2021, five months after she arrived, the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition submitted 1,584 union cards to the administration, seeking recognition as a unit of the United Electrical Workers.
The coalition represents graduate students – associate instructors, research assistants, graduate assistants and faculty assistants – who teach roughly a third of IU undergraduate classes, the vast majority in many departments.
The coalition went on strike in April for the spring semester’s last four weeks, after their demands for union recognition and increased compensation were ignored.
On May 24, the IU Faculty Council voted 1,404-509 to endorse the unionization effort and asked the IU Board of Trustees to intervene in negotiations.
A week to the day later, in a letter republished by The Bloomingtonian, the trustees rejected the council’s requests and threatened tenured faculty who support the strikers.
“Any member of the community – whether staff or tenured faculty or associate instructor – who fails to uphold their responsibilities in this regard will be subject to the consequences,” the trustees wrote.
In a coalition news release likewise posted by The Bloomingtonian, doctoral student Sam Smucker called the move a complete rejection of the shared governance system.
“The faculty have spoken,” he said. “The Board is not listening. … Right now, we don’t have any way to communicate with the Board or the IU Administration except through striking.”
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In May, Shrivastav formed a task force to address the grad students’ concerns. Three months later, he and Whitten approved changes that increased their minimum stipends by 46% and waived university and program-specific fees, The Herald-Times reported on Aug. 3.
And for doing such a good job in her first year, the trustees gave Whitten a $162,500 bonus, atop her $650,000 starting salary. According to the IU salary database, her predecessor Michael McRobbie received $649,444.
IU has steadfastly refused to recognize the union and installed a security gate at Bryan House, Whitten’s historic, 1924 home in the center of campus.
The graduate workers coalition is planning a Sept. 25 vote on resuming the strike, citing future raises, protections for international students and the elimination of all fees as outstanding issues.
“Recognizing the union and entering a proper bargaining process would provide the least painful way to accomplish these goals,” doctoral student Jeff Moscaritolo wrote in an Aug. 25 op ed in The Herald-Times. “In the meantime, these overpaid IU administrators have made one thing clear: until they recognize our union, striking remains the only way to get results.” | https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/09/02/under-attack-tenure-and-academic-freedom/ | 2022-09-02T06:32:11Z | https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/09/02/under-attack-tenure-and-academic-freedom/ | true | 1 |
‘Euphoria’ Actress Sydney Sweeney’s Family Gives MAGA Vibes, Twitter Stir Frying Her
Actress Sydney Sweeney is making her PR team earn those checks. The Euphoria star shared a pic of her family that shows her parents proudly giving off MAGA vibes, and Twitter detectives quickly discovered, shared and debated her family’s suspect political ethos. View this post on Instagram
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The backlash was immediate after Sweeney shared a gang of photos from her family’s “hoedown” themed party for her mother’s birthday. A close look showed folk rocking tried to and true red state paraphernalia like a Blue Lives Matter shirt and red MAGA hats, amidst all the cowboy hats and boots. But her brother Trent Sweeney sealed the deal when he shared a pic of him and two other people clearly rocking hats that say “Make Sixty Great Again” in the style of Trump’s new era confederate hats—which the Internet quickly marked as a fail of the highest order.
Twitter started going in, Sydney Sweeney started trending and then she did herself no favors when she dropped a statement on the matter, via Twitter.
“ You guys this is wild,” she tweeted. “An innocent celebration for my moms milestone 60th birthday has turned into an absurd political statement, which was not the intention. Please stop making assumptions. Much love to everyone [heart emoji] and Happy Birthday Mom!”
Wait until she finds out everything MAGA affiliated, even in the slightest, is political. Twitter is telling her. Peep the reactions below and in the comments. And the QTNA, where WERE her parents on January 6th?
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Joe Biden Says Trump Supporters Want To Take America “Backwards”
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US President Joe Biden on Thursday accused supporters of his predecessor Donald Trump of looking for to take the United States “backwards” and warned that democracy within the nation isn’t assured.
“MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards. Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love,” Biden stated, in line with excerpts of a speech the president will ship in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“For a long time, we’ve reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed. But it is not. We have to defend it. Protect it. Stand up for it. Each and every one of us.”
Biden’s speech — set for 8:00 pm (0000 GMT) — will happen close to the constructing the place the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution had been adopted greater than two centuries in the past.
The president is looking for to present his Democratic Party a lift earlier than voters go to the polls in November, with management of Congress for the rest of his first time period within the stability.
Pennsylvania, traditionally a key battleground state in US politics, will seemingly show essential to each events within the midterms.
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Lewis Hamilton outlines the targets he has set himself for the rest of F1 2022 season
Lewis Hamilton insists that helping to devise a car capable of winning the 2023 F1 championship is his primary goal for the rest of this season.
Hamilton arrives at the F1 Dutch Grand Prix after seeing his record as the only driver to finish every race in 2022 disappear last week in Belgium after contact with Fernando Alonso.
He has long since given up hope of winning an all-time record eighth championship, and is battling to keep alive his imperious record of having won a race in each season of his F1 career.
But, he insists, that his focus is on helping Mercedes to build a car which can again challenge Max Verstappen and Red Bull after they were hampered by early-season porpoising.
“I love the work that we’re doing, whether we’re fighting for first or not,” he said despite a tough season.
“I still love getting into the huddle with the engineers.
“I love these back-to-back races because if you have a crap weekend you can get back on it.
“I still love the challenge of fighting this car. It is a fight. The amount of engineering we have to do to dial it in is tricky. It increases your accessibility to improve your engineering side, so I’m enjoying that.
“I don’t ever want to wish time by. There is information to gain in this second half of the season.
“As a driver, I want to improve and make sure that things like the [Belgian Grand Prix retirement] doesn’t happen.
“I am focused on trying to articulate exactly what I’m feeling in the car, what I want in next year’s car, and making sure it gets done.
“It all moves so quickly. They’ve got to sign off the brakes or front suspension now! The gearbox is signed off now! Everything is done so far in advance.
“Making sure you catch them before they sign off those things, and getting things in the pipeline that in the past we haven’t focused on, to give us a better foundation.
“We have won the past eight constructor’s championships and I have faith. With the cost cap it isn’t as easy as it was, but we can get there.” | https://www.crash.net/f1/news/1011084/1/what-targets-has-lewis-hamilton-set-himself-rest-2022 | 2022-09-02T06:45:48Z | https://www.crash.net/f1/news/1011084/1/what-targets-has-lewis-hamilton-set-himself-rest-2022 | false | 1 |
Loose Women star Katie Piper gave an update on her recent eye surgery after returning to the show. She was back on the ITV lunchtime show on Thursday (September 1) for the first time since undergoing emergency surgery.
Last month, the 38-year-old revealed to fans that a hospital dash resulted in her undergoing an emergency operation after her husband, Richard James Sutton, noticed a black spot in her eye which she said had become "extremely painful". Katie has now shared the painful details with her fellow Loose Women panellists and viewers as she made her return to the show.
She recalled the three weeks of eye pain she suffered before realising something was wrong as she admitted she is used to a degree of eye pain after her horrific acid attack in 2008, which left her face severely burned and blind in one eye. Referring to the spot her husband noticed in her eye, Katie said: "Then it got bigger and the pain just got intolerable. Very consuming, where I could feel it in my skull and you can’t tolerate light."
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The worrying dot turned out to be a hole in Katie's eye, which was, unfortunately, getting bigger and forced Katie to undergo an emergency procedure for a cornea transplant to cover the perforation. Katie told Jane Moore, Linda Robson and Carol McGiffin: "It’s something I always feared would happen to me one day, because I have a very thin surface on my blind eye, so it can be vulnerable to perforation."
As Carol asked if she had done anything which resulted in the hole, Katie couldn't help but cheekily joke: "I think it was just the stress of working with you." Laughing, she added: "I’m back and I’m happy to be here and I'm in one piece."
And there have been a couple of improvements for Katie since the surgery as she explained how the normal pain and discomfort she suffers has abated. She explained: "When you’re blind in one eye you can’t judge depth and distance, so it’s helped a little bit. I can’t see with that eye but my peripheral vision is better in crowded rooms. I can see a little more light and shade."
Host Jane was soon praising her co-star, telling her: "I do admire you because you’re an absolute trooper," as Carol chimed: "You are, nothing phases you." But Katie offered a humble response.
"It’s been so long, I just made peace that this is my life now. I made peace years ago. I’m just really grateful to be here and be well." She also went on to explain how a cornea transplant works and shared how important eye donors and the need for them are. Katie added: "I think for a lot of people donating eyes is something very personal and for religious reasons, spiritual reasons, some people don’t want to do that, which is totally understandable. But they are very much needed for people like me."
Katie's surprise post about her surgery last month came shortly after she appeared on Loose Women on Tuesday. During the show, Katie told her ‘Life Before Loose’ story, recalling her happy childhood growing up in Hampshire, her teenage rebellious years and the moment that simultaneously changed her life and found her purpose at 24 years old.
Her life changed when a corrosive substance was thrown over her. Reflecting on that period, Katie said: "When I look back on it and reflect, it does feel like two separate lives. I’m 38, but I sort of feel in my 70s or 80s because what’s happened to me, condensed in such a short period doesn’t happen to some people in their whole lifetime," she admitted on the programme.
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Bankrupt Sri Lanka's deposed president 'to return home'
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Bankrupt Sri Lanka's deposed former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to end his self-imposed exile in Thailand and return home on Saturday, a top defence official told AFP.
The 73-year-old fled the island under military guard in July after a huge crowd stormed his official residence, following months of angry public protests blaming him for the island nation's unprecedented economic crisis.
He issued his resignation from Singapore before flying onward to Bangkok, where he has been petitioning his successor to facilitate his return.
"He has been living in a Thai hotel as a virtual prisoner and was keen to return," the defence official, who asked not to be named, told AFP on Friday. "We are told he will return very early on Saturday."
"We have just created a new security division to protect him after his return on Saturday. The unit comprises elements from the army and police commandos."
Sri Lanka's constitution guarantees bodyguards, a vehicle and housing for former presidents.
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Rajapaksa travelled to Thailand after Singapore declined to extend his 28-day visa, but security authorities in Bangkok told him not to step out of his hotel for his own safety.
The former president had a 90-day visa to remain in Thailand, but opted to return with his wife, a bodyguard and another aide, the official said.
Rajapaksa's youngest brother, Basil, the former finance minister, met with President Ranil Wickremesinghe last month and requested protection to allow for the deposed leader's return.
"Basil Rajapaksa requested the president to make arrangements for the former president to return home," their Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party said in a statement.
Sri Lanka has endured months of acute food, fuel and medicine shortages, lengthy blackouts and runaway inflation after running out of foreign currency to finance essential imports.
The coronavirus pandemic was a hammer blow to the island's tourism industry and dried up remittances from Sri Lankans working abroad -- both key foreign exchange earners.
Rajapaksa, who was elected in 2019 promising "vistas of prosperity and splendour", saw his popularity nosedive as hardships multiplied for the country's 22 million people.
His government was accused of introducing unsustainable tax cuts that drove up government debt and exacerbated the crisis.
Rajapaksa's resignation ended his presidential immunity, which could see the revival of stalled corruption cases against the former leader.
Wickremesinghe was elected by parliament to see out the remainder of Rajapaksa's term. He has since cracked down on street protests and arrested leading activists.
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Yaseen Shahid’s book Motivational Minds: The Start of Your New Way of Living has been released for readers today
LONDON, GREATER LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, September 1, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Yaseen Shahid is a humanitarian who wants to help people overcome their fears. Through his book, he aims to do just that, addressing the youth, as well as older adults, who suffer from anxiety and depression. Yaseen himself has struggled with anxiety in his life, and therefore, he writes from a place of experience and understanding.
Through this book, Yaseen hopes to reach individuals who experience anxiety, whether over something as little as asking someone to pass the salt at the dinner table or over something as significant as being afraid of speaking in front of a crowd.
Motivational Minds is a book born out of Yaseen’s willingness and ambition to help others. It acts as a guidebook for every individual who aims to work on becoming a better, more confident person every day.
The book is a comprehensive guide to working through deep-rooted issues and letting the authentic self shine through. Yaseen believes one cannot learn to swim without first entering the water. This book is intended to be the first step into a pool readers will soon be able to navigate all on their own. The book is specifically targeted to people who have self-doubt and mental struggles to overcome fear, motivation, anxiety and depression. It can help solve these matters in a relatable way for individuals during their day-to-day life.
Coming from a man who is not afraid of admitting how significant an effect anxiety and depression has had on his emotional as well as physical well-being, Motivation Minds is a book written in hopes of reaching the hands of the right people: the ones who need it the most.
It is written for people who are not sure how to ask for help and who are tired of their anxiety and constant stress. It is meant to be a beacon of hope—a book that validates, a book that relates to its readers’ struggles, and one that provides practical, helpful solutions.
The book is now available for purchase on Amazon.
For more information about the book and the author, check out his website.
Through this book, Yaseen hopes to reach individuals who experience anxiety, whether over something as little as asking someone to pass the salt at the dinner table or over something as significant as being afraid of speaking in front of a crowd.
Motivational Minds is a book born out of Yaseen’s willingness and ambition to help others. It acts as a guidebook for every individual who aims to work on becoming a better, more confident person every day.
The book is a comprehensive guide to working through deep-rooted issues and letting the authentic self shine through. Yaseen believes one cannot learn to swim without first entering the water. This book is intended to be the first step into a pool readers will soon be able to navigate all on their own. The book is specifically targeted to people who have self-doubt and mental struggles to overcome fear, motivation, anxiety and depression. It can help solve these matters in a relatable way for individuals during their day-to-day life.
Coming from a man who is not afraid of admitting how significant an effect anxiety and depression has had on his emotional as well as physical well-being, Motivation Minds is a book written in hopes of reaching the hands of the right people: the ones who need it the most.
It is written for people who are not sure how to ask for help and who are tired of their anxiety and constant stress. It is meant to be a beacon of hope—a book that validates, a book that relates to its readers’ struggles, and one that provides practical, helpful solutions.
The book is now available for purchase on Amazon.
For more information about the book and the author, check out his website.
Gary Santiago
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TUCSON (KVOA) - The Pima County Sheriff’s Office is on the scene of a collision on South Nogales highway Thursday night.
Deputies say South Nogales Highway is closed between East Aerospace Parkway and South Old Nogales Highway.
Motorists are advised to avoid the area or seek alternate routes, as traffic will be delayed.
No further details have been released.
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Nick Talley spent the past two years chasing William Blount alum Nick Etherton for the title of Blount County’s best prep golfer.
The Maryville senior can officially claim it now.
Talley shot a 69 over the two-day Blount County Golf Tournament, which concluded Thursday at Green Meadow Country Club, to claim the individual boys title.
The performance paved the way for the Rebels to secure the team championship with a score of 295, besting second-place Heritage by 23 strokes. Lukas Rhoades and Jake Sheffield each shot 74 in the two-day event while Leo Huddleston rounded out Maryville’s score with a 78.
“It feels great,” Talley told The Daily Times. “Nick and I are big buddies now, so we always get onto each other. He has actually helped me a lot this offseason to get to where I’m at now, but playing against him really helped me as well.”
Talley opened the season with a 1-under 35 in a match against Bearden, Gibbs and William Blount at Green Meadow on July 26 but has searched for another round under par since.
He finally logged a red number Tuesday with a 35 at Lambert Acres Golf Course and followed that up with a 34 at Green Meadow to clinch the title.
“I feels pretty good,” Talley said. “I didn’t really hit it that well today, but I putted really well. I made several putts outside 10, 12 feet, and that really helps. I’m really confident right now, and hopefully I can keep playing well.”
April Johnson shares a similar story.
The sophomore kickstarted her season with a 39 and waited until the final round of the county tournament to best it. Her second-round 38 propelled her to the individual girls championship.
Johnson’s teammate, senior Parker Miller, finished second, shooting a 42 after posting a 39 in the first round to sit atop the leaderboard. The duo beat the Heritage team of Sarah Whitehead and Tori Holder by 12 strokes to give the Lady Rebels the team title.
“It was really special,” Johnson said. “I was very excited to win it, and hopefully our team can go on and win districts.”
The Heritage boys’ second-place finish was paced by senior Jet Murrell, who followed up a first-round 36 with a 37. Allen Latham recorded a 79 while Brody Carver and Austin Anderson shot 83 and 85, respectively.
“I came into the tournament knowing I had a chance to finish first, but obviously Nick Talley played great,” Murrell said. “Nick is one of my good friends, and it was good to get to compete with him both days. To get second and shoot 1-over, I’ll take that.”
Alcoa finished third with a score of 336 behind a 74 from Riley Parsons, a 79 from Noah Whitten, a 92 from Nevan Newman and a 94 from Jackson Chaney.
Ryley Forester registered a 78 for William Blount. Kendal Brewer, Ty Goins and Dom Goins shot 93, 93 and 102, respectively, to round out the Governors’ score of 362.
Alcoa’s Toni Turner and William Blount’s Natalie Etherton each shot 102 as the lone members of their respective girls teams.
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‘She-Hulk’ Finally Explains Abomination’s ‘Shang-Chi’ Cameo
Abomination's story makes up a good portion of the plot in Episode 3 of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and honestly, it clears up a lot of questions we had about the character. Instead of just being a random pop-in character out of nowhere, we get a better sense of who he actually is, what he wants, and why he was in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in the first place. Fans of the character were baffled, if not still excited at his appearance in Shang-Chi.
In Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings, Abomination — AKA Tim Roth’s Emil Blonsky — is kind of just there. There's no justification as to why he's in the film. All we know is that for one reason or another, he's become a cage fighter in an underground fight club — where we see him battling Wong (Benedict Wong), the new Sorcerer Supreme. Here is that scene:
Until the release of Episode 3 of She-Hulk, there was really no justification as to why Abomination was there in the first place, or why he and Wong would be fighting. Episode 3 concerns Abomination’s parole hearing. While in prison, Roth’s character supposedly became a model citizen and displayed good behavior. He began meditating heavily, even going so far as to denounce violence. But there still was the matter of his fight with Wong in Shang Chi. At that point Wong himself is called to the stand at the hearing, where he explains that he took Abomination from his cell (supposedly to help hone his skills as Sorcerer Supreme) and that after their fight was over, Blonsky agreed to return to his cell of his own free will. With that, Abomination is finally granted his parole.
What happens to Blonsky next? Maybe there’s still more Abomination in the MCU to come, but for now, it seems like his days of villainy are over. The plot line definitely makes sense for She-Hulk, but only time will tell whether it is somehow retconned later. Especially with Phase 5 on its way — where there’s a movie dedicated to the villain team, the Thunderbolts. Maybe he’ll show up there?
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In a move proving its dedication to producing quality phones for the budget-conscious, Motorola has announced the release of its entertainment-focused, yet affordable Moto G32 smartphone.
“Entertainment has become a huge part of our lifestyle and we’ve designed the Moto G32 to not only deliver on these features, but to also keep up – all without the hefty price tag,” said Kurt Bonnici, Head of Motorola for Australia and New Zealand.
“We know our consumers are knowledgeable and practical about technology and use their devices as a tool to share content and ideas, but also want bang for their buck. This is why we’re so excited to launch the Moto G32 in Australia. It’s a device that has been designed for the modern mid-tier consumer.”
For the sub $300 price point, Motorola has packed some pretty impressive specs into this cheap phone, all with the aim to produce a device that has entertainment at the forefront. Let’s take a look at how far your money will stretch with the Moto G32.
Motorola Moto G32 features and specs
Motorola has made a name for itself with its budget-friendly smartphones offering great quality for affordable prices, and the G32 is no exception with a range of specs designed for a great entertainment experience.
You’ll get a 6.5 inch FHD+ ultra-wide display providing a big edge-to-edge viewing experience, with a 90Hz refresh rate for better screen clarity. To go with the great viewing experience, Motorola has also included two large stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos audio with improved bass and more clarity. Considering many cheap phones usually include only a single speaker — and the quality isn’t always fantastic — this could be a great feature if you like to watch videos and listen to music without headphones.
The Moto G32 includes a Snapdragon 680 octa-core processor and Adreno GPU, plus 4GB of RAM. As for the battery, Motorola has included a hefty 5,000mAh battery along with TurboPower 30 fast charging capability. There’s 128GB of built-in storage and the G32 also includes up to 1TB expandable MicroSD storage. To unlock your phone, there’s a side-mounted fingerprint reader and also face unlocking.
When it comes to the cameras, you’ll get a triple rear camera system with 50MP main lens, 8MP ultrawide lens with depth sensor, and a 2MP macro lens, along with a 16MP front-facing camera. There’s also Quad Pixel technology to improve low light photos, and ultra-res mode to help capture clearer outdoor shots.
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Dream of Tuscany, Andalucia or Alentejo and you will likely see rolling hills dotted by sculptural olive trees, interspersed with vineyards of gnarly old vines. Olive groves and vines have defined the culture and landscapes of the Mediterranean basin for centuries, inseparable companions across southern Europe and the Middle East. Geopolitics, trade and nature have all played a part in the relationship.
Scroll down to see a selection of olive oils made by wine estates
Vines and olive trees thrive in some of the most challenging areas within the 30° and 45° parallels, having adapted to drought and mineral-poor soils where other crops perish. ‘Other trees struggle on the rocky soils in which vines perform best,’ says Adrian Bridge, CEO of The Fladgate Partnership, owner of Quinta de Vargellas, an iconic Douro estate where olive oil is still produced. ‘But olive trees have shallow roots and can survive, for centuries, on inhospitable soils.’ While at the same time preventing erosion and improving soil structure. ‘This, and the fact that they provided shade for the field workers, is why they were planted along the Douro’s roads and slope edges.’
Both olives and vines were domesticated in and around Asia Minor some 6,000 years ago and then propagated by the Phoenicians across the Greek mainland and islands, where they became cornerstones of the Hellenic and Roman cultures. The expansion of the Roman empire would establish them all around the Mediterranean, consolidating the economic importance of both wine and olive oil, consumed as foodstuffs as well as for cosmetic, medicinal and religious purposes. Olive trees also provided fuel. ‘Olive oil was, for centuries, the main if not the only cooking fat used in the Douro,’ says Bridge. ‘And it was the only source of light; we used olive oil lamps at Vargellas up until electricity arrived in 1977.’
Championing biodiversity
If technological development and the aftermath of phylloxera conspired to support the hegemony of international grape varieties, a worldwide (re)discovery of olive oil also threatened the diversity of olive plant material. The growth of southern European immigrant communities in north America in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the promotion of the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet in the 1980s, catalysed a global increase in demand, to which industrial producers responded with high-density monovarietal plantations.
These olive groves, which now cover large areas in Spain, Portugal and California, shape a very different landscape from that of postcard Mediterranean. Even though more than 700 olive varieties have been identified worldwide, the International Olive Council estimates that only 139 account for roughly 85% of olive oil production. It should therefore come as no surprise that – as has happened with indigenous, often forgotten, grape varieties – it has fallen upon quality-minded, terroir-driven wine producers to preserve the patrimony of old olive trees that have, for centuries, shared the land with their vines.
The Torres family, for instance, carefully preserves the productivity of centennial olive trees in its Purgatori estate, in Costers del Segre. From the 89ha of vineyards, three olive oils are produced, including one from a 400-year-old plot and a blend of two local, nearly extinct varieties.
Terroir expression
‘Terroir and vintage shape, as in wine, the nature of each olive harvest’
Olive oil is the only commercially and nutritionally significant vegetable oil to be extracted from fruits rather than seeds. This means that the quality of the raw material is paramount, as are the varieties used, maturity at harvest and the conditions of each growing season. In other words, terroir and vintage shape, as in wine, the nature of each olive harvest.
Sicilian powerhouse Donnafugata discovered the parallel when expanding its estate portfolio to Pantelleria (1989) and then Etna (2016). In each of the dramatically different Sicilian regions, two local olive varieties, Biancolilla and Nocellara Etnea, produce oils that are as characterfully distinct as the wines of their territorial grape counterparts. The olive groves in each of the regions also show how the trees have evolved with the territory, their shape and size sculpted by the different winds, microclimates and soils.
The team at Castello di Meleto (Chianti Classico, Tuscany) have also encountered a striking parallel between the character of the oils of each of their olive groves and that of the adjacent vineyards. ‘It’s fascinating to see how oil and wine from the same terroir show the same finesse, florality, concentration and/or power,’ says Michele Contartese, general manager at Meleto. ‘This is why we harvest and extract the oils separately, plot by plot, and then make a final blend.’
Donnafugata – like Torres, Meleto, Fladgate and indeed most oil-producing wine estates – relies on external olive mills to press its fruit. The amount of oil pressed does not usually justify the investment in dedicated infrastructure and machinery.
Some estates have, however, decided to invest in their own milling facilities, therefore controlling quality from olive to oil, as they do from grape to glass. Herdade do Esporão (Alentejo, Portugal) saw this as an absolute requirement for quality when deciding to start commercial olive oil production in 1997. The estate bought an existing olive mill in Serpa to start with, before designing and building its own mill in 2016, a stone’s throw from the estate’s cellar and Michelin-starred restaurant, where, unsurprisingly, the company’s oils take centre stage.
Educating consumers
‘I hope that one day olive oil will be perceived in all its diversity and complexity, just like wine’
‘It’s a shame that olive oil isn’t fully understood, either by consumers or the industry, as a high- quality product rather than a commodity,’ says Ana Carrilho, Esporão’s head of olive oil production. ‘Producing a quality oil depends on a set of variables – harvest time, varieties, quick processing, terroir and so on – that are very similar to wine. I hope that one day olive oil will be perceived in all its diversity and complexity, just like wine, and that people understand the differences in price.’
For Carrilho, the need to preserve old trees and varieties is not just motivated by faithfulness to a cultural lineage. As climate change looms large, it is important to understand that ‘we need to be humble’. Older trees, local varieties, biodiversity and considered planting density are, for olive trees and for vines, key to promoting adaptiveness and effective resource management. At stake is the survival of two of nature’s most precious nectars, and of the cultures that have evolved with them.
How to taste olive oil
Like wine, tasting olive oilrequires a specific skill set and vocabulary, developed through the understanding of both qualities and defects.
Colour is not, except in cases of obvious oxidation, an indication of quality; whether an oil is green, gold or even orange-hued is merely a function of variety, growing conditions and harvest time. This is why professional oil tasters use cobalt blue glasses, not letting colour influence their organoleptic perception and quality assessment. Some producers decide to bottle their oils unfiltered, so cloudiness is also not necessarily a defect.
The full range of volatile components is only released at 28°C, so the first step is, after pouring a tablespoon of oil in a lidded tasting cup, to cradle it in one’s hand to bring the temperature up. Following which the lid can be removed for a first sniff of the aromas and defects (see below). To assess the palate, it is important to sip enough to roll around the mouth and cover the tongue, mixing the oil with saliva, which in turn allows body and texture, in addition to flavour, to be judged. Experienced tasters will also suck in air to release more aromas.
It is essential to swallow some of the oil to assess its pungency, bitterness and spiciness, only clearly felt in the back of the throat. Green apple and water (never bread!) are the best palate cleansers to reset the palate between oils.
Main aroma/flavour categories: apple (colour, ripeness?); tomato (type, berry, leaf?); artichoke; nuts (almond, walnuts etc – fresh or toasted?); grass (freshly cut, dried?); herbs (fresh, dried?); fruits (banana, pineapple, peach, pear etc); bitterness; spice.
Main defects: rancidity, oxidation, mustiness, sludgy/fustiness, heated/ burnt, metallic, winey (wine or vinegar aftertaste).
Olive oils from wine estates: a selection of delicious examples to try
Donnafugata, Biancolilla Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Pantelleria, Sicily, Italy
£21.09/50cl* donnafugata.it
Variety: Biancolilla. A pure example of the variety, grown on Pantelleria’s windswept groves, with its gentle florality and vibrant fruit notes underpinned by the vegetal freshness of cherry tomatoes and the herbal earthiness of rosemary, lavender and thyme. A great way to understand – especially if tasted alongside the estate’s Nocellara Etnea (earthier, spicier and more robust) – how olive oils can be so varietal and terroir expressive.
Herdade do Esporão, Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Alentejo, Portugal
£21.95/50cl Fortnum & Mason
Variety: Galega. This is a pure and vibrant example of Portugal’s flagship variety Galega. Very balanced, with a fruit-led attack dominated by green apple, crunchy pear and almond shells. The finish is moreish and gently spicy with lingering flavours of walnuts and toasted almonds.
Castello di Meleto, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Tuscany, Italy
£18/50cl* castellomeleto.com
Varieties: Frantoio, Moraiolo, Leccino, Pendolino. Castello de Meleto is committed to traditional farming methods and the preservation of the existing biodiversity. ‘A vacuum is always dangerous,’ says Giacomo Sensi, chief agronomist at the Chianti Classico estate, referring to monoculture, ‘because it doesn’t exist in nature.’ Instead, Meleto seeks balance through precision organic farming, crop rotation and the introduction of bee colonies to fight pests and promote pollination. Its oil hails from 10ha on four different terroirs. Low yields and old trees result in a robust and deeply aromatic oil, with a citrus lift and almondy finish.
Sant’Or, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Patra, Greece
£13/50cl Pure Wines
Varieties: Patrinia, Stafiloelies. Having inherited his father’s land in the Peloponnese and then converted it to biodynamic practices, Panagiotis Dimitropoulos of Sant’Or Wines has become the committed guardian of a unique heritage and is determined to preserve the rare indigenous Mavrodaphne and Santameriana grapes, as well as these local olive varieties. Stafiloelies produces an intense and textural oil, with rich aromas of artichokes, milk thistle and fresh almonds, topped by mint, rosemary and black pepper.
Familia Torres, El Silencio Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Catalonia, Spain
£12.20/50cl The Fine Cheese Co
Varietiy: Arbequina. It wouldn’t be either fair or accurate to call this the entry-level oil in the range produced by Torres at its Purgatori estate in Costers del Segre. Granted, it is the cheapest and the more widely available oil, but it hails from 400-year-old Arbequina trees and is extremely balanced and elegant. The nose is fresh and complex, with herbal, vegetal and citrus nuances. Flavours of artichoke, tomato leaf and blanched almonds are followed by a subtle, spicy lift.
Taylor’s, Quinta de Vargellas Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Douro, Portugal
£10.95-£15.95/50cl Cotswold Port Co, Dunell’s, The Secret Bottle Shop
Varieties: Madural, Cordovil, Verdeal. Produced from the 3,000 olive trees that have, for centuries, lined the edge of roads and vineyard slopes of the iconic Douro estate. Elegantly grassy, with notes of freshly cut grass and asparagus, it unfolds with a fruity and smooth-textured mid-palate, followed by a gently spicy finish.
Recaredo, Olivar de Can Credo, Alt Penedès, Catalunya, Spain
£14.50/50cl* shop.recaredo.com
Variety: Arbequina. Only 1000 bottles made of this characterful olive oil from an estate owned by the Recaredo family on the Montpedrós mountain, farmed, as all of its vine counterparts, biodynamically. The 2021 bottling is now sold out but, with the 2022 harvest on the horizon, it is well worth seeking out this oil, in which full-bodied richness is offset by a citrus lift and a touch of Mediterranean herbs that speaks well of terroir.
Bodegas Roda, L’Amo Aubocassa, Manacor, Majorca, Spain
£19.95/50cl amazon.co.uk
Varieties: Arbequina and Picual. Not happy with having olive oil production merely as a side gig, Rioja’s Bodegas Roda decided to invest in a dedicated estate and production facility. After a careful search for the ideal setting, the decision fell upon the Aubocassa estate in Manacor, Majorca. Here, two olive oils are now produced: a single-varietal Arbequina, simply named Aubocassa, and this Arbequina and Picual blend which pays tribute to the estate’s keeper, respectfully called ‘L’Amo’ (the master), as the true guardian of the knowledge of the trees and land. A very expressive nose of fresh herbs (mint, oregano, rosemary), rocket and ripe tomatoes is followed by a fleshy framework of blanched almonds, pistachio, kiwi and banana. The pleasant, lingering piquancy adds freshness.
Quinta do Noval, Centenário Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Douro, Portugal
£32/50cl Cellar Door Wines
Varieties: Verdeal, Madural and Cordovil. A limited edition bottling from, as the name suggests, century-old trees from the renowned Douro estate. Quinta do Noval has 26 hectares of olive groves, planted to local varieties, and for this olive oil the fruit from a selection of the best, low-yielding plants was processed following traditional methods, with extraction done in old granite millstones. The result is an oil of intense subtlety, creamy and round, with distinct herbal notes (rosemary, lavender, thyme, bayleaf) lined by fresh almond and crunchy pear. Very long, fruit-driven finish with a gentle spicy touch.
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Tilly’s sales drop, expects negative trend to continue in Q3
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Tilly’s, Inc. second quarter net sales were 168.3 million dollars, a decrease of 33.6 million dollars or 16.7 percent compared to last year.
The company’s total comparable net sales, including both physical stores and e-commerce decreased by 16.4 percent.
"We believe our second quarter operating results were negatively affected by the impact on our customers of the highest inflationary environment in 40 years, which we expect will also adversely impact our third quarter results," commented Ed Thomas, Tilly’s president and chief executive officer.
Highlights of Tilly’s Q2 results
Net sales from the company’s physical stores were 137.1 million dollars, a decrease of 27.5 million dollars or 16.7 percent with a comparable store net sales decrease of 16.5 percent. Net sales from physical stores represented 81.5 percent of total net sales both this year and last year. The company ended the second quarter with 242 total stores compared to 244 total stores at the end of the second quarter last year.
Net sales from e-com were 31.2 million dollars, a decrease of 6.1 million dollars or 16.4 percent, which represented 18.5 percent of total net sales both this year and last year.
Gross profit was 52 million dollars or 30.9 percent of net sales compared to 74.7 million dollars or 37 percent of net sales, last year. Operating income was 5.2 million dollars or 3.1 percent of net sales compared to 26.4 million dollars or 13.1 percent of net sales, last year.
Net income was 3.8 million dollars or 13 cents per diluted share compared to 20.4 million dollars or 66 cents per diluted share, last year.
Tilly’s H1 sales decrease 14 percent
Total net sales were 314.1 million dollars, a decrease of 51 million dollars or 14 percent, compared to 365.1 million dollars last year. Total comparable net sales, including both physical stores and e-com, decreased by 14.9 percent.
Net sales from physical stores were 254.6 million dollars, a decrease of 12.9 percent with a comparable store net sales decrease of 14.1 percent. Net sales from stores represented 81.1 percent of total net sales compared to 80.1 percent last year.
Net sales from e-com were 59.5 million dollars, a decrease of 18.3 percent. E-com net sales represented 18.9 percent of total net sales compared to 19.9 percent of total net sales last year.
Gross profit was 95.8 million dollars or 30.5 percent of net sales compared to 129.6 million dollars or 35.5 percent of net sales, last year. Operating income was 6.3 million dollars or 2 percent of net sales, compared to 41.3 million dollars or 11.3 percent of net sales, last year. Net income was 4.6 million dollars or 15 cents per diluted share, compared to 31.4 million dollars or 1.02 dollars per diluted share, last year.
Tilly’s expects negative sales trend to continue in Q3
Tilly’s said, total comparable net sales through August 30, 2022, including both physical stores and e-com, decreased by 10.6 percent relative to the comparable period last year.
Based on this result, current and historical trends, and anticipating a significant decline in the post back-to-school period of the quarter, the company currently estimates that its third quarter net sales will be in the range of approximately 165 million dollars to 170 million dollars with a comparable net sales decrease of 18 percent to 21 percent.
Operating income is expected to be in the range of approximately 1.9 million dollars to 4.6 million dollars and earnings per diluted share to be in the range of 5 cents to 11 cents.
The company expects to have 247 total stores open at the end of the third quarter, a net increase of four from 243 total stores at the end of last year's third quarter. | https://fashionunited.uk/news/business/tilly-s-sales-drop-expects-negative-trend-to-continue-in-q3/2022090264950 | 2022-09-02T07:38:10Z | https://fashionunited.uk/news/business/tilly-s-sales-drop-expects-negative-trend-to-continue-in-q3/2022090264950 | true | 1 |
No, it’s not a Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman reboot, but it’s close: ABC Audio has confirmed that Jane Seymour and her former co-star Joe Lando are getting back together for a Lifetime Christmas movie.
As part of the network’s It’s A Wonderful Lifetime line-up, the Toni Braxton-produced A Christmas Spark will bring the actors back together in a romantic movie that will have Seymour playing recently widowed Molly, “who has lost her zest for life and given up on ever finding love again.”
Lifetime teases, “But when she decides to visit her daughter for Christmas, she has no idea what holiday magic is in store for her. A former drama teacher, Molly reluctantly takes on the job of directing the town’s Christmas pageant and soon finds herself falling for her leading man, Hank (Lando), the town’s most eligible bachelor.”
As the unlikely pair finds love, Molly, “rediscovers her inner free spirit and finds a new lease on life…”
The project is among a trio of new holiday movies announced Thursday by the network, including Kirk Franklin’s The Night Before Christmas starring Grammy winner Franklin and Power‘s Naturi Naughton, and Merry Swissmas starring Full House‘s Jodie Sweetin and David Pinard.
Debuting on November 5, Merry Swissmas kicks off Lifetime’s holiday movie season; the full schedule will be revealed later in the fall.
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A female academic fighting a sex discrimination case hit back at a university’s lawyer after he suggested she could have used her union contacts to advance her career.
Jeanette Findlay, an applied economist, claims she was overlooked for promotion at the University of Glasgow because of direct and indirect sex discrimination.
She claims a male applicant who was promoted was treated preferentially during the application process and in his career more generally because of his sex.
On the final day of an employment tribunal, where evidence is summarised, Neil MacLean, respresenting the university, said it was “extraordinary” that despite being “on first name terms” with the principal{Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli] and also a trade union official she had “not once asked for guidance” on how to achieve promotion.
Ms Findlay, who was made a professor of economics last month, said trade unions existed to represent members and it would be, “singularly inappropriate and unethical “ for an official to use their role to advance their own position.
READ MORE: 'Shameful' failings over women in senior roles at Scots university
She claims a male applicant was given preferential access to informal mentoring and career enhancing development and was “handed opportunities” for senior roles which boosted his profile.
She said there was no dispute from the university that women are under-represented, particularly in economics, where only 11% in senior roles are female.
She said: “My claim at its core is that I believe I was treated differently on grounds of my sex and in parts of the career that led up to my promotion.
“Discrimination doesn’t happen in a single day, it happens in all that steps that leads up to that.”
She said the application process was “non transparent and open to bias”because a male applicant had 11 referees, while she had ten.
She asserts that a heavy workload curtailed her opportunities to meet the ‘’esteem’ criteria needed for promotion which can be measured by published work and travelling for research papers and said this was common among female academics.
READ MORE: Academic denies helping university contact 'justify promotion rejection'
She said: “Every woman I’ve worked with who wished to be promoted beyond grade nine has had to leave until very recently.”
Mr Maclean said the case was “quite simple” in that Ms Findlay failed to meet the criteria for promotion in 2020.
He said the fact that that she was promoted two years later when the application process was unchanged meant her claim of direct discrimination was “defeated”.
He said that if indirect sex discrimination had occurred it was “unintentional’.
He added: “However upsetting it might have been there was no unlawful sex discrimination”.
The tribunal was told that the first female professor at the University of Glasgow was appointed in 1970.
Ms Findlay says the application process did not invited her to detail her caring responsibilities but the university say it was clear she could have provided that information herself.
She said she had spent 16 years at grade nine despite the university’s pledge to offer support if employees have been at that level for seven or more years.
She said: “It’s really not good enough for an institution the size of Glasgow to say that is good enough.”
Mr Maclean said the university had a duty to ensure that senior academics are of the right calibre to perform on the world’s stage.”
The judge will now retire to consider the evidence.
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High street recovery buoys Ted Baker sales ahead of £211m US takeover
Fashion brand Ted Baker has revealed that recovering store footfall helped support higher sales over the past quarter as it prepares for its US takeover.
Last month, the retail business agreed a £211 million takeover by Authentic Brands Group, the US owner of Reebok and Juicy Couture.
Shareholders will vote on the move on September 29, with the deal expected to complete in the final quarter of 2022.
On Friday, Ted Baker told shareholders that overall revenues rose by 3.4% over the three months to July compared with the same period last year.
Store sales grew by 20.4% over the period, as shoppers returned to the high street following the relaxation of Covid curbs.
However, online sales slid by 13.2% for the quarter compared with the same period a year earlier.
Ted Baker has revealed a rise in sales ahead of its US takeover (Nick Ansell/PA)
Ted Baker said it was “impacted by challenges following the launch of the new e-commerce platform alongside consumers returning to shop in stores”.
Meanwhile, wholesale revenues declined by 14.1% and licence revenue rose by 62.3% as a result of a high street sales boost.
Ted Baker added that it has seen “good momentum” from its new ranges in recent months but highlighted that sales of discounted products were “slower than expected”.
The business said it expects to see a continued increase in customer numbers in stores, while it also hopes to benefit from the continued recovery in global recovery.
However, it highlighted that it still faces economic challenges over the coming year.
“We remain mindful of the significant recent deterioration of the macro-economic environment, falling consumer confidence and continued volatility in the supply chain as we move towards Ted Baker’s event-led peak trading season,” the company said. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11172465/High-street-recovery-buoys-Ted-Baker-sales-ahead-211m-US-takeover.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-02T07:43:30Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11172465/High-street-recovery-buoys-Ted-Baker-sales-ahead-211m-US-takeover.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 8 |
VirTra (NASDAQ:VTSI – Get Rating) is one of 31 public companies in the “Miscellaneous manufacturing industries” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare VirTra to related businesses based on the strength of its risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
11.4% of VirTra shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.3% of shares of all “Miscellaneous manufacturing industries” companies are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of VirTra shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.0% of shares of all “Miscellaneous manufacturing industries” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares VirTra and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Analyst Recommendations
VirTra presently has a consensus price target of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 109.64%. As a group, “Miscellaneous manufacturing industries” companies have a potential upside of 29.30%. Given VirTra’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe VirTra is more favorable than its rivals.
Risk and Volatility
VirTra has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VirTra’s rivals have a beta of 0.28, indicating that their average share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares VirTra and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
VirTra’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than VirTra. VirTra is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.
Summary
VirTra beats its rivals on 7 of the 13 factors compared.
VirTra Company Profile
VirTra, Inc. provides force training simulators and firearms training simulators for law enforcement, military, educational, and commercial markets worldwide. It offers V-300 simulator, a 300 degree wrap-around screen for simulation training; V-180 simulator, a 180 degree screen for smaller spaces or budgets; V-100, a single-screen firearms training simulator system; V-100 MIL, a single-screen small arms training simulator; and V-ST PRO, a realistic single screen firearms shooting and skills training simulator. The company also provides Virtual Interactive Coursework Training Academy, which enables law enforcement agencies to teach, train, test, and sustain departmental training requirements; and Subscription Training Equipment Partnership, a program that allows agencies to utilize VirTra's simulator products, accessories, and V-VICTA interactive coursework on a subscription basis. In addition, it offers V-Author software that allows users to create, edit, and train with content specific to agency's objectives; a range of simulated recoil kits/weapons; Threat-Fire, a return fire device that applies real-world stress on the trainees during simulation training; and TASER, an OC spray and low-light training devices. It sells its simulators and related products through a direct sales force and distribution partners. The company was formerly known as VirTra Systems, Inc. and changed its name to VirTra, Inc. in October 2016. VirTra, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona.
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General News of Friday, 2 September 2022
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
Joyce Bawah Mogtari, an aide to former President John Dramani Mahama, has stated that the Supreme Court is not above reproach
In a Twitter post on August 29, she explained that citizens can criticize the court because the judiciary derives its powers from them.
On the subject matter of the partisan image of the court, Madam Bawah Mogtari said the packing of the court may have contributed to it.
“With all due respect, the Supreme Court is not above criticism and since the power of the people resides in the court, each and every citizen reserves the right to criticize the court. Overzealous packing of the Court may have resulted in the overwhelming image of partisan,” she tweeted.
Background
Recently, Former President John Dramani Mahama has had cause to criticize President Nana Akufo-Addo’s appointments of judges to both the superior and the lower court.
Speaking at the opening of the 2nd Annual Lawyers Conference of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Sunday, August 28, 2022, the former president said President Akufo-Addo was packing the judiciary with judges of political linings suggestively for the New Patriotic Party.
He said the conduct of the president was fueling the worsening public perception of a ‘broken image’ of the judiciary.
Mahama said “so badly has the image of our judiciary deteriorated that many of our citizenry openly make a mockery of our justice system and of our justices” adding that the president was making matters worse.
“The unfortunate situation with our judiciary is exacerbated by a President who is packing the courts and appointing openly partisan judges to both the superior and lower courts. To make matters worse, the president and his legal team believe in weaponizing state prosecutions against political opponents. Not only has this government targeted former appointees who are being prosecuted on frivolous charges, but they are also prosecuting other persons and targeting business people perceived to belong to opposing parties,” he said.
President Akufo-Addo since 2018 has appointed fifteen (15) Supreme Court judges including four new recent ones, making him one of the Heads of State with the highest appointments in Ghana, only next to John Agyekum Kufuor.
Among the new appointments made by President Akufo-Addo is Justice Ernest Yao Gaewu, who was captured in a 2016 poster as a contestant for the Ho central constituency seat on the ticket of New Patriotic Party; the ruling party.
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Naira Watch
Naira reverses gain to close at N430 at official market
The Naira witnessed a fall against the United States Dollar at the Investors and Exporters (I&E) segment of the foreign exchange (FX) market on Thursday.
Data obtained from FMDQ securities the official exchange market showed that at the close of trading on Wednesday, the local currency lost 56 Kobo or 0.13 percent against the dollars to close at N430.00/$1 in contrast to the previous day’s value of N429.44/$1.
The weakening Naira occurred despite a decline in the demand for forex at the official market as the value of trades decreased by 31.8 percent or $34.79 million to $74.68 million from the preceding session’s $109.47 million.
Read also: Naira gains against US dollar at official, black market
However, the Naira maintained stability against the Dollar in the Peer-to-Peer market segment yesterday as it remained unchanged at N712/$1.
In the parallel market, the Nigerian currency appreciated against its American counterpart by N1 to sell for N700/$1 compared with Wednesday’s rate of N701/$.
Meanwhile, In the interbank window, the Naira also gained against the Pound Sterling by N2.59 as it was sold at N491.55/£1 versus the midweek’s session’s N494.14/£1.
Naira also strengthened against the Euro at the same market window yesterday by 24 Kobo to N425.09/€1 from N425.33/€1.
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