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Celo Dollar (CUSD) traded up 0.3% against the U.S. dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 20:00 PM Eastern on September 14th. Over the last week, Celo Dollar has traded 0.2% higher against the U.S. dollar. One Celo Dollar coin can now be purchased for about $1.00 or 0.00004934 BTC on popular exchanges. Celo Dollar has a total market capitalization of $51.98 million and approximately $1.01 million worth of Celo Dollar was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Here is how related cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004940 BTC.
- BITCOIN ADDITIONAL (BTCA) traded up 0.4% against the dollar and now trades at $20,250.30 or 0.99997705 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Mammoth (MMT) traded down 0.5% against the dollar and now trades at $1.01 or 0.00005003 BTC.
- Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) traded up 0.7% against the dollar and now trades at $20,254.09 or 1.00016447 BTC.
- Geegoopuzzle (GGP) traded up 8.7% against the dollar and now trades at $12.28 or 0.00060619 BTC.
- Quantum (QUA) traded 0% higher against the dollar and now trades at $2.51 or 0.00012406 BTC.
- Theta Network (THETA) traded up 1.5% against the dollar and now trades at $1.11 or 0.00005464 BTC.
- Axie Infinity (AXS) traded 0.8% higher against the dollar and now trades at $13.25 or 0.00065417 BTC.
- TrueUSD (TUSD) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004937 BTC.
About Celo Dollar
CUSD is a coin. It was first traded on April 3rd, 2018. Celo Dollar’s total supply is 57,241,566 coins and its circulating supply is 52,025,801 coins. Celo Dollar’s official Twitter account is @carbon_money and its Facebook page is accessible here. The Reddit community for Celo Dollar is https://reddit.com/r/celo and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. Celo Dollar’s official website is celo.org.
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Khalil Mack has not had double-digit sacks since 2018 when he earned defensive player of the year honors with 12.5. He had six in seven games last season.
The edge rusher had three sacks in his Chargers’ debut Sunday, the second-most sacks in a single game in his nine-year career.
Mack’s evaluation of his performance?
“It wasn’t good enough. I left a lot of stuff out there and I have to get it corrected,” Mack said, via Joe Reedy of the Associated Press.
Mack became the third player in franchise history to make three sacks in an opener since 1982, joining Shawne Merriman and Rodney Harrison. He also totaled six tackles and seven quarterback pressures.
Mack and Joey Bosa combined for 4.5 sacks and 16 quarterback pressures against the Raiders.
“It’s great to talk ball on the sideline and just communicate about what we get and what each offensive tackle is giving us. So, to bounce ideas off each other throughout the game is good,” Mack said.
The Chargers play the Chiefs on Thursday night.
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The recent death of Queen Elizabeth II and all the ceremonial broadcasts right across the world, as well as the installation of our new King Charles III have certainly given us plenty of food for thought and reflection.
Probably the highest focus in all of this would have to be less on her royalty, and greatly on her personality as a woman, wife, mother, grandmother, role model and hugely admired and respected very special human being.
She was committed to her family and her vocation to the role she inherited as a young lady, and never let anything distract her from carrying out her responsibilities.
Whether we are Royalists or Republicans we can admire her tenacity and dedication at many levels and be inspired by them.
King Charles has spent many years waiting in the wings during his mother's long reign and would surely have learnt a great deal.
We can confidently commend our deceased Queen to the loving embrace of her heavenly Father whom she loved and adored here on earth.
- Sr Mary Trainor
It was touchingly beautiful to hear him speak lovingly of his mother not just the Queen.
So what does this mean for each of us?
Elizabeth was a practicing Christian and Church Leader. How many of us choose our Christian calling to love God and love one another to be reflected in our daily living?
She never let her personal preferences interfere with he royal obligations.
Obviously, we don't have royal obligations, but we can sometimes let things get in the way of what is right and good.
So - a new era is opening up across Britain and the Commonwealth. Just like most "tomorrows" we can't be absolutely certain what it will contain.
We can only hope and pray that the new Royal establishment will be able to ensure that the virtues, ethics and traditions that Elizabeth so faithfully fulfilled will be able to transfer to the new regime without any problems and enable a bright and fulfilling future.
On Sunday, as many readers would know, our Governor General pledged his loyalty to the new King Charles - King of Australia.
Next week there will be a solemn Requiem in England for the repose of the soul of our late Queen Elizabeth 11, and this will be followed by another Service here in Australia and a national Public Holiday in her honour on Thursday, September 22.
We can confidently commend our deceased Queen to the loving embrace of her heavenly Father whom she loved and adored here on earth, and pray sincerely for all those who loved her in her 96 years on this earth, especially her son King Charles III and all the members of her family and extended family, that they may be comforted and consoled in their grief.
Recollections of her platinum jubilee are still around.
I like to think that platinum is an amalgum of all the gold and silver, diamonds and rubies that have preceded it, not in earthly wealth, but beyond it.
The Queen is Dead! Long live the King!
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Door-to-door visits to resume by global ministry
After pausing their door-to-door visits the last 30 months due to the pandemic, Jehovah’s Witnesses have resumed their trademark in-person ministry, officials say.
The church members will be active with a global campaign to offer a free interactive Bible study program.
“I am happy and excited to interact with people face to face,” Lisa Dermody of Elba said in a press release. “I think it is important to see how our neighbors did during the pandemic and be able to give them a message of hope and comfort and share with them a positive view of the future.”
Jehovah’s Witnesses had been preaching from house to house without interruption for more than 100 years through an economic depression, two world wars and global unrest, officials said, but “COVID-19 demanded a different response.”
“We believe that the early decision to shut down all in-person activities for more than two years has saved many lives,” said Robert Hendriks, U.S. spokesperson for Jehovah’s Witnesses. “We’re now ready and eager to reconnect with our neighbors once again – person-to-person, face-to-face. It’s not the only way that we preach, but it has historically been the most effective way to deliver our message of comfort and hope.”
The new Bible study program is available in hundreds of languages at no cost, and it comes in the form of a book, online publication or as an embedded feature within the organization’s free mobile application, the release states.
For more information about Jehovah’s Witnesses, their history, beliefs and activities, visit jw.org.
Photo: Donna Burkett (left), of Oakfield and Lisa Dermody, of Elba, engage in a door-to-door ministry. Photo courtesy of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP)As the Chicago Bears regrouped in the locker room following a half that was as ugly as the weather at Soldier Field, quarterback Justin Fields noticed something. Offensive coordinator Luke Getsy was smiling.
Fields didn’t ask why.
”It’s confident,” he said. ”That’s one thing that I take from him, he’s a very confident guy. I think he gives the rest of the guys confidence.”
Getsy’s confidence and Fields’ steadiness helped the offense get going in the second half and all the Bears to make a big splash in the season opener by beating the San Francisco 49ers 19-10 in coach Matt Eberflus’ debut. After taking out a team with Super Bowl hopes in heavy rain, they’ll try to pull off another surprise this week when they visit Green Bay.
A rare win over Aaron Rodgers and the Packers would put Chicago two games ahead of their rivals. The three-time defending NFC North champions opened with a loss at Minnesota.
Getsy knows Rodgers and the Packers well, having spent the past three seasons as their quarterbacks coach and seven years on their staff. That could work to the Bears’ advantage, and they’ll take any edge they can get.
Their offense could certainly use a boost.
The Bears bounced back in the second half against San Francisco after struggling in the early going. They finished with 204 yards, just 68 coming in the first two quarters. But there were sparks in the second half that they hope can propel them forward.
”You kind of just take the grit that we showed, running really simple stuff in that second half just to get plays off in that weather,” tight end Cole Kmet said. ”Use that physicality we showed up with in that second half and build on that this week.”
The Bears didn’t cross midfield until their sixth and final possession before halftime. That drive ended with a punt after an unusual penalty involving the use of a towel knocked them out of field goal range.
But the Bears kept their poise and adjusted at halftime. Now they just need a complete game from their quarterback.
Fields came through with some big plays on what was overall a rough start to his second season. The former Ohio State star was 8 of 17 for 121 yards with an interception and had trouble at times gripping the ball. But in the second half, he threw two touchdown passes.
Fields, the No. 11 draft pick last year, helped change the complexion of the game with Chicago trialing 10-0 in the third. As two defenders closed in, he rolled to his left and saw Dante Pettis wide open on the other side of the field. Fields lofted the ball to his receiver, who took it in for a 51-yard touchdown. He also hit Equanimeous St. Brown for an 18-yarder early in the fourth to give the Bears a 13-10 lead.
”Mental toughness. He was able to move all those things aside, figuring it out how he was going to grip the ball better, how he was going to operate and then figure out the game as the game went on, and move the ball down the field,” Eberflus said. ”And that’s what to me is outstanding, what an outstanding thing for a young quarterback to have that mental toughness, all of those things going on and to be able to laser-like focus in and get the job done.”
NOTES: OL Alex Leatherwood was placed on the non-football illness list and will miss at least four weeks. The Bears claimed Leatherwood off waivers two weeks ago after the 2021 first-round draft pick was let go by the Las Vegas Raiders. He was inactive for the season opener. … The Bears signed OL Michael Schofield on Wednesday.
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For as much as they claim to dislike each other, there are a bunch of parallels between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj. Here’s one more: After Cardi successfully sued gossip blogger Tasha K for defamation, Nicki has filed her own lawsuit. According to TMZ, the “Super Freaky Girl” rapper has filed the suit against social media personality Nosey Heaux — aka Marley Green — for $75,000 after Green posted a video calling Nicki Minaj a “cokehead.”
In the video, Green says Nicki is “shoving all this cocaine up her nose… Allegedly. But we all know it’s true. F*ck — listen, I can’t even say ‘allegedly’ with that ’cause we all know it’s true. I’m not saying allegedly on that. Nicki Minaj is a cokehead.” Green also reportedly said that Nicki’s one-year-old son “is going to be a rapist, too,” referring to Nicki’s husband Kenneth Petty’s 1995 rape conviction. Earlier this summer, Petty was sentenced to one year of house arrest for failing to update his address on the national sex offenders’ registry when he and Nicki moved to LA in 2019. Nicki and Petty were both sued by Petty’s victim for harassment after allegedly badgering her to recant her 27-year-old testimony.
In her case against Green, Nicki’s lawyers, who were ruthless in their response to the harassment charges against her, were equally vicious in deriding Nosey Heaux, calling her a “nobody” and saying her “main accomplishments in life have been a string of criminal charges, bail jumping and bad debts.” However, they say that her video has gained traction, something Uproxx noted over the past week with “It’s giving coke” appearing in several Twitter threads about Nicki and Cardi both — and even briefly trending. Nicki, meanwhile, maintains that she’s never used cocaine in her life.
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QBE North America and Leading Cities Announce AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge Finalists
Entrepreneurs showcase their innovative solutions for a more resilient planet
BOSTON, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading Cities, a global nonprofit driving city resiliency and sustainability, in partnership with QBE Insurance Group revealed ten of the world's foremost urban technology startups in its QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge finalist line-up. Currently in its fourth year, the program has become one of the largest of its kind in the world and has had major success with its unique approach to bridging the gap between startup companies and cities. AcceliCITY alumni have already raised upwards of $400 million, and many have since deployed their solutions in cities to improve the equity, resilience and safety of our urban centers.
"Challenges such as climate change, population density, cyber risk, and pandemics are hastening the need to build thriving, resilient cities and implement new solutions that will change the world," said Mike Lake, President and CEO of Leading Cities. "The world's ability to achieve the United Nations' sustainable development goals and our commitment to making a meaningful impact towards climate resilience and sustainability is only intensified by our collaboration with QBE."
"As a company that helps people and businesses protect themselves from risk, QBE understands the role we can play in helping our cities and local governments build resiliency and prepare for the environmental and economic risks that they are faced with," said Chris Castaldo, Chief Financial Officer at QBE, who serves as Executive Sponsor of the program. "Our partnership with Leading Cities, which is in its fourth year, directly links our values and purpose to enable a more resilient future by supporting innovative solutions for our communities, customers, and employees."
This year, these globally sourced, expert-vetted startups were selected from among the more than 550 companies that applied from 70 countries. The entrepreneurs leading these ventures are committed to tackling common city challenges ranging from fresh food shortage, digital infrastructure and communications technology to public transportation, renewable energy, and more. Ninety semi-finalists were previously selected and participated in a business-to-government and capital acquisition focused, web-based curriculum. Each of these teams received one-on-one mentorship from global experts. Now, the ten finalists will forge ahead in the AcceliCITY Virtual Boot Camp (October 3rd to the 6th) and compete for $100,000 in pilot project funding.
AcceliCITY lowers the cost of innovation for startups as well as governments by reorganizing the innovation and implementation cycles for Smart City solutions. Leading Cities' AcceliCITY program connects startup's smart solutions directly with business users and provides the proper channels, training, and knowledge to implement in cities.
About the FinalistsOn September 13, 2022, Chris Castaldo and Mike Lake helped determine which two of these revolutionary organizations would receive a People's Choice Award along with $25,000 to support their dreams. SAVRpak and Stormseal were announced as the recipients of the awards and will now move forward to the final global competition in November.
About Leading CitiesLeading Cities connects cities across the globe with innovations and insight to drive resiliency, equity, and sustainability. This is achieved by cultivating a global network of forward thinkers from the public, private, academic, and non-profit sectors as well as delivering advanced research, emerging trends and vetting solutions that will address urban challenges. The AcceliCITY program aims to de-risk innovation for cities by sourcing and vetting solutions that will answer their most pressing challenges. Additional information can be found at www.LeadingCities.org or by following Leading Cities on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
About QBEQBE North America is a global insurance leader focused on helping customers solve unique risks, so they can focus on their future. Part of QBE Insurance Group Limited, QBE North America reported Gross Written Premiums in 2021 of $6.29 billion. QBE Insurance Group's 2021 results can be found at www.qbe.com.
Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, QBE operates out of 27 countries around the globe, with a presence in every key insurance market. The North America division, headquartered in New York, conducts business through its insurance company subsidiaries. The actual terms and conditions of any insurance coverage are subject to the language of the policies as issued. QBE insurance companies are rated "A" (Excellent) by A.M. Best and "A+" by Standard & Poor's. Additional information can be found at www.qbe.com/us or follow QBE North America on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Jalandhar, September 14
The National Executive Meeting of the Vidya Bharti Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Sansthan will be held from September 15 to 17 at the Vidya Dham in Jalandhar.
The meet will discuss educational expansion plans of the RSS affiliate organisation, Vidya Bharti Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Sansthan, and the implementation of the National Educational Policy.
Vidya Bharti Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Sansthan General Secretary Avnish Bhatnagar said, “Vidya Bharti Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Sansthan is an educational body whose working is purely based on society, and the aim of this institution is to impart value and patriotic education in society.”
He said, “The Vidya Bharti has to apply the National Education Policy 2020 till 2025 in its institutions all over India so that we can transfer our great Indian heritage to children.
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Ludhiana, September 14
Two cousins indulged in a brawl late on Tuesday night at Vishnu Puri and one of them reportedly also fired a gunshot in the air. The police went to the spot to conduct a probe this morning after getting information about the incident.
ADCP-1 Rupinder Kaur Sran said there was a dispute between two cousins, Balli and Sheru. The former had lent Rs 25,000 to Sheru but the latter was not returning the money.
On Tuesday night when Balli met Sheru at Vishnu Puri and asked him to return his money, they indulged in a brawl. One of the persons fired a gunshot in the air and afterwards, they fled the spot, the ADCP said, one empty cartridge was recovered from the spot.
“We have identified the suspects and raids are being conducted to nab them. A case under the Arms Act has been registered. Only after the arrest of the suspects, it can be verified who fired the gunshot,” Sran said.
A case was registered by the police under the Arms Act, she said.
Firing at Kidwai Nagar put police on toes
Another late night firing occurred at Shaheedi Park in Kidwai Nagar on Tuesday night. The Police Division 3 recovered three empty cartridges from the spot. The bullets were recovered from the park where RSS daily holds its shakha. The police checked CCTV cameras to get any clue about the suspects. The incident came to the fore on Wednesday morning when RSS workers found empty cartridges in the park.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan and Pakistani authorities blamed each other Wednesday for an overnight clash at the border that caused casualties on both sides.
Taliban in a statement Wednesday said that Afghan authorities tried to stop Pakistani forces form building a check point close to the border in eastern Paktia province’s Dand-e Patan district, but the Pakistani forces opened fire.
Pakistan’s military said in a statement that three soldiers were killed in the country’s northwest by militant fire from across the Afghan border Tuesday night. The attack hit a border security post in Kurram, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Bilal Karimi, deputy spokesman for the Taliban’s government said that by understanding, no military installations can be built near the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
But Pakistani forces tried to build a post. Some people approached them to talk and discuss the matter, when suddenly the Pakistani forces opened fire, said Karimi.
“The issue is under investigation and (Taliban) leaders have been informed,” Karimi said.
Both Pakistan and Afghanistan accuse each other of providing sanctuaries to their enemy insurgents — something both sides deny.
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New Delhi, September 14
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has decided to restore breath analyser test for airline personnel from October 15. At present, the test, conducted to check whether any crew member has consumed alcohol, is limited to 50 per cent of the personnel due to Covid curbs. Further, following an order passed by the Delhi High Court in May 2021, the number of breath analyser tests that can be conducted in one hour was limited to six.
The curbs have now been done away with by the DGCA after the court modified its earlier order. With the latest changes, all flight and cabin crew members will be subject to the breath analyser test effective from October 15.
The regulator said the test to the extent feasible should be done in a bigger and open area that has CCTV coverage or camera recording. Doctors, paramedics and nurses, who are authorised to carry out the test, should check the person first for Covid symptoms.
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SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A Flood Advisory is in effect until 430 pm Saturday, for the following counties, in southwest Florida: Charlotte, Manatee, and Sarasota. Heavy rain from thunderstorms is causing urban and small stream flooding. Sarasota PD has reported flooding in the St Armand’s Circle area where roads have been closed. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are possible.
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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEAYA Biosciences, Inc. ( Nasdaq: IDYA) today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 7,619,048 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $10.50 per share, before underwriting discounts and commissions. In addition, IDEAYA has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,142,857 shares of common stock at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions. The gross proceeds from the offering, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses payable by IDEAYA, are expected to be approximately $80.0 million, excluding any exercise of the underwriters' option to purchase additional shares. The offering is expected to close on or about September 19, 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
J.P. Morgan, Jefferies, Citigroup and Guggenheim Securities are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. Wedbush PacGrow is acting as lead manager for the offering.
The securities described above are being offered by IDEAYA pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 that was previously filed with and declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC. The offering is being made only by means of a written prospectus and prospectus supplement that form a part of the registration statement, copies of which may be obtained, when available, by request from: J.P. Morgan, by mail at J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by telephone at 866-803-9204, or by email at [email protected]; Jefferies, by mail at Jefferies LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022, or by telephone at 877-547-6340 or 877-821-7388, or by email at [email protected]; Citigroup, by mail at Citigroup Global Markets Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by telephone at 1-800-831-9146; or Guggenheim Securities, by mail at Guggenheim Securities, LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Department, 330 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017, or by telephone at (212) 518-5548 or by email at [email protected].
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
IDEAYA is a synthetic lethality focused precision medicine oncology company committed to the discovery and development of targeted therapeutics for patient populations selected using molecular diagnostics. IDEAYA's approach integrates capabilities in identifying and validating translational biomarkers with drug discovery to select patient populations most likely to benefit from its targeted therapies. IDEAYA is applying its research and drug discovery capabilities to synthetic lethality – which represents an emerging class of precision medicine targets.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen announced a visit to Kyiv later Wednesday to show the bloc’s support for Ukraine as it fights back against the Russian invasion.
Dressed in the colors of Ukraine, von der Leyen said in her State of the European Union address that the bloc would come to the aid of Ukraine by opening its seamless single market more to Ukrainian products and said she would “discuss all this with President (Volodymyr) Zelenskyy.”
Von der Leyen’s trip symbolize the EU’s increasing opposition to Russia’s actions, which she called a war of “autocracy against democracy,” pushed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“And I stand here with the conviction that with the necessary courage and necessary solidarity, Putin will fail and Europe will prevail,” she told the plenary of the European parliament in Strasbourg, France.
As Ukraine is pushing Russian troops back in the east with a lightning fast counteroffensive, von der Leyen took heart. “We have seen in the last days the bravery of Ukrainians paying off,” she said.
At the same time, she claimed there were increasing indications that Russia was suffering ever more from EU and other international sanctions — and certainly more that some critics of Western sanctions acknowledge.
“Russia’s financial sector is on life support. We have cut off three-quarters of Russia’s banking sector from international markets,” she said, adding that almost 1,000 companies had left Russia.
She said car production fell by three-quarters compared to last year and that the national airline Aeroflot was forced to ground planes
because of lack of spare parts. “Russia’s industry is in tatters,” she sai.
The EU has already committed billions in aid to Ukraine since the Feb. 24 invasion by Russia. Von der Leyen announced Wednesday that the bloc will provide 100 million euros to build up schools destroyed during the invasion.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver was likely spared even stronger sanctioning by the NBA for his racist, misogynistic and hostile words and actions because of one key conclusion by investigators, Commissioner Adam Silver said Wednesday.
The law firm that spent nearly a year digging into the situation determined Sarver’s use of slurs “was not motivated by racial animus.”
Had that not been the case, Silver indicated, Sarver’s punishment — a one-year suspension and $10 million fine — would have been far more severe.
“It was relevant,” Silver said after the league’s Board of Governors meetings concluded. “I think if they had made findings that, in fact, his conduct was motivated by racial animus, absolutely that would have had an impact on on the ultimate outcome here. But that’s not what they found.”
And that, to Silver, is one of the key distinctions between the Sarver case and the one surrounding then-Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling in 2014, when he was banned for life and fined $2.5 million for racist comments.
Some players, Silver said, have reached out to him to voice concerns. Silver said he would keep the details of those conversations private.
But LeBron James — obviously, one of the league’s most prominent player voices ever — took his concerns public Wednesday night, tweeting that the NBA did not go far enough with Sarver.
“I gotta be honest…Our league definitely got this wrong,” James tweeted to his 52 million followers. “I don’t need to explain why. Y’all read the stories and decide for yourself. I said it before and I’m gonna say it again, there is no place in this league for that kind of behavior.
“I love this league and I deeply respect our leadership. But this isn’t right. There is no place for misogyny, sexism, and racism in any work place. Don’t matter if you own the team or play for the team. We hold our league up as an example of our values and this aint it,” he wrote.
Suns point guard Chris Paul echoed James’ sentiment later Wednesday.
“Like many others, I reviewed the report,” Paul wrote on social media. “I was and am horrified and disappointed by what I read. This conduct especially towards women is unacceptable and must never be repeated. … I am of the view that the sanctions fell short in truly addressing what we can all agree was atrocious behavior. My heart goes out to all of the people that were affected.”
The NBA had the option of giving Sarver a longer ban than the one-year suspension. The $10 million fine was the maximum allowable, as was the case with Sterling’s $2.5 million fine eight years ago; NBA rules on maximum fines were changed in 2019.
Another reason Silver, who was the ultimate decider of the penalty in this case, stopped short of suspending Sarver for longer or even banning him: He said he took into account a number of anonymous details that could not be revealed in the investigative report that was published Tuesday, along with other elements of Sarver’s actions in his 18 years owning the Suns and the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury.
“There were these terrible things,” Silver said. “There are also many, many people with very positive things to say about him through this process. And ultimately, I took all of that into account in making the decision that the one-year suspension plus the fine was appropriate.”
A 10-month investigation into Sarver’s behavior confirmed he had used racist language, made sexually inappropriate comments, left some employees — male and female — feeling uncomfortable with his words and actions, and took part in what would be considered workplace bullying.
“Indefensible is not strong enough,” Silver said.
But the league did not have discussions about removing Sarver as owner during the Board of Governors meetings. Silver permanently banned Sterling after tapes of him making racist comments were leaked to TMZ in a move that started the process of Sterling being forced to sell the franchise.
“This case is very different,” Silver said. “It’s not that one was captured on tape and the other isn’t. … Mr. Sarver ultimately acknowledged his behavior.”
Sarver did, and issued an apology Tuesday, though noted he did not agree with all of the report’s findings.
Silver was asked about how most employees of any company would likely face firings if they were to use racial slurs or partake in lewd actions or comments in the way that the investigation showed that Sarver did.
“It’s hard to make those comparisons to somebody who commits an inappropriate act in the workplace in somewhat of an anonymous fashion versus what is a huge public issue now around this person,” Silver said. “There’s no neat answer here, other than the rights that come with owning an NBA team, how that is set up within our Constitution. What it would take to remove that team from his control is a very involved process, and it’s different than holding a job. It just is. When you actually own a team, it’s just a very different proposition.”
A difference between the Sterling and Sarver cases is this: Sarver cooperated with the league’s investigation and Sterling, in many ways, did not. Sterling wound up suing the NBA for $1 billion in federal court after his lifetime ban was announced, saying his constitutional rights were violated.
The report said Sarver “repeated or purported to repeat the N-word on at least five occasions spanning his tenure with the Suns.”
“However, the investigation does not find that Sarver’s conduct in any of these instances was motivated by racial animus,” the report read, adding that investigators made “no finding that Sarver used this racially insensitive language with the intent to demean or denigrate.”
The Sterling investigation — from when the audio tapes of him making racist remarks to a girlfriend were released, to Silver’s announcement of the lifetime ban — took three days. The Sarver probe took 100 times longer, involved more than 320 interviews and the review of more than 80,000 documents and other materials.
Both investigations were handled by the same New York-based firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz. Attorney David Anders led both probes.
Sarver will be welcomed back in 2023, though Silver made clear that his words and actions going forward will be highly scrutinized.
“I don’t have the right to take away his team,” Silver said. “I don’t want to rest on that legal point because of course there could be a process to take away someone’s team in this league. It’s very involved, and I ultimately made the decision that it didn’t rise to that level. But to me, the consequences are severe here on Mr. Sarver.”
Sarver’s punishment is also similar to others levied in past high-profile examples of wrongdoing, either words, actions or both.
In 1993, then-Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott was fined $25,000 and suspended one year for making “racially and ethnically offensive remarks.” And last year, the NFL fined the Washington Commanders $10 million, plus investigative fees, after a probe found the team’s workplace environment for women was, in the words of Commissioner Roger Goodell, “highly unprofessional” — but stopped short of suspending owner Daniel Snyder.
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ISLAMABAD: In response to the devastating floods in Pakistan, Meta is contributing 125 million rupees to UNICEF, Hands and Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) to help communities impacted by the floods. The donation will support emergency aid, food, water, sanitation and help children get back to school in Sindh, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
Prior to the donation when the flooding began, Safety Check was activated on Facebook as it allowed people to let friends and family know they were safe. A Crisis page was also established where people could use the Community Help feature to enable people to ask for and offer help from different communities.
“Pakistan is going through one of the worst natural disasters we have seen to date. Millions of people are affected and the entire nation is rallying to support them during this difficult time. We hope that our contributions help the communities impacted by the catastrophe and our thoughts are with these communities and families as they try to recover,” said Jordi Fornies, Director for Emerging Markets, APAC at Meta.
Additionally, Meta’s “Data for Good” activated its Disaster Maps programme and is providing data to regional response partners. One of those partners, CrisisReady (a collaboration between Direct Relief and Harvard University), has focused on combining data sources into situation reports being used daily by thousands of on-the-ground first responders. “The torrential monsoon rains over the past weeks have damaged or completely washed away people’s houses, critically affecting millions of people, including children. With winter just weeks away in some parts of the country, we need urgent help to continue our relief efforts in Pakistan and support for children and their families. We express our gratitude to Meta for all the support,” said Michael J Nyenhuis, President and CEO of UNICEF USA.
Communities across various Meta-owned platforms have raised more than a million dollars for non-profits supporting flood relief efforts. Leading NGOs across the globe have also raised substantial amounts via Facebook and Instagram.
Commenting on the development, Baela Raza Jamil, CEO, ITA, said: “We will rehabilitate schools, ensure 2nd Chance Accelerated learning programs with life skills (psychosocial support, climate change and digital literacy), and provide hygiene & health with dignity kits. This is a comprehensive and inclusive approach to #BuildingBackBetter by reaching homes, communities, schools, parents, children, and especially adolescent girls and teachers embedded within government systems for effective emergency response and preparedness.”
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Angola's Lourenco to be sworn in after disputed win
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Angolan President Joao Lourenco is to be sworn in for a second term on Thursday amid tight security after a disputed electoral win last month.
The inauguration will be held on the historic palm tree-lined Praca da Republica square in the centre of the capital, Luanda.
Large numbers of police and military forces patrolled the streets ahead of the ceremony, AFP correspondents saw -- a presence the main opposition party said aimed at stifling dissent.
"This setup aims to intimidate citizens who want to demonstrate against the election results on the day of the inauguration of a president without legitimacy," the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) said in a statement.
Several heads of state and government, including Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, are expected to be in attendance.
Lourenco, 68, returned to power after the August 24 vote gave his Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) a thin majority, winning just 51.17 percent of the votes.
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The vote was to choose members of parliament, where the largest party automatically selects the president.
It was the MPLA's poorest showing in the oil-rich African country it has controlled since independence from Portugal in 1975.
UNITA -- a former rebel movement which fought a bitter 27-year civil war against the MPLA government -- made significant gains, earning 43.95 percent of the vote, up from 26.67 percent in 2017.
Opposition parties and civic groups say the vote was marred by irregularities.
UNITA disputed the results in court but its appeal was tossed out.
"Tomorrow I will stay at home. There are too many police forces around town," Joao, a high school student who only gave his first name, said at a bus stop on the outskirts of Luanda.
'President for all'
Under its charismatic leader Adalberto Costa Junior, 60, UNITA has proved popular in urban areas and among young voters clamouring for economic change.
It did particularly well in the capital, where it won a majority for the first time.
The MPLA instead lost its two-thirds parliamentary majority with its seats dropping to 124 from 150.
Lourenco struck a conciliatory tone after the vote, pledging to promote "dialogue" and be the "president of all Angolans".
But Costa Junior has said he will skip the inauguration and promised protests against the result of the vote, but has said his party will join the new parliament.
Foreign observers from other parts of Africa praised the peaceful conduct of the polls but raised concerns over press freedom and the accuracy of the electoral roll.
The former general first came to power in 2017 when he took over from long-time ruler Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who bequeathed a country deep in recession and riddled by corruption and nepotism.
Lourenco swiftly turned on his predecessor, launching an anti-graft campaign targeting his family and friends, which critics say was a political stunt.
He also embarked on an ambitious reform programme to lure foreign investors and diversify the economy.
But that has so far failed to brighten the prospects of many of Angola's 33 million people who are mired in poverty.
Dos Santos died in Spain in July. State funerals for the late strongman were held in August in the same square where Lourenco is to be sworn in.
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MENOMONIE — Two events highlighting Americans’ constitutional rights to free speech and protest will be held at UW-Stout this month.
A discussion on free speech will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 14, in the Great Hall of the Memorial Student Center, 302 10th Ave. E.
Walter Kimbrough will present “I Respectfully Disagree: When Debate Dies Who Loses?” He will discuss how to enter into a debate, respect others’ free speech rights and talk across differences.
Kimbrough has been president of two Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark., and most recently Dillard University in New Orleans, La.
He is executive in residence at the University of Southern California’s Race and Equity Center, where he will co-chair the center’s National HBCU Racial Equity Commission.
This event is sponsored by UW-Stout’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Office; the Menard Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovation; the Center for Applied Ethics; and the Nakatani Teaching and Learning Center.
The second event will focus on the right to protest, and will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 22, in the ballrooms of the student center.
This “Protesting: Know Your Rights” discussion panel will be moderated by Rickie-Ann Legleitner, associate professor and interim director of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Office.
Panelists will include Wade Harrison, senior counsel for UW System Legal, Dean of Students Sandi Scott and representatives from University Police, University Housing, the Freedom of Expression Committee and the Bias Incident Report Team.
Both events are free and open to the campus community and the public.
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Border clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan have killed about 100 troops on both sides in the largest outbreak of fighting between the longtime adversaries in nearly two years, fueling fears of even bigger hostilities.
Here is a look at the decades-long conflict between the two neighbors, and the latest clashes.
WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?
Armenia and Azerbaijan have faced each other off in a conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for more than three decades.
The mountainous region is part of Azerbaijan, but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994.
The territory in the southern Caucasus covers an area of roughly 4,400 square kilometers (1,700 square miles), about the size of the U.S. state of Delaware.
During the Soviet era, the mostly Armenian-populated region had an autonomous status within Azerbaijan. Long-simmering tensions between Christian Armenians and mostly Muslim Azeris, fueled by memories of the 1915 massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by Muslim Ottoman Turks, boiled over as the Soviet Union frayed in its final years.
Fighting broke out in 1988 when the region made a bid to join Armenia, and after the 1991 Soviet collapse hostilities escalated into a full-blown war, killing an estimated 30,000 people and displacing about 1 million.
When the war ended with a cease-fire in 1994, Armenian forces not only held Nagorno-Karabakh itself but also broad areas outside the territory’s borders.
International mediation efforts over the following decades failed to achieve a diplomatic settlement.
THE 2020 WAR
On September 27, 2020, Azerbaijan launched an operation called “Iron Fist” to reclaim control over Nagorno-Karabakh.
NATO-member Turkey, which has close ethnic, cultural and historic bonds with Azerbaijan, offered it strong support.
In six weeks of fighting involving heavy artillery, rockets and drones that killed more than 6,700 people, Azeri troops drove Armenian forces out of areas they controlled outside the separatist region and also seized broad chunks of Nagorno-Karabakh proper.
A Russia-brokered peace deal on Nov. 10 allowed Azerbaijan to reclaim control of the areas occupied by Armenian forces outside Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly three decades, including the Lachin region, which holds the main road leading from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia. Armenian forces also agreed to surrender control over significant sections of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Russia has deployed about 2,000 troops to the region to serve as peacekeepers under the deal.
The agreement triggered years of protests in Armenia, where the opposition denounced it as a betrayal of the country’s interests and called for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Pashinyan has weathered the pressure, defending the deal as the only way to prevent Azerbaijan from seizing all of Nagorno-Karabakh.
AND THE NEW HOSTILITIES?
Sporadic clashes between Azeri and Armenian forces have repeatedly erupted in the area, but the fighting that began Tuesday was the most serious since the 2020 peace deal.
Both sides blamed each other for starting hostilities, with Armenia accusing Azerbaijan of an unprovoked attack and Baku saying it was responding to shelling by Armenian forces.
Armenia said at least 49 of its soldiers were killed while Azerbaijan said it lost 50.
Russia moved quickly to help negotiate an end to hostilities, but a cease-fire it tried to broker has failed to hold and clashes have continued.
Late Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin chaired a call with leaders of countries belonging to the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Moscow-dominated grouping of several ex-Soviet nations that includes Armenia. The leaders agreed to send a fact-finding mission including top officials from the grouping to the conflict area.
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Depending on your tolerance for pain, getting a tattoo can be an uncomfortable experience.
But new technology developed by scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology could be about to change that.
A team led by chemical engineer Mark Prausnitz has created a low-cost skin patch containing microscopic needles smaller than a grain of sand. Each of the so-called “microneedles” act like a pixel and so can be arranged in different patterns. Each one is then filled with ink before being pressed onto the skin a single time to transfer the design, with no pain or bleeding involved. The process can even be self-administered.
While the patch could clearly present a welcome breakthrough for folks keen on getting a cosmetic tattoo but who are currently put off by the pain, the team actually began its research with another group in mind — medical patients.
“We’ve miniaturized the needle so that it’s painless, but still effectively deposits tattoo ink in the skin,” Prausnitz said in an article about the new patch, adding that due to the ease of administration, it can also make medical tattoos more accessible.
Medical tattoos can be used to cover up scars, guide repeated cancer radiation treatments, and restore nipples after breast surgery. They can also take the place of bracelets to function as health monitors, alerting doctors to serious conditions such as diabetes, epilepsy, or allergies.
Prausnitz’s team has for a long time been researching microneedles for vaccine delivery and has also started working on using the tattoos to help animal organizations identify spayed and neutered pets. But it’s the patches’ suitability for cosmetic tattoos that’s been gaining the most attention.
“We saw this as an opportunity to leverage our work on microneedle technology to make tattoos more accessible,” Prausnitz said. “While some people are willing to accept the pain and time required for a tattoo, we thought others might prefer a tattoo that is simply pressed onto the skin and does not hurt.”
Tattoo artists needn’t worry about the patches taking their jobs, as they appear geared more toward small, simple designs rather than elaborate ones that require a lot of skill and time.
Prausnitz makes a similar point. “The goal isn’t to replace all tattoos, which are often works of beauty created by tattoo artists,” he said. “Our goal is to create new opportunities for patients, pets, and people who want a painless tattoo that can be easily administered.”
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Bakhtiari (knee) was listed as a limited participant on the Packers' injury report Wednesday.
Bakhtiari sat out Sunday's loss to Minnesota as expected after he was listed with a questionable designation throughout Green Bay's first week of practice. The All-Pro left tackle, who has struggled to find the field since suffering a torn ACL in his left knee in January of 2021, appeared to make significant strides in his recovery as he participated in a limited fashion during 11-on-11 drills earlier this September. Bakhtiari's status will be worth keeping a close eye on approaching the Packers' Week 2 matchup against the Bears on Sunday night.
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Abortion ban legislation adds to political challenge for GOP
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Don Bolduc didn't have much time to celebrate winning the Republican nomination for Senate in New Hampshire on Wednesday before he and other swing-state GOP candidates were on the defensive.
A conservative retired Army brigadier general, Bolduc insisted during the Republican primary he would “always default for a system that protects lives from beginning to end." But South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham's decision to introduce legislation this week that would create a national abortion ban created the prospect that a campaign talking point could become a reality.
With his attention now shifting to the November general election in a moderate state that President Joe Biden carried by more than 7 percentage points, Bolduc quickly distanced himself from Graham's measure.
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“It doesn’t make sense,” he told Fox News, adding that abortion laws are better left to each individual state. “Women on both sides of the issue will get a better voice at the state level.”
With less than two months until the midterm elections, Bolduc's pivot is a sign of the challenge dividing Republicans in some of the most competitive states as they navigate abortion politics. The party was already facing a potential backlash from voters upset by the Supreme Court's June decision invalidating a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. But Graham's legislation risked adding to the headwinds, undermining the GOP's argument this summer that the future of abortion rights in the U.S. would be decided by individual states.
From carmakers to refiners, industries brace for rail strike
Car buyers might not get the vehicle they want on time, commuter rail lines could see service disrupted, and shipments from everything from oil to livestock feed could be snarled.
Those are just a few of the wide-ranging impacts a walkout by U.S. rail workers would have on the country’s industries and economy. A strike could happen if the railroads and unions can’t settle their differences before an early Friday walkout deadline.
Here’s how some industries are gauging the potential impacts and getting ready for the possible work stoppage.
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Ukrainian flag raised in retaken city after Russian retreat
IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — Hand on heart, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watched his country’s flag rise Wednesday above the recaptured city of Izium, making a rare foray outside the capital that highlights Moscow’s embarrassing retreat from a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Russian forces left the war-scarred city last week as Kyiv's soldiers pressed a stunning advance that has reclaimed large swaths of territory in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region.
As Zelenskyy looked on and sang the national anthem, the Ukrainian flag was raised in front of the burned-out city hall. After almost six months under Russian occupation, Izium was left largely devastated, with apartment buildings blackened by fire and pockmarked by artillery strikes.
A gaping hole and piles of rubble stood where one building had collapsed.
“The view is very shocking, but it is not shocking for me," Zelenskyy told journalists, "because we began to see the same pictures from Bucha, from the first de-occupied territories … the same destroyed buildings, killed people.”
Queen Elizabeth II lies in state as throngs pay respects
LONDON (AP) — The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II left Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday, borne on a horse-drawn carriage and saluted by cannons and the tolling of Big Ben, in a solemn procession through the flag-draped, crowd-lined streets of London to Westminster Hall. There, a steady stream of mourners paid their respects to Britain's longest-reigning monarch.
As the cortege left the palace, her son, King Charles III, and his siblings and sons marched behind the coffin, which was topped by a wreath of white roses and her crown resting on a purple velvet pillow.
The military procession underscored Elizabeth’s seven decades as head of state as the national mourning process shifted to the grand boulevards and historic landmarks of the U.K. capital.
At 900-year-old Westminster Hall, where the queen will lie in state until her funeral Monday, crowds shuffled past her coffin well into the night. They moved silently down the steps of the hall under a great stained glass window, then past the coffin that was covered with the Royal Standard and had been placed on a raised platform known as a catafalque by eight pallbearers.
There were couples and parents with children, veterans with medals clinking on navy blue blazers, lawmakers and members of the House of Lords. Some wore black or suits and ties, others jeans and sneakers, and all had waited hours to stand in front of the coffin for a few moments
R. Kelly convicted of child porn, enticing girls for sex
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal jury in Chicago convicted R. Kelly on Wednesday of producing child pornography and enticing girls for sex after a monthlong trial in his hometown, delivering another legal blow to the Grammy Award singer who was once one of the world’s biggest R&B stars.
Prosecutors won convictions on six of the 13 counts against him, with many of the convictions carrying long mandatory sentences. But the government lost the marquee count — that Kelly and his then-business manager successfully rigged his state child pornography trial in 2008.
Both of his co-defendants, including longtime business manager Derrel McDavid — who had told jurors that testimony from four Kelly accusers had led him to change his mind about Kelly's believability — were acquitted of all charges.
The trial was, in ways, a do-over of Kelly's 2008 child pornography trial, with a key video critical to both. Kelly, who shed tears of joy when jurors acquitted him in 2008, gave a thumbs-up sign to spectators after Wednesday's verdict but otherwise showed little emotion.
Before Kelly was returned to federal lockup, McDavid hugged Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side to become a superstar.
Defense suddenly rests case in Florida school shooter trial
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz suddenly and surprisingly rested their case Wednesday after calling only a fraction of their expected witnesses, leading to a shouting match after the judge accused them of a lack of professionalism.
Cruz's attorneys had told the judge and prosecutors they would be calling 80 witnesses but rested at the beginning of Wednesday's court session after calling only about 25. There were 11 days of defense testimony overall, the last two spotlighting experts about how his birth mother's heavy use of alcohol during pregnancy might have affected his brain's development and led to his murder of 17 people at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago.
The sudden announcement by lead attorney Melisa McNeill led to a heated exchange between her and Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, who called the decision without warning to her or the prosecution “the most uncalled for, unprofessional way to try a case.”
The 12-member jury and 10 alternates were not present but were lining up outside the courtroom to enter. The sudden announcement also meant prosecutors weren't ready to start their rebuttal case.
Lead prosecutor Mike Satz threw his hands up when Scherer asked if he could begin and, with a nervous laugh, said “no."
Texts: Mississippi ex-governor knew of Favre welfare money
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Newly revealed text messages show how deeply a Mississippi governor was involved in the state paying more than $1 million in welfare money to Brett Favre to help fund one of the retired NFL quarterback's pet projects.
Instead of the money going to help low-income families in one of the nation's poorest states, as intended, it was funneled through a nonprofit group and spent on a new $5 million volleyball facility at a university that the football star and the governor both attended.
One of the texts from 2017 showed Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, who left office in 2020, was “on board” with the arrangement. The state is suing Favre and others, alleging they misspent millions of dollars in welfare money. The director of the nonprofit has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in Mississippi’s largest public corruption case in decades.
The texts were in documents filed Monday in state court by an attorney for the nonprofit, known as the Mississippi Community Education Center. Messages between Favre and the center's executive director, Nancy New, included references to Bryant. The documents also included messages between Bryant and Favre and Bryant and New.
New pleaded guilty in April to charges of misspending welfare money, as did her son Zachary New, who helped run the nonprofit. They await sentencing and have agreed to testify against others. Favre has not been charged with any criminal wrongdoing.
Armenia, Azerbaijan agree on cease-fire to end fighting
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia and Azerbaijan negotiated a cease-fire to end a flare-up of fighting that has killed 155 soldiers from both sides, a senior Armenian official said early Thursday.
Armen Grigoryan, the secretary of Armenia's Security Council, announced the truce in televised remarks, saying it took effect hours earlier, at 8 p.m. (1600 GMT) Wednesday. A previous cease-fire that Russia brokered Tuesday quickly failed.
Several hours before Grigoryan's announcement, Armenia's Defense Ministry reported that shelling had ceased but it didn't mention the cease-fire deal.
There was no immediate comment from Azerbaijan's government.
The cease-fire declaration followed two days of heavy fighting that marked the largest outbreak of hostilities between the two longtime adversaries in nearly two years.
Q&A: Next steps for Iowa teen sentenced for killing rapist
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Donations are pouring in to help a 17-year-old sex trafficking victim who was ordered by a court to pay $150,000 to the family of a man she stabbed to death after he raped her.
A GoFundMe campaign set up for Pieper Lewis has already raised more than $200,000 just one day after the restitution order was handed down by an Iowa judge.
Lewis also received a deferred 20-year prison sentence on Tuesday that will be expunged if she successfully completes five years of closely supervised probation. Prosecutors described the sentence as merciful for a teen who had been horribly abused -- and the judge said the law compelled him to order the $150,000 payment -- but it struck many observers as unnecessarily harsh.
Lewis pleaded guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury in the June 2020 killing of 37-year-old Zachary Brooks, a married father of two. Lewis was 15 when she stabbed Brooks more than 30 times in a Des Moines apartment.
Lewis has maintained that she was trafficked against her will to Brooks for sex multiple times and stabbed him in a fit of rage. Police and prosecutors have not disputed that Lewis was sexually assaulted and trafficked.
'Abbott Elementary' creator wants focus on show, not Kimmel
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Abbott Elementary” creator-star Quinta Brunson said she'd rather focus on the show than Jimmy Kimmel's comedy bit that overshadowed her Emmy acceptance speech and prompted criticism.
But Sheryl Lee Ralph, who received her own Emm y for the sitcom with a rousing song and speech, didn't duck the matter during a Q&A panel discussion Wednesday with TV critics.
“I was like, ‘Oh, the disrespect, Jimmy,'" Ralph recalled. She sarcastically referred to it as “lovely that he was lying on the floor during her wonderful acceptance speech.
“I told him too, to his face, and he understood,” said Ralph, who was honored at Monday's ceremony as best supporting comedy actress for her role in the warm-hearted comedy set in a Philadelphia school.
Brunson won the best comedy series writing Emmy and found herself sharing the Emmy stage with Kimmel — who was flat on his back, dragged by fellow presenter Will Arnett because the late-night host had supposedly had too many “skinny Margaritas.” Kimmel gave Brunson a thumbs-up for her award but didn’t budge, a decision that was blasted online as rude and thoughtless by some and cited as an example of white-male arrogance by others.
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Atlanta beats Orlando 1-0, clinching Red Bulls playoff berth
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Thiago Almada scored in the 72nd minute and Raul Gudino stopped three shots as Atlanta United beat Orlando City 1-0 on Wednesday night. Orlando's loss clinched a playoff berth for the New York Red Bulls, the team's 13th consecutive postseason appearance. New York became the third Eastern Conference team to clinch a berth after Philadelphia and Montreal.
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Dad buys newborn son his own yacht, designer wardrobe; his two-year-old daughter has private chef and hairstylist
A dad has shared the gifts he has bought for his newborn son, including his own personalised yacht and a designer wardrobe.
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- Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, 51, and fiancé Scott Hutchinson, 27, welcomed baby Romeo Tarquin on August 12 via surrogacy
- "We have literally bought every designer that you can imagine already. Burberry, Versace, Dior, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, if a designer sells baby clothes we have snapped them up," Barrie said
- He added, "We just spent £2.5m on a yacht for Romeo and named it after him"
A multi-millionaire dad-of-seven has shared the gifts he has bought for his newborn son, including his own personalised yacht and a designer wardrobe.
Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, 51, and fiancé Scott Hutchinson, 27, welcomed baby Romeo Tarquin on August 12 via surrogacy.
"We have literally bought every designer that you can imagine already. Burberry, Versace, Dior, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, if a designer sells baby clothes we have snapped them up," Barrie told Fabulous.
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Romeo’s first outfit is a newborn baby Gucci that Scott bought.
He said, "But it isn’t just Scott and I who are spoiling Romeo. Before he was born our eldest daughter Saffron spent over £10k on clothes, the moment he was born, another £20k. She has totally gone over the top."
"We just spent £2.5m on a yacht for Romeo and named it after him. It is currently in Miami where Saffron is boarding, with her new boyfriend and heading over to Cuba and the surrounding islands for two weeks. We want to give him the same start in life as the other kids so we have set up a trust fund for him," Barrie said.
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Romeo's birth certificate has Barrie and Scott’s name on it. They had originally planned to apply to also have their ex, Tony, named on Romeo’s birth certificate, becoming Britain’s first 'throuple' parents. But now Tony and his new partner Brent will be godparents instead.
Before Romeo's arrival, Barrie and Scott’s daughter Valentina, now two, was used to being the baby of the family. However, there is no chance for Valentina to be jealous of her baby brother, Barrie said.
He said, "In Valentina’s bubble, it is Christmas day every day. She gets what she wants when she wants it. She has a personal chef, a whole play room full of the latest gadgets and toys, full time live-in nanny and a team of house staff that take care of her every need, including a full-time hair stylist that styles her hair every day. She is the ultimate daddies girl, a total Princess!"
Barrie and Scott are having a £6 million mansion built in Essex.
"We have had so much fun renovating, Valentina’s room has come in at around £150k with her new bed costing £38k alone and we haven’t even started on Romeo’s nursery yet," Barrie said.
He added, "The house will house over £16m worth of art, from some amazing artists from around the world."
Barrie became Britain’s first gay dad in 1999.
Barrie and Scott are planning to get married soon.
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Northern Nevada Schools Cancel Wednesday Classes on Air Quality Concerns
Classes for all students at all schools in Washoe County School District have been canceled for Wednesday, September 14. UNR has also canceled in-person classes for the day. As of 8 a.m. Wednesday morning, the air quality in Reno sits at 345, in the hazardous range. This is highest AQI we've seen in Reno since the Mosquito Fire started.
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OXFORD, MI -- The president of the Oxford Community Schools board has resigned, less than a year after the fatal shooting at the district’s high school that killed four.
Oxford Schools Superintendent Ken Weaver sent a letter to parents Wednesday, Sept. 14 about the departure of Tom Donnelly.
“This afternoon, we were informed that Oxford Community Schools Board of Education President Tom Donnelly was resigning from the board, effective today. On behalf of our entire Wildcat family, I would like to thank Tom for his many years of dedicated service to our district and community. We wish Tom and his family all the best in the days ahead. We will be providing information about the open board seat as it becomes available.”
Donnelly was elected in 2020 and, in the aftermath of the Nov. 30, 2021, shooting that killed four students and injured others, presided over meetings where parents pleaded for more accountability.
The school board rejected an offer from state Attorney General Dana Nessel to investigate the shooting and instead sought an independent review from a New York company. Initially, the board voted to delay that review until all criminal and civil litigation was completed in regard to the shooting, but soon after changed course.
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RAW Women's Champion Bianca Belair has named Raquel Rodriguez and Rhea Ripley as the two women she would choose if she were to form a new stable in WWE.
The EST of WWE is currently involved in a storyline with Damage CTRL, led by her longtime rival Bayley. On this week's episode of Monday Night RAW, the group surrounded and attacked her until Alexa Bliss and Asuka came out to make the save. However, Belair named two former champions when asked about her preference for potential stablemates.
During a recent interview with Kenny McIntosh and Alex McCarthy of Inside The Ropes, The EST stated she would like to form a strong stable with Raquel Rodriguez and Rhea Ripley.
“If I could put together a stable with the women’s division that we have now... It’s rough because we have so many amazing women, but I think I will have the strongEST stable, me, Rhea Ripley, and Raquel [Rodriguez]. Who could take that down?” Bianca Belair said.
Former RAW Women's Champion Rhea Ripley is currently an integral part of The Judgment Day stable. Meanwhile, Rodriguez has been teaming up with Aliyah, and the duo recently won the women's tag team championship.
Could Bayley be the one to dethrone Bianca Belair for the RAW Women's Championship?
Damage CTRL revealed its mission is to take control of the women's division and hold all the gold.
IYO SKY and Dakota Kai recently captured the WWE Women's Tag Team Championships from Raquel Rodriguez and Aliyah on the red brand. Meanwhile, Bayley has expressed interest in facing Bianca for the RAW Women's Title.
Although it hasn't been confirmed yet, there's a chance we could see the two stars collide at Extreme Rules for the title.
The Role Model has beaten The EST of WWE before, and if the match happens, there's a chance she could do it again. After all, she's the first-ever WWE Women's Grand Slam Champion. She has defeated major names such as Charlotte Flair, Asuka, and Becky Lynch.
Do you think Bayley could put an end to Bianca Belair's reign? Sound off in the comments below!
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 14, 2022 (Gephardt Daily) — A jackknifed semi-truck closed down I-215 at an intersection with I-80 Wednesday afternoon.
“A semi with an empty trailer was northbound on I-215 and took the ramp to westbound 1-80,” according to a Utah Highway Patrol alert on social media on the 1 p.m. mishap.
“The truck lost control on the wet roadway and jackknifed, hitting the concrete barrier and blocking the ramp.”
A passenger car behind the semi ran into the back of the trailer after it jackknifed.
Emergency medical responded to the scene but only minor injuries were reported.
The crash caused a leak in the truck’s fuel tank, the UHP said and hazmat crews responded to contain the leak.
Initial estimates on road closures were an hour or two for investigation and clean-up, but UHP spokesman Cameron Roden Wednesday evening said he was last advised that closures were still in effect at 6 p.m.
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Boeing Crash Victim's Rep Wants OK For Settlement
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Baltimore prosecutors asked a judge on Wednesday to vacate Adnan Syed's conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee — a case that was chronicled in the hit podcast "Serial."
Baltimore's state's attorney filed a motion in circuit court, saying a lengthy investigation conducted with the defense had uncovered new evidence that could undermine the conviction of Syed, Lee's ex-boyfriend.
"The motion filed today supports a new trial for Syed based on a nearly year-long investigation that revealed undisclosed and newly-developed information regarding two alternative suspects, as well as unreliable cell phone tower data," State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby's office said in a news release.
Syed, 42, has maintained his innocence for decades and captured the attention of millions in 2014 when the debut season of the "Serial" podcast focused on the case and raised doubts about some of the evidence, including cellphone tower data.
Prosecutors recommend that Syed be released
Prosecutors on Wednesday said they weren't asserting that Syed is innocent, but they lacked confidence "in the integrity of the conviction" and recommended he be released on his own recognizance or bail.
"We believe that keeping Mr. Syed detained as we continue to investigate the case with everything that we know now, when we do not have confidence in results of the first trial, would be unjust," Mosby added.
The state's attorney's office said if the court grants its motion it would effectively put Syed in a new trial status, and his convictions would be vacated, but the case would remain active.
"Whether the State ultimately continues with a trial in this matter or dismisses the charges will depend on the outcome of the ongoing investigation," the state's attorney's office said.
State attorney's office says two other suspects may be involved
Prosecutors said a reinvestigation of the case revealed evidence regarding the possible involvement of two alternative suspects other than Syed. The two suspects may be involved individually or may be involved together, the state's attorney's office said. One suspect had threatened Lee, saying "he would make her
One of the suspects had threatened Lee, saying "he would make her (Ms. Lee) disappear. He would kill her," according to the filing.
"Given the stunning lack of reliable evidence implicating Mr. Syed, coupled with increasing evidence pointing to other suspects, this unjust conviction cannot stand," said Assistant Public Defender Erica Suter, Mr. Syed's attorney and, Director of the Innocence Project Clinic. "Mr. Syed is grateful that this information has finally seen the light of day and looks forward to his day in court."
The suspects were known persons at the time of the original investigation and were not properly ruled out nor disclosed to the defense, prosecutors said.
The investigation also found a separate document from the original trial file, in which a different person relayed information that can be viewed as a motive for that same suspect to harm the victim, prosecutors said. The information about the threat and motives to harm could have provided a basis for the defense and was not disclosed to the trial nor the post-conviction defense counsel, the state's attorney's office said.
Prosecutors also said new information revealed that one of the suspects was convicted of attacking a woman in her vehicle, and that one of the suspects was convicted of engaging in serial rape and sexual assault.
The state's attorney's office declined to release information about the suspects, due to the ongoing investigation.
Prosecutors also noted unreliable cellphone data used during Syed's court case to corroborate his whereabouts on the day of the crime. The notice on the records specifically advised that the billing locations for incoming calls "would not be considered reliable information for location."
"Evidence proved that the State should not have relied on the incoming call evidence," the state's attorney's office said.
Syed has served more than 20 years in prison for the strangling of Lee, who was 18 at the time. Her body was found weeks later buried in a Baltimore park.
More than a decade later, the popular "Serial" podcast revealed little-known evidence and attracted millions of listeners, shattering podcast-streaming and downloading records.
In 2016, a lower court ordered a retrial for Syed on grounds that his attorney, Cristina Gutierrez, who died in 2004, didn't contact an alibi witness and provided ineffective counsel.
But after a series of appeals, Maryland's highest court in 2019 denied a new trial in a 4-3 opinion. The Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court that Syed's legal counsel was deficient in failing to investigate an alibi witness, but it disagreed that the deficiency prejudiced the case. The court said Syed waived his ineffective counsel claim.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Syed's case in 2019.
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Two people have reportedly been arrested in connection with the theft of two guns from the home of mayoral candidate and U.S. Rep. Karen Bass, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
Bass’s Baldwin Vista home was broken into on Friday, and though cash, electronics and other valuables were left undisturbed, two guns stored in a Brinks safe were taken.
Bass said she met with the Los Angeles Police Department Wednesday and officials confirmed two arrests, the Times reported.
Later Wednesday, in a release whose details align with the burglary at Bass’s home, the LAPD said the two men were arrested Tuesday evening after officers matched their vehicle to one that was at the scene of the theft Friday.
Police identified the burglars as 42-year-old Patricio Munoz, who is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail, and 24-year-old Juan Espinoza, who is being held without bail. Both face a residential burglary charge.
Previously, police released a photo of one suspect, and they did not detail which man is believed to be depicted in that picture, nor how the other man is suspected of being involved.
No information was released as to whether the guns were returned to Bass or if they remain outstanding.
The case has yet to be presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for the filing of charges.
Bass is competing with developer Rick Caruso in the November general election for L.A. mayor.
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Dengue cases are on the rise in Pakistan in the wake of the catastrophic flooding across the country triggered by record monsoon rain since mid-June, the media reported on Thursday.
Dengue cases are on the rise in Pakistan in the wake of the catastrophic flooding across the country triggered by record monsoon rain since mid-June, the media reported on Thursday.
As relief and rescue operations continue, officials have warned of a looming health crisis with a surge in dengue, malaria and severe gastric infections, reports the BBC.
About 3,830 cases of dengue fever have been reported by health officials in Sindh province, one of the worst-hit regions, with at least nine deaths.
"The overall situation in Sindh is very bad, we are organising medical camps all over the province. Most of the cases we are seeing now are of dengue patients followed closely by malaria," Abdul Ghafoor Shoro, secretary general of the Pakistan Medical Association, told the BBC.
"The dengue burden is the same all over the province and it's increasing daily. When we checked with the laboratories, the suspected cases are around 80 per cent of tests being done."
Shoro, who has been treating scores of dengue patients at Agha Khan hospital in Karachi, told the BBC that the situation is only going to worsen in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile, the overall death toll in Pakistan from this season's monsoon rains and floods has increased to 1,486, along with 12,749 injured, according to the latest update by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
The NDMA further added that 179,281 people have been rescued and 546,288 others are currently living in camps.
Some 33 million people across the country have been affected so far.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Baltimore prosecutors asked a judge on Wednesday to vacate Adnan Syed's conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee — a case that was chronicled in the hit podcast "Serial."
Baltimore's state's attorney filed a motion in circuit court, saying a lengthy investigation conducted with the defense had uncovered new evidence that could undermine the conviction of Syed, Lee's ex-boyfriend.
"The motion filed today supports a new trial for Syed based on a nearly year-long investigation that revealed undisclosed and newly-developed information regarding two alternative suspects, as well as unreliable cell phone tower data," State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby's office said in a news release.
Syed, 42, has maintained his innocence for decades and captured the attention of millions in 2014 when the debut season of the "Serial" podcast focused on the case and raised doubts about some of the evidence, including cellphone tower data.
Prosecutors recommend that Syed be released
Prosecutors on Wednesday said they weren't asserting that Syed is innocent, but they lacked confidence "in the integrity of the conviction" and recommended he be released on his own recognizance or bail.
"We believe that keeping Mr. Syed detained as we continue to investigate the case with everything that we know now, when we do not have confidence in results of the first trial, would be unjust," Mosby added.
The state's attorney's office said if the court grants its motion it would effectively put Syed in a new trial status, and his convictions would be vacated, but the case would remain active.
"Whether the State ultimately continues with a trial in this matter or dismisses the charges will depend on the outcome of the ongoing investigation," the state's attorney's office said.
State attorney's office says two other suspects may be involved
Prosecutors said a reinvestigation of the case revealed evidence regarding the possible involvement of two alternative suspects other than Syed. The two suspects may be involved individually or may be involved together, the state's attorney's office said. One suspect had threatened Lee, saying "he would make her
One of the suspects had threatened Lee, saying "he would make her (Ms. Lee) disappear. He would kill her," according to the filing.
"Given the stunning lack of reliable evidence implicating Mr. Syed, coupled with increasing evidence pointing to other suspects, this unjust conviction cannot stand," said Assistant Public Defender Erica Suter, Mr. Syed's attorney and, Director of the Innocence Project Clinic. "Mr. Syed is grateful that this information has finally seen the light of day and looks forward to his day in court."
The suspects were known persons at the time of the original investigation and were not properly ruled out nor disclosed to the defense, prosecutors said.
The investigation also found a separate document from the original trial file, in which a different person relayed information that can be viewed as a motive for that same suspect to harm the victim, prosecutors said. The information about the threat and motives to harm could have provided a basis for the defense and was not disclosed to the trial nor the post-conviction defense counsel, the state's attorney's office said.
Prosecutors also said new information revealed that one of the suspects was convicted of attacking a woman in her vehicle, and that one of the suspects was convicted of engaging in serial rape and sexual assault.
The state's attorney's office declined to release information about the suspects, due to the ongoing investigation.
Prosecutors also noted unreliable cellphone data used during Syed's court case to corroborate his whereabouts on the day of the crime. The notice on the records specifically advised that the billing locations for incoming calls "would not be considered reliable information for location."
"Evidence proved that the State should not have relied on the incoming call evidence," the state's attorney's office said.
Syed has served more than 20 years in prison for the strangling of Lee, who was 18 at the time. Her body was found weeks later buried in a Baltimore park.
More than a decade later, the popular "Serial" podcast revealed little-known evidence and attracted millions of listeners, shattering podcast-streaming and downloading records.
In 2016, a lower court ordered a retrial for Syed on grounds that his attorney, Cristina Gutierrez, who died in 2004, didn't contact an alibi witness and provided ineffective counsel.
But after a series of appeals, Maryland's highest court in 2019 denied a new trial in a 4-3 opinion. The Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court that Syed's legal counsel was deficient in failing to investigate an alibi witness, but it disagreed that the deficiency prejudiced the case. The court said Syed waived his ineffective counsel claim.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Syed's case in 2019.
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Back in the early 1990s, Nathaniel Landau was a young virologist just starting his career in HIV research. But he and his colleagues were already on the verge of a landmark breakthrough. Several labs around the world were hot on his team's tail.
"We were sleeping in the lab, just to keep the work going day and night because there were many labs all racing against each other," Landau says. "Of course, we wanted to be the first to do it. We were totally stressed out."
Other scientists had identified groups of people who appeared to be completely resistant to HIV. "People who knew they had been exposed to HIV multiple times, mainly through unprotected sex, yet they clearly were not infected," Landau explains.
And so the race was on to figure out why: "Are these people just lucky or did they really have a mutation in their genes that was protecting them from infection?'" he asks.
Now 25 years later, scientists all over the world are trying to answer the same question but about a different virus: SARS-CoV-2.
By this point in the pandemic, most Americans have had at least one bout of COVID. For children under age 18, more than 80% of them have been infected, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
But just as with HIV, some people have been exposed multiple times but never had symptoms and never tested positive.
"We've heard countless anecdotes about nurses and health-care workers, being exposed without any protection and remaining negative over and over again," says pediatrician Jean-Laurent Casanova, who studies the genetics of viral resistance at Rockefeller University. "Or people share a household with someone who's been coughing for a couple of weeks, and one person stays negative."
So why haven't these people caught COVID? .
After two years of hunting, a team at the University of California, San Francisco has come pretty close to answering the question.
"These findings are like hot off the presses," says immunogeneticist Jill Hollenbach, who led this research. "We haven't published them yet. It's all stuff that's been happening this summer."
Hollenbach and her team have found a genetic mutation doesn't prevent the virus from infecting cells – that's what Landau was searching for– but still does something remarkable: It prevents a person from having COVID symptoms.
Turns out, stopping an infection altogether is an extremely tough nut for our bodies to crack.
What does it take to be a true superdodger?
Over the course of human history, scientists have identified only two instances of true virus superdogers. That is, where a specific mutation in their genes makes people completely resistant to a virus. So that it slides off their cells, "like water sliding off a glass window," as Casanova puts it.
In 2003, a team in London showed how some people never get a stomach bug, called norovirus, which causes vomiting and diarrhea. The researchers found that one mutation in their genes prevents them from making a molecule the virus needs to infect the cell.
(In 1995, researchers in France figured out why some people appeared to never be infected with a species of malaria, known as Plasmodium vivax. However, over the past decade, further studies have clarified that these superdodgers actually do become infected with the parasite, they simply don't show symptoms.)
By far, the most famous virus superdodgers are people protected against HIV. The ones Landau and his colleagues were studying back in the early 1990s.
In 1996, his team was getting really close to solving that puzzle. One morning they found a huge clue. The night before, they had set up an experiment to test which molecules HIV needed to infect a human cell. The experiment garnered spectacular results.
It showed that HIV didn't enter cells the way scientists had believed. Instead it needed a little bit of extra help. Specifically, HIV needs a specific molecule, called CCR5, on the surface of the cell to "open the door" and let the virus enter, Landau says. Without CCR5, the virus only sticks to the cell's surface but can't enter. "It's kind of like the virus is knocking at the door, but nobody's opening the door. The door is locked," he says.
"That was what we call a eureka moment," Landau says. "That was the moment where we could say, 'We found something that had never been seen before.' "
Landau and his colleagues rushed to the computer and wrote up the findings as quickly as possible. Then he literally ran to the FedEx store to submit the paper to the journal Nature, knowing that other teams were likely to have the same finding soon.
"In those days you couldn't just submit your paper through your computer," he says. "You had to mail a hard copy of it to the journal. And my job was to sprint over to the FedEx store so we could get the paper mailed on time."
Then only a few short weeks later, Landau and his colleagues made another huge discovery, and in the process solved the final piece of the HIV puzzle. . "We were quite amazed that it all happened so quickly," Landau says.
In collaboration with a research group down the hall, Landau and his colleagues sequenced the CCR5 gene in two people completely resistant to HIV. Lo and behold! Both people had the same mutation in the gene – and it's a powerful mutation. It completely cripples the molecule so that it doesn't appear on the cells' surface, the group reported in the journal Cell. Remember, without CCR5, HIV can't infect the cell.
"You can put as many virus particles as you want onto those cells, and they will not get infected," he says. "So in the case of resistance to HIV, the story was very clear."
The finding completely shifted the field of HIV. It led to the first – and only – way to cure a person of HIV and suggested a new route, using gene editing with CRISPR.. But it did something else: It showed scientists that one mutation could make a person completely resistant to an infection. One mutation in their genes could make them a true superdodger.
"So when SARS-CoV-2 came along, of course, many labs looked to see if the same might be true for this virus," Landau says. And inspired by the story of CCR5, they went looking for mutations in the genes required for SARS-CoV-2 to enter and infect cells.
Are there really COVID superdodgers?
For COVID superdodgers, the situation appears to be more complex than for people resistant to HIV, Landau says, because the way SARS-CoV-2 infects cells is different from that of HIV.
Instead of using CCR5 to "open the cell's door," SARS-CoV-2 uses the ACE2 receptor. People can't live without ACE2. "The receptor regulates your blood pressure," Landau explains. So, unlike CCR5, you can't simply knock out the ACE2 receptor, he says. "You're not going to have many people walking around that don't have ACE2.
"Of course, there may be more subtle mutations in ACE2 which could play a role in resistance to SARS-CoV-2," he adds. "But there doesn't seem to be an obvious and dramatic mutation as is the case for HIV."
But perhaps what's more likely, he says, is that people have mutations in genes other than ACE2, and these mutations probably don't protect them from getting infected per se but do protect them from getting sick.
So having one of these mutations would make you a sort of COVID minidodger, if you will. There are other ways to resist an infection besides denying the virus entrance into the cell, Landau explains. And they likely involve your body's immune system.
That's exactly what the team at UCSF has found.
Since the pandemic began, Jill Hollenbach and her colleagues at UCSF have been studying people who test positive COVID but show no symptoms. "Not even a sniffle or a scratchy throat," she says. "So they are entirely asymptomatic."
After analyzing DNA from more than 1,400 people, they identified a mutation that helps a person clear out a SARS-CoV-2 so fast that their body doesn't have a chance to develop symptoms.
The mutation occurs in a gene called HLA, which is critical during the earliest stages of infection. Hollenbach and her colleagues found that having a particular mutation in that gene increases a person's chance of being asymptomatic by almost 10 times. They reported those preliminary findings online last September.
Since then, they've gone on to show how this mutation works. And it has to do with your immune system preparing for SARS-CoV-2 before the pandemic even began back in 2019.
When viruses first enter cells, HLA signals to the immune system that cells are invaded and need help. That signal triggers a cascade of events that ultimately leads your body to make potent weapons specifically designed to fight SARS-CoV-2. These weapons include antibodies and T cells that uniquely recognize pieces of this virus. Once these targeted weapons are available, your immune system has a much easier time clearing up the infection. But these weapons take time to manufacture. And that delay allows the infection to spread and symptoms to develop.
But what if, for some lucky reason, your immune system already had weapons specifically targeted to SARS-CoV-2?
This summer, Hollenbach and her colleagues demonstrated that, with a specific mutation in HLA, some people have T cells that are already pre-programmed to recognize and fight off SARS-CoV-2. So there's no delay in generating COVID-specfic weaponry. It's already there.
"Your immune response and these T cells fire up much more quickly [than in a person without the HLA mutation]," Hollenbach says. "So for lack of a better term, you basically nuke the infection before you even start to have symptoms."
But here's the kicker. For the HLA mutation to work (and for you to have these pre-armed T cells), you first had to have been infected with another coronavirus.
"Most of us have been exposed to some common cold coronavirus at some point in life," she explains. And we all generate T cells to fight off these colds. But if you also have this mutation in your HLA, Hollenbach says, then just by mere luck, these T cells you make can also fight off SARS-CoV-2.
"It's definitely luck," she says. "But, you know, this mutation is quite common. We estimate that maybe 1 in 10 people have it. And in people who are asymptomatic, that rises to 1 in 5."
While Hollenbach and her team continue to look for more minidodger genes, Casanova over at Rockefeller University and his colleagues are still trying to determine if there are true superdodger genes. And he's looking for participants right now for his study.
"You fill out a questionnaire online about your exposures to SARS-CoV-2," he says. And then if you meet the criteria of a superdodger, the team sends you a testing kit. Basically you spit in a cup and mail it back to Casanova and his collaborators.
"We'll extract your DNA and sequence your genome," he explains. "We hope that in a group of 2,000 to 4,000 people, some people will have genetic mutations that tell us why they're resistant to infection."
And perhaps, like with HIV, that finding will one day shift the field of COVID research and lead to a vaccine that does what everyone wishes our current vaccines do: turn everyone into a COVID superdodger.
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How to add widgets to iPhone lock screen in iOS 16
Users with the iOS 16 update can now add widgets to their iPhone lock screen.
The latest update for iPhone is here, allowing users to add new widgets to their lock screen. With iOS 16 installed, the process of adding new widgets is simple, and will only take a few minutes. These widgets can continue to be customized should you require new elements.
Add widgets to lock screen
The process of adding new widgets to the iPhone lock screen with the iOS 16 update is straightforward. Here are the steps you must take:
- Hold your lock screen and select Customize
- Select Add New to be taken to Wallpaper and then Widget screens
- Choose what type of wallpaper you want
- Select the Add Widget to see all available widget options
- Make your selections, tap the X and then tap Done to complete
To begin, lock your iPhone and hold the lock screen. This new screen will give you the option to customize what appears on your phone when it is in the locked state. Tap the Add New button to be taken to a new options menu that will allow you to completely customize several elements on your iPhone.
Select the type of wallpaper you want to use. This will be the template on which you can add your widgets. You can create a wallpaper made of emojis, use images you have saved, or take advantage of one of Apple’s pre-made wallpapers.
Once you’ve made your wallpaper selection, the next screen will show anything already on the wallpaper as being in a widget box. You can now tap the Add Widgets box to customize this screen, adding new elements that you view regularly. It’s possible to add a widget above and below the time display.
As you can see in the image, it’s possible to have things like the weather in your location, stock information, the latest news and other handy elements as widgets. These widgets come in two different sizes, allowing you to have a maximum of four widgets below the time.
After you’ve added you’re your widgets, you’re all set! Next time you lock your iPhone you’ll be able to see your new creation. There are plenty more things to learn about iOS 16, including enabling the battery percentage. Stay tune to Shacknews as we help you navigate any new iOS updates.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Night" game were:
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(two, four, five, six, seven, eleven, thirteen, seventeen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-three, twenty-four)
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Early last year we took a look at how often Federal Circuit judges sit (see blog post). A lot has happened since then, including two new judges joining the court. Below is an updated chart showing data through the August 2022 sitting:
As a reminder, the chart above shows how many different panel days each judge heard argument across each calendar year (and the first eight months of 2022). We excluded panels convened to hear only one case. That can happen, for example, because of a rare argument on a motion or for plus panels, where one judge of a main panel is replaced for a single case (perhaps because of conflicts or when a case comes back on appeal after a remand).
As we noted last year, the data confirm what we often hear – the judges decide many cases a year. But the data also confirm something many regular Federal Circuit practitioners have probably noticed—the number of sittings seems to have dipped in the past year or so. For example, although our data already show the number of sittings for two-thirds of 2022, only Judge Reyna has even passed half the number of sittings this year that he sat last year. Although the data don't show the reason for this dip, one explanation is that this is a delayed dip from pauses in litigation when the COVID-19 pandemic first hit in 2020.
Looking at specific judges, Judge Prost again topped the list for most sittings in 2021, followed by Judge Taranto and then a tie between Chief Judge Moore and Judge Dyk. So far in 2022, Judge Reyna leads all judges. The raw numbers thus suggest you're more likely to see one of these judges on argument morning.
The data also give some details about which senior judges you might find yourself in front of. Judge Clevenger continued to sit the most full panel days of any senior judge in 2021, although he's been sitting with less frequency so far in 2022. This year, Judges Bryson, Schall, and Mayer have been the most likely senior judges to appear on an argument panel. Judge Plager has not yet sat this year. And Judge Wallach seems to be fully embracing his semi-retired status, having sat just once so far.
Check back soon for a follow-up post looking at monthly trends of when judges sit.
Because of the generality of this update, the information provided herein may not be applicable in all situations and should not be acted upon without specific legal advice based on particular situations.
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Today in History
Today is Thursday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2022. There are 107 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Sept. 15, 1963, four Black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen were eventually convicted for their roles in the blast.)
On this date:
In 1776, British forces occupied New York City during the American Revolution.
In 1789, the U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of State.
In 1857, William Howard Taft — who served as President of the United States and as U.S. chief justice — was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship.
In 1940, during the World War II Battle of Britain, the tide turned as the Royal Air Force inflicted heavy losses upon the Luftwaffe.
In 1955, the novel “Lolita,” by Vladimir Nabokov, was first published in Paris.
In 1959, Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet head of state to visit the United States as he arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington.
In 1972, a federal grand jury in Washington indicted seven men in connection with the Watergate break-in.
In 1981, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to approve the Supreme Court nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor.
In 1985, Nike began selling its “Air Jordan 1” sneaker.
In 2001, President George W. Bush ordered U.S. troops to get ready for war and braced Americans for a long, difficult assault against terrorists to avenge the Sept. 11 attack. Beleaguered Afghans streamed out of Kabul, fearing a U.S. military strike against Taliban rulers harboring Osama bin Laden.
In 2006, Ford Motor Co. took drastic steps to remold itself into a smaller, more competitive company, slashing thousands of jobs and shuttering two additional plants.
Ten years ago: Four days after the deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula called for more attacks on U.S. embassies. The State Department ordered non-essential government personnel and family members to leave its embassies in Sudan and Tunisia and warned U.S. citizens against traveling to the two countries. The National Hockey League locked out its players at 11:59 p.m. EDT; it was the league’s fourth shutdown in a decade and one that would cost the league nearly half its season.
Five years ago: North Korea fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan into the northern Pacific, its longest-ever such flight. A bomb partially detonated on a London subway car, injuring 51 people. (An 18-year-old Iraqi asylum-seeker was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to a minimum of 34 years in prison.) Harvard University reversed its decision to name as a visiting fellow Chelsea Manning, the former soldier who’d been convicted of leaking classified information. The Cleveland Indians saw their winning streak end at 22, an American League record, as they lost 4-3 to the Kansas City Royals. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft disintegrated in the skies above Saturn after a journey of 20 years; it was the only spacecraft ever to orbit Saturn and sent back images of the planet, its rings and its moons. Character actor Harry Dean Stanton died at the age of 91.
One year ago: California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom emphatically defeated a recall aimed at kicking him out of office. SpaceX’s first private flight streaked into orbit for a three-day trip carrying two contest winners, a health care worker and their rich sponsor. Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles told a Senate panel that the FBI and gymnastics officials turned a “blind eye” to USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of her and hundreds of other women. President Joe Biden announced that the United States was forming a new Indo-Pacific security alliance with Britain and Australia.
Today’s Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry is 84. Actor Carmen Maura is 77. Writer-director Ron Shelton is 77. Actor Tommy Lee Jones is 76. Movie director Oliver Stone is 76. Rock musician Kelly Keagy (KAY’-gee) (Night Ranger) is 70. Actor Barry Shabaka Henley is 68. Director Pawel Pawlikowski is 65. Rock musician Mitch Dorge (Crash Test Dummies) is 62. Football Hall of Famer Dan Marino is 61. Actor Danny Nucci is 54. Rap DJ KayGee is 53. Actor Josh Charles is 51. Actor Tom Hardy is 45. Actor Marisa Ramirez is 45. Pop-rock musician Zach Filkins (OneRepublic) is 44. Actor Dave Annable is 43. Actor Amy Davidson is 43. Britain’s Prince Harry is 38. TV personality Heidi Montag is 36. Actor Kate Mansi is 35.
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The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department helped rescue a bear cub Wednesday after its mother was hit by a car.
In a Facebook post, the department said that a female bear was hit and killed by a car on Route 16 in Wakefield.
“A single cub was spotted in the area, which unless caught and rehabilitated, would most likely perish,” the department wrote.
Department personnel were able to catch the small male cub, the department said. It was then taken to the Kilham Bear Center in Lyme, New Hampshire, where it will be rehabilitated.
The department said the bear will be released back into the wild when professionals believe it will be able to survive on its own.
Black bears have been a common sight in New England this summer. Researchers are now saying that the black bear population in Massachusetts is booming and moving eastward.
But it’s not just Massachusetts that’s seeing more and more encounters with black bears. In late August, a woman in Vermont was attacked by a black bear.
Earlier that month, a black bear caused a campground in New Hampshire to shutdown for two weeks. In July, another broke into a home in New Hampshire.
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Plans to create dozens of new homes on a derelict site were met with excitement by a Nottingham community - but some are still on the fence with the proposal of a new supermarket being built in the neighbourhood. It comes as a planning application has been submitted to build 62 new homes on a vacant site in Bestwood.
The proposals have been submitted on September 21. A new Lidl and dozens of homes could be built on the 1.6 hectares former site of Chronos Richardson Ltd in Belconnen Road if the plans get the green light.
The erection of a new Lidl in the area has been described as a 'major development' in the application, and the supermarket would also come with a car park. However, neighbours living in flats in Wyton Close, near the vacant site, said they already have "too many supermarkets here".
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Adrian Balcer, a painter and decorator in the area, 31, said: "There would be too many shops here. We have already got plenty of shops.
"We have got a Co-op, and Aldi. No one needs that many shops, we are surrounded by supermarkets.
"There would be no cutomers because we already have too many. I think we need more homes in the area because these flats are old and damp.
"No one is happy in these flats. People are getting angry because of the damp", he added.
"I think they should build the houses and leave the supermarket. It would be nice to have some green space."
Tom Adamski, also a resident in the area, added: "A playground would be nice. We do not need more supermarkets."
The 43-year-old driver, also a dad, added: "There are many children here with nowhere to play. Give these children a playground or a park.
"I guess it is better than leaving the site as it is. But I just feel like some green space or a park would be better."
However, Marilena Kristiadi, a residential manager, 27, said she would like to have a Lidl on her doorstep as it is "my favourite place to shop at". She added: "It is so cheap, it is the best.
"We have got an Aldi but it is not as good as Lidl. I am glad that they are building more houses too."
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Residents in a tight-knit Wagga neighbourhood have been left dismayed after finding out their playground and park, which has already been fenced off for 13 months, will stay closed for even longer than anticipated.
Wagga City Council closed the Galing Place park in August 2021 after detecting dangerous concentrations of metals in the soil of the former landfill site.
Nearby families were initially advised the park would re-open by February 2023, but in a recent letter the estimated finishing date for the remediation works is now mid-2023.
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Local resident Bev Zurbo says this is a huge blow for the neighbourhood, who have already been impacted significantly by losing their social hub for so long.
"We're just feeling really disgusted because it feels like we're right at the end of the queue for getting anything done," she said.
"The people are looking out their windows at fences and the children have nowhere to play."
Council's manager of environment and regulatory services Mark Gardiner says the site had to be closed while a strategy to remediate the park was established, as it could have been dangerous to allow people in.
He says plans to cap the site with an additional layer of soil have now been finalised and the next step will be tendering for a contractor to conduct the works.
"The timeframes are only estimates at this stage and will be dependent on when the contractor commences and completes the works," Mr Gardiner said.
As part of the works, the playground on the site will also be upgraded and receive additional seating, shade sails and irrigated turf.
Local residents will be contacted in October with a selection of designs for the new playground and asked for their input, Mr Gardiner said.
Ms Zurbo says the promise of an upgraded playground is little consolation considering it now appears the community will go more than two years without access to their park.
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BCG's 2022 Most Innovative Companies Report Finds Plenty of "Will" but Much Less "Way" When It Comes to Climate and Sustainability Innovation Readiness
BOSTON, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Two-thirds of the companies in Boston Consulting Group's 2022 global innovation survey rank climate and sustainability (C&S) as a top corporate priority, while more than half report that they are committed C&S innovators, ranking both innovation and C&S among their top three priorities. However, according to a new report released by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) today, only about one in five companies are ready to act, which means they have incorporated C&S priorities into their innovation engines, have built the capabilities they need, and are ready to develop the product, process, and business model innovations that can deliver.
This year, for its 16th Most Innovative Companies report, Are You Ready for Green Growth?, BCG for the first time asked about the importance of C&S in innovation. As more big companies announce net-zero pledges almost daily, the innovation readiness gap between commitment and capability that emerges from the research becomes an existential problem.
"While many companies talk about sustainability and make net-zero emissions pledges, far too few of them have truly done the work of integrating C&S priorities into their innovation engines and producing tangible results," says Justin Manly, global leader of BCG's growth and innovation segment and coauthor of the report. "At the same time, investors, regulators, customers, and shareholders are all looking to big companies and their CEOs to take the lead in making real progress against global warming."
The report measures committed C&S innovators against BCG's innovation-to-impact benchmarking framework (i2i) to assess the readiness of their innovation practices and platforms. Among committed C&S companies, 28% score 80 or higher (a perfect i2i score is 100), marking them as "ready" and equipped with well-developed and practiced innovation capabilities. This indicates that nearly three quarters of committed C&S innovators need to raise their innovation game and 80% of all companies face a steep learning curve.
Many on the 2022 list of the 50 most innovative companies are already C&S innovation leaders—a good number of them being among the earliest to embrace environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles and establish decarbonization commitments. Almost 80% (39) qualify as top C&S innovators, according to global peer votes.
For the second consecutive year, Apple holds the top spot on the list (see the exhibit). Microsoft climbs two positions to second place, Amazon moves one place to third, Alphabet falls three places to fourth, and Tesla hold onto its fifth place position. Four new companies—ByteDance (#45), Nvidia (#15), Panasonic (#46), and Zalando (#25)—join the top 50. This year's list sees a rebound by the automotive industry, with GM (#42) and Ford (#43) rejoining the top 50, Tesla (#5) and Toyota (#21) holding their positions. Hyundai (#33) is another holdover from the 2021 list. Automotive is also the number two sector for the percentage of companies prioritizing C&S-- a reflection of the industry's commitment to electric and autonomous vehicles).
Consistent with the last five years of BCG's top 50 ranking, more than half the companies on this year's list are based in North America. Meanwhile, Asia-Pacific and Greater China continue to be rising hubs for innovation, with companies from those regions increasing their representation on the top 50 list from four and three companies in 2018 to eight and seven companies in 2022, respectively.
The report reveals that industries responsible for the highest emissions—durable goods (85%), automotive (78%), utilities (77%), and oil and gas (77%)—are the ones that prioritize C&S the most. Additionally, high-emitting companies are 20% more likely than low emitters to target the kind of deep tech solutions needed to substantially decarbonize.
C&S-ready companies emphasize a number of aspects of their innovation systems more aggressively than other ready innovators do. They start with greater ambitions, identify the domains to focus on, manage the "idea funnel," and have clear performance goals. They also engage more actively with partners and even competitors.
Ready innovators have also seen a positive impact on the productivity of their innovation and R&D activities, with 80% of companies surveyed working remotely two or more days a week and 49% of C&S-ready innovators reporting that the productivity of their innovation and R&D activities have improved by 10%–50% because of these new ways of working.
"As sustainability moves up the agenda in boardrooms and C-suites everywhere, the importance of innovation rises commensurately," says Michael Ringel, BCG's global leader for innovation analytics and research and coauthor of the report. "But innovation—be it in products, processes, or business models—is not a siloed function and does not take place in a walled-off lab. Progress depends on innovation being embedded throughout the organization, with the same human and technological capabilities that drive success on other topics."
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Zellers put the Braves on the board 1:40 into the game when she beat Selinsgrove's goalkeeper to a long pass by Jillian Deivert. Zellers took one touch to get around the onrushing keeper, and buried it into the back of the net.
"I knew I couldn't get in my own head, even though I wanted to make up for last game," Zellers said. "I felt a lot of pressure leave my shoulders after I scored."
Shikellamy doubled its lead 13:10 into the game when Allison Anselmo found a wide-open Carly Harter on the other side of the field. Harter took a touch, and then ripped a shot into the top corner.
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A developer is a step closer to finding out if its plans to build up to 200 homes in Flint will be approved or not.
Housebuilder Watkin Jones wants to develop agricultural land next to Northop Road on the edge of the town.
A previous application to build 145 houses on the land close to Flint High School was submitted by Anwyl in 2018 but was later withdrawn.
In June North Wales-based Watkin Jones held two public consultation events in Flint where plans were put on display.
At the same time, PL Planning acting on behalf of the developer submitted an environmental impact assessment (EIA) screening opinion request to Flintshire County Council.
This process is a check to see whether a development will need an EIA to proceed and identifies projects that could have a significant impact on the environment.
The council has now responded to the request and has stated that a screening opinion has been deemed not necessary as it “does not meet relevant threshold/criterion.”
In a letter, PL Planning states: “The proposed development covers some 8.6 ha of land situated to the south of Flint, lying west of Northop Road. ”
“It is agricultural land, allocated for residential development in the Flintshire Local Development Plan.”
The LDP is a key development blueprint for Flintshire which sets out where around 7,000 houses could be built in the county over the next decade, it could be ratified by October.
The letter goes on to say: “Rhiwlas and Bod Hyfryd Care Homes lie along the part eastern boundary.”
“The Development would infill between existing development to form a (southerly) extension of the town.”
“Open agricultural land and a group of trees lie to the south/southeast. Beyond Northop Road to the east lies a petrol filling station, Flint High School and agricultural land.”
The letter also states: “Ecology reporting identifies protected species (Badgers, Bats) on site. ”
“The development design includes features to mitigate ecological impacts, such as ponds, hedgerows, trees, and substantial tree belt along the southern boundary plus internal landscaping to integrate the site into its setting.”
“Additional measures ensure the status of badgers (through separation, provision of badger tunnels and corridors), new bat and bird boxes and sensitively chosen planting secure enhanced biodiversity and integration into the site.”
“New habitat along site boundaries, connects features between the site and the wider environment.”
The letter concludes: “No part of the proposed development would be carried out in a ‘sensitive area’ as defined in the EIA Regulations. The proposed development of 200 dwellings is unlikely to have significant environmental effects. Its specific effects are localised and would be mitigated.”
Should planning permission be granted, the development will comprise of 2, 3 and 4-bed homes of “a range of types and styles.”
“The homes will be built in compliance with the Home Quality Mark and heat pumps will be standard on selected plots.” The developers have stated.
The development will include 30 affordable homes (15%) “in line with the emerging Local Development Plan (LDP).”
Flintshire Council’s planning committee will now decide whether or not to approve plans, no date has been indicated as to when a decision will be taken.
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In the areas of verbal memory, motor speed and processing speed, the retired fighters had improvements in their scores over time, while the active fighters’ scores were stable or showed subtle declines.
For verbal memory, researchers used scores from an FDA approved thinking and behavior test with higher scores indicating better memory. They found that over time, retired fighters on average had an increase of three points whereas active fighters had an average decrease of two points.
Researchers also found different patterns of change over time between retired and active fighters in the ability to detect and respond to rapid changes in the environment and how long it takes to complete tasks.
For neurofilament light chain levels, retired fighters showed a decrease in levels in their blood from the start to the end of the study, while active fighters remained stable throughout the study.
Researchers also measured brain thickness in the areas of the brain that control emotion, memory, and executive function, which is a person’s ability to plan, focus, and manage multiple tasks. Out of 68 brain regions measured, 54 regions had a consistently changing trajectory, with thickness measures stabilizing for retired fighters and subtly declining over time for active fighters.
“The results of this study suggest a recovery of cognitive functioning in fighters who are no longer exposed to repetitive hits to the head,” said Ritter. “Future research is needed to determine if there is a time in a fighter’s career where recovery is less likely to happen or to identify factors that might indicate greater risk for developing a neurodegenerative condition.”
A limitation of the study was the inability to determine the exact number of repetitive head hits each participant sustained. Many head impacts occur during training, and there is no generally accepted way of measuring them. This study also looked only at male fighters.
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, Lincy Foundation, Belator, Ultimate Fighting Championship Company (UFC), the August Rapone Family Foundation, Top Rank, and Haymon Boxing.
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During the first two years of the pandemic, the number of people working from home in the United States tripled, home values grew and the percentage of people who spent more than a third of their income on rent went up, according to survey results released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Providing the most detailed data to date on how life changed in the U.S. under COVID-19, the bureau's American Community Survey 1-year estimates for 2021 showed that the share of unmarried couples living together rose, Americans became more wired and the percentage of people who identify as multiracial grew significantly. And in changes that seemed to directly reflect how the pandemic upended people's choices, fewer people moved, preschool enrollment dropped and commuters using public transportation was cut in half.
The data release offers the first reliable glimpse of life in the U.S. during the COVID-19 era, as the 1-year estimates from the 2020 survey were deemed unusable because of problems getting people to answer during the early months of the pandemic. That left a one-year data gap during a time when the pandemic forced major changes in the way people live their lives.
The survey typically relies on responses from 3.5 million households to provide 11 billion estimates each year about commuting times, internet access, family life, income, education levels, disabilities, military service and employment. The estimates help inform how to distribute hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending.
Response rates significantly improved from 2020 to 2021, “so we are confident about the data for this year,” said Mark Asiala, the survey’s chief of statistical design.
While the percentage of married-couple households stayed stable over the two years at around 47%, the percent of households with unwed couples cohabiting rose to 7.2% in 2021 from 6.6% in 2019. Contrary to pop culture images of multigenerational family members moving in together during the pandemic, the average household size actually contracted from 2.6 to 2.5 people.
People also stayed put. More than 87% of those surveyed were living in their same house a year ago in 2021, compared to 86% in 2019. America became more wired as people became more reliant on remote learning and working from home. Households with a computer rose, from 92.9% in 2019 to 95% in 2021, and internet subscription services grew from 86% to 90% of households.
The jump in people who identify as multiracial — from 3.4% in 2019 to 12.6% in 2021 — and a decline in people identifying as white alone — from 72% to 61.2% — coincided with Census Bureau changes in coding race and Hispanic origin responses. Those adjustments were intended to capture more detailed write-in answers from participants. The period between surveys also overlapped with social justice protests following the killing of George Floyd, who was Black, by a white Minneapolis police officer in 2020 as well as attacks against Asian Americans. Experts say this likely lead some multiracial people who previously might have identified as a single race to instead embrace all of their background.
“The pattern is strong evidence of shifting self-identity. This is not new," said Paul Ong, a professor emeritus of urban planning and Asian American Studies at UCLA. “Other research has shown that racial or ethnic identity can change even over a short time period. For many, it is contextual and situational. This is particularly true for individuals with multiracial background."
The estimates show the pandemic-related impact of closed theaters, shuttered theme parks and restaurants with limited seating on workers in arts, entertainment and accommodation businesses. Their numbers declined from 9.7% to 8.2% of the workforce, while other industries stayed comparatively stable. Those who were self-employed inched up to 6.1% from 5.8%.
Housing demand grew over the two years, as the percent of vacant homes dropped from 12.1% to 10.3%. The median value of homes rose from $240,500 to $281,400. The percent of people whose gross rent exceeded more than 30% of their income went from 48.5% to 51%. Historically, renters are considered rent-burdened if they pay more than that.
“Lack of housing that folks can afford relative to the wages they are paid is a continually growing crisis," said Allison Plyer, chief demographer at The Data Center in New Orleans.
Commutes to work dropped from 27.6 minutes to 25.6 minutes, as the percent of people working from home during a period of return-to-office starts and stops went from 5.7% in 2019 to almost 18% in 2021. Almost half of workers in the District of Columbia worked from home, the highest rate in the nation, while Mississippi had the lowest rate at 6.3% Over the two years, the percent of workers nationwide using public transportation to get to work went from 5% to 2.5%, as fears rose of catching the virus on buses and subways.
“Work and commuting are central to American life, so the widespread adoption of working from home is a defining feature of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Michael Burrows, a Census Bureau statistician. “With the number of people who primarily work from home tripling over just a two-year period, the pandemic has very strongly impacted the commuting landscape in the United States.”
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Honeywell launched its Data Center Suite, a portfolio of outcome-based software solutions that help data center managers and owners optimize uptime, worker productivity, critical asset health, and operational expenses while providing better visibility into sustainability KPIs.
Data centers play a critical role in keeping the global economy productive. By digitalizing, aggregating, and analyzing disparate critical systems into a unified data lake, the analytics produced by the on-premise Honeywell Data Center Suite provide operators with more holistic, actionable information to boost efficiency and decrease costs. Based on the open architecture Niagara Framework, it combines data from both operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) infrastructure, securely enhancing situational awareness at a site level as well as a global fleet level, enabling condition-based maintenance to reduce downtime risk and operational expenses.
Given the exponentially increasing demand data center managers are often forced to do more with less, while at the same time being pressured to improve uptime, reduce costs, and minimize energy consumption. User-friendly tools that automate processes can help reduce the chance for human error, which caused major outages over the last three years among 40% of organizations surveyed by the Uptime Institute, often driven by ignored or inadequate procedures. It can also help improve a data center’s overall efficiency.
The Honeywell Data Center Suite’s tools include:
• Data Center Manager delivers situational site-level awareness of both OT (critical power and thermal assets) and critical IT assets data in a vendor-agnostic dashboard;
• Portfolio View enables data center owners to monitor global network operations holistically via an on-premise tool across a fleet of data centers and make data-driven decisions to better achieve their uptime and sustainability goals; and
• Honeywell Forge Digitized Maintenance is a software-as-a-service solution that monitors data center assets and detects early signs of anomalous intrinsic operations before it leads to potentially costly downtime.
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Chevrolet has upped the performance of its Tahoe RST for 2023 with the addition of a new package, aptly labeled the Performance Edition package.
Unveiled on Wednesday at the 2022 Detroit auto show, the package essentially brings upgrades originally developed for the Tahoe Police Pursuit Vehicle to make it ride and handle better.
It’s available exclusively with the 2023 Tahoe RST equipped with the 6.2-liter V-8 and four-wheel drive, and also brings a small boost in output, with horsepower growing 13 hp to 433 hp and torque growing by 7 lb-ft to 467 lb-ft. Combined with other upgrades, the package will see the Tahoe RST accelerate from 0-60 mph in 5.8 seconds and reach a top speed of 124 mph. That compares to 6.0 seconds and 112 mph for RSTs without the package. The quoted quarter-mile ET is 14.2 seconds at 97 mph, versus the stock 14.4 seconds at 97 mph.
The other upgrades include new springs, a larger-diameter stabilizer bar, and retuned dampers. The ride height has also been lowered 0.4 inches at the front and 0.8 inches at the rear. Perhaps the most important upgrade, though, are the new Brembo brakes whose front rotors are 25% larger than stock. They bring the big SUV from 60-0 mph in just 133 feet of braking distance. Crucially, the changes don’t affect the stock vehicle’s 7,600-lb towing capacity.
Tahoes equipped with the package feature a black “RST” badge on the tailgate, sport pedals, and the available Luxury Package which includes driver-assist features.
The package is priced at $8,525, and adding it to the $70,415 price tag of the applicable 2023 Tahoe RST brings the grand total to $78,940, including a $1,795 destination charge. Production is slated to begin in the fourth quarter of 2022.
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LeBron James has been one of the most outspoken NBA superstars in recent memory. While his success on the court has lasted nearly two decades, his success off the court has made him the NBA's first active billionaire.
James recently shared his thoughts on the NBA's suspension and fine of Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver. He was found to have used racist and mysognystic language, and touched employees inappropriately during his 18-year tenure with the franchise.
LeBron James, who has made it clear that he intends to one day become an NBA owner, does not believe that the punishment handed out was harsh enough.
It seems as if the Los Angeles Lakers superstar believes Sarver was protected by the league due to his status as an owner.
NBA analyst Rob Parker shared his thoughts on the matter, comparing Sarver's situation to a 2014 situation involving then-Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. Sterling was caught on tape using racist language and showing a clear disdain for African-Americans.
Many felt surprised that Sarver would be allowed to resume his duties as the Suns owner after only a year. Following the way the league handled the Sterling situation, as well as the protests against social injustice in the summer of 2020, Sarver was expected to meet a similar demise. Instead, the league took a step backwards in their movement for social justice.
Can LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers compete for a title?
LeBron James is one of the best players in NBA history. He will likely to take over the all-time scoring record at some point this season. In his pursuit of becoming the greatest of all-time, James needs more hardware.
His four championships are two short of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Jordan and one short of Magic Johnson and Kobe Bryant. His four MVPs are also two short of Abdul-Jabbar and one short of Michael Jordan.
Greatest of all-time conversations are very subjective, but winning another ring or two would eliminate the notion that he cannot win at the level of some of his contemporaries. Unfortunately, it is hard to envision the Lakers competing for a title with how their roster is constructed.
A team with two superstars as talented as LeBron James and Anthony Davis will always have a puncher's chance, but there is a lack of depth around them.
As great as Russell Westbrook has been throughout his career, he has declined and is a horrible fit next to LeBron. The formula for success throughout James' career has been to surround him with shooters and defenders. Westbrook is neither of those.
The 2017 MVP is at his best when he is driving to the net with his athleticism and setting up his teammates for easy buckets. He needs the ball in his hands to maximize his talent. With LeBron James on the roster, the Lakers would get the most out of Westbrook if he accepted a bench role.
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BCG's 2022 Most Innovative Companies Report Finds Plenty of "Will" but Much Less "Way" When It Comes to Climate and Sustainability Innovation Readiness
BOSTON, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Two-thirds of the companies in Boston Consulting Group's 2022 global innovation survey rank climate and sustainability (C&S) as a top corporate priority, while more than half report that they are committed C&S innovators, ranking both innovation and C&S among their top three priorities. However, according to a new report released by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) today, only about one in five companies are ready to act, which means they have incorporated C&S priorities into their innovation engines, have built the capabilities they need, and are ready to develop the product, process, and business model innovations that can deliver.
This year, for its 16th Most Innovative Companies report, Are You Ready for Green Growth?, BCG for the first time asked about the importance of C&S in innovation. As more big companies announce net-zero pledges almost daily, the innovation readiness gap between commitment and capability that emerges from the research becomes an existential problem.
"While many companies talk about sustainability and make net-zero emissions pledges, far too few of them have truly done the work of integrating C&S priorities into their innovation engines and producing tangible results," says Justin Manly, global leader of BCG's growth and innovation segment and coauthor of the report. "At the same time, investors, regulators, customers, and shareholders are all looking to big companies and their CEOs to take the lead in making real progress against global warming."
The report measures committed C&S innovators against BCG's innovation-to-impact benchmarking framework (i2i) to assess the readiness of their innovation practices and platforms. Among committed C&S companies, 28% score 80 or higher (a perfect i2i score is 100), marking them as "ready" and equipped with well-developed and practiced innovation capabilities. This indicates that nearly three quarters of committed C&S innovators need to raise their innovation game and 80% of all companies face a steep learning curve.
Many on the 2022 list of the 50 most innovative companies are already C&S innovation leaders—a good number of them being among the earliest to embrace environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles and establish decarbonization commitments. Almost 80% (39) qualify as top C&S innovators, according to global peer votes.
For the second consecutive year, Apple holds the top spot on the list (see the exhibit). Microsoft climbs two positions to second place, Amazon moves one place to third, Alphabet falls three places to fourth, and Tesla hold onto its fifth place position. Four new companies—ByteDance (#45), Nvidia (#15), Panasonic (#46), and Zalando (#25)—join the top 50. This year's list sees a rebound by the automotive industry, with GM (#42) and Ford (#43) rejoining the top 50, Tesla (#5) and Toyota (#21) holding their positions. Hyundai (#33) is another holdover from the 2021 list. Automotive is also the number two sector for the percentage of companies prioritizing C&S-- a reflection of the industry's commitment to electric and autonomous vehicles).
Consistent with the last five years of BCG's top 50 ranking, more than half the companies on this year's list are based in North America. Meanwhile, Asia-Pacific and Greater China continue to be rising hubs for innovation, with companies from those regions increasing their representation on the top 50 list from four and three companies in 2018 to eight and seven companies in 2022, respectively.
The report reveals that industries responsible for the highest emissions—durable goods (85%), automotive (78%), utilities (77%), and oil and gas (77%)—are the ones that prioritize C&S the most. Additionally, high-emitting companies are 20% more likely than low emitters to target the kind of deep tech solutions needed to substantially decarbonize.
C&S-ready companies emphasize a number of aspects of their innovation systems more aggressively than other ready innovators do. They start with greater ambitions, identify the domains to focus on, manage the "idea funnel," and have clear performance goals. They also engage more actively with partners and even competitors.
Ready innovators have also seen a positive impact on the productivity of their innovation and R&D activities, with 80% of companies surveyed working remotely two or more days a week and 49% of C&S-ready innovators reporting that the productivity of their innovation and R&D activities have improved by 10%–50% because of these new ways of working.
"As sustainability moves up the agenda in boardrooms and C-suites everywhere, the importance of innovation rises commensurately," says Michael Ringel, BCG's global leader for innovation analytics and research and coauthor of the report. "But innovation—be it in products, processes, or business models—is not a siloed function and does not take place in a walled-off lab. Progress depends on innovation being embedded throughout the organization, with the same human and technological capabilities that drive success on other topics."
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It' a new age, folksy song and lyrically relevant, this a-rock number is what one really has come on to expecting every single moment of an audio video which doesn t quite deliver! She made you come. We re gonna win it out next and I think most fans like our front end and hope to win tomorrow so we know where our best spot can give a strong shot to putt that number, I would definitely say more than you, to be specific DETROIT, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Last week, two former Lake Michigan Credit Union (LMCU) loan officers accused the bank of violating federal and state labor laws. In a 57-page class action lawsuit filed by public interest powerhouse Clarkson Law Firm, P.C., Brad Cook and Hannah Ritzenhein detailed allegations against LMCU of exploiting current and former loan officers by withholding the loan officers' commissions unless they completed unpaid work outside their job duties. The pair allege that as much as half of their work was completed without pay on completing post-sale administrative tasks reserved for hourly paid loan processors.
According to the lawsuit, "LMCU's unlawful wage scheme works like this: (1) LMCU lures Loan Officers to their company under a compensation structure that is 100% commission-based…; (2) LMCU then piles on additional duties and responsibilities akin to those of a Loan Processor after the fact, which take up nearly 50% of the Loan Officer's time and energy; and (3) LMCU pays the Loan Officers zero dollars for nearly 50% of their work."
The former employees see irony in Michigan's fastest-growing credit union professing family values as its recipe for success: "Defendant falsely portrays company values of support, respect, and community. Ironically, Defendant states, 'Beyond the numbers, figures, and calculations, when you come to work for LMCU, you become part of a family. This is a family that values your efforts and treats you with respect, dignity, and fairness.' Defendant markets a supportive work environment, when in reality, Defendant exploits Loan Officers' time, energy, and ultimately, denies them their rightful compensation."
Cook and Ritzenhein are seeking unpaid wages and structural changes to the credit union's compensation system so that other loan officers receive the money and employment standards they deserve.
The case is pending before the Honorable Denise Page Hood in the United States Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Case Number 2:22-cv-12074-DPH-APP. Visit clarksonlawfirm.com for updates on this case.
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CryptEx (CRX) traded down 2.5% against the US dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 0:00 AM Eastern on September 14th. One CryptEx coin can now be bought for $3.22 or 0.00016115 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges. Over the last week, CryptEx has traded 1.9% lower against the US dollar. CryptEx has a market capitalization of $274,002.54 and $3.00 worth of CryptEx was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Here is how related cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:
- Unitech (UTC) traded down 5.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.95 or 0.00004552 BTC.
- dForce USD (USX) traded 0.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004981 BTC.
- Paycoin (PCI) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.31 or 0.00001559 BTC.
- WhiteCoin (XWC) traded down 6.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.10 or 0.00000520 BTC.
- Aurix (AUR) traded up 3.3% against the dollar and now trades at $1.78 or 0.00008895 BTC.
- Nestree (EGG) traded up 1.7% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0097 or 0.00000048 BTC.
- ReddCoin (RDD) traded 1.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0004 or 0.00000002 BTC.
- Galaxy Heroes Coin (GHC) traded down 9.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- CloudChat (CC) traded 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0017 or 0.00000009 BTC.
- Techpay Coin (TPC) traded 0.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.20 or 0.00000992 BTC.
CryptEx Coin Profile
CRX is a PoW/PoS coin that uses the Scrypt hashing algorithm. CryptEx’s total supply is 100,000 coins and its circulating supply is 85,000 coins. CryptEx’s official Twitter account is @ExLocker.
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MIAMI (AP) — A 20-year-old Tesla driver who died with a passenger in a fiery, high-speed crash on a residential South Florida street last year might have been upset after learning he had lost a scholarship, federal investigators said.
The National Transportation Safety Board released new documents Tuesday saying the driver of the 2021 Model 3 sedan had learned several hours before the Sept. 13, 2021, crash that he had lost a scholarship at Florida International University. The school’s main campus is located just west of Miami.
The driver’s friends and family told investigators that he didn’t seem unusually perturbed about the scholarship, according to the NTSB report. But his passenger, a 19-year-old woman, texted her mother shortly before the crash that the driver was upset about the scholarship and that she was trying to make the him feel better.
The crash occurred after the driver accelerated to 90 mph (145 kph) through a Coral Gables intersection to beat a yellow light on a residential street, his speed tripling the 30 mph (49 kph) limit, investigators said. The driver had owned the car for about six days before the crash.
The driver lost control as he cleared the intersection and veered left onto the median, where the Tesla glanced off one large tree before before smashing its passenger’s side door into a second, the NTSB said. The driver never hit the brake, a report said, citing five seconds of data recovered from the car’s severely damaged event recorder.
The crash damaged the Tesla’s high-voltage lithium-ion battery and the car erupted into flames, killing the driver and passenger.
Tesla vehicles do not use gasoline that could raise the risk of a big fire after a crash, but the company’s guidance to first responders includes a warning about lithium-ion battery fires. Tesla representatives have said high-speed collisions can result in a fire for any kind of car.
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Premier League All-Star game: Four reasons why Todd Boehly is spot on with radical idea
OPINION: Chelsea owner Todd Boehly has largely received negative reaction to his Premier League All-Star idea, but football may be in need of some changes and the American billionaire's proposal could be the starting point.
Football is engrained in English culture and the prospect of any change has always been met with scepticism. The Premier League's initial split from their affiliation to the Football League initially had fans questioning the direction of the nation's favourite sport.
Now 30 years on, the Premier League is seen as one of the most lucrative and most watched sporting leagues all over the world. Over the years, the league has evolved with VAR the latest change in modern football to divide football fans still to this day.
There have been some ludicrous and downright selfish suggestions over the years - namely the ill-fated European Super League - which have quickly been shot down on a national scale and rightly so. Football in this country is also fundamentally partisan and that's probably the main reason Boehly's mere suggestion of a Premier League All-Star game has been met with ridicule and even some anger.
But football in this country has always evolved and taken on new ideas - largely to unprecedented success. The idea of an All-Star game has been bandied about for years before Boehly's comments, but the prospect feels more feasible now than ever.
Jurgen Klopp's argument on how it would fit into the current schedule is something that can be easily overcome with a few major tweaks to the season. FA Cup replays cause havoc for many but the most feasible option would be to finally scrap the pointless and futile Community Shield.
The argument against an All-Star game/ weekend not being entertaining enough pales in comparison to the farcical annual event at Wembley. The NBA's format for the All-Star game has also changed from the typical East vs West match-up to a much more popular draft system with two team captains.
All players are chosen via a voting system from fans (50 per cent), players (25) and media (25) with millions of NBA viewers getting involved. Instead of arguing exactly where that North vs South divide would be for Premier League clubs, adopting the NBA's current format would be a far more logical choice.
More so than ever, sport fans want to engage with their favourite teams and players and an All-Star game is the perfect opportunity for the Premier League to feed into that.
Long gone are the days that Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham players can't sit in the same room together. There is no Patrick Vieira vs Roy Keane rivalry in the modern Premier League. Gareth Southgate's England side have proven that over the past few years and it's evident more than ever after every Premier League game how well opposition players get on with one another.
Even if there is some tension between the very best players in the league, who wouldn't want to see that on a global stage in an All-Star setting? That's pure box office. Players would arguably be the biggest beneficiaries of all from an All-Star game with a unique chance to 1) prove they are the best player in the league and 2) grow their own fanbase with an abundance of endorsement deals likely being put on the table.
There is the argument of how competitive an All-Star game would actually be and the NBA's version has often been criticised for a lack of actual defence with players instead opting for crazy dunks and audacious shots from the halfway line. But football in this country is played at such a fast pace with so much on the line every week, footballers and fans may even enjoy a more lighthearted spectacle.
Fans will still want it to mean something and Boehly's point on the money from the event being trickled down into the Football League is a starting point on many different avenues to spark the competitive spirit in an All-Star Game. Just like in the NBA now, team captains could choose a charity of their choice and the winning side of the All-Star game would get a larger lump sum to put towards their chosen charity.
There is so much potential and opportunity for the Premier League having an All-Star game but it's pointless if fans and even former players aren't even open for a discussion. That's all that is needed on the topic of an All-Star game - a discussion. There will always be those staunch in their opinion and would likely never even contemplate tuning into such an event.
That comes with the territory on how successful the Premier League has been as a business model in general. But there will also be those keen to try something new and engaging and why not entertain the idea of an All-Star game with the best Premier League players on show for one day a year watched all over the world. Not such a bad idea really...
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In a moment of symbolic unity, Prince William and Prince Harry walked side by side behind the Queen's coffin as it left Buckingham Palace.
Along with King Charles and other members of the Royal Family, they walked through the streets of London to Westminster Hall where the Queen is lying in state.
The sight of the brothers together, walking behind the coffin, evoked poignant memories of their mother Diana's funeral almost exactly 25 years ago.
Thousands turned out to pay their respects.
Some traveled from far away just to catch a glimpse of the coffin.
“I’ve come here today to represent the family, because the queen to me has been a constant in my life, I won’t say how old I am — five generations and she means so much to me and my family," said Debbie Bowland, who was in the lying-in-state queue.
“I’m here to be part of what is a moment of great magnitude. We’re seeing history in the making. The queen was a phenomenal person," said Travis Sterling, who was waiting in the queue to see the queen's coffin.
"You feel the atmosphere, it’s the people, it’s the fact that everyone has come together for this month with Big Ben chiming just knowing she’s going past, just to be here is special," said Allison Wilkins, waiting in the queue.
"I feel a deep sadness. When I forget for a few minutes, when I remember it floods over me again," said Barbara Townsend, waiting in the queue.
The queen’s body will lie in state for the next four days.
It's an opportunity for millions to say farewell to Britain’s longest-serving monarch. The route of the queue is expected to reach up to 10 miles long. Wristbands are denoting their position in line and some have prepared to wait overnight.
Others, like Joanne Herman, arrived at 4 o'clock this morning.
"I’m queuing here with my husband today because she meant a lot to everybody, it’s just really sad. I think it’s actually hit so many people in ways, myself included, in ways they couldn't even imagine," said Herman.
People from all over the nation and across the globe are waiting to say goodbye.
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Director of Marketing and Sales at National Baking Company, Craig Hendrickson, facilitates the official handover of 50 Bresheh schoolbags to the Office of the Children’s Advocate’s (OCA) executive secretary Suzanne Fearon-Williams. The bags will go to students age five to 17 who participated in the OCA’s summer programme.
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When our family moved to Encinitas more than four decades ago, it was a charming but rather dingy beach town.
Moonlight Beach was usually covered in rocks and seaweed; there were few family parks; and a night out was a burger at Boll Weevil.
Times have changed and our little town is now one of the jewels in San Diego’s crown, thanks to the vision of our progressive City Council.
Led by Mayor Catherine Blakespear and Council members Joy Lyndes, Tony Kranz, Kelly Shay Hinze and Joe Mosca, Encinitas has become a vibrant, welcoming destination where even the residents feel they are “on vacation.”
Moonlight Beach, and the new Marine Safety Center, are showplaces, along with our wonderful new community parks, outstanding Coastal Rail biking/walking trail (enjoyed by hundreds of families), expanding choice of restaurants, new pedestrian-safe rail crossings, excellent schools, and dedicated public safety teams in the sheriff and fire Departments.
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Genevieve T. Yetsky Sep 15, 2022 37 min ago Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Obituaries Search Submit An Obituary Funeral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. Submit Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save HOOPESTON — Genevieve Theresa Yetsky, 82, of Hoopeston died at 7:07 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 8, 2022) at home. According to her wishes, there will be no services. Rortvedt Funeral Services, 3 S. Hodge St., Tilton, is handling arrangements. Trending Food Videos Purchase a commemorative reprintof this obituary Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Trending Videos
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Gurugram, September 15: The Gurugram police have arrested a 19-year-old college student for allegedly blackmailing and sexually assaulting a minor girl, a class 11 student of a private school in the city, the police said. The complainant and father of the 16-year-old girl told the police that the girl knew the accused as they had studied in the same school. The girl's father said that his daughter had become friends with the accused.
"They used to talk often and after passing out of class 12, the accused cleared school in 2021 and joined a college in Delhi. The accused started stalking my daughter too."
The father alleged that during a mobile chat the accused got a nude photo of his daughter on WhatsApp. After which he (accused) started blackmailing her and pressuring her to meet him. Bengaluru Shocker: Woman, Allergic to Dogs, Her Daughter Die by Suicide After Family Refuse To Give Away Their Pet Dog.
"During a meeting, the suspect sexually and physically assaulted her and when she resisted, he threatened to kill her," the girl's father said in his police complaint.
Following the complaint, an FIR was registered against the accused under Sections 323 (causing hurt), 354-D (stalking), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC and Section 6 of the POCSO Act at the women police station, West. "We have arrested the culprit. Further probe is underway," said a police officer.
(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Sep 15, 2022 09:31 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).
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Cumberland sophomore Anna Krieger was named Mid-South Conference Women’s Golfer of the Week on Monday after her second-place finish at the Players Club Invitational last week.
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On day one, she posted a 76 in round one with a 71 in round two to sit in seventh place. On day two, she fired a career best 69 in the final round to move up into a tie for second place individually.
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Oakvale Wildlife Park is planning for its future and is seeking to build a veterinary and education facility and make improvements to the Salt Ash site, a project worth $2.3 million.
The wildlife park has a development application before Port Stephens Council that, if approved, will allow it to alter the entry to the main building, demolish its existing operations shed, construct a new children's playpen and build a new "farm support building and feed shed".
The "shed" is an architecturally designed, state of the art building that will serve as a hub for the treatment and care of the park's current and future species, provide a more functional space for staff to work, and greater education opportunities.
"Oakvale is continually growing in size and as we grow we need to upgrade our animal care facilities," park owner Kent Sansom said.
"The facility is designed to assist in medical and breeding requirements for all our animals and provide an educational facility for schools, TAFE and university students to have hands-on training with wildlife and other species."
Mr Sansom was 5 years old when his parents, Jeff and Elaine Sansom, opened Oakvale Farm and Fauna World on in November 1979. Mr Sansom took over the park in 1995, later joined by wife Leanne in 2003.
It is not only the name that has changed in the past 40 years, but Oakvale has grown to become a beloved and award-winning zoological site boasting more than 150 species.
But it is the next 40 years and beyond that the Sansoms are now preparing for.
"The animal care facility we have now has done the job for 44 years but as we go forward, there's a need for a brand new, state of the art animal care facility," Mr Sansom said.
The current "basic" care facilities will be upgraded to allow for Oakvale's veterinarian to complete checks and perform general procedures on site.
There will also be viewing area where students can watch veterinary procedures.
The facility, which is hoped to be built by mid- to late-2023, will also include greater quarantine facilities and recovery areas for animals.
It will also help Oakvale continue being in the top five of Australia's top five genetically viable breeding koala programs.
"We breed our koalas really well here at Oakvale. We have four joeys in the pouch at the moment," Mr Sansom said.
"As part of that, we need to be doing regular examinations. With this new facility, we can take joeys into the clinic, weigh them, take bloods if we need to, do vaccinations."
Oakvale is also the only wildlife park outside of Queensland currently exhibiting and breeding the Lumholtz Tree Kangaroo.
The Salt Ash wildlife park has partnered with the Louis Koala Foundation to fund the project.
The foundation has previously provided funds to the park to build a koala leaf storage room and install CCTV and infrared cameras for koala monitoring.
The foundation will host a fundraiser for Oakvale at Tattersalls Club in Sydney from 6pm-10pm on Thursday, October 13.
Vision of Oakvale's koalas, other mammals and their carers will be streamed live in the Sydney club on the night.
The cost to attend is a $300 donation to the foundation. All money from the event will be donated to Oakvale. For more information or to RSVP to attend the fundraiser email elyss@oakvalewildlifepark.com.au.
The park is also fundraising through its own Save Our Wildlife fund.
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Illegal Nashville daycare shut down following infant’s death
By Daniel Smithson
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A daycare operating illegally has been shut down following the death of a 2-month-old child.
The illegal daycare was being operated out of an apartment complex at 1000 Thompson Place, according to Metro Police and the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services. An investigation was launched after an infant died Monday while being cared for by a woman at the daycare.
The child had no obvious signs of trauma or abuse, Metro Youth Services detectives said, but an autopsy has been ordered.
A medical examiner will have to determine the infant’s cause of death. Authorities will decide whether criminal charges are warranted based on autopsy results.
The Department of Children’s Services will be investigating the illegal daycare.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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The Dragon girls volleyball team was eager to play Proctor on Tuesday, September 6. They remembered losing to Proctor last season and play-offs, and they came ready to win.
The Dragons started off with the first point of the game from a missed serve by Proctor. Senior Kloey Lind then had a big block. Within a few minutes, the Lady Dragons were up 3-0. The first set would end with Maggie Smetana sending the serve over and Proctor returning it out-of-bounds. The Dragons one the first set 25-21.
The second, third and fourth set would be similar to the first. Both teams worked hard, hit hard, and dug up the many hits. The score often remained within one point. The second set ended with the Dragons coming up short 20-25. The third set was a win for the Dragons 25-18. And the fourth set confirmed the win for the Dragons with Abby Aagaard putting down two outside hits. Dragons win the match 3-1.
Coach Tami Nelson commented on the game, “The girls really wanted a win and they worked hard as a team to be sure they got the win.”
The C-team and JV players did a great job cheering in the stands - it definitely helped keep the varsity girls going during some very long volleys!
Hitting aces were Maggie Smetana with 1, Robin Odegard with 1, Mady Bombard with 2, Aagaard with 4, Emma Hermanson with 1, Lind with 4, and Arissa Rydberg with 2.
Earning kills were Hermanson with 4, Karly Jusczak with 5, Sky Arends with 5, Aagaard with 8, and Lind and 13. Earning assists were Morgan Macho with 5 and Rydberg with 26. Earning digs were Odegard with 5, Aagaard with 8 and Rydberg and 10.
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He added, "Instead of extracting value from nature and transforming it into wealth, we are using the wealth Patagonia creates to protect the source. We're making Earth our only shareholder. I am dead serious about saving this planet."
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The company will continue to give 1% of its earnings to grassroots environmental groups, and the leadership will not change.
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“The vehicles are being made available to them. You would’ve seen that we got a gift of six new vehicles from the US Embassy and so the police are there and if you continue it, they will get you and you will be held to account.”
Mr Munroe spoke after police reported six armed robberies in New Providence over the weekend. Two more armed robberies were reported on Monday.
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He also condemned the recent increase in armed robberies, saying the number of people involved in criminal activity were a minority.
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Well, I guess they are on the subject of subtraction because the streets are ,streets- police= crime.
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Complaints to Brisbane council about Airbnb-style rentals have outnumbered by a factor of eight the development approvals needed to list properties in the past three years.
Data provided by Brisbane City Council shows the local government has received 52 short-term accommodation applications since July 2019, which are required to allow an owner to rent out a house or unit for stays of less than three months.
Of the applications — which include motels, backpacker hostels and serviced apartments, but not the rental of single rooms or granny-flats — 32 were approved by planning officers.
But while announcing a rates hike for short-stay rental properties in its last $4 billion budget, the council said it had received 275 complaints from the community about them in the past three years, and would lean on these and unspecified “data searches” to enforce the changes.
Thousands of properties across the Queensland capital were believed to be listed with short-stay providers. The council believed the new rate category could apply to “several thousand” properties, although the number was difficult to determine.
The detail comes as the state government reviews its own regulation of the sector, after a delayed and criticised crackdown in parts of NSW.
Significant pressure on the housing system has sparked a government-led roundtable and summit in coming weeks.
A council spokesperson told Brisbane Times the rapid rise of platforms such as Airbnb meant there were owners who, knowingly or not, were in breach of rules around the use of properties for short-stay accommodation.
“This is why we will soon be asking people to self-identify or inform us of properties they believe are being used for this purpose,” they said in a statement.
“Properties with planning approval in place will still be required to pay the new transitory accommodation rate if they meet the criteria.”
The spokesperson said a “range of actions” could be taken if properties were used for unapproved purposes.
“We expect several thousand Brisbane properties will eventually be required to pay the new rating category for short-term accommodation.”
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Labor’s council opposition and groups including the Queensland Council of Social Services have questioned the impact of the move, with the Greens calling for bans on Airbnb-style rentals in some areas.
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New Delhi: India reported 6,422 fresh covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the data by the Union health ministry on Thursday
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There has been a rise in the number of infections after 5,108 cases were reported on Wednesday.
Active cases also saw an increase with caseload at 46,389 from the earlier 45,749, as per the ministry data.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.04%t while the weekly positivity rate stood at 1.71%. The death toll climbed to 28,250 with 34 fatalities which includes 20 deaths reconciled by Kerala, the data said.
India conducted 3,14,692 Covid tests in the last 24 hours, with the total number of tests conducted so far at 89.06 crore.
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SINGAPORE - Three men were charged for their alleged involvement in money-laundering activities in a district court on Thursday after the police received information that criminal proceeds from investment scams totalling over $4.5 million had been credited into several local bank accounts.
The three Chinese nationals are Zhuang Qianbao, 37, Liu Xin, 37, and Liu Jiannan, 39.
They were among six people - four men and two women - who were caught in an anti-scam operation on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Zhuang was allegedly part of an arrangement with an unknown person to use a bank account to receive the benefits of criminal conduct.
He is accused of committing the offence between January and September.
Preliminary investigations indicated that Zhuang had allegedly placed online advertisements and acquired bank accounts with automated teller machine (ATM) cards from unknown individuals.
He is also said to have obtained pre-registered prepaid SIM cards from them.
In a statement on Thursday, the police said these unknown individuals were paid at least $800 for each bank account and $50 for each pre-registered prepaid SIM card.
Zhuang is also believed to have withdrawn the criminal proceeds from the bank accounts.
The two women, aged 20 and 51, are believed to have facilitated the money laundering activities by withdrawing cash from the bank accounts and handing the money to Zhuang.
Another bank account holder, a 32-year-old man, had allegedly sold and relinquished his bank account and ATM card to Zhuang in July.
According to court documents, Liu Jiannan is said to have made 19 withdrawals involving ill-gotten gains totalling more than $210,000 from a bank account in January.
Liu Xin allegedly made 11 similar withdrawals totalling $46,000 from another bank account between January and February.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the pair had allegedly been withdrawing money from the bank accounts before converting the criminal proceeds into cryptocurrencies since January.
The police said in their statement that they will not hesitate to take action against those involved in arrangements to allow their bank accounts to be used for illegal purposes such as the laundering of criminal proceeds.
They added: "To avoid being an accomplice to crimes, members of the public should always reject requests by others to open and/or sell bank accounts, or receive money in their bank accounts, as they will be held accountable if these are linked to criminal activities."
The cases involving Zhuang, Liu Xin and Liu Jiannan have been adjourned to Sept 22.
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H&M's June-August sales lag expectations
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STOCKHOLM, Sept 15 (Reuters) - H&M (HMb.ST), the world's second-biggest fashion retailer, reported on Thursday a smaller rise than expected in June-August net sales.
Fiscal third-quarter net sales at the Swedish group were up 3% from a year-earlier at 57.5 billion crowns ($5.36 billion). Analysts polled by Refinitiv had on average forecast a 5% rise to 58.6 billion crowns.
"The third quarter got off to a weak start, in common with the industry in many of the group's major markets," H&M said in a statement.
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Australia's Woodside, Japanese firms ramp up decarbonisation study
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MELBOURNE, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Woodside Energy Group (WDS.AX) and several Japanese firms said on Thursday they would conduct further studies to establish an ammonia supply chain from Australia to Japan to help cut emissions from shipping and power plants.
The feasibility study will track the work completed last year on the viability of producing ammonia from natural gas, capturing the carbon released in the process and storing or using it, and utilising the ammonia for marine fuel or in power generation, they said in a joint statement.
"All parties participating in this project will continue the research already conducted ... in an effort to assist the decarbonization of Australia and Japan," they said.
Woodside will work with Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp (JOGMEC), Marubeni Corp (8002.T), Hokuriku Electric Power Co (9505.T), Kansai Electric Power Co (9503.T), Tohoku Electric Power Co (9506.T) and Hokkaido Electric Power Co (9509.T).
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Disqualified driver caught at the wheel in South Shields handed extended road ban
A banned driver found himself in court after being caught at the wheel in South Tyneside.
Sajodaran Srijaykumar’s offence in Sunderland Road, South Shields, has led to his disqualification being extended by around two months.
Srijaykumar, 27, of Benton Park Road, Longbenton, Newcastle, was banned in his absence for six months in May under the totting up process.
He missed out on postal notification due to moving house and not informing the DVLA of his new address, South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court heard.
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Prosecutor Jonathan Stirland said police spotted Srijaykumar driving a Skoda Octavia on Wednesday, July 6.
He added: “They stopped the vehicle and spoke to the driver who identified himself as Mr Srijaykumar.
“The officer carried out checks and it was discovered that Mr Sijaykumar was a disqualified driver.
“He accepts that he was disqualified at the time. I think that he was absent at the hearing when he was disqualified.
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Srijaykumar pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.
The court heard his ban was imposed by magistrates in Willesden, north London, on May 25.
Jonathan Cousins, defending, said: “He accepts that he didn’t tell the DVLA of his change of address.
“He was disqualified in his absence, and he was not aware of that at the time the police stopped him.
“He was driving a vehicle that belonged to a friend and he was not insured to drive.”
Judge Passfield said she accepted he was unaware of the ban, but added: “The lesson is that you keep the DVLA up to date.”
She also fined him £120, with £85 court costs and a £48 victim surcharge.
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Classify Images Of Clothing Using Tensorflow
Classify Images Of Clothing Using Tensorflow
Today’s article will be exploring how to use Convolutional Neural Networks to classify clothing images through TensorFlow to train a Deep Learning model for an apparel business.
A kind of computer learning called deep learning uses multi-layered neural networks to identify patterns in data. This project’s main goal is to demonstrate how to use Deep Learning principles to solve a picture categorization issue. To do this, we’ll use the Python TensorFlow library to train a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to categorize a dataset of apparel.
Convolutional Neural Networks have been performing inhumanly well on various challenging visual tasks during the past few years. They power a variety of things, including automatic video classification systems, self-driving automobiles, and image search services.
The Dataset Investigating For Classifying Images With Tensorflow
70,000 greyscale photos in 10 categories can be found in the Fashion MNIST dataset, which is what we’ll be used. Imagine the resolution of the image, which depicts individual apparel, is 28 x 28. Each image has one class with a value between [0, 9].
A few samples from our train dataset can be shown alongside the appropriate class. There is at least one instance of each class visible when displaying the first 24 samples.
Starting The Data Preprocessing To Classify The Images Through TensorFlow
- Normalizing
The value of each pixel in the image should be an integer for the effective function of the model and must be normalized. A function that divides each value by 255.0 can be written. This function will produce normalized values in the [0,1] range for our dataset.
- Picture Reshaping
The number of samples (60,000), the size of the pixels (28 x 28), and the color channel are the four input dimensions that the convolutional neural network expects.
- One-Hot EnCoding
The labels and the accompanying class do not, however, have an ordinal relationship. In this situation, the model can presume a natural ordering of the categories by employing integer encoding, which could lead to subpar performance or surprising findings from the Deep Learning model. We can use one-hot encoding to fix this issue, which generates a new binary variable for each distinct integer value.
Creating A Model
To classify the images through TensorFlow we will utilize the conventional CNN architecture.
- Layering The Model
We will add a convolutional and a pooling layer first, followed by another convolutional and pooling layer, just as we did in the image. Then, we’ll add a flattened layer to turn our 2-dimensional array into a 1-dimensional array and several dense layers. To lessen overfitting, some dropout layers can be added. The probability distribution for each class is created in the final layer by adding a dense layer with the number of classes from our problem (10) and a SoftMax activation.
- Compiling The Model
The model must now be assembled. Here, we pass the loss function, which calculates the difference between true and predicted values, the optimizer—which modifies the weights to minimize the loss—and the metrics, which compute the model’s performance.
- Training The Model
Our model must be trained as the final phase. The input data, the target data, and the number of epochs—which determines how many complete rounds of the training dataset there will be—must be passed at this point.
- Loss Evaluation
The history object that the fit method returns contain the outcomes for each epoch. The loss and accuracy for the validation and training datasets can be plotted on a graph. This graphic allows one to see how, across the epochs, the loss decreases and the accuracy increases.
Speculating And Assessing The Outcomes
- Assessing The Test Dataset’s Accuracy
Compared to the test and validation datasets, the accuracy on the training dataset is lower. With 91,55% accuracy, this is still an excellent outcome.
- Predictions
For each sample in our test database, we may use our model to predict a class.
the true and predicted labels for a few photos from our test dataset are plotted. The text will be displayed in blue when the model makes a correct prediction and in red if the forecast is incorrect. Additionally, the anticipated class’s estimated probability will be shown.
- Crosstab
When we examine our crosstab, we can see that the product for which we had the best accuracy was also the one with the lowest accuracy. The crosstab is a fantastic way to see the quantities that our model predicts for each class.
- Classification Report
Now, by using the classification report from the scikit-learn library, let’s plot a summary showing the precision, recall, and f1-score for each class. Here, it is clear that there was no class in which there was a significant difference between precision and recall.
Conclusions
You have learned how to use TensorFlow to build a convolutional neural network to categorize photos in this post. With this model, you may achieve a respectable overall accuracy in your test dataset of 91,55%. However, by utilizing some data augmentation approaches, we might attempt to increase the accuracy of this class if the results aren’t that good. Additionally, if you want a model with greater accuracy, you might want to experiment with altering some hyperparameters or utilizing a different network architecture.
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Zac Efron has no interest in the rumours that he got plastic surgery, revealing he ‘almost died’ in the accident that caused him to get surgery on his jaw.
The High School Musical star, who this week walked his first red carpet in three years, had to get the surgery after slipping on a sock and smacking his face into a granite fountain.
Speaking about the rumours, he said: ‘My mom told me. I never really read the internet, so, I don’t really care.’
However, he added to ET of the severity of the situation: ‘It was funny. It sucks. I almost died, but we’re good.’
Zac, 34, previously explained that the hit knocked him out and when he woke up his chin bone was ‘hanging off his face’.
The actor explained to Men’s Health magazine: ‘The masseters [muscles in his jaw] just grew. They just got really, really big.’
The High School Musical star also explained that he didn’t know about the viral speculation about his changed appearance until his mum called and asked if he had gone under the knife.
‘If I valued what other people thought of me to the extent that they may think I do,’ he told the magazine, ‘I definitely wouldn’t be able to do this work.’
This week, Zac made an appearance at the Toronto International Film Festival to promote his new movie, The Greatest Beer Run Ever.
The Greatest Showman star opted for a smart grey checked suit and black polo shirt for his first premiere in three years, as he smiled for the camera.
He looked to have a blast on the carpet, greeting fans and celebrating his upcoming flick, which is due for release at the end of September.
The Greatest Beer Run Ever follows John, a US Marine Corps veteran turned merchant who is tasked with sneaking to Vietnam during the war.
A group of New York residents who have lost loved ones in the war ask John to deliver messages from home – and most importantly beer – to their friends who are still alive and fighting in the war.
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FT Cboe Vest U.S. Equity Deep Buffer ETF – April (NYSEARCA:DAPR – Get Rating)’s stock price traded up 0.4% on Wednesday . The stock traded as high as $29.82 and last traded at $29.81. 23,149 shares were traded during trading, a decline of 69% from the average session volume of 74,012 shares. The stock had previously closed at $29.69.
FT Cboe Vest U.S. Equity Deep Buffer ETF – April Stock Performance
The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $30.11 and its 200 day simple moving average is $30.35.
Hedge Funds Weigh In On FT Cboe Vest U.S. Equity Deep Buffer ETF – April
Several large investors have recently made changes to their positions in DAPR. Commonwealth Equity Services LLC raised its position in FT Cboe Vest U.S. Equity Deep Buffer ETF – April by 627.5% during the second quarter. Commonwealth Equity Services LLC now owns 1,660,810 shares of the company’s stock worth $48,396,000 after acquiring an additional 1,432,522 shares during the period. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. raised its position in FT Cboe Vest U.S. Equity Deep Buffer ETF – April by 2,062.0% during the second quarter. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. now owns 622,891 shares of the company’s stock worth $18,151,000 after acquiring an additional 594,080 shares during the period. Rovin Capital UT ADV acquired a new position in FT Cboe Vest U.S. Equity Deep Buffer ETF – April during the second quarter worth $12,758,000. Mutual Advisors LLC acquired a new position in FT Cboe Vest U.S. Equity Deep Buffer ETF – April during the second quarter worth $9,896,000. Finally, Envestnet Asset Management Inc. raised its position in FT Cboe Vest U.S. Equity Deep Buffer ETF – April by 856.0% during the second quarter. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. now owns 305,261 shares of the company’s stock worth $8,895,000 after acquiring an additional 273,331 shares during the period.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian gunmen opened fire on Israeli troops near a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank Wednesday, killing an Israeli army officer, the Israeli military said. Palestinian officials said that troops killed the gunmen.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said that two Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army, without providing additional details.
The military said soldiers spotted two individuals approaching the separation barrier in the northern West Bank and that it dispatched soldiers to the area. It said the two suspects were armed with automatic weapons and began shooting at troops, who returned fire.
The Israeli army confirmed that Maj. Bar Falah, 30, was killed by the gunmen in the shootout.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that the Israeli army was holding the bodies of the two men. It identified them as Ahmad Abed, 23, and Abd al-Rahman Abed, 22, both from a village near the city of Jenin.
The Israeli military confirmed that Ahmad Abed was a member of the Palestinian Authority security services.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas praised the attack, hailing the two gunmen as “heroic martyrs.”
Wednesday’s violence was the latest in a long string of incidents involving deadly confrontations between soldiers and Palestinians in the West Bank in recent months, particularly around the city of Jenin, which has become a bastion for armed struggle against Israel.
Israel has been carrying out nightly arrest raids in West Bank cities, towns and villages since a spate of attacks against Israelis in the spring killed 19 people.
Israeli fire has killed scores of Palestinians during that time, making it the deadliest year in the occupied territory since 2016.
The Israeli military says the vast majority of those killed were militants or stone-throwers who endangered the soldiers. But several civilians have also been killed during Israel’s monthslong operation, including a veteran journalist and a lawyer who apparently drove unwittingly into a battle zone. Some local youths who took to the streets in response to the invasion of their neighborhoods have also been killed.
Israel says the arrest raids are meant to dismantle militant networks that have embedded themselves. The Palestinians say the operations are aimed at maintaining Israel’s 55-year military occupation of territories they want for an independent state.
Israel captured the West Bank, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Mideast war and the Palestinians seek those territories for a future state.
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Shares in the former Majestic Wine business were above 800p as recently as September 2021 after pandemic lockdown trends accelerated its growth in UK and US markets. But a downgrade to guidance in November signalled the start of a slide towards 150p by June as margins were squeezed by supply chain and storage costs.
ITM has lost its power
Today’s fall for ITM, which is seen as having a key role to play in the drive for energy security, came as it responded to escalating costs by opting not to progress a second gigafactory in the UK. It warned that its losses will increase in the near term and that long-time chief executive Graham Cooley is to step down after 13 years.
Dr Cooley has led ITM through its transition from an R&D business to a leading electrolyser manufacturing company. He said: “As we seek to become a global manufacturing powerhouse, now is a good time for me to step aside and hand over to someone with more experience in this area.”
ITM continues to have a capacity target of 5 gigawatt (GW), but meeting this will be skewed to international markets more exposed to subsidies and funding packages and achieved later than originally expected.
The company added: “Our ambitions remain as strong as ever, but we need to be nimble and flexible, and we want to ensure investment decisions are correct and right for the business and considered fully before capital is committed.”
Today’s results were in line with expectations and showed group revenues of £5.6 million, net cash of £366 million at the year-end and an adjusted loss of £39.8 million.
The company, which was the first hydrogen related company to be listed on the London Stock Exchange, recently opened the world’s largest electrolyser production factory in its home city of Sheffield.
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Shares topped 500p in November but rising raw material costs and higher interest rates have pegged back enthusiasm to leave the stock back at 112p today.
Investec’s target price has dropped to 370p, but the broker continues to have a “buy” recommendation based on the upside of ITM achieving its 5GW ambitions, which it believes could be financed by large government incentives.
The City firm added: “The company has highly attractive strategic intellectual property, tier 1 partners (Linde, Snam, Vitol, Shell), with technology that continues to progress.” In light of sterling weakness, Investec also thinks ITM may be attractive to overseas strategic buyers.
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HBO’s House Of The Dragon star Emily Carey recently opened up about her uneasiness over filming uncomfortable sexual scenes for the show.
Carey, who plays Alicent Hightower in the fantasy series, appeared in Sunday night’s episode with her significantly older husband — King Viserys (played by Paddy Considine) — in several intimate scenes.
The first scene shows her helping bathe him in a tub. In the second, she appears visibly uneasy while lying beneath him in bed as they have intercourse.
Speaking on the nearly 30-year age gap, Carey shared that she was “still 17” at the time of casting and 18 when filming began.
In a recent interview with Newsweek, she revealed she felt “scared” to carry out the scenes with the then-47-year-old Considine.
“We have an intimacy coordinator who was amazing,” Carey told the outlet. “Again, still being 17, the first scene that I read from the show was my sex scene and my intimacy scenes, that includes the scene where I’m bathing the king ― anything that felt intimate was considered an intimacy scene, which I thought was great.”
On film and television sets, “intimacy coordinators” are responsible for ensuring the well-being of actors who participate in on-screen sex scenes.
“But, it scared me, because at that point I still hadn’t met Paddy, I didn’t know how much of a joy he was and how easy he was going to make [the scene], and all I saw was, you know, a 47-year-old man and me, I was a bit concerned,” she continued.
“And having that outlet of the intimacy coordinator, to be able to talk everything through and not be shunned, or not feel awkward, or not feel like ‘Oh, this isn’t your job. I don’t want to make you feel uncomfortable but can I ask you ... ’ it was never any of that, it was just that open dialogue,” Carey added.
The now-19-year-old went on to share that despite her apprehension, the ordeal was “a lot easier than I thought it was going to be.”
Carey — who also revealed that she had never watched the series’s forerunner, Game Of Thrones, before being cast — said she was “nervous” about the “violent sex” themes when she finally watched the show in the pre-production period.
“I’ve never seen Game Of Thrones before, and so in the pre-production period I sat down to try and watch [it] and of course the first season, even just the first episode of Thrones, there’s a lot of violence upon women,” she said. “There’s a lot of violent sex and it made me nervous. I was like, ‘Oh God, what am I gonna have to do in this show?’”
Carey isn’t the only cast member to be taken aback by the abundance of steamy scenes.
In August, Matt Smith, who plays Prince Daemon Targaryen in the series, told the British Rolling Stone that he thinks the slew of sex scenes his character appears in is “slightly too much, if you ask me.”
Game Of Thrones has also found itself under fire for its risque nudity in past years.
Late last year, actor Gemma Whelan, who played Yara Greyjoy in the series, called the show’s sex scenes “a frenzied mess” in an interview with The Guardian.
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