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After months of voting KentLive can reveal our three finalists in the search for the county's best beach. A shortlist of 40 was whittled down to just 10 thanks to our Twitter followers and KentLive readers have now named our final trio.
Our survey, which has been running since the start of summer, is aiming to once and for all crown the best beach in Kent. Over the years, travel experts have all had a go at naming the best, but the answer has never been the same - which is why we needed your help.
The three finalists are Dymchurch Beach, Sunny Sands in Folkestone and Viking Bay in Broadstairs. Between them, the three sandy stretches secured more than 50 per cent of the vote.
READ MORE: The beautiful Kent beaches that look like something out of the Caribbean
The survey will be open until September and with very little separating the top three currently, every vote will matter. You can vote for your favourite now in the form below or here or in the form below.
What do you make of the top three? Have your say in the comments here.
Special mentions must go to Joss Bay and Margate Main Sands in Thanet as well as Sandgate Beach which all came incredibly close to reaching the final three. You can find the breakdown of the results below.
Dymchurch Beach is currently leading the way in our search. If it did win, it wouldn't be the first accolade it has won this year having been named the best beach in south east England by the Sunday Times. The flat sandy beach is around three miles long and was also awarded a prestigious Blue Flag for the very first time earlier this year.
Meanwhile Viking Bay in Broadstairs is popular with locals and tourists and it's easy to see why. Surrounded by colourful beach huts, a promenade and a rather quant pier, the beach is building an ever growing reputation.
And finally we have Sunny Sands Beach in Folkestone. Not only is it one of the closest sandy beaches to London it also plays host to the town's annual sandcastle competition. If you're thinking of visiting you'll want to make sure you've checked your timings though as is disappears every six hours.
Our survey will run from now until September, so please let us know in the comments section which beach you have voted for. You can keep up to date with the results of the race on KentLive. Be sure to follow us on our social media channels to get the latest updates on this running poll.
Who did you vote for? Let us know in the comments below.
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The Red Arrows will be appearing in the skies across Kent on Friday (August 19) after appearing at the Eastbourne Airshow. They are then set to return on Sunday (August 21), when they will be headlining at this years Folkestone Air Display.
The world famous flight team is scheduled to be in skies in the vicinity of Hastings, on Friday afternoon at around 5pm, and will then head across Kent towards Southend-on-Sea. The flight path says that they should be passing over the area of Egerton, Ashford, at around 5.03pm.
If you happen to miss them this time around, no need to worry as they will be back along the Kent coast on Sunday, August 21 at the highly anticipated Folkestone Air Display, where thousands are expected to gather to watch the breath-taking event. The iconic display will see the RAF Red Arrows joined by the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5, Puma, and Chinnook Display Team.
Read more: Kent train strikes: Southeastern stations still open on August 18 amid RMT and TSSA strikes
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will also take to the skies, which includes flypast from Spitfires, Hurricanes, Lancasters and Dakotas. Large crowds are expected, with the busiest viewing spots being The Leas and Folkestone Harbour. Some roads will be closed, but stewards will be working throughout the day to help minimise disruption.
There will be food, arts and crafts stalls, live music and a classic car show - all organised by Folkestone Festivals. This will be located on The Leas on both Saturday and Sunday.
Exact timings in full
Here are the exact timings for Folkestone Air Display 2022
- 12.22pm: Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
- 1.00pm Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5
- 2.25pm Chinook (Sponsored by Abbeywell Vets)
- TBC: Puma
- 5.00pm: RAF Red Arrows
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49ers quarterback Trey lance returned home to Minnesota Wednesday. On Thursday, Lance expects to have friends and family attend practice. That’ll be the only time they can see him play this week, as Lance won’t suit up for the second preseason game, per Kyle Shanahan:
“Right now, I’m not expecting to, but we’re day-to-day with that. We’ll see how practice goes tomorrow. And there’s a chance he will, but that was the original plan.” Lance has no incentive to play in a meaningless game against the Vikings after he spent two days practicing against them.
We’re at that part of the preseason where analysts are forecasting Trey Lance as a darkhorse MVP candidate. And while nobody debates the potential of the 49ers offense with Lance under center, this is a kid who started two games on the fly last year. As a result, the unknown about Lance’s game is enormous.
The one area that remains one of the biggest questions is where Shanahan believes Lance improved the most from last training camp to this year:
“Just being more consistent. He got a little better at everything, which is what you need to do for a rookie coming in, especially the lack experience that Trey had. So you throw everything at him, and sometimes he gets one down, and then you go a bunch of new stuff, and then that takes a step back. So that’s been the process here throughout all last year and coming into this year, just in every single area, the consistency of it, not having to take two steps back as much. As I keep saying, the more he plays, the more reps he gets, the better he’ll get.”
Consistency, comfort with his receivers, getting used to the speed of the game and the different looks defenses will throw at you. Each of those aspects of Lance’s game can only improve with reps. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/18/23310963/49ers-shanahan-lance-improved | 2022-08-18T14:27:09Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/18/23310963/49ers-shanahan-lance-improved | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida teacher was arrested for concealing a missing child inside her home, according to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies said the child, who was reported missing by his parents on Aug. 12, was found inside the home of 31-year-old Kelly Simpson.
Investigators said Simpson picked the boy up from an unknown location and concealed him inside her home while having knowledge of his missing or endangered status. Authorities did not immediately reveal Simpson’s motive for her actions.
Once authorities located the boy, Simpson was arrested on allegations of interfering with the custody of a minor. According to the sheriff’s office, Simpson is currently employed by Charlotte County Public Schools.
An investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office at 941-639-2101. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/missing-child-found-in-florida-teachers-home/ | 2022-08-18T14:27:58Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/missing-child-found-in-florida-teachers-home/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomas Moore, Judith Livingston, Matthew Gaier, and Carmine Rubino of Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore (KDLM), have been included in the 2023 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©.
Thomas A. Moore has been recognized since 1989 in the areas of:
- Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
Judith A. Livingston has been recognized since 1993 in the areas of:
- Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
Matthew Gaier has been recognized since 2016 in the areas of:
- Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
- Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs
Carmine A. Rubino has been recognized since 2016 in the areas of:
- Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
Congratulations to Mr. Moore, Ms. Livingston, Mr. Gaier, and Mr. Rubino, for their continued excellence and recognition in The Best Lawyers in America©.
To learn more about the lawyers at KDLM, click here.
Best Lawyers is universally regarded as a definitive guide to legal excellence, providing directories of top attorneys in over 75 countries. The Best Lawyers in America© lists are divided by geographic region and practice areas to help individuals find the top lawyers in their area. Lawyers are reviewed by their peers on the basis of professional expertise and undergo an authentication process to ensure they are in current practice and in good standing with their local bar.
Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore (KDLM) is consistently recognized for its success, and year after year is recognized as one of the top law firms in New York representing plaintiffs in medical malpractice, personal injury, and wrongful death cases. Together, the KDLM personal injury lawyers have obtained more than 100 verdicts of over $1 million and negotiated settlements on behalf of clients in excess of $1 billion. Two out of the three highest medical malpractice verdicts ever awarded in New York history were achieved by our firm. To learn more, go to: www.kdlm.com.
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Matt Gaier
mgaier@kdlm.com
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To support the launch of the Merrell Hiking Club, the brand announced the second generation of its leading women's hiking sneaker, Bravada
ROCKFORD, Mich., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Merrell®, the world's leading outdoor footwear brand, has launched its women-centric hiking club to provide inspiration and connection to the outdoors through a digital community.
"Merrell is leading the hiking revolution into the mainstream, and we recognize the needs of women hikers are quite diverse – all the way down to the anatomy of their feet," said Lindsey Lindemulder, brand marketing director at Merrell. "We saw the critical demand for shared expertise and the right product design, and built a community around that insight to connect, empower, and inform women hikers."
Merrell partnered with its trailblazers and key partners including Erin McGrady, Tiare Bowman, and Shana Joseph, among others, to kickstart the U.S. community. The brand will continue to build the club globally through its partners, local groups, and communities in order to share their expertise and engage with hikers.
The Merrell Hiking Club began in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) in December 2021 and has since grown its reach to Canada and the United States. The EMEA group has reached an audience of more than 630,000 hikers online. There are 24 urban, suburban, and adventure curated hikes throughout EMEA and Canada, with 25 expected to launch in the U.S. in the coming year.
To continue making the outdoors accessible for all, Merrell utilized its innovation and technology to introduce the second generation of its beloved women's Bravada hiking sneaker. The Bravada 2 was designed with a purpose and every layer of the shoe was constructed to provide support to the average female foot. It is the most sustainable Merrell Bravada to date.
New innovative features of the ground-up women's-specific hiker include:
- A wider toe box
- Additional arch support
- Narrower heel
- Recycled materials across laces, webbing mesh lining, and removable EVA foam
"The customer experience is all about finding the right fit in hiking shoes and having the right resources and equipment," said Lindemulder. "Women have been largely underrepresented in the outdoor space and in the design of footwear. In fact, many women don't even know their shoes weren't designed based on the structure of a woman's foot. The Merrell Hiking Club and pinnacle technology of the Bravada 2 help to solve the problem many women face when looking to get outdoors."
Bravada 2 was recently recognized with a 2022 SELF Certified Sneaker Award for the best low-cut hiking shoe. SELF editors and experts rigorously test each shoe under consideration during a variety of activities to find the best fit, comfort, performance, and style.
"Our efforts to get more women outdoors are an extension of the More Less campaign – demonstrating the greatest form of self-care has always been pretty simple: get outside and get moving," said Lindemulder.
For more information on Merrell, please visit merrell.com. For more information on the Merrell Hiking Club, please visit www.merrell.com/us/en/merrell-hike-club.
ABOUT MERRELL:
Merrell® exists to share the simple power of being outside and is committed to building an inclusive and sustainable environment for future generations to enjoy. As the global leader in outdoor active footwear with the Moab hiking boot and Jungle Moc, Merrell is focused on merging performance, styling, and comfort to empower all people to confidently explore the outdoors. Visit Merrell.com or follow us on social @Merrell. Merrell® is a division of Wolverine World Wide, Inc. (NYSE: WWW), one of the world's leading marketers and licensors of branded casual, active lifestyle, work, outdoor sport, athletic, children's and uniform footwear and apparel.
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Cloud-connected Food Lockers Streamlines Food Deliveries While Elevating the Delivery Experience for Residents
SEATTLE, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Minnow Technologies ("Minnow"), a Seattle-based IoT startup, and Westdale Real Estate Investment and Management ("Westdale"), a national real estate investment and management company headquartered in Dallas, announced today that Westdale has deployed Minnow's contactless food lockers (called "Pickup Pods") at five of its multifamily properties in Florida, Georgia, and Texas.
"We're excited to partner with Westdale to provide their residents with a world-class food delivery experience. Having a Top 50 NMHC Owner/Manager install Pickup Pods across an entire region of the country will help create awareness of Minnow and our mission to make food delivery as efficient, reliable, and convenient as package delivery," said Steven Sperry, Co-Founder, and CEO of Minnow.
Westdale partners with renowned designers and contractors to build and deliver exceptional assets that positively contribute to the lives of their residents. The company continuously strives to make its properties stand out from the competition. Adding a contactless food delivery amenity like the Pickup Pod will further differentiate Westdale's properties by making residents' food deliveries safer, more secure, and more convenient.
Minnow's intelligent food lockers make food delivery and pickup consistent and reliable, every time. Instead of waiting in the lobby or searching for residents' units, food delivery workers drop off orders at the Pickup Pod. This enables them to complete the delivery faster while reducing delivery traffic throughout the property. And residents can pick up at their convenience, knowing their food is kept in a secure, insulated cubby. To help ensure food safety, the Pickup Pod tracks and monitors every delivery, alerting building staff when food isn't picked up within a specified time.
"We're excited to utilize Minnow Pickup Pods in our mid-rise buildings. We expect this to be very popular with residents and to solve food delivery issues. It will also help minimize traffic in our resident corridors and common areas," said Elizabeth Heller, Vice President, Regional Director at Westdale Asset Management. Unlike drop-off tables or leaving deliveries with a concierge, the Pickup Pod tracks and monitors every food delivery while enhancing building security, reducing demands on building staff, and eliminating lobby clutter.
And unlike package lockers, the Pickup Pod is designed for short-term food storage. The Pickup Pod is UL-certified for food safety and comes with insulated cubbies, anti-microbial surfaces, and 24x7 monitoring to help ensure food freshness and safety. It takes up less than four square feet of floor space and can be installed in under 30 minutes. Pickup Pod can go almost anywhere and requires only a standard 120V electrical outlet and a WiFi or cellular connection. And it can accept deliveries from any food delivery service, ghost kitchen, restaurant, or catering company. Today, Pickup Pods streamlines food deliveries in multifamily properties, office buildings, hospitals, universities, corporate campuses, and other places where food is delivered.
Westdale owns a stellar reputation in all disciplines of the multifamily and commercial real estate sectors. Founded in 1991, the privately held company fosters an entrepreneurial spirit with flexible and responsive capital resources enabling adaptive, creative, and opportunistic acquisitions, value-add, core-plus, and suburban in any phase of the economic cycle.
Founded in 2017, Minnow's contactless food lockers (called "Pickup Pods") provide a better way to manage food deliveries. With a sleek, modern design and a small footprint, Pickup Pods are perfect for office buildings, multifamily properties, universities, hospitals, and other places where food is delivered.
To learn more about Minnow, go to https://www.minnowpod.com/ or on social media at linkedin.com/company/minnow, facebook.com/minnowpod, Instagram.com/minnowpod, and twitter.com/minnowpod.
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2nd Annual PURPOSE Event Ascends Ranks of Country's Top Grossing Wine Auctions
PASO ROBLES, Calif., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wine industry and business leaders from across the country once again came together at Must! Charities' PURPOSE event with a shared passion to give back—and the results were astounding.
Indeed, in only its second year, PURPOSE doubled down and raised $2.5 million, far eclipsing the remarkable $1.3 million generated at last year's inaugural event. With this latest success, PURPOSE continues to rise in the ranks of the top 15 grossing wine auctions in the United States.
The 2nd annual PURPOSE event was held at Booker Vineyard on Saturday, August 13, 2022. The overwhelming success of the event stems from how it organically originated from small vintners who harnessed the power of allocation lists. PURPOSE was an ambition of Eric Jensen, farmer-winemaker at Booker Vineyard and a founding member of Must! Charities.
Quickly becoming renowned as "the best damn party in Paso Robles," PURPOSE is more than fine dining, luxurious auction lots and festive live performances. It is a party with a heart, dedicated to supporting critical needs in the greater San Luis Obispo County region. This year's theme was "Let's get uncomfortable," prompting guests to dig deep on behalf of those in need.
"Our little community of Paso Robles continues to show why it is the hottest and most special place in the wine world," Jensen said. "The local vintners and those who love their wines are not just in it for themselves. They are putting profits back in and building a stronger, healthier community that strives to leave no one behind."
"Fund a Need" Nets $1.3 Million
The star of this year's show was the "Fund a Need" lot benefitting the Vineyard Team's Juan Nevarez Memorial Scholarship Fund, which provides academic opportunities to children of vineyard and winery workers. A total of $1.3 million was raised for this lot, with more than $1 million earmarked for the scholarship fund with the remainder being invested in upcoming projects at Must! Charities. Top "Fund a Need" contributors included JUSTIN Vineyard & Winery, Constellation Brands, Eric and Lisa Jensen, Doug and Sabrina Kruse, Law Estate Wines, J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines, Saxum Vineyards and Southern Glazer's. These top bidders set the tone and energized more than 100 other people to raise their paddles in the spirit of giving.
"The hardest workers, those working amongst the vines and in the soil, are the ones who built the Paso wine region," said Becky Gray, Executive Director of Must! Charities. "But they aren't always the ones recognized and glamorized. It was incredibly emotional to witness the camaraderie of the crowd to come alongside these families and create opportunities in education that they may otherwise not have."
While Must! Charities has historically been a grassroots effort in the region, PURPOSE extends the organization's reach by bringing local Paso Roblans and out-of-towners together. The result allows for greater reach and leverage, increasing the impact for those who need it most. The success of PURPOSE ultimately gives Must! Charities increased capacity to move the needle on social issues.
To find out more about the MUST! Charities fundraising charitable campaigns, visit mustcharities.org or call 805.226.5788. Interviews are available upon request.
Media Contacts:
Becky Gray
Executive Director
805.674.6118
becky@mustcharities.org
Kyle Beal Flaherty
Brand Warrior
805.286.1879
kyle@mustcharities.org
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A family arrives at the parking lot, anxious to see what the museum offers. Walking along the tarmac, they are in awe of the pieces of history that were brought to life and are now on display.
Hiding in a back hangar, where no patron sees or visits, is a shop full of volunteers who eagerly await a new project to get their wrenches on.
Among the humble workers “Doc” stands, with a gentle spirit and kind blue eyes. Given the nickname for serving his community in the medical profession, Dr. Timothy O’Donnell is a retired internist turned restoration volunteer at the Air Mobility Command Museum.
Soon after retiring from an impressive 37 year career, O’Donnell was looking for something new and turned to a place where he spent his pastime.
Years ago, the Newark native would drive from his home in northern Delaware to beaches in southern Delaware nearly every summer. Stopping along the way at the AMC Museum, O’Donnell enjoyed the airplanes with his wife and two children.
“When you retire, there’s an entire blank canvas,” explained O’Donnell. “I went online and saw there were volunteer opportunities. It seemed like a great way to enjoy my retirement.”
O’Donnell currently invests two days of his week helping to restore aircraft at the museum, channeling his passion for helping others into giving back to the community.
“He brings many things but the one that sticks out in my mind is inspiration,” said Johnny Taylor, AMC Museum director. “For anyone that wants to volunteer their time but hesitates because of their lack of experience or background, he is an inspiration to those individuals.”
Lack of experience has only added to O’Donnell’s enjoyment of being a museum volunteer.
“The enjoyment of learning something new [and] associating with a good group of people adds to the experience,” said O’Donnell. “I am doing this because it's enjoyable. I was content to sweep the floor if that’s what needed to be done.”
Many of O’Donnell’s teammates share his sentiments and appreciate the passion and work ethic he brings from his profession.
The AMC Museum operates mainly with the help of volunteers like O’Donnell and his team.
“[It is] hard to describe the museum volunteer team, but I have always used the phrase that they are the ‘heartbeat of the museum’ and without their loyal service the museum could not operate,” said Taylor.
If you or someone you know is interested in volunteering their time at the AMC Museum, please call 302-677-5938 or visit https://amcmuseum.org/.
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An article about literary maestro Joyce Carol Oates begs to begin with her renowned productivity. Between her first novel, published at age 26, and her newest, Babysitter, published 58 years later, Oates has written 60 novels—an average of two per year. The books’ subjects, structures, métiers vary. But they all push, slyly or overtly or both, hot cultural buttons: class, gender, race, Chappaquiddick, sexual assault, Marilyn Monroe, abortion, infidelity, cancer, suicide.
What’s most astonishing about her oeuvre, though, isn’t volume. It’s craft. Turn to page one of any JCO novel and be carried away by its imaginative story arc, its right-on-time social critique, its distinctive protagonists. And, oh, the writing. Take Babysitter’s first chapter, “She Asks Herself Why,” reproduced here in its entirety.
Because he’d touched her. Just her wrist.
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A brush of his fingers. A sidelong glance.
Because he’d asked Which one are you?—meaning Which man’s wife?
Because it was a time and a place when to be a woman—(at least, a woman who looked like her)—was to be a man’s wife.
Action lovers: Not to worry. Babysitter is poetry, yes, but hung on a sturdy framework that supports it. Oates gives us a cast of jagged, interesting characters: unfaithful, unsettled wife Hanna; street hustler Mikey; the titular serial kidnapper/killer known as Babysitter. The plot is based on a true story, the wave of child murders that ravaged the Detroit suburbs during the 1970s. Oates uses that historical truth to bring together people whose intersections could only happen
in fiction.
How does she do it, you wonder? Me, too. So I asked her.
“Amid a family of people who have just always worked hard, I’m not unusual,” Oates answered. “My father often worked at two jobs—tool-and-die designer, sign painter—and my mother was the daughter of a not-very-prosperous farmer. Overall, I’m not comfortable squandering time. ‘You can’t waste time without injuring eternity.’ I think Henry David Thoreau said something like that.”
“I heard you used to write on a typewriter in the back seat of your car while your husband drove,” I said.
“That is certainly not true!” Oates retorted. “My husband and I took turns driving.”
I asked what she was aiming for in writing this new novel.
“Babysitter considers the netherworld of enablers,” she answered, “who make sexual predation of children possible by looking the other way” when it’s evident that someone with money or power is doing terrible things. “I lived in Detroit in those years, as the Babysitter was committing his crimes,” Oates added. “I wanted to re-create the aura of confusion and paranoia of the time. I didn’t want to present a tidy explanation of what happened, which was known years later.”
My final question: “How did writing a novel in your 80s differ from writing novels in your 20s, and all the ages in between?”
“My work today is likely to be more voice-driven, character-focused, than originally, when my narrative voice told the story,” Oates said. “I’m more experimental in my work now.”
Lucky us. If Babysitter is any indication, that experiment is a smashing success. | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a40795829/joyce-carol-oates-babysitter/ | 2022-08-18T14:35:03Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a40795829/joyce-carol-oates-babysitter/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
1. The Rapid is adding some new stops in Grand Rapids.
Route 10 will include Pine Rest Rehabilitation and Spectrum Health South Pavilion starting in just a few weeks.
The Rapid says this will impact some of the existing stops along 54th Street, but the updates will give more people access to these essential services.
The route changes kick off on August 29.
2. Whole Foods opened its first West Michigan store on Wednesday.
It's located at 28th Street and Radcliffe Avenue across from Woodland Mall.
The 45,000-square-foot building features more than 200 local items from Michigan and nearby states.
3. The Salvation Army is celebrating summer with a free block party at the Kroc Center.
The Krock Block Party takes place this Friday starting at 5:30. The event is free to everyone.
Families can enjoy a bounce house, a giant slip and slide, a mobile gaming truck, and a visit from the Grand Rapids Gold Mascot Buckets.
Food and drinks will also be available. Visit the Kroc Center's Facebook page for more information and updates.
4. It's back! An old fan favorite flavor of Faygo Soda Pop is now on Michigan store shelves for the first time in more than a decade.
Jazzin Bluesberry is now being sold in Michigan again after not being available in the state for at least 15 years.
Even though the blueberry Faygo pop flavor was not being sold in Michigan, it never actually went away.
It's one of a handful of flavors sold in southern states, but people in Michigan had been requesting it for a while. No word on how long it'll remain on store shelves.
5. Laffy Taffy has launched its first joke-writing contest in decades, called "Your Jokes, Our Wrapper."
Award-winning artist T-Pain is helping pick out the best jokes that will eventually be printed on the wrappers of the chewy candy.
The grand prize winner will get $5,000.
The competition is open until September 16. Head to laffytaffy.com to enter your joke. | https://www.fox17online.com/morning-mix/morning-buzz-august-18 | 2022-08-18T14:36:15Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/morning-mix/morning-buzz-august-18 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Big Ten Conference reaches record media rights deal
CBS and NBC join Fox in landing Big Ten media rights that will pay the soon-to-be-expanded college sports conference more than $1 billion annually, two sources familiar with the deals told Axios.
Why it matters: The Big Ten, which is adding UCLA and USC starting with the 2024 school year, becomes the first conference to eclipse the $1 billion mark for its annual media rights pay.
- The deal, announced Thursday morning, ends a 40-year relationship with ESPN, which has held Big Ten rights since 1982.
The big picture: This would effectively give CBS a replacement for the Southeastern Conference (SEC), while NBC gets a bigger foothold in college football outside of Notre Dame.
- ESPN is taking over SEC football rights starting in 2024 as part of an expanded deal with the conference.
- Fox, given its 61% stake in the Big Ten Network, was never in danger of losing its rights and was even involved in the talks with other networks.
- NBC will now own both Saturday and Sunday nights. It also airs an NFL game with "Sunday Night Football."
Details: The Big Ten would have three national game windows on Saturdays: early afternoon on Fox, late afternoon on CBS and primetime on NBC.
- That won't happen until the second year of its deal, as CBS still has two years left on its current SEC deal, which mandates that CBS put those games on in the late afternoon window on Saturdays.
- Once the SEC moves over to ESPN/ABC in 2024, CBS' Big Ten games may go head-to-head with the conference it used to air.
By the numbers: The New York Post's Andrew Marchand reports that CBS will pay $350 million a year for its Big Ten package, slightly more than the $330 million that ESPN is paying for SEC football alone. Two sources told Axios that both CBS and NBC will pay roughly the same amount.
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Arizona teachers make 32% less than other college grads in the state
Arizona teachers made about 32% less than comparable college-educated workers in the state last year, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
- Only Colorado, Oklahoma and Virginia had bigger teacher pay gaps.
Why it matters: Arizona is facing an extreme teacher shortage, which has led to larger class sizes and less-experienced educators.
- Low pay is one of the main reasons teachers leave the field and fewer people pursue it.
Of note: The state has allocated more money to classrooms in recent years, but many districts have not passed along all of those dollars to teachers, instead paying for building maintenance or other student support services.
What they're saying: EPI, which advocates for fair pay for low- and middle-income workers, said raising teacher pay is "necessary to improve educational outcomes and foster future economic stability of workers, their families, and communities."
Zoom out: On the national level, inflation-adjusted wages for teachers have remained essentially flat since 1996, increasing just $29 a week (in 2021 dollars), the institute found.
- College graduates who don't teach saw wages increase $445 in the same period.
Yes, but: Teachers typically receive better retirement benefits than private-sector employers, offsetting some of the wage disparity.
- Still, U.S. teachers' total compensation, including benefits, was more than 14% lower than their non-teaching peers.
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Ride the rails with some fancy cocktails at Century Grand in Phoenix
I've driven past Century Grand hundreds of times and had no idea it was even there.
Yes, but: My wife and I went there recently for her birthday and I found out what I'd been missing.
The big picture: The building at 3626 E. Indian School Road seems fairly nondescript, but inside, it is, as my wife described it, "Disneyland for adults."
- Century Grand houses three unique bars, each with its own fun theme.
- One of the bars, Grey Hen, looks like an old-time New Orleans apothecary, while UnderTow is a nautically themed cocktail bar.
What happened: We went to Platform 18, which looks like the interior of an old-school Pullman train car, complete with a stack of antique luggage and steam that rises near the entrance.
- The "windows" are digital screens that make you feel as though you're on a real train by showing a moving landscape of snow-covered fir trees in Colorado.
What I tried: I started the evening with a No Body, No Crime, made with bourbon, rum, salted plum, orange oils, cassia bark, toasted sesame and Thai basil, which cost $18. If you like an Old Fashioned, you'll like this.
- I also ordered a Gentlemen's Heist, made with cognac, Amontillado sherry, rye, passionflower bitters, mustard seed, orange oils, Cardamaro and a garnish of rosemary, which our server lightly singed with a flame to release the aroma. It had a delicious, buttery taste. I've never had anything quite like it.
1 tip: The cocktail menu is very gin-heavy.
1 sweet thing: They've got boozy ice cream desserts like the Last Word Ice Cream, made with gin, green chartreuse, maraschino liqueur, lime, cream and eggs, with a wafer of absinthe waffle cone.
Of note: The bars at Century Grand are reservation-only and they are not free.
- Grey Hen has an epic whiskey selection, so I'm going to have to go back sometime.
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Seattle kids fall behind on vaccines required for school
Public health officials are urging parents to get their kids up-to-date on immunizations before the school year starts, after fewer children received routine vaccinations since the start of the pandemic.
Why it matters: While Washington state doesn't require K-12 students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend school, students are required to be up-to-date on seven other vaccinations, unless they receive an exemption.
- The mandated shots protect against measles, chickenpox, whooping cough and polio, among other diseases.
By the numbers: In 2021, 13% fewer vaccines were administered to King County children between 4 and 6 years old, compared to the pre-pandemic average from 2015 to 2019, according to the county health department.
- The state health department reported similar numbers.
The latest: Public Health — Seattle & King County is encouraging parents to take their children to one of several free vaccination clinics between now and late September.
- The health clinics will also offer vaccines that aren't required for school, such as those that prevent HPV, meningococcal disease and COVID-19.
- Clinics starting in September will offer flu shots, too.
What they're saying: "Childhood vaccinations are vital to protect both our children and the community from serious illnesses," Jeff Duchin, county health officer, said in a news release.
- "...The only reason we don't see diseases like childhood meningitis, measles, polio, and tetanus more often today is because the majority of children are vaccinated," he added.
Between the lines: While people can apply for their children to be exempt from school vaccine requirements for philosophical, religious or medical reasons, in most cases, exemption forms require a doctor's signature.
- Of note: People can no longer be exempted from the measles vaccine based on philosophical exemptions, following a law the Legislature passed in 2019.
What's next: School districts across Washington state have different start dates, but classes generally resume at the very end of August or in early September.
- For most students in Seattle Public Schools, the first day of class is Sept. 7.
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SWEETWATER COUNTY — Voters made their decision on Tuesday, Aug. 16, in the 2022 Primary Election.
Key races locally were for Sweetwater County Sheriff, Sweetwater County Commissioners, Rock Springs mayor and much more.
Sheriff John Grossnickle, the incumbent in this year's race, defeated former Rock Springs Police Chief Dwane Pacheco by more than 4,000 votes to be the republican candidate on the Nov. 8 ballot.
For the Sweetwater County Commission race, Robb Slaughter received 5,051 votes, Island Richards received 4,494 votes and Keaton West received 3,898 votes. Roy Lloyd, one of the incumbents on the ballot this year, received 2,788 votes.
No matter what the outcome is in November, Rock Springs will have a new mayor. Candidate Max Mickelson won the primary election, totaling 1,779 votes. Matthew Jackman totaled 1,381 votes on Tuesday.
On the national scale, all eyes were on the U.S. House of Representatives race in Wyoming. Incumbent Liz Cheney made headlines across the country for her role in the Jan. 6 hearings.
Wyoming voters decided that it was time for a change.
Harriet Hageman defeated Cheney in the republican side of the United States Representative race, gaining more than 6,700 votes in Sweetwater County.
Gov. Mark Gordon will be the republican candidate on the November ballot, totaling 5,749 votes from Sweetwater County. He will face Theresa Livingston, the democratic gubernatorial candidate.
Below is a full list of unofficial results from Tuesday's primaries as it pertains to Sweetwater County.
United States Representative (Republican):
Harriet Hageman: 6,722 votes
Liz Cheney: 2,162 votes
Anthony Bouchard: 449 votes
Denton Knapp: 176 votes
Robyn M. Belinskey: 132 votes
Governor (Republican):
Mark Gordon: 5,749 votes
Brent Bien: 2,300 votes
Rex Rammell: 819 votes
James Scott Quick: 349 votes
Secretary of State (Republican):
Chuck Gray: 4,274 votes
Tara Nethercott: 2,964 votes
Mark Armstrong: 1,176 votes
Dan Dockstader: 260 votes
State Auditor (Republican):
Kristi Racines: 7,350 votes
State Treasurer (Republican):
Curt Meier: 4,985 votes
Bill Gallop: 2,693 votes
Superintendent of Public Instruction (Republican):
Brian Schroeder: 2,809 votes
Megan Degenfelder: 2,531 votes
Thomas Kelly: 1,078 votes
Jennifer Zerba: 965 votes
Robert J. White III: 487 votes
State Senator Senate District 11 (Republican):
Larry Hicks: 569 votes
State Senator Senate District 13 (Republican):
Stacy Jones: 2,561 votes
Tom James: 1,212 votes
State Representative House District 15 (Republican):
Donald Burkhart: 33 votes
State Representative House District 17 (Republican):
Joshua Thomas (J.T.) Larson: 1,322 votes
State Representative House District 18 (Republican):
Scott Heiner: 743 votes
State Representative House District 39 (Republican):
Cody Wylie: 1,589 votes
State Representative House District 47 (Republican):
Robert “Bob” Davis: 416 votes
Clyde R. Johnson: 178 votes
State Representative House District 48 (Republican):
Clark Stith: 1,507 votes
State Representative House District 60 (Republican):
Tony Niemiec: 1,435 votes
Jennifer L. James: 465 votes
Sweetwater County Commission (Republican):
Robb Slaughter: 5,051 votes
Island Richards: 4,494 votes
Keaton West: 3,898 votes
Roy Lloyd: 2,788 votes
Chris Davis: 1,662 votes
Jeffrey Smith: 1,222 votes
Lester Mauch: 1,004 votes
Jeff Ramaj: 765 votes
Bill Formanek: 429 votes
Sweetwater County Attorney (Republican):
Dan Erramouspe: 7,626 votes
Sweetwater County Sheriff (Republican):
John Grossnickle: 6,904 votes
Dwane Pacheco: 2,456 votes
Sweetwater County Treasurer (Republican):
Mark Cowan: 2,922 votes
Tony Yerkovich: 2,767 votes
Stephen P. Allen: 2,659 votes
Sweetwater County Assessor (Republican):
Dave Divis: 5,722 votes
Perri Rubeck: 2,812 votes
Sweetwater County Clerk of District Court (Republican):
DonnaLee Bobak: 4,970 votes
Annette Eychner: 3,547 votes
United States Representative (Democrat):
Lynnette Greybull: 477 votes
Meghan R. Jensen: 297 votes
Steve Helling: 144 votes
Governor (Democrat):
Theresa A. Livingston: 547 votes
Rex Wilde: 366 votes
Superintendent of Public Instruction (Democrat):
Sergio A. Maldonado, Sr.: 867 votes
State Senator Senate District 13 (Democrat):
Leesa Kuhlmann: 385 votes
State Representative House District 17 (Democrat):
Chad M. Banks: 203 votes
State Representative House District 47 (Democrat):
Lee Ann Stephenson: 37 votes
Sweetwater County Coroner (Democrat):
Dale S. Majhanovich: 989 votes
Sweetwater County Treasurer (Democrat):
Joseph M. Barbuto: 896 votes
Green River Mayor:
Pete Rust: 2,201 votes
Mark Peterson: 959
Rock Springs Mayor:
Max Mickelson: 1,779 votes
Matthew S. Jackman: 1,381 votes
Wally J. Johnson: 939 votes
Dave Radakovich: 697 votes
Kathy Phelps: 568 votes
Granger Mayor:
John Styvar: 18 votes
Bradly McCollum: 9 votes
Wamsutter Mayor:
Larry Chip Roney: 44 votes
Green River City Council Ward I:
Ronald L. Williams: 720 votes
Jon Fernandez: 391 votes
Green River City Council Ward II:
Michael S. Shutran: 604 votes
Green River City Council Ward III:
Gary Killpack: 588 votes
Robert Ross: 582 votes
Rock Springs City Council Ward I:
Jeannie Delas: 870 votes
Rock Springs City Council Ward II:
David A. Thompson: 908 votes
Thomas Allen: 867 votes
Rock Springs City Council Ward III:
Daniel J. Pedri: 685 votes
Bradley Chrisman: 235 votes
Rock Springs City Council Ward IV:
Randy Hanson: 706 votes
Eric Bingham: 368 votes
Granger Town Council:
Robert A. Perry: 25 votes
Teal Romango: 23 votes
Wamsutter Town Council:
Dustin Davis: 38 votes
Seth J. Rauch 29 votes
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Liz Cheney’s resounding primary defeat marks the end of an era for the Republican Party as well as her own family legacy, the most high-profile political casualty yet as the party of Lincoln transforms into the party of Trump.
The fall of the three-term congresswoman, who has declared it her mission to ensure Donald Trump never returns to the Oval Office, was vividly foreshadowed earlier this year, on the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
As the House convened for a moment of silence, Cheney, who is leading the investigation into the insurrection as vice chair of the 1/6 committee, and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, stood almost alone on the Republican side of the House floor.
Democratic lawmakers streamed by to shake their hands. Republicans declined to join them.
“Liz Cheney represents the Republican Party as it used to be. ... All of that is gone now,” said Geoff Kabaservice, vice president of political studies at the center-right Niskanen Center.
What comes next for Liz Cheney is still to be determined.
“Now the real work begins,” she said in an election night concession speech in Wyoming, summoning the legacy of both Abraham Lincoln and his Civil War-era military and presidential successor Ulysses Grant in her campaign against Trump.
Cheney could very well announce her own run for the White House — unlikely to win a hostile Republican Party’s nomination but to at least give those opposed to Trump an alternative.
Overnight, she transferred leftover campaign funds into a new entity: “The Great Task.” That’s a phrase from The Gettysburg Address.
“I will be doing whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office,” Cheney told NBC’s “Today” show early Wednesday. Pressed, she said that running for president “is something I’m thinking about and I’ll make a decision in the coming months.”
Whether she runs or not, her belief that Trump poses a danger to democracy is a conviction that runs deep in her family.
But it’s a view that has no home in today’s GOP.
Trump is purging the Republican Party, ridding it of dissenters like Cheney and others who dare to defy him, shifting the coast-to-coast GOP landscape and the makeup of Congress.
Of the 10 House Republicans including Cheney who voted to impeach Trump for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, at the Capitol, only two remain candidates for re-election. The others have bowed out or, like Cheney, have been defeated by Trump-backed challengers.
If Republicans gain control of the House and Senate in the November elections, the new Congress is destined to be remade in Trump’s image. However, his influence may in fact cut two ways, winning back the House for Republicans but costing the party the Senate if his candidates fail to generate the broader appeal needed for statewide elections.
“It’s just a party of Donald Trump’s fever dreams,” said Mark Salter, a former longtime Republican aide to the late Sen. John McCain.
“It’s just Donald Trump’s club.”
For 50 years, the Cheneys have had important influence in Washington, from the time Dick Cheney first ran for Congress – later being elected vice president – to the arrival of his daughter, elected in 2016 alongside Trump’s White House victory.
Identified with the hawkish defense wing of the Republican Party, the Cheneys with the Presidents Bush represented a cornerstone of the GOP in the post-World War II era, when it thrived as a party of small government, low taxation and muscular foreign policy.
Liz Cheney never wavered, chosen by House GOP colleagues to the same position her father held, the No. 3 Republican in the House, its highest-ranking woman.
But the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol changed all that.
Cheney was unequivocal, laying blame for the attack on the defeated president and his false claims of voter fraud and a rigged election.
Trump “summoned this mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack,” she said at the time, announcing her vote to impeach.
“There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy initially defended Cheney but quickly reversed as Republicans booted her from party leadership. When Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi named Cheney to the 1/6 panel, her exile was all but complete.
Trump gloated at Cheney’s GOP primary defeat Tuesday night, deriding her as “sanctimonious” and a “fool” for suggesting his claims of a rigged election were false.
Trump had swooped into the Cowboy State to rally for Harriet Hageman, who was once highly critical of him but beat Cheney by embracing the former president, backed by McCarthy and other party leaders.
Cheney’s defeat follows that of the last Bush in public office, Jeb’s son George P. Bush, who was defeated in the Republican primary for Texas attorney general by Trump-backed Ken Paxton in May.
On Fox News, conservative author Charlie Kirk called Tuesday’s election a “mass repudiation” of the Bush-Cheney-McCain era.
Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, who replaced Cheney in House GOP leadership and endorsed Hageman, said in a statement she was glad to see Pelosi’s “puppet” defeated.
Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming who served in Congress alongside Dick Cheney and has known Liz Cheney since she was a child, says he can no longer recognize the party that he joined, casting his first presidential vote for Dwight Eisenhower.
“What’s happened to our party is a fear of Donald J. Trump,” Simpson said.
Founded in the mid-19th century, the Republican Party’s core conservative values have shifted in the Trump era into a strain of politics that is more inward focused on grievances at home and isolationism abroad.
Those running for Congress include many Republican incumbents who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s election, amplifying Trump’s relentless false claims of a rigged election and fueling the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
And many of the new GOP candidates for Congress are also election deniers, according to a tally by Democrats.
“The House is – should be – the people’s House,” said former Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Florida. Instead, he said, “It’s controlled by Mr. Trump,”
Cheney walks alone many days at the Capitol, flanked by plain-clothes Capitol police who guard her amid an onslaught of violent threats.
Her mission of denying Trump a return to the presidency can be seen in her daily schedule, much of her time devoted to the 1/6 committee deepening and completing its work.
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NEW YORK (AP) — One skyscraper stands out from the rest in the Manhattan skyline. It’s not the tallest, but it is the skinniest — the world’s skinniest, in fact.
The 84-story residential Steinway Tower, designed by New York architecture firm SHoP Architects, has the title of “most slender skyscraper in the world” thanks to its logic-defying ratio of width to height: 1-to-23 1/2.
“Any time it’s 1-to-10 or more that’s considered a slender building; 1-to-15 or more is considered exotic and really difficult to do,” SHoP Architects founding principal Gregg Pasquarelli said. “The most slender buildings in the world are mostly in Hong Kong, and they’re around 17- or 18-to-1.”
The 60 apartments in the tower range in cost from $18 million to $66 million per unit, and offer 360-degree views of the city. It’s located just south of Central Park, along a stretch of Manhattan’s 57th Street known as “Billionaires’ Row.”
At 1,428 feet (435 meters), the building is the second-tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere, second to the nearby Central Park Tower at 1,550 feet (470 meters). For comparison, the world’s tallest tower is Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which stands at 2,717 feet (828 meters).
Steinway Tower is so skinny at the top that whenever the wind ramps up, the luxury homes on the upper floors sway around by a few feet.
“Every skyscraper has to move,” Pasquarelli said. “If it’s too stiff, it’s actually more dangerous — it has to have flexibility in it.”
To prevent the tower from swaying too far, the architects created a counterbalance with tuned steel plates. And while the exterior has the de rigueur reflective glass, it also includes a textured terracotta and bronze facade that creates wind turbulence to slow the acceleration of the building, Pasquarelli said. About 200 rock anchors descend at most 100 feet (30 meters) into the underlying bedrock to provide a deep foundation.
Steinway Tower has a long history as the former location of Steinway Hall, constructed in 1924. JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group bought the building in 2013, and now they’re looking to the future.
“What I’m hoping is that 50 years from now, you’ve only known New York with 111 West 57th St.,” Pasquarelli said. “I hope it holds a special place in all future New Yorkers’ hearts.” | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/manhattan-skyscraper-is-most-slender-in-the-world/ | 2022-08-18T14:44:07Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/manhattan-skyscraper-is-most-slender-in-the-world/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) - Slightly fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to stand out as one of the strongest segments of the U.S. economy.
Applications for jobless aid for the week ending August 13 fell by 2,000 to 250,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Last week's number, which raised some eyebrows, was revised down by 10,000.
The four-week average for claims, which evens out some of the week-to-week volatility, fell by 2,750 to 246,750.
The number of Americans collecting traditional unemployment benefits increased by 7,000 the week that ended August 6, to 1.43 million. That's the most since early April.
Unemployment applications generally reflect layoffs and are often seen as an early indicator of where the job market is headed.
Hiring in the United States in 2022 has been remarkably resilient in the face of rising interest rates and weak economic growth.
The Labor Department reported earlier this month that U.S. employers added 528,000 jobs in July, more than double what forecasters had expected. The unemployment rate dipped to 3.5%, tying a 50-year low reached just before coronavirus pandemic slammed the U.S. economy in early 2020.
The United States recovered with unexpected strength from 2020′s COVID-19 recession, leaving businesses scrambling to find enough workers.
That's not to say the U.S. economy doesn't face challenges. Consumer prices have been surging, rising 8.5% in July from a year earlier - down slightly from June’s 40-year high 9.1%. To combat inflation, the Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark short-term interest rate four times this year.
Higher borrowing costs have taken a toll. The economy contracted in the first half of the year - one measure suggesting the onset of a recession. But the strength of the job market has been inconsistent with an economic downturn. | https://www.wboc.com/news/fewer-americans-file-for-jobless-benefits-last-week/article_654b768a-1ef5-11ed-a478-57813b8c9f71.html | 2022-08-18T14:44:50Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/fewer-americans-file-for-jobless-benefits-last-week/article_654b768a-1ef5-11ed-a478-57813b8c9f71.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SNOW HILL, Md. - The Worcester County Health Department is sponsoring a rabies vaccination clinic on Wednesday, Sept. 21.
The health department encourages residents with unvaccinated pets, or pets whose vaccinations have lapsed and need a booster, to attend the low-cost clinics and to avoid contact with wild animals, particularly those who are acting sick or in an unusual manner.
While raccoons are the most frequent carriers of rabies, a deadly viral disease, in Maryland, domestic pets are also at risk. Cats are the number one domestic animal species most likely to be unvaccinated and are at a higher risk of exposure to rabid wildlife while outdoors.
Worcester Health offers the following tips for avoiding contact with rabies:
- Have your dogs, cats, and ferrets vaccinated regularly and keep those vaccinations current in accordance with the law. (Especially outdoor cats).
- Do not let your pets roam free - they are more likely to have contact with a rabid wild animal.
- Avoid feeding your animals outside; this draws stray and wild animals to your doorstep. (If you must feed outdoors, do not leave the food out overnight and be sure to clean up any spillage.) Cover your garbage cans securely.
- Avoid sick animals and those acting in an unusual manner and teach your children not to approach wild animals and animals they don’t know.
- If your pet has contact with a wild animal, avoid touching your pet with bare hands (wear gloves) and do not touch the wild animal. Report the incident immediately to the Health Department or your local police in order to arrange testing of the wild animal, if available, and consult your veterinarian.
At the clinics, all dogs must be leashed and under the control of an adult while all cats and ferrets must be in a carrier or box with air holes. For further information regarding the clinics and to schedule an appointment, please call 410-352-3234.The cost is $5 for Worcester County residents with proof of residency (driver’s license, utility bill, etc.) or $10 for non-county residents. The health department only accepts cash. For more information on rabies, visit www.worcesterhealth.org. | https://www.wboc.com/news/worcester-health-to-offer-fall-rabies-vaccination-clinic/article_e29d6d94-1efc-11ed-8a08-bfc36079e983.html | 2022-08-18T14:44:56Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/worcester-health-to-offer-fall-rabies-vaccination-clinic/article_e29d6d94-1efc-11ed-8a08-bfc36079e983.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Some drivers in Johnson County in recent days say they have spotted groups of people at major intersections asking for donations that are supposedly to help pay for health care for children with life-threatening illnesses.
Reports began popping up on social media last week, with some users posting pictures of some of the people who were asking for donations.
It’s not clear if the causes for which the people are seeking donations are legitimate, but some of their signage appears to match signs used by groups in South Carolina that authorities there have labeled as scammers.
Drivers in Johnson County who have reported seeing these groups have said they are asking for donations for children who need life-saving medicine, such as a bone marrow transplants or cancer treatments.
These social media reports say the people are often wearing reflective vests and holding up professional-looking signs.
The people have been reportedly spotted at some major intersections, including I-435 and Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park and 75th Street and Nieman Road in Shawnee. They have also been reportedly seen in other cities in the Kansas City metro, including Lee’s Summit and Independence.
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— Dana Wright🎙 (@RadioDana) August 12, 2022
Sign on left was TODAY at 75th and Nieman. They were in Charleston in May.
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A Shawnee Mission Post reporter who went out driving on multiple days this week to some of the intersections at which the groups had been reportedly seen did not encounter them.
Officer John Lacy, a spokesperson for the Overland Park Police Department, said that as long as the groups stay on the side of the road on public property, they are allowed to be there.
“We cannot kick them off property or anything like that because it’s freedom of speech,” Lacy said. “However, what we can do, we can just do a check for welfare.”
If individuals do venture onto the median, Lacy said Overland Park Police are allowed to ask them to relocate.
Pedestrians standing in medians has been in the news in Johnson County before: the city of Merriam passed an ordinance last year that prohibits pedestrians from standing in medians at nine of its major intersections, a move interpreted by some critics as a means for cracking down on homeless people asking for money.
While the Post was unable to confirm with any local police department about the legitimacy of these donation-seekers, some social media users have drawn links to a reported scam in South Carolina.
Dana Wright, a talk show host on 980 KMBZ, compared the image of a person seen asking for donations near 75th and Nieman in Shawnee, with what appeared to be a photo of the same child that was used in a donation scam in North Charleston, S.C., in May.
How big is the issue? Though there are various reports from drivers on social media, local police departments in Johnson County say they have received either few or no calls about the situation.
Both Overland Park and Leawood police departments said they have not logged any calls specifically about donation seekers.
As of last Thursday, Major Jim Baker with the Shawnee Police Department said they had received some calls in regards to the situation, but the donation seekers were gone by the time officers arrived on scene.
Below are some tips provided by local law enforcement on how drivers can approach and interact with people asking for donations at intersections:
- Public Information Officer Brad Robbins of Leawood Police recommended doing research before donating to any cause, as credible organizations like United Way or Harvesters have websites with accountings on how the money they collect is spent.
- Officer Lacy in Overland Park said that instead of giving money, you can provide gift cards for items like food, so you know how the money is being spent.
- Instead of directly giving money to donation-seekers on the street, Lacy recommended residents donate to reputable organizations and simply direct those asking for help to those charities.
“People will always tell me that they feel guilty for not handing them money or anything like that,” Lacy said. “If they ask for anything, just say ‘I’ve already given to the Salvation Army,’ and you won’t feel guilty. Always send money to a reputable foundation.”
This story was originally published on the Shawnee Mission Post. | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-08-18/johnson-county-residents-raise-scam-concerns-about-groups-soliciting-donations-for-sick-kids | 2022-08-18T14:51:43Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-08-18/johnson-county-residents-raise-scam-concerns-about-groups-soliciting-donations-for-sick-kids | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Zamzama Safi’s life has changed a lot in the last year. On Aug. 15, 2021, she was at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, with a ticket for an afternoon flight. By that point, Taliban fighters had encircled the city.
“The security situation was not good, and I thought maybe the flight would be canceled,” Safi explained on St. Louis on the Air last August. “I was scared.”
After a delay, Safi’s flight took off. She cried with joy. The 25-year-old former translator for U.S. forces in Afghanistan had a layover in Doha, Qatar, and in Washington, D.C. She landed in St. Louis soon after.
Since that time, she’s lived in St. Peters with former Navy Lt. Allen Nash and his family. Safi met Nash in 2019 as part of the NATO mission to train, advise and assist the Afghan people. She holds a Special Immigrant Visa and is one of about 700 Afghan refugees to have settled in the St. Louis area.
“This year was a great year for me,” Safi explained on Friday’s show. “I proved that women can do anything and women can chase their dreams … and have independence and get education.”
In 2011, when Safi was a teenager, the Taliban captured her when she was walking home from school. She was tortured and sexually abused. She escaped a few days later because she gave a false promise to return and marry her captor. It’s a promise she never intended to keep.
Lt. Col. Aaron Thomas was one of the first people she encountered after her escape.
“He supported me and rescued me,” Safi said. Thomas played a key role in securing Safi’s safety and employment as a translator.
Earlier this year, she had the chance to reunite with him in Hawaii.
“Oh my gosh, that was such an exciting and wonderful trip, going to Hawaii,” she said. “He's like my big brother, and I truly admire him for his financial support and the way he supports me.”
Safi’s time in the United States has been filled with other moments of joy. She earned a driver’s license, she takes courses at St. Charles Community College, and she completed a manuscript about her time in Afghanistan that she hopes to have published.
Despite her happiness, Safi is saddled with worry for her family back in Afghanistan. Her brother, mother and three sisters are targets of the Taliban because of her work with U.S. forces.
“Life is very dangerous for them in Afghanistan. I have a very peaceful and happy life right here. But my concern is for my family because they are stuck,” she said. Safi said that she frequently talks with her family and that the situation is so dire that some of her family members never leave their home.
As she reflects on the one-year anniversary of her escape from Afghanistan, Safi is looking toward the future. She’s applied to the University of Missouri and wants to get her master’s degree in journalism.
“I'm really appreciative of the United States that offers me very good opportunities, and I have opportunities to get my education,” she said. “I can follow and I can chase my dreams. I can achieve my goals.”
“St. Louis on the Air” brings you the stories of St. Louis and the people who live, work and create in our region. The show is produced by Miya Norfleet, Emily Woodbury, Danny Wicentowski and Alex Heuer. Avery Rogers is our production assistant. The audio engineer is Aaron Doerr.
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The major US indices are opening to the downside. The Nasdaq is down for the 3rd consecutive day. The S&P and Dow are down for the 2nd consecutive day.
The Dow is moving down toward the 200 day MA at 33870.19. The S&P tested the 200 day MA on Tuesday and backed off from that key technical target.
A snapshot of the market 8 minutes into the open is showing:
- Dow industrial average -59.66 points or -0.17% at 33919.50
- S&P -5.43 points or -0.13% at 4268.80
- NASDAQ index -26.3 points or -0.20% at 12914 | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-stocks-trade-modestly-lower-in-early-us-trading-20220818/ | 2022-08-18T14:52:08Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-stocks-trade-modestly-lower-in-early-us-trading-20220818/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Carnival Cruise Line has released more details on the 23-day Seattle to Sydney cruise onboard Carnival Splendor next month. Besides the mandatory vaccinations and testing requirements, there are also guidelines for the use of masks onboard, travel insurance, and visa requirements for Australia.
Carnival also detailed daily activities and happenings around the vessels during the many sea days onboard.
Health and Safety Priority During 23-Day Voyage
Carnival Cruise Line is not taking any chances on the health and safety side during the upcoming 23-day repositioning from Seattle to Sydney with the Carnival Splendor.
Sailing on September 6, Carnival Cruise Line will only allow fully vaccinated guests onboard, which means that all guests age 12 and older must be fully vaccinated, and those older than 18 years old will need to have received their booster shot if eligible.
Guests that are not vaccinated or who are not planning to get their booster shot despite being eligible will be denied boarding. All guests must also provide proof of a medically observed negative COVID-19 test, PCR or Antigen, taken within three days before embarking on Carnival Splendor.
Carnival Cruise Line will also make it mandatory for all guests to wear a mask for the first days of the voyage, at a minimum until arrival in Honolulu.
The only time guests will be allowed to remove their masks is when they are eating, drinking, or in their cabins. Masks will also be required during the embarkation and debarkation process.
The cruise line said the following on bringing masks back: “While the vast majority of the guests on board will be vaccinated or boosted, and everyone will be tested before leaving Seattle, this extra layer of precaution will allow us to minimize the chance of a breakthrough case impacting more guests and crew. Given the length of your cruise, our health experts think this is the best way to proceed for everyone’s health and safety.”
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Carnival Cruise Line will conduct mandatory COVID-19 self-testing at various intervals during the voyage and provide guests with free self-tests during the cruise. Only if Carnival determines that there are no dormant cases amongst the guests and crew will it decide to relax the mandatory use of masks onboard.
Other Protocols
Cruise Lines have had it relatively easy with cruising from the United States to, for example, the Caribbean and the Bahamas. The arrival to Australia will be much stricter than what has been common practice onboard cruise ships of late.
All guests must have proof of medical travel insurance coverage for the duration of the voyage at the time of check-in. The plan must include coverage for medical emergencies and carry no COVID-19 exclusions.
All guests, except Australians, must have a valid Australian tourist visa before embarking on the ship. This electronic visa can be applied for through the Australian government’s website. Guests can also contact the Australian Embassy or consulate for more information. New Zealand citizens can apply for a visa upon arrival.
Guests who fail to comply with any of the health and safety, insurance, and visa protocols will be denied boarding.
Long Cruise, More Than Enough Activities
Some people cannot stand sea days, and others relish the idea of those warm, lazy days at sea. Getting up late for breakfast, lounging by the pool, playing team trivia, and strolling up to lunch, is a paradise for some.
Carnival has ensured there is more than enough to do during one of the 17 days at sea. There will be a caricaturist, naturalist, lecturers, knitting, comedy workshop, cooking demos, and ukulele classes. There will be three Elegant Nights during the cruise on Sea Day 2, Sea Day 8, and Sea Day 15.
The vessel will make several stops along the way; these include Honolulu, Kailua Kona, Hilo, and Kahului (Maui), Hawaii; and Suva and Port Denarau, Fiji. Carnival Splendor will arrive in Sydney, Australia, on September 30 Sep.
There will be no September 22 for guests onboard. The vessel will be crossing the international date line on September 21. This means that what would be 00:00 AM on September 22 is, in fact, 00:00 AM on September 23.
The sailing marks the return of Carnival Splendor to her typical sailing area. Last February, Carnival decided to bring Carnival Splendor back to the United States due to a ban on cruising down under. Now cruising has returned to Australia; the time is right for Splendor to return. | https://www.cruisehive.com/carnival-releases-details-on-epic-23-day-seattle-to-sydney-cruise/79300 | 2022-08-18T15:03:15Z | cruisehive.com | control | https://www.cruisehive.com/carnival-releases-details-on-epic-23-day-seattle-to-sydney-cruise/79300 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jonah Hill said he won’t be out promoting his upcoming films to preserve his mental health and avoid anxiety attacks, the actor wrote to Rolling Stone.
Among the films he won’t be promoting is “Stutz,” which Hill helped produce. Hill said the documentary explores his mental health.
“The whole purpose of making this film is to give therapy and the tools I’ve learned in therapy to a wide audience for private use through an entertaining film,” he wrote. “Through this journey of self-discovery within the film, I have come to the understanding that I have spent nearly 20 years experiencing anxiety attacks, which are exacerbated by media appearances and public-facing events.”
Hill is hopeful his openness on mental health will help promote others to be open.
“I’m hoping to make it more normal for people to talk and act on this stuff,” he said. “So they can take steps towards feeling better and so that the people in their lives might understand their issues more clearly.
“I hope the work will speak for itself and I’m grateful to my collaborators, my business partners and to all reading this for your understanding and support.” | https://www.wtxl.com/entertainment/actor-jonah-hill-wont-upcoming-promote-films-citing-mental-health | 2022-08-18T15:03:17Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/entertainment/actor-jonah-hill-wont-upcoming-promote-films-citing-mental-health | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, FLa. — A community kick-off party for FAMU athletics is set to take place on August 18 in celebration of the upcoming football season.
Hosted by Leon County Commissioner Bill Proctor, community members are invited out to attend the celebration from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Leon County Fairgrounds.
Free dinners will be provided. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/community-set-to-hold-kick-off-party-recognizing-famu-athletics | 2022-08-18T15:03:20Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/community-set-to-hold-kick-off-party-recognizing-famu-athletics | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A change in the seasonal speed cap to protect endangered whales could be problematic for cruise ships at Port Canaveral, potentially causing both safety and navigational concerns, as well as impacting passenger operations. Officials are protesting the proposed rule change, claiming unreasonable overreach.
Rule Change Expands Speed Limit Zone
Vessels operating in certain near shore waters where critically endangered north Atlantic right whales are at risk of injuries must follow seasonal speed limits to minimize that risk.
The current management areas include only the most dramatic risk zones near very busy harbors and areas where commercial fishing is most popular.
The proposed rule change would greatly extend the zone with the seasonal speed limit of 10 knots (11.5 miles per hour) further south and expand the areas of coverage. The new zone would be as far south as central Florida, covering Port Canaveral, and would extend five nautical miles (5.75 miles) out to sea.
The new rule would apply to all vessels 35 feet and longer, rather than the current rule’s application to vessels 65 feet and longer. This means more fishing vessels and local boaters would also be impacted, not just cruise ships.
“It’s going to impact a lot of people. Not just big ships, the general public is going to be affected,” said Captain John W. Murray, Port Canaveral Director and CEO, speaking at a Canaveral Port Authority commission meeting on Wednesday, August 17, 2022.
“When ships come up the channel, they sometimes have to exceed 10 knots in order to maintain safe steerageway making the turn into the harbor,” Murray said.
Impact on Cruise Ships
The proposed speed limit change could have a potentially dramatic impact on cruise ships, particularly as Port Canaveral is forecasting record-breaking numbers of cruise ship calls in the coming months and into 2023.
“As a result of having to slow down these cruise ships, not only does that add an extra level of danger to the operation, it also means this 10-knot speed is going to apply to our pilot boats,” said Ben Borgie, co-chair of Canaveral Pilots.
For a pilot to safely board a cruise ship, the pilot boat must be traveling faster than the ship. This means that to comply with the new regulation, cruise ships would have to slow even further.
“We won’t be able to bring in four cruise ships in one hour. We’ll have to spread them out. That means we’ll be boarding those cruise ships at 8, 9 in the morning,” Borgie said. “This is a big, big problem for us operationally.”
If the cruise ships must be spread out so drastically, Port Canaveral may not be able to accommodate as many vessels in a single day as is sometimes scheduled.
The new rule is a seasonal limit that would be in effect from November 15 through April 15 each year. This is a time period when Caribbean cruises, particularly holiday sailings, are exceedingly popular.
Port Canaveral routinely has three, four, or even five cruise ships in port simultaneously, especially on weekends. On some days, the port may have as many as six cruise ships docked, as well as local traffic in and out of the port channel.
Protecting Whales
While no one disputes the need to protect North Atlantic right whales – there are believed to be fewer than 350 individuals and 100 reproductively active females remaining in the world today – it should be noted that very few of the whales venture as far south as central Florida.
“It’s insane that NOAA would extend the zone this far down,” said Malcolm McLouth, former Port Canaveral CEO and a whale watching volunteer. “If we get more than two or three right whales here it’s really an unusual situation.”
The North Atlantic right whale is a baleen whale, typically feeding right at the surface and swimming slowly as it skims for food. Collisions with ships and entanglement in fishing gear are the largest threats to these peaceful whales.
These whales migrate from the Labrador Sea between Canada and Greenland to coastal waters off Georgia and northern Florida, where they give birth to their calves. Seeing one of these whales from a cruise ship can be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for passengers. | https://www.cruisehive.com/new-speed-rule-could-pose-problem-for-cruise-ships/79299 | 2022-08-18T15:03:21Z | cruisehive.com | control | https://www.cruisehive.com/new-speed-rule-could-pose-problem-for-cruise-ships/79299 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LEON COUNTY, FLa. — Leon County Government, the Knight Creative Communities Institute (KCCI) and the Friends of the LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library are inviting community members out to the unveiling of the first installment of Fully Booked placemaking project.
The ribbon-cutting event will be held on Thursday, August 25 at 10 a.m. at the Leon County Eastside Branch Library, located at 1583 Pedrick Rd.
According to Leon County Government, the Fully Booked placemaking project will allow visitors to explore nature and their imagination as they follow a trail of book pages through the Wander and Wonder Trail.
The nearly half-mile trail is set to create a place that promotes mental and physical health, as well as inspire literacy among the visitors through art. Book pages along the trail will be updated periodically along with new titles.
The project will also have book-themed benches and a hammock garden. The first book at Pedrick Pond Park will feature Señorita Mariposa by Ben Gundersheimer.
Two other placemaking project installments will open in September at the Leon County Fort Braden Branch Library and the Leon County J. Lewis Hall Sr. Woodville Park and Recreation Complex.
For more information, contact Leon County Community and Media Relations, Mathieu Cavell at (850) 606-5300 or CMR@LeonCountyFL.gov. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/leon-county-kcci-to-present-first-of-three-fully-booked-placemaking-project | 2022-08-18T15:03:35Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/leon-county-kcci-to-present-first-of-three-fully-booked-placemaking-project | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Photography as modern advertising tool did not just emerge the day after some advertising artist complained about spending too much time painting or drawing the objects or products being publicized. In the late ’20s and early ’30s, designers were experimenting with photographs, employing the “New Typography” to make more visually combustible layouts. One such photographer, born in Budapest on April 1, 1889, was no fool. József Pécsi’s studies at the Academy of Photography in Munich sparked a keen interest in using dramatic lighting for set-up still photography and incorporating type and geometric form using a black and red palette.
In 1930 advertisements were ubiquitous in Europe to help regenerate economies that were hit hard by the Great Depression. Pécsi bucked European tastes and resistance to his manner of design. In the United States, however, “uncolored photographs” were favored and developed into a movement—a school of advertisements and posters that spread throughout the industry. Pécsi was among a tenacious and growing breed of modern designers.
In Europe, photo ads eventually caught on. In 1989, an exhibition of “Photographische Reklame” featuring Pécsi’s prototypes was mounted sequentially in Basel, Suttgaart, Paris and Vienna. The featured images from the show and catalog are reproduced below.
Pécsi, who died on Oct. 9, 1956, in Budapest, while living under autocratic puppet Soviet rule, was highly regarded but little-known even in Europe until a decade after his passing, when his work was displayed at the exhibition “125 Years of Hungarian Photography.” The show relaunched his legacy. Still, he continues to be lesser-known than many of the “New Typography” or “TypoPhoto” exemplars of his day (including the Berlin women-owned advertising practice of Ringl+Pit).
A rare reprint of an original 1930 monograph, J.Pécsi: Photo und Publizität, provides welcome documentation of Pécsi’s contribution to modern graphic and photographic design.
More on Pécsi’s life can be found here and here; for his poster work, click here. | https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-dont-shoot-until-you-see-the-glint-in-their-eyes/ | 2022-08-18T15:03:39Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-dont-shoot-until-you-see-the-glint-in-their-eyes/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
One skyscraper stands out from the rest in the Manhattan skyline. It's not the tallest, but it is the skinniest — the world's skinniest, in fact.
The 84-story residential Steinway Tower, designed by New York architecture firm SHoP Architects, has the title of “most slender skyscraper in the world” thanks to its logic-defying ratio of width to height: 1-to-23 1/2.
“Any time it’s 1-to-10 or more that’s considered a slender building; 1-to-15 or more is considered exotic and really difficult to do,” SHoP Architects founding principal Gregg Pasquarelli said. “The most slender buildings in the world are mostly in Hong Kong, and they’re around 17- or 18-to-1.”
The 60 apartments in the tower range in cost from $18 million to $66 million per unit, and offer 360-degree views of the city. It's located just south of Central Park, along a stretch of Manhattan’s 57th Street known as “Billionaires' Row.”
At 1,428 feet (435 meters), the building is the second-tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere, second to the nearby Central Park Tower at 1,550 feet (470 meters). For comparison, the world’s tallest tower is Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which stands at 2,717 feet (828 meters).
Steinway Tower is so skinny at the top that whenever the wind ramps up, the luxury homes on the upper floors sway around by a few feet.
“Every skyscraper has to move,” Pasquarelli said. “If it’s too stiff, it’s actually more dangerous — it has to have flexibility in it.”
To prevent the tower from swaying too far, the architects created a counterbalance with tuned steel plates. And while the exterior has the de rigueur reflective glass, it also includes a textured terracotta and bronze facade that creates wind turbulence to slow the acceleration of the building, Pasquarelli said. About 200 rock anchors descend at most 100 feet (30 meters) into the underlying bedrock to provide a deep foundation.
Steinway Tower has a long history as the former location of Steinway Hall, constructed in 1924. JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group bought the building in 2013, and now they're looking to the future.
“What I’m hoping is that 50 years from now, you’ve only known New York with 111 West 57th St.,” Pasquarelli said. “I hope it holds a special place in all future New Yorkers' hearts.” | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/a-look-at-the-worlds-skinniest-skyscraper-steinway-tower | 2022-08-18T15:03:41Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/a-look-at-the-worlds-skinniest-skyscraper-steinway-tower | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PRINTCast: The PRINT Podcast Studio is a curated collection of cutting-edge podcasts we love about design, creativity, branding, books, and further subjects afield.
Have you started a business in the last year? Are you considering starting one now? In this season of Call Paul, Paul Jarvis talks to business beginners and business veterans to discover the how-tos of starting a new endeavor, sustaining it for the long haul, and doing it with integrity.
Host: Paul Jarvis is a writer and designer who’s run his own small business for the last 21 years. His latest book, Company of One, explores why bigger isn’t always better in business and he’s currently the co-founder of Fathom Analytics, a privacy-focused and simple website analytics platform. Paul lives on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, where he’s cultivated a dedicated following helping entrepreneurs and e-commerce business owners grow their marketing, with an emphasis on his business philosophy, “find your rat people.”
Episode: Sharing is Caring with Austin Kleon
“I’ve got a Venn diagram, basically in my head … I’m always trying to figure out where the audience and I can meet and where that overlap is, what I’m genuinely curious about and what other people are struggling with or want.”
Episode Description:
Longtime blogger, author, and illustrator, Austin Kleon shares his best advice for someone starting a new business or project, the kind of advice that serves as guiding principles in the form of integrity, showing up, showing your work, making a system that works for you and, most of all, being true to yourself.
Looking for even more inspiration? Uncover original films and podcasts about the entrepreneurial spirit on mailchimp.com/presents. | https://www.printmag.com/design-education/the-podcast-call-paul-will-help-you-start-a-business/ | 2022-08-18T15:03:45Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/design-education/the-podcast-call-paul-will-help-you-start-a-business/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Big Ten has entered into a seven-year media rights deal with Fox, CBS and NBC that is reportedly worth $7 billion.
“The Big Ten Conference media rights agreements are more than just dollars and deals. They are a mechanism to provide stability and maximum exposure for our student-athletes, member institutions and partners during these uncertain times in collegiate athletics,” Big Ten Conference Commissioner Kevin Warren said.
Beginning in the fall of 2023, the conference says Saturdays will feature football games on the networks all day long.
Fox, CBS and NBC will take turns airing the Big 10 championship game.
In addition to football, the deal includes rights to air men's and women's basketball games and other Olympic sports.
Games will also be featured on The Big 10 Network, NBC's Peacock, Paramount+ and FS1. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/big-ten-lands-massive-tv-rights-deal-with-major-networks | 2022-08-18T15:03:48Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/big-ten-lands-massive-tv-rights-deal-with-major-networks | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Updated COVID-19 boosters will be available in “a few short weeks,” White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha told NBC News on Wednesday.
Jha said everyone over age 12 will likely be eligible for the updated vaccine.
“The bottom line is that this virus has evolved substantially since the first vaccines were built, that is why we have seen waning immunity,” Jha said.
Unlike the original vaccines that came out in late 2020 and early 2021, Jha said the new vaccines offer protection against the omicron variant. Jha said that having two doses of the original vaccine “is not enough.”
“Just like the flu vaccine where people need to get updated once a year, we’ll probably need to get updated for COVID on an ongoing basis,” Jha said.
According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures, over 12,000 Americans died from COVID-19 in July. The virus continues to kill an average of over 400 Americans a day.
Pfizer and Moderna have said that testing shows that their updated vaccines are more effective at preventing COVID-19 infections than their prototype vaccines.
Late last month, the White House announced it purchased 66 million doses of Moderna’s updated vaccine and 105 million doses of Pfizer’s updated vaccine. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/coronavirus/updated-covid-vaccine-boosters-weeks-away-white-house-says | 2022-08-18T15:04:00Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/coronavirus/updated-covid-vaccine-boosters-weeks-away-white-house-says | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A woman detained inside an Oklahoma police car is accused of slipping out of her handcuffs, stealing an assault rifle, and firing at officers.
Police released a video of the incident earlier this week.
According to the Grady County Sheriff's Department, Rachel Clay used the rifle and grazed a deputy and a bystander.
The sheriff's department said the woman was acting erratically. Deputies were not planning on transporting her to jail before the incident.
She later tested positive for meth.
"When we detain somebody, they actually go in handcuffs," Undersheriff Gary Boggess, Grady County Sheriff's Department, "They place you in the back seat of the patrol car. While in the back seat of a patrol car, she was able to get her wrist free from the handcuffs, and the handcuffs were put on properly. She was able to reach up on our consoles — there's several switches — one is a gun switch to unlock the gun lock, and she found it, unlocked the gun lock, and was able to retrieve an AR-15 rifle."
After a standoff with officers, she surrendered three and a half hours later. Clay is being held on a $1 million bond. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/woman-slips-out-of-handcuffs-steals-and-fires-deputys-rifle | 2022-08-18T15:04:12Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/woman-slips-out-of-handcuffs-steals-and-fires-deputys-rifle | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
eNaira: Nigerians to start using USSD code for transactions next week ― Emefiele
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has moved to further deepen the integration of the eNaira with the existing national payment infrastructure by both banked and unbanked, as they will be able to open an eNaira wallet and conduct transactions by simply dialling *997 from their phones.
Similarly, in due course, both Merchants and Consumers with bank accounts can use the NIBSS Instant Payment (NIP) to transfer and receive eNaira to any bank account.
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this on Thursday at the Grand Finale of the eNaira Hackathon, held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.
“I am pleased to inform you that by next week, Nigerians, both banked and unbanked, will be able to open an eNaira wallet and conduct transactions by simply dialling *997 from their phones.
“Shortly after this, both Merchants and Consumers with bank accounts can use the NIBSS Instant Payment (NIP) to transfer and receive eNaira to any bank account. This will further deepen the integration of the eNaira with the existing national payment infrastructure.
“When we launched the eNaira, we promised to increase the level of Financial Inclusion in the Country because just like the Naira, the eNaira is expected to be accessible to all Nigerians, and would provide more possibilities to bring in the unbanked into the digital economy”, Mr Emefiele said.
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He explained that the hackathon event is a continuation of the eNaira journey, and the first among many to come given that the future of central banking is inextricably bound to innovation, noting that the event marked another milestone in the journey toward building the future monetary system in the country in response to the emerging trends and developments in the global digital space.
Mr Emefiele stated that in pursuant to achieving its mandate of preserving monetary and financial stability, the CBN is strategic in charting the future of Nigeria’s legal tender, be it in its traditional or digital form as the economy transits to a digital one as well as charting the course for innovation in the financial sector and in the infrastructure underpinning financial markets.
Against this background, the CBN Governor pointed out that the launch of eNaira was timely and strategic in complementing the various diversification and digitisation initiatives of the Federal Government including the launch of the Nigeria Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS), the National Broadband Strategy, as well as the introduction of the Start-Up Bill and a host of others.
According to him, the eNaira will make a significant positive difference to Nigeria and Nigerians, stressing that “Specifically, the eNaira is expected to enhance financial inclusion, support poverty reduction, enable direct welfare disbursement to citizens, support a resilient payments ecosystem, improve availability and usability of central bank money, facilitate diaspora remittances, reduce the cost of processing cash, and reduce cost and improve efficiency of cross-border payment among others”.
The CBN Governor added that the eNaira was also developed to provide Nigerians with a cheap, safe and trusted means of payment, noting that unlike offline payments channels like agent networks, USSD, wearables, cards and near-field communication technology, the eNaira would give access to financial services to underserved and unbanked segments of the population.
“Innovative products and services built on the eNaira would enhance Nigerians’ participation in the digital economy and promote further development of a burgeoning Fintech ecosystem.
“In addition, the eNaira platform possesses an innovation layer for products and services to be built with the aim of enhancing Nigerians’ participation in the digital economy and promoting further development of a burgeoning Fintech ecosystem”, Mr Emefiele further stated.
He pointed out that since the launch of the initiative, the eNaira has reached 840,000 downloads, with about 270,000 active wallets comprising over 252,000 consumer wallets and 17,000 merchant wallets.
In addition, he said that the volume and value of transactions on the platform have been remarkable, reaching above 200,000 and N4.0 billion, respectively.
Notwithstanding this appreciable progress, Mr Emefiele added that the second phase of the project has begun and is intended to drive financial inclusion by onboarding unbanked and underserved users leveraging offline channels.
“Hence, greater success is envisioned for the project with phase two expected to deliver more gains with a target of about 8,000,000 active users based on estimations using the diffusion of innovation model”, he added.
Mr Emefiele said the Hackathon is an initiative that creates a collaborative environment for experts with a diverse set of skills to drive sustained innovation geared towards making the eNaira the pinnacle for digital financial services and the gateway to the Digital Economy.
“It is intended to seek solutions that would: drive financial inclusion, SME growth and the creation of start-ups; facilitate cross-border trades and transfers as well as international remittances and FX exchanges; effective implementation of welfare-inclined government programmes; and enhance efficiency in the interbank market,” Mr Emefiele further stated.
Also speaking at the event, Dr Kingsley Obiora, Deputy Governor of Economic Policy of the CBN said in South Korea, 77 per cent of the citizens no longer use cash to do payment, while in the Philippines it is 30 per cent.
“In Nigeria too, we are also seeing the same decline in the use of cash; the minting of currencies in the CBN has been reducing in the last couple of years. Alongside this reduction in the use of cash has also been an explosion in electronic business and e-business and we have seen the value of e-business grow from 393 billion in 2014 to about 2.4 trillion now,” Dr Obiora stated.
Similarly, Daniel Awe, Group Head, Africa Fintech Foundry, one of the partners for eNaira Hackathon event said the CBN has transformed from traditional regulator to a smart regulator, and the Hackathon is a platform that brings entrepreneurs, Coders, product managers to solve problems and build a new business model.
He said that all over the world, there has been disagreement between innovators and regulators because regulators usually look at the impact on financial stability as well as impact of those innovators on consumers as well as the risk while the innovators look at the opportunity in their ideas.
However, Mr Awe stated that the CBN is different as it has over the years partnered with innovators that will create job employment and bring value.
Nigeria was put in a global spotlight last year on October 25, when President Muhammadu Buhari launched the eNaira, making Nigeria the first African country to launch a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
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Environmental workers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Thursday threatened to shut down all public cemeteries in Abuja.
This came after the Gudu cemetery was locked up on Wednesday, but the workers reopen the cemetery after pressure from both the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) and the presidency mounted.
The striking workers had two days ago demonstrated and subsequently embarked on an indefinite strike over the failure of the FCT Administration to implement a new salary structure for them.
Comrade Muktar Bala, the Chairman of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE) in AEPB, said the unions agreed to reopen the cemeteries but will shut it down again, including all other operational systems of the board.
Bala, who expressed anger over the attitude of the administration towards the welfare of members of the union, noted that they have been exposed to several health hazards by handling the burial of abandoned corpses, yet the government doesn’t appreciate their efforts.
According to him, the reopening of the cemeteries was temporary, due to the agreement reached between the administration and its national body, but would be shut down again, should there be a failure on the side of the government.
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He said: “As the chairman of one of the unions in AEPB, I can assure you that it is a collective decision by the whole Union, with backings from the National Union. People think it is only waste management that we do. They don’t know that even unclaimed corpses in hospitals are taken care of by us.
“These dead bodies that have overstayed in the hospital for three to four years, we take care of them, without knowing what killed them.
“Hospitals come to us when they want mass burial for such dead bodies. If there are unclaimed or unknown corpses either on the roads or elsewhere, police will write reports and bring them to us for burial.
“All these hazards, people don’t look at it like we are doing anything. We want to tell the administration that apart from managing the solid wastes.
“Based on the decision taken yesterday night by the joint Unions of AEPB, we have agreed to open the cemetery by 9am Thursday due to calls from the presidency. However, if the agreement is not met, we will not only shut down the cemeteries, but also all our systems and operations.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/strike-environmental-workers-threaten-to-shut-down-abuja-cemeteries/ | 2022-08-18T15:05:34Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/strike-environmental-workers-threaten-to-shut-down-abuja-cemeteries/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care.
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The ‘Welcome to College’ Speech I Can’t Give
This one is for all the new students out there.
Since I’m spending this academic year with the N.J. Council of County Colleges, I’m in the unaccustomed position of hurtling toward September without being on a campus. Kathy Johnson Bowles’ proposed speech in Inside Higher Ed this week got me thinking about “welcome” speeches, which reminded me of this piece from 2014.
Spoiler: We eventually found Sally and had several more wonderful years with her. But when I wrote this, she was still missing. We lived in Massachusetts at the time.
This one goes out to all the new students out there.
Sally, our dog, has been missing for over a week. She broke free when I was trying to drop her off at a kennel before a weekend trip that ended up not happening; she has since been seen mostly in the Southwick, Mass., and Granby, Conn., areas. We’ve been distributing fliers, working Facebook and Twitter, putting up posters, calling animal control offices, setting humane traps, and doing just about everything possible short of actually catching her.
The entire process has been stressful. We get calls about sightings, which are great, but most of them end with “but when I called her name, she ran away.” She’s skittish on a good day, and by now I’m sure she’s scared out of her mind. Worse, the kennel is a good 20-minute drive from our house, and in unfamiliar territory, so she hasn’t been able to find her way home. The pattern of sightings doesn’t suggest she knows where she’s going.
In the last 10 days, I’ve learned quite a bit about dogs and locations. Several websites mentioned that lost dogs typically move in circles. (Sally doesn’t seem to know that, but in her defense, she can’t read.) Apparently, it’s possible now to attach a doohickey to a dog’s collar that sends a GPS signal. That’s high on my list for when Sally comes home. And I’ve been pleasantly surprised at just how helpful most people have been.
If you had asked me two weeks ago what I would do to find a missing dog, I would have shrugged. I had no clue; I really never gave it much thought. She had never bolted before, and I didn’t think she would. I have no detective experience, and I don’t think of myself as particularly gifted at that sort of thing. My sense of direction has been described as “iffy.” I claim no superior insight into canine psychology. Sally and I have been close for years, but it literally never occurred to me that she would bolt. You think you know a dog …
Okay, you’re thinking, your dog is lost. Sorry to hear that. But what does this have to do with us?
It’s about discovering capacities you didn’t know you had.
Over the past 10 days, The Wife and I have developed strategies, recruited volunteers, worked social networks, tracked sightings, tromped through woods, distributed fliers, put up posters, talked to dozens of random strangers and worked through a thicket of local police and animal control departments. We’ve dealt with the kids’ emotional crises and our own and have sucked it up and gone out to set up yet another trap even when we really didn’t feel like it. We’ve become reasonably adept dog-hunters in a relatively short time. We didn’t want to, and we don’t ever want to again, but we did it.
If we had thought that our dog-hunting capacity two weeks ago was all it could ever be, we would have given up after a few hours. But we didn’t. When we had to, we learned quickly what you’re supposed to do when a dog bolts. We stepped up our game, and even involved the kids in carefully considered ways. I’m proud of how well the kids have handled the process to this point. They acknowledge the real fears we all have, but maintain that difficult balance of faith in a good outcome, combined with faith that we can and will handle what happens. For a 13-year-old and a 10-year-old, that’s pretty good.
The ability to find a lost dog isn’t genetic. It isn’t supernatural, and your dog-hunting IQ isn’t fixed. If you choose to, you can get much better at it than you are now. You can put in the effort, do the research, reach out to people who are willing and able to help, and become capable of things that probably haven’t crossed your mind yet. And if you have the motivation, you can do it quickly. There’s no guarantee of a happy ending—Sally is still out there somewhere—but we’re doing things I didn’t know we could. And I can honestly say we’re trying.
College is like that. Intelligence is like that. You don’t have some fixed IQ that can never change any more than I had a fixed ability to look for a lost dog. You can get better at thinking. You can train yourself to get, pardon the term, smarter. You can learn to find X, whether X is a number, an assumption or a lost dog. You can learn the sort of quiet resolve you’ll need in that awful first moment when you face a complicated problem and have no immediate idea what to do about it. You can develop the skills to sort good information from bad, to ask the second question that clarifies the first and to avoid going to pieces when things don’t go according to plan. You’ll even learn to keep going in the face of failure. That’s no small thing.
I’d love to report a happy ending to our dog hunt, but I can’t just yet. For you, endings are a long way off. I’m here to tell you that if you decide to—and it’s really up to you—you could develop abilities you never knew you had. And someday you can catch your own dog, or whatever it is that you’re chasing.
Happy hunting.
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New Delhi: A BJP legislator has stirred another controversy after labelling the 11 men convicted for the rape of Bilkis Bano and released by the Gujarat government before their time as "Brahmins" having "good sanskaar".
The legislator in the crosshair is none other than CK Raulji, one of the two BJP leaders who were part of the Gujarat government panel that unanimously decided to release the rapists.
The decision was taken after one of the convicts approached the Supreme Court seeking remission. It was then passed on to the state government.
"I don't know whether they committed any crime or not. But there has to be the intention of committing a crime," CK Raulji is heard telling a reporter from Mojo Story.
"They were Brahmins and Brahmins are known to have good sanskaar. It might have been someone's ill intention to corner and punish them," the legislator added.
The video was shared widely on social media, inviting much wrath.
Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and five months pregnant when she was gang-raped during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
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Big Ten Signs TV Contract for $1B a Year
The Big Ten Conference has reached a seven-year contract for television rights for an average of at least $1 billion a year, The New York Times reported. This is the first time a college conference has secured a deal of that size.
The conference made a deal with Fox for many of the key games. But the Big Ten also signed deals with CBS and NBC. ESPN, which has had a long relationship with the Big Ten, is not in the new deal.
Less than 20 years ago, Big Ten universities were splitting less than $200 million in media rights money annually when adjusted for inflation, according to a database run by the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and Syracuse University.
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New Delhi: In a bid to address e-waste and provide relief to consumers, the government on Wednesday said it will set up expert groups to explore adoption of common chargers for mobiles and all portable electronic devices.
A decision in this regard was taken after an hour-long meeting with stakeholders, chaired by Consumer Affairs Secretary Rohit Kumar Singh here.
The meeting was attended by Electronics Products Innovation Consortium (EPIC) Foundation Chairman and HCL Founder Ajai Chowdhury; Manufacturers' Association of Information Technology (MAIT) President Rajkumar Rishi; India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA) Chairman Pankaj Mohindroo; Consumer Electronics and Appliances Manufacturers Association (CEAMA) President Eric Braganza; and Indian Electrical and Electronics Manufacturers' Association (IEEMA) President Vipul Ray.
Lava International Ltd Chairman and Managing Director Hari Om Rai, representatives of industry bodies FICCI, CII and Assocham as well as from IIT Kanpur and IIT BHU were also present in the meeting held in a hybrid mode.
After the meeting, Singh said: "It is a complex issue. India has a position in manufacturing of chargers. We have to understand everybody's perspective -- industry, the users, manufacturers and environment -- before taking a final decision."
Each stakeholder shared different perspectives and the impact of shifting to a common charger while accepting the need to address the growing environmental concerns of e-waste, the consumer affairs secretary said.
Before making a shift, stakeholders felt there is a need to evaluate the impact as India is a manufacturer and exporter of chargers to many countries. They also said it should not be forced upon as maximum people are low-cost feature phone users in India and shifting to common charger could increase the price of feature phones, he added.
The secretary further said India can initially think of shifting to two types of chargers -- USB Type-C and some other charger.
Given these complexities, he said, "We have decided to form expert groups to study and submit recommendations within two months."
Separate expert groups, to be notified this month, will be formed to study charging ports used in three segments -- mobile and feature phones, laptops and tablets, and wearable electronic devices.
After the meeting, EPIC Chairman and HCL Founder Ajai Chowdhury said a common charger will help address the problem of e-waste. However, the government needs to see how a common charger strategy is feasible as a large market segment still uses feature phones.
In the last 4-5 years, there has been strong movement for USB Type-C (USB C) charger for most products. Many domestic consumers use feature phones which do not have USB-C ports and that is a challenge, he noted.
Chowdhury said, "In long run, the USB Type-C charger makes a lot of sense because it has two benefits. It is has a faster charging and it can be used for multiple products like 65 watts or lower."
According to ICEA Chairman Pankaj Mohindroo, a move to adopt a common charger has been taken by Europe alone, which has 30-35 crore market size of chargers when compared to 200 crore in India for smartphones and other phones put together. The rest of the world is not thinking in this direction.
India, being a major powerhouse for manufacturing of chargers, is shifting from mobile phone chargers to laptop and e-vehicle charges and this momentum should be maintained. Therefore, a balanced approach is necessary while shifting to a common charger for all mobiles and portable electronic devices, he said.
"We also need to see if it will benefit consumers as rationalisation has already been done. Now, 98 per cent smart phones have Type-C chargers and feature phone have micro-USB. In a way, rationalisation has been done in mobile phones. A common charger has already been established," he added.
Currently, consumers are forced to buy a separate charger every time they buy a new device due to incompatibility of the ports of the existing charger.
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Electrical retailer AO World (GB:AO) has posted a £37m loss for the year to March 31, blaming driver shortages and supply chain inefficiencies – but forecasts profit for the fiscal year 2023.
The London-listed group says it expects adjusted core profits of £20-£30 million in the 2023 financial year.
Shares rose 15% in early trade in the wake of the news.
Shares in AO have lost up to 60% of their value this year, as the company divested itself of its German division and faced difficulties with an insurer cutting credit cover.
Shares of the London-listed group, which have lost nearly 60% of their value so far this year, rose as much as 15% in early trade.
AO World’s challenges
AO’s Founder and Chief Executive, John Roberts, said: “AO was founded on the belief that online is a better way to buy electricals. That belief is as strong as ever, even – and especially – as we go through one of the most challenging operating environments we’ve weathered as a company.
“The past 12 months has been a turbulent time for business and for retail in particular, and AO hasn’t been immune to those effects. Looking ahead, we certainly have more volatility to navigate, but the core fundamentals of our business remain strong. We entered the new financial year with a period of strategic realignment, and a focus on cash and profit generation.”
The British Retail Consortium said that AO’s rise in sales value “masked a much larger drop in volumes once inflation is accounted for”.
The company deals in domestic appliances and consumer electronics through its websites and third-party websites, and had been a ‘pandemic winner’, but this year has seen the stock plunge 75%.
Danni Hewson, financial analyst at AJ Bell, said that the rise in AO’s shares may be due to the company offering clarity on the costs of exiting the German market. He said, “The company was also remarkably upbeat, although that may simply be AO putting on a brave face despite a multitude of problems in the background.”
View from the City
According to TipRanks’ analyst rating consensus, AO stock has a Hold rating, based on one Buy and one Sell rating.
The average price target is 52.5p, which represents a 17.16% upside from the current price level. The stock has a high forecast of 65p and a low forecast of 40p.
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At a time when inflation around the world is at its multi-year high, smart behemoth investors are looking to invest in businesses that are inflation-proof and can withstand inflationary pressures, without seeing an impact on their profitability. In this article, we will talk about three such companies — Enphase Energy, Inc. (ENPH), American Tower Corporation (AMT), and Western Digital Corp. (WDC) — that are also in the good books of fund managers.
According to The Wall Street Journal, big investment companies like KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR) are looking to invest in infrastructure and utility stocks, especially with exposure in solar, power plants, telecom towers, data centers, and clean energy.
Against this backdrop, let’s take a look at the aforementioned stocks in the infrastructure and utility space, which top hedge fund managers are finding appealing.
Enphase Energy (NASDAQ: ENPH)
Based in California, Enphase Energy, Inc. is an energy technology company that provides energy management technology and home energy solutions for the solar photovoltaic industry worldwide.
With the current market capitalization of $40 billion, the solar company has gained 80% in the past year, handsomely beating the benchmark indices. It is now trading at its all-time high of $293 levels.
It is, therefore, not surprising that smart hedge fund and investment managers are bulking up on ENPH shares.
TipRanks’ Hedge Fund Trading Activity tool shows that the confidence in ENPH is currently Very Positive, as some of the top hedge funds that were active in the last quarter increased their cumulative holdings by 1.1 million shares.
Turning to Wall Street, the analyst consensus is also optimistic about Enphase Energy, with a Strong Buy rating based on 12 Buys and three Holds. Enphase Energy’s average price target of $276.80 indicates downside potential of 5.6%.
American Tower (NYSE: AMT)
Headquartered in Boston, American Tower Corporation is one of the largest global real estate investment trusts (REIT). It is a leading independent owner and operator of wireless and broadcast communications infrastructure in several countries.
American Tower has a market capitalization of $130 billion. Its stock has gained 22% in the past six months.
In July, the company posted upbeat Q2 results and rewarded investors with attractive dividend growth.
With a bullish stance on the company’s future, American Tower’s CEO Tom Bartlett said, “We’re focused on leveraging our global scale to drive sustainable organic growth, adding attractive assets through disciplined capital allocation and delivering incremental stockholder value, all while playing a positive role in the communities we serve.”
Hedge funds, too, are bullish on AMT stock. TipRanks data indicates hedge funds increased holdings in American Tower by 2.5 million shares in the last quarter, indicating a Very Positive hedge fund confidence signal.
Further, AMT scores a “Perfect 10” on TipRanks’ Smart Score rating system, indicating that the stock has strong potential to outperform market expectations.
Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC)
Western Digital Corp. engages in the development, manufacture, market, and sale of data storage devices and solutions globally. It operates through the following product categories: client devices, data center devices and solutions, and client solutions.
With its current market capitalization of $15 billion, the stock has lost 13% in the past year.
In early August, Western Digital reported mixed fiscal Q4 results, beating earnings but missing revenue expectations.
Despite its mixed results, Western Digital CEO David Goeckeler remains optimistic. He said, “The combination of our innovation engine and the multiple channels to deliver our products to the market puts Western Digital in a great position to capitalize on the large and growing opportunities in storage ahead even in the midst of macro dynamics weighing on near-term demand.”
Meanwhile, Hedge Funds are making the most of the stock price decline. According to TipRanks’ Hedge Fund Trading Activity tool, confidence in WDC is currently Very Positive. The cumulative change in holdings across all top hedge funds that were active in the last quarter was an increase of 733,300 shares.
However, the rest of the Street community is cautiously optimistic about the stock, with a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on 12 Buys and seven Holds. Western Digital’s average price forecast of $60 implies 24.48% upside potential.
Final Thoughts
Infrastructure stocks come with their own set of pros and cons. While they are inflation-proof and promise regular income, they do not provide returns like growth stocks. However, given the current macro backdrop, they seem to be winning the trust of hedge fund managers.
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Bitcoin Slips Back below $23,500
After reaching its highest point since June, Bitcoin (BTC-USD) reversed lower yet again to weekly lows as the Federal Reserve released excerpts from its July meeting suggesting that interest rate hikes may spark a recession in the United States. With the Federal Open Market Committee’s July 26-27 meeting minutes revealing policymakers’ concern about hiking interest rates too aggressively, the value of BTC, which was already range bound, slid by nearly 4% to the $23,500 mark.
Adding to the pressure on Bitcoin, the latest data from CoinShares underlined that institutional outflows are on the rise. While a significant capital inflow was reported during July, the trend has rapidly changed direction this month. Last week, the total BTC outflow stood at $21 million – the highest amount month-to-date.
Meanwhile, a report from Arcane Crypto shows that BTC miners dumped roughly 14,600 BTC in June and an additional 6,200 in July, contributing to BTC’s struggle to sustain its latest trend higher.
Altcoin Momentum Decelerates
Following the lead of Bitcoin, the altcoin market displayed a lackluster performance over the last seven sessions, with most pulling back after gaining ground over the prior few weeks. Ethereum’s (ETH-USD) rally came to a halt this week, with ETH dropping by 2%, primarily in response to the FOMC’s minutes.
That said, ETH jumped past BTC in terms of option open interest for the first time ever, marking a significant milestone as the community prepares for the Merge.
Among the top-ten altcoins, Solana (SOL) dropped by approximately 6.7%, echoed by Binance’s (BNB) near 6.4% decline. Additionally, Polkadot (DOT) lost its top-ten spot in the rankings by market capitalization after slumping 9.80%. The sudden drop unfolded after the Acala Dollar (aUSD) algorithmic stablecoin lost its peg. After news broke that hackers minted 1.28 billion aUSD tokens on the Acala Network – the DeFi hub of Polkadot – DOT’s price registered a sharp drop.
Other prominent altcoins like Avalanche (AVAX), Near Protocol (NEAR), ApeCoin (APE), and Elrond (EGLD) also registered double-digit drops this week.
Memecoins Lead This Week’s Rally
Despite the pullback impacting the broader market, memecoins DOGE and SHIB outperformed peers, with DOGE reclaiming its position as the tenth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. The values of DOGE and SHIB pumped by approximately 13.00% and 19.00%, respectively, over the last seven sessions.
The Dogecoin community launched a new layer-2 solution, Dogechain, enabling users to bridge their DOGE and use it for DeFi, NFTs, and other activities. This new development was the main catalyst behind the sudden momentum higher.
By comparison, a steady increase in whale accumulation and the number of SHIB holders has played a key role in the ongoing value appreciation of SHIB. According to the latest data from Finbold, the number of SHIB holders has now reached 1.208 million, with more than $1.5 billion added to the memecoin’s market cap over the past week.
However, the biggest gainers of this week were lesser-known altcoins Chiliz (CHZ) and Ankr (ANKR). CHZ roared higher by nearly 45.3% this week as news of the launch of the Scoville testnet for Chiliz Chain 2.0 gained traction. This week’s impressive 32% gain in ANKR came after the introduction of ANKR token staking rewards and Binance Labs’ $500 million investment to expand Ankr’s multichain infrastructure.
Celsius Bounces Back, Crypto.com Secures UK License, & More
With investors still clamoring for funds that can’t be withdrawn, a new bankruptcy report filed by Celsius on August 14 shows that the troubled crypto platform’s actual debt stands close to $2.85 billion, in contrast to the firm’s previous claims of a $1.2 billion deficit. However, in less than 24 hours, the bankruptcy judge approved Celsius’ latest request to start BTC mining and selling. Once the news broke, Celsius’ native token, CEL, immediately surged, climbing by nearly 15.9% this week.
In the meantime, Crypto.com finally secured the license for “certain crypto asset activities in the UK” from the country’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) earlier this week. The license was acquired under Crypto.com’s UK trading name FORIS DAX UK LIMITED, granting the platform more privileges to operate within the country’s borders.
Finally, in emerging market adoption momentum, Brazil’s leading brokerage firm XP Inc launched its new crypto trading platform, XTAGE, helping its 3.6 million-plus Brazilian clients gain access to the crypto market. Initially, XTAGE users will only be able to trade BTC and ETH, with the platform planning to add support for other cryptocurrencies in the coming months. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/this-week-in-crypto-crypto-slides-after-federal-reserve-meeting-minutes | 2022-08-18T15:09:43Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/this-week-in-crypto-crypto-slides-after-federal-reserve-meeting-minutes | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Inflation is not going anywhere soon, with inflation hitting double figures for the first time in 40 years in Britain – so could it be a good time to invest in high-paying dividend stocks?
We have used the TipRanks stock comparison tool to list the high dividend stocks. This tool can be used by investors to compare stocks on any specific criteria (like dividends in this case).
Can you get rich off dividend stocks?
1. Persimmon
Persimmon (GB:PSN) is one of the UK’s largest builders for the residential sector. The company owns brands such as Persimmon, Charles Church, and Westbury Partnerships.
The company has a very attractive dividend yield of 12.72%, which provides a cushion against the current harsh inflation rates in the UK market. It paid a dividend of 110p per share in July 2022.
According to its recent trading update, the company’s revenue was slightly down, mainly due to supply disruptions of labour and raw material shortages. However, this was offset by higher home prices, leading to improved margins. Therefore, Persimmon is expecting its profits for the half-year to beat expectations.
2. British American Tobacco
Cigarette manufacturer British American Tobacco (GB:BATS) is among the best dividend payers in the market. It has a dividend yield of 8.07% as compared to its sector average of 1.65%. The company’s stock also performed well last year, beating the market with a 35.5% return.
The company has transitioned smoothly into the smoke-free market, as the demand for cigarettes is falling. It expects to generate £5 billion in revenue for this category and remain profitable by 2025. The company remains confident in its guidance numbers, including its dividends.
The solid cash position and a stronghold in both combustible and traditional markets make the dividend story more appealing.
3. Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto (GB:RIO) is the second largest miner in the world, dealing in iron ore, aluminium, copper, and more. The company has been a solid dividend payer and a favourite among shareholders. Rio has a dividend yield of 11.9% which is impressive as compared to the sector average of 1.9%
The stock has been a bit shaky of late, mainly due to volatility in commodity prices.
The company’s last interim results, posted in July 2022, clearly showed how profits were impacted due to falling iron ore prices. As a result, it slashed its interim dividend by 29% to $2.67 per share. Despite this, this year’s interim dividend was among the company’s best.
The company has a healthy balance sheet and it is looking to expand into greener energy, which will reduce its dependency on fossil fuels.
4. Imperial Brands
Another dividend payer from the tobacco industry is Imperial Brands (GB:IMB). Even though its position is not as strong as BATS in the smoke-free market, the company’s dividends make up for it.
Currently, the stock has a dividend yield of 7.4%. The company follows a progressive dividend policy and increased its dividend by 1%. It approved an interim dividend of 48.4p per share paid in two equal parts.
Talking about the share prices, the company has performed fairly well and is up by 28.2% in the last year.
5. Aviva
British insurance company Aviva (GB:AV) posted a solid set of results last week, which pushed its stock prices up by 11%.
The results show the company’s sound health and profitability, along with a nice dividend story. The company announced an interim dividend of 10.3p per share in its results, which is in line with its full-year guidance number of 31.0p. Compared to the sector average of 2.1%, Aviva’s dividend yield of 6.2% is quite attractive.
The company’s cash position is strong because of its cost restructuring and debt repayment which gives it ample scope to reward shareholders with dividends. This also allows Aviva to finance its acquisitions, which boosts its top line. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/which-uk-stocks-pay-the-highest-dividends-try-these-five-top-picks | 2022-08-18T15:09:49Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/which-uk-stocks-pay-the-highest-dividends-try-these-five-top-picks | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
UPDATE: Charges of theft filed against then-Hamilton County School Board candidate Larry Grohn were dropped this week by a judge.
Grohn was accused of stealing campaign signs placed by his opponent in the District 8 race, Katie Perkins.
Grohn defeated Perkins in the race.
PREVIOUS STORY: A former Chattanooga City Councilman who is currently running for a seat on the Hamilton County School Board has a warrant out for his arrest for allegedly stealing campaign signs from the democratic candidate for district attorney, John Allen Brooks.
According to the arrest warrant, Katie Perkins who is running for Hamilton County School Board District 8 saw her opponent Larry Grohn steal Brooks' campaign signs while driving through the area of South Moore Road on Friday morning.
Grohn told Perkins that he worked for Brooks’ campaign and was told to remove the signs, but the campaign manager said that statement was false.
The Brooks campaign said more $700 worth of signs were taken by Grohn.
Grohn now has a warrant out for his arrest for theft of property.
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Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro asked a federal judge to dismiss the criminal contempt of Congress case that was brought against him after he did not comply with a House January 6 Committee subpoena.
In the motion filed late Wednesday evening, Navarro argued that the Justice Department's move to bring the charges against him was "in direct contradiction of decades of Department of Justice policy and precedent." He pointed to the Justice Department policy that said that advisers to the President were shielded from congressional demands for testimony and claimed that that "immunity continues even after the tenure of a particular advisor to the President."
Navarro argued that he had "been unfairly caught in a dispute between the executive and legislative branches of our government and placed on the horns of a dilemma: follow the explicit instructions from the President he served as a senior advisor for four years, or risk being held in Contempt of Congress and criminally prosecuted by the Department of Justice."
"A prosecution for Contempt of Congress following a legitimate assertion of Executive Privilege precluding Dr. Navarro's appearance before the Select Committee, the prosecution of Dr. Navarro for contempt of Congress necessarily violates the doctrine of Separation of Powers and is unconstitutional," his filing said.
Additionally, there is an almost completely redacted section in the filing, under a subhead that said, "The Government's Presentation To The Grand Jury Underscores The Unusual Way the Department Has Approached this Prosecution."
Like other witnesses who have also not cooperated with House January 6 Committee, Navarro is also raising arguments alleging that there were procedural flaws in how the committee was assembled. Navarro claims as well that he is being selectively prosecuted, as his filing pointed to the DOJ's decision not to bring prosecutions against other Trump White House aides who were referred to the department by the House for their lack of compliance with committee subpoenas.
Ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who was convicted by a jury of contempt last month, made similar arguments in his unsuccessful bid to get the case against him dismissed. Unlike Bannon, Navarro was still at the White House during the period the House committee is investigating, and Navarro's lawyers have claimed that their clients' situation is very different than Bannon's.
The Wednesday night filing also reiterated Navarro's allegations that the DOJ's decision to arrest him at an airport -- rather than let him self-report -- shows a "selective animus" towards him by the government.
In a court filing earlier this week, the Justice Department pushed back on those allegations and said it was "not law enforcement's normal practice to ask combative, unrepresented subjects to self-surrender."
"And only a few days before, when the case agents attempted to interview him and serve him with a subpoena at his residence, the Defendant at first refused to open the door and then, when he did, told the agents to 'get the f*** out of here,'" the Justice Department said in the earlier filing.
The court is scheduled to hear arguments on Navarro's motion on September 23.
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Papa John’s is introducing new all-toppings, no-crust “pizza bowls” — and social media is having none of it.
The Indiana-based restaurant chain plans to roll out “Papa Bowls” nationwide next week.
Customers will have the choice of three options — Garden Veggie, Chicken Alfredo, and Italian Meats Trio. The dishes cost $7.99 each and will be officially offered for sale to loyalty member customers this week.
Papa John’s hopes that the no-crust option will reignite the public’s love affair with pizza, which appears to have been waning since the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
“There’s a general thought that there could be a little bit of pizza fatigue,” Scott Rodriguez, the company’s senior vice president of menu strategy and innovation, told CNN.
“Because that’s all we’ve had for the last couple of years.”
Judging by Twitter reactions, however, Papa John’s will have to work harder to sell the concept to the general public.
One Twitter user referred to it as “s– in a bowl.”
Another Twitter user, Mike Scollins, posted a photo of Pizza the Hutt from the Mel Brooks movie “Spaceballs,” saying it was “my Papa John’s Pizza Bowl begging me to kill it.”
Wrote one Twitter commenter: “papa johns will now sell you a literal trough of cheese and chopped up pepperoni like, that’s literally it, they call it a ‘bowl’ but it’s just cheese slop served to you in a miniature trough…italy, i am sorry.”
Another Twitter user quipped: “Papa Johns is offering a Bowl that’s all toppings and no crust. I think they stole the recipe I use to make my own cereal.”
“This just in: Papa Johns is out of ideas and just throwing crap in a bowl. Are you excited???” tweeted another naysayer.
The Post has sought comment from Papa John’s.
Papa John’s and its competitors, Pizza Hut and Domino’s, have been struggling with labor shortages that have led to a slowdown in growth.
The company reported that sales at its North American restaurants grew by just under 1% in the second quarter — which is down from 5% in the same period last year.
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Hardin County Supervisor BJ Hoffman, Chairman of the Central Iowa Community Services Mental Health/Disabilities (CICS) Services Region, helped break ground on the new Youth and Shelter Services (YSS) campus at 32385 580th Ave., Cambridge on Aug. 9.
CICS supported the creation of YSS’s new $17 million dollar campus with $10 million in funds making a true investment in mental health and substance abuse in the region. When complete this campus will create 70 more beds for central Iowa youth and young adults providing shelter, crisis stabilization, residential addiction treatment and counseling. | http://www.timescitizen.com/news/17-million-youth-services-campus-breaks-ground/article_501b286a-1efe-11ed-927a-672f958e67ff.html | 2022-08-18T15:16:42Z | timescitizen.com | control | http://www.timescitizen.com/news/17-million-youth-services-campus-breaks-ground/article_501b286a-1efe-11ed-927a-672f958e67ff.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
An Ames woman pleaded guilty to a felony drug charge in Hardin County District Court on Tuesday.
According to court records, 37-year-old Elizabeth Margaret Gull pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine - third or subsequent offense, a class D felony.
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Without a band instructor, South Hardin students are going to AGWSR to get instruction. However, due to football or other reasons there are some SH students that would be unable to participate in marching band Friday nights. That's how the idea of a community pep band began.
Nathan Hardy and his son Kaden will be part of the SH community band. Made up of students from sixth through 12th grades, alumni and community members - the band will bring music to sporting events starting week one of the football season.
When South Hardin lost its band director and they decided to join AGWSR for the time being, there were bound to be some kinks. Sophomore Kaden Hardy is in a unique position where he is a band member but also one of the few that also plays football.
With students going to AGWSR, they are also participating in band there, but Kaden could not do that because he needs to be in Eldora with his team on Friday nights.
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Members of the Iowa Falls-Alden football team assisted Riverbend Middle School staff, including mathematics teacher Patty Hudspith, by unloading 45 boxes off a delivery truck on Monday. Hudspith said the boxes included new classroom desks and chairs. The help from the players saved staff members several hours of work.
Besides learning the game on the field, Iowa Falls-Alden Football Coach Don Anderson wants his players to embrace the value of helping others in the community.
That was on display Monday afternoon, as a group of 11-12 players received a pre-practice workout by helping Riverbend Middle School staff members unload a furniture truck consisting of 45 boxes.
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Stephen A. Smith’s fiery Yankees rant on Wednesday had one disturbing error.
Smith ended his diatribe by going after Yankees manager Aaron Boone. Smith insisted that if the Mets make the World Series and the Yankees don’t that Boone would be fired.
“Even Hank and Hal ain’t tolerating that. Forget about George, God rest his soul. I miss that man,” Smith said before doubling down in a louder voice.
“Not even Hank and Hal are tolerating that.”
Unfortunately, Hank Steinbrenner passed away two years ago at the age of 63, making this a particularly sad and egregious error by Smith. Younger brother Hal has been the primary decision maker at the ownership level for many years.
The ESPN host started the rant by calling the Yankees “flat-out trash” and assuring viewers he was an expert on the subject since he was a Yankees fan and born in The Bronx. However, Smith is known for making errors once he strays from his basketball expertise.
It was, though, hard to deny the initial premise. The Yankees had not been playing well — losers of six of seven — before Wednesday night when they bounced back with a dramatic 8-7 win over the Rays. Josh Donaldson won it with a walkoff grand slam in the bottom of the tenth. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/18/stephen-a-smith-thinks-hank-steinbrenner-is-still-alive-in-trash-yankees-rant/ | 2022-08-18T15:17:02Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/18/stephen-a-smith-thinks-hank-steinbrenner-is-still-alive-in-trash-yankees-rant/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DALLAS, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Four attorneys from the Dallas-based intellectual property and business litigation firm Caldwell Cassady & Curry are again honored in the exclusive guide to The Best Lawyers in America. Name principal Brad Caldwell earned additional recognition as the 2023 Dallas/Fort Worth Lawyer of the Year for Intellectual Property Litigation.
Mr. Caldwell is recognized among the 2023 Best Lawyers honorees along with fellow firm principals Kevin Burgess, Jason Cassady, and Austin Curry. All four attorneys were recognized for their work for clients in intellectual property and patent trials. This marks the 10th consecutive selection to the exclusive guide for Mr. Burgess and the fifth straight listing for the other three Caldwell Cassady & Curry lawyers.
The annual roster of the country's leading attorneys is based on nominations submitted by prior Best Lawyers honorees who handle the same types of matters and are familiar with the nominees' work. The Best Lawyers research team then vets the individuals who receive the most nominations before the final selections are announced.
Since last year's edition of Best Lawyers, Caldwell Cassady & Curry welcomed Bjorn Blomquist, Alexander Gras, and James Smith as the firm's newest associates. Earlier this year, the firm promoted attorney Seth Reich to principal.
Firm principal Hamad Hamad was additionally named among the 2022 Best Lawyers in Dallas Under 40 by the publishers of D Magazine based on his work in intellectual property law. Mr. Curry also earned Board Certification from the National Board of Trial Advocacy.
Caldwell Cassady & Curry represents companies and individuals in high-stakes civil litigation, including patent infringement cases, trade secrets claims, fiduciary duty cases, class actions, and disputes involving company founders. The firm has tried and won some of the nation's top verdicts against the largest companies in the world. Learn more about the firm at www.caldwellcc.com.
For more information, contact Bruce Vincent at 214-763-6226 or bruce.vincent@muselegalpr.com.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Calling all sandwich lovers! Call Jacob is back with a new sandwich of his own, "The Big Check From Call Jacob." The famous Wexler's Deli is teaming up with heavy-hitting personal injury attorney Jacob Emrani and the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank to offer Angelenos an opportunity to give back to their communities and chow down at the same time.
Brought to you by Call Jacob, each sandwich is $12 and all proceeds will be going to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. Since this is a grand charitable event to help the less fortunate, we encourage all participants who are able to spare a little extra and share some love to donate directly to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank at two of the Wexler's Deli locations during this promotion.
Offered for a limited time and while supplies last, all proceeds will be donated to the Food Bank. Each dollar donated to the Food Bank will help to create four meals for people in need throughout our beautiful county. With two locations in downtown LA and another in Santa Monica, Wexler's Deli will be dishing out "The Big Check" sandwiches to any and all that want to enjoy.
"Food brings people together as does the spirit of giving. What better duo could there be? It's important that we come together to eat, show gratitude and remind one another of our blessings," says LA's leading attorney, Jacob Emrani.
"Wexler's Deli prides itself on being an LA classic, and Jacob is as much a part of this town as the Hollywood Sign, Jack Nicholson, or Magic Johnson. Let's just say Jacob's Big Check is the quintessential LA sandwich!" states Mike Kassar, owner of Wexler's Deli LA.
ABOUT JACOB EMRANI
For over 25 years, the Law Offices of Jacob Emrani have provided clients throughout California with the highest level of quality legal representation. From serious automotive personal injury cases to slip and fall accidents, if you or a loved one has suffered at the hands of another, the Law Offices of Jacob Emrani are there to help. The firm has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in damages on behalf of its clients.
ABOUT WEXLER'S DELI
Wexler's Deli stands for three things: tradition, craftsmanship, and quality. Born of a desire to serve classic Jewish deli food made by people who care, Wexler's uses old-school methods to handcraft our pastrami and smoked salmon. After curing in a special blend of salt and spices, our meats and fish are slowly smoked in-house over applewood and sliced by hand in front of your eyes. Our pickles don't come from a jar; we barrel ferment them in salt brine. This is the real Jewish soul food. Just ask our family.
ABOUT THE LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank has been mobilizing resources to fight hunger in Los Angeles County since 1973. To support the Food Bank's vision that no one goes hungry in Los Angeles County, food and grocery products are distributed through a network of 600+ partner agencies and through Food Bank programs serving 800,000 people monthly. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Food Bank tripled the number of people reached every month. The Food Bank is a 4-star rated charity by Charity Navigator. For more information, visit LAFoodBank.org.
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Contract will Bring Jobs and the Company's New SCiQ Retail Technology to Colorado
ATLANTA, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientific Games announces the Colorado Lottery will evolve its Scratch game business to the Scientific Games Enhanced Partnership program through a contract extension with the company. The move comes as part of an overall responsible growth plan to drive maximum contributions to Colorado's parks, trails, pools, open spaces, and schools across the state. Scientific Games has provided the Colorado Lottery's Scratch games for nearly 40 years.
The SGEP program is used by seven of the Top 10 performing instant game lotteries in the world (La Fleur's 2022 World Lottery Almanac). Currently, SGEP is powering nearly 40% better performance in instant game weekly per capita retail sales vs U.S. lotteries without the program.
Through the new partnership, Scientific Games will provide the Colorado Lottery with world-leading instant game design and portfolio management services, as well as technology-driven analytics and insights, game manufacturing, advanced logistics, marketing, sales support and licensed brand services. The advanced logistics are powered by the company's patented Scitrak and Ordercast systems to direct proper inventory management and distribution across the network of more than 3,000 Colorado Lottery retailers.
Scientific Games will also provide in-state jobs to support the new partnership with a new office located near Lottery headquarters in Lakewood, Colorado.
Additionally, the contract extension will bring 500 SCiQ units to select Colorado Lottery retailers. The groundbreaking retail technology will give the Lottery and its retailers unprecedented, real-time visibility and control of instant game inventory in individual stores. SCiQ will also significantly streamline the retailers' operational and accounting procedures for Colorado Lottery Scratch games.
Tom Seaver, Director of the Colorado Lottery, said, "We are focused on responsibly growing our Scratch game product category for the enjoyment of Colorado players and maximizing our returns to good cause programs in the state. This contract extension with Scientific Games will bring operational efficiencies to the Lottery and our retailers." Seaver has more than 30 years of leadership experience in the lottery industry.
John Schulz, President, Americas and Global Instant Products for Scientific Games, said, "This is an exciting opportunity for the Colorado Lottery and Scientific Games teams to expand our work together to entertain players and benefit environmental and education programs in the state. We look forward to taking our collaborative efforts to the next level through an SGEP partnership that includes our SCiQ technology."
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Flume Data Labs Household Water Use Index Reviews Outdoor Water Use in Q2 2022 vs. Q2 2021
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Flume Data Labs released the Q2 2022 update to the Household Water Use Index, the leading measure of U.S. household water use. Flume Data Labs publishes the Household Water Use Index quarterly, regularly assessing water use across the top 15 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs). Analysis is based on data from tens of thousands of sensors installed on household water meters across the nation.
Flume Data Labs' analysis shows that in single-family homes within Colorado River Basin-dependent states, average outdoor water use decreased in Q2 2022 versus Q1 2021. While in the rest of the nation, average outdoor use increased.
National indoor water use in Q2 2022 averaged 41.0 Gallons per Capita per Day (GPCD) in Q2 2022.
Regionally, indoor water use varied in Q2 2022 from a high of 49.0 GPCD in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA to a low of 35.6 GPCD in the San Francisco, Bay Area MSA. Indoor water use continues to decrease after the spike in usage following the outbreak of COVID in 2020. On a national scale, the lingering impacts of increased indoor residential use appear to be over and water use has fallen below pre-COVID averages.
Nationally, outdoor water use in Q2 2022 increased compared to that of Q2 2021. Outdoor Household Water Use averaged 210.8 Gallons per Household per Day (GPHD) in Q2 2022. In Q2 2021, outdoor use averaged 206.5 GPHD.
For more than 20 years, an extended mega-drought has unfolded across much of the West with an especially dramatic impact on Colorado River Basin states. Lake Powell and Lake Mead on the Colorado River have fallen to critically low levels prompting water utilities across the west to seek demand reductions. In 2022, this drought prompted many water providers to implement outdoor water use restrictions starting in Q2 2022.
Analysis from Flume Data Labs indicates water users in Colorado River-dependent states reduced outdoor water use in 2022. Average outdoor GPHD in the Colorado Basin States was lower in Q2 2022 than Q2 2021, even as temperatures increased. In Q2 2022, average outdoor water use in Colorado River Basin states was 244.5 GPHD, a reduction of 27% compared to Q2 2021. In contrast, average outdoor water use in states that do not rely on the Colorado River increased by 25% in Q2 2022.
Still, even with these reductions, outdoor water use in Colorado River Basin states is often higher than in other parts of the US as places like Arizona, southern Nevada, and California sees year-round outdoor watering.
Flume Data Labs analyzed outdoor water use in four Colorado Basin states more closely - Arizona, California, Colorado, and Nevada. Average outdoor water use in Arizona and California decreased during Q2 2022. But in Colorado and Nevada, outdoor watering during Q2 2022 increased. Local weather patterns have a significant impact on outdoor watering and may explain some of these differences in outdoor water use.
"Water users in California and Arizona appear to have responded to calls for outdoor use reductions at the beginning of the summer," said Peter Mayer, P.E., Principal of WaterDM, an expert consultant to the water industry for more than 25 years. "Most of the water savings Flume Data Labs detected through this analysis was achieved in those two states. California utilities, in particular, have imposed outdoor use restrictions during the summer of 2022."
To learn more about the Flume Data Labs Household Water Use Index and the data shared here, visit Flume Data Labs at www.flumedatalabs.com or contact us at info@flumedatalabs.com.
Flume Data Labs understands the unique challenges faced by organizations that touch water. Flume Data Labs uses real-time data monitoring to collect and understand how residential water is used. Utilizing a nationwide network of data sensors and one-of-a-kind analysis, Flume Data Labs provides a dynamic informed response to changing conditions and local challenges. To date, Flume Data Labs has tens of thousands of devices installed across the United States. Visit us at www.flumedatalabs.com or contact us at info@flumedatalabs.com to learn more.
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First of its kind, Cannabis terpene-infused beverages join SED's large scale distribution network.
LOVELAND, Colo., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Diesel Beverages announced it has received a purchase order from a major beverage distributor. This move marks a milestone for Diesel Beverages' quest for national brand awareness and being part of the widest possible distribution channels.
Southern Eagle Distributing, a major beverage distributor based in Florida, will put its resources behind Diesel's lineup of Diesel Water and Diesel Hemp strain-specific products. Diesel Beverages is flavored only, with strain-specific cannabis terpenes, making it the first true cannabis-derived terpene-infused beverages in the marketplace (derived from cannabis under 0.3% THC).
Marc Brannigan, CEO and co-founder of Diesel Beverages, believes Southern Eagle Distributing provides the infrastructure and client base that will propel their beverages to widespread acceptance and increased sales potential. "Southern Eagle has been a sales driver in their market for almost 40 years. Their expertise in building national brands, and distributing beer, spirits, and non-alcoholic beverages, will be a great partnership for us."
Southern Eagle's President, Philip A. Busch believes in the Diesel Beverages' market plan. "I feel this is a great addition to our already impressive brand family. As we explore an emerging category, we believe Diesel Beverages' strategy is aligned with our business model."
Large-scale terpene production is also something no other cannabis company can match, says Brannigan. "We developed our strains after 7 years of selective breeding and stabilization. With our ability to scale up terpene production right now, and with our proprietary genetics, no other beverage manufacturer hoping to compete can duplicate our proprietary strains."
Diesel Beverages recently launched its successful crowdfunding campaign through Wefunder, * an equity crowd funder. For important information on the equity crowdfunding terms, opportunity, and risks, please go to: https://wefunder.com/diesel.water
Diesel Beverages was co-founded by Marc Brannigan, CEO, and Natalie Mondine, COO. The company's flagship flavors, Abacus Diesel, Cherry Abacus, and Lemon Abacus, derived from their Diesel Hemp proprietary strains, already have years of recognition. Diesel Beverages was created so that these unique strain-specific flavor profiles from the Diesel Hemp genetics could be enjoyed by all, because the beverages are void of THC and CBD. Brannigan and Mondine have decades of experience in the cannabis/hemp industry, bringing multiple successful products to market. They're also responsible for launching the first USDA-certified organic hemp farm in America in 2015.
For more information about Diesel Beverages, visit www.dieselbeverages.com.
Southern Eagle Distributing, an Anheuser-Busch distributor, has been a growing force on the East Coast of Florida since 1984. It serves Palm Beach, St. Lucie, Indian River, Hendry and Martin County. Their diverse beverage portfolio includes beer, spirits, wine, and non-alcoholic options. SED distributes the top national brands as well as hyper-local craft products. Southern Eagle has 130,000+ square feet of controlled-environment warehouse and office space staffed with more than 300 employees.
To learn more about Southern Eagle Distributing, visit www.sedist.com.
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Flossy is rapidly expanding across the country, to bring life-changing dental care to the uninsured and underserved
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Flossy, a company bringing high quality, affordable dental care to everyone, today announced $14.7M in funding. Flossy is changing the way people pay for dental care by helping connect everyone to a high quality dentist at an affordable price, with no upfront costs. TTV Capital led the Series A with participation from current investors Slow Ventures, 8VC and Clocktower Technology Ventures. Other investors include SV Angel and the founders of Carbon Health, Flatiron Health, Modern Animal, FabFitFun, GOAT, Tradesy and others.
With Flossy's latest round, it has raised $17.8M in total. The company, which was founded by serial healthcare entrepreneurs Miles Beckett and Steve Seigel, is currently operating in Arizona, New Mexico and Michigan. Flossy will use the funds to further scale across the country to give everyone, especially the uninsured and underserved, access to the highest quality dental care.
Flossy is the first pay-as-you-go discount dental solution that connects patients to a highly rated dentist at an affordable price, with discounts of up to 50%. Due to a dental visit backup during the pandemic, 94% of adults plan to visit the dentist in 2022. However 76 million of these adults, many of which are seniors, are uninsured for any sort of dental work. They are forced to pay entirely out of pocket for critical dental care, racking up thousands of dollars in bills a year.
"We've seen how many Americans struggle to understand their dental insurance, often finding out the hard way that their policies are capped, and their deductibles and copays cover far less than they expect. And for those who are uninsured, they don't even attempt to see a dentist," said Miles Beckett, co-founder and CEO of Flossy. "We are completely changing the way that patients receive dental care, offering discounted and transparent pricing, a curated dental experience and financing options for patients that have been traditionally underserved in the system. This is what the future of dental care looks like and we couldn't be more grateful to our new and existing investors for helping us on this important journey."
Flossy is committed to providing the highest quality dental experience for patients, including:
- A curated network: Flossy rigorously evaluates and only accepts the top 20% of dentists from its dental network partners, ensuring patients don't have to sacrifice quality of care. While a typical dentist might have a Net Promoter Score of 2, Flossy has an NPS of 82.
- Discounted pricing: Flossy provides patients with up to 50% off normal rates through its network partnerships and direct deals with practices at no upfront cost.
- A modern, on-demand experience: Flossy delivers the very best patient experience with online booking, beautiful provider profiles, transparent pricing, digital payments, and affordable financing. Due to the strong relationship with its partners, Flossy is able to get patients same day, next day and weekend appointments with top dentists, which is critically important when dealing with a time-sensitive, painful issue.
"We are excited to partner with the experienced team at Flossy and help them realize their vision of bringing affordable dental care to everyone," said Mark Johnson, Partner at TTV Capital. "A tech-supported solution like Flossy has been a long time coming, and we can't wait to see the massive impact they have on the lives of patients and providers alike, as they scale nationwide."
Not only does Flossy serve patients, but it elevates the clinician like never before, building them a beautiful, custom profile and collating all of their reviews from across the internet to give patients a new level of comfort when booking. Patients are able to see each clinician's discounted pricing structure with Flossy and instantly book their appointments online. Additionally, clinicians receive payment for their services from Flossy in 15 days drastically outpacing the standard 60-90 day pay out that they receive from dental insurance companies.
"Flossy has been a game changer for our business here in Arizona, bringing me more patients than I ever could have expected during a difficult time for the dental industry," said Dr. Fadi Naioom of Restoration Dental. "Instead of having to figure out things like how to take online payments and offer online booking, Flossy's platform allows me to focus on what I do best: giving the highest quality care to my patients, helping them feel and look better at an affordable price."
For more information about Flossy and to book an appointment, visit: http://www.Flossy.com
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(The Hill) — As Republicans rail against the FBI in the wake of last week’s search at Mar-a-Lago, they are also hyping the danger to voters from another three-letter federal agency: the IRS.
The GOP is warning that the $80 billion funding boost to the IRS included in Democrats’ tax, climate and health care package, which President Joe Biden signed into law on Tuesday, will target middle-class Americans with an “army” of new enforcement agents.
The calls have become a key part of Republicans’ messaging ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) released a video earlier this week that slams Democrats for expanding the IRS, arguing that it will harm everyday Americans despite Democrats’ insistence that the extra funding is intended to make sure wealthy taxpayers and corporations don’t stiff the government.
“Biden and Democrats are out-of-touch and do not care about the pain and suffering they are causing Americans. Democrats celebrate raising taxes on families during a recession they created and weaponizing the IRS to target small businesses and hardworking Americans,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement.
Democrats, the Biden administration and various fact-checkers have pushed back on the claims. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig that audit rates should not “rise relative to recent years for households making under $400,000 annually” and that new resources should not be directed to audits of families or businesses that fall below those levels. Yellen wrote that “enforcement resources will focus on high-end noncompliance.”
But Republicans counter that there is nothing in the law to prevent an increase in audits of middle-class Americans and note that Democrats voted against a GOP amendment to prevent the new funds from being used to go after lower earners.
Republicans have also frequently misstated that all the 87,000 new IRS employees will be “agents,” when many will work as support staff, auditors and replacements for those who leave the agency.
Criticisms of the messaging have not, however, led to Republicans lightening up.
Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.), the head of Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, wrote an open letter to the “American Job Seeker” on Tuesday, urging them to not take a new position with the IRS since a Republican majority would immediately attempt to reverse the funding increase.
“The IRS is making it very clear that you not only need to be ready to audit and investigate your fellow hardworking Americans, your neighbors and friends, you need to be ready and, to use the IRS’s words, willing, to kill them,” Scott said in the letter.
He was referring to a job posting for a position in IRS Criminal Investigation that mentioned a willingness to “carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary” in its job requirements. The IRS, like the Postal Service and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, has its own law enforcement officers. That job posting was later removed.
“We’re hiring 87,000 IRS agents. You see in the job listing posting, in the description, it says that these new hires are required to be armed, and to use deadly force if necessary. Taxation is theft, and this is armed robbery,” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said last week.
Republicans have also tried to connect the new taxation fears with their base’s outrage about the FBI executing a search at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home.
“The Biden Admin has fully weaponized DOJ & FBI to target their political enemies. And with 87K new IRS agents, they’re coming for YOU too,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tweeted last week.
Polling sponsored by the conservative American Action Network earlier this month found that highlighting the increase in IRS employees could be effective for Republicans in some races.
Surveys in three competitive congressional districts — held by Democratic Reps. Elissa Slotkin in Michigan, Sean Patrick Maloney in New York and Henry Cuellar in Texas — found that half or more of likely voters were less likely to vote for the member after learning that the Inflation Reduction Act “doubles the size of the IRS by hiring 80,000 more agents, without hiring a single new border patrol agent.”
Other polling on the public’s view of the IRS is somewhat mixed. Gallup surveys found that the percentage of Americans who said that the IRS was doing an excellent or good job fell from 53 percent in 2019 to 30 percent in 2021. A 2020 Pew survey found that 29 percent had an unfavorable view of the IRS, while 65 percent had a favorable view.
Many Republicans have argued that instead of increasing enforcement actions, the IRS tax code should be simplified so that much enforcement is not necessary.
“I don’t engage in, like, overblown rhetoric,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) told reporters last week, but he added that increasing the number of new IRS agents “does piss people off.”
“It’s kind of unnecessary,” Crenshaw said. “If you think that … the tax code is so complicated and difficult to enforce, then maybe simplify the tax code. That would be the proper solution to that instead of just trying to catch Middle America in their mistakes, which you obviously will make if you do your own taxes. It’s pretty difficult.”
Alex Muresianu, a senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation think tank, also said that there will “inevitably” be an increase in the number of people audited who are already paying the taxes that they owed but that they will be subjected to additional costs of compliance.
The cost estimate of that to taxpayers, though, is unclear.
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By Keith Laing | Bloomberg
US auto-safety regulators have a message for Tesla Inc. owners intending to use their children to test automated-driving technology: Don’t.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it uses controlled procedures and “it could be highly dangerous for anyone to attempt to test vehicle technologies on their own.” The statement comes in response to recent tweets from Tesla owners appearing to show a child used in a test of a vehicle’s so-called Full Self Driving mode.
“No one should risk their life, or the life of anyone else, to test the performance of vehicle technology,” the agency said. “Consumers should never attempt to create their own test scenarios or use real people, and especially children, to test the performance of vehicle technology.”
Tesla, which has disbanded its media relations department, didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The tweets feature a 10-minute video showing the interior of a Tesla vehicle parked on a residential street as the occupant tests the self-driving mode. At one point, a child is shown standing in the street as the vehicle begins moving slowly and then comes to a stop before reaching the child.
The video came after another earlier this month that showed a Tesla car running over child-sized mannequins.
Automated-driving technology has come under scrutiny, particularly after NHTSA last year started an investigation into whether Tesla’s Autopilot is defective. The probe, which was launched after a dozen collisions at crash scenes involving first-responder vehicles, signaled a change in regulatory posture toward Tesla after years of complaints from safety advocates about the company’s marketing of its driver-assistance systems as Autopilot and Full Self Driving.
In its statement Wednesday, NHTSA repeated its refrain that “no vehicle available for purchase today is capable of driving itself.”
NHTSA also said Wednesday that it owns a 2017 Tesla Model S 90D that received a Full Self Driving Beta software update on April 1. The confirmation sheds new light on its testing capabilities after documents posted online showed the agency had requested the update in January. In response, Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday “ok we’ll turn it on.”
The agency said the car is one of a number of vehicles it owns for testing purposes and is currently being used at its facility in East Liberty, Ohio.
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In this time of turmoil over the correct way forward for our justice system, Los Angeles County voters have an excellent opportunity to do the right thing for a very important part of that system — our courts — by electing the bright, balanced and open-minded Melissa Hammond to the Superior Court Office No. 118 on Nov. 8.
Hammond, a deputy district attorney — i.e., a prosecutor — has the rare advantage of also having been a deputy public defender for the county, taking the cases of the most needy, indigent clients, a key function for fair jurisprudence.
Most new judicial candidates come on to voters, and editorial boards, like gangbusters, touting their bona fides as “major gang prosecutors.” Hammond has been on both sides of the courtroom. But for the past 14 years, she has also tried numerous felonies and misdemeanors to verdict and prosecuted child molestation and adult sex crimes. Currently, she prosecutes serious and violent felonies for the county.
Hammond, who grew up here and is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law, tagged along to the courts with her criminal defense lawyer father as a child. “I’ve wanted to be a judge since I was a little girl,” she told us, because I “admired judges so much for the difference they can make in society.”
And the sitting judges would certainly welcome her among their ranks, as a glance at Hammond’s campaign website shows that dozens of current and former Los Angeles County judges have endorsed her candidacy. She is also rated “Well Qualified” by the Los Angeles County Bar Association.”
Local lawyer Carolyn “Jiyoung” Park is Hammond’s opponent in the November runoff for Office No. 118. Also a native Angelena, and graduate of Loyola Law School, Park says she would bring “a people’s perspective to the bench,” as she has spent her legal “career advocating for people” as first a public union attorney and now a lawyer working for “civil rights, labor, tenant and social impact business matters.” She is endorsed by La Defensa, which fights against pretrial incarceration of the poorest defendants.
We are most impressed by Hammond’s breadth and depth of experience, and strongly endorse her for Office No. 118 in November.
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Friday’s high school football featured previews and predictions, Aug. 19
La Serna (0-0) vs. Pasadena (0-0) at Maranatha HS, 7 p.m.: The best game of opening Friday includes two teams that reached CIF Southern Section divisional semifnals last year with La Serna advancing in Division 4 and Pasadena in Division 7.
Who wins Friday's game, La Serna or Pasadena. I picked PHS, @ChemicalAT took La Serna. We need your vote.
— Fred J. Robledo 👨🏻💻 (@SGVNSports) August 16, 2022
The Lancers are solid with 17 starters overall returning, including QB Jake Long and RB Owen Long. But the Bulldogs have been the talk of the offseason, with as many as nine transfers, headlined by QB Indiana Wijay from Chaminade, and receiver Baylin Brooks from Loyola, who is a San Diego State commit. The Bulldogs want a statement win in the worst way and if they can avoid the first-game hiccups, they might get it.
The pick: Pasadena
Monrovia (0-0) at Bonita (0-0), 7 p.m.: The Bearcats feature two of the area’s top players returning at their position in senior QB Daniel Andrade, who led the ‘Cats to the Division 4 playoffs and a 9-3 record last year while throwing for 2,433 yards and 33 touchdowns. Sophomore linebacker Noah Mikhail, with offers to USC, Oklahoma and others, had a great freshman season and will only get better.
Who wins Friday's football opener between Bonita and Monrovia. I took Bonita.
— Fred J. Robledo 👨🏻💻 (@SGVNSports) August 16, 2022
The Wildcats started 10-0 last year before losing in the first round of the playoffs and improved their schedule, and this is one of those games. Wildcats WR Carlos Hernandez, a Washington State commit, might be the most explosive player in the valley. He had 71 catches for 1,594 yards and 23 touchdowns last season. While it’s a big-step up game for Monrovia, it will have problems with the overall talent and depth of Bonita.
The pick: Bonita
Northview (0-0) at Muir (0-0), 7 p.m.: The Vikings return after winning the CIF-SS Division 10 championship, a SoCal regional title and advancing to a state divisional championship. While the Vikings lose some big pieces, quarterback James Arerllanes is back for his senior season and Marcel Perez showed last season he can flat out coach.
Who wins Friday game between Northview and Muir?
— Fred J. Robledo 👨🏻💻 (@SGVNSports) August 16, 2022
The Mustangs return after a strange season that saw it only play nine games, though they finished 7-2, losing only to St. Francis and Highland in the opening game of the Divsion 8 playoffs. Muir alum Lance Mitchell takes over as coach and several impact players are back. The Mustangs have kept everything close to the vest heading into its opener, but there is too much talent to believe they can’t get it done.
The pick: Muir
La Mirada (0-0) at El Toro (0-0), 7 p.m.: Exciting and challenging season for the Mats who move to the Gateway League with Warren, Downey, Paramount, Mayfair and Dominguez. And if that’s not tough enough, they follow with games against Yorba Linda, Servite and Mater Dei in the coming weeks. Finding wins will be tough and this is a spot where they might find one.
The 2-Minute Drills are back! https://t.co/EBRU8n9pTG
— Fred J. Robledo 👨🏻💻 (@SGVNSports) August 15, 2022
RB CJ Zackery transferred to La Mirada from La Habra and LB Sultan Woods transferred in from Long Beach Poly. With QB Nehuel Garcia back and WR Xavier Hicks, both of whom were all-league selections to go with three offensive lineman and four starters up front on defense, the Mats will be solid. El Toro was 8-3 last year and squeaked out a season-opening 24-21 win over La Mirada, but we like the Mats to get payback.
The pick: La Mirada
West Ranch (0-0) vs. St. Francis (0-0) at Valencia HS, 7 p.m.: The Golden Knights appear better than the team that advanced to the Division 4 championship game with the arrival of RB Devyn Turner, a senior transfer from Allen, Texas, and the return of 6-foot-5 QB Jack Jacobs to go with more weapons to throw to. Plus, offensive lineman like Racin Delgatty, who has offers from Arizona State, Nevada and others, and junior Phillip Ocono, who has an offer to San Jose State, are as good as it gets up front. West Ranch is a tough opening game, however. QB Ryan Staub, a Colorado commit, is the headliner and they went 8-3 last year. Could be a shootout, but we like the Knights to escape.
The pick: St. Francis
Yorba Linda (0-0) at Damien (0-0), 7 p.m.: The Spartans had one of the areas best teams last year, but finishing 3-7 and going winless in the Baseline League is all that anyone remembered. They crushed St. Francis, a Division 4 finalist, lost in overtime to Orange Lutheran, who won the Division 2 title and beat Aquinas, who won the Division 7 championship.
Who wins Friday's football opener, Yorba Linda at Damien?
— Fred J. Robledo 👨🏻💻 (@SGVNSports) August 16, 2022
But wins matter, and the Spartans didn’t have enough of them. They have big pieces back from last year, including sensational sophomore RB Steve Chavez to go with QB Dylan Gutirrez and WR Ayden Gutierrez. On paper, its looks good with three OL back and several on defense. But once again, Yorba Linda is a beast. It went 10-0 last season before losing to Bishop Amat in the first round of the Division 2 playoffs, and much of that team is back, including all-everythign QB Reyn Beal. Can Damien get it done? It has too, playing teams “tough” isn’t enough.
The pick: Damien
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ANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – The Williford Volunteer Fire-Rescue said a fire erupted on a boat Wednesday on Lake Hartwell in Anderson County.
Firefighters responded to the boat fire near Providence Church Road during the evening.
The Center Rock Fire Department also assisted with extinguishing the fire.
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When it was about time for Khloe Thompson to get her menstrual cycle for the first time, a couple years back, her mom announced she wanted to throw her a “period party.” The idea was to mark the next phase in Thompson’s life while normalizing conversations about this perfectly normal process.
At first Thompson was mortified. But the conversation got her thinking of the “horror stories” she’d heard about what that time of the month can look like for women around the world, and she quickly became convinced there had to be a better way.
She thought about what she’d learned while volunteering to help the homeless, how women sometimes use any scrap of fabric they can find to serve as a sanitary pad. She thought, too, about her own mom, who once landed in the hospital with a rare but serious health condition that she says was tied to tampon use.
The glass-straw using teen then thought about the planet, and how an estimated 12 billion disposable pads and tampons are tossed in landfills each year in North America alone.
But fretting isn’t Thompson’s style. So instead of curling up with Netflix and a heating pad, she sat down at the sewing machine her grandma taught her to use and got to work designing her own reusable sanitary pad.
Two years and multiple prototypes later, Thompson, now 15 and living in Ontario, is the proud founder of a start-up company, PeachTree Pads. She’s received national recognition and funding to make reusable pads entirely from environmentally friendly materials. And she plans to use proceeds from sales of the pads to help provide feminine hygiene products to disadvantaged girls and women everywhere.
That’s landed Thompson at the forefront of a growing movement of young women helping to bring the once taboo-topic of menstruation out of the shadows, as they demand less shame and more sustainable options for dealing with a cycle that half of humanity experiences monthly for roughly 40 years of their lives.
A new problem
On the shelves of Target today, Thompson noted there’s just one reusable pad available. It’s made by a diaper manufacturer, and is a reworked form of the company’s primary money-maker.
The limited menu of sustainable feminine hygiene products at major retail stores seems to be a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem.
Six in 10 women said they were interested in sustainable period products per a 2018 study by Shelton Group, a marketing firm focused on sustainability. But only about 17% of women in that survey said they’d switched to the sustainable period products that increasingly are available for sale online, such as reusable menstrual cups, washable cloth pads and period panties. A quarter of women surveyed said they’d never heard about such products, while another 19% considered making the switch but decided against it for reasons they described as “comfort” or “hygiene.”
Interest and awareness have no doubt spiked in the four years since that study was completed as more people are talking about menstruation. Young women now meet on the TikTok forum #PeriodTok to discuss issues and solutions related to their periods. And social media groups for women who like to hike and travel now routinely include tips and reviews for menstrual cups and period panties on the market today.
While taboos around such topics are ancient, the environmental harms of period products are a more recent development.
For centuries, women simply used, washed and re-used strips of fabric. When disposable pads and tampons first hit the market, about 100 years ago, they were game-changers in terms of making it easier for women to go to school and join the workforce. Those products also were made from cotton and other plant-based materials, which could biodegrade quite quickly in landfills.
In the 1960s and ’70s, plastics entered the picture, as companies competed to make pads stay in place better and be more absorbent while making tampon applicators more comfortable. Over the years more plastics were added, from individual wrappers to adhesives. With many mainstream products now estimated to be around 90% plastics, it can take 500 years for modern pads and tampons to fully decompose.
Then there are the health concerns. Along with synthetic plastics, single-use pads today also are more likely to have chemicals used for everything from bleaching to fragrance. While regulators say pads commercially available are safe for external use, limited studies have shown the thin skin that comes in contact with pads has much higher rates of absorption than skin on other parts of the body. That worries Thompson and many other women, with health concerns the No. 2 reason (behind environmental worries) that women in the Shelton Group study cited for considering a switch to eco-friendly products.
“None of these items should be used against our bodies for long periods of time,” Thompson said.
Sewing a solution
In February, 2020, Thompson bought some disposable pads and took them apart to study how they worked. Then she experimented with different eco-friendly fabrics, using teaspoons of water to test absorbency for the top layer and waterproofness of the outer layer.
Thompson enlisted five women in her life to test different prototypes. She got feedback on the design and effectiveness, changing the shape and materials several times. Once she got the basic plan nailed down, she partnered up with a manufacturer in Los Angeles that took her vision and made it into something that can be commercially produced.
That vision caught the attention of judges who oversee Prudential Financial’s Emerging Visionaries, a national program that recognizes teens who are finding innovative solutions to financial and societal challenges. Thompson was one of 25, chosen from more than 400 applicants, to win a spot in this spring’s Emerging Visionaries Summit in New Jersey. At the summit, the teens heard from the likes of Super Bowl-winning quarterback Eli Manning and received personal coaching from leaders in the financial world. They also received $5,000 each to help advance their projects.
Thompson is using that money to help create packaging for Los Angeles-based PeachTree Pads products.
Final pad design includes options for different exterior patterns and colors for the interior linings. There are snaps to wrap around panties and help keep the pads in place. And they come in a storage bag with a PeachTree Pads label, which Thompson designed and friend Liana Torres (with whom she co-hosts the podcast “Marvel for Dummies“) produced.
Thompson expects to charge $20 or $25 for a package of three reusable pads, which she said can each be worn for three to five hours at a time and, with proper care, should last for years. (Care includes rinsing them first by hand, then throwing them in the washing machine in cold water.) And since studies show women on average spend about $150 a year on disposable products, switching to reusables could potentially save them thousands of dollars throughout their reproductive years.
Thompson hopes to start selling the cloth pads on her website within the next six to 12 months. She said a few small businesses also are interested in selling PeachTree Pads, and her long-term goal is to get the pads on the shelves of big retailers.
Anyone who doubts the teen can pull this off might consider the last time Thompson put her sewing skills to work in hopes of making the world a better place.
When she was 8, and still living in Orange County, Thompson started asking her mom questions about a woman she saw regularly who was experiencing homelessness. Since her grandma had then recently taught her to sew, Thompson made a tote bag and filled it with hygiene products to take to the woman.
Soon after, she with help from her mother started an Irvine-based nonprofit called Khloe Kares. That has grown to include regular “Kare Bag Days” in partnership with churches and other groups across Southern California, and has drawn attention from the likes of the “Today” show. Thompson also now speaks at leadership workshops to help other young people put their ideas into action. And, once a year, she goes to Ghana, where she works on infrastructure projects and does leadership training with local girls.
When she returns to Ghana next year, Thompson hopes to bring PeachTree Pads for the girls in the village.
“I really just want it to be an inspiration for them,” she said. “If a young Black girl can do it, anyone can do it.”
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LandSouth Construction, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based, award-winning general contractor, has broken ground on Ilumina Zephyrhills, a high-end multifamily development in Zephyrhills, FL.
North American Development Group is the developer of Ilumina Zephyrhills, which is scheduled for completion in late Spring 2024 and will be a great complement to the existing Zephyr Commons shopping center which is located adjacent to the subject property and is anchored by many of Florida's most dominant retailers, including Publix Supermarket. "NADG has owned and operated Zephyr Commons for over a decade and has enjoyed a great relationship with the City of Zephyrhills," said Todd Addison, Senior Director with NADG. "Ilumina Zephyrhills will continue the shopping center's evolution into a true mixed-use environment. NADG's development team is excited to work with LandSouth Construction to bring this luxury residential property to the City with resort style amenities in a lushly landscaped setting."
"Zephyrhills is a beautiful part of the fast-growing Tampa Bay area," shared James Pyle, LandSouth President and CEO. "LandSouth is excited to partner with North American Development Group to bring new upscale multifamily living to the Zephyrhills area."
Justin Duff is the LandSouth project manager for Illumina Zephyrhills and Brent Fox will serve as the superintendent for the project. The architecture firm for Ilumina Zephyrhills is Forum Architecture & Interior Design Group.
Ilumina Zephyrhills will be a garden-style development, with five buildings, all with four stories. The development will also have a clubhouse, pool pavilion, and maintenance building. Ilumina Zephyrhills will offer a total of 252 units. Residents can choose from nine different floor plans, from one to three bedrooms. The units range from 799 square feet to 1,355 square feet and will have balconies, walk-in closets, and much more. Amenities at Ilumina Zephyrhills will include a pool, dog park, playground, basketball court, pickleball court, trellis, and a cabana. Ilumina Zephyrhills will provide residents proximity to the Zephyr Commons shopping mall. Hillsborough State Park, and Crystal Springs.
"Ilumina Zephyrhills will offer the best of everything LandSouth and North American Development Group bring to a new development," Justin Duff, the LandSouth project manager stated. "We're excited to get started on Ilumina Zephyrhills and bring more multifamily, luxury living to the Zephyrhills area."
LandSouth will employ its unique integrated construction approach to build Ilumina Zephyrhills. Service components work together to provide seamless delivery through proven procedures, systems, and technology.
ABOUT LANDSOUTH CONSTRUCTION
LandSouth Construction, the Southeast's premier general contractor, specializing in multifamily, senior living, and mixed-use development, was named one of Engineering News Record's Top 400. Since 1998 LandSouth has transformed ideas into best–in–class communities. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla. LandSouth has completed more than 25,000 multifamily units. For more information, call LandSouth's Kaley Robinson, (904) 760-3188, or visit www.landsouth.com.
ABOUT NORTH AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT GROUP
North American Development Group ("NADG") was founded in 1977 and is a full service, vertically integrated real estate platform with over $5.5 Billion of assets under management. NADG has been active in the acquisition, development/redevelopment and management of over 300 shopping centers, mixed-use and residential projects comprising well over 35 million square feet across the United States and Canada. NADG's retail platform currently consists of over 25 million square feet of shopping center and mixed-use space. NADG has completed (or is under development on) over 4,300 residential units, with a pipeline of ±9,800 units. For more information, please visit www.NADG.com.
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(NewsNation) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week ticked down amid recession fears.
The latest report released by the Labor Department on Thursday showed jobless claims decreased by 2,000 to 250,000. The four-week average of claims, which levels out week-to-week volatility, decreased by 2.750 to 246,760.
This comes as America’s employers added 528,000 jobs in July and the unemployment rate edged lower to 3.5%, lower than the past four jobs reports and the lowest level since the pandemic erupted two years ago.
Inflation continues to pose a severe hardship for many families. Though gasoline prices have fallen from their heights, food, rent, used cars and other necessities have become far more expensive, beyond whatever wage increases most workers have notched.
Despite a still-robust job market, the U.S. economy shrank in the first half of 2022, raising fears of a potential recession. Growth has been weakening largely as a consequence of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes, which are intended to cool the economy and tame high inflation.
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This is Logan Lerman’s first feature interview in almost two years. For an actor of his prominence and caliber, that’s a rarity. But despite almost two decades of playing leading roles in box office hits like the Percy Jackson & the Olympians film franchise and The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Lerman finds the act of promotion, specifically talking about himself, extremely off-putting. It’s one of the main reasons he can’t stand Hollywood. And it’s also why our conversation feels so refreshingly earnest. “Oftentimes, you look at the trades and see announcements for projects, and it’s all in vain,” Lerman tells me during a phone call from his West Hollywood home. “It’s just people trying to get attention for themselves and the projects aren’t real. And I don’t want to be that guy. I feel like I’m much quieter about the things I’m working on. That’s the way I like it.”
That might explain why the public hasn’t seen Lerman in a major motion picture for almost 10 years. In this time, he’s maintained consistent work as a producer, but he’s wary to discuss anything coming down the line in detail. (“You never know if anything’s going to actually get made, never know if things are going to pan out,” he says, “And a million things can go wrong.”) Thankfully for Lerman, his long game of committing to the craft continues to pay off. Coming off of a movie premiere for his role in Bullet Train, the second season of the Jordan Peele-produced series Hunters, and a calendar stacked with possible projects, life is relatively good for the tenured Hollywood actor. When it’s all said and done, he feels “great,” back at home in WeHo.
The reason he finds himself back in his hometown of Los Angeles after a seven-year stint in New York City is a relatable one: he moved during the Covid-19 pandemic. Finding himself “trapped” during a visit metamorphosed into a second act in L.A., one that consisted of hiking, going to the beach with friends, and having the solace to sit down and develop new projects. But the list of reasons he’s happy to be back on the West Coast is accompanied by an even longer list of reasons he can’t stand his hometown, especially the culture the film industry has cultivated within it. “Everyone’s wrapped up in everyone else’s wants and puts this pressure on everyone to continue being in some conversation,” he says. “You have this desperate desire to be relevant.” Aware of the cynicism, he’s been working on shifting his perspective about the city, and finding new ways to appreciate it. “I’m lucky, though, that now, I have a really happy home and good lifestyle,” he adds.
Two years of few box office opportunities and very little work grounded Lerman back into a place of understanding why not everyone cannot take “risks” and “sacrifices.” Unless, of course, Brad Pitt’s on the line. “Brad Pitt is the only person who could justify a studio making a movie during a pandemic,” Lerman says.
Along with corralling Joey King, Bad Bunny, Aaron Taylor Johnson, and Brian Tyree Henry, we can thank Pitt for Lerman’s role in the new movie Bullet Train—even if it is a small one. “I know Brad and I’ve been friends with him for years and love him,” Lerman says. So when the Hollywood mogul called him up in the middle of the pandemic, he couldn’t resist joining the project. “It was nice to have an excuse to go to work when nobody was really working. I was really lucky to be doing that,” he says. An action comedy in which five assassins battle each other on a Japanese bullet train, Lerman plays the son of White Death (Michael Shannon) whose unexpected murder along the ride results in a Weekend at Bernie’s-esque scheme by Tangerine (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Lemon (Brian Tyree Henry) to create the illusion that he is still alive.
He considered his time on set as a chance to “observe” the best in the business. “They’re doing the most exciting things with fight choreography, and to see them create these dances of sorts in such a tight space…[plus,] the beats of humor throughout the fight sequences are exceptionally well-crafted,” he says. Outside of this, Lerman does not want anyone to assume that this is in any way more than just a guy doing some friends a favor. And that’s how he talks about all of his past works, big or small.
His last lead as Charlie in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the 2012 film adaptation of Stephen Chbosky’s book of the same name, had an impact on the zeitgeist of the late aughts, causing Lerman to rise to relevance simultaneously with the first iterations of social media. From Charlie riding through a tunnel in the bed of a truck to David Bowie’s Heroes, to gifs of him telling the manic pixie girl of his dreams, Sam (played by Emma Watson), “We accept the love we think we deserve,” images and videos of Lerman were reshared across Internet dashboards worldwide for years. He became the face of a generation expressing their adolescent angst in completely new ways. Even as social media has evolved, the relevance of Lerman’s impact has just been readapted to fit new platforms. On TikTok, both Perks and Lerman pop up in conversations around nostalgia and core memories (along with how he remains a major heartthrob thanks, in part, to his girlfriend Ana Corrigan’s social presence, and the content she posts of the two of them). It’s why the film remains one of Lerman’s fondest works, and, he says, is the kind of role that drives him. “That is a really special feeling, to be a part of something and know that it’s had a big impact on someone's life," he says. “I guess that’s the bar an actor hopes to reach: making something that means a lot to someone else.”
An executive producer on a few independent projects, Lerman is privy to the backend of getting a project off the ground. At the root, the biggest obstacle is, more often than not, money: both in creating the film and the reward financiers will see when it hits the box office. This is Lerman’s biggest gripe with the industry, merely because he doesn’t agree with it. He emphasizes more than once the value of independent films, unique storytelling, and how difficult it is to be heard in all the noise of the entertainment industry’s constantly shifting landscape. “It’s the most important side of the culture that I care about so much,” he says, “Seeing films in theaters, seeing original films get made, seeing new voices attract the financing to get their movies made.” But he would be remiss to remain cynical about it, especially during a time when independent filmmakers are taking risks that have been received with overwhelming praise. He points to Everything Everywhere All At Once, the Daniels film starring Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Ke Hu Quan made with an independent film budget which received surmounting success. “[Viewers] want bolder choices,” he says. “They want new visions. They’re craving something new. I’m craving something.”
This enthusiasm for the future of film is infectious—so much so that I can’t imagine anyone rejecting an actor with a résumé of his caliber. Stepping into the spotlight at age 8 in The Patriot, followed by consecutive years as the lead in films like Hoot (which has a young Brie Larson), Stuck in Love, and The Three Musketeers, his credibility in Hollywood is unwavering. But rather than assuming everyone is familiar with his past projects, he approaches the conversation as if you’ve probably never heard of them. This humility feels like a mental tactic, one which helps him separate his identity from mega-movie star to, simply, an actor. It does not present itself in a pretentious manner—instead, it’s an evolution as a result of a lifetime of experience. “There are a lot of pressures here that are unique to Hollywood,” he continues. “I’ve had too much time to observe it. I’ve been trying to approach it with fresh eyes now.”
The appreciation and sense of humility Lerman carries was something he had to learn and continues to work on. “You can’t avoid it. It’s just about recognizing it and keeping your values in line,” he says. In an industry known to absorb and destroy young talent, his approach to his work feels like a form of self-preservation. It’s also a relief to know that a person who’s had such an impact on late-aughts kids is doing alright. “Early on, it was harder for me to appreciate things,” he says. “I was too wrapped up in the newness of all of it, the newness of the entire experience of making things and being a part of things, and impacting people. But now I’m in a place where I try to enjoy it more: the entire process of being in a production and the release of it, and the impact it’s had on people.”
While the possibility of leading in a major motion film in the near future isn’t out of the question, Lerman is just fine where he is: knee-deep in preparation for the first of a slate of projects he'd begun working on during lockdown. It’s his favorite part of the process. “It’s been a really long journey, a long road so far,” he adds. “I’ve always loved it and it’s always been a passion of mine. Even though I've been doing it for so long, I still feel like I’ve just started, in a way.” | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/logan-lerman-bullet-train-character-interview-hunters-season-2 | 2022-08-18T15:22:54Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/logan-lerman-bullet-train-character-interview-hunters-season-2 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BENSALEM, Pa., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Tuya Inc. ("Tuya" or the "Company") (NYSE: TUYA).
Class Period: March 2021 IPO
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 11, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Tuya investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that a material portion of Tuya's China-based customers were engaged in the widespread and systematic manipulation of reviews and product offerings in violation of Amazon.com's terms of use; (2) that, prior to the IPO, a consumer investigation and data breach had exposed an illicit fake review scheme being perpetrated by many of Tuya's clients, among others, which included, inter alia, the exposure of 13 million records of organized fake review scams linked to over 200,000 Amazon account profiles; (3) that, as a result of above, there was a substantial risk that a material portion of Tuya's significant customers would be barred from using Amazon.com's platform, negatively impacting Tuya's business, revenue, earnings, and prospects; and (4) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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The Los Angeles County coroner has ruled Anne Heche's death an accident, caused by inhalation and thermal injuries.
The actor crashed her car into a home on Aug. 5. She was declared legally dead two days before her family removed her from life support on Sunday. She was 53.
According to the coroner's report, Heche also suffered a sternal fracture due to blunt trauma. Her body has been released to her family.
Heche is known for her roles in the 1990s films Volcano, Donnie Brasco, and Six Days, Seven Nights. She then pivoted to TV, appearing on shows such as Everwood, Nip/Tuck, and starring in the ABC show Men in Trees.
After her death, her eldest son, Homer Laffoon issued a statement saying, "Hopefully my mom is free from pain and beginning to explore what I like to imagine as her eternal freedom."
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BENSALEM, Pa., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Weber Inc. ("Weber" or the "Company") (NYSE: WEBR).
Class Period: August 2021 IPO
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 27, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Weber investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that Weber was reasonably likely to implement price increases; (2) that, as a result, consumer demand for Weber's products was reasonably likely to decrease; (3) that, due to the resulting inventory buildup, Weber was reasonably likely to run promotions to "enhance retail sell through"; (4) that the foregoing would adversely impact Weber's financial results; and (5) that, as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects, were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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ComEd customers to receive credit on bill next April
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Next year, you're going to see a credit on your ComEd bill.
The company is paying $38 million to settle a bribery scheme involving former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
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ComED admitted to paying more than $1 million in bribes to members of Madigans' inner circle.
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Indiana prosecutor calls man accused of killing officer 'worst of the worst,' seeks death penalty
INDIANA - Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings announced that his office is seeking the death penalty for a suspect accused of shooting and killing a 24-year-old police officer during a traffic stop last month.
Carl Roy Webb Boards II, 42, is facing charges of murder, resisting law enforcement and possession of a firearm by a violent felon in the shooting death of Elwood Police Officer Noah Shahnavaz.
Shahnavaz, who had been with the department for 11 months after serving five years in the U.S. Army, attempted to pull Boards over around 2 a.m. on July 31.
Boards allegedly got out of his vehicle and fired dozens of rounds from a rifle after pulling over, striking Shahnavaz once in the head through his cruiser's windshield.
Deputies from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office then pursued Boards and took him into custody after performing two PIT maneuvers on his vehicle.
"This is my 24th year in law as a prosecutor. My career has been in law enforcement. I’ve never seen a police shooting like this, never heard of one anywhere in the country. Part of the issue is, is it among the worst of the worst? Absolutely it is," the prosecutor, Cummings, said at a press conference on Wednesday.
The Elwood Police Department set a cruiser up outside of their headquarters to pay tribute to the slain officer.
Shahnavaz's father, Matt, wore a pair of sunglasses at Wednesday's press conference and said people can remember his son by wearing a pair of sunglasses on the back of their head.
"My family misses Noah more than words can express. We want everyone to remember Noah," he said.
Reporters questioned Cummings on Wednesday about why he is seeking the death penalty when the case is almost guaranteed to get tied up for years in appeals courts, noting that no one has been executed by the state since 2009.
"The death sentence is the law in the state of Indiana. If it’s going to be pursued, this is the kind of case where it needs to be pursued," Cummings said, noting that he can only do his job.
Boards has an extensive criminal history dating back to 1999 that includes convictions for gun crimes and drugs.
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A man who lived above a barbershop owned by Boards told police that the suspect recorded a "song making statements that if he was ever caught by police that he would kill them," according to a court filing.
Boards' attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Lowe’s to pay $55 million in bonuses for hourly frontline workers amid high inflation
Lowe’s home improvement stores will pay $55 million in bonuses to hourly frontline workers to help offset high inflation, the company’s CEO said this week.
"Despite continued macro uncertainty, we remain confident in the long-term strength of the home improvement market and our ability to take share," Marvin R. Ellison, Lowe's chairman, president and CEO, said in a news release. "I'd like to thank our associates for their continued hard work and dedication."
A spokesman for Lowe’s said the bonuses will be paid on Sept. 9, though the company didn’t say how much each employee will get, according to The Washington Post. The announcement comes after Lowe’s second-quarter profit beat Wall Street forecasts.
"I am pleased that our team drove operating margin improvement and effectively managed inventory despite lower-than-expected sales – a clear reflection of our relentless focus on operating discipline and productivity," Ellison said.
It’s not the first round of employee bonuses for Lowe’s, which employs about 300,000 people and operates more than 2,000 stores.
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Lowe’s gave seven similar bonuses after the pandemic began in 2020 and 2021. In 2021, the bonuses were $300 for full-time workers and $150 for part-time employees.
While some measures of the economy are strong, inflation remains at a level not seen since the early 1980s, and consumer confidence is falling. In response to high consumer and wholesale prices, the Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates aggressively in hopes of taming inflation while not causing too much economic damage.
A Lowe's store in Livermore, California, US, on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
"Whether we are in a recession or not is really not the important thing. It’s what it feels like for the people going through this," Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan told The Associated Press in a recent interview.
Moynihan cited two major issues negatively impacting average Americans — gas prices and rent — as reasons to be concerned. The national average for a gallon of gasoline ballooned to just over $5 in June before falling back below $4 last week. Moynihan appeared more concerned about the rising cost of rents, tend not to fluctuate like gas prices.
"Gas prices are coming back down, but rents are going up 10, 12, 15 percent. And rent can end up taking 40% of these households' income," Moynihan said. Rent accounts for about one-third of the government’s Consumer Price Index, which showed a year-over-year increase of 8.5% in July.
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According to a study conducted by The Hustle, inflation is also having an impact on family fun. Traditional family outings have " increased in cost at 2-3x the rate of inflation," the study says. In addition, the study - which compared family outings in 1960 to today - concluded that "American families have to work up to 2x as many hours as they did 60 years ago."
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Tennessee woman charged with inmate's murder after alleged meth-laced kiss
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A jailhouse kiss left an inmate dead and his apparent girlfriend facing serious criminal charges, officials in Tennessee say.
It was back in February when guards spotted Rachal Dollard smooching Joshua Brown during her visit to the Turney Center Industrial Complex, a rural prison in central Tennessee. But it wasn’t just any kiss; Dollard allegedly used the opportunity to pass drugs from her mouth to his.
Brown ended up swallowing a balloon pellet containing a half-ounce of methamphetamine. He later died at a local hospital.
Dollard was arrested this past weekend on charges of second-degree murder and introduction of contraband into a penal facility.
Joshua Brown's booking photo (TDOC photo)
Brown had been serving an 11-year sentence on drug-related charges, according to records. His sentence was set to expire in 2029.
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The Tennessee Department of Correction noted that they already use techniques like searches and drug-sniffing dogs to try to catch smugglers; they are in the process of adding body scanners.
"This incident points to the real dangers of introducing contraband into prisons and the consequences that follow," said David Imhof, director of TDOC’s Office of Investigations and Conduct. "Our agency will pursue prosecution against any individual who threatens the safety and security of our staff, the men and women in our custody, and our facilities."
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Media companies ask judge to release Trump search warrant affidavit
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Attorneys for many of the nation's largest media companies will try to persuade a federal magistrate judge on Thursday afternoon to make public the affidavit supporting the warrant that allowed FBI agents to search former President Donald Trump's Florida estate last week.
The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the broadcast TV networks, CNN and others want U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart to release the affidavit over the objection of the U.S. Justice Department, which says its investigation of Trump's handling of "highly classified material" would be compromised.
The media companies argue the affidavit's release would help the public determine if the Justice Department had legitimate reasons for the search or if it was part of a Biden administration vendetta against Trump, as the former president and his backers contend. Trump, in a Truth Social post last week, called for the release of the unredacted affidavit in the interest of transparency.
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"The matter is one of utmost public interest, involving the actions of current and former government officials," wrote attorney Carol Jean LoCiero, who is representing the Times and others. "President Trump decried the search as an ‘assault that could only take place in Third World Countries,’ asserted agents ‘even broke into my safe,’ and otherwise challenged the validity of the search."
Justice Department attorneys argued in a court filing that its investigation into Trump's handling of "highly classified material" is ongoing and that the document contains sensitive information about witnesses.
Former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. (Charles Trainor Jr./Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
The filing by Juan Antonio Gonzalez, the U.S. attorney in Miami, and Jay Bratt, a top Justice Department national security official, says making the affidavit public would "cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation."
"If disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps," they wrote.
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As of Wednesday afternoon, Trump’s attorneys had not indicated on the court’s docket that they plan to take part in the hearing.
US President Donald Trump speaks to officials during a roundtable discussion on community safety, at Mary D. Bradford High School in in Kenosha, Wisconsin on September 1, 2020.(Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
FBI agents searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on Aug. 8, removing 11 sets of classified documents, with some not only marked top secret but also "sensitive compartmented information," according to a receipt of what was taken that was released Friday. That is a special category meant to protect the nation’s most important secrets that if revealed publicly could cause "exceptionally grave" damage to U.S. interests. The court records did not provide specific details about information the documents might contain. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-search-warrant-affidavit-hearing | 2022-08-18T15:27:52Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-search-warrant-affidavit-hearing | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Missouri conservationists have reached an important milestone in their effort to save hellbender salamanders.
In August, the number released into the wild topped 10,000, following two decades of work to collect salamanders and restore their populations.
The salamanders, also known as “snot otters,” are an endangered species and some of the largest of their kind in North America. Missouri has two subspecies, the Ozark hellbender and the eastern hellbender. The amphibians can grow up to 24 inches long and can be found under rocks and swimming through rivers in the Ozark region.
Conservationists released the first hellbenders back into the wild in 2008.
Climate change, siltation, pollution and disease are all factors in the species’ decline, said Justin Elden, the St. Louis Zoo’s herpetology curator.
“It's possible that certain populations of hellbenders have been collected for, whether it be fishing bait or pets or who knows,” Elden said. “But all these different things over the years have caused this massive decline. And that's one of the reasons why it's so important for us to be doing this work here at the zoo.”
The zoo keeps the salamanders in captivity for up to five years at the Karen Goellner Center for Hellbender Conservation, a wild care institute led by Elden.
Some scientists estimate that there were about 45,000 hellbenders in Missouri 40 years ago. A project funded by the Missouri Department of Conservation in the 1990s found that hellbenders had declined by about 77% on average. Most of the hellbenders that were found were also older.
“The real goal here is to get these animals back to their population densities that they were at 30 years ago, 40 years ago, where they were fairly common, fairly abundant,” Elden said.
Conservationists began collecting hellbenders and their eggs to breed them in captivity, said Jeff Briggler, state herpetologist for the Missouri Department of Conservation.
“It quickly led to this animal being listed as state endangered in Missouri, and then later, they got listed as federally endangered,” Briggler said. “We realized very quickly that we probably should start trying to find a way to collect eggs or breed this animal in captivity in order to save it for the future.”
Hellbenders reach their reproductive age between five and six years of age. Briggler said scientists hope at least a third of those animals make it to that age, when their probability of surviving is about 90%. Hellbenders are an important link in the food chain and an essential part of the state’s biodiversity.
Salamanders have lived in North America for 160 million years. Briggler said learning more about the amphibians helps scientists learn more about the surrounding environment.
“They breathe through their skin, so they can absorb a lot of things through their skin,” he said. “For long-lived animals, such as a hellbender, that can live 25 to 35 years, we can learn a lot about what's in the river by what's in the tissue and blood of a hellbender.”
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Panasonic aims to dramatically increase its production of electric car batteries globally, and Johnson County, Kansas, is shaping up to be central to that plan. Kansas News Service reporter Celia Llopis-Jepsen and editor Stephen Koranda talk about what’s green and not so green about this industry.
Clear-cutting trees to make way for livestock has changed much of Missouri's landscape, but one experimental Ozarks farm is hoping to change that. Harvest Public Media's Jonathan Ahl reports on the practice of forest grazing and why it could be better for the environment, for farmers, and even for the cows.
Contact the show at news@kcur.org. Follow KCUR on Twitter and Facebook for the latest news.
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The Workhouse Arts Foundation’s new series of live musical performances continues this month through late fall.
The series, “On Stage, Live Music at the Workhouse,” began in February, and performances are held in the Workhouse Arts Center’s McGuireWoods Gallery Theatre, as well as in its outdoor Rizer Pavilion Theatre. The Workhouse Arts Center is in Lorton.
Here’s the lineup through November:
August
PLUNKEY AND ONENESS
Aug. 19, 7:30 p.m., Rizer Pavilion
An experienced performer, songwriter, music and film producer, Plunkey has appeared in concert with some of the biggest names in Black music.
TERRA VOCE
Aug. 21, 2 p.m., McGuireWoods Gallery
Thrilling audiences with lively concert programs that explore a colorful array of musical styles from Baroque to tango, Brazilian choro and European folk.
SEPTEMBER
CHARM CITY JUNCTION
Sept. 3, 7:30 p.m., Rizer Pavilion
Baltimore-based acoustic roots quartet Charm City Junction plays a variety of music from dance-inducing old time rhythms and foot-stomping Irish melodies to hard-driving bluegrass.
TOM TEASLEY
Sept. 4, 2 p.m., McGuireWoods Gallery
Tom will be performing his interpretation of the music for the movie “Modern Times,” a classic Charlie Chaplin comedy.
ORLANDO LEYBA
Sept. 16, 7:30 p.m., McGuireWoods Gallery
A stand-up comedian who connects with all audiences through his unique life experience and perspective.
QUIN TANGO
Sept. 17, 2 p.m., Rizer Pavilion
Quin Tango delivers an intimate brand of sizzle and history, serious and fun with a multimedia presentation of Argentine tango music and dance.
NoBS! Brass
Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m., Rizer Pavilion
A typical No BS! Brass set consists primarily of original songs, as well as one or two familiar cover songs.
OCTOBER
AFTER JACK
Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m., McGuireWoods Gallery
After Jack is a musical celebration of togetherness, combining one’s most beloved musical memories with a foot-stomping string band.
MARCOLIVIA
Oct. 2, 2 p.m., McGuireWoods Gallery
A violin/viola duo, Marcolivia has performed chamber music at the Kennedy Center, the Ravinia Festival, Merkin Hall and Carnegie Hall.
NEW ORCHESTRA OF WASHINGTON, DIA DE LOS MUERTOS
Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m., McGuireWoods Gallery
A one-of-a-kind ensemble, performing as a small chamber orchestra, will be performing a memorable “Day of the Dead” concert.
JOHN BULLARD, MARJUS COMPTON
Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m., McGuireWoods Gallery
Inviting audiences to share in a transformative revelation and to experience the artistic marriage of banjo and classical music.
RAINIER TRIO
Oct. 16, 2022, 2 p.m., McGuireWoods Gallery
Hailed as “two perfect virtuosos” at their international performance debut the Rainier Trio were received with critical acclaim at their Carnegie Weill Recital Hall debut.
NOVEMBER
WICKED SYCAMORE
Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m., McGuireWoods Gallery
An all-female trio, their sound can be described as contemporary folk with a mischievous edge that is grounded in traditional roots, Americana and bluegrass.
ROBIN SPIELBERG
Nov. 6, 2 p.m., McGuireWoods Gallery
Robin Spielberg is one of America’s most beloved pianist/composers. With hundreds of thousands of recordings sold, this Steinway Artist has been winning the hearts of listeners around the world with her compelling melodies and sensitive piano techniques.
TAMMY PESCATELLI
Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m., McGuireWoods Gallery
An Italian American stand-up comedian who learned her comedic skills growing up in a large Italian family outside of Cleveland.
FIVE MILE MOUNTAIN
Nov. 20, 2 p.m., McGuireWoods Gallery
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When you hear the word "legacy" what do you think of? For me, I just think, "I'm not that important." Or, "My actions in this life should be enough." If you think that way, too, that might stop you in your tracks and you do nothing at all about your legacy.
Give me two minutes to frame it differently and maybe inspire you to change course.
Myths, legends, campfire stories: What do they all have in common? They are relatable and they carry on through time by virtue of being shared. But what happens when like in the children's game Musical Chairs, the music stops and maybe you stopped or failed to share those stories? They die with us. That is legacy lost. That's your personal history, a history built and shared with friends and family, that is irretrievable.
I met recently with researchers in this area of "legacy" who shared that legacies fall into four or five categories:
- Financial - money, real estate etc.
- Reputational - this is the one that I always think of
- Material - the "stuff" of a life lived!
- Symbolic - the stories of us
- Instructions and wishes - how to dispose of an estate, invest money philanthropically or otherwise, make sure so-and-so gets an education, etc.
At Artifcts, our core mission is ensuring you can capture the value -- heart value and/or monetary value -- of all the treasures of our lives and know that the next generation will not miss out on all our stories that make us human and unique, the lessons learned and, yes, the wisdom of our years!
- No one wanted Grandmom's brass trays until they heard the story.
- That sandal would have gone in the trash (still may) without the parable attached.
- Her recipe would have been lost, with no one the wiser.
Don't wait. Take a step toward preserving your legacy and create an Artifct for free. Share it with someone you love.
Heather Nickerson is co-founder and CEO of Artifcts. Headquartered in Prince William County, Artifcts is an online and app-based platform that allows you to capture, preserve and share the history, memories, and stories behind all your stuff! What will you Artifct first? | https://www.insidenova.com/lifestyles/what-have-you-done-for-your-legacy-lately/article_f2910936-1efc-11ed-85f2-ffa10c7f593e.html | 2022-08-18T15:31:13Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/lifestyles/what-have-you-done-for-your-legacy-lately/article_f2910936-1efc-11ed-85f2-ffa10c7f593e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“How’s the market?” is a question I’m often asked. If you follow national news, you’d be led to believe it’s crashing and burning. But that’s simply not the case here in Northern Virginia.
McEnearney Associates Chief Information Officer David Howell wrote, “Yes, the market is going through a long overdue reset, and, yes, in some cases, the reset can be painful. But our markets aren’t crashing.” All real estate is local, and I would like to share with you the current state of our local market.
We are definitely now in what I would term a “transitioning market.” Four months ago, we had a high appreciation sellers’ market, with the average sold price to original list price at 103.5%, meaning on average, sellers whose property closed between April 1 and May 15 received 103.5% of their asking price. The next 45-day period, from May 1 to June 15, the average list to sale price was 101.3%. Still a very high gain but showing signs of a transition. From June 1 to July 15, the average sold price to original list price dropped to 99.4%, and it dropped again to 98.4% for the July 1 to Aug. 15 timeframe.
In April, the average days on market (or the time from when a property came on the market until it went under contract) was 10 days, and in July, that number rose to 17.
There are price ranges and markets that are holding up well, and there are markets and price ranges that are getting beat up a bit. Buyers need to know which market they are in, and that can only be accomplished by working with an experienced agent who has been through the ups and downs over the years. We are in a softening market, and we are probably not going to see the rapid appreciation of the past few years.
Is it a good time to buy? It depends. Everyone’s story is different. Why are you buying? An experienced agent can help you focus and guide you to the right decision for you and your family. We are leaving the time where you can make fast money and instead entering a phase where you need to look at real estate again as a long-term investment. Remember, real estate is cyclical. There is always irrational exuberance at the end of a cycle, which is what we witnessed earlier this year.
Interested in selling? It’s still a good time, but it’s critical to get your pricing right from the very beginning. There is no longer any wiggle room. If you miss the mark, it will cost you in the end by having your property sit on the market longer and likely earn you less than full price. Pricing and preparation are key. Now more than ever, consult a real estate professional early on to make sure you are spending refurbishment funds in the right places.
Our regional multiple listing service, Bright MLS, does an exceptional job of forecasting. In the Washington region, they expect unit sales to be down almost 8% in the third quarter compared to the third quarter of 2021, and down just 3% in the fourth quarter. And they expect a modest 3% increase in unit sales in 2023. For home prices – which have seen double-digit increases in 2020 and 2021 – Bright is projecting a median price increase of 6% in the third quarter and 4.6% in the fourth quarter. Those forecasts certainly conform to our expectations.
The buying and selling of real estate are not easy tasks or quick exercises. I have all the resources to make buying and selling a smooth process. Get in touch with me today!
Martha Floyd is a licensed real estate agent in Virginia with McEnearney Associates Realtors® in McLean, VA and a Lifetime, Top Producer. If you would like more information on selling or buying in today's complex market, contact Martha at 703.408.9478 or visit her website MarthaFloyd.com.
If you would like a question answered in our weekly column or to set up an appointment with one of our Associates, please email: InsideNoVa@mcenearney.com or call 703.549.9292.
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Thiruvananthapuram: The Congress-led UDF on Thursday threw its weight behind the protest outside Vizhinjam port by the fisherfolk, who are pressing their seven-point charter of demands regarding various livelihood issues, saying this would be the first issue they raise when the state assembly session convenes next week.
Opposition leader VD Satheesan, who visited the protest site, told the fishermen that it was the coastal areas of eastern and south-eastern India which were in danger due to adverse weather conditions, but now it was happening in Kerala.
He claimed that this was evident from the fact that several square kilometers of coastal land in the state capital have been encroached upon by the sea and said that a comprehensive and long term solution is required for the problem.
"Therefore, when the assembly convenes next week, this is the first issue that we will raise in the House," Satheesan told the protesters.
Amidst the ongoing protests at the port, state Fisheries Minister V Abdurahiman told reporters in Delhi that protesters were invited for talks, but they have not responded to it.
He also said that the state government will not take any step which would harm the interests of the fisherfolk.
His claims of the protestors being invited for talks were termed as 'falsehood' by the protest leaders, one of whom told the media that if the government was willing to consider their demands, they were ready for talks.
However, let the government first call us for talks. They have not yet done so, the priest said.
The protesters also said they will withdraw their agitation only after their demands are met and without that happening, no ship would be able to berth at the Vizhinjam port.
Led by the priests of the Latin Archdiocese, the coastal community members including women have been flocking to the entrance of the multi-purpose seaport, located at nearby Mulloor, in large groups since Tuesday, when the fourth phase of their protest commenced with the slogan 'Vizhinjam chalo'.
The state government, in an attempt to placate the protestors, had said that steps are being taken to allocate land for construction of flats to rehabilitate those fisherfolk who lost homes to the sea.
However, these conciliatory efforts have not proved sufficient to convince the fisherfolk to withdraw from the protests outside the port's main entrance.
The protesters have been alleging that the unscientific construction of groynes, the artificial sea walls known as "pulimutt' in local parlance, as part of the upcoming Vizhinjam port was one of the reasons for the increasing coastal erosion in the district.
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Kozhikode: A Customs officer was detained by the Kerala police after their investigation into a gold smuggling through the Karipur International Airport here reached him, police said.
The Superintendent ranking officer was taken into custody from outside the Airport on Thursday while he was allegedly waiting for two carriers without knowing the fact that they were already apprehended by the police.
As much as 320 grams of gold was recovered from him on the spot and later seized an amount of Rs 4,42,000 from a room where he was staying.
While being taken into custody, he had not disclosed his official identity, they said.
Police came to know about his identity during the search of his room.
According to police, the customs officer allegedly helped the carriers, who landed at the airport from Dubai in an early morning flight, to smuggle 320 grams of gold they had brought, out of the airport.
When the duo was apprehended with a certain amount of gold, they were getting repeated calls from a number to which police set a trap and asked the caller to come to a specific spot.
When the man reached the spot to meet the carriers, the police detained the Customs officer, who was not in his official uniform, and recovered gold from him.
The officer was not arrested as the police do not have the mandate to do so but the procedures have been initiated under CrPC Section 102 (Power of police officer to seize certain property) against him and the matter will be reported to the Customs authorities.
The customs department has not reacted to the developments.
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Jonah Hill said he won’t be out promoting his upcoming films to preserve his mental health and avoid anxiety attacks, the actor wrote to Rolling Stone.
Among the films he won’t be promoting is “Stutz,” which Hill helped produce. Hill said the documentary explores his mental health.
“The whole purpose of making this film is to give therapy and the tools I’ve learned in therapy to a wide audience for private use through an entertaining film,” he wrote. “Through this journey of self-discovery within the film, I have come to the understanding that I have spent nearly 20 years experiencing anxiety attacks, which are exacerbated by media appearances and public-facing events.”
Hill is hopeful his openness on mental health will help promote others to be open.
“I’m hoping to make it more normal for people to talk and act on this stuff,” he said. “So they can take steps towards feeling better and so that the people in their lives might understand their issues more clearly.
“I hope the work will speak for itself and I’m grateful to my collaborators, my business partners and to all reading this for your understanding and support.” | https://www.katc.com/entertainment/actor-jonah-hill-wont-upcoming-promote-films-citing-mental-health | 2022-08-18T15:34:53Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/entertainment/actor-jonah-hill-wont-upcoming-promote-films-citing-mental-health | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Stainless steel is a popular choice when it comes to kitchen sinks and appliances because it’s durable, affordable and low-maintenance — but it has its drawbacks. The reality is that stainless steel sinks are prone to dulling and damage from water spots and soap scum. They are also easily scratched. Additionally, this can be a tricky surface to clean because ordinary multipurpose cleaners may leave a streaky residue behind. So how can you polish stainless steel sinks to keep them sparkling?
One remarkable stainless steel cleaner that costs pennies per clean is probably already in your cupboard: flour. Not only does flour work to make your sink spotless, but it’s also a green product that’s totally safe for your family and the environment. It doesn’t include a lot of unpronounceable ingredients, either.
Yes, we know. Flour isn’t something you’d normally associate with cleaning. But hear us out. This little bag is about to be your favorite new grime-fighting partner. This versatile powder acts as a mild abrasive that will scrub away surface dirt in all the tiny crevices of your sink. We will walk you through how to polish stainless steel with flour.
What You Need
- Flour — white or wheat, dealer’s choice
- Two soft rags or paper towels
- Kitchen spray cleaner or hot soapy water
How To Polish Stainless Steel With Flour
First, clean your kitchen sink with hot soapy water or your usual kitchen spray cleaner. You can also use vinegar. Then buff the entire sink dry with a clean rag. Don’t skip this important step! The key to a good shine is for every drop of liquid to be whisked away with rag No. 1. Otherwise, you’ll end up with a sink full of a goopy dough-like mess. Then sprinkle it with a light dusting of flour. The actual amount doesn’t matter, just start small and increase as needed.
We aren’t going to lie. The first time you do this it will feel weird, even downright wrong, but trust us. You’re about to be amazed.
Next, use dry rag number two to buff the flour into the sink as if you were waxing a car. Just rub lots of tiny little circles all over the sink base, sides and drain. Really get into those little grooves where gunk likes to fester. Thanks to the combo of flour and elbow grease, you’ll see the shine start to reveal itself as you go.
Now, you have two choices: you can wipe up any excess flour with your rag or you can vacuum it up. The hose attachment will suck it right up. Or you could even use a rubber scraper to help pull it up from the bottom of your sink. Just remember that too much flour and water can cause a clogged mess in your drain, so make sure every bit is gone.
How Often Should You Use This Trick?
Once you experience this level of shine, you might reach for other stainless steel areas that could use a good buff like your dishwasher surface or refrigerator. Then plan on ordering out, because who wants to dirty up a perfectly clean kitchen?
While this type of polishing might not be practical — or necessary — for everyday cleaning, it’s a great once-a-month task. That’s because it buffs the micro-grooves in the sink’s surface and reaches things your standard sponge and soap can’t.
However, if you’re one of those people who can’t go to bed without having the kitchen look spotless, we get it. There’s nothing quite like ending your day with a win and a shiny sink can provide a big sense of accomplishment. Doing it daily is A-OK.
How To Polish Stainless Steel With Baking Soda
If using flour makes you feel iffy because of your pipes, you could opt for baking soda instead. It dissolves in water and won’t cause you any drainage trouble. Just like flour, it won’t leave behind any toxic substances either. Baking soda is nice because it’s tough yet gentle: it can handle light hard water deposits and grease but will also deodorize your sink and drain.
First, clean your sink as you normally would with hot soapy water or a multi-purpose spray. No need to dry. Simply sprinkle baking soda and gently scrub in the direction of the steel grain. Then spray with undiluted vinegar. You’ll watch it fizzle for several seconds. Once that stops, rinse it down the drain with water. You can finish it by buffing the sink with a few drops of olive oil. Just be sure not to overdo it. Using too much oil will make you need to start all over again!
Whether you’re using baking soda or flour, make the cleaning process even easier for yourself. Store some in a Parmesan cheese dispenser for easy-breezy shaking.
Try this! You may love the results. Or do you have a different trick up your sleeve for how to polish stainless steel?
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One person is wounded and another is in jail after a Wednesday afternoon shooting.
New Iberia Police say a patrol officer in the 900 block of Mississippi Street when they heard gunshots at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
A bystander transported the victim to Iberia Medical Center. The victim is listed in stable condition.
During the investigation, a suspect was identified and apprehended.
Jakari Gregoire, 27, was arrested and booked into the Iberia Parish Jail on the charges of Attempted Second Degree Murder, Illegal Carrying of Weapons, Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, Possession of a Firearm in a Firearm Free Zone, Possession of an Illegal Weapon, Obstruction of Justice, Aggravated Criminal Damage to Property.
New Iberia Police ask citizens to report suspicious activity. Information can be reported anonymously by calling the New Iberia Police Department at (337) 369-2306 or the Iberia Parish Crimestoppers at (337) 364-TIPS. Tips can also be submitted by downloading the City of New Iberia app on your smart device by clicking the link. City of New Iberia App | https://www.katc.com/news/iberia-parish/one-wounded-one-arrested-in-new-iberia-shooting | 2022-08-18T15:35:12Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/iberia-parish/one-wounded-one-arrested-in-new-iberia-shooting | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As I mentioned in my most recent Project Rough update (which I’d suggest you check out before you get into this one if you haven’t done so already), I’ve spent the best part of the last year playing around with with my ER34 Nissan Skyline’s suspension geometry. I’ve been doing this to not only try and maximize the available grip at hand, but to truly learn how each change affects the car’s handling and overall driving characteristics. Today, it’s wheel alignment time.
Since this was my first time attempting such a thing myself, I only focused on the basics – caster, camber and toe.
A quick online search reveals countless forum posts, tech articles and YouTube videos on wheel alignments, and the more of them I read and watched, the more my interest was piqued. The problem lies in the cost of testing every single combination that comes to mind – multiple visits to the local alignment shop would quickly become expensive. The only way you can really experiment is to perform the alignment changes yourself.
The desire to do just that led me down the dark and painful rabbit hole that is a four-wheel wheel alignment. Fortunately, GKTech graciously helped feed my silly curiosity.
GKTech has been in the Nissan aftermarket performance parts game since 2003 and is well known throughout the world for their innovative solutions at affordable pricing. Though they have branched out to support the growing Z33/Z34 market, the passion and love for Nissan’s R-chassis is still just as strong as it’s ever been. Without GKTech’s support, Project Rough would still be a hot mess.
Instead of going through and trying to explain exactly what I’ve been up to over the past 12 months, I will break everything down into steps that I feel are important for a DIY wheel alignment and, perhaps more importantly, what not to do. If I can save just one person the pain I suffered during my own experience, then I’ll consider that a win.
Warning: this is a big one, so you might want to grab yourself a coffee…
Take NotesThe first thing you need to do before even thinking about making an alignment alteration is to grab a notebook or some other kind of way to record your data. The last thing you want to do is blindly make changes and not know what worked or what didn’t and where you started. This is a game of millimeters (sorry, no imperial metrics here!) and just a turn or two can drastically change your car’s handling characteristics. Ask me how I know…
Speaking of millimeters, make sure you have a good tape measure or ruler at hand. At the end of the day, your measurement will only be as good as the device you’re measuring with, so don’t skimp out on this.
Zero EverythingThis one seems a bit odd, but if you’re attempting to do an alignment on your own, it’s best to start with a clean plate by zeroing everything out. This will also help you troubleshoot any problems that may arise, as if your adjusted measurements are the same left to right, then the results should also be the same.
It took me till I was basically at the end of my alignment journey to do this, and it led me to discover that Project Rough had likely been in an accident in the past (surprise, surprise) and wasn’t properly fixed. Thus, no matter what I did to adjust my camber, the two sides of the car would never match, even if I set the camber arms the same.
Check Your PreloadNow’s also a good time to take a look at your coilovers and sway bar end links if you have adjustable ones. With regards to your coilovers, make sure the preload is set to whatever the manufacturer recommends. For Project Rough, the coilovers were designed by my friend Frank at Tuner Concept and he recommended 10mm of preload.
Unsurprisingly, my preload values were all over the place. This quick fix actually had a profound effect, so it shouldn’t be overlooked.
While you’re zeroing everything, put some anti-seize on your coilovers, a step that’s often missed in the excitement of fitting them for the first time.
All four of my coilovers were seized, and it took some rust-penetrating spray, a heat gun and a large cheater bar to finally break them all loose.
Build A PlatformWhen doing a DIY alignment, most people will use their concrete driveway or garage floor. That’s fine, but even if it appears to be level it more than likely won’t be, especially if it’s outside.
If you’re still planning on taking the car to an alignment shop afterwards and just need to do something basic to get you there, then you probably don’t need bother with this next step. If, however, you’re trying to obtain the best possible results, then you’re going to want to get your car perfectly level by sitting it on some sort of platform.
Ideally, this should be something you can drive onto without jacking the car up. If you have to jack the car, you’ll need to ensure that the suspension has fully settled once you lower it down again, and that’s another variable that can throw your results off.
I started off using wood as I had plenty of it left over from various projects around the house, but I quickly decided it wasn’t a great option as it can warp and crack.
I instead turned to carpet tiles to act as shims as they are relatively cheap (some places may even give you free ones, though I didn’t have that kind of luck) and don’t compress much. A bonus that comes with cheap carpet tiles is that they tend to be made of harder plastics and therefore are more rigid.
I placed a steel plate on each carpet tile tower to try and distribute the weight evenly, and give myself a perfectly flat surface to take measurements from. With a long extrusion bar and bubble level, I went back and forth adding more tiles until the level read zero.
Even though the driveway looked flat, just look at how many carpet tile shims it took to level everything up!
Set Ride HeightNow that you have a level platform to work with, you can go about taking measurements and setting your desired ride height. Adjusting ride height will have a domino effect on everything you do, so you’re going to want that set in stone first before making any adjustments.
You should disconnect your sway bars and place ballast that matches your body weight if you’re going for the absolute best results. Having said that, I didn’t have 80kg of stuff laying around that would fit in the driver’s seat, and I couldn’t find a set of cheap weights locally, so I skipped adding ballast but I did disconnect the adjustable sway bar end links. Note your measurements down and move on to adjusting the caster.
CasterNowadays, many cars don’t come with adjustable caster/tension rods – the R34 included – so to make proper changes here you’ll need to get your hands on a set of adjustable caster arms.
Along with the coilovers, Tuner Concept also has caster arms available for the R34 platform, so that’s what I’m using. But what is caster, you ask? Without diving too deep into it, the caster angle can control high speed stability, front end cornering effectiveness and steering effort.
When you adjust the caster arms, you’re changing the angle in which the tire rotates. Another way to look at it is you are moving the lower pivot point either in front of the upper pivot point (positive caster) or behind the upper pivot point (negative caster).
From my forum research, I noted that many Skyline owners run less-than-stock numbers for caster. I’m not sure why this is, but my guess is it has something to do with the HICAS delete. What I noticed when I lowered the caster angle was that turn-in felt quicker as the steering effort was less, however, mid-corner it felt like the front wanted to wander a bit and little inputs were needed. The steering also didn’t want to return to center, meaning on corner exit I had to manually return the steering wheel to the center position, thus not allowing me to be as smooth as I’d like. These are all things to be expected with less caster angle.
The art of measuring caster seems to be one of those things that still causes debate. To measure caster, you’re going to need to make a turn plate – an accurate way to turn the wheels 20 degrees outward and 20 degrees inward – and have a tool that can measure angles handy. For the turn plate, I sandwiched trash bags on the steel plates with a little lubrication in between them. I also made my own versions of the tools required to measure angles, though I’ll go over that a little later.
The trouble came when I tried to get the 20 degrees outward and inward. I first tried using a protractor and tape to mark out the angles on the ground, but I really didn’t feel good about that method. I then used trigonometry to help plot out exactly where the tires should be to get the desired 20 degrees, but unless I had that dead on in the middle of the plate, the results would be off.
Though not correct, I attempted to get as close as possible to 20 degrees with the previous tape and protractor method, and counted the number of rotations on the steering wheel. I zeroed-out my angle-finding tool, mimicked that number in the opposite direction and took my measurements. For now, I measured the distance extended on the arms and added as much caster as space allowed (I made sure the driver side measured a little less to help counteract crowning in the road).
Though not cheap, it might be best to try and get your hands on some proper turn plates or purchase a camber/caster gauge that has the 20-degree angles cut into them at the bottom. If you have your string box setup, you can use that combination but, again, those aren’t exactly inexpensive either. If anyone has any good DIY tricks, let me know in the comments. Until then, I’ll continue scouring Yahoo! Auctions Japan for a decent used set.
CamberNext up is adjusting the camber. It’s important that you go in this order as changing camber will affect your toe. Unlike caster, measuring camber is pretty straight forward.
What is camber though? Again, without getting too deep into it, camber is the inward or outward tilt of the tires if viewed from the front or back of the vehicle. With negative camber the top of the tire tilts inwards towards the vehicle; with positive camber the top of the tire tilts away from the vehicle.
It did take me a few versions to get something that measured consistently. My first version was to take an extruded L-shaped piece of steel, cut it to a workable size, and make two holes that I could fit long bolts in. The bottom hole was taped whereas the top hole was created so I could slide the bolt up and down to match any size wheel.
I then stuck a digital angle finder to take my measurements, and a bubble level to make sure I was putting the tool on the wheel as straight as possible. Although I took a lot of care to ensure the bolts were the same length, the slop in the slot meant that the length of the bolt was always changing.
Version two of the angle finder did away with the adjustability, removing many possible points for error. I used an extruded square tube that I then cut to my wheel size.
Once my digital angle finder and bubble level was attached I got measuring. This version had its issues too, as the digital angle finder had to constantly be zeroed-out when moving from each platform, and for whatever reason, it kept reporting a shallow angle for the front right wheel even though it visually looked closer to 3 or 4 degrees.
The solution was to do away with the digital angle finder, and replace it with my smartphone and an angle finder app that uses the gyroscope sensors. This version not only confirmed my visual suspicions, but was able to produce repeatable data.
Now that I had a device that was simple, easy to use and reliable, it was time to dial in the camber. Again, many vehicles don’t come standard with a way to adjust camber and Project Rough is no exception. Once again, Frank at Tuner Concept came to the rescue with some rear upper control arms, but I had to look elsewhere for the fronts.
You may remember that I had picked up a set of Cusco upper control arms from the GT-R specialist shop Veruza a few years back. These did have adjustability, albeit a very limited amount due to the way you adjust them. This meant that no matter what I did, it just wouldn’t be possible to get the camber to match up front thanks to the car’s previous accident damage that I mentioned earlier.
The fact that one of the bushings also looked like it was trying to escape from its home meant it was time for a change.
GKTech’s Front Upper Control Arms (FUCAS for short) were the perfect solution as the arms allow anywhere from 0 through to +30mm of adjustability. I love how solid and well-manufactured these are, and the Teflon-lined spherical bearings provide a more direct and predictable feeling.
Installing them is pretty straight forward. You remove the coilovers to get access to the inner camber arm bolts, and then remove the outer camber arm bolt and out the arms come. To help ensure both sides of the control arms were adjusted to the same length, I used a cutting mat along with my ruler.
To put them back in, I found that replacing the outer camber arm bolt first made everything much easier. I could then use a jack to get a bit of extra help to lift the J arm up, and wiggle the inner camber bolts into place.
The only downside to the FUCAS is the fact that you can’t adjust them on the car, thus you have to jack the car, so I had to drive Project Rough back and forth off and on the platform to make sure the suspension had settled before checking my measurements. Again, thanks to the Skyline’s previous accident, I had to do this process many times as I needed to play around with the adjustment to find the balance. If you’re not dealing with a damaged car, you could just set both passenger and driver sides the same and be done with it.
Once again, keep track of all your measurements including the distances each length is set to.
ToeToe is the one setting that you can change on all cars, and it relates to the angle the tires point when looking from above. If the tires point outwards, that’s toe-out. If they point inwards, that’s toe-in. Again, with a watered-down definition, a toe-in setting will reduce the tendency for oversteer as the tires are pointed inwards and will resist change in directions as a result. This will also improve stability at speeds. A toe-out setting will reduce understeer as the tires are pointed outwards and are already ready to change directions. Excessive toe-out can cause a twitchy and unstable feeling. I looked to forums to get a rough idea on where to start, and then played around until it felt right.
When going about measuring toe there are two ways that you can do that – the toe plate method and the string method. Though the toe plate method is the easier and quicker of the two, it only allows you to measure the toe between two wheels at a time (front or rear), which means the measurements to the true center of the vehicle relative to each other are unknown. This can lead to the angle being off, which is not good. So, string it is.
If you’re unfamiliar with the string method, you’re essentially creating a box around the vehicle that runs perfectly parallel to the center of the wheels. To make it easier, you usually want to have a bar that runs in front and behind the car, which you attach the string to. You then go from side to side, front to rear, making sure that the measurement from the center of the wheel matches the other side. If the front measurements are the same and the rear measurements are the same, you know you have a perfect box, regardless of whether the track width is different from front to rear.
Version one of my string box used piping that my landlord had laying around (yes, I asked for permission to use it first). I measured the front wheel base, added a buffer to ensure I had enough space, and notched slits making sure that I put them in the exact same place on both bars.
I then used fishing wire and weighed them down to complete my box. Since fishing wire has an incredibly tiny diameter, it can give you a more accurate measurement than using regular string. Again, we are playing with millimeters so you want the most accuracy as possible.
But this is where my first version struggled. The piping, although solid, wasn’t exactly the same diameter, especially at one of the ends where it necked down for some reason. I had a feeling it wouldn’t work, so really shouldn’t have spent such a long time testing that theory.
Version two used two 2-meter lengths of PVC piping. If you go the same route, double check that they are in fact the same length; the hardware store claimed these were 2m, but one was nearly 4mm longer than the other. This could really stuff up your toe alignment and you’d never know why things weren’t adding up.
I cut the two PVC pipes so their lengths matched perfectly, notched them, and put them on jack stands both in front and at the rear of the car, ensuring they were level. I then strapped the steering wheel straight so it couldn’t move on me while I adjusted the tie rods, and strung my string box. I then went around the car, taking measurements from both sides of the wheel faces.
With reference to the string, the measurements could tell you how much toe-in or toe-out that specific wheel had. This is an example of the last measurements I did after the latest changes, and you can see how drunk my settings were. It handled as bad as you’d imagine it would too.
Depending on what kind of clearance you have, you might want to loosen the jam nuts on your tie rods to adjust them after you have your string box in place. The platform should help create a bit of extra space depending on how many shims you used. It then becomes a simple matter of making changes, checking the changes, and then locking the settings in once you’re happy with the measurements.
The rear tie rod jam nuts were fairly easy to break loose and make adjustments, however the fronts were virtually seized. I managed to break them loose, but when it came to tightening them up again, it was virtually impossible to keep the settings.
GKTech came to the rescue again with their M14 Super Adjustable Inner Tie Rods. Even though I’m not running rack spacers, different knuckles, or have adjustable lower control arms, these inner tie rods will suit all those upgrades.
It was a good idea that I removed the inner tie rods too, as they had no resistance left in the ball joint and simply flopped around. It makes me wonder about the rear inner tie rods…
Since I wanted to reuse the boots for the inner tie rods (they were in good shape), I had to remove the jam nut from the old tie rod. To do so, I had to clamp it down and use a wrench and hammer combo on the nut. There’s absolutely no way you can remove this while it’s on the car.
With the old inner tie rods out, I measured the length (many times) and cut the length. Depending on if you’re keeping the stock outer tie rods or not will play a role in how much you cut. For my application, I needed to cut more than anticipated as I was also changing the outer tie rods to GKTech’s High Misalignment Kit. Also, make sure you leave the nut on whenever cutting to length as it will clean up the threads.
I’ve heard nothing but amazing things about installing a proper bump steer kit, and GKTech’s High Misalignment kit checked all the boxes. With the ability to correct up to 25mm of bump steer, I was keen to play with the adjustment and see if I could notice a difference.
With the GKTech inner and outer tie rods in place, I set the shims to 15mm and gave it a test drive. I immediately returned home as I felt like the car wanted to kill me at the slightest hint of a bump. I changed the setting to 5mm and it felt pretty good – better than ever in fact – but I was curious to see what would happen if I split the difference and went with 10mm.
As it stands, 10mm seems to be the golden ticket for my car. It glides effortlessly over bumps and in some instances evens handles them better than my Honda Stepwgn. Seriously, why didn’t I install these earlier?! I’m curious about how much bump steer is actually there and want to build a bump steer gauge that I discovered online, but that will be for another time…
Project Rough drives straight, the steering wheel is straight, and overall it handles in a very predictable and responsive manner. That’s everything I was aiming to accomplish while learning the ins and outs of a DIY wheel alignment.
I can nitpick and say the rear doesn’t rotate as much as I’d like it to because the toe setting isn’t out enough, or that the camber setting is a bit too aggressive up front, but the great thing is I can now make adjustments whenever I see fit.
Just not now, because I’m tired of alignment stuff. I want to enjoy Project Rough for a while, and what better way than with some time at the track. Stay tuned for the third and final installment in this ‘Big Grind’ mini series…
Ron Celestine
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One skyscraper stands out from the rest in the Manhattan skyline. It's not the tallest, but it is the skinniest — the world's skinniest, in fact.
The 84-story residential Steinway Tower, designed by New York architecture firm SHoP Architects, has the title of “most slender skyscraper in the world” thanks to its logic-defying ratio of width to height: 1-to-23 1/2.
“Any time it’s 1-to-10 or more that’s considered a slender building; 1-to-15 or more is considered exotic and really difficult to do,” SHoP Architects founding principal Gregg Pasquarelli said. “The most slender buildings in the world are mostly in Hong Kong, and they’re around 17- or 18-to-1.”
The 60 apartments in the tower range in cost from $18 million to $66 million per unit, and offer 360-degree views of the city. It's located just south of Central Park, along a stretch of Manhattan’s 57th Street known as “Billionaires' Row.”
At 1,428 feet (435 meters), the building is the second-tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere, second to the nearby Central Park Tower at 1,550 feet (470 meters). For comparison, the world’s tallest tower is Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which stands at 2,717 feet (828 meters).
Steinway Tower is so skinny at the top that whenever the wind ramps up, the luxury homes on the upper floors sway around by a few feet.
“Every skyscraper has to move,” Pasquarelli said. “If it’s too stiff, it’s actually more dangerous — it has to have flexibility in it.”
To prevent the tower from swaying too far, the architects created a counterbalance with tuned steel plates. And while the exterior has the de rigueur reflective glass, it also includes a textured terracotta and bronze facade that creates wind turbulence to slow the acceleration of the building, Pasquarelli said. About 200 rock anchors descend at most 100 feet (30 meters) into the underlying bedrock to provide a deep foundation.
Steinway Tower has a long history as the former location of Steinway Hall, constructed in 1924. JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group bought the building in 2013, and now they're looking to the future.
“What I’m hoping is that 50 years from now, you’ve only known New York with 111 West 57th St.,” Pasquarelli said. “I hope it holds a special place in all future New Yorkers' hearts.” | https://www.katc.com/news/national/a-look-at-the-worlds-skinniest-skyscraper-steinway-tower | 2022-08-18T15:35:24Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/a-look-at-the-worlds-skinniest-skyscraper-steinway-tower | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Big Ten has entered into a seven-year media rights deal with Fox, CBS and NBC that is reportedly worth $7 billion.
“The Big Ten Conference media rights agreements are more than just dollars and deals. They are a mechanism to provide stability and maximum exposure for our student-athletes, member institutions and partners during these uncertain times in collegiate athletics,” Big Ten Conference Commissioner Kevin Warren said.
Beginning in the fall of 2023, the conference says Saturdays will feature football games on the networks all day long.
Fox, CBS and NBC will take turns airing the Big 10 championship game.
In addition to football, the deal includes rights to air men's and women's basketball games and other Olympic sports.
Games will also be featured on The Big 10 Network, NBC's Peacock, Paramount+ and FS1. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/big-ten-lands-massive-tv-rights-deal-with-major-networks | 2022-08-18T15:35:30Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/big-ten-lands-massive-tv-rights-deal-with-major-networks | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A child died after being infected with Naegleria fowleri, which is commonly referred to as a brain-eating amoeba.
Health officials in Nebraska believe the child became infected after swimming in the Elkhorn River.
Tests are being conducted to confirm the cause of death. If they show the child died from the brain-eating amoeba, it would be Nebraska's first known death from Naegleria fowleri in the state's history.
"Infections typically occur later in the summer, in warmer water with slower flow, in July, August, and September. Cases are more frequently identified in southern states but more recently have been identified farther north," said Nebraska State Epidemiologist Dr. Matthew Donahue. "Limiting the opportunities for freshwater to get into the nose are the best ways to reduce the risk of infection."
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NEW YORK (AP) — A top executive at former President Donald Trump’s family business pleaded guilty Thursday to evading taxes in a deal that could potentially make him a star witness against the company at a fall trial.
Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty to all 15 of the charges he faced in the case. He was accused of dodging taxes on lavish fringe benefits he got from the company, including lease payments for a luxury car, rent for a Manhattan apartment and private school tuition for his grandchildren.
Weisselberg is the only person to face criminal charges so far in the Manhattan district attorney’s long-running investigation of the company’s business practices.
“Today is an important marker in the ongoing criminal investigation of the Trump Organization and its CFO, Allen Weisselberg," said New York Attorney General Letitia James. "In the indictment, we allege, among other things, financial wrongdoing whereby the Trump Organization engaged in a scheme with Mr. Weisselberg to avoid paying taxes on certain compensation. This investigation will continue, and we will follow the facts and the law wherever they may lead.”
Judge Juan Manuel Merchan agreed to sentence Weisselberg to five months incarceration and five years probation at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex, although he will be eligible for release much earlier if he behaves well behind bars. The judge said Weisselberg will have to pay nearly $2 million in taxes, penalties and interest.
The plea bargain also requires Weisselberg to testify truthfully as a prosecution witness when the Trump Organization goes on trial in October on related charges. The company is accused of helping Weisselberg and other executives avoid income taxes by failing to accurately report their full compensation to the government.
Trump himself is not charged in the case.
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OPELOUSAS, LA- Police responded to a call around 10:00 p.m. in the 900 block of Perry Lane regarding a call of shots being fired.
When officers arrived on scene, one person was found with non-life threatening gunshot wounds. The victim was transported to a local hospital for treatment.
Officials said the preliminary investigation indicates a fight may have taken place before the shots were fired.
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A mother in India allegedly sliced off her boyfriend’s penis on Wednesday after he tried to rape her 14-year-old daughter.
“I have no regrets for what I did,” the 36-year-old unnamed mom told the Times of India.
“I was working in the farm when the incident took place. Fortunately, I returned home in the nick of time and caught him red-handed,” she said, explaining the series of events that led to the incident.
“He even attacked me while I was trying to save my daughter, so I brought a knife from the kitchen and chopped off his private parts to teach him a lesson.”
Police told The Times of India that the boyfriend, 32, has been “booked” for rape, but was in critical condition after the mom chopped off his genitals.
His exact charges and current condition is unknown. It is unclear if the mom will face any charges.
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COSTA MESA — Derwin James Jr. wasn’t relieved, but instead said he was thankful.
Thankful to the Chargers for signing him to a four-year, $76.532 million contract extension on Wednesday. Thankful for making him the highest-paid safety in NFL history, thankful for his coach’s praise, thankful for his teammates’ understanding and thankful for the chance to practice again.
“Feeling amazing,” James said after ending his training camp “hold-in.” “Man, there was just so much love, not just from my teammates, but from my coaches, from the cafeteria workers, from everybody in the organization. It was just like all love. I’m humble and I’m thankful for it.”
James participated in some of the Chargers’ joint practice Wednesday with the Dallas Cowboys at Jack Hammett Sports Complex, but not in the more physical 7-on-7 and 11-on-11 drills that made up the bulk of the two-hour session under a searing midday Orange County sun.
He won’t play in Saturday’s exhibition between the teams at SoFi Stadium.
“We’re just going to get him through individual (drills) this week,” Chargers coach Brandon Staley said. “Shoulder pads, helmet – getting all of that off the ground this week. Next week, he’s going to get back into 7-on-7s and some of the team stuff. We’re going to make sure we ramp him up the right way.
“We’re going to have to hold him back (and) it won’t be easy.”
The Chargers welcomed James back with open arms, one day after Staley said, “I don’t look at Derwin as a safety. I look at Derwin as an impact player. I think … if you were just looking at him as a safety that wouldn’t be doing Derwin justice. … He’s our signal caller and the heartbeat of our defense.”
Running back Austin Ekeler laughed when asked about James’ contract extension and return to the practice field.
“Finally,” Ekeler said.
Adopting a more serious tone, Ekeler then said, “He’s a great player. Every time he’s on the field, it’s a whole different defense. The way he plays, the way he runs the defense, just the attitude he brings. I think it was inevitable for him to get his next contract. It was just a matter of time.
“Glad to have him back on the field.”
Ekeler then dismissed the notion that James’ contract negotiations had been a distraction for the Chargers.
“Not really because he’s done a good job because that’s the kind of leader he is,” Ekeler said. “He’s still vocal on the sideline. He’s still vocal in our walk-throughs and meetings and things like that. He was very present with us.”
James, 26, is a fifth-year pro from Florida State who was in the final year of his contract and eligible for an extension. He attended each day of training camp, participating in walk-throughs and off-the-field team activities. But he didn’t actually practice with his teammates.
Staley linked James and edge rushers Joey Bosa and Khalil Mack as the central figures in a revamped Chargers’ defense that is expected by many pundits to lead the team to the playoffs for the first time since 2018. Mack is one of several defensive players signed or acquired in the offseason.
James has 257 tackles, 5½ sacks and five interceptions in 36 regular-season games since the Chargers selected him 17th overall in the 2018 draft. He underwent left shoulder surgery in February after he was selected to play in the Pro Bowl for the second time in his career.
The Pittsburgh Steelers and Minkah Fitzpatrick had established the top extension for a safety in June when they agreed on a four-year contract potentially worth $72.988 million, with $36 million guaranteed. James’ contract topped that deal and set a new extension standard for the position.
James’ deal includes $42 million in guaranteed salary and includes $29 million in the first year of the contract, in 2023, also league records for his position. James’ agent, David Mulugheta, confirmed the signing, first reported by the NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, offering congratulations to his client via Twitter.
“It means a lot and that carries a lot,” James said. “Shout out to my agent, the best agent out there. Like I said, man, all this wouldn’t have been done without the Chargers believing in me and my agent believing in me, and me coming out and putting in the hard work with my teammates.
“Thank you to everybody.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — A spate of explosions and fires has turned Russian-occupied Crimea from a secure rear base into a new battleground in the war, demonstrating both the Russians’ vulnerability and the Ukrainians’ capacity to strike deep behind enemy lines.
Nine Russian warplanes were reported destroyed at an air base in Crimea last week, and an ammunition depot on the peninsula blew up on Tuesday.
Ukrainian authorities have stopped short of publicly claiming responsibility, preferring to keep the world guessing, but President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alluded to Ukrainian attacks behind enemy lines after the latest blasts, which Russia blamed on “sabotage.”
Russia seized the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 and has used it as a staging ground for attacks on the country in the war that began Feb. 24. Ukrainian authorities have vowed to recapture Crimea and other occupied territories.
The explosions represent the latest setback for Moscow, which began its invasion with hopes of taking Kyiv in a lightning offensive but soon became bogged down in the face of fierce resistance. As the war nears the six-month mark, the two sides are engaged in a grinding war of attrition, fighting village to village, largely in the country’s east.
The attacks in Crimea may mark the opening of a new front that would represent a significant escalation in the war and could further stretch Russia’s resources.
“Russian commanders will highly likely be increasingly concerned with the apparent deterioration in security across Crimea, which functions as rear base area for the occupation,” Britain’s Defense Ministry wrote on Twitter.
As a result of the airfield attacks, Russia is moving dozens of warplanes and helicopters to deeper positions in Crimea and to Russian bases elsewhere, Ukrainian military intelligence reported.
Tuesday’s explosions ripped through an ammunition site near the town of Dzhankoi, forcing the evacuation of about 3,000 people. Munitions continued to explode Wednesday and authorities fought the fires with a helicopter, said Crimea’s regional leader, Sergei Aksyonov. He said a search for the perpetrators was underway.
The Kommersant business paper also reported explosions Tuesday at a Crimean base in Gvardeyskoye. There was no confirmation from the Russians.
The British intelligence report said Gvardeyskoye and Dzhankoi are home to two of the most important Russian military airfields in Crimea.
Just over a week ago, explosions rocked the Russians’ Saki air base on Crimea and destroyed planes on the ground. Moscow suggested that the blasts were accidental, caused perhaps by a careless smoker, but Ukrainian authorities mocked that explanation and hinted at their involvement.
Last month, a small explosive device carried by a makeshift drone blew up in a courtyard at the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, wounding six people and prompting the cancellation of ceremonies there honoring Russia’s navy.
In other developments Wednesday, two civilians were reported killed and seven wounded by Russian shelling of several towns and villages in the Donetsk region in the east that is the current focus of the Kremlin offensive.
In the south, Russian warplanes fired cruise missiles at the Odesa region overnight, wounding four people, according to regional administration spokesman Oleh Bratchuk. In Mykolaiv, also in the south, two Russian missiles damaged a university building but injured no one.
Russian forces also shelled Kharkiv and the surrounding region in the northeast overnight, damaging residential buildings and civilian infrastructure but inflicting no casualties, authorities said.
Meanwhile, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv for a meeting Thursday with Zelenskyy and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said Guterres will raise the topic of food and grain shipments, nuclear power plant safety and the prison explosion that killed scores of captured Ukrainian fighters, and will “do what he can to essentially lower the temperature as much as possible.”
The last time the U.N. chief came to Ukraine, in April, Russia launched a missile strike on Kyiv as he was visiting the capital.
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The COVID threat might have receded, but the fast-approaching Pac-12 football season faces several daunting operational challenges and unusual dynamics.
For instance: Two teams competing with one foot out the door.
“It will be business as usual,” Merton Hanks, the senior associate commissioner for football operations, told the Hotline earlier this week when a wide-ranging interview turned to how USC and UCLA will be treated during their penultimate season in the conference.
“There will be no shenanigans, no phantom situations. I won’t tolerate that. I’ve made that clear and so has the commissioner (George Kliavkoff).
“It speaks to the integrity of our conference, which ultimately speaks to my integrity.”
“That said,” Hanks added, with a chuckle, “I’m sure somebody will be mad about a call involving USC and UCLA at some point.
“But we’re going to make every effort to call the game as we always have.”
If two departing teams were the Pac-12’s only challenge, the season would be intriguing enough from an operational standpoint.
But the expanding list of threats to weekly competition has prompted Hanks and Shonna Brown, the associate commissioner for football operations, to formulate a series of contingency plans.
“More than ever,” said Hanks, who was hired in the summer of 2020, “we have to anticipate the unknowns. We have plans in case there is a significant backslide and we’re facing a reduced schedule.”
In addition to potential controversies involving USC and UCLA, Hanks and Brown are accounting for disruptions from the following issues:
— Pathogens
In addition to COVID, the conference is monitoring the monkeypox virus and the possibility of public health directives.
— Travel trouble
The potential for disruptions to the airline industry, including those affecting the availability of chartered flights, is an ongoing concern.
— Air quality
Fire season has arrived in the western third of the country.
“We have a joke that we wake up each morning, brush our teeth, comb our hair and then look at the AQ readings,” Hanks said.
Other developments within Pac-12 football operations …
*** The conference graded every call made by its officials during the 2021 season and concluded the success rate was in the “high 80s, low 90s,” according to Hanks.
“This is not 2019,” he said. “We have much better officiating.”
His office offered two pieces of comparative data:
— The number of instant replay stoppages nationally ranged from 2.2 to 3.1 per game (by conference). The Pac-12’s average was 2.3.
The time spent on each instant replay stoppage nationally ranged from 1:23 to 1:32 per stoppage (by conference). The Pac-12’s average was 1:29.
“The fact is that we want to be super efficient but still put down the flag when it’s called for,” Hanks said.
*** Brown was hired last summer as part of Hanks’ build-out of the operations staff.
She makes heavy use of analytics in much the same fashion as the Pac-12’s strategic planning committee for men’s basketball, which was created in 2015.
“We’re always gauging what we’re doing against the national averages,” Brown said. “Are we in the range with everybody else?”
*** Asked about rule changes for the upcoming season, Hanks cited two points of emphasis across the Football Bowl Subdivision.
The trend of fake injuries “was bad this past year” nationally, Hanks said, and he pointed to an important change to the blocking-below-the-waist rule that’s designed to improve player safety:
It’s no longer permissible to block below the waist outside the tackle box, a move that could impact the mechanics of passing plays like the bubble screen.
“Some schemes are going to have to change,” said Hanks, a former All-Pro safety for the 49ers.
“It’s going to change offense. It’s going to change how coaches recruit linemen. More big bodies will have to work their way down the field.
“Can they keep up with the skill guys? How will people adjust to not cutting downfield? If a guy can’t move laterally in space, he’s going to be less effective.”
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By KEN RITTER | The Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — Two airline ticket agents were hurt when a 33-year-old California man breached security at a busy Las Vegas airport on Sunday, sparking panic among commercial travelers, flight delays and cancellations, police said in a report made public Tuesday.
Neither injury was described as serious, according to an arrest report that compared the incident at Harry Reid International Airport to terrorism.
Stefan Mathias Hutchison, 33, of Oakland, told arresting officers he wanted to go home immediately, not wait for a flight on Monday. Police said he had also been arrested Saturday at the airport on misdemeanor charges after pushing past Transportation Security Administration screeners in what police also called a security breach.
Hutchison remained jailed ahead of a court date Wednesday before a Las Vegas judge on a burglary charge based on Nevada law making it a felony to enter a building with an intent to commit a crime.
A deputy public defender who represented him declined to comment about the case.
One Spirit Airlines employee hit her head on a wall when Hutchison pushed past her Sunday and through a secured door, police said. Another Spirit employee tackled Hutchison before police arrived. Both were taken to hospitals after complaining of pain, according to the police report.
The arresting officer, Eric Jones, wrote the airport at that hour was “extremely busy with thousands of travelers.” He said he heard “approximately 10 loud banging sounds” in the airline ticketing area and saw “hundreds of frightened citizens fleeing,” including “trampling over each other,” and rushing past TSA checkpoints.
Police and social media reports compared the noises to gunshots.
“I determined the loud bangs were stanchions (line dividers) falling on the floor when the citizens were escaping the area,” Jones wrote.
Hutchison spent several hours in jail following his arrest Saturday before a judge freed him with a promise to appear Oct. 11 on the misdemeanor charges. He was accused of bypassing TSA screening, entering a boarding gate concourse and taking a pair of sunglasses from a variety store before he was arrested.
The arrest report corrected Hutchison’s hometown. Police said Monday he was from Carmichael, California.
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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria denied on Wednesday it is holding U.S. journalist Austin Tice or other Americans after President Joe Biden accused the Syrian government of detaining him.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Damascus “denies it had kidnapped or is holding any American citizen on its territories.”
“The U.S. issued last week misleading and illogical statements by the American president and secretary of state that included baseless accusations against Syria that it had kidnapped or detained American citizens including former U.S. Marine Austin Tice,” the statement said.
Biden’s comments last week came in a statement released by the White House to mark the 10th anniversary of Tice’s abduction in Syria while covering its lengthy conflict. Biden’s remarks were the clearest indication so far that the U.S. is certain Tice is being held by the government of President Bashar Assad.
“We know with certainty that he has been held by the Government of Syria,” Biden said in his statement last week. “We have repeatedly asked the government of Syria to work with us so that we can bring Austin home.”
State Department Spokesman Ned Price told reporters on Tuesday that the U.S. government has pushed Syria to return every American. On Tice’s case specifically, he said, the Biden administration has “engaged extensively – and that includes directly – with Syrian officials and through third parties.”
“Syria has never acknowledged holding him,” Price said of Tice, adding that “we are not going to be deterred in our efforts. We are going to pursue every avenue for securing Austin’s safe return.”
The Syrian Foreign Ministry denied in its statement having any secret contacts with U.S. officials on the missing Americans, adding that “any official dialogue with the American government will only be public based on the respect of Syria’s sovereignty.”
In May, top Lebanese security official Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim met with U.S. officials in Washington as part of mediation efforts between the U.S. and Syria for Tice’s release. Ibrahim, the chief of Lebanon’s General Security Directorate, has mediated complicated hostage releases in the past.
In May, Biden met Tice’s parents and reiterated his commitment to working toward “Austin’s long overdue return to his family.”
In the final months of the Trump administration, two U.S. officials — including the government’s top hostage negotiator, Roger Carstens, a former Army Special Forces officer — made a secret visit to Damascus to seek information on Tice and other Americans who have disappeared in Syria. It was the highest-level talks in years between the U.S. and Assad’s government, though Syrian officials offered no meaningful information on Tice.
Tice went missing shortly after his 31st birthday on Aug. 14, 2012, at a checkpoint in a contested area west of the capital of Damascus. A video released a month later showed him blindfolded and held by armed men, saying, “Oh, Jesus.” He has not been heard from since.
Tice is one of two Americans who went missing in Syria. The other is Majd Kamalmaz, a psychologist from Virginia, who vanished in 2017.
Tice is from Houston, and his work had been published by the Washington Post, McClatchy newspapers and other outlets. He went to Syria to cover the conflict that started in 2011.
The war has left hundreds of thousands dead and displaced nearly half of the pre-conflict population of 23 million. More than 5 million of those are outside the country.
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