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A man already charged for the alleged murders of two Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is now facing new charges for the fatal shooting of a third Muslim man.
The Associated Press reported that Muhammad Syed was indicted Monday by an Albuquerque grand jury for the killings of Aftab Hussein, Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, and Afzaal Hussain.
According to the Associated Press, Hussein was killed on July 26 near his home after he parked his car, Afzaal Hussain was killed on Aug. 1 while out on a walk, and Naeem Hussain was reportedly killed while sitting in his vehicle on Aug. 5.
Syed was also charged with four counts of tampering with evidence related to the three killings, the Associated Press reported.
Last week, Syed's son, 21-year-old Shaheen Syed, was arrested for allegedly helping his 51-year-old father track Naeem Hussain before he was killed, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
Muhammad Syed was arrested on Aug. 8, the news outlets reported.
Police said in a criminal complaint that the bullet casings found in Muhammad Syed's vehicle matched the caliber of the weapons believed to have been used to kill Hussein and Afzaal Hussain, the news outlet reported.
Muhammad Syed has denied any involvement in the murders, the Associated Press reported.
The news outlet reported a motive for the crimes had not been released. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/man-faces-new-murder-charge-in-third-new-mexico-muslim-killing | 2022-08-23T21:35:44Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/man-faces-new-murder-charge-in-third-new-mexico-muslim-killing | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ATLANTA (AP) — A woman shot and killed two people and wounded a third Monday at two different locations in Atlanta’s Midtown neighborhood and was later taken into custody at the city’s airport, police said.
Atlanta police said they did not immediately know what prompted the attack, but they believe the victims were targeted. The suspect’s name was not released.
“We do not believe these were random acts of violence,” interim police chief Darrin Schierbaum told a news conference.
Officers responded to a report of a shooting around 1:45 p.m. and found two victims at the first building. One of the victims died, and the other was taken to a hospital, Atlanta police said.
While there, police received another report of a shooting at a second building less than a mile (1.6 km) away. That victim was also taken to the hospital and later died. Atlanta police said they are investigating how the two sites are connected.
Law enforcement officers from multiple agencies descended on the Midtown area, telling residents to stay inside as they searched the area. Atlanta police said an “extensive camera network” helped them track the suspect and she was eventually located at the Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Mayor Andre Dickens said the woman was arrested before entering a restricted area and that the “security of the airport was never compromised.” | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/ap-us-news/atlanta-police-2-killed-1-shot-in-midtown-neighborhood/ | 2022-08-23T21:35:44Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/ap-us-news/atlanta-police-2-killed-1-shot-in-midtown-neighborhood/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Horrifying new details released after man charged with sexually abusing boy in River North McDonald's bathroom
CHICAGO - A Michigan man barged into a River North McDonald's bathroom stall Saturday and sexually abused a 6-year-old boy before punching a security guard and assaulting a police officer, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Just before 6 p.m. Saturday, the 6-year-old boy, his father and his father's friend went to the Rock n' Roll McDonald's located at 600 N. Clark Street to get something to eat, prosecutors said.
Upon arriving at the restaurant, the three went into the bathroom.
The boy was in a stall, his father was washing his hands at the sink and the family friend was using a urinal, prosecutors said.
The boy's father closed the stall door, but did not lock it because he didn't want the boy to lock himself in.
Bryan Sutton, 62, allegedly walked into the restroom shortly after and entered the stall where the boy was located, undetected by the father or the father's friend.
Sutton then allegedly sexually abused the boy.
A McDonald's security guard was watching Sutton, who was known to the staff for causing disturbances in the past, prosecutors said.
Shortly after Sutton went into the bathroom, the security guard followed behind.
The guard attempted to open the stall door, where Sutton and the victim were located, prosecutors said.
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However, Sutton allegedly began to push the door closed, attempting to prevent the guard from entering.
Once the guard got the door open, he witnessed Sutton inappropriately touching the victim.
While moving Sutton away from the victim, Sutton allegedly struck the guard in the head with a closed fist.
Officers then arrived on scene, and Sutton was still in the bathroom, prosecutors said.
When they approached Sutton, he tightened his fists, stiffened his body and was in a fighting stance, prosecutors said.
As officers began to place Sutton in custody, he allegedly struck an officer in the shoulder and pulled away.
He then stiffened his body in an attempt to defeat arrest, prosecutors said.
Sutton allegedly resisted and fought to the point that officers deployed tasers in order to be able to handcuff him.
Sutton was then placed into custody and taken to the hospital for taser removal, prosecutors said.
The boy was taken to the hospital and seen by a doctor. He was listed in good condition.
Sutton has no known punishable convictions, however, in July, he was charged with attacking a Cook County Sheriff's deputy at the Daley Center.
The charges were dismissed after the deputy was unable to make it to court.
Sutton, of Flint, Michigan, is facing one felony count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse to a victim under 13 and one felony count of kidnapping.
Bond was denied for Sutton Tuesday. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/horrifying-new-details-released-after-man-charged-with-sexually-abusing-boy-in-river-north-mcdonalds-bathroom | 2022-08-23T21:35:48Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/horrifying-new-details-released-after-man-charged-with-sexually-abusing-boy-in-river-north-mcdonalds-bathroom | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Man admits faking his death to avoid sex abuse charges
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - A military veteran pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to faking his own death off the Alabama coast to try to avoid sexual abuse charges in Mississippi.
Jacob Blair Scott pleaded guilty to charges of sending a false distress call that led to a Coast Guard search; illegally shipping weapons across state lines and giving false information, according to court records.
A federal judge will sentence Scott in November. He was already sentenced to serve 85 years in prison in Mississippi after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a girl and impregnating her when he was 40 and she was 14.
Scott was facing charges of assaulting the girl when he faked his death in July 2018. The Orange Beach Police Department responded to a call for assistance and found a small boat in the Gulf of Mexico, about a mile away from shore, with a gun tied to it. The dinghy was empty except for a suicide note.
Authorities searched for a body for more than a week in the Gulf of Mexico.
Scott was captured in early 2020 at an RV park in Oklahoma, where he was living under another name.
A Mississippi jury in June convicted him of multiple sexual battery and child abuse charges.
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According to the Sun Herald, the victim tearfully testified at the trial about how Scott had sexually assaulted her at least 30 times over several months beginning in 2016 and ending in 2017 when she learned she was pregnant.
Scott is a military veteran who was awarded a Purple Heart in 2011 for injuries he received while deployed in Iraq, according to the U.S. Marshals Service, which had once listed him as one of its 15 most-wanted fugitives. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-admits-faking-death-avoid-sex-abuse-charges-alabama-mississippi | 2022-08-23T21:36:00Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-admits-faking-death-avoid-sex-abuse-charges-alabama-mississippi | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Northwestern scientists reveal simple new process that may help eliminate toxic chemicals from everyday items
EVANSTON, Ill. - Chemists may have uncovered a surprisingly simple way to break down PFAS — also known as "forever chemicals" — that are harmful to humans, livestock and the environment.
PFAS, which stands for "per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances," have been around since the 1940s, according to EPA.gov.
They are a group of chemicals used to make products that are resistant to heat, stains, oil, grease and water.
Teflon pans, laundry detergent, dish detergent and food packaging all contain them, according to Purewaterbog.com — as do other products that provide convenience in daily life but leave chemicals behind for generations.
A team of chemists at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, conducted the breakthrough research.
"Bacteria can’t eat them; fire can’t incinerate them; and water can’t dilute them," noted Northwestern Now, a university publication, about the challenges that PFAS present.
"If these toxic chemicals are buried, they leach into surrounding soil, becoming a persistent problem for generations to come," the publication also said.
"PFAS [have] become a major societal problem," chemist William Dichtel, who led the study along with fellow university chemist Brittany Trang, told the publication.
"Even just a tiny, tiny amount of PFAS causes negative health effects, and it does not break down," he noted.
He added, "We can’t just wait out this problem. We wanted to use chemistry to address this problem and create a solution that the world can use."
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So how did the researchers solve the problem?
Basically, with soap and water.
Using low temperatures and "inexpensive, common reagents," the team created a process that causes two major classes of PFAS compounds to fall apart — "leaving behind only benign end products," the research noted.
The mixture combined a bit of an organic solvent with sodium hydroxide, "a common component of soap," in water, noted Science.org.
When the chemists heated the mix to boiling, it easily degraded one of the largest subsets of PFAS compounds, they added.
PFAS have made their way out of consumer goods and into drinking water and even into the blood of 97% of the U.S. population, according to the university publication.
"Although the health effects are not yet fully understood, PFAS exposure is strongly associated with decreased fertility, developmental effects in children, increased risks of various types of cancer, reduced immunity to fight infections and increased cholesterol levels," they reported.
"Recently, the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] revised its recommendations for PFAS essentially down to zero," Dichtel said.
"That puts several PFAS into the same category as lead."
The new mixture doesn’t work on all PFAS compounds, according to Science.org.
However, "related approaches might offer communities a cheap way to rid soils and drinking water of contaminants that currently put millions of people at risk for cancer and other diseases," they reported.
Dichtel told Northwestern Now, "It’s exciting because of how simple — yet unrecognized — our solution is."
The research was published on Aug. 19, 2022, in the journal Science. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/northwestern-scientists-reveal-simple-new-process-that-may-help-eliminate-toxic-chemicals-from-everyday-items | 2022-08-23T21:36:06Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/northwestern-scientists-reveal-simple-new-process-that-may-help-eliminate-toxic-chemicals-from-everyday-items | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. State Department on Monday issued a security alert warning that Russia is stepping up efforts to launch strikes against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure and government facilities in the coming days.
The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv urged U.S. citizens still in Ukraine to depart the country immediately.
“If you hear a loud explosion or if sirens are activated, immediately seek cover,” the State Department said in its alert. “If in a home or a building, go to the lowest level of the structure with the fewest exterior walls, windows, and openings; close any doors and sit near an interior wall, away from any windows or openings.”
The State Department issued the alert after the U.S. intelligence community on Monday declassified a finding that determined that Russia would increasingly target Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, according to a U.S. official familiar with the intelligence. The official was not authorized to comment publicly about the finding and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The new intelligence comes as Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine will hit the six-month mark Wednesday, which coincides with Ukraine’s independence day from Soviet Union rule.
President Joe Biden spoke Sunday with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz about concerns about shelling near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine and called for the United Nations nuclear watchdog to visit the power plant.
The official said, however, that the intelligence finding is not specifically tied to concerns about Zaporizhzhia.
The Biden administration is battling to keep western allies — and Washington — focused on maintaining pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Monday the “single most important thing going on in the world right now is to beat the Russians in Ukraine.”
Speaking at a luncheon event in Scott County, Kentucky, McConnell said the one fear he has is that the U.S. and others will “all kind of lose interest” as the war drags on.
“We need to stick with them,” McConnell said. “It’s important to us, and to the rest of the world, that they succeed.”
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AP Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro contributed reporting. | https://www.wspa.com/news/politics/ap-politics/us-russia-looks-to-step-up-hits-on-ukraine-infrastructure/ | 2022-08-23T21:36:06Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/politics/ap-politics/us-russia-looks-to-step-up-hits-on-ukraine-infrastructure/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Paul Pelosi pleads guilty to DUI, gets five days in jail
Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to driving under the influence and causing injuries in Napa County.
Pelosi, 81, was sentenced to five days in jail, though he already served two days and received conduct credit for two other days. Napa County Superior Court Judge Joseph Solga said Pelosi will work eight hours in the court’s work program in lieu of the remaining day.
Pelosi will also have to complete a 3-month DUI program, pay nearly $5,000 in victim restitution for medical bills and lost wages, and not operate a vehicle unless it is equipped with a certified ignition device for one year, and he will be on probation for three years.
In exchange for his guilty plea, the judge dismissed Pelosi's second charge, driving with .08% blood alcohol level or higher.
Pelosi was not in court on Tuesday morning, instead choosing to have his attorney enter the plea for him.
The guilty plea stems from a crash on May 28, when a 2014 Jeep struck Pelosi's 2021 Porsche at an intersection around 10 p.m. that evening.
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It's unclear what injuries the driver of the Jeep sustained, though the driver was not arrested.
On the night of the crash, Pelosi allegedly handed officers his driver’s license and an "11-99 Foundation" card when they asked for his ID, according to the documents. The 11-99 Foundation is a California Highway Patrol charity that supports officers and provides scholarships for their children.
Pelosi allegedly exhibited "signs of impairment" during field sobriety tests and officers "observed objective signs and symptoms of alcohol intoxication," according to the documents.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/paul-pelosi-pleads-guilty-to-dui-will-serve-five-days-in-jail | 2022-08-23T21:36:12Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/paul-pelosi-pleads-guilty-to-dui-will-serve-five-days-in-jail | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Prosecutors on Monday asked a judge to sentence Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández to 12 years in prison and bar her from holding public office for life for allegedly leading a criminal conspiracy that irregularly awarded public works contracts to a friend and ally.
“We are faced with the biggest corruption maneuver that this country has ever known,” prosecutor Diego Luciani said in his closing arguments in the trial of Fernández, who was president of Argentina from 2007 and 2015, before becoming vice president in 2019.
The alleged fraud against the state cost the country’s coffers around $1 billion, Luciani said.
The former president has vehemently denied charges against her in the three-year trial and has said the judges already have the sentence against her “written and even signed.”
Fernández has characterized the trial as an effort to use the courts to stop her from ever holding elected office again and her allies have characterized it as a political prosecution.
The presidential office came out in support of Fernández, saying she is the victim of a “persecution by the courts and media.”
Current President Alberto Fernández also expressed “solidarity” with his number two in a social media post.
Luciani told judges they will have the final say on whether “corruption or justice” prevails.
Although Fernández has faced numerous accusations of corruption for events that took place while she was in office, this marks the first time a trial against the former president has gotten this far to include a prosecutor formally requesting a sentence.
Fernández, 69, is accused of leading a conspiracy that involved awarding 51 public works contracts for roadworks to Lázaro Báez in southern Santa Cruz province. Many of those public works were never finished.
Prosecutors say Báez, a former bank employee who went on to become a public works mogul, created the company Austral Construcciones as a way to win state tenders.
An additional 12 people are also indicted in the case, including Báez and Julio De Vido, the minister who was in charge of public works during Fernández’s administration.
A sentence is expected by the end of the year and could be appealed. | https://www.wspa.com/news/world-news/ap-international/argentine-prosecutors-request-12-year-sentence-for-vp/ | 2022-08-23T21:36:13Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/world-news/ap-international/argentine-prosecutors-request-12-year-sentence-for-vp/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Which women’s Vans are best?
Vans shoes have come a long way since the 1960s. They started out as affordable sneakers for skateboarders and gradually evolved into one of the most impactful shoe brands in history. Now Vans come in half a dozen styles and in a nearly endless array of colors and limited-time designs. And yet, they still remain among the most affordable sneakers.
The best women’s Vans are the Vans Sk8-Hi Skate Shoe. These shoes’ design is intended for serious skateboarders, but their high-top style looks great in almost any situation.
What to know before you buy women’s Vans
Vans types
Vans come in no less than 10 types.
- Authentic Vans are the original design, preserved since inception. The main marker is the waffle pattern on the front of the outsole that provides extra grip.
- Eras look identical to Authentic Vans, but add padding to the collar for extra comfort.
- Old Skools essentially just add the trademarked Vans Sidestripe to a pair of Eras.
- Sk8-His use padded high-tops and a sturdier toe box to protect skateboarders’ feet. Non-skateboarders also wear them for style points.
- Ultraranges are designed for extra-long walks. They have extra durability, arch support in the midsole and breathable uppers.
- Platforms take other Vans types and make the sole thicker to give you some extra height.
- Slip-ons take Era Vans, remove the laces and make the tongue elastic so you can easily slip them on and off.
- Sandals, flip-flops and slides are exactly that — Vans branded sandals, flip-flops and slides.
Sizing
Technically, both all Vans and no Vans come in women’s sizes — all Vans are unisex in size and design. The only exception is kids sizes.
What to look for in quality women’s Vans
Upper material
Vans outsoles are made of vulcanized rubber, which necessitates natural materials for the upper, as synthetics would melt.
- Canvas is the most common. It’s durable, breathable and the easiest to clean.
- Leather requires more maintenance, but you get a classier look as well as better water resistance. However, they don’t breathe as well as canvas.
- Suede also requires more maintenance, but its look is unique — perfect for someone trying to make a splash.
Sidestripe
One of Vans’ signature looks is a wavy stripe on both sides of the shoe, similar to the Converse heel star. If you want to make it plain you’re wearing Vans, you need a pair with Sidestripes. They’re only available on Old Skool, Sk8-Hi and Ultrarange types.
How much you can expect to spend on women’s Vans
They can cost as little as $35 or as much as $120. Sandals, slides and flip-flops typically cost less than $50. The average pair of Vans costs $60-$90. Specialty and limited-time designs cost up to $120 or more.
Women’s Vans FAQ
How long do Vans usually last?
A. The average pair of Vans lasts roughly two years. Using them for skateboarding and other rough activities drops expectancy down to about a year. Carefully maintain them to make them last three years or more.
How do I maintain Vans?
A. The requirements for cleaning Vans differ slightly based on the upper material. However, all materials should always be washed by hand.
- Suede: First, use a suede brush to remove all surface grime. Secondly, use suede cleaner and a toothbrush to clean deep-set grime. Thirdly, clean the rubber soles with soap, water and a different toothbrush. Finally, leave them out to dry.
- Leather: First, remove surface grime with a shoe brush. Secondly, use a leather cleaner and a brush to clean deep-set grime. Thirdly, work a leather waterproofer into the upper if desired. Finally, leave them out to dry.
- Canvas: First, remove surface grime with a shoe brush. Secondly, pre-treat deep stains with a stain cleaner. Thirdly, remove the laces and insoles before washing the shoes in warm water with mild detergent. Fourthly, press any excess water out of the Vans and wrap them in a towel to dry.
- Laces: Remove them and clean them in warm water with mild detergent. Leave them out to dry.
- Insoles: Remove them and scrub them with a toothbrush topped by a mixture of baking soda and mild detergent. Let it sit for 15 minutes before rinsing and air drying.
What are the best women’s Vans to buy?
Top women’s Vans
What you need to know: These high-top shoes simply ooze style.
What you’ll love: They’re designed to protect the foot from skateboarding injuries, such as twisted ankles and crushed toes. They come in a variety of styles including white on white, white on red and a Spongebob Squarepants-inspired dye job.
What you should consider: Some consumers said the shoes feel uncomfortable when worn for long periods. They use suede, which isn’t compatible with vegan lifestyles since it’s a form of leather.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top women’s Vans for the money
What you need to know: These are the classic Vans style in classic Vans affordability.
What you’ll love: The rubber sole and canvas upper offer plenty of natural durability. The collar and tongue are padded for extra cushioning and comfort. There are 36 designs to choose from, including lime green, rainbow checkered and pink roses on black.
What you should consider: A few customers had issues finding the right size, reporting that they run small. Others had issues with the collar padding rubbing uncomfortably.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Vans Slip-On Core Classics Low-Top Trainers
What you need to know: Comfort and ease are the names of the game for these shoes.
What you’ll love: The tongue and ankles stretch comfortably to make slipping in them a breeze, and restrict enough to keep the foot stable without feeling too tight. The collar and tongue are padded for comfort. There are 65 designs, including all black and all white.
What you should consider: A few purchasers noted these shoes don’t offer much in the way of arch support. Others reported the shoes needing a long break-in time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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New Delhi: Richest Indian Gautam Adani's group on Tuesday said it will buy a majority stake in New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV), one of the nation's most popular news channels, as it looks to boost media investments as part of an ambitious expansion plan.
An Adani Group firm first acquired a company that in the past was linked to rival billionaire Mukesh Ambani. The particular company had loaned Rs 250 crore to NDTV in 2008-09 and the Adani group firm now exercised the option to convert that debt into a 29.18 per cent stake in the news channel company.
Subsequently, it has launched an open offer for another 26 per cent stake, the group said in a statement.
NDTV said the debt was converted into equity without any input from the founders or the company.
This will be the ports-to-energy group's most high-profile bet in the media sector where Ambani already has a sizeable presence through Network18, which runs a bouquet of channels, including news channel CNN-News18 and business channel CNBC-TV18.
Last year, Adani Media Ventures Ltd (AMVL), the media arm under the group's flagship Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL), acquired the digital business news platform Quintillion Business Media Pvt Ltd (QBM).
"AMVL's wholly-owned subsidiary Vishvapradhan Commercial Pvt Ltd (VCPL) holds warrants of RRPR Holding Pvt Ltd (RRPR) entitling it to convert them into a 99.9 per cent stake in RRPR. VCPL has exercised warrants to acquire 99.5 per cent in RRPR," it said.
Such acquisition will result in VCPL acquiring control of RRPR.
"RRPR is a promoter group company of NDTV and holds a 29.18 per cent stake in NDTV," the statement said.
"VCPL, along with AMG Media Networks Ltd and AEL (persons acting in concert), will launch an open offer to acquire up to 26 per cent stake in NDTV" in compliance with takeover norm.
NDTV operates three national news channels - English news channel NDTV 24x7, Hindi news channel NDTV India and business news channel NDTV Profit.
It also has a strong online presence and remains one of the most followed news handles on social media with more than 35 million followers across various platforms.
The open offer would be worth Rs 493 crore.
Earlier on Tuesday, Adani said it bought VCPL for Rs 114 crore.
Incorporated in 2008, VCPL was initially linked to Ambani's group but its ownership was transferred to a firm run by an associate with links to Delhi-based Nahata Group in 2012. Ambani's Jio had bought Nahata group's Infotel Broadband in 2010 to re-enter the telecom business.
VCPL along with Adani Media Networks Ltd and Adani Enterprises Ltd has made the open offer at a price of Rs 294 each for the acquisition of up to 1,67,62,530 fully paid-up equity shares of NDTV.
NDTV's share price, which has risen more than 300 per cent so far this year, closed at Rs 366.20 apiece on BSE on Tuesday. The open offer price is 19.71 per cent lower than the closing price on Tuesday.
NDTV had a revenue of Rs 421 crore with an EBITDA of Rs 123 crore and a net profit of Rs 85 crore in FY22 (April 2021 to March 2022) with negligible debt.
Adani looking for an opening since months
Adani group had been eyeing entry into the media space for the past few months. In September last year, it hired veteran journalist Sanjay Pugalia to lead its media company, Adani Media Ventures.
Pugalia previously was the president of Quint Digital Media, the parent company of QBM.
"This (NDTV) acquisition is a significant milestone in the journey of AMNL's goal to pave the path of new age media across platforms," Sanjay Pugalia, CEO of AMG Media Networks Ltd (AMNL), said.
AMNL, he said, seeks to empower Indian citizens, consumers and those interested in India, with information and knowledge.
"With its leading position in news and its strong and diverse reach across genres and geographies, NDTV is the most suitable broadcast and digital platform to deliver on our vision. We look forward to strengthening NDTV's leadership in news delivery," he said.
Later, NDTV in a statement said the exercise of the right by VCPL was executed without any input from the company or its founders.
"Without any discussion with NDTV or its founder-promoters, a notice has been served upon them by Vishvapradhan Commercial Private Limited (VCPL), stating that it (VCPL) has exercised its rights to acquire 99.50 per cent control of RRPR Holding Private Limited (RRPRH), the promoter-owned Company that owns 29.18 per cent of NDTV," it said.
The statement went on to state that "this exercise of rights by VCPL was executed without any input from, conversation with, or consent of the NDTV founders, who, like NDTV, have been made aware of this exercise of rights only today."
"RRPRH, which owns 29.18% of NDTV, has been told to transfer within two days all its equity shares to VCPL," it said.
Until Monday, NDTV had maintained that its promoters were not in talks to sell their stake in the company.
"Radhika and Prannoy Roy are not in discussions now, nor have been, with any entity for a change in ownership or a divestment of their stake in NDTV," it had said.
They individually and through their company, RRPR Holding Private Limited, continue to hold 61.45 per cent of the total paid-up share capital of NDTV.
"The Company and its Founders are well aware of the need and obligation to inform exchanges and other regulators if there is to be any change to their holding; if that were the case, they would share any updates first with those authorities, it added. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/business/2022/08/23/adani-group-to-buy-majority-stake-in-ndtv.amp.html | 2022-08-23T21:39:34Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/business/2022/08/23/adani-group-to-buy-majority-stake-in-ndtv.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Manorama Online and TVS have flagged off their jointly organized TVS NTorq Vibe Road Show. Cochin TVS managing director Shaji Joseph inaugurated the road show which will pass through colleges in different districts of Kerala. During the tour, college students will get a chance to make a Reels video with NTorq. Out of this, the Reels with the highest reach and engagement will be awarded a first prize of Rs 30,000 and 15 selected people will be awarded a prize of Rs 2,500 each.
What you have to do
Visit www.manoramaonline.com/ntorqvibe and make a Reels video imitating the poses of young film star Mathew Thomas with TVS Ntorq Vibe. Post the Reels video by mentioning @ManoramaOnline @tvs_ntorq on your profile, tagging three friends and adding the hashtags #ITSFORSOMEONELIKEME and #MONTORQVIBE. The top prize of Rs 30,000 will be given for the post with more reach and engagement.
Contest guidelines
The Reels done by the contestants should be along with the TVS scooter.
All the poses done by film star Mathew Thomas must also be present in the Reels.
Videos that do not tag Manorama Online and tvs_ntorq Instagram profiles and three friends will not be considered for the contest.
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Washington: A former head of security at Twitter has filed whistleblower complaints with U.S. officials, alleging that the company misled regulators about its cybersecurity defences and its problems with fake accounts, according to reports by The Washington Post and CNN.
Peiter Zatko, Twitter's security chief until he was fired early this year, filed the complaints last month with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice.
The Post, which obtained the complaint, reported that among the most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of an FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had a strong security plan.
Zatko also accuses the company of deceptions involving its handling of spam" or fake accounts, an allegation that is at the core of the attempted withdrawal of a $44 billion takeover bid for Twitter by billionaire Elon Musk.
Shares of Twitter Inc. slid 4% Tuesday.
Zatko didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday but told the Post he felt ethically bound to come forward.
Zatko, better known as Mudge, is a highly respected cybersecurity expert who first gained prominence in the 1990s and later worked in senior positions at the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Agency and Google. He joined Twitter at the urging of then-CEO Jack Dorsey in late 2020, the same year the company suffered an embarrassing security breach involving hackers who broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls, including Musk, in an attempt to scam their followers out of Bitcoin.
Twitter said in a prepared statement Tuesday that Zatko was fired for ineffective leadership and poor performance and that the allegations and opportunistic timing appear designed to capture attention and inflict harm on Twitter, its customers and its shareholders.
What we've seen so far is a false narrative about Twitter and our privacy and data security practices that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context, the company said.
The legal nonprofit Whistleblower Aid, which is representing Zatko, confirmed the authenticity of the document Tuesday, but said it is legally precluded from sharing it. The same group worked with former Facebook employee Frances Haugen, who testified to Congress last year after leaking internal documents and accusing the social media giant of choosing profit over safety.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Senate's intelligence committee, Rachel Cohen, said the committee has received Zatko's complaint and "is in the process of setting up a meeting to discuss the allegations in further detail. We take this matter seriously.
Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said in a prepared statement that if the claims are accurate, they may show dangerous data privacy and security risks for Twitter users around the world.
Among the most alarming complaints is Zatko's allegation that Twitter knowingly allowed the Indian government to place its agents on the company payroll where they had direct unsupervised access to the company's systems and user data.
A 2011 FTC complaint noted that Twitter's systems were full of highly sensitive data that could allow a hostile government to find precise geo-location data for a specific user or group and target them for violence or arrest. Earlier this month, a former Twitter employee was found guilty after a trial in California of passing along sensitive Twitter user data to royal family members in Saudi Arabia in exchange for bribes.
The complaint said Twitter was also heavily reliant on funding by Chinese entities and that there were concerns within Twitter that the company was providing information to those entities that would enable them to learn the identify and sensitive information of Chinese users who secretly use Twitter, which is officially banned in China.
Zatko also describes deliberate ignorance by Twitter executives on counting the millions of accounts that are automated spam bots" or otherwise have no value to advertisers because there is no person behind them.
Alex Spiro, an attorney representing Musk in his effort to back out of the deal to buy Twitter, said lawyers have issued a subpoena for Zatko.
We found his exit and that of other key employees curious in light of what we have been finding, Spiro wrote in an email Tuesday. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/business/2022/08/23/twitter-misled-regulators-ex-security-chief-peiter-zatko.html | 2022-08-23T21:40:08Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/business/2022/08/23/twitter-misled-regulators-ex-security-chief-peiter-zatko.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HOLYOKE Mass. (WWLP) – Novelist Rick Lee, the retired Western Massachusetts Red Cross Executive Director, can’t wait until his novel “High Ground” is made into a movie.
Rick Lee’s book is a finalist in the 2022 Page Turner Awards competition to become a screenplay. Rick Lee told 22News he re-wrote “High Ground” to keep the technological material up to date, a book he feels deserve to be presented visually on screen.
“The book really is about how our hatred of people gets so deep set in us, that sometimes we overlook human kindness that really is appropriate in a situation because we’ve developed resentment towards a person or a type of person,” said Lee.
“High Ground” can be described as Rick Lee’s “baby.” His initial inspiration for the novel came to him some 40 years ago. “High Ground” is available in paperback, E-Book and audio-book. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/holyoke-authors-book-becomes-finalist-in-page-turner-awards/ | 2022-08-23T21:43:20Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/holyoke-authors-book-becomes-finalist-in-page-turner-awards/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When Steve Henson came to work Monday as a shift supervisor at the Country Club Plaza Starbucks, he had no idea he’d be out of a job before his shift was done.
A flyer signed by the store manager and the Starbucks district manager posted at 3:30 p.m. Monday thanked customers for “being part of the store community.”
Employees said they were told worries about safety led to the shuttering of the coffee shop. Those workers, who’d been in the midst of forming a union, said they learned of the closing only 15 minutes earlier. The company offered workers transfers to other Kansas City area Starbucks locations.
Henson said the closure came just a week after he’d heard a succession of 10 gunshots near the store.
After the gunshots, the store limited its hours to 5 a.m. to 5 p.m., closing two hours earlier than usual and during the weekend. Still, Henson said the permanent closing of the chain’s Plaza location caught workers by surprise.
“We feel confused because, after a history of incidents, nothing has been done,” Henson said. “Then once the shooting happens, we’re completely closed forever — no safety regulations, drills or training. There are so many things that we all feel could have been implemented. And they skipped all of that and just shut us down.”
Addy Wright, a shift supervisor at the location, said the store has dealt with many safety issues in recent years. She said she and other employees have been stalked, a manager was assaulted and some workers received murder threats.
So shutting down this week made her conclude the closure is about the upcoming results of the store vote on whether to form a collective bargaining unit. The workers voted about forming a union, but the vote ended in a tie in June and that outcome is under challenge. The store was the first in the Kansas City area to attempt to unionize.
“I definitely don't believe that their only reasoning was safety and security,” Wright said. “They’re afraid of the organizational power of the workers at this store. We were completely blindsided by the decision.”
Wright and McKenzie Mays, a barista at the cafe, said they see the closure as Starbucks retaliation for trying to unionize.
In June, the National Labor Relations Board filed a petition in federal court seeking a nationwide cease and desist order against the company after what it alleges were multiple illegal union-busting tactics, including closing stores that were actively unionizing. Earlier that month, the company announced it would close 16 stores for safety reasons.
A spokesperson for the company said the closure is part of standard practice. It’s not union-busting, the spokesperson said, because the Plaza store doesn’t have a union yet.
“We regularly open and close stores as a standard part of our business operations,” the spokesperson said. “We apply the same focus on safety at unionized and non-union stores and are closing non-union stores where we are similarly challenged in providing a safe environment for our customer and partner experience."
The Chicago and Midwest Joint Board of Workers United said that, of the 19 stores closed in the past few months, 42% had organizing activity. The recent store closures represent only 0.2% of nearly 9,000 stores in the country. Starbucks closed a storefront in Seattle on the same day and the same time as the Plaza location. Workers at that Seattle store had also filed for union elections.
Mari Orrego, a union organizer with the CMJRB, said the recent closures show CEO Howard Shultz “following through on his threats” to close more stores. The CEO was quoted in a video saying the earlier closures were “just the beginning,” and that “there are going to be many more.”
Henson said management brought up union activities in a meeting about closing the store before any workers raised the issue.
“The district manager made a disclaimer, like, ‘Yeah, we’re not shutting you down just because you guys wanted to start a union,’” Henson said. “That put a bad taste in everyone’s mouth because now it feels like that's the exact reason, or part of the reason as well.”
Workers gathered outside the store on Tuesday to protest the store’s closing.
“We have no jobs to show up to this week,” Wright said, noting that many came to protest during their scheduled shift.
Mays said the group has received many words and honks in solidarity, but that much of the morning has been taken up by informing people that the store is closed.
“Even our customers don't know,” she said. “They've been coming up to us, like, ‘What's going on? I'm just wanting to get my coffee.’ We have a really big community here.”
The protesting employees directed customers to Messenger Coffee Co., a local coffee shop down the street.
Starbucks has been directing customers to three of its other Kansas City locations. It informed employees that they could transfer to other cafes.
But Wright said the location the company is urging workers to move to, less than a mile away at 41st and Main streets, is just as unsafe as the Plaza location.
“The only difference there is that store has won their union election so Starbucks has no power to close them (without negotiating with the union),” Wright said. “It's clear that it's not about safety when they're shipping us off to a store that is just as unsafe.”
Wright, Henson and Mays do not plan to continue to work for Starbucks. Wright said people have been coming up to the protesting employees offering them jobs and sharing in their heartbreak.
Henson is worried that if he did switch to an already fully-staffed location he wouldn’t get enough hours. He said the work will not be the same without the family that the staff created. He’d worked for Starbucks for nine years, including one year on the Plaza, and isn’t sure he wants to stay with the chain.
“We made coffee and breakfast for every employee on this Plaza,” Henson said. “It’s a real different environment now to have this abandoned space that everyone used to come and enjoy their time together.” | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-08-23/starbucks-says-it-closed-its-plaza-cafe-for-safety-worries-but-workers-claim-its-union-busting | 2022-08-23T21:43:54Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-08-23/starbucks-says-it-closed-its-plaza-cafe-for-safety-worries-but-workers-claim-its-union-busting | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A nearly 20-minute long video provides insight into flaws that were found in the police investigation following the shooting.
The Washington Post journalist behind this reporting, Tom Jackman, joined Up To Date along with KCUR's Sam Zeff to break down the ins and outs of what we know about the case.
- Tom Jackman, criminal justice reporter at The Washington Post
- Sam Zeff, KCUR Morning Edition anchor and metro reporter | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2022-08-23/the-washington-post-finds-flaws-in-investigation-of-overland-park-police-shooting-of-john-albers | 2022-08-23T21:43:54Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2022-08-23/the-washington-post-finds-flaws-in-investigation-of-overland-park-police-shooting-of-john-albers | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Banco BBVA Argentina S.A. (NYSE; BYMA; MAE: BBAR; LATIBEX: XBBAR) ("BBVA Argentina" or "BBVA" or "the Bank") announced today its consolidated results for the second quarter (2Q22), ended on June 30, 2022.
As of January 1, 2020, the Bank started to inform its inflation adjusted results pursuant to IAS 29 reporting. To facilitate comparison, figures of comparable quarters of 2021 and 2022 have been updated according to IAS 29 reporting to reflect the accumulated effect of inflation adjustment for each period up to June 30, 2022.
2Q22 Highlights
- BBVA Argentina's inflation adjusted net income in 2Q22 was $15.9 billion, 235.8% higher than the $4.7 billion reported on the first quarter of 2022 (1Q22), and 34.2% higher than the $11.8 billion reported on the second quarter of 2021 (2Q21). In the first six months of 2022, the accumulated net income was $20.6 billion, 19.6% above the $17.2 billion recorded in the first six months of 2021.
- In 2Q22, BBVA Argentina posted an inflation adjusted average return on assets (ROAA) of 4.6% and an inflation adjusted average return on equity (ROAE) of 28.3%. The six month accumulated ROAA reached 3.0% while the six month accumulated ROAE was 18.9%.
- Operating income in 2Q22 was $32.0 billion, 10.2% above the $29.0 billion recorded in 1Q22 and 51.9% over the $21.1 billion recorded in 2Q21.
- In terms of activity, total consolidated financing to the private sector in 2Q22 totaled $519.3 billion, increasing 7.1% in real terms compared to 1Q22, and falling 1.0% compared to 2Q21. In the quarter, the increase was mainly driven by growth in credit cards, other loans, prefinancing and financing of exports and in overdrafts by 5.3%, 10.7%, 41.5% and 21.2% respectively. BBVA's consolidated market share of private sector loans reached 8.35% as of 2Q22.
- Total consolidated deposits in 2Q22 totaled $974.1 billion, increasing 4.2% in real terms during the quarter, and falling 2.5% in the year. Quarterly increase was mainly explained by sight deposits, which grew 4.4%. The Bank's consolidated market share of private deposits reached 7.15% as of 2Q22.
- As of 2Q22, the non-performing loan ratio (NPL) reached 1.08%, with a 219.39% coverage ratio.
- The accumulated efficiency ratio in 2Q22 was 71.3%, below 1Q22's 72.2%, and 2Q21's 70.1%.
- As of 2Q22, BBVA Argentina reached a regulatory capital ratio of 22.9%, entailing a $124.7 billion or 180.1% excess over minimum regulatory requirement. Tier I ratio was 22.7%.
- Total liquid assets represented 76.9% of the Bank's total deposits as of 2Q22.
2Q22 Conference Call
Tuesday, August 24 - 12:00 p.m. Buenos Aires time (11:00 a.m. EST)
To participate please dial-in:
+ 54-11-3984-5677 (Argentina)
+ 1-844-450-3851 (United States)
+ 1-412-317-6373 (International)
Web Phone: click here
Código de la conferencia: BBVA
Webcast & Replay: click here
To access the full report please click here
To access webcast presentation please click here
About BBVA Argentina
BBVA Argentina (NYSE; BYMA; MAE: BBAR; LATIBEX: XBBAR) is a subsidiary of the BBVA Group, the main shareholder since 1996. In Argentina, it is one of the leading private financial institutions since 1886. Nationwide, BBVA Argentina offers retail and corporate banking to a broad customer base, including: individuals, SME's, and large-sized companies.
BBVA Argentina's purpose is to bring the age of opportunities to everyone, based on our customers' real needs, providing the best solutions, and helping them make the best financial decisions through an easy and convenient experience. The institution relies on solid values: "The customer comes first, We think big and We are one team". At the same time, its responsible banking model aspires to achieve a more inclusive and sustainable society.
Investor Relations Contact
Ernesto Gallardo
Chief Financial Officer
Inés Lanusse
Investor Relations Officer
Belén Fourcade
Investor Relations
investorelations-arg@bbva.com
ir.bbva.com.ar
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DENVER, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Offen Petroleum ("Offen"), announced today that it has completed the acquisition of the wholesale division of G&S Oil Products, headquartered in Centennial, CO ("G&S"). Offen is a leading independent distributor of motor fuels, propane, and lubricants, and offers petroleum logistics services in 40 U.S. states. The acquisition continues to strengthen Offen's ability to distribute major oil company branded motor fuel to independent retailers.
G&S has been owned and operated by the Sussman family for over 50 years. G&S is a full-service wholesale and retail marketer of branded motor fuels under the Conoco, Phillips 66, Sinclair, and Shell brands as well as a supplier of unbranded fuels, with a footprint covering the greater Front Range of Colorado. In addition to providing wholesale motor fuel services to third-party retailers, G&S has developed a reputation of operational excellence in their own network of gas stations and convenience stores. After the transaction, G&S will continue to operate their portfolio of convenience stores and automotive service centers.
"We've had a long relationship with Bill Gallagher, and we knew that if we were going to sell our wholesale business, Offen would be the best partner for not only our wholesale customers, but also for our company operated stores, who will be a fuel customer of Offen's," stated Meyer Sussman, Founder and President of G&S. "The Offen team has a reputation of providing the highest level of customer care and they have a full breadth of resources that will benefit our customers."
This acquisition will add 40 new customers that operate gas stations under the Conoco, Phillips, and Sinclair brands along with five un-branded motor fuel customers. The addition of G&S's customers deepens Offen's operations in Colorado, further enhances Offen's position as one of the leading fuel distributors in the United States and grows Offen's commitment to the branded dealer business.
"Meyer and Jeff Sussman and their team of dedicated, long-term employees, are long-standing, highly respected operators in the motor fuel/convenience retail industry, and I am very honored that the Sussman's are entrusting Offen to carry on their legacy of providing superior service to their customers," said Bill Gallagher, Offen's CEO. "This is a very special opportunity for us to be able to acquire such a high-quality portfolio of customers."
About Offen Petroleum
Headquartered in Commerce City, CO, Offen is a growing distributor of motor fuels, propane, and lubricants that dedicates itself to serving its customers with the highest level of service. In addition to organic growth, Offen is a leading acquiror of companies in this consolidating marketplace. Offen distributes over 2.2 billion gallons of motor fuel annually and will serve customers throughout 40 United States. In addition to branded and unbranded motor fuels, Offen sells propane, and lubricant products and solutions for the commercial, industrial, and passenger car segments, as well as diesel exhaust fluids used in emission controls. Offen is a portfolio company of Court Square Capital Partners, a New York based private equity firm with $7 billion of assets under management. More information on Offen can be found at www.offenpetro.com.
Contact: Chris Tofalli
Chris Tofalli Public Relations, LLC
914-834-4334
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Addition of Ultramax Brings Owned Fleet to 25 Ships
NEWPORT, R.I., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd. ("Pangaea" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: PANL), a global provider of comprehensive maritime logistics solutions, announced it has purchased a vessel to add to its operating fleet. The ship was purchased in the second-hand market for USD 17.1 million. The Company will own 25 ships when the new ship is delivered to Pangaea in September or October 2022. Pangaea consistently operates a total fleet of 50-60 vessels in worldwide trades.
"This 2010 Hyundai Vinashin shipyard-built 56,000 dwt dry bulk vessel fits well with our core fleet, with CO2 fitted holds able to transport premium cargo under our customer contracts of affreightment and spot trades. We have operated the ship for the past year on a charter-in basis, and it has performed well for us," said Pangaea's Chief Operating Officer Mads Boye Petersen. "We are committed to providing our clients with excellent service through our flexible owned and operated fleet. This ship, to be named Bulk Sachuest, will bring our owned fleet to 25 and is another step in our efforts to maintain our owned fleet with high quality and efficient tonnage," Petersen added.
About Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd.
Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd. (NASDAQ: PANL) provides logistics services to a broad base of industrial customers who require the transportation of a wide variety of dry bulk cargoes, including grains, pig iron, hot briquetted iron, bauxite, alumina, cement clinker, dolomite, and limestone. The Company addresses the transportation needs of its customers with a comprehensive set of services and activities, including cargo loading, cargo discharge, vessel chartering, and voyage planning. Learn more at www.pangaeals.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risk factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The Company disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise these statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the strength of world economies and currencies, general market conditions, including fluctuations in charter rates and vessel values, changes in demand for dry bulk shipping capacity, changes in our operating expenses, including bunker prices, dry-docking and insurance costs, the market for our vessels, availability of financing and refinancing, charter counterparty performance, ability to obtain financing and comply with covenants in such financing arrangements, changes in governmental rules and regulations or actions taken by regulatory authorities, potential liability from pending or future litigation, general domestic and international political conditions, potential disruption of shipping routes due to accidents or political events, vessels breakdowns and instances of off-hires and other factors, as well as other risks that have been included in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, all of which are available at www.sec.gov.
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PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Radiate Holdco, LLC ("Radiate") announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its second quarter 2022 results at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, August 26, 2022. The dial-in information for the call will be posted to Radiate's secure investor website. During the conference call, representatives of Radiate will discuss and answer questions concerning the company's business and financial matters.
Access to the financial results and conference call will be limited to holders and beneficial owners of the Notes, qualified prospective investors in the Notes, holders of Radiate's term loan, and certain security analysts and market makers. Radiate will post all of its reports required to be furnished pursuant to the Indenture governing the Notes on its secure investor website maintained by Intralinks. Reports will also be posted to Syndtrak for term loan holders. If you meet one or more of the criteria set forth above and would like to access, but have not yet been granted access to, the secure investor website, please contact Radiate's contact below.
Contact details:
Radiate Contact: Jamie Hill, SVP Finance & Treasury
Telephone: 301-531-2720
Email: James.Hill@rcn.net
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Ratings prove the brand sets the gold standard for R-PACE financing.
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Renew Financial (Renew), the nation's most experienced and one of the leading Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (R-PACE) financing companies, is proud to report a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 77 compared to the financial services average of 34, outshining the competition.
An NPS of 77 positions Renew Financial as a best-in-class R-PACE company in the nation and ties it with one of the top five FinTech companies, Funding Circle, and only 13 points away from the highest rated FinTech company, SoFi.
The NPS is a measure of customer satisfaction calculated based on responses to a single question: How likely is it that you would recommend our company to a friend or colleague?
NPS can be as low as −100 (all detractors) or as high as +100 (all promoters). The calculation is simple: the percentage of promoters minus the percentage of the detractors as determined by the survey. Scores of +50 and higher are typically considered "best in class."
Renew Financial regularly measures its NPS by surveying its customers and contractors. This ranking marks the 7th consecutive year Renew Financial has maintained a score above 50, reflecting the company's sustained effort to provide a positive, respectful and beneficial experience to homeowners in California and Florida.
Pam Rodriguez, Head of Marketing at Renew Financial, said, "This year's survey response was overwhelmingly positive, and in fact, the score we received is the highest in the company's history. We've been calculating our NPS since July 2016, which is a valuable benchmark for assessing the overall quality of our customer service by constantly gathering data and insights and reacting promptly if we notice any changes in our score. This year's NPS score is a true testament to the people behind the scenes who work daily to make each PACE financing transaction happen."
Additionally, Renew Financial was recertified last month by the Great Place to Work® for the 2nd year in a row. The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Renew Financial. 87% of employees said it's a great place to work this year – 30 points higher than the average U.S. company.
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and the leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue, employee retention, and increased innovation.
"Great Place to Work Certification™ isn't something that comes easily – it takes ongoing dedication to the employee experience," said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, vice president of global recognition at Great Place to Work. "It's the only official recognition determined by employees' real-time reports of their company culture. Earning this designation means that Renew Financial is one of the country's best companies to work for."
Commenting on the results, CEO of Renew Financial, Mark Floyd, said, "Customer and employee satisfaction are two of our most important objectives. The high satisfaction levels among our customers and employees, as confirmed by the NPS survey and the Great Place to Work recertification, are therefore very gratifying. With Renew's culture of constant improvement, we will continue sharpening our offering to increase customer and employee satisfaction and loyalty even further. We owe our continued success to our dedicated employees at Renew Financial. We celebrate and thank them for all they do to earn such incredible achievements."
Renew Financial Group LLC (Renew Financial) is one of the nation's leading financing providers for sustainable building improvement projects with a bold vision to create financial access to a safe, healthy, and sustainable world. Renew Financial administers the Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (R-PACE) program in California and Florida to strengthen communities by making homes and businesses safer, more energy-efficient, and more valuable. Renew Financial has funded more than $1.1B in PACE projects that have led to greenhouse gas reductions (GHGs) of nearly 1.5 million metric tons, equivalent to removing over 300,000 cars from the road, contributed to the creation of over 15,000 local jobs, and savings of over 2 billion gallons of water. Renew Financial is a trademark of Renew Financial Holdings, Inc.
Learn more at renewfinancial.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
Great Place to Work® Certification™ is the most definitive "employer-of-choice" recognition that companies aspire to achieve. It is the only recognition based entirely on what employees report about their workplace experience – specifically, how consistently they experience a high-trust workplace. Great Place to Work Certification is recognized worldwide by employees and employers and is the global benchmark for identifying and recognizing outstanding employee experience. Every year, more than 10,000 companies across 60 countries apply to get Great Place to Work-Certified.
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The elite dive team who found the body believed to be Kiely Rodni on Sunday in just 35 minutes has also cracked 23 cold cases since the group began their search and recovery work in 2019.
Adventures with Purpose (AWP) Founder Jared Leisek told ABC News he started the group in July 2018, using his dive skills to clean up underwater habitats riddled with garbage.
But when a family reached out to them in 2019, asking if they might be able to use their skills to help find a missing loved one, Leisek said they had to put their skills to good use.
Since then, the group has helped families find closure through its search missions, including the family of Rodni. The teen had still been missing after local law enforcement conducted thousands of combined hours of searching.
The dive team documents all their work on YouTube, where they’ve racked up tens of millions of views.
Here are some other cases they helped crack:
Ethan Kazmerzak
One of the first missing persons AWP discovered was Ethan Kazmerzak, whose mother told the Oregon-based group she thought he might be in a local pond.
Ethan was on his way back to this Hampton, Iowa home when he went missing in September 2013. The party was just a few miles away, but he disappeared without a trace.
The Iowa mom had a hunch the group might find Ethan, 22, in the nearby body of water.
“We ended up going out there and working off her hunch of where she felt her son might be … we ended up finding her son,” diver Doug Bishop told Fox 2.
James Amabile
The AWP divers located skeletal remains in a car underwater in Ridley Township, Pennsylvania in March, helping close an almost two-decade-old case.
Authorities were able to confirm the body belong to James Amabile, who went missing in December 2003, Fox 10 reported.
AWP discovered the vehicle with plates matching Amabile’s and alerted authorities of their discovery.
Samantha Hopper and Courtney Holt
The divers traveled to Arkansas in fall 2021 in hopes of finding Samantha Hopper and her daughter Courtney Holt, who were together when they disappeared on Sept. 11, 1998. Samantha had been en route to drop her daughter off so she could attend a concert in Little Rock at the time.
Samantha’s living daughter reached out to the group and asked for their help after law enforcement’s search provided no answers, according to ABC News.
The group ended up finding Samantha’s car in a nearby river, and the remains inside were later identified as the mom and her daughter.
Ralph Brown
Law enforcement spent a year searching in vain for Ralph Brown, a local educator and the former mayor of Cornelius, Oregon who went missing in May 2021.
AWP found him in May 2022 after searching the Willamette River. His car was located about 40 feet beneath the surface of the water, according to local reports, with remains inside that were eventually confirmed to be the former mayor’s. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/adventures-with-purpose-who-found-kiely-rodni-have-solved-23-other-cold-cases/ | 2022-08-23T21:47:46Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/adventures-with-purpose-who-found-kiely-rodni-have-solved-23-other-cold-cases/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The African envoy accused of raping a neighbor in their Upper Manhattan building and then dodging charges thanks to diplomatic immunity may have fled the US.
No sounds came from inside Charles Dickens Imene Oliha’s apartment Tuesday when The Post repeatedly knocked, and there was no light visible from behind a red curtain fluttering in a window.
The State Department wouldn’t say if Oliha, 46, left the country or if the US government was seeking to have his immunity revoked, with a rep saying, “We do not comment on the specifics of ongoing investigations.
“We are aware of the incident referenced involving a diplomat accredited to the United Nations,” the representative said in an e-mail.
“We take these allegations seriously, and we are working closely with the New York Police Department and the Mayor’s Office of International Affairs, as we do in all legal and criminal cases involving foreign diplomats assigned to Permanent Missions and Observer Offices at the UN.”
An NYPD spokesman said, “It’s a situation where the State Department is going to have to decide what they are going to do with the case.
“It’s still under investigation at this point,” the spokesman added.
“Whenever there’s a sexual assault like this, it’s horrible. As a law-enforcement agency, we have done all that we can do at this point.”
In a prepared statement, City Hall said, “Sexual assault of any kind should never be tolerated.
“There is an active investigation underway. Depending on the results, we will take all appropriate actions.”
Oliha was accused of twice raping a 24-year-old woman — once with a condom and once without — after following her from the lobby of their building at 64 Wadsworth Terrace and forcing his way into her apartment around noon Sunday.
It doesn’t appear that they knew each other, police said.
The woman allegedly told cops she was in shock afterward and fell asleep, with a friend later convincing her to call 911. She called 911 around 9:30 p.m., and cops took Oliha into custody for questioning around 10:45 p.m., law-enforcement sources said Tuesday.
The woman was taken to Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where a rape kit was performed, sources said.
But Oliha was cut loose without any charges early Monday after detectives confirmed he enjoyed diplomatic immunity because of his job with South Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the NYPD said.
It’s unclear if the NYPD obtained a sample of his DNA before he was freed.
After Oliha’s release, two women answered the door to his apartment Monday but declined to comment amid the sounds of young children in the background.
One woman, who wore a Puerto Rican flag mask, later identified herself as a neighbor.
Other neighbors told The Post on Tuesday that Oliha was married and raising four kids, including a newborn.
One neighbor said Oliha “was under immense stress” from his job and began drinking so heavily that he repeatedly passed out on the sidewalk before he suddenly stopped about three weeks ago.
“There was something happening with his government. There was turmoil within their office at the UN,” the neighbor said.
“In the early days of summer, he would drink outside and fall asleep on the sidewalk.”
The neighbor added: “I got to know him over those months of turmoil when he was clearly troubled.
“He was going through some s–t, and drinking is what he did.”
A Spanish-speaking man who was drinking outside Oliha’s building Tuesday afternoon said he’d seen the disgraced diplomat down as much as a six-pack of Coors Light.
A worker at the Terrace Grocery next door said Oliha was a regular customer who bought two or three cans of Heineken, usually daily.
“He was a nice customer, my No. 1 customer,” the worker said.
“He was calm.”
A representative of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of South Sudan to the UN did not return a request for comment from The Post on Tuesday. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/african-diplomat-accused-in-nyc-rape-may-have-fled-us-with-wife-kids/ | 2022-08-23T21:47:52Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/african-diplomat-accused-in-nyc-rape-may-have-fled-us-with-wife-kids/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
An alligator blocking his doorstep was no obstacle for one Texas dad making sure his daughter got to her first day of middle school on time.
Mike Trinh, who owns and operates a seafood restaurant in Houston, thought his youngest daughter Caitlyn was joking when she told him there was an alligator outside their front door, according to CNN affiliate KPRC-TV.
"It's my youngest daughter's first day in middle school," wrote Trinh in a Facebook post describing his close encounter. "As she's about to go to the car, she runs back saying there's an alligator at the front door. I'm thinking she's playing."
But his daughter wasn't joking -- and indeed there was an unexpected, scaly visitor at the Trinhs' doorstep.
"All my years watching Steve Irwin, I figured I can deal with any wildlife as long as it ain't a stingray," said Trinh on Facebook.
The restaurant owner set about implementing the steps he'd learned from years watching the famed "Crocodile Hunter." He threw a towel on the alligator's head to calm it down, "so I can take the kids to school," he wrote. Then he got on the gator's back, held its mouth closed, and enlisted his 19-year-old daughter to tape its mouth shut with duct and jiu-jitsu tape.
Trinh and a friend then loaded the alligator in the back of a truck and released it into a nearby pond, reports KPRC-TV.
The amateur alligator wrangler said that he's glad his daughters got photos of the encounter.
"I think if [my daughter] told her friends at school, they probably wouldn't believe her," he said, according to KPRC-TV.
"Alligators are common in parts of Texas but have a natural fear of humans and will typically retreat when approached," said the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in a statement shared with CNN. "However, people who encounter a potential nuisance alligator in a non-emergency situation should call Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Law Enforcement Communications dispatch center."
Feeding and harassing alligators is a Class C misdemeanor in the state.
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Moderna seeks FDA approval for updated COVID vaccine
Moderna announced Tuesday that it has requested emergency approval for its updated COVID-19 vaccine from the Federal Drug Administration.
Why it matters: Doses of the updated vaccine, which better target new coronavirus variants, will be ready to ship next month if the FDA grants clearance, according to a Moderna news release.
- Competitor Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE also announced Monday that they have applied for FDA approval for their new booster dose.
- The FDA did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment.
The big picture: Public health officials have been eyeing a long-term strategy for COVID vaccinations, addressing the risk of new variants and the need for new boosters, Axios' Adriel Bettelheim reports.
- The boosters would come in time for immunity defense ahead of the fall and winter, when cases may go up.
Details: The sought approval is for Modern's BA.4/BA.5 Omicron-targeting bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine, mRNA-1273.222.
- It's a booster dose for adults 18 years and older.
What they're saying: "We have worked closely with the FDA to ensure that Americans will have access to Moderna's updated, bivalent booster, which, if authorized, may offer higher, broader, and more durable protection against COVID-19 compared to the currently authorized booster," Stéphane Bancel, CEO of Moderna said in a news release.
Context: Clinical trials to study tweaked versions of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been underway for months.
- The FDA had said in April that it would decide this summer whether to recommend these updated versions for use later in the year. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/23/moderna-seeks-fda-approval-updated-covid-vaccine | 2022-08-23T21:49:34Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/23/moderna-seeks-fda-approval-updated-covid-vaccine | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
White House pencils in slowing economic growth, higher inflation in new forecasts
The Biden administration dramatically cut its forecasts for economic growth and upped inflation projections, according to new estimates published on Tuesday by the White House's budget office.
Why it matters: The new forecasts reflect the drastically different economic reality the Biden administration faces — including disruptions stemming from Russia's invasion of Ukraine — since it last released projections.
Catch up quick: The figures are part of the White House's "midsession review," which updates projections made in the administration's fiscal year budget for 2023, released in March. Some of the assumptions about the economy that underpinned those budget estimates were finalized in November 2021. A lot has changed since then.
- The latest round of forecasts, released on Tuesday, were completed in early June. They do not reflect any impact from legislation passed since then, including the CHIPS Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.
By the numbers: The White House now estimates that economy will grow 1.4% this year, and 1.8% in 2023. That’s a sharp downgrade of previous estimates: 3.8% and 2.5%, respectively.
- The White House expects inflation — as measured by the Consumer Price Index — to slow to 6.6% in the final quarter of this year, more than double what the administration last anticipated. The White House sees inflation plummeting to 2.8% by the end of 2023, a half-percentage point higher than the earlier estimate.
- The administration’s estimates for the unemployment rate, however, were largely unchanged. In fact, the White House forecasts the jobless rate in 2022 will average 3.7% — slightly lower (by 0.2 percentage point) than its prior forecast.
Worth noting: The White House also revised down its projected budget deficit to $1 trillion for 2022, a $383 billion reduction from its forecast in March.
- Factors lowering the deficit projection include better-than-expected tax receipts and "technical re-estimates" that resulted in a net decrease in Medicare and Medicaid outlays.
- Higher interest rate payments on federal debt — as a result of the Federal Reserve’s rate hikes — will help push up deficits in 2023, the estimates show.
- Officials project a $1.3 trillion deficit next year before rising to $1.6 trillion in 10 years.
The bottom line: While more sour than previously forecast, the estimates taken together reflect the administration's optimistic expectation of a soft landing for the economy — even as the Fed raises interest rates swiftly to crush inflation. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/23/white-house-economy-inflation | 2022-08-23T21:50:04Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/23/white-house-economy-inflation | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The online reviews site Yelp said Tuesday it is rolling out a new feature to protect users seeking abortions from being misled about anti-abortion pregnancy centers listed on its platform.
Such centers are typically religiously affiliated and deter clients from having an abortion.
On Tuesday, Yelp said it will place a consumer notice on the listings informing users that the centers “typically provide limited medical services and may not have licensed medical professionals onsite.”
In 2018, moderators for the San Francisco-based company began recategorizing listings for such organizations as “crisis pregnancy centers” or “faith-based crisis pregnancy centers.” The organizations had previously categorized themselves as reproductive health services, medical centers and other health and medical categories.
“It’s well-reported that crisis pregnancy centers do not offer abortion services, and it’s been shown that many provide misleading information in an attempt to steer people seeking abortion care to other options,” the company said in a post on its website detailing the change.
Yelp’s move might put more pressure on Google to do something similar with listings on its site.
Last week, hundreds of Google employees released a petition calling on the company to fix misleading search results for abortion services by removing “fake abortion providers” and halt its business with “publishers of disinformation related to abortion services.”
In June, Democratic lawmakers in Congress also urged the company to curb the appearance of the anti-abortion pregnancy centers for certain search results. But Republicans pushed back last month, warning the tech giant not to do so in a letter sent by 17 conservative attorney generals to Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Google did not immediately reply to a request for comment on Tuesday.
In the past several months, Yelp said it has also been picking up on efforts to better match users searching for abortion clinics with those services and make it less likely those users will see anti-abortion pregnancy centers in search results. The company said it has evaluated roughly 33,500 listings this year and recategorized nearly 470 pages for the centers. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/yelp-to-add-more-flags-to-anti-abortion-pregnancy-centers/ | 2022-08-23T21:50:07Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/yelp-to-add-more-flags-to-anti-abortion-pregnancy-centers/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Now that’s constituent service!
House candidate Yuh-Line Niou came to the aid of a man who fell and hit his head while she was greeting voters in Tuesday’s primary election outside a public school in Brooklyn.
Niou, a state assemblywoman who is running in the Democratic primary for the redrawn 10th Congressional District stretching from lower Manhattan through brownstone Brooklyn down to Borough Park, was all smiles outside the polling site at PS 142 in Carroll Gardens around noon.
Happiness turned to alarm when a passing voter tripped over a police barricade and fell head first first onto the pavement.
“Oh, you’re bleeding!,” said Niou, one of the first to approach the man.
Niou and a campaign volunteer held tissues to the unidentified man’s bleeding head as he sat up on the pavement.
The legislator and others brought the injured man to a nearby bench to stabilize him as a firefighter-cum-campaign volunteer fetched his first aid kit.
The man said he was OK, but an ambulance arrived and transported him to a local hospital.
Niou, who is backed by the lefty Working Families Party and actress Cynthia Nixon, is considered one of four leading contenders for the House seat — along with former House impeachment lawyer Dan Goldman, Manhattan City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera and Rep. Mondaire Jones.
Brooklyn Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon and former Congresswoman and ex-Brooklyn DA Elizabeth Holtzman are also running.
Polls are open until 9 p.m. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/yuh-line-niou-helps-injured-man-outside-polling-place/ | 2022-08-23T21:50:13Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/yuh-line-niou-helps-injured-man-outside-polling-place/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
From a JP Morgan note, this in summary:
We reiterate the more constructive China stance, among others driven by.
1. Chinese money supply is moving up ... and credit impulse is improving. This has historically been key for the Chinese activity momentum.
2. More policy stimulus is likely, in order to deliver "stability"
- Our economists are looking for an acceleration in government incentives to boost infrastructure FM in 3Q,
- on top of the rate cuts and tax rebates seen recently.
3. The COVID situation remains highly uncertain, but there is a potential for restrictions to ease further.
4. Base effects are very easy in 2H, as 2nd half of last year has been hit by multiple shocks. This will add to the perception that the Chinese growth momentum is turning higher. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/4-reasons-that-jp-morgan-say-again-that-they-are-constructive-on-china-20220823/ | 2022-08-23T21:52:42Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/4-reasons-that-jp-morgan-say-again-that-they-are-constructive-on-china-20220823/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Data from South Korea, the September (yes, September) Manufacturing
business outlook improved to 82
- from 80 in August
For the non-Manufacturing, steady at 81 for September (i.e. August was also 81)
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The neighbours look upset.
Data from South Korea, the September (yes, September) Manufacturing
business outlook improved to 82
For the non-Manufacturing, steady at 81 for September (i.e. August was also 81)
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Two people were shot and a 22-year-old man arrested in a Monday afternoon domestic dispute outside a Bristow home.
Police were called to the 9000 block of Acadia Park Drive just before 1:50 p.m., where they found a 28-year-old woman suffering from gunshot wounds. Officers provided first aid until rescue workers arrived. The victim was flown by helicopter to an area trauma center with non-life threatening injuries.
The accused shooter, a 22-year-old family member, remained at the scene and was taken into custody, Prince William County Master Police Officer Renee Carr said in a news release.
While investigating, officers learned a second shooting victim, a 29-year-old man, had arrived at an area hospital, also suffering from non-life threatening gunshot wounds.
Police say the victims and suspect got into an argument inside a house, then continued outside where the suspect "fired multiple rounds as he walked away," Carr said.
Isaiah Austin Maloy Smith, 22, of the 9000 block of Acadia Park Drive was charged with two counts of malicious wounding and two counts of reckless handling of a firearm, Carr said. | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/two-shot-in-domestic-dispute-in-bristow/article_d22e7e3c-2319-11ed-81b4-87a3d58ab22f.html | 2022-08-23T21:53:06Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/two-shot-in-domestic-dispute-in-bristow/article_d22e7e3c-2319-11ed-81b4-87a3d58ab22f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The 8th Congressional District Democratic Committee will hold its 27th annual Kennedy-King Dinner on Friday, Sept. 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hilton DoubleTree Crystal City.
U.S. Reps. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Don Beyer (D-8th) have been announced as featured guests.
Tickets start at $135; tables of eight and sponsorship packages are available.
For tickets and information, see the Website at https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kksept2022.
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Arlington Public Schools’ seemingly intractable challenge in breaking the sometimes massive difference in the rates of academic success will focus, this school year, on making improvements one student at a time.
“We have a persistent achievement gap. We’ve got to really double down and think about each and every child,” said Superintendent Francisco Durán at the School Board meeting of Aug. 18, the last before 27,000 students head back to class on Aug. 29-30.
Recently released state Standards of Learning scores showed that Arlington, like the commonwealth as a whole, was making some gains but still had a long trek to claw back the learning lost during the COVID era, when students were effectively shut out of in-person instruction for a year.
And the figures also show the perpetual divide persists between white and Asian students on one side, African-American and Latino students on the other, when it comes to broad-based results.
“We’re digging into the data,” the superintendent said, saying the plan would be to “focus on [students’] strengths and build – push them to reach above and beyond.”
“Every single student counts,” Durán said, promising that teachers and administrators would “have that laser-like focus” to ensure success. “We’ve got to think positively,” Durán said, although a cynic might reply that he or she was indeed positive they’ve heard this refrain about closing achievement gaps before. Yet they seem to have more staying power than COVID and its variants.
In a back-to-school preview, the superintendent said the school system was now 99-percent staffed up, with about 300 teachers new to the school system on board – including “quite a few” that have come from surrounding jurisdictions, he said without elaboration.
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Metro is encouraging customers to begin travel planning for major construction on the Blue and Yellow lines this fall.
Starting Sept. 10, work will begin to fix the aging Yellow Line tunnel and bridge, and "advance the critical improvements necessary" to open the future Potomac Yard Station later in the fall.
During the first phase, between Sept. 10 and Oct. 22, six Blue and Yellow line stations south of Reagan National Airport Station will be closed to connect the new Potomac Yard Station to the existing tracks. The closed stations include Braddock Road, King Street, Van Dorn Street, Franconia-Springfield, Eisenhower Avenue, and Huntington. Following the six-week shutdown, the six closed stations will reopen; however, the Yellow Line tunnel and bridge will remain closed for additional repairs through May 2023.
For more information including full list of travel alternatives, wmata.com/about/news/Blue-Yellow-major-construction-reminder.cfm | https://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/metro-plan-now-for-work-on-blue-and-yellow-lines/article_9dd0bbc6-2307-11ed-9423-07097626d402.html | 2022-08-23T21:53:25Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/metro-plan-now-for-work-on-blue-and-yellow-lines/article_9dd0bbc6-2307-11ed-9423-07097626d402.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A slower-than-anticipated return to the office for workers across the region may have significant implications not just for those who own office buildings, but for the local governments that rely on the tax revenue and vibrancy that they provide.
“Experts all agree that telework and hybrid-work arrangements are here to stay,” noted the Apartment and Office Building Association (AOBA) of Metropolitan Washington, which on Aug. 18 parsed current return-to-the-office data as well as mulling what the future might hold.
The organization’s view? There’s a lot not yet known about what might transpire, but there are some hints.
“Industry experts now face growing uncertainty and dwindling optimism as telework and hybrid-work arrangements continue to reshape the market with significant long-term implications for local government tax revenues, placemaking in our downtown corridors, and the health and viability of ancillary and retail businesses who cater to and serve our weekday crowds,” noted AOBA. which said the growth back from pre-pandemic employee-occupancy levels has been both inconsistent and “slow and arduous.”
Expectations in early spring were for an ongoing increase in return to offices. Instead, occupancy rates have plateaued since April at about 40 percent, AOBA noted.
Data from a variety of sources suggest that more employees are working from home on Mondays and Fridays, while Tuesdays and Wednesdays are showing the most people back in offices. Even peak days, however, only hit around 50 percent in terms of workers being back in the office.
The future may already be beginning to take shape, as some employers are reducing their total office-space footprint, which is leading to increasing office-vacancy rates that will, if they continue over time, erode the value of those buildings and the taxes that local governments collect from them. Urbanized localities like the District of Columbia and Arlington stand to lose the most, since so much of the value of real estate in their jurisdictions is commercial and retail, compared to residential.
The implications “are clear,” AOBA declared, giving this analysis:
“In addition to funding the local-government services our community demands and offsetting residential-real-estate tax rates, businesses remain the lifeblood of our downtown urban areas. Beyond the tax implications, these trends could dictate a shift in economic development and business attraction strategies. Reducing our office-vacancy rates will require creativity as well as a rethinking of which targeted industries will drive greater occupancy of office space moving forward.”
AOBA is a non-profit trade organization representing the owners and managers of approximately 172 million square feet of office space and more than 400,000 apartment units in the Washington metropolitan area. Of that portfolio, approximately 69 million square feet of commercial office space and 169,000 multi-family residential units are located in Northern Virginia.
Also represented by AOBA are more than 200 companies that provide products and services to the real-estate industry.
AOBA is the local federated chapter of the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International and the National Apartment Association.
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Motorists headed north on the Inner Loop of the Interstate 495 should prepare for a major adjustment if they wish to connect with westbound Interstate 66 in the future and overnight drivers in both directions on the Beltway this week should prepare for some lane and ramp closures and related detours.
The first new exit ramp and bridge for the under-construction I-66/I-495 Interchange is scheduled to open ahead of schedule on or about Thursday morning, Aug. 25, VDOT officials said.
Drivers on northbound I-495 will exit to westbound I-66 using the new flyover ramp, which will be located one-half mile south of the former exit ramp and before the ramp heading to eastbound I-66.
Once the new ramp to westbound I-66 opens, VDOT will close the old exit ramp to allow for construction of a new ramp to connect to the future westbound 66 Express Lanes. Drivers should use caution and follow roadway signs when traveling in this area.
The new ramp from northbound I-495 to westbound I-66 is an interim milestone for the Transform 66 Outside the Beltway Project and the first of several new ramp openings and permanent traffic-pattern changes happening this year at the I-66/I-495 Interchange area. The location of the ramp from northbound I-495 to eastbound I-66 will not change as part of this new configuration.
To implement this traffic pattern change, drivers should expect the following scenario on the night of Wednesday, Aug. 24:
• Two lanes of northbound I-495 from Route 50 to I-66 will be closed from 9:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. All lanes will reopen by 5 a.m.
• The ramp from southbound I-495 to westbound I-66 will be closed from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. VDOT will detour traffic farther south to the exit to eastbound Route 50 (Arlington Boulevard). Drivers should stay to the right to Fairview Park, take the left fork to Fairview Park north, bear left at the traffic signal, stay to the right following signs to I-495 north and I-66, then follow signs to I-66 west.
• The ramp from I-495 north to I-66 east will be closed from 2 to 5 a.m. VDOT will direct traffic to continue north to eastbound Route 7 (Leesburg Pike), travel about 1 mile, then follow signs to I-66 east.
• One lane of the ramp from I-495 north to I-66 west will be closed from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. and the entire ramp will be closed between 2 and 5 a.m. VDOT will direct traffic to continue north to Route 7 west, stay to the right to I-495 south, then follow signs to I-66 west.
All work is weather-dependent and will be rescheduled to the following night (Thursday, Aug. 25) should inclement conditions occur.
The I-66/I-495 Interchange is being modified with several new ramps and connections as part of the Transform 66 Outside the Beltway Project.
Improvements at the interchange include adding access to and from the existing 495 Express Lanes and the new I-66 Express Lanes, as well as building new connections between Express Lanes and general-purpose lanes.
Construction and lane closure updates are available at Transform66.org.
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About halfway through a drumming demonstration by Kofi Dennis, it became evident why Africans frequently seem to be smiling and dancing in videos of their ceremonies.
It’s out of sheer joy.
“There is no right or wrong – it’s all fun,” said Dennis, a native of Ghana who moved to Fairfax County in 1993 and, on Aug. 11, taught basic drumming concepts to a group at Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library.
Dressed in a royal blue-and-white shirt with an African print, white linen pants, black-and-blue sneakers and a brown hat, Dennis introduced participants to the instruments they would be using, including:
• Various sizes of djembe drums, the bigger ones of which produce deeper sounds. These instruments, topped with goatskin, traditionally are held between players’ legs and played with the hands.
• Dun-dun drums, which stand vertically and have cowhide surfaces played using sticks. (Dennis cautioned the group not to leave drums in their cars in warm weather, as high heat can cause the instruments to expand and break.)
• A shekere, which is a rattle made from a dried gourd and surrounded by a net stringed with beads.
• An agogô, which is combination of small and larger cowbells.
• Wooden sticks called claves, which are about an inch in diameter and 8 inches long.
Dennis stressed the importance of repetition when drumming, and took the group through a series of exercises that grew in complexity with each round.
“Everything about drumming is about patterns,” he said. “Repeat, repeat. Tick-tock, tick-tock. Like the way we walk. We walk in a pattern, a steady beat.”
The participants, who ranged from 5 years old to middle age, at first cautiously approached their drumming as Dennis worked the room in a clockwise circle.
He first had attendees tap out a simple drumbeat of their own creation. One came up with three short taps followed by three long taps and three short ones, a sequence those familiar with Morse code will recognize as SOS (Save Our Ship).
The instructor then had participants do longer drum patterns and say their names while tapping out each syllable loudly and following this with “Hey!” It proved an effective ice-breaker and a way to learn everyone’s names.
Next came melody, the coordination of rhythm, beat, pitch and tempo.
Attendees maintained steady, but different, beats on several different instruments. When the instructor chimed in with his own high-speed drum riffing, the effect became hypnotic.
“There’s a convergence point,” Dennis told the group. “We have to converge somewhere . . . In jazz, that’s what happens. Everyone knows where they’re meeting.”
Dennis also had the group practice rhythmic dancing that involved clapping, patting their shoulders, blowing out air, stretching their elbows outward and making “two big, happy circles” above their heads.
By the end of the hour-long session, they had become much more free and loose in their drumming and body movements, and each added a funny or funky personal touch to their accompanying dances.
“You’re raising the bar here for us!” Dennis told one woman.
Before wrapping up the festivities, Dennis said thank you to the group in about a dozen languages.
Afterward, participant K.C. Chun, a new McLean resident, said she had signed up for the session while looking for new activities.
“I wanted to expand my understanding of other cultures,” she said. “It’s been wonderful.”
Lawanna Palmer of Dunn Loring attended the demonstration with 5-year-old daughter Ammar, whom Dennis allowed to play a dun-dun drum while straddling it “like a horsey.”
Palmer said she had attended presentations by Dennis before and wanted to support him again.
“My favorite part was all of us playing in unison,” she said.
To see Dennis in action, watch his video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok0Erdus5hA.
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Tennessee third graders who fail the TNReady reading test could be held back. The law passed last year, but took effect at the beginning of classes this year.
Students can go to summer reading camp or get tutoring as a way to get to fourth grade.
The idea is to help improve the reading level for third graders as the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program test results show around 30% "met" or "exceeded" expectations.
"It's scary to think that first off a test that my child may or may not test well even if they are literate," said Angela Favaloro. She is the mother of a third grader who goes to a Hamilton County School. She is also a part of the advocacy group "Moms for Social Justice."
"It's discouraging and messing with the emotional state of our kids. It is what leads them where they are going to go," she said.
Rachel Kirschenheiter is also a mom in the area and thinks the law is a great idea.
"Nobody wants their kids to be held back, nobody wants that-but at the same time if that extra year is going to help your child why would you not want them to repeat a grade?" she asked.
She has a third grader too and said she has spent time teaching them to read outside of class.
"Reading and comprehension-there are standards and I do not think it is fair to teachers when they are having to work with kids that are not caught up," she said.
A nonprofit education advocacy group, the Education Trust, shows minority groups such as students of color, with disabilities, and low income could be impacted the most.
"Kids who don't have parents that are advocating for them that may not have the ability to support their learning in the summers, after school are somehow going to be penalized for circumstances beyond their control," said the State Director of the Education Trust Tennessee, Gini Pupo-Walker.
She added that the classrooms might be overcrowded since a large amount might be held back.
She also said the pandemic has impacted growth and people should be more understanding.
"These were children in kindergarten in the pandemic sent home in March, spent first grade, second grade in a pandemic setting and here we are penalizing (them)," said Pupo-Walker.
The stakes are high as third grade is considered crucial in a student's education.
"If the kids are allowed to a free summer program before going to fourth grade then that's great," said Kirschenheiter.
"That breaks my heart. Does that not break your heart?" asked Favaloro.
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Closing arguments are underway Tuesday in Vanessa Bryant's civil rights lawsuit against Los Angeles County that is centered on the photos taken by first responders of the helicopter crash site that killed her husband, NBA legend Kobe Bryant, and daughter Gianna, along with seven others.
Bryant, along with co-defendant Chris Chester, whose wife and daughter were also among the crash victims, assert that sharing the photos violated their right to privacy and that failing to contain the spread of the images inflicted emotional distress.
Bryant claims that photos of the January 2020 crash were shared by county fire and sheriff's department employees in settings irrelevant to the investigation, including at a bar.
The trial is taking place more than 2 1/2 years since Kobe, his 13-year-old daughter and seven other people died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.
The final witness to testify, county Fire Capt. Dennis Breshears, bolstered the plaintiff's position that while site photography may have a general purpose, the close-up photos of human remains taken by Captain Brian Jordan and shared with some members of the fire department served no purpose for fire response.
"You would agree Captain Jordan's photos amounted to visual gossip?" Breshears was asked. "I would agree," he said.
Jordan showed "not only a lack of regard for the privacy of (the victims) ... it violated our organization's ethics, the policies we uphold. It jeopardized that," Breshears said.
The county maintains those policies were in place and should not have been violated by some of its employees, thus not making it culpable for individual employees' actions.
Bryant broke down at times as she testified Friday that she still experiences panic attacks and anxiety over the possibility of seeing photos from the crash.
Witnesses included a deputy who said he showed graphic images from the scene while at a bar, another deputy who said he shared photos while playing a video game, a deputy who sent dozens of photos to someone he didn't know, and a fire official who showed the images to other personnel during an awards ceremony cocktail hour.
Closing arguments, including rebuttals, are expected to last about three hours.
On Tuesday, Bryant posted an Instagram message for Kobe, wishing him a happy birthday on what would have been the basketball star's 44th birthday.
"Happy birthday, baby! I love you and miss you so much," she wrote.
Filed in September 2020, the lawsuit seeks undisclosed damages, claiming civil rights violations, negligence, emotional distress and violation of privacy.
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A federal judge in Florida has given former President Donald Trump until Friday to refine the legal arguments in his request for a special master to oversee the review of evidence gathered in the Mar-a-Lago search.
District Court Judge Aileen Cannon in the Southern District of Florida ordered Trump's lawyers to elaborate on their arguments for why the court has the ability to step in at this time, explain what exactly Trump is asking for and whether the Justice Department has been served with Trump's special master motion.
Cannon also asked Trump's team to weigh in on any effect the request might have on a separate review conducted by a magistrate judge into whether any portions of the still-sealed FBI affidavit laying out probable cause for the search can be released.
This story is breaking and will be updated.
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(The Hill) – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said he does not have a reaction to former President Trump’s statement over the weekend that labeled his wife, former Trump Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, “crazy.”
Asked in Kentucky if had any reaction to Trump’s statement, McConnell responded simply “no.”
In a statement posted to Truth Social on Saturday, Trump criticized McConnell for a statement he made that week about the current crop of GOP Senate hopefuls, before making a dig at Chao, his wife of 29 years, calling her “crazy.”
“Why do Republicans Senators allow a broken down hack politician, Mitch McConnell, to openly disparage hard working Republican candidates for the United States Senate. This is such an affront to honor and to leadership,” Trump wrote. “He should spend more time (and money!) helping them get elected, and less time helping his crazy wife and family get rich on China!”
Chao served as Transportation secretary during the Trump administration for nearly four years, resigning one day after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. In a letter to Transportation Department staff, she called the riot “entirely avoidable” and said she was “deeply troubled” by the event.
Chao previously served eight years as Labor secretary under former President George W. Bush.
The mention of Chao’s family was likely a reference to the shipping company Foremost Group, which was founded by Chao’s father and is currently run by her sister.
The Department of Transportation inspector general previously discovered that Chao used department staff to assist the family business. The watchdog referred the facts to the Justice Department, which declined to investigate the then-secretary.
Trump’s statement bashing the couple came days after McConnell said the House had a better chance of flipping red than the Senate in the November midterm elections, citing “candidate quality” — a referenced to Trump-backed candidates in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Arizona and Georgia who have lagged behind their Democratic opponents in recent polls.
“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different — they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome,” McConnell told reporters in Kentucky when asked about his midterm expectations.
Trump’s attack on McConnell was the latest in the duo’s year-plus feud, which ramped up after the GOP leader slammed the then-president following the Jan. 6 riot. Since then, Trump has frequently criticized McConnell, calling him disloyal, an “Old Crow,” and earlier this month, taking a swipe at him after the Senate passed a sweeping climate, tax and health care bill.
But this weekend’s attack comes as Republicans are struggling in their fight to take control of the Senate come November. McConnell had earlier said this year’s midterm elections would be “very good” for Republicans, but he has since changed his tone, warning that the breakdown of the upper chamber following the races will be “extremely close.”
“Right now, we have a 50-50 Senate and a 50-50 country, but I think when all is said and done this fall, we’re likely to have an extremely close Senate, either our side up slightly or their side up slightly,” he said last week.
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Leading fertility treatment network broadens its world-class fertility operations and services
with Tri-State Area expansion
LIVINGSTON, N.J., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CCRM Fertility, a global pioneer in fertility treatment, research and science, today announced the acquisition of The Institute for Reproductive Medicine & Science (IRMS), a fertility center with 11 reproductive endocrinologists and eight offices throughout New Jersey and New York. The strategic addition of IRMS furthers CCRM Fertility's growth trajectory and brings its world-class proprietary reproductive medicine expertise to IRMS offices and patients. CCRM Fertility will now serve 11 major metropolitan areas with 34 locations across the U.S. and Canada.
Since its founding in 1987, CCRM Fertility has specialized in the most advanced fertility treatments and has achieved unparalleled accomplishments in the industry. CCRM Fertility built an innovative fertility platform, consistently invests in leading physicians and research, and achieves some of the highest in vitro fertilization (IVF) live birth rates in the U.S. CCRM Fertility continues to expand into new markets and services at an unprecedented pace.
Jon Pardew, president and CEO of CCRM Fertility, said the acquisition is just one piece to the company's overall growth strategy, further strengthening its commitment to its patients, physicians, technologies, fertility care and research.
"Bringing IRMS into the CCRM Fertility family made perfect sense. It has a longstanding reputation for world-class services, personalized fertility treatment and access to care through convenient locations," Pardew said. "We are confident IRMS's diverse and experienced team of physicians and embryologists will be an excellent addition to the CCRM Fertility team. Our combined commitment to quality care and innovative solutions now makes us one of the largest and most advanced network of fertility clinics servicing North America."
"The IRMS team is incredibly excited to join the CCRM Fertility network as we expand our philosophy of care throughout the State of New Jersey and beyond," said IRMS Clinical Director Dr. Debbra Keegan. "We chose CCRM Fertility because of our common commitment to patient-centric care, best practices in medicine and scientific expertise. We look forward to this partnership bringing yet another level of superior reproductive care to our valuable patients."
CCRM Fertility specializes in pioneering fertility treatments, with deep expertise in IVF, fertility testing, fertility preservation, genetic testing, third-party reproduction and egg donation. The addition of IRMS combines the companies' scientific advances, laboratory techniques and full suite of reproductive services reinforcing CCRM Fertility as a forerunner in the field of fertility.
About IRMS
Since its inception in 1995, IRMS has been recognized as one of the nation's leading fertility centers, providing patients with state-of-the-art treatment, supported by the latest scientific innovations in the field of reproductive medicine. These innovations have greatly expanded the scope of practice in terms of the patients that reproductive endocrinologists can now serve. IRMS has been at the forefront of both inclusion and education of these patient populations so they too can manage their reproductive lives and potential. IRMS has earned a stellar reputation for their success rates using SET (Single Embryo Transfer), increasing the efficiency of each IVF cycle. The physicians and staff of IRMS have taken on a significant role as advocates for coverage and access to care, for patients within their own practice as well as through advancing legislation in both New Jersey and New York. For more information on IRMS, please visit www.sbivf.com.
About CCRM Fertility
CCRM Fertility is a global pioneer in fertility treatment, research and science. Founded by Dr. William Schoolcraft 35 years ago, CCRM Fertility specializes in the most advanced fertility treatments, with deep expertise in IVF, fertility testing, egg freezing, preimplantation genetic testing, third party reproduction and egg donation. CCRM Fertility leverages its own data and a dedicated team of in-house reproductive endocrinologists, embryologists and geneticists to deliver industry-leading outcomes. CCRM Fertility has 34 locations in North America, serving patients in 11 major metropolitan areas, including Atlanta, Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Houston, New York, Northern Virginia, Minneapolis, Orange County, San Francisco Bay Area and Toronto. For more information, visit www.ccrmivf.com.
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ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah — Officials at Zion National Park said the body of a missing hiker was discovered on Monday, three days after she was swept away in flash floods.
Jetal Agnihotri's body was found in the Virgin River near the Court of the Patriarchs, which is within the park about six miles south of the Narrows.
“Our deepest sympathy goes out to the friends and family of Jetal Agnihotri,” Zion National Park superintendent Jeff Bradybaugh said in a statement.
Agnihotri disappeared Friday as flash floods hit the Narrows section of the park. At the time, the National Park Service had received reports of hikers being swept up by the flooding.
It wasn't until later in the evening that park employees learned the 29-year-old Arizona woman was overdue from a trip to the Narrows.
Mostafa Javadian, who was with Agnihotri before she disappeared, told KSTU that he and another friend had left the area after hearing about flash flooding. Instead of joining the other two, Javadian said Agnihotri wanted to stay and explore the Narrows.
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Having friends around for a long time takes extra effort, especially when you are an introvert.
Maintaining a long term relationship with friends and family takes intentionality if you are someone who values and desires your space a lot.
You need to also remember that no one is an island. This means that no one can stand on their own without having people around them sooner or later.
Sustaining and maintaining friendship requires commitment, intentionality, respect, and trust. However, there are various ways to keep and maintain your relationship with your friends.
1. Make time to bond with them
If you are a busy person, having friends around might be hard. This is because you have little or no time to bond with your friends. This must have cost you a lot of friendships.
It is necessary to take intentional actions, go on fun trips, to the cinema, a picnic or vacations to communicate more. Spend more time with them.
2. Respect their boundaries
As friends, it is important that you set boundaries and also respect each other’s boundaries. This is very critical to maintaining a great friendship. Know when to refrain from their matters and when to step in.
Calling your friends of the opposite sex at odd hours could be you stepping outside your boundary. No matter how close you are, there are some landmarks you shouldn’t cross to maintain a good relationship.
You should also set boundaries for your friends so there won’t be friction between you. Let them know your schedule and why you wouldn’t be replying to their texts or returning their calls.
3. Reach out to them often
Checking up on your friends consistently is a way to sustain and maintain your relationship with them. Calling them, sending texts, and reminding them of how much they mean to you keeps the flow between you.
4. Come through for them in their low state
Generally, a friend is known during difficult times. This is because it is rare to find someone who will stand by you through thick and thin.
You can build a good friendship by standing and coming through for your friends in their weakest state.
This shows how much you care about them.
5. Communicate often
Effective communication is a type of communication where there is a speaker and an active listener. Communication is a two way street. Try as much as possible to listen effectively without being distracted or trying to interrupt your friend while speaking.
Best friends are those who listen deeply and communicate mindfully. Know when to speak and how you utter those words.
6. Learn how to keep secrets
Nobody would want to be friends with someone who leaks every little secret or gossip about them. Healthy friendships are built on trust. The confidence that you can tell your friends things and deep secrets about you without hearing it somewhere else from various people.
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Santa Fe Indian Market marked its 100th anniversary. It began as a way of preserving what white curators thought of as traditional, but artists say the market today is a place of innovation.
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Santa Fe Indian Market marked its 100th anniversary. It began as a way of preserving what white curators thought of as traditional, but artists say the market today is a place of innovation.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a measure late Monday that would have allowed creation of safe drug-consumption sites in three major California cities as part of an effort to cut the surging number of fatal overdoses.
In a public message explaining his veto, Newsom, a Democrat, suggested the clinics might actually encourage illegal drug use.
"Worsening drug consumption challenges ... is not a risk we can take," Newsom wrote.
He called for state and local officials to convene a new discussion of safe drug-use sites aimed at creating a "truly limited" pilot program.
The veto enraged drug policy reform advocates, who noted that Newsom has voiced support for safe drug-consumption sites in the past.
Critics also note the measure passed California's Democrat-controlled state legislature in early August after nearly two years of debate.
During that time, Newsom raised no public objections to the bill.
"We don't need a working group or additional dialogue or study when it comes to safe consumption sites," said Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener, the bill's primary sponsor, who represents San Francisco, where one of the clinics would have been located.
"We have decades of data and experience. We know how to stop people from dying, and yet we just haven't had the political will," Wiener said.
The bill would have allowed Oakland, Los Angeles, and San Francisco to develop safe-use clinics in a pilot program that would have operated during the next five years. It would have been by far the largest overdose reduction effort of its kind in the United States.
"It's a daily tragedy," Wiener said. "Each and every person who dies of a drug overdose is a human being ... who had a life at one point and we are abandoning them."
Jeannette Zanipatin with the Drug Policy Alliance said there's no evidence overdose-reduction programs like the ones proposed in California increase drug use.
"For folks to continue talking about this as a way to enable substance users, to open a drug den, just really fails to recognize the dignity that substance users and this community really need," Zanipatin said.
Nationwide, roughly 109,000 people are dying every year from drug overdoses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Advocates hoped the California program would help shift the national conversation away from drug criminalization toward improved medical care with access to doctors, nurses and treatment.
Similar programs have operated for decades in a handful of other countries, including Canada. Two safe drug-consumption sites are operating in New York City, without state or federal authorization.
Some local officials have suggested cities in California move forward to establish drug-injection clinics without state approval, but such a move would come with real legal risks.
One question nationally is how the federal government will respond to programs of this kind.
Street drugs remain illegal under federal law, but the Justice Department is negotiating with a group that hopes to open a safe-use clinic in Philadelphia.
If some kind of deal is reached there, that could be a game-changer.
Meanwhile, Wiener said California's statewide initiative is dead after Newsom's veto.
"I won't put my colleagues through that again," he said.
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Rising temperatures can be deadly for people without air conditioning. There are a few programs to provide units for those who can't afford them, but the demand is growing.
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Rising temperatures can be deadly for people without air conditioning. There are a few programs to provide units for those who can't afford them, but the demand is growing.
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According to Pooja Agnihotri, ‘The best gift you can give to yourself is to invest in yourself’. Self-investment is the most reasonable investment every human should make. It is normal that the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘investment’ is investing in stocks, real estate, or savings.
Self-investment means giving back to yourself, expanding your horizons, learning new habits and getting organized in other spheres of life. It is the most profitable investment you can ever make. It determines the quality of life you will have now and in the future.
This is one of the best ways to achieve a better quality, successful, and productive life. It requires intentionally placing a priority on your personal growth through consistency. It entails investing time, money, and all other resources to aid your life and self-development.
If you aim at investing in yourself, there are various things you can do to add more value to yourself for now and for the future.
1. Skill development
This includes making yourself more experienced, well grounded in whatever skills you have. This might not necessarily be academically alone. This is through consistent learning, adding to your skills or learning new skills to have a productive life.
Academically, you can take online courses related to your field of study to learn more and widen your horizon.
2. Exercise regularly
Another great investment you can make in yourself is exercising daily. Exercising daily makes you more productive and energetic. It reduces stress, helps you maintain a healthy weight, and prevents your immune system from being vulnerable to diseases.
Exercising regularly also prevents mental health conditions that could hinder you from enjoying a quality life.
2. Attend seminars, workshops, and training
These are great opportunities for you to invest in yourself. Seminars, workshops, and training are avenues for you to widen and expand your horizons, especially in your field of interest. It also provides great networking opportunities for you. It expands your relationships with experts and professionals. This will be a source of great help to your career.
3. Practise journaling
Journaling is one of the best ways to invest in yourself. As funny as this sounds, journaling is self- reflective. Expressing your thoughts and feelings through scribbling them down gives you the chance to be non-judgmental. It helps you to be calm, manage anxiety, depression, and cope with fears and problems.
Journaling also helps to practice gratitude, and develop self-awareness.
4. Read more
Reading is a great way of investing in yourself mentally and career wise. It helps you build your skills relating to your career also. Reading widens and expands your horizon. It aids quick thinking and cognitive reasoning. It also keeps your brain healthy and strengthens it.
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National Council on Agriculture will address critical issues affecting sector ― FG
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Ernest Umakhihe, has inaugurated the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the 45th Regular Meeting of the National Council on Agriculture and Rural Development (NCARD), slated for Jos, Plateau State early September with a charge to address critical issues affecting Development and Management in the Agricultural Sector.
During the event which took place at the Ministry, the Permanent Secretary stated that Agriculture is a critical sector that touches our livelihoods and needs all the necessary attention deserved to make it economically efficient, effective as well as achieve food and nutrition security.
Dr Ernest Umakhihe pointed out that the Council was expected to fully explore the possibility of using the unique platform provided by the forthcoming NCARD to develop workable policies and strategies that will enable the Ministry to deliver on its mandate to the Nation, with a view to creating sustainable impacts in the Agricultural Sector of the Economy.
According to him, “the Council will play an important role towards enhancing the efforts of the Present Administration’s Agenda of uplifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in the next 10 years and the expectations of both the Government and the General populace are high.”
He tasked the LOC “to ensure that everything is put in place for the seamless meeting of the Council as well as to track the implementations of the resolutions of the last year’s Council meeting as one of the major priorities.”
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The Permanent Secretary stated that the 45th regular meeting will hold from Tuesday 13th to Saturday, September 17, 2022, at Langfield, Rayfield Hotel, Jos, Plateau State.
In his welcome address, Director, Planning and Policy Coordination Department, Mr Ibrahim Bello thanked the Permanent Secretary for his support and contributions towards the inauguration of the committee and He pledged that the committee would work assiduously towards achieving its set objectives.
The Term of Reference of the LOC includes; Put in place necessary arrangements to facilitate successful conduct of the Council meeting, Provide adequate and efficient secretariat to guarantee smooth conduct and accurate documentation of all proceedings, Adequate supply and distribution of conference materials, efficient conduct of participants and any other activities initiated to add value to the conduct of the event, Prepare and submit to management progress reports on activities of the committee leading to and after the conduct of the event; Ensure adequate publicity for the event and full active participation of stakeholders, among others.
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What do Miles Davis, Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin have in common?
Well besides being some of the biggest musical artists of the 20th century, they all recorded at United Sound Systems in Detroit.
The 1916 brick building that houses the studio was designated a historic landmark in 2015, but local preservationists are worried that may not be enough to protect it forever.
Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee speaks with Michelle Jahra McKinney of the Detroit Sound Conservancy.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Nigeria exported non-oil products worth $2.593bn within six months in 2022 ― NEPC
•Says a total of 4,146,534 metric tonnes of goods achieved exports
The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has disclosed that over $2.593 billion worth of non-oil has been exported into the international market from January to June 2020.
Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday, the Executive Director of NEPC Dr Ezra Yakusak said “it is worthy to note that in spite of the global economic recession that affected most businesses in 2021, the sector recorded significant growth.
“The non-oil sector has a total of 4,146,534 metric tonnes of products worth $2.593 billion exported between January to June 2022.
“This Represented a 62.37 per cent increase as against the sum of $1.59 billion for the first half of 2021 and $981.442 million for the first half of 2020.”
He said the figures were “culled from non-oil Export Performance reports of various pre-shipment inspection of Agents who were appointed by Federal government to determine the value and destination of Nigerian non-oil export”.
Yakusak explained that “over 2000 different products ranging from manufacturing, semi-processed, solid minerals to raw agricultural products were reported to have been exported in the period under review.
“It may interest you to note that unlike what was applicable in the past, the trend of products exported from Nigeria is gradually shifting from its traditional agricultural export to semi-processed/manufactured goods.
“This can be gleaned from the following product clarification as contained in the PIAs report. Manufactured products-36.28 per cent, Raw agriculture products-33.35 per cent, precious stones-13.22 per cent while others filled the remaining 17.15 per cent.”
He stated furthermore that the “top 15 products that are exported from Nigeria in the first half of 2022 include, Urea/fertilizer with a record of 32.49 per cent of the total export while Cocoa beans, Sesame seeds and Aluminum ingot’s contributed 12.65 per cent, 7 per cent and 5.07 per cent respectively within the same period.”
Yakusak said, about 574 companies participated in exporting Nigerian products in the period under review.
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The skyline of the Chinese city Shanghai will not be lit up for two nights. It's part of a string of measures nationwide as China deals with power shortages caused by its worst heat wave on record.
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The skyline of the Chinese city Shanghai will not be lit up for two nights. It's part of a string of measures nationwide as China deals with power shortages caused by its worst heat wave on record.
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Osun Tribunal: PDP, INEC reply APC, Oyetola’s petitions, urge panel to dismiss petition
Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday filed their replies to the petition of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Governor Gboyega Oyelola as required by the rules of the election petition tribunal petition.
In the responses, they told the tribunal that all the allegations in the petition are lame and imaginary.
The commission and party in their separate replies to the APC/Oyetola petition maintained that the election was free, fair and credible without any iota of non-compliance with the Electoral Act, 2022 and prayed the tribunal to dismiss the petition for it is frivolous, baseless and un-meritorious.
They claimed that Senator Ademola Adeleke fulfilled all qualification criteria and conditions to run for the election and was duly declared the winner, insisting that there was no over-voting in any of the polling units being challenged by Oyetola and his APC.
The PDP further maintained that “it is fully prepared to defend its mandate to show to all and sundry that the election petition filed by the APC and Governor Oyelola is time wasting because it was brought in dead and you will see at the end of the day.”
Secretary of the legal committee of the party, Hasim Abioye who was in the company of some party chieftains and witnesses while filing the reply at the Osun State High Court, the venue of the tribunal, remarked: “Well, as you can see we are before the election petition tribunal, PDP is set to file her own reply to the petition of the APC and Governor Oyelola as required by the rules, the witnesses must be present physically before the secretary to the tribunal to sign their witness statements on oath.
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“So, all these people here are witnesses and they have come to show themselves before the secretary that they are ready to sign their witnesses statement on oath.
“We have twenty-one days ultimatum to file our reply but this is the fourteenth day and to show that we are ever ready as fit as a fiddle, we are ever ready as a boy scout to tell you that we are not running anywhere.
“I think, we have more than a hundred as you can see here and others are still coming so I can tell you that for us to be able to line up and with others still coming we are fully prepared to defend this mandate to show to you that the election petition filed by the APC and Governor Oyelola is time wasting because it was brought in dead and you will see at the end of the day.”
When asked of the exact number of witnesses, he explained, “we will not tell you the exact number but we are more than a hundred.
“When you see the processes you can approach the tribunal to see the list of the lawyers on the processes when they are eventually made available to the public but, I can tell you that we are confident of victory and like I always say, the petition is time wasting and in fact, it is an empty shell.”
“Yes, we are confident that the tribunal will do justice to this. You know they’ve made so much hype about service on the governor-elect, you know the security situation in Ede and so if we are in the state aftermath the election you can see security breaches here and there, so, the administration that has not been able to secure the state properly we cannot just open the gate of the governor-elect for just anybody to walk in and that is why the law has made provision for substituted service.
“It is part of our jurisprudence and if there’s no provision for it in our jurisprudence, we say that is not normal. I’ve never seen any election petition where the petitioner has been able to serve the governor-elect personally.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/osun-tribunal-pdp-inec-reply-apc-oyetolas-petitions-urge-panel-to-dismiss-petition/ | 2022-08-23T22:11:33Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/osun-tribunal-pdp-inec-reply-apc-oyetolas-petitions-urge-panel-to-dismiss-petition/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ukrainians who have sought refuge in Russia often face a fundamental choice: accept Russian hospitality and the Kremlin's vision for Ukraine under Russian rule or risk an uncertain road out.
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Ukrainians who have sought refuge in Russia often face a fundamental choice: accept Russian hospitality and the Kremlin's vision for Ukraine under Russian rule or risk an uncertain road out.
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An Osun State Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo, the state capital on Tuesday arraigned seven persons in connection with the attack of the state first lady, Mrs Kafayat Oyetola last week at Owode-Ede in the state.
The defendants were arraigned on a four-count charge bordering on conspiracy to commit a felony, serious assault and malicious damage of the glass of three convoys which are properties of the Osun State Government attached to the First Lady.
Their names were given as Omolola Paul, (40), Rasaki Hammed, 19, Soliu Waheed, 21, Tiamiyu Basiru, 30, Olayiwola John, 26, Owoade Mutiu, 28, and Ibrahim Tunde, 20.
The police prosecutor, Inspector Asanbe Kayode, said the defendants with others at large caused the breach of peace by attacking First Lady, her Excellency Mrs Kafayat, and inflicting injuries on her aide, Mr Benson Oyebode and Mr Femi Alabi DSS by throwing stones on them.
The Police Prosecutor who told the court that the accused committed the offence on August 19, 2022 at about 8 pm at Owode market Ede in the Ede, said the offences contravene Section Section 516, 249, 451(b), 356(2) of the criminal code cap 34 Vol. II laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2002.
However, Defence Counsel, S.A Gbenle applied for the bail of the accused persons in the most liberal term, saying the suspects would not jump bail if granted and that they would always make themselves available as and when due.
He further maintained that the accused were still presumed innocent until the contrary is proved by a court of law.
In their own submissions, the defendants pleaded not guilty to the allegations levelled against them.
The presiding Magistrate, I.R Salami fixed the next hearing on the case till September 26, 2022, and granted the accused bail in the sum of N500,000 and two sureties in like sum.
It will be recalled that the state’s first lady narrowly escaped being killed last week Friday evening when armed political thugs attacked her convoy in Owode-Ede area of the state.
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The incident which happened at the market square of the town reportedly led to injuries of some security operatives attached to the wife of the governor.
The armed thugs who were said to be armed with cutlasses, a sledgehammer, guns, broken bottles, arrows, a dagger and other dangerous weapons, went berserk around 8.30 pm and unleashed terror on the convoy.
Trouble reportedly started when security operatives in the convoy were trying to clear the traffic around Owode Ede to allow for easy passage for their trip.
In the process, armed thugs are said to have trooped out in scores and started hauling stones and other dangerous items at the convoy and further smashing vehicles leading to injuries of some security operatives in the convoy.
When contacted for comment, an aide of the First Lady, Iluyomade Oluwatumise confirmed the attack on the convoy.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. - Capt. David W. Stallworth was relieved by Capt. Daniel “Jinx” W. Testa as commanding officer, Naval Education and Training Assistance Field Activity (NETSAFA), in a change of command ceremony at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, Aug. 18.
Family and guests assembled at the National Naval Aviation Museum to wish “fair winds and following seas” to Stallworth and his family as he departed after three years in command of NETSAFA and to welcome Testa as the new commanding officer.
Rear Adm. Pete Garvin, commander, Naval Education and Training Command (NETC), served as the guest speaker for the event.
“NETSAFA is a very unique command with far-ranging impact…as a nation we know that our alliances and partnerships remain one of our key strategic advantages,” said Garvin. “Partnerships matter when working together through combined operations, theater security cooperation, and capacity-building initiatives. Together we strengthen our ability to prevail in conflict and further bolster integrated deterrence by demonstrating a united front against would-be adversaries.”
Stallworth, a native of Summerdale, Alabama, directed efforts to provide training and education valued at more than $200 million to 166 partner nations in support of more than 8,000 international military students (IMS) during a period of all-time records of foreign military sales and despite the worldwide pandemic.
“The efforts of this world-class staff and their leader have resulted in an astounding global impact that will pay dividends in the realm of security cooperation and U.S. foreign policy for years to come,” said Garvin.
Testa takes over as NETSAFA commanding officer after serving in his last assignment as the NETC executive assistant, and Stallworth will report to NETC as the N5 director for strategy, innovation, and voluntary education.
“Although it has been a tough three years, I would not trade it for anything as it gave me the opportunity to work with some of the most talented and friendly people in the entire Department of the Navy,” said Stallworth, who was presented with the Legion of Merit award during the ceremony. “Jinx, you are taking over a great command full of great people.”
“NETSAFA, I want to thank you so much for the support and hard work that you do every day no matter what happens, and I know you will continue to do the same thing for Capt. Jinx Testa,” said Stallworth.
Located at NAS Pensacola, Florida, NETSAFA is the U.S. Navy’s agent for Navy education and training for international military students. As a field activity of NETC, NETSAFA serves as a focal point for all security assistance and security cooperation education and training program issues, coordination and advice within the U.S. Navy. NETC, led by Rear Adm. Pete Garvin, is the U.S. Navy’s Force Development pillar and largest shore command. Through its “street to fleet” focus, NETC recruits civilians and transforms them into highly skilled, operational and combat ready warfighters.
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The Hubbard City Ordinance referencing vicious animals and what will happen should an animal be declared as such is pretty clear. Still, the City Council recently faced its fourth dog attack in the last decade.
A Hubbard resident was walking when attacked by three dogs on Aug. 4. None of the animals were confined in direct violation of the ordinance.
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LAIE, Hawaii (KITV4) -- Honolulu police say they are investigating Monday’s deadly crash on Kamehameha Highway as a manslaughter and negligent homicide case.
Two people were killed and two others were injured in the crash that happened just after 1 p.m. in the area of Gunstock Ranch and the Malaekahana State Recreation Area.
According to police, the driver of a Ford pickup was heading northbound on Kamehameha when they tried to pass the car in front of it and ended up hitting a Hyundai sedan head-on.
Witnesses told HPD the Ford truck was weaving through traffic at a high speed and had passed multiple vehicles leading up to the crash. The 27-year-old driver of the Ford truck was listed in critical condition at the hospital Tuesday morning. He has not yet been arrested, or charged.
"So, if you can imagine driving along....into a brick wall, decelerating your body down to zero in a short amount of time is what causes these drastic collisions and death," said Maj. Ben Moszkowicz with HPD.
The two people who died in the crash – a man in his 30s and woman in her 60s -- were in the driver’s seat and driver’s side back seat of the Hyundai. A woman in her 30s who was also in the Hyundai survived the crash, but was taken to the hospital in serious condition.
Investigators say they are waiting to speak with that woman to learn more about the crash. Police have not confirmed if those in either car were locals or tourists.
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KAHUKU, Hawaii (KITV4) -- The grisly scene of a Ford pick up truck, crashed head on with a sedan, killing two victims, was avoidable according to police had it not been for the trucks speed and attempts to pass multiple vehicles Monday afternoon.
"The driver was reckless and knew or should have known that his actions could cause a collision of this severity, which again, resulted in the death of 2 occupants in the second vehicle and the third occupant clinging to her life," Major Ben Moszkowicz said.
Honolulu police have now opened a manslaughter and negligent homicide investigation following the deadly crash near Gunstock Ranch in Kahuku
The two victims were in the drivers seat and back seat of the Hyundai.
According to HPD, it was a man in his 50s or 60s in the back seat who was pronounced dead at the scene on Kamehameha Highway.
The woman driving in her 50s or 60s also succumbed to her injuries by the end of the day. Witnesses told HPD the truck was weaving through traffic at a high speed, and had passed multiple vehicles leading up to the crash.
"So if you can imagine driving along at 45 miles per hour minding your own business and someone coming the other direction overtaking the 45 mile an hour traffic. So they're probably traveling 55, 60 or more miles per hour overtaking the other 45 mile per hour traffic, colliding head on. Essentially that's the same as driving 45 miles an hour directly into a brick wall," Moszkowicz said.
HPD says the accident took place in the vicinity of a broken yellow line dividing two lanes of one way traffic.
"You can pass if several conditions exist, number 1 it's safe to pass which in this case, clearly it was not. Number 2 you're obeying the speed limit. It's not ok to accelerate above the speed limit to pass which clearly in this case it was not, Moszkowicz added, "And then you have to use your turn signal and make sure traffic is clear in both directions. Which it's really it's really doubtful doubtful the driver could have done, or else he would have seen this oncoming car."
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Buckeye teen Afton Klaffke (far right) was chosen to serve as a mentor at the 2022 Bacon Buddies swine show at the Iowa State Fair. The event provides opportunities for disabled individuals to experience showing animals in the showring.
Buckeye teen Afton Klaffke received an additional thrill to her Iowa State Fair experience this year.
The 14-year-old was part of a group of 4-H and FFA (Future Farmers of America) exhibitors chosen to participate in the third year of the Bacon Buddies Swine Show, which is organized and sponsored by the Iowa Pork Producers Association and the Iowa Special Olympics.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- One of America's most widely-loved and iconic rock bands is coming back to Hawai'i for the first time in five years.
Journey will take the stage on Wednesday, Oct. 5 at the Neal S. Blaisdell Arena.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017, the powerhouse band is known for both their anthemic rock songs and their soaring ballads. Generations of fans have danced and sang along to Journey’s enduring catalog of hits, which includes 19 incredible Top 40 singles and everyone’s favorite to belt out along with the band – “Don’t Stop Believin’” – which has been streamed over one billion times.
Journey’s newest album, Freedom, their first studio album since 2011’s Eclipse, continues to spotlight the band’s impressive mastery of the rock genre, debuting at No. 1 on the Current Rock Chart when it was released on July 8, 2022. Other chart positions include: No. 2 Current Digital Album, No. 2 Digital Albums, No. 3 Current Album sales, No. 3 Album Sales, No. 3 Internet Albums, and No. 88 Billboard 200. Rave reviews call the 15 tracks “scintillating” and “blood pumping,” and go on to say that the songs collectively “send an uplifting vibe of hope, evoke a sense of inner calm, and a firm conviction that love conquers all.”
Known not just for their rock and roll prowess but also for their enthusiastic engagement with fans, Journey is elated to be back, live and in person, entertaining their multigenerational legions of admirers.
Concert promoter Rick Bartalini Presents is thrilled to welcome Journey back to Hawai’i.
“The entire team at RBP are excited to bring Journey to Hawai’i once again. They’ve been cranking out massive hits for almost 50 years. Just about everyone alive knows at least one or two Journey songs. The team and I cannot wait to welcome the people of Hawai’i to the show in October," said Rick Bartalini.
WATCH: Rick Bartalini and RBP team member, Jake Henkle joined GMH to talk about the upcoming concert
Exclusive presale for Hawai’i residents
RBP has been committed to getting the best seats at the best prices to the best events into the hands of Hawai'i’s concertgoers for several years. To do that, the promoter offers geo-limited presales to residents who have a Hawai’i zip code on their credit card billing address. As with past concerts, RBP is offering an exclusive presale for Hawai’i residents to purchase Journey tickets. The presale will be geo-limited by the ticket-selling platform, which will automatically cross-check zip codes on the credit cards used to purchase tickets.
Additionally, during the presale, ticket sale activity will be actively monitored to ensure that the presale is handled fairly for Hawai’i residents. If any out-of-state purchases slip through the platform, those tickets will be canceled and returned to the inventory for Hawai’i residents to purchase first.
The online only presale for Hawai’i residents goes on sale Saturday, August 27th at 10:00 a.m. HST. No password is required. Up to eight tickets may be purchased by one patron.
Tickets go on sale to the mainland starting Saturday, September 3 at 10:00 a.m. HST.
Fans can get further information by signing up for Event Alerts at RBPconcerts.com.
Set to celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2023, Journey has set the standard for arena rock bands to follow for generations, and the band has set the bar high. They’ve amassed 19 Top 40 singles and 25 gold and platinum albums. With almost 100 million albums sold worldwide, they’re one of the few bands to be diamond-certified.
Their Greatest Hits album is one of the most popular “greatest hits” collections in the world, with 15 million copies sold. While "Don't Stop Believin'" is undeniably their biggest smash hit, with over one billion streams, the band is also known for “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’”, “Open Arms”, “Faithfully”, “Any Way You Want It”, and “Only the Young.”
General Ticket Information
- Tickets start at $55.50 plus service fees and general excise tax.
- Tickets will be available at http://www.ticketmaster.com and in-person at the venue box office (Monday – Saturday, 9:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.)
- Neal S. Blaisdell Center address: 777 Ward Ave, Honolulu, HI 96814
Partial proceeds to be donated
Bartalini’s Aren’t You Glad You Stayed Foundation will donate $1 from the sale of each ticket to the Olivia Newton John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre.
Bartalini is dedicating these shows in memory of his friend Olivia Newton-John.
In a statement, Bartalini said:
Olivia was indeed as kind, sweet, lovely and grateful as she appeared to the world. She always sent handwritten thank you cards and would worry if she had forgotten anyone. That's the kind of person she was. She was an
advocate for animals, the planet, breast cancer awareness and cannabis treatments for cancer. She was the most positive and grateful person I’ve ever known.
I find it serendipitous that Olivia wrote “The Promise (The Dolphin Song),” which was featured on her record Physical, during a stay at the Kahala Hotel. The accompanying music video was recorded at Sea Life Park. She loved
Hawai’i and was excited for me when I told her I was moving here in 2016. I find it comforting that she has these connections here and so close to my home in Hawaii' Kai.
Olivia had a profound influence on my life and career. In 1982, I attended her Physical Tour in Oakland, California. It was the very first concert I ever saw. I was a violently abused 12-year-old boy that found happiness for the first time at her show. A seed was planted that night. My career and company is not a coincidence. In Olivia's own words to me about that night so long ago, "It inspired a dream."
Bartalini is auctioning off a collection of memorabilia signed by Newton-John to benefit his Aren’t You Glad You Stayed Foundation, the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund and the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre in Melbourne Australia.
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Phyllis Schachterle, 93, of Ackley, passed away Monday, August 22, 2022 at Grand JiVante in Ackley. Funeral services are pending with the Counsell Woodley Funeral Home of Iowa Falls.
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This booking photo provided by the Napa County Sheriff's Office shows Paul Pelosi on May 29 following his arrest on suspicion of DUI in Northern California.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, right, is pictured with her husband Paul Pelosi in St. Peter's Basilica on June 29. Paul Pelosi pleaded guilty on August 23 to driving under the influence of alcohol in May.
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This booking photo provided by the Napa County Sheriff's Office shows Paul Pelosi on May 29 following his arrest on suspicion of DUI in Northern California.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, right, is pictured with her husband Paul Pelosi in St. Peter's Basilica on June 29. Paul Pelosi pleaded guilty on August 23 to driving under the influence of alcohol in May.
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Judge Joseph Solga sentenced Pelosi to five days in jail but he will receive credit for two days already served and two days for conduct credit. His remaining one day will be served through a court work program. Pelosi will be on probation for three years and pay upwards of $1,700 in fines.
The court also ordered an interlock ignition device to be installed on his vehicle for one year, restitution to remain in the court's jurisdiction and his attendance in a three-month drinking-driver class.
Amanda Bevins, Pelosi's lawyer, appeared on his behalf. Under California law, a defendant does not have to be present in the courtroom unless ordered by a judicial officer and they can appear through their attorney on a misdemeanor case.
Pelosi was arrested on May 28 after a nighttime collision with another driver in Napa, California. Earlier this month, he pleaded not guilty.
The 82-year-old had been attempting to cross SR-29 in late May when his 2021 Porsche was hit by a 2014 Jeep traveling northbound on the road, according to a collision report from the California Highway Patrol. The vehicles "sustained major collision damage," according to a criminal complaint.
The complaint noted that Pelosi was operating his vehicle "while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage and a drug and under their combined influence." Authorities said in the complaint that when asked for ID at the scene, Pelosi handed the officers both his license and an "11-99 Foundation" card. The foundation is the California Highway Patrol charity, which "provides emergency assistance to California Highway Patrol employees and scholarships to their children," according to its website.
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Convenience store clerk details threats made before man beaten in violent Arkansas arrest
An Alma police report released Tuesday states a man threatened to cut the clerk and spat on the clerk.
The threats made against an Arkansas convenience store clerk by a man who was later beaten by officers during an arrest in Mulberry have been released in a police report from a nearby town.
Alma Police took a report about 10 a.m. about a man who had threatened a clerk at a travel center in the Crawford County city. Alma is located about 11 miles east of Mulberry.
Three law officers, two Crawford County deputies and a Mulberry police officer were caught on video beating Randal Ray Worcester, 27, outside the Kountry Xpress convenience store in Mulberry Sunday.
An Alma police report released Tuesday states a man threatened to cut the clerk and spat on the clerk.
Read this:Two Crawford County Sheriff's deputies suspended over beating caught on video
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In an incident statement given to Alma police by the clerk at 10 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 21, the clerk described the threat made in the store.
"A guy came in the store. He had on gray, greasy pants on," according to the statement. "He got him some water in a bottle and went outside to sit on the bench. Got up and went to the front of the store sit on the curb. I went out and told him he could not sit there, according to the statement.
"He got up and spit on me and told me he would cut my f....face up, and I told him, 'I know.' And he told me that three times and told me to get back in the store or he would cut my face up."
The clerk says the man left the store after making the threat.
"He walked to the back of the store. After that I don't know where he went," the clerk wrote.
Russell Wood, an attorney for deputies Zack King and Levi White, said the deputies found Worcester in Mulberry. Worcester was with a bicycle. Worcester matched the description of the man who had threatened the Alma clerk, Wood said.
Wood said that Worcester provided a false identity to the deputies.
Worcester became irate and "viciously attacked deputy White by grabbing him by the legs, lifting him up and body slamming him, head first, on the concrete parking lot," Wood said.
A bystander took a cellphone video of the deputies and Mulberry officer Thell Riddle making a violent arrest with Worcester lying on the pavement being punched in the head and kneed in the side repeatedly.
Worcester's attorney David Powell of Fort Smith said Worcester posted $13,000 bail and was released from the Crawford County Jail Monday.
The U.S. Department of Justice and Arkansas State Police are investigating the arrest of Worcester that Gov. Asa Hutchinson has called, "reprehensible."
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We’ve got one final item on the Marquette men’s soccer season preview, and that’s a look at three big looming questions for the 2022 campaign. If you haven’t already checked out everything else in our season preview, including a look at the returning players and the newcomers on the roster, then you can swing your way on over to our StoryStream to check it all out. This article makes it seven total in there, so that’s more than enough to keep you busy for a while.
Let’s get to the questions!
QUESTION #1 — How much does returning continuity matter?
Marquette returns their top five point men from last season and seven of their top eight. Just in goals, MU returns all of their top four and seven of the nine men who found the back of the net at all last season. We get the same seven of nine number on assists, but in this case, it’s all three men who had more than one helper and four of the six who had one last season. Turning the focus to minutes for field players, Marquette’s top four men return and 10 of the top 11, which is 10 of the 11 with more than 600 minutes played.
This all sounds like very good news, and MU brings back their keeper that played every single minute, too! Here’s the catch: Marquette went 7-8-1 overall and 4-5-1 in Big East play, thus missing the six team conference tournament. That’s not great!
So what does it mean to bring back pretty much everyone notable from a team that wasn’t particularly notable when you look at the entire season? Is that good? Should Marquette be better just by being stable while everyone around them deals with a lot more changes? Or is Marquette just what they are and they’ll struggle to put things together again this fall?
Or, and this is perhaps the most interesting part, does Marquette’s season ending upset of #1 Georgetown tell us that last year’s squad just wasn’t living up to their potential last season and thus they can do that this season?
QUESTION #2 — What’s up with Marquette’s defense?
In the 2021 spring season, Marquette went 8-1-1 before bowing out in the Big East tournament and the NCAA tournament with two losses and a draw. In those 13 matches, they outscored their opponents 16-12, and it was only that close because of an awful 4-1 loss to Seton Hall in the Big East semifinals.
In the 2022 fall season, Marquette went 7-8-1 and didn’t even qualify for the conference tournament. They got outscored 24-21 in those 16 contests.
Quite obviously, less than a goal per game allowed on average is much better than 1.5 goals per game allowed. That’s not the question I’m asking about the defense.
Check this out:
In the spring, Marquette got out shot on an average of nearly five shots per game, 14.4 to 9.8. In other words, they bent a whole lot but they did not break. In the fall, that shot differential wasn’t that much different. Yet once again, MU was underwater in this department, allowing 14.2 shots per game on average and attempting 10.2. The defense was a teeeeeensy bit better in terms of shots, perhaps maybe because the offense was generating a teeeeeeeeeensy bit more on the other end.
One team was nationally ranked and went to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament. The other team started the year nationally ranked, ended up giving that up by the time September was over, and had to hang their hat for the season on the fact that they closed the year out with the program’s first ever win over a #1 ranked team. Neither one was particularly great on defense, as evidenced by that whole shot differential thing. Maybe one was just very lucky and the other was not. Also possible: The offense was not doing anyone any favors both times around. Sometimes great defense is just “we don’t allow the other team to have the ball” and if you’re underwater on shots, that’s also a possible problem.
Can Marquette fix this trend and go from the low 40s in shot percentage like they have been the last two years and get that up around 50% to see what happens to their overall record at the end of the year? Seems like a fun thing to try out!
QUESTION #3 — Is this a Big East tournament team?
Last year, after downing #1 Georgetown in the 10th match of the conference slate to get to 13 points, Marquette had to wait out the final match day of the regular season to see if they would earn a spot in the Big East tournament. There were five possible ways for Marquette to get into the field with the other 10 teams in the league squaring off on the final day of the season. No matter what happened in those, they needed DePaul to not win and Creighton to lose.... and unfortunately the Bluejays won their final game of the season to nudge Marquette down to seventh in the standings and thus outside the field.
On one hand: They were thisclose but didn’t get the help they needed. On the other hand, they were only in the position to receive the help because they managed to pull off the program’s first ever win over a #1 ranked team. If they don’t get that win, they would have already been eliminated before the final match day.
If Marquette’s continuity from last season makes them a better soccer team this season, then it stands to reason that the Golden Eagles should be able to be in competition for a Big East tournament berth. If it doesn’t? Well, then maybe that 7th place projection from the vote of the league’s coaches is right on the nose. | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/8/23/23315395/marquette-golden-eagles-mens-soccer-preview-three-questions-continuity-defense-big-east-tournament | 2022-08-23T22:21:24Z | anonymouseagle.com | control | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/8/23/23315395/marquette-golden-eagles-mens-soccer-preview-three-questions-continuity-defense-big-east-tournament | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A former Louisville police detective who helped falsify the warrant that led to the deadly police raid at Breonna Taylor’s apartment has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge.
Federal investigators said Kelly Goodlett added a false line to the warrant and later conspired with another detective to create a cover story when Taylor’s March 13, 2020, shooting death by police began gaining national attention.
Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot to death by officers who knocked down her door while executing a drug search warrant. Taylor’s boyfriend fired a shot that hit one of the officers as they came through the door and they returned fire, striking Taylor multiple times.
Goodlett, 35, appeared in a federal courtroom in Louisville on Tuesday afternoon and admitted to conspiring with another Louisville police officer to falsify the warrant. Goodlett briefly answered several questions from federal judge Rebecca Jennings Grady.
Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, was in the courtroom Tuesday but did not speak after the proceedings.
Three former Louisville officers were indicted on criminal civil rights charges earlier this month by a federal grand jury. Goodlett was not indicted, but charged in a federal information filing, which likely means the former detective is cooperating with investigators.
Goodlett will be sentenced Nov. 22. Grady said there may be “extenuating circumstances” that may move the court to push back the sentencing date. Part of the plea hearing was also kept under seal and was not discussed in open court Tuesday. She faces up to five years in prison for the conviction.
She resigned from the department Aug. 5, a day after U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced new federal charges in the Taylor case.
Former officers Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany were indicted on charges related to the warrant used to search Taylor’s home. A third former officer, Brett Hankison, was charged with using excessive force when he retreated from Taylor’s door, turned a corner and fired 10 shots into the side of her two-bedroom apartment. He was acquitted by a jury on similar state charges earlier this year. Jaynes, Meany and Hankison have all been fired.
The three former officers face a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted on the civil rights charges.
Federal prosecutors said in court records that Jaynes, who drew up the Taylor warrant, had claimed to Goodlett days before the warrant was served that he had “verified” from a postal inspector that a suspected drug dealer was receiving packages at Taylor’s apartment. But Goodlett knew this was false and told Jaynes the warrant did not yet have enough information connecting Taylor to criminal activity, prosecutors said. She added a paragraph saying the suspected drug dealer, Jamarcus Glover, was using Taylor’s apartment as his current address, according to the court records.
Two months later, when the Taylor shooting was attracting national headlines, the postal inspector told a media outlet he had not verified packages for Glover were going to Taylor’s apartment. Jaynes and Goodlett then met in Jaynes’ garage to “get on the same page” before Jaynes talked to investigators about the Taylor warrant, court records said.
They decided to say Sgt. John Mattingly, who is identified in the court records as J.M., told them Glover was receiving packages at Taylor’s home, according to prosecutors. Mattingly was shot in the leg during the raid at Taylor’s apartment.
Meany, who signed off on the Taylor warrant and was still a Louisville police sergeant when he was indicted on Aug. 4, was fired by Louisville Police Chief Erika Shields on Friday.
Shields said in a statement that Meany has not yet had his case heard by a jury, but “he is facing multiple federal charges after a lengthy investigation by the DOJ” and should not “expect continued employment under such conditions.”
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, says he plans to step down from his government duties before the end of the year.
While he is stepping down from his government posts, Dr. Fauci said he is not retiring and is moving on to the next phase of his career.
On Monday, Dr. Fauci announced he is stepping down as both adviseradvisers to President Joe Biden and as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a position he held since 1984.
In a statement, Dr. Fauci called it the honor of his life to have served as head of that institution.
Dr. Fauci began building his health care legacy when he helped the country through the fight against AIDS in the 1980s. Four decades later, he led efforts to get the country through the Coronavirus pandemic — becoming the face of the COVID-19 response for the Trump administration.
But Dr. Fauci fell out of the former president’s favor, as Fauci’s medical advice clashed with Trump’s push to return to normalcy.
Fauci has also advised every U.S. president since Ronald Reagan.
In a statement, President Biden thanked Dr. Fauci for being a dedicated public servant.
Even before Dr. Fauci’s announcement, some speculated Fauci would step down before next year to avoid being drawn into any investigations if Republicans win control of the U.S. House in the midterm elections.
Dr. Fauci denies that has anything to do with his decision.
Meanwhile, Republican senator Rand Paul said in a statement that Fauci’s resignation will not prevent a full-throated investigation into the origins of the pandemic. He added that Fauci would be asked to testify about this in reference to the theory that the pandemic may have originated from a Chinese lab leak.
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Funeral services for 2022 Potomac High School graduate Kyle Honore will be held Sept. 1 at Hylton Memorial Chapel in Woodbridge.
The viewing is from 10 a.m. to noon and the service is noon to 1 p.m.
Kyle died August 16 after being hit by a train near the entrance of Wingate University (N.C.), according to local police.
Kyle was a freshman at the school, which is located 30 miles southeast of Charlotte. Kyle was dropped off at Wingate Aug. 14 by his parents.
Wingate Police Chief Craig Bradshaw said in a news release Aug. 17 that Kyle was hit by an eastbound train just before 10:45 p.m. Aug. 16 at a crossing along North Camden Street. Kyle was taken to the hospital, but died while being transported there, Bradshaw said.
The Wingate police department issued an update August 18 saying it has found "no evidence of foul play." On Tuesday, the Wingate police department said the investigation is still going on.
As of Tuesday evening, $38,112 had been raised through GoFundMe to help the Honore family cover funeral expenses.
On Sunday, Keith Honore, Kyle's father, sent a message via Twitter on behalf of his family thanking everyone for their support.
"On behalf of my children, Brandon, Keijon and Kam and my wife Nichole, I would like to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers during this unimaginable time.
Our immediate family as well as our extended family, and close friends have received an overwhelming amount of calls and texts from the community. Please accept our apologies if we have not responded or answered. Right now we need both time and privacy to grieve and heal.
Thank you all for understanding
#ForeverKH11
Kyle was a first-team, all-state basketball selection this past season along with being the Class 6 Region B and Cardinal District Player of the Year in playing for his father. Keith Honore led Potomac for 17 seasons before retiring after this season as the Panthers' head boys basketball coach.
One reason Keith Honore decided to step down so he could see Kyle play in college. Keith Honore pulled double duty when another son, Keijon, competed closer at Virginia Wesleyan in Norfolk. But even doing both in-state stretched him.
Kyle was also all-state as a sophomore and junior.
Kyle was a four-year varsity player and three-year starter at point guard for Potomac who tallied 1,003 career points. Kyle averaged 19.3 points a game this past season. He signed with Division II Wingate after the high school season was over. | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/prince_william/service-times-set-for-kyle-honores-funeral-at-hylton-memorial-chapel/article_616b3e34-232c-11ed-a3cf-fb8832e24c78.html | 2022-08-23T22:26:13Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/prince_william/service-times-set-for-kyle-honores-funeral-at-hylton-memorial-chapel/article_616b3e34-232c-11ed-a3cf-fb8832e24c78.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tech. Sgt. Kyle Lyon, 355th Civil Engineering Squadron explosive ordnance disposal technician, puts on a bomb suit during exercise Bushwhacker 22-04 at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, Aug. 17, 2022. This exercise tested the EOD team’s ability to respond to real world threats. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Paige Weldon)
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U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Sergio Barron, an aviation electronics technician assigned to the Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25, receives the Linebacker of the Week Award from U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul R. Birch, 36th Wing commander, and U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Jose Ramon, 36th Maintenance Group senior enlisted leader, at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, August 18, 2022. The Team Andersen Linebacker of the Week recognizes outstanding enlisted, officer, civilian and total force personnel who have had an impact on achieving Team Andersen’s mission, vision and priorities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Emily Saxton)
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NEWS
The duo say the successful pilot is the first step towards launching commercial slicing services, potentially offering customers a more personalised network experience
This week, Nokia and Safaricom are celebrating an African first with their successful trial of 4G/5G fixed wireless access (FWA) network slicing in Kenya’s Western Region.
The trial took place over a live network, including RAN, transport, and core infrastructure, and demonstrated successful slicing capabilities and continuity over 4G LTE, 5G non-standalone (NSA), and 5G standalone (SA) networks.
The live network featured Nokia’s AirScale 4G/5G base stations, as well as the vendor’s NetAct network management and assurance system and its FastMile 4G/5G customer premises equipment. The slicing functioned on
The trial was also noted as having been ‘multi-vendor’, though no specific additional vendors were named in the announcement itself.
Network slicing has long been touted as one of the crown jewels of the 5G era, potentially allowing operators the to construct virtual data pipelines for individual customers, optimised for their specific requirements.
“Network slicing enables operators the ability to divide a network into multiple virtual slices, which can be optimized for a specific target application or service. The end user of each network slice can then be serviced with different priorities, routing, levels of network performance, and security capabilities. Slices can be managed and deployed in minutes, and each one has key performance indicators used for service assurance,” explained Nokia in a press release.
For the most part, however, 5G slicing has remained out of reach for telcos; while technically possible in a limited form over 4G and 5G NSA, network slicing’s true capabilities can only be realised over 5G SA architecture, which has yet to be rolled out comprehensively in most markets.
For Safaricom, who only launched 5G services in Kenya in March last year, commercialising 5G network slicing will still be a long way off, but this trial nonetheless represents a promising step forward for the nascent technology.
“We are proud to have hosted Africa’s first successful pilot of 4G/5G FWA slicing on our network and looking forward to tailoring our service offerings to individual customers and industries, to meet their needs for high-speed connectivity precisely and without unnecessary cost,” said James Maitai, Network Director at Safaricom.
The operator’s interest in 5G network slicing is well founded. According to a recent study from ABI Research, the global 5G slicing revenue is expected to grow from $309 million in 2022 to around $24 billion by 2028. The report even suggested that 5G network slicing could replace a “a sizable part” of the private 5G market – another rapidly growing market segment for modern telcos – though warned that telcos’ commercial models may need to adapt to achieve maximum benefit.
“A sizable part of this market can be converted to 5G slicing. But first, the industry should address challenges associated with technology and commercial models. On the latter, consumers’ and enterprises’ appetite to pay premium connectivity prices for deterministic and tailored connectivity services remains to be determined,” said ABI’s 5G core and edge networks senior analyst, Don Alusha. “Furthermore, there are ongoing industry discussions on whether the value that comes from 5G slicing can exceed the cost required to put together the underlying slicing ecosystem.”
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Singtel mulling the sale of cybersecurity firm Trustwave
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Red Sonja Reboot Begins Filming With Matilda Lutz In the Title Role
After numerous delays, casting changes, and musical chairs directors, the Red Sonja reboot movie has finally started shooting at the Bulgarian Nu Boyana Studio. Ant-Man and the Wasp‘s Hannah John Kamen was previously cast in the title role before dropping out over schedule conflicts. That’s why Matilda Lutz has now stepped in to portray Red Sonja on the big screen for the first time since Brigitte Nielsen played the heroine in the 1985 feature film.
Lutz’s previous credits include the horror sequel, Rings, as well as Zone 414 and Revenge. She is also slated to appear in Reptile on Netflix, as well as the movies Helen’s Dead and Magpie.
“I’ve wanted to make a Red Sonja movie since I was a teenager,” said director M.J. Bassett in a statement. “She has been a powerful presence for me and a character that I have always wanted to bring to the screen with my own voice and vision. When I met Matilda Lutz, I knew she had all the magic I was looking for and could see the complexity and depth she would bring to Sonja.”
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Additionally, two other key roles have been announced. Wallis Day will portray Sonja’s “wicked half-sister,” Annisia, while Robert Sheehan will play Draygan. Plot details weren’t disclosed, but the inclusion of Annisia suggests that the movie may take its cues from Gail Simone and artist Walter Geovani’s Red Sonja comic book run from Dynamite Entertainment.
Day has two prior comic-book related credits to her name. She stepped in for Ruby Rose to play Kate Kane in the second season of Batwoman, and she also had a supporting role in SYFY’s Superman prequel, Krypton. Day is also slated to co-star in Sheroes for Paramount, and the second season of Netflix’s Sex/Life. Sheehan is already on Netflix as Klaus Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy, which recently premiered its third season. He previously appeared in The Mortal Instruments and Misfits.
The rest of the cast includes Michael Bisping, Martyn Ford, Eliza Matengu, Manal El-Feitury, and Katrina Durden.
Red Sonja doesn’t currently have a release date.
What do you think about the choice to cast Matilda Lutz as Red Sonja? Let us know in the comment section below!
Photo Credits: Daniele Venturelli/WireImage via GettyImages/Dynamite Entertainment
Recommended Reading: Red Sonja Omnibus Vol. 1
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New Villains Surface in the Latest Trailer For Gotham Knights
Most of the story for Gotham Knights revolves around the Court of Owls and the grip it’s held on the titular city for nearly 400 years. But this doesn’t mean that a few other DC rogues can’t cause a little extra mayhem for the game’s four playable heroes along the way. Although earlier previews confirmed roles for characters like Penguin and Mr. Freeze, the latest trailer for Gotham Knights reveals new looks at additional supporting villains, including Harley Quinn and Clayface. You can check it out for yourself below.
Gotham PD’s Renee Montoya narrates the trailer as Alfred Pennyworth gathers the surviving members of the Bat Family following the deaths of Bruce Wayne and Commissioner Gordon. Gotham may be “at her weakest” after losing both of its top cops in one fell swoop. Regardless, this isn’t going to stop Montoya and her new allies from stepping up to the plate and restoring order to the city.
RELATED: New Gotham Knights Video Dives Into Gotham City’s History
In addition to the Court of Owls’ army of Talons, the trailer boasts a ton of new footage of Mr. Freeze’s latest scheme to turn Gotham into a frigid wasteland. But as usual, Harley Quinn manages to hog the spotlight with her signature brand of mayhem. One scene even appears to show Harley hosting her own bastardized version of a TED Talk. However, Clayface prefers a more hands-on approach to fighting his enemies. It’s clear from the footage that this incarnation of the classic Batman villain is nothing like the cuddly thespian from HBO Max’s Harley Quinn animated series. Fortunately, we can still expect him to make plenty of references to his acting career.
Originally, Gotham Knights was expected to bow on October 25. But the new trailer reveals that WB Montréal is making some changes to its release schedule. The game will now hit the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC four days earlier on October 21.
Are you excited to fight Harley Quinn and Clayface when the game arrives this fall? Let us know in the comment section below!
Recommended Reading: Batman: The Court of Owls Saga
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Conn. (WNTH) — A waterspout that formed on the Long Island Sound was captured on video from someone aboard the Cross Sound Ferry on Tuesday.
Watch the video below. (Credit: LST 510 Cape Henlopen Cross Sound Ferry)
A waterspout, which forms when cold air moves across the Great Lakes, creating temperature differences between the warm water and cold air, can last anywhere between two and 20 minutes.
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The New York primary elections have turned into a big, intra-party brawl with huge implications for Democratic leadership in Washington — and it all started with a last-minute court decision in the spring. The contests were scheduled for June, but the New York Court of Appeals ruled in April that the redistricted map Democrats had drawn was unconstitutional. That pushed primary day to Tuesday and put several prominent New York Democrats into direct competition with one another, guaranteeing at least one incumbent a loss and touching off sharp ideological battles across several districts.
NY-12: A Veteran Democrat slugfest is playing out in Manhattan and Queens
Carolyn Maloney, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, and Jerrold Nadler, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, were each elected in 1992, and have been allies for three decades on Capitol Hill. But a redrawn 12th district has forced them to run against one another, meaning one of the two prominent Democratic leaders will be sent packing.
As my colleague Chris Smith wrote last week, Maloney is likely to be the one to go, with Nadler picking up key endorsements from The New York Times and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. “The loser in this is New York,” Democratic strategist Jon Reinish told ABC News. "These are two members in good standing with the electorate…If you’re a New York City voter, it really sucks to have to make this choice.”
NY-10: A Wealthy Democrat's “progressive” bona fides are under fire in Brooklyn and West Manhattan
If the contest for the 12th district seat has pitted allies against each other, the 10th district race has turned competitors into allies. Mondaire Jones, a progressive who represents the 17th district, is trying to hold onto a congressional seat. But the crowded race appears to have swung more recently in favor of Daniel Goldman, a wealthy former federal prosecutor who became a prominent figure in Democratic circles after leading the first impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. With the Times-endorsed Goldman carrying much of the momentum and leading in the polls, Jones and fellow progressive Yuh-Line Niou, a state assembly member, have both railed against Goldman, labeling him a “conservative” who is attempting to “purchase” the seat.
“We can’t let a candidate so out of step with this district’s values buy themselves a congressional seat,” Niou recently said in a joint presser with Jones.
But Goldman, who has defended himself as a “progressive,” appears to be leading the race with a campaign “predicated on the fact that the biggest concern facing us right now is an authoritarian Republican Party,” as Goldman campaign spokesperson Simone Kanter told The Washington Post.
NY-17: An establishment Democrat is pitted a progressive rising star in Southern New York
Jones is only running in the 10th district because he wanted to avoid a conflict with Sean Patrick Maloney, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair who chose to run in the 17th after the redraw split his district. An establishment choice who boasts support from Nancy Pelosi, Maloney is currently favored to win reelection. But on his left, Maloney faces a challenge from rising star Alessanra Biaggi, a state senator who has the backing of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Biaggi has framed the race as a battle between a progressive fighter and a “selfish corporate Democrat with no integrity,” while Maloney has cast himself as a representative of the “common-sense wing” of the party.
This sort of tug-of-war between the progressive and moderate wings of the party is nothing new. But in NY-17, that battle is playing out against the backdrop of the Democrats’ broader effort to retain their majority on Capitol Hill — an in effort in which Maloney, the DCCC chair, is playing a key role. “As DCCC chair, I will do whatever it takes to protect our pro-choice majority and keep the speaker’s gavel out of Kevin McCarthy’s hands,” he told the Times editorial board earlier this month.
NY-19 & NY-23: Republican extremism on the ballot
The GOP's Trump-led extremism will also be on the ballot Tuesday in New York.
Perhaps most notably, there is the Republican primary in the 23rd district, which pits the party’s state chairman, Nick Langworthy, against Carl Paladino, a former Republican gubernatorial candidate whose long history of outrageous conduct includes praise for Adolf Hitler, a “facetious” call to execute Attorney General Merrick Garland, and the employment of a convicted pedophile his campaign treasurer.
The special election in the upstate 19th district, between Democrat Pat Ryan and Republican Marc Molinaro, could also be a referendum on right-wing radicalism following the Supreme Court's rescission of Roe v. Wade. Molinaro, who is currently favored to take Democrat Antonio Delgado's vacant congressional seat, has as attempted to downplay the issue of abortion and insisted he does not support a national ban. But Ryan has fought back against Molinaro's messaging, adamant on framing the race as an existential fight for reproductive rights. “I talk about freedom,” Ryan said at a recent event. “I think the most unifying value that Americans share is freedom and a lack of excitement about the government telling us what to do in our lives.” Beltway Democrats are also closely watching the race because it is situated in a swing district, which might serve as a bellwether for November’s general election. “I think Pat Ryan might surprise a lot of people,” Maloney, the DCCC chair, told the Post. “And if he does, boy, that’s going to be a real telltale sign of what’s to come.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/democrats-new-york-primaries-2022 | 2022-08-23T22:38:47Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/democrats-new-york-primaries-2022 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Since the FBI raided Donald Trump’s home earlier this month, the ex-president and his defenders have trotted out all manner of bullshit to explain why it was totally fine for him to have classified government documents at his for-profit club and private residence, and to hold onto them despite the government asking him to give them back. Said bullshit has included but has not been limited to:
- Things were crazy at the end of the Trump administration and no one even knew what was going into the Mar-a-Lago-bound boxes.
- People take classified documents all the time and it’s not a big deal.
- The Feds planted the documents.
- The General Services Administration, not Trump’s staff, packed the boxes, so if anything ended up in Florida that wasn’t supposed to be there, it was their fault.
- Trump was just bringing the documents home because he’s a famously hard worker for whom the clock never stops.
- Trump had a “standing order” to declassify everything he took out of the White House.
- Trump has a long history of scrapbooking and his possession of classified documents was merely part of that innocent hobby.
But of all the ridiculous, contradictory defenses they’ve come up with, we’ve yet to hear Trump or any of his lackeys argue that the raid was uncalled-for because the ex-president was only hanging onto one classified document here and another classified document there. And that’s probably because, utterly shameless as they may be, Team Trump knows the former president didn’t just stash a handful of classified documents in the basement of Mar-a-Lago, but rather a volume they refer to in the intelligence community as “a metric fuck-ton.”
Thanks to a letter from the National Archives and Records Administration—posted, inexplicably, to the website of a conservative journalist and Trump ally—we know that NARA recovered more than 700 pages of classified material in the 15 boxes it removed from Mar-a-Lago in January. Not seven, not 70, but 700. The letter, which was sent to Trump attorney Evan Corcoran in May, reveals that NARA and federal investigators were extremely and increasingly worried about the national security implications of government secrets being stored at Trump’s club. Acting archivist Debra Steidel Wall wrote in the letter: “There are important national security interests in the FBI and others in the Intelligence Community getting access to these materials. According to NARA, among the materials in the boxes are over 100 documents with classification markings, comprising more than 700 pages. Some include the highest levels of classification, including Special Access Program (SAP) materials. Access to the materials is not only necessary for purposes of our ongoing criminal investigation, but the Executive Branch must also conduct an assessment of the potential damage resulting from the apparent manner in which these materials were stored and transported and take any necessary remedial steps. Accordingly, we are seeking immediate access to these materials so as to facilitate the necessary assessments that need to be conducted within the Executive Branch.”
According to The New York Times, the ridiculously large number of documents recovered in January “ignited intense concern at the Justice Department and helped trigger the criminal investigation that led FBI agents to swoop into Mar-a-Lago this month seeking to recover more, multiple people briefed on the matter said.” But before that happened, the Feds visited the Palm Beach resort in June in the hopes of getting Trump to turn over whatever remaining materials he was hanging onto, at which time an attorney for the ex-president reportedly signed a statement asserting that “to the best of her knowledge, all classified material that was there had been returned.” In total, between January and August, the government reportedly reclaimed more than 300 classified documents from Trump’s home. Which, to be clear, is a lot. When the Feds executed their search warrant this month, the Times reported, one set of documents they seized “had the highest level of classification, top secret/sensitive compartmented information.” Earlier this month, The Washington Post reported that the FBI believed nuclear documents were being held at Mar-a-Lago when they raided the place, which Donald Trump Jr. has suggested would actually be a good thing: | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-so-many-classified-documents | 2022-08-23T22:38:52Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-so-many-classified-documents | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pop-quiz: Your father-in-law recently had his home searched by the FBI based on probable cause that he may have broken multiple laws, including the Espionage Act. You and your wife have a documented history of conveniently being on vacation whenever he’s done something particularly reprehensible so as to avoid association, even though you willingly worked for the guy for years and never once spoke out against any of the terrible shit he got into. Unfortunately, at present, you’ve got a book to peddle and don’t have the luxury of telling reporters, “I’m out of the country with limited cell service” or “I’m going through a tunnel, you’re breaking up” while sipping a piña colada as a pool boy reapplies sunscreen to your back. Do you a) tell anyone asking that this is an ongoing investigation and we should allow the FBI and Justice Department the space to do their jobs; b) urge your FIL’s supporters to cease any and all attacks on law enforcement immediately; or c) claim that the government and the media are a bunch of snakes whose lies will soon be revealed? If you’re Jared Kushner, you apparently gotta go with C.
Appearing on Fox & Friends on Tuesday, the former first son-in-law was asked about the New York Times report that the FBI recovered more than 300 classified documents from Donald Trump’s Palm Beach home between January and August. “Why would the former president have that many classified things at Mar-a-Lago?” Steve Doocy wondered. Kushner’s response? That the media spent years publishing lies about him, and this is clearly no different. “I’m not familiar with what exactly the contents were,” Kushner told the gang. “But what I’ll just say from my personal experience, in the campaign, in the transition, we had a very innocent meeting with the Russian ambassador, and then four months later you’re reading that the intel agencies are leaking to The Washington Post that we requested this secret back channel and then The New York Times and CNN go crazy for a weekend accusing us of treason, and then it turns out such a thing never really happened. And so I just think you have to be very careful with what you read, and obviously just wait for the facts to develop. But I mean there’s been so many things that have been hyperventilated about over the last years that turned out to be nothing. And that’s again why I wrote this book was I wanted people to understand what it was like to be living through that when you know you’ve done nothing wrong. You’re there trying to get good things done. And people are out there accusing you of all these crazy things and you have to prove that those things didn’t happen.”
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Kushner did not note that many of the things his father-in-law was doing in office actually warranted investigation—and were accurately reported by the press—like his attempt to extort Ukraine for personal gain, or his plot to overturn the presidential election, which Jared has taken pains to insist he had nothing to do with. Over the weekend, the former first son-in-law told Fox News host Mark Levin that Trump is being “over-pursu[ed]” by haters who “always…make mistakes in trying to get him.”
Going after the media—or to use his father-in-law’s preferred nickname, “the enemy of the people”—has been a consistent theme for Kushner of late. In his new book, Breaking History, he complains that the press was “unfair” to Ivanka, claiming a video of her seemingly being snubbed by world leaders was “entirely inaccurate,” and that “snarky and dishonest detractors used the video…to create the false narrative that Ivanka was unwelcome at the G20.”
Dr. Oz’s new campaign strategy: Calling Fetterman a vegetable-averse fatty who has only himself to blame for his stroke
Here’s hoping he had a better bedside manner with his patients. Per Insider:
If only Fetterman could get his hands on the “miracle weight-loss cures” Oz used to peddle on his TV show! | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/jared-kushner-donald-trump-classified-documents | 2022-08-23T22:38:54Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/jared-kushner-donald-trump-classified-documents | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
There’s a new Big Tech whistleblower in town. Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, last month sent a complaint to various federal agencies and congressional committees, alleging that Twitter violated its agreement with the Federal Trade Commission by misleading regulators about its security practices; that the company prioritized growing users over reducing spam; and that Twitter’s full-time employees, of which there are some 7,000, had broad and loosely monitored access to the company’s central internal software, allowing them to make changes to how the system worked and access sensitive information, according to The Washington Post, which, along with CNN, exclusively obtained the complaint first reported Tuesday. Among the more explosive allegations in the complaint involves the Indian government, which, according to Zatko, forced Twitter to put at least one of its agents on the payroll, “with access to user data at a time of intense protests in the country,” the Post reports.
The allegations come as the social media company is embroiled in a high-profile dispute with Elon Musk, over the Tesla CEO's attempt to get out of his deal to buy Twitter. Musk's legal team on Monday subpoenaed former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey—with whom Musk is close—in an attempt to get information on Twitter's user data and the number of spam accounts on its platform, Axios reported. Musk, as part of his effort to walk away from his $44 billion agreement to purchase Twitter, has claimed that Twitter may be misrepresenting the number of spam and fake accounts on its site.
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Zatko, who is also known by his hacker name “Mudge,” was hired by Dorsey in late 2020, following a security breach targeting various high-profile accounts, and fired in January by Parag Agrawal—who replaced Dorsey as CEO a few months earlier—for “poor performance and ineffective leadership,” a Twitter spokesperson told the Post. In his 15 months at the social media company, Zatko, per his complaint, said he found “egregious deficiencies, negligence, willful ignorance, and threats to national security and democracy.” The former security chief’s disclosure claims he “had warned colleagues that half the company’s servers were running out-of-date and vulnerable software,” the Post reports, “and that executives withheld dire facts about the number of breaches and lack of protection for user data, instead presenting directors with rosy charts measuring unimportant changes.”
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In a statement to CNN and the Post, a Twitter spokesperson dismissed Zatko’s “allegations and opportunistic timing” as an attempt to “capture attention and inflict harm on the company, its customers and its shareholders.” Twitter's spokesperson said that while the company has not had access to the specific allegations in question—the version published by the Post, obtained from a congressional aide, is redacted—“what we’ve seen so far is a narrative about our privacy and data security practices that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies, and lacks important context,” per the Post.
Among those allegations Twitter says lack context, are Zatko’s claims about spam and bots—a topic at the center of Musk’s legal battle with Twitter. Zatko’s complaint claims Twitter lacks the ability to accurately gauge the number of bot accounts across all of Twitter (the company has estimated fewer than five percent of the monetizable daily users are fake or spam). He goes on to say the company had “no appetite” to quantify the number of bots because the actual number could damage Twitter’s reputation and worth. Twitter “said the total number of bots on the platform is not a useful number,” according to CNN, and that the company removes more than a million spam accounts on a typical day.
Zatko's lawyer, John Tye—who also represented Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen—“said Zatko began the whistleblower process before there was any indication of Musk’s involvement with Twitter,” according to CNN. But Zatko's complaint could nevertheless prove useful for Musk's case against Twitter, which is set to go to court in Delaware in October: CNN notes that Zatko not only bolsters Musk's bot argument in his disclosure but potentially arms Musk's legal team with other issues, such as Twitter allegedly misleading the FTC, that they could leverage in their attempt to back out of the deal. Musk's lawyers haven't missed a beat: | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/twitter-whistleblower-could-shake-up-trial-with-elon-musk | 2022-08-23T22:38:55Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/twitter-whistleblower-could-shake-up-trial-with-elon-musk | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Danielle Fishel recently revealed that after first finding fame on Boy Meets World at age 12, she had a very scary experience with a fan who she thought was a young girl her own age.
On this week's episode of Pod Meets World, the podcast the actor does alongside her former costars Rider Strong and Will Friedle, they addressed some frequently asked questions from their listeners, including one asking which of them used to receive the most fan mail. Strong was the unanimous winner as he played the young heartthrob on the show, Shawn Hunter, the best friend of the main character Cory Matthews, played by Ben Savage. Rider said that by the third or fourth season of the show, however, he became “uncomfortable” with the “overwhelming” amount of fan mail he received. He added that he was also worried he was letting fans down by not being able to respond to them all.
Fishel, who played Topanga Lawrence, then shared her own scary experience with a fan, explaining, “When we first started getting fan mail, I also read them all and responded to them all. I got a letter in ’93 from a young girl and she included pictures of herself in it, and she was in gymnastics.” Fishel was also a gymnast before she became an actor. She continued, “She wrote me this handwritten letter that she was a fan, and I wrote her back and she sent me another letter and we started this correspondence back and forth. I felt very close to her, and one of the things she talked about regularly was that both of her parents died when she was young and she lived with her older brother.”
When she received a second letter from the fan, Fishel said the girl had included pictures of her brother who was a “good-looking guy,” but “several years older.” She said the fan would also repeatedly tell her that she didn't know what she'd do without her brother as she didn't have any parents. The fan also included her phone number so that Fishel could call her. She added, “My mom is participating in me writing back. She’s reading all these letters as well and she’s aware of what I’m writing and she’s reading what this girl is writing to me, and my mom is like: ‘[It seems like] you would be friends.’ So I call her and I get her voicemail, but it’s not her. It’s her brother’s voicemail because it’s his house. They live in an apartment together, but her name isn’t anywhere on the voicemail.”
At this point, Strong realized, “She doesn’t exist! She doesn’t exist—some guy pretending to be a girl, you got catfished!” Fishel confirmed that was the case, explaining, “The way it all came out is because I kept calling her, and I left my phone number and she wouldn’t call me back. Then we got a letter from her brother saying that she had died, and my mum woke up in the middle of the night and was like: ‘She never existed, it’s always been him!’” And from there things only escalated, she said, “He started showing up at my school and telling people he was there to pick me up.” Fishel didn't share how that situation came to an end, but Strong labeled the whole thing her “first stalker experience.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/danielle-fishel-catfish-stalker-12-years-old-pen-pal-boy-meets-world-pod-meets-world | 2022-08-23T22:38:56Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/danielle-fishel-catfish-stalker-12-years-old-pen-pal-boy-meets-world-pod-meets-world | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The fall release of Prince Harry’s yet-to-be-titled autobiography is allegedly making Buckingham Palace very nervous. Even Prince Harry’s statement about the book, set to be published by Penguin Random House, could be seen as a shot against the palace. “I’m writing this not as the prince I was born,” he revealed, “but as the man I have become.”
It is said that his royal family members are both worried and angered over his refusal to share details with them about the autobiography’s contents. Reports indicate that Prince Charles even “iced out” his son during a recent visit after Harry remained mute on the book, ghostwritten by J.R. Moehringer.
Charles’s reported anger is ironic, considering that he publicly revealed family secrets and grudges during the epic “War of the Wales” that erupted in the early 1990s between himself, Princess Diana, and their various supporters. In fact, both of Harry’s parents collaborated with authors to get their side of the story out.
Gossip about the Wales’ mismatched marriage, stories of infidelity, and whispers of the royal family’s treatment of Diana had been tabloid fodder for years. By the early 1990s, the unhappy couple decided to independently set the record (as they saw it) straight.
But while Harry is taking ownership of his memoir, his parents did so covertly, paying lip service to the old royal adage “never complain, never explain.”
In 1992, Charles was reeling from the breakdown of his marriage to Diana and the publication of Diana: Her True Story, Andrew Morton’s incendiary tell-all. Diana had secretly given interviews to Morton (which was not revealed until after her death) and painted Prince Charles as a harsh, spineless cheater. Public opinion seemed firmly on the beloved princess’s side.
Charles was well aware that Diana was behind Morton’s biography. Egged on by his then private secretary, Richard Aylard, the prince chose journalist Jonathan Dimbleby as his collaborator on both a TV special and a biography.
As biographer Sally Bedell Smith, author of Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life, notes, Charles’s decision to publicly fight back was not surprising. “From an early age,” she writes, “Charles felt compelled to express his fervidly held opinions in speeches and articles—often out of deep conviction, at other times to attract attention and to compete with Diana’s magnetic presence.”
But according to The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown, palace officials were dismayed when they discovered the project was to be more than a puff piece celebrating the 25th anniversary of Charles’s investiture as Prince of Wales. She writes:
The royal family was allegedly horrified and worried about what the prince would reveal. “Charles had ignored proverbial wisdom: ‘If you seek revenge, dig two graves,’” Kitty Kelley writes in The Royals. “But Charles discarded the advice of his family, his friends, and his mistress, who had warned that nothing good could come of his candor. His beloved grandmother said she would have nothing to do with the project.”
First up was the ITV documentary, Charles: The Private Man, the Public Role, which featured fawning clips of the prince overseas and skiing with his sons. But the almost two-and-a-half-hour broadcast, which aired on June 29, 1994, made headlines not for the prince’s good works, but for his complaints. In a sprawling, sit-down interview with Dimbleby, he eviscerated the press and his schedule and complimented his “great friend” Camilla Parker Bowles. But most dramatically, he revealed that he had been unfaithful to Diana with the following words: | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/how-prince-charles-sought-revenge-against-princess-diana-and-the-palace | 2022-08-23T22:39:07Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/how-prince-charles-sought-revenge-against-princess-diana-and-the-palace | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Julia Fox has a modest proposal: Put your kid to work.
“My son, he doesn’t care for his toys,” the actor said on TikTok, where she mainly posts her patented leather outfits, on Monday. “He’s actually more interested in what I’m doing. So I suggest everyone buy their kid a little mini mop, a mini broom, and start teaching them those life skills really young so that when they enter the real world, they don’t have to outsource for everything and they know how to do things for themselves.”
Mom stuff—suggestions, questions, comments, concerns—can be a lightning rod on the internet (see the so-called “mommy blogs” of 2005 to 2010, and later iterations too). But Fox, a single mother, is wading bravely in. That’s to be expected of the star, who dated Kanye West and doesn’t seem to fear backlash or backlash to backlash, but instead, is only ever being herself. And her son? He’s earning his keep.
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“The idea of childhood, the concept of childhood, was only invented in the 18th century,” she said. “Prior to that, children were just regarded as little adults. That’s why in a lot of old paintings the children don’t look the same that we show them today, with the angelic features and all that stuff. They didn’t do that back then.”
Fox added that the concept of childhood was invented to get parents to spend a lot of money on stuff they don’t need. Relatedly, a recently published Brookings Institution report found that it now costs, on average, more than $300,000 to raise a child from infancy to 17 years old (which does not include any savings for college). Just think about how much you could save on keeping house. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/julia-fox-mop-broom-for-kids | 2022-08-23T22:39:13Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/julia-fox-mop-broom-for-kids | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The big reveal in Meghan Markle’s new Spotify podcast Archetypes—that the first day of her trip to South Africa with Prince Harry and Archie Mountbatten-Windsor was marred by a nursery fire—comes near the end of her conversation with friend and tennis star Serena Williams. But in her introduction to the series, Meghan says a few lines that might give some insight into her motivations for making the show in the first place.
While discussing the feminist roots of her high school, Meghan mentions that she grew up believing that ambition is important for women to have. “So, I don’t remember ever personally feeling the negative connotation behind the word ambitious until I started dating my now husband,” she adds. “And um, apparently ambition is, uh… a terrible, terrible thing, for a woman that is—according to some. So, since I’ve felt the negativity behind it, it’s really hard to un-feel it.”
Meghan is obliquely—and classily—referencing some of the negative headlines that continue to follow her even though she has left her royal role. She doesn’t say whether or not she’s talking about the ones that question her motives for being with Harry or her habit of sending text messages to her staff early in the morning, but she doesn’t need to. Ultimately, she makes it clear that her time in the royal fishbowl has helped her understand the stereotypes about women that she will spend the podcast series addressing.
From the beginning of her time in the royal family, it was clear that Meghan was not one for Queen Elizabeth’s supposed mantra, “never complain, never explain.” For one, she had already been living in the public eye, telling stories on her blog, and posting vacation photos on her Instagram. But after Meghan and Harry’s relationship went public in the Fall of 2016, the media attention was much harsher than she had anticipated, as she explained to Oprah Winfrey in their March 2021 interview. She ultimately chafed under the palace prerogative to ignore many negative stories—selectively, she claimed, because other palace principles got protection.
One headline has come to stand in for the tabloid interest in Meghan—the Daily Mail assertion that “Harry’s new girl is (almost) straight outta Compton”—and it gets some discussion in the podcast interview with Williams. After Meghan mentions that she and Williams are the same age and both grew up in Compton, Williams tosses in a little aside. “I'm the one, for the record, that grew up in Compton,” she says.
Meghan laughs and responds. “When they said, Harry's girl is straight outta Compton, I was like, are they talking about Serena?” she says. “I’m not from Compton. I've never lived in Compton. My mom doesn't live in Compton. But by the way, what's wrong with Compton?” Serena then emphasizes that she’s proud to be from Compton, along with Dr. Dre. (She also mentions that actor Kevin Costner is also from Compton, one of the episode’s many laugh lines.)
It’s important to note that there is plenty of evidence that the palace press office did stick up for Meghan at different times before her royal exit in 2020, specifically when they tried to stamp out rumors that Kate Middleton and Meghan were feuding in the fall of 2018. But this Compton conversation helps illuminate exactly what Meghan wasn’t getting in the palace—an opportunity to defang news cycles using her charisma and humor. In discussing the headline, she manages to point out that it is very offensive to Black Americans and factually incorrect, all without getting too serious. As Vanity Fair explored in the podcast series Dynasty, the modern-day palace is using a playbook that has been developed over more than a century, and they have their reasons for dealing with the press in the manner they do.
But it’s not hard to imagine that some of the behind-the-scenes tension could have been defused if Meghan felt like she was getting the opportunity to direct the response, rather than it being dictated to her. This takes us back to the Rorschach test nature of the British royal family. To those who believe in hierarchy, Meghan’s desire to have a voice seems like selfishness. To those who are interested in modernity, Meghan’s intuition could be useful to the family. Either way, it’s moot now. So far, one of the most obvious successes of Archetypes is how easily its host has adapted to being behind the microphone. Meghan is so comfortable speaking in her own voice that the third person of palace communiqués was never going to work for her. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/meghan-markle-archetypes-thoughts-on-compton | 2022-08-23T22:39:19Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/meghan-markle-archetypes-thoughts-on-compton | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Olivia Newton-John's daughter Chloe Lattanzi is trying to see the silver-lining in grief after her mother's passing earlier this month.
The singer shared a moving quote from author Jamie Anderson on her Instagram account on Sunday that read, “Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.” Lattanzi captioned the post with just a red heart emoji.
The day after her mother's death, Lattanzi also shared some footage on Instagram of the two of them recording their duet “Window in the Wall” in January 2021. She wrote in the caption of the post, “You are my lighthouse mama. My safe place. My heart space. It has been my honor and continues to be my honor to be your baby and best friend. You are an angel on earth and everyone touched by you has been blessed.” She concluded, “I love you forever my life giver, my teacher, my mama.”
Newton-John died on August 8 at age 73 at her ranch in Southern California surrounded by her friends and family. Her passing came thirty years after she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, which led to a partial mastectomy, chemotherapy, and breast reconstruction. Five years ago, she revealed her cancer had returned and metastasized to her sacrum. Newton-John's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, any donations be made in her memory to the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund.
Earlier this month, Newton-John's husband John Easterling also shared his fond memories of his longtime love and the special moments they spent together. “Olivia, our love for each other transcends our understanding,” he wrote on Instagram two days after her death. “Every day we expressed our gratitude for this love that could be so deep, so real, so natural. We never had to ‘work’ on it. We were in awe of this great mystery and accepted the experience of our love as past, present and forever.” He concluded by thanking everyone for the “vast ocean of love and support that has come our way,” adding, “Even now as her soul soars, the pain and holes in my heart are healed with the joy of her love and the light that shines forward.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/olivia-newton-john-daughter-grief-quote-instagram-death-breast-cancer | 2022-08-23T22:39:25Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/olivia-newton-john-daughter-grief-quote-instagram-death-breast-cancer | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Contrary to what had been rumored ahead of the weekend nuptials, Jennifer Lopez did not wear a Ralph Lauren dress for her second wedding to Ben Affleck. She wore three of them.
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On Tuesday, the American brand released a short film detailing the making of the gown hat trick.
According to a release from the brand, the ruffled hem on the turtleneck dress featured in the aerial shots of the Georgia wedding was made of more than 1,000 hand-cut handkerchiefs. The skirt was slightly obscured in many of the unauthorized photographs thanks to the dramatically long veil the bride wore, so this video is the first opportunity to see the luxurious amount of fabric that was at J.Lo’s feet up close. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/ralph-lauren-jennifer-lopezs-three-wedding-gowns-ben-affleck-cream-dinner-jacket | 2022-08-23T22:39:31Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/ralph-lauren-jennifer-lopezs-three-wedding-gowns-ben-affleck-cream-dinner-jacket | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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