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Swiss National Bank President Thomas Jordan spoke at the Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole symposium on Saturday.
- “Structural factors such as the transition to a greener economy, rising sovereign debt worldwide, the demographic transition and ultimately also the fact that globalization appears to have peaked -- at least temporarily -- could lead to persistently higher inflationary pressure in the coming years”
- “There are signs that inflation is increasingly spreading to goods and services that are not directly affected by the pandemic or the war in Ukraine”
- higher prices are being passed on more quickly
- inflation expectations “have also been moving upwards slightly”
- a decline in global economic integration could increase companies’ price-setting power, meaning that they would be able to push through price increases more easily
Info come via a gated Bloomberg article.
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Jordan's comments are not aimed at only a Swiss context - these developments he cites are applicable across developed markets. Higehr rates for longer is getting cemented in. | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/swiss-national-bank-president-jordan-warned-of-persistently-higher-inflationary-pressure-20220829/ | 2022-08-29T04:19:17Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/swiss-national-bank-president-jordan-warned-of-persistently-higher-inflationary-pressure-20220829/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
China's Global Times conveys the info:
- Chinese authorities have informed the US Department of Agriculture that Chinese customs will suspend meat imports transported by US firm Tyson Fresh Meat starting from Monday, after its pig trotters failed to pass inspection.
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There could well be China-US relations drivers behind this. Dunno. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/chinese-customs-will-suspend-meat-imports-transported-by-us-firm-tyson-fresh-meat-20220829/ | 2022-08-29T04:19:23Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/chinese-customs-will-suspend-meat-imports-transported-by-us-firm-tyson-fresh-meat-20220829/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Cast your vote for Monroe County Region Athlete of the Week
Niles Kruger
The Monroe News
Who had the Monroe County Region’s best performance in high school sports last week?
You get to decide.
Each week during the high school season fans will be invited to vote for the Monroe County Region Athlete of the Week.
Votes will be accepted each week until Wednesday at midnight. The winner will be announced Thursday. You will be allowed to vote once per day.
The nominees for Week 1 are two swimmers, two soccer players, a cross country runner and a volleyball player.
Cast your vote today!
Athlete of the Week:Vote here | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/08/29/cast-your-vote-for-monroe-county-region-athlete-of-the-week/65460924007/ | 2022-08-29T04:21:13Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/08/29/cast-your-vote-for-monroe-county-region-athlete-of-the-week/65460924007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
OCEAN CITY, Md.- A fire broke out at the Union Chesapeake Seafood House on Philadelphia Ave. in Ocean City Saturday evening.
The Ocean City Fire Department says the fire started just before 5 p.m. When firefighters arrived they found flames and smoke coming from the roof of the building. Firefighters used a fire hose to put the fire out on the roof, and cut a portion of the roof to check to see if the fire had moved to other areas of the building, according to the Fire Department.
There were no injuries, but significant damage was done to the roof.
The building used to be home to the Phillips Crab House.
Investigators with the Fire Marshal have rule the fire accidental, saying the fire caused by an isolated electrical issue on the roof. | https://www.wboc.com/news/update-fire-at-union-chesapeake-seafood-house-ruled-accidental/article_d19b5ac8-2678-11ed-bc19-f374df6c8289.html | 2022-08-29T04:21:13Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/update-fire-at-union-chesapeake-seafood-house-ruled-accidental/article_d19b5ac8-2678-11ed-bc19-f374df6c8289.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Islamabad: There seems no end to the woes of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Even as he is involved in a perpetual confrontation with the new Shehbaz Sharif dispensation, a five-judge larger bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has been constituted to proceed against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) boss for "intimidating a female judge".
Headed by IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah, the bench comprises Justices Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri and Babar Sattar.
It will resume proceedings on the matter on August 31 when the ex-PM is supposed to appear in person before the court. Earlier, the IHC had issued a show-cause notice to Khan asking him to appear before the court, reported the Dawn.
Initially, the matter was heard by a three-member bench.
The show-cause notice to Khan mentioned that the statement was made in a sub-judice matter to get "favourable" verdict and prima facie, this act was tantamount to obstructing the course of justice and due process and to undermine public confidence in the court of law.
"These remarks have been made with the motive of bringing the administration of law into disrepute and eroding the integrity and credibility of the judicial system."
"Prima facie, Mr Khan committed criminal as well as judicial contempt, punishable under section 5 of the Contempt of Court Ordinance, 2003", it added.
Also, Yaseen Gill, brother of Khan's chief of staff Shahbaz Gill, has filed a complaint before the IHC chief justice against additional sessions judge Zeba Chaudhry.
It stated that "she had passed the order on August 17, 2022 [to hand over Mr Shahbaz's custody to police] in grave violation and derogation of judicial norms and express provisions of law". | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2022/08/28/legal-woes-imran-khan-islamabad.amp.html | 2022-08-29T04:25:31Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2022/08/28/legal-woes-imran-khan-islamabad.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Islamabad: There seems no end to the woes of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Even as he is involved in a perpetual confrontation with the new Shehbaz Sharif dispensation, a five-judge larger bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has been constituted to proceed against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) boss for "intimidating a female judge".
Headed by IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah, the bench comprises Justices Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri and Babar Sattar.
It will resume proceedings on the matter on August 31 when the ex-PM is supposed to appear in person before the court. Earlier, the IHC had issued a show-cause notice to Khan asking him to appear before the court, reported the Dawn.
Initially, the matter was heard by a three-member bench.
The show-cause notice to Khan mentioned that the statement was made in a sub-judice matter to get "favourable" verdict and prima facie, this act was tantamount to obstructing the course of justice and due process and to undermine public confidence in the court of law.
"These remarks have been made with the motive of bringing the administration of law into disrepute and eroding the integrity and credibility of the judicial system."
"Prima facie, Mr Khan committed criminal as well as judicial contempt, punishable under section 5 of the Contempt of Court Ordinance, 2003", it added.
Also, Yaseen Gill, brother of Khan's chief of staff Shahbaz Gill, has filed a complaint before the IHC chief justice against additional sessions judge Zeba Chaudhry.
It stated that "she had passed the order on August 17, 2022 [to hand over Mr Shahbaz's custody to police] in grave violation and derogation of judicial norms and express provisions of law". | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2022/08/28/legal-woes-imran-khan-islamabad.html | 2022-08-29T04:25:37Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2022/08/28/legal-woes-imran-khan-islamabad.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Houston: A man evicted from a Houston apartment building shot five other tenants, killing three of them Sunday morning after setting fire to the house to lure them out, police said. Officers fatally shot the gunman.
The incident happened at about 1 am Sunday in a mixed industrial-residential neighbourhood in southwest Houston. Police and fire crews responded to the apartment house after reports of the fire, police Chief Troy Finner said.
The gunman opened fire on the other tenants as they emerged from the house, possibly with a shotgun, wounding five, Finner said. Two were dead at the scene, and one died at a hospital. Fire teams rescued two other wounded men, who were hospitalised with non-life-threatening wounds, he said.
The man then opened fire as the firefighters battled the fire, forcing them to take cover until police officers spotted the prone gunman and shot him dead, Finner said.
No identities have been released, and no firefighters or officers were wounded, he said.
I've seen things I have not seen before in 32 years, and it has happened time and time again, Finner said. We just ask that the community come together. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2022/08/29/houston-man-kills-three-after-apartment-eviction.amp.html | 2022-08-29T04:25:56Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2022/08/29/houston-man-kills-three-after-apartment-eviction.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FORD FINISHING RESULTS
3rd – Austin Cindric
6th – Cody Ware
7th – BJ McLeod
9th – David Ragan
12th – Joey Logano
15th – Ryan Blaney
16th – Cole Custer
19th – Harrison Burton
20th – Kevin Harvick
21st – Aric Almirola
23rd – Todd Gilliland
27th – Chris Buescher
31st – Chase Briscoe
32nd – Michael McDowell
35th – Brad Keselowski
RYAN BLANEY, No. 12 Advance Auto Parts Ford Mustang – YOD DID WHAT YOU HAD TO DO. “It definitely didn’t start our very good. We had to battle through adversity all day, but props to the whole 12 group for continuing to work on it and fix it and just trying to keep it in the game. After that wreck everything was kind of out of our hands and we were just trying to do the best we could to try and complete all the laps. You never know what can happen, so props to them. Fortunately, we were able to gain some points there at the end and locked us in. It was definitely nerve racking, but a lot of props to the 12 team.”
WHAT WERE YOU THINKING WHEN YOU GOT THE DAMAGE AND FELL LAPS DOWN? “It was hurt pretty badly. We couldn’t keep up with the draft for a while because we just had so much damage. By the time we got five or six laps down you try to stay optimistic about these things. It’s easy to kind of get down on it and you just try to stay positive. Luckily, that positivity worked out for us, but definitely not an ideal start to the day. Luckily, all of our hard work by staying in it paid off at the end.”
WHAT ABOUT THE END OF THE RACE AND YOUR THOUGHTS? “We weren’t a part of the lead pack. Even if I was I couldn’t do anything. I wasn’t racing for position. You just hope that everything gets wild and it looks like the 19 kind of got shucked out there and lost some spots and wasn’t able to get them back. There really wasn’t anything I could do. You’re just riding around trying to complete the laps and whatever happens happens. It’s out of your control.”
WERE YOU WORRIED TRUEX WAS COMING FOR A WHILE THERE? “Oh, yeah. You know you’re behind him and things like that. It is what it is. You’re always aware of where he’s at, but it definitely goes through your head.”
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE IN THE PLAYOFFS? “It means a lot. Honestly, it’s been a good year for us, but the wins haven’t come. I feel like we can be a big threat in the playoffs, it’s just a matter of putting races together. It’s been a good year, but a great year would be wins and I feel like this team can do it if we just continue to do what we know and we improve on the things that we can get better at.”
CAN YOU IMPROVE DURING THE PLAYOFFS? “For sure. You can definitely improve during the playoffs. You go in understanding what you need to do and what you want to get better at and hopefully you can apply them.”
AUSTIN CINDRIC, No. 2 Menards/Maytag Ford Mustang – “I got hit by another race car going 190, 200 miles an hour. I’m glad I saved it and glad I had a shot to come back through the field. He is racing for a playoff spot and totally expected to get drove through. It was just a matter of time. I’m pretty bummed. We had a shot to win today. The Maytag/Menard Ford Mustang was obviously quick. We put ourselves in position. Not a scratch on it. Dang it.”
HOW TOUGH WAS THAT WITH ALL THOSE CHEVYS BEHIND YOU? “I knew I was a sitting duck. I felt like it was an Xfinity race again as the only Ford out there. Honestly, Ragan saved me a little bit there and we were able to work with both the RWR cars there to get back up through. One lap longer and I might have had a shot, I don’t know. It’s frustrating to be that close. You know it’s gonna come down to when they’re gonna take the run. I was lifting all the way into the tri-oval trying not to leave the gap that big, and they were just backing up to each other together as they should. I’m kind of pissed about it, but can’t be too upset. In the playoffs and have a lot to fight for. Great opportunity.”
AT THE END OF THE DAY YOU HELPED YOUR TEAMMATE MAKE THE PLAYOFFS. “I’m over the moon that the 12 car is in the playoffs. They deserve it. Ryan deserves it. I was sick to my stomach the entire rain delay, honestly. I care that much about this team, forget who is driving the car, but that group deserves to be in the playoffs and deserves to fight for a championship.”
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO MAKE THE PLAYOFFS AS A ROOKIE? “It’s an amazing opportunity, but at the same time it’s what I expect out of myself and it’s certainly what the team expects – to have all of these cars in the playoffs – so I’m pretty motivated to make the most of the opportunity. I don’t think anybody expects much out of us, but I expect a lot, so I’m looking forward to it.”
JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Mustang – ALL THREE TEAM PENSKE CARS ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS. THAT MUST FEEL GOOD FOR EVERYONE. “It seems like everything worked out the way it needed to. We got a stage win, which is great, some more points there. We got the 12 in. Everything worked out as good as we could hope and now we move forward and try to win a championship.”
HOW DO YOU FEEL WITH THINGS RESETTING FOR THE PLAYOFFS? “I think we’re in great shape. I look at the last month-and-a-half and I can’t say this with confidence, but I’m pretty sure we’ve scored more points than anybody. We scored a lot of points the last few weeks, so we’re doing a lot of really good things here recently. We just have to keep pushing and trying to figure out where a little bit more speed is, but we just have to keep executing with what we’ve got. We’ve got great execution, a great pit crew, great calls on the box. We’ve got to keep that going.”
CODY WARE, No. 51 Nurtec Ford Mustang – “I’m just super proud of everyone with the No. 51 team. I just want to thank Nurtec ODT and Ford Performance and everybody who has made this possible. There’s a lot more downs and ups in NASCAR, but to be here and to get my first top 10 and have both RWR cars in the top 10 this weekend is really phenomenal. I can’t think Steve Barkdoll and my crew and everyone who was involved in making this happen today.”
HOW DID YOU SURVIVE ALL OF THE CARNAGE? “I think the big thing was just perseverance. There was a lot of attrition in this race and we made sure to be cautiously aggressive in the first part of this race, so to walk away from it and get the chance to race with the leaders and battle all the way up to third and try to fight for the win was really an awesome day. I think this will give us a lot of positive energy and momentum heading into Darlington next weekend, another track where we’ve had some success this year already, so being sixth is a good day. I wish we could have got more. I think it just shows how good of a day we had and I”m definitely gonna go to sleep tonight happy.”
BJ MCLEOD, No. 78 NASCAR Rivals Ford Mustang – “First off, it was a crazy day but it was fun executing our plan and getting it to work in our favor because we’ve been doing this a lot, but it’s still hard to pull off. We’ve had small wrecks in the back take us out. There’s really no safe spot, other than the front row or really conservative and today we were able to put it all together and not lose a lap under that first green flag stop and just made things work. There at the end we had a couple cars behind us to help. Logano helped us for a second and when they were helping me I had a shot, but coming to three and four on the last lap I tried to get the right of the 62 and it stalled out a little bit and the 62 pulled up. When he pulled up, I had to wait until he went back down to even try to get another run and it was just too late. Still, an awesome day for a small team.”
DOES IT MAKE ALL THE STRUGGLES AND CHALLENGES A SMALL TEAM FACES WORTH IT ON DAYS LIKE THIS? “Absolutely. I’m always thankful and always driven, but this series is tough. It can beat you up running every week and having an average of 34th place speed in a series that rightfully so we’re still good, it’s just we’re 34th. There are 33 other better people out there. It gets hard and these finishes, like today we did earn it. It’s a superspeedway and, yes, we’ve got to work on our team a lot to be competitive at mile-and-a-half tracks and short tracks, but right now we raced today. We put a plan together as a team. We built a car together as a team and we come here and we got a top 10 finish. That’s what is so big for my guys because we’re away from people a lot and on the road a lot and it just means a lot to get them a good finish.”
COLE CUSTER, No. 41 Autodesk/HaasTooling.com Ford Mustang – “That was a long day but I appreciate the guys sticking it out and giving me a chance to make it to the end. Our Autodesk/HaasTooling.com Ford Mustang doesn’t look as nice as it did to start this morning but we gained 10 or 11 spots just by putting in the work to make it drivable after the wreck. I’m ready to get to Darlington and see what we’ve got next weekend.”
KEVIN HARVICK, No. 4 Mobil 1 Ford Mustang – PIT ROAD RADIO INTERVIEW IMMEDIATELY AFTER RED FLAG WAS DISPLAYED FOR RAIN. WHAT WAS THE INTENSITY LIKE OUT THERE WITH RAIN ON THE WAY? “It just raised the intensity to a pretty high level just because of the fact that you didn’t know when the rain was going to come. It was definitely a high intensity, but that’s what we expected today.”
TV INTERVIEW DURING RED FLAG PERIOD: YOU WERE IN GOOD POSITION. WHAT HAPPENED FROM YOUR POINT OF VIEW? “It was raining. We made it through the first part of the wreck there and obviously there was a lot of carnage. I saw the bottom two cars starting to come back up the racetrack so I gassed it up and, so close, but the car maintained plenty of speed. You can see it come out of there, so I guess that’s all subjective. You have to be subjective to what is minimum speed because when the caution comes out we are the leader – when the light comes on. I don’t know.”
IS THIS SOMETHING YOU WANT TO DISCUSS WITH NASCAR ON HOW THEY MAKE THAT DECISION? “Well, I think they’re making it up as they go. It’s just one of those deals.”
HOW DID YOU GET INTO POSITION? “We had a good Mobil 1 Ford Mustang and just were able to push really well. I think when we missed part of the fender there and the splitter got separated from the nose it kind of took the ability to lead well away from the car, but our car would still push and they did a great job of fixing everything. All you have to do is keep it rolling and give yourself a chance.”
ARE YOU PEAKING AT THE RIGHT TIME FOR THE PLAYOFFS? “Yeah. The best thing with our team is we’ve had some good luck. I think just having some things go your way is important because fast cars or slow cars, you have to have momentum and things on your side a little bit to be able to go through all 10 weeks. Our guys are doing a good job. The cars have been running well and we’ve been able to do the things that we need to do. If we can keep that up, you never know. It seems like such a wide-open championship picture because it’s just a wide variety of racetracks and it seems like you can hit or miss, and momentum swings come with different teams at different times, so hopefully it’s the right time to be running good and we can keep it up.”
WHAT ARE YOUR BEST TRACKS FOR THE PLAYOFFS? “I have no idea. Richmond and Michigan are obviously very different, but I learned early in the season that going to the racetrack you have to have a very open mind as to how the weekend might go because you just really don’t have any idea. We went back to Richmond thinking it was gonna kind of be a terrible race and the next thing you know there are cars running around the wall, in the middle of the racetrack, all over the place, so you really can’t read into anything how you think it’s gonna go and what you think is gonna happen because it just seems to be so different every time we go somewhere.”
WHAT DID THAT WIN DO FOR YOUR TEAM? “I’m pretty confident in our ability to win. I’ve been through longer dry spells than that one and I think as you look at the guys on the team, they all do a really good job and have all been in position and won races and championships. Nobody ever pointed fingers. Nobody ever said, ‘You’re the problem or you’re the problem.’ It’s like, ‘OK, what do we need to do to fix the problem.’ I think that’s really the most productive way to get through losing streaks is to figure out what’s wrong and try to address one problem at a time because it’s so hard to diagnose and try to give the right direction from the driver’s seat and you have to be part of that process. You can make two or three bad decisions and push for those decisions and the next thing you know you’re way down a road that you can’t get back from and you have to start undoing things. It just takes time and we made a lot of good decisions and the cars having been running better.”
SPEED MAKES YOUR JOB EASIER, RIGHT? “It makes it so much easier because now you’re racing on offense and when you can race on offense it’s much easier to race that way than it is to be on defense and back pedaling and trying to trick them with pit strategy and things like that. When your car has the right amount of speed you can go do the things that you need to do and be aggressive going forward.”
BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 6 Castrol Ford Mustang – “Somebody wrecked in front of me. I’m not really sure exactly what happened, but there were just a bunch of cars wrecking in front of me. I didn’t have anywhere to go and couldn’t slow down in time, so I hate it for our team. We had a really fast race car. We were working our way to the front, but we’ll cheer on Chris Buescher now, I guess.”
DID THE ACCIDENT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE TIME OF THE RACE? WAS THE TRACK SLICKER THAN USUAL? “Maybe, maybe not. I didn’t actually see what happened. I just know that they wrecked in front of me and I could slow down and ran into it. We beat the front end up and weren’t able to get it fixed. It’s a bummer for everybody on the RFK No. 6 with Castrol on board. We had a good car and a shot to win today if we could just not get wrecked and to get wrecked so early on in the race, we never had a chance to show it. It’s a big bummer.”
WHAT’S THE MISSION THE NEXT 10 WEEKS? “To win a race.”
SO YOU FELT CONFIDENT IN YOUR CAR? “Yeah, we were pretty good. We had a shot to run for it today and never got a chance to show it.”
CAN YOU GET MORE AGGRESSIVE THE NEXT 10 WEEKS AND TRY SOME THINGS? “Not really. We’re doing all the same things. There’s no aggression left that we haven’t shown.”
HOW FRUSTRATING IS IT TO BE OUT SO EARLY? “It’s frustrating, but whenever your season is down to one race you’ve got a lot more going on than just that one race. Our team put a lot of effort into getting this car ready. They brought a great car, so I hurt for them that we didn’t get a chance to show it.”
THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2013 YOU WON’T BE IN CHAMPIONSHIP MODE. “I’m not thinking about it that way. I’m just focused on getting better with our own team every day.”
MICHAEL MCDOWELL, No. 34 Horizon Hobby Ford Mustang – “I’m not really sure what happened. Obviously, we were all racing pretty hard there knowing that there’s weather coming and we’re past halfway. I just have to go back and look at it. I don’t want to say anything silly, but felt like I had a good push from the 8 and had a run on the 22 and pulled out. I’m not sure if the 8 got me a little bit or if the 22 just blocked a little bit too hard. It’s superspeedway racing trying to get ourselves locked into the playoffs in our Horizon Hobby Ford Mustang. We were going for it. You can see the weather is right there, so it’s unfortunate. We fought so hard to put ourselves in position to have a shot at making the playoffs. I felt like that was our shot. We had to go for it and it didn’t work out, but if I’d have lifted and the rain would have came and finished second, I would have been pretty upset with myself.”
CHASE BRISCOE, No. 14 Mahindra Tractors Ford Mustang – “Down on the back straightaway off of two, Joey decided to go to the bottom, so I felt like following him was probably my best decision there. We got such a big run that I kind of shoved him out that I felt like if I could get up, I could maybe take the lead. Looking back on it, I should have just stayed behind and shoved him. He’s just really good around this place and is always there at the end. When I got up in front of the 48 he started shoving me pretty hard through three and four and was getting me loose. He got to my left-rear and that was a little bit on me just being lazy covering it and not knowing and whenever we lost the banking out of four it just spun me around. It’s unfortunate for my Mahindra Tractor guys. We kind of just rode around early in the race just trying to get to the end and then once we got our track position was just gonna try to maintain it. I don’t have a lot of experience leading races here and that’s what happens whenever you aren’t aggressive enough making moves, so I just have to put it in the notebook and go onto Darlington next week to start the playoffs and hopefully start a good run.”
CHRIS BUESCHER, No. 17 Fifth Third Bank Ford Mustang – “We saw rain. Our Fifth Third Bank Mustang was really fast. Everybody did their jobs and I felt like I was doing mine fairly well up there and had a run. We were definitely in a good spot and it was raining when we got to turn one and we all wiped out. We wiped out all the lead cars, so whoever wins this race wasn’t even in contention. It’s just ridiculous from my point of view.”
ARIC ALMIROLA, No. 10 Smithfield Ford Mustang – “A few things didn’t work out. I was in position and there was maybe a move I could have made differently to try and get to the lead, but my help that was pushing me – the 17 – wasn’t clear, so I didn’t take the run. Looking back on it, maybe I wish I would have, but I would have just been in the lead and I would have been the first one to the rain, so I feel like I would have wrecked either way. I just hate it. I obviously wanted to win so we could get our team into the playoffs, but we’ve still got a lot of racing left to do this year and proud of everybody on our race team. I’m just thankful to Smithfield and Ford and everybody that supports this program. We’ll go race hard for 10 more weeks and get ready for next year then.”
TODD GILLILAND, No. 38 First Phase Ford Mustang – “Track conditions seemed fine, I guess, up until they weren’t right there. I was obviously at the back of that pack. I’ve never seen everyone spin out that quick, so I guess the track was probably pretty wet. That sucks, for sure. I felt like we had a good First Phase Ford Mustang today. We got sixth place in the second stage. We were racing up there with the guys that were supposed to be. Overall, I felt like our car was OK. That kind of sucks to end it like that, but it was typical Daytona,.”
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THE MODERATOR: We'll go ahead and continue with our post-race media availability as we're joined with our race winner, Austin Dillon, driver of the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet.
Austin, made the Playoffs for the fifth time in your career. Won your way in. How does it feel?
AUSTIN DILLON: Feels amazing. I prayed before, let God have all the glory and light shine through me. Today getting through that wreck, I mean, it was -- I don't know what you call that. We went from 15th to first. I know what it's called. It's called the good Lord was looking after us.
It was cool to go through that whole cycle of thinking that the race was going to be called for rain. My first reaction when I got out of the car was, stay focused.
I was just happy to be in the position that we were in, and I said that in my interview. I was, like, whatever happens from here, it's a win. We're in a good spot, and that's all you can ask for.
You go in that room where they make you sit and put the camera on you forever, and it's like you're thinking in the back of your head that somebody is going to walk around the corner and say, Hey, congratulations, you've won, but you don't let your mind drift to that. You still have laps to go.
And I knew after that second storm, had to get my mind right. If they didn't call it then, we were going back green.
When they went back to replaying the race, I went to my bus and went over there and watched Paw Patrol with Ace because he needed a nap. He never went down. He is like me. He don't sleep.
Just chilled with him and watched our Carolina Cowboys. I watched them up until the time I got in the car, and I knew they had won the game, so it was cool that we won and they won in Austin, Texas. Pretty sweet day.
It's our first event win for the PBR team. They won and we did too. It's an amazing day. Thank you, Jesus.
THE MODERATOR: Let's go ahead and open it up to questions.
Q. I think it's safe to say one of the key moves after we got going again was the either contact or near contact with Austin Cindric running for the lead. I was wondering if you could walk me through what was your intention there, and how did that play out?
AUSTIN DILLON: Laps are clicking down, and I knew I could get to the 2's back bumper pretty good. The 62 and the 8 did a good job of getting up through there, so I felt like three Chevys in a row was an advantage.
In the back of my mind I knew that the 12 car was still out there, and before I didn't know where he was points-wise. If I waited until the white flag to make the move, possibly if he wrecks or someone wrecks back there, it could take our shot away.
I wanted to make it before the white. Truthfully, that was -- it just kind of happened. I was kind of planning on getting a bigger run than that before and pulling out to the right. And I figured that the 2 was going to be a sitting duck because they were going to go with me, the Chevys would, and then we would race it out from there.
He kind of got loose as I got to his back bumper into one, and I kind of have been giving him that same shove. I don't know if I just caught more momentum that lap than the others, but when he got free, I just kind of moved up the track.
Then I got way out front. It's very hard to tell yourself to hit the brake pedal when you are driving away from the guys that are behind you to not give up that huge gap.
When I saw Tyler got there and they were all splitting up, I was, like, Man, I can't let them go too big of a run. I knew Tyler would have my back. He has been a good teammate to me, and I enjoyed working with him.
Hit the brake pedal. He got on my back bumper and from then on it was managing the gap to him in my mirror. We were able to bring it home.
Q. As best you can tell, was there an actual impact between your bumper and Austin Cindric's?
AUSTIN DILLON: No harder than I had been the last ten laps pushing and pushing. You see them flaps come up in the front. We're pretty much connected. I'm pushing him.
It wasn't any more than what I had been, I felt like.
Q. This is probably as close to a 'ball don't lie' moment in NASCAR in terms of it looked like you were going to get it, and then you had to still go out and earn it. Was there any sense of pride in pulling that off after the circumstances?
AUSTIN DILLON: It definitely does feel like that. I say that a lot in our basketball league when I get fouled, and everybody in the league complains that I get fouled because I run the league. It's like when I knock down the free-throws, ball don't lie.
For me it's one of those things that my wife, she was upset when I came back because I got mad at her. She was dancing on pit road during the rain delay. I didn't say anything to her personally, but I had Craven reach out and say stop that, we're probably going to go back out racing.
She said, When you have faith, you don't -- you just -- you do. You enjoy those moments.
That was a happy moment to be up front either way.
It was kind of like, Okay, you're right. Have faith.
Coming down to the choose, when I had to choose top or bottom, I knew the 51 had a clean car. Brandon and I discussed it with the 19. Is his car going to be better on the push? We didn't get going great, but I was able to get to second, and I think second was key right there because of everything going on behind me.
I never got shuffled, and I could determine the lines and the pushes that were going on.
So it was written. It was pretty awesome to just be behind the wheel today. I feel like it was a good day.
Q. Austin, in 2019 you were leading this race, and then the big wreck happened that ultimately gave Justin Haley the win, just how full circle is the moment now three years later, you got the win because of a big wreck also in turn one?
AUSTIN DILLON: That's actually very funny about Daytona, and I didn't even think about that. But I've always thought about I tore down the fence, probably one of the worst wrecks in NASCAR history, come back and win the Daytona 500.
2019 I did feel about as confident as you could feel out front leading that pack. Clint got a run to me and turned me in front of the field. And I looking back I made an aggressive move cutting left on him. It was like, Whose fault was it? Doesn't really matter. It's over now.
It's cool how this place just -- I don't know. There's something about Daytona. When you pull through the tunnel, things just happen here. It's an exciting place. Always creates some kind of drama for sure.
Q. Going into turn one, you're behind Austin. Was the intention of getting to his bumper and getting him loose? Were you going to move him?
AUSTIN DILLON: Truthfully, it was trying to get him out there. Kept pushing him out. He would do a really good job of I think he was on the brake pedal because it wasn't getting him far enough out. The 62, he could kind of get to my back bumper and get a run, and we got a decent run through the tri-oval.
My intention was to get the lead before the white, so it worked out the way I wanted it to. But I'm not going to just say that that was the time I really wanted it to happen. I was actually just trying to get him a little further out, and he got free right there into one.
Q. Any concern, though? He gets a little loose or sideways?
AUSTIN DILLON: I'm glad he didn't come back up the track at a high rate of speed. He did a good job saving it.
It wasn't any more than what I had been doing. So I don't know if he just kind of was turning left as I was touching him and it made him get freer, but that was it really.
Q. We were talking yesterday over at McDonald's, and saw you working through the drive-through. That was pretty cool.
AUSTIN DILLON: Served some Coca-Colas in the drive-through at McDonald's.
Q. As one of the Coca-Cola drivers, to win the Coke Zero 400, to put the 3 car in victory lane, you've won the Daytona 500, to win this race too, is this a great day or what?
AUSTIN DILLON: The Lord has blessed me a lot of happy days. This is definitely going to be one of them. I will cherish it and thankful to have my son in victory lane and Whitney and my whole family here.
We love Daytona. We come down early to enjoy this area. It was cool because my first win, Ace was too little. He was just born in Texas so he could not come. Here is his first time he got to go to victory lane.
I don't know what he expected of it and seeing him thrown around a little bit of confetti. At first he was really tired because he hadn't napped, but he got the gist of it after a while, was and running around. I was terrified he was going to slip in all the champagne and Coke. He made it through. (Smiling).
Q. Is there any extra satisfaction to winning it in kind of -- if they had called it, it would have been a little bit controversial.
AUSTIN DILLON: Yes.
Q. Is there any extra satisfaction to winning it kind of straight-up?
AUSTIN DILLON: For sure. I've got four wins in the Cup Series. Each one of them mean something different to me for different reasons. But the Texas one where I had multiple restarts and had to win and cross the checkered flag was probably one, from the driver's standpoint, one of the most important wins to me.
Then now this one, too. To go through all that and to be able to be, I guess, clutch in a moment that mattered is important. To us in all sports, right? To deliver when you have the opportunity to deliver...
This year I've had some moments that were very close. Charlotte being one of them. I mean, I didn't sleep a lick after the 600 just knowing that we had put ourselves in a position with a tire advantage.
I made a heck of a move, and everybody was, like, Man, that move was amazing, blah, blah, blah. I thought that I kind of gave that away in turn three because I overdrove it. I got loose. It hadn't done that the whole race, but I was carrying a lot more speed than I had the whole race.
That one hurt me, and it kept me up a long time. I've always prided myself to finish races when I have the opportunity. Today it feels good to finish it off.
Q. Tyler Reddick obviously was behind you there for the last few laps. Everyone knows what happened over the last month. Was there any concern of yours that he wouldn't play teammate at all?
AUSTIN DILLON: No. When Tyler made his decision a couple of months ago, I called him and congratulated him. For me being an owner's son sometimes comes with caveats, and I wanted to make sure that I had nothing to do with the reasons that he was leaving.
When I called him, I was, like, Hey, man, I just want make sure I've been a good teammate to you.
He said, No, you have been an amazing teammate. Me and Alexa really enjoyed being around you guys.
I said, Look, man, congratulations on your deal. Let's go try and win some races for RCR over the next year and a half.
For me, I was in none of his negotiations, talks, or anything. So it was more like he has been in a way inspirational to me to pick up my game because he has so much speed, and he shows it constantly. Tyler has been good for me. Then I think I've been good for him in some consistency aspects. We've rubbed off on each other in different ways to really help.
When he got to my back bumper, I knew that I could trust him. Now, earlier in the race he made a heck of a move getting on pit road, and I thought I beat, like, four or five people getting on pit road on the outside. That little fart drove around me and Stenhouse and somebody else and got himself in a good position.
But I was, like, Dude, where were you going? Did you get scared at all about making pit road?
He was, like, No, I felt good about it.
That's just how Tyler is. It doesn't matter what position he puts himself, he is confident, and that confidence shows. I'm thankful that he has been my teammate for this long, and hopefully together both of us can keep progressing our share forward, and it feels good to have us both in the Playoffs.
Q. What kind of or is there a validation to being a Playoff driver, or are you to the point with your career you've been in it enough that validation is going to come more in your mind with finishing top ten and being somebody like that as opposed to just getting in the Playoffs in some years?
AUSTIN DILLON: I think every time you make the Playoffs it's validation to yourself that you're one of the guys. You know what I mean?
I think somebody said we've made it five times now. I don't know how many years I've been doing this, but every time you're not in it, it doesn't feel good. You're not going to the banquet at the end of the year. You feel like you let your guys down, you let your company down.
For me it's everything. It feels good to get a car that I felt like we should have been in earlier than this, but it doesn't matter how you get in, you got in.
15 winners or 16? 15? 15. That's a testament to this car and Next Gen and how competitive the field is. I don't think there's any other form of motorsport that has this type of competitiveness week in and week out.
You go to qualify at Watkins Glen, and from first to 20th, you look at the time sheet, and you are holding your breath for a hundredth to move you up five spots. It's what the Cup Series is supposed to be. It's challenging.
You never give up because that's kind of what this year has told me.
Q. How do you do it? It's easy to get beat up?
AUSTIN DILLON: I've got a great support him. We've done a lot this year. Having faith in our background, I talk about religion a lot because I feel like it's a big part of who I am, so for me the Lord has blessed me with a great family that can keep me grounded and I can lay back on something. Morals mean a lot to me.
Coming back to that and having that support system is probably -- when you go through ups and downs and the wrecks like at Charlotte this year or Atlanta, I mean, I hit the wall a ton in Atlanta, twice. Sore neck every now and then. But I'm not going to complain because I've been around those cowboys that ride bulls. Those guys live hurt. I can tough it out. I'll be all right.
It's a different type of tough when you get to go around those guys. I think they've been inspirational to me too. It's kind of drove me to have a little bit more fire just being around them. I did a training camp with them with some Navy SEALS, and I did the first day, and I had to leave for an appearance.
Those guys are scrappy. They have to love what they do to do it to justify it. If you lose the love for your sport, you're not going to perform at the highest level.
You've got to find why you're coming out here each and every weekend and doing it. For me it's family.
Q. When you group this win with all the wins you've had over the last four years and Tyler's wins this year, when you look at it big picture-wise for RCR, is this the most significant that shows where your program is right now?
AUSTIN DILLON: I think the next one is. You know, that's the next time -- this is a big win. It's, obviously, awesome, and I'm going to enjoy it and celebrate it and enjoy the fact that we're going to get to go compete with the top 16 drivers.
But it's the next moment, right? You have to look forward to that next one to really see where the company is at because this sport, you just level yourself off of everyone constantly. You're constantly being judged against the guy next to you.
So right now it feels really good. We came out on top, but we got ten more weeks of this.
Q. When you are sitting back there in the room just waiting and they're parading competitors in there to do interviews in front of you, and you are sitting there alone waiting, what's the worst part about that?
AUSTIN DILLON: I was cold. I didn't have a dry shirt for a little while, so that was getting to me.
Then just kicking the back of my feet on the little wall there the whole time just trying to act cool, and inside you're just chilling, waiting.
Q. Is that why you changed fire suits, because it was wet?
AUSTIN DILLON: For sure. This one is actually a photo shoot fire suit, so I had to cut a hole in it for my water deal that we plug up to to keep ourselves cool. I didn't even realize it when I walked out there that it was, like, not ready. I had to take a box cutter and cut the side of it to let the hole out (Laughing).
Q. You talked about this being a clutch moment. Obviously, very big day for the team to win your way in. This race and the way that it unfolded with someone winning their way in is really what this format and what this race becoming the cutoff race is all about, right, so it's what the sport wanted. What is this moment like from an adrenaline standpoint, to be a part of that, like immediately afterwards to be, like, we did that because, again, it's what the sport wants, and everybody talks about coming down here and doing it, but we haven't seen it until today?
AUSTIN DILLON: There's such a balance of harnessing adrenaline and staying in the moment because your mind plays tricks on you constantly. You're trying to stay focused on what's at hand and not get too excited. If you get too excited, you're going to make a mistake. You're trying to keep a level playing field in your mind of stay aggressive, make the right move when it counts.
I felt really calm over those last couple of laps. Just the position we were in, I felt confident. You don't always feel that at speedways.
There's certain moments when I feel really good out there, and I'm, like, Okay, I feel like I can control the momentum of the pack. That pack was a little bit smaller, obviously, but I have been in bigger packs and felt the same way.
Xfinity racing, 2019 we had that car that was unbelievable, and it felt like I was in control of what was coming out on the track. It is so hard to not let your adrenaline get too high. You have to harness it and use it to your advantage as well.
Q. Immediately after crossing --
AUSTIN DILLON: After crossing the finish line?
Q. -- did it hit you? What was that like?
AUSTIN DILLON: I don't feel like it yet. It's hard to, like, enjoy it. It's crazy because there's a constant, like, weight or pressure. Even though we've crossed the win, I'm going to enjoy it when I get out of here at some point. It's going to be, like, Ah. My adrenaline is still high right now, so I'm, like, trying to come down off of whatever that is that we get when we're running 200 miles an hour out there.
Q. We've looked at the replay a dozen times, and you went to the apron immediately when the big wreck happened.
AUSTIN DILLON: Yes.
Q. Was that your only choice, or was it instinct? You know, it looked like you knew what you were doing.
AUSTIN DILLON: I had no clue it was raining from where I was. I was just enough back from where you can see my end car, and there's some sprinkles, but I thought that was oil because the 99, when he kind of got turned and up in the air, I saw that. So my immediate reaction was get to the flat because I knew he was headed up the hill.
You start to understand certain things of which way cars are going, momentum is going to take cars. So he is going up the track. The next thing that's going to happen is somebody is going to get clipped and turn back left. You are hoping you make it far enough forward before that car comes back across the apron or my direction change is really going to hurt when I get clipped and go up the hill.
So the bottom is advantageous because you always have an out, but in the same sentence, some of the hardest hits you're going to take are when you get right-reared and shot into the fence.
When I hit the apron, the first thing that goes through your mind is you're coming off of a ton of banking at a high rate of speed to a flat, so you're back-steering instantly as you hit the flat. I'm starting to decelerate ever so slightly because you can't carry that same amount of throttle.
I made it to where I could see out of the peripherals. I didn't know it was the 4, but I knew a car was coming down the hill. He did a good job of not coming to the apron. The next thing I gassed up for a second to kind of clear him.
The next part is the 21 is in front of me. For a split second, it was, like, Oh, I'm going to hit the 21, and I got to the brake pedal, and the car settled in just enough time to get the right front out of the 21's way and underneath it.
Then, it was clear skies from there to kick the gas back up, down-shift, and keep your momentum up.
Q. You say it's your fourth win in the Cup, and this means a lot to you, but how about for the whole family? Richard just said it that it's been a long time that one of the family members have won here in Daytona.
AUSTIN DILLON: Yes, for sure. Any time I can bring Pop Pop a win, it feels good. He is the reason that RCR is where it's at. When you can go make the boss man happy, it feels good. He has been pushing me hard these last couple of weeks. Like, Hey, we have got to get in this Playoff race, We have to do what we can.
Another point that I didn't bring up, that was all of our key alliance for Chevrolet in the top eight Now are in the Playoffs. That's pretty cool for Chevrolet.
Proud to be a part of that group that's in it for the Chevys.
Q. Now that you're in the Playoffs, how do you feel about the first round?
AUSTIN DILLON: Actually, the first round for history looking back has been a good round for us in the 3 team. We've done a good job of upsetting some teams in that first round.
Darlington is a good place for me. So it's a great starting point. I think we finished second the last time I was in the Playoffs in that race. I feel good at Darlington.
We've got to improve on what we took there earlier this year. That's a slow, slick place. When those long runs happen, I feel like that's some of the best driving I do is when the tires wear out.
I don't know the next place off the top of my head because I was so focused on only getting in the Playoffs. I didn't even worry about the first round. Darlington, and Then what's next?
Q. Kansas and Bristol.
AUSTIN DILLON: Kansas and Bristol. Kansas was a decent track earlier this year. We're just going to have to go to work and really rely on the sim at Chevrolet and at RCR. It won't be from a lack of effort over the next three weeks to progress and try to get another win.
Q. Austin, I don't know if you know this, but it's been 32 years since the last time a cup race here in the summer started at 10:00 a.m., 1990. Would you care to know who won that race?
AUSTIN DILLON: Somebody already said it. Was it Earnhardt?
Q. Yes.
AUSTIN DILLON: That's pretty cool, 10:00. I'm telling you, this place has connections. It's crazy.
Q. I wanted to kind of talk about the restart where the cars all kind of wrecked. Did you see any rain? Secondly, on that last lap move to Austin Cindric, did you do it for Dale?
AUSTIN DILLON: (Laughing). No, it was more about just figuring out how to get to the front, and I was thinking about the teammates I had behind me. And I knew that if I made a move, that I was going to have a little bit of help. It just kind of played out that way.
^ Jaime start The restart I did not see the rain. My spotter told me immediately after we got through the wreck, it is pouring, and I was, like, Oh. I truthfully thought that the 99 got turned because that's all I could see from my perspective. Then I watched the replay, and I actually did have fluid. I thought it was probably -- it happened so fast that I didn't know that there was any fluid even.
I was just going to the apron to miss the wreck. So I never really lost traction like those first guys that hit it did. That probably was an advantage too that when they hit it, it might have dried it up. When I got to the flat, it wasn't as wet when I got there. I didn't feel any dampness on the flat. I don't know.
Q. Your last win here, you went out and I think there was a tattoo involved (Laughing). What are your plans? What special is going to happen here tonight? Didn't have you a golf tournament or something you were supposed to be playing in today?
AUSTIN DILLON: I do. I have a golf tournament, and I was working on a plane flight the entire time because the plane I was going to use broke down. I was going to use my grandfather's plane. He said after it rains, I'm going home.
Then I've been working on a flight, and my good buddy, Johnny Morris at Bass Pro Shop, that's where we're headed. We're going to Big Cedar to play Payne's Valley and it's for the Dilly Cup. It's a tournament that my dad and I started last year.
It's just a fun Ryder Cup style format. It looks like Johnny has waited around for me, so we're going to possibly go there, I guess. I don't know. Are we not? Or we are? I guess we might be going there. I don't know.
Q. That takes care of the post-celebration?
AUSTIN DILLON: We'll have some good times there for sure.
Q. No tattoo shops?
AUSTIN DILLON: No tattoo shops in Big Cedar in Missouri. If there is one, we might find one.
THE MODERATOR: Thanks for coming in, and good luck in the Playoffs.
AUSTIN DILLON: Thank you, sir.
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THE MODERATOR: We're going to get started with our post-race media availability. We are joined by crew chief Justin Alexander and car owner Richard Childress.
Richard, we'll start with you. Two cars in the Playoffs this year. How does it feel?
RICHARD CHILDRESS: Feels great. Our guys have worked so hard. Austin has been involved in several crashes, got him behind in the points. We knew this was our shot to be able to win a race.
He has always been good here, and we knew if we could dodge all the bullets and be there, we could have a shot at the end to win with him.
THE MODERATOR: That's great. Let's go ahead. Justin, let's go to you next. With all the damage to the car, quite a bit of mutilation to the cars out there today, how did your guys pull it through and get to the end?
JUSTIN ALEXANDER: Teamwork. We didn't have a ton of damage. We got involved in incidents on pit road early and then got involved in another incident where we had fender damage. The guys did a good job taping it back up and getting the car fixed back up.
I think we did a backwards pit stop at one point today, but it was good.
It was just a good team effort, everyone on the team, the pit crew, all the guys and girls back at the shop that build these cars, just team effort.
THE MODERATOR: We'll go ahead and open it up to questions.
Q. At the end there you had Austin Dillon up near the front. You had Tyler Reddick, another RCR car, and you had Noah Gragson who is an RCR affiliate. Was there any communication between the teams about setting the 3 up for success when he needed the win the most?
RICHARD CHILDRESS: I didn't hear it. They may have been listening more than I did. I was hoping it wouldn't. They're racing for the win as well. Tyler was in, and I know he helped push Austin some there. You know, I didn't hear any communication.
JUSTIN ALEXANDER: Tyler is already in the Playoffs, and he knew we needed the win. He did a good job of staying on the bumper and helping out the guys behind us and helping out the guys behind us. Helping out the 62 as well. Hats off. Appreciate those guys helping us out.
THE MODERATOR: Questions.
Q. Richard, was there any sort of chip on your shoulder, the fact that they took three and a half hours and didn't declare you the winner to get back racing? First off, were you upset that they kept trying to dry the track? Does it make the win any sweeter the fact that they didn't call it, and yet you were able to still win it?
RICHARD CHILDRESS: You take a win any way you can get it, but to come back and win it like that, it was special. It was a great team effort from everyone.
It gave me time to go watch the PBR, and Carolina Cowboys won.
Q. Richard, obviously it seems like there's been a little bit of tension since Tyler made his announcement, but here he played the loyal company guy and pushed Austin into the Playoffs to make sure he protected him. Does that help his standing at all within the walls of RCR?
RICHARD CHILDRESS: I think I talked to all of those guys after his announcement, and I said we're going to give him 100% chance to win races and 100% chance at winning the championship.
Now, we've got two in there, so we've got to give both of them the same advantage to try to win the championship.
Q. Will Tyler be looked at more favorably at all that he didn't try to pull out a line; he did his job in pushing Austin?
RICHARD CHILDRESS: They were all just working together, I think. I didn't talk to any of them. I didn't hear any communication on the radio. I was just standing up there, old heart beating fast and watching it.
Q. Richard, from the outside people were looking at, are they going to race, are they going to not, and people are maybe looking at it from their personal point of view of, do I stay and watch the race, or do I go and do something else? For you this is a business, this is a financial situation. Can you kind of, I guess, explain maybe some of the financial implications of this, getting into the Playoffs, what can help you with the charter system, how one moment, one decision, one race there's so much wrapped up into it and what this could mean for RCR as a business entity?
RICHARD CHILDRESS: Yeah, it is. It was really big to be able to get this car in the Chase. There's bonus points. There's other things that go along with winning.
The financial aspect of it is a lot better than running second, for sure, and not making the Chase. So, again, just like Justin says, a great team effort.
ECR Engines did a great job, and all of our guys back at the shop and the gals did a wonderful job, for sure.
Q. Is it something like this could be worth $1 million down the road, particularly if you finish well or win the championship, that this could have been a million dollar day or $5 million day for the organization?
RICHARD CHILDRESS: Yes, for sure. It can be for sure $1 million day. Just getting in the Chase, our drivers have bonuses by getting into the Chase, and crew chiefs. Justin, you made a little bit today too (smiling).
I don't know how much I'll end up with after I get done paying all the bonuses, but it was worth it. It was worth it.
Q. How has having an affiliation with Kaulig and a lot of the other teams helped with the engine program exactly?
RICHARD CHILDRESS: It's good. We did a deal with Hendrick, HMS. We created an entity called HCD, which it's Hendricks and Childress, and we built a recipe for the engines and all of us have the same engines. Kaulig, RCE, the 43, the 42, today the 62. We did eight or nine engines and Hendricks had four or five, six in it, I think.
Q. This question is for Richard. Your team has been linked with Kyle Busch, speculation that he could be a potential landing spot. Any comment on that?
RICHARD CHILDRESS: Not really. Kyle is a great race driver. He and I have talked. We put all our differences behind us a while back, and he is a great race driver. He will land him a good ride somewhere for sure.
Q. Could it be with you?
RICHARD CHILDRESS: You said that, I didn't (Smiling).
Q. Richard, you've been coming to Daytona for a lot of years, and you've got a lot of wins here. How does this one compare, with the rain delay, with everything that happened today? It's got to be a great day to see your grandson in victory lane here again at Daytona. Tell us a little bit about the history and the feeling about today.
RICHARD CHILDRESS: Daytona has always been special. The first time I came here was 1965, and I slept in a tent out here on Nova Road. I was working another guy's car.
Came back in '69 and ran a Grand American Race. Came back and raced myself here several races. Came back with Earnhardt and Ricky Rudd and Kevin Harvick.
We've won three here. Earnhardt, which was a great win. Kevin had a great win right there at the end. To see Austin win 20 years later to the day was very special when family wins.
Q. Richard, were you concerned at all that NASCAR was waiting a long time to either call it or what? I mean, it seemed like they don't generally wait over three hours for a rain delay. Did it bother you at all?
RICHARD CHILDRESS: Well, I thought they would call it earlier. We had been here quite a while, and the race fans have been here quite a while, but I understand they wanted to really put the show on.
You had two guys trying to get in the Chase, the 19 and the 12, and they wanted to give them a good, fair chance. I wanted to see us have a fair chance of getting in.
We would have took it if it would have rained it out, but winning it like we did, hats off to Justin and his whole crew and the calls that they made to get us where he was.
Q. Justin, can you give me a sense of the difference of being in the Playoffs and not being in the Playoffs? I'm guessing for most organizations when you are not in the Playoffs, suddenly you become the car that is the test car. Those teams still go to the race to win each week. How do you pick your guys up, what is it like being classified the B team and the test team and what that means and how that's different from what you guys get to do this year?
JUSTIN ALEXANDER: There's only 16 guys that go to the Playoffs, so I think it's pretty special to get there. We knew we had to come in here and win to do it, and we did it.
It's good. I mean, we know we get to run for a championship, just like the other 16 guys, or 15 guys with us. It's obviously, from our position, from the team position, from RCR, it's a great opportunity to have two cars that have a shot at winning the championship.
So for us we're going to go back, and we're going to -- we've been prepared for Darlington, but we're going to go back and get ready and hopefully put on a show like we did a few years ago.
I don't know. Obviously, it's much better to go to Darlington with a shot to win a championship than it is to go there as a guy that can finish 17th at best. We're going to go there and do our best and give it everything we've got.
Q. Richard, Austin Dillon's move on Austin Cindric looked like a superspeedway version of the bump-and-run. As somebody who has a history of drivers who perform the bump-and-run, I kind of wanted to know what your reaction was at the time, especially with everything that was on the line.
RICHARD CHILDRESS: He kept running up behind him. I think he was trying to get him loose. I didn't see that move. I don't know if he got so close, he got him loose, or if he bumped him a little to push him and got him sideways. When you are racing for the win, that's what all of them is going to be doing.
Q. Justin, for you, how weird was it to watch those final 16 laps with just 15 or so cars in various states of condition just going all-out as much as they could for the win? How strange was that last 16 laps for you?
JUSTIN ALEXANDER: Well, when you come to a place like Daytona or Talladega, it's not very strange. These races play out a little bit crazy sometimes.
So we knew the 2 car was going to be strong, and we knew we had some Chevrolets and some guys that were going to help us that could help us. We knew it wasn't just going to be given to us. Austin had to go out there and drive, and Brandt spot and do their deal.
We spent five minutes trying to figure out where we were going to line up on the top or the bottom on the restart and who was going to help push us.
Without all the guys that are in there, it's certainly different, but certainly we had to battle just as hard as we would with 15 or 20 guys behind us.
Just hats off to everyone.
THE MODERATOR: Gentlemen, thank you for coming in, and congratulations. Good luck in Darlington.
RICHARD CHILDRESS: Thank you.
JUSTIN ALEXANDER: Thank you, guys.
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With a huge assist from Richard Childress Racing teammate Tyler Reddick after a rain delay of more than three hours, Austin Dillon forced his way into the NASCAR Cup Series Playoff and broke Martin Truex Jr.’s heart.
Dillon’s victory in Sunday’s rain-delayed Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway—his first of the season and his second at the track—needed the convergence of several different circumstances to fall into place.
After avoiding serious damage in a wreck off Turn 4 on lap 125, Dillon survived a subsequent 13-car melee in Turn 1 and took the lead before rain halted the race. After a red-flag period of 3 hours, 19 minutes, 57 seconds, Dillon fell behind 2022 Daytona 500 winner Austin Cindric and trailed him from the restart on Lap 145 of 160 until he made the race-winning move on Lap 158.
As the cars reached Turn 1, Dillon tapped Cindric’s No. 2 Team Penske Ford, and the Chevrolets of Dillon, Reddick and Landon Cassill moved past as Cindric made a magnificent save on the apron. Reddick, the race runner-up, closed up to the bumper of Dillon’s No. 3 Chevrolet and drafted with his teammate to the finish line, holding off a last-ditch run from Cindric, who finished third, just .140 seconds behind the winner.
“There was a lot going on there. I knew that if we got to the white (final lap), I was afraid somebody would—if I waited too long, I was afraid somebody would wreck behind us, so I wanted to go ahead and get the lead. We were able to get it.
“I had a big run to him, and then I had my teammate, the 8 (Reddick), back there. I knew we were in good shape there to the end. He did a good job checking up any kind of run. Just a little too much push there and got him (Cindric) loose.”
Cindric said the bump was fair game, give what was on the line for Dillon.
“I think that’s fair game any race of the season, but that meant a lot for him to win that race,” Cindric told Fox Sports’ Bob Pockrass on pit road. “He had three cars that were certainly going to be able to work with him…
“I feel like he got the run too late, and then he hit me straight on the entry to the corner. Just glad I saved it, glad I got a shot to still come back up through the field—but I hate losing.”
Dillon’s victory knocked Truex out of the Playoff and handed the final berth to Ryan Blaney, who finished three points ahead of Truex in the final regular-season standings.
When heavy rain stopped the action 21 laps from the finish, it looked as if Dillon might be awarded the victory.
As the cars sped toward Turn 1 on Lap 138, a sudden rain began to fall. The cars of Justin Haley, Daniel Hemric and Denny Hamlin broke loose at the front of the field, and the cars behind them were unable to stop on the slick asphalt and plowed into the wreck.
Dillon’s No. 3 Chevrolet, which had been damaged in a wreck off Turn 4 on Lap 125—and ended its slide facing backward on pit road—was the first to emerge from the Lap 138 chaos at cautious pace and shortly thereafter was confirmed as the race leader by NASCAR.
“We ran into rain in the middle of Turn 1 and just lost it,” Hamlin said of the 13-car pileup. “We had rain down the front. So about 10 seconds before we got into Turn 1, it was raining. I’m sure the fans felt it, and then they watched us all pile in there.”
NASCAR opted to wait out the rain, dried the track and lifted the red flag at 3:54 p.m. The resumption didn’t change the winner, but it enabled Blaney to move up the leaderboard past wrecked cars to a 15th-place finish, enough to eliminate eight-place finisher Truex from the Playoff.
Cassill came home fourth, followed by Noah Gragson, as only 10 drivers finished on the lead lap, and only 17 were running at the end.
Early in the race, Blaney got a serious scare, as far as his Playoff hopes were concerned. On Lap 31, Blaney’s No. 12 Team Penske Ford was third in line in the bottom lane behind Erik Jones and Denny Hamlin when Jones’ No. 43 Petty GMS Chevrolet got loose and lost momentum off Turn 2.
Blaney slammed into the back of Hamlin’s Toyota, turning the No. 11 Camry toward the infield. As the bottom lane compressed, Christopher Bell’s No. 20 Toyota spun behind Blaney, shot across the track and knocked Blaney’s Mustang into the outside wall, severely damaging the right-front quarter of Blaney’s car.
The eight-car accident knocked Bell and Brad Keselowski out of the race, denying Keselowski a Playoff spot for the first time since 2013.
“Somebody wrecked in front of me,” Keselowski said. “I’m not really sure exactly what happened, but there were just a bunch of cars wrecking in front of me. I didn’t have anywhere to go and couldn’t slow down in time, so I hate it for our team."
“We had a really fast race car. We were working our way to the front.”
Truex earned six points with a fifth-place finish in Stage 1 and raced to a runner-up result in Stage 2, good for nine points, as Blaney continued to lose laps to the lead pack. The first two stages reduced Blaney’s lead over Truex in the standings to 10 points, but a wreck on the backstretch early in the final stage halted Truex’s charge.
On Lap 102, Michael McDowell, running second, pulled out of line with a run on leader Joey Logano, but Reddick’s off-center hit to McDowell’s back bumper sent the No. 34 Ford rocketing into the outside wall. The contact ignited an eight-car melee that eliminated the machines of McDowell, Ross Chastain and William Byron.
The wreck ended the Playoff hopes for McDowell, who had restarted in the lead on Lap 101. Truex’s car was damaged, too, but not terminally. Ultimately, though, it was the damage in that wreck that kept the 2017 series champion from maintaining a gap over Blaney sufficient to earn the final Playoff spot.
“That's definitely a lot more stressful than I wanted coming into here, but I just got to give a lot of props to the 12 group, you know, for fixing it and sticking with it all day,” Blaney said. “That's why you do it.
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Race Winner: Austin Dillon of Richard Childress Racing (Chevrolet)
Stage 1 Winner: Joey Logano of Team Penske (Ford)
Stage 2 Winner: Kyle Busch of Joe Gibbs Racing (Toyota)
SHR Race Finish:
● Cole Custer (Started 15th, Finished 16th / Running, completed 153 of 160 laps)
● Kevin Harvick (Started 7th, Finished 20th / Accident, completed 139 of 160 laps)
● Aric Almirola (Started 27th, Finished 21st / Accident, completed 138 of 160 laps)
● Chase Briscoe (Started 26th, Finished 31st / Accident, completed 124 of 160 laps)
SHR Regular-Season Points:
● Kevin Harvick (9th with 710 points, 229 out of first – IN THE PLAYOFFS)
● Chase Briscoe (17th with 577 points, 362 out of first – IN THE PLAYOFFS)
● Aric Almirola (18th with 576 points, 363 out of first)
● Cole Custer (25th with 452 points, 487 out of first)
SHR Playoffs:
● Harvick qualified for the playoffs by scoring two wins – Aug. 7 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn and Aug. 14 at Richmond (Va.) Raceway.
● This will be Harvick’s 13th consecutive playoff appearance and his 16th overall. He won the championship in 2014.
● Briscoe qualified for the playoffs by winning March 13 at Phoenix Raceway.
● This will be Briscoe’s first playoff appearance and it comes in his second season.
Playoff Standings:
1. Chase Elliott (2,040 points)
2. Joey Logano (2,025 points, -15)
3. Ross Chastain (2,020 points, -20)
4. Kyle Larson (2,019 points, -21)
5. William Byron (2,014 points, -26)
6. Denny Hamlin (2,013 points, -27)
7. Ryan Blaney (2,013 points, -27)
8. Tyler Reddick (2,012 points, -28)
9. Kevin Harvick (2,012 points, -28)
10. Christopher Bell (2,011 points, -29)
11. Kyle Busch (2,010 points, -30)
12. Chase Briscoe (2,009 points, -31)
13. Daniel Suárez (2,007 points, -33)
14. Austin Cindric (2,006 points, -34)
15. Alex Bowman (2,006 points, -34)
16. Austin Dillon (2,005 points, -35)
SHR Notes:
● Custer earned his 11th top-20 of the season and his second top-20 in six career NASCAR Cup Series starts at Daytona.
● Harvick finished eighth in Stage 2 to earn three bonus points.
Race Notes:
● Austin Dillon won the Coke Zero Sugar 400 to score his fourth career NASCAR Cup Series victory, his first of the season and his second at Daytona. His margin over second-place Tyler Reddick was .128 of a second.
● Dillon was the 16th different winner in the 26 NASCAR Cup Series races run this season.
● There were seven caution periods for a total of 30 laps.
● Only 10 of the 37 drivers in the Coke Zero Sugar 400 finished on the lead lap.
● Chase Elliott won the NASCAR Cup Series regular-season championship.
Sound Bites:
“That was a long day, but I appreciate the guys sticking it out and giving me a chance to make it to the end. Our Autodesk/HaasTooling.com Ford Mustang doesn’t look as nice as it did to start this morning, but we gained 10 or 11 spots just by putting in the work to make it drivable after the wreck. I’m ready to get to Darlington and see what we’ve got next weekend.” – Cole Custer, driver of the No. 41 Autodesk / HaasTooling.com Ford Mustang
“It just raised the intensity to a pretty high level just because of the fact that you didn’t know when the rain was going to come. It was definitely a high intensity, but that’s what we expected today.” – Kevin Harvick, driver of the No. 4 Mobil 1 Ford Mustang
“A few things didn’t work out. I was in position and there was maybe a move I could’ve made differently to try and get to the lead, but my help that was pushing me – the 17 (Christopher Buescher) – wasn’t clear, so I didn’t take the run. Looking back on it, maybe I wish I would have, but I would’ve just been in the lead and I would’ve been the first one to the rain, so I feel like I would’ve wrecked either way. I just hate it. I obviously wanted to win so we could get our team into the playoffs, but we’ve still got a lot of racing left to do this year and proud of everybody on our race team. I’m just thankful to Smithfield and Ford and everybody who supports this program. We’ll go race hard for 10 more weeks and get ready for next year.” – Aric Almirola, driver of the No. 10 Smithfield Ford Mustang
“Down on the back straightaway off of (turn) two, Joey (Logano) decided to go to the bottom, so I felt like following him was probably my best decision there. We got such a big run that I kind of shoved him out. I felt like if I could get up, I could maybe take the lead. Looking back on it, I should’ve just stayed behind and shoved him. He’s just really good around this place and is always there at the end. When I got up in front of the 48 (Alex Bowman), he started shoving me pretty hard through (turns) three and four and was getting me loose. He got to my left-rear and that was a little bit on me just being lazy covering it and not knowing, and whenever we lost the banking out of four, it just spun me around. It’s unfortunate for my Mahindra Tractor guys. We kind of just rode around early in the race just trying to get to the end, and then once we got our track position, we were just going to try to maintain it. I don’t have a lot of experience leading races here and that’s what happens whenever you aren’t aggressive enough making moves, so I just have to put it in the notebook and go on to Darlington next week to start the playoffs and start a good run.” – Chase Briscoe, driver of the No. 14 Mahindra Tractors Ford Mustang
Next Up:
The next event on the NASCAR Cup Series schedule is the Cook Out Southern 500 on Sunday, Sept. 4 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway. The first race in the 10-race NASCAR Playoffs starts at 6 p.m. EDT with live coverage provided by USA and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
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Ryan Blaney climbed out of his No. 12 Team Penske Ford Sunday afternoon at Daytona International Speedway looking simultaneously relieved and genuinely worn-out.
He claimed the final 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Playoff position after a 15th-place finish – six laps down – in the Coke Zero Sugar 400 regular season finale; he and his team turning in a tenacious performance in a race delayed a full day and then extended by a three-hour plus red flag break because of rain showers.
Four multi-car accidents eliminated many other pre-race favorites. And in the end, Blaney eked out a three-point advantage in the standings over Joe Gibbs Racing’s Martin Truex Jr. to claim the final 2022 Playoff position. Truex’s No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota was eighth in the race. But the season-long math gave Blaney the Playoff opportunity, with first-time winner Austin Dillon nabbing the other Playoff position on the line.
Blaney, who took a 25-point advantage into the race, was in an early accident that badly hobbled his car and ultimately prevented him from mounting any serious threat to win the race. And the 2017 NASCAR Cup Series champion Truex actually took the Playoff lead for much of the day following Blaney’s early race incident.
The race was paused with 21 laps remaining for bad weather and had it not resumed, Truex was in position to transfer into the Playoff field.
But the race resumed and ultimately Blaney persevered – damaged car, laps-down and all – to earn his sixth consecutive Playoff bid.
It was day of high competition and high emotion with the Playoff lineup shifting often. And Blaney, 28, contends it was actually his ability to temper his emotions – having dinner, watching golf on television and truly chilling out during that long red flag delay – that may have been the difference on Sunday.
“It’s easy to kind of freak out and things like that, but you just have to reel yourself in," Blaney said of not giving up despite the early race misfortune “It’s out of your hands at that point, there wasn’t really anything we could do. You hope another winner wins the race or that we could still beat Martin on points.
“You just try to stay calm and accept the fact, it might not happen. And it was nothing we did wrong, just got caught up in someone else’s mess. I’ve been saying that all week. You can get caught up in someone else’s mess and that’s what happened to us. I try to stay optimistic you make a run at the end.
“But you try to stay positive about those things," Blaney continued. “You never know what could happen. Our day was not well from the start, but you just try to keep your head up and stay in the game and that’s what we did. They did a good job of trying to fix it best they could even though we weren’t fast, we stayed running and that’s really what made the difference for us.”
Truex, meanwhile, climbed out of his Toyota understandably mired in the other end of emotion. He led Blaney by 12-points for the transfer position when the race was red-flagged. Had NASCAR not re-started the race, Truex would be racing for a title.
The two were tied, then exchanged the lead by a point, then ultimately Blaney took it for good with that so-slim three-point difference in the thrilling, closing handful of laps.
Truex said the damage his car suffered earlier in another of the mid-race multi-car accidents, really left him unable to race for the victory in the closing laps without any drafting partners.
“Just had too much damage at the end, just couldn’t keep up," Truex said. “The only chance I had was when they got side-by-side and started checking up the line then I could get back up to them. But just too much damage to have the speed to do anything at all.
“We really did a good job to make up 22 points in one race," he said. “It’s a big gain. Unfortunately, it just wasn’t enough today.
“The Bass Pro Shops Toyota was really fast, and we ran, what I thought was a smart race, just wrong place at wrong time and you know 30 cars out here today could say that. Just frustrating. We run well and then get wrecked and at the end of the day, still have a somewhat decent finish, but it really doesn’t matter.”
And so Blaney, who was ranked third in the championship standings before the Playoff re-set, will race for his first title. He has eight top-five, and 12 top-10 finishes in the opening 26 races. Truex was sixth in points before the Daytona race. Both drivers are still competing for their first wins of the season.
The 10-race elimination-style NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs begin next week with the Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway next Sunday (6 p.m. ET on USA Network, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
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Taylor Gray, No. 17 Ford Performance Fusion Start: 2nd Finish: 2nd Taylor Gray qualified second for the Sprecher 150 at the historic Milwaukee Mile. Taking the green on the outside pole, the 17-year-old settled into second place for the entirety of the first stint. At the start of stage two, Crew Chief Chad Johnson called for an air pressure adjustment as the DGR Ford Mustang fought a tight condition in the center and corner exit. Within 25 laps of the restart, Gray found speed in turns one and two, marching to the lead for the final half of the second stage. Electing to take the outside lane on the race's concluding restart, Gray again settled into the second position. The Artesia, NM native stalked the lead but couldn't pounce on another opportunity to re-claim first, finishing runner-up in the Sprecher 150. Next event: Southern Illinois 100 at DuQuoin State Fairgrounds in DuQuoin, Illinois on September 19 at 9:00 p.m. ET. DGR Racing PR | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72422-dgr-arca-menards-series-recap-milwaukee-mile | 2022-08-29T04:33:42Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72422-dgr-arca-menards-series-recap-milwaukee-mile | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Daniel Aguirre and Javier “Chicharito” Hernández scored goals in the first 15 minutes and the Los Angeles Galaxy held on for a 2-1 victory over the New England Revolution on Sunday.
Aguirre took a pass from Hernández and scored in the 4th minute to give the LA Galaxy (11-11-4) an early lead. Hernández scored 11 minutes later to make it 2-0. Ricard Puig Martí picked up an assist on Hernández’s team-high 12th goal of the season. Aguirre’s netter was his first.
New England (8-9-10) didn’t score until Carles Gil found the net in the 82nd minute. Tommy McNamara assisted on Gil’s sixth goal this season.
Jonathan Bond had seven saves for the Galaxy. Djordje Petrovic saved three shots for the Revolution.
The Galaxy ended a four-game losing streak on the road and handed the Revolution their first home loss in their last 10 matches and just their fifth defeat in the past 30 at home.
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QUINCY, Fla. (WTXL) — The Recent Violence comes just months after cities across Gadsden County saw an increase in violent crimes in late June including two home invasions. One in Quincy, the other in Midway.
At around 9:40 Friday night an 18-year-old girl and two passengers were in a car off of South 9th Street and West Crawford Street in Quincy. A car came up from behind them, then got beside their vehicle and started shooting. The 18 year old girl died at the scene while the two passengers were uninjured.
Exactly one week ago, just a half mile away from the most recent shooting off of West Jefferson and South Jackson Street, Quincy police found a man lying beside his vehicle that was hit multiple times by gun shots.
Those two shootings, concerning for Community Organizers like Tracey Stallworth. He's been putting in the work through community events to help bring down violence and crime in Gadsden County. Stallworth added that the most recent Quincy shooting was a family member.
Stallworth says the two homicides, however, will accelerate the community leaders efforts to keep neighbors in Quincy and Gadsden County safe.
"There is a little bit of worry, a little bit of doubt about what's really happening in Quincy," said Stallworth. "When I was talking with some community people yesterday, you know, their concern is, 'will we be safe?' Their concern is walking down the street, going to the gas station, going to the store, and they're in fear right now because they don't want to be hit by a bullet, they don't want to be killed."
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SUZHOU, China, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 20, 2022, Porton Advanced Solutions (hereinafter referred to as "Porton Advanced") and Kun Tuo Medical Research and Development (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Kun Tuo") established a strategic partnership in gene and cell therapy R&D, manufacturing and clinical services to accelerate the development and industrialization of innovative drugs.
Through this strategic cooperation, Porton Advanced and Kun Tuo will fully leverage their strengths, client resources and professional team capabilities to deepen cooperation in gene and cell therapy R&D, manufacturing and clinical research, providing one-stop CDMO and clinical research services for innovative drug companies and cooperating to establish a high-quality gene and cell therapy industry ecosystem.
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As a clinical research organization (CRO) specially established by IQVIA for the Chinese market, Kun Tuo inherits its refined quality management system and standards, coupled with abundant clinical resources, offering high quality CRO services throughout IND to NDA. Since its establishment in 2011, Kun Tuo has provided over 1,000 clinical study services for multiple renowned pharmaceutical companies at home and abroad.
Dr. Wang Yangzhou, CEO of Porton Advanced, said, "We are very pleased to announce that we entered into a strategic partnership with Kun Tuo. Porton Advanced focuses on the field of gene and cell therapy and is committed to establishing a global, end-to-end CDMO service platform, while Kun Tuo delves into clinical research services and has very rich clinical resources as well as a highly professional clinical research & reporting team with strict quality standards. Through our in-depth cooperation and integration of resources and advantages, both parties will help to promote the construction of the gene and cell therapy industry ecosystem and empower more new drugs to scale new level based on an integrated drug service platform, thereby allowing enabling public's early access to good medicines."
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About Porton Advanced Solutions
Established in Suzhou Industrial Park in December 2018, by its parent company Porton Pharma Solutions Ltd. (Stock Code: 300363), Porton Advanced has built a CDMO platform integrating plasmid, cell therapy, gene therapy, oncolytic virus, nucleic acid therapy and microbial vectors used for gene therapy (MVGTs), providing end-to-end services from cell banking, process development and analytical development, cGMP production to final Fill and Finish , investigator-initiated clinical trials (IIT), investigational new drugs (IND), clinical trials to commercial production. Porton Advanced is dedicated to support sponsors advance their GCT drug development and market launches.
Porton Advanced focuses solely on gene and cell therapy services. Built on the professional experience of its cohort of world-class professionals, as well as on the successes of its parent company, Porton Advanced insists on "Customer First" and the tenet of "Compliance, Expertise, Focus, Open Collaboration". With its key focus on protecting IP for its sponsors, through its comprehensive project management and quality systems, Porton Advanced strives to bring gene and cell therapy products to the clinic and the market through its quality CDMO services, and help bring the best medicine to the public sooner.
About KunTuo
KunTuo, as a full-service Contract Research Organization (CRO) specially set up in China by IQVIA (a wholly owned subsidiary of IQVIA) and with a team of nearly 1000 employees, is dedicated to provide high-quality and reliable clinical research services for Pharmaceutical and Medical Device & Diagnostic (MDD) enterprises. Since its establishment in 2011, Kuntuo has provided more than 1000 clinical research services for many well-known pharmaceutical and device companies in China and abroad and now has accumulated rich clinical resources, including more than 10,000 departments' enrollment data and nearly 500 institutions'/departments' process information. Kuntuo inherits IQVIA's sound quality management system and quality standards, and provides biomedical enterprises with higher quality and more responsive service model from IND to NDA through the application and optimization of IQVIA's global operation experience and expertise.
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BEIJING, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 5th Forum on China-Africa Media Cooperation (the "Forum") opened on August 25 in Beijing, China, combining online and offline events and sessions. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Senegal President Macky Sall, who is the African Co-Chair of FOCAC, sent congratulatory letters to the Forum.
Huang Kunming, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, read the letters from the presidents and gave a keynote speech.
Huang noted that the letters fully reflected the great importance of China-Africa cooperation from the leaders, as well as their high expectations for further deepening media cooperation and a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between China and Africa.
Since the Forum was founded 10 years ago, it provided an important platform for Chinese and African media to facilitate dialogue and cooperation and played a significant role in deepening China-Africa friendship and strengthened the bonds among people.
The media on both sides have been upholding the spirit of friendly cooperation and working continuously to safeguard fairness and justice, telling stories about China-Africa cooperation in the new era and shouldering responsibilities to advance global development, promote common values of mankind and actively create an international public opinion atmosphere of cohesive development and cooperation.
Chinese and African media will also promote innovation convergence and deepen cooperation in areas of digital technology and digital economy to strengthen exchanges, share opportunities and improve digital governance capabilities.
The opening ceremony was hosted by Xu Lin, vice minister of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA), China. Gregoire Ndjaka, CEO of the African Union of Broadcasting, Chen Jining, Mayor of Beijing, and Chushi Kasanda, Minister of Information and Media, Zambia, gave opening remarks.
The two-day event also featured an exhibition of "A Decade of Achievements: China-Africa Media Cooperation (2012-2022)."
Themed "New Vision, New Development, and New Cooperation," the Forum held sessions on media development policy, content cooperation and innovation as well as new technology application, and digital convergence.
The Forum published a joint declaration that reviewed the decade of achievements of China-Africa media cooperation. In mapping the prospects and plans for future media development, it proposed five initiatives, including deepening cooperation and communication, supporting global development, telling stories of China-Africa friendship, promoting digital media development, and strengthening youth exchanges.
In addition, the Forum featured events such as the first broadcast exhibition of African programs in China and a short video collection on the topic of "my story of China-Africa friendship." It also published 12 cooperative achievements in terms of program co-broadcasting, documentary creation, program innovation, and new media cooperation.
The forum was co-hosted by the National Radio and Television Administration of China, the People's Government of Beijing Municipality, and the African Union of Broadcasting. More than 240 Chinese and foreign delegates from more than 40 countries and regions attended the forum.
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HONG KONG, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Forbes China recently released its "2022 China ESG 50" list. Fosun International has been included on the list for its outstanding ESG performance and its active contribution to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Forbes China pointed out that ESG is still in its infancy in China, and the 50 selected companies are all pioneers in the field of ESG.
Forbes China: Fosun International is One of the Pioneers in the Field of ESG
This year is the first year that Forbes China has released the "China ESG 50" list, which seeks to highlight the best practices of domestic enterprises in the field of ESG. Forbes China pointed out that with the promotion of the United Nations, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the three core indicators of ESG: environmental, social, and corporate governance have become important standards for enterprises to promote sustainable development. Adhering to the ESG framework and principles of the United Nations, the "China ESG 50" list includes 50 Chinese enterprises that took the lead in ESG from the Forbes Global 2000 list (ranked according to four metrics: sales, profits, assets and market value of global listed companies in the current year) in 2022.
According to Forbes China, the purpose of ESG is to no longer limit corporate valuation to objective data such as financial data and performance, but to take subjective factors such as the environmental, social responsibility and corporate governance into account, so as to determine and assess the sustainable development and social responsibility of enterprises. Forbes China considers Fosun International as one of the pioneers in the ESG field. As a globalized enterprise, while actively creating business value, Fosun has been fulfilling its corporate social responsibility through social welfare projects such as supporting the combat against the pandemic, assisting in the fight against malaria in Africa, Rural Doctors Program, fostering education, culture promotion, and entrepreneurial support.
Fosun's Anti-pandemic and Anti-malaria Efforts Demonstrate its Corporate Social Responsibility
Since the COVD-19 outbreak in early 2020, Fosun has immediately initiated the global deployment of medical supplies to provide strong support for China and overseas to fight against the pandemic. In addition to the urgent deployment of protective materials to assist countries and regions affected by the pandemic, Fosun also partnered with BioNTech, a German biotechnology company, to jointly develop the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (COMIRNATY®, also known as BNT162b2), providing a strong support for defeating the pandemic. In addition, Fosun has participated in the joint construction of a "malaria-free world" for more than 15 years. As the first Chinese pharmaceutical brand well recognized in Africa, Artesun® (artesunate for injection), self-developed and manufactured by Fosun Pharma, has been used to treat over 48 million severe malaria patients worldwide by the end of 2021.
Contribute to Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality, Act as a Responsible Global Citizen
2021 marks the first year of Fosun's carbon neutrality. Centered around the national "carbon neutrality" strategy, the Group has set a carbon reduction target — "to achieve carbon emissions peak by 2028 and carbon neutrality by 2050" and has formulated effective strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation to align with 1.5°C temperature control target set in the Paris Agreement. To further advance Fosun's carbon peak and carbon neutrality targets, Fosun has established a Carbon Neutrality Committee and a Carbon Neutrality Working Group to actively promote the implementation and enforcement of carbon neutral management across the Group.
Fosun has Established a Sound Risk Management System and Top-down Long-term ESG Mechanism to Lead the Company's Sustainable Development
Forbes China said that in ESG investing, apart from climate and environmental issues such as carbon neutrality, corporate sustainability and the corporate social responsibility cannot be ignored. Large enterprises, which have sound internal and external management systems, focus on social responsibility and especially disclose ESG information in a timely manner, often attract more attention from investment institutions. In addition to Fosun International's active efforts and contributions in environmental and social responsibility, it also strives to establish a good ESG management system to continuously improve the company's sustainable operation. Forbes China specifically mentioned that in terms of corporate governance, Fosun International has established risk management and internal monitoring systems targeted for risk management and control. It has also formulated an enterprise risk management plan, implementing proactive ex-ante, in-process and ex-post risk management, and building a systematic tiered risk management system that empowers and adds value to itself, providing an important guarantee to achieve strategic and business objectives.
In order to ensure the smooth and continuous progress of ESG work, Fosun has established a top-down and long-term mechanism for ESG improvement. Fosun includes ESG management performance as an evaluation factor in the Executive Directors' performance assessment and remuneration assessment. To further improve the ESG management system, Fosun has set up an ESG Board Committee under the Board of Directors (the "Board"), at the management and decision level, Fosun has established an ESG Executive Committee under the management, at the implementation level, Fosun has also set up an ESG Management Committee and an ESG Working Group to fully implement ESG strategies and related actions.
Fosun, which is about to turn 30 this year, will continue to uphold its original aspirations of developing its business for good and "Contribution to Society", actively shoulder more social responsibilities, implement ESG strategies, constantly create value and give back to the society, helping to promote high-quality development and common prosperity. With the global trend of promoting carbon neutrality, carbon emissions reduction and the sustainable development of the earth, Fosun will continue to actively cooperate with its member companies to promote the implementation of ESG strategies, especially in the areas of carbon emissions peak, carbon neutrality, energy conservation and consumption reduction, and actively promote the sustainable development of the Group.
About Fosun
Founded in 1992, Fosun is a global innovation-driven consumer group dedicated to providing high-quality products and services for families around the world in Health, Happiness, Wealth, and Intelligent Manufacturing segments. In 2007, Fosun International Limited was listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (stock code: 00656.HK). In 2021, Fosun International's total revenue was RMB161.3 billion and total assets amounted to RMB806.4 billion. Fosun International ranks No.589 on the 2022 Forbes Global 2000 List, with a MSCI ESG rating of AA.
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SUZHOU, China, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 19, 2022, Porton Advanced Solutions. (hereinafter referred to as Porton Advanced) announced a strategic cooperation with Suzhou Royaltech Med Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Suzhou Royaltech). This strategic collaboration will further integrate the resources and capabilities of both parties, jointly promote the establishment of microbial vectors used for gene therapy (MVGTs) ( listeria monocytogenes) and mRNA drug platform technology, and accelerate the R&D process of bioinnovative drugs.
Porton Advanced provides an end-to-end gene and cell therapy CDMO service platform covering plasmids, cell therapy, gene therapy, oncolytic virus, nucleic acid therapy and viable bacteria therapy. Suzhou Royaltech focuses on the development of vaccines for tumor immunotherapy with its proprietary technologies, and fast transition from clinical to market . Its R&D pipeline covers the attenuated non-integrated Listeria platform, mRNA platform, and cell therapy platform. All these platforms are in the leading position not only in China but also abroad, and have a complete layout of invention patents.
Dr. Yangzhou Wang, CEO of Porton Advanced, said, "We are very pleased to enter into this strategic collaboration with Royaltech. The core management team of Royaltech is from the top pharmaceutical companies, with an average of 15 years of R&D and management experience and is advancing an internationally competitive R&D pipeline. Porton Advanced's end-to-end gene and cell therapy CDMO platform with rich project experience and comprehensive quality system will help Royaltech the development of Listeria and mRNA drugs, push its R&D pipeline in a quick, efficient manner, and accelerate the development and implementation of innovative drugs, so that good medicines can benefit the public earlier."
Dr. Chun Xu, Chairman of Royaltech, said: "As a Biotech company, we are grateful to work with Porton Advanced, a very professional CDMO company, to jointly build a unique Listeria and mRNA tumor vaccine platform technology, and constantly develop leading tumor immunotherapeutic biological drugs in China and abroad."
About Porton Advanced Solutions
Established in Suzhou Industrial Park in December 2018, by its parent company Porton Pharma Solutions Ltd. (Stock Code: 300363), Porton Advanced has built a CDMO platform integrating plasmid, cell therapy, gene therapy, oncolytic virus, nucleic acid therapy and microbial vectors used for gene therapy (MVGTs), providing end-to-end services from cell banking, process development and analytical development, cGMP production to final Fill and Finish , investigator-initiated clinical trials (IIT), investigational new drugs (IND), clinical trials to commercial production. Porton Advanced is dedicated to support sponsors advance their GCT drug development and market launches.
Porton Advanced focuses solely on gene and cell therapy services. Built on the professional experience of its cohort of world-class professionals, as well as on the successes of its parent company, Porton Advanced insists on "Customer First" and the tenet of "Compliance, Expertise, Focus, Open Collaboration". With its key focus on protecting IP for its sponsors, through its comprehensive project management and quality systems, Porton Advanced strives to bring gene and cell therapy products to the clinic and the market through its quality CDMO services, and help bring the best medicine to the public sooner.
About Royaltech
Headquartered in Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou Royaltech Med Co., Ltd. was founded in July 2016. In July 2017, a wholly-owned subsidiary, Shanghai Royaltech Co., Ltd. was set up in Shanghai International Medical Zone. As a high-standard innovation center of biological drugs, Shanghai Royaltech focuses on CMC development of innovative tumor vaccine, and fast clinical application of up-to-date cell immunotherapy.
Since establishment, Royaltech has submitted several patents for invention to the State Intellectual Property Office. It focuses on the development of innovative tumor vaccine, and fast clinical application of up-to-date cell immunotherapy. Its R&D pipeline covers mRNA, oncolytic virus, bacteria, AAV, cell therapy platform and so on. Its core management team is from top universities in US and top 10 big pharma, with an average of 15 years of R&D and management experience. Our scientists have excellent capability on molecular biological engineering, target discovery and verification, pre-clinical R&D, quality control and assurance, and clinical trials of cell immunotherapy. On the strength of our rich experience on target biomarker, target discovery and verification, and global multicenter clinical trials, we are advancing an internationally competitive R&D pipeline.
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Bonner scores 15 as Sun beat Sky in Game 1 of WNBA semis
CHICAGO - DeWanna Bonner had 15 points and nine rebounds to lead the Connecticut Sun to a 68-63 win over the Chicago Sky in Game 1 of their WNBA semifinals series.
Jonquel Jones scored 12 points and also grabbed nine rebounds for the Sun, Alyssa Thomas had 12 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, and Brionna Jones added 12 points.
Jonquel Jones was 5 for 8 from the field and Brionna Jones shot 6 for 8.
Candace Parker had 19 points and 18 rebounds for the Sky, and Kahleah Copper scored 13 points on 5-for-10 shooting. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/sports/bonner-scores-15-as-sun-beat-sky-in-game-1-of-wnba-semis | 2022-08-29T05:04:41Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/sports/bonner-scores-15-as-sun-beat-sky-in-game-1-of-wnba-semis | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Remote Area Clinic, also known as Ram is in need of volunteers for an upcoming clinic in Cleveland this November.
The two-day clinic will be held November 11th and 12th at St. Therese Catholic Church, located at 900 Clingan Ridge Drive NW, Cleveland, TN 37312.
Ram is a major nonprofit provider whose mission to prevent pain and alleviate suffering for those in need.
The organization has provided under-insured patients free healthcare services since 1985.
Those who attend will receive free access to dental, vision, and healthcare. No insurance is needed or I.D.
If you plan on participating, it’s important to note, services will be provided on a first-come, first-serve basis.
RAM’S Media Relations Coordinator, Chris Cannon says in order to achieve that goal they simply need volunteers.
“You don’t have to have an M.B. or D.D.S or R.N. to make a difference at a RAM clinic,” he said. “We have volunteer opportunities for anybody, even if you aren’t involved in the medical field.”
RAM is expecting a huge turnout later this fall. Previous years, volunteers at the clinic provided more than $623,000 worth of health care services in that community.
Cannon says volunteers would assist with patient check-ins, or COVID-19 screening. He also added parking lot and security is always in high-demand.
“If you’re a high school football team looking to help work the parking lot. There’s an opportunity for that,” he said.
While, the clinic offers a full-range of services, Cannon says the need for dental work remains high.
He says people seeking dental treatment makes up 60% of their operation.
“The main reason we see that is because if your tooth’s hurting you’re going to be thinking about it all day,” Cannon explained.
The clinic plans to take extra precautions to keep everyone safe. If you are imuno-compromised, there are precautions put in place to keep you safe.
“We have dental operatories, which are 10 x 10 tents that have sides, and there’s a HEPA filter that filters the air every 45 secs in those tents,” he said. “A lot more precautions to alleviate some of that stress for patients.”
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Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O' Rourke said Sunday he is taking a break from the campaign trail after contracting a bacterial infection.
O' Rourke said he began feeling sick on Friday and was diagnosed with the infection at the Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, where he received antibiotics.
"While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors' recommendations," he tweeted Sunday.
O'Rourke, who is running against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in the November election, said he will have to postpone some events due to his illness, but will be back on the campaign trail as soon as possible.
O'Rourke recently made headlines while on the campaign trail in North Texas when he swore at a heckler during a campaign rally. He was speaking to a crowd in Mineral Wells, Texas, about the mass shooting in Uvalde, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, when a member in the audience began to laugh, NPR member station Houston Public Media reported.
O'Rourke quickly spun around and pointed at the heckler and said, "It may be funny to you, motherf*****, but it's not funny to me, OK."
The crowd immediately began cheering in support of O'Rourke's snappy interjection.
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It's looking rough out there for stocks as Fed chair Powell snuffed out the latest relief rally, reaffirming that the central bank will maintain a resolute approach in tackling inflation. The close on Friday was ugly with Wall Street ending the day at the lows, with the S&P 500 falling 3.4% and the Nasdaq by 3.9%.
The selloff is continuing to today with stock futures looking rather beaten down so far. Here's a look as we head towards Europe:
- S&P 500 futures -0.8%
- Nasdaq futures -1.1%
- Dow futures -0.6%
- Eurostoxx -0.4%
- DAX futures -0.6%
Amid the drop on Friday, the technicals are also starting to look more bearish for equities with the S&P 500 cracking below its 100-day moving average and also its 38.2 Fib retracement level support:
That could see the declines extend towards 4,000 next before investors start to turn their attention towards the US jobs report at the end of this week. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/equities-stay-under-pressure-after-fridays-rout-20220829/ | 2022-08-29T05:15:53Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/equities-stay-under-pressure-after-fridays-rout-20220829/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Inflation is the number one enemy and priority. That's the key takeaway from what we have heard from Fed and ECB policymakers at Jackson Hole since the weekend. And markets are responding in kind.
Equities were routed on Friday and are soft again today while the dollar is pushing higher across the board after observing modest gains at the end of last week. The bond market was unenthused at the time but we are seeing yields creep higher today. 10-year Treasury yields are up 8 bps to 3.12% and nearing fresh two-month highs:
Fed chair Powell's speech wasn't overly hawkish but it was clear and concise. The Fed will stick with a resolute approach in countering inflation and his remarks were backed up by Mester here. Odds of a 75 bps rate hike in September now stand at ~76%.
Meanwhile, the ECB looks to be trying to tee up a 75 bps rate hike next week as I bet policymakers in the region are realising that their window to tighten may be closing - even if they are adamant about "hiking into a recession".
The key thing to be mindful about when looking at this is that the talk about central banks tightening policy further in the wake of slowing growth is largely built around the premise on a so-called soft landing.
That's what both the Fed and ECB are angling towards but the latter has its work cut out for them amid soaring energy prices in Europe heading into winter. That said, the Fed doesn't have it much easier with growing socioeconomic pressures and if we do see stronger recession risks seep in, can the Fed really ignore that? In essence, the Fed pivot will revolve around that debate now.
We're still in the early days of course but make no mistake, we're now in the second-half of the tightening cycle. It's all about if central banks can keep fighting the "good" fight against inflation. The issue here is that the harder they run at that, it could very well double-down and hurt a slowing economy even more.
You can take the UK for example. Amid soaring energy prices where in some cases people might end up paying more on electricity than they do for mortgage in a month, higher interest rates is just compounding the woes for those households/borrowers. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/fighting-the-good-fight-20220829/ | 2022-08-29T05:15:59Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/fighting-the-good-fight-20220829/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
There was a lack of spark in the bond market at the end of last week in the aftermath of Fed chair Powell's speech. But perhaps one can argue that traders already cast their vote a week earlier when 10-year Treasury yields broke back above its 100-day moving average (red line) and proceeded to climb above 3% all before the main event.
The message by central banks at Jackson Hole was clear and it really isn't invalidating the push higher in yields in the past week. However, I'm not certain if yields are going to find the next leg higher just based on this. As things stand, the Fed has set out their stance but the September decision and any subsequent ones will largely be dependent on the data.
For this week, be reminded that we will see the US jobs report i.e. non-farm payrolls on Friday. That is one of the bigger ones to watch before the FOMC meeting next month.
In any case, there is good reason to expect yields to keep elevated in the meantime. That should bode well for USD/JPY to stay underpinned and the move higher in yields today is already translating to a near 1% gain in the pair - which is now trading at 138.83 on the day. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/the-bond-market-is-on-the-move-to-start-the-week-20220829/ | 2022-08-29T05:16:05Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/the-bond-market-is-on-the-move-to-start-the-week-20220829/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DETROIT — Four people were shot, three fatally, by a man who appeared to be firing at people randomly over a roughly 2 1/2-hour period Sunday morning in Detroit, police said.
Police arrested the unidentified suspect Sunday evening after and hourslong manhunt with help from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Detroit Police Chief James White said tips led officers to the suspect, but did not release further information.
“Thank you to the hard working men and women of the DPD that put themselves in harm’s way each day. Also, a big thank you to our law enforcement partners,” the department said on its Facebook page Sunday night.
White said police traced all four shootings to one firearm and believe there is one shooter. He said investigators don’t believe there was any connection between the victims, noting one person was walking a dog and another waiting for a bus when they were shot.
He said police discovered a woman in her 40s who had been shot multiple times around 4:45 a.m. on Sunday. While officers were investigating that fatal shooting, a witness reported a 28-year-old man had been shot multiple times nearby, White said.
A third victim, a woman in her 40s, was found in the area around 6:50 a.m. She died after being shot multiple times, police said.
Around 7:10 a.m., an elderly man reported he saw a man peering into vehicles. When the elderly man told the person to get away from the cars, the gunman fired at the elderly man, who was shot once and survived, police said. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/detroit-police-arrest-suspected-gunman-in-random-shootings/article_ab77ea30-271f-11ed-9d44-17a66a8127f1.html | 2022-08-29T05:25:20Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/detroit-police-arrest-suspected-gunman-in-random-shootings/article_ab77ea30-271f-11ed-9d44-17a66a8127f1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
‘Gardyloo’ should be Sturgeon’s campaign slogan - Brian Monteith
The Edinburgh International Festival is rightly renowned for spawning many unexpected artistic triumphs. Some have been applauded to the rafters while others famously crossed the line of bad taste and were condemned by Councillor Moira Knox as “sordid” – or worse – simply “rubbish”. Now Edinburgh is gaining a new reputation for taking performance art to the highest level possible by staging its very own Festival of Rubbish.
It’s a truly international festival too; helped as it is by the welcomed masses who spend their treasure to reach the Scottish capital and – when they are not doing a splendid job of supporting our fine dining restaurants or bustling brasseries – devour the latest Indian, Chinese, Turkish, Mexican and of course American street food. Then, like all good bohemians, they place their disposable packaging and leaky containers randomly at different angles and arrangements around the already full-to-bursting refuse bins.
Even philistines not attending the Festival can get in on the act by eating only half of their deep-fried pizza supper and chucking it on the pyramid of oozing food waste. Being right-on and adhering to ECHR, the Equality Act and Twitter sensibilities, anyone – be they omnivores, carnivores, piscators, vegetarians and vegans can mingle and participate as equals. All genders can enter into the joy of trash, while taking the knee to the bins is actively encouraged.
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Of course, in Edinburgh’s dour and sober past tourists and locals alike would, thoughtfully and with great care, use only the receptacles intended for such flotsam and jetsam of the all-day and late-night revelries. But where’s the fun in that? How on earth are Britain’s seagulls, now thought to be in decline – and the local vermin, now likely to be multiplying – meant to eke-out a square meal?
Having become the most photographed event in Edinburgh the show must go on and is now set to run in Glasgow and other cities and towns near you.
The filth on Edinburgh’s streets is of course utterly disgusting, but, like appreciating art, that is only my subjective opinion. There are many prepared to defend it. I am not one of them, there are many ways to skin a feline – and turning Edinburgh into one great landfill site is not one of them.
How then has it come to this?
The reason is simple enough – devolution. Yes, the creation of the Scottish Parliament in the manner that it was, without giving any consideration as to the impact upon our local authorities could only mean one thing, creeping centralisation to Edinburgh and the diminution of our councils and councillors. I warned of this in the 1997 referendum but such was Labour’s hubris from Blair’s general election victory and the jingoistic nature of the debate it was an argument that went unherd.
There were some exceptions in Scottish local government circles who could foresee problems for our great cities. If I remember correctly, Councillors Eric Milligan (Edinburgh) and Michael Kelly (Glasgow) were sceptical for that reason. Rather bizarrely, however, CoSLA was one of the loudest cheerleaders for a devolved assembly or parliament, reminding me of the naive pastor in War of the Worlds trying to reason with the invading machines from Mars.
Without seeking to provide a counterbalance to a Scottish Parliament of strong local councils with respected leaders wielding authority gained through popular mandates it was inevitable that Holyrood would centralise responsibilities and take for itself the lion’s share of taxpayer funding.
Unfortunately that is exactly what has happened. Eight local police forces managed jointly by councillors? Now there’s just one Scottish state police force clearly under the influence of the Justice Secretary. The regional fire and ambulance services have gone the same way. Education? Suffocated by a national curriculum that eschews excellence. And now we are about to have a national care service introduced that will reduce the role of local councils while adding to the already high costs.
The centralisation has been bad enough – not even delivering better value for money its advocates promised, worse still has been the salami-slicing of local authority budgets so they have little room for independent thought or action.
So while devolution has been the progenitor of local authority demise the policies of the SNP Government has been the midwife. Aided and abetted by a Green Party in search of ministerial conferment, the SNP has repeatedly cut council budgets to the point where services are not just trimmed with shorter opening hours of facilities like the local baths, but are closed altogether. Streets are dirtier, litter is multiplying, weeds grow like Triffids – while bins often remain full even without a strike.
Auditing the Scottish Government’s spending, the Accounts Commission reported funding between 2013/14 to 2020/21 had fallen 4.2 per cent in real terms (after allowing for inflation and excluding Covid-related funding) while spending restricted to SNP priorities had increased. That time period coincides with the rule of steel over her party and government of SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon.
This then brings us to achieving a settlement of the pay dispute with the council cleansing workers – that requires the agreement of and funding by the Scottish Government. Not Westminster, not Edinburgh City Chambers – but the government of Nicola Sturgeon. But in between five performances at the Festival celebrity Sturgeon has not been hammering out a deal but opening her own show at great expense in a considerably cleaner Copenhagen – christening her very own pretend embassy.
Creative Scotland has missed a trick. If only it had announced a special award to Edinburgh’s Festival of Rubbish where, to an attendant media circus, Sturgeon could pour a pail of muck out the window of Bute House – shouting “gardyloo” – our attention-seeking First Minister might just be attracted to do her day job?
Brian Monteith is a former member of the Scottish and European Parliaments and is editor of ThinkScotland.org
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Kyogo Furuhashi sets Celtic goal target and makes remarkable finishing admission after Dundee United rout
Celtic’s Kyogo Furuhashi refused to be sated with the nine goal haul in his team’s demolition of Dundee United, on a day when the striker and team-mate Liel Abada both bagged hat-tricks.
A win of a magnitude that the £4.7m 2021 summer signing from Vissel Kobe had “never” experienced in his career, remarkably, the failure of Ange Postecoglou’s men to take the scoring into double figures had Furuhashi maintaining there is a need for Celtic to brush up on their finishing.
Important as they now face a week-and-a-bit wherein they are away to Ross County in the Betfred Cup on Wednesday, confront Rangers in the season’s first meeting between the title rivals three days later, and embark on their Champions League campaign by hosting Real Madrid in 10 days’ time.
“We certainly had more opportunities,” said the forward, who has now scored six goals for the season. “We need to improve our finishing quality although we have the confidence from scoring nine goals. It is the result of our football and what we have been working on. We are happy with the result, but we still have a lot of things to do.”
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Furuhashi confessed the Madrid meeting was “motivating” for the Celtic players but the 27-year-old has his own personal goals - in all respects - that are pushing him on to make life impossible for defences. “My teammates always provide me with good passes,” he said on being asked for a goal target. “The first aim would be 20 goals and then I would like to reach 30, and more.”
Abada, meanwhile, hopes the first hat-trick of his Celtic career won’t be his last as the 20-year-old took his goal tally since joining the club last summer to 20.
“To score a hat-trick was great. I’m really happy, hopefully it’s the first of many,” the Israel international told Sky Sports.
“I think this is a good result for us. The performance was good and I’m really happy to get the chance to help the team. Hopefully we can keep this going.
“It was a good performance from everyone but now we focus on Sunday [against Rangers].”
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What channel is Andy Murray on? US Open first round TV details, start time, Argentine opponent
Andy Murray returns to the scene of his first Grand Slam victory on Monday when he takes to the courts at Flushing Meadows for the first round of the US Open.
It is ten years since Murray broke his major duck at the New York event by defeating Novak Djokovic in a five set epic in 2012 in what was the fifth Grand Slam final of his career at that point.
Murray, now 35 and battling cramp issues on the back of major hip surgery, returns a decade on as a tournament outsider as he looks to progress beyond the third round of a Slam for the first time since 2017.
The Scot faces a tough start with a first round match against Argentine 24th seed Francisco Cerundolo – a player renowned for his powerful forehand and who claimed his maiden ATP title last month at the Bastad Open.
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Here is how you can watch the action…
Match details
Who: Andy Murray v Francisco Cerundolo
What: US Open first round
Where: Louis Armstrong Stadium, USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows, New York
When: Monday, August 29, 4pm start UK time
How to watch Andy Murray v Francisco Cerundolo
Viewers in the UK can watch the US Open through Amazon Prime Video by selecting which match they wish to watch.
Existing Prime members can watch for no additional fees, while new customers can sign up for a 30-day free Amazon Prime trial with no commitment or contract.
After the completion of the trial, an Amazon Prime Video subscription costs £7.99 per month and offers free next day delivery on thousands of items from the Amazon website.
The US Open’s YouTube channel will also be broadcasting extended highlights of matches throughout the tournament.
Head-to-head
Andy Murray and Franciso Cerundolo have never met before. This will be their first match against each other.
Odds
Andy Murray 4/6 Francisco Cerundolo 6/5 – Bet365
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Duhan van der Merwe, Rory Sutherland, Murray McCallum on Edinburgh radar as club monitors Worcester Warriors situation
Edinburgh coach Mike Blair is keeping an eye on the developing situation at Worcester Warriors with a view to offering a lifeline to their Scottish players should the financially stricken club be forced out of business.
Worcester are reportedly on the brink of administration following a winding-up petition over unpaid tax being issued by HM Revenue & Customs last week.
The owners, Colin Goldring and Jason Whittingham, are opposed to the club going into administration and said they remain in ongoing discussions with HMRC, Premiership Rugby, the RFU and the UK government’s department for digital, culture, media & sport (DCMS).
Worcester’s first team squad includes Scotland internationals and former Edinburgh players Duhan van der Merwe, Rory Sutherland and Murray McCallum. Fin Smith, the Scottish-qualified stand-off, is also at the club.
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Blair said he was happy with the make up of his squad ahead of the new season but admitted he could move for Worcester’s Scotland caps should they become available.
“We do have a little bit of budget left for emergencies, injuries and what have you but we’ve not earmarked anyone,” the Edinburgh coach said following a public training session at the DAM Health Stadium.
“Obviously the Worcester situation is one that is ongoing and once we get clarity on what exactly is happening there we can have further discussions on it but at the moment we’re sitting back and waiting for that to play out.”
Blair has strengthened for the new season by bringing in Scotland forward Sam Skinner, props Nick Auterac and Jamie Jack, New Zealand U20 winger Wes Goosen and stand-off Bruce Houston, but he admitted he could be tempted to augment further.
“The difficult bit is it might not be right for now but it might be right for tomorrow so do you take the hit now?” said Blair. “So what I mean by that is that with not having much budget now, can we really stress that and get someone in who we’d really want for the following year? It’s complicated.
“But we’ll let the situation play out. Hopefully, they get bought out, they resolve things and they’re able to continue how they’re going. If the situation changes and players become available then we’ll have to see how that fits with what we want.”
Blair, meanwhile, has paid tribute to Emiliano Boffelli following his match-winning performance for Argentina against New Zealand in the Rugby Championship. The Edinburgh winger was outstanding in the Pumas’ 25-18 victory in Christchurch, their first ever on New Zealand soil. Boffelli kicked 20 points to keep the pressure on All Blacks coach Ian Foster whose side have now lost six of their last eight Tests.
Known to his Edinburgh team-mates as ‘King Boff’, the Argentine was sent an appropriate mark of appreciation.
“I sent him a crown as a WhatsApp emoji,” said Blair. “He’s been great. We’ve been in touch - no real detail or anything, just ‘How’s it going? How’s training? Are you enjoying yourself?’”
Boffelli’s international commitments mean Edinburgh will have to cope without him for the first chunk of the new season. Argentina’s final match in the Rugby Championship is against South Africa in Durban on September 24 and the player will then be given some time off.
“We’ll hopefully see him in October,” said Blair.
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Perhaps the best performance at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards — held for the second time at the Prudential Center on Sunday night — didn’t even take place on the VMAs stage. That was when Artist of the Year winner Bad Bunny had the audience hopping from his show at Yankee Stadium, whether they were concertgoers or viewers watching the awards all around the world.
But it was also a night that big winner Jack Harlow, who took home four VMAs, and Video Vanguard recipient Nicki Minaj were better at performing than they were at co-hosting. Meanwhile, Global Icon Award honorees Red Hot Chili Peppers led a rock resurgence that also featured Panic! At the Disco and Italian breakout band Maneskin.
Before MTV goes back to forgetting about music for another year, we look back on the best and worst performances of the 2022 VMAs.
Worst: Blackpink
Doing “Pink Venom” — from their upcoming second album “Born Pink,” due Sept. 16 — the K-pop girl group underwhelmed in their debut performance on a US awards show. It was bad enough that many in the audience — both in the Prudential Center and around the country watching — probably didn’t know the song, but the stiff, lifeless performance failed to establish the group as a live force to be reckoned with on the VMAs stage.
Best: Jack Harlow, Fergie and Lizzo
Co-host Jack Harlow gets props for bring back Fergie from the musical oblivion — where exactly has she been? — after he generously sampled her 2007 hit “Glamorous” on his 2022 No. 1 hit “First Class.” Respect was due, and he gave it to a star much in need of some love. And then when you added Lizzo to the opening on “2 B Loved (Am I Ready),” well, we already know that Lizzo makes everything better.
Best: Nicki Minaj
It took almost an hour for co-host Nicki Minaj to show up to the VMAs stage. But when she did, the 39-year-old Queens MC made a show-stopping statement that proved why she — haters be damned — was worthy of this year’s Video Vanguard Award. A pink-haired Minaj owned the candy-coated set to the delight of her legion of Barbies in a medley that veered from her killer verse on Kanye West’s “Monster” to solo hits “Beez in the Trap,” “Moment 4 Life,” “Super Bass” and “Anaconda” that showcased her range of styles and flows. At the end of a mini-set that proved why she is one of the best female rappers of all time, she was even to be excused for some obvious lip-syncing during her current No. 1 hit “Super Freaky Girl.”
Worst: Eminem and Snoop Dogg
After seeing Em and Snoop rocking the Super Bowl halftime stage in February in real effing life, the whole metaverse performance of their new single “From the D 2 the LBC” was a major letdown. I mean, who wants virtual versions of these two rap legends — especially when the flesh-and-blood icons are actually in the house? The whole thing felt like a gimmicky, desperate attempt to make these aging rappers look relevant. But at least they redeemed themselves a bit at the end by appearing and performing all the way live.
Best: Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Chili Peppers got a humorous introduction from Cheech and Chong before they gave their Global Icon Award performance. But once the band took the stage, it was serious business as they put the M — music — back into MTV and the VMAs. From the moment they launched into their 2022 hit “Black Summer,” there was no doubt that the Chili Peppers were performing completely live. Imagine that? The pure joy of seeing badass bassist Flea and guitar god John Frusciante jamming together on stage almost made you think that you were watching the Grammys for a second. And the boundless energy that the Chili Peppers displayed — 22 years after they already won MTV’s Video Vanguard Award — as they returned to their rap-rock roots on “Can’t Stop” made you wonder just how many of this year’s acts would still be rocking the VMAs stage 37 years after their debut. I’m betting exactly none.
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Best: Bad Bunny
First Kane Brown became the first male country star to ever perform at the VMAs in a rousing performance of “Grand” from the Toyoya Stage that made Fort Lee, NJ look like Nashville. Then Puerto Rican sensation Bad Bunny one-upped him with a remote performance from Yankee Stadium on his second of two nights that were the hottest ticket in town. It had already been a big night for Latin artists, including performances by Anitta, and J Balvin and Ryan Castro. But a satin-suited Bad Bunny was the hottest of them all, delivering the kind of electric performance that beat just about any other one of the night. You could really feel the energy of the crowd rocking and rapping along with the reggaeton superstar to “Titi Me Pregunto.” And it was fitting that he was able to receive his Artist of the Year award — beating out Styles, who failed to do a remote performance from his own show at Madison Square Garden — in front of his adoring fans. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/29/vmas-2022-best-worst-performances-from-blackpink-to-nicki-minaj/ | 2022-08-29T05:48:35Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/29/vmas-2022-best-worst-performances-from-blackpink-to-nicki-minaj/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It's been a rather straightforward one after Jackson Hole as the Fed's resolute commitment to fighting inflation is sending the dollar soaring in the aftermath. The theme is carrying over to today with the greenback surging across the board once again. EUR/USD is down 0.4% to 0.9915 while USD/JPY is up over 1% to hit 139.00 for the first time since 15 July:
The pair is now looking towards the July high of 139.38, though it must be noted that the daily closes last month failed to hold above 139.00 in general. As such, buyers may be looking towards a test of 140.00 quickly if we do get to see some firmer pulses on the daily chart. The fact that the bond market is also supportive is a plus for buyers at the moment.
Elsewhere, GBP/USD is cracking to fresh lows since March 2020 as the technical breakdown now opens up the path towards 1.1500 next. The pair is down 0.8% to 1.1650 at the moment.
Against the commodity currencies, the dollar is also enjoying some good moves with USD/CAD holding above 1.3000 to 1.3070 at the moment - its highest since 15 July. Meanwhile, AUD/USD is down 0.7% to 0.6841 as price takes out the swing region around 0.6856-69 and looks poised to head towards another test of the July lows near 0.6700. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/dollar-continues-its-rampage-ahead-of-european-trading-20220829/ | 2022-08-29T05:50:43Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/dollar-continues-its-rampage-ahead-of-european-trading-20220829/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
With London out, that might make for a quieter day but given the action we are seeing so far, broader markets may just look to carry on with the moves set out after Jackson Hole at the end of last week. A stronger dollar, higher bond yields, and softer equities is the playbook to start the new week.
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An F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 36th Fighter Squadron takes off as part of a training mission at Gwangju Air Base, Republic of Korea, Aug. 18, 2022. During the training, the 36th FS conducted multiple mission sorties in a simulated combat environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Dwane R. Young)
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220828-N-DM318-1013 AIKAWA TOWN, Japan (Aug. 28, 2022) Naval Aircrewman (Helicopter) 2nd Class Coleman Krallis, assigned to the “Golden Falcons” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 12, from Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi, looks over Aikawa Town, Japan, while conducting flight operations as part of a bi-lateral emergency rescue exercise with Aikawa Town, Emergency Services. NAF Atsugi supports the combat readiness of Commander, Carrier Air Wing FIVE (CVW 5), Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron FIVE ONE (HSM-51) and 30 other tenant commands and provides logistic support, coordination, and services to units assigned to the Western Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ange Olivier Clement)
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‘Domestic, Unmarried Partnerships or Queer Relationships’ Also Constitute a Family: Supreme Court
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What is a family unit, and how do you define it? In a significant observation, the Supreme Court noted that atypical family units — like domestic, unmarried partnerships and queer relationships — are also entitled to legal recognition and protection. Familial relationships are perceived as predominantly monogamous institutions understood to be complete with mothers, fathers, and children — but that’s not always the case.
“This assumption ignores both, the many circumstances which may lead to a change in one’s familial structure, and the fact that many families do not conform to this expectation, to begin with,” the apex court said, in an order uploaded on Sunday. “Family relationships may take the form of domestic, unmarried partnerships or queer relationships.”
The observation faintly echoes a fight to challenge the blinkered idea of marriage and family that we currently uphold: activists have rallied for the idea that relationships and marriages of people who are LGBTQIA+ need to be recognized by law, and even people in live-in relationships should have access to infrastructures like adoptions. “The black letter of the law must not be relied upon to disadvantage families which are different from traditional ones,” as the court noted.
The bench, constituting Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and A.S. Bopanna, was discussing a case that challenged who classifies as “caretakers” or “guardians” of a child. The present instance involved the case of a petitioner who was denied maternity leave for her biological child; her husband had children from a previous marriage, and the petitioner had already availed maternity leave before to take care of one of the children. Her maternity leave application was thus denied on the grounds that she availed child care leave for her husband’s biological children before.
That her maternity leave was called into question on the grounds that this wasn’t a “traditional” family raised questions about how access to maternity rights in India and the gendered division of labor in households, heavily depend on how we view the institution of family in itself.
“A household may be a single-parent household for any number of reasons, including the death of a spouse, separation, or divorce. Similarly, the guardians and caretakers (who traditionally occupy the roles of the ‘mother’ and the ‘father’) of children may change with remarriage, adoption, or fostering,” the court said.
“These manifestations of love and families may not be typical but they are as real as their traditional counterparts,” and notably, they are “equally deserving not only of protection under the law but also of the benefits available under social welfare legislation.”
It is hard to put a number on how many people fall in these “atypical” set-ups. But anecdotally and through various surveys, we know there is a significant population of people in live-in relationships, widowed or single parents, or people in queer relationships who are left out of welfare schemes such as free ration or for laying claim to facilities that only a “husband” and “wife” have historically had access to. Many struggle to navigate through a thickly-laid bureaucracy that doesn’t see them as a “family” in the first place.
While the apex court has previously cemented a progressive stance on how it frames families (including a recent judgment on abortion that said even single, unmarried women should have access to abortion), the outlook hasn’t quite translated into tangible legal protection.
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The context to the judgment includes a cultural and legal tussle. Multiple petitions are now pending before the Delhi High Court seeking to recognize same-sex marriages in India under the Special Marriage Act, Hindu Marriage Act, and Foreign Marriage Act. In different instances, the Union government has argued that “spouse” and “marriage” are for heterosexual couples only (husband and wife) and that “courts should refrain from legitimizing same-sex marriage.” The legal and political outlook both draw upon a cis-normative and heteronormative idea of personhood that continues to complicate people’s access to privacy and rights.
It may no longer be a crime to enter into consensual and private same-sex relationships ever since parts of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code were struck down, but all is still not well. “…the absence of robust LGBTQIA+ inclusive policies at the union, state and district levels, and an overall lack of political will to create better laws for LGBTQIA+ people means that these issues will take a back seat,” The Leaflet noted.
Even with other non-traditional routes of partnership, different high courts have also previously observed the legitimacy of live-in relationships. “The only difference [between marriages and these] is that the relationship is not universally accepted. Individual also has the right to formalize the relationship with the partner through marriage or to adopt the non-formal approach of a live-in relationship,” Justice Sudhir Mittal of the Punjab and Haryana High Court said last year. At the same time, there have been other instances where judges have called live-in relationships “morally, socially not acceptable.”
Underneath it all is a cultural confusion around who constitutes a family unit.
Along with questions of how we define family and who this definition includes is also the matter of who does the defining. Giving legal recognition to institutes outside the confines of marriage is, then, key here. While the apex court’s observations are progressive and intend to break free from structures of oppression manufactured in the name of preserving tradition, the intent must eventually translate into tangible progress. One that can be measured through people’s lived experiences.
But the observation still remains an important articulation of where we stand as a society today. It recognizes the need to undo the deeply embedded link between “family” and “marriage” — an institution which as many feminist scholars have noted is in itself a system built on oppression and exclusion. “The kind of relationship that is most acknowledged and incentivized – socially, legally, and financially – is marriage…. historically speaking, the institution came into being for a very practical purpose: to ensure that a man’s children were in fact his true biological heirs, so they could safely inherit his property,” as Farah Maneckshaw noted in The Swaddle.
Then, as Maneckshaw argued, we need an ideological intervention where people prioritize and value the idea of “families of choice” — ecosystems of support that are founded on care, compassion, and consideration. Every ecosystem is built around a person, and it is that person’s agency that the law must recognize.
“Family to us is ‘all relationships that are actively and voluntarily maintained.’ Chosen families are characterized by enduring mutual care and support, and can include a wide variety of relationships, from friends, partners, ex-partners to animals. This way of living chips away at the dominance of the cis-heterosexual relationship and nuclear-family ideal, and could result in a greater collective emphasis on other forms of intimacy and love, such as friendships.” | https://theswaddle.com/domestic-unmarried-partnerships-or-queer-relationships-also-constitute-a-family-supreme-court/ | 2022-08-29T06:03:47Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/domestic-unmarried-partnerships-or-queer-relationships-also-constitute-a-family-supreme-court/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On opening weekend, No. 23 Kansas volleyball defeated Utah Valley, No. 22 Utah and Loyola Marymount at the Utah Classic in Salt Lake City at the Jon M. Huntsman Center. Super senior Anezka Szabo was named to the Utah Classic All-Tournament Team, and sophomore setter Camryn Turner was named MVP of the Utah Classic.
Game One
The 2022-23 season began with fire. Sophomore libero Molly McCarthy's five early service aces and Szabo's early kills forced Utah Valley to take a timeout with the score 10-4.
After the timeout, KU continued to dominate as attack errors from Utah Valley, well-placed kills and blocks led the Jayhawks to win the first set 25-10.
After Utah Valley took the first point of the second set, the Jayhawks went on a 6-0 scoring run. Kills from grad middle blocker Lauren Dooley, sophomore outside hitter Caroline Bien and Szabo sealed the run to bring the score to 6-1.
The Jayhawks continued the momentum as they went on a 7-0 scoring run to extend the lead to 20-9. Sophomore outside hitter Karli Schmidt killed the second set, 25-14.
As KU took an early 3-1 lead in the third set, excitement surrounded the 2-0 Jayhawks. Utah Valley tried to make a comeback, but redshirt freshman outside hitter Ayah Elnady stopped their momentum to make the score 13-8.
Utah Valley tried to stop Kansas’ heat but KU closed the match in three sets winning, 25-18.
Game Two
Six hours later, the Jayhawks were back on the court for game two against No. 22 Utah. Kansas took the first two points of the first set. The Jayhawks extended the lead to 7-3 with kills by Szabo, Bien, and super senior middle blocker Rachel Langs.
Utah rallied to tie the score 14-14, but after a constant back and forth, Kansas remained composed, and Elnady’s kill brought the score to 23-22. The Jayhawks continued to be aggressive and won the set, 25-22.
Kansas quickly fell behind in the second, scoring 4-1. Utah continued their momentum, putting up a 6-0 scoring run. The Jayhawks never recovered and lost the second set, 25-16.
Kansas was ready to rebound as they came out with a 4-0 lead to start the third set. Utah tried to make a comeback, but the Jayhawks remained aggressive and won the set, 25-20.
Kansas continued their momentum into the fourth set with an early 4-0 lead. Utah tied the score up 9-9 due to attack errors. Utah and the Jayhawks continued to go back and forth until Szabo, and Elnady got the kills to take the lead over Utah. Kansas closed the match with a kill by Bien.
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On Saturday, the Jayhawks took the court at 2 p.m to take on Loyola Marymount. The first set was back and forth until the Lions secured a 5-0 run.
Kansas rebounded by going on a 4-0 run to tie the score at 21. The set continued back and forth until Bien had back-to-back kills to secure the first set, 28-26.
The second set began with Loyola Marymount taking the early lead at 10-6. The Lion's aggressive play continued until the Jayhawks went for a 3-0 run, making the score 19-6. Loyola Marymount called a timeout and Kansas started chipping at the lead.
Aggressive play by the Jayhawks forced a 6-1 run which tied the match 25-25. More back and forth ensued until a service and attack error committed by LMU led the Jayhawks to win the second set, 30-28.
Continuing their success, the Jayhawks started the third set 5-1. KU dominated with kills and blocks to go on a 10-3 scoring run. Freshman outside hitter Rhian Swanson delivered the final kill of the tournament, winning 25-12.
Turner totaled 40 assists and 10 digs for a double-double in game three. Over the weekend, Dooly recorded 23 kills and 12 blocks.
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GREEN RIVER – A wild thunderstorm may have tried to interrupt an annual event at Evers Park but supporters and organizers refused to give up.
The 4th annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s took place on Saturday, Aug. 26 in Green River.
Volunteers were on-site to take donations, spread awareness of the disease and offer care and support to those facing Alzheimer’s. Children had the opportunity to play games and enjoyed fresh popcorn.
The EIO Band entertained participants.
Local radio personality Al Harris was the master of ceremonies.
“Everyone can help with advanced research by participating in these events,” said Harris. “There are approximately 12,000 people in Wyoming with Alzheimer’s. That’s a sobering thought.”
Harris also mentioned that there are about 35,000 unpaid caregivers in the state.
“Again, an astounding number.”
He added, “Alzheimer’s is destroying families, fortunes, and futures. It’s time to end it.”
“One day we will end this disease and we’ll do it together.”
Green River resident Robert Ross spoke on behalf of Edward Jones Financial, which is a national sponsor for Walk to End Alzheimer’s. He informed participants that the company will continue to help raise funds for research until there is a cure.
Green River Mayor Pete Rust was the third speaker during the ceremony.
“These walks are the number one fundraiser for Alzheimer’s in the world so they’re a big deal,” Rust noted. “It’s great to participate in the walk tonight because we’re taking steps in taking care of this disease. It’s not the end of it, it’s the beginning and I want to encourage others to keep participating.”
He added, “While I’m glad to see the citizens do the walk, I’m also glad to see the volunteers do the work and keep it going. They do this every single year and they’re the ones who make it happen.”
Susie von Ahrens, committee chairwoman for the Sweetwater County Walk to End Alzheimer's, revealed that she has had several relatives who had passed away from Alzheimer’s such as her grandmother, two aunts and an uncle.
Currently, her father is battling the disease.
“As I sit with my dad, holding his hand, he looks at me with a blank stare, unable to talk or communicate and I wonder what is going on in his mind,” she described. “Does he remember his childhood? His family or the job that he loved? Does he remember all the camping trips he took with all seven of his children or building his cabin in the Hoback or his world travels?
“Unfortunately, I do not think so.”
As she looks forward to a future with herself and her siblings, her children and her grandchildren, she said that “it's terrifying to think that we might be in the same situation as my dad and his family.”
“This is why we need to find a cure to this ugly disease,” she pointed out.
Searle Brothers Construction grilled dinner for the participants throughout the evening.
People participate in Walk to End Alzheimer’s in 600 different locations in America from September through November, carrying flowers that represent how their lives are affected by Alzheimer’s.
If participants carry a purple flower, they have lost someone to Alzheimer’s.
If participants carry a yellow flower, they are a caregiver to someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia.
If participants carry a blue flower, they are living with Alzheimer’s.
If participants carry an orange flower, they support the Alzheimer’s Association.
During this year’s local Walk to End Alzheimer’s event, the white flower was introduced to represent someone who has been cured of Alzheimer’s. News that there might be ways to prevent or slow the disease swept the nation last year.
While no one has been cured of this disease yet, Ellena Olivas, a Sweetwater County elementary school student, lead the walkers to the greenbelt as she carried the white flower.
The young participant was chosen as the only individual to hold the white flower during Friday’s walk.
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, it is expected that by next year, more and more marchers will be carrying white flowers. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/walk-to-end-alzheimer-s-communities-keep-battling-the-long-goodbye/article_7fbf38e6-2759-11ed-9339-db140012b4da.html | 2022-08-29T06:33:00Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/walk-to-end-alzheimer-s-communities-keep-battling-the-long-goodbye/article_7fbf38e6-2759-11ed-9339-db140012b4da.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
By DOUG FERGUSON
ATLANTA — This year it became easy to overlook Rory McIlroy’s four majors, 30 wins on four continents and two years at No. 1 in the world. He has been viewed mostly as the strongest voice and staunchest defender of the PGA Tour in its battle against Saudi-funded LIV Golf.
So perhaps it was only fitting that a most tumultuous year for the PGA Tour culminated Sunday with McIlroy holding its biggest prize.
He had the final say with his clubs.
Six shots behind before the Tour Championship started, 10 shots back after two holes, McIlroy rallied from a six-shot deficit in the final round against the No. 1 player in the world and closed with a 4-under 66 to become the first three-time winner of the FedEx Cup.
“It’s been a tumultuous time for the world of men’s professional golf in particular,” he said. “I’ve been in the thick of things. I guess every chance I get, I’m trying to defend what I feel is the best place to play elite professional golf in the world.
“It’s in some ways fitting that I was able to get this done today to sort of round off a year that has been very, very challenging and different.”
It came at the expense of Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world who birdied four of six holes Sunday morning to finish the storm-delayed third round at 66 and build a six-shot lead. Not even McIlroy, who birdied the last two holes in the morning to get into the final group, thought he had a great chance.
But then Scheffler never regained his groove, missing fairways and greens and par putts. He made only one birdie in a closing round of 73 and tied the PGA Tour record for losing a six-shot lead in the final round.
“I just didn’t get off to a good start early, but after that I grinded as hard as I could,” Scheffler said. “For whatever reason my swing wasn’t where it had been the first few days this week.”
McIlroy had a 17-under 263 for his raw score, the best of the week. He started at 4 under as the No. 7 seed and finished at 21 under to capture the $18 million bonus.
Sungjae Im fell back with a double bogey on the 14th hole and still managed a 66 to tie for second with Scheffler. They earned $5.75 million.
McIlroy referred to the final round as a “spectacle,” and not just because of the pro-McIlroy crowd that chanted his name along the closing holes.
“Two of the best players in the world going head-to-head for the biggest prize on the PGA Tour, and I hope everyone at home enjoyed that,” he said.
McIlroy needed plenty of help from Scheffler, who never trailed until the 70th hole. Scheffler looked out of sorts early, and McIlroy capitalized. With three straight birdies, he tied him on the seventh hole. And then it was a nail-biter to the end.
It was a stunning display at East Lake that turned on two shots.
McIlroy holed a 30-foot birdie putt on the par-3 15th hole to tie for the lead.
After he flew the green by some 20 yards on the 16th, his pitch was running fast and headed off the front of the green when it hit the pin and settled 7 feet away. He saved par. Scheffler blasted out of a bunker to just inside 10 feet and missed, making bogey that put him behind for the first time all week.
Scheffler badly misread a 10-foot birdie chance on the 17th to tie, sending the Tour Championship to the final hole with $18 million on the line.
Scheffler’s 4-iron on the par-5 18th sailed short and right and into a bunker, and he blasted out over the green. McIlroy went left against the grandstand, took relief and got onto the green for an easy par.
“I wanted to win the season-long title,” Scheffler said. “I’ve had a really great year and I wanted to finish it off with a win here, and unfortunately I wasn’t able to do that.”
McIlroy won the FedEx Cup in 2016 in a playoff. He won the FedEx Cup again in 2019, the first year of a staggered start. This might have been the sweetest of fall, coming off a year in which the PGA Tour has been in a nasty battle with LIV Golf, which already has attracted some two dozen players and now is part of an antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour.
It was McIlroy who has declared fierce loyalty to the PGA Tour over the last few years when rival leagues were coming into a view. And it was McIlroy who joined Tiger Woods in leading a momentous player-only meeting last week that led to significant changes ahead for the tour.
So, yes, this had an extra level of satisfaction.
And no, he didn’t mind the burden he carried as the de facto voice of the tour.
“If you believe in something I think you have to speak up, and I believe very strongly about this. I really do,” McIlroy said. “I hate what it’s doing to the game of golf. I hate it.
“I think when you believe that what you’re saying is the right things, you’re happy to stick your neck out on the line.”
Even at the Tour Championship, typically a celebration of the end of the year, there was talk all weekend of more defections coming in next few days. The Daily Telegraph reported three weeks ago that British Open champion Cameron Smith was leaving for LIV Golf, and renewed reports over the weekend confirmed as much.
Two people aware of the moves said Harold Varner III, Marc Leishman and Anirban Lahiri are leaving. They spoke on condition of anonymity because it has not been announced. Cameron Tringale announced his decision on Twitter.
Still to be determined is Joaquin Niemann, whose manager said the Chilean would discuss the options with his father later Sunday.
“Everyone on tour has had to deal with a lot. Even the guys that have went to LIV have had to deal with a lot. It’s just been a very tumultuous sort of era in our game,” McIlroy said. “This is the best place in the world to play golf. It’s the most competitive. It’s got the best players. It’s got the deepest fields. I don’t know why you’d want to play anywhere else.”
With all that speculation, the Tour Championship that looked to be a runaway turned into a dynamic show. And in the end, the tour’s biggest voice had its biggest trophy.
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A shooting at a shopping center in Bend, Oregon, Sunday evening has left at least two people dead, police said. The shooter is also believed to be dead.
The Bend Police Department responded to the Forum Shopping Center shortly after 7 p.m. after several people called 911 reporting shots fired, the department said in an emergency alert Sunday night.
Investigators believe a shooter began firing in the parking lot before entering a Safeway grocery store in the shopping center, police said. One person was shot inside the entrance and was pronounced dead after being taken to a local hospital, the alert said.
"Police believe the shooter continued firing through the store, shooting and killing an additional person," the alert said.
Police found a third person, who they believe to be the shooter, dead in the store, they said.
"Initial reports indicate that Bend Police did not fire any shots at the scene," police said.
Lisa Goodman with St. Charles Medical Center told CNN the hospital is treating a third victim from the shooting. That person is in good condition, Goodman said.
The police department said in a tweet that there is an "active investigation" at the shopping center and asked people to avoid the area.
Bend is about 130 miles east of Eugene, Oregon.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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BEIJING, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A report from People's Daily:
The 2022 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) is scheduled to be held at the China National Convention Center and Shougang Park and in Beijing from Aug. 31 to Sept. 5.
The event, with a larger exhibition area and more participants, is expected to become more international and professional. Green and innovative cooperation will be highlighted at the exhibition.
According to Yang Jinbai, vice mayor of Beijing, the exhibition area of the 2022 CIFTIS will be 26,000 square meters larger than that of the previous session, with its thematic exhibition area doubling from a year ago to reach 20,000 square meters.
As of Aug. 22, 1,407 enterprises had confirmed their on-site participation in the event, up 13.8 percent from a year ago, of which 446 are Fortune Global 500 companies and industry leaders. The overall internationalization rate stands at 20.8 percent, nearly 3 percentages higher than that in last year.
Vice Minister of Commerce Sheng Qiuping said the CIFTIS has been expanding continuously since it was launched 10 years ago, evolving into one of the three major platforms in China that serve to promote opening-up and international cooperation.
The past ten years witnessed the rapid development of China's trade service. During this period, the added-value of the country's service sector soared 1.49 times and cumulative trade in services exceeded $4 trillion, which has further cemented the country's advantage of having an ultra-large market.
As an international comprehensive fair held at the state-level, the CIFTIS will lead China's consumption trend and accelerate consumption recovery and upgrading. It will also create all-round opportunities for global enterprises to join China's service market and provide a platform for Chinese enterprises to exploit domestic and international markets and resources.
As of Aug. 22, 71 countries, regions and international organizations had confirmed to join the 2022 CIFTIS, including the 59 countries such as United Arab Emirates (UAE), Germany, and the UK, as well as 12 international organizations such as the World Meteorological Organization and the UNESCO, said Ding Yong, director of the Beijing Municipal Commerce Bureau.
Among them, 17 countries are ranked in the top 30th globally regarding service trade, five more than those from a year ago. Ten countries, including the UAE, Switzerland, and Italy, will hold exhibitions at the event in their countries' names for the first time.
At the Exhibitions of Countries, visitors can learn the latest development of participating countries' service trade and catch a glimpse of these countries' customs and cultures.
UAE, as the guest of honor country of this year's CIFTIS, will demonstrate its aviation, financial, advanced manufacturing and cultural services focusing on "diversified economy."
Thirty-three countries, including the Netherlands, Austria and Portugal, will host online exhibitions.
An environmental services sector is expected to be included in the 2022 CIFTIS to display new technologies and applications in ecological protection and energy conservation. Technology factors will be highlighted at the event, and a Metaverse experience hall will be unveiled at the event's Telecommunications, Computer and Information Services sector.
Yang introduced that the Metaverse experience hall, which is established at the Shougang Park, will display frontier technologies and achievements in Metaverse production and application.
Besides, Financial Services, Educational Services, Health Services, and Supply Chain Services sectors are expected to be maintained at this year's event to demonstrate new technologies, achievements, and business forms in these areas.
The Global Trade in Services Summit of the 2022 CIFTIS is scheduled to be held on Aug. 31. The CIFTIS Comprehensive Exhibition will be held at the China National Convention Center. Special exhibitions include nine sectors. The Environmental Services sector will be held at the second-phase project of the China National Convention Center, and the rest eight at the Shougang Park.
The 2022 CIFITS will also include seven forums, 128 thematic forums and five side events. Visitor days of the exhibition start on Sept. 3 and end on Sept. 5.
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Updated August 29, 2022 at 1:22 AM ET
NEW YORK — Taylor Swift took home the top prize at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday before she closed out the show with a surprisingly big announcement: Her new album.
"I thought it would be a fun moment to tell you that my new album comes out Oct. 21," said Swift after she won video of the year for her project "All Too Well: The Short Film" (10 minute version), which claimed best long form video. "I will tell you more at midnight."
Swift said on social media that her upcoming 10th studio album would be called "Midnights," which she says will involve "stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life." Her upcoming release comes after she released "Folklore" and "Evermore." Both projects came out five months apart two years ago. "Folklore" won album of the year at the 2021 Grammy Awards.
The pop star's reveal came at the end of her acceptance speech where she praised the other women in the category - which included Doja Cat and Olivia Rodrigo.
"I know with every second of this moment that we wouldn't be able to make this short film if it weren't for you - the fans," she said. "I wouldn't be able to re-record my albums if it wasn't for you. You emboldened me to do that."
She spoke about creating her first short film, giving thanks to several including actors Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien who starred in the project.
"We put our entire hearts into this," Swift said.
Rapper Jack Harlow made his mark throughout the entire show. He kicked off his performance inside a mock airplane walking down aisle while performing his hit song "First Class," which was sampled by Fergie's "Glamorous." The rapper joined Fergie onstage - who wore a sparkling silver dress with the red words "First Class" - while she sang her 2006 jam.
"Thank you to Fergie for coming out with me tonight and clearing this song," said Harlow after "First Class" won the award for song of the summer later in the show. "The beauty of this song is that people don't realize it's so hip-hop because of the sampling. To bring Fergie into the mix in this way means the world to me. It's truly full circle. 'Glamorous' was one of the most important songs of my childhood."
During the show, Depp made a surprise appearance as the Moon Man nearly three months after the verdict in his defamation trial with his former wife Amber Heard. The 59-year-old actor floated from the ceiling while wearing the iconic astronaut outfit with his face digitally inserted into custom's helmet.
"And you know what? I needed the work," Depp told the audience at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
Lizzo had Taylor Swift dancing out of her seat while she performed her new single "2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)." She won an award for video for good for "About Damn Time."
Harlow's name was called to come right back onstage to collect the show's first award for his guest appearance on Lil Nas X's song "Industry Baby," which won for best collaboration. Both Harlow and Lil Nas X are tied for leading nominees with seven apiece.
"This one is for the champions," said Lil Nas X before Harlow thanked him for the collaboration on the chart-topping single. The song propelled their nominations, landing them in competition for artist of the year along with Drake, Bad Bunny, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles and Lizzo.
Harlow, in addition to performing and winning awards, joined LL Cool J and Nicki Minaj as the show's hosts.
Minaj performed a medley of her career's biggest hits from "Roman's Revenge," "Chun-Li," "Moment 4 Life," "Beez in the Trap," "Anaconda" and "Super Bass." After her set, the rapper accepted the show's Video Vanguard award, which MTV has said she's receiving for her artistry, barrier-breaking hip-hop and status as a global superstar. The honor is named after Michael Jackson.
During her acceptance speech, Minaj paid tribute to other music icons such as Jackson, Whitney Houston, Lil Wayne and Kanye West. She spoke about the importance of mental health.
"I wish people took mental health seriously, even when you think they have the perfect lives," said Minaj, who later won best hip-hop for her song "Do We Have a Problem?" featuring Lil Baby.
Harry Styles won album of the year for "Harry's House." He was unable to attend the awards due to his show at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Bad Bunny performed his hit "Titi Me Pregunto" from Yankee Stadium after he won artist of the year.
"I have been saying it and I always believed from the beginning that I could become great," he said. "That I could become one of the biggest stars in the world without having to change my culture, my language, my jargon. I am Benito Antonio Martínez from Puerto Rico to the whole world, thank you!"
Eminem and Snoop Dogg brought the metaverse to the VMAs as the duo performed "From the D 2 The LBC," which was featured on Eminem's greatest hits album "Curtain Call 2."
The Red Hot Chili Peppers took the stage as the recipients of the Global Icon award after being introduced by Cheech & Chong as their "favorite band of all time." The band - which consists of Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and John Frusciante - performed several songs including their hit "Can't Stop" from the the group's 2002 album "By the Way" and their recent hit "Black Summer," which won best rock.
Flea made a speech about his love for human beings along with cockroaches, trees and dirt. Smith, the band's drummer, dedicated the award to Taylor Hawkins, the late Foo Fighters drummer who died early this year.
"I dedicate this to Taylor and his family," he said. "I love them and I miss him every day."
Madonna, who is the most awarded artist in MTV history with 20 wins, became the only artist to receive a nomination in each of the VMAs five decades. She earned her 69th nomination for her 14th studio album "Madame X."
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- German DAX futures -1.3%
It's not a good look for stocks at the moment as the relief rally appears to be snuffed out. S&P 500 futures are down 0.9% currently and the technical outlook also isn't pretty as outlined here. That could see selling pressures intensify further in the days ahead before the attention turns towards the US jobs report on Friday. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurostoxx-futures-13-in-early-european-trading-20220829/ | 2022-08-29T06:43:18Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurostoxx-futures-13-in-early-european-trading-20220829/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In case you missed it, Fed chair Powell wasn't the only main central banker who spoke at the event at the end of last week. We also got remarks by ECB policymakers through to the weekend and they were all pushing for a more aggressive stance i.e. 75 bps rate hike in their next policy decision meeting on 8 September.
My take is that they are realising that their window to tighten is closing and this is one of their last chances to push for a rate hike in trying to combat inflation - as much as they are adamant that they will keep tightening into a recession. I mean, just look at the year-ahead power prices in France and Germany and it's maddening to think that the central bank will be able to maintain their resolve as soaring energy prices crush the economy: | https://www.forexlive.com/news/money-markets-now-expect-a-more-aggressive-ecb-rate-hike-next-week-as-well-20220829/ | 2022-08-29T06:43:24Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/money-markets-now-expect-a-more-aggressive-ecb-rate-hike-next-week-as-well-20220829/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
UN nuclear watchdog team leaves for Zaporizhzhia power plant
The United Nations' nuclear watchdog has deployed a team to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia power plant in southeastern Ukraine, the agency's chief announced Monday.
Driving the news: International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Rafael Grossi's announcement that the IAEA team is "now on its way" and will arrive at the nuclear power station "later this week" comes as reports of shelling near the plant in recent days raises concerns of a potential disaster.
What to expect: Per a UN statement, Grossi will lead the IAEA support and assistance mission to Zaporizhzhya to assess damage, determine the functionality of safety and security systems, evaluate staff conditions and "perform urgent safeguards activities,"
The big picture: Putin's forces have maintained military activity at or near Zaporizhzhia plant since seizing Europe's largest nuclear power plant in March.
- Ukrainian and Russian officials have blamed each other for shelling areas near the facility as recently as over the weekend.
- UN chief António Guterres has called for a demilitarized zone at the plant.
Go deeper: 42 countries and EU urge Russia to remove military from nuclear plant
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- Eurostoxx -1.1%
- Germany DAX -1.2%
- France CAC 40 -1.1%
- UK FTSE -0.7%
- Spain IBEX -1.0%
This mirrors the negative tones from US futures, with S&P 500 futures seen down 0.6% currently. Wall Street faced a rout on Friday and it is keeping the risk mood on the defensive as we get into the new week. The takeaway in markets from Jackson is that the Fed will keep a strong resolve in fighting inflation, so that is weighing on risk trades while underpinning the dollar. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/european-equities-open-lower-to-start-the-day-20220829/ | 2022-08-29T07:22:09Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/european-equities-open-lower-to-start-the-day-20220829/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pickle Creek runs two miles through Ste. Genevieve County’s sandstone valleys. It carries some of Missouri’s cleanest water, but residents worry that could change if Nexgen Silica gets full approval to mine sandstone on a 249-acre plot of land along nearby Highway 32.
They don’t have to look very far to see the outcome they fear most.
Ste. Genevieve sits near Missouri's Old Lead Belt, where mining lasted from the 1700s to 1972 and spanned nearby Washington, Madison and St. Francois counties.
The industry produced nine million tons of lead and 250 million tons of hazardous mining waste.
Decades later, some residents are still dealing with toxic waste left behind by lead mining.
“There is literally a Superfund site sitting in the middle of town that they capped off, but for decades it was just loose, blowing lead everywhere,” said Samantha Danieley, who grew up in Washington County and now lives in St. Francois County.
The new mine has nothing to do with lead, but residents fear history could repeat itself.
Lead mining and silica mining can both produce invisible dust that can harm a person’s health if swallowed or inhaled once it’s in the air.
Silica is found in sand, stone and concrete and is used to make glass, bricks, ceramics and other products.
Brothers Larry and Patrick Kertz are lifelong residents of Ste. Genevieve. They remember riding motorcycles past the hills of lead mining waste 35 miles from home in the 1970s and 1980s.
After living in the shadow of those hills, Larry Kertz said he wants a better understanding of what will be left when the silica mine is no longer useful.
“It could be a big ditch with a huge waste pile of silica sand that could blow out into the area,” he said. “They're not really addressing what's going to be done after the mine is over.”
Other residents are worried about how the mine will impact the natural environment.
“We want to raise our kids in this beautiful outdoorsy environment with farm life and all these things,” said Jillian Ditch Anslow, a mom to a 14-month-old daughter who started Operation Sand, an organization to oppose the silica mine earlier this year. “And now we have this potential threat to our children's health and development.”
Lasting legacy
The fight over Nexgen’s silica mine has rekindled a debate that has played out in communities across the country, where the lasting legacy of lead mining means residents regularly risk contact with the neurotoxin in their daily lives.
Lead persists in the environment, including in water and soil where it can pose a threat to the health of people living nearby. After the mining ended in the Old Lead Belt, several large areas of mine waste, called chat dumps, were left behind in the region.
A combination of years of blowing winds, runoff from rain and manual transportation by locals of waste materials have supercharged the toxin’s reach. The Big River, a tributary of the Meramec River, also transported toxic mine waste downstream.
“I remember growing up in Potosi and we would pick pieces of lead up off the ground,” Danieley said.
Some of the piles left behind span upwards of 1,000 acres, said Jason Gunther, a project manager with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) who oversees remediation work in Big River Mine Tailings Superfund site, including St. Francois County.
“This material was also set above these towns, some of these piles were 300 feet above the neighboring towns,” Gunther said. “They would blow — not just gravel-sized materials — but also much finer materials.”
He estimates the soil on 5,000 properties in St. Francois County has been contaminated by lead, although soil sampling isn’t complete.
Even if a sample comes back at 800 parts per million – double the concentration considered safe by the EPA for children to play in – it could be years before the soil is remediated because of the high number of properties testing with high concentrations.
“It's not uncommon to see some that are above 2,000 parts per million,” Gunther said.
Natural levels of lead in soil typically range from 50 to 400 parts per million, according to the EPA. Gunther expects soil remediation and pile stabilization work to continue beyond 2030.
Meanwhile, locals have adapted to life under the toxic circumstances. Danieley said when her teenage children were younger, she worried about letting them play outside. Children can become poisoned from playing in contaminated soil when they get lead dust or paint chips or dust on their fingers then put their hands in their mouths.
Danieley also worried about how the contaminated soil could impact local farming.
“If you're out doing yard gardening, and you're digging through all this lead contaminated dust, you're getting that dust on your hands, you're possibly ingesting it,” she said.
Mining isn’t the only way lead can end up in soil, says Jeff Wenzel, bureau chief for the Bureau of Environmental Epidemiology with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.
Soil along busy roads can also be contaminated from before gasoline was unleaded, and paint chips from old houses can taint soil in yards.
But in Missouri in particular, lead mining contributed significantly to contaminated soil in some areas.
“Lead mining has been in Missouri pretty much since since Missouri was a state even before Missouri was a state."Jeff Wenzel, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.
Once lead makes it into soil, it can pose a major health hazard for people living nearby. Wenzel says that beyond the hand-to-mouth route, lead particles can also be breathed into the mouth then swallowed.
Crops planted in tainted soil can also pose a threat.
“Your root crops can have dirt or soil left on them, so you want to clean those really well,” Wenzel said. “We see uptake in plants, especially plants like kale. Things like green plants that can live multiple years or come back year after year especially can have a pretty high lead accumulation.”
According to the World Health Organization, there is no safe level of lead, and even low levels of exposure has been shown to cause cognitive impairment in children.
Research dating back decades has shown that children living near mining areas are more likely to have elevated blood lead levels than children who don’t.
Missouri's Old Lead Belt counties aren’t the only former mining regions devastated by the impacts of the industry long after it ended.
Galena, Kansas, is part of the Tri-State Mining District that spanned parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri until the 1970s. The rural town of less than 3,000 people was named after the lead ore known as galena after it was found there in the late 1800s.
In the same county in Treece, Kansas, the Picher Lead Company of Joplin, Missouri, discovered lead and zinc underground in 1914, according to a 2012 article published in The New York Times. By the 1920s, the site was the largest producer of zinc and lead in the country and by 1981 the EPA ranked Treece as the most contaminated area in the country. Today, it’s a ghost town, bought out by the federal agency.
Waste from zinc and lead mining covered 4,000 acres in Cherokee County when the mining ended.
The EPA is still taking remedial action on the site and conducting investigative work on nearby watersheds.
Silica health risks
In Ste. Genevieve, Anslow wants to keep her town from becoming a case study for how silica mining impacts human health.
Silica mining typically relies on open pit or dredging mining methods. The process can generate dust-sized particles invisible to the naked eye that can be inhaled and reach the lungs. Over time, extended exposure is associated with silicosis, lung cancer or chronic bronchitis.
People working directly with silica dust are most at risk for developing medical lung conditions, said Bobby Shah, a pulmonologist with St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield, Missouri.
“We definitely have known for decades that silica itself is harmful to the lungs,” Shah said.
“Patients across that spectrum of acute, chronic or accelerated [silicosis], can develop scarring in their lungs, the term that is commonly used as fibrosis,” Shah said, “and they can quickly and then from there on, develop even more respiratory symptoms.”
Shah said there’s not enough data to know what risk silica particles pose to the general population surrounding a mining site, but people who smoke are more likely to develop medical conditions related to exposure.
“I don't want my daughter to be where it's like, okay, ‘Let's come and sample and let's monitor the children's health in Ste. Genevieve County,’” Anslow said.
Mitigation processes will help limit the mine’s impact on residents’ health, said Clark Bollinger, Nexgen’s general manager.
“Certainly the dust will not be an issue,” he said. “The noise – we've got ideas and things in place to help mitigate some of the noise for the local residents.”
Bollinger said the site contains enough reserves for around 50 years of mining and that there’s a plan in place to restore the area and ensure it’s safe after the mining ends by installing a large lake.
He also said the mine will have minimal or no impact on nearby Hawn State Park or the local watershed and aquifer.
Missouri Parks Association executive director Kendra Varns Wallis said it’s not yet possible to know for sure how the mine could impact local water sources and wildlife and expressed concern about its proximity to Hickory Canyons Natural Area.
"There couldn’t be a worse place to put (the mine), honestly."Kendra Varns Wallis, Missouri Parks Association
As Ste. Genevieve residents fight against the mine, Nexgen remains far from breaking ground. Some of Anslow’s work with Operation Sand paid off when county commissioners and the county health department passed an ordinance prohibiting new mines from opening within a half-mile of schools, towns, churches and public wells.
Nexgen has filed a suit asking a judge to strike down the ordinance. In July, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources Land Reclamation Program granted the company one of three permits required to operate the mine. The company must still receive water and air permits.
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Chinese technology giant Baidu, Inc. (BIDU) is slated to release its second quarter Fiscal 2022 results on August 30, before the market opens. Baidu specializes in Internet-related services and products, and artificial intelligence (AI). BIDU stock has lost 9.3% during the past six months, while gaining 11.9% in the last five days.
The Street expects Baidu to post adjusted earnings of $1.58 per share in Q2, much lower than the prior year period’s figure of $2.39 per share. Meanwhile, revenue is pegged at $4.24 billion, representing a year-over-year decline of 12.5%.
Baidu’s Q2 Website Traffic Trends are Weak
TipRanks Website Traffic Tool signals that Baidu is set to report weak Q2 results. As per the tool, in Q2, the total estimated visits to the baidu.com website declined by a whopping 40.47% compared to the same period of last year. The weakness in website visits continued in July as well, with a 21.16% year-over-year fall.
Furthermore, TipRanks Website Traffic Tool indicates that the year-to-date estimated visits fell 18.90% compared to the same period last year. These numbers hint that Baidu is set to post a disappointing second-quarter performance. There has also been a sequential fall of 5.58% in the second quarter’s total estimated visits.
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Possible Catalysts Securing Long-Term Growth
Remarkably, Baidu received the first-ever permission in China to operate fully driverless robotaxis services commercially on public roads. Apollo Go, its autonomous ride-hailing service business, is allowed to operate its driverless robotaxis in Beijing, Chongqing, and Wuhan. And the company plans to expand its operations to 65 cities by 2025 and 100 cities by 2030.
Baidu boasts a robust AI Cloud business that is developing applications across different verticals. The segment’s revenue grew 45% in the first quarter, showcasing its strength in the market.
Similarly, on the regulatory front, the fears of delisting of U.S.-listed Chinese stocks have been reduced. The U.S. and Chinese regulators signed a preliminary deal for audits of Chinese firms. As per reports, the deal will allow U.S. regulators to inspect the audit records of Chinese companies in Hong Kong. The procedure is expected to start as soon as next month.
What is the Target Price for Baidu Stock?
On TipRanks, BIDU stock commands a Strong Buy consensus rating based on 12 Buys and two Holds. The average Baidu price target of $205.07 implies 38.8% upside potential to current levels. The highest price target for BIDU is $275 (86.2% upside), while the lowest is $155 (4.9% upside).
Ending Thoughts
While there are several catalysts for Baidu’s long-term growth trajectory, the near-term headwinds continue to drag down its performance. The current resurgence of COVID-19 in China and related lockdowns are affecting companies. Moreover, the inflationary pressures and economic slowdown have put a plug on advertising spending, which is one of the biggest revenue drivers for Baidu.
Nonetheless, Baidu continues to meaningfully diversify its operations into robotaxis and AI Cloud business, and reduce its dependence on advertising streams. This is the probable reason for analysts’ highly optimistic view of BIDU stock as a potential long-term winner. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/baidu-nasdaqbidu-stock-website-traffic-hints-at-a-dismal-second-quarter | 2022-08-29T07:44:54Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/baidu-nasdaqbidu-stock-website-traffic-hints-at-a-dismal-second-quarter | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Best Buy (BBY) is scheduled to report financial results for the fiscal Q2 2023 on August 30, 2022, ending on July 30, 2022. In the quarter, the company faced a challenging macro environment as high inflation hurt consumer spending power. Overall customer demand within the consumer electronics sector was also weak, which is expected to negatively affect financial results. TipRanks’ website traffic tool hints at mixed earnings from the retail technology player.
Minnesota-based Best Buy is a retail technology company that deals in consumer electronics including desktops, notebooks, and mobile phones.
Best Buy’s Mixed Website Traffic
TipRanks’ Website Traffic Tool, which uses data from SEMrush Holdings (SEMR), the world’s biggest website usage monitoring service, offers a peek into Best Buy’s performance this quarter.
The tool shows that the Best Buy website recorded a 5.13% rise in global visits in Q2 2023 compared to Q1 2023. However, Best Buy’s website traffic has declined almost 16% year-to-date, signaling underlying weakness compared to last year’s levels.
An increase in website traffic implies strong demand for the products, which hints at favorable earnings. On the other hand, a decline in website traffic implies weak demand for the company’s products, which points to downbeat earnings results.
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Best Buy’s Q2 Earnings Expectations
Analysts expect Best Buy to deliver earnings of $1.27 a share for its fiscal Q2, a decline from $2.98 a share delivered in the year-ago quarter. Management expects fiscal Q2 2023 comparable sales to decline by 13%.
Management expects the Q2 results to soften even further and come below expectations, hurt by deteriorating consumer sentiments. In response to the weakening sales environment, Best Buy has paused its share repurchases. However, the company remains committed to its quarterly dividend of $0.88 a share.
Will BBY Stock Go Up?
According to TipRanks’ analyst rating consensus, BBY stock is a Hold based on five Buys, seven Holds, and three Sells. The average BBY price target is $77. The price target suggests analysts expect the stock to rise by about 4% from current levels.
TipRanks’ Stock Investors tool shows that investor sentiment is currently Neutral on Best Buy’s stock. Over the past 30 days, 0.8% of the best-performing portfolios tracked by TipRanks increased their exposure to Best Buy stock.
Final Thoughts
Best Buy stock could come under pressure if Best Buy reports weak Q2 results. TipRanks’ website traffic indicates mixed results, and the management has also warned of soft financial results.
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A top shareholder in Autoliv (ALV) has taken advantage of the recent dip in the stock to purchase more shares, thereby increasing its position in the company.
Sweden-based Autoliv supplies automotive safety systems that include airbags and seatbelts. It counts all of the world’s major automakers as its customers. The company pays dividends and currently offers a dividend yield of 3.24%, which is above the sector average of 1.64%.
Insider Trading Details
In the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing, Autoliv shows that Cevian Capital II GP LTD recently bought shares worth $21.17 million in the company. The purchases were made in a series of transactions between August 23 and August 25.
Prior to the most recent transaction, Cevian Capital II GP LTD was already a major investor in Autoliv, holding more than 10% of the company. The top shareholder moved to increase its exposure to Autoliv at a time when the stock has declined about 24% year-to-date.
According to TipRanks, which also provides a comprehensive list of daily insider transactions, another Autoliv insider also made a large investment in the stock six months ago. If you would want to find out what stocks are favorites of insiders, TipRanks provides a list of hot stocks with either a Very Positive or Positive insider confidence signal.
Is ALV a Good Stock to Buy?
Wall Street is cautiously optimistic about Autoliv stock. According to TipRanks, which also provides a comprehensive list of top 25 performing insiders, ALV is a Moderate Buy based on three Buys versus seven Holds. The average Autoliv stock price prediction of $87.50 implies about 12% upside potential to current levels.
Closing Remarks
When a top shareholder moves to adjust its holding in a company, it is worth paying attention to. These insiders usually have a better knowledge of the company and its future plans. Therefore, the latest insider purchase of Autoliv shares comes as a vote of confidence in the stock.
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Sideboys render honors for Capt. David Adams, Commander, Fleet Activities Sasebo (CFAS), during the inaugural Master-at-Arms Ball at CFAS Aug. 26, 2022. The Master-at-Arms Ball is an annual ceremony held to celebrate the MA rate’s birthday and celebrate its heritage. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Quinton A. Lee)
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Ball-goers dance during the inaugural Master-at-Arms Ball at Commander Fleet Activities Sasebo Aug. 26, 2022. The Master-at-Arms Ball is an annual ceremony held to celebrate the MA rate’s birthday and celebrate its heritage. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Quinton A. Lee)
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Earlier Treatment With Repatha Resulted in a Lower Incidence of Major CV Events, Including CV Death
80% of Patients Achieved Guideline Directed LDL-C Levels of <55 mg/dL at Week 12
Data Presented at ESC 2022 and Simultaneously Published in Circulation
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) today presented new compelling data from the Phase 3 FOURIER open label extension (OLE) studies of Repatha® (evolocumab) in adults with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) during the Aug. 29 late-breaking Hot Line Session of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Annual Meeting being held in Barcelona, Spain, and online. These data were simultaneously published in Circulation. Repatha is the first and only proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 inhibitor (PCSK9i) to date to show long-term clinical outcomes in patients with ASCVD for up to 8.4 years.1
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The FOURIER-OLE studies evaluated 6,635 patients from the FOURIER parent study (3,355 initially randomized to Repatha and 3,280 to placebo) from the U.S. and Europe.1 The studies were designed to assess the long-term safety and tolerability of Repatha in adults with clinically evident ASCVD for a median follow up of up to five years and a maximum exposure to Repatha of more than eight years when parent and extension studies were combined. No new long-term safety findings were observed.1
The OLE studies showed Repatha delivered medically significant and sustained reduction in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels, with 80% of patients achieving a low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) level of <55mg/dL.1 Additionally, the LDL-C reduction of 58% from baseline was consistent over long-term follow up (week 260) on Repatha. An additional prespecified exploratory analysis in the OLE studies showed a lower rate of major adverse cardiovascular events, including cardiovascular death, in patients originally randomized to Repatha (20% relative risk reduction [RRR] for major cardiovascular events and 23% RRR for cardiovascular death) versus those originally randomized to placebo in the parent FOURIER study.1
"The new findings from the FOURIER-OLE studies confirm that earlier initiation of Repatha, combined with longer duration of treatment, has the potential to deliver a greater reduction in cardiovascular risk, including death," said David M. Reese, M.D., executive vice president of Research and Development at Amgen. "These data add to the robust body of evidence for Repatha, demonstrating that long-term treatment with Repatha is well tolerated in patients with stable ASCVD."
"These findings fill a significant gap in the body of research on the long-term safety and efficacy of PCSK9 inhibitors," said Michelle L. O'Donoghue M.D., MPH, senior investigator, TIMI Study Group at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Lead FOURIER-OLE Trial Investigator. "Importantly, earlier initiation of LDL-C lowering with evolocumab combined with consistent long-term use, further reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events and cardiovascular mortality in this study."
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of global mortality and a major contributor to disability and rising healthcare costs.2,3 In the U.S., someone suffers a heart attack every 40 seconds.4 Given systemic barriers in the U.S. healthcare system, only 3.2% of an estimated 18.7 million U.S. adults with ASCVD were actually taking an add-on lipid-lowering therapy, despite treatment being recommended to 61.4%.5 Further, patients with ASCVD whose prescription for a PCSK9i was rejected had an 11% higher risk of having a cardiovascular event such as a heart attack or stroke within a year.6
"LDL-C is a key modifiable risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease, yet nearly half of post-MI patients fail to achieve guideline recommended LDL-C goals of <70 mg/dL, including those taking high-intensity statins, leaving many patients at risk for another cardiovascular event," said Katherine Wilemon, founder and chief executive officer, Family Heart Foundation. "Nearly 1 in 5 patients who have had a heart attack will have another cardiovascular event within 1 year, so it's important that patients get their LDL-C to guideline recommended levels. With this new data, it's clear that Repatha can help patients achieve lower levels of LDL-C."
Detailed study results will be shared with regulatory authorities. Prolonged LDL-C reduction with Repatha is also being studied in patients without a prior heart attack or stroke in the ongoing VESALIUS-CV (NCT03872401) outcomes trial.
FOURIER (20110118) was a randomized placebo-controlled study of evolocumab, in patients with clinically evident ASCVD on stable effective statin therapy. FOURIER-OLE were multicenter, open-label extension studies designed to assess the extended long-term safety of evolocumab in subjects who completed the FOURIER study (20110118). The FOURIER-OLE is composed of studies 20130295 and 20160250, which enrolled 5,035 and 1,600 subjects who completed the FOURIER study (20110118) to receive open-label evolocumab and were followed up for a median of 5 and 4.6 years, respectively. All patients in the extension program were treated with open label evolocumab resulting in no concurrent placebo arm during this period. Although not all patients participated in FOURIER-OLE, baseline characteristics were broadly comparable between the originally randomized treatment arms, thereby allowing for reasonably unconfounded exploratory comparisons between groups.
FOURIER, a multinational Phase 3 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, is designed to evaluate whether treatment with Repatha in combination with statin therapy compared to placebo plus statin therapy reduces cardiovascular events. The primary endpoint is the time to cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, stroke, hospitalization for unstable angina, or coronary revascularization. The key secondary endpoint is the time to cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction or stroke.
Eligible patients with high cholesterol (LDL-C ≥70 mg/dL or non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol [non-HDL-C] ≥100 mg/dL) and clinically evident ASCVD at more than 1,300 study locations around the world were randomized to receive Repatha subcutaneous 140 mg every two weeks or 420 mg monthly plus effective statin dose; or placebo subcutaneous every two weeks or monthly plus effective statin dose. Optimized statin therapy was defined as at least atorvastatin 20 mg or equivalent daily with a recommendation for at least atorvastatin 40 mg or equivalent daily where approved. The study was event driven and continued until at least 1,630 patients experienced a key secondary endpoint.
FOURIER is part of Amgen's PROFICIO (Program to Reduce LDL-C and cardiovascular Outcomes Following Inhibition of PCSK9 In different populations) program of clinical studies investigating the impact of Repatha® on LDL-C and CVD across multiple populations at high CV risk, including those managed by statins, statin-intolerant patients, those with genetic disorders and patients with atherosclerosis. To date, the PROFICIO program consists of 36 trials including more than 38,000 patients worldwide.
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Repatha is a human monoclonal antibody that inhibits proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9). Repatha binds to PCSK9 and inhibits circulating PCSK9 from binding to the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor (LDLR), preventing PCSK9-mediated LDLR degradation and permitting LDLR to recycle back to the liver cell surface. By inhibiting the binding of PCSK9 to LDLR, Repatha increases the number of LDLRs available to clear LDL from the blood, thereby lowering LDL-C levels. The clinical benefits and safety of Repatha have been studied for 12 years in 50 clinical trials with over 47,000 patients. This vast body of evidence demonstrates that Repatha works rapidly.
Repatha is approved in more than 75 countries, including the U.S., Japan, Canada and in all 28 countries that are members of the European Union. Applications in other countries are pending.
In Europe, Repatha is approved for use in:
Hypercholesterolaemia and mixed dyslipidaemia Repatha is indicated in adults with primary hypercholesterolaemia (heterozygous familial and non–familial) or mixed dyslipidaemia, as an adjunct to diet:
- in combination with a statin or statin with other lipid-lowering therapies in patients unable to reach LDL–C goals with the maximum tolerated dose of a statin or,
- alone or in combination with other lipid-lowering therapies in patients who are statin-intolerant, or for whom a statin is contraindicated.
Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia Repatha is indicated in adults and adolescents aged 12 years and over with homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia in combination with other lipid-lowering therapies.
Established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease Repatha is indicated in adults with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (myocardial infarction, stroke or peripheral arterial disease) to reduce cardiovascular risk by lowering LDL-C levels, as an adjunct to correction of other risk factors:
- in combination with the maximum tolerated dose of a statin with or without other lipid-lowering therapies or,
- alone or in combination with other lipid-lowering therapies in patients who are statin-intolerant, or for whom a statin is contraindicated.
Primary hypercholesterolaemia and mixed dyslipidaemia in adults
The recommended dose of Repatha is either 140 mg every two weeks or 420 mg once monthly; both doses are clinically equivalent.
Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia in adults and adolescents aged 12 years and over
The initial recommended dose is 420 mg once monthly. After 12 weeks of treatment, dose frequency can be up–titrated to 420 mg once every 2 weeks if a clinically meaningful response is not achieved. Patients on apheresis may initiate treatment with 420 mg every two weeks to correspond with their apheresis schedule.
Established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in adults
The recommended dose of Repatha is either 140 mg every two weeks or 420 mg once monthly; both doses are clinically equivalent.
Important Safety Information
This medicinal product is subject to additional monitoring. This will allow quick identification of new safety information. Healthcare professionals are asked to report any suspected adverse reactions.
Contraindications: Hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients.
Special Warnings and Precautions: Renal impairment: There is limited experience with Repatha in patients with severe renal impairment (defined as eGFR < 30 mL/min/1.73 m2). Repatha should be used with caution in patients with severe renal impairment. Hepatic impairment: In patients with moderate hepatic impairment, a reduction in total evolocumab exposure was observed that may lead to a reduced effect on LDL-C reduction. Therefore, close monitoring may be warranted in these patients. Patients with severe hepatic impairment (Child-Pugh C) have not been studied. Repatha should be used with caution in patients with severe hepatic impairment. Dry natural rubber: The needle cover of the glass pre-filled syringe and of the pre-filled pen is made from dry natural rubber (a derivative of latex), which may cause allergic reactions. Sodium content: Repatha contains less than 1 mmol sodium (23 mg) per dose, i.e. it is essentially 'sodium-free'.
Interactions: No formal drug-drug interaction studies have been conducted for Repatha. No studies on pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics interaction between Repatha and lipid-lowering drugs other than statins and ezetimibe have been conducted.
Fertility, Pregnancy and Lactation: There are no or limited amount of data from the use of Repatha in pregnant women. Repatha should not be used during pregnancy unless the clinical condition of the woman requires treatment with evolocumab. It is unknown whether evolocumab is excreted in human milk. A risk to breastfed newborns/infants cannot be excluded. No data on the effect of evolocumab on human fertility are available.
Undesirable Effects: The following common (> 1/100 to < 1/10) adverse reactions have been reported in pivotal, controlled clinical studies: influenza, nasopharyngitis, upper respiratory tract infection, rash, nausea, back pain, arthralgia, injection site reactions. Please consult the SmPC for a full description of undesirable effects.
Pharmaceutical Precautions: Store in a refrigerator (2 degrees C – 8 degrees C). Do not freeze. Keep the pre-filled syringe or the pre-filled pen in the original carton in order to protect from light. If removed from the refrigerator, Repatha may be stored at room temperature (up to 25 degrees C) in the original carton and must be used within 1 month.
Repatha is a PCSK9 (proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9) inhibitor antibody indicated:
- in adults with established cardiovascular disease to reduce the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, and coronary revascularization
- as an adjunct to diet, alone or in combination with other low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLC)-lowering therapies, in adults with primary hyperlipidemia, including heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH), to reduce LDL-C
- as an adjunct to diet and other LDL-C-lowering therapies in pediatric patients aged 10 years and older with HeFH, to reduce LDL-C
- as an adjunct to other LDL-C-lowering therapies in adults and pediatric patients aged 10 years and older with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), to reduce LDL-C
The safety and effectiveness of Repatha have not been established in pediatric patients with HeFH or HoFH who are younger than 10 years old or in pediatric patients with other types of hyperlipidemia or HeFH.
Contraindication: Repatha is contraindicated in patients with a history of a serious hypersensitivity reaction to evolocumab or any of the excipients in Repatha. Serious hypersensitivity reactions including angioedema have occurred in patients treated with Repatha.
Hypersensitivity Reactions: Hypersensitivity reactions, including angioedema, have been reported in patients treated with Repatha. If signs or symptoms of serious hypersensitivity reactions occur, discontinue treatment with Repatha, treat according to the standard of care, and monitor until signs and symptoms resolve.
Adverse Reactions in Adults with Primary Hyperlipidemia: The most common adverse reactions (>5% of patients treated with Repatha and more frequently than placebo) were: nasopharyngitis, upper respiratory tract infection, influenza, back pain, and injection site reactions.
From a pool of the 52-week trial and seven 12-week trials: Local injection site reactions occurred in 3.2% and 3.0% of Repatha-treated and placebo-treated patients, respectively. The most common injection site reactions were erythema, pain, and bruising. Hypersensitivity reactions occurred in 5.1% and 4.7% of Repatha-treated and placebo-treated patients, respectively. The most common hypersensitivity reactions were rash (1.0% versus 0.5% for Repatha and placebo, respectively), eczema (0.4% versus 0.2%), erythema (0.4% versus 0.2%), and urticaria (0.4% versus 0.1%).
Adverse Reactions in the Cardiovascular Outcomes Trial: The most common adverse reactions (>5% of patients treated with Repatha and more frequently than placebo) were: diabetes mellitus (8.8% Repatha, 8.2% placebo), nasopharyngitis (7.8% Repatha, 7.4% placebo), and upper respiratory tract infection (5.1% Repatha, 4.8% placebo).
Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HoFH): The adverse reactions that occurred in at least two patients treated with Repatha and more frequently than placebo were: upper respiratory tract infection, influenza, gastroenteritis, and nasopharyngitis.
Among the 16,676 patients without diabetes mellitus at baseline, the incidence of new-onset diabetes mellitus during the trial was 8.1% in patients treated with Repatha compared with 7.7% in patients that received placebo.
Adverse Reactions in Pediatric Patients with HeFH: The most common adverse reactions (>5% of patients treated with Repatha and more frequently than placebo) were: nasopharyngitis, headache, oropharyngeal pain, influenza, and upper respiratory tract infection.
Adverse Reactions in Adults and Pediatric Patients with HoFH: In a 12-week study in 49 patients, the adverse reactions that occurred in at least two patients treated with Repatha and more frequently than placebo were: upper respiratory tract infection, influenza, gastroenteritis, and nasopharyngitis. In an open-label extension study in 106 patients, including 14 pediatric patients, no new adverse reactions were observed.
Immunogenicity: Repatha is a human monoclonal antibody. As with all therapeutic proteins, there is potential for immunogenicity with Repatha.
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At least two people were killed in a shooting at a shopping center in Bend, Oregon, Sunday evening, and a person believed to be the shooter was also found dead at the scene, police said.
Investigators believe the unidentified male shooter entered the Forum Shopping Center from a nearby residential area and began shooting in the parking lot with an AR-15-style rifle, Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said at a news conference Sunday night. Several people called 911 shortly after 7 p.m. to report shots fired at the complex, he said.
The shooter then crossed the parking lot and entered a Safeway grocery store, where he shot a person in the entrance, who was later transported to the hospital and pronounced dead, Krantz said.
Police believe the shooter continued firing throughout the store, shooting and killing another person, the chief said.
When responding officers initially entered the Safeway, they could hear gunshots, Krantz said, but later found a person who they believe to be the shooter dead in the store. Police found the AR-15-style rifle and a shotgun close to the shooter's body, he said.
The chief said no shots were fired by Bend police officers and, at this time, police believe the gunman acted alone.
Lisa Goodman with St. Charles Medical Center told CNN the hospital is treating a third victim from the shooting. That person is in good condition, Goodman said.
The hospital asked community members to avoid going to the medical center unless they are experiencing a medical emergency because the facility is in "active trauma response," according to a post on its Facebook page.
The investigation is still active and ongoing, Krantz said, noting police are working to obtain warrants for residences in the area.
Josh Caba told CNN affiliate KTVZ that he and his four children were shopping in the store when the shots broke out.
"We started heading to the front. Then we heard I don't know how many shots out front -- six or seven. I immediately turned to my children and said, 'Run!' People were screaming. ... it was a horrifying experience," Caba told KTVZ.
Caba said he was worried about his wife, who had stayed in the car because she wasn't feeling well. But as he and three of his children fled through exit doors by the produce department, he found that his wife had driven to the back of the store and was "sitting in the car, saying 'Get in the car! Get in the car!'" the affiliate reported.
The father was able to rush back into the store and find their fourth child, coming out to see officers running into the store, he told KTVZ.
Bend is in central Oregon, about 130 miles east of Eugene.
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Following a days-long strike over classroom conditions and teacher pay, the Columbus, Ohio teacher's union voted Sunday to ratify an agreement with Columbus City Schools, which will allow students to return to in-person learning Monday.
A majority of members of the teachers' union, Columbus Education Association, voted to accept the agreement, union spokesperson Regina Fuentes said at a news conference after a vote on the agreement, which ended a six-month bargaining process that involved the union's first strike in decades just days before classes were scheduled to start.
The strike meant that the first day of the new school year at Columbus City Schools -- Ohio's largest school district -- took place online, with substitutes leading the virtual classes Wednesday while 4,500 teachers, librarians, counselors, and other school workers were on strike.
The strike came as schools around the country face critical teacher shortages and low morale among educators, who argue they are underpaid and underappreciated, teaching in more crowded classrooms and in challenging conditions exacerbated by the pandemic.
Teachers in Columbus were seeking 8% annual pay raises, as well as commitments to improve heating and air conditioning in dilapidated buildings, smaller class sizes and full-time art, music and physical education teachers in elementary schools.
The new agreement includes provisions that guarantee all student learning areas will be climate controlled by the beginning of the 2025-2026 academic year, a reduction in class sizes across all grades, and paid parental leave program for teachers, as well as salary increases for the next three years, Fuentes said.
The district had previously offered a 3% pay bump but refused guaranteed air conditioning -- an issue that sat at the core of the strike, according to the union.
Thousands took to the picket lines last week, many carrying signs calling out issues with temperatures at schools. "98 DEGREES IS A BOY BAND NOT A CLASSROOM TEMPERATURE," read the sign one teacher held outside East High School.
After the agreement was reached early Thursday following a nearly 14-hour bargaining session, teachers used Thursday and Friday for planning to prepare for a return to class Monday.
"We are excited to get back to where we belong -- our classrooms -- doing what we do best: educating our students and shaping the future of our great city," Fuentes said.
Fuentes added that workers across the nation are "tired of settling for the status quo," and said she hopes the union's work is a catalyst that will inspire people nationwide to fix issues in public education.
"They need to put more of an investment in our students because they are the most important investment in this entire nation," Fuentes said. "It starts here but we want to keep it going. Hopefully, the community will see what power they have and actually get involved even more."
Officials at Columbus City Schools, which serves 47,000 students, said the new agreement puts children first.
"This is a contract that keeps students at the center of all we do and supports our Board's educational mission for Columbus City Schools," Board of Education President Jennifer Adair said in a statement Sunday. "To all CEA members, we say thank you for your thoughtful consideration of this agreement and for your unwavering commitment to supporting our children and families. We look forward to getting our children back in their schools with you tomorrow."
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A fundraiser has been launched to help clear a man’s home–after he became a hoarder when he lost his family in a car crash.
The unnamed homeowner from Somerset, a county in southwestern England, in the U.K., turned to hoarding after his mental health deteriorated following the tragedy seven years ago. He neglected his accommodation to an “unliveable” point–with desperation forcing him to message a local cleaning company.
Laura Summers, 20, started up Glastonbury-based The Sleek Easy Clean in January. She says the man reached out to her after she advertised in a local Facebook group.
Summers now wants to help the man, who wishes to remain anonymous, turn his life around and clear his house. The Sleek Easy Clean team usually obtain funds privately from customers or approach local committees.
But in this circumstance, they are having to find the money through a fundraising campaign. She said: “This man got in touch with us and he explained how much he has been struggling.
“He’s very anxious and no one knows how he is living–he hasn’t even gone to his GP and also he does not want to get evicted. It is difficult for us to get the funds when the individual wants to remain anonymous, so we arranged the GoFundMe to hopefully help him out.”
The team plan to not only deep clean the whole home, but also put carpets down, repaint the walls and install a new kitchen. Summers said: “We are going to turn his whole place around.
“We need to do a biohazardous clean because it’s in such an unliveable state that we can’t even walk into all the rooms due to the amount of rubbish around. All the money we have leftover after the cleaning will go straight into getting him things like new cupboards, a mattress and bedding–and helping him afford food and go back to work.”
According to Britain’s National Health Service, some hoarders “may realize they have a problem but are reluctant to seek help because they feel extremely ashamed, humiliated or guilty about it.”
Summers says the difference in the man since her organization has been involved has been “remarkable.” She said: “As of yesterday he started going to a church group, he’s looking for furniture to put into his home–I’ve never seen him so happy.
“It’s incredible the difference some support can make. It takes a lot to reach out when you’re struggling, and a lot of people I’ve spoken to won’t even go to their GP–so it feels nice that they trust me and will let us support them.”
The fundraiser currently stands at £515 of its £5,000 target.
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought a response from the Uttar Pradesh government on the bail plea of Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan, arrested in October 2020 while on his way to Hathras where a Dalit woman had died after allegedly being gang-raped.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and S Ravindra Bhat fixed the plea for final disposal on September 9.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court had earlier this month rejected the bail application of Kappan, who was booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in the alleged Hathras conspiracy case.
The FIR had been filed under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the UAPA against four persons having alleged links with the Popular Front of India (PFI).
The PFI had been accused in the past of funding protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act across the country.
The police had earlier claimed that the accused was trying to disturb the law and order in Hathras. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/08/29/sc-seeks-up-govt-response-siddique-kappan-case.html | 2022-08-29T08:25:37Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/08/29/sc-seeks-up-govt-response-siddique-kappan-case.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: The vehement protest by the fisherfolk against the under-construction Vizhinjam Port project is still on despite efforts by the government.
A meeting called by the Cabinet sub-committee to resolve the issue did not take place on Sunday as the representatives of the Latin Archdiocese did not turn up for the talks.
Mon. Eugine H Pereira, general convener of the Vizhinjam Samara Samithi (Vizhinjam Protest Forum), said that the government did not officially invite them for the talks and there was no formal communication.
Assuming that the representatives would come for the discussions, members of the ministerial-level committee V Abdurahiman, V Sivankutty and Antony Raju waited at the chamber of Abdurahiman.
The Office of the Minister for Fisheries said that the protesters were officially informed that the talks would be held at 6 pm on Sunday.
There are indications that the talks could be held with the Cabinet sub-committee on Monday.
Archdiocese’s circular
A circular of the Latin Archdiocese, meanwhile, stated that the protest against the port project is a struggle for survival.
The government has not taken the people of Vizhinjam into confidence and that the protest would be intensified, the circular stated.
The circular, by Archbishop Dr Thomas J Netto, was read out at all churches on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the representatives of the Latin Archdiocese would file a plea in the Kerala High Court on Monday, seeking to be added as a party to the petition filed by the Adani Group on the matter of port construction. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/29/church-warns-intensifying-vizhinjam-agitation.html | 2022-08-29T08:34:19Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/29/church-warns-intensifying-vizhinjam-agitation.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: Senior CPM leader Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, who stood down as party state secretary due to his health situation, was shifted to Chennai hospital for further treatment on Monday.
He was taken in an ambulance from his house near AKG Centre here to the airport. From there he was flown to Chennai in a special air ambulance. Balakrishnan's wife Vinodini Balakrishnan accompanied him.
He will be admitted to Apollo Hospital for further treatment. A team from the hospital had arrived at the state capital on Sunday.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, accompanied by his wife and daughter, came to meet Balakrishnan before he left for the hospital.
Newly appointed state secretary MV Govindan, politburo member MA Babby, and senior CPM leaders AK Balan and M Vijayakumar also visited Balakrishnan. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/29/kodiyeri-balakrishnan-shifted-to-chennai-hospital-in-air-ambulance.amp.html | 2022-08-29T08:34:25Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/29/kodiyeri-balakrishnan-shifted-to-chennai-hospital-in-air-ambulance.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Alappuzha: An 85-year-old woman who awaited her missing son's return quite religiously for nearly a year has died.
Sethu Amma who was undergoing treatments for age-related diseases died in the Medical College Hospital here on Sunday.
Her son Sajeevan, 54, who was a CPM activist went missing on September 29, 2021. His disappearance has been a mystery and there has been no clue on the likely causes. All that is known is that he was set to take part in a meeting of the Thottappally Poothoppu Branch Committee of his party. Some doubt he became a victim of the ugly factional fights in the local unit of the CPM.
Sajeevan earned his livelihood catching fish.
From the day Sajeevan went missing, Sethu Amma used to sit in front of their home waiting for her son, every morning. After Sajeevan’s disappearance, Sethu Amma cropped her hair. She kept saying her head was too heavy due to the pain of waiting for her son and for relief she cut her hair.
Sethu Amma was cremated on Sunday itself.
She is survived by her daughter Kusumam, her son-in-law Sukumaran and Sajeevan’s wife Sajitha. Another son Pushparajan and her husband Keshavan died earlier.
What the police say
Sajeevan’s wife Sajitha had approached the High Court as a probe into his disappearance was inordinately delayed.
According to the police report, Sajeevan could have been washed away into the sea while trying to cross a sandbank on the sea coast. (Sandbank is locally known as 'pozhi'. It is formed between the sea and backwaters and disappears during monsoon.)
Sajeevan used to swim across the sandbank while returning home.
However, Sajeevan’s family alleged that the investigation is not in the right direction. Now, the police treat it as a cold case. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/29/missing-fisherman-mom-dies.amp.html | 2022-08-29T08:34:51Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/29/missing-fisherman-mom-dies.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Alappuzha: An 85-year-old woman who awaited her missing son's return quite religiously for nearly a year has died.
Sethu Amma who was undergoing treatments for age-related diseases died in the Medical College Hospital here on Sunday.
Her son Sajeevan, 54, who was a CPM activist went missing on September 29, 2021. His disappearance has been a mystery and there has been no clue on the likely causes. All that is known is that he was set to take part in a meeting of the Thottappally Poothoppu Branch Committee of his party. Some doubt he became a victim of the ugly factional fights in the local unit of the CPM.
Sajeevan earned his livelihood catching fish.
From the day Sajeevan went missing, Sethu Amma used to sit in front of their home waiting for her son, every morning. After Sajeevan’s disappearance, Sethu Amma cropped her hair. She kept saying her head was too heavy due to the pain of waiting for her son and for relief she cut her hair.
Sethu Amma was cremated on Sunday itself.
She is survived by her daughter Kusumam, her son-in-law Sukumaran and Sajeevan’s wife Sajitha. Another son Pushparajan and her husband Keshavan died earlier.
What the police say
Sajeevan’s wife Sajitha had approached the High Court as a probe into his disappearance was inordinately delayed.
According to the police report, Sajeevan could have been washed away into the sea while trying to cross a sandbank on the sea coast. (Sandbank is locally known as 'pozhi'. It is formed between the sea and backwaters and disappears during monsoon.)
Sajeevan used to swim across the sandbank while returning home.
However, Sajeevan’s family alleged that the investigation is not in the right direction. Now, the police treat it as a cold case. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/29/missing-fisherman-mom-dies.html | 2022-08-29T08:34:57Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/29/missing-fisherman-mom-dies.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Nedumkunnam: A touching reunion of a long-lost son with his mother was reported from here in Kottayam district.
Govind, who lived in Gujarat since a toddler, reunited with his mother Geetha and his sister Gopika after 22 years.
Govind was only one-and-a half-year old when he was taken away by his Gujarati father, Ram Bhai, from his maternal home in South Kerala.
Ram Bhai married Geetha, of resident of Nedumkunnam, in 1993 while she was working in Gujarat. The couple reached Kerala after the son's birth. The three continued to stay in Kerala for a while, but a parting loomed.
When Geetha was pregnant with the second child Ram Bhai left the Nedumkunnam home, taking his son along.
Since then there has been no information about my son and my husband, Geetha said.
In between Ram Bhai married another woman after entrusting Govind to a relative.
Two decades later it was time for a miracle. Govind happened to find his mother's address from his father's belongings. He commenced to locate her despite the difficulties posed by language. Govind knew only Gujarati and Hindi.
In pursuit of his mother, Govind reached Karukachal Police Station with the aid of a few Hindi-speaking youths.
Govind only knew that his mother’s house was near a policeman’s house as told by his father.
The police enquired with the policemen who were in service in those days and found that the place was Nedumkunnam. After getting in touch with the Panchayath member Sreeja Manu, the police found Geetha and her daughter Gopika.
Karukachal Assistant Sub-Inspector Ajith Kumar as well as Civil Police Officers Anwar Kareem and K K Pramod were involved in helping Govind reunite with his mother. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/29/son-who-vanished-with-dad-reunites--with-mother--sister-22-years.html | 2022-08-29T08:35:10Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/29/son-who-vanished-with-dad-reunites--with-mother--sister-22-years.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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The Alden Theatre of the McLean Community Center opens its 2022-23 season with a free concert featuring Sons of Mystro performing reggae classics and American pop songs on Saturday, Sept. 17 at 5 p.m. at McLean Central Park. | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/infive-remembering-hurricane-agnes-lighthouse-for-sale-and-a-hot-day/article_7eca3034-2764-11ed-8717-37f04d6b1c90.html | 2022-08-29T08:48:41Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/infive-remembering-hurricane-agnes-lighthouse-for-sale-and-a-hot-day/article_7eca3034-2764-11ed-8717-37f04d6b1c90.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(CN) — Want to post a notice of a public meeting, announce a public bid or a project or inform the public of some other government proceeding? Do you need to publish updated voter rolls, notices of election or notify non respondents to subpoenas of legal proceedings or court actions? Are you a contractor who has finished a publicly funded project and you need to inform the taxpayers of its completion?
Until this year, you were legally obligated, in most instances, to pick up the phone and call your nearest newspaper. Historically, newspapers in all 50 states have been the means to disseminate the public notice of certain operations of the government, certain business activities and certain civil legal proceedings. But in May, Governor Ron DeSantis signed the first law in the nation threatening to strip that responsibility — and its related revenue — away from independent publishers.
Florida’s new law, which takes effect Jan. 1, allows local governments to continue to post public notices in local newspapers, but also carved out new provisions to allow such notices to be posted exclusively on specific government controlled websites or alternatively, in free newspapers or print publications that have not historically met the requirements to publish public notices.
“Public notice goes back a long way,” said Richard Karpel, executive director of the Public Notice Resource Center (PNRC), a national nonprofit that partners with state press associations. “It used to be someone on the courthouse steps yelling ‘hear ye, hear ye,' but newspapers are still, by far, the best way to get public notice out. The idea itself is a really neat idea, which is, the government passes laws that require it to inform citizens in a nonpartisan way about the activities it is undertaking. And it's different from other types of information in that there are statutes or laws requiring [the government] to present that information to the public in a specific way.”
PNRC considers public notices to be one of three legs supporting a proverbial stool of government transparency. The other two legs are open meetings and the Freedom of Information Act. PNRC believes notices should remain in the realm of newspapers because newspapers are more accessible, independent, verifiable and archivable than government websites.
“This is not an argument about print versus the internet,” Karpel said. “This is an argument about newspapers and newspaper websites versus government websites. Most newspaper websites have a lot more traffic than government websites and they are more user friendly, so the idea that you're going to move public notices to government websites and not lose lots of transparency is ludicrous.”
Just a year ago, the Florida Legislature passed a compromise bill with the support of newspaper publishers that would have kept all public notices in their domain. But Karpel said DeSantis viewed newspapers as a political target.
“They have a governor who wants to run for president, basically,” he said. “And so he picks fights with institutions that you can paint as enemies. And that's a big part of why the bill got introduced and passed in Florida.”
Among the publications that expressed opposition to the bill was the Tallahassee Democrat, the Miami Herald and the Tampa Bay Times. During committee meetings when the proposal was discussed, it was suggested newspapers earn millions of dollars per year by publishing the ads. As the subscriber base and traditional ad revenue have plummeted for many newspapers in the past 10-15 years, some evidence suggests the revenue from publishing public notices is actually keeping some smaller newspapers afloat.
But Karpel said the revenue should not be considered a government handout to independent publishers. | https://www.courthousenews.com/recent-legislation-threatens-newspapers-public-notice-revenue/ | 2022-08-29T08:49:49Z | courthousenews.com | control | https://www.courthousenews.com/recent-legislation-threatens-newspapers-public-notice-revenue/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Chairman Powell, as we expected signalled the Federal Reserve will continue to hike rates until inflation is fully tamed.
His exact words, ‘We will keep at it until we are confident the job is done.’
The market apparently, was looking for something a little more neutral? After all the talk of a ‘pause’ and ‘pivot', none of which ever made any sense with a Fed that has said several times it will keep hiking rates even if it means some economic pain, we are back to square one with a Fed outlook to keep tightening.
The Fed was always going to keep raising rates aggressively, but the market decided to price in a slowing in hikes, and even a reversal?
So where does that leave us with the outlook for the stock market for the rest of this year, and into 2023?
The US and global economies are in far worse condition than anyone expected, and are struggling to find a footing or some kind of stabilisation. In this environment, the Federal Reserve will likely raise rates toward 4.5%, 5.5%.
This is highly problematic, but the Fed in its mind, is triaging the situation. It cannot immediately grasp or deal with all the downward factors at play on the economy, and so is simplistically focussed on inflation first. The Fed is reading from the 1960s playbook, which was when you have a booming economy and this is driving high inflation, you need to tap on the breaks for the economy by raising rates.
There are several flaws in this approach.
Firstly, interest rates were left at all time crisis lows for far too long and un-necesarily, means you can have a year of rate hikes before you begin to have any impact on the real economy. Apart from mortgage stress, which has been created by rates too low for too long in both the US and Australia. Encouraging greater risk taking than many households can manage.
Secondly, and not to put too fine appoint on it, the US economy is rapidly slowing. Not booming, as in previous central bank inflation fighting periods. This is a new economic experience, and it probably requires a lot more 'look out the window' at the real world thinking, than just a repeat of what central bankers did last century?
As we suggested mid last year, the Fed was making a critical error in not beginning to raise rates gently at that time. For not to respond to the strong Covid economic recovery and growing inflation at the time, could only result in the bank following up that historic blunder, with a too late, too aggressive rate hike cycle further down the track.
The Fed needs to understand it has made a huge blunder and is now wrong footed by the contemporary situation. Only then, can the Fed begin to plot a better course than aggressive hikes during an economic slow-down.
The solution probably looks more like, we got it wrong, so let’s get rates quickly back to neutral. Then we can more fully consider if restrictive rate settings are appropriate in a weak economy with an inflation that is predominantly supply driven.
It may well be the case that this is not a form of inflation that will respond very much at all to higher interest rates? Therefore, why double up the already dampening forces of stepped up energy and food prices, that had little to do with economic growth levels?
A quick Fed response to a reasonable neutral, then a more nuanced approach from there, is probably the best way to follow up last year’s Fed policy settings disaster.
Rather than a overly-simplistic last century war on inflation approach.
The stock market wanted, for reasons of hope more than anything else, to look ahead to a renewed period of strength. The market actually priced in bullish parameters that have little probability of fruition.
Does this mean then, that stocks have to go to new lows for the year? To more fully reflect the odd reality of slowing growth and interest rate increases simultaneously.
The short answer is yes.
The economic un-certainty has only increased, and the Fed is more hawkish than ever. It would seem that a more accurate fundamental pricing of the stock market is 10% to 20% lower than here. Perhaps, even lower than that.
Clifford
Bennett
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Virginia Beach’s school system has become one of the latest to adopt policies and regulations that restrict cell phone usage during school hours. The Virginian-Pilot reports that under the regulations, students must keep their cell phones off and put away in a personal bag or in a teacher designated area “during instructional time or in instructional settings.” This includes if a student leaves the classroom and in auditoriums, gyms, locker rooms and more. Teachers will also not be permitted to allow students to use cell phones to “to fill instructional time or to occupy students in lieu of providing instructional activities or as a reward.”
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Forecast Updated on Monday, August 29, 2022, at 3:45am by WBOC Meteorologist Mike Lichniak
Today: Partly to mostly sunny. A stray shower or storm is possible, but not likely. Most of us will be dry. Highs: 88-93. Winds: S-SW 5-15 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy. Some fog may form by the time we get up in the morning. Lows: 72-77. Winds: S 5-10 mph.
Tuesday: Partly to mostly sunny with PM showers and storms possible. Some of these storms may pack a punch with strong gusty winds, heavy rain, and lightning. Highs: 88-93. Winds: SW 5-20+ mph.
Tuesday Night: Chance of showers and storms early. Otherwise, it turns partly cloudy to mostly clear by morning. Lows: 65-72. Winds: W-NW 5-20+ mph.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny. Highs: NW 5-15 mph.
Thursday: Sunny. Highs: 84-89. Winds: NW-N 5-10 mph.
The start of the workweek will remain on the toasty side as the Bermuda high remains in control of the weather forecast. We could deal with a stray shower or storm popping up in the late afternoon and evening hours today, but again…the majority will be dry on this Monday. High temperatures today climb up into the 80s and 90s again with heat index values over 100 in a few places. Overnight will come with some extra clouds as an area of low pressure develops to our south and will pass to our south. The wind will shift for a brief time straight out of the south, allowing for some moisture to come overhead to develop those clouds.
A stronger cold front arrives on Tuesday with a chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms by the afternoon and evening hours. These storms will pack a punch with strong gusty winds, heavy rain, and lightning through the first part of the overnight. We should see the front clear by the time we wake up on Wednesday morning and things will start to cool off for a few days as some cooler air comes in from Canada.
The high pressure that comes from Canada will park itself overhead for a prolonged period of time, keeping us on the dry side for a while. Temperatures on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday will be in the 80s with a few folks starting to approach 90 on Friday. The high begins to slide a little off the coast for the Labor Day holiday weekend with highs climbing into the low 90s for some on Sunday and Monday. A stray chance of a shower or storm enters the forecast by later in the day on Monday.
Another blast of cooler air from Canada comes in for Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-summary/toasty-monday-leads-to-storm-chances-on-tuesday/article_91108928-276e-11ed-b032-df6c99598a9d.html | 2022-08-29T08:59:48Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-summary/toasty-monday-leads-to-storm-chances-on-tuesday/article_91108928-276e-11ed-b032-df6c99598a9d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Atlantic Ocean:
Monday: E 5-10 knots. Seas: 2-3 feet.
Tuesday: SW 5-10 knots. Seas: 2-3 feet.
Chesapeake Bay:
Monday: SE 5-10 knots. Waves: 1 foot.
Tuesday: S 5-10 knots. Waves: 1-2 feet.
Delaware Bay:
Monday: SE 5-20 knots. Seas: 1-2 feet.
Tuesday: S 5-10 knots. Seas: 1-2 feet. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/on-the-waters/marine-forecast-for-monday-august-29-2022/article_ad4fa538-276e-11ed-9da7-e3bbf42ea292.html | 2022-08-29T08:59:54Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/on-the-waters/marine-forecast-for-monday-august-29-2022/article_ad4fa538-276e-11ed-9da7-e3bbf42ea292.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Former New York City transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan argued on behalf of what she called “car-free cities” to combat climate change while appearing on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” Sunday.
The former Bloomberg adviser was part of a segment that suggested cities could work to move away from cars and other vehicles in the wake of climate issues. Host Fareed Zakaria introduced the topic, noting that several European cities have already started considering bans on cars.
“Many cities in Europe are flirting with banning private cars from the roads, and many more have at least partial bans in place. There is the obvious reason to combat climate change, but car-free cities are also leading to a better quality of life. Without cars, there’s less smell, less noise, more space to walk, to dine outdoors, to play,” Zakaria said.
Sadik-Khan went further to suggest that the movement has accelerated after the coronavirus pandemic.
“It’s so interesting because people talk about the future of transportation is driverless cars or drones or flying taxis, and the most inspiring trends we have seen both before and during and after the pandemic has been the rise of something called the car-free city, which is actually sort of a misnomer since these aren’t exactly car-free cities. But what we’re seeing here is people-first districts in cities. So there’s still streets and sidewalks, police cars and fire trucks and buses and delivery trucks and people driving. But what’s changed is the design of our streets. They can be used as more than moving things from point a to point b as fast as possible,” Sadik-Khan said.
Her description of “car-free cities” comes after California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced plans to ban new gasoline-powered cars from being sold within his state. The plan by California regulators would in theory, cut car emissions in the state by half in 2040, though older models would still be allowed in the state.
Sadik-Khan stopped short of promoting sale bans but applauded actions from city, state and country leaders to promote other “options” besides driving cars.
“I think what we need to do is be more like neighbors. We need to live together. It’s not anti-car. It’s really pro-choice and options. We have to make spaces where people want to be and not just drive through. So the strategies that cities and mayors around the world are embracing are ways to make it possible for people to get around easier on bike and foot and bus and creating spaces people want to be,” Sadik-Khan said.
She added, “So they understand that’s the future of sustainable mobility, and you’re not going to improve the city by building more and more car lanes and accommodating roads with more and more cars. That’s like, you know, looking to solve obesity by loosening your belt. It just doesn’t work.”
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A fuel leak interrupted NASA's launch countdown for its new moon rocket early Monday, reappearing in the same place that saw seepage during a countdown test back in the spring.
Launch controllers halted the fueling operation, which already was running an hour late because of thunderstorms offshore. They slowly resumed the process to see if the hydrogen fuel leak might worsen, which almost certainly would end the countdown, but alarms forced another pause.
Shortly after 4 a.m., NASA tweeted that the fueling process was continuing despite the leak.
"During the transition from slow fill to fast fill of (hydrogen) into the @NASA_SLS rocket, we saw a spike in the amount of hydrogen that is allowed to leak into the purge can," the tweet read. "The leak is at an acceptable level and we have returned to fast fill operations."
The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket is the most powerful ever built my NASA, out-muscling even the Saturn V that carried astronauts to the moon a half-century ago.
This test flight, if successful, would put a crew capsule into lunar orbit for the first time in 50 years.
No astronauts were inside the Orion capsule atop the rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Instead, three test dummies were strapped in for the lunar-orbiting mission, expected to last six weeks.
Even with no one on board, thousands of people jammed the coast to see the Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket soar. Vice President Kamala Harris flew into Orlando with her husband, but had yet to make the hourlong drive to Cape Canaveral for the launch.
Hydrogen fuel leaks marred NASA's countdown test back in April, prompting a slew of repairs. The demo was repeated with more success in June, but that, too, experienced some leakage. Managers said they would not know for certain whether the fixes were good until attempting to load the rocket's tanks with nearly 1 million gallons of super-cold fuel on Monday.
Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson and her team also had to deal with a communication issue involving the Orion capsule.
Engineers scrambled to understand an 11-minute delay in the communication lines between Launch Control and Orion that cropped up late Sunday. Although the problem had cleared by Monday morning, NASA needed to know why it occurred before committing to launch.
This first flight of NASA's 21st-century moon-exploration program, named Artemis after Apollo's mythological twin sister, is years overdue. Repeated delays have led to billions in budget overruns; this demo alone costs $4.1 billion.
Assuming the test goes well, astronauts would climb aboard for the second flight and fly around the moon and back as soon as 2024. A two-person lunar landing could follow by the end of 2025. NASA is targeting the moon's south pole.
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THE National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will today meet to take a position on whether to call off the strike or declare an indefinite strike, based on the resolutions of the state congresses of the union.
ASUU president, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, had earlier confirmed that the NEC would meet to take a decision on the strike based on the outcome of the state congresses which held at their various branches last week to deliberate on the latest offers by the Federal Government. The four-week rollover strike expired on Sunday, August 28.
The union has been on strike since Monday, February 14, 2022, to press the Federal Government to address lecturers’ demands.
It was gathered that most of the state chapters of the union voted for a continuation of the strike. According to a source, the offers by the Federal Government, including 35 per cent salary increase, as well as the position of the government on the no work-no pay policy, which the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, said the lecturers would not be paid for about six months they have been on strike, were rejected by the state congresses.
While the government has addressed some of the issues demanded, ASUU is said to have rejected the 35 per cent salary increase, which Osodeke described as “miserly”.
The ASUU coordinator of Port Harcourt zone, Stanley Ogoun, had revealed that the Federal Government offered to increase the salaries of professors by N60,000. In contrast, other lecturers would have their salaries increased within the range of N30,000 and N60,000.
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He also noted that the government promised to release the revitalisation fund of N170 billion which would be included in the 2023 budget.
While the last meeting between the Federal Government team and ASUU leadership was deadlocked because of rejection of the proposed 35 per cent salary increment, the disagreement was aggravated by the comments credited to the minister of education, Malam Adamu Adamu, that ASUU would not be paid for the months they have been on strike.
What has been happening over the years is that before any strike is called off, ASUU must ensure that a no-victimisation clause involving payment of salary arrears to the lecturers during the strike period is signed by both parties.
Sometimes, ASUU would insist on receiving the alerts by members before the strike would be suspended.
Sources, however, said today’s meeting is expected to suspend the strike for a few months or declare a full-blown indefinite strike.
Other staff unions, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Allied Institutions (NASU), and the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), have suspended their actions for a few months, to allow the Federal Government to look into their demands.
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The festering rift between the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed and the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, over the implementation of new tariff hike of five per cent on calls and data may rob Nigeria of the much needed revenue to reflate the economy if urgent steps are not taken to resolve the impasse on time.
If implemented, the excise duty would rise to 12.5 per cent, and telecom operators had hinted that the burden would be pushed to the consumers. This is estimated to generate about N2 trillion to the government annually.
At present, implementation of the tariff hike has been put on hold despite approval by President Muhammadu Buhari until the ongoing stakeholders’ consultations have been concluded and consensus reached.
Confirming the development to Nigerian Tribune, Yunusa Tanko Abdullahi, Special Adviser, Media & Communications to the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, in a telephone conversation on Friday said implementation of the tariff hike had not commenced because all stakeholders were still being consulted currently.
The problem began when the Federal Government announced plans to implement the new tariff hike of five per cent on calls and data, explaining that the initiative would cover five per cent excise duty tax on all voice calls, SMS and data services, in addition to the existing 7.5 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) paid for goods and services across all sectors of the economy.
At that meeting, Mrs. Ahmed, who was represented by the Assistant Director, Tax Policy, Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Musa Umar, had noted: “The five per cent excise duty is in the Finance Act 2020, but has never been implemented.
“Henceforth, the five per cent excise duty will be collected by telecom operators and payment made to the Federal Government on a monthly basis, on or before 21st of every month.”
However, shortly after the decision was made public, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, rejected the move, claiming that he was never consulted during the conceptualisation of the policy.
His disapproval of the policy was publicly expressed at a recent telecoms forum in Lagos organised by the Nigeria Office for Developing the Indigenous Telecoms Sector (NODITS), an agency domiciled in the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC).
Faulting the timing and process of imposing the tax on the telecom industry, Pantami had stated his resolve to explore every legitimate means to stop the planned five per cent excise duty tax on telecom consumers, insisting that part of the responsibility of a responsive government was not to increase the challenges of its citizens.
Pantami had said: “The Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy is not satisfied with any effort to introduce excise duty on telecommunication services.
“Firstly, I have not been consulted officially and part of the rulemaking is to invite stakeholders to make contributions; I was not consulted officially. Secondly, if we have been contacted, we would have challenged the submission.
“The sectors that are contributing to our economy today are few. What we should be doing is to ensure that all other sectors can also contribute. A lot of sectors are consumers; these are the sectors that we should be tasked to contribute.
“A sector cannot be a consumer today; each sector must contribute a certain percentage to the economy. And if we fail to do that, we would be increasing the pressure and by doing that we would be destroying the digital economy sector.
“Excise duty is introduced to discourage the consumption of certain commodities like alcohol, and tobacco. But today, without broadband penetration, how can you perform financial transactions, how can you deliver lectures without that, how can you work in a hospital; these services are a necessity.”
Miffed by Pantami’s outburst, Mrs. Ahmed said the Communication Minister could not feign ignorance of the planned implementation of five per cent increase on data and calls because the policy went through the Federal Executive Council (FEC), of which he is a member.
Speaking through Abdullahi, her Special Adviser, Media & Communications in a press statement recently, Mrs. Ahmed said: “Against the comments by Prof. Isa Ali Pantami, Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, concerning the five per cent excise duty hike on telecoms services, it is worth noting that there was a circular stating the planned hike which was addressed to the communication minister and other relevant ministries and agencies of government.
“The circular Referenced No. F. 17417/VI/286 dated March 1, 2022, and titled “Approval for Implementation of the 2022 Fiscal Policy Measures and Tariff Amendments” was addressed to different Ministers, including the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy and other heads of government agencies.
“The circular was addressed to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Attorney-General of the Federation, Ministers of Industry, Trade and Investment, Agriculture and Rural Development, Mines and Steel and Development.
“Others are Ministers of Health, Aviation, Information and Culture, Budget and National Planning.
“Other heads of agencies copied in the circular are Accountant-General of the Federation, Comptroller-General of Customs, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service and the Director-General of the Raw Materials Research and Development Council.
“Others are the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) and the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission.
“Part of the circular reads: “This is to convey that his Excellency Mr. President has approved Supplementary Protection Measures (SPM) for implementation of ECOWAS Common External Tariff (CET) 2022-2026 and excuse duties on non-alcoholic beverage, cigarettes and Tobacco products as well as telecommunication services with effects from 1st April 2022.”
The circular signed by Mrs. Ahmed reads: “A grace of 90 days commencing from the date of implementation of this circular i.e April 1, 2022, shall be granted to all importers who had opened Form M and must have entered into irrevocable trade agreement before the coming into effect of this circular to process and clear these goods at the prevailing duty rates.
“However new import transaction entered from the 1st of April 2022 will be subjected to the new import duty regime.”
Mrs. Ahmed recalled that the Finance Act, 2020 introduced ‘Telecommunication Services’ provided in Nigeria to be liable to excise duty under Section 21 (2) of the Customs and excise tariff etc. (Consolidation) Act, CAP. C49, LFN 2004, and added, “it, therefore, means that all stakeholders have by that singular provision been aware of the Act”.
She averred that considering the need to ensure reasonable transition period before the implementation of the new tax, as well as providing clarity to all stakeholders on implementation modalities, “the excise duty on telecommunication services provided in Nigeria introduced through the Finance Act, 2020 with statutory enactment on 1st January, 2021 has yet to be implemented till date”.
For emphasis, Mrs. Ahmed had vide a circular dated March 1, 2022 informed the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and other heads of government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), including the Federal Ministry of Communication & Digital Economy about Mr. President’s approval of the implementation of the five per cent excise duty on telecommunication services with effect from 1st June, 2022.
The circular provided a 90-day moratorium with effect from 1st March, 2022 before the implementation of the excise tax, but currently, the excise tax is yet to be implemented.
“An issue as serious as the excise tariff cannot be taken single handedly, as all stakeholders and agencies have been involved including Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) and Association of Telecom Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), who wrote to the Ministry to be involved in the modalities for implementation of the excise duty”, Mrs. Ahmed further said.
According to her, “suffice it to say that before the Act, the Finance Bill would have been through the FEC of which Prof. Pantami is a member, and the National Assembly. In other words, he was involved in the making of the Finance Act which spells the said excise tariff hike policy. Therefore, he could not obviously have had a point in his dissenting views even as the National Assembly could not have contradicted itself on this matter, because the parliament had passed the Finance Bill before President Muhammadu Buhari signed it into law”, Mrs. Ahmed stated.
Piqued by the subsisting impasse, Mrs. Ahmed reasoned that although Nigeria is celebrated as the largest economy in Africa, translating this wealth into revenues remains a challenge.
Considering this is in line with the provision of the revised National Tax Policy, which provides the framework for a sustainable tax system that would ensure reliable sources of revenue to government and support economic development, she reasoned that the hike is justifiable.
Nigeria is one of the largest telecommunication markets in Africa, and available report from the NCC shows four categories of operators, mobile (GSM), fixed telephony operators (fixed/ fixed wireless), internet service providers (ISPS) and others (operators other than mobile & fixed telephony, ISPs).
The number of subscribers has continued to grow substantially, having increased from about 180 million in 2019 to over 200 million active subscriptions in 2020, representing an increase of over nearly 11 per cent in total subscriptions.
Moreover, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa such as Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana and Burundi currently impose excise duty on telecommunication services ranging from five per cent to 20 percent.
These factors might have contributed to influencing government decision to increase the tariff on data and calls with the hope of raising enough revenue to fund its numerous developmental projects.
Stakeholders have expressed worry that policy issues like tariff increase could generate such disagreement among cabinet ministers who should be at the forefront of selling the idea to the citizens, and called for quick resolution of the matter to enable the country reap its full benefits of revenue generation.
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IN another remarkable achievement that continues to shape the world of corporate debt financing and testifies to the unique and credible platform for the registration, listing, quotation and trading of debt securities provided by FMDQ Securities Exchange Limited, the Exchange has registered CitiTrust Holdings Plc and C&I Leasing Plc intorespective N50.00 billion Commercial Paper (CP) Programme on its platform.
The successful registration of this CP Programme on the Exchange in August 2022, following the approval of the Board Listings and Markets Committee, attests to the highly efficient time-to-market and uniquely tailored securities admission service offered by the Exchange.
This significant milestone for CitiTrust Holdings Plc, a leading Pan-African financial and investment conglomerate in Nigeria, has seen it join other corporate institutions across various sectors of the economy, enjoying the benefits of visibility, transparency and liquidity for issuers and issues that come with the FMDQ Exchange Quotations Service.
This CP Programme registration, which is sponsored by Boston Advisory Limited – a Registration Member (Quotations) of the Exchange – strategically positions CitiTrust Holdings to raise short-term finance easily and quickly from the Nigerian debt markets.
C & I Leasing Plc is a diversified, leasing and business service conglomerate providing support services to various indigenous and multinational organisations in West Africa along three (3) lines: Fleet Management, Personnel Outsourcing, and Marine Service. The company provides transportation logistics solutions in the form of car and marine vessel rental, fleet management and automobile distribution through its wholly owned subsidiaries: C & I Marine, C & I Fleet Management, C & IOutsourcing, and CITRACKS. The successful registration of this CP Programme, which is sponsored by Cordros Capital Limited (the Lead Sponsor), and Kairos Capital Limited, both Registration Member (Quotations) of the Exchange, tactically positions the Issuer to raise short-term finance from the Nigerian debt markets at strategically viable times during the CP Programme validity, through CP issuances, within the CP Programme limit.
By the registration of their CP Programme and quotation of subsequent CPs from the Programme on FMDQ Exchange, both companies will avail on exceptional benefits which include, but are not limited to, unrivalled and efficient platform for access to capital, enhanced investor confidence, continuous information disclosure to protect investor interest, effective price formation, and increased global visibility.
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Oyo State government has partnered with a leading tech education company, Covern Works Inc. to provide cutting-edge technology skills to the youths in the state to become employable and help in growing the state’s economy.
The partnership is based on a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the office of the Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Oyo State, Seun Fakorede and the firm in training at least 200 youth for about 7 weeks in employable business analytics skills with certificate and internship opportunities after the training.
Reacting, Seun Fakorede shared his excitement about this collaboration which is beyond comprehension. To offer access to high-quality education materials beyond the confines of classroom blocks is a transformation that will go a long way for Oyo State youths.
“As Jeanne W. Ross once said, and I quote, ‘…the thing that’s transforming is not the technology — it’s the technology that is transforming (our access to education), adding, ‘It’s such a joy that Youths in Oyo State will benefit from this transformation, and I am so happy to be part of this effort.’”
Meanwhile, the establishment revealed its new action plan to empower youths of Oyo State over the next two years by providing the right skills gap in making youths become employable which promotes and supports Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in information technology.
However, the Chief Executive Officer of Coven Works, Mr Sola Amusan has revealed that the company already has the framework to kick start training of top technology skills such as Artificial Intelligence and Big Data to grow talents within the country.
He added, “To survive in this era, you must be at the top of the game, changing and trying out new things that suit the ecosystem.”
Furthermore, he added that the company is partnering with other universities to help students acclimatize with the necessary skills for information and communication technology.
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Good Morning Britain presenter Susanna Reid has always been open in regards to her weight loss journey sharing both the highs and the lows. She has shared her secret to losing 1.5 stone without heading to a gym.
However the TV host has openly admitted to putting on a few pounds during the Coronavirus lockdowns. Joe Wicks appeared on GMB in June and Susanna told the fitness coach that she had found it hard to get rid of the weight.
The Daily Record reports that she said: "I found it really hard to shift those pounds. What is the problem when there are so many workout plans, so many nutrition plans, what is the reason for that?”
Back in December 2018 Susanna revealed on the show that she does not go to the gym. She told her then co-host Piers Morgan: "I stopped going to the gym, I found it made me too hungry. I've levelled out, I lost a stone-and-a-half and that's enough, and I don't go to the gym."
Then in 2019 she told the magazine Prima that her weight loss journey began when she went to see her GP about issues with her skin. She said that her doctor told her that she was at the top end of the BMI scale for her height and recommended that she lost weight.
Following on from that Susanna began to eat healthier and cut out snacks with her busy work schedule and she said that she felt "fantastic." She told Prima: "This time last year, I went to the doctor with a skin problem and he told me I could do with losing some weight.
"It turned out I was at the upper end of my BMI and, I have to admit, I'd been feeling a little heavy for a while. I've lost a stone and a half since then and I feel fantastic."
51 year-old Susanna has cut out cravings after she noticed the source being her early wake up time of 4am. Whilst appearing on Lorraine in 2019 she said: "It can creep up without you noticing, and what I did was cut out snacking.
"I found waking up so early in the morning you're in a sort of energy deficit. All your body can think is to have toast, have biscuits, have calories, and you can pile [weight] on really quickly."
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A popular restaurant in Southborough in Tunbridge Wells has fallen victim to the cost of living crisis, with the owners saying it hit them "even worse than the pandemic". The family-owned Thai Lemongrass Restaurant in London Road has been wowing customers with its stunning food in the restaurant and with take-aways since 2013.
People not only loved simply dining there, they also celebrated special occasions such as wedding anniversaries and birthdays. But despite the custom and the long-standing loyalty of many of their customers, the owners were "losing more money than we were making".
A post by the popular "Lemongrass Team" said its 61-year-old Thai chef had "loved cooking" for customers and had "received a lot of happiness these past years". The news has been met with sadness by customers and concern for the team. They even asked whether they could try pop-ups or occasional Thai themed events.
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The owners said: "I am sure you are aware of the cost of living crisis and it has impacted us greatly as a small business, even worse than the pandemic. We were losing more money than we were making which is the sad reality for a lot of small businesses. It has left us with no choice but to close down."
One customer wrote: "So, so sad. We've eaten at the Lemongrass a lot and celebrated our wedding anniversary with you so many times. We wish you the best for the future." Another wrote: "Oh no.. We are regular customers and are so sad to hear this. We loved your food and so glad we had one last take away this week. Wishing you all the best."
The message from the Thai Lemongrass team: "Hello customers, It is with great sadness that we have to announce that our restaurant is permanently closed. Since the beginning of the year, these past months have been incredibly difficult for us.
"We very much appreciate every single customer who has ordered a takeaway or dine in with us. We had so many loyal customers who ordered from us every week and have made friends for life.
"Our Thai chef (61 years of age) loved cooking and always will, he received a lot of happiness these past years and that is all down to our wonderful customers support. Thank you very much and please take care of yourselves."
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While ten of thousands of people are locked in immigration detention centres with no end date, a charity is using the power of music to empower them. This aims to help them cope with the various challenges they face on a daily basis while giving a chance to everyone outside to understand the lives of people living inside.
Originally set up in 2006 to honour Helen Tetlow, a teacher, musician and activist who spent her life standing up for refugees, Hear Me Out wants to get music-making into these detention centres and other accommodations used to house refugees and asylum seekers, including Napier Barracks. The site in Folkestone failed to meet minimum standards for asylum accommodation according to a High Court ruling.
Singer and songwriter Lucky Moyo left Zimbabwe decades ago to tour the world with his band before settling in the UK to study and lead music workshops in detention centres, prisons and schools. He described music as a “vehicle for dealing with social issues”.
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The 58-year-old, who now lives in Sittingbourne, told KentLive: “Music is a language that we can all speak and understand each other. There’s no colour, no boundaries. The good thing with music is that it’s subtle, so you can communicate things that are normally hard if you were saying them out to the public. Music is a soft tool.”
After meeting people living in detention centres and barracks, Lucky said they used music to speak out and reconnect with their language and their culture. The musician’s workshops allowed them to celebrate diversity within these facilities. He organised drop-in workshops in a community space nearby to Napier Barrack.
“We also do workshops where we ask everybody maybe to do some sort of celebrations, or songs of hope, or just general community songs,” Lucky said. “You’ll find that people from, for instance, Afghanistan will be dancing to songs from Nigeria and people from Eritrea will be dancing to songs from Pakistan.
“The only time when all these languages or cultures interact is when they’re doing a music workshop. It was almost like escapism. They couldn’t remember where they were, because music transports you. When you’re doing music, the day goes fast. You are not stuck in your thoughts, no matter how difficult they are but that activity is exactly what is needed. Its role is to really just make people reflect and maybe have a chance, in a soft way, to speak up.”
The team at Hear Me Out consists of musicians, experts, teachers and people with real experience of UK immigration detention. It was important for the charity to have people with lived experiences to help them understand what refugees and asylum seekers are going through. Artistic director Gini Simpson said: “We work really extensively with people that have got a lived experience of detention. So we know things that they need rather than things that other people feel they might need.”
'Gives them the will to live'
She said the feedback they received has been “phenomenal”, adding: “People say it gives them the will to live. People say that it’s the one thing that gave them optimism when they were there. I wish that we could have music workshops in all the detention centres.
“One of the really big and awful things is that detention in the UK is indefinite. That means that people are really anxious and they don’t know how long they’re going to be there. And we know that people have been locked up for years in detention centres, so you could be there for a day or you could be there for a year.
“It’s also about attitude change. It’s about people, not in detention centres, finding out about who’s in a detention centre, why they’re there.”
'It creates a better understanding and appreciation for each other's differences'
More than 26,000 people have taken part in workshops so far and a total of 642 songs were recorded as of August 25, 2022. The charity said 95 per cent of the participants said they felt better afterwards. One participant said: “Seeing people laughing and being joyful is contagious and actually has a calming effect. The aftermath is we are all calm and relieved of all of our stresses”
Another added: “The atmosphere is calming and joyful enough that it gives everyone the opportunity not just to get to know each other and utilise each other’s skills but once you share in your joy and happiness together it creates a better understanding and appreciation for each other’s differences or culture.”
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The dust from Florida’s primary elections hasn’t yet settled. But to hear Marco Rubio tell it, his November campaign is already in trouble.
On Monday, the eve of the primary elections, Florida’s senior GOP U.S. senator sent supporters an email saying his current campaign situation was “a disaster.”
Rubio said his opponent, Democratic U.S. Rep. Val Demings, had raised more money last month than he’d raised in the past three months combined and cited a recent poll that showed Demings beating him.
“My opponent is gaining momentum and I desperately need your support,” Rubio said before ending the email with a donation request that seemed to emphasize his desperation: “Please, I’m begging …”
If you believe Rubio, his campaign is such a sinking ship that Democrats are poised to steal a seat in Florida.
I don’t believe Rubio. I think he knows he’s still the heavy favorite among most polls and that he’s just sending out frantic-sounding emails in an attempt to scare gullible donors into coughing up money they otherwise wouldn’t.
Why do I believe that? Mainly because Florida Democrats haven’t managed to oust a Republican incumbent from statewide office since “Designing Women” was still on TV. We’re talking more than three decades. (More on that in a moment.)
Still, Rubio’s professed fears about his opponent mark a stark contrast to six years when he faced an easily beatable Democrat whose name most of you probably can’t even remember. (It was Patrick Murphy.)
The bottom line: Demings is giving Rubio and the Republicans a run for their money they weren’t expecting.
The race is one of the most-watched in the country and probably key to any chance the Democrats have of keeping a majority in Washington.
I still think Rubio wins. But Demings has managed to give Democrats hope — and Republicans anxiety.
That’s partly because of what the former police chief brings to the table — a nationally recognized name, prolific fundraising and the kind of law-enforcement credentials that make it tough for Rubio to sling around the “defund the police” attacks.
And also partly because Rubio is largely a man without a base. Put simply: Very few people are passionate about him — including very few Republicans.
He’s certainly no darling with the MAGA crowd, which cheered when Donald Trump emasculated “Little Marco” in 2016 and fumed at Rubio when he called their idol a “con artist” and “the most vulgar person to ever aspire to the presidency.”
Rubio ultimately tucked his tail between his legs, ate his words and endorsed Trump.
But by then, more Republicans rolled their eyes than expressed gratitude. They viewed Rubio as a politician of convenience rather than conviction.
So, for the past six years, Rubio has been trying to bolster his conservative credentials by beefing up his bashing. As the Sentinel reported last week, Rubio’s targets of late have included the IRS, FBI and supporters of gay marriage.
If there’s a perceived leftist threat that Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis fumed about first, Rubio has been jumping up and down on Twitter sidelines going: Me too!
I’m not sure anyone’s buying all his tough tweets. But I’m also not sure it matters.
Rubio’s No. 1 advantage is that he’s a Republican incumbent. And for more than 30 years in this state, that has been enough to guarantee reelection.
No Democrat has ousted a Republican from statewide office since 1990 when Gov. Lawton Chiles did it to Bob Martinez.
Ever since — even when they were targeting Republicans like Rick Scott with sorry approval ratings — Democrats managed to lose. Sometimes by a percentage point or two. Sometimes by a fraction of a percent. But it was always a loss.
Democrats snagged a few open seats and won reelection a few times, but never managed to oust any statewide Republicans.
And keep in mind: Democrats posted all those losses during years when they had more registered voters in Florida than Republicans. Now, Democrats don’t even have that edge. Florida’s voting tendencies seem to keep shifting further to the right.
There’s no better evidence of that than the very last cycle. In 2020, much of America backed away from Trump. Some states even flipped from red to blue. Not Florida. Here, Floridians voted to put Trump back in the White House by an even larger margin than they did the first time.
Basically, after Trump got impeached, much of America said: We’ve seen enough. But Florida voters said: Give us some more, and make it a double!
So it’s hard to see how a state that just doubled down on Trump would also want to promote one of the Democratic impeachment managers from the House to the Senate.
Consequently, most polls and pundits predict Rubio will win.
Still, Demings has obviously rattled Republican cages more than expected — and probably more than any other Democratic candidate would have.
So now we have a race — and Rubio “begging” fellow Republicans for help. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/column-marco-rubio-says-his-campaign-is-a-disaster-is-he-crying-wolf-or-truly/article_17fcf8cc-24b8-11ed-8cd4-979a4a60dcc2.html | 2022-08-29T09:17:05Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/column-marco-rubio-says-his-campaign-is-a-disaster-is-he-crying-wolf-or-truly/article_17fcf8cc-24b8-11ed-8cd4-979a4a60dcc2.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
To the editor — The general election will be here in no time. As in every election it's important the candidate you select meets the qualifications and experience needed for the position.
I support Mischa Venable for Yakima County clerk because I personally have utilized her expertise and knowledge reviewing my important legal and accounting documents. I know she brings the business and management experience necessary for the very important position of Yakima County clerk.
With what I've mentioned above it's important to know that throughout Mischa's professional career she continues to maintain a strong family balance with her husband, Brian, and two daughters, Madelynn and Paisley.
Any homework you choose to do on the candidates will show that Mischa Venables is the right and only person for the job of county clerk.
BILL HOLMES
Selah | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-any-way-you-score-it-mischa-venable-wins/article_4af1d9f6-2638-11ed-ac58-8359a9848594.html | 2022-08-29T09:17:11Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-any-way-you-score-it-mischa-venable-wins/article_4af1d9f6-2638-11ed-ac58-8359a9848594.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
To the editor — The Aug. 19 paper says that youths will be able to ride city buses for free. What about the rest of us, starting with us senior citizens and ADA riders? Where's ours?
I've had to pay for my reduced-fare card three times so far on their account and the youths get theirs for free?
This seems like a case a different riders, different rules. Bah, humbug!
Welcome to my world in the city of Yakima and on Yakima Transit.
ROBERT OWEN
Yakima | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-kids-ride-free-now-what-about-seniors/article_e0065094-2638-11ed-b0d1-17e238b7ee92.html | 2022-08-29T09:17:17Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-kids-ride-free-now-what-about-seniors/article_e0065094-2638-11ed-b0d1-17e238b7ee92.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
To the editor — The East Valley School District's summer 2022 edition of Excellence proudly headlines “Free Breakfast and Lunch.” This for the 2022-23 school year and the meals are available to all students.
This isn’t about the pros and cons of school food programs. It is about the inference of the word “free.” What is the total cost of the district’s food programs including the food regardless of source, school employees-cafeteria and administration, space, equipment, and waste management to name a few? And who is ultimately paying for these school food programs?
Is there someone out there that knows the answers to these questions? If so, I would love to see them published in the next edition of Excellence.
And perhaps most importantly, the students would understand how much support they are getting from others.
PHIL BIRD
Yakima | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-schools-should-define-free-for-students/article_febec992-2635-11ed-ad9a-e3bdbadde522.html | 2022-08-29T09:17:24Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-schools-should-define-free-for-students/article_febec992-2635-11ed-ad9a-e3bdbadde522.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Congressional Democrats are demanding that social media companies do a better job of policing threats against the FBI in the wake of the agency’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence for classified documents that he took from the White House. The issue presents a crucial test of those companies’ ability to weed out dangerous speech without trampling on the First Amendment.
If the companies don’t respond transparently to these demands and make a stronger effort than they are currently making to detoxify their sites, they risk losing the unique protections they enjoy under federal law. That, in turn, would put at risk even legitimate online discourse.
Social media has transformed America in many positive ways. But the same internet megaphones that spread useful information and empathy can also spread disinformation and violence. Russian trolls may well have helped swing the 2016 presidential election to Trump. Four years later, Trump himself, and his most virulent supporters, used social media to incite and coordinate the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.
The court-sanctioned search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort this month for documents the former president was refusing to return to the government wasn’t the illegitimate “raid” or “siege” that Trump made it out to be on social media. But some of Trump’s less stable fans out there — no doubt encouraged by the many elected Republicans who have obediently echoed Trump’s self-serving grievance — picked up that theme and ran with it.
On Twitter, Facebook, Trump’s Truth Social network and others, they’ve called for violence against FBI agents and even civil war. One Trump supporter who apparently posted such screeds tried to get into an FBI field office in Ohio with weapons and was later killed after a standoff with police. A Pennsylvania man was arrested after his posts declared “open season” on FBI agents.
The First Amendment protects even noxious speech — but not speech that directly foments violence.
Social media companies, unlike newspapers and other traditional media, are generally protected from legal action when such speech appears on their sites. That protection, contained in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, is a recognition that a site such as Twitter can’t realistically police every post for threats in the way a traditional newspaper can check every letter to the editor before publication.
Without that protection, it’s unlikely such sites could continue to function. Which makes it all the more crucial that Twitter and the others beef up their screening efforts to remove threats of violence and to report them to law enforcement when appropriate. That’s the trade-off for their legal protection, and if they don’t earn it with responsible behavior, there are critics in Congress ready to take that protection away.
With that in mind, it’s not only in the companies’ interest to cooperate in these inquiries but also in the broader interests of the social media-using public. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/other-views-social-media-must-self-police-for-violence-to-preserve-its-unique-value/article_f534947a-2639-11ed-b6f7-176e3d37ebdb.html | 2022-08-29T09:17:30Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/other-views-social-media-must-self-police-for-violence-to-preserve-its-unique-value/article_f534947a-2639-11ed-b6f7-176e3d37ebdb.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
220828-N-YS413-9001 EAST CHINA SEA (Aug. 28, 2022) Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) transits the Taiwan Strait during routine underway operations. Chancellorsville is forward-deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Justin Stack)
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An increasing number of little children are eating small lithium batteries, also known as "button" batteries, that power many of our consumer devices, with potentially serious consequences, even death, a new report found.
Despite public information campaigns warning parents about the dangers, visits to emergency rooms as a result of battery poisonings were twice as high from 2010 to 2019 compared with 1990 to 2009, according to the study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
That's an average of one battery-related emergency visit every 1.25 hours among children under 18, the report found. Children under 5 were at highest risk, the report noted, especially toddlers between the ages of 1 and 2, who often put things they find into their mouths.
Even after removal from the device they're powering, lithium button batteries still have a strong current. When the batteries get stuck in a child's throat, saliva can interact with the current, which causes "a chemical reaction that can severely burn the esophagus in as little as two hours, creating an esophageal perforation, vocal cord paralysis, or even erosion into the airway (trachea), or major blood vessels," warned the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
That's what happened in 2010 to 1-year-old Emmett Rauch, who ate a button battery that had fallen out of a DVD player remote, according to his parents, Karla and Michael Rauch.
"The battery literally burned a hole through his esophagus into his trachea (airway) allowing his stomach bile to reflux into his lungs," the couple shared on Emmett's Fight Foundation, the website of a nonprofit foundation they created to educate other parents on the dangers of button batteries.
The battery also burned the nerves of Emmett's vocal cords, the Raunchs said. To deal with complications from his injuries, Emmett underwent six surgeries in five years, including the replacement of his entire esophagus using a portion of his bowel.
"As a mother I replay the morning we noticed Emmett's illness over and over in my mind. How did I not know? If I only paid attention to the kind of batteries the remote controls required!" Karla Rauch wrote on a blog for Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
Batteries are everywhere
Button batteries are all over modern homes, including some places you might not think about, such as blinking or animated ornaments, clip-on reading lights and singing greeting cards.
Other common items that contain lithium batteries are calculators, digital thermometers, flameless candles, flashing jewelry, handheld games and toys, hearing aids, laser pointers, light up bouncing balls, penlights, mini-remotes, step counters and athletic trackers, talking and singing books, and, of course, car key fobs and smartwatches, according to the National Poison Control Center.
The new study analyzed data from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, which tracks emergency room visits in over 100 hospitals in the United States.
The analysis found ingesting the battery accounted for the majority (90%) of these battery-related emergency room visits, followed by putting batteries into the nose (5.7%), ears (2.5%) and mouth without swallowing (1.8%).
While not as serious as ingestion, lithium batteries stuck in an ear or nose can cause significant injuries, such as perforation of the nasal septum or the eardrum, hearing loss, or facial nerve paralysis, according to the report.
What should parents do?
Prevention is key. Don't insert or change batteries in front of small children -- shiny objects are enticing. Get rid of expired batteries immediately and safely, and store any replacement batteries well out of reach of children, experts recommend.
"Try to choose products with battery compartments that only open with a screwdriver or special tool, or that have a child-safe closure. At minimum, use strong tape to keep the compartment sealed tight against small hands," advised Connecticut Children's Hospital.
Be especially cautious about batteries that are as big as a penny or larger, the National Poison Control Center recommended.
"The 20 mm diameter lithium cell is one of the most serious problems when swallowed. These problem cells can be recognized by their imprint (engraved numbers and letters) and often have one of these 3 codes: CR2032, CR2025, CR2016. If swallowed and not removed promptly, these larger button batteries can cause death -- or burn a hole through your child's esophagus," the center noted.
Always supervise children who are playing with a toy or device that contains a button battery, and educate older children about the dangers so they can assist.
What if you suspect your child has swallowed a battery -- or put one in their nose or ear?
"Call the National Battery Ingestion Hotline at 800-498-8666 immediately. Prompt action is critical. Don't wait for symptoms to develop," the NPCC advised.
Signs of ingestion can look like the child swallowed a coin, so be wary, experts said. Typical behavior can include wheezing, drooling, coughing, vomiting, chest discomfort, refusal to eat, or gagging when attempting to drink or eat. But for some children, like Emmett Rauch, it can take days before symptoms are severe enough to notice.
"It's also important to know if a magnet was co-ingested with the battery, as this could potentially cause further injury. X-rays of the child's entire neck, esophagus and abdomen are typically necessary," according to Texas Children's Hospital.
If you suspect ingestion, don't make your child vomit, Texas Children's advised.
Don't give your child anything to eat or drink until an X-ray shows the battery has moved beyond the esophagus, the National Poison Control Center noted.
"Batteries stuck in the esophagus must be removed as quickly as possible as severe damage can occur in just 2 hours. Batteries in the nose or ear also must be removed immediately to avoid permanent damage," the center advised.
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Hulu Releases the Futurama Revival’s Episode Titles
Not many shows escape cancellation more than once, but Futurama isn’t a typical animated sci-fi comedy. However, by the time the series returns next year it will be nearly ten years since the previous episode. Fortunately, it sounds like the upcoming eighth season is already well in hand. Via ScreenRant, Hulu has released the Futurama revival’s episode titles.
Hulu’s order calls for 20 new episodes, but it will probably be split into two seasons of ten episodes each. For now, here are the currently revealed episode names:
- “The Impossible Stream,”
- “Rage Against The Vaccine,”
- “Zapp Gets Cancelled,”
- “The Prince And The Product,”
- “Related To Items You’ve Viewed,”
- “Children Of A Lesser Bog,”
- “How The West Was 1010001,”
- “I Know What You Did Last Xmas,”
- “Parasites Regained,”
- “All The Way Down.”
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What can we glean from that list? “How The West Was 1010001” will probably be the show’s take on Westerns and Westworld. And we suspect “Parasites Regained” may be a sequel to season 3’s “Parasites Lost.” In that classic episode, Fry was physically and mentally improved by a colony of sentient worms living in his body. However, Fry forced the worms to leave his body because he was afraid Leela loved the changes they made to him, instead of loving him for himself.
Robot Santa seems likely to return in “I Know What You Did Last Xmas,” while Amy and Kiff’s children could return in “Children of a Lesser Bog.” Zapp Brannigan’s had fall from grace episodes before, and “Zapp Gets Cancelled” sounds like more of the same with cancel culture. And “Rage Against the Vaccine” will almost certainly parody the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent vaccine.
The Futurama revival will premiere on Hulu in 2023.
Are you looking forward to seeing the new season? Let us know in the comment section below!
Recommended Reading: Futurama-O-Rama
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As the school year gets underway, many American teachers are facing intensified pressure from states and parents, and some are considering whether they should stay in the profession.
Copyright 2022 NPR
As the school year gets underway, many American teachers are facing intensified pressure from states and parents, and some are considering whether they should stay in the profession.
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A friend of Minda Dentler texted her the news article of the recent case of polio in Rockland County, New York that led to a patient becoming paralyzed.
"I kind of was in shock and disbelief to see it in the United States," she recalls. "We have all these resources and then to hear that somebody didn't get part of the regular childhood vaccines and that person could get polio. It was shocking to me."
Dentler was born in Mumbai, India in 1978 and contracted polio at six months. She missed the wave of universal immunization in the country by several years. The result was that Dentler became paralyzed in her legs. She can still feel everything; she just can't tell her legs to move.
"My mother realized she couldn't take care of me," Dentler says, "so she dropped me off at an orphanage."
At age three and a half, she was adopted by a couple in the U.S. "Well, I couldn't walk, right?," she says. "And my body was sort of stuck in this seated position. So I spent the first few years in America just going through a number of surgeries to basically straighten me out so I could then be fitted for leg braces and crutches."
Dentler learned to handle a wheelchair and to walk by using the crutches, her legs immobile beneath her. "In the early years, it was just me trying to be like my siblings," she says. "I didn't want to take the disabled bus to school. I wanted to be able to take the bus with my sister. And so I had to learn how to go up the stairs."
Once at school, she often felt left out. "I was just really embarrassed and self-conscious about the way I looked," she remembers. "And people would stare at me and kids would make fun of me. And I really found it difficult to make friends." Her family, which included three siblings, was athletic; Dentler often watched from the sidelines, wanting to compete herself. "But I couldn't," she says.
Later, when she was in her late 20s in New York City, a friend introduced her to a running club for athletes with disabilities where she learned how to hand cycle: propel a three-wheeled low-to-the-ground bike using only her upper body. She met a friend in a wheelchair who'd completed a triathlon.
"I remember watching him at the finish line thinking, 'That's what I want to do next year,'" she says. "And so actually I signed up for the race without knowing how to swim or run."
Within seven months, she learned to swim and to compete using a racing wheelchair. When Dentler finished the triathlon, she was motivated to go farther. She soon took up half-Ironman distance triathlons, a distance of nearly 70 miles. And she kept meeting people, mostly able-bodied, with extraordinary athletic ambitions, which led her to attempt her first Ironman in Hawaii. That's a distance of 140.6 miles.
"At the time, no female wheelchair athlete had ever made the time cutoffs to finish that race," Dentler says. She missed the cutoff on her first try.
But a year later, she made it and finished the race in 14 hours, 39 minutes — the first female wheelchair athlete to complete the Ironman World Championship. She covered all those miles in water and on land, propelled entirely by her arms and upper body.
In a comment worthy of a gold medal for understatement, she says, "I think it's important to stay physically active."
Since then, she's done three other Ironmen — in Dubai, Morocco and Colombia. And Dentler's also currently in the midst of another marathon — she's a mom. Her daughter Maya is seven years old.
"Even when she was very young, things were different," Dentler says. "Like when she cried, I couldn't pick her up off the floor. She knew that she had to get closer to me."
In kindergarten, some of Maya's classmates teased her about having a mom in a wheelchair. But it didn't last long. By first grade, Dentler volunteered at the school to help kids learn to read, and soon they no longer paid attention to her wheelchair. Maya was so proud of her mom she brought her in for show and tell.
"[Maya] said, 'Who wouldn't want a mom like that?,'" says Dentler. "The kids were very curious. They asked me a ton of questions and it was actually pretty fun to answer them. And the kids' eyes would get really big when they heard that I could do all of these things."
Dentler says one memory of her daughter stands out with particular clarity. "I remember vividly when she was three months old getting her first polio vaccine," she recalls. "I just remember crying cause I realized, 'Wow, she is not going to face the debilitating effects of having polio like I have just because she got access to a vaccine and I chose to get her immunized.'"
Dentler has traveled to India with Rotary International to accompany a national immunization drive. "It was really eye opening to me," she says, "because women literally would travel for miles to get their children vaccinated for polio because they knew how much it would impact their lives if their child were to contract polio. Because we don't really see polio really impacting people in the United States, I almost feel like people forget the value of these vaccines."
When Dentler considers the current polio outbreak in New York State, she says it's completely preventable. For her, it boils down to a single word — immunization.
"I wish all people who may be on the fence about vaccination could really meet me," she says. "I'm a reminder to families that they should vaccinate their children."
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ISLAMABAD — International aid was reaching Pakistan on Monday, as the military and volunteers desperately tried to evacuate many thousands stranded by widespread flooding driven by "monster monsoons" that have claimed more than 1,000 lives this summer.
Cargo planes from Turkey and the United Arab Emirates began the international rush to assist the impoverished nation, landing on Sunday in Islamabad carrying tents, food and other daily necessities. Trucks carrying tents, food, and water arranged by Pakistan were also being dispatched to various parts of the country by the National Disaster Management Authority for tens of thousands of flood victims.
They were among the nations that pledged to help Pakistan tackle the crisis after officials called for international help. The United Nations will launch an international appeal for Pakistani flood victims on Tuesday in Islamabad.
Prime Minister Shabaz Sharif on Monday said the rains are the heaviest Pakistan has seen in three decades.
"I saw floodwater everywhere, wherever I went in recent days and even today," Sharif said in Charsadda, one of the devastated towns.
So far, exceptionally heavy monsoon rains that triggered flash floods across the country have affected 33 million Pakistanis, damaged nearly 1 million homes and killed at least 1,061 people.
Pakistani authorities say this year's devastation is worse than in 2010, when floods killed 1,700 people. Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, the country's military chief, said Sunday that his country may take years to recover. He appealed to Pakistanis living abroad to generously donate to the flood victims.
Floods and rains have caused devastation in Pakistan at a time when the country is facing one of the worst economic crises. Pakistan says it recently narrowly avoided a default, and later Monday IMF's executive board was expected to approve the release of the much-awaited $1.7 billion for this Islamic nation.
Pakistan and the IMF originally signed the bailout accord in 2019. But the release of a $1.7 billion tranche has been on hold since earlier this year, when the IMF expressed concern about Pakistan's compliance with the deal's terms under former Prime Minister Imran Khan's government.
Khan was also expected to launch a fundraising campaign Monday evening for flood victims.
Last week, the United Nations in a statement said that it has allocated $3 million for U.N. aid agencies and their partners in Pakistan to respond to the floods and this money will be used for health, nutrition, food security, and water and sanitation services in flood-affected areas, focusing on the most vulnerable.
According to scientists and Sherry Rehman, a Pakistani senator and the country's climate minister, Pakistan suffered heavier rains this year mainly because of climate change, which also caused fire in forests this year.
However, critics say Pakistan's government has hardly any interest in building new dams and water reservoirs.
The unprecedented monsoon season has affected all four of the country's provinces. Floods have destroyed more than 150 bridges and numerous roads have been washed away, making rescue operations difficult. Authorities say they were using military planes, helicopters, trucks and boats to evacuate people from marooned people and deliver much-need aid to them.
However, many survivors complain they were still waiting for help or they received too little assistance from the government after being displaced because of floods. Some people say they got tents but not food. Pakistan charities were also active in flood-hit areas, and the government says everyone should contribute to help flood victims.
The government has deployed at least 6,500 soldiers to help civilian authorities in rescue and relief operations across the country.
Sharif has said the government would provide housing to all those who lost their homes.
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It’s a time for giving in Tallapoosa County, with businesses, residents and community leaders soon gathering together to help those most in need.
The Lake Martin Area United Way launched the nonprofit’s 2023 fundraising campaign, announcing that the organization hopes to raise half a million dollars for various local causes and initiatives.
“Thank you for being a part of our 2023 campaign kick-off,” Layfield said as she addressed a room of businesses and elected leaders. “It is crazy to think we're already looking ahead to 2023, but because of you and your support, thousands of lives are touched each year.”
The fundraiser will support the organization’s 28 agencies spread throughout Tallapoosa and Coosa counties. These agencies spend their time addressing issues relating to education, poverty and hunger.
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Since the nonprofit mainly helps eastern Alabama, fundraiser chair Sandra Carlisle dedicated this year’s funding campaign to area residents, with a ‘Because of You’ theme.
“Because of you and your donations to United Way we're able to do so much more than we would alone. Because of you, together we can change someone's tomorrow,” Carlisle said.
The organization then discussed previously funded services that benefited the Lake Martin area, with services ranging from disaster relief to youth programs.
Several area businesses participated early this year, pledging over $52,000, which Layfield noted as over 10 percent of the overall goal.
“I just want to say we are so excited because that is huge, and a really great start,” she said.
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Pakistan batter Fakhar Zaman stood out with his sportsman spirit during the team's Asia Cup opener against India in Dubai on Sunday.
The left-hander was batting on 10 when he got a faint edge off Avesh Khan's bowling. Indian wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik and Avesh were not sure whether he had nicked it, especially with so much noice around the stadium. But Zaman started walking and only then the umpire ruled him out.
The Indians had already wasted a review in the opening over and there was every possibly that Zaman would have got a reprieve had he stayed on.
Soon after the incident, many fans took to Twitter and hailed Zaman.
"Class act by Fakhar Zaman. Don't see Pakistanis walking when they know they are out and the umpire misses it. #INDvPAK," wrote one user.
"Many batters would have just stood there and pretended they didn't edge it and hoped that the opposition wouldn't appeal -- but that was fantastic sportsmanship from Fakhar Zaman #INDvsPAK #AsiaCup2022," tweeted another.
Another fan also reminded everyone about cricket being a gentleman's game.
"Fakhar Zaman hats off to you for walking before the umpire lifts his finger. Cricket is a gentleman's game after all#INDvsPAK," wrote the user.
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Dubai: In his hour of glory on Sunday night at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya reminisced the turn of events four years back at the same venue, against the same opposition in the last edition of the Asia Cup, when he was stretchered off after suffering an acute lower back injury.
On Sunday, following the thrilling five-wicket win against the arch-rivals with two balls to spare, Pandya said he "remembered everything" that happened on the fateful day which left his cricketing career virtually over.
Pandya's all-round effort on Sunday -- 3/25 in his four overs and an unbeaten 33 off 17 balls -- was the reason behind India winning the contest and exacting sweet revenge on their rivals who had thrashed them by 10 wickets in the ICC T20 World Cup last year here.
"I was remembering everything. I was being stretchered out of the ground, and it was the same dressing room. Yes, today I felt a sense of achievement because what I have gone through to come back and to get the opportunity... that journey is very beautiful," said Pandya in a conversation with Ravindra Jadeja in a video posted on bcci.tv on Monday.
"I think behind the scenes who all have worked with me (to bring me back to full fitness), they don't get the credit and I always strive that the people who have helped me get due credit. Nitin Patel and Som Desai, these are the two people I will give credit to for whatever comeback that has happened for me," said Pandya.
Pandya also said he wasn't the least nervous after Jadeja got out off the first ball of the final over bowled by left-arm spinner Mohammad Nawaz.
"Well, I didn't feel scoring seven runs would be that big a task (in the final over) because he (Nawaz) is a left-arm spinner and there were five fielders inside the circle. Had there been even 10 fielders outside the circle, it wouldn't have made a difference in my approach, as I had to just hit over the top," said Pandya, who smashed a six to signal India's victory with just two deliveries remaining.
"Having said that, I showed emotions only once during my innings when you (Jadeja) got out on the first ball of the 20th over. The pressure wasn't there (on me). I felt the bowler was under more pressure, so I was just waiting for him to commit a mistake. The way he made the field placing, I knew he would bowl back of length and I was ready (to hit a six)," added Pandya. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/08/29/i-knew-he-would-bowl-back-of-length-and-i-was-ready-pandya.html | 2022-08-29T09:48:24Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/08/29/i-knew-he-would-bowl-back-of-length-and-i-was-ready-pandya.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The pair fell to a low of 0.9915 earlier before hugging 0.9950 levels on the day, being little changed. As much as the dollar is firmer today, there is still some stubbornness to EUR/USD breaking lower for the time being.
The chart doesn't lie though. So long as price action keeps below parity, the bias is still for another leg lower in the pair. Perhaps a large set of option expiries at 0.9900 for tomorrow is keeping things in check. But if we do get a firm break and daily close below that, I would argue it will trigger the next leg lower in the pair.
The thing to note about EUR/USD is that the fundamental divergence continues to play out in rather straightforward fashion. The Fed remains resolute in tightening policy further while the ECB's latest remarks at the end of last week sound more like a central bank that is hurrying to get all their rate hikes in before the window closes.
The fact that European energy prices continue to shoot higher in rather parabolic fashion isn't helping whatsoever.
A recession is almost a given in Europe but while US growth is slowing, the Fed can still get away with pointing to a soft landing - for now at least. And that is the difference and that difference has been enough to see EUR/USD grind from 1.1400 to 1.0000 so far this year with more potential for a further move to the downside. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurusd-somewhat-stubborn-below-parity-but-only-a-matter-of-time-20220829/ | 2022-08-29T09:50:20Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurusd-somewhat-stubborn-below-parity-but-only-a-matter-of-time-20220829/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Tuesday, for the Euro we have the German preliminary CPI m/m and for the U.S. the CB consumer confidence and JOLTS job openings.
This will be followed by the ADP non-farm employment change on Wednesday, ISM manufacturing PMI on Thursday and the NFP, average hourly earnings m/m and unemployment rate on Friday. The Swiss CPI m/m will land on Thursday.
Aside from these events, some Fed members are also expected to deliver their remarks this week. These include Barkin, Mester, Williams and Bostic.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell delivered a direct and hawkish message Friday at the Jackson Hole Symposium and highlighted that the Fed's primary goal is to bring inflation back to its 2% target. He suggested that it might be necessary to keep the rate higher for an extended period of time in order to ensure this.
A lot of important data for the eurozone will be released this week with August inflation taking the spotlight on Wednesday and the unemployment rate on Thursday. Inflation is expected to run hot again and this will be on everyone's minds as the next ECB meeting is approaching.
At the Jackson Hole Symposium Isabel Schnabel warned that a larger "sacrifice" and tighter policy is required to keep inflation under control and not risk runaway price growth. She and François Villeroy de Galhau stressed that the European monetary policy would also have to remain tight for an extended period of time.
The BOJ Governor, Haruhiko Kuroda, pointed out why Japan will not tighten its monetary policy aggressively. "We have no choice other than continue monetary easing until wages and prices rise in a stable and sustainable manner," he said, estimating that inflation in Japan will approach 3% this year but will decrease back towards 1.5% next year. The situation is a bit different in Japan compared to other developed countries, as inflation is not rising at the same aggressive pace.
For the U.S., the ADP Employment report will be back on August 31st after a change of methodology that aims to provide a more robust view of the labour market and economic growth trajectory.
The Swiss inflation data is eagerly awaited as it can provide clues about what might happen at the next SNB meeting. SNB Chairman Thomas Jordan spoke Saturday at the Jackson Hole Symposium and reiterated that changing the definition of price stability from the current "rise in consumer prices of less than 2% per year" is not needed.
Last week the Swiss GDP showed an increase by 0.5% q/q for Q1, and analysts believe a similar growth in Q2 is possible. It is also likely that the Eurozone recession will limit Switzerland's near-term prospect for economic growth.
For the U.S., the ISM manufacturing index has lately been signalling an economic slowdown. The Fed is trying to slow the economy just enough until the inflation returns to normal territory, so according to Wells Fargo, the perfect scenario this week would be another decline in the ISM’s prices paid component, while new orders, production and employment components are expected to show some resilience.
After a favourable NFP last month traders will be watching this week's print with a lot of interest. A rise by 295K is the consensus for August. The NFP along with next week's inflation data could determine whether we'll have a rate hike of 50 bps or 75 bps at the next FOMC meeting.
The unemployment rate is expected to remain unchanged at 3.5%, but if the NFP prints much higher than expected and the wage number also sees a consecutive 0.5% m/m increase, or higher, a rate hike of 75 bps becomes more likely.
GBP/CHF expectations
Last week the pair was in a consolidation phase until Friday when the CHF showed some strength. The inflation data is a key aspect to watch this week. On the H1 chart the pair closed the week near the 1.1315 level of support. At this point the trajectory of GBP/CHF is a bit uncertain, but it still has room to depreciate until the end of the month targeting 1.1165 -- the March 2020 low. On the upside the next level of resistance is at 1.1415 and if that level doesn't hold the next one is at 1.1480.
CHF/JPY expectations
The pair looks good for buying opportunities as we have a divergent monetary policy between the SNB and the BOJ. On the H1 chart a correction is expected until 142.00 which is the next level of support. If rejected, the pair could test the resistance at 143.60 or even 144.00.
On the downside the next level of support is at 140.75. Bear in mind that the CHF inflation data could be a risk for this trade, so keep an eye on it.
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The dollar is keeping firmer across the board, building on the momentum at the end of last week after Fed chair Powell reaffirmed the central bank's resolve in fighting inflation. The bond market was unamused on Friday but is seeing a stronger move today with yields climbing, and that is helping to underpin USD/JPY to propel higher on the day.
The high earlier hit 139.00 as 10-year Treasury yields briefly clip 3.13% - its highest in two months. There is a bit of light retreat now to 138.60 levels but the bias on the chart says that the pair is looking poised for a test of the July highs.
A daily close above 139.00 will be encouraging as buyers are also setting their sights on the 140.00 level next.
We will have to see if there is appetite to go chasing in the days ahead but if there isn't, we could see price action stall near the highs at least before we get to the US jobs report at the end of this week. That will be the next key risk event to watch out for in markets. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/usdjpy-looks-to-july-highs-with-14000-also-in-sight-20220829/ | 2022-08-29T09:50:38Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/usdjpy-looks-to-july-highs-with-14000-also-in-sight-20220829/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
220828-N-EH998-1028 GULF OF ADEN (Aug. 28, 2022) Personnel Specialist 2nd Class Stephen Baker stands lookout watch aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94) prior to pulling into the port of Djibouti, Aug. 28. USS Nitze is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to help ensure maritime security and stability in the Middle East region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Cryton Vandiesal)
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220828-N-EH998-1095 GULF OF ADEN (Aug. 28, 2022) Guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94) pulls into Djibouti for a sustainment and logistics port visit, Aug. 28. USS Nitze is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to help ensure maritime security and stability in the Middle East Region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Cryton Vandiesal)
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