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PARIS and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Orange and Equinix announced today a collaboration to expand the Orange Telco Cloud footprint, using Equinix's Bare Metal as a Service capability—Equinix Metal®—to speed the deployment of Orange's New Generation International Network. The new model enables Orange to provide business and wholesale customers with powerful on-demand Telco Cloud Points of Presence (PoPs), delivering essential services such as SD-WAN, CDN, 5G roaming and voice services, with an expected latency below ~10 milliseconds. Three locations will be deployed by the end of this year: Amsterdam, Madrid and Seattle.
The advancement of network-based services, largely driven by evolving customer requirements around speed of deployment and flexibility, is compelling network providers to deploy a new class of connectivity and infrastructure platform. Indeed, the Equinix 2022 Global Tech Trends Survey found 72% of companies surveyed around the world are planning to expand in the next 12 months, despite economic concerns and supply chain challenges—and they're relying on digital strategies to achieve that.
By integrating with Equinix's automated dedicated Bare Metal as a Service located in proximity to its existing networks at Equinix, Orange can quickly meet customer demand for growth, deploying in weeks from inception (instead of months).
Courtney Munroe, Vice President for Telecommunications Research at IDC, commented: "This partnership between Orange and Equinix is a smart move enabling Orange to enhance its existing platform and its ability to facilitate reliable, agile digital capabilities for its customers—all while being able to more quickly meet customer demand by using Equinix Metal. IDC research shows that enterprises look to Telcos and digital infrastructure providers as key partners for hybrid IT infrastructure and cloud networking requirements. Furthermore, the enhanced Telco Cloud Platform will improve Orange's operational efficiency, and flexibility, and most importantly will allow it to offer enhanced low latency performance and on-demand requirements for enterprises around the world."
Leveraging Equinix Metal, Orange accelerates its next-generation services without the up-front CAPEX or complexities of global supply chains, while retaining full choice and control over IT infrastructure and digital transformation projects.
"We are delighted to partner with Equinix to deploy Orange Telco Cloud PoPs technology on top of Equinix Metal," explained Jean-Luc Vuillemin, Executive Vice President, International Networks at Orange. "By embracing an 'as a service' infrastructure model and focusing investment in our SDN and VNF capabilities, Orange can provide a fully flexible and elastic solution to customers, speed up the deployment of our planned 100 Telco Cloud PoPs, and quickly adapt capacity to meet demand. This confirms Orange's position as a trusted infrastructure partner, optimizing application performance with secured and consistent connectivity, regardless of end user location, and supporting cloud management and transformation."
Through its Telco Cloud Platform, Orange uniquely provides customers with end-to-end optimized levels of performance, security and flexibility. Powered by industry-leading innovation in virtualized network functions and software-defined networks (SDN), Orange already has 40 SDN PoPs around the world and is targeted to reach 100+ "Telco Cloud PoPs" by 2024 as part of its eNGINe (New Generation International Network) transformation program. Each Telco Cloud PoP can host virtualized network service functions such as voice, 5G, CDN, SD-WAN or Security Services, as well as connect customers to key content and cloud service providers. With its Telco Cloud PoP architecture, Orange's customers can access and manage applications in the cloud with reliable, fast connectivity, and choose from an expanded portfolio with on-demand and adapted services.
"We have a rich 20-year history of collaboration with Orange and are pleased to see them accelerate innovation for their customers by becoming the first provider to combine their extensive global network footprint at Equinix with the new possibilities provided by our investments in automated digital infrastructure capabilities. We're excited to see them expand this offering into additional markets in 2023," said Zachary Smith, Global Head of Edge Infrastructure Services at Equinix.
Since its founding in 1998, Equinix has helped the world's networks connect and deploy services for their customers. Today, digital leaders like Orange are looking to move even faster. This has fueled Equinix's strategy to help unlock value from their existing network presence in its data centers, with an as a Service model that delivers choice and control of dedicated infrastructure, powered by clean and renewable energy. This approach to cleaner energy consumption was also determinant for Orange to choose to partner with Equinix, in line with its 2040 carbon neutral objective, on top of its strategy to avoid energy consumption where there is no customer demand.
About Orange
Orange is one of the world's leading telecommunications operators with sales of 42.5 billion euros in 2021 and 137,000 employees worldwide at 30 June 2022, including 76,000 employees in France. The Group has a total customer base of 282 million customers worldwide at 30 June 2022, including 236 million mobile customers and 24 million fixed broadband customers. The Group is present in 26 countries. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies under the brand Orange Business Services. In December 2019, the Group presented its "Engage 2025" strategic plan, which, guided by social and environmental accountability, aims to reinvent its operator model. While accelerating in growth areas and placing data and AI at the heart of its innovation model, the Group will be an attractive and responsible employer, adapted to emerging professions.
Orange is listed on Euronext Paris (symbol ORA) and on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol ORAN). For more information on the internet and on your mobile: www.orange.com, www.orange-business.com and the Orange News app or to follow us on Twitter: @orangegrouppr.
Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trademarks of Orange or Orange Brand Services Limited.
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's digital infrastructure company™, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix enables today's businesses to access all the right places, partners, and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and multiply their value.
Equinix Metal® provides developer-friendly physical compute, storage and networking infrastructure services to help digital leaders move faster and more easily access Equinix's unique ecosystem of thousands of enterprises, clouds, services and networks.
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ZUG, Switzerland and TOKYO, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Platinum Egg, the popular Japanese game company, has announced the upcoming integration of its Web 3.0 game, CrossLink, with the Concordium Blockchain.
With this partnership, Platinum Egg is making it easier for people with low cryptocurrency literacy to feel safe when joining the crypto space.
"Another aspect of cryptocurrencies that has been preventing its widespread integration in Japan has been the perception of lack of security. A history of strict banking laws and regulations has created a culture of doubt towards new financial instruments, causing more hesitation for less crypto literate people to jump into the space.
We believe that the emphasis on identity security built into Concordium, combined with the soft entry provided by Crosslink, will prove to be an effective catalyst in encouraging new non-crypto literate users to join the space." says Nariya Takemura, President of Platinum Egg.
Crosslink, which already has over 250K users, aims to serve as a vehicle to introduce newcomers to the crypto space. Unlike other blockchain-based games, Crosslink does not have an initial spend to play and earn rewards.
CrossLink is a game that connects the real world and the virtual - a completely new gaming experience combining GPS and games. Players can dispatch heroes anywhere on earth and challenge extraterrestrial life, win battles with raid bosses, and earn rewards!
"At Concordium, we are very excited to partner with Platinum Egg. An already well established and successful game, Crosslink will benefit from Concordium's ID layer and security and allow new users access to blockchain based solutions. Concordium already has a growing following in Japan, but it is a market where we very much appreciate having strong and established partners with deep understanding of Japan and the ecosystem there. The collaboration with Platinum Egg also underlines our increasing presence in and strong support of blockchain-based gaming" says Lars Seier Christensen, Chairman of Concordium Foundation
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After the May 2022 acquisition of Splash News, one of the world's leading entertainment news networks, Shutterstock announces the rebrand of The Newsroom to Splash at Visa Pour L'Image
PERPIGNAN, France, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), a leading global creative platform for transformative brands and media companies, today announced at the Visa Pour L'Image Festival in Perpignan, France that it has rebranded The Newsroom to Splash. Since its inception in May 2021, The Newsroom has been established as the preeminent destination for unparalleled access to premium exclusive Editorial content. The Newsroom's unrivaled offering was further bolstered by the acquisition of Splash in May 2022, an industry-leading source for image and video content across celebrity, red carpet and live events for over three decades.
With the rebrand to Splash, Shutterstock's global customers will still have access to the same breaking news, as well as an archive of over 30 million images, with a live feed of 40,000 images uploaded per day from a network of over 4,000 photographers. This is combined with The Vault, Shutterstock's archive of over 60 million photo and video assets from AP, ITV, The Condé Nast Collection, The A+E Networks® Archive and more, making it one of the largest archival collections in the world, as well as white-glove service from a team of market experts to package key trending stories, archival and UGC content to help our global clients tell the story behind the story.
"Over the last 30 years, Splash has built a strong legacy based on brand recognition and a commitment to quality within the entertainment industry, and we're thrilled to herald this legacy into a new era," said Candice Murray, Vice President of Editorial at Shutterstock. "This rebrand confirms Shutterstock's positioning as best in class for premium celebrity and entertainment content, and we're excited to build on Splash's brand affinity, elevating Splash's visual storytelling capabilities to our customers around the world."
If you're traveling to Visa Pour L'Image, join us to celebrate the addition of Splash News to the Shutterstock Editorial family in Perpignan, France on August 31 and September 1, 2022. To RSVP, visit perpignan.splashthat.com.
About Shutterstock, Inc.
Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), is a leading global creative platform for transformative brands and media companies. Directly and through its group subsidiaries, Shutterstock's comprehensive collection includes high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations, 3D models, videos and music. Working with its growing community of over 2 million contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 415 million images and more than 26 million video clips available.
Headquartered in New York City, Shutterstock has offices around the world and customers in more than 150 countries. The Company also owns Splash News, the world's leading entertainment news agency for newsrooms and media companies worldwide, Pond5, the world's largest video marketplace, TurboSquid, the world's largest 3D content marketplace; PicMonkey, a leading online graphic design and image editing platform; Offset, a high-end image collection; Shutterstock Studios, an end-to-end custom creative shop; PremiumBeat, a curated royalty-free music library; Shutterstock Editorial, a premier source of editorial images and videos for the world's media; Amper Music, an AI-driven music platform; and Bigstock, a value-oriented stock media offering.
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The UK’s grassroots drift community has been going through a bit of turbulence over the last two years. Venues that have previously hosted drift events are being shut down by local councils. Police and other authorities think anyone with a low BMW is out to commit crimes. And on the odd occasion where mainstream media gets a hold of drifting they depict those involved as irresponsible boy racers. Today, when your Average Joe in the UK hears the word ‘drifting’ they immediately think of a muddy oval track with rattle-canned Scrapyard Challenge motors crashing into each other. That’s the bad news.
The good news is that amongst all that rubbish is a growing, thriving community of people who are successfully bringing style and class into the mix. Let me introduce you to Dorifest, the event where these incredible individuals get together for a weekend of pushing their cars around the iconic Driftland venue.
You join me on a sunny-yet-chilly evening in Fife. My good friend Tom Wright and I had just done a 12-hour pilgrimage from the south of England all the way up to Scotland. Travelling at a steady 60mph in a borrowed 20-year-old Mitsubishi Shogun, Tom successfully just completed his first towing journey. The car on the trailer? The red PS13 Nissan Silvia above.
We seemed to be the first people at the party. The pits were quiet, but it was very obvious from the atmosphere that the following morning – when Dorifest officially kicked off – we’d be in a pack of 60 other drivers who all had the same goal for the weekend: Get in their pride and joy drift car, get as close to their best friend in their own car, and initiate together into a corner at about 70mph.
Dorifest is a brand new event on the UK drift calendar. Its organiser Martin Oberheim, however, is no stranger to organising drifting events. Martin’s an S-chassis guy through and through, and he’s been around the block a few times with his own project cars. The idea for Dorifest came from his previous event, S Chassis Fest, where Martin invited his friends with show-car-quality S-chassis drift machines to come down to Driftland and shred the track together.
Now, some people may disagree here, but the drift world doesn’t end with the S-chassis. Yep, I know, that’s a bold claim to make, but the biggest S-chassis lover of them all, Martin, agrees with this one. The natural progression for his events then, was to open up the doors and include all makes and models.
One thing that wasn’t up for discussion, though, was the quality of the cars. Dorifest prides itself on having drift cars attend that wouldn’t look out of place at a car show. Low drive heights, real parts used and tight wheel fitment is standard. The award ceremony even saw a trophy go out to the best engine bay of the weekend.
This makes sense. Drifting is all about style and self expression, and your car is the boldest way to reflect that.
Dorifest represents the best the UK has to offer, and rumour has it over 150 people applied to take part in the event. This wasn’t a ‘first come first served’ gathering though; Martin and his team hand-picked the cars from a sea of applications. This is good news for UK drifting; the demand is there and growing. Dorifest is the perfect challenge to issues I mentioned at the start of the article, and Driftland is the perfect place to showcase it.
From the get-go on Friday evening I was already beyond excited for the weekend ahead. I used to read about Driftland as a teenager – a smooth, purpose-built drifting playground with easy spectating, and a big pit area and located away from anyone who could get annoyed by the sound of an SR20DET revving into its ketchup. The only catch is that it’s a 12-hour journey north from me, but the perks of that far outweigh the cons.
Scottish hospitality is at a different level. Everyone is friendly and was keen to make sure all guests were fed and watered. The scenery is truly beautiful and the air is crisper than that of England. Things were setting up for a lovely weekend ahead.
Slow & SteadySaturday rolled around, and with the drivers and media briefing out the way it was time to get stuck in. Overnight, the quiet pit we experienced on Friday had became a little more full, with a line of empty car trailers at the back for each of the cars there. The drivers were taking this seriously. Only one small issue: the weather.
The morning was damp. This was bad, because for the drivers that didn’t know the track (most of my friends), not only did they have to try and learn somewhere new, they also had to fight the elements. Two of my friends slid right off on the first bend; wet tarmac and an off-cambered corner made for ice-like conditions. Fortunately, the slip ups weren’t the end of their weekend.
As you can see, Martin’s influences in the S-chassis world meant a lot of his friends brought their own Nissans out to play at the event. Stew Noble’s red Spec-R S15 on 17-inch Advan Model 5s was one of the first on the track, demonstrating that despite arriving on a trailer and being very clean and understated on the outside, cars like these aren’t show ponies. They get used properly.
The queues to head out onto the track grew as the drivers all got their prep out the way. A slow and steady approach was developed by many as the track was still damp, but word was spreading that the sun would be out by lunch, and stay with us for the weekend. I could tell these guys were saving their energy and tyres for the dry afternoon ahead.
The First PitstopDrift days require constant spanner-work, and I don’t think any of the cars managed to do the whole event without needing something replaced or fixed. For the most part it was boost or temperature related. I’m pretty sure that most of my friends with turbo cars popped a boost pipe, and those who didn’t probably shredded a body panel on an apex. These guys run low cars knowing a side skirt will likely fly off at some point over the weekend.
But why? Why are these guys committed to running their cars low, when it all guarantees is damage? It’s hard to summarise it briefly, but think of it sort of like a rock concert. The artist would play their songs, shred the guitar with the same energy these guys shred their cars on track, and finish the song off by smashing the guitar on stage. Obviously the drivers won’t completely destroy their cars, but ultimately, fibreglass bumpers are replaceable parts, just like a guitar is, and the battle scars are a sign of you pushing the car to its limit. When the guitar is smashed against the stage, the audience is still screaming, asking for one more song.
Unfortunately, not all damage is light. At the start of the Saturday, my buddy Stu Burrows blew a gearbox up before his first pitstop. His morning went from drifting his car with his buddies to sourcing and replacing a gearbox using the tools he brought with him. But by dinner time, the car was out and running again.
Here’s a little pit curiosity for you. Seeing a standard Peugeot 505 GTI is rare, but one with some tinkering done to it? Unheard of.
Bonnets up to let the cars cool down; scissor doors up to let the world know this isn’t your first rodeo. Well-styled from the Irish gents in their Nissans… Dorifest invited people from all over the surrounding areas, with some even coming over from mainland Europe.
I used my time in the pits to also head over to the spectator area. Driftland has a unique setup where spectators stand on elevated land around the track, meaning you can always see all the action. It’s a dream, allowing photographers to get all sorts of angles even if they don’t have full access to the track the way I did.
This NB Mazda MX-5 is packing a feisty punch with a Honda K20 engine under the bonnet. Conor Wilson has had this car for longer than I’ve been attending drift events, so it was great to finally see it in person.
Martin made it clear to the drivers that all cars had to remain presentable for the weekend. If you lost a bumper, you had to reattach it. My friend Rory Brice managed to have an unfortunate quarter panel loss in the morning. Fortunately, his S15 is the exact same colour as masking tape. Adapt, improvise, tape it up… something like that.
Picking Up The PaceWith the rainy clouds moving on and the track drying up, the guys were picking up the pace. Naturally, tyre smoke started to appear, and before you knew it the entry speeds were doubling and friends started twinning with each other.
John Fallon was really going for it in his R32 Nissan Skyline GTS-t. This was another car that stood out to me, also rocking Advan Model 5s. I promise it’s a coincidence, but I’m definitely biased to cars that don’t need huge kits to stand out.
It was in the afternoon that a group of little NA Mazda MX-5s started to appear and grab my attention. There were three of them in total, making the most incredible, raspy racket around the track. Despite their size, they were pushing some bigger cars about.
Adam Maciejewski (famously pronounced Magic-Jetski) was piloting this E46 BMW 3 Series saloon. Interestingly, it’s a 330d running the legendary M57 diesel engine. A drift car getting 40mpg around the track? In today’s economy, the car makes more sense than ever. With some fruity exhaust trickery it sounded great too, and the endless torque easily pushed it from bend to bend. You can see just how much tyre smoke it was lighting up in the photos.
I feel like I’ve never seen an NC MX-5 at a drift event before. It’s maybe a sign that I’m getting old, but I still see these as modern cars. Again, a fruity sound, great colour combo and plenty of steering angle allowed this car to be super competitive throughout the day.
Three layouts were being used, but amongst other reasons, Driftland is known for that chequered board wall running the length of the spectator seating. This is where drivers could really throw it in at speeds north of 80mph, with those who dared even throwing it in backwards. It’s safe to say that by the end of the day everyone knew what they were doing. Sunday was shaping up to be fast-paced day.
A New DayAfter an evening with some food and drinks, we crashed to get some energy back for another day of Driftland action. With Stu’s car being back on the road after a whole day out replacing the gearbox, he spent no time getting back into it on Sunday morning. A new day brought him new opportunities to push his E36 for all its worth. With a boosted M50 under the bonnet, the brown BMW was comfortably punching up to the more powerful Japanese cars on the track.
Sunday also introduced a team drift aspect to the event. It was time to get on each others doors and close that proximity.
Most people at the event are good friends with one another, so it’s only natural for people to gather into teams. Some go the extra mile and match their cars up. First up were the Stylecase gents – Nate, Ryan and Chris – rocking matching purple liveries.
This is what drifting is all about, getting amongst it with your friends and chasing doors… and occasionally taking it a little too far and putting it up a bank. All part of the fun.
My good friend Austen Beischer swapped a new Pulsar G30-660 turbo into his JZX100 in time for Dorifest. Keen to see what it could do, he was pushing the car and his driving throughout the whole weekend. As you can see, so much so that the gravel made contact, but it was no biggie. A quick shakedown later and he was out again leading Stu down the main straight.
Austen’s Chaser is amazing, featuring a lot of suspension parts that he designs and makes himself though his DausFab business.
Here’s Rory leading Connor with a reverse entry down the main straight. The boys were in their zone, and the driving kept getting faster and faster into the afternoon. Until the inevitable happened…
Casualty RoomAn early re-centre mid-drift from a leading car caused Stu and Chaz Lott to collide. It feels really weird seeing your mates crash. A trip back to the pits was in order to make sure they were alright.
The casualty room was pretty busy. The mood didn’t seem sour or upsetting though; I’d hazard a guess every driver at the event has badly damaged a car – or three – in their time.
Many people were playing jungle mechanics here, knocking their heads together to make sure that the cars were safe to get back out.
In The Hot SeatFor me, it was time to hop into the passenger seat with my camera. As fun as taking photos on track is, the real fun at a drift event is being in the hot seat, getting on your mates’ doors.
There’s Stu, the lovely gent who runs Driftland. The organisation on the weekend was spot on; the marshals were sharp and everyone got the seat time they paid for.
Next up was a round with the MX-5 boys. I won’t lie, this was a highlight of my weekend. So much so that I’ll be doing a spotlight feature on this team and their event experience.
From left to right, Stu was back in full swing. It’s not about how badly you crash, but about how you get back up and out on the track again afterwards. There was no stopping Stu from having a good time this weekend.
The Final PushAnd just like that, the Sunday was coming to an end. It’s at this point where some of the drivers start to pack their rigs back up to prepare for the journey home, while others tried to use their last set of tyres. We’ll focus on the latter for now.
Door-on-door action was endless throughout the weekend. Not only from the Stylecase gents, but from everyone at the event.
Wall clip casualties were everywhere, wearing their proximity markings with pride.
Kings Of The CastleYou couldn’t have a proper event without a set of awards to give out at the end. Fortunately, some of my pals were recognised for their efforts.
There’s the boss himself, Martin, proudly announcing that my trucking partner Tom Wright won the award for ‘Best Crash’ at the event which saw his PS13 fly through the gravel and up into the blue netting after a failed reverse entry. Of course, he was back out straight after. Stew Nobel also picked up an award for ‘Best Prepared’, acknowledging his organisation for the weekend. I mean, have you seen his car? The guy’s got everything under control.
And that marks the end of the incredible weekend up in Scotland. My first, well overdue Driftland experience which also acted as an unforgettable reminder for just how rich UK’s street car drift culture really is.
Here in the UK we’ve always looked up to the big events overseas, wishing we had something like it for ourselves. Well, I think there’s no need to dream anymore. We do have it, up at beautiful Driftland with clued-up hosts such as Martin, who see the UK’s potential and the interest in a drift event that throws weird egos aside, instead encouraging creativity and community with Dorifest.
I’ll see you all at the next one.
Michał Fidowicz
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Ink Staffing Ranks No. 51 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 Annual List
Ranks No. 1 in Indianapolis in Human Resources, No. 2 Nationally
With Three-Year Revenue Growth of 6,796 Percent, Ink Staffing Receives Ranking No. 51 Among America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. revealed that Ink Staffing is No. 51 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list represents a one-of-a-kind look at the most successful companies within the economy's most dynamic segment—its independent businesses. Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
"Through perseverance and dedication, our team has worked tirelessly to distinguish ourselves within the staffing industry. We are honored for this recognition." – Arun Jeldi, CEO
The Ink Method – introduced in 2020 by an entrepreneurial healthcare provider, Dr. Arun Jeldi, DPT, who knows firsthand the importance of recruiting highly qualified and motivated individuals to meet the challenges of workforce development in a transitioning healthcare world.
The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful, but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of Covid-19. Among the top 500, the average median three-year revenue growth rate soared to 2,144 percent. Together, those companies added more than 68,394 jobs over the past three years.
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc. magazine, which will be available on August 23.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
"What sets Ink Staffing apart is not only the individual attention given to each client and candidate, but the continued support and encouragement to reach our highest potential through educational opportunities and experiences that enhance our dedication to our clients and future members of the Ink team." – Ink Staffing
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After the May 2022 acquisition of Splash News, one of the world's leading entertainment news networks, Shutterstock announces the rebrand of The Newsroom to Splash at Visa Pour L'Image
PERPIGNAN, France, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), a leading global creative platform for transformative brands and media companies, today announced at the Visa Pour L'Image Festival in Perpignan, France that it has rebranded The Newsroom to Splash. Since its inception in May 2021, The Newsroom has been established as the preeminent destination for unparalleled access to premium exclusive Editorial content. The Newsroom's unrivaled offering was further bolstered by the acquisition of Splash in May 2022, an industry-leading source for image and video content across celebrity, red carpet and live events for over three decades.
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Bitcoin managed to claw its way to a meaningful round level early in the week, trading at $20,400 on Tuesday morning (+2.8% in 24 hours). Ethereum showed an even more decisive rebound, adding 8.5% at once to $1580. Top altcoins are up 3.5% (Dogecoin) to 7.1% (Solana).
Total cryptocurrency market capitalisation, according to CoinMarketCap, rose 4.2% overnight to $992bn. The cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index rose 3 points to 27 by Tuesday and moved into "fear" from "extreme fear".
Bitcoin was getting support on Monday on declines under 19500. It attracted buyers roughly at the same levels in July. One can cautiously state that the bears' impulsive attack has been stopped, preventing the first cryptocurrency from updating lows. Such buybacks slowly create a sense that the bottom is near. This dynamic has encouraged a broad layer of buyers, who quickly returned to buying one of the robust fundamentals of recent months, Ethereum.
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According to CoinShares, net capital outflows from cryptocurrencies last week were $27m, with investors taking money out for the third week. Meanwhile, outflows from bitcoin funds accounted for $29 million, with investments in funds that allow shorts on bitcoin up by $1 million.
BTC is unique because it is technically one of the worst cryptocurrencies and solely a speculative asset without utility, said Cyber Capital founder and chief investment officer Justin Bones. He was previously a supporter of the first cryptocurrency but changed his view due to the community's refusal to increase the block size limit.
Cardano beat out bitcoin in MBLM's Consumer Emotional Affection ranking, ranking 26th out of 600 global brands. Bitcoin ended up in the 30th position.
Former US broker Jordan Belfort, known as "The Wolf of Wall Street", sees bitcoin and Ethereum as primarily solid digital assets because of their strong fundamentals but compares the cryptocurrency market to junk bonds from the 1980s.
Meanwhile, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) has launched euro-denominated futures on bitcoin and Ethereum.
This article was written by FxPro’s Senior Market Analyst Alex Kuptsikevich. | https://www.forexlive.com/Education/bitcoin-clings-to-20k-20220830/ | 2022-08-30T08:42:36Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/Education/bitcoin-clings-to-20k-20220830/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
According to Cook Properties CEO, Jeff Cook, all improvements and repairs asked for by the tenant’s association at Ridgeview Manufactured Homes Park in Newfane have been taken care of. Many of the residents in the park have been withholding their rent from the state’s largest trailer park owner since May, waiting for Cook to make good on his promises to keep up the park.
Listing the demands to be paving, dead trees and stormwater management, Cook said the next step was to get documents sent out by the Town of Newfane to residents on dates to appear in eviction court.
The Newfane trailer park’s tenant’s association says it was making an impact in its rent strike against Cook, but besides Cook’s claims, the group also faces new challenges on being heard as a group.
Association trustees decided to go out and document repairs still needed from the company on Monday.
“Our trustees will be canvassing the park, documenting issues throughout,” Sharon Ruth, president of the Ridgeview tenant association, wrote in an email to the US&J.
“Electrical, sewer vent risers, we will be documenting and giving (them) to Jill Stuart with Niagara County Health, as well as Shawn Foti our legislator. We will also copy a set for Mike Klock, our code enforcement officer.”
However, the outing was cancelled after Stuart emailed Ruth, that she could not accept information from her or the association and had to speak to each individual resident about any problems they had.
As reported in the US&J, Niagara County Department of Health workers had gone through the park earlier this month, citing some areas of need – including dilapidated electrical boxes. Stuart later asked if Ruth could compile a list of problems around the park.
That list would’ve included another issue with sewage backing up on Aug. 19, which was followed by the lot’s resident, Janet O’Neill, deciding to go out of town to visit relatives.
Taking action to bring more awareness of the problem, and possibly prevent future up-flows, association trustees went out to take photos of broken “risers” in the park, which act as vents to stop sewage overflow. These were the same vents that had spouted with sewage themselves in May.
“We had about 20 to 25 risers that were broken,” Ruth said. “But then (Stuart) said she couldn’t take any information from us, so I told them to come in. I’m not going to have my members walking around outside in 90 degree weather.”
O’Neill said she left her home voluntarily after the upflow of feces and toilet paper bubbled out of the drain in her tub, but this is the second time the issue has been reported. O’Neill is 57 and not yet a senior citizen, but said that because of health problems, namely a replaced hip, she cannot bend over to clean up the mess herself easily.
“I’m ready to sell to get out,” she said Friday, still out of town. “Because with the amount we pay and what I have to worry about – sewage coming up – it’s a problem.”
Paul Dickey of the Niagara County Department of Health said on Monday that the problem was fixed on the date of diagnosis, Aug. 19. It was caused by roots in the sewer line and that Cook was responsible for the cleanup.
Dickey also said he could not comment on similar situations in the park, but that they should be investigated by a plumber. He noted that it was not the park’s responsibility in all situations.
“If the backup is in a pipe in the house, it’s the homeowner’s responsibility to fix it,” Dickey said. “If it’s under the house, it’s the park’s.”
As to the tenant’s associations documenting problems, Dickey said his agency generally did not accept complaints from a third party on the behalf of another individual’s problem, including sewage. He did not say why Stuart had asked Ruth for a list, as documented in an email by Ruth.
Paula Tice was one of the association’s trustees who went out to document the park’s bad points for the association and her neighbors. She described how difficult it was for her to even read from a written statement to Newfane’s Town Board. She said she felt like she was going to either throw up or cry right there in front of them.
“Really, we rely on the association to handle that, because we can’t do it,” Tice said, noting she had a hard time talking to officials and her neighbors were of the same mind.
Jeff Cook said he was happy to comment on his company’s actions in Ridgeview and why residents should resume paying their rent.
“This is all started after we fired her husband,” Cook said, referring to Ruth’s husband, Steve Ruth. He also said that sewage would be repaired on a case-by-case basis.
Ruth said her husband had quit Cook’s employ after an argument with Brian Cook in 2021 but that it was understood between her and Jeff that the two events were not connected, and occurred long before the association was formed. She was not afraid to meet Cook’s challenges in court.
“Once we get the facts in front of a judge I’ll say, ‘I’m living in an uninhabitable environment,’ and the truth will come out,” Ruth said.
In other news related to Cook Properties, Syrica Newton has left the regional property manager’s spot overseeing Ridgeview.
Amy Olds, the director of marketing for Cook Properties, said that Newton’s move was because an opportunity arose for a sales position in the company, and that Newton was interested and she chose to follow it. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/cook-claims-hes-done-his-part/article_b886d386-27fa-11ed-a02e-477e9a7570cf.html | 2022-08-30T08:42:39Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/cook-claims-hes-done-his-part/article_b886d386-27fa-11ed-a02e-477e9a7570cf.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The better risk appetite is also translating to a softer dollar on the day as noted here. A snapshot of the equities space at the moment:
- Eurostoxx +1.3%
- DAX +1.3%
- CAC 40 +1.1%
- UK FTSE +0.7%
- S&P 500 futures +0.8%
- Nasdaq futures +0.9%
- Dow futures +0.6%
After two days of declines post-Jackson Hole, we are seeing a bit of respite. That said, the technicals suggest that there might not be much in it unless the S&P 500 can climb back above its 100-day moving average (red line): | https://www.forexlive.com/news/equities-recover-some-allure-after-post-jackson-hole-drop-20220830/ | 2022-08-30T08:42:55Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/equities-recover-some-allure-after-post-jackson-hole-drop-20220830/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MILLSBORO, Del.-- Delaware State Police are investigating a hit and run that left a bicyclist seriously injured late Monday night in Millsboro.
According to the Indian River Volunteer Fire Company, a bicyclist was traveling westbound on John J. Williams Highway just west of Legion road around 9 p.m., when they were struck by an unknown car and seriously injured.
The vehicle then fled the scene. Passing cars helped the injured bicyclist before first responders and EMS were on the scene.
The condition of the bicyclist is unknown at this time.
The Delaware State Fire Police were ordered to close John J. Williams Highway while crews were on the scene.
Delaware State Police are investigating. | https://www.wboc.com/news/bicyclist-injured-in-millsboro-hit-and-run/article_0601f710-2839-11ed-a0d2-233d7f5c6a25.html | 2022-08-30T08:44:14Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/bicyclist-injured-in-millsboro-hit-and-run/article_0601f710-2839-11ed-a0d2-233d7f5c6a25.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
OCEAN CITY, Md. – Neighbors and visitors who spoke to WBOC on Monday expressed their hope for more to be done to prevent future pedestrian accidents in Ocean City.
This comes after a pedestrian was killed after being hit by a car while crossing Coastal Hwy in Ocean City near 59 St., late Friday. The incident was just one of many pedestrian accidents that have occurred in Ocean City during this summer alone.
Some people say it's an issue of careless jaywalking, while others blame reckless driving. However, they all agree that Ocean City and its law enforcement can do more to control both issues.
“People should mainly not be jaywalking,” says Hillary Wand, who owns a home in Ocean City. “They used to have signs all over the marquees, saying specifically not to jaywalk, but people don’t listen.”
Selah Alington, who was visiting Ocean City from New York on Monday, observed more aggressive driving.
“We saw a car driving in the bike lane,” Alington says. “Stuff like that is just like, wow, to me. You would think there'd be more cops out here. I think they need to come together and have a staff meeting or something and get that together ASAP."
Both Wand and Alington had their own ideas for ways to prevent accidents, including having a greater police presence on the Hwy and adding additional median fencing to blocks and intersections.
We reached out to the Ocean City Police Department, and they referred us to their “Walk Smart Campaign”, which “focuses on helping residents and visitors reach the beach safely and stay safe while in Ocean City”. The campaign began in 2013 after an influx of pedestrian accidents in 2012.
In addition to providing details about the campaign, the OCPD said that outside of regular patrol duty times, full-time police officers can sign up for overtime details that are grant funded by the Maryland Highway Safety Office.
Their overall goal is educating residents and visitors, and say it’s important for them to follow the safest practices when in Ocean City. | https://www.wboc.com/news/ocean-city-pedestrian-and-driver-safety-at-question-after-numerous-accidents/article_74c0f32c-282a-11ed-bfe9-6393657b2a98.html | 2022-08-30T08:44:20Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/ocean-city-pedestrian-and-driver-safety-at-question-after-numerous-accidents/article_74c0f32c-282a-11ed-bfe9-6393657b2a98.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Forecast Updated on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, at 3:30am by WBOC Meteorologist Mike Lichniak
Today: 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.
Tonight: 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: 83-88. Winds: NW 5-15 mph.
Wednesday Night: Clear. Lows: 60-70. Winds: NW 5-10 mph.
Thursday: Sunny. Highs: 84-88. Winds: NW-N 5-10 mph.
Friday: Sunny. Highs: 84-89. Winds: NE 5-15 mph.
The start of the workweek will remain on the toasty side as the Bermuda high remains in control of the weather forecast, but only until the end of the day today. It will still be hot this afternoon with temperatures into the 80s and 90s with heat index values near 100 degrees again. A stronger cold front arrives later this evening with a chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms. 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 by the weekend. 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 chance of some showers and storms will enter the forecast late on Labor Day with a frontal boundary that will dive in from the north. This front will stall out overhead as we head into Tuesday and Wednesday of next week and will protect us from a tropical system that will form in the Atlantic. The easterly flow will keep moisture in the area and a chance of rain showers and a few storms will linger into Tuesday and Wednesday before finally falling apart by Thursday. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-summary/a-few-storms-arrive-tonight-bringing-relief-from-the-humidity/article_f3289bb0-2835-11ed-85d9-77232a001eb8.html | 2022-08-30T08:44:27Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-summary/a-few-storms-arrive-tonight-bringing-relief-from-the-humidity/article_f3289bb0-2835-11ed-85d9-77232a001eb8.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Atlantic Ocean:
Tuesday: SW 5-20 knots. Seas: 2-3 feet.
Wednesday: W 10-15 knots. Seas: 2-3 feet.
Chesapeake Bay:
Tuesday: Small Craft Advisory after 5pm. S 5-20 knots. Waves: 1-2 feet.
Wednesday: NW 5-15 knots. Waves: 1 foot.
Delaware Bay:
Tuesday: S 5-20 knots. Seas: 1-2 feet.
Wednesday: W 10-15 knots. Seas: 1-2 feet. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/on-the-waters/marine-forecast-for-tuesday-august-30-2022/article_19b87278-2836-11ed-bd36-a3296743624b.html | 2022-08-30T08:44:33Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/on-the-waters/marine-forecast-for-tuesday-august-30-2022/article_19b87278-2836-11ed-bd36-a3296743624b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
With school back in session, it’s time again for that annoyingly uncomfortable but occasionally useful question: What’s the point?
Hundreds upon hundreds are the enduringly salient quotes on the nature and purpose of education, my favorite being the one from Will Durant, who in the middle of the last century somehow found time to sit down with his wife and write “The Story of Civilization,” all 11 volumes.
“Education,” Durant said, “is the progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
Our teachers, doggedly at the helm of this voyage of progressive discovery, will again start the school year under attack. Legislatures in 35 states have introduced more than 130 bills that would prevent students from learning about race and gender issues, politics and American history. Florida passed something called the Stop WOKE Act (Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees), which puts state-mandated controls on how schools can present instruction on racial history and gender discrimination.
Again, wake me when you think you know what woke means.
“In Pennsylvania we have certain protections for teacher autonomy,” said Amy Palo, a history teacher and the local union president at Cornell School District in Coraopolis. “That helps with a little bit of those external pressures, I would say, but to say that we don’t feel any of that pressure would be incorrect. There’s certainly pressure to think about how what you are teaching about would be perceived. Some states have made that harder than others, states like Florida, states like Ohio, states like Tennessee and Texas.”
This would be a good spot to point out that Amy Palo is not just the union rep at a small Western Pennsylvania high school; she’s the Pennsylvania History Teacher of the Year and she’s coming off a typically frantic summer of expanding her resume and refining her craft. She just returned from Harrisburg where she joined Teach Plus PA, a group that trains teachers on policy and advocacy. She took a two-week course on genocide at Seton Hill University. She did a three-day virtual seminar through the U.S. Holocaust Museum, all in the months after completing her masters in political science. She hopes to get a second masters in history.
Any spare minute before the resumption of classes was likely spent on her twin 3-year-old boys. Twin. 3-year-old. Boys.
That all left her mostly unavailable for the public squawking about what should be taught, what should be censored, what books are acceptable, what curricula are making people uncomfortable, and what makes German schoolchildren perfectly capable of absorbing the Holocaust but American children emotionally allergic to slavery. Still, some of the absurdity leaked through.
“When this kind of public discourse is happening and you know that you’ve put so much time and effort into developing yourself as an expert in the field, it can certainly be frustrating,” she said. “Depending on the political makeup of some of these school districts, I mean my reality is that the pressure is there but maybe not so much comparatively, but there are teachers across Pennsylvania who are feeling these kinds of pressures from their parents or boards.”
Yeah, well, that’s our system. We encourage teachers to become leaders in their disciplines, masters of their material, then allow political hacks, school boards and well-meaning but often uninformed parents to trump their knowledge and methods. If that’s not enough, we pay them about 25% less than other college graduates and fund their schools with taxes so illogically distributed that some schools spend more on lawn care for the football field than others can scrape up for, you know, learning materials.
Even if all of those meta-problems were instantly magic-wanded into something resembling coherence, they’ve still got to go in there and teach, and there are few harder things on God’s Earth.
“My concern on a day-to-day basis is, ‘Am I providing my students with what they need — are their needs being met — physical needs, are they comfortable? Can I engage them?’” Amy said. “I don’t know how many people deal with a number of teenagers on a daily basis, but I’m competing with TikTok and phones and very super-interesting things that they have in their pocket.
“So my day-to-day struggle is how do I engage them and grow them as critical thinkers who can think for themselves? How do I make sure I’m giving them the content that the state standards say I need to provide them. Are they having a good day? Are they OK? Can I keep them awake?”
I’m going to guess here that Amy Palo can keep them awake. She’s probably not the Pennsylvania History Teacher of the Year for nothin’. Like the great majority of teachers, she’s passionate about what she does in ways that remain unappreciated and often even uncomprehended.
“I’m not the only one, not the only one in this building or across the Commonwealth and across the country,” she said. “I’m really trying to be the best I can be in this classroom for my students, and it does get frustrating when somebody thinks you have some kind of ulterior motive.
“My sons’ names are Theodore and Lincoln. I’m a history person. I love what I do, and I am not pretending at it.” | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/column-an-apple-for-the-teachers/article_3c1ae050-2645-11ed-b48b-efd70dc99a1f.html | 2022-08-30T08:52:56Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/column-an-apple-for-the-teachers/article_3c1ae050-2645-11ed-b48b-efd70dc99a1f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Anthony Fauci is calling it a career. And the 81-year-old infectious disease expert — one of the most visible health officials in the federal government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak — deserves America’s heartfelt thanks. Without Fauci’s steady leadership, the COVID-19 pandemic would have created more havoc on our country than we could possibly imagine.
After 38 years leading the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci will retire by year’s end, he announced last week. Fauci’s retirement is well earned. For nearly four decades, he worked to keep Americans safe from contagious diseases such as Ebola, Zika and other life-threatening conditions. He took the job in 1984 in part, he recalled later, because he was frustrated by the federal government’s inadequate response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and over time earned deep respect from activists within the gay community who had initially doubted his sincerity.
Despite that already stormy history, most of us knew little about Fauci’s work before 2020. His tenure as the face of the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic — the most serious public health emergency in a century — was marked by controversy, a few missteps, and frequent battles with former President Donald Trump. But he deserves profound praise for the way he presided over America’s response to the pandemic, whose grip around the nation’s neck appears to at last be loosening.
Fauci sparred with Trump, who routinely downplayed the seriousness of the pandemic, calling criticism of his response a hoax perpetrated by Democrats and other opponents.
But the pandemic was no laughing matter. More than 1 million Americans died and countless others were hospitalized. Despite enormous, bipartisan economic aid packages, many others will never fully recover from painful but necessary lockdowns that isolated individuals, separated families and pushed businesses to the brink of ruin.
Fauci did not set out to be a lightning rod. He was turned into one by Trump, who desperately wanted the pandemic to be over before the November 2020 election. As Trump turned more and more against reality, Fauci became the voice of science and reason. We’re thankful that he did.
In the early stages of the pandemic, we were told to stay home. Local shutdown orders were expected to last about two weeks. Soon, it became apparent more time was needed to limit the damage inflicted by the highly contagious airborne virus. Months went by before society reopened. During the unprecedented lockdown, nursing home residents were cut off from loved ones. The economy tanked. Small businesses closed. Schoolchildren were left behind. And, over the course of the last two years, the number of folks with mental health issues increased.
Republicans, especially after Democrat Joe Biden defeated Trump in 2020, blamed Fauci for most of those ills. That wasn’t fair, or honest.
Meanwhile, new words and ideas crept into our lives, and we have Fauci to thank for that. Wearing masks in public and social distancing became the norm. Virtual learning and remote meetings were essential to school children and their parents. These safety measures and other precautions, pushed by Fauci and experts at the the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, undoubtedly saved lives.
In March 2020, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, became the first governor in the country to close all schools for the remainder of the year. Meanwhile, in neighboring Missouri, Gov. Mike Parson, mimicking his counterparts in red states like Texas and Florida, was slow to act. Under Parson, a Republican from Bolivar, Missouri was one of the last states to declare an emergency to address the coronavirus threat. In December 2021, at the height of the super-infectious omicron surge, Parson prematurely ended the emergency declaration.
Parson, like most Republican leaders who refused to order commonsense restrictions, took his cue from Trump, who made a mockery of the virus and put Asian Americans in danger of physical attacks by calling it the “Chinese virus.”
All along, Fauci did his level best to counter these foolish refusals to heed the facts. He stepped in to become the face of a responsible public servant and a welcome antidote to the poor examples set by Trump and many Republican governors. He also famously clashed with GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky over booster shots and, in a dustup over Fauci’s yearly salary, referred to Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall, also a Republican, as “a moron.”
Fauci, like the CDC itself, is not without faults. He probably regretted his intemperate words. And the messaging about masks was sloppy and inconsistent at the start — giving ammunition to those looking for any reason to push back against pandemic protections and protocols.
But Fauci’s mistakes were small compared to his successes. With the disease in retreat — but far from gone — he’s announcing he’s stepping down. He’ll head into retirement with our gratitude. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/other-views-dr-fauci-waged-war-on-foolish-refusals-of-facts-he-s-earned-america/article_1bb6621a-2647-11ed-8102-f31cca92db38.html | 2022-08-30T08:53:08Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/other-views-dr-fauci-waged-war-on-foolish-refusals-of-facts-he-s-earned-america/article_1bb6621a-2647-11ed-8102-f31cca92db38.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Financial guru Martin Lewis has urged people not to cancel any direct debit payments they have for energy bills before the October price cap comes into force. From October 1, the new cap of £3,549 for the average household will be introduced, which is up by around 80% from the previous figure of £1,971.
While making its announcement on Friday (August 26), Ofgem's chief executive Jonathan Brearley said the energy regulator was aware of the "massive impact" the increase would have as people continue to deal with the cost of living crisis. He added that record energy prices have been reached by of an "aggressive economic act by the Russian state", who he said have been deliberately turning off gas supplies to Europe during its conflict with Ukraine.
Money Saving Expert founder Martin has been offering lots of advice ever since Ofgem's announcement and uploaded a 13-minute long video to his YouTube channel discussing some solutions. The Liverpool Echo reports that he was asked about switching from paying by direct debit to paying for bills when they come in.
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Martin told viewers that how people pay their bills results in them having a different price cap. These are as follows:
- Dual fuel (gas and electricity) direct debit: £3,549 (up 80%)
- Prepayment meter customers: £3,608 (up 79%)
- Paying by receipt of bills: £3,764 (up 79%)
When asked if there was any mileage in cancelling direct debits and paying by receipt of bills, Martin said: "You pay more per unit rate of gas and electricity if you pay in receipt of bills, however, the direct debit is based on the energy firm’s estimate of what you’ll use. If it’s estimating too high, or you don’t like it, you will get a short-term cash flow gain from switching to paying in receipt of bills - where they send you a bill and you pay for it each time.
"So, you might pay less money in the short-run from it, however, over the longer-run because you’re paying more for each unit of energy you use, you will pay more in receipt of bills. If you overpay on direct debit you are entitled to that money back in the long-run."
He was also asked about getting onto a fixed tariff rate following the price cap news. Martin said that these are not available on the market at the moment but customers can contact their supplier to see what is available.
Martin added a fixed rate might reduce costs ahead of next year's forecast of even higher price caps. However, he added this cannot be guaranteed and advised people read a guide on tariff fixes on MoneySavingExpert.com.
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A cheap snack at Aldi has become such a hit with customers that many are bulk buying it, leaving the budget supermarket's shelves empty. Shoppers have been praising the retailer's protein puddings, which cost just £1.09.
The treat is sold under the Brooklea brand and has three different flavours - chocolate, caramel and vanilla. Each pot is 200g and contains 20g of protein.
Since they hit Aldi's shelves, shoppers have been saying how much they love the puddings, the Liverpool Echo reports. It has led to people stacking up their trolleys with the treats before they sell out, which has caused other shoppers to express their disappointment at not being able to buy any.
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Callum Taylor said: "@AldiUK and @LidlGB chocolate protein puddings are like gold dust at the moment." Lauren Owens tweeted: "I just wanna get my hands on an Aldi protein pudding like! I've tried for weeks."
Alex said: "The protein pudding from Aldi is so freaking good man, get it!!" Emma Louise added: "Aldi protein pudding cups. Run, do not walk."
Tos Mama said: "Aldi protein pudding taste like custards, I love it so much." Helen tweeted: "Aldi protein pudding is the bomb."
Aldi has also spoken on social media about the love being received by the puddings. Retweeting a shopper called Spencer who posted a picture of a trolley full of the puddings with a caption saying he was stocking up and he was not sorry about it, Aldi said: "Spencer you're going on the naughty step for this."
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Vanessa Bryant was accidentally awarded an extra $1 million by a federal jury on Wednesday in her trial against Los Angeles County.
The panel of nine jurors agreed that deputies and firefighters invaded the privacy of Kobe Bryant’s widow and brought her emotional distress by taking photos of the remains of the NBA star and their daughter Gianna.
After awarding Bryant $16 million, a juror discovered an error on the verdict form and informed the court about it, USA Today reports.
It’s now set to be reduced to $15 million following the clerical error, Judge John Walter told the outlet.
The jurors also awarded $15 million to plaintiff Chris Chester, who lost his wife, Sarah, and daughter Payton in the Calabasas, California, accident.
Jurors intended to evenly distribute the damages.
“It was the nine jurors’ intent that both plaintiffs Vanessa Bryant and Christopher Chester to be awarded equally,” Walter told the outlet.
It’s reported that Bryant, 40, agreed to the change, with her attorney Luis Li calling the correction “just.”
“Throughout this case, Mrs. Bryant has sought only accountability,” Li told the outlet. “She has never asked for a specific dollar amount and has trusted the jury to do justice.”
Bryant reportedly plans to donate the hefty sum of cash to the Mamba and Mambacita Sports Foundation nonprofit founded by her late husband.
The charity, launched by Kobe Bryant after his retirement in 2016 as the Mamba Sports Foundation — a nod to his nickname, the Black Mamba — provides funding and sports programming for young athletes in underserved communities, according to its website.
The foundation was renamed in 2020 after the tragic crash.
During the trial, Bryant and Chester’s attorneys chronicled how photos of the victims’ remains from the crash scene were shared between employees from the LA County sheriff’s and fire departments and seen by some of their spouses.
The photos have not been made public, but Bryant testified that the prospect of the images being leaked made her “fear every day of being on social media and these popping up.” | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/vanessa-bryant-accidentally-awarded-extra-1m-in-kobe-crash-pics-suit/ | 2022-08-30T09:09:44Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/vanessa-bryant-accidentally-awarded-extra-1m-in-kobe-crash-pics-suit/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Nebraska power plant worker floated 38 miles down the Missouri River in an 846-pound pumpkin in an effort to sail past the Guinness World Record of 25 miles.
Duane Hansen, 60, said Tuesday that he planned to submit video and witness statements this week to the record-keeping organization documenting his 12-hour cruise Saturday from Bellevue, just south of Omaha, to Nebraska City.
The current record of 25.5 miles was set in 2018 by a man who paddled from North Dakota to Minnesota, according to the organization.
“I’ve been dreaming about this,” Hansen said. “This has been a five-year journey to get a pumpkin that’s big enough.”
Officials from the city of Bellevue helped document the journey on its Facebook page, noting when Hansen launched from the public docks (7:30 a.m.), when he appeared to surpass the old record (2:52 p.m.) and when he arrived at Nebraska City (6:30 p.m.)
“Seems like a unique if not slightly crazy way to celebrate his 60th birthday, which was yesterday,” the post said.
Hansen, who pushes coal for the Omaha Public Power District, said his knees were still sore, and he was thankful that he didn’t capsize on one of the river’s many hazards, like the rocks he hit or the waves that pushed over the sides of his vessel.
His wife named the boat Berta after the "Two and a Half Men" character.
Hansen said he got the idea to capture the world record after he attended a pumpkin growing seminar in Oregon and met a previous record holder.
It took him five years to grow the kind of pumpkin — an Atlantic Giant — that was large enough to get him over the finish line.
"I've grown a lot of failures," Hansen said, noting that he has raised plenty of gourds in the 200- to 400-pound range. "I needed an 800 plus."
"This year I had some failures with other plants," he added. "But this one here pulled through." | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/a-nebraska-man-paddled-38-miles-down-the-missouri-river-in-an-846-pound-pumpkin/article_240ba68a-2829-11ed-b33c-8be7a3a259d8.html | 2022-08-30T09:16:05Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/a-nebraska-man-paddled-38-miles-down-the-missouri-river-in-an-846-pound-pumpkin/article_240ba68a-2829-11ed-b33c-8be7a3a259d8.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
While her peers study civics or economics in class, Saniyya Boykin, a 17-year old senior at Camden High School in Camden, South Carolina, preps food for the next day’s school lunch, or cleans kitchen floors for $12.50 an hour.
“I’m looking to own my own restaurant,” said Boykin, who plans to attend a historically black college after graduation and then culinary school. “I feel like this will open opportunities, like [to learn] the inside of the business.”
Between noon and 3:30 p.m., Boykin works alongside several other students who are ahead in school credits and work part-time to help run the high school kitchen. Some Camden High students are unpaid interns working to meet the state’s career readiness requirement for graduation, and others are students with disabilities who work as part of their curriculum.
Boykin is among a growing handful of teenage students employed by their own high schools as districts across the country struggle to fill landscaping, clerical and cafeteria jobs traditionally held by adults in their communities.
While many schools have begun taking unusual measures to address an acute teacher shortage intensified by the pandemic, the hiring crunch is hitting education systems’ staffing needs in other areas, too. About a third of schools reported a vacancy in custodial staff for the incoming school year, according to June figures from the Institute of Educational Sciences, a research arm of the U.S. Department of Education. About 19% of schools reported vacancies in kitchen staff, and 29% said they hadn’t filled all their transportation positions.
For some districts, students have become a labor lifeline — one that proponents, including some of the students themselves, say can open valuable opportunities that a job flipping burgers after class might not provide. And administrators piloting these programs say they’ve heard from other short-staffed districts looking to replicate them. At the same time, some education advocates fear the approach threatens to undermine schools’ mission and might not serve students’ career development needs.
At Kershaw County School District in South Carolina, which includes the school where Boykin works and studies, about a third of the kitchen staff didn’t return to work for the 2021 school year, said Misha Lawyer, a district food-service coordinator. Many left their jobs because they needed to be home with their kids for virtual learning or feared contracting the virus, she said.
“It is really working with one hand tied behind your back,” Lawyer said of administrators’ hiring difficulties. “We thought, ‘Where can we look for employees that we haven’t thought about?’”
So the district opened its nonteaching positions to students, who could apply like any adult applicant. Administrators hired four students to work in the kitchens at a starting wage of $12.24, the same rate offered to adults with no previous experience, said Lawyer. The teenage workers help chop vegetables and prepare fruit and assemble meals for lunch. Students like Boykin are eligible to either start the school day late or leave school early because they have already met their requirements to graduate. Some choose to take classes at the local community college, while others take on jobs.
“One of the questions that I get asked a lot is, ‘Are these kids taking the jobs away from adults that need the job?’ Absolutely not,” said Lawyer. “Even if I was fully staffed, with no openings, I would always find room for these kids because they’re getting more out of this than just a paycheck.”
Lexington-Richland School District 5 — in a suburb of state capital Columbia, about an hour’s drive southwest from Camden — also runs a student worker program, which board chair Jan Hammond champions as a potential starting point for careers that don’t require college degrees. Faced with high tuition and the prospect of substantial student-loan debt, many high school grads are gravitating toward trade schools or other college alternatives.
“There’s dignity in work, and there’s a need for work,” said Hammond. “[Students] could go to a four-year college and become deep in debt and not really find a job making a lot of money. But by coming up with a skill, they can have a job immediately.”
Neveah Grooms, an 18-year old senior at Irmo High School in Columbia, has worked as a clerical assistant at her school’s front office since last year, earning $11 an hour. She wasn’t drawn to extracurricular clubs on campus and saw the job as a way to save toward veterinary school.
“I’ve met a lot of people around the district, from community leaders to the mayor,” she said. “Say I need a letter for a college — meeting these different people, shaking these hands could, you know, be that letter.”
Grooms works about three hours a day, sometimes during the school day, to meet the state’s career readiness requirements for graduation. She has worked in fast food and retail but said she prefers answering phones and helping guests or parents who come in.
“This [job] impacts me as more of a student and in a professional way,” she said. “I feel as if I’m more respected by a lot of people in the school because of the fact that I stepped up and took the opportunity to do this.”
But while students like Grooms may be able to build valuable ties with community leaders through their positions, other students hired by their districts are simply mowing lawns or sweeping up classrooms for pay after school, such as at Northwest School District in Missouri.
Mark Catalana, chief human resources officer with Northwest School District, said administrators make sure to work around students’ schedules. He said he had employed 27 students at Northwest High School, in Cedar Hill, during the past school year and that at least 11 planned to return this year. They are paid anywhere from $12 to $14.25 an hour.
“It’s a win-win situation,” he said. “They get to earn some money, and then we get to fill a void.”
Schools have traditionally hired students over the summer as tutors, or to provide supplemental child care in summer enrichment programs, said Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education, an advocacy nonprofit group. However, she said, “the purpose of a public school is just to serve students, not the other way around.”
Burris said she worried that students’ paid positions could put a drag on their learning. “When you start to intrude on that sacred instructional time … and instead you’re giving them a low-paying job, that’s not going to lead to a career for the student.”
Some experts say high school students need more than just flexible hours and a modest paycheck to launch successfully into the workforce. “Young people need access to social capital and mentorship, opportunities to advance in their career, opportunities to make choices and have a voice in what they’re doing at work,” said Thomas Showalter, executive director of the National Youth Employment Coalition, an advocacy group.
He said districts should consider ramping up their student employment efforts by connecting kids with a local training provider, for example, which might offer certifications in hospitality or food. More formalized, coaching-based programs could better translate into the skills and experiences that pave the way for a successful career, he said.
In the meantime, both Lexington-Richland School District 5 and Kershaw County School District consider their programs a success and plan to continue them even if the labor market loosens up and hiring adults becomes easier. More districts could soon follow their lead.
“We’ve received a lot of inquiries from other school districts in the area,” said Catalana. “We share everything that we do, and we’re trying to help other school districts fill their vacancies as well.” | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/short-staffed-school-districts-are-hiring-students-to-serve-lunch-and-answer-phones/article_ab17bfbe-282a-11ed-95fd-3f4bc3f8cb87.html | 2022-08-30T09:16:10Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/short-staffed-school-districts-are-hiring-students-to-serve-lunch-and-answer-phones/article_ab17bfbe-282a-11ed-95fd-3f4bc3f8cb87.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Wapato paraeducators, custodians, bus drivers and kitchen staff are all asking the school district for better pay.
These staff members are called "classified staff" and they work within the school district, but don't receive the same funding as the school district.
Public School Educators of Washington Union Field Rep. Christopher Mobley tells me most of the districts funding comes for the state but it goes to the teachers, and their staff receives funding from levy dollars.
PSE Vice President and Special Education Life Skills Para at Simcoe Elementary Karen Lommers says she is fighting to help the other staff members make a livable wage.
"This is for them, not for me," says Lommers. "We want to make a living and right now we don't."
Lommers says many of the classified staff are single parents or single grandparents that have to take care of their kids and put them in school. The recent rise in costs from inflation have made their current wage harder to live with.
"A gallon of milk costs four dollars," says Lommers. "Some of these staff members had to make choices on what their families have to go without because they aren't bringing in enough money."
Many of the members I spoke to at the picket shared the same sentiments Lommers had and said they're too loyal to the district to look for higher paying jobs.
One of the para educators at the picket says WSD gave him his first job out of college over two decades ago and said if he didn't care about the kids and the community he would have left for more money.
"We aren't asking for a lot," says the para educator who wanted to remain anonymous. "We just want to be able to live on the money we're making."
The PSE Union has been negotiating with WSD since March 10 for the new wages and will have their next meeting on Wednesday, August 31.
I have reached out to the WSD and am still waiting to hear back from them. When they respond we will update with the most recent information. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/wapato-classified-staff-fighting-for-better-wages/article_d309c712-281e-11ed-a923-1b92a0973ae3.html | 2022-08-30T09:16:11Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/wapato-classified-staff-fighting-for-better-wages/article_d309c712-281e-11ed-a923-1b92a0973ae3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Yakima Valley College baseball coach Kyle Krustangel has resigned his position to focus on what the school calls "an expanded role with the Yakima Valley Pippins."
Krustangel has been the Yaks coach since 2015 winning an NWAC championship in 2016.
In a statement, he thanked the school, administration, players and coaches who excelled on and off the field.
Krustangel, in his third year with the Pippins, took them to the playoffs where they fell to league champ Corvallis. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/sports/area_sports/krustangel-steps-down-at-yvc/article_97feb5a6-282d-11ed-8ec1-8fcfd8fbb923.html | 2022-08-30T09:16:11Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/sports/area_sports/krustangel-steps-down-at-yvc/article_97feb5a6-282d-11ed-8ec1-8fcfd8fbb923.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
From 1999 to 2004, the Pasco Bulldogs made four of five possible state title games winning three, but things have been more challenging in recent years.
They enter 2022 hoping to continue the process towards competing in the very tough MCC.
After a strong showing in the 7-on-7 league this spring, coach Leon Wright-Jackson says the team's best trait is their unity.
"All of them together. That's what we've been preaching since last spring. The boys have bought into it and they're really relying on one another and trusting each other."
Wright-Jackson, who was a member of the 2003 state title team, is in his 5th year as the head of the Bulldogs, though two of those years were severely impacted by COVID-19.
As for the team, they are saying a lot of the same things as their coaches when it comes to how they're approaching the season.
"We're looking really good, really confident," said Senior Center Kenneth Eagleson. "We have a really good bond with each other this year."
Junior Linebacker Damian Tavares said, "Teamwork. Everybody work as hard together as possible."
The players said they will take the season one game at a time, without any game getting any more importance than another.
Pasco is coming off a 2-8 season and will start 2022 hosting Kennewick who's coming off a state title appearance. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/sports/high_school_sports/pasco-bulldogs-building-to-winning/article_7e9a23b6-2814-11ed-93fb-fbded70e4e09.html | 2022-08-30T09:16:13Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/sports/high_school_sports/pasco-bulldogs-building-to-winning/article_7e9a23b6-2814-11ed-93fb-fbded70e4e09.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Look at All This Garbage on K2
When mountaineer Nirmal “Nims” Purja climbed K2 this year, he and his fellow climbers stumbled onto rancid food, tattered tents, and piles of human waste
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K2, the second-highest peak in the world, has remained relatively free of the commercial circus common on Mount Everest, but this year the number of climbers ballooned. Thus far in 2022, some 200 people reached the 28,251-foot summit, including a record-setting 145 people on a single day. Prior to this year, only about 300 people had summited the mountain, ever. This week we saw reports of another Everest-like occurrence on the mountain: heaps of trash.
A few days ago Nirmal Purja’s Nimsdai Foundation posted a video of the colorful carnage at camp two (21,980’). As dramatic strings play in the background, the camera pans across the steep snow slope to reveal dozens of flattened and shredded tents, ropes, pickets, and oxygen canisters. Nirmal Purja, who famously set the speed record for the world’s 14 highest peaks, led a team on the mountain this season and reported that he almost threw up from the smell. Among the refuse left behind is human waste, which doesn’t decompose at altitude and creates serious health risks, since climbers need to melt snow for drinking water.
“The rubbish on K2 at camp two was so bad this year,” Nims posted. “Rotting food and human waste, old tents, and ropes cascading down the mountainside.” American climber Sarah Strattan posted photos of the trash as well. “Camps one and two on K2 are disgusting. Waste from past and present expeditions has piled up everywhere…and you camp right on top of it,” she wrote.
The issue of trash on the world’s highest peaks isn’t new. Everest often gets referred to as the world’s highest landfill, and Outside has reported on the trash (and bodies) piling up every year. But the issue has historically been associated more strongly with Everest, in large part because of the huge crowds. The recent video was particularly jarring because K2 is climbed by far fewer people, because it is more technical and dangerous. Prior to this year, for every four climbers attempting the peak, one would die.
In response to the uproar following his by-then viral trash video, Purja added that the litter shouldn’t necessarily be perceived as malice. “If a climber is ill or struggling, they need to get down the mountains [sic] asap—they may die if they stay to pick up their gear,” he wrote. “Obviously, those climbers that can bring down rubbish, 100 percent should.”
But that explanation can’t account for the entirety of the problem. Eric Gilbertson, an independent climber who summited without using supplemental oxygen, compared the situation to nearby Broad Peak in a post on an online forum: “I was surprised how much trash was in this camp given that the camps on Broad were generally clean. Both peaks had a similar number of climbers registered for permits and [camp one and camp two] on Broad were also small. The only difference I can think of is K2 has almost exclusively guided groups while Broad had a high percentage of independent groups. Perhaps independent groups clean up after themselves better and don’t leave old tents on the mountain? I’m not sure.”
Gilbertson might be onto something with that analysis. Adrian Ballinger, a professional climber, IFMGA guide, and owner of Alpenglow Expeditions, which leads trips on peaks from Everest to Aconcagua, weighed in: “I think the problem is inexperienced people led by inexperienced high-altitude workers led by inexperienced or unethical expedition leaders.”
In order to offer expedition climbs to clients at a lower price, some operators will opt not to Sherpa or high-altitude workers to pack out trash and gear. “Companies have told me that the reason they don’t bring things like tents down, is they can buy new tents from China that are cheaper than paying Sherpa to go up and do extra rotations and bring their equipment down,” Ballinger says.
Once that trash is on the mountain for a season of melt-freeze cycles, it becomes embedded into the ice and is incredibly difficult to chop out and remove.
As the waste problems have increased, so too have removal efforts. In 2019, cleanup crews hauled some 24,000 pounds of trash off of Mount Everest. Purja is currently raising money to pay for a team of Sherpa to deep clean both Everest and K2 by removing trash and old, dangerous ropes.
But while cleanup expeditions are productive, the culture of climbing these peaks has to shift in order to effect meaningful change. Ballinger ran a clean-up on Ama Dablam in 2010, but felt that it actually gave companies permission to do less. “Until we change the culture, a cleanup expedition just encourages poor behavior,” says Ballinger. Two years after the big clean, the trash problem on Ama Dablam was worse than it had ever been before.
Ballinger believes that the movement toward a better mountain experience has to come from the operators, and that clients have to demand it. Many companies, both local and Western operators, pay their support staff to clean up their expedition’s trash. By choosing to climb with these outfitters, prospective clients can support these ethical practices with their wallets.
“If you’re leaving an 8,000-meter peak as a client feeling a little dirty inside about what might have happened on your trip, whether that’s frostbite on your Sherpa or the fact that you left all your poop at camp two—who wants that?” says Ballinger. “None of us are going to be proud of climbing these peaks anymore.” | https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/k2-trash-video-nims-purja/ | 2022-08-30T09:16:30Z | eonline.com | treatment | https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/k2-trash-video-nims-purja/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Euro area economic sentiment falls more than estimated in August as confidence on the outlook continues to deteriorate. It's tough to see find much optimism when inflation is still high and energy prices are soaring across the region. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurozone-august-final-consumer-confidence-249-vs-249-prelim-20220830/ | 2022-08-30T09:17:34Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurozone-august-final-consumer-confidence-249-vs-249-prelim-20220830/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
House of the Dragon, The Rings of Power, and The Sandman: The rise of big budget fantasy television
If you’re a fan of fantasy, 2022 is your year.
Epic fantasy television shows are dropping faster than Frodo Baggins at the slightest hint of danger.
In short succession, viewers are being treated to Neil Gaiman comic adaptation The Sandman (Netflix),Game of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon (NOWTV), and Lord of the Rings prequel The Rings of Power (Amazon Prime).
You might have to sell your sister to a Dothraki warlord to cover the cost of all the streaming subscriptions, but this seems to be a Golden Age for fantasy television.
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The Rings of Power, which premieres on Friday, is the most expensive television series ever made, racking up a reported $1 billion [£850 million] for its coming five seasons. Every episode will have the ambition of a movie, as we return to a Middle-earth thousands of years before the Tolkien trilogy.
Meanwhile, The Sandman explores a darker world inhabited by Morpheus, the King of Dreams, from the imagination of the creator of American Gods. Netflix is said to have splurged around $15m [£12.8m] on each of its 11 episodes, which takes viewers to the realm of dreams and even hell.
And, from the ashes of Game of Thrones season eight, bursts forth House of the Dragon. The prequel series, which aired its second episode on Monday, focuses on the bloody civil war of Daenerys Targaryen’s ancestors. But, while Game of Thrones had just three dragons, House of the Dragon is said to be featuring 17 fire-breathing beasts.
HBO reportedly spent a stonking $20m [£17m] per episode, and has just renewed the show for season two following a record-breaking premiere.
It does seem a little like all our buses coming at once for fantasy nerds. Why now?
As divisive as its final season was, a lot of credit must go to Game of Thrones. The writing (particularly in earlier seasons), characters and plot were given time, which could never have been possible in a film. Its unique mix of court intrigue, sex and dragons made fantasy cool again.
I just hope showrunners understand that, while big budgets and CGI help build worlds, it is engaging characters which make fantasy universes feel real and immersive.
And, in a time of strikes and soaring energy bills, we need to escape now more than ever.
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Food ingredients firm creates 40 jobs with refit of North Lanarkshire plant
Some 40 jobs have been created following a major refit at one of Scotland’s largest food ingredients manufacturers.
Macphie’s Tannochside facility in North Lanarkshire has restarted full-scale production for the first time since the company consolidated all operations to its Glenbervie headquarters near Stonehaven in mid-2020. That move came in response to the forced closure of many of its customers’ businesses as a result of the pandemic.
In the intervening period, the Tannochside plant has been stripped back to the bricks before a £4 million refit and layout change that will now enable it to add new lines over the coming months.
The 25,000-square-foot facility will predominantly see the production of frozen ice cream inclusions to supply multinational ice cream brands.
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Macphie chief executive Andy Stapley said: “This is our biggest ever investment programme at Tannochside since we acquired the site in 2000 and is a show of our long-term commitment to the region. The facility is at the very cutting edge and is allowing us to deliver quality that shines through.”
Investment in equipment, including state-of-the-art manufacturing lines and end-of-line packaging machinery, will enable the operation to compete for and deliver further contracts in the ice cream and frozen dessert market.
The major refit job was overseen by Atom (TPM) and delivered by Marshall Construction.
Stapley added: “This investment has enabled us to create and fill 40 new jobs in a part of the country that has experienced a number of permanent factory closures.
“This is only the start of it too. We anticipate production to grow rapidly over the next 12 months and that will see us continuing to create new jobs in a broad range of positions.”
Macphie was established in 1928 and now employs more than 250 people across its three sites. The firm has grown from its roots as a craft baker into an ingredients supplier worth more than £60m, supplying global food brands, household name businesses and the wholesale sector.
Sustainability has been a key element to the fourth-generation family firm. It was among Scotland’s first businesses to achieve B Corp status in 2015.
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Cost of living crisis: Nationalisation should be used as threat to force energy companies to pay up – Scotsman comment
Nationalisation is not normally the answer to economic ills.
However, these are not normal times, as demonstrated by a new YouGov poll which found that 47 per cent of Conservative supporters support the nationalisation of energy companies, with only 28 per cent opposed.
Just as ordinary Tory voters are considering radical options, so should the government.
We face a growing, national crisis in which millions of people and countless businesses will be unable to pay their bills. The health of the overall economy is at stake, with forecasts of a recession lasting more than a year perhaps only hinting at how bad the situation could get.
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However, if the government steps in to save people from destitution, then tens of billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money will pour into the coffers of energy companies and the bank accounts of their shareholders. While they live ever higher on the hog, the public face a renewed period of austerity that could last for years as the government pays off vast debts.
In such circumstances, it would be unsurprising if confidence in capitalism itself was severely undermined, with potentially dangerous consequences.
So our elected representatives need to ask themselves fundamental questions like, for whose benefit is society run? The answer to that question has to be its individual members.
Companies are important but not so much that the country must bankrupt itself to channel extraordinary amounts of public money into the hands of a select few because of a market gone mad.
The energy crisis demands a different answer to the 2008 banking collapse, one that puts ordinary people first.
The simplest strategy seems to be to introduce much bigger windfall taxes to transfer more of vast fortunes being made by the companies to the people otherwise set to suffer and possibly die this winter.
Nationalisation should not be the first choice, but its prospect could be used as a threat to ensure tax loopholes were not exploited. After all, if the government’s other strategies fail, it may be the only option left. Such an idea might seem far-fetched but, as the new poll shows, public sentiments are shifting as quickly as prices.
Energy firms need to realise they have wider duties to society and that ‘profiteering’ on the back of Putin’s war may have existential consequences.
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Scotland bin strikes: Edinburgh will 'get back to normal' by the start of next week after bin clean-up, says council leader Cammy Day
Edinburgh will be “back to how it was” by Sunday or the start of next week, according to Cammy Day, following strike action which saw the streets of Edinburgh become a dumping ground.
However, the Edinburgh City Council leader said both the government and council umbrella body Cosla must fix issues with a one-off consolidation payment to prevent further strikes from happening.
At 4.59am on Tuesday, Edinburgh’s recent bin strike was over and a clean-up operation is now underway with council staff.
The Labour councillor said by Sunday or early into next week the Capital will be “back to how it was” with most residual waste collected.
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Yet, there are concerns this could all be undone if further bin strikes occur next week as no deal has been accepted by the unions.
Speaking to BBC Good Morning Scotland, Mr Day said: “We have another Cosla leader’s meeting scheduled this Friday but I am disappointed there’s not been a deal on the table.
“I think there’s only probably one thing still hanging which is the consolidation pay into the lowest paid and I think if Cosla and the government could secure that I think we could have an offer to go back to the trade union’s membership and stop bringing strikes not only in Edinburgh but across the whole of Scotland.”
After negotiations over the weekend, Unite’s local government committee rejected outright an offer from Cosla, while GMB Scotland also turned the deal down.
Unison said it would hold a consultative ballot of members this week on the offer, and would recommend they reject it.
According to the Scottish Government, the deal included a payment of at least £1,925 for council staff, with those earning £20,000 receiving £2,000.
But Unite said the payment could be as low as £989 for some employees and any payment would not be recurring.
Asked about what he thinks about the offer, Mr Day said: “I think it’s a reasonable offer. The bounty payment, which it is being called by the trade unions, is a one-off payment which effectively means that payment would be dropped in a year's time and our colleagues would earn less than they did a year before. So I think there’s one last tool in the box that needs to be fixed and that’s the consolidation of that payment and if that was to be put back on the table then the trade unions would maybe take a more positive outlook on that.”
Mr Day said he appreciates councils are “cash-strapped” but he called on the government and COSLA to get back round the table today and find a solution that could come to Cosla by Friday.
The Labour councillor said there have been calls for the last ten years for the government to “properly and fairly” fund councils across Scotland.
Scotland’s First Minister has said all options in making more funding available amid ongoing strikes have been “exhausted” after making funding available to support those on lowest incomes.
However, Mr Day said: “It’s unfair for the government to say there’s no resources there when twice they have found in excess of £200 million to support this and I think the cost in that line is nearly there it just needs the consolidation of that payment.”
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Celtic could sign Premiership rival's star prospect as Euro giants snap up one-time Hoops target
Celtic could land one of the Scottish Premiership's hottest prospects before the close of the transfer window.
Dylan Reid has been a long-time target for the Scottish champions.
The 17-year-old turned down a move to Celtic earlier in July having been given permission to speak to the club following an agreement over a six-figure fee.
"We are pleased that Dylan will remain at St Mirren and look forward to him continuing his development at the club," the Buddies said at the time.
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However, according to the Scottish Sun, the move is back on.
Further discussions have been held and a deal could be completed in the coming days with the teenager joining up with Celtic’s B side which are currently plying their trade in the Lowland League.
Reid, a highly-rated Scotland youth international, featured for St Mirren in the Premier Sports Cup but has not played in any of the five league games and wasn’t in the squad for the weekend’s win over Hibs.
Meanwhile, Malick Thiaw has completed a move to Serie A champions AC Milan.
The centre-back was strongly linked with a move to Celtic earlier in the summer prior to the arrival of Mortiz Jenz.
Thiaw has left German giants Schalke 04 for Milan who are preparing for another Champions League campaign. The 21-year-old featured in three Bundesliga matches this season, his latest a 6-1 defeat to Union Berlin.
He has signed a five-year deal with the San Siro club and becomes Stefano Pioli’s fifth summer signing.
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August 30, 2022 (GMN) - Safaricom Ethiopia has begun a large-scale customer pilot of its network in Dire Dawa, four months after it missed operational launch in the Horn of Africa nation.
The pilot in Ethiopia’s second biggest city after the capital Addis Ababa, with an estimated population of half a million, is part of the telco’s planned phased city-by-city roll-out ahead of the October national launch.
Dire Dawa residents can now purchase the 07 prefix SIM cards, choose their numbers, and access 2G, 3G and 4G network services, the company said.
“We are excited to begin our customer pilot for Safaricom Ethiopia Dire Dawa. This is an important milestone we begin opening the network to customers in order to test the end-to-end readiness of technical and commercial operations ahead of the full network launch,” said Anwar Soussa, Safaricom Ethiopia's chief executive officer.
The firm has set up three customer care centres in Kezira, Meskelegna and Cornell for registration, SIM card and device purchases and other client-support services.
The SIM cards are also available in branded shops and come with a welcome offer of data, voice and SMS for a month. Customers will also be able to purchase airtime vouchers to recharge.
Customer care services from the call centre will be available in Amharic, Tigrigna, Somali, Afan Oromo and English by dialling 700.
Customers will be able to access data services, calls and text messages to or from Safaricom Ethiopia lines and the state-owned Ethio Telecom network. They can also make or receive international calls.
“This customer pilot in Dire Dawa is part of switching on our network and services in 25 cities by April 2023, working in partnership with government, businesses, local communities, and others stakeholders as part of our long-term commitment to transforming lives for a digital future in line with the Digital Ethiopia objectives,” Mr Soussa said.
Since getting the licence in July 2021, the company has invested in its network and building infrastructure, including its own mobile radio towers, national transmission network, and wholesale agreements for international connectivity.
Last month, the company said it invested $1 billion (including the licence fee), imported equipment worth over $300 million, developed its own core network, IT, products, and services, set up a call centre, and built two data centres.
The telco also recruited 500 staff, 320 of whom are Ethiopians.
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Ahead of the highly anticipated launch of the iPhone 14 on September 7, three Wall Street analysts reiterated a Buy rating on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) on August 29. This shows that the Street is impressed with CEO Tim Cook’s endeavor in achieving the target launch date despite supply chain issues and COVID-19-related shutdowns. The analysts who have recently reiterated a Buy rating on Apple stock are David Vogt of UBS (NYSE:UBS), Samik Chatterjee of J.P. Morgan (NYSE:JPM), and Daniel Ives of Wedbush.
While Vogt did not provide a price target, Chatterjee has furnished a price target of $200 (24% upside potential) on AAPL stock. Further, with a price forecast of $220, Ives sees a 36.3% upside for the stock.
Commenting on the iPhone 14 launch, which is expected next week, Ives said that the tech giant already has an initial order of 90 million units, which speaks volumes about the strong underlying demand for iPhones, as of the one billion iPhone users across the world, 240 million “have not upgraded their phones in over 3.5 years.”
Ives expects the base model’s price to remain unchanged, while the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max are likely to cost $100 more. Specification-wise, the new model will feature a 48-megapixel camera, A16 chip, and enhanced storage.
Further, the California-based company plans to launch an upgraded version of the iPhone 14 over the next six to nine months and expects a minimum demand of 220 million units in the next fiscal year, according to the Wedbush analyst.
Meanwhile, Ives anticipates Apple’s services business to total around $90 billion in the Fiscal Year 2023 and surpass $100 billion in the Fiscal Year 2024. “On a growth and EBITDA basis, we believe Apple’s services business is worth alone north of $1 trillion which coupled with the flagship hardware business makes the risk/reward very compelling at current levels,” the analyst added.
Is Apple Stock a Buy or Sell?
On TipRanks, Apple stock has a Strong Buy consensus rating based on 22 Buys, four Holds, and one Sell. AAPL’s average stock forecast of $183.12 implies 13.5% upside potential.
Further, Apple stock scores a “Perfect 10” on TipRanks’ Smart Score rating system, suggesting that it has strong potential to outperform market expectations. Hedge funds and bloggers are also positive about the stock. TipRanks data shows that 86% of bloggers are Bullish on AAPL stock, compared to the sector average of 65%, and hedge funds have increased their stakes in the company by 11.4 million shares in the last quarter.
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Chinese internet giant, Baidu (BIDU) just released its Q2 reports before market open on Tuesday.
Baidu reported EPS of $2.36, a number that beats analysts consensus by $0.82.
Revenue of $4.43B beats estimates by $230M.
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While the tech-heavy NASDAQ (NDX) index dropped 1% yesterday, shares of the biggest agriculture platform in China, Pinduoduo Inc. (PDD) (GB:0A2S), jumped 14% after the company delivered robust second-quarter numbers.
Buoyed by recovering consumer sentiment and higher online marketing services and transaction services revenues, PDD’s top line jumped 36% year-over-year to $4.7 billion. EPS at $1.09 outperformed estimates by a wide margin of $0.66. Furthermore, lower business-related expenses and the postponement of certain projects resulted in an increase in operating profit of 231% over the prior year period to $1.57 billion.
Additionally, yesterday, PDD unveiled its ’10 Billion Agriculture Initiative’ with the aim of boosting agritech and fostering digital inclusion. Under this initiative, PDD is focusing on making markets accessible through its E-commerce platform. Impressively, the company has trained over 100,000 farmers in adopting E-commerce and currently has over 880 million users.
Favorable Macro Trends Bode Well for PDD
PDD shares are now up 30.2% over the past five days as investor sentiment remains buoyant owing to favorable developments. The Chinese government has announced new stimulus spending to support the domestic economy. Additionally, the U.S. and China are closer to an agreement to allow access to records of Chinese names listed in New York to the U.S. auditors. A final agreement would resolve a long-term bone of contention between the two countries and alleviate delisting risks for a number of Chinese names as well.
Is PDD a Good Stock to Buy?
Despite the recent price run-up, PDD shares are still down 30.5% over the past year and Wall Street is cautiously optimistic about the stock with a Moderate Buy consensus rating and an average price target of $72.20.
Benchmark Co. analyst Fawne Jiang is even more positive about PDD and yesterday reiterated a Buy rating on the stock while increasing the price target to $107 from $85. The higher price target implies a significant 62.02% potential upside in the stock.
The analyst believes PDD’s business model has long-term operating leverage and noted the Q2 performance came on the back of robust execution, value-for-money offerings, and the ability to tap rising demand from consumers.
Bloggers too are sharing this enthusiasm about PDD, our data crunch at TipRanks shows 93% of the bloggers covering PDD are Bullish about the stock. In comparison, the sector average only stands at 65%.
Closing Thoughts
Yesterday, 75.11 million PDD shares changed hands. In comparison, the average volume over the past 30 days was only ~11.8 million. This shows how significant yesterday’s upward movement was. Further, a return on equity of 19.19% and asset growth of 13.65%, when coupled with PDD’s strong Q2 performance, are compelling metrics for investors.
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A U.S. Soldier reads the ceremony’s program during an uncasing ceremony at Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, Aug. 29, 2022. The 3/1 ABCT is among other units assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, proudly working alongside NATO allies and regional security partners to provide combat-credible forces to V Corps, America’s forward-deployed corps in Europe. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Gabriel Rivera)
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U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division participate in an uncasing ceremony at Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, Aug. 29, 2022. The 3/1 ABCT is among other units assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, proudly working alongside NATO allies and regional security partners to provide combat-credible forces to V Corps, America’s forward-deployed corps in Europe. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Gabriel Rivera)
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U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 1st Infantry Division and the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, salute during an uncasing ceremony at Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, Aug. 29, 2022. The 3/1 ABCT is among other units assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, proudly working alongside NATO allies and regional security partners to provide combat-credible forces to V Corps, America’s forward-deployed corps in Europe. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Gabriel Rivera)
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NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Co-Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CODX) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of a class of all persons and entities who purchased the publicly traded securities of Co-Dx during the period of May 12, 2022 through the close of the market on August 11, 2022 (4:00 p.m. ET).
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 17, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Co-Diagnostics, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) demand for the Company's Logix Smart™ COVID-19 test had plummeted throughout the quarter ended June 30, 2022, and (ii) as a result, defendants' positive statements about the demand for its Logix Smart™ COVID-19 test lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Co-Dx you have until October 17, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Co-Dx securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the CODX lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/co-dx-class-action-loss-submission-form?id=31232&from=.
J. Klein, Esq. represents investors and participates in securities litigations involving financial fraud throughout the nation. The Klein Law Firm is a boutique litigation firm with experience in a wide range of areas including securities law, corporate finance and commercial litigation. Since 2011, our experienced attorneys have achieved superior results for our clients with a personalized focus. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of LifeStance Health Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LFST) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of all purchasers of LifeStance common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the documents issued in connection with LifeStance's June 10, 2021 initial public stock offering.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 11, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that LifeStance Health Group, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the number of virtual visits clients were undertaking utilizing LifeStance Health was decreasing as the COVID-19 lockdowns were being lifted, thereby flatlining LifeStance Health's out-patient/virtual revenue growth; (ii) the percentage of in-person visits clients were undertaking utilizing LifeStance Health was increasing as the COVID-19 lockdowns were being lifted, thereby causing LifeStance Health's operating expenses to increase substantially; (iii) LifeStance Health had lost a large number of physicians due to burn-out and, as a result, its physician retention rate had fallen significantly below the 87% highlighted in the initial public offering's registration statement, and LifeStance Health had been expending additional costs to onboard new physicians who were less productive than the outgoing physicians they were replacing; and (iv) as a result, LifeStance Health's business metrics and financial prospects were not as strong as the initial public offering's registration statement represented.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in LifeStance you have until October 11, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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SINGAPORE, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- China Online Education Group ("51Talk" or the "Company") (NYSE: COE), a global online education platform with core expertise in English education, announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial and Operating Highlights
The Company completed the divesture of its China mainland business on June 30th, 2022. After the divesture, the Company focuses on providing online English tutoring lessons taught by foreign teachers to K-12 and post-secondary students in countries and regions outside of the China mainland.
The Company has announced that an annual general meeting of shareholders will be held on September 30, 2022, to approve the change of the Company's legal name from China Online Education Group to 51Talk Online Education Group.
The audit committee and the board of directors of the Company have approved the engagement of Marcum Bernstein & Pinchuk LLP ("MBP") as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm. MBP will be engaged to audit the annual consolidated financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries to be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2022.
- Net revenues for the second quarter of 2022 were US$3.5 million, and gross margin for the second quarter of 2022 was 79.2%.
- Net loss for the second quarter of 2022 was US$15.0 million, including net loss from continuing operations[1] of US$4.6 million and net loss from discontinued operations[2] of US$10.4 million.
- Non-GAAP net loss[3] for the second quarter of 2022 was US$14.9 million, including non-GAAP net loss from continuing operations of US$4.5 million and non-GAAP net loss from discontinued operations of US$10.4 million.
- Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash balance stood at US$22.1 million as of June 30, 2022.
- Gross billings[4] of continuing operation for the second quarter of 2022 were US$7.8 million.
"In the second quarter of 2022, we successfully completed the divesture of our China mainland business and will solely focus on overseas business going forward. Starting from the third quarter, 100% of the Company's revenues will be derived from overseas markets. Furthermore, to reflect our overseas focus, we will hold an annual general meeting on September 30th to vote on the proposal of changing our legal name from China Online Education Group to 51Talk Online Education Group." said Mr. Jack Jiajia Huang, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of 51Talk.
"We are excited to report another quarter marked by continued top-line growth of our overseas business. In the second quarter, our overseas business continued to see healthy and sustainable development. Our second quarter overseas business gross billings reached $7.8 million, representing 46.5% sequential growth. The number of our paying students reached 8.1k, representing 25% sequential growth and the number of our active students with attended lesson consumption reached 14.9k, representing 60% sequential growth in the second quarter. In addition, our overseas business achieved breakeven in cash flow during the two months of May and June. This reflects our strong execution of a healthy growth strategy in overseas business and we are looking forward to the future performance of cash flow." concluded Mr. Huang.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
The Company officially launched its overseas business in July 2021 and plans to focus on the overseas business after its divesture of China mainland business. As the Company began to offer one-on-one course taught by foreign teachers to students in overseas markets from July 2021, there are no comparative data for overseas business for the second quarter of 2021.
Net Revenues and Gross Margin
Net revenues for the second quarter of 2022 were US$3.5 million. The number of active students with attended lesson consumption of continuing operation was 14,900 in the second quarter of 2022.
Cost of revenues for the second quarter of 2022 was US$0.7 million. Gross profit for the second quarter of 2022 was US$2.8 million. Gross margin for the second quarter of 2022 was 79.2%.
Operating Expenses
Total operating expenses for the second quarter of 2022 were US$6.9 million.
Sales and marketing expenses for the second quarter of 2022 were US$3.6 million. Excluding share-based compensation expenses, non-GAAP sales and marketing expenses for the second quarter of 2022 were US$3.6 million.
Product development expenses for the second quarter of 2022 were US$0.7 million. Excluding share-based compensation expenses, non-GAAP product development expenses for the second quarter of 2022 were US$0.7 million.
General and administrative expenses for the second quarter of 2022 were US$2.6 million. Excluding share-based compensation expenses, non-GAAP general and administrative expenses for the second quarter of 2022 were US$2.5 million.
Loss from Operations
Operating loss for the second quarter of 2022 was US$4.1 million.
Non-GAAP operating loss for the second quarter of 2022 was US$4.0 million.
Net loss
Net loss for the second quarter of 2022 was US$15.0 million, including net loss from continuing operations of US$4.6 million and net loss from discontinued operations of US$10.4 million.
Non-GAAP net loss for the second quarter of 2022 was US$14.9 million, including non-GAAP net loss from continuing operations of US$4.5 million and non-GAAP net loss from discontinued operations of US$10.4 million.
Basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to ordinary shareholders for the second quarter of 2022 was US$0.04.
Non-GAAP basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to ordinary shareholders for the second quarter of 2022 was US$0.04.
Basic and diluted net loss per American depositary share ("ADS") attributable to ordinary shareholders for the second quarter of 2022 was US$0.67. Each ADS represents 15 Class A ordinary shares.
Non-GAAP basic and diluted net loss per ADS attributable to ordinary shareholders for the second quarter of 2022 was US$0.67.
Balance Sheet
As of June 30, 2022, the Company had total cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash of US$22.1 million.
The Company had advances from students[7] (current and non-current) of US$10.2 million as of June 30, 2022.
Outlook
For the third quarter of 2022, the Company currently expects gross billings to be between US$8.0 million and US$8.2 million.
The above outlook is based on current market conditions and reflects the Company's current and preliminary estimates of market and operating conditions and customer demand, which are all subject to change.
Management Change
The Company also announced today that Mr. Min Xu, Chief Financial Officer, has resigned for personal reasons and his last day with the Company will be September 30th, 2022. Ms. Chun Tang, Vice President of Finance of the Company, will assume the role of Chief Financial Officer starting on October 1st, 2022.
Ms. Tang has served in roles of Finance Director, Senior Finance Director, and Vice President of Finance since she joined the Company in 2014 and played an instrumental role in the Company's successful IPO completed in June 2016. Previously, Ms. Tang served as Senior Financial Analyst in Google's Beijing office from 2007 to 2014. Earlier in her career, Ms. Tang served as Senior Financial Analyst with Novo Nordisk, a CSE-listed world leading pharmaceutical manufacturer, Finance Manager with Beijing City International School, and Senior Auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian LLP. Ms. Tang received a Master of Arts degree in western accounting from The Central University of Finance and Economics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting from Northeastern University in Shenyang China.
Mr. Jack Jiajia Huang, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, said, "On behalf of the Board of Directors and myself, I would like to thank Min for his service as 51Talk's Chief Financial Officer. Over the course of his four-year tenure, Min led us to achieve profitability by focusing on sustainable growth. We wish him the best in his future endeavors."
Conference Call
The Company's management will host an earnings conference call at 8:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time on August 30, 2022 (8:00 PM Singapore/Beijing/Hong Kong time on August 30, 2022).
Dial-in details for the earnings conference call are as follows:
Participants should dial-in at least 5 minutes before the scheduled start time and ask to be connected to the call for "China Online Education Group."
Additionally, a live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.51talk.com.
A replay of the conference call will be accessible until September 6, 2022, by dialing the following telephone numbers:
About China Online Education Group
China Online Education Group (NYSE: COE) is a global online education platform with core expertise in English education. The Company's mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable. The Company's online and mobile education platforms enable students to take live interactive English lessons, on demand. The Company connects its students with a large pool of highly qualified teachers that it assembled using a shared economy approach, and employs student and teacher feedback and data analytics to deliver a personalized learning experience to its students.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In evaluating its business, 51Talk considers and uses the following measures defined as non-GAAP financial measures by the SEC as supplemental metrics to review and assess its operating performance: non-GAAP sales and marketing expenses, non-GAAP product development expenses, non-GAAP general and administrative expenses, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income/(loss), non-GAAP net income/(loss), non-GAAP net income/(loss) attributable to ordinary shareholders, and non-GAAP net income/(loss) attributable to ordinary shareholders per share and per ADS. To present each of these non-GAAP measures, the Company excludes share-based compensation expenses. The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP. For more information on these non-GAAP financial measures, please see the table captioned "Reconciliations of non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP measures" set forth at the end of this press release.
51Talk believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding its performance by excluding share-based compensation expenses that may not be indicative of its operating performance from a cash perspective. 51Talk believes that both management and investors benefit from these non-GAAP financial measures in assessing its performance and when planning and forecasting future periods. These non-GAAP financial measures also facilitate management's internal comparisons to 51Talk's historical performance. 51Talk computes its non-GAAP financial measures using the same consistent method from quarter to quarter and from period to period. 51Talk believes these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors in allowing for greater transparency with respect to supplemental information used by management in its financial and operational decision-making. A limitation of using non-GAAP measures is that these non-GAAP measures exclude share-based compensation expenses that have been and will continue to be for the foreseeable future a significant recurring expense in the 51Talk's business. Management compensates for these limitations by providing specific information regarding the GAAP amounts excluded from each non-GAAP measure. The accompanying table at the end of this press release provides more details on the reconciliations between GAAP financial measures that are most directly comparable to non-GAAP financial measures.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains statements that may constitute "forward-looking" statements pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will", "expects", "anticipates", "aims", "future", "intends", "plans", "believes", "estimates", "likely to" and similar statements. Among other things, 51Talk's quotations from management in this announcement, as well as 51Talk's strategic and operational plans, contain forward-looking statements. 51Talk may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about 51Talk's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: 51Talk's goals and strategies; 51Talk's expectations regarding demand for and market acceptance of its brand and platform; 51Talk's ability to retain and increase its student enrollment; 51Talk's ability to offer new courses; 51Talk's ability to engage, train and retain new teachers; 51Talk's future business development, results of operations and financial condition; 51Talk's ability to maintain and improve infrastructure necessary to operate its education platform; competition in the online education industry in its overseas markets; the expected growth of, and trends in, the markets for 51Talk's course offerings in its overseas markets; relevant government policies and regulations relating to 51Talk's corporate structure, business and industry; general economic and business condition in the Philippines, its overseas markets and elsewhere; and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in 51Talk's filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and 51Talk does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Outset Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: OM) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased Outset Medical common stock between September 15, 2020, and June 13, 2022.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 6, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in OM:
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Outset Medical, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company's flagship product, Tablo Hemodialysis System ("Tablo"), would require an additional 510(k) application to be filed with The United States Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"), as defendants had "continuously made improvements and updates to Tablo over time since its original clearance"; (2) as a result, the Company could not conduct a human factors study on a cleared device in accordance with FDA protocols; (3) the Company's inability to conduct the human factors study subjected the Company to the likelihood of the FDA imposing a "shipment hold" and marketing suspension, leaving the Company unable to sell Tablo for home use; and (4) as a result, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and /or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Outset Medical you have until September 6, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Outset Medical securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the OM lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/loss-submission-form-outset-medical-class-action?id=31221&from=4.
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The Food and Drug Administration is planning to authorize a new generation of COVID-19 boosters this week that for the first time will target the omicron variant.
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The Food and Drug Administration is planning to authorize a new generation of COVID-19 boosters this week that for the first time will target the omicron variant.
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Despite a massive marketing campaign, Pew research found just 16% of Americans have invested in or used cryptocurrency. Leila Fadel asks Blockchain Foundation's Cleve Mesidor why?
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Despite a massive marketing campaign, Pew research found just 16% of Americans have invested in or used cryptocurrency. Leila Fadel asks Blockchain Foundation's Cleve Mesidor why?
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Greenland's rapidly melting ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10.6 inches (27 centimeters) — more than twice as much as previously forecast — according to a study published Monday.
That's because of something that could be called zombie ice. That's doomed ice that, while still attached to thicker areas of ice, is no longer getting replenished by parent glaciers now receiving less snow. Without replenishment, the doomed ice is melting from climate change and will inevitably raise seas, said study co-author William Colgan, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
"It's dead ice. It's just going to melt and disappear from the ice sheet," Colgan said in an interview. "This ice has been consigned to the ocean, regardless of what climate (emissions) scenario we take now.
Study lead author Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Greenland survey, said it is "more like one foot in the grave."
The unavoidable ten inches in the study is more than twice as much sea level rise as scientists had previously expected from the melting of Greenland's ice sheet. The study in the journal Nature Climate Change said it could reach as much as 30 inches (78 centimeters). By contrast, last year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report projected a range of 2 to 5 inches (6 to 13 centimeters) for likely sea level rise from Greenland ice melt by the year 2100.
What scientists did for the study was look at the ice in balance. In perfect equilibrium, snowfall in the mountains in Greenland flows down and recharges and thickens the sides of glaciers, balancing out what's melting on the edges. But in the last few decades there's less replenishment and more melting, creating imbalance. Study authors looked at the ratio of what's being added to what's being lost and calculated that 3.3% of Greenland's total ice volume will melt no matter what happens with the world cutting carbon pollution, Colgan said.
"I think starving would be a good phrase," for what's happening to the ice, Colgan said.
One of the study authors said that more than 120 trillion tons (110 trillion metric tons) of ice is already doomed to melt from the warming ice sheet's inability to replenish its edges. When that ice melts into water, if it were concentrated only over the United States, it would be 37 feet (11 meters) deep.
The figures are a global average for sea level rise, but some places further away from Greenland would get more and places closer, like the U.S. East Coast, would get less. Although 10.6 inches may not sound like much, this would be over and above high tides and storms, making them even worse, so this much sea level rise "will have huge societal, economic and environmental impacts," said Ellyn Enderlin, a geosciences professor at Boise State University, who wasn't part of the study.
"This is a really large loss and will have a detrimental effect on coastlines around the world," said NYU's David Holland who just returned from Greenland, but is not part of the study.
This is the first time scientists calculated a minimum ice loss — and accompanying sea level rise — for Greenland, one of Earth's two massive ice sheets that are slowly shrinking because of climate change from burning coal, oil and natural gas. Scientists used an accepted technique for calculating minimum committed ice loss, the one used on mountain glaciers for the entire giant frozen island.
Pennsylvania State University glaciologist Richard Alley, who wasn't part of the study but said it made sense, said the committed melting and sea level rise is like an ice cube put in a cup of hot tea in a warm room.
"You have committed mass loss from the ice," Alley said in an email. "In the same way, most of the world's mountain glaciers and the edges of Greenland would continue losing mass if temperatures were stabilized at modern levels because they have been put into warmer air just as your ice cube was put in warmer tea."
Time is the key unknown here and a bit of a problem with the study, said two outside ice scientists, Leigh Stearns of the University of Kansas and Sophie Nowicki of the University of Buffalo. The researchers in the study said they couldn't estimate the timing of the committed melting, yet in the last sentence they mention, "within this century," without supporting it, Stearns said.
Colgan responded that the team doesn't know how long it will take for all the doomed ice to melt, but making an educated guess, it would probably be by the end of this century, or at least by 2150.
Colgan said this is actually all a best case scenario. The year 2012 (and to a different degree 2019 ) was a huge melt year, when the equilibrium between adding and subtracting ice was most out of balance. If Earth starts to undergo more years like 2012, Greenland melt could trigger 30 inches (78 centimeters) of sea level rise, he said. Those two years seem extreme now, but years that look normal now would have been extreme 50 years ago, he said.
"That's how climate change works," Colgan said. "Today's outliers become tomorrow's averages."
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7-Day Weather Forecast for Clarion County
Monday, August 29, 2022 @ 12:08 AM
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TodaySunny, with a high near 88. South wind 5 to 11 mph.
TonightA chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 66. South wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday NightShowers and possibly a thunderstorm before 9pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 9pm and 3am. Low around 58. Southwest wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
WednesdayA slight chance of showers between 9am and 3pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 76. West wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Wednesday NightMostly clear, with a low around 52.
ThursdaySunny, with a high near 74.
Thursday NightMostly clear, with a low around 48.
FridaySunny, with a high near 80.
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SaturdayMostly sunny, with a high near 83.
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In what might be the final tournament of her storied tennis career, Serena Williams won an emotional match in straight sets in the first round of the U.S. Open last night.
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Alton Z. Hall -“Junior”
Alton Z. Hall -“Junior”, age 89, of East Hickory, PA, died on Friday, August 26, 2022, at the Titusville Area Hospital in Titusville, PA.
He was born August 13, 1933 in East Hickory, son of the late Alton Gus and Effie (Zuendel) Hall.
He graduated from Hickory Township School in East Hickory where he attended grades first through twelve.
He served his county in the U.S. Navy.
On October 12, 1968 in Tidioute, PA, he married Susan (Niemann) Hall, who survives.
He retired from National Fuel and worked as the Station Engineer at the Queen Pump Station in Hickory Township, Forest County.
Junior served as a Hickory Township Supervisor for 30 plus years.
He was a member of the Temple Lodge #412 F.&A.M. in Tidioute, the Valley of Coudersport Consistory, and the Zem Zem Shrine.
Junior loved to travel with his motor home and 5th wheel RV.
His favorite trips were those to Alaska.
Through the years he visited all 50 states with the exception of Hawaii.
He often could be seen mowing the acreage just below his home.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by his sister, Nancy Eck, and her husband Paul of Tionesta, and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by five brothers: Walter “Mike,” Donald “Gene,” William, Gary, and David. Two sisters, Judy Bowser and Annis Ziegler.
There will be no public visitation.
Any memorial services that will be held will be announced at a later date.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Norman J. Wimer Funeral Home of Tionesta.
Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of choice.
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BHS Family Healthcare of Clarion to Host In-Person Cooking Demo on September 8
CLARION, Pa. (EYT) – BHS Family Healthcare of Clarion is hosting an in-person cooking demo on Thursday, September 8.
The event will be held from 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the conference room of the BHS Health and Wellness Center located at 330 North Point Drive, Suite 200, in Clarion. It will be followed by a live feed of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) seminar from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The event is part of the BHS “evidence-based” Lifestyle Coaching programs series.
The series, which focuses on the prevention of chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, mental health, and more, began in July and will run until December with both virtual and in-person classes available to anyone free of charge.
“We can go back to that old adage: ‘an ounce of prevention is worth a pound to cure,’” BHS Lifestyle Coaching Program Manager Patti Kuniak, RDN (Registered Dietitian Nutritionist) told exploreClarion.com. “(Prevention) is a huge factor in the reduction of chronic diseases.”
In-person classes will feature cooking demos, hosted by BHS Food Institute’s Breanna Lamberger, to show how to prepare delicious and economical recipes to help meet nutrition goals.
The power of the classes is a combination of the complementary services tailored to the community, as well as the encouragement that is often needed to make healthy life changes.
“People need advocates because they lack confidence sometimes, and they’re in this cultural thing where that’s how they’ve always done it,” said Bridget Thornton, MS, who serves as the Coordinator of Wellness at the BHS Health and Wellness Center in Clarion.
“As a hospital, we are required to complete a community health needs assessment every three years. We want to make sure we know what the top health needs are in our community and what we’re doing is consistent with those needs,” Thornton added. “We collect data on what those health needs are through surveys, focus groups, and stakeholder interviews with people in the community. These initiatives all fall in line with our community health needs assessment.”
Aside from the in-person cooking demos, a wide variety of Lifestyle Coaching programs and seminars are available online. While the classes focus on improving your wellness lifestyle to prevent chronic disease, Kuniak urged that it still helps those dealing with or taking care of loved ones who battle chronic diseases.
“Even if you do already have any of these chronic diseases, we can still help you with lifestyle care,” she said. “Lifestyle is always an adjunct therapy to a lot of these diseases.”
According to Kuniak, the Lifestyle Coaching program began roughly seven years ago at Butler Health System under grants from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The grants allowed the programs to be free to the patients, which is a barrier most deal with while trying to make necessary lifestyle choices. Since the merger with Clarion Hospital, the program has strengthened.
“We have outreach to other rural hospitals, and Clarion was one of them,” Kuniak added. “We have been working together under these grants and then, (the) Clarion-Butler merger happened, and we’re under the same system. It further energized the program. Bridget has been our connection even before the merger happened and has been a real champion for wellness.”
While the program is no longer funded by HRSA grants, it remains free.
“The physicians wanted to provide resources and education without barriers, and one of the barriers is usually cost,” Thornton explained. “A lot of people can’t afford, or can’t justify, paying for these classes. All of our lifestyle coaching programs are free.”
To register, call 724-284-4504 or visit www.butlerhealthsystem.org/services/lifestyle-coaching.
CLARION CAMPUS
Cooking demos are available for registration on the following dates at BHS Health and Wellness Center, 330 North Point Drive, Suite 301, in Clarion:
– Thursday, September 8 – 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., followed by a live feed of the DASH seminar from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
BUTLER CAMPUS
Cooking demos are available for registration on the following dates at the Butler Campus located at 216 N Washington Street, in Butler:
– Tuesday, September 20 – 5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., followed by a live feed of the Heart Healthy seminar from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
– Thursday, November 10 – 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., followed by live feed of the DASH seminar from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
– Thursday, December 8 – 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., followed by a live feed of the Mediterranean seminar from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The following is a schedule of the online classes:
Volumetrics Weight Management Ongoing Series
Introductory classes:
Wednesday, September 7, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 5, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 2, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, December 7, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Ongoing classes:
Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
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– DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension): Thursday, September 8, 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Thursday, November 10, 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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Reducing Barrier to Physical Activity – New Seminar
– Tuesday, September 20, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
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More people in the U.S. are now smoking marijuana than cigarettes, according to a Gallup poll.
Cigarette use has been trending downward during the past decades, with only 11% of Americans saying they smoke them in a poll conducted July 5 to 26, compared to 45% in the mid-1950s.
Sixteen percent of Americans say they smoke marijuana, with 48% saying they have tried it at some point in their lives. In 1969, only 4% of Americans said they smoked marijuana.
Attitudes around both substances have also shifted dramatically.
In 2019, 83% of Americans said they thought cigarettes were "very harmful" to smokers, while 14% said they are "somewhat harmful." Nine out of 10 adults said in 2013 that smoking causes cancer, while 91% of smokers surveyed in 2015 said they wish they never started.
"Smoking cigarettes is clearly on the decline and is most likely to become even more of a rarity in the years ahead," Gallup Senior Scientist Dr. Frank Newport said. "This reflects both public awareness of its negative effects and continuing government efforts at all levels to curtail its use."
Meanwhile, 53% of people said they think marijuana has positive effects on those who use it in a July poll.
Still, alcohol is the most popular substance, and has remained consistent for a while. 67% of Americans in the most recent poll said they are drinkers, compared to 63% in 1939. About a third totally abstain from alcohol.
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North Clarion School ‘Restricting Outdoor Activities’ Amid Reported Manhunt in the Area
FRILLS CORNERS, Pa. (EYT) – The North Clarion School District is placing a restriction on the building on Monday due to a reported manhunt in the area.
“We’re restricting outdoor activities right now,” North Clarion Superintendent Steve Young told exploreClarion.com. “There’s a manhunt going on in the northern part of our district. But, not specific to the school and nothing related to the school. It’s miles away. Just out of an abundance of caution, we’re restricting outdoor activities.”
Young explained that parents do not need to be concerned.
“State Police notified us because there’s an incident in our district,” Young added. “But, the incident is not specific to the school, and it’s not even close to the school. (State Police) are handling it.
“For us, it’s let’s just keep them inside today just out of an abundance of caution.”
Young issued the following statement:
As a result of a police matter that is taking place within the boundaries of our District, we have decided to restrict all outside activities today. The school day is running as normal with no disruption to education. If the incident is not resolved by the end of the day, all after school activities will be cancelled. There is no threat specific to the District and dismissal will occur using our normal procedures.
PSP Marienville declined to comment on the situation.
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Clarion County Adoptable Pet of the Week: Linus
Monday, August 29, 2022 @ 12:08 AM
This week’s Clarion County Adoptable Pet of the Week sponsored by the Top Tier Federal Credit Union: Linus.
Linus is a male American Bulldog mix puppy.
His vaccinations are up-to-date.
According to Tri-County Animal Rescue Center, Linus is friendly, affectionate, playful, and curious.
For more information on him, please email Tri-County Animal Rescue Center at [email protected] or call 814-918-2032.
Clarion County Adoptable Pet of the Week is sponsored by Top Tier Federal Credit Union.
Visit Top Tier Federal Credit Union at http://www.toptierfcu.org/ for more information.
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Clarion County Photo of the Day
Monday, August 29, 2022 @ 12:08 AM
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Clarion County Recipe of the Day: Macaroni Tuna Casserole
This dish is so easy to put together!
Ingredients
1 package (7-1/4 ounces) of macaroni and cheese
1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of celery soup, undiluted
1/2 cup whole milk
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Minced fresh parsley, optional
Directions
-Preheat the oven to 350°. Prepare macaroni and cheese according to package directions. Stir in soup, tuna, and milk. Pour into a greased 2-qt. baking dish. Sprinkle with cheese and, if desired, parsley. Bake, uncovered, for 20-25 minutes or until cheese is melted.
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Clarion Soccer: Golden Eagles Fall to Ursuline in Home Opener
CLARION, Pa. – The Golden Eagle soccer team returned to the friendly confines of Memorial Stadium on Sunday afternoon, but were unable to overcome a second half goal by Ursuline as Clarion fell to the Arrows by a 1-0 score.
(Photo by Kirkland Photography.)
Ursuline had the better of offensive chances in the game, outshooting Clarion 9-1 in terms of balls put on net, but netminder Alex Velez was sharp in turning away the vast majority of Arrow scoring opportunities. One such play occurred early in the first half, when a crossing pass through the box ended up on the toe of Kristina Spitzer. Spitzer pushed it toward the lower left corner but Velez stopped it to keep the game scoreless.
Clarion’s best scoring opportunity was in the first half, coming in the ninth minute. Dobb stole the ball and kicked it loose deep into the Ursuline end, but was unable to find anyone on a crossing pass that was gobbled up by the Arrow keeper.
Ursuline got on the board less than five minutes into the second half on a beautiful pass and finish. Joyce Fallon lobbed a pass cross-field to the right side of the field, feeding Odessa Strizzi. Strizzi carried it to the top of the right-hand side of the box and fired a shot to the upper left hand corner of the net. Velez made a play on it but could not reach the shot as Ursuline went ahead 1-0.
The Arrows held that lead up for the remainder of the game, keeping the Golden Eagles from threatening the rest of the way.
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Woman Charged With Trespassing After Entering Cooksburg Man’s Residence Due in Court Tomorrow
FOREST CO., Pa. (EYT) – A hearing for a Pittsburgh woman who is facing felony trespass and related charges for entering a Cooksburg man’s residence is scheduled for Tuesday morning.
According to court documents, a preliminary hearing for 33-year-old Marissa Lynn Perla, of Pittsburgh, is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, August 30, in front of Magisterial District Judge Daniel L. Miller’s in Forest County Court.
She faces the following charges:
– Criminal Trespassing – Enter Structure, Felony 3
– Criminal Trespass/Simple Trespasser, Summary
Details of the case:
The incident occurred on Tuesday, May 31 at a residence along Coleman Run Road, in Cooksburg, Barnett Township, Forest County.
According to a criminal complaint, on May 31, PSP Marienville received a call from a known victim, who reported that Marissa Perla had entered his home without his knowledge.
Upon speaking with the victim, he reported that Perla has not lived at this residence since January of 2022.
Both the victim and PSP Marienville on numerous occasions had informed Perla not to return to the victim’s residence, the complaint states.
The victim told police that Perla contacted him via phone multiple times in the early morning hours of May 31. He answered and asked Perla to stop contacting him, the complaint indicates.
When he woke up on May 31, the victim said that Perla was standing in the bedroom of his residence. The victim informed police that Perla claimed to run out of gas and came to his residence, according to the complaint.
Perla was arraigned at 11:45 a.m. on Tuesday, May 31, in front of Magisterial District Judge Todd A. Woodin.
Perla is also facing the following charges during the August 30 preliminary hearing:
– False Report and related charges from a January 5, 2022 incident.
– DUI and related charges from a June 30, 2022 incident.
Perla was lodged in the Warren County Jail on June 30, 2022, on $10,000.00 monetary bail.
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Distracted Driver Causes Chain Reaction Crash on Chicora Road; Two Injured
OAKLAND TWP., Pa. (EYT) – State police released the details regarding a distracted driver who caused a chain reaction crash injuring two East Brady residents on Chicora Road earlier this month.
According to Butler-based State Police, the crash occurred around 1:35 p.m. on Wednesday, August 3, as traffic was slowed down by a large vehicle that was traveling west along Chicora Road, in Oakland Township, Butler County.
Police say a 2011 Jeep Compass driven by 33-year-old Kelsey A. Craig, of East Brady, and a 2019 Kia Sorento operated by 60-year-old Melanie S. Golden, of Gulfport, Florida, were stopped on Chicora Road when a 2007 Ford F-150 XLT driven by 78-year-old Douglas I. Davis, of Parker, was traveling towards the stopped traffic.
Davis failed to stop in time and hit the Jeep, putting it into motion as the Jeep subsequently struck the Kia, according to police.
Davis related he was distracted by his cell phone at the time of the crash, police say.
Davis was using a seat belt and was not injured.
Craig and her passenger, 68-year-old Dana L. Craig, of East Brady, were transported to Butler Memorial Hospital by Chicora Community Ambulance to treat possible injuries.
Golden reported possible injuries but was not transported.
Kelsey Craig and Golden were using seat belts.
Dana Craig was not using a seat belt.
According to police, Davis was issued a traffic citation.
PSP Butler released the above report on Monday, August 29, 2022.
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Douglas H. Baine
Douglas H. Baine, age 74, of Shippenville, PA, formerly of Tionesta, PA, died on Thursday evening, August 25, 2022 at his home in Shippenville.
He was born April 10, 1948 in Pittsburgh, PA, son of the late Roland H. and Genevieve (Ash) Baine
On March 30, 1985 at the Shamburg Church of God in Pleasantville, PA, he married Marilyn M. (McWilliams) Baine, who survives.
Doug retired from the Defense Department, where he worked as an inspector.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by his son, Wesley J. Harmon of Crestview, Florida. His granddaughter, Katlyn Land and her husband Richard of Tionesta, PA. Three brothers: Roland A. Baine and his wife Anne of Allison Park, PA; Thomas Baine and his wife Simone of Titusville, PA; and Roger N. Baine of Tionesta. One sister, Carol Thalhofer and her husband Ronald of Butler, PA. Several nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents Doug was preceded in death by a sister, Sandra Johnston.
There will be no public visitation.
All services held will be private.
Burial will be at Wolf’s Corners Cemetery in Tionesta.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Norman J. Wimer Funeral Home of Tionesta.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Tionesta Church of God Memorial Fund PO Box 247 Tionesta, PA 16353.
(pictured is Doug on top of the Nebraska Bridge in Tionesta, during high water of-course)
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Driver Distracted by Cell Phone Veers Off Roadway, Strikes Guide Rail on I-80 in Barkeyville
BARKEYVILLE BOROUGH, Pa. (EYT) – A driver who became distracted by his cell phone, veered off the roadway, and struck a guide rail along Interstate 80 in Barkeyville Borough on Thursday night.
According to Franklin-based State Police, the crash occurred around 9:05 p.m. on Thursday, August 25.
Police say 59-year-old Mark E. Viertel, of Parker, was operating a 2021 Chevrolet Silverado while traveling east on I-80 when he looked down at his phone, veered off onto the northbound side of I-80, and struck a guide rail end.
Viertel’s vehicle then spun clockwise and came to a final rest facing southwest in the left-hand travel lane, police say.
Viertel was using a seat belt and was not injured.
Clintonville Volunteer Fire Department assisted at the scene with traffic control.
Hovis Truck Services towed the vehicle from the scene.
According to police, Viertel was cited for a traffic violation.
PSP Franklin released the above report on Monday, August 29, 2022.
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Fred Allen Bigley Jr.
It is with great sorrow we say “till we meet again” to Fred Allen Bigley Jr., or as many knew him “Jar”, a nickname given to him by childhood friends.
Born October 5, 1974 in Oil City to Fred Allen Bigley Sr. And Deborah J. Morris Bigley.
Jar Passed away August 23, 2022 at 10:36 P.M. at UPMC Hamot from complications of Heart Surgery.
He enjoyed camping, hunting, fishing and his beloved dog Honey.
He enjoyed spending time at the Office Bar with his close friend Bill as well as many other friends he made there.
He attended Cranberry Area School District after which he worked for many local companies.
Left to cherish his memory are his parents, his daughter Jane Bigley of Jackson Center; one daughter who refused to recognize her father along with two grandchildren she refused to allow him to know. Two sister; Diana Neely of Franklin and Valorie Fulton and her husband William of Cooperstown; a nephew Dakota Lawson and a niece Cheyanne Fulton.
He was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents, a nephew Allen Lawson and his brother-in-law, Robert Neely.
A Memorial Service will be held at 215 Halls Run Rd. Cranberry, PA on Friday, September 2, 2022 at 5:00 P.M.
Funeral arrangements entrusted to Huff-Guthrie Funeral Home & Cremation Services Inc., 312 West Park St. Franklin.
Memorial contributions may be made to the family by visiting Fred’s memorial page at www.HuffFuneral.com and donating towards his funeral expenses.
Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.HuffFuneral.com.
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I would argue that there are two plausible reasons. The first being comments from the White House that labour market conditions are going to "cool off". Eamonn had the story earlier here. Considering how it seems to be the norm these days for them to comment on 'big' reports, it is certainly interesting with the US non-farm payrolls coming up later on Friday.
The second reason is perhaps the more straightforward but less comprehensible one, which is to do with month-end and positioning flows with the US jobs report also in focus. Equities are bid today so the more risk-on turn is also translating into a softer dollar on the day and we are seeing some notable developments in near-term charts as is the case for EUR/USD and AUD/USD.
Or perhaps it could be a mixture of things but either way, the charts are telling the story that the dollar momentum after Jackson Hole has locked up - at least for now. It may very well stay that way until we get to Friday before the next round of key data moves markets once again. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/a-couple-of-reasons-for-the-softer-dollar-today-20220830/ | 2022-08-30T10:14:06Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/a-couple-of-reasons-for-the-softer-dollar-today-20220830/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Patrick Oliver Baker
Patrick Oliver Baker, age 72, of Knox, passed away peacefully at his residence on August 28, 2022.
He was born in Aliquippa, Pa on January 3, 1950 to the late James and Anna (Harrison) Baker.
He proudly served his country in the United States Air Force.
He worked for the O-I Glass plant in Clarion.
He married the former Bernice Semanco, who survives.
Patrick is survived by his wife, Bernice Baker of Knox; step-daughter, Katherine (Alan) McGill of Meadville and one grandchild, Desiree (Holcy Furlong) Thompson of Glen Burnie, MD.
Patrick was preceded in death by his parents, 2 brothers, 1 sister and a nephew.
There will be no public visitation or funeral service.
Arrangements are under the care of the Goble Funeral Home in Clarion.
Friends and family may send online condolences, memorials, and obtain additional information by visiting www.goblefh.net.
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Pickup Truck Collides With Motorcycle Stopped on Side of Road
CONCORD TWP., Pa. (EYT) – Police have released the details of a crash in which an area man’s motorcycle was struck while he was stopped on the side of the roadway in Concord Township.
According to Butler-based State Police, the crash occurred around 3:15 p.m. on Friday, August 19, along Oneida Valley Road, in Concord Township, Butler County.
Police say a 2005 Chevrolet Silverado driven by 39-year-old Justin P. Warner, of Petrolia, was traveling north on Oneida Valley Road and did not observe a 2005 Honda Shadow Spirit motorcycle operated by 26-year-old Dustin K. Cyphert, of Kennerdell.
Cyphert was legally stopped along the right shoulder of the road, according to police.
Warner’s vehicle struck the bike with its front end.
Both vehicles sustained heavy disabling damage and were towed from the scene.
No injuries were reported.
Warner was cited for driving without a license, according to police.
PSP Butler released the above report on Monday, August 29, 2022.
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Sandra D. Barnett
Sandra D. Barnett, 70, of Brookville, died early Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at her home following a decline in her health.
Born on July 24, 1952 in Erie, she was the daughter of the late Gerald and Lorna Lowmaster Miller.
She was a graduate of Brookville High School and prior to her retirement, she had worked at Sealy Mattress in Strattanville and Brookville Glove Factory.
At Hazen United Methodist Church she married James L. Barnett; he preceded her in death on March 20, 2011.
Her pastimes include fishing, flower gardening, watching the hummingbirds and wildlife, and spending time with her family and grandchildren.
Those surviving include her sons, BJ (Charity) Barnett and David Barnett; her daughter, Darlene (James) Edmonds; her brother, Jack Miller; her grandchildren, Samantha Barnett Browne, Angel Edmonds Wilson, Caitlin Barnett Boring and Hunter Barnett; and her great grandchildren, Sophia and Violet Vrobel, Aria and Bradley Barnett and Bowden Boring.
In addition to her parents and husband she was preceded in death by her brother, Gerald L. Miller.
There will be no services held.
The family suggests memorial donations be made in her memory to a local animal shelter.
Furlong Funeral Home, 50 Broad St., Summerville has been entrusted with the final arrangements for Mrs. Barnett.
Friends and family may leave online condolences, light a memorial candle, share a memory and obtain additional information by visiting www.furlongfuneralhome.com.
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Say What?! Deer Wanders into Dollar General Store in Michigan
Monday, August 29, 2022 @ 12:08 AM
JACKSON, Michigan – A surprised shopper at a Dollar General store in Michigan captured video of an unusual fellow customer browsing the aisles — a deer.
Connie MacGuinness said she was at the Dollar General in Jackson when she heard a ruckus behind her.
Read the full story here.
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SPONSORED: Pre-Registration Open for Long Shot Ammo & Arms Autumn Expo
FAIRMOUNT CITY, Pa. (EYT) – Pre-registration is open for Long Shot Ammo & Arms Autumn Expo.
The Fall Bash is happening again this year! Long Shot Ammo & Arms invites you and your family out to enjoy a day of fun at the Long Shot Autumn Expo happening on Saturday, September 24, from 11:00 a.m to 6:00 p.m.
Enjoy a day of music and food trucks featuring the Emporio Meatball Truck, Back Alley BBQ, Ice-O, and The Chow Hall, as well as a variety of wineries, breweries, and crafters.
Be sure to try your hand at axe throwing and sign up for the cornhole tournament.
Plus, they are hosting a big ticket raffle this year!
Pre-register for the event by clicking here. Individuals must be present to win.
Long Shot Ammo & Arms is located at 660 Longview Road, Fairmount City, PA 16224.
For more information, please visit their Facebook page or give them a call at 814-365-7028.
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SPONSORED: Barber Trucking to Host Taco Inc. Food Truck in Brookville
BROOKVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – Barber Trucking is hosting a Taco Inc. food truck event on Thursday, September 1.
This event is open to the public, and everyone is invited to attend and get a taste of Taco Inc.’s delicious Mexican food on September 1, from 12:00 p.m to 3:00 p.m at Barber Trucking in Brookville.
Taco Inc. recently announced a new location coming to Clarion and just celebrated their one-year anniversary at their Punxsutawney location.
Taco Inc. food truck offers authentic Mexican cuisine, featuring tacos, burritos, taco salads, and more.
Stop by Barber Trucking on Thursday, September 1, and get a taste of the authentic Mexican food that is coming to Clarion!
Barber Trucking is located at 3661 Route 28 N, Brookville, PA 15825.
Visit Taco Inc. on Facebook.
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State Police Calls: Traffic Stop Results in DUI Arrest; Troopers Investigate Animal Neglect
Area state police responded to the following calls:
Suspected DUI in Eldred Township
Marienville-based State Police initiated a traffic stop on a 2016 Ram 1500 on Moore Bridge Road, in Eldred Township, Jefferson County, for summary traffic violations around 11:58 p.m. on Saturday, August 27.
Police say the known 41-year-old male driver was operating the vehicle while impaired.
Charges are pending.
Police Investigating Report of Animal Neglect in Bradford Township
Clearfield-based State Police are investigating a report of animal neglect that occurred in Bradford Township, Clearfield County, around 7:59 p.m. on Friday, August 26.
Police say 41-year-old Jennifer M. Applegate and 45-year-old John C. Gray, both of Penfield, failed to provide any shelter for two large pigs.
Applegate and Gray are also accused of failing to provide an adequate amount of water for the pigs, police say.
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Clarion Dunkin’ Will Open on September 12
CLARION, Pa. (EYT) – The area’s first Dunkin’ will be opening soon in Clarion.
(Photos by Dave Cyphert of ProPoint Media Photography.)
The popular coffee shop chain will open at 639 Main Street on Monday, September 12, according to Mike Zappone, Construction and Property Manager for Pittsburgh-based Heartland Restaurant Group.
The former CVS building that stood in the same location was demolished in early June to make way for the new store.
Heartland, the owner of the franchise, operates around 50 Dunkin’ locations across Western Pennsylvania.
Zappone said Clarion “checked all of the boxes,” when the group was scouting the area for possible locations.
“We look at traffic counts, we look at competition, and various other factors,” said Zappone. “We think we finally found a spot that is perfect.”
“Clarion in many ways fits a similar profile in a larger population base than our Slippery Rock store,” said Zappone, noting that the Slippery Rock location has been very successful.
“Clarion, being a county seat, makes it even more attractive.”
Zappone also noted that Kittanning–the closest Dunkin’ location to Clarion–has been prosperous.
The new Main Street business will feature indoor customer seating and a drive-thru lane will that be 15 feet in width.
The drive-thru lane will surround the building, and when leaving the property, motorists will only be able to exit to the right onto Main Street.
Ingress and egress traffic will both be on Main Street, and there will be 16 parking spaces.
Zappone said access to the store was modeled from nearby McDonald’s.
“We don’t see any reason why the location will be an issue,” said Zappone. “People are very used to this type of layout.”
“We feel very confident that we’re in (a) good position.”
The store will employ approximately 40 to 50 people with around half of that number working full-time, according to Zappone.
“We did most of our hiring over the summer,” said Zappone. “We have a staff so far that is very heavily from the Clarion area.”
Zappone said pay rates vary by experience and availability.
The Clarion County Planning Commission granted preliminary approval to the project in February.
”I’d be remiss if I didn’t say the borough and county were tremendous to work with,” said Zappone. “I think that’s a credit to everyone in the county and borough.”
“There is a lot that Clarion has going for it, and we’re excited to be in the downtown area.”
The former CVS property had been on the market since the company moved across the street to a new location in 2017.
Founded in 1950, Dunkin’ sells a variety of food items, including various baked goods such as donuts and cookies, coffee, and other drinks. The company has over 12,600 restaurants in 40 countries worldwide. The brand announced in September 2018 that it would shorten its name from Dunkin’ Donuts to Dunkin’ as part of a push to become the world’s “premier beverage-led, on-the-go brand.” Dunkin’ is part of the Inspire Brands family of restaurants.
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As ASUU extends strike indefinitely…
Eminent Nigerians, PANDEF, Afenifere, YCE proffer ways to end impasse
EMINENT Nigerians and groups on Monday suggested ways out of the the strike embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on February this year as the union extended the exercise indefinitely.
The groups included the Afenifere, the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), as well as prominent lawyers and other professionals, who said it was time to end the impasse between the Federal Government and the ASUU.
With about 178 days to the general election, spontaneous widespread anger and knocks for the government and the ASUU trailed the latter’s decision to extend its six-months, which began in February.
Millions of students from federal universities have been at home since the union called its members out on the strike over sundry demands on infrastructure and welfare of ASUU members, as preparations for the 2023 elections peaked in the early part of 2022.
University lecturers and students are usually integral part of the adhoc staff members of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), during elections.
Apart from raising a conspiratorial theory aimed at depriving the children of the less privileged citizens, some stakeholders among them, politicians, pro-democracy and rights activists, as well as professionals from diverse fields who spoke to the Nigerian Tribune, decried the resolve of ASUU to stifle the process by declaring an indefinite strike after a meeting held on Monday in Abuja.
Lingering strike ’II impact on 2023 election results —YCE
Worried by indefinite extension of the strike by ASUU, YCE said the strike could have consequences on the 2023 general election.
The Secretary General of the organisation, Dr Kunle Olajide, in an interview with the Nigerian Tribune, expressed regrets that the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government had not done much to address the concerns raised by ASUU since the beginning of the strike in February.
He explained that education remained the potent tool to solve a myriad of challenges in the country, lamenting that the sector, which should be accorded the most priority, was being left in disarray.
On the likely effect of the strike on the 2023 elections, Olajide said: “It is unfortunate we arrived at this unpleasant situation. Education has to be given the right priority because that is where the present and the future of the country is being modeled. I would have expected government to have reached strong agreement with ASUU to avoid extending this strike further.
“It is obvious that when will talk about remuneration in this country, the people in government; executive and the legislative arm have not been fair to the public servants. If you see the allowances of these people, you will be baffled.
“I think government should bend backward to accept to a reasonable extent and negotiate with sincerity because education is at stake. Also, there should be give and take on both sides but the lecturers are not being treated fairly. It is the duty of government to meet their demands if possible with future budget cycle.”
ASUU has lost goodwill-Yusuf Ali, SAN
On his part, Mallam Yusuf Ali, who doubles as Chairman, Osun State University and the Council of Pro-Chancellors of State Universities in Nigeria, declared that ASUU has lost the little goodwill with its latest action.
He said the organisation was losing sympathy because of the negative effect of its prolonged action.
“Indefinite strike! Who does that? Indefinite means without end. How does anybody do that? I don’t think their decision is strategic on ASUU or whatever interest they’re pursuing,” the legal luminary declared.
He called on ASUU to call off the strike and restrategise on making its demand adding, “beheading is not the cure or answer for headache.”
According to Alli, “It’s not in the interest of ASUU to do all they’re doing. Whatever little goodwill they have is fizzling out. People are losing sympathy for whatever cause they say they are fighting because there are those who have their children turning to something different from what they intended them to be, just because the universities were shut. They are promoting, unwittingly, private and state universities.
“Like I always say and I continue to say, beheading is not the cure or answer for headache. Destruction of federal universities is not the answer for whatever agitation anybody has.
“So, I think it’s never too late for them to retrace their steps because no serious person will sympathize with them any more because of the hardship caused in many families in the country.
“All these children who want to be in a school are roaming around in the streets and getting involved in all sorts of unwholesome activities.”
We cannot afford to keep the children at home for too long—Kaka, ex-Ogun dep gov
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State, Senator Adegbenga Kaka, appealed to the government to consider the demands of the striking university lecturers in the interest of the nation.
Kaka, in a telephone interview with the Nigerian Tribune, said they had no reason to stay away from classes, if the government had met all their demands.
He said: “There is no reason ASUU members should not return to classes if what they agreed upon is met.
“If we say education is the bastion of growth and development, we should stop stunting the growth. Government should budget at least 50 per cent for education to address various challenges confronting the educational sector.
“Fifty percent budget for education is not too much, if injected into the system. With this the running cost will be easier to source for.
“The Federal Government should de-empahsise white elephant projects to salvage the nation’s education sector, so as to bring back our children to classes. We cannot afford to keep the children at home for too long.”
The situation quite unfortunate —Tunji Abayomi
A constitutional lawyer, Dr Tunji Abayomi, advocated that the financial management of universities should be decentralised in line with the principle of a truly federal structure as remedy to the current logjam.
Abayomi said: “The situation is quite unfortunate. It is difficult to know what side to back without knowing the details of the disagreement and agreement between the two.
“But, I think we have actually arrived at a point where financial management of the universities should be decentralised. For example, should ASUU negotiate on behalf of state universities? The other issue is ASUU’s constant confrontation with the federal government of Nigeria which appears to me misplaced. I think the organisation should have done more to push for higher budgeting to education at the National Assembly and reduce the structural disorder these endless strikes bring into education administration in Nigeria.”
Failure of FG to resolve strike sad —Ubani
A former vice president of the Nigerian bar association (NBA), Dr Tony Ubani, described as sad that ASUU declared an indefinite strike after almost six months of an industrial action that has grounded all federal universities in particular.
He declared: “The government’s inability to resolve the ASUU issue is catastrophic and mind-boggling. The students remain the victims of this impasse. The tertiary education in Nigeria is destroyed by this prolonged strike. It is sad.”
ASOBEN chides federal government for lackadaisical posture
The Association of Middle Belt Ethnic Nationalities (ASOMBEN) berated the All Progressives Congress led federal government for its lackadaisical posture towards tertiary education, especially the ongoing strike by ASUU.
The General Secretary of the association, Reverend James Pam said for the federal government to have allowed the strike to linger to the level of an indefinite strike by the union does not portray the government in a good light.
He said; “I am highly disappointed that the government who came to power on a mantra of change, to correct the wrongs of the past, can descend to this level by allowing academics in Nigeria Universities to be on strike.
“The APC-led government failed to take cognisance of the fact that we are in election season.there is no doubt that this strike will definitely affect the chance of APC winning the 2023 election because the party has not convinced parents and students that it cares about education.”
He stated that right from the beginning of the negotiation with the striking lecturers, the government, especially the Minister of Education and his Labour counterpart did not show commitment to resolving the impasse.
He added that the position of ASUU will also affect the conduct of 2023 if it snowballed to the election, adding that the lecturers being used as electoral officers might not participate in the exercise.
“There is no doubt this faceoff with ASUU will work negatively for APC, especially during the presidential election because this will form part of the campaign issues,” he said.
Pam, therefore, called on major opinion leaders in the country to intervene so as to resolve the strike.
ASUU strike very unfortunate, ought not to occur in the first place —Afenifere
Pan-Yoruba socio- political group, Afenifere, noted that the strike shouldn’t have occurred in the first place had the Federal Government showed it sincerely wanted the impasse to be amicably resolved.
Afenifere spokesperson, Mr Jare Ajayi, said the manner in which the Ministers of Labour and Education, Dr. Chris Ngige and Mallam Adamu Adamu respectively were relating with ASUU officials at meetings, was condescending if not contemptuous.
According to the Afenifere chieftain, Adamu’s case is particularly disappointing going by the view he expressed on the same issue years ago when he was Editor of New Nigeria Newspapers.
He said Ngige’s posture was regrettable given the fact that he is a medical doctor whose attendance of a university cannot be contested.
This was just as he observed that going by the way things were, not a few Nigerians would be condemning ASUU for continuing with the strike, adding that the union might indeed be described as a saboteur and insensitive to the plight of students and parents.
He, however, said doing so would be in conformity with the attitude of many Nigerians who often blame “the weak or victim when a powerful element uses his might to oppress the weak.
“The strike by ASUU is very unfortunate from the very beginning but it was a ‘forced one.’
“Were the situation of education in the country, particularly at the tertiary level be what it ought to be, there would not have been any strike in the first place.
“Since the present one began on February 14 this year, there has not been any step taken by the Federal Government to show that it sincerely wants the impasse to be amicably resolved.
“The manner in which the Ministers of Labour and Education, Dr. Chris Ngige and Mallam Adamu Adamu were relating with ASUU officials at meetings was condescending if not contemptuous.
“Adamu’s case is particularly disappointing going by the view he expressed on the same issue years ago when he was Editor of New Nigeria. And Ngige’s posture too is regrettable given the fact that he is a medical doctor whose attendance of a university cannot be contested.
“The way things are presently, many would be condemning ASUU for continuing with the strike. Indeed, the union might be described as a saboteur and insensitive to the plight of students and parents. Doing so would be in conformity with the attitude of many of us in Nigeria where we often blame the weak or victim when a powerful element uses his might to oppress the weak.”
Ajayi said it was on record that the cause of the prolonged strike was the failure of the government to honour the agreement it reached with the union as far back as 2009, just as he noted that the government, through the spokesman of the Ministry of Education, Mr. Bem Goong, said that it had fulfilled about 80 percent of ASUU demands, without making known to the public “the specifics of the demands that were met by the government as claimed.
“It is on record for instance that the cause of this prolonged strike is the failure of the government to honour the agreement it reached with the union as far back as 2009.
“It would be recalled that a strike on the same issue came up in 2020. The union suspended its strike in December of that year when the government gave the impression that it was going to honour the Memorandum of Action it reached with the union. Failure to do so was what led to the 2022 strike.
“Presently, the Federal Government, through the spokesman of the Ministry of Education, Mr. Bem Goong, said that it has fulfilled about 80 percent of ASUU demands. The question to ask here is: what are the specifics of the demands that were met by the government as claimed?” Ajayi queried.
The Afenifere spokesman, while faulting ASUU for its failure to properly articulate its own position in a manner that the public would fully understand, said the federal government should be seen as the agent provocateur given the fact that there was hardly any major agreement it reached with Nigerians and major public-oriented organizations in the country that it fulfilled satisfactorily.
“It was always quick to react when and where the interests of the political class are at stake such as when the airline operators threatened to go on strike and when the electricity workers did same.
“But when it comes to matters affecting the average person in the country, the government always behaves as if it did not derive its mandate from the people,” he stated.
Ajayi said he is not unaware that pressures would be mounted on ASUU to suspend the strike, but posited that it would amount to postponing the evil day.
Reconsider your stance, parents tell FG, ASUU
Parents have called on the Federal Government and the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to reconsider their differences and reach a resolution that will best serve the interest of students and public university.
A cross section of parents, including the National President of National Parent-Teachers Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN), Alhaji Haruna Danjuma and Mr Funsho Adams, who has two students in the University of Lagos, Akoka, said it is not only disturbing but worrisome particularly to them and students that the strike could be this prolonged.
They said though ASUU had a genuine cause, it should at the same time consider students who are idle, coupled with the socio-economic implications of the development on the society.
NAPTAN boss said the government needed to genuinely address the issues in contention, particularly the policy of no work, no pay rule and go by the lecturers’ position asking for their salaries before going back to work.
He said since ASUU would still do the work they abandoned anytime they resumed at their duty posts, they should be paid for the period of the strike.
He said the government and ASUU could not continue to hold the students to ransom for the offence they did not commit.
He, therefore, appealed particularly to ASUU to have a rethink on its position on the strike so that more damage would not be done to the country.
FG has failed, but ASUU should show sympathy —NBA
The Federal Government has failed for allowing the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to indefinitely extend its ongoing industrial action.
This is the view of the immediate past NBA chairman, Warri branch, Chief Emmanuel Uti, in a chat with our correspondent on Monday evening.
He, however, opined that ASUU also ought to have shown some sympathy for the students who have been left in the lurch since February 2022.
“The ASUU strike extension shows failure on the part of government and ASUU.
“The lecturers, at this stage, ought to show some sympathy for the students as the continued stay at home portends great danger to our educational sector.
“We have been crying that the standard of our education has fallen, this strike extension would worsen the situation,” he lamented.
ASUU’s extension of strike sad, unfortunate – PANDEF
Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) says the extension of the ongoing strike action indefinitely by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is not only sad, but most unfortunate.
National Publicity Secretary, PANDEF, Ken Robinson, in his reaction to the extension , described the decision as worrisome.
“It is a demonstration of total disregard for the plight of Nigerian students in the nation’s federal universities, who have been forced to remain at home for over six months, by both the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
“PANDEF is worried over the reoccurring, prolonged strikes by, particularly, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), and other Unions in the Nation’s University System.
“This is not a situation that should be happening. The Federal Government and ASUU should be aware that they are endangering not only the future of our youths but also, the educational system of the country,” Robinson warned.
The apex sociocultural organisation of the Niger Delta earnestly advises, both the Federal Government and ASUU, to take all necessary steps to urgently bring this situation to an end and let the students return to their lectures, in the interest of the nation’s future and development.”
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Borno govt enrols 7,000 out-of-school IDPs’ children
Borno State governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, has supervised the enrollment of over 7,000 out- of -school children into schools in Northern part of the state where Boko Haram insurgents displaced thousands of people.
The governor disclosed this to newsmen on Monday in Monguno area of the state.
He said, “today, we are here in Monguno for only one purpose, to enroll the out-of-school children into schools”,
According to him, most of the children enrolled in schools are orphans whose parents were killed during the Boko Haram insurgency in northern parts of the state.
“The children, aged between six and 13, were enrolled into primary and junior secondary schools, depending on their academic statuses before they were displaced by insurgents from communities in Monguno, Kukawa, Guzamala and Marte local government areas, all in northern part of the state,” he said.
“After numerous attacks on communities in the aforementioned local government areas since 2014, residents including children, escaped to Monguno town to live in Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs) camps for years, with many children missing school,” he added.
The governor applauded parents and guardians for the large turnout of their children and wards for the mass enrollment.
Zulum also visited and assessed the ongoing construction and renovation works at a site he had approved for the Federal Polytechnic in Monguno and directed the construction of additional hostel, staff quarters and administration block at the Federal Polytechnic.
Zulum had previously approved and released N100million to enable the school to take-off soon after it was approved by President Muhammadu Buhari in January, 2021.
While visiting the polytechnic, the governor inspected the ongoing construction of zonal office of a newly created monitoring and evaluation unit from which some trained officials will be monitoring government establishments such as schools and hospitals.
Zulum traveled to Monguno in company of the state’s Commissioner for Education, Lawan Abba Wakilbe,
Mohammed Tahir Monguno, who is the Chief Whip of the House of Representatives and the All Progressives Congress (APC’s) senatorial candidate for northern Borno.
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BREAKING: Yinka Odumakin’s father dies at 116
The father of late Comrade Yinka Odumakin died Monday evening at 5.30 pm, at the age of 116.
Dr Joe Okei Odumakin who broke the news said she spoke with the old man earlier today and they had a brief prayer session along with other family discussions.
Nigerians would recall Pa Odumakin as one who stood firmly in faith as the pain of a huge loss ravaged him.
Dr Joe Okei Odumakin said papa would be sorely missed as he was not only the patriarch but the rallying point for the entire family.
Until his passing on today, Elder Ezekiel Abioye Odumakin was the Baba Ijo of C.A.C. Moro land.
She said further announcements will be made as the family deems fit.
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The Federal Government has released the sum of N6.25 billion to the Katsina State government for the establishment of pasture development and the construction of infrastructure in the affected areas of Ruma-Kujar-Jangarai grazing reserves and nearby communities in the state.
Nine local government areas of Jibia, Batsari, Dutsinma, Safana, Danmusa, Kankara, Faskari, Sabuwa and Dandume are to benefit from the project.
The state’s deputy govérnor, Mannir Yakubu, disclosed this during the Ranch Development Stakeholders’ meeting in Katsina on Monday.
Alhaji Lawal Bagiwa, the Special Adviser on Livestock and Grazing Reserves, who represented the deputy governor at the event, said the funds would be used for the construction of schools, health centres and veterinary clinics in the affected communities.
He added that government would engage the services of contractors who will construct 14 more infrastructure in all the 10 local government areas.
Yakubu assured that the state government would continue to do its best to ensure that peace and stability are restored across the state. He requested for the support of the affected communities for the execution of the infrastructure in the identified sites.
On the sideline of the event, Bagiwa, in an interview, said the state government intends to intervene by providing three ranges in Jibia and Batsari local governments.
While four ranges would be constructed in Dutsinma, Kurfi and Safana local governments, he added that three other ranges would be located at Danmusa, Kankara, Faskari, Sabuwa and Dandume local governments.
Nigerian Tribune Source, in Katsina said the beneficiaries of the projects are the frontline local government areas of the state that are bedevilled by the menace of bandits.
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THE Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Ernest Umakhihe has inaugurated the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for the 45th Regular Meeting of the National Council on Agriculture and Rural Development (NCARD), slated for Jos , Plateau State early September with a charge to address critical issues affecting Development and Management in the Agricultural Sector.
During the event which took place at the Ministry, the Permanent Secretary stated that Agriculture is a critical Sector that touches our livelihoods and needs all the necessary attention deserved to make it economically efficient, effective as well as achieve food and nutrition security.
Dr. Ernest Umakhihe pointed out that the Council was expected to fully explore the possibility of using the unique platform provided by the forthcoming NCARD to develop a workable policies and strategies that will enable the Ministry to deliver on its mandate to the Nation, with a view to creating sustainable impacts in the Agricultural Sector of the Economy.
According to him, ‘’the Council will play important role towards enhancing the efforts of the Present Administration’s Agenda of uplifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in the next 10 years and the expectations both the Government and the General populace are high ‘’.
He tasked the LOC ‘’to ensure that everything is put in place for the seamless meeting of the Council as well as to track the implementations of the resolutions of the last year’s Council meeting as one of the major priorities’’.
The Permanent Secretary stated that the 45th regular meeting will hold from Tuesday 13th to Saturday 17th September, 2022 at Langfield, Rayfield Hotel, Jos, Plateau State.
In his welcome address, Director, Planning and Policy Coordination Department, Mr. Ibrahim Bello thanked the Permanent Secretary for his support and contributions towards the inauguration of the committee and He pledged that the committee would work assiduously towards achieving its set objectives.
The Term of Reference of the LOC includes; Put in place necessary arrangements to facilitate successful conduct of the Council meeting, Provide adequate and efficient secretariat to guarantee smooth conduct and accurate documentation of all proceedings, Adequate supply and distribution of conference materials, efficient conduct of participants and any other activities initiated to add value to the conduct of the event, Prepare and submit to management progress reports on activities of the committee leading to and after the conduct of the event; Ensure adequate publicity for the event and full active participation of stakeholders, among others.
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TALK is cheap and anyone could do that. But to reasonably talk is a thing that is scarce as we are nearing the electioneering period. Consequently, one needs to be careful of whom one listens to and whom one reads. It was reported that in Abeokuta on Friday at a reception organised by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for new members, the governor-elect of Osun State, Mr Ademola Adeleke, said the party would win next year’s governorship election in Ogun State. Mr. Adeleke, who was represented by the former South-West Secretary of the party, Bunmi Jenyo, said: “Adeleke said I should tell you that it will be done, Like we did in Osun, we are going to repeat the feat in Ogun state.” It is delusional at best to think what happened in Osun State can be replicated in Ogun State and logically irrational to think the people of Osun and Ogun have similar choices or think alike. The geography, demography, and sociopolitical dynamics, among others, of Osun state and Ogun State are in no way similar. Therefore, it betrays logic to think the tactics used in Osun would be potent in Ogun.
The African proverb says: “It is only the tree that bears good/sweet fruits that gets hit by stones and sticks” must have had Prince Dapo Abiodun, MFR, the governor of Ogun State at the centre of its thought. Incontrovertibly, no one wastes their efforts at attacking and maligning a tree that bears sour fruits. For the governor, the saying rings true as he has been a tree blossoming with abundant fruit for which he cannot escape the stones and sticks thrown at him by politicians in the opposition party who are envious of his stances and (giant) strides. Aside from the fact that the people of Ogun State pride themselves as enlightened and politically conscious people who would not allow themselves to be led by a character who is best fit for the entertainment industry, they also care about the carriage, personality, and productivity all of which are absent in both the maker of the speech quoted above and the person he is advocating for but present in Prince Abiodun.
Leadership is meant for serious-minded people who understand that with great power comes great responsibilities. And not for the prestige, title, and so on. As a son of the soil, it would be displeasing and embarrassing to have my state of origin governed by someone who is known more for his clueless and confusing choreography than as a leader. The person he advocated for, like him, is wealthy, and it is also because he is wealthy that he is aspiring to become the governor even when he lacks gubernatorial grit. Here is someone who is known for nothing exceptional except the name that has been built by his father who is a worthy philanthropist. But he demeans that high society with his vulgar speeches. As a son of the soil, I would not be proud to have someone as such be the governor of our beloved Ogun State.
It is not abnormal for parties to want to unseat one another. However, to think the PDP’s standard-bearer in Ogun State will defeat Prince Abiodun is a reverie. Personality for personality, leadership qualities, and the achievements the governor has recorded in the areas of infrastructure and human-capital developments and so on are sufficient to pitch one’s tent with him against a neophyte who has no tangible leadership records but feels becoming the governor is his birthright. In Ogun, there is no space or crown for a clown: it is serious business here. May Ogun State never witness an affliction! Finally, as everyone gives only what they have, if Prinve Abiodun always gives quality service, his detractors should always give spineless opposition and lamentation. After all, reproach doesn’t diminish the sweetness of honey as honey is naturally sweetened.
- Sotayo writes in from Abeokuta, Ogun State, via penpusher2015@gmail.com
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The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Ms Kachollom S. Daju, has emphasised the importance of synergy in achieving Public Service Reforms in line with the goals of the present administration.
She made the emphasis when she received in audience, Dr Dasuki Ibrahim Arabi, Director-General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) at the Ministry’s headquarters in Abuja who was on a courtesy visit to the ministry to solicit collaboration and support for the department of reform coordination in implementing the reform initiatives of the present government.
Daju said that there was an urgent need to reform the civil service which can only be attained through a collective effort of reform coordination across all Ministries, Agencies and Departments of the government.
She noted that the digitalisation, self-assessment tools and performance management system that the BPRS in collaboration with Head of Service had put in place would go a long way in sanitising the service.
The Permanent Secretary called on the BPSR, as the coordinating agency, to ensure it interfaces effectively with all MDA’s to resolve whatever challenges that may exist. She commended the DG for the efforts so far and assured him of the Ministry’s complete support and partnership in relevant areas as reform is paramount in industrial relations.
Speaking earlier, the Director-General, BPSR, Dr Dasuki Ibrahim Arabi, mentioned that the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment plays an important role in the implementation of the National Strategy on Public Service Reform as it oversees labour relations, performance of workers, safety and their welfare.
Dr Arabi stated that the request was in tandem with the directives of President Muhammadu Buhari to BPSR in ensuring proper coordination and collaboration with MDA’s and state governments.
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Wike to expose politicians planning to continue looting Nigeria’s treasury
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has promised to expose politicians who plan to continue the looting of Nigeria’s treasury even as he revealed that some politicians canvassing for votes to win 2023 presidential election do not mean well for the country.
The governor boasted to have privileged information on the plans of these politicians and to reveal their identities at the appropriate time so that Nigerians can use their votes to reject them.
Wike made the revelation at the flag-off of internal roads at Rumuesara, Eneka town in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, held on Monday.
He said: “Some other people are busy, putting themselves together on how they will take over leadership in Nigeria to loot the remaining ones these other people have already kept.
“I’m privileged to know and at the appropriate time I’ll tell you who these people are. You need to know what is happening in Nigeria. Forget about all these people running around saying they want to rescue or save you. Just watch to see what is going to happen next.
“All of us should be calm concerning what is happening in PDP. In fact, nothing has happened yet. But by the grace of God, something will happen.” Wike added.
He pointed out that while his administration continues to flag-off and inaugurate projects for Rivers people, detractors keep sponsoring negative media campaigns against him, noting that despite such negative media comments, his administration has not relented in offering good governance to strengthen the relationship with the people of Rivers State.
“Look at us concentrating in giving our people good governance. What is good governance? Good governance is making the people to be happy. Good governance is providing infrastructure for the people. Good governance is not about party. Providing good governance is about leadership. We are here everyday flagging off projects, commissioning projects even though our tenure is coming to an end,” he stated.
He observed that it would be difficult for seasonal politicians who have never done anything to better the lot of Rivers electorate to come to them and solicit their votes.
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“Now that I have come to Eneka to provide this basic infrastructure, I can come back to Eneka and ask you to follow me, let us go there or let us stay here. Do they have what it takes to come and talk to you? Can they come and talk to you?
“It is somebody that hears from you that you have also hear from. This one you’ve not provided anything for my people, you’ve not asked them what they want, then you want to tell them where to vote.
“So, it is us that will come and meet you and say see where you’ll vote. And I know based on our relationship, since we have not deceived you, we have not told you lies, you will follow us at the appropriate time,” Wike told Eneka people.
He added that Eneka fills a strategic place in his educational and political success story, which is why he cannot abandon its people.
According to him, he schooled at the Government Secondary School Eneka and had his council chairmanship sponsored by Senator John Azuta-Mbata, who hails from the town.
Governor Wike promised that his administration will soon commence reconstruction work at the secondary school in a bid to transform it into a modern standard learning facility.
He urged those who have encroached and developed structures on the land to vacate the premises to avoid the wrath of the State government.
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Two vigilante members and a suspected child serial rapist have been arrested by the Bauchi State Police Command.
While the two vigilante members were arrested for the offense of criminal conspiracy, criminal intimidation and rape at gunpoint, the third suspect was arrested allegedly for serial raping of children.
A press release by the Command PPRO, SP Ahmed Wakili contained that Police detectives attached to Ningi Division received a distress call and immediately swung into action leading to the arrest of the two suspects for the above offences.
The two vigilante members arrested are Lawali Sule aged 30 years and Babangida Shehu also aged 30 years all of Dogon-ruwa village in Ningi LGA.
The statement further stated that ”on 25th August, 2022 at about 0200hrs, the two suspects conspired among themselves and stormed the house of one Alhaji Gare.
”They were all armed with Dane-guns, broke into his wife’s room, one Hadiza Alhaji (not real name) and asked her of her husband whereabout, but she told them that he was not at home.
”Thereafter they threatened her with a gun with the view to have forceful canal knowledge of her and she succumbed out of fear.
”A discreet investigation commenced in earnest just as the victim was evacuated to the general hospital, Ningi for medical examination and confirmation of penetration.
”During the investigation, the suspects voluntary confessed to the crime while exhibits recovered from them were the Two Dane-guns.
”Earlier on 24 August, 2022 at about 1100rs, one Mato Yohannah, 27 years of Jimbin Village, Ganjuwa LGA was arrested by the detectives of Ganjuwa Divisional headquarters after he had canal knowledge with one (Sarah Ezra), not real name, 3 years old of Jimbin village, Ganjuwa LGA.
”During the investigation, the suspect confessed to having raped minors for the second time.
”All the suspects will be charged to court for prosecution as directed by the Commissioner of Police, Umar Mamman Sanda. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/suspected-serial-rapist-two-vigilante-members-arrested-for-criminal-conspiracy-in-bauchi/ | 2022-08-30T10:23:03Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/suspected-serial-rapist-two-vigilante-members-arrested-for-criminal-conspiracy-in-bauchi/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV)- The score may not have been what fans wanted, but hometown fans who stood in the stands and cheered for the University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team were still fired up about the first game of the season. There's something special about seeing it firsthand, you can't experience any other way.
The ring of the ticket scanner is music to some people's ears. “Some great new fans. Old or brand new, it's a great time to be alive out here,” said UH fan Joey who is attending the first home game of the season. “Oh my goodness, this is such a relief. Last season we had to do social distancing and the mask mandate. It was hard to cheer,” said Christopher Cheek who is attending the game.
Cheek is excited to be in a stadium cheering on the Rainbow Warriors, without having to deal with COVID restrictions. He's even brought a little bit of football tradition with him, Ti leaves. “We use it to bless our players. And give them good luck as well. So what we do is we bring it from home. Pass it out to all the UH fans. So we can cheer our team on,” said Cheek.
Cheek's Shaka hand gesture says it all. Hang loose. Win or lose. Fans continue to cheer the team on. “You got to come out and support the local people. Always no matter what. Home town, boy let's go,” said Cory Aliimanouki who is at the game.
HONOLULU (KITV)- The stadium experience adds another level to Hawaii Aloha for the team. It's something even the opposing team's fans can appreciate. The energy from the crowd. You feel that spirit come alive. See warriors on the field. That's going to be incredible,” said one Vanderbilt fan who has come to Oahu to see the game.
Some come for the family experience. “I'm here for the band. Because it's my son's first time playing with the marching band this year,” said Megan Hayashi.
Others come for the music or the food. Being at the game in person has that rainbow magic. “It's the atmosphere. The band and music and the game all together. It's a lot of fun,” said Hayashi.
Jefferson Tyler joined KITV after a lengthy stint in Reno, Nev. where he covered a variety of subjects. From wildfires to presidential elections, Jefferson takes pride in creating balanced stories that keep viewers’ attentions. | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/first-home-game-has-fans-fired-up-even-with-the-first-loss-of-the-season/article_d9dd41d8-2830-11ed-9425-970f005bd4b5.html | 2022-08-30T10:23:35Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/first-home-game-has-fans-fired-up-even-with-the-first-loss-of-the-season/article_d9dd41d8-2830-11ed-9425-970f005bd4b5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Hawaii residents who want to build or renovate their home wait three times longer for permits, on average, than those in other states, according to a University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization Brief.
That's why a Honolulu City Council member is requesting an investigation into the City Department of Planning and Permitting's backlog of permits.
The investigation follows a townhall meeting with the City Department of Planning and Permitting plus local builders. Council member Andria Tupola held the townhall meeting to address frustrations with residential and commercial permit wait times, which are said to take up to 24 months.
Following the meeting, the DPP released this requested report of permits. About 35-hundred applications are in the pre-screening phase, almost 48-hundred permits are in planning review .. and more than 11-hundred permits have been approved.
"Every week, I get calls from people who have a permit stuck in the permitting process," says Andria Tupola, City Council Member District 1. "These are people building affordable housing; doing renovations on their home; who own restaurants. These are people frustrated that businesses are operating without a permit. So there is not a day we don't have to deal with a permit issue.
Compounding its image as an agency mired in bureaucratic inefficiency: nearly 2 years ago, five DPP employees were arrested on federal bribery charges.
"Since that happened and the audits happened, things have really slowed down dramatically.. but obviously COVID is probably a big factor as well. Those two things weighing out, permits are taking 12 months to 16 to 18 months now for our projects. Still not only challenging in itself but a lot of those time frames are in the dark, " says Richie Breaux of ATN Construction.
Builders say, the process needs to be streamlined to make it easier for small construction companies versus big construction projects.
Ryan Awong, Elite Auto Detail HI explains: "I shouldn't be standing in line with a guy who is trying to build a 40-story building. Those guys should have their own area. I think that will take care of a majority of the back log. You got to give the big boys their stuff -- they get the economy going and we understand that."
D.P.P. says it is suffering from a 30% vacancy rate. The 2023 City Budget includes filling 80 vacancies plus hiring 80 new people, so the city hopes to fill 160 positions at D.P.P. within the next 3 years.
"We're trying to build capacity within the department -- so we can process permits faster, " says Dean Uchida, Dept. of Planning & Permitting. "It's just a staffing and resource issue right now. The budget reflects where our focus is going to be going forward trying to eliminate the problem once and for all. "
D.P.P. is proposing a 15 million dollar software upgrade to help with streamlining the process. Councilmember Tupola says, the budget for the software has not yet been approved.
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First look: Dems' climate ad blitz
With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, Democrats are spending millions to tout its climate and clean energy provisions — aiming to turn out 2 million environmentally-driven voters across 17 states in November.
Driving the news: Climate Power Action and League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Victory Fund, two of Dems' biggest outside climate groups, on Tuesday are launching a $12 million digital ad and direct mail campaign targeted largely to younger, college-educated women.
Details: Their "Climate Voters Mobilization" 2022 program is modeled in part after the success they found targeting swing voters over environmental issues in 2020, and part of a larger $100 million campaign.
- The campaign supports pro-climate U.S. Senate and House candidates in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
- Like other climate groups, they had been anticipating how to sell the IRA to voters this fall even before it had even passed, as Axios' Ben Geman reports.
- Their goal is to reach Biden voters who aren't excited about participating in the 2022 cycle, but are highly interested in climate and environmental issues.
What they're saying: Pete Maysmith of LCV Victory Fund called the IRA "monumental and important climate legislation," telling Axios: "We know we need to motivate people and increase enthusiasm."
- Heather Hargreaves, senior advisor for Climate Power Action, told Axios their modeling in coordination with Blue Labs, a Democratic data science company, showed messaging around lower energy costs, job creation, clean energy and consequences of failing to take climate action is most effective with their target demo. Many of these voters "are just not aware of what’s happened with the IRA... but when people learn, they move to Democrats."
By the numbers: Voter enthusiasm for the midterms has reached its highest points in the last month, per Morning Consult, but other polls have shown the president steadily losing support with young voters.
What to watch: Democrat senators and candidates getting a boost from this initiative include Sens. Mark Kelly (Arizona), Michael Bennet (Colorado), Raphael Warnock (Georgia), Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire), Catherine Cortez-Masto (Nevada), John Fetterman (Pennsylvania), and Mandela Barnes (Wisconsin.).
- Democratic House members and candidates getting a boost include Reps. Katie Porter and Mike Levin in California; Jahana Hayes in Connecticut; Lauren Underwood in Illinois; Cindy Axne in Iowa; Sharice Davids in Kansas; Elissa Slotkin and Dan Kildee in Michigan; Marcy Kaptur in Ohio; Chris Pappas and Ann Kuster in New Hampshire; Andy Kim in New Jersey; Dina Titus, Susie Lee and Steven Horsford in Nevada; Susan Wild and Matt Cartwright in Pennsylvania; Elaine Luria and Abigail Spanberger in Virginia; and Kim Schrier in Washington. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/30/first-look-dems-climate-ad-blitz | 2022-08-30T10:25:29Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/30/first-look-dems-climate-ad-blitz | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Introducing How it Happened Season Five: Elon Musk vs. Twitter
How it Happened: Elon Musk vs. Twitter is a first-of-its-kind newsroom collaboration featuring exclusive reporting on the rise of Elon Musk to become world's richest man, the parallel rise of Twitter as the global public square, and the collision of these two titans this year.
This documentary season is hosted by Axios business reporter Erica Pandey and features reporting from political reporter Jonathan Swan, media reporter Sara Fischer, business editor Dan Primack, space reporter Miriam Kramer, and others.
- The podcast will go inside Elon Musk's world and inside his companies to understand how he achieved cross-industry dominance and what that says about how he might manage Twitter.
- It will also go deep inside Twitter's inner workings, with new reporting on key moments in its history, including the day President Trump's account was permanently suspended.
- The podcast will illuminate how Musk's tweet offering to buy the platform and subsequent back-track shook up the financial and tech worlds, how his politics have shifted, how the legal battle between Musk and Twitter could play out — and how all of this could impact his legacy.
Listen now to the trailer and subscribe to hear the new season when it launches in September.
Credits: Elon Musk vs. Twitter was reported by the Axios newsroom including Erica Pandey, Jonathan Swan, Sara Fischer, Dan Primack, Miriam Kramer, Joann Muller, Javier David, Ina Fried, Hope King, and others. Amy Pedulla is reporter-producer. Naomi Shavin is senior producer. Scott Rosenberg and Alison Snyder are series editors. Sara Kehaulani Goo is the Editor-in-Chief and executive producer. Mixing and sound design by Ben O'Brien. Music supervision by Alex Sugiura. Theme music and original score by Michael Hanf. Special thanks to Axios co-founders Mike Allen, Jim VandeHei and Roy Schwartz.
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Half of health care facilities around the world lack basic hygiene, WHO finds
Half of the health care facilities around the world lack basic hygiene services like water and soap, the World Health Organization and UNICEF said in a new report out Tuesday.
Why it matters: Poor hygiene conditions put the approximately 3.85 billion people who depend on the facilities at greater risk of disease and infection, WHO and UNICEF said.
- The report says that unsanitary environments and health workers play a "significant" role in pathogen transmission and could prolong health crises, like the COVID-19 pandemic.
What they're saying: "Hygiene facilities and practices in health care settings are non-negotiable. Their improvement is essential to pandemic recovery, prevention and preparedness,” said Maria Neira, director of WHO's Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health.
- Hospitals and clinics without safe water and basic hygiene are "a potential death trap for pregnant mothers, newborns, and children," said Kelly Ann Naylor, a UNICEF director overseeing risk reduction. She noted around 670,000 newborns lose their lives to sepsis each year.
Details: WHO's and UNICEF's Joint Monitoring Program reports country, regional and global estimates of progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene.
- The report on hygiene has data covering 40 countries and representing 35% of the world's population. This is an increase from 21 counties in 2020.
By the numbers: Only 51% of health care centers had hygiene facilities at points of care and hand washing facilities, meaning the other half did not meet WHO's critera for basic hygiene services.
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Biotech funding expanding into Mass. suburbs
Cambridge and Boston continue to outpace other Massachusetts cities and towns when it comes to venture capital funding for biopharmaceutical companies, a new report says.
- Yes, but: Investors are also betting on startups in Waltham, Watertown and other small cities, per the report, confirming state officials and business leaders’ comments that the biotech industry is expanding beyond Cambridge.
Driving the news: Cambridge biotech companies raised $2.2 billion — or 43% of biotech funding in Massachusetts — in the first half of 2022, according to MassBio’s industry snapshot released today.
- Just over the river, Boston biotech companies raised $1.5 billion, nearly 30% of funding in the state, in that same time frame.
- The other nearly $1.4 billion, or 27%, in investments funded biotech companies in other cities and towns, but among them Waltham stood out as an emerging biotech hub with $561 million in VC funding (about 11% of funding).
Yes, but: Just how much biopharmaceutical companies have expanded beyond Cambridge and Boston remains unclear; MassBio’s industry snapshot did not break down VC funding by municipality in previous years.
Why it matters: Biotech has transformed from an industry of roughly 46,000 workers in 2006 to one boasting more than 106,000 workers so far this year, per MassBio.
- These workers have helped develop cancer-treating drugs, COVID-19 vaccines and other life-saving treatments.
- The funding kept coming for Massachusetts biotechs this year, despite lower stock valuations, layoffs, inflation and other challenges affecting the life sciences industry.
Zoom out: Greater Boston remains one of the biggest biotech hubs in the country, behind the Bay Area.
- About one-quarter of all VC funding for pharmaceuticals in the U.S. went to Massachusetts-based companies in the first half of the year, per MassBio.
What they’re saying: "The fact that good science will continue to be invested in and is being invested in here in Massachusetts is a great sign for the industry here,” said Ben Bradford, MassBio’s vice president of economic development and workforce, in an interview with Axios.
Details: Some newer, smaller biopharmaceutical companies are moving into the suburbs, such as Upstream Bio in Waltham and Affini-T Therapeutics in Watertown.
- But it’s not just new biotech startups, either. Cambridge-based Moderna also has a biomanufacturing facility in Norwood, a town south of Boston, while its rival Pfizer has a 70-acre campus for research and manufacturing in Andover, roughly 20 minutes south of the New Hampshire border.
Between the lines: Cambridge and Boston are home to renowned institutions, from Harvard University and MIT to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, but the report notes the suburbs have something they don’t: cheaper real estate.
- Cambridge lab rents average $118 per square foot, while Boston lab rents average $108 per square foot.
- Middlesex County prices outside of Cambridge averages $94-$97 per square foot.
- And rent is far lower elsewhere, averaging $31-$45 per square foot in Worcester County, $35-$60.50 per square foot in Essex County and $49-$52 per square foot in Norfolk County.
The bottom line: Cambridge remains the state’s biotech capital, just over the river from the actual state capital, but expect the state’s life sciences industry to keep growing out into the suburbs.
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Duggan says ShotSpotter may have prevented mass shooting
Investigators continue piecing together Sunday's shooting that left three dead and another hospitalized.
Driving the news: During a news conference yesterday, Detroit police chief James White outlined Sunday's daylong manhunt.
- Led by DPD with Michigan State Police, the ATF and the FBI, it ended in the arrest of a 19-year-old without incident.
- The police were able to identify the suspected gunman through an individual close to his family who identified him from an image captured on a private security camera.
What happened: The shootings took place across the west side from about 4:45am to 7:10am, police said. The suspect was arrested at 5:30pm at his family home located in the same area. Police have yet to identify a motive.
- Police have also not released the names of the victims yet, per department policy. The second victim has still not been identified.
Between the lines: Mayor Mike Duggan used the shooting to further DPD's case for City Council to approve a contract renewal and service expansion of ShotSpotter, the controversial gunshot surveillance technology.
- "If we had ShotSpotter, there's an excellent chance he was arrested by five in the morning," Duggan told reporters, adding that local activists have put out false information about the tool.
- Duggan said the lack of police response after the first shooting may have emboldened the alleged shooter.
Yes, but: It's unclear whether the proposed renewal and extension of ShotSpotter would even cover the area near the 12th police precinct where the shooting occurred.
- When asked yesterday, a DPD spokesperson wasn't sure whether the expansion being proposed to council would cover the area near Livernois Avenue and Wyoming Street.
What they're saying: Some residents feel ShotSpotter expansion is an attempt to surveil their communities, says Joanna Velazquez, the campaign manager at Detroit Action.
- "Residents we have been talking with are aware that Shotspotter 100% of the time does not prevent gun violence — it's a response to it. They don't see the reliability or necessity of it," Velazquez tells Axios.
What's next: City Council is expected to vote next month on granting DPD's $8 million request to expand the gunshot surveillance company's presence.
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Life expectancy for North Carolinians drops
Life expectancy in North Carolina fell by 1.5 years from 2019 to 2020, according to new CDC data.
By the numbers: North Carolinians lived to an average age of 76.1 — lower than the national average of 77.
- Women in the state (79) tended to live longer than men (73.3).
The big picture: Nationwide, life expectancy dropped by 1.8 years. The decline is mostly due to the COVID-19 pandemic and increases in unintentional injuries, specifically drug overdose deaths, Axios' Jacob Knutson reports.
- In 2020, COVID-19 caused approximately 375,000 deaths in the U.S., while over 91,700 people died of a drug overdose.
- A study released in April 2022 showed that U.S. life expectancy likely again dropped in 2021.
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Flat Dogs: Here are the 10 best and worst breeds of adorable dog for owners living in a city apartment - from the Beagle to the Bichon Frise 🐕
Here are the dog breeds that should top your list if you live in a flat – and the ones you should avoid.
Plenty of us decided to welcome new four-legged friends into our homes in the last couple of years – according to Kennel Club figures dog ownership soared by nearly eight percent – and post-lockdown demand for puppies remains high.
There are a whopping 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, alongside numerous crossbreeds, so there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your family’s latest addition.
There’s even academic guidance to seek out, with Psychologist Stanley Coren’s book ‘The Intelligence of Dogs’ ranking breeds by instincts, obedience, and the ability to adapt. One thing worth considering before making a decision is the type of property you live in, with larger more active dogs needing a house with a garden so they have plenty of space to roam.
But other dogs need far less room and will be perfectly content to live in a small flat. So, here are the 10 breeds of dog most and least suited to living in a flat.
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Rab Wardell cycling film following West Highland Way record attempt to be shown at festival after his death
A film about Scots cyclist Rab Wardell's record-breaking ride of the West Highland Way is to be shown as part of the Banff Mountain Film Festival a month after his untimely death.
Wardell, died two days after he won the elite men’s title at the Scottish MTB XC Championships and appeared on BBC Scotland’s The Nine programme hours before his death.
The film which follows the Dunfermline-born rider on a record-breaking ride in 2020 is to be show next month during the festival's visits to Stirling, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.
In completing the record, he shaved around 14 minutes off the record set by Fort William cyclist Gary McDonald just a month earlier.
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Festival Director Joanna Croston said the film has taken on a new meaning following the death of the 37-year-old stating: “It was meant to be a homecoming for the film and now unfortunately it’s got a different meaning in it, and more a celebration of life rather than a celebration of the achievement.”
"We were all shocked and devastated to learn of Rab’s passing.”
His partner, Katie Archibald, said a day after his death that the cyclist had gone into cardiac arrest while they were lying in bed together.
In an emotional statement, posted on Twitter, Archibald, who won gold medals at both the 2016 and 2020 Olympics, said: “I still don’t understand what’s happened; if this is real; why he’d be taken now – so healthy and happy.
“He went into cardiac arrest while we were lying in bed. I tried and tried, and the paramedics arrived within minutes, but his heart stopped and they couldn’t bring him back.
“Mine stopped with it. I love him so much and need him here with me. I need him here so badly, but he’s gone. I can’t describe this pain.”
Wardell represented Scotland in the Commonwealth Games in 2006 and was a British Championships medallist, multiple Scottish champion, Race The World USA winner, and a Team Scotland and British Cycling Team representative.
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Simona Halep of Romania returns ball during 1st round match of US Open 2022 against Daria Snigur of Ukraine at Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, United States on August 29, 2022.
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Sara Sorribes Tormo of Spain returns against Viktoria Kuzmova of Slovakia during the Women's Singles First Round on Day One of the 2022 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 29, 2022 in New York City.
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Bill Clinton and Dr. Ruth look on during the Women's Singles First Round match between Serena Williams of the United States and Danka Kovinic of Montenegro on Day One of the 2022 US Open.
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American actress and singer Anika Noni Rose, American former professional boxer Mike Tyson and Mike Tyson's wife Lakiha Spicer attend the 1st round match between Serena Williams of USA and Danka Kovinic of Montenegro on August 29, 2022.
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Actor Hugh Jackman looks on during the Women's Singles First Round match between Serena Williams of the United States and Danka Kovinic of Montenegro on Day One of the 2022 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 29, 2022.
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Serena Williams of the United States is greeted by Billie Jean King after her match against Danka Kovinic of Montenegro during the Women's Singles First Round on Day One of the 2022 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 29, 2022 in the Flushing.
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Anna Kalinskaya returns a shot against Rebecca Peterson of Sweden during the Women's Singles First Round on Day One of the 2022 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 29, 2022 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.
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Serena Williams poses for a photo with family and friends following her victory against Danka Kovinic of Montenegro during the Women's Singles First Round on Day One of the 2022 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 29, 2022 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.
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Nick Kyrgios of Australia plays a backhand shot against compatriot Thanasi Kokkinakis during the Men's Singles First Round on Day One of the 2022 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 29, 2022 in New York City.
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FOCA halfway to goal; Rummage sale set for this week
The final rummage sale of the year will take place from noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday in the event center next to the Friends of Companion Animals shelter, 2532 N. Dixie Highway.
Proceeds will help the shelter start a low-cost spay/neuter clinic.
“Everything in the building, except for furniture, will be 50 percent off the last ticketed price,” Nadine Meeker, FOCA assistant director, said.
In March, FOCA, a cat-only rescue and adoption center, announced its plans to start a low-cost, feral spay/neuter clinic in the event center next to its shelter,
Penny Bly, FOCA director, said the clinic will be the only low-cost spay/neuter clinic between Toledo and Detroit.
The clinic is expected to operate at least monthly. Several licensed veterinarians have offered to help. The opening date is dependent on funds raised.
“We have about half of the funds raised,” Meeker said. “I was hoping we’d get the clinic open sometime this year, but it probably won’t be until next year. But, we’re working on it. Once it’s open, it’s going to benefit of many people in the county.”
FOCA is an all-volunteer nonprofit rescue that began in 2011.
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Back to school reminder: Use caution on the roads
In this back-to-school season, AAA of Michigan urges drivers and students to use caution.
According to a new AAA survey, drivers admit to speeding and using cell phones in school zones. Thirty-seven percent admitted to speeding in a school zoon, and 27 percent admitted to using hand-held cell phones while driving in school zone.
“When driving through a school zone, it’s extremely important that you lower your speed and raise your awareness to ensure you can respond to any potential hazards on the roadway,” Adrienne Woodland, spokeswoman for AAA, said.
AAA of Michigan offers safety tips for drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists during this back-to-school season.
“Michigan roads are about to get more crowded and hazardous as millions of students and teachers return to school. This time of year is particularly dangerous due to the combination of young, inexperienced drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists who will share the road in the earning morning and afternoon hours. Drivers should have a heightened sense of awareness from the moment they leave the driveway,” Woodland said, “Expect more foot traffic in neighborhoods and along city streets. Since children can move quickly and cross the road unexpectedly, it’s important to constantly scan the road for people while driving and be ready to stop at a moment’s notice. You can reduce risk of injury by slowing down and avoiding distractions like using your cell phone.”
Tips include:
Slow down. A pedestrian stuck by a vehicle traveling at 25 miles per hour is nearly two-thirds less likely to be killed compared to a pedestrian struck by a vehicle traveling 10 mph faster.
Come to a complete stop. Always come to a complete stop, checking carefully for children on sidewalks and in crosswalks.
Eliminate distractions. Research shows that taking your eyes off the road for just two seconds doubles your chances of crashing.
Share the road with bicyclists. Children on bicycles are often inexperienced, unsteady and unpredictable. Slow down and allow at least three feet of passing distance between your vehicle and a bicyclist.
Talk to teens. Car crashes are one of the leading causes of death for teens in the U.S., and nearly one in four fatal crashes involving teen drivers occurs during the after-school hours of 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
AAA offers safety tips for students:
Pay attention at all times; avoid texting or wearing headphones.
Use sidewalks where available. It not available, walk against the direction of traffic, to see oncoming vehicles.
Wear reflective, bright colored clothing.
At the bus stop, say five steps away from the curb and wait until the bus comes to a complete stop before boarding.
If biking, wear a helmet, ride in the same direction as traffic and cross the street at intersections.
AAA offers clarification on school bus traffic laws:
“Motorists are required to stop when approaching a school bus that is stopped with its red lights flashing and STOP arms extended. The only exception is on a divided highway with a raised divider,” AAA said.
Here is an explanation of the laws:
Two Lane Street – All drivers moving in either direction on a two-way street must stop for a school bus displaying overhead flashing red lights and a stop arm extended, and must remain stopped until the road is clear of children, the overhead red lights are turned off and the school bus stop arm is withdrawn.
Multi-Lane Paved Median – All drivers approaching in either direction must stop for a school bus displaying overhead flashing red lights and a stop arm extended, and must remain stopped until the road is clear of children, the overhead red lights are turned off and the school bus stop arm is withdrawn.
Divided Highway – Traffic approaching an oncoming school bus does not need to stop if there is a raised barrier, such as a concrete divider or at least five feet of unpaved space separating the lanes of traffic. However, these motorists should slow down and watch for students loading or unloading from the bus. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/08/30/use-caution-on-the-roads-as-school-resumes/65461376007/ | 2022-08-30T10:41:41Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/08/30/use-caution-on-the-roads-as-school-resumes/65461376007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The body of a man has been found in the River Thames by Chichester Wharf in Erith. Officers from the Metropolitan Police were called to reports of a body in the water at around 5pm on Sunday (August 28).
The body of a man, believed to be aged in his 40s, was then recovered. At this time, enquiries are ongoing into the man's death.
The cause of death is not yet known and, while the death is being treated as unexpected, it is not being considered suspicious. The next-of-kin has been informed.
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A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said: "Police were called at 16:53hrs on Sunday, 28 August, to reports of a body in the water at Chichester Wharf, Erith. The body of a man, aged in his 40s, was recovered.
"His next-of-kin has been informed. The death is being treated as unexpected, but not suspicious."
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A motorcyclist said he thought he was going to die after a crash in Dover but has thanked police for saving his life. Alan Wright, 75, lost control of his three-wheeled scooter on the A2, before it left the carriageway.
In the terrifying crash, the retired IT worker fell from his bile and was trapped underneath. He suffered severe nausea an breathing difficulties, which he later discovered was an early sign of heart failure.
And the crash, which happened on Tuesday, August 16 around 7.20pm, had left him out of sight of motorists as he was covered by thick overgrowth. He was in need of urgent medical attention.
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Mr Wright, who lives in Ripley, Derbyshire, and was returning from a holiday in France, said: "I was in a very bad situation. I couldn’t get up or see the road, there were no houses in sight and nobody was around to help me.
"I was drifting in and out of consciousness and I felt like my heart was on the verge of giving out. I was very concerned that I might be about to die."
Thankfully, Alan managed to call 999 and officers were sent to the general area of where he thought he was. Meanwhile they attempted to get a more precise GPS location from his phone.
The officers who attended also switched on their sirens whilst they searched for Alan in the hope he would hear them as they drove past. Fortunately he did and told the call-handler, who stayed on the phone with him for around 45 minutes.
PC Andy Green from the Roads Policing Unit then stopped and found Alan seriously unwell near the side of the road between Coldred and Lydden.
Alan said: "If it were not for PC Green having my call patched through to his radio I probably would not have been found. That is what saved my life.
"An ambulance crew arrived shortly afterwards and I was deemed to be in real danger of heart failure. I was rushed to hospital where they managed to get my heartbeat back to normal and I have now made a full recovery, but I could have quite easily died by that roadside.
"It is full credit to Kent Police and the medical professionals who treated me that I am alive to tell the story today."
PC Green said: "Protecting life is the top priority for every police officer and I am delighted Mr Wright has now made a full recovery after suffering such a serious incident.
"Collisions on the road are normally very easy to spot and reported by numerous witnesses, but on this occasion there was nobody who could help us find Mr Wright apart from himself. Fortunately he was able to listen out for our sirens despite being in a very serious condition."
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Kent is home to around 350 miles of coastline, dozens of stunning beaches and bays and a whole heap of attractions worthy of a family day out. However a trip to the seaside is never complete without a stop off at the local chippy.
There are literally hundreds of them spread out across the county and many have scooped national awards in the past. One thing is for certain... the people of Kent are loyal to their chippy!
With some brilliant fish and chip shops to choose from, KentLive readers are now set to battle it out by voting for their favourite chippy in the county. Whether it be the takeaway up the road, an upmarket restaurant or some local pub grub, Kent residents are certainly not short of options.
Earlier this year, three Kent takeaways made it on to the list of the best fish and chip shops in the county. Catch Fish and Chips in Ashford, The Chippy in Dartford and the Village Fish and Chips in Orpington all featured.
Which Kent chippy do you think deserves to claim the title of the best in the county? Join in with the debate in the comments below
In the comments, KentLive readers had their say on which fish and chip shops they would have voted for. Justin Turner said: "Beach 48 in Dymchurch is the best"
Josh Wallis added: "Seafarers is the best in Folkestone" while both Dave Woodland and David Manning picked out D'agostini's Fish & Chips for high praise.
We now want to know where your favourite fish and chip shop is in Kent. If you want to share your opinion then add it in the comments and we'll highlight the best ones as they come in.
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Supermarket giant Asda is said to be in line to take over Co-op's petrol stations in a deal worth £450million. Sky News reports that the chain is in talks with the rival firm and a deal could be confirmed this week.
Asda currently has 320 petrol stations under its control across the UK and was taken over by the Issa Borthers and TDR Capital in 2021. As part of the deal, the chain agreed to sell 27 of its forecourts after competition concerns were raised.
However, the billionaire siblings behind Issa Brothers scrapped a £750million plan to fold Asda's forecourts into their own empire, which includes Europe's largest independent fuel retailer EG Group. However, Sky reports it is Asda rather than EG who are leading the talks with Co-op.
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Around 130 petrol stations owned by Co-op would go to Asda if the deal does go through. It would also free up money for Co-op after it recently announced plans to cut 400 jobs following tough trading conditions, which are not being helped by worsening inflation.
Co-op bosses have offloaded a number of its own divisions over the past decade including its travel shops and pharmacies. The group still owns its supermarket and funeral care operations.
The reports of Asda's possible takeover come a week after Shirine Khoury-Haq was appointed the retail group's first female chief executive in its 159-year history. Asda has declined to comment on the takeover reports while the Co-op was not immediately available for comment.
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The company said yesterday that this is the start of what it plans to be a phased city-by-city network roll-out across 25 cities, with “rigorous service tests building towards our national launch”.
This customer pilot will be on 2G, 3G and 4G network standards and customers are already able to buy SIM cards from three shops that the company has opened in the city.
Anwar Soussa (pictured), the CEO of Safaricom Ethiopia, said: “This is an important milestone. We begin opening the network to customers in order to test the end-to-end readiness of technical and commercial operations ahead of the full network launch.”
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Nicola Materazzi, an Italian engineer largely unknown outside of automotive circles, passed away on Aug. 23 at the age of 83, Pledge Times reported.
While you may not be familiar with the name, you’ll definitely be familiar with some of the cars he’s credited with helping develop. The list includes the Ferrari 288 GTO and F40, Bugatti EB110, and Lancia Stratos.
Born in the Cilento region of southern Italy in 1939, Materazzi later studied engineering at the University of Naples before moving to Turin where he started his automotive career with Lancia. That was in the late 1960s, and it was at Lancia during the following decade where Materazzi helped develop the Stratos sports car built from 1973-1978, including Group 4 and Group 5 rally versions with their monster turbocharged engines.
Materazzi’s talents caught the eye of Ferrari, as by the 1980s the engineer was working on engines for Ferrari’s Formula 1 race cars, helping to bring the Scuderia into the turbo era with 1981’s 126C F1 race car. He also worked on several Ferrari road cars, most notably as chief engineer for the F40 program.
According to Pledge Times, Materazzi left Ferrari after the F40 program, and by 1988 was working with motorcycle manufacturer Cagiva, specifically on its racing program. That would only be a short stint as by 1991 Materazzi was helping Romano Artioli with the Bugatti EB110.
However, Materazzi’s time at Bugatti would also be short. The company only managed to build 128 EB110s before financial issues (including debts incurred by Artioli after an investment in Lotus) sent it into bankruptcy.
Materazzi’s work with the EB110 didn’t end there, however. He eventually joined B Engineering, which attempted to revive the EB110 in the early 2000s as a new model called the Edonis, using leftover EB110 chasses.
B Engineering never had much luck with the revival, but Casil Motors picked up the baton in 2018 and unveiled an updated SP-110 Edonis Fenice, this time without Materazzi’s help.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Two more accusers took the witness stand at R. Kelly’s child pornography and solicitation of minors trial Monday, bringing to three the total number of accusers to have testified to date at the federal trial in Chicago.
The first accuser, who testified two weeks ago under the pseudonym “Jane,” is critical to another of the charges — that the R&B singer successfully rigged his 2008 state child pornography trial by threating witnesses and concealing video evidence.
Kelly, 55, was handed a 30-year prison sentence by a federal judge in New York in June for convictions on racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
In all, the prosecution cited five accusers in pre-trial filings, though it is unclear if both of the remaining accusers will testify before the government rests sometime this week. The trial was expected to last a month, wrapping up in mid-September.
An accuser who used the pseudonym “Pauline,” told jurors Monday she was a middle school classmate of Jane’s and that Jane introduced her to Kelly in 1998 when they were 14 and Kelly was around 30.
When she was at Kelly’s Chicago home later that year, Pauline said she was startled to walk in on Kelly and a naked Jane in a basement area. She said Kelly told her that “we all have secrets” and that this is “our secret.”
Pauline several times told jurors she had loved Kelly. But, as a 37-year-old mom, she said she now had a different perspective.
“If somebody did something to my kids, I’m killing ’em. Period,” she said.
Kelly sexually abused her over 100 times, starting when she was 14, and they first had intercourse when she was 15, she testified.
Under cross-examination, lead Kelly lawyer Jennifer Bonjean accused Pauline of being imprecise about how many times she had sex with Kelly when she was underage.
“Whether it is once or twice, what’s wrong is wrong,” Pauline shot back.
The second accuser to testify Monday, referred to only as Tracy, said she was introduced to Kelly when she was 16 by a boss at a record company she was interning for in 1998. Tracy told jurors she repeatedly rebuffed Kelly’s advances.
At a room in Kelly’s Chicago studio, she recalled telling him after he began pulling her close to him, “You know I’m 16?” Minutes later, when he “exposed himself… I tried to pull back but he had a hold of my shirt,” Tracy testified.
On another occasion, she described Kelly coming into a hotel room where Tracy was staying and yelling at her for having clothes on under her bathrobe.
“I told him I didn’t want to have sex,” she testified.
But she said Kelly ordered her to get into the bed with him anyway and that at several points used force to sexually abuse her. She said she first had intercourse with Kelly when she was 16, then dozens of times when she was 17 and 18.
Tracy began to cry on the stand Monday as she began to tell jurors about the day Kelly walked into a room where Tracy had been waiting. Kelly arrived with Jane.
“I was really confused and just really angry,” she recalled. “I just didn’t really think there was anyone else but me and Rob.”
Kelly’s 2008 trial revolved around a video that state prosecutors said showed Kelly abusing Jane. But after acquitting Kelly in 2008, jurors said they had no choice because the girl did not take the witness stand at that trial.
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