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Q. Battling a lot out there. I know your cool suit went out, you needed a pep talk from Randall at one point and then just a tight race car. What was the biggest thing that was keeping you from Victory Lane here tonight?
TYLER REDDICK: I just couldn't quite put the whole race together. I just felt like we -- well, I didn't do a good job of getting in the box tonight. I just felt a little inconsistent. Ultimately I wish I could have been better there. Last time we were here I felt like I was pretty good at that.
Just got to figure out what exactly changed. Always something to be learned, but considering all things, at one point we were in a pretty tough spot. I think Ty Gibbs, Cindric and myself kind of got sandwiched together and got in the wall off 4, so to rebound like we did and get third out of it, it was a really good night. It's what we needed in the playoffs, what we didn't have here last year. So to get that tonight is great, but certainly when you're that close and one spot away on a restart from having the lead, it certainly always stings.
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Investors’ interest in biotechnology or biotech stocks increased significantly during the early days of the pandemic as the world was looking for drugs and vaccines that could contain the spread of COVID-19. However, investors’ focus has shifted away from biotech stocks this year following rapid vaccination drives and due to persistent macro challenges, including rising interest rates. We’ll discuss the prospects of Biogen (NASDAQ:BIIB), BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX), and Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN) and use the TipRanks Stock Comparison tool to pick the biotech stock that could generate the maximum returns.
Stocks of emerging biotech companies are often considered risky due to the considerable time, resources, and uncertainty associated with drug development and approval. However, a higher risk is often associated with a higher return.
Biogen (BIIB) Stock
Biogen is focused on treating neurological diseases and related therapeutic adjacencies. Shares of this biotechnology firm have been under pressure due to the setbacks related to the company’s Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm. The drug stirred up controversy as several medical experts and doctors questioned its efficacy. Consequently, Aduhelm received a lackluster response.
Moreover, Medicare restricted coverage for Aduhelm to patients in clinical trials. Biogen announced in May that it plans to “substantially eliminate commercial infrastructure” for Aduhelm in order to reduce additional costs.
Biogen has now moved forward and is now relying on its second Alzheimer’s drug, Lecanemab, which is being jointly developed with Japanese firm Eisai Co., Ltd. (ESALY).
Biogen has also been under pressure as competition from generics and biosimilars is impacting sales of its key drugs. In the second quarter, the company’s revenue declined about 7% to $2.59 billion, and adjusted EPS fell 5.9% to $5.25. However, Biogen managed to beat analysts’ expectations. While the company raised its full-year outlook, investors continue to be concerned about the sales erosion faced by its key drugs like Tecfidera and Rituxan.
What is the Target Price for Biogen?
Following the Q2 print, Needham analyst Ami Fadia lowered the price target for Biogen stock to $250 from $262 but maintained a Buy rating. The analyst noted that while the company’s Q2 results were good, the growth ahead seems uncertain.
Fadia feels that Lecanemab’s Phase 3 readout, which is scheduled for this fall, should shed some light on the future of the drug. However, she considers the fall data readout as a high-risk, high-reward event, whose outcome will affect Biogen’s medium-term growth potential.
Overall, consensus among analysts is a Moderate Buy rating based on 10 Buys and nine Holds. At $239.88, the average Biogen price target implies 22.4% upside potential from current levels.
BioNTech (BNTX) Stock
The German biotech firm BioNTech shot to fame when its COVID-19 vaccine – Comirnaty, developed in collaboration with Pfizer (PFE), became the first to win the U.S. FDA’s (Food and Drug Administration) approval. However, waning demand for Comirnaty has impacted investor sentiment and dragged down BNTX stock.
BioNTech’s sales declined nearly 40% to €3.2 billion year-over-year in the second quarter. EPS also fell 40% to €6.45. The company noted that the dynamic nature of the pandemic is causing a re-phasing of vaccine orders, leading to top-line fluctuations.
While BioNTech expects such fluctuations to persist over the rest of the year, the company kept its COVID-19 vaccine revenue guidance intact in the range of €13 billion to €17 billion. Last week, the FDA authorized Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 booster shots that target the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants, ahead of the government’s fall vaccination campaign. Furthermore, the U.K.’s medicine regulator has also approved Pfizer-BioNTech’s updated bivalent COVID-19 booster shot.
Is BNTX a Buy?
Following the Q2 results, Canaccord analyst William Maughan raised his price target for BNTX stock to $200 from $192 and reiterated a Buy rating. Maughan noted the development in BioNTech’s pipeline and expects incremental updates in the near future.
Recently, Cowen analyst Yaron Werber initiated coverage of BioNTech stock with a price target of $177. Werber feels that with the COVID-19 pandemic transitioning to the endemic phase, Comirnaty sales will decline and demand will be in line with the annual demand for flu vaccines.
Werber noted that while BioNtech has a solid pipeline of oncology treatments, it “requires validation and is still early in development.”
Overall, the Street has a Moderate Buy rating on BioNTech stock based on four Buys and six Holds. The average BioNTech stock price prediction of $211 implies 42.7% upside potential.
Illumina (ILMN) Stock
Illumina offers DNA sequencing and array-based solutions for genetic and genomic analysis. The company’s products have applications in numerous fields, including oncology, life sciences, agriculture, and reproductive health.
ILMN shares have plunged this year due to weak financial performance and the uncertainty associated with the company’s Grail acquisition. Illumina’s Q2 revenue grew 3% to $1.16 billion, while adjusted EPS declined nearly 70% to $0.57.
Illumina cited macro challenges, currency headwinds, and the impact of COVID-led shutdowns as the reasons for weak Q2 performance. The company now expects full-year revenue growth in the range of 4% to 5%, below its prior outlook of 14% to 16%. It also slashed its 2022 adjusted earnings outlook.
Regarding the Grail acquisition, last week, a U.S. administrative judge ruled in favor of Illumina, rejecting the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) position that the deal would impact competition in the multi-cancer early detection tests market. Illumina acquired Grail, a cancer-testing company, last year, despite the FTC’s objection.
Is ILMN a Buy, Hold, or Sell?
Bank of America analyst Derik de Bruin called the recent ruling in favor of Illumina an “unexpected” and “positive” headline. That said, the analyst highlighted that the EU jurisdiction case and the EU Phase 2 review related to the Grail acquisition continue to persist.
Bruin believes that a potential divestment of Grail would be “increasingly seen as a positive outcome” if the EU antitrust regulators do not decide in Illumina’s favor. Bruin maintains a Hold rating on Illumina stock.
All in all, the Street has a Hold consensus rating on Illumina stock based on four buys, eight Holds, and one Sell rating. The average ILMN price target of $256.67 implies upside potential of 30.9%.
Conclusion
Given macro as well as company-specific risks, Wall Street is cautiously optimistic about Biogen and BioNTech while they are on the sidelines when it comes to Illumina stock. Following a significant pullback, the Street estimates higher upside potential in BioNTech stock compared to the other two biotech stocks. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/which-biotech-stock-is-best-biib-bntx-or-ilmn | 2022-09-05T07:42:16Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/which-biotech-stock-is-best-biib-bntx-or-ilmn | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
American healthcare company, CVS Health Corporation (CVS), is progressing well ahead in the race to buy healthcare technology company, Signify Health (SGFY), for $8 billion, a WSJ report stated.
CVS Health operates a retail pharmacy chain and provides health insurance services. Meanwhile, Signify Health leverages advanced analytics, technology, and nationwide healthcare provider networks to create and power value-based payment programs.
There is no guarantee a deal will be reached between CVS and Signify. However, it would be a win-win situation for both, as CVS aims to establish a stronghold in primary care.
Tough Competition in the Healthcare Space
Signify has been looking for strategic options for quite some time. The company boasts unmatched size and a well-established network of doctors that aid in house calls. Notably, CVS seems to have overtaken the other bidders like Amazon.com (AMZN) and UnitedHealth Group (UNH) in the race. Bids for Signify were expected by September 6.
As per data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), growth in national health spending in the U.S. is expected to average 5.3% between 2025-2030 and reach $6.8 trillion by 2030. This represents the humongous growth opportunities for healthcare companies in the space.
Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) is also another major player in the space, but it opts for partnerships rather than acquisitions for growth. WBA’s plan to divest its UK drugstore chain, Boots, was shelved due to a lack of attractive bids. Instead, it is now focusing its energy on making the chain profitable.
What is the Forecast for CVS Stock?
On TipRanks, CVS stock commands a Strong Buy consensus rating based on ten Buys and two Holds. The average CVS Health price forecast of $122.33 implies 23% upside potential to current levels. Meanwhile, the stock has lost nearly 3% so far this year.
Moreover, CVS scores a “Perfect 10” on the TipRanks Smart Score system. This implies that the stock is highly likely to outperform market expectations. Both hedge funds and retail investors have been increasing their exposure to CVS stock recently.
Is SGFY a Good Stock?
Wall Street analysts are highly bullish about SGFY stock. With the chances of a takeover becoming more likely, analysts think SGFY makes for an attractive Buy. Even as a standalone company, Signify Health has made a name in the space and continues to be a profitable and best-in-class healthcare provider.
On TipRanks, SGFY stock commands a Strong Buy consensus rating based on eight Buys and one Hold. The average Signify Health price target of $27.67 implies 3.8% downside potential to current levels. Meanwhile, amid all the buyout buzz, SGFY stock has gained a whopping 91.3% so far this year.
Furthermore, SGFY has a Smart Score of 8 on the TipRanks Smart Score system. This implies that the stock is most likely to outperform market expectations. While hedge funds have reduced their stake in SGFY stock, retail investors have increased their exposure by 9.3% over the last 30 days. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/cvs-health-nysecvs-races-ahead-to-buy-signify-health | 2022-09-05T07:42:28Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/cvs-health-nysecvs-races-ahead-to-buy-signify-health | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Zip Co Ltd. (ZIP) shares were down as much as 2% to A$0.85 at around noon on September 5. The company provides point-of-sale credit in a category known as buy now, pay later or BNPL.
ZIP stock is exiting the ASX 200 index
Zip shares have fallen following the announcement that the BNPL provider will soon lose its place on the ASX 200 index. The S&P Dow Jones Indices, which maintains the index, will remove Zip from the index on September 19.
The ASX 200 index tracks the top 200 listed companies in Australia. The index is rebalanced on a quarterly basis so it accurately reflects the 200 largest companies on the market. As such, some companies are added, while others are removed, in line with their changing market capitalisation.
Having lost almost 90% of its value over the past year, Zip is no longer one of the largest 200 companies.
BNPL companies face difficult times
Inflation and rising interest rates have created a difficult business environment for BNPL companies. For example, high product prices threaten to slow down consumer spending, which negatively impacts BNPL credit demand. Meanwhile, rising interest rates make paying back established loans more difficult, and increase the risk of loan defaults.
Zip is among a number or BNPL stocks hurting amid the changed global economic conditions. Shares of U.S.-listed BNPL provider Affirm (AFRM) have also taken a significant hit in 2022.
Is Zip a Buy Now?
According to TipRanks’ analyst rating consensus, ZIP stock is a Moderate Sell, based on two Buys, one Hold, and four Sells. The average ZIP price target of $1.02 implies nearly 19% upside potential.
Final Thoughts
Zip’s removal from the ASX 200 index threatens to diminish demand for the stock. Firstly, fund managers tracking the ASX 200 index are required to sell Zip shares.
Moreover, its removal reduces media and general exposure for Zip, and thus potential attention from retail investors. Only time will tell if Zip can bounce back and reclaim its position on the ASX 200. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/why-did-zip-co-asxzip-stock-drop | 2022-09-05T07:42:41Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/why-did-zip-co-asxzip-stock-drop | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
RADNOR, Pa., Sept. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP (www.ktmc.com) informs investors two securities class action lawsuits have been filed against Coinbase Global, Inc. ("Coinbase") (NASDAQ: COIN). The actions charge Coinbase with violations of the federal securities laws, including omissions and fraudulent misrepresentations relating to the company's business, operations, and prospects. As a result of Coinbase's materially misleading statements and omissions to the public, Coinbase investors have suffered significant losses.
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LEAD PLAINTIFF DEADLINE: OCTOBER 3, 2022
CLASS PERIOD: APRIL 14, 2021 THROUGH JULY 26, 2022
CONTACT AN ATTORNEY TO DISCUSS YOUR RIGHTS:
Jonathan Naji, Esq. at (484) 270-1453 or via email at info@ktmc.com
Kessler Topaz is one of the world's foremost advocates in protecting the public against corporate fraud and other wrongdoing. Our securities fraud litigators are regularly recognized as leaders in the field individually and our firm is both feared and respected among the defense bar and the insurance bar. We are proud to have recovered billions of dollars for our clients and the classes of shareholders we represent.
COINBASE'S ALLEGED MISCONDUCT
The lawsuits against Coinbase allege that the Registration Statement and other documents filed with the SEC in connection with the company's public offering in April 2021 made false or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that Coinbase insiders had abruptly increased holdings of Coinbase Class A common shares and intended to sell Coinbase shares as early as April 14, 2021, the first day of public trading in Coinbase stock. Indeed, on April 14, 2021, multiple Coinbase insiders sold in excess of seven million shares of Coinbase Class A common stock, including more than 1.3 million shares at the market opening that day, collectively receiving more than $2.7 billion in proceeds from such sales.
The lawsuits additionally allege that defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Coinbase custodially held crypto assets on behalf of its customers, which assets Coinbase knew or recklessly disregarded could qualify as the property of a bankruptcy estate, making those assets potentially subject to bankruptcy proceedings in which Coinbase's customers would be treated as the Company's general unsecured creditors; (2) Coinbase allowed Americans to trade digital assets that Coinbase knew or recklessly disregarded should have been registered as securities with the SEC; (3) the foregoing conduct subjected the Company to a heightened risk of regulatory and governmental scrutiny and enforcement action.
On May 10, 2022, Coinbase disclosed that: "Because custodially held crypto assets may be considered to be the property of a bankruptcy estate, in the event of a bankruptcy, the crypto assets we hold in custody on behalf of our customers could be subject to bankruptcy proceedings and such customers could be treated as our general unsecured creditors." Following this disclosure, the price of Coinbase Class A common stock fell by more than 26%.
Then, on July 25, 2022, Bloomberg reported that Coinbase is facing an SEC probe into whether it improperly let Americans trade digital assets that should have been registered as securities. On this news, the price of Coinbase Class A common stock fell by an additional 21%, further damaging investors.
WHAT CAN I DO?
Coinbase investors may, no later than October 3, 2022, seek to be appointed as a lead plaintiff representative of the class through Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP or other counsel, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member. Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP encourages Coinbase investors who have suffered significant losses to contact the firm directly to acquire more information.
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WHO CAN BE A LEAD PLAINTIFF?
A lead plaintiff is a representative party who acts on behalf of all class members in directing the litigation. The lead plaintiff is usually the investor or small group of investors who have the largest financial interest and who are also adequate and typical of the proposed class of investors. The lead plaintiff selects counsel to represent the lead plaintiff and the class and these attorneys, if approved by the court, are lead or class counsel. Your ability to share in any recovery is not affected by the decision of whether or not to serve as a lead plaintiff.
ABOUT KESSLER TOPAZ MELTZER & CHECK, LLP
Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP prosecutes class actions in state and federal courts throughout the country and around the world. The firm has developed a global reputation for excellence and has recovered billions of dollars for victims of fraud and other corporate misconduct. All of our work is driven by a common goal: to protect investors, consumers, employees and others from fraud, abuse, misconduct and negligence by businesses and fiduciaries. The complaint in this action was not filed by Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP. For more information about Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP please visit www.ktmc.com.
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XJTLU officially opens the doors of its Taicang campus, the new home of XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicang)
SUZHOU, China, Sept. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the new academic year approaches, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University unveils its award-winning Taicang campus to students, staff and the public on 5 September. XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicang), established in 2019, will be moving to the new campus.
The campus was made possible with help and investment from the local Taicang government and will eventually be able to support up to 10,000 students and 1,200 staff members.
It was designed with entrepreneurialism, industry, interdisciplinarity and the community in mind. The main building has a circular structure linking its magnet-shaped schools, connecting them physically and symbolically.
Professor Stuart Perrin, Associate Principal of XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicang), says: "I'm excited about how the campus will bring together staff and students from different schools. Every space is a potential learning space."
Professor Youmin Xi, Executive President of XJTLU, says: "This opening marks the College becoming a bigger part of the Taicang community and the industry-community-university ecosystem."
In addition to XJTLU's partnership with the local government, the College features industry partners for each school, giving students a unique learning environment and experience.
ECOVACS, a robotic vacuum cleaner company, is one of the College's partners. Liang Zhao, Dean of Research Institute of Innovation Ecology at ECOVACS, believes the industry-supported labs will "provide fertile soil for developing cutting-edge scientific research projects and innovation technologies."
Xiang Ao, manager of Xingwen Zhijiao Company, a branch of partner Haier Group, says the College combines a love of learning with hands-on experience. "When our corporate engineers go to the College to teach, they find that the students actively ask questions, and our engineers actively help them solve their queries."
Additionally, the College arranges site visits and internships for students.
Tianhe Sun, Year Three student in BEng Data Science and Big Data Technology with Contemporary Entrepreneurialism, says: "I secured my second internship thanks to Taicang's Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Hub courses. Learning here is different – we can get real-world experience."
Malaysian student Adrian Heng Hwa Onn, a Year Three student in the same programme, says: "When I first came to XJTLU's SIP campus, I was impressed with the gorgeous architecture and well-equipped facilities. But I'm more excited about studying in Taicang. I mean, who doesn't want to be a part of something new?"
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SPOKANE, Wash — Law enforcement are investigating an officer-involved shooting in Spokane's Hillyard neighborhood Sunday night.
According to Spokane Police Department, they received a call from a man around 10 p.m. who said his neighbor was in his yard with an AR-15 firearm.
Officers responded from multiple directions. When they arrived, they asked the suspect to lower their weapon. Officials say he did not comply. SPD says the suspect was shot at least two times.
At this time, the suspects condition is unknown. No officers were injured.
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7-Day Weather Forecast for Clarion County
The 7-day weather forecast for the Clarion County area is brought to you by Redbank Chevrolet and DuBrook.
Today – Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 2pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 80. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight – Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 1am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2am. Cloudy, with a low around 64. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Labor Day – Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 76. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Monday Night – Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 8pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 8pm. Low around 63. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday – A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. Calm wind becoming east around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday Night – A slight chance of showers before 8pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between 8pm and 11pm, then a slight chance of showers after 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Wednesday – A chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 76. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Wednesday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 58.
Thursday – Partly sunny, with a high near 77.
Thursday Night – Mostly clear, with a low around 56.
Friday – Sunny, with a high near 81.
Friday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 58.
Saturday – A chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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All American Awards and Engraving Soldier Spotlight: Korean War Veteran Florence Lindemuth
Florence Lindemuth served our country in the United States Air Force.
Name: Florence M. Lindemuth
Born: January 31, 1926
Died: February 28, 2020
Hometown: Mayport, Pa.
Branch: U.S. Air Force
Florence was a U.S. Air Force Korean War veteran.
She was laid to rest at Temple Cemetery in Hazen, Pa.
Click here to view a full obituary.
All American Awards and Engraving is located on Route 322 in Shippenville. The company specializes in Embroidery, Screen Printing, all kinds of awards, trophies, engraving, unique gifts and more. As the company motto says, We can put “Almost Anything on Almost Everything”.
They can be found online at www.allamericanhq.com, by calling toll free 1-877-402-9273 and ask for Jim Carroll, or visit them here www.facebook.com/AllAmericanAwardsandEngraving
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Clarion County Recipe of the Day: Easy Taco Pizza
A convenient prebaked crust makes this tasty taco pizza as easy as can be!
Ingredients
1 pound of ground beef
1 envelope of taco seasoning
2 prebaked 12-inch pizza crusts
1 can (16 ounces) of refried beans
3/4 cup salsa
2 cups coarsely crushed tortilla chips
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
Optional: shredded lettuce and chopped tomatoes
Directions
-Preheat the oven to 350°. In a large skillet, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Stir in taco seasoning and water. Bring to a boil; reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes; set aside.
-Place crusts on ungreased pizza pans or baking sheets. Combine beans and salsa; spread over crusts. Top with beef mixture, chips, and cheese.
-Bake until heated through and cheese is melted for 13-16 minutes. If desired, sprinkle with lettuce and tomatoes.
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Dubai: Star player Virat Kohli has defended under-pressure Arshdeep Singh after his dropped catch of Asif Ali proved to be the turning point in the Asia Cup Super 4 clash between India and Pakistan on Sunday.
In the 18th over of the match on Sunday, needing 34 runs, Asif Ali tried to sweep Ravi Bishnoi and it seemed like he would be returning to the pavilion. However, Arshdeep dropped the straightforward chance and Asif survived to bring back the game in Pakistan's favour. Arshdeep then was at the receiving end of criticism from netizens.
Kohli later defended the young pacer, saying anyone could have made such a mistake during a high-pressure game.
"Anyone can make the mistake, the situation was tight. It was a high-pressure game and mistakes can happen. I still remember I was playing my first Champions Trophy and the match was against Pakistan, I had played a very bad shot against Shahid Afridi. I was watching the ceiling till 5 am, I was not able to sleep and I thought my career is over but these things are natural."
"Seniors players get around you, there is a good team environment right now, I give the credit to the captain and coach. The players learn from their mistakes. So one must accept his mistake, address it and look forward to being in that pressure situation once again," said Kohli.
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Clarion University Cross Country: Golden Eagles Take Fourth in Field Loaded With D-1 Programs
TYRONE, Pa. – Opening their season in a field loaded with Division I talent, the Golden Eagle cross country team authored an encouraging effort in their first competition of the year, taking fourth at the Father Bede Invitational hosted by Saint Francis.
Clarion’s fourth-place finish was enhanced when compared to the field in which the team competed; they topped two full Division I rosters in Sacred Heart and Fairleigh Dickinson, and were the highest-finishing non-Division I program at the meet. Only one non-Division I athlete topped a Golden Eagle at the event as Clarion produced the next seven such harriers.
Gabby Kutchma and Mackenzie Carver were the top two finishers for the Golden Eagles, finishing within 14 seconds of one another at 12th and 14th places, respectively. Kutchma completed the 5K course in 19:49.5 while Carver completed the three-loop circuit in 20:03.6. Abby Sullivan was third on the team with a time of 20:17.6, and freshman Addie LaBombard was fourth with a time of 21:04.1 after nearly catching Central Connecticut State’s Maggie LoSchiavo in the chute. Rounding out Clarion’s top-five in the event was Allison Farson, who took 44th with a time of 21:33.6.
Autumn Pettinato finished just a fraction of a second behind Farson, crossing the line at 21:34.3. Freshman Caleigh Aigler was the seventh-place finisher for the Golden Eagles with a time of 22:24.6.
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Dubai: Stylish batter Virat Kohli recalled the time when he left Test captaincy in January, 2022, after the series loss to South Africa and said that former Indian skipper M S Dhoni was the only person who texted him after his decision.
"When I left Test captaincy, I received a text from only one person that I have played with earlier, and that is M S Dhoni," Kohli said in a media interaction after the Asia Cup match between India and Pakistan on Sunday.
"Many people have my contact number, and there are many people who keep giving suggestions on TV, but I didn't receive a message from any of them. So when a connection with any person is genuine enough, it comes out in such a manner, because there is a sense of security on both sides.
"Neither I want anything from him, nor does he want anything from me. And neither was I ever insecure of him, nor was he insecure of me about anything," Kohli added.
He further said if someone was actually interested in helping him out, they would have contacted him personally.
"If their criticism was genuine, they could have messaged me in person. The way I live my life with honesty, I would have talked one-on-one with a person that I wanted to help out."
Earlier on Sunday, Kohli equalled the record for most fifties in T20Is. Kohli smashed his 32nd T20I fifty (60 off 44). The half-century was Kohli's fourth against Pakistan in T20Is.
He had also made a half-century against Pakistan in the ICC T20 World Cup match last year at the same venue.
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John R. Fields
John R. Fields, 65, of Rimersburg, PA passed away on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, at his home.
He was born on Dec. 23, 1956 in Clarion, PA, the son of John and Opal Fields.
John retired in 1992 as a pipefitter from Indspec Industries.
He loved 70’s rock music and was an avid Steelers fan.
John enjoyed fishing and working on his computer.
John is survived by his son, Christopher Fields and wife, Wendy of Petrolia; granddaughter, Madyson Fields; his brother, Lanny Fields of New Bethlehem and his sister, of Cathy Fields Kunkle of Indiana.
John was preceded in death by his parents.
Services were held privately.
A memorial service will be held at a later date.
Arrangements are being handled by Bauer-Hillis Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc.
To send an online condolence to John’s family, please visit www.bauerhillisfuneral.com.
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Police Investigating Report of Stolen Dirt Bike in Limestone Township
Sunday, September 4, 2022 @ 12:09 AM
LIMESTONE TWP., Pa. (EYT) – Clarion-based State Police are investigating a report of a stolen dirt bike in Limestone Township.
On August 28, 2022, PSP Clarion initiated an investigation regarding a stolen dirt bike from a private residence within Limestone Township, Clarion County.
It is described as a Yamaha blue in color YZ 250F dirt bike.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is requested to contact Trooper Cleveland of the Pennsylvania State Police at 814-226-1710.
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Deer Creek Winery to Host Sunday Afternoon Entertainment by Gary Bickerstaff!
Sunday, September 4, 2022 @ 12:09 AM
SHIPPENVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – Gary Bickerstaff will be performing live music on Sunday afternoon at Deer Creek Winery in Shippenville!
Enjoy a variety of country music to today’s pop tunes from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 4.
Enjoy your lunch with a glass of Deer Creek wine, a wine slushy, or a beer from North Country Brewery, Straub, Yuengling, or Trails to Ales while listening to a local favorite.
A cafe menu is available including specials of the day.
Deer Creek Winery is located at 3333 Soap Fat Road, Shippenville, Pa.
For more information, visit Deer Creek Winery’s website here.
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SPONSORED: The Korner Restaurant Is Serving Stuffed Pork Today, Other Daily Specials Throughout the Week
RIMERSBURG, Pa. (EYT) – The Korner Restaurant is offering Stuffed Pork as their special on Sunday, September 4th!
There are also daily specials and homemade soup throughout the week.
Sunday – September 4 – Stuffed Pork
Monday – September 5 – CLOSED!
Wednesday – September 7 – Stir Fry, Fish Sandwich, or 4 pc. Chicken Dinner
Thursday – September 8 – Spaghetti, Lasagna, Chicken Parmesan, or Roast Beef Dinner
Friday – September 9 – Baked or Deep-Fried Fish, Shrimp, or Ribeye
Saturday – September 10 – Cook’s Choice
The menu is subject to change.
Be sure to check the Korner Restaurant’s Facebook Page for other specials and their menu.
You can even get pies to go! Call to order; please call the day before you need the pie.
Quarts of soup are available for $5.00.
Call in your to-go orders at 814-473-8250.
Individuals can also place an order at the ice cream window.
The Korner Restaurant is open this week:
Tuesday through Saturday: 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Sunday: 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Don’t forget about dessert!
Fresh homemade pies and desserts are baked daily.
The Korner Restaurant is located at 626 Lawsonham Road, Rimersburg, PA 16248.
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The Medical Minute: Back-to-School Pop Quiz
HERSHEY, Pa. — The school zone signs are flashing 15 miles per hour again, and buses are roaring your little summer vacationers back to the land of lectures, tests, and No. 2 pencils.
Or, since it’s 2022, maybe their commute to school ends at the computer screen in the next room. In any event, to mark the occasion, we invite you to put down your celebratory pumpkin spice drink and spend a Medical Minute like your kids — with a pop quiz.
We’re giving you five aphorisms–common sayings about health. Are they true or false? The answers, according to experts at Penn State Health, are included below.
Here’s the quiz:
1. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. (True | False)
2. Early to bed and early to rise makes you healthy, wealthy, and wise. (True | False)
3. No pain, no gain. (True | False)
4. Laughter is the best medicine. (True | False)
5. Starve a cold, feed a fever. (True | False)
ANSWER KEY
1. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Answer: False
Heather Tressler, a registered dietitian at the Penn State Celiac Clinic at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, says there’s nothing wrong with apples, but why just one?
“The amount of fruit you need to eat in a day depends on you individually,” she said. “Factors that help determine your recommended daily servings of fruit intake include age, sex, height, weight, and physical activity. Also, you don’t want to limit yourself to just one type of fruit. Mixing up your fruit sources provides a variety of nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, and fiber, which are vital for maintaining a healthy body.”
2. Early to bed and early to rise makes you healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Answer: False
The hour at which a person goes to sleep and wakes up absolutely matters — but not everyone is a morning person, said Julio Fernandez-Mendoza, associate professor and psychologist board-certified in behavioral sleep medicine at the Sleep Research and Treatment Center of Penn State College of Medicine.
“There are morning and evening types,” he said, “and the worst that can happen to an evening type that would otherwise sleep well a bit later than most morning people, is to have to go to bed and wake up too early for their own biological clock.”
That said, sleep that is of good quality, sufficient, and well-aligned with own’s biological clock is associated with better cardiovascular, metabolic, brain, and mental health.
3. No pain, no gain.
Answer: True and False
“It is true that when you exercise muscle groups that have not been stressed recently that you may have soreness for several days following the exercise bout,” said Dr. Cayce Onks, primary care sports medicine physician at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. “Some people may perceive this as pain rather than soreness.”
Working out isn’t exactly pain free, depending on your definition. You may notice your heart rate elevating for longer periods of time during exercise, which causes you to feel out of breath. “That sensation may be perceived as uncomfortable,” Onks said. “Fortunately, the body is super resilient and will respond to this stress in very positive ways. Over time this discomfort goes away, and your body begins to experience the many benefits that regular physical activity provides.
“True pain should not be routinely felt when exercising, and if you are perceiving pain then you should be evaluated by your physician.”
4. Laughter is the best medicine.
Answer: True
Dr. Ritika Baweja, assistant professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Penn State College of Medicine, and a certified laughter therapist, points to a quote from Charlie Chaplin. “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
“Research shows there are healing benefits of humor and laughter on both mental and physical health,” she said. “Laughter not only strengthens our immune system, decreases risks for heart attacks and respiratory illnesses. It also improves pain tolerance, mood and cognition. In addition to that, it also enhances our social and work life.
“I would suggest using laughter as a therapy to stay healthy and always laugh when you can, as laughter is the best medicine.”
5. Starve a cold, feed a fever.
Answer: False
Either way, it’s wrong. Hydration is the concern when you have a fever or a cold, not sustenance.
“This is a myth,” said Dr. Katherine Shedlock, a pediatrician at Penn State Health Pediatrics. “We generally recommend keeping well-hydrated and not focusing too much on food intake. We often don’t have an appetite when we are ill, but it returns when we feel better. Fever itself is not the main concern as it is just a sign of having an illness, and adjusting how much we eat will not make it resolve faster.
“I encourage patients to eat the food and portion size that they tolerate when ill, but continue to sip water even if they do not want to.”
The Medical Minute is a weekly health news feature produced by Penn State Health. Articles feature the expertise of faculty, physicians and staff, and are designed to offer timely, relevant health information of interest to a broad audience.
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Police Seeking Information on Missing Rimersburg Teen
Sunday, September 4, 2022 @ 12:09 AM
RIMERSBURG, Pa. (EYT) – State Police in Clarion are asking the public for information on a missing Rimersburg teen.
State police are attempting to locate 15-year-old Melea H. Janis, of Rimersburg.
Melea is described as 5’1” tall, approximately 116 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
Police say she has been missing from her residence in Rimersburg since 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 3.
Anyone with information concerning Melea is asked to contact PSP Clarion at 814-226-1710 or call 9-1-1.
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DEAR ABBY: My husband often points out my flaws and shortcomings. For 20 years now, while I try to make changes, I find myself in the same place on most issues. He’s increasingly impatient with me, and I get a daily rundown of what I should or could have done better.
I don’t want to lose our marriage. He thinks of himself as a “coach.” As he sees it, some of my most annoying habits are tied to my now deceased parents, who were displaced persons with no education during the Second World War. I understand his frustrations. I agree with him and want to be the best person I can be, but I’m often mired in sentiment for my parents and act and do as they might have.
I talk with a therapist, which sometimes helps, but I still feel tied to their old ways and can’t seem to stand on my own feet as my own person. I’m at a loss about what to do. Thank you for any direction you can offer. — STILL LOST IN CONNECTICUT
DEAR STILL LOST: Start discussing “generational trauma” with your therapist. The psychological and physiological effects of trauma experienced by people (e.g., refugees from WWII and other conflicts and genocides) often impact subsequent generations in that group.
When a couple marry, they are supposed to accept each other the way they are. Over the last two decades your husband hasn’t done that. He may mean well by his “coaching,” but from where I sit, it appears more like a never-ending stream of criticism. Rather than so readily blame yourself, please discuss this, too, with your therapist.
DEAR ABBY: I am a middle-aged man. My girlfriend of nine months is the same age. I have been pretty careful in guarding against COVID over the last two years. Abby, my girlfriend showed up yesterday, obviously sick. The first words out of her mouth were, “I didn’t tell you because I know you would have canceled the date.” She told me she had tested herself for COVID and it was negative, and she just has “allergies.”
As the day progressed, her congestion/sickness grew worse. When I discussed this with my adult children (who live at home), they were furious! We were supposed to celebrate Labor Day with a gathering at her place. I canceled it, telling her she has to be 100%. Should I have waited longer to start dating? — CAREFUL IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR CAREFUL: A less self-centered person than your girlfriend would have informed you that she wasn’t feeling well and offered to reschedule your date, or left the decision up to you. She would not have shown up and risked exposing you and your family members to COVID. I am not advising that you should have waited longer to start dating. Instead, you should have chosen whom you dated more carefully, because this woman is dangerously selfish and inconsiderate.
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Market picture
Bitcoin declined 0.4% over the past week, ending at around $19,900 without experiencing any significant movement during that time. For now, we can only say that the crypto market is wagering on the strengthening of the dollar, and to a markedly lesser extent than other markets. Ethereum added 5.9% to $1570, while other leading altcoins from the top ten showed mixed dynamics: from a decline of 1.3% (BNB) to a growth of 13% (Cardano).
Total crypto market capitalisation, according to CoinMarketCap, rose 2.5% over the week to $976bn. The cryptocurrency Fear & Greed Index lost 8 points over the week to 20, returning to "extreme fear" status.
Bitcoin stood aloof from key market movements last week, moving on a short leash around $20K. Meanwhile, tectonic shifts were taking place in the markets as the dollar continued to renew multi-year highs and stock markets returned to a sell-off.
Cardano rose sharply at the end of the week on the back of the news. IOHK, the company behind the Cardano project, has set a date for Vasil's update - the largest and most important hardfork in the project's history will take place on September 22.
News
background
According to analytics service TipRanks, HODLers are refusing to sell the cryptocurrency. 62% of wallets hold bitcoins for more than one year. 32% of addresses control BTC for 1 to 12 months, and only 6% of investors hold cryptocurrency for less than 30 days. At the same time, both profitable and unprofitable addresses have a 48% share.
Bitcoin miners' revenues in August amounted to $657 million and increased for the first time since March. The growth in revenues was helped by the growth of the first cryptocurrency's network hash rate.
Despite the crisis, investor confidence in cryptocurrencies increased slightly over the quarter. 65% of retail investors and 70% of institutional investors trust digital assets, according to a survey by cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp.
Cryptocurrencies are helped by the aura that, in the long term, they are more promising than stocks and other risky assets, as they are at an early stage of adoption and still undervalued by the market.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin called the current bear cycle expected. In his view, Terra's collapse and market decline are a boon for the crypto industry, as they help identify problems and unsustainable business models well.
With the rising capitalisation of the crypto market, the DeFi sector could pose long-term risks to financial stability, according to the US Federal Reserve.
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“A second month of deteriorating business conditions in the euro area adds to the likelihood of GDP contracting in the third quarter. August saw output fall at an increased rate, with companies and households scaling back their expenditures amid the recent surge in inflation and growing uncertainty about the economic outlook.
“The deterioration is also becoming more broad-based, with services now joining manufacturing in reporting falling output. Having led the growth spurt earlier in the year, consumer-facing services such as travel, tourism and recreation are now reporting falling activity levels as the rising cost of living pushes households to cut back on nonessential spending. Financial services (notably including real estate) are meanwhile feeling the squeeze from higher interest rates, and industrial services are seeing their manufacturing customers reduce their spending amid the downturn in demand for goods.
“Although the overall rate of decline remains only modest, commensurate with GDP falling at a quarterly rate of just 0.1%, the latest data point to the economy undergoing its weakest spell for nine years, excluding the downturns seen during the height of the pandemic.
“Looking ahead, an increased rate of loss of orders in August suggest that the downturn in business activity could gather pace in September, and firms are already cutting back on their hiring in the face of weaker than expected sales, surging costs and concerns about future growth prospects.
“Firms’ costs and selling prices continue to rise at rates that had not been witnessed prior to the pandemic, underscoring the persistence of elevated inflationary pressures, but there is at least some good news in terms of the rates of increase having slowed further in August, suggesting the inflation peak has passed.” | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurozone-august-final-services-pmi-498-vs-502-prelim-20220905/ | 2022-09-05T08:41:00Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurozone-august-final-services-pmi-498-vs-502-prelim-20220905/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
UPCOMING EVENTS:
- Monday: US
Labor Day Holiday.
- Tuesday: RBA
Policy Announcement, US ISM Services PMI.
- Wednesday:
BoC Policy Announcement.
- Thursday:
ECB Policy Announcement.
Following the Jackson Hole blues, the risk sentiment in the last week remained on the defensive side. The US Dollar appreciated against most major currencies, failing to gain decisively only against the Euro. The Euro resilience is pretty much all caused by ECB members talking up the 75-bps hike coming at this week policy meeting. Nonetheless, the global slowdown, aggressive monetary tightening and energy crisis in Europe doesn’t bode well at all for the single currency.
Last week we also got two important economic reports: the ISM Manufacturing PMI and the Labour Market report. The ISM report surprised with an overall good reading, showing increases in components like new orders and employment and another big decrease in prices paid. That’s kind of a goldilocks print, although one good report after a series of bad ones has to be taken with a pinch of salt and it doesn’t change much for the Fed as the resilience may just give them comfort to “keep at it”.
The Labour Market report was also benign, beating expectations on jobs added but missing on the unemployment rate, which climbed to 3.7% from 3.5% although the participation rate increased as well, so all in all a good report. Wages data came out as expected and fears of a wage price spiral at this point may be overblown. Again, overall, this report doesn’t change anything for the Fed and the next big event will be the US CPI report on the 13th of September.
On Tuesday, the RBA is expected to raise rates by 50 bps bringing the Cash Rate to 2.35%. The RBA already stated several times its commitment to bring inflation down to target of 2%-3% range and that it will take further steps in the process of normalising monetary conditions. On the AUD/USD 4-hour chart below, the price broke down through the previous swing low support at 0.6869, which also looks like the neckline of a head and shoulders pattern. We may see the price pulling back to the neckline or the trendline ahead of the RBA meeting and then falling from there for a continuation of the downtrend with a possible break of the previous low at 0.6682.
We will also get the latest ISM Services PMI, expected to weaken further amid high inflation and tighter monetary conditions. The market will be obviously more focused on the prices paid component.
On Wednesday, the BoC is expected to hike by either 50 bps or 75 bps, with a bit more weight leaning to the larger move bringing the rate to 3.25%. As for the Fed, the BoC wants to frontload interest rates hikes and bring them to a restrictive level, which they estimate to be a bit higher than 3%. On the USD/CAD 4-hour chart below, the price has pulled back from the 2022 high at 1.3224 and looks like it could go back to the trendline before continuing its slow uptrend and break the 2022 high. We may see the price pulling back ahead of the BoC meeting.
On Thursday, there will be the biggest event of the week: the ECB monetary policy announcement. A couple of weeks ago the market was expecting a 50-bps hike by the ECB in September, but the expectations changed immediately when on the 26th August a report came out revealing that “some policymakers wish to discuss a 75 bps rate rise due to the deterioration in the inflation outlook, with the prospect of a looming recession not a justification for slowing or halting policy normalisation”. After that ECB members started to talk about a 75-bps rate rise in September as a likely move and Eurozone inflation data climbing further reinforced the bigger hike probability.
The bleak economic outlook for the Eurozone amid tighter monetary conditions, high inflation and energy crisis look like a win-win for Euro bears. If they hike aggressively, they will just worsen the economic outlook and if they chicken out, they will prolong the stagflation or worse lose any credibility as inflation fighters and lose control of inflation expectations. On the EUR/USD 4-hour chart below, we can see how once the price came to the 1.0350 strong resistance area, it faded completely not only the US CPI spike but also the one-month-long relief rally we saw in July and August. Right now, the price is contained in a roughly 200 pips range between the low at 0.9900 and the high at 1.0090. It’s been sort of a reliable pattern lately to see EUR/USD climbing into the ECB meeting and then selling off out of it. It’s very likely that we will see the same happening this week and once the price breaks decisively the 0.9900 low, it could be free fall until 0.9700, unless a very weak US CPI report spoils the party the next week.
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The pair opened with a gap lower and is keeping below 1.1500 on the day, trading at fresh lows since the early days of the pandemic in March 2020. The news on Russia cutting gas flows to Europe is also biting at the UK as energy concerns continue to grow amid soaring electricity prices. I have maintained this sentiment for quite a while:
"Considering that both central banks (Fed and BOE) already gave a formal message that we are in the second-half of the tightening cycle, the trade for cable is very much a case of 'who folds first'? The Fed or the BOE? In this instance, it looks very much like the latter.
As such, the path of least resistance is for the pair to move lower - all else being equal. Now, with the dollar picking up steam across the board, the next test is 1.1800 1.1500 and the year's March 2020 lows near 1.1759 1.1409-45."
I still find it tough to argue against that narrative, especially when fundamental developments continue to work against the region as we saw last Friday. In terms of domestic factors, we will see a new UK prime minister be announced later today.
Liz Truss looks favourite to take to the helm and she has talked up a big game in trying to deal with the cost-of-living crisis as well as soaring energy prices in the UK. On the latter, she said she would consider energy bills freeze but I just don't see how any of her plans fit with trying to maintain "fiscal responsibility" at the same time. If it could be done, it would've been done. ITV's Robert Peston has a good thread on this here.
We've seen time and time again how UK politicians seem like they would bring about big change to the landscape, only to disappoint in the end. I don't think this will be any different. And I'm sure markets are also well prepared for that, so that does not bode well for the pound's prospects. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/gbpusd-stays-pressured-on-economicenergy-worries-new-pm-eyed-20220905/ | 2022-09-05T08:41:25Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/gbpusd-stays-pressured-on-economicenergy-worries-new-pm-eyed-20220905/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- Prior 48.4
- Composite PMI 49.6
- Prior 47.7
That's a surprise beat in Italian services activity, though overall economic conditions are still seen stagnating on the month despite showing an improvement relative to July. S&P Global notes that:
"Italy's service sector recorded a rise in activity during August, with the respective seasonally adjusted index edging above the neutral level of 50.0. Market conditions remained subdued however. New export business declined for the first time since March, though a better domestic performance saw total new business broadly stabilise following a decline in July.
"The return to growth for services activity, combined with a slower contraction in factory production helped to stem the downturn at the composite level, though Italian private sector output declined for the second month in a row.
"Positive news again came with regards to inflation as the pace of input cost and charge inflation
Inflation
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Read this Term eased further, but nonetheless remained elevated by historical standards.
"The challenging environment facing firms, combined with fears of a recession and concerns around inflationary pressures was reflected in a subdued level of business confidence. Despite ticking up since July, sentiment within the private sector was amongst the weakest on record."
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- Domestic sight deposits CHF 640.8 bn vs CHF 643.7 bn prior
Overall sight deposits remain little changed for a third week running, perhaps suggesting that the SNB hasn't been too active in intervening to pin down the franc as of late.
Overall sight deposits remain little changed for a third week running, perhaps suggesting that the SNB hasn't been too active in intervening to pin down the franc as of late.
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The Spanish services sector slows down to near stagnation last month as new business slumped and confidence remains subdued. The only slight positive is that inflation pressures have eased but this is the lowest growth recorded by the survey since the start of the year. S&P Global notes that:
“Spain’s economy headed towards stagnation during August as the service sector followed manufacturing by posting only marginal growth. High inflation and general market instability again dominated company reports on their current situation, and fears that these will continue to negatively impact on clients in the months ahead adds to concerns that the economy is heading into a challenging winter and possible recession. Indeed, new business volumes have already turned negative, and hiring growth is subsequently being held back.
“Perhaps one glimmer of hope is that price trends are showing relative improvement as the softening demand environment reduces some inflationary pressures. However, despite easing again, inflation
Inflation
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Read this Term rates for operating expenses and output charges remain elevated and still well above historical norms.”
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Airmen from the 386th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron finish working on a C-130J from Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, August 31, 2022. Airmen and aircraft from the 41st Expeditionary Airlift Squadron have been transporting cargo to regions around the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility throughout their deployment and have passed on their operations to the 39th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Dalton Williams)
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Hate Against Cricketer Arshdeep Singh Shows the Pitfalls of Sports Nationalism
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In a nail-biting moment last night, the Pakistan cricket team defeated India’s in a Super-Four encounter in the ongoing Asia Cup Tournament in Dubai — with just one ball to remain. Naturally, then, Indian fans were beyond dejected when the defeat came in. They soon started looking for reasons and explanations for their defeat. In their lookout for singular scapegoats to take the blame for the team’s defeat, they found cricketer Arshdeep Singh as a suitable target. The 23-year-old bowler had dropped a vital catch earlier in the game. And he is Sikh.
An India-Pakistan cricket match always drives up emotions on both sides of the border. In fact, Indian fans and brands have derived a lot of humor at the expense of the Pakistani side over the years, using the term mauka, referring to a commercial from a few years ago about Pakistan never winning against the Indian side in the ICC World Cup. Given the history between the two countries, the rhetoric is one that’s driven by nationalistic fervor, and it often devolves into accusations of being anti-national, seditious, or traitorous being thrown around with ease.
The phenomenon calls into question the very basis on which sports takes place — often, in the name of nationalistic pride, fans define who gets to represent the country itself. Sport is a form of diplomacy; teams embody a country’s values and demographic. But when this composition is challenged and individual players are made to answer for their own loyalty, it isn’t just the sport that suffers — but the idea of a nation too.
Soon after the defeat, then, a sizeable section of fans and cricket-watchers began questioning Singh’s loyalty to the country. They branded him a “Khalistani” — a name given to militant Sikh separatists — for his religion and alleged that he was in fact being loyal to his cause as a separatist by helping the “enemy” win. Fans overlooked the fact that Singh had the most economical bowling figures by an Indian bowler in the match, or that even when the winning team required only seven runs in the final over it was his bowling that dragged the match till the penultimate ball. His religion, however, was enough for spectators to unleash their abuse and vitriol at him.
The abuse got so bad that former cricketers and Singh’s teammates had to publicly come out in his defense. In response, some people claimed that they had a right to criticize Singh’s dropped catch since he was an Indian player and that fans who attach so much of their emotion to the sport were bound to be angry at a performance like this. Indeed, there have been times when fans have been enraged even at legends like Sachin Tendulkar or Sourav Ganguly due to their dismal performances. However, as privileged-caste Hindus, those players and others fitting in the dominant imagery of Indian nationalism were never targeted for their religion or caste the way Singh was, and therein lies a fundamental difference between their experience and what Singh was subjected to.
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Cricket isn’t the only sphere where an Indian sportsperson who wasn’t privileged by caste or religion has faced trolling and attacks after a bad performance. Last year, after the Indian Women’s Hockey Team lost the semifinal match in the Tokyo Olympics, casteist men celebrated jubilantly in front of star player — and Dalit — Vandana Katariya‘s house in Dehradun, exclaiming that there were too many Dalits in the team and that they should be thrown out of all sports teams in the country. Notably, Vinod Kambli, a Dalit cricketer who was a contemporary of Tendulkar at one point, is speculated to have eventually lost his position in the team due to his caste status. Nationalist sports fanaticism thus challenges every player who does not fit in the dominant, majoritarian imagination of the nation and its people.
But the problem of sport-nationalism fueling hatred isn’t just limited to India. A couple of months before the Olympics began, English football fans unleashed a brutal attack, including physical attempts at assault, on three black players. Marcus Rushford, Jadon Sancho, and Bukayo Saka had all missed their penalty kicks in the final match of the Euro 2020 tournament, and soon after started receiving racist attacks both online and offline. A study by FIFA revealed that Rashford and Saka were the most viciously abused footballers both before and after the Euro 2020. Most of that hate came from English fans themselves.
Racism and bigotry by nationalist football fans are what also led to German midfielder Mesut Ozil’s retirement from international football. Ozil, who is of Turkish descent, announced his decision online, saying, “I will no longer be playing for Germany at (the) international level whilst I have this feeling of racism and disrespect. I used to wear the German shirt with such pride and excitement, but now I don’t.” Ozil was targeted for his Turkish lineage and was also dropped from the starting XI in the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Both Rashford and Ozil are footballers of immense caliber. That their race compelled them to answer questions about their loyalty indicates that there is little space for diversity in fans’ imaginations of their favorite teams. The hate that Singh received in the aftermath of the match then shows that competitive sport between countries becomes a ripe playing field for bigotry. It also represents a majoritarian impulse to define the nation — and its rightful inhabitants — using sports as a tool for doing so.
Even if nationalist sports fans may begrudgingly tolerate the inclusion of someone whose identity does not align with their idea of their nation, they waste no time in reminding the players in question that they do not belong. Sports nationalism, then, is just a front to dangerous majoritarian exclusion — one that belies the spirit of sportsmanship itself, and threatens to let hatred engulf all those who are involved for the love of the game. | https://theswaddle.com/hate-against-cricketer-arshdeep-singh-shows-the-pitfalls-of-sports-nationalism/ | 2022-09-05T08:53:47Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/hate-against-cricketer-arshdeep-singh-shows-the-pitfalls-of-sports-nationalism/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
How ‘Longtermism’ Is Helping the Tech Elite Justify Ruining the World
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“It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust.”
These words were the takeaway from a meeting that Douglas Rushkoff, who describes himself as a “Marxist media theorist,” had with five extremely powerful people in tech who were looking to survive the impending climate catastrophe. Rushkoff’s account of this in Survival of the Richest reveals something sinister: that righ-ranking elites in tech genuinely know what’s coming — but rather than stopping it, they’re planning on saving themselves from it in the form of underground luxury bunkers and armed guards comprised of Navy SEALs.
The people who are almost directly responsible for the world’s biggest problems today — the climate crisis, eroding institutions of democracy, and the sale of people’s own attention for profit — don’t find themselves to be accountable. Not only that, accountability, or even fixing today’s problems, isn’t even a desirable goal for them. At least not, according to ‘longtermism’ — the philosophy undergirding much of tech’s trajectory and, if we’re not careful, our own destruction as a race.
It’s an idea that, from its forward-looking scope, seems ambitious and futuristic upon first glance. But it’s one that believes in a future only for a few people — self-appointed representatives of humanity — at the cost of all the rest. And when billionaires begin to shack up underground or shoot off into space in a bid to colonize other planets, they’re not doing it for humanity as a whole; they’re doing it for a humanity that consists exclusively of their own ilk.
Stephen Hawking famously declared just a few years ago that “we are at the most dangerous moment in the development of humanity.” Even if we’re hardly doing anything about it, most are in some form of agreement that things are looking bleak, and we’re already seeing the effects of climate change in countries that haven’t done a lot to bolster it. But if longtermism has its way, this is nothing more than a blip in humanity’s record. What makes the philosophy so dangerous is its ethical foundation, summed up by one of its early theoreticians Nick Bostrom: “a non-existential disaster causing the breakdown of global civilisation is, from the perspective of humanity as a whole, a potentially recoverable setback.”
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Bostrom’s work is heartily endorsed by tech giants with the resources and capacity to not only outrun any of the world’s current crises, but also irreversibly influence the direction of our species as a whole. There are two key concepts in Bostrom’s argument: potential, and existential risk. Potential is what longtermists understand to be humanity’s capacity on a cosmic scale, a trillion years into the future. Our potential is as vast as the universe itself. An existential risk, according to the longtermist ethic, is one that threatens to wipe out humanity and with it, humanity’s potential. This is the most tragic outcome and one that has to be avoided at all costs. Now it’s possible that a few people — say, 15% of the world’s population — survive climate change. That doesn’t wipe out our potential even if it wipes out an unfathomable number of people — and so, according to longtermism, isn’t an existential risk.
“The case for longtermism rests on the simple idea that future people matter…Just as we should care about the lives of people who are distant from us in space, we should care about people who are distant from us in time,” wrote William MacAskill, the public face of longtermism. His book was endorsed by Elon Musk, who cited MacAskill’s philosophy as a “close match” for his own. Musk also happens to be one of the biggest players in the privatized space race, and his vision to colonize Mars is one that is increasingly no longer a semi-ironic joke.
Longtermism’s roots is in a philosophy called effective altruism. It’s one that “Effective altruism, which used to be a loose, Internet-enabled affiliation of the like-minded, is now a broadly influential faction, especially in Silicon Valley, and controls philanthropic resources on the order of thirty billion dollars,” notes a profile of MacAskill in The New Yorker.
There’s a web of influential figures writing the script of longtermism from various think tanks — together, they comprise an enterprise that’s worth more than 40 billion dollars. Among others, some advocate for sex redistribution, others say that saving lives in rich countries is more important than saving lives in poor countries, as philosopher Émile P. Torres reported in Salon. Longtermism’s utopia is a future where human beings are engineered to perfection — leading to the creation of posthumans who possess only the best and most superior of traits with no flaws at all. This is an idea rooted in eugenics, and it fuels the most civilizationally cynical ideas of who gets to be considered superior, and who qualifies as inferior enough to be flushed out of our collective gene pool. It’s important to note that what holds all of these ideas together is the benign-sounding idea of longtermism — and it’s even creeping into the United Nations. “The foreign policy community in general and the … United Nations in particular are beginning to embrace longtermism,” noted one UN Dispatch.
But if it wasn’t already clear why the ideas themselves are dangerous, the people formulating them make it clear whose interests are at stake, and whose aren’t. “…contributors to fast-growing fields like the study of ‘existential risk’ or ‘global catastrophic risk’ are overwhelmingly white… Bostrom idealizes a future in which the continued evolution of ‘(post)humanity’ culminates in a form of ‘technological maturity’ that adheres to mainstream norms of white maleness: deeply disembodied, unattached to place, and dominant over, or independent from, ‘nature’,” note scholars Audra Mitchell and Aadita Chaudhury, who work in the areas of human ethics, ecology science, and technology.
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Tech overlords figuring out ways to survive what they know to be coming — and euphemistically refer to as an “event” — isn’t just a short-sighted way out of the mess they themselves are complicit in. It’s all part of the long game — perhaps the longest one we’ve ever envisioned.
Nick Bostrom enjoys considerable ideological heft. As the chair of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), he is one among a growing group of philosophers who have their sights set on our future in terms of how much more we can think, accomplish, build and discover on a scale previously thought to be unthinkable. “Anders Sandberg, a research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute, told me that humans might be able to colonise a third of the now-visible universe, before dark energy pushes the rest out of reach. That would give us access to 100 billion galaxies, a mind-bending quantity of matter and energy to play with,” wrote Ross Andersen, who investigated the philosophies actively shaping the future of our civilization.
Tech is key to achieving this kind of potential, which is why people in tech are so heavily invested (and investing) in the idea. At the heart of the ethical deliberations is the cost-benefit analysis: how much is it okay to lose for the sake of ensuring the potential of future people? Maybe even post-people? It’s the “greater good” dilemma that has been used to justify devastating wars and policy decisions already: “Now imagine what might be ‘justified’ if the ‘greater good’ isn’t national security but the cosmic potential of Earth-originating intelligent life over the coming trillions of years?” Torres asks.
“…the crucial fact that longtermists miss is that technology is far more likely to cause our extinction before this distant future event than to save us from it,” they add.
But the lack of transparency, the inordinate resources, and the power concentrated in the hands of the overwhelmingly cis, white, techno-optimistic men who wield the world’s future in their hands stands in the way of recognizing this crucial fact. | https://theswaddle.com/how-longtermism-is-helping-the-tech-elite-justify-ruining-the-world/ | 2022-09-05T08:53:49Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/how-longtermism-is-helping-the-tech-elite-justify-ruining-the-world/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Weeknd suddenly ended his sold-out concert in Southern California after losing his voice during a mid-song performance.
The four-time Grammy winner was performing his third song “Can’t Feel My Face” before he abruptly stopped his show Saturday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. He then walked off stage, eventually returned and told the audience he lost his voice.
While onstage, the Weeknd apologized for canceling the show and promised the audience a refund.
“I’m going to make sure everyone is good, you’ll get your money back,” he told the crowd. “But I’ll do a show real soon for you guys.”
The singer added: “I can’t give you what I want to give you.”
The Weeknd went on social media to explain that he’s devastated after his “voice went out” during the first song.
“Felt it go and my heart dropped,” he wrote. “My deepest apologies to my fans here. I promise I’ll make it up to you with a new date.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Weeknd suddenly ended his sold-out concert in Southern California after losing his voice during a mid-song performance.
The four-time Grammy winner was performing his third song “Can’t Feel My Face” before he abruptly stopped his show Saturday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. He then walked off stage, eventually returned and told the audience he lost his voice.
While onstage, the Weeknd apologized for canceling the show and promised the audience a refund.
“I’m going to make sure everyone is good, you’ll get your money back,” he told the crowd. “But I’ll do a show real soon for you guys.”
The singer added: “I can’t give you what I want to give you.”
The Weeknd went on social media to explain that he’s devastated after his “voice went out” during the first song.
“Felt it go and my heart dropped,” he wrote. “My deepest apologies to my fans here. I promise I’ll make it up to you with a new date.”
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Cyrus Mistry, an Indian-born Irish businessman and former chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata Sons, died in an accident on Sunday after his car crashed into a road divider in western India, police said. He was 54.
The crash occurred on a river bridge in Maharashtra state’s Palghar district near Mumbai, police officer Prakash Gaekwad told reporters.
Mistry served as Tata Sons chairman for five years until he was removed by the board in October 2016. He challenged the board’s decision, but India’s top court upheld his dismissal.
Politicians and business leaders reacted with shock to news of Mistry’s death.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Mistry was a promising business leader who believed in India’s economic prowess. “His passing away is a big loss to the world of commerce and industry,” he said.
“I was convinced he was destined for greatness,” said Anand Mahindra, an Indian business leader. “If life had other plans for him, so be it, but life itself should not have been snatched away from him.”
Mistry owned an 18.4% stake in Tata Sons through his company, Cyrus Investments Pvt. Ltd. In 2018, his net worth was approximately $10 billion.
Mistry joined the family construction company, Shapoorji Pallonji and Co. Ltd., as managing director in 1991.
He is survived by his wife and two sons. | https://www.wspa.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-prominent-indian-business-leader-cyrus-mistry-dies-at-54/ | 2022-09-05T08:56:17Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-prominent-indian-business-leader-cyrus-mistry-dies-at-54/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — Sterling Lord, the uniquely enduring literary agent who worked for years to find a publisher for Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and over the following decades arranged deals for everyone from true crime writer Joe McGinniss to the creators of the Berenstain Bears, has died. He had just turned 102.
Lord died Saturday in a nursing home in Ocala, Florida, according to his daughter, Rebecca Lord.
“He had a good death and died peacefully of old age,” she told The Associated Press.
Sterling Lord, who started his own agency in 1952 and later merged with rival Literistic to form Sterling Lord Literistic Inc., was a failed magazine publisher who became, almost surely, the longest-serving agent in the book business. He stayed with the company he founded until he was nearly 100 — and then decided to launch a new one.
He was well-spoken and athletic, a most able negotiator who dressed in tweed and avoided most vices. But he was alert to new trends and an early ambassador for a revolutionary cultural movement: the Beats. With rare persistence, he endured the initial unwillingness of publishers to take on Kerouac’s unorthodox narrative and was later the longtime agent for poet and playwright Amiri Baraka, novelist Ken Kesey and poet and City Lights bookstore owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
His full roster of clients produced works about sports, politics, murder and the travails of illustrated animals.
Thanks to his friendship with Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, Lord helped launch Stan and Jan Berenstain’s multimillion-selling books about an anthropomorphic bear family. He negotiated terms between McGinniss and accused killer Jeffrey MacDonald, later convicted, for the true crime classic “Fatal Vision.” He found a publisher for Nicholas Pileggi’s mob story “Wiseguy” and helped arrange the deal for its celebrated film adaptation, “Goodfellas.”
In the early 1960s, Viking had asked Lord to get a blurb from Kerouac for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Kesey’s first and most famous novel. Kerouac declined, but Lord was so impressed by the book that he ended up representing Kesey for his next work, “Sometimes a Great Notion.”
He represented former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Judge John Sirica of Watergate fame and worked often with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis during her time as an editor with Doubleday and Viking. Some of the great sports books of the 20th century, from “North Dallas Forty” to “Secretariat,” were written by his clients.
“A number of things about this business have really caught me and made it a compelling interest,” Lord told the AP in 2013. “First, I’m interested in good writing. Second, I am interested in new and good ideas. And third, I’ve been able to meet some extraordinarily interesting people.”
Lord would also speak proudly of a project he declined: Lyndon Johnson’s memoir. Representatives for the former president informed Lord in the late 1960s that Johnson wanted $1 million for the book and that Lord should accept less than his usual commission for the honor of working with him. Lord turned them down, much to their surprise and anger.
Johnson’s “The Vantage Point,” ultimately published in 1971, was dismissed by critics as bland and uninformative. Lord instead found a deal for “Quotations from Chairman LBJ,” a bestselling parody.
Lord was married four times, and had one child, Rebecca.
Books and tennis were lifelong passions for Lord, born in Burlington, Iowa, in 1920. It began when his mother would read to him after dinner; he went on to edit his high school newspaper and work as a sports stringer around the same time for the Des Moines Register. He also became a tennis star at Grinnell College, and later a good enough player to compete against Don Budge, among others.
His upbringing, he would later write, was the kind of “pleasant, orderly” world “the Beats were trampling on in the fifties and sixties.”
After serving in the Army Air Force during World War II, Lord co-owned the Germany-based magazine Weekend, which soon folded. Back in the U.S., he served as an editor at True and Cosmopolitan, from which he was fired, before founding the Sterling Lord Literary Agency. Lord had met many agents during his magazine years and believed they failed to understand that the American public was becoming more urban and sophisticated. He also prided himself on his sympathy for writers who lived far more wildly than he did.
His first marriage, he would acknowledge, helped inspire him to go into business for himself.
“Frankly, I didn’t want to deal with the situation at home,” he told the Des Moines Register in 2015.
Lord had quick success by selling film rights to two popular sports books, Rocky Graziano’s “Somebody Up There Likes Me” and Jimmy Piersall’s “Fear Strikes Out.” But Lord’s “On the Road” quest would prove bumpier.
In his 2013 memoir “Lord of Publishing,” Lord remembered first meeting Kerouac in 1952. Kerouac already had completed a conventional novel, “The Town and the City,” but had no agent and surely needed one for his next book: “On the Road” was typed, as Lord was among the first to know, “on a 120-foot scroll of architectural tracing paper.”
Lord believed that Kerouac had “a fresh, distinctive voice that should be heard.” But the industry was not in the mood. Even younger editors who may have related to Kerouac’s jazzy celebration of youth and personal freedom turned him down. One editor wrote to Lord that “Kerouac does have enormous talent of a very special kind. But this is not a well-made novel, nor a saleable one nor even, I think, a good one.”
By 1955, Kerouac was ready to give up — but Lord was not. The agent eventually sold excerpts to The Paris Review and the periodical New World Writing. An editor from Viking Press contacted Lord, offering an advance of $900. Lord held out for $1,000. In 1957, the book was released, The New York Times raved and “On the Road” soon entered the American canon.
But Kerouac was a shy and fragile man, Lord wrote. Fame magnified a drinking problem that killed him by 1969. Lord even recruited a doctor who unsuccessfully attempted to get Kerouac to clean up, but the businessman eventually backed away since he was his “literary agent, not his life agent.”
Lord attended Kerouac’s funeral, sharing a limousine ride with his client Jimmy Breslin and standing by the grave alongside Allen Ginsberg, “the sunlight filtering through the trees, the leaves brown after losing their fall colors.”
Lord oversaw Kerouac’s numerous posthumous releases even as he battled the author’s family for control of the estate. After years of failed attempts, a filmed version of “On the Road” was released in 2012. But Lord had little involvement in the project, directed by Walter Salles and starring Sam Riley and Kristen Stewart. He didn’t bother to attend a special screening, citing mixed early reviews, and didn’t show up for a private party for the film.
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LANGLEY, Wash. (AP) — One person was killed and nine people remained missing, including a child, after a floatplane crashed Sunday afternoon in Puget Sound in Washington state, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The agency said in a press release the plane was flying from Friday Harbor, a popular tourist destination in the San Juan Islands, to Renton, a southern suburb of Seattle.
Four Coast Guard vessels, a rescue helicopter and an aircraft were involved in the extensive search, along with nearby rescue and law enforcement agencies. Two vessels were to continue searching during the night and air patrols would resume at first light, the Coast Guard said late Sunday.
The crash was reported at 3:11 p.m. The Coast Guard said one body had been recovered and nine people were still missing. The cause of the crash is unknown, authorities said.
The plane went down in Mutiny Bay off Whidbey Island, roughly 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of downtown Seattle and about halfway between Friday Harbor and Renton.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the plane was a de Havilland DHC-3 Otter, a single-engine propeller plane.
Floatplanes, which have pontoons allowing them to land on water, are a common sight around Puget Sound, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean. There are multiple, daily flights between the Seattle area and the San Juan Islands, a scenic archipelago northwest of Seattle that draws tourists from around the world.
These aircraft, which also fly between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, frequently travel over Seattle and land in Lake Washington, not far from the city’s iconic Space Needle.
Renton, where authorities say the flight was headed Sunday, is at the southern tip of Lake Washington, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southeast of Seattle.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s chance of power outages will grow in the coming days, as the state prepares to enter the most brutal stretch yet of an ongoing heat wave, officials said Sunday.
Energy demand is expected to outpace supply starting Monday evening, and predictions for Tuesday show the state rivaling its all-time high for electricity demand, said Elliot Mainzer, president and chief executive officer of the California Independent System Operator.
“This is about to get significantly more intense,” Mainzer told reporters.
The system operator is in charge of managing and maintaining reliability on the electric grid, a challenging job during hot weather when energy demand soars as people crank up their air conditioners.
Grid managers have several options available before power outages, like tapping backup generators, buying more power from other states and using so-called demand response programs, where people are paid to use less energy. But keeping the lights on will also require Californians to continue conserving as they have been, even as temperatures rise.
Most of California’s 39 million people are facing extremely hot weather. Temperatures in the Central Valley are expected to be as high as 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 degrees Celsius) for several days. In Los Angeles, meanwhile, temperatures topped 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius), unusually warm temperatures for September.
Energy officials and power companies have been urging people since Wednesday to use less power from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. by keeping air conditioners at 78 degrees Fahrenheit (25.5 degrees Celsius) or higher and avoiding using major appliances like ovens and dishwashers. Those so-called flex alerts have allowed the grid operator to keep the lights on so far.
On Saturday night, the state used about 44,000 megawatts of electricity, Mainzer said. By Tuesday, that’s supposed to ramp up to more than 50,000 megawatts, nearing record levels of energy use set in 2006. But the state would rather curb demand to avoid that number than test the power grid’s capability to respond.
“Our goal is to make sure that we do not reach that number,” Mainzer said.
During the day, California’s energy grid runs on a mix of mostly solar and natural gas, as well as some imports of power from other states. But solar power begins to fall off during the late afternoon and into the evening, which is the hottest time of day in some parts of the state.
Meanwhile, some of the aging natural gas plants that California relies on for backup power aren’t as reliable in hot weather. As of Sunday afternoon, three of the state’s coastal power plants were experiencing partial outages, though they make up just a small fraction of the state’s supply, officials said.
At the same time, some hydropower resources are limited due to drought. Dry conditions and heat are hitting California as the state heads into what traditionally is the worst of the fire season, with large fires already burning and turning deadly. Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
Several hundred thousand Californians lost power in rolling blackouts in August 2020 amid hot weather. The state avoided a similar scenario last summer. Newsom on Friday signed legislation potentially allowing the state’s last remaining nuclear plant to stay open beyond its planned 2025 closure in order to ensure more power for the energy grid.
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McLaughlin Wins In Portland
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Scott McLaughlin was never really challenged in Sunday’s IndyCar Series race in Portland and went on to a victory in the second-to-last event of the 2022 season.
The Team Penske driver started from the pole and cruised to a 1.1 second victory over teammate Will Power.
It was McLaughlin’s third win of the season. He led 104 of the race’s 110 laps.
“I don’t think the car really felt good in that first stint but as the race went on, it got a little bit worse,” McLaughlin said. “I just had to really concentrate on where I wanted the strengths of the car to be and work with those and make the best of the weaknesses.
Six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon of Chip Ganassi Racing was third while Pato O’Ward of Arrow McLaren was fourth.
Graham Rahal of Rahal Letterman Racing was fifth.
Five drivers remain in contention for the 2022 championship as it heads to Laguna Seca for next week’s season final. They are Power, Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden (20 points back), Discon (20 back), Marcus Ericsson of Chip Ganassi Racing (39 back) and McLaughlin (41 back).
(This story will be updated shortly)
PORTLAND, Ore. – Results Sunday of the Grand Prix of Portland NTT INDYCAR SERIES event on the 1.964-mile Portland International Raceway, with order of finish, starting position in parentheses, driver, engine, laps completed and reason out (if any):
1. (1) Scott McLaughlin, Chevrolet, 110, Running
2. (2) Will Power, Chevrolet, 110, Running
3. (16) Scott Dixon, Honda, 110, Running
4. (5) Pato O’Ward, Chevrolet, 110, Running
5. (11) Graham Rahal, Honda, 110, Running
6. (7) Colton Herta, Honda, 110, Running
7. (9) Alexander Rossi, Honda, 110, Running
8. (8) Josef Newgarden, Chevrolet, 110, Running
9. (14) Callum Ilott, Chevrolet, 110, Running
10. (6) Felix Rosenqvist, Chevrolet, 110, Running
11. (18) Marcus Ericsson, Honda, 110, Running
12. (4) Alex Palou, Honda, 110, Running
13. (13) Kyle Kirkwood, Chevrolet, 110, Running
14. (10) David Malukas, Honda, 110, Running
15. (17) Jack Harvey, Honda, 110, Running
16. (24) Devlin DeFrancesco, Honda, 110, Running
17. (21) Helio Castroneves, Honda, 110, Running
18. (22) Takuma Sato, Honda, 110, Running
19. (15) Romain Grosjean, Honda, 110, Running
20. (12) Rinus VeeKay, Chevrolet, 110, Running
21. (3) Christian Lundgaard, Honda, 110, Running
22. (25) Dalton Kellett, Chevrolet, 109, Running
23. (19) Simon Pagenaud, Honda, 100, Running
24. (23) Jimmie Johnson, Honda, 82, Contact
25. (20) Conor Daly, Chevrolet, 67, Mechanical
Race Statistics
Winner’s average speed: 111.493 mph
Time of Race: 01:56:15.6892
Margin of victory: 1.1792 seconds
Cautions: 1 for 4 laps
Lead changes: 9 among 4 drivers
Lap Leaders:
McLaughlin, Scott 1 – 20
Lundgaard, Christian 21
Rahal, Graham 22
Ilott, Callum 23
McLaughlin, Scott 24 – 47
Power, Will 48
Rahal, Graham 49
McLaughlin, Scott 50 – 78
Power, Will 79
McLaughlin, Scott 80 – 110
NTT INDYCAR SERIES Point Standings: Power 523, Newgarden 503, Dixon 503, Ericsson 484, McLaughlin 482, Palou 457, O’Ward 456, Herta 362, Rossi 361, Rosenqvist 360, Rahal 333, VeeKay 315, Grosjean 302, Pagenaud 301, Lundgaard 293, Malukas 288, Daly 261, Castroneves 252, Sato 251, Ilott 213, Johnson 200, Harvey 199, DeFrancesco 191, Kirkwood 174, Kellett 128, Tony Kanaan 78, Ed Carpenter 75, Santino Ferrucci 71, Tatiana Calderon 58, JR Hildebrand 53, Juan Pablo Montoya 44, Simona De Silvestro 26, Marco Andretti 17, Sage Karam 14, Stefan Wilson 10
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The second week of the final Grand Slam of 2022 has begun. Here are all the key numbers and statistics from Day 7 of the US Open.
US Open Day 7: Coco Gauff, Caroline Garcia set quarterfinal clash | Ons Jabeur, Ajla Tomljanovic advance to last eight | Week 1 in quotes
Scores | Order of play | Draw
1 - Ons Jabeur continues to blaze a trail every time she hits a personal milestone: the Tunisian's first US Open quarterfinal is also a first for her country, and she is the first Arab woman to reach the last eight at Flushing Meadows. The last African woman to reach the US Open quarterfinals was South Africa's Amanda Coetzer in 1998.
5 - Years since Caroline Garcia's last (and only prior) Grand Slam quarterfinal, at Roland Garros 2017. The Frenchwoman is now on a 12-match winning streak since winning Cincinnati as a qualifier; she has also won 29 out of 33 matches since mid-June, including titles in Bad Homburg and Warsaw as well.
Colossal COCO 💥
— wta (@WTA) September 4, 2022
She defeats Zhang 7-5 7-5 to reach her first #USOpen quarterfinal, without dropping a single set so far!@CocoGauff 👏 pic.twitter.com/UlZMjZI873
18 - At 18 years old, Coco Gauff is the youngest US Open semifinalist since a 17-year-old Melanie Oudin in 2009. Gauff, the youngest player in the last 16, defeated 33-year-old Zhang Shuai, the oldest player in the last 16, 7-5, 7-5.
0-3 - The losing head-to-head records Ons Jabeur and Caroline Garcia faced against Veronika Kudermetova and Alison Riske-Amritraj respectively before defeating them for the first time on Day 7. Neither Jabeur nor Garcia had previously won a set against their fourth-round opponents, but came through 7-6(1), 6-4 and 6-4, 6-1 respectively to reach their first US Open quarterfinals.
3 - Out of four singles matches on Day 7, three reversed results from earlier this year, and two from August's North American hard-court swing. Alison Riske-Amritraj had beaten Caroline Garcia 6-4, 7-5 in the second round of Nottingham; Veronika Kudermetova had taken out Ons Jabeur 7-6(5), 6-2 in the San Jose quarterfinals; and Liudmila Samsonova had defeated Ajla Tomljanovic 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the second round of Washington.
8 SET POINTS SAVED 😯@Ajlatom takes the opening tiebreak (10-8) over Samsonova in their R4 battle on Armstrong…#USOpen pic.twitter.com/nrUapxBPcC
— wta (@WTA) September 5, 2022
5-2 - First-set deficits overturned by Ons Jabeur and Ajla Tomljanovic. From 5-2 down against Veronika Kudermetova, Jabeur won 12 of the next 16 points to level at 5-5; and from 6-5 down, she won 11 of the next 12 points to take the set.
Meanwhile, Tomljanovic saved a total of eight set points to steal the first set from Liudmila Samsonova -- seven serving at 4-5 and one more in the tiebreak, before cruising to victory 7-6(8), 6-1.
0 - Times Caroline Garcia dropped serve against Alison Riske-Amritraj, saving all four break points she faced. Indeed, Garcia has only lost serve twice so far in the tournament -- both times against Bianca Andreescu in the third round.
3 - Grand Slam quarterfinals reached in the past 15 months by Ajla Tomljanovic. The Australian played her first major main draw at Wimbledon 2013, and reached the fourth round of a Slam for the first time on her Roland Garros debut in 2014 -- but that was the only time in her first 26 Grand Slam main draws that she made it beyond the second round. Tomljanovic snapped that streak to reach the Wimbledon 2021 quarterfinals, repeated her SW19 run this year, and has now made the last eight for the first time in New York. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2781713/us-open-day-7-by-the-numbers-jabeur-s-milestone-gauff-s-youth-and-more | 2022-09-05T08:59:01Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2781713/us-open-day-7-by-the-numbers-jabeur-s-milestone-gauff-s-youth-and-more | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chris Chen, a former captain in Taiwan’s military, spent a lot of time waiting during his weeklong training for reservists in June. Waiting for assembly, waiting for lunch, waiting for training, he said.
The course, part of Taiwan’s efforts to deter a Chinese invasion, was jam-packed with 200 reservists to one instructor.
“It just became all listening, there was very little time to actually carry out the instructions,” Chen said.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has underscored the importance of mobilizing civilians when under attack, as Ukraine’s reserve forces helped fend off the invaders. Nearly halfway around the world, it has highlighted Taiwan’s weaknesses on that front, chiefly in two areas: its reserves and civilian defense force.
While an invasion doesn’t appear imminent, China’s recent large-scale military exercises in response to a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan have made the government in Taipei more aware than ever of the hard power behind Beijing’s rhetoric about bringing the self-ruled island under its control.
Experts said that civilian defense and reserve forces have an important deterrent effect, showing a potential aggressor that the risks of invasion are high. Even before the invasion of Ukraine in March, Taiwan was working on reforming both. The question is whether it will be enough.
Taiwan’s reserves are meant to back up its 188,000-person military, which is 90% volunteers and 10% men doing their four months of compulsory military service. On paper, the 2.3 million reservists enable Taiwan to match China’s 2 million-strong military.
Yet, the reserve system has long been criticized. Many, like Chen, felt the seven days of training for the mostly former soldiers was a waste of time that did not prepare them well enough.
The number of combat-ready reservists — those who could immediately join front-line battles — is only about 300,000, said Wang Ting-yu, a lawmaker from the governing Democratic Progressive Party who serves on the defense committee in the legislature.
“In Ukraine, if in the first three days of the war it had fallen apart, no matter how strong your military is, you wouldn’t have been able to fight the war,” Wang said. “A resilient society can meet this challenge. So that when you are met with disasters and war, you will not fall apart.”
Taiwan reorganized its reserve system in January, now coordinated by a new body called the All Out Defense Mobilization Agency, which will also take over the civil defense system in an emergency.
One major change was the pilot launch of a more intensive, two-week training instead of the standard one week, which will eventually be expanded to the 300,000 combat-ready reservists. The remaining reservists can play a more defensive role, such as defending bridges, Wang said.
Dennis Shi joined the revamped training for two weeks in May at an abandoned building site on Taiwan’s northern coast. Half the time it was raining, he said. The rest, it was baking hot. The training coincided with the peak of a COVID-19 outbreak. Wearing raincoats and face masks, the reservists dug trenches and practiced firing mortars and marching.
“Your whole body was covered in mud, and even in your boots there was mud,” Shi said.
Still, he said he got more firing time than during his mandatory four months of service three years ago and felt motivated because senior officers carried out the drills with them.
“The main thing is when it’s time to serve your country, then you have to do it,” he said.
There are plans to reform the civil defense force too, said Wang, though much of the discussion has not been widely publicized yet.
The Civil Defense Force, which falls under the National Police Agency, is a leftover from an era of authoritarian rule before Taiwan transitioned to democracy in the 1980s and 1990s. Its members are mostly people who are too old to qualify as reservists but still want to serve.
“It hasn’t followed the passage of the times and hasn’t kept pace with our fighting ability,” Wang said.
Planned changes include a requirement to include security guards employed by some of Taiwan’s largest companies in the force, and the incorporation of women, who are not required to serve in the military.
About 73% of Taiwanese say they would be willing to fight for Taiwan if China were to invade, according to surveys by Kuan-chen Lee at the Defense Ministry-affiliated Institute for National Defense and Security Research, a number that has remained consistent.
The Ukraine war, at least initially, shook some people’s confidence in the willingness of America to come to Taiwan’s assistance in the event of an attack. Whereas 57% said last September they believed the U.S. would “definitely or probably” send troops if China invaded, that dropped to 40% in March.
The U.S. policy of strategic ambiguity leaves it murky as to whether the U.S. would intervene militarily. Pelosi said during her visit that she wants to help the island defend itself.
Outside of government efforts, some civilians have been inspired to do more on their own.
Last week, the founder of Taiwanese chipmaker United Microelectronics, Robert Tsao, announced he would donate 1 billion New Taiwan Dollars ($32.8 million) to fund the training of a 3 million-person defense force made up of civilians.
More than 1,000 people have attended lectures on civil defense with Open Knowledge Taiwan, according to T.H. Schee, a tech entrepreneur who gives lectures and organizes civil defense courses with the volunteer group, which aims to make specialized knowledge accessible to the public.
Others have signed up for first aid training, and some for firearms courses, though with air guns as Taiwan’s laws do not allow widespread gun ownership.
These efforts need government coordination, said Martin Yang, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Military and Police Tactical Research and Development Association, a group of former police officers and soldiers interested in Taiwan’s defense.
“The civil sector has this idea and they’re using their energy, but I think the government needs to come out and coordinate this, so the energy doesn’t get wasted,” he said.
Yang is critical of the government’s civil defense drills, citing annual exercises in which civilians practice taking shelter.
“When you do this exercise, you want to consider that people will hide in the subway, they need water and food, and may have medical needs. You will possibly have hundreds or thousands of people hiding there,” Yang said. “But were does the water and food come from?”
In July, the New Taipei city government organized a large-scale drill with its disaster services and the Defense Ministry. Included for the first time was urban warfare, such as how first responders would react to an attack on a train station or a port.
The drills had the feeling of a carnival rather than serious preparation for an invasion. An MC excitedly welcomed guests as Korean pop music blared. Recruiters for the military, the coast guard and the military police set up booths to entice visitors, offering tchotchkes such as toy grenade keychains.
Chang Chia-rong guided VIP guests to their seats. The 20-year-old expressed a willingness to defend Taiwan, though she hadn’t felt very worried about a Chinese invasion.
“If there’s a volunteer squad, I hope that I can join and defend my country,” she said. “If there’s a need, I would be very willing to join.” | https://www.wspa.com/news/world-news/ap-international/ap-military-reserves-civil-defense-worry-taiwan-as-china-looms/ | 2022-09-05T08:59:13Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/world-news/ap-international/ap-military-reserves-civil-defense-worry-taiwan-as-china-looms/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Energy problems plagued Ukraine and Europe as much of the Russian-occupied region that’s home to a largely crippled nuclear power plant was reported temporarily in blackout Sunday.
Only one of six reactors at the Zaporizhzhia facility was connected to the electricity grid, and Russia’s main pipeline carrying natural gas to Germany remained shut down.
The fighting in Ukraine and related disputes over pipelines lie behind the electricity and natural gas shortfalls that have worsened as Russia’s war in Ukraine, which began on Feb. 24, grinds on for a seventh month.
Both issues will take center stage this week. U.N. nuclear agency inspectors are scheduled to brief the Security Council on Tuesday about their inspection and safeguard visit to the Zaporizhzhia power plant. European Union energy ministers were slated to hold an emergency meeting Friday in Brussels to discuss the bloc’s electricity market, which European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said “is no longer operating.”
Much of the Zaporizhzhia region, including the key city of Melitopol, lost power Sunday.
But electricity was gradually being restored, said Vladimir Rogov, the head of the Russia-installed local administration in Enerhodar, the city where the nuclear power plant is located. To the southwest, power was also out in several parts of the port city of Kherson, according to Russia’s Tass news agency. Rogov blamed the outages in both locations on damage to high-voltage power lines.
While Rogov said no new shelling of the area around the six-reactor Zaporizhzhia plant was reported Sunday, the effects of earlier strikes lingered.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Saturday that the plant was disconnected from its last main external power line and one reactor was disconnected because of grid restrictions. Another reactor was still operating and producing electricity for cooling and other essential safety functions at the site, as well as externally for households, factories and others through a reserve power line, the IAEA said.
Russian forces have held the Zaporizhzhia facility, Europe’s largest nuclear plant, since early March, with its Ukrainian staff continuing to operate it.
IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said he will brief the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday on a mission he led to the plant last week. The 14-member delegation braved gunfire and artillery blasts to reach the plant last Thursday after months of negotiations to enable passage through the fighting’s front lines.
Without blaming either warring side, Grossi said his big concerns are the plant’s physical integrity, its power supply and the staff’s condition.
Europe’s energy picture remained clouded by the war in Ukraine.
Just hours before Russian energy company Gazprom was due to resume natural gas deliveries to Germany through a major pipeline after a three-day stoppage, it announced Friday that it couldn’t do so until oil leaks in turbines are fixed.
That is the latest development in a saga in which Gazprom has advanced technical problems as the reason for reducing gas flows through Nord Stream 1 — explanations that German officials have rejected as a cover for a political power play. Dismissing Gazprom’s latest rationale for the shutdown, Germany’s Siemens Energy — which manufactured turbines the pipeline uses —- said turbine leaks can be fixed while gas continues to flow through the pipeline.
Von der Leyen blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine for Europe’s energy crisis. Before the EU energy ministers’ meeting this coming Friday, she said electricity and natural gas prices should be decoupled and that she supports a price cap on Russian pipeline gas exported to Europe.
Natural gas is one of the main fuels used in electricity generation, and is a major source of Russia’s income, along with oil exports.
On Ukraine’s battlefield, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address Sunday, without providing specifics, that his country’s forces had retaken control of two settlements in Ukraine’s south and one in the separatist eastern Donetsk region.
Russian shelling hit the southern Ukraine port city of Mykolaiv during the night, damaging a medical treatment facility, the city’s mayor said Sunday.
Mykolaiv and its surrounding region have been hit daily for weeks. On Saturday, a child was killed and five people were wounded in rocket attacks in the region, Gov. Vitaliy Kim said.
Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych didn’t report injuries in the overnight attack, which he said also damaged residences. Mykolaiv, which is 30 kilometers (20 miles) upstream from the Black Sea on the Southern Bug River, is a significant port and shipbuilding center.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, Russian shelling late Saturday set a large wooden restaurant complex on fire, according to the region’s emergency service. One person was killed and two others were wounded in shelling in the region, Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the eastern Donetsk region where Russian forces have been trying to take full control, said four people were killed in shelling on Saturday.
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Andrew Katell contributed to this story from New York.
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Disney Plus Day is coming. Are you ready?
Last month, Disney surpassed Netflix in terms of overall subscriptions. When counting Disney Plus, Hulu and ESPN Plus, the total was 221.1 million subscriptions. This means that more people than ever before can partake in Disney Plus Day.
Disney Plus Day is when the company celebrates its legions of subscribers by offering new content across all its marquee brands: Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic. You’ll want to make sure you have everything you need to get the most out of the event.
What is Disney Plus Day?
The first Disney Plus Day took place on Nov. 12, 2021. It was a special day set aside to celebrate the second anniversary of the launch of Disney Plus (Nov.12, 2019). While the day is primarily a streaming event, Disney Plus subscribers can also enjoy other membership perks at Disney parks and AMC theaters.
When is Disney Plus Day?
This year, Disney Plus Day arrives a little early. You do not have to wait until November to be showered with appreciation. The event takes place in just a few days on Thursday, Sept. 8.
Who can participate in Disney Plus Day?
To reap the many rewards and enjoy the perks of Disney Plus Day, all you have to do is be a Disney Plus Subscriber.
What can we expect on Disney Plus Day?
New content
First and foremost, Disney Plus Day is a streaming event. On Sept. 8, you will be treated to over a dozen programs that are new to the streaming service. Here is some of what you can expect:
- “Cars on the Road”: Lightning McQueen and Mater take an adventure-filled cross-country road trip to meet Mater’s sister.
- “Epic Adventures with Bertie Gregory”: National Geographic adventurer Bertie Gregory travels to the most remote areas of the wilderness.
- “‘Frozen’ and ‘Frozen 2’ Sing-Alongs”: All your favorite songs from Anna, Elsa and friends will be presented as sing-alongs.
- “Growing Up”: Ten compelling stories focus on what it is like to be an adolescent.
- “Assembled: The Making of ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’”: Not only will “Thor: Love and Thunder” be making its Disney Plus premiere on Sept. 8, but you can learn about all the movie magic that went on behind the scenes in this documentary.
- “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: (Episode 4)”: The next installment of Jennifer Walters’ life as a hulk premieres on Sept. 8.
- “Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi’s Return”: This is an all-new look at Lucasfilm’s original limited series for Disney Plus, “Obi-Wan Kenobi.”
- “Pinocchio”: This blend of live-action and CGI takes the fabled story to new heights.
- “Welcome to the Club”: Are you ready for a new short from The Simpsons? We thought so!
- “Tierra Incognita”: Tierra Incognita is a horror theme park that holds the answers to the mysterious disappearance of Eric Dalaras’ parents. Will he find what he is searching for when he runs away from his grandparents?
Park perks
If you find yourself in Florida or California on Sept. 8, and you are a Disney Plus subscriber, you can enter the park 30 minutes before everyone else. Guests who are staying at select Walt Disney World Resort Hotels and Hotels of the Disneyland Resort can enter the park 60 minutes early and partake in a special Disney Plus screening at Movie Under the Stars. Other perks include complimentary Disney PhotoPass photo downloads at select locations, commemorative chalk art, blue-dusted churros and more.
AMC Theatres
AMC Theatres will join in the celebration this year. From Sept. 8 through Sept.19, “Encanto,” “Thor: Ragnarok,” “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Cars” and “Newsies” will be back in the theater for just $5 plus tax. Your purchase of a discounted ticket will include a free Disney Plus poster (while supplies last). Additionally, a fountain drink and Cameo-size popcorn combo will be available for just $5. To get this deal, you need to show proof of an active Disney Plus account.
What do I need to enjoy Disney Plus Day?
There are three components you need to get the most out of Disney Plus Day: access to streaming content, a quality TV and a quality sound system.
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The setup for the Roku involves three simple steps: plug it in, connect to the internet and stream. The remote even has a shortcut button that takes you directly to Disney Plus. For convenience, the system works with Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant.
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This OLED TV delivers a revolutionary viewing experience. It features billions of colors that appear natural to the human eye, with deep blacks and bright whites. The TV, a home Wi-Fi network and a subscription are all you need to have access to all the content offered by Disney Plus.
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When you’re not watching, this TV turns into a beautiful framed work of art from a library of over 1,400 works from established and emerging artists. The QLED technology gives you brilliant, stay-true color with cinematic technology.
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Amazon’s Fire TV has support for 4K Ultra HD, Dolby Vision, HDR 10, HLG and Dolby Digital Plus to ensure you have an unforgettable viewing experience. The TV comes with built-in Alexa support, so you don’t have to lift a finger to enjoy your favorite content.
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If you want a top-of-the-line soundbar, the Sonos Arc is the model to get. It has two height channels to provide an astounding sense of space while delivering crisp dialogue. If you desire a larger system, you can add more Sonos speakers at any time.
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Vizio M-Series 5.1 Premium Sound Bar
Vizio’s low-profile 5.1 sound system provides cinematic 3D surround sound that is powered by Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. The system comes with one soundbar, two tweeters and a woofer to deliver a truly immersive listening experience.
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The Sonos Ray is the company’s compact, low-end offering. However, don’t be fooled by the budget price. It still delivers an extraordinary experience with heavy bass and crisp dialogue.
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Logitech Z906 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker System
Logitech is a trusted name in home tech. This expansive sound system comes with everything you need to create that thrilling room-shaking audio that lets you experience cinematic adventures to the max. You can connect up to six devices to this flexible home audio system.
iLive 32-inch Bluetooth Soundbar
If you have a modest budget, but still want to upgrade your audio experience, iLive’s soundbar is a solid option. It is a flexible all-in-one speaker system that lets you effortlessly kick your audio up to the next level.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Mets ace Max Scherzer said he was feeling fine Sunday, a day after he exited after a start after five innings because of fatigue on his left side.
The three-time Cy Young Award winner remained on schedule to start Friday night for NL East-leading New York at Miami.
Scherzer missed almost seven weeks earlier this season with a left oblique injury.
Of this fatigue, Scherzer offered a chuckle.
“It’s kind of like everywhere except the oblique,” he said before the Mets’ 7-1 loss to Washington.
Scherzer came out after 67 pitches Saturday against the Nationals. The 38-year-old righty allowed one run and three hits, striking out five and walking one. He got a no-decision in a game the Mets later lost 7-1.
Scherzer is 9-4 with a 2.26 ERA in 20 starts in his first season with the Mets. He has struck out 153 in 127 2/3 innings.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Minnesota Twins catcher Gary Sánchez was feeling fortunate Sunday after he nearly walked into a major injury.
Sánchez was almost struck in the head by a full swing by teammate Gilberto Celestino during Minnesota’s 5-1 victory against the Chicago White Sox.
The incident occurred when Chicago brought in Kendall Graveman to face Sánchez with two outs in the eighth inning. Sánchez was heading back to the dugout to learn more about the reliever when he was almost hit by Celestino in the on-deck circle.
Celestino missed Sánchez’s face by mere inches.
“I had a few minutes to go and ask a couple questions about that pitcher,” Sánchez said through a translator. “I saw his bat was on his shoulder just standing there in the on-deck circle and so I went back to the dugout and I didn’t notice he was swinging.”
Sánchez lowered his head after the bat passed, and Celestino leaned back with an incredulous look on his face.
“He almost hit me, but thank God, nothing happened,” Sánchez said. “It’s just an accident. It’s fine.”
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Readers of KentLive are on the fence about who should become Britain’s new Prime Minister. And some even want Boris Johnson back in post.
Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will today (September 5) be named as scandal-hit Boris Johnson’s successor and inherit an economy in crisis. Foreign Secretary Truss is expected to be named the next Conservative leader and PM.
The Mirror reports former Chancellor Sunak has signalled he believes he has lost, saying his job "now is just to support a Conservative government". Norfolk MP Truss is poised to take power during the throes of a cost of living crisis and as industrial unrest and a recession.
The 47-year-old will become the Conservatives' fourth PM since a 2015 election. Over that period Britain has moved from crisis to crisis, and now faces what is forecast to be a long recession triggered by sky-rocketing inflation which hit 10.1% in July.
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Reports today suggest Truss is strongly considering freezing energy bills in some form in a bid to ease the burden on households this winter.
Our readers have been having their say on the Tory leadership election and it appears the two remaining contenders will have to work hard to win over voters.
Jane Stopes said "I for one would not have voted for either of them in...let's see just how far their promises go."
Meanwhile, Anne Cunningham was one of a number of readers who said a general election should be called. She replied: "We need an election so all of the country can vote for who WE want as PM."
One KentLive reader was less than enthused by either of the candidates, telling us a Kent MP who had thrown his name in to the hat earlier on in the contest would have got their vote. They said: "Shame there isn't a "none of the above" option. My vote would have gone to Tom Tugendhat"
This week reports in the media have suggested Tory MP's are plotting a leadership vote to bring back Boris Johnson, and it appears such move would be supported by a number of our readers.
Maggs Barnett said: "Bring back Boris, better the devil you know". A view echoed by Nicola Leach who added: "We are doomed, bring back Boris"
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Martin Lewis has issued a warning to Good Morning Britain viewers that the energy price hike could continue to rise until July 2023. This comes at the same time as rumours Liz Truss will introduce a price freeze to combat the cost of living crisis.
The Money Saving expert said that he had been criticised for calling the current energy costs "catastrophic", but explained that the October price cap could go up again in January and April next year. He predicted that energy bills could rise to £5,387 in early 2023 and won't look to drop until July.
Lewis joined the ITV show alongside Susanna Reid to discuss the next Prime Minister's possible solutions to the rising cost of energy bills. The co-host passionately admitted that he "hopes and prays" that further help is coming to help the households most struggling in the cost of living crisis.
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He said: "I have been attacked for calling [the prices] a catastrophe. The average bill over October to April was predicted to be £2,800 but we're now looking at an average of £4,400 - that is half the full-state pension, a bigger proportion of the old state pension and an even bigger proportion of what somebody on universal credit brings in.
"So for many of the poorest and most vulnerable in society, if there's no further help then it is catastrophic."
The expert went on to lay out that the October prices, which have risen by 80%, could rise again by an additional 52% in January next year. He said that the January price cap was already quite certain having been under consultation since April.
"The assessment period for January's price cap is from February this year until November, so we are seven tenths of the way through that - when I give you a number for January it's likely to be in that ballpark," revealed Lewis.
He continued: "That would take the typical use [of energy] up to £5,387."
The predictions for the April 2023 price cap are less certain as the assessment period for it hasn't started yet. However, Lewis suggested that prices could rise a further 23% before finally dropping in July.
The co-host said the predicted July drop would only be by 11% which would still leave the average bill at £5,900.
This comes as the potential new Prime Minister Lis Truss has been rumoured by the Daily Telegraph to be freezing prices. We are expected to find out the results of the leadership race by midday today.
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The German government has announced a $65 billion dollar relief package to help citizens facing soaring inflation and surging energy costs as Russia cuts off its gas supplies to Europe.
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The German government has announced a $65 billion dollar relief package to help citizens facing soaring inflation and surging energy costs as Russia cuts off its gas supplies to Europe.
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Volunteers in Jackson, Mississippi are organizing deliveries of bottled water to people who cannot reach distribution sites.
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Volunteers in Jackson, Mississippi are organizing deliveries of bottled water to people who cannot reach distribution sites.
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As a nationwide trend of states banning or placing more restrictions on abortion continues, Kansas, where abortion remains legal, struggles to keep up with out of state client demand
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As the week begins, here's a look ahead and a roundup of key developments from the past week.
What to watch this week
On Monday, Brussels hosts a meeting of the EU-Ukraine Association Council, whose agenda includes the European Union's support for Ukraine amid the Russian invasion and Ukraine's application for membership in the bloc.
On Tuesday, the United Nations Security Council is expected to convene, on Russia's request, to discuss the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in southern Ukraine, following recent attacks, outages and an international inspection at the plant.
Also, Boris Johnson's tenure as British prime minister comes to an end. He won praise and affection from Ukrainians as a strong supporter of Kyiv.
And Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to visit the Vostok military exercises in eastern Russia.
On Wednesday, the U.N. Security Council is due to talk about forced displacement in Ukraine, as announced by France.
Thursday, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield will give a preview of Washington's priorities at the U.N. General Assembly later this month. On Saturday, she will address global food security, which has also been affected by the war.
Friday, EU energy meetings are to hold an extraordinary meeting following price surges largely due to fallout from the war in Ukraine. Additionally, EU economy and finance ministers and central bank chiefs will also hold an informal meeting.
On Sunday, Russia holds gubernatorial elections in over a dozen regions.
Meanwhile, security analysts will watch for developments as Ukraine's counteroffensive in the south goes into its second week.
What happened last week
Aug. 29: Ukraine launched a counteroffensive in southern areas captured by Russian forces early in the war.
Aug. 30: Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev died at 91. An interpreter who worked with him later told Reuters that Gorbachev had been "shocked and bewildered" by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Putin didn't attend the Sept. 3 burial ceremony, and the Kremlin gave it only limited elements of a state funeral.
UNESCO said it supports Ukraine's bid to list Odesa as a World Heritage site.
Aug. 31: EU countries agreed to suspend visas for Russians but came short of an outright entry ban.
Sept. 1: International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors visited the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in southern Ukraine, after a delay and attacks en route to the Russian-occupied plant.
Ukraine's new school year began in the middle of a war. While some schools started in person, most will try to hold classes online. More than 2,000 centers of learning, from preschools to universities, have been damaged or destroyed, the Education Ministry says.
Russia kicked off Vostok 2022, a week of military exercises with other countries. Some analysts say the drills reflect Moscow's deepening ties with China and India.
Sept. 2: President Biden asked Congress to approve $11.7 billion for Ukraine, including $7.2 for military-related costs and $4.5 billion for direct economic support.
Sept. 3: The embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear station was once again knocked off its last external power line but was still able to run electricity through a reserve line. Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for shelling in the area.
Russian shelling hit Ukraine's Kharkiv, in the northeast, and Mykolaiv, in the south.
Sept. 4: John Sullivan left his post as U.S. ambassador to Russia and will retire from public service, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow said. He was appointed in December 2019 by then-President Donald Trump and stayed on through a tumultuous time. Elizabeth Rood becomes the embassy's charge d'affaires until Sullivan's successor arrives.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal visited Germany and spoke with its leaders about the war, Russia sanctions and Ukraine's weapons needs.
In-depth
Ukraine's southern offensive relies on heavy weapons. Soldiers say there aren't enough.
Along the front lines in eastern Ukraine, cut off from resources, a resilient city holds on.
What it's like for Ukrainians working at a nuclear plant under Russian occupation.
Russia's effort to break European energy unity seems to be failing — at least for now.
As inspectors leave Ukraine's nuclear plant, the mayor of a nearby town has high hopes.
What inspectors are looking for at Ukraine's war-damaged Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
A Ukrainian neurologist from Kyiv checks back in with NPR, saying dozens of medical professionals from the West have offered help since the first interview.
At Latvia's border with Russia, the line grows long, and tempers short.
Massive military aid package to Ukraine signals U.S. is in war for the long haul.
Special report
Russia's war in Ukraine is changing the world: See its ripple effects in all corners of the globe.
Earlier developments
You can read past recaps here. For context and more in-depth stories, you can find more of NPR's coverage here. Also, listen and subscribe to NPR's State of Ukraine podcast for updates throughout the day.
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The cost of living crisis is worsening across the UK. With this in mind, many households will be looking to reduce their spending where possible. The energy price cap is due to rise 80 per cent in October. This comes after the regulator, Ofgem, said the average household’s yearly bill can be raised from £1,971 to £3,549.
Inflation also hit a new 40-year high of 10.1 per cent last month. But it is predicted by some economists to rise to 18 per cent from January 2023. Because of this, the costs of running common household appliances will surge, consumer group Which? has warned.
To help cut down bills, the consumer group has suggested a number of tips to help households cope, including simple tricks that could make a difference to spending:
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Reduce washing machine costs
The average cost to run a washing machine yearly will rise from just over £63 to more than £117 under the new energy price cap.
One way to reduce spending is to fill the machine to about 80% capacity, rather than repeatedly washing smaller loads. If clothes are not stained, then consider washing at 30C, as it will cut energy usage by 38% on average compared with a 40C wash, while a 20C wash will use 62% less energy.
Cut tumble dryer costs
The cost of an average heat pump tumble dryer will increase from £56 to £104 a year, whereas condenser tumble dryers require more power, and the cost will jump up from £140 to £260 a year after the new price cap comes into force.
You could make savings by choosing to dry laundry by hanging it outside, using a clothesline or an airer. However, be aware of damp and mould which may be caused by drying laundry inside frequently and make sure you open windows.
Use your dishwasher properly to save money
The average annual running cost for a full-size dishwasher will rise from £83 to £153, and for a slimline model it will cost £136, up from £73.
Which? suggests ensuring the dishwasher is not over or under filled, to wash full loads instead of running it for a few items and to run it on an eco-setting. While washing up by hand may seem like a cheaper option, handwashing uses more water than a dishwasher.
Fridge freezers
On average, integrated fridge freezers currently cost around £73 a year to run and this will rise to £136 in October. It is estimated that American models cost between £84 and £120 to run, which will increase to £155 and £222 a year.
To ensure your fridge freezer is running as efficiently as possible, Which? suggests cleaning the condenser coils on the back as dust on the coils can prevent the fridge from cooling properly.
It is important to replace door seals if they become damaged, so that cold air cannot escape. You should also ensure that food is cooled down properly before refrigerating.
Ovens
Appliances such as air fryers or combi microwaves might be more cost efficient than ovens for cooking smaller items. According to Which?, a built-in electric oven costs £66 a year to run which will rise to £122 following the price cap rise, while a single gas oven costs £20 and will rise to £43.
Cooking larger amounts of food at a time and eating them as meals spread across the week, rather than running the oven every day, could also reduce costs.
Food can also be defrosted in the fridge in advance. This will mean your oven does not have to work as hard to cook it, Which? said.
Install central heating controls
Smart heating controls can cut your bills and make better use of the heating energy you pay for. Which? says it could cut a home’s carbon emissions by 320kg a year and estimates that a medium-sized household could save at least £100 a year.
Which? recommends using zonal heating controls with radiator valves to vary the heating and schedule of different rooms. Emily Seymour, Which? energy editor, said: “Huge energy bill hikes are a cause of real concern for millions of households across the country, especially when many are already feeling the pressures of the cost-of-living crisis.”
Find out if you could get energy grants
Pensioners and those who get certain benefits could be eligible for the Warm Home Discount. It is £140, but increasing to £150 in October this year.
Those born before 26 September 1955 can claim a Winter Fuel Payment of £100 to £300 every winter and energy companies also have their own hardship funds.
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This Labor Day, we’re thinking about the people who make our picnics possible. People like Marielena, who works in a poultry plant in North Carolina. More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the workers “do not have sufficient time to even disinfect our hands,” says Marielena.
That’s just one of the preventable hazards faced by workers processing the meats we’ll be sizzling on our grills this weekend. Several of her co-workers, Marielena reports, “hurt themselves lifting because the floors were wet. There were chemicals; they have cuts and the velocity (of the line) is so fast (but) the supervisor comes and yells at us to move faster.”
Marielena tells her story at WorkedUp, a new platform hosted by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, where we are co-executive directors. WorkedUp highlights testimony from workers standing up for better work conditions. But she prefers not to use her real name due to the very real threat of employer retaliation.
Joining together to make things better, from a bake sale to a barn-raising, is a longstanding and heartwarming American tradition.
But when workers get together, watch out: Employers routinely violate federal law, reports the Economic Policy Institute, by harassing or firing workers involved in union organizing campaigns.
That’s what happened to Alyssa Sanchez, a Starbucks barista in Phoenix, who was fired after she helped organize her workplace. “They’re just trying to get rid of all the people who want to unionize,” Sanchez says, adding that “we just want to make work a better place.”
Employers like Starbucks have used illegal discipline measures, firings and even store closings for decades to dissuade workers from organizing. But this bullying behavior doesn’t work so well when workers are fed up with jobs that put them at risk but don’t pay the rent. Starbucks workers have won more than 200 union elections nationwide while losing only a handful.
We’re inspired by Starbucks workers and those at Apple, Amazon, Trader Joe’s, REI and other corporate retail giants who are transforming the U.S. labor movement.
As safety advocates, we know how important a union can be. More unionized workers results in fewer traumatic injuries and fewer deaths in high-risk industries like mining and construction.
Right now, however, only 6% of private-sector workers in the United States have union representation.
Let’s say the current surge in organizing is successful and unions recruit twice as many members as they have now. That would still leave 88% of private sector workers — more than 97 million people — without the protections that go along with a union contract.
Union or non-union, all workers deserve fair pay and decent working conditions. That’s why we need public protections that apply to all workers, like the safety standards on extreme heat now in effect in California, Oregon, Washington and Minnesota. Local committees on occupational safety and health, known as COSH groups, are crucial to winning these policy victories.
Our organization provides training and resources to win safety improvements for all workers, regardless of union status. Nonprofit worker centers, which provide legal and advocacy support, are also an important resource, especially for immigrant and undocumented workers who are uniquely vulnerable to employer retaliation.
You can also make a difference as a citizen and as a consumer. You can sign a pledge at tinyurl.com/nocontractnocoffee to support Starbucks workers, or one at WorkedUp.us to support workers at Refresco, a bottling company in New Jersey where workers won two union elections and are now fighting for their first contract.
Business groups are never shy about contacting elected officials, and this is a time for all of us regular folks to be bold as well. Signing a petition, joining a rally or sending a tweet are small acts that, if done collectively, can make a big change.
We learned during the pandemic just how much all of us rely on frontline workers. It’s great to honor them on Labor Day — and even better to join their campaigns for fair pay and safer working conditions all year long. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/commentary-this-labor-day-support-the-union-wave/article_3eb1672e-2aed-11ed-ab31-87159740e695.html | 2022-09-05T09:51:10Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/commentary-this-labor-day-support-the-union-wave/article_3eb1672e-2aed-11ed-ab31-87159740e695.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Local ‘leaders’ are no help on health care
To the editor — Thursday’s headline about Memorial’s financial difficulties had me thinking. One hospital in Yakima closes and the remaining one is in financial distress. And from our so called “leaders,” silence.
Our local congressman’s and our county commissioners’ only input on health care these last few years have been to undermine public health efforts by politicizing them. They have no constructive ideas regarding health care access. I can only recall our congressman’s efforts to limit access to health care by attacking the Affordable Care Act and limiting women’s access to health care.
Our country’s health care “system” was fragile even prior to the pandemic. The last few years just exposed more the lack of a true system in this country. It is time to seriously look at how other developed countries do it better than we do instead of continually deluding ourselves about how we do things better than anyone else.
But, unfortunately, so many Americans have succumbed to lack of critical thinking, lack of seeking truth and evidence-based facts.
BARRY BERNFELD
Yakima | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-local-leaders-are-no-help-on-health-care/article_b8259b6c-2af1-11ed-86c1-b7b47d2aab48.html | 2022-09-05T09:51:16Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-local-leaders-are-no-help-on-health-care/article_b8259b6c-2af1-11ed-86c1-b7b47d2aab48.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Not for 100 years has there been such a pronounced drop in U.S. life expectancy, from 79 years in 2019 to 76 just two years later, in 2021, according to federal researchers. It’s easy to chalk this up entirely to the impact of COVID, and the virus was certainly the main culprit, but it would be wrong to suggest this dismaying trend is the result merely of forces out of our collective hands.
The whole world was hit by the virus. But while most of our peers in Europe, Asia and Oceania have started recovering since the shock of the pandemic’s first year, America’s life expectancy has kept declining, with the downturn especially precipitous among Native American and Alaska Native communities, who’ve lost a staggering six-and-a-half years of expected life, bringing them down to just 65.
For reference, the average person in Portugal, a country with a per-capita GDP about a third the United States’, could expect to live five years longer than the average American, and 16 years longer than the average Native American.
It’s worth remembering that U.S. life expectancy had been plateauing or even dropping for years before this virus struck, driven by obesity, drug overdoses, suicide and chronic health conditions like heart disease. Some consider these problems mere personal failings, but they’re downstream of policy — a needlessly inefficient and expensive health care system, a longtime punitive response to drug dependency and a work culture that looks down on sick days and time off, among other things. COVID just made it all worse.
This news should come as a wake-up call that, after decades of progressively longer, happier, healthier and more prosperous lives, we’re backsliding.
It’s especially disturbing that so many of the climbing causes of mortality — including suicide and drug use — are so-called deaths of despair.
Some solutions, like choosing to get the new COVID boosters for the omicron variant, will fall on us as individuals. Others are on us as a society.
Long live a coherent policy program to help us all live longer. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/other-views-losing-time-declining-life-expectancy-is-an-indictment-of-american-society/article_4319e748-2aeb-11ed-b8e6-13bb8b177f29.html | 2022-09-05T09:51:22Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/other-views-losing-time-declining-life-expectancy-is-an-indictment-of-american-society/article_4319e748-2aeb-11ed-b8e6-13bb8b177f29.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After the FBI search for classified records at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, his chorus of sycophants kept singing the same tune: The search was unnecessary. The government should have just asked him to return the documents. Trump had declassified them anyway. But new court filings devastate each of those arguments. The public should insist that those who lambasted law enforcement in their eagerness to defend Trump before any facts were known explain where they stand now.
Immediately after Trump announced Aug. 8 that his Mar-a-Lago resort was “under siege, raided and occupied” by the FBI, the usual suspects leapt to his defense. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a U.S. Senate candidate, vowed to “take a wrecking ball” to the Department of Justice. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., insisted that, “at a minimum,” Attorney General Merrick Garland “must resign or be impeached.”
These and other Republican responses were unleashed before there was virtually any information available about the peaceful, court-approved search (not “raid” or “siege”). Their rhetoric may well have contributed to a rash of death threats against FBI officials. So much for the “law and order” party.
The timeline that has since emerged via court filings has increasingly vindicated the FBI’s search. That Trump took hundreds of classified documents with him when he left office — including some with classifications indicating they could endanger national security if they fell into the wrong hands — is now beyond dispute. Far from overreacting, federal officials spent almost two years requesting, negotiating and even subpoenaing Trump to get the records back, finally resorting to a court-ordered search as a last resort. Trump’s narrative that they could’ve just asked is almost comical in hindsight.
Trump’s unsupported claim that he declassified the records before he took them is one that his attorneys never made during all the negotiating, exposing it as an after-the-fact contrivance. And last week’s filings indicate Trump’s attorneys may have moved documents to prevent federal officials from finding them, which boosts the case for obstruction of justice.
Trump himself may have inadvertently provided evidence of such obstruction, by complaining on social media that the FBI “threw documents haphazardly all over the floor (perhaps pretending that it was me that did it!).” Spreading out documents to photograph them is standard evidentiary procedure. But more to the point, Trump didn’t deny the documents were in his home — claiming only that they weren’t on the floor. Yet his lawyers had previously denied there were still documents anywhere on the premises.
The fact that several Republican candidates have recently scrubbed their social media of posts defending Trump indicates at least some in the party have reconsidered their knee-jerk defense of a president who has demonstrated again and again his contempt for the rule of law. The rest should be asked, at every opportunity, whether they agree. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/other-views-trumps-defenders-look-worse-with-each-new-revelation-regarding-the-documents/article_8ddbd27e-2aea-11ed-8a27-0bc0d2102c32.html | 2022-09-05T09:51:28Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/other-views-trumps-defenders-look-worse-with-each-new-revelation-regarding-the-documents/article_8ddbd27e-2aea-11ed-8a27-0bc0d2102c32.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Kansas City Symphony's new concertmaster, Jun Iwasaki, is set to formally step into his role at the ensemble's annual ball on Sept. 10.
But less than two weeks before his local debut, the violinist was still awaiting a truck delivery to his new, but empty, home in Overland Park, Kansas.
“There’s nothing in there," he said. "Everything is still in the truck, making its way over here. My wife, Paige, and I are busy setting up the house, getting ready for things to arrive.”
This kind of transition isn’t new to Iwasaki, who relocated to the Kansas City area from Tennessee, where he was concertmaster for the Nashville Symphony from 2011-22. Before that, he was concertmaster for the Oregon Symphony from 2007-11.
But this marks the first move he’s made with his wife and two young sons, Taiga and Kenta.
As concertmaster, Iwasaki is likely to become the most recognizable face among musicians in the Kansas City Symphony, and his leadership will be critical as the group continues to emerge from two years of pandemic restrictions that frequently affected live performances.
Music, Iwasaki said, has always been a part of his life — a family tradition. His mother is a pianist and his father is a cellist.
“It was just something that I thought was a normal thing to do, that people played music," he said. "They would come home and practice and have dinner and practice more, and so that's what I saw my parents do, day in, day out.”
Iwasaki started playing the violin at age 5. After winning competitions in high school, he realized he also wanted to pursue music as a career.
He graduated from Cleveland Institute of Music’s Concertmaster Academy and has appeared with orchestras across Europe and the United States.
Iwasaki said the first time he played with the Kansas City Symphony, he knew it would be a good fit.
“My attraction here was pretty immediate," he said. "The (orchestra's) level of commitment, and the audience was extremely enthusiastic about everything we were doing, and to see what (music director Michael Stern) has created over his time here with the brand new hall — and, you know, this was before I even got to know the city.”
“I really liked what was going on, both onstage and offstage," he added.
The term concertmaster, he said, hearkens back to an earlier era of musical performance.
“When orchestras were first starting to form, there were no conductors,” Iwasaki said. “Most often the lead violinist would be in charge of leading the group because they mostly play the melodic material and they’re easily visible from everyone else on the stage.”
Their role in a modern-day orchestra is a sort of go-between for the conductor and musicians, he said, “to help convey what the conductor wants the orchestra to do, without speaking.”
The concertmaster's best means of communicating is through body language and eye contact.
Already in tune with the prevailing interests of a "football town" like Kansas City, Iwasaki made an apt comparison.
“If the conductor is the coach,” Iwasaki said, “I would say the concertmaster role is like the quarterback position; kind of the captain on the field, rallying his team.”
“That’s the Mahomes of the group," he clarified with a laugh, "and he's helping lead the team to a successful concert.”
Building that kind of rapport “just takes trust," he said. "It takes time.”
In Iwasaki's first season with the Kansas City Symphony, which starts Sept. 16, local audiences will begin to find out if that parallel holds. If his tenure with the orchestra comes to resemble Mahomes' rise with the Chiefs, it will be music to Kansas City's ears.
The Kansas City Symphony's 2022-23 season begins at 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 16, at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway Blvd., Kansas City, Missouri 64108. Find detailed ticketing information at KCSymphony.org. | https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2022-09-05/kansas-city-symphonys-new-concertmaster-is-ready-for-his-turn-as-the-mahomes-of-the-group | 2022-09-05T09:54:47Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2022-09-05/kansas-city-symphonys-new-concertmaster-is-ready-for-his-turn-as-the-mahomes-of-the-group | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Over time, Lynn Leif found herself with less and less work to offer to teenagers.
For more than 40 years, Leif and her family employed up to 500 middle and high schoolers to detassel corn in July and August. Based in York, Nebraska, she ran buses to pick up teens in neighboring Seward and all the way to Lincoln one hour away.
Her family contracted for Syngenta as well as Monsanto, the St. Louis-based agricultural behemoth that German-based Bayer bought in 2018 for $68 billion. Leif was in the business of finding workers to detassel more than 2,700 acres of corn controlled by the two large agriculture companies throughout her region of southeast Nebraska.
New advances in herbicides and plant breeding over the years meant Monsanto needed fewer people to detassel corn. And of those fewer people Monsanto used, more of them were migrant workers.
It became unsustainable for Leif to hire all these teens with so little work to do.
“It was hard for our kids because they used this for so long as an income and some of them had worked for us for years,” she said.
Leif first detasseled at 13 years old. More than 40 years later, she is out of the corn detasseling business altogether. For her, that was an adjustment.
“I never knew what you did in July other than detasseling,” she said.
Other corn detasseling operations have faced similar experiences as seed companies like Bayer, Syngenta and Remington Seeds, which control a growing amount of the Midwest’s cropland, increasingly use the H-2A visa program to hire temporary migrant workers. The H-2A program allows agriculture companies to hire migrant workers if they cannot find enough domestic workers.
For decades, corn detasseling has been more than just a job for Nebraska teenagers. Pulling the tassel off the top of corn stalks to prevent self-pollination paid well above minimum wage and offered pay raises to return following years. And, given the manual labor involved, detasseling was seen as a rite of passage for teenagers in Nebraska and the rest of the Corn Belt, a task that taught lessons in work ethic for young Midwesterners.
A Nebraska Public Media News investigation found that in Nebraska, hundreds of teenagers have expressed interest in detasseling corn at the same time seed companies opted to use migrant workers.
Nebraska Public Media News also learned that job postings for corn detasseling contained misleading or unrealistic job requirements that appeared to discourage local workers from applying.
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts’ administration sought to direct seed companies toward using local workers, but the U.S. Department of Labor intervened and said temporary guest workers had already been approved and must be used.
One of the major companies involved with detasseling authored a presentation that detailed its decision to prioritize migrant workers because they required less company oversight and were more productive.
The result is what local detasseling contractors say is a vanishing opportunity for local teenagers and the use of migrant workers who are sometimes taken advantage of for the benefits of their employers.
“Detasseling is a huge cultural part of the state of Nebraska,” said Taylor Gage, a former staffer for Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts. “Really one of the biggest and most important aspects of this is it helps bridge the urban-rural divide.”
‘710 employees wait-listed’
In 2019, Gov. Ricketts took note of a wait-list that contained hundreds of Nebraskans who were interested in detasseling corn that summer. So, it came as a surprise to learn that contractors for seed companies had been approved to hire migrant workers under the H-2A program.
The H-2A visa, created in 1986, allows agricultural companies to hire seasonal temporary foreign workers. But companies can only bring on H-2A workers after they’ve shown that they tried to hire local workers and found there’s not enough interest or capability.
Ricketts wrote to federal officials later that year to let them know local workers wanted to detassel corn.
“In 2019, Nebraska detasseling (harvest) companies had 710 employees wait-listed,” Ricketts wrote in a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor, “but certifications were still granted for H-2A workers to perform detasseling.”
Ricketts heard from local contractors who raised concerns about the trend of contractors for seed companies using H-2A workers. His letter urged the Department of Labor to reform the H-2A program by requiring seed companies to first petition the local contractors for the amount of available work before they can apply for migrant workers, which is not currently a requirement.
“This requirement would ensure that the hiring of American workers is prioritized and prevent seed companies from manipulating the system by indirectly employing H-2A workers through the utilization of third-party harvest companies when there are more than adequate numbers of American workers who are willing to perform the needed services,” Ricketts’ letter said.
Asked about Ricketts’ letter, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) said a wait list of available teenage laborers amounted to insufficient evidence to prompt federal officials to act.
“Such a waitlist may show individuals are interested generally in employment in a certain area, such as corn detasseling, but it is not evidence that U.S. workers actually applied for a specific job opportunity offered in conjunction with an H-2A application or U.S. workers applied and were unlawfully rejected,” a department spokesperson said in a statement.
In order for the U.S. DOL to reject an H-2A application, the department needed evidence that Nebraska workers both applied to those jobs and were unlawfully rejected, according to the spokesperson.
But Nebraska Department of Labor officials investigated job postings for detasseling jobs and found signs that job descriptions discouraged local applicants.
Deceptive job descriptions
John Albin, the Nebraska Labor Commissioner, and Bradley Pierce, the director of re-eeployment services at Nebraska’s DOL, checked postings for detasseling jobs listed on their website – NEworks.nebraska.gov.
Pierce said NDOL found no evidence that wages were discriminatory, or that migrant workers were treated unfairly.
But Nebraska labor officials discovered that seed companies and H-2A contractors posted what appeared to be deceptive job descriptions.
Some of the job descriptions said detasseling work would last through October, far later in the season that usually wraps up by the end of August — and during a time when teenagers return to school.
“You don’t have to be an agronomy major to know that nobody's detasseling in Nebraska in October,” Albin said.
Some postings required workers to be at least 18 years old, even though people as young as 12 can detassel legally in Nebraska.
Other job applications asked for hemp detasseling.
“Hemp cannot be detasseled,” Pierce wrote in an email to the U.S. DOL’s Chicago office in May 2020.
Listing a job with unreasonable age requirements, unnecessary experience, much longer seasons and overly-detailed job responsibilities are among various tactics to strategically yield few — especially teenage — applicants, Albin and Pierce said.
“Obviously, some of the terms and conditions were not conducive with the local employment of youth,” Pierce said.
Asked whether or not these actions appeared to be intentional and deliberate, Albin said he didn’t know.
“It's difficult to read anyone's mind, and I think we're pretty good administrators, but mind readers, we're not,” Albin said. “It certainly can have that effect.”
In 2020, Nebraska rejected four H-2A petitions for detasseling jobs, but the U.S. Department of Labor overruled Nebraska. A state workforce agency does not have the authority to reject federal H-2A petitions. Under federal rules, Nebraska’s DOL could change what’s included in job applications. Albin and Pierce now amend any job applications seen with deceitful or disingenuous hiring tactics.
“It's sad to consider that a win because that's how it should be in general,” Pierce said.‘We don’t find enough people’
Javier Chapa defends the use of H-2A workers.
He owns Chapa Global Contracting Inc., and has worked in the agricultural labor business for 34 years out of McAllen, Texas.
During detasseling season, Chapa runs one of the many H-2A migrant crews working in Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota. In Nebraska, he contracts with Remington Seeds.
“We don't find enough people (who want) to do the job, and I understand the reason: Because it's hard work,” Chapa said from his pickup truck parked outside of Hastings, Nebraska. “I mean, the youngest generations, they go to school to try not to be in the fields.”
Since 2013, he’s hired H-2A workers because, he said, Chapa Global Contracting's job postings have yielded very few local applicants.
"We give priority to the American people. We’re advertising but sometimes nobody calls. If somebody calls and wants to work, we have to hire."Javier Chapa, Chapa Global Contracting Inc.
Chapa writes the job descriptions for detasseling jobs with the help of lawyers and employment experts. He also petitions the federal government for H-2A workers. He said both Remington and his company follow DOL rules.
“We don’t try to take nobody’s job,” Chapa said. “We just tried to cover what the local people don’t want to do or they can’t do.”
Chapa was the only H-2A contractor who agreed to an interview for this story.
Triple M and Gulf Citrus, Florida companies that both contract with Bayer, did not respond to nine interview requests. Rodriguez Harvesting, another H-2A contractor that’s based in Georgia and works with Syngenta, declined an interview request.
Multiple Syngenta employees in Nebraska did not return calls seeking comment. A corporate spokesman declined an interview request but provided Nebraska Public Media written answers to a detailed list of questions.
“Third-party contractors are responsible for assembling and hiring the mix of workers and would be best to answer any questions regarding their hiring practices,” the spokesman wrote in a statement.
The Syngenta spokesman said H-2A workers provide seed companies with flexibility, which is why they are needed.
“In general, having access to both local workers and H-2A workers — both hired/provided by third-party contractors — allows seed companies to balance the inconsistent schedules of young people working in the local labor crews,” the spokesman wrote. “Many young people involved in detasseling typically have other summer activities that conflict with their ability to work during the key part of the season.”
According to the spokesman, who declined to provide details about the workforce Syngenta uses to detassel corn, three-fourths of the detasseling is supported by local workers.
“Young people are a key part of our success to completing this important seed production work, allowing us to deliver the quality products that farmers need to meet their crop demands.”
‘I was a little upset’
Heather Scar runs a pig farm in western Iowa, near the small town of Adair, between Omaha and Des Moines. She ran detasseling crews of mostly local teenagers for 11 years.
AgReliant Genetics, one of the two corn seed companies she worked for, told her in May they didn’t need her team this year.
“I was a little upset because there wasn't any indication that we wouldn't be coming back this year until they called,” she said.
Scar also detasseled fields for what was then Monsanto, which Bayer bought in 2018. The largely agrochemical company told Scar three years ago it would be using other contractors for the summer’s detasseling. Both AgReliant and Bayer later told her those were H-2A migrant crews, she said.
Tiffany Wenzel lost her Michigan acres in 2020.
“I'm trying to see if we can get those acres back,” Wenzel said.
Wenzel, 41, took over her family farm and detasseling business that started long before she was born. Before Wenzel’s family business, Myers Detasseling, closed, it employed up to 200 workers who traveled in five buses to the “corn capital of the world.”
Michigan is home to two major corn seed companies near Constantine, Michigan, in the southwest corner of the state.
Bayer informed Wenzel she wasn’t needed this year because of a decrease in acres Bayer would need to detassel, she said.
“They were pleased with our work,” Wenzel said. “It was nothing against our company, but they simply didn't need as many contractors.”
At first, Wenzel said she was relieved. For the first time in years, she could attend a July wedding. But later in the summer, she saw detasselers out in the fields, and she realized she missed being out there. She said she felt slighted because the work is still being done – just not by her crew.
She spoke to her Bayer representative, who told her at least some of the new crews were H-2A workers.
“If I have local workers who can do the work, then I should be given that precedence over a non-local crew,” she said.
Multiple Nebraska detasselers who are still in business declined to comment for this story out of fear of retribution from seed companies.
Migrant worker motivation
In a presentation obtained by Nebraska Public Media through a public records request, Bayer laid out its rationale for choosing H-2A workers.
The Bayer presentation, which was sent by the Nebraska Department of Labor’s general counsel to a federal employee, says the seed company will use more “independent” labor in future.
The H-2A program fits under this “independent” classification and forgoes Bayer’s responsibility to provide workers compensation, liability or unemployment insurance because an H-2A contractor would take responsibility. In some cases, the company would also be relieved from paying for housing, transportation and even drinking water for detasselers. Independent agricultural labor only requires Bayer to provide personal protective equipment.
The other option is the “traditional” labor models, which include local teenagers, and require more direct involvement from Bayer, like timekeeping and payroll.
The presentation also acknowledges raising the minimum age to 14 years old discouraged what it called the “feeder effect.” In other words, raising the minimum age would reduce the number of workers who catch on to corn detasseling at a young age and return to the job the following year.
This shift to H-2A workers by Bayer reflects a larger trend in the industry. In the last 10 years, the number of H-2A workers in Corn Belt states has exploded.
H-2A workers aren’t limited to detasseling corn. According to data from the U.S. DOL, many migrants herd sheep, construct farm equipment or harvest fruit. Attorneys who specialize in farmworkers’ and migrant workers’ rights at Iowa Legal Aid said H-2As are often used regularly in the pork industry in that state.
Nebraska has seen a nearly 250% increase in H-2A workers from 2015 to 2021, according to a Nebraska Public Media analysis of data from the U.S. DOL. H-2A workers also rapidly increased in other Corn Belt states over the same time frame. In 2015, for example, the DOL approved 809 H-2A workers for work in Illinois. In 2021, the DOL approved 3,010.
The Bayer presentation also said there’s less corn for workers to detassel because of new developments in crop herbicides and genetically modified corn that requires less manual labor.
“While we’ve seen some shifts in labor as a whole, across Nebraska, the vast majority of our workers continue to be local youth laborers,” a Bayer spokesperson wrote in a statement. “The entire industry continues to face challenges in recruiting youth workers, and in many cases, these positions go unfilled.”
In 2020, the chief operating officer of Bayer’s crop science division sent a letter to Ricketts after the two spoke.
“I appreciate your passion for agriculture and your interest in our operations in Nebraska,” Brett Begemann wrote to Ricketts from St. Louis. “At Bayer, we support the opportunity to provide employment in the communities where we have sites located. Nebraskans, both youth and adult, will always be a critical part of our summer labor force.”
The letter was obtained through a public records request to the governor’s office.
Begemann said in the letter (dated May 6, 2020) that Bayer would employ 2,050 to 2,670 youth and 187 to 207 adult H-2A workers for detasseling that summer.
Bayer also declined interview requests. In a statement for this story, the Bayer spokesperson stressed detasseling looks much different today than a generation ago.
“Migrant labor crews allow us to address our detasseling labor needs, while also diversifying our workforce and providing valuable talent in other parts of our production operations, including harvest, for example,” the spokesperson wrote. “Using this workforce in this manner helps us streamline our approach to meeting our labor needs.”
Vulnerable workers
Danny Reynaga, a Legal Aid attorney in western Nebraska, said the shift to migrant work has been clear in his line of work.
“It's very common to run across H-2A workers, especially when you're speaking with other folks in the advocacy world particularly here in Nebraska,” the Scottsbluff attorney said.
The son of migrant workers said farm work has changed over the last few decades because advancements in farming equipment and chemicals have eliminated traditional agricultural worker jobs.
“I think what we have now is a much more intense, more focused need — and it's for a shorter period of time,” Reynaga said. “That's where these H-2A workers are coming in.”
And while these jobs and the H-2A program are undeniably necessary for the industry, employers sometimes take advantage of migrant workers.
“When you see a lot of H-2A workers, you're going to see more worker rights issues.”Danny Reynaga, Nebraska Legal Aid attorney
“The fact of the matter is that H-2A workers are vulnerable, to a large extent, and most would say, probably more vulnerable than U.S. workers for a variety of reasons,” said Reynaga.
Reynaga and Iowa Legal Aid lawyers say common worker rights issues can manifest in wage theft, not getting paid when they should, poor housing or being overworked. Migrant workers can be vulnerable because they may not speak the common language and a fear of being blacklisted for future work if they raise concerns.
“If you're an employer, what you want out of your workforce is productivity,” Reynaga said. “And when you hire H-2A workforce, typically you're going to get productivity. You're usually hiring someone who's done this before, who's coming year after year, and, by most regards, is going to be a good solid worker.”
Nebraska Legal Aid settled a lawsuit in 2021 against Florida-based Gulf Citrus, a company that contracts migrant workers in Nebraska to detassel.
The 13 migrant workers who sued said Gulf Citrus did not record all the hours they worked, did not credit them with all the acres they completed and did not give them promised bonuses, as reported by the Lincoln Journal Star.
Gulf Citrus showed menus with meals including grilled meat and chicken, burritos and tacos. For several days in a row, the workers were only served eggs, rice and onions, according to the lawsuit. The drinking water in the fields was dirty and tasted bad. An airplane sprayed pesticides on a field next to where the migrant crew worked, leading to breathing problems and an asthma attack for one worker who did not get medical care.
When asked if seed companies chose an H-2A workforce over domestic labor, Reynaga wouldn’t say there’s systemic oppression of migrant workers.
“I'm also not going to go as far as to say that there wouldn't be those talks,” he said. “I'm sure, at some level, there is that discussion – that idea that you can get away with a little bit more with H-2A workers.”
It’s not lost on Chapa, who runs the H-2A contracting business, that migrant workers are sometimes treated poorly by employers. But that’s not the case in the slightest with him, he said.
“We get treated fairly,” Chapa said. “I respect my workers because they are human beings.”
‘We’ll see what happens’
At age 13, Daniel Miller is already 5 feet 9 inches tall. His mom, Katie Miller, detasseled as a teenager and thought her son would be perfect for tall corn.
“I thought it'd be a cool thing — fun,” Daniel said. “Well, not really fun, but maybe fun. Something to do that would get me some money.”
The homeschooler from Lincoln was one of the hundreds of applicants stuck on waitlists this year. His mom thought a waitlist for detasseling was unusual. When she detasseled, there was such a high demand.
By the time Daniel applied, it was late in the summer so he didn’t get another summer job. He said he’s saving up for a PlayStation and a television. That will have to wait until next year when he applies again.
“I hope that the opportunity is still in place for Nebraska teens and kids,” Katie Miller said. “Next year is a new year. We'll see what happens.”
This story comes from the Midwest Newsroom, an investigative journalism collaboration including IPR, KCUR 89.3, Nebraska Public Media News, St. Louis Public Radio and NPR.
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Between July and August this year, Kay Id’s utility bills shot up nearly $200.
While she’s used to energy bills increasing from spring to summer, this year felt worse. The walls of her apartment near 48th Street and Paseo Boulevard have little insulation, making it hard to contain air conditioning.
The drywall is ripped away in some parts of her apartment’s walls, revealing mold.
“All my heating and cooling go, it's kind of out the window, and that's why my bills are so high,” Id says.
Id suffers from a number of chronic health issues – COPD, asthma, osteopenia and osteoarthritis – that are exacerbated by the heat. And Kansas City has seen record high temperatures this summer.
Her health issues also make it hard for her to work – Id is on a fixed income. And between the heat and inflation, she is struggling to get by.
“It's hard for me to manage,” Id says.
Id is not alone. Thousands of Kansas City residents are struggling to pay rent and utility bills — to the point where utility companies are threatening to pull service.
The number of customers of Evergy Metro, which covers the Kansas City area, who received final disconnection notices for non-payment in May and June nearly doubled since last year, according to the Missouri Public Service Commission. (Numbers were not yet available for July or August.)
In May and June 2021, just under 10,000 people received disconnection notices. This year, more than 19,000 customers were notified.
Utility disconnections
Some experts say the increase in utility bills is a result of a combination of factors — people who suffered a loss of income during the pandemic, high fuel costs, supply chain issues, inflation and dangerously high temperatures.
“It's sort of a perfect storm of options and things that are taking place,” says Geoff Marke, chief economist with the Missouri Office of Public Counsel.
Evergy communications manager Gina Penzig told KCUR that over the last five years, Evergy’s rates have been lower than the rate of inflation.
The surge in service disconnections over the last year can also be attributed to a backlog from the COVID-19 pandemic: Evergy halted service disconnections from November 2020 to May 2021, according to Penzig.
During that time, Penzing said the company helped secure millions of dollars in federal and state utility assistance for customers. While Evergy has returned to normal operations, it says it’s giving customers more notice and continues to offer bill assistance.
And many Kansas City residents clearly still need the help.
Metro Lutheran Ministries is one of several organizations offering help to Kansas City residents struggling to pay bills. Case manager Stephanie Winn says they’ve used more than $300,000 of the $500,000 of the assistance money from private and federal funding since May 1, 2022.
Climate change's impact
The metro has experienced several extreme heat waves this summer. In July, Kansas City saw temperatures hit triple digits for the first time in four years. The region also experienced unusually warm nighttime temperatures.
All this meant residents spent more time indoors, increasing air conditioning usage.
For people already struggling to pay rent — which itself increased this summer — the added cost of running air conditioning was not insignificant.
Beth Pauley has worked with the Climate Energy Project for 15 years. She says residents with high utility bills are at more risk for evictions, and she worries it will only get worse.
According to climate research non-profit First Street Foundation, Missouri is in the center of the “Emerging Heat Belt.” This is an area where heat indexed temperatures are likely to hit 125 degrees by the year 2053, due to climate change.
“The greater impacts of climate change are going to exacerbate the issues of high utility bills,” Pauley says.
For Kay Id, the high utility bills make a precarious housing situation even worse. She’d like for her landlord to help make her apartment more energy efficient.
"When property owners don't take care of their buildings, it causes their rent and utilities to go up,” she said. “The utility companies need to work with landlords to make buildings more equipped for higher utilities.” | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-09-05/kansas-city-hottest-summer-utility-bills-shutoff-threats-evergy | 2022-09-05T09:55:00Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-09-05/kansas-city-hottest-summer-utility-bills-shutoff-threats-evergy | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Centuries ago, the last lead mine in southeast Missouri closed its doors, leaving behind toxic waste and generational trauma. In its place, the possibility of a new mining operation looms large. The Midwest Newsroom’s Niara Savage reports on the fears some residents have about silica mines in their community.
Detasseling, the process of removing the tops of corn to prevent self-pollination, was once seen as a teenage rite of passage for many Midwest communities. Now, it seems that seed companies are actively avoiding hiring locals in favor of migrant workers, who are more vulnerable to exploitation. Nebraska Public Media’s Will Bauer reports for the Midwest Newsroom about this shift in the workforce.
Contact the show at news@kcur.org. Follow KCUR on Twitter and Facebook for the latest news.
Kansas City Today is hosted by Nomin Ujiyediin. It is produced by Byron Love, Trevor Grandin and KCUR Studios, and edited by Gabe Rosenberg and Lisa Rodriguez.
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Cute Cats Hugging Dogs: Here are 9 breeds of loving cat that mix well with dogs - including the lovely Ragdoll cat 🐱
Here are 9 breeds of gorgeous kitty cats that are most likely to be good with a dog in the home.
They have been worshipped for centuries by their owners – and as many will attest, once you have been in the company of these adorable creatures, it’s hard to understand why anyone wouldn’t be besotted by their furry little faces and bean toes!
Reports even say that the average cat owner actually owns a minimum of two cats – though we are sure you may know some with many more.
It is said all cats are beautiful, and while that is true, you may be nervous introducing a new cat to your household if a dog is already in the home. if you are looking for a cat that will be energetic, playful and loving all at the same time, these 10 breeds of cat may just be your best bet.
So, if you are looking to add a new furry friend to your household, but want to ensure they can adapt to a dog, then these breeds are reported to be the best at mixing with canines according to LifeTimePetCover.co.uk.*
*While cat breeds do share similar traits, we advise each cat do have their own personality and individual needs, which is of primary importance when taking a cat into your home – especially when a dog or another animal is involved. Please do check that your dog, and the cat you are adopting, are suitable for homes with dogs. | https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/family-and-parenting/cute-cats-hugging-dogs-here-are-9-breeds-of-loving-cat-that-mix-well-with-dogs-including-the-lovely-ragdoll-cat-3824133 | 2022-09-05T09:55:33Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/family-and-parenting/cute-cats-hugging-dogs-here-are-9-breeds-of-loving-cat-that-mix-well-with-dogs-including-the-lovely-ragdoll-cat-3824133 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Dog Fussy Eaters: These are the 10 breeds of adorable dog notorious for being picky eaters - including the loving French Bulldog 🐶
Owners of certain dog breeds shouldn’t be too worried if their pup occasionally turns their nose up at their dinner – they are notorious for it.
A huge number of us decided to welcome new puppies into our homes over the last three years – according to Kennel Club figures dog ownership soared and demand for four-legged friends 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 to take into consideration is that some dogs aren’t as simple as others when it comes to food.
Breeds like the Labrador Retriever will eat pretty much anything (creating its own problems), whereas other breeds have a tendency to eat very little or even refuse food.
Here are the 10 breeds of dog that are the pickiest eaters.
Read more: | https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/family-and-parenting/dog-fussy-eaters-these-are-the-10-breeds-of-adorable-dog-notorious-for-being-picky-eaters-including-the-loving-french-bulldog-3406157 | 2022-09-05T09:55:39Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/family-and-parenting/dog-fussy-eaters-these-are-the-10-breeds-of-adorable-dog-notorious-for-being-picky-eaters-including-the-loving-french-bulldog-3406157 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Dogs With Eye Issues: These are the 10 breeds of adorable dog likely to develop eye infections and other problems - including the loving Labrador 🐶
Prospective dog owners should be aware their beloved pups may be predisposed to developing eye problems.
A huge number of us decided to welcome new puppies into our homes over the last two years – according to Kennel Club figures dog ownership soared and post-lockdown demand for four-legged friends 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.
Another thing to take into consideration is that some breeds are prone to particular health issues.
There are a number of canine disorders relating to the eyes – from conjunctivitis to glaucoma – with some breeds far more likely to be affected than others.
Here are the 10 least breeds of dog genetically predisposed to having issues with their eyes.
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Talkative cute cat breeds: 10 of the most chatty and vocal beautiful breeds of cat - including the friendly Siamese cat breed 🐱
Here are 10 breeds of beautiful cat are sure to keep you company with their chatty nature.
It is really no surprise that one of the most majestic creatures on the planet, cats, are adored the world over by pet owners.
As attested by many through the decades, once you have been in the company of these beautiful and cuddley kitty cats, it’s easy to become quite obsessed!
Did you know, is it reported that the average cat owner actually owns a minimum of two cats – though we are sure you may know some with many more.
However, if you are looking to add a cat that will keep you company and make sure you know you’re loved with the love of a cat chat, then these 10 beautiful and bold breeds are sure to suit your needs, according to Purina.
*While cat breeds do share similar traits, we advise each cat do have their own personality and individual needs, which is of primary importance when taking a cat into your home. Please be aware of this if adopting a cat. | https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/family-and-parenting/talkative-cute-cat-breeds-10-of-the-most-chatty-and-vocal-beautiful-breeds-of-cat-including-the-friendly-siamese-cat-breed-3823104 | 2022-09-05T09:56:11Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/family-and-parenting/talkative-cute-cat-breeds-10-of-the-most-chatty-and-vocal-beautiful-breeds-of-cat-including-the-friendly-siamese-cat-breed-3823104 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Trivia on Chihuahuas: These are 10 fascinating dog facts you didn't know about the adorable Chihuahua 🐕
They’re one of the UK’s most popular breeds of dog, but how much do you really know about the tiny, adorable Chihuahua?
The last two years have seen many of us welcome a new four-legged friend into our homes, as the Kennel Club saw dog ownership soar.
But with 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your perfect pup.
Those with active lifestyles might want to consider a larger dog, while somebody with allergies will be looking for a hypoallergenic dog.
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 dog that often appears at the top of people’s canine wishlists is the Chihuahua– they are one of the UK’s most popular small dogs and have a range of positive attributes that make them a great family pet.
Here are 10 fun and interesting facts about the breed.
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When is the new Prime Minister announced? Who will be the next Prime Minister? How is the UK Prime Minister selected?
The race to become the next leader of the Conservative Party, and the UK’s new prime minister, ended last Friday with the winner to be announced today. Here’s everything you need to know.
The Conservative Party have voted on their two remaining leadership candidates.
Going head-to-head in the race for Prime Minister are current Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak.
With only two remaining, Tory party members (roughly 180,000 people) have voted for their favourite.
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When will the new Prime Minister be announced?
Britain’s new Prime Minister will be announced in Westminster at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre at 12.30 BST on Monday, September 5, 2022.
Sir Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbench MPs, will announce the results of the Tory leadership vote.
The winner of the vote should then become PM by tomorrow on September 6.
The only way the general public could have known of a winner sooner is if one candidate forfeited the leadership contest, like what occurred in 2016 with Theresa May’s premiership.
How is the next Conservative leader selected?
Prime Ministers are selected via general elections held every five years.
Rather than directly voting for Britain’s leader, like the electoral system for US Presidency, the public chooses party members to represent their local constituency.
The party with the most constituencies wins the election and the leader of that party becomes the Prime Minister, under normal circumstances.
Party leaders are chosen internally in advance of a general election.
To join the race, a Conservative party member must be nominated by at least 20 of their colleagues.
Firstly, through a series of secret ballots, the MPs whittle potential candidates down. Candidates with the least votes are eliminated at each round until two remain.
In the second stage, card-carrying grassroots party members vote on these final two remaining candidates.
Who will be Britain’s next Prime Minister?
The Tories need a new leader for their party and due to Boris Johnson stepping down as PM the existing rules state that this leader therefore automatically becomes the new PM.
Conservative MP ballots have whittled down the contenders to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.
The pair have battled it out over hustings across August for the support of Tory party members who have the final say in their success.
According to a report by The Economist, Truss is currently leading the race with an implied probability of 96.4%, while Sunak falls behind at 3.6%.
What’s next for the new Prime Minister?
After the new Tory leader is announced at Westminster today they will likely deliver a short acceptance speech (without accepting questions) which will be televised before addressing the Tories separately in Parliament.
The new Prime Minister will be invited to meet the Queen after Boris Johnson resigns, who will formally request they form a Government.
This ‘kissing hands’ (constitutional term) usually takes place at Buckingham Palace.
Traditionally, the newly appointed PM makes a speech outside Downing Street where they present their vision for office.
The newly appointed PM may deliver this speech after returning from their visit with the Queen on Tuesday. | https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/when-is-the-new-prime-minister-announced-who-will-be-the-next-prime-minister-how-is-the-uk-prime-minister-selected-3823713 | 2022-09-05T09:57:08Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/when-is-the-new-prime-minister-announced-who-will-be-the-next-prime-minister-how-is-the-uk-prime-minister-selected-3823713 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Daniil Medvedev's US Open title defence evaporated in front of a packed crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium in a four-set loss to Australia's Nick Kyrgios, while American teenager Coco Gauff kept home hopes alive after seeing off Zhang Shuai on Sunday.
Kyrgios, Wimbledon finalist this year, has recorded the most wins on tour since the end of the French Open and continued the finest season of his career with a 7-6(11), 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory over Medvedev in a blockbuster fourth-round clash.
"If (Kyrgios) plays like this till end of the tournament, he has all the chances to win it," said Medvedev, who will lose his world No. 1 ranking after his defeat.
Kyrgios will face Karen Khachanov after the Russian beat 12th seed Pablo Carreno Busta in a tough five-setter. Khachanov edged out twice semifinalist Busta 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, 4-6 ,6-3 to reach his third major quarterfinal and first in New York.
Kyrgios's compatriot Ajla Tomljanovic also made the quarter-finals of the women's draw after a gritty straight-sets victory over Liudmila Samsonova.
Rising star Gauff, 18, battled to a 7-5, 7-5 win over China's Zhang and will play the in-form Caroline Garcia for a place in the semifinals after the Frenchwoman defeated Alison Riske-Amritraj 6-4, 6-1.
Tunisian fifth seed Ons Jabeur, runner-up at Wimbledon, extended her career-best run in New York by beating Veronika Kudermetova 7-6 (1), 6-4 to set up a meeting with Tomljanovic.
Earlier, Italy's Matteo Berrettini dug deep to prevail 3-6, 7-6(2), 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 over Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in a three-hour, 45-minute marathon to reach his second straight quarterfinal at Flushing Meadows.
Up next for Berrettini is fifth seed Casper Ruud, who ended lucky loser Corentin Moutet's fairytale run with a 6-1, 6-2, 6-7(4), 6-2 triumph. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/tennis/2022/09/05/us-open-kyrgios-stuns-medvdev-gauff-jabeur-enter-quarterfinals.amp.html | 2022-09-05T09:59:47Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/tennis/2022/09/05/us-open-kyrgios-stuns-medvdev-gauff-jabeur-enter-quarterfinals.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Welcome to the final chapter in ‘The Big Grind’ series with Project Rough, my ER34 Nissan Skyline.
If you’re just joining us now, try and find some time out of your busy schedule to take a look at chapters one and two of the series. They’re jam-packed with good advice, ideas, and tales of my suffering over the last year or so. For this final installment, we’re putting theory to the test.
The easiest way to test how accurate my DIY alignment was would be to simply take it to an alignment shop, put it on the rack and see how close my numbers were to those calculated with a laser. That, however, would be incredibly boring and not tell me if the numbers translate to better handling. I could test the changes during a spirited drive on a local touge, but that too has some obvious downfalls and limitations. No, there was only one way to sit this final exam, and that was at the track.
To do this, I headed along to Sports Land Yamanashi (SLY).
SLY is a tight, technical mountain course that, for time attack, is well suited for smaller, naturally aspirated cars like the DC2 Honda Integra Type R, Mazda Roadster, Toyota 86 and Suzuki Swift. Bigger cars tend to find it tricky to navigate the tight corners, and the fact that the course is only 1km (0.62mi) in length means higher-powered machines don’t have many opportunities to utilize all of their might.
If you’re planning on sending it sideways though, SLY becomes even more of a playground, as the tight course provides non-stop, tire-shredding action.
Having driven at Sports Land Yamanashi back in 2019 during the SLY Summit Grassroots drift event, I had a benchmark to compare all the changes I have done over the past year to, even if at that time I only got to drive on the shortened drift layout.
When Shibata-san from R31 House invited me along to SLY and give the his new Shibata Tire/Rydanz Revimax R23 tire a proper work out, it seemed like a good way to kill many birds with one gigantic stone.
Note: No birds, even theoretical ones, were harmed in the making of this story.
Nissan JamboreeDespite SLY being such a small grassroots track, enthusiasts simply love it. On this particular day, more than 60 cars filled the paddock for both grip and drift sessions at the Nissan Jamboree.
The event’s organizer, Kanta Yamaguchi, works at Nissan, and told me that the day was simply an opportunity for people to get out on the track and experience motorsports.
“The purpose [of this event] is to share the fun of motorsports with as many friends and beginners as I can. I feel that there is a wall in front of ordinary people to understand how enjoyable it is,” Yamaguchi-san told me.
“Up to about one third of all the people here work at Nissan. Sadly, there are less younger ‘car guys’ at Nissan now, so I wanted to create this opportunity for the staff.”
Yamaguchi-san finished, “Of course, I didn’t want to set limitations to where only people working at Nissan could participate,” hence why I was here too.
I spent a good part of the day simply mingling with drivers and hearing their stories, both inside and outside of Nissan. With the prices of ’90s JDM performance cars having reached silly levels now, the owner of this 180SX hides it at his friend’s house down the street. Not for a fear of theft, but fear of his wife making him sell it!
“I have two other cars already and this one is a bit rough.” the owner told me. “It means a lot to me though, and if I were to sell it, I know I couldn’t justify the cost to buy another.”
I can’t remember the last time a tire manufacturer came to a grassroots event – or any event for that matter – and offered drivers a chance to try their products right then and there at the track.
I guess when you’re a small privately-owned and enthusiast-run company, you can do the sort of things big corporations can’t. Shibata-san not only bought a wide range of tires for people to try, but also his truck, which is fully equipped with tire changing and wheel balancing equipment.
Shibata-san himself spent the day multitasking between renting and selling tires, and doing a little testing with his fresh GR86 build that Koudai Sobagiri is now driving in Formula Drift Japan.
With what seemed like a million different things going on, Shibata-san and I decided to save a closer look at this stunning build for another day. Stay tuned for that!
Truth be told, SLY is a bit too short and tight for a car like this to do a proper test, but never the less, the team ran a few laps to see if adding a huge GT wing at the rear would provide a bit more traction.
They also gave a few ride-a-longs, so people could experience the madness of a full-blown, pro-spec FD Japan car.
The Final ExamBut there was only so long I could stall before it was time to pick up lap transponder #34, make tweaks to Project Rough’s dampers and hit the track.
I wish I could tell you that I was calm and 100% confident that all the suspension and DIY alignment changes made were going to work perfectly, but the truth of the matter is, I simply wasn’t. I had spent more than a year playing around with settings, trying to develop a sense of what worked and what didn’t, and now it was time to put all of it to a real-world test.
Unfortunately, the only picture we could find of me on track was this one on Instagram, meaning no amount of magic can be done to restore the pixels. Despite that, this is one of my favorite pictures, as it captures me having an absolute ball in Project Rough. That’s because, in almost five years of ownership, Project Rough had never driven this good before. It’s literally night and day how all the changes have added up.
I spent the first session getting familiar with the full track layout, and inching further and further into the car’s new potential. Where I had expected it to bite, it didn’t. Where I had expected it to run out of brakes, it didn’t. Where I had expected it to be unsettled by the bumps, it didn’t. I could even rotate the rear end under trail braking, something that really wasn’t possible (or advisable) before. Without really breaking a sweat, I was able to achieve a best lap time of 44”589.
For comparison, the fastest time of the day came courtesy of this Monster-tuned Suzuki Swift Sport, which posted a 41”127 lap.
In the second session I pushed Project Rough even harder, but unfortunately I’d made the rookie mistake of not adjusting my tire pressures before going out. The Rydanz Revimax R23’s optimal pressure range is around 2.6-bar, but as you can see, it was actually much higher than that.
Nevertheless, this did allow me to explore how the car behaved when pushed beyond the limits of rear grip, and it was an absolute peach. Everything happened in such a predictable manner that I could control the slip angle with the throttle, something I would have never dared to do before.
But even with the tire pressures being off, I was still able to improve my time to a 44”072.
As I knew the afternoon was going to be incredibly hot (and I still needed to take photos of the day), I decided to call it quits after the two sessions. My best time was still good enough be 10th fastest on the day, just ahead of an FD3S RX-7 and just behind a DC2 Type R.
But I’m over the moon at how well everything went. And better still, there’s still more potential in it. I could play with the dampers a little bit more to improve the weight transfer under acceleration and cornering, or I could add a little bit of toe out in the rear to help it rotate more now that I know it’s not going to bite me. Perhaps I could shed a few more kilos from the car and do something about the horrendous aerodynamics at play.
Oh no, I think I’m starting to fall down the racing rabbit hole…
While I contemplate where I go from here with Project Rough, enjoy the rest of the day’s actions in the chapter below – no words needed.
Ron Celestine
Instagram: celestinephotography | http://www.speedhunters.com/2022/09/big-grind-project-rough-final-chapter/ | 2022-09-05T10:03:30Z | speedhunters.com | control | http://www.speedhunters.com/2022/09/big-grind-project-rough-final-chapter/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV)- Labor day is on September 5, 2022. But some celebrated early at the annual Labor Unity Picnic. Labor unions host the event, to reward members' hard year of work. But everyone could enjoy the celebration.
“We come together as Ohana. We may be so many unions, but we come to you today in communion,” was the introductory speech of the Labor Day Unity Picnic for 2022. A big showing for the event this year at the Waikiki Shell in Honolulu. 18 labor groups came, and thousands of other people, after a multi-year hiatus because of the pandemic.
For union shop members, it's a big deal. “The labor union, any union is like family. We treat everybody like family. While we're working, our family is outside of that realm. Now this is an event our family that can join, when we combine family with the labor side,” said union member Tony Jose.
Jose is enjoying seeing his family celebrate labor day a day early. Local unions, local music bands, local food, it seems appropriate for Hawaii which is the top state for union membership. In 2021, 20.4% of the state's wage and salary workers were in some way connected to a labor union according the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism says 603,000 people were employed in the state last year. The U.S. B.L.S. says 121,000 of those workers were union members. But organizers of this celebration say the history of unions in the US, should interest everyone.
Their strikes and negotiations have affected modern times. “Union or non-union if you work or have a job, it's labor. And you thank a union for all the stuff you got like 40-hour work weeks, weekends off, vacations, Medical, and retirement,” said HBCTC Executive Director Gino Soquena.
Union members got free meal tickets at the event, after all they do pay dues. But free entry, treats, music, and games were open to everyone.
“It's good for everyone to come in and have one big Ohana,” said Tony Jose.
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/labor-day-unity-picnic-resumes-in-20222/article_3f13027c-2cf5-11ed-9770-e7f25be001ff.html | 2022-09-05T10:03:55Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/labor-day-unity-picnic-resumes-in-20222/article_3f13027c-2cf5-11ed-9770-e7f25be001ff.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
We've seen lots of gray skies, and plenty of rainfall over the weekend. Even though many of you get a bonus day this weekend, the weather isn't really cooperating with backyard barbecues and pool parties.
We're still stuck between two big ridges of high pressure. One over the southeast, and the other over the west. A trough is basically stuck overhead, and has been there most of the weekend. If you were expecting any changes to the forecast, you're out of luck.
Labor Day we can expect mostly cloudy skies. Some light rain and drizzle will be around during the morning. Expect a few breaks in the clouds around mid morning. The sunshine will warm temperatures into the mid 80s for highs. Cloudiness will return this afternooon, with scattered showers and thunderstorms. A few storms over the coastal parishes could be locally heavy.
Overnight, skies will stay mostly cloudy. Rains will dissipate. Temperatures will drop into the mid 70s for lows. Tuesday should bring more of the same, with scattered on and off rain expected through the week.
There's a bit of a hint in the models showing a push of some drier air into the region a little over a week from now, so hopefully we'll get a pattern change soon.
In the tropics, Hurricane Danielle is churning over the northern Atlantic and will eventually weaken this week. Tropical Storm Earl is north Puerto Rico this morning, and is expected to become a hurricane over the next few days. Bermuda will be watching this closely as the National Hurricane Center is predicting Earl will strengthen to a major hurricane by the end of the week. | https://www.katc.com/weather/clouds-rain-and-humidity | 2022-09-05T10:03:57Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/weather/clouds-rain-and-humidity | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- Sanctions are causing chaos for technical support
- The only turbine left is malfunctioning, leading to stoppages
- Can only hope that it is possible to fix the problem
Adding that the gas problems have arisen because of sanctions introduced by Western countries. It's all political theater but the bottom line is that Russia is showing that they are bold enough to cut off gas supplies to Europe. The big question is, will oil be next? | https://www.forexlive.com/news/russia-says-europe-is-to-blame-on-nord-stream-shutdown-20220905/ | 2022-09-05T10:12:26Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/russia-says-europe-is-to-blame-on-nord-stream-shutdown-20220905/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) — Canadian police searched across the expansive province of Saskatchewan for two suspects believed to have stabbed to death 10 people in an Indigenous community and a nearby town in one of the deadliest mass killings in the country’s history.
The suspects also injured 15 people in the series of knife attacks that led the James Smith Cree Nation to declare a state of emergency and badly shook residents of the nearby village of Weldon.
“No one in this town is ever going to sleep again. They’re going to be terrified to open their door,” said Weldon resident Ruby Works, who was close to one of the victims.
Police, meanwhile, said a vehicle reportedly carrying the two suspects had been spotted in Regina, about 335 kilometers (208 miles) south of the communities where the stabbings occurred.
Regina police chief Evan Bray said late Sunday they still believe the suspects are in Regina.
“If in the Regina area, take precautions & consider sheltering in place. Do not leave a secure location. DO NOT APPROACH suspicious persons. Do not pick up hitch hikers. Report suspicious persons, emergencies or info to 9-1-1. Do not disclose police locations,” the RCMP said in a message on Twitter.
The suspects were identified as Damien Sanderson, 31, and Myles Sanderson, 30.
“It is horrific what has occurred in our province today,” said Rhonda Blackmore, the Assistant Commissioner of the RCMP in Saskatchewan, adding there were 13 crime scenes where either deceased or injured people were found.
Blackmore said some of the victims appear to have been targeted by the suspects but others appear to have been attacked at random.
She couldn’t provide a motive, but the chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations gave a statement suggesting the stabbings could be drug-related.
The elected leaders of the three communities that make up the James Smith Cree Nation, including the Chakastaypasin Band and the Peter Chapman Band, declared a local state of emergency and opened up two emergency operations centers.
Chakastaypasin Chief Calvin Sanderson — who is not related to the suspects — said everyone has been affected by the tragic events.
“They were our relatives, friends,” Sanderson said of the victims. “It’s pretty horrific.”
“This is the destruction we face when harmful illegal drugs invade our communities, and we demand all authorities to take direction from the Chiefs and Councils and their membership to create safer and healthier communities for our people,” said Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations.
Among the 10 victims killed was Lana Head, who is the former partner of Michael Brett Burns and the mother of their two daughters.
“It’s sick how jail time, drugs and alcohol can destroy many lives,” Burns told the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. “I’m hurt for all this loss.”
Last May, Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers issued a wanted list that included Myles Sanderson, writing that he was “unlawfully at large.”
The attack is among the deadliest mass killings in Canadian history. The deadliest gun rampage in Canadian history happened in 2020 when a man disguised as a police officer shot people in their homes and set fires across the province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people. A man used a van to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto in 2019. But mass killings are less common in Canada than in the United States.
Deadly mass stabbings are more rare than mass shootings but have happened around the world. In 2014, 29 people were slashed and stabbed to death at a train station in China’s southwestern city of Kunming. In 2016, a mass stabbing at a facility for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, Japan, left 19 people dead. A year later, three men killed eight people in a vehicle and stabbing attack at London Bridge.
Doreen Lees, an 89-year grandmother from Weldon, said she and her daughter thought they saw one of the suspects when a car came barreling down her street early in the morning Sunday as her daughter was having coffee on her deck. Lees said a man approached them and said he was hurt and needed help.
But Lees said the man took off and ran after her daughter said she would call for help.
“He wouldn’t show his face. He had a big jacket over his face. We asked his name and he kind of mumbled his name twice and we still couldn’t get it,” she said. “He said his face was injured so bad he couldn’t show it.”
She said the man was by himself and “kind of a little wobbly.”
“I followed him a little ways to see if he was going to be OK. My daughter said ‘Don’t follow him, get back here.’”
Weldon residents have identified one of the victims as Wes Petterson. Ruby Works said the 77-year-old widower was like an uncle to her.
“I collapsed and hit the ground. I’ve known him since I was just a little girl,″ she said, describing the moment she heard the news. She said he loved his cats, was proud of his homemade Saskatoon berry jam and frequently helped out his neighbors.
“He didn’t do anything. He didn’t deserve this. He was a good, kind hearted man,″ said Works.
Weldon resident Robert Rush also described the victim as a gentle, widowed man in his 70s.
“He wouldn’t hurt a fly,” he said.
Rush said Petterson’s adult grandson was in the basement at the time and phoned police.
At the Weldon Christian Tabernacle Church the congregation began their regular Sunday service by saying a special prayer to the victims and their families.
At the James Smith Cree Nation, a convenience store that also serves as a gas station became a gathering place for community members, who greeted each other with tears and hugs.
A sign on the door said: “Due to safety concerns with our community we will remain closed until further notice.”
The search for suspects was carried out as fans descended on Regina for a sold out annual Labor Day game between the Canadian Football League’s Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
The Regina Police Service said in a news release that with the help of Mounties, it was working on several fronts to locate and arrest the suspects and had “deployed additional resources for public safety throughout the city, including the football game at Mosaic Stadium.″
The alert first issued by Melfort, Saskatchewan RCMP about 7 a.m. was extended hours later to cover Manitoba and Alberta, as the two suspects remained at large.
The Saskatchewan Health Authority said multiple patients were being treated at several sites.
“A call for additional staff was issued to respond to the influx of casualties,” authority spokeswoman Anne Linemann said in an email.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement he was “shocked and devastated by the horrific attacks.”
“As Canadians, we mourn with everyone affected by this tragic violence, and with the people of Saskatchewan,” Trudeau said. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/10-dead-15-injured-in-canada-stabbings/ | 2022-09-05T10:16:35Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/10-dead-15-injured-in-canada-stabbings/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kochi: A pregnant woman hung herself to death at her husband's home at Paravoor here on Monday.
The young woman, Amala, is a native of Vallakadavu in Thiruvananthapuram, and her relatives alleged that she was tortured by her in-laws.
Apparently, her parents in-law had barred Amala from speaking to her family even over phone. They did not inform her relatives that Amala was pregnant.
She got married on August 24, 2020. The relatives say that in two years, she was allowed to go home only twice. Paravoor police have begun probe into the same. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/amala-suicide-kochi-in-laws-death-torture.amp.html | 2022-09-05T10:21:19Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/amala-suicide-kochi-in-laws-death-torture.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thodupuzha: ES Bijimol, a three-time former legislator of the Communist Party of India (CPI), recently created a storm by announcing that male domination existed in her party and that woman members were having a difficult time. Bijimol also criticized the CPI leadership in Idukki after she failed to secure the post of district secretary. Bijimol shares her views with Onmanorama.
You have represented the CPI in the block panchayat, district panchayat and the Legislative Assembly. No other woman party leader from Idukki might have earned so many positions. Why are you still alleging that women are sidelined in the CPI?
I supported the idea of creating history by choosing a woman as party secretary. It is not a personal loss. In fact, I want more women to join politics.
Is anyone deliberately trying to sideline you?
Good as well as bad experiences are part of public life. I have faced both. Nobody can sideline me by raising allegations. Such attempts have been defeated earlier and will be done in future also.
The district leadership is planning to approach the state committee against you. What is your reaction?
I have no fear of party action. If the party demands an explanation, I will provide it. But, I will continue to be frank in my opinions. I will not beg for party posts. Till my last, I will be a worker of the CPI.
Do you worry whether the controversy would affect your political future?
My Facebook post criticizing the party was intended to open new opportunities for the younger generation. In fact, it was not me who created the controversy. At the same time, controversies help bring issues to the limelight. Meanwhile, I am not at all concerned about my political future.
Bijimol repeats charges
Taking part in the ‘Crossfire’ programme of Manorama Online, said that if a male party member had been proposed by the state leadership as Idukki district secretary, he would not have faced the mental harassment or torture she was subjected to. “Attempts were made to destroy my confidence because I am a woman,” she said.
Bijimol added that she could have withdrawn from the contest when victory was uncertain. “But, I am not somebody who runs away from the battle,” she said.
The former legislator also said that the new district secretary could have restrained his supporters from attacking her on social and mainstream media. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/cpi-leader-es-bijimol-interview.amp.html | 2022-09-05T10:21:31Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/cpi-leader-es-bijimol-interview.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
REHOBOTH, Del. -- The Rehoboth Beach Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding a suspect accused of inappropriately touching two young Girls.
Rehoboth Beach Police were called to the beach in the area of Rehoboth Avenue around 7 p.m. Sunday night where witnesses reported the above pictured Hispanic male repeatedly swam underwater beneath two 11 year old female victims grabbing at and touching their genital areas multiple times.
Police say witnesses confronted the suspect at which time he fled on foot westbound on Rehoboth Avenue.
Anyone who can provide any information as to the identity and/or location of the suspect pictured is asked to please contact M/Cpl. Susan Gladmon at (302) 227-2577.
Anyone with information can also submit a tip online to the Rehoboth Beach Police Department at: https://www.cityofrehoboth.com/.../police/submit-crime-tip.
Anyone who sees or who has contact with the suspect is asked to please call 911 immediately. | https://www.wboc.com/news/rehoboth-beach-police-seek-suspect-accused-of-inappropriately-touching-two-young-girls/article_133d389e-2cea-11ed-8461-17f855686791.html | 2022-09-05T10:21:35Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/rehoboth-beach-police-seek-suspect-accused-of-inappropriately-touching-two-young-girls/article_133d389e-2cea-11ed-8461-17f855686791.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thodupuzha: ES Bijimol, a three-time former legislator of the Communist Party of India (CPI), recently created a storm by announcing that male domination existed in her party and that woman members were having a difficult time. Bijimol also criticized the CPI leadership in Idukki after she failed to secure the post of district secretary. Bijimol shares her views with Onmanorama.
You have represented the CPI in the block panchayat, district panchayat and the Legislative Assembly. No other woman party leader from Idukki might have earned so many positions. Why are you still alleging that women are sidelined in the CPI?
I supported the idea of creating history by choosing a woman as party secretary. It is not a personal loss. In fact, I want more women to join politics.
Is anyone deliberately trying to sideline you?
Good as well as bad experiences are part of public life. I have faced both. Nobody can sideline me by raising allegations. Such attempts have been defeated earlier and will be done in future also.
The district leadership is planning to approach the state committee against you. What is your reaction?
I have no fear of party action. If the party demands an explanation, I will provide it. But, I will continue to be frank in my opinions. I will not beg for party posts. Till my last, I will be a worker of the CPI.
Do you worry whether the controversy would affect your political future?
My Facebook post criticizing the party was intended to open new opportunities for the younger generation. In fact, it was not me who created the controversy. At the same time, controversies help bring issues to the limelight. Meanwhile, I am not at all concerned about my political future.
Bijimol repeats charges
Taking part in the ‘Crossfire’ programme of Manorama Online, said that if a male party member had been proposed by the state leadership as Idukki district secretary, he would not have faced the mental harassment or torture she was subjected to. “Attempts were made to destroy my confidence because I am a woman,” she said.
Bijimol added that she could have withdrawn from the contest when victory was uncertain. “But, I am not somebody who runs away from the battle,” she said.
The former legislator also said that the new district secretary could have restrained his supporters from attacking her on social and mainstream media. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/cpi-leader-es-bijimol-interview.html | 2022-09-05T10:21:38Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/cpi-leader-es-bijimol-interview.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Forecast Updated on Monday, September 5, 2022, at 3:45am by WBOC Meteorologist Mike Lichniak
Today: Starting mostly sunny with the clouds on the increase throughout the day. A chance of showers enters the forecast by the late evening hours across the Mid-shore. Breezy at times. Highs: 82-88. Winds: S-SE 5-20+ mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy with the steady rain and showers arriving. A few storms will be embedded and breezy at times. Lows: 68-73. Winds: SE 5-20+ mph.
Tuesday: Periods of rain, on and off, throughout the day. Some of this rain will be heavy at times. Highs: 75-82. Winds: SE 5-20+ mph.
Tuesday Night: The steady rain becomes scattered showers into the evening and starts to taper off overnight heading into Wednesday morning. Lows: 68-73. Winds: SE 5-15 mph.
Wednesday: Lingering showers early possible, otherwise it becomes partly to mostly sunny by the evening. Highs: 75-82. Winds: SE 5-15 mph.
Thursday: Partly to mostly sunny. Highs: 78-83. Winds: S-SE 5-15 mph.
We get away with one more dry day for Labor Day morning with the sky turning gray throughout the day. It becomes partly to mostly cloudy by the afternoon hours with temperatures climbing up into the 80s across the area. The slow moving front gets here later this evening with our chance of rain spreading across the region overnight. Once the rain does start across the area, it will be on and off throughout the day on Tuesday with a good soaking that we have been begging for across the region. On average, most of us pick up on 0.50 - 1.00 inch of rain across the region. There will be locally heavier amounts in some areas, especially if you live in a neighborhood that gets one of the embedded thunderstorms or the heavier rain sets up for a few hours in the same spots. This is all great news!!
The rain should taper off by early on Wednesday morning with the sunshine returning by the afternoon hours. We should be dry into the weekend. It looks like another front arrives by Sunday into Monday with another round of scattered showers and thunderstorms. This forecast is going to be shifting a lot over the coming days as there is a lot of uncertainty within the suite of models this morning as we get past the 4th and 5th day of the forecast. Stay tuned as we fine tune the forecast with time because I truly believe this forecast is going to change a few times before we get to the weekend. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-summary/a-dry-labor-day-leads-to-much-needed-soaking-rain-tuesday/article_70a1d5ea-2cee-11ed-9a0a-2be8d33e38f3.html | 2022-09-05T10:21:42Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-summary/a-dry-labor-day-leads-to-much-needed-soaking-rain-tuesday/article_70a1d5ea-2cee-11ed-9a0a-2be8d33e38f3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Atlantic Ocean:
Monday: SE 5-10 knots. Seas: 2-3 feet.
Tuesday: SE 5-10 knots. Seas: 2-3 feet.
Chesapeake Bay:
Monday: Small Craft Advisory after 2PM. S 10-20 knots. Waves: 1-3 feet.
Tuesday: SE 5-10 knots. Waves: 1-2 feet.
Delaware Bay:
Monday: SE 5-20 knots. Seas: 1-2 feet.
Tuesday: SE 5-10 knots. Seas: 1-2 feet. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/on-the-waters/marine-forecast-for-monday-september-5-2022/article_8aaa1c9a-2cee-11ed-8495-6fcf905103b3.html | 2022-09-05T10:21:48Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/on-the-waters/marine-forecast-for-monday-september-5-2022/article_8aaa1c9a-2cee-11ed-8495-6fcf905103b3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kottayam: A 12-year-old girl, who was undergoing treatment for rabies infection at the Kottayam Medical College, passed away on Monday despite taking three doses of vaccine.
Abhirami, daughter of Harish from Sheena Bhavan, Mandappuzha Cherthalappadi in Perunad, was admitted to Kottayam MCH on Friday night in critical condition.
She was attacked and bitten by a stray dog when she went out to buy milk on Perunad Carmel Engineering College Road on August 14. There were six bite wounds on her legs and another one on her face near the eye.
The first vaccine was taken from Pathanamthitta General Hospital. The next two doses were taken from Perunad Family Health Centre. The hospital had informed her family that the fourth dose of vaccine was due on September 10.
After the girl developed some physical discomfort, she was taken to a private hospital in Pathanamthitta on Thursday. She was sent home from the private hospital after taking an X-Ray.
On Friday evening, her condition worsened. She was foaming at the mouth and her eyes rolled up, family members said. She was taken to the Pathanamthitta General Hospital immediately.
After being assessed as highly critical, she was taken to the Kottayam Medical College Hospital on Friday night. Abhirami was a 7th-grade student at Mailapra SH School.
20 people died of rabies infection in 2022
With anxiety mounting in the state over the recent deaths of some people due to rabies infection despite vaccination, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had recenty assured that the government would set up an expert panel to examine the quality of the anti-rabies vaccine being given in hospitals in the state.
Chief Minister said the recent deaths due to the rabies infection have triggered a huge concern among people and a panel could be deployed to study about the vaccines also.
A total of 20 people have died due to rabies infection in Kerala so far this year. Of them, 15 persons had not taken the prescribed anti-rabies vaccine and one had accepted the jab only partially.
However, four among the deceased had taken the vaccine as prescribed by the health experts.
While the total number of reported dog bites was over 1.35 lakh in 2017, it has shot to 1.83 lakh. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/rabies-kottayam-medical-college-vaccine.amp.html | 2022-09-05T10:21:57Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/05/rabies-kottayam-medical-college-vaccine.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) – A federal judge on Friday tossed out a “child pornography” lawsuit filed by the man who appeared as the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana’s iconic 1991 album “Nevermind,” handing a victory to the band after a yearlong legal battle.
The ruling is likely the end of 31-year-old Spencer Elden’s litigation against Nirvana. Elden first sued the grunge rock band last year, alleging they had engaged in “child pornography” because the album cover featured a photo of him as a naked baby, swimming in a pool toward a dollar bill on a fish hook.
U.S. District Court Judge Fernando Olguin in the Central District of California dismissed the case because Elden did not file the complaint within the 10-year statute of limitations for victims of sexual assaults or offenses. That statute requires him to file a complaint within 10 years of becoming reasonably aware of the personal injury.
“Plaintiff does not dispute that he knew of injuries arising from defendant’s activities related to their use of his image on the ‘Nevermind’ album cover more than ten years before he filed this action,” Olguin wrote in his opinion, agreeing with the defendants, who asked for a dismissal because of the statute limitation.
Elden was four months old when Nirvana hired Kirk Weddle to photograph him in a California pool for the album.
Upon its release, “Nevermind” brought the band international fame and is widely considered to be one of the best rock albums of all time.
In August 2021, Elden sued Nirvana; Weddle; the estate of the late Kurt Cobain; Dave Grohl, the band’s former drummer; bassist Krist Novoselic and Universal Music Group, among other defendants.
In January, Olguin ordered the case would be dismissed unless Elden filed an amended complaint, which he did that month, seeking $150,000 in damages.
In the amended complaint, Elden argues the album cover features a “lascivious exhibition” of his “genitals on the cover.”
“The conduct depicted, particularly the activation of Spencer’s gag reflex and the prominence and positioning of his genitals in the image, suggests sexual coyness or a willingness to engage in sexual activity,” the complaint reads. “The image was intended and designed to elicit a sexual response.”
Nirvana and the other defendants pushed back, saying the now-famous photograph is protected by artistic expression and the photo evokes images of a cherub, or an angelic baby.
The defendants also accused Elden of “profiting from his celebrity as the self-anointed ‘Nirvana Baby'” and picking up women with the title. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/judge-tosses-child-pornography-suit-over-nirvana-album-cover/ | 2022-09-05T10:29:55Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/judge-tosses-child-pornography-suit-over-nirvana-album-cover/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Hughes & Coleman Hometown Hero of the Month: Wes Marklin
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - September’s Hometown Hero of the Month is brought to you by Hughes & Coleman Injury Lawyers.
On the first Sunday of every month, Hughes and Coleman will choose a previously recognized Hometown Hero to receive a $500 check for their favorite charity or organization, honoring them as the Hughes and Coleman Hero of the Month.
This month, Hughes and Coleman have selected Wes Marklin.
Wes Marklin is described as a staple of Franklin.
“Wes is one of the most down-to-earth people I’ve ever met. He never meets a stranger everyone loves him,” says Cody Goodman, one of Marklin’s coworkers.
“It was a true honor that I have people that think enough about me to think that I’m doing good and making an impact in our community,” reflects Marklin on being a hometown hero.
Marklin is involved in many ways in the community.
“I know he teachers financial literacy at Boys and Girls Club, he coaches peewee, just anything he can do in his community,” adds Goodman.
“I coached high school baseball for 10 years, I coached for seven years at Bowling Green, and three years at Franklin, and then here recently, my nephew turned six years old. So that’s the age where you start playing peewee and so for the last two years, we’ve coached his peewee baseball team, which has been a blast. I’m also really involved with the Franklin Simpson Educational Excellence Foundation, which basically, we give grants to teachers and different programs within the school that the school can’t necessarily fund,” also says Marklin.
Marklin says he loves the community of Franklin and Simpson County.
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Do you ever feel like your mailbox is filled with ads and letters you didn't sign up for?
While most mailers are innocent ads or coupons, some take it a little too far, making it appear what they have to say is urgent.
The Better Business Bureau is now warning about one of the thousands of homeowners have been receiving.
Sheila Kippley is among them. She opened her mailbox the other day to find a strange letter inside from a home warranty company.
"It said that it was extremely urgent and time sensitive," she said.
The letter urged her and her husband John to give it their immediate attention.
"It indicated that we already had this homeowner's policy and that it was about to expire."
But the Kippleys had no recollection of ever being customers.
"I didn't know that I had a home warranty," he said.
Better Business Bureau flooded with questions and complaints
Homeowners all over the country -- from 28 states so far -- have complained to the Better Business Bureau about mailers like this, most coming from a company called US Home Guard.
Renato Brasil received a US Home Guard letter and said he could see his father panicking and sending money.
"This is predatory," he told us. "My father could fall for this. He could send a check, even though he doesn't know who they are."
The BBB has now issued a warning about the letters, with the BBB's Sarah Wetzel telling us that while it is a legitimate business, many homeowners feel misled.
The BBB says to be wary of phrases like "final notice," "urgent, or "must respond."
"There is definitely this sense of urgency that consumers feel like they needed to respond immediately," Wetzel said.
But the truth is, there's no need to act or respond.
We called and left a message with US Home Guard but have not received a response.
So how do you stop these mailings or prevent them from going to an older relative?
- One option is an opt-out service called DMA Choice.org.
- Or you can reach out to the company directly and demand they stop.
- Or do what the Kippleys plan to do: ignore it.
"It is just entirely inappropriate as far as I'm concerned," John Kippley said
A home warranty can be a smart idea in some cases. It's nice to know that if a major appliance fails, you will not be hit with a $5,000 repair bill.
But the Better Business Bureau says responding to some urgent letter in the mail is not the best way to do it, so you don't waste your money.
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U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Ryan Messer and 332d Aerial Expeditionary Wing leadership visit the fabrication shop, 332d Aerospace Ground Equipment at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, August 22, 2022. AGE is responsible for repairing, fabricating or replacing the parts and equipment needed to carry out flight missions. These immersion visits provide greater insight into the unique skillsets every Airman brings to the 332d AEW Red Tail team. (U.S. Air Force photo by: 1st Lt. Michael Luangkhot)
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Arriva has revealed the limited services that will still be operating today (September 5) amid strike action. KentLive reported that industrial action at the bus operator will also be taking place next Friday (September 16).
It means Arriva will be running a limited service across its timetable, with Northfleet, Gillingham, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells among the areas affected. Such action has been sparked after workers under the Unite union raised complaints relating to "low pay".
However, Arriva has issued an update on its website indicating the services that will still operate. In Northfleet there will be a limited Fastrack A service which will run half-hourly between 5am and 9pm.
READ MORE: Exact dates Arriva strike action will impact Kent bus services
The Fastrack service AZ will still run, but journeys will be completed by a different operator. School services on the 414 and 489 will run in the morning, while the 423 and 497 will also operate.
Arriva has also confirmed that some journeys will operate on the 6X between Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone. The last service back to Maidstone will depart Tunbridge Wells Hospital at 5.40pm, while the last service to Tunbridge Wells will leave Maidstone Hospital 6.20pm.
The strikes come after the Unite Union stated that despite "extensive negotiations" with Arriva, the operator has only been prepared to offer a 7.8 per cent pay increase. This is said to be a substantial pay cut, with the real inflation rate currently standing at 11.8 per cent.
The union has said that drivers earn as little as £12.12 an hour. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham has said: "Arriva and its parent company, Deutsche Bahn, are fabulously wealthy and can fully afford to make our members a decent pay offer.
“The company is prioritising paying dividends to shareholders over decent wages for workers. Unite will provide its members with the union’s total support until a pay offer which meets members’ expectations is made, which would resolve the dispute."
Read next:
- The couple running Kent's 'only' US retail store
- Kent's best primary schools rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted
- The Kent towns hoping to be transformed by 'levelling up' cash
- Hever Castle and Gardens named among UK's top historic attractions
- The country's most popular children's TV show which originated in Canterbury | https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/arriva-bus-services-still-running-7546938 | 2022-09-05T10:42:04Z | kentlive.news | control | https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/arriva-bus-services-still-running-7546938 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kent Police has confirmed officers were called to an estate in Maidstone over "concern for a man and his child". Officers attended the Hermitage Lane area yesterday afternoon (Sunday, September 4).
Police were called at 4pm and the man and child were safely located. People in the area spotted the police activity in the area and speculation about the incident circled on community Facebook groups.
Onlookers said a man was spotted "running with a baby in a car seat with police in pursuit". Thankfully police have confirmed the man and child were found safely.
READ MORE: Kent's best primary schools rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted
In a statement issued to KentLive, a Kent Police spokesperson said: "We were called to the Hermitage Lane area of Maidstone at 4pm on Sunday 4 September 2022 following concern for a man and his child.
"Officers attended and the man and child were safely located."
If you have seen or heard anything you think we should know about, or in relation to this, please contact the KentLive newsdesk by email at kentlivenewsdesk@reachplc.com
Alternatively, you can get in touch with us via our Facebook page or on Twitter @kentlivenews.
Read next:
- The couple running Kent's 'only' US retail store
- Kent's best primary schools rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted
- The Kent towns hoping to be transformed by 'levelling up' cash
- Hever Castle and Gardens named among UK's top historic attractions
- The country's most popular children's TV show which originated in Canterbury | https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/police-called-maidstone-estate-over-7546701 | 2022-09-05T10:42:14Z | kentlive.news | control | https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/police-called-maidstone-estate-over-7546701 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Back in February, right before the primary, I posted a list of all of the candidate interviews and judicial Q&As I had done. A couple more Q&A responses came in after that, and I did some further interviews for the primary runoffs, so that post is out of date and also now contains people who will not be on the November ballot. So with that in mind, here’s a full updated list as I prepare to bring you more of these for November. Enjoy!
Interviews
Duncan Klussman, CD38
Jay Kleberg, Land Commissioner
Janet Dudding, Comptroller
Staci Childs, SBOE4
Sen. John Whitmire, SD15
Jolanda Jones, HD147
Lesley Briones, Harris County Commissioners Court Precinct 4
Carla Wyatt, Harris County Treasurer
Marilyn Burgess, Harris County District Clerk (Incumbent)
Judicial Q&As
Cheri Thomas, 14th Court of Appeals, Place 2
Gemayel Haynes, 183rd Criminal District Court
Katherine Thomas, 184th Criminal District Court
Andrea Beall, 185th Criminal District Court
Beverly Armstrong, 208th Criminal District Court
Judge Chris Morton, 230th Criminal District Court
Angela Lancelin, 245th Family District Court
Judge Hilary Unger, 248th Criminal District Court
Judge Dedra Davis, 270th Civil District Court
Dianne Curvey, 280th Family District Court
Teresa Waldrop, 312th Family District Court
Judge Natalia Oakes, 313th Family District Court
Judge Leah Shapiro, 313th Family District Court
Veronica Monique Nelson, 482nd Criminal District Court
Manpreet Monica Singh, County Civil Court At Law #4
Porscha Natasha Brown, County Criminal Court At Law #3
Judge Kelley Andrews, County Criminal Court At Law #6
Judge Andrew Wright, County Criminal Court At Law #7
Erika Ramirez, County Criminal Court At Law #8
Steve Duble, Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1 Place 2
Dolores Lozano, Justice of the Peace, Precinct 2 Place 2
Judge Lucia Bates, Justice of the Peace, Precinct 3 Place 2
As before, you can see a full list of my interviews and a whole lot more info about the Democratic candidates on the Erik Manning spreadsheet. Look for many more to come starting tomorrow. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106854 | 2022-09-05T10:53:14Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106854 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Department of Veterans Affairs said Friday it will provide abortions for veterans and their beneficiaries as medically necessary or in cases of rape or incest.
The VA said it plans to provide abortions across the entire nation — including states, such as Texas, that prohibit the procedure. The VA’s decision reopens access to abortion to a class of women in Texas and several other states.
Texas is home to more than 1.5 million veterans. About 193,000 of those are women — more than any other state.
Texas lawmakers approved a ban on abortion that went into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the case that established a nationwide right to abortion.
“This is a patient safety decision,” VA Secretary Denis McDonough said in a statement. “Pregnant Veterans and VA beneficiaries deserve to have access to world-class reproductive care when they need it most. That’s what our nation owes them, and that’s what we at VA will deliver.”
In announcing the decision to provide abortions, the VA said “access to medically necessary abortions is essential for preserving the life and health of Veterans and VA beneficiaries.”
That’s great, and I’m very glad to see it, but I think we all know that Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton aren’t going to just accept this as a given and keep quiet about it. There’s no comment from any Texas official in this story, so for right now we don’t know exactly how they will respond. But come on, we really do know that they will challenge it in court, and they will surely make threats about arresting VA doctors who perform abortions anyway. This was the right thing to do but the matter is far from settled. We will have to see how it plays out. Mother Jones has more. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106859 | 2022-09-05T10:53:22Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106859 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Most Texans will be eligible in the coming days for a second round of Covid-19 booster shots after updated vaccines got final federal approval this week.
The new doses, from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, are designed to fight off severe infection from the latest versions of the omicron variant, which have proven especially easy to spread. Federal health officials hope the new round of boosters can add a layer of immune protection heading into a potential uptick of infections this fall as people head back indoors.
The new boosters will be available to anyone 18 and older for Moderna’s, and anyone over the age of 12 for Pfizer-BioNTech’s. Older adults have been eligible for several months.
“If you are eligible, there is no bad time to get your COVID-19 booster and I strongly encourage you to receive it,” the Centers for Disease Control Director Rochelle Walensky said Thursday after endorsing an advisory committee’s recommendation to make the shots widely available.
The updated vaccines add spike protein components from the omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, which helps restore protection that has waned since previous vaccine rounds. The CDC recommends waiting two months after your most recent COVID shot before getting the booster.
A spokesperson for the Texas Department of State Health Services said the doses are expected to ship out in the next few days, so Texans should be able to make appointments next week. Like previous boosters, these will be available at pharmacies, standalone health clinics and through local health departments, the agency said.
Both CVS and Walgreens were allowing patients to schedule the updated boosters as of Friday.
As the story notes, while COVID deaths in Texas are way down – about 100 a month statewide at this time – people are still getting infected. Plenty of people I know have been sidelined for a week or two in recent months. Long COVID and other risks remain as well. I’m still pretty vigilant about masking in indoor spaces, which usually puts me in a distinct minority, but it’s just a numbers game, and sooner or later that catches up to you. I’ll add on another layer of defense for that, thanks very much. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106866 | 2022-09-05T10:53:30Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106866 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Germany-based automaker Volkswagen AG (VWAGY) is set to conduct a meeting on September 5 to finally discuss the plans to list the sports car maker Porsche AG in late September or early October.
Volkswagen is contemplating whether its largest shareholder, Porsche Automobil Holding SE (POAHY), should be given the nod to acquire 25% plus one additional share of the voting stock in Porsche AG.
Notably, Porsche SE is an investment fund that is largely owned by the family of Porsche’s founder. The purchase will allow the Porsche and Piech families to get greater control over the carmaker by giving them a blocking minority.
The listing of Porsche AG is expected to blast off as one of the blockbuster initial public offerings (IPO) in Europe. Experts are expecting that the IPO could value Porsche in the range of 60-85 billion euros (around $59.72-$84.6 billion), according to The Wall Street Journal report. Looking at these figures, Porsche AG IPO could raise over 10.6 billion euros ($10.55 billion) if it hits the higher end of the estimated valuation range.
Why Have VWAGY Shares Dropped?
Volkswagen stock has lost about 37.5% so far in the year as the Russia-Ukraine crisis fuelling energy costs has weighed on the company’s performance. According to the TipRanks tool, retail investors seem to be apprehensive about the VWAGY, as they have sold 2.2% of Volkswagen’s stock in the last 30 days.
On the contrary, the financial bloggers are 100% bullish on the Volkswagen stock, in comparison to the sector average of 64%.
Final Thoughts
Through the Porsche AG IPO, Volkswagen intends to finance its plans to keep up with the clean energy trend. Not long ago, the company announced its plans to introduce a fully-electric SUV and a pickup truck in the United States. It also aims to widen its footprint into more revolutionary technologies like self-driving cars. Moreover, Volkswagen has ambitious plans to create a new venture to develop batteries for its EVs.
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Expanding its footprint in the Metaverse space, Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) has acquired a Berlin-based virtual reality (VR) startup, Lofelt GmbH. The tech giant noted that the buyout was concluded a few days back, but its news was officially announced only on Friday. The financial terms of the buyout have not been disclosed by the two Metaverse players.
It is worth noting that META stock slipped 3.1% to close at $160.32 on Friday.
In addition to synergies, this buyout has grabbed the market’s attention as a few days ago the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) refrained Meta Platform’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, from buying VR player Within Unlimited Inc. and its Supernatural app. The FTC believes that “Meta is trying to buy its way to the top” instead of “competing on the merits.”
The Rationale behind Lofelt’s Buyout
Meta Platforms, earlier known as Facebook, believes that the acquisition of Lofelt would enhance its technological capabilities, especially related to haptic technology. Lofelt’s most popular product is Lofelt Studio.
Interestingly, experiences of touch can be created in the immersive virtual world for users with the help of haptic technology. Notably, Lofelt primarily uses vibrations or forces in the VR hardware to create touch experiences in the Metaverse space.
In addition to the knowledge about haptic technology, the buyout of Lofelt has added 25 experienced personnel to Meta Platform’s team. One of the officials of Meta Platforms said, “We’re excited that members of the Lofelt team have joined Meta.”
How Big Is Meta Platforms in the Metaverse Space?
Over time, the $430.69-billion tech behemoth has been strengthening its footprint in the Metaverse space. Through its focus and dedicated investments, the company has developed, and is popular for, Horizon Worlds (a Metaverse platform), Meta Avatars Store (a clothing store for the Metaverse space), and Quest 2 VR headsets.
Also, the tech giant recently signed a deal with Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) (GB:0QZ3) to manufacture chips for its Quest headsets used in the VR world.
In addition to the above organic means of expansion, Meta Platforms has been an active acquirer in the Metaverse space. Among many others, the acquisitions of Oculus VR in March 2014, Lemnis Technologies in September 2020, BigBox VR in June 2021, and ImagineOptix Corp. in December 2021 are worth mentioning.
Is Meta Platforms Stock a Buy or Sell?
If analysts tracked by TipRanks are to be believed, Meta Platforms stock could be an attractive investment option for prospective investors.
Out of 34 analysts tracking META stock on TipRanks, 27 have a Buy rating, five analysts have a Hold rating, and two have a Sell rating. META’s average price forecast is $224.21, which mirrors upside potential of 39.85% from the current level.
Shares of META are currently trading near the lowest level of their 52-week range of $154.25-$384.33. Investors believing in the long-term prospects of the company, as the Metaverse gains popularity, could enjoy buying this dip. A chart depicting the stock’s price trajectory is provided below.
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Citing imminent danger, Cloudflare drops hate site Kiwi Farms
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Citing an “immediate threat to human life,” Cloudflare has dropped the notorious stalking and harassment site Kiwi Farms from its internet security services following an online campaign started by transgender Twitch streamer Clara Sorrenti to pressure it to do so.
“This is an extraordinary decision for us to make and given Cloudflare’s role as an Internet infrastructure provider, a dangerous one that we are not comfortable with,” CEO Matthew Prince wrote in a blog post Saturday in an about-face after earlier insisting that the company would not block the site. “However, the rhetoric on the Kiwifarms site and specific, targeted threats have escalated over the last 48 hours to the point that we believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life unlike what we have previously seen from Kiwifarms or any other customer before.”
For years, members of the site created and operated by Joshua Conner Moon, 29, have congregated on what they call a “lighthearted discussion forum” to organize vicious harassment campaigns against transgender people, feminists and others they deem mockable. They gang up on victims and pool their personal details such as addresses and phone numbers in a practice called “doxxing,” spreading vile rumors and targeting workplaces, friends, families and homes. Another favorite tactic has been “swatting” — making false emergency calls to provoke an armed police response at a target’s home. Some people subjected to the group’s abuse have died by suicide.
Sorrenti, who goes by “Keffals” online, has been leading a campaign to pressure Cloudflare to drop Kiwi Farms. In August, she fled her home in Canada for Europe after she was doxxed and swatted. Her online stalkers, however, found her in Belfast, Ireland, as well and continued to intensify their harassment campaign against her just as her campaign against Kiwi Farms and its enablers was gaining momentum.
“When a multi-billion dollar corporation like Cloudflare has to drop Kiwi Farms because of an ‘imminent and emergency threat to human life’ it is no longer a matter of free speech. Removing Kiwi Farms from the internet is a matter of public safety for every single person online,” she tweeted on Saturday.
On Sunday, Kiwi Farms was inaccessible. But a version of the site with a .ru domain name was intermittently up and running, though it was not clear whether it would remain up.
The decision to drop Kiwi Farms Saturday was an about-face for Cloudflare and Prince, who earlier in the week put out a 2,600-word blog post — without mentioning the site by name — doubling down on the decision to protect it and comparing Cloudflare to a phone company that “doesn’t terminate your line if you say awful, racist, bigoted things.”
But Sorrenti and other targets of the site say it was far worse than that, as trolls on the site relentlessly pursued their victims offline — often for years on end.
“They are trying to get people to lose their jobs. They’re trying to get people to lose their housing, to be starving and homeless,” Liz Fong-Jones, a former Google engineer and cloud computing expert who is transgender, told the AP last week. “And then they go after people’s families and then they tell people that the only way out is to kill themselves.”
Moon started Kiwi Farms nearly a decade ago as a wiki site dedicated to harassing a transgender woman; Moon even used the woman’s initials in an early version of the site’s name. Over time its users began to target other people -- mostly active online users who are transgender, have autism or other mental conditions. Kiwi Farms in its current form was born in 2015.
An overarching theme of the site’s discussions centers on users’ fierce opposition to transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care. Members typically refer to those who support such treatment as “groomers” and “pedophiles,” rhetoric that is also used increasingly by conservatives in their opposition to LGBTQ rights.
“There has never been a violent incident in our history, which cannot be said for many other sites still on Cloudflare. This narrative feels like a lie spun up to save face,” Moon, who posts on Kiwi Farms under the pseudonym “Null,” posted Saturday in response to Cloudflare’s cutoff. Reached earlier by The Associated Press to comment on the campaign against his site, Moon replied only “the press are scum.”
KiwiFarms.ru is registered to and protected by the Russian company DDoS-Guard, whose customers have in the past included Russian government websites including the Defense Ministry and cybercriminal forums where stolen credit cards are bought and sold.
Last year, DDoS-Guard protected the pro-Trump social media website Parler.com for a time after Amazon withdrew hosting services. KiwiFarms.ru was registered on July 12, suggesting Moon was aware Cloudflare could drop his site and thus created a backup plan.
DDoS-Guard did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment on Sunday. Kiwi Farms’ internet connection is provided by VegasNAP, a Las Vegas-based company that said in response to queries last week that it does not disclose information about its clients. Contacted again Sunday, the company did not immediately respond.
“In the past, DDoS-Guard has been known to discontinue support for some seriously problematic websites, apparently as a result of press inquiries. That very well may happen again, in this instance, but I wouldn’t bet on it,” said independent internet expert Ron Guilmette. “Obviously, a lot has changed in the world since February 24, 2022, and I do believe that, in general, Russians these days, and over the past 6 months in particular, have learned to care a whole lot less about what the rest of the world thinks of them and/or their actions.”
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Kerala Blasters take on Emami East Bengal in the inaugural match of the Indian Super League (ISL) 2022-23 season.
Last season's runners-up Blasters are eager to welcome back home fans as ISL action returns to Kochi's Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium after more than two years.
The Yellow Brigade have a huge fan base.
Kerala Blaster's home matches
Versus East Bengal, October 7, Friday
Versus ATK Mohun Bagan, October 16, Sunday
Versus Mumbai City FC, October 28, Friday
Versus FC Goa, November 13, Sunday
Versus Bengaluru FC, December 11, Sunday
Versus Odisha FC, December 26, Monday
Versus Jamshedpur FC, January 3, 2023, Tuesday
Versus NorthEast United, January 29, 2023, Sunday
Versus Chennaiyin FC, February 7, 2023, Tuesday
Versus Hyderabad FC,February 26, 2023, Sunday
(All matches start at 7.30 pm) | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/09/05/isl-2022-23-check-out-kerala-blasters-home-matches-at-kochi.amp.html | 2022-09-05T11:09:08Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/09/05/isl-2022-23-check-out-kerala-blasters-home-matches-at-kochi.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ANDERSON, S.C. (FOX Carolina) – The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office needs the public’s help to find a missing man who suffers from dementia and type two diabetes.
Deputies said Tony Boseman was last seen in the Boseman Road area at around 3:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Boseman was seen wearing camo pants, a green shirt, black shoes and a LA baseball cap according to deputies.
Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts should call the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office at (864) 260-4440. | https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/deputies-search-for-missing-man-in-anderson-co-2/ | 2022-09-05T11:09:57Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/deputies-search-for-missing-man-in-anderson-co-2/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PICKENS CO., S.C. (WSPA)- With heavy rain in the forecast, Upstate emergency management officials are asking people to be very cautious as they travel and go outside.
It could be a pretty damp couple of days in the Upstate.
“Just looking at the weather forecast it does look like we’re in for a good bit of rain throughout the week,” Pickens County Emergency Manager Billy Gibson said.
If you live near a river or creek Gibson says you need to be extra careful.
“When we do see the onslaught of heavy rain, those rivers will tend to rise very quickly, quickly than we anticipate,” Gibson.
If you’re driving near any flooding, officials say it’s way better to find an alternate route, than get caught in a messy situation where you need their help.
“You don’t know what’s going on under there, the roadway could be washed out. We use the moniker turn around don’t drown rather frequently. It’s catchy but it’s also true,” Gibson said.
Emergency management also recognizes a lot of people may be out camping for Labor Day weekend.
“Folks need to keep an eye on the weather while they’re there, as well as keeping an eye on the rising water,” Gibson said.
However, with the expected weather, they say it’s important campers know what to do if flooding hits their campground.
“If they start to see it rise very quickly within 30 minutes or so, it’s time for them to make plans to evacuate and to get out of the area. Also, if severe weather does come around an area where they’re camping, especially if they’re in a camper, especially tent camping, they want to have a plan to go to a safe location,” Gibson said.
Emergency management says you should also prepare by making sure your phone is charged, just in case you need to call 911.
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- Volume of new long-term loans granted amounted to EUR 6.6 billion, long-term loan portfolio increased to EUR 87.8 billion.
- Interest result came to EUR 220 million, net profit amounted to EUR 206 million.
- Strong capitalisation: Common Equity Tier 1 ratio of 37%, and Tier 1 capital ratio of 40%.
- EUR 8.7 billion in long-term funding was raised, of which over EUR 3.5 billion in SDG Bonds.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The first half of 2022 was turbulent. The impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic had significant economic consequences, which also affected our clients. Due to high inflation, the ECB has tightened its monetary policy and substantially higher interest rates apply.
Even in these difficult times, BNG Bank has shown itself a reliable and sustainable partner towards its clients in the public domain. We contribute ideas on the social issues we face, and through our loans with attractive rates, we provide over half of the total lending in the public domain. In the first half of 2022, we granted EUR 6.6 billion in long-term loans (first half of 2021: EUR 5.6 billion). Our long-term loan portfolio increased by EUR 0.7 billion to EUR 87.8 billion. The increase in the long-term loan portfolio was mainly due to a higher than expected demand, in particular from municipalities. As a result of the rising interest rates, some of our clients decided to take out loans earlier than they had initially planned.
Financial
BNG Bank has a healthy financial position. In the first half of 2022, we achieved an interest rate result of EUR 220 million, and our net profit for this period amounted to EUR 206 million. The increase in the net profit (first half of 2021: EUR 187 million) was mainly due to a reduction in the provisions for expected credit losses, and a higher result on financial transactions.
BNG Bank continues to have a strong capital position, with a Common Equity Tier 1 ratio of 37%, and a Tier 1 capital ratio of 40%. Thanks to this strong capitalisation, as well as our low risk profile and triple A ratings, our bonds remain attractive even in these times of uncertainty. In the first half of 2022, we raised EUR 8.7 billion in long-term funding. This included the highly successful issue of four new SDG Bonds (related to the Sustainable Development Goals) with a volume of over EUR 3.5 billion.
Strategy
In the first half of 2022, BNG Bank continued to implement its 'Our Road to Impact' strategy. The financing of the transitions of our clients is helping us to achieve the maximum social impact together. In order to strengthen our strategic partnership with clients, a decision was made to modify the commercial organisation.
Making an impact through partnerships
Gita Salden, CEO BNG Bank: 'As a public bank, we have the same interests as our clients. BNG Bank wants to help make the Netherlands better and more attractive; we achieve this mainly through our loans, but also by connecting the various players in the public domain, based on our expertise as a bank. A good example of this is the prepaid card for Ukrainian refugees. In 225 municipalities in the Netherlands, BNG Bank's prepaid card offers a solution for refugees from Ukraine. The debit card is an initiative of BNG Bank and was previously used by municipalities for homeless people. Thanks to good cooperation with various parties involved, we were able to make the card suitable for Ukrainian refugees within just a few weeks and quickly scale up production.'
Outlook for 2022
We expect to achieve our full-year target of granting new solvency-free long-term loans for a total amount of EUR 9.8 billion. In the second half of 2022, we will also continue to optimise our organisation in order to improve its alignment with client wishes. The measurement of our clients' impact will be carried out for the second time. In addition, BNG Bank's climate action plan will be published.
Read the Interim Report and the underlying information on BNGBank.com.
BNG Bank is a committed and reliable financing partner that actively contributes to the creation of solutions to social issues in the public domain. In its activities, BNG Bank has chosen to focus on five SDGs: Good health and well-being (SDG 3), Quality education (SDG 4), Affordable and sustainable energy (SDG 7), Sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11) and Climate action (SDG 13, in particular the reduction of CO2 emission, limiting the demand for energy and increasing energy efficiency). BNG Bank is a solid player in the international capital market. The funding focuses on raising financing by issuing bonds, in particular SDG Bonds. SDG Bonds are used to finance sustainable, social and client activities.
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HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CellOrigin Biotech (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. announced that it has made an agreement with Qilu Pharmaceutical on strategic global collaborations to develop, manufacture and commercialize a proprietary "off-the-shelf" iPSC-derived Chimeric Antigen Receptor Macrophages (CAR-iMAC) for cancer immnotherapy.
This collaboration takes the advantages from both parties by integrating complementary technologies and expertise as well as combining industry-leading R&D, manufacture and marketing capabilities.Both parties will collaborate on new drug development and commercialization, and will push CAR-iMAC pipelines forward to clinical trials.
"Innovation, and bringing the best products to benefit patients are the core values we both appreciate", said Dr. Jin Zhang, the co-founder of CellOrigin Biotech and a principle investigator of Zhejiang University, "that's something that brings us together".
"We are excited to collaborate with Qilu Pharmaceutical because of its prestige in the Chinese pharmaceutical industry as well as its successful track record in new drug discovery. We (CellOrigin) will keep seeking other potential industry collaborators, jointly exploring and developing innovative anti-tumor drugs, and benefiting more cancer patients" said Dr. Tong Jiansong, Chief Executive Office at CellOrigin Biotech.
"CellOrigin is an outstanding startup with a strong research background and valuable industry experience. It has focused on original techniques in cell therapy and gained rich expertise in GMP manufacture. It is an ideal strategic partner for novel cell therapy and it is our pleasure to collaborate with such a great biotech company." said Qilu Pharmaceutical.
About Qilu Pharmaceutical
Qilu Pharmaceutical is one of the leading vertically integrated pharmaceutical companies in China focusing on the development, manufacturing and marketing of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) & finished formulations. Qilu currently has 13 subsidiaries, 11 manufacturing sites and over 30000 employees worldwide, 70% of whom are with bachelor's degrees or above. It ranks No.8 in the Chinese pharmaceutical industry by sales revenue in 2019. Dedicated to offering more affordable medicines to the world and improving people's well-being, Qilu has exported its products to over 80+ countries.
About CellOrigin Biotech (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd.
CellOrigin Biotech (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. is committed to the development of genetically engineered pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) derived immune cell therapies (such as macrophages, NK cells), with its own proprietary intellectual property. The founders are experienced leaders from Zhejiang University, Harvard University and top pharmaceutical and biotech companies around the world. They apply cutting-edge technologies in editing and differentiating iPSCs to immune cells in order to deliver novel allogeneic off-the-shelf cell therapies for the treatment of cancer patients around the world.
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Do you ever feel like your mailbox is filled with ads and letters you didn't sign up for?
While most mailers are innocent ads or coupons, some take it a little too far, making it appear what they have to say is urgent.
The Better Business Bureau is now warning about one of the thousands of homeowners have been receiving.
Sheila Kippley is among them. She opened her mailbox the other day to find a strange letter inside from a home warranty company.
"It said that it was extremely urgent and time sensitive," she said.
The letter urged her and her husband John to give it their immediate attention.
"It indicated that we already had this homeowner's policy and that it was about to expire."
But the Kippleys had no recollection of ever being customers.
"I didn't know that I had a home warranty," he said.
Better Business Bureau flooded with questions and complaints
Homeowners all over the country -- from 28 states so far -- have complained to the Better Business Bureau about mailers like this, most coming from a company called US Home Guard.
Renato Brasil received a US Home Guard letter and said he could see his father panicking and sending money.
"This is predatory," he told us. "My father could fall for this. He could send a check, even though he doesn't know who they are."
The BBB has now issued a warning about the letters, with the BBB's Sarah Wetzel telling us that while it is a legitimate business, many homeowners feel misled.
The BBB says to be wary of phrases like "final notice," "urgent, or "must respond."
"There is definitely this sense of urgency that consumers feel like they needed to respond immediately," Wetzel said.
But the truth is, there's no need to act or respond.
We called and left a message with US Home Guard but have not received a response.
So how do you stop these mailings or prevent them from going to an older relative?
- One option is an opt-out service called DMA Choice.org.
- Or you can reach out to the company directly and demand they stop.
- Or do what the Kippleys plan to do: ignore it.
"It is just entirely inappropriate as far as I'm concerned," John Kippley said
A home warranty can be a smart idea in some cases. It's nice to know that if a major appliance fails, you will not be hit with a $5,000 repair bill.
But the Better Business Bureau says responding to some urgent letter in the mail is not the best way to do it, so you don't waste your money.
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The Rivers State government has dismissed as spurious the allegation by Senator Lee Maeba that his life is under threat describing it as a tale concocted by a deranged mind.
The Chief of Staff to the Rivers State governor, Chief Emeka Woke refuted the allegation at the weekend at Opobo town, the headquarters of Opobo/Nkoro Local Government Area during the grand finale of the state-wide Grassroots Development Initiative (GDI) Permanent Voters’ Card (PVC) collection sensitisation rally.
Senator Maeba had on Saturday in an interview in a national newspaper alleged that a meeting was held at the Government House, Port Harcourt to clamp down on him and others.
Senator, once a close ally to Governor Wike and some other chieftains of the PDP in Rivers State fell out of favour with the governor because of their stance with the Presidential candidate of the PDP, Alh. Atiku Abubakar who himself is locked in a disagreement with Wike over some of the party’s choices and decisions on the 2023 Presidential election.
Speaking at the occasion, Wike stated categorically that there was no such plan to clamp down or eliminate any person in the state, as such character was not in the DNA of the present administration.
He urged those who are not popular and vast in grassroots politics, to leave it for those who know the game, rather than making frivolous claims.
”On my way here, I read from the newspaper, one man that is unable to come home, called Ledogo, saying he will not come home again to campaign for PDP presidential candidate. He said the reason that he will not come was because I held a meeting in Government House that any time he comes to Rivers State, he should be killed.
“My brothers, such a thing did not happen and it will not happen. Any person that cannot come to Rivers State should look for a better excuse and not killing excuse.”
He added: “This government, we don’t kill anybody. We have never and will never kill anybody. Please if you don’t have strength, tell your people that you don’t have strength.”
Wike also took a swipe at the former Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr Dakuku Peterside, who hails from Opobo for claiming that Governor Nyesom Wike’s administration has done nothing for the council.
He wondered why Dakuku, who served as a Commissioner for Works under the Chibuike Amaechi’s administration and never made any effort to advance work on the Opobo axis of the Ogoni-Andoni-Opobo/Nkoro Unity Road, from the point the administration of Dr Peter Odili stopped work, would turn around to lie against a governor who provided road for the people of Opobo.
“Before he became commissioner, the former governor of the State, Dr Peter Odili, had initiated this laudable project, the Unity Road to run from Ogoni, Andoni and Opobo and then he stopped in 2007.
“From October 2007, when your son (Dakuku) became Commissioner for Works until May 2011, four good years, he did not add one meter to the road.”
“The same man said Wike did not do anything for Opobo people. Yes, let us agree because the lawyers will say, assuming though not conceding that Wike did not do anything. From that time in 1999 when he (Dakuku) started politics until Wike became governor, Dakuku was not able to drive a car to Opobo. Even if Wike has not done anything, the road he gave to Opobo is not something.”
Wike said it was unbelievable that Dakuku, who got a contract for Opobo shore protection and embezzled funds, could still have the audacity to accuse Wike’s administration that has linked the entire Opobo/Nkoro island to the rest of the State by road, of doing nothing for the council.
“This is not campaign, but at campaign time, we will inform you that he (Dakuku) was given contract. The only thing that he was asked to do for his people, shore protection, he embezzled the money and that contract was not executed. So, when the time comes, we will tell Opobo who is their real son, because I don’t believe that an indigene of Opobo will hate Opobo so much”, he said.
He noted that all Dakuku said during a gathering of few APC members in Opobo last week, was his usual tantrum against governor Wike, in order to gain relevance in the political space.
Wike went on; “You know, in Rivers State, anybody in opposition that is aspiring to get any position, no matter how little that aspiration is, the only qualification for you to aspire is to come out and abuse Wike. When you come and abuse Wike and say Wike didn’t do this, Wike did not do that, then you can be considered for a little position. And so, that is just what Dakuku did.
“If you adopt one strategy to achieve something and it doesn’t work, the proper thing to do is to change strategy. Dakuku needs to change his strategy since they no longer work.”
In his remarks, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, Siminalaye Fubara, lauded members of GDI for sensitising Rivers people in the 23 Local Government Areas, on the need to collect their PVC, which is their power to elect the rightful leadership during the 2023 general elections.
Fubara, who hails from Opobo, said he is confident that his kinsmen will overwhelmingly support his governorship ambition.
“A non-indigene is the one who will come here and struggle, abuse people. I’m an indigene, a free-born. You can trace my father’s house. So, do I need to struggle to get your support? So, I will end by saying you know what to do.”
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Five persons, including a woman and her baby girl, lost their lives in a fatal accident in Enugu Agidi, along the Enugu-Awka expressway in Anambra State.
Tribune Online gathered that the crash which occurred around 7.20 pm on Sunday involved a red truck and a black Lexus RX330 Jeep with five persons on board.
An eyewitness said the truck driver was at speed when he suddenly lost control and rammed into the Lexus SUV.
“While urging the FRSC to always organise training for truck drivers to curb road crashes, in those days elderly people drive big trucks it’s not like this. These days even teenagers and weed-smoking young adults drive trucks. May God help us.”
Confirming the incident, the State Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Commander Adeoye Irelewuyi attributed the cause of the crash to excessive speed.
He sympathized with the deceased families, warning motorists, especially truck drivers to avoid speeding and ensure they kept to recommend speed limit.
He said, “An unidentified driver of a black Lexus RX330 with registration number KJA182HS and an unidentified driver of a red truck with no registration number was involved in a fatal road traffic crash at Enugu-Agidi by Awka-Enugu expressway today 4th September 2022 at about 1920hrs.
“The probable cause of the fatal crash was excessive speed. According to an eyewitness report, the truck driver was at speed, lost control and rammed into the Lexus SUV.
“Five people, 3 male adults, 1 female adult and 1 female child were involved in the crash. Five of them 3 male adults, 1 female adult and 1 female child were killed.
“FRSC rescue team from RS5.3 Anambra sector command took the victims to Amaku hospital where they were confirmed dead by the doctor on duty, and the corpses were deposited at the hospital morgue.
“The rescue team on the ground managed traffic and ensured obstruction caused by the crash is removed.
“Kill the speed before it kills you. Drive to arrive alive. Let’s keep our road safe from the crash he warned.”
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After navigating not one, but two highly unusual years, 2022 turned out to be a different kind of unexpected for New York’s dining scene, with restaurants thriving all over town while the city otherwise struggles to find its post-pandemic footing.
Thus far, we’ve had some memorable surprises, with tourist-centric locations like Rockefeller Center and South Street Seaport luring in serious chefs and turning into full-blown dining destinations for locals — a welcome transformation at a time when tourism still struggles to recover completely.
From omakase sushi served in a hushed atmosphere steps from the trains at Grand Central, to out-of-the-ordinary Thai food in Williamsburg, a potential hotspot for the historic (and historically beleaguered) Hotel Martinique, and yes, even a restaurant in Times Square, here’s what’s coming next — or at least, here are six of the restaurants I’m most looking forward to trying.
Jōji
Only in New York could Daniel Boulud, a sushi master from Masa and a mighty real estate company join forces to create a 10-seat omakase restaurant. (There’s also an eight-seat dining room, but the counter’s the place to be.) Opening on Sept. 14, Jōji completes SL Green Realty’s campaign to make its One Vanderbilt skyscraper the culinary capital of East Midtown. Chef George Ruan is crafting a menu that he describes as “combining elements of the traditional while also being daring and unexpected.” The omakase tasting starts at $375. Boulud, who runs the great Le Pavillon on the tower’s second floor, will lend operational support and management guidance. Hushed, elegant Jōji is tucked into an underground alcove at the bottom of the tower, just steps from the trains at Grand Central.
Jōji, 1 Vanderbilt Ave.
Press Club Grill
Chef Franklin Becker, who’s run popular Big Apple eateries such as Catch and launched several food halls and grab-and-go spots such as Little Beet, heads up this 9,000-square-foot, two-level American eatery to open in October at the Martinique Hotel, which has been reborn after years of closure and construction. Becker describes the menu as “old New York meets new New York.” The name refers to the long ago time when newspaper people congregated at Herald Square for sports and entertainment.
Press Club Grill, Martinique Hotel, 49 W. 32nd St.
T-Bar Steak & Lounge
After a long wait, Tony Fortuna’s insanely popular, modern American eatery — a 27-year favorite on the Upper East Side — reopens on East 60th Street on Sept. 6 in a new, three-level location 13 blocks south of the Third Avenue original. It will even have a separate VIP entrance, presumably for regulars such as Le Bernardin chef Éric Ripert and World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein. Let’s hope they keep the grilled salmon that was my favorite dish uptown.
T-Bar Steak & Lounge, 116 E. 60th St.
Monsieur Vo
Chef Jimmy Ly and Yen Vo, the husband-wife team behind casual Vietnamese spot Madame Vo, are branching out. The place was famed for its soulful, signature broth-and-short-ribs dish Madame Pho. Their new location, opening Sept. 14 on the former site of Madame Vo BBQ, is described as Ly’s modern Saigon-influenced takes on street food, comfort food, and large-format meat and seafood dishes.
Monsieur Vo, 104 2nd Ave.
Brooklyn Deli
There’s so much mediocre — and worse — food in Times Square that it’s cause to celebrate when a pro who elevates popular taste — namely, Trattoria dell’Arte and Bond 45 owner Shelly Fireman — takes the plunge. Like his other Brooklyn Delis, the 130-seater, set to debut in October, will offer classic New York comfort and nostalgia dishes, Roman-style pizza and specialty egg and breakfast dishes.
Brooklyn Deli, Paramount Building, 1501 Broadway
Kru
Dozens of new Thai places come along every year, but this one from husband-and-wife duo Ohm Suansilphong and Kiki Supap sounds especially promising. It will bring “100-year-old dishes inspired by Thailand’s royalty and aristocracy” to Williamsburg’s hotel-party zone this September. Dishes will be served in “bountiful banquet” style — with many on the table at once — rather than in formal courses. There’s a cozy backyard behind the main dining room.
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Bengaluru: Large parts of India's tech capital Bengaluru were under water on Monday after torrential rains lashed the city.
The rain is also causing crippling traffic disruptions and prompting offices to issue work-from-home orders to employees.
The city is home to companies such as Amazon, Flipkart and Wipro.
All of them run logistics and other operations from there.
Several firms, including Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs and Indian food delivery company Swiggy asked emplyees to work from home, several people who work there told Reuters.
Several citizens too have been sharing videos of the water-logged city through their social media handles.
Many on social media also asked commuters to avoid certain routes because of heavy water-logging.
Local television showed wading in waist-deep water and long traffic jams. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/05/india-bengaluru-flooding-traffic-snarls.html | 2022-09-05T11:35:20Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/05/india-bengaluru-flooding-traffic-snarls.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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