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Memphis police found an unidentified body Monday about 20 minutes from where teacher Eliza "Liza" Fletcher was violently abducted three days ago, according to a tweet from the police department.
"The identity of this person and the cause of death is unconfirmed at this time. The investigation is ongoing," the tweet said.
Police have been searching the Memphis area for Fletcher, 34, since Friday. The mother of two was jogging around 4 a.m. when a black GMC Terrain SUV passed by her, according to surveillance footage obtained of the incident. A man was then seen getting out of the vehicle and running "aggressively" toward Fletcher and forcing her into the passenger side of the SUV. Once both individuals were inside the SUV, the vehicle remained in a parking lot for about four minutes before driving away, according to the footage cited in an affidavit obtained by CNN.
The affidavit stated police found "physical evidence that she suffered serious injury."
Cleotha Abston, 38, was arrested Saturday after police found the GMC Terrain in a parking lot near his residence, according to the affidavit. The vehicle had the same distinguishable damage and partial license plate identification seen in the surveillance footage from Fletcher's abduction.
Abston attempted to flee after US Marshals located him nearby, the affidavit said. He was charged with especially aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence.
The suspect is being held in the Shelby County Jail on $500,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday, according to jail records. It is unclear whether he has an attorney.
DNA on sandals led authorities to Abston
DNA recovered from a pair of sandals found near where authorities believe Fletcher was abducted helped investigators identify and arrest Abston, according to the affidavit.
Surveillance footage captured from a local theater the day before Fletcher's disappearance showed Abston wearing what authorities believe are the same pair of Champion slide sandals found at the crime scene, according to the affidavit.
Additional surveillance footage matched with statements from Abston's employer confirmed the vehicle in question belongs to a woman associated with Abston's home address.
Cell phone records also place Abston at the site during the time of Fletcher's abduction on Friday morning, the affidavit said.
Fletcher's damaged phone was found near the scene where she was abducted, CrimeStoppers Executive Director Buddy Chapman said, according to a news release obtained by CNN affiliate WHBQ.
According to the affidavit, a witness said she saw Abston at his brother's house after the abduction. Both the witness and his brother said Abston was behaving oddly as he cleaned the interior of his SUV and washed his clothes in the sink.
Photos released by police show Fletcher running in the neighborhood near the University of Memphis. She was last seen wearing a pink jogging top and purple running shorts, police said in an alert.
Fletcher is White, 5 feet 6 inches tall, with brown hair and green eyes, police said. She weighs 137 pounds.
Her family is offering a $50,000 reward through CrimeStoppers for information leading to an arrest in the case, WHBQ reported.
"We look forward to Eliza's safe return and hope that this award will help police capture those who committed this crime," her family said in a statement shared by Chapman.
In a post on Twitter, St. Mary's Episcopal School said Fletcher is a junior kindergarten teacher.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a tweet it is assisting Memphis police in the investigation.
Abston served time for a prior kidnapping charge
Abston previously served prison time for an aggravated kidnapping more than 20 years ago, court records show.
He pleaded guilty in November 2001 to the charge of especially aggravated kidnapping. He was released in November 2020, according to court records.
The Shelby County District Attorney's Office told WREG Abston was convicted in the kidnapping of a local attorney in 2000.
Three additional charges were added for Abston since his arrest Saturday, according to Shelby County Jail Records. Those charges include identity theft, theft of property $1000 or less and fraudulent use/illegal possession of a credit or debit card $1000 or less, records show.
The newly filed charges Abston are not related to Fletcher's abduction, according to an affidavit obtained by CNN affiliate WHBQ. The new charges are connected to a Thursday theft report filed by a woman who reported that someone was using her CashApp card and Wisley Card at gas stations without her knowledge.
CNN has reached out to the Shelby County District Attorney and Memphis Police regarding the additional charges.
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A new Poundland store is set to open in the former Tesco site in Broadstairs this week. The new 4,000sqft store has been designed to offer 'customers a wide range of items at prices to help offset the impact of higher inflation'.
The new store, on High Street, is set to officially open on Saturday (September 10) at 9am. The store will employ 18 full and part-time colleagues.
The shop will offer Poundland’s core range, including groceries, household products, health and beauty, stationery, toys and batteries, as well as a selection of chilled and frozen foods and snacks.
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It will also sell a wide range of Poundland’s PEP&CO clothing for the whole family. As well as womenswear, menswear and kidswear, it feature PEP&CO Home items from the latest 2022 ranges including storage options, faux plants, ornaments, photo frames and bathroom accessories.
The new investment in the new town centre store marks a vote of confidence in Broadstairs and Kent. It follows the opening in August of the Poundland store at Marshwood Close Retail Park, Canterbury.
Poundland director of retail, Darren Kay, said: “Our new Broadstairs store is in a fantastic location, right in the heart of the town, and we think local residents and visitors will love it. Whether customers are at home or on holiday, we’ll offer them the amazing range and value they’ve come to expect from Poundland and which is more important than ever while people’s budgets are under so much pressure.”
The new Broadstairs store will complement Poundland’s existing network of stores in Kent, including Ashford, Margate, Deal, Maidstone, Gillingham, Chatham, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, and Swanley.
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Brendan Fraser is officially on a comeback.
The Whale, a new Darren Aronofsky film in which Fraser stars, premiered at the Venice Film Festival Sunday night to a six-minute standing ovation.
Actors and longtime fans alike took to social media to share their own happiness at the recognition Fraser received with this latest role. As the applause continued for Fraser on Sunday, the actor and some audience members appeared to get choked up.
This comes years after Fraser was at the height of his career. So, why has this moment has brought so many people joy at the same time that others lament the fact that this film is Fraser's return to stardom?
Fraser was once a major star with hits such as George of the Jungle and The Mummy franchise. But after a sustained run as one of Hollywood's leading men, Fraser receded to the sidelines of TV and film in recent years.
Seeing Fraser who was so "universally loved" by the public for so long receive praise resonated with fans, according to film and media historian Chris Yogerst.
"It's almost like the public was just waiting for this moment," said Yogerst. "Everyone has missed him. Seeing him back on the screen, it was like an old friend was back."
Nostalgia certainly plays into the joy this moment brings to some people, Yogerst said.
"I mean, I'm still nostalgic about the silly remake of Bedazzled," a Fraser movie with Elizabeth Hurley that came out in 2000, Yogerst said.
Part of this collective happiness also stems from knowledge of Fraser's recent struggles, according to Nicholas Baer, an assistant professor of film studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
After Fraser was absent from any big Hollywood movie for several years, GQ published a profile in 2018 of the actor titled, "What ever happened to Brendan Fraser?"
In it, Fraser discussed years of suffering from injuries (sustained from performing stunts during filming of The Mummy franchise), subsequent surgeries, personal loss and a divorce. Most startling were details Fraser shared of being allegedly groped by Philip Berk, a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Berk told GQ that Fraser's account was "a total fabrication."
Fraser in the GQ article openly questioned whether he was actually blacklisted from Hollywood because he came forward about his experience.
"[The Whale] is offering us an opportunity to kind of recognize the virtue and the kind of fundamental decency of Brendan Fraser, who has been really wronged by the industry and has long suffered," Baer said.
A comeback with controversy
The Whale is about a reclusive English teacher (Fraser) who weighs 600 pounds, and as he struggles with his health, tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. A combination of prosthetics and CGI help Fraser as he portrays this character.
Fraser's return will likely be controversial for some, Baer noted.
"I think it's definitely going to be a point of contention in the discourse. I think it's a practice [the use of prosthetics or so-called fat suits] that has been relatively commonplace among major Hollywood actors for a long time and that's been increasingly criticized for being fat phobic and offensive," Baer said.
Indeed, critics have turned to social media to say that the movie's premise is inherently dehumanizing. There's a question of whether it should have been made at all.
Aubrey Gordon, an author and co-host of the Maintenance Phase, a podcast focused on debunking health fads, took to Twitter to call out the movie's aim.
"It's so telling that so many only see fat people as 'humanized' in media that shows us doing exactly what they expect: living short, small lives; 'eating ourselves to death'; feeling sad & regretful. All reminders of how tragic it is to be fat, and how superior it is to be thin," she wrote.
This kind of media just "reinforces viewers' anti-fat bias," she wrote.
Pia Glenn, a Broadway actress, also criticized the movie, lamenting the fact that this film is Fraser's comeback.
"Mr. Fraser's 'comeback' and personal journey as an actor and human are significant and I hate that I feel so negatively about the project that brought them about. I know I won't see it, so I've been reading reviews," she wrote on Twitter. "References to rolls and hanging flesh and Jabba the Hut (!) NO."
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The owner of one of Kent’s most celebrated pubs said the cost of living crisis putting immense pressure the hospitality industry. Marc Bridgen, general manager at The Dog in Wingham, told KentLive: "We are all struggling".
The energy price cap will soar to £3,549 a year in October for domestic properties but no cap has yet been announced for businesses and utilities are skyrocketing. Marc said his energy bills at the popular pub have more than tripled and even surpassed £100k a year.
He described the crisis as "the perfect storm for all businesses, but especially hospitality" and called on the government to support businesses quickly - before they are forced to close.
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Marc began managing The Dog after his parents bought it and refurbished it in 2016 - his mum Marilyn was responsible for the highly-acclaimed interior design. The popular eatery has received golden praise ever since and has been named the Best Pub in Kent by the National Pub & Bar Awards multiple times.
But even an establishment that has seen this much success is still struggling in the current economic climate.
‘Our revenues are down and our costs are through the roof’
Marc said: “In May I discovered that our utilities for gas and electric combined were going up from about £36,000 per annum to about £100,000 to £110,000 per annum. Obviously, I fell off my seat and I was in a mild panic, would be a fair way of summing it up.
“Our electric was going from around 20p to a unit to around 45p for a unit, and the electric is a critical one for us because we’re primarily an electric business. Although our gas is going up five times, our electric going up two and a half is quite a big deal to us.”
“I was then under quite a lot of pressure to take a contract for utilities, in a month the quote went up five per cent on electric. So I had to take a contract, and I took electric at about 45p a unit, that’s the day rate.
“I’m talking to a lot of people on this subject and I’m now thanking my lucky stars I took that contract at 40p because at the moment, companies that are going to market are being quoted anything between 68p and £1.00 per unit. It seems to be affecting hospitality a lot more, I suppose it’s because we’re heavy energy consumers.”
The government must step in
Discussing the idea of a price cap, Marc said: “In normal times, I don’t expect there to be a cap, we’re a capitalist nation, I’m an entrepreneur, I’m in business to try and make a profit, but the problem is, we’re not in normal times. We are in extraordinary times.
“I believe, and we learned this from Covid, the best support, the one that was most effective, because it’s proportionate to the size of your organisation as it’s linked to your sales, is the decrease of VAT. If they do that again now, it won’t be profits going in the owner’s pockets, it will be money to pay our utility bills.”
Marc went on to discuss how the crisis has impacted pricing in the restaurant. He said: “Our revenues are down and our costs are through the roof, so it’s a perfect storm for all businesses but especially hospitality, we’re really struggling.
“We have made some price increases to handle the standard inflation, we’re not going to change our prices that relate to utilities until the new prices kick in, which for us is in October. But, I’m hoping that before then, the government gives us some support because there’s no point me putting our prices up, the public can’t pay any more.”
'Mass closures'
Marc said: "The utilities alone are going to kill a bunch of businesses. There’s a Michelin Star pub in Devon, they’ve just shut their doors almost with immediate effect - that’s a Michelin star business that’s probably doing quite well.’"
Hospitality industry bosses warned pubs and brewers across the UK are at risk of closure within months if serious help is not offered. Bosses of six of the UK’s biggest pub and brewing companies signed an open letter to the Government urging it to act in order to avoid “real and serious irreversible” damage to the sector.
Greene King, JW Lees, Carlsberg Marston’s, Admiral Taverns, Drake & Morgan and St Austell Brewery all sounded the alarm. William Lees Jones, managing director of the JW Lees pub group, said: “We have publicans who are experiencing 300% plus increases in energy costs and some energy companies are refusing to even quote for supply. In some instances, tenants are giving us notice since their businesses do not stack up with energy at these costs.
“These are not just pubs but people’s homes and the hearts of the communities that they sit in. Government needs to extend the energy cap to business as well as households.”
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The November 2020 email from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues sent up a flare amid a fusillade of false claims.
The producer warned: Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air. She is pulling conspiracy theories from dark corners of the Web to justify then-President Donald Trump's lies that the election had been stolen from him. The existence of the email, confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of it, is first publicly disclosed by NPR in this story. Fox News declined comment.
Pirro was far from alone in broadcasting such false claims. In the weeks that followed Election Day 2020, other prominent Fox stars, commentators and their guests heavily promoted them.
A repeat target was Dominion Voting Systems, the election machine and technology company. Trump and his allies alleged on Fox that Dominion was engaged in a conscious effort to throw the 2020 race to Joe Biden. They implied and falsely asserted on Fox programs that Dominion's machines and software either discarded Trump's votes or transferred them to Biden. Dominion argues their false claims were frequently egged on by Fox's own stars.
The producer's email is among the voluminous correspondence acquired by Dominion's attorneys as part of its discovery of evidence in a $1.6 billion defamation suit it filed against Fox News and its parent company. Dominion alleges it has been "irreparably harmed" by the lies, conspiracy theories and wild claims of election fraud that aired on Fox.
Pirro's role remains under sharp scrutiny. She attended Trump's belligerent address from the White House late on Election Night 2020 and advanced his arguments on the air.
On Nov. 14, 2020, for example, the day that Biden clinched his victory, Pirro questioned why vote counts shifted against Trump over the course of Election Night in such states as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. (Some counties were counted later than others; ballots cast the same day were often tallied before those cast by mail.) "The Dominion Software System has been tagged as one allegedly capable of flipping votes," Pirro told viewers, as she promoted Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell's "findings" on Dominion. (A federal judge in Michigan later officially sanctioned Powell for her actions in court on Trump's behalf after the elections, while the Texas state law bar is seeking to have her formally punished.)
Dominion and Fox News' lawyers have clashed in recent days, as court records reflect the voting systems company seeks to convince the court to compel Pirro to testify over private texts that, it argues, are relevant to its defamation case.
As high-powered stars testify, high stakes come into focus
As the summer has unfolded, Fox's star TV news hosts such as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity have been grilled under oath. High-powered attorneys are bearing down on the Murdochs, the most powerful family in English-language media. And it's all part of an all-out legal war. Dominion is seeking to strip away the curtain protecting what happens behind the scenes at the nation's most watched cable news channel, which holds a singular role on the American political scene. The suit could also define what's fair game in journalism and politics in a democracy very much on the edge. The trial date is set for April of next year.
The fraud allegations, made without any tangible evidence, were repudiated by state and local elections officials, Republicans as well as Democrats, as well as Trump's own attorney general and cyber security chief. In more than 60 substantive court rulings, Trump's assertions were found to be groundless, with one limited exception. Fox News argues that it was covering inherently newsworthy claims by inherently newsworthy figures – including the nation's top elected official. It also points to segments where its reporters and news anchors cast cold water on the allegations.
Fox executives publicly say they will prevail
"Freedom of the press is foundational to our democracy and must be protected," a senior spokeswoman for Fox News said in a statement to NPR. She called the damages claims "outrageous, unsupported and not rooted in sound financial analysis, serving as nothing more than a flagrant attempt to deter our journalists from doing their jobs."
"All you're reporting to the public is that somebody - in this case, the president of the United States - has made the allegation of voter fraud by Dominion," Dan Webb, Fox News' outside attorney on the case, tells NPR. "I don't know how anything could be more newsworthy than the president of the United States making the allegation, and his lawyers making the allegations in court, because that's so fundamental."
Dominion ties the rhetoric about the company on Fox to harassment targeting its employees, "from software engineers to its founder and chief executive officer." Several received death threats.
In its legal filings, the company says it suffered "enormous and irreparable economic harm." Dominion says it projects losing profits of more than $600 million over the next eight years. As examples, it cites instances in which lawmakers in numerous states are demanding a review of existing contracts with Dominion; the cancellation of a $10 million contract in Stark County, Ohio; and Louisiana's recent cancellation of a process that prevents Dominion from securing a $100 million contract in that state.
Besides Carlson and Hannity, the list of Fox figures already questioned under oath in the cases includes former stars (Shepard Smith) and fallen stars (Lou Dobbs and Ed Henry), as well as show producers and programming executives, court records show. Dobbs left the network in early 2021, the day after Smartmatic, the electronic voting company, filed a closely related $2.7 billion defamation suit against Fox over similarly false claims about that firm made on Fox's airwaves.
In conducting the first interview of Trump after the election, Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo told Trump and her viewers, "This is disgusting, and we cannot allow America's election to be corrupted." In mid-December, Bartiromo announced that "an intel source" told her that Trump had won the election. She never followed up with any further material to substantiate that reporting. She is due to be deposed under oath on Thursday.
Asked by NPR whether Fox still considers Bartiromo a news anchor, and thus part of Fox's news and reporting division, rather than its opinion side, a network spokeswoman declined to comment. It is the first known time Fox has not identified Bartiromo as a news-side journalist.
Dominion "exploring" whether Fox staffers knew statements were false
In December 2020, while still a Fox Business host, Dobbs said opponents of President Trump throughout the government had committed "treason," and later suggested that any Republican who upheld President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the Electoral College may be "criminal."
The wide nets cast by Dominion in seeking depositions suggests, University of Georgia media law professor Jonathan Peters says, that the company's attorneys are "exploring the extent to which Fox personnel published false statements with knowledge of their falsity or with a 'high degree of awareness of their probable falsity,' (the relevant fault standards)."
"This usually takes into account such factors as what the personnel knew at the time they published, whether the sources were reliable, whether the defendant ignored clear signs that the statements were wrong, whether the defendant investigated the facts, and what motives shaped the statements," Peters writes in an email to NPR.
That assessment suggests that material uncovered by Dominion such as the producer's warning about Pirro could provide fuel for the voting machine company's case. While Pirro's weekend show did not air on Nov. 7, 2020, just after the elections, she returned to the air repeatedly. In January, Pirro was elevated to become a full host of The Five, Fox's popular weekday evening political chat show.
Dominion seeks links to Fox News executives and the Murdochs
Dominion has technically filed two cases - one against Fox News and the other against Fox Corp, its corporate parent. The second Dominion suit is bearing down on Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan, who together run the family's vast media holdings, which include the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and other newspapers and television properties in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Reporters for Fox and the Wall Street Journal repeatedly knocked down spurious allegations of voter fraud, demonstrating that such facts were known within the Murdoch media empire.
Together, the twin suits could theoretically reach multiple billions of dollars, with punitive damages along with financial damages. And of course, the cases carry great significance for the nation more broadly, as it captures the incendiary period between the heated claims of fraud about the November 2020 presidential elections and the ensuing bloody siege of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters two months later.
Defamation cases are generally hard to win in the U.S. and Peters says this one is no slam dunk. But given what's already known, he says, he'd rather be on Dominion's legal team than Fox's.
Dominion's attorneys have obtained emails, texts, WhatsApp messages and more, documenting how the network's executives and journalists behaved and acted behind the scenes, as well as determining what they actually knew about the claims, according to three people with knowledge of the litigation. Witnesses have been pressed about the degree to which the Murdochs and Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott were involved in making editorial decisions or kept in the loop.
Such decisions can be crucial: Fox's projection on Election night 2020 that Biden would win Arizona, first of any major media outlet, conferred great credibility on the Democratic nominee's imminent victory. It also enraged Trump and his advisers, who unsuccessfully pressured the Murdochs to reverse the Fox decision desk's projection, according to three people with direct knowledge. The public call additionally alienated Trump's fans - many of whom were Fox's core viewers. For a time, they abandoned the network. The much smaller rival right-wing network Newsmax zoomed up from nowhere in the ratings.
In the weeks that followed, key network stars' embrace and validation of the Trump camp's lies about the existence of election fraud contradicted some of their Fox colleagues' reporting that disproved it. Top leadership passively acquiesced in the star hosts' rhetoric, and took no meaningful steps to stop it, according to seven journalists there. And the audience started to return.
Asked for comment by NPR, a Fox News spokesperson strongly denied this was the case. She emphasized that the talent involved "were covering the most newsworthy story of that period — the president of the United States claiming election fraud."
Fox: Nothing more newsworthy than a president's allegations of election fraud
The network's spokesperson has also pointed to periodic segments, mostly from its news reporters and hosts, challenging or even contradicting such claims from Trump allies.
The network and its parent company appear to be girding for a full court trial. In June, Fox hired Webb, who is the co-executive chairman of the powerhouse Chicago-based law firm, Winston & Strawn.
"This case is a relatively simple case," Webb tells NPR in an interview.
"The question there is whether or not Fox correctly reported the allegation [of election fraud], and they did," Webb adds. "I don't think there's any question that Fox accurately reported an incredibly newsworthy allegation made by the president himself."
Dominion wants Fox to apologize, but that risks offending Trump's fans
A comprehensive settlement, which outside legal observers initially suggested would be a possible outcome of the cases, does not currently appear likely, according to several people with knowledge of the litigation.
In theory, it would almost certainly require a payment by Fox of hundreds of millions dollars and an expansive apology - the latter being something that Fox News and Rupert Murdoch have, historically, been loath to do.
In 2020, Fox News reached a confidential, multi-million dollar settlement with the family of the late Seth Rich, who was baselessly accused on Fox of having leaked thousands of emails from the Democratic National Committee before his killing in 2016. Such claims were groundless. Fox retracted in 2017 a story making that claim after a week, but never offered a public apology. The network's chief media critic covered the settlement in a minute-long segment on his Sunday show.
Murdoch expressed public contrition after it was revealed that people working on behalf of his British tabloid, News of the World, had hacked into the voice mails of a murdered schoolgirl - among hundreds of others of people. At the time, Murdoch was trying to salvage a $14 billion deal to take full control of a major British satellite television company. The deal was ultimately scuttled by U.K. regulators.
Election lies fueled the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol
Many observers have tied the lies about election fraud to the overheated rhetoric that fueled the siege of the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021, an effort to block the certification of Biden's victory. Lachlan Murdoch has sued the Australian political news site Crikey over drawing just that connection to Fox and the Murdochs. Press freedoms in that country are not as robust as they are here; defamation claims have historically proven far easier to prove there. Crikey's top editor says he welcomes the suit as a way to test Australia's defamation laws.
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull argues that Rupert Murdoch, through Fox News, has done more to undermine American democracy than any other individual alive today.
"The biggest challenge to the United States is not Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin. It's the animosity, the division, the anti-democratic movements within the United States itself," Turnbull told NPR's Ari Shapiro on All Things Considered. "Fox News is not the only source of this madness, but it is by far the single most influential one."
In reply, Fox Corp spokesman Brian Nick points to Fox News's dominant ratings among cable news channels, and the network's strong appeal to Democrats and independent voters, as well as Republicans.
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Former President Donald Trump has remained a constant presence in this year's statewide primaries, endorsing more than 200 Republican candidates running for U.S. Senate, U.S. House and top state executive offices across the country.
So with the end of the primary calendar nearing, how have his endorsees fared?
An NPR tally of Trump's endorsements finds the vast majority won their GOP primaries, but about three-fourths of his picks are incumbents who were already expected to win, with many running unopposed in their primary contests.
In fact, only one Trump-endorsed incumbent — North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn — was ousted in a primary.
The former president's endorsees performed somewhat worse in open races, without an incumbent, or when he backed a challenger to a Republican incumbent.
Overall, 91% of Trump's candidates won their open primaries, and 4 of 10 challengers topped incumbents. His picks fared particularly poorly in Georgia, as he sought to oust sitting GOP officials from state executive offices.
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Looking at who Trump endorsed, most candidates said they support his false claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent. And among just Trump-endorsed House incumbents, the vast majority objected to certifying the 2020 election.
Up and down the ballot, Trump made a concerted effort to endorse and actively campaign for Republicans challenging GOP incumbents who disagreed with his election lies.
Notably, of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him following the Jan. 6 insurrection, five of six who ran for reelection faced Trump-backed primary challengers, and just two of those incumbents prevailed.
Many Republicans endorsed by Trump face competitive general election matchups against Democratic candidates, so it's unclear how they'll fare in November.
The full list is below. Did we miss something? Email nprpolitics@npr.org.
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American Frances Tiafoe, 24, has reached the quarterfinals for the first time. Of the eight men left at the U.S Open, six are ranked outside of the top 10.
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American Frances Tiafoe, 24, has reached the quarterfinals for the first time. Of the eight men left at the U.S Open, six are ranked outside of the top 10.
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Congress begins work on next Farm Bill
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The initial steps for deciding the next five years of U.S. agriculture policy is underway.
Ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee John Boozman, R-AR, will play a significant role in the process. He is currently touring farms to ask farmers what they need.
Boozman said a better safety net for crops is a top priority.
“They spend all the money to get it planted, and maybe they have crop failure because of drought,” Boozman said. “We’ve experienced so much throughout the country.”
A new Farm Bill is passed every five years. The previous Farm Bill expires in September of 2023.
The National Farmers Union said the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the issue of farmers not having enough control over getting their products to market.
“Because of corporate monopolies in the middle of the food chain, we didn’t have a lot of marketing options for farmers when tough times hit,” National Farmers Union VP of Advocacy Mike Stranz said. “When the pandemic upended supply and demand.”
Boozman and the NFU both said high input costs for items like fertilizer and gasoline are hurting the industry.
Boozman also said the next Farm Bill should also focus on conservation and innovation to protect farmers from severe weather.
“The research dollars that we put into the Farm Bill, scientists are discovering different strains of crops that are more drought tolerant,” Boozman said.
The NFU says the next farm bill needs to address production, distribution and attract a lot of support. Stanz said that will help the agriculture industry, and ultimately customers, when prices on store shelves are lower.
“We need to protect our food supply. We need to have a competitive agriculture economy,” Stanz said. “So by having this big, broad coalition, we’ll all be better off with a stronger farm bill.”
Boozman says lawmakers will continue learning about differences in regional needs from farmers throughout the country before crafting any legislation.
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For some students who attended Robb Elementary in Texas, it will be the first time back in classrooms since a gunman killed 21 people at their school in May.
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For some students who attended Robb Elementary in Texas, it will be the first time back in classrooms since a gunman killed 21 people at their school in May.
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NPR's Rachel Martin talks to reporter Mickey Djuric of the Canadian Press, about a series of stabbings in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Ten people are dead and 18 were injured.
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NPR's Rachel Martin talks to reporter Mickey Djuric of the Canadian Press, about a series of stabbings in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Ten people are dead and 18 were injured.
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That’s my neighborhood, and this is the email they sent out on Thursday about it.
In recent weeks the WHCA has challenged TxDOT on their plan to elevate I-10 near our neighborhood between Heights Blvd. and I-45. Due to the lack of transparency, engagement, and overall dubiousness around the project, the WHCA cannot support this project. The project, in its current form, seems to be a waste of taxpayer money and jeopardizes the tranquility and worth of our community.
Below is a high-level list of issues:
TxDOT has defined the need, designed, and funded this project to start in 2024 without first considering the impact to the surrounding communities and ecosystems or engaging the public.
TxDOT should halt this project until Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) completes its evaluation of a plan to build 8 massive tunnels that would divert and store water underground. A study should be done to determine whether the I-10 elevation would be needed if the tunnel system goes forward.
This finished project would not withstand a Hurricane Harvey level event and traffic would still need to be re-routed as it is now and would be through the construction period. Any tax-payer funded project that purports to address flooding should be built to take on a 500-year flood.
The elevation of I-10 would add significant noise pollution to already very loud highway noise. The increased noise will impact property values along White Oak and surrounding streets.
The construction will last a minimum of four years and will be a burden to our community. In that time we will have limited access in and out of the neighborhood which will cause congestion within the neighborhood. That could lead to homeowners leaving, depressed home values, and homes sitting on the market longer.
TxDOT should consult local organizations to define parameters of the environmental impacts to be studied for ecosystems along White Oak and Little White Oak bayous and into our neighborhoods which are nesting sites for important birds like the Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, the official bird of Houston and formerly endangered Bald Eagles.
TxDOT should not take away any greenspace along White Oak Bayou.
TxDOT should not disturb the forested area slated to be a detention pond. This provides important sound mitigation, natural habitat and aesthetic beauty.
TxDOT should not break the Inner Katy project into smaller projects.
- We are concerned that TxDOT’s decision to split the Inner Katy Corridor into segmented projects will mean that the full environmental impacts are not captured under National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
- We support other communities like Cottage Grove who are fighting a separate I-10 project threatening their parks and further dividing their neighborhood.
- Impact analysis should be combined with the current I-45 impact analysis as they will affect the same neighborhoods and bayous
Here’s how you can help stop TxDOT’s I-10 Plan:
Submit a pre-written email to TxDOT and elected officials: click here.
Submit your own comment on the TxDOT.gov website and reference project number: CSJ 0271-07-326
See here for the background. Some of these concerns may be more parochial than others, but at the very least the concerns about flooding and maybe playing games with the environmental impact are universal. While the subject of the email was “The WHCA Stands Against TxDOT’s I-10 Plan”, the word “oppose” doesn’t appear in the message body. It is possible that TxDOT could address these concerns. Given the I-45 expansion debate there’s not a huge amount of trust and goodwill, but it could happen. For now, there are a lot of questions that the folks in my neighborhood have. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106844 | 2022-09-06T11:25:43Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106844 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Happy Day After Labor Day! It is now officially campaign season, and that means it is also now officially Candidate Interview Season. (It’s also Judicial Candidate Q&A season, which you’ve already seen.) I’ll have a lineup of interviews to bring you between now and Election Day. Today we begin with a candidate we met in 2018, Michelle Palmer, making a second run for the State Board of Education in district 6. She came pretty close in 2020, but faces a tougher challenge this year after redistricting. Palmer is a history and government teacher and advocate for her students. She’s also a busy Democratic activist and organizer. I interviewed her for the 2020 primary, and I’m back to talk to her again about this year’s race.
I published a complete list of interviews and Q&As up till now yesterday. I’ll include a running list of the November interviews and Q&As as we go. As always, a full list of all this activity and a lot more about each Democratic candidate can be found in the Erik Manning spreadsheet. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106847 | 2022-09-06T11:25:51Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106847 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. Soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery, 41st Field fire the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (M270 MLRS) during a live fire demonstration for “Molly Pitcher Day” at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Aug. 31, 2022. (U.S. Army photo by Kevin Sterling Payne)
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U.S. Soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery, 41st Field fire the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (M270 MLRS) during a live fire demonstration for “Molly Pitcher Day” at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Aug. 31, 2022. (U.S. Army photo by Kevin Sterling Payne)
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Frances Tiafoe produced one of the biggest upsets at the US Open after stunning 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal in the fourth round, while Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz battled past Marin Cilic in a late-night thriller on Monday.
Home hope Tiafoe, 24, pulled off a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory to hand Nadal his first Grand Slam loss this year after the Spaniard withdrew from his Wimbledon semifinal with an abdominal injury.
"I don't even know what to say right now, I'm beyond happy, I'm almost in tears," said Tiafoe, who will face Andrey Rublev in the quarterfinals after the Russian shrugged off a rain delay to breeze past Cameron Norrie in straight sets.
Alcaraz, last year's quarterfinalist, remained on course for another memorable run at Flushing Meadows after squeezing past 2014 champion Cilic 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to set up a showdown against Jannik Sinner.
Italian 11th seed Sinner also needed five sets to hold off unseeded Belarusian Ilya Ivashka 6-1, 5-7, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 in a gruelling match and reach his third Grand Slam quarterfinal this season.
Earlier, world No. 1 Iga Swiatek recovered from a set and a break down to see off her 108th-ranked German opponent Jule Niemeier 2-6, 6-4, 6-0.
Swiatek will take on in-form Jessica Pegula for a place in the semifinals.
Pegula became the second American after Coco Gauff to move into the quarterfinals. She brushed aside twice Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-2, before her compatriot Danielle Collins fell 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 to sixth seed Aryna Sabalenka.
Sabalenka set up a quarterfinal against Karolina Pliskova
Pliskova beat three-time runner-up Victoria Azarenka 7-5, 6-7(5), 6-2 in a three-hour match between two former world No. 1s.
"On hard courts her game is super dangerous," Pliskova said. "It's not easy but super happy." | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/tennis/2022/09/06/us-open-tiafoe-alcaraz-hog-limelight-sabalenka-to-meet-pliskova-in-quarterfinals.amp.html | 2022-09-06T11:38:29Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/tennis/2022/09/06/us-open-tiafoe-alcaraz-hog-limelight-sabalenka-to-meet-pliskova-in-quarterfinals.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Frances Tiafoe produced one of the biggest upsets at the US Open after stunning 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal in the fourth round, while Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz battled past Marin Cilic in a late-night thriller on Monday.
Home hope Tiafoe, 24, pulled off a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory to hand Nadal his first Grand Slam loss this year after the Spaniard withdrew from his Wimbledon semifinal with an abdominal injury.
"I don't even know what to say right now, I'm beyond happy, I'm almost in tears," said Tiafoe, who will face Andrey Rublev in the quarterfinals after the Russian shrugged off a rain delay to breeze past Cameron Norrie in straight sets.
Alcaraz, last year's quarterfinalist, remained on course for another memorable run at Flushing Meadows after squeezing past 2014 champion Cilic 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to set up a showdown against Jannik Sinner.
Italian 11th seed Sinner also needed five sets to hold off unseeded Belarusian Ilya Ivashka 6-1, 5-7, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 in a gruelling match and reach his third Grand Slam quarterfinal this season.
Earlier, world No. 1 Iga Swiatek recovered from a set and a break down to see off her 108th-ranked German opponent Jule Niemeier 2-6, 6-4, 6-0.
Swiatek will take on in-form Jessica Pegula for a place in the semifinals.
Pegula became the second American after Coco Gauff to move into the quarterfinals. She brushed aside twice Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-2, before her compatriot Danielle Collins fell 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 to sixth seed Aryna Sabalenka.
Sabalenka set up a quarterfinal against Karolina Pliskova
Pliskova beat three-time runner-up Victoria Azarenka 7-5, 6-7(5), 6-2 in a three-hour match between two former world No. 1s.
"On hard courts her game is super dangerous," Pliskova said. "It's not easy but super happy." | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/tennis/2022/09/06/us-open-tiafoe-alcaraz-hog-limelight-sabalenka-to-meet-pliskova-in-quarterfinals.html | 2022-09-06T11:38:36Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/tennis/2022/09/06/us-open-tiafoe-alcaraz-hog-limelight-sabalenka-to-meet-pliskova-in-quarterfinals.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Prince William County transportation planners are moving forward with their plan for a new “bowtie intersection” at Clover Hill Road and Prince William Parkway, entering into a $1.9 million agreement with the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority to cover design.
The county estimates that the final price tag for the interchange will ultimately be close to $23 million, which it recently asked for from the Commonwealth Transportation Board’s SMART Scale funding application. Right now, the funding to complete the project isn’t secured, but the county will be kicking off the interchange’s design phase in the next few months. That process will start with selecting an engineer for the design process, include several rounds of public comment and likely last about 18-24 months, County Planning Manager Paolo Belita told InsideNoVa.
By the end of design, the county hopes to have the money for construction secured, though it won’t need much for right-of-way, as the plan calls for much of the new intersection to be within the existing right-of-way. When all is said and done, the current intersection will be turned into a bowtie, in which left turns won’t be permitted at the main intersection and vehicles have to turn right to continue straight and “use downstream roundabouts to complete left turn movements,” according to a county staff report.
“Removing left turns from the main intersection will allow the intersection to operate under a two phase signal control, which increases green time on Prince William Parkway,” the report reads. “The roundabouts will be designed to accommodate large trucks and will be spaces to provide appropriate storage for queuing.”
Additionally, the project will include a 10-foot-wide shared use path along Clover Hill Road.
Belita said the intersection expansion will tie in with other projects along Route 234 like changes at the intersections of Brentsville Road, University Boulevard and Balls Ford Road. Officials broke ground on changes at the Brentsville Road interchange, another project with NVTA funding, earlier this year. The $55 million interchange there will eventually remove the two back-to-back-traffic lights and is expected to be completed in 2024.
“Route 234 is a corridor of statewide significance … We have a lot of other projects along the corridor, so this complements other projects we have there,” Belita said. “This is one of the last major intersections along the corridor that we’ll need improvements for.” | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/bowtie-intersection-planned-for-busy-manassas-corridor/article_6e69d486-2db5-11ed-bf79-fb678c107b39.html | 2022-09-06T11:43:29Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/bowtie-intersection-planned-for-busy-manassas-corridor/article_6e69d486-2db5-11ed-bf79-fb678c107b39.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Top news and notes from around Northern Virginia and beyond.
5. Bowtie intersection
Prince William County transportation planners are moving forward with their plan for a new “bowtie intersection” at Clover Hill Road and Prince William Parkway.
4. Shooting turns deadly
One of two men wounded in what police called an exchange of gunfire with detectives in Dale City last week died Sunday at an area hospital.
3. Flood watch
A flood watch is in effect for parts of Northern Virginia through 2 p.m. Click here for a detailed forecast by ZIP code.
2. A big birthday
The Warrenton Volunteer Fire Company recently hosted a surprise 100th birthday celebration for lifetime member and longtime chaplain, Rev. John R. Winter, the first person in the station's history to live to 100 years.
1. Lieutenant governor appearance
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears will be the guest speaker at the NOVA Veterans Association's fourth annual partner and sponsor appreciation awards event Sept. 11 in Leesburg.
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The Langley Saxons hung with the Fairfax Lions through the first quarter, trailing just 7-0 at period’s end.
But by the end of the Sept. 2 non-district high-school football game, the host Saxons (1-1, 1-0) lost, 38-7 as Fairfax improved to 2-0, scoring 52 points in its first game.
Fairfax gained 446 total yards, including 257 rushing, and led 17-0 at halftime 24-0 before Langley scored its only touchdown in the third quarter.
The score came on a 44-yard pass from Brendan Mansinne to Dustin Mosleh, then his twin brother Daren Mosleh booted the extra point.
Mansinne had a second straight productive game passing, completing 23 of 33 passes for 240 yards and the one touchdown with an interception. Dustin Mosleh had eight catches for 148 yards. Dustin Mosleh also had eight catches for 47 yards. Connor Campbell and Chur-Yong Mun each caught three passes.
Langley’s leading rusher in the game was Daren Mosleh with only six yards. Langley had minus 32 yards rushing.
Fairfax also connected on some big passes in the game, scoring on passes covering 74 and 59 yards. | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/langley-outrun-by-fairfax-in-football-action/article_eae33222-2d75-11ed-91d4-dff29650ab17.html | 2022-09-06T11:43:41Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/langley-outrun-by-fairfax-in-football-action/article_eae33222-2d75-11ed-91d4-dff29650ab17.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Facing a solid opponent but having their starting runningback and quarterback suffer game-ending first-half injuries proved too much for the Bishop O’Connell Knights to overcome in the high-school football team’s Sept. 3 season opener.
O’Connell lost to the visiting St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes Saints, 14-7, in non-conference action in Arlington.
Knights’ starting runningback Zach Harrison (24 yards rushing) took a hard hit and left late in the first quarter. With 4:18 remaining in the first half, O’Connell quarterback Ben Cogar injured his left leg and was gone for the remainder, as well.
“I thought our offense was better than that, but obviously it hurt to lose those two starters like that on offense,” O’Connell coach Ken Lucas said.
The game was scoreless at halftime. Then the Saints took a 14-0 second-half lead on touchdown passes of 21 and 26 yards and two extra points.
O’Connell’s touchdown came with five seconds remaining in the game when third-string quarterback Jonathan Nguyen threw a deflected six-yard scoring pass to Cameron Lee and Tyler Fontenot booted the extra point.
Nguyen completed 5 of 8 passes for 60 yards on the 65-yard, nine-play drive.
Colin Harris caught a couple of passes on that drive with Josiah Rose and Aidan Joseph snaring one each.
“He made some plays on that drive,” Lucas said of Nguyen.
Harris had three catches for 33 yards in the game and Joseph three for 24. Nate Harrison had 16 yards rushing. Zach Harrison had one catch.
O’Connell had a scoring threat in the first half end when Fontenot’s 46-yard field goal attempt was easily long enough but barely missed wide left. He had two punts covering 52 and 50 yards.
The Knights’ defense was led by Kellen McConnell with eight tackles, Jai Thompson with seven and Colin Richardson, Nate Harrison and Samson Ogunade with four each. Ogunade had two tackles for losses, Thompson had two sacks and McConnell one. Aiden Munroe had two interceptions, Zach Harrison had one, Rose and Franke Johnson broke up passes, and Lee recovered a fumble.
O’Connell held St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes to 58 yards rushing and 56 passing.
“Our defense played well, but we had a couple of breakdowns on those touchdowns,” Lucas said.
O’Connell hosts Mount Zion Prep Academy on Sept. 10 at noon in its second game. | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/oconnell-loses-football-opener/article_2ce97a28-2d76-11ed-837d-0f6c436da833.html | 2022-09-06T11:43:48Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/oconnell-loses-football-opener/article_2ce97a28-2d76-11ed-837d-0f6c436da833.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Balmoral Castle: Where is it, how to get there, and can you visit it? Liz Truss visits the Queen at Balmoral
For the first time in her reign the Queen will appoint the new UK prime minister in her Scottish castle rather than at Buckingham Palace.
Liz Truss will make a 400-mile trip from Westminster today as she heads up to bonnie Scotland to meet the Queen at her private estate; Balmoral Castle.
The new Tory leader will be asked to form a government and become the UK’s prime minister.
Due to the 96-year-old monarch’s mobility issues this historic duty has been reorganised to be held in Aberdeenshire, rather than Buckingham Palace, for the first time ever.
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The Queen’s audience, known as ‘kissing hands’, is a key role that as the head of state she has undertaken with 15 new faces now including Liz Truss during her 70-year reign.
Where is Balmoral Castle?
Roughly 50 miles west of Aberdeen, located in the Aberdeenshire council area, is the Balmoral estate.
It is situated within the famous Cairngorms National Park on the banks of the River Dee.
The royal family has owned the property since 1852 when Prince Albert originally bought it as a gift for Queen Victoria who mourned in its walls following the years after her husband’s passing.
Queen Elizabeth II usually spends her summer months at the grounds and in the past prime ministers have been invited to stay with her during this time.
How to get to Balmoral?
The castle is not expected to be open to visitors until April of 2023.
It’s also a very rural location so the VisitScotland website recommends using your own vehicle as public transport is limited.
To access the location by car, it is located off the A93 and there is parking available at Crathie which is only a short distance away.
By bus, services operated by Stagecoach Bluebird run from Aberdeen to Braemer, and there is a Balmoral stop at Crathie.
For visitors coming from afar Aberdeen has both an airport and railway station, from here you can connect to other services.
Are you allowed to visit Balmoral Castle?
The castle is, typically, open to public visitors between April and July each year.
Guests can enjoy the grounds, exhibitions, and shop at the gift shop or cafe between 10am to 5pm.
In 2022, the admission prices were as follows: free for anyone under 5, £6 for anyone between 5 and 16, and £15 for everyone else.
For those interested in a more immersive experience, the ‘Balmoral Expedition’ was offered this year which - for £300 - saw guests given hours-long tours of the estate via Land Rover.
When will Liz Truss meet the Queen at Balmoral?
Firstly, Boris Johnson will arrive at Balmoral at 11.20am so he can meet the Queen and formally tender his resignation.
Then, Liz Truss is expected to arrive at the Balmoral estate at 12.10pm today where she will be appointed as the UK’s next prime minister by the Queen.
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said on Monday that the new PM is then expected to leave Balmoral around 12.40pm in preparation to give her first speech at Downing Street at 4pm today.
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Health Secretary Humza Yousaf under fire as NHS waiting list continues to grow
More than 70,000 Scots have been waiting more than a year for NHS treatment or for an outpatient appointment at hospital, new figures have revealed.
It comes as the number of Scots on NHS waiting lists – either for treatment, a hospital appointment or diagnostic testing – reached almost 750,000.
Official figures from Public Health Scotland (PHS) showed at the end of June this year there were 139,584 people who were waiting to be admitted to hospital for treatment – with 451,020 on the list for an outpatient appointment.
Separate figures published by PHS last week showed there were 157,289 waiting for key diagnostic tests – taking the total to 747,893.
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Of those waiting for hospital treatment, the data showed 35,359 have been on the list for more than 52 weeks – with the total waiting this long up from 30,992 at the end of March 2022.
Patients are waiting more than a year despite the Scottish Government having introduced a legally binding treatment time guarantee – which states eligible patients must start receiving treatment within 12 weeks from that treatment being agreed.
Meanwhile, the figures also showed at as of June 30 2022, 36,282 people had been waiting a year or more for an outpatient appointment – with this total having increased from 29,240 three months before.
The number of people waiting to be admitted to hospital for treatment is now 81.2% than the quarterly average recorded in 2019 – before the Covid pandemic struck.
PHS explained the rise, stating: “This growth reflects that, although both the number of referrals for treatment and the number of admissions have yet to return fully to pre-pandemic levels, the number of referrals each month has often exceeded the number of patients being removed from lists, either because they were admitted for treatment or removed for other reasons.”
Regarding the increase in people waiting for outpatient appointments, the Public Health Scotland report stated that the rise in the list is “due to more patients being added to the list and fewer patients being removed”.
It noted: “The waiting list at the latest quarter end is 46.4% higher than the average at the end of quarters in 2019 (308,169).”
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said the number of people on waiting lists was now “eye-wateringly high”, adding that “the equivalent of almost one in seven Scots are now waiting for treatment”.
He insisted Health Secretary Humza Yousaf should “rip up his NHS Recovery Plan and start again”, adding the current arrangement “is clearly not working, and staff and patients deserve better”.
The Tories also demanded action, with health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane stating: “Nothing better demonstrates the inadequacy of Humza Yousaf’s flimsy Covid Recovery Plan than these alarming stats.
“They reveal that the SNP Health Secretary is destined to fall short in his target to eliminate two-year waiting times.
“It’s unacceptable that any patient should have to wait that long for treatment – and the NHS in England has already managed to all but eradicate waits in excess of 24 months now that the pandemic is behind us.
“Yet, here in Scotland, the SNP’s mismanagement of our NHS and dire workforce planning means that they won’t be able to guarantee the same for all Scottish patients, despite having promised they would. It’s simply not good enough.”
Labour health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie meanwhile claimed Mr Yousaf was “missing in action” after having “plunged almost every aspect of our NHS into chaos just before winter starts to bite”.
Ms Baillie said: “Make no mistake, this incompetent Health Secretary’s failure to support our NHS and those who work in it will lead to lives being lost this winter.”
Mr Yousaf said the pausing of non-urgent NHS activity during the Covid pandemic had “inevitably led to a build-up of numbers waiting for treatment” adding that “services continue to experience significant pressure as a result of this”.
Speaking about the latest waiting time figures, the Health Secretary stated: “These statistics show that those patients with the greatest needs were treated quickest.
“However, this has led to a growing number of less clinically urgent patients waiting longer for treatment as a result of the pandemic.”
He continued: “We recognise the impact long waiting times can have and this is why we announced ambitious waiting times targets in early July to address the backlog of planned care and are working hard with NHS boards to maximise capacity in order to meet these.
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LiveLIVE: Liz Truss to become Prime Minister as Boris Johnson no longer PM | Truss will meet Queen at Balmoral to accept appointment | Nicola Sturgeon to announce Scotland's Programme for Government
Follow live here as Liz Truss is to officially become Prime Minister as Boris Johnson steps down and Nicola Sturgeon gets ready to announce a Programme for Government during the cost of living crisis.
Boris Johnson pledged his “fervent support” for successor Liz Truss as she prepared to take over as prime minister and deliver a plan to address the energy crisis.
Ms Truss, who will travel to Balmoral to accept the role of prime minister from the Queen later on Tuesday, is thought to be drawing up plans for a freeze in bills which could cost around £100 billion.
As all this is going on with the PM appointment, Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon will set out the programme for government for the coming year at Holyrood later this afternoon.
To stay up to date with all the latest on these issues, follow along here on The Scotsman’s live blog.
LIVE: Liz Truss to become Prime Minister as Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street | Truss to travel to Balmoral to visit Queen
Last updated: Tuesday, 06 September, 2022, 12:10
Key Events
- Boris Johnson no longer PM as Buckingham palace confirms Queen accepts his resignation
- Liz Truss to be appointed as PM by Queen at Balmoral
- Nicola Sturgeon will announce Programme for Government this afternoon at Holyrood
The Scotsman Bulletin today focuses on the Liz Truss PM appointment
Deputy editor Alan Young and Westminster correspondent Alexander Brown dissect all the latest with the change in prime minister.
Timings for PM appointment and Scottish Government programme for government
As thundery showers are expected to loom over Aberdeenshire, here are the main events as we expect them to happen (depending on whether the weather allows them to go ahead...):
11.20am: Johnson meets the Queen at Balmoral Castle where he will offer his resignation as prime minister.
12.10pm : Liz Truss will then meet the monarch as the Queen will ask her to form a government. Truss will be appointed through a ceremony called “kissing hands” (no hand kissing is actually involved).
1pm : Truss will then return to London after her formal appointment.
2.20-2.50pm: Meanwhile in Holyrood, the First Minister will give a statement on the Programme for Government with a debate to follow and to last until 5pm. The programme is expected to focus on measures to tackle the cost of living crisis.
4pm: At around 4pm, the new PM will speak, having made her way back to Westminster.
Boris Johnson no longer UK PM
Boris Johnson has left Balmoral after being formally dismissed from his role as PM by the Queen.
Buckingham Palace has confirmed the Queen has accepted his resignation.
This means Johnson is no longer the UK Prime Minister.
‘Liz Truss has no mandate in Scotland’, according to SNP
SNP MSP Kenneth Gibson said both Liz Truss and Boris Johnson have no mandate in Scotland. His comment comes as Truss won slightly less than 50% support of Tory members to claim the PM appoinment.
Gibson said: “Liz Truss has no mandate to govern in Scotland.
“She visits Scotland today to be installed as UK Prime Minister – but Scotland hasn’t voted Tory for almost 70 years yet is repeatedly left to thole their ‘leadership’ and have our voice ignored at every turn.
“The ridiculous charade of the handover from Johnson to Truss comes as the Tories continue to show their utter contempt for democracy by trying to block the people of Scotland having a say on their future.
“And the suggestion that Liz Truss would now consider trying to gerrymander a referendum by rigging the rules in a way that would make even Donald Trump blush only further exposes that contempt.
“The arrival of Liz Truss as PM shows that it is more vital than ever that Scots have the choice of a better future as an independent country.”
SNP's Ian Blackford calls for snap election as new PM appointed
A general election should be held sooner rather than later after Liz Truss enters Downing Street, according to SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford.
Prime Minister Liz Truss: SNP's Ian Blackford calls for snap election as new PM appointed
A general election should be held sooner rather than later after Liz Truss enters Downing Street, according to SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford.
Where is everyone?
Boris Johnson has just arrived at Balmoral to see the Queen as Liz Truss touched down at Aberdeen International Airport just after 11am.
Nicola Sturgeon expected to announce rent freeze for tenants in Programme for Government
Nicola Sturgeon is expected to announce a freeze to rents for tenants to help with the cost of living crisis in her Programme for Government this afternoon.
Nicola Sturgeon 'expected to announce rent freeze' to help with cost of living
Nicola Sturgeon is expected to announce a rent freeze for tenants as she sets out her legislative programme today.
The Scotsman Westminster correspondent Alexander Brown asseses Liz Truss victory as new PM
Liz Truss is to be the next UK prime minister after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest to replace Boris Johnson.
Boris Johnson speech: Who was Cincinnatus and why did the outgoing PM compare himself to him?
Boris Johnson promised “the most fervent support” to his successor Liz Truss as he compared himself to Cincinnatus in his final speech as prime minister.
Who is Cincinnatus? Did Boris Johnson hint at a return with reference to Roman dictator?
Boris Johnson promised “the most fervent support” to his successor Liz Truss as he compared himself to Cincinnatus in his final speech as prime minister.
Boris Johnson touches down in Aberdeen
The outgoing PM has landed in Aberdeen International Airport as he gets ready to meet with the Queen at Balmoral.
The Dassault Falcon 900LX left RAF Northolt at 8.30am and landed at Aberdeen at 9.30am.
The meeting between the Queen and PM will take place just after 11am with Liz Truss expected to make her way soon.
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War in Ukraine: Chimp is talked into returning home by keepers after escaping Kharkiv Zoo
A chimpanzee from a Ukrainian zoo that was attacked by Russian troops in the early days of the war escaped and wandered around the city streets before being tempted home by keepers offering a warm jacket and a hug.
The chimp, known as ChiChi, refused to be caught until it started raining, at which point he walked over to his keeper and was helped to put on a raincoat.
ChiChi was one of many animals evacuated from the Feldman Eco Park on the outskirts of Kharkiv at the start of the war. The chimp is now cared for at Kharkiv Zoo, but has reportedly made a number of attempts to escape.
The keeper is seen on video footage taken on Monday afternoon sitting down next to the chimp in a quiet city square and chatting to him, before offering him a yellow raincoat. The chimp then hugs the keeper and is persuaded to follow her to safety. It was reported the animal was taken back to the zoo on a bicycle.
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Kharkiv Zoo director Oleksiy Grigoriev confirmed to local media channel Suspilny the animal had been safely returned to the zoo after the escape.
Russian troops almost completely destroyed the Feldman Ecopark, located to the north-east of Kharkiv, in Derhachiv district, in the early days of the war.
During shelling, three facility employees, who stayed in Kharkiv to feed the animals, were killed. A 15-year-old boy who was volunteering along with his parents to help evacuate some of the animals also died due to Russian shelling.
In April, the eco park warned if it could not find new homes for its animals, it may have to put them down, due to fears that Russian shelling could allow them to escape and roam urban areas nearby. Multiple reports suggest many animals at the zoo, including two orangutans and a chimpanzee, were also killed in Russian shelling attacks earlier this year. About 6,000 animals were evacuated from the park in total.
The eco park was founded by Ukrainian politician Oleksander Feldman as part of his charitable foundation and combined animal care and therapy for children with special needs before the war.
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Kenny Logan: Former Scotland winger reveals prostate cancer diagnosis
Former Scotland winger Kenny Logan has revealed he has been treated for prostate cancer.
The 50-year-old admitted the diagnosis had come out of the blue and he had surgery earlier this year.
Speaking to BBC Breakfast, he said: “I got a wellness check and sat down with the guy. He said to me: ‘everything’s fine, your hormones are fine but your prostate is high’.
“I got checked and very quickly, within three or four months, I had biopsies. There was something there but we’d just keep an eye on it.
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“This year, February 7, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer which was a huge shock. I ended up deciding to take it out so I’m three months since the operation, had the prostate out and I’m probably 95 per cent back to normal.
“It was hard because when you’re told you’ve got cancer… I didn’t see it coming. No symptoms whatsoever.”
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When the summer began, it felt as if we’d all be humming Green Day’s “Wake Me Up When September Ends” through the final month of baseball’s regular season.
The MLB postseason in October, and likely first-round byes under the new 12-team playoff format, seemed like a lock for much of the first half for the Yankees and the Mets as they built double-digit division leads.
Now that Labor Day — and with it, unofficially, summer — is behind us, sudden divisional pennant races for both first-place local clubs only will add to an already busy September viewing schedule amid the New York sports landscape.
Here are some key dates to mark down for the remainder of the month, including the most important series for the Yankees and the Mets.
MLB
Sept. 9-11: The Yankees staved off what would have been a crippling sweep in St. Pete with Sunday’s victory over the charging Rays, and they perhaps took another step toward righting their sinking season with another victory over their personal patsies, the Twins, on Monday at the Stadium behind Aaron Judge’s 54th home run and the second of the year by Isiah Kiner-Falefa. The Rays will be in The Bronx this weekend, interestingly on nearly the same dates that the Yankees pulled off the so-called “Boston Massacre” (Sept. 7-10) with a four-game sweep of the Red Sox by a 42-9 aggregate to tie for the AL East lead in 1978 after trailing by as many as 14 games that July. The Yankees’ win Sunday likely took that scenario out of play for this coming weekend, however, as the Rays are now five games back — instead of three — after their 4-3 win at home Monday against Boston.
Sept. 30-Oct. 2: The Mets’ division lead over the Braves has been slashed from 10.5 games on June 1 to one game after Monday’s washout in Pittsburgh (the Braves were traveling to the West Coast and open a two-game set Tuesday in Oakland). Buck Showalter’s club needs to take advantage of a favorable closing schedule, at least better than they fared in dropping two of three to a decimated Nationals team over the weekend. That series began a stretch in which they’ll play 24 of their final 30 games against teams with a combined .388 winning percentage. The key remaining series, if neither team separates itself from the other in the interim, will come in the penultimate three-game set of the regular season at Truist Park. At stake is the right to be the No. 2 seed behind the runaway Dodgers in the National League and the all-important bye in the first round of the playoffs.
NFL
Sept. 8-11: The NFL season kicks off Thursday night when the defending champion Rams meet the loaded Bills. Fantasy football has never been my bag, but, obviously, along with legalized betting, these are the primary reasons that many fans tune in to games. So have at it. I’m more interested to get first looks Sunday at the Giants and the Jets, in what will be all-important seasons for their respective could-be franchise quarterbacks: Daniel Jones and Zach Wilson. Wilson might not start Sunday against the Ravens due to his preseason knee injury, but Jones — unsigned beyond this year after the Giants declined his fifth-year option following another injury-shortened season — is back on the clock Sunday against the Titans, playing for a third different head coach (Brian Daboll) already in his career. It’s been a rough decade for the Giants, missing the playoffs nine years out of 10 since their second house-money Super Bowl victory in five years over the Patriots following the 2011 season. The Jets’ futility extends even longer, most recently with zero postseason appearances in 11 years since back-to-back trips to the AFC title game in the 2009-10 seasons.
Tennis
Sept. 9-11: Now that Serena Williams has been sent off into expected retirement and No. 1 men’s seed Daniil Medvedev has been ousted by bad boy Nick Kyrgios, the second week at the U.S. Open still promises some intriguing storylines through the finals on Saturday (women) and Sunday (men). A pair of American women, No. 8 Jessica Pegula and No. 12 Coco Gauff, advanced to the quarterfinals along with No. 1 seed Iga Swiatek and Williams eliminator Alja Tomljanovic. Still, the match I have circled would be a potential semifinals clash Friday between improving American Frances Tiafoe, who ousted Rafael Nadal with an impressive four-set win Monday, and rising 19-year-old Carlos Alcaraz (who survived in five sets Monday night against veteran Marin Cilic).
NBA
Sept. 26-27: The Knicks and the Nets open camp in three weeks after headlines all summer about blockbuster trades for both teams ultimately produced little movement. The initial media availability for the Nets, especially, should be popcorn-worthy, marking the first time stars Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving will take questions since both agreed to return to Brooklyn. Knicks questions will be more directed at team president Leon Rose, if he makes himself available, following the failure to land offseason target Donovan Mitchell, who was dealt last week to the Cavaliers.
NHL
Sept. 21: Local puck camps also open this month, likely with less fanfare than their NBA counterparts. But both of New York’s NHL teams are beginning a crossroads campaign, albeit for different reasons. The Rangers advanced to the Eastern Conference Final last spring under Gerard Gallant before losing to the Lightning, and they return largely the same cast aside from an upgrade at 2C (Vincent Trocheck from Ryan Strome) and new backup goalie Jaroslav Halak. The Islanders had made it that far in each of the previous two years before missing the playoffs altogether in 2021-22, and Hall of Fame GM Lou Lamoriello drew warranted criticism after his only significant personnel move this summer was to fire two-time Coach of the Year Barry Trotz and replace him with rookie head coach Lane Lambert.
WNBA
Sept. 8: The Seattle Storm face elimination in the best-of-5 WNBA semis, down 2-1 to head coach Becky Hammon’s Las Vegas Aces. That means that Tuesday’s game could be the final one in the decorated career of local legend Sue Bird — out of Long Island, Christ The King HS and UConn. The 41-year-old Bird is seeking her fifth WNBA title to go along with five Olympic gold medals representing Team USA. The Chicago Sky, the defending league champions, lead the Connecticut Sun, 2-1, in the other semifinal series.
Soccer
Sept. 10: The EPL already has been in full swing for a few weeks, and the early-season developments include quick starts by usual also-ran sides such as Leeds, Brighton and Brentford to land in the top half of the league table. One interesting early clash comes this Saturday between Tottenham and defending champion Manchester City after each team picked up four wins and two draws in its first six matches. On the MLS side, the Red Bulls and NYCFC — currently in third and fourth place in the Eastern Conference — will square off in the latest Hudson Derby on Sept. 17.
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Judge for yourself
Shohei Ohtani is the most remarkable baseball player of my lifetime, and he’s having another eye-popping season statistically for the eliminated Angels. But Aaron Judge has been the AL MVP this season, and it should be unanimous.
Judge’s 54th home run of the season Monday also marked his sixth in his last 13 games, at a time when the rest of the fading Yankees’ offense has become completely undermanned and overmatched. The pending free agent clearly isn’t wilting amid the chase of Roger Maris’ longstanding AL record of 61 nor within his season-long bet on himself financially, and those traits have to count for something in this voting process.
Yes, it would take an otherworldly season to beat out Ohtani, who’s notched 30 home runs and an .880 OPS at the plate plus a 2.58 ERA with 181 strikeouts over 136 innings from the mound. Judge most certainly is accomplishing that, and deserves to win his first career MVP award.
We love to hate them
Few current athletes seem to thrive on playing and embracing the villain role as well as Kyrgios, the 27-year-old Aussie still seeking his first career Grand Slam title after falling to Novak Djokovic in the finals at Wimbledon earlier this summer.
Where would you rank Kyrgios — who will face Karen Khachanov in Tuesday’s quarterfinals — on a list of current athletes or sports figures we love to hate? Here are a few suggestions, or feel free to add your own in the comments section below.
Jose Altuve, Astros second baseman
Deshaun Watson, Browns quarterback
Dan Snyder, Commanders owner
Greg Norman, LIV golf
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MEDINA — A man whose son has Lama 2 congenital muscular dystrophy stopped overnight here during his 200-mile bike ride from Syracuse to Tonawanda to raise awareness of the disease.
Anthony Parisi works at Ingram Micro in Williamsville with Shelby resident Wendi Pencille, and when Pencille learned about his bike ride, she arranged to meet up with him in Medina.
Parisi made the journey in honor of his 4-year-old son James, who was diagnosed with Lama 2 congenital muscular dystrophy when he was 5 months old.
“It took a month for my wife Molly and I to get out of shock, and then we made a decision we would do everything we could to make James happy, healthy and strong and to create a community that loves him,” Parisi said.
“When James wants to do something, his father finds a way for him to do it,” Pencille said. “That’s how it was when James wanted to fly a kite.”
The Parisis took their family, which now includes 3-year-old twins Caroline and Lucy, to Olcott, where they found a big field for James to fly his spaceship kite. Dad recorded the scene, with the girls running behind and James crying, “I’m doing it,” as the kite became airborne.
“The family is incredible,” Pencille said. “They have turned their hardship into a quest for all children like James. James was a state spokesperson for MD. Two years ago, his family raised $26,000 for MD.”
Parisi got the idea to ride his bike from Syracuse to Tonawanda, his hometown, because he used to enjoy biking.
“In my 20s I didn’t have a car and used to ride 50 or so miles a day twice a week,” he said. “You get to see the world from a different perspective on a bike.”
Mrs. Parisi dropped her husband off in Syracuse on Sept. 1 and he rode to Savannah the first night. He spent the night in Rochester on Sept. 2 and arrived in Medina shortly before 1 p.m. Sept. 3. He stayed in a donated room at Bent’s Opera House, and had dinner with his wife, who drove in, at Harvest Restaurant.
The bike ride is something Parisi said he has always wanted to do.
“I’m an explorer by heart and I enjoy being by myself,” he said. “And I hope to raise some awareness along the way.”
Supporters have been donating online to a not-for-profit in California called Cure CMD, a global leader in science and research for muscular dystrophy.
“Realistically, James can’t experience things like other kids can, but we want to make them the best experiences we can,” Parisi said.
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Bidder up!
Looking to make a connection with some of the most memorable players in New York sports history? From shoes designed for the US Open-dominating Serena Williams to a baseball signed by not only Babe Ruth but Jackie Robinson, too, a jaw-dropping selection of sports equipment and apparel — each with an opening bid that makes season-ticket prices look like chump change — will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s starting Tuesday.
The auction is Part II of Sotheby’s “Invictus” event, the first of which, running simultaneously, is dedicated solely to selling off Michael Jordan’s jersey from Game 1 of the 1998 NBA Finals — his last-ever season with the Chicago Bulls. (Estimated winning bid? Between $3 million and $5 million.)
The highly anticipated event is Sotheby’s largest-ever auction of sports memorabilia, and it’s notably New York-centric.
“We tried to pick a lot of things that spoke to really specific moments in time that we felt collectors would be interested in,” Brahm Wachter, head of the Sotheby’s department of “streetwear and modern collectables,” told The Post, adding that sports memorabilia is an “exciting new category” for the auction house.
Here’s a look at 10 of the items that are sure to make a sports die-hard’s dreams come true — a deep-pocketed one, anyway.
Auction items will be on public display September 6 to 14 at Sotheby’s, 1334 York Ave., during regular business hours.
Gretzky’s big stick
The Great One spent relatively little time as a New York Ranger, but his stint as a blueshirt in the late 1990s made for a memorable final career stop for Wayne Gretzky. The hockey stick from his final NHL appearance — a 2-1 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins at Madison Square Garden on April 18, 1999 — will score once more at the upcoming auction.
“It’s such a nostalgic piece — Wayne Gretzky in Madison Square Garden, in front of a sold-out crowd, doing his last performance,” Wachter said, noting that No. 99 originally gave the stick, and the rest of his equipment, to teammates after the four-time Stanley Cup winner’s final skate.
Estimated winning bid: $125,000-$150,000
Jeter’s Jordans
Even after the Captain decided to hang up his hat at the end of 2014, Derek Jeter’ was still making sports history — this time with Air Jordan in 2017, when the former Bronx Bomber was honored with a Yankee-motif blue-and-white sneaker featuring his No. 2 on the heel. The move sent fans wild.
“This was a super limited release by the Jordan brand,” said Wachter. “Generally speaking, [this is] one of the most coveted Air Jordan models by collectors — an incredibly small amount of them are out there.”
Five pairs, to be exact, and they were distributed exclusively via lottery at a pop-up near Yankee Stadium, according to Sotheby’s.
Estimated winning bid: $30,000-$50,000
Babe’s (and Jackie’s) ball
The story behind the highly prized baseball signed by New York Yankee Babe Ruth and Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson goes back to the fall of 1947 at a Dodgers-Reds matchup in Cincinnati. A local kid in attendance brought along a fountain pen and one of his most valuable possessions — a ball already inscribed with the Great Bambino’s John Hancock, with room for more than a few additional signatures.
“To get ahead of the crowd, we left the game before it was over in the ninth inning and went underneath the stadium where the players would come off the field once the game was over,” the anonymous seller told Sotheby’s. “Jackie Robinson, being the first black player in Major League Baseball, was under constant threat, and left the field the minute the game was over. Thus he was the first to sign the baseball for me.”
Brooklyn took the game 7-3, according to Baseball Reference.
Estimated winning bid: $15,000-$20,000
Serena’s sneaks
Just after the soon-to-retire tennis legend played her final US Open, a signed pair of Serena Williams’ sneakers, designed by fashion icon Virgil Abloh, will be up for bid.
Abloh designed the “Queen” collection for Nike in celebration of the standout athlete and the 50th anniversary of the Open back in 2018.
“We didn’t know the US Open would be her last appearance when we got these,” Wachter noted. “I think they’ll be one of the hottest items in the auction.”
Estimated winning bid: $5,000-$10,000
Nadal’s kicks
Rafael Nadal’s Nike Air “Zoom Cage 3” sneakers — in black and purple and which he wore during the 2019 US Open’s quarterfinals against Diego Schwartzman — offer a glimpse of the tennis legend’s personality.
“A little detail that I love is on the left sneaker,” Wachter said. “There’s actually little marks here for 10, 13 and 17, for the [years of] the US Open championships he had won.”
After his quarterfinal win, the King of Clay conquered at Flushing Meadows one more time that year, adding to his total 22 Grand Slam titles.
Estimated winning bid: $20,000-$30,000
Kobe’s jersey
The Los Angeles Lakers jersey worn by the late Black Mamba on his final ever opening day — a 112-111 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves — is expected to fetch big bucks later this week. On that fateful October day in 2015, Bryant put up 24 points, 4 rebounds and 2 steals in his 29 minutes played.
“This is actually photo-matched to two games,” Wachter said, explaining that Bryant wore the jersey a few weeks later against the Denver Nuggets.
“Just the legacy that he has in the NBA and how missed he is as an athlete — it’s really just an honor to have this piece,” Wachter said.
Estimated winning bid: $120,000-$140,000
Ali’s kufi
Call it “The Greatest” item in the auction. The iconic velvet headgear Muhammad Ali sported ahead of his historic Thrilla In Manila fight against Joe Frazier in 1975 is also up for grabs. Ali wore the kufi as he paraded through the capital city of the Philippines and prayed at a local mosque prior to the Frazier bout. Ali won the brutal slugfest in 14 rounds — it’s considered to be boxing’s most memorable match.
“I think both fighters, by the end of that fight, were really barely standing. And this is an incredible relic from that time period and from that fight,” Wachter said.
Estimated winning bid: $100,000-$200,000
Steve’s shoes
University of Oregon track star Steve Prefontaine was called the “soul of Nike” by none other than founder Phil Knight — and the shoes worn by the 1970s running legend aren’t far behind. The special-made Nike “Oregon Waffle” sneakers — decked out in the school’s green and yellow — offer a poignant connection to their late owner, who died tragically in a car crash at 24.
“No other sneakers from Steve Prefontaine have ever appeared at market,” Wachter said. “So from a rarity perspective and the perspective of something that’s really important to the history of Nike, this is really as good as it gets.”
Estimated winning bid: $150,000-$250,000
LeBron’s Zooms
King James is finally bringing his talents to the Big Apple — sort of. Sotheby’s is auctioning off LeBron’s signed Nike “Zoom LeBron 3” sneaks, worn when he was a Cleveland Cavalier in the 2005-2006 season. They are an item that speaks to the four-time NBA champ’s grit, according to Wachter.
“He registered 34 points with these shoes, plus eight assists and three rebounds,” said Wachter.
The shoes are also inadvertently connected to another NBA relic — the now-defunct Seattle Supersonics, who faced LeBron and the Cavs for a December 2005 game. Apparently, they weren’t lucky shoes — the Sonics won, 115-108.
Estimated winning bid: $40,000-$60,000
A-Rod’s lid
Start spreadin’ the news — Alex Rodriguez’s hat from the Yanks 2009 World Series win over the Philadelphia Phillies is up for grabs.
“I think this is exceptional, because A-Rod only won one World Series,” Wachter said. “Championship-clinching items have a particular level of rarity. So this is really something that exists at the highest level of collectability for this particular athlete.”
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The Kenan Center’s last Music in the Gardens concert of the season is a tribute to the late musician Sara Rogers.
Jazz musician Alex McArthur and vocalist Cortney Chyme, who comprised the band GirlCrush+ with Rogers, will play in her honor from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday. The duo will be joined by Matt’s Music Youth Vocal Performance team for a portion of the concert.
“To honor Sara’s connection to younger voices and supporting them we want to do a portion of the night being Alex McArthur and Cortney Chyme and a portion of the night showcasing the future,” Chyme said.
Rogers, who died while riding her bike in June, was an intricate part of the Western New York music community, having played with dozens of bands and musicians, and influencing the lives of hundreds of youths through music therapy, according to Parrish Gibbons Herzog, assistant director of the Kenan Center.
Rogers was a staple at the Kenan Center, participating in Coffee with Kenan, Music in the Gardens for Youth, and Jazz at the Taylor. GirlCrush+ was scheduled to play the Music in the Gardens series this month.
A 50/50 during the tribute concert will benefit two organizations close to Rogers: Buffalo C.A.R.E.S and Rooted In Love.
Music in the Gardens takes place on the lawn outside Kenan House Gallery. General admission is free and concert-goers are welcome to bring chairs or blankets for seating. Picnics and non-alcoholic beverages are permitted. Money-Bag Dumplings will be on site selling food.
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Harrison Hazlett, an 8-year-old boy who battled a rare cancer, died on Tuesday, Aug. 30. In response to his family’s invitation to celebrate Hazlett’s life after the funeral, about a hundred friends and family convened upon the Black Willow Winery in Burt to talk about Hazlett and share memories Saturday night.
Hazlett was on the US&J’s radar since April of 2020. In the midst of the Covid pandemic, the Hazlett family had wonderful news to share about their son’s illness. His chemo treatments were over. The news prompted Kaili Callaghan, a longtime family friend, to start a parade that would go in front of the youngster’s home.
In the midst of the rampage of a deadly virus, Hazlett’s recovery was good news that was much appreciated by the community. Both the Barker Fire Department and Olcott Volunteer Fire Department joined in on the day of celebration by providing trucks to ride in the parade. While Hazlett did relapse later that year, the parade was a much-needed dose of good cheer, according to Bill Silvis, Hazlett’s grandfather.
And more good news followed. In January of 2021, Hazlett was able to go back to school. Everyone wore the color green, his favorite color, and he was honored over the day’s announcements. It was the first time Hazlett was able to attend school since June of 2019. He continued to attend physical therapy to get his strength back, but things looked good.
But this past March, Hazlett had a reoccurance of osteosarcoma, the rare, aggressive cancer that he had been diagnosed with since 2019. This time it was in his lungs.
The Hazletts fought hard for the months that followed and the community found ways to rally around him, including holding a bowling tournament fundraiser run by the Masons, which had been postponed since March 2020.
But despite the good will and hopes of family and friends, Hazlett left the hospital to receive hospice care at home. He was surrounded by his family until the end.
After the sun set on Saturday night, candles were passed out and lit in a vigil as singing bowls played and Hazlett’s parents, Alex and Dayna Hazlett, released a lantern into the sky. People began to step forward to remember.
“For eight short years, you were the reason to wake up,” Alex Hazlett said. “Whether it be because you wanted us to play, or because we had to convince you to take medicine.
“You brought so much joy to everyone you touched. Your inside jokes with so many different people. Your whoopie-cushion. Your green hair. Right up to the end. You were so funny, telling us you looked like Cartman from South Park and then imitating his voice. God, what I’d give to hear you crack one more joke.”
Friends of Hazlett, young and old, told stories of the funny prankster they’d come to know and love.
“During the pandemic, my son was in Harrison’s class and the boys wanted to do a Zoom call,” Jessica Malloy said. “(But) then they just sat there and stared at each other. They didn’t say anything, so me and Dayna talked. … As soon as they got off the call my son was like, ’That was pretty cool! Seeing another kid … ,’ But they didn’t say anything!”
One of his relatives, Bridge Taylor helped plan the celebration and told those gathered how it felt to be a part of Hazlett’s life.
“Harry opened up my heart in ways I didn’t know were possible,” Taylor said tearfully. “I don’t have any children and Harry was just like, ‘my sweet boy,’ as well.”
“I’m really grateful to have spent these past over-three years I spent with him,” she said. “And his family and I’m so grateful to have taken this journey with everyone. They love you guys so very much and I’m a better person today, because I’m a part of you.”
Hazlett’s obituary can be read at https://obituaries.lockportjournal.com/obituary/harrison-harry-hazlett-1086075351. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/one-last-goodbye-to-harry/article_e9a05eda-2c7b-11ed-9333-9373c8404ba5.html | 2022-09-06T11:48:37Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/one-last-goodbye-to-harry/article_e9a05eda-2c7b-11ed-9333-9373c8404ba5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Missing 83-year-old Louisville man found; Golden Alert canceled
Published: Sep. 5, 2022 at 5:56 PM EDT|Updated: 29 minutes ago
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Louisville Metro police say an 83-year-old man who was last seen on Monday afternoon has been found and is safe.
On Monday, a Golden Alert was issued for David Miller, who officials said suffers from dementia and could be confused.
Miller was located around 6:30 a.m. today. LMPD did not provided information about where he was found, but say he has been reunited with family members.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shareholder rights law firm Julie & Holleman is investigating the proposed acquisition of Convey Health Solutions Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNVY) by its principal shareholder, TPG Capital.
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Through its funds, TPG already owns approximately 75% of Convey Health's outstanding shares of common stock. Under the companies' merger agreement, announced on June 21, 2022, TPG will acquire the remaining outstanding shares of Convey Health for $10.50 per share in cash, which represents an enterprise value for the company of approximately $1.1 billion. The acquisition could close as early as September 21, 2022.
Julie & Holleman is investigating potential legal claims available to Convey Health's shareholders regarding the proposed acquisition, including claims relating to TPG's and management's conflicts of interest and the adequacy of the $10.50 per share acquisition price.
If you would like more information about Julie & Holleman's investigation, or about the acquisition in general, please contact W. Scott Holleman by email at scott@julieholleman.com or by telephone at (929) 415-1020. You may also visit the firm's website by clicking here.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has arrived at Queen Elizabeth II's estate in Scotland to formally offer his resignation to pave the way for Liz Truss to succeed him amid an acute cost-of-living crisis facing the country.
Johnson will finally leave office following a carefully choreographed audience with the monarch at Balmoral that is taking place two months after he announced his intention to step down.
Truss, who was named leader of the ruling Conservative party on Monday, will be appointed prime minister during her own meeting with the queen a short time later.
Speaking outside his Downing Street office early Tuesday before heading to Scotland, Johnson said his three-year tenure had left Britain with the economic strength to help people weather the energy crisis. He signed off with his typically colorful language.
“I am like one of those booster rockets that has fulfilled its function,’’ Johnson said. “I will now be gently re-entering the atmosphere and splashing down invisibly in some remote and obscure corner of the Pacific.’’
Johnson, 58, became prime minister three years ago after his predecessor, Theresa May, failed to deliver Britain’s departure from the European Union. Johnson later won an 80-seat majority in Parliament with the promise to “get Brexit done.”
But he was forced out of office by a series of scandals that culminated in the resignation of dozens of Cabinet secretaries and lower-level officials in early July. He alluded to that downfall in his leaving remarks, saying he was handing over the baton to Truss in “what has unexpectedly become a relay race.”
While many observers expect Johnson to attempt a political comeback, he offered Truss his backing and compared himself to Cincinnatus, the Roman dictator who relinquished power and returned to his farm to live in peace.
“Like Cincinnatus, I am returning to my plow,” he said. “And I will be offering this government nothing but the most fervent support.”
Johnson will formally step down shortly when he meets Elizabeth at Balmoral, her summer retreat in Aberdeenshire.
This is the first time in the queen’s 70-year reign that the handover of power is taking place at Balmoral, rather than at Buckingham Palace in London. The ceremony was moved to Scotland to provide certainty about the schedule because the 96-year-old queen has experienced problems getting around that have forced palace officials to make decisions about her travel on a day-to-day basis.
Truss, 47, will take office a day after the Conservative Party’s 172,000 members elected her to lead their party.
On Tuesday afternoon, she is expected to make her first speech as leader of a nation of 67 million people who are anxious about soaring energy bills and a looming winter of recession and labor unrest. Those problems have festered for the past two months, because Johnson had no authority to make major policy decisions after announcing his plan to step down. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/boris-johnson-arrives-at-queens-estate-to-offer-resignation | 2022-09-06T11:55:36Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/boris-johnson-arrives-at-queens-estate-to-offer-resignation | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Russian Ministry of Defense is in the process of purchasing millions of rockets and artillery shells from North Korea for its ongoing fight in Ukraine, according to a newly downgraded U.S. intelligence finding.
A U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the intelligence determination, said Monday that the fact Russia is turning to the isolated state of North Korea demonstrates that “the Russian military continues to suffer from severe supply shortages in Ukraine, due in part to export controls and sanctions.”
U.S. intelligence officials believe that the Russians could look to purchase additional North Korean military equipment in the future. The intelligence finding was first reported by The New York Times.
The U.S. official did not detail how much weaponry Russia intends to purchase from North Korea.
The finding comes after the Biden administration recently confirmed that the Russian military in August took delivery of Iranian-manufactured drones for use on the battlefield in Ukraine.
The White House said last week that Russia has faced technical problems with Iranian-made drones acquired from Tehran in August for use in its war with Ukraine.
Russia picked up Mohajer-6 and Shahed-series unmanned aerial vehicles over several days last month as part what the Biden administration says is likely part of a Russian plan to acquire hundreds of Iranian UAVs for use in Ukraine.
North Korea has sought to tighten relations with Russia as much of Europe and the West has pulled away, blaming the United States for the Ukraine crisis and decrying the West’s “hegemonic policy” as justifying military action by Russia in Ukraine to protect itself.
The North Koreans have hinted interest in sending construction workers to help rebuild Russian-occupied territories in the country's east.
North Korea’s ambassador to Moscow recently met with envoys from two Russia-backed separatist territories in the Donbas region of Ukraine and expressed optimism about cooperation in the “field of labor migration,” citing his country’s easing pandemic border controls.
In July, North Korea became the only nation aside from Russia and Syria to recognize the independence of the territories, Donetsk and Luhansk, further aligning with Russia over the conflict in Ukraine.
The North’s arms export to Russia would be a violation of U.N. resolutions that ban the country from exporting to or importing weapons from other countries. Its possible dispatch of laborers to the Russian-held territories in Ukraine would also breach a U.N. resolution that required all member states to repatriate all North Korean workers from their soil by 2019.
There have been suspicions that China and Russia haven’t fully enforced U.N. sanctions on North Korea, complicating a U.S.-led attempt to deprive North Korea of its nuclear weapons.
The provocative move by North Korea comes as the Biden administration has become increasingly concerned about stepped-up activity by North Korea in pursuit of nuclear weapons.
North Korea has test-fired more than 30 ballistic missiles this year, including its first flights of intercontinental ballistic missiles since 2017, as leader Kim Jong Un pushes to advance his nuclear arsenal despite U.S.-led pressure and sanctions.
The U.S. has frequently downgraded and unveiled intelligence findings over the course of the grinding war in Ukraine to highlight plans for Russian misinformation operations or to throw attention on Moscow’s difficulties in prosecuting the war. Ukraine's smaller military has put up a stiff resistance against the militarily superior Russian forces.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kim have recently exchanged letters in which they both called for “comprehensive” and “strategic and tactical” cooperation between the countries. Moscow, for its part, has issued statements condemning the revival of large-scale military exercises between the United States and South Korea this year, which North Korea views as an invasion rehearsal.
Russia, along with China, has called for the easing of U.N. sanctions imposed on North Korea over its nuclear and missile tests. Both countries are members of the U.N. Security Council, which has approved a total of 11 rounds of sanctions on the North since 2006. In May, Russia and China vetoed a U.S.-led bid to impose new economic sanctions on North Korea over its high-profile missile tests this year.
Some experts say that Kim could likely bolster his resolve to retain his nuclear weapons because he may think the Russian attack happened because Ukraine had signed away its nuclear arsenal.
Relations between Moscow and Pyongyang go back to the 1948 foundation of North Korea, as Soviet officials installed young, ambitious nationalist Kim Il Sung, the late grandfather of Kim Jong Un, as the country’s first ruler. Since then, Soviet aid shipment had been crucial in keeping North Korea’s economy afloat for decades before the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
Moscow had since established formal diplomatic relations with Seoul as part of its hopes to draw South Korean investment and allowed its Soviet-era military alliance with North Korea to expire. But after his election in 2000, Putin actively sought to restore his country’s ties with North Korea in what was seen as an effort to regain its traditional domains of influence and secure more allies to better deal with the United States. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/russia-buying-rockets-artillery-shells-from-north-korea-us-says | 2022-09-06T11:55:42Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/russia-buying-rockets-artillery-shells-from-north-korea-us-says | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Before now, it was unheard of for a woman to propose to a man. But in recent times, it is gradually becoming acceptable as we push for a gender-equal world.
However, men are naturally hunters. They like to pursue and conquer.
A woman is given honour, dignity, and commitment when she is pursued and won over. When a man asks a woman out, he indicates his interest in her.
The woman should not be the one to propose. Here are some of the reasons.
1. She may look desperate
When a woman proposes, it makes her look desperate. A woman who proposes to a man will seem desperate to him. This will make the man feel on top of the world once he gets a woman who proposed to him herself. A woman should not be seen as desperate by her man.
2. She should be pursued
Every woman is worthy of the pursuit of a man. When a woman is pursued and won over, there is honour and dignity given to her.
Allow yourself to be pursued to the end and allow your man to win your affection and claim you as his.
3. She won’t have a say in the relationship
When a woman proposes to a man, she most of the time has no say in the relationship. When a woman takes the lead on a life-changing decision like proposing to a man and doesn’t give the man an opportunity to do it, she could be setting herself up for possible indecision and lack of leadership from her man in the future.
4. She won’t be taken seriously
As mentioned earlier, when a woman proposes, she will seem desperate. There is also a tendency that the man will not take you seriously and might renounce his responsibilities, and vows the minute he thinks he is tired of you.
If you feel ready to get married, but he does not seem to be on the same page, it’s time to have a serious conversation about the future of your relationship.
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Offenses like cheating or emotional abuse are hard to forgive, so the best thing you can do Is to avoid these mistakes. For smaller offenses, forgiveness is a bit easier. To start, say you are sorry and make sure your attitude matches what you are saying. These are some ways to say sorry to someone you hurt.
1. Not waiting too long to apologise
The best way to apologize is to apologize as soon as possible. There is a huge difference between saying you are sorry an hour after the offense and a week after it. If you wait longer, the seed of hatred is likely to grow in your spouse or partner which might lead to unforgiveness because by waiting too long to apologize, your partner has a long time to think about what you said and whether they even want to forgive you.
2. Show sincerity
When you have a clash, conflict, or fight with your partner, you need to show your partner that you will not make the same mistakes again. Most times, people understand when you make a mistake once, but their understanding evaporates if you repeat it. Instead of throwing your relationship away because you can’t learn to change, you can show through your words and actions that you are honestly working to change, and your partner will see that sincerity.
3. Don’t shift the blame
Do not blame your spouse for your behavior. An adult can accept that they have played a role in the problem or made a huge mistake. Your feelings and actions are your reactions. They represent your self-control and discipline. No one makes you angry. You choose to respond in anger.
4. Reduce your expectations.
In some cases, people get furious when their apology isn’t accepted right away by their partner. You cannot control how he or she responds, so get rid of all of your expectations. If your spouse wants some space or needs to wait to forgive you, listen to them. They may even get angry when you show up to apologize.
5. Be mindful of your words
Do not say something in anger that you will want to take back later. If you call your partner a name or say something mean to them, he or she will remember it later. Never take your partner’s forgiveness for granted. They are under no obligation to forgive you if you have done something unforgivable.
6. Do not bring past arguments
If you want this apology to work, you need to stay focused on the present. Bringing up a past argument or your partner’s mistakes will only start a new argument between you two. Let the past remain in the past.
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The various challenges facing the country presently has left some of its citizens with no other option than relocating to countries with a saner atmosphere.
For those interested in relocating from Nigeria, I believe we all have a reasonable reason to want to do so. There are quite a number of good options you might want to look out for when deciding on where to move to and one of such country is Kenya.
If you also have plans on going on a vacation, countries such as Haiti, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, and Kenya are also good options you might want to consider.
Discussed in this article is all you need to know about Kenya in order to decide if it is a good choice for your relocating or vacation plan.
1. Introduction
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Eastern Africa. At 580,367 square kilometres (224,081 sq mi), Kenya is the world’s 48th largest country by area. With a population of more than 47.6 million in the 2019 census, Kenya is the 29th most populous country in the world.
Kenya’s capital and largest city are Nairobi, while its oldest, currently second largest city and first capital is the coastal city of Mombasa. Kisumu City is the third-largest city and also an inland port on Lake Victoria.
According to Wikipedia, as of 2020, Kenya is the third-largest economy in sub-Saharan Africa after Nigeria and South Africa. Kenya is bordered by South Sudan to the northwest, Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the east, Uganda to the west, Tanzania to the south, and the Indian Ocean to the southeast.
2. Population
The current population of Kenya based on worldometers elaboration of the latest United nations data is 56,330,110 as of Thursday, September 1, 2022.
3. The people
The majority of Kenyans are Bantu (among them, the Kikuyu, Kamba, Luhya). Then come the populations of Nilotic origin (Maasai, Kalenjin, Luo, Samburu, Turkana) and Cushitic (Rendille, Somali). Minorities include Indians, Europeans and Arabs, to complete the picture.
The largest ethnic group is the Kikuyu, who account for around 20.7% of the population, Luhya make up 14.3%, Luo at 12.3%, while the Maasai represent only 1.7% of the whole.
4. Religion
According to Wikipedia, the predominant religion in Kenya is Christianity, which is adhered to by an estimated 85.52 per cent of the total population. Islam is the second largest religion in Kenya, practised by 10.91 per cent of Kenyans. Other faiths practised in Kenya are Baháʼí, Buddhism, Hinduism and traditional religions.
5. Languages
Official language
According to originaltravel.co.uk, there are two official languages in Kenya: English and Swahili (Kiswahili).
Other languages
Many different languages are spoken across the country as each population has its own dialect. The most common are Kikuyu, Dholuo and Kamba. Sheng, a Swahili-based slang mixed with English is widely spoken in Nairobi.
6. Foreigners’ population
According to statista.com, as of 2020, the number of international migrants in Kenya represented two per cent of the country’s population. That year, Kenya hosted around 1.05 million international migrants.
7. National Holidays
On the following days, banks, government offices, and shops are closed in Kenya:
- January 1: New Year’s Day.
- In late March and early April: Easter.
- May 1: Labour Day.
- June 1: Madaraka Day (commemoration of autonomy).
- October 10: Moi Day.
- October 20: Kenyatta Day.
- December 12: Jamhuri Day (Independence Day).
- December 25: Christmas.
- December 26: Boxing Day
8. Visa requirements
According to kenyanevisa.com, Kenya has recently introduced an electronic visa (also known as a Kenya electronic visa), which means that travellers from more than 140 nations can take advantage of the program and apply for their visas entirely online, including those coming from Nigeria
Currently, the most popular Kenya visa for Nigerian travellers is the single-entry electronic visa.
Nigerian citizens were also eligible to apply for a visa on arrival in Kenya. However, from 2021, the government announced that all types of visas will be electronic and will have to be applied for online, including visas on arrival for Nigerian citizens.
Finally, Nigerian travellers who are passing through Kenya can take advantage of the transit visa if their layover is under 72 hours. This means that they need to apply for a simple Kenyan transit eVisa as long as the departing flight is within 72 hours of their arrival in Kenya.
9. eVisa validity
This eVisa is valid for up to a 90-day stay in the country and can be used to enter Kenya via any land, air, or sea border.
10. Kenya Requirements for Nigerian Passport Holders
Travellers must gather a few things that are needed before they can apply for a Kenya visa for Nigerian passport holders. The Kenyan eVisa requirements include the following:
- A valid Nigerian passport – The applicant must enter Kenya with a valid Nigerian passport. Likewise, the traveller’s passport must have at least one blank page for stamps and must be valid for at least 6 months after the traveller enters Kenya.
- Personal information – During the application process, travellers from Nigeria will need to answer various questions relating to their personal information, passport details, and travel plans.
- A digital photo of the applicant – Travellers need to upload a recent photo (taken within the last six months) of themselves.
- Proof of onward travel – Nigerian travellers must prove that they will not overstay their Kenyan eVisa. This can be done by showing proof of onward travel, either to another country or back to the traveller’s home country.
- A valid form of payment – Travellers need to pay the Kenyan eVisa fee with a valid form of payment, such as a debit card or a credit card.
- A valid email address – Applicants from Nigeria must provide a valid email address so that they can receive notifications regarding their eVisa.
11. How to Apply for a Kenya visa From Nigeria
Obtaining a Kenyan eVisa is fast and easy, and should take most applicants in Nigeria less than one hour to do so. Visitors are encouraged to apply for the e-Visa in advance so that there are no delays and they can have a stress-free experience.
The first step is to start the Kenya visa application form for Nigerian nationals. This application will ask for the traveller’s personal details, including their first and last name, passport information (nationality, passport number, date of issue), and a quick overview of their travel itinerary.
The second part will ask travellers to upload a recent photo of themselves and to pay the processing fee before they can successfully submit the application.
During the application, it is important that Nigerians double-check and make sure that all of the information is correct and complete. Failure to do so may delay the processing of the e-Visa or have it be denied completely.
12. How long does it take to obtain the Kenya eVisa from Nigeria?
The average processing time of the Kenyan eVisa is approximately one to three business days. However, in rare cases, it may take longer, especially if there is high demand or on public holidays.
The approved visa for Kenya for Nigerian citizens will be sent to the email address that was noted on the application.
13. Traveling From Nigeria to Kenya
Traveling from Nigeria to Kenya is quick and easy. There are non-stop flights from Lagos to Nairobi on Kenya Air that carry passengers in under six hours.
When travellers from Nigeria reach Kenya, the local authorities will check their passport and e-Visa to make sure they can enter the country on arrival. Nigerian citizens should be ready to present both in this case.
14. Visa extension
According to evisakenya.net, Kenya can allow visitors to stay for another 90 days making their tour as long as 180 days. Getting the extension is an easy process that involves sending a few documents to the Immigration Headquarters in Nairobi or the Immigration Office in Mombasa.
The Kenya tourist eVisa cannot be extended for more than another 90 days, the original 90 days plus additional 90 days that are granted with the extension.
In case you leave the country and wish to apply again, you can apply quickly. Since this tourist visa is a Single Entry Kenya Visa, it will expire once you exist the country before your 90 days are up.
Note: If you need to stay in Kenya longer than the extension period, you may visit Kenyan Consulate and embassy for further details.
15. Tourist attractions
According to touropia.com, here are 10 tourist centres you should visit in Kenya
1. Nairobi national park
Nairobi National Park is just a 10 minutes drive from the centre of Nairobi with only a fence separating the park’s wildlife from the metropolis. Nairobi’s skyscrapers can be seen from the park. Despite its proximity to the city and the relatively small size of the park, Nairobi National Park boasts a large and varied wildlife population. Migrating wildebeest and zebra gather in the park during the dry season, and it is one of Kenya’s most successful rhinoceros sanctuaries.
2. Malindi
Malindi provides a very nice introduction to the coastal tourist attractions in Kenya with its extensive coral reefs and beautiful beaches. There is surfing, snorkelling, deep-sea fishing and other water sports. The Malindi Marine National Park is protected and has fine beaches, clear water and very colourful fish. Malindi is served by a domestic airport and a highway between Mombasa and Lamu.
3. Mount Kenya
Mount Kenya is the highest mountain in Kenya and the second-highest in Africa, after Kilimanjaro. The mountain offers a beautiful sight. Its series of peaks are crowned with snow, and its slopes are covered with forest. The 5199 meters (17,057 ft. ) high summit is a difficult technical climb, several lowers peaks however are an easy destination for any fit trekker.
4. Samburu national reserve
Samburu National Reserve is a very peaceful national park in Northern Kenya. It attracts wildlife because of the Uaso Nyiro River that runs through it and the mixture of forest and grassland vegetation. All three big cats, lion, cheetah, and leopard, can be found here, as well as elephants, buffalo and hippos. The Uaso Nyiro River contains large numbers of Nile crocodiles.
5. Hell’s Gate national park
Hell’s Gate National Park is a tiny park named after a narrow break in the cliffs, once a tributary of a prehistoric lake that fed early humans in the Rift Valley. It is unique among Kenya’s wildlife parks, as you are allowed to walk or cycle without a guide. There’s dramatic scenery, with steep cliffs, gorges and basalt columns. The national park is home to a wide variety of wildlife, though many are few in number. Examples of little-seen wildlife include lions, leopards, and cheetahs.
6. Lamu Island
Lamu Island is a part of Kenya’s Lamu Archipelago and has managed to stay unspoiled and untouched by the mass tourism that has hit much of Kenya’s coastline. As the oldest living town in Kenya, Lamu Town has retained all the charm and character built up over the centuries. There are no roads on Lamu Island, just alleyways and footpaths, and therefore, there are few motorized vehicles on the island. Residents move about on foot or by boat, and donkeys are used to transport goods and materials.
7. Tsavo National Park
Tsavo is the largest national park in Kenya and one of the largest in the world. Due to its size, the park was divided into Tsavo West and Tsavo East. The Tsavo West has spectacular scenery with a rolling volcanic landscape, while Tsavo East has more open savannah than its western sibling. Tsavo National Park is the ideal destination in Kenya for people who seek solitude and privacy as well as the chance to explore the wilderness.
8. Lake Nakuru
Lake Nakuru is a very shallow lake in central Kenya. The lake’s abundance of algae attracts vast quantities of lesser flamingos, sometimes more than one million at once. Often called the greatest bird spectacle on earth, the flamingos are one of Kenya’s top attractions. Sadly, in recent years, the number of flamingos at Lake Nakuru has been decreasing, due to environmental degradation and pollution.
9. Amboseli National Park
Amboseli National Park is a relatively small park located close to the Tanzania border at the foot of Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro. The park is famous for being the best place in Africa to get up close to free-ranging elephants. Other attractions of the Amboseli National Park include opportunities to meet the Maasai people and spectacular views of Mount Kilimanjaro.
10. Masai Mara National Reserve
The Masai Mara National Reserve is one of the top tourist attractions in Kenya and the country’s most popular game park. Each year the Masai Mara National Reserve is visited by thousands of tourists who come here to watch the exceptional population of game and the annual migration of zebra and wildebeest. The “Great Migration” takes place every year from July to October when millions of wildebeest and zebra migrate from the Serengeti in Tanzania.
16. Employment opportunities for foreigners
According to aetnainternational.com, most expats will have already secured work before arriving in Kenya. Secured contracts are the most popular route to gaining employment in the country.
If you have a visa, there’s nothing to stop you from looking for work in the country. Word of mouth is the most common route and there are numerous expat forums where you can glean useful information about prospective job openings. Freelancers must have a solid contract so that they can apply for a work permit. You can always try LinkedIn to help you land a job: type in the keywords related to your profession and choose Kenya as the location
17. Work permit
According to shieldgeo.com, foreign nationals wishing to work in Kenya are required to obtain a work permit. However, work permits are generally only granted in instances where the employer can prove that doing so would be beneficial to Kenya and the position cannot be filled by any suitable Kenyan applicants.
According to globalization-partners.com, Over the last few years, Kenya has made it more difficult for foreigners to obtain work permits and visas. From having to submit applications online and through the mail to limiting the number of hired foreign workers in favor of Kenyans, companies have to follow many of the country’s policies, some of which make it more difficult to start working with a foreign team.
18. Types of Work Visas in Kenya
Kenya organizes its work permits into different classes based on what activities a foreigner will undertake in the country. The categories include:
- Class A: For anyone entering the prospecting and mining industries.
- Class B: For individuals interested in agriculture or animal husbandry.
- Class C: For anyone who is a member of a prescribed profession who will practice it alone or in a partnership in Kenya.
- Class D: This permit is meant for people offered specific employment with an employer, the Kenyan government, any authority under the Kenyan government, the United Nations (U.N.), or another approved agency. Anyone applying for a class D Kenya work permit must have skills and qualifications not available in the country.
- Class F: For people who want to engage in specific manufacturing activities.
- Class G: For anyone who wants to enter a certain trade, business, consultancy role, or profession.
- Class I: For individuals undertaking religious or charitable activities.
- Class K: For ordinary residents at least 35 years old with an annual income of a certain amount from sources other than employment.
- Class M: This permit is for anyone granted refugee status in the country.
Keep in mind that all work permits are typically valid for two years with the option to renew for an extra two years. Your employees can renew their work permits an unlimited number of times, but they must do it at least three months before the permit expires.
19. Minimum wage
According to tradingeconomics.com, the minimum wage in Kenya increased to 15120 KES/Month in 2022 from 13572 KES/Month in 2021.
20. Average salary
According to salary explorer.com, a person working in Kenya typically earns around 147,000 KES per month. Salaries range from 37,100 KES (lowest average) to 656,000 KES (highest average, actual maximum salary is higher).
This is the average monthly salary including housing, transport, and other benefits. Salaries vary drastically between different careers
21. Cost of living
According to numbeo.com, the cost of living in Kenya is, on average, 6.30% higher than in Nigeria.
Rent in Kenya is, on average, 76.86% lower than in Nigeria.
According to travelsafe-abroad.com, Kenya is a very decent place to live.
The thing about Kenya is that there’s a large gap between the rich and poor which makes for a very unfair market since it’s the rich that run the economy.
The biggest expense you’ll have in this country is rent which is pretty high taking into consideration your monthly salary.
The rest of your expenses will depend on your lifestyle and what you want to spend on.
Bear in mind, while in Kenya, that haggling and bargaining are a part of their culture and is common in open markets where produce or clothes are sold.
22. Restaurants
Restaurants, like most of everything else, are pretty cheap in Kenya. For example, a meal in a good restaurant per person would cost less than 9$. On the other hand, you can always eat street food and pay only a couple of dollars. In the end, everything really depends on you and how much you want to spend on food.
23. Markets
If you’re in Kenya and get homesick about food, imported goods are sold in common supermarkets like Nakumatt, Uchumi, etc. where you can find them and buy them at higher prices than domestic groceries. Malls can be quite expensive also while shopping at local markets will save you a considerable amount of money.
24. Transportation
Transportation is reasonably cheap. It isn’t a bargain, but it’s mostly reliable, though it probably isn’t as organized as you’d want it to be. You can catch a bus anytime, and taxis are even cheap. A one-way ticket to wherever you want to go is less than a dollar, while a monthly ticket is around $30.
25. Utilities (MONTHLY)
Monthly utilities are also relatively cheap. For an apartment that is a bit larger, of about 85m2, all the basic utilities including water, gas, cooling, electricity, and garbage services will cost you around $50. The good thing is that the bill doesn’t double during winter, because you won’t ever need any heating.
26. Sports & Leisure
Practicing sports definitely isn’t among those cheap things in Kenya. Being a member of a gym or a fitness club in Kenya will cost you more than being one in any of the less popular countries in Europe or America – prepare to spill out $60.
Cinema tickets cost $7 each.
27. Clothing & Shoes
Now, shopping might be something more affordable. If you’re thinking about going to a mall in Kenya and shopping till you drop – it might be a good idea, because clothing there is very cheap. A pair of quality jeans will cost less than $30, while good sneakers of brands like Nike will cost you only about $50 or less.
28. Rent per month
Rent is, according to some, very expensive, though compared to the rest of the world, it would be considered pretty low. However, for the residents of Kenya, paying rent is a difficult job, given the fact that their salaries are also pretty low. An apartment in the centre of any of the main cities will cost you around $300..
29. Average hotel and travel costs
According to championtraveler.com, the average price of a 7-day trip to Kenya is $1,425 for a solo traveler, $2,382 for a couple, and $1,650 for a family of 4.
Kenya hotels range from $41 to $196 per night with an average of $78, while most vacation rentals will cost $60 to $470 per night for the entire home.
Average worldwide flight costs to Kenya (from all airports) are between $1,029 and $1,811 per person for economy flights and $3,231 to $5,687 for first class.
Depending on activities, we recommend budgeting $32 to $67 per person per day for transportation and enjoying local restaurants.
30. The cheapest times to visit Kenya
On average, these will be the cheapest dates to fly to Kenya and stay in a Kenya hotel:
- January 8th to May 20th (except the weeks of March 12th and May 7th)
- September 3rd to October 7th
- October 29th to December 9th (except the week of November 19th)
The absolute cheapest time to take a vacation in Kenya is usually early November.
31. Health
According to travel.state.gov, medical services are adequate in Nairobi for most medical conditions and emergencies.
In the event of an injury, appropriate medical treatment is typically available only in or near the major cities of Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu. First responders generally are unable to access areas outside of major cities and to provide urgent medical treatment.
For emergency services in Kenya, dial 999, 112, or 911.
Ambulance services are:
- Not present throughout the country or are unreliable in most areas except Nairobi, Mombasa, Nakuru, and Eldoret
- Not equipped with state-of-the-art medical equipment; and
- Injured or seriously ill travelers may prefer to take a taxi or private vehicle to the nearest major hospital rather than wait for an ambulance.
The following diseases are prevalent:
- Malaria
- Dengue
- Schistosomiasis
- Traveler’s Diarrhea
- Cholera
- Tuberculosis
- Measles
- Rabies
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- HIV
32. Safety and security
According to the government of Canada, below are safety tips you should take note of when you visit Kenya:
33. General elections
General elections took place on August 9, 2022. Demonstrations could occur after the elections. You should exercise caution during the election period. Also, avoid areas where there are demonstrations and large crowds, follow the instructions of local authorities and monitor local media for the latest information.
34. Marsabit County curfew
A 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew is in effect in Marsabit County. Kenyan security forces are engaged in security operations in the area. Follow curfew orders.
35. Terrorism
There is a threat of terrorism. Credible information indicates that westerners may be targeted by extremists in Nairobi, Naivasha, Nanyuki, Meru, Narok and the coastal areas of Kenya.
Terrorist attacks have occurred in Nairobi, in the coastal region, including in Mombasa and Malindi in the Mandera, Wajir and Garissa counties, near the border with Somalia.
Foreigners have been targeted in some attacks. Further attacks cannot be ruled out.
Targets could include: government buildings, including schools, places of worship, airports and other transportation hubs and networks, public areas such as tourist attractions, restaurants, bars, coffee shops, shopping centres, markets, hotels and other sites frequented by foreigners.
- Be particularly alert during religious holidays, sporting events and public celebrations. Terrorists have carried out attacks during these events.
- Always be aware of your surroundings when in public places.
- Stay at hotels that have robust security measures, but keep in mind that even the most secure locations cannot be considered completely free of risk.
36. Areas bordering Somalia and portion of the coast region
Kenya’s border with Somalia is closed, but it is porous and Somali militias and bandit groups have carried out cross-border attacks against foreigners and humanitarian workers in this region. Some incidents involved the use of improvised explosive devices and have resulted in injuries and deaths, including at the Dadaab refugee camp, 80 km from the Somali border. The risk of such attacks in the region remains high.
Disputes between Somali clans also make the region unstable and dangerous. There is an increased military and police presence and frequent roadblocks due to the Government of Kenya’s efforts to limit Somali incursions and gun-running in the border area.
There is also a risk of kidnapping in the northeastern Kenyan counties of Mandera, Wajir and Garissa bordering Somalia and the coastal areas of Lamu County. Groups based in Somalia and northeastern Kenya have targeted humanitarian workers, tourists and residents in the past and deaths have occurred.
- Beachfront accommodations on the coastal area are vulnerable to criminal activity, such as armed robbery, break-ins and carjacking.
37. Areas bordering South Sudan and Ethiopia – Avoid all travel
There is an extreme threat of kidnapping, terrorism and cross-border violence in the northern counties of Marsabit and Turkana within 110 km of Ethiopia and South Sudan.
38. Neighbourhoods of Nairobi
Criminal activity remains high in several neighbourhoods and areas of Nairobi. Police capacity to respond to crime and other incidents is very limited.
39. Northern and Western Kenya
Some areas located in Turkana, Marsabit, Isiolo, Wajir and Mandera counties are considered unsafe. The ongoing threat posed by terrorism is joined by various regional, tribal or clan-based conflicts involving land, cattle and water. Consider using armed escorts when travelling within these counties; escorts can often be arranged through local police stations.
- Avoid venturing away from tourist areas
- Do not travel after dark
Tribal conflicts have occurred in the Mount Elgon area in the western counties of Trans-Nzoia and Bungoma. If you decide to travel to that region:
- remain vigilant at all times
- monitor local media
40. Crimes
According to the Canadian government, there is a high crime rate in most regions of Kenya, particularly in major cities such as Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu, and at coastal beach resorts. Traditionally, crimes increase in the weeks before Christmas.
Be aware that there have been incidents of “mob justice” in which a crowd lynches suspected criminals prior to the arrival of police.
Violent Crime
Carjacking, home invasions, kidnappings and robberies occur, including during daylight hours and in neighbourhoods normally considered safe.
Tourists have been the target of carjacking, robberies and kidnappings while travelling to or from the international airports in Nairobi and Mombasa.
- Only use transportation organized by reputable tour companies or well-marked taxis
- Be particularly vigilant if you are commuting alone
In Nairobi, exercise extreme caution in informal settlement communities, such as Kasarani, Kibera and Mathare, due to the high level of crime and limited capacity of police to respond to incidents.
The Old Town of Fort Jesus in Mombasa has a similar crime rate to other areas of the city during the day. However, there is a greatly increased risk of criminal activity at night, including robberies, attacks and other street crimes. Crime rates are also high on and around the Likoni Ferry (which links Mombasa and the southern resorts).
- Be aware of your surroundings at all times, particularly on roads linking a city centre to residential areas
- Do not walk outdoors at night, particularly in isolated areas
- Exercise caution while walking during daylight hours and if travelling after dark
- When confronted by robbers, comply and do not offer resistance
Petty Crime
Petty crime, such as pickpocketing and purse snatching, occurs.
- Ensure that your belongings, including your passport and other travel documents, are secure at all times.
- Avoid showing signs of affluence or carrying large sums of money
- Ensure that your credit and debit cards, cash and any other financial resources are not all kept in the same place
- Store your belongings in safekeeping facilities
- Never leave your bags unsupervised at a ticket office or a registration desk
- When you leave your hotel room, ensure that the door is locked and the “do not disturb” sign is displayed
- Thieves travelling on scooters or on foot have targeted the bags of car or scooter passengers.
- Keep your windows closed, doors locked and valuables out of reach and sight
- Be especially vigilant when stopped at traffic lights
- Incidents of passport theft have occurred in the departure area of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. There have also been cases where checked luggage has been pilfered.
- Be aware of your surroundings at all airports
- Store your valuables in locked hand-luggage
- Do not exchange currency in the public areas of the airport
Spiked food and drinks
Never leave food or drinks unattended or in the care of strangers. Be wary of accepting snacks, beverages, gum or cigarettes from new acquaintances. These items may contain drugs that could put you at risk of sexual assault and robbery.
Scams
Criminals have been known to impersonate hotel employees, police officers or government officials in attempts to get money from tourists.
If you are approached by someone claiming to be a government official or police officer and they fine you for an alleged offence, ask for an official government receipt.
Police officers are required to identify themselves. There is a complaint process through the Kenyan Police Service to investigate allegations of corruption and abuse.
Exercise caution if you are travelling to Kenya to meet someone with whom you have developed a relationship on the Internet (friendship, business or romance). Foreigners are often lured to Kenya, especially during the holiday season (Christmas and New Year), to meet their online contact in person. Once there, they become victims of crime. Some have lost thousands of dollars and some have been arrested for failing to pay debts accrued locally or exorbitant bills racked up as a result of scams.
41. National parks, safaris and reserves security
Tourists have been victims of crime, sometimes involving violence, in national parks and reserves, as well as on safaris.
- Remain aware of your surroundings at all times
- Avoid camping alone or without expert local assistance
Overland travel security
Visitors travelling overland to certain game parks and reserves have been attacked by armed bandits. Exercise caution on the roads between the following regions due to attacks, robberies and vehicle hijackings:
- Malindi to Lamu
- Nairobi and the Amboseli, Masai Mara, Nakuru and Tsavo game parks/reserves
- Nairobi and the Mount Kenya/Aberdare area
Wildlife viewing
Wildlife viewing poses risks, particularly on foot or at close range.
- Always maintain a safe distance when observing wildlife
- Only exit a vehicle when a professional guide or warden says it’s safe to do so
- Only use reputable and professional guides or tour operators
- Closely follow park regulations and wardens’ advice
Local assistance
The Kenya Tourism Federation operates a 24-hour Safety and Communication Centre, which provides information on tourism and road conditions, and has information about regional assistance in an emergency.
Demonstrations
Demonstrations take place regularly. Even peaceful demonstrations can turn violent at any time. They can also lead to disruptions to traffic and public transportation.
- Avoid areas where demonstrations and large gatherings are taking place
- Follow the instructions of local authorities
- Monitor local media for information on ongoing demonstrations
42. Women’s safety
Women travelling alone may be subject to some forms of harassment and verbal abuse. Attacks involving sexual assault have occurred.
43. Forced Marriages
Forced marriage affecting foreigners occur. It sometimes occurs without the affected person’s prior knowledge or consent.
44. Road travel
Road conditions and road safety can vary greatly throughout the country.
Major highways are generally in good condition but minor roads are poorly maintained. Drivers do not respect traffic laws, and drinking and driving is prevalent, especially at night.
Keep this in mind when planning travel by road, as driving at night can be risky. Excessive speeds, poorly maintained vehicles, poor lighting and inadequate signage pose hazards.
During the rainy season, some unpaved roads become impassable, even with four-wheel drive vehicles. You should drive defensively and always be aware of your surroundings.
Serious traffic delays are common. The road from Nairobi to Mombasa is particularly congested and can be dangerous for tourists unfamiliar with local driving conditions. You should travel by air or train if possible.
Use authorized border crossings when travelling by vehicle between Kenya and Tanzania.
Public transportation
Public transportation is unsafe.
Intercity buses
Long-distance buses have been involved in serious accidents.
Intra City travel
Local minibuses (matatus) and motorbike taxis (boda-bodas) are generally poorly maintained, recklessly driven and not adequately insured. Matatu hijackings and incidents of passengers being robbed have occurred.
Taxis
Use reliable taxi companies, and confirm the fare in advance.
Rail
The Madaraka Express Railway line between Nairobi and Mombasa is reliable and safe. Other passenger train lines are not safe and are routinely late.
Maritime transportation
The Likoni Ferry (from Mombasa to Likoni) is unsafe due to a combination of high crime rates, uncontrolled crowds, limited safety training, frequent breakdowns and inconsistent maintenance. Stampedes and overcrowding on the ferry have resulted in multiple injuries.
45. Curfew
Kenyan authorities may impose curfews in response to changes in the security situation. Monitor local media for the latest information.
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CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading private markets investment management firm Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) today announced the final closing of Hamilton Lane Strategic Opportunities Fund VII ("the Fund"). The Fund, which is the largest ever within the series, represents approximately $953 million in commitments from a diverse set of institutions, including returning and new investors across North America, Asia, EMEA and Latin America.
The latest close is a testament to the proven strategy of Hamilton Lane's Strategic Opportunities offering, an annual fund series that is focused on delivering attractive, risk-adjusted returns to investors. The Fund will primarily utilize direct credit investments, selectively layering in other credit-like investments to create a portfolio biased toward shorter-duration exposures, seeking downside protection and current cash-pay.
Nayef Perry, Global Co-Head of Direct Credit, commented: "This is a unique moment for private credit as an asset class. Volatility concerns and rising interest rates are attracting investors to private credit due to its floating rate nature and historical consistency of performance through up and down markets. Additionally, periods of market uncertainty tend to negatively impact the public credit markets, which creates opportunities for private lenders who are well-equipped to navigate complexity and provide certainty of capital to borrowers."
Emily Nomeir, Managing Director, Direct Credit Investments, said: "This Fund is structured to demonstrate the stability private credit can offer investors, particularly during times of public market uncertainty. Benefits like cash yield, attractive risk-adjusted returns and the ability to carefully navigate volatility are hallmarks of our strategy, and we're grateful to our limited partners for their continued support. We remain committed to providing solutions for investors of all types and will continue to leverage Hamilton Lane's flexible approach and well-established platform as we deploy the Fund."
Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) is a leading private markets investment management firm providing innovative solutions to institutional and private wealth investors around the world. Dedicated exclusively to private markets investing for 30 years, the firm currently employs more than 530 professionals operating in offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Hamilton Lane has more than $832 billion in assets under management and supervision, composed of $108 billion in discretionary assets and more than $724 billion in advisory assets, as of June 30, 2022. Hamilton Lane specializes in building flexible investment programs that provide clients access to the full spectrum of private markets strategies, sectors and geographies. For more information, please visit www.hamiltonlane.com or follow Hamilton Lane on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hamilton-lane/.
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The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. For more information regarding these risks and uncertainties as well as additional risks that we face, you should refer to the "Risk Factors" detailed in Part I, Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 and in our subsequent reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements included in this release are made only as of the date hereof. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information or future events, except as otherwise required by law.
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BEIJING, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iQIYI, an innovative market-leading online entertainment service in China, announced recently that it has further upgraded the revenue sharing system of its Cloud Cinema Premiere model where producers now share most of the revenues earned. The company also disclosed data on the top-earning films that have been released under its Cloud Cinema Premiere model. The developments mark the latest step iQIYI takes to create market incentives and provide transparent disclosure that drive the growth of the online film market.
With the upgrade, producers can now share 90%--compared with the 60%--of the revenue generated for films released via Premium Video on Demand (PVOD), which is one of the two models of streaming under iQIYI's Cloud Cinema Premiere model.
Data on the top-earning films released through Cloud Cinema Premiere attests to the efficacy of iQIYI's strategy. According to the company, Dreams of Getting Rich, Northeastern Bro, and Blind War recorded the highest earnings for producers across all films released under the Cloud Cinema Premiere model from 2021 to date.
In addition to popular Chinese films, the list of films released under iQIYI's Cloud Cinema also included global hits such as Zack Snyder's Justice League. Directed by Zack Snyder and starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, and others, Zack Snyder's Justice League premiered in China online on iQIYI on May 3, 2021, and has since been a huge success in the Chinese market.
According to SONG Jia, Vice President of iQIYI and General Manager of iQIYI Film Center: "For the past two years, iQIYI has endeavored to working with industry talents, building a cloud cinema platform to grow China's online film market, and bringing more premium films to viewers through online releases. The latest increase in the revenue shared by producers iQIYI announced promises to further iQIYI's long-standing effort in building a fairer and more robust media ecosystem."
iQIYI last revamped its collaboration model for online film distribution in April 2022. Major upgrades included allowing films released under the Cloud Cinema Premiere model to generate revenues from both the Premium Video on Demand (PVOD) and Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) models of streaming, as well as for the revenue shared with film producers for films released under the Subscription Premiere model to be determined by users' viewing time alone. With the April upgrade, iQIYI deepened the alignment of interest and risk between the producers and video platforms, encouraging the two parties to work more closely together to create quality content and boost revenue.
CONTACT: iQIYI Press, press@qiyi.com
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Premium Guard Announces Innovative Application Lookup Capabilities
NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Premium Guard Inc. (PGI) www.premiumguard.com, the first-to-market leader and pioneer in aftermarket automotive filtration solutions, is pleased to announce the inclusion of "Push-To-Talk" (PTT) parts lookup capabilities in their online catalogs and mobile apps. This cutting-edge parts lookup technology is unique in the filtration segment with Premium Guard and ECOGARD brands the first to introduce this capability in the automotive filtration market. The inclusion of PTT is a significant enhancement in data accessibility and reflects the company's deep understanding of the professional installer and how to make their jobs easier. With PTT included, Premium Guard is offering a comprehensive catalog solution that is dynamic and easy to use allowing customers one touch access to the company's extensive parts catalogs.
"When we see technological innovation in other facets of our lives, we always ask ourselves 'How could this benefit our customers?'" said Anan Bishara, CEO of Premium Guard. "We see Push-to-Talk as yet another tool to help simplify the way our customers look up our products. Incorporating Push-to-Talk accessibility in our catalogs for our family of brands is an example of how we deliver on our core principles of putting customers first and being ahead of the market in service and technology. We're more committed than ever to offering a complete product and service solution for oil change service."
"Push-to-Talk is another key feature of our catalog program that distinguishes Premium Guard and our family of brands from our competitors" say John Etheridge, Director of Product Management. "And we're not done, we are always looking for opportunities to bring more innovative catalog and parts lookup tools to market."
Push-to Talk functionality is now included at www.pgfilters.com, www.ecogard.com, and in the Premium Guard and ECOGARD apps found in the App Store and Google Play. Push-to-Talk capabilities will soon be rolled out to Premium Guard supplied private label programs and the PWR Steer website and app.
Premium Guard Inc. (PGI) specializes in designing, manufacturing, and distributing products for automotive, diesel, powersport, and specialty filter markets. Headquartered in New York City with a main distribution center in Memphis TN, Premium Guard Inc. is keenly focused on providing customers with industry leading service, complete filtration solutions, best-in-class-quality products, and leading application coverage. www.premiumguard.com
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The energy crisis in Europe is one that is unavoidable at this stage and as gas flows from Russia have been heavily disrupted, there are going to be major risks this winter and the next as well. For Italy, they are planning to turn down the heat in households and businesses to help cut around 5.3 billion cubic metres in consumption.
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Thousands without power in California as record heat wave roasts U.S. West
Thousands of customers were without power in California Monday night due to the intensifying record heat wave that's hitting much of the U.S. West.
By the numbers: Nearly 67,000 Californian customers were without power on Monday night, according to poweroutage.us. Ongoing power outages were affecting over 40,000 Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers across 28 counties, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area's Contra Costa County, per a PG&E update.
Driving the news: Californian officials declared a power grid emergency earlier Monday due to the threats posed by the extreme heat.
- The California Independent System Operator, which runs the state's power grid, issued an Energy Emergency Alert 2 on Monday evening.
Details: PG&E said a transformer in the Bay Area city of San Jose blew on Sunday night after days of blistering heat, NBC Bay Area reports.
- Per a PG&E spokesperson's emailed statement on Monday night, 13,994 customers were without power in the East Bay; another 12,720 in South Bay; 1,980 in the Peninsula and 1,440 in North Bay.
- No PG&E customers had lost power in San Francisco as of Monday night, according to the PG&E spokesperson.
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Des Moines' World Food Fest will have 21 new vendors
The 2022 World Food & Music Festival will have 21 new vendors, according to event organizers.
Zoom in: The newbies will sell the cuisine of 14 countries.
- At least six countries weren't represented at last year's event — Cambodia, Tanzania, Pakistan, France, Indonesia and the Dominican Republic.
🗓 Eats and entertainment: Schedules are posted online and admission is free at Western Gateway Park in downtown Des Moines.
- 11am-10pm Friday and Saturday, Sept. 16-17
- 11am-5pm, Sunday, Sept. 18
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Minnesota's highest paid athletes in 2022
The Minnesota Timberwolves are all in for the upcoming NBA season and their payroll reflects that.
- Three Wolves are among the five highest paid athletes in Minnesota. Rudy Gobert, Karl-Anthony Towns and D'Angelo Russell will take home more than $100 million combined this season.
This year's list of highest paid athletes in Minnesota is made up heavily of football and basketball players.
- The highest paid hockey player in Minnesota, Wild winger Kirill Kaprizov, would rank No. 13, with $10 million in earnings this year.
- The top earning Lynx players, Kayla McBride and Aerial Powers, made just under $200,000 each last year.
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Exclusive: TuneIn expands deal with Cumulus
TuneIn will add 325 podcasts to its platform as part of renewed deal with media company Cumulus, CEO Richard Stern tells Axios.
Why it matters: The expanded content partnership helps TuneIn better compete with Spotify, Apple and other audio platforms for listeners' time. It's the latest in a series of deals by TuneIn to improve its service after recapitalizing in 2020.
Details: The deal adds podcasts from Cumulus Podcast Network to TuneIn including sports, comedy and news shows.
- Cumulus' radio programming from 405 stations in 86 U.S. markets also will be available on TuneIn.
- "For us, it's about having everything our listeners might want to listen to in the world of live content on the platform," Stern says.
Context: Stern, a former executive at Amazon and Sony, joined TuneIn in 2020 after a consortium of existing and new investors led by Innovation Endeavors acquired the company, recapitalized it and brought on a new management team and board.
- The new leadership reworked TuneIn's business strategy, leaning away from play-by-play sports content and into providing radio shows and podcasts, says Rick Scanlon, a founding partner at Innovation Endeavors.
- "We saw this incredible long tail of content as being a key differentiating factor for TuneIn, all the world's radio, everything, everywhere in infinite dial and really reinventing that space," says Scanlon, who serves as executive chairperson of TuneIn.
- TuneIn also has signed a content distribution deal with iHeartMedia and added Rivian as another car partner.
By the numbers: TuneIn began operating profitably, for the first time in the company's history, shortly after the recapitalization, Stern says.
- TuneIn's annual revenue exceeds $100 million, and the company's growing 40% year-over-year, he says.
- TuneIn has about 200 employees, mostly in the U.S., and is expanding in Europe.
- TuneIn has 75 million total monthly listeners, with about 70% tuning in outside the U.S., and with Western Europe, Central America, South America as its biggest markets.
Of note: Stern says TuneIn is not fundraising at the moment.
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COPPELL, Texas, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcline Investment Management ("Arcline"), a growth-oriented private equity firm, today announced the acquisition of Kings III of America ("Kings III"), a leading third-party provider of elevator and pool emergency monitoring solutions in North America, from Rockbridge Growth Equity and Thayer Street Partners.
Arcline commented, "Kings III demonstrates all of the traits that we look for in our portfolio companies in providing contractually recurring, non-discretionary safety solutions to a large installed base of critical infrastructure. Kings III has an excellent reputation among customers and employees, and is led by a strong, experienced management team that has enabled it to become a true market leader. The growth-oriented culture at Kings III will fit well within the Arcline portfolio, and we are excited to partner with the management team for the company's next chapter of growth."
Dennis Mason, CEO of Kings III, added, "Arcline's passion for growth, innovation and culture is a perfect match with our management team, employees, and customers. Our success would not have been possible without the dedication and excellence of the entire team at Kings III, and this acquisition is a testament to their hard work. We look forward to working with Arcline to continue our incredible trajectory and we are excited to leverage Arcline's deep experience in the elevator industry to accelerate our growth."
Piper Sandler served as financial advisor to Arcline.
Arcline Investment Management is a growth-oriented private equity firm with $4.4 billion in cumulative capital commitments. Arcline seeks to invest in technology-driven, meaningful to the world industrial businesses that enable a better future. For more information visit www.arcline.com.
Kings III of America, LLC is headquartered in Coppell, Texas, and is a provider of all-inclusive emergency monitoring solutions for elevators and pools across North America. Kings III designs, engineers, and manufactures its monitoring equipment, as well as runs a state-of-the-art 24/7 emergency dispatch center staffed with certified emergency responders. With over three decades of service, Kings III is a critical enabler of the elevator infrastructure in the U.S. and Canada.
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JUNO BEACH, Fla., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) and NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP) today announced that Kirk Crews, executive vice president, finance and chief financial officer of NextEra Energy, and chief financial officer of NextEra Energy Partners, is scheduled to present on Sept. 7, 2022, at the 2022 Barclays CEO Energy-Power Conference in New York City, New York. The presentation is scheduled to begin at 9:10 a.m. ET. A live audio webcast will be available at www.NextEraEnergy.com/investors or www.NextEraEnergyPartners.com. For those unable to listen to the live webcast, a replay will be available for 90 days by accessing the links listed above.
NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) is a leading clean energy company headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida. NextEra Energy owns Florida Power & Light Company, which is America's largest electric utility that sells more power than any other utility, providing clean, affordable, reliable electricity to approximately 5.8 million customer accounts, or more than 12 million people across Florida. NextEra Energy also owns a competitive clean energy business, NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, which, together with its affiliated entities, is the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun and a world leader in battery storage. Through its subsidiaries, NextEra Energy generates clean, emissions-free electricity from seven commercial nuclear power units in Florida, New Hampshire and Wisconsin. NextEra Energy has been recognized often by third parties for its efforts in sustainability, corporate responsibility, ethics and compliance, and diversity. NextEra Energy is ranked No. 1 in the electric and gas utilities industry on Fortune's 2022 list of "World's Most Admired Companies," recognized on Fortune's 2021 list of companies that "Change the World" and received the S&P Global Platts 2020 Energy Transition Award for leadership in environmental, social and governance. For more information about NextEra Energy companies, visit these websites: www.NextEraEnergy.com, www.FPL.com, www.NextEraEnergyResources.com.
NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP) is a growth-oriented limited partnership formed by NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE). NextEra Energy Partners acquires, manages and owns contracted clean energy projects with stable, long-term cash flows. Headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida, NextEra Energy Partners owns interests in geographically diverse wind, solar and energy storage projects in the U.S. as well as natural gas infrastructure assets in Texas and Pennsylvania. For more information about NextEra Energy Partners, please visit: www.NextEraEnergyPartners.com.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are not statements of historical facts, but instead represent the current expectations of NextEra Energy, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, NextEra Energy) regarding future operating results and other future events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of NextEra Energy's control. Forward-looking statements in this news release include, among others, statements concerning long-term growth rate expectations. In some cases, you can identify the forward-looking statements by words or phrases such as "will," "may result," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "intend," "plan," "seek," "potential," "projection," "forecast," "predict," "goals," "target," "outlook," "should," "would" or similar words or expressions. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are not a guarantee of future performance. The future results of NextEra Energy and its business and financial condition are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements, or may require it to limit or eliminate certain operations. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those discussed in this news release and the following: effects of extensive regulation of NextEra Energy's business operations; inability of NextEra Energy to recover in a timely manner any significant amount of costs, a return on certain assets or a reasonable return on invested capital through base rates, cost recovery clauses, other regulatory mechanisms or otherwise; impact of political, regulatory, operational and economic factors on regulatory decisions important to NextEra Energy; disallowance of cost recovery based on a finding of imprudent use of derivative instruments; effect of any reductions or modifications to, or elimination of, governmental incentives or policies that support utility scale renewable energy projects or the imposition of additional tax laws, tariffs, duties, policies or assessments on renewable energy or equipment necessary to generate it or deliver it; impact of new or revised laws, regulations, interpretations or constitutional ballot and regulatory initiatives on NextEra Energy; capital expenditures, increased operating costs and various liabilities attributable to environmental laws, regulations and other standards applicable to NextEra Energy; effects on NextEra Energy of federal or state laws or regulations mandating new or additional limits on the production of greenhouse gas emissions; exposure of NextEra Energy to significant and increasing compliance costs and substantial monetary penalties and other sanctions as a result of extensive federal regulation of its operations and businesses; effect on NextEra Energy of changes in tax laws, guidance or policies as well as in judgments and estimates used to determine tax-related asset and liability amounts; impact on NextEra Energy of adverse results of litigation; effect on NextEra Energy of failure to proceed with projects under development or inability to complete the construction of (or capital improvements to) electric generation, transmission and distribution facilities, gas infrastructure facilities or other facilities on schedule or within budget; impact on development and operating activities of NextEra Energy resulting from risks related to project siting, planning, financing, construction, permitting, governmental approvals and the negotiation of project development agreements, as well as supply chain disruptions; risks involved in the operation and maintenance of electric generation, transmission and distribution facilities, gas infrastructure facilities, retail gas distribution system in Florida and other facilities; effect on NextEra Energy of a lack of growth or slower growth in the number of customers or in customer usage; impact on NextEra Energy of severe weather and other weather conditions; threats of terrorism and catastrophic events that could result from terrorism, cyberattacks or other attempts to disrupt NextEra Energy's business or the businesses of third parties; inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage for protection of NextEra Energy against significant losses and risk that insurance coverage does not provide protection against all significant losses; a prolonged period of low gas and oil prices could impact NextEra Energy's gas infrastructure business and cause NextEra Energy to delay or cancel certain gas infrastructure projects and could result in certain projects becoming impaired; risk of increased operating costs resulting from unfavorable supply costs necessary to provide full energy and capacity requirement services; inability or failure to manage properly or hedge effectively the commodity risk within its portfolio; effect of reductions in the liquidity of energy markets on NextEra Energy's ability to manage operational risks; effectiveness of NextEra Energy's risk management tools associated with its hedging and trading procedures to protect against significant losses, including the effect of unforeseen price variances from historical behavior; impact of unavailability or disruption of power transmission or commodity transportation facilities on sale and delivery of power or natural gas; exposure of NextEra Energy to credit and performance risk from customers, hedging counterparties and vendors; failure of counterparties to perform under derivative contracts or of requirement for NextEra Energy to post margin cash collateral under derivative contracts; failure or breach of NextEra Energy's information technology systems; risks to NextEra Energy's retail businesses from compromise of sensitive customer data; losses from volatility in the market values of derivative instruments and limited liquidity in over-the-counter markets; impact of negative publicity; inability to maintain, negotiate or renegotiate acceptable franchise agreements; occurrence of work strikes or stoppages and increasing personnel costs; NextEra Energy's ability to successfully identify, complete and integrate acquisitions, including the effect of increased competition for acquisitions; environmental, health and financial risks associated with ownership and operation of nuclear generation facilities; liability of NextEra Energy for significant retrospective assessments and/or retrospective insurance premiums in the event of an incident at certain nuclear generation facilities; increased operating and capital expenditures and/or reduced revenues at nuclear generation facilities resulting from orders or new regulations of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; inability to operate any of NextEra Energy's owned nuclear generation units through the end of their respective operating licenses; effect of disruptions, uncertainty or volatility in the credit and capital markets or actions by third parties in connection with project-specific or other financing arrangements on NextEra Energy's ability to fund its liquidity and capital needs and meet its growth objectives; inability to maintain current credit ratings; impairment of liquidity from inability of credit providers to fund their credit commitments or to maintain their current credit ratings; poor market performance and other economic factors that could affect NextEra Energy's defined benefit pension plan's funded status; poor market performance and other risks to the asset values of nuclear decommissioning funds; changes in market value and other risks to certain of NextEra Energy's investments; effect of inability of NextEra Energy subsidiaries to pay upstream dividends or repay funds to NextEra Energy or of NextEra Energy's performance under guarantees of subsidiary obligations on NextEra Energy's ability to meet its financial obligations and to pay dividends on its common stock; the fact that the amount and timing of dividends payable on NextEra Energy's common stock, as well as the dividend policy approved by NextEra Energy's board of directors from time to time, and changes to that policy, are within the sole discretion of NextEra Energy's board of directors and, if declared and paid, dividends may be in amounts that are less than might be expected by shareholders; NextEra Energy Partners, LP's inability to access sources of capital on commercially reasonable terms could have an effect on its ability to consummate future acquisitions and on the value of NextEra Energy's limited partner interest in NextEra Energy Operating Partners, LP; effects of disruptions, uncertainty or volatility in the credit and capital markets on the market price of NextEra Energy's common stock; and the ultimate severity and duration of public health crises, epidemics and pandemics, and its effects on NextEra Energy's business. NextEra Energy discusses these and other risks and uncertainties in its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and other Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, and this news release should be read in conjunction with such SEC filings. The forward-looking statements made in this news release are made only as of the date of this news release and NextEra Energy undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements are not statements of historical facts, but instead represent the current expectations of NextEra Energy Partners, LP (together with its subsidiaries, NEP) regarding future operating results and other future events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of NEP's control. Forward-looking statements in this news release include, among others, statements concerning long-term growth rate expectations. In some cases, you can identify the forward-looking statements by words or phrases such as "will," "may result," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "intend," "plan," "seek," "aim," "potential," "projection," "forecast," "predict," "goals," "target," "outlook," "should," "would" or similar words or expressions. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are not a guarantee of future performance. The future results of NEP and its business and financial condition are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause NEP's actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties could require NEP to limit or eliminate certain operations. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following: NEP's ability to make cash distributions to its unitholders is affected by wind and solar conditions at its renewable energy projects; Operation and maintenance of renewable energy projects and pipelines involve significant risks that could result in unplanned power outages, reduced output or capacity, personal injury or loss of life; NEP's business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects can be materially adversely affected by weather conditions, including, but not limited to, the impact of severe weather; NEP depends on certain of the renewable energy projects and pipelines in its portfolio for a substantial portion of its anticipated cash flows; NEP may pursue the repowering of wind projects or the expansion of natural gas pipelines that would require up-front capital expenditures and could expose NEP to project development risks; Terrorist acts, cyberattacks or other similar events could impact NEP's projects, pipelines or surrounding areas and adversely affect its business; The ability of NEP to obtain insurance and the terms of any available insurance coverage could be materially adversely affected by international, national, state or local events and company-specific events, as well as the financial condition of insurers. NEP's insurance coverage does not provide protection against all significant losses; NEP relies on interconnection, transmission and other pipeline facilities of third parties to deliver energy from its renewable energy projects and to transport natural gas to and from its pipelines. If these facilities become unavailable, NEP's projects and pipelines may not be able to operate or deliver energy or may become partially or fully unavailable to transport natural gas; NEP's business is subject to liabilities and operating restrictions arising from environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, compliance with which may require significant capital expenditures, increase NEP's cost of operations and affect or limit its business plans; NEP's renewable energy projects or pipelines may be adversely affected by legislative changes or a failure to comply with applicable energy and pipeline regulations; Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) may claim certain immunities under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and Mexican law, and the Texas pipeline entities' ability to sue or recover from Pemex for breach of contract may be limited and may be exacerbated if there is a deterioration in the economic relationship between the U.S. and Mexico; NEP does not own all of the land on which the projects in its portfolio are located and its use and enjoyment of the property may be adversely affected to the extent that there are any lienholders or land rights holders that have rights that are superior to NEP's rights or the U.S. Bureau of Land Management suspends its federal rights-of-way grants; NEP is subject to risks associated with litigation or administrative proceedings that could materially impact its operations, including, but not limited to, proceedings related to projects it acquires in the future; NEP's operations require NEP to comply with anti-corruption laws and regulations of the U.S. government and Mexico; NEP is subject to risks associated with its ownership interests in projects that are under construction, which could result in its inability to complete construction projects on time or at all, and make projects too expensive to complete or cause the return on an investment to be less than expected; NEP relies on a limited number of customers and is exposed to the risk that they may be unwilling or unable to fulfill their contractual obligations to NEP or that they otherwise terminate their agreements with NEP; NEP may not be able to extend, renew or replace expiring or terminated power purchase agreements (PPA), natural gas transportation agreements or other customer contracts at favorable rates or on a long-term basis; If the energy production by or availability of NEP's renewable energy projects is less than expected, they may not be able to satisfy minimum production or availability obligations under their PPAs; NEP's growth strategy depends on locating and acquiring interests in additional projects consistent with its business strategy at favorable prices; Reductions in demand for natural gas in the United States or Mexico and low market prices of natural gas could materially adversely affect NEP's pipeline operations and cash flows; Government laws, regulations and policies providing incentives and subsidies for clean energy could be changed, reduced or eliminated at any time and such changes may negatively impact NEP's growth strategy; NEP's growth strategy depends on the acquisition of projects developed by NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE) and third parties, which face risks related to project siting, financing, construction, permitting, the environment, governmental approvals and the negotiation of project development agreements; Acquisitions of existing clean energy projects involve numerous risks; NEP may continue to acquire other sources of clean energy and may expand to include other types of assets. Any further acquisition of non-renewable energy projects may present unforeseen challenges and result in a competitive disadvantage relative to NEP's more-established competitors; NEP faces substantial competition primarily from regulated utilities, developers, independent power producers, pension funds and private equity funds for opportunities in North America; The natural gas pipeline industry is highly competitive, and increased competitive pressure could adversely affect NEP's business; NEP may not be able to access sources of capital on commercially reasonable terms, which would have a material adverse effect on its ability to consummate future acquisitions and pursue other growth opportunities; Restrictions in NEP and its subsidiaries' financing agreements could adversely affect NEP's business, financial condition, results of operations and ability to make cash distributions to its unitholders; NEP's cash distributions to its unitholders may be reduced as a result of restrictions on NEP's subsidiaries' cash distributions to NEP under the terms of their indebtedness or other financing agreements; NEP's subsidiaries' substantial amount of indebtedness may adversely affect NEP's ability to operate its business, and its failure to comply with the terms of its subsidiaries' indebtedness could have a material adverse effect on NEP's financial condition; NEP is exposed to risks inherent in its use of interest rate swaps; Widespread public health crises and epidemics or pandemics may have material adverse impacts on NEP's business, financial condition, liquidity, results of operations and ability to make cash distributions to its unitholders; NEE has influence over NEP; Under the cash sweep and credit support agreement, NEP receives credit support from NEE and its affiliates. NEP's subsidiaries may default under contracts or become subject to cash sweeps if credit support is terminated, if NEE or its affiliates fail to honor their obligations under credit support arrangements, or if NEE or another credit support provider ceases to satisfy creditworthiness requirements, and NEP will be required in certain circumstances to reimburse NEE for draws that are made on credit support; NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (NEER) or one of its affiliates is permitted to borrow funds received by NEP's subsidiaries and is obligated to return these funds only as needed to cover project costs and distributions or as demanded by NextEra Energy Operating Partners, LP (NEP OpCo). NEP's financial condition and ability to make distributions to its unitholders, as well as its ability to grow distributions in the future, is highly dependent on NEER's performance of its obligations to return all or a portion of these funds; NEER's right of first refusal may adversely affect NEP's ability to consummate future sales or to obtain favorable sale terms; NextEra Energy Partners GP, Inc. (NEP GP) and its affiliates may have conflicts of interest with NEP and have limited duties to NEP and its unitholders; NEP GP and its affiliates and the directors and officers of NEP are not restricted in their ability to compete with NEP, whose business is subject to certain restrictions; NEP may only terminate the Management Services Agreement among, NEP, NextEra Energy Management Partners, LP (NEE Management), NEP OpCo and NextEra Energy Operating Partners GP, LLC (NEP OpCo GP) under certain limited circumstances; If the agreements with NEE Management or NEER are terminated, NEP may be unable to contract with a substitute service provider on similar terms; NEP's arrangements with NEE limit NEE's potential liability, and NEP has agreed to indemnify NEE against claims that it may face in connection with such arrangements, which may lead NEE to assume greater risks when making decisions relating to NEP than it otherwise would if acting solely for its own account; NEP's ability to make distributions to its unitholders depends on the ability of NEP OpCo to make cash distributions to its limited partners; If NEP incurs material tax liabilities, NEP's distributions to its unitholders may be reduced, without any corresponding reduction in the amount of the IDR fee; Holders of NEP's units may be subject to voting restrictions; NEP's partnership agreement replaces the fiduciary duties that NEP GP and NEP's directors and officers might have to holders of its common units with contractual standards governing their duties and the NYSE does not require a publicly traded limited partnership like NEP to comply with certain of its corporate governance requirements; NEP's partnership agreement restricts the remedies available to holders of NEP's common units for actions taken by NEP's directors or NEP GP that might otherwise constitute breaches of fiduciary duties; Certain of NEP's actions require the consent of NEP GP; Holders of NEP's common units currently cannot remove NEP GP without NEE's consent and provisions in NEP's partnership agreement may discourage or delay an acquisition of NEP that NEP unitholders may consider favorable; NEE's interest in NEP GP and the control of NEP GP may be transferred to a third party without unitholder consent; NEP may issue additional units without unitholder approval, which would dilute unitholder interests; Reimbursements and fees owed to NEP GP and its affiliates for services provided to NEP or on NEP's behalf will reduce cash distributions from NEP OpCo and from NEP to NEP's unitholders, and there are no limits on the amount that NEP OpCo may be required to pay; Increases in interest rates could adversely impact the price of NEP's common units, NEP's ability to issue equity or incur debt for acquisitions or other purposes and NEP's ability to make cash distributions to its unitholders; The liability of holders of NEP's units, which represent limited partnership interests in NEP, may not be limited if a court finds that unitholder action constitutes control of NEP's business; Unitholders may have liability to repay distributions that were wrongfully distributed to them; The issuance of securities convertible into, or settleable with, common units may affect the market price for NEP's common units, will dilute common unitholders' ownership in NEP and may decrease the amount of cash available for distribution for each common unit; NEP's future tax liability may be greater than expected if NEP does not generate net operating losses (NOLs) sufficient to offset taxable income or if tax authorities challenge certain of NEP's tax positions; NEP's ability to use NOLs to offset future income may be limited; NEP will not have complete control over NEP's tax decisions; and, Distributions to unitholders may be taxable as dividends. NEP discusses these and other risks and uncertainties in its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and other Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, and this news release should be read in conjunction with such SEC filings made through the date of this news release. The forward-looking statements made in this news release are made only as of the date of this news release and NEP undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE: TRUL) (OTCQX: TCNNF) ("Trulieve" or "the Company"), a leading and top-performing cannabis company in the U.S., today announced planned participation in upcoming conferences and events in September.
- 3rd Annual Needham Virtual Cannabis Conference, September 7, 2022: Founder and CEO Kim Rivers will participate in a fireside chat and investor meetings.
- Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference, September 13, 2022: Founder and CEO Kim Rivers will give a keynote speech.
- Wolfe Research Fall Consumer Conference, September 22, 2022: Founder and CEO Kim Rivers will participate in a fireside chat and investor meetings.
Information about our events, links to events where available, and slide presentations can be found at: https://investors.trulieve.com/events-presentations
About Trulieve
Trulieve is an industry leading, vertically integrated cannabis company and multi-state operator in the U.S., with established hubs in the Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest, anchored by leading market positions in Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Trulieve is poised for accelerated growth and expansion, building scale in retail and distribution in new and existing markets through its hub strategy. By providing innovative, high-quality products across its brand portfolio, Trulieve delivers optimal customer experiences and increases access to cannabis, helping patients and customers to live without limits. Trulieve is listed on the CSE under the symbol TRUL and trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol TCNNF. For more information, please visit Trulieve.com.
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Investor Contact
Christine Hersey, Executive Director of Investor Relations
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Whatfix today announced that it has been named a Leader for the third consecutive year in the Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2022 released by Everest Group, a global research and analyst firm.
Despite an influx of new players entering the space, Whatfix was one of only two designated as a Leader, and saw a sharp improvement in its overall analytics offerings from the 2021 assessment. Whatfix also noted a strengthened position in the PEAK Matrix® from 2021, and a more distinct differentiation from competitors, especially on industry verticalization.
"We're excited to be recognized again as a Leader among digital adoption platforms," said Khadim Batti, CEO and co-founder, Whatfix. "Consistency and sustained excellence are baseline targets for Whatfix. We look forward to maintaining our leadership position by continuing to pursue technical excellence combined with relentless customer focus."
Everest Group highlighted Whatfix's ability to deliver scalable success for its clients by removing barriers between users and productivity. They lauded Whatfix's extensive partner ecosystem that spans across independent software vendors, system integrators and technology, analytics & AI vendors. Further, the report mentions personalized recommendations, automated testing, easy content creation & maintenance and flexible content delivery as some of Whatfix's key strengths. Everest Group also recognized the company's investment in its product analytics capabilities during the last year, which allows enterprises to track application utilization and recognize drop-offs, before or without creating any DAP content. This helps further drive adoption and efficiency by measuring gaps at an enterprise level.
"Whatfix is positioned as a Leader in the DAP Products PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2022, as a result of its investments in product capabilities and sustained market growth. It has deepened its capabilities in industry-specific solutions, element detection, product analytics, and support for mobile and desktop applications. Whatfix's strong roadmap and focus on innovation and customer experience places it well to serve the DAP buyers," said Sharath Hari N, Practice Director at Everest Group.
Everest Group's PEAK Matrix® is a proprietary framework used to assess the market impact and overall vision & capability of technology vendors. For the 2022 report, Everest Group evaluated 20 digital adoption platform (DAP) software providers.
"Whatfix does what all the competitors can but with better training, customer service, and price," said Brandon Copeland, Senior Director of Product Design at GlobalTranz, a leading provider of technology-driven transportation and supply chain management solutions. "Whatfix can do what the others cannot. The ability to utilize intelligent segmentation and the ability to have the walkthrough in multiple formats was a game changer for us. The training team is always available to help and very friendly."
Everest Group is a research firm focused on strategic IT, business services, and engineering services. Everest Group's PEAK Matrix® is compiled annually to provide the analysis and insights enterprises need to make critical selection decisions about global services providers, locations, and products and solutions within various market segments.
A complimentary custom copy of the report can be downloaded here.
Whatfix empowers anyone, anywhere to have scalable success with technology they use everyday, achieving greater knowledge, expanding capability, and unlocking productivity for themselves and their organizations. Whatfix's Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) integrates seamlessly with applications to enable users, providing in-context information and guidance to immediately increase individual capability and collectively amplify productivity. The organization has six offices globally in the US, India, UK, Germany, and Australia, and works with Fortune 500 companies around the world. Whatfix has raised $140 million to date, and is backed by marquee investors including Softbank Vision Fund 2, Sequoia Capital India, and Cisco Investments. For more information, visit Whatfix's website.
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Dex Polizzi
Lumina Communications for Whatfix
Whatfix@luminapr.com
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MOBILE, Ala., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Teamwork and caring for others. With those thoughts in mind, pharmacy students from the Auburn University Harrison College of Pharmacy's campus in Mobile and health care professions students from the University of South Alabama came together in 2014, founding what has turned into the USA Student Run Free Clinic.
Operated out of the Salvation Army on Dauphin Street in downtown Mobile, students across multiple health and social science disciplines collaborate to empower patients through health education, promotion of health literacy and improving access to community health resources.
Much of health care today is done in a team setting with pharmacists, physicians, nurses and many others working together to provide the best care possible for their patients. The interprofessional nature of the clinic allows Harrison College of Pharmacy, or HCOP, students to get a preview of what lies ahead in a professional setting.
"Interprofessional experience has been a big part of the HCOP curriculum and being able to actually use these skills before entering my fourth year was important to me," said Angelique Holmes, a member of the Class of 2024. "This experience has allowed me to see the roles of other disciplines in a health care team and where my place was as a pharmacy student."
Holmes, a native of Otsego, Michigan, and a graduate of Western Michigan University, currently serves as president of the clinic's student board. Holding a leadership position within the clinic, she understands the value of experiential learning as she prepares for her career.
"This experience is vital to my learning because I was able to work with actual patients in my first year of pharmacy school," said Holmes. "This opportunity has taught me how to critically think about a patient's case and learn in a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere where it is ok to be wrong."
Under the supervision of a faculty advisor and various preceptors, students working in the clinic see a variety of patients, many of whom are experiencing homelessness. While providing an experiential learning opportunity for students to practice clinical and communication skills, the clinic also improves sensitivity to vulnerable populations and promotes a lifelong commitment to service.
"As health care professionals, it is our responsibility to serve humanity, which includes people from all walks of life, backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses," said Sarah Grace Barnes, also a member of the Class of 2024 and the pharmacy liaison on the student board. "Everyone deserves access to care, and the patients we serve at Student Run Free Clinic are extremely grateful that we show up for them and provide care each week."
Barnes, a Fairhope native, was first exposed to the clinic while working on her biology degree at the University of South Alabama. Seeing firsthand the valuable experience and the impact on patients, she knew it was something she wanted to be a part of as soon as she started pharmacy school.
"Experiential learning is an absolute necessity to becoming a pharmacist. The skills we learn in lab and in the classroom need to be practiced to ensure we are practice-ready pharmacists upon entering the workforce after graduation," said Barnes. "The Student Run Free Clinic is the perfect place to practice blood pressure and blood glucose screenings, patient counseling and assessing medication regimens for appropriateness."
From improving health outcomes to building relationships, Auburn and South Alabama students are working together to make a difference in their community.
"Our patients come back to the clinic weekly to get checks on their blood pressure or blood sugar, or just to sit and talk with the volunteers," said Holmes. "You never know how you are going to be able to help someone, whether that be by providing services or a listening ear.
"From the time I started volunteering, that was the most surprising thing: I wasn't just there to practice my skills in the classroom, I was there to build a relationship with the patients."
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Family histories can be found through fair participation
The 2022 Muskingum County Fair has now come and gone, but the discussions of food, friends and families, projects and judging will continue among those who attended.
I was recently involved in the third discussion in as many days related to fair families and was asked by someone during each discussion to explore what it is in this article. Since one person was a local cousin, one a daughter and another a close friend, I thought it worthwhile to follow through.
This whole thing had already started several weeks before when one of my wife’s Facebook friends mentioned how many generations of her family had shown at our county fair and my wife wanted to know about our family’s fair history. I had pieces of information from before, but now with the help of my father’s stories, a few cousins’ memories, some recovered fair minutes and the first year entry of a great-granddaughter into the 4-H show ring, I can answer that we now count eight generations of Muskingum County Fair participants.
Our story started in 1865 when John Bell, my great-great-grandfather, was elected to the Muskingum County Agricultural Society (fair board). His son, my great-grandfather, Samuel McCoy Bell, showed mules at the fair in the 1870s and 1880s. My grandfather, Samuel H. Bell, served on the fair board from 1911 to 1933. My father Robert and his brothers Edwin, Arthur and Alvin, and sister, Betty, all exhibited or showed in 4-H and open class during the 1920s and 1930s. My brother, eight cousins and I showed in 4-H in the 1950s and 1960s. Daughters and sons of these cousins, along with my daughters, showed in the 1980s and 1990s. Their children have been showing in the 2000s and our great-granddaughter began the eighth generation of participation this year with her dairy heifer and breeding ewe.
My interest in sharing this information is neither to highlight my family nor to continue in the role as the family storyteller, but rather to challenge each of you to take a look at your family and its role in whatever community your family members call home. In our case, we have called Muskingum County home and have been excited to be involved in the Muskingum County Fair.
Lately, I have become a fan of several TV shows where people are helped to discover their family history and I have been surprised by how little some of these participants know. With our increasingly diverse and mobile society, I fear it will become even more difficult to gather this history. Challenge yourself to collect your stories now.
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(WXYZ) — Gas prices in Michigan held steady over the past week which included Labor Day, according to AAA Michigan.
The agency reports that gas prices in Michigan are an average of $3.83 per gallon. That's 25 cents less than this time last month but 62 cents higher than this time last year.
In metro Detroit, gas prices increased about 3 cents to an average of $3.97 per gallon. That's 70 cents higher than this time last year.
AAA reports that data from the Energy Information Administration found gas demand increased slightly and domestic stocks decreased, but lower oil prices have contributed to falling prices at the pump.
"Michigan motorists saw an uptick in gas prices heading into Labor Day weekend," said Adrienne Woodland, spokesperson, AAA-The Auto Club Group. "Despite the slight increase, the Michigan state average held steady week over week."
- Most expensive gas price averages: Ann Arbor ($3.98), Metro Detroit ($3.97), Traverse City ($3.95)
- Least expensive gas price averages: Grand Rapids ($3.62), Saginaw ($3.69), Lansing ($3.69) | https://www.fox17online.com/news/gas-prices-hold-steady-in-michigan-over-labor-day-weekend | 2022-09-06T12:23:01Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/gas-prices-hold-steady-in-michigan-over-labor-day-weekend | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Post’s Joseph Staszewski brings you around the world of professional wrestling every Tuesday in his weekly column, the Post Match Angle.
What a weekend!
WWE delivered one of its best shows of the year with Clash at the Castle and NXT Worlds Collide was a fun appetizer for an AEW All Out that didn’t wow, but certainly didn’t set the company back in any major way.
So, what does it all mean?
It means we are in for a heck of a pro wrestling ride and it reinforced the fact the industry is so much better when there are two major companies fighting at the top. This isn’t the “Monday Night Wars,” because their television shows aren’t going head-to-head, but it is clear AEW and WWE are going to push each other in every way for territory, eyeballs and buzz. It’s a reality the pandemic delayed and Vince McMahon’s retirement accelerated.
It’s been a long time since pro wrestling has been this interesting — and we are are only getting started.
If there was a winner of the weekend it was WWE. That’s mostly because Triple H is bringing the company on par with the way AEW has endeared itself so much to the modern pro wrestling audience that wanted an alternative — but on a grander scale because of the company’s endless resources and ability to hold stadium shows like it did in Cardiff, Wales.
Finishes to matches are cleaner, the storytelling is more reality-based and raw, the wrestlers are being given more freedom on the mic and in the ring and the announcers get to complement that in a more organic way. Like Tony Khan is for AEW — and unlike McMahon was previously for WWE — Triple H is more accessible and transparent to the media whether it be his sit-down with Ariel Helwani or doing a press conference with a number of the talent after Clash at the Castle. These are things AEW did well and made it feel different and more refreshing than what WWE had recently become under McMahon. What Triple H is starting to do now makes the industry leader so much more intriguing as it looks to continue to flex its muscle. Bray Wyatt, Sasha Banks and Naomi are still all out there for potential returns as well.
AEW isn’t going away and won’t back down – not from trying to directly compete but to keep WWE getting back on track from stunting its growth. Khan, who said AEW will gross more than $100 million this year, felt like a man hell-bent on delivering big things and has a chance with Grand Slam and Full Gear fast approaching.
He was, however, frustrated that WWE ran both Clash at the Castle and Worlds Collide for the first time on the same weekend as his biggest PPV. He said he was surprised by it, but didn’t think “that’s a coincidence.” Khan, who insinuated the move impacted PPV buys a bit, went on to compare AEW to Jim Crockett Promotions in the 1980s, which WWE often counter-programmed against, before throwing out a warning shot.
“When I compared myself to Jim Crockett Promotions this weekend, I think I got a taste of the same medicine Jim Crockett Promotions took [from WWE], but I have a lot more f–king money than Jim Crockett did. I’m serious. I’m not gonna sit back and take this f—ing s–t,” Khan said.
Khan has never lacked fire, resolve and the deep pockets to get things done, but it feels – unless this is all part of elaborate game to turn fans against CM Punk just as MJF returns – he needs to get his house in order first. Punk’s post-All Out rant on Colt Cabana, the company’s executive vice presidents and “Hangman” Adam Page felt so counterproductive just as AEW needs to come together after a show that wasn’t as well received as its past PPVs because of some fixable booking issues in the mid-card. It also took some attention away from MJF’s return, especially with reports from multiple outlets that Punk, The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega got into it physically backstage following his comments.
But all of it does make so much about AEW that much more intriguing as fans wait to see if any of these potential real-life issues continue to pour onto their screens and into the company’s storylines. Punk flat out called MJF, who was treated like a superstar in a memorable return and the potential to be big business for the company, a “prick.” You don’t think Max is going to verbally skewer Punk for everything that’s gone on? It will be up to AEW to harness that as fuel to propel it forward and not see it be roadblock that drives it off course. And who doesn’t want to watch to see how that all turns out?
It’s why pro wrestling hasn’t been this interesting in a long time – and we’re just getting started.
Back in The Game
First off, Ariel Helwani did a very good job with his Triple H interview ahead of Clash at the Castle. Second, Triple H came off calm and calculated, knowing he will make mistakes but it’s clear he’s fully in control of a WWE. He has a vision of how he wants the company to evolve.
Third, the “Black and Gold” NXT continues to be a “developmental” brand when it fits the “Wednesday Night War” narrative WWE wants because they lost. Fourth, he is not wrong – at least in public perception — in his explanation of the difference between a WWE Superstar and a pro wrestler. He compared it to being a cage fighter or UFC fighter and a pro football player and an NFL player. Lastly, if the “promo” he cut about getting the Rock back for WrestleMania in Hollywood doesn’t get “The Great One” there, I don’t know what will.
The most sobering part of the interview, however, was Triple H talking about the heart issues that put his life in danger last year, not realizing his family’s history of heart trouble and the 15 hours of surgery it took to get his defibrillator to work correctly. It puts a whole lot in perspective.
The 10 Count
While WWE and Triple H doing a press conference after the Clash at the Castle is a refreshing thing I hope continues, I have really mixed feelings about what Roman Reigns pulled. The Tribal Chief, the face of the company was asked a legit and harmless question by a media member. Reigns, in character, then asked the media member to acknowledge him, which he did and then still refused to answer his question before walking out. Never breaking character, It created a cool moment/video for Reigns and the company – which I guess is their right to try if they are holding on of these things. Still, ideally, you want these pressers to be as out of character as possible and media members shouldn’t be disrespected in that way. It’s a rare chance to give people a look at the real people behind the characters, don’t abuse.
So how do you follow up, MJF’s big return at All Out. You have MJF cut a promo. Punk comes out to meet him face-to-face and then the AEW champion is attacked by MJF’s new group. It prompts FTR and Wardlow to come to Punk’s aid. Now you have FTR vs. The Gunns and Wardlow vs. William Morrisey for the TNT title and some other cool combinations.
Happy to see Queens native and Archbishop Molloy alum William Morrissey getting what looks like an extended stay in AEW after truly turning his life around after struggles with alcoholism. Morrissey wasn’t officially given the graphic and All Elite status, but he appeared to be part of the new group around MJF and that’s not a bad place to be.
Dominik Mysterio officially joining The Judgement Day and turning on his dad Rey and Edge finally gives the group some much-needed bite back — especially with Rhea Ripley absolutely killing it in the role as his “papi” after “making him a man.” Still, at least for Day 1, Dominik feels like the good kid trying to act like he belongs with the bad kids just to spite his dad — and maybe that’s the point. Also, please stop the Eddie Guerrero-Chyna comparisons. This isn’t the same thing
A few weeks back, Mickie James hinted she may be moving toward retirement in the ring. It’s now become a major angle in Impact as James announced her last rodeo as she will fight to from the bottom to regain the Knockouts championship with any loss along the way ending her in-ring career. It’s and an excellent way to use her and makes all of her matches must-watch. It would have been so much cooler in WWE, but it puts a big spotlight on Impact women’s division, which hold up again any in pro wrestling.
From Trish Straus to Kurt Angle to at least the start of John Bradshaw Layfield now with Baron Corbin and Bret Hart, it’s been refreshing to see the way legends are being used in WWE now and hopefully it brings more back.
Was I the only one who thought Tyson Fury was going to try to drop Roman Reigns when he got into the ring?
Last week’s episode of NXT reminded me of the later seasons of “Glee”, where group members from previous years who had gone on to bigger and better things returned to William McKinley High. Seeing nine NXT stars back gave off he same vibe.
The two biggest winners from Worlds Collide — a solid overall show, but not as good as All Out — are undisputed NXT women’s champion Mandy Rose and her main counterpart Bron Breaker as they are the unquestioned faces of the brand now. But they match everyone well remember is Carmelo Hayes vs. Ricochet. I’ll never be able to un-see that springboard crossbody and never want to.
It is good to see Braun Strowman back in WWE, but unless you are bringing Nicholas back too, I’m not sure what long-term good having him run through the entire Raw tag team division does.
Wrestler of the Week
Roman Reigns, WWE
Just as it looked like his time as champion was getting stale, Reigns delivered an excellent main event match for the second straight pay-per-view as he defeated Drew McIntyre at Clash at the Castle. By doing so, he likely clears the road of any major threats to his reign between now and WrestleMania 39 — meaning he will approach 1,000 days on top. Also, Reigns calls himself the “Head of the Table” of the Anoa’i family for a reason and now cousin Solo Sikoa can now eat a little bit better with his main roster call up to the Bloodline.
Match to Watch
Daniel Garcia vs. Wheeler Yuta, ROH Pure Championship (Dynamite, Wednesday, 8 p.m., TBS)
Not only are these two of the top up-and-coming talents in the promotion, the match has major storyline implications with Garcia not being backed up by the Jericho Appreciation Society. The Buffalo native with be wrestling in front is home crowd with his standing in the group in question after the event at All Out. Where will AEW take this?
Honorable Mention: Edge vs. Dominik Mysterio (Monday Night Raw)
Around the Ring
- AEW announced the Full Gear pay-per-view will be Nov. 9 at Prudential Center and a live Rampage the night before. It’s the company’s first East Cost pay-per-view.
- WWE announced The Undertaker’s “1 Deadman Show” will be coming to Philadelphia on Oct. 7 ahead of Extreme Rules. Tickets go on sale Sept. 6.
- Jon Moxley vs. Nick Cage’s championship vs. career match will happen at the GCW Fight Club at the Showboat Hotel in Atlantic City on Oct. 8-9. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/06/wwe-aews-weekend-has-wrestling-as-interesting-as-ever/ | 2022-09-06T12:23:01Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/06/wwe-aews-weekend-has-wrestling-as-interesting-as-ever/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
I like writing – whether it will last on a physical page, if people look beyond its contents – and so am quite happy sharing links or reading comments here in Worddile Blipfolio and on FaceSpace… where comments here can get missed (as Wordflare is less public) you might have a slightly broader reach posting in F-space. So just go there when the words (like many more to share over these days in the UK; you guys get a long one), We're already off to a great start in September, and some fall-like temperatures have happened over Labor Day weekend. With that, many people are looking forward to fall, and the fall colors that happen throughout Michigan in late September into October.
SmokyMountains.com has once again released its fall foliage prediction map, which is an interactive map that shows when fall colors are expected to peak across the U.S.
According to the map, most of the Lower Peninsula will have "minimal" color on Sept. 12, with some areas in the U.P. having "patchy color."
Jumping ahead two weeks to Sept. 26, some of the U.P. in the western and eastern areas will be "near peak," while most of the Lower Peninsula and the central U.P. will be "partial."
By Oct. 10, it's expected that most of the state will be in "peak color" besides some areas of the U.P. that will be past peak, and most of the northern part of the U.S. will be past peak by Oct. 24. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/heres-when-fall-colors-are-expected-to-peak-across-michigan-in-2022 | 2022-09-06T12:23:07Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/heres-when-fall-colors-are-expected-to-peak-across-michigan-in-2022 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Liz Truss became U.K. prime minister on Tuesday and immediately confronted the enormous task ahead of her amid increasing pressure to curb soaring prices, ease labor unrest and fix a health care system burdened by long waiting lists and staff shortages.
At the top of her in-box is the energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which threatens to push energy bills to unaffordable levels, shuttering businesses and leaving the nation’s poorest people shivering in icy homes this winter.
Truss, who refused to spell out her energy strategy during the two-month campaign to succeed Boris Johnson, now plans to cap energy bills at a cost to taxpayers of as much as 100 billion pounds ($116 billion), British news media reported Tuesday. She is expected to unveil her plan on Thursday.
“You must know about the cost of living crisis in England, which is really quite bad at the moment,” Rebecca Macdougal, 55, who works in law enforcement, said outside the Houses of Parliament.
“She’s making promises for that, as she says she’s going to deliver, deliver, deliver," she said. "But we will see in, hopefully, the next few weeks there’ll be some announcements which will help the normal working person.”
Truss took office Tuesday afternoon at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, when Queen Elizabeth II formally asked her to form a new government in a carefully choreographed ceremony dictated by centuries of tradition. Johnson, who announced his intention to step down two months ago, formally resigned during his own audience with the queen a short time earlier.
It was the first time in the queen’s 70-year reign that the handover of power took place at Balmoral, rather than at Buckingham Palace in London. The ceremony was moved to Scotland to provide certainty about the schedule because the 96-year-old queen has experienced problems getting around that have forced palace officials to make decisions about her travel on a day-to-day basis.
Truss, 47, took office a day after the ruling Conservative Party chose her as its leader in an election where the party’s 172,000 dues-paying members were the only voters. As party leader, Truss automatically became prime minister without the need for a general election because the Conservatives still have a majority in the House of Commons.
But as a prime minister selected by less than 0.5% of British adults, Truss is under pressure to show quick results.
Ed Davey, leader of the opposition Liberal Democrats, on Tuesday called for an early election in October.
“I’ve listened to Liz Truss during the Tory leadership (campaign) and I was looking for a plan to help people with their skyrocketing energy bills, with the NHS crisis and so on, and I heard no plan at all,” he told the BBC.
“Given people are really worried, given people are losing sleep over their energy bills, businesses aren’t investing because of the crisis, I think that’s really wrong," Davey said.
Johnson took note of the strains facing Britain as he left the prime minister’s official residence at No. 10 Downing Street for the last time, saying his policies had left the government with the economic strength to help people weather the energy crisis.
While many observers expect Johnson to attempt a political comeback, he backed Truss and compared himself to Cincinnatus, the Roman dictator who relinquished power and returned to his farm to live in peace.
“Like Cincinnatus, I am returning to my plow,” he said. “And I will be offering this government nothing but the most fervent support.” | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/boris-johnson-arrives-at-queens-estate-to-offer-resignation | 2022-09-06T12:23:19Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/boris-johnson-arrives-at-queens-estate-to-offer-resignation | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kannur: State Education Minister V Sivankutty has mooted comprehensive changes in the public education system of the State, including promotion of teachers based on academic progress and other merits, grading for schools and cutting down the number of associations.
The suggestions were presented before the Teachers’ associations as he was inaugurating the State level Teachers’ day celebrations yesterday. Stating that he was sure of not getting applauded for these suggestions, Sivankutty said, the teachers should also raise the students’ demands hereafter in the association meetings.
“Should seniority be the only criterion for teachers’ promotions hereafter? Academic skills and expertise must also be considered. There should be a grading system for schools too. As of now, there are as many as 45 teachers’ associations. An auditorium itself is needed to organise a meeting for the associations’ representatives. The state of Malayalam teachers teaching English to the students must change. Excellent training must be ensured for the students. One principal and vice principal are enough in one school. At present, there are even three headmasters. An increase in the number of power positions will affect the overall coordination. Teacher student ratio is mooted to be 1:40. However, that cannot be expected in the very next year. The Department has appointed a sub-committee to look into the issues that have been left out from those raised by the teachers’ associations,” the Minister said.
The Minister gave away the School PTA awards and Vidhyarangam Kala Sahithya Vedi awards during the event. C H Mohammed Koya Memorial award for the Best PTA was bagged by Kottayam Akkarappadam Government UP School and Kollam Thazhava Adhithya Vilasam Government High School.
Other schools which bagged the State honours were: Kollam Panmanayil GLP School, Pathanamthitta Poozhikkad Government UP School, Moovaattupuzha Payipra GUP School, Kannur Varam Kadamkode Mappila L P School, Wayanad Beenachi Government High School, Cherthala Charamangalam Government DVHSS, Palakkad Edathunattukara Government Oriental HSS, and Kannur Irikkur Government HSS. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/06/kerala-public-education-system-changes.html | 2022-09-06T12:30:58Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/06/kerala-public-education-system-changes.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kochi: The Public sector banks can request the issuance of Look Out Circulars (LOC) against loan defaulters only if their failure to repay loans becomes detrimental to the interests of the nation and the public, the Kerala High Court has held.
The proceeding can’t be initiated against all the defaulters with the intention to prevent them from travelling abroad, it said.
The fact that a violation occurred in the financial agreement between the bank and its customers alone doesn’t affect the nation's economic and broader public interests. If such an interpretation is allowed, there will be a situation where a citizen’s fundamental right to liberty is curtailed to protect the financial interests of banks, the court observed.
Justice V.G. Arun delivered the verdict while allowing two separate petitions filed by Kollam native Pradeep Kumar, who stood as a guarantor for a loan taken by a Kollam-based cashew export firm, and Shinaz, owner of a cashew-processing company. Earlier, when the petitioners reached the airport to travel to Dubai, they were prevented from leaving the country by the Bureau of Immigration on the basis of the Look-Out Circulars against them. The duo moved the court, questioning the action.
An order of the Supreme Court constitutional bench makes it clear that a citizen’s right to freedom can’t be denied in any manner other than through legal means, the court observed. Also, the order by the Union Ministry makes it clear the Look-out Circular can be issued only in rare cases with sufficient reasons, it pointed out.
The banks had already initiated proceedings against the petitioners to recover outstanding dues. The immigration officials interfered based on a Look Out Circular issued by the banks, and hence the latter is legally accountable, the lawyer representing the Central Government argued. The banks argued it was possible to initiate the action against willful loan defaulters. The court, however, observed that it required issuing a special notification as per the Reserve Bank guidelines to declare that the customer defaulted in making the payment willfully. The same has not happened in this case, it pointed out.
The court made it clear that the Immigration officials acting on the basis of the Look-Out Circulars issued by banks against defaulters is not legally acceptable and that they shouldn't prevent the petitioners from travelling abroad. However, it said there is no bar for the banks in taking strict actions against loan defaulters by fully adhering to the guidelines issued by the Union Home Ministry. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/06/loan-defaulters-kerala-high-court.html | 2022-09-06T12:31:23Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/06/loan-defaulters-kerala-high-court.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kollam: The Kerala Police have arrested 11 Sri Lankan citizens who had reached Kollam for illegally travelling to countries such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand in fishing boats. According to officials, a major racket involved in human trafficking was behind the incident.
Meanwhile, the Kerala Police have intensified the search for more people who have reportedly arrived in Kollam for illegal migration. However, the authorities are yet to trace the fishing boat meant to take the people abroad.
The 11 Sri Lankans were arrested from a hotel around 2.45 am on Monday. The police identified them as Sudarshan (27) and Pavithran (27), belonging to Trincomalee in Sri Lanka; Saravanan (24), Ajay (24), Prasad (24), Mathivannan (35), Queens Raj (22) and Jarsool (21) who were staying at Valavanthankottai refugee camp in Trichy, Tamil Nadu; Dinesh Kumar (36) and Navaneethan (24) who arrived from Chennai and Prakash Raj (22) who reached Kollam from Tirunelveli.
Sudarshan and Pavithran had landed at Chennai from Sri Lanka on July 20 and travelled by bus to Kollam. The Q-Branch of the Tamil Nadu police launched an investigation when both of them – who had arrived on a tourist visa – went missing. The probe revealed that several other Sri Lankan citizens also had gone missing from the refugee camp. Q-Branch officers soon traced the route of the missing persons to Kollam and alerted the Kerala Police.
Based on the information provided by Q-Branch, officers from the Kollam East Police Station arrested the Sri Lankans. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/06/sri-lankans-illegal-migration-kollam.amp.html | 2022-09-06T12:31:43Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/06/sri-lankans-illegal-migration-kollam.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Kerala Government has set up a seven-member expert committee headed by Dr Thomas Mathew, director of medical education, study the efficacy of the rabies vaccine.
The committee was set up after Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan assured the the Assembly On August 30 that a panel would look into the vaccines administered in the state.
The chief minister made the announcement in the House after witnessing alarming increase in post-vaccination rabies deaths in Kerala. Five of the 22 people who died of rabies this year alone had taken vaccination.
The committee will have to submit its report in a month.
Other members of the panel are: Dr E Sreekumar, Director, Institute of Virology; Dr Reeta S Mani, additional professor, Department of Neurology, World Health Organisation, Collaborative Centre for Reference and Research for Rabies, NIMHANS, Bangalore; P M Jayan, Drugs Controller; Dr Aravind R, head of the department, Infectious Diseases Department, Thiruvananthapuram Medical College; Dr Swapna Susan Abraham, deputy director, State Institute for Animal Diseases, Palode, Thiruvananthapuram; and Dr Harikumar S, assistant director, Public Health, Directorate of Health Services, Thiruvananthapuram.
The 'terms of reference' given to the committee is broader than what was promised in the Assembly by the Chief Minister. On August 30, Pinarayi said an expert committee would look into the efficacy of the rabies vaccines in the backdrop of the widespread belief that quality norms were set aside while procuring the latest set of vaccines. He made this assurance right after Health Minister Veena George made a passionate defence of the procurement process in the Assembly.
Though the health minister claimed that the vaccines were subject to three levels of quality checks, the Kerala State Medical Services Corporation, which does the procurement, later contradicted the minister and confirmed the Opposition charge that quality control norms were eased to expedite quicker purchase.
The expert team not only will analyse the potency of the rabies vaccine but will also provide a more exhaustive picture of the rabies management mechanism in Kerala.
There will be nine Terms of Reference for the team. One, the possible reasons for rabies death in a few vaccinated individuals to whom the serum was also administered.
Two, missed opportunities to prevent rabies death and strategies to intervene. Three, knowledge, attitude, and skill of people involved in vaccination programs including training needs.
Four, adequacy of existing vaccination policy and modifications if any. Five, the efficacy of vaccine by analyzing antibody response to the vaccine. Six, material management issues including the maintenance of cold chains.
Seven, instances of omission or commission, if any, from the medical point of view or otherwise, on the part of any person/persons/ institutions/ establishments for which they are to be made accountable.
Eight, necessary proposals/suggestions/ recommendations for future course of action and also suggestions to achieve zero rabies death by 2025. Nine, any other relevant matter in this connection, the committee deems fit for consideration. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/06/stray-dogs-rabies-kerala.html | 2022-09-06T12:32:02Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/06/stray-dogs-rabies-kerala.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Best smart pens for paperless notes and sketches
Save on paper, and let your creativity run wild, with the help of a smart pen.
Our fingers do a grand job of controlling our touch screen devices - minus the odd embarrassing typo - but sometimes we're after a bit more precision and control, particularly when it comes to note taking and sketching. Cue the smart pen.
The handy device lets us draw and write on our touch screens like we would pen to paper. Smart pens are ideal for creative tasks, as you have the freedom to scribble and sketch with no restrictions, whether you're creating a new logo for work, or doodling on your commute home. And of course, smart pens are an easy way to save on paper so we can take greener notes.
We've rounded up six of the best smart pens including models that work on a range of devices, handy for large households, as well as Apple and Microsoft specific designs. So take a browse, and find a model to suit your scribbling needs, and budget.
Read our review of the reMarkable 2 tablet, a smart paperlike notebook that wants to replace pen and paper.
Best smart pens for 2022
Aniyoo stylus pen
A sleek matte smart pen for iPad users, great for drawing and spontaneous note taking thanks to the 1.5mm tip. Easy to use, just double tap the top of the pen, and start scribbling. A real bonus is the palm rejection tech which lets you rest your palm on the screen without causing interference.
This iPad pencil is compatible with mini, Air and Pro models released after 2018, including iPad 6th to 9th generation and iPad Air 3rd to 5th generation. So even if there are a couple of models in your household, you're likely to all benefit.
There's a convenient light system which indicates how much battery your smart pen has, so you can easily keep on top of your pen's charge. And if you misplace a pen tip, the set comes with two back ups.
Oaso smart pen
This smart pen works without Bluetooth and charge, so it's an effortless, low-maintenance option. It essentially works as your fingers would on the screen, and is compatible with a number of brands including Apple, Samsung and Microsoft, so even if you replace your tablet, you'll not need to update your smart pen.
The magnetic lid helps to keep your stylus in good condition, and the smart pen's tip has been designed to work from all angles for easy, faff-free use. Great for kids' homework, art work and photo editing apps, this handy smart pen is a straightforward, budget-friendly choice.
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Microsoft Surface slim pen 2
One for the Microsoft Surface enthusiasts, this is the brand's second smart pen, so expect real-time writing and impressive accuracy thanks to the improved sharper pen tip. It's an ideal choice for shading too, so one to think about if you're an artist or work in graphic design.
Unlike the previous models listed, this smart pen works through Bluetooth connection, and works alongside a number of Surface models including Surface Laptop Studio, Surface Pro X and Surface Hub 2S. You'll need a charger for this device, or you can just use other Microsoft products including the Surface Pro Signature Keyboard to power up your smart pen.
We love the look of this smart pen too - a particularly stylish stylus.
Apple smart pencil, 2nd generation
It's no surprise Apple has its own smart pen, designed to be used with iPads. The pen magnetically attaches to your iPad Pro, and charges wirelessly, so you won't need to add extra cables to your workspace. Boasting pixel-perfect precision, the Apple pencil lets you draw with a range of thicknesses, so you can nail tricky aspects such as wispy hair. Just tilt the pencil for shading effects and double tap to swap tools.
And in terms of the design itself, expect the brand's classic sleek and understated look.
Logitech crayon smart pencil
Another option for Apple fans, for a much more affordable price, this Logitech crayon smart pencil has been designed to be used with 5th and 6th generation iPads.
With palm rejection technology and over seven hours of battery life on a single charge, pop this smart pen in your bag for a day of creativity when you're out and about. Simply click the power button to get going, no need to pair with your tablet, and tilt the pen to adjust the thickness of your lines.
Moleskine smart writing notebook and pen set
There's also the option to invest in a smart notebook and smart pen. The clever devices allow you to digitise your handwritten notes, so they're is a solid option if you enjoy the physical feel of pen and paper, a preferred option perhaps if you're writing lots of notes in one go rather than sketching.
This Moleskine design appears fairly traditional with its ivory-coloured pages, but as you draw, you can watch your work appear in real time on your tablet. You can then view and edit your handwritten notes on your tablet. Add colour, shading, whatever digital magic you fancy. Or why not handwrite an email for a personalised touch?
- Buy now from Selfridges (£229.00)
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Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) stock has lost over one-fourth of its value so far this year. A slowdown in ad spending amid macro challenges and uncertainty and tough year-over-year comparisons have led to a moderation in its growth, dragging the stock price of this internet giant down. However, its recent quarterly performance (Q2FY22) showed resilience, with strength in the search business and momentum in the cloud segment. This has restored analysts’ and investors’ faith in GOOGL stock, highlighting an opportunity for investors interested in buying the dip.
According to TipRanks, analysts seem to have a bullish outlook on GOOGL stock. Further, 1.2% of the investors tracked by TipRanks increased their exposure to GOOGL stock in the past 30 days, indicating their positive stance on the stock.
But before deciding what to do with GOOGL stock, let’s examine its recent performance and understand what’s in the store for it in the upcoming quarter.
Bumpy Road Ahead
GOOGL missed analysts’ earnings expectations in the first two quarters of FY22. In the last reported quarter (Q2), GOOGL delivered earnings of $1.21 per share, compared to $1.36 per share in the same quarter last year. Further, Google’s Q2 earnings per share fell short of Street’s expectations of $1.27 per share.
As for Q3, Wall Street expects GOOGL to deliver earnings of $1.28 per share, which reflects a continued decline on a year-over-year basis. Moderation in growth led by tough comparisons, decelerating ad revenues, and headwinds from fee changes could remain a drag for Google. Further, higher costs could put pressure on the company’s Q3 earnings.
What Is GOOGL’s Price Target?
GOOGL’s average price target of $142.84 implies 32.4% upside potential. Analysts are optimistic about GOOGL’s prospects despite moderation in its growth rate. GOOGL stock commands a Strong Buy consensus rating on TipRanks based on 30 Buys and two Holds.
Tigress Financial analyst Ivan Feinseth, who is bullish on GOOGL stock, recently raised his price target to $186 from 183. Feinseth said, “Strength in Cloud and Search continues to highlight the resiliency of its core business lines and ongoing investments in AI (Artificial Intelligence) computing continue to drive increased customer value and increasing shareholder value creation.”
Further, the analyst sees Google’s $70 billion share repurchase plan, announced in April, as a positive catalyst for its stock.
Bottom Line
Undeniably, GOOGL is facing challenges due to the pullbacks in spending by some advertisers, adverse currency movement, and tough year-over-year comparisons. However, the company’s fundamentals remain intact with strength in its search and cloud segments.
Read full Disclosure | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/alphabet-nasdaqgoogl-stock-is-the-dip-an-opportunity-for-investors | 2022-09-06T12:37:13Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/alphabet-nasdaqgoogl-stock-is-the-dip-an-opportunity-for-investors | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA), Raytheon Technologies Corporation (NYSE:RTX), and Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE:LMT) are the three prominent defense players in the United States that could intrigue prospective investors amid rising geopolitical tensions across the globe. Interestingly, U.S. politicians have traded (bought and sold) in these companies in the past three months.
It is worth noting that these defense players might gain from the U.S. Government’s commitment to sell defense products and technologies worth $1.09 billion to Taiwan. This decision was taken after Democrat and Representative California Nancy Pelosi visited the Asian island in August 2022.
On Friday, the United States Department of State revealed that the $1.09 billion deal would include the sale of $355 million worth of Harpoon missiles (air-to-sea), $85 million worth of Sidewinder missiles (air-to-air), and $655 million worth of logistics support to Taiwan. The logistic package would help strengthen the surveillance radar system of Taiwan against China.
In this article, we will discuss how Boeing, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin might benefit from this deal. Also, we will take a look at the trading activities of some U.S. politicians and take into account analysts’ views on these stocks. A consolidated chart of the three stocks prepared using TipRanks’ Stock Comparison tool is provided below.
The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA)
The Chicago, IL-based company has expertise in making anti-ship missiles (Harpoon), military aircraft, unmanned vehicles, satellites, defense systems, and other products and technologies.
In the past three months, shares of this $90.15-billion company were purchased twice by a Representative of California, Alan Lowenthal. Both the Buy transactions of the Democrat were valued within the $1,000-$15,000 range.
Is BA Stock a Buy Now?
If you consider U.S. politicians’ interest and the optimism of analysts on TipRanks, BA stock seems to be a good investment option for now. The company has a Strong Buy consensus rating based on 11 Buys and two Holds.
BA’s average price target of $213.33 represents 40.52% upside potential from the current level. The highest price target is $281, and the lowest is $170. Over the past three months, shares of Boeing have grown 9% to close at $151.82 on Friday.
Raytheon Technologies Corporation (NYSE:RTX)
The $129.3-billion company is known for its missiles, especially Sidewinder missiles, and defense radar systems and technologies. Headquartered in Waltham, MA, the company’s other operations include providing services to aircraft manufacturers, designing aviation systems, and supply of aircraft engines.
U.S. politicians, including Kathy Manning (a Representative of North Carolina), Kevin Hern (a Representative of Oklahoma), and Diana Harshbarger (a Representative of Tennessee), have purchased shares of Raytheon Technologies in the past three months.
While Democrat Kathy Manning bought 11 to 165 RTX shares for $1,000 to $15,000 in July, Republicans Kevin Hem and Diana Harshbarger conducted one Buy trade each in June. Both transactions were valued within the $1,000-$15,000 range.
Is RTX a Good Stock to Buy?
With solid prospects, Raytheon Technologies, which is already in the good books of U.S. politicians, could be an attractive investment option for prospective investors.
In addition to U.S. politicians, analysts on TipRanks are also optimistic about the prospects of Raytheon Technologies. Notably, the company has a Strong Buy consensus rating based on seven Buys and one Hold.
RTX’s average price forecast stands at $112, which mirrors 27.87% upside potential from the current level. The highest price target is $120 while the lowest is $98. Shares of Raytheon Technologies have declined 9.4% in the last three months. Raytheon’s last closing price was $87.59.
Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE:LMT)
Lockheed Martin’s surveillance systems, missiles, military aircraft, and defense technologies are very popular. The Bethesda, MD-based company is also known for its unmanned aerial vehicles, helicopters, and cyber solutions.
Democrat Kathy Manny purchased three to 38 shares of LMT for $1,000 to $15,000 in July. Manny also conducted one Sell trade, valuing in the range of $1,000-$15,000, in the same month.
Further, Republicans Kevin Hem and Diana Harshbarger bought shares of Lockheed Martin in June. The value of both the Buy trades was in the $1,000-$15,000 range.
Meanwhile, Deb Fischer, a Senator from Nebraska, sold LMT shares in June. The Republican’s transaction was worth $50,000-$100,000.
Is LMT Stock a Buy or Sell?
For now, a wait-and-watch approach could be a good idea for investors interested in LMT stock.
On TipRanks, analysts have a Hold consensus rating on the stock, which is based on three Buys and nine Holds. Also, U.S. politicians conducted both Buy and Sell trades on the stock in the past three months.
LMT’s average price prediction of $472.33 suggests 12.84% upside potential from the current level. The highest price target is $539 and the lowest price target is $406. In the past three months, shares of LMT have declined 5%. Lockheed Martin closed at $418.57 on Friday.
Concluding Remarks
With the defense market worth trillions of dollars and rising political tensions among a few nations, the long-term prospects of Boeing, Raytheon Technologies, and Lockheed Martin seem to be solid. Also, all three defense companies sport a Smart Score of ‘9 out of 10,’ which mirrors their potential to outperform the broader market. Investors willing to gain exposure to the U.S. defense industry could take tips from the trading activities of U.S. politicians.
Read full Disclosure | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/ba-rtx-lmt-u-s-politicians-recently-traded-in-these-defense-stocks | 2022-09-06T12:37:19Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/ba-rtx-lmt-u-s-politicians-recently-traded-in-these-defense-stocks | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Memester’s favorite GameStop Corp. (GME) is slated to release its second quarter Fiscal 2022 results on September 7, after the market closes. GameStop is an American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer. GME stock has lost 28.4% so far this year.
The Street expects GameStop to post an adjusted loss of $0.42 per share in Q2, better than its comparative prior year period’s loss of $0.76 per share. Meanwhile, revenue is pegged at $1.27 billion, representing year-over-year growth of 7.6%, but lower than Q1FY22 revenue of $1.38 billion.
GameStop’s Q2 Website Traffic Trends are Discouraging
TipRanks Website Traffic Tool signals that GameStop is set to report weak Q2 results. As per the tool, in Q2, the total estimated visits to gamestop.com fell 25.72% compared to the same period of last year.
Furthermore, TipRanks Website Traffic Tool indicates that the year-to-date estimated visits declined 16.89% compared to the same period last year. There has also been a sequential decline of 11.09% in the second quarter’s total estimated visits. These numbers hint that GameStop is set to post a disappointing second-quarter performance.
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However, if you look at the quarterly website traffic trend, there is an uptrend in the total estimated visits over the last two months. In May, the total estimated visits fell 15.03% sequentially. However, in June, the visits ticked up 9.91% over May. Similarly, in July, the total estimated visits grew 13.07% over June. This shows that more people have started visiting GameStop’s website recently, and the uptrend may continue going forward.
Fundamentals vs. Price Fluctuations
As popularly known, GameStop is a favorite of memesters that “pump and dump” stocks for their own benefit. In the past year, GME stock has witnessed a high of $63.92 in November 2021 while also touching a low of $19.40 in March 2022.
The meme stock frenzy has built a huge momentum in the share price, which is not justified by the fundamentals. There is no steady growth in GameStop’s revenues. Plus, the company has been incurring huge net losses since last year, with no sign of improvement. Moreover, according to the market research company, NPD Group, video game sales declined 9% year-over-year to $4.177 billion in July. Also, accessory spending plunged 22% year-over-year to $148 million in July. These also suggest that the July quarter was not good for the video game industry as a whole.
Nonetheless, GameStop’s efforts to try to boost its sales may pay off. The company has recently announced giving stock rewards to its store employees.
Plus, GameStop has launched its Ethereum-based Non-Fungible Token (NFT) marketplace, allowing gamers, creators, collectors, and other community members to transact in NFTs. However, this business is not doing so well lately. Nevertheless, there is an enormous growth opportunity in the space that the company can tap effectively going forward.
What is the Prediction for GME Stock?
On TipRanks, GME stock has a Moderate Sell rating that is based on just one Sell rating in the last three months. The average GameStop stock prediction of $7.50 implies a whopping 72.6% downside potential to current levels.
On the other hand, retail investors continue to bet on GME stock. TipRanks’ Stock Investors tool shows that investor sentiment is currently Positive on GameStop, with 1.2% of portfolios tracked by TipRanks increasing their exposure to GME stock over the past 30 days. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/gamestop-nysegme-stock-website-traffic-portends-a-weak-q2 | 2022-09-06T12:37:31Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/gamestop-nysegme-stock-website-traffic-portends-a-weak-q2 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Warren Buffett’s multinational conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), is attracting hedge funds, which are pouring tons of money into its Class B shares.
TipRanks’ Hedge Fund Trading Activity tool shows that confidence in Berkshire Hathaway’s Class B shares is currently Very Positive, as 83 hedge funds increased their cumulative holdings of BRK.B stock by an impressive 5.3 million shares in the last quarter.
What Exactly does Berkshire Hathaway Do?
Berkshire is headed by the Oracle of Omaha, and undoubtedly, it is a combination of several successful businesses. Berkshire invests in and owns a multitude of businesses, including insurance, energy, manufacturing, rail transportation, and retail. Berkshire also has minority stakes in several companies, like Buffett’s favorite Occidental Petroleum (OXY).
Why Does Berkshire Hathaway Have 2 Classes of Shares?
Berkshire initially issued only one stock, its Class A shares (BRK.A). These were too pricey and made it difficult for smaller investors to gain exposure to the company. Hence, in 1996, Buffett introduced another cheaper stock, Class B shares, to increase affordability.
Class A stock has a lower float compared to Class B stock and is more expensive. Plus, Class A stock commands a higher voting power and is convertible to up to 1500 shares of Class B at the option of the holder.
As of July 26, 2022, there are only 599,924 shares of Class A as against 1,301,126,370 shares of Class B outstanding.
Is Berkshire Hathaway Class B Stock a Good Investment?
Indeed, under the stewardship of Buffett and partner Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway has been a good investment for shareholders. Its diversified businesses provide a safeguard during times of economic uncertainty.
Berkshire Hathaway exceeded expectations in its Q2FY22 results. The adjusted earnings of $4.21 per share were exceeded by $0.87 per share. Similarly, revenues of $76.18 billion were beaten by $3.67 billion.
Moreover, retail investors continue loading up the stock. TipRanks’ Stock Investors tool shows that investor sentiment is currently Positive on Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares, with 2.3% of portfolios tracked by TipRanks increasing their exposure to BRK.B stock during the last 30 days. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/hedge-funds-increase-stock-position-in-berkshire-hathaway-nysebrk-b | 2022-09-06T12:37:37Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/hedge-funds-increase-stock-position-in-berkshire-hathaway-nysebrk-b | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Shares of IVERIC Bio (NASDAQ: ISEE) shot up by 30.3% in pre-market trading on Tuesday as the biopharmaceutical company announced positive topline results from its Phase 3 clinical trial, GATHER2 for Zimura (avacincaptad pegol). Zimura is a novel investigational inhibitor of complement protein C5 which is used in the treatment of geographic atrophy (GA).
Geographic atrophy occurs in the late stage of macular degeneration.
Glenn P. Sblendorio, CEO of IVERIC Bio commented on the results, “We are thrilled to see for the first time an investigational therapy with a statistically significant reduction in the rate of GA progression at the 12-month primary endpoint across two Phase 3 clinical trials.”
IVERIC plans to submit a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by the end of Q1 2023.
Is IVERIC bio a Buy?
Wall Street analysts are bullish about ISEE with a Strong Buy consensus rating from Wall Street analysts based on 6 Buys and one Hold.
ISEE’s average price prediction of $23.29 implies 146.7% upside potential. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/iveric-bio-nasdaq-isee-stock-shoots-up-on-the-back-of-positive-topline-data-for-zimura | 2022-09-06T12:37:44Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/iveric-bio-nasdaq-isee-stock-shoots-up-on-the-back-of-positive-topline-data-for-zimura | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Stock futures moved higher early Tuesday morning as traders came back with fresh optimism after a long weekend. Markets were closed on Monday for Labor Day celebrations.
Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) inched 0.69% higher, while those on the S&P 500 (SPX) gained 0.71%, as of 7.05 a.m. EST, Tuesday. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq 100 (NDX) futures advanced 0.73%.
OPEC Cuts Oil Production
On Monday, in a surprise move, the OPEC countries endorsed the step of cutting oil production by 100,000 barrels per day in October. This decision was driven by the estimate that a recession will warrant a supply surplus next year.
Meanwhile, Russia’s stoppage of energy supply to Europe till sanctions are lifted, is keeping Europe on the edge ahead of the onset of winter.
Also, the U.S.’s rejection of Iran’s deal plea means that Iran will not be exporting oil so easily so soon, and the West will have to wait for an uncertain period of time before getting a fresh flow of oil from Iran.
All these developments are keeping the oil sector volatile.
Money Flows into U.S. Stocks From Across the World
Amid the furor of rising interest rates, oil and gas sector volatility, inflation, and geopolitical tensions, investors around the world are accumulating U.S. stocks despite the risk of difficult months ahead. This is because investors largely believe that given the situation of economies around the globe, it seems safest to go for companies operating in the largest economy.
A Refinitiv Lipper Fund Performance data revealed that investors are pouring money into U.S. equity-focused stock and mutual funds for the past six weeks while shedding positions in international stock funds for 20 straight weeks.
This sentiment can give a slight relief to the U.S. stock market in the coming months.
What Happened on Friday, and What does this Week Hold?
On Friday, the major indexes ended their third straight week of losses. The S&P 500 and the Dow ended the session with a 1.07% loss each, while the Nasdaq 100 declined 1.44% at market close.
This holiday-shortened week holds a few key update from the Federal Reserve ahead of August’s inflation data due on September 13. Moreover, August’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) is due out later on Tuesday, giving investors a better insight into how the services sector is coping amid the high inflation and strategic monetary tightening. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/stock-market-today-2 | 2022-09-06T12:37:50Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/stock-market-today-2 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday after China promised to speed up the rollout of policy changes to boost anemic economic growth.
Shanghai gained while Hong Kong declined. Tokyo and South Korea were unchanged at midday.
The Chinese Cabinet’s planning agency promised Monday to accelerate easier lending and other policies but announced no new spending. Economic growth sank to 2.5% over a year earlier in the second half, less than half the official annual target.
The announcement might “provide a short-term uplift” to sentiment, but investors “ultimately want to see a stronger recovery,” said Yeap Jun Rong of IG in a report.
The Shanghai Composite Index gained 1% to 3,232.24 while the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo was unchanged at 28,618.62. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong shed 0.2% to 19,188.25.
The Kospi in Seoul was unchanged at 2,403.90 and Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 gained less than 0.1% to 6,855.50. New Zealand retreated while Southeast Asian markets gained.
U.S. markets were closed Monday for Labor Day.
European markets sank following Friday’s announcement by Russian gas giant Gazprom that a suspension of supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would be extended indefinitely. That adds to shortages in Germany and other economies.
The deputy director of China’s National Development and Reform Commission, Yang Yinkai, said the agency will “speed up the release of policy effectiveness” to “make up for losses caused by the epidemic in the second quarter,” according to news reports.
The government has trimmed interest rates, given entrepreneurs a break on rent and promised other aid to revive the economy after Shanghai and other industrial centers temporarily shut down to fight virus outbreaks. But it is avoiding major spending, possibly for fear of reigniting a rise in housing costs and debt that Chinese leaders worry is dangerously high.
Also Monday, Beijing freed up more foreign currency holdings of Chinese commercial banks for lending and trading by lowering the amount they must hold in reserve. The move rolls back an increase imposed last year to limit speculative trading and restrain the rise of the exchange rate of China’s yuan, which has since declined.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude gained $1.71 to $88.58 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, used to price international oils, lost 81 cents to $94.93 per barrel in London.
The dollar advanced to 140.48 yen from Monday’s 140.46 yen. The euro gained to 99.49 cents from 99.31 cents. | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-asian-markets-mixed-after-china-promises-economic-support/ | 2022-09-06T12:39:12Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-asian-markets-mixed-after-china-promises-economic-support/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday after China promised to speed up the rollout of policy changes to boost anemic economic growth and Australia’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate.
Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul gained while Hong Kong declined.
The Chinese Cabinet’s planning agency promised Monday to accelerate easier lending and other policies but announced no new spending. Economic growth sank to 2.5% over a year earlier in the first half, less than half the official annual target.
The announcement might “provide a short-term uplift” to sentiment, but investors “ultimately want to see a stronger recovery,” said Yeap Jun Rong of IG in a report.
The Shanghai Composite Index gained 1.1% to 3,235.57 while the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo added 0.1% to 27,643.06. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong shed 0.2% to 19,177.70.
Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 lost 0.3% to 6,833.80 after Australia’s central bank raised its benchmark lending rate by 0.5 percentage points to 2.35%, its highest level since 2015, and said more rate hikes were planned.
Investors worry repeated rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve and central banks in Asia and Europe to cool inflation that is at multi-decade highs might derail global economic growth. Central banks say they must slow business and consumer activity to get prices under control.
The Kospi in Seoul advanced 0.2% to 2,408.55 while India’s Sensex opened down less than 0.1% at 59,230.54. New Zealand retreated while Southeast Asian markets gained.
U.S. markets were closed Monday for a holiday.
European markets sank following Friday’s announcement by Russian gas giant Gazprom that a suspension of supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would be extended indefinitely. That adds to shortages in Germany and other economies.
The deputy director of China’s National Development and Reform Commission, Yang Yinkai, said the agency will “speed up the release of policy effectiveness” to “make up for losses caused by the epidemic in the second quarter,” according to news reports.
The government has trimmed interest rates, given entrepreneurs a break on rent and promised other aid to revive the economy after Shanghai and other industrial centers temporarily shut down to fight virus outbreaks. But it is avoiding major spending, possibly for fear of reigniting a rise in housing costs and debt that Chinese leaders worry is dangerously high.
Also Monday, Beijing freed up more foreign currency holdings of Chinese commercial banks for lending and trading by lowering the amount they must hold in reserve. The move rolls back an increase imposed last year to limit speculative trading and restrain the rise of the exchange rate of China’s yuan, which has since declined.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude gained $1.78 to $88.65 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, used to price international oils, lost 70 cents to $95.04 per barrel in London.
The dollar advanced to 141.12 yen from Monday’s 140.46 yen. The euro gained to 99.55 cents from 99.31 cents. | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-asian-stocks-mixed-after-china-promises-to-boost-growth/ | 2022-09-06T12:39:19Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-asian-stocks-mixed-after-china-promises-to-boost-growth/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch agriculture minister has unexpectedly resigned, telling reporters he wasn’t the right person for the job following a tumultuous summer of protests by farmers over pollution regulations.
Henk Staghouwer, who held the position for only nine months, announced his decision Monday night. He had just returned from Brussels, where he negotiated an agreement with the European Commission to scrap a Dutch exemption to manure spreading limits.
The Netherlands, along with Denmark, Ireland and the Flanders region of Belgium, had been allowed to exceed caps on how much manure farmers could return to their fields because of the country’s comparatively small land area. But Brussels wants to phase out this dispensation because the Dutch are failing to meet EU water quality standards.
The country’s lucrative agriculture sector has been in crisis since a 2019 court ruling forced the government to slash emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, which livestock produce. Thousands of farmers have staged protests, blockading cities with tractors and burning hay bales along highways.
A 60-year-old former baker, Staghouwer had been tasked with transitioning the sector away from intensive farming practices and buying out farmers to reduce total emissions.
The government allocated an extra 24.3 billion euros ($24.2 billion) to tackle the problem. Last week Staghouwer told the Cabinet that he would be unable to meet a mid-September deadline to present a plan for the transition.
“I respect his brave decision,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte wrote on Twitter, but others were less praising. Member of parliament Caroline van der Plas of The Farmer–Citizen Movement party (BBB) said “he was totally unsuitable” for the job.
Bart Kemp of farmers’ organization Agractie told Dutch public broadcaster NOS that Staghouwer was “a friendly man, but not a decisive person.”
Staghouwer’s role will temporarily be taken on by the former agricultural minister Carola Schouten. | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-dutch-farm-minister-resigns-after-protests-over-pollution/ | 2022-09-06T12:39:34Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-dutch-farm-minister-resigns-after-protests-over-pollution/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A suspected jihadi roadside bomb has hit a convoy in northern Burkina Faso, killing at least 35 people and injuring dozens more.
The supply convoy escorted by the army was hit Monday while driving between Bourzanga and Djibo towns with one of the vehicles carrying civilians, the governor of Sahel region, Lt. Col. Rodolphe Sorgho, said in a statement.
The wounded have been evacuated and the area of the explosion has been secured, he said.
Although no group immediately claimed responsibility for the bomb, it is suspected to be by Islamic extremist rebels. Burkina Faso has been ravaged by violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group in which thousands have been killed.
This is the fifth explosion in Soum province since August, particularly around Djibo, which has been under siege by jihadis for months, according to an internal security report for aid workers seen by The Associated Press.
A double explosion last month between Djibo and Namssiguia killed at least 15 people, said the report.
A military coup in January ousted the country’s democratically elected government claiming they could better secure the country from the extremists.
Monday’s attack comes one day after interim President Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba spoke to the nation saying the junta had achieved some progress in pushing back the jihadis.
“We have made many efforts since we came to power … Our efforts have begun to bear fruit at the military operational level,” he said.
This latest attack, however, damages the credibility of Damiba’s claim, say analysts.
“Aside from the staggering casualty toll, the timing of the incident is unfortunate, given that only two days ago President Damiba made a speech in an attempt to convince the public that the country was making progress,” said Heni Nsaibia, senior researcher at the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.
“While his speech was praised, many commentators criticized the lack of a balance sheet detailing the progress he claimed to have made,” he said.
While Burkina Faso’s military struggles to stem the extremist violence, the humanitarian crisis is escalating. Nearly 2 million people have been displaced — making it one of the fastest growing displacement crises in the world alongside Ukraine and Mozambique. More than 600,000 people are facing emergency hunger, creating the country’s worst food crisis in a decade, according to a statement this week by 28 international aid groups in Burkina Faso.
“Too often, displacement and hunger come as a one-two punch,” said Hassane Hamadou, country director of the Norwegian Refugee Council. “People forced to move have left behind their fields and livestock. Many displaced families report being down to one meal a day in order to allow children to eat twice.”
Residents say even if the junta has made gains, the country has a long road ahead to return to peace and stability.
“I am very sad,” Ousmane Amirou Dicko, the Emir of Liptako told The Associated Press. “Even if advances have been made in the past seven months, we do not yet have security.”
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Mednick reported from Goma, Congo. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-suspected-jihadi-bomb-hits-convoy-in-burkina-faso-35-dead/ | 2022-09-06T12:40:38Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-suspected-jihadi-bomb-hits-convoy-in-burkina-faso-35-dead/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GENEVA (AP) — Police in Switzerland said Tuesday that they found 23 migrants packed into the back of a delivery van during a traffic check on a highway.
The Italian-registered vehicle was stopped early Monday morning as it headed northward on the A2 highway at Buochs, near the central city of Lucerne , police in Nidwalden canton (state) said.
Officers found the migrants crammed into the windowless cargo area of the van. Police said they were standing and had been shut in the van for several hours without a break.
The migrants were aged between 20 and 50 and were from Afghanistan, India, Syria and Bangladesh, police said in a statement. They said that they wanted to travel to European countries outside Switzerland.
The driver, a 27-year-old Gambian man who lives in Italy, was arrested and faces an investigation on suspicion of human trafficking, police said. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-swiss-police-find-23-migrants-crammed-into-delivery-van/ | 2022-09-06T12:40:45Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-swiss-police-find-23-migrants-crammed-into-delivery-van/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CLEVELAND (AP) — A wolf briefly escaped its habitat at an Ohio zoo but was recaptured, and no guests or employees were hurt, authorities said.
Officials at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo said the female Mexican gray wolf “briefly breached its habitat” at about 10:20 a.m. Monday.
Jacqueline Gerling, director of communications at Cleveland Metroparks, said the wolf “was able to access the guest path” for about five minutes. Gerling said staff “acted quickly to establish a perimeter around the wolf” and the animal was secured by the animal care team and reunited with the other wolves.
Gerling said the zoo has five of the wolves and the other members of the pack were secured in an off-exhibit holding area at the time. She said the zoo “takes these incidents very seriously, training for these types of scenarios on a regular basis.”
Gerling said officials are still gathering details on how the animal was able to escape.
The zoo’s website says the Mexican gray wolf, canis lupus baileyi, is the smallest of the gray wolf subspecies — 54 to 66 inches (137 to 167 centimeters) in length from snout to tail and weighing 50 to 90 pounds (22 to 40 kilograms). Their coat is a varied mixture of tan, red, white, and black fur, with darker colors on their head, shoulders and back.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The man charged with kidnapping a Tennessee woman jogging near the University of Memphis last week spent 20 years behind bars for a previous kidnapping.
U.S. Marshals arrested 38-year-old Cleotha Abston on Saturday after police detected his DNA on a pair of sandals found near to where Eliza Fletcher was last seen, according to an arrest affidavit. Police also linked the vehicle they believe was used in the kidnapping to a person at a residence where Abston was staying.
While Fletcher has not been found, Memphis police said in the affidavit they believe she was seriously injured in the abduction, which was caught on surveillance video. Authorities have said Fletcher, 34, was jogging around 4 a.m. on Friday when a man approached her and forced her into an SUV after a brief struggle. Fletcher was reported missing when she did not return home that morning.
Late Monday, police tweeted that a body had been found in a Memphis neighborhood but that the identity of that person and the cause of death was unconfirmed. The tweet made no reference to the Fletcher case, saying only that the investigation was ongoing. A large police presence was reported in the area where authorities reported finding the body just after 5 p.m., local news reports said.
Abston previously kidnapped a prominent Memphis attorney in 2000, the Commercial Appeal reported. When he was just 16 years old, Abston forced Kemper Durand into the trunk of his own car at gunpoint. After several hours, Abston took Durand out and forced him to drive to a Mapco gas station to withdraw money from an ATM. At the station, an armed Memphis Housing Authority guard walked in and Durand yelled for help. Abston ran away but was found and arrested. He pleaded guilty in 2001 to especially aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery, according to court records. He received a 24-year sentence.
Durand, in a victim impact statement, wrote, “I was extremely lucky that I was able to escape from the custody of Cleotha Abston. … It is quite likely that I would have been killed had I not escaped,” the Commercial Appeal reported. Durand noted that it took over a year for Abston to sign the guilty plea, calling the refusal “jailhouse braggadocio.”
Durand also detailed Abston’s lengthy history in the juvenile court system. In the years before the kidnapping, Abston had been charged with theft, aggravated assault, aggravated assault with a weapon, and rape, according to Durand’s statement.
Durand died in 2013, seven years before Abston would be released in November 2020 at age 36. In the two years since his release, there were no further documented charges against Abston in Shelby County prior to his Saturday arrest, the Commercial Appeal reported.
Online court records do not show if Abston has a lawyer who can comment on his behalf. An arraignment has been set for Tuesday.
Fletcher is the granddaughter of the late Joseph Orgill III, a Memphis hardware businessman and philanthropist. The family has released a video statement asking for help in finding Fletcher and offered a $50,000 reward for information in the case. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/body-found-in-memphis-amid-eliza-fletcher-search-suspects-record-revealed/ | 2022-09-06T12:41:22Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/body-found-in-memphis-amid-eliza-fletcher-search-suspects-record-revealed/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WELDON, Saskatchewan (AP) — Canadian police hunted for the remaining suspect in the stabbing deaths of 10 people in an Indigenous community and nearby town in the province of Saskatchewan after finding the body of his brother amid a massive manhunt for the pair.
Damien Sanderson, 31, was found dead Monday near the stabbing sites and authorities believe his brother and fellow suspect, Myles Sanderson, 30, is injured, on the run and likely in the provincial capital of Regina, said police chief Evan Bray. The series of stabbings also wounded 18 people.
RCMP Commanding Officer Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore said authorities are not sure of the cause of death yet but the injuries were not self-inflicted.
Damien Sanderson’s “body was located outdoors in a heavily grassed area in proximity to a house that was being examined. We can confirm he has visible injuries,” said Blackmore. Asked if Myles Sanderson was responsible for his brother’s death, Blackmore said police are investigating that possibility, but “we can’t say that definitively at this point in time.″
Leaders of the James Smith Cree Nation, where most of the stabbing attacks took place, blamed the killings on the drug and alcohol abuse plaguing the community, which they said was a legacy of the colonization of Indigenous people.
James Smith Cree Nation resident Darryl Burns and his brother, Ivor Wayne Burns, said their sister, Gloria Lydia Burns, was a first responder who was killed while responding to a call. Burns said his 62-year-old sister was on a crisis response team.
“She went on a call to a house and she got caught up in the violence,” he said. “She was there to help. She was a hero.”
He blamed drugs and pointed to colonization for the rampant drug and alcohol use on reserves.
“We had a murder suicide here three years ago. My granddaughter and her boyfriend. Last year we had a double homicide. Now this year we have 10 more that have passed away and all because of drugs and alcohol,” Darryl Burns said.
Ivor Wayne Burns also blamed drugs for his sister’s death and said the suspect brothers should not be hated.
“We have to forgive them boys,” he said. “When you are doing hard drugs, when you are doing coke, and when you are doing heroin and crystal meth and those things, you are incapable of feeling. You stab somebody and you think it’s funny. You stab them again and you laugh.”
Blackmore said police were still determining the motive, but the chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations echoes suggestions the stabbings could be drug-related.
“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.
Blackmore said the criminal record of Myles Sanderson dates back years and includes violence. . Last May, Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers issued a wanted list that included him writing that he was “unlawfully at large.”
While authorities believe Myles Sanderson is in Regina, about 335 kilometers (210 miles) south of where the stabbings happened, they have issued alerts in Canada’s three vast prairie provinces — which also include Manitoba and Alberta — and contacted U.S. border officials. The manhunt entered its third day Tuesday.
Before Damien’s body was found, arrest warrants were issued for the suspects and both men faced at least one count each of murder and attempted murder.
The stabbing attack was among the deadliest mass killings in Canada, where such crimes are less common than in the United States. 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. In 2019, a man used a van to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto.
Deadly mass stabbings are rarer 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.
Police in Saskatchewan got their first call about a stabbing at 5:40 a.m. on Sunday, and within minutes heard about several more. In all, dead or wounded people were found at 13 different locations on the sparsely populated reserve and in the town, Blackmore said. James Smith Cree Nation is about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from Weldon.
Among the 10 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.”
Weldon residents have identified one of the dead as Wes Petterson, a retired widower who made he coffee every morning at the senior center. He loved gardening, picking berries, canning, and making jam and cakes, recalled William Works, 47, and his mother, Sharon Works, 64.
“He would give you the shirt off his back if he could,” William Works said, describing his neighbor as a “gentle old fellow” and “community first.”
Sharon Works was baffled: “I don’t understand why they would target someone like him anyway, because he was just a poor, helpless little man, 100 pounds soaking wet. And he could hardly breathe because he had asthma and emphysema and everybody cared about him because that’s the way he was. He cared about everybody else. And they cared about him.”
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Gillies reported from Toronto. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-canada-police-hunt-remaining-suspect-in-stabbing-attacks/ | 2022-09-06T12:41:34Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-canada-police-hunt-remaining-suspect-in-stabbing-attacks/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON (AP) — Liz Truss became U.K. prime minister on Tuesday and immediately confronted the enormous task ahead of her amid increasing pressure to curb soaring prices, ease labor unrest and fix a health care system burdened by long waiting lists and staff shortages.
At the top of her in-box is the energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which threatens to push energy bills to unaffordable levels, shuttering businesses and leaving the nation’s poorest people shivering in icy homes this winter.
Truss, who refused to spell out her energy strategy during the two-month campaign to succeed Boris Johnson, now plans to cap energy bills at a cost to taxpayers of as much as 100 billion pounds ($116 billion), British news media reported Tuesday. She is expected to unveil her plan on Thursday.
“You must know about the cost of living crisis in England, which is really quite bad at the moment,” Rebecca Macdougal, 55, who works in law enforcement, said outside the Houses of Parliament.
“She’s making promises for that, as she says she’s going to deliver, deliver, deliver,” she said. “But we will see in, hopefully, the next few weeks there’ll be some announcements which will help the normal working person.”
Truss took office Tuesday afternoon at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, when Queen Elizabeth II formally asked her to form a new government in a carefully choreographed ceremony dictated by centuries of tradition. Johnson, who announced his intention to step down two months ago, formally resigned during his own audience with the queen a short time earlier.
It was the first time in the queen’s 70-year reign that the handover of power took place at Balmoral, rather than at Buckingham Palace in London. The ceremony was moved to Scotland to provide certainty about the schedule because the 96-year-old queen has experienced problems getting around that have forced palace officials to make decisions about her travel on a day-to-day basis.
Truss, 47, took office a day after the ruling Conservative Party chose her as its leader in an election where the party’s 172,000 dues-paying members were the only voters. As party leader, Truss automatically became prime minister without the need for a general election because the Conservatives still have a majority in the House of Commons.
But as a prime minister selected by less than 0.5% of British adults, Truss is under pressure to show quick results.
Ed Davey, leader of the opposition Liberal Democrats, on Tuesday called for an early election in October.
“I’ve listened to Liz Truss during the Tory leadership (campaign) and I was looking for a plan to help people with their skyrocketing energy bills, with the NHS crisis and so on, and I heard no plan at all,” he told the BBC.
“Given people are really worried, given people are losing sleep over their energy bills, businesses aren’t investing because of the crisis, I think that’s really wrong,” Davey said.
Johnson took note of the strains facing Britain as he left the prime minister’s official residence at No. 10 Downing Street for the last time, saying his policies had left the government with the economic strength to help people weather the energy crisis.
While many observers expect Johnson to attempt a political comeback, he backed Truss and compared himself to Cincinnatus, the Roman dictator who relinquished power and returned to his farm to live in peace.
“Like Cincinnatus, I am returning to my plow,” he said. “And I will be offering this government nothing but the most fervent support.”
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Susie Blann contributed to this story. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-conservative-winner-truss-to-make-public-debut-as-uk-leader/ | 2022-09-06T12:41:41Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-conservative-winner-truss-to-make-public-debut-as-uk-leader/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON (AP) — Liz Truss, a onetime accountant who has served in Parliament for the past 12 years, will become Britain’s prime minister on Tuesday when Queen Elizabeth II formally asks her to form a government.
The ceremony, which will take place at a royal residence in Scotland, follows a bruising two-month contest to succeed Boris Johnson, who will formally offer his resignation to the queen shortly before Truss arrives to take up the mantle.
The handover of power is governed by rules and traditions built up over the centuries, as the U.K. evolved from an absolute monarchy to a modern parliamentary democracy where the sovereign plays an important but largely ceremonial role as head of state.
Here is a brief description of Tuesday’s events and how Britain arrived at this point.
HOW DID LIZ TRUSS BECOME PRIME MINISTER?
Boris Johnson announced his intention to step down as prime minister and leader of the ruling Conservative Party on July 7, after dozens of Cabinet ministers and lower-level officials resigned following months of scandal and growing concern that he could no longer deliver election victories.
Because Johnson’s government didn’t lose a vote of confidence, the Conservatives still command a majority in the House of Commons and so a general election wasn’t required to select a new prime minister. Instead, it was up to the Conservatives to pick a new leader who would automatically become prime minister as the leader of the majority party.
Truss and former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak squared off in the internal contest to become Conservative Party leader, holding campaign events around the country as they vied for support among 172,000 dues-paying party members. Truss was announced as the winner of that contest on Monday after she received 57% of the vote.
WHY IS THE QUEEN INVOLVED?
As head of state, the queen still formally appoints the prime minister, though the decision is now based on constitutional conventions. When one party holds a majority in the House of Commons, as is the current situation, the prime minister is always the leader of that party.
But the queen maintains a special relationship with her prime ministers, holding regular meetings with them throughout their time in office.
While the queen is constitutionally required to remain strictly neutral on all political matters, she is entitled to be informed and consulted about government policy. And she retains the right to “advise, encourage and warn ministers,” according to the official guide to the laws, rules and conventions of government.
WHY DIDN’T TRUSS IMMEDIATELY BECOME PRIME MINISTER?
First of all, because Johnson is technically still prime minister. While Johnson announced his intention to step down on July 7, prime ministers usually don’t formally resign until it is clear who their successor will be.
Now that Truss has been elected Conservative Party leader, Johnson is due to resign on Tuesday.
WHY IS EVERYONE IN SCOTLAND FOR THE CEREMONY?
Normally, the new prime minister travels the short distance from the Houses of Parliament to Buckingham Palace to meet with the queen. But this year, the 96-year-old sovereign is at Balmoral, her retreat in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, for her annual vacation.
Elizabeth has had difficulties moving around of late and decisions about her schedule are being made on a daily basis depending on what she feels up to. So rather than take the chance that she wouldn’t be ready to travel to London on Tuesday, planners injected a bit of certainty into the diary by asking the new leader to come to her.
WHAT WILL ACTUALLY HAPPEN ON TUESDAY?
Things kicked off at about 7:30 a.m., when Johnson appeared outside the prime minister’s official Downing Street residence to deliver a farewell speech before flying to Scotland. He is scheduled to meet the queen later in the morning to formally offer his resignation.
Truss, who is expected to make the 500-mile (800-kilometer) journey on a separate plane, is due to arrive at Balmoral just after noon for a 30-minute audience with the queen where she will formally be asked to form a new government.
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More chances for off and on showers for today!
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - A dense fog advisory is up for counties north and east of Bowling Green until 9am CST. You’ll want to allow for some extra time for the morning commute to drive a little slower!
Unsettled weather carries over into Tuesday with scattered showers and thunderstorms. The best chance for getting wet is in the afternoon. Otherwise, it will be warm and humid with highs in the mid 80s. We look mainly dry Wednesday into Thursday as drier air pushes in for a couple of days. Expect seasonable temperatures through mid-week.
By the upcoming weekend, rain chances climb yet again...this the result of a new system moving in from the south. Showers and storms look like a good bet both Saturday and Sunday. Additional cloudiness may keep daytime readings down a bit this weekend, but overnight readings will be warm and rather muggy.
Bowling Green 3 day forecast:
TUESDAY: Scat’d showers and thunderstorms. High 85. Low 66. Winds W at 6 mph.
WEDNESDAY: Partly cloudy. Stray thundershower possible. High 83. Low 62. Winds NE at 7 mph.
THURSDAY: Mostly sunny and warm. High 84. Low 62. Winds SE at 6 mph.
Today’s Climate Info for Bowling Green:
Normal High: 86
Normal Low: 71
Record High Today: 104 (1925)
Record Low Today: 46 (1988)
Sunrise: 6:21 a.m.
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Precipitation:
Yesterday: 0.00″
So Far This Month: 1.27″ (0.66″)
So Far This Year: 34.52″ (-0.86″)
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Seasonal Snowfall: 15.5
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Pollen Count: 9.5 (High, Tree)
Mold Count: Moderate
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout are still putting on a show, even though the Los Angeles Angels are far out of postseason contention.
Ohtani had his sixth multi-homer game of the season and Trout also went deep as the Angels routed the skidding Detroit Tigers 10-0 Monday night.
Trout’s solo shot to left field in the fifth inning off Tyler Alexander (3-9) was his 30th home run of the season, marking the seventh time in his 12-year career he’s reached that plateau.
It marks the ninth time the Angels have had two players with at least 30 homers in a season — but the first time it’s been two AL MVPs.
Ohtani has 32 homers this year, but Trout still wants to catch his dynamic teammate over the final four weeks.
“That is a special player that is over there,” Trout said. “It’s going to be a crazy stretch but I think it is going to be fun to watch.”
It was the seventh time this year and 21st since 2018 that Ohtani and Trout homered in the same game. Ohtani has gone deep four times in his last seven games.
“Overall I’ve been able to look at the pitches and swing the bat pretty well, and I’d like to continue what I’ve been doing,” Ohtani said through a translator.
José Suarez (6-6) threw three-hit ball over seven innings. It was the 17th shutout by Angels pitchers this season, which ties them with the New York Mets for most in the majors.
Luis Rengifo had a career-high four hits and drove in a run for the Angels, who had their second-biggest offensive performance of the season with 16 hits.
Ohtani, who lined a two-run homer in the third, tied Troy Glaus’ franchise record for most multi-homer games in a season with a 416-foot solo drive in the seventh.
The two-way phenom from Japan — who had three hits and three RBIs — is second in the American League in home runs, 22 behind New York Yankees slugger and fellow AL MVP contender Aaron Judge.
“They’re tremendous players. As I said before the game, you can’t make mistakes today and then you can’t keep them down very long if you don’t make good pitches,” Detroit manager A.J. Hinch said of Ohtani and Trout.
Trout also had three hits and drove in a run. He is batting .302 (19 for 63) with six homers since missing 28 games with left ribcage inflammation.
“Just being out there with the guys and getting at-bats every day, I think that’s been big for me. I feel fine,” Trout said.
Suarez struck out seven and went seven innings for the second time in 17 starts this season. The left-hander won his second straight start and is 5-3 since the All-Star break.
“A lot of things went well tonight. José set the tone,” interim manager Phil Nevin said. “That was one of the better ones I’ve seen him throw. He was locating and had everything working. His velocity and changeup were really good.”
Detroit rookie Riley Greene had his 13-game hitting streak snapped.
Alexander went 4 1/3 innings, allowing seven runs (six earned) and 10 hits.
LATE RELIEF
Tigers rookie utility player Kody Clemens, the son of seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens, ended up pitching for the second time in three days with the game out of reach.
Clemens worked one inning and allowed one run on three hits. He struck out Ohtani looking with a 68 mph pitch on the outside corner and gave his own exuberant strike three call on the mound.
“I’m just trying to get outs, and for it to come like that is obviously super cool,” Clemens said. “He’s the best player in baseball. So it’s a pretty cool moment for me.”
Grinning ear to ear, Clemens threw the souvenir ball into the dugout for safe keeping and is hoping to get it signed by Ohtani during the final two days of the series.
Kody Clemens has pitched six times this year and has given up three runs on 10 hits in six innings. The strikeout of Ohtani was the first of his career.
“Yeah, I mean, obviously can’t do it slow enough for Ohtani. Maybe you can throw it slow and slow and slow and then maybe surprise him with a fastball,” Hinch said. “Big smile on Kody’s face, and Shohei tipped his cap.
“I don’t know how (Kody’s) father would have done against him, but he can always say he punched him out.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Tigers: INF Jonathan Schoop (right ankle sprain) will continue his rehab assignment at Triple-A Toledo after playing in two games over the weekend at Class A West Michigan. Hinch said Schoop is progressing toward being activated for this weekend’s series in Kansas City.
Angels: OF Mickey Moniak (left middle finger fracture) will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Salt Lake on Tuesday.
UP NEXT
Tigers: LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (3-4, 4.17 ERA) threw five innings of four-hit ball to beat the Angels on Aug. 21.
Angels: RHP Mike Mayers (1-1, 5.17 ERA) will make his 21st appearance and third start of the season.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Kody Clemens will never catch his father in career strikeouts. When it comes to their first one, though, the kid has the upper hand.
The Detroit Tigers’ rookie utility player — and son of seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens — caught Shohei Ohtani looking late in Monday night’s 10-0 loss to the Los Angeles Angels.
Mopping up in the eighth inning, Clemens froze last year’s AL MVP with a 68 mph pitch on the outside corner for his first major league strikeout and gave an exuberant strike three call on the mound.
Ohtani hit two home runs earlier — his sixth multi-homer game of the season.
“I’m just trying to get outs, and for it to come like that is obviously super cool,” Clemens said. “He’s the best player in baseball. So it’s a pretty cool moment for me.”
Grinning ear to ear, the 26-year-old Clemens tossed the souvenir ball into the dugout for safe keeping and is hoping to get it signed by the Angels’ two-way star during the final two days of the series.
“It was a wonderful pitch,” Ohtani said through his interpreter.
By far the hardest one of their encounter, too.
Ohtani fouled off a 54 mph delivery from Clemens, took a 57 mph pitch for a ball and then fouled off a 56 mph offering.
“I mean, obviously can’t do it slow enough for Ohtani. Maybe you can throw it slow and slow and slow and then maybe surprise him with a fastball,” Detroit manager A.J. Hinch said. “Big smile on Kody’s face, and Shohei tipped his cap.”
Those were four of the seven slowest pitches Ohtani has faced this season, according to MLB Statcast. The other three were by Tampa Bay outfielder Brett Phillips, including a 53 mph “fastball” during the Angels’ 12-0 victory on May 12, when Reid Detmers threw a no-hitter for Los Angeles.
Clemens was pitching for the third time in the past seven days to save Detroit’s bullpen with the game out of reach. He worked one inning and allowed one run on three hits.
He has pitched six times this season and given up three runs on 10 hits in six innings.
Roger Clemens had 4,672 strikeouts during his 24-year career, third on the all-time list behind Nolan Ryan and Randy Johnson. The Rocket’s first one came against Cleveland’s Mike Hargrove on May 15, 1984.
“I don’t know how (Kody’s) father would have done against (Ohtani), but he can always say he punched him out,” Hinch said.
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Ani Banerjee, a Canadian, 30-year leader in Human Resources in the technology sector has joined the KnowBe4 team as CHRO.
TAMPA BAY, Fla., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ani Banerjee has joined KnowBe4, provider of the world's largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). A leader in Human Resources for the global technology sector, Banerjee will oversee KnowBe4's HR operations across 11 countries, and will be responsible for developing new initiatives to enhance the company's organizational culture, its recruitment channels, and its diversity, inclusion, and equity (DIE) strategies.
Banerjee's 30 years' experience in innovation and global HR leadership has been at Dell, Yahoo and AOL, throughout North America, Asia and Europe. Prior to joining KnowBe4, he was at VMware for 8 years in a variety of international HR leadership roles, which culminated in his most recent one, as the company's Global HR Head for SaaS Transformation Business Units.
"I came to KnowBe4 in part because the company has a strong, innovative culture, and extremely high caliber staff," Banerjee said. "I saw that within the company people operate as business partners to achieve common goals, which is something of a brass ring for HR. KnowBe4 is clearly one of the leaders contributing to Tampa Bay's emergence as a vibrant high tech hub. It's an exciting time to be involved."
KnowBe4's CEO, Stu Sjouwerman, emphasized the care that went into the choice of Banerjee. "KnowBe4's company culture is a point of pride among our execs and staff. Ani's experience and input have shown us that he is a leader who can further our accomplishments and strengthen our exemplary team. His record of HR leadership in global markets is a particularly strong asset as we launch our next phase of expansion. He is one more example of KnowBe4 attracting the best, the creative experts."
About KnowBe4
KnowBe4, the provider of the world's largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, is used by more than 52,000 organizations around the globe. Founded by IT and data security specialist Stu Sjouwerman, KnowBe4 helps organizations address the human element of security by raising awareness about ransomware, CEO fraud and other social engineering tactics through a new-school approach to awareness training on security. Kevin Mitnick, an internationally recognized cybersecurity specialist and KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer, helped design the KnowBe4 training based on his well-documented social engineering tactics. Tens of thousands of organizations rely on KnowBe4 to mobilize their end users as their last line of defense.
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PARIS, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global turnover from Fine Art auction sales increased by 8.8% in H1 2022, despite another wave of Covid-19 in China. Artprice counted a record number of auction transactions around the world and observes a growing enthusiasm for works by artists from the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, whose prices are highly volatile.
Four indicators of the health of global Fine Art auction activity in H1 2022
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thierry Ehrmann, President, and Founder of Artmarket.com: "A comprehensive study of the results of public auctions reveals growing competition between New York, London, and Hong Kong. This competition is rapidly inflating the prices of works by young artists to levels usually reserved for great masters. On the occasion of the Frieze London and Paris+ fairs (the latter run by Art Basel), Artprice will be publishing an exclusive report dedicated to 'Ultra Contemporary' Art: a term that designates a dynamic that is developing around artists under 40 years old, like Matthew Wong, Avery Singer, and Refik Anadol.
The analysis of the Art Market presented in this H1 2022 Report is based on the Fine Art public auction results recorded by Artprice and only concerns paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, prints, videos, installations, tapestries as well as NFTs, and excludes antiquities, anonymous cultural property, and furniture. All prices indicated in this Report refer to public auction results, including buyers' fees, and the $ sign refers to the US dollar.
H1 2022 KEY FIGURES
- Global Fine Art auction proceeds reached $7.49 billion.
- The art market's 5th most prosperous H1 period ever recorded.
- An increase of 8.8% versus H1 2021.
- A record 326,000 lots sold in H1 2022 versus 313,400 in H1 2021
- Christie's hammered the 2nd best art auction result of all time at $195 million.
- The unsold rate rose to 31% versus 27% in H1 2021.
- With a turnover of $3.27 billion, New York was clearly the world's leading marketplace.
- In second and third place, London hammered $1.43 billion and Hong Kong took $610 million.
- Not far behind, the Parisian art market generated $518 million and has attracted a growing number of international institutions.
- Christie's and Sotheby's account for 38% of global fine art turnover.
- The Macklowe Collection became the most expensive collection ever sold in the world, generating $922 million.
- 180 NFTs sold at auction generating $8.5 million.
ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE OF THE ART MARKET
As the health crisis wanes worldwide, Fine Art auctions settled down to an unsold rate of 31%, almost one in three works offered for sale. This level corresponds to a stable average over the last twenty years, fluctuating between 36% in 2009 and 27% in 2021. Indeed, this key market indicator has reacted quite differently compared with how it reacted in the last major crisis that affected the global art market, the 2009 financial crisis. Back then, collectors decided to take less financial risk, whereas the health crisis of 2021 prompted buyers to switch to a new entirely dematerialized sales channel.
In the first half of 2022, the market found a new balance thanks to the coexistence of two different and complementary sales channels (one physical, the other digital), which allowed auction transactions to continue at a healthy pace reaching a historic number of 326,000 Fine Art lots in six months. In H1 2022 this volume further increased to an unprecedented intensity, despite the postponement of many auctions in China (whose turnover volume is down 53%) due to an additional wave of Covid-19.
The United States (up 42% vs. H1 2021) and the UK (up 26%) have driven growth. The two powerful Anglo-Saxon markets alone accounted for exactly two-thirds of global Fine Art auction turnover. China, for its part, only accounted for 12% of global fine art auction turnover, a result that it owes in large part to Hong Kong which accounted for 70% of the value of the entire Chinese art market (including Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan).
France continued to grow (+14%) consolidating its 4th place ahead of Germany (-5%) after a sensational performance in 2021. In addition to the presence of Christie's and Sotheby's, several Parisian auction operators posted exceptionally strong performances: Artcurial (+42%) and Aguttes (+154%), among others. Meanwhile, The French capital is attracting a growing number of major international players like David Zwirner, while the Gagosian and Continua galleries have opened new spaces in France. Paris is delighted to see the upcoming arrival of Hauser & Wirth as well as the opening of a Phillips auction room. Bonhams has acquired the French house Cornette de Saint-Cyr (operating in Paris and Brussels). Lastly, the Art Basel company will henceforth be the official organizer of the international autumn art fair organized at the Grand Palais in Paris, entitled Paris+, which will replace the FIAC.
Japan and Switzerland also had an excellent start to 2022 with increases of 74% and 145% in their respective auction turnover totals. Without directly competing with Hong Kong (which still weighs seven times more), Tokyo is positioning itself on the Asian continent as a hub for major contemporary artists, including Andy Warhol, Yoshitomo Nara, Yayoi Kusama, but also young talents like Mr Doodle and Ayako Rokkaku (born in 1982), whose auction sales have already exceeded $18.6 million this year. For its part, Switzerland is continuing to carve out a place for itself in the Post-Impressionist and Modern Art market, with sales of important works by Ferdinand Hodler, Alberto Giacometti, and Marc Chagall.
Ferdinand Hodler, Der Brienzersee von Breitlauenen aus (1906); sold for CHF 2,875,000 (~$3 million) on 17 June 2022 by Galerie Kornfeld in Bern
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TRENDS: NFTs AND ULTRA CONTEMPORARY ART
Propelled to center stage in March 2021 with a first public auction result at $69.4 million, NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have created something of a revolution in the art market, with a new type of work, new collectors, and a new currency.
Of the 277 NFTs auctioned in H1 2022, 65% sold for an average price of $47,000. This situation is very different from H2 2021 in which 225 NFTs were offered for sale, of which 86% sold at an average price of $520,000. Beeple's Human One (2021) fetched nearly $29 million last November at Christie's, whereas the best NFT result in H1 2022 was just $1.38 million for Living Architecture: Casa Batlló (2022) by Refik Anadol.
The 104 CryptoPunks that Sotheby's announced in February 2022 were finally withdrawn on the eve of their scheduled sale. The withdrawal of such a lot, estimated between $20 and $30 million, underscores the extent to which NFT market players remain somewhat skeptical about the service provided by traditional intermediaries. Not only are they expensive (transaction costs amount to an average of 20% compared with around 2% to 3% via NFT platforms) but they also are governed by a much less flexible schedule. The major auction houses are nevertheless continuing their efforts to participate in this emerging market, although they only very rarely sell major NFT collections (BAYC, WoW, etc.). For the time being, such projects no longer seem to need the marketing efforts or the legitimacy of regulated auction houses.
At the same time, the volatility of cryptocurrencies, has exacerbated the mistrust of traditional collectors vis-à-vis this disruptive market. Fortunately, this lull will provide a good number of artists, dealers, collectors, and institutions – starting with museums – an opportunity to take an interest in digital works and to consider acquiring NFTs without the pressure of record sales and over-mediatization.
The NFT phenomenon stems from the same enthusiasm that Artprice is observing for the work of young artists, some of whom are eliciting record multi-million dollar results even before their work has been exhibited in a major museum or before they have even enjoyed a solo show in a gallery. The recent auction records for works by artists under 40 (whose very recent works are already trading on the secondary market) will be analyzed by the next Artprice Ultra Contemporary Art Report to be published in October 2022. This will notably be an opportunity to highlight the growing success and influence of young female painters.
Top 10 personal records for living artists under 40 at auction in H1 2022
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1. Avery Singer (1987): $5,253,000
2. Christina Quarles (1985): $4,527,000
3. Jennifer Packer (1984): $2,349,000
4. María Berrio (1982): $1,562,500
5. Robbie Barrat (1999): $841,317
6. Robert Nava (1985): $639,401
7. Issy Wood (1993): $588,042
8. Lauren Quin (1992): $588,042
9. Louis Fratino (1993): $365,400
10. Jordy Kerwick (1982): $277,200
FIVE EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS IN H1 2022
Andy Warhol's Shot Sage Blue Marilyn elicited the second highest ever art auction bid. For the first time since Leonardo Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi in November 2017 (four and a half years ago), the ultra-high-end market is back with a result that once again questions the notion of an absolute masterpiece and its value. The charity sale that produced this result was guaranteed by Christie's and ended with a result of $195 million (including fees). The 'painting' was acquired by Larry Gagosian himself, the powerful gallery owner who had already sold the canvas to Thomas Ammann in the early 1980s.
The French auction house Artcurial had the honor of presenting an exceptional still-life by Jean-Baptiste Chardin, Le panier de fraises des bois, painted in 1761 and exhibited the same year at the Grand Salon in Paris. While this was the first appearance of this painting at auction, art expert Eric Turquin insists on the immense historical importance of the work, importance to which the labels on the back of the painting attest, having been included in many prestigious exhibitions around the world. A gentle and magic painting, the Jean-Baptiste Chardin masterpiece was estimated between $13 and $16 million and finally sold for $26.8 million.
The biggest sensation of the year was undoubtedly created by the canvas The Sugar Shack (1976) by Ernie Barnes (1938 - 2009). Last year, the African-American painter set a new auction record at $550,000. But on 12 May this year, Christie's proposed his painting The Sugar Shack (1976) in New York with an estimate of $150,000 - $200,000. The work finally sold for $15,275,000, more than 100 times the low estimate. In the days and weeks that followed, six more important Ernie Barnes paintings were offered at Christie's and Bonhams, and they all sold well beyond their estimates.
Last year, the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama became the first female artist to enter the world's Top 10 performing artists as calculated by Artprice (all periods of creation combined). She was also the third best performing living artist of the year behind Gerhard Richter and Banksy. This year, Yayoi Kusama has repeated that performance with 208 lots sold worldwide for more than $115 million. She also set a new auction record when her Untitled (Nets) (1959) reached $10.5 million at Phillips on 18 May 2022.
Matthew Wong would have been 38 if he hadn't taken his own life in 2019. Since his death, his paintings have enjoyed stunning success in auction rooms. On 19 May 2022, his Night Watcher (2018) was acquired for $5.9 million at Christie's New York. In H1 2022, Matthew Wong ranked 52nd in the global ranking of artists by auction turnover (all periods of creation combined), a success that has a certain Basquiat flavor to it, even if Wong's place in art history has not yet been recognized.
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ATLANTA, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CatchMark Timber Trust, Inc. (NYSE: CTT) ("CatchMark" or the "Company") announced today that independent proxy advisory firms Glass, Lewis & Co. ("Glass Lewis") and Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. ("ISS") have recommended that the Company's stockholders vote "FOR" the previously announced merger of the Company with PotlatchDeltic Corporation (NASDAQ: PCH) ("PotlatchDeltic") at the Company's upcoming Special Meeting of Stockholders (the "Special Meeting") scheduled for September 13, 2022 at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time.
As previously announced, the Company, PotlatchDeltic and certain of their respective subsidiaries have entered into a definitive merger agreement (the "Merger Agreement"), pursuant to which CatchMark will merge with and into a wholly owned subsidiary of PotlatchDeltic. Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, among other things, each outstanding share of CatchMark Class A common stock (other than certain shares to be cancelled in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement) will be automatically converted into the right to receive 0.230 shares of PotlatchDeltic common stock.
All stockholders of record as of the close of business on August 10, 2022 are entitled to vote at the Special Meeting.
The Company's stockholders are reminded that their vote is extremely important, no matter how many shares they own. To follow the recommendations of Glass Lewis, ISS and our Board of Directors, stockholders should vote "FOR" the proposed merger.
If you have any questions about the Special Meeting or need assistance voting your shares, please contact CatchMark's proxy solicitor, D.F. King & Co., Inc., by email at CTT@dfking.com or by phone at (800) 848-3410.
CatchMark owns prime timberlands located in the nation's leading mill markets, seeking to capture the highest value per acre and to generate sustainable yields through disciplined management and superior stewardship of its exceptional resources. Headquartered in Atlanta and focused exclusively on timberland ownership and management, CatchMark began operations in 2007 and owns interests in approximately 350,000 acres* of timberlands located in the U.S. South. For more information visit www.catchmark.com.
* As of June 30, 2022
This communication is being made in respect of the proposed merger transaction involving PotlatchDeltic and CatchMark. This communication does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or a solicitation of any vote or approval, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such jurisdiction. In connection with the proposed transaction, PotlatchDeltic filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") a Registration Statement on Form S-4 that was declared effective on August 10, 2022 that constitutes a prospectus of PotlatchDeltic and a proxy statement of CatchMark. CatchMark filed the proxy statement/prospectus with the SEC on August 10, 2022 and mailed it to its stockholders commencing August 12, 2022. The proxy statement/prospectus related to the proposed merger contains important information about PotlatchDeltic, CatchMark, the proposed transaction and related matters. Investors are urged to carefully read the proxy statement/prospectus and other documents filed or to be filed with the SEC (or incorporated by reference into the proxy statement/prospectus) in connection with the proposed merger. Investors may obtain free copies of the proxy statement/prospectus and other documents through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov. In addition, investors are able to obtain free copies of the proxy statement/prospectus and other documents filed with the SEC by the parties on PotlatchDeltic's website at www.potlatchdeltic.com (which website is not incorporated herein by reference), for documents filed with the SEC by PotlatchDeltic, or on CatchMark's website at www.catchmark.com (which website is not incorporated herein by reference), for documents filed with the SEC by CatchMark.
PotlatchDeltic and CatchMark and their respective directors and officers and certain other members of management and employees may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from stockholders of CatchMark in connection with the merger transaction. Certain information about the directors and executive officers of PotlatchDeltic is set forth in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, which was filed with the SEC on February 17, 2022, its proxy statement for its 2022 annual meeting of stockholders, which was filed with the SEC on March 29, 2022, and the proxy statement/prospectus filed with the SEC on August 10, 2022. Certain information about the directors and executive officers of CatchMark is set forth in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, which was filed with the SEC on March 3, 2022, its proxy statement for its 2022 annual meeting of stockholders, which was filed with the SEC on April 15, 2022, and the proxy statement/prospectus filed with the SEC on August 10, 2022. You can obtain free copies of these documents from PotlatchDeltic and CatchMark as described above.
This communication includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements that contain our current expectations about future results. These forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and expectations made by the Company, which reflect our management's experience, estimates and perception of historical trends, current conditions and anticipated future developments. Such statements are subject to a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, which may cause actual results to differ materially from those implied or anticipated in the forward-looking statements. When considering these forward-looking statements, you should also keep in mind the risk factors and other cautionary statements found in the Company's respective filings with the SEC, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, as amended, and subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K. All forward-looking statements, expressed or implied, included in this communication are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. This cautionary statement should also be considered in connection with any subsequent written or oral forward-looking statements that we or persons acting on our behalf may issue. Except as otherwise required by applicable law, the Company disclaims any duty to update any forward-looking statements, all of which are expressly qualified by the statements in this section, to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release. The Company claims the safe harbor protection for forward looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
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Plug Into Fun at North America's Largest Electric Vehicle Festival
MIAMI, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Electrify Expo, North America's largest electric-vehicle festival, rolls into the Magic City this fall, offering Floridians the opportunity to jump in and jump on the latest in electric mobility products, from electric cars, e-bikes, e-motorcycles, e-skateboards, and e-scooters to even water products like electric personal watercraft, e-surfboards, and e-foils. With 1M square feet of festival space occupied by the world's leading manufacturers, this family-friendly festival also includes the Hover-1 Kids Zone with activities for the whole family.
Miami-Dade has called for 30% of the county's vehicles to be all-electric by 2030. Local government officials do plan to add more charging stations to convince local drivers to make the shift. In fact, the county's new policy calls for 20% of all new vehicle purchases to be electric in 2022 and an additional 10% each year through 2023, so now is the time to take a battery-powered spin.
To register for a press pass to attend Electrify Expo, you are invited to apply here https://www.electrifyexpo.com/exhibits-press#Press
Electrify Expo is North America's largest outdoor electric vehicle festival showcasing the latest electric vehicles and products, including EVs, e-motorcycles, e-bikes, e-scooters, e-skateboards, e-boats, e-surfboards, and more from top brands around the world. The festival addresses one of the most challenging barriers to mass adoption of electric vehicles with meaningful hands-on experiences, demonstrations, and test rides. Electrify Expo meets the soaring demand for companies to share new technologies, new modes of mobility and put products in the hands of consumers in a meaningful way. Electrify Expo will feature more than 1M+ square feet of exhibit space in Los Angeles County, Seattle, New York, Miami, and Austin.
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Megan Nobbs will be the new executive director of the Seasons Performance Hall in downtown Yakima.
Co-founder and current Executive Director Pat Strosahl will be co-executive director with Nobbs starting Nov. 1, with Nobbs taking over full time Jan. 1, according to a news release.
Nobbs chairs the Fresh Hop Ale Festival and her firm, GSD Consulting, works with several nonprofit organizations in Yakima.
“I am excited and looking forward to leading the Seasons Performance Hall operations and the mission of the organization,” Nobbs said in a statement. “I can bring a fresh perspective as well as a working knowledge of the day to day from being an active member of the Seasons’ board for the last two years.”
She said her priorities for 2023 are to protect the historic downtown building, expand educational programs, improve the audience experience and broaden the venue’s support base.
The Seasons board approved the succession plan and Strosahl said he would remain active with the organization.
“Since I was appointed executive director in 2018, the board and I have worked diligently together on a multi-year plan to position the Seasons for long-term success,” Strosahl said. “A key part of that has always been to replace myself, ensuring that a new qualified executive director could assume the position with confidence in the health of the organization and a thorough knowledge of its operation. Megan Nobbs is the most qualified and capable person I could imagine to fill that position.” | https://www.yakimaherald.com/explore_yakima/megan-nobbs-named-seasons-executive-director-with-transition-starting-in-november/article_501a4174-2a4e-11ed-ab8f-1fe8e05fcfe5.html | 2022-09-06T12:46:32Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/explore_yakima/megan-nobbs-named-seasons-executive-director-with-transition-starting-in-november/article_501a4174-2a4e-11ed-ab8f-1fe8e05fcfe5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For Yakima County Superior Court Judge Gayle Harthcock, court was adjourned for the last time Wednesday.
Harthcock, who was appointed to the Superior Court bench in 2014 by Gov. Jay Inslee, retired. Prior to her appointment, she had been a court commissioner for six years, hearing all but jury cases in Superior Court.
Presiding Judge Richard Bartheld said Harthcock will be missed.
“Gayle was really instrumental in keeping up with changes in the law and putting together training classes for the judges,” Bartheld said. “She would put together learning lunches and explain what we should be looking for.”
While she came from a background in family law, Harthcock has handled several high-profile cases, including a public records case involving allegations of an illegal Selah City Council vote and a brutal Granger homicide.
Sonia Rodriguez True, a court commissioner, was appointed to replace Harthcock.
An Omak native, Harthcock graduated from Western Washington University with a bachelor’s degree in political science and obtained a law degree at the University of Puget Sound School of Law. She served as a law clerk for a judge on the Court of Appeals of Alaska and worked as an attorney in Alaska, Seattle and Yakima.
The following has been edited for clarity and space.
What led you into a career in law?
When I was in high school, I had an opportunity to observe at the prosecuting attorney’s office in Okanogan County. That attorney took me under his wing and took me to the courtrooms and to the appellaqte court in Spokane. He and his wife and I traveled over there and we watched an argument that he participated in. I think that was the beginning of it. It gave me an opportunity to do something besides schoolwork. It was really interesting as a teenager to see those things and realize you could have a career in it.
At that time, were you ever thinking about becoming a judge?
At that point, I was just wanting to go to college and see where my career took me at that point.
How did you decide to go from being an attorney to serving on the bench?
I had a private practice here in Yakima for a number of years, and there was a job opening for a full-time court commissioner with the court in 2008. I got a call from Judge (Ruth) Reukauf encouraging me to apply. I got a call from Commissioner (Robert) Inouye encouraging me to apply. It wasn’t something I had really considered up to that point. I had done a number of jobs (serving as a temporary judge) through different courts, so they were familiar with my work. So I applied and got the job, and that’s how it started.
How was your transition from being an advocate to being a judge?
My practice was primarily adoptions and guardianships and some work. It wasn’t really heavy on litigation. I don’t think I had as hard a time transitioning as maybe some of the other folks would have who are coming in as trial attorneys and are coming on to the bench. Because I had pro-temmed and so I had an opportunity to do that before I became a judicial officer on a full-time basis.
It’s always a challenge for all of us. Because we always want to make things go our way. When you become a judge, you realize that winning is for one of the parties and not for the judge. You have to remain neutral and listen to both sides before making up your decision based on the facts and the law.
What would you say is the most memorable case you heard, and why?
A number of criminal cases come to mind, criminal jury trials, but some I cannot comment on because they are still up in the court of appeals. The one that has been decided by the court of appeals was (the murder trial of Jaime Munguia Alejandre). That was probably most memorable for me and some of the jurors because it’s hard to unsee some of those (evidentiary) photographs. I used to work for the court of appeals in Alaska and that was another thing, we would see those kind of photographs in the record, and it’s just so hard to unsee things. I think the effect it had on the children in the family, just discovering the body that way. It was a tough one for everybody. I also felt for the people in the courtroom who had to observe that repeatedly.
Another case that was interesting was a medical malpractice case. It had to do with a back repair, and the attorneys on both sides were tremendous. The attorneys on both sides were so well prepared and willing to work with each other.
What is one thing you would like people to know about the justice system?
I think the one thing about the justice system is it is what we have, it is the best we have and it’s our constitutional system. That doesn’t mean that mistakes cannot be made by judges. We’re just people and I was talking to one of the appellate court judges recently, and he just basically reiterated that for all levels. We’re all humans. We come to work, we put our shoes on one at a time just like anybody else. We do the best we can, but it’s perfect.
How do you maintain your work-life balance?
I do a number of things. I have a close relationship with my family, and I make sure the focus is on them when I’m with them and the focus is on work when I’m at work. I am also an avid member of the Y and I usually get down to the Y a couple times a week. When the Y was downtown, we had a group group of friends. A federal court judge, a district court judge and myself and we would visit during the lunch hour about the news and what people were doing. That always was refreshing for me, to get out and think about things that don’t involve work.
I just enjoy doing art, gardening, walking and hiking. Right now, I’m doing acrylic pouring. It’s really fun and messy, so it is cathartic. I also have over the years worked on hot glass making lamp work beads.
What are your plans for the future?
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MONTREAL and CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Milestone Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: MIST), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative cardiovascular medicines, today announced that Joseph Oliveto, President and Chief Executive Officer, will present at the H.C. Wainwright 24th Annual Global Investment Conference on Monday, September 12, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. ET in New York, NY.
A live webcast of the presentation can be accessed in the News & Events section of Milestone's website at www.milestonepharma.com. An archived replay of the presentation will be available on the same website for approximately 90 days following the presentation.
Milestone Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: MIST), is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative cardiovascular medicines. Milestone's lead product candidate etripamil is currently in a Phase 3 clinical-stage program for the treatment of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT) and in a Phase 2 proof-of-concept trial for the treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular rate (AFib-RVR). Milestone Pharmaceuticals operates in Canada and the United States. For more information, visit www.milestonepharma.com and follow Milestone on Twitter at @MilestonePharma.
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People are struggling with finances due to the cost of living crisis, but the Government has a whole roster of different benefits to help people through this turbulent period. More than 7 million households across the UK have had the first instalment of the £650 cost of living payment.
A second payment from the Department for Work and Pensions of £324 will be made in the autumn. UK residents getting Working Tax Credit or Child Tax Credit from HM Revenue and Customs will get £326 this September and the second payment will total £650 this winter, Lancs Live reports.
But this is not the only type of benefit people can expect to receive from September to December. Among them is a £150 cash payment for those on disability benefits.
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A further £300 will be to Winter Fuel Payments for homes lived in by pensioners. There's also the £400 energy bill rebate.
Overall, Help is being given to those not on benefits as well as those receiving Universal Credit, JSA, ESA, PIP, Pension Credit, Working Tax Credit, and more. Here is a quick, concise guide to the cost of living payments being made by Government before the end of 2022.
How to check if you or someone in your home is eligible for financial support
You could get up to three different types of payment depending on your circumstances on a certain date or during a particular period.
£650 Cost of Living Payment
If you get a qualifying low income/means-tested benefit or Tax Credits - paid in two instalments of £326 and £32 This is paid per claim, so a couple claiming would qualify for one payment.
£150 Disability Cost of Living Payment
If you get a qualifying disability benefit. This is paid per individual claim.
£300 Pensioner Cost of Living Payment
If you’re entitled to a Winter Fuel Payment for winter 2022 to 2023 this will be added to your entitlement. This is paid per claim, so a couple claiming would qualify for one payment.
Examples of stacked support payments
If you are claiming Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment, you will be eligible for £800 in support - £650 means-tested payment and the £150 disability payment. A person of State Pension age, claiming Pension Credit and Attendance Allowance would be eligible for £1,100 in support - the £650 means-tested payment, £150 disability payment and the £300 pensioner payment.
July and the autumn months: £650 cost of living payment for those eligible
As previously mentioned, this is paid in two instalments of £326 and £324. Most people should have received their first payment by now, however, DWP recently said that more complex claims or those awaiting an award decision may be delayed.
It’s worth noting that older people making a new claim for Pension Credit before August 18, which is later successful - even if they are only awarded one penny in cash support - will qualify for the £650 payment. This is because it is a retrospective benefit which can be claimed three months in arrears, taking it to within the qualifying period in May (outlined below).
Qualifying benefits and Tax Credits
You may be eligible if you are in receipt of any of the following:
- Universal Credit - you must have been entitled to a payment of at least 1p during the assessment period of April 26, 2022 to May 25, 2022.
- Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) - received a payment between April 26, 2022 to May 25, 2022.
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) - received a payment between April 26, 2022 to May 25, 2022.
- Income Support - received a payment between April 26, 2022 to May 25, 2022.
- Pension Credit - received a payment between April 26, 2022 to May 25, 2022.
- Child Tax Credit.
- Working Tax Credit.
Special note about Tax Credits
The first cost of living payment of £326 will be paid in September. To get the first Cost of Living Payment of £326, you must have been entitled, or later found to be entitled, for any day in the period April 26, 2022 to May 25, 2022 to:
- A payment of Tax Credits.
- An annual award of at least £26 of Tax Credits.
- If you get both Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit, you will receive a cost of living payment for Child Tax Credit only.
- If you get Tax Credits from HMRC and a low income benefit from DWP, your payment will be made by DWP.
- If you only receive Tax Credits, you will get the first payment of £326 from HMRC in September and the second payment of £324 from winter 2022.
Which benefits are not eligible?
You will not be eligible for a payment if you get New Style Employment and Support Allowance, Contributory Employment and Support Allowance or New Style Jobseeker’s Allowance, unless you also get Universal Credit.
September: £150 disability cost of living payment
To qualify for the payment, you must have received a payment (or later receive a payment) of one of these benefits on May 25, 2022:
- Attendance Allowance
- Constant Attendance Allowance
- Disability Living Allowance for adults
- Disability Living Allowance for children
- Personal Independence Payment
- Adult Disability Payment
- Child Disability Payment
- Armed Forces Independence Payment
- War Pension Mobility Supplement
If you get a qualifying disability benefit from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and a qualifying disability benefit from DWP, you will get one £150 payment from DWP only.
October: £400 energy rebate
All households with a domestic electricity connection across the UK are eligible for the £400 discount. There is no need to contact energy suppliers as it will be paid automatically.
How the discount will be applied to customers
The £400 discount will be administered by suppliers and paid to customers over six months with payments starting from October 2022.
This discount will be applied as follows:
- October - £66
- November - £66
- December - £67
- January - £67
- February - £67
- March - £67
The discount will be provided on a monthly basis regardless of whether consumers pay monthly, quarterly or have an associated payment card. If you do not receive the first instalment by the end of October, you should contact your energy supplier.
Prepayment meter customers
Smart prepayment meter customers will see the discount credited directly to their smart prepayment meters in the first week of each month of delivery. Traditional prepayment meter customers will be provided with redeemable vouchers or Special Action Messages (SAMs) in the first week of each month, issued via SMS text, email or post. Customers will need to take action to redeem these at their usual top-up point.
November and December: £300 pensioner cost of living payment
All eligible pensioner households will get the one-off payment added as a top-up to their annual Winter Fuel Payment in November/December. To qualify, you must be of State Pension age (66 or above) during the qualifying week of 19-25 September 2022 and in receipt of the Winter Fuel Payment.
The £300 payment and who it doesn't apply to
There are certain circumstances where an individual above State Pension age does not qualify for the Winter Fuel Payment which can be found on GOV.UK.
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The decision to save £2.2million by cutting financial support to 37 buses in Kent - which parents have described as "catastrophic for our communities and our children" - will not be reversed by Kent County Council's cabinet. Members met this morning (Tuesday, September 6) and rejected the request of opposition councillors through the scrutiny committee last month to scrub its controversial decision and send it back for review by full council.
There had been hopes by campaigners fighting to keep buses that Government funding for bus service improvement plans (known as BSIP funding) due to be given to Kent County Council could be used to save threatened services. But at this morning's meeting, cabinet members heard from council leader Roger Gough the funding from the Department for Transport was not about "preserving the status quo" and the revenue elements could not be used to "sustain existing structures and existing routes".
He also told those present there were many restrictions on how the funding would be used, including that around two thirds had to be capital spending.
Read more:First victory in fight to keep Kent bus subsidies in face of budget cuts
He said: "The view I have always taken is that if and when, and it is still not completed and I would like to emphasises that, like many other authorities, we are still in discussions with the DfT about the details of the BSIP allocation, but if and when that is successfully concluded, as we hope and expect it will be, that may well provide good opportunities in relation to what can be done to promote elements of the bus network across the county.
"But that is not the same as, in effect, being linked to, particularly this process, which is about ultimately certain subsidised routes, not the wider issue of commercial routes which we all know has been a big area of concern."
He said the funding from Government would be used to deliver "a variety of improvements to (bus) services across the county" which could include "demand responsive transport".
Council transport boss David Brazier said during the meeting, initial plans had been to save £3million pounds by withdrawing subsidies to 48 services by 2022. Following public consultation, the modified cuts were the withdrawal of subsidies to 37 services, with savings of £2.2million.
Mr Brazier said the decision "should be debated at county council where a range of different outcomes are available to members".
At a previous meeting, Mr Brazier had stressed the proposals before them were about routes subsidised by the council and not the commercial routes which had been withdrawn or would be withdrawn by bus companies.
The decision was called in to the scrutiny committee on August 18 by Rich Lehmann, Green Party councillor, and Mike Sole, for the Liberal Democrats. They wanted further information and further details on the issue to be put before councillors before a decision was made.
'Extreme pressures'
This morning (Tuesday) Councillor Peter Oakford laid out the financial difficulties facing the council and how the economic landscape had changed since the budget was set last year. He said: "We were under extreme pressures, there was huge growth in demand and seeing reduction in funding we get centrally."
He said with the cost of living biting, the council did not want to raise council tax. He said the financial situation was even worse now, listing the "barbaric" invasion of Ukraine and the inflationary pressures that had caused on energy, foods, grain etc and "when one considers that 1.3billion of the council budget to inflationary pressures, we can see the challenges we face and they will have to be discussed at the up and coming cabinet meeting".
Mr Gough said the decision would not be rescinded as requested by the scrutiny committee, but would be sent to full council on September 15 for debate.
'There must be far greater action'
Immediately after the debate, Green councillors across Kent wrote an open letter to the Government calling for "far greater action to protect bus services across the county". It asked for greater flexibility on how the council could spend its Department for Transport funding in the county.
The letter, addressed to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Transport Baroness Vere, highlighted the 56 routes in Kent under threat from KCC's proposed subsidy cuts, and asks for flexibility on the funding already provided by the government under the Bus Service Improvement Plan.
It also called on the government to "open the door for re-regulation of buses in Kent to give the county council far greater control of the setting of bus routes and timetables".
Cllr Rich Lehmann, KCC member for Swale East, said “Whilst Covid and the war in Ukraine have undeniably played their part in the difficulties we are seeing, these are only the latest factors in the destabilisation of our county's bus services. The de-regulation of bus networks back in 1986 and a decade of austerity since 2011 had already pushed services close to breaking point and, as with our energy supplies, we are now seeing the fragile state they were in.”
“The government has provisionally granted KCC £35.1m to stabilise the bus network across the county and make improvements to encourage passengers back onto buses. Sadly it appears that this money cannot currently be used to keep services under threat of closure running until passenger numbers recover.
"We are calling on the Department for Transport to take a pragmatic view and allow the council to use some of the BSIP grant to maintain the subsidised routes until countywide improvements, such as clearer fare structures and more co-ordinated timetabling, can be implemented and we have a better idea of genuine 'post-Covid' passenger numbers”
Kent Greens also have an open petition to KCC, calling for the reversal of February's decision to cut £2.2m from the supported bus budget in order to save 56 bus routes across the county – which you can see here.
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A brazen naturist nicknamed 'The Naked Carpenter' who walked into a police station exposing his manhood in see-through thong and trousers has been jailed for 12 months. Robert Jenner, who has gained notoriety in the past for his revealing behaviour, was dressed in the flimsy, mesh-type garments just hours after being released from prison for previous offences of exposure.
As well as being on licence, he was also subject to a seven-year criminal behaviour order (CBO) in respect of his choice of clothing. A court heard the first police officer he met could see the 48-year-old's genitals - but she asked a colleague to confirm her sighting as she was not wearing her glasses.
When quizzed why that morning he had not simply put on 'the kind of underwear bought in Marks and Spencer', the former Princess of Wales Regiment infantryman who served in the Iraq War replied he had put on 'the first thing that came to hand'. However, the judge was told by prosecutor Simon Sandford that it was 'most unlikely' he had left prison wearing the see-through clothes, and therefore must have changed into them before going to see police about reclaiming a mobile phone.
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Jenner, of no fixed address, claimed at his trial that how he dresses is a human right and denied breaching the CBO, saying his top covered his manhood. But a jury at Maidstone Crown Court took just 15 minutes to reject his flimsy defence and find him guilty.
Passing the maximum sentence today (September 6) for such a breach offence, Judge Charles Macdonald QC said the jury 'saw through his pack of lies'. He told Jenner: "There is a long and persistent history of behaviour that is inexcusably criminal, and a continuing risk of criminal and anti-social behaviour.
"All that story of a top covering is just a pack of lies the jury saw through. This is repeat offending showing complete contempt for the court and the law."
The former soldier earned his Naked Carpenter moniker in September 2016 when he made headlines for carrying out DIY jobs, gardening and chores in the nude bar his work boots. It led to complaints from outraged neighbours but in February 2017 he was cleared of 11 charges of indecent exposure relating to his naked activities at his home.
However, he has since notched up numerous convictions for flashing his genitals, by wearing crotchless trousers while working as a Hermes delivery driver and parading in transparent shorts in a supermarket. The subsequent CBO imposed in March 2019 stated he had to have at least one layer of clothing covering his genitals when in public areas or not attending a naturist event.
But on January 12 this year, Jenner went to Maidstone police station in the see-through thong and trousers. Maidstone Crown Court was told that having arrived just before 5pm, Det Con Melanie Bolt was called to the front counter to speak to him.
"She invited him to accompany her to an interview room closeby. She believed she could see his penis through the clothing he was wearing," said Mr Sandford. "However, she wore glasses, didn't have them on and so asked a colleague to attend and confirm what she could see."
Mr Sandford said PC Homam Al-Sinawi then saw the ex-serviceman sitting behind a desk and, on asking him to stand up, he noticed his genitals 'were on show'. "He could clearly see the defendant's trousers and underwear were both see-through and he could see the defendant's genitalia," added the prosecutor.
"That was clearly a breach of the criminal behaviour order. He was arrested and on caution replied 'Pants have been washed a lot', presumably suggesting they had become more see-through as a result."
The court heard the clothing was placed on a mannequin by police for the purposes of taking photographs for evidence, with a piece of brown tape placed over the penis. The jury was shown both the images and the clothing and Mr Sandford maintained: "It is clear his genitals were clear through his clothing and in breach of the order."
Representing himself at trial, Jenner denied his genitals were 'on show'. He bizarrely claimed they only became visible when police asked him to lift his top and 'do a little dance'. "Had I been on show as the police suggested, I wouldn't have been asked to lift my top. My genitals were not on show," he said.
In his police interview he chose not to answer when asked if he got 'a sexual thrill' from exposing himself in public. But Niall Doherty, defending at Jenner's sentencing, said there was nothing 'sinister, puerile or sexual' about his behaviour.
"He believes in naturism....In his mind his behaviour is acceptable and in accordance with his human rights," Mr Docherty told the court. "He doesn't regret anything he has done but is thoroughly and utterly sick of the prison system."
Due to time served on remand, Jenner is expected to be released immediately but will be subject to a year's supervision by the probation service. The CBO was also ordered to continue.
It was said he had once been an 'active' member of the Naturist Society, taking part in naked swims and visiting nudist beaches in France, Spain and the Isle of Sheppey. The jurors were not told of his string of previous convictions for exposure or of his prison release that day until after they had returned their unanimous verdict.
In February this year he lost an appeal against conviction and 12-month jail term for walking through Maidstone town centre dressed in similar see-through trousers which revealed his buttocks and genitals. He had worn the transparent garment to go drinking in a nearby Wetherspoon's pub.
When asked by a startled officer what he was wearing underneath the trousers, a laughing Jenner simply replied 'Socks' and dubbed himself 'Mr Inappropriate'. At the time of that arrest late at night on January 19 2020, Jenner had again been recently released from prison, on that occasion for 10 offences of exposure.
Jenner, formerly of Bingley Close, Snodland, but now of no fixed address, claims to have been a naturist for more than 20 years and served for 10 years in the army. In March 2019 he was jailed for two years after a court heard he wore jeans with a hole cut in his crotch area while delivering parcels.
He also paraded his manhood by wearing see-through shorts during visits to a supermarket, country park and shopping centre, all in Kent. His victims over a 10-month period included a 14-year-old schoolgirl and a pregnant woman. On two occasions when he exposed himself it was snowing.
In December last year he was sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment for breaching sex offender register conditions.
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Good Morning Britain (GMB) viewers have criticised the show's coverage of Boris Johnson's exit from 10 Downing Street, as Susanna Reid read a series of messages supportive of the outgoing Prime Minister. The presenter returned to the show this week after her summer breaking, hosting alongside former Labour MP Ed Balls as Mr Johnson spoke outside Downing Street, describing himself as a "booster rocket that has fulfilled its function".
The exiting PM will now return to the backbenches, where he vowed to "get behind Liz Truss every step of the way", The Mirror reports. After the speech, journalist Andrew Pearce said on the ITV show: "It's going to be a dull place without him."
Susanna said she "totally agreed". She added: "Perhaps it is what we need."
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Susanna then read out messages from viewers, saying: "Viewers have been in touch and frankly it's the viewers that count." But many GMB fans were unhappy with the one-sidedness of the comments.
One message, read out by Susanna, was from a viewer called Theodora, who said: "Good luck Boris. Sorry to see you go. You gave a great speech. Best Prime Minister we have had. You'll be back."
Susanna then read another comment from Maureen, saying: "We'll miss you Boris. Come back soon. You're one of a kind."
However, many GMB viewers were baffled and labelled the positive comments on Mr Johnson as "nonsense", with some saying there was a different consensus on Twitter. One fan asked: "How about you read some of the tweets I'm seeing Susannah?!!"
Another tweeted: "Oh here we go Susanna Reid reading out the we love you Boris messages whilst informing us it's the viewers that count! She is definitely doing a Nadine!"
While another said: "Doesn't sound like balanced viewer feedback. Take a look on here."
One fan suggested the comments had made them nauseous. Another quoted her, saying: "'Dull without him' it's not the X factor he's been dreadful!"
Mr Johnson's farewell speech came after Liz Truss was elected leader of the Conservative Party yesterday (September 5). During her acceptance speech, she praised her "friend" Mr Johnson.
Ms Truss has now been formally invited to form a Government by the Queen, making her the new PM.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV.
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Last week, after months of voting, KentLive readers crowned Dymchurch Beach as the best beach in the county. The three-mile sandy beach on the Romney Marsh received a whopping 31% of the vote, beating Viking Bay and Sunny Sands to claim the top spot.
The beach managed to come out on top in a competition which had lasted the whole of summer, and had seen 40 of the county's best whittled down through weeks of voting. Dymchurch Beach was a worthy winner and can rightfully claim the title of being 'Kent's best beach'.
This year also saw more good news for the beach which was awarded a Blue Flag Seaside Award for the first time. The Sunday Times also crowned Dymchurch the best beach in the South-East back in July.
The news of the success got our readers reminiscing on the 'wonderful memories' they had at the beach. Do you have any memories, do you still visit? We'd love to hear from you in the comments below.
It's clear the beach holds many happy memories for many of our readers with the replies to our Facebook post full of people remembering previous summer holidays at the beach. Norma Larn said: "Wonderful memories of childhood holidays. I loved building sandcastles with my Dad on the sand and though all beaches would be like the one at Dymchurch"
Julie Bell added: "Loved our holidays in Dymchurch, it was our go to weekend and holidays break away." While Karen said: "Spent my childhood there, took my children there and now the grandchildren love Children"
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The Russian Ministry of Defense is in the process of purchasing millions of rockets and artillery shells from North Korea for its ongoing fight in Ukraine, according to a newly downgraded U.S. intelligence finding.
A U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the intelligence determination, said Monday that the fact Russia is turning to the isolated state of North Korea demonstrates that “the Russian military continues to suffer from severe supply shortages in Ukraine, due in part to export controls and sanctions.”
U.S. intelligence officials believe that the Russians could look to purchase additional North Korean military equipment in the future. The intelligence finding was first reported by The New York Times.
The U.S. official did not detail how much weaponry Russia intends to purchase from North Korea.
The finding comes after the Biden administration recently confirmed that the Russian military in August took delivery of Iranian-manufactured drones for use on the battlefield in Ukraine.
The White House said last week that Russia has faced technical problems with Iranian-made drones acquired from Tehran in August for use in its war with Ukraine.
Russia picked up Mohajer-6 and Shahed-series unmanned aerial vehicles over several days last month as part what the Biden administration says is likely part of a Russian plan to acquire hundreds of Iranian UAVs for use in Ukraine.
North Korea has sought to tighten relations with Russia as much of Europe and the West has pulled away, blaming the United States for the Ukraine crisis and decrying the West’s “hegemonic policy” as justifying military action by Russia in Ukraine to protect itself.
The North Koreans have hinted interest in sending construction workers to help rebuild Russian-occupied territories in the country's east.
North Korea’s ambassador to Moscow recently met with envoys from two Russia-backed separatist territories in the Donbas region of Ukraine and expressed optimism about cooperation in the “field of labor migration,” citing his country’s easing pandemic border controls.
In July, North Korea became the only nation aside from Russia and Syria to recognize the independence of the territories, Donetsk and Luhansk, further aligning with Russia over the conflict in Ukraine.
The North’s arms export to Russia would be a violation of U.N. resolutions that ban the country from exporting to or importing weapons from other countries. Its possible dispatch of laborers to the Russian-held territories in Ukraine would also breach a U.N. resolution that required all member states to repatriate all North Korean workers from their soil by 2019.
There have been suspicions that China and Russia haven’t fully enforced U.N. sanctions on North Korea, complicating a U.S.-led attempt to deprive North Korea of its nuclear weapons.
The provocative move by North Korea comes as the Biden administration has become increasingly concerned about stepped-up activity by North Korea in pursuit of nuclear weapons.
North Korea has test-fired more than 30 ballistic missiles this year, including its first flights of intercontinental ballistic missiles since 2017, as leader Kim Jong Un pushes to advance his nuclear arsenal despite U.S.-led pressure and sanctions.
The U.S. has frequently downgraded and unveiled intelligence findings over the course of the grinding war in Ukraine to highlight plans for Russian misinformation operations or to throw attention on Moscow’s difficulties in prosecuting the war. Ukraine's smaller military has put up a stiff resistance against the militarily superior Russian forces.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kim have recently exchanged letters in which they both called for “comprehensive” and “strategic and tactical” cooperation between the countries. Moscow, for its part, has issued statements condemning the revival of large-scale military exercises between the United States and South Korea this year, which North Korea views as an invasion rehearsal.
Russia, along with China, has called for the easing of U.N. sanctions imposed on North Korea over its nuclear and missile tests. Both countries are members of the U.N. Security Council, which has approved a total of 11 rounds of sanctions on the North since 2006. In May, Russia and China vetoed a U.S.-led bid to impose new economic sanctions on North Korea over its high-profile missile tests this year.
Some experts say that Kim could likely bolster his resolve to retain his nuclear weapons because he may think the Russian attack happened because Ukraine had signed away its nuclear arsenal.
Relations between Moscow and Pyongyang go back to the 1948 foundation of North Korea, as Soviet officials installed young, ambitious nationalist Kim Il Sung, the late grandfather of Kim Jong Un, as the country’s first ruler. Since then, Soviet aid shipment had been crucial in keeping North Korea’s economy afloat for decades before the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
Moscow had since established formal diplomatic relations with Seoul as part of its hopes to draw South Korean investment and allowed its Soviet-era military alliance with North Korea to expire. But after his election in 2000, Putin actively sought to restore his country’s ties with North Korea in what was seen as an effort to regain its traditional domains of influence and secure more allies to better deal with the United States. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/russia-buying-rockets-artillery-shells-from-north-korea-us-says | 2022-09-06T12:51:18Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/russia-buying-rockets-artillery-shells-from-north-korea-us-says | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WATSONVILLE, Calif., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The MILPA Collective releases "Truth Telling and Palabra: A Project at Rikers Island," a report that memorializes a transformative project that brought safety, stability, and healing to incarcerated young people [ages 18-21] and correctional staff at the RNDC jail at Rikers Island in Queens, New York.
From June 2021 through January 2022, at the request of Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi, MILPA and a team of expert consultants led a project at Rikers Island to stabilize conditions for incarcerated young adults and frontline staff. Like most jurisdictions across the country, rates of violence are nine times higher among young adults than any other group, making a focus on young adults key to stabilizing conditions agency-wide.
The MILPA approach of working in community and carceral settings across the U.S via the leadership of formerly incarcerated Chicano Indigenous and Black relatives uniquely positioned them to guide this project. "Our work wasn't about flooding Rikers with more programs. Our work was about making systemic change. Organizing with those who live and work inside, to challenge the systemic racism and toxic culture that sustains the status quo at Rikers," says Juan Gomez, Executive Director of MILPA. "And while we always try to balance urgency with the process, at Rikers, we had to treat every day like a war zone with a disaster relief mission."
In just seven months MILPA led a team of expert consultants and accomplished the following:
- Completed a participatory planning process in partnership with frontline staff and incarcerated young adults
- Designed a new model of jail operations for young adults
- Opened four transformed pilot living units using the new operations model
- Trained upwards of 50 correctional staff to work in the units
- Facilitated healing-engaged workshops
- Crafted a new antiracist policy to codify the new model with an eye toward scale.
Planning and preparation began in June 2021, and on November 1st the first pilot units opened, with the second two opening in mid-December 2021. From then through January 2022, only one fight occurred, while the other RNDC units experienced a total of 47 stabbings and slashings during the same period. Using a unique combination of facility-based organizing tactics, a participatory planning process, and a disaster relief approach, the team built an "inside" coalition of Black and Chicano Indigenous frontline staff and incarcerated people aligned in purpose, process, and hope for the future.
In January 2022, the project ended when Commissioner Schiraldi and his administration were ousted by the incoming Mayor. "While this story has an equivocal ending, the report has been written to memorialize the heart and hard work that staff and incarcerated people put into making this vision a reality while reflecting on its implications for the field."
You can access the full report, "Truth Telling and Palabra: A Project at Rikers Island," here and the Executive Summary here.
About MILPA: MILPA is a non-profit organization that is founded and led by formerly incarcerated Chicano Indigenous people. MILPA is a movement space dedicated to Cultivating Change Makers for The Next Seven Generations. For more, visit milpacollective.org
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Elsa Avila slid to her phone, terrified as she held the bleeding side of her abdomen and tried to stay calm for her students. In a text to her family that she meant to send to fellow Uvalde teachers, she wrote: “I’m shot.”
For the first time in 30 years, Avila will not be going back to school as classes resume Tuesday in the small, southwest Texas city. The start of school will look different for her, as for other survivors of the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in which 21 people died, with an emphasis on healing, both physically and mentally. Some have opted for virtual education, others for private school. Many will return to Uvalde school district campuses, though Robb Elementary itself will never reopen.
“I’m trying to make sense of everything,” Avila said in an August interview, “but it is never going to make sense.”
A scar down her torso brings her to tears as a permanent reminder of the horror she endured with her 16 students as they waited in their classroom for an hour for help while a gunman slaughtered 19 children and two teachers in two adjoining classrooms nearby.
Minutes before she felt the sharp pain of the bullet piercing her intestine and colon, Avila was motioning students away from the walls and windows and closer to her. A student lined up by the door for recess had just told her something was going on outside: People were running — and screaming. As she slammed the classroom door so the lock would catch, her students took their well-practiced lockdown positions.
Moments later, a gunman stormed into their fourth-grade wing and began spraying bullets before ultimately making his way into rooms 111 and 112.
In room 109, Avila repeatedly texted for help, according to messages reviewed by The Associated Press. First at 11:35 a.m. in the text to her family that she says was meant for the teacher group chat. Then at 11:38 in a message to the school’s vice principal. At 11:45, she responded to a text from the school’s counselor asking if her classroom was on lockdown with: “I’m shot, send help.” And when the principal assured her that help was on the way, she replied simply: “Help.”
“Yes, they are coming,” the principal wrote back at 11:48 a.m.
It’s unclear whether her messages were relayed to the police. District officials did not respond to requests for comment on actions taken to communicate with law enforcement on May 24, and an attorney for then-Principal Mandy Gutierrez was not available for comment.
According to a legislative committee’s report that described a botched police response, nearly 400 local, state and federal officers stood in the hallway of the fourth-grade wing or outside the building for 77 minutes before some finally entered the adjoining classrooms and killed the gunman. Lawmakers also found a relaxed approach to lockdowns — which happened often — and security concerns, including issues with door locks. State and federal investigations into the shooting are ongoing.
The district is working to complete new security measures, and the school board in August fired the district’s police chief, Pete Arredondo. Residents say it remains unclear how — or even if — trust between the community and officials can be rebuilt, even as some call for more accountability, better police training and stricter gun safety laws.
Avila recalls hearing the ominous bursts of rapid fire, then silence, then the voices of officers in the hallway yelling, “Crossfire!” and later more officers standing nearby.
“But still nobody came to help us,” she said.
As Avila lay motionless, unable to speak loud enough to be heard, some of her students nudged and shook her. She wished for the strength to tell them she was still alive.
A light flashed into their window, but nobody identified themselves. Scared it might be the gunman, the students moved away.
“The little girls closest to me kept patting me and telling me, ‘It’s going to be OK miss. We love you miss,’” Avila said.
Finally, at 12:33 p.m. a window in her classroom broke. Officers arrived to evacuate her students — the last to be let out in the area, according to Avila.
With her remaining strength, Avila pulled herself up and helped usher students onto chairs and tables and through the window. Then, clutching her side, she told an officer she was too weak to jump herself. He came through the window to pull her out.
“I never saw my kids again. I know they climbed out the window and I could just hear them telling them, `Run, run, run!’” Avila said.
She remembers being taken to the airport, where a helicopter flew her to a San Antonio hospital. She was in and out of care until June 18.
Avila later learned that a student in her class was wounded by shrapnel to the nose and mouth but had since been released from medical care. She said other students helped their injured classmates until officers arrived.
“I am very proud of them because they were able to stay calm for a whole hour that we were in there terrified,” Avila said.
As her students prepare to return to school for the first time since that traumatic day, Avila is on the way to recovery, walking up to eight minutes at a time on the treadmill in physical therapy and going to counseling. She looks forward to teaching again someday.
Outside of a shuttered Robb Elementary, a memorial for the people killed overflows at the entrance gate. Teachers from across Texas stopped by this summer to pay their respects and reflect on what they would do in the same situation.
“If I survive, I have to make sure they survive first,” said Olga Oglin, an educator of 23 years from Dallas, her voice breaking.
“Whatever happens to a student at our school, it just happens to one of my kids,” Olgin said, adding that as the person to greet parents, students and staff at the door in the mornings, she likely would be the first person shot.
Ofelia Loyola, who teaches elementary school in San Antonio, visited with her husband, middle school teacher Raul Loyola. She was baffled at the delayed response from law enforcement, as seen on security and police video.
“They are all kids. It doesn’t matter how old they are, you protect them,” she said.
Last week, Avila and several of her students met for the end-of-year party they were unable to have in May. They played in the pool at a country club and she gave them each a bracelet with a little cross to remind them that “God was with us that day and they are not alone,” she said.
“We always talked about being kind, being respectful, taking care of each other — and they were able to do that on that day,” Avila said.
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LONDON, UK — Prime Minister Boris Johnson left his Downing Street office for the last time on Tuesday before heading to Scotland to formally offer his resignation so Liz Truss can succeed him.
The British leader, who announced his intention to step down two months ago, is expected to meet with the monarch in the late morning at her Balmoral estate to begin the transfer of power to Liz Truss.
Truss, who was named leader of the ruling Conservative party on Monday, will be appointed prime minister during her own audience with the queen a short time later.
Speaking outside No. 10 Downing Street, Johnson said his policies had given Britain the economic strength to help people weather the energy crisis, and he called on the Conservatives to unite behind Truss during the “tough time” facing the country. Then he signed off with his typically colorful language.
“I am like one of those booster rockets that has fulfilled its function,’’ Johnson said. “I will now be gently re-entering the atmosphere and splashing down invisibly in some remote and obscure corner of the Pacific.’’
Johnson, 58, became prime minister three years ago after his predecessor, Theresa May, failed to deliver Britain’s departure from the European Union. Johnson later won an 80-seat majority in Parliament with the promise to “get Brexit done.”
But he was forced out of office by a series of scandals that culminated in the resignation of dozens of Cabinet secretaries and lower-level officials in early July. He alluded to that downfall in his leaving remarks, saying he was handing over the baton to Truss in “what has unexpectedly become a relay race.”
While many observers expect Johnson to attempt a political comeback, he offered Truss his backing and compared himself to Cincinnatus, the Roman dictator who relinquished power and returned to his farm to live in peace.
“Like Cincinnatus, I am returning to my plow,” he said. “And I will be offering this government nothing but the most fervent support.”
Johnson will formally step down shortly before noon when he meets Elizabeth at Balmoral, her summer retreat in Aberdeenshire.
This is the first time in the queen’s 70-year reign that the handover of power is taking place at Balmoral, rather than at Buckingham Palace in London. The ceremony was moved to Scotland to provide certainty about the schedule because the 96-year-old queen has experienced problems getting around that have forced palace officials to make decisions about her travel on a day-to-day basis.
Truss, 47, takes office a day after the Conservative Party’s 172,000 members elected her to lead their party.
On Tuesday afternoon, she is expected to make her first speech as leader of a nation of 67 million people who are anxious about soaring energy bills and a looming winter of recession and labor unrest. Those problems have festered for the past two months, because Johnson had no authority to make major policy decisions after announcing his plan to step down.
Speaking to Conservative party members on Monday, Truss promised to “deliver” on the economy, the energy crisis and the overstretched health care system, though she offered few specifics on her policies. On Sunday, Truss promised to unveil her plans for tackling the cost-of-living crisis within a week.
Bronwen Maddox, director of the international affairs think tank Chatham House, said Truss will have to say “an awful lot more” to reach the wider electorate.
“Everything, every road, comes back to cost of living at this point,” Maddox said. “And if she delivers, to use her word on that, then you might see the mood getting much more positive.”
Many people in Britain are still learning about the person who will soon be their leader.
Unlike Johnson, who made himself a media celebrity long before he became prime minister, Truss rose quietly through the Conservative ranks before she was named foreign secretary, one of the top Cabinet posts, just a year ago.
Truss is under pressure to spell out how she plans to help people and businesses struggling to pay energy bills that are due to rise next month to 3,500 pounds ($4,000) for the average household — triple the cost of a year ago.
During the leadership campaign, she promised help for people struggling to pay their bills, but declined to say what form the support would take.
The price spike, driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the aftershocks of COVID-19 and Brexit, has propelled U.K. inflation above 10% for the first time in four decades. The Bank of England forecasts it will hit 13.3% in October, and that the U.K. will tip into recession by the end of the year.
Train drivers, port staff, garbage collectors, postal workers and lawyers have all staged strikes to demand that pay increases keep pace with inflation, and millions more, from teachers to nurses, could walk out in the next few months.
Truss, a low-tax, small-government conservative, says her priority is cutting taxes and slashing regulations to fuel economic growth. Critics say that will further fuel inflation while failing to address the cost-of-living crisis. The uncertainty has rattled money markets, driving the pound as low as $1.15, its weakest performance against the dollar since the 1980s.
The first task for Truss will be to appoint a Cabinet to tackle the government’s mountain of challenges.
Kwasi Kwarteng, who was business secretary in Johnson’s government, is favorite to be named to the key job of Treasury chief. Like Truss, Kwarteng is a free-marketeer in the mold of 1980s Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. But the scale of the economic crisis may mean he and Truss have to quash their small-state instincts and spend billions to help people pay their bills.
Writing in the Financial Times on Monday, Kwarteng said a Truss government would “take immediate action … to get families and businesses through this winter and the next.” He, too, did not supply any details.
In theory, Truss has time to make her mark: She doesn't have to call a national election until 2024. But opinion polls already give the main opposition Labour Party a steady lead, and the worse the economy gets, the more pressure will grow.
Truss and her new Cabinet also face multiple foreign policy crises, including the war in Ukraine and frosty post-Brexit relations with the European Union.
As foreign secretary Truss was a firm supporter of Ukraine’s resistance to Russian invasion, and as prime minister she will continue the U.K.’s civilian and military support for Kyiv. She has said her first phone call with a world leader will be to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
She has also pledged to boost U.K. defense spending from just over 2% to 3% of gross domestic product — another expensive promise.
She’s likely to have much cooler conversations with EU leaders, who have been annoyed by Truss’s uncompromising stance as foreign secretary in talks over trade rules for Northern Ireland, an unresolved Brexit issue that has soured relations between London and Brussels. With the U.K. threatening to breach the legally binding divorce treaty, and the EU launching legal action in return, the dispute could escalate into a trade war between the U.K. and the 27-nation bloc.
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney expressed hope that, once in power, Truss will adopt a more moderate approach.
“A lot of the key decision makers are trying to reach out and give a signal to Liz Truss that if she decides to change course to a more positive one in terms of trying to find a sensible compromise with the EU, that we can find a way forward on this issue,” he said.
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Susie Blann contributed to this story. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/boris-johnson-resigns/507-4a26ac36-64dc-4f26-aac3-b352505b8d2a | 2022-09-06T12:56:28Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/boris-johnson-resigns/507-4a26ac36-64dc-4f26-aac3-b352505b8d2a | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Walk to End Alzheimer's is back— pushing for more research and treatment options in 600 communities across our country.
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The Alzheimer's Association says raising fund through the walk will help researchers as they get closer than ever to finding a cure. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/walk-to-end-alzheimers-starting-up-around-west-michigan | 2022-09-06T13:00:27Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/walk-to-end-alzheimers-starting-up-around-west-michigan | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas investigative reporter was stabbed to death outside his home and police are looking for a suspect, authorities said.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers found journalist Jeff German, 69, dead with stab wounds around 10:30 a.m. Saturday after authorities received a 911 call, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
German died of “multiple sharp force injuries” in a homicide, the Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner said Sunday.
It appears German was in an altercation with another person that led to the stabbing, which is believed to be an isolated incident, police said.
“We believe the altercation took place outside of the home,” Capt. Dori Koren, a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department spokesman, said at a news conference. “We do have some leads. We are pursuing a suspect but the suspect is outstanding.”
Glenn Cook, the Review-Journal’s executive editor, said German had not communicated any concerns about his personal safety or any threats made against him to anyone in the newspaper’s leadership.
“The Review-Journal family is devastated to lose Jeff,” Cook said in a statement. “He was the gold standard of the news business. It’s hard to imagine what Las Vegas would be like today without his many years of shining a bright light on dark places.”
German joined the Review-Journal in 2010 after more than two decades at the Las Vegas Sun, where he was a columnist and reporter who covered courts, politics, labor, government and organized crime.
He was known for his stories about government malfeasance and political scandals and coverage of the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival that killed 60 people and wounded more than 400 others.
According to the Review-Journal, German held a master’s degree from Marquette University and was the author of the 2001 true-crime book “Murder in Sin City: The Death of a Las Vegas Casino Boss,” the story of the death of Ted Binion, heir to the Horseshoe Club fortune. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/police-las-vegas-journalist-dies-in-stabbing-outside-home/ | 2022-09-06T13:05:06Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/police-las-vegas-journalist-dies-in-stabbing-outside-home/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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