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Tornado Scotland: Tornado spotted in Midlothian as thunderstorms sweep country
A tornado was spotted in Scotland as heavy rain and thunderstorms swept parts of the country.
People in Midlothian were surprised to see the unusual weather event on Tuesday afternoon.
A Met Office yellow warning of thunderstorms was issued for much of Scotland.
The Met Office said the tornado was a waterspout, a type of tornado that forms over open water.
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Twitter user Aisling posted a video of it passing Rosewell, Midlothian and wrote: “Never seen anything like it. It went right by our house. The video doesn’t capture how intense it was.”
Others shared their surprise, with one person writing: “Never seen a tornado before in Midlothian” while another tweeted: “Tornado in Midlothian. Crazy weather.”
Greg Dewhurst, a forecaster at the Met Office said: "We've seen a couple of videos today showing tornadic waterspouts this and it's down to the atmosphere, the current low pressure system.
"The air is unstable, there's thunderstorms and the energy of the atmosphere is helping to create these.” | https://www.scotsman.com/news/weather/tornado-scotland-tornado-spotted-in-midlothian-as-thunderstorms-sweep-country-3833958 | 2022-09-07T08:18:36Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/news/weather/tornado-scotland-tornado-spotted-in-midlothian-as-thunderstorms-sweep-country-3833958 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Announcing: Warehousing & Shipping Assistance
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LA Swimwear Production is announcing their one stop shop program for new Swimwear brands looking for swimwear manufacturing for their swimwear line. LA Swimwear Production is now not only offering sewing but warehousing, shipping and logistic assisting for those looking to launch a swimwear line that they will sell via e-commerce.
LA Swimwear Production offers; illustration assistance, techpacks, fabric sourcing assistance, sampling and mass production assistance and now warehousing and shipping. Brands can link their stores to LA Swimwear Productions warehouse and LA Swimwear Production can warehouse and ship their goods to their customers.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tenovos, the data-first digital asset management (DAM) platform, has joined the MACH Alliance, a group of independent tech companies dedicated to advocating for open, best-of-breed technology ecosystems.
Founded with the mission of creating a best-in-class DAM that acts as the foundation for supporting the entire asset lifecycle from creation to publishing, Tenovos shares the common belief that interoperability between systems and open architecture is the future of software development. This approach empowers enterprise brands to select an ecosystem of other best-in-class technology that allows content, information, and data to pass seamlessly, making teams more collaborative and efficient.
Before being granted membership to the MACH (Microservices-based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS, and Headless) Alliance, the Tenovos platform first passed a rigorous technology architecture vetting process.
"Brands should have the option to pick and choose the best technology available to them, and not be hamstrung by older monolithic systems," said Tenovos CEO D. Scott Bowen. "Not only are these expensive legacy systems not cloud native, but they often require mass customization that makes innovation at scale impossible."
As part of the Alliance, member and enabling organizations collaborate around common use cases to educate the market and deliver integrated solutions across the content journey.
The partnership between Contentstack, the Content Experience Platform (CXP) category leader, and Tenovos empowers marketers and developers to deliver composable digital experiences at the speed of their imagination. It is a great example of how MACH Alliance members can work together to create something greater than what they could achieve individually, all to the customer's benefit.
"Together, our technologies allow marketing teams to select DAM assets and instantly publish them to the web," said Conor Egan, VP of Product and Engineering at Contentstack. "This allows brands to streamline the cumbersome and complex process of distributing content which wouldn't be possible without the underlying architecture."
"Enterprise brands are looking to build efficiency across their creative production lifecycle, and with DAM acting as the one source of content truth, it's essential that a modern DAM offers seamless interoperability," said Casper Rasmussen, President of the MACH Alliance. "We're pleased to welcome Tenovos to the Alliance as it's a great example of disrupting an established category with an innovative and flexible technology approach that drives both productivity and performance gains."
About Tenovos
Tenovos is a data-first digital asset management platform, intuitively designed to empower brands to streamline and automate the traditional complexities of creating and activating global content. For more information visit www.tenovos.com.
About the MACH Alliance
The MACH Alliance is a [501(c)(6)] non-profit organization, governed by an independent board and does not endorse specific vendors, members or otherwise. The Alliance was formed in June 2020 to help enterprise organizations navigate the complex modern technology landscape. It aims to guide and show the business advantage of open tech ecosystems that are Microservices based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS and Headless. All MACH Alliance members meet certification principles that are published on the website.
The MACH Alliance welcomes technology companies and individual industry experts who share the same vision for the future. Learn more about the Alliance and MACH certification at machalliance.org, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
CONTACT: Matthew Desrosiers, matthew.desrosiers@tenovos.com
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New York: Karen Khachanov stood on court, arms raised, basking in a rowdy crowd’s cheers after reaching his first Grand Slam semifinal at the US Open. Not far away, Nick Kyrgios took out some of his frustration at the so-close-yet-so-far result on a pair of rackets.
First, shortly after the last point of his 7-5, 4-6, 7-5, 6-7 (3), 6-4 loss to Khachanov, Kyrgios cracked his piece of equipment against the ground — once, twice, three, four times. Then, for good measure, Kyrgios grabbed yet another racket out of his bag, reared back and hit that one on the sideline, too.
Kyrgios could not quite follow up his victory over defending champion Daniil Medvedev at Flushing Meadows, bowing out in a high-quality, topsy-turvy quarterfinal that began Tuesday night and concluded more than 3 1/2 hours later at about 1 a.m. Wednesday in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Early in the match, two spectators were kicked out after one gave the other a haircut in the stands. By the end, the late-staying spectators were pulling for Kyrgios loudly. At one point in the fourth set, chair umpire James Keothavong pleaded: “Once again, ladies and gentlemen: Respect both the players.”
Khachanov will face No. 5 Casper Ruud on Friday for a berth in the championship match.
Garcia tops Gauff for 1st Slam semifinal
Caroline Garcia knows how it can feel to be a teen in tennis getting a ton of attention and outsized expectations, the way Coco Gauff does now.
One big difference: Garcia, now 28, became an overnight sensation more than a decade ago thanks to one particularly noteworthy performance on a big stage — and long before she achieved the sorts of things Gauff has at 18.
On Tuesday night at the US Open, Garcia took charge and never really let Gauff — or the crowd — get fully involved. From the get-go, Garcia played high-stakes tennis and put strokes where she wanted, sometimes right at Gauff’s feet, sometimes well out of reach, and reached the first Grand Slam semifinal of her career with a 6-3, 6-4 victory at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
“It kind of got away from me,” said the 12th-seeded Gauff, an American who reached the French Open final in June. “It was all her. ... I was striking the ball really clean. You’re playing someone, off the bat, they’re standing on top of the baseline and ripping balls. It’s not easy. ”
Garcia, who is from France, hasn’t ceded a set at Flushing Meadows so far this year and stretched her winning streak to 13 matches overall, solidifying her status as someone playing as well as anyone in women’s tennis at the moment. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/tennis/2022/09/07/karen-khachanov-stops-kyrgios-in-5-set-faces-ruud-in-semifinals.html | 2022-09-07T08:26:20Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/tennis/2022/09/07/karen-khachanov-stops-kyrgios-in-5-set-faces-ruud-in-semifinals.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
One of the pandemic’s darlings, DocuSign, Inc. (DOCU), is scheduled to release its second quarter Fiscal 2023 results on September 8, after the market closes. DocuSign is facing several macro and micro issues, such as shifting consumer preferences post-pandemic, falling demand for products, and the absence of a CEO, all of which could impact the upcoming results.
DocuSign makes remote work easy by offering cloud-based electronic signature solutions. It also automates almost all documented business transactions.
The Street expects DocuSign to post an adjusted profit of $0.42 per share in Q2, lower than its comparative prior year period’s figure of $0.47 per share. Meanwhile, revenue is pegged at $602.25 million, representing year-over-year growth of 17.7%, and a modest 2.3% jump over Q1FY23 revenue of $588.69 million.
On the other hand, DocuSign had guided Q2 revenue to fall between $600-$604 million. Also, full-year Fiscal 2023 revenue is projected between $2.470 billion to $2.482 billion.
Macro & Micro Issues
Notably, DOCU stock has lost a whopping 65.7% so far this year vis-à-vis gaining a massive 101% between the start of 2020 and the end of 2021. During the pandemic, corporations relied on DocuSign and rival Adobe’s (ADBE) products to complete transactions online. However, as the pandemic faded, the demand for DocuSign’s products dimmed.
Also, the massive growth registered in the previous year is making comps difficult. Further, the abrupt exit of CEO Dan Springer has left the company searching for a suitable head.
Moreover, the TipRanks Website Traffic tool shows that in Q2, the global estimated visits to docusign.com decreased 5.3% compared to Q1FY23. The estimated visits fell 8.03% in Q2 compared to the same period last year.
What Do Analysts Expect from DocuSign?
Needham analyst Scott Berg expects DocuSign to report in-line Q2 results. The analyst has a Hold rating on DOCU stock. Berg believes an update on the vacant position of CEO will be much awaited on the conference call.
As per Berg, the company’s current challenges include “slowing business, rep turnover, new sales leader, and most recently, the announced departure of CEO Dan Springer.” Also, the company has set a very low bar of 1% billings growth. All these indicate an in-line Q2 performance.
On the contrary, analyst Patrick Walravens of JMP Securities remains optimistic about DocuSign despite the odds. Although he slashed the price target on DOCU to $84 (56.1% upside potential) from $151, he still maintains a Buy rating on the stock.
Walravens conducted some due diligence on DocuSign and collected 13 data points; five positive and eight negative. The positives mostly included good feedback on the products, an expansion opportunity at a Fortune 500 financial services company, and a large private company selecting DOCU for all its contract lifecycle management (CLM) requirements because of its tie-up with Salesforce (CRM).
On the other hand, the negatives mostly include a caution about the sales targets being too high or unrealistic. Based on the data points and the difficult macroeconomic backdrop, Walravens has reduced the model estimates up to Fiscal 2025. Interestingly, Walravens also believes DocuSign may be a potential takeover candidate.
What is the Target Price for DocuSign?
On TipRanks, DOCU stock has a Hold consensus rating. This is based on three Buys, nine Holds, and three Sells. The average DocuSign price target of $68.15 implies 26.7% upside potential to current levels.
Ending Thoughts
DocuSign is certainly facing one of the toughest times to prove its existence. The shifting consumer trends post-pandemic have reduced demand for its products. Nonetheless, several companies used DocuSign’s products even before the pandemic and will continue to do so even post-pandemic. DocuSign must continue to target the right customers to bolster its sales. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/docusign-nasdaqdocu-stock-macro-micro-issues-may-impact-q2-results | 2022-09-07T08:36:32Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/docusign-nasdaqdocu-stock-macro-micro-issues-may-impact-q2-results | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) mega Far Out event is just hours away. This virtual and in-person event will start today at 10am Pacific Time. Though Apple hasn’t given out much, it is anticipated that the company will launch several hardware products, including the much-awaited iPhone 14.
According to several media reports, Apple’s iPhone 14 line-up will have four models: the base iPhone, Plus, Pro, and Pro Max. Further, as a companion to its mobiles, Apple could also unveil Apple Watch Series 8 and new AirPods.
Pricing and Specifications
While it is unknown how Apple will price its new iPhone and other products, Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives expects the company will not increase the price of the base model. However, he expects prices of the Pro and Pro Max versions to go up by $100.
Regarding specifications, the analyst believes that the iPhone 14 will sport a 48-megapixel camera. He added, “iPhone 14 Pro models will also have the innovative A16 chip as more consumers head down the Pro path. There will also possibly be some storage enhancements on both the base iPhone 14/Pro.”
iPhone 14: Projected Unit Sales and Financials
As Apple derives over 53% of its total revenues from the iPhone, it is important to keep an eye on the projected sales of the new models. Ives expects iPhone 14 sales to be in line with the iPhone 13 and projects 90 million initial orders despite the macro headwinds.
Ives expects Apple to benefit from higher price realizations given its mix shift toward iPhone Pro and Pro Max (variants with higher average selling prices).
It is worth noting that Apple’s 2022 Far Out event is being held a week earlier than usual. Historically, the event has been held in the second week of September.
In response to this, Monness analyst Brian White stated, “We suspect Apple may have chosen to hold this year’s event a week earlier to add some juice to 4Q:FY22 revenue, supporting management’s qualitative guidance of accelerating YoY revenue growth in 4Q:FY22.”
White expects iPhone 14 pre-orders to start from September 9 and be available from September 16.
Is Apple Share a Good Buy?
Per Wall Street analysts, Apple stock looks like a solid investment. AAPL shares command a Strong Buy consensus rating on TipRanks based on 22 Buys, two Holds, and one Sell. Further, AAPL’s average price target of $183.12 implies 18.5% upside potential.
Also, AAPL stock has a positive signal from hedge funds. Per TipRanks’ data, hedge funds bought 11M AAPL stock in the last three months. Further, AAPL stock has a ‘Perfect 10’ Smart Score on TipRanks, implying that it has strong potential to outperform the market.
Bottom Line
The new iPhone and other product launches are a positive catalyst for AAPL stock. However, macro headwinds impacting consumer spending and ongoing supply shortages could be the reasons to worry.
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According to Reuters, Shell (NYSE: SHEL) and ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) are selling their largest natural gas production joint venture (50:50) in the Netherlands. The report stated that a sale of this asset could result in the two energy giants netting over $1 billion.
This could be a part of the companies’ efforts to dispose of aging assets. The NAM JV started operations in 1963 from the Groningen field in the Netherlands. Reuters stated that this venture has been a major natural gas producer for Europe and the Netherlands for decades.
However, there has been a drop in production output since 2014 even as the Dutch Government has decided to shut down the Groningen field to reduce seismic risk in that region.
The NAM assets are expected to be valued in the range of $1 billion to $1.5 billion.
Is XOM a Good Stock to Buy?
Wall Street analysts remain bullish about XOM with a Strong Buy consensus rating based on 10 Buys and two Holds.
XOM’s average price prediction of $112.21 implies 18.2% upside potential. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/shell-nyse-shel-and-exxonmobil-nyse-xom-could-sell-their-dutch-joint-venture | 2022-09-07T08:36:45Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/shell-nyse-shel-and-exxonmobil-nyse-xom-could-sell-their-dutch-joint-venture | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
An Oklahoma news anchor is recovering after she began showing signs of a stroke while on air Saturday morning.
Julie Chin, of the NBC affiliate news station KJRH, said she first began losing vision in part of her eye, then her hand and arm went numb. Then, while she was doing a segment on NASA's delayed Artemis launch, she began having difficulty reading the teleprompter.
"If you were watching Saturday morning, you know how desperately I tried to steer the show forward, but the words just wouldn't come," she posted on Facebook.
Tulsa news anchor Julie Chin has the beginnings of a stroke live on the air. She knew something was wrong, so tossed it to the meteorologist, as her concerned colleagues called 911. She’s fine now, but wanted to share her experience to educate viewers on stroke warning signs. pic.twitter.com/aWNPPbn1qf
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) September 5, 2022
Chin said she felt fine earlier in the day, and "the episode seemed to have come out of nowhere."
She spent the days following the incident in the hospital, where doctors said she was experiencing early signs of a stroke. While Chin said she is doing fine now, the doctors will have to do more following up.
"I'm thankful for the emergency responders and medical professionals who have shared their expertise, hearts, and smiles with me. My family, friends, and KJRH family have also covered me in love and covered my shifts."
How to recognize signs of a stroke
The medical community uses the BE FAST acronym to educate people on catching signs of a stroke:
Other signs of a stroke may include numbness or weakness in other parts of the body, sudden confusion or severe headaches.
How common are strokes?
More than 795,000 Americans have a stroke each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 77% of them happen to people who have never had one before.
It is a leading cause of death and disability among Americans, with more cases concentrated in the Southeast.
But the rates of death from strokes have decreased over the past few decades. And while the risk of stroke increases with age, they can happen at any time – 38% of stroke patients in 2020 were under age 65, the CDC says.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- A new, unique animal adoption café is opening in Aiea this week.
Toe Beans & Dreams Cafe opens its doors Thursday, September 8 at 7:30 a.m., and will train and employee young adults with developmental disabilities, while connecting cats with 'furever' homes.
The café is the latest project by Dr. Karen Tyson, a family therapist and founder of the animal rescue group KAT Charities.
It'll feature coffee, tea, snacks, and baked goods in a cafe atmosphere, with a twist.
Staff will consist primarily of special needs individuals, who will learn on the job; cooking, cleaning, serving and working with KAT Charities staff.
“When individuals with disabilities connect with animals, an incredible relationship is formed,” said Dr. Tyson. “Animals are unconditionally accepting and place no judgment or social expectations on people. This breaks down common barriers for individuals with social, attention, learning or physical disabilities and fosters a therapeutic relationship built on love and mutual trust.”
Toe Beans & Dreams Cafe opens on Thursday at Pearl Kai Shopping Center.
In preparation for the opening, Toe Beans & Dreams is hosting a social media giveaway on Wednesday, September 7, to enter to win 5 free cat lounge passes to the cafe’s kitty lounge. To learn more, visit the Toe Beans Instagram at @toebeanshi. | https://www.kitv.com/news/toe-beans-and-dreams-cat-caf-opening-in-aiea-to-employ-young-adults-with-disabilities/article_99298cc8-2e7a-11ed-9e2d-fbb29bdf01a5.html | 2022-09-07T08:39:36Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/toe-beans-and-dreams-cat-caf-opening-in-aiea-to-employ-young-adults-with-disabilities/article_99298cc8-2e7a-11ed-9e2d-fbb29bdf01a5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ATLANTA (CN) — The 11th Circuit partially overturned a Florida federal judge’s ruling in favor of Chiquita Brands International, which was sued by people whose family members were killed by a Colombian paramilitary group allegedly financially supported by the company.
For more than a decade, the victims’ relatives have waged a legal battle in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to hold the banana giant accountable for funding a right-wing terrorist group they claim kidnapped, tortured and murdered their loved ones during a civil war.
Nancy Mora Lemus, one of the 14 plaintiffs, watched as two men took her husband from their home, tied him to a pole and cut his throat. She claims the men were members of the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), a paramilitary group that terrorized the Uraba and Magdalena regions of Colombia between 1997 and 2004.
The AUC was designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. Secretary of State. Chiquita pleaded guilty in 2007 to engaging in transactions with a specially designated global terrorist by making payments to the group in regions where the company had banana-producing operations. Chiquita was ordered to pay a $25 million fine.
Lemus and hundreds of others sued Chiquita and some of its executives under Colombian law and under the Torture Victim Protection Act in 2008, alleging that Chiquita’s financial support of the AUC led to the group’s murder of their family members.
The plaintiffs claimed the company funneled $1.7 million to the AUC even though it was aware that the group was a violent terrorist organization.
Ten bellwether cases were consolidated out of the original actions in Florida federal court, where U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra ruled in favor of the company in 2019. Marra found that the families failed to link their loved ones’ deaths to the AUC.
The appeal before the 11th Circuit challenged several evidentiary rulings by the district court which led to a victory for Chiquita.
In a 104-page ruling breaking down the lower court’s findings, a three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based appeals court unanimously agreed that some of the evidence presented by the plaintiffs should be excluded but ultimately rejected Marra’s finding in favor of Chiquita.
The panel bristled at Marra’s determination that the circumstantial evidence proffered by the plaintiffs about the frequency and manner of the killings in certain geographic areas was not enough to establish a connection with the AUC.
“Tragically, the geographic areas where Plaintiffs’ decedents resided were brutalized by numerous warring factions over the course of a long and bloody civil war (with some areas undergoing transition from guerilla-based control to paramilitary-based control during the time frames in question), as noted in the data collected and presented by [plaintiffs’] experts,” Marra wrote.
Writing on behalf of the panel, U.S. Circuit Judge Adalberto Jordan opined that while the evidence from the plaintiffs may not be sufficient on its own to establish the AUC’s involvement in the killings, the statistical evidence offered by their expert is enough to get their claims in front of a jury.
The panel also found that the district court should not have excluded the expert testimony of Oliver Kaplan, an associate professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and associate director of the Korbel School’s Latin America Center.
Kaplan, an expert on Colombian politics and armed conflict in Colombia, testified that the AUC targeted political enemies, banana workers and unionists. He also corroborated the plaintiffs’ accounts of the murders.
The ruling lays out statistical data presented by Kaplan that between 1997 and 2007, paramilitaries were responsible for 90% of the murders in the decedents’ municipalities.
The panel ruled that Marra failed to consider “the full universe of information on which Mr. Kaplan relied” when it decided to exclude his opinion.
Among the other evidence which the 11th Circuit found was incorrectly excluded is the indictment of AUC leader Raúl Hasbún — which came with a chart listing multiple murders to which Hasbún allegedly confessed — and several letters by Colombian prosecutors and investigators stating that another AUC leader, José Lugo Mangones, confessed to the murders of three plaintiffs’ relatives.
“The district court cited no basis for its implied doubt that the Colombian officials had utilized legally authorized investigations to reach the factual findings discussed in the letters. As far as we can tell from the record, there is no basis for such doubt,” Jordan, a Barack Obama appointee, wrote.
However, the panel sided with the district court in its decision to exclude two documents purporting to be convictions of AUC members in the Justice and Peace process as final judgments of conviction.
“The Justice and Peace process was one in which the Justice and Peace Unit of the Colombian Office of the Public Prosecutor investigated offenses allegedly committed by paramilitary participants, and in which AUC members could truthfully confess to crimes in order to receive sentences that were lower than they would otherwise be in the ordinary Colombian criminal system,” the ruling explains.
Four plaintiffs submitted a 2015 judgment of conviction against Mangones to support their claims. The document, called a sentencia, was inadmissible because it did not contain Mangones’ actual conviction, the panel ruled.
The opinion also makes determinations about whether certain testimony from the plaintiffs should have been admitted into evidence.
According to the ruling, the seven children of an individual identified as Jose Lopez 339 claim that AUC leader Rendón Herrera personally apologized to them for their father’s death. Herrera allegedly told them that he had their father killed based on mistaken information.
The opinion states that the children’s testimony should not have been excluded because they twice attempted to depose Herrera in Columbia but he failed to appear.
The decision is largely silent on the fate of the plaintiffs’ claims against Chiquita executives. However, the panel upheld Marra’s denial of a motion to dismiss the claims against the estate of Roderick Hills, Sr., a now-deceased director of Chiquita who also served as president of the board’s audit committee.
Jordan was joined on the panel by U.S. Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, a Donald Trump appointee, and Senior U.S. Circuit Judge Ed Carnes, a George H.W. Bush appointee.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CN) — A group of homeless advocates filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Missouri law they claim will harm those who are unhoused or unstably housed.
At issue is a recently passed law, known as House Bill 1606, which in relevant part makes it a crime to sleep on state-owned land without authorization and places strict restrictions on the use of state funds for the homeless, for example by barring use of state money for constructing permanent housing.
Johnathan Byrd, Jessica Honeycutt and Allison Miles filed the lawsuit in Cole County against the state of Missouri, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and the state’s commission for housing development and economic development department.
“I work with people who are unhoused on a daily basis and I know HB 1606 will make their lives more difficult,” Honeycutt said in a statement. “Making people criminals because they have to sleep outside is inhumane.”
A spokesman for the attorney general’s office held off on commenting on the lawsuit to Courthouse News.
The plaintiffs say the law is unconstitutional because it violates the one-subject clause in the Missouri Constitution, which prohibits any bill from addressing more than one subject and requires that subject to be clearly expressed in its title. They say the rules regulating the homeless are part of a political subdivision bill.
“HB 1606, as enacted, primarily contains provisions relating to political subdivisions,” the complaint states. “For example, in addition to provisions relating to county financial statements, it contains a provision extending to all non-charter counties the authorization for county coroners to receive a raise; a provision allowing any political subdivision to elect to cover emergency telecommunicators, jailors and emergency medical service personnel as public safety personnel members of the Missouri local government employees’ retirement system; and a provision adding county and municipal park ranger vehicles to the definition of ‘emergency vehicles.’”
They go on to argue that the bill’s nine subsections that address the state’s policy toward homelessness have nothing to do with political subdivisions’ utilities or county accounting and payroll practices.
The homeless subsections “do not fairly relate to or have a natural connection with political subdivisions and are not a means to accomplish the purpose of regulating political subdivisions,” the complaint says.
Plaintiffs also claim that the bill violates the original-purpose requirement of the Missouri Constitution, which states that no bill should be amended in its passage through either house so as to change its original purpose.
“Missouri already has an extreme shortage of housing for people with low incomes,” attorney Amanda Schneider, of Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, said in a statement for the plaintiffs. “This legislation will reduce access to housing and criminalize the unhoused in the middle of our affordable housing crisis.”
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(CN) — The Department of Justice is mulling whether to appeal a federal judge’s ruling to appoint a special master to review records seized from the former President Donald Trump’s south Florida resort home. But some experts say the department may already have what it needs for potential criminal indictment.
Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Courthouse News that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to order the government to stop using the seized materials for its criminal investigation until completion of a review by a neutral third party is surprising, but “it won’t change the ultimate outcome.”
“If the search warrant was just to retrieve the documents because Trump wouldn’t return them voluntarily, or in response to a grand jury subpoena, then the case is over,” Rahmani said.
If the department, however, is looking to indict Trump or others for possible wrongdoing involving the records, Rahmani pointed out that any seized documents determined to be privileged could not be used as evidence — regardless of whether there is a special master or not.
But former Attorney General William Barr, who served under Trump, said during a Fox News interview Tuesday that the fundamental dynamics of the government’s case are already set: classified government documents were taken and not handled appropriately, and the department is looking into whether classified documents requested in a May 11 grand jury subpoena were returned.
“And none of that really relates to the content of documents – it relates to the fact that there were documents there, they were classified, and they were subpoenaed and never delivered,” Barr said on Fox.
“They don’t have to show the content, y’know, the specific advice given in a memo, for example, in order to prevail in this case,” he said, referring to the controversial 2017 Office of Legal Counsel memo he referenced in his decision not to recommend charges against Trump for alleged collusion with Russia in the 2016 election.
According to the search warrant application unsealed last month, the search was related to potential violations of three criminal statutes: willful retention of national defense information, concealment or removal of government records and obstruction of a federal investigation.
Echoing Rahmani’s sentiments, Barr told the news outlet he does not see the appointment of a special master “fundamentally changing the trajectory” of the government’s plan, likening it to “a rain delay for a couple of innings” in a baseball game.
The Department of Justice requested that Judge Cannon only allow the reviewer access to the “limited set” of materials the department’s privilege-review team already identified as potentially subject to attorney-client privilege.
But Judge Cannon, who was appointed to the federal bench by then-President Trump in 2020, ruled that the reviewer can access all 20 boxes of documents, including 11 sets of classified materials, that were taken from Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8.
The Justice Department said it identified personal items, some privileged materials and at least 520 pages of potentially privileged material within the 20 boxes.
DOJ spokesman Anthony Coley said in a statement that the government is examining her opinion and “will consider appropriate next steps in the ongoing litigation.”
If the department appeals, Columbia Law Professor Jennifer Rodgers said she does not think it would be as burdensome as allowing the judge’s decision to go unchallenged.
“An appeal would cause a delay but likely not as much as the process for finding and gaining security clearance for a special master, coupled with the time it would take the master to conduct a review and return the documents,” Rodgers wrote in an op-ed for CNN.
In her 24-page ruling, Judge Cannon acknowledged the government’s argument that a special master review could delay the ongoing national security risk assessment by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. She said her order does not impact the intelligence review because the court “understands … [the] national security concerns.”
But when it comes to the Department of Justice’s ongoing criminal investigation involving the materials, Judge Cannon said “under the present circumstances” she does not believe a special master review “would cause undue delay.”
She points to a 2019 Fourth Circuit opinion involving a Baltimore Law Firm, in which the circuit found that a federal magistrate approved a filter protocol without conducting adversarial proceedings that would have allowed the defense to advocate for proper safeguards.
Judge Cannon highlighted the circuit’s finding that that government “should have been fully aware that use of a filter team in these circumstances was ripe for substantial legal challenges, and should have anticipated that those challenges could delay its investigations.”
Trump’s counsel also cited the 2019 opinion in his initial lawsuit, suggesting that, “here, too,” Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart approved the government’s filter protocol “without input from the defense.”
Judge Cannon mentioned the need for the “appearance of fairness” four times in her opinion and reiterated Trump’s counsel’s argument that “the investigation and treatment of a former president is of unique interest to the general public, and the country is served best by an orderly process that promotes the interest and perception of fairness.”
While Trump “ultimately may not be entitled to return of much of the seized property or to prevail on his anticipated claims of privilege,” Judge Cannon said, “that inquiry remains for another day.”
Judge Cannon, like Acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall, resisted determining whether Trump can assert executive privilege over the seized materials, which means an 11th Circuit appeal in uncharted legal territory may push the former president’s case up to the Supreme Court.
“For now, the circumstances surrounding the seizure in this case and the associated need for adequate procedural safeguards are sufficiently compelling to at least get plaintiff past the courthouse doors,” she wrote.
She ordered Trump’s attorneys and the DOJ to file a proposed list of special masters with high-level security clearance by this Friday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — San Francisco voters will decide between two competing housing initiatives in November as a trial judge on Tuesday declined to strike down one that was challenged in court after being voted onto the ballot by the city’s board of supervisors.
In a brief order San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Ulmer said the voters should be allowed to pick between Proposition D, a measure backed by the nonprofit San Francisco Housing Action Coalition and supported by Mayor London Breed, and Proposition E, which was placed on the ballot by a vote of the city's Board of Supervisors in July.
Both propositions purport to speed up the process for building affordable housing in an increasingly unaffordable city. The Housing Action Coalition says its measure streamlines affordable housing projects by allowing developers to bypass discretionary review and bureaucratic red tape. It also eliminates the Board of Supervisor's authority to approve funding for 100% affordable housing projects on public land.
The board-passed Proposition E is sponsored by Supervisor Connie Chan and similarly promises to accelerate affordable housing construction while leaving in the board’s authority to oversee some 100% affordable housing projects. It also demands more from developers in terms of size, construction and cost requirements for some types of apartments — requirements its critics deride as financially impractical.
“The main difference between Prop D and Prop E is that Prop D will actually result in housing getting built,” Todd David with Housing Action Coalition said in an interview Tuesday. "Prop E is a sham measure that was put on the ballot in bad faith to keep the status quo and make sure housing doesn’t get streamlined and gives the Board of Supervisors authority to reject 100% affordable housing.”
David said Prop. D will allow a mixed income project to get approved in six months, as opposed to the seven-to-nine years it currently takes.
“The Board of Supervisors sets their affordable housing requirement significantly higher than what's currently required, which will make the project economically unfeasible,” David said of Chan's measure. “It sets the bar so high that no mixed income housing will be built. It’s a bad faith effort to muddy the waters and confuse the voters. The last thing the Board of Supervisors wants is to get affordable housing built.”
Proposition D also has its detractors. Former city Supervisor John Avalos, now head of the Council of Community Housing Organization, said the measure is full of “sophistry and deception” that will enrich developers while failing to ensure that projects are truly affordable.
“They redefine what affordable is. Their measure changes dramatically what is going to be considered affordable housing to enable projects that were not affordable to get streamlined," Avalos said.
He added that the measure opens the building process up to more corruption by cutting out board oversight. “If you take away Board of Supervisors' ability to approve contracts and use of city land, we know there will be abuses,” said Avalos.
But Judge Ulmer said it was not the court's job to decide the merits of either, writing, “setting policy by picking political winners and losers is not a court's role.” Instead, the judge had to decide whether voters should be able to decide between them.
Housing Action Coalition had sued to strike Proposition E from the ballot as invalid, arguing that it did not go through the proper environmental review required of projects undertaken by public agencies. Review under the California Environmental Quality Act is not required of its own proposition, the group says, because Prop D made it on the ballot through signature-gathering.
In his ruling, Ulmer reiterated a question he asked the group’s attorneys at a hearing last week.
"Why petition signatures by a minority of voters (who may or may not support a proposition) should receive one treatment, while an actual majority vote by the people’s representatives receives another is not clear,” he wrote, even as he acknowledged that the coalition's argument has some case law support.
"In any event, whether Proposition E is a ‘project,' and if so, CEQA has been complied with, are dense factual and legal issues that would require more development than they have received. These issues merit reasoned consideration, not a hip shot shortly before ballots go to the printer," Ulmer wrote.
Avalos pointed out the irony of the coalition trying to invalidate Proposition E via an environmental law it derides for its frequent use by opponents to obstruct and delay housing projects.
“It’s totally ironic that they’re using CEQA as their method to take down the Board of Supervisors’ measure when that’s what they‘ve been fighting against all these years," he said. “I don't think they have a sense that they have a strong case in court, but by going to court they get to keep hammering at the Board of Supervisors. They’re ok not winning in court as long as they can keep the story in the news media.”
David said his group opposes any abuse of CEQA. “Myself and the HAC, we find it equally offensive when people use CEQA to block housing and when they ignore CEQA to block housing. The Board of Supervisors has never found a CEQA environmental appeal they did not love — except for their measure,” he said. “We’re a pro-housing organization. We're going to fight when people abuse CEQA to block housing or when they ignore CEQA to block housing.”
Ulmer said he would review the merits of the group’s CEQA claim if Proposition E passes. If both initiatives receive more than 50% of the vote, the one with the most votes will be enacted.
David said his group hasn’t decided yet whether it will continue to challenge Prop E on CEQA grounds. “We just got the ruling. Our focus is 100% on Prop. D passing and getting more votes. We’ll revisit the consideration of a legal challenge at a later date.”
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GLOUCESTER, Mass. (CN) — Four of the last five Massachusetts governors have been liberal Republicans, but the state party veered in a very different direction in today’s gubernatorial primary, picking controversial Trump-backed state Representative Geoff Diehl over businessman Chris Doughty, who is more in the mold of retiring Republican Governor Charlie Baker and past Republican governors such as Mitt Romney.
With 47% of the vote counted as of 11 p.m. Eastern Time, Diehl led Doughty 55% to 45%.
Diehl will face state Attorney General Maura Healey, who is running unopposed on the Democratic side.
Diehl is a vocal opponent of vaccine mandates who promised to rehire the roughly 1,000 state workers who were fired by Baker for not getting the vaccine. “I’m going to hire back every single one of those fired state employees on day one,” Diehl said during a debate.
“And on day two,” he added, “I'm going to make sure that nobody is in my administration that thought that was a good idea.”
Diehl’s right-wing positions are “well outside the mainstream” in Massachusetts, said Robert Boatright, a political science professor at Clark University in Worcester. Diehl has a 100% rating from Massachusetts Citizens for Life and a 92% rating from the NRA and has called the 2020 election results “highly suspicious.”
With Tuesday's result, Massachusetts Republicans are following a national trend of backing Trump-approved candidates rather than those who are more congenial to the party establishment.
“The institutional Massachusetts GOP is wildly out of step with the party’s voters,” said Erin O’Brien, a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. “You’re seeing a hostile takeover of the party. It’s wild.”
In the race for lieutenant governor, Diehl’s running mate, former state Representative Leah Cole Allen — who is unvaccinated and lost her nursing job because of it — had a slim lead over Doughty’s running mate, state Representative Kate Campanale as of 11 p.m. Tuesday.
Diehl’s success appears to be the result of genuine ideological fervor rather than campaign outlays. In July he spent only $140,000 and had less than $43,000 on hand, according to the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance, in contrast to the largely self-funded Doughty who spent $500,000 and still had $1 million in the bank.
But both candidates are dwarfed by Healey, who reported $5.5 million in campaign cash.
Healey, who graduated from Harvard and was the starting point guard for a professional basketball team in Austria before going to law school, became the country’s first openly gay state attorney general after she was elected in 2014. If she wins in the fall she’ll be the first openly lesbian governor (although she could share that title with Tina Kotek, who is running in Oregon).
In the state ranked by Gallup as the most Democratic in the country — both of its senators and all nine U.S. representatives are Democrats — Healey is strongly favored in general election polls.
“She’s running a very conservative race,” said Anne Quirk, a member of the Belmont, Massachusetts, Democratic Town Committee. “She’s the frontrunner and she doesn’t want to screw that up. She’s not even denouncing Charlie Baker.”
In her acceptance speech, though, Healey took aim at Diehl, saying he wanted to “bring Trumpism to Massachusetts” and casting the election as a choice between “dividing people and delivering for people.”
In the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor, Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll defeated state Senator Eric Lesser, who was an economic advisor to President Barack Obama, and state Representative Tami Gouveia, a progressive who was endorsed by the state teachers’ unions. Driscoll is winning about 45% of the vote.
If Healey and Driscoll both win in November, it will be the first time in history that a state has elected women as governor and lieutenant governor at the same time.
In the Democratic contest to succeed Healey as attorney general, former Boston City Council Member Andrea Campbell defeated class-action attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan. If she’s elected in the fall, Campbell will be the first Black woman elected to statewide office in Massachusetts.
The race had split the state’s top Democrats. Campbell was endorsed by Healey, U.S. Senator Ed Markey and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley. Liss-Riordan was supported by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
Secretary of State William Galvin won his own primary, easily crushing progressive NAACP official Tanisha Sullivan to retain the job he has held since 1995.
Galvin had predicted a 12% increase in turnout from 2018 and expected voting to be especially heavy in Essex County, where there were a number of contested local races. However, “it’s been dead as a doornail,” reported one poll worker in Gloucester, in the heart of the county, Tuesday.
Early voting was also anemic, said Jim Coleman, an election warden. And in a heavily Democratic state, “the primary is often more important than the general election,” he noted.
At another precinct across town that usually draws 500 to 600 voters for primary elections, fewer than 70 had shown up by mid-day.
While it might be assumed that the current partisan environment would energize voters, it’s possible that it’s turning them off and making them feel disaffected. “I voted, but I don’t feel good about it,” said Tim Bell of Gloucester.
“The problem is trust,” he said. “You can’t trust politicians anymore. All you get is B.S.”
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WASHINGTON STATE — A study that analyzed physical and mental stress across the country over five years to determine which states had seen the most “stressflation,” or increase in stress, found Washington state had little change. Ranked 42, data from county health rankings didn’t report an increase in physical distress, and mental distress rose only 1%.
In comparison, Maine ranked first with a 2% increase in physical stress and a 4% increase in mental distress. The gaps between rankings are minimal, with all 50 states reporting a rate of change no more than 5% and no less than -2%. New York had the least “stressflation,” actually reporting a 1% decrease in stress in both categories.
The study also looked at the rates of change for physical and mental stress by county. In Washington, Adams County saw the most stressflation and Whitman County saw the least. All counties in Washington saw an increase in mental stress, and all but two reported an increase in physical stress.
Adams County reported a 4% increase in physical stress and a 3% increase in mental stress. Conversely, Whitman County reported no change in physical stress and a 1% increase in mental stress.
Benton County ranked sixth, with a 3% increase in physical stress and a 2% increase in mental stress. But nearby Franklin County was much further down. At 32, Franklin County reported a 1% increase in physical stress and a 2% increase in mental stress.
Grant County fell tenth with a 2% increase in physical stress and a 3% increase in mental stress.
Yakima County ranked a couple spots above Franklin at 30, with a 2% increase in both categories. Walla Walla was a couple spots above Yakima, at 28, also with a 2% increase in both categories.
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Red Flag Warning in place for all of eastern Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana until Wednesday at 9 p.m.
Lows tonight somewhat cool in the mid to low 50s with a light haze.
Hot and Dry with breezy conditions tomorrow.
Highs will be in the mid 90s with wind speeds 15-25 mph and gusts 25-35 mph from the west.
Cooler temps on the way later this week.
Breezy conditions come back Friday, but not as strong as the conditions on Wednesday.
Air quality in the Blue Mountains East of La Grande, Ore. up north to Pullman, Wash. is very serious from the smoke in the wildfires from southern Oregon and northern California.
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CLE ElUM, Wash. -- In just 30 minutes, a drone captures 360 pictures to create a 3D map of the body of water to calculate the amount of water loss. The less water, the more bull trout are threatened, said a state's department of fish and wildlife biologist, Josh Rogala.
"[A] localized extinction's probably going to happen, I'm going to try to do my best to not let it happen on my watch," said Rogala.
Rogala said he mapped a reservoir in Cle Elum three times since August. He said the reservoir lost a quarter of a mile of water every week since. Still, he said this is the best water levels he's seen since 2015.
There are only about 50 adult bull trout left in the Upper Yakima River Basin, said Rogala. He said bull trout help maintain a balanced ecosystem.
"It's better to keep them around than to find out the hard way when they're gone," said Rogala.
Rogala said the habitat and low water flow can directly affect the Yakima Water Basin, which provides fresh drinking water.
"What happens in the 'headwaters,' happens down stream," said Rogala. "[If] we don't have any water up here, they're not going to have any water down there."
Rogala helps the department's rescue efforts by ensuring better fish passage along the creek and reservoir. He said the rescue team helps give young bull trout a better chance at survival by raising them at a Yakama Nation hatchery.
Reservoir day-use recreation is allowed, but Rogala said he worries about the environmental disruptions.
"To have someone just want to mud in the middle of the creek and ruin all the work is pretty frustrating," said Rogala.
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Good Morning Britain viewers have joined Susanna Reid in criticising Dr Hilary Jones' attitude to ambulance delays. The Doctor said that people with cars who call an ambulance are "abusing the service."
Susanna called out the medical writer for taking this view after she admitted she was recently too "afraid" to call an ambulance.
Dr Hilary was speaking on the current waiting times for ambulances, with some patients waiting over 24 hours from the time they call an ambulance to when they see a doctor, when he called it "abuse" for people to call 999 when they have cars available to drive patients to hospital.
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He explained: "People are abusing the service, people who have got cars outside their house and could take that patient to hospital themselves but call an ambulance because it's more convenient."
The GMB host then sharply replied that it wasn't abuse for people to prefer an ambulance, as paramedics have essential medical training. She said: "If you call an ambulance that is because you want a paramedic team who are going to treat your patient in your home or outside immediately.
"You might be afraid of moving that person, you might be afraid that when you take that person into hospital you haven't got all of the medication you need for the journey.
"Calling it abuse is harsh."
Dr Hilary maintained that it was abuse but also went on to discuss the abuse of paramedics who are often hurt or threatened without any ramifications. Susanna conceded that this kind of behaviour was "unforgiveable."
Viewers on Twitter expressed their outrage at his comments, with one fan saying: "So Hilary if you have a car but call an ambulance its an abuse of the service? Gotcha."
Another wrote: "Did Dr Hillary really just say calling an ambulance if you have a car is an abuse of the service!!!! What a joke"
One user shared their own experience: "HOW DARE you say calling an ambulance with a car outside is an ABUSE of the NHS? My husband fell and had a seizure at home. Unconscious. I could not lift him off the floor, never mind get him outside and in the car. Ridiculous stupid dangerous statement."
While another informed: "Please tell me Dr Hillary knows that it is often advised NOT to take Patients to A&E via own transport. Was literally told by a Paramedic to NEVER go by car as all treatment my child may need and trained staff are on the Ambulance. They aren't in my neighbour's Audi."
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Good Morning Britain's Dr Hilary Jones has come under fire after comments he made on this morning's show. The doctor suggested people were "abusing" the ambulance service - but presenter Susanne Reid did not agree.
Dr Hilary joined Susanna and Ed Balls on the ITV show where they discussed new Prime Minister Liz Truss' pledge to make the NHS an "early priority". He said that the NHS is in a state of "crisis" with record waiting lists and people struggling to secure appointments with their GP.
The healthcare service also has a lack of resources that has led to a delay in ambulances. Susanna went on to read out a series of stories from viewers who have been impacted by the delays.
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The presenter then admitted that she was "afraid to call an ambulance" and she was shocked to hear Dr Hilary suggest that people are "abusing" the service. He said: "People who have got cars outside their house and could take that patient to hospital themselves but call an ambulance instead."
Susanna was quick to say: "If you're calling an ambulance that's because you want a paramedic team who are going to treat a patient in your home. You might be afraid of moving that person."
Dr Hilary insisted anyone concerned about this should phone the 111 service for guidance - and a frontline NHS worker named Andy later contacted the show to echo Dr Hilary's thoughts and invited anyone to join on a 10 hour shift to see "how the service is abused by people who are calling 999".
But some viewers were left furious about Dr Hilary's comments. They took to social media to voice their opinions.
One user said: "My husband's step-father's life was saved by the treatment the paramedics gave him in the ambulance before he even got to hospital. I question whether Dr Hilary is even a Dr with a statement like that."
Another said: "@GMB so Dr Hilary @DrHilaryJones has just said that an ambulance is for transport only? What a joke! People call an ambulance for medical help regardless of how many cars are on the drive! Dr Doom strikes again! Good on @susannareid100 for questioning him!"
Another person tweeted: "Did Dr Hilary just say it’s an abuse of the ambulance service to have a car outside your house and call an ambulance? Did I hear that? After Susana telling us about a woman losing her 62 yr old husband, who developed chest pains and died whilst waiting for an ambulance."
However, many others agreed with Dr Hilary. One person said: "For those knocking Dr Hilary. How would you feel if your relative needed an ambulance but they had gone to someone who could have attended themselves or actually didn't need it. It happens people abuse the NHS #gmb."
Another said: "Dr Hilary is absolutely right to call the unnecessary calling of an ambulance abuse of the service. And no not all callers feel they need the treatment or care of an ambulance crew! Each unnecessary call takes time away from those who really need the service."
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Aldi shoppers are getting excited about a £3.49 snack that tastes "unreal". They've been clearing the shelves of Wao Mochi Balls, with 7.6million sold last year.
There are currently five flavours on offer at Aldi, more than in any other UK supermarket, with two new flavours launching earlier this year. The cheesecake mochi balls have a creamy vanilla ice cream filling, wrapped around a sweet strawberry sauce centre, while the caramel mochi balls combine smooth caramel ice cream with a gooey sauce centre.
Also on offer is a coconut flavour, as well as the vegan tropical and mango flavours. And the best thing is that at £3.49 the snacks are 30% cheaper than the Little Moons equivalent.
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On Twitter, one happy customer said: "Oh @AldiUK ….what have you done? My Mochi obsession continues to grow." Another added: "Aldi Mochi is unreal."
Meg Brough said: "I am obsessed with @AldiUK cheesecake mochi. Unbelievable, Jeff."
David added: "@AldiUK Aldi Frozen Cheesecake Mochi are the absolute bomb by the way. The Ice Cream, the rice coating, the sauce in the middle… if you haven't tried them, I just feel bad for you…"
Caroline said: "Cheesecake Mochi are so good from Aldi always a sell out in mine!" Eamonn Griffin said: "Aldi mochi for the snacking win."
Bobson tweeted: "The Aldi near me finally had ice cream mochi in stock! I'll take em all thanks!" Mo Chuisle said: "Bought mochi at Aldi and I fully understand the hype now."
Even Aldi added: "We can destroy a box of Caramel Mochi faster than Pauline on Till 2 can scan your basket shop."
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A new payment scheme which has already been trialled in a number of locations is set to be rolled out to every petrol station in the UK. Supermarkets and petrol stations are set to introduce a "hold charge" to ensure people have the required funds to fill up.
This means retailers will temporarily charge a customer's debit or credit card up to £100, before releasing any unspent funds after taking payment for the fuel purchased. It comes as payment companies Mastercard and Visa have updated their policies, reports WalesOnline.
A statement on the Visa website explains: "The way you pay for fuel at self-service pumps is changing, making it easier to keep an eye on your finances. Working with retailers and our payments partners, we are improving the experience at petrol forecourts across the UK. Our innovative payments solution means you can make a quick pit stop to fill up your vehicle without entering the shop and keep control of your budget at the same time."
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Previously, the exact cost would only show up on a person's bank account one or two days after they filled up when a person used a self-service pump to buy fuel Visa argues that "this could make it hard to track your daily spend".
However, hundreds of people have taken to social media to express their concerns about the charges, fearing not being able to buy fuel if they didn't have £100 in their account. But the financial company has since confirmed that this is not the case. People will still be able to fill up, providing they had enough funds in their account for the amount of fuel they were buying.
How does the new payment system work?
Mastercard shared a five-step process for paying for petrol at pay-at-the-pump locations. Explaining how Mastercard customers would be affected, a statement reads: "The way you pay for your fuel at an automated fuel pump in the UK is changing.
"Your card issuer/bank will temporarily reserve up to £99 of your available balance while you fill up. Then, when you have completed fuelling, you'll be charged for the correct amount of fuel you have used and the remainder of any reserved funds will be released back to your available balance."
Asked when the process would be rolled out to all UK petrol stations, a spokesperson for Visa said: "The new pay at pump process is already live at many petrol stations and has been for some time – in fact, the service has been available across Europe for more than five years. In the UK, it is already used by many independent petrol stations and rollout is being completed across the major supermarkets.
"Previously, basic bank account users were often not able to pay at an automated fuel pump. Pay at pump has been enabled to all cardholders, meaning more drivers can access a more convenient way to pay for fuel and benefit from the new system.
"When you insert or tap your card at a self-service pump, your bank will now temporarily reserve an amount from your available balance while you fill up. This could be up to £100 (a standard tank of petrol).
"Once you’ve finished filling up, this will be updated, and you’ll only be charged for the amount of petrol you bought. The funds-check will never be taken from your account.
"If your account balance is below £100, for example £20, this would be communicated back to the fuel pump by your bank enabling that amount of fuel to be dispensed. This means the pump will automatically cut out once you have reached the approved amount (or before if you choose to dispense less).
"This is called ‘partial authorisation’ and ensures you can get the fuel you need. This should happen almost instantly but occasionally it may take a little longer. Please contact your bank if this is not the case."
Which petrol stations are affected?
All UK petrol stations are set to be affected by this new rule. The exact date the change will come into affect has not been confirmed, but it is understood customers paying by Visa or Mastercard at any UK petrol station will see a "hold charge".
As the change has been introduced by Visa and Mastercard, people are advised to speak with their card provider or bank if they have any questions or concerns.
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Senior Airman Edwin Guerrero, 67th Aircraft Maintenance Unit assistant dedicated crew chief, explains parts of an F-15C Eagle to a Royal Australian Air Force Indigenous Youth Program member during Exercise Pitch Black 2022 at RAAF Base Darwin, Australia, Sept. 6, 2022. Pitch Black 22 is a model opportunity for expanding engagements with allies and partners across the globe, demonstrating the resolve to promote security and stability throughout the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Savannah L. Waters)
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A Royal Australian Air Force Indigenous Youth Program member speaks with U.S. Air Force Capt. Michael Lloyd, 67th Fighter Squadron F-15C Eagle pilot, during a visit to RAAF Base Darwin, Australia, Sept. 6, 2022. The visit coincided with Exercise Pitch Black 2022, the RAAF Chief of Air Force’s biennial capstone international engagement activity with forces drawn from a wide range of regional, coalition and allied nations. This year, 17 nations participated in PB22 from Aug. 19 to Sept. 8, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Savannah L. Waters)
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U.S. Air Force F-15C Eagles assigned to the 67th Fighter Squadron sit on the parking ramp in preparation for Pitch Black 2022 night missions at Royal Australian Air Force Base Darwin, Aug. 31, 2022. PB22 is the latest in long standing, multilateral exercises designed to enhance participating countries’ air operations. This year, 17 nations are participating in PB22, and is scheduled from Aug. 19 to Sept. 8, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Katie Mueller)
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A U.S. Airman from the 75th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron looks for tie-down anchors underneath a fire truck on the flightline at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Aug. 18, 2022. These fire trucks will help to maintain and safeguard the service members and buildings at Baledogle Military Airfield, Somalia. (Photo by U.S. Air Force SSgt Branden Rae)
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The paramount ruler of Ife Kingdom, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, (Ọjájá II) has married a new wife, Mariam Anako-Ogunwusi.
The Ooni of Ife’s new bride was welcomed into the royal Palace late Tuesday night.
In a 26 seconds video posted on Twitter by @AdeyemiSijuwade, the new Ife queen can be seen kneeling in front of the king while he prayed for her.
The 47-year-old accountant turned Monarch previously has two children, a son, Adesoji Aderemi with prophettes Morenike Naomi Oluwaseyi whom he married in 2018 and a daughter, Adeola Anuoluwapo Ogunwusi, who he had at the age of 19. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/ooni-of-ife-marries-new-wife/ | 2022-09-07T09:17:15Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/ooni-of-ife-marries-new-wife/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Over 50,000 cases of major destruction to telecom infrastructure and facilities have been reported across the country in the past five years, raising alarm over the implication of these incidents to the quality of telecommunications services in Nigeria.
Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Professor Umar Danbatta, who disclosed this at the 2022 edition of Youth Civil Society and Stakeholders Summit (YCSSS) which took place recently at the Army Resource Centre, Abuja, expressed worry over how these incidents have continued to affect the Quality of Experience (QoE) of consumers and called for concerted efforts by members of the public and security agencies, to stem this tide.
Danbatta, who spoke through the Head, Corporate Communications Unit of the Commission, Mrs Nnena Ukoha, said the negative impacts of incessant vandalism of telecom equipment, evidenced in fibre cuts, theft of telecom facilities like generators at sites, vandalism of base stations, among other vices, have become a major burden on the service providers, while telecom consumers have continued to suffer unwarranted disruptions of their hard-earned services.
“The impact of vandalism of infrastructure is felt by all in the quality of services rendered as it results in increasing drop calls, data and Internet connectivity disruptions, aborted and undelivered short messaging services (SMS), as well as countless failed calls,” he said.
The NCC‘s Chief Executive Officer said that considering the well-known fact that the ability to connect and communicate is fundamental to human existence, improvement in business processes, government services, education, as well as social and family networking through seamless connections, every community should get involved in protecting the critical infrastructure that makes these services possible.
“Therefore, as a community, you are expected to report cases of vandalism of telecoms infrastructure to the nearest law enforcement agencies such as the Police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, and also share adequate information received from NCC with your family, friends, and neighbours.
“We believe, with your cooperation as critical stakeholders in the telecoms sector, we can all work with the law enforcement authorities in protecting telecom infrastructure in your community,” Danbatta stated to emphasise the role of the communities in protecting critical national assets. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/over-50000-telecom-infrastructure-destruction-reported-in-5-years-ncc/ | 2022-09-07T09:17:22Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/over-50000-telecom-infrastructure-destruction-reported-in-5-years-ncc/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
If an employee were completely unresponsive to her or his employer, the employee would likely not have a job for very long. Unfortunately, this is not the case in politics. Americans’ approval rating of the job Congress is doing has fallen to 18%, yet in the 2020 general election, 93% of incumbents nationwide won their reelection bids. Our political system is so broken that elected officials are not motivated to be responsive or accountable.
With a single question I wanted to ask Missouri’s congressional delegation, I called or emailed the offices of Sens. Roy Blunt and Josh Hawley, Democratic Reps. Cori Bush and Emanuel Cleaver II, and Republicans Ann Wagner, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Vicki Hartzler, Sam Graves, Billy Long, and Jason Smith. No one responded for comment. Zero. The failure to respond was sweeping and bipartisan.
The disappointing reality is that none of them had any incentive to reply to me.
Let’s take abortion. A St. Louis University/YouGov poll conducted in August showed wide majorities disagreed with a lack of exceptions for rape and incest or when the life of the mother is at risk, with 75% of respondents, including 60% of Republicans, supporting legal abortions in the case of rape.
The percentage was even higher, with 79% of those surveyed supporting legal abortions in cases of incest. Under Missouri’s trigger law, which passed in 2019, abortions will only be permitted in cases of a medical emergency. There are no exceptions for rape or incest.
Defunding the police is widely unpopular. According to an Ipsos/USA Today poll, only 18% of respondents supported the movement to defund the police, and 58% said they opposed it. In February, Bush doubled down on her use of the defund slogan despite members of her party asking her not to.
A poll by Morning Consult/Politico found that 68% of voters support stricter gun laws, up from 64% in a previous poll. When the bipartisan Safer Communities Act of 2022, a firearm regulation and mental health bill, came up for a vote in June, all Democrats in the House voted yes along with 14 Republicans — none from Missouri. Blunt voted yes in the Senate. Hawley voted no.
A functional government operates with a give-and-take structure between elected officials and the public. Citizens should know where their representatives stand on pressing issues, and lawmakers should understand the needs and desires of their constituents. Only then can voters determine whether their views are aligned with a candidate. At least in theory, that’s how it’s supposed to work.
The combination of gerrymandering, noncompetitive districts, hyper-polarization, dark money and the lack of accountability has created a stew of political dysfunction. Competitive congressional districts have been steadily declining for decades and are only getting worse. The Cook Political Report estimates that less than 8% of congressional districts will be competitive come November. I suspect the lack of competitive districts leaves an overwhelming majority of Americans feeling that their votes don’t matter, while parties and candidates feel they don’t need to work to earn anybody’s votes.
But effective governing in America requires compromise. When more than 90% of congressional districts lean toward one of the two major parties, most representatives probably have little incentive to compromise. Elected officials increasingly face strong pressures to be hyper-partisan, which has made governing very difficult.
Back in 2018, Missourians passed the Clean Missouri Amendment with 62% of the vote. The amendment required lawmakers to wait two years before they could turn around and lobby their colleagues. It aimed to eliminate almost all lobbyist gifts worth more than $5. It aimed to eliminate partisan gerrymandering. It also aimed to tighten candidate-contribution caps.
Missourians rolled back the Clean Missouri Amendment just two years later.
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The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, lies along the Dnieper River in southeastern Ukraine.
After Russian forces brutally invaded Ukraine six months ago, they gained control of the nuclear facility early in the fighting. They based soldiers and heavy equipment there and have been using the plant as a defensive shield, lobbing shells from there and hoping Ukrainians would not risk hitting one of the six power units by counterattacking.
But Russian officials say Ukraine has now fired back. As Ukrainian workers continue to operate the plant amid the shelling, the whole world should be afraid about the risk of a radiation leak and the possibility of a reactor core meltdown.
Ukraine’s recent history holds an important lesson for us about what’s at stake. On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine suffered a massive explosion and meltdown.
I learned devastating details about the Chernobyl disaster from a control room engineer named Oleg during a trip to Ukraine in August 1990. Some 100 Americans and an equal number of Soviet citizens — Russians and Ukrainians — came together for a peace mission, visiting cities from Kyiv to Odesa that had been completely shut off during the Cold War because of nuclear and other military weapons production in the region.
The first evening in Kyiv, Oleg, the engineer from Chernobyl, gave a talk after dinner. He said he had been ordered to report to the plant’s control room immediately after the early morning explosion.
“We were told to contain emissions but were not given protective clothing, even though a large and growing cloud — no doubt radiation vapor — hung over the facility,” he said.
“We engineers knew a meltdown had already begun,” Oleg continued, then paused and hung his head before saying that many of the 250 people who worked on early cleanup efforts had died within months. “I have cancer and will not see next year,” he concluded. After a collective gasp, the room went silent.
Later, Oleg sat with a small group of Americans and answered questions. The next morning, he took a few of us to meet some of his friends from Chernobyl who had been brought to Kyiv.
We drove to a Stalinist-era concrete block apartment building, which Oleg called “a high-rise research laboratory with human guinea pigs.” He said keeping survivors together helped doctors and scientists track and measure the advancement of radiation sickness, such as skin lesions, cancers of the mouth, throat and thyroid.”
The callousness made me feel ill.
Many survivors we visited said they had returned to Chernobyl to retrieve clothing, furniture and other household goods, clearly not understanding radiation exposure or its duration. After that revelation, I stood rather than sitting on a chair or sofa out of fear the furniture had nuclear contamination, as we visited family after family. Some showed us photos they had taken of Chernobyl’s destruction.
Since this year’s invasion of Ukraine began, Russia has revealed military ineptness and poor leadership. By placing troops at Zaporizhzhia, it also demonstrates ignorance. Do Russian leaders not realize that prevailing winds blow from west to east? Nuclear radiation particles and vapor would head toward Russia. Have they forgotten that deadly contamination from Chernobyl fell on Belarus?
A team from the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been monitoring radiation levels at Zaporizhzhia, arrived Monday in Ukraine to inspect the plant, where power lines have already been disrupted and water pipelines have been damaged in the fighting. The agency has no authority to enforce a cease-fire, but must insist that all military activities cease immediately to protect the plant, before we experience another Chernobyl, or worse.
Russian President Vladimir Putin should remember another important lesson from history. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, and President Mikhail Gorbachev stepped down. Gorbachev, who died Tuesday, later wrote that Chernobyl was “perhaps the main cause” of the Soviet Union’s fall, after he was accused of attempting to cover up the nuclear meltdown.
More than 5,660 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, and more than 8,000 have been injured, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. If we fail to learn from Chernobyl’s aftermath, the death count and destruction could grow dramatically, and a vast region encompassing Ukraine, Russia and other parts of Europe could be rendered unlivable for generations. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/commentary-a-ukrainian-nuclear-plant-is-under-attack-we-can-t-risk-another-chernobyl/article_43bdd160-2d7e-11ed-9d91-0f0c725a2fca.html | 2022-09-07T09:20:58Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/commentary-a-ukrainian-nuclear-plant-is-under-attack-we-can-t-risk-another-chernobyl/article_43bdd160-2d7e-11ed-9d91-0f0c725a2fca.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
If your doctor has ever sent you out of town to undergo a medical procedure or to see a specialist, you know what the stress, expense and inconvenience feels like.
You’re just trying to get well, and now you’re looking at leaving your home, maybe missing work — perhaps even arranging a ride or overnight accommodations in strange surroundings.
Those are some of the immediate reasons it’s so important to keep viable, full-service hospitals in town.
And those factors only add to the dismay many of us feel as we watch the financial drama unfolding at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital.
Last week, hospital officials confirmed they’re cutting back on traveling nurses and adjusting Memorial’s staffing in the face of “large financial losses” so far this year.
“We are decreasing our reliance on traveling staff and updating our staffing plan to align with existing resources,” the hospital’s leaders said in an email to the YH-R.
Nobody at Memorial is talking exact numbers, but vice president and chief financial officer Susan Sauder told the YH-R’s Joel Donofrio that the hospital “has suffered unsustainable negative margins and cash flow through the first two quarters of 2022.”
What’s causing all this?
Again, Memorial isn’t apt to throw open its financial records to the public, but according to Sauder, a lot of the problem centers on the difficulty of hiring qualified employees. Currently, for example, the hospital has 35 unfilled registered nurse positions.
Lacking the personnel needed to keep up with demand — particularly in the midst of the COVID crisis — Memorial has turned to temporary workers like the traveling nurses. That, in turn, has raised temporary labor costs by a whopping 201% in the past year.
While no one’s saying what these new reductions will mean, it stands to reason that having fewer nurses can’t help but negatively affect patient care at the 72-year-old, 226-bed hospital.
The story is similar at hospitals across Washington, which have lost a combined total of $1 billion this year and are short about 6,800 RNs at the moment, according to a new Washington State Hospital Association report.
COVID isn’t solely to blame, though.
Jane Hopkins, a registered nurse and head of a statewide union that represents 30,000 nurses and other health care workers across the state, said the nursing shortage started years ago.
“We’re seeing the consequences of profit-driven decisions,” she told the YH-R. “Financially, it would have made more sense to retain existing staff than to fill vacancies with outrageously expensive travel contracts.”
All of this comes as Memorial continues to negotiate a possible merger with Tacoma-based MultiCare Health Services. Given how dire the situation sounds, that might be the least of the evils if it means keeping a local hospital open in Yakima.
It’s unclear what the best strategy might be going forward, but the end goal is crystal clear.
Astria Health’s closure of its 150-bed Yakima hospital more than two years ago was a serious blow to the Valley’s health options. Closing or further eroding Yakima Valley Memorial would be catastrophic.
A quality, locally controlled hospital is crucial in an area like ours.
Hospitals aren’t like chain restaurants or clothing stores. Closing one doesn’t mean another will soon pop up around the corner. They hold a sacred community trust that can’t be measured in dollars.
We hope everyone from the hospital’s management, staff — and possibly even local public officials — keeps that in mind and works collaboratively on a solution that puts patients first. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/opinion-yakima-cant-afford-to-lose-memorial-hospital/article_c23c6b9e-2d53-11ed-bc32-3b7f71e6cc42.html | 2022-09-07T09:20:59Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/opinion-yakima-cant-afford-to-lose-memorial-hospital/article_c23c6b9e-2d53-11ed-bc32-3b7f71e6cc42.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Hauntworld Magazine Announces America’s Scariest Haunted Houses of 2022
The World’s Largest Directory of Haunted Houses and Horror Attractions Reveals the Top 13 Haunts to Visit Across the Country
ST.LOUIS, MO, September 6, 2022 – Hauntworld Magazine, the world’s largest directory of haunted houses and horror attractions, is ready to kick off the 2022 Halloween season for fright enthusiasts nationwide with the most thrilling haunted Halloween experiences across the U.S. Today, they’ve unveiled this year’s Top 13 spookiest attractions that promises thrill seekers the ultimate scream. From spine-chilling haunted houses to abandoned asylums, concrete factories and century-old schoolhouses, this year’s top 13 list is delivering new, fear-inducing scares for guests to experience beginning this September, if they dare.
“Hauntworld has been publishing its list of Top 13 scariest haunted houses for nearly two decades, and each year, we’re committed to seeking out the most thrilling Halloween attractions for spooky season fans that are looking to put their bravery to the test,” said Larry Kirchner, editor at Hauntworld Magazine. “Our list of top 13 haunted attractions is more scream-worthy and horrifying than ever before with each location offering new scenes, special effects and undeadly characters at every turn, and we’re excited to continue connecting fans with the most horrifying haunted houses and unforgettable experiences across the country this Halloween season.”
Hauntworld Magazine’s list of Top 13 Haunts are located across America in cities including:
Kersey Valley Spooky Woods – Archdale, NC – Opening on 9/24
Kersey Valley is located right in the heart of North Carolina. Founded in 1985 from a dare between teenagers to enter an abandoned farmhouse, Kersey Valley has evolved to become a full weekend of attractions – from zipline tours, escape games, ax throwing tours, daytimefamily events with the Maize Adventure and the popular spooky woods. Come hungry as the Tumbleweeds Grub House and Watering Hole serve up some tasty options along with the famous Apple Cider Donuts, Fudge, and Funnel Cake shops.
Pennhurst Asylum – Spring City, PA– Opening on 9/24
Hidden in the old forests of northern Chester County, lies Pennhurst Asylum. Just forty-five minutes from Philadelphia is a sprawling campus of monolithic abandoned buildings which stand as sentries over you as you follow the dark and twisted paths and catwalks. Journey deep into the heart of one of the most haunted places in America as you experience new levels of fear.
13th Gate – Baton Rouge, LA – Opening on 9/30
Widely regarded as one of the top haunted houses in the Country, The 13th Gate, located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is the Ultimate Haunted House. Adventure through 13 nightmarish realms where your worst fears come true, and anything can happen.
HellsGate – Lockport, IL – Opening on 9/30
The only haunted house in Chicagoland that is hidden deep in the woods, HellsGate challenges its audiences to a truly terrifying interactive experience with over 40 rooms and more than 150 live actors. This year, HellsGate is introducing the Escaped Prisoners of Statesville Haunted Prison into their dark world of attractions where guests can find new characters roaming the halls and hiding in the woods for a surprise scare.
The Darkness – St. Louis, MO – Opening on 9/24
Some rank The Darkness as the best haunted house in America due to its amazing set design and the industry's largest collection of monsters, animations and special effects, along with a huge gift store. This season, The Darkness celebrates its 29th Year of Fear with a total renovation to make The Darkness longer and scarier than ever before.
Eloise Asylum – Westland, MI – Opening on 9/17
Located in the heart of southeast Michigan lies the most infamous haunted site in the Midwest – The Eloise Asylum. The massive building is a towering five-stories of brick and glass and is home to two of Americas most terrifying, cutting-edge haunted attractions. Guests will quickly find themselves overwhelmed by the army of monsters and killers they will face inside as they navigate the grotesque asylum.
The Dent Schoolhouse – Cincinnati, OH – Opening on 9/16
Relive the legend of a murderous janitor and find out the truth about what went on behind the walls of Cincinnati’s Halloween Tradition. Cinematic sets, award winning makeup, and sinister storytelling makes each trip through the Dent Schoolhouse feel like a real-life horror movie. With mini escape games, festive fall treats, axe throwing, The Spooky Gift Shop and massive photo-ops, visitors can enjoy a night out at The Dent Schoolhouse for a fun fall experience!
Bennett’s Curse – Baltimore County, MD – Opening on 9/30
Bennett’s Curse is Maryland and DC’s number one Halloween event. A locally owned, small family business that opened in 2001, Bennett’s Curse is known far and wide for its incredible array of giant monsters, detailed sets, and impressive theming. The legendary haunted attraction consistently ranks as one of the best Haunted Houses in America year after year.
Headless Horseman Haunted Attractions – Ulster Park, NY – Opening on 9/24
Headless Horseman Haunted Attractions is a unique, immersive experience for Halloween lovers and haunt seekers alike. Celebrating their 30th anniversary, the attraction’s theme this year is The Horseman’s Night of The Shadows, featuring a theatrical walk through and nine additional haunted attractions including stunt performers, trained actors, monsters, pyrotechnics, professional illusions, and a cast and crew of over 300. In addition, there is a magic illusion stage show, food eateries, retail shops, and donut bakery.
Hundred Acres Manor – Bethel Park, PA – Opening on 9/9
Pittsburgh's Top Halloween Tradition, Hundred Acres Manor, brings visitors a whole new vision of horror and fun all within one haunted house. Hundred Acres Manor features five-themed haunted house sections with add-on attractions like burial simulators, a beer garden, and insanity maze and more.
Georgetown Morgue – Seattle, WA – Opening on 9/23
The Georgetown Morgue is open each Fall, offering a one-of-a-kind Halloween experience including five-minute escape games and haunted walk throughs like the Dark Maze and the Spooky Shack for merchandise, photo ops and more. The attraction caters to more than just adventurous city folk looking for a good scare – thrill-seeking visitors to make the journey from all over the Puget Sound region because the Georgetown Morgue isn’t just a haunted house, it’s legendary.
Salt Lake Fear Factory – Salt Lake City, UT – Opening on 9/9
Fear Factory is one of the top Halloween attractions in the world, made up of six buildings up to six stories high with two underground passages, and is a massive haunted attraction in Salt Lake City, Utah. Fear Factory has quickly grown to be one of Utah's - and the world's - favorite Halloween entertainment attractions. The attraction has seen more than 11 documented historical deaths and boasts over 100 nightly live actors. It is a great destination to bring family, friends, coworkers and more for an evening of entertainment, thrills and fun.
Factory of Terror – Canton, OH – Opening on 9/23
The Factory of Terror, located in Canton, Ohio, is one of the largest indoor haunted houses in the world recognized by Guinness World Records three times for this achievement. This enormous haunt is more than a mile long and consists of five unique spine-chilling attractions including the brand new, The Abyss and Zombie Bar Crawl, where patrons experience five themed bars throughout the building.
Tickets prices, hours and dates vary by location. For more information, and to read Hauntworld Magazine’s full www.hauntworld.com/americas-scariest-haunted-house-top-13-2022
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Hauntworld Magazine is the world’s largest directory of haunted houses and horror attractions. Hauntworld helps you find haunted houses by city, state, or zip code. Hauntworld has reviewed more than 200 haunted houses across America and Canada. Hauntworld features over 7,500 different haunted attractions near you including haunted houses, hayrides, corn mazes, pumpkin patches, escape rooms, ghost tours, real haunted houses, and Halloween attractions. Hauntworld also reviews and rates the scariest haunted houses open near you with our annual Hauntworld Top 13 Haunts, America's Scariest Haunted House list. For more information, please visit www.hauntworld.com/haunted-houses. | https://www.yesweekly.com/kids_family/kersey-valley-spooky-woods-voted-as-one-of-americas-scariest-for-2022/article_525b2fc4-2e28-11ed-8011-3fd2035a242b.html | 2022-09-07T09:26:38Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/kids_family/kersey-valley-spooky-woods-voted-as-one-of-americas-scariest-for-2022/article_525b2fc4-2e28-11ed-8011-3fd2035a242b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Commercializing COVID likely means more out-of-pocket costs
Sometime in the next few months, Americans will no longer have free access to government-funded COVID tests, treatments and vaccines. Those tools will move to the private sector — and likely be subject to some of the same access and affordability issues found in the rest of the health care system.
Why it matters: After two-plus years of being the exception to the rule, COVID will start being handled like any other disease. Billions of dollars currently shouldered by taxpayers will instead be transferred to patients via their premiums and out-of-pocket costs.
Driving the news: The Department of Health and Human Services hosted a stakeholder meeting last week on the commercialization process for vaccines and therapeutics.
- "Our goal is to transition procurement and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics from a federally managed system to the commercial marketplace in a thoughtful, well-coordinated manner that leaves no one behind," HHS assistant secretary for preparedness and response Dawn O'Connell wrote in a blog post.
- The federal government anticipates running out of money to purchase and distribute vaccines as early as January, O'Connell wrote, and expects the federal supply of various therapeutics to be gradually depleted throughout 2023. When stockpiles run dry, it'll transition these products into the private market.
- One therapeutic — Eli Lilly's monoclonal antibody treatment — has already gone commercial at a list price of $2,100 per dose, per the Wall Street Journal.
Of note: The federal government prohibits some forms of cost-sharing while the public health emergency is still in place.
- Once that lifts, so do these rules (although not for around a year in the Medicaid program). The timing could coincide with when federal supplies run out.
- "Once the PHE ends, some of these rules that are currently in place will also end, and the increased cost sharing will take effect somewhat immediately," said KFF's Jennifer Tolbert.
How it will work: Just like the health system handles any other disease or condition.
- Vaccines: Most Americans will probably still get their vaccines for free, because insurers usually cover them without cost-sharing. The price of the vaccines will, however, be reflected in premiums, and patients could be on the hook for vaccine-related costs if they use an out-of-network provider.
- Tests: The days of easily accessible free COVID tests are numbered. Once the public health emergency ends, people will likely have to pay out-of-pocket for over-the-counter tests and may pay cost-sharing on PCR tests, said Sabrina Corlette, a research professor at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms.
- Treatments: COVID therapeutics like Pfizer's antiviral Paxlovid will "be like any other treatment. If you're hospitalized or getting a prescription drug, it's going to be subject to a deductible, coinsurance — it's going to vary based on the treatment that you need," Corlette said.
- The uninsured: It's unclear what alternatives they'll have if they can't pay out-of-pocket for care. Certain providers, like community health centers, may provide services for reduced prices or for free, but "it's safe to say that uninsured individuals will continue to face barriers accessing these tests, vaccines and therapeutics going forward," Tolbert said.
Between the lines: Insurers may choose to limit who can access certain treatments, particularly antivirals, and different health plans may end up with different policies.
- For example, there are still plenty of unsettled questions about who benefits from Paxlovid, and by how much.
- "These are going to be subject to medical necessity determinations," Corlette said. "In an area where we have this unsettled science, it could be a bit of a real tossup as to whether your plan covers the treatments that your doctor wants you to have."
The bottom line: In the not-so-distant future, costs — including co-payments and deductibles — will become a much bigger consideration when someone needs COVID testing or treatment.
- "Depending on how health plans decide to structure their cost-sharing ... individuals will have to fully pay the cost out-of-pocket until they reach the deductible," Tolbert said. "That will be a huge barrier to people being able to access these tests and treatments." | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/07/coronavirus-health-insurance-tests-treatments-vaccines | 2022-09-07T09:36:01Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/07/coronavirus-health-insurance-tests-treatments-vaccines | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Russia pushes European energy to the brink
Russia has stopped gas flow to Europe. The Nord Stream pipeline has been a key source of natural gas for decades, providing heat and electricity across the region. And the result of Russia’s actions are already being felt keenly in Europe - even before cold weather sets in.
- Plus, could zero-down mortgages close the racial homeownership gap?
- And, the California power grid struggles against more extreme heat.
Guests: Axios' Matt Phillips and Megan Rose Dickey; Logan Mohtashami, Lead Data Analyst for HousingWire
Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alexandra Botti, Lydia McMullen-Laird, Fonda Mwangi, Robin Linn, Alex Sugiura, and Ben O'Brien. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893.
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Most workers say they're "quiet quitting"
At least half of American workers say they're “quiet quitting” — performing only the tasks they’re required to, giving up on going “above and beyond," according to a new Gallup survey.
Why it matters: The pandemic made nearly all work harder to perform and that extra labor has taken a toll on employees — especially younger workers. They're responding by putting more and more distance between themselves and their jobs, or looking for new jobs.
By the numbers: The proportion of “actively disengaged” workers is now at 18% — the highest it’s been in nearly a decade, according to Gallup.
- Among workers younger than 35, the percentage of actively disengaged employees rose by six percentage points.
What they’re saying: “This is a problem because most jobs today require some level of extra effort to collaborate with coworkers and meet customer needs,” Gallup’s workplace management chief scientist, Jim Harter, writes.
Yes, but: Not all workers feel like they can “quiet quit.”
- Women and other under-represented groups in the workforce may feel that they will suffer disproportionate setbacks if they are seen as stepping back from "enthusiastic participation in work activities," Melissa Swift, U.S. Transformation Leader at Mercer, tells Axios.
Between the lines: The onus is on managers and leaders to define expectations more clearly and build relationships with workers.
- “The least effective managers have three to four times as many people who fall in the ‘quiet quitting’ category compared to the most effective leaders,” Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman of Zenger/Folkman consultancy write in Harvard Business Review.
- Worker engagement started slipping during the second half of last year, when an increasing number of workers were also quitting their jobs, Gallup noted.
Our thought bubble: Workers appear unwilling to weather a potential downturn in the same way they did the last one in 2020 — by clocking in at all hours to get the job done, Axios' Javier E. David notes.
What to watch: Unionization efforts have been on the rise since the start of the pandemic. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/07/quiet-quitting-pandemic-labor-jobs-unions | 2022-09-07T09:36:19Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/07/quiet-quitting-pandemic-labor-jobs-unions | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Research Looks at Intersection Between Queerness and Ethnicity in Physical, Mental Health
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The mental and physical health struggles among individuals belonging to gender and sexual minorities are well documented. In both adult and teenage groups, queer individuals are reported to face greater risks in terms of mental and physical health than their cisgender, heterosexual peers. However, most documentation on queer lives has involved a majority of white people. Indeed, globally, discourse on queer lives and queer issues is driven by Eurocentric and Amcentric approaches and vocabularies, leaving little scope or space for queer expression from the margins. In such a scenario, the health risks that queer individuals face in already marginalized communities face often go overlooked and neglected.
Keeping these factors in mind, Dr. Amal Khanolkar, a public health researcher at King’s College, London, sought to examine the health risks faced by people belonging to multiple minorities. Dr. Amal Khanolkar, a public health researcher, conducted two separate sociological studies in the UK and Sweden, assisted by sociology researchers from each country in either of his studies. These are now published in the journals LGBT Health and eClinical Medicine.
The studies are significant as they are the first to explore the conditions of queer individuals belonging to ethnic minorities and identify the health risks that they face. The studies highlight intersectionality as an essential framework to understand how those who may belong to multiple minorities face oppression and risks to their well-being.
The researchers in the U.K. assessed the general and mental health conditions of a heterogeneous sample of over 9,000 17-year-old adolescents using questionnaires on their general health, mental health, and health-related behaviors such as smoking and drinking. Their sample included both white and non-white, queer, and straight individuals, and the researchers in their questionnaire added specific questions on the health of queer individuals within ethnic minorities.
In Sweden, the researchers looked at the health and health-related behaviors among both heterosexual and non-heterosexual individuals based on responses to the Swedish National Public Health Survey between 2018 and 2020. The sample, consisting of over 1,50,000 individuals, also included responses from refugee and migrant communities. The researchers inspected the responses of both heterosexual and non-heterosexual individuals among refugee and migrant communities.
The study in the UK revealed that non-heterosexual, non-cisgender individuals reported greater health risks in both white and non-white communities, although queer individuals belonging to both sexual and ethnic minorities did not report worse health outcomes than their white counterparts. In Sweden too, queer individuals were reported to face greater health risks than their heterosexual counterparts in both the majority communities and ethnic minorities. Transgender people in Sweden, including those from ethnic minorities, particularly faced higher physical violence than all other population sub-groups.
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The outcomes of these studies indicate that queer individuals from minority communities face as many health risks as queer individuals from white communities, and therefore public healthcare and policy should include people from all races while framing guidelines for better healthcare for queer individuals.
However, people from marginalized communities may be excluded from healthcare systems at a greater rate than their privileged counterparts. Previous research has noted that populations in the margins rarely make it to clinical trials, there is little policy formation around public health that centers them, thus pushing them on a cycle of constant negligence and disadvantage. As The Atlantic noted in a report from 2015, “Neglected by research, African American children have died from asthma at 10 times the rate of non-Hispanic white children.”
The Department of Public Health, Purdue, moreover, described how racism is a public health issue. “Social determinants of health, including racism-propelled adverse socioeconomic conditions, are key drivers of health disparities. The disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on Black and Latinx communities is just the latest example of how structural and systemic racism leads to devastating health outcomes,” the department noted.
There is also a deep mistrust among marginalized populations towards healthcare itself. Smithsonian Magazine notes in their report how pharmaceutical firms carry out questionable clinical trials in the developing world where “ethical oversight is minimal and desperate patients abound“.
Even though ethnically marginalized queer people have as many health risks as their white counterparts, when research them and their needs, their health risks have a chance of getting neglected or being overlooked. This has serious implications.
Last week, The Swaddle reported on a study on Digital Self Harm in teenagers, where the researchers noted that non-heterosexual individuals across races were twice as likely to report having engaged in self-cyberbullying. Queer individuals may also face more instances of bullying and are reported to be at greater risk of physical and sexual assault.
The researchers stress while reporting their findings from Sweden that “public health policy should emphasize preventive measures to reduce exposure to violence and discrimination in sexual- and gender minority individuals, increase access and use of mental healthcare services and sensitize healthcare professionals about higher rates of health and related issues faced by sexual- and gender minority individuals including those with multiple minority identities.” The need for a vocabulary and approach built around non-white populations and their sensibilities is urgent to address these issues.
Thus, public health research needs to be conscious of populations that exist in the margins, and also to minorities that may exist within minorities. Only an intersectional approach to healthcare and medical research can mitigate health risks among queer individuals in minority communities.
Science and scientific research remain colonial in the way research is conducted and policy is formulated, which leads to a deep distrust of scientific institutions and approaches in non-white communities. Without devising an intersectional framework, science and its benefits will only reach a few. | https://theswaddle.com/new-research-looks-at-intersection-between-queerness-and-ethnicity-in-physical-mental-health/ | 2022-09-07T09:43:05Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/new-research-looks-at-intersection-between-queerness-and-ethnicity-in-physical-mental-health/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Electronic cigarette maker Juul has agreed to a multi-state settlement. The states allege the company marketed aggressively to teenagers. It's the latest blow to a company under fire.
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Electronic cigarette maker Juul has agreed to a multi-state settlement. The states allege the company marketed aggressively to teenagers. It's the latest blow to a company under fire.
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During one of my last reporting trips in China, I booked my plane tickets on the drive to the airport. Instead of checking into a hotel, which in China requires turning in a passport scan that is sent straight to the local police, I decided to fly in as early as possible, finish all my reporting in the same day, and return that very night.
I randomly found a driver outside the airport — she even helpfully jumped into translate the beguiling local dialect for me. By nightfall, I was on a flight back to Beijing with all of my reporting safely stored on several microSD cards. Success, I thought.
The next morning, my contact called me in a panic. Several local officials had visited his home after our meeting and threatened him. I was disappointed, but also confused: How had China's security apparatus managed to track down my whereabouts so quickly?
Josh Chin's and Liza Lin's new book, Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control, attempts to answer that question. The two veteran Wall Street Journal reporters spent years covering China's political and technological rise. They draw on that experience to untangle how China built its formidable digital surveillance apparatus (plot spoiler: in conjunction with American companies) and the often-erroneous assumptions that underpin its application, with disastrous consequences.
Chin and Lin describe how authorities utilize a sophisticated national database linking identification documents, facial recognition data, fingerprints, and travel history (including, most likely, mine). A second, more powerful layer of scrutiny is China's vast network of CCTV cameras, whose footage is analyzed in real time by artificial intelligence software sold by a host of Chinese companies like Huawei, Sensetime, Megvii, and China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC). Unconstrained by China's weak legal system and a nascent digital privacy code, China's tech giants and security apparatus are able to track phones, monitor online purchases, and decrypt messages.
The idea — pioneered by foundational Chinese scientific thinkers like Qian Xuesen — is that harnessing vast inputs of behavioral data can create predictive policing and safe, stable societies. With the reams of big data generated by China's more than one billion mobile internet users, that vision is now reality. The founder and chairman of e-commerce giant Alibaba, Jack Ma, is quoted in Surveillance State as saying during a 2015 talk attended by high-level security officials, "Whoever owns enough data and computing ability can predict problems, predict the future, and judge the future."
Government surveillance is difficult to uncover and understand because it is by nature secretive. In the absence of concrete facts (and add a tense geopolitical relationship between the U.S. and China to boot), less knowledgeable reporters might insert hyperbole or speculation. Chin and Lin do none of that, preferring instead to use real-world examples to illustrate both the mundane and dystopian applications of China's surveillance might.
One of the book's strongest traits is its unflinching analysis of how such big data approaches are being utilized not just by China, but by governments all around the world, including in the United States. China, the authors make clear, is not an exception in its embrace of a policing system fortified by video surveillance and artificial intelligence. Western companies including Intel, IBM, Seagate, Cisco and Sun Technologies are among those Chin and Lin examine the commercial relationships that helped make China's surveillance state technologically and financially viable.
China has undoubtedly unlocked an impressive, if chilling, achievement: absolute social control with relatively little of the unseemly and highly visible physical oppression seen in lower-tech authoritarian countries, such as Iran or Russia.
However, such control masks a disturbing level of systemic bias and outright inaccuracy baked into China's deeply penetrating digital surveillance systems. Some of the anecdotes Chin and Lin include are laughable. In one, a noted political dissident is visited by police after, out of boredom, he purchases a slingshot online; the officers suspect he has purchased the toy to take out the numerous CCTV cameras trained on his home.
Others stories are far more troubling. Chin and Lin tell the haunting tale of a Uyghur poet and filmmaker named Tahir Hamut Izgil, who now lives in the U.S. Hamut and his family describe having their blood, iris, fingerprints, and voice recordings collected by Xinjiang police, to be input into a biometric database. At least hundreds of thousands of their fellow Uyghurs have been detained or imprisoned, often on the basis of seemingly flimsy evidence such as usage of chat apps like Whatsapp; surveys filed by cadres sent to live with and report on Uyghur families; or are determined by blanket algorithms to indicate religious extremism.
Surveillance State was largely reported in the years before the global coronavirus pandemic, and both reporters were not based in China as the country locked down its borders and erected a raft of digital Covid-tracking tools. (Chin was expelled from China by authorities in 2020, one of more than a dozen journalists working for U.S. outlets to be kicked out that year.)
Conveniently, such Covid-tracking tools are precisely suited for tracking peoples' movements as well. Everyone in China must now submit location data and recent travel data to maintain digital QR codes on their smartphones. To travel or even enter a store, a person's code must stay a healthy green; it will turn a dangerous red color mandating immediate quarantine if a person is infected or deemed a close contact.
The power to track and control a person's daily movements is unsurprisingly ripe for abuse. Shortly before Surveillance State was published, local authorities in the city of Zhengzhou were reprimanded after they deliberately turned red the digital health codes of hundreds of protestors defrauded by a local bank of their life savings. Should Chin and Lin write a follow-up, they would find rich material further plumbing the dual-use nature of China's digital public health apparatus.
Surveillance State is a cautionary book. It is fairhanded in detailing the rapacious speed at which China has constructed a model of digital authoritarianism other countries are no doubt eager to learn from. Its value is in showing how such surveillance systems are only as good (or bad) as the people who build them.
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Netta is an international pop star. She won the Eurovision Song Contest for her home country of Israel back in 2018, and she's become known for her eye-catching outfits and quirky dance moves.
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Netta is an international pop star. She won the Eurovision Song Contest for her home country of Israel back in 2018, and she's become known for her eye-catching outfits and quirky dance moves.
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Netta is an international pop star. She won the Eurovision Song Contest for her home country of Israel back in 2018, and she's become known for her eye-catching outfits and quirky dance moves.
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Netta is an international pop star. She won the Eurovision Song Contest for her home country of Israel back in 2018, and she's become known for her eye-catching outfits and quirky dance moves.
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NPR's A Martinez talks to Ronnye Stidvent, head of the Center for Women in Law in Texas, about voter registration rising among women after the Supreme Court decision to roll back abortion rights.
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NPR's A Martinez talks to Ronnye Stidvent, head of the Center for Women in Law in Texas, about voter registration rising among women after the Supreme Court decision to roll back abortion rights.
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The water in Jackson, Miss., is still not safe to drink. NPR's A Martinez talks to Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba about the the city's water infrastructure which is deficient.
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The water in Jackson, Miss., is still not safe to drink. NPR's A Martinez talks to Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba about the the city's water infrastructure which is deficient.
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It is a game of chicken now as Russia threatens Europe's economic cost at the expense of their own revenue. It's a matter of who will blink first and that will be a key battle between the two in the months/year(s) ahead.
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The 2022 Venice Film Festival started a little over a week ago, and one film has dominated much of the conversation — not because of its cinematography, editing or script, but because of reported behind-the-scenes drama that's stolen the spotlight.
Don't Worry Darling is director Olivia Wilde's second feature film, following her 2019 debut, Booksmart. The movie, which stars Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Gemma Chan and Wilde herself, premiered on Monday at the festival and is scheduled for wide release on Sept. 23.
The film is a psychological thriller set in the 1950s, in the fictional town of Victory, Calif. Pugh and Styles play Alice and Jack, a married couple who live in the town, which was built by the company Jack works for. As Alice tries to learn more about her community, tensions begin to arise between her and her new neighbors.
Reportedly, the production of the film had also been filled with tension, and interactions between the stars at Venice left the internet to speculate wildly.
"Some aspects of the unfolding interpersonal drama definitely appear like an unwieldy mess," Nicholas Baer, Assistant Professor of Media, Arts & Society at Utrecht University, told NPR. "So although it's always tricky to gauge intentionality, I'd imagine it's a combination of 'authentic' drama and savvy image manipulation."
The memes begin at the Venice Film Festival
On Monday morning ahead of the premiere, Wilde and the film's stars participated in a press conference — most of them, that is. Absent from the panel was Pugh, who flew to Italy from Budapest where she had been filming the sequel to Dune. Festival representatives told Variety that her nonattendance was because her flight to Italy wouldn't land until after the presser had taken place.
Pugh has not spoken much about the film on social media or to press since it finished filming, which has led to speculation that she did not enjoy her time on set.
The press had many questions for Wilde regarding her working relationship with Pugh and, in response, the director praised the actress for her work. "I can't say how honored I am to have her as our lead. She's amazing."
When asked about working on the film, Harry Styles — who is dating Wilde — gave a response that the internet is still trying to understand: "The thing I like about the movie is that it feels like a movie." Chris Pine's reaction to this moment birthed memes that would pave the way for many more to come.
“i wanna goooooo hooooooooooooommmmeeee”
— Andy Dandy Shitpost (@ANDYdrewME) September 5, 2022
pic.twitter.com/s1DLcRVkUX
somebody get chris pine outta there #Venezia79 pic.twitter.com/zmYxmvpbka
— bethany (@fiImgal) September 5, 2022
Florence Pugh toasts the internet
Pugh later arrived at the festival in time for the film's red carpet premiere. In a video originally posted to Instagram, Pugh was seen toasting the camera while carrying an Aperol Spritz in a purple Valentino ensemble — a carefree look that sparked yet more buzz.
florence pugh avoiding the conference and its drama at the venice film festival and enjoying a spritz. this is what i call iconic behaviour, no one is doing it like her pic.twitter.com/G7iPdXp45N
— fra🍂🫧 | #1 kit connor protector (@goldenheartvhes) September 5, 2022
Across the great divide on the red carpet
The night of the film's premiere began relatively lightheartedly, with Chris Pine taking pictures of Florence Pugh on the red carpet.
Chris Pine being supportive and taking photos of Florence Pugh on the ‘Don't Worry Darling’ red carpet at the 79th Venice International Film Festival. (September 5th, 2022)
— Chris Pine Daily (@cpinedaily) September 5, 2022
📸: Daniele Venturelli#ChrisPine #FlorencePugh #DontWorryDarling #Venezia79 pic.twitter.com/bcbiyGc6N1
But then, as the cast began getting ready for a group photo on the red carpet, it appeared that Pugh, Wilde and Styles were strategically separated by fellow actors Pine, Chan, Sydney Chandler and Nick Kroll.
Additional photos of the cast and director at the ‘Don't Worry Darling’ red carpet at the 79th Venice International Film Festival (September 5th, 2022)
— Chris Pine Daily (@cpinedaily) September 5, 2022
📸: Kate Green & Daniele Venturelli#ChrisPine #FlorencePugh #HarryStyles #GemmaChan #OliviaWilde #Venezia79 pic.twitter.com/R7pjpNLIjN
Could all of this be a PR stunt? Experts weigh in
Internet speculation didn't stop once the cast went into the theater. The actors were placed in a seating arrangement closely resembling the cast photo, and Chris Pine once again continued his run at the top of the meme leaderboard as he put on his sunglasses just as the lights went down in the theater.
chris pine putting on his sunglasses as the lights cut… oh that man is taking a nap https://t.co/e1fN4EXFfs
— mirrorball 🛋 (@tracesofswift) September 5, 2022
This brings us to a hotly debated moment between Harry Styles and Chris Pine. In a video circulated on social media, Styles approached his seat next to Pine and appeared to lean slightly over, with his lips moving in a puckering motion—then, a moment where Pine stopped clapping, looked down at his lap and laughed. The suspicious movement around Styles' mouth made some wonder: Did Harry Styles spit on Chris Pine?
Although Pine's publicist told People that such claims are "complete fabrication," the video regardless sent the internet into an uproar of jokes, takes and slo-mo'ed video. Analyzing the videos of #Spittake, as some users have put it, has become the Zapruder film of Twitter.
Analyzing that video of Harry Styles and Chris Pine like it's the zapruder film
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) September 6, 2022
The film has generally not been well received by critics, and there continues to be heavy speculation online that all of this press has been drummed up to help create a buzz for the film.
Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling” is currently receiving bad reviews with Florence Pugh and Harry Styles receiving praise for their performance. pic.twitter.com/OQETYES6vd
— Pop Tingz (@ThePopTingz) September 5, 2022
"As a communications guy, my gut reaction to this kind of thing when it is on an international stage is that it is all about getting attention," says film and media historian Chris Yogerst. "Of course, we learned there was more to the story with the notorious Oscars slap. That may be the case here as well, but because there were many smiles all around, my guess is that this is a PR move or an inside joke of some kind."
A lot of speculation and confusion surrounds what is really going on behind the scenes in the movie, which runs parallel with themes seen in the film, Baer said —"a focus on polished appearances and the cracks in attractive facades."
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe Dance review: Worn, Dance Base
Errol White and Davina Givan’s show Worn is inspired by the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi, writes Kelly Apter
DANCE, PHYSICAL THEATRE & CIRCUS
Worn ***
Dance Base (venue 22)
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There’s something almost poetic about watching Errol White and Davina Givan sway gently in each other’s arms. Beneath their feet, the stage glimmers with golden lines, echoing the ancient Japanese art of kintsugi where the cracks in mended pottery are deemed as beautiful as the pot itself. Worn explores the scars and experiences that make us who we are, especially in relation to those closest to us.
The fact that White and Givan are, in real life, a married couple gives the piece an extra layer of truthfulness and sensitivity. They break away, traverse the space alone, then return to the safety of their loved one’s body. Even their costumes suggest fragmentation, with pieces of material sewn back together, no attempt made to cover the join.
Scars by their very nature come from trauma, so it’s understandable that so much of Worn has a troubled intensity. Love and affection are most definitely there during those moments of re-connection, but there is a distinct lack of joy or even a hint at shared happiness. If this on-stage partnering depicted a real union, the ratio of pain to pleasure would prove too much to sustain it. To a certain extent, the same could be said of Worn. Kelly Apter | https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/edinburgh-festivals/edinburgh-festival-fringe-dance-review-worn-dance-base-3834347 | 2022-09-07T10:14:55Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/edinburgh-festivals/edinburgh-festival-fringe-dance-review-worn-dance-base-3834347 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Help is wanted at many voting sites around the U.S. as the general election season gets underway this month.
In some communities, however, the ongoing COVID pandemic and current political climate are not making it easy to find paid and volunteer poll workers, forcing election officials to count on creative ways to staff up for democracy.
For the 2020 elections, some longtime poll workers dropped out of the ranks because they needed to quarantine or faced higher COVID risks related to their age, according to a report by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Special campaigns urging voters to serve at polls that year helped many officials find workers who stepped up.
This year, high school students, military veterans and lawyers are among the potential applicant pools some local and national recruiting efforts are targeting to make sure there's enough staff to check in voters, issue ballots and process votes.
But making a call to serve can be tricky in 2022 with election officials and workers in many parts of the U.S. facing an unprecedented level of scrutiny — along with harassment — driven by election deniers.
"This is an unfortunate factor," said New Jersey Secretary of State Tahesha Way, president of the National Association of Secretaries of State. "After 2020, we are now seeing an increased level of threats towards election officials and workers, which, of course, causes concern and hesitation for those who may want to serve."
For Anil Nathan, though, it's a source of motivation.
The former U.S. Air Force captain co-founded the nonprofit organization We the Veterans, which has started a new project called Vet the Vote to encourage former service members to work at polling sites.
"I think a lot of veterans and military family members would feel the same way about helping to continue to protect and serve the institutions and the process that we wore a uniform to support in our previous lives," Nathan said.
The American Bar Association is also trying to tap into its professional networks by bringing back the Poll Worker, Esq. initiative it used to promote poll working among lawyers and law students for the 2020 elections.
In the suburbs of Washington, D.C., Maryland's Montgomery County Board of Elections has been focused on younger demographic groups. Local teenagers ages 16 and up can serve as poll workers, and kids as young as sixth graders can volunteer as aides to poll workers the night before and on Election Day, when the county's public schools are not in session.
The student aides are part of Future Vote, a program that Gilberto Zelaya, the community engagement and public relations officer for the county's board of elections, started in 2004 in part to help out the workers stationed at polling places.
"They really like the fact that there's this younger generation handing out 'I voted' stickers, making sure that the signs are posted and that the tables are lined up," Zelaya said.
Sometimes, aides get on the floor of polling places with blue painter's tape to lay out arrows pointing voters toward the right direction.
"Our poll workers, especially our older poll workers, they prefer that the students do that as opposed to them because I'm 50 and my knees are starting to crack," Zelaya added.
Sixteen-year-old Danny Dominguez, though, had something else in mind when applying to be an election worker — a more exciting way to rack up community service hours for a graduation requirement in Maryland.
"I've always been interested in how the election process works. And so for the 25 hours, I get to see how people come in, sign up for the elections and vote," said Dominguez, who recently stopped by a recruiting table at a back-to-school fair held inside a mall parking garage.
At the same event, Adaobi Oniwinde filled out an application herself and guided one of her sons toward one as well.
"Honey, I really want you to do this. This is the most important thing," Oniwinde said, eying 16-year-old Layi with a clipboard in hand.
This year's midterms will be the first U.S. general election Oniwinde's children will experience while in the country, after years of living abroad.
"The beauty about the system here is the fact that you really can get involved at any level," Oniwinde said. "People are going out with their kids. I love the way the system here allows everybody to be involved."
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The puss caterpillar bears a striking resemblance to Cousin Itt from the Addams Family, a fuzzy little bug that one can't help but want to touch. However, beneath its hairy surface are poisonous barbs that pack a powerful sting, which can result in days and even weeks of pain.
One of the most venomous caterpillars in the U.S., the puss can be found feasting on foliage in states between New Jersey and Florida and as far west as Texas. Most encounters typically occur when the caterpillar accidentally falls out of a tree or when people are removing leaves from around their home.
A puss caterpillar stung the manager of Virginia Tech's Insect ID Lab, Eric Day, when he accidentally brushed up against a tree while mowing his lawn in rural Virginia. He said it resulted in a burning sensation and a blister about an inch long at the sting site.
"The burning sensation went away in a day or so, but that blister and then subsequent kind of irritated area was visible for several weeks," he recalled.
The caterpillar can grow to a little over 1 inch long and is covered in gray and orange hairs, which have venom glands at the base, according to the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. It's commonly found in Florida but is most abundant in Dallas and southern parts of Texas.
The level of pain caused by the caterpillar's sting varies from person to person, but entomologist Molly Keck of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service said the venom can be dangerous to individuals who suffer from extreme reactions to insect bites.
"Some may just have localized discomfort that lasts for just a short period of time. Others could have something as severe as anaphylaxis or needing to seek medical attention," Keck told NPR.
She said the caterpillars can be found most often in the fall and spring, when people are spending time outdoors.
If you happen to get stung by the caterpillar, the National Capital Poison Center recommends using tape to remove the hairs and then gently washing the area with soap and water. If the sting site begins to itch, use hydrocortisone cream or a baking soda and water paste for relief.
If the pain worsens, seek out medical attention, Keck said. The sting has been known to cause anaphylaxis in rare instances, which can be life threatening.
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Vladimir Putin’s legs seen shaking and twitching in footage as speculation mounts about his health
Footage of Russian President Vladimir Putin appearing to uncontrollably twitch and shake his legs has led to further speculation about his health.
Video footage from last week shows Putin looking uncomfortable during a visit to Kaliningrad with his legs shaking as he addresses a room of children.
However, fresh footage has been shared on social media showing similar behaviour from Putin during his visit to the Russian far-east province of Kamchatka — with the president once again tapping and twitching his legs.
The footage, taken from a similar event in which Putin addressed young Russians, saw him tapping both of his feet on the floor and holding on to his armrest for support.
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In the address he told the youngsters: 'You have to live for something to die for.'
It is not the first time that speculation has mounted over the health of the 69-year-old Russian leader, with Putin regularly seen twitching and appearing to be unsteady while in public.
Questions about Putin's health have been circulating for some time with the president often looking uncomfortable in his chair, hobbling off planes, or gripping arm rests during speeches.
On Tuesday, Russia accused Kyiv of hitting the safety protection zone at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant three times in 24 hours, with Ukraine counter claiming that Russian forces have used the plant as a shield from which to fire on nearby cities, although Russia insists it is guarding the site.
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Celtic-Real Madrid reaction: Crowd produce old-school greatness; Postecoglou latest in line to add to desperate stat; Into dare-not-lose territory already
The sobering 3-0 defeat for Celtic in their Champions League opener against Real Madrid didn’t destroy the faithful’s spirits.
Supporters produce old-school greatness
There is much mythologising about the crowd properties at Celtic Park on a Champions League night. Much of it from those within said crowd. OK, off-the-scale noise is generated. But that isn’t a game changer, whatever the hype. If it was the 3-0 defeat by Real Madrid would not have represented the seventh straight home encounter in the competition Celtic had failed to win; the seventh in 10 such home games they had failed to score.
Yet, that did not prevent punters producing something special; as they did with their reaction to Carlo Ancelotti’s holders doing a number on them. In spending the closing minutes lauding manager Ange Postecoglou and his men for their fire in a fizzing first half - despite it giving way to flatness as the continent’s foremost footballing assassins smothered them - they truly were supporters of the most worthy kind. As a faction, recently they haven’t always pitched towards showing the best of humanity in their domain: as is represented by, now rarely-witnessed, non-result dependent backing. In that sense, their vocal appreciation of, ultimately, a heavy defeat recalled the greatness of an old-school Celtic crowd.
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Postecoglou latest in line to add to grim stat
Only a loss of reason could explain a section of the Celtic fanbase convincing themselves that their team could take down Europe’s ultimate football titan. They patently didn’t know their history. Ange Postecoglou may be threatening to reset domestic parameters with his team’s whizz-bang brand of football. However, it always seemed that in Celtic’s 11th iteration of the continental’s blue riband club competition, he would join Martin O’Neill, Gordon Strachan, Neil Lennon and Brendan Rodgers. Not one of these men won their opening encounter of a Champions League group campaign. The Australian now joins them.
Dare-not-lose territory already
The eight-week, compressed nature of the Champions League sectional stage as a consequence of the end-of-year staging of the Qatar World Cup finals this year means the competition can quickly run away from an aspiring team.
Celtic may understandably have come up short against the magisterial Madrid, but with this solitary defeat they are immediately in dangerous terrain. That is down to Shakhtar Donetsk’s stunning 4-1 success away to RB Leipzig in Germany. The Ukrainians are next up for Ange Postecoglou’s men, the pair meeting in their war-enforced European home of Warsaw next Wednesday. A win for Donetsk there would surely allow them to establish a six point advantage in the three-team scrap for a second-place finish in Group F - behind Real Madrid, a given for the top slot - that will earn qualification, owing to Carlo Ancelotti’s men hosting Leipzig at the same time.
Celtic need at least a draw then away to Donetsk to avoid such a gloomy scenario. In the wake of the Madrid reverse, Postecoglou talked about “bridging the gap” with his team finding themselves on “the wrong side of the ledger” over the “small margins” that make the difference at this level. Yet, it is merely preventing a hefty gap opening up between Celtic and Donetsk that is the Australian’s most pressing immediate issue.
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Thomas Tuchel sacked by Chelsea as new owners swing the axe after Champions League defeat
Chelsea have sacked Thomas Tuchel in the wake of Tuesday’s chastening 1-0 Champions League defeat at Dinamo Zagreb.
German coach Tuchel led Chelsea to the Champions League title in 2021 and the Club World Cup crown in 2022, but has paid the price for an indifferent start to the new campaign.
New owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali have worked hard all summer to impose their authority at Chelsea, but this represents the boldest and most sweeping change yet.
Chelsea insisted they had made the change at the “right time” amid the club’s continued transition out of the Roman Abramovich era.
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Chelsea also pledged to move quickly to appoint a replacement for Tuchel.
“Chelsea have today parted company with Head Coach Thomas Tuchel,” read a club statement published on Wednesday.
“On behalf of everyone at Chelsea, the club would like to place on record their gratitude to Thomas and his staff for all their efforts during their time with the club. Thomas will rightly have a place in Chelsea’s history after winning the Champions League, the Super Cup and Club World Cup in his time here.
“As the new ownership group reaches 100 days since taking over the club, and as it continues its hard work to take the club forward, the new owners believe it is the right time to make this transition.
“Chelsea’s coaching staff will take charge of the team for training and the preparation of our upcoming matches as the club moves swiftly to appoint a new head coach.
“There will be no further comment until a new head coach appointment is made.”
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Forecast Updated on Wednesday, September 7, 2022, at 3:50am by WBOC Meteorologist Mike Lichniak
Today: Lingering showers, some drizzle, some mist are possible throughout the day. Otherwise, it becomes mostly cloudy by the evening. Windy. Highs: 75-80. Winds: E 10-25+ mph.
Tonight: Partly to mostly cloudy with a chance of a few lingering showers early. Lows: 64-70. Winds: NE 10-15 mph.
Thursday: Partly to mostly sunny. Highs: 78-83. Winds: NE 5-20+ mph.
Thursday Night: Turning mostly clear. Lows: 61-70. Winds: E 5-10 mph.
Friday: Mostly sunny. Highs: 80-86. Winds: SE-E 5-15 mph.
Saturday: Mostly sunny. Highs: 80-86. Winds: SE-S 5-15 mph.
We are starting off with lingering showers and a lot of drizzle across Delmarva that will keep things feeling drab and dreary to start the day. This chance of scattered showers will linger throughout the day today as this area of low pressure develops along the stationary front out in the Atlantic. Most of the day will be gray with some breaks of sunshine from time to time. Any sunshine we see will allow for some more instability showers to fire up through the evening hours. Highs today will only reach the 70s to around 80 degrees inland, with temperatures at the beach only reaching the low 70s with the wind off the Atlantic.
The chances diminish by Wednesday night and we should dry out for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Temperatures climb up into the mid 80s by the weekend and the humidity will start to go up a bit more as the wind turns more out of the south. We will increase the cloud cover on Sunday ahead of our next storm system that will bring us a chance for showers and a few storms on Monday and will linger on Tuesday with scattered showers.
This forecast is going to be shifting a lot over the coming days as there is a lot of uncertainty within the suite of models this morning as we get past the 5th day of the forecast. At this point, let’s prepare for the start of next week to be a lot like the start of the short work and school week this week. It does look like we will dry out by the middle of next week with comfortable conditions. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-summary/dreary-feel-to-wednesday-with-showers-possible/article_5621d442-2e81-11ed-bf93-1b408687e370.html | 2022-09-07T10:17:25Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-summary/dreary-feel-to-wednesday-with-showers-possible/article_5621d442-2e81-11ed-bf93-1b408687e370.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Atlantic Ocean:
Wednesday: Small Craft Advisory. NE 10-25 knots. Seas: 4-7 feet.
Thursday: Small Craft Advisory. N 15-25 knots. Seas: 6-7 feet.
Chesapeake Bay:
Wednesday: Small Craft Advisory. NE 15-20 knots. Waves: 1-3 feet.
Thursday: Small Craft Advisory Possible. NE 10-20 knots. Waves: 1-3 feet.
Delaware Bay:
Wednesday: NE 15-20 knots. Seas: 1-3 feet.
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Aston Martin Lagonda (GB:AML) started a rights issue to raise £575.8 million to reduce debt and produce new electric vehicles, the final part of a total of £653.8 million of fundraising started in July 2022.
Almost 45% of the issue is already committed by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, the Yew Tree Consortium, and Mercedes-Benz AG (FRA:MBG).
With the funds raised, the company aims to reduce its debt pile and strengthen its balance sheet. It will also use the funds to expand its operations in the electric segments and launch new models such as Valhalla, to compete more effectively in the EV segment.
The issue comprises around 560 million shares at 103p per share. The price carries a discount of 79% on the last week’s closing price on Friday.
Shareholders weren’t happy with the discounted price. The stock fell by almost 15% and was among the biggest fallers on Monday, although it recovered and gained around 7.5% on Tuesday.
Overall, share prices are struggling since its IPO in 2018 and have been trading down by 78% in the last year.
Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, commented,” The car manufacturer has been a flop since joining the stock market, and one has to wonder if it would be better off as a privately-owned company.”
“This might simply be Aston Martin finding another piece of frayed rope to keep it afloat and avoid sinking completely into quicksand. The key question is for how long the rope will stay intact before the company needs help again.”
Aston Martin stock forecast
According to TipRanks’ analyst consensus, Aston Martin stock has a Hold rating, based on four Hold and one Sell recommendations.
The AML price target is 804p, which represents an 85.5% upside to the current price level. The price target has a low and a high forecast of 400p and 1,430p, respectively.
Conclusion
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Shares of Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP) shot up by 12.2% in pre-market trading on Wednesday following upbeat Q2 results. The business spend software company reported revenues of $211.1 million in Q2, up 18% year-over-year and surpassing analysts’ expectations of $218.6 million.
Adjusted net income was $0.2 per diluted share in line with analysts’ expectations.
Rob Bernshteyn, Chairman and CEO of Coupa Software commented on the results, “We’re proud of our results this quarter. We delivered record revenues, strong growth in our subscription calculated billings, and we continue to deliver strong cash flows and profitability on a Non-GAAP basis”
In Q3, Coupa expects to generate revenues in the range of $211 to $214 million while adjusted EPS is forecasted to range between $0.08 and $0.1 per share.
Coupa’s Board of Directors also approved a stock buyback program of up to $100 million.
Is COUP Stock a Buy?
Analysts remained sidelined about COUP with a Hold consensus rating based on four Buys, eight Holds, and one Sell.
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Two people were killed as a fast-moving wildfire swelled rapidly over parched vegetation in Southern California, forcing hundreds of residents to flee amid a severe heat wave that has enveloped the region.
The Fairview Fire ignited after 2 p.m. local time Monday and quickly scorched 2,000 acres, destroying at least seven structures and damaging several more near the city of Hemet in Riverside County, according to Cal Fire.
As of Tuesday evening, the fire has burned 4,500 acres and was 5% contained, according to a tweet from Cal Fire.
About 5,000 homes were under evacuation orders Monday evening as the fire slashed a path of destruction through the baked countryside. Evacuation orders and warnings were expanded eastward as the fire progressed on Tuesday, though it is not immediately clear how many more people or houses are impacted.
Another person was taken to a hospital with serious burns to their arms, back and face, according to CNN affiliate KCBS.
The victims were in a "one way in, one way out" area of a dangerous canyon with a lot of overgrown vegetation that hasn't burned in decades, Cordova told the station.
Aerial footage showed several homes burning as flames encroached under a dense layer of smoke.
Schools were closed Tuesday in Hemet due to the fire and will remain shut Wednesday "until further notice," the district said.
"Our hope is that our students can return to school soon; however, the closure will continue until conditions improve. We will update our families with additional information as it becomes available," the Hemet Unified School District said.
A high temperature of 106 degrees was recorded Tuesday in Hemet, according to the National Weather Service. Daytime temperatures will be above 100 degrees Fahrenheit through Friday in Hemet, according to the forecast.
The Fairview Fire was one of several wildfires wreaking havoc over the holiday weekend in California, where fires have consumed thousands of acres in less than a week.
In Northern California's Siskiyou County, two women, ages 66 and 73, died in the Mill Fire that swelled to 3935 acres and destroyed 108 structures as of Tuesday night.
Nearby, the Mountain Fire ignited on steep terrain and was 30% contained at 11,690 acres on Tuesday.
Cal Fire Battalion Chief Jon Heggie told CNN on Sunday the prolonged drought conditions have created "extremely dangerous" conditions as the parched land holds "a huge amount of dead fuel."
"All these fires now have receptive fuel beds to burn," he said. "Now, when anything gets started it has that potential for exponential growth in a short period of time just because everything is so tinder dry."
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The share of US adults who received treatment for mental health grew throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, according to data published Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nearly 22% of adults got mental health treatment in 2021, up from about 19% in 2019.
This jump is probably due to a combination of increased need and better access to treatment, said Calliope Holingue, a psychiatric epidemiologist and member of Johns Hopkins University's COVID-19 Mental Health Measurement Working Group.
"The pandemic has spurred an important conversation about the need to take care of ourselves. In the population as a whole, we're seeing that reflected," she said.
Overall, the CDC report found that the increase in mental health treatment was driven largely by adults under the age of 45.
Adults 18 to 44 were least likely to have received treatment for mental health in 2019 but became the most likely in 2021. Nearly 1 in 4 adults (more than 23%) in this age group received treatment for mental health in 2021, a jump of nearly 5 percentage points from 2019.
"This young adult group is encountering the pandemic at a very vulnerable life stage. It's the stage at which disorders such as anxiety disorders and depression are at one of their highest levels across the life course," Holingue said. "So there is this sort of natural vulnerability there, at the same time that the pandemic is happening."
The report also found that women were consistently more likely than men to have received treatment for mental health, by a difference of more than 10 percentage points each year between 2019 and 2021. In 2021, more than 1 in 4 women (29%) reported receiving mental health treatment compared with fewer than 1 in 5 men (18%).
The World Health Organization has called attention to a "massive" increase in anxiety and depression globally. Prevalence shot up 25% in the first year of the pandemic, according to a scientific brief -- a finding that WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called "just the tip of the iceberg" in understanding the toll the pandemic has taken on the world's mental health.
"This is a wake-up call to all countries to pay more attention to mental health and do a better job of supporting their populations' mental health," he said.
In the US specifically, Holingue says, there was a "peak increase in mental distress" in the early months of the pandemic amid fear, uncertainty and change. That has tapered off, but with lingering effects.
Drug overdose deaths, for example, have continued at record high levels into 2022.
"The Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated numerous social stressors that we know can increase the risk of both substance use and mental illness, alongside substantial changes to the illicit drug supply," said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse,
But, she said, increases in mental health treatment as found in the CDC report "may not be a negative signal in and of itself" because it could mean people are connecting with the help they need.
"For many people, drug and alcohol problems begin as self-medication for other mental health symptoms. Half of people with a substance use disorder have another mental illness at some point, and vice-versa," she said. "Fragmented and hard-to-access mental health care means that these conditions and addiction often go untreated."
Better access to telehealth has broadened treatment options -- but not for everyone, Holingue said.
According to the CDC report, white people were consistently more likely than any other racial or ethnic group to receive mental health treatment. More than 30% of white people reported receiving mental health treatment in 2021, compared with 15% of Black people, 13% of Hispanic people and 11% of Asian people. Despite having the lowest rates, Asian people saw one of the largest increases in mental health treatment between 2019 and 2021.
In addition to the coronavirus, 2020 and 2021 brought increased anti-Asian hate crimes and protests against police brutality and racism in the wake of George Floyd's death. In April 2021, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky declared racism a serious public health threat.
But people of color are less able to access mental health services because of things like economic inequities and lack of diverse providers, Holingue said.
"We're seeing an increase in the white population, and that's great, but we're seeing a smaller increase in people of color. So what we need is an even larger increase to happen in those groups in order to be more confident that that disparity in care is narrowing," she said.
Other studies from the CDC have shown the heavy toll the pandemic has had on the mental health of children, too. Mental health-related visits to emergency rooms jumped 31% in 2020 over 2019 for adolescents ages 12 to 17. And in early 2021, suicide attempts among adolescents girls were more than 50% higher than they were in 2019.
Data for the new CDC report was collected by the National Center for Health Statistics as part of the National Health Interview Survey. Individuals were considered to have received treatment for mental health if they reported getting counseling or therapy or taking prescription medication for anxiety, depression, concentration, behavior or other emotions in the past 12 months.
This summer, the US Department of Health and Human Services launched 988, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline for mental health crises.
This is a "somewhat promising" step forward, but Holingue says improvements to mental health will improve only incrementally unless there is a renewed level of investment.
"While mental health services are really critical, I think on a societal level, they're not enough to truly protect the public's mental health," she said. "We need greater commitment from the government at all levels to the causes of this poor mental health. These include the ongoing pandemic, but also things like the housing crisis, the climate crisis, gun violence, racism, to name a few."
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The NHS autumn Covid-19 booster vaccination campaign is underway. From today, around seven million people are invited to book their appointment for as soon as next week. An invitation to book a booster jab has been posted to a number of groups in the UK - including those who are aged 75 and over, as well as people who are immunosuppressed.
The NHS will contact people when it is their turn to book in for the vaccine – you do not need to contact the NHS. As part of the fastest and largest vaccine drive in NHS history, around 1.6 million care home residents and staff and housebound people will be eligible for the autumn dose from today.
More than 700 care homes in England will be visited by vaccinating teams this week - with thousands more scheduled before the end of the month. A record 3,100 sites are expected to be part of the rollout, including GP practices and community pharmacies. There will will also be 80 hospital hubs administering the vaccine.
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More than 126 million Covid vaccines have been administered since the first one was given in December 2020. NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard said: “Once again, the NHS is kicking off a lifesaving vaccination campaign to protect the nation ahead of winter, starting with those most vulnerable to serious illness and hospitalisation from Covid and flu.
“NHS staff have been working incredibly hard to prepare for the latest phase of the Covid vaccine rollout – the biggest and fastest in our 74 year history – with a record number of sites in local communities set to offer vaccinations to millions of people.
“When the booking service opens on Wednesday, don’t delay – the best way to protect yourself from serious illness this winter is to get the vaccine when invited to do so, as well as your annual flu jab if eligible."
Here is all you need to know about who is eligible for Covid-19 vaccinations and how to book an appointment:
Who is eligible?
According to the final recommendations published by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), the following groups will be offered a further dose of the vaccine:
- all adults aged 50 years and over
- those aged 5 to 49 years in a clinical risk group, including pregnant women
- those aged 5 to 49 years who are household contacts of people with immunosuppression
- those aged 16 to 49 years who are carers
- residents in a care home for older adults and staff working in care homes for older adults
- frontline health and social care workers
Who can get an autumn booster?
A seasonal booster can be booked online for anyone who is:
- aged 75 years old or over
- aged 12 years old or over with a weakened immune system
- a frontline health or social care worker
The appointment dates you'll be offered will start from 3 months (91 days) after your previous dose.
How to book an appointment?
Those who are already eligible to book a slot, can do so online or by calling 119.
NHS director of vaccinations and screening Steve Russell said: “From Wednesday, over seven million people who are over 75, immunocompromised or a frontline health and care worker will be able to book an appointment from the following week - – and if you are receiving an invite then please book in at the earliest opportunity to get the maximum protection ahead of winter.”
Alongside the seasonal booster, first and second doses for people aged five and over can also be booked online, as can additional primary doses for people in that age bracket with a severely weakened immune system. A first booster for people aged 16 years old and over, and for at-risk children aged 12 to 15 years old are also available to book online.
Click here for more information.
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The supermarkets whose customers have faced the biggest price rises have been revealed in new data from a food comparison site. The research on Trolley.co.uk showed that out of the 'Big Four' UK grocers, Morrisons' prices had risen the most, while Iceland had the biggest rise away from the largest retailers.
Morrisons prices across 13,000 products had risen by an average of 4.7% compared with August last year, the website said. Industry sources told The Telegraph that this was because of the retailer being bought by UK private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice, although Morrisons denied this.
According to the data, Tesco shoppers have faced a similar increase, with prices rising an average of 4.6%, while Sainsbury's prices have gone up 3.7%. Groceries at Asda and Waitrose rose 3.3% and 3.2% respectively, The Mirror reports.
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Beyond the 'Big Four', it was Iceland that saw the largest increase at 6.6%, followed by Aldi at 5.7% over 2,413 products. At Iceland, the average cost of 3,022 products had gone up from £3.79 last summer to £4.04 this year - a rise of 25p.
Some of the retailer's biggest price jumps were on butter (up £1.10), chicken (£1.07), toilet paper (also £1.07) and dog and cat food (£1.11 and £1.01 respectively). The biggest monetary increase on any product was on a 5kg bag of chicken breasts, which had risen from £7 to £24.
Supermarket shoppers are being hit by soaring inflation, which hit a 40-year-high of 10.1% in the 12 months to July. The Bank of England has warned that it could reach 13% by October.
The biggest contributor to rising inflation was food, according to the Office for National Statistics, with grocery inflation at 12.6%, up from 9.8% in June. Bread and cereals rose in price the most, followed by milk, cheese and eggs.
Vegetables, meat, sugar, jam, honey, syrup, chocolate and confectionery all increased in price as well. The Mirror has contacted all the supermarkets mentioned for comment.
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From Balmoral to Buckingham Palace, the Queen is lucky enough to have a number of beautiful royal residences. One of her favourite rural retreats is Sandringham in Norfolk – where a bucolic country house on Her Majesty’s estate is now listed on Airbnb.
Sandringham House has been the private home of the British monarch since 1862, during the reign of Queen Victoria. The estate is also home to elegant gardens, rolling parkland and the pretty St Mary Magdalene Church (familiar to royal fans as the setting for the Windsors’ Christmas Day church appearances), all of which will be within easy reach to renters of Garden House.
So named because it was formerly lived in by the Queen’s head gardener, the property is described in its listing as a ‘charming hideaway, nestled within the heart of her much-loved Sandringham Estate’, with the particular distinction of being ‘the closest estate property to Sandringham House itself’. Set among prettily landscaped gardens (including its own Walled Garden), the two-story house sleeps eight guests, with four bedrooms, a kitchen and morning room, dining and sitting rooms and two bathrooms.
The 96-year-old monarch has been forced to pull of a number of recent engagements on account of mobility issues, but her son and heir, Prince Charles, will attend the Highland Games in her place
Kitted out with a host of country-luxe features, like an Aga, open fireplaces and a paved patio with charcoal barbecue, one unique draw is its furniture. Sourced from the Royal Collection, meaning ‘all the furniture and pictures were once housed in a royal residence’, the Airbnb images offer a peek at patterned curtains, elegant suites of dining furniture and characterful pictures adoring the walls.
Guests will have plenty to amuse themselves, from feasting on a traditional English tea at the nearby Sandringham Restaurant; to strolling in the 243-hectare Sandringham Royal Park; or taking little ones for a trip to the Children’s Play Area, recently upgraded with a 26ft-tall water tower.
Available to rent for short-term visitors with a three-night minimum stay, Garden House is fully booked until the end of 2022. For guests looking to reserve a slot next year, however, a trip in the new year comes at a starting cost of £354 for three nights.
Garden House is not the only one of the monarch’s properties on offer to the public, with the Balmoral Estate in Scotland currently listing a number of sweet holiday cottages to rent. The cheapest among them are the Colt Cottages, ‘situated in close proximity to the Castle’, where prices start from £555 for up to five people. The cottages can be booked ‘throughout the year, with the exception of some weeks during The Royal Visit’, due to security considerations.
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Ahead of the resumption of the National Assembly slated for the end of this month, the management of NASS is collaborating with the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) as it kick-started strategic repositioning of its security units with a three-day capacity-building workshop in that direction for relevant staff.
Leading the pack of those attending the three-day security enhancement capacity-building at the head office of NILDS in Maitama on Tuesday in Abuja, are the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in NASS, Chief Superintendent of Police ( CSP ) Alex Annagu and the Serjeant – at Arms, Air Commodore Sani Abdullahi Zakari ( Rtd) as well as staff of the Special Duties Directorate of NASS.
The Special Duties Directorate is the largest directorate in the National Assembly and it comprises a security unit, as well as official reporters of legislative activities.
The capacity – building according to Director-General of NILDS, Professor Abubakar Sulaiman, “is one that has strategic importance to the operations and security of the National Assembly.”
He disclosed that similar ones organised for staff of Special Duties and Parliamentary Security Directorate yielded far-reaching positive results in terms of strategic reforms carried out by the management of NASS as recommended.
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“NILDS has had a long-standing relationship with the Special Duties Directorate in NASS.
“Specifically, in 2016, we organised an international conference on parliamentary security and the role of the Sergeant-At-Arms to discuss emerging contemporary security challenges and the need for constant re-appraisal of the operational and tactical capability of the sergeant-at-arms to perform optimally.
“One of the most significant outcomes of that conference was the adoption of a blueprint for reforming and restructuring the Sergeant-at-Arms towards greater efficiency and effectiveness.
“One of the most concrete recommendations made to Leadership was the need to professionalise and transform the sergeant-at-arms and to create specialised Divisions, namely: (i) Intelligence & VIP Protection Division; (ii) Law Enforcement & Emergency Management Division; and (iii) Chamber & Protocol Division.
“We are glad that the National Assembly adopted this recommendation, and the changes made have significantly improved the functions of the sergeant-at-arms.
“We hope to continue to provide capacity support towards further strengthening the capacity of the sergeant-at-arms to better respond to growing security challenges facing the country,” he said.
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Mongolian National Emergency Management Agency Lt. Col. D. Khongor, head officer of the medical section, leads participants of exercise Gobi Wolf 2022 through a field medical tent in Bayankhongor, Mongolia, Sept. 6. Gobi Wolf is a disaster response exercise conducted as a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief engagement. The FTX focuses on hazmat response, mass medical care, and search and rescue. The mass medical care training will take place in the field medical tent. (Alaska National Guard photo by Victoria Granado)
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A Mongolia National Emergency Management Agency team takes notes on shoring during a disaster scenario as part of the field training exercise discussions during Gobi Wolf 2022 in Bayankhongor, Mongolia, Sept. 6. The six-day exercise focuses on interagency coordination within Mongolia, as well as foreign humanitarian assistance during a large-scale natural disaster. Participating countries also include Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the United Kingdom and Vietnam. (Alaska National Guard photo by Victoria Granado)
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Cloud-based software company Salesforce’s (NYSE:CRM) management took a cautious stance during the Q2 conference call and lowered the full-year revenue and earnings outlook, citing macro headwinds. Despite the guidance cut, Wall Street analysts remain optimistic about Salesforce because of its ability to deliver durable revenue growth and defend margins. Further, secular tailwinds from the ongoing digital shift are keeping analysts positively inclined toward CRM stock.
What Is Salesforce Used For?
Salesforce provides customer relationship management technology that helps enterprises connect with their customers. The company’s software and services primarily focus on sales, marketing, and analytics. Salesforce generates revenues from subscriptions and professional services, with subscription revenues accounting for about 93% of its total sales.
Before we dig deeper, let’s zoom in on factors that are hurting Salesforce’s growth.
Risk Ahead for Salesforce
Macro headwinds are taking their toll on enterprise spending, and Salesforce is not immune to it. During the Q2 conference call, CRM’s CFO Amy Weaver stated, “We started to see more measured buying behavior from our customers, which began in the last months of the quarter. This resulted in stretched sales cycles, additional deal approval layers and deal compression. In addition, we saw slowing in our create-and-close, Slack self-serve and SMB businesses, which tend to be leading macro indicators.”
Along with macro headwinds, adverse currency movement could further remain a drag on CRM’s top line in FY23.
CRM’s management now expects FY23 revenue to be in the range of $30.9 billion to $31 billion, down from its previous forecast of $31.7 billion to $31.8 billion. Due to the lower sales forecast, CRM expects to deliver adjusted earnings in the range of $4.71-$4.73 per share, compared to its earlier projection of $4.74-$4.76 per share.
Analysts Looking Beyond Short-term Headwinds
Analysts have lowered their projections to reflect management’s cautious tone and guidance cut. However, they see CRM as well-positioned to benefit from the ongoing digital transformation.
William Blair analyst Arjun Bhatia sees the macro backdrop as a drag on CRM’s financials for the next few quarters. However, the analyst is bullish about its prospect due to the solid “enterprise presence, broad product portfolio, and experience navigating difficult macroeconomic cycles.”
Bhatia also highlighted CRM’s focus on driving efficiency and the ability to defend margins despite challenges. It’s worth mentioning that CRM lowered its full-year revenue forecast but reiterated its adjusted operating margin guidance for FY23. CRM expects to deliver an adjusted operating margin of 20.4%.
Echoing similar sentiments, Monness analyst Brian White expects CRM to capitalize on the digital shift. Highlighting CRM’s offerings, White stated that its “platform is stronger and more relevant than ever” for customers. Further, the analyst expects CRM to benefit from the acquisition of Slack.
Will CRM Stock Go Up?
CRM stock forecast on TipRanks shows significant upside potential. CRM stock has received 29 Buy and four Hold recommendations for a Strong Buy rating consensus. Meanwhile, CRM’s average price target of $225.19 implies 46.5% upside potential over the next 12 months.
Along with analysts, CRM stock has positive signals from hedge funds and retail investors. Hedge funds bought 3.9M CRM stock last quarter. Meanwhile, 2.1% of investors holding portfolios on TipRanks increased their exposure to CRM stock in the last 30 days.
All in all, CRM stock sports an Outperform Smart Score of nine out of 10 on TipRanks.
Bottom Line: CRM’s Fundamentals Remain Strong
CRM has consistently delivered solid revenue despite the challenging operating environment. Its top line has doubled in three years (from $13.3 billion in FY19 to $26.5 billion in FY22), which is encouraging. Though macro headwinds will lead to a slight moderation in its growth, CRM is poised to gain from the increased enterprise spending on digital transformation.
Overall, the fundamentals of Salesforce remain strong. Further, the company announced its first-ever $10 billion share repurchase program in the second quarter, which should act as a positive catalyst for CRM stock.
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Qantas Airways (QAN) shares fell on Monday amid negative media coverage about the airlines customer service performance and worker dissatisfaction.
Qantas stock dropped almost 4% on September 5. The airline’s shares opened trading at AU$5.22 and managed to rise to a high of AU$5.27, before dropping to a low of AU$5.06. Qantas Airways shares have declined more than 5% over the past year.
Qantas service and labour issues rattle investors
Qantas Airways has come under criticism from employers in relation to the cost cutting measures it took throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, with total the employee numbers falling from 29,400 in March 2020, to 21,600 in mid-2022.
The company’s planes and passengers are facing future delays, due to industrial action set for this month.
Hundreds of the airline’s ground staff, from outsourcing contractor Dnata, are set to go on strike on September 12.
Are Qantas shares a good buy right now?
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Final thoughts
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Why is it so smoky and hot in Fort Collins, and when will it end?
Though it's a short week for most thanks to Labor Day, there still is a reason to look forward to the weekend.
The hot, smoky days of this week will give way to a cool respite, if only for a day. But that day happens to be Saturday, when the new-look CSU football team takes on Middle Tennessee State in the Rams' home opener, moms and dads watch kids play soccer and football, and people head to the hiking trails.
But first, we must deal with the smoke and heat.
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What's causing these smoke-filled days and how long will they last?
Blame the smoky skies on Idaho and Montana, where around two dozen wildfires are burning. West winds are picking up the smoke and taking it east over Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota, where the wind swirls south and carries the smoke into the Nebraska panhandle, southeastern Wyoming and Colorado.
The smoke was thick enough Tuesday to nearly obscure the foothills and leave a hint of the smell of wood burning in Fort Collins.
Ayesha Wilkinson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Boulder, said smoke conditions will get worse. She expects the worst conditions to take place from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7. Smoke conditions could start getting better later in the week as the weather pattern changes.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment had not issued air quality advisories as of Tuesday afternoon but said on its website that if smoke intensifies to warrant one, an advisory it will be posted at https://www.colorado.gov/airquality/colo_smoke.aspx.
Smoke map:Track smoke and wildfire conditions here
Why has it been so hot in Fort Collins and other Colorado cities lately?
Blame that on a large high pressure ridge that is creating record-breaking temperatures throughout the West, including Colorado. That hot, dry weather is helping fuel major wildfires in California, Oregon and Washington in addition to Montana and Idaho.
"September is usually a drier period for us as the monsoon season is ending and the weather pattern switches to fall,'' Wilkinson said. "That's when you can see fire risk increase and the smoke we are seeing now.''
Will we see record temperatures broken in Fort Collins?
Russ Schumacher, state climatologist and director of the Colorado Climate Center, said it is likely.
Monday's high of 96 degrees was 1 degree shy of the record set in 2019.
Tuesday's record is 99 degrees, set Sept. 6, 2020. That could be threatened as the forecast high for Tuesday was near 99 degrees, according to the weather service.
Schumacher said the date's 99-degree high in 2020 was one day before wildfire smoke was so thick in Fort Collins from the Cameron Peak Fire and other fires that it looked like night during the day. He said it was forecast to be nearly as hot on Sept. 7, 2020, but the thick smoke plume blanketed the city and it reached only 77 degrees.
On Sept. 8, 2020, it snowed 8 to 14 inches on the Cameron Peak Fire, with the city receiving 2.6 inches. It was the earliest snow in the city in 130 years of weather reporting.
Schumacher said there is a good chance of Fort Collins breaking the record highs Wednesday and Thursday, both of which are 93 degrees. The forecast high for Wednesday is near 97 degrees and Thursday's forecast high is near 98 degrees.
Is this heat normal for this time of year in Colorado?
Not until recently.
Schumacher said eight of the top 10 hottest September days have occurred since 2017 and nine of the 10 hottest have happened since 2013. A heat wave preceded the 2013 flood.
More: Climate changeWhat extreme weather events can and can't be attributed
Has Fort Collins ever reached 100 degrees in September?
No, but it has come close on several occasions.
Schumacher said it reached 99 degrees in September during 2019 and 2020 and 98 degrees in 2017 and 2021.
More: Farmers' Almanac:Its prediction for Colorado this winter is chilling
When can we expect a break in the heat?
A cool front is forecast to enter Friday, with a forecast high of a more seasonal 80 degrees and a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms for Fort Collins. The low will reach 49 degrees, according to the weather service.
Saturday will be even cooler, with a high near 67 degrees and slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. The low will sink to 46 degrees.
CSU kicks off its game at Canvas Stadium at 2 p.m. Saturday.
On Sunday, the forecast bounces back to 82 degrees and on Monday to 89.
More: Colorado fall foliage outlook:Mr. Aspen gives his predictions
Why you may see a difference in the Fort Collins forecast shared in this story and your weather app, newspaper weather graphics
The Coloradoan frequently gets asked why the temperature and amount of rain or snow differs from what we report in weather stories and what our weather graphic shows in print.
In stories, we use the city's official reporting station on the CSU campus, which has produced daily climate records since 1889.
AccuWeather, which provides weather information for media companies, and some weather apps, receives daily temperature and precipitation reports from the weather station at the Northern Colorado Regional Airport, which is located about 10 miles southeast of the CSU campus.
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If you’re in eastern Missouri and call 988, you may end up talking to crisis intervention clinician Jennifer Brown.
Brown answers calls for Behavioral Health Response, the crisis response line for the St. Louis region and other parts of the state.
“Many people are simply calling because they don’t know what to do with those feelings, with the energy they’re feeling outside their bodies. They’re looking for hope and help,” she said.
In July, Missouri officials debuted 988, an emergency mental health hotline that connects callers to dozens of organizations around the country based on the caller’s area code. During the hotline’s first month of service, calls to Missouri mental health centers increased 30%.
It’s not just people who are thinking of suicide who call the hotline, Brown said. Sometimes, it’s those just feeling lost or helpless.
“I really want them to feel a connection when they call in,” she said. “It’s a real person on the other end of the line.”
Advocates of 988 say the easy-to-remember number will connect more people to professionals like Brown when they need it the most: when they or someone they know is in a mental health crisis or thinking of killing themselves.
A workforce on the line
The hotline’s overhaul means crisis response organizations need more workers and money to pay them. Advocates are concerned that the state has not committed to funding the hotline for the long term.
The Missouri Department of Mental Health received $16.7 million in state funding and block grants to support calls for the first fiscal year of 988, department officials said. But the Missouri legislature hasn’t produced a law that secures continual funding, and the hotline doesn’t have a guaranteed money source for years to come.
“It’s a fear of mine,” said Casey Muckler, who leads the 988 system for the department. “How we can make this a sustainable effort and keep this going long term — that has kept me up at night pretty much since I started.”
State health officials expect a surge in callers as more people learn about the new number. Department of Mental Health officials estimate the service will receive 172,000 calls in the first year of the service alone, not including texts and chat messages or follow-up calls.
That’s more than four times the number of calls that Missouri Suicide Prevention Lifeline networks received in 2020, Muckler said.
To absorb that new volume, the state’s response organizations will likely need to hire dozens of additional employees.
Even though the hotline was a national initiative, the federal government isn’t providing full funding, Muckler said.
“It’s really up to the state to fund 988 at the state level,” she said. “We’ve been looking for any possible funding that we can find for well over a year."
A handful of states have enacted laws that place a surcharge on phone bills to pay for the line, but Missouri has not taken that approach.
“I can't say I know for sure or can even lean one way or another on whether or not this will be sustainable with the governor's office,” Muckler said. “But we sure are hoping so.”
Backers of the 988 line say that once state officials see how effective the service is, they’ll be eager to fund it in perpetuity.
“I think we’ll be in a good place after this first year to really say, ‘This has been working and we need more funding to make sure we can continue this important service,’” Muckler said.
A special job
Unlike 911 dispatchers, the call center workers are also providing care and can stay on the line for a long time, said Behavioral Health Response Director Bart Andrews.
“It’s really creating a system that meets people’s needs, in the moment, where they are, and lowering the barriers to access mental health services,” Andrews said.
Even with new funding, recruiting and training people to work the specialized and sometimes traumatic and taxing job is a big task, Andrews said.
Behavioral Health Response is planning to use the first year of government funding to hire about 60 staffers to meet the new patient load, he said.
“There’s going to be a huge hiring binge across the entire state of Missouri,” Andrews said. “Missouri will be in excellent shape for 988.”
To hire more workers, Missouri and other states changed the qualifications needed to work for the line.
“We used to only hire master's-level clinicians. We’re never going to have enough master-level clinicians to handle the capacity that we really need, the volume that’s going to be coming in."
He says being good at this job is less about education and more about experience and training. Behavioral Health Response crisis workers need to have three weeks' training before they even take their first practice call.
New (and old) problems
Another way the 988 line is different from 911 is that the hotline routes calls based on a phone’s area code, not on its location.
That could cause problems for connecting people with local services, Andrews said.
“In metropolitan areas, up to almost 50% of people have out-of-area cellphones,” he said. “Many people have gotten rid of their landlines. So we have a problem.”
Crisis clinicians say they can still transfer calls to local response centers or dispatch teams to people in crisis wherever they are in the country, but they hope the line can soon route calls based on the caller’s location.
There’s also the issue of follow-up care. In addition to giving someone a listening ear, 988 clinicians can connect people in distress to services or in-person help.
“The important thing is not just to answer,” said Gena Terlizzi, National Alliance on Mental Illness Missouri executive director. “But to know how to connect individuals with any immediate needs, referrals of follow-up care they may need.”
But depending on where someone lives, it may be expensive or logistically difficult to, for example, schedule an appointment with a psychiatrist, she said. According to the Rural Health Information Hub, which compiles federal HRSA data, all but two of Missouri’s 114 counties have professional mental health shortages. If someone is uninsured, it can take even longer to get an appointment with a therapist or psychiatrist.
“If you are able to meet that No. 1 goal … and keep that person from taking that action, we still need to make sure that they are getting the treatment and services they need in the future,” Terlizzi said. “It’s not a one-time thing. It’s a long-term commitment to trying to improve the mental health of society.”
What callers want
Andrews said research shows many people who call the lifeline actually don’t want follow-up services.
“They just want to be able to call the lifeline when they’re struggling, when they want help, when they need to talk to somebody,” he said. “We’re actually making it easier for people to get the services they want, in the way they want it.”
Jennifer Brown, the crisis call worker, said some callers just want to talk.
“Oftentimes, when people are at their lowest, the thing you need is a connection with someone, someone they can trust and to feel safe,” she said.
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Four years after a successful public initiative to legalize medical marijuana and two years after sales began across Missouri, voters will weigh in again — this time on the recreational use of marijuana.
The effort, initiated by a group called Legal Missouri 2022, is backed by the Missouri Medical Cannabis Trade Association, the ACLU of Missouri, all six active chapters of Missouri NORML and the Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Gov. Mike Parson and various business groups oppose the proposal.
How did the initiative get on the ballot in the first place?
To get the 39-page measure on the Nov. 8 ballot, Legal Missouri 2022 garnered more than 200,000 verified signatures across the state, surpassing the 184,720 minimum needed.
To get state approval, the measure also needed to obtain minimum signatures in six of the state's eight congressional districts. In late July, the campaign appeared to have fallen short of that threshold, but the campaign rallied and on Aug. 9, Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft announced the petition would be on the ballot.
“I encourage Missourians to study and educate themselves on any ballot initiative,” Ashcroft said in a news release at the time. “Initiative 2022-059 that voters will see on the November ballot is particularly lengthy and should be given careful consideration.”
Why now?
John Payne, campaign manager for Legal Missouri 2022, said the effort to get the measure on the ballot began in 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic put it on the back burner.
With public perceptions about marijuana shifting, Payne said now was as good a time as any to renew the push to legalize recreational marijuana.
“There's never the wrong time to do the right thing,” he said. “We were seeing the same levels of support on this roughly that we saw on medical (marijuana) back in 2018.”
In November 2018, Missouri voters approved a medical marijuana initiative. Sales commenced in October 2020.
A poll of nearly 2,000 registered voters by SurveyUSA showed 62% of Missourians support marijuana legislation for adult use, compared with 26% who believed it should remain illegal. Forty seven percent of those who identified as Republicans said they supported ending marijuana prohibition.
What will the ballot initiative do?
Simply put, the measure will remove prohibitions on purchasing, possessing, consuming, using, delivering, manufacturing and selling marijuana for personal use by any adult over the age of 21.
The petition outlines a system to grant 144 additional licenses for “microbusiness facilities,” comprised of six dispensaries and 12 wholesale facilities in each of the state’s congressional districts. New licenses will be selected through a lottery process and licensees may manufacture and cultivate marijuana products.
Medical licenses for residents would be valid for three years at a time instead of one year and caregivers could provide products to double the number of patients they can provide products to currently. Marijuana purchasers would not be required to live in the state.
A 6% tax on the retail price of marijuana will go toward court costs and legal fees related to expungements for people convicted of certain non-violent marijuana offenses. The remaining revenue will go toward substance misuse treatment programs, veterans’ health care and the state’s public defender system.
The petition says there will be $3.1 million of initial costs for the state and it estimates initial tax and fee revenue of at least $7.9 million. Local governments will incur at least $35,000 in annual costs and annual revenue will exceed $13.8 million, according to the petition.
Local jurisdictions may opt out of cannabis businesses operating in their area if voters approve a ban on a future election ballot.
What would the amendment mean for bordering states?
Of the eight states bordering Missouri, only Illinois has thoroughly legalized recreational marijuana.
Oklahoma and Arkansas have legalized medical marijuana and Nebraska has decriminalized possession of the drug. Tennessee, Kentucky and Iowa allow CBD with trace amounts of THC. Kansas is the only bordering state in which the possession or sale of marijuana remain illegal.
In Kansas, possession of marijuana is a Class B misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000 for first-time offenders.
If Missouri voters approve the ballot measure , dispensaries are likely to experience an influx of Kansas customers. But when they cross back over the border they will be breaking Kansas law.
Kansas legislators considered medical marijuana proposals in 2021 and 2022. Although the House approved a bill allowing medical use, no measure cleared both chambers.
Candice Breshears, a spokesperson for the Kansas Highway Patrol, declined to go into detail about the agency's plans but said it will continue to focus on keeping roads safe.
"The KHP has continued to remain focused on removing impaired drivers from Kansas highways and roadways, all while providing service, courtesy, and protection to the motoring public," Breshears said in an email. "We strive to provide our Troopers and other officers both in and out of State with the most current and reliable methods for removing impaired drivers from our roadways."
According to The Kansas City Star, state law enforcement agencies plan to go after individuals bringing larger amounts over the border for sale to others rather than for their own personal use.
What do critics say?
While public sentiment may be shifting in favor of recreational marijuana, the ballot initiative is not without detractors, even among those who support the idea of legalizing recreational marijuana.
Missouri Rep. Ashley Bland Manlove, a Kansas City Democrat, has helped found a group called the Impactful Canna Reform Coalition that aims to persuade Missourians to vote against the amendment. The group questions provisions in the measure calling for fines of up to $100 for smoking marijuana in public and the expungement of criminal records for nonviolent marijuana offenses.
The group is backed by current cannabis businesses which, if the amendment passes, would face additional competition for business.
Mark Powell, a co-founder of the group ShowMe Canna-Freedom, said he was concerned with the cap on licenses. Caps have become a point of controversy in the medical marijuana arena because critics say they encourage monopolies and create the appearance of corruption.
Powell said he was also alarmed by petition language allowing judges to prevent expungements with “good cause for denial.” Other groups, like Missouri Marijuana Legalization Movement, which has more than 60,000 Facebook members, have called the expungement policy “misleading.”
“What's not explained by people that are advocating for [the measure], what does that mean?” Powell said.
Legal Missouri 2022 says endorsements from the ACLU, NORML, Empower Missouri and the NAACP show those concerns are overblown.
“Good cause is something that does have a meaning in law,” Payne, Legal Missouri 2022's campaign manager, said. “If it's an offense involving violence or if it's an offense involving sales to minors or driving under the influence, those things are reasons to deny the expungement.”
Payne said there was little indication judges would be harsh in their assessments of petitions for expungement. But he conceded he can't say for sure how courts will respond.
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Shelling goes on near Ukraine nuclear plant, despite risks
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian renewed its shelling in the area of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, a local official said Wednesday, a day after the U.N. atomic watchdog agency pressed for the warring sides to carve out a safe zone there to protect against a possible catastrophe.
The city of Nikopol, located on the opposite bank of the Dnieper River from Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, was fired on with rockets and heavy artillery, regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko said.
The reports of nearby shelling, which couldn’t be independently verified, have caused international alarm. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, warned the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that “something very, very catastrophic could take place” at Zaporizhzhia.
“There are fires, blackouts and other things at the (plant) that force us to prepare the local population for the consequences of the nuclear danger,” Reznichenko said.
The potential peril led the U.N. atomic watchdog agency to urge Russia and Ukraine to establish a “nuclear safety and security protection zone” around the plant.
There are fears the fighting could trigger a catastrophe on the scale of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The plant was built during the Soviet era and is one of the 10 biggest in the world.
Neither Moscow nor Kiev officials would immediately commit to the idea of a safety zone, saying more details of the proposal were needed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin defied pressure to halt the war, saying Wednesday that Moscow will forge ahead with its military offensive in Ukraine until it achieves its goals. He also mocked Western attempts to stop Russia with sanctions.
The eastern city of Sloviansk came under Russian fire on Wednesday morning, damaging a school and another building, according to the head of the city administration Vadym Lyakh. He said the number of injuries wasn’t yet known.
Three civilians were killed in Russian shelling in the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian presidential office said. Kharkiv city was hit by rockets twice during the night.
But Ukrainian forces have taken control of an unspecified number of towns in the Kherson region, according to Nataliya Humenyuk, a spokesperson for the southern military command. She said details would come later from the military leadership.
The U.K. defense ministry said there had been heavy fighting on three fronts: in the north, near Kharkiv; in the east in the Donbas; and in the south in Kherson Oblast.
Amid a Ukrainian counterattack in the east, “multiple concurrent threats spread across 500 kilometers (310 miles) will test Russia’s ability to coordinate operational design and reallocate resources across multiple groupings of forces,” the ministry said Wednesday.
The Russian military held large-scale military drills that began last week and ended Wednesday in the country’s east that involved forces from China. It was seen as another show of increasingly close ties between Moscow and Beijing amid tensions with the West over the military action in Ukraine.
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Bowlero Corp expands in Greater Austin and The Villages
RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bowlero Corp. (NYSE: BOWL), the world's leader in bowling entertainment, announced today that it has acquired three bowling centers in two metro markets - Mel's Lone Star Lanes in Greater Austin, TX and Fiesta Bowl and Spanish Springs Lanes in The Villages, FL. The addition of these three locations is part of the Bowlero Corp. growth initiative, expanding the company's geographical footprint across North America.
Mel's Lone Star Lanes is located in the metro market of Greater Austin in Georgetown, TX and has officially opened under Bowlero Corp management as of September 3, 2022. With 40 lanes, this center offers a wide variety of attractions including cosmic bowling, arcade games, shuffleboard, party rooms and a sports bar. Mel's Lone Star Lanes will mark the company's 25th location in Texas.
"It's an exciting acquisition that brings us back into the Greater Austin market and supports our ongoing strategic efforts," said Thomas Shannon, Founder and CEO of Bowlero Corp. "Mel's Lone Star Lanes will continue to bring the best in bowling and entertainment to the Georgetown community, while introducing exclusive benefits from the Bowlero team."
In Florida, the acquisition of Fiesta Bowl and Spanish Springs Lanes located in The Villages, approximately 20 miles south of Ocala and 45 miles northwest of Orlando, will widen Bowlero Corp's footprint to 30 locations in the state. Both locations consist of 32 lanes and are home to both competitive and social leagues throughout the year.
"The Villages is a well-known community in Florida with some of the nations most dedicated bowlers," said Shannon. "As a company we prioritize the guest experience above all and plan to bring the quality Bowlero experience into The Villages community."
The completion of the acquisitions for Fiesta Bowl and Spanish Springs Lanes is expected at the end of September.
Bowlero Corp. is the worldwide leader in bowling entertainment, media, and events. With more than 300 bowling centers across North America, Bowlero Corp. serves more than 26 million guests each year through a family of brands that includes Bowlero, Bowlmor Lanes, and AMF. In 2019, Bowlero Corp. acquired the Professional Bowlers Association, the major league of bowling, which boasts thousands of members and millions of fans across the globe. For more information on Bowlero Corp., please visit BowleroCorp.com.
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Downtown Monroe Craft Beer Fest set for Sept. 17
Some new breweries are participaing in this year’s Downtown Monroe Craft Beer Fest.
The annual event will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. Sept. 17 on E. Front St. in Downtown Monroe. Tickets are now on sale.
“There are a few different breweries and a new selections of beers,” Paula Stanifer of the Downtown Monroe Business Network said.
The local event debuted in 2018 and remains popular.
“I would say 450 (came last year),” Stanifer said.
As in the past, attendees can sample Michigan craft beers, meads and ciders.
“We have Griffin Claw, BlackGrass Cider Works, Pavlov’s Brewing Company and Ramshackle Brewing and more returning this year,” Stanifer said.
Also offered will be food trucks, games and live music by the Cody Boggs Band and The Floral City Harmonizers.
“The Floral City Harmonizers will be in attendance to keep the crowd occupies at the entrance,” Stanifer said. “Then the Cody Boggs Band will play tunes all night.”
Food trucks coming include Whiskey Jacks BBQ from previous years. New this year are Manhattan Street Food Truck and The Coffee Grind.
Each ticket includes a souvenir mug, 10 sample tokens and a drink wristband verifying age. Tickets are $25 each through 4 p.m. Sept. 9 and $30 each after Sept. 9 until the event day or sold out. Up to 600 tickets will be sold. Cash only will be accepted. Attendees must be age 21 and older to purchase tickets. Additional sample tokens also can be purchased.
A $10 designated driver ticket will be available at the door. This ticket includes access to music, games and the event tent. Advance tickets are available at Williams Insurance Agency and Frenchie’s Fine Jewelry. The Craft Beer Fest is an outdoor event, and will be held rain or shine. No refunds will be given.
“This is a great fall event for the community, lots of food, music friends and beer,” Stanifer said.
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Benefit for Charley Myers to take place during SMCC-Airport football game
The Monroe News
Friday's football games between St. Mary Catholic Central High School and Airport High School will include a benefit for Charley Myers and his family.
The SMCC Falcons will play the Airport Jets at 7 p.m. Friday at AHS' McCormick Field.
Attendees are asked to wear orange in support of Charley, 4-year-old son of Chad and Alissa Myers who was recently diagnosed with leukemia.
Team Charley shirts will be sold for $10 during the game next to the concession stand. Shirts in sizes 2x and larger have an additional cost.
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Hall promoted at Monroe Community Credit Union
Kate Hall was promoted to vice president of strategic management at Monroe Community Credit Union.
In her new role, Hall will manage the credit union’s strategic initiatives and projects and continue to oversee its marketing efforts. Hall has been employed with the credit union for 10 years.
“Kate is a valuable member of the executive leadership team and has been a significant contributor to our growth and success over the years. She epitomizes the credit union’s passion statement with her extraordinary dedication to serve our membership and community,” Kristine Brenner, president/CEO of MCCU, said.
Hall is active in the Monroe community, serving as chairperson for the Monroe High School's Business Administration, Management and Operations board; board treasurer for Habitat for Humanity of Monroe; board member for the Rotary Club of Monroe; committee member for the Women’s Leadership Initiative; member of the Monroe County Diversity Committee, and member of Detroit Women in Business for Good. She is an election inspector for the City of Monroe.
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Energy management solutions can reduce operating costs while simultaneously eliminating emissions
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from Guidehouse Insights explores opportunities for energy management solutions in the path to net neutrality.
Sustained greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are causing catastrophic damage to the environment, economy, and human health all over the world. In response, all customer segments are increasing their efforts to achieve climate neutrality in their operations. With more renewable energy capacity coming online and distributed energy resource (DER) installations increasing behind-the-meter, supply side volatility is worsening and a more complicated power flow structure on the grid is forming. According to a new report from Guidehouse Insights, energy management solutions like virtual power plants (VPPs) and distributed energy resource management systems (DERMSs) create an opportunity to firm up renewable generation output and enable a transition entirely away from fossil fuels.
"To maintain reliable power grid operations in a climate neutral world, utilities and grid operators will require new technologies, strategies, and solutions," says Dan Power, research analyst with Guidehouse Insights. "Energy management solutions can make use of both clean supply and demand side resources connected to a territory's grid."
In addition to maximizing the value of these resources, energy management solutions can use them to displace traditional power generation technologies. By optimizing renewable generation output, energy storage resource operation, and flexible load control, energy management solutions can drastically reduce operating costs while simultaneously eliminating emissions, according to the report.
The report, Achieving Climate Neutrality with Energy Management Solutions, discusses the role that energy management solutions like VPPs, DERMSs, and demand response can play in the transition from fossil fuels. It provides recommendations to key stakeholders to increase the opportunities for, and the effectiveness of energy management solutions as the world seeks to achieve climate neutrality in the coming decades. An executive summary of the report is available for free download on the Guidehouse Insights website.
Guidehouse Insights, the dedicated market intelligence arm of Guidehouse, provides research, data, and benchmarking services for today's rapidly changing and highly regulated industries. Our insights are built on in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets. The team's research methodology combines supply-side industry analysis, end-user primary research, and demand assessment, paired with a deep examination of technology trends, to provide a comprehensive view of emerging resilient infrastructure systems. Additional information about Guidehouse Insights can be found at www.guidehouseinsights.com.
Guidehouse is a leading global provider of consulting services to the public sector and commercial markets, with broad capabilities in management, technology, and risk consulting. By combining our public and private sector expertise, we help clients address their most complex challenges and navigate significant regulatory pressures focusing on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and digital services, we create scalable, innovative solutions that help our clients outwit complexity and position them for future growth and success. The company has more than 13,000 professionals in over 50 locations globally. Guidehouse is a Veritas Capital portfolio company, led by seasoned professionals with proven and diverse expertise in traditional and emerging technologies, markets, and agenda-setting issues driving national and global economies. For more information, please visit www.guidehouse.com.
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Monroe Family YMCA sports program expands
The sports department at the Monroe Family YMCA has expanded with two employees in new roles.
Hawk Mielke is now the director of community recreation & youth sports. Jay Heinzerling is the director of Y On The Fly Mobile Sports.
“As a leading changemaker in Monroe County, I am thrilled about the tremendous growth in our sports department, meeting the needs of our community,” Kristin Irwin, CEO of the Monroe Family YMCA, said. “I’m excited to have Hawk and Jay as part of our leadership team. Their passion for serving the youth in our community to reach their full potential is second to none. They both make every effort to provide our community members the best experience possible. Their work ethic, dedication and innovation exemplify what it means to work in a non-profit industry.”
Mielke assumed his new role when the Y entered a partnership with the City of Monroe, taking on the responsibility of overseeing community recreation programs. He has 16 years of experience with the Monroe Family YMCA, serving as Summer Day Camp coordinator and basketball instructor. In addition to community recreation, he is in charge of the Y’s youth sports programs and leagues.
“As a lifetime YMCA enthusiast, I sincerely appreciate this opportunity,” Mielke said. “I have a passion for health and fitness through sports. It is very rewarding to offer programs that encourage youth and adults to discover new skills.”
Heinzerling began his work with the Y as youth ball coordinator. He transitioned into his new role in August. He has over 20 years of coaching experience.
“The Y On The Fly Mobile Sports program is a free and inclusive sports program for children that meets at community sites and special events throughout the community,” the Y said. “The program is designed to encourage sport sampling to keep kids active and discover an appreciation for sports and physical activity.”
“I am thankful to be part of the Y leadership team, doing what I love,” Heinzerling said. “It’s great to have the opportunity to work with community partners to ensure all kids have access to sports. It is fulfilling to witness a young player develop skills and self-confidence.”
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- Will propose mandatory target for reducing electricity use at peak hours
- Will propose a cap on revenues of companies producing electricity with low costs
- Will propose a solidarity contribution (of profits) for fossil fuel companies
- Will propose a cap on Russian gas
There are no additional details beyond this for now but von der Leyen highlighted some numbers in the statement which sees EU common storages of energy supply at 82% and that they have reduced Russian gas as a total of imports to only 9% (from 40% at the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict). | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eu-says-will-propose-a-cap-on-russian-gas-20220907/ | 2022-09-07T11:05:54Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eu-says-will-propose-a-cap-on-russian-gas-20220907/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Join Minelab Metal Detectors at their test beds at the UK metal detecting festival September 10 and 11.
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In the UK's largest metal detecting event, Minelab will be joining top metal detector brands at Detectival Sept. 10 and 11, 2022. The two-day festival will give detectorists a wonderful opportunity to explore the expansive properties with enthusiasts from across the globe. Attendees can visit the Minelab testing area and test beds to experience some of the detecting technology in the industry first-hand and learn from international Minelab experts.
"We are so proud to be a part of Detectival this year and are excited for a weekend full of detecting activities. Hosted over sprawling grounds, this event allows all detector enthusiasts to truly focus on their craft, while experiencing the top technology of Minelab's products and the fun social side of this hobby," said Minelab Vice President of Global Marketing Michelle Meyers.
With a team of over 60 engineers, Minelab's hand-held metal detection technology has been hailed as the best in the world and offers a range of products for beginners and experienced detectorists. Magnetic minerals, iron-rich soil, deep water and snow are no match Minelab products, making them adaptable to any season. Minelab is affordable considering its high military-grade quality—after all, you want a metal detector that's easy-to-use while offering you the best return on your investment: undiscovered treasures!
Minelab also has a partnering IOS/Google application, making it more accessible for younger consumers. Minelab also has a global community network so when you get one of their detectors, you're also part of a new family of explorers. Through Minelab's app and blog, you can share your discovery stories, connect with other detectorists, and learn about new places you might not have explored before.
To purchase Minelab, visit them online and check with your local detector dealer.
For more information about Minelab, visit minelab.com and follow on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Multiversity Housing Partners ("MVHP") property management arm, MultiVersity Property Management ("MVPM"), will be overseeing the rebranding, management, and planned improvements at The Square on Butler, formally Doughboy Square and Square View in Lawrenceville, PA. An affiliate of MVHP acquired the property in August, 2022.
Located in central Lawrenceville, The Square on Butler is the fifth property that MVPM has added to its portfolio in the Pittsburgh area. This property is comprised of three buildings built between 2014 and 2017 with 59 conventional units. Floorplans consist of both one and two-bedroom apartments with nine affordable two-bedroom units located on the first level. The Square on Butler is also home to seven commercial retailers.
Community amenities include: a 24-hour fitness center, covered parking, indoor bike storage, and a dog wash area. Coinciding with MVPM's dedication to customer service and safety, controlled access to buildings, and on-site management shall remain in place. Located in "the heart" of Lawrenceville, this apartment assemblage is in close proximity to dining and entertainment options with a walkability rating of 85.
MVPM also plans to make further improvements to the lobby area and amenities by completing major upgrades to the fitness center and its equipment, performing lobby renovations, and adding a Luxor package system as well as comprehensive exterior improvements.
MVPM will bring its boutique-style approach to property management in order to operate this property more efficiently. MVPM will be adding the following upgrades: hallway updates to fit with the rest of the buildings' luxury apartment theme, improvements to steel balconies, exterior lighting and paint unit exteriors with neutral tones in order to enhance curb appeal.
Christopher Feeley, CEO and Managing Member of both MVHP and MVPM, stated that "these assets add to our portfolio of value-add multifamily properties, with these properties being market rate apartments located in one of the best submarkets (Strip District-Lawrenceville) in the City of Pittsburgh. Frankly, the Lawrenceville-Strip District is one of the best submarkets in any major city located along the East Coast."
About Multiversity Housing Partners
Multiversity Housing Partners acquires multifamily properties, with a focus on market rate apartments, workforce and affordable housing, purpose-built student housing, and Build-to-Rent ("BTR") townhome and single family home development. MVHP further focuses on acquiring Core Plus, Value-Add, and Opportunistic multifamily as well as land for development. MVHP has existing, long-standing relationships with multiple institutional investors, investment funds, family office, and high-net-worth investors. MVHP also has in-depth relationships with several multifamily lenders.
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Preliminary Dose Escalation Data on ROS1-selective Inhibitor NVL-520 to be Presented in the "New Drugs on the Horizon" Oral Plenary Session
New Preclinical Data to be Presented on Parallel-lead, Clinical-stage Candidate NVL-655, an ALK-selective Inhibitor
Selection of Third Development Candidate NVL-330, a Potential Best-in-Class HER2-selective Inhibitor for Patients with HER2 Exon 20 Insertion-Positive Cancers, and Preclinical Characterization to be Presented
Company Plans to Host Conference Call in Conjunction with Data Presentation on October 28, 2022
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuvalent, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUVL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on creating precisely targeted therapies for clinically proven kinase targets in cancer, today announced it will present preliminary dose escalation data from its ongoing ARROS-1 Phase 1/2 clinical trial of NVL-520 for patients with advanced ROS1-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and other solid tumors during an oral plenary session at the 34th EORTC-NCI-AACR (ENA) Symposium taking place October 26-28, 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. In addition, new preclinical data will be presented in poster sessions for its ALK-selective inhibitor NVL-655 and its recently nominated HER2-selective inhibitor, NVL-330.
The NVL-520 oral presentation represents the first report of preliminary safety and clinical activity data from the dose-escalation portion of the company's ongoing Phase 1/2 ARROS-1 study, evaluating NVL-520 in patients with advanced ROS1-positive NSCLC and other solid tumors. NVL-520 has been designed to address the clinical challenges of emergent treatment resistance, off-target central nervous system (CNS) adverse events, and brain metastases that may limit the use of currently available ROS1 kinase inhibitors. The ARROS-1 clinical trial is continuing to enroll patients in the Phase 1 portion of the study.
The NVL-655 poster presentation will describe new preclinical data demonstrating activity of NVL-655 in additional models derived from patients who have progressed on treatment with earlier-generation ALK inhibitors. NVL-655 has previously demonstrated the potential for a best-in-class profile through broad preclinical activity across diverse ALK oncoproteins, single and compound resistance mutations, and tumor types while maintaining strong selectivity for ALK over TRKB and CNS penetrance.
Clinical investigation of NVL-655 is currently ongoing in the Phase 1 portion of the ALKOVE-1 Phase 1/2 study of NVL-655 for patients with advanced ALK-positive NSCLC and other solid tumors. Nuvalent also continues to advance a discovery program for ALK IXDN compound mutations and plans to leverage insights from the ALKOVE-1 clinical trial to guide development candidate selection, which is no longer planned for 2022.
Nuvalent recently selected NVL-330 as the development candidate from its HER2 exon 20 insertion discovery program. Preclinical characterization of NVL-330 as a HER2-selective, brain-penetrant, small molecule inhibitor with activity against HER2 exon 20 insertion mutations will be shared in a poster presentation.
Nuvalent plans to host a conference call and webcast in conjunction with the data presentation on October 28, 2022. Details for the conference call will be provided at a future date, and, once available, presentation and poster information will be archived on the Nuvalent website at www.nuvalent.com.
Title: Safety and preliminary clinical activity of NVL-520, a highly selective ROS1 inhibitor, in patients with advanced ROS1 fusion-positive solid tumors
Abstract Number: ENA22-0275
Session Topic: Molecular Targeted Agents
Session Title: New Drugs on the Horizon, Plenary Session 6
Session Date and Time: October 28, 2022, 1:00 p.m. - 1:10 p.m. CEST
Presenter: Alexander Drilon, M.D. (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA)
Title: Preclinical activity of NVL-655 in patient-derived models of ALK cancers, including those with lorlatinib-resistant G1202R/L1196M compound mutation
Abstract Number: ENA22-0105
Session Title: Poster Session, Molecular Targeted Agents 2
Session Date and Time: October 27, 2022, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. CEST
Presenter: Anupong Tangpeerachaikul, Ph.D. (Nuvalent, Cambridge, USA)
Title: NVL-330 is a selective, brain-penetrant inhibitor of oncogenic HER2 exon 20 insertion mutations in preclinical models
Abstract Number: ENA22-0150
Session Title: Poster Session, Molecular Targeted Agents 2
Session Date and Time: October 27, 2022, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. CEST
Presenter: Kristin L. Andrews, Ph.D. (Nuvalent, Cambridge, USA)
NVL-520 is a novel brain-penetrant ROS1-selective inhibitor designed to remain active in tumors that have developed resistance to currently available ROS1 inhibitors, including tumors with the prevalent G2032R resistance mutation and those with the S1986Y/F, L2026M, or D2033N resistance mutations. NVL-520 has been optimized for brain penetrance to potentially improve treatment options for patients with brain metastases. NVL-520 has been observed in preclinical studies to selectively inhibit wild-type ROS1 and its resistance variants over the structurally related tropomyosin receptor kinase (TRK) family to potentially avoid TRK-related CNS adverse events seen with dual TRK/ROS1 inhibitors and drive more durable responses for patients. NVL-520 is currently being investigated in the ARROS-1 study (NCT05118789), a first-in-human Phase 1/2 clinical trial for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and other solid tumors.
NVL-655 is a novel brain-penetrant ALK-selective inhibitor created to overcome limitations observed with currently available ALK inhibitors. NVL-655 is designed to remain active in tumors that have developed resistance to first-, second-, and third-generation ALK inhibitors, including tumors with the solvent front G1202R mutation or compound mutations G1202R / L1196M ("GRLM"), G1202R / G1269A ("GRGA"), or G1202R/L1198F ("GRLF"). NVL-655 has been optimized for CNS penetrance to improve treatment options for patients with brain metastases. NVL-655 has been observed in preclinical studies to selectively inhibit wild-type ALK and its resistance variants over the structurally related tropomyosin receptor kinase (TRK) family to potentially avoid TRK-related CNS adverse events seen with dual TRK/ALK inhibitors and drive more durable responses for patients. NVL-655 is currently being investigated in the ALKOVE-1 study (NCT05384626), a first-in-human Phase 1/2 clinical trial for patients with advanced ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and other solid tumors.
NVL-330 is a novel, selective, brain-penetrant HER2 inhibitor designed to treat patients with HER2 exon 20 insertion-positive tumors, including those with brain metastases, and to minimize adverse events and dose-limiting toxicities related to off-target inhibition of epidermal growth factor receptor ("EGFR" or "ErbB1"), a HER2 family member.
Nuvalent, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUVL) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on creating precisely targeted therapies for patients with cancer, designed to overcome the limitations of existing therapies for clinically proven kinase targets. Leveraging deep expertise in chemistry and structure-based drug design, we develop innovative small molecules that have the potential to overcome resistance, minimize adverse events, address brain metastases, and drive more durable responses. Nuvalent is advancing a robust pipeline with parallel lead programs in ROS1-positive and ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), along with multiple discovery-stage research programs. We routinely post information that may be important to investors on our website at www.nuvalent.com. Follow us on Twitter (@nuvalent) and LinkedIn.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, including, without limitation, implied and express statements regarding Nuvalent's strategy, business plans, and focus; the preclinical and clinical development programs for NVL-520, NVL-655 and NVL-330 the potential clinical effect of NVL-520 and NVL-655; the design and enrollment of the ARROS-1 and ALKOVE-1 studies; the potential of Nuvalent's pipeline programs, including NVL-520, NVL-655 and NVL-330; Nuvalent's plans for ALK IXDN; data readouts and presentations; Nuvalent's research and development programs for the treatment of cancer; and risks and uncertainties associated with drug development. The words "may," "might," "will," "could," "would," "should," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "aim," "goal," "intend," "believe," "expect," "estimate," "seek," "predict," "future," "project," "potential," "continue," "target" or the negative of these terms and similar words or expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Drug development and commercialization involve a high degree of risk, and only a small number of research and development programs result in commercialization of a product. You should not place undue reliance on these statements or the scientific data presented. Any forward-looking statements in this press release are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and important factors that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by any forward-looking statements contained in this press release, including, without limitation: risks that Nuvalent may not fully enroll the ARROS-1 or ALKOVE-1 studies or that enrollment will take longer than expected; unexpected concerns that may arise from additional data, analysis, or results obtained during clinical trials; the occurrence of adverse safety events; risks of unexpected costs, delays, or other unexpected hurdles; risks that Nuvalent may not be able to nominate drug candidates from its ALK IXDN and other discovery programs; the direct or indirect impact of COVID-19 or other global geopolitical circumstances on the timing and anticipated timing and results of Nuvalent's clinical trials, strategy, and future operations, including the ARROS-1 and ALKOVE-1 studies; the timing and outcome of Nuvalent's planned interactions with regulatory authorities; and obtaining, maintaining, and protecting its intellectual property. These and other risks and uncertainties are described in greater detail in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2022, as well as any subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, any forward-looking statements represent Nuvalent's views only as of today and should not be relied upon as representing its views as of any subsequent date. Nuvalent explicitly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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On the road, on Sept. 2, the Hillcrest Comets football team moved the ball, but had a hard time stopping the Verdale Pirates, in a 56-27 loss.
The Comets opened up the scoring, as quarterback Erik Bjorndahl found Gabe Swedenberg for a five-yard touchdown pass.
Verndale answered back with a pair of touchdowns and two-point conversions to lead 16-6 after the first 12 minutes of the game.
Another 16 points from the Pirates gave them a 32-6 halftime advantage.
After Verndale opened up the third with a scoring drive, Evan Lindgren got loose for a 77-yard touchdown run. Later in the quarter, the Pirates scored once more to lead 44-12 going into the final frame.
Both sides would score twice more. Lindgren scored his second of the game and Bjorndahl hit Leo Nordick for the two-point try. Following a Verndale TD, Bjorndahl connected with Swedenberg on a 20-yard touchdown pass. The extra point by Mathias Gjerme was good. With less than a minute left, the Pirates capped off the night with one final touchdown.
Lindgren had 225 yards on the ground, to go along with his two scores. Bjorndahl was 14-29 for 164 yards and Swedenberg was his top target, finishing with 132 yards on 11 catches.
Cole Peterson had 11 tackles and Micah Bermel had 9, for Hillcrest.
“We played hard from start to finish, just didn’t make the plays when they mattered,” stated Hillcrest coach Korey Fry. “Missed tackles and penalties really hurt us. Defensively, we struggled all night getting off the field.”
The Comets, 0-1, return to action, on Sept. 9, at home against the Hancock Owls.
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Rondarious Gregory dives into the end zone, for the first touchdown of the game, on Sept. 3. Gregory would score three times and average 9.1 yards per carry, in the contest.
Hosting the Raiders of Central Lakes, on Sept. 3, the M State Spartans football team scored 42 unanswered points, on their way to a convincing 49-7 win.
Both teams scored a touchdown in the opening 15 minutes of the game.
The Spartans picked up a nine-yard touchdown run by Rondarius Gregory, with the extra point by Carsen McKnight, making it 7-0.
Centra Lakes came back with a 16-yard touchdown pass from Jackson Owens to Matt Torres and the extra point tied the contest.
M State answered with a 21-point second quarter. Gregory scored on a two-yard run, Jacob Drietz also had a two-yard touchdown run and Kenneth Cooper found Isaiah Griffin for a nine-yard touchdown pass. McKnight hit on all three of his attempts in the second.
The score was 28-7, Spartans, at the break.
Just like the second, the third was another big quarter for the Spartans, who again posted 21 points over the 15 minutes.
Cooper tossed a pair of touchdown passes to Malachi Bingham and Marquez Hurst, four and 33 yards respectively, while Gregory ripped off a 56-yard TD run. Again, McKnight hit on all of his extra points.
M State finished with 550 yard of total offense, 294 yards through the air and 256 yards on the ground. They also held the Raiders to just 79 yards of offense, with three sacks and forcing four turnovers (three interceptions, one fumble).
Cooper was 18-27 for 280 yards, with three touchdown passses and one interception. Gregory had 118 yards on 13 carries and three TDs, averaging 9.1 yards per carry. Champion Cromes added 75 yards on 13 carries.
Receiving wise, Eustace McGowan caught four passes for 87 yards and Hurst had four for 68. Five different receivers for the Spartans had at least 40 yards.
Jacob Drietz led the defense with nine total tackles, while also having a sack and a forced fumble.
Remaining undefeated, M State will be at North Dakota State School of Science this Saturday.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Dingdong (Cayman) Ltd..
Shareholders who purchased shares of DDL during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of persons who purchased, or otherwise acquired, Dingdong American Depository Shares pursuant or traceable to the F-1 registration statements and related prospectus on Form 424B4 issued in connection with Dingdong's June 2021 initial public stock offering.
ALLEGATIONS: According to the filed complaint, the registration statement and prospectus used to effectuate the Company's initial public offering misstated and/or omitted facts concerning Dingdong's so-called commitment to ensuring the safety and quality of the food it distributes to the market. For example, despite claiming that it applies "stringent quality control across [its] entire supply chain to ensure product quality to [its] users," Dingdong sold food past its sell-by date. Consequently, Dingdong was, in fact, no better at providing or assuring access to "fresh" groceries than the supermarkets, traditional Chinese wet markets, or traditional e-commerce platforms it repeatedly claimed to be displacing. Moreover, the foregoing conduct subjected Dingdong to an increased risk of regulatory and/or governmental scrutiny and enforcement, all of which, once revealed, were likely to negatively impact Dingdong's business, operations, and reputation.
DEADLINE: October 24, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/dingdong-cayman-ltd-loss-form/?id=31383&from=4
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NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of TuSimple Holdings Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of TSP during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
CONTACT US HERE:
https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/tusimple-holdings-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=31388&from=4
CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons who: (a) purchased or otherwise acquired TuSimple common stock pursuant and/or traceable to documents issued in connection with TuSimple's April 15, 2021 initial public offering; and/or (b) that purchased or otherwise acquired TuSimple securities between April 15, 2021 and August 1, 2022, both dates inclusive.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) TuSimple's commitment to safety was significantly overstated and defendants concealed fundamental problems with the Company's technology; (ii) TuSimple was rushing the testing of its autonomous driving technology in order to deliver driverless trucks to the market ahead of its more safety-conscious competitors; (iii) there was a corporate culture within TuSimple that suppressed or ignored safety concerns in favor of unrealistically ambitious testing and delivery schedules; (iv) the aforementioned conduct made accidents involving the Company's autonomous driving technology more likely; (v) the aforementioned conduct invited enhanced regulatory scrutiny and investigatory action toward the Company; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: October 31, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/tusimple-holdings-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=31388&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of TSP during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is October 31, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Tuya Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of TUYA during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased Tuya American Depositary Shares in or traceable to the Company's March 2021 initial public offering.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) a material portion of Tuya's China-based customers were engaged in the widespread and systematic manipulation of reviews and product offerings in violation of Amazon.com's terms of use; (b) prior to the initial public offering, a consumer investigation and data breach had exposed an illicit fake review scheme being perpetrated by many of Tuya's clients, among others, which included, inter alia, the exposure of 13 million records of organized fake review scams linked to over 200,000 Amazon account profiles; (c) as a result of (a) and (b) above, there was a substantial risk that a material portion of Tuya's significant customers would be barred from using Amazon.com's platform, negatively impacting Tuya's business, revenue, earnings, and prospects; and (d) as a result of (a)-(c) above, the registration statement's representations regarding Tuya's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities and expected growth did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, financial results, and trajectory of the Company at the time of the initial public offering, and such statements were materially false and misleading and lacked a reasonable factual basis.
DEADLINE: October 11, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/tuya-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=31378&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of TUYA during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is October 11, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
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Infosys will leverage next-gen technologies to support the product development initiatives of Spirit AeroSystems
BENGALURU, India, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Infosys (NSE: INFY) (BSE: INFY) (NYSE: INFY), a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, today announced a five-year agreement with Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., one of the world's largest manufacturers of aerostructures for commercial airplanes, defense platforms, and business/regional jets. Infosys will collaborate with Spirit AeroSystems to provide aerostructure and systems engineering services for product development of commercial, business jet and emerging aircraft programs, and Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) services.
This strategic collaboration builds on 16 years of longstanding relationship between the two organizations, during which Infosys has provided innovative design solutions for some of Spirit's aerostructure programs. As part of this engagement, Infosys will offer end-to-end product development services, including design engineering, sustaining engineering, systems engineering, stress engineering, manufacturing engineering, and repair and maintenance. Leveraging knowledge-based engineering and engineering automation, Infosys also aims to accelerate product development across the value stream. In addition, Infosys will support Spirit to secure highly efficient structural designs and a robust certification process, contributing to the manufacture of innovative, lightweight, and more sustainable aircraft structures and components.
The Aerospace Center of Excellence at Infosys has a track record of world-class execution of design and engineering solutions for over 22 years. With deep capabilities in aerostructure design spanning conceptualization to release, mature composite design, and engineering automation, Infosys collaborates with 7 of the top 10 global aerospace companies and has been recognized as a leading player in aerospace and defense manufacturing.
"At Spirit AeroSystems, we believe our ability to continuously advance our offering at design and engineering levels is one of our competitive differentiators. Our longstanding collaboration with Infosys means we are well-positioned to co-innovate on critical stages of product development, ensuring we continue to pursue the highest standards in quality and airworthiness. This strategic agreement further reinforces our strengths and will leverage mutual synergies to accelerate the development of world-class, sustainable aerostructures and services across our commercial and aftermarket business segments," said, Dr. Sean Black, Senior Vice President and Chief Engineer, Engineering and Technology, Spirit AeroSystems.
Commenting on the collaboration, Jasmeet Singh, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Manufacturing, Infosys, said, "Now more than ever, aerospace and defense organizations need to rapidly reinvent their digital foundation. We are thrilled to deepen our strategic collaboration with Spirit AeroSystems and accelerate their digital transformation, by pushing the envelope in design and product engineering. With our investments in aerostructure engineering and next-gen technologies like artificial intelligence and cloud, we are confident of delivering compelling value to Spirit and take our collaboration to newer heights."
About Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.
Spirit AeroSystems is one of the world's largest manufacturers of aerostructures for commercial airplanes, defense platforms, and business/regional jets. With expertise in aluminum and advanced composite manufacturing solutions, the company's core products include fuselages, integrated wings and wing components, pylons, and nacelles. We are leveraging decades of design and manufacturing expertise to be the most innovative and reliable supplier of military aerostructures, and specialty high-temperature materials, enabling warfighters to execute complex, critical missions. Spirit also serves the aftermarket for commercial and business/regional jets. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Spirit has facilities in the U.S., U.K., France, Malaysia and Morocco. More information is available at www.spiritaero.com.
About Infosys:
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. Over 300,000 of our people work to amplify human potential and create the next opportunity for people, businesses, and communities. With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer clients, in more than 50 countries, as they navigate their digital transformation powered by the cloud. We enable them with an AI-powered core, empower the business with agile digital at scale and drive continuous improvement with always-on learning through the transfer of digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem. We are deeply committed to being a well-governed, environmentally sustainable organization where diverse talent thrives in an inclusive workplace.
Visit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NSE: INFY) (BSE: INFY) ( NYSE: INFY) can help your enterprise navigate your next.
Safe Harbor
Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects, financial expectations and plans for navigating the COVID-19 impact on our employees, clients and stakeholders are forward-looking statements intended to qualify for the 'safe harbor' under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding COVID-19 and the effects of government and other measures seeking to contain its spread, risks related to an economic downturn or recession in India, the United States and other countries around the world, changes in political, business, and economic conditions, fluctuations in earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India and the US, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, industry segment concentration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks or system failures, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Infosys has made strategic investments, withdrawal or expiration of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability and regional conflicts, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry and the outcome of pending litigation and government investigation. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Infosys may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company unless it is required by law.
For more information, contact: PR_Global@infosys.com
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Infosys will leverage next-gen technologies to support the product development initiatives of Spirit AeroSystems
BENGALURU, India, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Infosys (NSE: INFY) (BSE: INFY) (NYSE: INFY), a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, today announced a five-year agreement with Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., one of the world's largest manufacturers of aerostructures for commercial airplanes, defense platforms, and business/regional jets. Infosys will collaborate with Spirit AeroSystems to provide aerostructure and systems engineering services for product development of commercial, business jet and emerging aircraft programs, and Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) services.
This strategic collaboration builds on 16 years of longstanding relationship between the two organizations, during which Infosys has provided innovative design solutions for some of Spirit's aerostructure programs. As part of this engagement, Infosys will offer end-to-end product development services, including design engineering, sustaining engineering, systems engineering, stress engineering, manufacturing engineering, and repair and maintenance. Leveraging knowledge-based engineering and engineering automation, Infosys also aims to accelerate product development across the value stream. In addition, Infosys will support Spirit to secure highly efficient structural designs and a robust certification process, contributing to the manufacture of innovative, lightweight, and more sustainable aircraft structures and components.
The Aerospace Center of Excellence at Infosys has a track record of world-class execution of design and engineering solutions for over 22 years. With deep capabilities in aerostructure design spanning conceptualization to release, mature composite design, and engineering automation, Infosys collaborates with 7 of the top 10 global aerospace companies and has been recognized as a leading player in aerospace and defense manufacturing.
"At Spirit AeroSystems, we believe our ability to continuously advance our offering at design and engineering levels is one of our competitive differentiators. Our longstanding collaboration with Infosys means we are well-positioned to co-innovate on critical stages of product development, ensuring we continue to pursue the highest standards in quality and airworthiness. This strategic agreement further reinforces our strengths and will leverage mutual synergies to accelerate the development of world-class, sustainable aerostructures and services across our commercial and aftermarket business segments," said, Dr. Sean Black, Senior Vice President and Chief Engineer, Engineering and Technology, Spirit AeroSystems.
Commenting on the collaboration, Jasmeet Singh, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Manufacturing, Infosys, said, "Now more than ever, aerospace and defense organizations need to rapidly reinvent their digital foundation. We are thrilled to deepen our strategic collaboration with Spirit AeroSystems and accelerate their digital transformation, by pushing the envelope in design and product engineering. With our investments in aerostructure engineering and next-gen technologies like artificial intelligence and cloud, we are confident of delivering compelling value to Spirit and take our collaboration to newer heights."
About Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.
Spirit AeroSystems is one of the world's largest manufacturers of aerostructures for commercial airplanes, defense platforms, and business/regional jets. With expertise in aluminum and advanced composite manufacturing solutions, the company's core products include fuselages, integrated wings and wing components, pylons, and nacelles. We are leveraging decades of design and manufacturing expertise to be the most innovative and reliable supplier of military aerostructures, and specialty high-temperature materials, enabling warfighters to execute complex, critical missions. Spirit also serves the aftermarket for commercial and business/regional jets. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Spirit has facilities in the U.S., U.K., France, Malaysia and Morocco. More information is available at www.spiritaero.com.
About Infosys:
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. Over 300,000 of our people work to amplify human potential and create the next opportunity for people, businesses, and communities. With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer clients, in more than 50 countries, as they navigate their digital transformation powered by the cloud. We enable them with an AI-powered core, empower the business with agile digital at scale and drive continuous improvement with always-on learning through the transfer of digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem. We are deeply committed to being a well-governed, environmentally sustainable organization where diverse talent thrives in an inclusive workplace.
Visit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NSE: INFY) (BSE: INFY) ( NYSE: INFY) can help your enterprise navigate your next.
Safe Harbor
Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects, financial expectations and plans for navigating the COVID-19 impact on our employees, clients and stakeholders are forward-looking statements intended to qualify for the 'safe harbor' under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding COVID-19 and the effects of government and other measures seeking to contain its spread, risks related to an economic downturn or recession in India, the United States and other countries around the world, changes in political, business, and economic conditions, fluctuations in earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India and the US, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, industry segment concentration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks or system failures, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Infosys has made strategic investments, withdrawal or expiration of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability and regional conflicts, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry and the outcome of pending litigation and government investigation. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Infosys may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company unless it is required by law.
For more information, contact: PR_Global@infosys.com
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EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Right before the new school year got underway, 12 News sent a five-question survey to every superintendent in Rhode Island to get a sense of how their district is doing and the biggest challenges they’re facing.
Our survey revealed that inflation and supply chain issues are impacting districts in a variety of ways. Eight superintendents said rising utility costs like heating and electricity are affecting their budgets, while six others said construction price tags are soaring, which is slowing or complicating building projects. Only two superintendents said inflation and supply chain issues weren’t having an impact on their districts.
Thursday on 12 News This Morning at 6 a.m. and WPRI.com – see what each superintendent believes is the biggest challenge facing their district.
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Back-to-the-office moves leave tech uneasy
A lot of CEOs are itching to get workers back to the office, but tech CEOs who want that face an extra uphill battle: After all, theirs is the industry that made remote work possible.
Why it matters: The tech industry was built on "dogfooding" — the idea that companies should use the products they push on the public — and every effort by a tech leader to hound reluctant employees back to the office park seems to betray that ideal.
Driving the news: This week Apple, tech's most valuable company, began requiring its workers to report to the office at least three days a week.
- Many leaders in tech and beyond see this week and coming weeks as their "best hope at getting workers on a more regular office schedule before the fall and winter holidays," per the Wall Street Journal.
- Others are gradually accepting that there's no going "back to 'normal,' the way it was before the pandemic, in most industries," as Jason Bram, a NY Fed economist, told Axios' Emily Peck last month.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has walked a careful line between acknowledging the appeal of remote work but praising in-person "serendipity" and "collaboration" and making clear that he and Apple would really like to see more of the troops at the company's $5 billion, beached-flying-saucer headquarters.
- The company has always prioritized secrecy, and that's harder to enforce when employees fan out.
- Last month, more than 1000 Apple employees signed a petition urging the company to adopt more flexibility in its three-day-a-week rule.
The big picture: Apple's stance is unusually uncompromising among tech's giants.
- Some tech firms have embraced remote work and even given up their headquarters. Others have tried to let workers choose the mode they prefer.
- Few have gone as far as the big New York banks and other corporate giants that want everyone back at their desks five times a week, as if COVID had never happened.
- In most industries, executives are three times more likely than employees to favor a return to the office, per a Pew survey earlier this year.
Between the lines: In tech, every fight boils down to numbers. But arguments over the relative levels of productivity workers can achieve remotely vs. in-office are tough to resolve with data.
- In the software industry in particular, worker productivity is notoriously difficult to measure.
Inevitably, managers who favor in-office work rely less on statistics and more on invocation of culture and creativity.
- That's often heartfelt — but it can also feed workers' suspicion that bosses are driven by nostalgia or a hunger for control.
Also: COVID is still very much with us, frequently sending "back to the office" workers right home again.
Of note: Apple TV+ had a streaming hit this year with "Severance," which depicts a world of office workers profoundly alienated from themselves via a neural technology that ropes off their work experiences and memories from the rest of their lives.
- Sure, there are some problems with this arrangement. But they all show up at the office every weekday!
Our thought bubble: Apple led the personal-computer revolution with an appealing pitch to personal empowerment. The company's reluctance to fully embrace remote work is not only likely to demoralize some of its employees — it feels surprisingly off-brand. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/07/remote-work-tech-office-apple | 2022-09-07T11:10:33Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/07/remote-work-tech-office-apple | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Senate Republicans' same-sex marriage poker face
Senators who are whipping Republican support for a bill to codify marriage equality are bullish on its chances of passing — but some supporters’ names may not be known until the vote occurs, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: With the House passing the bill in July and President Biden expected to sign it if it reaches his desk, the Senate stands as the primary hurdle.
State of play: Democrats need the votes of 10 Republicans in order to break a filibuster, but only a handful have come out publicly in support of the bill so far.
The intrigue: Don't expect to find out all the Republican senators supporting the legislation until the actual vote, a source close to the negotiations told Axios.
- "There are some who have given their support for the legislation privately," the source said. "You’re not going to see 10 Republicans announce their support for it before they actually vote."
- Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), who has been championing the bill, told Axios: "I have certainly had conversations where Republicans have privately indicated to me that they will support it."
- “There are a couple that might be in that category,” said Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), another one of the senators involved in the talks.
Between the lines: Public polling in recent years has found that while gay marriage is widely supported in the U.S., it remains a divisive issue among Republican voters.
- By waiting until the vote itself to make their positions known, Republican senators may be able to avoid drawn-out media coverage and limit political backlash from their base.
Driving the news: Senior Senate Democrats have in recent days considered attaching it to a "continuing resolution" that must be passed to temporarily fund the government, according to a Democratic Hill source.
- That would make it a part of what White House has described as "critical" legislation, while allowing leadership to conserve precious Senate floor time.
Yes, but: This idea has received bipartisan pushback.
- Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) offered an emphatic "yeah," when asked at the Capitol on Tuesday if Republicans would have a problem with it.
- “I think it’ll be a reason some of my colleagues might vote against the CR,” said Portman, arguing the move would hurt the odds of both bills passing.
- Baldwin said it is not her "preferred path" because she wants to vote on the bill "sooner rather than later."
What we're watching: The bill's backers have signaled the Republican votes are coming together.
Baldwin said "informal" conversations took place over the recess and — with the Senate back in session — there will be “face-to-face” talks to "firm that up."
- Her office told Axios she "is confident that she will be able to earn the 10 GOP votes necessary" and "plans to meet with her Republican colleagues this week to compare notes on their outreach efforts to build support."
- Along with Baldwin and Portman, Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) have also been involved in gathering GOP support, sources told Axios' Alayna Treene.
- Collins told Politico: "We’re in pretty good shape."
What’s next: The group is hoping to shore up Republican support with an amendment to clarify that the bill does not infringe on religious freedom, which was first reported by Axios.
- "We've been sharing it around ... with members," Baldwin said of the amendment.
- Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said he has had staff-level negotiations on the bill, adding: "My focus is on ensuring that we protect religious liberties."
- "Religious liberty is a real, serious concern," said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who, like Romney, is a key vote on the bill. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/07/same-sex-gay-marriage-senate-republicans | 2022-09-07T11:10:39Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/07/same-sex-gay-marriage-senate-republicans | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Massachussetts takes a step toward one-party rule
Massachusetts voters could be set to usher in a new era of one-party rule on Beacon Hill after Republicans chose Geoff Diehl, a hardline gubernatorial nominee with ties to former President Donald Trump, to fight an uphill battle against the popular and possibly historic campaign of Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey.
What's happening: In a state that voted 2-to-1 in favor of Joe Biden over Donald Trump, the nomination of a Trump-backed Republican ticket means Democrats will very likely once again control every facet of Massachusetts state government.
The backdrop: Gov. Charlie Baker, a moderate Republican, along with his lieutenant governor Karyn Polito, have been the only statewide officials elected from the GOP in the last eight years.
- Democrats dominate the state legislature by wide margins, though the progressive and conservative wings of the House and Senate sometimes clash.
- Without a Republican in the corner office to push back against them, Democrats will have the ability to push for higher spending and a more liberal legislative agenda.
Reality check: While popular with the 9.7% of voters registered as Republicans and a good deal more unenrolled voters, Diehl's track record running in elections is not stellar.
- In his first and only statewide run, Diehl lost his bid for a U.S. Senate seat to incumbent Elizabeth Warren by over 24 percentage points in 2018.
- A 2015 special election for state Senate saw Diehl lose to his Democratic opponent by over 16 percentage points.
- Diehl had better luck in 2014 when he led a ballot question campaign to eliminate automatic increases to the gas tax. The effort passed by 6%.
What they're saying: "Competition in different branches of government is a good thing from, basically, the watchdog perspective that the different parties play on each other," UMass Boston political science professor Erin O'Brien told Axios.
- O'Brien said one-party control is typically associated with higher levels of corruption in government.
- She said Democratic dominance would also put pressure on the legislature to pass significant new policies.
The big picture: If Healey takes office, legislative leaders won't need to worry as much about compromising with conservative Democrats to muster the two-thirds majorities needed to override a veto from the governor.
- If backed by Healey, progressive proposals such as ending local and state involvement in immigration enforcement, updating sexual education standards and increasing carbon emission standards could more easily become law.
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You get what you pay for at Yoshi Hibachi Grille
👋 Hi, Sam here. Detroit's neighborhood hibachi take out chain, Yoshi Hibachi Grille, might not be Benihana, but it's going to get you right every time.
The intrigue: I went to the Livernois Avenue location yesterday after a good experience last year and it did not disappoint.
- You get a heaping mound of fried rice, protein of your choice — I got shrimp and spicy chicken — and cooked vegetables.
- Don't forget to add spicy yum yum, Asian Hennessy or garlic butter sauce — that's what Yoshi does best.
Quick take : Yoshi's loyal customer base swears it's addicting, while plenty of detractors are eager to tell you why it's overpriced and "mid."
- If you ask me, Yoshi serves high-quality hibachi dishes that just happen to come in a Styrofoam box. If it were presented at a table, there'd be no denying it's better than your average Asian takeout.
- With entree prices mostly under $25, you're getting what you pay for.
If you go: The Black-owned Asian grill has three locations within the city and four others across metro Detroit.
Each is open daily from noon-9pm.
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Eagles game costs are soaring this year
Catching an Eagles game at Lincoln Financial Field will cost you a pretty penny this year.
Driving the news: The estimated total for a family of four to enjoy an Eagles game in South Philly — including tickets, parking, a pair of beers, two sodas and four hotdogs — is $724.33, according to an analysis from Bookies.com.
- That's above the NFL average ($536.77) and more expensive than attending games in 25 other NFL cities.
Between the lines: The San Francisco 49ers were by far the most expensive team to watch in person, with the cheapest available tickets averaging out to over $200 each.
- In Philly, the cheapest available tickets averaged around $150, whereas Cardinals fans can find tickets for under $50.
- But the real kicker here is the booze. Prices for a 16-ounce beer at Eagles games average near $15, the highest in the NFL.
What's next: The Eagles kick off their season on Sunday against the Lions in Detroit.
- The Birds' first home game is Sept. 19 against the Minnesota Vikings.
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New campaign ad blames Budd for agriculture company bankruptcy
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley launched a pointed attack Wednesday against Republican Rep. Ted Budd for his alleged role in the bankruptcy of his family's agriculture business.
Details: The latest ad calls attention to last year's reporting by the Washington Post, which found Budd’s father, Richard Budd, allegedly transferred millions in assets to his family, including Budd, ahead of a $15 million judgment in the case, WaPo reported.
- Farmers and creditors ultimately received less than half of their lost earnings in a settlement, in which there was no admission of wrongdoing.
The other side: Budd's senior advisor Jonathan Felts told The Washington Post last year that Budd played no role in the company that declared bankruptcy, AgriBioTech.
- Budd's father, Richard, also defended his son, telling the WaPo: "I wish my personal efforts to save ABT had been successful, but they were not."
Between the lines: The ad indicates Beasley's campaign is seeking to derail Budd's attempts to appeal to rural, agriculture-dominated parts of the state.
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Developer David Meeker outlines next two projects
For more than a decade, David Meeker and his firm, Carpenter Development, has been one of the most influential developers around downtown Raleigh — known not for building new towers but for filling in interesting concepts between them.
- Since 2008, Meeker has had a helping hand in retail and restaurant projects like Trophy Brewing, State of Beer, Young Hearts Distilling and Runologie, often converting old spaces into new gathering places.
Driving the news: Meeker, the son of former Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker, is adding two more projects to his growing footprint.
Next up: The Bend, which focuses on three historic homes at 849 W. Morgan St. They're sandwiched between two of his already existing establishments, Trophy Brewing & Pizza and Irregardless Cafe — the beloved vegetarian institution that Meeker bought from longtime owners in 2020. He also owns another nearby building home to The Factory coworking space.
- Meeker told Axios that the homes — whose appearances his wants to preserve as much as possible — could fill out a section of downtown that he believes is lacking in amenities like a coffee and bottle shop, especially as more than 400 apartments are coming to the street on the former Goodnight’s Comedy Club location.
Details: The homes would be connected by a boardwalk-like walkway and include a shared backyard.
- Already, he told Axios, he has reached an agreement with a partner to put in three separate concepts into the houses.
- And while he is not yet ready to announce them, he said they would be in keeping with his preference for local charm over national brands.
- The project could be ready as early as fall of next year.
What's next: Meeker also has grand designs elsewhere, in what he believes will be Raleigh's next development hot spot.
- Located just south of downtown and Interstate 40 near several used car dealerships at 2701 S. Wilmington St., Meeker hopes to build what he is calling SoHi — a four-building development home to restaurants, shops and office space.
Meeker is optimistic about the location, noting it was a busy gateway into downtown before South Saunders Street expanded.
- SoHi would sit next to a potential Bus Rapid Transit stop and would be half a mile from Kane Realty's ambitious Downtown South project.
A partial opening is projected for 2024. It will be built with green infrastructure in mind, including solar panels, rainwater harvesting cisterns and electric-vehicle chargers.
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Richmond dining soft opening: Billy Pasta
Billy Pasta, the new cafe spot inside Ellwood Thompson’s grocery store, is the go-to place for a delicious, carb-loaded lunch.
What's happening: Billy Fallen — founder of beloved Richmond carb businesses Billy Bread and Billy Pie — and Caleb Shriver — former co-owner and co-chef of celebrated and now-closed Church Hill restaurant Dutch & Company — opened Billy Pasta last month.
What it is: The duo took over the former Beet Cafe space and have a made-to-order menu of freshly made pasta, plus a few grab-and-go items, like beet and burrata salad, in a counter cold case.
- You order from a tablet at the counter and pick up at the other end.
- Online pre-orders are also available through Toast Tab.
- Hours are daily, 11am-7pm.
The menu will change seasonally, but for now it's five core dishes: Bolognese; cacio e pepe; corn, tomato and basil; kale pesto and lemon ricotta; and marinara ($11.50-$14.50).
- You pick the pasta type, an optional crunch (get the crunch) and check out at the regular grocery area.
- Gluten-free pasta and vegan options are also available.
My thought bubble: I got the Bolognese with fettuccine and garlic bread crunch because I'm a sucker for a good Bolognese.
- It was delicious, a little spicy and a perfectly filling lunch or dinner.
What's next: Tigelle sandwiches weren't available during my visit, but Shriver tells Axios they're perfecting the bread to make them a regular feature in the grab-and-go.
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Washingtonians are still ditching the office
COVID-19 spread might be low, but D.C.-area workers are staying home to embrace remote work and dodge long Metro commutes.
Why it matters: Metrics show that commuting and office occupancy have stagnated, meaning that there are fewer people around to keep downtown buzzing, a concern for the city’s future.
- Experts expected D.C.-area commutes to pick back up, but Metrorail ridership since last March has been around 40% of pre-pandemic weekday numbers, the Washington Post reported.
- Office occupancy in the D.C. area was 37.5% as of mid-August, according to data from Kastle and JLL Research. The region is ninth among major metro markets for office occupancy, behind places such as Austin, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
- The busiest office day of the week? Tuesday, per the data, when occupancy rises to 45.6%.
Foot traffic has stubbornly stayed in the low-to-mid 60% range since March, according to cell phone activity from Placer.ai.
What they’re saying: Downtown DC Business Improvement District president Gerren Price told Axios that multiple elements are at play to draw workers back, including “the robustness of the Metro system, which appears to be improving bit by bit.”
- Price also noted the importance of “the amenities available to workers, such as dining and shopping options, which in turn depend on sufficient foot traffic to keep their doors open.”
Integral to a return-to-the-office is the federal government, which is the biggest employer in the Downtown BID and has a piecemeal policy toward office work. The feds also have a "trickle-down effect on other industries in the region," JLL senior researcher Michael Hartnett told Axios.
- He expects office occupancy to increase in the months ahead. The new norm may be a "hybrid work model," where foot traffic and commutes peak in the middle of the week as opposed to Monday or Friday.
What’s next: Metro’s 7000 series trains — which make up 60% of the rail fleet — are finally returning to service in greater numbers starting next Monday.
- With more transit service on the horizon and a less tight labor market, employers could feel more confident calling workers back to the office.
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