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LONG BEACH, Wash. — A 12-foot thresher shark washed ashore on the Long Beach Peninsula in southwest Washington over Labor Day weekend.
The shark weighed anywhere from 300 to 365 pounds when someone found it on the beach near Ocean Park, a few miles north of Long Beach, on Friday night, the Seaside Aquarium said in a social media post.
The shark was alive when it became stranded in the sand but died shortly thereafter, the aquarium said.
Volunteers and aquarium staff recovered the shark and scheduled a necropsy for the following afternoon. The aquarium also allowed the public to check out the deceased shark prior to its dissection.
"It is not very often that we get to see these large sharks and anything we can learn or educate the public on is a great opportunity," the aquarium wrote.
Upward of 50 people gathered to watch the necropsy, and several people were interested in the shark's distinctly long tail.
"The thresher shark uses its long tail to 'thrash' through schools of fish, stunning them, then swimming back through and eating the stunned fish," the aquarium wrote.
This is the second shark to wash up on the Long Beach Peninsula in the past few weeks.
On Aug. 18, another 12-foot thresher shark was found dead near Grayland Beach State Park, according to the aquarium.
So why are these sharks washing in?
"That is the million-dollar question and that is why it is important to be able to collect data and various tissue and organ samples," the aquarium wrote. "The one thing we were able to rule out was any fisheries interaction." | https://www.krem.com/article/news/regional/shark-washes-ashore-washington-coast/283-5e5b89aa-4509-40f5-93fb-9e07159e77a8 | 2022-09-07T15:36:50Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/regional/shark-washes-ashore-washington-coast/283-5e5b89aa-4509-40f5-93fb-9e07159e77a8 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In early September, news broke that Credit Karma, a credit monitoring service, was ordered by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to compensate people that were tricked into applying for credit cards and loans through deceptive methods that claimed they were pre-approved.
News of the settlement spread on social media, with some people claiming the settlement would be divided among all Credit Karma users. Searches into Credit Karma have also spiked since the settlement was announced.
The VERIFY team reached out to sources to find out if the settlement is legitimate and what Credit Karma users need to know.
THE QUESTION
Is the Credit Karma settlement real?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, the Credit Karma settlement is real. The Federal Trade Commission and Credit Karma have agreed on a $3 million settlement that will be split among some users. The settlement has not been finalized, and it could be months before anybody gets a refund.
WHAT WE FOUND
Credit Karma and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have agreed to a $3 million settlement that will be divided among some users that were targeted with misleading pre-approved loan or credit card offers.
The FTC alleged that from February 2018 through April 2021, Credit Karma marketed to some users that they were “pre-approved” for credit cards or loans, with misleading disclaimers.
Some of the disclaimers didn’t warn people they would be subject to credit checks that could lower their credit score. One disclaimer said it was unlikely to not be pre-approved, that 90% of people who apply get the credit card.
According to the complaint from the FTC, that wasn’t true. For many offers, almost a third of the “pre-approved” people who applied were denied – and those people were subjected to a “hard inquiry,” or hard credit pull, as part of the underwriting process to get approved for a credit card.
In many instances the “hard inquiry” lowered the credit scores of those whose applications were denied, the FTC says. Not only were their credit scores likely lowered, but their time was wasted when going through the approval process, the FTC says, because of Credit Karma’s tactics.
More from VERIFY: Yes, the Equifax data breach settlement email and website are real
As of Sept. 6, the settlement deal with Credit Karma is in a public comment period. The FTC calls for public comment on most proposed settlements and other agency activities.
The public has until Oct. 6 to make a comment on the matter. Once that period expires, the commission will vote to approve the settlement, an FTC spokesperson told VERIFY.
After the FTC approves the settlement, Credit Karma will have 15 days to provide user data on those who may have been deceived into applying for the “pre-approved” offers.
The FTC will review the data, and at that time, it will determine who gets a refund and how much. That is still months away, an FTC spokesperson told VERIFY, because it depends on how long it will take to review the data. To find out if you have a refund coming, you can go to ftc.gov/refunds and check on the status of a settlement refund.
A person won’t have to file a claim or apply to see if they are eligible to receive a refund, the FTC says. That information will be provided directly to the FTC by Credit Karma and the payout will come directly from the FTC.
Credit Karma issued a statement saying the company “fundamentally disagrees” with the FTC ruling but still agreed to the $3 million settlement.
The FTC has a guide on what to do if you get an offer of credit, like the ones claiming you’re pre-approved for a credit card. Check out the guide here, and as always, if you’re concerned about a scam, you can reach out to us at VERIFY by emailing our team at questions@verifythis.com. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/verify/money-verify/credit-karma-settlement-is-real-but-not-all-users-will-be-eligible-for-a-refund/536-28c8129a-4f2c-44e9-976c-794c24de9c3a | 2022-09-07T15:36:56Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/verify/money-verify/credit-karma-settlement-is-real-but-not-all-users-will-be-eligible-for-a-refund/536-28c8129a-4f2c-44e9-976c-794c24de9c3a | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Emma Raducanu has received a wild card for the Zavarovalnica Sava Portoroz tournament starting Monday, Sep. 12, taking the number of Grand Slam champions in the field to three.
Raducanu, who won her first major at last year's US Open as a qualifier, joins reigning Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina and 2021 Roland Garros titlist Barbora Krejcikova at the WTA 250 event on the Slovenian coast.
The 19-year-old Briton's title defense in New York was ended in the first round by Alizé Cornet this year. After the loss, she spoke about embracing the challenge of climbing back up the rankings.
"It's a clean slate," Raducanu told the press. "I'm going to drop down the rankings. Climb my way back up."
Like Raducanu, Krejcikova and Rybakina will head to Portoroz in a bid to rediscover their major-winning form. Krejcikova was sidelined for three months due to an elbow injury this year; since returning at Roland Garros, the Czech's record is 7-10, and she fell in the second round of the US Open to Aleksandra Krunic. Since winning Wimbledon, Rybakina has gone 4-4, and exited the US Open in the first round to Clara Burel.
The Portoroz field will also feature three in-form players who have all won back-to-back tournaments within the past four months. Beatriz Haddad Maia broke through on grass, winning Nottingham and Birmingham, then backed that up with her first WTA 1000 final in Toronto to soar into the Top 20. Bernarda Pera dominated the post-Wimbledon clay swing, collecting trophies in Budapest and Hamburg. Liudmila Samsonova put together a 13-match winning streak on American hard courts, winning Washington and Cleveland before reaching the fourth round of the US Open.
Defending champion Jasmine Paolini, who captured her maiden Hologic WTA Tour title here last year, will also return; while other notable names in the field include Cornet, Clara Tauson and Marta Kostyuk. The home squad will be led by Strasbourg finalist Kaja Juvan and former Roland Garros semifinalist Tamara Zidansek. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2785169/raducanu-takes-wild-card-into-portoroz | 2022-09-07T15:39:28Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2785169/raducanu-takes-wild-card-into-portoroz | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
McLEAN, Va., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AIRPHX, an industry leader in complete indoor disinfection technology, today announced verification of efficacy in eliminating monkeypox in addition to over 30 additional bacteria, viruses and protozoa. AIRPHX technology has been successfully scaled to large commercial facilities including hotels, casinos, public buildings, commercial fitness and indoor turf facilities. With patented technology continuously eliminating airborne and surface pathogens – widescale deployment of AIRPHX technology is a key strategy for addressing the next pandemic and avoiding lockdowns.
With cost effective deployment of wall-mounted and in-duct technology, AIRPHX acts as a prophylaxis against existing and future pandemic risk. "Although the timing and nature of the next pandemic is unknown at this point, AIRPHX technology has been verified effective against all recent pandemic pathogens and will be an effective method of protecting the public and avoiding lockdowns in the next pandemic," said AIRPHX President William Pommerening. "Our new in-duct models will efficiently treat spaces as large as airports and shopping malls allowing the public to avoid damaging lockdowns in the future." In an industry flooded with decades-old technologies that are largely ineffective and/or unproven in real world installations, AIRPHX provides continuous complete indoor disinfection technology that has been uniquely validated with field testing and clinical results in large, occupied spaces.
AIRPHX provides patented air purification technology that continuously eliminates airborne and surface pathogens. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, AIRPHX has expanded rapidly into intercollegiate sports, counting almost 20% of the Power Five conference athletic programs as customers, professional sports, health care facilities and other industries. The company's technology has been validated in active athlete, staff, patient and customer environments. The company has also received independent clinical data demonstrating reduced infections in health care facilities including reductions in central line infections, antibiotic resistant bacterial and viral infections and toxic mold infections. AIRPHX products are protected by issued and pending patents and trade-secrets. AIRPHX products are proudly Made in America and are unique in the market. For more information on AIRPHX, please visit www.airphx.com.
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Leading Senior Care Franchise Advancing Care, Support and Research Efforts with National Team Fundraising for Walk to End Alzheimer's Nationwide
ROSEVILLE, Calif., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Always Best Care Senior Services, the leading senior care franchise system in the United States, today announced its 12th anniversary as a Walk to End Alzheimer's® National Team. Over the past 11 years, participating Always Best Care teams around the country have raised $785,986, earning the National Team Longevity Award for more than a decade of support and the Lifetime Achievement Level for raising over half a million dollars. This year, the company is on track to raise another $100,000 at Walks nationwide and continues to share helpful tips for caring for Alzheimer's patients in honor of World Alzheimer's Month in September.
"As a leader in senior care, Always Best Care is proud to partner with the Walk to End Alzheimer's every year on behalf of the more than 6 million Americans living with Alzheimer's disease," said Jake Brown, President & CEO of Always Best Care. "We know that extra attention and tender compassionate care must accompany every service we provide. This is especially true for our clients who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's."
As a Silver National Team, Always Best Care offices form teams for Walks across the country and raise funds that advance the care, support and research efforts of the Alzheimer's Association. Each team's donations play an important role in improving the lives of people living with Alzheimer's, their families and caregivers.
Two teams that have continually rallied together for the cause are Always Best Care of Delaware and Always Best Care of Philadelphia, which are both owned by Bryant Greene. His work on behalf of the cause has landed him in the Top 25 of national fundraisers and the top fundraiser in the Delaware Valley for the past eight years. Greene, who has also been named to the Board of Directors for the Alzheimer's Association's Delaware Valley chapter, has raised more than half a million dollars in his markets over the past 10 years.
"It is my honor to build awareness of and promote the important resources the Alzheimer's Association provides and to help connect my audiences with those resources," said Bryant Greene, who also hosts popular television and radio programs in the Philadelphia market. "I grew up with a beloved babysitter who lost her battle with Alzheimer's. Through my Always Best Care businesses, I've made many more personal connections with individuals and families impacted by this disease, and I see the struggles they endure. That's why this cause is near and dear to my heart."
Always Best Care is one of the nation's leading providers of non-medical in-home care and assisted living referral services, with skilled home health care in limited markets. The company delivers its services through an international network of more than 225 independently owned and operated franchise territories throughout the United States and Canada. By working with case managers, social workers, discharge planners, doctors, and families, Always Best Care franchise owners provide affordable, comprehensive solutions that can be specifically matched to meet a client's particular physical or social needs.
About Always Best Care
Founded in 1996, Always Best Care Senior Services is based on the belief that having the right people for the right level of care means peace of mind for the client and family. Always Best Care has been assisting seniors with a wide range of conditions and personal needs for over 25 years and currently provides thousands of hours of care every year.
Always Best Care also offers exclusive programs such as Always in Touch, Balance Tracking System and remote patient monitoring. For more information regarding Always Best Care's solutions, visit www.alwaysbestcare.com.
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Passengers on a flight from Melbourne, Australia to Bali were left fuming this week after their already delayed takeoff was further pushed back by a man who lit a cigarette after boarding.
The individual featured in footage shared to TikTok that showed him being escorted off Jetstar flight JQ1035 by police on Tuesday.
“This guy thinks a delayed flight means he can light a dart on the plane. No Bali vacay for you now,” the woman who filmed him wrote in her post.
She boarded at 3 pm in Melbourne, Australia and the flight still hadn’t left the tarmac by 7 pm, she added.
The flight finally arrived at Denpasar airport at 12:51 am on Wednesday after stopping in Darwin late on Tuesday evening for fuel.
A Jetstar spokesperson confirmed the man behind the extended delay “lit a cigarette on board the aircraft prior to departure”.
“Smoking, vaping or the use of electronic cigarettes is not permitted on any Jetstar aircraft, in Australian airport terminals or on the tarmac,” a spokesperson told news.com.au.
“The passenger was escorted off the flight and the AFP were called. Safety is our first priority and our no smoking policy is strictly enforced.”
“Australian Federal Police can confirm officers were called to a flight waiting to leave Melbourne Airport on September 6,” the AFP told news.com.au
“Police were responding to allegations of a man smoking on board a flight. The man was escorted off the plane without further incident.”
The woman who filmed wrote in text across her video the flight was already been delayed prior to the smoking drama.
“When your flight to Bali is already delayed and this guy decides to light a dart so we then have to wait for the police to escort him off,” she wrote.
Some viewers were unsurprised at the ordeal given the flight path.
“Only on a flight to Bali aye,” one viewer remarked.
“No Bintangs for you buddy,” another said, in reference to the infamous Indonesian beer.
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An influencer’s fitness app has been involved in a major data breach that potentially exposed customers’ personal information and revealing photos.
Move With Us is an online fitness platform founded by Instagram star and three-time World Beauty Fitness and Fashion bikini world champion Rachel Dillon.
Formerly known as Bodies By Rachel, the service provides multi-week fitness programs, nutrition guides and encourages users to take before-and-after photos to show off their progress.
But the app was hit with a major data glitch on Tuesday afternoon that potentially revealed users’ personal information and pictures to others.
Users were logging into other people’s profiles when they opened the app, giving them access to their personal information, including pictures (often either naked or in underwear), emails, full names, date of birth and address.
Each time a user logged out and tried to log back in, they were in another person’s profile.
There were instances of users logging into as many as 10 different profiles as the problem persisted for more than two hours.
Move With Us issued users with an explanation on Wednesday, saying the breach impacted “a very small number of users”.
“This error was causing the incorrect user profile image and profile page to show for users,” the statement read.
“We are also able to confirm no progress photos or financial information was wrongfully accessed. We can also confirm that this was not a malicious intent by a third party to access our users’ information.”
A Move With Us user, who wished to remain anonymous, was unsure if their personal data had been exposed.
“I have no idea if my data was shown to other people,” they told NCA NewsWire.
“From others’ accounts, information visible was email address, birth date, full name, and some accounts of seeing progress photos.
“I wasn’t logged into anyone else’s account myself.”
Dillon and Move With Us’ support team responded to hundreds of angry and concerned customers on the app’s Facebook group page, which has more than 90,000 members.
Move With Us told users it would investigate the issue and reach out to people who had been affected.
It warned that this process would take time but asserted that no one’s photos were accessed.
“We sincerely apologize for the issue and can confirm this has now been fixed,” it said.
“Our app provider has also advised that progress photos were not visible by others.”
NCA NewsWire has heard and read conflicting reports from users who alleged their photos were visible.
“Photos were definitely visible,” one user said.
“Pictures were definitely visible, take some ownership please,” another replied.
The Move With Us anonymous user, who had been using the app “on and off” for about 18 months and described it as a “good service”, said the breach should have “never been allowed to happen”.
“To be honest, this is a huge breach of privacy. The app encourages you to upload photos of yourself as you go through the programs. You get prompts to do it and it’s meant to encourage you,” they said.
“But it’s very personal. A lot of people are incredibly sensitive about their bodies and for personal information like emails, names and birthdays to be available is bad enough – but to think a photo of you at a vulnerable time in your underwear is so easily accessible to strangers is enough to turn me away from the brand altogether.”
Dillon, who boasts more than 1.4 million followers on Instagram, said she started the business to help other women on their fitness journeys.
“Sharing my training and nutrition programs with like-minded women on their own journey to progression is what brings me true happiness,” she said on Move With Us’s website.
“No matter your fitness level, my team of accredited dietitians and expert trainers are here to support and guide you.
“My fitness journey has transformed all aspects of my life, and I would love the opportunity to see what you can achieve on your own journey.”
Dillon made waves in the fitness world earlier this year when it was announced she was dating Kayla Itsines’ ex-fiance Tobi Pearce.
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There are differing opinions on whether cable broke the pandemic low and touched the worst levels since 1985 as it fell to 1.1406.
That's because it fell in March 2020 in a fast and thin market. That's left varying bottoms in the low 1.14s, depending on the source.
Given that it's bounced to 1.1460 rather than broken down, I'd argue that the lows held. What's not up for debate is how important this technical zone is. The 1.14 area held after Brexit and during the pandemic. The UK is facing a huge challenge on energy, growth and government spending in the year ahead but it's already down 2000 pips since March.
If somehow this level holds, it will be quite the technical bottom. If not, we could soon be having discussions about parity. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/pound-bounces-after-testing-the-pandemic-low-20220907/ | 2022-09-07T15:40:55Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/pound-bounces-after-testing-the-pandemic-low-20220907/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Bank of Canada's 75 basis point hike was in line with what economists were expecting and that's left USD/CAD chopping in the 1.3200-1.3165 range in the aftermath.
The pair is 30 pips higher today on the plunge in oil prices but that's balanced by better risk appetite in general.
What's left the market flailing a bit is the lack of guidance ahead. The BOC in the statement said rates will need to rise further but didn't offer any indication by how much. Language about front-loading hikes was also removed.
Overall though, the statement hit a hawkish note to these ears. Previously, there was talk of a top at 3.50% but that's looking less likely as global central banks embrace the idea of breaking inflation despite economic consequences.
Tomorrow, we'll get a speech from BOC senior deputy Caroyln Rogers and that could be key for a sustained Canadian dollar reaction. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/usdcad-chops-as-markets-weigh-vague-bank-of-canada-guidance-20220907/ | 2022-09-07T15:41:01Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/usdcad-chops-as-markets-weigh-vague-bank-of-canada-guidance-20220907/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Booker Prize 2022: Here are the 6 books in the running for the prestigious literary prize - including the shortest book and oldest author ever shortlisted
Subjects of the varied novels to have made the cut include the Sri Lankan civil war, the fall of Robert Mugabe, Ireland’s Magdalene laundries scandal and the murder of Emmett Till in the USA.
The Booker Prize judges have now narrowed the longlist of 13 books down to just six – and there’s no place on the list for Kilmarnock-born Graeme Macrae Burnet's latest book Case Study which had been in contention.
Those that are still in the running include Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These coming in at just 116 pages. That’s 16 less than the previous shortest shortlisted book, Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1979 Booker-winner Offshore.
And with Treacle Worker 87-year-old Alan Garner becomes the oldest author to be shortlisted – he’ll turn 88 on the day the winner is announced.
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The prize, initially named after sponsor company Booker, McConnell Ltd, was established in 1969 has become one of the world’s richest literary prizes, with a cash prize of £50,000.
Previous winners have included Iris Murdoch, William Golding, Salman Rushdie, Kingsley Amis, Peter Carey, Pat Barker, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel, and Hilary Mantel.
Originally it was only open to novels written in English by Commonwealth, Irish, and South African (and later Zimbabwean) authors, but in 2014 was opened up to all English-language fiction books.
This year’s judges are cultural historian and writer Neil MacGregor, academic and broadcaster Shahidha Bari, historian Helen Castor, author and critic M John Harrison, and novelist and poet Alain Mabanckou.
The winner will be unveiled on Monday, October 17.
Here are the six shortlisted books.
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
This energetic and exhilarating joyride from NoViolet Bulawayo is the story of an uprising, told by a vivid chorus of animal voices that help us see our human world more clearly.
A long time ago, in a bountiful land not so far away, the animals lived quite happily. Then the colonisers arrived. After nearly a hundred years, a bloody War of Liberation brought new hope for the animals - along with a new leader: a charismatic horse who commanded the sun and ruled and ruled - and kept on ruling…
Glory tells the story of a country trapped in a cycle as old as time. And yet, as it unveils the myriad tricks required to uphold the illusion of absolute power, it reminds us that the glory of tyranny only lasts as long as its victims are willing to let it.
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
This latest fiction from a remarkable and enduring talent brilliantly illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of the world around him.
Joe Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. He reads his comics, collects birds’ eggs and treasures his marbles, particularly his prized dobbers. When Treacle Walker appears off the moor one day - a wanderer, a healer - an unlikely friendship is forged and the young boy is introduced to a world he could never have imagined.
In this playful, moving and evocative fable, set once again in his beloved Cheshire, the masterly Alan Garner delivers both a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and a profound exploration of the fluidity of time.
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Shehan Karunatilaka’s rip-roaring epic is a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war.
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time when scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long.
But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to try and contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to a hidden cache of photos that will rock Sri Lanka.
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan’s tender tale of hope and quiet heroism is both a celebration of compassion and a stern rebuke of the sins committed in the name of religion.
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a small community controlled by the Church.
The Trees by Percival Everett
A violent history refuses to be buried in Percival Everett’s striking novel, which combines an unnerving murder mystery with a powerful condemnation of racism and police violence.
Something strange is afoot in Money, Mississippi. A series of brutal murders are eerily linked by the presence at each crime scene of a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till, a young black boy lynched in the same town 65 years before.
The investigating detectives soon discover that uncannily similar murders are taking place all over the country. As the bodies pile up, the detectives seek answers from a local root doctor, who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years…
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
Bestselling author Elizabeth Strout returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any time.
Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-again/off-again friend and confidante.
Recalling their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage, and the lives they built with other people, Strout weaves a portrait, stunning in its subtlety, of a tender, complex, decades-long partnership.
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USDJPY saw some selling, but work to do.
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USD/JPY
The USD/JPY is the currency pair encompassing the dollar of the United States of America (symbol $, code USD), and the Japanese yen of Japan (symbol ¥, code JPY). The pair’s rate indicates how many Japanese yen are needed in order to purchase one US dollar. For example, when the USD/JPY is trading at 100.00, it means 1 US dollar is equivalent to 100 Japanese yen. The US dollar (USD) is the world’s most traded currency, whilst the Japanese yen is the world’s third most traded currency, resulting in an extremely liquid pair, and very tight spreads, often staying within the 0 pip to 2 pip spread range on most forex brokers. Although the range of the USD/JPY isn’t traditionally particularly high, the lack of large price action often associated with other JPY pairs does make it easier to trade.This is especially true for short-term traders, although without offering a great pip potential. Even though the USD/JPY is the world’s second most traded pair, it’s not as popular as one might think with regards to retail traders.The pair carries a reputation as “boring”, although this isn’t an entirely accurate reflection. Trading the USD/JPYThe JPY is highly regarded as a safe haven currency, with investors often increasing their exposure following periods of uncertainty or market-induced fallouts.As both the US and Japan are highly developed economies, there are several key factors affecting the value of either currencies. This includes a range of economic indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP) growth, inflation, interest rates and unemployment data. Monetary policy by the US Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan are also large determinants in the value of each currency.
The USD/JPY is the currency pair encompassing the dollar of the United States of America (symbol $, code USD), and the Japanese yen of Japan (symbol ¥, code JPY). The pair’s rate indicates how many Japanese yen are needed in order to purchase one US dollar. For example, when the USD/JPY is trading at 100.00, it means 1 US dollar is equivalent to 100 Japanese yen. The US dollar (USD) is the world’s most traded currency, whilst the Japanese yen is the world’s third most traded currency, resulting in an extremely liquid pair, and very tight spreads, often staying within the 0 pip to 2 pip spread range on most forex brokers. Although the range of the USD/JPY isn’t traditionally particularly high, the lack of large price action often associated with other JPY pairs does make it easier to trade.This is especially true for short-term traders, although without offering a great pip potential. Even though the USD/JPY is the world’s second most traded pair, it’s not as popular as one might think with regards to retail traders.The pair carries a reputation as “boring”, although this isn’t an entirely accurate reflection. Trading the USD/JPYThe JPY is highly regarded as a safe haven currency, with investors often increasing their exposure following periods of uncertainty or market-induced fallouts.As both the US and Japan are highly developed economies, there are several key factors affecting the value of either currencies. This includes a range of economic indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP) growth, inflation, interest rates and unemployment data. Monetary policy by the US Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan are also large determinants in the value of each currency.
Read this Term has a chink in the bullish trend move armor.
You have to go the 5 minute chart to find it, but for traders it showed a modest win for sellers.
More specifically, the pair moved below the 100 bar MA on the 5 minute chart at 144.43. It also moved below the 38.2 to 50% of the last leg higher today. THat comes between 144.36 to 144.512. The low price reached 144.22.
What now?
Stay below the 144.513 area gives the sellers some comfort in the SHORT TERM. On the downside if the price can move below the 144.22 level, the 200 bar MA at 143.995 would be the next target to get to and through. The price would have to stay below that MA level to give the sellers a little more comfort.
Having said that, the buyers are still in firm control. Looking at the hourly chart, the 38.2% of today's range is at 144.097. The 50% of the day's range is 143.822. Get below those would be the next key targets. Absent that, and are the sellers winning? No.
But in the short term a small win for the sellers on the 5 minute chart.
USDJPY on the hourly chart
Helping is that yields are lower in the US. The 10 year is down -6.5 bps.
Also stocks are recovering a bit. The Nasdaq is up 106 points now and looking to snap a 7 day decline.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO) launched the first issue of the Digital Prosperity Report, to highlight some of the most pressing issues for digital economic development and report on DCO initiatives and programs that support the DCO member states in developing their own digital economies.
The first issue of the report features an introduction by Børge Brende, President of the World Economic Forum (WEF), where he talks about the Digital FDI Initiative launched by WEF and the DCO to support FDI in the digital economy, and the global rebound in FDI post-COVID-19. The report also features an exclusive interview with HE Paula Ingabire, Minister of ICT & Innovation of Rwanda, in which the Minister discusses the country's digital economic policy, the role of ICT in Rwanda's development, and how DCO membership will help further Rwanda's strategic goals in the digital sphere.
Other features include discussions of the gender gap in the startup sectoran examination of the challenges of effective end-user data protection legislation; and a report on the new Digital FDI Initiative that was recently launched by the DCO and the World Economic Forum. The report also includes insights into upcoming DCO activities, including the DCO Global Round Table Series, the STRIDE initiative to support digital startups, the Digital Economy Maturity Index (DEMI), and the DCO Center of Excellence for Data Flows.
Deemah AlYahya, DCO Secretary-General said on the launch of the report: "The DCO was founded to enable digital prosperity for all and to support our member states by enabling knowledge sharing and collaboration on the development of best practices, policies, and strategies to accelerate their digital transformation and therefore, support the development of an inclusive, thriving, and sustainable national digital economy. The Digital Prosperity Report is an important part of this knowledge-sharing commitment, which highlights the activities of the DCO and our member states, the report delivers expert commentary from high-profile stakeholders and draws attention to important issues such as tackling gender inequality in the digital economy, and the challenges of end-user data protection. This first edition of the report is a must-read for anyone interested in staying informed about the latest developments in the global digital economy, particularly in DCO member states"
The DCO Digital Prosperity Report is available now: Digital Prosperity Report (dcoinsights.com)
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'Limited Rangers' impact on sacking of RB Leipzig coach as Celtic-linked boss set for role
Celtic’s Champions League opponents RB Leipzig are set to appoint Marco Rose as their next manager.
The Bundesliga outfit sacked Domenico Tedesco after a 4-1 thumping at home to Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday night with former Parkhead attacker Maryan Shved netting a brace,
Leipzig currently sit 12th in the German top-flight after a poor start to the season.
Popular German newspaper Bild have revealed is to be appointed this week as the media outlet detailed the reasons behind Tedesco’s sackings.
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As per commentator Derek Rae, comments made by the Italian-born boss ahead of the Europa League semi-final didn’t impress club CEO Oliver Mintzlaff.
He had said: “Even if we now lose everything it will still be a super season for us.”
Leipzig lost to Rangers but finished fourth in the Bundesliga. The loss to the Ibrox side still hurts the German side with Bild referring to “limited Rangers”.
Rose is familiar to Celtic having managed Red Bull Salzburg between 2017 and 2019. The club's met in the Europa League with the Austrians winning both games. His success with Salzburg in the Red Bull stable prompted a move to Borussia Monchengladbach then Borussia Dortmund who he will face this weekend.
He lost to Rangers in the Europa League as Dortmund boss.
The 45-year-old, who was once manager of Lokomotive Leipzig, was linked with the Celtic job when the club were on the hunt for a permanent replacement to Brendan Rodgers. He would eventually take over at Monchengladbach.
Celtic will face RB Leipzig in the Champions League group stage twice in October with the second match at Celtic Park.
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SSgt Benjamin Lapp from the Vehicle Registration Section of the 569th United States Forces Police Squadron discusses what documents you need when you register a car. PCS season can bring many challenges; Ms. Mary Del Rosario, from the U.S. Army Garrison Rhineland-Pfalz Public Affairs Specialist, highlighted the garrison’s Summer Surge videos. (DMA Radio Newscast by SrA Stephanie Gelardo)
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Deserving dad wins $50,000 and a year's supply of Entenmann's Donuts!
ISLANDIA, N.Y., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After calling on fans to nominate their deserving father figure into the "Dads of Glory: A Father Figure Showcase," Entenmann's® is thrilled to announce Michael B. of Talala, Oklahoma as the "The Golden Donut Award" winner! Michael will be taking home the Grand Prize of $50,000, a year's supply of donuts and the oversized "Golden Donut Award" trophy.
Entenmann's invited fans from across the country to nominate the deserving father figure in their lives by submitting a video that exemplified why he is a "Dad of Glory" across one of the five "Dad-egories" including: Dad Humor, Dad Feats, Dad Engineering, Dad Fashion, and Dad Love. After receiving thousands of incredible submissions, an Entenmann's® panel of judges selected not only "The Golden Donut Award" winner, but they also chose a winner in each "Dad-egory" who will each receive $1,000 and a year's supply of donuts!
"We were overwhelmed by the number of heartfelt and entertaining nominations about father figures across the country who have made an impact," said Jason Amar, Director of Marketing at Entenmann's®. "In the end, we awarded Michael with 'The Golden Donut Award' for his inspiring story and all the amazing ways he goes above and beyond to encourage, support and love his daughter!''
Michael's wife submitted his nomination for the showcase, lovingly discussing her husband's relationship with their daughter, Kenzi, who has cerebral palsy. While Kenzi is dependent on her parents, Michael does everything in his power to help her live life to the fullest, taking her fishing, rafting and even snowmobiling. The father-daughter duo share a unique bond, and Kenzi often refers to her dad as her hero.
"It was so amazing to be recognized by Entenmann's as 'The Golden Donut Award' winner in the Dads of Glory Showcase. I am so honored to be chosen out of the nearly 2,000 amazing father figures who were nominated," said Michael B. "Being Kenzi's dad is my most important role, so it feels really special that my story was so well-received. This is the sweetest gift ever for me and my family!"
- Best of Dad Engineering - Thomas K., Bowling Green, K.Y.
- Best of Dad Fashion - Mitch B., Bismarck, N.D.
- Best of Dad Feats - Melvin L., Davie, F.L.
- Best of Dad Humor - James S., Hutto, T.X.
- Best of Dad Love - Eric W., Winder, G.A.
For more information, including how to view the "Dads of Glory" winners, please visit www.DadsofGlory.com.
Entenmann's history dates back more than 120 years to 1898 when William Entenmann opened his first bakery in Brooklyn, New York. By the 1960s the company was selling delicious donuts throughout the New York metropolitan area; by the 1970s it began selling nationwide. Today, Entenmann's markets over 100 different baked goods in the U.S., producing more than one billion donuts annually – one of which is the #1-best-selling classic Entenmann's Rich Frosted Donut introduced in 1973.
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- Hometown Revitalization grants provide $25,000 in funding for 20 local microgrant programs statewide
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Duke Energy Foundation today distributed $500,000 in grants to help small businesses across North Carolina – from restaurants to retailers – continue their ongoing recovery from economic challenges initially triggered by the pandemic. This is the second year Duke Energy has provided targeted grants in support of downtowns throughout the state.
Today's $25,000 grants were awarded to 20 nonprofits, each representing one community. That organization will establish a small-business support microgrant program and deploy the funding within their local community by January 2023. The microgrants may range from $500 to $2,500 per individual business.
"Local storefronts and businesses are the heartbeat of towns across our service territory," said Stephen De May, Duke Energy's North Carolina president. "Last year's inaugural Hometown Revitalization grants showed us the difference that strategic grants can make for towns throughout North Carolina. We're honored to partner with local nonprofits and businesses to help build more vibrant communities."
The Hometown Revitalization grants were awarded to the following 20 community organizations – quotes from each on the impact of the grants can be found here.
The Hometown Revitalization grant program was inspired by a successful collaboration between the Downtown Raleigh Alliance and Duke Energy that provided nearly 100 grants to downtown Raleigh storefronts. Last year, Duke Energy broadened that impact to small towns and rural communities across the state with its inaugural Hometown Revitalization grants. The grants allowed downtown storefronts the opportunity to create outdoor seating and serving opportunities, develop e-commerce websites, repair window fronts, and upgrade health and safety elements.
Aaron Nelson, president and CEO of The Chamber For a Greater Chapel Hill-Carrboro and executive director of the Partnership for a Sustainable Community, hopes to see a similar impact in his community.
"Many small businesses in downtown Chapel Hill and Carrboro are still hurting," said Nelson. "The Duke Energy Foundation Hometown Revitalization grant program will enable our local businesses to brighten their storefronts, boost their workforce and expand their capacity, and all of this will attract more visitors and help our community thrive."
Tony Holloway, board chair of Downtown Morehead City Inc., shared more perspective on the hurdles the grant will help his community overcome.
"This generous investment in our downtown will benefit and strengthen our small businesses whose owners have faced several years of difficult challenges – from hurricanes to the pandemic, and the impact left by both," said Holloway.
Lori Bailey, executive director of the Nantahala Health Foundation, says the grants are timely for Dillsboro.
"Coming on the heels of the challenges of the past two years, this is the perfect time to invest in this historic gem of a town," said Bailey. "As an organization focused on improving health outcomes, we understand that strengthening the places we live, learn, work and play will ultimately enhance well-being for all. We are pleased to partner with Duke Energy Foundation and the Town of Dillsboro to facilitate revitalization efforts for the small businesses that contribute to the town's vitality, and we are excited to see how the projects positively impact the downtown area and ultimately Refresh Dillsboro."
Small businesses interested in learning about how the program will be rolled out in their communities should inquire with the local nonprofit administering the microgrants.
Duke Energy Foundation
The Duke Energy Foundation provides more than $30 million annually in philanthropic support to meet the needs of communities where Duke Energy customers live and work. The foundation is funded by Duke Energy shareholders.
Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is one of America's largest energy holding companies. Its electric utilities serve 8.2 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and collectively own 50,000 megawatts of energy capacity. Its natural gas unit serves 1.6 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The company employs 28,000 people.
Duke Energy is executing an aggressive clean energy transition to achieve its goals of net-zero methane emissions from its natural gas business and at least a 50% carbon reduction from electric generation by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The 2050 net-zero goals also include Scope 2 and certain Scope 3 emissions. In addition, the company is investing in major electric grid enhancements and energy storage, and exploring zero-emission power generation technologies such as hydrogen and advanced nuclear.
Duke Energy was named to Fortune's 2022 "World's Most Admired Companies" list and Forbes' "America's Best Employers" list. More information is available at duke-energy.com. The Duke Energy News Center contains news releases, fact sheets, photos and videos. Duke Energy's illumination features stories about people, innovations, community topics and environmental issues. Follow Duke Energy on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
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Biden to channel Kennedy in his push for a cancer ‘moonshot’
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden next week will highlight his plans for drastically reducing cancer deaths and boosting treatments for the disease in what he has called “this generation’s moonshot,” the White House announced Wednesday.
Biden’s speech at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston on Monday will come on the 60th anniversary of his predecessor’s speech outlining his vision for putting the first man on the moon. The White House said Biden will outline what his administration is doing to “end cancer as we know it.”
The issue is personal for Biden, whose son Beau Biden died in 2015 of brain cancer. Biden launched the cancer moonshot the following year when serving as President Barack Obama’s vice president.
In February, Biden, a Democrat, set more ambitious goals for the project, including cutting the rate of cancer deaths in half in the coming 25 years and improving treatments and quality of life for those with cancer and their caregivers.
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Fed's Mester gave a near identical speech as one on August 31. On that date she said:L
- It is far too soon to conclude that inflation has peaked
- Wage pressures show little sign of abating
- We need to raise rates to 'somewhat above 4%' by early next year, then hold it there
- I do not anticipate rate cuts next year
- Sees unemployment rate rising 'somewhat above 4%' by end of next year
- need to see several months of data to be confident
- markets can remain volatile
- growth could slow more than expected
- unemployment could rise more than expected
- US economy not currently in a recession but the recession risks have increased
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Jeffrey Gibson • The Guitar in American Art • Contemporary African American Collage
Beatrix Potter • Spanish American Art from 1500 to 1800
Otobong Nkanga • Ron Jude • Raqib Shaw
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Frist Art Museum is excited to announce its 2023 schedule of exhibitions. In the Ingram Gallery, the year begins with Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric, a survey of the celebrated Indigenous multidisciplinary artist's vibrant paintings, sculpture, video, and installations. Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art is the first exhibition to explore the instrument's symbolism in American art from the early 19th century to the present through 125 works of art and 35 musical instruments. Multiplicity: Collage in Contemporary America is the first landmark museum exhibition that explores how an intergenerational array of contemporary artists leverages the technique of collage to reflect the breadth and complexity of Black identity.
In the Upper-Level Galleries, the family-friendly Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature traces the creative and ecological achievements of the beloved English author and illustrator. Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800: Highlights from LACMA's Collection features paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and more created in Mexico and Central and South America during the early modern era.
In the Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery, the Frist presents Nigerian Belgian artist Otobong Nkanga's tapestries, drawings, videos, and sculptures that feature narratives of wounding and healing, making metaphorical links between the landscape and the traumatized human body. Ron Jude's large-scale black-and-white photographs depict natural phenomena in Oregon, California, Hawaii, and Iceland. Raqib Shaw's alluring paintings fuse influences from Asian and Western traditions to create sumptuously detailed visions of magical environments.
The Frist Art Museum is supported in part by The Frist Foundation, Metro Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Frist Art Museum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit art exhibition center dedicated to presenting and originating high-quality exhibitions with related educational programs and community outreach activities. Located at 919 Broadway in downtown Nashville, Tenn., the Frist Art Museum offers the finest visual art from local, regional, national, and international sources in exhibitions that inspire people through art to look at their world in new ways. Information on accessibility can be found at FristArtMuseum.org/accessibility. Gallery admission is free for visitors ages 18 and younger and for members, and $15 for adults. For current hours and additional information, visit FristArtMuseum.org or call 615.244.3340.
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This is Gong's Fourth Best Workplaces Award This Year from Great Place to Work and Fortune
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gong, the Reality Platform™ leveraging artificial intelligence to transform go-to-market teams, today was honored by Great Place to Work® and Fortune as one of the 2022 Best Workplaces in Technology™. This is Gong's first time being named to this prestigious list and the fourth award Gong has earned this year from Great Place to Work and Fortune. Earning a spot means that Gong is one of the best companies to work for in the country.
The Best Workplaces in Technology award is based on analysis of survey responses from over 151,000 current employees from Great Place to Work-Certified™ companies in the tech industry. In the survey, 92 percent of Gong employees said the company was a great place to work, and more than 95 percent agreed with the statements, "When you join (Gong), you are made to feel welcome," and "Management is honest and ethical in its business practices" and "Our customers would rate the service we deliver as excellent."
In addition to today's award, Gong was recognized earlier this year as a Best Workplace among Bay Area Companies™, Small and Medium Sized Companies™, and Millennials™.
"No matter how you slice it – across industries, geographies, business sizes, and generations – Gong stands out as an excellent place to work," said Gong Chief People Officer Sandi Kochhar. "We're proud of our diverse and inclusive culture. By fostering trust and belonging at Gong, people can be themselves and excel."
The Fortune Best Workplaces in Technology list is highly competitive. Great Place to Work, the global authority on workplace culture, selected the list using rigorous analytics and confidential employee feedback. Companies were only considered if they are a Great Place to Work-Certified™ organization.
Great Place to Work is the only company culture award in America that selects winners based on how fairly employees are treated. Companies are assessed on how well they are creating a great employee experience that cuts across race, gender, age, disability status, or any aspect of who employees are or what their role is.
"These companies have adapted to the challenges of an ever-changing workplace by their commitment to inclusive, high-trust cultures where employees are treated as human beings first and foremost," says Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place to Work.
Interested in joining the Gong team? Please visit the career page to learn more.
Gong unlocks reality to help people and companies reach their full potential. The Reality Platform™ autonomously empowers customer-facing teams to take advantage of their most valuable assets – customer interactions, which the Gong platform captures and analyzes. Gong then delivers insights at scale, enabling revenue and go-to-market teams to determine the best actions for repeatable winning outcomes. More than 3,000 innovative companies like Morningstar Inc., Paychex, LinkedIn, Shopify, Slack, SproutSocial, Twilio, and Zillow trust Gong to power their business reality. For more information, please visit www.gong.io.
Great Place to Work selected the Best Workplaces in Technology by gathering and analyzing confidential survey responses from more than over 151,000 employees from Great Place to Work-Certified™ companies in the technology industry. Company rankings are derived from 60 employee experience questions within the Great Place to Work® Trust Index™ survey. Great Place to Work determines its lists using its proprietary For All™ methodology to evaluate and certify thousands of organizations in America's largest ongoing annual workforce study, based on over 1 million survey responses and data from companies representing more than 6.1 million employees, this year alone. Read the full methodology.
To get on this list next year, start here.
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Viewing U.S. History Through a Different Lens
It’s past time to shift perspectives.
An unconscious ethnocentrism pervades the teaching of American history. While students learn that the English arrived in Virginia in 1607 and that the Pilgrims reached Plymouth in 1620, few realize that the first European exploration of what is now the United States took place in Florida in 1513 or that the first European settlement was a town established by Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón at San Miguel de Gualdape on the coast of Georgia in 1526.
When we speak of immigration, we refer to the great waves of migration from Europe and tend to forget the sizable migrations from China, Japan and Latin America and especially Mexico. Discussions of industrialization focus on the great factories of the Northeast, overlooking the growth of large-scale mining or commercial agriculture in the Southwest. The treatment of urbanization centers on the Northeast or Midwest, neglecting the West, which, in the late 19th century, was one of the most heavily urbanized regions of the country. When we examine the civil rights movement, we look foremost at the South.
Fixating on the Eastern Seaboard renders invisible whole groups of Americans: Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans.
To take an example, the phrase “Mexican Americans,” while convenient, is ethnocentrically Anglo, for as inhabitants of the Americas, Mexicans living south of the Rio Grande are as American as citizens of the United States, whom Hispanics call estadounidenses.
When we teach history, we need to take perspectives and experiences that have been marginalized for far too long and bring them to center stage. Only by embracing alternate points of view can we begin to grasp the complexities of our collective past.
The study of Mexican American or Puerto Rican or Japanese American or Chinese American history forces us to confront some unpleasant truths. By seeing history through the eyes of those who toiled in canneries, oil fields, copper mines and smelters and rail yards, we can begin to appreciate the costs of many of our society’s greatest achievements.
In 1994, when the U.S. Postal Service released a series of stamps that celebrated 20 “Legends of the West,” none of the stamps portrayed a figure of Mexican ancestry. No one viewing the stamps would understand that Mexicans and Mexican Americans were among the true pioneers in the history of the West, that they had a critical role in colonizing, developing and shaping the culture and history of the region.
The exclusion of Mexicans and Mexican Americans from the postage-stamp series is consistent with a custom of slighting the Spanish and Mexican contributions to American history. Settlers from Mexico have been living in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas for as long as Europeans have lived on the East Coast. Even some recently published textbooks largely omit Mexican Americans from discussions of immigration, industrialization and unionization.
While the labels have changed over time—Mexican(o), Tejano, Hispano, Californio, Mexican American, La Raza, Chicano/Chicana, Latino/Latina and Latinx—the people of Mexican descent have been an active presence on this continent for more than three centuries. To cite just one example, in 1610, Spanish explorers founded Santa Fe a decade before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
Mexican American culture is the product of a distinctive history—a heritage shaped not by the revolution of the North American British colonies or even the Civil War, but by the Mexican War for Independence, the Mexican War with the United States, the Mexican Revolution and ongoing struggles over immigration, resources and education. The story of America’s settlement, of westward expansion, of immigration, of organized labor, of civil rights—all acquire new meaning when viewed from the vantage point of Mexican Americans.
More than any other ethnic group, Mexicans and Mexican Americans have transformed a biracial society into a truly multiracial society and a monolingual society into a bilingual society. But perhaps the greatest impact of Mexican Americans on American life can be summed up in the Spanish word mestizaje. The Mexican concept of mestizaje, which involves cultural blending and mixture and a recognition of cultural diversity, provides a fresh way to think about American society, its history and its future.
A century ago, the prevailing American attitude toward the absorption of immigrants was assimilation, the essential abandonment of immigrant ways for the customs of the established majority. In reality, assimilation did not mean the disappearance of European, African, Latin American or Asian heritages. Ethnic groups practiced an assertive multiculturalism, maintaining distinctive religious traditions, foodways and cultural practices and using politics to defend their groups’ interests. The result was the creation of a hybrid culture, a culture shaped by blending, borrowing and the mutual influence of culture groups.
Languages were blended into an apparently uni-ethnic English. Our music, diet, fashion and sports all reflect a process of borrowing and intermixture.
Long before multiculturalism became definable by name as a moral and aesthetic value, this country was beginning to achieve something superior to the quest for ethnic purity found in many parts of the world. But, of course, cultural pluralism co-existed with prejudice, discrimination, gross inequality and violence. Over the course of U.S. history, Mexican Americans typically suffered outright exclusion alternating with studied neglect.
If this country is going to rise above its past failings, if it is going to stand for something greater than the pursuit of individual self-interest, then it is essential that it embrace the ideal of mestizaje, a concept of cultural diversity, blending and mutual influence.
Today, many Americans feel a void in our culture. Mainstream American culture seems bland, denatured and homogenized. Mexican and Mexican American culture is, in contrast, old, rich, dynamic and varied. In recent years, it has regenerated American food, dress, music and artistic, literary and cultural expression. Above all, the concept of mestizaje provides an invaluable ideal as Americans enter a new, multicultural and international century.
The history that appears in films, popular literature and textbooks is full of omissions. Events and people central to our nation’s past have frequently been ignored or overlooked. Among the most glaring omissions involve Hispanics in general and Mexican Americans in particular. Omitting their stories leaves an important gap in the nation’s collective self-understanding.
Let me offer a few examples:
- Black and Hispanic lives have been intertwined in ways seldom recognized until very recently. We now know that several thousand enslaved African Americans fled along another underground railroad from south Texas into Mexico. We’ve also learned about the complex relations between Blacks and Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the midst of the Mexican Revolution and World War I, as the U.S. army dispatched Black troops, including the legendary Buffalo Soldiers, into the border region to suppress labor turmoil in commercial agriculture in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, an incursion by Pancho Villa’s forces into New Mexico and a purported plot (known as the Plan of San Diego) to form a “‘Liberating Army of Races and Peoples,’ to be made up of Mexican Americans, African Americans and Japanese, to ‘free’ the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Colorado from United States control.”
- We now know much more about the extent of lynchings and other forms of racist violence directed against people of Mexican descent in California and Texas as Anglo mobs sought control of land and mining claims and state actors, including Texas Rangers and federal law enforcement officers, used violence to enforce their version of law and order. The over 500 deaths by lynching that have been documented in Texas alone probably represent only a fraction of the extrajudicial murders.
- Few standard surveys of U.S. history bother to mention that it wasn’t until 1904 that the United States began to patrol its southern border—and then with no more 75 agents, who were seeking to curtail Chinese, not Mexican, immigration. Similarly, few history books mention that two days after enactment of the 1924 National Origins Act, which imposed highly restrictive national immigration quotas, Congress established the Border Patrol, or that the Immigration and Naturalization Service was established by executive order as part of the New Deal—after some 400,000 Americans of Mexican descent, about half of whom were U.S. citizens, had been “repatriated” into Mexico under pressure from the secretary of labor, the American Federation of Labor and municipal governments.
To take another example of historical amnesia, 23 years before Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that segregated schools were inherently unequal, a fifth grader named Robert Alvarez and his parents challenged a California school district’s decision to build a separate school for Mexican Americans. The school board claimed that the school, which resembled a stable for horses, was intended to Americanize the students. In fact, most pupils were already American citizens and spoke English. The Alvarezes viewed the board’s decision to establish an “Americanization school” as a pretext to segregate Mexican American students. A local judge agreed and ordered the school board to return the Mexican American students to the local grammar school, making Alvarez v. Lemon Grove the first successful desegregation case in American history.
An understanding of the Mexican American experience not only gives us a more comprehensive and accurate view of our past, it also provides a key to our country’s future.
Many factors contribute to a lack of public knowledge about the Hispanic and, particularly, the Mexican American, contributions to our collective history. A perspective that privileges the East Coast and the nation’s English heritage relegates Mexican American history, mistakenly, to the margins. The history of the United States is commonly told in terms of a westward advance from the original English colonies, a perspective that downplays the Hispanic role in the exploration, settlement and development of the territory that now comprises the United States.
At the same time, Mexican American history is often regarded as a regional history, a subset of Western history, with Mexican Americans treated, mistakenly, as relative latecomers to the United States and as an insular, inward-turning people whose lives were disconnected from the major events and themes of American history.
Mexican American history, from this perspective, only begins with the Texas Revolution of 1836 and the Mexican War of 1846–1848. Since the number of Mexican Americans remained relatively small until the early 20th century, many cling to the flawed assumption that their role in American history was marginal.
Another factor that contributes to public ignorance about Mexican American history is the sense of shame and guilt that this story can induce in many non-Hispanics. The treatment of Mexican Americans does not shed a positive light on our collective past. It is a history that involves the loss of land and natural resources, labor exploitation, discrimination, deportation, violence, and denial of equal citizenship rights.
But if Mexican American history challenges the upbeat narrative that treats American history as a story of progress, it can nevertheless be quite uplifting. It reminds us of the crucial contributions that stigmatized minority groups made to the nation’s economic growth, to the development of American culture and, above all, in helping the country realize its highest ideals of freedom and equality.
It is a mistake of the highest order to think of Latino/a history—and especially the story of Mexican Americans, the single largest group of Latinos—as a peripheral part of the American past or as a recent addition to the national stew. Hispanics played a critical role in every aspect of our history, from colonization onward. Understanding of such topics as slavery, territorial expansion, industrialization, immigration, the Great Depression and civil rights struggles is broadened and greatly enriched by an understanding of the Hispanic experience.
Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Leading Senior Care Franchise Advancing Care, Support and Research Efforts with National Team Fundraising for Walk to End Alzheimer's Nationwide
ROSEVILLE, Calif., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Always Best Care Senior Services, the leading senior care franchise system in the United States, today announced its 12th anniversary as a Walk to End Alzheimer's® National Team. Over the past 11 years, participating Always Best Care teams around the country have raised $785,986, earning the National Team Longevity Award for more than a decade of support and the Lifetime Achievement Level for raising over half a million dollars. This year, the company is on track to raise another $100,000 at Walks nationwide and continues to share helpful tips for caring for Alzheimer's patients in honor of World Alzheimer's Month in September.
"As a leader in senior care, Always Best Care is proud to partner with the Walk to End Alzheimer's every year on behalf of the more than 6 million Americans living with Alzheimer's disease," said Jake Brown, President & CEO of Always Best Care. "We know that extra attention and tender compassionate care must accompany every service we provide. This is especially true for our clients who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's."
As a Silver National Team, Always Best Care offices form teams for Walks across the country and raise funds that advance the care, support and research efforts of the Alzheimer's Association. Each team's donations play an important role in improving the lives of people living with Alzheimer's, their families and caregivers.
Two teams that have continually rallied together for the cause are Always Best Care of Delaware and Always Best Care of Philadelphia, which are both owned by Bryant Greene. His work on behalf of the cause has landed him in the Top 25 of national fundraisers and the top fundraiser in the Delaware Valley for the past eight years. Greene, who has also been named to the Board of Directors for the Alzheimer's Association's Delaware Valley chapter, has raised more than half a million dollars in his markets over the past 10 years.
"It is my honor to build awareness of and promote the important resources the Alzheimer's Association provides and to help connect my audiences with those resources," said Bryant Greene, who also hosts popular television and radio programs in the Philadelphia market. "I grew up with a beloved babysitter who lost her battle with Alzheimer's. Through my Always Best Care businesses, I've made many more personal connections with individuals and families impacted by this disease, and I see the struggles they endure. That's why this cause is near and dear to my heart."
Always Best Care is one of the nation's leading providers of non-medical in-home care and assisted living referral services, with skilled home health care in limited markets. The company delivers its services through an international network of more than 225 independently owned and operated franchise territories throughout the United States and Canada. By working with case managers, social workers, discharge planners, doctors, and families, Always Best Care franchise owners provide affordable, comprehensive solutions that can be specifically matched to meet a client's particular physical or social needs.
About Always Best Care
Founded in 1996, Always Best Care Senior Services is based on the belief that having the right people for the right level of care means peace of mind for the client and family. Always Best Care has been assisting seniors with a wide range of conditions and personal needs for over 25 years and currently provides thousands of hours of care every year.
Always Best Care also offers exclusive programs such as Always in Touch, Balance Tracking System and remote patient monitoring. For more information regarding Always Best Care's solutions, visit www.alwaysbestcare.com.
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BIRMINGHAM, Mich., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hudson Avenue Partners ("Hudson Avenue") is pleased to announce that Pipeline Technique Ltd. ("PTL" or the "Company"), a portfolio investment of Bluewater Private Equity ("Bluewater"), has completed a transformational acquisition of three leading energy infrastructure units, CRC-Evans, Pipeline Induction Heat and Stanley Inspection, from Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. ("SBK"). Hudson Avenue served as exclusive financial advisor to Bluewater and PTL and arranged financing to support the acquisition along with future growth capital needs of the Company.
With a 24-year history of global operations, PTL is a market leading provider of onshore and offshore infrastructure welding, field joint coating, and technical engineering services for the energy and renewables sector. PTL's acquisition of the Houston-based energy infrastructure business units from SBK creates a worldwide leader in welding, coating and inspection offerings serving the entire energy spectrum, from traditional hydrocarbon to renewables and carbon capture. The combined platform possesses a deeply talented workforce operating in more than 100 countries and cutting-edge technologies capable of addressing energy infrastructure needs of any scale and around the world.
"The acquisition transaction represents a major step in PTL's global growth and diversification strategy allowing us the ability to work in every corner of the world and across all energy sub-sectors," stated Frederic Castrec, CEO of PTL. "The Hudson Avenue team did a remarkable job of driving certainty and optionality throughout the financing process, allowing our team to remain focused on the complexities of a carve-out of this magnitude."
Martin Somerville, Managing Director of Bluewater, commented "Hudson Avenue's tailored approach provided us with the ability to efficiently reach a globally diverse set of financing sources with intimate knowledge of the energy infrastructure sector, driving an exceptional outcome and a compelling partnership with our debt provider. Given the level of complexity inherent within cross-border carve-out transactions, the Hudson Avenue team proved to be an invaluable resource for us while successfully navigating challenging structural nuances in real-time."
"We are honored to have partnered with Bluewater and PTL to deliver an optimal financing solution vital to the completion of the company's transformative acquisition. This transaction highlights Hudson Avenue's depth of expertise in both domestic and international capital markets along with its innate ability to customize its approach to address highly unique transaction dynamics, while delivering boutique-level attention to detail at every stage of the process." added Ryan Deegan, Managing Partner at Hudson Avenue Partners.
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Pipeline Technique is a leading provider of specialist products and services that support the effective delivery of fabrication and construction projects worldwide. Its proven capabilities across robotic welding, non-destructive examination and field joint coating are deployed to support projects and developments, onshore and offshore, for a portfolio of customers from across the energy industry. The Company's activities span the entire energy spectrum from traditional oil & gas to renewables and carbon capture. Based in Aberdeen, Scotland, Pipeline Technique has a network of offices and worksites around the world. For additional information, visit www.pipeline-technique.com.
ABOUT BLUEWATER PRIVATE EQUITY
Bluewater is a specialist international private equity firm focused on the middle-market energy sector. Its experienced investment and operating professionals drive value creation as they manage $2.5 billion of investment across a portfolio of over 20 companies. Bluewater has a prime focus on projects or technologies that contribute to the energy transition agenda and works to a diversified investment strategy based on the principles of sustainability and close working partnerships with best-in-class management teams. Bluewater has a strong focus on ESG and is a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment. For additional information, visit www.bluewaterpe.com.
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Hudson Avenue Partners specializes in designing, structuring, and raising debt and equity capital facilities in support of acquisition, refinancing and recapitalization transactions within the middle market. Founded by investment banking and leveraged finance professionals, the principals of Hudson Avenue have collectively raised and invested over $35 billion of debt and equity capital for clients around the globe. The firm focuses on placement engagements requiring committed capital of $25 million to over $250 million supporting transactions occurring across various industry sectors. Functioning as a fully outsourced capital markets desk for its clients, Hudson Avenue saves valuable time and resources while driving optimal outcomes with an exceptional degree of certainty. For more information, visit www.hudsonavepartners.com.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO) launched the first issue of the Digital Prosperity Report, to highlight some of the most pressing issues for digital economic development and report on DCO initiatives and programs that support the DCO member states in developing their own digital economies.
The first issue of the report features an introduction by Børge Brende, President of the World Economic Forum (WEF), where he talks about the Digital FDI Initiative launched by WEF and the DCO to support FDI in the digital economy, and the global rebound in FDI post-COVID-19. The report also features an exclusive interview with HE Paula Ingabire, Minister of ICT & Innovation of Rwanda, in which the Minister discusses the country's digital economic policy, the role of ICT in Rwanda's development, and how DCO membership will help further Rwanda's strategic goals in the digital sphere.
Other features include discussions of the gender gap in the startup sectoran examination of the challenges of effective end-user data protection legislation; and a report on the new Digital FDI Initiative that was recently launched by the DCO and the World Economic Forum. The report also includes insights into upcoming DCO activities, including the DCO Global Round Table Series, the STRIDE initiative to support digital startups, the Digital Economy Maturity Index (DEMI), and the DCO Center of Excellence for Data Flows.
Deemah AlYahya, DCO Secretary-General said on the launch of the report: "The DCO was founded to enable digital prosperity for all and to support our member states by enabling knowledge sharing and collaboration on the development of best practices, policies, and strategies to accelerate their digital transformation and therefore, support the development of an inclusive, thriving, and sustainable national digital economy. The Digital Prosperity Report is an important part of this knowledge-sharing commitment, which highlights the activities of the DCO and our member states, the report delivers expert commentary from high-profile stakeholders and draws attention to important issues such as tackling gender inequality in the digital economy, and the challenges of end-user data protection. This first edition of the report is a must-read for anyone interested in staying informed about the latest developments in the global digital economy, particularly in DCO member states"
The DCO Digital Prosperity Report is available now: Digital Prosperity Report (dcoinsights.com)
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PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — Four people are facing charges following an alleged armed robbery Tuesday night in Pawtucket.
Officers responding to Main Street around 6:30 p.m. found a 25-year-old Connecticut man with facial injuries. He told police that he was robbed and assaulted by three of his friends and a fourth person he didn’t know.
Police say the suspects fled from the scene and the victim was transported to Rhode Island Hospital for treatment.
The vehicle was located by the Providence Police Department a short time later where police arrested the driver, identified as Jayden Sacco, 19, of Westerly.
The other three occupants, identified as Tia Pierce, 25, of Wakefield, Dante Durrel, 24, of Pawtucket, and Mason Emery, 19, of Charlestown, were turned over to Pawtucket police for further investigation.
All four suspects have been charged with First Degree Robbery and Conspiracy.
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BOSTON, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2022 Smart Water Summit (SWS) announced VODA.ai as the "BEST SMART WATER SOLUTION" at SWS22 held August 29 - September 1, 2022, in San Antonio, Texas. The 2022 Smart Water Summit had forty-seven participating Smart Water Technology Vendors competing in three award categories. VODA.ai received the 2022 SWS Best Smart Water Solution award for its innovative application of machine learning to help utility leaders make decisions based on science. VODA.ai was nominated for all three award categories. Awards were voted on by the 100+ Utility Executives in attendance representing 78 Water Utilities from across North America.
VODA.ai is on the cutting edge of helping water and wastewater utilities prioritize repairs and capital improvement projects in transmission, distribution, and collection systems. VODA.ai has a cloud-based platform using artificial intelligence to analyze existing GIS and failure data to identify pipes at the highest risk of failure, probable wastewater incidents, and finding lead service lines.
About VODA.ai: VODA.ai helps water utilities prioritize their infrastructure using machine learning. It is proven to be up to 65 times more accurate than traditional methods and twice as accurate in finding lead pipes. VODA.ai was founded in 2017 and is used by many of the Leading Utilities of the World. It is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. VODA.ai's patent-pending machine learning and deep learning technology discover patterns from other pipes and enables science-based decision making.
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UPPSALA, Sweden, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Orexo AB (publ.), (STO: ORX) (OTCQX: ORXOY) today announces the Integrated Healthcare System, Trinity Health in North Dakota, in partnership with Orexo, is expanding patient access to digital therapeutics. Trinity Health will now offer Orexo's evidence-based digital therapies vorvida® and deprexis® to help patients manage depression and excessive drinking.
During the last year, Orexo and Trinity Health have collaborated to establish new administrative processes and support systems to ensure effective patient access to these innovative digital therapies and reimbursement of the products through a collaborative care model. In preparation for the implementation, Orexo and Trinity Health have educated more than 50 healthcare professionals in the collaborative care model, where more traditional healthcare delivery methods are combined with Orexo's digital therapies. To ensure successful implementation, Orexo and Trinity Health have agreed on an extensive communication plan to patients in North Dakota and Eastern Montana.
Both vorvida® and deprexis® are based on cognitive behavioural therapy techniques that empower patients in their efforts to make behaviour and lifestyle changes. These digital therapeutics can be used privately and are available 24 hours a day, helping to reduce the stigma that is often associated with mental illness and substance use disorders (SUD) as well as making evidence-based psychosocial support accessible to a large group of patients.
Trinity Health serves over 25 counties and more than 200,000 people in North Dakota and Eastern Montana, many of whom live in remote areas. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), North Dakota has the highest prevalence of binge drinking in the US. CDC data also shows an estimated 25 percent of the adults in North Dakota, and 27 percent of adults in Montana, experienced symptoms of major depressive disorder in July 2022.
Nikolaj Sørensen, President and CEO, said: "I am very pleased to announce that Trinity Health has started to offer our innovative digital therapies, vorvida® and deprexis®, to help patients manage depression and excessive drinking. This milestone is the result of an extensive collaboration with Trinity Health and our shared ambition to be at the forefront in helping people suffering from mental illness and substance misuse. I look forward to continuing our partnership and supporting Trinity Health in becoming a frontrunner among US healthcare systems in making digital therapeutics accessible to patients."
The announcement from Trinity Health can be found at:
https://www.trinityhealth.org/trinity-health-partners-with-orexo-u-s-to-expand-patient-access-to-digital-therapeutics/
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About Orexo
Orexo develops improved pharmaceuticals and digital therapies addressing unmet needs within the growing space of substance use disorders and mental health. The products are commercialized by Orexo in the US or via partners worldwide. The main market today is the American market for buprenorphine/naloxone products, where Orexo commercializes its lead product ZUBSOLV® for treatment of opioid use disorder. Total net sales for 2021 amounted to SEK 565 million and the number of employees was 121. Orexo is listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm Mid Cap (ORX) and is available as ADRs on OTCQX (ORXOY) in the US. The company is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden, where research and development activities are performed.
For more information about Orexo please visit www.orexo.com. You can also follow Orexo on Twitter, @orexoabpubl, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
About Trinity Health
Trinity Health is a nonprofit, integrated healthcare system serving northwest and central North Dakota and eastern Montana. There is also a tertiary care hospital in Minot covering more than 40 specialties as well as several rural health clinics and a long-term care facility. Trinity provides a full complement of healthcare services to the region. Since 1922, Trinity has been committed to looking ahead and improving ourselves in ways that provide the best, most compassionate care possible for our patients, families and communities. For more information about Trinity Health please visit, www.trinityhealth.org. You can also follow Trinity Health on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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Judge rules that Elon Musk can use Twitter whistleblower claims
A Delaware court on Wednesday ruled that Elon Musk will be allowed to introduce claims from Twitter whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko into his countersuit against the social media company. It also denied Musk's request to delay the October trial.
Why it matters: The whistleblower's claims, which include that Twitter violated a 2011 consent decree with the U.S. government, introduce a new legal wrinkle into Musk's attempt to back out of his $44 billion takeover offer for the social media company.
- On the one hand, Zatko undermines Musk's existing arguments that Twitter has lied about the number of bot accounts on its platform.
- On the other hand, Zatko also argues that Twitter violated its 2011 consent decree with the U.S. government, which Musk could try to argue is a material breach.
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LONDON and NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global creator commerce company Whalar today announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with Logitech For Creators - a brand extension of Logitech that is dedicated to empowering all creators pursue their passions - to launch a company-sponsored initiative to accelerate the careers of up-and-coming creators from under-represented communities.
The Whalar Creator Academy will host a ten-week program of expert training, networking, and career development resources to pave a way for diverse creators to build lifelong, entrepreneurial careers. Through Whalar's unique capabilities, the rising creatives will also be paired with more established creators with shared similar styles, identities and communities - including TikTok stars Emmanuel Duverneau (3.4 million followers), Matthew and Ryan (6.1 million) and Shirli (2 million) - for mentorship during the educational program.
Jamie Gutfreund, Global CMO at Whalar said: "Creativity is accessible to many, however building a sustainable and profitable career as a content creator can have its limitations, especially for creators from underrepresented communities. Whalar's mission is to liberate all creative voices, so we are proud to bring on board an industry leader equally committed to empowering creators and building a robust creator economy to launch our first Creator Academy."
Logitech For Creators, who launched their global platform "Together We Create" earlier this year, seeks to amplify creator voices, champion community, and empower change, big and small, for a more diverse and inclusive future.
On the importance of investing in creators, Erin Chin, CMO at Logitech For Creators said: "Creators have the extraordinary potential and ability to shape culture today. This is why we put creators at the center of everything that we do including building solutions to help them create better, cultivating a diverse and inclusive community, and empowering creators to enact change big and small."
The Whalar Creator Academy will formally launch on September 12th 2022, and will work with creators covering a wide range of content themes, passions, and identities across all platforms from Germany, UK and US. Leaders of the creator community and influencer marketing driving the Creator Academy courses include C Talent, Patreon, The Rose Group and the Ad Council. To bring the inaugural Creator Academy to a close, Sir John Hegarty, founder and creative at BBH and The Garage Soho, and Board Chair at Whalar will share his insights on using creativity to break the mold.
The Creator Academy is part of Whalar for Good - a global initiative designed to harness the power and potential of the creator community by encouraging positive social change through strategic partnerships with creators, brands, and leading social platforms.
Kerry Perse, Creators for Good Lead at the Ad Council said: "Creators have a unique and powerful role to do good in the world. When we match their passions with the support and tools to succeed, empowering them to be ambassadors for change – and inspiring others to do the same – our communities and society will be stronger for it. This is what we do every day with the Ad Council's Creators for Good program and look forward to partnering with Whalar and Logitech For Creators to empower more trusted messengers to drive positive change."
Find out more about the Creator Academy at whalar.com/CreatorAcademy.
Jacquelyn Udeh
Senior Communications Manager - Whalar
jacquelyn.udeh@whalar.com
Aasit Thakkar
Senior Global Communications Manager - Logitech For Creators
athakkar@logitech.com
Whalar is a global creator commerce company enabling creators, brands, and the world's leading social platforms to work better together to drive business growth for all. We help brands stay culturally relevant through strategic creator relationships that deliver entertaining and must see content at scale. We are differentiated by our unique capabilities, including comprehensive creator talent management, brand partnership expertise, proprietary technology, a dedicated Web3 innovation practice, and C Talent, the leading management agency for Deaf and Disabled talent. Our team includes over 300 diverse storytellers, creatives, data, and technology specialists across North America, Europe, APAC, and MENA. We power the creator economy. We are Whalar. Find out more at www.whalar.com.
Logitech For Creators, a brand extension of Logitech International, that helps all creators pursue their passions by unlocking their extraordinary potential and ability to shape culture. From solutions spanning lighting, microphones, cameras, and software to platforms that champion community and change - we put creators at the heart of everything we do. Logitech For Creators brings together Blue Microphones, Mevo, and Streamlabs, brands that have always served creators with their tools.
Founded in 1981, and headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, Logitech International is a Swiss public company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (LOGN) and the Nasdaq Global Select Market (LOGI). Find Logitech For Creators at www.logitech.com/creators, the company blog, or @LogitechC.
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WOODINVILLE, Wash., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This month, Woodinville Whiskey will release its Special Limited Release Woodinville Moscatel Finished Straight Bourbon in 23 markets (MSRP $99.99 per bottle). At the time of its distillery-only release last fall, the Woodinville 2021 Harvest Release was the first Moscatel Finished Straight Bourbon in the American Whiskey category. The whiskey was introduced exclusively at the Distillery Tasting Room in Washington state last September.
Woodinville Moscatel Finished Straight Bourbon is Woodinville's fully mature, Flagship Straight Bourbon Whiskey transferred into 10-year-old, 200-gallon Moscatel de Setúbal barrels for "finishing". Moscatel de Setúbal is a rare, fortified wine produced on the Setúbal Peninsula of Portugal, a region known for its ideal climate for producing these wines. This "finishing" process adds notes of dried apricot and orange peel, with a honey and toffee sweetness. Candied nuts and a hint of fennel greet you for a lingering finish.
As the 2021 Washington state Harvest Release, Woodinville Moscatel Finished Straight Bourbon was named one of the "Best New American Double-Barrel Whiskies of 2021" by Nicolas Stecher in Maxim. For Uproxx's "Best Bourbon Whiskey Blind Taste Test" in February, Zach Johnston of Uproxx wrote, "Tasting Notes: There's a mix of chocolate powder, apricots, and orange that's tempered by five spice and a hint of wet reeds. Sweet and floral honey opens the palate up to Almond Roca (gotcha!) and peach pits. Ripe plums with more of those wet reeds drive the finish towards soft leather, more stone fruit, and a slightly spicy tobacco chew. My Guess: This is a Woodinville bourbon… that Almond Roca flavor note is very Seattle and gives it away instantly."
Woodinville's online Product Locator will assist in locating bottles of this Special Limited Release: https://www.woodinvillewhiskeyco.com/product-locator/ .
Woodinville Whiskey Company (www.woodinvillewhiskeyco.com) is a craft distillery founded by two longtime friends and residents of the Woodinville area, Orlin Sorensen and Brett Carlile under the mentorship of an industry icon, the late David Pickerell, former Master Distiller for Maker's Mark. Woodinville is Washington state's largest craft distillery, handcrafting all of its products from 100% locally sourced grains from the Omlin Family Farm in Quincy, Washington.
Their single farm, flagship products, Woodinville Straight Bourbon Whiskey, and Woodinville Straight 100% Rye Whiskey were both awarded "Craft Whiskey of the Year" in their respective categories by the American Distilling Institute in 2016 and 2017, a national competition with over 500 spirits entries from around the country. In March of 2020, the San Francisco World Spirits Competition also gave the competition's highest honors to Woodinville's Flagship Bourbon Whiskey with a Double Gold medal and the title of "Best Straight Bourbon Whiskey of 2020". In addition, it performed incredibly in Fred Minnick's "Pappy vs. the Field" blind tasting and Minnick also named it "Best Bourbon Outside Kentucky" in 2019. Last year Forbes reported that Woodinville "may just be the best craft whiskey in America." And in May, Woodinville Flagship Straight 100% Rye Whiskey earned Double Platinum honors in the American Spirits Council of Tasters 2022 ASCOT Awards.
In 2017 Woodinville joined Moët Hennessy, the wine and spirits division of LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy), the world's leading luxury goods company, with Orlin and Brett still at the helm. Woodinville Whiskey is available in Washington state, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, DC metro, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin. The state-of-the-art distillery and tasting room in Woodinville, completed in 2014, is home to exclusive new launches like its annual Harvest Release in the fall. Private tours led by a distiller are available, when scheduled in advance. The distillery is open 7 days a week. Woodinville PR: Kat Spellman, (206)755-2341, spellman@woodinvillewhiskeyco.com.
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New-construction hotel in Plano, Tex. is the first ground break for the extended-stay brand with 72 hotels in the development pipeline
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the world's largest hotel franchising company with approximately 9,000 hotels across 95+ countries, celebrates today the first groundbreaking of its new extended-stay brand, in Plano, Texas. The all new-construction brand, operating under the working title "Project ECHO" is seeing great momentum with 72 hotels in the development pipeline as of the end of the second quarter.
"This is a milestone moment for Wyndham, as we break ground on our first hotel under this innovative, extended-stay hotel brand," said Geoff Ballotti, president and chief executive officer, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. "Demand for extended-stay accommodations continues to surge as interest continues to grow among both guests and developers. As the nation's leader in economy and midscale hotel accommodations, this is the ideal time to introduce a cost-friendly and all new-construction brand, starting with this important and growing Texas market."
Conveniently located just a few miles from Dallas along the southeast corner of Highway 121 and Rasor Boulevard in Plano, this first groundbreaking for the new extended-stay hotel brand is close to the city's nearby shopping, dining, and outdoor offerings. Named "one of the happiest places in the country," Plano offers incredible nature preserves and a variety of arts and cultural activities. The hotel is owned by Gulf Coast Hotel Management and is expected to open in the second half of 2023.
"This new development will offer a modern, extended-stay product with all the conveniences of home for both leisure and business travelers visiting north Texas," said Ian McClure, chief executive officer, Gulf Coast Hotel Management. "We were attracted to Wyndham for this project due to their expertise, and how this new brand is custom-designed with the developer in mind."
The purpose-built, 124-room Project ECHO prototype requires just under two acres of land, has a highly competitive cost per key, and features multiple characteristics that intentionally separate it from traditional economy brands. Coming in at just over 50,000 square-feet—nearly 74 percent of which is rentable—individual rooms average 300 square-feet. The rooms consist of single- and two-queen studio suites with kitchenettes as well as efficiently-designed public spaces—a lobby, fitness center and guest laundry—that help to limit labor needs.
For more information, including development opportunities, visit www.projectecho.wyndhamhotels.com.
About Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: WH) is the world's largest hotel franchising company by the number of properties, with approximately 9,000 hotels across over 95 countries on six continents. Through its network of approximately 819,000 rooms appealing to the everyday traveler, Wyndham commands a leading presence in the economy and midscale segments of the lodging industry. The Company operates a portfolio of 22 hotel brands, including Super 8®, Days Inn®, Ramada®, Microtel®, La Quinta®, Baymont®, Wingate®, AmericInn®, Hawthorn Suites®, Trademark Collection® and Wyndham®. The Company's award-winning Wyndham Rewards® loyalty program offers over 95 million enrolled members the opportunity to redeem points at thousands of hotels, vacation club resorts and vacation rentals globally. For more information, visit www.wyndhamhotels.com.
Contacts:
Scott Carman
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
+1 (973) 753-6590
scott.carman@wyndham.com
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African fintech NowNow pulls in $13M seed round
NowNow, a Nigerian payments startup, raised $13 million in seed funding from NeoVision Ventures, DLF Family Office and Shadi Abdulhadi, TechCrunch reports.
Why it's the BFD: The relatively small seed round is part of a bigger trend of investors betting on fintech's growth across the continent as younger consumers seek alternative ways to bank.
Of note: In March, Axios reported that, before 2021, just eight African startups had raised $100 million or more in a single round. Last year, that number shot up to 14, per data from Partech.
- Fintechs have sprouted in cities across Africa and are pulling in funding from U.S. and global investors.
Details: "NowNow is targeting 5,000 SMEs with its business-in-a-box solution, including the NFC-enabled tech, by year’s end," TechCrunch reports. "On the consumer side of things, the fintech claims to serve up to 200,000 customers; it hopes to increase that number to 1 million by December." | https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2022/09/07/african-fintech-nownow-13m-seed-round | 2022-09-07T15:49:36Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2022/09/07/african-fintech-nownow-13m-seed-round | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Financial Consultant Steve Sexton Shares His Best Practices to Combat Debt Accumulation
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to CNBC, the average American has over $90,000 in debt. Accumulating debt is not only a financial burden – it can be mentally and emotionally taxing as a borrower finds themselves trapped in debt because the high-interest charges keep piling on. Steve Sexton, financial consultant and CEO of Sexton Advisory Group, shares some practical tips to help better manage, stabilize, and avoid a debt trap.
- An emergency fund is essential. "Aside from budgeting and living within your means, having an emergency fund for unexpected expenses is one of the best ways to avoid going into debt in the first place," says Sexton. "Plan to have at least 6 months' worth of expenses saved in this fund, which can help you financially weather a temporary crisis and keep things running until the situation stabilizes."
- Consolidate various loans under a single one. "Taking on multiple loans at different interest rates beyond one's capacity to repay can be resolved by taking on a single loan,'' adds Sexton. "By doing so, the borrower can simplify their finances and no longer need to worry about remembering multiple repayment dates. This step can help the borrower better emerge from a debt trap."
- Leverage cash flow to prepay high-cost debt. "An important factor to streamline your repayments and avoid debt traps is to use a temporary inflow of funds to prepay debt with high-interest rates," says Sexton. "These include annual bonuses or capital gains on share sales which can be used to prepay personal, credit card, or auto loans. When loans with high-interest rates are repaid, you are effectively saving the extra amount that would otherwise have gone towards the higher interest charges."
Sexton is a California-based retirement planning professional with over two decades of experience in personal finance and retirement strategies. He specializes in retirement and investment planning, budgeting, debt management, asset protection, estate planning, and more. He is also the host of Saving with Steve, a personal finance podcast streaming on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts. For more information on Sexton Advisory Group, visit www.sextonadvisorygroup.com.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Systems Planning and Analysis (SPA), Inc., a leading provider of strategic advisory services, has acquired the Operations Research and Cyber Analysis (ORCA) division of Metron. In addition to operations research, ORCA specializes in systems of systems engineering, model-based system engineering, and digital engineering processes for the US Navy and other important National Security clients.
SPA will continue to run ORCA as a division based in San Diego, CA, led by Jeff Monroe, Coni Ratonel, and Matt Norton, longtime ORCA management teammates. The ORCA Division will be part of SPA's Naval, Nuclear, and Critical Infrastructure sector, led by Vice Admiral (Ret.) Terry Benedict.
SPA President and CEO Dr. William Vantine said, "We are thrilled to join forces with Jeff, Coni, Matt and the entire, highly talented ORCA team. Together we will expand and further strengthen SPA's leadership in model-based systems engineering, operations research, modeling and simulation, DevSecOps, and wargaming. SPA and ORCA's collective capabilities, tools, and technologies are highly complementary, enhancing our ability to deliver continuous value and innovation to National Security clients. We welcome everyone to our great team!"
Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. is a premier international provider of innovative, leading-edge solutions in support of complex National Security programs and defense priorities. SPA's capabilities include Advanced Analytics, Software Tool Development, System Engineering, DevSecOps, Strategy, Policy and Compliance, and Integrated Program Management. SPA employees are subject matter experts in numerous domains, including Land, Undersea, Surface and Air Warfare Operations; Intelligence Community, Radar and Sensor Systems; Unmanned Systems and Counter Systems; Nuclear Deterrence Policy, Safety and Security; Defense Industrial Base; Space Systems; Ballistic Missile Systems; Cybersecurity policy; and Hypersonics.
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Hot Toys Valkyrie Brings Love and Thunder to Your Collection
She’s the king of New Asgard, and even if it’s much smaller than the old one, it still needs a steady hand. Especially when there’s a god-butcher out there stealing all the children. Valkyrie never realized all the red tape and endless meetings that would be involved with ruling, so she’s more than happy to go on an adventure with both Thors in Love and Thunder. The new Hot Toys Valkyrie represents this action-ready version, with full articulation for dynamic posing. As well as accessories like a portable speaker, and Korg’s disembodied face.
Via the official description, this figure is “masterfully crafted based on the appearance of Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie in the movie, features a newly developed head sculpt with stunning likeness, dreadlock ponytail hair sculpture, a newly designed body with seamless elbow joints, carefully tailored vest armor in black, white and metallic silver with a fabric cape, highly-detailed weapons and accessories include the Dragonfang sword, a pair of daggers, Zeus’ Thunderbolt and effect accessory, Korg’s face sculpt, portable speaker, and a figure stand.”
RELATED: Jane Foster’s Mighty Thor Joins Marvel’s Avengers In New Video
Hot Toys Valkyrie’s a relative steal at $270, with payment plans available. As supply chain issues continue, her delivery date remains vaguely placed between October of next year and the March after that. But take a look through our gallery below, and see what patience will bring.
Will you preorder this Valkyrie? Let us know in comments.
Recommended Reading: Thor by Jason Aaron: The Complete Collection Vol. 1
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Create the Darkest Knight With McFarlane Toys’ Speed Metal Flash Wave
Casual fans think McFarlane Toys makes every single DC Multiverse figure wave about Batman, but that’s not true at all. Why, his next wave will feature all Flash figures! And they’ll even come with build-a-figure pieces, to create a larger figure of…Oh. Yeah. A Batman. In this case, The Darkest Knight, a.k.a. the evolved, pure energy form of The Batman Who Laughs. The wave is even themed after the Flash spinoff from Batman’s Dark Nights Death Metal run: Speed Metal.
Per the official synopsis, this is the plot of Speed Metal: “It’s the drag race from hell in this one-shot tie-in to Dark Nights: Death Metal! Taking place after the events of Dark Nights: Death Metal #3, the Darkest Knight is after Wally West and his Dr. Manhattan powers. Thankfully, Wally has backup in the form of Barry Allen, Jay Garrick, and Wallace West! It’s a knockdown, drag-out race through the Wastelands as the Flash Family tries to stay steps ahead of the Darkest Knight and his Lightning Knights!”
In keeping with the Dark Nights Metal aesthetic, the four Flashes feature costume redesigns that might be appropriate for post-apocalypse rock concerts. And Barry in particular favors a “Sun’s out, guns out” look.
RELATED: Toy Review: McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Wave 2
Kid Flash stays a touch more conventional.
But in the end, you know the one Todd McFarlane had the most fun designing was the build-a-figure. Because it’s an evil Batman. He’s learning the Marvel Legends rule of forcing fans to buy easy repaints in order to get the cool figure.
Full sets and individual figures are up now for preorder at Entertainment Earth. Expect them to arrive next month sometime. (Superhero Hype is an affiliate partner with Entertainment Earth, and may earn fees based on purchases through site links.)
What do you think of this Flash wave? Let us know in comments.
Recommended Reading: Dark Nights: Death Metal Speed Metal #1
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Cineworld, owner of Regal Cinemas, is filing for bankruptcy
(Gray News) - Cineworld Group has started Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S., the company announced in a statement Wednesday morning.
The British company owns American theater company Regal Cinemas, operates in 10 countries with altogether 747 sites and about 9,139 screens globally.
The company said it will undergo restructuring and is expected to negotiate with U.S. landlords at theaters “to pursue a real estate optimisation strategy ... to improve US cinema lease terms in an effort to further position the Group for long-term growth.”
The company said it expects to operate its business and cinemas as usual during the restructuring.
Cineworld has built up about $4.8 billion in net debt, not including lease liabilities, the Associated Press reported.
The theater group is also reportedly considering its bankruptcy options in the other countries in which it operates and will continue to honor its membership programs.
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Downtown Exchange to offer unique experience, opportunities
Historic building will house a multi-vendor food hall, offices and co-working space
A historic building is set to become a new landmark in downtown Zanesville.
Most recently the home of Olde Town Antiques, 527 Main Street dates back to 1878s when it was known as the Black-Elliott Block. Now, a group of local entrepreneurs plan to open the Downtown Exchange, which will be home to a variety of food vendors, with offices and co-working space upstairs.
"It is an extremely unique space," said Brian Diamond, who is bring the building to life with his business partners, his wife Mary, and Judd and Cara Dodson. The ground floor of the 20,000-square-foot building will host a multi-vendor food hall, focused on artisanal offerings, similar to North Market or Budd Dairy in Columbus.
The Exchange has two tenants already, a bar and a butcher, and there is plenty of space for a dozen more, Diamond said. There will be 10 to 15 booths, complete with a kitchen, most of which will be 18 by 18 foot. A common space will run down the center with more seating in the front along Main Street, as well as a 30 by 30 foot patio at the rear of the building. "It is already constructed in such a way as to be multitenant," Diamond said. "Everyone will have their own private kitchen, with common seating space down the middle for collaboration or public meeting spaces."
Diamond said about 1,000 people work downtown during the week, and most of them either pack a lunch or leave downtown to find food options. In addition, with nearby dance studios busy well into the evening, there is a large customer base for potential vendors.
The building is a good way to attract more food-based businesses to downtown, Diamond said. "The reality of buying a building and rehabbing it is extremely costly," he said. "We are operating the building, opening a business here is far less expensive than rehabbing a building." The Downtown Exchange will lease space to vendors, who would in turn customize their space in the food hall.
The building's two upper floors with have what Diamond calls the city's first co-working space, along with meeting rooms and private offices. The group hopes to have them open concurrently with the downstairs area. They do not have an opening date yet, but are seeking tenants to occupy the food hall while they battle supply chain issues to finish the buildout of the kitchen spaces.
"If we can bring 10 restaurants in to break up the monotony of Zanesville, it is going to be great," Judd Dodson said. He and Cara have experience in the restaurant business, and, together with the Diamonds, seek out local food options when they travel. The group hopes to bring a similar experience of Zanesville. With recent additions to the downtown like the city's DORA, "it is a good time to invest in downtown, this is well timed to make downtown an exciting place," Diamond said.
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Local News Briefs
Scenic Railroad to hold mock robbery days
MOUNT PERRY − The Zanesville and Western Scenic Railroad will have a train robbery weekend with trips every hour from noon to 4 p.m. Sept. 24 and 25 at the train station, 5700 Ohio 204, Mount Perry. The family friendly show features real horses and passengers will get a reward for helping to capture the would-be robbers.
The scenario is written and directed by Betsy Martin. Actors are Dave Neal, Katie Carpenter, Scott Pfettscher, Sabrina Ponting, Toni Harper, David Adair, Jane Beattie, Mark Chickwak, Jeff McGee, Eric Newlon and Dane Gordon. Proceeds will benefit the Opera House Players, Buckle Down 4-H and PC Calvary Arts Center.
For more information call 614-595-9701 or go to zwsr.org for more information and tickets. .
Salvation Army Auxiliary meet the team is Sept. 12
ZANESVILLE − The Salivation Army Women's Auxiliary is kicking off its new year with a meet the team program at noon Sept. 12 at the Salvation Army gym, 515 Putnam Ave.
Meet new staff members who will discuss their roles for the year. The president will introduce auxiliary members and outline projects for the year. Lunch will be served and $10 dues are to be paid.
Board of DD to meet
ZANESVILLE − The Muskingum County Board of Development Disabilities will meet in regular session at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the board office, 1304 Newark Road. The ethics council will meet prior at 5:15 p.m.
Maysville BOE slated to meet Thursday
ZANESVILLE − The Maysville Local Schools Board of Education will meet in regular session at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the administrative center, 3715 Panther Drive.
Senior Card Showers
Birthday
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Roundup: Dulgar triggers River View volleyball comeback bid
DRESDEN — Kayla Dulgar showed why she is one of the Muskingum Valley League's best players on Tuesday night.
Dulgar showed off an impressive all-around display play with 22 kills, 29 assists and 20 digs to lead a spirited comeback bid in a 23-25, 25-13, 15-25, 29-27, 15-12 win against host Tri-Valley in a Big School Division match.
Alivia Spaulding and Haley Balo had 16 and 15 kills, respectively, and Cayla Shrimplin set up 27 assists for the Lady Bears, who improved to 7-1 overall and 4-1 in the league.
Brittany Henderson added 100 percent serving and 12 assists for the winners.
Eva Dittmar piled up 24 kills and Lexi Howe 20 for the Scotties, while Ingrid Dittmar tallied 47 kills, Anna Scheurman 32 digs and Caity Journey 21 digs.
Crooksville 25, 25, 22, 14, 15, West Muskingum 23, 18, 25, 25, 11: Tiasia Riggs connected on 25 of 27 serves with six assists and nine digs as the Ceramics held on for an MVL-Small School win in McLuney.
Brynn Lundell added two aces, four assists and 15 digs for the Ceramics (2-6, 1-4 MVL-Small); Maelee Collins had two aces and 19 digs, Julianna Locke six assists and six digs, Khirra Wilson four kills and Paige Frame three kills. Mylee Moorehead was 21-of-22 serving.
Leaders were not reported for West.
Crooksville's reserves won, 25-9, 25-11, behind four kills and two aces from Alexis Eyman and eight assists and seven aces from Erica Flood.
Sheridan 25, 25, 25, Philo 12, 9, 17: Jamisyn Stinson totaled nine kills and eight digs and Reagan Davis made 13 digs and served four aces, leading the Generals' (5-1, 5-0) sweep of the host Electrics in MVL play.
Alexis Bradley passed out 18 assists with five kills, three digs and two aces and Halle Warner had four kills and two digs for the winners. Stinson and Bradley were also 8-of-8 serving and Davis went 12 of 13 at the service line.
Delany Carmichael paced Philo with six kills, six assists and five digs, while Aleigha Busse added four kills, eight digs and two blocks, Olivia Winland three kills and six digs and Briannah Wolfe four kills and three digs. Busse and Wolfe were 100% serving.
Sheridan reserves (5-1, 5-0) won 25-19, 25-20 as Addison Grosse had four kills and 15 digs with 9-of-9 serving, Lily Talbot 14 assists and five digs with 7-of-7 serving and Madison Hupp four kills, 11 digs and three aces with 12-fo-13 serving. Olivia Fink tallied three kills and eight digs, Halli Harris four digs, three assists and two kills, Elise Spiker seven assists and Makenna Staker 12 digs and two kills for Philo, as Harris, Spiker and Staker were 100% servers.
Sheridan freshmen also won 25-1, 25-9 behind six digs by Laken Wilson, 12 aces and 20-of-20 serving from Hayden Goodfellow and three kills, three aces, five assists and 8-of-8 serving by Ella Thomas.
John Glenn 25, 25, 25, Maysville 15, 22, 16: Emma Briggs hit 10 kills and made nine digs and Hannah DeMattio tallied nine kills with four blocks, as the Muskies (3-6, 2-3) swept the visiting Panthers in Big School Division action.
Kara Fields added eight kills and three blocks, Lauren Blair passed out 30 assists, 11 digs and three kills, Aleea Musselman had 10 digs and three kills, Graceann Hitchcock made seven digs, Emma Dolan had three kills and three digs and Sydney White and Sarah Wayne had three digs apiece for the winners.
Maysville was led by Olivia McPeek with 21 assists, seven digs and two aces, Rachel Jarvis 10 kills, nine digs and two aces, Bekah Scott 14 digs and Sailor Atkins seven kills.
John Glenn reserves (5-4, 4-1) won 25-14, 25-11, as Izzy Myers had two kills, two aces and three digs, Alaiah Johnson two aces and two digs, and Brelynn Barr two kills, three assists, seven aces and three digs. Laikyn Clark served three aces and Taylor Freeland had three digs for Maysville.
John Glenn freshmen (2-3, 2-2) won 25-17, 25-12, as Addi Babcock had two kills, two assists, six aces and two digs, Faith Hayes two aces and Delaney Woodard two kills and three aces. Isabella VanWey hit three kills for Maysville.
New Lexington 25, 25, 25, Morgan 18, 17, 13: Abby Wilson and Jerilynn Koehler combined for 23 kills and Wilson also made six blocks to propel the Panthers to a Small School Division win.
Wilson had a team-high 13 kills, Koehler finished with 10 kills and seven digs, Trinity Cook chipped in seven kills, six aces and four digs, Lizzie Ellis set up 32 assists with four digs and Nora Duperow added five kills, four digs and two aces for the winners.
Evelyn Newton had eight kills and two blocks, Ashtyn Filkins made 11 digs and Jensen Payton hit seven kills to pace the Raiders. Chloe Baker chipped in seven digs and three assists, Montana Pettet added eight assists, seven digs and two aces, and Blair Clawson had four digs in the loss.
New Lex reserves won 32-30, 25-7, as Caroline Dupler tallied nine aces, eight kills and six digs, Jorja Burkhart 16 assists, six digs and three kills and Addison Wycinski four digs and three kills. Morgan was led by Riley Cunningham with four digs and two aces, Klaire Cain three kills and two digs, Paige Lanning eight assists, two kills, two blocks and two aces, Jacee Wallace seven digs, two kills and two assists and Grayson Welsh two aces.
Meadowbrook 25, 25, 25, Coshocton 17, 14, 15: Jalynn West set out 23 assists, while Lindsey Bryant added 10 kills and Miyah Davis made 12 digs, as the Lady Skins (4-3, 3-2) fell to the Colts (4-2, 4-0) in Muskingum Valley League Small School Division contest.
For the hosts, Camden Black, the reigning District Player of the Year, led all players with 15 kills to go along with 9 digs and a service ace. Ella Jeffries set up 29 assists while Kendyl Cannon pounded 7 kills.
Meadowbrook swept the night, winning the reserve contest 18-25, 9-25. Jaeli Tiedt had four aces and nine assists and Sophia McFadden had six kills for Coshocton (1-6).
Boys Golf
Maysville 168, Crooksville 178, Coshocton 219: Bo White and Vaughn Childress shared medalist honors with 40s for the Ceramics, but the Panthers picked up a key MVL win at River Greens.
Connor Larimer and Owen Lutz fired 41s and Mat Harper and Hoyt Dodson chipped in 43s for Maysville, and Cooper Watts shot 42 and Tucker Watts and Gabe Sandefur had 56s for the Ceramics.
Coby Moore paced the Redskins with a 44, while Gavin Mathias chipping in a 49, Carter Summers a 56 and Chris Mobley a 70.
Philo 172, Tri-Valley 204, River View (NS): Addison Mershon posted a 40 at Vista, leading the Electrics to a MVL victory.
AJ Layton carded a 43, AJ Harper a 44 and Blake Hiles a 45 to round out the Philo scoring.
Jacob Grear posted a 48, Garrett Brocklehurst a 50, Conner Preston a 52 and Xander Smalley a 54 for the Scotties, while Thad Cox carded a 44, Caleb Kline a 53 and Isaiah Carpenter a 60 for the Black Bears.
Boys Soccer
West Muskingum 2, Sheridan 1: Steven Crumbaker scored twice with his game-winner coming with 22:17 left in the second half, as the Tornadoes picked up a league victory.
Crumbaker's first goal came off a Jacob Agin assist at the 23-minute mark of the first half, while Sheridan tied it at 1 when Isaac McKinney found Josiah Hamilton for a score with two minutes left in the first half.
Brady Bevis had nine saves for the Generals.
Maysville 3, Tri-Valley 2: The visiting Panthers edged the Scotties in a MVL contest at Kenny Wolford Park.
Sam Schott converted a penalty kick for Tri-Valley to make it 3-2 with 11 minutes left in the match, but no other information was available.
New Lexington 2, Coshocton 2: The visiting Panthers rallied to forge a draw, but no other information was available.
River View 9, Philo 1: The Black Bears routed the visiting Electrics in MVL play, but no other information was available.
John Glenn 3, Morgan 1: The Muskies earned a key home win against the Raiders, but no other information was available.
Girls Golf
Lakewood 163, John Glenn 182: Elise Abrams led a balanced attack with 42 to pace the Muskies, who dropped a nonleague dual match at Harbor Hills.
Addy Burris added 46 and Carlie Ellsworth and Abby Baughman had 47s for John Glenn (34-6).
Medalist Avery Thompson had 36 and Lexi French 40 to pace Lakewood. Lauren Griffith added 42 and Abigail Colley 45.
Sheridan 203, Philo 310: Morgan Wamer took medalist honors with a 42, as the Generals topped the Electrics at Fuller's Fairways.
Ryan Satterfield added a 44, Haven Jenkins carded a 56 and Casey Peach shot 61 for Sheridan.
Brianna Mortimer led Philo with a 43, while Taiylor Winland chipped in a 60, Grace Hargraves a 61 and Alaina Wahl a 73.
Girls Soccer
Zanesville 5, River View 1: Rylee McCuen knocked in four goals and Keira Dickenson added a score, as the Lady Devils topped the Lady Bears in the Labor Day Showcase on Monday.
Renya Dalton also made eight saves for the winners, who gave head coach Todd Riley his 100th career win.
Sheridan 10, New Lexington 1: Nine Generals registered a goal, as the Generals topped the Panthers on Tuesday. No other information was available.
Heath 1, West Muskingum 0: The Bulldogs made a first-half goal stand up in a win over the Tornadoes on Tuesday. No other information was available.
Wooster 4, Tri-Valley 0: The Scotties lost to the Generals in the River View Labor Day Showcase on Monday. No other information was available. | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/sports/2022/09/07/roundup-dulgar-triggers-river-view-volleyball-comeback-bid/65474937007/ | 2022-09-07T15:53:47Z | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | control | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/sports/2022/09/07/roundup-dulgar-triggers-river-view-volleyball-comeback-bid/65474937007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
One-legged Stone Age skeleton may show oldest amputation
NEW YORK (AP) — The 31,000-year-old skeleton of a young adult found in a cave in Indonesia that is missing its left foot and part of its left leg reveals the oldest known evidence of an amputation, according to a new study.
Scientists say the amputation was performed when the person was a child — and that the “patient” went on to live for years as an amputee. The prehistoric surgery could show that humans were making medical advances much earlier than previously thought, according to the study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Researchers were exploring a cave in Borneo, in a rainforest region known for having some of the earliest rock art in the world, when they came across the grave, said Tim Maloney, an archaeologist at Griffith University in Australia and the study’s lead researcher.
Though much of the skeleton was intact, it was missing its left foot and the lower part of its left leg, he explained. After examining the remains, the researchers concluded the foot bones weren’t missing from the grave, or lost in an accident — they were carefully removed.
The remaining leg bone showed a clean, slanted cut that healed over, Maloney said. There were no signs of infection, which would be expected if the child had gotten its leg bitten off by a creature like a crocodile. And there were also no signs of a crushing fracture, which would have been expected if the leg had snapped off in an accident.
The person appears to have lived for around six to nine more years after losing the limb, eventually dying from unknown causes as a young adult, researchers say.
This shows that the prehistoric foragers knew enough about medicine to perform the surgery without fatal blood loss or infection, authors concluded. Researchers don’t know what kind of tool was used to amputate the limb, or how infection was prevented — but they speculate that a sharp stone tool may have made the cut, and point out that some of the rich plant life in the region has medicinal properties.
Also, the community would have had to care for the child for years afterward, since surviving the rugged terrain as an amputee wouldn’t have been easy.
This early surgery “rewrites the history of human medical knowledge and developments,” Maloney said at the briefing.
Before this find, the earliest example of amputation had been in a French farmer from 7,000 years ago, who had part of his forearm removed. Scientists had thought that advanced medical practices developed around 10,000 years ago, as humans settled down into agricultural societies, authors said.
But this study adds to growing evidence that humans started caring for each other’s health much earlier in their history, said Alecia Schrenk, an anthropologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who was not involved with the study.
“It had long been assumed healthcare is a newer invention,” Schrenk said in an email. “Research like this article demonstrates that prehistoric peoples were not just left to fend for themselves.”
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Whether you're looking to spice up your cooking or add some fantastic art to the walls, find what you're looking for right here in Michigan.
Franklin Dohanyos with From Michigan With Love talks about Double Eagle Spice and Sonshine Inspirations.
Whether you're looking to spice up your cooking or add some fantastic art to the walls, find what you're looking for right here in Michigan.
Franklin Dohanyos with From Michigan With Love talks about Double Eagle Spice and Sonshine Inspirations. | https://www.fox17online.com/morning-mix/michigan-made-double-eagle-spice-sonshine-inspirations | 2022-09-07T15:58:03Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/morning-mix/michigan-made-double-eagle-spice-sonshine-inspirations | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GRAND HAVEN TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Deputies request the public’s assistance in locating a missing person out of Grand Haven Township.
The Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office says 34-year-old James Alan McKinnon was last seen leaving his residence near Mercury Drive and River Haven Boulevard on Tuesday, Aug. 30.
We’re told loved ones haven’t heard from him since.
Deputies say James is a white man standing at 5’10” tall, weighs 160 pounds and has brown eyes and brown hair.
James usually wears glasses and may be wearing gray shorts, the sheriff’s office says. A shirt description is unavailable. Authorities say he is missing his upper front teeth.
Those with knowledge related to James’s whereabouts are urged to connect with deputies or Silent Observer at 1-877-88-SILENT. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/lakeshore/ottawa/deputies-seek-man-missing-from-grand-haven-twp-for-more-than-a-week | 2022-09-07T15:58:34Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/lakeshore/ottawa/deputies-seek-man-missing-from-grand-haven-twp-for-more-than-a-week | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
"If You Give a Child a Book..."
How would you finish this sentence? At KATC, we believe giving children books can take them new places, open their imaginations, fuel big dreams, plant the seeds for future success and help break the cycle of poverty. Children who lack ongoing access to a rich selection of books spend far less time reading, resulting in lower reading proficiency and a struggle to complete high school and prepare for the world beyond. Unfortunately, many children in low-income neighborhoods lack access to the quality books they need to become competent readers. That’s where our annual “If You Give a Child a Book …” campaign in partnership with the Scripps Howard Fund steps in.
Partnering with Title I schools
This year, KATC and the Scripps Howard Fund will partner with Myrtle Place Elementary to reach underserved children living in poverty, with a special focus on the critical kindergarten through third grade years when children are still learning to read. For this age group, there is no replacement for beloved books that a child can return to over and over. Yet, just as the formal learning process begins in school, many childhood literacy programs focused on kindergarten readiness end, leaving children with few resources to reinforce reading outside the classroom. That’s where our work with the Scripps Howard Fund begins.
Building home libraries
The teachers at Myrtle Place Elementary are extraordinary educators who are dedicated to giving students the tools they need to read. The annual “If You Give a Child a Book …” campaign reinforces their work by helping students build home libraries – filling them with books children have chosen themselves.
Giving children the power of choice
Several higher education studies have found that when children select their own books, they are more likely to enjoy reading and score higher on comprehension tests. The Scripps Howard Fund’s partnership with Scholastic Books ensures children get to do just that. We’ll bring Scholastic Book Fairs to Myrtle Place Elementary so students can select their own books to take home.
Providing access to diverse reading materials
When children have access to reading materials that represent different abilities, cultures, beliefs, races and ethnicities, they influence attitudes toward those differences. In the process, these books foster positive self-esteem and nurture respect, empathy and acceptance. Books should not be luxuries beyond the reach of low-income children. They are essential for a well-balanced childhood reading diet and pave the pathway to a successful future. Simply put, “If You Give a Child a Book …” you give a child a chance. | https://www.katc.com/giveabook | 2022-09-07T16:02:23Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/giveabook | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Youngsville dental clinic is offering free cleanings and extractions this weekend.
Youngsville Dental Care will be open between 8 a.m. and noon on Saturday to help people who need a dental cleaning and/or an extraction.
Patients will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. You can call 337-857-3750 for more information.
The clinic is located at 3014 E. Milton Avenue in Youngsville.
Here's a flyer about the event: | https://www.katc.com/news/lafayette-parish/youngsville-clinic-offering-free-dental-work | 2022-09-07T16:02:35Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/lafayette-parish/youngsville-clinic-offering-free-dental-work | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV4) - Breezy trades continue with partly to mostly sunny skies on Wednesday. Scattered windward and mauka showers in the morning, then isolated showers in the afternoon. Highs 85 to 92. Trade winds 15 to 20 mph.
Tonight, partly cloudy isolated showers, then scattered after midnight. Lows 71 to 76. Trade winds 10 to 20 mph.
Locally breezy trade winds will persist across the state today with passing clouds and showers favoring windward and mountain areas, primarily during the early morning hours. The trades will ease tonight, with light to moderate trades then expected Thursday through the weekend. Light winds will have showers favoring windward slopes and coasts at night and during the early morning hours, with showers developing over island interior and leeward areas each afternoon, then fizzling out during the evening.
South shore surf will remain around seasonal average heights today and will slowly trend lower through Thursday. A larger south-southwest swell will build into the region from Saturday night to Sunday and peak on Monday. This larger south swell will produce surf heights above seasonal average levels through Tuesday.
Smaller surf remains in the forecast for all other areas. East Pacific Hurricane Kay could send a small long period swell to east facing shores this weekend.
Do you have a story idea? Email news tips to news@kitv.com | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/wednesday-weather-breezy-trades-to-start-winds-lighten-later-today/article_2322a876-2eba-11ed-8b6a-eb6e814ec1fb.html | 2022-09-07T16:02:45Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/wednesday-weather-breezy-trades-to-start-winds-lighten-later-today/article_2322a876-2eba-11ed-8b6a-eb6e814ec1fb.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The summer break is lasting a little longer for students in Seattle, Washington.
Wednesday was supposed to be the first day of school, but that was delayed due to a strike by the teacher's union.
The district said pick-up meals would still be provided to students on Wednesday.
The Seattle Education Association has been negotiating with the district for months. The union reportedly wants pay increases for teachers, more support for special education and multilingual students and more control over workload and class sizes to avoid teacher burnout.
"The SEA Bargaining Team is continuing to work at this hour and SEA calls on SPS to share our urgency and reach a contract agreement that brings us back to classrooms as fast as possible," the union said in a statement.
In a message to parents, the district said it respects educators and is hoping for a resolution.
"We are optimistic the bargaining teams will come to a positive solution for students, staff, and families," the district stated. "Negotiations with SEA are ongoing."
Seattle Public Schools is the largest K-12 school system in Washington state. More than 50,000 students are enrolled in schools across the district. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/first-day-of-school-canceled-in-seattle-as-teachers-strike | 2022-09-07T16:02:53Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/first-day-of-school-canceled-in-seattle-as-teachers-strike | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. — A man who fell while hiking near a lake in Rocky Mountain National Park last week is recovering in the hospital from his injuries and hopes to meet the hikers who helped rescue him.
"I should have died," George Delgado said. "I feel incredibly blessed, honestly, because it could have been so much worse."
Before heading back down, Delgado said he and his friend took a dip in Chasm Lake last Thursday morning.
Delgado said the fall occurred shortly thereafter.
"I slipped on one of these rocks, and I remember falling on my butt, and I started to slide off the rock. There's nothing to really grab, and I just knew I was going to fall," Delgado said.
He remembers waking up surrounded by a group of hikers who came to his rescue.
"They had my wounds being covered and applying compression. I bled out through my hip. The bone was sticking out. The other two (hikers) had satellite phones," Delgado said.
Their efforts were even more surprising because Delgado and his friend had specifically picked that time of day to avoid the crowds.
"It's amazing because it was empty right before I fell," he said. "That would have been disastrous if I fell and nobody was around."
His mother, Carmen Delgado, is sure George's survival wasn't just pure luck. Instead, it may have very well been a miracle.
"I'm extremely thankful for all the people that gave their support to Georgie," she said. "I truly believe that it was my husband (who passed away several months ago) or many angels around him that cushioned his fall."
Doctors told Delgado he'll need about three months of rehab and physical therapy to recover from his injuries.
"It has me a little anxious and frustrated, but I have to remind myself that I'm blessed to be here," he said.
But Delgado knows it could've been a lot worse had those hikers not been there to help him.
"I want these people to know that I'm very thankful, and I'll forever thank them, and I feel very blessed," he said. "It's because of them that I'm alive today."
Delgado wants to connect with the hikers who rescued him so he can thank them for their efforts. If you know anyone involved in the rescue, contact Denver7's Pattrik Perez so he can connect you with Delgado and his family.
If you'd like to donate, Delgado's family has started a GoFundMe to help him with his medical expenses. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/man-who-survived-fall-wants-to-meet-hikers-who-rescued-him | 2022-09-07T16:03:03Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/man-who-survived-fall-wants-to-meet-hikers-who-rescued-him | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NASA’s Webb Telescope captured a “cosmic tarantula." The new telescope imaged 30 Doradus, otherwise known as the Tarantula Nebula.
The nebula is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.
The nebula got its name for its appearance of a tarantula’s home—a burrow lined with its own spun silk. The telescope captured thousands of never-seen-before young stars.
Astronomers said the galaxy contains some of the highest and brightest stars ever recorded.
"The hot stars fade, and the cooler gas and dust glow. Within the stellar nursery clouds, points of light indicate embedded protostars, still gaining mass," the Space Telescope Science Institute said. "While shorter wavelengths of light are absorbed or scattered by dust grains in the nebula, and therefore never reach Webb to be detected, longer mid-infrared wavelengths penetrate that dust, ultimately revealing a previously unseen cosmic environment."
The galaxy is relatively close to us at 161,000 light-years away.
The Webb Telescope will essentially replace the Hubble telescope as NASA’s primary view into deep space. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/new-webb-telescope-captures-a-cosmic-tarantula-161-000-light-years-away | 2022-09-07T16:03:09Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/new-webb-telescope-captures-a-cosmic-tarantula-161-000-light-years-away | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — An endangered Florida panther has died after being struck by a vehicle.
It’s the 20th panther death attributed to fatal collisions, out of 22 total deaths this year, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
The remains of the 6-month-old female panther were found Monday along a rural road in Collier County, wildlife officials said.
Florida panthers once roamed the entire Southeast, but now their habitat mostly is confined to a small region of Florida along the Gulf of Mexico. Up to 230 Florida panthers remain in the wild. | https://www.wtxl.com/media/v/content/a28994641ee980d51d92e438e64d3934 | 2022-09-07T16:04:13Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/media/v/content/a28994641ee980d51d92e438e64d3934 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BEIJING (AP) — The death toll in this week’s earthquake in western China has jumped to 74 with another 26 people still missing, the government reported Wednesday, as frustration rose with uncompromising COVID-19 lockdown measures that prevented residents from leaving their buildings after the shaking.
The 6.8 magnitude quake that struck just after noon Monday in Sichuan province caused extensive damage to homes in the Ganze Tibetan Autonomous Region and shook buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose 21 million citizens are under a strict COVID-19 lockdown.
Following the quake, police and health workers refused to allow anxious residents of apartment buildings out, adding to anger over the government’s strict “zero-COVID policy” mandating lockdowns, quarantines and other restrictions, even while the rest of the world has largely reopened.
Footage circulating online showed residents of the central city of Wuhan, where the pandemic is believed to have originated in late 2019, chanting “lift the lockdown, refuse to be tested" at police.
The restrictions have prompted protests online and in person, rare in China's tightly controlled society where the all-powerful Communist Party can easily sentence people to months or years in prison on loosely defined charges such as “picking quarrels and provoking trouble."
In all, 65 million Chinese in 33 cities, including seven provincial capitals, are currently under varying levels of lockdown. The government is also discouraging domestic travel during the Mid-Autumn Festival on Saturday and the weeklong National Holiday at the start of October.
Outbreaks have been reported in 103 cities, the highest since the early days of the pandemic in early 2020.
Monday's quake was centered in a mountainous area of Luding county, which sits on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau roughly 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Chengdu, where tectonic plates grind up against each other.
China’s deadliest earthquake in recent years was a 7.9 magnitude quake in 2008 that killed nearly 90,000 people in Sichuan. The temblor devastated towns, schools and rural communities outside Chengdu, leading to a years-long effort to rebuild with more resistant materials. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/china-earthquake-deaths-rise-to-74-as-lockdown-anger-grows | 2022-09-07T16:04:38Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/china-earthquake-deaths-rise-to-74-as-lockdown-anger-grows | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The summer break is lasting a little longer for students in Seattle, Washington.
Wednesday was supposed to be the first day of school, but that was delayed due to a strike by the teacher's union.
The district said pick-up meals would still be provided to students on Wednesday.
The Seattle Education Association has been negotiating with the district for months. The union reportedly wants pay increases for teachers, more support for special education and multilingual students and more control over workload and class sizes to avoid teacher burnout.
"The SEA Bargaining Team is continuing to work at this hour and SEA calls on SPS to share our urgency and reach a contract agreement that brings us back to classrooms as fast as possible," the union said in a statement.
In a message to parents, the district said it respects educators and is hoping for a resolution.
"We are optimistic the bargaining teams will come to a positive solution for students, staff, and families," the district stated. "Negotiations with SEA are ongoing."
Seattle Public Schools is the largest K-12 school system in Washington state. More than 50,000 students are enrolled in schools across the district. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/first-day-of-school-canceled-in-seattle-as-teachers-strike | 2022-09-07T16:04:50Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/first-day-of-school-canceled-in-seattle-as-teachers-strike | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Serena Williams demanded attention until the very end.
ESPN says her third-round match at the U.S. Open was the most-watched tennis match in the network's 43-year history.
Williams lost to Ajla Tomljanović in what was likely her final professional tennis match. The three-hour match averaged 4.8 million viewers and peaked with nearly 7 million tuning in.
That smashed the network's previous record, which was set in 2012 when Roger Federer beat Andy Murray for the Wimbledon title.
Williams, a 23-time grand slam winner, said prior to the U.S. Open that she is "evolving" away from tennis and wants to grow her family.
In addition to thrilling fans on TV, Williams is also responsible for another record this year at the U.S. Open. More than 29,000 fans attended her first match of the tournament. That's the most-ever to watch a match at Arthur Ashe Stadium. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/serena-williams-farewell-match-was-most-watched-in-espn-history | 2022-09-07T16:05:21Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/serena-williams-farewell-match-was-most-watched-in-espn-history | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, FLa. — The No. 8 Florida State soccer team (2-0-2) hosts Florida Gulf Coast (2-3) on Thursday at 7 PM before heading to Houston to take on Rice (2-4) on Sunday at 2 PM ET. Thursday’s game will be on ACCNX and Sunday’s game will be on CUSAtv.
Florida State is coming off its largest win over the season on Sunday when the Seminoles beat the Florida Gators 5-0 in Gainesville. The win grows FSU’s unbeaten streak to 13 games dating back to last season.
SERIES HISTORY VS. FLORIDA GULF COAST
Thursday’s meeting between the Seminoles and the Eagles marks the 3rd meeting between the two programs. The Seminoles lead the series 2-0, with Florida State winning the last meeting a season ago in Fort Myers, 4-0.
The Seminoles scored early and often with their first goal in the 16th minute by Kirsten Pavlisko. FSU expanded its lead to two right before halftime as Emily Madril became the second defender to score with a goal on a penalty kick in the 42nd minute. FSU would score two more goals in the second half, one by Emma Bissell and one by LeiLanni Nesbeth.
SEPTEMBER SUCCESS
The Seminoles have dominated the month of September with an all-time record of 139-56-11 (.701) in September and have won 57 of its last 69 matches played during the month of September.
The Noles are 95-20-8 (.805) in the month of September since 2005 and have 68 shutouts.
HOME SWEET HOME
Florida State is 182-15-11 (.901) at home since 2005.
The Noles are 113-7-8 (.914) in their last 128 matches played at home, dating back to 2011. FSU has 40 wins over ranked opponents during that time.
Florida State finished the 2021 season 12-0-1 and unbeaten at home for the 10th time since 2005.
ROQUE IS DOMINANT IN GOAL
In just over two seasons as Florida State’s starting goalkeeper, Cristina Roque is a combined 28-0-8 and has started in two National Championship games.
In her career she has a 0.535 goals against average, 66 saves, a .767 save percentage and 20 shutouts.
DOMINATING POSSESSION ONCE AGAIN
After possessing the ball for an average of 65.8 percent of every game last season the Noles are back at it again in 2022. FSU has averaged possessing the ball 67 percent of the time in 2022. | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/fsu-soccer-to-host-fgcu-before-heading-to-rice | 2022-09-07T16:05:27Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/fsu-soccer-to-host-fgcu-before-heading-to-rice | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As the kids head back to school, Dr. Daryl Appleton shares tips to combat parental guilt.
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CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS) has managed to outperform the market over the past few months, as investors rightly see the stock as a reliable investment with solid dividend prospects. Due to its unique qualities in a highly speculative market landscape, there could be additional room for CVS stock to move higher. However, as there appears to be limited upside from a valuation standpoint, I remain neutral on the stock.
In the current highly unstable market environment, individual equities with more uncertainty attached to them have a higher chance of being dumped by investors. Alternatively, the more secure an investment appears these days, the better it will be treated by investors.
CVS Health falls in the latter category, as its recession-proof cash flows are attracting increased investor interest. Specifically, while the S&P 500 has dipped by about 5% over the past three months, shares of CVS have actually advanced by 2.3%, clearly outperforming the general index.
CVS Stock’s Recession-Proof Business Model Drives Results Higher
CVS Stock is well-positioned to keep producing resilient cash flows even if the economy were to move into a deep recession. With the company being one of the leading pharmacy benefits managers, featuring approximately 110 million plan members, CVS’ performance is mostly uncorrelated with the underlying condition of the general market.
CVS’ necessity-type business model is what differentiates it from most companies these days, as was demonstrated during the pandemic when its performance was not disturbed. In fact, the company’s revenues reached new record levels last year. Additionally, based on the company’s performance over the first half of 2022, it looks like CVS’ top and bottom line records are about to be broken again.
In Q2 2022, the company continued to grow conservatively, as CVS’ revenues increased 11% to $80.6 billion. Profitability improved as well, as earnings-per-share rose to $2.23 compared to $2.10 in the prior-year period.
Most of the company’s revenue growth was powered by an 11.7% increase in Pharmacy Services, largely driven by larger pharmacy claims volumes, growth in specialty pharmacy, and higher pricing.
In my view, this particularly exemplifies both CVS’ power to stay untouched by lofty inflation levels and its prospect to even profit from rising prices due to most medications being essential for the consumers that need them. This may not sound too moral, but it’s admittedly an advantage for the company, and we cannot deny it.
The Retail/LTC division also performed nicely. Total revenues grew 6.3% in Q2, primarily pushed higher by improved prescription and front-store volumes.
Other positive developments for the company included total same-store sales growth in CVS’ Retail segment of 8.0%. This was driven by pharmacy sales growing by 7.6%, prescription volumes growing by 3.1%, and front-store sales growing by 9.4%. CVS also recorded total year-over-year membership growth of 3.8% to 24.4 million. Once again, to me, these metrics display just how robust the company’s operations and results can be in any economic environment.
With CVS’ latest results reaffirming the company’s prospects to perform well during a highly inflationary environment, management raised its Fiscal Year 2022 GAAP earnings-per-share outlook range to $7.23 to $7.43, from $6.93 to $7.13 previously. The midpoint of $7.33 implies a new all-time high EPS for CVS.
CVS Stock Has a Reliable Dividend
Another factor that has been critical in sustaining CVS’ shares higher these days is the company’s proven ability to maintain and grow its dividends. CVS hasn’t cut its dividend since 1996. Dividend-per-share hikes have only taken place whenever the company reaches a fresh, loftier profitability plateau to guarantee that payouts will remain well-covered should it face headwinds.
This was the case between Fiscal Years 2017-21 when payouts remained steady. With net income levels snowballing lately, CVS increased its dividend by a decent 10% to a quarterly rate of $0.55 last December.
This increase thickened investors’ confidence in the dividend and the company’s commitment to increase it over time. Further, the midpoint of management’s EPS outlook suggests a payout ratio of 30.0%, which could support another strong increase this year. Overall, CVS’ 2.2% dividend yield is a nice complement to the company’s investment case considering its already broad qualities.
Is There Further Upside to CVS Stock?
With shares already hovering at quite elevated levels, a reasonable question is whether shares can keep moving higher – especially if the indices keep moving lower. In my view, the stock is likely to keep beating the S&P500 as long as uncertainty prevails. Still, it’s hard to argue that there is meaningful upside at CVS’ current valuation levels.
The midpoint of the management’s EPS outlook suggests a P/E of 13.6. This is not a rich multiple, but it doesn’t imply a discount either. Sure, CVS is a quality company with reliable cash flows. Still, revenues and profits are likely going to keep growing in the single digits over the long run, as has been the case historically.
Thus, a multiple in the low teens is well justified. I don’t believe the stock deserves a higher premium, and therefore I don’t see further upside from here. The “easy gains” have likely already been made.
Is CVS Stock a Buy or Sell?
Turning to Wall Street, CVS has a Strong Buy consensus rating based on 10 Buys and two Holds assigned in the past three months. At $122.33, the average CVS stock price projection suggests 23% upside potential.
Takeaway – CVS Stock is a Reliable Investment, but Fully Valued
CVS exhibits a recession-proof business model, which should keep enabling the company to produce robust results even during challenging market environments. Its latest quarter portrayed this, with earnings-per-share destined to reach a new all-time high this year. That said, CVS stock appears to be fully valued, which indicates that there is likely no “easy” upside ahead. Accordingly, I am neutral on the stock. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/heres-why-cvs-health-stock-nysecvs-has-outperformed-the-market | 2022-09-07T16:12:33Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/heres-why-cvs-health-stock-nysecvs-has-outperformed-the-market | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies announced on Monday a reduction in oil output by 100,000 barrels per day (bpd), which will comprise only around 0.1% of global demand, according to Reuters.
It is widely reported that Russia supports the planned cut in production. As oil supplies remain tight, sanctions imposed by Western countries threaten Russian oil exports. Russia has also threatened to stop its oil supply to countries that support the idea of a price cap on Russian energy commodities.
This slowdown in oil production could also be a bid to arrest volatility in oil prices with the benchmark Brent crude oil falling to around $87 from $120 a barrel back in June. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/opec-decides-to-cut-oil-production | 2022-09-07T16:12:34Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/opec-decides-to-cut-oil-production | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon shot into the spotlight on Monday after granting former President Trump’s request for an independent mediator to examine materials the FBI recovered during a search at his Mar-a-Lago residence last month.
Cannon, who was appointed by Trump in 2020, made the divisive decision after hearing arguments from the ex-president’s lawyers, who pushed for the special master, and attorneys from the Department of Justice (DOJ), who said the former president’s claims of privilege were unwarranted.
She ultimately ordered that a special master be appointed to determine what seized materials are protected by attorney-client and executive privilege. The ruling also directed the DOJ to temporarily stop using the retrieved materials for “investigative purposes” in an effort to “uphold the value of the special master review” — effectively pausing the department’s investigation.
Cannon, who sits on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is now tasked with choosing a special master to sift through the more than 11,000 documents and asked both sides to provide a list of possible contenders for the job by Friday. The DOJ, however, can still appeal the ruling.
Here are five things to know about Cannon.
Trump appointed, bipartisan approved
Trump nominated Cannon to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in April 2020. At the time, she was an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, working in the criminal division of the appellate section.
The Senate confirmed Cannon on Nov. 12, five days after major networks called the 2020 election for President Biden, in a bipartisan 56-21 vote. Twelve Democrats supported her appointment, and 23 senators did not vote.
During her confirmation process, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) asked if she had “any discussions with anyone — including, but not limited to, individuals at the White House, at the Justice Department, or any outside groups — about loyalty to President Trump.”
Cannon responded “no” in writing.
Member of the Federalist Society
Cannon has been a member of the Federalist Society since 2005, according to a judicial nominee questionnaire she submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee in April 2020. The group is made up of conservative and libertarian lawyers, law students and scholars.
Cannon said she joined the Federalist Society when she was a student at the University of Michigan Law School. She was asked during her confirmation process about why she joined the group.
“I did so because I enjoyed the diversity of legal viewpoints discussed at Federalist Society meetings and events,” Cannon responded in writing.
“I also found interesting the organization’s discussions about the constitutional separation of powers, the rule of law, and the limited role of the judiciary to say what the law is—not to make the law,” she added.
Six of the nine justices currently sitting on the Supreme Court — all of whom were nominated by Republican presidents — are members of the Federalist Society, in addition to a number of GOP senators.
Cannon ruled in the Pelosi, Ocasio-Cortez threats case
Cannon is not new to presiding over high-profile litigation. In April, the federal judge sentenced a man to 18 months in prison for making threats against Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
Paul Hoeffer, 60, pleaded guilty in February to interstate transmission of threats to injure and admitted to threatening to kill the two congresswomen in March 2019 and November 2020. He also threatened a district attorney in Illinois.
But the 18-month sentence from Cannon was significantly shorter than the 3 1/2 years of prison time prosecutors had asked for. And it was more than a year shorter than the minimum punishment under federal sentencing guidelines, according to The Palm Beach Post.
Hoeffer’s legal team requested a shorter sentence because their client was diagnosed with cancer.
Cannon had signaled support for a special master
Cannon’s ruling did not come as a total surprise — the judge days earlier said it was her “preliminary intent” to install a special master to sift through documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.
“The court hereby provides notice of its preliminary intent to appoint a special master in this case,” Cannon wrote in a court filing on Aug. 27, before either side presented their arguments at a hearing.
The New York Times called the pre-argument signal “unusual.”
In that same filing, she also scheduled a hearing to take place at a federal courthouse in West Palm Beach, rather than the location in Fort Pierce, Fla., where she usually conducts business, according to the Times.
From Colombia to the Southern District of Florida
Cannon — who was born in 1981 in Colombia — made a number of stops in the legal world before landing at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
After receiving a bachelor of arts degree from Duke University in 2003 and earning her juris doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 2007, Cannon began clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in Des Moines, Iowa, where she worked for a year. The bench was Republican-appointed, according to the Times.
She then moved to Washington, D.C., to be an associate attorney at the corporate law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where she worked for three years, before taking a job as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida. | https://www.wspa.com/hill-politics/five-things-to-know-about-aileen-m-cannon-the-judge-who-granted-trump-a-special-master/ | 2022-09-07T16:17:11Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/hill-politics/five-things-to-know-about-aileen-m-cannon-the-judge-who-granted-trump-a-special-master/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) – Former secretary of state and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said she will not run for president again.
“No, no,” Clinton said when asked by CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell she would ever run for a second time.
“But I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that we have a president who respects our democracy and the rule of law and upholds our institutions,” Clinton continued.
Clinton said former President Trump would not fit in that category and that if he runs again “he should be soundly defeated.”
“It should start in the Republican Party,” Clinton said. “Grow a backbone, stand up to this guy.”
Trump, who defeated Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, has been teasing another run for president in 2024 and polls show he has a good shot of clinching the Republican nomination.
Clinton has said that she would endorse President Biden if he runs for reelection the same year — which has repeatedly said he plans to do — saying that he would be “the person most likely to win.”
“Joe Biden beat in a huge landslide victory in the popular vote Donald Trump. I think that says a lot,” Clinton said in a conversation with NBC News anchor Yamiche Alcindor in late June.
On CBS, Clinton shot down any comparisons between her use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state and the recent discovery of classified materials at Trump’s Florida home, saying the two situations are “really different” from one another.
“I think it’s a really different comparison to what’s going on here,” Clinton said of her own skirmish with the FBI compared with Trump’s current situation. “When it appears that the justice department and the FBI have been incredibly patient, quiet, careful, until they finally apparently thought that national security was at stake.” | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/hillary-clinton-says-she-will-never-run-for-president-again/ | 2022-09-07T16:17:31Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/hillary-clinton-says-she-will-never-run-for-president-again/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A man present at a shooting near an electric charging station last week has identified the gunman, who he said targeted the victim because he “probably had money due to possessing an electric vehicle,” court documents say.
The witness said he wasn’t aware Robert Pernell Roberts (whom he knows as “AWOL”) had a gun on him or was going to shoot anyone, say the reports released Tuesday morning.
Benny Alcala Jr. was shot and killed the night of Aug. 24 outside of a Target store in Bakersfield, California. Alcala worked within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from 2006 to his death, according to a CDCR press secretary and Alcala’s family.
The 43-year-old was declared dead at the scene.
Roberts, 29, is charged with Alcala’s murder, attempted robbery and possession of a gun by a felon. He’s due in court Wednesday.
In addition to the witness’ statement, police retrieved call data records showing Roberts’ phone in the area before the shooting, and he was caught on surveillance cameras at nearby businesses, according to the reports.
Also, police say a text sent from a number linked to Roberts said, “I just killed somebody. Watch the news.”
Roberts was on post-release supervision. Court records show prior felony convictions for burglary and robbery.
Body found on sidewalk
Alcala left home about 7:45 pm. to charge his Hyundai IONIQ5, his wife told police. She became worried around 9 p.m. after receiving a notification the vehicle had been charging too long. Alcala didn’t answer the phone.
His wife drove to the shopping center and saw police activity.
The reports say police received a call at about 9:05 p.m. for a man lying on the sidewalk. There was a call reporting shots fired in the same area about 30 minutes earlier.
Firefighters provided medical care and declared Alcala dead at 9:20 p.m. A Target shopping bag containing drinks and a receipt were found nearby, and surveillance footage shows Alcala enter the store at 8:03 p.m. and leave at 8:20 p.m., according to the documents.
Witnesses contact police
On Aug. 26, a witness contacted police and said gunfire hit his vehicle two nights earlier as he drove west on Stockdale Highway past the charging stations. The witness told police three people were standing near the charging stations and he had believed a drug deal was taking place.
Another person who drove by the area around the time of the shooting also spoke to police. Both provided descriptions of those involved.
Days later, detectives located a man wearing the same clothing as seen in the video and detained him. He told them about “AWOL” and the events leading up to the shooting.
The man, whose name is was not released, said AWOL told him he needed money to get a ride back to the “hood,” according to the documents. He said AWOL saw a man charging a vehicle and figured he’d have money.
AWOL approached the man as he sat on a curb.
“(The detained man) stated as ‘AWOL’ was closing in (Alcala) stood up and began to back away,” an investigator wrote. “At this time (the detained man) was a distance away but saw the victim and ‘AWOL’ on sidewalk next to Stockdale Highway.
“He said he could not see either subject but heard one shot and he started to walk away from the area.”
A records check revealed “AWOL” as Roberts, police said, and the man identified him from a photo lineup.
Roberts was arrested the night of Sept. 1.
In 2011, Roberts was charged with robbery and harming an elderly adult after allegedly yanking a gold necklace from the neck of an 84-year-old man. He fled but was later identified by witnesses and the victim.
Roberts pleaded no contest to second-degree robbery and was sentenced to more than two years in jail. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/shooting-victim-targeted-because-he-was-charging-electric-vehicle-court-docs/ | 2022-09-07T16:17:45Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/shooting-victim-targeted-because-he-was-charging-electric-vehicle-court-docs/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — Meet today’s Stray of the Day!
This is Jake, a 6-7 month old, male, black Labrador. He was surrendered to the shelter and is now on the hunt for his forever family!
The shelter says he is a bit shy and timid at first, but he would make a great family pet. You’ll be able to tell what a great addition he is to yours the second you meet him! Visit the Sioux City Animal Rescue Center today to see how sweet of a boy he is. He will supply tons of cuddles and adventure!
If you’ve lost your pet, or if you’re looking to adopt, you can check out the rescue’s website at siouxcityanimalrescue.com. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/community/stray-of-the-day/stray-of-the-day-9-7-22/ | 2022-09-07T16:30:23Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/community/stray-of-the-day/stray-of-the-day-9-7-22/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — The eastbound outside lane of the Gordon Drive Viaduct is closing for bridge repairs.
The eastbound outside lane and the eastbound to southbound ramp onto Lewis Boulevard will be closing on Wednesday according to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s District 3 Office.
The Iowa DOT said that there will be a detour onto southbound Fairmont Street that will take drivers to southbound Lewis Boulevard.
Dakin Schultz with the Iowa DOT told KCAU 9 that they hope to have the road reopened by the end of the year. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/part-of-gordon-drive-viaduct-closing-for-repair/ | 2022-09-07T16:30:41Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/part-of-gordon-drive-viaduct-closing-for-repair/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kent's very own Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes is set to join the Loose Women as a panellist from next month. The 52 year-old appeared on the ITV daytime show on Wednesday to break the news.
Today Dame Kelly, who is from Penbury, appeared on the show through video link from the gym she said is so "excited" to be joining the show. She said: "I am so excited! I don’t think I’ve had this much of an adrenaline rush for so long."
Panellists Christine Lampard, Linda Robson, Brenda Edwards and Nadia Sawalha all shared their delight at their new colleague. Linda shared the fact that she had met up with Kelly a few weeks ago and talked her through an average day on the show.
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Dame Kelly said: "I feel like after doing my documentary, I feel I can talk and speak about subjects I never, ever talked about for fear. I am so excited to be with you ladies, you can’t imagine!"
Linda Robson then added that Kelly now feels more "relaxed" about joining the show following their meeting. Kelly agreed and said: "I really am. I’m so interested in so many subjects, but I’d never kind of explored it.
"When I’ve listened before, I’m like, ‘Yeah, I've got a little opinion on that’ or maybe experience on the subject.” Despite the positivity the 800 and 1,500 metres Olympic gold medallist did have a warning for her new colleagues.
She said: "Also ladies, be careful though, I’m going to be a whirlwind on the show. I’m teaching you a TikTok that I’m learning at the moment because I don’t do ageing ladies, I’m refusing to get old.
"I’m teaching you to get moving, get active, so be ready, I’m teaching you a TikTok! I can’t wait to do so many more things with all of you.
"You inspire me. Everyone’s got a story, we’ve all got a life history and hopefully we can explore that soon.”
She also confirmed that she will be joining her new team at the National Television Awards when they take place next week. She said: "love it, it’s brilliant, I can’t wait.”
Loose Women’s Editor Sally Shelford has said: “We are thrilled and honoured to have Dame Kelly Holmes join the Loose Women panel. She is a national treasure and an inspiration to us all.
“We can’t wait to get her take on the topics of the day, plus she has already set us the challenge of taking her out of her comfort zone and putting her sense of adventure to the test. Watch this space!”
Loose Women continues weekdays at 12:30pm at ITV1 and the ITV Hub.
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Tickets are on sale for 'mesmerising' The Polar Express which features a steam-hauled train ride in Tunbridge Wells. People were clamouring for tickets last Christmas for the "truly magical" experience at Spa Valley Railway.
People were so enchanted by the experience which has 'falling snow' and takes passengers from Tunbridge Wells West station to the 'North Pole' just past Groombridge, they were desperate to book for this year. The charity Spa Valley Railway was flooded last year with glowing comments and thank-yous from visitors including parents and grandparents.
Social media was swamped with praise of the event, with people describing it as "mesmerising" and "truly magical" and "so Christmassy". The Polar Express features costumed actors, the dramatic arrival of the loco with steam billowing through snowfall and music from the film. There is also a warming hot chocolate and a cookie, and there will be a gift of a shiny sleigh bell from Santa's sleigh.
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Father Christmas will be there to talk to families, and the train even experiences "Caribou related delays and other fantastical happenings". Last year, some people signed up to the "alert service" so they would know immediately when tickets went on sale for this Christmas for the Warner Bros licensed attraction. This year, it runs from Friday, November 18 to Friday, December 23.
Many dates are already sold out or nearly sold out. Last year, one delighted grandmother took her grandson for the trip they will never forget. Celia Bradshaw from Tunbridge Wells took her grandson Jamie, eight, and said: "It was a totally mesmerising and magical experience. The characters were amazing and true to the film and my grandson was in awe of everything, especially his chat with Father Christmas."
She said the waitresses and waiters were "dancing in the aisles" and Jamie loved having his golden ticket punched by the conductor, which he took home as a memento. You can book tickets here, on the Spa Valley Railway website.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Two sisters who survived the Holocaust as girls and moved to the United States afterward died just days apart in their adopted home of Alabama.
The Alabama Holocaust Education Center said Ruth Scheuer Siegler died Saturday at the age of 95. Her sister, Ilse Scheuer Nathan, died 10 days earlier at the age of 98.
The women were born in Germany and were girls when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. After losing their parents and older brother in the Holocaust but surviving Nazi death camps themselves, the two women were inseparable, the center said in an announcement.
“They were always together,” Ann Mollengarden, education director for the Alabama Holocaust Education Center, told Al.com. “When Ilse died, I think Ruth was ready.”
In early 1944, the girls were selected as workers at the Birkenau camp and separated from their mother, who they never saw again, according to a biography of the women. They last saw their father at the camp, and their brother died at a camp in Germany.
“The girls worked carrying bricks from one end of the compound to the other for hours at a time. Ilse sewed gun covers and uniforms as well. Working close to the crematory ovens, they saw the mountains of shoes. For the first time, they realized that their fellow prisoners were being killed and cremated,” the biography said.
Each woman married fellow Holocaust survivors in 1949. Ruth and Walter Siegler moved to Birmingham in 1960 to be with Ilse and Walter Nathan, who already lived in the area.
The women, who taught lessons about the Holocaust, were both widows and remained best friends until the end, living within walking distance of each other for years.
In a 2011 interview with The Birmingham News, Ruth Siegler discussed the reasons for writing a memoir, “My Father’s Blessing,” which included papers and photographs that documented her journey surviving the Holocaust.
‘’I have all these memories,’’ she said. ‘’I remember everything.’’
During the interview, her sister Ilse came to visit. The sisters helped each other survive, and faith helped them through, they agreed.
‘’I always say have faith and hope,’’ Ilse Nathan said. ‘’We leaned on each other and prayed together.’’ | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/alabama-sisters-who-survived-holocaust-die-just-days-apart/ | 2022-09-07T16:31:00Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/alabama-sisters-who-survived-holocaust-die-just-days-apart/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NewsNation) — A school district in northern California is asking community members to consider renting out spare rooms to teachers, citing the high cost of living in a county that is driving teachers to seek employment in neighboring communities.
Milpitas United School District, just outside San Jose in the Bay Area, recently passed a resolution in support of affordable housing initiatives, saying 10 teachers left the district last year because of living costs in Santa Clara County. The school board said it continues to pursue housing opportunities for educators, including “private homeowners with rooms to rent.”
Nearly 50 people in the community have offered up a room, NewsNation affiliate KRON reported.
“This is evidence that our entire MUSD Team, which includes our teachers and classified support staff, is valued by our Milpitas community members, parents and caregivers,” the school district said in a statement as reported by KRON.
Those with an available room can submit their information through a form on the school district’s website.
The Bay Area has notoriously become one of the most expensive places in the United States to live, and San Jose is the second most expensive place in the country to rent, according to San Jose Spotlight.
“Many of the Milpitas Unified School District moderate-income employees are working families and are finding it increasingly difficult to purchase or rent a home within a 15 mile radius or close to the Milpitas Unified School District where they work,” the school district said in its resolution.
Teacher salaries have remained stagnant across the country since 1996, and a report from the Economic Policy Institute shows California teachers were paid 17% less than comparable college-educated workers last year.
A recent report by Airbnb found that 20% of hosts identified as an educator or lived with one in 2021. Teachers made nearly $280 million from hosting last year. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/california-school-district-asks-parents-to-house-teachers-as-costs-surge/ | 2022-09-07T16:31:07Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/california-school-district-asks-parents-to-house-teachers-as-costs-surge/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida man who authorities said had a “disturbing fascination with mass school shootings” was arrested after he allegedly left several dead animals on a memorial in Parkland.
According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, 29-year-old Robert Mondragon left several dead and disfigured animals at the MSD Memorial Garden, which is located outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
The investigation began on July 20 after a school crossing guard found a dead duck with its chest cavity cut open on a bench at the memorial garden. A day later on July 21, the school crossing guard found a dead raccoon on the same bench.
On July 31, a dead opossum was found on the bench by a deputy.
Using surveillance video, authorities were able to identify Mondragon’s car, which had been spotted parking near the memorial for several minutes the night before the dead opossum was found.
When a vigilant deputy saw Mondragon’s car driving slowly in the area, he conducted a traffic stop.
The sheriff’s office said Mondragon was the only person in the car at the time. Next to him were bird feathers and blood on the front passenger side floorboard. Mondragon told the deputy he had a dead bird in his car because he likes “the metal and blood smell that emit from the dead animal.”
Mondragon was let go that night, but his whereabouts were forwarded to detectives who arrested him several days later for violating his probation for battery, indecent exposure, and a risk protection order.
Search warrants obtained during an investigation into the dead animals uncovered a photo on Mondragon’s phone of him holding a dead duck with its chest cavity cut open and another photo of a dead raccoon on the floorboard of his car.
Detectives said further investigations found that Mondragon had an “obsession with school shooters, both real and fictional.”
“Mondragon’s facial tattoos resemble those of Tate Langdon, the character from the television series American Horror Story based on the Columbine High School massacre,” the sheriff’s office said in a release.
The investigation also found text messages about school shootings, and internet searches about school shooters, how to break into steel doors, shootings involving multiple victims, pipe bombs, and slang terms for killing cops.
Deputies said further evidence, captured two weeks before the end of the 2021-2022 school year, showed that Mondragon walked the same path Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz took from the high school to Walmart on Feb. 14, 2018. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/florida-man-obsessed-with-school-shootings-put-dead-animals-on-parkland-memorial-deputies-say/ | 2022-09-07T16:31:13Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/florida-man-obsessed-with-school-shootings-put-dead-animals-on-parkland-memorial-deputies-say/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BALTIMORE - Maryland’s six casinos combined to generate $169,351,953 in gaming revenue during August 2022. The total represented an increase of $892,605 (0.5%) compared to August 2021, Maryland Lottery and Gaming announced Wednesday.
Casino gaming contributions to the state in August 2022 totaled $70,878,379, a decrease of $406,101 (-0.6%) compared to August 2021.
Contributions to the Education Trust Fund in August 2022 were $51,496,162, a decrease of $293,463 (-0.6%) compared to August 2021. Casino gaming revenues also support the communities and jurisdictions where the casinos are located, Maryland’s horse racing industry, and small, minority- and women-owned businesses.
Maryland’s six privately owned casinos offer both slot machines and table games: MGM National Harbor in Prince George’s County; Live! Casino & Hotel in Anne Arundel County; Horseshoe Casino Baltimore in Baltimore City; Ocean Downs Casino in Worcester County; Hollywood Casino Perryville in Cecil County; and Rocky Gap Casino Resort in Allegany County.
The gaming revenue totals for August 2022 are as follows:
MGM National Harbor (2,099 slot machines, 210 table games)
$71,810,461 in August 2022, an increase of $4,389,252 (6.5%) from August 2021
Live! Casino & Hotel (3,754 slot machines, 180 table games)
$56,801,021 in August 2022, a decrease of $2,705,444 (-4.5%) from August 2021
Horseshoe Casino (1,500 slot machines, 130 table games)
$17,238,876 in August 2022, a decrease of $762,253 (-4.2%) from August 2021
Ocean Downs Casino (846 slot machines, 19 table games)
$10,531,094 in August 2022, an increase of $671,963 (6.8%) from August 2021
Hollywood Casino (693 slot machines, 19 table games)
$7,193,428 in August 2022, a decrease of $575,207 (-7.4%) from August 2021
Rocky Gap Casino (620 slot machines, 16 table games)
$5,777,072 in August 2022, a decrease of $125,706 (-2.1%) from August 2021 | https://www.wboc.com/news/maryland-casinos-generate-169-4m-in-gaming-revenue-during-august/article_1bf7bdaa-2eb7-11ed-a765-eff1dc67bb4e.html | 2022-09-07T16:31:16Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/maryland-casinos-generate-169-4m-in-gaming-revenue-during-august/article_1bf7bdaa-2eb7-11ed-a765-eff1dc67bb4e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SALISBURY, Md. - The Wicomico County Sheriff's Office says a traffic stop in Salisbury led to a drug bust that resulted in the arrests of two people.
The sheriff's office said that on Aug. 31, deputies conducted a traffic stop in the area of US 13 and North Pointe Drive. During the course of the traffic stop, a search was conducted of the vehicle.
As the back-seat passenger, who was identified as 24-year-old Christopher Ronnell-Forewell Gale, got out of the vehicle, a pat down was conducted for weapons. The sheriff's office said a firearm was detected in Gale's pocket, at which point he attempted to run away. However, he was quickly apprehended. Police said Gale resisted arrest and was eventually placed into handcuffs and taken into custody.
A search of Gale revealed a Sarsilmaz SAR9 9mm handgun that was loaded with 16 rounds in the magazine, authorities said. Additionally, 2.12 grams of heroin, 7.13 grams of crack cocaine, and marijuana were located on his person, according to the sheriff's office. Investigators said a combined total of 45.89 grams of marijuana was seized from Gale’s person and the vehicle. A digital scale was located in the vehicle near where Gale was seated. Gale is reportedly prohibited from possessing firearms due to previous criminal convictions. The driver of the vehicle, who was identified as 36-year-old Kevin Brian Ford, was charged on a criminal citation for possession of marijuana greater then 10 grams.
Gale was arrested and released to the Wicomico County Detention Center, where he was ordered held without bond on the following charges:
• CDS Possession with intent to distribute heroin
• CDS Possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine
• Possession with intent to distribute
• Firearm Drug Trafficking Crime
• Firearm use during the commission of a felony
• Loaded handgun on person
• Loaded handgun in vehicle
• Regulated Firearm illegal possession
• Illegal possession of ammunition
• CDS Possession of cocaine
• CDS Possession of heroin
• CDS distribution with a firearm
• Fail to obey a lawful order
• Resisting arrest
• Obstructing and hindering
• Possession of narcotic production equipment
• Possession of cannabis greater than 10 grams
Ford:
• Possession of cannabis greater than 10 grams | https://www.wboc.com/news/salisbury-traffic-stop-leads-to-drug-bust/article_b50e91ac-2ec2-11ed-8ebf-1b586f273184.html | 2022-09-07T16:31:23Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/salisbury-traffic-stop-leads-to-drug-bust/article_b50e91ac-2ec2-11ed-8ebf-1b586f273184.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tags : chocolao_2.x6-4\nchess : (Chess game - x0x ) *x99\n(Chess is played upon either squares-with x8-to represent empty white '0',or white with two and Blackwith zero's.. x8+0 .., the White board willbe x27(a=two/four) +(x137=four)= (a-b): = Timothy Bolen and Patrick Canez will challenge their minds and bodies this weekend in Wisconsin. The longtime friends will complete their first Ironman together.
“As long as the lord is letting me do this physically, I’m gonna do whatever it takes on race day to get to the finish, to get this done,” said Bolen sitting next to Canez.
Their relationship has flourished through Bolen's nonprofit 2gether We Live, which pairs athletes with folks like Canez, who was born with cerebral palsy.
It's an organization inspired by another nonprofit called Best Buddies, both of which have an overarching mission to help those with intellectual or physical disabilities live their best lives.
“He just has a desire to race and wants to race, and I wish he could verbally say that to you,” said Bolen. “When we’re on the course and he’s laughing and he’s engaged and he’s yelling at every person we’re running by, he’s just in his element.”
To accomplish the feat, the two will team up using specialized equipment.
Allowing Bolen to perform the swimming, cycling, and running over the 130-mile race with Canez every step of the way.
For the 2.4-mile swim, Bolen will pull Canez in a raft attached to his waist, they will share a specialized tandem bike for the 100+ mile cycle, and Bolen will push Canez in a running stroller for the last 26 miles.
In 2015, the two took on an Ironman event in Lake Tahoe, but course conditions sidelined their efforts.
“It was not conducive for the equipment we had,” said Bolen. “For us not to be able to finish that was devastating for me personally.”
This time around, they’re determined to change that. Especially considering their newfound urgency, as Bolen was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2020.
“I think anyone who hears the phrase, you have cancer, and you get a diagnosis, especially one that’s a terminal one knows that every day counts, every minute counts, every hour counts,” said Bolen.
He was given an average of seven years to live. A devastating diagnosis that makes their journey even more remarkable.
“He lights up when he and Tim run together,” said Patrick Canez's mom Sandra Canez. “He’s blossomed. It gives him a chance to go out and experience what we experience. To have a fuller life despite the challenge he faces.”
Sandra Canez said she does worry about the day Bolen is no longer here alongside their son.
“Yes,” said Sandra Canez, holding back tears. “But I can’t focus on that, I have to focus on their friendship and just the bond that the two of them have.”
A bond that will survive this grueling race and whatever comes next.
Instead, Bolen, Patrick Canez, and their families are focusing on the here and now, the love and kinship they all now share.
With plans to cross that finish line together and shout out the phrase they've dreamed of for so long.
“Oh, easily I can tell you, 'Patrick, we are Ironmen, right?' That’s exactly what I’m going to scream when we get done,” said Bolen as Patrick Canez nodded in excitement. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/special-friendship-inspires-ironman-attempt-in-the-face-of-a-terminal-diagnosis | 2022-09-07T16:41:24Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/special-friendship-inspires-ironman-attempt-in-the-face-of-a-terminal-diagnosis | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
President Biden on Wednesday will host former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama at the White House together for the first time since he left office in 2017.
The Obamas are back for the official unveiling of their portraits, providing a rare opportunity for Biden to try to hitch Democratic midterm campaign messaging to the two-term former president.
Obama returned to the White House in April for the first time since leaving office in 2017 — getting so much attention from a crowd celebrating the 12th anniversary of ObamaCare that the Telegraph described Biden as appearing “lost.”
Michelle Obama has reportedly not been back to the White House since moving nearly six years ago to a nearby Washington mansion.
The former first lady, who famously tended to a White House vegetable garden, is well-regarded among Democrats for her strong speaking abilities and frequently registers as a potentially popular presidential candidate herself.
Michelle Obama delivered one of the 2020 Democratic convention’s most expressive and best-received appeals to vote out President Donald Trump, saying, “If we have any hope of ending this chaos, we have to vote for Joe Biden like our lives depend on it.”
Although Biden was Obama’s vice president for eight years, there are signs that they weren’t particularly close.
After taking office last year, Biden admitted that he had never been to the White House “residence” or living quarters during Obama’s presidency. The residence has a sitting area and presidential office, in addition to bedrooms.
Obama, a freshman senator from Illinois when he won the 2008 Democratic nomination, picked Biden as his running mate in an apparent effort to balance the Democratic ticket with a more experienced politician with decades of DC experience.
Trump frequently mocked Biden’s poor performance in the 2008 Democratic primary, saying that Obama plucked “1% Joe” off the “trash heap.”
Ahead of the 2020 campaign, Obama reportedly discouraged Biden from running for president.
“You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t,” Obama said in 2019, according to the New York Times.
In private conversations with other people, Obama reportedly was even more direct in expressing doubt about Biden, telling one fellow Democrat, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f–k things up,” Politico reported.
The former president even reportedly told a different 2020 candidate, “You know who really doesn’t have it? Joe Biden.” | https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/barack-and-michelle-obama-return-to-white-house-as-official-portraits-are-unveiled/ | 2022-09-07T16:45:39Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/barack-and-michelle-obama-return-to-white-house-as-official-portraits-are-unveiled/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A British group that owns Regal cinemas said Wednesday it had filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States as the world’s second-largest theater chain operator struggles to find other ways to restructure its debt-laden balance sheet.
Cineworld Group filed for Chapter 11, which can allow a company to stay in business and restructure its debt. The filing involves Cineworld’s US, UK and Jersey businesses.
The Regal cinemas owner has repeatedly warned that any deleveraging transaction would lead to very significant dilution of existing equity interests.
While the movie industry has been struggling to recover from the pandemic, which has led to fewer blockbusters, lower theater attendance and increased popularity of streaming, Cineworld’s specific issue is the amount of debt it has amassed over the years.
The company took on debt to fund part of its $3.6 billion purchase of Regal in 2017, and more to survive the pandemic.
Its net debt including lease liabilities stood at $8.9 billion at the end of 2021. Excluding lease liabilities, its net debt was $4.84 billion at that time. The company’s market value was just 54 million pounds ($62 million) at Tuesday’s close.
Cineworld operates more than 9,000 screens across 10 countries and employs around 28,000 people. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/regal-parent-cineworld-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy/ | 2022-09-07T16:46:52Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/regal-parent-cineworld-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- Air Force Academy Cadets participate in the Parents' Weekend Parade at Stillman Field Sept. 2, 2022. The event is held over Labor Day weekend, providing Academy families an extended opportunity to reunite with their cadets and tour Academy facilities. (U.S. Air Force photo/Trevor Cokley)
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Admiral Group’s (GB:ADM) shares have been through a tough time in 2022: after hitting a high spot in September 2021, the share prices have been on a downward trajectory and have fallen by 22% YTD.
Could this be the time to buy?
The company’s direct competitor in the UK market, Direct Line Insurance (GB:DLG) stock is also trading down by 20% in this year so far.
Direct Line even issued a profit warning in July 2022, as it struggles with rising claim costs triggered by inflation.
What does Admiral Group do?
Admiral Group is a financial services company, known mainly for its insurance services, and is famously one of the leading car insurance companies in the UK.
The group comprises many other businesses such as Admiral Law for legal services, Admiral Money for personal finance, and Admiral Pioneer for investing in start-ups.
First-half results 2022
The company posted a profit before tax of £251.3 million in the six months ended on 30 June 2022. Even though this was around 48% lower than the previous year, it was still 19% higher than the first half of 2019. The UK motor business performed well and contributed the most to the profits.
On a positive note, the group’s turnover increased by 6% to £1.85 billion. Also, it added 1.09 million new customers during this period, a 14% growth from last year.
The differentiation
The higher costs of car claims are affecting the whole car insurance industry. However, Admiral is following a long-term approach in pricing to navigate through this situation.
It is able to manage its margins effectively in the UK market with a disciplined pricing strategy. The company is known for higher prices in the market and has further increased them by 16% this year.
A dividend gem
Admiral is an ideal stock for income investors. The company has an attractive dividend yield of 13.27%, way ahead of the sector average of 2.1%.
Along with the results, the company announced an interim dividend of 60p per share and a special dividend of 45p per share.
Admiral share price forecast
According to TipRanks’ analyst rating consensus, Admiral stock has a Hold rating. The stock has a wide analyst coverage with a total of 10 ratings, including five Buy, two Hold, and three Sell recommendations.
The ADM target price is 2,235.70p, with a high and a low forecast of 2,903p and 1,625p, respectively. The price target implies a slight change of 1.8% from the current price level.
Barclays analyst Ivan Bokhmat is highly bullish on the stock and has recently reiterated his Buy rating. He has also raised his target price from 2,583p to 2,698p.
Barclays said Admiral had “weathered the challenging H1 22 well.”
Conclusion
Admiral Group, as an insurance company, has the benefit of stable business operations in this uncertain environment.
The stock has a very good passive income opportunity. Even though the analyst is predicting a lower dividend yield in 2023, it will still remain higher than most of its competition as well as the market average. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/admiral-group-a-balanced-stock-for-safe-returns | 2022-09-07T16:51:59Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/admiral-group-a-balanced-stock-for-safe-returns | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Grandma’s House of Hope, a charitable foundation in Orange County, operates several small shelters for people struggling with homelessness, addiction, domestic violence, or mental health issues. From modest beginnings in 2004, it has grown immensely, helping thousands of struggling clients get back on their feet.
The charity’s plans to convert a two-story house in Anaheim’s Colony District neighborhood into transitional housing was dashed, however, when the City Council denied their building permit. Grandma’s House is now challenging the permit denial in court, raising lingering constitutional questions about property rights.
This is a textbook case of the “Not in My Backyard,” or NIMBY phenomenon, whereby some residents oppose new but reasonable land-uses in their neighborhoods. NIMBY neighbors often employ canned arguments about traffic congestion and safety — neither of which this small shelter plausibly raises — to pressure local officials to stop neighbors from using their property. Here, residents raised vague but boisterous alarms, claiming the area is too saturated with similar uses like daycare centers, transitional housing and rented units. Though Anaheim’s council caved, they may not stand up to constitutional scrutiny.
Of course, courts often uphold a city’s power of land-use — we’re all familiar with zoning. The question courts typically ask with whether the restrictions are “rationally related to a legitimate public purpose.” But some land-use restrictions are never constitutionally permissible because the minority groups targeted are or have historically suffered at the whims of a majority’s impulses.
An obvious example would be racially motivated restrictions on selling homes to African Americans, which the Supreme Court long ago held to be unconstitutional. In other cases, a court may strike down a permit denial if it targeted unpopular groups merely because they were unwanted in the neighborhood. In City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, the Supreme Court ruled that a town could not reject a permit request for housing to treat the mentally disabled. In doing so, the court reviewed the city’s justifications and determined they were pretextual. Animus to the mentally disabled was not a legitimate basis for denying the permit. Courts look carefully at whether vague complaints about traffic or safety, like those offered against Grandma’s House, are mere pretext to keep unwanted people out of a neighborhood.
Nothing about the proposed shelter violates Anaheim’s existing land-use regulations, and the vague and subjective nature of the complaints sure seems like a pretext to deny the shelter its permit. Moreover, Grandma’s House already operates 10 other Anaheim facilities, all previously approved by city officials. The city has a heavy lift to explain why the newest proposed shelter is being treated differently.
We should remember that the real victims in this abusive process are the already traumatized women who are losing out on the shelter and services that Grandma’s House of Hope could provide, thanks to a relatively small cadre of neighbors who have highjacked the permitting process. At a time when so many California cities are struggling with the intertwined epidemics of homelessness and drug addiction, and when Sacramento and so many county and local governments have proven incapable of fully addressing these problems, Grandma’s House of Hope lives up to its name, giving victims the hope for the future its care provides.
Anaheim officials and local NIMBYs should rethink their opposition. There is nothing to lose and plenty to gain from an inclusive neighborhood that embraces new land-uses, such as Grandma’s House of Hope.
Sam Spiegelman and Jeremy Talcott are attorneys at Pacific Legal Foundation, a nonprofit legal organization that defends Americans’ liberties when threatened by government overreach and abuse.
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U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. – Air Force's Haaziq Daniels tries to evade Northern Iowa's Caden Houghtelling on Sept. 3, 2022 during a game in Falcon Stadium at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Air Force defeated Northern Iowa 48-17 in their regular season opener. – (U.S. Air Force photo/Trevor Cokley)
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XPeng (NYSE:XPEV) investors might feel like they’re driving in the fast lane after the company released its August delivery data. It’s fine to celebrate the small victories, but there are bigger-picture concerns that don’t bode well for XPeng stock. All in all, I am neutral on XPeng stock.
XPeng is a China-based electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer. Sure, the global EV industry has growth potential over the coming years, especially in China, where the government generally favors clean energy initiatives. With this in mind, it might be tempting to jump headfirst into the trade with XPeng stock.
After we examine XPeng’s recent monthly vehicle delivery report, you may be even more emboldened to buy the stock. However, there’s more to the story with XPeng than one good month of EV deliveries. Not long ago, the automaker issued forward vehicle delivery guidance that fell far short of the experts’ consensus forecast.
That’s troubling, and it might set eager XPeng stock traders up for a major disappointment. As we delve deeper into the challenges that XPeng will continue to face throughout 2022, any optimism could and should shift to a cautious stance.
XPeng Showed Impressive EV Delivery Growth in August
Don’t get the wrong idea. There’s no need to be full-on bearish about XPeng stock, and short-selling the shares would be a dangerous proposition. That’s because XPeng’s August EV delivery figures demonstrated an impressive rate of growth.
So, here’s the scoop. In the month of August, XPeng delivered 9,578 smart EVs, and this result represents a 33% year-over-year increase. This total includes 5,745 P7 smart sports sedans, 2,678 P5 smart family sedans, and 1,155 G3i and G3 smart compact SUVs.
Along with those figures, XPeng disclosed that it had delivered a total of 90,085 smart EVs during 2022’s first eight months, indicating a 96% year-over-year increase. With that vehicle delivery growth rate, XPeng and the company’s bullish investors definitely earned some bragging rights.
Overall, however, XPeng stock traders didn’t seem too impressed with these monthly delivery results. Interestingly enough, XPeng shares declined 2.2% after the results were released. What’s going on here?
To make sense of this, we have to put XPeng’s 9,578 August smart-EV deliveries into perspective. Specifically, this result marks a 16% month-over-month decline compared to XPeng’s 11,524 July deliveries. This isn’t mentioned in XPeng’s press release, and it’s an example of why investors must always dig deeper into the data before forming a bullish or bearish conclusion.
XPeng’s Quarterly Profit Missed Analysts’ Expectations
In order to get the full picture of XPeng’s progress as a business, you’ll need to look back further than the company’s August delivery numbers. After delving into the company’s second-quarter 2022 results, some of which fell short of analysts’ expectations, you’ll probably decide that it’s not a good time to buy XPeng stock.
Let’s start with the top-line results. During Q2 2022, XPeng generated the equivalent of $1.11 billion in revenue (all figures are roughly converted from RMB to USD). XPeng stated that this number is “comparable to the level of the first quarter of 2022,” so there’s no major quarter-over-quarter growth to report here. Moreover, XPeng’s second-quarter revenue came in roughly in line with Wall Street’s expectations.
There’s nothing terrible here so far, but also nothing to get excited about. It gets more interesting, albeit not in a positive way when we observe the company’s bottom-line results. In Q2 2022, XPeng recorded an adjusted earnings loss of $367.9 million. Hence, despite generating over $1 billion in quarterly revenue, XPeng didn’t manage to turn a quarterly profit. Making matters worse, XPeng’s Q2 net loss was worse than the $288 million loss that analysts had expected.
XPeng Honorary Vice Chairman and President Hongdi Brian Gu proudly declared, “Our solid financial results for the second quarter of 2022 reflect our ability to meet strong market demand despite supply chain challenges and cost inflation.” Should a $367.9 million adjusted net loss be considered a “solid” result, though? Some investors would consider bottom-line results to be more important than top-line results, so Gu’s braggadocio might not be fully justified by the hard data.
XPeng’s EV Delivery Guidance for Q3 is Underwhelming
Looking ahead to 2022’s third quarter, XPeng expects to deliver between 29,000 and 31,000 vehicles. That might sound like an impressive range, but as always, digging deeper into the data will reveal the bigger picture. Unfortunately, XPeng’s forecast is actually underwhelming when we put it into context.
Notably, XPeng delivered 34,422 vehicles during the second quarter. Therefore, XPeng’s expected range for Q3 falls below the actual EV delivery result from the second quarter.
Additionally, analysts on Wall Street had estimated that XPeng would deliver around 45,000 EVs during Q3. So, XPeng’s lowball range is alarming, as it suggests that the company envisions a potential slowdown in vehicle deliveries, which would undoubtedly impact XPeng’s top and bottom lines.
Is XPEV a Good Stock to Buy?
Turning to Wall Street, XPEV has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on six Buys and three Holds assigned in the past three months. The average XPeng stock price target is $47.40, implying 197.2% upside potential.
Conclusion: Should You Consider XPeng Stock?
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Singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield has gone from punk rocker to indie artist, but the next step in her musical metamorphosis involved embracing a part of herself that she’d previously shied away from: her Southern country roots.
“In my 20s — when I was super punk, underground and wanted to be as avant-garde as humanly possible — I didn’t want that to be a part of my story,” Crutchfield said during a recent phone interview. “It’s been really freeing to circle back and be really honest about how at the very foundation of my music, this is what’s there.”
Crutchfield, who performs under the moniker Waxahatchee, named after a creek from her childhood home in Alabama, will perform alongside country and Americana acts at the BeachLife Ranch festival in Redondo Beach, Sept. 16-18. She’ll also perform with her new country project Plains, which features singer-songwriter Jess Williamson, at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Oct. 26 and Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown on Friday, Oct. 28.
“At a Waxahatchee show, I go into it as a place for folks to have a lot of feelings and have a good time,” she said. “With Plains, I want people to come out and have a good time. We’re going to play covers, some Waxahatchee songs, some Jess Williamson songs and the entire Plains record. It’ll just be a very fun evening.”
Simplifying the sound
Crutchfield released “Saint Cloud” in 2020, an album that provokes imagery of a warm, scenic country hillside with lilacs, Memphis ember skylines and old Ford pickup trucks. It is driven by clean acoustic guitar licks that celebrate the basic foundations of music that exist without being saturated by distortion effects. The calmness and yearning of the album serve as an insight into what a simple life in the country might be like, in contrast to the loud noises of big cities.
Part of that was inspired by the Detroit band Bonny Doon, who Crutchfield toured with in 2018. She said that hearing the band play her old songs and trusting them with her new material set the path for how she wanted “Saint Cloud” to sound.
Life experiences, such as getting sober, rebuilding her relationship with herself, taking some time away from touring, and moving to Kansas City, Kans. with her partner and fellow musician Kevin Morby, all naturally laid the groundwork for the themes of the finished album.
“I feel like I just relaxed a bit and got to know myself in a deeper way,” she said.
With previous albums, Crutchfield said she would try harder to create an aesthetic and guide the listener to an established genre, whether rock or indie, but Brad Cook, producer and collaborator for “Saint Cloud,” helped steer her in another direction.
“I think the intention with ‘Saint Cloud’ and with Waxahatchee in general from this point forward is not to try to be anything and just write the songs,” she explained. “We tried to go in and just let the song tell us what it is.”
The album was a success and well received by fans and critics alike, with Rolling Stone putting it in the top 10 albums of 2020 and Pitchfork declaring it the second best album of that year. Crutchfield said she felt good about having her work reaffirmed with this success while returning to her roots. She said without “Saint Cloud,” she doesn’t think the Plains project would exist.
A new frontier
Williamson and Crutchfield first met at a social mixer that her partner Morby and she hosted for each of their friends to attend. Crutchfield said that the pair clicked immediately and became fast friends based on their mutual interests.
“I grew up on country music,” Crutchfield said. “All my earliest memories of music are all ’90s country radio like Trisha Yearwood, Alan Jackson, Loretta Lynn and George Jones.”
Williamson and Crutchfield exchanged albums that they both released during the pandemic. They were fans of each other’s work, which sparked the idea for the collaboration that would become Plains.
“Jess and I thought it would be really fun to release a record that leaned all the way into the country aesthetic,” Crutchfield said.
The new record, “I Walked With You a Ways,” is set to be released on Oct. 14. It sounds like something you’d listen to on a porch overlooking vast open plains while watching the sunset. It’s also a nod to some of the genre’s biggest stars like Dolly Parton, The Chicks, The Judds, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson.
Crutchfield said that although she’s tired from touring, she’s grateful for how things have turned out and ready for whatever is next.
“I’m very excited and don’t want to give too much away, but I’m deep into writing the next Waxahatchee album,” she said. “I think in hindsight, I’m going to feel so happy with how everything has gone.”
BeachLife Ranch Festival
With: The Lumineers, Dierks Bentley, Brandi Carlile, Daryl Hall & John Oats, Ashley McBride, Wilco, Lukas Nelson, Old Crow Medicine Show and more.
When: Friday-Sunday, Sept.16-18
Where: 137 North Harbor Drive, Redondo Beach.
Tickets: Single-day tickets start at $159; three-day passes start at $299; Three-day VIP tickets are $699. All passes are available at beachliferanch.com.
Also: Plains will perform at 7 p.m. Oct. 26 at The Belasco, 1050 South Hill St., Los Angeles. $30 at Livenation.com; 7 p.m. Oct. 28 at Pappy & Harriet’s, 53688 Pioneertown Road., Pioneertown. $37.99 at pappyandharriets.com.
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School districts these days face a variety of major challenges, from pandemic-era learning loss to the threat of campus shootings. There’s another one always lurking — cyberattacks like the one experienced by L.A. Unified School District on its information technology systems over the weekend.
As L.A. teachers, parents, students and leaders felt the brunt of the attack on Monday, it begged the question: With so much of education these days relying on computer technology, how difficult would it be to properly conduct school in the case of such a crippling attack, especially if it was for an extended period?
Could a school and its staff make it through without the programs used to communicate with one another as well as with students and their parents? What about making lesson plans, collecting assignments and keeping track of grades, and so on?
Alhambra Unified School District’s Ashton Potter, director of technology, said cyberattacks are a huge concern.
“Alhambra Unified, along with every school district in the country, is constantly preparing for a cyberattack like the one LAUSD is suffering,” Potter said. “Cybersecurity is AUSD’s priority one safety concern alongside the physical safety of our students and staff.”
That said, Alhambra Unified is prepared in case of such an attack, officials said.
“AUSD could operate if we experienced a situation like LAUSD’s,” Potter said. “Most of the district’s communication tools are cloud-based apps. We back up our internal systems offline daily. We prioritize our time and resources on making sure our hardware and software systems are always up to date.”
The district’s stand-by servers would be employed, part of an array of tools that would enable administrators and the parents and students they serve to access student-information systems for grades and attendance.
But the nature of the attacks is becoming increasingly sinister, experts suggest.
“I think one thing that we have seen with ransomware actors, in particular — and this is a trend that has emerged over the last just couple of years — which is that ransomware attacks that sort of lock up school’s IT systems and infrastructure are almost never the whole story,” said Doug Levin, national director of K12 Security eXchange, or K12 SIX, a non-profit organization built to protect schools from cybersecurity threats.
The rest of the “story” is that the initial attack is accompanied by major data breaches, he said.
A ransomware actor could compromise a school district’s IT system for weeks — even months — before activating the malware, which is designed to threaten the publication of sensitive personal data unless the actor is paid a ransom, Levin said.
At stake is the release of sensitive data ranging from information on students, families and teachers to the business operations of school districts.
In the cases where school districts have not negotiated with the ransomware actors, that data has been dumped or sold off to criminal forums on the dark web. That has led directly to identity theft, not just of school employees and adults, but also of students as young as elementary-school aged.
School districts are taking precautions.
Manoj Roychowdhury, associate superintendent of Business Services at Hacienda La Puente Unified, said his district is very aware of the issue.
Roychowdhury pointed to “incremental steps” to harden the district’s infrastructure. Firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs), ramped up data security and monitoring and a lot of employee training are all being employed to protect against hackers, Roychowdhury said.
Azusa Unified Superintendent Arturo Ortega said if his district experienced such an attack, it would affect the daily routine, but getting through it would be doable, he added.
“We have definitely become more reliant on educational technology in the last several years,” he said. “The loss of educational technology would cause some setbacks in daily operations, but we are fortunate to have both digital and hard copies of student curriculum and textbooks.”
He said attendance can be taken by hand and communication with parents could be done via letters sent home.
“Without access to classroom technology, daily instruction in some classes may look a little different from what students have grown accustomed to, but we would still be able to deliver an exceptional educational program,” Ortega said.
His technology manager, Manuel Sanchez, suggested that such instances are a sign of the times.
“As the number of online services needed to keep a school district operational in a digital world increases, the impact of an attack such as the one that has affected LAUSD makes it challenging for students and faculty to operate as they are accustomed to for an extended period of time,” he said.
“While IT departments work diligently to prevent such attacks, it is a reality that criminal organizations are looking to exploit systems.”
These attacks are expensive, Levin said.
“The cost of responding to the incident in the short term, can very well be dwarfed by the long-term cost,” he said.
He noted that Baltimore County Public Schools and Buffalo Public Schools within the past couple of years suffered cyberattacks.
“They reported that their sort of medium-term recovery costs were going to be roughly $10 million or more,” he said. “Baltimore County is a larger school district, but it’s not LAUSD-big. Buffalo is smaller than that. But it just goes to show that the longer-term costs for recovery are significant.
“And these are costs that are really incurred whether or a not a district pays the extortion demand. The fact that an outside unauthorized actor was able to not just break into the school’s IT systems, but to take them over, suggests that there may be quite a bit of work that is required to ensure something like that does not happen again.”
Levin said that this is indeed a brave new world for schools in this regard.
“For those schools that maybe were not relying on technology tremendously in years past, certainly in a post-COVID world with the rise of remote learning, schools are now relying on technology for not just teaching and learning in the classroom, but for all the back office operations.
In other words, for just about everything.
Levin said that because there is not a uniformed mandate on schools to provide a certain level of security services, school districts are in very different places with respect to cybersecurity programs.
He also said cybersecurity insurance is not easy to get because insurance companies require certain standards be met in order to qualify.
“For instance, you may not be able to get cybersecurity insurance unless you start putting in place some protections that we know work,” Levin said.
That’s not to mention that kind of insurance is very expensive.
“I do know districts that have forgone purchasing insurance because they could not qualify or afford it,” he said.
Ultimately, LAUSD appeared to have survived a major breach.
Classes resumed as scheduled Tuesday at the district — the second largest in the nation — following the weekend cyberattack on its information technology systems. The attack led to a federal investigation and instructions for teachers, staff and students to change their hundreds of thousands of district passwords.
The attackers used ransomware, LAUSD Superintendent Albert Carvalho said, but no confidential student information was breached, and there was no evidence that social security numbers or confidential health information was compromised.
He said the entity attacked the district’s facilities system, which contains information on payments made to contractors — much of which was already public information.
All told, Carvalho said “We are experiencing a fairly normal school day” in a morning news conference.
Still, by 9 a.m., the school’s attendance system was back online but schools were also taking attendance manually.
District officials said they immediately established a plan of action to provide protection in the future, “informed by top public and private sector technology and cyber security professionals.”
Levin said his advice to school districts is to take action before an incident occurs by putting in place better defenses, and good policy.
“This is definitely not something that you want to be figuring out after you’ve already realized that you’ve been compromised in an incident,” Levin said.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon write a new chapter in California’s decades-long conflict over the unionization of workers in the state’s huge agricultural industry — and what he does could affect his obvious quest to become a national political figure.
Assembly Bill 2183, a measure that would make it easier for the much-troubled United Farm Workers Union to organize farmers’ employees is sitting on his desk, passed by overwhelming margins by Newsom’s fellow Democrats in the Legislature.
The union’s drive for using a card check process or mailed ballots took on urgency when the U.S. Supreme Court declared in 2020 that it had no right to enter farmers’ property to talk with their workers, exacerbating the UFW’s chronic inability to make significant organizational inroads.
That failure, union leaders say, is due to farmers’ undermining organizational elections, which now are conducted by secret ballot. However, the UFW has also suffered from its own organization shortcomings as journalist Miriam Pawel chronicled in her authoritative book, “The Union of Their Dreams.”
Newsom vetoed an earlier version of the bill last year, saying, it “contains various inconsistencies and procedural issues related to the collection and review of ballot cards,” and adding, “Significant changes to California’s well-defined agricultural labor laws must be carefully crafted to ensure that both agricultural workers’ intent to be represented and the right to collectively bargain is protected, and the state can faithfully enforce those fundamental rights.”
This year’s version contained some changes that the UFW and its allies hoped would placate Newsom, but just before final votes last month, Newsom once again indicated his opposition. “We cannot support an untested mail-in election process that lacks critical provisions to protect the integrity of the election,” Newsom spokesperson Erin Mellon said.
Newsom’s unusual preemptive declaration may have been an indirect request that the Legislature not send him a second measure, but it didn’t deter legislators from acting with 55 votes in the Assembly and 26 in the Senate.
If anything, it spurred the UFW to redouble its public campaign, including a highly publicized week-long march to the Capitol from Delano, site of a 1965 grape worker strike that led to formation of the UFW and in 1975 to passage of the state’s Agricultural Labor Relations Act.
The UFW also formally joined the California Labor Federation after former Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez took the umbrella organization’s helm and obtained expressions of support from national political figures such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and, this week, President Joe Biden.
“In the state with the largest population of farmworkers, the least we owe them is an easier path to make a free and fair choice to organize a union,” Biden said on Labor Day.
All of this puts Newsom in a political pickle.
If he signs the bill, he will not only be reversing himself on a high-profile issue — never good optics for an ambitious politician — but could be providing critics with ammunition should he someday be seeking presidential votes in agricultural states that are critical in White House contests, such as Iowa, Ohio and Florida.
However, if he vetoes the measure, it could make it much more difficult for him to gain support in the Democratic Party’s progressive/activist wing, to which unionization of workers in agriculture and other low-wage industries is a holy grail. Delores Huerta, the UFW’s most revered figure, has predicted that Newsom would sign the bill because he’ll want union support for a presidential campaign.
A veto would also mean that he would probably see another UFW bill next year and every other year of his governorship.
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The Radford fire, burning near Barton Flats and Snow Summit in the Big Bear area, saw minimal growth overnight, having now burned 990 acres with 2% containment, authorities said on Wednesday morning, Sept. 7.
More than 470 fire personnel continued to work the fire, receiving help from air resources in hot and dry conditions, U.S. National Forest officials said in an 8 a.m. update. Tuesday evening, the estimated amount of scorched acres was 917.
On Tuesday, at least 16 air tankers were dropping water and fire retardant. Overnight footage showes flames chewing through brush and tall trees, some of which had toppled over.
Highway 38 remained closed, from Valley of the Falls Drive to Lake Williams Drive, except for residents of the mountain communities, who were allowed through with proof of residency, officials said.
This map shows where Radford fire evacuation orders and warnings have been issued
Evacuations remained in place for the Moonridge neighborhood, from Summit Boulevard to Club View Drive and Evergreen Drive to the north, officials said. An evacuation warning was in place for areas east of Club View Drive to Angeles Camp Road and Highway 18 to the north to areas between Deer Canyon and Sand Canyon Road to the south.
Evacuation orders were also issued for the area bordered by Pineknot Trail, Skyline Trail, Castlerock Trail and Knickerbocker Road, officials said. Another order was in place from Glass Road to South Fork River Road.
The American Red Cross has a shelter open at Big Bear High School, 351 Maple Lane, according to the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department. Those in need of assistance with animal evacuations can call San Bernardino County Animal Care and Control at 800-472-5609.
The fire broke out about 1:30 a.m., Monday, officials said. The fire’s cause was under investigation.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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On close inspection, California’s splashy new ban on the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles looks less like a bold new future and more like a tired old tactic — using government force to make people choose “voluntarily” to do what the government wants, and calling that a “market” solution.
The California Air Resources Board calls the alternative “command and control,” meaning regulators just set rules and enforce them.
That’s apparently what at least one environmental group was hoping CARB would do with its new rule banning the sale of gas-powered cars by 2035. Roman Partida-Lopez, legal counsel for transportation equity at The Greenlining Institute, told the Associated Press that the rule “missed the mark” by failing to “really set the path for lower income households to have increased access and affordability” to make the switch to electric cars.
The Advanced Clean Cars II rule doesn’t compel automakers to provide electric cars to disadvantaged Californians at deep discounts or with low-cost financing, but it sets up a new regulatory regime of credits for good behavior. Automakers will be required to sell a steadily increasing percentage of zero-emission vehicles, and if they can’t, they can get extra credit toward their government sales quota by choosing to take certain actions, such as providing cars for car-share programs in designated areas to meet equity goals.
CARB’s rule follows Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2020 executive order setting a “goal” of 100% zero-emission new vehicle sales by 2035 and directing CARB to implement the order. This is government central planning of the automobile market, achieved by essentially making free enterprise unlawful and then granting forgiveness to “lawbreakers” who agree to do community service.
That’s the CARB model. Like the cap-and-trade program, which seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by requiring utilities, refineries and manufacturers to buy emissions permits at auctions, it’s all “voluntary,” because any company that doesn’t want to do it has the option to go out of business. Carmakers that don’t meet the sales target for electric vehicles or earn enough “credits” toward it can always stop selling cars in California. Voluntarily.
CARB adopted its first Advanced Clean Cars rule in 2012. In a 2017 review, the agency concluded that it would “continue with existing technology-forcing zero-emission vehicle requirements to develop the market.”
It might strike some people as presumptuous for regulators to declare that they will force the invention of technology by mandating it. That can lead to a tremendous waste of money developing and manufacturing products that are brought to market to meet the requirements of government, while customers buy something else.
Nonetheless, the newly adopted Advanced Clean Cars II rule requires all new passenger vehicles sold in California to be zero emissions by 2035, whether the technology is ready or not, whether the electric grid is ready or not, and whether the customers will be there or not.
California has a waiver under the federal Clean Air Act that allows the state to set its own vehicle emissions rules, and other states have the option to follow California or federal standards. We’ll see how many states go along with a ban on the sale of gas-powered passenger cars.
Meanwhile, California energy officials asked electric car owners last weekend not to charge their vehicles, to help protect the state from rolling blackouts.
The new rule is off to a roaring start.
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Appointed prime minister Monday by Queen Elizabeth, Liz Truss faces the United Kingdom’s biggest crisis in four decades. Appropriately, as a young woman she looked up to the great Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whom she has pledged to emulate.
Times are different today, but there are similarities. In 1979, Thatcher headed a country dubbed “the sick man of Europe” for its economic malaise, including rickety old government-owned industries, staggering inflation and taxes so high the Beatles blasted them in the song “Taxman.” Today industries are more private, but inflation is 13% and the top income tax rate in the UK is 45%, compared to 15% in Hungary and 20% in Estonia. America’s currently is 37%, plus another 13.3% in California.
Truss has promised sharp tax cuts and pledged, “I will be unashamedly pro-business and show Global Britain is thriving and open to the world.” Unfortunately, she also is advancing price controls on energy, which won’t work there any more than they did in the United States in the 1970s. But overall, Truss has the right ideas.
UK politics sometimes presage those in the United States. The 1979 election of Thatcher, dubbed the Iron Lady, came just before the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, also on a platform of cutting taxes and regulations. Truss also has praised the Gipper.
As foreign secretary, Truss has been a major hawk for arming Ukraine against the Russian invasion. Thatcher also played a critical role bolstering Reagan’s confrontation with a very different Russia of that day, when it was the center of the Soviet Union. But in 1985 she also played a crucial role when Mikhail Gorbachev, who died last week at age 91, became the new leader in the Kremlin. She met with him and said he was ready for change. That eventually led to the Reagan-Gorbachev summits that ended the Cold War.
It should always be remembered it was the Thatcher-Reagan tax cuts and market reforms that gave the West the economic prowess to negotiate with Moscow from a position of economic strength.
If Truss can make the UK a catalyst for such reforms throughout the world, she will have lived up to Thatcher’s remarkable legacy, enriched her nation and stood up against Russian tyranny.
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The African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina has said that Africa will need between $1.3 and $1.6 trillion from 2020 to 2030, or $118 billion to $145 billion annually to implement its commitments to the Paris Agreement and its nationally determined contributions.
Adesina stated this at Rotterdam where African and other global leaders had gathered recently for the Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA) summit.
According to the AfDB, in his intervention, Adesina reminded participants that the African continent was warming faster than any other region of the world, as predictions from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that the critical global warming levels will be reached much earlier in Africa.
Adesina said: “The current climate financing architecture is not meeting the needs of Africa. New estimates by the African Economic Outlook of the African Development Bank show that Africa will need between 1.3 and 1.6 trillion dollars from 2020 to 2030, or $118 billion to $145 billion annually to implement its commitments to the Paris Agreement and its nationally determined contributions.”
The African Development Bank chief explained that in the face of the deluge, Africa does not have the resources to tackle climate change.
He said the continent receives only 3 per cent of global climate financing, noting that if this trend continues, Africa’s climate financing gap could reach between $100 billion to $127 billion per year through 2030.
The African Development Bank chief said the African Adaptation Acceleration Programme’s upstream facility at the GCA had already helped to generate $3 billion of mainstreamed climate adaptation investments by the African Development Bank, from agriculture to energy, transport, water, and sanitation.
Adesina spoke of the African Development Bank’s African Development Fund (ADF), its concessionary lending arm as one of the ways to address the climate financing gap.
He said the 16th replenishment of the fund, currently underway, presented a unique opportunity for full financing of the $12.5 billion in financing for the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Programme.
The African Development Bank chief explained that the African Development Fund had introduced a Climate Action Window that would hopefully mobilize $4 billion to $13 billion for climate adaptation for the Fund’s member countries.
“This will be used to support 20 million farmers with access to climate resilient agricultural technologies, access of 20 million farmers and pastoralists to weather-indexed crop insurance, reviving 1 million hectares of degraded land, and provision of renewable energy for about 9.5 million people”, he added.
Adesina said commitments by developed countries to provide $100 billion annually in climate finance for developing countries were long overdue, noting that “Africa cannot wait,” and emphasised that “This is the time to support the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Programme. This is the time to support the ADF 16th replenishment. This is the time to support the Climate Action Window of ADF-16.”
World Trade Organisation Director-General, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala also lent her voice to the clarion call for additional resources for Africa adaptation funding.
Speaking about the role of trade in climate adaptation, she said trade policies should be integrated into global climate action as an amplifying force for financing and other climate-related support provided to vulnerable economies.
The AfDB pointed out that the summit’s five-point Communique highlighted that Africa was at a tipping point, emphasising that success at COP27 will depend on whether the needs of Africa, the world’s most climate-vulnerable continent, are met with finance flowing into such key country-led adaptation programmes as the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Programme.
The AfDB noted that this sentiment was shared by Presidents Akufo-Addo and Tshisekedi, African Union Commission Chairperson, Moussa Faki Mahamat and UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, among others.
Mohammed said: “A bird only flies with two wings, and the representation at this table is lopsided.”
The UN deputy chief added that it was not Africa’s fault that it is in its current position, given that it contributes very little to global carbon emissions, and pondered on what the situation would have been if the roles had been reversed.
Mohammed said the COP26 Glasgow pact was at risk of failing if the developed world did not make good on its promises of delivering $100 billion a year for climate action in developing countries.
Former UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon and GCA Co-Chair said: “The world has a fever. It burns hotter and higher with every day that passes… Statistics tell us that Africa is where the fever is at its most intense and people at the most vulnerable.”
GCA Co-Chair and Honorary Chairman of Royal DSM, Feike Sijbesma spoke about the importance of support from the global private sector, stressing that 80 per cent of the funding for adaptation needs to come from the private sector in both the developed north and the developing south.
GCA Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Verkooijen emphasised the disastrous impacts of climate change hitting all parts of the world, and added that it is in Africa, however, climate shocks will hit the hardest.
He said Africa was resolute about its economic advancement and would not stop. “Adaptation in Africa is like climbing a mountain. With all of you here today, we have the dream team that will climb the mountain together.”
Verkooijen added: “The next summit after today is Sharm El-Sheikh, the Africa COP. But success in Egypt will hinge on whether Africa’s needs are met or not. Africa has the commitment and the plan. That plan is the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Programme (AAA-P). It is Africa-developed and Africa-owned. It was launched by Africa’s leaders, who are here today. It is the vehicle for delivering the Africa Adaptation Initiative.”
According to the AfDB, established in 2020 by the GCA and the African Development Bank, the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Programme lies at the centre of climate action on the African continent. Participants acknowledged Verkooijen’s and Adesina’s joint efforts as the driving forces behind the programme.
African Union Chairperson, President Macky Sall of Senegal, President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana, who is Chair of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, and President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo conveyed a unified message: the international community must deliver on its pledge to double adaptation finance and to scale adaptation action for Africa.
President Sall expressed disappointment at the absence of industrialised country leaders at the summit.
The African Union Chair said if African leaders could be in Rotterdam in person to discuss such a crucial issue as climate adaptation in Africa, the very least they expected was that their European counterparts, whose countries are among the world’s biggest polluters, would also have been present at the summit.
GCA Co-Chair Feike Sijbesma added: “Investments in global climate adaptation cooperation are a big opportunity for countries like the Netherlands to share some of our best innovations with those who need them the most.
“The AAAP will be a crucial vehicle for triggering far greater business investment across Africa into green and resilient solutions. This is a collective effort, we need every sector, every contribution possible to see off the climate crisis in Africa, and the private sector, in particular, has a massive role to play.”
These views were expressed two months before the 27th global climate summit (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt, where African and other global leaders rallied in Rotterdam, to highlight the urgency of climate adaptation funding for the continent.
The meetings were co-convened by the President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, CEO of the Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA), Professor Patrick Verkooijen, and African Union Commission Chair, Mousa Faki Mahamat – were unanimous about the need for concrete action and finance.
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As part of its sustained dedication to combating crimes and criminality in Bauchi State, the State Police Command has arrested 3 suspects for the offence of criminal conspiracy and being in possession of counterfeit currency notes.
The arrest of the suspects is following the resolve of the Command at providing regular updates to the general public while it has maintained its crime prevention operations strategies and recorded tremendous success.
A press release by the Command PPRO, SP Ahmed Wakili, contained that, on 21st August 2022 at about 1930hrs, detectives attached to C’ Divisional Police headquarters, Bauchi acted on an actionable and credible intelligence report available at their disposal and swung into action which led to the arrest of the three suspects for being in possession and production of counterfeit currency notes.
The suspect who was identified as Yusuf Mohammed, 25 years of Yakubu Wanka area of Bauchi metropolis was arrested on 21st August 2022 at about 1930hrs near Obuna Royal Hotel in Bayan Gari area with the sum of N75,0000 counterfeit notes.
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The suspect revealed that he got the counterfeit notes from one Shehu Shagari, 42 years of Inkil area of Bauchi who is equally at the Police facility for his involvement in the case.
The PPRO added that as the investigation continues the said Shehu Shagari indicted one Malam Yusuf of Durum village who is now at large and believed to be a prime suspect.
Later, an investigation was extended on a search warrant to his house at Durum village where another suspect, Rabiu Samaila, 35 years of Durum village was apprehended at the house while producing counterfeit Naira notes.
A discreet investigation commenced in earnest, the following exhibits were recovered from the suspect; One 3-in-1 black printer, the sum of N75,000, Five pieces of calabash containing charms, 22 pieces of perfume bottles, One dried chameleon, One piece of white yard and 14 pieces of printed Naira notes on A4 size paper.
Meanwhile, surveillance is intensified to arrest the fleeing suspect and brought to face the full wrath of the law.
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Ondo Amotekun nab three kidnap suspects of burial guests
• Establish synergy with Edo, Kogi security agencies
The Commander of the Ondo State Security Agency codenamed Amotekun, Chief Adetunji Adeleye, said the corps has entered into synergy with other security agencies in neighbouring states, particularly Edo and Kogi states to jointly combat criminals, particularly kidnappers, who operate on the bother lines.
This is just as the officials of the Amotekun corp in the state arrested three of the notorious kidnappers responsible for the abduction of some burial guests kidnapped around Benin-Ifon road last weekend.
It will be recalled that the burial guests were kidnapped around Benin-Ifon road last Saturday while returning to Akure from Ewatto in Edo State, with their abductors demanding N90m as ransom to secure the release of the victims.
Speaking during the parade of the three suspects, the Commander of the Amotekun in the state, Chief Adetunji Adeleye, disclosed that the trio identified as Shaibu Dolo, Saidu Yinusa and Haruna Musa were arrested in their camp located between Edo and Ondo State.
Adeleye explained that the three suspects had confessed to the crime but denied their involvement in the abduction of the burial guest, saying they are only in charge of food and charging phones in the camp.
He said: “We arrested some members of the kidnapping gang that were arrested along the Ose/ Owo axis where we had a recent kidnap. We tracked the phones that were being used by the kidnappers and we met them around the tracking area but they told us that their leader had run away.
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“They explained that their own job is to buy food and charge the phones in the camp but we are still working towards the arrest of others and I can assure you that the criminals will be arrested in no distance period.”
Speaking on the collaboration with Edo and Kogi states, Adeleye said the synergy became necessary to jointly combat criminals, particularly kidnappers, who operate on the bother lines.
He said that the synergy became necessary when it was discovered that most of the kidnappers usually sneaked into the state from the neighbouring states and after operations at the border lines, they took their victims to their resident states and began to negotiate with the families of the abductees for ransom.
Adeleye said “We are working towards sealing the boundaries generally because the kidnapping cases along the Edo and Kogi states boundaries is becoming a worrisome situation.
“A full complement of men of the 32 Artillery, with the Police, DSS and Amotekun have been working on series of operations and lately we had a collaboration with the Edo State team and waiting for the Kogi to join us.
“What happens most of the time is that when we drive them off from Ondo State, they move to Edo and once we move they return to Ondo boundaries because they know they cannot successfully operate inside the main town, so they stay around the boundary such that they could return to Ondo State within minutes.
“Some of those arrested at the scene of the last kidnap were as a result of our commitment and tracking that took us to those locations where the three suspects were apprehended. So we are working on it to bring their leader and other members of the gang to book.”
Adeleye also disclosed that his men arrested members of a syndicate who specialised in robbing the people of their expensive phones, saying the syndicate had operated in seven different states before they were arrested in Akure, Ondo State capital.
Adeleye who estimated the value of the phones stolen by the syndicate in the seven states to N84m said they were arrested in an hotel where they lodged in Akure.
He said: “We have arrested a total of 22 criminals that have been disturbing the peace of the state in the last few days. They include an interstate syndicate robbing people of expensive phones and other valuable.
“They confessed to have successfully operated in seven states until they got to Ondo state and we are able to track them to the hotel where they lodged.
“The way they operate is that they came into the state with a car and two motorcycles and contacted two or three locals who understand the terrain to take them round the town for survey.
“They visit big supermarkets, busy commercial markets, but they don’t steal money, only expensive phones and we have over 20 phones which they stole around Akure metropolis within two days of their operation before they were arrested.
“The syndicate also deal in some criminal things that we are able to unravel but the good thing is that they confessed but they have successfully operated in seven states and they have not been apprehended until they got to Ondo state when we tracked them down.”
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The various organs of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are meeting this week to push for the resolution of the crisis arising from the selection of the vice presidential candidate, which has since set the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, against Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his group.
The fate of the National Chairman of the party, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, is expected to top the list of the agenda.
Since Atiku announced Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State as his choice for the post, he has faced resistance from the Wike who had hoped to be picked having emerged first runner-up in the primary that produced the presidential candidate.
The Rivers governor had also been overwhelmingly endorsed by a committee set up to help Atiku to arrive at a suitable running mate only for him to jettison its report.
His group blames Ayu for the turn of events in the running mate selection process.
Since Okowa’s presentation as the vice-presidential candidate, the party organs had been unable to meet because of the disagreement that followed Atiku’s choice
Wike and his major allies including Governors Sam Ortom (Benue), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and Ifeanyi Uguanyi (Enugu), had since refrained from working with the party or the presidential candidate in preparation for the 2023 General elections.
Among the conditions, they have laid out to work with the former vice president is the replacement of the National Chairman of the PDP, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, to create a geographical balance in its organogram.
The National Caucus of the party was scheduled to meet on Wednesday while meetings of its Board of Trustees (BoT) and National Executive Committee (NEC) were slated for Thursday.
With the 2023 election edging closer, many party stakeholders are pressing for a quick resolution of the tiff with Wike’s camp even if the party boss had to be sacrificed.
Among the strongest voices is the PDP BoT Chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin, who has already thrown his weight behind the move to restructure the party offices to reflect diversity as he posited that it is unfair for both the presidential candidate of the party and its national chairman to come from the same zone.
“To tell the truth, it will not be fair for the president of Nigeria to be from the north, the chairman of the party from the north and the BoT chairman from the north,” Jibrin argued.
However, despite the sustained pressure from the Wike group for Ayu to resign, the party boss cannot do so unless it becomes a decision of the party hierarchy.
The former Senate president had indeed alluded to this before the national convention of the party that produced former vice president Atiku, noting at the time that should the candidate emerge from the north, which is his own zone, he will step aside from his post if the party so decides.
Many party stakeholders have since assumed the position that he should resign since the presidential candidate comes from the same zone as himself so as to create the necessary balance especially as the north also holds the post of the chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT).
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A 36-year-old medical doctor, Abass Adebowale Adeyemi has been nabbed by the police in Osogbo, Osun State for allegedly killing one Mr Emmanuel Yobo Agbovinuere, 39 in Benin, Edo State.
Dr Adeyemi, a native of Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State reportedly murdered Agbovinuere on September 3, in Benin and dumped his remains at Otofure community, near Oluku on the Benin-Lagos expressway.
The suspect, a 2013 graduate of the University of Ilorin reportedly engaged the services of the deceased, a cab driver whom he met last July at a hotel in the Edo State capital.
hailed from Delta State
The Edo State Police spokesman, Mr Chidi Nwanbuzor who paraded the suspected killer at the Edo State Police headquarters in Benin said that the medical doctor engaged the deceased, from Delta State to take him to different destinations and after which they became friends.
According to Nwanbuzor, when the suspect came to Benin again on September 3, he called the deceased up to meet him at another hotel where he engaged his services for the second time around.
The spokesman explained that the suspect demanded that the deceased take him around the places he wanted to visit, adding that while driving, the victim complained of leg pain.
He said that the medical doctor who promised to help the driver injected a substance into his body which killed the Delta State-born cab driver instantly.
He said: “To conceal the crime, the suspect kept the corpse in the dead man’s vehicle which he later dumped in a bush at Oluku and absconded with the deceased’s vehicle.”
He said the suspect was traced to Osogbo, Osun with the aid of a tracking device in the deceased vehicle where he was arrested by the police.
Nwanbuzor said a snippet, diazepam injection, scalp vein middle and five syringes were recovered from the suspect.
He added that aside from the recovered vehicle, the police also recovered another car the suspect sold to a car dealer.
A remorseful Adeyemi who spoke with journalists declined questions but pleaded with the family of the victim to forgive him as his action was not deliberate.
“Let the police do their investigation. I am pleading with the family to forgive me. I have killed a friend. He was really my friend. I can show you our discussion on phone.”
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Anderson Makes Big History at Big Go
Greg Anderson joined NHRA’s ultra-exclusive Triple-Digit Club with his 100th Pro Stock victory in Labor Day Monday’s final of the 68th annual Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.
Anderson authored his milestone win with a quarter-mile pass in 6.587-seconds at 208.07 mph to defeat Ken Black Racing teammate Dallas Glenn in the final. Anderson is just the second driver in NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series history to reach 100 career victories, joining 16-time Funny Car world champion John Force. “Brute” Force scored his 155th career win on May 1 during the Circle K NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway in Concord, N.C.
“I don’t know if I can explain how meaningful this is,” said Anderson, driver of the Chevrolet Camaro SS. “It’s incredible and this (100th) win was meant to happen here. Indy means everything to me, and I’ve said that my whole career.”
Antron Brown (Top Fuel), Ron Capps (Funny Car) and Matt Smith (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also emerged victorious at the 16th of 22 races during the 2022 schedule and final event of the “regular season.” The six-race Countdown to the Championship playoffs will begin with points recalibrated at the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pa., Sept. 15-18.
Anderson trailered Fernando Cuadra Sr., Troy Coughlin Jr. and Fernando Cuadra Jr. to reach the final, recording the quickest run in each elimination round. The final became instantly anti-climactic when Glenn went red at the Christmas Tree, handing Greg his seventh win at “The Big Go.”
“Nothing compares to this place and to get my 100th win here, I couldn’t possibly ask for anything more,” said Anderson, a 61-year-old resident of Charlotte, N.C. “This just means everything to me. It’s been a while since I’ve won here and it’s hard to win here, so it really makes you appreciate it. It’s probably my most special win here because of that. It’s just unbelievable.”
Anderson passed mentor and six-time world champion Warren “The Professor” Johnson for most wins in NHRA’s “Factory Hot Rod” class on Oct. 10, 2021, scoring his 98th victory against Chris McGaha in the final of the 36th annual Texas NHRA FallNationals at Texas Motorplex in Ennis. The late Bob Glidden retired with 85 victories and 10 Pro Stock world championships, including five in a row beginning in 1985. Glidden also qualified on-pole 23 times in a row _ including the entire 1987 season.
A longtime crewman at KB Racing, Glenn reached a final for the second time this year by defeating Kenny Delco, Kyle Koretsky and four-time world champion Erica Enders. She will enter the Countdown as point-leader.
Rookie team-owner/driver Ron Capps scored his first U.S. Nats victory in the Funny Car final with a 1,000-foot pass in 3.911-seconds at 327.98 mph against point-leader Robert Hight. The two-time/reigning world champ, Capps recorded his 71st career win in 27 appearances at IRP. The 57-year-old resident of Carlsbad, Calif., also won the Pep Boys NHRA Top Fuel All-Star Callout on Sunday to bank $180,000 over two days for Ron Capps Motorsports.
Capps also qualified No. 1 to set the stage for one of the biggest weekends in his career. To reach the final, Capps beat Dale Creasy Jr., 2018 world champ J.R. Todd and 16-time world champ John Force, making three consecutive runs of 3.88-seconds. Capps then drove past Hight in the final to avenge last year’s defeat.
“It’s such a surreal feeling, I can’t even put it into words,” said Capps, driver of his Toyota Supra. “There are so many emotions that come from winning such a big event that exemplifies NHRA’s heritage and history.
“This year has been so crazy being a first-year team-owner and having so much help around me. So many people wanted to be a part of what we were doing and what we’re building, and it was so nice to have that support. There are so many neat things that have happened in my life this past year. I’m living the American dream, now running my own business. We’ve been trying to win this one for a long, long time.”
Hight _ the point-leader to start the Countdown _ reached his ninth final this year and 93rd in his career after driving the JFR Chevrolet Camaro SS to wins against John Smith, fellow-three-time world champ Matt Hagan and Bob Tasca III.
“Not a bad day for this Auto Club team. Granted, not the way we wanted the afternoon to go but we’re not putting our heads down,” said Hight, of John Force Racing. “The Auto Club guys have been working hard all weekend, it’s a marathon here at the U.S. Nationals. We made some really good passes, went some rounds and we’re going into the Countdown in that No. 1 spot.
“Now the real work starts. Only ahead 20 points with the standings resetting for the Countdown, just have to take it one weekend at a time, one run at a time. I’ve said it before _ it’s going to take another two or three wins to get that championship. That’s what we’re looking for.”
A rejuvenated Antron Brown drove to his second win in the past three races, earning his first Top Fuel U.S. Nats victory since 2011 with a stout 1,000-foot pass in 3.706-seconds at 321.66 mph to defeat point-leader Brittany Force in the final. Brown posted his 70th career win and fourth at Indy, two of them in Top Fuel. Brown’s most recent victory at IRP was scored 11 years ago.
But Antron was on his game Monday, defeating Tripp Tatum, four-time/reigning world champion Steve Torrence and Justin Ashley to reach the final. Brown’s dragster recorded a hot lap in 3.698-seconds to defeat Ashley for his first run in the 3.60s this year. Brown then led wire-to-wire against Force in the title round. The three-time world champ will open the Countdown in sixth place in his first year as owner/driver of Antron Brown Motorsports.
“You come here to Indy with 25 good teams, and it took a 3.75 just to get in the show,” said Brown, a 46-year-old resident of Pittsboro, Ind. “At the beginning of this year, we started from scratch in putting this team together. But it’s all coming together.
“That final round, it was the longest 3.7-seconds of my entire life. When that win light came on, I said look at what this team has done. It’s a testament to all the work everyone has put in. All of these guys, they never lost faith and they never gave up. Heading into the Countdown, we’re going to let the racetrack do the talking, but we’re going to be humble, fierce, and give it all we’ve got.”
Force reached her second straight final at Indy, beating Dan Mercier, Josh Hart and Doug Kalitta to reach a final for the sixth time this season. The 2016 world champion, Brit will open the Countdown as point-leader.
Force, of John Force Racing, ran 3.714-seconds at 330.00 mph against Brown. “Overall, not a bad weekend for this Monster Energy/Flav-R-Pac team,” Brit said. “We can’t complain. We qualified No. 1, ran for the Pep Boys Callout money, got beat in the final. Race day, had another final-round appearance. So, it’s positive all around.
“Our biggest objective coming in was leaving with the points lead and we did just that. Everything resets in the Countdown but we’re in the position we want to be in.”
Five-time/reigning world champ Matt Smith is peaking at the perfect time in Pro Stock Motorcycle. Smith rolled to an impressive victory via a quarter-mile pass in 6.872-seconds at 195.99 mph aboard his Denso Auto Parts EBR in the final against Karen Stoffer.
Smith’s first Indy win since 2006 was his third this season and 35th in a standout career, as he defeated Scotty Pollacheck, Hector Arana Jr. and 2016 world champ Jerry Savoie to reach the final. Smith was consistent throughout qualifying and eliminations to move into the point-lead heading into the Countdown.
“We started with the Suzuki on Friday, but I just wasn’t happy with it,” said Smith, a 49-year-old resident of King, N.C. “It ran well up to the eighth-mile, but I was just frustrated with it. I decided to go with the (EBR) and we had a good bike the rest of the weekend. All in all, I felt it was a great weekend for the bike. I’ve been to the finals a lot of times here and I’m just blessed to have two (Indy) wins. They better watch out for me. We’ve got a good bike and we’re going to defend our championship.”
Stoffer reached her 30th career final and third this season on the strength of round-wins against former point-leader Joey Gladstone, Ron Tornow and veteran Steve Johnson.
Final finishing order (1-16) at the 68th annual Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis. The race was the 16th of 22 events in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series and “regular season” finale:
Top Fuel _ 1. Antron Brown; 2. Brittany Force; 3. Justin Ashley; 4. Doug Kalitta; 5. Josh Hart; 6. Billy Torrence; 7. Mike Salinas; 8. Steve Torrence; 9. Clay Millican; 10. Tripp Tatum; 11. Austin Prock; 12. Shawn Langdon; 13. Tony Schumacher; 14. Leah Pruett; 15. Dan Mercier; 16. Doug Foley.
Funny Car _ 1. Ron Capps; 2. Robert Hight; 3. Bob Tasca III; 4. John Force; 5. Matt Hagan; 6. Tim Wilkerson; 7. J.R. Todd; 8. Blake Alexander; 9. Chad Green; 10. Dale Creasy Jr.; 11. John Smith; 12. Cruz Pedregon; 13. Jim Campbell; 14. Paul Lee; 15. Alexis DeJoria; 16. Bobby Bode.
Pro Stock _ 1. Greg Anderson; 2. Dallas Glenn; 3. Erica Enders; 4. Fernando Cuadra Jr.; 5. Matt Hartford; 6. Troy Coughlin Jr.; 7. Kyle Koretsky; 8. Camrie Caruso; 9. Bo Butner; 10. Aaron Stanfield; 11. Deric Kramer; 12. Cristian Cuadra; 13. Chris McGaha; 14. Kenny Delco; 15. Mason McGaha; 16. Fernando Cuadra.
Pro Stock Motorcycle _ 1. Matt Smith; 2. Karen Stoffer; 3. Steve Johnson; 4. Jerry Savoie; 5. Hector Arana Jr.; 6. Angie Smith; 7. Jianna Evaristo; 8. Ron Tornow; 9. Angelle Sampey; 10. Marc Ingwersen; 11. Joey Gladstone; 12. Eddie Krawiec; 13. Kelly Clontz; 14. Ryan Oehler; 15. Scotty Pollacheck; 16. Chip Ellis.
Pro and Sportsman class results from the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals:
Top Fuel _ Antron Brown, 3.706-seconds, 321.65 mph def. Brittany Force, 3.714-seconds, 333.00 mph.
Funny Car _ Ron Capps, Toyota Supra, 3.913, 327.98 def. Robert Hight, Chevy Camaro, 7.649, 85.73.
Pro Stock _ Greg Anderson, Chevy Camaro, 6.587, 208.07 def. Dallas Glenn, Camaro, Foul/Red Light.
Pro Stock Motorcycle _ Matt Smith, Suzuki, 6.872, 195.99 def. Karen Stoffer, Suzuki, 8.094, 104.17.
Top Alcohol Dragster _ Julie Nataas, 5.237, 277.15 def. Mike Coughlin, 5.342, 241.28.
Top Alcohol Funny Car _ Sean Bellemeur, Chevy Camaro, 5.467, 266.21 def. DJ Cox Jr., Camaro, 5.568, 262.39.
Competition Eliminator _ Doug Engels, Dragster, 7.384, 175.48 def. Frank Aragona, Roadster, 7.412, 164.63.
Super Stock _ Peter D’Agnolo, Chevy Camaro, 9.639, 128.35 def. James Caro, Dodge Challenger, 9.502, 138.73.
Stock Eliminator _ Brett Candies, Ford Mustang, 9.202, 144.07 def. Jim Marshall, Chevy Camaro, 11.328, 114.29.
Super Comp _ Austin Williams, Dragster, 8.918, 160.44 def. Jason Kenny, Dragster, 8.891, 172.61.
Super Gas _ Bo Butner, Chevy Corvette, 10.066, 156.94 def. Steve Hoyt, Chevy Caviler, 10.118, 156.50.
Super Street _ Doug Wood, Olds Cutlass, 10.901, 137.41 def. Ryan Locke, Chevy Camaro, 10.906, 141.52.
Top Dragster presented by Vortech Superchargers _ Rusty Baxter, Dragster, 6.172, 208.91 def. Dane Ward, Dragster, 6.217, 205.13.
Top Sportsman presented by Vortech Superchargers _ Vince Hoda, Chevy Camaro, 6.639, 209.07 def. Craig Liles, Chevy Camaro, Foul/Red Light.
Pro Modified _ Lyle Barnett, Chevy Camaro, 8.529, 104.78 def. Kris Thorne, Camaro, Foul/Red Light.
Factory Stock Showdown _ David Barton, Chevy Camaro, 7.786, 176.77 def. Aaron Stanfield, Camaro, 7.781, 176.47.
Top Fuel Harley _ Jay Turner, Harley, 6.255, 220.08 def. Bob Malloy, Lightning, 6.384, 194.02.
Mountain Motor Pro Stock _ Johnny Pluchino, Ford Mustang, 6.341, 220.69 def. Tony Gillig, Pontiac GXP, 6.349, 221.56.
Final round-by-round results from the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals:
TOP FUEL
ROUND ONE _ Josh Hart, 3.690, 328.70 def. Doug Foley, 10.670, 83.78; Antron Brown, 3.720, 330.15 def. Tripp Tatum, 3.737, 327.19; Doug Kalitta, 3.713, 328.06 def. Clay Millican, 3.727, 320.28; Brittany Force, 3.695, 334.98 def. Dan Mercier, 10.464, 39.99; Mike Salinas, 3.742, 331.04 def. Tony Schumacher, 5.072, 139.92; Justin Ashley, 3.690, 331.85 def. Shawn Langdon, 3.788, 308.78; Steve Torrence, 3.693, 328.62 def. Austin Prock, 3.774, 325.61; Billy Torrence, 3.740, 324.20 def. Leah Pruett, 5.129, 146.56;
QUARTERFINALS _ Kalitta, 3.802, 278.92 def. Salinas, 3.989, 236.30; Brown, 3.736, 321.04 def. S. Torrence, 6.419, 109.56; Ashley, 3.697, 332.10 def. B. Torrence, 3.751, 323.12; Force, 3.699, 335.48 def. Hart, 3.719, 327.66;
SEMIFINALS _ Force, 3.676, 335.07 def. Kalitta, 6.518, 137.60; Brown, 3.698, 329.99 def. Ashley, 3.714, 319.75;
FINAL _ Brown, 3.706, 321.65 def. Force, 3.714, 333.00.
FUNNY CAR
ROUND ONE_ John Force, Chevy Camaro, 3.931, 321.58 def. Paul Lee, Dodge Charger, 8.855, 81.45; Bob Tasca III, Ford Mustang, 3.883, 329.10 def. Jim Campbell, Charger, 8.237, 76.86; Robert Hight, Camaro, 3.891, 329.18 def. John Smith, Charger, 4.388, 221.82; Ron Capps, Toyota Supra, 3.886, 331.36 def. Dale Creasy Jr., Charger, 3.982, 324.12; Blake Alexander, Mustang, 3.897, 323.43 def. Chad Green, Mustang, 3.944, 324.05; Tim Wilkerson, Mustang, 3.892, 331.28 def. Bobby Bode, Mustang, Foul/Centerline; Matt Hagan, Charger, 3.881, 334.07 def. Alexis DeJoria, Supra, Foul/Red Light; J.R. Todd, Supra, 3.856, 330.88 def. Cruz Pedregon, Charger, 7.086, 101.45;
QUARTERFINALS _ Tasca III, 3.887, 328.62 def. Wilkerson, 3.908, 305.01; Capps, 3.883, 333.08 def. Todd, 4.458, 218.94; Hight, 3.861, 331.77 def. Hagan, 3.867, 334.65; Force, 3.937, 331.12 def. Alexander, 4.861, 164.85;
SEMIFINALS _ Capps, 3.887, 332.18 def. Force, 8.995, 77.75; Hight, 5.751, 250.92 def. Tasca III, 7.473, 120.68;
FINAL _ Capps, 3.913, 327.98 def. Hight, 7.649, 85.73.
PRO STOCK
ROUND ONE _Troy Coughlin Jr., Chevy Camaro, 6.623, 207.53 def. Deric Kramer, Camaro, 6.634, 207.15; Kyle Koretsky, Camaro, 6.654, 206.35 def. Cristian Cuadra, Ford Mustang, 6.660, 203.83; Camrie Caruso, Camaro, 6.638, 206.48 def. Aaron Stanfield, Camaro, 6.619, 207.02; Fernando Cuadra Jr., Mustang, 6.623, 206.54 def. Bo Butner, Camaro, 6.610, 207.21; Matt Hartford, Camaro, 6.609, 207.56 def. Chris McGaha, Camaro, 6.669, 205.60; Erica Enders, Camaro, 6.609, 208.30 def. Mason McGaha, Camaro, 6.690, 204.48; Greg Anderson, Camaro, 6.595, 207.02 def. Fernando Cuadra, Mustang, Foul/Red Light; Dallas Glenn, Camaro, 6.614, 206.48 def. Kenny Delco, Camaro, 6.689, 205.51;
QUARTERFINALS _ Glenn, 6.611, 206.29 def. Koretsky, 9.655, 90.86; Cuadra Jr., 6.615, 207.05 def. Hartford, Foul/Red Light; Enders, 6.595, 208.26 def. Caruso, Foul/Red Light; Anderson, 6.593, 207.59 def. Coughlin Jr., 6.637, 206.92;
SEMIFINALS _ Glenn, 6.623, 205.79 def. Enders, 6.609, 208.23; Anderson, 6.608, 207.27 def. Cuadra Jr., 6.688, 204.23;
FINAL _ Anderson, 6.587, 208.07 def. Glenn, Foul/Red Light.
PRO STOCK MOTORCYCLE
ROUND ONE _ Karen Stoffer, Suzuki, 6.913, 194.10 def. Joey Gladstone, Suzuki, 6.942, 193.82; Angie Smith, 6.908, 196.13 def. Ryan Oehler, 7.015, 191.19; Hector Arana Jr., Buell, 6.895, 195.76 def. Marc Ingwersen, 6.922, 194.24; Jerry Savoie, Suzuki, 6.878, 194.52 def. Chip Ellis, 7.097, 190.70; Jianna Evaristo, Suzuki, 6.952, 193.74 def. Eddie Krawiec, Suzuki, 6.966, 194.07; Steve Johnson, Suzuki, 6.907, 195.05 def. Kelly Clontz, Suzuki, 6.978, 192.11; Ron Tornow, 6.981, 190.27 def. Angelle Sampey, Suzuki, 6.919, 195.31; Matt Smith, Suzuki, 6.866, 198.55 def. Scotty Pollacheck, 7.034, 194.58;
QUARTERFINALS _ Stoffer, 6.914, 194.88 def. Tornow, 7.098, 182.33; Johnson, 6.912, 193.82 def. A. Smith, 6.891, 196.36; Savoie, 6.889, 193.32 def. Evaristo, Foul/Red Light; M. Smith, 6.859, 198.47 def. Arana Jr, Foul/Red Light;
SEMIFINALS _ Stoffer, 6.920, 194.10 def. Johnson, 6.930, 192.06; M. Smith, 6.893, 197.45 def. Savoie, 6.950, 191.43;
FINAL _ M. Smith, 6.872, 195.99 def. Stoffer, 8.094, 104.17.
Point standings (top-10) following the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals:
Top Fuel _ 1. Brittany Force, 1,356; 2. Mike Salinas, 1,200; 3. Justin Ashley, 1,195; 4. Steve Torrence, 1,169; 5. Josh Hart, 882; 6. Antron Brown, 839; 7. Leah Pruett, 810; 8. Shawn Langdon, 809; 9. Doug Kalitta, 801; 10. Tony Schumacher, 703.
Funny Car _ 1. Robert Hight, 1,570; 2. Ron Capps, 1,291; 3. Matt Hagan, 1,244; 4. Bob Tasca III, 1,164; 5. John Force, 1,149; 6. J.R. Todd, 871; 7. Alexis DeJoria, 824; 8. Cruz Pedregon, 801; 9. Tim Wilkerson, 730; 10. Blake Alexander, 582.
Pro Stock _ 1. Erica Enders, 1,286; 2. Aaron Stanfield, 1,082; 3. Greg Anderson, 962; 4. Kyle Koretsky, 877; 5. Dallas Glenn, 819; 6. Troy Coughlin Jr., 775; 7. Mason McGaha, 652; 8. Camrie Caruso, 649; 9. Matt Hartford, 644; 10. Fernando Cuadra Jr., 632.
Pro Stock Motorcycle _ 1. Matt Smith, 802; 2. Joey Gladstone, 774; 3. Steve Johnson, 734; 4. Angelle Sampey, 728; 5. Eddie Krawiec, 688; 6. Karen Stoffer, 675; 7. Angie Smith, 665; 8. Jerry Savoie, 656; 9. Marc Ingwersen, 427; 10. Ryan Oehler, 346.
NHRA 2022 COUNTDOWN TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYOFFS SCHEDULE
Sept. 15-18 _ Pep Boys NHRA Nationals, Maple Grove Raceway, Reading, Pa.
Sept. 23-25 _ Charlotte NHRA Nationals, zMAX Dragway, Concord, N.C.
Sept. 30-Oct. 2 _ NHRA Midwest Nationals, World Wide Technology Raceway, Madison, Ill.
Oct. 13-16 _ Texas NHRA FallNationals, Texas Motorplex, Ennis.
Oct. 27-30 _ NHRA Nevada Nationals, The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Nov. 10-13 _ Auto Club NHRA Finals, Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, Calif.
Editor’s Note: John Sturbin is a Texas-based journalist specializing in motorsports. During a near 30-year career with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, he won the Bloys Britt Award for top motorsports story of the year (1991) as judged by The Associated Press; received the National Hot Rod Association’s Media Award (1995) and several in-house Star-Telegram honors. He also was inaugural recipient of the Texas Motor Speedway Excellence in Journalism Award (2009). His list of freelance clients includes Texas Motor Speedway, the Dallas Morning News, New York Newsday, Rome (N.Y.) Daily Sentinel, Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller Times, NASCAR Wire Service, Ford Racing and Used Car Dealer magazine).
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Primavera Sound Los Angeles has announced set times as well as the special food choices it will feature when the music festival takes place at Los Angeles State Historical Park Sept. 16-18.
Headliners include Lorde, Nine Inch Nails and Arctic Monkeys for the three nights of a festival that represents the debut United States version of the massive Primavera Sound festival held in Barcelona, Spain since 2001.
Primavera LA has partnered with Smorgasburg, the open-air food market that pops up Sundays in downtown Los Angeles to showcase local chefs and food trucks. Tasty dishes on the menu include pan-fried dumplings from Mao’s Baos, Asian flavors in Texas BBQ by Smoke Queen BBQ, chicken wings by Two Wings, grilled cheese sandwiches by Cheezus, and plant-based Mexican bites from Cena Vegas.
Festival organizers also announced vinyl and art offerings on the grounds over the weekend as well. Eclectic radio station KCRW has partnered with Beat Swap Meets to curate Primavera’s Vinyl Market where fans can flip through record crates or interact with artists who’ll be signing albums. The Flatstock poster show presented by the American Poster Institute will also be on the festival grounds all weekend, with 20 poster designers selling exclusive prints and meeting with fans.
Tickets for Primavera Sound Los Angeles, which also features such artists as Mitski, King Krule, and Cigarettes After Sex, are still available. Single-day general admission tickets are $149; single-day VIP tickets are $379; You can pick two of the three days for $240 for general admission and $680 for VIP; Three-day passes are $425 for general admission or $975 for VIP. For all the ticket options and festival details, go to primaverasound.com/en/los-angeles.
Here are the set times for the festival’s four stages.
Friday, Sept. 16
Primavera Stage
2:50-3:30 p.m. Little Jesus
4:15-5 p.m. Shygirl
5:45-6:30 p.m. Clairo
7:15-8:15 p.m. Giveon
9:15-10:30 p.m. Lorde
Tacate Alta Stage
2:15-3 p.m. Divino Niño
3:30-4:15 p.m. Jehnny Beth
5-5:45 p.m. Pinkpantheress
6:15-7:15 p.m. Stereolab
8:15-9:15 p.m. Mitski
10-11 p.m. Darkside
Barcelona Stage
3:30-4:15 p.m. Tim Hecker
5:05-5:50 p.m. Shellac
6:30-7:15 p.m. Mustafa
8:15-9 p.m. Current Joys
Smirnoff Ice Stage
2-4:30 p.m. Lights Down Low
4:30-6 p.m. DJ Kampire
6-7:30 p.m. Acemoma
7:30-9 p.m. Omar S
9-11 p.m. Eris Drew B2B Octo Octo
Saturday, Sept. 17
Primavera Stage
1-1:40 p.m. Derby Motoreta’s Burrito Kachimba
2:20-3:05 p.m. Machine Girl
3:45-4:30 p.m. Paloma Mami
5:15-6 p.m. Tierra Whack
7-8 p.m. Khruangbin
9-10:15 p.m. Nine Inch Nails
Tecate Alta Stage
1-1:30 p.m. Wunderhorse
1:50-2:30 p.m. Special Interest
3-3:50 p.m. Georgia
4:30-5:15 p.m. Kim Gordon
6-7 p.m. Fontaines D.C.
8-9 p.m. Surf Curse
9:45-11 p.m. Bicep
Barcelona Stage
1:40-2:20 p.m. Él Mató a un Policía Motorizado
3:05-3:45 p.m. Beak>
4:30-5:15 p.m. Mayhem
6-7 p.m. Drain Gang
8-9 p.m. Low
10:15-11: Danny L. Harle
Smirnoff Ice Stage
1:30-3 p.m. Chulita Vinyl Club
3-4:30 p.m. DJ Playero
4:30-7:30 p.m. Sangre Nueva
7:30-9 p.m. Shanti Celeste B2B Isabella
9-11 p.m. John Talabot
Sunday, Sept. 18
1-1:40 p.m. Núria Graham
2:20-3:05 p.m. Buscabulla
3:45-4:30 p.m. Faye Webster
5:15-6 p.m. King Krule
6:45-7:45 p.m. Girl In Red
8:30-9:45 p.m. Arctic Monkeys
Tecate Alta Stage
1:45-2:30 p.m. Gustaf
3-3:45 p.m. Squid
4:30-5:15 p.m. Amyl & the Sniffers
6-6:45 p.m. Bad Gyal
7:30-8:20 p.m. Cigarettes After Sex
9-10 p.m. James Blake
Barcelona Stage
1:40-2:20 p.m. Marina Herlop
3:05-3:45 p.m. Chai
4:30-5:15 p.m. Dry Cleaning
6-6:45 p.m. Boy Harsher
7:45-8:30 p.m. Arca
Smirnoff Ice Stage
1-2:30 p.m. Maddie Maia + Tottie (SOS Music)
2:30-4 p.m. Jasss
4-5:30 p.m. Sherelle
5:30-7 p.m. Special Request
7-8:30 p.m. Helena Hauff
8:30-10 p.m. Jeff Mills
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A new lawsuit by Santa Clara County accuses pop superstar Rihanna’s lingerie company Savage X Fenty of deceiving customers by automatically enrolling them in a “VIP” program with automatic recurring credit card charges.
Savage X Fenty by Rihanna broke California’s just-tightened automatic-renewal law through the scheme, according to the suit filed by Santa Clara and four other counties, including Santa Cruz, on behalf of the people of California.
“When consumers purchased (Savage X Fenty’s) products on its website, (the company) would automatically add an automatically recurring paid VIP membership into the consumers’ shopping bag, causing the consumers’ credit card (to) be charged repeatedly … until cancelled by the consumers,” the lawsuit filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court claimed. The suit was filed last month but was only registered and released Monday.
Savage X Fenty did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A quote from Rihanna on the firm’s website includes the comment, “Savage X means making your own rules.”
The five counties accused the company of fraud, alleging that its actions “were likely to deceive members of the public and were performed with that intent.”
Savage X Fenty failed to properly disclose the terms and conditions of the auto-renewal program “clearly and conspicuously on its website,” and did not obtain customers’ “affirmative and express informed consent” to the program, the suit alleged. The firm also did not provide “a simple online mechanism for customers to stop recurring charges,” the suit claimed.
The firm also told customers that store credit accrued via VIP membership could be used at any time, when in fact it could only be used for purchases costing more than the value of the credit, the suit alleged.
The counties are seeking a court order barring Savage X Fenty from engaging in any “misleading and/or deceptive” statements, repayment to California customers of money allegedly “wrongfully obtained,” and fines of $2,500 for each violation of California’s Business and Professions Code. The suit did not specify a number of alleged violations or an amount allegedly taken illegally from customers.
Barbadian singer Rihanna launched her lingerie company in 2018, with an extensive sizing range that promoted a “body-positive message,” according to Vogue magazine. “You can be cute and playful one week and a black widow next week,” Rihanna told Vogue. “You can take risks with lingerie.”
Savage X Fenty has five stores across the U.S., including one in Culver City. The lawsuit does not include claims regarding sales from the brick-and-mortar shops.
California’s automatic-renewal law, first passed in 2009, was tightened July 1 after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill written by Assemblymember Marc Berman, who represents parts of Silicon Valley, including Palo Alto, Mountain View and Sunnyvale.
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DAVIE, Fla., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BHG Financial (BHG) has been honored as one of the 2022 Best Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance by Great Place to Work® (GPTW) and Fortune magazine. Ranking 23rd out of the top 50 large firms, this is BHG's seventh time to make this prestigious list.
The Best Workplaces in Financial Services & Insurance award is based on analysis of survey responses from more than 176,000 employees from GPTW-Certified™ companies in the financial services and insurance industry. In that survey, 95 percent of BHG employees said BHG is a great place to work—38 percent higher than the average U.S. company.
"Receiving this award for the seventh consecutive year is a testament to how we continuously make our culture a priority," says Al Crawford, CEO and Co-founder of BHG Financial. "BHG's mission of building people who build BHG continues to shine through and fuel our innovation in new products and partnerships, which makes us a great place to work."
The Fortune Best Workplaces in Financial Services & Insurance list is highly competitive. Great Place to Work®, the global authority on workplace culture, selected the list using rigorous analytics and confidential employee feedback. Companies were only considered if they had been a Great Place to Work-Certified™ organization.
BHG Financial has been certified as a Great Place to Work® since 2016 and has been recognized among Fortune and GPTW 23 times on numerous reputable lists.
To learn more about BHG's culture and values, visit careersatbhg.com/culture. To view BHG's company profile and certification results on Great Place to Work®, please visit: greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/1100692.
BHG Financial is transforming the financial industry, leveraging the power of data, analytics, and cutting-edge technology to become not only one of the best sources for high-performing loans, but the creator of one of the largest community bank loan and product networks in the country.
Since 2001, BHG has originated more than $12 billion in loan solutions to top-quality borrowers, which community and midsize banks can access via a state-of-the-art loan delivery platform.
BHG Financials' dedication to providing services that meet the needs of its clients has led to the creation of a full family of brands that range from business, consumer, and SBA 7(a) loans to credit cards, collection services, risk management services, and point-of-sale financing.
With record growth year after year, BHG continues to be recognized regionally and nationally: earning a spot on the Inc. 5000 for 14 years running and receiving accolades from Great Place to Work® and Fortune magazine, among others.
BHG Financial is partially owned by Pinnacle Bank (PNFP) and has headquarters in Davie, FL and Syracuse, NY. To represent the company's growth and dedication to continuously expanding their services, Bankers Healthcare Group became BHG Financial in 2021.
Find out more about the company's financial solutions on bhgfinancial.com. For more information about the BHG Bank Network, click here. Follow BHG on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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Leading senior living company celebrated for its people-first culture
BALTIMORE, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Great Place to Work® and PEOPLE magazine have honored Brightview Senior Living as one of the 2022 PEOPLE Companies that Care®. This is Brightview Senior Living's second time being named to this prestigious list, this year coming in at number 81. In addition, Brightview is the only senior living company on the list for two years running.
"We are honored once again to be named to this competitive, selective list of caring companies," stated Doug Dollenberg, President of Brightview Senior Living. "A culture of caring for our associates, residents, families, and the broader community is deeply embedded within the Brightview mission. It is so rewarding to hear from our associates that they feel truly respected and embraced at work, and we are energized to continue building on our successes as a people-first organization."
The Companies that Care award is based on over one million employee survey responses and data from companies representing more than 6.1 million U.S. employees. In that survey, 89% of Brightview's associates said Brightview is a great place to work, compared to 57% at the average U.S. company.
Great Place to Work, the authority on workplace culture, selected the list using rigorous analytics and confidential employee feedback. Companies were only considered if they are a Great Place to Work-Certified™ organization. Great Place to Work is the only company culture award in America that selects winners based on how fairly employees are treated. Companies are judged on how well they create a great employee experience that cuts across race, gender, age, disability status, or any aspect of who employees are or what their role is.
This award follows accolades from 2021: Brightview was the only senior living company in the country to make the PEOPLE Magazine list; Brightview also ranked as the #1 Best Workplace in Aging Services three years in a row and was named as one of the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For® 2021.
For more information about Brightview Senior Living, their communities and career opportunities, visit their website.
About Brightview Senior Living: Brightview Senior Living builds, owns, and operates award-winning vibrant senior living communities in eight states along the East Coast: Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Virginia. We offer senior Independent Living, Assisted Living, Enhanced Care, and Wellspring Village®, a specialized neighborhood for people living with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
Each Brightview Senior Living community focuses on five elements of wellness called SPICE: Spiritual, Physical, Intellectual, Cultural, and Emotional. Amenities and programs encourage active senior living communities and development in these areas, keeping residents active and healthy.
About the PEOPLE Companies that Care®
Great Place to Work selected the PEOPLE Companies that Care by gathering and analyzing over 1 million confidential survey responses and data from companies representing more than 6.1 million U.S. employees at Great Place to Work-Certified™ organizations. Company rankings are derived from 60 employee experience questions within the Great Place to Work Trust Index™ survey. Read the full methodology.
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Engineering and Environmental Science Among Top Project Categories
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadcom Foundation and Society for Science today announced the Top 300 MASTERS in the 2022 Broadcom MASTERS® — the nation's premier science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competition for middle school students. Broadcom MASTERS, a program of Society for Science, seeks to inspire young scientists, engineers and innovators to solve the grand challenges of the 21st century.
Each of the Top 300 MASTERS will receive a $125 award from DoD STEM. With this prize, the Department of Defense continues its support of youth in STEM, working towards a more diverse pipeline of highly qualified STEM professionals in the future.
The Top 300 MASTERS were selected from 1,807 students from 47 states and three territories (Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) applying to be a Broadcom MASTER. Only students who are named in the top 10% of their science fair are eligible to enter the Broadcom MASTERS, which is the only middle school STEM competition that leverages Society-affiliated science fairs as a critical component of the STEM talent pipeline.
Broadcom MASTERS Top 300 fast facts:
- The top 300 hail from 35 states, Guam and Puerto Rico
- Top states included California (17%), Florida (12%), Texas (7%), Pennsylvania (6%) and Utah (4%)
- Most students, 62%, go to public school, with 28% in private schools
- The top project categories are engineering (22%), environmental & earth science (15%); chemistry (9%); physics (8%) and medicine & health sciences (8%).
The students' names and a state-by-state breakdown of the Top 300 Broadcom MASTERS can be found at https://www.societyforscience.org/broadcom-masters/2022-top-300-masters.
On September 21, 30 of the Top 300 Broadcom MASTERS will be named finalists. Selected by a panel of scientists, engineers and educators from around the nation, the finalists will be competing for over $100,000 including the coveted $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize, the $10,000 DoD STEM Talent Award, the $10,000 Lemelson Award for Invention, the $10,000 Marconi/Samueli Award for Innovation, the $10,000 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award for Health Advancement, and the $5,000 Broadcom Coding with Commitment Award.
"Congratulations to the Top 300 Broadcom MASTERS," said Maya Ajmera, President and CEO of Society for Science and Publisher of Science News. "I am so inspired by these young people who are working to solve problems in their communities and the world at large by using science and engineering. At a time when we are battling ongoing threats from climate change to a pandemic to cybersecurity, these young people offer inspiration and hope for the future that is badly needed."
The Top 300 Broadcom MASTERS' independent STEM research projects tackle a broad range of subjects, such as:
- Identifying hate speech on social media
- Exploring sustainable batteries
- Investigating bioplastics
- Researching autonomous vehicles
- Assessing face mask efficacy
"Congratulations to the Top 300 2022 Broadcom MASTERS," said Paula Golden, President of the Broadcom Foundation. "These young scientists, engineers and innovators will define our future. We need them to bring their passion and skill to help solve the grand challenges of our time and create sustainability here on Earth."
In addition to the $125 cash prize, the Top 300 Broadcom MASTERS will each receive a prize package containing an award ribbon; semifinalist certificate of accomplishment; Broadcom MASTERS backpack; a Broadcom MASTERS decal; a specialized Invention Journal, courtesy of The Lemelson Foundation; a one-year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition, courtesy of Wolfram Research; and a one-year family digital subscription to Science News magazine. In recognition of the role that teachers play in the success of their students, each designated teacher also will receive a Broadcom MASTERS tote bag; a special edition booklet of Science News Explores Invention & Innovation articles from The Lemelson Foundation; and a one-year digital subscription to Science News magazine.
Resources:
For more information visit the Broadcom Foundation and Society for Science. To keep up with the Broadcom MASTERS, use hashtag #brcmMASTERS or follow Broadcom Foundation and the Society on Twitter or Broadcom Foundation and the Society on Instagram. And to stay connected, visit the Broadcom MASTERS and Society Facebook pages. You can also follow the Society on Snapchat (Society4Science).
Founded in April 2009, the Broadcom Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation with the mission of advancing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education by increasing opportunities to achieve success through equitable access to STEM pathways.
The foundation inspires young people to pursue careers in STEM and to develop 21st Century+ skills of critical thinking, computation & coding, collaboration, communication and creativity. It is a founding member of the National STEM Funders Network and plays a leadership role in the STEM Education Ecosystem Initiatives in the U.S., Mexico and Israel.
The foundation's signature programs focus on computational skills needed for careers in the Information Age. It champions student achievement at science fairs and code clubs and promotes the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations as the vehicle by which young scientists and engineers can "Act Globally and Think Locally."
Learn more at http://broadcomfoundation.org/ and follow us on Twitter (@BroadcomSTEM), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Society for Science is a champion for science, dedicated to promoting the understanding and appreciation of science and the vital role it plays in human advancement. Established in 1921, Society for Science is best known for its award-winning journalism through Science News and Science News Explores, its world-class science research competitions for students, including the Regeneron Science Talent Search, the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair and the Broadcom MASTERS, and its outreach and equity programming that seeks to ensure that all students have an opportunity to pursue a career in STEM.
A 501(c)(3) membership organization, Society for Science is committed to inform, educate and inspire. Learn more at www.societyforscience.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat (Society4Science).
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The EURUSD has moved above the 100 hour MA at 0.99351 (see blue line in the chart above).
Getting above (and staying above) is a short term positive for the pair.
On the topside, the 0.99515 level is the old July low that is so far stalling the move higher. A break above that will have traders looking toward the falling 200 hour MA at 0.9969 (green line in the chart above).
Him him Recall from yesterday, the price briefly moved above that level only to fall back to the downside. Getting and staying above the 200 hour moving average would increase the bullish bias (PS the price would also be moving above the topside trend line).
If the price starts to trade with more momentum below the 100 hour moving average, I would expect the "break buyers" to potentially exit the position in turn to sellers once again. Focus will return to the 0.9899 to 0.9913 area for additional bias clues. Move below that area would increase the bearish bias. | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/eurusd-moves-above-the-100-hour-ma-20220907/ | 2022-09-07T17:12:24Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/eurusd-moves-above-the-100-hour-ma-20220907/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ALPHARETTA, Ga., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Great Place to Work® and Fortune magazine have honored FinThrive as one of the top 30 - 2022 Best Workplaces in Health Care™. The Best Workplaces in Health Care award is based on analysis of survey responses from over 161,000 current employees at various healthcare organizations. In that survey, 85% of FinThrive's colleagues said FinThrive is a great place to work. This number is 28% higher than the average U.S. company.
"Earning a spot on this list means that FinThrive is one of the best healthcare companies to work for in the country. We are so thankful to our committed colleagues who made this incredible honor a possibility," said Hemant Goel, CEO of FinThrive. "Our people make working at FinThrive a rewarding experience every day, and we honor all they do to help us earn this recognition."
The Fortune Best Workplaces in Health Care list is highly competitive. Great Place to Work, the global authority on workplace culture, selected the list using rigorous analytics and confidential employee feedback and reviewed anomalies in responses, news, and financial performance in comparison to other Great Place to Work Certified companies.
Great Place to Work is the only company culture award in America that selects winners based on how fairly employees are treated. Companies are assessed on how well they are creating a great employee experience that cuts across race, gender, age, disability status, or any aspect of who employees are or what their role is.
"It is our honor to spotlight the Best Workplaces in Health Care," said Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place to Work. "These organizations dug deep to tailor their support to the rapidly changing demands from the pandemic. We applaud their commitment to inclusive, high-trust cultures.
FinThrive is rethinking revenue management for healthcare. Our end-to-end revenue management software platform helps healthcare organizations increase revenue, reduce costs, expand cash collections, and ensure regulatory compliance across the entire revenue cycle continuum. With one of healthcare's most comprehensive revenue cycle management SaaS platforms, FinThrive offers patient access, charge integrity, claims management, contract management, machine learning & robotic process automation, data & analytics, and education software solutions to 3,200+ clients, including more than 1,000 U.S. based hospitals and health systems. For more information on the FinThrive story, please visit www.FinThrive.com
Great Place to Work selected the Best Workplaces in Health Care by gathering and analyzing confidential survey responses from more than 161,000 employees at Great Place to Work-Certified™ organizations in the health care industry. Company rankings are derived from 60 employee experience questions within the Great Place to Work Trust Index™ survey™. Great Place to Work determines its lists using its proprietary For All™ methodology to evaluate and certify thousands of organizations in America's largest ongoing annual workforce study, based on over 1 million survey responses and data from companies representing more than 6.1 million employees, this year alone. Read the full methodology.
To get on this list next year, start here.
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Their employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting, and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Everything they do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a great place to work For All™.
Learn more at greatplacetowork.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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Audra Murphy
VP, Strategic Communications
(717) 476-4864
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WASHINGTON and NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HaystackID, a specialized eDiscovery services firm supporting law firms and corporate legal departments, today announced it has acquired Business Intelligence Associates (BIA), an end-to-end eDiscovery service provider, as part of a deal facilitated by majority investor and leading middle-market private equity firm, Quad-C Management, Inc.
"BIA is a leader in eDiscovery, and this combination further expands our capabilities in the support and delivery of complex enterprise discovery solutions, especially in New York," said HaystackID CEO Hal Brooks. "This deal follows a period of organizational alignment and internal investment around innovation, technology, and advisory services and builds on several years of investment and growth. All of these internal and external investments position us well for additional future international growth across all of our business lines."
The BIA acquisition is HaystackID's fifth major investment event since April 2018, when it acquired Envision Discovery, an eDiscovery managed services provider, and Inspired Review, a managed review and remote review services provider. In January 2019, HaystackID acquired eTERA Consulting, an eDiscovery managed services provider. Additionally, in February 2020, HaystackID completed a strategic recapitalization with Quad-C to support the continued growth and expansion of the company, before acquiring NightOwl Global in August 2020. With the BIA addition, HaystackID strengthens its position for continued growth in cyber discovery/incident response, privacy/compliance, information governance, and enterprise managed solutions.
"Our corporate clients will benefit greatly from the significant increase in the support and services we will be able to offer," said BIA CEO Brian Schrader, Esq., who has joined HaystackID and will continue to lead BIA efforts. "Our team worked tirelessly to reach this milestone, and we are honored to join forces with what is fast becoming one of the preeminent service providers in the world."
"This acquisition is yet another step in building the framework for the international capability and success of HaystackID, one of our leading portfolio companies," said Quad-C partner Tim Billings. "We are excited to continue to partner with the company as we develop the next stage of growth with additional investments in infrastructure, people, and acquisitions both in the U.S. and abroad."
In addition to external investments, HaystackID has significantly expanded and aligned its service offerings in the past six months, launching its innovative discovery management platform HaystackID CoreÔ in March 2022 and its Global Advisory practice earlier this month.
BIA was represented in the transaction by Brock Matthias of VRA Partners.
HaystackID is a specialized eDiscovery services firm that helps corporations and law firms securely find, understand, and learn from data when facing complex, data-intensive investigations and litigation. HaystackID mobilizes industry-leading cyber discovery services, enterprise solutions, and legal discovery offerings to serve more than 500 of the world's leading corporations and law firms in North America and Europe. Serving nearly half of the Fortune 100, HaystackID is an alternative cyber and legal services provider that combines expertise and technical excellence with a culture of white-glove customer service. In addition to consistently being ranked by Chambers USA, the company was recently named a worldwide leader in eDiscovery Services by IDC MarketScape, a representative vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for E-Discovery Solutions, and a Legal Technology Trailblazer by The National Law Journal. Further, HaystackID has achieved SOC 2 Type II attestation in the five trust service areas of security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. For more information about its suite of services, including programs and solutions for unique legal enterprise needs, go to HaystackID.com.
As an industry pioneer, BIA continues to set the standard for reliable, innovative, and cost-effective eDiscovery services. Its customer-first focus has resulted in countless innovations copied widely across the industry today. From technical innovations like truly remote data collections and the first cloud-based, end-to-end eDiscovery platform to service revolutions like reusing data and coding across matters and hiring dedicated, full-time employees for document review, BIA consistently stands at the leading edge of the industry. Founded by legal and technology professionals, BIA provides the entire spectrum of eDiscovery services – including attorney document review – with minimal disruption to its clients' daily business operations. To learn more, visit BIA at biaprotect.com or on Twitter at @biaprotect.
Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Charlottesville, Va., Quad-C is a middle market private equity firm focused on investing in well-established business and consumer services, healthcare, industrials specialty distribution, and transportation/logistics companies. In its nearly three-decade history, Quad-C has invested over $3 billion of capital in more than 65 platform companies. The Quad-C team is committed to partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams to accelerate growth and create long-term value. Learn more about Quad-C at QuadCManagement.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I work in the construction industry and I wanted to create an improved shirt or garment to increase safety, visibility, convenience, warmth during the winter and protection against the sun as well as COVID-19," said an inventor, from Eastvale, Calif., "so I invented the W C WORK WARE. My design ensures that the user is clearly visible and it eliminates the need to carry a separate face mask. It also could help to prevent skin discoloration and the risk of skin cancer."
The patent-pending invention provides an improved safety garment for workers. In doing so, it helps to prevent skin irritation, discoloration and skin cancer risks and it keeps the head, ears and nose warm in the winter. It also prevents dirt, dust and tiny particles from entering the airways and it helps to protect against airborne germs and viruses. As a result, it increases safety, visibility and comfort. The invention features a versatile and protective design that is easy to wear and it enables the user to carry tools, a cell phone and other items. It would be ideal for various members of the labor force including construction workers/unions, road crews, parking attendants, joggers, bikers, tow truck workers, peace officers, coal minors, inspectors, warehouse workers, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations (ex. USA badge or print, LED light, etc.) and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Riverside sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-RSM-115, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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