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Mumbai: Police have arrested a man for posing as a security official during Union Home Minister Amit Shah's recent two-day visit to Mumbai. The arrested is Hemant Pawar, who is the personal secretary of an MP from Andhra Pradesh. The details of the arrest were released on Wednesday.
Wearing a Home Ministry ID card, Hemant Pawar participated in both the events the minister was part of, and he was also outside the residences of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis.
Pawar was apprehended after a suspicious official informed the police about his presence and questioned him. When they found that he was not part of Shah's security personnel, he was arrested for security breach.
He would be kept under police custody for five days, sources said.
Shah visited Lalbaugcha Raja, a prominent Ganesh pandal, on Monday during his two-day visit to the city. He also visited the residences of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis.
A controversy had erupted when it was reported that an ambulance was held up in suburban Andheri to let Shah's convoy to pass. But Mumbai Traffic Police dismissed the allegation saying the ambulance was not carrying any emergency patient and that its siren kept wailing due to technical defect.
"After the enquiry, it has been verified by the traffic official present at the spot that there was no emergency patient in the ambulance and due to defect, the ambulance driver was unable to switch off the siren. The allegation is false," the Traffic Police said in a statement issued on the official Twitter handle.
After videos and images went viral showing the ambulance waiting in traffic while the convoy passed by, many netizens slammed the BJP and the "VIP culture".
(With PTI inputs) | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/08/man-arrested-amit-shah-mumbai-security-breach.html | 2022-09-08T12:33:16Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/08/man-arrested-amit-shah-mumbai-security-breach.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Chennai: A young man who announced on social media that he had tiger cubs for sale was arrested on Wednesday.
He has been identified as Parthipan (24), a native of Arani in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. He was arrested by Forest Department officials.
On Sunday, Parthipan posted a status on WhatsApp which revealed three tiger cubs. He had announced that a 3-month-old tiger cub was on sale for Rs 25 lakhs.
In the social media post, he also assured delivery within 10 days on the receipt of money.
Since this came to light, the Forest Department had launched an investigation. Parthipan, learning of the investigation, had gone into hiding. He was soon nabbed from near Vellore.
Though a search was conducted at his residence, no tiger cubs were found.
It is learnt that the picture of tiger cubs was given to Parthipan by a friend based in Ambattur.
According to the Forest Department, Parthipan confessed that the elaborate fraud was done using kittens. The team dyed the kitten's body to give it the appearance of a tiger cub and sold it to unsuspecting people. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/08/tamil-nadu-tiger-cubs-fraud.amp.html | 2022-09-08T12:33:35Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/08/tamil-nadu-tiger-cubs-fraud.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Chennai: A young man who announced on social media that he had tiger cubs for sale was arrested on Wednesday.
He has been identified as Parthipan (24), a native of Arani in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. He was arrested by Forest Department officials.
On Sunday, Parthipan posted a status on WhatsApp which revealed three tiger cubs. He had announced that a 3-month-old tiger cub was on sale for Rs 25 lakhs.
In the social media post, he also assured delivery within 10 days on the receipt of money.
Since this came to light, the Forest Department had launched an investigation. Parthipan, learning of the investigation, had gone into hiding. He was soon nabbed from near Vellore.
Though a search was conducted at his residence, no tiger cubs were found.
It is learnt that the picture of tiger cubs was given to Parthipan by a friend based in Ambattur.
According to the Forest Department, Parthipan confessed that the elaborate fraud was done using kittens. The team dyed the kitten's body to give it the appearance of a tiger cub and sold it to unsuspecting people. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/08/tamil-nadu-tiger-cubs-fraud.html | 2022-09-08T12:33:41Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/08/tamil-nadu-tiger-cubs-fraud.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
6-year plan released, more fundraiser dollars sought on North Idaho school reorganization\nProvigatex N-9: Can You Trusted and Safed on Penis Enhanzements | Vaccines of Sperm production, Pregenancy & Breasing Process We welcome families and children as we meet God as parents and family. They can be the core values on which our future is predica ted. We try make space and make ourselves approachablre to give a chance they become in time people after God to serve Jesus, His people in His name…… we can start small to teach these family ethique\nThe parish runs various group classes during the session so come and bring everyone into the faith as many people already here . God bless them for With prime apple harvest season being September and October, now is the time to stop up on these crunchy gems packed with fiber and vitamin C. Shockingly, there are more than 100 different apple varieties grown in the U.S. This fruit is also quite versatile. You have your tart, mildly sweet apples like Jonagolds, Granny Smiths or Honeycrisps to your juicy and sweet varieties like Gala, Fuji and McIntosh, plus everything in-between.
If you’re wondering how to store apples in your fridge to preserve them the longest or simply how to choose a good one, we’ve got you covered.
The Best Way To Eat Apples
When eating a fresh apple, keep the skin on. This is where the most nutrients can be found. If you discard the skin, you’ll remove most of the fiber and the flavonoids. Apples are easy to store and transport, making them a great on-the-go snack. You can eat them on their own, or with nut butter or a slice of cheese. Bake them into pies, sauté them or transform them into juice or cider.
Dehydrated apples make a delicious snack, too, especially when mixed with nuts and seeds as a trail mix. Just be aware that apples lose vitamin C when they are dried.
Be Selective When Picking
Do you consistently find yourself picking bad apples? While it’s virtually impossible to tell if an apple is going to be mealy by just looking at it, avoiding varieties that are known for this trait, such as Galas, might be the simplest. When you’re at the grocery store or farmers’ market, look for apples without any bruises or flat spots. Avoid punctures when possible because they can lead to faster decay. If you don’t see any wrinkling when you give it a gentle squeeze, it’s a keeper.
How To Store Apples From The Market
With a little prep work, apples can be stored for a surprisingly long amount of time, remaining fresh for at least one to two months, if not longer. Skip displaying them in a bowl on your countertop because they’ll only keep for about a week and instead place them in their own crisper drawer.
Apples continue to ripen after they’re harvested and emit a gas called ethylene. The fridge’s cold temperature helps slow down the production of ethylene, but some varieties will still cast a small amount. Ethylene speeds up the ripening of other produce in close proximity, which is why apples do best when stored on their own. (Hot tip: If you need to ripen a hard avocado quickly, pop it in a paper bag with an apple.)
How To Store Apples From Apple Picking
If you go apple picking and come home with a large batch, try wrapping the apples in damp paper towels and storing them in a punctured plastic bag (again, in their own crisper drawer).
Now that you know how to store apples, you can eat them any way you want, like by baking them into a bubble-up dish or creating an apple rosemary fizz cocktail. Either way, it’ll be delicious.
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Checkout Simplemost for additional stories. | https://www.fox17online.com/how-to-store-apples-so-they-stay-crisp | 2022-09-08T12:40:45Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/how-to-store-apples-so-they-stay-crisp | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
West Side shootout leaves 1 dead, 2 bystanders wounded
CHICAGO - A man was killed and two other people were wounded when a shootout broke out early Thursday in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.
The 53-year-old was arguing with another male around 12:27 a.m. in the 5800 block of West Madison Street when they both pulled out handguns and exchanged gunfire, police said.
The 53-year-old was struck multiple times in the torso and was transported to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead, officials said. He has not yet been identified by the Cook County medical examiner's office.
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The other gunman fled the scene on foot.
A 23-year-old man who was nearby suffered two gunshot wounds to the back, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in fair condition.
A 42-year-old woman was also outside during the shooting and was struck by gunfire in the arm, police said. She was taken to Stroger Hospital where she was listed in fair condition.
No one is in custody as Area Four detectives investigate. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-west-side-shooting | 2022-09-08T12:41:02Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-west-side-shooting | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Illinois Appellate Court opens door to possible $10M refund of motorists fined for 'distracted driving'
COOK COUNTY, Ill. - The Illinois Appellate Court on Wednesday breathed new life into a lawsuit with the potential to force the city to refund $10 million to motorists fined for "distracted driving" violations.
The Appellate Court ruled Circuit Judge Pamela McLean Myerson was wrong to toss the case in August 2021 by finding the plaintiffs lacked legal standing.
Instead, the case was revived and remanded to Cook County Circuit Court. That opens the door for plaintiffs’ attorney Jacie Zolna to seek class-action status on behalf of "tens of thousands of motorists" who paid $10 million in distracted driving fines from January 2014 through August 2017, and whose cases were improperly routed through administrative hearing officers.
"What’s egregious is, they were doing this for money. They couldn’t get the fines for these tickets by sending ’em to Circuit Court, where they belong. So they broke Illinois law and sent them to their own administrative courts, so they could keep every penny of the fines. And they knew what they were doing was wrong," Zolna said.
"The Appellate Court said, ‘Of course they were injured. They had to pay fines to the city that were illegal. They should get ’em back.’ … It means that the case has been reinstated. It’s gonna go back down to the Circuit Court where we can seek class-action status and try to get refunds for everyone. … People paid $10 million in these unlawful tickets. And there’s about $10 million that people have not paid that’s a debt owing to the city that we’re gonna try to extinguish."
"The city is currently reviewing the decision and has no further comment as the matter remains in litigation," Law Department spokesperson Kristin Cabanban said late Thursday.
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The lawsuit revived Wednesday was filed by a law firm with a track record for winning similar judgments against the city: Myron M. Cherry & Associates LLP.
The firm also forced former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration to pay $38.75 million in refunds to motorists denied due process after being slapped with tickets based on information from red-light and speed cameras.
The money at stake in the distracted driving case is not as big, but it’s no less galling, Zolna said.
"Once they stopped sending them to administrative courts, they just stopped writing tickets. They don’t write these tickets anymore because they don’t get any money for doing it," he said.
"That tells you what everyone in the city knows: That the city uses their ticketing apparatus as their own personal piggy bank. They do all of this for the money and not for what they always say. That this is all about safety. If it was all about safety, they’d still be writing these tickets today, but they aren’t. … There was like a dozen of these tickets last year. They were issuing like 45,000 a year before they got caught."
In August 2017, Zolna filed a lawsuit accusing the city of sending those tickets to administrative hearing officers when state law required them to go to Traffic Court for one reason: to allow the city to keep the fines to itself instead of sharing 55 percent of the revenue with the county and state.
Two years later, ongoing discovery in the case turned up several pieces of evidence Zolna viewed as smoking guns:
- An August 6, 2015 internal memo to Chicago police officers directing them to stop issuing "administrative notices of violation" and start issuing traffic tickets to motorists caught texting and talking on cellphones while driving.
- A May 29, 2019 response from city attorney Natalie Frank acknowledging: "This change in policy was made on the advice of counsel.
- A July 21, 2017 internal memo circulated by the city’s deputy director of accounts receivable directing city staffers to stop using distracted driving tickets improperly routed to city hearing officers to suspend driver’s licenses, withhold city permits and deny city employment.
- Sworn statements from city attorneys revealing "collection efforts for unpaid distracted driver violations that were referred to the Department of administrative hearings for adjudication ceased on or about July 21, 2017 on advice of counsel."
- Yet another sworn statement disclosing that nearly $3.2 million had been collected after Aug. 6, 2015, for distracted driving violations sent to the Department of Administrative hearings and resulting in a finding of liability.
Zolna said he views Wednesday’s ruling as "just another in a long line of ticketing abuses" by the city.
"It’s always about the money. They’re always manipulating the system to maximize their revenue and to make it harder for people to contest these things," he said.
"Over and over again, they’re breaking the law at the expense of Chicago motorists." | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-appellate-court-opens-door-to-possible-10m-refund-of-motorists-fined-for-distracted-driving | 2022-09-08T12:41:15Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-appellate-court-opens-door-to-possible-10m-refund-of-motorists-fined-for-distracted-driving | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Man shot to death in Chicago's Gresham neighborhood: police
CHICAGO - A man died after he was found in Chicago's Gresham neighborhood with multiple gunshot wounds Wednesday night.
Chicago police were called to investigate shots fired in the 7900 block of South Wood Street around 9:46 p.m. when they found the man, 30, laying on the ground between two vehicles.
The victim was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
A witness told police that the shooters were inside a black SUV, and they drove off on South Wood Street.
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There is no one in custody and Area Two detectives are investigating. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-shot-to-death-in-chicagos-gresham-neighborhood-police | 2022-09-08T12:41:21Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-shot-to-death-in-chicagos-gresham-neighborhood-police | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Philips recalls 17M CPAP, BiPAP masks over magnets that could affect implanted devices
WASHINGTON - Philips Respironics has recalled more than 17 million masks used for people with sleep apnea and other respiratory issues due to a safety issue with magnets that could affect certain implanted medical devices.
The recall was announced on Tuesday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after 14 serious injuries were reported, including pacemaker failure, arrhythmia, seizures, and irregular blood pressure.
The recalled masks are worn by a patient when using a bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP) or continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine and have magnetic headgear clips to hold them in place, officials said. They are for single-patient use in the home or multi-patient use in a hospital or other clinical settings.
The five mask types impacted by the recall are the DreamWisp, DreamWear, Amara View, Wisp, and Wisp Youth masks.
The impacted masks are pictured in provided photos. The magnet location is shown with black circles. (Credit: FDA)
The impacted masks are for patients weighing more than 66 pounds, except for the Wisp Youth Nasal Mask and Therapy Mask 3100 NC/SP, which are for patients aged 7 and older and weighing more than 40 pounds, the FDA said.
Phillips and the FDA said the masks have magnets that "can potentially cause injury or death if people who use them, or people near a person using a recalled mask, have certain implanted metallic medical devices or metallic objects in the body."
These devices include pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, metallic stents (such as aneurysm, coronary, tracheobronchial, and biliary, neurostimulators (such as hypoglossal nerve stimulators) or magnetic metallic implants, electrodes, and valves placed in upper limbs, torso, neck, or head, officials said.
Other devices could include:
- Cerebral spinal fluid shunts (such as ventriculoperitoneal shunt)
- Aneurysm clips
- Embolic coils
- Intracranial aneurysm intravascular flow disruption devices
- Metallic cranial plates, screws, burr hole covers, and bone substitute devices
- Ocular implants (such as glaucoma implants and retinal implants; intraocular lenses placed during cataract surgery are not impacted)
- Certain contact lenses with metal
- Implants to restore hearing or balance that have an implanted magnet (such as cochlear implants, implanted bone conduction hearing devices, and auditory brainstem implants)
- Magnetic denture attachments
- Implantable ports and pumps (such as insulin pumps)
- Metallic gastrointestinal clips
- Certain metallic joint replacements
- Devices labeled as Magnetic Resonance (MR) Unsafe
- Magnetic metallic implants not labeled for MR or not evaluated for safety in a magnetic field
- Metallic splinters in the eye
- Metallic shrapnel in the body
Anyone with an implanted metallic device or object in the body listed above should stop using the recalled mask and switch to a non-magnetic mask if available, the FDA said.
"Ensure the recalled mask is kept at least 6 inches away from metallic medical implants, metallic objects in the body, or medical devices that can be impacted by the magnetic fields," the agency said.
In June 2021, certain Philips Respironics ventilators, CPAP, and BiPAP machines were recalled over concerns that a foam component could disintegrate and be inhaled by the user, possibly causing health issues, including toxic and carcinogenic effects.
Last month, Philips issued another recall for some of its respiratory machines due to a plastic component that could potentially be contaminated with a non-compatible material.
"This latest recall raises further safety concerns both for Philips devices already subject to a recall, as well as additional devices," Dr. Jeff Shuren director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said in the notice this week. "We strongly encourage providers and at-risk patients to review this important safety information and follow our recommended actions to reduce the potential for harm from these products."
This story was reported from Cincinnati. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/philips-recall-cpap-bipap-masks-magnets-implanted-devices-september-2022 | 2022-09-08T12:41:27Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/philips-recall-cpap-bipap-masks-magnets-implanted-devices-september-2022 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Queen Elizabeth II under medical supervision as doctors 'concerned' about health
LONDON - Buckingham Palace said Thursday that Queen Elizabeth II is under medical supervision because doctors are "concerned for Her Majesty’s health," as members of her family traveled to be with the 96-year-old monarch in Scotland.
"Following further evaluation this morning, the Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision," the palace said in a statement that sparked deep concern.
The announcement comes a day after the queen canceled a meeting of her Privy Council and was told to rest. On Tuesday, she presided over the ceremonial handover power to new Prime Minister Liz Truss at her summer residence in Scotland at Balmoral Castle.
Queen Elizabeth II waits in the Drawing Room before receiving newly elected leader of the Conservative party Liz Truss at Balmoral Castle for an audience where she will be invited to become Prime Minister and form a new government on September 6, 202
The palace says the queen is "comfortable" and remains at Balmoral. Her son, Prince Charles, and grandson Prince William were traveling to be with her, officials said.
Truss said "the whole country will be deeply concerned by the news from Buckingham Palace this lunchtime."
"My thoughts — and the thoughts of people across our United Kingdom — are with Her Majesty The Queen and her family at this time," she said on Twitter.
Elizabeth marked seven decades on the throne this year. She has increasingly handed over duties to her heir, Prince Charles, and other members of the royal family in recent months as she has struggled to get around. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/queen-elizabeth-ii-medical-supervision-doctors-concerned-health | 2022-09-08T12:41:33Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/queen-elizabeth-ii-medical-supervision-doctors-concerned-health | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sunshine abounds today in Chicago with temps in the 80s
CHICAGO - We open with some fog once again in a few spots away from the city.
The rest of the day will be sunny and warm with highs warming into the mid 80s except right along the lake.
Tonight is moonlit and mild with lows not far from 60 degrees. Tomorrow is a carbon copy.
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Saturday will be quite warm again with a mix of clouds and sun.
At this point rain seems unlikely to arrive until calendar day Sunday. Showers will be likely for the second half of the weekend.
It will be much cooler with highs in the upper 60s to low 70s Sunday-Tuesday. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/weather/sunshine-abounds-today-in-chicago-with-temps-in-the-80s | 2022-09-08T12:41:45Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/weather/sunshine-abounds-today-in-chicago-with-temps-in-the-80s | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Chairman of Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Etetim Onuk, has urged his constituents to embrace the choice of Pastor Umo Bassey Eno as the governorship candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, saying that for Itu Federal Constituency not to have succeeded in producing the flag bearer for the party in the 2023 election, is best described as the will of God.
Onuk, who gave the urge in an exclusive interaction with Tribune Online correspondent in his office at the council, expressed his strong belief that Pastor Umo Eno would be a better governor for the federal constituency and the state at large coming as the will of God.
The chairman, who was among the 12 indigenes of Nigeria recently selected for the Local Government Areas Excellence Award (LOGEXA), for his selfless, courageous and passionate attitude towards the development of the Itu council area, said that he was one of the major agitators for power shift to Itu Federal Constituency but he had since succumbed to the will of God and loyalty to the PDP as his party.
“As you know, I was at the vanguard of the agitation for power shift. I had prayed that the next Governor of the state should come from Itu Federal Constituency. The reason was simple; other Federal Constituencies have tasted the seat of governance in this state as far as Uyo Senatorial District is concerned at one time or the other, even for one day. Unfortunately, Itu Federal Constituency has not tasted it before, as far as the Democratic dispensation is concerned.
“That is what really informed my agitation. But that was man’s way, God’s way is always different from man’s way. The Bible says, ‘ God’s ways are not our ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are God’s ways beyond man’s understanding.’
“God’s purpose is always the best. We had agitated and we believed in God. I remember some of us even set up prayer bands. But we were all waiting for God’s leading through His Excellency the Governor to choose someone from Itu Federal Constituency. We did everything humanly possible but unfortunately, it didn’t come out that way. We cannot question God because we had all emptied our hopes on whosoever the Governor will bring out as the preferred aspirant.
“When it went the other way round, we as believers in the preceding will of God had to align ourselves because that is what we were waiting for. Even the aspirants themselves believed in that arrangement. Like the ten virgins in the Bible, everyone had expected to be favoured but it did not come our way. We still need to be thankful to God.” Onuk explained.
According to him, he was of the strong belief that Pastor Umo Eno is God’s choice just as the governor had said and he is the best for the state at the moment.
“God’s choice is always the best. We may be looking for Jesus through the whirlwind, water or fire but He can decide to manifest through any other means. That is God for all of us. So, we are happy with the choice of God. Umo Eno is our preferred candidate. We know that if it is God, it will stand.
“I know that it is God because so far, there is nothing to make me doubt that it is the will of God. I can say that Umo Eno is the man for the now to take this state to the next level. I urge Itu people to look beyond what has happened in the past and come together to embrace this gift that God has given to us as a state.
“I believe that God can use him to do wonderful things in our local government and the state.” Onuk maintained.
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Bauchi State House of Assembly has adopted a motion calling on the State Government and Management of Bauchi State University Gadau, (BASUG) to as a matter of urgency to pull out of the lingering ASUU strike.
The Assembly adopted the motion following the presentation of the motion by the member representing Ganjuwa East, Gazali Abubakar Wunti calling on the concerned authorities to immediately reopen the University and call back staff and students to school for the continuation of the 2020/2021 academic session.
While leading the debate on the motion, Gazali Abubakar explained that the strike embarked upon by ASUU has a negative effect on students, parents, lecturers and entrepreneurs that have their sources of income rooted in the various campuses.
He added that students have been psychologically depressed and lost hope in Nigeria’s Western education system.
According to the Member, Bauchi State is one of the Educationally Disadvantaged States with a whopping sum of 1.2 million out-of-school children from the 10.5 million in the whole country.
He, therefore, opined that such industrial action will have negative effects on the State, saying that Nigerians no longer have faith in the struggle, they are against ASUU’s unwarranted interest to accepting the government’s offer of take-it-or-leave-it.
According to him, “Nigeria as a Federal State has 3 tiers of government. The 3 tiers work independently but it is in the nation’s interest to have mutual understanding and work concurrently. It is therefore unreasonable for the State University to continue on that lane”.
“Let’s be honest, there is only so much that a group of patriotic citizens can do in defence of a public that does not appreciate their struggle. Because they are not super humans, lecturers are bound to throw in the towel at some point if the government continues with this war”, he added.
Gazali Abubakar further said that “However the State University had continued to benefit from Federal Government intervention such TETFUND, NEEDS Projects which are all as result of the ASUU’s struggles, but it calls for deeper reflection when it seems like they are going too far.”
The Lawmaker further stated that the State Government has no line of disagreement with the employees of the University, hence it is highly uncalled for to continue going on that cause because it is affecting the State.
He called on the State Government as a matter of urgency and grievous concern to intervene in the worrisome situation and put an end to it.
Abubakar Gazali also called on the Management and staff of the University to have the interest of the State at heart and do the needful by reconsidering the position of the University on the ongoing protracted strike.
He finally prayed that the State Government and the Management of the University should sit down with the ASUU Chapter of the University to request them to pull out of the lingering strike, reopen and call the staff and students back to school to continue their academic activities
In his contribution, the Speaker, Abubakar Y Suleiman said that the motion is important and timely, especially the fact that it affects everybody in the State.
Also, the Deputy Speaker, Hon Danlami Ahmed Kawule said that the motion came at the right time and need serious attention, saying that the lawmakers want to see the University reopened.
He further said that the University is funded by Bauchi State Government, hence there is no reason ASUU of the University will continue with the strike.
The Deputy Speaker advised that the House Committee on Education should be part of the negotiation between the State Government and the University Management with ASUU to call off the strike.
Minority Leader, Bakoji Aliyu Bobbo representing Chiroma Constituency said that the University is being funded by the State government, therefore, the solidarity strike should be ended.
He said that even TETFUND which the University is benefiting from is Federal Government’s initiative, not ASUU’s.
The Minority Leader recalled that as far back as 2002 when he was JAC chairman of Tertiary Institutions in the State, they used to join the national strikes in the name of solidarity and later resume normal work because it is between them and the FG, not State Government.
He also suggested that the State Government should establish a Ministry of Higher Education to relieve the Ministry of Education of so many responsibilities attached to them.
After the long debate on the issue, the House unanimously adopted the prayers of the motion as amended.
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FG approves 5% of recovered looted, repatriated funds for NSIP
• As FEC approves NSIP bill, National flood emergency preparedness, response and plan
The Federal Government, on Wednesday, approved annual budgetary allocation as well as 5 per cent of recovered and repatriated funds for the implementation of National Social Investment Programmes (NSIPs) across the country.
The approval was granted by Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Council also approved the National Social Investment Programme (Establishment) Bill, 2022, with a view to ensuring the continuity and sustainability of NSIP by successive administrations.
To this end, Federal Government in partnership with all the 36 State Governments and Federal Capital Territory Administration are to ensure full implementation of the programmes.
The proposed Executive bill seeks to establish the National Social Investment Programme Agency for the management and implementation of the National Social Investment Programmes.
The Bill when enacted will provide the necessary statutory backing for the existing NSIP under the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development.
In her presentation to the Council, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, described NSIP as a reliable tool for solving poverty problems in Nigeria.
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“NSIP serves as an enduring legacy of this administration and is necessary to be backed by legislation at this time. Thus, the urgent need for Council to approve the NSIP bill which seeks to provide statutory backing as conceptualised and established by this administration.
“The NSIP is, directly and indirectly, impacting the lives of poor Nigerians through its four cluster programmes namely: the N-Power Programme, the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP), the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) and the Conditional Cash Transfer Programme (CCT).
“These programmes are designed to serve as various forms of social safety nets specifically targeting those at the bottom of the social ladder or those who require some form of support to enable them to become productive members of the society and finally prevent more people from falling below the poverty line.
“The submission is to create the National Social Investment Programme as an agency, in line with Mr President’s agenda to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by the year 2030.”
In a related development, the National Flood Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan for Nigeria was also approved.
According to Minister, the plan is expected to help build the resilience of Nigerian communities to severe flood incidences by providing a common and strategic reference point for flood planning and response for all the tiers of government, response organizations and most vulnerable communities.
“The Plan promotes risk reduction through early warning and early action arrangements and effective use of technology for forecasting and surveillance by mandated organisations. The strategic outcomes of the plan are that the nation is more resilient to future flood events, effective responses to flood events and an improved understanding of the wider impacts of the flood on national development.”
The plan when enacted into law will ensure that all relevant MDAs understand their roles and responsibilities before, during and after flood incidences, establish a clear threshold for flood emergency response arrangements, provide clarity on the means of improving resilience and minimizing the impact of flood events and establish short, medium and long-term asset that will provide continuous improvement in flood emergency management in Nigeria.
The Bills will now be sent to the National Assembly for legislation and passage into law.
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Sure, it might still be summery outside now, but fall is on the way. Here’s a look at 10 festivals and fairs – in no particular order – to help you celebrate autumn around Northern Virginia.
Mount Vernon’s Colonial Market and Fair
3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, Mount Vernon
Sept. 17-18, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Experience an 18th-century marketplace with live music, food and more than 40 juried artisans demonstrating their trades and selling their creations, including hand-blown glass, metalwork and reproduction 18th-century goods.
mountvernon.org/plan-your-visit/calendar/events/colonial-market-fair/
Tank Farm Open House
Americans in Wartime Experience, 13906 Aden Road, Nokesville
Sept. 24-25, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The annual Americans in Wartime Experience “Tank Farm” open house in Nokesville returns with more than 50 tanks and other military vehicles on display.
Occoquan Fall Arts and Crafts Show
Sept. 24-25, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
A popular town event for more than 50 years, the fall craft show this year features more than 200 artisans, a beer and wine garden, an Imagination Alley for the kids and a 32-foot wall mural on which festival-goers can paint. Admission is free, but there is a small fee for a shuttle ride to town.
www.occoquanva.gov/town-festivals/
Manassas Latino Festival
Harris Pavilion, 9201 Center St., Manassas
Sept. 24, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Celebrate the cultural heritage and contributions of the Latin American community with live music, dance performances, diverse foods and more.
Cox Farms Fall Festival and ‘Fields of Fear’
15621 Braddock Road, Centreville
Sept. 18 to Nov. 8
The farm’s fall festival is back with slides, hayrides, music, farm demonstrations, swings and food. And the farm’s popular “Fields of Fear” runs every Friday and Saturday night from Sept. 23 to Nov. 5 from 7:30-11 p.m.
coxfarms.com/fall-festival/ and fieldsoffear.coxfarms.com
Warrenton Fall Festival
Main Street, downtown Warrenton
Sept. 24, noon to 8:30 p.m.
The annual event features a car and motorcycle show, cornhole tournament, circus acts, face painters, bounce houses, food trucks and a performance by Sawyer Brown at 7:30 p.m.
warrenton-mo.org/news/what_s_new/warrenton_fall_festival_sept__24__2022
Great Country Farms Corn Maze and Apple Harvest
18780 Foggy Bottom Road, Bluemont
Through Sept. 30
Freshly pressed cider and apple picking through September, along with the “Stories from the Stars” corn maze.
Manassas Fall Jubilee
Oct. 1, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
More than 100 craft and community booths will fill the streets of Old Town Manassas for the 39th annual Fall Jubilee, along with entertainment and games for the kids. The event is free.
Workhouse Haunt 2022
9518 Workhouse Way, Lorton
Select dates, Oct. 1-Nov. 5
Workhouse Haunt, Nightmare Harvest: This year’s haunt immerses guests through a highly themed walk-through experience, as creepy characters deliver contactless scares in multiple scenes. Guests will travel in small groups for a frightening 30-minute experience that brings them next to the site’s abandoned, historic buildings and into the dark woods. Buy tickets at InsideNoVaTix.com.
workhousearts.org/calendar/haunt-2022
Haymarket Day 2022
Oct. 15, starting at 10 a.m.
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First Bank of Nigeria has rewarded its customers with a brand new car and N50m in the Verve Card campaign.
Speaking at the prize presentation ceremony, Mr Chuma Ezirim, FirstBank’s Group Executive, E-Business and Retail Products, said that the aim of the promo was to appreciate the bank’s over eight million Verve Debit Cardholders. He stated that the bank will continue to partner with Verve to reward the patronage of customers.
Mr Olakunle Animasaun said he never expected to win the grand prize and he was overwhelmed with the excitement of winning the car.
“Initially I doubted the credibility when someone called me from First Bank, informing me I had won a car.
“I did not believe it, until I got here, saw the car and the key was handed over to me. I thank FirstBank and Verve for this opportunity given to me. I pray that God will continue to bless them.” He said.
He urged other cardholders to continue to use Verve cards to enjoy seamless payment solutions.
Speaking also, Vincent Ogbunude, Managing Director of Verve International, said the firm partnered with First Bank to reward loyal customers because they both shared a similar vision of delivering world-class payment solutions to their esteemed customers.
He further said beyond the overarching goals of providing secure and innovative solutions to its customers, Verve is committed to creating unique customer experiences and rewarding customers for their continued patronage. “We congratulate all the lucky cardholders, and we will be taking the excitement a notch higher with the presentation of the gift items and a brand-new car to lucky winners.”
The presentation ceremony had representatives from the Regulatory bodies; National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC), Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) and the Lagos State Lotteries Board (LSLB) among others in attendance.
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Defending Class 6 state champion Colgan beat Hylton Thursday 3-0 in a Cardinal District match. The final scores were 25-14, 25-11 and 25-15.
Colgan was led by Brielle Kemavor with 11 kills, Grace Smith with 8 kills and Aubrey Hatch with 7 kills. Paula Sigurani had 8 digs and 7 aces while Alexis Scipione had 28 assists.
Colgan is now 8-0 after winning the Richmond Volleyball Showcase this weekend. The Sharks host Battlefield on Monday.
STEHLIN PART OF TITLE-WINNING TEAM
Forest Park graduate Anthony Stehlin helped the West Virginia Black Bears win the MLB Draft League Championship Tuesday with a 10-6 win over Williamsport.
He pitched in the championship game, allowing one hit over .2 innings with one walk.
A two-way player, the shortstop hit .256 in 26 regular-season games. The right-hander also pitched in four regular-season games, tossing four innings and allowing two hits and one walk and striking out four.
Stehlin signed with West Virginia in July after a stellar career at Concord University.
Stehlin was a three-time all-region pick and an all-American at Concord. He is the program’s all-time leader in saves and was named a national gold glove winner for fielding .989 from his shortstop position this spring.
Stehlin appeared in 168 career games with 155 starts and batted .358 in over 550 at-bats. He recorded 61 extra-base hits, including 39 doubles, in five season and stole 49 bases. As a pitcher, he made 38 relief appearances and racked up 16 saves and 91 strikeouts in 116 innings.
The MLB Draft League is a collegiate summer baseball league that began play in 2021. Created by Major League Baseball and Prep Baseball Report, the league serves as a showcase for top draft-eligible prospects leading up to each summer's MLB draft.
SINNETT TRANSFERS TO HAMPTON
Woodbridge High School graduate Julia Sinnett will continue her college softball career at Hampton University.
Sinnett was a standout infielder over five seasons with Division III Virginia Wesleyan. She was a two-time all-American and a member of two national championship teams (2018, 2021).
This past season, she was the ODAC Player of the Year in hitting .349 with 14 stolen bases, 37 runs 59 RBIs, 15 doubles, six triples and 10 home runs. | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/prince_william/local-briefs-colgan-volleyball-improves-to-8-0-anthony-stehlin-is-a-baseball-champion/article_72ac10c0-2f65-11ed-b1d2-73f4eb01c442.html | 2022-09-08T12:45:29Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/prince_william/local-briefs-colgan-volleyball-improves-to-8-0-anthony-stehlin-is-a-baseball-champion/article_72ac10c0-2f65-11ed-b1d2-73f4eb01c442.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NBA superstars Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson, along with others, took umbrage at their ratings on the popular video game NBA 2K.
The Brooklyn Nets forward and the Golden State Warriors shooting guard took to social media to articulate their misgivings about how they were allegedly given ratings that were beneath their talents and career portfolios.
Durant went right after NBA 2K digital marketing director Ronnie Singh and demanded answers for a 96 overall rating, which is highly respectable, but the Slim Reaper believes he should be even higher.
Aye @Ronnie2K I’m gonna need an explanation on why I’m not a 99? This has become laughable https://t.co/oySQUtcDP2
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) September 6, 2022
Thompson unleashed a barrage of Instagram stories to make it clear that he is insulted that NBA 2K — despite being tied with Kevin Durant, Desmond Bane and Luke Kennard — ranked him as the second-best long-range shooter in NBA 2K23 behind teammate Steph Curry. Thompson thinks that his 88 rating from deep, which is 11 points behind his fellow Splash Brother’s, was a slap in the face.
Despite the fact that Thompson was sidelined for two consecutive seasons with career-threatening injuries (an ACL tear and a torn Achille’s) before returning to win a title in 2021-22, he demands that NBA 2K “put some respect on my name,” then added “you bums.”
Thompson concluded his stream of consciousness by pettily asserting that the all-popular Madden football video game is superior to the NBA 2K.
Some fans agreed with the two iconic athletes that they were underrated by NBA 2K. However, there were many on social media who told Durant the reasons why they don’t think that he deserves a 99 rating, which is the highest on the game.
You were injured and you got swept by the Celtics https://t.co/OgL3YzZwOj
— 🏀King Phynx (@Kingjuliuus) September 6, 2022
They docked you 3 points for being a diva & team cancer https://t.co/zQjvgoqhmK
— Run It Back Philly ◻️ (@iAmDjEastwood) September 6, 2022
I am petitioning for us to remove MJ on the cover and replacing with you the real 99 https://t.co/hzXzHhU04X
— Ronnie 2K 2K23 (@Ronnie2K) September 6, 2022
99s win a playoff game https://t.co/MMRGtMCs8M
— 🧤 (@melosgoat) September 6, 2022
They keep doing @KlayThompson dirty. I feel why @ScottiePippen so angry too now. Warriors team without Klay couldn’t even make the playoffs without him!! Klay comes back & boom championship 🔥. #warriors #klaythompson
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RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bandwidth Inc. (NASDAQ: BAND), a leading global enterprise cloud communications company, today announced "Send-To," a new messaging app for Bandwidth's Direct Routing and Operator Connect for Microsoft Teams. Send-To enables enterprise users to send SMS texts from within Teams instead of having to use their personal phones, enabling faster and more efficient work collaboration. The new app expands Bandwidth's DuetⓇ for Microsoft Teams beyond the core capabilities of voice and e911, creating a truly unified communications experience. It is now available for Teams customers who use Bandwidth for Direct Routing in the U.S.
"As messaging becomes an increasingly preferred way to communicate, employees shouldn't have to use their personal phone numbers to conduct mission-critical communications–whether with their co-workers inside an organization, or when reaching out to customers, partners, suppliers or other stakeholders," said John Bell, Bandwidth's Chief Product Officer. "Our new Send-To app is the latest example of Bandwidth's continuous innovation to expand our longtime partnerships with platform leaders like Microsoft and accelerate the enterprise communications move to the cloud."
For IT leaders, the new Send-To app can be installed quickly and deployed easily, in keeping with Bandwidth's reputation for simplicity and customer satisfaction. As a result, Teams users can send SMS and MMS messages from within their Teams channels, on desktop or mobile, using a Bandwidth-provided phone number, which minimizes the need for context switching and increases efficiency. It also mitigates the security and governance issues stemming from the use of personal devices for business messaging. To further protect privacy, customers control how messages and contacts are retained within their own Teams tenant.
Bandwidth engineered the Send-To app to solve for a wide variety of use cases. One of the app's first users is Camden Property Trust, a publicly traded real estate investment trust. With heavy personnel needs to manage its 58,000+ apartment homes in more than 170 communities across the U.S., Camden saw the opportunity to use Bandwidth's Send-To app to improve the speed and effectiveness of its employee recruiting process. The challenge: traditional emails received a slow response due to prospective employees being busy working during the day, and phone calls were seldom answered. This created friction in the recruiting process and stretched out the time to hire. Camden's talent acquisition team piloted Bandwidth's Send-To app to send text messages to candidates through Teams instead. The result: the time recruiters have spent coordinating interviews has been shortened from two days to as little as two minutes, all orchestrated from within the Teams interface.
"Send-To has revolutionized our recruitment efforts," said Allison Dunavant, Vice President of Organization Development at Camden. "The high open and response rates of text messaging enables our recruiters to reach prospective employees much quicker than through traditional recruiting methods. We've been able to bring on new employees much more efficiently and streamline our recruiting communications into a single, more effective channel."
"Send-To by Bandwidth has become a key part of our Microsoft Teams environment," said Jimmy Whorton, Vice President of Information Technology at Camden. "It is secure, easy to deploy, and gives us the simplicity of one provider for voice and messaging through Bandwidth as our Direct Routing partner for Microsoft Teams."
Send-To is yet another example of Bandwidth's decade-long track record of innovation alongside Microsoft. For example, Bandwidth's Duet for Microsoft Teams is a Bring Your Own Carrier (BYOC) solution to help enterprises move to the cloud. With BYOC, enterprises can unbundle their telephony and easily integrate their entire communications stack, while replacing legacy telecom carriers and most on-premises equipment with the Bandwidth platform–built on its own global, software-driven, all-IP network.
Find out more about Bandwidth's Send-To app here.
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Bandwidth (NASDAQ: BAND) is a global communications software company that helps enterprises connect people around the world with cloud-ready voice, messaging and emergency services. Backed by a network reaching 60+ countries covering 90 percent of global GDP, companies like Cisco, Google, Microsoft, RingCentral, Uber and Zoom use Bandwidth's APIs to easily embed communications into software and applications. Bandwidth has more than 20 years in the technology space and was the first Communications Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) provider offering a robust selection of APIs built around our own network. Our award-winning support teams help businesses around the world solve complex communications challenges every day. More information is available at www.bandwidth.com.
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When the 49ers named their captains yesterday, Trey Lance was not among them. I don’t do this often, but I’m going to disagree with Kyle Posey. There is one reason this decision isn’t meaningless, and it goes back to a continuous pattern by the 49ers of not fully embracing Trey Lance when they have the chance.
As many of you say that I love to write clickbait articles, I’m going to retort with the fact that a large group of 49ers fans love to call anything negative about the team a “non-story.” When Deebo Samuel scrubbed his Instagram account, people said it didn’t matter at all. He requested a trade soon after that. When the team didn’t release Jimmy Garoppolo, people said it didn’t matter. He’s now back on the team for another year. Teams don’t do things for no reason. Every action is purposeful and, thus, worthy of scrutiny.
First, it’s a little weird not to have your starting quarterback be a captain on the team. They are the natural leader of the offense, so it only makes sense to include them. 25 teams named captains yesterday; only three chose to omit quarterbacks. One of those three was the Seahawks, who very well could have to bench Geno Smith at some point this year. One was the Cleveland Browns, whose quarterback is currently suspended for serial sexual assault. The third team was the 49ers.
I’ve heard all the responses, and none of them hold water. As Kyle Posey said, the other captains are far more accomplished than Lance, without question. But I believe that misses the bigger point: Trey didn’t have to beat any of them. The 49ers could have chosen to name seven captains this year. They didn’t. Kyle Shanahan said, “We just wanted to go with six.”
Why?
He went with seven captains last year and the year before that. Why reduce that number this year, especially when Trey Lance was seventh in the voting? It’s not as if seven would be exorbitantly high. Multiple teams have eight captains this year. The Bills have nine. The Giants have 10.
All offseason players and coaches have gushed about Trey Lance’s leadership. He’s gone out of his way to take a larger role within the team and embrace teammates. He breaks the huddle at practices and before games. He clearly wanted to be a captain and said as much yesterday.
“Obviously that’s a goal of mine, but I don’t think you could look at any six of those guys and be like that guy’s a bozo because those guys have all played football at a very, very high level. So yeah, situations are different. I’m excited. I voted for every single one of those guys, so I think each and every one of them deserves it. But yeah, it’s definitely a goal of mine moving forward. But those guys have all proved it. That’s what this league is all about.”
If you want to say the title of captain is meaningless, that’s fine, but why not throw Lance a bone in that case? Name him a captain, avoid all the scrutiny and send a message inside the locker room that you’re behind him - especially with Jimmy Garoppolo still on the roster.
If the title of captain does have meaning, what have they not seen from him that they want to see? The 49ers are choosing violence, again and again, when it comes to Trey Lance. They could have shown faith in him by clearing the deck before free agency, getting Jimmy Garoppolo out of town, and adding more depth at offensive line and safety. They didn’t. They could have shown faith in him during training camp by getting Jimmy Garoppolo off the team then. They didn’t. Instead, they restructured Garoppolo’s deal and continued to feed the narrative that they aren’t all-in on Trey.
Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch know how this looks. “We all know how it’ll go,” Shanahan said yesterday, “The fact that he has this successful quarterback behind him, that’s obvious how that narrative will be and understandably so.”
The fact that they have continued to choose to walk the hard road with Trey over the easy road tells you something. They’re doing it because they think they have to. They’re willing to suffer the slings and arrows because, in their mind it’s better than the alternative. You don’t pack a parachute unless you think there’s a chance you might have to jump out of the plane, and that’s true no matter how much some fans want to hide under the covers and pretend the monster can’t see them.
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49ers star Nick Bosa has a burst fueled by sweat, sacrifice and a personal chef (paywall)
“The new gym essentially makes their sessions pandemic-proof and was custom built with a full kitchen, hot and cold therapy sections and a basketball court-like suspended floor that’s easier on the joints.
Nick said the one-time warehouse is in a nondescript commercial area and there’s a mechanics shop next door.
“They’re definitely confused, I think, when they see us pull up in our Teslas and walk out,” he said. “And they’re all working on cars. There’s no signs or anything. We just keep it low-key.”
Kyle Shanahan says George Kittle is ‘not feeling good’ after sustaining groin injury
“Tight end George Kittle did not practice on Wednesday after sustaining a groin injury, one that head coach Kyle Shanahan said has Kittle ‘not feeling good.’ The injury happened on Monday, and has thrown Kittle’s status for Sunday’s game vs. the Bears in question.”
49ers sign tight end and receiver to practice squad, release veteran wide out
“The San Francisco 49ers today announced they have signed TE Troy Fumagalli and WR Connor Wedington to the team’s practice squad and released WR Willie Snead IV.”
“San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan and quarterback Trey Lance spoke with reporters as the team prepares for its Week 1 matchup against the Chicago Bears. Here is everything they had to say.”
“Our players also know Jimmy went through some tough times, too, and they had his back regardless of if they thought there was a better option,” Shanahan said. “You’ve got to realize when you do struggle, those guys know it’s a lot harder to play well when no one has your back. You’ve got to help guys through that. And I think we have got the guys who can do that. I think our guys did that for Jimmy when he was here, even when he was having some tough times and allowed him to fight through that, and I believe our guys will do the same thing for Trey.
49ers name team captains: Nick Bosa is in while Trey Lance is a few votes short (paywall)
“He’s not very vocal sometimes, but he leads by the way he works at all times,” defensive tackle Javon Kinlaw said. “He’s one of the hardest-working guys, so that’s going to speak for itself. Then he goes out there and plays the way he does, so that also speaks for itself. Some people lead by setting the tone every day. And that’s what he does.”
Branch: 49ers’ George Kittle misses practice, status for season opener uncertain (paywall)
“Kittle has missed 11 of 33 games because of injuries over the past two seasons, but he also has a long history of playing through pain. In October 2019, he was questionable after he suffered a groin injury in practice two days before a win over the Rams in which he had eight catches for 104 yards.”
Branch: The QB isn’t a captain: 49ers’ Trey Lance says earning title is a ‘goal’ (paywall)
“I’m excited. I voted for every single one of those guys. I think each and every one of them deserves it. It’s definitely a goal of mine moving forward. But those guys have all proved it. That’s what this league is all about.”
NFL insider believes 49ers trade Jimmy Garoppolo by Nov. 1, slams reporting about Trey Lance
“It’s a situation where, I think if you look at it from the internal optics of it versus actual practicalities of it, as soon as the Niners get the trade package they want, Jimmy’s going to be gone,” Allbright said on 95.7 The Game’s The Morning Roast. “I don’t even expect Jimmy to be there at the end of the season, on that roster, even with that no-trade clause. They wanted to be rid of him. They couldn’t get the package they wanted because they had no leverage after the surgery.” | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/8/23342279/49ers-news-trey-lance-team-captain-nick-bosa-burst-personal-chef-cheat-meal-diet-bills-rams-opener | 2022-09-08T13:00:46Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/8/23342279/49ers-news-trey-lance-team-captain-nick-bosa-burst-personal-chef-cheat-meal-diet-bills-rams-opener | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Beginners to expert sellers can build and manage visually stunning online stores with Bluehost's curated solution, simplifying the website building experience
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bluehost, one of the largest WordPress hosting providers in the world, today announced the launch of its new commerce solutions that make it simple for customers to launch their online stores and makes using WordPress easier by bringing together YITH plugins and WooCommerce. Addressing the need for a simple, convenient online selling solution for all, Bluehost's new commerce solutions, bring together the power of WordPress, the versatility of WooCommerce and the elegant simplicity of YITH plugins to empower users to easily create online stores that truly stand out from the rest.
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"We have so many customers around the world with unique needs and different levels of expertise building online stores," said Ed Jay, President of Newfold Digital, the parent company of Bluehost and YITH. "With the launch of Bluehost's new commerce solutions, our team is addressing the needs of small businesses looking for the flexibility and power of WordPress but want the experience of coming online and selling to be simple. The curated experience we are providing strikes the perfect balance of security, reliability, and functionality by taking the power of WordPress and putting it into the hands of users in a way that feels intuitive and native for each of our customers seeking to grow their businesses."
Bluehost's commerce solutions offer the functionality, and the perfect mix of tools, plugins and guidance online sellers need to start and grow their online business including:
- Easy Online Store Creation: Bluehost's new commerce solutions come with an easy-to-follow onboarding experience. Answer a few simple questions and within minutes users will have the right foundation pages to launch their site. The guided onboarding experiences walks users through the set-up process for commonly needed features of an online store, like payment processing, tax information, shipping and managing product inventory.
- WooCommerce and Enhanced YITH Plugins: Both of Bluehost's commerce solutions come with WooCommerce and enhanced YITH plugins. YITH is one of the largest sellers and developers of WooCommerce Plugins for WordPress, with nearly 2.3M active installs and more than 100 plugins that expertly solve critical eCommerce needs. Payment Processing, Gift Cards, Wish Lists, Appointment Bookings, Shipping, Product Search/Filtering and Customer Account Creation are included, providing users with everything they need to build an online store for a simple low price.
- Sales Across Multiple Marketplaces: Whether users are selling on Amazon, Etsy, eBay, Shopify, BigCommerce, or any other kind of marketplace, the Bluehost Online Store + Marketplace plan allows customers to manage their inventory from one centralized dashboard. This allows them to analyze which marketplace is the best place for selling their products, as well as keep track of inventory in real-time without having to log into multiple dashboards.
- Yoast SEO: The #1 WordPress SEO Plugin powering more than 13 million websites. Yoast SEO is made by world-renowned SEO experts and is packed full of features, designed to help visitors and search engines to get the most out of their website. Newfold acquired Yoast in August 2021.
- New WordPress eCommerce Block Theme "Wonder" Pre-installed: Take advantage of WordPress's Block Editor with Wonder's 24 patterns, focused on shops, and six different style variations. YITH, a leading global provider of WooCommerce plugins acquired by Newfold in March 2022, built Wonder leveraging their WordPress commerce expertise.
- Professional Services and 24/7 Expert Support: In-house Bluehost experts are readily available to help customers get online and support customers if roadblocks are encountered while creating an online store, via online chat or over the phone at +1(888) 401-4678.
For more information on Bluehost's commerce solutions, including product features and details, visit Bluehost.com.
Bluehost is the leading web hosting solutions provider specializing in WordPress. Since its founding in 2003, Bluehost has been trusted by millions of people because it makes building, growing, and managing successful WordPress websites easy. Bluehost delivers a suite of WordPress solutions designed with the perfect mix of guidance, tools, and expertise to build a professional website. Bluehost is a part of the Newfold Digital family of brands. For more information on Bluehost, visit Bluehost.com.
Newfold Digital is a leading web and commerce technology company serving nearly 7 million customers globally. Established in 2021 through the combination of leading web services providers Endurance Web Presence and Web.com Group, our portfolio of brands includes: Bluehost, CrazyDomains, HostGator, Network Solutions, Register.com, Web.com, Yoast, YITH, and many others. We help customers of all sizes build a digital presence that delivers results. With our extensive product offerings and personalized support, we take pride in collaborating with our customers to serve their online presence needs. Learn more about Newfold Digital at Newfold.com.
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Updates Full Year Revenue Guidance to $48 million - $50 million
ANDOVER, Mass., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Byrna Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: BYRN) ("Byrna" or "the Company") today announced preliminary revenue expectations for its fiscal third quarter ended August 31, 2022 ("Q3 FY2022") of $12.4 million, up 43% from the $8.7 million in sales for Q3 FY2021. This brings Byrna's year-to-date sales for fiscal year 2022 ("FY2022") to $32 million. The backlog of unshipped orders at the end of the quarter was $1.65 million. These orders are expected to ship in September.
Byrna saw significant growth in Amazon.com sales this quarter, up $1.65 million (or 3,500%) compared to Q3 FY2021 and up $600k (or 50%) compared to last quarter (Q2 FY2022). Dealer Sales were also up $900K (or 75%) this quarter as compared to Q3 FY2021. This is primarily due to the Byrna range of products now being offered in such well known chain stores as Bass Pro Shops and Sportsman's Warehouse. In addition, Fox Labs, which was acquired on May 25, 2022, added $410K in sales of Fox Labs branded pepper sprays this quarter.
For Q3 FY2022, the sales breakdown was as follows:
- Byrna.com - $6.0 million
- Amazon.com - $1.7 million
- Dealer / Distributor - $2.1 million
- International - $2.1
- Law Enforcement - $135K
- Fox Labs - $410K
Management Commentary
Bryan Ganz, CEO of Byrna, stated that "despite the strong year-over-year performance, and despite hitting our internal goal for the quarter (if we add both booked sales for the quarter and our open order backlog at the end of the quarter), towards the end of Q3 we started to see clear signs of a softening economy with dealer sales slowing considerably. With higher prices for everything from rent to food to fuel, we expect to see continued softening in demand for all manner of discretionary goods including Byrna's range of self-defense products. Accordingly, we are revising our Q4 FY2022 revenue projections to $16.0 million to $18.0 million. While this is still a 43% increase over Q4 FY2022 (at the lower end of the range), it is less than we had originally projected and, as a result, we are updating our full year revenue guidance to an updated range of $48 million to $50 million for the current fiscal year ending November 30, 2022 ("FY 2022")."
"Even with a softening economy, we expect to see continued strong top line growth this quarter and into 2023 as Byrna continues to benefit from growing brand awareness. We can see evidence of increased consumer awareness in our web traffic numbers. For the first nine months of 2022, Byrna registered 5.7 million web sessions on Byrna.com and another 2.3 million on Amazon.com for a total of 8.0 million web sessions. This compares to 4.2 million web sessions during the same period last year. While we are extremely pleased with our growing brand awareness and the increasing number of visitors to both Byrna.com and the Byrna store on Amazon.com, we believe that we are just scratching the surface and there is tremendous room for continued growth."
"Late this past quarter we rolled out our new Byrna pepper spray, "Byrna Bad Guy Repellent" (BGR) on Byrna.com. "Byrna Bad Guy Repellent" will be available on Amazon.com later this month. With the arrival of the dealer packaging and display stands, we have started shipping BGR to our dealers. We expect this price point product to be a strong seller for Byrna during the upcoming holiday shopping season for both DTC and brick & mortar sales."
As customary, Byrna will be issuing full quarterly results along with our 10-Q the second week of October and we will schedule our earnings call shortly.
About Byrna Technologies Inc.
Byrna is a technology company, specializing in the development, manufacture, and sale of innovative non-lethal personal security solutions. For more information on the Company, please visit the corporate website here or the Company's investor relations site here. The Company is the manufacturer of the Byrna® SD personal security device, a state-of-the-art handheld CO2 powered launcher designed to provide a non-lethal alternative to a firearm for the consumer, private security, and law enforcement markets. To purchase Byrna products, visit the Company's e-commerce store.
Forward Looking Information
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the securities laws. All statements contained in this news release, other than statements of current and historical fact, are forward-looking. Often, but not always, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "plans," "expects," "intends," "will," "anticipates," and "believes" and statements that certain actions, events or results "may," "could," "would," "should," "might," "occur," or "be achieved," or "will be taken." Forward-looking statements include descriptions of currently occurring matters which may continue in the future. Forward-looking statements in this news release include but are not limited to the Company's anticipated results for the third quarter of fiscal 2022 and full fiscal year 2022, and their associated drivers, the anticipated shipping timeline for backlogged orders, expected softening in demand for Byrna products, expectations regarding top line growth in the fourth fiscal quarter and in fiscal year 2023, the expected timing for availability of "Byrna Bad Guy Repellent" on Amazon.com, expected price points for Byrna products during the holiday shopping season and the timing of the earnings release and earnings call with respect to the third fiscal quarter of 2022. Forward-looking statements are not, and cannot be, a guarantee of future results or events. Forward-looking statements are based on, among other things, opinions, assumptions, estimates, and analyses that, while considered reasonable by the Company at the date the forward-looking information is provided, inherently are subject to significant risks, uncertainties, contingencies, and other factors that may cause actual results and events to be materially different from those expressed or implied.
Any number of risk factors could affect our actual results and cause them to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements in this news release, including, but not limited to, accounting adjustments or changes in estimates during preparation of the financial statements for fiscal year 2022, pandemic-related factors, changes in estimates of demand for our product during the remainder of fiscal year 2022, prolonged, new, or exacerbated disruption of our supply chain, strikes or other causes of interruption of postal delivery services, determinations by third party controlled distribution channels, including Amazon, not to carry or reduce inventory of our products, potential cancellations of existing or future orders including as a result of any fulfillment delays, delays in new product introductions, introduction of competing products, negative publicity, lower dealer sales, broader economic disruption that causes reduced demand for discretionary goods, product design defects or recalls, enforcement proceedings or other regulatory or legal developments, future restrictions on the Company's cash resources, or other factors. The order in which these factors appear should not be construed to indicate their relative importance or priority. We caution that these factors may not be exhaustive; accordingly, any forward-looking statements contained herein should not be relied upon as a prediction of actual results. Investors should carefully consider these and other relevant factors, including those risk factors in Part I, Item 1A, ("Risk Factors") in our most recent Form 10-K, should understand it is impossible to predict or identify all such factors or risks, should not consider the foregoing list, or the risks identified in our SEC filings, to be a complete discussion of all potential risks or uncertainties, and should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, except as required by applicable law.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A gunman who livestreamed himself driving around Memphis shooting at people, killing four and wounding three others in seemingly random attacks, was finally arrested after crashing a stolen car, police said early Thursday.
The hours-long rampage had police warning people across the city to shelter in place, locking down a baseball stadium and university campuses and suspending public bus services as frightened residents wondered where the man might strike next.
Ezekiel Kelly, 19, a violent felon who was released early from prison this year, was taken into custody at around 9 p.m. in the Memphis neighborhood of Whitehaven, police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph said.
Memphis Police Director Cerelyn “CJ" Davis said during a news conference early Thursday that four people were killed and three others were wounded in seven shootings and at least two carjackings.
The first killing was at 12:56 a.m. Wednesday, and officers responded to three more crime scenes before receiving a tip at 6:12 p.m. that the suspect was livestreaming himself threatening to cause harm to citizens, Davis said.
Police then sent out an alert warning people to be on the lookout for an armed and dangerous man responsible for multiple shootings and reportedly recording his actions on Facebook.
Three more shootings and two carjackings followed. Police said he killed a woman in Memphis as he took her grey Toyota SUV, which he left behind when he stole a man's Dodge Challenger across the state line in Southaven, Mississippi.
Kelly was arrested without incident two hours after the initial police alert when he crashed the Challenger during a high speed chase, and two guns were found in the vehicle, Davis said.
As the shooter terrorized the city, buses stopped running and the Memphis Redbirds cleared the field during their minor-league baseball game. Friends and relatives frantically called and texted each other and TV stations cut into regular coverage with updates.
Police received “numerous tips” from the public during the ordeal, Davis said.
The University of Memphis sent a message to students saying a shooting had been reported near the campus. Rhodes College, which is about 4 miles away from the university, advised students on and off campus to shelter in place.
The area where Kelly was arrested was about 11 miles from the University of Memphis and about 12 miles from Rhodes College.
“If you do not have to be out, stay indoors until this is resolved," Memphis police said on Twitter, before the arrest.
Police did not discuss a motive or release the identities of those who were killed or wounded. It was too early in the investigation to discuss how the suspect got the gun or guns used in the shootings, said Ali Roberts, acting assistant special agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Memphis.
Memphis has been shaken by several high-profile killings in recent weeks, including the shooting of a pastor during a daylight carjacking in her driveway, the shooting of an activist during an argument over money, and the slaying of a jogger abducted during her pre-dawn run.
“I understand it feels like so much violence and evil to experience in such a short time," Memphis City Council member Chase Carlisle said on Twitter. “We are SO much more than this.”
In February 2020, Kelly, then 17, was charged as an adult with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault, using a firearm to commit a dangerous felony and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon, court records show.
Records show he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced in April 2021 to three years. Kelly was released from prison in March, 11 months after he was sentenced, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said.
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The large option expiries at the parity level are arguably the key attraction for price action during the session and that seems to be holding the more or less narrow range for EUR/USD ahead of the ECB later today.
The ECB is in a rather unenviable spot as they are set to announce an aggressive 75 bps rate hike to try and put the inflation naysayers to bed. However, it comes at a cost of hurting an already spiralling economy - which looks set to enter a recession in the winter amid the impending energy crisis.
So, what are the key levels to watch ahead of the ECB decision?
In the event we do see any positive kneejerk reaction for the euro, the recent swing highs around 1.0075-90 will be ones to watch and I would expect sellers to lean on those levels to keep a lid on price action on the day.
As for downside risks, the 0.9900 handle remains the key one to watch on the daily chart.
I outlined some thoughts on the meeting here. On the balance of things, I would expect the euro to remain pinned lower against the dollar and if we do see any form of bounce for whatever reason, that will make a good sell on the rally scenario. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurusd-keeps-just-above-parity-with-the-ecb-in-focus-20220908/ | 2022-09-08T13:02:15Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurusd-keeps-just-above-parity-with-the-ecb-in-focus-20220908/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — The South Dakota Department of Criminal Investigations (DCI) is helping investigate a case involving the death of a toddler found in a vehicle.
The Attorney General’s office said authorities were called to a vehicle inside the city limits of Clark on Tuesday, September 6 around 5 p.m.
On scene, medical professionals determined that the toddler had died.
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BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ConvergeOne, a services-led provider of cloud, collaboration and digital modernization solutions, today announced the availability of C1Conversations, its Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS) powered by Google Cloud, on Google Cloud Marketplace. The announcement also includes a strategic sales partnership with Google Cloud to bring the benefits of ConvergeOne's next-generation customer and agent experience (C/AX) to enterprise clients seeking to accelerate their digital transformation while modernizing their existing contact center infrastructure.
ConvergeOne and Google Cloud will collaborate via the sales partnership to introduce C1Conversations to strategic contact center clients who are facing increasingly complex customer expectations. C1Conversations, designed and built on Google Cloud, allows customers to start orchestrating the integration of next-generation C/AX management capabilities in weeks, not months, thus leveraging years of accrued contact center knowledge. This gives clients the ability to preserve their existing infrastructure investment and upgrade it with best-in-breed solutions, whether on-premises, hybrid cloud or multi-cloud. C1Conversations can integrate leading C/AX applications and internal databases, customer relationship management (CRM), information technology service management (ITSM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, eliminating the added complexity and operational fragility found in off-the-shelf point solutions.
"C1Conversations lives on Google Cloud and leverages Google Cloud's Contact Center AI (CCAI) technology. Google technologies power C1Conversations' Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) and AI capabilities, making this a natural and powerful partnership," said Phil Yeich, Senior Director of Product Management, ConvergeOne. "The combined capabilities of both companies allow our clients to take advantage of multi-cloud capabilities in their contact center operations while improving both the customer and agent experiences in a smooth procurement environment provided by Google Cloud Marketplace. This is a value proposition we can't wait to present to our clients."
"ConvergeOne understands the dynamics of the contact center space. As a global leader in enterprise-grade technology solutions, Google Cloud delivers unmatched reliability in cloud computing services. The combination of C1Conversations and Google Cloud allows us to meet the evolving technology needs and high-level service standards faced by contact center operations," said Mark Langanki, Chief Technology Officer, ConvergeOne. "The robust ecosystem created by our two companies enables a future-proofed path to modernization without painful and expensive migrations. We bring customer and agent experience automation, agent empowerment, record containment rates and data insights to enterprise customers with legacy and on-premises contact center infrastructure today."
"As a part of their digital transformation strategies, many enterprises are seeking out contact center solutions that can integrate seamlessly with their existing cloud environment," said Dai Vu, Managing Director, Marketplace & ISV GTM Programs, Google Cloud. "By making its C1Conversations platform available on Google Cloud Marketplace, ConvergeOne is providing customers with the technologies and expertise needed to enhance contact center experiences with cloud technologies for both their customers and agents."
ConvergeOne is a proven, services-led cloud and applications solution provider that utilizes its intellectual property and unique methodologies to create value for customers and develop progressive solutions that connect people with purpose. Over 14,000 enterprise and mid-market customers trust ConvergeOne to achieve their business outcomes with cloud, collaboration, enterprise networking, data center and cyber security solutions. Our investments in cloud infrastructure and professional and managed services provide transformational opportunities for customers to achieve financial and operational benefits with leading technologies. Our 2021 NPS of 80 is a testament to our ability to provide customers with excellent customer satisfaction, responsiveness and expertise. ConvergeOne has partnerships with more than 300 global industry leaders to customize specific business outcomes. We deliver solutions with a total lifecycle approach, including strategy, design and implementation with professional, managed and support services. ConvergeOne holds more than 5,600 technical certifications across hundreds of engineers throughout North America, including three Customer Success Centers. More information is available at convergeone.com.
Part of ConvergeOne's Intellectual Property portfolio, C1Conversations is an Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS) that orchestrates the integration of next-gen applications, cloud solutions, internal databases, and systems (CRM, ITSM, ERP) for on-prem, cloud, or next-gen Contact Center Infrastructure. C1Conversations' Microservices Architecture accelerates the Digital Transformation of existing Contact Center Infrastructure – in weeks, not months – leveraging current investments & accrued knowledge without the need to "Rip & Replace." C1Conversations orchestrates the interaction of all these sources and their data to create insights while eliminating the complexity of tactical off-the-shelf solution integrations. C1Conversations de-risks future technology decisions and delivers CX innovation while creating a clear competitive advantage and brand loyalty. Learn more at www.c1conversations.com.
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Craig Chumley
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With prime apple harvest season being September and October, now is the time to stop up on these crunchy gems packed with fiber and vitamin C. Shockingly, there are more than 100 different apple varieties grown in the U.S. This fruit is also quite versatile. You have your tart, mildly sweet apples like Jonagolds, Granny Smiths or Honeycrisps to your juicy and sweet varieties like Gala, Fuji and McIntosh, plus everything in-between.
If you’re wondering how to store apples in your fridge to preserve them the longest or simply how to choose a good one, we’ve got you covered.
The Best Way To Eat Apples
When eating a fresh apple, keep the skin on. This is where the most nutrients can be found. If you discard the skin, you’ll remove most of the fiber and the flavonoids. Apples are easy to store and transport, making them a great on-the-go snack. You can eat them on their own, or with nut butter or a slice of cheese. Bake them into pies, sauté them or transform them into juice or cider.
Dehydrated apples make a delicious snack, too, especially when mixed with nuts and seeds as a trail mix. Just be aware that apples lose vitamin C when they are dried.
Be Selective When Picking
Do you consistently find yourself picking bad apples? While it’s virtually impossible to tell if an apple is going to be mealy by just looking at it, avoiding varieties that are known for this trait, such as Galas, might be the simplest. When you’re at the grocery store or farmers’ market, look for apples without any bruises or flat spots. Avoid punctures when possible because they can lead to faster decay. If you don’t see any wrinkling when you give it a gentle squeeze, it’s a keeper.
How To Store Apples From The Market
With a little prep work, apples can be stored for a surprisingly long amount of time, remaining fresh for at least one to two months, if not longer. Skip displaying them in a bowl on your countertop because they’ll only keep for about a week and instead place them in their own crisper drawer.
Apples continue to ripen after they’re harvested and emit a gas called ethylene. The fridge’s cold temperature helps slow down the production of ethylene, but some varieties will still cast a small amount. Ethylene speeds up the ripening of other produce in close proximity, which is why apples do best when stored on their own. (Hot tip: If you need to ripen a hard avocado quickly, pop it in a paper bag with an apple.)
How To Store Apples From Apple Picking
If you go apple picking and come home with a large batch, try wrapping the apples in damp paper towels and storing them in a punctured plastic bag (again, in their own crisper drawer).
Now that you know how to store apples, you can eat them any way you want, like by baking them into a bubble-up dish or creating an apple rosemary fizz cocktail. Either way, it’ll be delicious.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unscheduled visit to Kyiv on Thursday as the Biden administration announced major new military aid worth more than $2 billion for Ukraine and other European countries threatened by Russia.
In meetings with senior Ukrainian officials, Blinken said the Biden administration had notified Congress of its intent to provide $2 billion in long-term Foreign Military Financing to Ukraine and 18 of its neighbors, including NATO members and regional security partners, that are “most potentially at risk for future Russian aggression."
Pending expected congressional approval, about $1 billion of that will go to Ukraine and the rest will be divided among Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, the State Department said.
It will go to help those countries “deter and defend against emergent threats to their sovereignty and territorial integrity" by enhancing their military integration with NATO and countering “Russian influence and aggression," the department said.
“This assistance demonstrates yet again our unwavering commitment to Ukraine’s future as a democratic, sovereign, and independent state, as well as the security of allies and partners across the region,” it said.
Foreign Military Financing, or FMF, allows recipients to purchase U.S.-made defense equipment, often depending on their specific needs.
The financing comes on top of a $675 million package of heavy weaponry, ammunition and armored vehicles for Ukraine alone that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced earlier Thursday at a conference in Ramstein, Germany.
That package includes howitzers, artillery munitions, Humvees, armored ambulances, anti-tank systems and more.
Austin said that “the war is at another key moment,” with Ukrainian forces beginning their counteroffensive in the south of the country. He said that “now we’re seeing the demonstrable success of our common efforts on the battlefield.”
“The face of the war is changing and so is the mission of this contact group,” Austin told the meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, which was attended by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukraine’s defense minister as well as officials from allied countries.
Germany and the Netherlands will provide training in demining to Ukrainian soldiers as well as demining equipment, the countries’ defense ministers said on the sidelines of the meeting with Austin. The training will be carried out in Germany. The two countries previously joined forces to send howitzers to Ukraine.
Thursday's contributions bring total U.S. aid to Ukraine to $15.2 billion since Biden took office. U.S. officials said the new commitments were intended to show that American support for the country in the face of Russia's invasion is unwavering.
The announcements came as fighting between Ukraine and Russia has intensified in recent days, with Ukrainian forces mounting a counteroffensive to retake Russian-held areas in the south and east.
Shelling has continued near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, with the warring sides trading blame again amid dire warnings from the U.N. atomic watchdog for the creation of a safe zone to prevent a catastrophe. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/blinken-makes-surprise-visit-to-kyiv-unveils-2b-in-us-military-aid-for-europe | 2022-09-08T13:03:02Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/blinken-makes-surprise-visit-to-kyiv-unveils-2b-in-us-military-aid-for-europe | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Buckingham Palace announced Thursday that Queen Elizabeth II is under “medical supervision” at Balmoral Castle.
“Following further evaluation this morning, The Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement.
Buckingham Palace did not specify what was causing the concern. The Royal Family added that the Queen is “comfortable” at the residence.
Earlier this year, the 96-year-old celebrated her Platinum Jubilee but was forced to miss some of the festivities due to health concerns.
Earlier this week, she accepted the resignation of outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Later the same day, she met with new Prime Minister Liz Truss.
"The whole country will be deeply concerned by the news from Buckingham Palace this lunchtime," Truss said in a midday tweet. "My thoughts - and the thoughts of people across our United Kingdom - are with Her Majesty The Queen and her family at this time."
CNN reported that the Queen's son Prince Charles and the Queen's grandson Prince William have traveled to Balmoral.
BBC News reported that the Queen canceled a meeting Wednesday evening of the Privy Council. The outlet said she was advised to rest following a "full day" of activities on Tuesday, which included meetings with Johnson and Truss. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/doctors-concerned-as-queen-elizabeth-ii-under-medical-supervision | 2022-09-08T13:03:08Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/doctors-concerned-as-queen-elizabeth-ii-under-medical-supervision | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In-Home Care and Assisted Living Brands Join Forces to Create a First-Class Experience for Clients
HACKENSACK, N. J., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Executive Home Care, a leading in-home care provider with a wide range of service options and care programs, announced today it has acquired the Assisted Living Locators brand and franchise system. Assisted Living Locators is a Scottsdale-based franchise dedicated to helping seniors find the right living and care solutions. Backed by The Riverside Company, a private equity firm, Executive Home Care's acquisition of Assisted Living Locators expands the company's footprint in the senior care space to provide resources that create a first-class experience for clients.
"The addition of Assisted Living Locators fits seamlessly with our business philosophy and strategy of making in-home care and assisted living options readily available for anyone that may need it," said Executive Home Care CEO Tim Hadley. "Both Executive Home Care and Assisted Living Locators are passionate about helping our senior citizens continue to live their lives comfortably, freely and safely. Together, our teams are looking forward to working hand-in-hand to fulfil that."
Angela Olea, RN and Assisted Living Locators CEO, founded the company in 2006 in response to seeing aging patients have unnecessary hospital readmissions and a lack of community support. Assisted Living Locators was the nation's first senior placement franchise, and now has over 140 franchises in 36 states and the District of Columbia. Assisted Living Locators offers a nationwide network of local senior care advisors who work with families at no cost in an effort to find quality assisted and independent living, memory care, nursing homes and in-home care. The senior advisors meet with families in person to assess a client's care level and financial needs before recommending the best care and living solution. Assisted Living Locators is also the "first and only" senior placement franchisor to have system-wide dementia care certification.
"I can't wait to see the next chapter of Assisted Living Locators unfold," said Angela. "Our partnership and shared mission with Executive Home Care will set new standards of excellence for in-home care and senior placement that will benefit our seniors, families, and our franchisees. With the expertise of Executive Home Care and Riverside teams, I know that Assisted Living Locators will continue to move to new levels of customer service and quality care," she added.
"We're thrilled to begin collaborating with such a talented and forward-thinking group," said Hadley. "Both brands are philosophically aligned in our vision to provide peace of mind and increase the well-being of our clients and those closest to them."
As the nation's leading in-home care provider, Executive Home Care offers a wide range of service options and care programs with the goal of improving the quality of life and establishing peace of mind for both clients and their families. The brand recognizes individuals are much more comfortable living in their own homes, amidst their personal treasures and familiar surroundings, and it is their mission to enhance the well-being of those in need with a commitment to service excellence. For more information, please visit www.executivehomecare.com.
Assisted Living Locators offers a no cost, nationwide senior care placement and referral service for in-home companion care, independent retirement options, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing facilities. The company is one of the nation's largest senior placement and referral service with over 140 franchises in 36 states and the District of Columbia. Assisted Living Locators is ranked in Entrepreneur's 2021 Franchise 500® issue. The company also was named to the Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. To learn more, visit: www.assistedlivinglocators.com.
Contact: Grant Hennessy, Franchise Elevator PR, 630-453-8187, ghennessy@franchiseelevator.com
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DALLAS, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NexPoint, a multibillion-dollar alternative investment firm, announced today that the NexPoint Merger Arbitrage Fund (the "Fund") was recognized on the shortlist for the HFM U.S. Performance Awards 2022.
The Fund was shortlisted in three categories:
- Event-Driven Over $1bn, where the Fund was one of seven funds shortlisted;
- Merger Arbitrage, where the Fund was one of seven funds shortlisted; and
- 40 Act Fund, where the Fund was one of eight funds shortlisted.
The full list is available on the HFM Awards website: HFM U.S. Performance Awards 2022 Shortlist
At last year's awards, the Fund was shortlisted in the Event-Driven Under $1bn and Merger Arbitrage categories.
Now in the 16th year, the HFM U.S. Performance Awards recognize U.S. fund performance. Covering a range of fund strategies—from credit and equity to macro and managed futures.
The HFM U.S. Performance Awards 2022 categories were developed in consultation with the industry to ensure they were representative of the broad and fast-moving nature of the hedge fund sector. Eligible funds had to satisfy criteria such as base of operation in North America, monthly data submitted for their USD share class, submission of assets under management, and performance track record. The judging criteria was carefully considered and structured to result in funds across various strategies being recognized and rewarded for their high achievements.
This year's HFM U.S. Performance Awards will take place on October 18 in New York. Winners of each category will be announced at the awards ceremony.
NexPoint is a multibillion-dollar alternative investment firm comprised of a group of investment advisers and sponsors, a broker-dealer, and a suite of related investment vehicles. NexPoint provides differentiated access to alternatives through a range of investment solutions, including public and private real estate investment trusts, tax-advantaged real estate vehicles, merger arbitrage and event driven strategies, other private real estate investments, closed-end funds, interval funds, and a business development company. NexPoint is based in Dallas, Texas and is part of a network of affiliates with expertise across the asset management and financial services spaces. For more information visit nexpoint.com.
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Here are the ECB staff forecasts for inflation:
- 2022 8.1% vs 6.8% prior
- 2023 5.5% vs 3.5% prior
- 2024 2.3% vs 2.1% prior
GDP
- 2022 3.1% vs 2.8% prior
- 2023 0.9% vs 2.1% prior
- 2024 1.9% vs 2.1% prior
It's notable that inflation returns close to target in 2024 but what that doesn't say is how high rates will need to be to get there. The forecast clearly incorporates more rate hikes, which the ECB is forecasting "over the next several meetings."
In that context, next year's growth is seen at +0.9%, which is certainly better than the negative number I'm penciling in. That said, there are signs that governments are willing to spend more to cushion the energy blow.
I think the big question coming out of this statement -- which is hawkish -- is whether higher rates will not only crush inflation but also send the eurozone into a deep recession that's laden with more government debt. | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/ecb-forecasts-paint-a-tough-picture-on-inflation-but-a-relatively-rosy-one-on-growth-20220908/ | 2022-09-08T13:06:25Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/ecb-forecasts-paint-a-tough-picture-on-inflation-but-a-relatively-rosy-one-on-growth-20220908/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- Prior decision
- Main refinancing rate 1.25% vs 1.25% expected
- Prior 0.75%
- Deposit facility rate 0.75% vs 0.50% expected
- Prior 0.00%
- Marginal lending facility 1.50%
- Prior 0.75%
- This frontloads the transition from accommodative policy towards levels that will ensure the timely return of 2% inflation target
- Expects to raise interest rates further to dampen demand
- Will regularly re-evaluate its policy path in light of incoming information and the evolving inflation outlook
- Inflation
Inflation
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Read this Term remains far too high and is likely to stay above target for an extended period
- ECB will continue applying flexibility in reinvesting redemptions coming due in PEPP portfolio
- Following the raising of the deposit facility rate to above zero, the two-tier system for the remuneration of excess reserves is no longer necessary
- Full statement
The ECB pretty much delivers on expectations here as they reaffirm that inflation will remain high and above target for an extended period of time. The statement also reaffirms their commitment to raise rates further to try and bring inflation under control, despite the fact that their window to tighten is surely and slowly closing in.
The 75 bps fits with what markets have priced in, so I don't see much in the decision and statement to get markets too excited about anything. As mentioned earlier here, the euro is likely to continue to struggle on the balance of things. EUR/USD spiked a little on the decision to 1.0029 but is now down to 0.9997 on the day. Over to Lagarde now..
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Academic entrepreneurs from Scots universities to compete for £300,000 prize pot
Academic entrepreneurs from a dozen Scottish institutions have reached the final of the latest Converge competition and will compete for a £300,000-plus prize pot.
Scotland’s largest company creation programme for the university sector has unveiled the 28 finalists who will compete for equity-free funding and start-up support at an awards ceremony in Edinburgh in early November.
The fledgling businesses have been whittled down from more than 200 initial entries for the Converge 2022 competition. Finalists come from universities across the length and breadth of Scotland with projects spanning a diverse range of sectors from tech, robotics and sensors, through to the chemical industry, health care and engineering.
The finalists are competing for individual equity-free cash awards of up to £50,000, and in-kind business support from a network of professional partners which includes some of the country’s top investors, lawyers and business experts.
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In the early-stage, KickStart Challenge category is Roma Gibb, a nursing student from the University of the Highlands and Islands. Her project, Person Centred Solutions, aims to help people who are bed bound and struggle with everyday tasks to sit comfortably and with greater freedom.
Projects from the Converge Challenge, a category focused on novel solutions with “solid” intellectual property (IP) and high commercial potential, include Danu Robotics, headed up by Xiaoyan Ma from the University of Edinburgh, which uses artificial intelligence to tackle the global issue of contamination in recycling.
The six finalists in the Challenge category will also be invited to pitch their ideas live at an exclusive investors-only event at Scotland House in London next month.
Organised in collaboration with Scottish Development International and featuring an address from Scottish business minister Ivan McKee, the event will enable UK-wide investors to see the very best innovation and entrepreneurship emerging from Scotland’s universities.
Claudia Cavalluzzo, executive director at Converge, said: “Scotland’s world-class universities continue to be brilliant hotbeds of innovation and creativity, as exemplified by this year’s Converge finalist cohort.
“The judges who reviewed this year’s cohort’s business plans believe that these emerging entrepreneurs are leading projects with real market potential and the power to strengthen our economy while creating a fairer future for all.”
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Aching feet a price worth paying as Summers-Inman staff raise cash for dying children
Staff from Summers-Inman’s Edinburgh office took to the hills to raise money for Children's Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS).
The team donned their hiking boots to walk the West Kip, East Kip and Scald Law routes of the Pentlands, raising £2600 in the process for their designated charity.
The route covered nine miles and Aynsley Cheatley, regional managing director (Scotland) said: “We are very grateful to everyone who supported us. It was great effort from everybody in the office who took part and we all managed to keep each other motivated during the ascent when the weather worsened.
“We are delighted to raise so much money for such a valuable cause. The aches and pains were all worth it!”
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Rachael McDonald, Corporate Partnerships Executive for CHAS said “What an incredible effort! This money will make such a difference to hundreds of families and children across Scotland that we support – thank you!”
CHAS has been Summers-Inman’s designated charity since 2018 and they have raised several thousands of pounds through a number of events over the past four years.
CHAS offer a full family support service for babies, children and young people with life-shortening conditions.
This includes palliative care, family respite and support - through their hospices, homecare services and hospital presence.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Color Star Technology Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: CSCW) ("Color Star" or the "Company"), an entertainment technology company with a global network that focuses on the application of technology and artificial intelligence in the entertainment industry, announces today that its metaverse software [Color World_Metaverse] ("Color World") will be launching a new ticketing feature for the sales of business, travel, hotel, and transportation tickets. This booking system will be available to users worldwide. It is reported that Mind of World Air Ticketing Services in Jilin Province ("Mind of World") is the first comprehensive ticketing company to join the Color World. During the period leading up to this announcement, the team at Color Star has built a metaverse headquarter for Mind of World. Once the headquarter is available on the platform, users from all over the world will be able to purchase air tickets and hotel booking tickets directly in the [Color World_Metaverse] app.
The subject of this newly established cooperation is very important to both Color Star and Mind of World, so much so that the team at Color Star has spent a lot of manpower and resources to design and build the virtual ticketing hall, and has precisely divided the upcoming assets and content to fit into the metaverse map. Color Star hopes to present a unique digital ticketing center for users worldwide, which will hopefully revolutionize people's idea of the traditional online ticketing experience. The potential of artificial intelligence can be realized through the metaverse; it can help level-up the user experience by allowing a fast and easy reservation process, thus making artificial intelligence one of the most notable features of the metaverse. Moreover, as a leader in the industry, Mind of World is also willing to work together with Color Star to venture into and develop new technologies. In regards to the upcoming content, the team has worked hard to create an extravagant ticketing hall for Color World users to conveniently and quickly book their holidays.
[Color World_Metaverse] has now attracted many leading international enterprises to join the platform, and each has had a tailor-made metaverse headquarter created for them. This has become the biggest feature and highlight of Color World. At the same time, the team at Color Star has been actively working on expanding and improving the features of the software. They are also working on allowing the combination of physical and digital products to be sold by vendors in the metaverse. Users can choose from a variety of different entertainment experiences after logging in, all of which will be receiving huge updates to meet user expectations. [Color World_Metaverse] is already available on all major app stores. Download now by searching for Color World_Metaverse.
About Color Star Technology Co., Ltd.
Color Star Technology Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: CSCW) is an entertainment and education company that provides online entertainment performances and online music education services. Its business operations are conducted through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Color China Entertainment Ltd. and CACM Group NY, Inc. The Company's online education is provided through its Color World music and entertainment education platform. More information about the Company can be found at www.colorstarinternational.com.
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'Drunken Scots', 'take your rubbish with you' - How Rangers' 4-0 defeat to Ajax was reported by Dutch press
Rangers desperate performance in their Champions League group stage opener against Ajax has been heavily criticised by the Dutch press.
Just two weeks after claiming a famous 1-0 over PSV Eindhoven to qualify for the group stages for the first time in 12 years, the Ibrox side were subjected to an Amsterdam annihilation on their return to the Netherlands.
Conceding three before half-time, and another after the break, Giovanni van Bronckhorst's side lost four goals in successive matches for the first time since 1982 following a similar rout at Celtic Park on Saturday.
In their match report De Volkskrant compared Rangers performance to the standard of the side currently sitting 12th in the Eredivisie.
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"The team of Giovanni van Bronckhorst looked Scottish and skewed as the ball kept making a detour past legs that had no chance of being extended," they wrote. "There was just too much happening for Rangers, too fast, in too small a space.
"PSV was anxious. Ajax pretended there was no opponent at all, as if Rangers were just a team from the Eredivisie. A kind of FC Groningen, but dressed in blue. "
De Telegraaf branded Rangers "drunken Scots", as they wrote: "After a short scanning phase, the team from Amsterdam set off in the atmospheric Johan Cruijff ArenA.
"The opening goal of Edson Alvarez, who headed in after seventeen minutes from a corner from Steven Berghuis, was the signal for a gala performance.
"In it, the drunken Scots were lucky that it was 'only' 3-0 at half time."
Meanwhile, Algemeen Dagblad commented on the fact that Ajax fans aimed a chant directly at Rangers boss and fellow countryman Van Bronckhorst.
"'Gio, take your rubbish with you', the supporters of Ajax sang in the final phase of the one-sided duel," they wrote.
Rangers defending was also criticised with the first goal attributed to an error by James Sands.
"The corner from which Álvarez (released entirely by James Sands) scored was introduced by Kudus. An agile, false striker, the Ghanaian took the static central duo of the Scottish Europa League finalist, who had clearly not recovered from the ear washing by arch-rival Celtic (4-0), from his comfort zone. Or not, because Sands and Connor Goldson remained standing, allowing the wandering Kudus to create surplus situations and solutions for Ajax everywhere."
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Ex-Rangers duo respond to claim Giovanni van Bronckhorst 'in trouble' if he fails to beat Aberdeen
The position of Rangers manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst is under scrutiny after back-to-back 4-0 defeats to Celtic and Ajax.
Having qualified for the Champions League group stages with a momentous play-off win over PSV Eindhoven, on the back of a historic run to the Europa League final last season, it appeared the Dutchman's stock was high.
However, those achievements are being quickly forgetten following two heavy and damaging defeats that have left Rangers five points adrift in the early stages of the title race, and embarrassed in Europe.
The manner of the losses have been most alarming, and left BBC Sport journalist Tom English to suggest that van Bronckhorst will be "in trouble" if he fails to beat Aberdeen at Pittodrie on Saturday.
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Responding to the claim on Sportsound, former Rangers striker Mark Hateley said: "That's a big question at this stage of the season, especially when you're saying the board don't have money to spend. Can they afford to sack him? That's the next question. Or do they just let this play out?"
Another former Ibrox striker, Steven Thompson, now a sports presenter with the BBC, believes it would be "premature" to call time on Van Bronckhorst's reign so early into the season.
"You've got to take things into perspective. The performance on Saturday was extraordinarily disappointing from Rangers, being blown away by their biggest rivals. But we saw that last season as well in the game at Parkhead.
"Do you feel as though Rangers should be competing toe-to-toe with Ajax - one of the biggest clubs in European football with the history they have - in their first time back in the Champions League after a long time out?
"It's a wake up call is what it is. On the back of their success in Europe last season and winning the Scottish Cup, alright the league was a disappontment, but it would be a wee bit premature in my book [to sack the manager]."
Thompson believes the scrutiny should be focused on the recruitment department at Rangers, led by sporting director Ross Wilson, after a summer window that appears to have left the squad light in quality in certain areas.
"The biggest thing you've got to look back to is the recruitment," he said. "What surprised me is when van Bronckhorst said himself he was happy with the squad he has moving forward. He's not had a pop at any stage for not getting more players in.
"But when you look at recruitment, you've got [Ridvan] Yilmaz sitting on the bench when he was brought in for nights like this, but clearly there is something there they don't fancy.
"You could pick apart various areas within the Rangers squad and say, this should have been addressed. I definitely feel as though there should be another striker at the club. There are big question marks over recruitment for this Rangers squad."
Hateley agreed, adding: "This is a weaker squad now than last season but it's expected to compete in the Champions League.
"The question from the supporters will be, why haven't we invested from a place of strength?
"Why haven't we kept [Calvin] Bassey and [Joe] Aribo and built on that? If they had a bit more investment in the summer they could have held onto two really top players and built on that."
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CYPHER's MATRIX for Business Platform Receives Top Score and Ranks 'Best for Ease of Use'
PLANO, Texas, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CYPHER LEARNING, a leading provider of intelligent learning platforms for schools, universities and organizations around the world, today announced it has been named to the "Best Learning Management Systems of 2022" list by Forbes Advisor. CYPHER's MATRIX for Business platform was the top-ranked solution in the list, as well as rated "best for ease of use."
Forbes Advisor — part of the Forbes Media LLC brand — is dedicated to "smart financial decisions made simple." Its "Best of" awards help businesses and individuals find the right products at the right price. Forbes Advisor's independent and objective editorial team uses a strict methodology to determine the rankings, with content informed by in-depth research, independent data gathering, analysis and expert insights.
As companies today, in an ever-evolving business landscape, seek to equip their workforce with the right skills for the job, a learning management system (LMS) enables them to build, manage and deliver consistent online training. Forbes Advisor notes that LMSs are "used in corporate settings to deliver online courses and track employee progress… [and] can also be used in other ways, such as to provide compliance training or customer education."
To determine the best LMSs, Forbes Advisor considered factors including ease of use, features, customer support, pricing, scalability, reputation and real-world customer experiences — weighting each category based on importance to users. Among the LMSs evaluated, MATRIX received the top score: 4.5, on a five-point scale.
A complete solution for training, upskilling and onboarding companies' employees, clients and partners, MATRIX offers powerful, easy-to-use features that drive engagement and make learning stick. Recent cutting-edge skills development capabilities enable learners to set goals, get personalized recommendations, track progress and competencies, and more.
Forbes Advisor shared why it picked MATRIX: "MATRIX LMS has an intuitive UX [user experience], requiring little-to-no technical knowledge to create courses. Users can establish goals, and AI will help them choose a learning path that matches their goals. Its e-commerce tools make it easy to sell online courses, and the mobile app allows students to learn anywhere they're at. It also includes features such as web conferencing, automation, content authoring and gamification."
This recognition from Forbes Advisor comes on the heels of other honors for CYPHER this year. For example, MATRIX was also named to the 2022 SaaS Awards Shortlist ("Best SaaS Product for Learning Management or Training" category) and recognized by eLearning Industry as among the "Top Social and Collaborative Learning Platforms (2022)" and "Top LMS Training Software With Learning Analytics Tools (2022)." In addition, the company's NEO platform for educational institutions was honored as the "Best K-12 Remote Learning Partner" in the 2022 SIIA CODiE Awards.
"The ways that businesses communicate, collaborate and share knowledge have changed a lot over the past few years," said CYPHER LEARNING CEO Graham Glass. "Whether you're looking to train a remote, hybrid or in-person workforce — or deliver customer or partner training — we provide flexible and intuitive tools to get the job done well. This recognition from Forbes Advisor underscores CYPHER LEARNING's commitment to excellence in training, as well as the outstanding real-world results our customers around the world achieve."
For more information about how organizations use MATRIX to drive successful learning and business outcomes, please visit https://www.cypherlearning.com/customers/matrix/.
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CYPHER LEARNING provides an intelligent learning platform that is empowering schools, businesses, and entrepreneurs worldwide to reimagine online education and deliver the best learning experiences. CYPHER LEARNING has solutions for all major e-learning sectors: NEO LMS for K-20, MATRIX LMS for Business, and INDIE LMS for Entrepreneurs. Relied on by millions of users at more than 20,000 organizations, CYPHER LEARNING supports 40+ languages and has offices worldwide with global headquarters in Plano, TX. For more information, please visit www.cypherlearning.com.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dynetics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leidos, announced the successful launch and checkout of the Lonestar tactical space support vehicle for the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC). Lonestar, a technology demonstrator designed to provide space-based situational awareness directly into the hands of the tactical warfighter, lifted off from Mojave Air and Space Port as a payload aboard Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne two-stage orbital air-launch vehicle in summer 2022.
"The successful contact of our satellite in orbit is a substantial milestone for our team and the years of work supporting critical national security missions in space," said Leidos Dynetics Group President Steve Cook. "This will enable further development for our growing satellite capabilities and accelerate our customer's national security mission in space."
Dynetics completed the on-orbit satellite and payload checkouts with the USASMDC payload development laboratory on the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The laboratory provides ground systems for command and telemetry to the satellite. The payload is operational and ready to support the situational awareness mission for the warfighter.
Dynetics developed, tested, integrated and delivered the tactical space support vehicle (TSSV) through the Design, Development, Demonstration and Integration (D3I), Domain 1 task order for $9 million including a one-year on-orbit demonstration. The company's expertise in space systems and high-performance signal processing applications enabled a rapid development. Using hardware-in-the-loop testing and simulation, the Lonestar team verified the payload mission software through a series of tests that ensured functional operation of the payload flight hardware. Work on this program took place at both Redstone Arsenal and the Dynetics campus in Huntsville.
Certain statements in this announcement constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These statements are based on management's current beliefs and expectations and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. These statements are not guarantees of future results or occurrences. A number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements, or industry results to be different from the results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the "Risk Factors" set forth in Leidos' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, and other such filings that Leidos makes with the SEC from time to time. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Leidos does not undertake to update forward-looking statements to reflect the impact of circumstances or events that arise after the date the forward-looking statements were made.
Dynetics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, provides responsive, cost-effective engineering, scientific, IT solutions to national security, cybersecurity, space and critical infrastructure sectors. Our portfolio features highly specialized technical services and a range of software and hardware products, including components, subsystems and complex end-to-end systems. The company of more than 3,000 employees is based in Huntsville, Alabama, and has offices throughout the U.S. For more information, visit www.dynetics.com.
Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company's 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $13.7 billion for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021. For more information, visit www.leidos.com.
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Earlier this week, Erin Moriarty spoke out about misogynistic and hateful messages she recevied regarding her role on The Boys. Now, series creator Eric Kripke has stepped to defend his star. In a tweet referencing Variety’s story about Moriarty, Kripke told the “trolls” that they’re “causing real pain to people with real feelings.” Kripke continued and tweeted, “If you can’t be kind, then eat a bag of d****, f*** off to the sun & don’t watch #TheBoys, we don’t want you.” defends Erin Moriarty
Hi trolls! One, this is literally the opposite of the show’s fucking message. Two, you’re causing pain to real people with real feelings. Be kind. If you can’t be kind, then eat a bag of dicks, fuck off to the sun & don’t watch #TheBoys, we don’t want you. #TheBoysTV https://t.co/ZQmRlljyS6
— Eric Kripke (@therealKripke) September 7, 2022
Yesterday, Moriarty, who plays Starlight, reposted an article from Anna, also known as @butcherscanary on Instagram, about the betrayal committed by fans toward the actress. The article used the hashtag “#IStandWithStarlight” to show support for Moriarty. In her Instagram post, Moriarty said, “I do feel silenced. I do feel dehumanized. I do feel paralyzed.” Moriarty also wrote, “This does break my heart – I’ve opened up a vein for this role and the misogynistic trolling is exactly what this role (Annie) would speak out against.”
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One of Moriarty’s costars, Antony Starr, quickly supported Kripke’s tweet in defense of Moriarty. Replying to Kripke’s tweet, Starr, who plays Homelander in The Boys, tweeted, “Amen to that, sir. Be kind people. It’s easy.” Additionally, Starr retweeted Anna’s article about how misogyny in fandom culture is being normalized and how it can’t be neglected.
While season 3 concluded this past July, season 4 is currently in production. It will not premiere until 2023 at the earliest. All episodes of The Boys are available on Amazon Prime Video.
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In-Home Care and Assisted Living Brands Join Forces to Create a First-Class Experience for Clients
HACKENSACK, N. J., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Executive Home Care, a leading in-home care provider with a wide range of service options and care programs, announced today it has acquired the Assisted Living Locators brand and franchise system. Assisted Living Locators is a Scottsdale-based franchise dedicated to helping seniors find the right living and care solutions. Backed by The Riverside Company, a private equity firm, Executive Home Care's acquisition of Assisted Living Locators expands the company's footprint in the senior care space to provide resources that create a first-class experience for clients.
"The addition of Assisted Living Locators fits seamlessly with our business philosophy and strategy of making in-home care and assisted living options readily available for anyone that may need it," said Executive Home Care CEO Tim Hadley. "Both Executive Home Care and Assisted Living Locators are passionate about helping our senior citizens continue to live their lives comfortably, freely and safely. Together, our teams are looking forward to working hand-in-hand to fulfil that."
Angela Olea, RN and Assisted Living Locators CEO, founded the company in 2006 in response to seeing aging patients have unnecessary hospital readmissions and a lack of community support. Assisted Living Locators was the nation's first senior placement franchise, and now has over 140 franchises in 36 states and the District of Columbia. Assisted Living Locators offers a nationwide network of local senior care advisors who work with families at no cost in an effort to find quality assisted and independent living, memory care, nursing homes and in-home care. The senior advisors meet with families in person to assess a client's care level and financial needs before recommending the best care and living solution. Assisted Living Locators is also the "first and only" senior placement franchisor to have system-wide dementia care certification.
"I can't wait to see the next chapter of Assisted Living Locators unfold," said Angela. "Our partnership and shared mission with Executive Home Care will set new standards of excellence for in-home care and senior placement that will benefit our seniors, families, and our franchisees. With the expertise of Executive Home Care and Riverside teams, I know that Assisted Living Locators will continue to move to new levels of customer service and quality care," she added.
"We're thrilled to begin collaborating with such a talented and forward-thinking group," said Hadley. "Both brands are philosophically aligned in our vision to provide peace of mind and increase the well-being of our clients and those closest to them."
As the nation's leading in-home care provider, Executive Home Care offers a wide range of service options and care programs with the goal of improving the quality of life and establishing peace of mind for both clients and their families. The brand recognizes individuals are much more comfortable living in their own homes, amidst their personal treasures and familiar surroundings, and it is their mission to enhance the well-being of those in need with a commitment to service excellence. For more information, please visit www.executivehomecare.com.
Assisted Living Locators offers a no cost, nationwide senior care placement and referral service for in-home companion care, independent retirement options, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing facilities. The company is one of the nation's largest senior placement and referral service with over 140 franchises in 36 states and the District of Columbia. Assisted Living Locators is ranked in Entrepreneur's 2021 Franchise 500® issue. The company also was named to the Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. To learn more, visit: www.assistedlivinglocators.com.
Contact: Grant Hennessy, Franchise Elevator PR, 630-453-8187, ghennessy@franchiseelevator.com
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DETROIT (AP) — Jeep will start selling two fully electric SUVs in North America and another one in Europe over the next two years.
The new EVs, Jeep’s first, are part of the Stellantis brand’s plans to convert half of its U.S. sales and all of its European sales to battery-electric vehicles by 2030. They’re the first for the brand, and executives are promising that they’ll be fully capable of off-road travel.
The new vehicles include the Jeep Recon, a four-wheel-drive midsize SUV about the size of the Jeep Wrangler and rival Ford’s gas-powered Bronco Sport. It will be produced at an undisclosed North American factory starting in 2024. No range, performance figures or prices were released.
Jeep also will start making an all-electric Wagoneer S midsize luxury SUV in 2024 that also can go off road. The electric extension of the Wagoneer sub-brand is expected to go 400 miles (650 kilometers) on a single charge, have 600 horsepower, and be able to travel from zero to 60 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) in about 3.5 seconds.
The Wagoneer S also will be built in North America at a yet-to-be disclosed factory. No prices were released on this SUV either.
Heading for Europe next year will be the Jeep Avenger compact SUV, the brand’s first fully electric vehicle. Jeep says the small Avenger, with 250 miles (400 kilometers) of range per charge, won’t be coming to the U.S. It’s better suited for Europe, where there’s a strong market for smaller vehicles, executives said.
The Avenger will be officially unveiled Oct. 17 at the Paris Motor Show. It will arrive in showrooms early next year.
Jeep also plans to introduce four all-electric SUVs in North America and Europe by the end of 2025, the executives said.
The Recon, though, will not replace the Jeep Wrangler small SUV, said Christian Meunier, the brand CEO. “The Wrangler is the icon,” he said, without saying there would be an electric Wrangler.
Jeep, he said, is on a path to become the leading zero-emission SUV brand across the globe. The company has a goal of selling the SUVs in China, executives said. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/jeep-unveils-1st-electric-suvs-for-north-america-and-europe/ | 2022-09-08T13:10:47Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/jeep-unveils-1st-electric-suvs-for-north-america-and-europe/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 38 |
DETROIT (AP) — Jeep will start selling two fully electric SUVs in North America and another one in Europe over the next two years.
The new EVs, Jeep’s first, are part of the Stellantis brand’s plans to convert half of its U.S. sales and all of its European sales to battery-electric vehicles by 2030. They’re the first for the brand, and executives are promising that they’ll be fully capable of off-road travel.
The new vehicles include the Jeep Recon, a four-wheel-drive midsize SUV about the size of the Jeep Wrangler and rival Ford’s gas-powered Bronco Sport. It will be produced at an undisclosed North American factory starting in 2024. No range, performance figures or prices were released.
Jeep also will start making an all-electric Wagoneer S midsize luxury SUV in 2024 that also can go off road. The electric extension of the Wagoneer sub-brand is expected to go 400 miles (650 kilometers) on a single charge, have 600 horsepower, and be able to travel from zero to 60 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) in about 3.5 seconds.
The Wagoneer S also will be built in North America at a yet-to-be disclosed factory. No prices were released on this SUV either.
Heading for Europe next year will be the Jeep Avenger compact SUV, the brand’s first fully electric vehicle. Jeep says the small Avenger, with 250 miles (400 kilometers) of range per charge, won’t be coming to the U.S. It’s better suited for Europe, where there’s a strong market for smaller vehicles, executives said.
The Avenger will be officially unveiled Oct. 17 at the Paris Motor Show. It will arrive in showrooms early next year.
Jeep also plans to introduce four all-electric SUVs in North America and Europe by the end of 2025, the executives said.
The Recon, though, will not replace the Jeep Wrangler small SUV, said Christian Meunier, the brand CEO. “The Wrangler is the icon,” he said, without saying there would be an electric Wrangler.
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How Inter‑State River Disputes Undermine Our Relationship With Water as a Shared Resource
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday presided over two separate inter-state river disputes, asking the union to intervene to find amicable solutions to neighboring states’ water conflicts, reported LiveLaw. It noted in one of the judgments that “Water is a natural resource and living beings must learn to share it, whether it is individual(s) or states. The matter cannot be looked at from the point of view of only one state.”
The Indian terrain is riddled with both inter-state as well as international river-water disputes. In 1956, the Indian Government brought into force the Inter-state River Water Disputes Act to resolve disputes arising from sharing river waters between different states. Internationally, India has signed the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan and the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty with Bangladesh to address disputes arising from utilizing the water of these transnational rivers. But what the treaties have in common is the fact that they all territorialize water — which has troubling implications.
The act and the treaties identify the many ways in which disputes may occur between upstream and downstream locations. A downstream state building a dam, for instance, may cause floods and draughts in the upstream state, and vice versa. Other reasons behind disputes may be an upstream state’s various agricultural or industrial activities that rely on using up the water from the river or diverting its natural course, all of which could hinder the water supply necessary for the downstream state’s nourishment and development. The act and the treaties are, however, framed from a development point of view, where the state’s sovereignty is the chief stakeholder. This undermines the value of the river as a shared commons.
Cultural or natural resources that are available to all members of a society, in environmental parlance, are called the commons. These resources are meant for equitable access and are to be respected, not claimed for the use or benefit of just one individual or organization. Since these resources are shared between all members of a society, it becomes the shared responsibility of each member to also protect these them from destruction.
Environmental activists and indigenous communities argue that community forests, rivers and wetlands, and pastoral land and grasslands, must qualify as commons universally, to not only protect them from destruction in the name of development but also to protect the lives and cultures of the people who reside around them. Historically, areas have been designated as commons to stop further depletion of resources and livelihoods from those areas. But when state governments draw borders on waterbodies like rivers, they compromise the value of the commons and even perpetuate unequal access to them.
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In India, the river has always been an integral part of a state’s industrial ambitions. Large dams that came up in the period following Independence were celebrated as temples of modern India‘s development story. 75 years after Independence, the state continues to approve and endorse new mega-dam projects, emphasizing that they are necessary to meet a burgeoning population’s increasing consumption and energy needs. States that are keen on building dams may also divert water from the river’s natural pathway to take care of consumption and irrigation needs, and thus affect the river’s water quality by engaging in deforestation around the river.
These development projects by the center and the states ignore the massive deaths and displacements caused, largely to indigenous communities that build their culture around these rivers and other commons. Adivasis, who have traditionally lived with nature and derived their culture and way of life from a holistic interaction with forests and rivers, are uprooted by government agencies, at times with a promise of rehabilitation, and at times without any compensation. When commons are enclosed as territory, the people who share a deep relationship with them are pushed into precarity too.
Isha Tyagi notes in her report on the displacement brought along by the Sardar Sarovar Dam over the Narmada river in Gujarat, Tadvis — the Adivasi community that historically lived near the river — were turned encroachers in their own land by government’s land acquisition policies. Tyagi quotes Kannubhai Tadvi, one of the protestors against this move, as saying, “We rely on jal, jungle and zameen (water, forest and land) for our livelihood. Our close association with the forest is a critical part of our life.” The situation in Narmada particularly depicts how the state’s interpretation of the river as a tool of industrial development denies those who have built their very lives around it access to it. Relying on the river as a national resource with territorial bounds, then, is in direct contradiction to its availability as a common resource.
The problems become even more complex, with the question of displacement and livelihood carrying an interstate characteristic. In the dispute over the waters of river Cauvery, for instance, upstream Karnataka for its “rightful” share of water from downstream Tamil Nadu, which receives a bulk of the river’s flow. However, Tamil Nadu maintains that to do so, it would have to redraw its land use pattern, a step that will cause millions of farmers to lose their livelihood. In another context, in the northeast, where three mega dam projects are underway in upstream Arunachal Pradesh, there are protests of dual nature. While environmentalists and activists in Arunachal Pradesh are worried about the ecological loss and displacement that the projects will cause, in Assam activists and farmer unions are worried about the dams aggravating the flood situation in the low-lying state.
Beyond the displacement and the loss of livelihoods due to development projects, there also lies the problem of river pollution itself. Indiscriminate development has caused chemical alterations to the river’s waters, killing aquatic life and rendering it unsuitable for human use. Environmental activist Maude Barlow, a key figure in the global fight for the right to water, notes that “in the global South, dirty water kills a child every three and a half seconds.” Loss of life and culture over the loss of access to water, thus are intrinsically linked. A single-minded, industrial approach that centers ownership and development to address the question of distribution, will only cause further problems for people in most need of rivers.
In such a situation, Barlow argues, it is important for a radical shift to occur, where countries and populations rethink their relationship with water and water resources. Identifying water resources, including rivers, as protected commons would be the first step. | https://theswaddle.com/how-inter-state-river-disputes-undermine-our-relationship-with-water-as-a-shared-resource/ | 2022-09-08T13:10:47Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/how-inter-state-river-disputes-undermine-our-relationship-with-water-as-a-shared-resource/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ROSTHERN, Saskatchewan (AP) — The last suspect in a horrific stabbing spree that killed 10 and wounded 18 in western Canada is dead following his capture, and police hope the stunning end to a gripping hunt that stretched into a fourth day will bring some peace to victims’ families.
One official said Myles Sanderson, 32, died from self-inflicted injuries Wednesday after police forced the stolen car he was driving off a highway in Saskatchewan. Other officials declined to discuss how he died, but expressed relief the final suspected killer was no longer on the loose.
“This evening our province is breathing a collective sigh of relief,” Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore, commander of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Saskatchewan, said at a news conference Wednesday night.
The other suspect, Sanderson’s 30-year-old brother, Damien Sanderson, was found dead Monday near the scene of the bloody knife attacks inside and around the James Smith Cree First Nation reserve early Sunday. Both men were residents of the Indigenous reserve.
Blackmore said Myles Sanderson was cornered as police units responded to a report of a stolen vehicle being driven by a man armed with a knife. She said officers forced Sanderson’s vehicle off the road and into a ditch. He was detained and a knife was found inside the vehicle, she said.
Sanderson went into medical distress while in custody, Blackmore said. She said CPR was attempted on him before an ambulance arrived, and emergency medical personnel then took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
“All life saving measures that we are capable of were taken at that time,” she said.
Blackmore gave no details on the cause of death. “I can’t speak to the specific manner of death,” she said.
But an official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, earlier said Sanderson died of self-inflicted injuries, without giving any further details.
Video and photos from the scene showed a white SUV off to the side of the road with police cars all around. Air bags had deployed in the SUV. Some photos and video taken from a distance appeared to show Sanderson being frisked.
An independent investigation by members of Saskatchewan’s Serious Incident Response Team went to the arrest site and will review Sanderson’s death and police conduct.
The federal public safety minister, Marco Mendicino, also stressed that the events will be investigated.
“You have questions. We have questions,” he told reporters during a Cabinet retreat in Vancouver, British Columbia, adding: “There will be two levels of police who will be investigating the circumstances of Myles Sanderson’s death.”
His death came two days after the body of Damien Sanderson was found in a field near the scene of the knife rampage. Police are investigating whether Myles Sanderson killed his brother.
Blackmore said that with both men dead, authorities will find it hard to figure out what set off the rampage.
“Now that Myles is deceased we may never have an understanding of that motivation,” she said.
But she said she hoped the families of the stabbing victims will find some comfort that neither of the Sandersons remains a threat.
“I hope that this brings them closure. I hope they can rest easy knowing that Myles Sanderson is no longer a threat to them.”
Some family members of the victims arrived at the scene Wednesday, including Brian Burns, whose wife and son were killed..
“Now we can start to heal. The healing begins today, now,” he said.
The stabbings raised questions of why Myles Sanderson — an ex-con with 59 convictions and a long history of shocking violence — was out on the streets in the first place.
He was released by a parole board in February while serving a sentence of over four years on charges that included assault and robbery. But he had been wanted by police since May, apparently for violating the terms of his release, though the details were not immediately clear.
His long and lurid rap sheet also showed that seven years ago, he attacked and stabbed one of the victims killed in Sunday’s stabbings, according to court records.
Mendicino, the public safety minister, has said there will be an investigation into the parole board’s assessment of Sanderson.
“I want to know the reasons behind the decision” to release him, Mendicino said. “I’m extremely concerned with what occurred here. A community has been left reeling.”
The Saskatchewan Coroner’s Service said nine of those killed were from the James Smith Cree Nation: Thomas Burns, 23; Carol Burns, 46; Gregory Burns, 28; Lydia Gloria Burns, 61; Bonnie Burns, 48; Earl Burns, 66; Lana Head, 49; Christian Head, 54; and Robert Sanderson, 49. The other victim was from Weldon, 78-year-old Wesley Patterson.
Authorities would not say if the victims might be related.
Mark Arcand said his half sister Bonnie and her son Gregory were killed.
“Her son was lying there already deceased. My sister went out and tried to help her son, and she was stabbed two times, and she died right beside him,” he said. “Right outside of her home she was killed by senseless acts. She was protecting her son. She was protecting three little boys. This is why she is a hero.”
Arcand rushed to the reserve the morning of the rampage. After that, he said, “I woke up in the middle of the night just screaming and yelling. What I saw that day I can’t get out of my head.”
As for what set off the violence, Arcand said: “We’re all looking for those same answers. We don’t know what happened. Maybe we’ll never know. That’s the hardest part of this.”
Court documents said Sanderson attacked his in-laws Earl Burns and Joyce Burns in 2015, knifing Earl Burns repeatedly and wounding Joyce Burns. He later pleaded guilty to assault and threatening Earl Burns’ life.
Many of Sanderson’s crimes were committed when he was intoxicated, according to court records. He told parole officials at one point that substance use made him out of his mind. Records showed he repeatedly violated court orders barring him from drinking or using drugs.
Many of Canada’s Indigenous communities are plagued by drugs and alcohol.
Myles Sanderson’s childhood was marked by violence, neglect and substance abuse, court records show. Sanderson, who is Indigenous and was raised on the Cree reserve, population 1,900, started drinking and smoking marijuana at around 12, and cocaine followed soon after.
In 2017, he barged into his ex-girlfriend’s home, punched a hole in the door of a bathroom while his two children were hiding in a bathtub and threw a cement block at a vehicle parked outside, according to parole documents.
He got into a fight a few days later at a store, threatening to kill an employee and burn down his parents’ home, documents said.
That November he threatened an accomplice into robbing a fast-food restaurant by clubbing him with a gun and stomping on his head. He then stood watch during the holdup.
In 2018, he stabbed two men with a fork while drinking and beat someone unconscious. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/canadas-horrific-knife-rampage-over-as-last-suspect-dies/ | 2022-09-08T13:10:53Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/canadas-horrific-knife-rampage-over-as-last-suspect-dies/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Travel Companies Offering ‘Slum Tours’ Raise Ethical Concerns About Making Poverty an ‘Aesthetic’
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TripAdvisor is currently drawing tremendous flak online for putting poverty up for sale. The reason: it is offering a walking tour of New Delhi’s slums. Priced between Rs. 1,200-1,800, the tour promises tourists a sneak peek into the lives of slum-dwellers through an elaborate itinerary that concludes with “Tast[ing] a cup of tea and shar[ing] your thoughts with us.”
This isn’t the first time media — in the form of advertisements, influencer posts, or social media coverage — has managed to turn poverty into an “aesthetic.” With Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai, beating even the Taj Mahal — a literal “wonder of the world” — as a more popular tourist destination, it’s no surprise that travel companies want to profit off the interest of the socio-economically privileged in the living conditions of their underprivileged counterparts, by positioning the latter’s struggles, misery, and systemic exploitation as objects of entertainment all in the name of “informing” and “educating” a modern audience.
The framing naturally raises ethical concerns about poverty porn, which often becomes an instrument to “gain empathy and contributions from donors by showing exploitative imagery of people living in destitute conditions.” However, the debate surrounding the ethics of slum tourism is a little more complicated.
On the face of it, turning urban deprivation into a profit-making venture seems like an exercise in voyeurism — one that reduces slum-dwellers into something akin to animals on display in zoos. However, proponents of slum tourism may believe that it can help dismiss the idea that slums are ruled by misery and corruption, and even enable privileged tourists to look beyond the doom and gloom — noticing the entrepreneurship and camaraderie at play there.
“You might have certain ideas about Dharavi, maybe from Slumdog Millionaire, but we show you a very different side… how this is a place of business, how people work, how people make small but very successful businesses, how there’s a variety of aspects here [facilitating the] classical, educational aspect of tourism,” Fabian Frenzel, author Slumming It: The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty, had told Forbes in 2016. In other words, the claim is that slum tours give tourists a glimpse into a reality they may never experience — or even truly grasp — otherwise.
Moreover, as an article on Vice argued, “Is it any better to travel somewhere poor and spend your entire time on a beach while pretending that slums don’t exist next door? I hate to say it, but going to Rio and drinking beer while ignoring the favelas doesn’t make you a paragon of virtue.”
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However, what that perspective suggests is that the slum tourism industry enriches the privileged — at the cost of those without half-as-many privileges. Ethically, then, the argument for slum tourism appears to be terribly shaky ground — especially given the price it exacts from the slum-dwellers themselves.. “Slum tourism is a one-way street: They get photos; we lose a piece of our dignity,” Kennedy Odede, a Kenyan social entrepreneur, who grew up in Kibera, Kenya’s largest slum, wrote in The New York Times in 2010. And at the end of the day, dignity really isn’t something one can slap a rate card on.
In addition, interpreting the structural inequality as a form of “hustle” and “hard work” by people who live in slums treads dangerously close to romanticizing poverty — or, at the very least, turning their struggles into “inspiration porn.” In the process, as one study notes, slum tours can “aestheticize and depoliticize poverty” — not only dehumanizing the people at the heart of it, but also erasing the systemic oppression that constructs poverty. Arguably, then, through slum tourism, the capitalistic system allows those with money to “otherize” the poor by condoning their moral quandary — making it an exercise in self-appeasement
“I was 16 when I first saw a slum tour. I was outside my 100-square-foot house washing dishes, looking at the utensils with longing because I hadn’t eaten in two days. Suddenly a white woman was taking my picture. I felt like a tiger in a cage. Before I could say anything, she had moved on,” Odede noted.
Evidently, the critical element of informed consent, too, is often missing from slum tours — most of which lack the informed consent of the people whose lives and stories are put on display.
Describing yet another tryst with slum tourism, he added, “[Two years later, during a documentary shoot at the same slum] we passed an old man defecating in public. [The filmmaker] took out her video camera and said to her assistant, ‘Oh, look at that.’ For a moment I saw my home through her eyes: feces, rats, starvation, houses so close together that no one can breathe. I realized I didn’t want her to see it, didn’t want to give her the opportunity to judge my community for its poverty — a condition that few tourists, no matter how well-intentioned, could ever understand.”
If that’s the way the subjects of the tours feel, then any attempt to defend the burgeoning slum tourism industry becomes an exercise in helping exploitative capitalists escape their conscience.
To add to that, slum tourism can also be extremely disruptive to the lives of the inhabitants. A report by The Guardian on slum tourism in New Delhi describes an instance of tourists bombarding a doctor at the railway medical center with questions about the kind of accidents common in the locality, and the number of unwanted pregnancies that take place, among others. “The questions keep coming. Eventually, the doctor points out that she has to give her attention to the boy slumped weakly in front of her desk. ‘There are a lot of patients waiting,’ she says firmly, and the group is ushered out,” the report noted.
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One might argue, though, that having witnessed the living conditions in slums, privileged tourists might be provoked into improving them in one way or another. But if Odede is to be believed, that is a rather utopian notion. “The expectation, among the visitors and the tour organizers, is that the experience may lead the tourists to action once they get home… But it’s just as likely that a tour will come to nothing,” he had written. “Slums will not go away because a few dozen Americans or Europeans spent a morning walking around them.”
The question, however, is whether the inhabitants of slums can, in any way, benefit from people’s interest in their lives. In some cases — like that of South Africa in the early 1990s, where residents themselves began offering tours to draw global attention to the unbridled human rights violations in their localities — the answer is, perhaps, yes. What separated it from the endeavors of a company like TripAdvisor, perhaps, is the fact that the inhabitants themselves exercised their agency and choice, here, and used people’s interest as a means to improve their situation.
But, in general, slum tours hardly benefit the residents — often, not even in instances where travel companies claim they’re sharing profits. As Frenzel admits, “[T]hese tours are often combined with some notion of charity. So the tour operator will say some of the money you give us will flow into a project here in the neighborhood, or we’ll do this, or we’ll do that with some of your money. Or we employ local guides. [But] so very little of the money that is spent on these tours actually end up in the places being visited.”
The exercise also creates a narrative, where the lives of those without economic and social privilege are monetized to a great extent. When on display, their struggles mean something. Otherwise, the same people are stripped of basic humanity and personhood. Slum tourism, then, constructs a world where tourists look at slum-dwellers through the gaze of their privilege, never quite questioning or critiquing the power dynamic. Yet, as dystopian as it might sound, slum tours will probably continue as long as it continues to generate profits.
As Babloo, then a 10-year-old in New Delhi’s slums, breathing in correction fluid, had told The Guardian, “I don’t know why people come and look at us.” | https://theswaddle.com/travel-companies-offering-slum-tours-raise-ethical-concerns-about-making-poverty-an-aesthetic/ | 2022-09-08T13:10:54Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/travel-companies-offering-slum-tours-raise-ethical-concerns-about-making-poverty-an-aesthetic/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Doctors are concerned about Queen Elizabeth's health
Buckingham Palace said Thursday that doctors are "concerned" about Queen Elizabeth II's health and that the 96-year-old monarch was placed under medical supervision.
Driving the news: The palace said the Queen remains in Scotland and is "comfortable" for the time being.
The big picture: The news comes after the Queen canceled a meeting of her privy council on Wednesday and was told by doctors to rest, per AP.
- "The whole country will be deeply concerned by the news from Buckingham Palace," newly appointed Prime Minister Liz Truss wrote on Twitter.
- "My thoughts — and the thoughts of people across our United Kingdom — are with Her Majesty The Queen and her family at this time," she added.
- Prince Charles, accompanied by his wife, Camilla, traveled to Balmoral Castle by helicopter. Prince William is also en route to Scotland, the Telegraph reported. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/08/queen-elizabeth-health-doctors | 2022-09-08T13:11:13Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/08/queen-elizabeth-health-doctors | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jobs and Cook disagreed over how to sell the iPhone
Apple's past and current CEOs, Steve Jobs and Tim Cook, couldn't agree on the best way to sell their most important product, the iPhone, Cook said at a Code Conference panel Wednesday.
Jobs wanted to break with the then-norm in the cellphone industry by having the service providers — carriers like AT&T and Verizon — charge customers full price for the iPhone.
- Normally these carriers paid manufacturers like Apple a part of the device cost upfront, lowering the price for the customer, because they make their profits via longer-term monthly payments by their users. Jobs aimed to give up that subsidy in order to claim a share of the carrier's monthly revenue, which Apple did for the first iPhone.
Cook, by contrast, preferred the approach Apple eventually switched to: Have Apple take the up-front subsidy and forego the opportunity for a cut of a user's monthly phone bill.
It was a debate that lasted for many years, Cook noted, speaking on a panel at Code Conference on Jobs' legacy, along with longtime designer Jony Ive and Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell Jobs.
Why it matters: The iPhone forever changed the phone business in many ways, reducing the role of carriers in deciding how phones looked and what apps they carried. But the iPhone's growth really took off when the company switched to Cook's preferred approach, the model dominant in the industry.
Between the lines: The industry has tried a number of approaches over the ensuing years. Unsubsidized phones became the norm in much of the world, while subsidies remain important in the U.S.
- Even in the U.S. subsidies shrunk over the years, especially with the demise of two-year contracts.
- However they have re-emerged, slightly altered, with the rise of monthly installment payments for phones. Sometimes they are disguised, taking the form not of a lower upfront price for the phone, but instead of a trade-in value that exceeds the resale value of older phones.
The big picture: The anecdote was one of many revealing stories shared Wednesday night on a panel with Cook, Laurene Powell Jobs and longtime Apple designer Jony Ive.
- The trio also announced the formation of a Steve Jobs archive project that will live online.
- Cook also discussed other ways that Jobs' legacy lives on at Apple, including the 9am Monday morning meetings where company executives review the status of Apple's key initiatives. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/08/steve-jobs-tim-cook-disagreed-sell-iphone | 2022-09-08T13:11:19Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/08/steve-jobs-tim-cook-disagreed-sell-iphone | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Utah to receive millions in Juul settlement
Juul Labs will pay the state of Utah nearly $9 million over the next six years to settle a two-year investigation into the e-cigarette company's marketing and sales practices toward youth, Utah officials announced this week.
The big picture: Juul has agreed to pay $439 million to 33 states and Puerto Rico, Axios' Jacob Knutson reports.
Driving the news: The multistate probe — led by Connecticut, Oregon and Texas — found Juul willfully engaged "in an advertising campaign that appealed to youth, even though its e-cigarettes are both illegal for them to purchase and unhealthy for youth to use," according to the Utah Department of Commerce.
- The inquiry also found that Juul marketed to minors through launch parties, social media posts and free samples.
Between the lines: As part of the settlement, Juul agreed to limit their sales practices to youth and stop depicting people under the age of 35 in any marketing.
What they're saying: "Deceptive marketing tactics are never tolerated, but JUUL's were especially despicable,” Margaret Busse, executive director of the Utah Department of Commerce, said in a statement.
- "This settlement represents a big win for Utah in the fight against those who purposely market dangerous products to youth."
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PowerPlant raises $330M fund to expand beyond food
PowerPlant Partners has closed a $330 million fund that will expand to consumer tech and so-called "enablement companies" that improve production.
Why it matters: The LA-based venture capital firm is looking beyond the farm in a move that suggests it's seeking to both de-risk its food tech investments and to expand more broadly into consumer wellness.
The details: The new fund, PowerPlant Ventures Fund III, will invest $15 million to $40 million into companies, typically as a minority investor.
- It's aiming at "larger, more established growth companies," particularly those generating revenue between $10 million to $75 million in revenue, a spokesperson tells Axios.
- The fund has made four investments: Miyoko's Creamery, a plant-based dairy company; Liquid Death, which sells canned water (not Malört, as the name might suggest); Partake Brewing, a non-alcoholic beer company; and Systm Foods, which has acquired sustainable-coffee company Chameleon Cold-Brew and Rebbl, a plant-based drink maker.
State of play: Relative to other climate-tech sectors, food-tech had a relatively strong H1. But venture dollars into the space has slowed overall from last year. Q1 alone plummeted 41% from the previous quarter.
Of note: PowerPlant's last fund closed in 2019 with $165 million. It invested in four beverage companies, plus vegan supplement maker Rae Wellness and nutrition-focused food-tech Treasure8, per PitchBook. | https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2022/09/08/powerplant-closes-330m-fund-expand-food-consumer | 2022-09-08T13:11:45Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2022/09/08/powerplant-closes-330m-fund-expand-food-consumer | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – A Spartanburg County store operator was charged with tax evasion after he failed to report over $740,000 in sales.
According to the South Carolina Department of Revenue, Pinakin Jayantibhai Patel, 50, of Chesnee, operated a Spartanburg Combo Shop 1.
For tax years 2017-2019, Patel failed to report at least $741,061 in sales, arrest warrants said, which means he evaded $48,255 in state Sales Tax.
For the 2017 tax year, Patel failed to report at least $259,434 in sales.
For the 2018 tax year, Patel failed to report $275,527 in sales.
For the 2019 tax year, Patel failed to report $206,100 in sales.
The department of revenue charged Patel with three counts of tax evasion.
If convicted, Patel faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and/or a fine of $10,000 per count, plus the cost of prosecution. | https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/upstate-store-operator-failed-to-report-740k-in-sales-charged-with-tax-evasion/ | 2022-09-08T13:15:39Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/upstate-store-operator-failed-to-report-740k-in-sales-charged-with-tax-evasion/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WELLFORD, S.C. (WSPA)- An upstate Rehabilitation Center is expanding to help battle drug addiction and benefit men and families looking for help.
Evans Training Center started building its new facility in Wellford, their first permanent home in Spartanburg County after over a decade of service.
Evans Training Center is a Christian-based 40-week rehabilitation program that involves classes and vocational training.
Executive Director Dave Crooks said it’s a place for people who are serious about rehabilitation that helps them “escape addiction and stay unstuck.”
During the 40-week program, men are welcomed by staff and are assigned a “big brother” who teaches them everything they need to know about the program.
The vocational training involved the men volunteering their time working a job specific to them whether it’s painting, landscaping or remodeling.
Crooks said this expansion will help even more men in the community because of the expanded space this new facility will have.
Currently, Evans Training Center can only house around 10 men but with the new building, that number will be closer to 30.
One of the graduates Lucas Kearse shared his story and how Evans Training Center helped him turn his life around.
Kearse said he was battling addiction for 17 years before entering the program in 2019.
Kearse tells 7NEWS he was on the brink of divorce and losing his son before entering the program.
Since graduating, Kearse has been sober for almost 4 years and now lives happily with his wife and two kids.
That wasn’t the end of Lucas’ journey with Evans Training Center.
Kearse stuck with the program a little longer when he joined their leadership program and is now the paint supervisor.
“I was given an opportunity to have another chance,” said Kearse and, “for guys like me coming from over a decade, almost two decades of addiction I never thought that was going to be possible again at all.”
When it comes to the addition of the new facility on Spartanburg Highway Crooks said, “this one facility itself is going to solve not the whole problem but it is going to help a lot of people in Spartanburg County get free of chemical addiction once and for all.”
Crooks also hopes the new location with heavy traffic will give more courage to people wanting help to take a chance at recovery.
The new location is at 601 Spartanburg Hwy South in Wellford.
While the construction has started, the center is only $500,000 away from its $2 million goal which is thanks to donations from the community and the funds from the vocational training.
You can find more about the program at the Evans Training Center website. | https://www.wspa.com/news/upstate-rehab-center-expanding-to-serve-more-people/ | 2022-09-08T13:16:04Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/upstate-rehab-center-expanding-to-serve-more-people/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WHIDBEY ISLAND STATION, Wash. — The NTSB is now requesting help from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in locating a downed floatplane that crashed into the Puget Sound near Whidbey Island last weekend.
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) was assisting with the search but called it off because their sonar equipment is ill-suited for the location, an NTSB spokesperson said.
The WDFW's equipment is intended to search in tightly focused areas but the NTSB needs the capability to search over a more expansive zone.
Data and witness reports indicated the floatplane took a nosedive before plummeting into Mutiny Bay on Sunday, Sept. 4, with 10 people on board. All nine passengers and the pilot are presumed dead.
The plane departed from Friday Harbor and was headed for the Renton Municipal Airport in a scheduled commuter flight.
The Island County dispatch center was inundated with 911 calls, claiming a plane had fallen out of the sky.
“Everything about the call was very different,” said Terry Ney, Deputy Chief of Operations for the South Whidbey Fire EMS.
“We go into it assuming it’s going to be a rescue, but of course, we found out differently,” said Ney. He and his crew were some of the first on the water Sunday afternoon.
On Sunday, one passenger was recovered along with plane parts. The NTSB said in a statement to KING 5 that foam fragments, a seat cushion, seat belt, dispatch paperwork, flooring structure and personal items have also been found.
Water in the area where the plane crashed can be hundreds of feet deep. Ney said his crew clocked depths between 100 to 200 feet during Sunday’s recovery. The NTSB says their search area is between 100 to 300 feet deep.
"We don’t know the condition of the aircraft, it’s a challenge when you’re working in water of that depth," said Tom Chapman with the NTSB.
The depth and drop-offs are one reason Ney said they don’t have a dive team.
“It requires very specialized equipment to dive 150 to 200 feet. It involves specialized gases, specialized training, and equipment. There are just a few commercial dive companies that do offer that service,” said Ney.
Add in the tides and current, the water can move fast.
“A three-knot current is like a 3.5 mile per hour current, it’s a huge volume of water moving that fast, so it can easily move something the size of an airplane,” said Ney.
The search for this floatplane continues, despite the rough waters they face.
“It’s a challenging place to work,” said Ney.
The NTSB says a normal investigation will take between 18 and 24 months, but they aren’t certain how long this will take as they haven’t located the plane yet. A spokesperson said they are "confident" the plane will be located. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/floatplane-crash-whidbey-island-puget-sound/281-f4338c31-01c5-437c-8e25-122e0c40543b | 2022-09-08T13:20:20Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/floatplane-crash-whidbey-island-puget-sound/281-f4338c31-01c5-437c-8e25-122e0c40543b | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASAGA BEACH, ON — David A. Arnold, a stand-up comedian who starred in two Netflix specials and was the creator and showrunner of the Nickelodeon series "That Girl Lay Lay" has died. He was 54.
Arnold's family issued a statement to multiple media outlets confirming his death on Wednesday: “It is with great sadness that we confirm the untimely passing of our husband, father, brother and friend, David A. Arnold. David passed away peacefully today in his home and doctors have ruled the cause of death due to natural causes. Please keep our family in prayer and respect our privacy at this time as we are all shocked and devastated by this loss.”
The Cleveland native's second Netflix standup special, "It Ain't for the Weak," debuted in mid-July. He was just three stops into a national stand-up tour at the time of his death.
In addition to his stand-up comedy, Arnold was a writer on several shows including Netflix's "Full House" reboot "Fuller House," "Bigger" on BET+ and "Meet the Browns" on TBS.
He was also the creator and showrunner of the Will Packer-produced Nickelodeon comedy "That Girl Lay Lay," about an avatar from a personal affirmation app that magically comes to life to help a girl and her friends.
Comedian Chris Spencer, a close friend of Arnold, said in a statement to Variety that the "closely knit comedy community mourns the loss of one of the greatest to ever do it."
"He was admired by his peers, respected by other veterans, and looked up to by the burgeoning comedians that he mentored. He will be deeply missed, especially by his comedy fraternity,” Spencer said in his statement.
"This one hits different! So very very sad! RIP," comedian DL Hughley tweeted.
Next week, Arnold was scheduled to be the first comedian to appear on Sherri Shepherd's new daytime talk show, executive producer Jawn Murray said in a tweet.
He is survived by his wife Julie and daughters Anna Grace and Ashlyn Elizabeth. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/comedian-david-arnold-dies-netflix-standup-nickelodeon-showrunner/507-a60b38df-7c05-4146-b11f-e742981b1f14 | 2022-09-08T13:20:26Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/comedian-david-arnold-dies-netflix-standup-nickelodeon-showrunner/507-a60b38df-7c05-4146-b11f-e742981b1f14 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DETROIT — Jeep will start selling two fully electric SUVs in North America and another one in Europe over the next two years.
The new EVs, Jeep's first, are part of the Stellantis brand's plans to convert half of its U.S. sales and all of its European sales to battery-electric vehicles by 2030. They're the first for the brand, and executives are promising that they'll be fully capable of off-road travel.
The new vehicles include the Jeep Recon, a four-wheel-drive midsize SUV about the size of the Jeep Wrangler and rival Ford's gas-powered Bronco Sport. It will be produced at an undisclosed North American factory starting in 2024. No range, performance figures or prices were released.
Jeep also will start making an all-electric Wagoneer S midsize luxury SUV in 2024 that also can go off road. The electric extension of the Wagoneer sub-brand is expected to go 400 miles on a single charge, have 600 horsepower, and be able to travel from zero to 60 miles per hour in about 3.5 seconds.
The Wagoneer S also will be built in North America at a yet-to-be disclosed factory. No prices were released on this SUV either.
Heading for Europe next year will be the Jeep Avenger compact SUV, the brand's first fully electric vehicle. Jeep says the small Avenger, with 250 miles (400 kilometers) of range per charge, won't be coming to the U.S. It's better suited for Europe, where there's a strong market for smaller vehicles, executives said.
The Avenger will be officially unveiled Oct. 17 at the Paris Motor Show. It will arrive in showrooms early next year.
Jeep also plans to introduce four all-electric SUVs in North America and Europe by the end of 2025, the executives said.
The Recon, though, will not replace the Jeep Wrangler small SUV, said Christian Meunier, the brand CEO. “The Wrangler is the icon,” he said, without saying there would be an electric Wrangler.
Jeep, he said, is on a path to become the leading zero-emission SUV brand across the globe. The company has a goal of selling the SUVs in China, executives said. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/jeep-unveils-1st-electric-suvs-for-north-america-europe/507-a6e7cc2b-e530-4961-9293-a1e03c5d218b | 2022-09-08T13:20:32Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/jeep-unveils-1st-electric-suvs-for-north-america-europe/507-a6e7cc2b-e530-4961-9293-a1e03c5d218b | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON, UK — Queen Elizabeth II has been placed under medical supervision because doctors are “concerned for Her Majesty’s health," Buckingham Palace said Thursday, as members of the royal family traveled to Scotland to be with the 96-year-old monarch.
The announcement comes a day after the queen canceled a virtual meeting of her Privy Council when doctors advised her to rest following a full day of events on Tuesday, when she formally asked Liz Truss to become prime minister.
“Following further evaluation this morning, the Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision,'' a palace spokesperson said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with customary policy. “The Queen remains comfortable and at Balmoral.”
Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, and his wife, Camilla, are with the queen after traveling to Balmoral Castle, the queen's summer vacation home, to be with her. Prince William, Charles' eldest son, is en route.
Elizabeth marked seven decades on the throne this year. She has increasingly handed over duties to Charles and other members of the royal family in recent months as she struggled to get around. The queen had to skip a number of the events held earlier this year celebrating her Platinum Jubilee.
“The whole country will be deeply concerned by the news from Buckingham Palace this lunchtime,” Truss said on Twitter.
“My thoughts — and the thoughts of people across our United Kingdom — are with Her Majesty The Queen and her family at this time.”
The Privy Council, a group of the monarch's senior advisers, was due to formally swear in Truss and her new Cabinet members at Wednesday's meeting. The session will be held at a later date. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/queen-elizabeth-doctors-concerned-about-her-health/507-f113d443-825d-4a8b-9de6-1217ed51aa6e | 2022-09-08T13:20:34Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/queen-elizabeth-doctors-concerned-about-her-health/507-f113d443-825d-4a8b-9de6-1217ed51aa6e | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK — UPS plans to hire more than 100,000 workers to help handle the holiday rush this season, in line with hiring the previous two years.
Holiday season volumes usually start rising in October and remain high into January. While online shopping has slowed from the height of the pandemic, it's still well above historic norms.
UPS said Wednesday that there will be job openings for full- and part-time seasonal positions, primarily package handlers, drivers and driver helpers. UPS promotes seasonal jobs as positions that can lead to year-round employment. In recent years, according to UPS, roughly 35% of people hired for seasonal package-handling jobs land permanent positions.
Seasonal drivers with UPS start at $21 per hour, with tractor-trailer drivers making as much as $35 per hour. Package handler starting wages can range from $15 – $21 per hour.
The company continues to streamline its job hiring process and most hires require only 25 minutes – from filling out of an online application to receiving an offer, according to Danelle McCusker Rees, the president of human relations at UPS. That's down five minutes from last year.
Rees started at UPS as a seasonal worker.
The job market remains just as competitive as it was last year, said Rees in an interview this week with The Associated Press.
Employers added 315,000 jobs in August, about what economists had expected, down from an average 487,000 a month over the past year, according to a government report last week.
The jobless rate reached 3.7%, its highest level since February. But it increased for a healthy reason: Hundreds of thousands of people went back to the job market, and some didn’t find work right away, which boosted the government’s count of unemployed people. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/ups-hiring-for-holiday-rush/507-0ce34376-55a4-488a-b07d-5db65cb3bf81 | 2022-09-08T13:20:36Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/ups-hiring-for-holiday-rush/507-0ce34376-55a4-488a-b07d-5db65cb3bf81 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For over 35 years, since my first visit to Luca, Italy, I have kept a pristine collection of the Millelire boxed set of books in its original shrink-wrap. For some reason, doubtless understood by book and action figure collectors, I believed that opening it would be like popping the cork on Aladdin’s lamp or opening the sealed cave of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. Silly? Perhaps. But we all have quirks. Well, after years of consultation with a professional shaman, I came to the conclusion that nothing ill was in the offing (and the shrink-wrap was beginning to disintegrate, in any case).
I also found that the collection, published by Stampa Alternativa—a book and record publishing company in Rome, founded in 1970 by author and editor Marcello Baraghini, the creator and animator of the International Festival of Resistant Literature—could be useful to research I am doing on alternative publications. So, off came the fraying wrapper and out came the books (below).
Stampa Alternativa was inspired, I’m told, by American and British Alternative Presses, and is best-known for the Millelire series that opened the market for economical editions of mostly unknown and unpublished Italian authors and poets.
A Millelire is a set of books packaged together, usually 10 per box of various page counts. They are printed cheaply on pulp with simple yet striking one and two color illustrated covers. But the highlight is the container itself. They often riff on famous cigarette packages, like the Camel-style box above. The first of these series is a container based on the Marlboro flip-top package. This idea has led to other parodies of consumer products, including packages of famous chocolate bars. The boxes are collected by major museums, and in Japan they are objects of worship.
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A man suspected of killing 10 people and injuring more than a dozen has died after he was taken into custody in Saskatchewan, Canada. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to CBC News reporter Yasmine Ghania.
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A man suspected of killing 10 people and injuring more than a dozen has died after he was taken into custody in Saskatchewan, Canada. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to CBC News reporter Yasmine Ghania.
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Saving history: Navarre-Bethlehem Twp. Historical Society to celebrate 50th anniversary
NAVARRE – The Navarre-Bethlehem Township Historical Society has worked diligently to preserve the history of the village and surrounding areas.
It has preserved buildings, collected thousands of artifacts and helped connect people with ancestors who once called Navarre, Rochester and Bethlehem Township home.
The historical group will mark its 50th anniversary Saturday with a celebration to thank the community for its support.
"We have just been blessed with community support and help from other organizations such as the Timken Family Foundation, the Gessner Foundation and so many others," historical society President Janie Talbott said.
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The historical society's buildings will be open from noon to 5 p.m. for free tours. The group will offer free refreshments and provide information about the organization.
Photos will be on display in hopes visitors can help identify people in the pictures and a walking tour of Canal Street will begin at 11:30 a.m. at the Define Building at Market and Canal Streets. During the mile walk, participants will learn about how three towns became one.
Preserved the rich history of Navarre-Rochester and surrounding areas
In 1972, as the walls of the canal-era grist mill that sat along South Main Street were being dismantled, Marilyn "Tootie" Cook became upset.
Many didn't know the mill, built in 1830s and one of the village's oldest buildings, was being torn down. The building, which then housed the Farmers' Supply Co., was sold at auction to a group of Amish who dismantled it piece-by-piece to sell off the wood.
Cook didn't want to lose another piece of village history, and she had a plan to do something.
A committee was formed and the first meeting brought about 17 people to the table wanting to help keep the village's history alive. The group grew to more than 100 within months.
Through Cook's perseverance and commitment, the Navarre-Bethlehem Township Historical Society was taking shape.
The early beginnings of the Navarre area are rich with history, Talbott said.
In 1806, Bethlehem got its start. It flourished for years until the canal became popular. The town's location on top of a cliff made it difficult for goods to be moved from the canal to the town, Talbott said.
Rochester was founded in 1833 by Joseph Mathews, a land prospector from England. Rochester was for the working man and was filled with mills, Talbott said.
A year later, James Duncan, who had also founded Massillon, started Navarre between Bethlehem and Rochester.
The village did well with the canal in its backyard, once boasting 11 hotels and boarding houses.
"That's a lot for a little town," she said.
The three villages were within a mile of each other, Talbott said, and they battled to entice people.
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They had a price war. There was significant commerce that came with the canal, but the towns themselves were never as profitable as they could be, so their leaders decided to get together to solve the problem.
They decided to become the village of Navarre in 1872 because of the canal.
"You could walk right up into the village from the canal," Talbott said.
Starting the Navarre-Bethlehem Township Historical Society
Today, the historical group continues to grow its collection.
"I think we have had well over 5,000 contributions to the society that has to do with Navarre history," Talbott said.
As the collection grew, the organization needed a place to store the relics. Most of the items had been kept at members' homes.
In 1978, the historical society purchased the Mathews House at 123 Canal St.
The one-and-half-story brick home was built by Rochester founder Joseph Mathews in 1836. The century-old home had fallen into disrepair, covered by overgrown shrubs and bushes.
Club members and volunteers spent years restoring the Greek revival, and it was opened in 1982 at the Mathews House Museum. It features life in the 1870s with a kitchen and other rooms set up with relics from the past.
As the society and the collection continued to grow, the historical society constructed the Heritage Education Building behind the Mathews museum.
The space houses the society's offices, artifact storage, genealogy records and research materials. It also has a meeting room and educational space for tours.
Many schoolchildren visit the space, Talbott said. Volunteers demonstrate butter- and candle-making, she said.
The space also has display cases that change periodically. On display now are Nickles Bakery, Navarre pottery and Navarre schools.
In 2006, the group purchased the Schmidt House, which was built around 1840 and served as the Schmidt Grocery, tavern and general store.
A decade after purchasing the building and endless hours of restoration, the building was opened. It houses the Linda Hug Art Gallery and the William Bennett Canal Room.
Hug taught art in the village in the late 1800s into the early 1900s. Bennett was a photographer who traveled the canal for inspiration. He focused on areas around Massillon, Navarre and Zoar, Talbot said.
"We've kept good records and we are inclined to continue to keep records of the past and the present," she said.
Expanding the genealogy effort in the Navarre area
In the last 15 years, the group has multiplied the resources available in the genealogy department.
The organization has books about every street in Navarre and has an extensive collection of photographs from the canal era.
In order to support its mission, the historical society hosts fundraisers, including a calendar sale, village garage sales, art show and car show.
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Tom Diehl works to keep the village's history alive. He served as the historical society's first president when he was 19.
"We have saved a lot of history and worked a lot on genealogy," Diehl said. "We get people that contact us across the country. We tried to save as much stuff as we could and make it available (to the community)."
Talbott and Diehl said in order to keep the historical society going another 50 years, they must find younger members. The average age of today's helpers is the mid-70s, Talbott said.
Despite the need for new volunteers, Diehl said, they will continue to safeguard the village's history and its people.
"I think we managed to keep (artifacts) local instead of them ending up on eBay," he said. "We saved some things historically significant. You can't save everything but we have to try to save something that represents what life has been through from our founding to today."
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Hurricane Kay set to brush Mexico’s Baja peninsula
Published: Sep. 8, 2022 at 8:02 AM CDT|Updated: 43 minutes ago
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Kay is steaming toward a possible brush with land on a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula. And forecasters say it might bring rains to southernmost California by the weekend.
Authorities opened shelters and closed some roads ahead of Kay, which had maximum sustained winds of 85 mph Thursday.
Forecasters said it could bring hurricane-force winds to parts of the peninsula.
Forecasters say there is a chance the outer bands of the big storm could bring heavy rain — and possibly flash floods — to parts of scorched Southern California and southwestern Arizona on Friday night and Saturday.
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United makes ‘conditional’ order for electric air taxis
DALLAS (AP) — United Airlines thinks that in a few years, plenty of big-city customers will pay $100 or more for a one-way ride to the airport in a four-seat, electric-powered air taxi.
The Chicago-based airline said Thursday that it invested $15 million in a startup manufacturer, and signed a “conditional” agreement to buy 200 of the tiny aircraft with options for 200 more.
United said it expects to receive the first taxis — which will take off and land vertically, like helicopters — from Eve Air Mobility as soon as 2026.
It’s hard to judge United’s commitment to the deal, since it wouldn’t provide terms for the order. A spokesman said the conditions are standard when buying an aircraft that hasn’t been certified by regulators, and they cover “a number of United’s business objectives.”
The stake in Eve amounts to less than 5% of United’s second-quarter profit.
But the deal fits United’s pattern of announcing interest in startups that are trying to build and win regulatory approval for air taxis, like Archer, and supersonic planes, like Boom.
Mike Leskinen, president of United’s venture-funding arm, said the eVTOLs — electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft — will be ideally suited for traffic-clogged cities where United flies, including New York, Chicago and San Francisco. He said air taxis will be faster than driving to the airport and produce fewer emissions, and trips will cost $100 to $150 each way.
“It will take time for consumers to adopt this. People are going to have some hesitancy at first,” Leskinen said. “It will feel a lot similar to a helicopter ride, it might be scary for some, but this is going to change the way we work and live.”
The Eve aircraft is envisioned to have a range of 40 to 60 miles (65 to 100 kilometers). Future designs might be slightly bigger than the currently planned four-seater, but they would not replace any planes that United flies from one airport to another, so they won’t reduce carbon emissions produced by the airline’s regular fleet.
Eve Holding Inc. is a publicly traded company formed this year by a combination of a special purpose acquisition company called Zanite and a unit of Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer. It is based in Melbourne, Florida.
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Jeep unveils its 1st electric SUVs for North America, Europe
DETROIT (AP) — Jeep will start selling two fully electric SUVs in North America and another one in Europe over the next two years.
The new EVs, Jeep’s first, are part of the Stellantis brand’s plans to convert half of its U.S. sales and all of its European sales to battery-electric vehicles by 2030. They’re the first for the brand, and executives are promising that they’ll be fully capable of off-road travel.
The new vehicles include the Jeep Recon, a four-wheel-drive midsize SUV about the size of the Jeep Wrangler and rival Ford’s gas-powered Bronco Sport. It will be produced at an undisclosed North American factory starting in 2024. No range, performance figures or prices were released.
Jeep also will start making an all-electric Wagoneer S midsize luxury SUV in 2024 that also can go off road. The electric extension of the Wagoneer sub-brand is expected to go 400 miles (650 kilometers) on a single charge, have 600 horsepower, and be able to travel from zero to 60 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) in about 3.5 seconds.
The Wagoneer S also will be built in North America at a yet-to-be disclosed factory. No prices were released on this SUV either.
Heading for Europe next year will be the Jeep Avenger compact SUV, the brand’s first fully electric vehicle. Jeep says the small Avenger, with 250 miles (400 kilometers) of range per charge, won’t be coming to the U.S. It’s better suited for Europe, where there’s a strong market for smaller vehicles, executives said.
The Avenger will be officially unveiled Oct. 17 at the Paris Motor Show. It will arrive in showrooms early next year.
Jeep also plans to introduce four all-electric SUVs in North America and Europe by the end of 2025, the executives said.
The Recon, though, will not replace the Jeep Wrangler small SUV, said Christian Meunier, the brand CEO. “The Wrangler is the icon,” he said, without saying there would be an electric Wrangler.
Jeep, he said, is on a path to become the leading zero-emission SUV brand across the globe. The company has a goal of selling the SUVs in China, executives said.
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A couple from Tunbridge Wells who appeared on last night's (Sept 7) episode of Grand Designs admit they "can't stop looking at" at their new home, which has been revamped in just five months. Rob and Kate took 'a tired 1940s prefab' to 'a sculptural, angular, work of art', wowing presenter Kevin McCloud in the process.
"I knew it would look interesting, and I knew it would say prefab, because it was always meant to, what I wasn't expecting was that it would look so good," he confessed. The modular construction project, which took just five months to finish, involved six manufactured boxes being morphed into the couple's new home.
Essentially, a readymade house was built in a factory and delivered on the back of a lorry. The couple's two-storey house - complete with three bedrooms and two bathrooms - is pre-fitted with everything the house needs, from kitchen cupboards to as small a detail as light switches.
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Rob said: "You can look at the house from any different angle, and it just looks really cool. It is almost like a work of art." Referencing the project's quick turnaround time, Kate admitted that the five months "went by in a flash".
The revamped home also got a lot of love on social media. On Twitter, user @arnlynz wrote: "One of the most positive, influential & innovative builds on #granddesigns", while @Camdragon said: "A @granddesigns with a happy ending!! Beautiful design, lovely people, great contractors. Love it. Love it all."
Grand Designs airs on Wednesday nights at 9pm on Channel 4.
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The unique village of Chiddingstone is described as 'the best example of a Tudor village left in the country'. The entire village, apart from the church and the castle, is owned by the National Trust and has been since 1939.
Chiddingstone, near Sevenoaks, has always drawn attention for its historic charm, and despite consisting of just one tiny street, it has lots to offer. The village is one of the best preserved of its kind and is also home to what is said to be the oldest working shop in the entire country, dating all the way back to 1453.
The Tulip Tree is a quaint gift shop situated on the main road and acts as a 'real staple' in the community. Behind the main giftshop is a courtyard which leads through to the tea rooms selling delicious homemade cake. A favourite for locals and a popular stop off for cyclists who ride through the village.
Shop owner, Nickki Manser, 62, previously told Kent Live: "This could even be the oldest shop in Europe, but it's definitely the oldest in the country, we get so many people coming to the shop just because of its historical significance."
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The shop is one of the many perfectly preserved buildings, with their half-timbered sides, picturesque gables and stone-hung red-tiled roofs. Some of which have been used in several television programmes and films, including Walt Disney’s The Wind in the Willows: Mr Toad’s Wild Ride. Actors including Steve Coogan, John Cleese, Stephen Fry and Michael Palin filmed in the village post office which was transformed into an inn.
It also featured in the 1985 Merchant Ivory film A Room with a View and the 1983 film The Wicked Lady directed by Michael Winner. Chiddingstone's Tudor buildings, narrow main street and cobbled pavements also feature in many postcards and photographs.
And that's not to mention its stunning castle, which dates back to the early 16th century. The Tudor castle has been owned by a number of people and families, before it was remodelled into a medieval style palace in the early 19th century.
The castle hosts a number of collections including that of the late Denys Eyre Bower, Ancient Egyptian treasures, Buddhist objects and Stuart paintings. When it's open, visitors can also visit the exhibition room to see how the castle has always been at the heart of the community.
The gardens also provide breath-taking views of the Greensand Ridge below the North Downs, with 35 acres of unspoiled grounds for scenic afternoon walks.
The Castle Inn at Chiddingstone is known for its welcoming hospitality, quality food and a handpicked selection of wines, spirits and local beers. It is just one of 60 owned by the National Trust and has been independently run by the owners of renowned Botley Hill Farmhouse since April 2019.
The first mention of the inn dates as far back as 1420, making this building a true example of a traditional English inn. Period features are abundant, creating a warm welcoming environment for locals and visitors alike.
Meanwhile the parish church dedicated to St Mary is perhaps the fourth built on the site. The font inside was made in 1628 from local sandstone and has been described as the best production of its period in Kent. The pulpit also dates from this time whilst the organ dates to 1881.
So it is safe to say that if you want to take a step back to Tudor times and bring some of our country's fascinating history to life, you cannot go far wrong with a visit to the village of Chiddingstone.
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What happens if...? Why did Slyngard stop playing in their earlier material.. and I feel like they switched genress? Can one of those things lead in the procession to the same idea when they'r starting again as they were 2 tracks, what are the songs like after and the next one what has caused. Also who would you class then between? Thanks. GRATTAN TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The Kent County Sheriff's Office is investigating a serious crash on Lincoln Lake Road near 5 Mile Road Thursday morning.
Traffic is backed up. Deputies ask drivers to find an alternate route.
We're working to learn more about any injuries involved.
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WAYLAND, Mich. — On September 9th and 10th the air near Wayland will be filled with colorful hot-air balloons, laughter, and delicious foods!
The Wayland Balloon Festival starts Friday.
Join them at Calkins Field— off Division Avenue just north of 137th Avenue— for fun in the air and on the ground. This year's festival promises a Kids Carnival, car show, vendors, food trucks, and (of course) hot-air balloons!
You can even meet the pilots before the balloons take flight.
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(WXYZ) — If you're the parent of a high school senior weighing whether or not a four-year degree is worth it, you're not alone.
Even on the heels of President Joe Biden announcing some student loan forgiveness, many people are experiencing sticker shock as they dig into how much college would cost for their kids, and many will argue there are good-paying jobs that don't require a four-year degree.
Amy Wilczynski, a mother of two from Clinton Township, has been touring colleges with her daughter, Molly.
"We've been aware of it for a long time because we knew that, you know, our daughter was college-bound and wanted a four-year traditional college experience. And so, you know, we have been saving," Wilczynski said.
She graduated from Oakland University. She met her husband there, and earned a degree in communication and a master's degree in English. She said for her, college for 100% worth it.
Shawn Orebaugh, a father of three from Chesterfield Township, is a welder fabricator with 25 years of experience. He fell in love with the field in high school, and got welding certifications instead of a four-year degree.
“I think for me this has been awesome because I still really enjoy it," Orebaugh said.
His oldest son, Keegan, just finished a summer welding job, and Orebaugh said the demand for workers is high.
Preston Cooper, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP) said college students are paying almost double what they did 20 years ago.
”We see that the average student debt for people who graduate with a bachelor's degree is going to be about $30,000," Cooper said..
FREOPP recently analyzed 30,000 bachelor's degree programs across the U.S. to calculate the return on investment.
“It really depends not just on how much you borrow, but also what the value of your degree is and whether that degree is going to be valuable enough to give you the salary that will enable you to pay back your debts," Cooper said.
The key findings:
- For students who graduate on time, the median bachelor's degree has a net return on investment of $306,000
- Over 1/4 of programs have a negative return on investment
- 4/5 engineering programs have an ROI of above $500,000, but the same is only true for 1% of psychology programs.
”You should be aware that in most cases, the return for those programs is not going to be too good," he said.
Cooper also reminded people to do their homework, search and compare colleges, the fields of study, and also links to apprenticeships and other careers that don't require a degree.
According to Cooper, the highest-paid degree programs are typically in computer science, engineering, economics, business and nursing.
He said the highest-paid non-degree programs include welding, metalworking, electrical transmission installation, elevator repair, radiologic technician and licensed practical nurse.
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Going forward, if you want some alone time on a flight, Australian airline Qantas might offer it to you — for a price. The “Neighbour Free” seating option is a trial program now running across six domestic routes over a six-week period.
Neighbour Free allows passengers in Economy seating to reserve the seat next to them for a lower price so that no one will be seated there for the entire flight. This feature will cost between $30-$65 in Australian dollars ($20.28 to $33.80 in U.S. dollars).
Of course, not every seat will be available. You also cannot select the Neighbour Free option very far in advance. It will only be offered to passengers on flights that are not fully booked a couple of days before departure.
There’s also no guarantee that the seat will remain empty. However, you will receive a refund if the seat is filled before departure.
Passengers who are eligible to participate will receive an email from the airline 48 hours before their scheduled flight departure with an invitation to reserve Neighbour Free. You will have until one hour before the flight to purchase the seat.
Each invitation will only apply to a particular segment of your flight. So, for example, if you are flying round-trip or have to change plans during your travels, you would have to receive an invitation and purchase the Neighbour Free reservation for each segment.
The Neighbour Free option only allows you to have an empty seat beside you. It cannot be used as a place to store carry-on items or as infant seating. Plus, you can only buy one seat. You won’t receive points or status credits for buying the extra seat, and you can’t use flight credits or a Qantas TravelPass to buy the space.
Currently, passengers can reserve Neighbour Free seats on flights from the Gold Coast to Sydney, Adelaide to Sydney, Darwin to Melbourne, Darwin to Sydney, Perth to Brisbane and Adelaide to Brisbane.
Depending on the success of this program, Qantas will consider rolling it out to other domestic flights later this year.
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If you’ve looked closely at tomato plant labels, you may have noticed a veritable alphabet next to the variety name: V, F, T, N, and so forth. These abbreviations designate certain diseases or pests that the tomato is resistant to. How do you know if you need a plant with a particular disease resistance? Here’s a quick summary of those pesky viruses and diseases, their symptoms, and whether there is a resistant tomato variety you should select.
Verticilium Wilt (V) is a fungal disease that lives in the soil. Signs include general wilting, yellow leaves, red or purple leaves and/or stems, distorted growth and early plant death. Resistant varieties are Big Daddy, Early Girl, Sungold, and Yellow Pear.
Fusarium Wilt (F) is another soil-borne fungal disease. Tomatoes infected with fusarium often show wilting on one side or even on individual branches. Dark brown discoloration of the main stem is common, and symptoms usually first appear when the fruit is sizing up. To me, this is the meanest part of fusarium – just when you think you’re going to get a nice crop, everything heads south! Most varieties that are resistant to verticillium are also resistant to fusarium.
Root Knot Nematodes (N) are only about 0.01 in long and pear-shaped. They live in the soil and infect roots, causing galls to form. The galls are easier to spot and can be up to an inch across (though usually smaller). These galls interfere with the roots’ nutrient and water uptake, so infected plants tend to wilt in hot weather. Celebrity, Better Boy, and Park’s Whopper are resistant.
Tobacco Mosaic Virus (T) infects tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and tobacco through wounds. It causes weird mottling and splotchy discoloration in the leaves. The plant is stunted, has leaf curl and the entire plant will turn yellow. If you smoke (tobacco), wash your hands thoroughly before working in the garden. Commercially grown tobacco is resistant to TMV but can carry the virus asymptomatically. Most tomato varieties are resistant to TMV now.
Alternaria Stem Canker (A) is more common in coastal areas. It is a fungal disease that is both airborne and soilborne. Symptoms include an ugly brown or black lesion that consists of concentric rings, usually found near the base of the stem. These lesions can also be seen on the fruit or leaves. The fungus releases a toxin that eventually kill the plant. Roma, Celebrity, and Yellow Pear are resistant.
Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (TSWV) is a viral disease that is transmitted by thrips, which are tiny sap-sucking insects. Young leaves will show some bronzing, followed by the appearance of round dead spots. Leaves will curl/cup downwards and some will eventually die back. Discolored rings appear on green fruit.
If you see signs of any of these infections, I recommend removing and disposing of the affected plant immediately. Do not compost, since these organisms often survive the composting process and can spread year to year.
Looking for more gardening tips? Here’s how to contact the Master Gardener program in your area.
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mglosangeleshelpline@ucdavis.edu; 626-586-1988; http://celosangeles.ucanr.edu/UC_Master_Gardener_Program/
Orange County
ucceocmghotline@ucanr.edu; 949-809-9760; http://mgorange.ucanr.edu/
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LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has been placed under medical supervision because doctors are “concerned for Her Majesty’s health,” Buckingham Palace said Thursday, as members of the royal family traveled to Scotland to be with the 96-year-old monarch.
The palace declined to provide further details about the seriousness of the queen’s condition, but there were worrying signs as Prime Minister Liz Truss said “the whole country will be deeply concerned by the news.”
The announcement came a day after the queen canceled a virtual meeting of her Privy Council when doctors advised her to rest following a full day of events on Tuesday, when she formally asked Truss to become prime minister.
“Following further evaluation this morning, the Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision,” a palace spokesperson said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with customary policy. “The Queen remains comfortable and at Balmoral.”
Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, along with his wife, Camilla, and sister, Princess Anne, are already with the queen at Balmoral Castle, her summer residence in Scotland. Prince William, Charles’ eldest son, is also en route to Balmoral, as is his brother, Prince Harry, his wife, Meghan, Prince Andrew and the Earl and Countess of Wessex.
The gathering of the House of Windsor comes just three months after people across Britain paused over a long holiday weekend to celebrate the queen’s 70 years on the throne. While crowds of cheering, flag-waving fans filled the streets around Buckingham Palace throughout four days of festivities, the queen herself made only two brief appearances on the palace balcony to wave to her subjects.
Elizabeth has increasingly handed over duties to Charles and other members of the royal family in recent months as she recovered from a bout of COVID-19, began using a cane and struggled to get around.
“The whole country will be deeply concerned by the news from Buckingham Palace this lunchtime,” Truss said on Twitter.
“My thoughts — and the thoughts of people across our United Kingdom — are with Her Majesty The Queen and her family at this time.”
Since assuming the throne after the death of her father on Feb. 6, 1952, Elizabeth has been a symbol of stability as Britain negotiated the end of empire, the dawn of the information age and the mass migration that transformed the country into a multicultural society.
Throughout it all, the queen has built a bond with the nation through a seemingly endless series of public appearance as she opened libraries, dedicated hospitals and bestowed honors on deserving citizens.
She worked steadily into the twilight of her reign. But the death of Prince Philip, her husband of more than 70 years, in April of last year reminded the U.K. that the reign of the queen, the only monarch most of her subjects have ever known, is finite.
That truth was the subtext of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations as newspapers, television news shows and even the walls of the palace were filled with images of Elizabeth as she changed from a glamorous young queen in crown and diamonds to a kind of global grandmother known for her omnipresent handbag and love of horses and corgis.
Charles was front and center throughout the festivities as he stood in for his mother and demonstrated that he was ready to take on her mantle.
Wearing a ceremonial scarlet tunic and bearskin hat, he reviewed the troops during the Queen’s Birthday Parade on the opening day of the jubilee. The next day, he was the last guest to enter St. Paul’s Cathedral and took his seat at the front of the church for a service of thanksgiving in honor of the queen. At a star-studded concert in front of Buckingham Palace, he delivered the main tribute to the woman he addressed as, “Your Majesty, mummy.” | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/queen-elizabeth-iis-health-concerns-doctors/ | 2022-09-08T14:01:16Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/queen-elizabeth-iis-health-concerns-doctors/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Whitney Risner, wife of Denver Broncos offensive lineman Dalton Risner, recently eclipsed one million followers on TikTok — and she credits the haters with helping her reach the milestone.
Whitney began posting regular NFL game day content on TikTok in 2020, such as kissing Dalton over the wall from the stands to the field. The feedback she received was polarizing — but the engagement convinced the app to show users more of it.
“I remember getting so much hate in the beginning, but crazy enough that just sparked the algorithm and that’s kind of how it took off,” she laughed.
“People were either positive, saying that I had the dream life, or commenting, ‘You are so cringe. Your husband’s your personality.’
“It was one extreme to the next, and both pushed the algorithm to give me more engagement.”
Two years later, Dalton celebrated Whitney’s million follower milestone in part by providing balloons to commemorate the occasion, and she has become a full-fledged influencer. She’s worked with Snickers. She is traveling to the upcoming New York Fashion Week on behalf of the Revolve brand. She is also launching a jewelry business, with the vision of living through your younger self.
Engagement variance can be tricky for influencers to deal with. Whitney might send something out with little preparation and have it get millions of views, or she might spend a lot of time and energy planning a post only for it to flop.
“If you’re going to do social media, you have to have thick skin, and you have to not let that control you — or you’ll go insane,” she said. “Kind of having a balance of seeing what performs and playing off of that, but also knowing that you never know what people will like.”
Dalton played football at Kansas State and Whitney was on the basketball team at Fort Hays State in Kansas. While they became aware of each other in passing from their athletic endeavors, the Risners really got to meet each other at Lake of the Ozarks, where Dalton was vacationing and Whitney’s parents have a house and she had a summer job.
Like many modern day romances, this one kicked off with a DM slide.
The now-couple followed each other on Instagram. When Dalton first messaged his future wife on the platform, while the two were both college students, Whitney had a boyfriend at the time and, in Dalton’s words, put him in the “friend zone.”
About a year later, Dalton was in his senior year at K-State, and they reconnected — through Snapchat.
This time it was Whitney making the connection. She and her boyfriend had broken up. She saw that Dalton was in the area, and reached out about meeting up. He was returning the following weekend, and they went bar hopping around the lake.
Lake of the Ozarks is unique in the sense that the people there do much of their commuting by boat. What might be a two-hour drive between homes or bars and restaurants could take just a few minutes by water.
“It’s kind of crazy how things work out — him going to Colorado and me being from Missouri, if it didn’t happen then it might’ve never happened and this [marriage] would never be a thing,” Whitney said.
When they first started seeing each other, Dalton was 23 and Whitney was 20. Dalton was heading to the NFL and Whitney didn’t necessarily feel like either of them wanted to make a commitment.
“I was at the phase where I wanted to find a good woman — someone who loved me for me,” Dalton said. “I wasn’t looking for someone just to have fun. She felt the opposite. She thought I was ‘some football guy’ [looking for a quick hookup]. She was like, ‘What do you want to do with a 20-year-old girl who’s finishing college while you’re going down this path?”
With little foundation built, Dalton kept pursuing a long distance relationship for about a year.
“He was going to the NFL. I was a basketball player and nursing student,” Whitney said. “I was like, ‘What does this guy want?’ I was like ‘Go enjoy yourself. Why are you trying to make this work?’ He was very patient and I was immature. He kept being persistent and showing me who he was, and I’m glad it all worked out.”
Speaking of the NFL, Dalton has a new challenge on his hand this season. The Broncos acquired Russell Wilson — which means holding blocks for much longer with a mobile quarterback.
“Russell’s such an amazing quarterback and leader. I’ve loved every bit of having him here. I’ve never been around a player like him in four years in the league,” Dalton said. “When it comes to pass pro, I’m used to having certain rules — 2-3 seconds on a normal pass, six seconds at most on play action. With Russell back there, he’s so good with his feet, and he scrambles around so much. Now the rule is there is no rule on how long you block your guy. You block your guy until the whistle blows.
The offensive guard explained that holding blocks until the end of the play is imperative not only because Wilson could be scrambling around — but the quarterback could be right by the defender he’s assigned to block.
“You don’t know where he’s at. If our D-lineman is still working, we’re still working. It makes life harder for the offensive line, no question. But more important, we’ve got a guy who wants to win out there. A guy who wants to make that happen. I’m not complaining about that. I think it’s going to be really good for us.”
Returning to the couple, they spend a lot of their free time together helping each other shop for clothes, watching movies, going to church — Dalton talks about his faith in terms of feeling like he has a “higher purpose” and speaks about the worthiness of all people, and treating everyone the “right way.”
The couple also spends time working on Dalton’s foundation, RisnerUp, which works with the Special Olympics and also benefits people with serious illnesses or others in need.
“I feel like me and Whitney are just best friends. It’s not that I don’t have any other friends, but I’d rather hang our with her,” Dalton said. “If the boys are like, ‘Hey, let’s go get a beer at the bar,” I’d rather hang out with Whitney at home.” | https://nypost.com/2022/09/08/meet-dalton-and-whitney-risner-nfl-lineman-and-tiktok-influencer/ | 2022-09-08T14:04:01Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/08/meet-dalton-and-whitney-risner-nfl-lineman-and-tiktok-influencer/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As we prepare to vote for the alderperson who will fill the vacated aldermanic presidency in the city of St. Louis, we want to note that long existent fissures in the country have helped create a divide in national politics that is growing. This troubling divisiveness plagues the city and its future because St. Louis finds itself beholden in critical ways to a rural-dominated Missouri state government that has gained and maintained power with its alignment with a politics based mostly on the social and cultural aspects of personal identity. This urban-rural divide has been an inhibiting factor to more vibrant growth and development in this state and its urban regions compared to some of its peer states.
This reality compounds the city’s ability to address more effectively some of its many daunting problems. As we ponder the choices to fill the remaining term of longtime aldermanic board president Lewis Reed, (who resigned after he was indicted of and later pled guilty to corruption), we must take a more comprehensive view of what the priorities should be for city government and who is the preferred choice to work to foster these much needed reforms.
We saw major declines in the city’s population and tax base with accelerated flight to the suburbs and beyond, particularly from the 1950s (St. Louis was the nation’s 8th largest city in 1950) to the 1980s. That population decline has continued into the 2020s. That means that the caliber and effectiveness of its political leaders need to be measured by who can best face its obstacles and provide the governance that can optimize the city’s considerable potential.
Despite its toughest challenges real or perceived that contribute to its overall national reputation, there are real opportunities to create a growth mentality that takes advantage of our location, low cost of living and many other unique characteristics. These advantages represent opportunity for forward-thinking resourceful people with new ideas both here and beyond.
Much of what must change is rooted in the city’s archaic, inefficient governance structure, outdated infrastructure, and deeply-rooted regressive politics. There needs to be a new generation of governance and political leadership. The Board of Aldermen needs to be restored to its role as policy maker and legislative body with better compensated and qualified staff. These changes are essential to assure that alderpersons have the needed support and are able to commit and carry out their considerable responsibilities full time.
Fortunately the voters decided to reduce the number of aldermen from 28 to 14 in 2023 to better reflect the reality of the city’s massive population loss. Protests from some incumbent alderpersons insist that this reduction will inhibit the influence of leaders from our most marginalized areas of the city. Maintaining the current structure is hardly a responsible approach to reverse the city’s precipitous decline, particularly the north side’s continued decline that penalizes access to basic city services including educational and retraining opportunities.
This election provides an excellent opportunity to continue some of the reforms initiated by Mayor Jones in collaboration with Comptroller Darlene Green. It is most important that the new member of the city’s powerful 3-member chief fiscal body be compatible with these leaders and have a shared commitment to changes that are needed to attract and support economic development that is more inclusive and equitable – “win-win development” that serves the interests of the people of the city’s current and future investors. Exploitation and entrenched cronyism and corrupt political deals must give way to transparent developments that benefit the entire city and its people.
Some of the qualities we are looking for are a public record of progressive advocacy for the well-being of all St. Louisans, hard-working, collaborative, and have a demonstrated ability to work credibly across racial, geographic and class lines with like-minded elected officials. In addition, the candidate must have an understanding of the intricacies of government and the distinct well defined roles of each branch of government. They should also realize that there must be a strategy to grow in revenues to pay city employees competitive wages and be deployed in accordance with best management practices, not political cronyism.
The American is convinced that based on the above criteria and her past performance, we join Mayor Tishaura Jones U.S. Rep Cori Bush and endorse 15th Ward Ald. Megan Green as our unequivocal choice to become the next president of the Board of Alderman. It was an easy choice given the past history of her opponent. Make certain you join Mayor Jones and U.S. Rep Bush in their support for Ald. Green on Tuesday, Sept. 13. | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/editorials/megan-green-brings-chance-to-keep-city-moving-forward/article_4bf164b4-2efa-11ed-a2b8-6309faa3be30.html | 2022-09-08T14:08:05Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/editorials/megan-green-brings-chance-to-keep-city-moving-forward/article_4bf164b4-2efa-11ed-a2b8-6309faa3be30.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave a green light to Pfizer and Moderna to issue updated COVID-19 vaccines last week, officials have been encouraging many Americans to get an updated booster.
The new boosters are intended for those who are already fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The boosters provide antibodies not only against previous strains of the virus but also against the omicron variant, which has accounted for most cases.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden will hold an event touting the new vaccines. His COVID-19 response coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha, has already been pushing for Americans to get the new booster. For some, this could be their fifth COVID-19 shot in the last two years.
“It matches the strain that's out there,” Jha told CNN. “We have not done that before. Certainly haven't done that in the last two years and it should provide a higher degree of protection against infection and transmission, against serious illness.”
The updated vaccines were in response to a virus that has mutated over the last two years. Although the original shot was quite effective, the vaccine has struggled to stop the spread of mild and moderate cases of the virus.
“In less than three months, we were able to develop and manufacture an Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted vaccine. This milestone further underlines the strength of rapidly adaptable mRNA vaccines against this continuously evolving virus,” said Dr. Ugur Sahin, CEO and co-founder of BioNTech.
The new version of the COVID-19 vaccine is already available at many pharmacies, including CVS and Walgreens.
The White House previously announced it purchased 66 million doses of Moderna’s updated vaccine and 105 million doses of Pfizer’s updated vaccine. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/coronavirus/officials-white-house-tout-new-covid-19-vaccines | 2022-09-08T14:12:01Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/coronavirus/officials-white-house-tout-new-covid-19-vaccines | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Chris Dening, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District project manager for construction at Montgomery Locks and Dam, gives a presentation of the upcoming work and expansion of the facility to a group of state partners during a tour of the site in Monaca, Pennsylvania, Aug. 3, 2022. State senators, representatives, local government officials, and trade and navigation industry partners toured the facility during an open house. The Pittsburgh District hosted the tour to give presentations on how locks benefit the regional and national economy and to highlight the upcoming, multi-year construction project planned to expand one of the locks at the facility.
The work at Montgomery is in the preconstruction phase. The phase helps prepare the worksite for the main construction project. Montgomery is part of the Upper Ohio Navigation Project, which has received $857.7 million in dedicated funding through the 2022 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The project will include replacing the facility’s 360-foot auxiliary chamber with a wider and longer 600-foot chamber that can fit up to nine barges at once. The district expects to begin work on the new lock construction in 2024, which will last at least eight years to complete. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District photo by Michel Sauret)
This work, Montgomery Locks and Dam open house invites state officials, industry partners to showcase upcoming construction [Image 36 of 36], by Michel Sauret, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright. | https://www.dvidshub.net/image/7404802/montgomery-locks-and-dam-open-house-invites-state-officials-industry-partners-showcase-upcoming-construction | 2022-09-08T14:13:13Z | dvidshub.net | control | https://www.dvidshub.net/image/7404802/montgomery-locks-and-dam-open-house-invites-state-officials-industry-partners-showcase-upcoming-construction | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Candido replaces Dobi as FCTA Transportation Secretary as FCT Minister makes new appointments
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has approved the appointment of Hon. Abdullahi Adamu Candido is the new Secretary for the Transportation Secretariat of the FCT Administration.
Born on the 3rd of December 1965 in Jiwa, Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abdullahi Adamu Candido served two terms as elected Executive Chairman of AMAC under the All Progressives Congress (APC) from 2016 – 2022.
He replaces Hon. Zakari Angulu Dobi resigned his appointment as Secretary of the Transportation Secretariat to contest for the senatorial ticket of the FCT in the forthcoming general elections which he has secured under the APC.
Also appointed is Farida Odangi Suleiman who is now the Senior Special Assistant (Special Duties) to the FCT Minister.
Farida Odangi Suleiman replaces Hon. Abu Zarri Ribadu who also resigned his appointment as Senior Special Assistant, (Special Duties) to the FCT Minister to contest for the AMAC/Bwari Federal Constituency of the FCT in the forthcoming 2023 general election. He is now the APC candidate for that position.
Farida Ogangi Suleiman holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Estate Management as well as a Master’s degree in Environmental Impact Assessment from the Federal University of Technology Minna.
The Minister also appointed Engr. Hassan Umar Danjuma and Engr. Tauheed Amusan as Chairman and General Manager of the FCT Water Board, respectively.
Engr. Hassan Umar Danjuma who holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Engineering from the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria with over 30 years of experience as an engineer, is a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers and has a specialization in design, construction and management of civil engineering projects.
Engr Tauheed Amusan who is a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers has a specialisation in diverse areas of civil engineering and project management for water supply, roads, district infrastructure and environmental engineering.
He joined the services of the FCTA in 1991 and until his appointment as the GM of FCT Water Board, was seconded as Special Assistant (Technical) to the Hon Minister of Water Resources in 2015.
Abubakar Sadiq Maina was also appointed as the Group Managing Director of the Abuja Investment Company Limited, a subsidiary of the FCT Administration.
Born on 24th April 1974, Abubakar Sadiq Maina graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Maiduguri in 1998 and has about twenty-two (22) years of portfolio management experience.
Meanwhile, the Minister has also ratified the appointment of Zanna Alhaji Hamza as the substantive Director of the FCT Treasury (DOT). The new DOT has been serving in an acting capacity since the retirement of his predecessor.
Hamza Zanna Alhaji, who is a fellow member of the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria holds bachelor’s and Masters’s Degrees in Accounting from the Universities of Maiduguri and Lagos respectively.
In a statement issued to newsmen in Abuja, on Thursday by the FCT Minister’s Chief Press Secretary, Anthony Ogunleye, the appointments take immediate effect.
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Enugu State Police Command has confirmed the attack on a patrol vehicle at Chime Avenue New Haven Enugu on Wednesday night.
A statement from the State Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Daniel Ndukwe, also confirmed the death of three policemen shot by the hoodlums.
The Police said an intensive manhunt operation is ongoing to fish out the unknown assailants who, operated in a Lexus Jeep.
He recalled that the occupants of the Lexus Jeep suddenly opened fire on the moving Police Patrol Van on duty.
The police statement said three of the operatives sustained severe gunshot wounds during the shooting and were later confirmed dead at the hospital.
He confirmed that the incident happened at about 10:15 Wednesday night along Chime Avenue, New Haven, Enugu.
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Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has threatened to embark on a fierce industrial action that will cripple economic activities in the country if President Muhammadu Buhari, fails to take result-oriented action to end the menace and by extension stop the ongoing retrenchment of Nigerian workers in the sector.
PENGASSEN President, Festus Osifo said this when he addressed the media and teeming members of the association at the Unity Fountain Abuja, during its rally against pipeline vandalism and oil theft.
Furthermore, Osifo said that a number of oil companies are folding up their operations in Nigeria because of the losses to oil theft and pipeline vandalism. He also noted that workers are tremendously affected by the menace, as the retrenchment of workers in the sector is out of control.
He retorted, “We have engaged the security agencies and some government agencies on the issue but unfortunately nothing serious has been done to mitigate the issue. We have also proffered solutions that will help end the menace of oil theft and vandalism which are causing the country so much. But all our advice seems to go on deaf ears, and that’s why we are on the streets today protesting.
“Government must develop the muscles and political will to go after oil thieves. The GMD of NNPC last week said that everybody is involved in the oil theft. Everybody he meant are the security agencies, some oil and gas workers, host communities and some other Nigerians.
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Osifo further said: “We learn a few days ago that the Chief of Naval Staff made some beautiful statement, but this issue is beyond a statement. It is beyond blame games. As a Chief of Naval Staff, you send people to Niger Delta to go and man the waterways but the crude oil is still being stolen on a daily basis on the same waterways.
“Maybe at best, out of the 10 vessels that are stolen, you bring only one and said you have caught the people stealing oil, what then happened to the rest? So the rhetoric must stop. This is the time for us to act.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/our-members-losing-jobs-in-numbers-because-of-oil-theft-%E2%80%95-pengassan/ | 2022-09-08T14:16:50Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/our-members-losing-jobs-in-numbers-because-of-oil-theft-%E2%80%95-pengassan/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Panel on Izombe mayhem submits report as Army, NSCDC fail to appear
The panel of inquiry set up by the Imo State Government to look into the mayhem that engulfed Izombe Community in Oguta Local Government Area of the state has submitted its report.
The chairman of the panel, Hon. Justice Ezeohiri Fred Njemanze rtd. said this on Wednesday when he handed over four volumes of the committee’s report to Governor Hope Uzodimma at the new Exco Chambers Government House, Owerri.
He said that the committee received over 350 petitions and reports from petitioners, traditional rulers and president generals from the affected communities as well as from the Police, the DSS and Correctional Services.
Justice Njemanze regretted that the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC) did not appear before the committee.
The chairman expressed disgust over the level of heinous crime and criminality perpetrated by people for selfish reasons and purposes, all of which helped to fuel the mayhem in Izombe and adjoining communities.
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While thanking the governor for finding them worthy of the assignment, he said that their committee was inaugurated on October 3, 2021, while they began proceedings in February 2022.
Receiving the report, Governor Uzodimma thanked the chairman and members for a thorough job which he said will go a long way in assuaging the problems of insecurity in the area in question in particular and Imo State in general.
He saluted the members for their diligence in dealing with the situation, particularly the painstaking way they looked at the various issues at stake, noting that their report “will help calm frayed nerves and tension.”
The governor said he is convinced that the report will help the government bring to rest the insecurity situation in the state.
The governor assured the committee that government will look into their recommendations and apply them appropriately.
Other members of the committee include Barr. Nkechi Obioha (Secretary), Chief Ethelbert Nwachukwu, Barr. Bright Ohaneze, Mr. Nnamdi Gogo Okwuosa, and Mr. Peter Uwa. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/panel-on-izombe-mayhem-submits-report-as-army-nscdc-fail-to-appear/ | 2022-09-08T14:16:57Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/panel-on-izombe-mayhem-submits-report-as-army-nscdc-fail-to-appear/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — In some ways, this new, live-action take on the character Pinocchio is a metaphor for Disney's game plan, which seems to be to remake all of its animated classics as CGI-live-action hybrids.
Just like the plan, the movie knows all the words and music. But it doesn't take a Blue Fairy to look into his hollow eyes and realize that he has a long way to go before becoming a real boy.
Shiny, slick and blessed with a high-powered voice cast, the new movie — due out on Disney+ Friday — traces the outline of the 1940 original, sprinkling in a few ideas of its own.
Since it hews so close to the original, the movie manages to tell a delightful and heartwarming tale. It also boasts stunning visuals and has a few jokes with modern twists thrown in to freshen up the material.
The best thing about the film is that it will lead viewers to the original. Some questionable changes to the script awkwardly attempt to freshen things up, but many of the alterations — including an odd decision to do away with the original ending — are changed for the sake of change.
Director Robert Zemeckis gives the film the polish of a professional, eliciting spirited performances from his cast.
Tom Hanks plays Geppetto, the amiable and naive woodcarver who is so lonely that he crafts a wooden boy to keep him company.
Benjamin Evan Ainsworth voices Pinocchio with self-aware pizzazz, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is barely recognizable as Jiminy Cricket.
Keegan-Michael Key makes a stark impression as Honest John, the devious red fox, and Cynthia Erivo brightens up the screen as the Blue Fairy.
On the spectrum of live-action remakes of Disney classics, "Pinocchio" ranks somewhere in the middle on the spectrum. It lacks the vivacity and majesty of, say, "The Lion King" but has a lot more going for it than the likes of the bland "Dumbo."
But most anyone who says they prefer this new "Pinocchio" to the original will see their nose start growing.
RATING: 2.5 stars out of 4.
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Ricky Martin is reportedly suing his nephew after the 21-year-old claimed sexual abuse.
According to NBC News, Martin claims his nephew ruined his reputation and cost him millions of dollars in deals by making false allegations.
Martin was subject to a restraining order on July 1 after his nephew reported that they had a relationship that turned volatile. The restraining order was eventually lifted after Martin's nephew decided to drop the case and reportedly admitted under oath the sex abuse allegations were false.
In the lawsuit, Martin claims his nephew continues to contact him, NBC News reports.
Martin is seeking $20 million in damages.
Martin's nephew has not publicly responded to the lawsuit. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/ricky-martin-reportedly-files-20-million-lawsuit-against-nephew-who-claimed-sexual-abuse | 2022-09-08T14:21:00Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/ricky-martin-reportedly-files-20-million-lawsuit-against-nephew-who-claimed-sexual-abuse | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A passenger on a Polish Airlines flight has recorded the dramatic moment a window cracked mid-flight, sending panic through the aircraft.
TikTok user Tristan, who was on-board a recent LOT Polish Airlines flight from Warsaw, Poland to New York’s JFK Airport, released footage of the incident.
It showed a window had cracked in several places causing passengers in the row to scramble from their seats to safety.
“Throwback to when our plane window cracked on Polish Airlines and everyone freaked tf out,” he captioned the recent clip which has since amassed 8.4 million views.
According to independent aviation publication, Aviation Herald, the incident on board the Boeing 787-8 took place on August 20. It said the plane was “about 300km northeast of New York when one of the passenger windows cracked”.
Footage shows flight attendants asking passengers, with some heard screaming, to immediately take their seats while also informing the pilots.
According to the publication, the aircraft safely landed in New York and was on the ground for five hours before undertaking its return flight to Warsaw.
The window was also reportedly replaced.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s passenger windows have electric dim settings so windows can be dimmed or ‘opened’ at the touch of a button rather than having to open or close a window shade manually.
A LOT Polish spokesperson said the electro photochromic layer was damaged, but that the tightness of the window was intact.
The spokesperson also said there was no threat to passengers on board at any time, Forbes reported.
It comes after another passenger took to TikTok to share a similar experience about a window on her flight also cracking mid-air.
Thankfully, she wasn’t actually in danger, as most plane windows have two or three panes, so it was only the inner pane that was broken.
According to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations, a window has to be able to withstand pressure at least 33 percent greater than the pressure outside. That means the window can withstand at least another 170kg of force. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/08/passengers-panic-on-polish-airlines-after-window-cracks-mid-flight/ | 2022-09-08T14:29:25Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/08/passengers-panic-on-polish-airlines-after-window-cracks-mid-flight/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is seeking participants to support the development of a roadmap of codes and standards for electric vehicles (EVs) at scale. The roadmap will be developed by the ANSI Electric Vehicles Standards Panel (EVSP).
The roadmap will address critical codes and standards issues including high-power DC charging, storage (i.e., microgrid, distributed energy resource management systems) integrated with DC charging, vehicle grid integration, high-power scalable/interoperable wireless charging, and vehicle-oriented systems. Subject matter experts representing the following types of organizations (among others) are invited to participate:
- Vehicle OEMs
- Energy service providers (electric utilities, energy retailers)
- EV services providers (charging network operators)
- EV fleet operators / managers
- EVSE manufacturers
- Cloud service providers
- Providers of telematics user services
- Building energy management system operators
- Distributed energy resource aggregators
- Standards developing organizations
- Non-SDO consortia/alliances
- Code officials
- Government (federal, state, local)
- National labs
Those interested in participating are invited to review the panel architecture and schedule of working group calls and sign up for one or more working groups. The working groups are holding virtual meetings twice a month with subgroups developing content covering specific issues over the next several months. Even those unable to make all the calls can contribute to the document's development. Public comment on the draft roadmap is targeted for mid-February 2023, and publication of a final roadmap is targeted by mid-May 2023. Participation is open to EV stakeholders that have operations in the United States.
The ANSI EVSP is a consensus-based, cross-sector coordinating body whose objective is to foster coordination and collaboration on standardization matters among public- and private-sector stakeholders to enable the safe, mass deployment of electric vehicles and associated infrastructure in the United States with international coordination, adaptability, and engagement. In the 2011-2014 timeframe, the EVSP developed two versions of a Standardization Roadmap for Electric Vehicles which is available as a historical reference. The current initiative is the result of a June 2021 lab call funding opportunity announced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO). The lab call included a codes and standards pillar to "identify and address challenges and barriers to the integration of EVs@Scale charging with the grid created by uncoordinated development of codes and standards and the rapid advances in vehicle and charging technologies." Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) leads the codes and standards pillar of the EVs@Scale lab consortium formed in response, which also includes National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Idaho National Laboratory (INL), and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). The EVs@Scale activity also supports federal and state funding associated with deploying EV charging infrastructure nationwide.
There is no fee associated with participating in the EVSP and, ANSI membership, while encouraged, is not required to participate. The DOE VTO/ANL are supporting ANSI's facilitation of the EVSP roadmapping effort. Sponsorship opportunities (with associated recognition benefits) are available to interested public- and private-sector stakeholders who would like to provide such support. ANSI is a 501c3 not-for-profit membership organization, and all funds are directly applied to help offset ANSI's costs of administering the EVSP.
"In order to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the codes and standards needed for the scalable deployment of electric vehicles, it is essential that we engage all affected stakeholders. ANSI invites all interested stakeholders to have a seat at the table and participate in this important initiative," said S. Joe Bhatia, ANSI president and CEO.
For more information, go to www.ansi.org/evsp.
About ANSI
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance both the global competitiveness of U.S. business and the U.S. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity. Its membership is comprised of businesses, professional societies and trade associations, standards developers, government agencies, and consumer and labor organizations.
The Institute represents and serves the diverse interests of more than 270,000 companies and organizations and 30 million professionals worldwide. ANSI is the official U.S. representative to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and, via the U.S. National Committee, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). For more information, visit www.ansi.org.
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GERMANTOWN, Md., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Deka Biosciences ("Deka"), a biotech company focused on the development of novel cytokine therapies to treat cancer and inflammatory diseases, announced today the appointment of Charlotte Moser, MD, PhD, MSc, MBA as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Deb Kientop, MBA as Vice President, Clinical Operations.
"We are proud to have both Charlotte and Deb joining Deka during this exciting time," said John Mumm, Chief Executive Officer, Deka. "Both come to Deka with strong experience, knowledge and expertise, which will help to deliver life-saving therapies to patients, and drive expansion of our platform, and overall growth of Deka."
Dr. Moser joins Deka from Nanocan Therapeutics Corporation where she served as Chief Scientific Officer. With over 28 years working as an oncologist, 15 of which she has spent specifically in drug development, Dr. Moser has obtained extensive clinical operational and regulatory knowledge and broad clinical trial design and execution experience. "I'm keen to propel Deka from a preclinical to clinical stage company and drive the development of more tolerable and selective immunotherapies at a fast pace," shared Dr. Moser.
Deb Kientop comes to Deka from ErgoMed, where she served as the Senior Vice President, Oncology Strategy and Innovation. Deb has over 27 years working in oncology drug development, from bench research at the University of Wisconsin, to medical affairs and clinical development roles within pharma and CRO. "I'm excited to be a part of the expert team that is bringing next generation targeted cytokines to the clinic. I look forward to the opportunity to bring precision therapies to those with cancer and autoinflammatory diseases," shared Ms. Kientop.
Deka Biosciences is a biotech company focused on the development of novel cytokine therapies to treat cancer and inflammatory diseases such as Crohn's, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis and sepsis. The company is led by entrepreneur Dr. John Mumm, who is backed by a team of experienced academic, biopharma and CDMO innovators with expertise in drug discovery, product development, characterization and testing. Deka has developed disease specific Diakines™ that maximize patient benefits through improved pharmacokinetics / pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) function via targeted delivery of dual and complimentary cytokines to affected tissues or cells. Using precision medicine, Deka will maximize the impact of its Diakines™ by building targeted therapies for every patient. To learn more, visit www.dekabiosciences.com.
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It doesn't happen often, but a tropical system is likely to affect much of western Mexico, and flooding rains are possible over southern California. Hurricane Kay is currently (as of 7am Thursday) near the Baja California peninsula in Mexico with winds of 85mph. The track pushes Kay northward along the Pacific coast before weakening and moving away from the coast.
It could be the closest approach of a tropical system to California in more than 25 years. Hurricanes and tropical storms normally die out before moving that far north. The reason, a cold current of water flows from Alaska, southward along the west coast. Many non-natives are shocked when they head to the beaches of southern California and find water temperatures below 68 degrees, even in the middle of summer. Hurricanes and tropical storms need water temperatures of at least 80 degrees to survive.
The only known tropical system to reach California is the San Diego Hurricane of 1858 where heavy rains, and winds up to 80mph caused significant damage and flooding.
Kay is expected to bring breezy conditions to San Diego, Orange, and Los Angeles Counties, with heavy rains possible over the desert region east of the urban areas. Parts of California from the Mexico border, northward to Palm Springs, could see up to six inches of rain. | https://www.katc.com/news/kay-expected-to-drench-southern-california | 2022-09-08T14:34:14Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/kay-expected-to-drench-southern-california | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The former Chief Strategy Officer will now be responsible for overall business operations at the company, to support Medius' strategic vision
LAS VEGAS , Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medius, a leading provider of AP Automation and wider spend management solutions, announces the appointment of a new Chief Operating Officer, as the latest move to further accelerate the company's growth.
Branden Jenkins, based in Las Vegas, is an expert in driving rapid business growth, leading cross-functional teams and go-to-market strategies. Jenkins joined Medius in 2021 as Chief Strategy Officer, playing a key role in improving the operationalization of many new strategies, particularly in go-to-market, product strategy, corporate development, and alliances.
With 20 years of executive leadership experience, he holds first-hand experience in large-scale SaaS growth. Prior to joining Medius, Jenkins spent nine years at Oracle NetSuite, rising to VP of Strategy, where he helped to grow the company from $250m to billions in revenue. He also held the positions of VP of Target Markets, and General Manager of Global Retail.
Prior to Oracle NetSuite, Jenkins held the position of CEO and Chairman at Retail Anywhere, a SaaS company based in San Luis Obispo, California. Branden took over as CEO in 2002 and sold the company to NetSuite after ten years as the company's CEO.
The COO appointment rounds out and complements the executive team with significant go-to-market and product investments from the addition Advent International as a minority private equity shareholder, alongside existing majority shareholders Marlin Equity Partners.
Jim Lucier, Chief Executive Officer, Medius, comments: "As we look to scale Medius to a billion-dollar category king, we need a leader with extensive experience in sales, business development, and go-to-market strategies who can lead our daily operations and who will be instrumental in helping us continue to drive our business forward. Branden will play an incredibly important role in supporting and challenging the team, as we evolve our business to further accelerate our rapid growth."
Branden Jenkins, Chief Operating Officer, Medius, comments: "Medius is laser-focused on reducing risk and fraud for mid-sized and large enterprises with our patent-pending AI technology that takes AP processing from automated to autonomous. It's an exciting time to step into my expanded role at Medius. I plan to focus my energy on scaling our organization, and working with our incredible customers, partners, and team to take this company to new heights."
For more information, please contact:
Laurel Case, Fight or Flight for Medius
laurel@fightorflight.com | +1 315 663 6780
Medius@fightflight.co.uk | +44 330 133 0985
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Donations to fund the Veterinary Hope Foundation's specially designed support groups for veterinarians
WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of National Suicide Prevention Week, the Veterinary Hope Foundation (VHF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is announcing its partnership with Greenline Pet, a veterinary software company, and Bader Rutter, a full-service advertising agency specializing in the veterinary channel, to bring the first-ever client donation payment system to veterinary clinics. Donations made through the Greenline system will go toward funding the Veterinary Hope Foundation's mission of improving veterinary team mental health by building small communities of support. Donations will help to fund the delivery of six-week professionally facilitated peer support groups that help veterinary professionals better handle the unique stressors of their profession.
"With too many veterinarians reducing their hours or leaving clinical practice altogether, we knew we had to do something to help this profession in dire need of support," said Nick Meurrier, Greenline Pet. "Aligning with the Veterinary Hope Foundation was a natural choice for us as they look to directly support mental wellness in the veterinary community through their peer support groups. All of us at Greenline look forward to seeing the impact this donation system can have in bringing much-needed help to a profession we care deeply about."
Each of Greenline's network of 10,000 veterinary clinics will have the chance to opt into this donation program. Once enrolled, veterinary clinics will offer their clients the opportunity to donate an amount of their choosing to the Veterinary Hope Foundation at checkout. All donations made to the Veterinary Hope Foundation are tax deductible and will be billed as a separate line item. For every dollar donated, 98 cents will directly fund the foundation.
"We're thrilled to have Greenline's support in delivering our mission to bring the veterinary community education and connection programs," said Dr. Blair McConnel, Veterinary Hope Foundation. "With donations made through this program, we will be able to provide many veterinary professionals with specialized training, resources and community to better handle the challenges unique to our profession, including convenience euthanasia, highly emotional client interactions, long hours, high student debt loads and more."
Upon enrollment in the donation program, participating clinics will receive materials to help educate their clients about these tough issues. As the agency of record for the Veterinary Hope Foundation, Bader Rutter was responsible for bringing this launch to life, while also developing a client-facing education campaign to support these veterinary clinics and the foundation as a whole.
"We've worked with veterinarians and their teams for over 20 years. At this point, veterinarians are more than our partners, allies and advisers. They're our friends," said David Jordan, president, Bader Rutter. "We are a founding sponsor of the Veterinary Hope Foundation because we believe we can help to raise awareness of these issues and promote healthy dialogue. Pet owners want to help. They want to participate. With this launch, they'll have an opportunity to do so."
To learn more about the Veterinary Hope Foundation's support groups, please visit: https://veterinaryhope.org/support-groups/. If you're a Greenline clinic looking to get involved, please watch the Greenline portal for next steps.
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Founded in May 2021, the Veterinary Hope Foundation (VHF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on early prevention, education and connection programs tailored for the animal care community. Built on the belief that there's hope for veterinarians in crisis, the VHF provides veterinarians with the preventive tools and support they need to navigate the common stressors unique to their profession. Governed by a board of directors and advisory panel composed of mental health experts, practicing veterinarians and animal lovers, the VHF is uniquely positioned to impact the future of the veterinarian profession. To learn more about the VHF, please visit VeterinaryHope.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Founded in April 2013, Greenline is the industry leader and preferred digital platform for easing clinic workload related to coupon and rebate redemption. Greenline not only digitally processes manufacturer coupons and rebates but also supports loyalty and wellness programs. Our software saves clinics time, improves the pet owner experience, drives compliance, increases doses and revenue, prevents lost reimbursements, and is an environmentally friendly alternative to paper-based submissions.
Greenline already supports over 10,000 veterinary clinics and provides best-in-class customer service to our clients and clinics with a dedicated Customer Experience team located in Nashville, Tennessee.
Bader Rutter is a full-service advertising and marketing agency with offices in Milwaukee and Chicago. It is the largest agricultural marketing agency and the leading B2B marcom agency in the country, as well as the leading B2B marcom agency in the world with global agency partner BBN International. With around 245 full-time employees in 13 states, Bader Rutter offers a full array of advertising, digital and social media, public relations, business consulting, and design capabilities. The employee-owned agency's expertise includes core work in agriculture, the food production system, pet care and animal health, manufacturing, insurance and financial services.
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SARASOTA, Fla., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PaceMate, the leading digital healthcare company in cardiac data management and remote monitoring, is pleased to announce the PaceMate Ecosystem—a strategic development of its all-in-one data platform—PaceMate™LIVE—to expand beyond cardiac remote monitoring software and service to offer full interoperability and maximized productivity for device clinics, cardiology practices, and hospital systems.
The first product in the PaceMate Ecosystem expansion is PaceMate CEM (Cardiac Event Monitoring), featuring full interoperability through one dashboard of the four leading cardiac event monitoring companies: Preventice, BioTel, iRhythm, and (coming soon) Bardy. PaceMate CEM is now available to all current and new customers as an addition to existing remote monitoring service and product lines within the PaceMateLIVE platform. Now, the Ecosystem offers customers HL7® FHIR® API Electronic Health Record system integration with all devices—CIEDs, event monitors, heart failure devices, and consumer EKGs—into one seamless platform with a proprietary clinical alerts engine and automated billing.
Since its founding in 2015, the company has provided cardiology departments across the country with streamlined workflows and efficient cardiac remote monitoring within one real-time, vendor-neutral dashboard. Now, the PaceMate Ecosystem gives clinicians and staff comprehensive interoperability with all EHRs, with all health datapoints safely stored, connected, and accessible within one platform.
Tripp Higgins, CEO and co-founder of PaceMate, explains, "In the PaceMate Ecosystem, we offer clients unprecedented interoperability in one place for simplified and efficient clinical workflow and data management—a true digital healthcare experience. Multiple layers of stakeholders can connect with all device, patient, and health record data in one platform. PaceMateLIVE serves as a customizable ecosystem of data, products, and automated workflows." Storing patients' ever-increasing device datapoints and EHR datapoints in one innovative, connected, digital system gives practices optimal interoperability.
Become part of the connected PaceMate Ecosystem. Talk with us this week at HRX 2022—the Heart Rhythm Society's cardiovascular digital health summit on September 8-10, 2022, in San Diego, California—where PaceMate is a gold sponsor. Learn more about how PaceMate is solving the challenges of interoperability in cardiac care by providing the only care + data delivery all-in-one dashboard utilizing the HL7® FHIR® API standard for the exchange of health information. Stop by booth #104 for a PaceMateLIVE software demo and view our panelists here: https://pacemate.com/HRX/.
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Recognized as a Top 100 Healthcare Technology Company by Healthcare Technology Report, PaceMate is one of the nation's fastest-growing companies in cardiac rhythm management software and remote monitoring. Combining state-of-the-art, cloud-native software, research-grade data, and seamless integrations, PaceMateLIVE, the company's flagship remote monitoring platform, is the most advanced technology available today for electrophysiologists, cardiologists, advanced practice providers, device clinics, and healthcare systems. With PaceMate, leading healthcare organizations can significantly improve patient outcomes, reimbursements, productivity, and population health with better point-of-care decision-making and alert management.
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Fed chair Powell speaking at the Cato Inst. He says:
- we need to keep going until we get the job done on inflation
- very much my view we need to act 4th rightly, strongly on inflation
- my message is the Fed has and accepts responsibility for price stability
- longer inflation remains above target, greater the risks
- history cautions against prematurely loosening policy
- we are strongly committed to bring inflation down
- we will not be influenced by political considerations
- the Fed focuses on its mandate
- Publics expectations on inflation play an important role
- very important that inflation expectations remain anchored
- today they are well anchored over longer term
- at the short and the clock is ticking and more concerns public will incorporate higher inflation expectations
- we are committed to doing the job of making sure inflation expectations are anchored
- we hope to achieve a period of below trend growth
- labor is still very, very strong
- wages are running at elevated levels
- we think our policy moves will be will be able to put growth below trend and get labor market back into balance
- in the last labor market report, we saw welcome increase in labor force participation rate
- do not see the case for moving to a single mandate on inflation vs. maximum employment AND inflation
- we can achieve both goals in medium-term
- I would not want to see current mandate narrowed or broadened
- we have a precious grant of independence which allows us to pursue our goals without intervention
- Our current operation framework on balance sheet is a good one. No need to return to scarce reserves
- no decision made on central bank digital currency's
- digital currency's are speculative asset. It is not really a store value
- something that purports to be money ought to be regulated; we need legislation on this
- federal fiscal policy is not on a sustainable path
- we need to get inflation a job done now any keep at it
- we are always making monetary policy under high uncertainty; makes getting it right very important
As you would expect, Powell reiterates his commitment to inflation as expressed at the Jackson Hole symposium.
Stocks are moving lower ahead of the open and off of the comments from the Lagarde and Powell.
- S&P -21 points
- Dow industrial average -141 points
- NASDAQ index -89 point
The dollar is moving higher.
- The EURUSD has moved back below its 200 and 100 hour moving averages at 0.99718 and 0.99429 respectively, tilting the shorter-term bias back to the downside.
- The GBPUSD will back below its 100 hour moving average 1.15139. Bias back to the downside
- The USDJPY is back higher on the day. The pair has been up 8 of the last 9 trading days. | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/powell-we-need-to-keep-going-until-we-get-the-job-done-20220908/ | 2022-09-08T14:37:59Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/powell-we-need-to-keep-going-until-we-get-the-job-done-20220908/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Rocky Mountain National Park fall guide: Best aspen, elk viewing and timed-entry tips
Rocky Mountain National Park is a special place any season, but fall brings out the best in the park.
Autumn ushers in cooler days, smaller crowds, golden aspen and elk bugling.
Don't let the park's timed-entry reservation permit system keep you from enjoying the park. The best times of the day to visit the park this time of year don't require a permit.
Here are tips on how to get into the park for free and before permits are required as well as when and where to take in the aspen and elk.
How to get into Rocky Mountain National Park for free, without a timed-entry permit
The best times to view the aspen and elk are dawn and dusk. That's when the light is best for photographs and videos and when the elk are most active.
The park does not charge an entrance fee if you arrive before 7 a.m. as entrance stations are not staffed. If you arrive after 7 a.m. and before 9 a.m., or after 3 p.m., you do not need a timed-entry reservation for the park outside of the Bear Lake Road Corridor but you will be required to pay the entrance fee, which is $30 for a daily pass.
Timed-entry permits are required for the Bear Lake Road Corridor, which includes that area as well as access to the rest of the park, daily 5 a.m. to 6 p.m. The permits are required for the rest of the park 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The permit system runs through Oct. 10.
For more details about the timed-entry system, including permit availability and booking a reservation, visit https://www.recreation.gov/.
Best aspen-viewing drives in Rocky Mountain National Park
Aspen viewing in the park generally starts about mid-September at the highest elevations, with peak viewing around the last two weeks of the month.
The park isn't flush with aspen but has enough to offer worthwhile drives. Here are the best ones:
Trail Ridge Road
This 48-mile paved road runs through the heart of the park from Estes Park on the east side to Grand Lake on the west.
Aspen are found in pockets along the road from its start at 7,500 feet in Estes Park to near 11,500 feet, where the forest ends and tundra begins. The road tops out at 12,183 feet.
The East Troublesome Fire severely burned areas near the west entrance of the park but aspen still are prevalent in the Kawuneeche Valley.
This road is heavily traveled. Do not stop on the road — there are pull-offs to accommodate viewing. Farview Curve is a prime pull-off on the west side.
Old Fall River Road
For a more quaint drive, take this switchback-laden gravel road with steep drop-offs and no guard rails. There is a reason the posted speed limit is 15 mph.
This roughly 9-mile one-way drive from the Endovalley area to the Alpine Visitor Center offers panoramic views of golden aspen rivulets dripping down mountainsides across the valley and aspen hugging the road. There are plenty of pull-offs to help you safety take in the views.
Chasm Falls in the lower section of the drive is a must-stop.
The road closes Oct. 3.
Bear Lake Road
This 10.5-mile paved road from the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center starts at 7,840 feet and climbs up to Bear Lake at 9,475 feet, putting you at prime aspen-viewing elevation.
Pockets of aspen are abundant on this drive that also leads to some of the park's best aspen hikes.
Peak to Peak Highway
This drive on Colorado Highway 7 from Estes Park to Central City/Black Hawk is not located in the park but takes you along the eastern edge of it and offers excellent aspen viewing. Drive this in the morning, as the majority of the aspen are to the west and will be lit up by the morning sun.
For more on aspen in Rock Mountain National Park, visit https://www.nps.gov/romo/planyourvisit/aspen.htm.
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Best aspen viewing hikes in Rocky Mountain National Park
Wild Basin
This is arguably the best aspen-viewing area for hikes in the park, and the best of the best is the nearly 3-mile one-way hike to Ouzel Falls.
It's a family-friendly hike with awesome aspen stands, the ever-present St. Vrain Creek and three waterfalls: Copeland Falls, Calypso Cascades and Ouzel Falls.
Sprague Lake
Another family-friendly hike, this nearly 1-mile loop around the lake is laden with aspen, offers views of Longs Peak and Estes Cone and, if you are lucky, the lake might hold a moose or two.
Bierstadt Lake
The 3-mile intermediate loop hike takes hikers through a mix of dark green conifers and golden aspen and offers views of the Continental Divide and an occasional moose cooling off in the lake.
Alberta Falls
This hike is located along popular Bear Lake Road. It is a family-friendly, 1.2-mile round-trip hike that includes excellent aspen viewing as well as spectacular Alberta Falls.
This area also offers worthwhile fall hikes to progressively challenging Bear Lake, Nymph Lake and Dream Lake.
Twin Sisters
The start of this strenuous, 7-mile round-trip trail offers robust aspen stands. At the 11,428-foot summit, you will be rewarded with a spectacular view of the "butterfly burn'' scar and surrounding aspen.
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Best elk viewing: Where and when
Moraine Park, Horseshoe Park and Upper Beaver Meadows are the three prime spots on the east side of the park to experience the elk rut, which includes the surreal elk bugling as part of the mating ritual.
The elk are most active in the early to mid-morning and late afternoon into the evening.
For more information on elk viewing, including viewing rules and etiquette, visit https://www.nps.gov/romo/learn/nature/elk.htm.
Rocky Mountain National Park information
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How $5 million gift to CSU women’s sports will impact Rams' soccer/softball complex and more
A $5 million gift to be used on women’s sports at Colorado State has been earmarked to improve facilities for nearly every women’s sport on campus.
The most visible impact to fans will be on CSU's new soccer and softball complex, but other portions of the projects from the donation are aimed at improving facilities across sports.
The gift is via the Bohemian Foundation and CSU says it’s the “largest singular gift devoted solely to women’s athletics in Mountain West history.”
Here’s a look at how CSU athletic director Joe Parker says the funds will be used and the projects involved.
New soccer/softball complex
Plans for a new soccer/softball complex were first announced in 2019, but the project was sidelined with other campus capital projects when COVID hit. The plans for that have resumed but costs involved have now risen to where Parker says it’s an $8-10 million project — far from the initial $6.5 million estimate.
One of the millions from the Bohemian foundation has been put into the project and construction is underway. Fences enclose both the softball and soccer fields on campus, located just south of Moby Arena.
Here’s a look at the details for each sport.
Soccer
- Playing field will remain in roughly the same spot it now is, but grandstands and a pressbox will be built alongside it.
- Lights will be put in, allowing for night games.
- The old artificial turf practice football field along Shields Street has been ripped up. Grass will be put in its place and that area will serve as a soccer practice field.
- Parker said the hope is to have a “team building” built in the facility as well. It will be an area where the team can watch film during practices and will also house restrooms for teams on game day.
- Fields will be grass with new irrigation systems in place for the playing field and practice field.
Soccer is in-season right now and the new facility is scheduled to be built in time for the 2023 fall season.
Softball
- The earth berm that circles home plate will be enhanced and a grandstand will be embedded. There will be concrete risers with bench seats on top, Parker said. There will also be a new pressbox.
- The chain-link fencing will be replaced by netting to enhance fan viewing.
- The current dugouts will be removed and replaced by new dugouts, which will each feature a restroom for the teams.
- The current plan is that the softball facility will likely remain with natural grass in the outfield.
- “If it goes to plan” the facility will be ready for the coming spring season, Parker said, noting that current supply chain issues could alter the timeline.
- Lighting will also be put in place to allow for night games.
“That’s the one consistent thing the students have really asked for,” Parker said of lighting the facilities. “It’s for practical reasons, particularly in softball because with weather we get pushed around with our schedule. If we can extend the playing day by having lights, that will make a big difference.”
The original plan for the soccer/softball complex included a fan pavilion, but that has been shelved for now due to costs. Parker said it’s something that could be added later.
Locker room changes
The gift from Bohemian will also impact a musical-chair shuffling of locker rooms. New men’s and women’s basketball locker rooms were built in Moby Arena this summer.
That leads to what CSU calls the “second phase” of locker room construction. When the basketball teams move to their new locations, those spaces will be “repositioned and repurposed” for soccer and softball on the south side of Moby on the ground floor.
When softball moves into its new locker room, that will open space to expand the volleyball locker room.
Nomadic sports (track and field, men’s and women’s golf and women’s tennis) don’t have permanent locker rooms but they will get spaces to lock up gear and personal items for when they’re using facilities such as the weight room in Moby. Parker said there could also be enhancements for the swimming and diving locker room once soccer moves to its new space.
Overall, the projects will directly impact nearly every women’s sport.
“It really, truly is something that is having a direct and lasting impact on our women’s programs,” Parker said.
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STRASBOURG, France (CN) — Europe’s top rights court on Thursday sided with a man who was repeatedly turned away from donating blood in France after he refused to disclose information about his sex life nearly 20 years ago.
In a ruling only available in French, the European Court of Human Rights agreed that the French Blood Establishment, the national blood bank of France, violated the privacy rights of Laurent Drelon by tracking his supposed sexual orientation.
Drelon first tried to donate blood in 2004. He refused to answer a questionnaire given to all potential donors about whether he had ever had sex with another man. He was listed as homosexual in his donor file and was turned away.
The now 52-year-old tried to donate blood again in 2006 and 2016 but was rejected because his file listed him as gay. During his 2016 attempt, he provided test results showing he was HIV negative but was still refused. A doctor at the blood bank told Drelon his file indicated he was gay and therefore he could not donate.
France banned blood donations from gay men in 1983 over worries about the transmission risk of HIV/AIDS. Proponents of the ban say that gay men have a higher risk for HIV but LGBT advocates say such bans are simply driven by homophobia.
Drelon complained to a court in Paris in 2007. Ultimately the Court of Cassation concluded his donation ban was not discrimination, finding that storing the sexual orientation information was an important part of medical safety. He then brought his complaint to the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights.
The court, created in 1959 to safeguard the civil and political rights of Europeans, found that the retention of the data was excessive and the presumption that Drelon was gay based on his refusal to answer a question was inappropriate.
“It is inappropriate to collect personal data relating to sexual practices and sexual orientation on the sole basis of speculation or presumption,” the Fifth Section wrote.
By keeping his data, the rights court found, the blood bank violated Article 5 of the European Convention of Human Rights, which guarantees a right to liberty and security. Due to the particularly sensitive nature of sexual orientation, the court said France should have paid especially close attention to ensuring the information was obtained and stored correctly. The information was “collected and stored without the applicant's express consent – which the respondent Government does not dispute,” the ruling states.
The judges focused only on the 2016 rejection, deciding that his 2004 and 2006 denials were beyond the time limit for court review.
The rights court awarded Drelon 12,000 euros ($11,945) in damages.
“It's a great victory,” Drelon’s lawyer Patrice Spinosi told Courthouse News in an emailed statement.
In 2016, France lifted the ban for men who hadn’t had sex with another man for the proceeding 12 months before ultimately scrapping the question entirely in 2019.
The United States also restricts blood donation from men who have sex with other men. The Food and Drug Administration changed its advice in 2020 to say that men who have had sex with men in the previous three months should not donate blood, lifting the previous lifetime ban.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Nursing homes and debt collectors are flouting a law that prohibits them from requiring friends and family of care home residents to shoulder the costs of the facilities, according to a federal report issued Thursday.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said friends and family members have had to declare bankruptcy, had their wages garnished and their homes repossessed after signing unenforceable contracts called “admission agreements” with nursing facilities, resulting in them being held liable as third parties for their loved ones’ nursing home stays.
The report described one woman who was sent to collections for $80,000 two days after her mother’s death. Another woman received a letter from a law firm stating that she owed the nursing home $17,000 after her friend’s death. The report did not identify the individuals by name.
An increase in complaints prompted the CFPB and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to send a joint letter to nursing homes and their debt collectors Thursday reminding them to follow the law.
The consumer bureau said in a statement that “collection of debts from those contracts may violate the consumer financial protection laws, including the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act” and its prohibition on false, deceptive, or misleading representations connected to debt collection.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 1.3 million people live in nursing homes.
As more Americans age, the cost of nursing home care is growing along with demand. The price has exploded in the last 20 years. In 2021, the annual median cost of a single room in a nursing home was $108,405. Between 2004 and 2020, the cost rose by more than 60%.
Most older adults are not insured against the costs of long-term care. Medicare, which covers adults once they reach 65, offers limited benefits based on need and only pays for nursing home care for up to 100 days. Medicaid helps low-income people pay for nursing home care but eligibility rules can be stringent.
An Obama-era regulation under the Nursing Home Reform Act prevents facilities “from requiring a person other than the resident to assume personal responsibility for any cost of the resident’s care.”
Rohit Chopra, director of the CFPB, planned to hold a virtual public hearing Thursday with lawmakers, advocates, nursing homes and others on unlawful debt collection practices.
“A caregiver making difficult decisions about their loved one’s future should have the peace of mind of knowing nursing homes won’t illegally coerce a family into assuming liability for medical debt,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a written statement.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Nursing homes and debt collectors are flouting a law that prohibits them from requiring friends and family of care home residents to shoulder the costs of the facilities, according to a federal report issued Thursday.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said friends and family members have had to declare bankruptcy, had their wages garnished and their homes repossessed after signing unenforceable contracts called “admission agreements” with nursing facilities, resulting in them being held liable as third parties for their loved ones’ nursing home stays.
The report described one woman who was sent to collections for $80,000 two days after her mother’s death. Another woman received a letter from a law firm stating that she owed the nursing home $17,000 after her friend’s death. The report did not identify the individuals by name.
An increase in complaints prompted the CFPB and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to send a joint letter to nursing homes and their debt collectors Thursday reminding them to follow the law.
The consumer bureau said in a statement that “collection of debts from those contracts may violate the consumer financial protection laws, including the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act” and its prohibition on false, deceptive, or misleading representations connected to debt collection.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 1.3 million people live in nursing homes.
As more Americans age, the cost of nursing home care is growing along with demand. The price has exploded in the last 20 years. In 2021, the annual median cost of a single room in a nursing home was $108,405. Between 2004 and 2020, the cost rose by more than 60%.
Most older adults are not insured against the costs of long-term care. Medicare, which covers adults once they reach 65, offers limited benefits based on need and only pays for nursing home care for up to 100 days. Medicaid helps low-income people pay for nursing home care but eligibility rules can be stringent.
An Obama-era regulation under the Nursing Home Reform Act prevents facilities “from requiring a person other than the resident to assume personal responsibility for any cost of the resident’s care.”
Rohit Chopra, director of the CFPB, planned to hold a virtual public hearing Thursday with lawmakers, advocates, nursing homes and others on unlawful debt collection practices.
“A caregiver making difficult decisions about their loved one’s future should have the peace of mind of knowing nursing homes won’t illegally coerce a family into assuming liability for medical debt,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a written statement.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The head of Ukraine’s atomic energy operator accused Russia on Thursday of trying to “steal” Europe’s largest nuclear plant by cutting it off from the Ukrainian electricity grid and leaving it on the brink of a radiation disaster.
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has been without an outside source of electricity since Monday and receives power for its own safety systems from the only one of its six reactors that remains operational, Enerhoatom chief Petro Kotin told The Associated Press.
“We are trying to keep this unit running as much as possible, but eventually it will have to be shut down and then the station will switch to diesel generators,” he said, adding that such generators are “the station’s last defense before a radiation accident.”
Ukraine and Russia have traded blame for shelling that has damaged parts of the plant as well as the transmission lines that connect it to Ukraine’s electricity network and provide power for the crucial cooling systems that are needed to prevent a meltdown.
The head of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, warned the U.N. Security Council this week that “something very, very catastrophic could take place” at the plant and urged Russia and Ukraine to establish a “nuclear safety and security protection zone” around it.
Kotin said the Russians “have a crazy idea to switch the ZNPP to the Russian power system; in fact they are trying to steal the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant of Ukraine and steal all the electricity it produces.”
He said the Russians gave the plant management a 10-page plan about three or four weeks ago to connect the plant to the electricity grid in Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014.
On the same day, the Russians started shelling the power lines that connect the plant to the Ukrainian grid, and on Monday, the last line was cut, Kotin said.
This left the plant in “island mode,” meaning it receives power from its only operational reactor, a highly unusual and unstable way of operating a nuclear plant that he said shouldn’t last for more than two hours but has now been in effect for more than three days.
“At any moment, the unit can be stopped completely, and after that, the only power source for the entire nuclear plant will be a diesel generator,” he said. While there are 20 generators on site, “if one of these diesel generators fails, the consequences can be very deplorable and bad for the radiation danger of the ZNPP.”
Kotin said the plant has enough diesel fuel for 10 days. After that, about 200 tons of diesel fuel would need to be brought in daily for the generators, which he said was “impossible” while the plant was occupied by Russian forces.
He said connecting the plant to the Russian grid also was practically impossible given the hostilities in the area.
“There is no other solution than the de-occupation of the ZNPP, the transfer of the plant to the control of the Ukrainian side or international security organizations,” Kotin told AP.
The ZNPP was seized by Russian forces early in the war but is still run by Ukrainian engineers, who Kotin said are working under heavy psychological pressures.
“I can say that most of the people who work there are pro-Ukrainian. Anyone who openly expressed this pro-Ukrainian position was grabbed, abused, beaten,” he said.
Meanwhile, fighting continued near the plant as the towns of Nikopol and Marhanets, which face the plant across the Dnieper River, came under Russian shelling overnight that left apartment buildings, a school, some industrial facilities and power lines damaged, Dnipropetrovsk province Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko said.
“The nuclear threat isn’t abating because of Russia’s mad actions and we need to consider all possible scenarios, including the worst one,” Reznichenko said in televised remarks.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk urged residents of Russian-occupied areas near the power plant to evacuate, adding that Ukrainian authorities have urged the Russians to set up humanitarian corridors to evacuate residents but received no response.
In the northeastern Kharkiv region, Ukrainian forces retook portions of Russian-held territory there as a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the south drained some of Moscow’s resources in the area, according to a report released Wednesday.
Ukrainian forces in the Kharkiv region are “likely exploiting Russian force reallocation” to areas near the occupied city of Kherson in the south “to conduct an opportunistic yet highly effective counteroffensive” in the province, the Washington-based think tank Institute for the Study of War said.
Ukrainian forces likely used “tactical surprise” to advance at least 12 miles (20 kilometers) into Russian-held territory in the Kharkiv region on Wednesday, recapturing approximately 155 square miles (400 square kilometers), the report said.
Brig. Gen. Oleksiy Gromov, the head of the main operational department of the Ukrainian military’s General Staff, said at a briefing Thursday that Ukrainian troops had reclaimed control of over 20 settlements in the Kharkiv region and forged up to 30 miles (50 kilometers) deep into Russian-occupied areas this week.
In his nightly video address on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also reported success in the Kharkiv region but didn’t provide details.
“This week we have good news from the Kharkiv region … I think every citizen feels proud of our warriors,” Zelenskyy said.
The gains came as Ukraine continued to mount a counteroffensive in the southern Kherson region.
IN OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
— Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed agreement on Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s complaint that most of the grain from Ukraine’s reopened ports have gone to richer parts of the world. Putin said this week that practically all of the grain exported from Ukraine under a deal brokered by Ankara and the United Nations that lifted Russia’s blockade on Ukrainian ports had gone to European Union nations instead of poorer countries. Speaking in Zagreb, Croatia, on the last day of his three-day Balkan tour, Erdogan said Turkey wished for the grain “to be delivered to really poor countries,” and urged that the shipment of food and fertilizers from Russia to begin soon.
— The chief of the Ukrainian military, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyy, acknowledged in an article that explosions and fires at air bases in the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula last month were caused by a “successful series of rocket strikes on Crimean air bases.” It marked the first official acknowledgement of responsibility for the attacks by Ukrainian authorities.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The head of Ukraine’s atomic energy operator accused Russia on Thursday of trying to “steal” Europe’s largest nuclear plant by cutting it off from the Ukrainian electricity grid and leaving it on the brink of a radiation disaster.
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has been without an outside source of electricity since Monday and receives power for its own safety systems from the only one of its six reactors that remains operational, Enerhoatom chief Petro Kotin told The Associated Press.
“We are trying to keep this unit running as much as possible, but eventually it will have to be shut down and then the station will switch to diesel generators,” he said, adding that such generators are “the station’s last defense before a radiation accident.”
Ukraine and Russia have traded blame for shelling that has damaged parts of the plant as well as the transmission lines that connect it to Ukraine’s electricity network and provide power for the crucial cooling systems that are needed to prevent a meltdown.
The head of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, warned the U.N. Security Council this week that “something very, very catastrophic could take place” at the plant and urged Russia and Ukraine to establish a “nuclear safety and security protection zone” around it.
Kotin said the Russians “have a crazy idea to switch the ZNPP to the Russian power system; in fact they are trying to steal the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant of Ukraine and steal all the electricity it produces.”
He said the Russians gave the plant management a 10-page plan about three or four weeks ago to connect the plant to the electricity grid in Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014.
On the same day, the Russians started shelling the power lines that connect the plant to the Ukrainian grid, and on Monday, the last line was cut, Kotin said.
This left the plant in “island mode,” meaning it receives power from its only operational reactor, a highly unusual and unstable way of operating a nuclear plant that he said shouldn’t last for more than two hours but has now been in effect for more than three days.
“At any moment, the unit can be stopped completely, and after that, the only power source for the entire nuclear plant will be a diesel generator,” he said. While there are 20 generators on site, “if one of these diesel generators fails, the consequences can be very deplorable and bad for the radiation danger of the ZNPP.”
Kotin said the plant has enough diesel fuel for 10 days. After that, about 200 tons of diesel fuel would need to be brought in daily for the generators, which he said was “impossible” while the plant was occupied by Russian forces.
He said connecting the plant to the Russian grid also was practically impossible given the hostilities in the area.
“There is no other solution than the de-occupation of the ZNPP, the transfer of the plant to the control of the Ukrainian side or international security organizations,” Kotin told AP.
The ZNPP was seized by Russian forces early in the war but is still run by Ukrainian engineers, who Kotin said are working under heavy psychological pressures.
“I can say that most of the people who work there are pro-Ukrainian. Anyone who openly expressed this pro-Ukrainian position was grabbed, abused, beaten,” he said.
Meanwhile, fighting continued near the plant as the towns of Nikopol and Marhanets, which face the plant across the Dnieper River, came under Russian shelling overnight that left apartment buildings, a school, some industrial facilities and power lines damaged, Dnipropetrovsk province Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko said.
“The nuclear threat isn’t abating because of Russia’s mad actions and we need to consider all possible scenarios, including the worst one,” Reznichenko said in televised remarks.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk urged residents of Russian-occupied areas near the power plant to evacuate, adding that Ukrainian authorities have urged the Russians to set up humanitarian corridors to evacuate residents but received no response.
In the northeastern Kharkiv region, Ukrainian forces retook portions of Russian-held territory there as a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the south drained some of Moscow’s resources in the area, according to a report released Wednesday.
Ukrainian forces in the Kharkiv region are “likely exploiting Russian force reallocation” to areas near the occupied city of Kherson in the south “to conduct an opportunistic yet highly effective counteroffensive” in the province, the Washington-based think tank Institute for the Study of War said.
Ukrainian forces likely used “tactical surprise” to advance at least 12 miles (20 kilometers) into Russian-held territory in the Kharkiv region on Wednesday, recapturing approximately 155 square miles (400 square kilometers), the report said.
Brig. Gen. Oleksiy Gromov, the head of the main operational department of the Ukrainian military’s General Staff, said at a briefing Thursday that Ukrainian troops had reclaimed control of over 20 settlements in the Kharkiv region and forged up to 30 miles (50 kilometers) deep into Russian-occupied areas this week.
In his nightly video address on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also reported success in the Kharkiv region but didn’t provide details.
“This week we have good news from the Kharkiv region … I think every citizen feels proud of our warriors,” Zelenskyy said.
The gains came as Ukraine continued to mount a counteroffensive in the southern Kherson region.
IN OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
— Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed agreement on Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s complaint that most of the grain from Ukraine’s reopened ports have gone to richer parts of the world. Putin said this week that practically all of the grain exported from Ukraine under a deal brokered by Ankara and the United Nations that lifted Russia’s blockade on Ukrainian ports had gone to European Union nations instead of poorer countries. Speaking in Zagreb, Croatia, on the last day of his three-day Balkan tour, Erdogan said Turkey wished for the grain “to be delivered to really poor countries,” and urged that the shipment of food and fertilizers from Russia to begin soon.
— The chief of the Ukrainian military, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyy, acknowledged in an article that explosions and fires at air bases in the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula last month were caused by a “successful series of rocket strikes on Crimean air bases.” It marked the first official acknowledgement of responsibility for the attacks by Ukrainian authorities.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk and the book-length edition of the “1619 Project” are among the nominees for Kirkus Prizes, $50,000 honors given in three competitive categories.
The nominees were announced Thursday by the trade publication Kirkus Reviews.
In fiction, Tokarczuk was cited for “The Books of Jacob,” a 900-plus page novel translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft. The other finalists were Hernan Diaz’s “Trust,” Arinze Ifeakandu’s “God’s Children Are Little Broken Things,” Susan Straight’s “Mecca,” Michelle de Kretser’s “Scary Monsters” and Yoko Tawada’s “Scattered All Over the Earth,” translated from Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani.
“The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story,” which expands upon The New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning magazine project created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, is a nonfiction nominee. Ann Patchett’s essay collection “Three Precious Days” was also a finalist, along with Margaret A. Burnham’s “By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners,” Lindsey Fitzharris’ “The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle To Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I,” Tanaïs’ “In Sensorium: Notes for My People” and Ed Yong’s “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.”
In young reader’s literature, Jacqueline Woodson is a nominee for “The Year We Learned to Fly,” a picture book illustrated by Rafael López, and Niki Smith was cited for “The Golden Hour.” The other finalists were Betina Birkjær’s “Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost,” illustrated by Anna Margrethe Kjærgaard and translated by Sinéad Quirke Køngerskov; Anne Ursu’s “The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy”; Harmony Becker’s “Himawari House” and Rimma Onoseta’s “How You Grow Wings.”
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AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum will unite two iconic paintings from Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer early next year — The Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Milkmaid.
In an unprecedented blockbuster exhibit starting in February, the most famous museum in the Netherlands will bring together 27 of the 35 known paintings of the 17th-century artist who had the uncanny genius of letting a soothing inner light exude from his canvas.
“His paintings radiate this simplicity, the stillness, his brilliant colors, said Taco Dibbits, the director general of the Rijksmuseum.
Nowhere is it more apparent than in the two paintings that have become as quintessential to Dutch art as any work of Vincent van Gogh or Rembrandt.
In Thursday’s announcement of the Feb. 10-June 4 exhibit, the musuem said it will be the first time in over a quarter-century that the paintings will be united in the same building, dating back to a 1996 show at The Hague’s Mauritshuis, home to the Girl with a Pearl Earring.
The Rijksmuseum did extensive work on The Milkmaid and discovered that the vast unadorned white wall behind her, was not always meant to be like that. With special technologies, a sketch under the final layer of paint was discovered which shows a more cluttered background with a jug holder and a fire basket.
Later, Vermeer thought better of it and went for the distinctive white background, auguring a big development in art.
“We now see a very neat little cube,” Dibbits said. “A search for simplicity is very difficult to arrive at,” Dibbits said, adding it is what ”we now still admire so much today.”
With his domestic scenes of pouring milk, people talking and an almost nonchalant portrait of his maid, Vermeer knows how to create a sense of serenity that especially offers a balm in today’s turbulent times over 350 years later.
Dibbits calls him one of the most famous painters in the world because of this “tranquility that his paintings radiate. On the one hand, you step into the 17th century,” he said, “On the other hand, because this depicts everyday life, they’re incredibly modern.”
New York’s Frick Collection will lend its three Vermeers which will be shown together outside of New York over a century after the museum acquired them.
It is also what makes the exhibit a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The paintings could leave New York only because the Frick is under renovation.
“And once renovation is finished, they will never be able to leave again.” Dibbits said.
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