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LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Abbott Elementary” creator-star Quinta Brunson took revenge on Jimmy Kimmel's Emmy prank with one of her own, then collected an apology from the late-night host whose bit was criticized as rude and worse.
Kimmel, who had distracted attention from Brunson's Emmy acceptance speech by lying pretend-drunk on stage, was delivering his monologue Wednesday when a pretty-in-pink Brunson appeared, award in hand.
“I have a little favor to ask," she said. "So you know how when you win an Emmy you only have 45 seconds to do an acceptance speech, which is like not that much time. And then ... you get less time because someone does a dumb comedy bit that goes on a bit too long?”
“I have heard of that happening in previous years,” Kimmel replied.
“Well, I was wondering, or no, more demanding if I could I have a couple of extra minutes to thank, you know, a couple of extra people,” Brunson said. Kimmel stepped back to cede the spotlight to his guest, and later in the show told Brunson he was sorry for what he'd done at the Emmys on Monday.
Brunson's and Kimmel's shows both air on ABC.
Brunson won the best comedy series writing award Emmy and found herself sharing the stage with Kimmel — who was flat on his back and dragged there by fellow presenter Will Arnett because Kimmel supposedly had too many “skinny margaritas.” Kimmel gave Brunson a thumbs-up for her award but didn’t budge, a decision that was blasted online as thoughtless by some and cited as an example of white-male arrogance by others.
“Abbott Elementary,” a mockumentary set in an underfunded Philadelphia school, earned a total of three Emmy Awards for its freshman season, including one for co-star Sheryl Lee Ralph for best comedy supporting actress.
On Kimmel's show, Brunson received loud applause from the studio audience when she thanked “all of the fans of the show," then joined the host for a chat.
He started out with a one-liner — “Congratulations on your Emmy. I missed it, how did it go?” — then turned apologetic, beginning with an awkwardly qualified mea culpa.
“That was a dumb comedy bit that we thought it would be funny,” he said. “Then people got upset, they said I stole your moment. And maybe I did. I’m very sorry if I did do that. I did do that, actually. ... The last thing I would ever want to do is upset you, because I think so much of you. I think you know that. I hope you know that.”
“It's very kind of you to say that,” Brunson replied, graciously, avoiding direct criticism of Kimmel. She said she was “wrapped up in the moment" after winning her first Emmy and with Arnett and Kimmel on stage with her.
“Honestly, I had a great night. It was a good night and a good time,” she said.
Kimmel, who jokingly blamed Arnett for what happened, lauded Brunson's series and noted that he's never won an Emmy despite repeated trips to the awards.
“And I went one time and won,” she said, delivering the dig with a smile.
Kimmel offered one last apology, adding, “I was dumb, and I've got news: It's gonna happen again.”
Earlier Wednesday, Brunson and her cast mates fielded questions from TV critics during a virtual panel discussion, with Ralph expressing her displeasure with Kimmel's Emmy act. “I was like, ‘Oh, the disrespect, Jimmy,'" Ralph recalled.
She sarcastically referred to it as “lovely that he was lying on the floor during her wonderful acceptance speech. “I told him too, to his face, and he understood,” said Ralph.
When Brunson was asked what she expected during her appearance with Kimmel, she said she was “anticipating that we are going to have a good old-fashioned time" and that she was intent on highlighting the season-two return of “Abbott Elementary” on Sept. 21.
Brunson said that she and Kimmel had already spoken but didn't detail their private conversation. Backstage at the Emmys on Monday, Brunson said the bit didn’t bother her “that much” and noted that Kimmel has been a booster of her and “Abbott Elementary.” If she decides she’s mad at him, a smiling Brunson added, she might “punch him in the face” during her appearance on his show. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/abbott-elementary-creator-visits-kimmel-collects-apology | 2022-09-15T15:13:47Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/abbott-elementary-creator-visits-kimmel-collects-apology | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BIDDEFORD, Maine — The next great American frontier in farming is happening far from the corn and soybean fields of the Midwest. A booming source of agriculture, seaweed, is being grown at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
On a recent afternoon in August, Emily Schutt and her classmate Cara Blaine stood behind the wheel of a small fishing boat. Both are graduate students at the University of New England. They have spent their last year taking water samples and studying different types of kelp.
"It's a lot of seaweed but you need a lot when people are eating it," Schutt said.
The global seaweed market is valued at $15 billion. It's used for everything from human consumption to cattle feed.
"It's an industry that is definitely in its infancy," Schutt said.
With the industry in its infancy, the students want to know which ways of storing seaweed are actually safe.
Over the course of the last year, they found that once seaweed is harvested, it starts to grow pathogens— almost like fungus on food that’s spoiled. That is unless the seaweed is refrigerated.
Jessica Vorse is another graduate student working on the project. Originally from Ohio, she didn't grow up around seaweed but is now fascinated by it.
"We’re hoping industry members can pick it up right away and use it to inform the way they’re processing their product," Vorse said.
As these grad students wrap up a year’s worth of studying kelp, their hope is to relay what they've found and give seaweed farmers tools to process and store their products safely in an industry that is so new, that it's not yet regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/as-seaweed-industry-booms-these-researchers-are-making-sure-its-safe-to-eat | 2022-09-15T15:13:53Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/as-seaweed-industry-booms-these-researchers-are-making-sure-its-safe-to-eat | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A record number of asthma sufferers are dying.
"It's the highest increase in the death rate from asthma in 20 years," said Kenneth Mendez, president and CEO of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. "It grew to over 4,100 people, and it's hovered around 3,600 in prior times."
A new report from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America ranked cities by asthma prevalence, ER visits and asthma-related deaths. It found 19 of the top 20 worst cities for asthma are in the eastern half of the U.S., or the Midwest. Detroit, Michigan ranked at the top.
Dr. Kathleen Dass treats patients there.
"Asthma is incredibly common actually," Dass said. "It's every other patient I'm seeing right now."
The major drivers are air quality, poverty and climate change.
"It's gotten a lot worse, and that's because of climate change and increased allergy seasons, greater pollution, more carbon dioxide — those are all irritants," Mendez said.
Experts tell Newsy asthma patients are breathing in more air pollution and carbon dioxide. Heat waves, wildfires, extreme thunderstorms and hurricanes are also making asthma patients sicker.
More flooding is causing more indoor mold, and warmer temperatures are triggering attacks more frequently. They're also causing higher pollen counts and a longer ragweed season.
Plus, more wildfires and their smoke means more tiny air particles will reach the lungs and enter the bloodstream. Wildfire smoke is much more toxic to children’s lungs than air pollution from other sources. One cumulative study found increases in ER visits were 10 times higher for air pollution from wildfire smoke than from other air pollution sources.
Pediatrician Dr. Naomi Bardach cares for patients in San Francisco, California.
"[What] I'm most concerned about all of the effects of climate change is actually we know it's going to impact our children's health now, and it will in the future," said Bardach, a pediatrician in California.
CDC data shows asthma is the most common pediatric disease. It accounts for half a million ER visits each year.
This third week of September is "Astha Peak Week," which is when asthma episodes, attacks and hospitalizations for both children and adults tend to spike, just as kids return to school with the beginning of fall.
Bardach says the standard treatment is inhaled steroid medication, and says that patients should follow up after an ER visit to help manage asthma, if they have access.
"There's other things people can do at home to try and control their asthma, but it's generally not going to be as effective as making sure that you have access to medications," Bardach said. "The easiest way to get that is through a primary care doctor, but I know there's a lot of barriers to being able to do that. It's also on insurance companies and hospitals and public health systems to try and help improve that care."
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While COVID-19 will likely be causing infections for many years ago come, the end of the pandemic phase of the virus is “in sight,” said World Health Organization head Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Tedros likened the end of the COVID-19 pandemic to the conclusion of a marathon.
“A marathon runner does not stop when the finish line comes into view. She runs harder, with all the energy she has left. So must we. We can see the finish line. We’re in a winning position. But now is the worst time to stop running,” Tedros said.
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s the technical lead on COVID-19, noted the virus is still “intensely circulating” around the world. She said even as the world comes out of the pandemic phase of the virus, flare-ups are still possible. But her hope is that vaccines, treatments and other measures will make COVID-19 less severe.
“We expect that there are going to be future waves of infection, potentially at different time points throughout the world caused by different subvariants of omicron or even different variants of concern,” she said.
Globally, more than 6.5 million people have died with COVID-19 being a factor. The number of coronavirus-related deaths has largely remained steady worldwide since the spring.
The National Institutes of Health noted that the definition of a pandemic has nothing to do with its severity.
"The classical definition includes nothing about population immunity, virology or disease severity. By this definition, pandemics can be said to occur annually in each of the temperate southern and northern hemispheres, given that seasonal epidemics cross international boundaries and affect a large number of people. However, seasonal epidemics are not considered pandemics," the NIH said. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/coronavirus/who-head-suggests-end-of-covid-19-pandemic-is-in-sight | 2022-09-15T15:14:05Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/coronavirus/who-head-suggests-end-of-covid-19-pandemic-is-in-sight | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Newly revealed text messages show how deeply a Mississippi governor was involved in the state paying more than $1 million in welfare money to Brett Favre to help fund one of the retired NFL quarterback's pet projects.
Instead of the money going to help low-income families in one of the nation's poorest states, as intended, it was funneled through a nonprofit group and spent on a new $5 million volleyball facility at a university that the football star and the governor both attended.
One of the texts from 2017 showed Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, who left office in 2020, was “on board” with the arrangement. The state is suing Favre and others, alleging they misspent millions of dollars in welfare money. The director of the nonprofit has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in Mississippi’s largest public corruption case in decades.
The texts were in documents filed Monday in state court by an attorney for the nonprofit, known as the Mississippi Community Education Center. Messages between Favre and the center's executive director, Nancy New, included references to Bryant. The documents also included messages between Bryant and Favre and Bryant and New.
New pleaded guilty in April to charges of misspending welfare money, as did her son Zachary New, who helped run the nonprofit. They await sentencing and have agreed to testify against others. Favre has not been charged with any criminal wrongdoing.
“Just left Brett Farve,” Bryant texted New on July 16, 2019, misspelling the athlete's last name. “Can we help him with his project. We should meet soon to see how I can make sure we keep your projects on course.”
New responded: “I would appreciate having the opportunity to follow through with all the good things we are working on, especially projects like Brett's.”
Later that day, New texted Favre to let him know she was meeting with the governor.
“I love John so much. And you too,” Favre responded to New, referring to the Mississippi Department of Human Services director at the time, John Davis.
The texts also showed discussion between Favre and New about arranging payment from the Human Services Department through the nonprofit to Favre for speaking engagements, with Favre then saying he would direct the money to the volleyball facility at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Favre played football at the university, located in Hattiesburg, before going to the NFL in 1991. His daughter began playing on the school's volleyball team in 2017.
According to court documents, Favre texted New on Aug. 3, 2017: “If you were to pay me is there anyway the media can find out where it came from and how much?”
New responded: “No, we never have had that information publicized. I understand you being uneasy about that though. Let’s see what happens on Monday with the conversation with some of the folks at Southern. Maybe it will click with them. Hopefully.”
Favre replied: “Ok thanks.”
The next day, New texted Favre: “Wow, just got off the phone with Phil Bryant! He is on board with us! We will get this done!”
Favre responded: “Awesome I needed to hear that for sure.”
According to a previous court filing, New's nonprofit made two payments of welfare money to Favre Enterprises, the athlete's business: $500,000 in December 2017 and $600,000 in June 2018.
On Dec. 27, 2017, Favre texted New: “Nancy Santa came today and dropped some money off (two smiling emojis) thank you my goodness thank you.”
“Yes he did," New responded. “He felt you had been pretty good this year!”
Attorneys for Favre did not immediately respond to a phone message Wednesday from The Associated Press.
In a July 11 court filing, New’s attorney wrote that Bryant directed her to pay $1.1 million in welfare money to Favre through the education center for “speaking at events, keynote speaking, radio and promotional events, and business partner development.”
In July, a Bryant spokesperson said allegations that the governor improperly spent the money are false and that Bryant had asked the state auditor to investigate possible welfare fraud.
Billy Quinn, an attorney representing Bryant, told the AP on Wednesday that Bryant did not direct New to make the $1.1 million payment to Favre. Quinn said a careful examination of court records will show “there's no proof that occurred. And that's because it didn't.”
Bryant served two terms as governor and could not run again in 2019 because of term limits. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Mississippi.
In May, the Mississippi Department of Human Services filed a civil lawsuit against Favre, three former pro wrestlers and several other people and businesses to try to recover millions of misspent welfare dollars. The lawsuit said the defendants “squandered” more than $20 million from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families anti-poverty program.
About 1,800 Mississippi households received payments from the program in 2021, according to the Department of Human Services. A family of three must have a monthly income below $680 to qualify, and the current monthly benefit for that family is $260. Payments are allowed for up to five years.
In pleading guilty, Nancy and Zachary New acknowledged taking part in spending $4 million of welfare money for the volleyball facility.
The mother and son also acknowledged directing welfare money to Prevacus Inc., a Florida-based company that was trying to develop a concussion drug. Favre has said in interviews that he supported Prevacus.
Mississippi Auditor Shad White said Favre was paid for speeches but did not show up. Favre has repaid the money, but White said in October that he still owed $228,000 in interest.
In a Facebook post when he repaid the first $500,000, Favre said he didn’t know the money came from welfare funds. He also said his charity had provided millions of dollars to poor children in Mississippi and Wisconsin. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/texts-mississippi-ex-governor-knew-of-favre-welfare-money | 2022-09-15T15:14:11Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/texts-mississippi-ex-governor-knew-of-favre-welfare-money | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Opelousas Mayor, Julius Alsandor, announced both lanes of S. Market will be closed at 220 S. Market St. (Opelousas Behavioral Clinic) due to work on a gas line in the road.
Vehicles will have access to businesses coming off Vine & Landry Street, but will not be able to use S. Market Street to get to or from Landry St. and Vine St. | https://www.katc.com/news/st-landry-parish/market-street-to-close-for-gas-line-repair | 2022-09-15T15:14:17Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/st-landry-parish/market-street-to-close-for-gas-line-repair | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Opelousas Mayor, Julius Alsandor, announced both lanes of S. Market will be closed at 220 S. Market St. (Opelousas Behavioral Clinic) due to work on a gas line in the road.
Vehicles will have access to businesses coming off Vine & Landry Street, but will not be able to use S. Market Street to get to or from Landry St. and Vine St. | https://www.katc.com/news/st-landry-parish/market-street-to-close-for-gas-line-repair | 2022-09-15T15:14:17Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/st-landry-parish/market-street-to-close-for-gas-line-repair | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tennis great Roger Federer announced that he will no longer participate in major tennis tournaments, calling an end to one of the greatest careers in the sport’s history.
Federer is ending his career after winning 20 grand slam titles and 28 ATP Masters 1000 crowns. Federer was the first male tennis player to reach 20 grand slam singles titles. He has since been passed by contemporary stars Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
— Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) September 15, 2022
He experienced his most success on the grass courts of Wimbledon, winning eight titles there during a span from 2003-2017. His most recent grand slam title came in 2018 when he won the Australian Open.
Since then, injuries have plagued the 41-year-old star from Switzerland. Federer has largely been away from tennis in the last year.
"Tennis has treated me more generously than I ever would have dreamt, and now I must recognize when it is time to end my competitive career," Federer said.
He said he is well enough to finish his career at next week’s Laver Cup. The event pits top European players against stars from outside of Europe.
Federer said he is thankful for the fans he has gained.
"Above all I must offer a special thank you to my unbelievable fans," he said. "You will never know how much strength and belief you have given me. The inspiring feeling of walking into full stadiums and arenas has been one of the huge thrills in my life. Without you, those successes would have felt lonely, rather than filled with joy and energy." | https://www.katc.com/sports/roger-federer-announces-end-of-tennis-career | 2022-09-15T15:14:29Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/sports/roger-federer-announces-end-of-tennis-career | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
How Do Revenge’s Costume Designer Created a Candy-Coated “Girl World”
Alana Morshead talks her classic teen movie inspirations, dressing a bearded dragon, and, of course, the Rosehill Country Day uniforms.
The world in which Do Revenge is set seems less like a reality and more like a pastel-coated dreamscape, where the sun always shines and your hair always lays just the way you want it to. “I’ve heard some people refer to it as this ‘girl world,’” Do Revenge’s costume designer, Alana Morshead, tells W over the phone. “It feels a bit dreamlike, but it’s still rooted in reality.” Made in the vein of teen movie classics like Clueless and Jawbreaker, there are aspects of Do Revenge that seem pretty unbelievable. Much like those ’90s films, Do Revenge exists in a universe where high schoolers look like they’re in their 20s (because the actors who portray them are), and they dress like they have an unlimited budget and a stylist on hand.
But Morshead did not have an unlimited budget when it came to creating the looks for Netflix’s newest flick. Sites like eBay were her best friends—as were thrift stores, and small, often women-run businesses like the L.A.-based Dadybones. The hodgepodge of pieces she collected then came together to create a Gen-Z version of the wardrobes found in the quintessential teen movies Morshead watched in her youth. “I loved Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion and 10 Things I Hate About You,” she says. “I wanted to take those movies and update them to make them more current. We still talk about all those movies from 20 years ago, so maybe, 20 years from now, we’ll also be talking about Do Revenge.” Below, Morshead breaks down looks from three of the film’s main characters (and one very stylish bearded dragon), and reveals how those enviable pastel uniforms came to be.
The Rosehill Country Day Uniforms
There are many looks throughout the two-hour film that have the chance of joining the pantheon of teen movie-inspired Halloween costumes—finding a spot alongside the yellow plaid skirt set from Clueless or the primary-color looks from Heathers. It’s the high school uniforms, though, that really stand out as the pieces that will remain in the minds of Do Revenge viewers for years to come. But the plaid pleated skirts, cardigans, and berets—rendered in an array of tasty pastels—almost didn’t come to fruition.
“There was initially a debate on whether we were even going to have uniforms,” Morshead says. Luckily, she fought for them, with the idea that they added a bit of elite to the Rosehill Country Day setting. “The uniforms heighten things a bit more.”
Again, Morshead didn’t want to stray too far from reality when it came to the school looks, so she based her designs off South Korean uniforms, which she found through research. The berets and capes seemed like the perfect fit for the aesthetic she was creating with the costumes, but the colors she came across weren’t quite right, a bit too heavy for the film’s Miami setting. “I thought, ‘How do I take this and make it weather appropriate?’ So, I went through a bunch of colors and when we matched the mint with the pastel purple, it just kind of clicked.”
Drea
When it came to Camila Mendes’s Drea, Morshead was, like much of the fashion set these days, inspired by the ’90s. Specifically, she looked to the supermodels of the era, like Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, and Cindy Crawford. “I wanted everything to be very big and dramatic,” she says. The reference is obvious in the result, especially when taking into account Drea’s clear obsession with accessorizing, adding hair clips, necklaces, and bold earrings that she would surely feel at home on Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel runways.
Drea is a young women who always looks perfectly put together, with a barrette to match every ensemble and a tiny bag for each occasion. Considering Drea’s character doesn’t come from money, though—a point stressed throughout the film—Morshead wanted to keep her wardrobe realistic, which means she had to dig a bit to put together these perfectly coordinated looks.
“I got a lot of Drea’s pieces from small, female-owned brands on Instagram, and then mixed that with vintage pieces from eBay,” she says. “I really had to force things. If I wanted something high end, I’d have to find it on eBay or go thrifting.” The result is a classic Gen-Z aesthetic of over-the-top, eye-catching ensembles, the type that would no doubt garner a strong following on TikTok.
Eleanor
When we first meet Eleanor, she’s also embracing a ’90s aesthetic, albeit a very different one from Drea. Maya Hawke’s character seems to have enough flannels, ironic t-shirts, and backward hats to get her through four years of eye-rolling an Ivy League school. That all changes, however, when she undergoes the quintessential teen movie makeover, and trades in her cutoffs for crop tops. “I didn't want to have Eleanor turn into a clone of Drea after the makeover,” Morshead explains, so it was important for her to find pieces that represented a more glamorized version of Eleanor’s original aesthetic.
This time, Morshead looked toward Twiggy and a young Goldie Hawn for inspiration. “She has a slight mod, ’60s vibe going on,” the costume designer says, which can be seen in the florals and a palette of mustards and oranges applied to the post-makeover character.
When it came to the final party look, Morshead didn’t envision Eleanor in a dress like the rest of the girls. “It didn’t feel like her,” she says, admitting she had trouble finding pieces that matched the look she had in mind. “One morning, I just woke up with this idea of orange zippers.” The thought led her to the fabric store, where she purchased upwards of 50 pants zippers and fashioned them into a top. She tied them all together, creating a collar to wrap around Hawke’s neck, finishing off the piece with an orange lamé suit. “I knew under lights or against the fire, it would really bounce,” Morshead says. “And in a sea of people, we would be able to spot her really quickly.”
Max
It probably comes as no surprise that, for Morshead, the main inspiration when it came to Max’s look was Harry Styles. “I didn’t want the male lead to be so masculine and macho, which is usually what we see in these teen movies,” she said. Austin Abrams is often seen just as heavily accessorized as his female counterparts, wearing a pearl necklace or heart earrings. Abrams himself also had some fun with the school uniform, opting to wear the bow tie—which was technically designated for the women—and placing it completely askew on his button-down. Abrams’s adoption of the accessory wasn’t a problem for Morshead, however, as she didn’t want the school uniforms to be so strictly gendered.
“Everyone could wear anything they wanted,” she adds. “We have men wearing the capes and women in the shorts and pantsuits.”
Max’s costuming reaches an unbuttoned apex at the final party, where he arrives in a Dolce & Gabbana pink chiffon shirt with ruffled detailing (chest exposed, of course). “I wanted Max to also have fun with his wardrobe, let him play with gender norms and colors,” Morshead says. “Having him in a flowing hot pink top felt like a really good match, and it keeps the attention on him.”
Oscar Winner Olivia Colman
While her namesake isn’t exactly known for her style, Oscar Winner Olivia Colman, the loyal bearded dragon portrayed by Fay the Lizard most certainly is. Drea has a no-pet-left-behind attitude when it comes to her makeovers, meaning that when Eleanor gets a new haircut and wardrobe, so does Olivia (okay, not a haircut, but I’m sure her scales got a spruce-up). And yes, this was Morshead’s first time designing for a bearded dragon—but she was up for the task. “I found some things on Etsy, like dolls’ clothes, which I made smaller, and then some pieces I made from scratch,” she says. “I really wanted her to have a personality too.” Luckily, Fay wasn’t too much of a diva when it came to her wardrobe. “Oscar Winner Olivia Colman was a good sport.” | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/do-revenge-costume-designer-alana-morshead-interview | 2022-09-15T15:15:59Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/do-revenge-costume-designer-alana-morshead-interview | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Monkeypox awareness surged over the summer
The public has quickly become familiar with monkeypox and how it spreads, but more than a quarter of Americans say they’re not likely to get vaccinated if exposed to the virus, according to a new Annenberg Public Policy Center survey.
Why it matters: At a time when polls suggest crisis-weary Americans are tuning out public health messaging, the findings suggest the public is still able to lock in on information about a new health threat, said the center's director, Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
Findings: 61% of those surveyed know that a monkeypox vaccine exists, up from 34% in July. And the vast majority are aware monkeypox usually spreads through close contact with an infected person.
- Nearly two-thirds (63%) know that men who have sex with men are at a higher risk of infection, up from 33% in July.
1 in 5 Americans worry about getting monkeypox over the next three months, which is roughly the same as in July.
- Only 41% know that monkeypox is less contagious than COVID-19.
- The survey of 1,621 U.S. adults surveyed was conducted Aug. 16–22 and has a margin of error of ± 3.3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/15/monkeypox-awareness-surged-over-the-summer | 2022-09-15T15:18:20Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/15/monkeypox-awareness-surged-over-the-summer | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Exclusive: Recurrent Ventures acquires Dwell
Recurrent Ventures, a venture equity-backed digital media company, has acquired Dwell, a premium home design magazine turned-digital media brand.
Why it matters: Dwell rounds out Recurrent’s current portfolio of home design media companies.
Catch up quick: In the past few years, Recurrent has acquired over two dozen small, digital media companies across a few niche verticals, including home, design, food and automotive.
- In March it acquired Business of Home, a digital and print publication dedicated to home and interior design enthusiasts.
- Last year it acquired Domino, a home magazine and digital media company that was launched by Conde Nast in 2005.
- It also owns Bob Villa, a home renovation outlet and Lonny, a design enthusiast publication.
Details: All of Dwell’s roughly 30 full-time employees have joined Recurrent Ventures and the company’s current management team will stay in place, Dwell’s CEO Zach Klein told Axios.
- Dwell will continue to exist as a standalone brand and will leverage Recurrent Ventures’ back-end resources to boost its business, Klein said.
- Klein declined to offer revenue figures but said the company’s revenue grew by 51% in 2021.
- While deal terms were not disclosed, executives confirmed it did not require regulatory review, which is typically necessary for deals over $100 million.
- The deal closed officially on Wednesday.
Between the lines: Prior to 2020, Klein said Dwell made most of its revenue from its print magazine product. Today, he noted, the majority of its revenue comes from digital revenue streams, including digital ads, digital subscriptions and affiliate revenue.
- Currently, Dwell is looking to expand its licensing business and co-develop more products and services with third parties.
- It currently partners with Heath Ceramics on a custom tile line and Chicory on a custom outdoor furniture line.
Be smart: Klein said Dwell wasn’t looking to sell, but started to consider offers this year following a slew of inbound interest. Home design brands saw significant gains during the pandemic, and have continued to see growth as more people invest in work-from-home spaces.
- Asked why Dwell ultimately chose to sell to Recurrent, Klein said they were attracted to the resources Recurrent could provide to grow the business further.
- Recurrent can bolster Dwell’s direct ad sales efforts, Klein said, because it can sell Dwell ad inventory alongside its larger portfolio of home brands.
- “I think working with Domino, for us, was one of the big sells,” Klein said. “I think we’re joining really quality home and design brands.”
The big picture: Recurrent was launched by private equity firm North Equity in 2021 as the operating business for North Equity's digital media portfolio.
- North Equity has acquired two dozen digital publications since 2018, including Popular Photography, Car Bibles and others.
- The company raised $300 million in May in a round led by Blackstone to scale its operations and continue building a platform to acquire and grow smaller digital media brands across certain categories. It’s raised over $400 million total. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/15/recurrent-ventures-acquires-dwell | 2022-09-15T15:18:26Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/15/recurrent-ventures-acquires-dwell | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two buses of migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border were dropped off near Vice President Kamala Harris' home in residential Washington on Thursday morning in the bitter political battle over the Biden administration's immigration policies.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been busing migrants out of Texas to cities with Democratic mayors as part of a political strategy this year because he claims there are too many arrivals over the border to his state. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey also has adopted this policy, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also got in on the act recently. It was first dreamed up by former President Donald Trump.
Abbott tweeted that he'd sent the buses that arrived Thursday: “We’re sending migrants to her backyard to call on the Biden Administration to do its job & secure the border.”
About two dozen men and women stood outside the U.S. Naval Observatory at dawn, clutching clear plastic bags of their belongings carried with them over the border, before moving to a nearby church. Harris' office had no immediate comment.
After migrants seeking asylum cross the U.S.-Mexico border, they spend time in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility along the border until they are generally released into the U.S. to wait out their cases. Republicans say Biden's policies encourage migrants to vanish into the U.S.; Democrats argue the Trump-era policy of forcing migrants to wait out their asylum cases in Mexico was inhumane.
DeSantis flew two planes of immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday. And last week, Abbott sent about 75 migrants to Chicago.
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a public emergency last week over the continued arrival of buses of migrants. The district earlier requested National Guard assistance to help stem a “growing humanitarian crisis” prompted by the arrival of thousands of migrants, but the Pentagon rejected the request.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It's not just rocket fuel propelling America's first moonshot after a half-century lull. Strategic rivalry with China's ambitious space program is helping drive NASA’s effort to get back into space in a bigger way, as both nations push to put people back on the moon and establish the first lunar bases.
American intelligence, military and political leaders make clear they see a host of strategic challenges to the U.S. in China’s space program, in an echo of the U.S.-Soviet rivalry that prompted the 1960s’ race to the moon. That's as China is quickly matching U.S. civil and military space accomplishments and notching new ones of its own.
On the military side, the U.S. and China trade accusations of weaponizing space. Senior U.S. defense officials warn that China and Russia are building capabilities to take out the satellite systems that underpin U.S. intelligence, military communications and early warning networks.
There's also a civilian side to the space race. The U.S. is wary of China taking the lead in space exploration and commercial exploitation, and pioneering the technological and scientific advances that would put China ahead in power in space and in prestige down on Earth.
“In a decade, the United States has gone from the unquestioned leader in space to merely one of two peers in a competition,” Sen. Jim Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, declared this week at a Senate Armed Services hearing. “Everything our military does relies on space.”
At another hearing last year, NASA administrator Bill Nelson brandished an image transmitted by a Chinese rover that had just plunked down on Mars. “The Chinese government ... they’re going to be landing humans on the moon” soon, he said. "That should tell us something about our need to get off our duff."
NASA, the U.S. civilian space agency, is awaiting a new launch date this month or in October for its Artemis 1 uncrewed test moonshot. Technical problems scrubbed the first two launch attempts in recent weeks.
China likewise aims to send astronauts to the moon this decade, as well as establish a robotic research station there. Both the U.S. and China intend to establish bases for intermittent crews on the moon's south pole after that.
Russia has aligned with China’s moon program, while 21 nations have joined a U.S.-initiated effort meant to bring guidelines and order to the civil exploration and development of space.
The parallel efforts come 50 years after U.S. astronauts last pulled shut the doors on an Apollo module and blasted away from the moon, in December 1972.
Some space policy experts bat down talk of a new space race, seeing big differences from John F. Kennedy's Cold War drive to outdo the Soviet Union's Sputnik and be the first to get people on the moon. This time, both the U.S. and China see moon programs as a stepping stone in phased programs toward exploring, settling and potentially exploiting the resources and other untapped economic and strategic opportunities offered by the moon, Mars and space at large.
Beyond the gains in technology, science and jobs that accompany space programs, Artemis promoters point to the potential of mining minerals and frozen water on the moon, or using the moon as a base to go prospecting on asteroids — the Trump administration in particular emphasized the mining prospects. There's potential in tourism and other commercial efforts.
And for space more broadly, Americans alone have tens of thousands of satellites overhead in what the Space Force says is a half-trillion dollar global space economy. Satellites guide GPS, process credit card purchases, help keep TV, radio and cell phone feeds going, and predict weather. They ensure the military and intelligence community's ability to keep track of perceived threats. | https://www.courthousenews.com/a-new-space-race-china-adds-urgency-to-us-return-to-moon/ | 2022-09-15T15:19:00Z | courthousenews.com | control | https://www.courthousenews.com/a-new-space-race-china-adds-urgency-to-us-return-to-moon/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(CN) — Smithsonian researchers have discovered a new species of extinct reptile in the Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming.
Researchers described the lizard-like species in a paper published Thursday in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology. They believe the new species, Opisthiamimus gregori, once inhabited Jurassic North America nearly 150 million years ago with the likes of Stegosaurus and Allosaurus dinosaurs.
At present, the only living animal of the order Rhynchocephalia is the tuatara, a small, iguana-like reptile endemic to New Zealand. However, researchers believe rhynchocephalians were once found worldwide with abundant, diverse populations that lived aquatically and terrestrially. The discovery of the new species strengthens this belief, as researchers spotted the fossil fragments in a cluster of rocks nearly 8,000 miles from where the tuatara lives now.
“It adds a species to this environment, which means that we've got at least four different species of these rhynchocephalians running around,” said Matthew Carrano, curator of Dinosauria at the National Museum of Natural History, of the Jurassic Morrison Formation in Wyoming, where dinosaur fossils are commonly found.
The new species’ skeleton is one of the first nearly complete fossil of rhynchocephalians in North America, whereas other species of the order are limited have been identified through fragments of teeth and jawbone. According to Carrano, the fossils are difficult to spot because they are small and don’t preserve well.
“We know frustratingly little about them,” Carrano said.
He added that the new species provides an evolutionary glimpse in how rhynchocephalians eventually gave way to staxon Squamata — the order of lizards and snakes — which diverged from rhynchocephalians around 230 million years ago.
“Only at the close of the Jurassic did Squamata begin to overshadow Rhynchocephalia as the predominant lepidosaur clade,” the study states. “The fossil record of Rhynchocephalia then diminishes, first in Laurasia and later in Gondwana, whereas that of squamates radically expanded.”
Carrano said that finding the fossils where there are lizards and rhynchocephalians together helps researchers understand what was going on.
“Are lizards competing with these things? Is there some big climate change thing that's happening over time? We don't really have an answer at the moment, but fossils like this, where we know the two animals are in the same place at the same time, are really helpful for that," Carrano said.
The evolutionary differences between lizards and rhynchocephalians, researchers believe, will also help explain strange features of the tuatara, like how its teeth are fused to its jawbone, its unique chewing motion of sliding its lower jaw like a saw blade, its tolerance to cold climates and ability to live to 100 years old.
From a cluster of rocks taken near an Allosaurus nest, research associate David DeMar Jr. managed to spot the animal’s tiny fossils and reconstruct its skeleton by digitally rendering fragments and piecing them together. Researchers estimate the prehistoric reptile would have been around 16 centimeters or six inches from nose to tail — small enough to fit in your hand.
Because the reptile was so small, DeMar believes it most likely ate insects, but possibly also hard-shelled beetles or water bugs. According to a press release, the new species looks like a mini tuatara, which are about five times longer.
The new species is named after museum volunteer Joseph Gregor, who spent hundreds of hours excavating the fossils from a block stone found by fossil preparer Pete Kroehler in 2010.
“Pete is one of those people who has a kind of X-ray vision for this sort of thing,” Carrano said in the press release. “He noticed two tiny specks of bone on the side of this block and marked it to be brought back with no real idea what was in it. As it turns out, he hit the jackpot.”
Thanks to Gregor, the fossil is now nearly complete, and remains of Opisthiamimus gregori have been added to the museum’s collections for future study. Researchers hope this study inspires other paleontologists to revisit their specimens and look for tiny traces of rhynchocephalians.
“Such a complete specimen has huge potential for making comparisons with fossils collected in the future and for identifying or reclassifying specimens already sitting in a museum drawer somewhere,” DeMar said in the press release. “With the 3D models we have, at some point we could also do studies that use software to look at this critter’s jaw mechanics.”
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Most Government Workers Comfortable Talking about Burnout, Say a Four-Day Work Week and Increased Flexibility Would Alleviate Burnout
ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- More than half (56 percent) of government employees say that they are burned out from their jobs, notably higher than their private sector counterparts (47 percent), according to new research from Eagle Hill Consulting. While this high level of workforce burnout is concerning, it has dropped from earlier this year (65 percent). The burnout levels are higher among women (60 percent), Millennials (60 percent), and lower income (59 percent) government workers.
When it comes to the cause of burnout, government workers say it's their workload (49 percent); a lack of communication, feedback and support (43 percent); staffing shortages (42 percent); juggling personal and professional lives (40 percent); and time pressures (34 percent). More than two-thirds of government workers (67 percent) say that a four-day work week and increased flexibility would alleviate their stress.
These findings are contained in a workforce survey from Eagle Hill Consulting conducted by Ipsos from August 11 -16, 2022. The 2022 Eagle Hill Consulting Workforce Burnout Survey included 1003 respondents from a random sample of employees across the U.S., including 739 federal, state, and local government workers. Respondents were polled about burnout and vacation.
"It's encouraging that burnout among government workers is falling, but the high burnout levels still are quite concerning" said Melissa Jezior, president and chief executive officer of Eagle Hill Consulting. "Given the immense demand for government services, it is prudent for public sector employers to constantly assess the state of their workforce. Public employers need workers who can deliver on the agency mission, and they need employees who will stay on the job. When government employees are exhausted and stressed, or feel like they can't perform at their best they may start looking elsewhere for employment."
"Public employees point to practical steps employers can take to reduce burnout – from increased scheduling flexibility to better health and wellness benefits. Government leaders are wise to fully understand exactly what is driving burnout at their agency and to have honest conversations with workers about what will help address the problem. Good news from our research is that most government employees feel comfortable telling their employer about their burnout levels, so initiating those conversations is a great place to start," Jezior said.
The survey's key findings are as follows:
- When asked how staff shortages are impacting their workload, 82 percent of workers said it's covering the workload for unfilled positions, 45 percent said it's helping others learn their job, 35 percent said it's training new hires, and 23 percent said it's recruiting and interviewing new hires.
- Most employees (63 percent) who experience burnout feel comfortable telling their manager or employer they feel burned out.
- The top causes of burnout include workload (49 percent), a lack of communication and support (43 percent), staff shortages (42 percent), juggling personal and professional lives (40 percent), and time pressures (34 percent).
- When asked how to reduce burnout, 67 percent said a four-day work week and increased flexibility would help. Other solutions included decreasing workloads (63 percent), working from home (63 percent), providing better health and wellness benefits (57 percent), reducing administrative burdens (52 percent), offering more on-site amenities (52 percent), and providing workers with the ability to relocate or work from multiple locations (42 percent).
- The research also signals that the Great Resignation is likely to linger, as more than one-third of the government workforce (39 percent) plans to leave their job in the next 12 months. The planned departure rates are even higher for Millennials (46 percent) and lower income workers (47 percent).
Eagle Hill Consulting LLC is a woman-owned business that provides unconventional management consulting services in the areas of Strategy & Performance, Talent, and Change. The company's expertise in delivering innovative solutions to unique challenges spans across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. A leading authority on employee sentiment, Eagle Hill is headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, with employees across the U.S. and offices in Boston and Seattle. More information is available at www.eaglehillconsulting.com.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the past 10 years, Hispanic entrepreneurs have continued to start small businesses at a faster rate of 44%, compared to 4% of their non-Hispanic counterparts, according to a meta-analysis from SCORE, mentors to America's small businesses and a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
There are nearly five million Hispanic-owned businesses throughout the country, and they contribute more than $800 billion to the American economy each year, according to SCORE's analysis. Not only that, Hispanic small businesses employ about three million workers, with more than $100 billion in annual payroll.
Despite Hispanic small businesses' significant contributions to the U.S. economy and their rapid growth, this community of entrepreneurs face unique challenges they must overcome in order to thrive.
According to SCORE data, Hispanic entrepreneurs are grappling significantly with pandemic fallout, with 30% sharing that their business is weaker today than at the height of COVID.
More specifically, Hispanic small businesses face obstacles with financing. While funding has provided a greater lifeline for Hispanic entrepreneurs during the pandemic, 39.3% say access to financing remains a challenge, compared to 18% of White small business owners. Additionally, 42.6% of Hispanic small businesses say cash flow is an issue, compared to only 32.1% of White entrepreneurs.
In order to fund their small business dreams, 31% of Hispanic entrepreneurs are more likely to tap into their own personal savings, compared to 24% of White small business owners.
Nearly 65% of Hispanic businesses say they need access to capital and nearly 40% say debt/loan forgiveness would help them succeed in the coming year.
In response, SCORE has created SCORE for Hispanic Entrepreneurs, a centralized resource hub that offers personalized support and resource guidance.
"SCORE is prepared and continues to support Hispanic entrepreneurs in every stage of their business," says Ricardo Casas, assistant district director for SCORE Southeast Florida. "We encourage Hispanic small business owners to take advantage of the free, expert mentoring offered in both English and Spanish that can guide you to overcome any challenge and be successful."
SCORE Southern Maryland client Sandra Vasquez emphasizes the importance of her SCORE support system: "Latino businesses are becoming a leading force behind the American economy. However, it's tough to navigate through the red tape. SCORE provided me with the information and training in order to successfully get through the process and open my gym almost one year ago."
Doug Nunez and Rafael Bruno, co-owners of The Torta Chaser in Las Vegas, Nev., reflect on their experience with SCORE: "We cannot thank SCORE enough for all they did to help make our dream a reality. We learned so much from the resources and workshops provided, and especially from our amazing mentor, Lori Karbel. She really helped us grow our business and ourselves as individuals. We now consider her part of the familia!"
For more information about resources available to Hispanic entrepreneurs, visit SCORE.org.
Since 1964, SCORE has helped 11 million entrepreneurs start or grow a business. SCORE's 10,000 volunteers provide free mentoring, workshops and educational services to 1,500+ communities nationwide, creating 25,084 new businesses and 71,475 non-owner jobs in 2021 alone. Visit SCORE at www.score.org. Follow @SCOREMentors on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Contact:
Meghan Dooley
SCORE
202-968-6428
media@score.org
Megaphone of Main Street: The Small Business Rural/Urban Divide (NOTE: Analysis of the responses of business owners who identified as Hispanic were compared versus non-minority business owners for this meta-analysis)
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a fun and artistic way to keep a child entertained while quickly preparing a healthy vegan pasta in the kitchen," said an inventor, from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, "so I invented the IFAWGETTI. My design could also provide aid for the world's endangered animal population."
The invention provides a quick and healthy way to enjoy a vegan pasta and sauce meal. In doing so, it eliminates the need to prepare a pasta meal from scratch. It also could provide added fun and entertainment for children and it would offer vital financial help for animals. The invention features a unique design that is easy to prepare and serve so it is ideal for households. Additionally, it is producible in design variations for coloring.
The original design was submitted to the Toronto sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TRO-662, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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ATLANTA, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pye-Barker Fire & Safety is pleased to add Industrial Fire and Safety Equipment, which provides fire extinguisher and suppression services, to the Pye-Barker family of companies. The acquisition further strengthens Pye-Barker's footprint in Birmingham, Alabama and the surrounding areas.
Industrial Fire & Safety Equipment (IFSE) specializes in the installation, inspection and service of fire extinguishers and suppression systems, as well as fire safety training. The company also supplies safety equipment to customers in industries including mining, construction, fire protection, food services, manufacturing, medical, nuclear, and utility. Founded in 1958 by the Langston family, IFSE's mission is to ensure customers get the fire protection solutions they need to keep workers safe.
"In the Pye-Barker story we see our own – a commitment to a family-oriented culture, excellent customer service and opportunities for employee growth," said Griff Langston, President and owner at IFSE. "I'm proud to have Pye-Barker backing our team."
"As a family-operated business for the last 64 years, IFSE reflects Pye-Barker's own beginnings as a business built on hard work and reliable service," said Bart Proctor, Pye-Barker's CEO.
IFSE will continue to be operated by Lee Langston and Kyle Ware with additional resources and support from Pye-Barker Fire & Safety.
Pye-Barker Fire & Safety, founded in 1946, is a leader in fire protection and life safety, with over 140 locations and 4,100 team members. It is a full-service company offering all the necessary specialties including portable extinguishers, restaurant fire suppression, special hazard systems, fire sprinklers, fire alarms, and security. Pye-Barker invests heavily in providing the best-in-class training for its team while offering industry competitive benefits and is rapidly expanding its national footprint.
Contact:
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VP of Business Development, Pye-Barker Fire & Safety
(910) 612-6252
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Newly Defined Asset Class Proves To Be Competitive With Other Investment Classes
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new, trailblazing report refutes the current misconception that rental apartments priced for the middle-income workforce—such as teachers, nurses, and first responders—have a lower return on investment than apartments with higher rent levels, paving the way for Moderate-Income Rental Housing to be a competitive ESG investment.
The report, sponsored by Affordable Central Texas and the Wells Fargo Foundation, defines a new asset class as Moderate-Income Rental Housing (MIRH), or large, multifamily rental properties occupied by tenants earning between 60 percent and 120 percent of the Median Family Income (MFI) with at least half the residents earning less than 80% of MFI. Analyzing data since 2011, the report demonstrates MIRH assets outperformed rental properties with higher rents, averaged an unleveraged return of 9.4 percent, and had the lowest risk, 2.6 percent spread when compared to other real estate asset classes.
"Demand for affordable rental housing for moderate-income households is surging as homeownership becomes unobtainable for many. At the same time, interest in Environmental, Social, and Governance investments is growing rapidly," said David Steinwedell, President and CEO of Affordable Central Texas. "We can't afford to lose the people who power our communities, and we have a market solution to a market problem. MIRH delivers consistent, predictable returns and makes a real difference in the lives of our neighbors."
In 2021, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) funds accounted for 10 percent of worldwide fund assets. According to a new report by Bloomberg Intelligence, global ESG assets may surpass $41 trillion by 2022 and $50 trillion by 2025. ESG's in the U.S. are taking the lead with more than 40 percent growth in the past two years and are expected to exceed $20 trillion in 2022.
The report drew on data from the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries Property Index and analyzed eight metropolitan areas—Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Phoenix, Seattle, and Washington, DC, from Q2 2011 to Q2 2021. The nation's three largest metros, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, lacked enough MIRH assets to allow for analysis due to their well documented affordability challenges.
The research was prepared by Mark G. Roberts, Director of Research at the Folsom Institute for Real Estate at Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business, and Jake Wegmann, Associate Professor at the Community & Regional Planning Program at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture.
The full report and further information about MIRH's performance as a new asset class can be found at: https://austinhousingconservancy.com/moderate-income-rental-housing-report/.
Affordable Central Texas (ACT), in conjunction with Austin Housing Conservancy Fund, works to ensure Austin's workforce can afford to live in greater Austin by building a scalable social impact fund aimed at preserving well-located multi-family apartment properties for long-term affordability. ACT is a 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit formed in 2016 by local Austin real estate and affordable housing veterans to manage the activities and investments of the Fund, providing stable and affordable workforce housing in and around Austin. www.austinhousingconservancy.com
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GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A game changer: combined fresh renewable energy storage and fresh water production
TEXEL and Nereid Water team up to solve two of the world's most important issues of future survival - cost effective stored renewable energy and water desalination - two key issues for the supply of energy and fresh water for drinking & agricultural irrigation. This joint offering will be hugely attractive to markets ranging from resorts and farms to the State of California. The two companies see a massive opportunity both in terms of business and environmental benefits.
Clean fresh water and the storing of intermittent renewable energy are two of the most important and pressing issues of our time. TEXEL and Nereid come together to bring out a unique solution that helps solving both these issues.
TEXEL system is a thermal storage technology, storing energy from solar PV and delivering stored electricity and heat when there is no sun. The Nereid Crystal Gen technology is a desalination and crystallization system which produce fresh water using thermal solar energy, without rejecting brine into the environment. The Nereid plant is powered by the heat supplied by TEXEL, increasing the overall efficiencies of both systems. The technologies make a circular system that allows produce energy, food and fresh water 24/7 365 days year.
The aim of the cooperation is to benefit the environment and jointly exploit from the huge market potential that energy storage and desalination of water has. TEXEL and Nereid sign a first MoU and work on several business cases and to implement their first joint Pilot plants.
"To secure and supply a region like California with a combination of both cost effective energy storage, for distribution of solar and wind, and at the same time fresh water, is not only fantastic news but as well on top of the agenda in the California and other regions effected by extreme weather and draughts," - says Lars Jacobsson, founder and CEO of TEXEL Energy Storage.
"The Nereid and TEXEL technologies combined, makes perpetual sustainability become reality - renewable energy and clean fresh water. We see endless applications for civil protection, commercial, municipalities and in the private sectors," - says Francois Frigola, Chairman of Nereid Water.
TEXEL and Nereid Water are looking forward to a fruitful cooperation and a successful progression of bringing its joint technologies to the market. The two companies are now planning for a demonstration installation in California, US.
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Daniel Wilke
Head of PR
daniel@texeles.com
+46736329827
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Chairman Nereid SA
francois.frigola@nereidwater.com
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for BEAT, KERN, CSX, RIVN, and XPEV.
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2023: South West APC leaders caution against intra-ethnic gang-up against Tinubu
•As youths hold one million man solidarity march in Ibadan
The leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the South West, have cautioned the people from the region against the intra-ethnic gang up against its presidential candidate, Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2023.
The chieftains of the party led by its National Vice-President, South West, Barrister Isaac Kekemeke, and its governorship candidate in Oyo State, Senator Teslim Folarin gave the warning at the flag-off of one million man roadshow for Asiwaju organised by the youths from the region in Ibadan on Thursday.
Kekemeke warned against the repeat of what happened in 1983 and 1993 when some elements from the region ganged up against the realization of the Presidential ambition of Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Late Chief Moshood Abiola respectively.
Kekemeke who insisted that there is no division in the Oyo state chapter of the APC urged the party faithful not to allow the opportunity of producing the next President from the region to slip off their hands in 2023.
According to him, there is no division in the Oyo state chapter of the APC. We have only one governorship candidate, Teslim Folarin, 3 Senatorial District candidates, 14 House of Representatives candidates and 32 House of Assembly candidates.
He, therefore, warned some members of the party against what he described as anti-party, threatening that anyone caught in this act would be dealt with in accordance with the constitution of the party.
It is unconstitutional for a member of the party to be hobnobbing with candidates of another party.
It is high time we talked to ourselves in order to guide against the repeat of what happened in 1983 and 1993.
It is our turn in Yorubaland to produce the next leadership of the Country in 2023. Our candidate is no other person than Tinubu.
When you look at the profile of all the presidential candidates, Tinubu is the most qualified among them.
In the SouthWest, Tinubu deserves more than 90% of our votes.
Speaking in the same vein, Senator Folarin drummed support for the presidential candidacy of Tinubu, submitting that he has all that it takes to lead the Country.
He attributed the economic woes bedevilling the Country to the ineptitude of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku while in office as the Vice-President of the Country.
In his words, “the PDP has failed the country in the past. It will be wrong and catastrophic to give them another shot at power in 2023.
In Oyo state, Tinubu will not get less than 95% votes. He is our own. He deserves our support, noting his political pedigree as the former governor of Lagos state.
Meanwhile, the youths from all the states in the SouthWest embarked on a one million man road show in support of Tinubu.
They took off from the State Secretariat of the party in Oke-Ado in Ibadan SouthEast local government and terminated the walk at the Cocoa House building, Dugbe.
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25 babies delivered in Jigawa IDP camp in 2 weeks
NO fewer than 25 pregnant women have delivered new babies at Karniya Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Dutse local government area in Jigawa State.
Reports from the state indicated that the newborn babies were delivered in less than two weeks and the babies born in the IDP camp are yet to be immunised against childhood killer diseases.
Karnaya community, which is about 23 kilometres from Dutse town, the state capital, is one of the communities ravaged by floods in Jigawa.
When Tribune Online visited the IDP camp, it was gathered that the 25 women had given birth following within two weeks of their relocation without the presence of a skilled birth attendant.
Speaking to Tribune Online, a leader in the IDP camp, Malam Falalu Ado, said that women were delivering babies in the camps without professional medical care.
According to him, “We are lucky enough to have the women delivering without complications; they are being saved by God Almighty, and nobody in the name of a government official is assisting us in the camp.”
Malam Falalu Ado expressed dismay at how the government abandoned them since they were displayed and relocated to the camps.
He alleged that life here is difficult, assistance is not forthcoming, and we are living in the mercy of God. We need food, and medical attention because there is also reported (suspected) cases of cholera outbreak in the camp.
Malam Falalu Ado disclosed that government inaction is disappointing as basic social amenities in the camp are lacking.
Malam Ado expressed appreciation to the emirs of Dutse and Gumel, Alhaji Nuhu Sunusi and Alhaji Ahmed Muhammad Sani, who sympathised and donated food items to them.
“We just finished the naming ceremony of one of the babies. He was named after the Emir of Gumel, Ahmed Muhammad Sani. We are appreciative of the kind gesture he did that is why we reciprocated and named the child after him,” he emphasised.
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The Jigawa State government established the Karniya IDP camp after over 500 structures, mostly mud houses, were submerged by the flood, forcing the entire community to relocate to uncompleted filling stations and a school in the community located on the Kano Maiduguri highway.
The situation in the camp may contribute to the child mortality rate in the state, as babies born in an open space without proper medication are more vulnerable to diseases.
When contacted through his mobile phone, the executive secretary of the Jigawa State Primary Health Care Development Board (SPHCDB), Dr Kabir Ibrahim, said the women delivering at the camp are doing so at their wish because there are at least three vehicles meant for the Emergency Transport Scheme that is meant for the free service for delivery mothers in the Karnaya community.
The executive secretary added that the government provides vehicles available in the area on standby, the women have no reason to deliver at the camp.
Dr Ibrahim explained that “following their relocation to the camp, they are closer to nearby health facilities in Dutse, Shuwarin and other places which are just 15 minutes drive.”
“Traditionally, some people use to give birth at home which is not safe, the camp is also not safe because there is no cleanliness and sterilisation, and health workers cannot attend to the delivery mother in such an environment, the best they can do is to move to the nearby facility for delivery,” he disclosed. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/25-babies-delivered-in-jigawa-idp-camp-in-2-weeks/ | 2022-09-15T15:33:18Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/25-babies-delivered-in-jigawa-idp-camp-in-2-weeks/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Chief Whip of the House of Representatives, Hon. Mohammed Tahir Monguno on Thursday tasked practitioners of treasury management and Fellows of the Chartered Institute of Treasury Management (CITM) to bring their expertise to bear by sanitizing the management of public funds in Nigeria.
Hon. Monguno, who sponsored the CITM (Establishment) Act, gave the charge during the induction ceremony of Fellows of the Institute.
He said: “Having a new Institute, particularly a research-based entity has defined your role and the task ahead of you all.
“Your mandate here today is to be certified and inducted into a pool of critical thinkers with hands-on and practical suggestions and solutions to the myriads of challenges confronting our nation’s economy.
“Governance will not be complete without your inputs as technocrats to drive the process; politicians would not be able to deliver on their mandates without your support. Likewise, dishonest politicians would not be able to game and compromise the system without you showing them the way and the loopholes,” Hon. Monguno said.
He, therefore, tasked the pioneer inductees to use the topic of his presentation: ‘Managing Growth and Development in a distressed economy: The Role of a Treasury Manager’, as a research topic and submit findings to the Registrar for assessment.
While addressing the inductees, NITM President/Acting Chairman, Mr Nwude-Chu Emmanuel, said having come thus far in achieving the task of having a legal charter for the Council, fellows of the Institute must work hard to uphold the tenets of professionalism obtainable elsewhere in the world.
“May I remind us that the vision and mission of the CITM are to build world-class treasury professionals that are conversant with complexities of modern treasury and could competently and efficiently manage public, corporate and private treasuries as the case may be.
“Consequently, the theme for this induction titled: ‘Sustainable Treasury –A Catalyst Toward Virile Economy’ is timely and after this programme, each and every one of us would have realized that the modern treasurer is a hunter of opportunities for increased efficiency…”, he said.
In his remarks, CITM Registrar, Adeola Adedoyin said all over the world, there is virtually no country that is free from daily problems of managing the nation’s economic affairs and the well-being of its citizenry and populace.
According to him, “the difference has been the mindset at orientation right from cradle to be result oriented rather than being fault finders with a judgmental spirit.”
“No government in any country has all it takes to move and accelerate the economic growth and development of its geopolitical territory. It is the strategic initiatives and unrelenting positive contributions of all and sundry at the sub-sector of the national economy driven by patriotism and loyalty to the fatherland that has been the catalyst of economic breakthroughs in today’s revered “advanced or developed” economies around the world.
“The Journey so far The foundation of ClTM came through the thought process of several like-minded individuals having a common goal and curious enough to find a solution to the common problem of impacting cash management with treasury management initiatives as a measure of safe guiding the treasury.
“This can be achieved by the idea of an organization that could spearhead the establishment and raise a national consciousness of accountability, transparency, prudence and probity in public offices as a multi-purpose vehicle for solving our economic woes,” he said.
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As part of the efforts to boost rice production in Nigeria, the Federal Government has approved an intervention fund for the completion of the 10 large-scale rice mills with a combined minimum capacity of 320 MT per day in 10 states.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, who disclosed this at the opening ceremony of the 45th Regular meeting of the National Council on Agriculture and Rural Development in Jos, Plateau State pointed out that the Mills will be located in Jigawa, Kano, Adamawa, Niger, Kaduna, Gombe, Ekiti, Ogun, Bayelsa and Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Dr Abubakar stated that the government also wish to vigorously develop clusters, rural nodal centres and rural cottage industries, as well as establish six Special Agro-industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) nationwide.
He further added that pursuant to its mandate of ensuring food security, employment generation and wealth creation in the country, the Ministry is committed to supporting the establishment of over 100 processing centres in the rural communities across the nation under the Green Imperative Project of a private-driven mechanisation programme.
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“The Ministry will equally sustain its programmes on farm inputs subsidy support programme, registration, clustering and validation of farmers, mainstreaming women and youth in agribusiness, and developing Cooperatives along various agricultural commodity value chains.
“Other effort is the development of Agribusiness Incubation Centres, with the capacity to train 4,000 beneficiaries per session, which are located in the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University, Katsina, University of Ibadan, University of Maiduguri, Niger Delta University and University of Abuja,” he said
The Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development further declared the Ministry has equally facilitated the production and distribution of 920MT of assorted improved seeds and the distribution of 67,000Litres of Agro-Chemicals o 1,397,469 farmers.
In his address, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State stated that Northern Governors Forum had interfaced with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and its Parastatals on the issue of Value Addition, Extension Services and education as well as provision of timely farming input to our farmers.
The Governor said the problems cut across the States and the entire country and need to be resolved without delay adding that the Northern Governors are also working with the Federal Government and security agencies to ensure that they deal with the issue of banditry, terrorism and general criminality which is threatening farming activities, particularly in the North.
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As heavy downpour continues to ravage Bauchi State as forecast by NIMET, five people have been confirmed dead when a canoe travelling across river Jama’are capsized while over 1,000 families were displaced, 60,000 hectares of farmlands washed away while over 5000 houses pulled down in Jama’are local government area of the state.
The disclosure was made by the member representing Jama’are Constituency in the State House of Assembly, Saleh Muhammad who was speaking on the matter during Wednesday’s plenary.
The member, therefore, called for the state government to urgently come to the aid of the victims because according to him, the displaced families are now taking shelter in schools, government buildings, Mosques, Churches and neighbouring villages, while various crops worth several millions of Naira were destroyed.
According to him, “Jama’are town and its surrounding villages had been hit by a very devastating flood that rendered several people homeless. The flood is estimated to have destroyed over 5000 houses and displaced about 1,000 families”.
He added that “It also ravaged more than 60,000 hectares of farmlands and destroyed farm produce estimated at several hundreds of millions of Naira.
“The displaced persons are currently seeking shelter at public schools, government buildings, Mosques, Churches and neighbouring villages in Yola, Dakodako, Gongo, Gilar, Sabongari, Jogayel, Jabbori, Bodinga, Guda, among others”.
Saleh Muhammad added that “Jama’are Local Government Area has been experiencing annual flooding during the rainy season; the town is vulnerable due to the presence of a river in the area”.
The lawmaker said the recent flood endangered the lives of humans and animals with other effects like outbreaks of diseases such as cholera and malaria. He urged the House to resolve that the State Government should come to the aid of the people of Jama’are Constituency who are grossly affected by flood incidents by providing relief materials.
He also noted that the Committee of Special Duties should be mandated to visit, sympathize and condole with the victims and families of those that lost their lives in the capsized canoe, on behalf of the Bauchi State House of Assembly and the State Government should seek the intervention of relevant Federal Government agencies with a view to intervening on the matter.
Responding, the Speaker, Abubakar Suleiman said that the motion requires no further debate since Members have already discussed it but rather, urgent action should be taken to avert further calamity.
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N42 billion debts: Why Azman Airlines will remain grounded ― NCAA
• Insists no renewal of licenses for debtor airlines
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has attributed reasons for withholding the Air Transport License (ATL) of Nigeria’s Azman Airline to the need for the airline to show commitment to offsetting the over N1.2 billion debt it owed the agency.
Equally, cited as another reason why the ATL of the airline was being held was the need for it to provide the required documentation for its operational license renewal.
The development came following the inability of the airline to operate yesterday leading to many of its passengers getting stranded across the country’s airports.
Confirming the development to some journalists, the director general of the NCAA, Captain Musa Nuhu, who said the withholding of Azman Airlines’ license had to do with the accumulated debts incurred through the Passengers’ Service Charges it collected on behalf of the regulatory agency from passengers which the airline refused to remit, however, hinted that the move which was not only targeted at the airline will also be extended to other debtor airlines.
ATL is one of the critical requirements needed to be obtained from the NCAA by any airline before it goes into commercial flight operations.
According to the conditions given by the NCAA DG, before Azman can resume operations it must among others present a valid tax clearance as part of the required documentation and sign a Memorandum of Understanding on how it intends to defray its accumulated debts to the NCAA.
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Once the airline meets all the conditions, the director general said it will automatically be granted the approvals for the renewal of its expired license.
”This is not a charge and this is not their money, it’s monies collected in trust for us from passengers and they squandered it. We are not asking them for an interest rate, no penalties, we just want our funds remitted. We asked them to sit and negotiate as they collected on our behalf and refused to remit.
“I cannot keep explaining to the Minister, to the Accountant General, to the Presidency why we cannot remit money meant for them to them. We have been forced to carry out this action,” the NCAA DG declared.
Like the airlines, the DG said even the government agencies and other businesses within and outside the sector were all battling challenges just like others and for this fact, the regulatory were not demanding that the entire debt should be paid once but insisted that the debtor airlines should sign the commitment on the mode of payments of the debts.
His words: “We know that if we tell them to give us all these monies at the same time, it is very difficult and not possible, so, what we have put in place in NCAA and to prevent the debts from growing, we have put in place a tripartite agreement; the NCAA, airlines and the airlines’ banks. So, once those funds go to the bank, the 5 per cent TSA/CSC is automatically deducted and goes into the NCAA bank and NCAA will share it with the other sister agencies on a pre-determined ratio as entrenched in the 2006 Civil Aviation Act.
“For the legacy debts, what we have done is to enter an MoU with all the operators; we know they can’t pay all at a time, but they have to pay us a reasonable amount of money on a monthly basis at least.
“What we have said is that if they don’t pay this legacy debt, we are not going to renew their licenses; AOC, ATL. That is one of the conditions and most of them have entered into the agreement.”
The NCAA DG had recently raised the alarm about how the airlines were indebted to all the government agencies to the tune of N42 billion for a long period of time.
While the airlines including the dead ones owed the NCAA a whopping B19 billion, the airlines owed the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), N18 billion and the Nigerians Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) N5 billion respectively.
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ANAHEIM — So far Mickey Moniak’s change of scenery has yielded encouraging results.
The Philadelphia Phillies took the outfielder with the first overall pick in the 2016 draft, but he struggled in the opportunities he’d gotten in the big leagues.
The Angels picked him up last month at the trade deadline, and what he’s shown before and after a one-month stint on the injured list has given reason for the Angels to be optimistic.
The change, Moniak said, is just a matter of how he feels since putting on an Angels uniform.
“I feel comfortable,” Moniak said. “I’m getting the opportunity to play. The organization has shown a lot of faith in me. … I think I’ve been confident in my ability to play baseball the entire time and it just hasn’t really gone my way to start my career. But I think the comfort level is a huge factor in having success. I feel that here. And things are going well.”
Moniak, 24, has hit .250 with three home runs and an .881 OPS in his first 37 plate appearances with the Angels, after hitting .129 with a .386 OPS and one homer in 105 plate appearances over three seasons with the Phillies.
There are still some issues, such as his 12 strikeouts and no walks with the Angels, but overall the performance has been more in line with what the Phillies hoped after his spring. Moniak hit .378 with six homers and a 1.351 OPS in 15 spring training games. He had earned a spot on the Phillies’ Opening Day roster, but he broke his right hand during their final exhibition game.
“I think as far my swing goes, I think it was it was ready to go coming into spring training,” Moniak said. “Obviously the unfortunate setback I had with my hand to start the year and then just kind of working my way back. Trying to get comfortable there. It didn’t really seem to happen for me.
“I can only look in the mirror. I can only control what I can control, and I didn’t get it done there.”
It certainly didn’t help that Moniak was not getting it done in the spotlight that followed him because of his draft position. The Phillies plucked him out of La Costa Canyon High in Carlsbad and signed him for $6.1 million.
Moniak had a .749 OPS at rookie ball in his first summer, and then he started off the following season at Class-A with decent numbers, but late that season he went into a tailspin, hitting .139 with a .386 OPS over his final 20 games.
“It’s a long season and nothing really you can prepare for, dealing with 140 games and being 18 years old away from home for an extended period of time for the first time,” Moniak said. “Then when I struggled, like I did the second half of my low-A season, all the criticism comes from outside. When you’re 1-1, you’re expected to be the next big thing, the next superstar in baseball.”
The Phillies continued moving Moniak up, to high-A in 2018 and Double-A in 2019, even though his numbers were pedestrian at every stop. The minor league season was lost in 2020, and Moniak made his major league debut without ever playing Triple-A. He split 2021 between Triple-A and the majors, still failing to put up the expected numbers.
The first sign that he was truly approaching his potential was this spring.
“Coming into the year I was pretty confident in where my swing was,” Moniak said. “I was just kind of getting back to what got me drafted, just simplifying things in the swing and going back to being a put-the-barrel-on-the-ball kind of guy. It’s worked out.”
He didn’t get much chance to show what he could do with the Phillies in between returning from his broken hand and being traded to the Angels.
The trade brought him back to California and to play for Phil Nevin, who he had known since he played with Nevin’s son, Tyler, as a teenager. Nevin also could identify with Moniak’s journey. Nevin was the first overall pick in the 1992 draft, but he didn’t begin to find his big league footing until after the Houston Astros traded him to the Detroit Tigers.
Nevin said he believes that Moniak has a new “comfort level” since getting to a new organization.
“Philly can be a tough place for a lot of people,” Nevin said. “It’s a special city, a special place to play, but it can be tough. I think the comfort level he’s getting to right now is going to benefit him a great deal, and we’re going to see the best version of what he is.”
Moniak is now in a platoon with Jo Adell. As the left-handed hitter, he figures to get most of the playing time over the final three weeks of the season. So far he’s made the most of the opportunity, including a homer and a double in Wednesday’s loss in Cleveland.
“It’s definitely a fresh start,” Moniak said. “I couldn’t be more grateful for everybody (with the Phillies), the staff in the minor leagues, every coach I’ve had or guy I’ve played with. Those are memories and relationships I will cherish for a lifetime. I still stay in contact with everybody over there. They were nothing but good to me in that organization. Unfortunately, I just couldn’t get it done over there. Obviously, sometimes a fresh start is needed. Getting that that fresh start with the Angels, and also being close to home, definitely helps.”
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In accordance with updated CDC and FDA guidelines, Southeastern Grocers (SEG) is now administering Pfizer bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccines in select Winn-Dixie pharmacies, including those at the Alexander City, Millbrook, Montgomery, Prattville, Selma and Wetumpka stores.
This is in addition to the Moderna bivalent boosters currently offered in select in-store pharmacies. The reformulated versions of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine aim to improve protection against the original strain of the coronavirus as well as the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.
The Pfizer bivalent COVID-19 vaccine is authorized for use as a single booster dose for individuals ages 12 and older, and the Moderna bivalent vaccine is authorized for individuals ages 18 and older. The new boosters are available for eligible age groups two months after completing their primary vaccination series or their last booster vaccine.
In a media statement, the grocery store parent company stated it is also offering up to $20 in free groceries as a vaccine incentive. To receive the free grocery offer, customers can get a flu vaccine (free with most insurances) along with their Pfizer or Moderna bivalent vaccine during the same visit to receive a voucher for $20 in free groceries. See pharmacy for details.
The grocer is offering online appointments and convenient walk-upsfor Pfizer and Moderna bivalent boosters and encourages qualified individuals to www.winndixie.com/pharmacy/covid-vaccine for timely updates including pharmacy locations, available appointments, frequently asked questions and guidance to support the health and well-being of the communities it serves.
“SEG continues to work diligently to keep appointment availability updated online in real time as additional vaccines are regularly received or due to cancellations,” the statement read. “SEG appreciates the flexibility, kindness and respect for other shoppers and associates shown by its customers, and asks for their continued cooperation to keep communities safe and healthy. “
SEG is also continuing its availability of Pfizer’s Paxlovid and Merck’s Molnupiravir oral antiviral medications to eligible patients in all Fresco y Más, Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie pharmacies to be used in the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 cases.
Eligible patients must have received a positive COVID-19 diagnosis, begin treatment within five days of symptom onset and have a prescription from their doctor or health care provider to qualify to receive the oral treatments.
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Melville chairwoman stands down after five years in role
After five years as chair of the board of Melville Housing Association, Caron Quinn has stepped down at the organisation’s 2022 Annual General Meeting (AGM).
Elected to the position in 2017, Caron’s time as chairwoman at the Dalkeith-based housing association has seen progress through a challenging period including negotiating the Covid pandemic, a move to new hybrid working models, the retirement of a number of key personnel, as well as combatting the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.
Despite these obstacles, her time in the role has seen a period of sustained growth with Melville now owning and managing over 2,080 homes, more than at any point in its history.
“I’m immensely proud of all that Melville has achieved during my time as chair,” said Caron.
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“With the incredibly difficult times ahead for the whole country, never has there been a greater need for high quality, affordable social housing, and as I stand down I’m confident that Melville is in a strong position to deliver the homes and services required.
“I would like to thank board members, both past and present, and our previous and current CEOs for their constant support, which has made my time as chair both enjoyable and rewarding.”
While stepping down from the position of chair, Caron will continue to sit on Melville’s Board where she’s been a member since 2014, a role she fulfills alongside her day job as director of corporate services/ deputy CEO at Govan Housing Association.
“Caron has served as chair during as difficult a period as any I can remember in my time in social housing, and I’d like to express my deep gratitude for the leadership she’s provided,” said Melville chief executive John McMorrow.
“I’m delighted she’ll be remaining on the board to continue to provide help and guidance through what promises to be another challenging period.”
Caron’s detailed knowledge of the Scottish social housing sector has developed over the past 20 years. Before joining Govan Housing Association, she provided services to Scottish registered social landlords in her role as an internal auditor. Caron is also chair of West Lothian Citizens Advice Bureau. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/business/melville-chairwoman-stands-down-after-five-years-in-role-3844603 | 2022-09-15T15:41:49Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/business/melville-chairwoman-stands-down-after-five-years-in-role-3844603 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When Ana de Armas first saw herself fully dressed as Marilyn Monroe in Netflix's highly anticipated new film Blonde, a roller coaster of emotions hit her hard.
“It felt so real. It was a very strong sensation… because it's hard for me not to relate to the story of what was happening to her and to the woman in the story,” de Armas told reporters at the film's Hollywood premiere on Tuesday evening held at the TCL Chinese Theatre where Monroe, as a young girl, would spend weekends watching films.
Written and directed by Andrew Dominik, Blonde is based on Joyce Carol Oates' 1999 novel of the same name that reimagines Marilyn Monroe's inner life, from her extremely fraught childhood as Norma Jeane Mortenson to her rise to Hollywood superstardom and her volatile romantic relationships. The nearly three-hour film, produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, is 14 years in the making.
To transform into Monroe, she said at the premiere, de Armas spent three hours every morning of the nine-week production donning a stocking cap and having prosthetics glued underneath her custom-made platinum blonde wigs to conceal her natural hairline. In addition, she had her brows bleached and shaved. She also wore blue contacts to cover her naturally hazel eyes, and had fake lashes strategically placed onto her eyes to alter the shape of her eyes to match Monroe's. Every physical detail was painstakingly checked. Even the location of Monroe's mole, most often seen on her lower left cheek, was referenced.
“On most days Ana would be guiding my hand and we would get right to the spot where Marilyn had it on her face and dot it,” said Tina Roesler Kerwin, the film's makeup department head, on the red carpet prior to the screening. “There was a time where Marilyn moved it and put it down near her chin. It's in the movie as well.”
During the intense research to recreate Monroe-inspired looks for de Armas, Kerwin and her team discovered Monroe often slathered petroleum jelly on her face as part of her makeup routine, especially during photo shoots. “Marilyn always had this beautiful glow in photographs and her secret trick was she used Vaseline because it was reflective and it bounced back a lot of light and gave her a lot of glow,” said Kerwin, who also worked on Top Gun: Maverick. “We opted to do something else that was more contemporary and better for Ana's skin long term.”
Exact replicas of Monroe's iconic dresses were created for Blonde, including the pink gown with the large bow from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and the William Travilla-designed hand-pleated skirt seen in the Seven Year Itch's famous New York subway grate scene, which de Armas said was her favorite costume to wear.
“Building the William Travilla dress was the hardest to make. It had to be an exact match to the photograph we were basing it on,” said costume designer Jennifer Johnson. “We used traditional pleating techniques and added extra yardage of the skirt to make it exaggerated. We used 50 yards of fabric continuing to make the skirt, remaking it, re-pleating it, and up until the eleventh hour, we made the perfect one. Ana really took flight in that dress.”
According to Johnson, a non-traditional wardrobe technique that Monroe would often use for her looks was to sew marbles into her bra in order to make her nipples appear more prominent. “I chose not to do it because it would look so silly, but Marilyn was so smart and found creative ways to look her best.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/how-ana-de-armas-became-marilyn-monroe-blonde | 2022-09-15T15:45:00Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/how-ana-de-armas-became-marilyn-monroe-blonde | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In 2018, 22-year-old Noah Centineo starred in two young adult rom-coms—To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and Sierra Burgess Is a Loser—released successively on Netflix. Seemingly overnight, he was dubbed “the internet’s boyfriend.” Four years later, he enters blockbuster territory as the superhero—sorry, “metahuman”—Atom Smasher in Black Adam. “Pierce Brosnan is to the right, The Rock is to the left,” he marvels. “I’m getting a master class.”
BORN IN Boca Raton, Florida, the aspiring drummer tagged along with his sister to a modeling go-see. There, he was discovered. “I was eight. Twist my arm, I’ll be famous.”
AFTER A MOVE to Park City, Utah, at 13, his mother rented an apartment in Los Angeles and let Noah give pilot season a go. A month of rejections later, she made him choose: Keep going or quit. He kept going. “I couldn’t do it again, though. Rejection is so much harder to deal with than it was at 15.”
ONCE HE GOT his license, it was game over. “I dropped out of high school. It was just couch surfing in the Valley with these lost boys and girls whose parents aren’t there but are paying their rent.” Before too long, he landed something big: Freeform’s The Fosters.
AFTER To All the Boys, his sudden fame was overwhelming. “I got mobbed by a small army of fans. I came inside and I rolled a cigarette—at this point I was still smoking—and I realized that I wasn’t allowed to just go and smoke anymore. And the panic hit me.”
FOR SOMEONE who loved dressing up as a superhero as a kid, making Black Adam was a big-budget dream. “Dwayne [Johnson] is 99 percent more present than most people. They say don’t meet your idols—not true with Dwayne.”
UP NEXT, he developed and stars in a Netflix drama inspired by Vanity Fair contributor Adam Ciralsky’s time in the CIA. “I know I can work like a workhorse, but now what do I want to create?”
HIS DREAM DINNER PARTY includes Gandhi, Miguel de Cervantes, Joan of Arc, and Shakespeare. “Did you know that Cervantes and Shakespeare died a day apart, same year? I think they were friends. Imagine they were like, you know, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon!” | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/noah-centineo-boy-next-door-is-growing-up | 2022-09-15T15:45:06Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/noah-centineo-boy-next-door-is-growing-up | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Friday, the Queen’s children will hold a Vigil of the Princes, a royal tradition where they’ll stand guard beside the coffin of their late relative, ahead of the late monarch’s state funeral on Monday.
During the funeral, the Queen’s coffin will be taken by state gun carriage from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey for a service conducted by the Dean of Westminster, Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday. At the close of the service, there will be two minutes of national silence before the coffin leaves the Abbey and processes to Wellington Arch before making its very final journey to St George’s Chapel at Windsor, where the Queen will be buried.
There will be a second, shorter service, conducted by the Dean of Windsor at St George’s Chapel before a private family burial when the Queen is finally laid to rest in the King George VI memorial chapel alongside her late father, mother, sister and her late husband, Prince Philip. It was both Philip and Queen Elizabeth’s wish to be buried together.
The palace also confirmed that King Charles will lead the processions of the coffin accompanied by senior members of the royal family including her children Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward; her grandchildren Prince William, Prince Harry, Peter Philips; her cousin, the Duke of Gloucester; Princess Anne’s husband Vice Admiral Timothy Lawrence; her nephew, the Earl of Snowdon and other trusted members of the Queen’s household.
The procession of the gun carriage is a tradition which is over 100 years old and it is the same gun carriage used for the funerals of the Queen’s father and mother.
Sources say the Queen signed off on every detail of her funeral, including her wish that national health workers be allowed to walk in front of the coffin during its procession from the abbey to Wellington Arch.
The Earl Marshal who is in charge of the funeral plans said, “‘It is our aim and belief that the State Funeral and events over the next few days will unite people across the globe and resonate with people of all faiths, whilst fulfilling Her Majesty and her family’s wishes to pay a fitting tribute to an extraordinary reign.”
Among the 2,000 guests planning to attend the funeral service include heads of state, foreign royal families, governors general and Realm Prime Ministers. The King will host a state reception on Sunday for the visiting heads of state which aides say will be the king’s first official state event, according to Buckingham Palace. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/buckingham-palace-releases-new-details-about-queens-funeral | 2022-09-15T15:45:19Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/buckingham-palace-releases-new-details-about-queens-funeral | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sylvester Stallone has had to do some creative thinking over the past couple of months to erase any trace of his estranged wife Jennifer Flavin from his extensive collection of tattoos.
The actor got a second tattoo to cover up a portrait of his ex after they filed for divorce in August following 25 years of marriage. Stallone went back to Oklahoma City tattoo artist Zach Perez to get this one done as well, camouflaging a portrait he had of Flavin's eyes on his left arm with the head of a leopard. Perez shared the process in a video posted to his Instagram on Monday, writing, “Round 2!!! Here’s the other arm I covered up and reworked the existing horse. It’s an honor to know he can select anyone but he likes my work enough to come back and do another project! I’ll post the 1st session of the dog cover up soon! As always thanks for the trust.”
A couple of days before the couple officially announced their split, the Rocky star first paid a visit to Perez to get a tattoo of his estranged wife's face on this right bicep covered up with a new tattoo of a bullmastiff, Butkus, the dog from the boxing film franchise. A representative for the actor denied it had anything to do with their split at the time, explaining that he simply “intended to refresh the tattoo image of his wife, Jennifer, however, the results were unsatisfactory and, unfortunately, unfixable.” Sly, himself, also later told TMZ that although he did cover up Flavin's face on his arm, he still has a big tattoo of her across his back. A fact which, given the current direction his body art is going in, sounds like a third trip to see Perez is in store.
Initial reports as to why Stallone and Flavin ended their marriage after all these years suggested that it had to do with a disagreement over the couple’s new pet Rottweiler, Dwight. While admitting that they did have issues over how to care for the dog due to their bicoastal lifestyle and the fact that he was often away shooting new projects, Stallone assured TMZ that they “did not end the relationship on such a trivial argument.” He added, “We just went in different directions. I have the highest respect for Jennifer. I will always love her. She’s an amazing woman. She’s the nicest human being I’ve ever met.”
In an exclusive statement to People in August, Flavin said, “I’m sad to announce that after 25 years of marriage, I have filed for divorce from my husband, Sylvester Stallone. While we will no longer be married, I will always cherish the more-than-30-year relationship that we shared, and I know we are both committed to our beautiful daughters. I ask for privacy for our family as we amicably move forward.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/sylvester-stallone-covers-up-second-jennifer-flaving-tattoo-leopard-bullmastiff-divorce | 2022-09-15T15:45:25Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/sylvester-stallone-covers-up-second-jennifer-flaving-tattoo-leopard-bullmastiff-divorce | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It only takes a few minutes into my Zoom call with Mia Mercado for me to realize the full extent of the personal verbal tic I already have with the word nice. I want to ask how nice the weather is at the 32-year-old writer’s home in Kansas City, Kansas, or tell her it’s nice to meet her, but we’re here to discuss her book She’s Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good, published in August, so each extraneous use of the word risks veering us into total semantic chaos.
I tell Mercado that she’s nice-pilled me, and she grins knowingly. As a columnist at The Cut, Mercado has long chronicled the frisson of online fixations ranging from The Tyra Banks Show to “side-character summer” (more on why Mercado thinks we’re obsessed with labeling later), but in She’s Nice Though, Mercado turns her gleeful X-Acto knife of a wit on a personal—and, arguably, societal—obsession with being nice. Through riffs on everything ranging from ASMR YouTube to true crime to one George Saunders deep cut, Mercado teases out the full range of connotations around niceness, particularly as experienced by a Midwesterner, an Asian American, and a woman—a kind of identity trifecta that, as yours truly can attest, carries serious baggage with the trait in question.
Below, Vanity Fair speaks with Mercado about the social contract of niceness, her early career as a greeting card writer, and what our Bad Bitch aspirations say about the impossibility of actually being vulnerable online.
Vanity Fair: First, let me ask about your origin story. How did you get your start in humor writing?
Mia Mercado: The summer before I graduated from University of Milwaukee, I did an internship editing greeting cards with Hallmark Cards in Kansas City. Then I got a full time job with them after college, starting in the very serious, sentimental greeting cards and then eventually moving onto the humor card team. That was the first taste of doing anything related to comedy and humor as a job. I knew I wanted to write, but I didn't know what I wanted to write about until I was working at Hallmark and was like, oh you can write funny things and that can be your job? Okay, cool.
After being there four or five years, I wanted to be the one actually writing stuff. It started with any kind of freelance gig I could get; I was doing some stuff for Hallmark, like coming up with the copy that goes on home decor. Every company wants to say things like, “Oh, we would love to have a funny home decor sign.” It turns out that most places don't actually want to see funny. They want a picture of wine.
Do you have an all time favorite card that you worked on?
I got to be on a greeting card! That’s my finest moment. They did this series of illustrations where they just asked people in the office if they would pose for the card. Mine involved me putting two party hats on my chest. I did that in a corporate setting, and it is immortalized on a greeting card.
You’re part of this generation of writers who came of age while exposed to that early millennial internet voice. Were there specific writers or outlets who influenced yours?
Early early days, I remember looking through BuzzFeed lists and Tumblr. I was like, oh this is fun, I didn't know writing could be like this! I followed Megan Amram on Twitter. Samantha Irby and Lindy West are two people who I've been very inspired by the path they’ve taken from writing online to writing books to writing for other things. Anything that was talking about a thing that felt true to me, and was talking about it in a way that felt like I was talking to a friend, I loved that. I wanted to emulate that in any way that I could.
Your new book, She’s Nice Though, comes pretty quickly on the heels of your first book, Weird But Normal, which was published in May 2020. I imagine that a certain global event that happened between then and now might have provided a good deal of inspiration on the concept of niceness.
Yeah, the idea for this book started brewing when I was finishing up my first book; there’s an essay in that one called “Can I Be A Good Girl While Still Getting Fucked Up?” and it was about my ideas of goodness in high school as it related to friends who were drinking and having sex and doing all the things that I was told are bad, and that people who them are bad. That kind of became the thesis for this whole book. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/what-does-it-mean-to-be-nice-in-2022-mia-mercado-has-a-books-worth-of-theories | 2022-09-15T15:45:31Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/what-does-it-mean-to-be-nice-in-2022-mia-mercado-has-a-books-worth-of-theories | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Nancy from Sunspace of West Michigan shares a few tips on how to maintain your deck so it looks new for years to come.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Newly revealed text messages show how deeply a Mississippi governor was involved in the state paying more than $1 million in welfare money to Brett Favre to help fund one of the retired NFL quarterback's pet projects.
Instead of the money going to help low-income families in one of the nation's poorest states, as intended, it was funneled through a nonprofit group and spent on a new $5 million volleyball facility at a university that the football star and the governor both attended.
One of the texts from 2017 showed Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, who left office in 2020, was “on board” with the arrangement. The state is suing Favre and others, alleging they misspent millions of dollars in welfare money. The director of the nonprofit has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in Mississippi’s largest public corruption case in decades.
The texts were in documents filed Monday in state court by an attorney for the nonprofit, known as the Mississippi Community Education Center. Messages between Favre and the center's executive director, Nancy New, included references to Bryant. The documents also included messages between Bryant and Favre and Bryant and New.
New pleaded guilty in April to charges of misspending welfare money, as did her son Zachary New, who helped run the nonprofit. They await sentencing and have agreed to testify against others. Favre has not been charged with any criminal wrongdoing.
“Just left Brett Farve,” Bryant texted New on July 16, 2019, misspelling the athlete's last name. “Can we help him with his project. We should meet soon to see how I can make sure we keep your projects on course.”
New responded: “I would appreciate having the opportunity to follow through with all the good things we are working on, especially projects like Brett's.”
Later that day, New texted Favre to let him know she was meeting with the governor.
“I love John so much. And you too,” Favre responded to New, referring to the Mississippi Department of Human Services director at the time, John Davis.
The texts also showed discussion between Favre and New about arranging payment from the Human Services Department through the nonprofit to Favre for speaking engagements, with Favre then saying he would direct the money to the volleyball facility at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Favre played football at the university, located in Hattiesburg, before going to the NFL in 1991. His daughter began playing on the school's volleyball team in 2017.
According to court documents, Favre texted New on Aug. 3, 2017: “If you were to pay me is there anyway the media can find out where it came from and how much?”
New responded: “No, we never have had that information publicized. I understand you being uneasy about that though. Let’s see what happens on Monday with the conversation with some of the folks at Southern. Maybe it will click with them. Hopefully.”
Favre replied: “Ok thanks.”
The next day, New texted Favre: “Wow, just got off the phone with Phil Bryant! He is on board with us! We will get this done!”
Favre responded: “Awesome I needed to hear that for sure.”
According to a previous court filing, New's nonprofit made two payments of welfare money to Favre Enterprises, the athlete's business: $500,000 in December 2017 and $600,000 in June 2018.
On Dec. 27, 2017, Favre texted New: “Nancy Santa came today and dropped some money off (two smiling emojis) thank you my goodness thank you.”
“Yes he did," New responded. “He felt you had been pretty good this year!”
Attorneys for Favre did not immediately respond to a phone message Wednesday from The Associated Press.
In a July 11 court filing, New’s attorney wrote that Bryant directed her to pay $1.1 million in welfare money to Favre through the education center for “speaking at events, keynote speaking, radio and promotional events, and business partner development.”
In July, a Bryant spokesperson said allegations that the governor improperly spent the money are false and that Bryant had asked the state auditor to investigate possible welfare fraud.
Billy Quinn, an attorney representing Bryant, told the AP on Wednesday that Bryant did not direct New to make the $1.1 million payment to Favre. Quinn said a careful examination of court records will show “there's no proof that occurred. And that's because it didn't.”
Bryant served two terms as governor and could not run again in 2019 because of term limits. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Mississippi.
In May, the Mississippi Department of Human Services filed a civil lawsuit against Favre, three former pro wrestlers and several other people and businesses to try to recover millions of misspent welfare dollars. The lawsuit said the defendants “squandered” more than $20 million from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families anti-poverty program.
About 1,800 Mississippi households received payments from the program in 2021, according to the Department of Human Services. A family of three must have a monthly income below $680 to qualify, and the current monthly benefit for that family is $260. Payments are allowed for up to five years.
In pleading guilty, Nancy and Zachary New acknowledged taking part in spending $4 million of welfare money for the volleyball facility.
The mother and son also acknowledged directing welfare money to Prevacus Inc., a Florida-based company that was trying to develop a concussion drug. Favre has said in interviews that he supported Prevacus.
Mississippi Auditor Shad White said Favre was paid for speeches but did not show up. Favre has repaid the money, but White said in October that he still owed $228,000 in interest.
In a Facebook post when he repaid the first $500,000, Favre said he didn’t know the money came from welfare funds. He also said his charity had provided millions of dollars to poor children in Mississippi and Wisconsin. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/texts-mississippi-ex-governor-knew-of-favre-welfare-money | 2022-09-15T15:48:49Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/texts-mississippi-ex-governor-knew-of-favre-welfare-money | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin met for talks on boosting ties between their countries Thursday, an encounter that follows a major setback for Moscow on the battlefield in Ukraine.
The two leaders met in Uzbekistan on the sidelines of the eight-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a security alliance created as a counterweight to U.S. influence that also includes India, Pakistan and four ex-Soviet nations in Central Asia.
Along with Russian’s attack on Ukraine, backdropping the summit are the brief eruption not far from the event site of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as strains in China’s relations with Washington, Europe, Japan and India due to disputes over technology, security and territory.
Speaking at the start of his one-on-one talks with Xi, Putin blasted what he described as an “ugly” effort by the United States and its allies to maintain their perceived global domination.
“Attempts to create a unipolar world have recently taken an absolutely ugly shape. They are absolutely unacceptable for the vast majority of countries on the globe,” the Russian president said in opening remarks.
Xi was more careful, saying that together with Russia, China was ready to "set an example of a responsible world power and to play a leading role to take the rapidly changing world on a track of sustainable and positive development.”
The SCO summit in the ancient city of Samarkand is part of Xi’s first foreign trip since the start of the coronavirus pandemic 2 1/2 years ago, underscoring Beijing’s desire to assert itself as a regional power.
The presidents' meeting came after Russia was forced to pull back its forces from large swaths of northeastern Ukraine last week amid a swift Ukrainian counteroffensive. Ukraine regaining control of several Russian-occupied villages and cities represented Moscow's largest setback since its forces had to retreat from areas near the Ukrainian capital early in the war.
Xi's government, which said it had a “no limits” friendship with Moscow before the invasion of Ukraine in late February, has refused to criticize Russia's military actions. Beijing and India are buying more Russian oil and gas, which helps Moscow offset the impact of Western sanctions imposed over the invasion.
“We highly appreciate the well-balanced position of our Chinese friends in connection with the Ukrainian crisis,” Putin said at the start of his talks with Xi.
Russia, in turn, has strongly backed China amid tensions with the U.S. that followed a recent visit to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“We condemn the provocations of the U.S. and its satellites in the Taiwan Strait,” Putin told Xi.
Putin also met Thursday with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, whose country is on track to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Raisi said Moscow and Tehran were finalizing a major treaty that would bring their relations to a “strategic level.”
He and Putin both criticized the U.S. at the start of their meeting. Raisi accused the U.S. of breaching its obligations under Iran's nuclear deal with world powers. Putin gibed American officials, saying “They are masters of their word - they give it and then take it back whenever they want.”
The Russian leader also held meetings with Central Asian leaders and planned to meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday.
There was no indication whether Modi might meet Xi. Relations between India and China are strained due to clashes between the countries' soldiers from a border dispute involving a remote area of the Himalayas.
Putin is also scheduled to meet one-on-one with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan. Turkey and Azerbaijan have the status of “dialogue partners” with the SCO.
Earlier this week, Azerbaijan and Armenia engaged in cross-border shelling that killed 176 troops on both sides, marking the most serious hostilities in nearly two years between the decades-long adversaries. The fighting has put Moscow, which has tried to maintain close ties with both countries, in a precarious position.
Putin's meeting with Erdogan will be closely watched for their statements on Ukraine and a July deal brokered by Turkey and the U.N. to clear the way for exports of grain and other agricultural products that were stuck at Ukraine's Black Sea ports after the Russian invasion.
The Chinese leader is promoting a “Global Security Initiative” announced in April following the formation of the Quad by Washington, Japan, Australia and India in response to Beijing’s more assertive foreign policy. Xi has given few details, but U.S. officials complain it echoes Russian arguments in support of Moscow’s attack on Ukraine.
The region is part of China’s multibillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative to expand trade by building ports, railways and other infrastructure across an arc of dozens of countries from the South Pacific through Asia to the Middle East, Europe and Africa.
On Thursday, Xi met with President Sadyr Zhaparov of Kyrgyzstan and said Beijing supports the “early operation” of a planned railway linking China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, the Chinese foreign ministry said.
China’s economic inroads into Central Asia have fueled unease in Russia, which sees the region as its sphere of influence.
Xi made a one-day visit Wednesday to Kazakhstan en route to Uzbekistan. Pope Francis was in Kazakhstan, but they didn't meet. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/world/xi-putin-meet-in-uzbekistan-as-ukraine-war-dominates | 2022-09-15T15:48:55Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/world/xi-putin-meet-in-uzbekistan-as-ukraine-war-dominates | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Green Party councillors across Kent have fired off a letter to the Department for Transport demanding Kent County Council be allowed to spend the £35.1 million for bus travel in the county how it sees fit, rather than "being micromanaged by Westminster". As KentLive reported yesterday, the council has published how it plans to spend the funding through its Bus Service Improvement Plan.
But as has been said many times in the Council Chamber in Maidstone by senior councillors, the Department for Transport has dictated on what sort of projects the money can be spent and it can not be used to prop up the network which is being ripped apart by operators axing services or council subsidies being cut.
As can be seen in the list of the council's intended spending, some of the money is intended for technology to improve bus provisions. The council also had to jump through several hoops before it could be considered for the funding, including setting up a partnership with bus operators.
Read more:Kent bus cuts: Council refuses to reverse 'catastrophic' decision to axe routes
The controversial cuts to subsidies by the council were again supposed to be discussed today (Thursday, September 15) but the meeting has been dedicated to tributes to the Queen. The axing of routes by bus operators and the proposed cuts to subsidies has left parents worrying about how their children will get to school. There has been disruption since the beginning of the new term as new services to replace discontinued commercial services bed in.
The letter from Green councillors across Kent was addressed to the Transport Secretary and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Transport. It references the 56 routes in Kent under threat from the council's proposed subsidy cuts, and asks for flexibility on how the Government bus funding is spent.
It also calls on the government to open the door for re-regulation of buses in Kent to "give the county council far greater control of the setting of bus routes and timetables". "The de-regulation of bus networks back in 1986 and a decade of austerity since 2011 had already pushed services close to breaking point and, as with our energy supplies, we are now seeing the fragile state they were in," said Green council member for Swale East, Rich Lehmann.
He said: “The government has provisionally granted KCC £35.1m to stabilise the bus network across the county and make improvements to encourage passengers back onto buses. Sadly it appears that this money cannot currently be used to keep services under threat of closure running until passenger numbers recover.
"We are calling on the Department for Transport to take a pragmatic view and allow the council to use some of the BSIP (Bus Service Improvement Plan) grant to maintain the subsidised routes until countywide improvements, such as clearer fare structures and more co-ordinated timetabling, can be implemented and we have a better idea of genuine 'post-COVID' passenger numbers.”
Kent Greens also have a petition to the county council, calling for the reversal of its February's decision to cut £2.2m from the supported bus budget in order to save 56 bus routes across the county.
In their letter to the Transport Secretary and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Transport, the Green councillors said: "Bus services in Kent are in free fall collapse. A combination of the withdrawal of government support that was in place to support services during COVID, significant increases in fuel prices, a shrinking workforce of drivers and a prolonged reduction in passenger numbers amount to a perfect storm.
"Bus services are essential to both the delivery of zero carbon and to the support of rural and suburban communities. Kent is facing a reduction of 56 services across the county, mostly from poorly served rural areas. These 56 services have previously been supported by Kent County Council. In addition, operators are making further cuts to services.
"All this is in stark contrast to our neighbours in Europe who are investing in and supporting public transport, for example in Germany where government support means that bus fares are currently 35 times cheaper than in Kent. There is a crisis in Kent, but it is one that can be averted. To stop the collapse of the bus services we need you to do two things:
"Firstly, we need re-regulation of the bus services in Kent. You have provided this in Manchester which has a similar population size and we see no reason for Kent not to be granted this too. This will enable us to be far more specific about the requirements of services.
"Secondly, Kent County Council needs proper, recurrent support to ensure that services continue. We recognise the one off funding that you have provided but this has come with the caveat that it cannot be spent on supporting existing services and we ask for more flexibility so that it can be used for that purpose. We need funding that will support services over the medium term and that will encourage an increase in passenger numbers, e.g. by reducing fares."
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As surprising as the 49ers' Week 1 loss in Chicago was, the Seattle Seahawks Week 1 win against the Denver Broncos was just as surprising. Seattle will look to carry that momentum into Santa Clara on Sunday and look to give the 49ers their first 0-2 start since 2017. Seattle’s offense wasn’t spectacular against Denver, scoring 17 points and totaling only 253 yards, but did just enough for the win. The 49ers defense is coming off of a disappointing finish against the Bears allowing all 19 of Chicago’s points in the second half.
With Geno Smith now running the show in Seattle, here are the five 49ers to watch on defense:
LB Dre Greenlaw
Part of what makes Greenlaw so good for the 49ers' defense is how aggressive he plays. Sometimes that aggressiveness comes back to bite Greenlaw, however, as shown on Sunday when he was called for two 15-yard penalties and had a missed tackle.
Greenlaw played 58 snaps against the Bears and looks to be the preferred second linebacker over Azeez Al-Shaair. If that’s the case, the fourth-year linebacker will need to clean up his play and stay under control. Seattle is a prime opponent for Greenlaw to bounce back against, with the two biggest moments of his career coming against the division rivals.
CB Charvarius Ward and CB Emmanuel Moseley
While Russell Wilson isn’t in Seattle anymore, his two favorite targets, Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf, still are and play big roles in the Seahawks' offense. Metcalf and Lockett were the two most targeted wide receivers (tight end Noah Fant had one more target than Lockett), combining for ten receptions on ten targets but for only 64 yards in the Seahawks' 17-16 win against Denver. Ward was the most targeted 49er against Chicago, and Moseley wasn’t targeted once, but with conditions likely better in Santa Clara, they will likely have a tougher challenge on their hands with the Metcalf and Lockett duo.
DL Javon Kinlaw
It was a solid return for Kinlaw following his knee injury that kept him out for most of the 2021 season. He finished the game with two pressures on 39 but, most importantly, stayed healthy and was able to finish the game after what looked to be an early ankle injury in Chicago. Now comes a Seattle team that likes to run the ball and run it up the middle. Seattle ran the ball 18 times against Denver, and of those runs, 11 were up the middle. Kinlaw should see plenty of run-stopping opportunities, and if he and the rest of the interior defensive line can prevent big plays, it can only be beneficial to the 49ers' defense.
S Talanoa Hufanga
Sunday in Chicago may have been the best performance of Hufanga’s young career where he finished with 11 tackles and an interception. He played 30 of his 58 snaps in the box where he got the majority of his tackles and tallied a pair of tackles for loss. Just like for the defensive line, his run support will be important against the Seattle rushing attack, but he will have a tough responsibility in containing Metcalf and Lockett over the top when lined up at free safety. Week 1 was a step in the right direction for Hufanga who will look to keep up his play for a solid Week 2 performance.
DE Samson Ebukam
For as good as Nick Bosa was on Sunday, Ebukam was just as good if not better than the 49ers' star pass rusher. Ebukam led the 49ers in Chicago with four pressures and three quarterback hurries while recording a sack. Seattle rebuilt their line over the offseason with two rookies and a new center, but the group struggled as they allowed 15 pressures on 31 dropbacks on Monday night.
What should excite Ebukam (and Bosa, for that matter) is Seattle’s two tackles; Charles Cross and Abraham Lucas allowed seven of those pressures, and Cross was responsible for both sacks. Geno Smith isn’t as mobile as Russell Wilson was either, so Ebukam could be in for a big day. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/15/23352522/49ers-seahawks-players-defense-ebukam | 2022-09-15T15:49:21Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/15/23352522/49ers-seahawks-players-defense-ebukam | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
From the point that the Bears officially closed out the Niners on Sunday and the Chiefs almost immediately went up two touchdowns on a lifeless Cardinals team sans DeAndre Hopkins, seemingly everyone looked around, did some quick math, donned their prognosticator hats, and called that the NFC West would open the season 0-4.
Besides the obvious irony that a division many have called the most competitive in football for the past few seasons would open with such an egregious misstep, it also meant that the first week would essentially be a wash. No harm, no foul.
Well, for everyone who watched what might have been one of the sloppiest and most poorly managed attempts at a game-winning drive ever put to tape already knows, the Broncos managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory three times over - thanks to two goal line fumbles and a 64-yard FG attempt - and now the Seahawks will sit alone in sole possession of first place when they come into Levi Stadium this Sunday.
Most importantly, how does this stunning turn of events impact the 49ers' chances of notching their first win of the season?
In the eyes of gamblers, not at all. In fact, the Niners opened the week as 8.5 point favorites and, after an influx of bets on San Francisco, the line moved up to 9.5, or even 10 points, depending where you look. While the Seattle-Denver game might have proved that the Seahawks aren’t a complete and utter disaster, it didn’t exactly inspire much confidence in their ability to perform at a high level consistently.
While Geno Smith and the offense started out hot, completing 17 of 18 passes and scoring 17 points in the first half. Things didn’t stay that way, as the quarterback finished 23-for-28 with only 195 passing yards, and the team managed to hold on without putting another point on the board.
Meanwhile, their defense looked like a classic Pete Carroll coaching job. They stifled the run, though one wonders why Javonte Williams, who averaged 6.1 yards a carry, only got 7 rushes. They disrupted Russell Wilson, specifically Uchenna Nwosu, who filled up the stat sheet with a sack, four pressures, a pass break up, and a forced fumble. Overall, they bent but didn’t break, stopping two drives at their own 1-yard line.
However, they clearly don’t have the talent of defenses’ past. With Bobby Wagner playing in Los Angeles and Jamal Adams heading to the IR, there are no more All-Pros to be found on that side of the ball. Instead, they’ve pieced together a fast and well-coached group, but far from fearsome, as evidenced by the 67-yard Jerry Jeudy touchdown they allowed.
Also, presumably, they were highly motivated when playing their former quarterback, who had often butted heads with the head coach over his last few seasons in town and spent his final season trying to orchestrate a clean exit to one of his preferred destinations. Certainly, the notoriously noisy crowd, which provided ample volume all night long, happily rained boos down on Wilson and attempted to cause havoc for his new offense at every turn.
This might be the biggest factor in the 49ers’ favor going into Week 2. Coming away from a raucous home opener with a dub over your left-on-bad-terms quarterback in a matchup you had circled on the calendar all offseason would leave a team feeling a little drained. So the Seahawks will have to dig deep to refocus and get rehyped to avoid the kind of letdown loss that usually follows such an emotional win. Not to mention, they’ll have to do that with one less day to prepare because this was Monday Night Football.
So, to recap, Seattle, whose offense looked middling at best and whose defense seemed more lucky than good, now has to compose themselves, so they can go on the road on a short week after winning their most anticipated game of the season in prime time to face the Niners, a team with a far superior roster, who’s eager to prove themselves in their home opener coming off a sloppy loss in bad conditions.
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The Nourish Community Foodbank in Tunbridge Wells said it would stay open on the day of the Queen's funeral on Monday (September 19). The team will still be carrying out its worthwhile work on the special Bank Holiday to ensure people across the area including Tonbridge have food in their cupboards and on their plates.
Nourish operations manager Dawn Stanford said staff and volunteers would be given the choice of whether or not to work on the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. She told KentLive today: "Nourish will be operating as normal, staff and volunteers have the option to be off as with any bank holiday but clients will still receive parcels due for delivery that day. We are a 365 day a year service as we have always been."
As we reported nearly three months ago, the cost of living is having an increasing impact on people being unable to afford food and Nourish reached a point Dawn never thought it would. A previous ban on "beans and pasta" because they always had a surplus, has seen the cupboard staples now on Nourish's list of desperately needed items, and they also have to buy them in.
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Dawn had said if they ever had to appeal for donations of beans and pasta, they would know it was "Armageddon". One elderly couple told Dawn they had not eaten fresh meat for eight months because they couldn't afford it. Another woman told Dawn not to give her food parcels with anything which needed cooking or heating up, because she had no money to pay for electricity or gas.
48 per cent of the people Nourish helps are children under 18. One in seven are victims of domestic abuse and one in 10 are ill or have had an accident. The up-to-date list of items Nourish desperately needs is: chilli sauce or sweet & sour sauce; baked beans; pasta; spreads such as jam, peanut butter, Marmite; biscuits; tinned pulses; squash; cereal; rice pudding; soup; dog food; toiletries such as shampoo and deodorant; tinned potatoes; tinned fish; households cleaning products.
Dawn has probably hundreds of examples to give of how tough it is for people as the cost of living bites. Food price rises in UK shops continue to rise. "The cost of living is massively affecting people. Most of our donation points were in the budget supermarkets and schools and churches and people doing collections for us and those are people who have been hit the hardest," said Dawn.
She said corporate giving and being 'charity of the year' for companies, along with ad hoc fundraising and even harvest festival giving at schools, were not at previous levels. The past two years has been the most challenging for Dawn during her nine years at Nourish, but she thinks the cost of living crisis hitting the community will make the pandemic "seem like a breeze" in terms of getting funding and feeding people.
"People think Tunbridge Wells is so affluent. I think what Tunbridge Wells is really good at is looking after its community and that's the attitude if people have lived here for years or people have just joined this community, we kind of scoop everybody up. When people look at this affluent, lovely spa town and think we have no perception of what it is to struggle, I think it's wrong.
"I am proud to run Nourish in Tunbridge Wells and I think the reason Nourish is so successful is because we run in Tunbridge Wells and we have support and I don't know if we would get that support somewhere else."
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Trey Lance has only started three games for the 49ers, but in at least two out of those three games people were left worried about the number of hits he takes as a runner. Against Chicago on Sunday, the 6’4”, 225 pound Lance carried the ball 13 times, and was hit on pretty much all of those attempts. Does he need to do a better job protecting himself?
When he met with the media yesterday, Trey very politely disagreed with that assessment.
“There’s always going to be better decisions I can make. But on Sunday I felt like I protected myself pretty well, I felt good for the most part. Maybe a couple I could have got down one step faster or slashing, finding an edge and getting down. But for the most part, when I’m running between the tackles or running on third down, I’m not ever going to slide and go fourth-and-two and just give up on the play and send our defense on the field if it’s a situation like that.”
He may be a quarterback on the depth chart, but Lance clearly has the mentality of a fullback as a ball carrier. If he’s a yard or two away from the first down marker and he’s not near the sidelines, defenders had better brace themselves.
Kyle Shanahan, for his part, seemed okay with this mentality.
“He’s got to play football still, too,” Shanahan said, “There’s times to slide, there’s time to take edges and dive...You have to get down when you have people in certain areas that are vulnerable, but there’s going to be some that he gets hit on. There’s going to be some that he can protect himself. And that’s just for him and us to work through.”
Injuries are always a factor in football, and the 49ers know that more than most. It sounds like Lance understands the importance of staying healthy, but he isn’t afraid to roll the dice if the situation calls for it.
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Large crowds are expected to descend on London on Monday (September 19) during Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's funeral.
Two thousand people including world leaders and foreign royals will gather inside Westminster Abbey in London on Monday for the final farewell to the nation’s longest reigning monarch. Some 800 people, including members of the Queen’s Household and Windsor estate staff, will attend the committal service afterwards at 4pm in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.
Heads of state and overseas government representatives, including foreign royal families, governors general and Realm prime ministers, will gather at the Royal Hospital Chelsea and “travel under collective arrangements” to the Abbey, the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk said.
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The public won't be able to attend the funeral itself. Only heads of state, dignitaries, European royals, and other key figure specifically invited will be allowed into the Abbey.
Well-wishers can head to The Mall, where the bollards will be removed to make space. However, TfL have warned there will be disruption due to thousands of people travelling to the capital, so make sure to check before making your journey.
Other royal residences - like Windsor and Sandringham - are also expected to be packed with members of the public hoping to pay their respects. Others might choose to watch the television coverage of the funeral or follow news reports online while quietly reflecting on the life of Queen Elizbeth II at home.
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Sophie Countess of Wessex touched hearts after giving a hug to a young well-wisher paying respects to the Queen. Prince Edward and his wife were in Manchester to light a candle in memory of Queen Elizabeth II.
The Kent-born Countess viewed the floral tributes in St Ann's Square and the book of condolence at Manchester's Central library before going out to meet the general public. During a particularly emotional moment, Sophie gave a young man called Josh a hug.
Josh passed a bouquet of flowers to the Countess when she first walked around and the royal couple were receiving applause from the crowd as they made their way back to the car to leave. But Sophie saw the youngster holding his arms outstretched, The Mirror reports.
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She rushed over to the youngster to give Josh, who was clutching onto his teddy bear, a second warm embrace before she left. Speaking to Sky News afterwards, Josh said the heartwarming moment made him feel "happy" and he also revealed his love for the Queen's handbag and Paddington Bear.
Josh's mum Sue explained what it meant to her son, who is non-verbal, and revealed Sophie had said: "Nice to meet you. Do you want me to take your flowers?" It was quite emotional to be honest.
"I'm trying to hold it all in. I wanted to lay some flowers but I wasn't expecting Sophie to come over and take them off him. It was a nice moment."
Sue praised the couple for taking the time to speak to every person on the front row, and revealed what Sophie said to her son. The Earl of Wessex was also seen crouching down as he laid a floral tribute to his mother in poignant scenes.
Sophie, who spent her childhood in Brenchley near Tunbridge Wells, was reportedly a favourite of the Queen, who found her presence calming. Sophie and Edward's children were close to the Queen, particularly as they did not live far from her home at Windsor, so were regular visitors. Spending her formative years at Homestead Farmhouse in the village with parents Christopher and Mary and elder brother David, Sophie didn’t officially move out of home until she was 34.
Sophie Rhys-Jones as she was called, began her education at Dulwich Preparatory School in Cranbrook before heading to Kent College, Pembury. Following this she moved on to West Kent College in Tonbridge where she trained as a secretary after which she began a career in public relations.
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A huge abandoned mansion bigger than Buckingham Palace sits empty and unfinished in the countryside. At £40 million it was once said to be the most expensive private house build in Britain for a century, though no one has ever lived in it.
Hamilton Palace really is a sight to behold, although you will be lucky to get a glimpse of it. The now very eerie mansion that sits in the Sussex countryside near the Kent border is almost completely obscured by thick woods.
Once dubbed "The Ghost House of Sussex" the mansion was originally designed for British multi-millionaire Nicholas van Hoogstraten. Work to bring the project to life began in 1985 but was never finished.
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Scaffolding is still in place around the exterior, although there doesn't appear to have been any progress on the works since 2000. The imposing structure is hidden away just off a junction on the A22, south of Uckfield in East Sussex, and there are plenty of warnings to keep out.
Stuck on the gate is a sign which has "High Cross Estate, Private Property, Keep Out" written in capital letters. As well as multiple other signs that say "dogs running free" and "shooting in progress", whilst others warn of CCTV being in operation.
Nicholas van Hoogstraten, 77, now goes by the name of Nicholas von Hessen. He was born in Shoreham, Sussex and owns dozens of properties in the area.
Over the past couple of decades he has been involved in widely reported disputes with neighbours over the estate, and locals have previously complained about the large area being left unused. In answer to those complaints, he is quoted as saying "even the most moronic of peasants would be able to see… that we have been busy landscaping the grounds of the palace so as to prepare for scheduled works".
He has also denied that the house is falling apart, saying: "Hamilton Palace is far from 'crumbling' and was built to last for at least 2,000 years. The scaffolding only remains as a part of ongoing routine maintenance such a property would require until completion."
It is thought the estate is now owned by his children through the company Messina Investments.
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As the summer fades away and the leaves start falling we all inevitably set our mind to thinking of more 'cosy' things to do. And what could be better than a night away in a woodland treehouse that is complete with its own log burner and hot-tub.
The Hobbity Treehouse is located in the beautiful Kent countryside not far from Canterbury. Kent Cottage Holidays describe it as 'A hobbit house, scaled up and planted in a tree.'
The one-of-a-kind treehouse, may be fit for hobbits, but it has some very human luxuries, such as a bespoke hot-tub, roll top bath, underfloor heating and a fire pit. Their website says: "Everywhere, there are thoughtful touches, from the toadstool stools to the velvet drapes to the wrought iron flowers that adorn the banisters, and you’ll probably be spotting your own ‘best bits’ for the duration of your stay."
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There is a comfortable living space, complete with mini cook range, microwave and underfloor heating. Steps lead up to a generous sleeping area, with a king-sized bed and a 'glamorous slipper bath'.
Outside there is a fire pit on the split-level seating area where you can relax and watch the hours pass by in the peace and tranquillity of the woodland. Or you can take a dip in the bespoke electric hot-tub and watch the sun go down or the stars twinkling.
Kent Cottage Holidays says: "The Hobbity Treehouse offers a magical escape from life as we know it. Yet Whitstable and Canterbury are both close by and well-worth exploring if you can tear yourself away. And the Blean Woods nature reserve is right on your doorstep too."
For more information on The Hobbity Treehouse you can visit Kent Cottage Holidays on their website HERE.
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Updated September 15, 2022 at 8:22 AM ET
A strike that could have halted both freight and passenger trains across the country seems to have been averted.
After a marathon negotiating session lasting 20 hours, the White House announced early Thursday that a tentative agreement had been reached between rail companies and the unions representing conductors and engineers.
"These rail workers will get better pay, improved working conditions, and peace of mind around their health care costs: all hard-earned," said President Biden in a statement, calling the deal a win for rail workers who worked tirelessly through the pandemic to deliver goods to American families.
Union members still have to vote to ratify the agreement before it is finalized.
The parties had been negotiating the contract without resolution for several years and were facing a 12:01 am Friday deadline, the end of a "cooling off period."
Already this week, freight rail companies had halted shipments of hazardous materials, including chlorine to water treatment plants and chemicals for fertilizers, not wanting those goods to be left unattended should a strike be called.
Amtrak said in a statement it is working to quickly restore canceled trains and reaching out to impacted customers to accommodate on first available departures. Yesterday, Amtrak announced that it was canceling all of its long-distance trains starting Thursday due to the threatened strike.
The National Carriers' Conference Committee, which represents the nation's freight railroads said: "The tentative agreements announced today follow the August 16 recommendations of Presidential Emergency Board...which include a 24% wage increase during the five-year period from 2020 through 2024 — with a 14.1% wage increase effective immediately — and five annual $1,000 lump sum payments."
The deal also includes changes to workplace attendance policies that workers found overly punitive. Under the tentative agreement, workers will be able to take time off for medical care without facing discipline, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the SMART Transportation Division confirmed in a joint statement.
Those attendance policies had become the major sticking point as the deadline for a deal neared.
The two sides sat down for a meeting with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh that went all day and deep into the night. Shortly after 5 a.m. Thursday, the White House and the Association of American Railroads released statements announcing the tentative deal.
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A federal grand jury indicted former Kansas City, Kansas, police detective Roger Golubski on Thursday on charges that he sexually assaulted two individuals in 1998 and 1999, accusing him of sexual assault, kidnapping and attempted kidnapping.
The six-count indictment alleges Golubski sexually assaulted an individual identified as S.K. in1998 and another individual identified as O.W. in 1999.
In the first case, Golubski is accused of forcibly performing oral sex on, forcibly having oral sex with, or penetrating S.K. "on multiple occasions" while in or next to Golubski's vehicle. In the second case, he is accused of sexually assaulting O.W. while in O.W.'s house.
Golubski was arrested early this morning by FBI agents, who descended on his home in Edwardsville, Kansas.
A nearby resident said about six vehicles and an ambulance pulled up to Golubski’s house around 6:30 a.m. The resident, who asked not to be named, happened to be awake at the time. The resident was told to go back into their house, but the resident said they saw Golubski taken into custody in one of the vehicles.
“I saw them handcuff him and pat him down,” the resident said.
Golubski is scheduled to make his first court appearance in federal court in Topeka at 1:30 this afternoon.
Golubski, 69, has been the object of a federal grand jury investigation for more than a year.
KCUR confirmed the FBI investigation last January, obtaining subpoenas from a federal grand jury, which demanded that the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department hand over records covering two decades of homicide cases, internal affairs reports and informant files as part of what appeared to be a wide-ranging investigation.
The subpoenas revealed a search for information on homicide cases that covered the years Golubski worked as a KCKPD detective, through 2010, the year he retired from the department.
The Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department confirmed last October that it had responded to FBI subpoenas “regarding allegations made against Roger Golubski.”
Similarly, Dave Alvey, the mayor of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, confirmed at the time that the Unified Government had been cooperating with federal authorities since 2019 but hadn’t commented publicly to protect the integrity of the investigation.
Golubski, now retired, worked for the KCK Police Department for 35 years, retiring as a captain in 2010. For years, he has been the subject of allegations that he terrorized Black residents of the city, sexually assaulted women and exchanged drugs for information in order to clear cases.
In June, the Unified Government agreed to pay $12.5 million to settle a civil rights suit brought by Lamont McIntyre, who was wrongfully imprisoned for more than 24 years for a double slaying he didn't commit.
The lawsuit named Golubski, various KCK police officers and the Unified Government. Golubski allegedly framed the then-17-year-old McIntyre for the double homicide in 1994.
When deposed by McIntyre's lawyers, Golubski invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination hundreds of times.
The FBI has offered a reward for information on one of the women linked to Golubski, Rhonda Tribue, a Black woman who was killed in 1998 and whose case remains unsolved. Last July, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation handed over to federal authorities information from its own probe into sexual assault allegations against Golubski.
Niko Quinn, whom Golubski allegedly forced to lie to secure McIntyre's conviction, said the former detective had haunted her life dating back to the double murders in 1994. His arrest, she said, means she can finally put that ghost to bed.
"I can rest," Quinn said. "I can rest knowing he's behind bars. I can sleep. I am tired of running."
Kansas City, Kansas, activists who have clamored for Golubski's arrest and prosecution reacted with jubilation to the news of his arrest.
Metro Organization for Racial and Economic Equity (MORE2 ) called the arrest "well deserved and a long time in the making."
"Now it is time for systemic accountability and reckoning. Now, it is time to overhaul the systems that have allowed for this to occur," the group said in a statement.
“You know I’ve been having a feeling for the past week like something is coming … it took over three decades, thirty years of this man living like he is a law-abiding citizen and he is one of the biggest criminals we have in Wyandotte County," said Violet Martin, an executive board member of MORE2 who says her brother and cousin were wrongfully incarcerated because of Golubski.
Rev. Rick Behrens, of Grandview Park Presbyterian Church and a board ,ember of MORE2, said, "This is a huge step toward justice for victims of Golubski. Those who enabled and sheltered him including the criminal court system, KCKPD and the Unified Government of Wyandotte County should also be held accountable. The arrest of Golubski is huge, but our community is still faced with the need for truth and reconciliation in light of all the pain, injustice and evil we have allowed under our watch in this Beloved Community of God's Children." | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-09-15/former-kckpd-detective-roger-golubski-arrested-and-taken-into-custody | 2022-09-15T15:50:45Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-09-15/former-kckpd-detective-roger-golubski-arrested-and-taken-into-custody | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Lawmakers gathered in Jefferson City on Wednesday for both the beginning of the annual veto session and a special session that is supposed to be centered around tax cuts and credits.
However, not all of the bills either introduced or filed on the first day are related to taxes. Furthermore, the multiple bills filed that are centered on taxes indicate a lack of consensus on what majority Republicans think tax relief should look like.
The Senate introduced 22 bills on Wednesday, while the House has five bills listed.
Back in August, Gov. Mike Parson said he wanted the legislature to pass both a series of tax credits related to agriculture and a permanent income tax cut.
That announcement came after Parson vetoed bills addressing the same topics, saying that the agriculture bill did not have a long enough sunset date and that the bill providing a one-time, nonrefundable tax credit did not apply to enough people and was only temporary.
Parson’s tax plan includes lowering the top individual income tax rate from the current 5.3% to 4.8%. He also wants to increase the standard deduction and eliminate lower tax brackets. The plan would cost approximately $700 million.
Some of the bills filed, such as one by Sen. Lincoln Hough, R-Springfield, are consistent with Parson’s proposed 4.8% rate. However, the same bill also includes a one-time tax credit.
Another, presented by Sen. Bill Eigel, R-Weldon Spring, lowers the rate to 4.7% but could continue to lower the rate by 0.8% over a period of years.
Other bills related to taxes are not about income taxes. A bill offered by Sen. Mike Moon, R-Ash Grove, would repeal the gas tax increase the legislature passed two sessions ago.
“I’m proposing that we consider relieving some burden on all Missourians because roads are in good shape and 2.5 cents, although might not be considered much to many, it is to some,” Moon said.
Lawmakers have also filed bills unrelated to the underlying task entirely, hoping some issues they wanted to pass during the regular session will do so this time.
Rep. Ron Hicks, R-Defiance, refiled his bill that would legalize recreational marijuana use in Missouri. Voters will have a chance in November to pass a constitutional amendment on the same topic. However, in a statement, Hicks called Amendment 3 a disaster.
“Passing the Marijuana Freedom Act will ensure that this corrupt initiative is rejected by the voters,” Hicks said.
Multiple senators also introduced bills related to subjects that did not pass during the regular session, including Sen. Bob Onder, R-Lake St. Louis, who says he wants to pass tax cuts, but there are other important issues.
“We many times down here say we work to protect the most vulnerable and among those, of course, are unborn children, but they also include our born children who are under assault by radical left ideologies,” Onder said.
Parson has already rejected requests to expand this special session to include other topics, so it is unlikely he would sign any bills into law outside of what he has requested.
Meanwhile, the veto session, which is required to begin the second Wednesday in September, is also continuing, with neither chamber taking any action on vetoed legislation yet.
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Time and time again we've seen event-based trading in crypto go badly.
Ethereum is now down 5% in a quick fall as the post-merge glow fades.
What's happening here?
It's the same as all the other events. Unsophisticated traders are lured in by the promise of easy money and it gets frontrun. When the event doesn't result in easy gains, it's a rush to the exits.
I certainly cheer on less energy use in ethereum and that should be a long-term fundamental driver but long-term fundamental drivers play out in the long term, not overnight.
I warned about how this would unfold yesterday and I'm worried about the technical implications of a fall below the $1450-$1350 zone. | https://www.forexlive.com/Cryptocurrency/ethereum-takes-a-5-dive-as-the-sell-the-fact-trade-hits-20220915/ | 2022-09-15T15:55:00Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/Cryptocurrency/ethereum-takes-a-5-dive-as-the-sell-the-fact-trade-hits-20220915/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It was another tough one but the periphery generally outperformed the core for the second day. UK stocks were better on news of a special budget from Kwarteng.
- Stoxx 600 -0.6%
- FTSE 100 +0.2%
- German DAX -0.4%
- French CAC -0.9%
- Italy MIB -0.4%
- Spain IBEX flat
There was some buying in the past 15 minutes to prevent European stocks from finishing on the lows. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/european-equity-close-french-equities-lead-the-downside-in-third-day-of-losses-20220915/ | 2022-09-15T15:55:03Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/european-equity-close-french-equities-lead-the-downside-in-third-day-of-losses-20220915/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Hopes for a major bottom in gold have been dashed as the key $1680 low from July has been broken. That sparked a run on stops below and down to $1668.
The chart here really says it all: That was a major level. If anything, I'm surprised it hasn't hit even more stops. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/gold-hits-stops-on-a-major-technical-break-20220915/ | 2022-09-15T15:55:04Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/gold-hits-stops-on-a-major-technical-break-20220915/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The price action I am characterizing as hesitant today. Perhaps it is as a result of the data dump.
The retail sales were mixed but if you take into consideration that the sales don't reflect the prices, you can argue that data was weaker overall.
The regional indices from Philadelphia and New York diverged from expectations. The Philly Fed index was weaker than expectations, while the New York/Empire manufacturing index was better. However, both remain in negative territory indicative of contracting growth. Prices did show declines in both indices, but still remain higher than the 0.0 level indicating advancing prices for more firms vs declining prices. There is a slowing of the price increases, but prices are still advancing..
The claims data continues to show improvement with yet another decline. The employment data is similar to housing data. Recall that as rates rose, housing did not initially show declines in prices, just a slowing of the buyers hunger. That is starting to turn with recent price declines.
With regard to jobs, companies are slow in reacting to slower growth in their employment decisions. Yes, there may be a slowing in some hires, but the data shows that layoffs are not increasing but decreasing. The Fed has said they want slower growth and that will come at the cost of higher unemployment. That is not showing up in the weekly claims data. In fact it looks stronger vs weaker.
IN the stock market, the major indices opened and moved lower but has seen a bounce back, but are now moving back down and are negative once again.
In the US debt market, the 10 year yield reached a low of around 3.40%, and a high near 3.47%. The current yield is between those levels at 3.435%
The forex levels are up and down in most of the major pairs.
Looking at the
- EURUSD, the pair moved above its 200 hour moving average 1.0032 currently in the early North American session, but stalled against topside resistance near 1.0022 to 1.00328. The 50% of the range since last week's low comes in at 1.00303 between those levels. The price has since moved back below the 200 hour moving average and the parity level. The price is higher on the day. The price did hold support near 0.99515 at the late Asian low.
- USDJPY: The USDJPY is back to unchanged after a modest move higher could not sustain much momenttum. The pair is back retesting the 100 hour MA at 143.109. The 200 hour MA is at 142.956. IT would take a move back below both those MA levels to increase the bearish bias. The 142.07 to 142.30 are the next downside targets on a break and the 38.2% of the move up from the August 23 low at 141.47. Those level all need to be broken to increase the bearish bias. ON the topside, the BOJ stall the rally at the high from last week when they threatened intervention. That is helping to limit the upside.
GBPUSD: The GBPUSD moved above the 200 hour MA yesterday, but stalled just ahead of the higher 100 hour MA (blue line). The price moved back below the 200 hour MA into the close yesterday and remains below that MA today. It would take a move above each to increase the short term bullish bias. On the downside, the low today moved below an old swing area at 1.1495. There is other support at 1.1442 to 1.1449. That is a swing area ahead of the low for the year at 1.14042. | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/price-action-today-is-hesitant-20220915/ | 2022-09-15T15:55:13Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/price-action-today-is-hesitant-20220915/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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For Culpeper County High School students, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are more than just a history lesson.
“Sept. 11 is definitely something that we take pretty seriously here, especially because none of our students were alive when 9/11 happened,'' Culpeper County High School Social Studies Instructional Team Leader Thad Eisenhower.
For at least the past eight years, CCHS has taught its students about the day that changed the United States and the world forever.
On September 11, 2001, four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks using commercial airplanes were carried out by 19 extremists affiliated with al-Qaeda. The hijackers crashed the first two planes into the Twin Towers in New York City, the third plane into the Pentagon and a fourth plane headed for a government building in Washington, D.C., crashed in a field following passenger resistance. Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks.
Eisenhower explained social studies classes ranging from ninth to 12th grade learn about Sept. 11 in a multitude of ways in both historical and contemporary contexts.
Students watch news broadcasts from the day as well as go on virtual field trips to museums in both New York and Pennsylvania in order to get a better understanding of the day’s timeline.
“(It’s important) that they can begin to understand how much it changed the world and how impactful this event was then and continues to be now,” Eisenhower said.
Every student, he continued, learns the same facts but applies them through different lenses to further expand their knowledge of the topic.
Students may learn about domestic and foreign policy implications, terrorism as social construct, how social norms changed at establishments such as airports, reliability of memories surrounding traumatic events and encouraging proactive social behavior like the heroic acts taken by many during and following the attacks by passengers and first responders.
One hurdle Eisenhower has observed in his students is their skepticism.
“Unfortunately, there’s a lot of students who come into the courses with the belief that maybe 9/11 was made up or that the events were blown out of proportion or some of the presented facts aren’t true,” he said. “We take that very seriously, especially being so close to Washington D.C. and the Pentagon.”
To combat this, Eisenhower said his students have open and candidate discussions with examples from primary sources to do an effective job at making sure students understand believe the events of the day
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are part of the high school Social Studies curriculum found in the Virginia Standards of Learning for World History II, and Virginia and United States History. The events are covered in school textbooks, and are taught under the umbrella of terrorism in/against the United States, and the US response to the events of 9/11.
In addition, Sept. 11 is known as Patriot Day and CCHS raises the Freedom Flag on Sept. 11 through the end of the month of September. | https://www.insidenova.com/culpeper/culpeper-students-learn-about-sept-11-terrorist-attacks/article_304dcaac-350a-11ed-bb70-37eb254c1e66.html | 2022-09-15T16:01:35Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/culpeper/culpeper-students-learn-about-sept-11-terrorist-attacks/article_304dcaac-350a-11ed-bb70-37eb254c1e66.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
This past Sunday, Booney brought a new sound to the Bonfire ATL stage. He shared his vision and left his heart on the stage. His strong voice and powerful message combined with melodic rap captivated fans at the signature event.
Like some of his favorite artists, he uses multisyllabic words and catches phrases to connect with the audience. Rolling out sat down with Booney to ask about his inspiration behind the music, how he describes his musical style, and advice for aspiring artists.
Tell the people who you are and who is making smoke right now in Atlanta. I’m Booney man, and I spit my visions through my lyrics. I’m from out here, southside of Atlanta, and then … making smoke in Atlanta. We bringing the heat, me and my crew. I got this collab project with myself, Smith and West. We both making smoke in Atlanta.
What can we expect to hear tonight on stage?
Well, I’m premiering something from the project. We just secured some distro, so we had to push our project back but it is coming out on September 13. It’s called Still Dreaming and yeah, that s— is a vibe. It’s real life … so I’m premiering a track called “The Blueprint,” which we are thinking of pushing first, and a song called “Found Motivation,” which is like a local legendary song for me.
What kind of music can we expect to hear and how would you describe your sound?
Tonight you are going to hear two different sounds. You are going to hear “Still Dreaming,” that’s more of a vibe. I don’t smoke much, but you could smoke it or drink to it. “The Blueprint” is a little bit up-tempo. “Found Motivation,” I like to talk to people too. That is going to be if you could say, emotional. I’m talking to the people on that track.
Who are your musical influences?
That’s a hard question. Anytime I hear good music I get influenced, but one of my all-time favorites would be J. Cole and Lil Wayne. Those are the top two that come to my mind. I like Jay-Z too.
What advice do you have for aspiring artists?
To become an artist I broke it down into three simple things – I’m just going to say what I’m thinking. To become an artist [it takes] consistency and not giving up. I have seen people that are talented and they can blow, but they get discouraged. You can’t be discouraged. You can let it affect you, but then just use that to build your hunger. Be consistent, stay hungry, and better your craft. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/booney-communicates-his-vision-through-lyrics-at-bonfire-atl/ | 2022-09-15T16:01:37Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/booney-communicates-his-vision-through-lyrics-at-bonfire-atl/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Manassas officials say the city hasn’t missed out on anything after Micron announced a new $15 billion plant in Idaho.
The company’s already-planned expansion within the city’s tech corridor is continuing, with a certificate of occupancy for its newest building issued at the end of last year, and Economic Development Director Patrick Small told InsideNoVa that Micron is still very much in play for the 18-acre E.G. Smith Complex.
Unlike the site Micron announced earlier this month in Boise, Small said, the city-owned property at Route 28 and Godwin Drive was never going to become another semiconductor manufacturing plant because it lacks the space and infrastructure needed.
“Our site is very compact … There are very few places in the entire commonwealth of Virginia that you can site one of those things,” Small said. Instead, “the city continues to work with Micron on its expansion as planned and publicly announced, and is not competing for additional facilities in the city that may result from worldwide demand for semiconductors or the CHIPS Act,” he said, referring to the federal legislation passed last month meant to juice domestic semiconductor production.
Instead, the city land adjacent to Micron’s Manassas plant would likely fill other needs for the company if it decides to exercise the right-to-purchase agreement it entered into with the city last year. For starters, the company will likely need to expand its parking facilities and could use the land for that. Additionally, Small said, Micron could use the property to showcase its products to client companies, particularly from the automotive industry.
“This plant here focuses on chips for the automotive industry and the internet of things, and their customers, the Mercedeses, the Hyundais, the Fords … their executives want to go and see where and how their products are manufactured. Micron wants to put its best foot forward,” Small told InsideNoVa.
The right-to-purchase agreement gives the company until 2024 to buy the land – which currently has baseball diamonds for the Greater Manassas Baseball League – for $14.1 million. | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/micron-s-local-growth-continues/article_89c0ef36-3507-11ed-819d-87f32f8ce956.html | 2022-09-15T16:01:41Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/micron-s-local-growth-continues/article_89c0ef36-3507-11ed-819d-87f32f8ce956.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Rapper Boosie Badazz, unsurprisingly, had very strong opinions in wake of the tragic murder of yet another marquee rapper in Los Angeles.
PnB Rock was shot and killed on early Monday afternoon in South L.A.’s Roscoe’s House of Chicken & Waffles while eating breakfast with his girlfriend. The LAPD told the media that all signs point to robbery as the assailant only shot PnB Rock, snatched off his expensive necklaces, and then fled out of a side door into a waiting car.
It is terribly ironic that PnB had just been interviewed by one of the nation’s preeminent turntablists, DJ Akademiks, where he detailed nearly getting robbed recently during an outing with his girlfriend and young daughter.
Boosie, who has a propensity for heated commentary and making controversial statements on the regular, was on cue when he implored rappers to keep their fingers on the trigger while traveling through Los Angeles.
Every time u n LA KEEP YOUR GUNS N YOUR FINGER ON THE TRIGGER ‼️BE READY TO SHOOT AT ALL TIMES ‼️KEEP YOUR HAND ON YOUR GLOCK (no safety) N SHOOT SOON AS YOU SEE HARM R ANYONE SUSPICIOUS ‼️They will rob n kill u ITS THE RAP MURDER CAPITAL #LA tip:to everyone lost they life n LA
— Boosie BadAzz (@BOOSIEOFFICIAL) September 13, 2022
Venerated rap legend-turned-TV star Ice T also expressed exasperation with the string of established and rising rappers being gunned down in their primes.
I'm done explaining LA Gang culture… MFs will not listen. It's not a game.. At all.
— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) September 13, 2022
Ice, 64, a Los Angeles native who rocketed to fame during what is called the golden era of rap in the early 1990s, said that he mentioned carnage on L.A.’s streets back when he was close to PnB Rock’s age 30 years ago.
‘LA….. Home of the Bodybag…’ Somebody said that 30 yrs ago…. 💎
— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) September 14, 2022
The “Body Count” rapper, who was born Tracy Lauren Morrow, then explained why the icons from his era of rap did not rock a lot of expensive jewelry when they were coming up.
People are still hitting me up about my comments about LA Gang culture.If you NOTICE, LA rappers don't wear a lotta Jewelry… Me, Snoop, Cube, Dre, Game, Kendrick..The list goes on.. It's not cause we're broke. LA is just a Dangerous place,rapper or not. Why test the streets..
— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) September 14, 2022
Thats on certain occasions when you're ready for whatever… I have Big Jewelry too… But you don't wake up EVERYDAY and put it on to go down the block.. As I said before… Challenge the hood, somebody's gonna catch that Fade. https://t.co/2KKMo1lVNY
— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) September 14, 2022
Yep, And PAC’s death was connected to the snatching of one of those chains.. You can deny what I’m trying to tell you if you want. I’m done explaining. https://t.co/tVuOP8iBo3
— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) September 14, 2022 | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/boosie-tells-rappers-to-arm-themselves/ | 2022-09-15T16:01:43Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/boosie-tells-rappers-to-arm-themselves/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The music is loud, the scent of marijuana hangs thick in the air and colorful graffiti surrounds patrons at Bonfire ATL. The event promotes freedom and creative expression, giving artists a platform to display their works. Creativity can also spill into attire creating “drip,” a term coined to describe the contemporary style.
During this culturally enriching event, rolling out spoke with some fashionable attendees for a brief drip check regarding their stylish outfits.
Can you tell us about your look from head to toe?
Angelique Brown: For my hair, I use Shea Moisture hair smoothie. It is the holy grail and I also use Blue Magic hair grease. It makes my hair smell really good. My hat is from Ali Express, they always have really good deals. I don’t remember where I got my top from but my pants are from ASOS and my shoes are from Rick Owens.
Mikala Brown: Starting with my hair, I’ve been using extreme gel. It keeps the edges laid. My purse came from Goodwill. My pants came from Zara and my sneakers came from Converse.
Which artists would you say are making the most smoke?
Mikala Brown: Beyoncé is making the most noise. My favorite song by her right now is “Cuff It” from the Renaissance album. Other than Beyoncé, I would say Jazmine Sullivan because she has always been very consistent.
Angelique Brown: I would say Doja Cat, she’s been making a lot of noise. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/drip-check-our-favorite-fashions-from-bonfire-atl/ | 2022-09-15T16:01:52Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/drip-check-our-favorite-fashions-from-bonfire-atl/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NBA superstars LeBron James and Chris Paul expressed strong dissatisfaction with the league office for its light punishment of Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver for his many transgressions.
Sarver, who also owns the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, was given a year-long suspension and fined $10 million for a pattern of racist, sexist and boorish behavior toward players and employees over an 18-year period.
“There is no place for misogyny, sexism, and racism in any workplace. We hold our league up as an example of our values and this ain’t it,” James, 37, penned to his 53 million Twitter followers.
While the NBA investigation made “no finding that Sarver’s conduct was motivated by racial or gender-based animus,” it did find evidence of “racially insensitive language, unequal treatment of female employees, and sex-related statements and conduct,” according to ESPN.
James believes that Sarver should have been banished from NBA ownership for life.
“Our league definitely got this wrong. I don’t need to explain why. Y’all read the stories and decide for yourself,” he said.
Read through the Sarver stories a few times now. I gotta be honest…Our league definitely got this wrong. I don’t need to explain why. Y’all read the stories and decide for yourself. I said it before and I’m gonna say it again, there is no place in this league for that kind of
— LeBron James (@KingJames) September 14, 2022
behavior. I love this league and I deeply respect our leadership. But this isn’t right. There is no place for misogyny, sexism, and racism in any work place. Don’t matter if you own the team or play for the team. We hold our league up as an example of our values and this aint it.
— LeBron James (@KingJames) September 14, 2022
Paul, who has played for the Suns since 2020, was even harsher in his assessment of the punishment handed down to Sarver.
“Like many others, I reviewed the report. I was and am horrified and disappointed by what I read,” he wrote on Twitter.
Like many others, I reviewed the report. I was and am horrified and disappointed by what I read. This conduct especially towards women is unacceptable and must never be repeated.
— Chris Paul (@CP3) September 15, 2022
I am of the view that the sanctions fell short in truly addressing what we can all agree was atrocious behavior. My heart goes out to all of the people that were affected.
— Chris Paul (@CP3) September 15, 2022
The head of the players’ union called for a similar ban for Sarver.
“I have made my position known to [NBA commissioner] Adam Silver regarding my thoughts on the extent of the punishment, and strongly believe that Mr. Sarver should never hold a managerial position within our league again,” said National Basketball Players Association executive director Tamika Tremaglio.
Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA, told the media in a statement obtained by ESPN that Sarver’s behavior was unacceptable. However, he did not believe it rose to the level of a lifetime ban.
“First of all, we’re looking at the totality of circumstances over an 18-year period in which he’s owned these teams,” said Silver.
“And ultimately, we made a judgment – I made a judgment – that in the circumstances in which he had used that language and that behavior while, as I said it was indefensible, it’s not strong enough [to merit a lifetime ban].
“It’s beyond the pale in every possible way to use language and behave that way, but that it was wholly of a different kind than what we saw in that earlier case,” Silver said in reference to the banishment of former NBA Clippers owner Donald Sterling. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/lebron-james-and-chris-paul-blast-light-punishment-of-phoenix-suns-owner/ | 2022-09-15T16:01:58Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/lebron-james-and-chris-paul-blast-light-punishment-of-phoenix-suns-owner/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Sept. 14, administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration and the voice for America’s 33 million small businesses in President Biden’s cabinet, joined John Hope Bryant, founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE Inc., the nation’s largest nonprofit dedicated to financial empowerment for underserved communities in Los Angeles to highlight the implementation of a recently signed a Strategic Alliance Memorandum geared toward promoting the development of entrepreneurial potential within the Black community.
“Partnering with Operation HOPE is an important step as our SBA team works to reach and lift up more entrepreneurs in communities all across America,” said Guzman. “Our work together will help advance President Biden’s vision for an economy that works for all Americans and is built from the bottom up and the middle out. Delivering on that means ensuring all of our nation’s entrepreneurs have access to the SBA programs that can help them start, grow and build resilient businesses, and I couldn’t ask for a better ally in this effort than John and the Operation HOPE team.”
To underscore the significance of the new alliance, the two organizations and local allies participated in today’s Los Angeles event, hosted by Vermont Slauson Economic Development Corporation (VSEDC), an organization that facilitates community development to revitalize the physical, economic, and social life of residents of South LA and beyond. As with the agreement itself, the event aimed to help raise awareness of SBA resources and Operation HOPE programs that aspiring and existing Black entrepreneurs in various communities stand to benefit from so they can establish themselves, grow and scale.
“Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. It takes grit, determination, a clear understanding of how money works, and most importantly how to access critical resources,” said CEO Bryant. “Through this groundbreaking partnership with the SBA, we are on a mission to teach diverse communities how to succeed in business and build sustainable wealth for their families and their communities. Thanks to the leadership of Administrator Guzman, our collective effort will reaffirm that the American Dream is within reach.” | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/operation-hope-and-sba-announce-collaboration-to-empower-small-black-businesses/ | 2022-09-15T16:02:06Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/operation-hope-and-sba-announce-collaboration-to-empower-small-black-businesses/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Quinta Brunson got her revenge.
The creator and star of “Abbott Elementary” guest appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Sept. 14. The appearance came two days after Brunson won an Emmy for Writing for a Comedy Series. When she approached the stage to give an acceptance speech, Kimmel layed on the floor for the entirety of the speech, which was met by a large deal of outrage on social media with claims Kimmel stole Brunson’s spotlight.
So as Kimmel wrapped up his opening monologue for his show on Sept. 14, Brunson walked onto the stage and began speaking herself.
“I have a little favor to ask, actually,” Brunson told Kimmel. “You know how when you win an Emmy, you only have 45 seconds to do an acceptance speech, which is like not that much time? Then, you get less time because someone does a dumb comedy bit that goes on too long?”
Kimmel then tilted his head back, sarcastically recalling the situation.
“You know, I have heard of that happening in previous years,” Kimmel said. “Yeah.”
“Well, I was wondering, well demanding, if I could get a couple of extra minutes to thank a couple of extra people,” Brunson said.
The rising media juggernaut then thanked multiple people for their contributions to the success of “Abbott Elementary.”
Kimmel then explained his side of the story in Brunson’s interview.
“That was a dumb comedy bit that we had done,” he said. “I lost then I drank too much and then I had to be dragged out onto the stage. Then, people got upset, they said I stole your moment and maybe I did. I’m very sorry if I did do that. I’m sorry I did do that, actually. Also, the last thing I would ever want to do is upset you because I think so much of you.”
Brunson said she didn’t realize what Kimmel was doing because she enjoyed the moment of winning an Emmy. She also said she had a good night.
“That was your first time at the Emmy’s and you won,” Kimmel said.
“Yeah, crazy,” Brunson said.
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On September 06, 2022, Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Investigative Services was advised by the School Resource Deputy assigned to Signal Mountain Middle High School that a shooting threat had been made against the facility.
The school threat was communicated anonymously by electronic means.
"The safety and security of our community’s children and our schools is paramount to this agency. The HCSO will use every tool, resource, partnership, and technological means necessary to hold those accountable who threaten the safety and wellbeing of our children. I am proud of our personnel for their efforts to quickly investigate this matter and charge those who choose to disrupt our institutions of learning and threaten the safety of our students,” stated Sheriff Austin Garrett.
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Vicky White and Casey White, the Alabama prison guard and the dangerous inmate who she helped escape, spoke on the phone "over 900 times" in the months before their getaway from prison in April -- including sexually explicit calls, Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton told CNN.
"They did communicate over 900 times between August 2021 and February 2022 while he was at Donaldson Correctional Facility," Singleton said. Investigators have been reviewing the calls, and "so far, the calls we have reviewed are phone sex."
Singleton did not provide further information about the calls.
The calls all came before Vicky White helped Casey White escape from a detention center in April, leading to an 11-day manhunt that came to a deadly end in Indiana.
Vicky White, the corrections officer, died of a single gunshot wound to the head and the manner of her death was ruled a suicide. Casey White was arrested, returned to Alabama and is being housed in the same correctional facility.
He is charged with escape in the first degree for the jailbreak that authorities say was aided by Vicky White, the 56-year-old assistant director of corrections at the Lauderdale County Detention Center. Casey White was being held there to attend hearings related to capital murder charges he faced in the 2015 stabbing death of Alabama resident Connie Ridgeway.
He allegedly confessed to killing Ridgeway in 2020, but later pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Casey White had been transferred to the Lauderdale County facility from William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility, where he was already serving a 75-year sentence for a 2015 crime spree that included a home invasion, carjacking and a police chase, according to the US Marshals Service.
Investigators have said they believe Casey White and Vicky White, who aren't related, met at the jail and developed a clandestine romantic relationship.
The chaotic 11-day escape spread across at least three states and involved a series of vehicle changes, cash purchases and disguises in what authorities have said was a coordinated effort.
"This was very well planned and calculated," Singleton said previously.
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The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office is praising a Chick-fil-A employee in Florida who it said rushed to the aid of a woman who was being carjacked.
The woman was getting a baby out of her vehicle outside the restaurant in Fort Walton Beach when a man wielding a stick approached and demanded her keys, the sheriff's office said Wednesday in a news release.
The man then grabbed the keys from the waistband of the woman's pants, opened the vehicle's door and got inside, the release said.
Hearing the woman's shouts for help, an employee rushed to intervene, deputies said.
The employee, identified by the operator of the Chick-fil-A as Mykel Gordon, got into a physical struggle with the suspect, who punched Gordon in the face, the release said.
As the two tangled in the parking lot, others came to help subdue the suspect, a video shared on Twitter by the sheriff's office shows.
The sheriff's office is crediting the employee as a good Samaritan who stopped the suspect from fleeing.
"A major shout-out to this young man for his courage," the department said in the post.
Matthew Sexton, the operator of the Chick-fil-A branch, told CNN he is relieved everyone is safe.
"I'm grateful for my amazing Team Member, Mykel Gordon, who so selflessly jumped in to intervene and help our Guests. I couldn't be prouder of his incredible act of care," Sexton said
The suspect, a 43-year-old man, was arrested and charged with carjacking with a weapon and battery, the sheriff's office said.
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The Okaloosa County (FL) Sheriff's Office is praising a Chick-fil-A employee in Florida who it said rushed to the aid of a woman who was being carjacked.
The woman was getting a baby out of her vehicle outside the restaurant in Fort Walton Beach when a man wielding a stick approached and demanded her keys, the sheriff's office said Wednesday in a news release.
The man then grabbed the keys from the waistband of the woman's pants, opened the vehicle's door and got inside, the release said.
Hearing the woman's shouts for help, an employee rushed to intervene, deputies said.
The employee, identified by the operator of the Chick-fil-A as Mykel Gordon, got into a physical struggle with the suspect, who punched Gordon in the face, the release said.
As the two tangled in the parking lot, others came to help subdue the suspect, a video shared on Twitter by the sheriff's office shows.
The sheriff's office is crediting the employee as a good Samaritan who stopped the suspect from fleeing.
"A major shout-out to this young man for his courage," the department said in the post.
Matthew Sexton, the operator of the Chick-fil-A branch, told CNN he is relieved everyone is safe.
"I'm grateful for my amazing Team Member, Mykel Gordon, who so selflessly jumped in to intervene and help our Guests. I couldn't be prouder of his incredible act of care," Sexton said
The suspect, a 43-year-old man, was arrested and charged with carjacking with a weapon and battery, the sheriff's office said.
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Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is claiming credit for sending two planes carrying migrants to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts Wednesday, according to a statement emailed to CNN by his office.
"Florida can confirm the two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha's Vineyard today were part of the state's relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations," the statement said.
"States like Massachusetts, New York, and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as 'sanctuary states' and support for the Biden Administration's open border policies."
An estimated 50 migrants arrived on Martha's Vineyard Wednesday on two planes, according to Massachusetts state Sen. Julian Cyr, a Democrat who represents Martha's Vineyard. The two planes arrived just after 3 p.m., Cyr said, and white vans took the migrants to Martha's Vineyard Community Services.
"There was no advance notice to anyone in Martha's Vineyard or Massachusetts that these migrants were arriving to my knowledge," Cyr said.
"The island scrambled to respond," he added. "They essentially set up shelters, the equivalent of a hurricane or Nor'easter. They set that up in a matter of hours and these families received a meal. They were Covid tested and are spending the night in shelters at several churches on the island."
Municipal officials and state officials are in touch about next steps, but Cyr stressed that the focus right now is supporting the migrants who arrived.
The move follows in the footsteps of Republican Govs. Greg Abbott of Texas and Doug Ducey of Arizona, who began sending migrants to Washington, DC, earlier this year. Abbott has since expanded his effort to include New York City and Chicago.
Migrants released from government custody often move to other cities in the US as they go through their immigration proceedings. It's unclear where the migrants who arrived in Martha's Vineyard originated or whether they knew where they were going.
The Dukes County Emergency Management Association said in a tweet Wednesday evening that it is taking volunteers and opening emergency shelters on Martha's Vineyard "due to an "unexpected urgent humanitarian situation."
Terry MacCormack, press secretary for Republican Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, said in a statement obtained by CNN affiliate WBZ, "The Baker-Polito Administration is in touch with local officials regarding the arrival of migrants in Martha's Vineyard. At this time, short-term shelter services are being provided by local officials, and the Administration will continue to support those efforts."
DeSantis' claim brought strong reaction Wednesday from Democratic officials in Florida.
"Even for Ron DeSantis, this is a new low." Florida Democratic Chair Manny Diaz said in a statement. "There is nothing that DeSantis won't do, and nobody that he won't hurt, in order to score political points."
Charlie Crist, the Democratic nominee for governor of Florida, said in a statement, "This is just another political stunt that hurts our state. Tonight, the 4.5 million immigrants who call Florida home must be wondering if they're next."
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It was a first for actor Ryan Reynolds, who allowed a video crew to capture his colonoscopy screening on camera to raise awareness of the increase in colon cancer diagnoses among people under 50. Colorectal cancer is the third most frequently diagnosed cancer in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society.
"It's not every day that you can raise awareness about something that will most definitely save lives. That's enough motivation for me to let you in on a camera being shoved up my a--," Reynolds said in the video they shared with the public.
"Did they find Rosebud up there?" Reynolds asks a nurse when the procedure is over.
Actor Rob McElhenney, who created and starred in the long-running comedy "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," teamed up with Reynolds on the project and also underwent a videotaped colonoscopy.
"If they find a polyp, it's either bigger than his -- which is awesome -- or it's smaller than his, which means I have less of an opportunity to have cancer. Either way I win," McElhenney told the camera while waiting for his procedure.
While joking around and poking fun at each other, Reynolds and McElhenney made it clear they were there to raise awareness about new guidelines lowering the age of colon screening from 50 to 45.
"Rob and I both, we turned 45 this year," Reynolds said in the video. "And you know, part of being this age is getting a colonoscopy. It's a simple step that could literally -- and I mean, literally -- save your life."
Reynolds' procedure, done by CBS Chief Medical Correspondent Jonathan LaPook, led to the discovery of a small polyp in the actor's colon.
"You did such a good prep that I was able to find an extremely subtle polyp on the right side of your colon," LaPook told a drowsy Reynolds after the procedure.
"This was potentially life-saving for you. I'm not kidding. I'm not being overly dramatic. This is exactly why you do this," LaPook added.
During McElhenney's procedure, Los Angeles gastroenterologist Dr. Leo Treyzon found three very small polyps.
"They were not a big deal but certainly a good thing that we found them early and removed them," Treyzon told the actor in recovery.
McElhenney, who acted pleased he had beaten Reynolds' single polyp, then asked the doctor what he could do to prevent a recurrence.
There's not yet good evidence that dietary changes can make a difference, Treyzon answered, "but what does make a difference is screening and surveillance."
A bet turned serious
Reynolds and McElhenney are cochairs of the Welsh Football Club Wrexham AFC, a fifth-division soccer club founded in 1864 in a dying mining town in Wales. The two invested in the club to bring life back to the community. The journey inspired a docuseries on FX called "Welcome to Wrexham."
"You know, the heart of all sports is competition, and Rob and I think we're pretty competitive guys," Reynolds said in the video's introduction. "We're so competitive, in fact, that last year Ryan and I made a bet," McElhenney added.
The bet was that if McElhenney could learn to speak Welsh, Reynolds would undergo a public colonoscopy.
"Did we?" Reynolds replied innocently. "I don't remember that."
As McElhenney starts to explain the bet in Welsh, Reynolds breaks down and admits he did make the wager.
The new video, made in partnership with the Colorectal Cancer Alliance and another colon cancer awareness organization, Lead From Behind, did not show the colonoscopy procedure itself, for either Reynolds or McElhenney. The video only showed sedation and recovery.
In contrast, former "Today" host Katie Couric broadcast her entire procedure in 2000 -- from prep the night before to a mildly sedated Couric watching the procedure as it unfolded.
To do a colonoscopy, a gastroenterologist snakes a flexible tube topped with a tiny camera into the rectum and throughout the colon to look for small growths called polyps that can turn cancerous.
"I have a pretty little colon," Couric said with a sleepy chuckle as she watched the video projection from the scope inside her colon. "You didn't put the scope in yet, did you?" asked Couric, whose husband had died from colon cancer at age 42 in 1998.
"Yes! We're doing the examination. We're almost done," said her doctor Dr. Kenneth Forde, who taught for nearly 40 years at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Forde died in 2019.
As Couric's experience showed, the procedure is relativity painless, even when awake. However, like Reynolds and McElhenney, most people are more heavily sedated and rarely wake up during a colonoscopy.
Couric posted on Reynolds' Instagram account in response to the video: "Go Ryan! (Wait! You already did!) thank you for spreading the word!"
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Two buses carrying migrants arrived Thursday at the US Naval Observatory -- the vice president's residence in Washington, DC -- from Texas, surprising volunteers who were not prepared to receive them there, volunteers in the district said.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been busing migrants to the nation's capital to protest the Biden administration's immigration policies, but the buses largely had been dropping them off around Washington's Union Station.
Volunteers were prepared to receive a bus Thursday at the station but learned that the buses went to the Naval Observatory instead, volunteers said.
SAMU First Response, one of the groups helping migrants in Washington, was not provided a heads up, according to Tatiana Laborde, managing director of SAMU First Response.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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The Biden administration is unlikely to significantly change its approach to helping Ukraine fight Russia, sources tell CNN, and is rebuffing some Ukrainian weapons requests for now -- even as Ukrainian forces have made sweeping gains and recaptured thousands of miles of territory from Russia in recent days.
US officials broadly view Ukraine's recent momentum as evidence that the types of weapons and intelligence that the West has been providing to Ukraine in recent months has been effective. And some caution that it's too early to call Ukraine's rapid progress in recent days a turning point in the war, warning that Russia is far from a spent force militarily.
Officials do not believe the battlefield landscape has changed enough to warrant a dramatic strategy shift in the short term despite recent Ukrainian requests to lawmakers and the Pentagon for long-range missile systems and tanks, which they assert can help them sustain the push for longer and keep the territory they have regained.
But for now, at least, the US is still not inclined to provide Ukrainian forces with the long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems, also known as ATACMS, that they have been requesting for months, officials told CNN. ATACMS have a range of up to 300 kilometers, or around 185 miles. The administration still believes providing those systems could be escalatory because they could be used to fire into Russia itself. Currently, the maximum range of US-provided weapons to Ukraine is around 49 miles.
"It's our assessment that they don't currently require ATACMS to service targets that are directly relevant to the current fight," Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl told reporters in late-August.
Last week, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin intimated the US position hasn't shifted. "The HIMARS, using the GMLRS rockets, have been extraordinary in terms of enabling the Ukrainians to service the targets that they need to service inside of Ukraine," Austin said in Prague on Friday, making no mention of ATACMS.
Since the beginning of the conflict in February, the Biden administration has taken an incremental approach to providing arms to Ukraine -- in some cases, later agreeing to send weapons that earlier in the conflict would have been deemed far too escalatory. Its calculus has largely been based on avoiding systems that might be seen by Putin as too provocative, although those lines have moved over time and been criticized by some former officials as arbitrary.
Some US military officials also acknowledged that systems currently considered too escalatory -- like F-16 jets, for example -- might eventually be provided to Ukraine. But those sources cautioned that such a decision is likely far in the future and isn't linked to Ukraine's recent, but nascent, successes. And there are no indications that such discussions are underway now.
"Ukraine has made some progress, but there's still a very tough fight, and a tough fight ahead, so I think we also need to keep that in mind," Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters on Tuesday. "I think it is reasonable over time to continue, as we have, that dialogue to hear what their needs are, to work with the international community."
US National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby echoed that, telling reporters that the US would likely announce additional military assistance to Ukraine in the coming days but declined to outline that aid in detail.
Another defense official told CNN on Tuesday that the longer-range equipment is likely still off the table for now because Ukraine is "still in the sweet spot on HIMARS," or High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems that the US and some of its allies provided to Ukraine over the summer. The munitions for those systems, provided by the US, are capable of using GPS-guidance to strike a target with precision some 40 miles away.
Ukrainian forces have received "thousands" of GMLRS rounds, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said last week, and used them to strike Russian ammo depots, logistical hubs and command posts.
Still, some lawmakers disagree with the administration's cautious approach.
Asked whether he believes the US should send the ATACMS, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida told CNN, "I think we should send them anything they need to reclaim their territory, to the extent that we have it available, and it is reasonable."
"I think the concern some would say is that the longer-range missiles could target deep inside of Russia and trigger a broader conflict. I'm not sure I'm as troubled by that," Rubio added.
US officials cautious on state of the war
The US has also been careful not to call the rapid Ukrainian territorial gains a turning point in the war, or a critical moment that will decide the outcome for good.
"It's more important than ever that we don't appear to be spiking the ball," a defense official said. The Russians still have a tremendous amount of firepower, manpower and equipment in the fight in Ukraine, and the victories this month of the Ukrainian military have not sealed the outcome of the war. In military terms, Russia still has "mass," even if it has been unable to bring that to bear at a critical time and place to shape the outcome of a particular fight.
Still, the Ukrainian counteroffensive -- planned with US assistance -- does appear to have been "expertly executed," the official said.
One thing that has changed in the last several months is the Ukrainians' willingness to share intelligence with the US, allowing American officials to better help the Ukrainians shape their battlefield operations.
"There's a lot more trust now than there was at the beginning of the war," said one Ukrainian source close to President Volodymyr Zelensky. "And the Ukrainians recognize that the more they share, the more they are likely to get in return."
A US military source added that there has been "decent communication at varying levels about what's being planned on the political side and the military side. There's pretty good military transparency."
In Kherson, where Ukraine telegraphed its intentions for months before the counteroffensive began, Russia had time to prepare, digging in to protect the territory around one of the first cities they occupied early in the war. Ukraine's advances there have been incremental and deliberate, one official said, and there is no rapid advance through collapsing Russian lines.
Some analysts have described the Kherson offensive as a "fixing" operation designed to keep Russian troops engaged away from the fight in Kharkiv.
In Kharkiv, however, the attack caught the Russians by surprise and without any well-prepared defenses, allowing the Ukrainian military to rapidly reclaim thousands of square miles of territory.
Russia has so far failed to meaningfully stop the counteroffensive in Ukraine's south or east as the problems they had early in the war -- supply line issues, logistical problems, and a lack of effective command and control -- still plague the Russian military, officials said. Russia proved unable to hold the territory it had seized, partially because of the high cost imposed on them by Ukrainian defenders.
The US is less concerned about Ukraine's ability to hold reclaimed territory, officials said, even in the east, where Ukrainian forces have moved more than 60 kilometers within days in some cases. Ukraine's supply lines are internal, whereas Russia's were outside its own borders.
In addition, Ukraine's forces will get a significant boost to morale and will from the recent victories, one official said, while Russia's depleted forces will feel the opposite.
It's "not a real concern of [Ukraine] overstretching supply lines," an official said. Despite Russian claims of destroying the US-provided HIMARS, all of the 16 systems remain accounted for and the "overwhelming majority" of M777 howitzers also remain in operation, officials said.
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Command Sgt. Maj. Jesse Withers speaks with Cpt. Jeremy Mullins and 2nd Lt. Jesse Mascoe in the Chasing Wellness Podcast at Boone National Guard Center in Frankfort, Ky., September 14th, 2022. The Chasing Wellness podcast promotes the pursuit of holistic health and wellness and provides education on nutrition, exercise, motivation, and related subjects (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Caleb Sooter).
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Experts Share the Best Sulfate-Free Shampoos for Every Hair Type
Find the right one for you.
Sulfates are cleansing ingredients that are great for removing product buildup, residue, and oils from the hair and scalp—in fact, those who struggle with an oily or greasy hair type may prefer shampoos with sulfates for their ability to cleanse thoroughly. But if you're someone with textured, color-treated, damaged, dry, or brittle hair, then you may find shampoos with sulfates too harsh or over-drying. Avoid them for that reason, but know that they aren’t inherently bad. While some chemicals definitely shouldn't be in your products for their damaging effects, other ingredients get a bad reputation despite being safe and beneficial for some hair types and concerns. Sulfates are one of them.
Ahead, learn more about sulfates, who should avoid this ingredient, and some of the best options to try, according to professional hair experts.
What is sulfate-free shampoo?
Sulfate-free shampoos differ from conventional formulas because they don't contain sulfates—harsh cleansing ingredients that can strip the scalp and hair of its natural oils, says Fae Norris, a stylist at Neighborhood Salon in Echo Park, California. This is why sulfate-free formulas are great for color-treated hair, perms, and straightening treatments like keratin, since they remove dirt and residue without stripping strands of everything—including your natural oils that help give your hair moisture and shine.
Who else should use sulfate-free shampoo?
Those with dry, damaged, or brittle strands would benefit from using a sulfate-free formula. Similarly, since curly and coily strands are notoriously dry, natural hair types might also want to consider searching for shampoos without the cleansing ingredient so they can preserve moisture. And if you shampoo frequently, then you might want to add a gentle sulfate-free formula into your rotation.
Because there are many sulfate-free shampoos out there, we’ve sorted through them. Whether you have dry, dandruff-prone, fine, oily, curly, gray, thinning, or color-treated hair, here are the best sulfate-free shampoos to suit your hair type.
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Being in service to others doesn’t have to cost you a thing—it is often as simple as giving people your time. Sometimes you don’t even know when you are in service to others. This is something I was reminded of recently.
A guest came on CBS Mornings and shared a very sensitive part of her life. The next day, I called just to check on her. I know that when you talk about traumatic things, it can bring up all sorts of feelings—so I just wanted to make sure she was okay. I really thought nothing of it. It’s not like I was going out of my way to try and be of service. But she let me know that small action meant so much and was so helpful to her.
If you lead with being kind and being thoughtful, you’ll be of service to so many people without even realizing it.
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All this talk of being in service makes me think of something I just read in Jann Wenner’s new book, Like a Rolling Stone. In it, the Rolling Stone founder recounts that Bono once told him that he just wanted to be useful and have fun. That line really stayed with me. Bono is a well-known philanthropist. He is very much in service to people, and his sentiment of wanting to do that while also having fun? Now, that’s something I can get behind.
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Is Innovation Stagnating – And, If So, is Higher Education to Blame?
What universities can do to nurture creativity and innovation.
Higher education, we are told, is society’s preeminent engine of innovation, creativity, and inventiveness. It spurs imagination, invention, and ingenuity. It prepares graduates “to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves and others,” in the words of Robert E. Franken, a specialist in the psychology of motivation.
Nice, if true.
But what if this faith in the creative power of universities is exaggerated? There is a growing body literature that argues that the triumph of the university has not resulted in the expected outpouring of creativity and invention.
Nor are these arguments confined to eccentric conservatives like The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, whose The Decadent Society argues that American society keeps regurgitating the same arguments again and again, or naysayers, heretics and contrarians, like those who condemn the supposed harm inflicted by creative writing programs on literature.
Leading economists like Robert Gordon and historians of technology like Vaclav Smil argue that after an extraordinary burst of creativity between 1870 and 1914, innovation across multiple domains stagnated.
At first glance, such arguments certainly sound wrongheaded. After all, we are living through a series of revolutions in medicine, technology, communication, and analytics that look, at least superficially, as radical as any in the past. There’s the Artificial Intelligence revolution, the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) revolution, the Big Data revolution, and the Precision Medicine revolution, to name but a few.
Simply to list some of the recent innovations in medical science – like CRISPR, which allows scientists to modify DNA, mRNA technologies, that permit the rapid development of novel, nucleotide-based vaccines and drugs, and minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery -- is to be bowled over by the examples of inventiveness that hold out the promise of greatly improving human health.
And then, of course, there are the technologies that have transformed everyday life in the space of our own lifetime: the Internet, email, smartphones and apps, streaming media, and search engines.
But before techno-utopianism overwhelms us with its vision of constant, endless progress and improvement, perhaps a bit of skepticism is in order.
In a series of thought provoking essays, including one entitled “Has Technological Progress Stalled?,” Tanner Greer, a remarkably insightful journalist whose writings frequently appear in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, argues that many fantasies of progress and innovation are misleading.
For example, can you think of aesthetic, artistic, literary, psychological, scientific, and technological achievements of the past four decades that are as pathbreaking as those that took place between the last decades of the 19th century and the early 20th?
Has the last 40 years witness anything comparable to the number of paradigm-shifting artists, authors, composers, or thinkers equal in stature to Dostoyevsky, George Eliot, and T.S. Eliot, Ibsen, Tolstoy, and Woolf, Verdi and Puccini, Schoenberg and Stravinsky, Manet, Monet, Picasso, and Van Gogh, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Heinrich Hertz, James Clerk Maxwell, Max Planck, Wilhelm Röntgen, and Ernest Rutherford, or Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud, and Boas?
Or in terms of technology, have we truly witnessed inventions comparable in breakthrough significance of “steam turbines, internal combustion engines, electric motors, alternators, transformers and rectifiers, incandescent light, electromagnetic waves, recorded sound, linotype machines, sulfate pulp, photographic film, aluminum smelting, dephosphorised steel and steel alloys, reinforced concrete, nitroglycerin, and synthesized ammonia”?
Greer’s argument is not that improvement has ceased, but, rather, innovation is taking place within paradigms, canons, and formulae largely established during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Obviously, arguments that support theories of stagnation are often highly selective and ethnocentric. For example, many of the most exciting innovations in music reflect the rise of multiculturalism and the growing awareness of genres that lie outside the classical canon, including jazz, the blues, ragtime, and hip hop. Ditto for literature. It’s certainly a mistake to not to mention such innovators as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, let alone the many non-Western writers who have pioneered new themes and styles.
And yet, wasn’t the growth of the academy supposed to spur unceasing innovation not just in technology or science, but in the realms of culture as well? Poets and other creative writers, for example, could now get a regular salary from a college or university, rather than work as a post office inspector, like Anthony Trollope, an insurance clerk like Franz Kafka, a banker like T.S. Eliot, an insurance executive like Wallace Stevens or Charles Ives, or a physician, like William Carlos Williams?
Critics of creative writing programs tend to make a series of unsettling arguments:
- That such programs tend to make writers sound alike, resulting in a kind of homogeneous, cookie-cutter approach to writing.
- That these programs lead writers to narcissistically navel gaze or to focus on various socio-political grievances rather than examine the rich complexities of real life.
- That creative writing programs focus more on theory and discourse than upon the challenges of creating engaging plots, inventive language, and rich characterization.
Somewhat similar criticism have been leveled against MFA programs in the visual arts: That these are little more than Ponzi schemes that saddle graduates with crippling debts, do little to teach craftsmanship and technique, and encourage kinds of conceptual art and theoretically-informed arts speak, while doing little to encourage sophisticated works of genuine originality and evocative power.
Might the critics of these programs have a point that extends well beyond the MFA? Perhaps.
- An academic approach can, at times, be the enemy of the creativity and novelty.
Why is it that with remarkably few exceptions academic institutions failed to develop COVID vaccines? Is this simply a matter of money, or does the problem lie deeper – in faculty fragmentation, excessive professional specialization, a lack of effective coordination, and insufficient incentives to respond to a real-life crisis with applied solutions? - Innovations challenge existing interests, incumbent processes, and existing arrangements.
Could highly selective institutions admit more students? Of course. Could expanded online learning, by reducing the need for new physical facilities, enlarge access and moderate cost increases? Certainly. Could accreditors do more to evaluate program-level quality and cost-effectiveness? Absolutely.
Then, why don’t these things happen? Because these challenge business as usual, threaten vested interests, and require innovations that are costly, sometimes financially but often politically.
- Tackling many pressing societal problems has become harder and universities are not well-positioned to solve implementation challenges.
The academy is filled with exciting ideas about how best to address today’s most urgent challenges. But the legal, political, and social barriers to implementation are steep and universities aren’t, typically, directly involved in the implementation of solutions. Whether the problem is housing, transportation, crime, income or health inequality, or climate change, a host of systemic barriers inhibit change, reflecting, in part, reforms designed to encourage democratic participation in decisionmaking.
Given the fact that universities are this society’s primary venue for basic research and professional training, what can we do to ensure that universities do a better job of promoting creativity, innovation, and outside-the-box thinking?
- Help students understand the creative process in richer, more robust ways.
My sense is that many of today’s vocationally-oriented or professionally-focused students would benefit enormously from what the humanities has to teach about creativity, imagination, inventiveness, and artistry, even though I suspect that some will regard such ideas as excessively abstract and irrelevant, which, in turn, reflects a rather narrow, impoverished definition of professionalism.
Many existing courses on the creative process tend to reduce creativity to a seven- or eight-point process involving investigation, inspiration, intuition, insight, improvisation, incubation, and so forth But such an approach is grossly misleading. Creativity, instead, is generally a product of real-world experience, an outgrowth of deep immersion in a particular area of study, and a consequence of experimentation, tinkering, and technical or applied problem solving
- Uncover the systemic barriers to innovation.
Universities are well positioned to identify the various reasons, legal, political, and sociological, among others, why innovations fail. Once identified, it is then possible to imagine policy solutions.
- Blur the boundaries between the universities and the “real world.”
Expand student opportunities to apply academic knowledge, theories, and skills to real life contexts. There are many ways to do this. Integrate real-life problems into coursework. Increase access to internships and other applied and experiential learning experiences. Connect academic learning with workplace, service, or community-based learning.
In the most widely viewed TED talk of all time, Sir Ken Robinson, the arts educator, argued that creativity is as important as literacy and that K-12 education, as it is currently structured, stifles creative thinking and expression. Whether you agree or disagree with his claims, the fact is that our universities can and should do more to encourage creativity.
How so? What steps might universities take?
- Reduce rigid major requirements that make it difficult for students in technical, vocationally-oriented, and pre-professional fields to have time to devote to other learning opportunities.
- Create spaces where innovation, entrepreneurship, and creative freedom can flourish.
- Reward effort and experimentation in addition to traditional quantitative measures of success.
- Celebrate new ideas and approaches.
- Incentivize initiatives that involve cross-disciplinary cooperation or have an impact outside the university.
Today, our society in general and universities in particular celebrate and reward the so-called creative class, while failing to take the steps that might best encourage creativity. We can certainly do better.
Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Extinct prehistoric reptile that lived among dinosaurs discovered
This lizard-like reptile belongs to the same ancient lineage as New Zealand’s living tuatara.
The well-preserved fossil of a new extinct species of lizard-like reptile has been discovered, shedding light on the tuatara – the last living member of a once-diverse group of reptiles.
The fossil was discovered from a site in Wyoming’s Morrison Formation and is a new species that has been named Opisthiamimus gregori. This new species inhabited Jurassic North America around 150 million years ago, living amongst dinosaurs.
The reptile would have been about 6 inches from nose to tail, and would have fitted in the palm of a human hand, likely surviving off a diet of insects and other small invertebrates.
This discovery was made by a team of scientists from the National Museum of Natural History, the University College London and the Natural History Museum. They described this new animal in a paper published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
“What’s important about the tuatara is that it represents this enormous evolutionary story that we are lucky enough to catch in what is likely its closing act,” said Matthew Carrano, one of the authors of the study, and the curator of dinosaurs at the National Museum of Natural History.
“Even though it looks like a relatively simple lizard, it embodies an entire evolutionary epic going back more than 200 million years.”
Further study of the specimens and fossils found in Wyoming could help reveal why this animal’s order of reptiles dwindled. The order once contained a diverse array of species, but New Zealand’s tuataras are the only surviving members.
In appearance, the tuatara resembles a stout iguana. However, the tuatara and its newly discovered relative aren’t actually lizards. Instead, they are rhynchocephalians. These are an order that diverged from lizards roughly 230 million years ago.
Rhynchocephalians were found across the world and came in a range of different shapes and sizes. However, for unknown reasons, they all but disappeared as lizards and snakes became more common.
The fossil has now been added to a museum collection where it will remain for additional study. Researchers hope to be able to one day understand why the tuatara is the last remaining rhynchocephalian.
“These animals may have disappeared partly because of competition from lizards but perhaps also due to global shifts in climate and changing habitats,” Carrano said.
“It’s fascinating when you have the dominance of one group giving way to another group over evolutionary time, and we still need more evidence to explain exactly what happened, but fossils like this one are how we will put it together.”
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The fossil is almost entirely complete and in great condition. However, it is missing the tail and part of the hind legs. Full fossils can be rare with animals that are so small.
After the team had freed as much of the fossil from the rock as possible without damaging it, they scanned the rock with high-resolution computerised tomography. This is a method that uses multiple X-ray images from different angles to make a 3D representation of the fossil.
With the fossil bones 3D digitally rendered, the bones were digitally reassembled. Using software to eventually create a nearly complete 3D reconstruction, even recreating bones that were crushed or damaged, the team managed to make a clear version of the skull.
“Such a complete specimen has huge potential for making comparisons with fossils collected in the future and for identifying or reclassifying specimens already sitting in a museum drawer somewhere,” said David DeMar, a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History. “With the 3D models we have, at some point we could also do studies that use software to look at this critter’s jaw mechanics.”
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Climate change: Rising temperatures can have a serious impact on our ability to think
It's time to think about the effects warmer weather is having on our brains, not just our bodies.
The summer of 2022 was Europe’s hottest on record. In the heat I felt foggier and groggier. Thinking felt like hard work. Like many others, on the worst days I hid inside, closed all the curtains, and waited out the heat in the coolest room of my flat. It was in my temperature safe haven I wondered, metaphorically, can our thoughts melt? Or freeze? Said differently, how does the heat in our environment affect our ability to think?
When temperatures are too low or high they become an 'ambient stressor', something in our environment that drains brain energy. There are two major scientific ideas about how this works.
The first is the inverted-U model, which assumes that up to a critical temperature, brain performance increases, and then it immediately drops, in an upside-down U-shape. According to this model, there is a single temperature at which the brain and body work the best: 21.6°C.
The second is the maximal adaptability model, which proposes a plateau instead of a single optimal temperature. In this model, there is a range of best temperatures for the brain.
A group of researchers who reviewed many studies on how heat affects cognition in 2019 found that the Maximal Adaptability Model better fits the data better than the inverted-U model. In these studies, participants – who were most often men – were typically put an ambient chamber, a purpose-built room with temperatures that can be programmed up to 50°C.
That’s a lot cooler than your average Swedish sauna, which is typically over 70°C, but a lot hotter than the “'neutral' 21.6°C. Other researchers immersed participants in hot water, or dressed people in a special tube-lined heat-controllable suit. Once they were appropriately cold or hot, participants were given attention, memory, and problem-solving tasks.
This research has broadly found that our cognitive comfort zone is between 21.1°C and 26.6°C. Within this range heat doesn’t impact our ability to think. When we move outside of this comfort zone, we start to get groggier. After we hit the edge of our zone of maximal adaptability, that we start to really see a difference. Once temperatures either drop below 10°C, or get hotter than 32.2°C, our performance falls off a cliff. It takes us far more energy to pay attention, remember things, and think.
For many people, staying in a space that is under 32.2°C will probably be safe for their brains. However, those with psychological conditions like dementia, depression, and schizophrenia, often have a significantly increased vulnerability to extreme heat, already seeing big increases in hospitalisations above 26.7°C.
If you are exposed to even more extreme temperatures, you can enter a dangerous state of hypothermia if your core body temperature drops too far, or hyperthermia (heat stroke) if it gets too hot. These can make you confused, cause permanent damage to attention and memory, and can be life threatening. In these circumstances, getting people out of the heat, specifically icing the neck and head as soon as possible, can prevent long-term consequences to our fragile brains.
There are some people who can’t choose whether to escape the heat. These include firefighters, professional athletes, soldiers, and miners. In some of these settings, wearable neck and head cooling devices, and the more classic ice baths, are currently being used to tackle hot brains and prevent damage. But most people who work in extreme conditions don’t have access to cooling countermeasures.
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A study carried out in Guangzhou, China, on the impact of hot weather on work-related injuries, found that with every 1°C increase in temperature there was a 1.4 per cent increase in daily injury claims. This accident proneness starts right at the edge of our comfort zones, at a temperature of about 26°C. As our decision-making melts, we are more likely to make bad calls and injure ourselves.
Every person feels the heat differently, and all our bodies are different at regulating it. Adjusting to our changing climate will be necessary to keep our brains sharp. If you find that your mind is freezing, or melting, find a space between 10°C and 26°C and you should get back to your intelligent self in no time.
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MELBOURNE, Australia and LONDON and NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TGI Sport, the global sports technology, media, and marketing company, has acquired the industry-leading virtual media solutions provider Interregional Sports Group (ISG), the company announced today. The move brings another new dimension to TGI's best-in-class capabilities and expertise across the next wave of live sports advertising and media. This acquisition deepens the leadership team with virtual media's foremost experts and pioneers. Further, it accelerates TGI's overall transformation into a technology-led, full-service global media and marketing agency. Bruin Capital and Quadrant Private Equity jointly own TGI Sport. The deal is the first since Bruin backed the company in 2021.
TGI Sport's Global CEO Martin Jolly said, "We are thrilled about this acquisition because it is emblematic of how we plan to grow TGI going forward. Instantly, our business enters a new sector - one that many believe is the future of live sports media and advertising. We do so with leading-edge capabilities and expertise. In addition, Tony and Simon are highly respected within our industry and will profoundly impact our organization far beyond leading ISG's development. Ultimately, our core business is stronger."
ISG was formed in 2015 by Tony Ragan and business partner Simon Burgess. Since, it has become a market leader in the rights sales, content creation, and distribution of virtual media through live sporting events for clients, including Serie A, La Liga, and Formula 1. The company's head office is in London. ISG also operates a Milan-based, state-of-the-art innovation lab for all its virtual media production, data analysis, client services & technology systems testing. Burgess and Ragan will now lead "ISG powered by TGI Sport" under Jolly and will also work closely with the Board.
Last spring, Bruin Capital took on joint ownership of TGI Sport, partnering with Australia-based Quadrant Private Equity (Quadrant). The vision was to accelerate TGI's evolution into an elite global agency, with proprietary media technologies as its core competencies. The addition of ISG expands the company's global presence and puts more resources against its parallel advertising (PADS) LED perimeter technology and hardware. PADS is being utilized across four continents by organizations such as UEFA, MLS, NZ Rugby, Rugby Australia, Liga MX, AS Monaco FC, and many more premier sporting codes.
"We are delighted to be able to add Tony, Simon, and the ISG team to the TGI and Bruin family," said George Pyne, Bruin Capital Founder/CEO. "They are very smart, effective specialists who we believe in and will have the full gamut of Bruin's global resources to push the business forward."
"This is a hugely exciting time for us," explains ISG's joint founder Tony Ragan. "We now have the opportunity to build on the success of the last seven years and accelerate the development of ISG into a truly global player," he added.
"This step up with Bruin and TGI will allow us to grow faster, stronger, and more boldly," adds Simon Burgess, ISG co-CEO and founder, "as the commercial and operation pioneers in virtual media, our knowhow both operationally and commercially can be significantly leveraged by the expanded group's talent, relationships and fiscal firepower...things are going to get really compelling for rights holders, media buyers and brands."
About TGI Sport: TGI Sport is a global leader in sports technology, media, and marketing, connecting sports entities and fans worldwide. The combined operations span North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and its teams support around 3,500+ events annually. TGI Sport has built relationships with many of the world's leading sporting organizations, including UEFA, FIFA, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, Mediapro, Major League Soccer, US Soccer, Ligue National de Rugby, ECB, ICC, FC Barcelona, Manchester United FC, Liverpool FC, and Juventus FC. TGI's businesses include TLA Worldwide, QMS NZ, and Sportsmate.
About ISG Interregional Sports Group (ISG) is the leader in virtual media solutions in sport. The company focuses on regionalising broadcast technology and implementing revenue strategies for some of the world's biggest sports rights-holders including the top European football competitions and the world's leading motor-racing championship. From its head office in London and operational centre in Milan, ISG provides its clients with virtual media solutions that incorporate integrated data systems, analytics and activation. Via its relationship with Italy's Liga Serie A, ISG delivers the largest and most technologically advanced, integrated virtual media sports service in the world, to all 20 Serie A clubs.
About Bruin Capital: Bruin Capital (www.bruincptl.com) is an international investment and operating company founded by George Pyne @GFPyne. Bruin specializes in working with capital partners and management teams to build best-in-class, global technology, sports, media, entertainment, and marketing companies. Bruin companies operate across five continents with 2100 employees working out of 34 offices. Bruin investors include The Jordan Company, CVC Capital Partners, Rock Ventures, NNS Chaired by Nassef Sawiris, and a prestigious group of family investment funds.
About Quadrant Private Equity: Quadrant Private Equity was first established in 1996 (firstly as Quadrant Capital) and is a leading Sydney-based mid-market private equity firm investing in companies in Australia and New Zealand. Quadrant Private Equity has raised $7 billion and 12 funds since inception. Its latest funds, QPE No. 7 and Quadrant Growth Fund 2, have $1,240 million and $530 million in equity commitments respectively for private equity investment Quadrant has extensive investment experience, having led over 80 investments in the past 11 funds (with 60 exits) across a range of sectors including retail, healthcare, media, consumer foods, financial services, eCommerce and other sectors.
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Before Labor Day weekend, I didn’t know that several Facebook users have posted suicide notes on their profile page world-wide.
In 2010, a 48-year-old woman leapt to her death in Spain after she announced her intentions on Facebook. She wanted to get away from her abusive fiancé. She believed suicide was the only solution.
There are many other cases.
Typically, a hand-written note is seen by close relatives but suicide announcements on social media can reach a large number of people.
Some posts are written by those who survived suicide. Out of that group, there are many individuals who are still struggling with substance abuse.
How can we help?
We don’t have the same options bigger cities do, but there has to be something we, as individuals, can do for our loved ones, neighbors and co-workers. Even strangers.
Last year, I wrote a column, “A Song Saved Me.”
I will never forget that cold autumn day in Nevada, but truthfully, it wasn’t the first time I contemplated suicide.
Two months after high school graduation, I moved to a very tiny, isolated community in Utah with my fiancé.
When a shy, sheltered young woman moves out of the house, chances are, she has no clue what she is getting into.
I was nervous, homesick and inexperienced.
I saw his true colors when he didn’t get his way.
He screamed vulgarities and insults into my face.
I had no idea what to say. I was too scared to breathe. I was blindsided by the sudden outburst.
He harassed me for being scared.
His eyes were cold. His brutal words were burning my ear.
I kept blaming myself.
He’s mad at me. I’m a failure.
I felt inadequate.
I felt worthless.
He’s not happy and it’s my fault.
I wanted to open the door and jump off the balcony.
I’ll always remember those words: I want to die. I just want to die right now.
I didn’t run out of the room though. I think I was just shocked that I had thought about it.
What’s happening?
After realizing that I had lost myself, I said, through the tears and with no eye contact, “I want to go home.”
I heard the door slam. He had stepped out to smoke a cigarette.
Ten minutes later, he came back and apologized.
The next day was one of many days I tried to get back home.
While domestic violence and being murdered by the abuser is often discussed, I think we should also talk about how the abused individual is at risk for addiction, suicidal thoughts and behavior.
No one will help me. I got myself into this mess.
Four years later, I realized that it doesn’t matter how a woman got into that relationship in the first place.
She still deserves a better life.
Before I moved, no one taught me how to stand up for myself. No one showed me the difference between a normal and an abnormal relationship.
I was gas-lighted into believing he was right and I was wrong.
The thought of suicide put me in a very dark, lonely place. I thought of it twice in three months because I didn’t know how to be strong. I thought I was to blame.
Sometimes I still have those “I can’t do anything right” days but I’m not going to lose myself again.
Social media can be a place where we feel comfortable talking about our challenges or our sadness. It may be easier to post what we’re thinking than to share it with someone in person. When some people are struggling, they may keep to themselves. Social media becomes one of their only connections to others.
Back to my question: How can we help?
Shelby Gordon, recovery clinician from Southwest Counseling, sent me information recently on what to do when we see a post by someone with suicidal intentions.
It's important to take the post seriously. Show or voice your concern. When someone is suffering, it can be difficult for them to remember that people care.
Get that person the professional help they need. Facebook and Instagram have suicide prevention tools that allow users to report content, share resources and offer tips on how to provide support.
If you believe your friend or loved one is in immediate danger, please call 911, your local police station or the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
September is Suicide Awareness Month. The suicide and crisis hotline went live on July 16 but many people are still not aware of it. Let’s spread the word.
Call 988.
Even if you’ve lost yourself for just a moment, there is still hope.
Trina Brittain is a reporter for the Rocket Miner Newspaper. She can be reached at tbrittain@rocketminer.com. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/thinking-out-loud-our-struggles-make-us-stronger/article_5623bdda-34ed-11ed-83b2-c7bad6a80aaf.html | 2022-09-15T16:24:10Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/thinking-out-loud-our-struggles-make-us-stronger/article_5623bdda-34ed-11ed-83b2-c7bad6a80aaf.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ROCK SPRINGS — Brittany Andrews, a fourth grade teacher at Pilot Butte Elementary, received a big surprise in her classroom to celebrate her being named the 2022-2023 Sweetwater County School District No. 1 Teacher of the Year.
Principal Nancy Torstenbo and assistant principal Josh Marcy brought a cake to celebrate Andrews' achievement to her classroom for her and her students to enjoy.
Andrews was told the good news that she was receiving the honor over the summer.
She is originally from Rock Springs and chose to come back. Once she graduated from college.
“I went through school right here in Rock Springs. In fact, superintendent Kelly McGovern was my math teacher in high school and the principal when I was at Northpark Elementary,” Andrews said.
After graduating from high school, Andrews attended the University of Wyoming, where she received her degree.
“I got to student teach here in Rock Springs and then came back here to teach after graduating.”
She then received her master’s degree from Graceland University.
“I’ve taught fourth grade for 19 years. It’s what I’ve taught since I graduated,” she said. “I student taught in third grade and I have an Early Childhood certificate. So, I always thought I wanted like kindergarten. When I found out that I was student teaching for third grade, I was upset because it wasn’t the grade that I wanted. I was scared.
“Although, once I student taught in third grade, I couldn’t imagine going to a lower grade. In fact, the third grade class I student taught with ended up being my fourth grade class the following year. So, I got to stick with that class for two years.”
She has taught at Pilot Butte for two years.
Andrews said that her co-teacher, Theresa Lemke, who was named teacher of the year two years ago, and two para professionals who also work in her classroom, have all worked together for five years.
For Andrews, one of the most rewarding parts of teaching is seeing her students grow and learn.
“Seeing a student develop a skill they didn’t necessarily have before is awesome; not just necessarily academics. Some kids come to us and they need social skills and end up developing having friends or working with other people,” Andrews said. “Some kids gain leadership skills that they didn’t have.
“Also, the academic growth is always great to see. Walking away from my classroom with something that they didn’t have before is a big celebration.”
Andrews said that there are things you learn and realize when you begin your teaching career.
“When you first come into the teaching field, you don’t really know what you’re walking into. Student teaching is a great opportunity to see it all. But when you have your own class and you have to handle all of those situations, I think that was eye opening to me,” she said. “You realize that kids don’t come to you knowing how to write. You have to teach them how to do that.
“Taking those steps to make sure that they get it is sometimes a slow process. But you get to see the growth at the end. It’s important to know that it takes longer to develop those skills and for the kids to grow than sometimes what you’re expecting.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/a-passion-for-teaching-brittany-andrews-named-scsd-no-1-teacher-of-the-year/article_e693ed46-3492-11ed-86c4-6b6cbbe5c4dc.html | 2022-09-15T16:24:23Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/a-passion-for-teaching-brittany-andrews-named-scsd-no-1-teacher-of-the-year/article_e693ed46-3492-11ed-86c4-6b6cbbe5c4dc.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GREEN RIVER — Green River High School is gearing up for homecoming week, which starts on Monday, Sept. 19.
The first dress up day, Monday, Sept. 19, is pajama day. There will also be a powderpuff flag football game that evening at 7:30 p.m. The black team will be the seniors and freshman and the green team will be the juniors and sophomores. Admission is $5.
The game will be held at Wolves Stadium, located at Lincoln Middle School, at 350 Monroe Ave.
On Tuesday, Sept. 20, the dress up day will be the elementary school colors spirit day. That evening, the bonfire and pep rally will be held at 7 p.m. It will be held in the GRHS parking lot and there will be food trucks at the event.
“2000’s entertainment” will be the dress up day theme for Wednesday, Sept. 21, with the homecoming parade happening that eventing at 5:30 p.m. The parade will begin in the GRHS parking lot, go north on Hitching Post Drive, head west on Shoshone and end in the Lincoln Middle School parking lot.
On Thursday, Sept. 22, the dress up day theme will be Throwback Thursday. Later that day, there will be a volleyball game against Evanston at 6 p.m.
The dress up day theme for Friday, Sept. 23, will be Green River Gear Day. There will be a volleyball game against Jackson that afternoon at 4 p.m. and the football game against Powell High School will be at 7 p.m. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/grhs-take-a-walk-down-memory-lane-for-homecoming-week/article_beb5ca10-3492-11ed-9a8d-2bb407056f05.html | 2022-09-15T16:24:29Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/grhs-take-a-walk-down-memory-lane-for-homecoming-week/article_beb5ca10-3492-11ed-9a8d-2bb407056f05.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Schools across America are having difficulty receiving new equipment and supplies for young athletes, including Green River High School and Lincoln Middle School in Sweetwater County, due to a nationwide shortage tied to COVID-19 related issues and a decline in the workforce.
GREEN RIVER -- A shortage in athletic equipment and supplies is putting coaches across America in quite a predicament, including Green River High School.
Tony Beardsley, director of activities and athletics for Sweetwater County School District No. 2 gave an update to SCSD No. 2 board of trustees during the monthly meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 13.
Beardsley said that they have a great number of kids participating in their fall sports, but he and the coaches have been scrambling to accommodate the student athletes.
"The shipping and delays are unbelievable," said Beardsley. "We're still waiting on football helmets for our middle school kids.
"This isn't isolated to Green River. This is a nation-wide problem."
He pointed out that their normal process isn't the same.
"We're still waiting on chairs with the new logos for our gym," he mentioned. "We ordered those four months ago. Half of our cheerleaders don't even have pom-poms."
"Do you know how many parents called me about that? It was devastating to them."
The director also said that they can't get a softball.
"They told me that in 12 months, I might get a softball," he shared. "Cheer uniforms were ordered months ago, but they haven't arrived. I'm thinking of going with a different vendor because it's going to get cold. The cheerleaders need those uniforms."
Beardsley wanted to let the public know that the coaches are working hard and the supplies are getting ordered, but "it's out of our hands."
"I can't order softballs until next December. I found some in Great Britain so we're getting softballs from England. I guess it's easier to get them from England because I don't think people here in America or Ohio are working," he said.
According to a Sept. 15 article published by The New York Times, manufacturers blame the equipment shortage mostly to Covid-related issues that many companies continue to face.
Riddell, a sports equipment company in Illinois, has about 70 percent of the market share for high school helmets and about 60 percent for youth helmets. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/we-cant-even-get-a-softball-coaches-struggle-to-get-athletic-equipment-in-midst-of/article_8bb6e68c-34ef-11ed-9a89-737ef7eac358.html | 2022-09-15T16:24:35Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/we-cant-even-get-a-softball-coaches-struggle-to-get-athletic-equipment-in-midst-of/article_8bb6e68c-34ef-11ed-9a89-737ef7eac358.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a device to effectively remove earwax and other debris from the ears," said an inventor, from Brampton, Ontario, Canada, "so I invented the CLEAN EAR. My design would help to prevent the user from packing the wax against the eardrum."
The patent-pending invention provides an improved method for cleaning the ears. In doing so, it enables the user to easily remove wax and dirt from the ears. As a result, it increases convenience and safety and it offers an alternative to using a cotton swab. The invention features a practical and durable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for the general population. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Toronto sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TOR-9055, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Bloomberg Philanthropies' Greenwood Initiative announced the launch of the Black Wealth Data Center (BWDC) which will host the new Racial Wealth Equity Database. The BWDC aims to empower decision-makers – including practitioners, elected officials at all levels, and philanthropists – as well as journalists, working to improve and chronicle economic opportunity by making it easier for them to find and analyze a wide range of factors correlated to economic well-being and progress by race. This new effort will also build a network for leaders and organizations working to create economic progress for Black families and communities. The BWDC is incubated by Prosperity Now, a leading nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. focused on advancing racial and ethnic economic justice.
On the Black Wealth Data Center's website, visitors will use BWDC's Racial Wealth Equity Database to interact with wealth data by topic (assets/debt, education, employment, homeownership, and business ownership), and compare wealth data by race (Black, Hispanic, Asian, White, Other or multiple races), sex, age, education attainment, and geographic area (state, county or zip code). Over the coming months, the BWDC will continuously add datasets and functionality to the database, looking for opportunities to offer new tools for the field to better interpret racial equity data. It will also convene leaders and host events about the power of data to help drive solutions for racial wealth equity.
The need for the BWDC was explained by Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies and 108th mayor of New York City in January 2020 when he spoke in Tulsa, Oklahoma, launching the Greenwood Initiative, and addressed "the enormous obstacles that so many Black Americans have faced not only in creating wealth, but in passing assets to their children and grandchildren as generations of white families have done." He said, "I believe that we have the power to build a future where color and capital are no longer related."
Bloomberg Philanthropies' Greenwood Initiative is a national program focused on accelerating the pace of wealth accumulation for Black individuals and families and addressing systemic underinvestment in Black communities across the U.S. Through this initiative, Bloomberg Philanthropies supports and works with leaders and organizations across the country to implement, scale, and advocate for efforts that increase economic and social mobility to reduce wealth disparities in Black communities.
"Leaders and organizations across the country have been challenged by the lack of accessible and high-quality data disaggregated by race – making it difficult to assess what's working and not working in efforts to make America more equitable, what assets exist in Black communities, and what we need to do to effect change," said Garnesha Ezediaro, who leads Bloomberg Philanthropies' Greenwood Initiative. "With a commitment to continuously scan and integrate the best data into a comprehensive user-friendly source, the Black Wealth Data Center will be a resource for leaders who are working to ensure that data can be accessed more equitably, progress can be measured more precisely, and that change can come faster."
The BWDC is led by Natalie Evans Harris, who brings nearly 20 years of experience advancing the public sector's strategic use of data. She spent 16 years at the National Security Agency where she led an analytics development center and was a senior policy advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Obama administration. Most recently, Natalie co-founded and served as the head of strategic initiatives of BrightHive, a data sharing platform for users to easily and securely connect data.
"I am thrilled to lead the Black Wealth Data Center, help leverage data and technology to expedite the accumulation of Black wealth and establish partnerships with practitioners and policymakers to power the path to equity," said Natalie Evans Harris, executive director of the Black Wealth Data Center.
Bloomberg Philanthropies' Greenwood Initiative has partnered with Prosperity Now to incubate the Black Wealth Data Center because of its long legacy of work in racial economic justice rooted in data, research, and community building.
"For so long, those of us working to develop meaningful programs to address racial wealth inequities have had to use our organizations' critical resources to search for and access needed data to support our work," said Gary Cunningham, president and chief executive officer of Prosperity Now. "Prosperity Now is excited to incubate the Black Wealth Data Center. We hope it will serve as a resource for leaders seeking to solve racial wealth inequities for both the Black community and other groups who systematically experience wealth inequities."
In order to lay the foundation for new data sources and to help contextualize the data, the BWDC is currently partnering with the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, the Urban Institute, and DataKind. BWDC will create additional partnerships with a specific focus on increasing the amount of local data in its database, incorporating data from private sources, and collaborating with existing data providers to strengthen data quality.
The Black Wealth Data Center is the most recent investment made by Bloomberg Philanthropies' Greenwood Initiative, which was launched in September 2020. The first investment was a $100 million partnership with the nation's four historically Black medical schools to help ease the debt burden of approximately 900 Black medical students. The second investment was more than $6 million to those four schools to increase their mobile unit COVID-19 vaccination efforts and help ensure equitable access to vaccines within Black communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. The third investment was the Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative, a $150 million effort at Johns Hopkins devoted to addressing historic underrepresentation in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields by providing permanent funding for a sustained cohort of approximately 100 new slots for diverse PhD students in JHU's more than 30 STEM programs. The Greenwood Initiative has also partnered on programs to help local leaders prioritize economic equity agendas through Bloomberg Philanthropies' Local Infrastructure Hub and the CityStart Program at Cities for Financial Empowerment.
To learn more about the Black Wealth Data Center and the database, visit blackwealthdata.org.
Bloomberg Philanthropies invests in 941 cities and 173 countries around the world to ensure better, longer lives for the greatest number of people. The organization focuses on five key areas for creating lasting change: the Arts, Education, Environment, Government Innovation, and Public Health. Bloomberg Philanthropies encompasses all of Michael R. Bloomberg's giving, including his foundation, corporate, and personal philanthropy as well as Bloomberg Associates, a pro bono consultancy that works in cities around the world. In 2021, Bloomberg Philanthropies distributed $1.66 billion. For more information, please visit bloomberg.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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MELBOURNE, Australia and LONDON and NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TGI Sport, the global sports technology, media, and marketing company, has acquired the industry-leading virtual media solutions provider Interregional Sports Group (ISG), the company announced today. The move brings another new dimension to TGI's best-in-class capabilities and expertise across the next wave of live sports advertising and media. This acquisition deepens the leadership team with virtual media's foremost experts and pioneers. Further, it accelerates TGI's overall transformation into a technology-led, full-service global media and marketing agency. Bruin Capital and Quadrant Private Equity jointly own TGI Sport. The deal is the first since Bruin backed the company in 2021.
TGI Sport's Global CEO Martin Jolly said, "We are thrilled about this acquisition because it is emblematic of how we plan to grow TGI going forward. Instantly, our business enters a new sector - one that many believe is the future of live sports media and advertising. We do so with leading-edge capabilities and expertise. In addition, Tony and Simon are highly respected within our industry and will profoundly impact our organization far beyond leading ISG's development. Ultimately, our core business is stronger."
ISG was formed in 2015 by Tony Ragan and business partner Simon Burgess. Since, it has become a market leader in the rights sales, content creation, and distribution of virtual media through live sporting events for clients, including Serie A, La Liga, and Formula 1. The company's head office is in London. ISG also operates a Milan-based, state-of-the-art innovation lab for all its virtual media production, data analysis, client services & technology systems testing. Burgess and Ragan will now lead "ISG powered by TGI Sport" under Jolly and will also work closely with the Board.
Last spring, Bruin Capital took on joint ownership of TGI Sport, partnering with Australia-based Quadrant Private Equity (Quadrant). The vision was to accelerate TGI's evolution into an elite global agency, with proprietary media technologies as its core competencies. The addition of ISG expands the company's global presence and puts more resources against its parallel advertising (PADS) LED perimeter technology and hardware. PADS is being utilized across four continents by organizations such as UEFA, MLS, NZ Rugby, Rugby Australia, Liga MX, AS Monaco FC, and many more premier sporting codes.
"We are delighted to be able to add Tony, Simon, and the ISG team to the TGI and Bruin family," said George Pyne, Bruin Capital Founder/CEO. "They are very smart, effective specialists who we believe in and will have the full gamut of Bruin's global resources to push the business forward."
"This is a hugely exciting time for us," explains ISG's joint founder Tony Ragan. "We now have the opportunity to build on the success of the last seven years and accelerate the development of ISG into a truly global player," he added.
"This step up with Bruin and TGI will allow us to grow faster, stronger, and more boldly," adds Simon Burgess, ISG co-CEO and founder, "as the commercial and operation pioneers in virtual media, our knowhow both operationally and commercially can be significantly leveraged by the expanded group's talent, relationships and fiscal firepower...things are going to get really compelling for rights holders, media buyers and brands."
About TGI Sport: TGI Sport is a global leader in sports technology, media, and marketing, connecting sports entities and fans worldwide. The combined operations span North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and its teams support around 3,500+ events annually. TGI Sport has built relationships with many of the world's leading sporting organizations, including UEFA, FIFA, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, Mediapro, Major League Soccer, US Soccer, Ligue National de Rugby, ECB, ICC, FC Barcelona, Manchester United FC, Liverpool FC, and Juventus FC. TGI's businesses include TLA Worldwide, QMS NZ, and Sportsmate.
About ISG Interregional Sports Group (ISG) is the leader in virtual media solutions in sport. The company focuses on regionalising broadcast technology and implementing revenue strategies for some of the world's biggest sports rights-holders including the top European football competitions and the world's leading motor-racing championship. From its head office in London and operational centre in Milan, ISG provides its clients with virtual media solutions that incorporate integrated data systems, analytics and activation. Via its relationship with Italy's Liga Serie A, ISG delivers the largest and most technologically advanced, integrated virtual media sports service in the world, to all 20 Serie A clubs.
About Bruin Capital: Bruin Capital (www.bruincptl.com) is an international investment and operating company founded by George Pyne @GFPyne. Bruin specializes in working with capital partners and management teams to build best-in-class, global technology, sports, media, entertainment, and marketing companies. Bruin companies operate across five continents with 2100 employees working out of 34 offices. Bruin investors include The Jordan Company, CVC Capital Partners, Rock Ventures, NNS Chaired by Nassef Sawiris, and a prestigious group of family investment funds.
About Quadrant Private Equity: Quadrant Private Equity was first established in 1996 (firstly as Quadrant Capital) and is a leading Sydney-based mid-market private equity firm investing in companies in Australia and New Zealand. Quadrant Private Equity has raised $7 billion and 12 funds since inception. Its latest funds, QPE No. 7 and Quadrant Growth Fund 2, have $1,240 million and $530 million in equity commitments respectively for private equity investment Quadrant has extensive investment experience, having led over 80 investments in the past 11 funds (with 60 exits) across a range of sectors including retail, healthcare, media, consumer foods, financial services, eCommerce and other sectors.
Contact: Scott Novak 917 699-4142
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In his newest documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust, Ken Burns and his collaborators are revisiting some very familiar ground. Geoffrey C. Ward, who wrote the script for this new series, also wrote the Burns epic documentaries The War, about World War II, and The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, in which Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt figured prominently, as they do here. And Ward wrote The Civil War, which put Ken Burns on the map in the first place.
More than 30 years later, the structure and methods of a Ken Burns production are so familiar as to be almost comforting, and The U.S. and the Holocaust employs them all. There are celebrity voices reading the words of historical figures — this time, the voices include Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti, Liam Neeson and Werner Herzog. Photographs are used patiently and poetically, revealing new elements as they pan and zoom in and out. Music and sound effects make every moment both more real and more emotional. And a Ken Burns documentary series always starts with a clear-cut summary of things to come — provided, this time, by frequent Burns narrator Peter Coyote.
The U.S. and the Holocaust, like many Ken Burns history projects, examines his subject from the bottom up. Instead of interviewing military experts, he talks to survivors or their relatives. When historians and other experts are heard from, they discuss events from that same perspective. In this case, they try to understand, and explain, what it was like to endure Nazi atrocities — or even to believe that they were happening.
The documentary spends a great deal of time delving into the intricacies of national politics — not only in Germany, where Adolf Hitler rose from prison to dictatorial power, but in America, where waves of isolationism kept the U.S. out of the war for years. It shows that most everyday Americans were not unaware of what the Nazis were doing in Europe. Throughout the documentary, we see newspaper headlines proving that the facts indeed were out there. Yet they were questioned by many, until after the war, when concentration camps were liberated and their atrocities documented.
The opening installment, which premiers on Sept. 18, stops in the year 1938, and part two goes up to 1942. The concluding two hours cover the end of World War II, and its aftermath — the formation of Israel, the Nuremberg war trials, even the invention and introduction of the word "genocide."
It's not until the final five minutes that the story is brought fully up to date. But those final sounds and images that conclude The U.S. and the Holocaust — scenes with which we're all too familiar, of hate crimes and hate-filled marches — connect the past to the present without Coyote, or anyone else, having to say a word. Once again, Burns and company have made history come to life — and reminded us that our life, right now, is indeed history in the making.
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Gaby Moreno's "home away from home" is a small, West Los Angeles theater called Largo at the Coronet. She's been a guest singer and has performed her own show at this historic nightclub for more than 20 years.
"It just became like this place that I would just go to get inspired," says Moreno. "And my God I was so inspired! I really believe that something changed in me, how I wanted to express myself musically."
Moreno arrived in Los Angeles in 2001 and released her first album in 2008. Seven albums later, Moreno found her voice singing various Latin American music genres and a wide spectrum of American music including R&B, soul, pop, rock, country, old-time and more. Moreno is equally at ease writing and singing songs in Spanish and English.
But before she released her first album, she did not write songs in Spanish. "I think it was because when I was really young, about 13 years old, and I did this trip with my family to New York, I first discovered blues and jazz. And I remember I was obsessed with that music," she says.
During that trip, she bought a lot of CDs and took them home to Guatemala. Moreno says she would lock herself in her room and listen to Muddy Waters, and Big Mama Thornton, Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone.
"I just remember thinking there's no way I'm going to write in Spanish, I just didn't think it would sound authentic singing this style of music in Spanish, 'cause that's what I wanted to do, I want to do blues I want do jazz."
That all changed when she started playing at Largo.
Her friend, bass player David Piltch, was doing a weekly residency at the club and invited Moreno to join him with any song she wanted to sing. "And I remember him telling me, 'Hey why don't you bring a bolero?' And I was like, 'a bolero?'" she says. "I mean, really, at that point, I knew all of these boleros just from growing up in Guatemala and that my parents would play a lot, but I didn't know how to play, I don't think I'd ever sung a bolero."
Moreno went home and started listening to boleros. Then she came upon one called Quizás, Quizás, Quizás. "And that's when I first started playing that song Quizás, it was here at Largo," she says. "And I remember people coming up to me after the shows, and saying 'that kind of music, songs in Spanish, you should be doing.'"
"Gaby has immersed herself in all this American music," says fan Jackson Browne. "One of the times I saw her at the Largo, she was playing electric guitar and playing this really rock stuff, really punky, very punky kinda, you know. She gets it, she really gets to the essence of lots of different musical styles."
During one of the shows at Largo, she met the renowned composer and arranger Van Dyke Parks, whose work includes writing songs for The Beach Boys and collaborations with Randy Newman, Little Feat and Ry Cooder.
Moreno says they talked for hours. "He said to me, 'this is the music that I grew up listening to, I would play shows with my brother back in the 60s, singing corridos and rancheras and boleros, and I love this music so much, we have to do something together!'" In 2019, Moreno and Parks released the album titled ¡Spangled!. It was nominated for a Latin Grammy the following year.
Moreno says though she's been honing her craft for decades, something keeps pulling her back to her roots. And that has influenced her latest album Alegoría. She says she can hear how much she has evolved, not only as a songwriter but also as a singer.
"I feel much more connected with the songs that I'm writing and with my experience, especially my experience as an immigrant, here in the U.S.," she says. "Even after all these years, 'cause I've been here for a long time, over 20 years, I still feel that my home is Guatemala. My whole family is there."
In the song "Til Waking Light," Moreno sings in English and Spanish from the perspective of an immigrant making the treacherous journey from Central America to the U.S.
"And I personally know people that have made that crazy, crazy journey," she says. "It was really that, I was just kinda trying to think what's going on in their head. Like, how desperate must they be to like just up and leave everything they know and risk their lives just to come to a place where they'll have more opportunities and be in a safer environment."
Over the years, Moreno has shared the stage with a wide array of artists, from Tracy Chapman to Calexico to Punch Brothers. She toured the world with British actor-singer Hugh Laurie as part of The Copper Bottom Band. In 2009, she co-wrote the theme song for the TV show "Parks and Recreation." In 2020, she was named the first UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador from Guatemala.
Guitarist, pianist and producer David Garza met Moreno 18 years ago. "For a creator, a songwriter of her stature to be blessed with a voice like that, it's an unbelievable package that is a gift to anybody that comes across it," he says. "You don't usually get that kind of, the voice and the writing talent."
This month, Moreno will embark on a big tour of Europe. She'll be doing 28 shows in six weeks, covering 11 countries, including Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Ireland. One thing is for sure, Gaby Moreno will always come back to her favorite venue, Largo at the Coronet.
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NEW YORK — Kanye West says he's breaking up with the Gap.
An attorney for Kanye West, who goes by Ye, told The Associated Press that a letter has been sent to the clothing chain Thursday seeking to terminate the contract between Gap and West's company, Yeezy.
The clash comes a little over a year after Yeezy's first item— a blue puffer jacket — appeared in Gap stores. The deal was announced in June 2020.
In the letter that West's lawyer shared with The AP on Thursday, it said that Gap failed to meet obligations in the pact, including distributing merchandise to Gap store locations and creating dedicated YZY Gap stores.
"Gap left Ye no choice but to terminate their collaboration agreement because of Gap's substantial noncompliance," said Nicholas Gravante, West's attorney with Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, in an emailed statement to the AP. "Ye had diligently tried to work through these issues with Gap both directly and through counsel. He has gotten nowhere."
Gravante said that Gap's failure to comply with the terms of the contract has been costly. He said West plans to begin opening Yeezy retail stores.
West has unleashed criticism on social media against Gap as well as Adidas AG where he has a similar deal. Neither Gap nor Adidas immediately responded to requests for comment Thursday.
The San Francisco retailer had been hoping the partnership with West would resonate with customers in a period of declining sales. For Yeezy, being in more than 1,100 Gap stores worldwide would have put his brand in front of more people.
West has had a history with Gap. He worked at one of its stores in Chicago as a teenager. And he told Vanity Fair magazine back in 2015 that he wanted to be creative director for the brand.
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NEW YORK — Kanye West says he's breaking up with the Gap.
An attorney for Kanye West, who goes by Ye, told The Associated Press that a letter has been sent to the clothing chain Thursday seeking to terminate the contract between Gap and West's company, Yeezy.
The clash comes a little over a year after Yeezy's first item— a blue puffer jacket — appeared in Gap stores. The deal was announced in June 2020.
In the letter that West's lawyer shared with The AP on Thursday, it said that Gap failed to meet obligations in the pact, including distributing merchandise to Gap store locations and creating dedicated YZY Gap stores.
"Gap left Ye no choice but to terminate their collaboration agreement because of Gap's substantial noncompliance," said Nicholas Gravante, West's attorney with Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, in an emailed statement to the AP. "Ye had diligently tried to work through these issues with Gap both directly and through counsel. He has gotten nowhere."
Gravante said that Gap's failure to comply with the terms of the contract has been costly. He said West plans to begin opening Yeezy retail stores.
West has unleashed criticism on social media against Gap as well as Adidas AG where he has a similar deal. Neither Gap nor Adidas immediately responded to requests for comment Thursday.
The San Francisco retailer had been hoping the partnership with West would resonate with customers in a period of declining sales. For Yeezy, being in more than 1,100 Gap stores worldwide would have put his brand in front of more people.
West has had a history with Gap. He worked at one of its stores in Chicago as a teenager. And he told Vanity Fair magazine back in 2015 that he wanted to be creative director for the brand.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Council filed an amicus brief today in Woodhull Freedom Foundation v. United States (22-5105), a challenge to the constitutionality of the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Trafficking Act of 2017 (FOSTA), currently on appeal in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. FOSTA creates civil and criminal liability for internet service providers who allow content that "promotes or facilitates" sex trafficking. This broad and vague language has led ISPs to ban all content that could conceivably be connected to sex work, shutting down blacklist databases and making difficult for sex workers to screen clients. National Council Executive Director Andrea James said the organization supports decriminalizing sex work as "part of our effort to reimagine our communities in which people are safe and free to make their own decisions about how they earn a living." Far from stopping sex trafficking, FOSTA has made it worse by censoring communication between sex workers that kept them safe and enabled law enforcement to target predators.
The National Council represented COYOTE-RI, a sex worker advocacy organization, which conducted a survey of 260 sex workers from July to August 2022 to document the harm that FOSTA has caused. Seventy-nine percent of survey participants (N=222) report that FOSTA prevented them from using screening procedures that made them feel safe. A large majority said that FOSTA had made them scared to advocate for decriminalization – not just online but in person as well.
The National Council's Senior Legal Counsel, Catherine Sevcenko, who wrote the amicus brief, said she "was proud to help vindicate the First Amendment rights of sex workers, whose voices and expertise must be heard to find a way to end the horror of human trafficking."
Eleven other organizations that advocate for sex workers, transgender, and LGBTQUIA+ signed onto the brief.
To view the brief in its entirety, click here.
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NORMAN, Okla., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- That question is the subject of a new study being explored by researchers at the University of Oklahoma and Iowa State University. The four-year, $4 million project is funded by the National Science Foundation and will also investigate the potential byproducts and related applications of solid carbon that might result from effectively generating carbon neutral or carbon negative hydrogen energy. The study is led by Steven Crossley, the Sam A. Wilson Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, Gallogly College of Engineering, and an energy research fellow at the OU Institute for Resilient Environmental and Energy Systems.
There has been a great deal of excitement in the climate science world around hydrogen-based energy as an alternative to directly combusting fossil fuel-based sources for energy. The goal of hydrogen-energy research is to produce it cheaply, without greenhouse gas emissions and at scale from either water or hydrogen-rich organic compounds. However, there are several methods by which this conversion can take place which all come with their own benefits and costs.
Hydrogen production by pyrolysis – breaking apart natural gas into hydrogen and solid carbon – is a particularly enticing science and engineering goal, as this method produces H2 with a low carbon emission intensity footprint and has an additional benefit of creating solid carbon byproducts, with potentially high market value of their own.
"If you were to meet a significant fraction of our energy needs by producing H2 and solid carbon, that would create a huge quantity of excess solid carbon," Crossley said. "What do we do with all this carbon? How do we gain value from it? How do we benefit society? In lieu of creating new mountains and islands of solid carbon, what can we actually do?"
Currently, performance carbon materials such as carbon fibers and nanotubes are expensive to produce and so have been relegated to high-end or niche applications like making lighter cars, drones or advanced composite materials.
"Now we're talking about creating a byproduct from the energy that changes everything," Crossley said. "That means that we need to find all ways that we can use carbons and tweak them such that they benefit society in a variety of ways and we're not wasting the valuable resources that we put into the process."
They're studying many different applications, like soil amendments to sequester long-lived carbon in the environment and help crops grow and evaluating their use as water filtration systems to help clean water.
"We are investigating ways to make advanced pavements and asphalts, materials for batteries and fuel cells, and other next-generation technologies that possibly wouldn't have made sense unless this was a byproduct from the energy industry," he added.
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From Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, Tiny Desk is celebrating Latinx Heritage Month with an "El Tiny" takeover, featuring Jessie Reyez, Susana Baca and more musicians from all corners of Latinidad.
What a way to get our second annual El Tiny series going! Omar Apollo kicks off Latinx Heritage Month with a full-band rendition of "En El Olvido," backed by Las Mariachis Lindas, as he channels a childhood spent listening to Juan Gabriel into his performance of the Mexican corrido.
In the eternal wisdom of Alt.Latino co-host Anamaria Sayre, it's not a Mexican party until someone starts crying, and Apollo embraces esta melancolía as the band slips into the easy R&B number "Evergreen." "We're about to get more sad," he says to the crowd with a grin.
Despite the heartbreak and unrequited love songs, there's a sense of ease in this Tiny Desk concert — an easy camaraderie among the group as the members sing through "Evergreen" and "Petrified" before finishing with the (slightly) more upbeat "Endlessly." El corazón puede estar adolorido, but in community, the pain never seems hopeless.
As Apollo's Tiny Desk comes to an end, he offers the audience a homework assignment for self-improvement, for putting the negative behind you and making yourself available to participate in building community: "I want y'all to think about something," he says. "I want you to go home, I want you to meditate and I want you to just burn the bridge." He laughs. "I'm playing!" But as his and the band's joyful energy attests, in the world of Omar Apollo, there's only room for building each other up.
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This is the sixth consecutive time that Paychex has been recognized as an industry leader
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NelsonHall, a global analyst and research firm, has once again identified Paychex, Inc., a leading provider of integrated human capital management software solutions for human resources, payroll, benefits, and insurance services, as a "Leader" in its 2022 NelsonHall Vendor Evaluation and Assessment Tool (NEAT) report for payroll service providers. This is the sixth consecutive time Paychex has been positioned in the upper right quadrant of the NEAT graph with a leader designation.
Liz Rennie, NelsonHall's HR Technology & Services Research Director, said "Paychex is a Leader in the Comprehensive Payroll Capability and Digital Payroll Capability market segments, clearly demonstrating that it can change with the times through constantly improving and offering additional tools for payroll quality and compliance. Its payroll technology is one of the most advanced, bringing benchmarks as well as digital service enablement, and is complemented by a highly responsive and high-quality customer support model. Paychex clients benefit from having improved insights and greater visibility of data as well as improved accuracy and timeliness of payroll."
NelsonHall's 2022 NEAT report evaluated 24 payroll services vendors based on two criteria: (1) ability to deliver immediate client benefits and (2) ability to meet clients' future requirements. Paychex was positioned highly in the "Leader" category, fulfilling both criteria.
"We are proud of our 50-year track record of successfully helping American businesses pay their employees through simple and intuitive technology and highly professional services," said Tom Hammond, vice president of corporate strategy and product management at Paychex. "Receiving recognition from firms like NelsonHall is another indication that we are building on our payroll foundation to offer innovative services that not only meet the current needs of our customers but offer solutions that will address future business challenges."
Over the past year, Paychex has added several new payroll features to its comprehensive HCM platform Paychex Flex®. These additions include:
- Paychex Pre-Check, which allows employees to preview their paycheck on a device of their choice to confirm its accuracy before payday.
- Compensation Summary Reports, which allows employees to view their compensation, including health insurance contributions, retirement contributions, bonuses, and other benefits.
- Diversity and Equal Pay Live Report, which builds on the company's recently released EEO-1 compliance solution to enable administrators to analyze pay and diversity data.
- Paychex Flex Labor Cost Hub, which offers customers and CPAs a holistic view of payroll labor job cost and labor distribution to highlight the long-term impact of pay decisions.
These new features help drive payroll efficiency for business leaders with varying needs, whether they are HR managers charged with recruiting and retaining talent or business managers looking to save time with administrative tasks. Employees can also benefit from the flexibility of payroll solutions within Paychex Flex®.
Attendees of the 2022 HR Technology Conference & Expo, September 13-16, in Las Vegas can stop by the Paychex booth (#3410) to learn more about how Paychex HCM solutions, including payroll, work in conjunction with support from industry-leading HR coaches and best-in-class service to deliver a superior customer experience. Paychex experts will also present two in-person educational sessions during the conference highlighting the technology solutions available for today's HR professionals and how businesses can make decisions with HR analytics and reporting. For a complete overview of how to connect with Paychex at HR Tech, visit https://pages.paychex.com/HR-Tech-Fall-2022.
NelsonHall is the leading global analyst firm dedicated to helping organizations understand the 'art of the possible' in digital operations transformation. NelsonHall provides buy-side organizations with detailed, critical information on markets and vendors (including NEAT assessments) that helps them make fast and highly informed sourcing decisions. And for vendors, NelsonHall provides deep knowledge of market dynamics and user requirements to help them hone their go-to-market strategies. NelsonHall's research is based on rigorous, all-original research, and is widely respected for the quality, depth, and insight of its analysis.
Paychex, Inc. (NASDAQ: PAYX) is a leading provider of integrated human capital management solutions for human resources, payroll, benefits, and insurance services. By combining innovative software-as-a-service technology and mobility platform with dedicated, personal service, Paychex empowers business owners to focus on the growth and management of their business. Backed by 50 years of industry expertise, Paychex serves more than 730,000 payroll clients as of May 31, 2022 in the U.S. and Europe, and pays one out of every 12 American private sector employees. Learn more about Paychex by visiting www.paychex.com and stay connected on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Phase one of ServMan enhancements include a new mobile application and expanded API integration with 24/7 sales contact center, Slingshot by WorkWave
HOLMDEL, N.J., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WorkWave®, a leading provider of SaaS software solutions that support every stage of a service business's life cycle, has announced increased investment in the modernization of ServMan, its core ERP software solution for the HVAC, plumbing and electrical industries. This investment will allow ServMan to continue to be at the forefront of these industries with a multi-phased modernization approach as well as integration with Slingshot by WorkWave, a 24/7 sales contact center for service companies.
"The market has a clear need for what ServMan delivers — there simply is no other effective solution available for service companies performing this type of work," says WorkWave CEO David F. Giannetto. "Our top priority at WorkWave is to continue to update, modernize and fill every gap in our software portfolio so that every one of our customers has the right tools they need to propel their business forward, which puts ServMan on track to deliver even more value well into the future."
The first wave of modernization arriving in Q4 2022 will deliver an entirely new, device-native mobile platform that allows field technicians to improve efficiency, as well as their job satisfaction. It also includes a new set of flexible APIs and an integration into Slingshot by WorkWave, a solution WorkWave acquired in 2021. Slingshot is a comprehensive sales and answering service for home and commercial field service providers, and is already in use with key ServMan clients. The fully integrated solution will meet the increased demand from ServMan customers, allowing Slingshot agents to respond to service inquiries in real time, resolving customer needs on the first touch at any time during the day, even during peak season or spikes in inbound call volume when missed calls equal missed revenue.
"Through this integration, we are covering both inbound customer calls and new sales leads, making it easier for our customers to grow. With the majority of leads happening over the phone, often after hours or all at one time during weather anomalies, we are able to ensure that Slingshot converts these leads into customers, scheduling these service calls in real time, to increase both customer satisfaction and sales growth," says Giannetto.
To learn more about ServMan by WorkWave, visit our website.
For nearly 40 years, WorkWave has been building best practices into its market-leading field service and last mile software solutions to allow best-in-class companies to grow their business, service their customers and maximize their money. Its solutions empower service-oriented companies to reach their full potential through scalable, cloud-based software solutions that support every stage of a business life cycle, including marketing, sales, service delivery, customer interaction and financial transactions. WorkWave is a trusted partner for thousands of customers across a wide variety of industries, including pest control, lawn care, cleaning, HVAC, plumbing and electrical, and last mile delivery. WorkWave's award-winning culture and solutions have been recognized in the SaaS Awards, the Cloud Awards, the American Business Awards, the NJBIZ Best Places to Work Awards, and the Stevie Awards for Great Employers. For more information, visit workwave.com.
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Available in-store and online, the dog-focused collection features a variety of Willy Wonka-themed toys and apparel
PHOENIX, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PetSmart, in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, is providing dog parents and their pups a chance to find their own golden ticket with the launch of an all-new Willy Wonka collection. Developed by Fetch for Pets, the exclusive collection is available now in PetSmart stores nationwide and online.
Apparel and toys based on iconic characters and moments from the beloved "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" film that has charmed generations of audiences come to life in an all-new way in this collection. Dogs and their parents can now immerse themselves in the spectacular story of Charlie Bucket with a golden ticket plush toy, an Everlasting Gobstopper toy, Oompa Loompa and Willy Wonka apparel, and more.
"We'll do anything for pets, and one of our favorite ways to do that is by giving pets and their parents magical moments they can enjoy together," says Kristin Shane, senior vice president and chief merchandising officer at PetSmart. "Our new Willy Wonka collection is the perfect way for pet parents to find their own golden ticket, experiencing this beloved story with their furry family member in a new way."
The full Willy Wonka collection at PetSmart includes:
- Willy Wonka and Charlie plush dolls
- Golden Ticket plush toy
- Oompa Loompa and Willy Wonka costume sets
- Oompa Loompa Rope plush toy
- Everlasting Gobstopper toy
- Fizzy Lifting Drink plush toy
- Violet, Augustus and Veruca plush dolls
To celebrate the new Willy Wonka collection, PetSmart Doggie Day Camps will host Howl-O-Ween at Wonka's*, a one-day-only Wonka-themed Doggie Day Camp experience on Oct. 27. This ultimate play date will immerse dogs into the playful world of Willy Wonka. For an additional $10 with any PetSmart Doggie Day Camp reservation, playdate participants will receive a plush golden ticket take-home toy, a dog-friendly treat bag, a photo in front of a custom Willy Wonka backdrop and doggie ice cream.
For more information on the exclusive Willy Wonka collection and Howl-O-Ween at Wonka's, available only at PetSmart, visit PetSmart.com.
*Howl O' Ween at Wonka's playdate is available with your paid day of play. Add the Ultimate Playdate to your pup's day of play for an additional $10.00 and receive an exclusive Willy Wonka take-home toy and a dog-friendly treat bag. Doggie Day Camp is available at select store locations. Space may be limited. Pet age, health & vaccination requirements apply. Breed restrictions apply. At the sole discretion of PetSmart, some pets may not be permitted.
PetSmart LLC is the leading pet retailer offering products, services and solutions for the lifetime needs of pets. At PetSmart, we love pets and we believe pets make us better people. Every day with every connection, PetSmart's passionate associates help bring pet parents closer to their pets so together they can live more fulfilled lives. This vision impacts everything we do for our customers, the way we support our associates and how we give back to our communities.
PetSmart operates approximately 1,660 pet stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, as well as more than 200 in-store PetSmart PetsHotel® dog and cat boarding facilities. We provide a broad range of competitively priced pet food and products, as well as services such as dog training, pet grooming, pet boarding, PetSmart Doggie Day Camp™ and pet adoption.
PetSmart, PetSmart Charities® and PetSmart Charities® of Canada work with nearly 4,000 animal welfare organizations to bring adoptable pets into stores so they have the best chance possible of finding a forever home.
Through this in-store adoption program and other signature events, PetSmart has facilitated over
10 million adoptions, more than any other brick-and-mortar organization.
Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP), part of Warner Bros. Discovery Global Brands and Experiences, extends the company's powerful portfolio of entertainment brands and franchises into the lives of fans around the world. WBCP partners with best-in-class licensees globally on an award-winning range of toys, fashion, home décor, and publishing inspired by Warner Bros.' biggest franchises from DC, Wizarding World, Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera, Game of Thrones, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. With innovative global licensing and merchandising programs, retail initiatives, and promotional partnerships, WBCP is one of the leading licensing and retail merchandising organizations in the world.
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Hollis M. Greenlaw, Theodore F. Etter, Benjamin L. Wissink, and Cara D. Obert improperly used shareholder assets to pay more than $65 million in legal fees and indemnification expenses
NexPoint files motion to enjoin defendants from requesting and/or otherwise using UDF IV's assets to pay legal fees incurred in appeal of criminal convictions or any other matter to which they are a party
DALLAS, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NexPoint Advisors, L.P., (together with its affiliates "NexPoint"), a Dallas-based alternative investment firm, today announced that it has filed a motion for preliminary injunction in Dallas State District Court related to United Development Funding IV ("UDF IV"), a real estate investment trust in which NexPoint is a significant shareholder. NexPoint seeks the injunction to prevent defendants from continuing to improperly use UDF IV's assets to pay legal fees incurred in the appeal of their criminal convictions.
The motion names the following as defendants: UMTH General Services, L.P. (the "Advisor"), UMTH Land Development L.P. ("UMTH Land"), UMT Holdings, L.P. ("UMTH Holdings"), Hollis M. Greenlaw, Theodore F. Etter, Benjamin L. Wissink, and Cara D. Obert (collectively "Defendants"). UDF IV is managed and controlled by Defendants. The individual Defendants have at all times controlled and exclusively managed the entity Defendants.
In January 2022, Mr. Greenlaw, Ms. Obert, and Mr. Wissink were convicted on ten counts of securities, wire, and bank fraud in conjunction with operating UDF IV (and other UDF funds) as a Ponzi scheme. They are currently serving five- to seven-year prison sentences. The Defendants are using their status within the Advisor to cause UDF IV to pay their significant legal fees in connection with the criminal case and possibly other litigation. To date, Defendants improperly used shareholder assets in UDF IV to pay what is believed to be more than $65 million in legal fees and indemnification expenses. NexPoint believes this practice continues to this day as the three felons are appealing their convictions but using UDF IV to pay for their lawyers.
"The UDF 'web of companies' has been set up in a purposefully complex and obtuse manner in order to maximize control in the hands of a few individuals (the individual Defendants) while hiding their operations," said D.C. Sauter, General Counsel, NexPoint. "The Defendants have engaged in egregious acts of misconduct and despite their convictions continually seek to benefit themselves at the expense of shareholders, with the active consent of UDF IV independent trustees. On behalf of fellow shareholders, we believe the time has come to put an end to this outrageous behavior."
UDF IV's activities have in the past, and continue to be, controlled, managed, and conducted by UMTH General, as its advisor, and by the Advisor's officers and employees, including the individual Defendants. The Advisory Agreement clearly provides that UMTH General is in a fiduciary relationship with the shareholders of UDF IV. The Agreement also prohibits indemnification for allegations of securities law violations except in limited circumstances not applicable in this case. NexPoint's motion seeks to put a stop to Defendants requesting and using indemnification from UDF IV to cover significant legal fees and expenses in connection with the criminal case and possibly other litigation.
The full motion can be found here and is part of NexPoint's ongoing efforts to hold accountable those individuals and entities that have perpetuated the massive multi-year deception and fraud at the expense of UDF IV shareholders.
NexPoint Advisors, L.P. is an SEC-registered adviser on the NexPoint alternative investment platform. It serves as the adviser to a suite of funds and investment vehicles, including a closed-end fund, interval fund, business development company, and various real estate vehicles. For more information visit www.nexpoint.com
Contacts
Lucy Bannon
Chief Communications Officer
lbannon@nexpoint.com
Cristina Martinez
Prosek Partners for NexPoint
cmartinez@prosek.com
Jackie Graham
Director, Investor Relations and Capital Markets
jgraham@nexpoint.com
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