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The king’s speech, delivered to the nation by King Charles III soon after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, was the most important address of Charles’s life.
Speaking from the Blue Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace, where the queen addressed the nation for many of her Christmas messages, the new king was understandably emotional. It had been barely 24 hours since his beloved mother had passed away peacefully at Balmoral, the Scottish residence she so loved and where she wanted to die.
A brilliant orator—even at times of heightened emotion—thanks to many years of royal training, Charles—the most experienced king this country will ever have—gave an address that was perfectly pitched; a moving and heartfelt tribute to his ‘darling mama’ and a genuine thank-you to the nation for its support through the moment he confessed he had been dreading.
It was also an important insight into the future—from his decision to end his speech with a line from Hamlet, to his announcement that he had conferred the title of Prince of Wales to his eldest son, William (meaning Kate Middleton is the Princess of Wales), to the olive branch in expressing his love for Harry and Meghan Markle. And we can deduce from his comment about duty that he plans to reign his entire life, quashing any speculation that he might hand over the reins to his son: “As the queen herself did with such unswerving devotion, I, too, now solemnly pledge myself, throughout the remaining time God grants me, to uphold the constitutional principles at the heart of our nation.”
As the royal family and the world come to terms with the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the gaze inevitably turns to the future. And while it appears King Charles III has the support of his people, his path is not guaranteed to be a smooth one. Consider Charles’s woes. Closest to home are: his youngest son and daughter-in-law’s familial abdication and the complete disgrace of his brother Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, who has been stripped of his honorary titles and royal role. Charles is said to desperately want to reconcile with his son Harry, but it remains to be seen if the rift which caused the queen so much upset will ever be truly resolved. Charles and William, however, are unified in the decision that Prince Andrew will never represent the family on the public stage again.
And there’s the Commonwealth. Charles’s accession is the moment when many countries and realms will consider, and possibly reconsider, their own futures. As sovereign of those realms, the queen was venerated, celebrated. But there are many people in countries like New Zealand and Australia who feel the need for a hereditary monarchy, with its seat thousands of miles away on another continent, dies with her.
Charles is acutely aware that the future of this voluntary group of nations is uncertain, and he has said it is “‘a matter for each member country to decide.” But what worries him more than any of this, according to my sources, is the existential threat to the United Kingdom posed by the Scottish independence movement. “His absolute preoccupation is keeping the union intact,” according to a close friend. “His view is that if he ends up being the King of England, then the kingdom would be diminished and it would become a huge issue in terms of our global status.” In so many ways, this could hardly be a more perilous period for the new Charles III.
It is why after Charles was officially proclaimed king by the Accession Council, he conducted a tour of the four corners of the United Kingdom, including Scotland, where the queen lay in state at St. Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh for around 24 hours before her body was flown home to England.
It was significant that by Charles’s side at his accession was his heir apparent, who observed every moment diligently knowing that his turn would be next.
In contrast to Charles, who is already well into his 70s, William is likely to begin his reign in midlife, with Kate by his side. Along with George, Charlotte, and Louis, the family presents a more youthful and vibrant vision of monarchy, just as the young Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip once did. No royal documentary is complete without throwback snaps or grainy footage of the original royal superstars and their children. Back in the ’50s and ’60s, they could be seen larking about with toy carts at Balmoral, burying each other in the sand of Holkham Beach near Sandringham, and skidding along waterslides on the deck of the Royal Yacht Britannia.
It will be down to the Waleses to find a way to reawaken that deep old magic, offering a sense of continuity along with their modernity. Showing off their photogenic family, as they are doing more and more, is one way of accomplishing just this. George, Charlotte, and Louis, who had starring roles at the Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June, are being raised by their parents with an awareness of their positions and the roles they will one day carry out in support of the monarchy. George knows that like his papa, he will one day be king, while Charlotte will likely juggle the role of being the spare with a career. Louis could well be a private citizen undertaking occasional royal duties, like William and Harry’s cousins Zara Tindall and Peter Phillips, as well as princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. Inevitably, because he is an heir, there will be more pressure on George, something William and Kate are acutely aware of. Kate is said to admire the way Prince Edward and his wife, Sophie, are raising their children—Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn—in the bosom of the royal family but prepared for life in the real world.
William and Kate, who has an in-depth knowledge of childhood through her early years work, have insisted on creating as normal an environment as they can. They recently downsized, moving from Kensington Palace into the much smaller and more discreet Adelaide Cottage in Windsor Home Park and moving their three children into the private Lambrook School in Berkshire this month. Their next move, I am told, will be into Windsor Castle. Their incarnation of British royalty looks more like today’s Spanish royal family with King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia on the throne, or perhaps Denmark’s, where Crown Prince Frederik and his Australian-born wife, Crown Princess Mary, are poised to succeed. And the appealing prospect of King William and Queen Catherine with Prince George next in line may quell any rumblings of discontent in a country reigned over by an aging King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla.
As the world comes to terms with the death of Queen Elizabeth II, attention will soon turn to King Charles’s coronation, which is expected to take place in the spring or early summer. So what do we know of the plans, reportedly code-named Operation Golden Orb? Well, his coronation is expected to be shorter and less expensive than his mother’s, and the new king wants the public to witness the experience just as they did his accession. The ceremony will likely highlight the line of succession, with William, Kate, and their children featured more prominently than other members of the family. Camilla will reportedly wear the Queen Mother’s crown, made for King George VI’s coronation in 1937, with its bewitching central diamond, the 105.6-carat Koh-i-Nûr (meaning “mountain of light” in Persian). In this way Charles will align his wife with his beloved grandmother, the last queen consort to be crowned in the UK, whose memory is still treasured by many Britons.
However, the Commonwealth will require more than royal hopes and history to hold it together. Charles is the third head of the Commonwealth and will not want to see its demise. “I imagine it is important to Prince Charles that the Commonwealth won’t die with him,” notes constitutional expert Alastair Bruce. “No one wants to be holding the institution when a significant part of its profile is taken away. That’s not going to happen in the next reign, but it’s up to the Commonwealth where it goes in the longer term.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/charles-william-family-problems | 2022-09-20T15:18:24Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/charles-william-family-problems | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jennifer Coolidge's first day of filming The White Lotus got off to a shaky start when an allergic reaction to her own spray tan sent the actress straight from the plane to the emergency room.
The actress explained to Allure in a recent interview that as she prepared for her first day on set, “I didn’t want to look like a big, white marshmallow on the beach in Hawaii, so I got a spray tan.” And it was all downhill from there. Coolidge continued, “I got on the plane, and I started to feel really weird. By the time I got off the flight, I had to go to the emergency room.”
Her allergic reaction also didn't end there, she added that while shooting the TV show, “I think we ended up using regular makeup. The minute we stopped filming, I would shower. I have such a quick reaction to stuff.” But Coolidge notes that this extreme sensitivity is also a relatively new phenomenon for her. “I was never someone who cared very much about ingredients,” she said. “Then, I'd say the last five or six years, I started getting allergic. My eyes would always be tearing up, but it never occurred to me that it was my makeup.”
Last week, Coolidge won her first Emmy for her role as Tanya McQuoid on the HBO series and it seems that in the lead up to that huge career milestone she had yet another negative reaction to a beauty product ingredient. But thankfully, this time it didn't send her to the hospital, it just made her gown for the big evening a little bit more uncomfortable. During her acceptance speech, Coolidge confessed to the audience, “I took a lavender bath tonight right before the show, and it made me swell up inside my dress.”
In an interview with Variety last month, she also told the outlet just how grateful she is that she got to be a part of such an outstanding program. “Some jobs, I'm sort of going, 'Wow, this isn't worth working for.' What [the show's creator] Mike [White] wrote, I was staying up late every night,” she said. “I have done one thing really right in my life. I've picked great friends. If Mike was never successful, and we just did White Lotus as a play in a little theater where everyone paid $10 bucks to see it, it would still be one of the greatest things that ever happened to me. Because it was a killer job that no one else thought I could do.”
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The Best Wedding Guest Dresses to Shop for the Fall Season
As invites for the autumn wedding season start to trickle in, the quest for the best fall wedding guest dresses begins. Since the early days of the pandemic, it's no surprise that in-person wedding ceremonies have revved back up. And while summer 2021 brought a slew of socially distant and outdoor-themed celebrations, indoor festivities, especially for the cooler-weather months, are back on the date books. Along with the excitement to dress up for special wedding occasions.
With summer now behind us, wedding season transcends into fall with new fashions. As we prepare to enter October and transition into cooler temperatures, it’s time to swap warm-weather ceremony styles for statement-making fall wedding guest dresses.
Whether you’re attending a black-tie affair in the city or traveling to the country for a barnyard bash, there’s a perfect fall dress for every wedding setting, personality, and style. From long-sleeve feather-trimmed dresses to sparkling embellished gowns and even some sleek knitwear pieces, prepare to be best dressed in these standout fall wedding guest dress selections.
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Graveside Service for Mr. Benny Darryl Meadows, 56, of Goodwater, will be Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 2:00 pm at the Millerville Baptist Church Cemetery. Pastor Phillip Gipson will officiate. The family will receive friends on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm at Radney Funeral Home.
Mr. Meadows passed away on Sunday, September 18, 2022 at Coosa Valley Baptist Medical Center. He was born on May 20, 1966 in Alexander City, Alabama to Benjamin Otha Meadows and Levis Askew Richardson. Benny had the sweetest soul, a wonderful sense of humor and was always complimentary of others. He was a momma’s boy and loved getting cards from her everyday.
Benny is survived by his mother, Levis Askew Richardson of Goodwater and brother, Bobby Meadows of Goodwater.
He was preceded in death by his father, Benjamin Otha Meadows; step-father, Clarence Edward Richardson.
Funeral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. Submission deadlines: Wednesday Outlook - Tuesday 2pm, Saturday Outlook - Friday 2pm, Thursday Record - Tuesday 12pm.
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The Auburn Tigers have developed a very bewildering and annoying tendency over the last decade of having at least one humiliating performance a year against an out of conference opponent. In 2015, it was Jacksonville State (no offense). In 2017, it was Mercer. In 2018, it was Southern Miss. Last year, it was Georgia State. Saturday, the Tigers struggled to beat San Jose State 24-16. Were they looking ahead to Penn State? Probably. Should it have mattered? No. Auburn repeatedly sabotaged themselves with penalties and turnovers in the first half and gave hope to an overmatched opponent. It was a disappointing and dismal performance that I have, unfortunately, come to expect. However, winning a football game on a Saturday when lots of other high-profile teams lose games to seemingly inferior teams is all that matters.
To say that Auburn's overall play in the first two games has been uneven would be somewhat of an understatement. There have been some positives like Tank Bigsby, Jarquez Hunter and the running game. There have been some negatives like four interceptions and suspect coverage in the secondary. Quite frankly, it's natural to expect lots of ups and downs in the first few weeks of the season. Especially when there are new players in pivotal positions like quarterback, center and safety. That being said, the Tigers should ideally be in the process of developing an identity by this point. Are they a running team? Are they a passing team? Are they stronger offensively or defensively? I honestly don't know.
TJ Finley trots in and runs a few plays. Then, Robby Ashford trots in and runs a play or two. Ashford runs the ball eighty percent of the time and is very effective, but only played nine snaps against San Jose State. Finley looks great throwing the ball in stretches but can't run and throws the ball to the other team far too often. I do believe Auburn has established itself as a good run defense. I like the defensive line and the depth. The secondary hasn't been nearly as impressive, and the defense as a whole isn't creating turnovers. The Tigers better figure out who they are quick, because the competition gets tougher from here on out.
Penn State will be in Jordan Hare Stadium on Saturday and present, by far, the biggest challenge of the season. The Nittany Lions got the best of the Tigers last year in Happy Valley and are favored by Vegas to do so again. I think fans tend to put too much emphasis on a single game and I'm just as guilty as anyone. I've pointed to this game for months as "the" pivotal game on the schedule.
It's certainly the biggest game in the Bryan Harsin era. A win gives Auburn a great opportunity to start the season 5-0 and prove the doubters wrong. A loss could very easily send the Tigers into a tailspin and ramp up speculation about Harsin's future. I'm sure the game will be overhyped but make no mistake it absolutely has enormous implications win or lose. Of course, if Auburn continues to play like they did against San Jose State, they won't beat anyone.
Andy Graham is a regular columnist for The Outlook.
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U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., has joined a colleague in asking a federal agency's inspector general about a report the federal government sent advanced battery technology know-how to China.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., has joined a colleague in asking a federal agency's inspector general about a report that the federal government sent advanced battery technology knowledge to China.
This past week, Barrasso along with Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Ia., sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Energy's inspector general, Teri Donaldson. In Wednesday's letter, the two lawmakers asked about an NPR news report last month about DOE apparently twice allowing vanadium redox battery technology, which was created by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, to go to recipients with operations in countries outside the U.S.
In response to these concerns, the DOE issued a general statement to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. It pointed to more recent efforts under the Biden administration to try to address such issues.
In their new correspondence, Barrasso and Ernst said China-based Dalian Rongke Power Co. Ltd. got a sublicense from DOE in 2017 to make these type of batteries in China. The politicians said Vanadis Power, a Dutch company, then got a full license in 2021.
"Vanadis plainly stated on their official website that they planned to manufacture the batteries in China. These transfers occurred while several U.S. companies, according to the NPR report, simultaneously sought the same license from DOE," according to the letter.
They went on to write that "the original licensee failed to adhere to DOE stipulations associated with the license and strengthened China’s technological standing as a result. These stipulations included a quota for domestic battery sales, as well as a requirement that the batteries be 'substantially manufactured' in the U.S."
Donaldson was asked for the DOE's IG office to take "the necessary steps to review this misconduct with an appropriate level of scrutiny and request that you report the findings of this review to us as soon as possible."
In its Thursday email to the WTE, a DOE spokesperson wrote that under the current presidential administration, "DOE closed loopholes in the law related to U.S. manufacturing requirements for federal R&D awards." R&D is shorthand for research and development. The agency's representative noted that in June 2021, DOE "issued a first-of-its-kind policy" to "ensure that all DOE funded RD&D [sic] will be substantially manufactured domestically." | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/barrasso-asks-doe-about-sending-battery-tech-to-china/article_b3260750-35eb-11ed-9e3a-b71a0cba3a0c.html | 2022-09-20T15:21:49Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/barrasso-asks-doe-about-sending-battery-tech-to-china/article_b3260750-35eb-11ed-9e3a-b71a0cba3a0c.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KENNEWICK, Wash.-
The Kennewick Parks and Recreation Department is partnering with Dino Drop-In to offer three preschool programs, starting Monday, September, 26, at the Keewaydin Community Center.
1. Preschool so fun we call it Playschool offers small-class sizes and a play-based learning environment.
2. 1, 2, 3, Rex and Me offers a mommy and me preschool experience.
3. Squeals and Wheels offers an open gym and social interaction experience. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/kennewick-parks-and-rec-dino-drop-in-offering-preschool-events/article_8a53f440-38e8-11ed-b30f-0755f08805b6.html | 2022-09-20T15:29:39Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/kennewick-parks-and-rec-dino-drop-in-offering-preschool-events/article_8a53f440-38e8-11ed-b30f-0755f08805b6.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
RICHLAND, Wash.-
The Manhattan Project National Historic Park, Bike Tri-Cities, the Reach Museum, and Wheelhouse Bike Shop are sponsoring a Ride with a Ranger Program on Saturday, October, 1, at 9 a.m.
Families are invited to join National Park Rangers and Reach Museum staff on a free, interpretive bike ride along the Sacajawea Heritage Trail from Columbia Point Marina Park to the Reach Museum.
"We are excited to offer this family-friendly ranger program and share the rich natural and cultural history of the Tri-Cities," said Hanford Site Manager Becky Burghart.
There will be two stops for presentations during the 8 mile ride.
The event is free, but registration is required. Registration opened September, 16, and closes, September, 30.
Bike Tri-Cities paid museum admission fees for all registrants. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/ride-with-a-ranger-through-tri-cities-on-october-1/article_7524489e-38e4-11ed-9ab0-77de4d834726.html | 2022-09-20T15:29:45Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/ride-with-a-ranger-through-tri-cities-on-october-1/article_7524489e-38e4-11ed-9ab0-77de4d834726.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LEWES, Del. - Delaware State Police say three New York men accused of shoplifting a large amount of copper wire from the Lowe's store in Lewes led troopers on a high-speed chase that ended when their getaway car crashed and caught on fire.
Police said that at around 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, troopers were dispatched to Lowe's, located at 20364 Plantation Road, for a shoplifting complaint. Police said two men were observed walking out of the store with a large quantity of stolen copper wire and getting into a Chrysler 300 with Florida registration. The Chrysler, operated by a third male suspect, fled the area and began traveling northbound on Coastal Highway.
Troopers observed the car traveling northbound on Coastal Highway and attempted to initiate a traffic stop. The car then made a U-turn and began traveling southbound at a high rate of speed on Coastal Highway, according to police. Troopers initiated a pursuit after the vehicle failed to stop. For the safety of the public and troopers, the pursuit was terminated. A short time later, troopers observed that the Chrysler had crashed into a guardrail on Coastal Highway just south of Milton-Ellendale Highway. The impact of the crash caused the Chrysler to catch fire. The three suspects ran away from the crash scene but troopers were able to quickly catch them near the Broadkill River.
The investigation later revealed that a Honda Accord, operated by a 34-year-old male from Frederica, Del., was traveling southbound in the left lane of Coastal Highway when the Chrysler’s front bumper struck the rear bumper of the Honda. The Chrysler then lost control and crashed into a guardrail. A piece of the guardrail then impaled the windshield of a Ford Explorer traveling northbound on Coastal Highway. A 69-year-old male of Wilmington was operating the Ford Explorer. The operator of the Honda Accord and Ford Explorer were not injured during the collision. The three suspects did sustain minor injuries from the collision. They were transported to an area hospital, where they were treated and released.
The three suspects were charged as follows:
Alexander Boysie:
- Shoplifting Over $1,500 (Felony)
- Wearing a Disguise During the Commission of a Felony (Felony)
- Criminal Mischief Over $5,000 (Felony)
- Conspiracy Second Degree (Felony)
- Resisting Arrest
Alexander was arraigned at Justice of the Peace Court # 3 and committed to the Sussex Correctional Institution on an $8,500 cash bail.
Justin Ramsaran:
Shoplifting Over $1,500 (Felony)
Wearing a Disguise During the Commission of a Felony (Felony)
Criminal Mischief Over $5,000 (Felony)
Conspiracy Second Degree (Felony)
Reckless Endanger First Degree (Felony) – 4 counts
Resisting Arrest
Numerous Traffic Charges
Justin was arraigned at Justice of the Peace Court # 3 and committed to the Sussex Correctional Institution on a $30,750 cash bail.
Ronnie Bridgelal:
Shoplifting Over $1,500 (Felony)
Wearing a Disguise During the Commission of a Felony (Felony)
Criminal Mischief Over $5,000 (Felony)
Conspiracy Second Degree (Felony)
Resisting Arrest
Ronnie was arraigned at Justice of the Peace Court # 3 and committed to the Sussex Correctional Institution on an $8,500 cash bail. | https://www.wboc.com/news/lewes-lowes-shoplifting-suspects-arrested-after-police-chase-ends-in-fiery-crash/article_871c63c4-38df-11ed-a03e-2ffc00efa411.html | 2022-09-20T15:30:26Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/lewes-lowes-shoplifting-suspects-arrested-after-police-chase-ends-in-fiery-crash/article_871c63c4-38df-11ed-a03e-2ffc00efa411.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
At the September 12 Northampton School Board meeting, board member Doug Vaughn asked to hear opinions from board members and the public on whether they feel the board should develop a policy to address transgender students.
Board President James Chuss replied that there have been no transgender policies in the state that have gone legally unchallenged by either side of the issue, and all of the school districts that did try to develop a policy were defeated.
“I believe creating a policy at this time will surely cost our taxpayers in transgender policy generated lawsuits. Our current system has served us well for the last 10 years. I don’t see a problem with it right now, and I think we’re trying to fix something that’s not broken. We are public education and provide education and resources to each and every student within the confines of the law. We follow the laws and do not create or alter the laws,” said Chuss.
If a student identifies as transgender, they are required to meet with the administration and their parents to develop a specific plan that addresses any concerns. Once the plan is developed for the student, only the student’s teachers become privy to the information.
Board member Dr. Michael Baird stated that if people want to develop a policy, they need to go to their state representatives because it is a legislative issue and not a school board issue.
Chuss chimed that Title IX is a federal statute that prohibits discrimination in government programs such as public schools on the basis of sex.
Board member Kim Bretzik stated that she wants every student to feel welcome in the district and that the district is doing this well.
All board members other than Vaughn agreed that the district has been handling this well and that a policy is not needed at this time.
Next, Kovalchik brought up the Act 34 Hearing, which is a state required public meeting to discuss the reasons for a new structure or major renovation project. Kovalchik said the architects and engineers need direction from the board to create the Act 34 Booklet that has to be advertised and eventually approved.
“We would like to get it approved in October and have the meeting November 10,” said Kovalchik.
Kovalchik added that the board is not locked into this decision and can change their mind at a future time, but that the Act 34 Hearing is a formality that all school districts are required to hold in Pennsylvania.
The board was given five options in regards to the district’s Route 329 property, building a new elementary school and closing existing schools and district buildings.
Board members Baird, Becker, Frantz, Gogel, Makary, and Chuss voted in favor of Option 5, which was to build a new elementary school and Administration Center on the district’s 329 property and close Franklin Elementary School, Moore Elementary School, the Washington Technology Building, and the Administration Building, but keep Moore Elementary School open for sections of the building for community and district use such as staff development and township meetings. Bretzik, Mentzell, and Vaughn voted in favor of Option 1, building a new elementary school on the district’s 329 property and close only Franklin Elementary School. With a majority of six votes in favor of Option 5, the administration will move forward to prepare the documents for the Act 34 Hearing.
Kovalchik noted that this does not mean the district will be building the new elementary school or renovating anything because there is still a long way to go in the process and that the board will have to make a final decision at some point. However, this is where the board stands at this time with a tentative Act 34 Hearing on November 10.
In other business, the board members had the first reading of a draft policy for streaming school board meetings, which will also require a second reading next month, before it is approved. At the previous month’s meeting, board members voted with the majority in favor of visually and audibly recording school board meetings and uploading them to the district website within 24 hours, which will be kept on the site for 30 days until the official meeting minutes are approved per state law.
Kovalchik stated that there is the option of redacting comments that violate policy or state law, such as referencing a student by name, vulgar language, or direct threats.
After questions from board members about what would qualify for redaction, board Solicitor Steven Miller and most board members were in favor of not redacting anything from the recordings. Some board members also requested that if anything is redacted, it will only be audibly redacted from the meeting when it is uploaded.
During new business personnel/voice vote and personnel/roll call vote, all agenda items including various staff transfers, leave of absences for NASD staff members, resignations, and new hires were approved unanimously.
All items under facilities, finances, and miscellaneous were also approved unanimously, aside from the Expulsion Hearing Waiver being pulled from the agenda.
During public comment, several residents expressed their appreciation of the board moving forward with streaming school board meetings. Multiple residents also expressed that they were in favor of developing a transgender policy for the safety of their children and grandchildren in order to be proactive in the event that any issues occur.
One parent expressed that studies show exercise correlates with higher test scores and suggested that outdoor exercise could help combat the low standardized test scores in the district and to help children learn and focus better.
Another parent expressed her concern with there not being a junior prom this year and stated that she has been getting the runaround when she spoke with multiple members of the administration.
Superintendent Kovalchik shared that if there’s any way for NAHS to have a junior prom, he is all for it and that he will look into this issue.
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If you’re looking for a beach vacation in paradise, it doesn’t get much more iconic than Grand Cayman’s Seven Mile Beach. Gracing numerous lists of the top stretches of sand in the Caribbean—if not the world—this quintessential shoreline is a destination in and of itself: 6.3 fully traversable miles (the name is the only thing that over-promises) of white sand and crystal waters. It makes for an epic beach walk, the ideal setting for yoga or water sports, or the perfect place for simply soaking up the sun.
But Grand Cayman and its sister islands, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, offer much more than sun and sand. With a wide range of exciting experiences, each of the islands is invitingly accessible, which makes it easy to hit the abundant natural and cultural attractions they offer, including unique forest hikes, opportunities for viewing art, and important historical sites, without sacrificing your beach time.
Here we’ve rounded up some of the top things to see and do during your visit to the Cayman Islands.
1. Connect with the Caymans’ (literal) roots
These days, the Cayman Islands’ economy might be synonymous with offshore banking, but not long ago its industry was tied up in rope woven by hand from native silver thatch palm trees. At the thatch rope industry’s peak, the Cayman Islands exported 1.3 million fathoms of rope—nearly the flight distance from Grand Cayman’s capital of George Town to New York—every year. In fact, the Cayman Islands’ silver thatches grace the country’s flag and are its official national tree.
While you can find silver thatch palms all over the islands, an excellent spot for viewing them—along with a wealth of other native flora and fauna—is along the Mastic Trail on the northern side of Grand Cayman. Retracing a more than century-old agricultural footpath, the trail winds through the Mastic Reserve, the largest (and still untouched) old-growth forest on the island.
Following the boundary between low-lying semi-deciduous dry forest and mangrove wetlands, the trail is full of massive mahogany trees, old mango and citrus trees, towering royal palms, and seasonal blooms, such as the wild banana orchid—the Cayman Islands’ national flower—which blossoms every June. Trekking the 2.4-mile route is also a birder’s dream; you’ll spot parrots, West Indian woodpeckers, and rare Caribbean doves, plus snakes, lizards, butterflies, and other wildlife.
The best way to experience the Mastic Trail is via a guided tour with the Cayman Islands National Trust, which restored the trail in the 1990s. More a storytelling session than a workout, the tour is helmed by Stuart Mailer, a botanist who helped lead the restoration project. It provides a true—though often muddy—walk on the island’s wild side.
2. Soak in the homegrown art scene
From vivid island scenery to abundant underwater life, there’s no shortage of artistic inspiration in the Cayman Islands. Many visitors, however, don’t realize that the nation has a rich visual art scene, with many artists depicting the evolution of island life over the decades.
Take in the opulent variety of styles, media, and subject matter at the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, an exhibition and gathering place dedicated to promoting homegrown artists. From pioneers such as Gladwyn K. “Miss Lassie” Bush—a fourth-generation Caymanian who taught herself to paint at age 62 (her former home is now a heritage site)—to contemporary graphic works from Wray Banker (a founder of the Native Sons Artist Collective), the collection is dedicated to preserving the nation’s cultural heritage and identity through visual art.
3. Wander through an underground wonderland
Hidden in a forest, the Cayman Crystal Caves are full of otherworldly rock formations forged by the interaction of rainwater and Grand Cayman’s foundational limestone. Here you’ll find hundreds of subterranean caverns full of massive stalagmite and stalactite crystals created by calcium deposits left over as acid in rain dissolved the limestone over millions of years.
Believed to have once been a hiding place for pirates, the Crystal Caves are now one of the islands’ unique attractions. On a 90-minute tour, you can wander through three caves that house an abundance of photogenic rock formations, making your way to the clear green subterranean pool at its center, the source of the cave system’s name.
4. Lose yourself in a colorful paradise for nature lovers
Bustling with freely roaming blue iguanas (huge, endangered lizards found only on Grand Cayman and named for the hue of their skin), kaleidoscopic parrots, and 65 acres of gardens, the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park is heaven on Earth for nature lovers.
With red giving way to pink giving way to orange, yellow, and so on, the dazzling Color Garden is arranged by hue and is a visual delight. The park features seven sections, including a heritage garden with a model of an old-fashioned island home flanked by traditional plants and fruit trees that Caymanians have used for food and shelter for generations, a boardwalk orchid garden with four native varieties among its many blooms, and a blue iguana habitat that serves as the headquarters of the island’s conservation program.
5. Take in a nighttime light show
To enjoy the best after-dark light show in the Cayman Islands, look down, not up. While on a clear night the Cayman Islands’ starry skies are certainly appealing, a much rarer display takes place below the surface of the sea in the tranquil waters not far from Rum Point on Grand Cayman’s north side.
Join a tour with Tom Watling of Cayman Kayaks, and it’s a short paddle to a quiet bay full of bioluminescent sea life. As Watling explains how the perfect combination of factors—warm water, salinity, and plant matter—produce this unique phenomenon, paddlers can splash and thump their oars to light up the water with the white and blue eruptions of illumination produced by microscopic organisms under the surface.
Tours are scheduled based on the lunar cycles, running only on the darkest nights each month for best viewing. For those who want to take in the lights minus the DIY transportation, Cayman Kayaks also offers a tour by electric boat.
6. An early morning pedal around the sleepy side of Grand Cayman
Over the past few decades, Grand Cayman has become known for its restaurant scene and the many resorts that line Seven Mile Beach. But once upon a time, the island was mostly made up of sleepy fishing villages connected by scenic coastal roadways. You can pedal back in time to those earlier days on an early morning bike tour with Eco Rides Cayman.
Eco Rides was founded by Shane Edwards, who wanted to marry his love of cycling with his passion for protecting Grand Cayman’s relatively untouched East End from development. There are no hotels or souvenir shops out this way. Instead, you’ll spend approximately three hours pedaling past colorful cottages and waving locals, stopping along the way to scope the site of the Cayman Islands’ most famous shipwreck disaster—the Wreck of the Ten Sail—photograph blowholes along the shoreline, sample local fruit, and check out the secret caves on Edwards’s family property. Tours include bike and helmet rental and a home-baked snack along the way.
7. Dive down to a submerged mountain range
Surrounded by shallow coral reefs, the Cayman Islands offer some of the best diving and snorkeling sites in the Caribbean. One of the most awe-inspiring of these submarine experiences is Bloody Bay Wall, an underwater cliff off Little Cayman that starts a little more than 20 feet below the water’s surface and plunges down 6,000 feet.
The sheer drama of this immense cliff makes for an astounding swim for advanced divers, with tropical fish, turtles, eels, stingrays, and barracudas swimming among the corals that line the wall. But you don’t have to be a PADI-certified expert diver to enjoy it. In addition to some 24 diving sites, it also features six designated areas that are appropriate for snorkelers.
8. Pay homage to freedom and democracy at Grand Cayman’s oldest—and most important—house
Pedro St. James—or Pedro’s Castle, as the locals call it—is the oldest surviving stone structure in the Cayman Islands, but that’s not what makes it so noteworthy. Pedro (pronounced Pee-dro) St. James is the most important historic site on the islands thanks to its role in the establishment of democracy.
It was here in 1831 that this island nation elected its first democratic government. Also on this site, five years later, a delegate of the Governor of Jamaica issued a proclamation to abolish slavery in the British Empire, which was read from the stone stairs of the Great House built 50 years earlier by enslaved people. In the ensuing 150 years, the building was used as a courthouse, jailhouse, and parliamentary house—and was battered down by hurricanes, fire, and an earthquake along the way—until the government purchased the site in 1991, restoring the Great House and other traditional buildings that dot the property.
Today, you can take a guided tour of this celebrated site, sample a flight of Cayman Spirits rum, and enjoy a lunch of marinated conch and red snapper pasta at the new Thatch and Barrel—an on-site restaurant launched by the team behind George Town favorite Cayman Cabana. It’s a tasty way to experience an essential aspect of Caribbean history. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/best-things-to-do-in-the-cayman-islands | 2022-09-20T15:51:10Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/best-things-to-do-in-the-cayman-islands | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HANOVER, Germany, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CATL, a global leader of new energy innovative technologies, showcases its cutting-edge technologies and product portfolio at IAA TRANSPORTATION 2022, which takes place in Hanover, Germany from September 20 to 25.
CATL's commercial application products are equipped with LFP battery system, which features long battery life and thermal stability and will offer outstanding performance in temperature adaptability, and the latest CTP (cell to pack) technology, which significantly increases the energy density of batteries and consequently the payload of vehicles. Supported by its innovative battery technologies, CATL's product portfolio highlighted at the show covers full-scenario commercial applications such as buses, heavy trucks, logistics, vessels, and construction machinery, addressing the typical challenges of high energy consumption, long-time operation and harsh environments including vibration, dust, mud water and sometimes extreme temperatures, among others, thus facilitating the electrification of transportation.
Updated module and pack solutions
Product updates in the module and pack level are the focus of this year's trade fair appearance of CATL. At the show, CATL will showcase its flagship product, the High Energy Density Pack, which is powered by the 228Ah High Energy Density Cell. Supported by CATL's CTP technology, the pack boasts an integration efficiency of 91% and a system energy density of 160Wh/kg. The pack, which can be applied to almost all scenarios, has been well received by customers of commercial vehicles, and so far more than two million High Energy Density Packs have been shipped to more than 55 countries and regions around the world.
CATL maintains its innovative momentum based on the High Energy Density Pack, and has developed two next-generation products: Gen-4 Innovative Pack and Module to Vehicle (MTV). Equipped with the latest LFP and CTP technologies, the Gen-4 Innovative Pack boasts a 7% increase of weight energy density and a 22% volume energy density increase, capable of being applied to a wide range of application scenarios. To meet the market demand for high energy density batteries, for e-buses in particular, CATL has developed MTV, which directly integrate the modules to the vehicles, achieving a system energy density of 175Wh/kg, and increases the vehicle utilization space by 40%. Further, the high-end module offers maximum safety as it can be integrated into a vehicle's roof, thereby protecting it from flood damage or thermal runaway caused by collisions.
Long service life and the economic benefits brought by it is another important factor that customers care about. CATL's newly introduced Long Service Life Pack was specifically designed for applications with long-life requirements, such as buses or heavy-duty trucks, and offers a warranty of ten years or 8,000 cycles. Its ultra-strength box structure design and LFP chemistry allow for the use in even harsh working conditions, including mining areas. In addition, the vertically arranged thermal management structure design leads to a threefold increase of the heat exchange area, thereby greatly improving the heating and insulation performance.
For low-voltage applications such as forklift trucks, golf carts and airport equipment operating in closed environments, CATL rolled out the Low-Voltage Platform Module, which is able to work in a wide range of temperatures (from -35°C to 65°C).
In addition to these products, CATL continues its innovation with regard to the material system, and have launched sodium ion batteries and two fast charging products. The energy density of CATL's first-generation sodium-ion battery cell can achieve up to 160Wh/kg, and the company has started cooperation in the commercialization of sodium-ion batteries with carmakers and energy storage providers so as to establish a preliminary industrial chain by the year 2023. The 119 Ah cell, which can be used on both BEV and PHEV, guarantees an 80% charge in 15 minutes at room temperature with the support of super electronic network and fast ion ring technology, and empowered by isotropic graphite technology, the 28 Ah cell enables 6C fast charging and 10C recharging.
Innovative business models
In January 2022, CATL rolled out its innovative modular battery swap solution EVOGO. Based on the separation of vehicle and battery, CATL considers the battery as a shared product, creating a whole new experience for the market. Customers are free to choose one or more blocks for their vehicles to meet different range requirements. Meanwhile, it is compatible with most passenger cars and logistics vehicles developed on BEV platforms.
CATL has also launched battery swapping solutions for heavy-duty trucks, and has developed standard battery swapping cabinets for heavy-duty trucks, which allows customers to flexibly choose the power capacity according to different requirements for driving range, and greatly improve the operation efficiency of heavy-duty trucks.
"We're going to advance the transportation revolution once again with our sustainable and powerful solution," said Li Xiaoning, Executive President of Overseas Commercial Application, CATL. "With our latest all-round solutions for commercial application powered by next-gen technologies, we believe we can drive the industry to develop sustainably and safely with sufficient energy, representing our commitment to electrification of transportation and energy transition."
CATL is present at IAA Transportation from September 20 to 25 in Booth B02, Hall 20, Deutsche Messe in Hannover.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In the aftermath of the global pandemic and in the midst of the Great Resignation, staffing firms around the world are faced with the pressing challenge of improving the quality of their candidates and creating and retaining a strong pipeline of talent.
"The seismic shift in hiring trends, coupled with the unprecedented demand for qualified talent, has necessarily forced our organization to become more mindful, nimbler, and more aware of the need to truly set ourselves apart," said Bill Welge, President and CEO of CGT Staffing. "Anyone leaning on traditional recruiting practices alone is going to be left behind in the modern marketplace."
CGT Staffing has made considerable investment in Artificial Intelligence (AI), digital onboarding platforms, data-driven analytics, and Candidate Relationship Management (CRM) platforms with a purpose to refine process and establish a credible balance between the qualified soft skills of its recruiters and the consistency and scope of AI and automation. "We firmly believe that one can't exist without the other," said Welge. As CGT Staffing continues to invest in innovative technologies, the organization continues to refine its focus on communication, collaboration, and problem solving in order to counter the rising skill deficit in the marketplace.
With a consistent focus on the balance between automation and interpersonal relationships, CGT Staffing is able to ensure speed and efficiency in the delivery of its candidates and the qualified identification of talent quickly. The matching of qualified personnel with the jobs best suited to their skill sets has enabled the organization to reduce the recruitment costs for its partners over the long term while delivering a superior experience for its candidates.
"Our investments are made for the dual purpose of setting ourselves apart and cementing the trust of our candidates and clients alike," said Welge. "Trust is a keystone value for us; there's nothing more important than fostering trust when it comes to realizing mutual success, whether it's the ongoing growth of a partner organization or securing the right job for a credible candidate. There's really no greater sign of success in our industry than the success of those with whom we partner."
Founded in 2009, CGT Staffing is a national full-service staffing firm based in the greater Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area.
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Acquisition bolsters Watterson's national coverage by adding locations in Florida, North Carolina, and New York
LOS ANGELES and CHICAGO, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Watterson, a leading national facility services company and a portfolio company of Highview Capital ("Highview"), today announced its acquisition of Florida Maintenance Services, Inc. doing business as Armstrong's Restoration ("Armstrong's"), a leading restoration and emergency response provider on the East Coast.
Headquartered in Malabar, Florida, Armstrong's provides mission-critical restoration, mitigation, and other emergency response services to commercial facilities across a variety of verticals. The Company operates out of three offices – Malabar, FL, Pineville, NC, and Deer Park, NY – with rapid response capabilities spanning the broader East Coast. Armstrong's has worked as a vendor partner with Watterson for several years and has a well-established track record of operational excellence.
Armstrong's leadership team, led by Phil Colaiacomo III and Adam Sibol, will join the Watterson family and continue to assist in leading Watterson's expanding location footprint. Armstrong's operations will fold into Watterson's and strengthen the company's service profile and geographic scale.
"Armstrong's has been a stalwart partner for Watterson for many years and we are extremely excited to bring their team, resources, and track record of success onto our growing platform," said Steve Peldiak, Chief Executive Officer of Watterson. "This acquisition improves our location footprint and adds a very attractive portfolio of services. Phil and Adam are fantastic leaders and highly reliable operators, and we look forward to continued operational excellence as we grow."
"Between the leadership team, location footprint, and track record of partnership with Watterson, Armstrong's is a highly strategic fit," said Steve Russell, Senior Portfolio Manager of Highview Capital. "We are excited about Watterson's positioning for the future, including continued acquisitions of complementary businesses in the restoration and facility services space nationally."
About Armstrong's Restoration
Armstrong's is a provider of restoration, mitigation, and other emergency response services to commercial customers across a variety of verticals. Armstrong's services customers across the East Coast through its three offices in Florida, North Carolina, and New York.
About Watterson
Watterson provides facility management, environmental and emergency response services to a national base of blue-chip customers. Watterson is headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, with offices across the country. For more information, visit www.wattersonefm.com
About Highview Capital, LLC
Highview Capital, LLC is an opportunistic private equity investment vehicle headquartered in Los Angeles, CA providing transformational equity. Highview leverages its creative vision and expertise to partner with management teams of leading middle-market businesses undergoing periods of transformation. For more information, visit www.highviewcapital.com.
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Passionfruit, Orange and Guava flavors take 5-hour ENERGY® fans to an Ocean Away from Ordinary
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Say "Aloha" to the newest 5-hour ENERGY shot flavor, Hawaiian Breeze. Perfect for early morning hikes or during late-night luaus, it features passionfruit, orange and guava flavors. Selected by fans, Hawaiian Breeze Flavor Extra Strength 5-hour ENERGY is available in 6-, 12- and 24-count packs on 5-hourENERGY.com beginning Sept. 6, 2022.
The makers of 5-hour ENERGY products recently held a promotion in which fans were invited to vote on one of three flavors for the next extra strength shot. Voters could also choose to write in their own flavor, but the island-inspired Hawaiian Breeze flavor was a clear winner with more than 50 percent of the more than half-million votes received.
"Our fans were very excited to have a say in the 5-hour ENERGY next flavor and cast their votes," said Jeff Sigouin, president and chief operations officer of 5-hour ENERGY. "The new Hawaiian Breeze Extra Strength 5-hour ENERGY shot will have fans ready to set sail on their next adventure with a taste that is pure paradise."
During the month of September, 5-hourENERGY.com visitors will have the opportunity to purchase an exclusive Hawaiian Breeze-themed hat from the website. The cotton bucket hat is reversible, featuring colors and designs from the newly launched flavor.
The new Hawaiian Breeze flavor will also be featured on "5-hour ENERGY Charge Up Your Summer Sweepstakes" displays and supported by national advertising in early 2023. The 5-hour ENERGY Charge Up Your Summer Sweepstakes will give customers a chance to enter to win an electric ATV. Displays with Hawaiian Breeze will be in convenience and retail stores nationwide. Additional Hawaiian Breeze-themed 5-hour ENERGY-branded merchandise will be available for fans to purchase during this promotion.
Living Essentials launched its 5-hour ENERGY brand in 2004. The effective formula is found in its iconic shot and a 16-ounce carbonated drink. Trusted by hard-working people to get them through a hectic day, 5-hour ENERGY products are widely available in convenience, grocery, retail, club stores, and online outlets.
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RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Element451, an advanced student engagement CRM for higher ed institutions, today announced that Mallory Willsea has joined the company's executive team as Vice President of Marketing and Demand Generation.
Willsea will play a crucial role in accelerating the already impressive growth the SaaS company has experienced since its founding four years ago. In July, for example, Element451 announced that it had done as much business in the first half of 2022 as it did in all of 2021.
Company leaders attribute that growth to innovative schools adopting a student-centered approach to marketing and enrollment, an approach that Element451 was built to enable.
In her decade-plus career in higher education, marketing, and edtech, Willsea has deftly aligned sales and marketing teams to achieve client and customer success.
"We are certain that Mallory's considerable knowledge and passion for higher education will allow us to serve more—and more varied—schools and their learners," said Ardis Kadiu, CEO and Founder of Element451.
For nearly a decade Mallory proved herself an invaluable member of the team at higher education marketing agency mStoner, now part of the Carnegie Company.
Her customer-centric philosophy propelled client success and earned her the position of Director of Marketing and Business Development. In that role she developed the company's robust inbound marketing program.
"Element451 has taken the idea of customer-centric to a new level, creating a student engagement CRM truly built around what students want: on-demand information, personalized messages, and seamless digital experiences," said Willsea.
"I've always been a champion for achieving better alignment with the customer in order to achieve better outcomes for all. I'm honored to be part of this growing company."
A sought-after public speaker and thought leader, Willsea has contributed substantially to the field of higher education marketing. For a decade she was the Executive Producer for Higher Ed Live and she co-founded the popular "Call to Action" blog on Inside Higher Ed.
Most recently Willsea was the Executive Vice President of Strategy and Operations at PlatformQ Education.
For more information on Element451, please visit: www.element451.com.
Element451 is an advanced student engagement CRM, providing higher ed institutions with a competitive advantage from recruitment to enrollment using AI, student behavior data, and modern marketing automation. The Element451 CRM leverages millions of behavior-based data insights to reach prospective students where they are, both in their journey and in their preferred channel to ensure the right message reaches the right student at the right time.
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Edinburgh-based Ujamaa Spice are cleaning up the spice trade
Autumn is the season of spice, when it appears in various warming recipes.
However, it seems the multi-billion-pound trade is in a bit of a mess.
Thankfully, there are people like Edinburgh-based Jawahir Al-Mauly, 29, who tells us about her new and ethical business Ujamaa Spice.
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Ethnically speaking, I am from Zanzibar – born and raised. I also grew up in Toronto, Canada and lived there until the age of 23 when I received my undergraduate degree in international development and African studies. This triggered my interest in doing something to support communities back home. I then did an MSc in social and cultural anthropology in Belgium and got to know the COO of Ujamaa Spice, Rist Van de Weyer, whose background was in agricultural sciences.
We share a passion for improvement in the majority world, specifically in Zanzibar and the agriculture sector. Due to Zanzibar's historical title of the Spice Islands, it was a no-brainer for us to support farmers to regain access to western markets. After graduating, we both moved to Scotland – him to pursue a PhD in molecular plant biology and me to gain work experience and start saving for my passion project.
With a bit of financial support, his extensive knowledge on agricultural sciences and my background in social sciences and lived experience as a Zanzibari, we felt that we were in the right place to start something.
Life also had other plans for me, including being a mother to a wee three-year-old.
Because Ujamaa Spice is so young, I also work as an on-boarding specialist at a health tech company.
What's wrong with the spice system?
With the supply chain, we estimate a minimum timeframe of two years from when spices leave the farmers to them getting to the consumer. This doesn’t count time on supermarket shelves. They’ll have changed hands multiple times and been mechanically sorted and mixed.
This traditional supply chain is ineffective, but also based on a form of neo-colonialism where concepts of hierarchy and exploitation are still practised.
Ujamaa works directly with farmers and guarantees same-year harvest to ensure quality and traceability. It's important there’s a face behind each product, so people realise they’re a human who’s worthy of receiving a sustainable income.
We feel we’re at the forefront of a revolution, similar to what happened to coffee a few years ago. According to Trade Map data, spices are the third most valued import product after coffee and tea in the UK. Since the pandemic, their consumption has grown by over 30 per cent due to perceived health benefits. Many of these spices are of questionable quality.
Do you often travel to meet your farmers?
We’re in Zanzibar regularly, most recently in March. Since our launch on August 10, we’ve almost sold out and are due a visit next week to import the next harvest. It’s important we visit the islands to guarantee quality control and see how our farmers are doing.
When we’re not in Zanzibar, we catch up with them often and it’s not always business related. Sometimes we have casual video calls to share some laughs. To me, Ujamaa Spice is more than just about selling high quality, single origin spices. We also have a story.
Ujamaa means 'togetherness' and 'familyhood'.
What are your bestsellers?
Kidichi Cinnamon, grown in the old private gardens of the first Sultan of Zanzibar. Kibeni Turmeric comes second, grown by our women’s co-operative in a small village right off the northern coast between their bananas, ginger and yams. Our Mitakawani Village Yellow Cardamom is praised for its unique almost citrusy aroma.
Each harvest varies depending on weather conditions and there might be even differences from farm to farm. We embrace the diversity of flavours and shapes that reflect the seasons and terroir. They’re far removed from stale old supermarket versions.
Tell us about Bibi’s Chai
Bibi means grandmother in Swahili, so Bibi's Chai translates to grandmother's chai.
As a Zanzibari who grew up having chai at least twice a day, you can imagine my struggle when I first moved to Canada, Belgium and the UK. I’ve tried many versions, but they never invoked the same warmth as Bibi's chai.
Our chai is my grandmother's recipe. Her name was Nuru, but we all called her habibti, which translates to ‘loved one’ in Arabic.
The spices are sourced from our partner smallholder farmer co-operatives in Zanzibar. The organic black tea comes from a tea estate high up the Usambara Mountains.
In Zanzibari households, dinner is often referred to as chai. Though food is involved, the one constant on nearly every Zanzibari dinner table is the tea. To us, chai forges a sense of community and belonging, and how it’s made is essential in understanding familial identity and heritage.
Anyone who tries a sip of Bibi's Chai seems to immediately fall in love and tell us it's the best they’ve had. I hope I'm doing you proud, habibti.
What's the future?
We are continuously in communication with our farmers to see where we can improve and help them solve environmental issues due to climate change. We are soon expanding our range and might release two more chai blends, including a caffeine-free one. We witness first-hand the impact spending a little bit more money on your spices has on people's lives and it really drives us to expand.
On the UK side of things, we hope to relocate to a commercial property in the near future as currently we pack and blend everything at home in our office.
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U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May personnel hold a 9/11 remembrance and wreath-laying ceremony on base at the Enlisted Memorial in Cape May, N.J., Sept. 11, 2022, Today, around the Coast Guard and locally here at Training Center Cape May, we remembered the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives 21 years ago in terror attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Timothy Tamargo)
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Invincible Actor Says Season 2 Complete, Season 3 Has Begun
Upon its release, Invincible quickly became a widespread sensation as the story of Mark Grayson/Invincible (Steven Yeun) received acclaim from critics and fans. After the season 1 finale streamed in April 2021, Amazon renewed the animated series for two additional seasons. With no date or plot details announced, updates on the upcoming seasons have been few and far between. However, Khary Payton, who voices Markus Grimshaw/Black Samson, revealed a huge update on the show’s progress. In an interview with The Movie Dweeb, Payton shared the good news of season 2’s completion and a promising development for season 3. Invincible actor.
“We finished season 2. We’re on to season 3,” said Payton. “But it’s so hard to say right now. There was a glut of animation studios just trying to get so much done and literally it was like, projects sitting there with a backpack full of material. They’re like, ‘Anytime you’re ready.'”
Before Payton’s interview, the last major information came in the form of a video from Yeun in the recording studio on the show’s Twitter account in April 2022.
With how many lines he has, his vocal cords really will need to be… pic.twitter.com/0Chd6KvxxQ
— INVINCIBLE (@InvincibleHQ) April 15, 2022
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The prolonged gap between seasons can be attributed to delays from animation studios, which was recently a subject of controversy at Marvel. But Payton says the time off could be a good thing in the long run.
“I am so glad they greenlit 2 and 3 at the same time because that means when 3 comes out, it will feel like just next season, and not like, a lifetime,” said Payton.
Invincible seasons 2 and 3 are currently without a release date. All episodes of season 1 are on Amazon Prime Video.
What are your major predictions for the upcoming season 2? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
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Loki Season 2 Promotes Eugene Cordero To Series Regular
The first season finale of Loki thrust Tom Hiddleston’s semi-reformed trickster god into a new timeline where not even his friend, Mobius, knew who he was. But at least Loki will have some familiar faces at the TVA offices in season 2. Deadline is reporting that actor Eugene Cordero has been promoted to series regular for Loki season 2. He will reprise his role as Casey, a low-level desk jockey for the Time Variance Authority. However, the Casey of this new timeline may not be the same man he was before. Deadline notes that Cordero’s character in the season finale was credited as Hunter K-5E.
Cordero has a leading voice role as Lt. Rutherford in Star Trek: Lower Decks. He is also a series regular on Tacoma FD. Cordero’s other TV credits include appearances in House of Lies, Other Space, Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Wrecked, and The Good Place. In film, Cordero has appeared in Kong: Skull Island, and The Mule. Cordero’s most recent movie was Easter Sunday, a comedy film with Jo Koy in the lead.
RELATED: Ke Huy Quan Joins Loki Season 2, Randall Park Returning For Ant-Man 3
Story details about the new season of Loki remain scarce. Regardless, Owen Wilson will be back as Mobius M. Mobius, alongside Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ravonna Renslayer, Sophia Di Martino as Sylvie, and Tara Strong as the voice of Miss Minutes. Ke Huy Quan and Rafael Casal will join the cast in season 2. So far, there’s no word on whether Jonathan Majors’ Kang will appear. Majors guest starred as a variant of Kang, He Who Remains, in the first season finale. It was his death that led to the Marvel multiverse.
Eric Martin is writing all six episodes of Loki season 2, which will be directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Disney+ hasn’t set a season premiere yet, but it’s expected to return in mid-2023.
Are you looking forward to the return of Eugene Cordero in Loki season 2? Let us know in the comment section below!
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U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May personnel hold a 9/11 remembrance and wreath-laying ceremony on base at the Enlisted Memorial in Cape May, N.J., Sept. 11, 2022, Today, around the Coast Guard and locally here at Training Center Cape May, we remembered the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives 21 years ago in terror attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Timothy Tamargo)
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U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May personnel hold a 9/11 remembrance and wreath-laying ceremony on base at the Enlisted Memorial in Cape May, N.J., Sept. 11, 2022, Today, around the Coast Guard and locally here at Training Center Cape May, we remembered the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives 21 years ago in terror attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Timothy Tamargo)
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California mother of two was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison for faking her own kidnapping so she could go back to a former boyfriend, which led to a three-week, multi-state search before she resurfaced on Thanksgiving Day in 2016.
Sherri Papini, 40, pleaded guilty last spring to staging the abduction and lying to the FBI about it. As part of a plea bargain, she is required to pay more than $300,000 in restitution.
Probation officers and Papini’s attorney had recommended that she spend a month in custody and seven months in supervised home detention, while prosecutors wanted her to serve the eight months behind bars. But Senior U.S. District Judge William Shubb said he opted for an 18-month sentence in order to deter others.
The judge said he considered the seriousness of the offense and “the sheer number of people who were impacted.” They included law enforcement officers who searched for her, the community that believed her for four years, those who lived in fear because of her fake story of being abducted by two Hispanic women, and the Latino community that was falsely viewed with suspicion.
“The nation is watching,” Shubb said, paraphrasing prosecutors’ argument in a court filing. “They need to be sent the right message. …We have to make sure crime doesn’t pay.”
Papini quietly answered, “Yes, sir,” when the judge asked if she understood the sentence. Previously, she choked back tears as she gave a statement to the court accepting responsibility and admitting her guilt.
She didn’t speak to reporters as she was surrounded by more than a dozen supporters outside the courtroom, some of whom hugged her tightly. They included her husband’s sister, with whom she has been living she split with her husband, who filed for divorce and sought custody of their children after she pleaded guilty.
Speaking briefly outside of the courthouse after the hearing, defense attorney William Portanova called it “a fair sentence, even though it’s longer than we wished.”
His client was ordered to report to federal prison on Nov. 8. Shubb ordered her to serve 36 months of supervision after her release, a year longer than probation officers had sought. The twin charges carried a maximum possible sentence of 25 years in prison.
“Obviously the court did what it thought was right, and frankly it’s difficult to argue with the justice of the sentence,” Portanova said. “I’m not really surprised because I understand the court’s analysis. … To the extent the judge wanted to underline the wrongness of her actions and tattoo it further on her soul, he accomplished that for sure.”
Papini has never given a rational explanation for her behavior, which included months of careful planning before she disappeared and temporarily abandoned her children, who are most precious to her, Portanova said. Her actions stumped even independent mental health experts who said they didn’t conform with any typical diagnosis.
Portanova blamed it on “what sounds like a fierce storm that was going on for a long time inside her head” but said she is now a changed woman.
Papini offered no explanation during her brief, tearful comments to the judge before she was sentenced.
“I’m so sorry to the many people who have suffered because of me,” she said.
“I am guilty, your honor. I am guilty of lying. I am guilty of dishonor,” she said. “What is done cannot be undone. It cannot be erased.”
But both the judge and Assistant U.S. Attorney Veronica Alegria said her comments were simply more manipulation.
“At this point she would say and do anything to mitigate her punishment,” Alegria told Shubb. “This case is serious and there have been very real harms to society.”
“There was a community that lived in fear. … Miss Papini took money from real victims,” Alegria said. “Victims of crimes may not believe they will be believed by law enforcement because of this hoax.”
Shubb said Papini’s case “is unique, to say the least,” with little precedent to guide him on sentencing.
“Miss Papini is a manipulator,” Shubb said. “It’s not as if Miss Papini has seen the error of her ways….If she had not been caught, she’d still be living the lie.”
Portanova said in a pre-sentence court filing that Papini was “in pursuit of a non-sensical fantasy” when she fled to a former boyfriend in Southern California, nearly 600 miles (966 kilometers) south of her home in Redding. He dropped her off along Interstate 5 about 150 miles (240 kilometers) from her home after she said she wanted to go home.
Passersby found her with bindings on her body, a swollen nose, a blurred “brand” on her right shoulder, bruises and rashes across her body, ligature marks on her wrists and ankles, and burns on her left forearm. All of the injuries were self-inflicted and were designed to substantiate her story.
The wounds were a manifestation of her “unsettled masochism” and “self-inflicted penance,” Portanova wrote. And once she began, “each lie demanded another lie.”
After her arrest in March, Papini received more than $30,000 worth of psychiatric care for anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. She billed the state’s victim compensation fund for the treatment and was ordered to pay it back as part of her restitution.
As part of the plea agreement, she has agreed to reimburse law enforcement agencies more than $150,000 for the costs of the search for her and her nonexistent kidnappers, and repay the $128,000 she received in disability payments since her return.
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Illinois Congressional leaders speak out on the VA offering abortion care in certain cases
Earlier this month, the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs made the announcement.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs announced in early September it would amend its medical regulations for veterans and their beneficiaries to include abortion counseling and allow abortions in certain cases including when a pregnant veteran’s life is at risk, or in instances of rape and incest.
The announcement follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in June to overturn Roe vs. Wade. That struck down a woman’s right to an abortion as protected by the Constitution.
As a veteran, Senator Tammy Duckworth supports this decision. Duckworth says it’s important these types of medical services are still provided for women in the Armed Services specifically, since she says most veterans don’t personally choose the state where they end up living.
“We, the American people, sent them there to serve us when they were protecting and defending us in the military,” said Duckworth. “I think that’s a component that people don’t understand which is why this decision by the VA is so important because it gets healthcare to the Veterans wherever they are in this country.”
Illinois Congressman Mike Bost doesn’t support the VA’s decision. Bost called it “contrary to longstanding, settled law.” In a statement, he says in part: “I oppose it and am already working to put a stop to it.”
In a House Committee on Veterans Affairs hearing on Sept. 15th, Bost said he is working with his colleagues on “the Appropriations Committee and in the Senate to consider sanctions against V.A. for violating the Anti-Deficiency Act.” Bost went further to say “Abortion is not health care – no matter what those on the other side of this issue may feel.”
With the option to provide abortion care services now in the hands of states, this decision by the VA will override state law in the case of Veterans.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA lander on Mars has captured the vibrations and sounds of four meteoroids striking the planet’s surface.
Scientists reported Monday that Mars InSight detected seismic and acoustic waves from a series of impacts in 2020 and 2021. A satellite orbiting the red planet confirmed the impact locations, as far as 180 miles (290 kilometers) from the lander.
Scientists are delighted by the detections — a first for another planet.
The first confirmed meteoroid exploded into at least three pieces, each leaving its own crater. An 11-second audio snippet of this strike includes three “bloops,” as NASA calls them, one of sounding like metal flapping loudly in the wind here on Earth.
“After three years of InSight waiting to detect an impact, those craters looked beautiful,” Brown University’s Ingrid Daubar, a co-author of the research paper in the journal Nature Geoscience, said in a statement.
The InSight team expected to pick up numerous meteoroid strikes, given Mars’ proximity to the asteroid belt and the planet’s thin atmosphere, which tends to keep entering space rocks from burning up. But the lander’s French-built seismometer may have missed impacts because of interfering noise from the Martian wind or seasonal changes in the atmosphere. Now scientists know what to look for, according to NASA, likely resulting in a surge of detections.
“Impacts are the clocks of the solar system,” French lead author Raphael Garcia said in a statement from the Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space in Toulouse. “We need to know the impact rate today to estimate the age of different surfaces.”
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TORONTO, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Nulogy, a leading provider of collaborative supply chain solutions, today announced that two of the company's senior leaders, Josephine Coombe and Christine Barnhart, were named recipients of Supply & Demand Chain Executive's 2022 Women in Supply Chain Awards.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive's 2022 Women in Supply Chain list honors female supply chain leaders and executives whose accomplishments, mentorship and examples set a foundation for women in all levels of a company's supply chain network.
As Nulogy's Managing Director, UK, Josephine Coombe launched Nulogy's operations in Bristol in 2020, and currently leads its regional European operations. Leveraging her extensive senior executive experience in enterprise software, Coombe has demonstrated a commitment to helping Nulogy's current and prospective customers (including contract packagers, third-party logistics providers (3PLs) and consumer brands) garner the most value out of cloud-based software for their business operations.
As Vice President, Product Marketing and Go-To-Market, Christine Barnhart focuses on Nulogy's new product initiatives, working closely with the company's product, marketing, and sales teams. Barnhart's previous roles include Vice President, Product Strategy and Go-To-Market at Verusen and Senior Director of Product and Industry Market Strategy for Infor. Barnhart additionally leverages her extensive background in building and managing manufacturing supply chains in appliances and consumer products to bring the voice of the customer into product development.
"I am thankful for the recognition by Supply & Demand Chain Executive, and I look forward to furthering the dialogue around digitalization and change management with contract packers and 3PLs across the UK and continental Europe," says Coombe. "I strongly believe technology can alleviate increasing labor constraints for these businesses, help address inflation through improved cost control, while delivering great value to their bottom line."
"I am excited to be honored amongst so many other great leaders, and I am equally excited to contribute to Nulogy's vision of what the supply chain can and should be," says Barnhart. "The team at Nulogy is breaking new ground, and I'm excited to be part of it."
"This award, the winners and those who submitted nominations—both men and women—is a testament that supply chain organizations were already recognizing their female leaders; they just needed a better platform," says Marina Mayer, Editor-in-Chief of Supply & Demand Chain Executive and Food Logistics. "I'm so proud of everyone who participated, both men and women. I'm proud to interview them, support them and help promote their journey."
Click here to view the full list of 2022 Women in Supply Chain winners.
Nulogy, a leading supplier of digital supply chain solutions, enables consumer brands and their supplier communities to collaborate on a multi-enterprise platform to deliver with excellence to an ever-changing consumer market. The Nulogy Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Business Network Platform optimizes contract manufacturing and co-packing operations, while empowering consumer brands and their external suppliers to accelerate network responsiveness and collaborate at the speed of today's market. For more information about Nulogy, visit nulogy.com.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the only supply chain publication covering the entire global supply chain, focusing on trucking, warehousing, packaging, procurement, risk management, professional development and more. Supply & Demand Chain Executive and sister publication Food Logistics are also home to L.I.N.K. podcast channel, SCNSummit.com, SupplyChainLearningCenter.com, the Women in Supply Chain Forum and more. Go to www.SDCExec.com to learn more.
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NanoMosaic Nanoneedle Technology Identifies Serum Biomarker of Delirium After Cardiac Surgery
BOSTON, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With NanoMosaic's nanoneedle technology, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School detected Tau and phosphor-Tau proteins in serum samples from patients under major cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. Elevation of Tau and phosphor-Tau proteins were observed before and after the surgery, and Tau protein is identified as a potential serum biomarker of delirium after cardiac surgery. The study has been published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia.
Postoperative delirium can have both short-term and long-term effects on cognitive function and attribute to $32.9 billion healthcare costs in the United Sates every year. Evaluation of delirium is based solely on a cognitive test today: no serum or plasma biomarkers have been identified and validated for clinical applications. In an earlier study on plasma published in Annals of Surgery this year, pre-operative phospho-Tau217 in plasma were detected using nanoneedle technology and identified as a potential predictive biomarker for postoperative delirium with high sensitivity and specificity. The two studies, both using nanoneedle technology on the Tessie™ platform, paved the way for clinical applications of Tau and phosphor-Tau biomarkers for post-operative delirium in plasma and serum.
Blood-based tests have clear advantage in clinical settings over positron emission tomography (PET) scan or cerebral spinal fluid analysis, often used as highly specific and accurate detection for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Assay sensitivity and precision are among the major hurdles in the development and validation of plasma and serum biomarkers.
"The Tessie™ platform improves the sensitivity and precision of immunoassay by detecting and counting single molecules using arrays of nanoneedles fabricated on a chip", said Dr. Qimin Quan, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of NanoMosaic. "The ability to integrate and read high density nanoneedles at an ultra-small footprint both minimizes the sample volume and increases the detection precision, enabling researchers to see low-abundance proteins in the precious samples," Quan concluded.
"The wide dynamic range of the Tessie™ with its streamlined workflow, allows the clinician to work directly from diluted plasma or serum, with no further sample preparation. This simplicity of this workflow and rapid turn around time will usher in the wave of advanced protein diagnostics", stated John Boyce, President, CEO, and Co-Founder of NanoMosaic, as well as Co-Founder of Tiger Gene, L.L.C. "NanoMosaic has implemented the tools and infrastructure to transition from the research bench to the clinic," Boyce concluded.
NanoMosaic, a Boston-based biotechnology company, is the only commercial entity to develop and leverage the power of nanoneedles, MosaicNeedles™, for protein detection and quantification to develop best-in-class assays for biomarker discovery and validation. The NanoMosaic platform, Tessie™, alleviates the bottlenecks in proteomics analysis and provides an end-to-end solution that enables first of its kind protein interrogation and multi-omics analysis within a single chip on one run. The proprietary technology enables rapid, end user customization for assay development for proteomic and/or nucleic acid content. The NanoMosaic platform allows researchers to push the frontiers in biomarker discovery and diagnostics.
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Lamborghini is set to compete at the top level of endurance racing by 2024, with an entry in the premier classes of the IMSA SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship—GTP and Hypercar, respectively.
Both classes are open to new LMDh race cars as well as those built to existing LMH rules, and the former is Lamborghini’s weapon of choice. Following an initial tease in May, Lamborghini on Monday released a new teaser for its LMDh race car and confirmed the first specs.
Lamborghini’s LMDh will run a V-8 hybrid powertrain, with the V-8 to be a new twin-turbo unit developed by the automaker’s Squadra Corse racing arm, though one thought to be related to the twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8 fitted in Lamborghini’s Urus SUV. The hybrid component will be a single motor-generator integrated with a 7-speed transmission.
In line with LMDh regulations, the powertrain can generate at any time a maximum output of around 670 hp from both power sources. Other specs include a top speed of 211 mph and a minimum weight of 2,270 lb without the fuel and driver.
To ensure even competition between the LMDh and LMH cars, the organizers have decided to implement Balance of Performance rules. But unlike LMH, which requires bespoke entries, LMDh has been developed with a view of keeping a lid on costs, so teams need to use a spec chassis similar to a current LMP2 chassis, sourced from one of four suppliers: Dallara, Ligier, Multimatic, and Oreca.
Lamborghini has chosen a chassis from Ligier, due to the design’s flexibility, the automaker said. Fellow Volkswagen Group brand Porsche is developing its own LMDh race car due to start racing in 2023, and has chosen Multimatic as its chassis supplier.
Lamborghini in July also named Andrea Caldarelli and Mirko Bortolotti as its first two drivers for the LMDh program.
The first race for Lamborghini’s LMDh will likely be the 2024 24 Hours of Daytona, the race that serves as the opening round of the SportsCar Championship.
Acura, Alpine, BMW, and Cadillac are also committed to LMDh, while ByKolles, Ferrari, Glickenhaus, Peugeot, and Toyota are all committed to LMH. Audi was also set to join LMDh in 2023 but in August announced it had canceled the effort to focus resources on a planned Formula 1 entry in 2026.
News of the V-8 hybrid powertrain comes just as rumors surface that Lamborghini is planning a twin-turbo V-8 in hybrid configuration for its HuracaÌn successor due by the end of 2024. Such a powertrain is also expected to feature in the Urus.
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Fresh from its acquisition of Bollinger earlier in September, fellow U.S. electric vehicle startup Mullen last week announced plans for a version of its upcoming Five crossover with performance to rival Plaid versions of Tesla’s Model S and Model X.
First shown at the 2021 Los Angeles Auto Show, the Mullen Five is a small crossover designed to go up against the Tesla Model Y and Volkswagen ID.4. However, Mullen is developing a Five RS flagship that will boast over 1,000 hp, or enough for 0-60 mph acceleration in 1.9 seconds, placing it in a similar league to Tesla’s Plaid models, as well as Rimac’s Nevera hypercar.
The Five RS is slated for a reveal next spring. Other confirmed specs include a top speed of over 200 mph, made possible by a 2-speed transmission, as well as an 800-volt electrical system, which should enable rapid charge times when using a DC fast charger.
“From the inception of Mullen, it has been my mission to bring an ultra-high-performance EV to market,” David Michery, Mullen’s chairman and CEO, said in a statement. “The Five RS is intended to be one of the fastest vehicles on the planet, competing with some of the best and most well-known and regarded automotive marques.”
Mullen plans to build the Five crossover at a plant in Tunica, Mississippi. The standard version will start at about $55,000 and come with a range of 325 miles and enough horsepower for 0-60 acceleration in 3.2 seconds and a top speed of 155 mph. The company has previously pointed to 2024 for the start of deliveries.
Mullen has also previously shown a sports car called the Dragonfly K50, though timing for this model is unclear.
With its recent acquisition of Bollinger, Mullen plans to launch electric commercial trucks under the Bollinger brand. It will also revive plans for Bollinger’s B1 and B2 electric SUV and pickup truck.
Mullen will present the Five and new Five RS during a promotional tour across the U.S., known as the Strikingly Different tour. Details of the tour will be announced at a later date but Mullen has confirmed it will have an IndyCar racing driver on hand to showcase the performance of the Five RS and offer rides to the public.
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U.S. doctors should regularly screen all adults under 65 for anxiety, an influential health guidelines group proposed Tuesday.
It’s the first time the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has recommended anxiety screening in primary care for adults without symptoms. The proposal is open for public comment until Oct. 17, but the group usually affirms its draft guidance.
The recommendations are based on a review that began before the COVID-19 pandemic, evaluating studies showing potential benefits and risks from screening. Given reports of a surge in mental health problems linked with pandemic isolation and stress, the guidance is “very timely,” said Lori Pbert, a task force member and co-author. Pbert is a psychologist-researcher at the University of Massachusetts’ Chan Medical School.
The task force said evidence for benefits, including effective treatments, outweighs any risks, which include inaccurate screening results that could lead to unnecessary follow-up care.
Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental health complaints, affecting about 40% of U.S. women at some point in their lives and more than 1 in 4 men, Pbert noted.
Black people, those living in poverty, people who have lost partners and those who have other mental health issues are among adults who face higher risks for developing anxiety, which can manifest as panic attacks, phobias or feeling always on edge. Also, about 1 in 10 pregnant and postpartum women experience anxiety.
Common screening tools include brief questionnaires about symptoms such as fears and worries that interfere with usual activities. These can easily be given in a primary care setting, the task force said, although it didn’t specify how often patients should be screened.
“The most important thing to recognize is that a screening test alone is not sufficient to diagnose anxiety,” Pbert said. The next step is a more thorough evaluation by a mental health professional, though Pbert acknowledged that finding mental health care can be difficult given shortages of specialists.
Megan Whalen, a 31-year-old marketing specialist who was diagnosed with anxiety in 2013, says regular doctors should screen for mental health issues as commonly as they do for physical problems.
“Health is health, whether the problem is visible or not,” said Whalen, of Hoboken, New Jersey.
She has gotten help from medicine and talk therapy, but her symptoms worsened during the pandemic and she temporarily moved back home.
“The pandemic made me afraid to leave home, my anxiety telling me anywhere outside of my childhood house was unsafe,” Whelan said. “I absolutely still struggle with feelings of dread and fear sometimes. It’s just a part of my life at this point, and I try to manage it as best as I can.”
The task force said there isn’t enough solid research in older adults to recommend for or against anxiety screening in those aged 65 and up.
The group continues to recommend depression screening for adults and children, but said there isn’t enough evidence to evaluate potential benefits and harms of suicide screening in adults who show no worrisome symptoms.
In April, the group issued similar draft guidance for children and teens, recommending anxiety screening but stating that more research is needed on potential benefits and harms of suicide screening kids with no obvious signs.
Guidelines from the task force often determine insurance coverage, but anxiety is already on the radar of many primary care doctors. In 2020, a group affiliated with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommended routine primary care anxiety screening for women and girls starting at age 13.
Melissa Lewis-Duarte, a wellness coach in Scottsdale, Arizona, says rhythmic breathing, meditation and making a daily list of three things for which she is grateful have all helped with her anxiety.
“Doctors say, ‘Make sure you’re sleeping, control your stress.’ Yeah, I get that,” but not everyone knows how, said the 42-year-old mother of three. “It’s difficult to prioritize self-care, but that’s what’s necessary.”
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An insurance company that was ordered to pay more than a billion dirhams in damages for a 2015 New Year’s Eve fire in Dubai has lost a civil lawsuit that it filed to try and recover the money.
Two years after the massive fire rocked the Address Downtown hotel, Orient Insurance was ordered to pay Dubai’s state-backed developer Emaar 1.25 billion dirhams (more than $340 million) in a settlement. Emaar is behind projects like the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa.
Orient then filed a civil lawsuit in 2018 against the contractors who worked on the design, construction and maintenance of the hotel. It said they failed to implement fire safety requirements, contributing to the spread of the blaze.
Orient Insurance asked the contractors to pay back the insurance claim it paid to Emaar. The case involved leading contractors including Belhasa JV, Arabtec, Mirage, and ALEC Engineering and Construction.
Court papers show that a seven-member expert committee concluded that the fire was caused by an electrical short-circuit on a spotlight. It also stated that there was no conclusive evidence to show there were technical errors or violations by the defendants, and that the building cladding might have contributed to the spread of the fire but was not the cause of it.
“The report confirmed our client’s position that it had properly constructed the work that it was mandated to construct,” said Mohamed ElGhatit, a lawyer representing government-owned ALEC Engineering and Construction.
Dramatic fires have hit skyscrapers in Dubai and other cities in the United Arab Emirates in recent years. Building and safety experts have cited a popular type of cladding covering the buildings that can be highly flammable. Authorities say they’ve changed fire safety rules in the emirate to address the danger.
The court’s ruling against Orient came last week.
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AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — A gunman shot three people, including two first responders, at the Tri-State Fair & Rodeo in Texas before he was shot and wounded by sheriff’s deputies, authorities said.
Just before 11 p.m. Monday, a man opened fire on Potter County deputies working off-duty at the fair in Amarillo, Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas said.
Thomas said the “male suspect opened fire on the deputies, striking a deputy and an off-duty firefighter, also working at the fair, and a bystander.” Deputies returned fire, wounding the suspect.
The deputy, firefighter and bystander were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, authorities said. The gunman was taken to the hospital with injuries that were described as life-threatening.
Thomas did not identify any of the victims or the suspect. He did not offer a motive for the shooting, which is being investigated by the Texas Rangers.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s legal team has told a newly appointed independent arbiter that it does not want to answer his questions about the declassification status of the documents seized last month from the former president’s Florida home, saying that issue could be part of Trump’s defense if he’s indicted.
Lawyers for Trump and for the Justice Department are to appear in federal court in Brooklyn on Tuesday before a veteran judge named last week as special master to review the roughly 11,000 documents — including about 100 marked as classified — taken during the FBI’s Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago.
Ahead of the status conference, Raymond Dearie, the special master, requested the two sides to submit a proposed agenda and also provided a draft plan for how he envisions the process moving forward over the next two months.
Trump’s lawyers signaled in a Monday evening letter their objection to several aspects of that draft plan, including a request from Dearie that they disclose to him and to the Justice Department information about the classification status of the seized documents.
The resistance to the judge’s request was notable because it was the Trump team, not the Justice Department, that had requested the appointment of a special master to conduct an independent review of the documents so that any material covered by claims of legal privilege could be segregated from the investigation — and because the Trump team’s recalcitrance included an acknowledgment that the probe could be building toward an indictment.
Trump has maintained without evidence that all of the records were declassified; his lawyers have not echoed that claim, though they have asserted that a president has absolute authority to declassify information.
In the letter, Trump’s lawyers say the time for addressing that question would be if they file a motion seeking the return by the Justice Department of some of the property taken from Mar-a-Lago.
“Otherwise, the Special Master process will have forced the Plaintiff to fully and specifically disclose a defense to the merits of any subsequent indictment.” the lawyers wrote.
The Trump team also asked the judge to consider pushing back all of the deadlines for his review.
Also Tuesday, Trump’s lawyers were to respond to a Justice Department’s appeal of a different judge’s order barring the department at least temporarily from using the classified documents it seized as part of its criminal investigation. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, in the same order appointing the special master, directed the department to halt its use of the records until Dearie can complete his work.
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Sisak reported from New York.
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SPARTANBURG, SC (WSPA) — Candidate for SC House District 25 Wendell Jones (D) is the founder and senior pastor of Changing Your Mind Ministries. He’s hoping to leverage his years of leadership there to give back to the community that supported him by winning a house seat in the general election on November 8.
He will face Yvonne Julian (R) in the election.
The following interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
The Candidate
I’m Wendell Jones, and I am running for SC House District 25. I actually grew up over here in Spartanburg. I went to Spartanburg High School went to Wofford College and was employed by the former Wachovia Bank, which got me over to Greenville in 1995; serving in the community in various capacities and always looking for new ways to contribute back.
This year, I really felt a little push from my son who’s deeply in politics, but really felt a strong desire to get more involved. I was approached by a few people who said, “Well, you really should run for this office.”
After praying about it and talking it over with the family, we decided to jump in.
Did something happen that made you want to enter politics or have you been heading there gradually over the years?
Probably all of the above. As I said, there’s always been just a part of my personality in terms of trying to figure out how I can help the community better served on various boards and things of that sort.
But I’ve also told people I can’t unsee what I’ve seen and I can’t hear what I’ve heard.
I see a need for leadership, but I’m kind of obsessive with the concept of leadership. I see some wonderful things happening in Greenville, some wonderful things happening in the state. But I also see some areas that need some improvement. I’m a little concerned about the indigenous people of Greenville and even the state being left behind with all this wonderful growth.
I think we need to have some thoughtful leadership to make sure that as we are being progressive, as we are moving forward and establishing South Carolina as one of the premier states in our union, we need to make sure that we take care of our people and bring them along with us. I see the struggle and I want to be a part of that and try to resolve that.
And where do you see your leadership coming to play in District 25? How would you lead the district?
Well, when I think about District 25, I think about two approaches. There’s a legislative approach and then there’s a grassroots approach.
From the legislative standpoint, my aim is to bring a healthy mixture of logic and compassion.
On the logic side, I realize that as a state, as a county in Greenville, we have to be economically sound. We have to be economically progressive. I’m all for that. I was trained over here at Wofford and that was drilled inside of me. But I’m also concerned about the compassionate side to make sure that we resist the temptation of putting politics over people.
As a matter of fact, I believe as a representative, you’re representing the people. We should work diligently to create policy for the people, to make sure we’re using our state’s resources to empower our people to also participate in this growth.
That’s the legislative side.
On the grassroots side, I want to bring my leadership talents to inspire other leaders. I don’t want to be the be-all, end-all. I believe our county, our district, has incredible people with incredible talent. And I’m hoping that my stepping into the fray is a source of inspiration. And I want to talk to people and let them know, “Hey, I know sometimes politics seems like something you want to avoid like the plague.”
But again, if we don’t get into it, then it’s hard for us to complain about the outcomes.
And so that is my goal. I’ve been talking with people there, some incredibly talented people in Greenville and I want to just kind of coalesce that group, pull us all together, and we will learn to lead ourselves. I’m not trying to be a savior. I’m not trying to be a one-man show. I’m just trying to be a catalyst; so we can get the district to live up to its greatest potential because we have tremendous potential. And I’m hoping that I can spark that.
What is your vision for the district?
My big vision is to help position the district as an economic power. And in order to do that, I have to say to you all, I absolutely believe in the potential of the people.
We’ve got to do some things economically. We’ve got some young entrepreneurs, we’ve got some seasoned entrepreneurs — and a lot of people don’t know they’re even there. We need to bring those folks together and begin to use them as examples, as role models, but also as employers.
That’s some of the grassroots efforts that we have in my Commitment 25.
Also, we want to tap into the resources of the churches and bring them together and let them also be the conduits for information, the conduits for financial literacy training, the conduits for bringing the people together; and keep them informed of what’s really going on down in the General Assembly.
I’ve had a chance to meet with some of our larger employers in the district, and they’re excited to have somebody running that is very business minded, business-friendly. But also, I’m convincing them that there’s a part they need to play. They need to be a little bit more heavily invested in the district. It makes sense for them to invest in the people who are within a mile or two of your facility.
We need to make sure that those folks are getting a shot of some of these wonderful jobs that you are promoting. So the people that are there in the district can have the opportunity for a livable wage. Everybody’s talking about minimum wage. I’m obsessed with a livable wage. Right now in Greenville, you need to make about $21 an hour, if you’re a single person, to really keep up with the cost of living.
And so we’ve already got employers who provide that. But there’s a disconnect between employers and the people. I want to be that bridge And once we do that, I believe the whole district can prosper. The overarching goal is to make the district the envy not just of the county, but the state.
How has faith inspired your politics?
My faith is my anchor. My faith is what drives my compassion. My faith makes sure that I don’t forget that this involves people. When we’re debating policy, I never lose sight that I’m standing in the gap between policy and my neighbor. My faith has encouraged me to always love my neighbor — to do right by my neighbor.
And that’s why I can say there should be policy for the people. That’s why I can say we can’t have a policy over the people or make the policy more important than people. We have to craft legislation that, yes, thinks about the future, but also the legislation that deals with our current issues in society to give our people a fighting chance to be able to participate in this unquestionable prosperity that’s coming to the South, to South Carolina, to Greenville today, that we want to make sure no one gets left behind.
What are some of the political issues that are most important to you?
Well, in talking to the constituents, there are two particular issues, and we’ve touched on them a little bit in our conversation so far, that keep rising to the top.
Number one is that we do all we possibly can to protect voters’ rights. There are countless tactics being employed throughout our nation.
Some of them are creeping into South Carolina. We’ve got to fight that because if we can’t vote, there goes our voice. And so I want to make sure that I continue to fight for those undergirding principles of our governing documents that say one man, one vote, that says no taxation without representation.
And so I want to make sure our people can still get to the polls, and there aren’t any hindrances stopping them. That’s number one to hold on to our voices.
Secondly, what comes to the top is affordability. And that’s a big umbrella that has quite a few things underneath it.
Affordability in terms of a livable wage. Affordability in terms of utilizing our state’s resources to give our residents here a chance to participate in the growth, funding our technical schools and community colleges so that our kids that are graduating aren’t going to a four-year school can go into a program that qualifies them to be eligible for some of these jobs.
That same system of technical schools and community colleges for the reeducation of our older citizens, because times are changing. And right now, 60% to 70% of those jobs that will give you a livable wage require a certification. And so we want to make sure we’re providing adequate funding to those institutions to the point where education is affordable, and I think that is a noteworthy investment back into our future.
It is indeed an investment because there will be a return on it as the people are able to afford more, buy more homes, buy more cars, be able to support small businesses and increase our tax base. It’s an investment. And so I want to make sure that I do my part to make sure that that’s a priority in Columbia.
Were there certain things in your life that changed the trajectory of where you were headed?
Oh, yeah. I grew up with my mom. Single parent. What helped me is that I had a community. I had a community that believed in me. I had a community that insisted that I live up to my potential.
I had a community that was watchful, that made sure I didn’t get myself in trouble. We had a village, and it was wonderful in those formative years to hear adults tell you that they believe in you. We need more of that now. We need this village back again where we continue to just encourage each other to tap into our fullest potential.
It made me a dutiful person. It made me aware of my responsibility; not just for myself, but my responsibility to others. Which is a major part of why I’m getting into politics now. It’s so easy to be selfish and just focus on yourself and your own home, but I owe the village. Some of those folks have gone on, but the ideas they poured into me are still there. We have a responsibility to one another.
Before I leave here, I want to be able to, in my final days, know that I did my part.
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ROME (AP) — Belgian bishops on Tuesday published a proposed text for a prayer liturgy for same-sex couples that includes prayers, Scriptural readings and expressions of commitment, despite a 2021 Vatican directive barring church blessings for gay couples.
The Flemish-speaking bishops stressed that the “moment of prayer” was by no means akin to a sacramental marriage, which Catholic doctrine says is a lifelong union between a man and woman. Rather, they said their proposal is part of the Belgian church’s effort to be more responsive to its gay members and to “create a climate of respect, recognition and integration.” They cited Pope Francis’ call for the church to be more welcoming to gays.
The publication of the text, first reported by the Dutch newspaper Nederlands Dagblad, marks the latest salvo in efforts by more progressive churches to extend greater outreach to gays, led by the German church and its controversial “synodal” process of dialogue with the German laity.
Catholic teaching holds that gays must be treated with dignity and respect, but that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered.”
Last year, the Vatican’s doctrine office decreed that the church cannot bless same-sex unions “because God cannot bless sin.”
The proposed Belgian ceremony includes an “opening word, opening prayer, Scripture reading” as well as the texts of two proposed prayers — one committing both parties to themselves and the other, a prayer of the community for the couple — and ends with the “Our Father prayer, a closing prayer and a blessing.”
Tommy Scholtes, spokesman for Belgium’s bishops conference, denied the proposal amounted to a “blessing” much less a sacramental marriage. He said it was part of the Belgian bishops’ decision to create contact people within each diocese in charge of pastoral care for gays.
With such “point of contacts” created, Scholtes said there will be “an opportunity for homosexual couples to pray together, and others will also be able to pray for them.”
“But there is no blessing, no exchange of consent, there is nothing like a marriage,” he told The Associated Press.
The text of the proposed commitment prayer suggests that the couple thank God for letting them find each other and pledge to be there for one another throughout their lives. The community then responds with a prayer of its own, praying for God’s grace to “make their commitment to each other strong and faithful.”
The Rev. James Martin, who has championed greater church outreach to the LGBTQ community, said the Flemish-language text suggests a blessing.
Given a same-sex couple in the prayer, “then you are asking God to be with same-sex partners not only in the home they share, but in what the prayer calls their ‘commitment,’” Martin said. “So, unless I’m missing something in the translation, while the prayer is not a formal ratification of same-sex marriage, when you invoke the mercy of God on anyone, you are asking God to bless them.”
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Police searching for a young man who was reported missing have found a body. Jay Carr, 20, disappeared yesterday (September 19) and was thought to have visited the nearby Holly Hill area.
Officers attended a location near Snodland at around 1.30pm where the tragic discovery was made. He was tragically pronounced dead at the scene.
Formal identification has not yet taken place, however the family of a 20-year-old man who was reported missing on Monday 19 September have been informed. The death is not being treated as suspicious and a report is being prepared for the coroner.
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If 49ers fans had to drink every time they had to worry about who the backup quarterback was going to be for their team, we’d all have died of alcohol poisoning about four years ago. Yet despite drafting Trey Lance in 2021 and keeping Jimmy Garoppolo around as the backup in 2022, we once again have to worry about who takes over if the starter gets injured. If that happens again, it’s Mr. Irrelevant Brock Purdy.
Kyle Shanahan was asked yesterday if he has full confidence in Purdy if Brock ever had to start a significant amount of games for the team.
“Yeah, that’s why we chose him as our number two going into the year. And I feel great about Brock regardless, but there’s not just like a store where you just go get quarterbacks at any time. Same thing with running backs. It’s like every other position guys, when guys get hurt it’s who’s on your roster and who’s on your practice squad and we had three quarterbacks on our roster fortunately. So that’s why I’m very glad that we didn’t risk Brock and lose him because that’d be a huge problem right now. That’s stuff that we had to do with backs so we could do it with the quarterback and that’s the position that you end up getting in.
It’s close to happening with us at tight end. So, now we’re here at quarterback and we’ll see what’s out there. We definitely need to get a guy in here for practice squad because we do need a third man up in case something happens because he’s one play away from being the backup and he’s two plays away from being our starter. So, you have to plan that at every position and quarterback, obviously, being the most important.”
So the QB store doesn’t exist, but the team is going to have to visit it soon because a third quarterback is needed post haste.
The question on its face isn’t likely to elicit an honest answer from any coach. No team has a ton of confidence in their third quarterback. That’s why they’re the third quarterback. But there’s also no way Kyle Shanahan can say that because it would look like a slight to the now-backup Purdy.
Don’t spend too much time worrying about ol’Brock. If he has to play for an extended stretch this year, the season has officially gone off the rails, and we’ll have much bigger problems.
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We haven’t given the 49ers defense enough credit for putting the clamps on a Seahawks offense with a couple of dangerous weapons. Rashaad Penny averaged 5.0 yards per carry in Week 1. That figure was cut in half in Week 2.
From the box score to the flow of the game, San Francisco dominated. Last week, defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans said he felt is unit could’ve done a better job of finishing the game. Monday, I asked head coach Kyle Shanahan what goes through his mind when he watches the defense play after not allowing a touchdown:
“My favorite things about this game is that I thought it was similar to Chicago because I thought we were close to having a dominant performance versus Chicago. But every time they got one good play, whether it was from a penalty or an off-schedule play, we didn’t really make the plays after that to recover.”
An unnecessary facemask from Dre Greenlaw gifted Chicago a first down, which led to Justin Fields scrambling and finding Dante Pettis for a 51-yard touchdown.
On the next drive, Azeez Al-Shaair’s unnecessary roughness gifted Chicago another first down. When the defense forced Chicago into 3rd & 2, another coverage bust led to a touchdown.
Finally, after a Trey Lance interception, a defensive holding on 2nd & 11 put Chicago inside of the 5-yard line, which all but iced the game.
Shanahan acknowledged, “no matter how good you play, you’re still going to give up some stuff.” It’s the NFL. Every team has good players. Shanahan said his message is, “you always try to say it doesn’t count until they cross the goal line.”
From there, the Niners' head coach rattled off a sequence of plays where the defense responded, unlike the week before:
“I think it was like play 15, or 13, they got their first explosive hitting Lockett outside the numbers on a little play-action play, and then right after that, the next play, I think Greenlaw had a TFL in the flat, took care of it, made it a 2nd & 10, and then the play after that, Huf undercut and tipped it and got a pick. So, we responded with a huge turnover after a play.”
So much going on during this INT. Seahawks go empty. Niners bluff like they’re blitzing but end up having 8 in coverage. Ridgeway blows the play up by bull-rushing the center into Geno.
— KP (@KP_Show) September 19, 2022
Bosa in cvg.
Hufanga plays a perfect catch/trail technique on Lockett & undercuts the throw. pic.twitter.com/9XNHAlvCFE
Hufanga’s technique in the play above is flawless.
Here’s Shanahan sharing another example:
“Later in the day, they got their one off-schedule play where the quarterback broke the pocket, we ended up dropping a guy and chasing him, similar to the Chicago game and he hit Lockett across the field, that got them in the red zone, and then I love that we recovered with a pick there on the goal line, on the trick play by [CB Charvarius Ward] Mooney.”
Seattle ran a couple of trick plays. Neither worked. That’s what you do when you know you can’t line up and move the ball. The Seahawks drafted a running back in the first round recently, then in the second round last year, and used their third-string running back to throw a pass in the end zone. Remember ESPN’s segment called, “Come on, man!” They would’ve had a field day with that decision.
It came down to making a play:
“So, it’s things like that where the standard of how we play, there were some good things with that in Chicago, but it didn’t matter, we still gave up three touchdowns. I saw the similar stuff yesterday, but the defense tightened up and when there was a good play by their team, we just made a better play the following three downs.”
What a difference a few plays can make. Had Chicago not converted two plays that took more than seven seconds, we might be talking about a 2-0 team. Then again, what if the Seahawks score on that drive, which would’ve made it 13-7, and put the pressure back on the 49ers' offense?
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A nighttime bus crash that killed 27 people in southwest China this week has set off a storm of anger online over the harshness of the country’s strict COVID-19 policies.
The initial police report did not say who the passengers were and where they were going, but it later emerged they were headed to a quarantine location outside their city of Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province.
The bus with 47 people on board crashed about 2:40 a.m. Sunday. City officials announced many hours later that the passengers were under “medical observation,” confirming reports they were being taken to quarantine.
Following public anger, Guiyang fired three officials in charge of Yunyan district, where the residents had been picked up, the provincial government said Monday. Guiyang’s deputy mayor apologized at a news conference, bowing and observing a moment of silence.
Online, many wondered at the logic behind transporting people outside of Guiyang, accusing the government of moving them so that the city would no longer report any new cases.
“Will this ever end? On the top searches (on social media), there’s all sorts of pandemic prevention situations every day, creating unnecessary panic and making people jittery,” one person wrote. “Is there scientific validity to hauling people to quarantine, one car after another?”
Guiyang officials had announced the city would achieve “societal zero-COVID” by Monday, one day after the crash.
The phrase means new infections are found only among people already under surveillance — such as those in a centralized quarantine facility or who are close contacts of existing patients — so the virus is no longer spreading in the community.
China has managed the pandemic through a series of measures known as “clearing to zero,” or “zero COVID,” maintained through strict lockdowns and mass testing.
The approach saved lives before vaccines were widely available, as people refrained from public gatherings and wore masks regularly. However, as other countries have opened up and loosened some of the most onerous restrictions, China has held steadfast to its zero-COVID strategy.
While China has cut down its quarantine time for overseas arrivals and said it would start issuing student visas, the policy remains strict at home. Officials are concerned about the potential death toll and the impact any loosening would have on the country’s stretched medical system.
Zero COVID also has become a political issue, and at one point was celebrated by many Chinese as signifying the superiority of their country over the U.S., which has had more than a million COVID deaths.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has cited China’s approach as a “major strategic success” and evidence of the “significant advantages” of its political system over Western liberal democracies.
Yet, even as other countries open up, the humanitarian costs to China’s pandemic approach has grown.
Earlier this year in Shanghai, desperate residents complained of being unable to get medicines or even groceries during the city’s two-month lockdown, while some died in hospitals from lack of medical care as the city restricted movement. Last week, residents in the western region of Xinjiang said they went hungry under a more than 40-day lockdown.
According to FreeWeibo, a website that tracks censored posts on the popular social media platform, three of top 10 searches on Weibo related to the bus accident.
Many fixated on images of the bus shared by social media users. One photo showed the bus after it had been retrieved from the accident site. Its roof was crushed and portions missing. Another photo allegedly showed the driver decked out in a full white protective suit.
Users online questioned how a driver could see properly when his face was covered up, and why he was driving so late at night. Many comments were censored but some that expressed discontent with the current approach to the pandemic did remain up.
“I hope that the price of this pain can push for change faster, but if it’s possible, I don’t want to pay such a high price for such change,” said the comment with the most likes on an online report about the accident by state broadcaster CCTV. “Condolences.”
One of the passengers on the bus said her whole building had been taken for central quarantine, according to a report by Caixin, a business news outlet. Yet her apartment building had not reported a single case, according to a friend who shared their text conversation with Caixin.
Another popular comment quoted a proverb, “These human lives are like straw.”
On Tuesday, Guizhou reported 41 new COVID-19 cases in the entire province. The province has been on high alert in the past few weeks after discovering one case at the end of August. It has locked down its capital city, using the euphemistic “quiet period” to describe the move, which means people are not allowed to leave their homes.
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Three men were arrested after a punch up broke out in Ashford over the weekend - a video of the scrap quickly achieved viral fame. The footage showed a lone, elderly looking man fighting with a number of men outside of the Ashford branch of McDonald’s on the lower High Street.
Kent Police was called to the scene at 6.51pm on Friday, September 16, responding to reports of a disturbance in the area. Officers soon arrived and three men were subsequently arrested on suspicion of affray.
The men were aged 53, 37 and 23. The 53-year-old man has since been released on bail.
Read more: 'Gunshots and explosions shake windows' near Folkestone
Meanwhile, the other two men have been released under investigation. Enquiries into the investigation are ongoing.
Kent Police has said: “Kent Police was called to a report of a disturbance in Ashford High Street at 6.51pm on Friday 16 September 2022. Officers attended and three men, aged 53, 37 and 23, were arrested on suspicion of affray.
“The 53-year-old man has since been released on bail and the 37-year-old man and a 23-year-old man have been released under investigation. Enquiries into the incident are ongoing and officers are aware of footage of the incident which has been posted on social media.”
Anyone who witnessed what happened, but has yet to speak to officers, is urged to call Kent Police on 01843 222289, quoting reference 46/181418/22. You can also call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111 or complete the online form on their website .
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The 49ers’ interior offensive line was under siege after their Week 1 performance, being criticized for their pass-protection issues and missed assignments.
Per PFF, guard Aaron Banks and center Jake Brendel each gave up two quarterback hurries in passing situations. However, they both bounced back on Sunday in a major way, with Banks only giving up one pressure and Brendel putting up a clean sheet.
Rookie guard Spencer Burford put up a clean sheet in pass protection back-to-back weeks, starting off his NFL career in dominant fashion.
Specifically focusing on the guard position — which has been heavily scrutinized — the 49ers have reaped the benefits of their decision so far.
Through 2 weeks, here are where the #49ers' guards rank in PFF grades for guards:
— Akash Anavarathan (@akashanav) September 19, 2022
Aaron Banks: 5th (out of 43)
Spencer Burford: 17th (out of 43)
Both young guards for the 49ers playing at a plus level so far through 2 weeks. Great, great sign.
Per PFF, Aaron Banks’ overall grade ranks fifth among all guards and Spencer Burford’s ranks 17th. I’m not the biggest proponent of PFF grades because it’s somewhat subjective, but the eye test matches the grade so far.
PFF's Pass-Blocking Grade, Guards, 2022:
— Akash Anavarathan (@akashanav) September 19, 2022
1. Zack Martin, DAL, 84.7
2. James Daniels, PIT, 84.1
3. Spencer Burford, SF, 83.7
4. Aaron Banks, SF, 82.2
What a turnaround from 2021. We're about to find out if Burford and Banks can keep this up -- but good sign so far.
Pass protection has been an issue for 49ers’ guards in the past, but Burford and Banks seem to be providing an improvement in that area so far.
Per PFF, their pass-blocking grades currently rank third and fourth among all guards this season.
The “Triple Bs” in the middle have been under a magnifying glass all offseason, but they really stepped up in Week 2. Now the question becomes: can they keep this up as the season goes? | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/20/23362504/san-francisco-49ers-guards-aaron-banks-spencer-burford-growth-week-2-nfl | 2022-09-20T16:12:38Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/20/23362504/san-francisco-49ers-guards-aaron-banks-spencer-burford-growth-week-2-nfl | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The England Coast Path is a walking route that will eventually lead the way around the entire coast of England - when it is completed it will be the longest coastal path in the world. The Kent section of the path is split in two, and as well as the most breath-taking views also takes in some of the most historical sections of our coastline.
The South East section of the trail runs all the way from the Thames Estuary to Southampton. The two Kent sections of the trail opened to the public in August 2022.
They run from Camber to Folkestone and Folkestone to Ramsgate. The path aims to stay as close to the coast as possible and in many places this means that you will be walking as close as you can get to the coastline.
Read more: The exciting plans for Kent’s former Debenhams department stores
Camber to Folkestone
The stretch from Camber to Folkestone takes in the very unique area of Dungeness. It is home to the largest expanse of shingle in the country and its fascinating landscape holds a third of all plants in the UK. You can take a ride on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway, see two lighthouses and view Derek Jarman’s unusual shingle garden. All within the view of Dungeness nuclear power station.
The Napoleonic Martello towers, and the Royal Military canal at Hythe serve as a reminder of the historical wartime defences along this coastline. The amazing Listening Ears at Lade which provided an early form of radar to detect enemy aircraft and a floating harbour from WW2 at Greatstone.
This is a very unique and enjoyable part of the coastline, with fantastic views and wide expanses of lovely beaches at Camber and Greatstone.
Folkestone to Ramsgate
This section of the path as easy access by road, rail and ferry so is great for visitors from home or abroad. This stretch also showcases England's iconic White Cliffs with their stunning views across to France. Walkers can enjoy the breath-taking views of clifftop walks around Deal, Sandwich and the lower cliffs at Ramsgate.
This are is steeped in history, and visitors here can take in the medieval castles at Dover, Deal and Walmer. Ad well as visiting the historic Cinque Port of Sandwich. Ferries taking troops, ammunition and horses across the channel used this coastline – there is no shortage of interesting sites and view points such as St Martin’s Battery at Dover.
There are plenty of cafes, restaurants and pubs along this route, some with amazing views looking out over the sea, a great way to relax after a day of walking.
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MADRID (AP) — Spain has arrested 32 members of an organized crime group linked to the Italian ’ndrangheta mafia for alleged ties to large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering, Europol said Tuesday.
The criminal gang, whose members are described as very violent, is believed to be linked to cocaine and cannabis trafficking between Spain and Italy, transporting the drugs hidden in speedboats and reinvesting the criminal profits in Spanish real estate, the police agency said.
Those arrested included Italians, Albanians and Hungarians.
The authorities seized 18 kilos (40 pounds) of amphetamine, 4.5 kilos (10 pounds) of cocaine, firearms, 300,000 euros in cash (about $300,000) and 600 cannabis plants.
The operation took place on two different days last week on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza and involved 500 law enforcement officers from the Spanish Civil Guard, Italy’s Carabinieri and Guardia de Finanza, supported by the European bodies for police and justice, Europol and Eurojust.
Some 40 properties were also searched in the coastal Spanish cities of Barcelona, Málaga and Tenerife.
The Calabrian ‘ndrangheta mafia is considered by Italian prosecutors to be the most important criminal organization in the Western world. Some of those arrested are linked to a number of murders in Italy, prosecutors say. | https://www.wspa.com/news/world-news/ap-international/ap-spain-arrests-32-allegedly-linked-to-italys-ndrangheta-mob/ | 2022-09-20T16:13:16Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/world-news/ap-international/ap-spain-arrests-32-allegedly-linked-to-italys-ndrangheta-mob/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — The school was a shattered mess. Its six-month life as a Russian base and mechanic shop ended in August with a Ukrainian missile strike.
Its years educating Izium’s youth were over, but it had one last gift for the residents who needed so much: the wood that made up its lattice work, its chalkboards, its furniture and beams.
A handful of elderly residents — some prepared with gloves, sturdy woven bags, and hand tools — came by Monday to salvage firewood from the rubble. It will be months, if not longer, before meaningful electricity, gas and running water are restored, and a chill is already settling in.
This city in far eastern Ukraine was among the first taken by Russian forces after the war started on Feb. 24, and it became a command center for them. By early March, Izium was isolated — no cell phones, no heat, no power. Residents didn’t know what was going on in the war, whether their relatives were alive, whether there was still a Ukraine.
They were liberated in a swift counteroffensive on Sept. 10 that swept through the Kharkiv region, and that continues in the south, near Kherson. But residents are still emerging from the confusion and trauma of their occupation, the brutality of which gained worldwide attention last week after the discovery of one of the war’s largest mass grave sites.
“We have nothing. We are taking wood to heat water for tea and to make porridge. Look at my hands! I’m 75 years old and this woman is even older than me. We are afraid of winter,” said Oleksandra Lysenko, standing in a pile of bricks. “My grandchildren went to this school and I am looting it.”
A man nearby loaded the battered hood of a car onto his bicycle. He planned to use the part, which was spray-painted with the letter Z that has come to symbolize the Russian army, to cover an open window frame.
When the war began nearly seven months ago, about half of Izium’s roughly 40,000 residents fled, some of them into Russia itself. The rest hunkered down in basements or behind the thickest walls they could find. Russian soldiers handed out some food but rarely enough.
Those with battery-powered radios discovered that the only signal was a Russian propaganda station, feeding them lies about which Ukraininan cities had fallen, how their government had abandoned them, and how they would be put on trial as collaborators if ever the Ukrainian army returned.
So swift was the counteroffensive that the Russians abandoned their munitions and their armored vehicles, sometimes resorting to stealing clothes and cars from residents to escape undetected. It was Russia’s biggest military defeat since the withdrawal of its troops from areas near Kyiv more than five months ago.
Ukrainian soldiers have begun to collect brass buttons yanked in haste from an officer’s uniform, or patches emblazoned with the Russian flag. They are also collecting Russian munitions, which fit nicely into Ukrainian weapons, and are repurposing the abandoned vehicles that haven’t rusted into uselessness.
The Russian occupiers scattered countless mines, which Ukrainian soldiers are painstakingly detonating one at a time. Every few minutes on Monday, until sundown, their enormous controlled explosions shook Izium, which is about a two-hour drive from Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv down straight rural highways.
It may as well have been another world.
“Is Kharkiv still Ukraine?” one woman hesitantly asked a visitor in the first few days after Izium was freed.
There is now a tenuous cell signal — just enough to send texts or make a phone call, for those who have a way to charge their phones.
But on Monday morning expectations were running high for a more basic form of communication. By the time the mail truck pulled into the parking lot of a closed market, more than a hundred people were milling around, waiting for the first postal delivery since February.
“I am happy that the mail is working. It means that life is getting better. We will live and hope for the best,” said 69-year-old Volodymyr Olyzarenko. He already knew what the box sent by his adult children contained: warm clothes for his brother.
But there will be hard days to come.
A site that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said contains more than 440 graves was discovered last week in a forest on the northern outskirts of town, and investigators are exhuming the bodies to start the grim job of identification. Russian officials have distanced themselves from responsibility for the site.
On the southern outskirts, where the fiercest battles raged, the entire village of Kamyanka is a hazard of explosives. Only 10 people remain of the 1,200 who lived there.
Almost every yard is scattered with bombs and bullets. A Russian rocket launcher is rusting away in someone’s driveway, the weather just beginning to take its toll on the white Z. And as the sun sets, the only sound is the barking of dogs abandoned by their owners.
Natalya Zdorovets, the matriarch of a family of five that accounts for half the village population, said they stayed because it was home. They lost their connection to the outside world on March 5.
“We were in a vacuum. We were cut off from all the world. We didn’t know what happened. We didn’t even know what was happening in the neighboring street because we lived only here,” she said, gesturing to a yard filled with ducks, chickens, cats and dogs.
Around 2,000 Russian soldiers settled in the homes vacated by terrified residents. Then suddenly, a little over a week ago, the village fell silent. The family had no idea why until the Ukrainian soldiers arrived.
“We cried and laughed at the same time,” Zdorovets said. “We weren’t prepared to see them. We hadn’t heard the news.”
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Passion for ministry, outdoors brings Tonkery to Norval Park Church of Christ
ZANESVILLE — The Bible has intrigued Mark Tonkery since his youth.
He recalled a Sunday school teacher saying he'd make a good preacher, but Mark never considered the profession until facing personal matters at age 18.
It reignited a fire for Tonkery, who has spent the past 28 years in the ministry. He recently started as the minister of Norval Park Church of Christ on Arch Street in Zanesville.
He is the 12th full time minister in the church's history since it opened in 1919.
"I've always had an interest in studying the Bible," Tonkery remarked. "I resisted that idea for awhile, but when I went through some personal things, I started studying the Bible again. I was seeking the Lord and fell in love with ministry. I have a true passion to serve God and people."
Tonkery, who grew up in Fairmont, West Virginia, spent the past six years with Camden Avenue Church of Christ in Parkersburg, West Virginia. He received his bachelor's degree from Ohio Valley University and continued his education at Harding University before completing his master's of christian leadership at Kentucky Christian University.
His knowledge of the area was a draw to Zanesville. Tonkery interned with a church in Cambridge and has lived in the Ohio Valley his whole life.
Along with his passion for the church, he enjoys the outdoors. Being close to numerous state parks and other outdoor venues allows Tonkery to pursue his other interests like camping, hiking and fishing.
Tonkery and his wife of 24 years, Laura, will live in Zanesville, while his two daughters, Breanna and Samantha, are in college.
"I knew several people from the area through working church camps and building relationships," he said. "There are lot of outdoor activities nearby so that was another draw. I also enjoy to garden and read, and I love to spend time with family and friends. Laura was raised in Gahanna so this is close for her friends and family, which was another reason that drew us here."
Community is a big part of Norval Park's mission. The church offers a food pantry and works with children's homes in the area. Tonkery noted one of his goals is to continue to build the church's outreach in the community.
As a former Boy Scout, he also understands the importance of community service. He expects Norval Park to continue to be an asset for Zanesville and the surrounding area.
"I believe in a Christ-centered, people-oriented and service-related ministry," Tonkery said. "I want to teach people the Bible, while also building relationships with our congregation and the community. I've learned through my years that you help where you can and connect with people when you can. Those are important values to me, and I want those to show through our congregation to the community."
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OPSWA recognizes some standouts from Week 5
COLUMBUS – The midway point has arrived.
With the conclusion of Week 5 last weekend, the 2022 high school football regular season is officially in the second half.
Let’s check out some of the top performances that stood out during the final week of the first half of the season with this week’s OPSWA High School Football Notebook.
Drew Doyle ran for 173 yards and three scores, as Zanesville rallied past Heath for a 22-11 win.
Josiah Cahill and Carter Fry combined for 144 yards and three TDs on the ground as Ridgewood downed previously unbeaten Malvern 34-7.
Jamal Watts delivered for River View, outrunning the Meadowbrook defense for 251 yards and three scores, including one for 83 yards, as the Black Bears won 39-20.
The Shelby Whippets held the Marion Harding Presidents to just 10 yards of total offense including -32 yards rushing in a 33-3 win in Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference action. The Whippet defense is allowing just 12.2 points a game and have allowed just nine total points over the last two weeks as Shelby improved to 4-1 on the season.
The Crestview Cougars were efficient in a 48-8 win over Monroeville on Friday night scoring 28 points in the first quarter on three rushing touchdowns and a Pick-6. The Cougars have pushed their regular season winning streak up to 18 games and are in control of their Firelands Conference title destiny.
CNBC was at the Centerville-Northmont game doing a special on the technology inside Centerville’s helmets. The Elks have special sensors in their Riddell helmets which collects data on hits to the head. The data is used to correct bad techniques and to track possible head injuries.
The Lexington Minutemen scored all 22 points in the fourth quarter during their 22-21 upset victory over Wooster last week. Lex scored on a blocked punt recovered by Mason Green and saw AJ Young connect with Brayden Fogle on the game-winning TD and two-point conversion to pull off the 11th-biggest upset in Ohio during the first half of the 2022 season.
Mansfield Senior’s Duke Reese connected with Amarr Davis on a 97-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter of the Tygers’ 21-10 win over New Philadelphia to put the game on ice. Locked in a defensive battle and needed a momentum changer, Reese found Davis streaking down the sideline and found his speedy receiver for the game-clinching score. The Mansfield Senior defense pitched a shutout in the second half of the win to end the Tygers’ two-game losing streak.
The Clear Fork Colts piled up 459 yards of total offense in a 36-10 win over Galion. Quarterback Victor Skoog completed 8-of-12 passes for 165 yards while Pawie Ault ran for 122 yards and a TD and Luke Schlosser ran for 110 yards and two TDs helping the Colts improve to 4-1 and 2-0 in the MOAC.
Chardon senior linebacker Heath Fetchik had 11 tackles, including two TFLs, to lead the Hilltoppers to a 31-14 win over Mayfield. Fellow linebacker Mario Tolo, a junior, also had 11 stops.
Hawken's Dominic Johnson set a school record with seven touchdowns in a 62-28 win over Grand Valley. He ran for 181 yards and four scores, caught two touchdowns for 68 yards and two scores, and had a 92-yard kick return for a score. He also had a pair of two-point conversions. He nearly had eight touchdowns, but a first quarter pick-six was nullified by a penalty.
Painesville Riverside quarterback Mikey Maloney, a junior threw for 203 yards and three touchdowns, and also ran for 66 yards and two scores, in the Beavers' 59-0 win over Madison.
Burton Berkshire quarterback Miles Miller threw for 309 yards and two touchdowns in a 35-21 win over Independence. A week ago, he ran for more than 300 yards in a win over Grand Valley.
Chagrin Falls Kenston junior Patrick ran for 82 yards and a touchdown, but on defense had nine tackles, an interception in the red zone, a PBU in the end zone and a TFL in the red zone in Kenston's 14-7 win over Lake Catholic.
Willoughby South's Tyrone Singleton scored all five of the Rebels' touchdowns in a 35-14 win over Eastlake North.
Alex Williams connected on 19-of-27 passes for 287 yards in Rossford's 47-7 win over Fostoria. The senior finished with five touchdowns and ran for another as the Bulldogs improved to 2-3, 1-1 in the Northern Buckeye Conference.
Lamar Sperling of Akron Archbishop Hoban already had more than 1,000 yards rushing in Hoban’s first four wins. Sperling added 232 yards and three TDs on a season-high 29 carries in a 28-7 win against Cleveland St. Ignatius. The University at Buffalo commit now has 1,235 yards and 17 TDs on 106 carries through five games.
Centerville’s sack for a safety in the first quarter marked the fourth game this year the Elks defense has scored.
Springboro, which had made a habit of having halftime leads and hanging on at the end, trailed Fairmont 13-0 at the half before rallying for a 21-19 win. Fairmont scored with less than two minutes in the game, but the two-point conversion was no good.
Zachariah Williams had 104 yards on 21 carries and five touchdowns in Wayne’s win over Miamisburg. Miamisburg’s Christian Davis had five kickoff returns for 214 yards including a 97-yarder for a touchdown. Wayne had a 426-193 advantage in total offense.
Valley View held Madison to eight first downs and 115 yards in total offense in improving to 4-1 with the 56-0 victory.
Gallia Academy quarterback Brody Fellure rushed for 122 yards and two touchdowns on 17 carries and completed 10-of-18 passes for 170 yards in the Blue Devils' 36-34 win at Portsmouth on Friday night.
Franklin Furnace Green running back Nathaniel Brannigan rushed for 216 yards and four touchdowns on 30 carries in the Bobcats' 43-18 win at Ashland Fairview (Ky.) on Friday night.
McDermott Northwest running back Wyatt Brackman rushed for 158 yards and four touchdowns on 34 carries, and caught one of only two Mohawk pass completions, in the Mohawks' 37-22 victory at Lucasville Valley on Friday night. Northwest's win over Valley snapped the Mohawks' 17-game losing streak to the archrival Indians, as their last win in the series came in 2000. The two did not play between 2014 and 2018.
Portsmouth Notre Dame running back Gavin Hart rushed for 295 yards and five touchdowns on 16 carries in the Titans' 62-26 win at Zanesville Bishop Rosecrans on Friday night.
Portsmouth West senior Ryan Sissel rushed for 179 yards and four touchdowns on 14 carries, and had 13 tackles and a tipped pass on defense in the Senators' 42-8 win over Columbus KIPP on Friday night.
Wheelersburg placekicker Connor Estep accounted for all dozen Pirate points in their 20-12 loss to Jackson on Friday night. Estep is now 5-of-5 on field-goal attempts this season, including makes of 24, 37, 40 and 37 against the Ironmen. His other field goal came against Ironton in the opener, as he is also 16-of-16 on extra-point kicks this season.
Matthew Papas completed 25 of 43 passes for 448 yards and four touchdowns and also rushed for 104 yards on 10 carries for Grove City in a 48-35 win over Marysville. JJ King (eight receptions for 196 yards) and Ryan Reber (7 for 103) each caught two TDs for the Greyhounds, who are 4-1 for the first time since 2002. Grove City went 12-68 the previous eight seasons.
Westerville South rushed for 322 yards in a 31-24 upset of previously unbeaten Big Walnut. Nasir Phillips ran for 164 yards and two scores and Ethan Hanna added 130 on just five carries. Just as important were Craig Morton's two fourth-and-1 stops of All-Ohio running back Nathan Severs.
Taizaun Burns rushed for 202 yards on just 12 carries and scored two TDs in Columbus East's 28-0 win over Dayton Belmont. Burns has amassed 691 total yards and scored 11 TDs in East's 4-0 start.
Talon Fisher and Ki’Arran Love each ran for more than 100 yards and two touchdowns as Fairfield knocked off Oak Hills 45-17 on Friday night. Fisher tallied 14 carries for 179 yards, while Love had six rushes for 133 yards. Fisher also had a touchdown pass in the third quarter. With the win, the Indians remain undefeated overall and tied at the top of the Greater Miami Conference with Lakota West and Mason.
Carroll quarterback Ryan Chapman threw four second-half touchdown passes in leading his team to a come-from-behind 44-37 win over Talawanda on Friday night. The senior signal caller threw for more than 300 yards total with Jack McGeady catching five passes for 120 yards and two scores. The Patriots (3-2) successfully ran two hook-and-ladder plays in the game that resulted in touchdowns, both by McGeady.
Jake Valerio and Braden Sullivan combined for more than 300 yards rushing and four touchdowns in leading Edgewood to a 35-21 win over Chaminade Julienne on Friday night. Valerio had 23 rushes for 155 yards and two touchdowns and Sullivan added 13 carries for 149 yards and a pair of touchdowns. It was the first time since a Division II second-round playoff win over Stebbins last season that the Cougars had two players with more than 100 yards rushing in the same game.
Monroe junior Ryan Miles rushed for 263 yards and two touchdowns as the Hornets topped Southwestern Buckeye League rival Oakwood 34-20 on Friday night. The win snapped a two-game losing skid for Monroe (3-2). It was the third straight game in which Miles ran for more than 100 yards and at least one touchdown. Senior Elijah Jackson also ran for 117 yards and two scores for the Hornets.
Valley View had not one, but two punt returns for touchdowns in a 56-0 win over Madison on Friday. Austin Stidham returned a punt 54 yards for a score early in the third quarter and Jacob Clark added a 74-yard return late in the period for the Spartans (4-1).
For the first half Friday night, a Cincinnati Taft line that had four players over 300 pounds and the others who played weighing in at 240 and 260 helped their speedy backs to a pair of long runs for scores as the Senators took a 19-0 halftime lead at Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin. Sparked by Matt Urda, Luke Peroni, Josh Grambo, and Brayden Buell, a very hard hitting band of linebackers for the NDCL Lions, who stopped the Taft offense early and often, recovering four second half fumbles including a score for Peroni, the Lions came up just short in a 25-22 thriller. Five fumble recoveries overall helped keep the Lions in the game, but Taft has major speed to go with the massive size, and held on for dear life to win after the long bus ride across the state. Taft won the total yardage battle by a 320-75 count, holding NDCL to just five first downs, but hard hitting in the second half by NDCL made the bus ride back to Cincinnati a rough one.} For the first time since 2003, Antwerp defeated Tinora in Green Meadows Conference football, downing the Rams 20-14 to move into a tie for the league lead. The Archers, led by QB Carson Altimus’ 286 pass yards and four completions to Landon Brewer for 102 yards, have never won a league title in football.
For the first time since the late 1990s, Defiance had two different players rush for over 100 yards in a single game during Friday’s 42-6 rout of Kenton. Junior Brogan Castillo rushed for 163 yards and two TDs on 17 carries for the Bulldogs while senior Craig Nichols added 108 yards and two scores on 13 attempts as Defiance beat Kenton at home for the first time since 2006.
Archbold saw a streak of 24 straight regular-season victories snapped in Friday’s 16-0 loss to No. 5 Liberty Center, but an even longer streak came to an end in the loss. The blanking marked the first time Archbold had been shutout since a 7-0 loss to Wauseon on Sept. 23, 2016, a run of 66 straight games.
Speaking of streaks, Paulding saw its 14-game losing streak snapped with a 29-10 win at Fairview. The victory marked the first win of the year, first for interim coach Jim Menzie and the first Green Mewadows Conference win for Paulding after nine straight losses in league play since re-joining in 2021 after 47 years away.
North Central running back Joey Burt was dominant on the ground with 272 yards and three touchdowns as the Eagles defeated Fairport Harding 46-0 to move to 3-2 on the season.
A week after offensive tackle Ty Goodwin ran for 288 yards and 2 TDs, Blanchester got another big performance in a 45-22 win over Goshen. Michael Mulvihill, the quarterback who missed Week 4 and forced the team to go with the unusual offensive gameplan, was back and made his mark. The sophomore passed for a school record 438 yards and 4 TDs while running for 132 yards and another score. Bryce Sipple was the favorite target with 13 receptions for 179 yards and 2 TDs. However, Dustin Trace was the big-play guy with TD catches of 70 and 80 yards.
Wilmington has scored defensive and/or special teams points in each of the first five games this season. The Hurricane has a safety, 2 fumble recoveries for a touchdown, 4 interception returns for a touchdown and a punt return for touchdown.
Cameron Snider of Bethel-Tate passed for 279 yards and 2 scores while also running for 96 yards and 3 TDs in a 49-7 win over Batavia.
Defending Div. IV state champion Clinton-Massie won its first game of the year 31-17 over Div. II Harrison. The Falcons did not attempt a pass, rushing 49 times for 343 yards.
Anderson junior Brodey Berg rushed for 131 yards and five touchdowns in their 51-18 win at Walnut Hills.
Kings quarterback Will Kocher was 27-for-34 passing for 338 yards and four touchdowns plus rushed for 67 yards and two scores in their 41-7 win over Milford. Kings receiver Michael Mussari had eight catches for 235 yards and four scores in the Knights 41-7 win over Milford.
Winton Woods running back Trey Cornist ran for 176 yards and two touchdowns in their 41-7 win over Little Miami.
Moeller’s Jordan Marshall was MVP of the Skyline Chili Crosstown Showdown game at St. Xavier with 134 yards rushing and a touchdown and the game-winning 29-yard scoring reception. Moeller won 20-17.
Edgewood junior Braden Sullivan ran for 149 yards and two scores in their 35-21 win over Chaminade-Julienne.
Eric Davis of Lakota East had 214 yards rushing as the Thunderhawks beat Hamilton 21-7.
Fairfield junior quarterback Talon Fisher ran for 179 yards and two touchdowns and had 81 yards passing for a score as Fairfield defeated Oak Hills 45-17.
Deer Park’s Kendall Luckett had 227 yards and two touchdowns as the Wildcats beat Taylor 34-27.
Western Brown’s Zachary Chisman had 121 yards rushing and three touchdowns and three receptions for 75 yards and a score in Western Brown’s 51-14 victory over Miami Trace.
Blanchester sophomore quarterback Michael Mulvihill had 437 yards passing for four touchdowns and 132 yards on the ground for another score as the Wildcats beat Goshen 45-22.
Getting “six” took on new meaning for Liberty-Benton’s Kam Garlock and Upper Scioto Valley’s Alex Sanders on Friday. Garlock, a senior quarterback completed 20 of 23 passes for 460 yards and six touchdowns in the Eagles 70-0 win over Cory-Rawson. The six TD passes broke the single-game school record Garlock set last season in a playoff game with Elmwood. L-B kicker Cason Doolittle converted 10-of-10 PAT kicks in the contest, tying him with several others for the 12th most PAT conversions in a single game. Sanders had just seven carries in USV’s game with Crestline, but scored on six of those seven carries and churned out 236 yards rushing in the Rams 84-8 win.
McComb’s Andrew Swisher had 17 carries for 112 yards and three touchdowns and caught three passes for 35 yards in a key Blanchard Valley Conference game against Pandora-Gilboa on Friday. Swisher was clutch late in the game. When starting quarterback Grant Dishong was injured, Swisher stepped under center, rushed for 50 yards on seven carries on a make-or-break final drive, and guided the Panthers to a game-winning TD in the final minute of their 35-28 win.
Coldwater kicker Justin Kaup had his streak of 56 consecutive extra points snapped when he kicked the first attempt against St. Henry off the goal post in a 41-7 win over the Redskins. The streak is second-most all-time in Coldwater history behind Mario de la Rosa’s 57 straight.
Van Wert defeated St. Marys Memorial 70-41. The 70 points is the most the Roughriders have allowed since 2012 (losing 62-0 to Ottawa-Glandorf) is likely the most allowed all-time. Roughrider running back Aiden Hinkle rushed for 246 yards and two touchdown in the loss.
Bryce Schondelmyer completed 17 of 18 passes for 343 yards and six touchdowns in Springfield’s 49-17 victory over Beavercreek. Daylen Bradley caught seven passes for 126 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Wildcats’ deep and talented receiving corps.
Drake Wells completed 20 of 33 passes for 319 yards and three touchdowns in Centerville’s 37-6 victory over Clayton Northmont. Joseph Jean-Louis led the defense with 2.5 sacks and the 2.5 tackles for loss. The Elks had six sacks and 11 tackles for loss against previously unbeaten Northmont. The Elks are allowing 5.2 points a game.
Xavier Jones rushed for 217 yards and four touchdowns on 23 carries in Tipp City Tippecanoe’s 45-7 victory over Riverside Stebbins.
Gavin McManus and Tremmell Wright teamed up to lead Xenia to a 55-21 victory over Greenville. McManus completed 10 of 14 passes for 264 yards and four touchdowns. Wright caught five passes for 210 yards and four touchdowns. Brock Short led Greenville with 169 yards and two touchdowns on 17 carries.
Brock Ebright threw for 335 yards and a touchdown to lead Eaton to a 31-21 victory over Waynesville. Leslie Orr caught seven passes for 123 yards and Brayden Deem caught nine for 99 yards.
Elijah Brooks rushed for 195 yards and a touchdown on 17 carries to lead Bellbrook to a 35-7 victory over Franklin. Tanner Stewart added 127 yards and a 73-yard touchdown on nine carries.
Daniel Kamara rushed for 184 yards and two touchdowns on 27 carries to lead Springfield Catholic Central to a 34-28 overtime victory over West Jefferson. Kamara scored the winning touchdown on a 24-yard run. Austin Buescher threw for 279 yards and two touchdowns for WJ.
Cade Houseman completed 10 of 15 passes for 234 yards and three touchdowns to lead Springfield Northeastern to a 50-0 victory over Southeastern.
Will Donahoe threw for 281 yards and four touchdowns in Urbana’s 47-7 victory over Springfield Kenton Ridge. Rayvon Rogan caught seven passes for 131 yards and two scores, and Jonathan Hildebrand caught five for 150 and two scores.
R.J. Griffin completed 9 of 11 passes for 236 yards and three touchdowns to lead Springfield Shawnee to a 53-13 victory over Springfield Northwestern.
Lucas Berner rushed for 305 yards on 35 carries and scored on runs of 2, 43, 9 and 41 yards in New Carlisle Tecumseh’s 35-14 victory over Bellefontaine Ben Logan. | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/20/opswa-recognizes-some-standouts-from-week-5/69506540007/ | 2022-09-20T16:17:08Z | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | control | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/20/opswa-recognizes-some-standouts-from-week-5/69506540007/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Border officials in the US arrested more than 2 million illegal immigrants in the past 11 months at the southern border — a record high driven by a hike in migration from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, according to figures released by Customs and Border Protection.
There were 203,598 encounters along the southern border in August, a 1.7% increase over July’s 199,976 figure but lower than the 209,840 encounters recorded last August, the CBP said in a release Monday.
Of those encounters, 55,333 were migrants from Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua, representing a 175% spike from a year ago, the figures show.
At the same time, encounters with migrants from Mexico and Central America fell for the third month in a row — a 43% decrease from a year ago.
Of the August total, the CPB said 157,921 were unique migrant encounters, while the remainder involved repeated encounters with migrants who had already been expelled or deported.
“Failing communist regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba are driving a new wave of migration across the Western Hemisphere, including the recent increase in encounters at the southwest U.S. border,” CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus said in a statement.
With one month to go before the end of fiscal year 2022, the CBP said encounters at the southern border have exceeded 2,150,244. The figures also show that 75,153 individuals encountered last month were expelled under the Title 42 health policy guidelines restricting access to people who may have the coronavirus.
Magnus said the Biden administration is still working with leaders in Central and South America to address the “root causes of migration” of poverty, escalating crime and political upheaval.
But Republicans, who blame President Biden’s lax immigration policies for opening the floodgates at the border, have seized on the crisis and have been shipping migrants to cities across the country to drive home the burdens an unsecured border can cause.
“Maybe, just maybe, now that this crisis has caught the attention of the mayors of Washington, DC, New York, and Chicago, maybe the Administration will pay attention to those mayors when they’ve ignored this problem so far,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said in a statement in response to the CBP figures.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a possible Republican presidential contender in 2024, created a stir last week when he flew 48 migrants — mostly from Venezuela — to the ritzy enclave of Martha’s Vineyard.
DeSantis pointed out the hypocrisy of Democrats who are outraged at his sending migrants to the Vineyard while remaining quiet about the horrendous and dangerous conditions they face trying to cross the US border.
“Millions of people since Biden’s been president, illegally coming across the southern border. Did they freak out about that? No,” DeSantis told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Monday night. “You’ve had migrants die in the Rio Grande — you had 50 die in Texas in a trailer because they were being neglected. Was there a freak-out about that? No, there wasn’t.”
“It’s only when 50 [migrants] get put into Martha’s Vineyard” that their outrage emerges, he said.
The crisis at the border has also sparked a feud between Mayor Eric Adams and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who this summer has been shipping thousands of immigrants by the busload to the Big Apple.
Adams said the city is weighing legal challenges to stop Abbott from relocating migrants from the Lone Star State to New York.
”We’re looking at that,” Adams said Sunday. “We believe there’s some options we have, because when you involuntarily place someone on a bus, we believe that actually skates the law. And so our legal team is looking at this.”
A spokeswoman for Abbott said their operation was legal.
“Migrants on Texas’ buses willingly chose to go to New York, having signed a voluntary consent waiver available in multiple languages upon boarding that they agreed on the destination,” Renae Eze said.
“Each bus is stocked with food and water and makes stops along the trip to refuel and switch drivers. Migrants are allowed to purchase any needed provisions or disembark at any of these stops, as they have been processed and released by the federal government,” she said. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/20/arrests-at-us-mexico-border-surpass-2-million/ | 2022-09-20T16:19:00Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/20/arrests-at-us-mexico-border-surpass-2-million/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Local Sports: Ida soccer extends perfect start with third shutout in a row
IDA − Ida's boys soccer team has looked unbeatable at times this year.
The Blue Streaks are off a perfect 11-0 start and a have averaged an incredible 5.1 goals per game through that stretch.
But just as often, it's the defense that has made the difference, head coach Tim Allen said.
"Everyone has embraced their part of the team," Allen said. "A lot of times the goals get recognized, but our defense and half backs are in the trenches every game."
The defense has been getting its due more recently. Ida recorded its third-straight shutout Monday night with a 5-0 win over Blissfield.
Ida had 17 shots in the first half but could not find the back of the net until the 22-minute mark with a goal from Grantham Nelson on a pass from Dustin Holycross.
Nelson scored three goals in the game to lead the Blue Streaks. Evan Schmidtz added two goals and as assist. Dillion Holycross and Asher Hamm also had assists.
Hamm has been a welcome contributor to the team.
"Asher is not a starter but has been very productive up front," Allen said. "He plays with a lot of energy and the team feed off of it."
Ida sits in first place and improved to 5-0 in the Lenawee County Athletic Association.
"Overall, it was a good team effort," Allen said.
PREP SOCCER
SMCC mercies Jefferson
Holden Kennedy and Will Schafer scored two goals each to lead St. Mary Catholic Central to an 8-0 win over Jefferson Monday.
Jaden Paquette, Seth Hendrick, Carter Hoffman, and Steven Hypio also scored for the Falcons. Kennedy added five assists, while Paquette, Hypio, and Schafer had one apiece. Trent Zachel and Cameron Cole shared the shutout in goal.
"We were able to spread the ball around and get some new players on the scorebook today," SMCC coach Nathan Olson said.
Jasso leads rout
SOUTHGATE − Luis Jasso scored three goals and an assist to lead Gibraltar Carlson to an 8-0 win over Southgate Anderson Monday.
Nick Valadez also recorded a hat trick, with other tallies from Harry Elmazaj and Aidan Malec. Kyler Ostrowski had four assists and Zack Walder had 2.
Carlson improved to 8-1-4 overall and 4-0-2 in the Downriver League.
PREP VOLLEYBALL
Kestrels sweep Milan
MILAN − St. Mary Catholic Central improved to 13-4 overall and 3-0 in the Huron League with a three-set sweep over Milan Monday, winning 25-15, 25-14, 25-18.
Jessica Costlow led SMCC in both kills (16) and digs (16). McKenna Payne added 8 kills and 19 assists, Leah DeSarbo had 19 assists and 3 aces, Raelyn Turner recorded 12 digs and 2 aces, Madeline Dettling had 7 kills and 2 blocks, and Ashley Ruhlig had 9 digs and 2 aces.
Airport wins in four
CARLETON − Airport defeated Jefferson in four sets Monday, winning 25-23, 25-18, 24-26, 25-14 to improve to 8-12 overall and 2-1 in the Huron League.
Savannah Barkley (11 kills), RaeAnn Drummond (8 kills), and Joelle Shrewsbury (23 assists) led the offense. Defensively, Jade Mittendorf led with 13 digs and Peyton Zajac had 12.
Mya Salazar had a great game for the Bears with 20 assists, 14 digs and 2 aces. Lindsey Gennoe had 14 digs, Julia Perry led in kills with 7, and Gracie Jones added 6 kills and 3 blocks.
Huron defense shines
NEW BOSTON − New Boston Huron struggled in the second set but rolled past Flat Rock Monday night, 25-17, 9-25, 25-22, 25-10.
Huron played well defensively, with five players recording five or more digs, led by Miranda Jasinski and Allison Hollingshead with 11 apiece. Gabby Cumbo posted 5 kills, 6 digs and 4 assists, Ellen Town had 7 kills and 8 digs, and Quinn Drysdale added 5 digs and 9 assists.
Carlson splits tri
ERIE − Gibraltar Carlson went 1-1 Monday in a tri-match at Erie Mason, defeating the host school 20-25, 25-16, 25-17 and falling to Hudson 25-19, 25-22.
Abby Schenavar led Carlson with 12 kills, 3 blocks and 3 digs against Mason. Emma Ferguson added 32 assists, 7 digs and 3 kills, Skylar Zaranka had 11 digs, 8 kills and 6 aces, and Ava Romej recorded 5 kills and 5 aces.
"We started out slow, but once we got our attacking going, we looked much better," Carlson coach Bill Henneman said. "The girls are having fun this season and they are trying things we talk about and have worked on. It's great to see the progress."
Zaranka also had a strong game against Hudson with 8 kills, 6 digs and 5 aces. Carlson moved to 4-6 overall.
Mason went 0-2 on the day, also falling to Hudson 27-25, 29-27.
Cami Zaleski (18 digs, 17 points, 7 aces), Elizabeth Sweeney (10 kills, 2 blocks), Jayanna Willets (10 digs), Brooklyn Langenderfer (21 assists, 12 points, 9 digs), and Geneva Bomia (6 points, 4 aces) played well for the Eagles.
PREP GOLF
Three share medalist
NEW BOSTON − Three girls shared medalist honors as New Boston Huron slipped past St. Mary Catholic Central by just two strokes 236-238 Monday at Willow Metropark.
SMCC's Alaina Wille and Gracie Gentry both carded a 55 to share the top spot with Huron's Addison Bozynski.
Huron had the next three scores with Mira Lazenby (60), AJ Skene (60), and Brooklyn Burke (64). SMCC's Emma Gessner, Ana Cuccia, and Emily Bellino also all scored 64.
Bears move to 14-1
Jefferson improved to 14-1 in match play this season with a 193-242 win over Airport Monday at Big Al's Greens & Grille.
Jefferson's Rylee Dunn had a career-best day on the course. She hit three pars and was medalist with an 8-over 44. The senior was closely followed by teammates Callie Calvin (46) and Kayce Maitland (48).
Sophie Bucki (54) and Hannah Roof (56) led Airport.
Marauders second
BROWNSTOWN − Gibraltar Carlson was runner-up Monday in a Downriver League jamboree at Lake Erie Metropark Golf Course.
Woodhaven was first with 198, Carlson second with 211, and Wyandotte Roosevelt third with 274.
Anika Irwin was third and led the Marauders with a 50. Madison Cooper and Madilyn Peterson shot 53, and Brooklyn DesJardins added a 55. Woodhaven's Abigail Saco was medalist with a 42.
JUNIOR HIGH VOLLEYBALL
Summerfield wins twice
PETERSBURG − Summerfield won twice Monday, with the seventh grade taking a 25-6, 25-21, 25-8 win over Sand Creek and the eighth grade winning 25-18, 25-23, 24-25.
Kennidi Bork had great serving for seventh grade with 15 aces. Sophia LaChapelle played strong defense, while Ava Eyle, Savanna Novencio, and Abby Raymond set well.
Elena Miller recorded 11 attacks for eighth grade. Gabi Myshock, Sophie Stanger, and Addison Rodger also played well. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/09/20/local-sports-ida-soccer-extends-perfect-start-with-third-straight-shutout/69505422007/ | 2022-09-20T16:22:37Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/09/20/local-sports-ida-soccer-extends-perfect-start-with-third-straight-shutout/69505422007/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FAIRPLAIN TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Troopers are requesting the public’s assistance in locating a vehicle they say was involved in a hit-and-run in Montcalm County this Monday.
Michigan State Police (MSP) says the incident occurred before midnight near Brown and Fenwick roads in Fairplain Township.
We’re told a 44-year-old Sheridan man rode east on a moped when he was hit by a maroon sedan that was also driving east. The sedan reportedly took off after the crash.
The Sheridan man was hospitalized with critical injuries, according to MSP.
Authorities are now seeking the vehicle, described as a maroon 2006–2013 Chevy Impala with possible damage to the front passenger side.
Those with information related to the incident or the vehicle involved are encouraged to connect with troopers at 989-352-8444. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/michigan/montcalm/msp-sheridan-man-critically-hurt-in-fairplain-twp-hit-and-run-vehicle-sought | 2022-09-20T16:22:45Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/michigan/montcalm/msp-sheridan-man-critically-hurt-in-fairplain-twp-hit-and-run-vehicle-sought | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Mexican qualifier Fernanda Contreras Gomez defeated 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin 7-6(7), 6-4 in the first round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open. The victory was Contreras Gomez's first career win in a Hologic WTA Tour main-draw match.
Ranked No.131, Contreras Gomez will face No.4 seed Veronika Kudermetova in the next round.
In the night session, defending champion Naomi Osaka advanced after just one game. The home favorite was leading 1-0, 30-30 when Daria Saville injured her knee leaping for a forehand. The Australian collapsed to the ground in pain, and after treatment, she was unable to continue.
A message from @naomiosaka to @Daria_gav, who was forced to retire from their match through injury 💜 pic.twitter.com/EOvdV6512r
— wta (@WTA) September 20, 2022
Afterwards, Osaka sent well wishes to Saville in a video message.
"I just wanted to wish you the best," she said. "I just want to let you know you're one of the funniest people on the tour, and I still remember all the nice things that you said to me at the French [Open] this year. I want you to know that I'm wishing you the best. I hope that it's not a major injury at all and you'll bounce back, because I know that's what you're good at."
Osaka will next face No.5 seed Beatriz Haddad Maia, who held off 21-year-old wild card Yuki Naito 6-4, 6-2 in 1 hour and 44 minutes. Japan's Naito battled hard in her second WTA main-draw match, but despite some brilliance at net, the World No.210 could not match Haddad Maia's consistency.
Highlights: Haddad Maia d. Naito
Despite her position as a qualifier, Contreras Gomez was the higher-ranked player in her Tokyo opener. Kenin, who reached a career-high No.4 in 2020, has seen her ranking slip to No.315 as she works her way back from injury.
After saving a set point late in the first-set tiebreak, Contreras Gomez dominated the second set to build a 5-1 lead. Kenin fought valiantly to put the set back on serve, but Contreras Gomez broke the American one last time to seal the win after 1 hour and 46 minutes.
Jumping for joy in Japan 🥳
— wta (@WTA) September 20, 2022
Qualifier 🇲🇽 Fernanda Contreras Gomez defeats Kenin 7-6(7), 6-4 to notch her first Hologic WTA Tour main draw victory!#TorayPPO pic.twitter.com/14c3GLXxt2
Contreras Gomez, 24, made her tour-level debut at Roland Garros in the spring. After qualifying for her first Slam main draw, the three-time All-American from Vanderbilt beat Panna Udvardy to earn her first tour-level win. While she continued to successfully qualify at the Slams, it was not until Tokyo that Contreras Gomez earned a spot in the main draw of a WTA tournament.
From robots to novels, Fernanda Contreras Gomez's unorthodox path to the WTA
Efficient display from Kája 💥
— wta (@WTA) September 20, 2022
No.6 seed @KaPliskova takes out qualifier Shinikova to reach the last 16 in Tokyo, where she will face Martic!#TorayPPO pic.twitter.com/icwkEMzQ1A
No.6 seed Karolina Pliskova and No.28 Zhang Shuai needed just 57 minutes each to advance to the second round. Pliskova defeated Bulgarian qualifier Isabella Shinikova 6-2, 6-1 and will face Petra Martic.
Zhang ousted Japanese wild card Mai Hontama 6-0, 6-3. She will face No.2 seed Caroline Garcia. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2797491/contreras-gomez-ousts-kenin-in-tokyo-osaka-advances-after-saville-injury | 2022-09-20T16:29:49Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2797491/contreras-gomez-ousts-kenin-in-tokyo-osaka-advances-after-saville-injury | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Reaction: Healthcare-focused Craneware given positive sales prognosis after FY leap
Edinburgh-based healthcare-focused tech firm Craneware has said it is looking to press the accelerator on shareholder value after seeing annual revenues more than double on the back of a major acquisition.
The London-listed firm, which provides billing and healthcare analytics software to US hospitals, has revealed how revenues in the 12 months ending June 30 increased by 119 per cent from the previous year to $165.5 million (£145m), in line with a trading update for the year released in July.
Annual recurring revenue was up by 164 per cent to $170.3m, 80 per cent of which is now from the cloud, and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (ebitda) jumped 91 per cent to $51.8m, with the combined group adjusted ebitda margin target of 30 per cent reported as having been achieved ahead of schedule.
Basic adjusted earnings per share grew 29 per cent to 89 cents, with Craneware outlining a proposed final dividend of 15.5p per share (18.80 cents), the same as a year previously, and giving a total dividend for the year of 28p per share, up 2 per cent.
Statutory pre-tax profit was broadly flat at $13.1m, on the back of costs related to the group’s £280m takeover of Florida-based Sentry Data Systems that was announced in the summer of 2021.
As for whether the company has more deals in its sights, it said it is keeping an eye out for opportunities, but doubted that any acquisitions in the short term would be of a similar scale to Sentry.
Chief executive Keith Neilson said: “We are pleased to be reporting such positive results, which clearly demonstrate the increased scale of the enlarged Craneware Group and the breadth of our future opportunity. The addition of Sentry, which was completed and integrated during the fiscal year, represents a significant milestone for Craneware.
“Whilst we remain cognisant of the ongoing challenges faced by our customers and partners, we are proud of the manner in which the group has dealt with the challenging backdrop during the year.
"Now, with our expanded and reorganised team we are confident we will be able to serve the considerable market need within the US healthcare space through the next stage of our evolution.
Robust
“We anticipate accelerated levels of sales moving forward, delivering our next phase of growth. We have a robust balance sheet, high recurring revenues and with our high levels of customer retention, we look to further increase shareholder value.”
Analysts Damindu Jayaweera and James Lockyer at house broker Peel Hunt noted their “buy” rating, adding: “While the results across revenue and cash generation are in line with the trading update, they do act as a reminder of how much of a transformation Craneware has undergone in the year. Despite good and improving execution, we think the market is not valuing the company appropriately.”
Also recommending Craneware as a “buy” were Berenberg analysts, deeming it “a rare UK asset that we think is an excellent inflationary play”. They added: “Our recent visit to Craneware’s offices gave us a unique insight into how complex a problem [it] is solving for its customers and the future benefit its software can bring in delivering value-based healthcare in the US… we expect at least low double-digit revenue growth for the group over the coming years.”
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Dogs On The Brink 2022: Here are the 10 native breeds of adorable dog most at risk of extinction in Britain - including Greyfriars Bobby breed 🐕
Dog ownership may have rocketed during the covid lockdowns, but these native breeds of pup are struggling to survive.
Many of us welcomed new puppies to our families over the last two years, as the Kennel Club saw dog ownership soar over the global pandemic.
But the growing popularity of imported breeds like the French Bull Dog mean that some of the UK’s formerly well-established native breeds are dwindling towards extinction on these shores.
A total of 32 breeds are now ‘considered vulnerable’ by the Kennel Club, having fallen below 300 annual registrations. including such previously-popular pups as the King Charles Spaniel and the Cardigan Welsh Corgi.
Even the Skye Terrier, the breed famous for loyalty and typified by Edinburgh’s Greyfriar's Bobby, is at risk.
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Kennel Club Secretary, Caroline Kisko, said: “We could lose even more of our most iconic and historic native dog breeds if people don’t look beyond the most obvious choices and start to explore the huge diversity of breeds we’re lucky enough to have in this country.”
So, if you’d like to help one of the UK's struggling breeds, opt for one of these instead of the usual Labrador Retriever or Springer Spaniel.
Here are the 10 most at risk breeds of dog in the UK.
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Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee for governor in Georgia, is up against a GOP incumbent in a generally favorable Republican environment, while trying to meet the high expectations following her narrow defeat in the 2018 race. But she's found an issue to center her campaign around as Election Day approaches: protecting abortion rights in Georgia.
"It's going to be front and center in the conversation," Abrams told CNN in an interview Saturday while campaigning at a farmers market in Atlanta.
In particular, Abrams has focused on a 2019 law signed by her Republican rival, Gov. Brian Kemp, that bans most abortions when early cardiac activity is detected, which can be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy -- when many women don't yet know they're pregnant. After initially being blocked, the law went into effect earlier this year following the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade -- a decision that has energized Democrats across the country, helping shift the midterm political landscape into more unsettled territory. Abrams is testing how much the issue can shift things in her favor in a state President Joe Biden narrowly carried in 2020, but that has long voted Republican.
"Women deserve full citizenship in the United States and certainly in the state of Georgia, and they are being denied that because of Brian Kemp's 6-week ban," said Abrams, who lost to Kemp by fewer than 2 points four years ago. She says she hears from outraged health care providers as she travels the state. "We are driving not only doctors and nurses out of the state, we're likely going to drive jobs away. And that should be terrifying to anyone regardless of your political persuasion."
Meanwhile, the Republican governor has stood by the law, which provides some exceptions, and has otherwise stayed focused on pocketbook issues. When asked by CNN about South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham's recent proposal for a nationwide ban on most abortions after 15 weeks, his campaign said Kemp has "consistently affirmed" his opposition to abortion.
"Rather than be sidetracked by the latest national media frenzy, he will continue to focus on bringing hardworking Georgians relief from 40-year-high inflation through tax relief and creating economic opportunities in every corner of the state," Kemp campaign spokesman Tate Mitchell said in an emailed statement.
The different approaches from Abrams and Kemp reflect their divergent theories about what drives swing voters in a state where elections have been increasingly decided by slim margins. Georgia is also home to one of the most high-profile Senate races of the year, as Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock runs for a full six-year term. Nationally, Democrats have been encouraged by both polling and better-than-expected outcomes in recent special elections that signaled opposition to restrictions on abortion rights. But Republicans are betting that voters are more concerned about inflation and other pressing economic issues.
A September Quinnipiac poll shows just how close the race is, with 50% of likely voters supporting Kemp and 48% supporting Abrams. Quinnipiac found 57% of likely voters in Georgia say it's very important a candidate shares their views on abortion. Within that group, 63% back Abrams and 36% support Kemp. But in the same poll, 41% of likely voters ranked "inflation" as the most urgent issue facing Georgia, while just 12% said the same of "abortion." The numbers were similar in a new Marist poll, which found 40% of registered voters in Georgia ranked "inflation" as the most important issue this election and just 16% saying the same about "abortion." The Marist poll found 50% of registered voters supporting Kemp and 44% supporting Abrams.
"Governor Kemp's position is his position, and there's much more important issues for the state of Georgia than just the abortion issue," Dr. Barry Zisholtz, a Kemp supporter, told CNN following the governor's remarks at a Republican Jewish Coalition forum Sunday in Sandy Springs. "People want to make it just about one issue, but I think people need to be concerned about paying for their groceries and for gasoline too."
But Abrams supporters say abortion could be a deciding factor that could sway women who previously voted for Kemp.
"I think it could be the difference in our state," said Rosa Thurnher, an owner of an Atlanta Mexican restaurant who was at the farmers market Saturday.
"I'm hoping that women can be kind to other women and just know that we need to make some changes, and protect this right, for our future generations for our fellow sisters."
Abrams' evolution on abortion
The daughter of Methodist pastors with roots in Southern Mississippi, Abrams has not always advocated for abortion rights. At an Emily's List Gala in May she detailed how, as a teenager, she regretted dismissing a friend who suggested she needed an abortion.
Abrams went on to say that as a young professional, when she thought more deeply about her views, she realized her position had changed.
"I was wrong but I worked hard to make myself right," she said at the gala.
Today, Abrams does not support any government restrictions on abortion, arguing it is a medical issue that should not be bound by "arbitrary" timelines. On the trail, she talks about her personal evolution on abortion and amplified the issue last month at a roundtable for women who suffered pregnancy loss.
Since the Supreme Court's decision this summer, Abrams' campaign has gone after Kemp hard on abortion.
One of her TV ads calls Kemp's position on abortion "extreme and dangerous" and says he "signed the most extreme abortion law in the nation." The ad goes on to suggest Kemp would seek even more restrictions than the current state law, based on his personal opposition to abortion.
And some anti-abortion activists are pushing for the governor to go farther. Georgia Right to Life is circulating among activist groups a petition, first reported by the Atlanta Journal Constitution and obtained by CNN, designed to pressure Kemp to call a special session of the general assembly to pass legislation that would ban practically all abortions in the state.
"We have no plans to call a special session and the governor has made abundantly clear that his focus is on implementing the 2019 legislation," said Kemp spokesman Cody Hall.
Staying focused on the economy
While Kemp says he is committed to enforcing the current abortion law, he has taken a less strident tone on the issue than some of his fellow Republicans nationally.
"I understand people may disagree on when an abortion should be legal or when it shouldn't be," he said at a campaign event last week in Atlanta.
When asked about the issue on the trail, Kemp frequently brings up his wife, Marty, and his three adult daughters. He touts the limits on abortion he signed into law but also mentions other policy initiatives he says demonstrate that his administration respects "the sanctity of life."
"We've also done adoption reform. We have done foster care reform," Kemp said last week at a conference put on by the Family Research Council, a conservative interest group.
But the governor is quick to pivot to economic issues -- from criticizing President Joe Biden's record on inflation to talking up his own record on economic development and willingness to keep businesses and churches open in the state during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A person familiar with the campaign tells CNN that Kemp's internal data suggest inflation and the cost of living remain the most important issues in voters' minds -- with abortion farther down the list of concerns.
But Democrats remain convinced the restriction of abortion has opened up independent and even Republican voters to supporting Abrams.
"I think that her stance on abortion is going to help her in the election. ... Folks who are pro-life or anti-abortion try to make abortion seem like a partisan issue, but I don't think it actually is," said Cazembe Murphy Jackson, a Jonesboro-based community organizer.
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Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday told the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals that it should not lift the hold a lower court judge put on the Justice Department using Mar-a-Lago documents identified as classified in its criminal probe.
Trump argued that "the District Court's orders are a sensible preliminary step toward restoring order from chaos, and this Court should therefore deny the Government's Motion."
The case is traveling to the 11th Circuit after Trump successfully sued to obtain a special master -- i.e. a third party attorney -- to review the materials the FBI seized at Mar-a-Lago last month, and the focus is now around who can work through about 100 seized records marked as classified first.
The Justice Department is appealing a federal judge's move to order pause the investigation for the special master review and has asked the appeals court to carve out the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago that were marked as classified.
Prosecutors have argued that pausing the criminal investigation into them poses national security risks. They say that the criminal probe cannot be decoupled from an intelligence community assessment of the documents that US District Judge Aileen Cannon has allowed to proceed. In court filings last week, the Justice Department rejected the idea that Trump could claim that any of those 100 records were his personal records -- a claim Trump could make as he tried to keep the materials from investigators' hands. Additionally, the Justice Department has questioned how Cannon has inserted herself in the dispute in the first place, arguing that the judge did not have the authority to interfere with prosecutors' review of the documents.
The litigation at the 11th Circuit is playing out as the court-appointed special master, Brooklyn-based senior Judge Raymond Dearie, has begun setting up the process for his review. Later Tuesday, he will hold the status conference with the parties to discuss the process' next steps. In a letter to Dearie Monday evening, the Trump team signaled resistance to explaining at the start of the review which documents Trump supposedly declassified.
Trump has claimed in media interviews that he declassified the documents from his White House he took back to his Florida home, but his attorneys have stopped well short of making such an assertion in court.
This story is breaking and will be updated.
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US midterm elections: When are the US midterm elections, how do they work and will they impact President Biden and the 2024 election?
Americans will head to the polls in a series of votes that will impact the future of the country, and the political landscape until 2024.
The midterm elections will be held midway through the presidency of Joe Biden, and will shape Congress, state governors and other offices until the next election,
Here’s everything you need to know.
When are the Midterm elections?
The midterm elections are held near the middle of the current US president’s time in office, on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November.
US voters will head to the polls on 8 November 2022.
When will we know the results of the midterm elections?
During the 2018 midterms, the results were formally announced the night of the election after polls officially closed. If the trend was to continue, results would be announced within 24 hours for the majority of seats.
What do the Midterm elections decide?
The midterms see Americans electing the members of their Congress, along with state governors and a variety of other state and local offices.
All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are up for grabs and a further 35 seats are being contested in the Senate – the two institutions that make up Congress.
Who controls the House of Representatives and Senate?
Currently the Democrats control the House of Representatives but only by a small margin. The Senate is split down the middle with an even number of seats, however Vice President Kamala Harris holds the deciding vote.
Will the midterm elections impact the 2024 vote?
Yes, and no.
Effectively the electoral college resets during a Presidential Election – so will do so in 2024- however, the midterms will give an indication of how the president is fairing, and the general public’s attitude towards the US president. The midterms, in a way, will always reflect on the incumbent – but will also impact how much a sitting president can get done in the next two years.
Lessons could also be learned from history. In 2018 for example, Donald Trump lost 42 seats in Congress. He would then go on to lose the 2020 election. However, with so much still to play for in two years, the vote is likely to be nothing more than a poll.
It is more common for presidents to lose seats in the midterms however - with emphasis on the opposition supporters to turn up at the polls. However, it is important to note that unlike presidential elections, midterm seats can often be decided on local issues - or state wide policy.
What will the midterms do and how will they impact the US Government?
The midterms will decide the political landscape of each house in the bill passing stage of US politics. Effectively, a Republican majority or a marginal lead will mean it is increasingly difficult for the president to operate. As a result of marginal control since assuming office in January 2021, the president’s legislation on issues including gun control and voting rights has often stalled.
Have the Presidential candidates for 2024 been decided?
The candidates for the 2024 election are not yet decided and the midterms could impact whether Biden opts to run again. The race looks likely to be between Biden and Trump, the latter has yet to announce his formal bid, while the incumbent will be 81 in 2024 – which to many Democrats is a major cause of concern.
What is the likely outcome and what can we expect from the result?
They say it is foolish to ever try and predict in politics, however, the landscape makes the Senate particularly interesting. Of the 35 seats up for election, 21 are held by the GOP. But all of the 14 Democratic seats are in states that also voted for Biden in the 2020 election.
Experts have stated that the Senate slightly in the Republicans’ favour, with only five “toss-up” seats that the Democrats could likely win back. However, some candidates have performed at a poorer level early on for the Republicans - with some concerns from their party that they will fail in gaining the majority they seek.
Republicans are more hopeful regarding the Congress’s lower chamber, the House of Representatives, with the Democrats holding a narrow majority in the House, with 221 seats - a majority of just three. The Republicans have 212, and two seats are vacant.
Redistricting in many areas for the first time could see the Republicans claim the majority in the house. However, in five special congressional elections, where the incumbent has either resigned or died, since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, a Democrat representative has triumphed. | https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/us-midterm-elections-when-are-the-us-midterm-elections-how-do-they-work-and-will-they-impact-president-biden-and-the-2024-election-3849417 | 2022-09-20T16:31:13Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/us-midterm-elections-when-are-the-us-midterm-elections-how-do-they-work-and-will-they-impact-president-biden-and-the-2024-election-3849417 | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When does the period of national mourning for Queen Elizabeth II end?
People across the United Kingdom and the world will feel the loss of Queen Elizabeth II for days, weeks, months and years to come but when does the official mourning period end?
A period of national mourning started the moment the death of Queen Elizabeth II was confirmed by Buckingham Palace on Thursday September 8, 2022.
The Queen was laid to rest alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, her younger sister, Princess Margaret, her mother, the Queen Mother and her father, King George VI in the King George VI Memorial Chapel in Windsor Castle.
When does the official period of national mourning end?
The official 10 day period of national mourning that followed the death of Queen Elizabeth II ended with the conclusion of her funeral in Windsor Castle on Monday September 19.
Following the protocol set out in the plan for the funeral of the Queen, known as Operation London Bridge, all official flags, including the Union Flag, must remain at half-mast until 8.00am on the morning after the day of the Queen’s funeral i.e. Tuesday September 21, 2022.
When does mourning end for the royal family?
The mourning period lasts longer for the royal family, royal household staff and representatives.
They will continue to officially mourn the passing of the 96 year-old monarch for a further seven days - taking their official mourning period to sevens day after the funeral, Mondau September 26, 2022.
Members of the royal family are not expected to carry out any official duties until the mourning period is over.
What’s next for the royal family?
It can be somewhat easy to forget that the royal family are grieving the loss of a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother therefore their period of personal mourning could be indefinite with the grief felt for a time to come.
However, attention will soon turn to the coronation of the new monarch, King Charles III.
The coronation is unlikely to take place this year with some royal commentators predicting a date in late spring or summer 2023.
No details have been confirmed and it remains to be seen whether the day will be an official bank holiday.
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Yesterday's reversal stoked some optimism but today was another rough day in Europe as PPI data hammered the bond market and added fears of an ugly stagflationary environment.
- Stoxx 600 -1.1%
- UK FTSE 100 -0.7%
- French CAC 40 -1.4%
- German DAX-1.0%
- Italy MIB -1.7%
- Spain IBEX -1.4%
There is a bit more breathing room in the national indexes but the Stoxx 600 is near the breaking point. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/european-equity-close-nearing-the-june-lows-20220920/ | 2022-09-20T16:36:43Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/european-equity-close-nearing-the-june-lows-20220920/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The major US indices are still in the red, but they are whittling away at the declines.
- The S&P reached a low of 3843.60. The current price is at 3870.65, down -29.85 points or -0.73%
- The Nasdaq index reached a low of 11403.32. The current price is at 11507, down -27.60 points or -0.23%
Looking at the Nasdaq on the hourly chart, the recent lows last week did find a low near a swing area near 11316.92. The price tried to move lower yesterday but stayed above that level (the low reached 11337). Today's low at 11403 is even higher. So there is some stall on the downside.
On the topside, I would like to see a move back above the broken 61.8% at 11564.43 to give the buyers some additional upside hope.
Interestingly, Josh Brown on CNBC is talking of a rip roaring move to the upside. He is still bearish but looks at the Vix, the new 52 week lows as reasons for his bullishness especially with rates higher. | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/us-stocks-clawing-back-some-of-the-declines-20220920/ | 2022-09-20T16:36:49Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/us-stocks-clawing-back-some-of-the-declines-20220920/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FG commences digitisation of 57-year-old national library
• As NLN boss appeals to media on deposit e-copies
The Federal Government has commenced the digitisation of the 57-year-old National Library of Nigeria (NLN) and the automation of its services in line with the global standard.
NLN was established by Act No. 6 of 1964, with the National Librarian/Chief Executive Officer of the Library, Professor Chimwe Anunobi, saying that some of the information resources in the National Library were already weak and deteriorated due to age and usage.
Anunobi, who spoke while briefing newsmen in Abuja, on some of her milestones to mark her one year in office, said modest progress has been made in the last one year in the efforts to reposition the National Library of Nigeria for effective and efficient services.
“My effort so far is considered as building bridges to connect the old and the new, leveraging on technology,” she said.
She noted that while digitization activities are ongoing, the development and deployment of the National Repository of Nigeria (NRN) is about 70 per cent completed.
The NLN boss said: “The National Library is about 57 years old with a consequential sixty years old information resources. Hence, it is not out of place that some of the information resources are weak and deteriorated due to age and usage.
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“To salvage and preserve them, we engaged in the digitisation of this weak heritage aimed at preservation, increased availability and wider accessibility leveraging information and communication technology.
“We hope to achieve completion and commissioning for public use by the end of November 2022. The NRN houses in electronic form, all Nigerian heritage that has been deposited from inception to date by authors, printers or publishers, in compliance with the legal deposit law.
“We have deployed KOHA library automation software for cataloguing and classification in National Library. On April 4, 2022, we launched our Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC), the window for all the resources housed by the National Library of Nigeria.
“This will enable users to virtually check for the materials we have, and their exact location, without physically rummaging our shelves,” she said.
Anunobi further added that the NRN would be accessible by every Nigerian and beyond, regardless of status, qualification, or location, saying the digitization was not only designed to increase the visibility of Nigerian intellectual heritage but also to enable creators of this intellectual heritage have return on their investments.
She, however, appealed to media, newspapers houses particularly to deposit e-copies of their publications with the NLN to ease the digitisation process, explaining that the digitization of archival information would commence from the strong room in Lagos.
She noted that some newspaper houses have complied with this request as NLN awaits other media publishing companies to key into the initiative.
Anunobi disclosed that in leveraging technology, NLN under her watch has designed and developed a virtual library that is fully ready for deployment, which according to her would provide the reading public anywhere in the world, access to the National Library operations and services.
The headquarters of NLN is on rented apartment located at the Central Business District, FCT, Abuja, but the National Librarian told newsmen that following the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) would take over the completion of the abandoned headquarters building project.
She explained that TETFund has set aside fund and would through the Minister of Education present the estimate for the completion of the project to the President for approval and commencement of work on the site.
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Mrs Zahra B Buhari, the daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari has graduated with first-class honours in Architectural Science from a foreign University amid the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which has kept the public-owned institutions closed for over seven months.
It will be recalled that ASUU members had on February 14, embarked on a strike over the government’s inability to meet their demands.
Taking to the popular social media platform, Facebook to share pictures from the graduation, the First Lady of Nigeria, Mrs Aisha Buhari congratulated her daughter on her new feet and wished her the best of luck.
The excited mother posted a number of pictures from the graduation with the caption:
“Congratulations to Mrs Zahra B Buhari on your graduation with First Class Honors in Architectural Science. Wishing you all the best!” She posted.
The graduation ceremony was attended by the First Lady herself, Aisha Buhari, her son Yusuf Buhari among other family members and well-wishers.
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U.S. antitrust regulators take another big loss
President Biden's Q: Who's afraid of Joe Biden's antitrust enforcers?
A: Fewer people than last month.
Driving the news: A federal judge yesterday ruled that UnitedHealth can proceed with its $13 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare, denying a U.S. Justice Department effort to block the deal.
- UnitedHealth first agreed to buy Change two weeks before Biden took office, and the DOJ sued this past February. The trial took place in August, with DOJ primarily arguing that the deal would give UHG access to competitively sensitive data from rival health insurers.
- The ruling in UHC's favor comes just weeks after a Federal Trade Commission administrative judge denied that agency's efforts to block Illumina from buying Grail, although Illumina subsequently lost a similar case in front of the European Commission.
The big picture: These back-to-back defeats highlight how while Biden's antitrust regime talks a big game, and has significantly stepped up reviews and litigation, its bark can be worse than its bite.
- The upshot is that big tech and big health care and big widget continue to sign mega-merger agreements, viewing the antitrust risks as relatively minimal.
- Even companies like Amazon, which just agreed to buy both One Medical and iRobot, despite being explicitly in the regulatory crosshairs. Or Adobe, which must know that its Figma deal is going to receive more than a passing antitrust glance.
Caveat: Yes, there have been Biden-era mergers scuttled pre-trial, with buyers deciding the risk, cost and time outweighed the reward.
- These include Lockheed/Aerojet, Konecranes/Cargotec and Aon/Willis Towers Watson. And a couple of more court decisions are still outstanding: U.S. Sugar/Imperial Sugar and Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster.
- A DOJ spokesperson says: "Our job is to bring the right cases for the right reasons. Not doing anything is not an option."
Look ahead: The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding an antitrust law hearing on Tuesday afternoon at 3pm ET, including testimony from DOJ and FTC officials. (watch here).
💭 Thought bubble, from Axios tech policy reporter Ashley Gold: "Those pushing for more antitrust cases have said they are willing to accept losses, and just want to see the government be more active in trying to prevent big mergers. But it's not clear who benefits if losses start to stack up." | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/20/us-antitrust-regulators-take-another-big-loss | 2022-09-20T16:38:02Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/20/us-antitrust-regulators-take-another-big-loss | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Atlanta Fed GDPNow 3Q tracker came in at 0.3% vs. 0.5% . That is the low water mark for the 3Q model projections.
In their own words:
The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the third quarter of 2022 is 0.3 percent on September 20, down from 0.5 percent on September 15. After this morning's housing starts report from the US Census Bureau, the nowcast of third-quarter residential investment growth decreased from -20.8 percent to -24.5 percent. | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/atlanta-fed-gdpnow-3q-tracker-03-vs-05-last-20220920/ | 2022-09-20T16:40:53Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/atlanta-fed-gdpnow-3q-tracker-03-vs-05-last-20220920/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Fed is in a bit of a tough spot with the 2025 dot on the dot plot. It will be introduced for the first time on Wednesday and could run counter to the narrative that they're trying to spin: That they will hold rates high as long as necessary to fight inflation.
Everyone expects to see the end-2022 dot around 4% and the end-2023 dot close to the same level. What happens beyond that may influence tomorrow's market reaction.
Here's the current dot plot, which was released in June.
Since then, the Fed has actively and aggressively pushed a 'higher-for-longer' stance. That may push up the 2024 dots but at some point, you need to get back to neutral.
With the 2025 dot, the Fed will very likely be stuck signaling future rate cuts. We could also start to see some 'dissent' in the plot with cuts coming in 2023 and 2024 based on lower growth projections.
A risk is that the Fed signals rates staying high. That would set off a dogfight between the Fed and markets, which are increasingly worried about overtightening and recession.
Further, the bond market is under some heavy strain at the moment and a signal of +4% rates for three years could crack it. BMO offers this today:
On Wednesday, the introduction of 2025 projections will be particularly relevant to the 2s/3s and 2s/5s curves, if for no other reason than investors will have context for whether the Fed believes it can keep terminal in place through 2025. The futures market indicates that won’t be the case and while 2023 terminal has now reached 4.5%, there are still ~50 bp of cuts priced in by the end of next year. Setting aside the Fed’s history of overshooting and quickly reversing course in favor of easing, this is unquestionably a unique cycle and Powell’s rationale for retaining a restrictive stance for an extended period is sound. The unknown is whether the real economy can handle such policy extremes and how much excess demand destruction Powell is willing to risk. | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/the-2025-dot-plot-will-be-one-to-watch-20220920/ | 2022-09-20T16:41:04Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/the-2025-dot-plot-will-be-one-to-watch-20220920/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Emergency crews are responding to a building explosion in Chicago.
Six people have been taken to hospitals, according to Chicago Fire. Three of the victims are in serious to critical condition, authorities said.
Crews are also searching the building for any other potential victims.
Chicago Fire said the source of the explosion is unknown. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/at-least-6-injured-in-chicago-building-explosion | 2022-09-20T16:43:19Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/at-least-6-injured-in-chicago-building-explosion | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WESTMINSTER, Colo. — The United States is short about 11,000 airline pilots. If steps aren’t taken to start training more pilots, by 2032, experts predict we will be 80,000 pilots short of what we need to travel efficiently.
There’s a new sport taking off in U.S. high schools that is hoping to slow down that shortage.
It’s almost Harry Potter and almost Star Wars: It’s United States Drone Soccer.
High schoolers battle it out in the air in an epic test of hand-eye coordination and engineering, but it's disguised as fun.
The game is usually played with five students on each team. The drones with the red lights are ‘striker’ drones that can score points. It’s everyone else’s job to stop them.
“This program encompasses the students being able to build the drones, learn how to program them, learn how to fly them, learn how to repair them when they break them,” said Robert Ferguson, the coach of the Westminster High School drone soccer team.
This is the first year drone soccer is available in 60 locations across the country. The team at Westminster High in Colorado was one of the first teams in the nation.
“It's so engaging for them. It just really hooks them, and I think that's how you get students excited about aerospace and STEM careers,” said Ferguson.
Ferguson hopes his students take the lessons they learn outside of school.
“It's changed my whole life completely. it made me want to start a whole new drone business in my personal drone business,” said Xavier Colp, a 12th grader. “I came into junior year with not really anything, a lot of low credits. And then because of the drone program, because of the drone class, I was able to find something I enjoyed and find something I wanted to like achieve, like a goal for me to set.”
“I love the whole leadership aspect,” said 12th grader striker Brandon Pierce. “Being the team captain, it's really taught me how to be that leader.”
All this learning is free to students— making high-paying aerospace careers accessible for students of all backgrounds.
“It's just an expanding career opportunity that these students can actually obtain in high school,” said Ferguson.
The Federal Aviation Administration even recommended drone soccer as a way to increase representation of women and minorities in aviation careers.
Eleventh-grade pilot Helen Tran said she’s glad to be part of that movement.
“At first, it was like male-dominated, but after a while, we got some girls on the team, so I'm happy about that," she said.
The team said they are also happy to know that drone soccer is expanding because they know the impact this sport can have.
“That could change a lot of people's lives potentially,” said Colp.
“Even no matter your age, you can still start something,” said Tran. “If you have an idea, you should let it fly.”
If you'd like to learn more about U.S. Drone Soccer or learn how to bring this program to your school, click HERE. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/drone-soccer-taking-flight-in-schools-to-get-students-into-aerospace-careers | 2022-09-20T16:43:44Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/drone-soccer-taking-flight-in-schools-to-get-students-into-aerospace-careers | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man who killed three students and wounded five more in a school shooting 25 years ago will go before the state parole board on Tuesday in a high-stakes hearing that could see him released or denied the chance to ever leave prison.
Michael Carneal was a 14-year-old freshman on Dec. 1, 1997, when he fired a stolen pistol at a before-school prayer group in the lobby of Heath High School, near Paducah, Kentucky. School shootings were not yet a depressing part of the national consciousness, and Carneal was given the maximum sentence possible at the time for someone his age — life in prison but with the possibility of parole. A quarter century later, in the shadow of Uvalde and in a nation disgusted by the carnage of mass shootings, Carneal, now 39, will try to convince the parole board he deserves to be freed.
His parole hearing began Monday with testimony from those injured and close family of those killed, several of whom had considered Carneal a friend.
Missy Jenkins Smith, who was paralyzed by one of Carneal's bullets and uses a wheelchair, said there are too many “what ifs” to release him. What if he stops taking his medication? What if his medication stops working?
“Continuing his life in prison is the only way his victims can feel comfortable and safe,” she said.
Killed in the shooting were 14-year-old Nicole Hadley, 17-year-old Jessica James, and 15-year-old Kayce Steger. Jenkins Smith said it would be unfair to them and their loved ones for Carneal to be set free.
“They will forever be a 17-year-old, a 14-year-old, and a 15-year-old — allowed only one full decade of life. A consequence of Michael’s choice,” she said.
Also testifying Monday was Christina Hadley Ellegood, whose younger sister Nicole was killed in the shooting. Ellegood has written about the pain of seeing her sister's body and having to call their mom and tell her Nicole had been shot.
“I had no one to turn to who understood what I was going through,” she said Monday. “For me, it’s not fair for him to be able to roam around with freedom when we live in fear of where he might be.”
A two-person panel of the full parole board is hearing Carneal’s appeal. They have the option to release him or defer his next opportunity for parole for up to five years. If the two cannot agree on those options, they can send the case to a meeting of the full board next Monday. Only the full board has the power to deny Carneal any chance of parole, forcing him to stay in prison for the rest of his life.
Hollan Holm, who was wounded that day, spoke Monday about lying on the floor of the high school lobby, bleeding from his head and believing he was going to die. But he said Carneal was too young to comprehend the full consequences of his actions and should have a chance at supervised release.
“When I think of Michael Carneal, I think of the child I rode the bus with every day,” he said. “I think of the child I shared a lunch table with in third grade. I think of what he could have become if, on that day, he had it somewhere in him to make a different choice or take a different path.” | https://www.katc.com/news/national/kentucky-school-shooter-seeks-parole-in-high-stakes-hearing | 2022-09-20T16:43:50Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/kentucky-school-shooter-seeks-parole-in-high-stakes-hearing | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Chicago man facing charges in Pilsen shooting
CHICAGO - A Chicago man was charged with attempted murder in a July shooting in the Pilsen neighborhood.
Daniel Lopez, 18, is accused of shooting and critically wounding a 27-year-old man who was driving on July 23 in the 1500 block of West 18th Street, police said.
Lopez was arrested Monday in the 3100 block of West Flournoy Street.
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In addition to attempted first-degree murder, Lopez was charged with aggravated battery with a firearm.
He is scheduled to appear in bond court Tuesday. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-man-facing-charges-in-pilsen-shooting | 2022-09-20T16:44:07Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-man-facing-charges-in-pilsen-shooting | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TAMPA, Fla. — There’s a new type of flower bed springing up in South Tampa and it doesn’t require any water, soil, or sunlight. That’s because it’s all made from recycled materials.
When most people finish their can of beans or soup, the tin can becomes trash, but not for artist Joe Bureker. Instead, he decided to turn tin cans into an innovative flower garden.
“Coffee cans, soda cans, dog food cans, all sorts of cans,” said Bureker. “Pretty much anything I can get my hands on, I try to turn into a flower.”
Just call Bureker the Tin Man of South Tampa.
First, he collects them, then he transforms them.
“So I kind of begin cutting them, and you can imagine each cut becomes its own separate petal basically,” said Bureker.
He’s always had a knack for turning the boring into the beautiful.
“I started at a pretty young age, my grandmother was an artist. She had her own art store, so I started out in diapers playing with paint, and I just kept going from there,” said Bureker.
Bureker was inspired by the support he gained from his neighbors, who leave cans, or in this case, supplies, outside their doors for him to pick up.
“It’s not what I was intending, but I just got such an outpouring of neighbors wanting to help me out it was great,” said Bureker. “It was kind of overwhelming at first, there were just so many things coming at me with cans.”
Now, this local artist is taking his creation to national fairs and expos.
“It was nice I got a lot of nice kind words and a lot of smiles, so it was really good that was probably my favorite part,” said Bureker.
Who knows, there could be a new trend when it comes to backyard flower gardens, all thanks to the South Tampa Tin Man.
“I’m your guy. I’m making metal ones, guaranteed to bloom,” said Bureker.
This article was written by Robert Boyd for WFTS. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/tin-man-of-south-tampa-turns-old-cans-into-flowers | 2022-09-20T16:44:08Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/tin-man-of-south-tampa-turns-old-cans-into-flowers | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Food and Drug Administration recently issued a warning advising the public not to cook chicken in NyQuil.
The FDA said the alert comes amid a social media challenge. The challenge, the FDA said, “Can harm people — and even cause death.”
“Boiling a medication can make it much more concentrated and change its properties in other ways,” the FDA said. “Even if you don’t eat the chicken, inhaling the medication’s vapors while cooking could cause high levels of the drugs to enter your body. It could also hurt your lungs. Put simply: Someone could take a dangerously high amount of the cough and cold medicine without even realizing it.”
The FDA is encouraging parents to discuss the dangers of misusing drugs with children and how social media trends can lead to real, sometimes irreversible, damage.
Harvard researchers said there are risks with using too much acetaminophen, one of the active ingredients in NyQuil. Researchers said, “If you take too much acetaminophen — all at once or over a period of several days — this toxic breakdown product can build up and cause damage to the liver.” | https://www.katc.com/news/national/why-the-fda-just-warned-the-public-not-to-cook-chicken-in-nyquil | 2022-09-20T16:44:14Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/why-the-fda-just-warned-the-public-not-to-cook-chicken-in-nyquil | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Woman wins $100K lottery twice in 2 years
An Iowa woman has now won two $100,000 lottery prizes in a little more than two years.
Mary Starks' latest $100,000 prize came in the Iowa Lottery's "Hit It Big!" scratch game. She claimed the first top prize available in that game.
"It was exciting and kind of scary and unbelievable," said Starks, who also won a $100,000 prize in March 2020 in a different scratch game. "Really unbelievable to have it happen twice."
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Starks bought her winning Hit It Big! ticket at ExpressLane in Davenport. She said she usually plays Crossword tickets, but decided to try something new.
"You just think that you'll win a little bit – maybe, $20, $30, $50, $100, you know? But not $100,000," she told officials as she claimed her prize. "You just buy the tickets for a little entertainment. And then when you scratch it off and get that amount of money? I don't know, it's exciting."
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Starks said she plans to use her winnings to pay off debt and maybe start a business.
Hit It Big! is a $10 scratch game that features 10 top prizes of $100,000 and overall odds of 1 in 2.96. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/woman-wins-100k-lottery-twice-in-2-years | 2022-09-20T16:44:44Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/woman-wins-100k-lottery-twice-in-2-years | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
San Gabriel Valley Girls Athlete of the Week
Name: Mia Delahoussaye
School: South Hills
Sport: Volleyball
Year: Senior
Noteworthy: The Huskies had a big week, and their senior leader, Delahoussaye, led the way. The Huskies won Hacienda league matches over Los Altos (3-1) and Wilson (3-0), and won a big clash over Walnut to take over sole possession of first, winning 25-15, 25-16, 17-25 and 25-15 in the fourth set to close it out. Delahoussaye had a big game in their win over the Mustangs, finishing with 18 kills, nine digs and two aces. The Huskies, ranked No. 10 in CIF-SS Division 4, are 9-3-2 overall and 3-0 in league.
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UCLA men’s basketball coach Mick Cronin says this year’s 2022-23 version of the Bruins will be different than the roster from the last two seasons, and there was no hesitation in pointing out the difference.
“There’s no question, we’re going to be a more athletic team,” Cronin said.
New arrivals Adem Bona, Amari Bailey, Dylan Andrews and Abramo Canka – albeit freshmen – will inject a heavy dose of athleticism to a UCLA team that is likely to open the season in the top 10 nationally.
“Adem’s a freak, athletically. Amari and Dylan have great speed and quickness. Abramo is a really good athlete on the wing at 6’6”. And, of course, Jaylen Clark,” Cronin said.
UCLA’s team has been almost identical the last two seasons. The only addition being Peyton Watson, who spent one season with the Bruins before being drafted in the first round of this past summer’s NBA Draft. Johnny Juzang, Jules Bernard, Cody Riley, Jake Kyman and Myles Johnson are no longer with the team.
UCLA fans can expect a lot of new faces, even ones like Will McClendon and Mac Etienne, who are returning from season-ending injuries. It sounds like a faster, more dynamic playing style is coming to Westwood, too.
“We’ll be more athletic in our ability to attack the rim on offense and our ability to pressure the ball and recover on defense,” Cronin said.
Key returners Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Jaylen Clark are athletic in their own right. Jaquez, a returning All-Pac-12 selection, is certainly known for a highlight-reel dunk and Clark might be one of the most dynamic perimeter defenders in the conference this season.
When asked about a more dynamic playing style this year, Jaquez simplified it quickly.
“I think it’s fun,” he said. “Don’t let the defense set up, get down the floor for layups and dunks. That sounds super fun.”
Bailey and Bona were McDonald All-American selections in high school, and anchor what is Cronin’s best recruiting class yet. After a quick Youtube.com search of each player, it’s easy to see how talented they are.
Bailey is a 6-foot-5, left-handed point guard who can sky for a rebound and push the ball down the middle of the floor to make a play for himself or teammates. The high-flyer certainly has a flair for acrobatic dunks. Bailey is also an elite on-ball defender.
“Amari is so fast, he can push the ball and tempo anytime he wants,” Jaquez said.
Bona is a 6-foot-10, 225-pound Nigerian-born center who started playing basketball at 13 years old. He quickly turned into one of the country’s top prospects for his off-the-charts mobility at his size.
“Adem is a freak of nature,” Jaquez said. “Super athlete. He can run, jump and stays under control.”
Bailey is projected to be a first-round draft pick in the 2023 NBA Draft, according to countless way-too-early mock drafts, including CBS, NBC Sports and ESPN.
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TAMPA, Fla. — There’s a new type of flower bed springing up in South Tampa and it doesn’t require any water, soil, or sunlight. That’s because it’s all made from recycled materials.
When most people finish their can of beans or soup, the tin can becomes trash, but not for artist Joe Bureker. Instead, he decided to turn tin cans into an innovative flower garden.
“Coffee cans, soda cans, dog food cans, all sorts of cans,” said Bureker. “Pretty much anything I can get my hands on, I try to turn into a flower.”
Just call Bureker the Tin Man of South Tampa.
First, he collects them, then he transforms them.
“So I kind of begin cutting them, and you can imagine each cut becomes its own separate petal basically,” said Bureker.
He’s always had a knack for turning the boring into the beautiful.
“I started at a pretty young age, my grandmother was an artist. She had her own art store, so I started out in diapers playing with paint, and I just kept going from there,” said Bureker.
Bureker was inspired by the support he gained from his neighbors, who leave cans, or in this case, supplies, outside their doors for him to pick up.
“It’s not what I was intending, but I just got such an outpouring of neighbors wanting to help me out it was great,” said Bureker. “It was kind of overwhelming at first, there were just so many things coming at me with cans.”
Now, this local artist is taking his creation to national fairs and expos.
“It was nice I got a lot of nice kind words and a lot of smiles, so it was really good that was probably my favorite part,” said Bureker.
Who knows, there could be a new trend when it comes to backyard flower gardens, all thanks to the South Tampa Tin Man.
“I’m your guy. I’m making metal ones, guaranteed to bloom,” said Bureker.
This article was written by Robert Boyd for WFTS. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/tin-man-of-south-tampa-turns-old-cans-into-flowers | 2022-09-20T16:54:12Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/tin-man-of-south-tampa-turns-old-cans-into-flowers | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Feds: Minnesota food scheme stole $250 million; 47 people charged
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal authorities charged 47 people in Minnesota with conspiracy and other counts on Tuesday in what they said was a massive scheme that took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to steal $250 million from a federal program that provides meals to low-income children.
Prosecutors say the defendants created companies that claimed to be offering food to tens of thousands of children across Minnesota, then sought reimbursement for those meals through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food nutrition programs. Prosecutors say few meals were actually served, and the defendants used the money to buy luxury cars, property and jewelry.
Many of the companies that claimed to be serving food were sponsored by a nonprofit called Feeding Our Future, which submitted the companies’ claims for reimbursement. Feeding Our Future’s founder and executive director Aimee Bock was among those indicted, and authorities say she and others in her organization submitted the fraudulent claims for reimbursement and received kickbacks.
Bock’s attorney, Kenneth Udoibok, said he wouldn’t comment until he’s had a chance to see the indictment, but that the indictment “doesn’t indicate guilt or innocence.”
In an interview earlier this year, Bock denied stealing money and said she never saw evidence of fraud.
The defendants face multiple counts, including conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering and bribery.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice made prosecuting pandemic-related fraud a priority. The department has already taken enforcement actions related to more than $8 billion in suspected pandemic fraud, including bringing charges in more than 1,000 criminal cases involving losses in excess of $1.1 billion.
According to court documents, the alleged scheme targeted the USDA’s federal child nutrition programs, which provide food to low-income children and adults. In Minnesota, the funds are administered by the state Department of Education, and meals have historically been provided to kids through educational programs, such as schools or day care centers.
The sites that serve the food are sponsored by public or nonprofit groups, such as Feeding Our Future. The sponsoring agency keeps 10% to 15% of the reimbursement funds as an administrative fee in exchange for submitting claims, sponsoring the sites and disbursing the funds.
But during the pandemic, some of the standard requirements for sites to participate in the federal food nutrition programs were waived. Among them, the USDA allowed for-profit restaurants to participate, and allowed food to be distributed outside educational programs. The charging documents say the defendants exploited changes in the program’s requirements “to enrich themselves.”
The documents say Bock oversaw the scheme and that she and Feeding Our Future sponsored the opening of nearly 200 federal child nutrition program sites throughout the state, knowing that the sites intended to submit fraudulent claims. “The sites fraudulently claimed to be serving meals to thousands of children a day within just days or weeks of being formed and despite having few, if any staff and little to no experience serving this volume of meals,” according to the indictments.
Feeding Our Future received nearly $18 million in federal child nutrition program funds as administrative fees in 2021 alone, and Bock and other employees received additional kickbacks, which were often disguised as “consulting fees” paid to shell companies, the charging documents said.
According to an FBI affidavit unsealed earlier this year, Feeding Our Future received $307,000 in reimbursements from the USDA in 2018, $3.45 million in 2019 and $42.7 million in 2020. The amount of reimbursements jumped to $197.9 million in 2021.
Court documents say the Minnesota Department of Education was growing concerned about the rapid increase in the number of sites sponsored by Feeding Our Future, as well as the increase in reimbursements.
The department began scrutinizing Feeding Our Future’s site applications more carefully, and denied dozens of them. In response, Bock sued the department in November 2020, alleging discrimination, saying the majority of her sites are based in immigrant communities. That case has since been dismissed.
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Kentucky State Police investigating death of young child
Published: Sep. 20, 2022 at 11:52 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
HARRISON COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - Kentucky State Police is investigating the death of a 14-month-old child.
KSP says emergency crews were called to a home on Horseshoe Drive in Cynthiana a little after midnight Tuesday morning for a child needing medical attention.
A little after 1 a.m., the child was pronounced dead.
Crews have been talking to family members to figure out what exactly happened.
They’re working to learn if the baby had a medical history.
Troopers could not confirm if foul play was involved.
This is a developing story.
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Global wealth technology provider launches predictive planner for Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services
SINGAPORE, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bambu, a global wealth technology provider, today announced the launch of their Wealth Management Predictive Planning solution for Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales. The service will enable Relationship Managers (RMs), Financial Advisors, Agents and firms in the financial sector to identify and prioritize their clients' needs through predictive analytics, empowering them to make informed financial decisions for the future.
To build and solidify trusted relationships between users and their clients while increasing sales productivity, Wealth Management for Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services - a one-of-a-kind Wealth Management predictive planning solution - along with its counterpart, Wealth Management for Dynamics 365 Sales, were designed with an innovative proactive approach in mind. The system will enable users to predict and analyze key life events along with the ability to suggest achievable financial goals and solutions for future financial planning.
Powered by A.I. and through the adoption of the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) Machine Learning models, both solutions will be able to generate thousands of timelines of future events and outlines based on demographic profiles and the four major aspects of life - marriage, family, career, and financial situation.
On the launch of Bambu's Microsoft AppSource offers, Aki Ranin, Co-founder and COO of Bambu, said, "It is vital for us to move the game from reactionary, aspirational planning to proactive, realistic, and predictive planning. We hope to revolutionize and be at the forefront of the playing field to make it much easier for financial planning to be a priority."
"Bambu wants to be the leader in the B2B wealth tech space. This relationship means a lot to us, not only from a brand perspective but also from a product scale standpoint. The opportunity to co-sell with Microsoft will help us progress toward our goal to be a leader in the B2B wealth technology space,'' added Ajay Kamath, Commercial Director, at Bambu.
"We welcome Bambu to Microsoft's Business Application ecosystem and its Wealth Management offering integrated with Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales," says Toby Bowers, General Manager, Industry, Applications & Data Marketing at Microsoft. "By making it easier for relationship managers, financial advisors and agents to access their data in one place, we are significantly reducing roadblocks that lead to friction and reduced ROI."
Bambu's Wealth Management for Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services and Wealth Management for Dynamics 365 Sales is now available on Microsoft AppSource. For more information, visit Bambu's Microsoft Predictive Planning page.
About Bambu
Bambu is a leading global digital wealth technology provider for financial institutions. We enable companies to make saving and investing simple and intelligent for their clients. The cloud-based platform is powered by our proprietary algorithms and machine learning tools. Founded in 2016, Bambu is headquartered in Singapore with a subsidiary in the United Kingdom and the United States and EMEA representatives. For more information, visit https://bambu.co/ and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM") announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Dingdong (Cayman) Limited ("Dingdong" or the "Company") (NYSE: DDL).
Class Period: June 2021 IPO
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 24, 2022
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Dingdong lawsuit, you can submit your contact information at www.glancylaw.com/cases/dingdong-cayman-limited/. You can also contact Charles H. Linehan, of GPM at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or via email at shareholders@glancylaw.com to learn more about your rights.
The complaint filed alleges that Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Dingdong was actively flouting its food safety responsibilities, failing to deliver on its stated commitment to provide "fresh" groceries to customers historically disserved by supermarkets, traditional Chinese wet markets, or traditional e-commerce platforms; (2) Dingdong's quality control measures, which were so heavily touted in the Registration Statement, were, in fact, inadequate, exposing Dingdong to an increased risk of regulatory and/or governmental scrutiny and enforcement; and (3) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Charles Linehan, Esquire, of GPM, 1925 Century Park East, Suite 2100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, by email to shareholders@glancylaw.com, or visit our website at www.glancylaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number and number of shares purchased.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Edge and Dentistry in General (DIG), a dentist only Facebook and online community, join hands to increase employment support to dentists and dental practices nationwide - offering customized HR solutions to DIG's network throughout the US.
This partnership comes at a time when employment trends in the dental industry are at an all-time low.
Amidst reports that over 80% of dentists face considerable challenges hiring professionals, Edge and DIG have teamed up to provide affordable and scalable HR solutions to practices across the States.
Dr. Bob Dokhanchi, President at DIG, stated, "Dental offices, small or large, are struggling to find the needed staff to run efficiently. When you combine that with higher labor costs, increased operating costs due to inflation, and reduced reimbursement from many insurance companies, it can be detrimental to the survival of many dental practices. Edge can help dental practices around the country face these challenges by offering affordable remote employees."
Jeff Pireu, VP of Partnerships and Alliances, remarked, "We are so excited to be able to partner with Dr. Bob Dokhanchi and his organization, Dentistry In General. This partnership comes at a crucial time for the dental industry as practices across the States struggle to find qualified employees. We believe that Edge and DIG can make a significant impact on the industry, and we enthusiastically welcome this partnership."
Edge, a US-Based HR-tech company, has made global strides since 2020. Edge provides scalable, affordable, and adaptable HR solutions that connect North American organizations with global talent. The company hosts a presence across North America, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific, with plans to expand to over 150 countries by 2024.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be a better way to keep a hearing aid in place while playing sports or enjoying outdoor activities," said an inventor, from Bedford, Texas, "so I invented the HEARING AID BUDDY. My design would help to prevent the loss of the hearing aid as well as the associated cost of replacing the device."
The invention provides an effective way to secure a hearing aid in place during physical activities. In doing so, it helps to prevent lost hearing aids. It can be used during sports and various outdoor activities. The invention features a small and simple design that is easy to apply and use so it is ideal for individuals who wear hearing aids. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Dallas sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-DAL-182, 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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System features latest in AI technology, predictive pressure calibration, and increased water accuracy to help homeowners eliminate water waste and save money
Irrigreen's simplicity allows anyone to customize, design and install the irrigation system with XP heads, from concept to precision implementation
SAN FRANCISCO and EDINA, Minn., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Irrigreen, the leader in robotic irrigation systems, today announced Irrigreen XP, a revolutionary sprinkler system built using the most advanced robotics, AI and IoT technologies available on the market today. Irrigreen XP offers unprecedented precision watering and includes new functionality that predicts and adapts to changes in water pressure and flow. A simple design tool on the homepage allows users to plan and customize the system to their lawn and instantly see water and cost savings.
"Conventional irrigation is broken. As much as 60% of water used outdoors is completely wasted. You see water running down the driveway, spraying in the street or on the sidewalk, or wet and dry spots on the lawn. To combat the problem, Irrigreen is focused on delivering the best in robotic and smart technology to help eliminate water waste and inefficiencies," said Shane Dyer, CEO, Irrigreen. "XP brings even greater levels of robotic precision to our yard sprinkler system, allowing it to predict fluctuations in water pressure and flow, which in turn, gives users more control over the amount of water they use. This can help save homeowners thousands of dollars off their home water bill."
XP will lead Irrigreen's lineup of robotic sprinkler heads, all of which integrate into its irrigation system built for simplicity and efficiency. Key benefits of the Irrigreen system include:
- Reducing water use by 50% and eliminating water waste: Rather than simply spraying water like basic sprinklers - which results in overlap and overwatering - Irrigreen's software-controlled robotic heads use printer-grade precision to map out the landscape and water in the shape of any lawn. This means you are getting the same green lawn, but only using half the water. Controlled by an app on your phone, Irrigreen also integrates with live weather data to ensure you're not watering unnecessarily when the weather is cooler or rain is predicted.
- Cost savings of thousands of dollars a year: Conventional sprinkler systems are costly - from water use to set up and ongoing maintenance. Irrigreen's system uses far fewer sprinkler heads to water the same area, while requiring up to 80% less piping and no valves.
- Most advanced robotics: Irrigreen sprinkler heads are built using today's most advanced robotic technology to bring even greater precision and accuracy to at-home irrigation. Before a problem occurs (overwatering, imbalances), XP can predict changes in water pressure and flow.
- A simpler design, that is simple to install: The system built for the DIYer, Irrigreen takes the pain out of home irrigation. Before purchasing, customers can plan and design their own system customized to their specific yard and needs. Irrigreen integrates with Google Maps so customers can virtually place sprinkler heads where they need them. Irrigreen's software then develops a custom quote, including water savings. Because Irrigreen operates as a digital system (traditional systems rely on mechanical configurations), every digital head replaces 6-10 mechanical heads resulting in a simpler system with 80% less piping and wiring, while completely eliminating the need for problematic valves. This makes Irrigreen easy to install for anyone, including the homeowner.
Amidst increasing climate change, Irrigreen introduced its 2.0 system in April of 2021 to address the need for water conservation. With water scarcity accelerating quickly, Irrigreen systems were conceptualized and built using inkjet printing technology to digitally control water placement, uniformly irrigating in the exact shape of each zone. The company currently holds seven patents on its product design, making the company's sprinkler system the only one on the market that can effectively half the amount of water used.
Irrigreen XP heads will be available for purchase on Irrigreen's website starting September 20, and will retail for $339 each. For more information and to see the cost and water savings for your yard, please visit www.irrigreen.com.
Irrigreen is the most efficient sprinkler system on the planet. Using 50% less water, a single head maps and precisely irrigates where needed, saving users approximately 50% annually on their outdoor water bill. Controlled from an app, five Irrigreen heads can replace a forty head traditional system, offering streamlined installation at a comparable price. Irrigreen is better for your lawn, your wallet, and the planet. Irrigreen is based in San Francisco, California and Edina, Minnesota.
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Notes of Interest ● Kevin Harvick will be seeing red this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. His No. 4 Hunt Brothers Pizza Ford Mustang has eschewed its traditional green livery in favor of a red paint scheme for Sunday’s AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 500 NASCAR Cup Series race. Why? Check out this video. ● Harvick has a stout track record at Texas, especially in his time since joining Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) in 2014. In his last 14 NASCAR Cup Series races at the 1.5-mile oval – all of which have come with SHR – Harvick has only one finish outside of the top-10. That lone result came in the 2020 AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 500 when Harvick finished 16th after his No. 4 Hunt Brothers Pizza Ford Mustang slipped off turn two while leading and brushed the outside wall as a heavy mist made the track slick. Harvick rebounded in his next point-paying start at Texas, finishing fifth in last year’s AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 500. In the 12 races prior to that 2020 race where Harvick finished 16th, he scored nine top-fives, three of which were wins, while three others were second-place results. ● In those three wins at Texas – November 2017, November 2018 and November 2019 – Harvick led a total of 334 laps, which is the exact same lap total for a 500-mile race at Texas. ● Prior to joining SHR, Harvick’s laps-led total at Texas was five, an amount earned over the course of 22 races. In his 15 Texas starts since being a part of SHR, Harvick has led 677 laps. His total of 682 laps led at Texas is the second-most among all NASCAR Cup Series drivers. Only Kyle Busch has led more laps at Texas (1,069). ● Before joining SHR, Harvick’s best finish at Texas was third (November 2016). It was one of just three top-fives and 11 top-10s he had at the track ● Harvick will make his 38th NASCAR Cup Series start at Texas in Sunday’s AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 500, the most among all Cup Series drivers, past and present. Texas will mark Harvick’s 783rd career Cup Series start. ● Harvick also leads all NASCAR Cup Series drivers in top-10s at Texas with 24. Next best on this list is Kurt Busch with 23 top-10s and Jimmie Johnson with 22 top-10s. ● Harvick is good at Texas even outside of the NASCAR Cup Series. He has five wins in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and has led a total of 779 laps, the second-most among all drivers despite not competing in an Xfinity Series race at Texas since 2018. Only Kyle Busch has led more laps in Xfinity Series competition at Texas (1,795). Busch led those laps across 23 starts and Harvick earned his tally in 21 starts. In four NASCAR Camping World Truck Series starts at Texas, Harvick owns a win (November 2011) and one other top-five – a fourth place drive in his first Truck Series start at the track in June 1998 when Harvick was just 22 years old and still three years away from his Cup Series debut. ● The only times when Harvick hasn’t been good at Texas is when the track has hosted the annual NASCAR All-Star Race. He finished 15th in the 2021 event and 17th in the 2022 version. Thankfully, the All-Star Race moves to North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway in 2023. ● Riding along with Harvick in the AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 500 is Sidney Thirlwall. Via a decal over the passenger-side window of Harvick’s No. 4 Ford Mustang, Thirlwall’s life is being highlighted by the Martin Truex Jr. Foundation’s Honor a Cancer Hero program. The wife and mother from Papillion, Nebraska, fought a 12-year battle with cancer before succumbing to the disease on Nov. 2, 2022. She was nominated for the Honor a Cancer Hero program by her husband, John Thirlwall. ● The 2022 season marks the 13th year of partnership between Harvick and Hunt Brothers Pizza. The nation’s largest brand of made-to-order pizza in the convenience store industry has sponsored Harvick for years in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Hunt Brothers Pizza joined Harvick fulltime in the NASCAR Cup Series in 2019 and has been a mainstay in NASCAR’s premier division ever since. With more than 8,000 locations in 30 states, Hunt Brothers Pizza offers original and thin-crust pizzas available as a grab-and-go Hunk A Pizza®, perfect for today’s on-the-go lifestyle, or as a customizable whole pizza that is an exceptional value with All Toppings No Extra Charge®. Hunt Brothers Pizza is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and is family owned and operated. For additional information, visit www.HuntBrothersPizza.com or download the app. ● Said Harvick about his more than decade-long partnership with Hunt Brothers Pizza: “Our fans are pretty loyal to the brands that are on our cars. Many of my pictures come from the standees in the store. People take selfies next to them. There are a number of reasons you have sponsorships – you want that brand recognition, the brand integration. Hunt Brothers Pizza is a very family-oriented company and we’re a very family-oriented group. Those relationships you build through the years with brands that recognize and reflect what you believe in are few and far between. We’ve grown with the Hunt Brothers Pizza brand. They’ve grown with us and have been very loyal to us, and I think our fans are very loyal to Hunt Brothers Pizza. It’s fun to see that brand recognition and that understanding of loyalty and partnership. You realize how many Hunt Brothers Pizza stores there are as you drive to racetracks.” Kevin Harvick, Driver of the No. 4 Hunt Brothers Pizza Ford Mustang You’re out of the playoffs, but racing continues. Without a championship to strive for, how do you stay motivated through these final seven races? “That’s just something from when I wrestled in high school and raced our Late Models, it was always pounded into my head that it’s OK to not be good, but it’s not OK to quit. It’s never OK to not give it 100 percent. It’s never OK to quit grinding away for every single second of whatever it is you’re doing because you’re letting yourself down. And in this deal, you’re not only letting yourself down, you’re letting your whole team down, and I think that’s contagious, because nobody ever lets down. We can be off and struggling in a race, but we can keep ourselves on the lead lap and have a good pit stop and all of a sudden show up and finish fourth or fifth at the end of a race just because five or six of them have crashed and we’ve ground away all day at the little things and made our car a little bit better and hung in there and all of a sudden here we are. Sometimes it’s just about grinding away and doing the little things right. You don’t have to be the fastest, but if you just do more right than everybody else, you’re probably going to be pretty successful. There’s a lot of details that go into what we do to be good. Even with a slow car you can still find 100 details to make a slow car faster, and sometimes making a slow car faster is OK on certain days. Every day is different. Every day you have to find something to improve on and it’s a constant improvement. There’s a saying that we live by and it’s, ‘Evolve or die,’ and this year that saying has never been more relevant.” At this level of racing, what does it mean to put in the work? “Long before you get in the car on Sunday, you have a meeting with the team and the crew chiefs and the drivers on Tuesday. You try and get as much information as possible from all parties involved so you can make the right decisions, because you only have a short amount of practice come the race weekend. And then you have the evolution of everything that happens in the lead up to the weekend. For us, that’s a Wednesday simulator session. Usually in that simulator session, you start on next week’s race and then you end on that week’s race and then they decide, ‘OK, we took this, this and this from this particular session and we took it back to the shop and we put that in the car.’ And then there’s the physical part, where you work to stay in shape. Overall, it’s a lot of work.” You’re in your 22nd year in the NASCAR Cup Series. What’s important to you now at this stage in your career compared to where you were 15-20 years ago? “I worry less about what I want to accomplish and just try to accomplish what I need to accomplish, and that is to engage with my team on a week-to-week basis to get the most out of our cars and our vehicles. You want to do everything you can to try and take as much as you can out of every single week that you’re at the racetrack because, at some point, there won’t be a next week. It’ll be what you used to do, and you want to give it your all while you can.” Your only experience at Texas with the NextGen came in May during the NASCAR All-Star Race. What is your expectation as you return to Texas with the NextGen car, but this time, for a points-paying race? “We can’t do any worse than we did in the All-Star Race. I think we ran last and next-to-last, us, Aric (Almirola) and Chase (Briscoe), so we had them covered from the wrong end of the field. But I really think that was part of the progression of the new thought processes we had in working on the car, and we’ve come a long way since Texas. That was one of those nights where it was, ‘OK, let’s do this. This is going to be a great night to test some things.’ It definitely ended with, ‘Don’t ever do that.’ Usually you find out more things at a test – which is kind of what the All-Star Race was for us – to not do than you actually find that are better.” Back in 2017, Texas was repaved and turns one and two were reconfigured. How has the track aged since then and has it changed how you drive the track? “It changed where you drive on the racetrack. You move up the racetrack, so you don’t have to be as technical through (turns) one and two as you used to. Just put it on the grip strip and hope for the best. It’s still a good racetrack for us, still a lot of good things that have happened for us, and hopefully we can continue that.” Explain a lap around Texas, specifically, how you approach turns one and two and how you approach turns three and four? “Texas is unique in the fact the two ends are so different. When they changed the racetrack, they made the width of the racetrack a lot wider through (turns) one and two than what it used to be. It’s a lot flatter, as well. It’s a very technical corner both in order to get your car positioned correctly and in order to make your car turn and stay in the throttle. 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Michael McDowell, Love’s Travel Stops and the NASCAR Cup Series are heading to the Texas Motor Speedway this weekend for their second of two visits this season.
When McDowell raced at the speedway last May in the annual All-Star Race, he and his team posted a fifteenth-place finish. With the progression the Love’s team has shown this year, they have their collective eyes set on capturing that elusive first win of the season.
“We’ve had some good runs in the past at Texas,” stated McDowell. “However, I don’t think it would be fair to compare prior years to this year, given the new circumstances everyone in the series is experiencing. Everyone has had to learn, shift, and adapt to the new conditions we are running in. I feel we’ve have been successful as a team in finding that success on a consistent basis."
“Everyone learned a lot from the All-Star race earlier this year. I feel like it was a turning point in our intermediate program and we feel like we are a top-ten threat at each mile-and-a-half track. We will take what we learned earlier in the season and build on that to break into the top-five.”
Michael McDowell and his Love’s Travel Stops Ford Mustang team will race this Sunday at the Texas Motor Speedway at 3:30 p.m. ET on USA.
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Five drivers taking the race for the NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship to the final laps of the season finale. A return to a full racing calendar, with successful reboots of two events. Growing numbers of viewers on television and streaming platforms. An exciting new era for Indy Lights.
Add it all up, and INDYCAR’s trajectory during and after the 2022 season continues to move upward.
“INDYCAR continues to build on its strengths as the fastest, most daring and exciting circuit racing in the world,” said Mark Miles, Penske Entertainment Corp. president and CEO. “Working closely with our teams, manufacturers and sponsor partners, our long-term strategy for growth is succeeding at every level.
“The 2022 season was memorable on and off the track for the NTT INDYCAR SERIES and Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires, and we can’t wait to see this collaboration generate even more progress next year.”
Thrilling, Close Competition
The NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship was decided at the final event of the year for the 17th consecutive season, with Will Power clinching his second title for Team Penske by just 16 points over teammate Josef Newgarden.
Five drivers – Power, Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin of Team Penske and Scott Dixon and Marcus Ericsson of Chip Ganassi Racing – entered the season finale eligible to win the Astor Challenge Cup as season champion. That’s the most drivers with a chance for the championship in a regular-points season finale since 2003.
The championship lead also was exchanged seven times between McLaughlin, Newgarden, Alex Palou of Chip Ganassi Racing, Power and Ericsson during the season.
Nine different drivers won at least one of the 17 races this season, led by Newgarden with five. That’s just two shy of the all-time INDYCAR SERIES record for different winners in one season.
Power and Dixon also made history with significant career milestones. Power broke a tie with fellow legend Mario Andretti with his 68th career pole at the season-ending Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey, an all-time INDYCAR SERIES record. Dixon’s victory at the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix in Nashville was the 53rd of his illustrious career, breaking a tie with Andretti for No. 2 all time on the INDYCAR SERIES win list, behind only the 67 victories by the legendary A.J. Foyt.
Other highlights were Ericsson’s thrilling victory in the Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge and three wins by McLaughlin in just his second season of open-wheel racing.
Vibrant, Consistent Schedule
After two seasons of pandemic-related reshuffling, the NTT INDYCAR SERIES returned to a more traditional, 17-race schedule in 2022, with anchored dates familiar to fans.
Highlights included once again starting the season with the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg and finishing with the Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey, the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach restored to its traditional April date, and the welcome return of the Honda Indy Toronto to Canada’s largest city for the first time since 2019.
Another welcome sight was the return of full capacity for fans at the 106th Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge on May 29 after two years of pandemic-related restrictions, including no fans admitted in 2020. Fans responded with vigor, as a near-sellout crowd of more than 300,000 attended the world’s largest sporting gathering since the onset of COVID-19.
Perhaps the biggest success story of the 2022 schedule was the revitalization of INDYCAR racing at Iowa Speedway after a one-year hiatus. The Hy-Vee INDYCAR Race Weekend featured a doubleheader for the NTT INDYCAR SERIES and a single event for Indy Lights on the fast oval. A successful promotion with enthusiastic title partner Hy-Vee, which included four concerts with country and pop music superstars at the track, resulted in big crowds despite stifling summer heat.
The Big Machine Music City Grand Prix, which debuted in 2021 to rave reviews on the streets of Nashville, also continued to flourish in its second year.
Continued Audience Growth
The growing popularity of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES was reflected in the most-watched season in six years on television, with viewership up 5 percent over 2021. The season averaged a Total Audience Delivery of 1.30 million viewers across NBC, USA Network, Peacock and NBC Sports digital platforms, the best in NBC Sports history.
Half of the season’s 16 races on television delivered more than 1 million viewers, the highest mark since 2008. A record 14 of 17 races were on NBC network television in 2022, and selected series races also were televised by Telemundo Deportes on Universo.
This also was the most streamed INDYCAR season on record, with exponential growth compared to 2021. A series race, the Honda Indy Toronto, was streamed exclusively for the first time, and the Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge was the most streamed INDYCAR SERIES race ever.
International coverage of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES and domestic and international coverage of Indy Lights was available around the world through the new INDYCAR Live! streaming platform.
INDYCAR’s digital presence on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok also attracted record audiences, with page views also up at INDYCAR.com and IndyLights.com.
Growing Team Investment
At least 25 cars competed in every NTT INDYCAR SERIES event outside of the 33-car Indianapolis 500, as teams and their commercial partners found mutual benefits from the enticing, attractive mix of street courses, natural road courses and ovals found in no other series on Earth.
Juncos Hollinger Racing switched from part time to full time with one car in 2022 and announced plans to add a second car for the 2023 season. Arrow McLaren SP also unveiled plans to add a third car to its lineup in 2023.
Off the track, Arrow McLaren SP, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing and Andretti Autosport also announced plans for gleaming, expanded new headquarters and race shop facilities in the Indianapolis area.
New Commercial Partners
Many commercial partners joined INDYCAR or NTT INDYCAR SERIES teams or extended pacts with both in 2022.
PeopleReady, Shell, PIRTEK, PPG, Gallagher Insurance, The American Legion and Autograph were added to the impressive roster of INDYCAR partners, while Dallara, Gainbridge, Ruoff Mortgage and TAG Heuer extended pacts with the sanctioning body.
Sustainability Efforts Blossom
Penske Entertainment continued its sustainability journey by announcing a lineup of additional energy solutions for the NTT INDYCAR SERIES and Indianapolis Motor Speedway during May and beyond. The variety of initiatives will help reduce the carbon footprint within INDYCAR and power progress toward more sustainable motorsports in North America.
Among the initiatives announced was Shell’s 100% Renewable Race Fuel to be introduced into the 2023 NTT INDYCAR SERIES. The fuel developed by Shell is set to make the NTT INDYCAR SERIES the first United States-based motorsports series to power racing with 100 percent renewable race fuel and enables at least 60 percent greenhouse gas emissions reduction compared to fossil-based gasoline.
Firestone also debuted a new eco-friendlier tire made from the North American-sourced guayule shrub. It was introduced during the Indy 500 pit stop competition and as the alternate tire at the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix.
Indy Lights Grows
INDYCAR assumed in 2022 promotion and execution of the Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires championship, the final step of preparation before the NTT INDYCAR SERIES.
The season featured 14 races, all at the same tracks and on the same weekends as NTT INDYCAR SERIES events as the two series blended their paddocks when possible to provide further exposure for Lights drivers.
Swedish driver Linus Lundqvist won a series-high five races in the No. 26 HMD Motorsports with Dale Coyne Racing entry and clinched the Lights championship with a race to spare, ending with a 92-point advantage over Sting Ray Robb. Lundqvist will receive an enhancement package to climb to the NTT INDYCAR SERIES next season.
Indy Lights also saw growth in participating drivers, with 12 to 14 cars competing at every race. Like in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES, Lights teams also announced expansion plans for 2023, with championship team HMD Motorsports with Dale Coyne Racing planning to field eight cars.
The series also will enter a new era in 2023 with longtime NTT INDYCAR SERIES tire supplier Firestone also providing rubber for Indy Lights teams, increasing the synergy between the two series.
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No. 54 Interstate Batteries Toyota GR Supra News and Notes
- ROUND ONE: By winning the Las Vegas, Atlanta, Richmond, Road America and Michigan NASCAR Xfinity Series races, Ty Gibbs qualified for the NASCAR Xfinity Series playoffs which start this week at Texas Motor Speedway. Gibbs is second in the playoff standings, 18 points behind leader Noah Gregson.
- TEXAS: Gibbs has only one NASCAR Xfinity start at Texas when he started seventh and finished 12th in May 2022.
- ONE OF THIRTY-SEVEN: Gibbs made his first career NASCAR Cup Series start last month at Pocono Raceway for 23XI Racing. Gibbs is the 37th driver younger than 20-years old to make a Cup Series start. Gibbs started at the rear of the field, but completed all 160 laps and finished an impressive 16th. He has competed in five Cup races with a best finish of 10th at Michigan International Speedway.
- NEW RECORD: Gibbs is the youngest driver ever to reach nine victories in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at age 19 years 10 months and two days old. The previous record was held by Joey Logano.
- 2021: Gibbs completed in only 18 Xfinity races in 2021, but won four races and finished 13th in the Xfinity Series final driver point standings. That earned him the Xfinity Rookie of the Year award.
- WHAT A DEBUT: In Gibbs’ Xfinity Series debut in February 2021 at the Daytona Road Course, he led 14 of the 56 laps en route to his first career Xfinity Series win. Gibbs became the youngest driver to win a Xfinity road course race at 18 years, 4 months, 16 days. The Charlotte, N.C., native also became the second-youngest winner in Xfinity Series history after Joey Logano who won in June 2008 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta when he was 18 years and 21 days old.
- IN GOOD COMPANY: Gibbs is the sixth driver to win in his Xfinity Series debut, joining Dale Earnhardt, Joe Ruttman, Ricky Rudd, Terry Labonte and Kurt Busch. Those five drivers had already driven in the NASCAR Cup Series before racing in the Xfinity Series.
- ARCA CHAMPIONS: Gibbs became the 2021 ARCA Menard Series Champions on the strength of 10 wins, plus one win each in ARCA West and ARCA East.
- ATOP THE PIT BOX: Veteran crew chief Chris Gayle will oversee the No. 54 team’s efforts in the 2022 season. Gale, who is from Little Rock, Arkansas, has led his drivers to two NASCAR Cup Series victories and 35 Xfinity Series wins. The list of drivers Gayle has visited victory lane with includes Gibbs, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Sam Hornish Jr., Erik Jones, Elliott Sadler, Christopher Bell and John Hunter Nemechek.
- JGR AT TEXAS: Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) has 110 total starts at Texas in Xfinity competition with 16 wins, 43 top-five finishes, 71 top-10 finishes, nine poles and the team has led 2,774 laps.
- RACE INFO: The NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Texas is scheduled for 3:30 pm EDT on Saturday, September 24 and will be broadcast on USA, SiriusXM Channel 90 and PRN.
Ty Gibbs, Driver of the No. 54 Interstate Batteries Toyota GR Supra
“It’s time for the playoffs and I think we are ready. Glad to have Interstate Batteries on the 54 car this week as Norm (Miller) and the whole company mean so much to Joe Gibbs Racing and the Gibbs family. Hopefully we can put the No. 54 Interstate Batteries Toyota GR Supra in victory lane and advance to the next round.”
Chris Gayle, Crew Chief of the No. 54 Interstate Batteries Toyota GR Supra
“The playoffs are very important and you have to limit the mistakes. The easiest thing to do is win to advance to the next round, but if you can’t do that, you need to get the best possible finish. You really have to be good every week. So hopefully we can do that. Great to have Interstate Batteries on the No. 54 Toyota GR Supra. I know how important they are to the Gibbs family and to Joe Gibbs Racing so hopefully we can get them a win.”
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM") announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Dingdong (Cayman) Limited ("Dingdong" or the "Company") (NYSE: DDL).
Class Period: June 2021 IPO
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 24, 2022
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Dingdong lawsuit, you can submit your contact information at www.glancylaw.com/cases/dingdong-cayman-limited/. You can also contact Charles H. Linehan, of GPM at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or via email at shareholders@glancylaw.com to learn more about your rights.
The complaint filed alleges that Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Dingdong was actively flouting its food safety responsibilities, failing to deliver on its stated commitment to provide "fresh" groceries to customers historically disserved by supermarkets, traditional Chinese wet markets, or traditional e-commerce platforms; (2) Dingdong's quality control measures, which were so heavily touted in the Registration Statement, were, in fact, inadequate, exposing Dingdong to an increased risk of regulatory and/or governmental scrutiny and enforcement; and (3) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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Innovative tools increase quality and decrease cost in organizations that focus on some of the most time-sensitive moments in a person's life.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ReflexAI, a technology company providing AI-powered tools to public safety, crisis response, and healthcare organizations, launched today under the leadership of cofounders Sam Dorison and John Callery. The company also announced funding as a selected finalist in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs accelerator program, Mission Daybreak.
ReflexAI's core products include simulators that can be used to train new staff who respond to calls and text/chat messages from individuals in time-sensitive moments, including 911 operators, crisis line counselors, and call center workers. Simulators can also be used as part of professional development offerings to train experienced staff on new scenarios such as pandemic response. ReflexAI also develops evaluation tools to enable quality assurance across 100% of interactions and provide immediate feedback to frontline staff so they can continue to improve.
"ReflexAI is focused on providing technology solutions that have measurable impact, improving quality and reducing cost in sectors that support people in critical moments," said Dorison. "We believe that every organization should have access to the most innovative tools, particularly ones serving vulnerable communities."
Callery and Dorison previously oversaw the deployment of training simulator technology at The Trevor Project, the world's largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ young people. The crisis contact simulator received national recognition, including as one of TIME's 100 Best Inventions of 2021.
"We know how transformative these tools can be, and we're inspired to bring them to partners around the world who are doing such impactful, mission-driven work'' said Callery. "This technology is at the leading edge, but we have already proven its impact and are thrilled to bring it to even more organizations in tailored but easy-to-use ways."
ReflexAI is led by founders Sam Dorison (Chief Executive Officer) and John Callery (Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer). They are national leaders in developing and deploying technology in sensitive settings. Both previously served as leaders at The Trevor Project and have been advisors to countless technology companies and public health organizations.
ReflexAI meets the highest ethical standards in the development and deployment of its products. Investments include extensive user research and product development anchored in user-centric design. The organization also works with independent experts including ethicists and clinicians at all stages of the product development cycle.
ReflexAI brings the best in machine learning and natural language processing to mission-driven, people-centric organizations via innovative tools that transform how they train, develop, and empower their frontline teams.
Mission Daybreak, formerly known as the Suicide Prevention Grand Challenge, is a $20 million grand challenge to reduce Veteran suicides. Mission Daybreak builds on VA's long history of advancing health innovation to create an entire ecosystem of support for innovators and their solutions. The challenge offers $20 million in non-dilutive funding as well as non-monetary resources.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Run:ai, the leader in compute orchestration for AI workloads, today announced that its Atlas Platform is certified to run NVIDIA AI Enterprise, an end-to-end, cloud-native suite of AI and data analytics software that is optimized to enable any organization to use AI.
"The certification of Run:AI Atlas for NVIDIA AI Enterprise will help data scientists run their AI workloads most efficiently," said Omri Geller, CEO and co-founder of Run:ai. "Our mission is to speed up AI and get more models into production, and NVIDIA has been working closely with us to help achieve that goal."
With many companies now operating advanced machine learning technology and running bigger models on more hardware, demand for AI computing chips continues to grow. GPUs are indispensable for running AI applications, and companies are turning to software to reap the most benefit from their AI infrastructure and get models to market faster.
The Run:ai Atlas Platform uses a smart Kubernetes Scheduler and software-based Fractional GPU technology to provide AI practitioners seamless access to multiple GPUs, multiple GPU nodes, or fractions of a single GPU. This enables teams to match the right amount of computing power to the needs of every AI workload, so they can get more done on the same chips. With these capabilities, Run:ai's Atlas Platform lets enterprises maximize the efficiency of their infrastructure, avoiding a scenario where GPUs sit idle or use only a small amount of their power.
"Enterprises across industries are turning to AI to power the breakthroughs that will help improve customer service, boost sales and optimize operations," said Justin Boitano, vice president of enterprise and edge computing at NVIDIA. "Run:ai's certification for NVIDIA AI Enterprise provides customers with an integrated, cloud-native platform for deploying AI workflows with MLOps management capabilities."
Run:ai creates fractional GPUs as virtual ones within available GPU framebuffer memory and compute space. These fractional GPUs can be accessed by containers, enabling different workloads to run in these containers — in parallel and on the same GPU. Run:ai works well on VMware vSphere and bare metal servers, and supports various distributions of Kubernetes.
This certification is the latest in a series of Run:ai's collaborations with NVIDIA. In March, Run:ai completed a proof of concept which enabled multi-cloud GPU flexibility for companies using NVIDIA GPUs in the cloud. This was followed by the company fully integrating NVIDIA Triton Inference Server. And in June, Run:ai worked with Weights & Biases and NVIDIA to gain access to NVIDIA-accelerated computing resources orchestrated by Run:ai's Atlas Platform.
About Run:ai
Run:ai's Atlas Platform brings cloud-like simplicity to AI resource management - providing researchers with on-demand access to pooled resources for any AI workload. An innovative cloud-native operating system - which includes a workload-aware scheduler and an abstraction layer - helps IT simplify AI implementation, increase team productivity, and gain full utilization of expensive GPUs. Using Run:ai, companies streamline development, management, and scaling of AI applications across any infrastructure, including on-premises, edge and cloud. Learn more at www.run.ai.
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Supermicro Introduces Over 20 Building Block Solutions to Enable Customers to Select from 8U, 5U, 4U, 2U, and 1U Systems that Support the New NVIDIA H100 GPU to Optimize AI/ML, HPC, and Inferencing Workloads
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a global leader in enterprise computing, GPUs, storage, networking solutions, and green computing technology, is extending its lead in accelerated compute infrastructure again with a full line of new systems optimized for NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs– encompassing over 20 product options. With a large portfolio of NVIDIA-Certified Systems, Supermicro is now leveraging the new NVIDIA H100 PCI-E and NVIDIA H100 SXM GPUs.
"Today, Supermicro introduced GPU-based servers with the new NVIDIA H100," said Charles Liang, president, and CEO of Supermicro. "We continue to offer the most comprehensive portfolio in the industry today and can deliver these systems in a range of sizes, including 8U, 5U, 4U, 2U, and 1U options. We also offer the latest GPU in our SuperBlades®, workstations, and the Universal GPU systems. Customers can expect up to 30x performance gains for AI inferencing compared to previous GPU generations of accelerators for certain AI applications. Our GPU servers' innovative airflow designs result in reduced fan speeds, less power consumption, lower noise levels, and a lower total cost of ownership."
Supermicro systems certified with the NVIDIA H100 PCIe GPUs include NVIDIA AI Enterprise, an end-to-end cloud-native suite of AI and data analytics software optimized to enable organizations to use AI. Supermicro systems with NVIDIA AI Enterprise combined with NVIDIA H100 GPUs simplify the building of AI-ready platforms, accelerate AI development and deployment, and deliver performance, security, and scalability to gather insights faster and achieve business value sooner.
"NVIDIA H100 delivers the next giant leap in our accelerated computing platform," said Kevin Connors, vice president of NVIDIA Worldwide OEM Accounts. "Supermicro's broad range of servers, powered by NVIDIA H100, can accelerate workloads at every scale, helping enterprises achieve faster time to market by providing dramatic performance gains while lowering costs."
Supermicro will also certify select current generation systems with the NVIDIA H100 GPUs. Some of the current systems now available are the Supermicro GPU servers SYS-420GP-TNR, SYS-420GP-TNR2, and the SYS-740GP-TNRT Supermicro workstation. By certifying current shipping workstations with NVIDIA H100 GPUs, customers can take advantage of the new GPU performance gains with the existing CPU options. In addition, next-generation Supermicro systems with NVIDIA H100 GPUs onboard have begun shipping as part of an early access program.
Supermicro supports open standards and adheres to open power specifications, providing customers with faster delivery and installation, resulting in faster time to productivity. In addition, Supermicro servers such as the 8U 8-GPU also support AC and DC power in standard and OCP DC rack configurations.
Please visit https://www.supermicro.com/en/accelerators/nvidia for more information on the Supermicro servers with NVIDIA H100 GPUs.
About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first to market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are transforming into a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, and switch systems, software, and services while delivering advanced high-volume motherboard, power, and chassis products. The products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Taiwan, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an emergency kit to assist medical professionals as well as Good Samaritans when using AED and CPR processes during an emergency," said an inventor, from Forney, Texas, "so I invented BOYD'S THUMPER. My design could provide life-saving assistance while also minimizing fire risks inherent to such equipment."
The invention provides an improved apparatus for performing AED and CPR processes. In doing so, it offers added guidance for the user. It also ensures that emergency services are summoned and it enhances safety during cardiac events. The invention features an effective design that is easy to use so it is ideal for medical facilities, commercial buildings, etc. Additionally, a prototype model is available upon request.
The original design was submitted to the Dallas sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-DAL-243, 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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The Ultra Trail where the sea and the desert become one
PUERTO PEÑASCO, Mexico, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 22th and 23th of 2022, a competition like no other will take place in Mexico: The Great Desert Race. An Ultra Trail where some of the best athletes of more than 10th countries will participate.
This challenge is different; it'll be an encounter with yourself full of adrenaline and strength, where we get deep into the salt paths of the ancestors, a magical place that get through the dunes of the Great Altar Desert to then find the sea breeze of the paradisiac Cortes's Sea in Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point) in Sonora, Mexico. You'll also get the chance to camp below a breathtaking sky full of stars. A unique experience you should live.
Rocky Point is the scenery of a competition never seen before on the country where the runners can sign up on any of the 4 distances that get through espectacular natural views that will amaze you with their beauty awakening your adventure spirit: Beach Fun Run (10K), Beach & Desert Run (25K), Mega Desert Run (50K) and Ultra Trail (75K).
Save the date for October 22th and 23th for The Great Desert Race, in collaboration with the Government of Sonora and the support of the Department of tourism Federal and State. This event looks to promote the sport and grow the tourism in the area yet unexplored for most of the people outside the country, but with an important potential.
Pack your bags and test your limits!
Sign up today to any of the 4 distances available at
www.grancarreradeldesierto.com.mx
For further information, we recommend to you to check out the first episode (with english subtitles) of our documentary which'll give you an insight view of what to expect on Rocky Point, Sonora: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4_5SOKGkbw
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- National probate inheritance dispute law firm, RMO LLP, announced the opening of its Pasadena, California office. The office, which will be led by Senior Attorney Mathew Wrenshall and Founding Partner Scott Rahn, brings RMO's laser focus on estate disputes to the San Gabriel valley, allowing the firm to help even more beneficiaries, heirs, executors, trustees and families through their probate and estate conflicts.
"Whenever clients are going through what likely is one of the most difficult times of their lives, having local professionals who can relate to, connect with and understand the situation from a client's perspective is critical," said Rahn. "Our ability to be a stable and valuable resource for our probate clients and serve our local communities by helping people in need is our pursuit."
Rahn is known for in-depth financial investigations and deftly handling intra-family dynamics and decades-long family friction. He has extensive experience in courts, arbitration, mediation and dispute resolution forums across California as well as in key retirement centers in the United States and through strategic partnerships in international locations. His clients are typically embroiled in inheritance disputes, trust contests, will contests, caregiver undue influence, step-parent undue influence, sibling undue influence, estate administration irregularities, beneficiary bias, trustee misappropriation, accounting irregularities, beneficiary theft, trust investigations, accusations of wrongdoing, fraudulent behavior, and wrongful taking something from an estate.
Mathew Wrenshall handles disputes over contested wills, trusts, and conservatorships in probate court as well as business disputes in a wide variety of contexts, with a focus in the financial services space. Using his lengthy experience as a litigator, Wrenshall works closely with clients to resolve complex disputes that often involve complicated family dynamics. Wrenshall has experience with claims relating to disinheritance, elder abuse, and undue influence, and is experienced at finding creative solutions to what are often fraught and emotional situations.
This year Rahn was recognized by the Los Angeles Times as a "Legal Visionary" and named a "Top Litigator" by the Los Angeles Business Journal. He was also ranked by Chambers and Partners and named a "Trailblazers" by The American Lawyer. Rahn earned his JD from the University of San Diego School of Law and his BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Driven by a commitment to provide relief to people grieving the loss of a loved one, Rahn, Wrenshall and the RMO team collaborate closely with clients, pursuing and defending all types of probate litigation disputes, including claims involving incapacity, incompetence, breach of fiduciary duty, tortious interference with expected inheritance, financial elder abuse, and other similar areas of conflict. Rahn resolves contests, disputes and litigation related to trusts, estates and conservatorships, creating a welcome peace of mind for clients. He represents heirs, beneficiaries, trustees and executors and utilizes his experience to develop and implement strategies that swiftly and cost-effectively address the financial issues, fiduciary duties and emotional complexities underlying trust contests, estates conflicts and probate litigation.
RMO LLP provides personal, cost-effective inheritance dispute services to individual and institutional clients. The firm's attorneys focus on probate litigation involving contested trust, estate, probate, and conservatorship matters. RMO has offices serving clients with probate disputes throughout California, Florida, Texas, Kansas and Missouri. For more information, please visit https://rmolawyers.com/
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As well as her fondness for corgis, the late Queen Elizabeth II was well-known for her love of horses, once admitting she would have wanted to be a racehorse trainer if she hadn't been Britain's sovereign.
Her passion for racing and equestrian sport was enjoyed right up until the end of her life. Indeed, according to the Mail Online, two days before Her Majesty's death on 8 September she ‘spoke at length’ to Clive Cox (the man in charge of 50 of the monarch's horses), who revealed: ‘We talked about the filly, how the race might pan out, how another horse of hers was doing in my stable’.
Yesterday, during Her Majesty's state funeral at Westminster Abbey, there were a number of poignant nods to the monarch’s ‘lifelong passion’ for the animal.
As a touching tribute to their late relative, Her Majesty's granddaughter Lady Louise Windsor and the Queen's great-granddaughter, Princess Charlotte, both wore equestrian-themed jewellery during the ceremony.
Lady Louise, who has inherited her grandfather's talent for carriage driving, wore a silver pendant in the shape of a horse's head, while seven-year-old Charlotte pinned a diamond horseshoe brooch to her black coat; a gift to her from the late Queen.
Later in the day, Her Majesty's favourite pony, Emma, was led to the edge of the Long Walk at Windsor as the Queen’s coffin made its way to St George’s Chapel. The horse was accompanied by Terry Pendry, the monarch's Head Groom of 25 years. As the coffin passed, Pendry nodded his head in a bow while Emma brushed her hoof along the ground, as if to say a final goodbye. The groom attached one of the Queen's Hermès headscarves, which was decorated in prints of horses, to Emma's saddle in what he believed to be ‘a perfect touch’.
The 96-year-old monarch is said to have only stopped riding Emma earlier this year. In 2020, Vanity Fair reported the Queen was ‘riding daily’ at Windsor Castle while isolating with her husband, Prince Philip, amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Out in show for the funeral were also four horses gifted to the monarch by the Canadian Mounted Police. Named George, Elizabeth, Darby and Sir John, the animals led the procession ahead of the monarch's coffin. Queen Elizabeth II was given her first horse from the Canadian Mounties, a coal black mare named Burmese, in 1969. Throughout her reign, until 1986, she attended the annual Trooping the Colour on horseback, and for 18 consecutive years, she rode Burmese as part of the precession.
Elizabeth was given her first horse, a Shetland pony named Peggy, at age four. According to writer Michael Morpurgo, who apparently ‘talked and talked’ about horses with the Queen over lunch at Buckingham Palace, revealed that the sovereign's fondness for the animal 'began as a child when she stroked the neck of a pony, which she said felt like “warm velvet”’. | https://www.tatler.com/article/all-the-touching-equestrian-tributes-at-the-queens-funeral | 2022-09-20T17:25:17Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/all-the-touching-equestrian-tributes-at-the-queens-funeral | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex flew to Britain for the first time since the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in early September they could not have anticipated how long their stay would stretch. Following the Queen's death on 8 September, Harry and Meghan would remain in the country over the subsequent 10-day mourning period, in order to participate in events honouring the monarch's life as well as mourn Harry's grandmother alongside his family.
Now, succeeding the state funeral that was held for the sovereign yesterday, the couple is reportedly keen to return home to their family, following their extended absence. The couple's children, Archie, three, and Lilibet, one, are unlikely to have spent so long apart from their parents, whose visit to the UK was only intended for less than a week. | https://www.tatler.com/article/harry-and-meghan-to-return-to-america-to-be-with-children | 2022-09-20T17:25:23Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/harry-and-meghan-to-return-to-america-to-be-with-children | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
We will all remember where we were the day Queen Elizabeth II died, something none of us could contemplate would ever actually happen. Sitting here in our offices at Vogue House in Mayfair, just around the corner from Bruton Street where she was born in 1926, we knew with great sadness some hours before the official announcement: ‘London Bridge is down.’
Launched in 1709, Tatler has a long memory, but I would be the first editor in 70 years to be covering the death of a monarch. Our world has completely changed since 1952, when my predecessor here in the editor’s chair was Colonel Sean Fielding. He had founded Soldier magazine while fighting in the desert during the Second World War and was a friend of Prince Philip, attending the stag before his wedding to the then Princess Elizabeth.
But 21st-century Tatler is a military operation, too – there would be time to mourn later – and with a click of a button from our digital director, the background of Tatler.com turned black, while the stories went up as they broke. Meanwhile, the printing presses were halted as I threw out the cover, replacing it with what I am sure you will agree is a heartbreakingly beautiful portrait by Cecil Beaton, and we set to reworking this issue where we could. | https://www.tatler.com/article/the-queen-elizabeth-ii-november-issue-cover-tribute | 2022-09-20T17:25:29Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/the-queen-elizabeth-ii-november-issue-cover-tribute | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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On Monday 19 September, after a grand state funeral at Westminster Abbey, Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin was taken to Windsor Castle, processed up the Long Walk at Windsor Castle and received with a committal service at St George’s Chapel. Then, following the pomp and ceremony of the day, the Royal Family were able to bid their matriarch a final farewell away from the public eye, as a private burial took place in the King George VI Memorial Chapel.
To mark the milestone, the Palace shared two images of the late monarch: one showing her with her husband (then fiancé), sister and parents as a young princess; and the other a previously unseen, candid snap of the monarch on her own, walking among the heather on her Balmoral estate.
After a grand funeral at Westminster Abbey, a more intimate committal service took place at St George’s Chapel
Posted to the official Royal Family social media accounts, the first photo is a striking black and white family portrait. Taken during a photoshoot to make her engagement to her late husband, Prince Philip, in 1947, it shows the Queen as a 21-year-old princess, wearing an elegant day dress and pearls. The accompanying caption reads: ‘The Queen will be Laid to Rest with her late husband The Duke of Edinburgh, alongside her father King George VI, mother Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and sister Princess Margaret.’ | https://www.tatler.com/article/the-queen-new-unseen-photo-balmoral-windsor-castle-burial | 2022-09-20T17:25:35Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/the-queen-new-unseen-photo-balmoral-windsor-castle-burial | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Corgis Muick and Sandy bid goodbye to their Queen for a final time yesterday. Standing outside Windsor Castle on smart red and blue leads, now devoid of their owner, they snuffled in a suitably mournful manner. But these aren’t any old dogs. Muick and Sandy are descended from an epic royal corgi dynasty: they are the poshest corgis on the planet.
The Queen’s love of corgis began when she met ‘Dookie’ in 1936, apparently named after the kennel staff heard that the Duke of York was going to be his owner. A horribly behaved little dog, who reportedly bit courtiers and visitors with fearless indiscrimination, the then Princess Elizabeth took a liking to him. A 10-year-old Princess Elizabeth posed for a press photo taken by her father in Balmoral, with the tiny tyrant by her side and warmed the hearts of the public. So began an iconic relationship. | https://www.tatler.com/article/the-queens-corgis-say-a-final-goodbye | 2022-09-20T17:25:41Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/the-queens-corgis-say-a-final-goodbye | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It was nerve-racking enough for the audience: watching eight young guardsmen carry the Queen's coffin through Westminster Abbey in front of 2,000 guests, and four billion viewers around the world (and then pick it back up again to heave it from Westminster Hall to the Royal Vault under St George's Chapel — its final resting place).
The lead-lined oak coffin weighed over 500lb, and that’s before the Royal Standard was draped upon it, along with the bouquet, Imperial State Crown, and orb and sceptre, which were luckily fastened on top. They lifted it on their shoulders, with nerves of steel.
Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral will commence at 11am today
But exactly who are these soldiers, and just how surreal can the experience be?
The pallbearers hail from the Queen's Company, the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards. 'It's their role to protect her body, both in life and in death, remaining in the Queen's Company until King Charles decides otherwise,' explained Major Adrian Weale to the PA.
They will soon become the King's Company, having completed their final duty to Her Majesty, who was their Company Commander as well as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army. The guards are famous for their rare double role in the army: they have both a public ceremonial duty towards the monarch, as well as an operational one in Light Role Infantry around the world. Indeed, the unit was on the ground in Iraq at the time of the Queen’s death, and was recalled at once to fulfil its traditional duty. | https://www.tatler.com/article/the-soldiers-who-carried-the-queens-coffin | 2022-09-20T17:25:47Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/the-soldiers-who-carried-the-queens-coffin | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The lesser-known faces at the Queen’s funeral with a special connection to Her Majesty
While world leaders and international royals may have dominated the headlines, many of the Queen’s closest confidants have lived their lives way from the public eye
Monday 19 September was a day like no other, as prime ministers and princesses alike gathered in Westminster Abbey for the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. While there were many famous faces in attendance, with royals and dignitaries out in force to pay their respects, there were also a number of more private figures among the 2,000 or so guests. | https://www.tatler.com/gallery/the-queens-funeral-unknown-guests-ladies-in-waiting-horse-trainer | 2022-09-20T17:25:53Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/gallery/the-queens-funeral-unknown-guests-ladies-in-waiting-horse-trainer | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Mohali: Australia scaled a mighty target of 209 runs in the final over to win the first T20I against India here on Tuesday.
Opener Cameron Green scored a 30-ball 61 and wicketkeeper-batsman Matthew Wade applied the finishing touches with an unbeaten 45 off 21.
Axar Patel and Umesh Yadav bagged three and two wickets respectively for India.
Earlier, Hardik Pandya (71 not out) and KL Rahul (55) scored scintillating half-centuries to help India post 208/6.
Invited to bat, Rahul (55 off 35 balls) scored his second consecutive fifty which included four boundaries and three maximums.
The in-form Pandya, on the other hand, pummelled the visiting bowlers into submission with his unbeaten 30-ball 71.
The all-rounder smashed the ball seven times to the fence and five times over it to take India over the 200-run mark. Suryakumar also pitched in with a valuable 25-ball 46.
For Australia, medium pacer Nathan Ellis 3/30 was the pick of the bowlers. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/20/india-australia-first-t20i-mohali.amp.html | 2022-09-20T17:26:10Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/20/india-australia-first-t20i-mohali.amp.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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