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Welcome to Week 7 of the fantasy football season, kicker fans! With another week of the season under our belts, we're continuing to learn more about the landscape of the kicker position.
While Dallas Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey — the top kicker off draft boards this year — ranks No. 1 on the year averaging 13.7 fantasy points per game, one surprising name has emerged as a viable weekly flex play: Pittsburgh Steelers kicker Chris Boswell, available in 50% of Yahoo leagues.
Through six weeks, Boswell is tied for the second-most field goal attempts in the league (17), including six kicks good from 50+ yards. In Week 7, the Steelers are set to host the New York Jets on "Sunday Night Football" — a matchup currently allowing the third-most fantasy points per game to opposing kickers.
Could one of Week 7's top streaming options be available in your league? Find out where Boswell landed in our team's Week 7 kicker rankings;
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(MENAFN- Weforum) Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 15 October 2024 – More than 500 experts will gather in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 15 to 17 October 2024 for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils (GFC). Members of the Forum’s GFC multistakeholder knowledge network will tackle the world’s most pressing challenges, share innovative insights and fast-track solutions aimed at driving positive global change.
Amid a rapidly shifting global landscape of geopolitical tensions, climate emergency and economic inequality, the meeting will provide a crucial space for collaborative, innovative thinking. The GFC network, representing 80 countries and diverse sectors and disciplines, is uniquely positioned to break down silos, foster cross-sector dialogue and build the multisectoral partnerships needed to sustainably address the complex issues facing the world.
“In today’s intelligent age, where knowledge and innovation are the most valuable currencies, the Global Future Councils provide an essential platform for the world’s top thinkers to converge and address the world’s most pressing challenges,” said Klaus Schwab, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum. “As we face unprecedented risks, from geopolitical tensions to climate change, the insights generated from this meeting will be essential in strengthening global cooperation and fostering the long-term resilience needed to meet these complex crises.”
Key themes of the meeting programme will include inclusive growth, climate action and the energy transition, and rebuilding trust for global collaboration. Over 13 sessions will be livestreamed here to share insights with the media and the public. The opening press conference will be streamed here tomorrow, 16 October, at 11:30 (GST) and will feature Mirek Dušek, Managing Director, World Economic Forum; Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for AI, Digital Economy, and Remote Work Applications, United Arab Emirates; and Lauren Woodman, Co-Chair, Global Future Council on Data Equity & AI Governance.
“The Global Future Councils encapsulate the shared vision of the UAE and the World Economic Forum to provide a platform for international partnerships that shape the future,” said HE Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs, United Arab Emirates and Co-Chair of Global Future Councils. “It is a venture based on a common understanding that the world needs to drive innovation, sustainable development, enhance future readiness, and invest in minds, talents, expertise and innovators to unlock opportunities and accelerate progress.”
"As we stand at the crossroads of global challenges, rapid technological advancements and economic and social transformation, the only way forward is through collective action,” said Mirek Dušek, Managing Director, World Economic Forum. "The Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils serves as a unique platform for visionary thought leaders to converge, innovate, and create sustainable, collaborative solutions to navigate the complexities of an ever-evolving world."
The World Economic Forum’s network of Global Future Councils is a multistakeholder, interdisciplinary insights network designed to address critical global challenges through transformative ideas. It consists of 30 councils made up of experts across business, government, academia and civil society, from more than 80 countries, who are nominated for two-year terms.
The insights generated by the GFCs throughout the year provide essential contributions to the Forum’s broader mission of fostering innovative, cross-sector partnerships to address complex global challenges. The outcomes of this meeting will inform the Annual Meeting 2025 in Davos and the ongoing, year-round work of the Forum’s 10 Centres.
About the Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils 2024
The Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils is taking place between 15 and 17 October in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The meeting will bring together over 500 global experts to exchange insights, explore emerging trends and accelerate solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges around three key themes: innovation for inclusive growth; climate action, nature protection and the energy transition; and building trust for global collaboration. Insights from the meeting will shape the World Economic Forum’s work throughout the coming year, including the Annual Meeting 2025 in Davos.
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The group's deputy leader, Naim Qassem, said the only solution was a ceasefire
Hezbollah's deputy leader Naim Qassem. Photo: Reuters
Lebanese group Hezbollah threatened Tuesday to attack targets across Israel and said it would not be defeated by ongoing intense bombardment of its strongholds and leadership.
The group's deputy leader Naim Qassem said the only solution was a ceasefire.
"I am telling the Israeli home front: the solution is a ceasefire," he said in a speech broadcast live.
In another day of fighting, the Iran-backed group said it launched a barrage of rockets towards the northern Israeli city of Haifa and targeted Israeli bulldozers and a tank near the border.
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Israel responded with fresh air strikes around Lebanon, a day after an estimated 41 people were killed in attacks on the country, according to Lebanon's health ministry.
In his speech, Qassem vowed that the group "will not be defeated" and would begin widening the scope of its targets inside Israel.
"Since the Israeli enemy targeted all of Lebanon, we have the right from a defensive position to target any place" in Israel, he said.
Only after a ceasefire would residents of northern Israel be able to return home, he said, referring to Israel's stated war aim.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday told French President Emmanuel Macron he opposed any "unilateral ceasefire, which does not change the security situation in Lebanon".
Iran, which supports Hezbollah, has in recent days engaged in diplomatic talks around establishing ceasefires in Lebanon and war-battered Gaza amid growing fears of a broader regional conflict.
Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati told AFP that his country was ready to bolster its military presence in the south after any ceasefire, adding that Israeli troops were making brief cross-border incursions.
Security has been tightened in the country's only airport in Beirut "to remove any pretexts" for an Israeli attack, Mikati added.
Israel dramatically escalated its air campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon from September 23 and then launched a ground invasion a week later intended to push the group back from its northern border.
Hezbollah has been firing thousands of projectiles into Israel over the last year in support of Hamas, displacing tens of thousands of Israelis.
Israel's military targeted several areas in southern and eastern Lebanon on Tuesday, including in the Bekaa Valley where a hospital in Baalbek city was put out of service, Lebanon's official National News Agency reported.
An Israeli strike on the northern, Christian-majority village of Aito on Monday killed 21 people, mostly women and children, according to a revised toll from the Lebanese health ministry.
The UN rights office called for a "prompt, independent and thorough investigation" of the strike which levelled a residential building reportedly being used by displaced people.
At least 1,356 people have been killed in Lebanon since Israel escalated its bombing last month, according to an AFP tally of Lebanese health ministry figures, though the real toll is likely higher.
The war in Lebanon, which has suffered years of economic crisis, has displaced at least 690,000 people, according to figures from the International Organization for Migration.
Israel is also weighing how to respond to Iran's decision to launch about 200 missiles at the country on October 1.
Netanyahu's office said that Israel — and not its top ally the US — would decide how to strike back.
"We listen to the opinions of the United States, but we will make our final decisions based on our national interest," it said in a statement on Tuesday.
The Iranian barrage was in retaliation for an Israeli strike in Lebanon's Beirut that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian general Abbas Nilforoushan on September 27.
US President Joe Biden — whose government is Israel's top arms supplier — has warned Israel against striking Iran's nuclear or oil facilities.
According to a Washington Post report on Monday citing unnamed US officials, Netanyahu reassured the White House that Israel was only contemplating targeting military sites.
ALSO READ: | https://www.khaleejtimes.com/world/mena/hezbollah-threatens-to-attack-targets-across-israel | 2024-10-15T17:57:50Z |
American figure skater Ilia Malinin has been doing gymnastics off the ice much of his life, one of the many reasons why he can so effortlessly land the dazzling quadruple jumps that made him a world champion at just 19 years old last March.
It is also why Malinin has been able to so seamlessly incorporate the backflip into his program.
Once banned in competition for its inherent danger, the backflip and all other "somersault type jumps" were removed from the restricted list by the International Skating Union after last season. And almost immediately, they began to pop up in lower-level competitions, including the Lombardia Trophy last month, when Malinin landed one on the way to victory.
But what about more important competitions, such as Skate America, which opens the Grand Prix season Friday night in Allen, Texas? Or the world championships in March in Boston, the last one before the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy?
“I’m definitely planning to keep it," said Malinin, the first skater ever to land the 4 1/2-revolution quad axel in competition. “I’m thinking of ways to really level it up as well in the future, like adding a twist or some crazy other combination.”
At the Lombardi Trophy, Malinin landed the backflip late in his free skate, set to “I'm Not a Vampire” by Falling in Reverse. He also landed five quads over two clean programs to outdistance Japanese rivals Yuma Kagiyama and Shun Sato.
“I’ve been doing it off-ice for four or five years now," explained Malinin, who took the backflip to the ice at first by using support ropes to help guide his landing. “I was doing gymnastics and it started to become muscle memory.”
Many skaters, including reigning Olympic champion Nathan Chen of the U.S., have been doing backflips in exhibitions for years. And in January, French skater Adam Siao Him Fa was so far ahead during his free skate at the European championships that he added one to his program, even though he knew it would cost him points.
The most famous backflip in competition came during the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan. Surya Bonaly, who knew she would finish out of the medals, landed one on a single blade in her free skate — that particularly flip is now named for her.
Skate America is the first of the six Grand Prix events that lead up to the Grand Prix Final in December in France. And with the Winter Games just over a year away, the primary contenders for Olympic medals will begin to rise to the fore.
Russian and Belarusian athletes once again are banned from competing because of the war in Ukraine.
Kaori Sakamoto of Japan, who will begin her season at Skate Canada later in the month, is trying to become the first woman to win four straight world titles since Carol Heiss won five in a row from 1956-60. Scott Hamilton of the U.S. was the last skater to win four in a row, capturing every title from 1981-84.
Worlds runner-up Isabeau Levito will be at Skate America with American teammates Bradie Tennell and Elyce Lin-Gracey, while Alysa Liu — the 2022 U.S. Olympian fresh off a two-year retirement — will open her Grand Prix season at Skate Canada.
Two-time defending ice dance world champs Madison Chock and Evan Bates are back with their eyes on winning their first gold medals in the event at the Milano-Cortina Olympics. The duo were fourth at the Beijing Games. They did finally receive their team gold medals as part of the U.S. squad that were held up by the Russian doping investigation at the Paris Olympics.
“We’re headed for Milan," said Chock, who along with Bates are known for their avante-garde skating style. "We’re still inspired and finding new things in our skating, and it feels great to keep improving.”
Their biggest rivals are Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Canada and Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri of Italy.
Reigning world champs Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps will begin their Grand Prix seasons on home soil at Skate Canada. Their biggest competition will be Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara, who took silver at worlds, along with Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii of Italy and Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin of Germany.
U.S. pairs champions Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea will be in the Skate America field this weekend.
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Creative software maker Adobe (ADBE) is launching a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that’s capable of generating videos from text prompts as it races to keep up with competitors such as Meta Platforms (META) and privately held OpenAI.
Adobe, which is known for products such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and PDF files, is competing in an increasingly crowded field of companies that are introducing AI models that can both generate and edit videos and photographs using basic text prompts.
Earlier this year, OpenAI introduced an AI video tool called Sora. That news sent ADBE stock sharply lower. More recently, Meta Platforms has announced plans to introduce its own AI video tool. Adobe, whose software products are widely used by graphic designers and other creators, is rolling out Firefly Video, which will compete directly against Sora and other AI video applications.
The Threat Facing Adobe from AI
ADBE stock has fallen 17% so far in 2024, badly trailing the 24% gain in the benchmark S&P 500 index. Many analysts attribute that decline to the threat that AI poses to Adobe’s suite of creative software products. After initially dismissing the potential threat from AI, Adobe’s management team has pivoted to embracing the technology.
The adoption of AI appears to be the right strategy. Adobe has said that soft drink giant PepsiCo (PEP) will use its AI image generator to allow customers to order custom-made bottles of Pepsi and other beverages. Toymaker Mattel (MAT) is reportedly using Adobe’s AI tools to design packaging for its Barbie dolls.
Is ADBE Stock a Buy?
Adobe stock has a consensus Moderate Buy rating among 29 Wall Street analysts. That rating is based on 22 Buy, five Hold, and two Sell recommendations made in the last three months. In addition, the average ADBE price target of $621.33 implies 21.72% upside potential from current levels.
Read more analyst ratings on ADBE stock
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– Phase 2 SOLSTICE Safety and Efficacy Data in Hepatitis Delta Trial at Week 24 to Be Presented –
– Oral and Five Poster Presentations Highlight Important Progress in Hepatitis Delta and Hepatitis B Clinical Programs, and Deliver Key Insights on the Burden of Disease Among Patient Segments in Hepatitis Delta –
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vir Biotechnology, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIR) today announced it will present new data from the Phase 2 SOLSTICE clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety profile of tobevibart, an investigational monoclonal antibody (mAb), and elebsiran, an investigational small interfering ribonucleic acid (siRNA) for the potential treatment of chronic hepatitis delta.
These data will be presented in an oral presentation at the upcoming American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) The Liver Meeting®, in San Diego, CA, November 15-19, 2024. Vir will also present five poster presentations that further characterize these investigational therapies as well as recent efforts to improve the assessment and evaluation of hepatitis delta infection, and insights into the economic burden of hepatitis delta for patients and society. Vir will also share advances from across the chronic hepatitis B development program.
“There is an urgent need for effective therapies for people living with hepatitis delta who can face rapid progression to liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. We are excited by the latest data from our hepatitis delta development program, and we look forward to sharing our latest findings at AASLD as we work to help patients living with this debilitating condition,” said Mark Eisner, M.D., M.P.H., Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Vir Biotechnology. “Further, patients living with chronic hepatitis B face lifelong treatment and an increased risk of cirrhosis and liver cancer, so developing a functional cure could transform their lives. We are pleased to share data further characterizing our investigational therapies as we continue on our mission to advance a functional cure.”
Vir will be presenting the following abstracts:
- Efficacy and safety of tobevibart (VIR-3434) alone or in combination with elebsiran (VIR-2218) in participants with chronic hepatitis delta virus infection: Week 24 primary endpoint analysis from the Phase 2 SOLSTICE trial
Session: Hepatitis D: Natural History and Treatment
Date: Monday, November 18
Time: 6:15 – 6.30 p.m. PT
Presenter: Tarik Asselah, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Hepatology at the Hôpital Beaujon, APHP, Clichy, France, and at the University of Paris, and Head of Viral Hepatitis at INSERM UMR1149, France
- Pharmacokinetics and safety of a single dose of elebsiran (VIR-2218, siRNA) subcutaneously administered in adult participants with moderate renal impairment (Poster #1340)
Session: Hepatitis B
Date: November 15
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. PT
Presenter: Li Wang, Associate Director, Clinical Pharmacology, Vir Biotechnology, Inc.
- Dose-Dependent Effects of Neutralizing Anti-HBs Monoclonal Antibody VIR-3434 on Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Composition (Poster #1409)
Session: Hepatitis B
Date: November 15
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. PT
Presenter: Florian van Bömmel, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine II, Leipzig University Medical Center.
- Safety Profile of tobevibart (VIR-3434) and elebsiran (VIR-2218) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B and delta (CHB and CHD) (Poster #1375)
Session: Hepatitis B
Date: November 15
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. PT
Presenter: Alina Jucov, M.D., Ph.D., Arensia Exploratory Medicine GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany, and Nicolae Testemitanu, State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chişinău, Moldova.
- Review of evidence to support the use of surrogate endpoints and fibroscan in hepatitis D infection (Poster #1174)
Session: Hepatitis – Other Infections
Date: November 15
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. PT
Presenter: Prajakta Bhounsule, Director, Health Economy and Marketing, Vir Biotechnology, Inc.
- Assessing economic burden among unique patient segments in an HDV-infected population (Poster #3294)
Session: Health Services and Public Health Research
Date: November 17
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. PT
Presenter: Prajakta Bhounsule, Director, Health Economy and Marketing, Vir Biotechnology, Inc.
About Tobevibart (VIR-3434)
Tobevibart is an investigational broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibody targeting the hepatitis B surface antigen. It is designed to inhibit the entry of hepatitis B and hepatitis delta viruses into hepatocytes, and to reduce the level of circulating viral and subviral particles in the blood. Tobevibart was identified using Vir’s proprietary antibody discovery platform and has been engineered to have an extended half-life and optimized binding to immune cells. Tobevibart is administered subcutaneously, and it is currently in clinical development for treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis B and patients with chronic hepatitis delta.
About Elebsiran (VIR-2218)
Elebsiran is an investigational hepatitis B virus-targeting small interfering ribonucleic acid (siRNA) designed to degrade hepatitis B virus RNA transcripts and limit the production of hepatitis B surface antigen. Current data indicates that it has the potential to have direct antiviral activity against hepatitis B virus and hepatitis delta virus. Elebsiran is administered subcutaneously, and it is currently in clinical development for treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis B and patients with chronic hepatitis delta. It is the first asset in Vir’s collaboration with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to enter clinical studies.
About Chronic Hepatitis Delta
Chronic hepatitis delta (CHD) is a long-lasting, inflammatory liver disease caused by the hepatitis D virus (HDV), which requires the presence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) for its replication1. CHD affects nearly 5% of people who have a chronic infection with HBV, and it is considered by the World Health Organization to be the most severe form of chronic viral hepatitis2. Co-infection with HDV accelerates progression towards liver cancer and liver-related death by almost a decade in comparison to HBV mono-infected persons, independently of their age3. There is no cure, and treatment options are limited.
References:
1 NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Hepatitis D - NIDDK (nih.gov), accessed September 2024.
2 WHO Hepatitis Delta Factsheet - Hepatitis D (who.int), accessed September 2024
3 CDC https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hdv/hdvfaq.htm
About Chronic Hepatitis B
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) a is a long-lasting, inflammatory liver disease caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV)1. The World Health Organization estimates that 254 million people were living with CHB infection in 2022, with 1.2 million new infections each year, and an estimated 1.1 million yearly deaths associated to the disease2. Complications from CHB may include liver cirrhosis, liver failure and liver cancer3. Although CHB can be treated, there’s no cure available today1.
References:
1 CDC Hepatitis B Basics | Hepatitis B | CDC
2 WHO Hepatitis B Factsheet - Hepatitis B (who.int), accessed September 2024
3 NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Hepatitis B - NIDDK (nih.gov), accessed September 2024.
About Vir Biotechnology, Inc.
Vir Biotechnology, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on powering the immune system to transform lives by discovering and developing medicines for serious infectious diseases and cancer. Vir’s clinical-stage portfolio includes infectious disease programs for chronic hepatitis delta and chronic hepatitis B infections, in addition to multiple oncology programs. Vir also has a preclinical portfolio of programs across a range of other infectious diseases and oncologic malignancies. Vir routinely posts information that may be important to investors on its website.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as “may,” “will,” “plan,” “potential,” “aim,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “promising” and similar expressions (as well as other words or expressions referencing future events, conditions or circumstances) are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on Vir’s expectations and assumptions as of the date of this press release. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding Vir’s strategy and plans, the potential clinical effects of tobevibart and elebsiran, the potential benefits, safety and efficacy of tobevibart and elebsiran, the timing, nature and significance of data from Vir’s multiple ongoing trials evaluating tobevibart and elebsiran, Vir’s plans and expectations for its CHD and CHB programs, and risks and uncertainties associated with drug development and commercialization. Many factors may cause differences between current expectations and actual results, including unexpected safety or efficacy data or results observed during clinical trials or in data readouts; the occurrence of adverse safety events; risks of unexpected costs, delays or other unexpected hurdles; difficulties in collaborating with other companies; successful development and/or commercialization of alternative product candidates by Vir’s competitors; changes in expected or existing competition; delays in or disruptions to Vir’s business or clinical trials due to geopolitical changes or other external factors; and unexpected litigation or other disputes. Drug development and commercialization involve a high degree of risk, and only a small number of research and development programs result in commercialization of a product. Results in early-stage clinical trials may not be indicative of full results or results from later stage or larger scale clinical trials and do not ensure regulatory approval. You should not place undue reliance on these statements, or the scientific data presented. Other factors that may cause actual results to differ from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements in this press release are discussed in Vir’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the section titled “Risk Factors” contained therein. Except as required by law, Vir assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in expectations, even as new information becomes available.
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Jerry Jones celebrated his 82nd birthday on Sunday by watching his Dallas Cowboys get dismantled by the Detroit Lions 47-9. Two days later, he directed his frustrations towards a pair of hosts on the team's flagship radio station.
Following an offseason that saw the Cowboys spend little on free agents and save big money spending on their own star players —CeeDee Lamb and Dak Prescott — Jones did not take fondly to being asked why he wasn't more active on improving the roster.
Jones' annoyance with the line of questioning had him appearing to threaten the jobs of 105.3 FM's Shan Shariff, R.J. Choppy and Bobby Belt.
This is not your job. Your job isn't to let me go over all the reasons that I did something and I'm sorry that I did it," Jones said. That's not your job. I'll get somebody else to ask these questions. I'm not kidding. You're not going to figure out what the team is doing right or wrong. If you are, or any five or 10 like you, you need to come to this [NFL owner's] meeting I'm going to today with 32 teams here, you're geniuses.
"Ya'll really think you're gonna sit here with a microphone and tell me all of the things that I've done wrong without going all over the rights? Listen, we both know we're talking to a lot of great fans and a lot of great listeners. And I'm very sorry for what happened out there Sunday. I'm sick about what happened Sunday.
"One of the stupidest things I've ever done, that anybody had ever analyzed is buy the Cowboys. It was an idiot that did that. So idiot things can turn into good decisions. Smart things can turn into bad decisions. The facts are that when you make one, you don't really know if it's going to be good or not at the time. You want some conversation this morning, you're getting it."
The Cowboys have their bye in Week 7 before returning to face the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday night in Week 8. There was already going to be a heavy discussion about the construction of Dallas' roster considering their mediocre start and that the NFL's highest-paid quarterback is tied for second in interceptions (6), has an 85.4% passer rating and has been sacked the fifth-most times (16) — not to mention they've lost four consecutive games at AT&T Stadium.
And now the Cowboys will gobble up headlines during an off week — which makes you think Jones knew what he was doing here. He's always been a salesman.
Jones said after Sunday's loss he was happy the bye week was coming as it will give them time to fix the numerous areas that need improvement. Micah Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence will likely remain out through the bye, further hobbling a 25th-ranked defense that has given up the sixth-most rushing yards and allowed the third-most points through six weeks.
As for change? That's not coming for any part of the Cowboys' roster. Head coach Mike McCarthy's job is safe as Jones reiterated Tuesday by saying in-season coaching changes are "usually ineffective. They just aren't good."
On the field, Jones trusts in his players — his "outstanding personnel" as he put it — to turn around an uninspired start to the season.
"Well, first of all, where you going to go to get any players? Seriously? Where are you going to go to get any players for next week against San Francisco?" Jones said. "Now, No. 1, I've seen these players. I've seen every single one of them execute like you want the plays to be executed and do their job within the role. That didn't happen the other day, and we paid the consequences for it. But I've seen the players do it." | https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/national/jerry-jones-objects/3XSYJLAHP76APG3MMXDXOVXLMM/ | 2024-10-15T17:57:57Z |
HTC VIVE Launches VIVE Focus Vision XR Headset for Enterprises and High-end Gaming
Date
10/15/2024 9:48:58 AM
(MENAFN- Weber Shandwick) Dubai, 14 October: HTC VIVE, the global leader in premium XR solutions, today launches its new cutting-edge headset VIVE Focus Vision. The new Extended Reality (XR) headset is the latest in HTC VIVE’s highly popular VIVE Focus Series, with a wealth of improvements and new features to give gamers and enterprise users alike the best possible immersive experience for PCVR and standalone gaming, as well as Location-Based Experiences (LBE), industrial training, collaboration, and mixed reality applications.
“VIVE Focus Vision gives you the best of both worlds, with outstanding standalone capabilities, and DisplayPort mode support for visually lossless PCVR experiences,” said Shen Ye, Global Head of Product at HTC VIVE. “Now, PC gamers can bring the same high-end headsets used in VR arcades into their homes. We’re taking everything to the next level with built-in eye-tracking, stereo color passthrough cameras for depth-correct Mixed Reality, and even an infra-red sensor for enhanced hand tracking in low-light conditions."
VIVE Focus Vision takes the popular VIVE Focus 3 platform and expands upon it with significant updates in visuals and comfort, as well as improvements in operational efficiency and headset sharing for multi-user scenarios. Such multi-user setups are popular with businesses like VR arcades, and employee training for healthcare, defense, finance, manufacturing, and other sectors.
VIVE Focus Vision features DisplayPort mode for PCVR, enabling lossless visuals by connecting the headset directly to a PC graphics card. With DisplayPort, gamers and enterprise users alike can enjoy content exactly as the developers intended, without degradation of quality. This is perfect for PCVR gamers who have SteamVR game collections, as well as enterprise organizations who want to deliver a powerful immersive experience.
VIVE Focus Vision has auto-IPD adjustment with integrated eye tracking, so users can easily share the headset with friends, family, and colleagues, and it will automatically adjust the interpupillary distance of the lenses for crystal-clear visuals every time. Auto-IPD is also perfect for high-user turnover environments, like LBEs and training events.
Two front-facing color cameras enable stereoscopic passthrough, so users can see the world with natural depth perception while wearing the headset, making Mixed Reality experiences even more realistic. VIVE Focus Vision features a revamped cooling system, allowing for highly comfortable sessions. It also has a built-in sub-battery to keep the device running for up to 20 minutes while swapping batteries, so users never lose their place in an XR experience.
Highlighted features include:
- Built-in eye tracking and motorized auto-IPD adjustment
- DisplayPort mode for stunning, visually lossless PCVR experiences
- Dual 16MP color cameras for stereoscopic full color passthrough
- Up to 120-degree FOV and 90Hz refresh rate. Support for 120Hz refresh rate via DisplayPort mode coming late 2024.
- Combined 5k resolution across both eyes
- Depth sensor for scene recognition
- Infra-red sensor for enhanced tracking in low-light conditions
Availability for VIVE Focus Vision is from 6th November, and initial customers will receive a VIVE Wired Streaming Kit for DisplayPort mode valued at AED 550 free of charge. Additionally, VIVE Focus Vision buyers will have their choice of one of three popular game bundles as a complimentary package.
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Pentaleap and Placements.io Partner to Unlock Retail Media Growth with Centralized Ad Operations
Pentaleap is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Placements.io, the premier operations, revenue, and billing management platform for RMNs.
Our partnership with Pentaleap is a natural fit because both companies share a commitment to deep, cross-platform integration that empowers brands to seamlessly manage their retail media networks”
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, October 15, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Pentaleap Inc., a leader in retail media technology, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Placements.io, the premier operations, revenue, and billing management platform for retail media networks. This partnership aims to provide retailers with an advanced, fully integrated platform that centralizes media operations and maximizes ad revenue. — Evan Bowen, chief business officer at Placements.io
Through this collaboration, Pentaleap delivers its advanced retail media management platform, providing retailers full control over their ad inventory while ensuring data transparency and optimized ad performance. By focusing on customization and seamless omnichannel integration, Pentaleap empowers brands to personalize their campaigns, streamline operations, and drive revenue growth. This partnership reinforces Pentaleap’s mission to democratize retail media by enabling retailers to unlock new revenue streams and achieve maximum efficiency without compromising user experience.
“By combining our expertise, we’re enabling an open and efficient ad ecosystem designed to support the needs of modern, Fortune 500 brands. Together, we are driving innovation in retail media, ensuring our clients can scale their operations and achieve their marketing goals with unparalleled efficiency and flexibility.”
“We believe that the future of retail media lies in giving Retail Media Networks control over their platforms while providing the flexibility to adapt to market changes quickly. Partnerships like this one are crucial to our mission of democratizing the industry and delivering the best possible value to Retail Media Networks and brands." – Andreas Reiffen, CEO of Pentaleap
Key Benefits of the Partnership:
- Complete Data Control: Transparent data management and real-time reporting provide insights to optimize ad performance and drive revenue growth.
- Advanced Customization: Tailored solutions that meet specific retailer needs, enhancing ad relevance and boosting revenue potential.
- Seamless Integration: Easy integration into existing systems, streamlining media operations across channels to maximize efficiency and revenue.
- Scalable Solutions: A flexible platform that grows with retail media networks, enabling scalable revenue without the limitations of legacy systems.
This partnership represents Pentaleap’s dedication to helping retailers capitalize on the growing opportunities within the retail media landscape by offering a solution that ensures customization, control, and efficiency at every stage of their media journey.
For more information about this partnership, visit www.pentaleap.com and Placements.io.
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Placements.io is the world’s leading operating system for digital advertising. By making advertising more intelligent, efficient, and transparent — for buyers and sellers — we’re making the industry more profitable for everyone. Our platform powers over $12 billion in advertising revenue for publishers, retail media networks, and broadcasters, including marquee brands like Microsoft, Ahold Delhaize, Staples, and Sky. For more information, visit www.placements.io
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Pentaleap is leading retail media towards an open, efficient ecosystem. Its modular retail media platform delivers stellar shopping experiences, makes advertisers happy, and drives hundreds of millions in revenue for world-class retail media networks like Staples, The Home Depot and Pague Menos. For more information, visit www.pentaleap.com.
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New York Jets owner Woody Johnson said on Tuesday that it's going to be a busy week for the franchise — one that he believes will turn a rough start into a winning season.
Speaking to reporters at the NFL owner's meetings, Johnson said "we want to bring a lot of change this week" as news traveled that the team was reportedly acquiring wide receiver Davante Adams from the Las Vegas Raiders — a move the Jets owner couldn't confirm, but said was "in the hopper."
The Jets fell to 2-4 following Monday night's 23-20 overtime loss to the Buffalo Bills, their third straight defeat. Last week's loss to the Minnesota Vikings led to head coach Robert Saleh getting fired. Now they're bringing in an All-Pro wideout and former teammate of quarterback Aaron Rodgers to begin the turn around process.
It's a reversal that Johnson is confident will happen starting with these two big moves in a week.
"Salvageable?," Johnson said of the Jets' season. "We're gonna kick ... you can add the words after that. We're going to do really well."
There are still 11 games to play for the Jets and they are only two games behind the Bills for the AFC East lead. But there's still work to do.
Through six weeks, the Jets are tied for the seventh-most sacks allowed (16), third-most interceptions (5), ninth-worst completion percentage (62.2), are fourth in total receiver drops (11), and own the worst field goal completion percentage (66.7) in the NFL.
What's done is done, Johnson believes. The only thing left to do now is look towards the future — moving Haason Reddick may be next — in order to improve their circumstances.
"You have to look forward," Johnson said. "We have to look forward to the games we're going to play each and every week and try to win all of them and that's basic stuff, right? ... You just have to go with your instinct and what's the best thing to build a team and build a winning team and most importantly build a culture, a culture of winning. And I think based on what I saw yesterday, I think we're starting a new and more exciting direction." | https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/national/jets-owner-woody/LTEP6CRNJNBQI4ZQW5ZVT6O5KM/ | 2024-10-15T17:58:04Z |
The secretaries' letter outlined specific steps Israel must take within 30 days, including enabling a minimum of 350 trucks to enter Gaza per day, and instituting pauses in fighting to allow aid delivery
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Israel must take steps in the next month to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza to avoid legal action involving US military aid, according to news reports and sources, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said.
"We are writing now to underscore the US government's deep concern over the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, and seek urgent and sustained actions by your government this month to reverse this trajectory," they wrote in an October 13 letter to their Israeli counterparts, posted by the reporter of an American news website on X on Tuesday.
A reporter for an Israeli news channel first reported the contents of the letter on X. Two sources familiar with the matter confirmed the letter's veracity to Reuters.
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The State Department and Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the letter. Representatives for Israel's government also could not be immediately reached for comment.
Washington has frequently pressed Israel to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza since the war with Hamas began just over a year ago, but the Biden administration has not imposed restrictions on the military aid the United States sends to Israel.
The reports come as Israeli forces expand operations into northern Gaza amid ongoing concerns about access to humanitarian aid throughout the area and civilians' access to food, water and medicine.
Reuters reported earlier this month that food supplies have fallen sharply since Israeli authorities introduced a new customs rule on some humanitarian aid and are separately scaling down deliveries organised by businesses.
The United States told the UN Security Council last week that Israel needs to address urgently "catastrophic conditions" among Palestinian civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip and stop "intensifying suffering" by limiting aid deliveries.
The secretaries' letter outlined specific steps Israel must take within 30 days, including enabling a minimum of 350 trucks to enter Gaza per day, instituting pauses in fighting to allow aid delivery and rescinding evacuation orders to Palestinian civilians when there is no operational need.
"Failure to demonstrate a sustained commitment to implementing and maintaining these measures may have implications for US policy ... and relevant US law," the letter said.
It cited Section 620i of the Foreign Assistance Act, which prohibits military aid to countries that impede delivery of US humanitarian assistance.
It also cited a National Security Memorandum US President Joe Biden issued in February that requires the State Department to report to Congress on whether it finds credible Israel's assurances that its use of US weapons does not violate U.S. or international law.
US officials earlier this year said Israel may have violated international humanitarian law using US-supplied weapons during its military operation in Gaza.
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Values, adaptability, trust: How Halyk became the largest bank in Kazakhstan
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October 14, 2024 – In 2023, Halyk Bank celebrated its 100th anniversary, marking its leading position in the banking sphere of Kazakhstan. Halyk operates across a variety of segments, including retail, SME & corporate banking, insurance, leasing, brokerage, and assets management, playing a significant role in the digitalization of financial services in Central Asia.
Bank emphasizes developing customer services and creating a favorable customer experience, which includes digitizing most of the banking operations and other, no less important for life, services. The retail app, Halyk SuperApp, provides all individuals not only banking services, but also contains sections on public services (e-government), marketplace (Halyk Market), investment service (Halyk Invest), travel ticket purchase service (Halyk Travel), and entertainment service (kino.kz). By digitizing all these operations, Halyk’s retail customers receive a unique and better user experience than visiting the branches on every small issue.
The digitalization of services is one of the few examples of high adaptability, performed by Halyk. During its century-long history, the bank has been able to go through many challenges, both domestic and international. Halyk was able to walk smoothly and confidently through the widespread privatization after the collapse of the USSR; the 2008 global financial crisis; the acquisition of KKB to overcome nationwide banking problems, and other geopolitical, financial, and reputational challenges. During this time, such a large financial institution as Halyk has become for many a haven of stability in such an unstable area of the economy.
«I am proud that Halyk was able to rebuild itself. We have a legacy of our old systems and old procedures. Even some of them are from Soviet Union times. However, Halyk was able to transfer to the digital and very modern financial institutions for several times with a wider range of services, including banking and non-banking operations. And, also, by keeping this very high reputation as a very stable and trustful financial institution», - shares Mrs. Umut Shayakhmetova, CEO of Halyk Bank, about the bank’s adaptability to changes
The high reputation built around Halyk is not only the result of laborious work on customer services and confident crisis management but also the values around which the company is built. Halyk’s values are expressed in the multitude of ESG activities, social projects, and charity that the bank implements each year.
Being the largest bank in one of the world’s most developing countries is a great social responsibility. Halyk is fully in line with its position as the only system bank in Kazakhstan, confirming the trust provided by its clients.
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Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - October 15, 2024) - Awakn Life Sciences Corp. (CSE: AWKN) (OTCQB: AWKNF) (FSE: 954) (“Awakn” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing therapeutics for substance use and mental health disorders, announces a new research partnership with the University of Nottingham, UK. This collaboration focuses on evaluating Awakn’s co-lead aminoindane series and its potential to enhance social cognition and pro-social behaviors.
The study will be led by Dr. Madeleine King, Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham, a globally recognized institution for its cutting-edge neuroscience research. Dr. King, an expert in behavioral neuroscience with over 20 years of experience, is renowned for her contributions to translational research in psychiatric disorders. The study will use the Social Transmission of Food Preferences (STFP) test in rodent models. Conducted over a two-month period, the preclinical trials will explore varying dosages, with results expected by the end of 2024.
Awakn’s aminoindane NCE program, developed in collaboration with Graft Polymer (UK) Plc, focuses on creating new therapeutic options for trauma-related mental health disorders, particularly PTSD. PTSD affects approximately 13 million adults in the U.S. and 20 million individuals across the U.S., UK, and Europe. This partnership, originally announced on July 18, 2024, builds on Awakn’s commitment to addressing these urgent medical needs.
This progress follows Awakn’s recent partnership with Eurofins Discovery for in vitro pharmacology testing of the same aminoindane series. The selection of Eurofins marked a critical milestone, and this next phase with the University of Nottingham underscores Awakn’s rapid advancements in developing next-generation treatments for mental health disorders.
Anthony Tennyson, CEO of Awakn Life Sciences, stated: “This is a pivotal step forward in our Aminoindane NCE program. We believe this novel aminoindane has the potential to revolutionize mental health treatment, offering a safer alternative for trauma-related mental health disorders such as PTSD. Our collaboration with the University of Nottingham reinforces our commitment to advancing science-backed, life-changing therapies.”
Dr King, from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Nottingham said: “I’m delighted that Awakn Life Sciences have chosen to collaborate with the University of Nottingham. I’m excited to be involved in this research, which has real potential to improve patient health.”
About Awakn Life Sciences Corp.
Awakn Life Sciences Corp. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing therapeutics targeting substance use and mental health disorders. Awakn has a near-term focus on AUD, a condition affecting approximately 29 million adults in the US and approximately 40 million in the US and key European markets for which the current standard of care is inadequate. Our goal is to provide breakthrough therapeutics to addiction sufferers in desperate need and our strategy is focused on commercialising our R&D pipeline across multiple channels.
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About the University of Nottingham
Ranked 32 in Europe and 16th in the UK by the QS World University Rankings: Europe 2024, the University of Nottingham is a founding member of Russell Group of research-intensive universities. Studying at the University of Nottingham is a life-changing experience, and we pride ourselves on unlocking the potential of our students. We have a pioneering spirit, expressed in the vision of our founder Sir Jesse Boot, which has seen us lead the way in establishing campuses in China and Malaysia - part of a globally connected network of education, research and industrial engagement.
Nottingham was crowned Sports University of the Year by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024 - the third time is has been given the honour since 2018 - and by the Daily Mail University Guide 2024.
The University is among the best universities in the UK for the strength of our research, positioned seventh for research power in the UK according to REF 2021. The birthplace of discoveries such as MRI and ibuprofen, our innovations transform lives and tackle global problems such as sustainable food supplies, ending modern slavery, developing greener transport, and reducing reliance on fossil fuels.
The University is a major employer and industry partner - locally and globally - and our graduates are the second most targeted by the UK’s top employers, according to The Graduate Market in 2022 report by High Fliers Research.
We lead the Universities for Nottingham initiative, in partnership with Nottingham Trent University, a pioneering collaboration between the city’s two world-class institutions to improve levels of prosperity, opportunity, sustainability, health and wellbeing for residents in the city and region we are proud to call home.
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Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in such statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the statements. There are certain factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking information. These include, but are not limited to: fluctuations in general macroeconomic conditions; the business plans and strategies of the Company; the ability of the Company to comply with all applicable governmental regulations in a highly regulated business; the inherent risks in investing in target companies or projects which have limited or no operating history and are engaged in activities currently considered illegal in some jurisdictions; changes in laws; limited operating history; reliance on management; requirements for additional financing; competition; fluctuations in securities markets; inconsistent public opinion and perception regarding the medical-use of psychedelic drugs; expectations regarding the size of the addiction market; and regulatory or political change. Readers are cautioned that the foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive of the factors that may affect forward-looking statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this news release speak only as of the date of this news release or as of the date or dates specified in such statements.
Investors are cautioned that any such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information. For more information on the Company, investors are encouraged to review the Company’s public filings on SEDAR at www.sedarplus.ca. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward- looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by law.
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Cited as a “restaurant at the height of its powers”, Belfast’s OX has been named fine dining restaurant of the year 2024 at the Georgina Campbell Irish Food & Hospitality Awards.
Long-standing friends Stephen Toman and Alain Kerloc’h opened OX together in 2013. The Michelin-starred restaurant focuses on bringing seasonal creativity to short, reasonably-priced menus, centring each dish around ingredients from its regularly updated larder.
The prestigious annual awards, announced on Tuesday, highlighted Sheen Falls Lodge in Co Kerry as Ireland’s best five-star hotel, Kilkea Castle Estate & Golf Club in Co Kildare as best four-star, and Foyle’s Hotel of Clifden, Co Galway, as best three-star.
Describing 2024 as a “challenging time in this industry” and pointing to “restaurant closures and a budget that was tough on the hospitality sector” as examples, Georgina Campbell applauded the “resilience, determination, and collaborative spirit” of those working in Ireland’s tourism, food and hospitality sectors.
Danni Barry of Ballynahinch Castle Hotel was awarded chef of the year and Dromoland Castle’s Mark Nolan received the hospitality hero of the year award.
The new Long Haul Hero Award, presented to Mary Wall of Hanora’s Cottage in Co Waterford, celebrates the achievements and resilience of those who have been striving for high standards over many years.
Alongside her late husband Seamus, Wall first opened the doors of Hanora’s Cottage to guests in 1986. Today, after several extensions, the 10-bedroom guest house and restaurant is still run by Mary, with the help of her son Eoin and his wife Judith – both chefs.
Campbell warned about careless cost-cutting measures leading to falling standards in some areas, particularly around breakfast. “Slashing the quality of breakfast in an otherwise enjoyable experience is counterproductive, and leaves guests disappointed on departure,” she said.
“Shortcuts are being taken in some establishments. We would like to see cost challenges addressed in more imaginative ways than cutting quality – by offering more choice of sizes for dishes on menus, for example, and reducing waste overall.”
Campbell also noted exciting new developments in the area of sustainability, especially with the accelerating rise of the kitchen garden.
“We’re seeing more chefs getting actively involved in this eco-friendly initiative and not just paying lip-service to the concept. Growing their own seasonal produce is something for establishments to be proud of, as well as having environmental benefits,” she said.
This year’s sustainability award was won by Wren Urban Nest in Dublin – Ireland’s first net carbon place to stay. Located in the city centre, the hotel is the brainchild of waste management solutions company Key Waste’s co-founders Mark Butler and Neville O’Boyle.
Now in their 26th year, Georgina Campbell’s awards are compiled on the basis of independent assessments conducted by a team of anonymous experts.
Georgina Campbell Irish Food & Hospitality Awards 2024 winners
Hospitality hero
- Mark Nolan, Dromoland Castle, Co Clare
Movers and shakers
- Sally Barnes, Woodcock Smokery, Skibbereen, Co Cork
Best supporter of Irish food and drink producers
- The Coach House, Roundwood, Co Wicklow
Fine dining
- Fine dining restaurant of the year: OX, Belfast
- Fine dining hotel restaurant of the year: House Restaurant, Cliff House Hotel Ardmore, Co Waterford
- Neighbourhood fine dining hotel restaurant of the year: The Lemon Tree Restaurant, Letterkenny, Co Donegal
- Bijou fine dining hotel restaurant of the year: Restaurant Chestnut, Ballydehob, Co Cork
- Chef of the year: Danni Barry, Ballynahinch Castle Hotel, Recess, Co Galway
Hotel of the year
- Five-star hotel of the year: Sheen Falls Lodge, Kenmare, Co Kerry
- Four-star hotel of the year: Kilkea Castle Estate & Golf Club, Castledermot, Co Kildare
- Three-star hotel of the year: Foyles Hotel, Clifden, Co Galway
- Boutique hotel of the year: Elephant Rock Hotel, Portrush Co Antrim
- Business hotel of the year: The Horse & Jockey Hotel, Horse & Jockey, Co Tipperary
Small stay
- Country house: Ballyvolane House, Fermoy, Co Cork
- Guest house: Teach de Broc, Ballybunion, Co Kerry
- B&B: Barnahown, Mitchelstown, Co Cork
- Hideaway: No. 1 Pery Square, Limerick
Casual dining
- Historic destination: Stitch & Weave, Derry
- Restaurant and bar: Sadler’s, Fethard, Co Tipperary
- Smart-casual dining: The Glass Curtain, Cork
- Neighbourhood restaurant: No 14 Georgian House, Comber, Co Down
- Bakery-cafe: Ursa Minor Bakehouse, Ballycastle, Co Antrim
- Street food: Pyke’n’Pommes, Derry
Speciality hospitality and sustainability
- Visitor attraction: The Shed Distillery & Jackalope Café Drumshanbo Co Leitrim
- Taste of the waterways: The Purple Onion, Tarmonbarry, Co Roscommon
- Innovation: Ballykilcavan Farm & Brewing Company, Stradbally, Co Laois
- Sustainability: Wren Urban Nest, Dublin
- Seafood restaurant of the year: QC’s Seafood Restaurant, Quinlan & Cooke Boutique Townhouse, Caherciveen, Co Kerry
- Seafood chef of the year: Aishling Moore, Goldie, Cork
- Global Cuisines: Nightmarket, Dublin
Memorable moments
- Happy place: Osteria Lucio, Dublin
- Memorable experience: The Drawing Room at Ashford Castle, Cong, Co Mayo
- Newcomer of the year: Farmgate Lismore, Lismore, Co Waterford
- Gastro-Pub of the year: Deerpark Inn, Virginia, Co Cavan
- Traditional pub of the year: Thomas Connolly Traditional Pub & Whiskey Bar, Sligo, Co Sligo
- Wine experience: Ristorante Rinuccini, Kilkenny, Co Kilkenny
Special Irish hospitality
- Family friendly hotel of the year: McWilliam Park Hotel, Claremorris, Co Mayo
- Pet friendly destination of the year: Seaview House Hotel & Spa, Ballylickey, Co Cork
- Atmospheric destination of the year: The Old Inn, Crawfordsburn, Co Down
- Hosts of the year: Margaret & Laura Bowe, Marlfield House, Gorey, Co Wexford
- Long haul hero: Mary Wall, Hanora’s Cottage Nire Valley Co Waterford
Irish breakfast awards
- Hotel: Gregans Castle Hotel, Ballyvaughan, Co Clare
- Country house: Rathsallagh House, Dunlavin, Co Wicklow
- Guest house: Castlewood House, Dingle, Co Kerry
- Cafe: POTA Café, Inverin, Co Galway
- Irish Bread: Castle Grove Country House, Letterkenny, Co Donegal
Natural food awards (Meats | Honey | Dairy | Fresh produce)
- Higgins Family Butchers, Dublin
- Sliabh Aughty Honey, Leahy Beekeeping, Carrownmore, Co Galway
- Dart Mountain Cheese, Claudy, Co Derry
- Waterfall Farms, Waterfall, Co Cork
Find out more about each winner on the Georgina Campbell’s Ireland website | https://www.irishtimes.com/food/2024/10/15/georgina-campbell-awards-2024-irelands-best-fine-dining-restaurant-chef-hotels-and-more-revealed/ | 2024-10-15T17:58:08Z |
5 Benefits of Outsourcing Plastic Machining
More companies are turning to outsourcing plastic machining as a smart business move. This approach can provide significant advantages, from cost savings to improved efficiency. If you’re considering outsourcing but aren’t quite convinced, here are the benefits you can experience from outsourcing plastic machining.
Save Money
Outsourcing your plastic machining processes can lead to substantial cost reductions. Partnering with an external provider eliminates the need to invest in expensive machinery and training. Plus, it translates to lower overhead costs, as you won’t have to maintain a full-time in-house team. Knowing that you’re working with experts minimizes the risk of costly mistakes, providing even more financial relief for your business.
Specialized Expertise
When you outsource, you gain access to specialized skills and knowledge that might not be available within your own company. The best plastic machining companies employ engineers and technicians with years of experience who stay up-to-date with the latest techniques and technologies. By leveraging their expertise, you can ensure that your projects benefit from the highest precision and quality.
Enjoy Flexibility and Scalability
Outsourcing offers a level of flexibility and scalability that’s hard to achieve internally. Whether you need to ramp up production to meet a surge in demand or scale down during slower periods, an outsourcing partner can adjust to your needs. This adaptability is invaluable in maintaining efficient operations without the constraints of fixed resources or staffing levels.
Time Is on Your Side
Time efficiency is another big advantage of outsourcing plastic machining. When you partner with a specialized company, they handle everything from start to finish, including design, prototyping, and production. This efficiency leads to faster turnaround times because these companies streamline processes and workflows, allowing you to focus on core business activities while ensuring deadlines are met.
Boost Quality and Drive Innovation
Outsourcing can enhance the quality of your products and foster innovation. Top-notch machining companies have state-of-the-art technology that delivers superior results. They also prioritize continuous improvement and innovation, offering you access to new materials, methods, and solutions that can give your products a competitive edge. When choosing a plastics machining company, consider factors like its reputation for quality, innovation, and the breadth of services offered.
Outsourcing plastic machining might be the key to unlocking greater efficiency and success for your business. Your operations could reach new heights by leveraging cost savings, specialized expertise, flexibility, time efficiency, and improved quality. If you’re ready to explore these benefits, start by selecting a trusted partner that aligns with your company’s values and goals. | https://muncievoice.com/35324/5-benefits-of-outsourcing-plastic-machining/ | 2024-10-15T17:58:09Z |
The Pittsburgh Steelers are trending toward making a change at quarterback. Veteran Russell Wilson, who signed with the Steelers in March, is finally healthy enough to start taking first-team reps, and will reportedly do just that this week. That sets him up to make his Steelers debut this weekend when they face the New York Jets.
Sources: The #Steelers plan to give Russell Wilson first-team reps in practice this week, putting him in line to make his season debut and start Sunday night against the #Jets.
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) October 15, 2024
Pittsburgh is 4-2 with Justin Fields. But Wilson’s calf is fully healed and now he gets his shot. pic.twitter.com/vrhgo7LfgO
Wilson, 35, struggled with a calf injury throughout training camp, but appeared to be on the other side of it as the regular season approached. He was named the starting quarterback prior to Week 1 over Justin Fields, but reaggravated that lurking calf injury just days before the Steelers were due to start their season against the Atlanta Falcons.
The Steelers didn't make a formal announcement about their Week 1 starter before inactives were released, but when when they came out 90 minutes before kickoff, Wilson was on the list. Fields would be the starter going forward, and he helped lead the Steelers to a 3-0 start.
Pittsburgh has had just a few hiccups since then and currently sit at 4-2. Despite that strong, Tomlin is definitely putting Wilson in consideration to be the Week 7 starter.
Tomlin: "[Russell Wilson] is in consideration this week. We'll see where that leads us.
— Andrew Siciliano (@AndrewSiciliano) October 15, 2024
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New Zealand Plans to Achieve a Smoke-free Future by 2025
Date
10/15/2024 9:49:14 AM
(MENAFN- Asdaa BCW) - New Zealand health Minister: E-cigarettes have contributed significantly to reducing smoking rates among adults.
- The World Health Organization considers countries with smoking rates of less than 5% among adults to be “smoke-free.”
In a bold move to improve the health and quality of life of its population, New Zealand aims to become "smoke-free" by the year 2025. This initiative demonstrates the New Zealand government's commitment to a future free from the health harms associated with smoking. By encouraging the adoption of modern, better alternatives like e-cigarettes, New Zealand is setting a precedent for other countries seeking to combat traditional tobacco consumption.
The World Health Organization recognizes a "smoke-free" country as one with an adult smoking rate below 5%. In New Zealand, the smoking rate among individuals aged 15 and older was recorded at 6.8% last year. However, the New Zealand government is optimistic about achieving a rate below 5% by 2025.
To achieve this ambitious goal, the New Zealand government is implementing a multifaceted approach, including the 2020 "Vaping to quit smoking" campaign. This initiative has contributed to a sustained decline in smoking rates. In 2019, the New Zealand Ministry of Health launched the "Vaping Facts" website. Its purpose is to inform smokers that vaping can be a potential quit-smoking aid, as it delivers nicotine without the harmful chemicals associated with burning traditional cigarettes.
The Korea Electronic Cigarette Association (KECA) reports that New Zealand government authorities have begun acknowledging studies suggesting that e-cigarettes are 95% safer than traditional smoking. This recognition has led to the implementation of various public support programs aimed at helping smokers quit using e-cigarettes. These programs have been in place for several years.
"Vaping has played a significant role in reducing adult smoking rates and will continue to be an essential tool," stated New Zealand's Health Minister, Shane Reti. This assertion is supported by recent scientific research. Cigarette smoke contains over 6,000 chemicals, including 100 toxic substances directly linked to smoking-related diseases. The smoke from burning cigarettes is a primary cause of these diseases. Burning tobacco generates temperatures between 900 and 950 degrees Celsius, producing large quantities of toxic and carcinogenic compounds. Conversely, heated tobacco products and e-cigarettes operate at temperatures below 350 degrees Celsius, resulting in fewer chemical reactions and thermal degradation. This reduction in temperature contributes to a decrease in many of the toxic and carcinogenic substances produced by traditional cigarette smoking.
There is a variety of alternative smoke-free products, including heated tobacco, which relies on heating tobacco coils instead of burning them and provides the body with the desired nicotine. Also, the e-cigarettes rely on vaporizing a liquid to which a nicotine solution is added to form a spray with different flavors. In addition to chewing tobacco products that contain nicotine and are designed for use by chewing, and finally, nicotine pouches, which are used by mouth as well, but do not contain tobacco. All of these products do not produce smoke or ash as they do not rely on burning.
"Following New Zealand's legalization and promotion of vaping in 2020, we witnessed a significant 43% reduction in daily adult smoking rates, from 11.9% in 2020 to 6.8% in 2023. As a result, New Zealand is now on track to achieve its goal of becoming 'smoke-free' by 2025," stated Mary Glover, a former professor of public health at Massey University.
"New Zealand's success offers a compelling model for reducing smoking rates and improving public health," said Kim Doo-hwan, Vice President of the New Zealand Anti-Smoking Association. "Wellington's successful anti-smoking campaign provides valuable lessons. The Korean government should consider adopting similar strategies to accelerate improvements in public health outcomes."
It's noteworthy that several countries worldwide, including Sweden, Japan, and the United Kingdom, have adopted a 'Harm Reduction' approach to tackle the pressing issue of smoking. This approach recognizes smoking as a significant public health threat and has led to the exploration of alternative tobacco products. Scientific evidence increasingly supports these products as better alternatives. While it's essential to emphasize that these alternatives are not entirely risk-free, they can offer a suitable option for adult smokers who are unwilling to quit smoking altogether.
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Shanahan’s on the Green restaurant in Dublin city centre has had to close until further notice due to financial challenges.
John Shanahan, owner of the steakhouse on St Stephen’s Green, told employees and suppliers in a notice circulated in recent days that the company was in an “alarming, almost impossible situation”.
The businessman, a dual Irish and US citizen, made reference to “anticipating a promised meeting” with the Revenue Commissioners to discuss the repayment of tax debts dating back to the Covid pandemic when restaurants across the country were forced to close.
Mr Shanahan said that “until further notice, we will have to cease doing businesses as usual”.
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“I feel confident that I will resolve this matter quickly and have all taxes and vendor invoices satisfied quickly,” he added.
“It may require that fast trip to the States to pull this all together; but fortunately, I’m still above the sod and am up for it! That’s a promise!”
The restaurant is currently not taking bookings via telephone or online via OpenTable.
Neither Mr Shanahan nor the restaurant responded to multiple queries seeking comment on Monday and Tuesday.
Dr John O’Malley made a booking for with the restaurant last week for eight people in December and was required to pay a non-refundable deposit of €400 (€50 per person).
Mr O’Malley said he contacted the restaurant via email on Monday regarding the booking and the deposit paid as he had heard about its possible closure.
In response, the restaurant said to him: “Unfortunately the business is closed temporarily, a reopening date is to be confirmed, our sincerest apologises for any inconvenience.”
Mr O’Malley said it was “disappointing” as he was now unsure if he would get his deposit back if the booking does not go ahead with no information available on the restaurant’s website or social media pages.
Shanahan’s is situated at 119 St Stephen’s Green, a Georgian-style townhouse that dates back to the 1760s.
Once used as a residence, it has been home to an eclectic mix of businesses over the past 100 years or so, including a law firm, a tyre company, an art gallery and a hair stylist.
It became a restaurant in the mid-1980s, trading under Peter White and his wife as White’s on the Green. Nightclub owner Robbie Fox later took it over and the name was changed to Baton Rouge.
Mr Shanahan, who was born in Boston, took over the building in 1998 and spent a long period restoring the premises.
The news of Shanahan’s closure comes after well-known Ranelagh restaurant Dillinger’s is to close its doors at the start of November.
Two months ago, Dylan McGrath closed two of his restaurants, Brasserie Sixty6 and Rustic Stone, saying they were “simply not sustainable”.
The Restaurants’ Association of Ireland had lobbied extensively for the VAT rate to be reduced to 9 per cent for the sector in the recent budget and said the Government’s failure to do more for hospitality would result in further closures.
A protest is taking place outside Leinster House this afternoon calling for action to help the sector.
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DETROIT — (AP) — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump both pushed Tuesday to energize key constituencies that their allies worry might be slipping away, with the vice president looking to reach Black men and the former president focusing on women.
Harris will appear at a town hall-style event in Detroit hosted by the morning radio program “The Breakfast Club," featuring Charlamagne Tha God, who is especially popular with Black males. Trump, meanwhile, will tape a Fox News Channel town hall featuring an all-female audience and moderated by host Harris Faulkner.
The vice president was also scheduled to stop by a Black-owned business in Detroit. A day earlier, she visited LegendErie, a coffee shop and record store in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she met with the husband-and-wife owners, a local pastor and other community leaders.
Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, is unveiling his ticket's plan to improve the lives of rural Americans. It's yet another sign that in a razor-tight race, each side is trying to cut into the other's margins of support with different voting blocs while shoring up traditional areas of strength.
The vice president's "Breakfast Club" appearance comes one day after she announced a series of new proposals dubbed the "Opportunity Agenda for Black Men." The ideas are meant to offer the demographic more economic advantages, including providing forgivable business loans of up to $20,000 for entrepreneurs and creating more apprenticeships. The plan would also support the study of sickle cell and other diseases more common in Black men.
The focus on Black men sharpened last week when former President Barack Obama campaigned for Harris in Pittsburgh and said he wanted to speak "some truths" to Black male voters, suggesting some " just aren't feeling the idea of having a woman as president."
The vice president’s campaign says it doesn’t believe Black men will flip in large numbers to supporting Trump, especially after strongly backing Democrat Joe Biden, with Harris as his running mate, in 2020. They are more concerned about a measurable percentage of Black males opting not to vote at all.
Sen. Raphael Warnock, the first Black senator elected from the state of Georgia, issued a stark warning Tuesday to other Black men that voting for Trump will be “literally dangerous” for them, as the former president heads to Atlanta for a rally.
“He will be dangerous every time you get in the car and you deal with the issue of driving while Black,” Warnock said.
He argued that Democrats’ job is to reach Black men who are deciding whether to vote at all. “The issue is folks have got to understand that if you do not vote, it’s a vote for Donald Trump,” Warnock said.
Harris' campaign has also placed special emphasis on other male voters, including creating " Hombres con Harris," or "Men with Harris," a group that is using celebrities and key elected officials to organize events on her behalf meant to appeal to Hispanic men.
As she campaigns in Detroit, Harris faces other potential challenges in Michigan, including Arab activists angered by the Biden administration's full-throated support for Israel in its war with Hamas in Gaza. Dearborn, outside Detroit, is the largest Arab-majority city in the U.S.
Still, the vice president's campaign expects to see strong support on Election Day from white, college-educated voters in Michigan at rates that might exceed Biden's in 2020, and she hopes to expand the margin by which Trump lost many of the state's key suburbs four years ago.
She's also seized on insults Trump made about Detroit last week while campaigning there. He said if Harris wins, “Our whole country will end up being like Detroit." He added, "You’re going to have a mess on your hands.”
Trump has maligned cities hosting him before, but Harris said it was proof he was “unfit to be president.” Her campaign also released an ad voiced by actor Courtney B. Vance, a Detroit native, that declares: “What Donald Trump doesn’t understand, or care to learn, is that when he said, ‘Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president.’ That he should be so ... lucky.”
Trump is scheduled to return to Detroit later this week for a rally.
The former president figures to do well with rural voters, but team Harris hopes to at least keep things closer. And while Harris’ support among women is strong, Trump aims to keep her from running up the score.
Trump has seen his support among women, especially in the suburbs of many key swing states, soften since his term in the White House. A September AP-NORC poll found more than half of registered voters who are women have a somewhat or very favorable view of Harris, while only about one-third have a favorable view of Trump.
To reverse the trend, Trump has sought to cast himself as being able to personally shield women from various threats, as when he suggested at a rally in Pennsylvania last month that women in America, "will no longer be abandoned, lonely or scared. You will no longer be in danger."
“You will be protected, and I will be your protector," Trump said then. He's also suggested that, should he win, women will no longer have a reason to think about abortion, after three Supreme Court judges that he appointed helped in 2022 to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that had guaranteed a woman's right to the procedure.
In Chicago before members of the Economic Club, Trump defended his support for high tariffs as an economic cure-all.
“To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is ‘tariff,’” Trump told Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait, who interviewed him at the event. Micklethwait has repeatedly pressed Trump on warnings from economists that the costs of high tariffs will be passed along to American consumers, raising prices.
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Associated Press Writer Bill Barrow in Atlanta and Jill Colvin in Chicago contributed to this report.
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Rashed up for the challenge with team Abu Dhabi in China
Date
10/15/2024 9:49:24 AM
(MENAFN- Total Communications) Rashed up for the challenge with
Team Abu Dhabi in China
No team pressure on me, says record-breaking F2 champion
heading for tough test in Zhengzhou
Abu Dhabi, UAE 15th October, 2024: Team Abu Dhabi’s Rashed Al Qemzi says he is under no pressure to push for a big result when he returns to action in the 2024 UIM F1H2O World Championship at the Grand Prix of Zhengzhou, China at the weekend.
The five-time UIM F2 world champion joins forces again with his cousin, veteran Emirati driver Thani Al Qemzi, following the mutual decision by Team Abu Dhabi and Alberto Comparato to part company.
“Like everyone else in the team, I wish Alberto great success in the future, and we all know that we’re going to see a lot more from him in the years ahead,” said Al Qemzi, who moved into the record books by clinching his latest F2 triumph last month.
“Now I have another good opportunity to show what I can do in the F1H2O World Championship and help the team, and I’m happy to be racing with Thani again.
“As always, I’ll be giving everything I’ve got, and I want to get the best result possible. But there's no extra pressure from the team, and obviously it’s going to be tough. The standard is so high in this championship. There are so many great drivers pushing for the win, and for the podium,”
While dominating the F2 championship in recent times with five titles in eight years, Al Qemzi has regularly stepped up to Team Abu Dhabi’s F1H2O line-up when needed.
His ten F1H2O championship appearances to date included a seventh-place finish in Zhengzhou last season when he stood in for Thani Al Qemzi and held fourth spot for half of the Grand Prix.
He was also part of the Team Abu Dhabi trio who won the 2021 UIM World Endurance Championships, sharing the driving with Mansoor Al Mansoori and Thani Al Qemzi, who makes
his 157th career Grand Prix start in Zhengzhou.
The two-time championship runner up is eager to climb from his current ninth place in the standings, and wants to add to his career record of ten Grand Prix victories and 45 podium finishes.
He knows he must be at his best in Zhengzhou to challenge Sharjah Team’s championship leader, Rusty Wyatt, and his two closest title rivals, Victory Team’s Erik Stark and defending champion Jonas Andersson.
Having recorded his second Grand Prix victory of the season in last weekend’s storm-lashed Grand Prix of Shanghai, Canadian rookie Wyatt could make it a remarkable title-winning debut season with another success on Saturday.
Much will depend, however, on the outcome of Friday morning qualifying and the two points-scoring sprint races to follow in the afternoon.
2024 UIM F1H2O World Championship standings
1. Rusty Wyatt (CAN) 87pts
2. Erik Stark (SWE) 69.5
3. Jonas Andersson (SWE) 69
4. Peter Morin (FRA) 54.5
5. Bartek Marszalek (POL) 48
6. Stefan Arand (EST) 34.5
7. Marit Stromoy (NOR) 32
8. Sami Selio (FIN) 31
9. Thani Al Qemzi (UAE) 27.5
10. Ben Jelf (GB) 26.5
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The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets will host the Georgia Bulldogs at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in 2025, the school announced Tuesday.
Georgia Tech and Georgia meet annually in a contest that is dubbed Clean, Old Fashioned Hate. Next season, the Yellow Jackets will host the Bulldogs on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Ga., the home of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons and the annual SEC Football Championship Game.
“We’re grateful to our partners at AMB Sports and Entertainment for the opportunity to bring Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate to Mercedes-Benz Stadium in 2025,” Georgia Tech director of athletics J Batt said. “The opportunity to reconfigure our contract with AMBSE not only provides our fans with opportunities that they have not had for our previous games in one of the world’s premier stadiums, but also provides our department with transformative revenue as we embark on a new era of intercollegiate athletics.”
After playing at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in 2025, the Georgia-Georgia Tech contest will be played in Athens in 2026 and will return to the campus of Georgia Tech at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field in 2027.
“We always enjoy playing in a first-class venue like Mercedes-Benz Stadium,” J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Josh Brooks said. “This move will only enhance the long-standing tradition of the Georgia-Georgia Tech game and will provide another outstanding event for our fans.”
Back in 2019, Georgia Tech signed an agreement to play five future football games at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. A sixth game was later added to that agreement.
Today, the Yellow Jackets announced that the agreement with AMB Sports and Entertainment (AMBSE) has been reconfigured. As part of the modified agreement, Georgia Tech will receive a $10 million guarantee for hosting Georgia at Mercedes-Benz Stadium next season.
The modified agreement was made as construction continues in and around Georgia Tech’s on-campus stadium, Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field, through the 2025 season.
“At Mercedes-Benz Stadium, we’re always looking for new opportunities to host major events, particularly the biggest college football games in the country,” said Doug Roberts, vice president of stadium events and premium sales. “We appreciate our partnership with Georgia Tech for bringing the state’s top collegiate rivalry to MBS and we are eagerly anticipating hosting this game to end the college football regular season next year.”
Georgia and Georgia Tech are set to meet this season on Black Friday (Nov. 29) at Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga. The game will be nationally televised by ABC at 7:30pm ET (Buy Tickets).
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CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga
— Seven individuals, including the alleged mastermind, have been apprehended in connection with the brutal murder of online sellers Arvin and Lerma Lulu, who were shot to death in their car in Mexico town recently.
The suspects include Arnold Taylan (the alleged gunman), Arnel Buan (the backrider), Robert Dimaliwat, Rolando Cruz, Jomie Rabandaban, Sancho Nieto, and Anthony Limon, the alleged mastermind. They were presented to the media yesterday at the PRO3 Patrol Hall here.
PRO3 director P/Brig. Gen. Rederico Maranan said the arrests mark a significant breakthrough in a case that has shaken the community, leaving a six-year-old child and a teenage relative traumatized.
“These suspects are considered part of a large gun-for-hire group because they are well-equipped and have similar cases in Nueva Ecija,” Maranan said.
“I commend our policemen for their dedication; we solved this case in 10 days. With the help of CCTV footage and the community, the results were positive,” he added during a media conference.
The investigation, led by the Mexico Municipal Police Station in collaboration with the Pampanga Provincial Intelligence Unit, Regional Mobile Force Battalion, and the 1st and 2nd Provincial Mobile Force Companies, culminated in a two-day operation from 13 to 14 October.
The arrests of Taylan and Buan proved pivotal. Their statements led authorities to the remaining five suspects: Dimaliwat, Cruz, Rabandaban, Nieto and Limon, the alleged mastermind.
Investigators revealed that Limon, also an online seller, had a P13 million debt to the couple, providing a strong motive for the crime.
During the operation, police seized a total of nine firearms, including three 9mm pistols, five .45 pistols, one .22 caliber rifle and one air gun.
The couple, known for their online beauty product business, was shot to death in their car on 4 October 2024. Their six-year-old child and a teenage relative witnessed the incident, leaving them traumatized. The case has sparked widespread concern about the safety of online sellers and the need for greater security measures in the industry.
Maranan reiterated that justice for the victims remains a top priority. He emphasized the importance of addressing the issue of gun-for-hire groups, particularly in light of the suspects’ alleged involvement in similar crimes in Nueva Ecija.
“Our mission to ensure the safety and security of our community remains our top priority. We will leave no stone unturned in our pursuit of justice and accountability for this heinous crime,” he stressed. | https://tribune.net.ph/2024/10/15/7-suspects-in-online-sellers-killings-nabbed | 2024-10-15T17:58:19Z |
ALCS Game 2 Best Bets: Cleveland Guardians vs. New York Yankees Picks & Props
Second straight loser. I took Dodgers ML yesterday and put a half unit on the run line, and the Mets crushed them. That was a tough one to watch, as my article was all about how good the Dodgers would pitch in this game, and it was the complete opposite out there. It’s mostly gone our way this postseason, but that was a swing and a miss.
Our total for the playoffs is now +6.23 Units in the green. We’ve built a big enough cushion to soften the blow of two straight losses. The only game on the board today is the Yankees vs Guardians, and I have a prop worth looking at.
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Cleveland Guardians vs. New York Yankees @ 7:35 PM EST
Pitching Matchup: Tanner Bibee (3.47 ERA) vs. Gerrit Cole (3.41 ERA)
I’m a Yankee fan and have been since birth. I love Gerrit Cole. He’s been fantastic for us in the playoffs and one of the best pitchers on the planet. However, I’m a guy who trusts the numbers, and his strikeout line is too high. I think it’s inflated by Rodon’s performance yesterday, striking out nine Guardians while recording 25 whiffs.
The Guardians are two different offenses against both right-handed pitching and left-handed pitching. Against lefties, they have a higher wRC+, hit for more power, and overall, they are in their better split. However, they strike out at a higher rate, as more of their right-handed platoon bats sacrifice some swing and miss to tap into more power.
Against righties on the road this season, the Guardians have a 19.6% strikeout rate, the second lowest in the league. Against lefties on the road this season, the strikeout rate climbs to 21.6%. If we look at the season’s final month, their strikeout rate in this spot is 19.5%.
A big reason the Guardians are here is their ability to put the ball in play consistently, so last night’s performance feels like a significant outlier, but the fact it came against a left-hander makes some sense.
The Guardians strikeout rate at home against right-handers is 20.7%. This has been the trend all season, as we saw in the final month, the strikeout rate was 26% at home. However, on the road, they have consistently been able to limit the strikeouts. After last night’s performance, I have to imagine they make a concerted effort to put the ball in play, they know that if they whiff this much again the game is over.
Gerrit Cole also has a strikeout issue at Yankee Stadium. Gerrit Cole has failed to exceed 5.5 strikeouts in six of his last seven games at home (4.4 strikeouts/game average). He’s also been under this line in four of his previous five starts. He faced the Guardians in August and only allowed one hit and no runs through six innings. He only had two strikeouts that game; you guessed it, it was at Yankee Stadium.
Over Cole’s last three starts against the Guardians, returning to 2023, he’s averaging 4.33 strikeouts against them. Over his career against this current lineup (142 PA), his strikeout rate is 22.5%, much lower than his career average.
2024 Gerrit Cole is not striking out 30% of hitters like he used to. His strikeout rate this year is just 25.4%, a career low for him. His whiff and chase rates this year are actually below average. He sits in the 33rd percentile of chase rate and 44th percentile in whiff rate. His fastball velocity is also at a career-low this year. He’s still awesome, but not quite the same guy.
I used Baseball Savant to determine the Guardian’s whiff rate against Cole’s pitch mix. He throws a fastball, knuckle curve, cutter, changeup, and slider. When you combine the whiff rate for the Guardians against those pitches, they have the second lowest in the league, only trailing the Padres.
The Royals have the fifth-lowest whiff rate against that mix, and over two starts, Cole had a 3.00 ERA against them. He went seven innings while only allowing one run in his last start and still only struck out four each time.
There is also some psychology at play here. Rodon just had nine strikeouts, and now the best pitcher left in the playoffs has a 5.5 line at plus money? The contrarian part of my brain thinks there is no way the books are paying that out on his over.
This is why I love this bet as a Yankee fan. Cole could still dominate and not end up with six strikeouts. I should be laying the juice here, but my fandom keeps it to one unit. Give me a break; it’s the playoffs, and I love my team, but this is easily my favorite play in this game. | https://www.justbaseball.com/betting/alcs-game-2-best-bets-cleveland-guardians-vs-new-york-yankees-picks-props/ | 2024-10-15T17:58:19Z |
LGBTQ: Bail Granted To Young Man in Consensual Same-Sex Relationship Case
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Gujarat High Court grants bail to a young man accused of consensual same-sex relations, marking a significant moment for LGBTQ+ rights in India.
The Gujarat High Court granted bail to a 22-year-old man accused under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code for engaging in consensual same-sex relations with a 64-year-old man. The court ruled that the relationship appeared to be consensual, highlighting the need for a nuanced understanding of such cases. This decision has sparked discussions about the implications of Section 377 and the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals in India.
Court Ruling Highlights
On October 3, 2024, Justice Hasmukh D. Suthar of the Gujarat High Court stated that the relationship between the two men was "prima facie consensual," leading to the bail grant. The younger man had been charged following a complaint by the older individual, which raised questions about consent and age differences in same-sex relationships. The court's ruling emphasizes a shift towards recognizing consensual relationships within the LGBTQ+ community, reflecting changing societal attitudes.
Context and Implications
This case comes amidst ongoing debates about Section 377, which criminalizes homosexual acts in India. Although the Supreme Court decriminalized consensual same-sex relations in 2018, cases like this highlight lingering societal and legal challenges faced by LGBTQ+ individuals. Activists argue that such rulings are crucial for advancing rights and protections for marginalized communities, while opponents express concerns about potential misuse of consent claims.
Questions and Answers
1. What was the basis for granting bail to the accused?
The Gujarat High Court found that the sexual relationship between the parties involved was "prima facie consensual," indicating that there was no clear evidence of coercion or non-consent at this stage of proceedings.
2. What are the implications of this ruling for LGBTQ+ rights in India?
This ruling may signal a progressive shift in how courts interpret Section 377 and consent in same-sex relationships, potentially leading to greater legal protections for LGBTQ+ individuals.
3. What charges were brought against the accused?
The accused faced charges under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalizes "unnatural offenses," historically used to prosecute same-sex relations.
4. How has this case been received by different stakeholders?
Reactions have varied; LGBTQ+ activists view it as a positive step towards decriminalization and recognition of consensual relationships, while conservative factions may oppose this interpretation.
5. What is next for both parties involved in this case?
Both parties will continue to navigate the legal process as further hearings are scheduled, where more evidence may be presented to clarify the nature of their relationship. | https://thelogicalindian.com/lgbtq/gujarat-high-court-bail-granted-gay-sex-case-section-377-lgbtq-41910 | 2024-10-15T17:58:19Z |
The first sign of trouble for Kevin Carroll was a weakness in some of his fingers on his left hand when he was playing the piano. “I just couldn’t press them down.”
That was four years ago and, after seeing his GP about it, he was sent for the first of three MRIs, none of which showed anything amiss. He was referred to a neurologist, but there was a long waiting list and, in the meantime, a relation suggested he might get nerve conduction studies done at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.
Kevin thought his symptoms might be linked to an old injury. He had broken his shoulder at the age of 14, falling off “a very tall” ladder and then, just two weeks later, fell down stairs. He needed surgery and “the surgeon at the time in Jervis Street [hospital] told me he thought it would come back to haunt me”.
However, his wife Margaret, a former nurse, says she “didn’t buy” the suggestions that it might be carpal tunnel syndrome or related to old injuries. She suspected it was some sort of neurological condition. “I was seeing that it was power. I could see it was progressing in two years.”
After the nerve conduction studies at Beaumont, he was referred to consultant neurologist Prof Orla Hardiman there, who, coincidentally, his wife had worked with at one time. Motor neurone disease was not on Kevin’s radar that October day in 2022 when he was being examined by Hardiman, but, sitting alongside him, Margaret soon picked up on the consultant’s thinking.
“The first thing to be honest I did feel was, ‘Orla don’t say another word, we’ll get out of here’.”
Margaret realised that a diagnosis of motor neurone disease (MND) was coming. As a trainee nurse nearly five decades previously, when much less was known about the condition, she had cared for MND patients at the end of life in the old Richmond hospital. She knew that the moment the news was delivered to Kevin their lives would take an unwanted turning from which there would be no going back. She was concerned for her husband, as she knew he was not prepared for the diagnosis. Then her thoughts turned to what it would mean for both of them.
Kevin (72) is one of an estimated 468 people living in Ireland with MND, a record high for this country. MND is an incurable and progressive neurological disorder that attacks nerves in the brain and spinal cord, leading to muscle weakness and wasting. The cause is unknown and it can develop in people of all ages, with a wide range of possible effects. Former RTÉ journalist Charlie Bird (74) and English rugby league player Rob Burrow (41) were two high-profile deaths from the disease earlier this year.
Initially, the Carrolls held on to the possibility that Kevin’s type of MND was monomelic, which is confined to one limb. “Unfortunately, that’s not quite the situation,” says Margaret (69) two years later, as the couple sit in their Clontarf home in Dublin, talking about the impact of this disease, while stressing it is different for every individual.
Sometimes they wake up and wonder “How did we get to this?”. What she describes as “constant little losses” creep up on them.
Up to few weeks ago, Kevin could still handle a cup, for instance. Now, he is using a straw to drink. “But you adapt.” He has found his loss of energy challenging, but “I’m not a fan of the idea that you fight the disease”.
He believes there has to be “an acceptance, a letting go and, dare I say, a surrender to something over which you have limited control”. People might think that sounds like he is giving up but that is not the case. He tries to maximise his quality of life by maintaining a positive mental attitude, getting out in the fresh air every day and following a good diet. “It is about accepting realities,” continues Kevin, who is no longer able to drive, nor do the cooking, which he always did. He cannot dress himself, nor shave, and recently lost the ability to put toothpaste on a toothbrush.
“At the same time, I want to lead a very purposeful life. I keep going. I am still pushing my fingers on the piano. I can hit two notes with two fingers and I can still get out a chord, it’s basically background music,” he says of his continued playing on occasion at St Gabriel’s church in Clontarf, where he sings in the choir. Although he had to give up singing with the Culwick Choral Society.
Social connection is very important for anybody with a serious illness, he says. “You have to get out and meet people and live your life as normal as you can.”
Kevin is ambassador for this year’s Walk While You Can fundraising event for the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association, which reports unprecedented demand for its services. People across Ireland are encouraged to walk 5km on or around October 19th to raise MND awareness and vital funds for the charity (registration on imnda.ie).
My experience would be very different for somebody in their 30s. My kids are reared; I’ve had a long, happy life and I’ve had an interesting career. I’ve no complaints in that sense
So far, the disease has affected Kevin’s upper motor functions. Having started in his left arm, it has gone into his right arm, shoulders and neck. His voice remains strong and clear.
“His walking is fairly okay, but it all has to be carefully managed,” says Margaret. Planning and adapting their schedules is really important, due to “neurofatigue”. It’s a particular type of fatigue that not everybody with MND experiences.
But the Carrolls remain positive, keen to share observations that could apply to anybody with a serious illness, such as Kevin wishing everybody would continue to treat him as normal. People might feel awkward but he would prefer they said that, rather than skirting around “the elephant in the room”. Although he appears a mild-mannered man, it clearly riles him if somebody asks Margaret “how is he?” in his earshot, “as if I am not able to talk myself”.
An irritation for her is being seen at health appointments as Kevin’s “carer”. Of course she cares for him but primarily she is his wife and there is a big difference between her and somebody coming in as part of his care package.
Kevin started practising meditation about 30 years ago and has found it invaluable in dealing with MND. “It is very calming. I do it every day. I could sit here for an hour but I do it for 30 minutes at least.” Since the diagnosis, he goes for acupuncture sessions as “it helps to keep your immune system good”.
Margaret studied mindfulness some years ago and used it periodically, but now she lives by it. “I say to Kevin, we have to take each day because that’s the only way you could survive it.”
“All our experiences are unique,” he says of people with MND. “My experience would be very different for somebody in their 30s. My kids are reared; I’ve had a long, happy life and I’ve had an interesting career. I’ve no complaints in that sense.”
Yet, there is no denying that this couple, who have been physically active all their lives, expected to enjoy a longer stretch of healthier retirement together. Keen walkers, they were planning to complete a stage of the Via Francigena in Tuscany, before Covid came. They were hoping to do it afterwards, but then MND arrived. Kevin concedes it will not be possible now.
However, he likes to focus on gratitude for what he does have, most importantly “a good, happy marriage”, and his “great kids”, now all in their 30s, Caoimhe, Cillian and Niall, and two grandchildren. The couple have been married for 36 years, having met “at the confluence of the White Nile and the Blue Nile”. They were both working for Trócaire in Sudan when they first laid eyes on each other in the aptly named Friendship Palace hotel in Khartoum.
They have lived abroad since in some challenging environments. After Trócaire, the last phase of Kevin’s career was in the Department of Foreign Affairs, working with the Irish Aid programme.
“You could be cooking your dinner in Nairobi and the power goes off and doesn’t come back until the next day. Or one of your kids keels over with malaria, as happened, and you have to bring them to hospital... Those sorts of things do make you more resilient,” he says.
“You are not in control,” points out Margaret. “Now we live in an age where everybody thinks we can control a lot of things.” They have no such illusions.
At the moment, I am not fearful of dying. I might feel differently if I was told I had only a week to go
She admits to frustration that MND occupies such a big part of their lives. “Motor neurone, like any serious disease, can be all consuming,” she says. “You do have to have somebody who is a gatekeeper and an advocate because the number of appointments, follow-up calls – all of that has to be negotiated.”
The multidisciplinary approach can be great but “the dots need to be joined”, so patients can cover several appointments in one hospital visit. She is also acutely aware of the impact when healthcare staff “are really present with you” – or not.
“Since Covid perhaps, there is an awareness of the stress of working in healthcare for everybody, but personally, I don’t buy that as an excuse for somebody rushing in, or rushing out, or telling you how busy they are.”
Kevin has no complaints about the health services. While it took a while to get a diagnosis, he has since received various levels of support ranging from Beaumont and primary care to that from the IMNDA and outreach services from St Francis Hospice. His wife, who spent half her career in nursing, and then went into mental health working as a psychotherapist, says she looks at the system a bit more critically – not negatively but rather reflecting on what could be improved.
Margaret thinks Kevin probably copes better with the continuous loss of independence than she would if it was her. The limitations can be frustrating. “Not just Kevin’s limitations. I feel also that bit limited, because I would feel nearly guilty going off at lunchtime, even though now we have a care package Kevin will be looked after. But it’s that separation.”
They used to enjoy going to concerts or the theatre together but now Kevin is likely to find it too uncomfortable. Dining out has become an ordeal that they mostly avoid.
On the last occasion, the seating “was awfully uncomfortable” he recalls, and then he made the mistake of ordering linguine pasta. “It’s like lifting up mercury when you have a bad hand, it was a disaster,” he chuckles. “You do laugh at these things. Humour is important – the boys do black humour and they make me laugh.”
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As winter approaches, he cannot go outdoors unaided because he can no longer put on a coat. He is always trying to find ways around these losses, such as going to lie on the bed with the coat and manoeuvre himself into it that way. He cannot get his finger up to the doorbell at the front of their house but he can press his head against it.
A spiritual person, Kevin finds his belief in “a higher intelligence out there” helpful. “At the moment, I am not fearful of dying. I might feel differently if I was told I had only a week to go, I don’t know. Sometimes it kind of surprises me but I actually don’t [fear it]. The part I would not like, obviously, is the impact it would have on the family and Maggie being left behind.”
Meanwhile, “we’re managing, we’re doing all right,” says Kevin, who then touchingly looks to his wife for confirmation, “are we”?
“We have to,” she replies with a smile.
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(MENAFN- VFS Global) ● Hong Kong welcomed 19,273 visitors from the GCC region, between January to August 2024 a remarkable 124% increase from the previous year
● The travel missions in Riyadh and Dubai highlighted Hong Kong’s growing appeal as a premier luxury travel destination and is part of a broader strategy to attract more affluent travellers from the GCC.
Dubai, UAE, 15th October 2024: The Hong Kong tourism Board (HKTB) successfully concluded its first GCC 2024 Travel Mission to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), engaging the travel partners from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) which took place between 7th to 9th October 2024 in Riyadh and Dubai.
This year’s mission showcased Hong Kong’s growing appeal among travellers from the GCC, with the city welcoming 19,273 visitors between January and August 2024 - a remarkable 124% increase compared to the previous year. The visitor numbers for the first half of 2024 alone nearly matched the total number of arrivals from the GCC in 2023, reflecting Hong Kong’s growing reputation as a premier destination for luxury travellers.
Key highlights of HKTB’s Travel Mission - The roadshow featured a distinguished delegation of 30 key Hong Kong trade partners, including representatives from iconic attractions, luxury hotels and destination management companies (DMCs). The event attracted over 200 travel agents from across the GCC, providing them with an in-depth understanding of Hong Kong's premium offerings tailored for affluent travellers.
Exclusive Experiences for GCC Luxury Travellers – The HKTB’s brand-new initiative "Travel in Luxe" especially curated for GCC market captivated attendees with an array of luxury experiences, including helicopter tours over Hong Kong’s skyline, VIP access to Hong Kong Disneyland’s "Momentous Nighttime Spectacular," private shopping concierge services, and exclusive dining experiences. Attendees were also introduced to bespoke cultural activities like private Cantonese opera at the Xiqu Centre and horse-racing events hosted by the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
Puneet Kumar, Director of South Asia & Middle East at HKTB, said, “We are pleased with the strong recovery in GCC visitor numbers, which underscores the region’s growing interest in Hong Kong’s offerings. From luxury shopping and dining to rich cultural and heritage experiences, Hong Kong provides an array of unique attractions for GCC tourists. Our engagement with the travel trade fraternity in Riyadh and Dubai gave us the confidence that we will be able to attract more visitors to Hong Kong, with their strong support. We are dedicated to ensuring travellers’ travel experiences are memorable, and we look forward to welcoming even more visitors from the region.”
As part of its 2024-2025 tourism marketing strategy, HKTB aims to position Hong Kong as a premium destination targeting families, experiential travellers, MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) and leisure travellers through various B2B and B2C activities like destination workshops, e-learning, digital marketing and joint collaborations with travel agents, airlines, media. Some of these strategies include:
1. Strategic partnerships with leading GCC brands to market Hong Kong’s destination experiences, including the Travel in Luxe experiences which will offer deals and packages to facilitate easy travel to Hong Kong.
2. Developing a dedicated compendium of information for Muslim travellers including halal friendly restaurants, prayer room facilities and more ( that can be accessed from the Discover Hong Kong website.
3. Regular participation in trade shows in GCC such as ATM Dubai, KBLT Congress in Riyadh and further upcoming shows to educate GCC trade on Hong Kong’s offerings and experiences.
In the coming months, Hong Kong will host several large-scale events, including the Hong Kong Taste Around Town festival, Winterfest, and the New Year Countdown. Additionally, cultural and sporting highlights such as Art Basel, Hong Kong Rugby Sevens and the Dragon Boat Races are expected to draw visitors from around the globe.
For Muslim travellers, Hong Kong offers a wide range of Halal food options, prayer room facilities, and Muslim-friendly hotels, with resources available in English and Arabic on the Discover Hong Kong website.
Travelling from the GCC to Hong Kong is also more convenient than ever. Emirates Airlines and Qatar Airways provide regular flights between Dubai, Doha and Hong Kong, while Cathay Pacific and other regional carriers offer direct connections. Cathay Pacific will be launching direct flight from Riyadh to Hong Kong by end October 2024. This growing connectivity reflects Hong Kong’s commitment to making travel easy and accessible for GCC tourists.
The Hong Kong Tourism Board delegation included following partners.
Hotels - The Langham, Hong Kong, Stanford Hotel & Stanford Hillview Hotel, Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers. Rosewood Hong Kong, Regent Hong Kong, Regal Hotels International Limited, New World Millennium Hong Kong Hotel, JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong, Intercontinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong, Hotel ICON, Hong Kong Ocean Park Marriott Hotel, Harbour Plaza North Point, Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, Courtyard by Marriott Hong Kong Sha Tin.
DMC’s - Century Holiday International Travel Service(HK) Co.Limited, Holidaykraft Vacations Ltd, Inno Travel Limited, L'Voyage Travel Company Limited, Momentous Asia Travel & Events Co. Ltd, Splendid Tours & Travel, Travel Tricks, Vanguard Holidays (HK) Co., Ltd, Great Ocean Tours & Travel Ltd.
Attractions- Ngong Ping 360 Limited, Ocean Park Hong Kong, sky100 Hong Kong Observation Deck.Great Ocean Tours & Travel LtdGreat Ocean Tours & Travel Ltd
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Glamorous TikTok star Rachel Yaffe dies from liver cancer at 27 after warning followers to 'trust their gut'
A TikTok star has died from a rare liver cancer at age 27 following a seven-year battle with the disease.
Rachel Yaffe, from Maryland, passed away on October 11, with one of her tragic final posts detailing how she was feeling weak after another bout of radiation.
In the clip, she appears in good spirits, but she reveals how her appetite was starting to wane, as evident from her increasingly frail figure.
Ms Yaffe - who documented her cancer journey online - said she felt like something was wrong in her late teens but put it down to a gluten intolerance.
But after visiting a doctor who saw her level of concern, she was referred to a specialist who discovered a 20cm tumor in her liver.
A biopsy confirmed fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma, a rare form of cancer that is unique because it affects mostly young, healthy people.
Rachel Yaffe from Maryland passed away on October 11 at the age of 27, following a seven year battle with liver cancer
The disease is extremely rare, only affecting around 200 people the world each year.
The majority of cases are in teenagers and young adults, though cases of patients as young as two and as old as 74 have been recorded.
Because there are few tell-tale symptoms, most patients are diagnosed late and the disease has already spread from the liver to other parts of the body where it becomes much harder to treat.
The five-year survival rate for stage I fibrolamellar carcinoma is 86%, however this plummets to 44% if the cancer progresses to stage 2 onwards.
After experiencing bloating in her abdomen, Ms Yaffe was diagnosed with stage 4 fibrolamellar and she was rushed in for surgery a few days later for the tumor to be removed.
While she believed that this would be the end of her cancer saga, it was just the beginning, and it returned three months later in the liver and the lungs.
This, she said, is when she 'kicked into gear with research and healing.'
Over the years, the former college lacrosse player said she tried everything to battle the disease, including traditional and alternative medicines.
Many of Ms Yaffe's past posts on Instagram capture shots of healthy meals, as she strived to nourish her body with dishes such as homemade chicken soup and 'brown rice noodles with sautéed veggies.'
Ms Yaffe said she felt like something was wrong in her late teens but put it down to a gluten intolerance
A biopsy confirmed that Ms Yaffe had an extremely rare form of liver cancer known as fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma
Touching on how her diet changed during her cancer journey, Ms Yaffe tells viewers in a TikTok posted this July: 'I was plant-based vegan for quite a long amount time.
'After going what I've been through and reevaluating my blood work with my new practitioners, we found out that I was pretty deficient in some of the nutrients that I really needed from proteins and fats so I'm actually leaning more into the keto carnivore diet, which is so new for me.'
She finishes the post by showing the contents of her lunch plate, which a piece of avocado, two chicken and apple sausages, a piece of turkey bacon and and an egg, 'all cooked in beef tallow.'
After living in Los Angeles for a period of time, Ms Yaffe relocated to New York in September 2023, where her sister lives.
However, shortly after her big move she was hit by a major health setback in February of this year as her lung hemorrhaged.
In a TikTok post, Ms Yaffe explains that this was due to a tumor putting pressure on her heart and blocking the airflow to her lung, which caused it to bleed.
While she underwent multiple life-saving emergency procedures and was intubated for three days, her parents gave consent for her to start radiation and immunotherapy to shrink the tumor and stop the bleeding.
In an update Ms Yaffe gave on her condition in June, she said she got scans back and there were some 'really positive parts and some not so ideal parts' so she was figuring out her plan and next steps.
While the majority of the tumors in her body looked 'stable,' there was one in her abdomen that doctors were concerned about so she opted for proton therapy to treat it.
While the majority of the tumors in her body looked 'stable,' there was one in her abdomen that doctors were concerned about
On October 11, Ms Yaffe's obituary was posted online with details for her funeral. Above, pictured with a friend in September
With proton beam therapy, beams of particles called protons treat the tumor.
But unlike X-rays, they don't carry on travelling (through healthy tissue) after reaching their target; they instead come to a halt.
Ms Yaffe said she found that she experienced less side effects from the proton therapy and it didn't impact her normal life.
After this most recent round of proton therapy, Ms Yaffe rested up at her parents' home in Baltimore before returning to New York at the end of August.
However, in a TikTok posted from her apartment in Manhattan on September, she appears to be weaker than ever, with her physique increasingly frailer.
This would be her final video.
Maintaining an upbeat frame of mind, Ms Yaffe tells viewers: 'I lost so much of my strength when I was getting radiation and I'm starting from day one.
'It's been so hard to get up and force myself to move, so I'm working on doing that.
'Thankfully it's easier to walk around here being in the city.
'Plus, I'm working really hard to stick to a really strict food regimen for cancer healing so its taking up a lot of energy.
In a TikTok pinned at the top of her feed, Ms Yaffe says her lasting message is for others to get checked out by doctors if they think something is wrong
'I [have] a pretty low appetite so its been a little bit difficult both physically and mentally but I'm working on just focusing on the small things that that bring me joy.
'I'm really, really, really prioritizing my mental health as well.'
On October 11, Ms Yaffe's obituary was posted online with details surrounding her funeral.
It reads: 'She is survived by her devoted parents, Linda (nee Bass) and Wayne Yaffe; cherished brother and sister, Jordan Yaffe and Jessica Yaffe; dear grandmother, Sydney Bass; and loving dog, Layla.'
In a TikTok pinned at the top of her feed, Ms Yaffe says her lasting message is for others to get checked out by doctors if they think something is wrong.
She says, touching on how she dealt with symptoms long before getting help: 'I feel like everybody was making me feel like it was my anxiety and like I was crazy and I know a lot of people have stories like this.
'It made me stop trusting my body and the signals that it was sending me... because everyone was telling me that I was wrong and they couldn't find anything.
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Rossini Ristorante, the modern Italian casual dining restaurant, celebrates its first anniversary of its reopening with a modern menu that mingles well with its classic cuisine.
After a successful relaunch in October 2023, Rossini has captivated diners with its refreshed look and revamped menu. Mia Teng, the restaurant’s marketing officer, said that the new menu highlights the house specialties, including risotto, pasta and handmade pizzas.
Slice of Italy
Yes, dining at this restaurant will bring you a savory slice of Italy. The Salmon in Squid Ink Risotto not only transports you to the romantic country but also prepares you for Halloween with its edgy color. The creamy dish is made with Italian rice cooked in squid ink broth, roasted salmon and cherry tomato confit.
And speaking of Halloween, Teng said that their menu is adjusted to reflect current events.
“It’s always a surprise every month,” she said.
On a different note, healthy foodies will delight in the “Fall” Mix Salad, a vibrant blend that delivers a satisfying crunch from the pepitas and crisp greens, paired with velvety roasted pumpkin that simply melts in your mouth.
No Italian dining experience is complete without a charcuterie board (fun fact: its origins date back to the Romans and Greeks). For this, Rossini’s Salami Sampler features an enticing selection of assorted Italian meats, accompanied by rich black olives and warm, housemade bread. Each slice of meat is so tender that it requires little more than a gentle nibble
A personal favorite is the Minestrone Soup — a bold and earthy mix of pomodoro sauce, fresh herbs and vegetables. The serving is adequate: not too much that it’s cloying, but not too little to leave you dissatisfied.
Six Napoletana pizzas have also been added to the menu, each a handmade delight. Indulge in the Steak and Potato Pizza, featuring creamy parmesan, rich salsa rosso, tenderloin steak and crispy potato flakes. The Pumpkin Sausage Pizza offers a comforting blend of pumpkin purée, savory Italian sausage and fragrant rosemary, while the Four Mushroom Pizza showcases a mix of creamed truffle, enoki, shimeji, shiitake and king mushrooms, all sprinkled with furikake. The cheese in these pizzas stands out, creating a delicious barrier between the crust and toppings.
For a hearty meal, Rossini’s Braised Short Ribs are sure to impress. This savory dish features tender braised beef ribs drizzled with gremolata sauce, accompanied by sweet potato gnocchi and seasonal vegetables that harmonize beautifully on the plate. The meat is incredibly soft, practically falling apart with each bite.
For the last bites of joy, Rossini Tiramisu and Chocolate Torta offer a sweet finish. The spongy tiramisu awakens your senses with its sharp coffee flavor, while the chocolate torta balances it with sweetness.
Braised Short Ribs.Nook and cranny
From the food presentation down to the interiors, the place has been renovated to provide a refreshing, laid-back ambiance. Teng, who acquired the establishment last year, said they renovated Rossini to make it more welcoming for the young (and the young-at-heart, too!).
“We just want this to be a nice, comforting nook and cranny for everyone,” she said. “If you just want to have a quick brunch, watch the sunset orfireworks, we have al fresco dining so you can watch.”
Rossini is located on the second floor of the S Maison Mall at the Conrad Hotel in Pasay City.
For reservations, call Rossini Ristorante at 7003-5272 or 0917-7077218. | https://tribune.net.ph/2024/10/15/a-fresh-take-on-modern-italian-dining | 2024-10-15T17:58:26Z |
WASHINGTON — (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed out a decision allowing 18-year-olds to openly carry guns during emergencies in Pennsylvania.
There were no noted dissents in the high court's brief order. It lets stand a ban on people aged 18 to 20 carrying guns in public during a declared state of emergency.
The case comes amid major shifts in the firearm legal landscape following an influential Supreme Court decision in 2022 that expanded gun rights. The high court said any firearm restrictions must have a strong basis in history.
Multiple gun laws have been struck down in the wake of that ruling, including age restrictions, by judges in states like Minnesota, Virginia and Texas. The Pennsylvania challengers argued that younger people weren't barred from carrying guns at the time of the nation's founding, so they shouldn't be barred today.
But the Supreme Court handed down a new opinion this year that upheld a law intended to protect victims of domestic violence. The high court said Tuesday the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals should reconsider the Pennsylvania case in light of that decision.
Pennsylvania officials, for their part, had argued that there is a long tradition of limiting guns to people 21 and older dating back to the 1850s.
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- Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump refused to release his medical records, while attacking his rival, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, for having seasonal allergies.
- Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have ramped up attacks on Trump's fitness for office.
- Harris lashed out at Trump for his unusual campaign event in Pennsylvania, where a planned Q&A was scrapped in favor of listening to music.
Kamala Harris mocked Donald Trump's behavior at an unusual campaign event, where the GOP presidential nominee cut short a question-and-answer session to listen to music with the crowd for nearly 40 minutes.
"Hope he's okay," Harris, the Democratic nominee, wrote on X early Tuesday morning.
It was one of many posts by social media users that raised eyebrows over video from Monday night showing Trump swaying to music at his event outside Philadelphia.
Trump, 78, in turn, on Tuesday suggested that Harris was unqualified to be president because of her minor allergies and hives, which were disclosed in health records she released this weekend.
But Trump also doubled down on his refusal to release his own health records — which Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have cited as they question his fitness for office.
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Trump's campaign event Monday night was billed as a town hall where Trump would take questions from South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem.
But the question-and-answer portion was disrupted twice by medical emergencies in the crowd.
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At one point, the song "Ave Maria" played on the speakers as Trump and Noem waited for medical workers to attend to a person.
After the second interruption, Trump stopped taking questions.
"Let's not do any more questions," Trump announced. "Let's just listen to music. Let's make it into a music. Who the hell wants to hear questions, right?"
He then stood onstage facing the crowd, largely without speaking as a series of songs played through the venue's speakers.
The music-listening portion of the evening went on for nearly 40 minutes.
The songs included, "Time to Say Goodbye," by Andrea Bocelli, Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U," Village People's "Y.M.C.A.," James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's Man's World," and Guns N' Roses' "November Rain."
Trump left the stage to the sounds of "Memory" from the musical "Cats."
Trump in a subsequent Truth Social post called the town hall "amazing!"
"The Q and A was almost finished when people began fainting from the excitement and heat. We started playing music while we waited, and just kept it going," he said.
"So different, but it ended up being a GREAT EVENING!"
In other Truth Social posts early Tuesday, Trump claimed he was "far too busy campaigning to take time" to devote to medical exams.
But he also asserted that he has "already provided them, many times, including quite recently, and they were flawless."
And in another post later Tuesday, he declared, "MY REPORT IS PERFECT - NO PROBLEMS!!!"
He told CBS News in August that he would "very gladly" his medical records, but his campaign has yet to do so.
When CNBC asked the Trump campaign for the records that Trump claims he has already provided, spokesman Steven Cheung referred to his statement from Saturday that said Trump has "voluntarily released updates" from multiple sources.
He pointed to a note last November from Trump's personal physician, Bruce Aronwold, and two memos written in late July by former White House physician Ronny Jackson after Trump narrowly survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
"All have concluded he is in perfect and excellent health to be Commander in Chief," Cheung wrote.
Aronwold's 11-month-old, glowing letter concluded that Trump is "in excellent health" and likely to "enjoy a health active lifestyle for years to come."
But it offered few details about Trump's medical history.
The memos by Jackson focused on the injury Trump sustained when a bullet grazed his ear at the July 13 rally. Jackson, now a Republican congressman who represents a Texas district, is one of Trump's most loyal supporters.
Harris on Saturday released a letter from her White House doctor describing the 59-year-old vice president as being in "excellent health" and capable of carrying out the duties of the presidency.
Harris' medical history includes seasonal allergies and hives, but she has never experienced severe symptoms, Dr. Joshua Simmons wrote in the two-page letter.
After taking an antihistamine and an allergy medication, both issues have "improved dramatically" to the point that Harris has not needed any medication to manage her symptoms apart from an occasional nasal spray, Simmons wrote.
A day after releasing her records, Harris blasted Trump at a campaign rally in North Carolina.
"He refuses to release his medical records," Harris said at a campaign rally in North Carolina on Sunday.
She also mocked Trump for recently ducking an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" and for declining to debate her a second time.
"Why does his staff want him to hide away?" she asked. "Are they afraid that people will see that he is too weak and unstable to lead America?"
Trump tried to flip that script on Harris on Tuesday.
He claimed — despite the glowing evaluation of Harris' health by her doctor — that her medical report is "not good."
He falsely claimed in a Truth Social post that her allergies were "a very messy and dangerous situation," and said that she "suffers" from hives, while referring to them by their medical name, urticaria.
"These are deeply serious conditions that clearly impact her functioning," Trump wrote.
"Maybe that is why she can't answer even the simplest of questions asked by 60 Minutes, and others," he wrote.
He was referencing his frequent complaints about how CBS' news show edited its recent interview of Harris.
Trump backed out of an interview with "60 Minutes" before Harris' interview aired.
"What is this all about? I don't have these problems," Trump wrote. He claimed he had "aced" two cognitive exams and that he was "far healthier" than the four other most recent presidents, "but especially, Kamala."
"Also, I am far too busy campaigning to take time, from the 22 days left, as I am using every hour, of every day, campaigning, because we have to take back our Country from the Radical Left people that are destroying it," Trump wrote.
He went on to claim, "With all of the problems that she has, there is a real question as to whether or not she should be running for President! MY REPORT IS PERFECT - NO PROBLEMS!!!" | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/hope-hes-okay-harris-mocks-trump-over-town-hall-music-interlude-as-he-stonewalls-on-health-records/3574445/ | 2024-10-15T17:58:25Z |
The Astros’ Catching Gamble Paid Off in a Huge Way in 2024
The Houston Astros finally decided to give Yainer Diaz the full-time catcher gig in 2024. It's safe to say that move paid off in a big way.
In 2023, the Houston Astros finally decided to let their second-highest ranked prospect take over duties behind the plate and they haven’t looked back since.
Yainer Diaz has exploded onto the major league scene over the last two seasons and has proven himself to be among the league’s best catchers on both sides of the ball. The Astros rode Martín Maldonado’s strong arm for six of their seven consecutive ALCS appearances from 2018-2023. However, his lack of production at the plate needed glaring improvements.
Yainer Diaz Earned a Starting Gig With the Astros
It was obvious that Maldonado wasn’t going to cut it anymore behind the plate for Houston. He barely provided a bat at all, and it was eventually going to get to a point where his defensive value didn’t matter as much if he was a virtual black hole on offense.
Maldonado’s Struggles
Throughout his career, Maldonado has been a sub-par hitter, sporting a career triple-slash line of .207/.283/.349 to go with a measly 72 OPS+ through the end of the 2023 season. Yet the 36-year-old catcher would still start 116 games behind the plate for the Astros in 2023, largely due to his veteran presence and leadership on the field.
The statistical argument to keep Maldonado in the lineup day after day was questionable at best, though, as the 2023 campaign was by far his worst defensive season on record.
Maldonado started the majority of Houston’s games behind the dish while Díaz was relegated to a primary DH role; the rookie would only appear in 104 total games in 2023 and only saw the field in 68 of them. Despite the fielding metrics clearly indicating Maldonado’s struggles defensively, Houston would still trot him out to catch starters who had likely become more comfortable with pitching to him.
According to Baseball Savant, Maldonado’s Fielding Run Value in 2023, a metric that rates a player’s fielding skill on a run-based scale, was an appalling -16, ranking him in the first percentile league-wide. The only catcher he outranked in this statistic was Nationals backstop Keibert Ruiz, cementing the statistical downfall of La Machete, Maldonado’s affectionate nickname for his strong throwing arm.
La Machete‘s arm wasn’t even up to his career standard either in 2023, as he only threw out 16% of would-be base-stealers. His lowest qualified caught-stealing rate up to that point in his Astros tenure? Twice as effective at 32% a year prior.
While he may at one point have brought a daunting defensive presence to the field, Maldonado’s 2017 Gold Glove Award is far in the rearview mirror and his time was simply up in Houston. This was not all his fault, however, as Diaz had given the Astros plenty of reasons to play him everyday.
What does Yainer Diaz Bring to the Table?
Long story short? Everything Maldonado did not.
Diaz brought a bat-first approach to the position. In 2022 across stints at both the Double-A and Triple-A leves in Houston’s system, Diaz posted 25 home runs, 96 runs batted in, and posted a triple-slash that leaves Maldonado’s career numbers in the dust: .306/.356/.542. Diaz appeared in six MLB games in September that season, getting a taste of the level that he’d be spending the rest of his career at.
Diaz’s breakout year in 2023 sealed the deal that he’d get the starting job in 2024, meaning the Astros were moving on from their longtime backstop and he’d have to find a job elsewhere on the free agent market. Fortunately for Maldonado, or rather unfortunately, he found himself a one-year contract with the Chicago White Sox. The White Sox had a hilariously bad season in 2024 and Maldonado’s numbers echoed that, posting a cringe-inducing line of .119/.174/.230.
To add insult to injury, Diaz’s 16 home runs in 2024 equaled Maldonado’s entire hit total on the season over just 48 games in Chicago. In the last two seasons, Diaz has accumulated 5.6 WAR according to FanGraphs and sported a 122 OPS+, almost twice as good as Maldonado’s career mark.
He fell just short of an All-Star appearance in Texas this season, posting just a .717 OPS by the Midsummer Classic but he responded with one of his best stretches of the season, slashing .408/.426/.714 over his next 13 games in July.
Diaz was a threat all season long with the bat, ranking in the upper echelons league-wide in hard-hit percentage (47.5%), expected batting average (.300 and in the 96th percentile), and he ranked eighth in all of MLB in batting average at a .299 clip. The potential in Diaz’s bat is plain to see, and he’s definitely got more in the tank.
While Diaz’s bat is much better than Maldonado’s has ever been, Maldy’s game has always revolved around his aforementioned career-strong defense and his cannon of an arm. In 2023, Diaz’s average throw to second base was over 3 MPH faster than Maldonado’s, and was about 2 MPH faster in 2024 over a larger sample size. It’s safe to say that the young catcher’s just better defensively than the aging veteran.
In the 2024 postseason, Diaz didn’t necessarily dazzle, but he was one of just four Houston hitters to tally multiple hits in the Astros’ two game upset at the hands of the Detroit Tigers. In a season where he placed among their top-5 hitters in virtually every offensive statistic, the Astros may have suffered a defeat but they’ve shown that they’ll always be a threat.
Did Houston Make the Right Choice?
The short answer is a resounding yes, and the only grain of salt in their decision to give Diaz the starting role in 2024 is that they didn’t do it sooner. However, it’s also possible that Maldonado remained the starter in 2023 with the intent to teach and guide Diaz in a leadership role similar to the part he played throughout his Astros tenure.
As for Maldonado, the White Sox DFA’d him on July 17, bringing his season – and potentially his career – to an end. Maldonado’s tenure in Houston shouldn’t be looked back on with the slightest bit of chagrin, however, as he helped them win two World Series rings (2017 and 2022) in four World Series appearances (2017, 2019, 2021, 2022) over his time as an Astro.
Astros fans will surely remember him for being the on-field leader of their dynasty and for being La Machete, so if this is it for his career, he’s well-deserving of a tip of the cap from all. While he may have played a minimal statistical role in their dynasty, Maldonado was a solid backstop and played his role well.
Houston has capitalized on a diamond in the rough during their least successful season since 2016, a year in which they still made the playoffs. Whereas Astros fans might look upon this year as a lost one, especially in what might be Alex Bregman’s last season as an Astro, it’s safe to say their future is in good hands with young talent like Yainer Diaz. | https://www.justbaseball.com/mlb/astros-catching-gamble-yainer-diaz/ | 2024-10-15T17:58:26Z |
ADTRAN, Inc. ADTN recently announced that the U.K.-based telecommunication company Pulse Fibre has selected its cutting-edge 10Gbit/s XGS-PON fiber access platform to expand network connectivity across rural and urban landscapes in the country.
How ADTN Solutions Will Benefit Pulse Fibre?
Installing high-speed broadband infrastructure in rural areas is challenging and often unfeasible owing to a scattered population, high investment requirements, small market size and limited resources. However, ADTN’s SDX 6320 Series of software-defined optical line terminals address these issues effectively.
The energy-efficient and compact technology is likely to enable operators to install, operate and scale up their network in a cost-efficient manner. For residents, the network promises immediate connectivity to support remote work and smart home applications, while also aligning with sustainability objectives to reduce environmental impact and promote resource efficiency.
Additionally, ADTRAN’s software-defined optical line terminals are powered by the Mosaic Cloud Platform that brings added intelligence to the network. The platform will likely empower Pulse Fibre to efficiently control and manage its network operation and improve service delivery.
Access to broadband connectivity will support a wide range of services, from e-learning, remote work and telemedicine to high-definition streaming and facilitate the digital transformation of local businesses, ultimately enhancing profitability by shortening revenue cycles. It will also likely provide property developers with critical early-stage connectivity for essential systems, including electric vehicle chargers and security infrastructures.
Will ADTN Stock Benefit From the Deployment?
In today’s hyper-connected, fast-paced business environment, service providers need multi-gigabit ethernet services to support high bandwidth-intensive applications. ADTN’s next generation of multigigabit XGS-PON fiber access platform matches these requirements.
The solution aims to deliver Gigabit and multigigabit Internet services with symmetrical speeds of up to 10Gbit/s to more than 250,000 homes across both rural and urban landscapes in the United Kingdom. This initiative is poised to enhance the digital experience for Pulse Fibre’s customers and support economic growth and innovation in the communities served.
The collaboration is likely to propel ADTN stock on incremental revenue generation and inducement of similar deals from other carriers in the future.
ADTN’s Stock Price Performance
Shares of ADTRAN have lost 22.8% over the past year against the industry’s growth of 54.9%.
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ADTN’s Zacks Rank and Key Picks
ADTRAN currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
Some better-ranked stocks in the broader industry have been discussed below.
Ubiquiti Inc. UI sports a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) at present. Its highly flexible global business model remains apt to adapt to the changing market dynamics to overcome challenges while maximizing growth. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
Its excellent global business model, which is flexible and adaptable to evolving changes in markets, helps it to beat challenges and maximize growth. The company’s effective management of its strong global network of more than 100 distributors and master resellers improved UI’s visibility for future demand and inventory management techniques. In the last reported quarter, Ubiquiti delivered an earnings surprise of 4.19%.
Workday Inc. WDAY sports a Zacks Rank #1 at present. In the last reported quarter, it delivered an earnings surprise of 7.36%. WDAY is a leading provider of enterprise-level software solutions for financial management and human resource domains.
Ooma, Inc. OOMA currently carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). In the last reported quarter, it delivered an earnings surprise of 7.14%.
Ooma provides communications solutions and other connected services to small business, home and mobile users. The Company's products include Ooma Office for small businesses, Business Promoter, Ooma Telo for home, Ooma end-point devices, Ooma Premier Service for Telo, Talkatone Application as well as caller identification, call-waiting and voice mail services. Ooma, Inc. is based in Palo Alto, United States.
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iQibla to launch a series of next generation digital gadgets at Gitex Global 2024 kicking off in Dubai
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(MENAFN- Virtue mena) Dubai, UAE — 14 October 2024: iQibla, the UAE-based tech brand that develops Muslim-focused technology products, has made a groundbreaking appearance in the first day of Gitex Global Week, one of the largest and most prestigious technology exhibitions in the world being held until October 18 in Dubai.
iQibla is committed to enhancing the digital religious experience for Muslims with its core mission, ‘Technology for Faith’.
Since its inception, iQibla, has developed a series of technology products pertaining to prayers including the Zikr Ring series that garnered the trust of more than 3 million users globally.
From the Zikr Ring to the Quran Watch and Q Phone, iQibla’s comprehensive product lineup integrates technology into the everyday lives of Muslims, making faith more accessible and supported by modern tools.
“iQibla is participating at Gitex Global 2024 with its latest innovation, the Salat Counter, a revolutionary smart device designed to support Muslims in their daily prayers. Maintaining focus on Salat and tracking prayer times in today’s fast-paced world can be challenging, and iQibla has addressed this with the Salat Counter. Developed over two years and powered by 5.8G radar technology, this groundbreaking product combines technological advancement with religious practice, marking a significant leap in the development of Muslim tech products,” said Fatima Lyn, iQibla.
Equipped with four high-precision sensors, the Salat Counter captures prayer movements in real time to ensure accurate tracking of each Salat. Its smart wake-up feature senses the user’s preparatory movements, automatically activating the counter without manual input. The device seamlessly connects to the iQibla Life App, enabling users to monitor their daily prayer times, access their prayer history, and gain insights into their personal worship habits.
“Designed with convenience in mind, the Salat Counter boasts a remarkable battery life, capable of lasting up to two months on a single charge. By providing precise prayer tracking and personal insights, the Salat Counter enhances the spiritual lives of users with an unprecedented level of intelligence and ease,” added Fatima Lyn, iQibla.
In addition to enriching the religious experience of adults, iQibla is dedicated to the growth and education of children by introducing the Kid’s Qwatch, a smartwatch specifically designed to make faith education fun and engaging for Muslim children through innovative technology.
Kid’s Qwatch offers a comprehensive suite of faith-based educational tools. The watch features the Holy Quran learning module and a repetition feature to help children learn the Holy Quran in an interactive way. The device also includes a prayer reminder system that encourages children to pray on time, fostering good religious habits from an early age.
Additionally, Kid’s Qwatch teaches children the steps of prayer and ablution in an engaging format, enhancing learning outcomes. The smart Zikr feature helps children track their daily Zikr, allowing them to see their progress in their faith practice. For added peace of mind, the watch is equipped with 4G video calling and GPS tracking, enabling parents to stay connected with their children and ensure their safety.
“Visitors of Gitex can join us at Gitex Global 2024 until the 18th of October at the Dubai World Trade Center in Booth CC1-14, for an exciting journey where technology and faith come together in harmony. We promise them an experience to witness the debut of innovative products that will reshape the faith journey for Muslims around the world,” concluded Fatima Lyn.
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The diplomatic community, Filipino cultural identity and MSME-driven retail ingenuity all came together for one special, fashionable evening dubbed Diplomats For A Cause, held at the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Hotel on 8 October.
This charity gala and silent auction of Filipino artwork was spearheaded and presented by SHOM (Spouses of Head of Mission), alongside SM Retail’s Kultura, SM Fashion, AXCS and Fashion Forum, all available at the SM Store. Their partnership over the years has promoted grassroots welfare and supporting marginalized communities in the country is their latest collaboration.
The spectacular night of fashion for a cause brought foreign ambassadors, their spouses, heads of accredited international institutions in the Philippines and ranking diplomats with their families to the runway. It was a captivating showcase of Philippine fashion apparel and accessories, proudly worn by the foreign dignitaries.
SM Retail and Kultura welcomed this collaboration, as it provided an opportunity for their store items to be showcased to the diplomatic community. Moreover, it affirmed that Philippine-made pieces are globally relevant and possess universal, modern appeal.
AMBASSADOR Maria Alfonsa Magdalena of NetherlandsWith vulnerable women, children and persons with disabilities as the main beneficiaries of SHOM’s advocacy over the years, the partnership with the SM Group was a natural fit.
SM Retail and Kultura not only highlighted national cultural identity and homegrown fashion, but also provided strong support for local artisan communities and MSMEs, who form an integral part of Kultura’s regular supply chain. All pieces available in Kultura at SM Stores. | https://tribune.net.ph/2024/10/15/a-night-of-global-kultura | 2024-10-15T17:58:32Z |
Attention residents of the Northwest suburbs: A caracal that had recently been on the loose in a neighborhood has officially been captured, nearly 24 hours after officials warned residents of the exotic cat in the area.
The large cat -- a caracal -- was located Tuesday morning in Hoffman Estates under the deck of a residence, the police department said. Cell phone video moments after the capture showed at least six officers handling a large cage, with the caracal inside quickly jumping from side to side.
Video and photos from the aftermath shows the tan cat laying quietly in the large cage with a blanket draped over it, in the flatbed of a pickup truck.
"He's cute, isn't he?" a voice can be heard saying in the background.
The Hoffman Estates Police Department said officers assisted with the capture of the cat, which was then "taken into custody."
"The cat was hiding under a resident's deck and is unharmed," the update, posted to Facebook said. The update went on to say that employees of The Valley of the Kings Sanctuary and Retreat in Sharon, Wisconsin were headed to the scene to pick up the cat, "where we are sure he will have a healthy and happy life far away from Hoffman Estates."
According to the Village of Hoffman Estates, the caracal had recently been spotted in the area of Della Drive and the Hilldale Golf Course. The police department said it was "unknown" where the large cat came from.
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"The village is currently working with local and federal agencies for proper removal," a Monday Facebook post from the police department said, 20 hours before the capture. "We ask that you do not attempt to feed this animal."
Caracals are endangered species, and are native to Africa and Asia. They are not typically seen in the United States, according to the San Diego Zoo, though some individuals keep them as pets.
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Caracals on average weigh between 20-to-40 pounds, according to officials. They generally are nocturnal animals, preying upon small mammals and birds.
"If you come across this animal, please use caution," police continued in the Facebook post, which had garnered hundreds of comments. "If anyone knows the whereabouts or owner of this animal, please call 911." | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/caracal-captured-hoffman-estates-exotic-cat/3574425/ | 2024-10-15T17:58:32Z |
Ozempic predicted to drop Americans' calorie intake by 70 TRILLION by 2030
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Americans are expected to consume 70 trillion fewer calories in the next six years thanks to the rise of weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy.
By the end of 2030, the average US adult is expected to eat 100 to 800 fewer calories per year thanks to the drugs' hunger-busting effects.
The report, compiled by Impact Analytics, found this will result in a cumulative annual reduction of approximately 10 trillion to 68 trillion calories by 2030.
The research found that, since the drugs were approved for weight loss in 2021, sales of fresh produce in the US has spiked while junk food purchases are down.
Shares of Jell-O maker Kraft Heinz, Pringles maker Kellanova, and soda giant PepsiCo, which owns Frito-Lay, all hit record lows last year in a sign of the so-called 'Ozempic effect.'
An estimated six percent of American adults - around 18 million - currently take a medication that mimics that hormone that tells the brain you're full. Those drugs include Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound, and Mounjaro
An estimated 12 percent of American adults have tried one of these medications since their inception, and around six percent currently take them, around 18 million.
With the activated hormones that signal fullness, people on the drugs take in far less food than they would without them, leading to smaller portion sizes and less snacking.
The health and wellness industries, valued in the trillions, have flourished during this time as many Americans eagerly embrace healthier lifestyle choices.
In 2024, the average calorie intake is projected to be around 3,600 calories per person per day, a notable increase from the 2,800 calories recorded in the 1960. Forecasts suggest it could decrease to 2,800 calories by 2030.
By 2030, there could be a significant reduction in calorie intake across the entire adult population thanks to the explosive popularity of weight loss medications
But experts project fast food and junk food companies will see declines in sales and profits, and food manufacturers are increasingly concerned about the rise of weight loss drugs’ impact on their bottom line.
According to the report, sales in healthy food categories such as fresh and frozen vegetables have increased around five to nine percent annually from 2022 to 2024.
The Impact Analytics report notes the declining consumption of sugary drinks, increased mindful eating, a surge of fitness and nutrition app usage, and social media's strong influence on promoting healthy eating trends.
There has also been a wave of enthusiasm for wellness, with consumers more educated than ever about the various health risks of eating too much ultra-processed food as well as a growing number of private labels with low-calorie and plant-based offerings.
Demand for fresh produce is up, with a 12.4 percent increase in fresh fruit sales and a 9.2 percent increase in vegetables.
A survey conducted by Morgan Stanley found 73 percent of people ate less confectionary foods, which includes sugary candy, chocolate and some baked goods
Because of the massive shift in food consumption, the authors predict grocery stores will have to adjust by increasing regular supplies of health foods and allowing for more shelf space for healthy foods.
Impact Analytics CEO Prashant Agrawal told USA TODAY: ‘We're moving from the sugary foods, processed foods to more healthy foods.
‘GLP is a cause of it. There's also the fact that people are more worried about ultra-processed foods.’
The report’s authors said: ‘As more people adopt healthier eating habits and use GLP-1 drugs, demand for high-calorie, processed foods is expected to decrease significantly by 2030.
‘Sugary snacks, carbonated soft drinks, fast food, frozen meals, Consumer Behavior: and other high-calorie, low-nutrition products are likely to see declining sales.’
The investment bank Morgan Stanley predicted the number of people drinking sodas and alcohol and eating salty snacks will fall four percent by 2035, forcing manufacturers to either reformulate or risk being squeezed out of the market.
Major players in the fast food industry, such as McDonald's, Burger King and Yum Brands, which owns KFC and Taco Bell, could see falling demand
Last year, the CEO of global snacking company Kellanova, which owns brands like Cheez-It, Pringles, and Rice Krispies Treats, told Bloomberg: ‘Like everything that potentially impacts our business, we’ll look at it, study it, and, if necessary, mitigate.’
One day later, investment firm Barclays predicted the impact that the advent of the drugs would have on companies including Pepsi Co., which makes sodas, Cheetos and Doritos, McDonald’s Corp., and Altria Group Inc., the cigarette maker.
The firm suggested these companies buy insurance to protect themselves against potential financial losses, with strategists saying: ‘The impacts of GLP-1s potentially introduce disruption into a number of industries.’ | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13962481/ozempic-decrease-americans-calorie-intake-2030.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2024-10-15T17:58:32Z |
Four Player Option Decisions To Watch for When Free Agency Begins
These four players could join the free agent pool this winter if they choose to opt out of their current contracts.
It is never too early to start thinking about the offseason. With four teams left in the hunt for a World Series championship, the remaining 26 clubs are slowly turning their attention to free agency.
Shohei Ohtani dominated the free agent class last winter, and Juan Soto will be the leading player this offseason, followed by the likes of Corbin Burnes, Alex Bregman, Max Fried, and Pete Alonso.
The 2024-25 class could become more potent depending on a few key opt-out/player option decisions, as a few more intriguing names could hit the free agent market if they so choose.
*All option values via Spotrac*
Blake Snell – LHP
Player option for 2025 season: $30 million
One of the most intriguing arms in free agency last winter was southpaw Blake Snell, who inked a two-year deal with the San Francisco Giants and put himself in a position to hit the open market once again this winter.
A Scott Boras client, Snell did not put pen to paper until mid-March. He seemed to be in line for a long-term deal, although one never came to fruition.
When healthy, Snell was dominant for the Giants in 2024, posting a 3.12 ERA through 20 starts and 104 innings. He authored a 12.6 K/9 – his single-season career high – and held opponents to a .174 average and a .526 OPS with a 1.05 WHIP.
The two-time Cy Young winner tossed a no-hitter against the Cincinnati Reds in August, the first complete game of his career. He allowed three or fewer runs in all but three of his outings this season.
It hasn’t all been smooth sailing for Snell in the Bay Area. An adductor strain made him miss just under a month in late April/early May, and a groin strain put him on the shelf for a few weeks in late June. He made his fewest starts since his debut campaign in 2016 (excluding the COVID-19 shortened campaign).
All signs point to Snell exercising his player option and testing free agency again this winter, in hopes of finding the lucrative long-term payday that escaped him last winter.
Snell should ink another solid return in free agency, but there is some reason for teams to be cautious regarding his long-term health after the late start to the 2024 season led to some injury troubles.
Cody Bellinger – 1B/OF
Opt-out after the 2024 season: Two years, $52.5 million remaining (with a player option following the 2025 season)
Another Scott Boras client looking to cash in this past winter, outfielder Cody Bellinger found himself heading back to the Chicago Cubs after a resurgent 2023 season in the NL Central helped boost his stock.
The former NL Rookie of the Year and MVP Award winner found a fresh start with the Cubs after six seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers and put forth a .307/.356/.525 slash line. He seemed to have set himself up for a nice payday amidst a weak outfield free agent class, only to return to Chicago on a three-year deal.
With an opt-out at his disposal this winter and an option after next season, Bellinger can take a few different routes depending on when he wants to test the open market again. This year, the lefty batter has authored a respectable .266/.325/.426 slash line with a .751 OPS, but that is a far cry from the numbers he put up last season.
His 2.2 bWAR was well behind the 4.4 figure he put up during his first season with the Cubs, and he finished below the 50th percentile in numerous offensive categories on Baseball Savant outside of squared-up rate (89th), strikeout rate (85th), and whiff rate (65th).
A left middle finger fracture and a right rib fracture saw Bellinger hit the sidelines a couple of times this past summer as well.
Going against Bellinger as well is a more potent free agent class this winter, which would have him going against the likes of Soto, Anthony Santander, and a handful of other talented outfielders looking for new deals.
Bellinger has reportedly not decided whether or not he will opt out of his current deal, but he will have some time ahead of him to make a decision. The odds seem more geared toward him staying in Chicago considering the $52 million he is guaranteed over the next two seasons, but stranger things have happened.
Sean Manaea – LHP
Player option for 2025 season: $13.5 million
One of the primary reasons the Mets have made it to the NLCS is the resurgence of LHP Sean Manaea, who signed a two-year deal with the club after opting out of his deal with the San Francisco Giants last winter. The 32-year-old has been one of the go-to arms for manager Carlos Mendoza in a surprisingly strong New York rotation.
Manaea found a home in the Mets rotation, putting up career numbers during the regular season. He finished with a 3.47 ERA after 32 starts and put up a new career high in innings pitched.
He also produced a 1.08 WHIP, 9.12 K/9 and 6.64 H/9. The Mets won 23 of his 32 starts.
This one is a bit of a no-brainer unless Manaea decides he wants to stay in New York on a discounted deal. The expectation is that the Indiana product will decline his player option and test free agency again this winter.
Robbie Ray – LHP
Opt-out after 2024 season: Two years, $50 million remaining
It was just three years ago that Robbie Ray took home the AL Cy Young Award, putting up a dominant 2.84 ERA through 193 1/3 innings with the Toronto Blue Jays.
He turned that campaign into a five-year, $115 million contract with the Seattle Mariners, but since 2022, the left-hander has made just 40 starts due to Tommy John surgery that sidelined him for all of the 2023 campaign and a good portion of the 2024 season.
Now in San Francisco after an offseason trade down the coastline, Ray made just seven starts this year for the Giants before landing on the IL with a left hamstring strain in late August, which kept him on the sidelines for the rest of the campaign. Through 30 2/3 innings, Ray produced a 4.70 ERA with 16 earned runs allowed and 43 strikeouts.
It would be surprising to see Ray leave $50 million on the table after overcoming elbow surgery, but again, stranger things have happened.
He likely won’t find a better deal on the open market compared to what he currently has, and if he can stay healthy next season, he has a better chance to set himself back on track for another lucrative payday in two years compared to this winter – especially if he can find his 2021 form sooner than later. | https://www.justbaseball.com/mlb/four-player-options-watch-free-agency-begins/ | 2024-10-15T17:58:32Z |
Attention, American men: Donald Trump and his allies want you to believe your vote says big things about your masculinity.
In the final weeks before the Nov. 5 election, the Republican nominee is amping up his hypermasculine tone and support of traditional gender roles, a reflection of the surgical campaign-within-a-campaign for the votes of men in a showdown with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. But where Harris is deploying "dudes" who use bro-ey language and occasional scolding to boost her support particularly among Black and Hispanic males, Trump's camp is meeting men in alpha-male terms, often with crude and demeaning language. That means he appears on podcasts, gaming platforms, and alongside surrogates who define American manliness as a vote for the former Republican president.
“If you are a man in this country and you don’t vote for Donald Trump, you’re not a man,” Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk said on his podcast.
Subtle, it's not. But the razor's edge contest between Trump and Harris elevates the importance of small caches of voters who are apathetic or on the fence in the battleground states poised to decide the election. So in a twist on gender and identity politics, both camps are reaching out beyond their ideological bases.
"You're thinking about sitting out or supporting somebody who has a history of denigrating you, because you think that's a sign of strength, because that's what being a man is?" former President Barack Obama scolded Black men last week in Pennsylvania, the largest battleground state. "That's not acceptable."
The polls and history tell the story of the candidates' pursuit of support from men. Trump, who has a long history of denigrating women and bragging about the size of his body parts, won among men in 2016, when he defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton and in 2020, when he lost to President Joe Biden.
This year, men appear to be leaning toward Trump and women toward Harris, though the size of the gap varies across polls.
The nation has an unbroken list of male presidents, who have been presented as father figures, role models and archetypes of American masculinity. Their ranks have included military heroes, including George Washington and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Lawmakers such as Abraham Lincoln, Obama and Biden. A son of the South, Bill Clinton. An actor-turned-governor in Ronald Reagan. And scions like John F. Kennedy and George W. Bush — a Texas rancher.
Then there's Trump, the New York developer and entertainer whose political fortunes have survived a troubled presidential term, 34 felony convictions, a jury verdict finding him liable for sexual assault and two assassination attempts. He rose from a shooting in July, blood-splattered and fist raised, yelling, "Fight, fight, fight!"
He's taking a paternalistic approach as part of a strategy that his campaign hopes could help him not just among men, but also among suburban women who might hesitate supporting him. Trump has long aimed misogyny at women who challenge him.
“I think women like me because I will be your protector,” he told supporters in Aurora, Colorado, on Friday, in remarks about illegal immigration. “The women want protection. They don’t want these people pouring in.”
Last week, Trump called radio host Howard Stern, whose audience is overwhelmingly male, a "BETA MALE" on Truth Social. He recently suggested a female protester at one event should "go back home to Mommy" to "get the hell knocked out of her." His spokesperson, Steven Cheung, tweeted ridicule of Harris' campaign using a sexualized slang term — "cucked" — as apparent shorthand for weakness and submission.
He often muses on stage about his advisers counseling him to change so he would better appeal to women — but then dismisses their advice.
Trump is employing a strategy that has roots in the late 1960s and 1970s, when Republicans realized that framing their opponents as soft and feminine could win them appeal among white working-class men, according to Jackson Katz, an author and the creator of the film “The Man Card: 50 Years of Gender, Power & the American Presidency.”
By positioning Trump as a masculine hero, the campaign has crafted a story, Katz said. “It really is like a soap opera for men.”
In a series of twists on the ever-present gender gap and identity politics, young women are growing more liberal, but young men are not. Most Hispanic women view Harris favorably, but Hispanic men are more divided on her. Alarm bells sounded in Democratic ranks last weekend over concerns about Harris' support among Black men. And some young men feel culturally disaffected in the age of MeToo and Black Lives Matter.
In the election's closing weeks, those dynamics could spell opportunity for the campaigns as they seek to carve more support from whisper-thin slices of the electorate that have yet to choose a side.
“There does seem to be a battle in this campaign to define masculinity,” Jack Z. Bratich, a communications professor at Rutgers University, wrote in an email. Trump, he said, is “harnessing their insecurities and resentments so they feel empowered to vote for him as a way of restoring patriarchal order.”
Harris has unveiled a plan to give Black men more economic incentives and opportunities to thrive. She's sitting for a town hall Tuesday with Charlamagne Tha God, an influential radio host. And vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, fresh off pheasant hunting with reporters in tow and talking football, unveiled an effort to improve the lives of rural voters. She wants you to know that she owns a Glock and that her favorite curse word, as she once said, starts with an "m" and ends with "ah." (After letting out a trademark chuckle, she clarified further: "Not 'e-r.'")
Harris also announced that she'll step outside her ideological comfort zone for her first interview on Fox News. That was enough to activate Trump.
“Fox has grown so weak and soft on the Democrats,” he groused on Truth Social, his social media platform. For his part, Trump is also appearing on Fox News this week in an all-female town hall.
In a sign of how important the votes of men are to Harris' campaign as well: Men are appealing to men to support her. Hence the birth of “Dudes for Harris,” "Hombres con Harris" and Black Men Huddle Up” events in battleground states.
“What the hell are you waiting for?” demanded gravelly voiced actor Sam Elliott in an ad by the anti-Trump Lincoln Project. “Because if it's the woman thing, it's time to get over that.”
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Kellman reported from London. Associated Press writer Ali Swenson contributed to this report from New York.
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Metric5 CEO has just been recognized as being among OrangeSlices’ National Security Honorees
WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, October 15, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As we enter a pivotal year for the federal landscape, we are thrilled to announce that Metric5 CEO, Abu Malik, has been included in the 2025 Engage National Security 100 Honorees. Assembled by OrangeSlices AI, this exclusive list includes leaders in IT and consulting, from both industry and government, who are set to spearhead innovation. With a new Administration on the horizon, this esteemed group of technology and business consulting professionals is ready to propel the critical missions of National Security agencies forward. The nomination process was incredibly competitive, with hundreds of entries evaluated. Each honoree was nominated and selected by their peers, celebrating their outstanding contributions to the field.
Across the Federal sector, there is constant talk of breaking down silos, promoting transparency, and fostering collaboration. But these leaders aren’t just talking the talk; they are living it. They are setting a powerful example of what it means to lead with purpose, inspiring their teams and peers to do the same. Their selfless commitment to improving how government and industry collaborate is reshaping the way we work together—not for personal gain, but for the betterment of the entire industry. “It is humbling to be included with so many transformational leaders who make such an impactful difference in the lives of employees and customers everyday” said Malik, “That’s what we strive to do at Metric5 and inclusion on this list validates our focus is right where it should be.”
Metric5 is proud to be honored by OrangeSlices AI, who notes that, “As we continue our mission to highlight leaders #doingitright, we are thrilled to celebrate these innovators who embrace bold strategies and forward-thinking approaches. They are driving a culture shift that prioritizes open communication, transparency, and collaboration within and between the Federal government and its industry partners, particularly across the National Security sector, including DHS, State and related agencies. The 2025 honorees stand out not only for their leadership but for their commitment to creating a more collaborative future, ultimately delivering real, measurable impact for U.S. citizens, business leaders, educators, seniors, caregivers, families, and children.”
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The official announcement is available here.
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(MENAFN- IANS) Mumbai, Oct 15 (IANS) A total of 9.63 crore voters comprising 4.97 crore males and 4.66 crore females will participate in the biggest festival of democracy to cast their votes in the election to the 288 Assembly constituencies slated for November 20.
The polling will take place in a single phase at 1,00,186 polling stations situated at 52,789 locations across the state while the counting will take place on November 23.
ECI's poll schedule announcement is crucial as the term of the present Maharashtra Legislative Assembly ends on November 26.
Of the 1,00,186 polling stations, 42,604 will be from urban and 57,582 from rural areas with the average voter per polling station to be 960.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has expressed concern over voters' apathy during polling terming the phenomenon as 'a democratic deficit in making'.
ECI's view is crucial as there were 18 assembly constituencies in Maharashtra including six from Thane, Mumbai City 4, Mumbai Suburbs 2, Pune 5 and Raigad 1 which had witnessed below 50 per cent voter turnout in the Lok Sabha elections.
During the 2019 assembly elections, 62 of 64 urban assembly constituencies had below the state average of 60.56 per cent voting. Of these Colaba assembly constituency, which has a mixed population residing in high-rise buildings, slums and chawls, had recorded a paltry 40.1 per cent voting while in rural assembly constituencies, Jalgaon had 45.4 per cent, Bhusawal 48.9 per cent and Nallasopara 51.8 per cent.
The ECI had asked the state Chief Electoral officer to step up efforts to increase the voters' turnout in the coming assembly election.
Further, the CEC Rajiv Kumar during press conference also declared that the ECI has given strict instructions to the BrihanMumbai Municipal Commissioner to make every effort to increase voter turnout in Greater Mumbai which comprises 36 constituencies.
“Keeping in mind the past experience, we have been asked to keep chairs and benches at a short distance at the polling stations so that if there is a queue at the polling booths, the elderly people can sit in the queue. This will be implemented in the city on the polling day,” he added.
The CEC further stated that candidates with criminal backgrounds will have to furnish their background thrice in the newspaper.
“When we held meetings in Maharashtra, we gave strict instructions in this regard to the state chief electoral officer and other authorities,” he added.
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DAVAO City — Young players from all over Mindanao converge at the Tionko Football ground for the two-day Aboitiz Football Cup, the first time in 24 years that the tournament in going to be played in the city.
Scheduled 26 and 27 October, the bootfest is being hosted by Aboitiz InfraCapital and Apo Agua Infrastructura Inc., Aboitiz Foundation Inc., Davao-South Regional Football Association, Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines Inc., and RSA 1 Sports Group.
It is also backed by the Davao-based Aboitiz Power Davao Light and Power Corporation, Therma South Inc. and Hedcor.
“We are excited to host a leg of the country’s longest-running grassroots football league here in Davao City which has always had a special place for the Aboitiz Group,” said Fermin Edillon, Head of Reputation, Davao Light Aboitiz Foundation Inc.
Edillon was joined by Cloyed Masauding, Reputation Management Manager of Apo Agua and Davao South Regional Football Association president Ernie Ortonio Jr.
Cloyd Masauding, Reputation Management manager of Apo Agua also added that the two-day event will feature the “Tapon to Ipon Basta Klaro, Panalo” promo which participants and spectators may have a chance to win products from Coca-Cola.
“All they have to do is exchange 12 pieces of clear PET bottles for a Coca-Cola product during the two-day tournament. Kids and parents are welcomed to join,” Maudiing said.
The tournament, which will be under the supervision of the Davao South Regional Football Association, will have U-18 to U-8 years-old mixed divisions along with Men’s Open and the Women’s Open.
Winners of the Davao Leg, which is the second after Cebu City, will then proceed to the all Championship Finals set next year. | https://tribune.net.ph/2024/10/15/aboitiz-cup-returns-to-davao-after-24-years | 2024-10-15T17:58:38Z |
Did you buy a Lucky Day Lotto ticket in Chicago this past year? If so, you might be sitting on unclaimed money — a jackpot worth $250,000 — but time is running out to come forward.
According to the Illinois Lottery, a winning Lucky Day Lotto ticket from 2023 worth $250,000 remains unclaimed. The ticket, purchased at Fairplay Finer Foods, located at 2200 South Western Avenue in Chicago, was sold as part of the game's Oct. 29, 2023 drawing, officials said.
Now, the lucky winner has less than two weeks left to claim their prize.
"If you think you purchased a Lucky Day Lotto ticket for last year’s October 29 drawing, now is the time to check under your sofa cushions, in old coat pockets, or any other spots where a year-old lottery ticket might be tucked away," a press release from the Illinois Lottery said.
According to the Illinois Lottery, winners have 364 days from the original drawing date to claim their prize, which means the expiration date for the Oct. 29 ticket is quickly approaching.
But its not the only unclaimed Lucky Day Lotto ticket out there.
The $250,000 Oct. 29, 2023 ticket is one of seven Illinois Lottery prizes that remains unclaimed, officials said, with winnings ranging from $100,000 to $1.1 million.
Now's the time to search in every nook and cranny: here's the full list of unclaimed Illinois Lottery tickets, including where and when they were sold and how much they're worth, according to officials.
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Arizona Fall League Notes: Phillies Top Prospect Andrew Painter Returns After Nearly Two Years Off
A top pitching prospect in Minor League Baseball made his return to a mound, while a catching wunderkind is off to a hot start with the bat.
The first installment of our 2024 Arizona Fall League notes starts off with a bang, as Just Baseball’s No. 2 pitching prospect Andrew Painter made his return to the mound in game action for the first time in nearly 600 days. Painter grabs the headline for obvious reasons, but it was a fun weekend of baseball in the desert with plenty of exciting takeaways.
Andrew Painter’s Return
The Phillies’ top prospect had not made a pitching appearance in a game setting since Spring Training of the 2023 season due to Tommy John surgery. The stat line (2.0 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 2 K) was far from the priority, as the 21-year-old shook off nearly two years of rust. As it pertains to the sheer stuff, he looked a lot like the guy who took the minor leagues by storm in 2022.
He didn’t throw a fastball below 97 MPH and ran it up to triple digits in his two innings of work. Some of the rust showed in terms of location, leaving several secondary pitches elevated and spraying the fastball a little bit. All in all, Painter threw 29 pitches, 18 for strikes, and averaged 98.3 MPH with his four-seamer. Impressively, seven of his 10 sliders landed for strikes. We will likely see Painter a few more times this AFL season, with the expectation being for him to toss around 20 innings.
Career Day for Josue Briceño
Tigers C/1B prospect Josue Briceño was a breakout candidate entering the season, showing well in limited action in Low-A before a knee issue sidelined him for the majority of the year. The newly-turned 20-year-old posted a 123 wRC+ in his 40 games as a Flying Tiger, but was challenged at points to get the ball in the air consistently, limiting his home run output to just two. He eclipsed that total in a matter of four pitches on Sunday, with the first big swing coming off of Painter.
The first swing was on a 1-0 changeup, perhaps a bit up, but still located on the edge of the bottom away quadrant for Briceño. Yet the 6-foot-4 left-handed hitter was able to pull it 446 feet to right center field. The very next at-bat, Briceño ambushed a Trent Baker first pitch fastball and hit it out to straight away right field. In Briceño’s third at bat, Peyton Pallette hung a first pitch changeup that the Tigers prospect was simply too locked in to not punish him for. 444 feet later, Briceño had not only the first multi-homer game of his professional career, but now the first three-homer game as well.
An interesting wrinkle in the Briceño situation is the defensive side of things. In my preseason report on Briceño, I couldn’t help but speculate that a move to first base would be inevitable as he simply has seemed to physically outgrow the position. When returned from a knee issue that sidelined him more than three months, Briceño only played first base and DH for Low-A Lakeland, and it has been more of the same in the early going of the AFL season.
A move to first may allow for Briceño to really get his legs back under him as a hitter, especially considering how active his lower half is in his swing. The first base and DH reps may just be precautionary until next season, but with the presence of Thayron Liranzo and a relatively serious knee issue sidelining the towering 20-year-old, it’s worth wondering if the catcher experiment may just naturally have a shorter shelf life in the hopes that the bat can climb the ranks quickly.
After all, Briceño boasts plus power potential, an advanced feel for the strike zone, and above average contact rates. His solid 40 Low-A games and red-hot start to the AFL season could mean the breakout is just coming one year later than scheduled.
Zyhir Hope Flashes his Special Upside
Probably the bat I was most excited to see out in Arizona, Hope’s outrageous batted ball data, smooth mechanics, and advanced approach earned him a spot within Just Baseball’s top 50 prospects despite missing a large chunk of the Low-A season.
It’s hard to find a 19-year-old prospect with such explosive athleticism also possess such refined swing mechanics. He is able to generate ridiculous impact with so little effort, making it easier to consistently get his best swing off, exemplified by his average exit velocity of 92 MPH and strong numbers against lefties. Hope is an easy plus runner, and the Dodgers are getting him more reps in center field after playing nearly all of his games in the corners last season. It will be interesting to see if Hope’s additional looks in center field mean more time up the middle in 2025.
Moises Ballesteros Makes Hitting Look Easy
When it comes to the bat, you’re not going to find any reasonable Ballesteros detractors, and I’d assume the Cubs had little doubt that the 20-year-old would do anything other than hit in the AFL after he posted a 127 wRC+ between Double-A and Triple-A. He crushed a home run to the pull side that left the yard at 111 MPH, but he flexed his hitting muscles with his 2-2 swing on a back door slider that he shot through the left side for a two-run single as well.
The big question with Ballesteros is his defense behind the dish, which is the primary focus for him this off-season with the bat knocking on the door of the big leagues and the glove still being questionable. Overall, his receiving has definitely improved. I didn’t see a ton of blocking opportunities, which is a major area of concern in addition to his ability to limit the run game. There’s unfortunately no fallback defensively, as he would be the shortest first baseman in MLB history.
All that said, he will still find his way way inside our next top 100 list because of the tantalizing floor/ceiling combination of the bat. He is hitting the ball as hard as ever, with his only two batted balls north of 110 MPH coming in the young AFL season.
Ethan Salas Off to a Hot Start
In 111 regular season games at High-A, Salas had just four games with multiple extra base hits. Through his first five AFL contests, he has already enjoyed two multi-double performances with three of the doubles going to the opposite field.
Through the 18-year-old’s struggles in High-A, he had the tendency to spin off the ball, resulting in an elevated pull-rate and too many rollovers. When he maintains his direction and uses the whole field, the natural talent Salas possesses really stands out, and in the early going of the Fall League, there have been more flashes of that talent.
Defensively, his catch and throw skills particularly stood out. He threw out 28% of base stealers in 2024, and it was easy to see how between his quickness and arm strength. The blocking needs to continue to come along, as does the bat, but the immense upside the Padres teenage prospect possesses has definitely shined through in the early going. | https://www.justbaseball.com/prospects/arizona-fall-league-notes-phillies-top-prospect-andrew-painter-returns-after-nearly-two-years-off/ | 2024-10-15T17:58:38Z |
Victoria's Secret fashion show makes a triumphant return to the runway tonight with a woke rebrand - after it was cancelled following 'culture of misogyny' 'unhealthy models'
- Ed Razek made controversial comments about plus-size and trans models
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When the pink carpet is rolled out, stunning models are wearing lacy lingerie and chart-topping singers come together for an evening it can mean only one thing - the Victoria's Secret fashion show is back in town.
The American underwear brand made its runway debut in 1995, with Tyra Banks taking to the stage wearing the first set of angel wings three years later.
Ed Razek, former chief marketing officer of VS's parent company, L Brands, once described the catwalk show as a 'fantasy', excluding transgender and plus-size models from the '42-minute entertainment special'.
But his controversial statement got the brand in trouble, and led to them cancelling the show in 2019 - the same year he made the comments and resigned - due to uproar and poor ratings.
So they mixed things up and leaned into promoting diversity by including larger models Paloma Elsesser and Ali Tate-Cutler in their campaigns.
Models walk the Victoria's Secret fashion show in 2018 and now the brand is back with another show in 2024 after a break
They also hired Valentina Sampaio, their first transgender model, to star in their new VS Pink campaign after Razek left.
This year, Cher will be performing live onstage alongside the models in New York this evening.
Plus size model Ashley Graham will join Paloma Elsesser to promote body diversity on the catwalk, alongside former VS models Adriana Lima, Taylor Hill, Gigi Hadid and Barbara Palvin.
But can the brand distance themselves from its ties to Jeffrey Epstein, alleged misogyny and some ex-models claiming it promotes unhealthy body types?
'Culture of misogyny'
Bagging the title of Victoria's Secret angel seemed to carry many perks, one of them becoming an international star not just in the fashion industry, but beyond.
However, interviews with current and former employees of the company allege that ex-top executive Ed Razek, 76, was unprofessional on several occasions.
Razek, who was one of the top executives at L Brands, the parent company of VS, had claims of sexual assault made against him.
According to the New York Times, he attempted to kiss models, asked them to sit on his lap and touched one's crotch before the 2018 runway show.
Andi Muise claimed the brand had stopped hiring her to model at fashion shows after she rejected Razek's advances.
Aged 19, she was invited to a dinner with him. Muise was picked up in a chauffeured car and said Razek attempted to kiss on the way to the restaurant.
The newspaper said it saw emails exchanged between the pair, in which he suggested she move into his home in Turks and Caicos.
Casey Crowe Taylor, a former public relations employee at Victoria's Secret, said she had witnessed Razek's behaviour.
Andi Muise claimed the brand had stopped hiring her to model at fashion shows after she rejected Razek's advances
However, interviews with current and former employees of the company allege that ex-top executive Ed Razek, 76, (pictured) was unprofessional on several occasions
She told the outlet: 'This abuse was just laughed off and accepted as normal. It was almost like brainwashing.
'And anyone who tried to do anything about it wasn't just ignored. They were punished.'
At a fashion shoot in 2015, she claimed Razek looked her up and down when she went to get seconds during a company buffet lunch.
Crowe Taylor - who was 5ft 10in and weighed 10 stone - then said she was 'berated' about her weight and said that Razek told her to lay off the pasta and bread.
Although she complained to HR about the interaction, she said that as far as she was aware, no action was taken, leading to her resignation.
Employees also said Les Wexner, Victoria's Secret 87-year-old billionaire chief executive, mocked the retail industry's efforts to embrace a variety of body types by allegedly saying, 'Nobody goes to a plastic surgeon and says, 'Make me fat.'
Alyssa Miller, who occasionally modelled for the lingerie company, said Razek 'exuded toxic masculinity.'
Ed Razek allegedly said that Bella Hadid had 'perfect titties' during a fitting in 2018 (pictured on the catwalk in 2018)
During a fitting in 2018, Bella Hadid was being measured for underwear that would be appropriate to air on television ahead of the runway show.
Workers who were there at the time claimed Razek was sat watching the fitting and said 'Forget the panties,' adding that the bigger question was whether broadcasting standards would allow Hadid to walk 'down the runway with those perfect titties'.
Razek released this statement at the time and declined to respond to specific allegations: 'The accusations in this reporting are categorically untrue, misconstrued or taken out of context.
'I've been fortunate to work with countless, world-class models and gifted professionals and take great pride in the mutual respect we have for each other.'
Ties to Epstein
During the 90s, Jeffrey Epstein was an adviser to Wexner, posing as a recruiter to access young models, according to a New York Times exposé.
Insurance executive Robert Meister introduced Wexner to Epstein in the 80s, with the newspaper stating that the VS boss 'authorized him to borrow money on his behalf, to sign his tax returns, to hire people and to make acquisitions'.
In 1997, Alicia Arden, then 27 years old, was invited into a hotel room by Epstein where she thought they would be discussing the Victoria's Secret catalogue.
But she told the documentary, Victoria's Secret: Angels and Demons, that the disgraced businessman grabbed and attempted to undress her.
During the 90s, Jeffrey Epstein was an adviser to Wexner, posing as a recruiter to access young models according to a New York Times exposé
Les Wexner and Ed Razek (R) pose backstage in 2016 in New York City
A year prior, Maria Farmer was working on an art project for Epstein in Wexner's mansion in Ohio.
Epstein sexually assaulted her while she was at the house, according to an affidavit she filed in federal court.
Farmer said she left the room and called the authorities, but claimed Wexner's security staff 'refused to let her leave for 12 hours'.
Wexner stepped down from his role at Victoria's Secret in 2020, a year after Epstein died in his New York prison cell while waiting for his trial on sex trafficking charges.
At the time, Wexner's attorney issued the following statement: 'The issue of Epstein claiming an association with Victoria's Secret was raised on one occasion with Mr. Wexner.
'He confronted Epstein and was clear that it was a violation of Company policy for him to suggest that he was associated in any way with Victoria's Secret and that Epstein was forbidden from ever doing so again. Epstein denied having done so.'
'Unhealthy' models
Ed Razek made controversial comments about plus-size and transgender models in an interview with Vogue in 2019.
'If you're asking if we've considered putting a transgender model in the show or looked at putting a plus-size model in the show, we have,' he said.
But Razek was then asked: 'Shouldn't you have transsexuals in the show?' To which he then said: 'No. No, I don't think we should.
'The show is a fantasy. It's a 42-minute entertainment special. That's what it is.
'It is the only one of its kind in the world, and any other fashion brand in the world would take it in a minute, including the competitors that are carping at us. And they carp at us because we're the leader.
Bridget Malcolm (pictured in 2015) accused Victoria's Secret of promoting unhealthy body types ahead of their show in 2018
In 2012 Adriana Lima (pictured in 2013) revealed she'd been on a liquid-only diet for nine days pre-show to help shed her baby weight
'We attempted to do a television special for plus sizes [in 2000]. No one had any interest in it. Still don't.'
These comments led to Razek stepping down from his position as chief marketing officer of VS's parent company and there has not been a fashion show since - until now.
Following the backlash, Victoria's Secret released a statement from Razek on X, which read: 'To be clear, we absolutely would cast a transgender model in our show. We've had transgender models come to castings... And like many others, they didn't make it.
'It was never about gender,' he added.
Bridget Malcolm accused Victoria's Secret of promoting unhealthy body types ahead of their show in 2018.
Malcolm, who modelled for the brand twice in 2015 and 2016, said models are often 'rewarded with high-profile work' for 'starving' themselves.
She claims VS pushes unattainable beauty standards, which ultimately sends the wrong message to young girls that 'to be beautiful is to be extremely underweight.'
Malcolm wrote: 'Thinking back on my time in that space, I am always struck by how sick I was. I was completely fooling myself into believing that I was healthy, fit and an honest representation of a woman.
'The fact that I was rewarded with high-profile work because I had starved myself so effectively leaves me feeling extremely uncomfortable.
'I have seen too many of my friends rewarded for the same life-threatening behaviour, and penalised when they have dared to turn up to a casting an inch larger.'
Victoria's Secret requires all its Angels to be 5ft 9in tall and have 24in waists, wrote the Mail on Sunday in 2015.
VS creative director Sophia Neophitou-Apostolou claimed: 'It's like being an Olympian – they have to be in peak condition.'
The company also hired Valentina Sampaio (pictured), their first transgender model, to star in their new VS Pink campaign after Razek left
Victoria's Secret mixed things up after the controversy by hiring plus size models for their campaign, such as Paloma Elsesser
One of her Angels, Alessandra Ambrosio, admitted: 'You work out as an athlete. All your mind, all your everything goes into it.'
In 2012 Adriana Lima revealed she'd been on a liquid-only diet for nine days pre-show to help shed her baby weight.
This led to a mini-uproar that led to Lima having to issue a warning to girls not to follow her example.
Lima also revealed that 12 hours before a show, she'd have 'no liquids at all so you dry out; sometimes you can lose up to eight pounds just from that'.
Model Robyn Lawley who has appeared in Sports Illustrated and on the covers of Vogue Italia and Australia said she went to a Victoria's Secret casting call in 2012.
She wasn't hired and told the Guardian: 'It's a running joke that they see curvier girls every year and never cast them.
'This whole starvation-camp situation before you have to walk that catwalk is ridiculous. Some of them are my friends on that stage; I'm not pulling them apart.
'But they have to put their bodies to such extremes once they cast the show, they couldn't maintain that kind of lifestyle or they'd die.'
Former Victoria's Secret Angels Jasmine Tookes, from California, and Josephine Skriver, from Denmark, also gave an insight into the amount of work that goes into making their bodies look perfect for the catwalk.
This includes 'two layers of body makeup and sparkle and glitter and oil', smothered onto their skin to give the illusion that their bodies had no flaws.
Plus-size model Ashley Graham is walking on the Victoria's Secret catwalk this year
American model Jasmine Tookes, 32, said that she her real life is different to the life that people see on her Instagram
Josephine Skriver said that her own mother would not even recognise her when looking at her modelling photos
The duo spoke on the Real Pod podcast about their image on the catwalk to host Victoria Garrick.
Josephine said that the glamorous side to her onstage was a version of who she was and compared it to a work uniform.
'Some people are told they need to wear a suit to an office - it's just part of our image.
'Nobody wants to be in their work suit twenty-four seven, none of us want to be glammed up twenty-four seven,' she said.
Victoria said that for the audience who would watch the shows or look at pictures of the Angels, it wasn't immediately obvious that they were Photoshopped or used body makeup.
She added that because there weren't as many filters and apps to edit photos available at the time, people were unaware.
Josephine added: 'I would stand next to the big billboards on the street and I could stand there for 30 minutes and not a single person could put the two people together.
'I'm like I don't even look like my pictures. Sometimes my mum would be like, 'Is that you? I didn't even know you could look like this.'
'Even though you were shooting underwear constantly, I never really felt naked because we had two layers of body makeup and sparkle and glitter and oil.'
Victoria's Secret has been approached for comment.
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LONDON — (AP) — Anguilla is raking in extra revenue from registration fees for its .ai web domain thanks to the artificial intelligence boom, but it's not the only place cashing in on demand for websites with distinctive address endings.
Here's a look at some other places cashing in on their unique top-level domains:
TUVALU
Tuvalu is a string of coral atolls, scattered over hundreds of miles in the Pacific Ocean, located midway between Australia and Hawaii. It has one of the world's smallest economies and its low-lying islands are vulnerable to climate change, but it does have a very valuable resource: the .tv web domain. Royalties from .tv, which web users might assume is short for television, have been climbing, especially after videogame streaming platform Twitch licensed the web address twitch.tv.
LIBYA
The North African country, which has been plagued by turmoil since longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi's death in 2011, isn't readily associated with internet culture. But Libya controls web addresses that end in .ly, which have become widely used as a so-called domain hack for websites with English names that end in -ly. Well-known examples include bit.ly, used by the weblink shortening service Bitly, and parse.ly, the website for online analytics platform Parse.ly.
MONTENEGRO
This Balkan country became an independent nation after the breakup of Yugoslavia. It's one of Europe's smaller countries — about 620,000 people — bordered by the Adriatic Sea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia and Albania. Montenegro was assigned the .me web domain, which has become popular with people who want to claim their pronoun for personal branding.
Websites ending in .me are “often used for personal websites, portfolios, blogs and online resumes or portfolios because ‘me’ can be seen as a way to personalize an online presence,” website builder Wix says.
COLOMBIA
Websites that end in .co aren't from a generic web domain for companies, like .com sites. The .co domain is assigned to Colombia, but the South American country allows anyone to sign up for its web addresses. Internet registrar GoDaddy says more than 2 million .co web domains have been claimed, including addresses claimed by Big Tech names like Amazon which uses it to redirect online shoppers to its .com home page. Google, meanwhile, informs visitors to g.co that the link is it's official shortcut.
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Nobody Wants This is a feel-good romantic comedy written by Lindsay Golder. It was released on Netflix starting from late September, and since then, the series has been one among the top-rated ones both in India and abroad, receiving many positive reviews. Adam Brody and Kristen Bell play the leading roles as Noah and Joanne, and Timothy Simons and Justine Lupe play the roles of siblings of the leads, as Sasha Roklov and Morgan. This series has 10 episodes, and each episode runs for around 30 minutes, so one can binge-watch this on a weekend.
If the first meeting between the two lead characters wouldn’t be an awkward one that would give them the butterflies they did not see coming, is it even a romance tale? So yes, in Nobody Wants This, Noah and Joanne meet at an event hosted by a mutual friend, where they engage in casual banter, get along well, and start liking each other instantly. But when Joanne learns that he had been in a relationship until recently, she walks out thinking that he must be just another one of those men she shouldn’t be dating.
Nobody Wants This: so awkward it’s powerful
The harmless flirtation and silly jokes from the very beginning set the perfect stage for a beautiful rom-com. Like most interesting rom-coms, Nobody Wants This also feels like a string of witty, humourous moments tied together, as the bonding between the man and the woman slowly develops into a beautiful connection.
With every new episode, the awkwardness moves a level up, and the comedy just gets funnier in Nobody Wants This. For instance, when they have their official first date, Joanne is forced to get a sex toy for her next podcast episode and Noah is encouraged to pick the right condom from a load of condoms by his friend and brother.
Both of them are nervous, but since it is for work, they should probably purchase the sex toy first, Noah insists, so they go to a sex toy shop, where the two try to playfully convince each other that they can do bondage if that’s what their partner would want. And while they are having a playful moment there, they are caught in the act by a board member of the temple. Noah is afraid that this might cost him his job, but that does not happen because – another silly, funny revelation awaits!
So opposites do attract!
The female lead of Nobody Wants This, Joanne is a liberal atheist and the male lead, Noah is from a highly conservative Jewish family. While this by itself should not be a problem for two people who are just dating, what adds a layer of weirdness to the situation is that she runs a popular podcast with her sister, where they openly talk about sex and he is a rabbi!
As though this is not enough, she is single, with several of her past dates and dating experiences discouraging her from taking dates seriously, and he has only recently ended a long-term relationship, with none of his people being able to accept it yet.
Miscommunication, overthinking, and misunderstanding cause some drama, but on the other hand, Noah understands Joanne’s mind effortlessly, something that not even people close to her do, and her bold personality is something he finds exciting, he says nobody else has made him feel this way before, so they continue to see each other.
What’s noteworthy is that there is not one male character that resembles the alpha male stereotype in Nobody Wants This, yet they are all charming. Not one female character is sexualised, yet they are all lovely. So it’s possible to make a romance film or series this way.
Even the relationships that the two lead characters and their siblings share have been portrayed well, showing how even adult siblings can have fights and arguments over almost anything in their day-to-day lives, while still being supportive of each other. The relationship dynamics among family members in both families also contribute to the comedy. Throughout Nobody Wants This, it’s mostly one person or another saying or doing something funny or embarrassing that keeps the show entertaining. But a romance story can’t always be just fun and laughter, right?
The elephant in the room
Both of them begin to like each other seriously, and that’s when they start thinking over the differences and all the possible reasons why they should probably not pursue the relationship anymore. Noah is in a phase where he has to take his career more seriously than ever, so that he could get a promotion at work, and dating a “shiksa” (a non-Jewish woman) could pose a threat to that. And as a successful, independent woman who also wants love, Joanne’s biggest fear is trusting a man who would not appreciate her, would call her “too much” for having normal expectations and leave her heartbroken.
One can’t be seen with a non-Jewish partner in public because of the fear of being harshly judged by people who look up to him as a mentor, and for the other, their partner not making their relationship public is a big deal-breaker. And when their relationship is no longer a secret, Noah feels the pressure from the head rabbi and from everyone else in his circle, he knows their relationship does not have a future if she won’t convert to Judaism. As a non-religious person who loves her new partner much, Joanne is open to the idea, but her sister warns that she is changing too much for a man, leaving behind all her values.
Nobody Wants This : a sudden shift from rom-com to drama
After a few unpleasant encounters with family members, they start facing difficult situations, while still managing to keep their love for each other unaffected. And the awkwardness factor works for most of the part, but towards the end, it gets somewhat suffocating and boring. Towards the end of the 7th episode of Nobody Wants This, you feel as though it’s not just Noah and Joanne trying hard to please each other’s families, but also the director trying equally hard to keep the viewer engaged.
Suddenly, it’s just different women all “bitching” about one another and giving others a hard time. One would begin to doubt if the same writer who wrote the first 6 episodes also wrote the remaining ones.
All is well that ends well
After a few dramatic episodes, the feel-good factor is back. The best part, without a doubt, is the writing. People of all ages, starting from adolescents to the elderly could enjoy watching this series because it is packed with jokes that most people would enjoy, from characters in different generations.
And the second-best part of Nobody Wants This is how well Kristen Bell and Adam Brody play their roles; their acting makes it easy for viewers to accept Joanne and Noah, so even for those who cannot relate to either character or the romance brewing between them, this would work because the actors bring their respective characters to life. Adam Brody has nailed this character of Noah who is a religious, soft-spoken rabbi who is also a romantic, assertive man who can please his love on the streets and in the sheets.
Nobody Wants This makes for a delightful, light-hearted watch. Even if it follows the classic rom-com pattern and can feel tiring for a short period, this one is way better than many other recent rom-coms on Netflix in the recent years. | https://feminisminindia.com/2024/10/15/nobody-wants-this-a-feel-good-romedy-that-awkward-pleases-you/ | 2024-10-15T17:58:41Z |
It’s been seven months since the COVID-19 pandemic turned life upside down in North Carolina, but it feels like seven years. In just over 200 days, we’ve seen at least a quarter-million of our neighbors contract the coronavirus and 4,000 die. Nationally, more than 8 million people have become infected and 220,000 have perished.
And, of course, these tragic statistics are far from the only gloomy news. The pandemic has damaged the economy – particularly for women and people of color. Rates of unemployment, business closures, hunger and homelessness have all soared along with a host of less-well-tabulated social ills – including widespread stress, depression and social unrest.
Meanwhile, our rudderless national government tacks wildly in one direction and then the other. At one moment, we are promised a universal vaccine in record time and the next, the talk shifts to a quixotic pursuit of “herd immunity.”
At such a bleak moment, there is an obvious and understandable temptation to think with one’s heart and say, in effect, “to hell with it – anything is better than this.”
One can sense this instinct rising in many state and local officials as they have gauged the frustration and despair that plagues many of their constituents. When right-wing extremists are threatening to murder governors who have listened to science and put public health first, it’s not surprising that some officials are moving to reopen things faster than they might have.
This phenomenon is playing out right now across North Carolina as K-12 and college leaders look desperately for ways to justify a full reopening of schools, even as a new and deadly wave of virus infections threatens to spike.
In Forsyth County, for example, the school board recently adopted a plan that would allow for some elementary students to return to school for in-person learning as early as Nov. 2. According to the Winston-Salem Journal, the initial decision specified that the final determinations on whether to proceed would be based upon the rate of positive COVID-19 tests in the county staying below 5%. Soon thereafter, however, uncertainties in that standard prompted the board to shift gears and look to other CDC guidelines – both of which remain rather fuzzily spelled out.
Meanwhile, UNC Chapel Hill has hatched a plan to reopen the campus in mid-January for a delayed, spring “breakless,” second semester that will, it is hoped, fare better than the disastrous effort attempted in August.
Sadly, the problem with all of these jury-rigged schemes is that try as their architects might to make them safe and sane, they still fly in the face of common sense.
This is because the pandemic isn’t getting better right now. Responsible restrictions set by the Cooper administration over the last several months have clearly left our state much better off than most of the rest of the American South. But the hard truth remains that the virus is vastly more widespread now than it was in March when virtually all of the state’s residents were directed to “shelter in place.”
And this is why so many school and university employees are so concerned right now about the push to reopen and, in more than few instances, even considering leaving their professions: They’ve seen what’s happened in some places and understandably fear for their lives and those of their students and loved ones. It’s also why the latest polling shows that a large majority of the state’s population actually favors a cautious approach.
Does this mean that all hope is lost or that we’ll never get back to “normal”? Of course not.
Seven months’ worth of experience has taught us a tremendous amount – both individually and communally. Most North Carolinians are much better-informed about the virus today and much better-practiced at the tactics needed to control it than they were in March. We clearly have the ability to safely carry on a much greater level of societal activity than we could have in the spring.
Unfortunately, despite all our progress, one big lesson that has yet to be as widely learned as it should be at this point is the importance of patience and a commitment to shared sacrifice.
The bottom line: Our state and nation possess the necessary know-how and resources that would allow us to: a) heed the concerns of teachers and others whose lives would be placed at-risk by reopening schools too soon, b) greatly reduce human suffering, c) discern ways to help our children overcome the losses they are enduring, and d) stand up to those who would terrorize elected leaders.
May we have the courage to return to such a path.
Rob Schofield, Director of NC Policy Watch, has three decades of experience as a lawyer, lobbyist, writer and commentator. | https://www.yourdailyjournal.com/opinion/96991/rob-schofield-listen-to-teachers-resist-the-rush-to-reopen-schools | 2024-10-15T17:58:41Z |
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(MENAFN- IANS) Kohima, Oct 15 (IANS) Ceasefire Supervisory Board (CFSB) Chairman Lt Gen Amarjeet Singh Bedi (retd) on Tuesday said that the Nikki Sumi faction of the NSCN-K has violated the Ceasefire Ground Rules (CFGR) by recently abducting two Naga youths.
After holding a series of meetings with the leaders of NSCN-K-Nikki-Sumi, Dimapur-based various civil society organisations and youth bodies at the Police Complex in Chumoukedima on Monday, Lt Gen Bedi (retd) on Tuesday said that he is hopeful that the Naga outfit would release the captives or hand them over to police.
The Dimapur-based civil society groups and youth organisations earlier on Sunday served a 48-hour ultimatum to the CFSB to arrest the culprits involved in the October 10 abduction and extortion demand.
The two youths were abducted by NSCN-K (Nikki-Sumi) cadres from Dimapur on October 10.
The CFSB Chairman said that the outfit has violated the ceasefire ground rules as well as misused the ceasefire office.
"However, during Monday's meeting, the outfit agreed in writing that they henceforth would follow all the Ceasefire Ground Rules," he told the media, adding that as the head of the CFSB, he has to make sure that the ceasefire ground rules are strictly followed by the Naga outfits who have signed the ceasefire agreements with the Indian government.
Lt Gen Bedi (retd) said that if any outfit violates the ground rules, the group concerned would be held responsible for unlawful activities and violation of law and order. The CFSB head also said that the state police have already conducted searches at the NSCN-K-Nikki-Sumi office and various locations to rescue the two abducted youths. He also added that a lookout notice has been issued by the police with a reward offered for information leading to the arrest of the individuals involved in the kidnapping.
The Central government and the NSCN-K-Nikki Sumi signed the ceasefire agreement in 2021 and periodically extended the term of the ceasefire period. The Centre on September 4 extended the ceasefire agreement with the outfit for a period of one year.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had said that the Central government and NSCN-K (Nikki Sumi), Nagaland have mutually decided to extend the Ceasefire Agreement with effect from September 8 for a period of one year to bring about lasting peace in the state of Nagaland with the involvement of Naga people.
The Centre has signed ceasefire agreements with five Naga outfits, including the dominant Naga group, the Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN-IM). The Union government signed the vital Framework Agreement with the NSCN-IM, in 2015 and also signed the Agreed Position with the Working Committee of Naga National Political Groups in 2017. More than 90 rounds of meetings were held between the government and the Naga groups over the decades-old unresolved Naga political issue. The NSCN-IM has remained firm on its demand for a separate flag and constitution for the Nagas as well as integration of Naga-inhabited areas spread over four northeastern states -- Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur and Nagaland, besides Myanmar.
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Games today:
(Rizal Memorial Coliseum)
1 p.m. — Perpetual vs Lyceum
3:30 p.m. — Ateneo vs EAC
6 p.m. — Adamson vs Saint Benilde
Adamson University shoots for the last bus ride to the next round against a dangerous College of Saint Benilde in the 2024 Shakey’s Super League Collegiate Pre-Season Championship today at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum.
Opening serve is set at 6 p.m. as the Lady Falcons look to join Pool D leader and previous game tormentor Far Eastern University (FEU) in the playoffs.
Meanwhile, clashing at 1 p.m. are University of Perpetual Help System Dalta and Lyceum of the Philippines University in Pool B while Ateneo de Manila University and Emilio Aguinaldo College (EAC) meet at 3:30 p.m. in Pool A.
Adamson also seeks to rebound from a painful 25-16, 22-25, 33-31, 20-25, 13-15, defeat at the hands of the Lady Tamaraws despite the 35-point explosion of ace hitter Shaina Nitura last Saturday.
Sporting a 1-1 win-loss record, the Lady Falcons will secure a ticket to the next round-robin phase if they hurdle a winless yet well-rested Lady Blazers in a crucial showdown in tournament backed by Shakey’s Pizza Parlor, GCash, Chery Tiggo, F2 Logistics, Peri-Peri Charcoal Chicken, Potato Corner, R and B Milk Tea and Summit Water.
Saint Benilde bowed to unbeaten FEU (3-0), 17-25, 25-21, 16-25, 19-25, in the three-time NCAA champion’s tournament debut last 6 October.
On the other hand, the Blue Eagles, who are tied with Arellano University with identical 2-1 cards, look to boost their playoffs bid against the winless Lady Generals (0-3).
Ateneo defeated the Lady Chiefs, 25-17, 25-18, 25-18, last Saturday while EAC was swept by San Beda University, 18-25, 23-25, 22-25, in its previous outing.
In the battle of eliminated teams, the Lady Pirates carry a 1-2 slate while the Lady Altas are winless in two starts.
Already through to the next round are FEU, Pool A leader and three-peat-seeking National University (3-0), Pool B’s University of Santo Tomas (4-0) and University of the East (3-1), and Pool C’s De La Salle University (3-0).
The Lady Tamaraws, Golden Tigresses and the second ranked teams in Pool A and Pool C will play in the next phase for the two twice-to-beat quarterfinals advantages at stake.
The Lady Warriors, Lady Spikers, Lady Bulldogs and the second seed in Pool D will dispute the other two quarters incentives in their bracket. | https://tribune.net.ph/2024/10/15/adamson-chases-playoff-berth | 2024-10-15T17:58:44Z |
Former President Donald Trump is in Chicago for a scheduled appearance, but what is he here for and where will he be?
Here's what to know about the visit:
Why is Trump in Chicago?
Trump is set to speak at an event for the Economic Club of Chicago Tuesday.
Where is Trump set to speak and when?
According to the Economic Club of Chicago, Trump will appear at a private event cohosted by Bloomberg in downtown Chicago from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. The event is expected to be at the Fairmont Chicago, located on Columbus Drive.
It will be carried live on Bloomberg News platforms and the Economic Club of Chicago’s YouTube channel.
This is an event for members of The Economic Club of Chicago and their guests.
Local
The event will be streamed on the Economic Club of Chicago’s YouTube channel.
Who will interview Trump?
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Trump will be interviewed by Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait, a press release said, at an unspecified location in downtown Chicago.
What else to know
Early Tuesday, NBC 5's Lisa Chavarria reported a large police presence along the lower side of Trump Tower.
Last week, Trump stayed in the city while heading to another appearance not in the Chicago area, leading to a number of street closures both Thursday night and Friday morning.
Trump's Tuesday event comes one day after his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, reportedly appeared at a fundraiser in Chicago's suburbs.
This would be Trump’s second appearance in Chicago during the campaign season, after he spoke as part of a panel at the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention in the city. The event sparked controversy after Trump attacked Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity and promised to pardon Jan. 6 rioters if he were elected president.
Vice President Kamala Harris did not appear at the convention, but spoke to delegates via a virtual call in the weeks that followed.
According to her campaign, Harris Tuesday is set to appear at an audio townhall in Detroit. | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/why-is-donald-trump-in-chicago-and-where-will-he-be-what-to-know-about-his-visit/3574374/ | 2024-10-15T17:58:44Z |
SAN FRANCISCO — A Navy parachutist was off-target and instead of landing where he should have, he landed on a mother and daughter during San Francisco’s Fleet Week.
The jump happened on Sunday at the city’s Marina Green, the designated target, SFGate reported.
But instead of hitting the spot where the sailor was supposed to land, he fell onto a group of spectators on the area’s perimeter.
The mother and daughter, who were not identified, bore the brunt of the impact but had minor injuries. They were still taken to an area hospital by ambulance, fire department officials said.
The crash was under investigation. It is not known why the jump went bad, KRON reported.
The U.S. Navy released a statement saying, “Our thoughts are with the individual and their family. Safety is our number one priority. We cannot immediately assess what happened; however, we will review this incident to determine the cause,” KRON reported.
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Pregnant Princess Beatrice attends Ladies Lunch with mother Sarah Ferguson on her 65th birthday
- The royal mother and daughter attended a charity lunch in London's Mayfair
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Pregnant Princess Beatrice and her mother, the Duchess of York, donned brightly-coloured ensembles to attend a Ladies Lunch held to raise money for a cancer charity today - which is also Sarah Ferguson's 65th birthday.
The royal mother and daughter were joined by celebrities including Elizabeth Hurley and Dame Joan Collins - who both also sported striking outfits - at the tenth annual Lady Garden Foundation Langan's Ladies Lunch in London.
Sarah, who is better known as Fergie, was diagnosed with breast cancer in June 2023. Just months later, in January 2024, the mother-of-two was told she had malignant melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer.
While she has been advised against using the phrase 'cancer free', Sarah, writing in The Sun last week, said that her 'treatment has been successful and tests show there has been no spread or recurrence.'
For the event hosted by national women's health charity the Lady Garden Foundation, whose motto is 'We are loud and we are bold', Sarah wore a £945 multicoloured blouse with a pussybow feature by Italian brand Pucci.
Princess Beatrice (left) and mother Sarah Ferguson, who's 65 today, attended the Lady Garden Foundation Langan's Ladies Lunch in London today
Sarah, Duchess of York (left) posed with Bedazzled star Elizabeth Hurley (right), who looked typically glamourous in a low-cut midi dress
Princess Beatrice and mother Sarah tried out different poses when they were being photographed
Sarah, 65, sported a £945 blouse with a pussybow feature from Italian designer Pucci
She paired the distinctive blouse with a black, knee-length skirt and added a Gucci belt with a gold clasp.
Sarah completed the look with sheer black tights and patent high heels.
The playful duchess styled her long, auburn hair with a wide headband in the same psychedelic Pucci print and sported a pair of white, 1960s-style sunglasses.
Her daughter Princess Beatrice, 36, who announced that she was pregnant with her second child on October 1, opted for an equally striking dark pink mini dress.
Cinched at the waist and with a flared skirt, the princess's dress also featured button detailing down the left side.
She paired it with black opaque tights and black suede ankle boots.
Only a little less bold than her mother, Beatrice styled her long hair with a velvet headband in colour of the season burgundy.
While mother and daughter posed for photographs together, Sarah was also pictured with Elizabeth Hurley and Dame Joan Collins, as well as other attendees.
The duchess (right) posed with Dame Joan Collins (centre) and Elizabeth Hurley (left)
Pregnant Princess Beatrice, 36, opted for a dark pink mini dress, which she paired with opaque black tights and suede ankle boots
Socialite Tamara Beckwith (right) and businesswoman Jenny Halpern Prince (left) also sported brightly-coloured outfits
The Ladies Lunch at Mayfair celebrity haunt Langan's Brasserie was also attended by socialite and TV personality Tamara Beckwith and businesswoman Jenny Halpern Prince, who both looked attractive in brightly-coloured silk dresses with geometric prints.
Meanwhile, actress Elizabeth Hurley, 59, looked typically glamourous in a red and purple floral midi dress.
With a lowcut neckline highlighting the star's jaw-dropping figure, the dress also had short sleeves and an a-symmetric hemline.
Elizabeth added height to her frame with a pair of gold open toe heels and carried a rose gold clutch bag.
Letting her brunette locks fall loose down her shoulders, she completed her look with a pair of hoop earrings.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth Hurley looked sensational.
The actress, 59, ensured all eyes were on her as she arrived to the event in a red and purple midi dress with a floral print.
The garment featured a deep v-neckline that highlighted the star's jaw-dropping figure along with short sleeves and an a-symmetric hemline.
Elizabeth added height to her frame with a pair of gold open toe heels while she also carried a rose gold clutch bag.
Letting her brunette locks fall loose down her shoulders, the Bedazzled star completed her look with a pair of hoop earrings.
Elizabeth Hurley looked sensational as she attended the 10th Annual Lady Garden Foundation Langan's Ladies Lunch at at Langan's Brasserie in London on Tuesday
Joan Collins looked radiant as ever for the event as she sported a baby pink blazer with flared sleeves which she wore with black trousers.
Also in attendance at the event was Sarah Ferguson who cut a stylish figure in a multi-coloured blouse and a black pencil skirt.
The Lady Garden Foundation was launched in 2014 as the Gynaecological Cancer Fund to raise funds and awareness for various types of gynaecological cancers, hosted by charity chair and co-founder Jenny Halpern Prince.
It's been a busty few days for Elizabeth as she also put on a very busty display for her cover shoot with Maxim magazine.
The actress went braless underneath an oversized see-through blue shirt which she paired with a chunky gold necklace.
Sharing a behind the scene clip from the shoot, Elizabeth looked positively radiant as she laughed in snaps.
She captioned the snap: 'Thank you @maximmag for making me your No 1 a delightful day in St Tropez this summer with my old friend @gilles_bensimon - 30 years since our first shoot'.
Liz and Joan are good friends and were seen last month holidaying together in the South of France alongside Liz's son Damian, 22.
Meanwhile Liz also recently appeared on Loose Women for an emotional episode as she revealed that two friends of her friends are currently battling breast cancer as she discussed the topic close to her heart amid Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Joan Collins looked radiant as ever for the event as she sported a baby pink blazer with flared sleeves which she wore with black trousers
Also in attendance at the event was Sarah Ferguson (right) who cut a stylish figure in a multi-coloured blouse and a black pencil skirt
Elizabeth added height to her frame with a pair of gold open toe heels while she also carried a rose gold clutch bag
Letting her brunette locks fall loose down her shoulders, the Bedazzled star completed her look with a pair of hoop earrings
The model also detailed how she was inspired to join the breast cancer awareness fight 30 years ago after her grandmother died of the disease.
Discussing how attitudes towards it have changed from when her grandmother was ill, she said: 'When my grandmother was suffering and dying, nobody spoke. But I remember it really clearly.'
'As women we sometimes put ourselves last and it seems indulgent to take care of ourselves.'
She previously spoke to Extra about her grandmother's ordeal, remarking: 'When my grandmother had been diagnosed and was being treated — and of course ultimately died, we too didn't talk about it. There was no conversation about breast cancer at that time.'
'I just know that had she been diagnosed today, everything would just be so different. Now, women are told about the importance of early detection.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13962339/Pregnant-Princess-Beatrice-attends-Ladies-Lunch-mother-Sarah-Ferguson-65th-birthday.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2024-10-15T17:58:45Z |
October 15, 2024
A 10-million-pound meat recall linked to possible listeria contamination has impacted hundreds of ready-to-eat products sold across major U.S. grocery stores, including Walmart, Target, Trader Joe’s, and several other retailers.
On Oct. 9, BrucePac, a Woodburn, Oregon-based pre-cooked meat producer, recalled a total of 9,986,245 pounds of its ready-to-eat meat and poultry. The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) performed routine testing that found items returning positive for Listeria monocytogenes on BrucePac meat and poultry products produced at the company’s Durant, Oklahoma factory from June 19 to Oct. 8, 2024.
The initial announcement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said BrucePac is recalling items with establishment numbers “51205 or P-51205” printed inside or below the USDA mark of inspection. The announcement was followed by updates on specific products and locations where they are being sold. Affected products have been shipped to distributors and other establishments across the United States, including restaurants and other food service providers.
The USDA released a 326-page document showing the labels of affected products from specific retailers, brands, and food items containing the recalled meats.
Some affected items include ready-to-eat wraps and salads, meal kits, tacos, and sandwiches sold at 7-Eleven, Walmart, Kroger, Trader Joe’s, Target, Aldi, Amazon Fresh, Save Mart, Wegmans, Giant Eagle, H-E-B, Meijer, Albertsons, and Publix.
Due to further distribution, some of the products may show different establishment numbers. For example, certain lots of Trader Joe’s Harvest Salad with Grilled Chicken included in the recall display establishment numbers 44818, 21794, or 34513, with best-by dates of 10/7/2024 or prior.
Other items, such as El Monterey Mexican Grill Chicken and Cheese Taquitos, exhibit a much longer list of lot codes and best-by dates that are similarly included in the recall.
The FSIS encourages consumers to frequently check its website for additional updates and to review the document for specific brand names, establishment codes, and the best-by dates affected by the recall.
The FSIS also advises customers who have purchased these products to throw them away or return them to the place of purchase. Restaurants, institutions, and other establishments are urged to neither serve nor use the products, but to dispose of or return them.
Listeria is a bacteria that contaminates many foods, according to the CDC. People who consume foods contaminated with the bacteria can experience Listeria infection, leading to intestinal illness or even invasive illness—meaning that the bacteria spread beyond the intestines. The infection can be particularly serious for adults aged 65 and over, pregnant women, newborns, and people with weak immune systems.
“Listeriosis can cause fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance, and convulsions, sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms,” the FSIS writes.
There have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions from the Brucepac products, but people who are concerned about contracting the illness should contact a health care provider, the announcement said.
Consumers with food safety questions can call the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline at 888-MPHotline (888-674-6854) or send a question via email to [email protected] | https://www.loscerritosnews.net/2024/10/15/10-million-pound-meat-recall-affects-hundreds-of-products-at-walmart-target-trader-joes-and-more/ | 2024-10-15T17:58:41Z |
The World is Family (Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam in Hindi) is an oral historical tale that tries to weave the past and present, and personal and political together. It is a tale of a family who was part of the country’s Freedom Movement when the movement was at its zenith. The cinematic essay turns the camera inward and goes on a journey that seems to be forgotten by their fellow countrymen. Through the comic yet compelling interactions and visceral interventions of parents, aunts, uncles and close family members of the filmmaker, the documentary looks through the dreams of freedom fighters’ generation and leaves us grappling with the present – a political landscape so unrecognisable to those eyes.
A generation that had long ago fought for India’s independence from the clutches of colonial rule. A movement that was, in their mind, not just about Independence, but principles, ideals, and dreams. It was not a mere birth of yet another nation rooted in force and violence and the gain of political freedom but was more about what was right and what was not.
While that generation waned through age, the younger generation seems rather distant from those ideals with a sense of aloofness and ignorance. Home-shot video clips of ageing parents are beautifully put along with the archival footage intricates in an admiring effort to the oral history of those distant times. The scenes of a family with vibrant narratives of past and future are the pedestal at which this so very personal and still political cinematic essay stands.
The India that has forsaken the ideals of independence movement
The filmmaker of the documentary, Anand Patwardhan is acclaimed for dealing with unsettling questions in contemporary India and his work has always irked those in power. A pioneer in his field, Patwardhan through this milestone cinematic piece gazes the political history of the nation through the prism of his family. He tries to paint a portrait of his parents whose lives had taken shape in the context of the Indian national movement under the shadowing presence of Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma had a deep impact on their thinking and worldviews.
The World is Family compiles the family bonds alongside the tumultuous political turnarounds that occurred on India’s way towards Independence. It brings a message from India’s freedom movement for today’s India. A country that feels lagging far behind from the original ideas, dreams and promises that were made and dreamed at its founding.
The World is Family is undeniably a beautiful portrayal of personal and political. The filmmaker in this cinematic essay takes the camera to his home filming the parents, uncles, aunts, and other near and dears while bringing back to life their lives during the Gandhian Satyagraha. Weaving a narrative, it comes as far as the contemporary times and tries to contextualise the current realities into the context of freedom struggle with its hopes and dismay.
The World is Family connects all the dots from the moments of independence to the present. The film talks rather nostalgically about an India that for its characters does not exist anymore. It reminds people what we as a country could have been. How we have forgotten and forsaken the values that were instilled in the generation of freedom fighters and which were to become the ideals of the Republic. A country that now celebrates the violence and the bravado over suppressing the meek was not the country that those people had envisioned.
Filmmaker’s mother Nirmala with her witty remarks and poignant interventions makes the documentary a living personal document on the one hand and deeply historical on the other. She elaborates how she was a part of the associates that accompanied Mahatma Gandhi before his assassination at the hands of Hindutva fanatic Nathuram Godse. Anand’s uncles late Rau Kaka and Achyut Kaka had taken part in Salt Satyagraha during the 1930s, the family recollects their role in those epitomical moments. After the country had finally gained Independence, disillusioned with the direction it had taken both of them distanced themselves from the politics.
A personal journey of hopes and disillusionment with political in The World is Family
The World Is Family is a tale of love, connection and family ties with a longing for the country of their dream which is forced to face the actual political realities and confronts the directions that its society, politics and leaders have taken after the independence. The intricacies of a couple during their old age showcase the heartfelt corners of elderly parents, the vulnerabilities of an endured relationship and a lament for a past dream that has been lost – that has not come to be true because of what their country has become.
On how he ended up making a documentary of his homemade family materials, Patwardhan spoke “As my parents began to age, I began filming to preserve their memory for myself. I filmed from the late 1990s till they passed away in 2008 and 2010, respectively. By this time, I was also talking to my father’s younger brother and oral history about India’s freedom struggle had begun to emerge. Then during the Coronavirus lockdown, I began to edit all the materials and realized that it could be valuable for others too.”
Thousands of volunteers influenced by Gandhian principles had imagined a nation which would embrace non-violence and embark on a journey of undoing the wrongs of the past, correcting the historical injustices to millions of their own people – this dream was in complete tatters now and the country was heading in an altogether opposite direction.
“The India that our freedom fighters had aspired to build was an inclusive India very different from the hate-filled version of ‘nationalism’ that is being peddled today.” Secularism and humanism were so intrinsic to Freedom struggle and Gandhian movement, says Patwardhan, therefore “the film is glimpsing the past in a way of re-imagining a future very different from the hate-filled reality of our present.“
The filmmaker’s parents, uncles, aunts, family friends and even his grandmother had acted on Gandhi’s call to join against the British. Rau and Achyut had acted on the call of Salt satyagraha from Gandhiji. But both chose differing paths – Rau chose to follow Gandhi and his non-violence and was in jail for many years; Achyut became a revolutionary operating in hiding and resorted to violent means. The delicate nuances of this cinematic piece also deal with the conflicting notions of resisting a colonial rule and ponder whether what is the right and what is the moral choice of resistance in such circumstances.
Combining archival photos, newsreel footage, and newspaper headlines, helped by a forceful narration, Patwardhan with his brilliant work of editing assembled candid conversations in English, Marathi and Hindi with close ones and relatives. The 96-minute documentary has the backdrop of all his earlier work with the themes of right-wing extremism and divide among communities.
The World Is Family also calls out the insanity and insidious nature of the plans to divide the subcontinent into religious lines and recollects the horrors of the Partition. The film sees the shared religious culture of the subcontinent as the antidote to the bigotry and the politics of hate we see in our times. Cultural heritage and social harmony have the strength to break through the barriers of nationality, religion, and caste and work towards divisive politics harbouring communal vulnerabilities. | https://feminisminindia.com/2024/10/15/the-world-is-family-a-tale-of-political-history-of-a-country-with-lost-dreams-hope-and-dismay/ | 2024-10-15T17:58:47Z |
(MENAFN- IANS) New Delhi/Imphal, Oct 15 (IANS) The all-important meeting to find a way out to resolve the over 17-month-long ethnic strife in Manipur was held in New Delhi on Tuesday, sources said.
Sources said that Ministers and MLAs belonging to the Meitei, Kuki and Naga communities attended the meeting called by the Intelligence Bureau under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
"Several rounds of meetings between the MHA officials and the elected representatives, civil societies and NGOs would be held in the upcoming weeks to find out a lasting solution to the ethnic crisis in Manipur," the sources said.
After around a four-hour-long meeting, neither the officials nor the Ministers and MLAs talked to the media to disclose the outcome of the meeting.
Manipur Assembly Speaker Thokchom Satyabrata Singh, MLA Thongam Biswajit, belonging to the Meitei community, and representatives from the Kuki community -- Letpao Haokip and Nemcha Kipgen, both ministers -- attended the meeting.
MLAs Ram Muviah, Awangbow Newmai and L. Dikho attended the meeting from the Naga community.
However, a highly placed source told IANS that several Ministers and legislators from the three communities -- Meitei, Kuki and Naga -- attended the meeting and raised their demands and viewpoints over the ethnic riot.
An MLA, belonging to the Kuki community, on condition of anonymity said that they would discuss the matters of Tuesday's meeting with their community leaders and functionaries then they would disclose their next course of action.
“Because the meeting was called by the Central government, that's why they attended the meeting. We do not have any faith in the Manipur state government,” the legislator told IANS over the phone from New Delhi.
He said that MHA's advisor, North East Affairs, A. K. Mishra and other senior officials were present at the meeting.
Tuesday's meeting was the first deliberations convened by the government after the ethnic conflict broke out between the majority Meitei and minority Kuki-Zo communities in Manipur on May 3 last year.
The vital meeting was held on Tuesday after Home Minister Amit Shah last month indicated to resolve the ethnic imbroglio in Manipur through discussions between the Meiteis and Kukis.
On June 17, the Home Minister during a review meeting on the law and order situation in Manipur gave similar indications.
Meanwhile, 10 MLAs, including seven BJP legislators, and several Kuki-Zo organisations including Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum (ITLF) and Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) since the ethnic violence started in Manipur in May last year, have been demanding separate administrations or a Union Territory for the Kuki-Zo tribals in Manipur.
The 10 legislators included Letpao Haokip and Nemcha Kipgen, who are ministers in Chief Minister N. Biren Singh-led 12-member ministry in Manipur.
The state and the Central governments have on a number of occasions rejected the demand for separate administrations or a Union Territory.
The ethnic violence between the non-tribals Meiteis and tribal Kuki-Zo broke out in the northeastern state on May 3 last year after a 'Tribal Solidarity March' was organised in the hill districts to protest against the Meitei community's demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status.
So far, over 230 people have been killed in the strife. As many as 11,133 houses have been set on fire, out of which 4,569 homes have been completely destroyed. A total of 11,892 cases have been registered in different police stations in connection with the ethnic violence.
The state government has established 302 relief camps to provide shelter to 59,414 internally displaced persons.
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Mother-of-five, 41, 'was told she had nothing to worry about' by doctors before dying of cancer 10 months later
The devastated family of a mother-of-five who died of cancer claim she was told she had 'nothing to worry about' when she confronted doctors about a lump two years before.
Christine Bond, 41, from Litherland, Merseyside, was told she had sciatica - a common nerve condition which tends to clear up without treatment - but medics later discovered it was actually cancer and she died after another ten months.
Her cousin, Clare Purvis, 41, said Christine had lost a lot of weight and became extremely weak during her short battle with the disease.
Clare said: 'Christine had found a lump on her kidney two years ago and went to the doctors, but was told it was nothing to worry about.'
After pain in Christine's back and legs persisted as she lost weight and began feeling constantly tired, she was diagnosed with arthritis in her hip, before a blood test finally confirmed the true cause of her health problems.
The devastated family of 41-year-old mother-of-five Christine Bond, who died of cancer last week, claim she was told she had 'nothing to worry about' when she confronted doctors about a lump
Christine's cousin Clare Purvis (right, with Christine) said she was diagnosed with sciatica and then arthritis before blood tests finally confirmed the real cause of her health problems, but only when it was too late
'In January she was so weak and lost so much weight, stones of weight had dropped off her, so she was sent for bloods,' Clare continued.
'She got a call to tell her she needed to get to hospital and they did more scans on her. She was told she had cancer in her spine and in her hip and kidney.'
Following Christine's diagnosis she was immediately put on treatment, however the cancer continued to spread.
Clare said: 'Three weeks ago they [the doctors] took her off medication because it wasn't working, they said she possibly had months, then months turned into weeks and then they told us it would be days.
'I got a phone call on [October 9] to say it would be her last hours. She passed away on Thursday, October 10, peacefully in hospital. It still doesn't feel real, she has always been there.'
Clare said she and Christine were best friends having grown up together, adding: 'We are cousins but we went to primary school and senior school together, she literally is my best friend. We have grown up together every step of the way, we have so many memories together.
'I just can't get my head around the fact she has gone, and so quickly. If I feel like this I don't know how her kids are getting through it.
'She is a mum-of-five and has three grandchildren; Christine's youngest child is just seven years old, her oldest is 26. Her daughter, 22, has been amazing, she has taken over looking after all the kids.
'All the kids have been amazingly strong. I wanted to do something to help them so I've set up a GoFundMe for the kids to help financially, especially with Christmas soon and two of them have their birthdays in November. I promised I would help with the kids, I don't want them to have any worries.'
The fundraiser has brought in over £4,500 at time of writing.
It says: 'As you can imagine we are absolutely heartbroken.'
Clare added: 'I thought we would have had more time with her. I know everyone says this but she really was the most genuine person ever, I've been so overwhelmed by the support so far.
'One thing she was, she was made to be a mum. She had time for everyone, she loved going out and having a good dance. She loved life, she lived for her kids, everything she did was for her kids.
'If she could help anyone she could, even if it was just to smile at somebody. I think everyone is in shock because we thought we had more time with her, even if we had two years with her.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13962799/family-heartbreak-mother-dying-cancer.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2024-10-15T17:58:52Z |
AITO, Lebanon — (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in northern Lebanon that killed at least 22 people needs to be independently investigated, the United Nations' human rights office said Tuesday.
“We have real concerns with respect to … the laws of war,” Jeremy Laurence, a spokesperson for the U.N.'s human rights office in Geneva said a day after the strike, as rescue workers searching through the rubble found more bodies and remains. Laurence said the U.N. had received credible reports that a dozen women and children were among the dead.
The Israeli military said it “struck a target belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization" and that it would look into reports of civilian deaths.
The apartment building hit in the airstrike was in the small village of Aito, in the country's Christian heartland and far from Hezbollah's main areas of influence in Lebanon's south and east. The strike was a shock to residents, and it exacerbated fears that Israel would expand its offensive deeper into Lebanon.
“I heard a loud noise, like a boom,” said Dany Alwan, who lives next door. “We ran outside, I saw the dust and the smoke and the rubble. There was a body here, another one there. It was a really ugly and painful scene.”
The three-story building had been rented out to the Hijazi family, which fled their home in the southern village of Aitaroun, according to Elie Alwan, Dany Alwan's brother and the building's owner. Some 1.2 million people have fled southern and eastern Lebanon, where the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has been concentrated.
As rescue workers rummaged through the debris on Tuesday, they found the body of a child, and later a small leg and other remains that they put together in a white bag. The Lebanese military watched as a bulldozer cleared heaps of twisted steel, destroyed olive trees, and crushed rocks.
Over the past year, 2,350 people in Lebanon have been killed in Israeli airstrikes, according to the country's Health Ministry, which says roughly 25 percent have been women and children.
Earlier on Tuesday, the acting leader of Hezbollah said the militant group would fire rockets into more areas of Israel until it ceases its airstrikes and ends its ground invasion of Lebanon.
Naim Kassem said Hezbollah is focused on “hurting the enemy,” comments made in a pre-recorded televised speech delivered on the same day the United States said it sent a small team of troops to Israel to support an American-made missile-defense system.
Hezbollah has fired thousands of rockets into Israel over the past year in support of Hamas' war with Israel in Gaza. Tens of thousands of northern Israelis have been displaced from their homes by those attacks — and Israel has said its war with Hezbollah is aimed at stopping those rockets so families can return home.
On Tuesday, Kassem signaled that Hezbollah would ramp up attacks further south in Israel, which it has already done by targeting Tel Aviv and Haifa. Kassem has headed the militant group since Sept. 27, when its longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike.
Hezbollah began targeting Israel with rockets on Oct. 8, 2023, a day after the Hamas attack on Israel that left 1,200 dead and 250 as hostages in Gaza.
Israel's ensuing war against Hamas has left more than 42,000 people dead in Gaza, according to local health officials. They do not differentiate between fighters and civilians, but have said a little more than half the dead are women and children. Hezbollah has insisted it will continue to target Israel until a cease-fire in Gaza is reached.
“We cannot separate Lebanon from Palestine, or Palestine from the world,” Kassem said.
Also on Tuesday, Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder announced the arrival of U.S. troops in Israel on Monday. The team will operate a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense battery there to defend against ballistic missile attacks from Iran, which backs both Hezbollah and Hamas, and has launched two missile attacks on Israel.
“Over the coming days, additional U.S. military personnel and THAAD battery components will continue to arrive in Israel,” Ryder said.
Iran has warned U.S. troops would be in harm’s way if they launch another attack.
In Lebanon, Israel's bombardment and ground invasion have displaced more than 400,000 children in the past three weeks, according to Ted Chaiban, deputy executive director at UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency.
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Labels and identities—why do we need them? Of course, people deemed ‘normal,’ have never needed any labels. They do not need to identify or label themselves. Our identity is an integral part of our self. It stands for everything we represent and who we are. In these progressive times, sexual identity and orientation take up an important part of our identities, and why mustn’t they? Not everyone fits neatly into traditional, binary gender and sexual orientation categories. Rather labels and identities enable self-expression and allow individuals to be more open about themselves.
The Kinsey Scale, developed by the social scientist and his colleagues, measures sexuality on a spectrum that ranges from 0-6; the numbers depict a scale that goes from exclusively heterosexual to exclusively homosexual (or monosexual) with more fluid orientations in between. Identifying with these labels does not mean that something new has emerged. It just reiterates what has been natural forever but has never been acknowledged. Whether we talk of homosexuals, bisexuals, pansexuals or queer, they did not emerge with the label. All these sexualities existed long before anyone acknowledged or used these terms.
There are no monosexual persons!
When we use these terms for some and not all, it creates the illusion of a default. Why is it the norm to be hetero? Or to be monosexual? In a poor attempt, Merriam-Webster defined monosexual as “being or relating to a male or a female rather than a bisexual.” Despite the absence of a formal definition of the word Monosexual in major lexicon sites, the word monosexual can be understood as being attracted to just one sex. The term was coined by Wilhelm Stekel in 1912. He was an Austrian physician, psychologist, and one of Freud’s earliest pupils. He first used the term in his book, Bi-sexual Love: The Homosexual Neurosis. Monosexuality has been considered the norm for long. However, Stekel’s writing sheds light on a completely different reality.
“Psychoanalysis has proven that all homosexuals, without exception, show heterosexual tendencies in early life. There is no exception to this rule. There are no monosexual persons! The heterosexual period stretches far into puberty. All persons are bisexual. But persons repress either the homosexual or the heterosexual components on account of certain motives or because they are compelled by particular circumstances and consequently act as if they were monosexual.”
Stekel in his text very outrightly condemns monosexuality. There is repeated emphasis on the phrase “There are no monosexual persons!” stressing the sexual nature of humans and their progression. Bisexuality is often just understood as the journey towards inevitable monosexuality. It is considered just an experimental phase by many which has to end in picking one sex over the other. Such mindsets are dismissive if not deprecating in the least towards bisexual identities.
Monosexual privilege
Bisexuals also popularised its use primarily to bring focus to the monosexual privilege. People face numerous barriers to coming out and proclaiming an identity that does not fit the straight-gay binary. However, some of the obstacles are similar to those faced by lesbian and gay people, others are unique to non-monosexual people.
Regardless of this study, the usage and connotations of the word monosexual have evolved differently. The term was popularised primarily by the bisexual and pansexual communities to shed light on the slightly privileged standing of the gays and lesbians within the LGBT+ with the heterosexuals. Monosexuality lumped together homosexuals and heterosexuals characterised by their sexual attraction exclusively towards a singular sex in contrast to the non-monosexuals, who had a more fluid orientation.
However, it was also identified as a term that created divisions unnecessarily within the Queer community. The characteristics of these divisions were again, called under question by the bisexuals. Monosexism has been exercised as a supposed form of oppression within society specifically towards bisexuals. Non-monosexuality is viewed as straying from the normative and viewed with contempt. | https://feminisminindia.com/2024/10/15/there-are-no-monosexual-persons-what-is-monosexual-paradigm/ | 2024-10-15T17:58:53Z |
October 15, 2024
Today, it is being reported that the majority of non-tenure track faculty at Portland State will be receiving notice of layoffs.
In a statement the Portland Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, a nonprofit membership association of faculty and other academic professionals headquartered in Washington, DC, with members and chapters based at colleges and universities across the country stated, “instead of doing its work to invest in students and workers to grow Portland State, the Board of Trustees and Administration think they can cut their way to financial sustainability.
“Instead of investing in the workers at PSU, Administration and the Board’s priorities are in the wrong place. They are spending creative thinking, advocacy, and political capital to fund over $300 million into concrete and steel – a new fine and performing arts building – all the while handing down senseless cuts of $12.5 million to the mission critical aspects of the University – teaching and learning.
“These layoffs will gut core general education at Portland State University. What happens to student learning conditions and faculty and staff working conditions without faculty to teach core general education courses, without faculty to teach required courses in the majors, without faculty to teach honors courses, without faculty to direct programs, without faculty to mentor students, without faculty to develop and review curriculum?
The AAUP is asking to “show your solidarity and write the PSU Board President and the Board of Trustees to demand a stop to these senseless cuts.”
Click here to write a letter to the president and board.
PSU Vanguard October 14, 2024 article:
Non-tenure faculty and staff have brought concerns to the Portland State University Board of Trustees over job security after the Board proposed recent budget cuts. These cuts have resulted in classes being canceled and jobs potentially being cut—specifically regarding non-tenure faculty.
The meeting on Friday, Sept. 27 began with an opportunity for community members to speak. Speakers from unions such as Portland State University’s American Association of University Professors (PSU-AAUP), the Graduate Employees Union (GEU) and Portland State University’s Faculty Association (PSUFA) highlighted the apparent differences in priorities between the Board of Trustees, PSU community and union members.
Teaching Associate Professor of History and Representative of PSU-AAUP, Jennifer Kerns has been a faculty member at PSU since 2000.
Kerns—who spoke at the Board of Trustees meeting on Sept. 27—is concerned about cuts to non-tenure faculty members at PSU.
“We’re not widgets that you just can take away and then assume that there’s a tenure track faculty member, who had better contractual protections, to teach those courses,” Kerns said.
Faculty are the employees of PSU that students interact with the most during their time at the university. Cuts to faculty not only impact the lives of faculty members but also the lives of students.
According to Kerns, some Board members seem to be purely focusing on the business aspects of the university during these calls to eliminate jobs and salaries in the name of addressing a budget problem.
“I feel like our Deans and our Provost and our President values us,” Kerns said. “I don’t know what the Board thinks and that is upsetting to me because these people cycle off and on the Board. They think they’re doing their due diligence and their fiduciary responsibilities, but do they have a real long term care for the PSU community?”
Adjunct Professor for Chicanx/Latinx studies Hector Hernandez teaches a variety of courses at PSU. According to Hernandez, he was notified by the Director of the Chicanx/Latinx studies program, Cristina Herrera, on Aug. 8 that one of his classes was canceled due to low enrollment and lack of interest.
“To see that the reasons [for its cancellation was] lack of interest and low enrollment, were not valid… because we are in the position of becoming a Hispanic serving institution,” Hernandez said.
He had been teaching the class for almost 10 years before the cancellation.
According to Hernandez, he consistently had an average of 25 students enrolling in his class. He went on to express his concerns about Portland State University potentially losing its chance to achieve a permanent status of being a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).
“You have to have numbers [to be an HSI] and you have to provide also relevant content to those [Chicanx/Latinx] students,” Hernandez said. “We’ve been working on that… How can you say that you are committed to the Hispanic Latino community when you are canceling courses?”
“What they are not considering is the needs of these local communities,” Hernandez said. “They have no connections with our community.”
Emily Ford is the President of PSU-AAUP and the Urban and Public Affairs Librarian. Ford has worked at PSU’s library for over 14 years and represents 1,200 full time workers at PSU-AAUP.
According to Ford, when PSU President Ann Cudd was hired she was given an “on-ramp” period of three to five years of being able to get to work without making any cuts. Instead, the Board was demanding that cuts be made last year.
Ford explained that the cuts did not go into effect because it could not go through with making those cuts without violating labor contracts.
“I have concerns that the Board isn’t fully listening when faculty try to tell them what is happening and the obstacles that are being put in front of us from providing the best to students,” Ford said. “Teaching and learning is the direct mission of the university. That’s what we do. We are here for our students, right? We don’t see that being translated from the Board.”
With such a large emphasis from the University administration on revitalizing downtown, Ford worried that support for university workers has been deemphasized in the Board’s priorities.
“Why has the Cudd administration felt that they need to use all of their political capital in Salem over the past year, advocating for money and to the Portland City Council for a Fine and Performing Arts building over settling a contract with the 1,200 workers, full time faculty workers, graduate employees and the adjunct union that’s about to start bargaining?” Ford said.
Currently, PSU and PSU-AAUP are at the bargaining table to negotiate a contract which has a deadline set for this November. Potential budget cuts and layoffs lie at the heart of these sessions.
“We’re facing these cuts and narratives of layoff and we keep trying to negotiate a contract that has strong layoff protections, but the administration is coming back to us unwilling to bargain layoff protections for the contract,” Ford said.
According to Ford, PSU’s bargaining team has proposed negotiating layoffs on a case by case basis which would not be put into the contract. This raises concerns about inequitable and unequal treatment between different university employees.
“I know that several of the Board members in their private lives are commercial real estate owners,” Ford said. “And so I really question where the priorities [of] the Board are.”
One speaker at the Board meeting on Sept. 27 was Katie Cagle, a Program Assistant for the School of Social Work and long time Disarm PSU activist. She held a moment of silence in honor of Jason Washington—a man who was shot by PSU campus police in 2018—before she spoke on the issue of over-policing on campus.
Cagle also took that moment to point out a plainclothes, undercover officer sitting amongst the crowd.
“They’re continually hearing from faculty and staff and students that, ‘Hey, your choices are affecting me directly in really negative and impactful ways,’” Cagle said. “And so I think it’s like any ruling body that doesn’t feel secure in its own power, [they feel] like they have to bring in armed power.”
With the tension in the Board meeting continuing into this bargaining period, faculty and Board members’ conceptions of what Portland State University’s present and future should look like create varying portraits.
“The board seems to be trying to run a school like a business, [but] students aren’t customers. Students are students,” Cagle said. “I think you have some board members who understand the higher [educational] experience, but not everyone on the board shares that view. “So it makes these conversations really challenging.”
PSU International Student Advisor Jonna Lynn Bransford, speaking as a member of PSU-AAUP at the meeting, asked how PSU employees could “dream big”—referencing a speech given by President Cudd—when their budgets were being slashed and they were forced to work long hours with fewer resources.
Bransford was not the only one who shared this view on employee’s inability to “dream big” in the current climate on campus.
“[When] President Cudd asked us during convocation to ‘dream big,’ it’s very hard to dream big when we’re being told that we need to do things now,” Ford said. “It’s very hard to be thoughtful… to consider unintended consequences. I believe that that pressure is coming from the Board of Trustees that is not being true to what they promised the president.” | https://www.loscerritosnews.net/2024/10/15/portland-state-trustees-laying-off-teachers-while-building-a-300-million-arts-center/ | 2024-10-15T17:58:52Z |
On Friday, the Arizona Democratic Party closed a campaign office in Tempe, Arizona after it had been targeted by gunfire on three separate occasions in the last month.
Arizona is one of the seven states that will likely decide the US election, and Maricopa County may decide the outcome in Arizona. Trump lost the state in 2020 by less than 11,000 votes.
In the lead-up to the January 6, 2021 coup, Trump and his Republican allies targeted election officials and politicians, including Republicans, who refused to overturn the vote and award the state’s electors to Trump.
As of this writing, police have yet to identify a suspect or motive in the shootings. It appears no one was injured in any of the incidents. In an October 9 X post, the Tempe Police Department claimed the last shooting occurred on October 6 at about 12:30 a.m.
In the same post, the police shared a flyer from “Silent Witness,” a “non-profit” that works […] | https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/10/15/democrats-forced-out-of-tempe-arizona-campaign-office-after-being-targeted-by-gunfire-three-times-in-less-than-a-month/ | 2024-10-15T17:58:55Z |
BACH Radiologist Maj. Nicholas Hammond sits with breast cancer survivor Tami McChesney to learn more about her personal experience in first receiving word she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Tami shares her story hoping that others will take the necessary precautions of scheduling appropriate medical screenings recommended. She believes her mammography screening helped saved her life.
This work, BACH Breast Cancer Survivor Shares Story, by Fred Holly, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright. | https://www.dvidshub.net/video/940243/bach-breast-cancer-survivor-shares-story | 2024-10-15T17:58:56Z |
(MENAFN- IANS) Mumbai, Oct 15 (IANS) It's gonna be fireworks at the box-office on Diwali with the upcoming action spectacle 'Singham Again' which practically stars half of Bollywood. In the run up to the film's release, bollywood superstars Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar, who star as supercops in 'Singham Again', are setting up the tone for the movie with their bromance.
On Tuesday, Ajay notified his followers on X, formerly Twitter, about an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session. When he was asked by a fan to say something about his co-star Akshay Kumar.
The user asked him,“Ek Word mein #AkshayKumar Sir ko Describe kijiye #AskAjay”.
Replying to this, the 'Singham' star wrote,“Khiladi. @akshaykumar I love you”.
Akshay replied by saying,“@ajaydevgn love you bro”.
Fans showered praises for the superstars in the comments. One fan wrote,“bhaichara bana rehna chahiye”.
Another wrote,“Their bond (heart emojis)”.
Ajay and Akshay have been the best of friends for long time. In fact, Ajay's father, the action choreography legend, Veeru Devgn was very fond of Akshay's fighting skills owing to his training in martial arts.
The trailer of 'Singham Again' was released recently, and draws inferences from the Hindu epic of 'Ramayana'. It also features the biggest of stars of Hindi cinema including Kareena Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Tiger Shroff, Arjun Kapoor, and Jackie Shroff. 'Singham Again' marks the fifth instalment of Shetty's Cop Universe, and is a sequel to 'Singham Returns'.
The film integrates Rohit Shetty's fabled cop universe as Bajirao Singham, played by Ajay Devgn, sets out to bring back his wife, Avni Kamat (inspired by Sita) played by Kareena Kapoor Khan from the clutches of Arjun's character.
Director Rohit Shetty has smartly incorporated the elements in the film picking from the way south Indian directors make their stories culturally relevant and rooted, case in point, 'Kantara' and the global rage 'RRR'.
It also marks the second big budget adaptation of Ramayana after the box-office debacle of Prabhas and Kriti Sanon-starrer 'Adipurush'. To ensure good returns on a film, Rohit has placed the safest bet that will appeal to a large section of audience: The Ramayana.
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Games today:
(Mall of Asia Arena)
4 p.m. — NU vs FEU
6 p.m. — La Salle vs UST
De La Salle University may have racked up four straight victories, but none came easy.
Green Archers coach Topex Robinson expects nothing less from their next assignments as they continue to fight for a title repeat in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Season 87 men’s basketball tournament.
“We all know that this season is going to be the hardest for us. Just like what I always tell these players, that’s what you get for being the defending champions,” Robinson said.
La Salle is again up for a tough grind squaring off with a formidable University of Santo Tomas (UST) side today at the Mall of Asia Arena.
The Green Archers put their hot streak and hold of a share of the top spot at stake in the 6 p.m. main game of the third playdate of the second round.
Meanwhile, bottom half teams Far Eastern University (FEU) and National University (NU) meet for a rematch at 4 p.m.
La Salle will be put under the microscope once again against a squad that almost pulled off an upset in their first-round meeting.
A slow start got the Green Archers trailing by 10 before regaining lost ground to cage the Tigers, 88-67, last 29 September.
The Taft-based squad sports a 7-1 win-loss record tied with last year’s finals victim University of the Philippines.
La Salle escaped a 77-68 grind-out game over University of the East last Saturday to exact revenge on the only team so far to put a blemish on its record.
Robinson tells his boys led by workhorse forwards Mike Phillips and reigning Most Valuable Player Kevin Quiambao to embrace the challenge of teams going after their necks.
UST is no exception.
“Every team will always come out with guns blazing every time they play. Gone are the days that you’re just gonna blow by teams because there’s so much respect for you now. That’s gonna make us better. These games are gonna make us better. We’ll learn from it. We’ll grow from it,” Robinson said.
“A lot of these games will just make us better and make us stronger together.”
The Tigers are coming off a sorry 73-83 loss to the Fighting Maroons last Sunday, which dropped them to an even 4-4 slate at fourth spot.
With idle Adamson University (3-5) within striking distance, UST needs a win to create more breathing room as the Final Four race tightens.
On the other hand, the Tamaraws eye to string their first back-to-back wins this season against their first-round tormentor.
FEU braved a grueling battle against Adamson to carve out a hard-earned, 76-72, win in overtime that saw Jorick Bautista take over to force the extension before steering his team to its second win in eight starts last Saturday.
The Tamaraws are in a three-way log jam in sixth to eighth with the Bulldogs and Ateneo de Manila University.
NU suffered a 68-70 defeat at the hands of the Blue Eagles last Sunday.
The Bulldogs barely escaped with a 62-60 win over the Tamaraws in the first round. | https://tribune.net.ph/2024/10/15/archers-wary-of-dangerous-tigers | 2024-10-15T17:58:56Z |
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WASHINGTON — (AP) — The Biden administration has warned Israel that it must increase the amount of humanitarian aid it is allowing into Gaza within the next 30 days or it could risk losing access to U.S. weapons funding.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned their Israeli counterparts in a letter dated Sunday that the changes must occur. The letter, which restates U.S. policy toward humanitarian aid and arms transfers, was sent amid deteriorating conditions in northern Gaza and reports Israel had conducted a strike on a hospital tent site in central Gaza that killed at least four people and ignited a fire that left more than two dozen with severe burns.
A senior defense official said Tuesday that Blinken and Austin sent a letter to their Israeli counterparts as they saw a recent decrease in assistance reaching Gaza. The official said a similar letter sent by Blinken in April triggered a constructive response and "concrete measures from the Israelis."
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said the latest letter was a way to similarly address the problem.
For Israel to continue qualifying for foreign military financing, the level of aid getting into Gaza must increase to at least 350 trucks a day, Israel must institute additional humanitarian pauses and provide increased security for humanitarian sites, Austin and Blinken said. They said Israel had 30 days to respond to the requirements.
An Israeli official confirmed a letter had been delivered but did not discuss the contents. That official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a diplomatic matter, confirmed the U.S. had raised "humanitarian concerns" and was putting pressure on Israel to speed up the flow of aid into Gaza.
The letter, which an Axios reporter posted a copy of online, was sent during a period of growing frustration in the administration that despite repeated and increasingly vocal requests to scale back offensive operations, Israel’s bombardment has led to unnecessary civilian deaths and risks plunging the region into a much wider war.
“We are particularly concerned that recent actions by the Israeli government, including halting commercial imports, denying or impeding 90 percent of humanitarian movements” and other restrictions have kept aid from flowing, Blinken and Austin said.
The Biden administration is increasing its calls for its ally and biggest recipient of U.S. military aid to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza while assuring that America's support for Israel is unwavering just before the U.S. presidential election in three weeks.
Funding for Israel has long carried weight in U.S. politics, and Biden said this month that "no administration has helped Israel more than I have."
Humanitarian aid groups fear that Israeli leaders may approve a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas, which could trap hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who are unwilling or unable to leave their homes without food, water, medicine and fuel.
U.N. humanitarian officials said last week that aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months. About 80 trucks carrying aid have entered through crossings in Gaza’s north since Oct. 1, down from roughly 60 trucks a day previously, according to the U.N. website tracking deliveries.
COGAT, the Israeli body facilitating aid crossings into Gaza, denied that crossings to the north have been closed.
U.S. officials said the letter was sent to remind Israel of both its obligations under international humanitarian law and of the Biden administration’s legal obligation to ensure that the delivery of American humanitarian assistance should not be hindered, diverted or held up by a recipient of U.S. military aid.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas has killed nearly 42,000 people in Gaza, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count. The Hamas attacks that launched the war killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and militants abducted another 250.
The United States has spent a record total of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East, according to a report for Brown University's Costs of War project.
That aid has enabled Israel to purchase billions of dollars worth of munitions it has used in its operations against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. However many of those strikes also have killed civilians in both areas.
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AP reporter Josef Federman in Jerusalem contributed.
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BREAKING NEWSFBI probe into Prince Andrew's friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein 'has been parked', insiders claim
An investigation into Prince Andrew's friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been 'parked' by the FBI, insiders have claimed.
Agents and attorneys are said to be 'beyond frustrated' at having to shelve the probe, a source says.
It is understood that 'no new leads have been found for quite some time' and the FBI's investigation into the Duke of York will not proceed until 'new evidence is presented that can move the case forward'.
A source close to the case told the Mirror: 'The agents and attorneys who have, for years, worked diligently looking into Andrew's friendship with Epstein are beyond frustrated.
'They're angry that the probe has been parked.'
An investigation into Prince Andrew's friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been 'parked' by the FBI , insiders have claimed
At the start of this year Andrew was referenced multiple times in files unsealed by a US court relating to disgraced financier Epstein
It is claimed investigators' time spent on the case has dwindled in the last year with resources now being diverted to work on the high profile case against hip-hop mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs.
A second source confirmed 'right now, resources are going elsewhere' with it said the investigation into Andrew is at an 'impasse'.
At the start of this year Andrew was referenced multiple times in files unsealed by a US court relating to disgraced financier Epstein.
The unredacted documents included allegations the duke had an orgy with underage girls and touched a woman's breast while posing with a puppet of himself.
The 64-year-old prince, who has previously strenuously denied the allegations, paid millions a year ago to settle a civil case out of court with Virginia Giuffre with no admission of guilt after she accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17.
But he was mentioned more than 70 times in nearly 1,000 pages of interviews and transcripts released in the US in connection with a 2015 defamation case brought by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, who was jailed for sex trafficking young girls for Epstein.
At the start of this year Andrew was referenced multiple times in files unsealed by a US court relating to disgraced financier Epstein
The 64-year-old prince paid millions a year ago to settle a civil case out of court with Virginia Giuffre with no admission of guilt after she accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17
The names of more than 170 people who were either associates, friends or victims of Epstein are being made public following a judge's order last month, including high-profile figures such as former US president Bill Clinton.
Epstein was found dead in his cell at a federal jail in Manhattan, New York, in August 2019 while he awaited trial on sex-trafficking charges. The death was ruled a suicide.
More to follow. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13963029/fbi-probe-prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-parked.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2024-10-15T17:58:58Z |
After the partial publication of the Hema committee report in Malayalam cinema, a number of essential questions have arisen regarding the working principles and ethics of the film industry as a whole in a panoramic view. A part of this is the fan culture and social responsibility of both stars and fans, both to each other and to the society at large. Fan culture in Malayalam film industry is a topic that has not been much studied or explored. According to Ann Mary George in her paper, The Diegetic Fan, ‘. . .the Malayalam film industry claims to be an exception to the distinctive relation of cinema with politics in South India, in which cinema and the regional language attain crucial importance.‘
The Malayali fans is a different class from the rest of the South Indian states since they have never been able to accept actor-turned-politicians merely on the basis that they are stars from cinema. They tend to judge them on their acts and contribution to society, clearly separating them from their God-like and flawless appearance in the theatre screens. For instance, Malayalam actor-turned politician Suresh Gopi could not do much to win his Lok Sabha election at Thrissur in 2019, thus he failed despite his popularity as an actor and acceptance as a humanitarian. But his political work and perseverance won him in 2024 Lok Sabha elections in the same constituency of Thrissur.
A fan is one ‘who identifies with a screen persona beyond the requirements of narrative intelligibility‘ according to Madhava Prasad’s work Fan Bhakti and Subaltern Sovereignty. Therefore, the fan is reduced to the systematics outside the intelligibility of the film but, is the one created out of the spiraling charm of the silver screen; adhering to the imagined personality of the star whose individuality is most probably not the one as gathered from the cinematic character. Therefore, the very basis of fan creation may not always be founded in close reality but on false persona produced as an after-math creation of cinema, a whole in whole pendulum of imagination.
Regressive fan behavior
Even when the conditions are such, the growth and unifying of fans under the banner of an actor’s name is an inevitable event. But it is never their grouping that is eventful but their behavior. Many fan association in Kerala have a solid foundation and work efficiently for the promotion of the particular star’s film as well in social welfare activities like blood donation, distribution of essential medical and other aids, also financial help in some rare occasions. But these activities are undertaken by the fans association of only big stars who fund them religiously apart from the minor public donations.
This fan base is mostly men’s associations operating for male superstars, hence being very phallo-centric in nature, enjoying all the power and privilege due to patriarchy. Though women are also part of these, their presence is negligibly small. This also points to the question why there no fans association for female actors in Malayalam except for Manju Warrier.
The answer dates back to the first female superstar of Malayalam, Miss. Kumari who enjoyed equal pay as her male co-actors which is still a dream for the most leading female actors across India. Since she was an actor from the 50s, evidently she had no fans association but her films were known by her name and had a huge fan base among the men viewers. According to Reshmi Radhakrishnan, her popularity was due to her womanly and subdued characters on screen catering to the male imagination of women or wives in the old society.
Outspoken female actors who raise their voice for equality and justice are seen not worthy of any celebration. This also answers the question as to why women actors like Parvathy Thiruvoth, etc. other than Manju Warrier do not have fan association. Moreover, the active period of female actors is considered small and limited by the fans.
Yet when the scenario is thus, they are not completely free of a set of regressive behaviors. The history of various incidents that happened in Kerala lead to this conclusion. Cyber attacks in the form of abusive comments and trolls are the main form of their attack. For instance, the Malayalam actor Parvathy Thiruvoth was continuously bullied and even held as an enemy by Mammootty fans when she discussed about this male actor’s misogyny scene from Kasaba (2016) at the International Film Festival in 2017.
In addition to this, there have always been rumors regarding the efforts of super star fans to attack the films of upcoming stars. Nevertheless, it is also true that this is not a particular incident in Kerala alone but, other states in India as well.
Social responsibility of stars
The fans celebrating the film release of their stars is a special occasion to observe. They organise drum parades, fire cracker celebration, milk bath for their stars just like a deity and so on. Even so, how far does this die-hard fan sentiments go and perceive the realities surrounding their stars?
When the Hema committee report was partially released with the unrevealed names of the accused and the alleged victims, the report did not really serve any particular purpose. It just exposed the happenings in the Malayalam film industry just like any other such film industry. The report even at the present time is just at another dead end, where many pages were redacted and some pages were not even revealed to the public. In such a scenario, some victims came forward recounting their incidence of sexual abuse and filed complaint against the abusers from Malayalam film industry.
As per the fact, most of the male representatives of the executive wing of A.M.M.A, the organisation of actors in Malayalam film industry, were also alleged of such accusations. They had to step down, but even with this the A.M.M.A never came forward to face the media to explain the happenings or to support the Hema committee report.
The only thing that they did was sit back and see the many petitions from WCC for the publication of the report since its completion in 2019. From the history of its operation and nature, it is a patriarchal structure and their refusal to welcome the report is understandable. But the silence of the responsible stars who are observed as larger than life figures is unacceptable.
The superstar Mohan Lal who was the president of A.M.M.A association and the other super star Mammootty are observed and followed by the vast majority of Malayali population. With their entry into Malayalam cinema in the 1980s and formation of fans association in the later half of 80s, they have emerged as being synonymous with Malayalam cinema.
Hence, when a major event hits the Malayalam film industry, some support, reaction or at least their understanding of the event is expected not just by the millions of fans, but by the Malayali society as well. Both of them remained silent as well as failed to appear in any public events for some time. Within days the A.M.M.A executive committee released a press release dissolving the committee even when most members did not agree with it.
After some days, when Mohan Lal had to face the media, due to another event, he appeared irritated to answer them. He advised people not to destroy the industry and that he does not know of any power group operating in the industry. This is the same superstar who commented that ‘#MeToo is a fad‘ back in 2019. Meanwhile, Mammootty wrote a Facebook post stating that the Malayalam film industry must survive.
The huge backlash both super stars, Mohan Lal and Mammootty had to face surrounding the event show the expectation of the masses from their stars as socially responsible personalities occupying a high pedestal in society. Beyond this, the stars’ commitment to their respective fans was also discussed. If they cannot offer anything when the marginalised section, women and children are exploited, what else will they have to offer to the youngsters following them. These super stars are occupying goodwill ambassador status and Mohan Lal was bestowed the honorary rank of lieutenant colonel.
But the reality is that not just them, the superstars from the neighbouring film industries too are silent regarding the Hema committee report and superstar Rajinikanth said that he is ignorant about the report; when Radhika Sarathkumar from his industry boldly commented and shared her personal experiences. All these point to the single fact that if women want equality and justice, they must unite and fight for themselves and the fictional heroes or the self-made super stars are not going to cleanse the industry.
As a final toll to this second surge of #MeToo, actor Nivin Pauly was accused of rape and later a director and others came with evidence, days after he was accused. It is alleged that this accusation was a planned move to put off the second surge on the basis that many of these sexual allegations are false. Some of these irrational fans therefore, attack and victim-blame without even understanding the news as a whole.
Therefore, it is essential for the fans to choose their heroes based on acts and not under the charm of the fictional characters enacted on the screens as the psychological power of superstars is found to heavily influence fan psyche. | https://feminisminindia.com/2024/10/15/understanding-the-fan-figure-in-the-light-of-the-hema-committee-report/ | 2024-10-15T17:58:59Z |
Germany’s flagship airline has been fined $4 million by the U.S. Department of Transportation over allegations it discriminated against a group of Jewish passengers.
The regulator said Tuesday that Lufthansa had prohibited 128 people wearing traditional Orthodox Jewish clothing from boarding for a connecting flight in Germany as they made their way from New York City to Budapest, Hungary, in May 2022.
“Based on the alleged misconduct of some passengers,” DOT said, Lufthansa staff “treated them all as if they were a single group and denied them boarding,” despite many of the passengers not knowing each other nor traveling together.
Some individuals in the group allegedly violated the airline’s mask policy. Video of the incident at the time showed Lufthansa staff telling passengers that “everyone has to pay” for the mistakes of a few, then defining “everyone” as “Jewish coming from JFK.” At the time, German media reported that staff denied boarding to people they determined were Jewish because they were wearing skull caps or had sidelocks.
The penalty is the largest ever issued by the DOT against an airline for a civil rights violation.
“No one should face discrimination when they travel, and today’s action sends a clear message to the airline industry that we are prepared to investigate and take action whenever passengers’ civil rights are violated,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a statement.
Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden administration’s special envoy against antisemitism, told NBC News in 2022 that the details of how the airline had treated the passengers were “unbelievable.”
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“[When] I first heard it, I said, ‘Oh, this must be wrong. Someone must be misreporting this.’ And then of course, it turned out to be precisely right — and worse than we even thought,” she said.
In a statement Tuesday, the airline said it had fully cooperated with the DOT as it conducted its investigation and that it had partnered with the American Jewish Committee in the wake of the incident.
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“Through our ongoing collaboration, we have curated a first-of-its kind training program in the airline industry for our managers and employees to address antisemitism and discrimination,” it said. “Lufthansa is dedicated to being an ambassador of goodwill, tolerance, diversity, and acceptance.”
At the time, the carrier apologized for the incident, saying it had “zero tolerance for racism, antisemitism and discrimination of any type.”
Lipstadt said in 2022: “If any airline had done it, it would have been outrageous. But the terrible, awful irony of it coming from the German national airline was outrageous.”
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MANCHESTER, England — (AP) — The rising number of injuries to top soccer players came at a cost of nearly $800 million to teams across Europe's leading leagues last season, according to a report published Tuesday.
At a time when there are growing concerns about the number of games players are being asked to play, the Men’s European Football Injury Index found there were 4,123 injuries in the top divisions of England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France in the 2023-24 campaign.
The cost of the injuries was based on the reported salaries of the players concerned and the amount of time they were sidelined for.
The report highlighted a greater strain on clubs as a result of the newly expanded Club World Cup, which will be staged in America next year.
The number of injuries has risen year-on-year since the index was first published in 2021 and the latest report said "it would be fair to expect a continuation of this upwards trajectory.
“The squad depth of clubs will continue to be tested, particularly with the impending introduction of the new FIFA Men’s Club World Cup in 2025.”
The index is produced by sports insurance firm Howden. Its publication comes a day after a players union and European leagues filed a formal complaint to the European Union against world governing body FIFA.
The 32-team Club World Cup — up from seven — has faced consistent pushback over concerns about player welfare since its new extended format was announced last year.
Last month Man City midfielder Rodri said players were close to going on strike in the face of increased demands on them — including an expanded Champions League this year. The Spain international suffered a season-ending knee injury days after those comments.
The football index has tracked a rise in injuries even before the expanded Club World Cup and Champions League.
It said there had been 14,292 — excluding COVID-19 — in the top five European leagues dating back to the 2020-21 season. That came at a cost of $2.5 billion based on the reported salaries.
Last season alone the figure was $798 million.
On average there was an injury every 92 minutes of football involving teams across those leagues.
It found that German teams suffered the most injuries per game (1.72). German teams also made up the top 13 places in terms of injury susceptibility and accounted for 15 of the top 20.
Of the teams least susceptible to injury, the top four were all from the French league.
The report said there was a “concerning trend” surrounding players under the age of 21, who were sustaining an increase of severe injuries.
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(MENAFN- IANS) Bengaluru, Oct 15 (IANS) Karnataka is all set to witness a high voltage and crucial Assembly bypolls battle for the three segments in the state.
Ensuring victory is crucial for Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who is facing an investigation by the Lokayukta and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) scam.
Winning all three segments is crucial for the NDA alliance in the state to keep the momentum against the congress going in the state. The Congress previously held one of the seats (Sandur). The BJP (Shiggaon) and JD-S (Channapatna) held one seat each.
The by-election results are also crucial for the State Congress President D.K. Shivakumar, Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, BJP MLA and mining baron Janardhana Reddy. It's also crucial for BJP State President B.Y. Vijayendra.
Securing the win in the Channapatna seat is also prestigious for Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, who is making an all-out attempt to emerge as the leader of the Vokkaliga community against former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda family.
On the other hand, Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel H.D. Kumaraswamy who represented the Channapatna seat before winning the Mandya Lok Sabha seat, has announced that the people are going to vote for him irrespective of the candidate.
Shivakumar has also repeatedly maintained that he is the candidate for the Channapatna. He had toured all the important towns and villages of the constituency.
Shivakumar has announced the formation of Bengaluru South District replacing the existing name of Ramanagar for the district.
Kumaraswamy is eagerly waiting to achieve a thumping victory to send a message that the Deve Gowda family is the first choice of the Vokkaliga community.
However, the BJP candidate C.P. Yogeshwara who contested against Kumaraswamy in the Assembly election is aspiring to become the candidate. The BJP and JD-S will face the election together.
Sources say that Kumaraswamy is keen on fielding his son, actor-turned-politician Nikhil Kumaraswamy. The final announcement in this regard is now to be made by the BJP and the JD-S.
Former Chief Minister and BJP MP Basavaraj Bommai has high stakes in ensuring the victory of the BJP candidate from the Shiggaon assembly seat. The seat has fallen vacant after Bommai was made to contest the Lok Sabha election from the Haveri Parliamentary Constituency.
Bommai has extensively toured the constituency and prepared the ground for the BJP candidate. The Congress is confident of wresting the seat from the BJP represented by Bommai with the support of minority and oppressed class votes. The party is yet to announce the candidate.
Sandur Assembly segment (ST reserve) was represented by the Congress MP and former minister E. Tukaram. Tukaram emerged victorious from the Bellary Lok Sabha seat against powerful BJP leader B. Sriramulu.
The BJP is strategising to wrestle the seat from Congress with the changed political scenario in the region following the rejoining of mining baron Janardhana Reddy into the BJP. It is prestigious for Janardhana Reddy to ensure the victory of the BJP in Sandur and consolidate his position in the party.
The Congress had held a "Sadhana Samavesha" in Sandur Constituency on Monday and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had declared that he had given a grant of Rs 1,200 crore grant to the Constituency. He has also made an appeal to the people to avenge the personal attacks on him.
The bypolls will be held on November 13. The results will be announced on November 23. The last date for filing nominations is October 25 and the final date for withdrawal is October 30.
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A measure is being drafted in the Senate which would see a decoupling of the roles of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) from being both system operator and network transmission provider.
Senator Win Gatchalian said he would file a bill to address national security concerns hounding NCGP operations.
Gatchalian believes that the transmission line’s system operation is a “monopoly covering Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao and it should be in the hands of the government.”
“However,” he said, “we acknowledge the need for private capital for expansion, which is why we will keep the network transmission ownership in private hands so that they can make the necessary investments.”
Function tied to national security
Gatchalian stressed that the system operator that dispatches electricity — like a traffic enforcer managing the flow of electricity from power plants — has a function tied to national security, and it should remain with the government.
The lawmaker is now finalizing his proposed bill which aims to amend Republic Act 9511, the law that grants NGCP a franchise to operate, manage and maintain the country’s national electricity grid.
According to Gatchalian, the eyed bill seeks to replace the franchise tax with standard corporate taxes.
If enacted into law, the measure would align NGCP’s tax obligations with those of other electric utilities and potentially increase government revenue.
Specifically, the bill would exclude the NGCP from exercising system operations and allow the Department of Energy to determine “which parts of the Transmission Development Plan will be constructed and which critical transmission infrastructure projects may be undertaken by third parties.”
Gatchalian said these amendments aim to address delays in grid infrastructure development and incentivize NGCP to improve construction efficiency. | https://tribune.net.ph/2024/10/15/bill-separating-ngcps-roles-as-system-operator-transmission-provider-eyed | 2024-10-15T17:59:02Z |
A North Carolina man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly threatening harm against FEMA employees responding to Hurricane Helene, according to the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office.
William Jacob Parsons, 44, was arrested and charged with Going Armed to the Terror of the Public, a misdemeanor, Capt. Jamie Keever said in a news release issued Monday.
“Parsons was armed with a handgun and a rifle,” Keever said.
The sheriff’s office began investigating Saturday after receiving a call that a man “made the comment about possibly harming FEMA employees working after the disaster of Hurricane Helene in the Lake Lure and Chimney Rock area.”
Parsons was found later that day after investigators received information about the color and license plate of his vehicle, according to the sheriff’s office.
Parsons was arrested in his car outside a grocery store that is functioning as a storm relief site, Keever said.
Parsons is now free on a $10,000 secured bond, the sheriff’s office said.
It was not immediately clear if Parsons had an attorney. CNN was unable […] | https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/10/15/suspect-arrested-after-reports-of-threats-toward-fema-operations-in-north-carolina/ | 2024-10-15T17:59:02Z |
The City of Greenwood, Indiana, Selects DebtBook to Centralize Its Debt, Lease, and Subscription Management Practices
CHARLOTTE, NC, UNITED STATES, October 15, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- DebtBook, a leading provider of software for government and nonprofit treasury and accounting teams, today announced that the City of Greenwood, Ind., has selected the firm’s Debt Management solution to modernize its debt data management and reporting, along with the firm’s Lease and Subscription Management solutions to streamline GASB 87 and 96 compliance.
Greenwood, Ind., is a suburban city located just south of Indianapolis. With a population of approximately 65,000, Greenwood is known for its family-friendly atmosphere, offering a mix of residential communities, parks, and local businesses. The city has seen significant growth over the past few decades.
“Greenwood is growing rapidly, and we need modern and sustainable systems that can support us,” said Greg Wright, City Controller for the City of Greenwood. “Using DebtBook’s software will give us better visibility into our data, ultimately allowing us to make better decisions for our community.”
Using DebtBook as its centralized debt management platform, the City of Greenwood will enable organization-wide knowledge capture and increase operational efficiencies. With DebtBook, the City will be able to track debt schedules, issuance details, and historical changes, including refundings. DebtBook will also allow the City to actively manage its continuing disclosure obligations, prepare year-end financial disclosures, store documents, and more. Utilizing DebtBook’s Lease and Subscription Management solutions will help the City of Greenwood automate ongoing GASB 87 and GASB 96 compliance and share information seamlessly with internal teams and external stakeholders.
“Our treasury and accounting solutions are purpose-built to help growing organizations, like the City of Greenwood, modernize their processes and streamline data management, accounting and financial reporting, disclosure, tax compliance, and more,” said Tyler Traudt, CEO and Co-Founder of DebtBook. “With better information and better tools, we believe the City can deliver better financial outcomes and even more positive impact for residents of Greenwood.”
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DebtBook offers modern treasury and accounting software designed to help state and local government, higher education, healthcare, and others go from operational overload to strategic leadership. Our Debt and Cash Management solutions empower strategic treasury and improve financial outcomes by automating operational work and allowing teams to more easily analyze their data and extract valuable insights. Our Lease and Subscription Management solutions give accounting teams hours back to their day by automating GASB 87 and 96 compliance workflows. Visit debtbook.com to see why more than 2,100 organizations nationwide work with DebtBook.
About the City of Greenwood
The City of Greenwood is a thriving suburban community known for its family-friendly atmosphere, vibrant parks, and growing business sector located just south of Indianapolis. The City is committed to its quality of life, strong economy, growing businesses and recreation. For more information, visit https://www.greenwood.in.gov/.
Greenwood, Ind., is a suburban city located just south of Indianapolis. With a population of approximately 65,000, Greenwood is known for its family-friendly atmosphere, offering a mix of residential communities, parks, and local businesses. The city has seen significant growth over the past few decades.
“Greenwood is growing rapidly, and we need modern and sustainable systems that can support us,” said Greg Wright, City Controller for the City of Greenwood. “Using DebtBook’s software will give us better visibility into our data, ultimately allowing us to make better decisions for our community.”
Using DebtBook as its centralized debt management platform, the City of Greenwood will enable organization-wide knowledge capture and increase operational efficiencies. With DebtBook, the City will be able to track debt schedules, issuance details, and historical changes, including refundings. DebtBook will also allow the City to actively manage its continuing disclosure obligations, prepare year-end financial disclosures, store documents, and more. Utilizing DebtBook’s Lease and Subscription Management solutions will help the City of Greenwood automate ongoing GASB 87 and GASB 96 compliance and share information seamlessly with internal teams and external stakeholders.
“Our treasury and accounting solutions are purpose-built to help growing organizations, like the City of Greenwood, modernize their processes and streamline data management, accounting and financial reporting, disclosure, tax compliance, and more,” said Tyler Traudt, CEO and Co-Founder of DebtBook. “With better information and better tools, we believe the City can deliver better financial outcomes and even more positive impact for residents of Greenwood.”
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DebtBook offers modern treasury and accounting software designed to help state and local government, higher education, healthcare, and others go from operational overload to strategic leadership. Our Debt and Cash Management solutions empower strategic treasury and improve financial outcomes by automating operational work and allowing teams to more easily analyze their data and extract valuable insights. Our Lease and Subscription Management solutions give accounting teams hours back to their day by automating GASB 87 and 96 compliance workflows. Visit debtbook.com to see why more than 2,100 organizations nationwide work with DebtBook.
About the City of Greenwood
The City of Greenwood is a thriving suburban community known for its family-friendly atmosphere, vibrant parks, and growing business sector located just south of Indianapolis. The City is committed to its quality of life, strong economy, growing businesses and recreation. For more information, visit https://www.greenwood.in.gov/.
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Keir Starmer DID meet Taylor Swift at her Wembley gig with his family after they got free tickets from the US pop star's record label after Labour ministers intervened over singer's VIP police escort
Sir Keir Starmer did meet Taylor Swift at her Wembley gig after senior Labour figures intervened over the US pop star's VIP police escort, it was revealed tonight.
The PM and his family spoke with the singer and her mother, Andrea, for 10 minutes after being given free tickets to a 20 August show by Swift's record label.
His meeting with Swift was finally confirmed following a day of silence from Downing Street over whether Sir Keir had met the mega-star this summer.
The PM is facing intense scrutiny over the involvement of senior Labour figures in talks around security for Swift's sell-out concerts at Wembley.
No10 has denied the gig tickets for Sir Keir represented a 'thank you' for Government pressure on the Met Police to relent and grant Swift her blue-light escort in London.
Sir Keir's chat with Taylor and Andrea is understood to have focused on the vile Southport stabbings in July, which happened at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.
The PM and the pop star had no discussion about the singer's security in London while they met at her Wembley gig, sources said.
Sir Keir has been dragged into the row over Swift's VIP police protection amid reports that Sue Gray, his ex-chief of staff, negotiated directly with Andrea over security issues.
The Metropolitan Police were reported to have held reservations about providing the singer with a taxpayer-funded motorbike convoy.
But it has emerged how Swift was eventually given a blue-light escort by Scotland Yard following interventions by top Labour ministers.
Sir Keir received four tickets and hospitality, worth £2,800, to Swift's gig on 20 August at Wembley from Universal Music Group.
Sir Keir Starmer met with Taylor Swift at her Wembley gig after senior Labour figures intervened over the US pop star's VIP police escort
The Prime Minister is facing intense scrutiny over the involvement of senior Labour figures in talks around security for Swift's sell-out summer shows at Wembley
The Metropolitan Police were reported to have held reservations about providing the singer with a taxpayer-funded motorbike convoy
Fresh questions were raised amid reports that Sue Gray, the PM's ex- chief of staff, negotiated directly with Swift's mother Andrea over security
Sir Keir and his wife Victoria previously attended a Taylor Swift concert at Wembley on 21 June, during the singer's first run of shows at the stadium this summer
Sir Keir received four tickets and hospitality, worth £2,800, to Swift's gig on 20 August at Wembley from Universal Music Group
No10 had earlier repeatedly refused to say whether Sir Keir met Swift at the Wembley gig. A Downing Street spokeswoman said: 'I don't have any updates.'
Pressed again on whether No10 could deny that Sir Keir had met Swift on 20 August after Downing Street intervened in security arrangements, she said: 'Again, first and foremost these are operational decisions that are taken by the Metropolitan Police, and you have seen their statements confirming that themselves.
'At the same time it is right and expected that the Government, mayor and police do have a dialogue and discuss the policing of major events in the capital.'
Downing Street also did not deny that Number 10 had conversations with Swift's team.
The spokeswoman added: 'It is entirely legitimate for the Government to have a dialogue with the police when it comes to the arrangements for major events.'
No10 this morning dismissed suggesttions that Sir Keir had been given the Wembley tickets as a 'thank you' for Swift's VIP police protection.
The PM's official spokesman said: 'I completely reject that characterisation
'Because it's ultimately up to the police to take operational decisions in relation to the security of these major events.'
It was previously revealed how London mayor Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper - who both also attended Swift's Eras tour concerts in London for free - were involved in talks around security before the singer was granted a blue-light escort.
Attorney General Richard Hermer was also reportedly asked to press Scotland Yard over giving Swift her VIP police protection.
Asked today whether it was the PM's view that there was no perception of a conflict of interest, Sir Keir's spokesman said: 'Operational decisions are for the Met. That's the bottom line.'
Downing Street cited the terror threat faced by Swift in Vienna, which had forced her to cancel gigs on the Austria leg of her Eras tour, as one of the reasons Government was involved in security talks around her London shows.
Earlier this month, the PM announced he would cover the cost of around £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality he received since entering office amid a fierce row over his various freebies.
Among the declarations he said he would pay back were the four tickets to see Swift at Wembley, which were received on August 20 from UMG.
A Met Police spokesperson said: 'The Met is operationally independent.
'Our decision-making is based on a thorough assessment of threat, risk and harm and the circumstances of each case.
'It is our longstanding position that we don't comment on the specific details of protective security arrangements.'
Sir Keir and his wife Victoria previously attended a Taylor Swift concert at Wembley on 21 June, during the singer's first run of shows at the stadium this summer. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13963097/Keir-Starmer-DID-meet-Taylor-Swift-Wembley-gig-family-got-free-tickets-pop-stars-record-label-Labour-ministers-intervened-singers-VIP-police-escort.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2024-10-15T17:59:05Z |
Haason Reddick has been given permission to seek a trade, New York Jets owner Woody Johnson said at the NFL's fall meetings in Atlanta on Tuesday.
Reddick has not played this season while in a contract dispute with the Jets, who acquired him from Philadelphia in late March to boost their pass rusher. Instead, the star edge rusher has not been with the Jets since his trade was finalized and he passed his physical on April 1.
Drew Rosenhaus, who along with Ryan Matha now represents Reddick after the player recently switched agents, said Monday he was looking forward to getting the issues resolved as soon as possible. Rosenhaus attended New York's 23-20 loss to Buffalo on Monday night, presumably in part to meet with Jets officials.
“He would like to be a New York Jet for years to come,” Rosenhaus said hours before the game, "and our goal is to make that happen.”
Apparently, Reddick would really like to play elsewhere. When asked if the Jets had given him permission to look for a trade, Johnson said simply: "Yes."
During a conference call last Tuesday to discuss the firing of coach Robert Saleh, Johnson made a direct plea to Reddick to join the team.
The 30-year-old Reddick requested to be traded on Aug. 12, but general manager Joe Douglas quickly nixed that, saying New York would not grant his wish to be dealt. But it now appears it is heading that way, after all.
And it comes on the heels of the Jets agreeing to terms Tuesday, according to two people with knowledge of the situation, to acquire wide receiver Davante Adams from Las Vegas — reuniting him with quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Reddick was placed on the reserve/did not report list on July 25, the second day of the team's training camp practice.
Reddick accumulated around $5 million in fines for not attending mandatory workouts and training camp. He also is forfeiting a game check for each one he misses, which is an additional loss of nearly $5 million.
The Jets could explore their options with teams seeking pass rushing help, perhaps such as the Detroit Lions, who will be without star Aidan Hutchinson after he was lost for the season with a broken tibia and fibula.
Reddick was scheduled to make $14.25 million in nonguaranteed base salary in the final year of his contract, but he wanted a long-term extension from Philadelphia. When the Eagles declined to give him a new deal, Reddick asked for a trade and ended up in New York.
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What to Know
- Family members of Lyle and Erik Menendez will speak Wednesday at a news conference in downtown Los Angeles.
- The gathering of roughly two dozen family members comes as LA County's top prosecutor reviews new evidence in the case that led to their convictions and life prison sentences.
- The review hinges on a letter hat Erik Menendez wrote to his cousin that his attorneys say corroborates claims of sexual abuse by his father just nine months before their parents were killed.
About two dozen family members of Lyle and Erik Menendez will plead for the brothers' release from prison when they gather Wednesday in Los Angeles for a news conference.
The brothers have been serving a life prison sentence for more than three decades for the murder of their parents inside their Beverly Hills home in 1989. They have claimed they were sexually abused by their father and feared for their lives.
Attorney Mark Geragos said the news conference represents a display of unity as Los Angeles County's top prosecutor is conducting a review of new evidence in the case, the subject of the recent Netflix true-crime drama "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story."
"They all took it upon themselves to fly in from all over the country," Geragos said. "They are united in asking for Lyle and Erik to be released from prison."
The news conference is scheduled for 4 p.m. ET Wednesday at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles. Family members expected to speak include Anamaria Baralt, the niece of Erik and Lyle Menendez's father Jose Menendez; Joan Andersen VanderMolen, sister of the brothers' mother Kitty Menendez; Brian A. Andersen Jr., nephew of Kitty Menendez; and the brothers' attorneys. Comedian and TV personality Rosie O'Donnell, a vocal advocate for the Menendez brothers, also is expected to speak.
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has not announced a timeline for a decision on his office's review. Geragos said. Gascón, who is running for re-election in the Nov. 5 election, announced Oct. 3 that the review was launched after attorneys for 53-year-old Erik Menendez and 56-year-old Lyle Menendez asked a court to vacate their convictions.
"The DA has said that he's taken it seriously. He hasn't made a decision, yet," Geragos said Monday night. "I take his at his word because he's been honest with us all the way along.
"They're cautiously optimistic."
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The review hinges on a letter that Erik Menendez wrote to his cousin that his attorneys said corroborates claims of sexual abuse by his father just nine months before their parents were killed. The brothers have said they killed their parents out of self-defense. Their attorneys have argued that the brothers may not have been convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole if the trial was held today.
The brother's attorneys said family members believed the brothers should have faced a lesser charge of manslaughter instead of murder during the trial that led to their convictions at ages 21 and 18.
Prosecutors at the time argued there was no evidence of molestation. They said the brothers killed their parents for their multimillion-dollar estate.
Jurors rejected a death sentence in favor of life without parole.
The case gained new attention after Netflix streamed the true-crime drama "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story." In a statement on X posted by his wife, Erik Menendez called the show a "dishonest portrayal" of what happened that has taken them back to a time when prosecutors "built a narrative on a belief system that males were not sexually abused, and that males experience rape trauma differently from women."
Gascón has said he believes that the topic of sexual assault would have been treated with more sensitivity if the case had happened today.
“We have not decided on an outcome. We are reviewing information,” Gascón said in early October.
A hearing was scheduled for Nov. 29. | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/lyle-erik-menendez-case-review/3574441/ | 2024-10-15T17:59:06Z |
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Late Breaking Presentation entitled "VRTX531, a Best-in-Class USP1 Inhibitor for Homologous Deficient Tumors"
CAMBRIDGE, MA, UNITED STATES, October 15, 2024 /EINPresswire / -- VRise Therapeutics Inc. is excited to announce that its abstract, titled“VRTX531, a Best-in-Class USP1 Inhibitor for Homologous Deficient Tumors,” has been accepted for presentation at the highly regarded ENA 2024, 36th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics. The symposium will take place from October 23-25, 2024, at the CCIB in Barcelona, Spain.
The abstract highlights the preclinical efficacy of VRTX531, providing critical insights into the mechanism of action for this novel USP1 inhibitor. This compound holds great promise for targeting homologous recombination deficient (HRD) tumors, particularly those resistant to conventional therapies. The ENA 2024 Symposium is a leading event that showcases cutting-edge drug development and translational research, with a focus on preclinical and early-phase clinical studies. It serves as a platform for in-depth scientific discussions on the latest therapeutic targets and innovations.
“We are honoured to have our research recognized at such a prestigious event,” said Prashant Bhavar, Founder of VRise Therapeutics, Inc.“This acceptance reinforces our dedication to advancing cancer treatments, and we are excited to share our research discoveries with the global oncology community.”
VRise Therapeutics, Inc. will present VRTX531 during the poster session at the Exhibition Hall throughout the conference. VRTX531 was discovered through rigorous screening and optimization and has emerged as a best-in-class inhibitor, selectively inhibiting USP1 with high efficacy both as single agent and combination. Attendees can expect a comprehensive data for VRTX531 covering the drug properties and efficacy data. The presentation will offer key insights for researchers, clinicians, and industry leaders on VRTX531 potential to overcome resistance to chemotherapy and PARP inhibitors by targeting DNA damage and repair mechanisms via TLS pathway.
For more information about VRise Therapeutics, Inc. and the research being presented, please visit .
About the EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium
The 36th edition of the EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics will take place as an in-person event at the CCIB in Barcelona in October 2024. ENA 2024 stands as the drug development and translational research meeting, giving the spotlight to preclinical and phase I studies, ensuring in-depth scientific discussions on the latest developments in targets and drugs.
Attracting an international audience of academics, scientists and pharmaceutical industry leaders, this event enables discussions on the latest innovations in drug development, target selection and the impact of new discoveries in molecular biology.
About VRise Therapeutics, Inc.
VRise Therapeutics is a precision oncology company aspiring to bring transformative change to the lives of cancer patients. The company is working on novel biological targets by leveraging next generation technology and a global network to accelerate the discovery and development of breakthrough drugs. For more information about VRise Therapeutics, Inc., visit
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Retired Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, the 29th chief of the National Guard Bureau, hosts the promotion ceremony for Air Force Gen. Steven Nordhaus, Joint Base Myer Henderson Hall, Arlington, Virginia, Oct. 15, 2024. Nordhaus succeeds Hokanson and will serve as the 30th CNGB and as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (U.S. Air National Guard video by Master Sgt. Brandy Fowler)
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Meralco will face a familiar foe when it clashes with the Ryukyu Golden Kings in the East Asia Super League (EASL) Season 2 on Wednesday at the Okinawa Arena in Japan.
Game time is at 7:40 p.m. with the Bolts looking for another win after a strong start in this prestigious tourney that features the best club teams from Asia.
The Bolts will be oozing with confidence after opening their campaign with a 97-85 win over the Macau Black Bears on 2 October at the Mall of Asia Arena.
But winning against an old foe — the Golden Kings — will not be easy.
Ryukyu is coming off a stunning 87-59 victory over Kai Sotto and the Koshigaya Alphas in the Japan B.League, giving it the extra motivation to cream the Filipino side that is being powered by imports Allen Durham and DJ Kennedy with naturalized player Ange Kouame manning the middle.
Journeyman Victor Law is expected to be Ryukyu’s main option in offense after a double-double game of 24 points and 10 rebounds against Koshigaya.
But Chris Newsome believes that they have what it takes to assert their mastery over the Japanese club, similar to what they did when they posted a 97-88 victory in the previous season of the EASL in Macau.
“We’re here to win. Plain and simple. Last year, it was a test for us to kind of feel what the EASL is all about. This year, we’re coming to win,” said Newsome, who posted 18 points, three rebounds, six assists and three steals in their opening-day victory over the Black Bears.
“We have a lot of guys who are capable of stepping up. We love playing team basketball, everybody chipped in.”
Aside from Newsome, Durham is also expected to be a force to be reckoned with after dropping 18 points and 11 rebounds while Kennedy, who fired 18 markers, is tipped to provide additional firepower. | https://tribune.net.ph/2024/10/15/bolts-ryukyu-revisit-rivalry | 2024-10-15T17:59:08Z |
HELENA — October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Helena is celebrating in a fun and educational way, Boobiecon!
Robyn Lund, a breast cancer survivor wanted to do something more than bring awareness to the disease, but also create the community she did not have when she was battling breast cancer.
Lund says, “All we want is to build support and some awareness around people who need it, people who are at the possibly lowest point in their life and in Helena it is easy to feel isolated and we want to change that."
Boobiecon is a week-long event that starts Monday night and includes community bonding events and early breast cancer sign education.
Check out https://www.boobiecon.com/ for all the events. | https://www.ktvh.com/news/boobiecon-creates-a-community-for-breast-cancer-fighters | 2024-10-15T17:59:09Z |
5 K-drama actors whose life stories motivated us: Kim Woo Bin, Seo In Guk, Park So Dam and more
Kim Woo Bin, Seo In Guk, Park So Dam and many more K-drama actors have inspired us with their life stores. Here 5 K-drama actors who have motivated us.
K-drama actors enchant viewers not just through their performances, but also through their remarkable life stories. Many have triumphed over challenges and pursued their dreams despite obstacles, showcasing resilience and determination. Their inspiring journeys serve as a powerful reminder that talent and perseverance can pave the way for success, both in entertainment and beyond. Here are 5 K-drama actors whose life stories have motivated us.
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Kim Woo Bin
Back in 2017, Kim Woo Bin had to take a hiatus as he was diagnosed with cancer. The actor took a two-year hiatus and returned in 2019. He made an appearance on screen for the first time in 2022 after resuming. In a recent interview, Kim Woo Bin openly expressed that he was shocked and frightened when he heard that he only had 6 months left to live. He added that despite the tough consequences, he never thought of giving up. The Uncontrollably Fond actor further explained that he took it as a chance to reflect on his life and spend more time with his family, connecting with his loved ones.
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Park So Dam
Park So Dam was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer in late 2021 during a routine check-up. She underwent surgery and focused on recovery, taking a break from her career. The Parasite actress gradually returned to acting. In an interview in 2023, the actress revealed that she had a hard time even with her latest drama Death's Game and went home and cried. She revealed that there was even a time when she couldn't get out of bed without her father's assistance.
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Seo In Guk
Seo In Guk's journey to stardom was marked by perseverance and hardship. Initially rejected due to his weight during auditions, he overcame body image struggles. The actor has revealed that he starved himself to lose weight to the extent that it damaged his vocal cords. Despite these setbacks, he gained recognition after winning Superstar K in 2009, which launched his career. Moreover, he was born into poverty, so much so, that his mother used to sell cardboard to make a living. Seo In Guk has also revealed that he gave the money he won to his parents to set up a restaurant.
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Han So Hee
Han So Hee's rise to fame wasn't easy. Coming from a modest background, she faced financial struggles after moving to Seoul to pursue acting, often working part-time jobs to make ends meet. Her big break came with The World of the Married. But Han So Hee faced public backlash due to her mother's fraudulent financial activities. Despite this, she clarified that she had no involvement, as their relationship had been estranged for years.
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Park Bo Gum
Park Bo Gum's journey to success was not without struggles. Early in his career, his family faced financial difficulties after his father took out loans in Bo Gum's name, leading to a legal dispute. At the age of 20, Park Bo Gum had a huge debt under his name. Despite this burden, Park Bo Gum pursued acting, starting with smaller roles. His breakthrough came in Reply 1988 and Love in the Moonlight, solidifying his fame. He also revealed his grief as his mother passed away when he was quite young.
ALSO READ: 'You were my first love': Gong Yoo talks about ending up with Chae Jung An on Coffee Prince | https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/5-k-drama-actors-whose-life-stories-motivated-us-kim-woo-bin-seo-in-guk-park-so-dam-and-more-1353605 | 2024-10-15T17:59:09Z |
Donald Trump keeps getting worse and worse. Last Friday in Aurora, Colorado, he gave a speech that was both bonkers and fascist, asserting that the city—where crime is down 17 percent—had been “conquered” by Venezuelan gangs and announcing that he’d use a 1798 law to deport them. Sunday morning, he said on Fox that “the enemy within” who might be planning any Election Day chaos—“sick people, radical left lunatics,” but presumably for the most part citizens of the United States—should be handled by the National Guard or even the military.
Of course, these things received coverage. The New York Times’ account of the Aurora speech was really quite good. The first paragraph said outright that in the speech, Trump “repeated false and grossly exaggerated claims about undocumented immigrants that local Republican officials have refuted.” It went on to explain that the demagogic claim about the gangs started as a housing dispute, was quite isolated, and was taken care of by local law enforcement.
It quoted the city’s Republican mayor as saying: “The city […] | https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/10/15/the-media-has-three-weeks-to-learn-how-to-tell-the-truth-about-trump/ | 2024-10-15T17:59:10Z |
England must be English down to the kit man, writes JEFF POWELL - we don't need Thomas Tuchel, we need a patriot who will put this country first, second and third
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When Sven-Goran Eriksson was appointed England manager I wrote words to the effect that the birthright of the country which gave football to the world was being sold to someone from a nation of cross-country skiers who spend half their lives in darkness.
It took a while for that sentiment to be proved correct, and during his era of World Cup failure the Swedish lothario endeared himself sufficiently to our big-hearted people to be given a sentimental send-off when he passed away in sad circumstances this year.
May he rest in peace and his family live happily ever after on the generational wealth lavished upon him by the FA.
Undeterred, they went and did it all over again with Fabio Capello who, grazie mille, is enjoying la dolce vita at our expense despite being an even more disappointing mercenary than Sven.
Now, can you believe it, here we go again.
Thomas Tuchel is the latest name linked to the vacant permanent position as England coach
But while England has had foreign managers before, it could be argued they have yielded little success (Sven-Goran Eriksson pictured in 2001)
Fabio Capello (pictured in 2011) was arguably even less inspiring at the helm than Eriksson
Willkommen Herr Tuchel. The former head coach of mighty Bayern Munich who was sacked after a season in which he failed to win the Bundesliga.
Exactly what was up in Bavaria has never been fully explained. Was there a scandal or a personality clash behind the scenes? Or did his masters figure they should be winning the German championship even if a Dachshund was the manager – and that they were barking up the wrong tree with Thomas Tuchel in the long term?
When the sauerkraut goes the way of the smorgasbord and the pasta – as looks likely given that Tuchel is a one-year impact manager and the next World Cup is not upon us until 2026 – will the euro finally drop? That whether or not Gareth Southgate was a glass half-full or glass half-empty personality, the manager of England should be… English. Someone born and raised in the football culture of this country, someone immersed in the best and worst of our national characteristics, someone who knows what makes us tick and what buttons need pressing to get the most out of our footballers.
Oh, and by the way, a patriot for whom it is always England first, second and third. Not someone, like the present caretaker incumbent, who is so confused by his Irish antecedents that he cannot bring himself to sing God Save The King before kick-off.
‘Little Englander’ I hear the merchants of woke cry. No, this is how is should be for every country in the world, that’s why we call them national teams.
Not only the manager and players but everybody involved, right down to the kit man, should be English. So it should be with every football nation, large or small.
Eriksson endeared himself to many during his time in the role but the right choice for England is someone who is immersed in the country's football culture
Of the candidates mooted to take over Gareth Southgate's role, Amersham-born Eddie Howe (pictured) is the strongest choice
How can a foreigner urge Englishmen to do or die on football's battlefield? Could a Swede, an Italian or a German have roused the troops like King Henry V when he implored his men: ‘On, on unto the breach dear friends or let close the wall up with our English dead.’ Sometimes when all else fails, only passion can save the day.
A bit over-dramatic? Maybe. But perhaps only a graphic illustration can bring English football to its senses. And if we are fated to keep losing World Cups the way we have since 1966, better we do so together.
It's not as if there is not one of our own to do the job. Eddie Howe, to name but one, has been hamstrung of late by the hierarchy at Newcastle, but before the meddling set in he looked every inch an England manager in the making. That Three-Lion heart is still beating.
Tuchel had it easy in Germany with Bayern, and in France with Paris Saint-Germain. Ominously, his English is not so good. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13962851/England-team-English-kit-man-JEFF-POWELL-Thomas-Tuchel.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2024-10-15T17:59:11Z |
Johnny Gaudreau’s Columbus teammates have been given a few options for how to handle their emotions during the Blue Jackets’ home opener.
If you want to cry, cry.
If you want to laugh, laugh.
The only rules — play the game the way "Johnny Hockey" would, and with him in mind.
An emotional night awaits in Columbus on Tuesday, when the Blue Jackets host the Florida Panthers. It will be a night of tributes to Gaudreau, the Blue Jackets' star who would have been entering his third season with the club and 11th NHL season overall, and his brother Matthew Gaudreau. They were killed on Aug. 29 when police said they were struck by a suspected drunken driver while they were riding their bicycles on a rural road in New Jersey on the eve of their sister Katie's wedding.
“It’s such an unprecedented thing and something that obviously none of us wanted to go through, and nobody ever wants to go through it,” Blue Jackets coach Dean Evason said Monday as final preparations for the celebration of the Gaudreaus were being made. “But we have to.”
The 31-year-old Gaudreau wore jersey No. 13 for the Blue Jackets. Matthew Gaudreau — who was 29 and played five pro seasons in the American Hockey League, East Coast Hockey League and in Sweden — wore jersey No. 21. All 32 NHL teams are wearing decals on their helmets with 13, 21 and the letter G on their helmets through Oct. 24. USA Hockey has a similar tribute for its teams at all levels this year.
On Tuesday, the "13" tributes will be almost everywhere. Both the Blue Jackets and Panthers will take the ice for warmups wearing jerseys bearing the name Gaudreau and jersey number 13; those sweaters will be auctioned and raffled off to benefit the John and Matthew Gaudreau Foundation. There's "13" on the ice behind the goals. All fans in attendance will receive a "13" patch, the ones Blue Jackets players will be wearing on their jerseys this season.
And they say the game starts at 7 p.m., but really, puck drop is at 7:13.
“Whatever they need,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice said Monday. “Whatever the fans need, whatever the team needs to start that healing process, we’d be proud to be a part of it.”
Gaudreau — all of 5-foot-9 and 165 pounds — was a star at Boston College before making it to the NHL, his debut coming in Calgary’s finale for the 2013-14 season. His first goal came on his first shot in his first game, and his star only kept shining brighter from there.
The player who fished the puck out of the net after Gaudreau’s first goal was Sean Monahan, his teammate then in Calgary and his teammate now in Columbus.
“I saw it firsthand. He had an impact on so many people,” Monahan said. “I mean, players that played against him are a fan of his and watch him and study his game and try and be like him.”
Monahan likely never aspired to be a donkey. Going forward, the Blue Jackets will clamor to be called one.
Johnny Gaudreau used that term — "donkey" — freely and endearingly around friends and teammates. The Blue Jackets have had a celebration for about a decade where the player of the game gets to wear a Civil War-style kepi hat, the recipient selected by the previous player recipient. The kepi is retired. The player of the game now gets a donkey hat. Monahan was the first to receive it.
“I’m really happy that we’ve kind of switched it up,” Blue Jackets defenseman Erik Gudbranson said. “I think it’s fitting for us. It was a great idea. And, you know, we wish the little guy was still here calling us that, But Monny is the right guy to get that the first time, for sure.”
Guy Gaudreau, the late brothers' father and a longtime coach, was on the ice with the Blue Jackets for practice in Columbus on Monday and planned to be back for morning skate on Tuesday. Members of the family will be at the game. The tributes will not stop with this game. They'll keep going, one way or another, for years to come.
“There's going to be some tough moments, no doubt about it,” Gudbranson said. “We still miss him.”
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We Value Integrity, Speed & quality Service above all!” - Eddie SayedEDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA, October 15, 2024 /EINPresswire / -- Founded by Eddie Sayed, LubeFX is more than just a quick-lube center-it's a place where customers find quality service delivered with integrity, speed, and a personal touch.
Eddie Sayed's vision for LubeFX+ was simple yet ambitious: to create a space where customers could trust their vehicles' care, receive valuable insights into preventative maintenance, and enjoy a friendly, efficient service without the hassle of appointments. This vision has quickly set LubeFX+ apart in Edmonton's competitive automotive market, creating a reputation for quality that extends beyond just a typical oil change.
A New Excellence in Quick-Lube Service
LubeFX+ takes pride in offering Edmonton's drivers more than just oil changes. The team at LubeFX+ understands that proper vehicle maintenance is essential for long-term performance and safety, and they take the time to educate customers on the importance of preventative fluid maintenance. This approach empowers vehicle owners, enabling them to make informed decisions about their car care and ensuring they can keep their vehicles running smoothly for years to come.
"We believe in building long-term relationships with our customers," says Eddie Sayed, owner of LubeFX+. "To us, that means providing honest, professional service while educating our customers about the benefits of regular maintenance. We want our customers to leave here feeling confident about their vehicle's condition, knowing that they've received the best care possible."
Speed, Efficiency, and Convenience: The LubeFX+ Promise
In today's fast-paced world, LubeFX+ understands that customers have busy schedules and need service they can rely on without compromising their time. That's why LubeFX+ offers a convenient, no-appointment-needed drive-thru service that ensures customers can get back on the road quickly. Whether it's an oil change, tire check, or other routine maintenance, the LubeFX+ team works efficiently to provide high-quality results in record time.
"Speed and quality don't have to be mutually exclusive," says Sayed. "At LubeFX+, we pride ourselves on delivering quick, top-tier service while maintaining a friendly atmosphere. We know how valuable our customers' time is, so we focus on getting them in and out, but with the confidence that their vehicle has received the best care."
Built on Values: Integrity, Customer Care, and Community
Since opening its doors, LubeFX+ has been committed to working with integrity, providing customers with a welcoming environment, and staying true to its mission of delivering exceptional customer service. These values have not only built a loyal customer base but have also made LubeFX+ a trusted name in Edmonton's automotive service industry.
"We know that the automotive industry is highly competitive," says Sayed. "But we believe that what sets us apart is our commitment to doing good business-treating every customer with respect, honesty, and genuine care. Our team takes pride in offering a service that reflects these values, and it's the reason why so many people trust us with their vehicles."
LubeFX+ also understands the importance of giving back to the community that has supported them over the years. The company is proud to engage in local initiatives, from supporting charity events to participating in community drives that make a positive impact on Edmonton's neighborhoods.
The LubeFX+ Experience: More Than Just an Oil Change
At LubeFX+, the focus is on creating a positive, memorable experience for every customer who walks through their doors. The friendly and knowledgeable team is always ready to answer questions and provide insights on how customers can best take care of their vehicles. By prioritizing customer education and transparent communication, LubeFX+ has cultivated a service experience that extends far beyond a simple oil change.
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For many in Edmonton, LubeFX+ has become synonymous with reliability, quality, and outstanding customer service. The company's commitment to integrity, coupled with their ability to deliver fast, efficient service, has made LubeFX+ a trusted name in vehicle maintenance. Customers know that when they drive into LubeFX+, they're not just receiving an oil change-they're gaining a partner in maintaining the health and performance of their vehicle.
Looking to the future, Eddie Sayed and his team remain dedicated to enhancing the LubeFX+ experience even further. With plans for continued growth and innovation, LubeFX+ is excited to keep serving the Edmonton community with the same passion and dedication that has fueled its success from day one.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Park Ranger Alison Hebert shares what it means to support debris operations along the Nolichucky River in Unicoi County, Tennessee, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Deployed from the USACE New Orleans District in Louisiana, a state often affected by hurricanes, she is using the opportunity to provide essential support and technical assistance for the state-led debris operation in these rural communities as a way of giving back. (USACE Video by Leon Roberts) #helene #helene24 #USACE #debrisremoval #assessments #emergencyresponse
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Dear Editor,
Since the implementation of the partylist system in the 1998 elections, it has become somewhat of a backdoor pass into the House of Representatives.
While the system was designed to ensure that every sector is represented in government, it presented challenges that warrant careful consideration.
Over the years, the partylist system — which started out as an avenue to ensure that marginalized groups, specifically labor, women, youth and indigenous peoples were given a voice — continues to draw criticism due to the proliferation of small factional parties that lack the resources and experience to govern effectively.
What comes to mind is the filing of Certificates of Candidacy (CoC) for the 2025 midterm polls where some personalities — however clean their intentions — have become objects of scrutiny.
Take the case of the aspirant Vendors Partylist led by internet personality and food entrepreneur Deo Jarito Balbuena, famously known as “Diwata.” While the internet sensation — the partylist group’s fourth nominee — promises they will push vendors’ causes, it still leaves an unsettling taste in the mouth, so to speak.
On the surface, the food stall owner’s candidacy presents a compelling narrative as his first-hand experience navigating the challenges faced by vendors — securing permits, finding affordable stalls, ensuring food safety — positions him to advocate effectively for their needs. Voters struggling to make ends meet might find his promise to establish a cooperative to empower vendors particularly appealing.
After all, who better would understand the plight of vendors than someone who has walked the path?
However, this underscores a potential weakness of the partylist system — the risk of narrow representation. While his focus on vendor concerns is understandable, a representative solely focused on a single sector might struggle to address the broader needs of the constituency.
Issues like education, healthcare, and infrastructure development, while crucial to all citizens, might receive less attention from a representative laser-focused on vendor issues.
Also, partylist representatives often lack the resources and experience of their counterparts from the established political parties, which can hinder their ability to navigate the complexities of lawmaking and secure the passage of beneficial legislation.
And Diwata — while undoubtedly passionate about his cause — might lack the legislative know-how to effectively translate his vision to concrete policies.
Another “conspiracy” that may arise is the food stall owner may become a puppet of a much bigger group or personalities seeking a seat in Congress to advance their own political and personal agenda.
The solution lies in striking a balance. Partylist systems undoubtedly play a vital role in ensuring diverse representation in government. However, it is crucial to ensure that these representatives possess the necessary skills and experience to be effective lawmakers.
Perhaps this could involve providing capacity-building programs for partylist representatives or establishing mentorship opportunities with seasoned legislators.
The success of the representatives elected through the partylist system hinges on their ability to transcend narrow sectoral interests and embrace a broader vision for their constituents.
They must become a boon not just for their base, but for the collective good of the community they represent, and not a bane that will sow discord and uncertainty for the parties concerned.
Fortunato delos Santos
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HELENA — In this week’s edition of Out and About: A movie night paired with creative arts, music supporting Helena area schools by their students, trivia for a good cause and more.
Beetlejuice Night - Painted Pots - 10/11
On Friday, at Painted Pots, they will host a movie night screening the 1988 film Beetlejuice while you can design creations they offer. The night will consist of creating decorations for the fall to get into the Halloween season, or pick out whatever catches your eye. There will be themed snacks and you can bring your own drinks for the movie night. The event is for adults and mature teens. Tickets to attend are $15 in addition to your creation.
Lewis and Clark Bingo Nights are back - Lewis and Clark Tap Room - 10/11
This Friday, Lewis and Clark Brewery is bringing back Bingo Nights. Each Friday night will benefit a new nonprofit, and this Friday, they will supporting the Helena Exchange Club. It will support a program of service in Americanism, Community Service, Youth Activities, and its national project, the Prevention of Child Abuse. The Exchange Club of Helena provides generous grants to recognized non-profit organizations or individuals deemed to be in need of our help through our Community Service program.
Crosstown Piano Fundraiser - Lewis and Clark Fairgrounds - 10/12
On Saturday, at the Lewis and Clark Fairgrounds, music will be in the air for a good cause. Starting at 7 p.m. Helena High School and Capital High School will be dueling it out in a unique Crosstown piano duel, raising funds for each of their booster clubs. It’s a friendly competition, looking to play music for people to enjoy. You can request songs for them to play, purchase drinks to enjoy through the evening, all to support Helena area high schools.
Boobie Con - Lewis and Clark Tap Room - 10/16
Next week, on Wednesday, Lewis and Clark Brewery will be hosting one of their trivia nights tied in with raising awareness to breast cancer. From 7:30 to 11 p.m. it will be a night of fun and spreading awareness about the early signs and symptoms of breast cancer. There will be food, soft drinks and adult beverages to enjoy, and if you wear pink, you will be entered into a raffle to win a Lewis and Clark Brewing gift basket.
If there is an event that you would like to see next week, please send us an email with all of the details to outandabout@ktvh.com. | https://www.ktvh.com/out-and-about/out-and-about-movie-night-with-art-crosstown-piano-fundraiser-and-brest-cancer-awareness | 2024-10-15T17:59:15Z |
Rare comet in skies over North Texas Published October 14, 2024 • Updated 1 hour ago A rare comet known as C/2023 A3 has been visible to the naked eye over North Texas. NBC 5 viewers who spotted the comet shared their photos with iSee@nbcdfw.com. 23 photos 1/23 Brad McGavock Brad McGavock Godley, TX 2/23 Brad McGavock Brad McGavock Godley, TX 3/23 Alex Sabatini Taken north of Ivanhoe TX with a Nikon Z6ii and a 50mm 1.8 lens on Sunday 10/13 4/23 Alexander Sabatini Name : Alex Sabatini Equipment : Nikon Z6ii, Nikon 50mm 1.8 Location : FM2554 , North of Ivanhoe 5/23 Alexander Sabatini Name : Alex Sabatini Equipment : Nikon Z6ii, Nikon 50mm 1.8 Location : FM2554 , North of Ivanhoe 6/23 Alexander Sabatini Name : Alex Sabatini Equipment : Nikon Z6ii, Nikon 50mm 1.8 Location : FM2554 , North of Ivanhoe 7/23 Alexander Sabatini Name : Alex Sabatini Equipment : Nikon Z6ii, Nikon 50mm 1.8 Location : FM2554 , North of Ivanhoe 8/23 Patrick McMahon 4 second picture of the comet taken at Dinosaur Valley State Park on 10/13. 9/23 Skinness-Lawson, Mary [tint-NBC_DFW] [EXTERNAL] Tonight’s comet 10/23 Laura Lynn Stroud Both pics taken on 10/14/24 in Dublin, TX. 11/23 Adam Reynolds This is Comet A3 on the night of 10/13 at 7:59PM. Best visibility for this comet is from 10/14 to 10/24. Hopefully Kevan can use if during one of his Astronomy segments! 12/23 Bob Hatfield Comet taken from new Fairview Texas on October 14 with Nikon d810 camera 50 mm lens. 13/23 Arthur Welborn Picture taken last night from Farmersville. 14/23 drjimcato@aol.com I took this picture at approximately 8:05 pm tonight of the comet in the low western sky . The picture was taken from my ranch just outside Granbury Dr. Jim Cato Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS 15/23 dhennig.1007 Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphonePhoto— Dr.Joe McWherter Location— Walling Bend, Lake Whitney, Bosque County 16/23 Danny Voth Western sky near Muenster 17/23 Larry Groebe I actually couldn’t see it, but my new iPhone does such an amazing job with night mode that it found the comet quite clearly. 18/23 Domingo Rodriguez The comet as seen from in front of my home near Lake Worth, TX, around 8:05 pm. 19/23 Keith Stolarek We took this photo from Terlingua (ten bits ranch) last evening 10/13/2024. I have more on my camera. Keith Stolarek 20/23 Keith Stolarek We took this photo from Terlingua (ten bits ranch) last evening 10/13/2024. I have more on my camera. Keith Stolarek 21/23 Keith Stolarek We took this photo from Terlingua (ten bits ranch) last evening 10/13/2024. I have more on my camera. Keith Stolarek 22/23 Keith Stolarek We took this photo from Terlingua (ten bits ranch) last evening 10/13/2024. I have more on my camera. Keith Stolarek 23/23 Share your photos and videos with NBC 5 by emailing iSee@nbcdfw.com More Photo Galleries PHOTOS: Hilarious, motivating signs from the 2024 Chicago Marathon In photos: Impact of Hurricane Milton In pictures: See damage from Hurricane Helene See inside: Home with unexpected tie to Frank Lloyd Wright and a notable history hits market in Illinois | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/rare-comet-in-skies-over-north-texas/3574433/ | 2024-10-15T17:59:14Z |
Uzumaki Anime Release Schedule: All Episodes, Dates, Where to Watch, Plot & More
Here is a complete schedule of Uzumaki anime with its upcoming episodes, streaming details, release dates, and plot details of the episodes. READ
The highly anticipated horror anime Uzumaki has released three episodes so far, with the final episode set to arrive on October 20, 2024. Based on Junji Ito’s famous horror manga, Uzumaki tells the chilling story of a village haunted by a spiral shape. Unlike typical anime series, Uzumaki will only have four episodes, making it a much shorter series than most, which typically run for 12 or 24 episodes.
Produced by an English studio, Production I.G. USA, the anime first premiered on Adult Swim, an American TV channel, on September 29, 2024. Since then, new episodes have aired weekly, with the final episode expected soon. However, there is a possibility of delays due to production issues, though nothing has been confirmed yet.
Here is the full release schedule for Uzumaki episodes, based on Japanese Standard Time (JST), British Standard Time (BST), and Indian Standard Time (IST):
- Episode 1: Released on September 29, 2024
(1:30 PM JST | 5:30 AM BST | 10:00 AM IST)
- Episode 2: Released on October 6, 2024
(1:30 PM JST | 5:30 AM BST | 10:00 AM IST)
- Episode 3: Released on October 13, 2024
(1:30 PM JST | 5:30 AM BST | 10:00 AM IST)
- Episode 4: Set to release on October 20, 2024
(1:30 PM JST | 5:30 AM BST | 10:00 AM IST)
The show is different from most anime in that it isn’t widely available on global streaming services like Crunchyroll or Netflix. Instead, viewers outside the U.S. can access the episodes through HBO Max a day after they air on Adult Swim.
The story follows Kirie Goshima, a girl living in Kurouzu village, where strange and disturbing events tied to spiral shapes begin happening. Her boyfriend, Shuichi Saitou, warns her to leave the village, especially after his father becomes obsessed with the spirals and dies because of them. The curse soon affects Kirie’s best friend, Azami, who also dies after becoming engulfed in a spiral.
In Episode 2, Kirie begins to experience the spiral curse herself, with her hair taking on a terrifying spiral form, leading to the deaths of several classmates. Episode 3 shows the mental breakdown of Shuichi’s mother, who eventually meets her tragic end. The village is also hit by a severe storm, cutting off any hope of escape for its residents.
At last, we will be sure to update this section with more intel as they come. Thus, keep an eye on Pinkvilla for more updates from the world of anime and manga.
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Man United legend Eric Cantona SLAMS Sir Jim Ratcliffe for a 'scandalous lack of respect' in expletive-laden Instagram rant after Sir Alex Ferguson was 'sacked' from his ambassadorial role
- Eric Cantona won four Premier Leagues in five years under Sir Alex Ferguson
- The legendary manager's £2.16m ambassadorial role was terminated on Tuesday
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Manchester United legend Eric Cantona has taken aim at the club's new Ineos part-owners in the wake of Sir Alex Ferguson's lucrative multi-million pound ambassadorial role being cancelled.
Ferguson is the most successful manager in Premier League and United history, building a dynasty that dominated the first 20 years of the competition and defined a period of English football.
The Scottish manager left the club after 27 years in 2013, having guided the club to one last top-flight crown, which is still the most recent the Red Devils have won.
However, on Tuesday it was revealed that new part-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe informed Ferguson he would no longer be a paid employee at Old Trafford beyond the end of the season for the first time in 38 years.
The decision has unexpectedly provoked the ire of a number of United legends, the majority of whom all retain a strong respect for their former boss, with Cantona no different, slamming the controversial decision on Instagram.
Sir Alex Ferguson (left) has had his lucrative ambassadorial role at Manchester United terminated by Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Eric Cantona has taken aim at the club's new part-owners after 'sacking' club icon Ferguson
'Sir Alex Ferguson should be able to do anything he wants at the club until the day he dies. Such a lack of respect,' wrote the legendary United icon on Instagram.
'It's totally scandalous. Sir Alex Ferguson will be my boss forever! And I throw them all in a big bag of s***!'
Cantona was one of the key pillars of Ferguson and United's dominance over English football in the early days of the Premier League.
Between 1992-97 Cantona and the Red Devils under the great Scottish manager won four Premier League titles, two FA Cups and three Community Shield crowns.
Ferguson has been a near-constant presence at Old Trafford despite his departure over 10 years ago.
He is a frequent presence at games, while the legend of his time in charge has perhaps served as something of an unsurpassable bench mark for each manager to have come in his wake.
Sources insist the meeting in which Ferguson was informed was entirely amicable and the 82-year-old, who will keep his title as a non-executive director, remains a close friend of the club who will always be welcome at Old Trafford.
But the decision once again demonstrates Ratcliffe’s determination to drive down costs after United last month announced net losses for the fifth year in a row. The new co-owner has carried out a savage redundancy programme leading to the loss of 250 jobs – with Ferguson the biggest sacrifice by some distance.
He has often been seen sitting next to Ratcliffe in the directors’ box and chatting with the Ineos owner since he paid £1.3billion to acquire 27.7 per cent of the club.
The Glazer family were happy to let Ferguson continue in his well-paid role, writes Mail Sport's Chris Wheeler, partly as an acknowledgement that his success on the pitch brought huge financial benefit to the club.
Cantona spent five years at Old Trafford under Ferguson, winning four Premier Leagues in the period 1992-97
Cantona underlined that the former Red Devils manager would always be his boss 'until the day he dies'
Ferguson is the most successful manager in the club's history having won 13 Premier Leagues
But Ratcliffe has taken a more businesslike approach and decided that United can no longer afford to pay such a high price for Ferguson’s services when the rest of the club is feeling the squeeze.
For the time being, Ferguson retains his place on the club’s football board, a largely honorary body that included Sir Bobby Charlton before his death last year.
Besides the redundancy programme, which could save United up to £45m-a-year, Ratcliffe has presided over a round of cost-cuts that has included withdrawing corporate credit cards and chauffeur-driven cars for executives, and free travel for employees to the FA Cup final in May.
It’s understood that this year’s staff Christmas party has also been cancelled, with sources accepting that it would be in bad taste after so many colleagues lost their jobs. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13963031/Man-United-Eric-Cantona-SLAMS-Sir-Jim-Ratcliffe-Sir-Alex-Ferguson.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2024-10-15T17:59:18Z |
Natsume's Book of Friends Season 7
Episodes 1-2
by Lauren Orsini,
How would you rate episode 1 of
Natsume's Book of Friends (TV 7) ?
Community score: 4.1
How would you rate episode 2 of
Natsume's Book of Friends (TV 7) ?
Community score: 4.6
It's great to be back reviewing Natsume's Book of Friends after a long break. The first season I reviewed for ANN was season 5 back in 2016, when we were still using letter grades to rate episodes. I still feel the same way about Natsume—it's a gentle, heartwarming story about building a found family out of sympathetic humans and yokai alike. I've enjoyed watching the narrative mature into twisty multi-part mysteries with recurring allies and antagonists. But even as this long-running show has deepened and expanded its lore, Season 7 is starting off at a point where any viewer can easily catch up on the story, even if they haven't watched since Season 6 aired in 2017, with back-to-back one-shots where Natsume helps the Yokai of the Week solve a basic problem. Even with such simple premises, these first two episodes are full of pathos. Depicting the most human of emotions through Natsume's encounters with the supernatural is what this show has always done best.
Other shows might portray yokai as threatening or scary, but Natsume's Book of Friends has always leaned toward depicting them as misunderstood. How else would we have two episodes in a row in which yokai interference results in Natsume doing arts and crafts? After the first episode's adventure in sculpting, “Someday's Garden” has Natsume in motion: digging, hammering, dusting, painting, an exhausting 'round the clock schedule of mundane labor as he builds a flowerbed for Touko by day, and refurbishes a tiny mansion in a box by night. What we love about Natsume is also his biggest weakness: this good boy just can't say no! Par for the course for Natsume's Book of Friends, the yokai designs are rudimentary forms; one of the box house protectors even lampshades his plight—his stumpy, fabric-covered appendages aren't as dexterous as human hands, which is why they need Natsume to take over the tiny house repairs. (The stones the yokai were stealing were being ground into a sort of whitewash to repair the screens, and thus the central connection between the flower bed and the tiny house is only tangential.) Fortunately, both of Natsume's labors bear fruit—or flowers, as it were. A dreamlike experience brings Natsume face to face with the house's intended resident, the goddess Shidahime, a female figure with lavender hair. Following all of the protectors' adoring descriptions that preceded them, the goddess and her garden view reminded me that this is not the most sakuga-infused anime airing right now, but a scrappy Studio Shuka production (same as seasons 5 and 6, after they took over from Brains Base). Combined with the same familiar soundtrack from seasons past, it has the minimal composition of a Zen garden.
I want to highlight the endings of both of these episodes, since I think the second was more successful than the first. The first episode had so much build-up that it seemed as if it ran out of time; when Natsume and Madara bade farewell to Mini Sensei, the clay doll's plight felt unfinished. It was already cracked despite Natsume's repairs, and there was no assurance it would reach its destination. It's a total contrast to this week, when both Natsume and the yokai completed their objectives. It's through this process of fulfillment that Natsume makes the connection between the box house protectors' adoration of Shidahime and his own motivation: to make his kind adoptive mother smile. It's the show's strongest point and what has made this show so enduringly comforting over the years: the way we can see our own humanity reflected back at us through Natsume's eyes.
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