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Alex Murdaugh settles the wrongful death lawsuit that sparked his fall
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Alex Murdaugh has settled a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a teen killed in a boat crash involving Murdaugh’s youngest son. Prosecutors say the 2019 crash provoked the disgraced South Carolina attorney to kill his wife, Maggie, and their son Paul, who wrecked the boat. The agreement by Progressive to pay the $500,000 policy Alex Murdaugh had on the boat ends the suit from the family of 19-year-old Mallory Beach. The teen’s family already received more than $15 million from a settlement with the Parker’s Kitchen chain of convenience stores and others.
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California college shooting that left employee critical was ‘workplace violence,’ officials say
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Southern California’s Santa Monica College is closed Tuesday as police investigate a campus shooting that wounded an employee in what officials said was a “workplace violence incident.” No arrests have been made.
The shooting occurred around 10 p.m. Monday at the school’s Center for Media and Design on a satellite campus that’s also home to the public radio station KCRW, the community college said in a statement.
The victim, who was not identified, was hospitalized in critical condition, the college statement said. The shooter remains at large.
“This was a workplace violence incident, not a random act,” the statement said. “The College is fully cooperating with authorities, and all Santa Monica College campuses will be closed on Tuesday to prioritize the safety and well-being of our community.”
The Santa Monica Police Department, which is leading the investigation, did not immediately respond to calls and emails seeking additional details.
The school, with a series of satellite campuses in the beachside city, enrolls about 30,000 full- and part-time students.
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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.
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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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Thomas Tuchel 'agrees to become England manager' as unveiling timeline set
Thomas Tuchel is the favourite to become the next England manager.
Thomas Tuchel has reportedly agreed to become the new England manager and is expected to be unveiled in the role as early as this week. A swift conclusion to talks with the Football Association is set to see the former Chelsea boss become only the third foreign Three Lions boss.
Tuchel's expected appointment will end the search for Gareth Southgate's successor, three months after his resignation following the Euro 2024 final defeat by Spain. Under-21s head coach Lee Carsley has taken charge of England's last four matches on a caretaker basis but has all but ruled himself out of the full-time position.
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VIA Centers for Neurodevelopment is proud to host our first community-wide fall festival on November 1, 4pm-6:30pm, at our Roanoke VIA Day School campus!
Many of our families who have loved ones with disabilities felt that public events were not accessible, and were nervous about attending. Amy Foster, VIA’s Associate Director of Advancement, and Lyn Fusco, VIA’s Advancement Coordinator, chose to expand the existing school fall festival and invite the entire Roanoke community, creating a welcoming and accepting family-friendly evening for all.
Along with festival food and games, VIA’s “Fun on the Farm” fall festival will feature touch-a-trucks, a petting zoo, face painting, pumpkin patches and a dance class for all abilities, sponsored by Floyd Ward School of Dance. Quieter activities like storytelling will be available inside, and the school will offer sensory-friendly calm spaces to help overstimulation.
VIA’s mission is to create a more inclusive world where all are accepted, and we believe this begins at a local level. We are so appreciative of our fall festival sponsors including Robertson Marketing Group, Inc., Liberty Trust Hotel and Brown Edwards, CPA.
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Please register here: https://www.givesignup.org/Race/VA/Roanoke/VIAsFallFestivalCommunityFair.
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President and CEO Martin Lundstedt to Showcase Sustainable Innovation
ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --
The Consumer technology Association (CTA)® announces Martin Lundstedt, President and CEO of Volvo Group , as a keynote speaker for CES® 2025, along with several influential guests. Volvo Group will highlight its vision for a 100% safe, 100% fossil-free, and 100% more productive transportation and infrastructure.
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Volvo Group will focus its presentation on the urgency to deliver a more sustainable and efficient way of working through the power of electrification, connectivity, and automation. Technology and collaboration are Volvo Group's most effective tools in achieving its ambitious target to reach net zero value chain greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.
"Volvo Group is leading the way in mobility to deliver sustainable technologies across trucks, buses, construction equipment, and marine and industrial solutions," said Gary Shapiro, CEO, CTA. "We look forward to hearing their ambitious strategy to accelerate climate progress in the next decade."
Volvo Group will highlight its unique three-pronged approach to fossil-free transportation: battery electric, hydrogen fuel cells, and combustion engines running on renewable biofuels. The company will explain why a systemic approach across the entire value chain is essential to support the successful adaptation and continued adoption of these technologies.
"We are honored to take the stage at CES and highlight the impact our technological advancements will have on our industry and society at large," said Martin Lundstedt, President and CEO, Volvo Group. "Transforming mobility is a full-scale societal issue and we are urgently driving that forward. But the reality is that while we have the technology and equipment available, it is of paramount importance to have vital enabling conditions in place to ensure society and the planet benefit from fossil free transport and infrastructure solutions. CES will provide a powerful opportunity for us to showcase to the world how we are transforming tomorrow across our supply chain."
In the light of rapid climate change, now more than ever, Volvo Group believes that leveraging strategic partnerships across industries and governments is the key to accelerating change. Putting vision into action, Volvo Group will also share concrete steps towards integrating sustainable practices across its operations.
"Volvo Group is playing an important part in the green future with some of the most ambitious goals and initiatives in the industry," said Kinsey Fabrizio, President, CTA. "We can't wait to learn more about the expected and unexpected partnerships that have led to breakthroughs in technology and sustainable practices."
Volvo Group's Martin Lundstedt speaks at 9 a.m. PT on January 8, 2025, in the Palazzo Ballroom at the Venetian. Dive in to chart the course to advanced mobility at CES 2025. For the latest information on CES 2025, visit CES and register here .
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The Volvo Group drives prosperity through transport and infrastructure solutions, offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase our customers' uptime and productivity. Founded in 1927, the Volvo Group is committed to shaping the future landscape of sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions. The Volvo Group is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, employs more than 100,000 people and serves customers in almost 190 markets. In 2023, net sales amounted to SEK 553 billion (EUR 48 billion). Volvo shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
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ATLANTA — Local election board members in Georgia cannot refuse to certify election results in any scenario, even if they report concerns about fraud or errors, a state judge ruled Tuesday.
“If election superintendents were, as Plaintiff urges, free to play investigator, prosecutor, jury, and judge and so — because of a unilateral determination of error or fraud — refuse to certify election results, Georgia voters would be silenced,” Fulton County Superior Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his decision. “Our Constitution and our Election Code do not allow for that to happen.”
The ruling comes as several Republican local election board members have already declined to certify election results from primary contests earlier this year and after the Georgia State Election Board passed new rules that appeared to allow this discretion. Georgia’s Republican secretary of state has long emphasized that certification is not optional under Georgia law.
Julie Adams, a Republican on the Fulton County Board of Elections, asked the court to rule that her duty to certify is discretionary — not mandatory. Adams has declined to certify multiple elections this year.
McBurney has yet to decide on the new State Election Board rules themselves, which are being challenged in several other lawsuits.
New election rules
One rule says local boards should conduct a “reasonable inquiry” into the accuracy of the count before certifying results. The other says local board members must be allowed to examine all election-related documents “prior to certification of results.”
Several Democratic local election officials and voters, as well as the Democratic Party of Georgia and the Democratic National Committee, filed a lawsuit asking the courts to overturn the rules, or at least affirm that under Georgia law, local election boards’ duty to certify is mandatory, not discretionary.
Certifying election results at the county level is a critical step leading up to the Electoral College vote. Election observers worry that even unsuccessful attempts to block certification could result in disruptions or open the door for misinformation about the integrity of the election — which could have sweeping consequences in a critical swing state.
The Republicans on the State Election Board have faced scrutiny for a series of rule changes ahead of the November election that have been praised by former President Donald Trump. The last-minute tinkering with election rules has drawn criticism not only from Democrats and local election officials, who are scrambling to train poll workers, but also Georgia’s Republican secretary of state and attorney general.
Several of the rules, including a measure approved in September that requires poll workers to hand count the number of ballots cast on Election Day in each precinct, are facing multiple lawsuits and are in court over the next several days.
A trial over certification rules
During a roughly two hour trial, lawyers challenging the certification rules and those defending them agreed Georgia law is clear that election results must be certified by the state deadline. But they fought over whether the court should go further to rein in potentially rogue election officials who may not comply.
“We’re going to assume that public officials are going to fulfill their duty in good faith,” argued Elizabeth Young, the state’s senior assistant attorney general. “You do your best and you certify and you turn whatever the issue is that you think is not quite resolved over to the district attorney.”
McBurney was skeptical. “I happen to live in a county where a member of a board didn’t certify, so I’m wondering when we need to set aside this presumption when faced with real-life examples,” he replied, referencing Fulton County, where Republican members including Adams declined to certify election results earlier this year. Similar votes have occurred in other Georgia counties and in other swing states since 2020.
Attorneys challenging the rules pressed McBurney for a ruling making it undisputable that local election board members must certify.
In fact, later that same day, McBurney heard arguments in the lawsuit from Adams, the Fulton County election board member.
Her lawyer, who works for the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute, argued that individual board members can vote against certifying or decline to certify certain buckets of votes as long as the board as a whole still moves to certify votes that are “correct.”
In his Tuesday ruling, McBurney did agree that any election information not protected from disclosure that is needed to inspect or conduct elections should be promptly provided to election board members. But he made clear that not receiving that information is not grounds to vote against certifying.
“[Election s]uperintendents are rule-writers, personnel trainers and managers, logisticians, marketers, and accountants. Much of what they do is left to their broad, reasoned discretion. But not everything — some things an election superintendent must do, either in a certain way or by a certain time, with no discretion to do otherwise,” McBurney wrote.
“While the superintendent must investigate concerns about miscounts and must report those concerns to a prosecutor if they persist after she investigates, the existence of those concerns, those doubts, and those worries is not cause to delay or decline certification,” he wrote.
The decision can be appealed, so litigation may be ongoing as Election Day nears.
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MP bypolls: An uphill task for Congress in Vijaypur
Bhopal, Oct 15 (IANS) Vijaypur is one of the Assembly constituencies in Madhya Pradesh where the by-elections will be held on November 13, according to the Election Commission of India (ECI).
Located in the Sheopur district of the Gwalior-Chambal region in MP, Vijaypur, which is the segment of the Morena Lok Sabha constituency, has been one of the safest seats for the Congress for the past three decades.
In the past eight Assembly elections held between 1990 and 2023, the Congress won the Vijaypur seat six times and the BJP twice (1998 and 2018).
However, in the last election held in November 2023, a close contest was witnessed between Congress' Ramniwas Rawat and BJP candidate Babulal Mevra.
Senior politician Ramniwas Rawat, however, won the election with a margin of little over 17, 000 votes. It was Rawat's sixth victory from the Vijaypur assembly seat.
A by-election in Vijaypur was necessitated after Congress MLA Ramniwas Rawat resigned from the party and the state Assembly and joined the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha election. He is now state Forest Minister in Chief Minister Mohan Yadav's cabinet.
The by-election in Vijaypur is likely to witness a bipolar contest between the ruling BJP and Congress, however, what will be more interesting is that leader - Ramniwas Rawat, who won this particular seat on Congress' symbol, will be on BJP's side.
Sources told IANS that the BJP likely to field Rawat from Vijaypur for the by-election. An indication about his candidature has already been made by Chief Minister Mohan Yadav during a public programme in Vijaypur last week when he appealed to people to re-elect Rawat.
The state election management committee has forwarded the names of possible candidates for Vijaypur and Budhni, the bastion of BJP stalwart and Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, however, the final announcement will be made by the party's central leadership.
On the other hand, the Madhya Pradesh Congress led by Jitu Patwari, has also appointed a members panel to select the candidates for Vijaypur and Budhni Assembly seats.
In the last Assembly elections held in November 2023, the BJP won 163 out of 230 Assembly seats in the state, while the Congress reduced 66 against 114 it had won in 2018. Of those 66, three Congress MLAs have already resigned from the party and have joined the BJP, including Ramniwas Rawat.
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Sales rise 23.16% to Rs 361.16 crore
Net profit of Newgen Software Technologies rose 47.16% to Rs 70.33 crore in the quarter ended September 2024 as against Rs 47.79 crore during the previous quarter ended September 2023. Sales rose 23.16% to Rs 361.16 crore in the quarter ended September 2024 as against Rs 293.24 crore during the previous quarter ended September 2023. ParticularsQuarter EndedSep. 2024Sep. 2023% Var.Sales361.16293.24 23 OPM %22.9819.52 -PBDT100.5765.46 54 PBT92.5858.60 58 NP70.3347.79 47Powered by Capital Market - Live News
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THE self-proclaimed bishop from Zamboanga City who recently made noise on social media for claiming that Davao City law enforcers ignored his complaint is set to face legal charges.
Davao City Police Office (DCPO) spokesperson Captain Hazel Tuazon told the media on October 14, 2024, that they are in the “right position” to file a case against alias “Marc” for violating Republic Act (RA) 10175, also known as the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, and for usurpation of authority under Article 177 of the Revised Penal Code.
This, despite the suspect’s decision not to file legal charges against the San Pedro Police Station for allegedly neglecting his concerns after he claimed to be extorted by several members of the LGBTQ community in a hotel he was staying in.
“We would also like to clarify that the version of the blotter posted by the complainant is not the official extract,” DCPO said, adding that the police immediately responded to his request but was later on found out that his claims were “not true” as shown by the CCTV footage that was obtained by the police.
“Nevertheless, our patrollers were dispatched to the location of the incident, even though the complainant opted not to pursue legal action,” the security agency added.
The incident allegedly occurred in a hotel along Pedro Gomez Street on October 10. Alias Marc, who was the hotel guest, went to the police station to report that his room was being barged by some LGBTQ members. He also claimed that he was scammed by the community.
Following the investigation, DCPO revealed that alias Marc was fabricating a story and that he was inconsistent with his complaints.
"When he (alias Marc) arrived at the station, he was immediately assisted by the police auxiliary, who gathered initial information. He was then directed to proceed to the desk officer. After recording the details of the report, the complainant was asked if he intended to file charges against the alleged perpetrators. However, he chose only to have the incident documented and requested that our personnel visit the scene. The desk officer then presented the draft blotter for his review and approval," the DCPO stated. DEF
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Asmongold has been banned from Twitch about two days after a stream where he said he didn’t “give a fuck” about Palestinian people, calling them “terrible people” from an “inferior culture.”
While his main Asmongold channel remains intact, his secondary “zackrawrr” channel that he has been streaming on got hit with the ban “due to a violation of Twitch’s community guidelines or terms of service,” according to the inactive page.
Last night, Asmongold vowed to “do better,” calling himself an “asshole” after the Oct. 14 rant that is likely the reasoning for this current ban. But the second account is now gone for an undisclosed period of time. “My bad,” he said on Twitter/X. “Of course no one deserves to have their life destroyed even if they do things or have views I find regressive. You guys deserve more than me saying stupid shit like that, I’ll do better.”
The original comments pretty comprehensively bashed Palestine and its people, and Asmongold’s callous tone towards the conflict rubbed many the wrong way, and incited outrage in others.
“I’m not going to cry a fucking river when people who have genocide that’s baked into their laws are getting genocided,” he said in the viral clip. “I don’t give a fuck. They’re terrible people. It’s not even a question. It’s crazy that people don’t see it that way.”
The United Nations reported that it’s been weeks since food has made it into northern Gaza, a region that’s been ravaged by bombings since last year, with millions displaced. One million people are now at risk of starvation, the UN said, on top of the 42,000-plus killed, 98,000-plus injured, and more than 10,000 missing since last October, according to AlJazeera.
“These people are not your allies, they’re not the same as us,” he continued. “They come from an inferior culture that is horrible.”
Once the clip went viral, many in the community called for his ban and even his removal from streamer team and content group OTK.
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Natura Integrative and Functional Medicine Secures 2024 Best of Florida Award
BRADENTON, FL, UNITED STATES, October 15, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Natura Integrative and Functional Medicine has been honored with the prestigious 2024 Best of Florida Award, a recognition that highlights their unwavering commitment to providing holistic, patient-centered healthcare. This award, driven by customer votes, underscores the trust and confidence patients have in Natura’s approach to wellness.
Natura Integrative and Functional Medicine, led by Dr. Karolina Skrzypek, offers a sanctuary for women seeking to navigate the complexities of hormonal imbalances, chronic conditions, and the myriad of options in natural and holistic treatments. The clinic’s philosophy is simple yet profound: true wellness is not about temporary fixes but about addressing the root causes of health issues.
“We provide women with natural, holistic health care through functional and integrative medicine,” said Dr. Skrzypek, who is double board certified in Internal Medicine and Integrative Medicine. Her extensive training, including a fellowship at the University of Arizona, a faculty scholars training program at the University of Michigan, and the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, equips her to blend traditional and alternative therapies into a personalized care plan for each patient.
Natura’s success lies in its patient-centered approach. Every health plan is carefully crafted to fit the unique needs of each individual, ensuring that the journey to wellness is effective, sustainable, and transformative. This dedication has not gone unnoticed, as evidenced by their recent win in the Best of Florida Awards, hosted by GuideToFlorida.com.
For Natura, this award reflects the deep connections and trust they’ve built with their patients. “True wellness is a journey that involves commitment, time, and financial investment,” Dr. Skrzypek explained. “Our focus is on addressing the root causes of health issues rather than offering temporary solutions.”
As Natura Integrative and Functional Medicine continues to impact lives, this award marks a significant milestone in their mission to redefine what it means to be truly healthy. For those ready to embrace a new approach to wellness, Dr. Skrzypek and her dedicated team are prepared to guide them every step of the way.
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Natura Integrative and Functional Medicine, led by Dr. Karolina Skrzypek, offers a sanctuary for women seeking to navigate the complexities of hormonal imbalances, chronic conditions, and the myriad of options in natural and holistic treatments. The clinic’s philosophy is simple yet profound: true wellness is not about temporary fixes but about addressing the root causes of health issues.
“We provide women with natural, holistic health care through functional and integrative medicine,” said Dr. Skrzypek, who is double board certified in Internal Medicine and Integrative Medicine. Her extensive training, including a fellowship at the University of Arizona, a faculty scholars training program at the University of Michigan, and the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, equips her to blend traditional and alternative therapies into a personalized care plan for each patient.
Natura’s success lies in its patient-centered approach. Every health plan is carefully crafted to fit the unique needs of each individual, ensuring that the journey to wellness is effective, sustainable, and transformative. This dedication has not gone unnoticed, as evidenced by their recent win in the Best of Florida Awards, hosted by GuideToFlorida.com.
For Natura, this award reflects the deep connections and trust they’ve built with their patients. “True wellness is a journey that involves commitment, time, and financial investment,” Dr. Skrzypek explained. “Our focus is on addressing the root causes of health issues rather than offering temporary solutions.”
As Natura Integrative and Functional Medicine continues to impact lives, this award marks a significant milestone in their mission to redefine what it means to be truly healthy. For those ready to embrace a new approach to wellness, Dr. Skrzypek and her dedicated team are prepared to guide them every step of the way.
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Countries that have cashed in on their top-level domain names
AP Business Writer
LONDON (AP) — Anguilla is raking in extra unexpected 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 endings. Tuvalu in the Pacific Ocean has a very valuable resource: the .tv web domain. Libya controls web addresses that en in .ly, which have become widely used as a so-called domain hack for websites with English names that end in -ly. Montenegro was assigned the .me web domain, which has become popular with people who want to claim their pronoun for personal branding reasons. Websites that end in .co aren’t from a generic web domain for companies but were assigned to Colombia.
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California college shooting that left employee critical was ‘workplace violence,’ officials say
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Southern California’s Santa Monica College is closed Tuesday as police investigate a campus shooting that wounded an employee in what officials said was a “workplace violence incident.” No arrests have been made.
The shooting occurred around 10 p.m. Monday at the school’s Center for Media and Design on a satellite campus that’s also home to the public radio station KCRW, the community college said in a statement.
The victim, who was not identified, was hospitalized in critical condition, the college statement said. The shooter remains at large.
“This was a workplace violence incident, not a random act,” the statement said. “The College is fully cooperating with authorities, and all Santa Monica College campuses will be closed on Tuesday to prioritize the safety and well-being of our community.”
The Santa Monica Police Department, which is leading the investigation, did not immediately respond to calls and emails seeking additional details.
The school, with a series of satellite campuses in the beachside city, enrolls about 30,000 full- and part-time students.
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Bartelt and Matrix, both ProMach brands, have combined their sales teams to create a seamless experience for customers exploring either a vertical or horizontal flexible packaging solution. This new team, the Flexible Packaging Group, enables sales representatives to consultatively sell the best solution from both Bartelt and Matrix as a single point of contact for customers to provide a more efficient purchasing experience.
Bartelt is a manufacturer of best-in-class horizontal form fill and seal solutions for pouching and cartoning systems in numerous industries, including food and confectionery, beverage, home and personal care, and others. Bartelt also operates as the North American master distributor for FLtècnics’ rollstock and pre-made pouch machines.
Matrix is a leader in vertical form fill seal packaging equipment producing a variety of flexible bag styles, including pillow, gusseted, flat bottom, and modified doy style. Matrix is also the North American master distributor for Pacraft and its rotary pre-made pouch solutions, as well as INVpack and its sachet and stickpack machine solutions.
The new team will be led by Camilo Sanchez, who assumes the title of Vice President of Sales, Flexible Packaging Group.
“Customers looking for a flexible packaging solution, in most cases, consider horizontal form fill seal, vertical form fill seal and/or pre-made fill seal technology,” Sanchez said. “By having a single point of contact that can support all technologies, we really simplify that process for customers. They don’t have to contact multiple companies; the Flexible Packaging Group will evaluate their application and recommend the best solution.”
In addition to creating a single point of contact for customers, the Flexible Packaging Group is redrawing its sales territories, allowing more time for customer interaction. Finally, the newly combined sales team will be more effective in guiding customers to not only the best flexible packaging technology for their application, but also to the capabilities of the entire ProMach portfolio of brands, which now totals more than 50.
Ultimately, the goal is to streamline the sales process to foster an easier, more efficient experience for customers looking to add the right flexible packaging technologies to their operations.
Sanchez brings a wealth of sales and executive leadership experience to his new role, having joined Bartelt as Vice President of Sales in May 2023. Prior to Bartelt, he spent 23 years in the product inspection division at Mettler Toledo, a manufacturer of measurement and precision instruments.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Joey Logano hoped he'd done enough to advance in NASCAR's playoffs with an eighth-place finish at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
But when he left the track Sunday night, he was four points below the cutline and eliminated from any shot at winning a third Cup Series title.
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Then came the phone calls: inspection was taking a long time and there could be a problem with one of the playoff cars. All Logano could do was wait and wonder if there truly was something amiss with Alex Bowman's car and if it was egregious enough to push Logano into the round of eight.
“NASCAR, man. Expect the unexpected,” Logano said Tuesday. “You just roll with the punches and go with the flow and just continue on. I feel like these days, more and more, there are just crazy things that can happen. I just go with it."
Sure enough, Bowman's car was found to be underweight and he was disqualified. The penalty dropped Bowman in the standings, and as soon as Hendrick Motorsports declined Monday night to appeal, Logano was back in title contention.
“I was honestly surprised. I had heard rumors there was a delay in tech, some of those things going on. But usually nothing happens,” Logano said. “Would be in? That's the first question you have to ask. And then you are still cautiously optimistic, so you just keep going on with your life and prepare for the next race.”
That next race is Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where Logano is a three-time race winner and has started from the pole three different times.
Logano will race over the next three weeks Team Penske teammate and reigning Cup Series champion Ryan Blaney, the Hendrick Motorsports trio of William Byron, Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson, Joe Gibbs Racing drivers Christopher Bell and Denny Hamlin and Tyler Reddick of 23XI Racing for the four spots in the championship-deciding finale.
Should he emerge as the title winner at Phoenix Raceway in November, Logano will be the only active three-time Cup Series champion in NASCAR. Kyle Busch, who did not make the playoffs, is the only active driver alongside Logano with two titles.
Logano said his No. 22 Ford team will not make any changes to its approach as the team heads to Las Vegas, Homestead-Miami Speedway and Martinsville Speedway in Virginia vying for a spot in the finals.
“Same way if we made it any other way, you go out there and attack the positives,” Logano said. "I feel that we've been steadily getting better and improving throughout the season to where we are now. The speed we had at The Roval looked pretty solid to me, to where we are a championship-four caliber race team.
“The stats may not look like it. We may look like we're underdogs from the outside looking in, but internally we feel very confident in our race team that we can make a run at this thing and get us into the championship four," Logano continued. "And we've seen in the past where if you can get in there, anything can happen at Phoenix.”
It starts Sunday at Las Vegas, where Logano won the 2022 playoff race that pushed him to his second Cup title. Larson won last year's playoff race at Las Vegas, as well as the spring race there earlier this season.
But Logano likes his odds now that he's been given this second chance.
“We've done it before,” he said, “we can do it again.”
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HOUSTON, Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Premium outdoor gear brand, RTIC Outdoors , is excited to unveil its new drinkware line focused on delivering great taste. The new drinkware will now feature ceramic lining, protecting beverages against metallic tastes and odors, and is crafted with silicone bases for a soft, soundless landing when setting the drinkware down. The lineup includes nine new products across four product collections - The Essential Collection, The Road Trip Collection, The Outback Collection, and The Journey Collection. Designed for every beverage occasion and an enhanced drinking experience, the new drinkware offerings will be available online at rticoutdoors , and will be rolling onto store shelves at Walmart, Target, West Marine, and other authorized retailers in 2025.
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Introducing RTIC's Revamped Drinkware Line
Built for superior taste, functionality, and convenience, consumers can choose from ceramic-lined and silicone-based offerings in core colors and seasonal hues:
Essential Collection ($14.99 - $19.99) : Made to go with you every day, all day, this collection features color-matching lids and includes RTIC's core silhouettes - the Essential Tumblers in 20oz, 30oz and 40oz sizing, Essential Pint Tumbler, Essential Low Ball Tumbler and Essential Coffee Mug.
Road Trip Collection ($19.99 - $44.99): Featuring various, on-trend styles with handles for easy carrying on-the-go, the collection includes the Road Trip Tumbler in 30oz and 40oz sizes, Road Trip Travel Mug in 16oz and 20oz sizes and the new 64oz Road Trip Tumbler.
Outback Collection ($19.99 - $49.99) : Engineered for active lifestyles, the collection features rugged designs made for all-day hydration in active and outdoor settings. The Outback Collection features color-matching lids and includes the Outback Bottle in 32oz and 40oz sizes, with an Outback Jug coming later in the year.
Journey Collection ($13.99 - $19.99) : Designed for on-the-go hydration, this collection features slim, leak-proof, easy-sip bottles, and includes both the Journey Bottle in 16oz, 20oz and 26oz sizes and the new 12oz Little Journey Bottle. The all-new Little Journey Bottle is designed for kids and features an easy flip and go-lid and carrying ring for small hands.
"At RTIC, we are always looking to enhance our product lines and provide category innovation, which is why we are thrilled to unveil a brand new drinkware line designed to elevate our consumers' beverage experience," said Bill Pond, CEO of RTIC Outdoors. "With a commitment to being overbuilt, not overpriced, we actively listen to our customers feedback, using this knowledge to help us provide innovative features that address the concerns of our customers while staying at an affordable price point."
The new drinkware collection is crafted from 18/8 recycled stainless steel and features double-wall insulation with vacuum sealing to maintain cold temperatures for up to 24 hours and heat for up to 6 hours. Additionally, each product includes a UV heat-protective layer to ensure reliable cold performance, even in the sun.
To learn more about RTIC, please visit rticoutdoors or follow the journey on Instagram @rticoutdoors .
About RTIC Outdoors:
The premium outdoor gear brand, RTIC Outdoors wants to make incredible outdoor adventures accessible to everyone by offering high-quality drinkware, coolers and outdoor essentials that you can rely on without breaking the bank. From adrenaline boosting expeditions to your routine activities, RTIC's innovations are expertly designed and crafted with quality materials to be ultra-durable and lock in the cold. Bridging the gap between high-performance gear for every adventure and an affordable price tag, RTIC is here to make the good times last longer. RTIC's innovations have been crowned by media across the outdoor and lifestyle spaces. RTIC is based in Houston, Texas and its products can be found online at rticoutdoors .
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MP Guv inaugurates study centre to promote tribes' culture in Gwalior
Bhopal, Oct 15 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Governor Mangubhai Patel inaugurated a newly developed 'tribal studies and development centre in Gwalior on Tuesday.
Established on the Krishi Vigyan Kendra campus of Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Agricultural University, the centre aims to study and promote the culture of the Sahariya tribe.
The Sahariya tribe, which is classified as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), has a sizable population in Bhind, Morena, Gwalior, Sheopur, Shivpuri, Guna, Vidisha, Raisen, and Sehore districts in Madhya Pradesh.
Following the inauguration, Governor Patel engaged in discussions with scheduled tribe farmers from Sheopur and Jhabua districts participating in a training session on Kadaknath poultry farming organised by the state government.
During the interaction, Governor Patel apprised them of various welfare and employment-oriented government schemes designed for the state's special backward tribes.
He encouraged them to become self-reliant by availing the benefits of multiple schemes introduced by the Centre and the state government in Madhya Pradesh. The Governor also urged them to inspire others in their communities to take advantage of these opportunities.
During his day-long visit to Gwalior, Patel also addressed the convocation ceremony of Jiwaji University. Addressing the gathering, he advised students to maintain a lifelong spirit of learning. He urged them to pledge to uphold the highest standards of their ideals, knowledge and conduct, even amidst life's challenges and adversities.
The Chancellor of Nalanda University, Bihar Vijay P. Bhatkar along with several other signatories attended the convocation ceremony.
Notably, Jiwaji University (JU) is one of the oldest educational institutions in Madhya Pradesh, which was established in 1964.
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There’s a valley in rural southwest Utah that’s become a hub for renewable energy. Dozens of tall white wind turbines whoosh up in the sky. A sea of solar panels glistens in the distance.
But the new kid on the block is mostly hidden underground.
From the surface, Fervo Energy’s Cape Station looks more or less like an oil derrick, with a thin metal tower rising above the sagebrush steppe.
But this $2 billion geothermal project, which broke ground last year, is not drilling for gas. It’s drilling for underground heat that CEO Tim Latimer believes holds the key to generating carbon-free power — lots of it.
“Just these three well pads alone will produce 100 megawatts of electricity. Around-the-clock, 24/7 electricity,” he said.
Latimer stood overlooking the project, which is currently under construction, on one of the drill rig’s metal platforms 40 feet off the ground. This well is one of the 24 Fervo is in the process of completing at Cape Station to harness the Earth’s natural heat and generate electricity.
Not your father's geothermal energy
This isn’t the type of geothermal that’s already active in volcanic hot spots like Iceland or The Geysers project in California. It’s called an enhanced geothermal system.
Cold water goes down into a well that curves like a hockey stick as it reaches more than 13,000 feet underground. Then the water squeezes through cracks in 400-degree rock. The water heats up and returns to the surface through a second well that runs parallel to the first. That creates steam that turns turbines to produce electricity, and the water gets sent back underground in a closed loop.
This horizontal well technique has been pioneered at a $300 million federal research project called Utah FORGE located in this same valley, which has paved the way for private companies to take the tech and run with it.
Recent innovations like better drill bits — made with synthetic diamonds to eat through hard subterranean granite — have helped Fervo drill its latest well in a quarter of the time that it took just a couple of years ago. That efficiency has meant an 80% drop in drilling costs, Latimer said.
Last year, Fervo’s pilot project in Nevada used similar techniques to begin sending electricity to a Google data center. And the company’s early tests at Cape Station in Utah show the new project can produce power at triple the rate of its Nevada pilot.
“This is now a proven tech. That's not a statement you could have made two or three years ago,” Latimer said. “Now, it just comes down to how do we get more of these megawatts on the grid so we have a bigger impact?”
This summer, this type of geothermal got one step closer to Americans’ living rooms.
Fervo signed a landmark deal with Southern California Edison, one of the country’s largest electric utilities with 15 million customers. It will send the first 70 megawatts of geothermal juice to the grid in 2026. By the time the project is fully completed in 2028, this Utah plant will deliver 320 megawatts total — enough to power 350,000 homes.
Carbon-free mandates stimulate demand
California leaders set a mandate in 2018 requiring the state to have 100% renewable electricity by 2045. So, SoCal Edison spokesperson Reggie Kumar said adding geothermal makes sense.
“For California to achieve its decarbonization goals by 2045, the grid must expand faster than ever before. This means we need to take bold actions.”
The U.S. Department of Energy’s long-term goal is to multiply domestic geothermal capacity nearly 25-fold by 2050 — to a level that could power more than 65 million homes. The federal government is investing millions in geothermal projects to speed up geothermal’s deployment nationwide. The local geology in southwest Utah makes it a prime spot for tapping underground heat, but recent mapping from the National Renewable Energy Lab shows potential for enhanced geothermal to work across much of the West and even in some eastern states, such as Mississippi, Iowa and Pennsylvania.
Geothermal does currently cost more per megawatt hour than wind or solar, but those more-established renewables require big batteries to keep power flowing around the clock. Geothermal, on the other hand, has the potential to ramp up and down as needed to fill the gaps when it’s not sunny or windy, said Alexandra Gorin, who manages the carbon-free electricity team at sustainability think tank RMI.
“Theoretically, it offers a firmer, clean fuel source,” she said, “and so for utilities and grid operators that are concerned a lot about reliability and resource adequacy, geothermal has the potential to provide ... closer to 24/7 renewable.”
The fact that a giant utility like SoCal Edison made this type of deal sends a message to the broader energy market about geothermal’s viability, said RMI senior principal, Uday Varadarajan.
“It's saying something that they feel they need geothermal, even though they have so much wind, solar and storage. So I think it is a big deal.”
We won’t know for sure if geothermal can be a reliable utility-scale power source until it actually happens, Varadarajan said, but he’s cautiously optimistic. And if the Fervo project works, he said more companies could begin building additional geothermal projects for other utilities within just a few years.
“We do hope we will have other [renewable energy] options in the next decade, but geothermal is something that can start scaling by the end of this decade,” he said. “That few years can make an enormous difference for competitiveness [and] for climate.”
Enhanced geothermal has potential to scale quickly, in part, because it borrows a lot of tech and know-how from the industry many would like to see it replace: fossil fuels. Fervo is even based in Houston — Oiltown USA — and a majority of the company’s employees came from the fossil fuel industry.
Scalable with off the shelf technology
Eric Williams, for example, spent decades working in oil and gas but now oversees safety at the Fervo project in Utah. Switching industries didn’t change his daily tasks, he said, but it did change the way he feels about his job.
“You say you work in the oil and gas industry, sometimes people go, ‘Ehhhh.’ But when you say geothermal and when you say renewable, sustainable ... a lot of people go, ‘Wow,’” Williams said. “So when I do tell people about what I do out in the world, I'm proud.”
That illustrates another reason why geothermal could help the U.S. chart a path to a cleaner energy future, said CEO Tim Latimer. A lot of fossil fuel operations will be phased out to fight climate change. And a lot of oil and gas workers will need a landing spot.
Geothermal could help with both transitions, he said, if the project in Utah is the start of something bigger.
“When we stand here 10 or 20 years from now, our hope is not only was this a successful project, but it was a template for something that we could repeat dozens and even hundreds of times all over the world.”
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Reliance Industries, HCL Technologies and ICICI Bank were the top traded contracts.
The Nifty October 2024 futures closed at 25,130.20, a premium of 72.85 points compared with the Nifty's closing 25,057.35 in the cash market.In the cash market, the Nifty 50 fell 70.60 points or 0.28% to 25,057.35.
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The NSE's India VIX, a gauge of the market's expectation of volatility over the near term, rose 0.05% to 13.
Reliance Industries, HCL Technologies and ICICI Bank were the top traded individual stock futures contracts in F&O segment of NSE.
The October 2024 F&O contracts will expire on 31 October 2024.
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THE Davao City Water District (DCWD) encourages areas facing challenges accessing potable water to take advantage of its Bulk Water Sale Service.
During the Kapehan sa Dabaw on October 14, 2024, at SM City Davao, DCWD spokesperson JC Duhaylungsod said that the Bulk Water Sale Service is a new initiative designed to provide water to nearby municipalities and provinces.
He said the program is the company's way of helping areas that struggle to access affordable, drinkable water.
“Naa man gyud limitations ang atoang water service because kailangan naka main line ta para maabot natu ang serbisyo (We have limitations in our water service because we need a main line for our services to reach these areas),” she said.
Additionally, some remote locations fall under the jurisdiction of other water service utilities, complicating efforts to provide access.
Duhaylungsod added that those interested in utilizing the Bulk Water Sale Service can visit the extraction points in Malagamot, Panacan. These extraction points operate 24/7 and offer water at P70 per cubic meter (1,000 liters).
Customers are advised to contact DCWD in advance to schedule their extraction and pay the corresponding fees based on the volume of water ordered.
Payments for the Bulk Water Sale Service can be made at DCWD offices in Bajada, Matina, or Toril, with online payment options available via GCash.
This program was established in response to requests from nearby provinces and local government units (LGUs) seeking to source water from DCWD.
The Bulk Water Sale Service is part of DCWD’s efforts to assist areas in the Davao Region experiencing potable water shortages. RGP
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Ex-Louisville officer who fired shots in Breonna Taylor raid readies for 3rd trial
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A former Louisville police officer who fired shots into Breonna Taylor’s windows the night of the deadly 2020 police raid is going on trial for a third time. Federal prosecutors will try again to convict Brett Hankison of civil rights violations after their first effort ended in a jury deadlock last year. Hankison was also acquitted at a state trial in 2022. Jury selection in federal court in Louisville began Tuesday. Hankison has testified in court that he thought he heard assault rifle fire inside the apartment and then shot into Taylor’s windows. His shots didn’t hit anyone.
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Countries that have cashed in on their top-level domain names
AP Business Writer
LONDON (AP) — Anguilla is raking in extra unexpected 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 endings. Tuvalu in the Pacific Ocean has a very valuable resource: the .tv web domain. Libya controls web addresses that en in .ly, which have become widely used as a so-called domain hack for websites with English names that end in -ly. Montenegro was assigned the .me web domain, which has become popular with people who want to claim their pronoun for personal branding reasons. Websites that end in .co aren’t from a generic web domain for companies but were assigned to Colombia.
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A Minnesota horticulture teacher remained the reigning champion Monday of an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California where his massive gourds have won the top prize four years in a row.
Travis Gienger, of Anoka, Minnesota, beat his closest competitor by 6 pounds (2.7 kilograms) to clinch the victory at the 51st World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco.
His winning gourd came in at 2,471 pounds (1,121 kilograms), falling short of the world record he set last year with a pumpkin weighing 2,749 pounds (1,247 kilograms).
Gienger, 44, said that as he has done in the past, he focused on having healthy soil and well-fed plants but that a cold fall with record-breaking rain likely impacted his pumpkin's growth.
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"It takes a lot of good soil biology, good soil health and a lot of work in the beginning to get it this big," said Gienger. He also constructed a tent over the pumpkin to get it growing early.
“We had really, really tough weather and somehow, some way, I kept on working," Gienger said. “I had to work for this one, and we got it done at the end, but it wasn’t by much.”
Gienger and his family drove his gargantuan gourd for 35 hours to California.
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He said the giant pumpkin's next stop will be in Southern California, where a team of professional carvers will do a 3D carve on it at a Halloween event.
In addition to a cash prize of $9 per pound for the winning gourd, which amounts to $22,239, Gienger will also receive a championship ring and a coveted Mel Mello Sr. Grand Champion Growers Jacket.
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PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia Phillies signed manager Rob Thomson to a one-year contract extension through the 2026 season after he led the team to three straight trips to the playoffs.
The 61-year-old Thomson guided the Phillies to the 2022 World Series and the 2023 National League Championship Series and led them this season to their first NL East title since 2011. The Phillies were eliminated in four games by the New York Mets in the National League Division Series.
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Thomson's .575 winning percentage is the best for any manager in franchise history. His contract was set to expire after the 2025 season.
“Year by year is good with me,” Thomson said Tuesday of the extension. “I've mentioned many times this is the only place I want to be. This will be my last stop.”
Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said the entire coaching staff — which includes polarizing hitting coach Kevin Long — will return next season, as well.
“Many managers will say it, but I truly believe we have the best coaching staff in baseball,” Thomson said.
Coming off a 95-67 season, Dombrowski made clear he was happy with the direction of the team under the manager affectionately known by his players as Topper.
“I think we have a good coaching staff, primarily,” Dombrowski said during Tuesday's announcement. “They do a very efficient job. They did lead us to 95 wins.”
Thomson has a 280-155 record since the veteran bench coach replaced Joe Girardi as Phillies manager on June 3, 2022.
Dombrowski said it was important for the team not to enter the 2026 season with a lame-duck manager.
“He's done a good job for us, been a very successful manager,” Dombrowski said. “There's been very few clubs in baseball that have made the postseason three years in a row. He has done that. We've been a very good club under his guidance. It's also one where I think stability in the manager's spot, I don't think going into the manager's last year is ever good situation to be in, if you can prevent that from happening. He deserves the extension in that regard.”
Thomson has been with the club since the 2018 season when he was first hired as bench coach under former manager Gabe Kapler.
He spent 28 years as a member of the New York Yankees organization (1990-2017), including 10 seasons on the major league coaching staff as bench coach (2008, 2015-17) and third base coach (2009-14).
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Leading Organic Food Brand Enters U.S. Baking Aisle with High-Quality, Non-GMO Flour Options
VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - Nature's Path , North America's leading organic breakfast and snack food brand, announced the U.S. retail launch of its Organic Flour line, supporting the company's desire to make organic food more accessible by expanding into the baking category for the first time. Building on the company's legacy of delivering high-quality, nutrient-rich products, Nature's Path's Organic Flour makes it easier for consumers to enhance their baking experience with organic, non-GMO ingredients while prioritizing the health of people and the planet without sacrificing taste.
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"Our entry into the flour category is a natural extension of Nature's Path's mission to leave the Earth better than we found it," said Arjan Stephens, President of Nature's Path. "It gives us great pride to offer the same trusted, organic ingredients consumers know and love while inspiring creativity in the kitchen and providing healthier, planet-friendly options."
With the home baking ingredients market is expected to reach a value of $28.2 billion by 2033 , Nature's Path is meeting the growing demand for quality baking essentials by introducing organic flour options that consumers can feel good about using. These flours are crafted with nutrient-rich, responsibly sourced grains processed through traditional low-temperature milling techniques at a low speed, resulting in delicious baked goods that won't disappoint. Beyond consistently delivering exceptional results and taste, Nature's Path's Organic Flour line provides whole grain benefits including high fiber content. Details on each offering include:
Organic All-Purpose Flour, 32 oz Bag: Dubbed as the most versatile of the flours, this crowd-pleasing blend of organic Canadian hard red spring wheat is crafted into a light and smooth white flour with a high-gluten strength, making the difference between great baking and takes-the-cake baking. Perfect for recipes that call for 'flour' or 'all-purpose flour,' such as cookies, muffins, bread, and more.
Organic Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour, 32 oz Bag: Blended with the best organic ingredients, including wholesome oat flour, this certified gluten-free blend is suitable for all recipes that specify 'gluten-free all-purpose flour.'
Organic Baker's Blend Flour, 32 oz Bag: Mixed slowly to maintain consistency, this Baker's Blend is a meticulous mix of organic white flour and organic sprouted whole grain wheat, spelt, and rye flours that are ideal for great rise, stability, and flavor. Use in pizza, rolls, quick breads, and more.
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Sales rise 1593.33% to Rs 2.54 crore
Net profit of Premium Capital Market & Investments reported to Rs 0.07 crore in the quarter ended September 2024. There were no net profit/loss reported during the previous quarter ended September 2023. Sales rose 1593.33% to Rs 2.54 crore in the quarter ended September 2024 as against Rs 0.15 crore during the previous quarter ended September 2023. ParticularsQuarter EndedSep. 2024Sep. 2023% Var.Sales2.540.15 1593 OPM %2.760 -PBDT0.070 0 PBT0.070 0 NP0.070 0Powered by Capital Market - Live News
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Nasser Hussain hails Kamran Ghulam’s gritty century, compares him to Steve Smith
New Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS) Pakistan’s debutant Kamran Ghulam made an unforgettable impact in the second Test against England on October 12, steering his team out of early trouble with a resilient century. Former England captain Nasser Hussain praised Ghulam’s performance, likening the 29-year-old’s style to that of Australia’s Steve Smith.
Coming into the side as a replacement for Pakistan’s star batter Babar Azam, Ghulam rose to the occasion on his Test debut, producing a crucial 118 off 224 balls. His composed innings was the backbone of Pakistan’s recovery after they stumbled to 19 for 2 early on. By stumps on Day 1, Ghulam’s determined hundred had guided Pakistan to 259 for 5, putting the team back on track in Multan.
Speaking to Sky Sports, Hussain lauded Ghulam’s ability to adapt to the tricky conditions and expertly navigate England’s bowling attack. “He had to wait his turn. He's been scoring prolific runs in the last three years. He got the right balance between attack and defence,” Hussain said, highlighting Ghulam’s poise at the crease.
What stood out for Hussain was Ghulam’s "swagger," as he masterfully switched between attacking strokes and defensive resilience. He also noted similarities between Ghulam’s defensive technique and Steve Smith’s, especially when using his feet and charging down the pitch. “He's got a bit of Steve Smith about him when he defends the ball and charges. He's got a bit of swagger about him," Hussain added.
Known for his prowess against spin in domestic cricket, Ghulam handled England’s spinner Jack Leach, who had earlier dismissed Pakistan’s openers, with composure. His partnership with fellow batter Saim Ayub, worth 149 runs, was vital in stabilising Pakistan’s innings. Ayub contributed a solid 77 before falling to Matthew Potts, but by then, the duo had laid a strong foundation.
Ghulam’s century came off 192 balls, a gritty effort that not only steadied Pakistan’s ship but also showcased his mental toughness and technical skill. His composed innings featured 11 boundaries and a six, and his ability to rotate the strike kept the pressure off the other end.
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THE Department of Education-Davao Region (DepEd-Davao) has reported that the social and economic difficulties are the top issues why learners opted not to enroll for two consecutive school years (SY) since 2023.
However, DepEd-Davao said that despite these difficulties, the agency has noticed a significant increase in enrollees in Kindergarten, Basic Education, and Alternative Learning System (ALS) from 2023 to 2024 compared to the previous academic year.
DepEd-Davao Regional Director Allan Farnazo on Tuesday, October 15, 2024, reported during the Kapehan sa Bagong Pilipinas that most of the students’ main concerns centered on their current situation which needs to be addressed “in a timely manner.”
“If not indolence, students at such a young age are already responsible in taking care of their siblings, early marriage and pregnancy, parents attitude towards school, family problems, illness and drug abuse, lack of interest or distraction, joining an armed conflict, the aftermath of calamities or disasters, child labor and work, and their distance between the schools and home,” Farnazo reported.
DepEd-Davao also reported that for SY 2023 to 2024, the basic education enrollment has reached 1,435,098 for Kindergarten to Grade 12, showing a 0.64 percent increase from the previous school year.
Its learners in the Senior High School (SHS) recorded a 14.65 percent increase compared to the previous enrollment in 2022.
Meanwhile, in private institutions across the region, they have observed an increase of 2.36 percent equivalent to 3,814, compared to the previous school year.
In total, as of August 24, the agency had received 1,377,704 total enrollees across all levels and sectors including ALS.
“For this, the Gross Enrollment Rate tells us that the school system was able to accommodate all learners in school regardless of age and sociocultural status,” the report stated.
“The Net Enrollment Rate, however, tells us that about 10 percent of school-age children in elementary and 29 percent in secondary are not in school. We have also depicted that 1.41 percent of the total enrolled learners in elementary grades and 6.64 percent in secondary have left or dropped out of school before completing the school year,” the official noted.
He added that through the Basic Education Development Plan 2030 or BEDP 2030, which aims to address the challenges faced by the education sector, they have still managed to provide relevant and fundamental learning opportunities even the out-of-school youth (OSY) and indigenous communities who were deprived of at least completing a formal education.
Farnazo also maintained that they have enhanced the quality of inclusive education programs and services with a total of more than 400,00 learners under the Inclusive Education Program to strengthen their full potential not just as students but as a Filipino citizen in general.
“The intermediate outcome of equity is that disadvantaged school-age children, youth, and adults benefit from appropriate equity initiatives,” Farnazo said.
Currently, DepEd-Davao’s teaching positions make up 87.73 percent of the agency’s workforce, while non-teaching positions make up 12.27 percent, totaling 54,231 employees. DEF
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Production downtime and unforeseen costs due to faulty marking systems posed significant challenges for Arizona's largest brewery, Four Peaks. Frequent printhead clogs severely impacted production efficiency. The solution came with the switch to LEIBINGER's innovative printing technology. Thanks to the patented nozzle seal technology in LEIBINGER printers, clogs are now a thing of the past, ensuring smooth, uninterrupted production and maximum efficiency.
At the vanguard of the craft beer industry in the US, Four Peaks is the largest brewer in Arizona and has built a loyal following since it was founded in 1996. Famous for beers such as Kilt Lifter and Wow Wheat, it was acquired in 2016 by beverage giant Anheuser Busch. Four Peaks is therefore not just the creator of awesome beers; it is a modern and highly efficient business, and the person responsible for ensuring high levels of both quality and quantity is Gary Fogg, Head of Production since 2018.
The challenge: A fresh approach to coding
To enjoy craft beer at its best, you need to drink it fresh. The brewery therefore prints expiration dates on every can or bottle, which encourage customers to consume the beer within 120 days of leaving the brewery. This helps to ensure quality – but it can also create a headache for people like Gary because printing the expiration date can be problematic unless you have the right equipment. With LEIBINGER printers on every production line, Gary now enjoys problem-free operation, but it wasn’t always this way.
Before the LEIBINGER machines were installed, quality issues would often arise as the print heads on the other manufacturers’ printers became clogged. Every 15 minutes, the legibility of the print would be checked. If the expiration date was not perfectly clear, the production line would have to stop for up to an hour while the print head was cleaned.
Even worse, with 250 cans rolling off the line every minute, Gary might find himself with almost 4,000 misprinted beers. That either means unnecessary time and effort washing and re-printing – or the beer gets wasted. And this happened at least once a week, sometimes even every day.
The solution: Listening to the voice of experience
This wasn’t the first time Gary had seen this problem and he had learned early that switching to LEIBINGER would solve it. Starting his career in one of the country’s largest beverage producers, Gary recalls similar problems with coding machines: “We were printing 24/7 and we would struggle with every other brand of printer. There was always one down and it had a big impact on our productivity.” The solution to that problem came from Tim Robinson of RMH Systems, a coding machine specialist, whose advice and support would prove invaluable throughout Gary’s career. Tim replaced the faulty machine with a LEIBINGER to keep production running. Gary came to trust LEIBINGER to work reliably where other brands failed: “Every time he [Tim] would come on site, we would put a LEIBINGER on and it would work straight out of the box.”
Fast forward to 2009 and his new position at Four Peaks, Gary faced the same problems with the same mix of manufacturers – and promptly replaced them with more reliable LEIBINGER printers: “When we first started we had [other printers] and I think both of those are in a dumpster out back. I don’t think I’d do that to one of my enemies.”
The impact on productivity was instant. “When I first started we were doing cleanings every week at least – sometimes every day. Now we don’t even have to do it every month.” Gary admits that the cleaning schedule they follow may even be unnecessary: “Sometimes I think we just clean the heads for fun.”
The sustainability advantage
There were other benefits apart from saving time. Cleaning print heads requires solvent, which can have a harmful impact on the environment. If the print head doesn’t need to be cleaned, you don’t need so much solvent – improving the environmental impact of the plant while also saving money.
Gary also points out the environmental advantage of LEIBINGER cartridges/bottles: “They’re designed to empty completely – so no hazardous waste. With other cartridges, I had to empty residual solvent and ink into a tank and have it pumped out every month by specialists for proper disposal. That takes time and money.”
If you can’t stand the heat...
Breweries can be busy, hot, humid places, which makes coding difficult for some printers – but not LEIBINGER: “I’ve seen LEIBINGER machines working perfectly in possibly the most difficult environment you could find, such as above the pasteurization funnel where the air is damp, hot and dirty. But it still worked fine.”
Another problem arose with the condensation on the outside of pre-filled bottles. This meant that the soft-pigmented yellow ink Gary was using was flaking off instead of sticking to the glass surface. Tim suggested changing to a hard-pigmented silver, which adhered better. He also noted how the choice of LEIBINGER over competitive coders was important: “Once you put a certain ink in there, some machines are not big on changing. You have to change the nozzles, the oscillators, and we would never recommend it. With LEIBINGER you can just flush it out and start again with a different ink.”
The result: A focus on quality
The relationship between Gary and Tim is typical of the personal, local support that LEIBINGER’s partner network brings to customers around the world. LEIBINGER works closely with regional partners who are not only knowledgeable but also highly responsive, usually able to come to the site at short notice and advise on every situation.
Tim also believes that LEIBINGER has a different approach to other coding manufacturers: “It seems like the other manufacturers are always pushing for annual maintenance charges. There’s always something that needs to be changed every year, regardless of use. But LEIBINGER is there to sell printers, not to try and make money on spare parts”
Four Peaks and LEIBINGER make good partners since both companies believe that success comes from quality, a point that Gary summarizes neatly: “At the end of the day, our job is to brew great beer and get it out there to thirsty customers. And coding should be such a simple task. If it’s legible and repeatable and we don’t have downtime, that’s all we need. And that’s what we’ve had for years now with LEIBINGER.”
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Israel assures US it won’t strike Iranian nuclear or oil sites, US officials say
AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration believes it has won assurances from Israel that it will not hit Iranian nuclear or oil sites as it looks to strike back following Iran’s missile barrage earlier this month, two U.S. officials said Tuesday.
The administration also believes that sending a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel and roughly 100 soldiers to operate it has eased some of Israel’s concerns about possible Iranian retaliation and general security issues.
The Pentagon on Sunday announced the THAAD deployment to help bolster Israel’s air defenses following Iran’s ballistic missile attacks on Israel in April and October, saying it was authorized at the direction of President Joe Biden.
However, the U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private diplomatic discussions, cautioned that the assurance is not iron-clad and that circumstances could change. The officials also noted that Israel’s track record on fulfilling assurances in the past is mixed and has often reflected domestic Israeli politics that have upended Washington’s expectations.
The most recent example of that was last month when U.S. officials were told by their Israeli counterparts that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would welcome a U.S.- and French-led temporary cease-fire initiative for Lebanon only to see Israel launch a massive airstrike that killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah two days later.
Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that “we listen to the opinions of the United States, but we will make our final decisions based on our national interests.”
The Middle East has been bracing for an expected response from Israel after Iran launched roughly 180 ballistic missiles on Oct. 1, which the United States helped to fend off. The tit-for-tat strikes and uncertainty about whether Israel might strike strategically important energy and nuclear sites in Iran have raised fears about escalation into an all-out regional war.
Israel’s offensive against Iranian-backed Hamas militants in Gaza has expanded into a ground invasion of Lebanon targeting Hezbollah, another Iranian proxy that has been firing into Israel since the conflict in Gaza started a year ago in solidarity with Hamas.
Biden has said he would not support a retaliatory Israeli strike on sites related to Tehran’s nuclear program and urged Israel to consider alternatives to hitting Iran’s oil sector. Such a strike could affect the global oil market and boost pump prices just ahead of the U.S. presidential election.
Biden and Netanyahu spoke by phone last week for the first time in seven weeks, while Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been speaking regularly with his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant.
The Pentagon said in a readout of a call from Sunday that the U.S. has reaffirmed its support for Israel’s security but urged it to ensure protections for U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, shift from military operations to a diplomatic solution and “raised concern for the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and stressed that steps must be taken soon to address it.”
The White House National Security Council declined to confirm that Netanyahu offered Biden any assurances about targets.
“Our commitment to Israel’s defense is ironclad,” the White House National Security Council said in a statement. “We will not discuss private diplomatic discussions and would refer you to the Israeli government to speak to their own potential military operations.”
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AP reporter Julia Frankel contributed from Jerusalem.
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Egypt’s long-delayed mega-museum will open some of its main galleries, a trial run for full opening
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CAIRO (AP) — Officials say the long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum will partially open its main galleries on Wednesday, showcasing 12 halls that exhibit aspects of ancient Egypt. The museum, a mega-project near the famed Giza Pyramids which has cost well over $1 billion so far, will open the halls for 4,000 visitors as a trial run until the official opening date, which is yet to be announced. The opening of the museum, which has been under construction for more than a decade, has been repeatedly delayed for various reasons, including the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 100,000 artifacts of Egypt’s ancient treasures will be displayed in the world’s largest archaeological museum.
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Afore Insurance Services, LLC announced that it acquired the assets of Powers Insurance Services, LLC, giving Afore its 20th office location and a presence in the rapidly growing Columbia, South Carolina market.
Jeremy Powers will join Afore as Managing Producer, and the six-member Powers team will also join Afore while continuing to serve clients from their existing Columbia location.
ALPHARETTA, Ga., Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Afore Insurance Services, LLC (Afore) today announced that it acquired South Carolina-based Powers Insurance Services, LLC (Powers), that Jeremy Powers and the agency's team of 6 will join Afore in what is a new location for Afore in South Carolina, becoming its 20th office location in the United States. The financial terms were not disclosed.
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Andrew Muller, President of the Personal Lines Division of Afore, commented, "We are thrilled to add Jeremy Powers and the Powers team to the Afore family, which gives us a new office location in Columbia, with incredibly talented and proven staff, to help us grow more rapidly in the state."
Afore Insurance Services continues to expand nationally by offering an attractive alternative to agency sellers.
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"By becoming part of Afore, the Powers team gains tremendous national resources, allowing us to better serve our clients and offer them more options in an increasingly challenging marketplace. We believe Afore gives us the best of both worlds: the opportunity for our team to continue providing attentive local service along with the capabilities of one of the nation's top 100 largest insurance brokerage firms," said Jeremy Powers, former owner of Powers Insurance Services, LLC and the newly named Managing Producer for Afore in Columbia.
About Afore Insurance Services, LLC:
Afore Insurance Services is a consolidated insurance brokerage acquisition platform offering independent insurance agencies the opportunity to partner with a top 100 national firm to better serve clients. With roots going back to the 1970s, Afore has successfully acquired over 50 agencies and operates them under custom operating structures where (former owner) principals and producers direct client sales and service activities locally. Today, Afore is one of the largest insurance brokers in the US, with 20+ offices nationwide.
About Powers Insurance Services:
Launched by Jeremy Powers in 2019, Powers Insurance Services has grown rapidly by offering individuals and businesses in South Carolina risk management and consulting services with local, personal attention.
For more information:
Holden King
Culpeper Insurance Partners, LLC
3480 Preston Ridge Rd., Suite 500
Alpharetta, GA 30005
(770) 727-3268
[email protected]
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South Carolina is starting the season where it finished off last year — ranked No. 1 in the AP Top 25 women's college basketball poll.
The Gamecocks received 27 of the 30 first-place votes in the preseason rankings from a national media panel Tuesday. South Carolina returns four starters from the national championship team that went undefeated last year, capping off the historic season over Caitlin Clark and Iowa in the title game.
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UConn is No. 2, USC is No. 3 and Texas and UCLA round out the top five.
South Carolina has been No. 1 in the preseason poll four of the past five years. Last season, they started sixth in the preseason before moving up to No. 1 for the remainder of the year.
“We knew we'd have a target on our backs this season as the reigning champions and this preseason ranking just confirms that,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley told the AP. “We appreciate the recognition, but I know our coaching staff and our team are more focused on what we see in the gym every day. And that's every player working extremely hard to get better individually and as a team.”
UConn received two first-place votes. The Huskies have been ranked in the top 10 in the preseason poll for 30 straight years now. Geno Auriemma's team went through major injury issues last year but the Huskies look to be healthy for the most part to start this season.
Third-ranked USC is led by phenomenal sophomore guard JuJu Watkins and the team added two talented transfers in Kiki Iriafen and Talia von Oelhoffen. The Trojans, who received the other first place vote, have their highest ranking in the preseason since the 1982 and 1983 squads were No. 1 in the opening poll both years.
Texas welcomes back Rori Harmon, who was sidelined for most of last season with an ACL injury. She and Madison Booker give the Longhorns a solid 1-2 punch on offense. UCLA added its own solid group of transfers to a strong team with Charlisse Leger-Walker and Timea Gardiner joining Lauren Betts and Kiki Rice.
Notre Dame, LSU, Iowa State, North Carolina State and Oklahoma rounded out the first 10 teams in the poll. It's the second time in three seasons that the Cyclones have started this high in the preseason poll. The Sooners haven't been ranked this high in the inaugural poll of the season since 2010 when they were also 10th.
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No. 24 Alabama is making its first appearance in the rankings since the final poll of 1999. The Crimson Tide haven't been in the preseason poll since 1998 (No. 9). The team has appeared in consecutive NCAA tournaments behind stars Sarah Ashlee Barker and Aaliyah Nye.
“We're very thankful for the mention, but want to take care of each day,” Alabama coach Kristy Curry said. “We are excited this season about the group and the way we finished last season.”
End of an era
Stanford is unranked in the preseason for the first time since 1999. Hall of Fame Cardinal coach Tara VanDerveer retired in April and was replaced by longtime assistant Kate Paye. It had been the second-longest active preseason streak behind only UConn.
Conference supremacy
New conference additions Texas and Oklahoma give the SEC seven teams in the Top 25. Joining them are South Carolina, LSU, No. 20 Ole Miss, No. 22 Kentucky and Alabama. The ACC and Big Ten each have six ranked teams while the Big 12 has four. UConn and Creighton give the Big East two teams.
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Sales decline 18.89% to Rs 1622.10 crore
Net loss of PVR Inox reported to Rs 11.80 crore in the quarter ended September 2024 as against net profit of Rs 166.30 crore during the previous quarter ended September 2023. Sales declined 18.89% to Rs 1622.10 crore in the quarter ended September 2024 as against Rs 1999.90 crore during the previous quarter ended September 2023. ParticularsQuarter EndedSep. 2024Sep. 2023% Var.Sales1622.101999.90 -19 OPM %29.5535.34 -PBDT314.70530.30 -41 PBT-14.70221.70 PL NP-11.80166.30 PLPowered by Capital Market - Live News
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A Trump town hall in Oaks, Pa., Monday night went from a Q-and-A session to a bizarre musical event in which Trump stood in front of his audience for an extended period while songs played on the sound system.
The town hall portion of the event lasted nearly an hour and was moderated by Kristi Noem, South Dakota's Republican governor who is a Trump ally.
The questioners were all friendly to Trump, with questions about how he would bring down inflation, as well as boost small businesses.
The town hall was paused twice for incidents in which the crowd called for a medic. Audience members shouted that the room was too hot.
As medics attended to people affected by the heat, Trump and Noem waited on stage. During the first pause, the crowd sang “God Bless America” together, after which Trump asked for someone to put the song “Ave Maria” on the sound system. An instrumental version soon began playing.
Shortly after the town hall resumed, there was another call for a medic.
“It’s steaming in here!” one man yelled as they waited for assistance, and the instrumental Ave Maria played once again, until the woman affected received help.
Trump joked about the heat in the room: “Personally, I enjoy this. We lose weight. We could do this, lose 4, 5 pounds.”
Trump then called for his “favorite chart” to be put up on screens -– the chart of border crossings that had been displayed in Butler, Pa., on July 13 when an assassin shot at Trump, hitting his ear. In addition, he asked that someone play a version of Ave Maria sung by Luciano Pavarotti.
“We’ll do a little music. Let’s make this a musical-fest,” he said.
Trump stood on stage until the song was over, at which point he stopped the question-and-answer portion of the evening.
“Let’s not do anymore questions. Let’s just listen to music,” he said.
Later, Trump ended the question portion and asked the audience to stick around.
“By the way, when we leave, you don’t have to go so fast. You can sit and listen. We’ll play a couple of songs. Some of you will be a little warm, but that’s OK. It’s not a bad thing. And if you want, we’re gonna do that, but I think it would be beautiful. Don’t you think? A little different.”
“I think it’d be amazing, sir,” Noem said.
“Nice to have imagin- isn’t it a nice thing to have imagination?”
Trump remained on stage for more than half an hour while an array of songs played, including “Hallelujah” as performed by Rufus Wainwright, as well as “November Rain” by Guns ‘n’ Roses.
On Tuesday, Trump, posting on his Truth social, called the evening "amazing."
"The Q and A was almost finished when people began fainting from the excitement and heat," he said. "We started playing music while we waited, and just kept it going. So different, but it ended up being a GREAT EVENING!"
The town hall came as three weeks remain in the voting season and Trump and Harris remain statistically tied, according to most polls. Both candidates are delivering their closing messages and drawing a contrast from their rival as they crisscross the country. Trump will deliver remarks on the economy in Chicago Tuesday, and pretape a town hall with women voters on Fox News that will air Wednesday. Harris is doing a town hall with the popular radio host Charlamagne tha God in her attempt to reach Black male voters.
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Rajasthan bypolls: Over one crore voters to decide fate of seven candidates
Jaipur, Oct 15 (IANS) A total of 19,636,533 voters will cast their votes in the by-elections to be held on seven seats in Rajasthan on November 13.
These elections will be held in Jhunjhunu, Dausa, Deoli-Uniyara, Khinvsar Chorasi, Salumber and Ramgarh assembly seats in the state and the results will be declared on November 25, said election commission officials on Tuesday.
Among these total number of voters, 702 are centenarians, 80,023 are first-time voters and service electors are 5,426.
Nomination filing starts from 18th October and the last date for the same is October 25. Scrutiny of nominations will be made on October 28 and nominations can be withdrawn by October 30.
The elections will be held on November 13 while the counting date will be November 23. However, the results will be announced on November 25. said election commission.
Elections will be held on these seats again within 11 months of the Assembly elections held in the year 2023 as five seats have gone vacant due to MLAs being elected as MPs in Lok Sabha polls.
These include Jhunjhunu, Dausa, Deoli Uniyara, Chaurasi and Khinsar.
Similarly, two seats have become vacant due to the death of two MLAs in Salumber and Ramgarh.
Salumber and Chorasi are ST reserved seats.
Congress on Tuesday announced the names of in-charges for the seven Assembly seats in Rajasthan where by-elections are to be held. Congress has entrusted the responsibility of victory to three leaders in the desert state including Chiranjiv Rao, Rutvik Makwana and Poonam Paswan.
According to the notification, Chiranjeev Rao, who lost the Assembly elections in Haryana a week ago, has been given the responsibility of ensuring the victory of Congress in Jhunjhunu, Khinvsar and Ramgarh Assembly constituencies of Rajasthan.
Similarly, Rutvik Makwana will play a role in the Salumber and Chorasi assembly constituencies. Poonam Paswan will take charge of the Dausa and Deoli-Uniyara Assembly seats.
The biggest challenge before Congress is that its Lok Sabha allies including RLP and BAP have refused to tie up with the oldest party.
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NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Works Minister Clay Sweeting has defended the increased cost for the reconstruction of the Glass Window Bridge, explaining that the original 2020 estimates were based on preliminary designs and pre-COVID construction costs.
“The final cost of the geotechnical stage, coupled with construction inflation over the past five years, has brought us to the final cost of $60 million,” Sweeting said.
Former Works Minister Desmond Bannister recently questioned the government in an Eyewitness News interview, calling for an explanation of the rising reconstruction costs and implying concerns about the price increase.
During the recent debate on the Bridge Authority Amendment Bill in the Senate, Attorney General Ryan Pinder noted that estimates for the new Glass Window Bridge could reach as high as $100 million, especially since the current bridge has shifted off its axis. The bill outlines financing options like public-private partnerships, with the Glass Window Bridge being a primary target for reconstruction, with earlier estimates ranging from $40 to $50 million.
Sweeting responded, stating that the 2020 feasibility study projected costs between $26.1 million and $35.6 million based on five different design options. He emphasized, “The cost Mr. Bannister referred to was based on preliminary design assumptions, which did not include a detailed geotechnical study.” He added that during the detailed design stage, the length of the bridge increased due to voids found at the southern end, further raising costs.
Sweeting also pointed out that inflation in construction materials has driven prices up significantly since the pandemic, with the Bahamian Contractors Association president noting a 60 percent increase in material costs. “I invite Mr. Bannister to review the finalized plans and costs for a better understanding before attempting to cause alarm,” Sweeting remarked.
He further explained that the Cabinet has approved the use of United Kingdom Export Finance (UKEF) credit support for the project, which will accelerate delivery and secure competitive financing. The loan agreement is expected to be finalized in early 2025, with construction beginning soon after and completion anticipated by early 2027.
Sweeting stressed the importance of the Glass Window Bridge for the transportation of goods and people between North Eleuthera, Spanish Wells, and Harbour Island. He noted that the bridge’s closure during bad weather disrupts communities and makes alternatives expensive and challenging.
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The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is returning Tuesday for the first time in five years after the 2019 show was canceled amid controversy and declining ratings.
The runway show became a classic in the 2000s as fans watched some of modeling's biggest names like Tyra Banks, Gisele Bündchen and Naomi Campbell walk down the runway adorned with angel wings in the company's signature lingerie.
But by the late 2010s, the brand and the show faced criticism from customers amid the Me Too movement, leading to the lowest viewership in history for the runway show in 2018.
After years of including more body-positive messaging and models in its campaigns, Victoria's Secret announced the return of the fashion show in May.
“We’ve read the comments and heard you,” Victoria's Secret wrote in an Instagram post. “The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is BACK and will reflect who we are today, plus everything you know and love — the glamour, runway, wings, musical entertainment, and more! Stay tuned…it only gets more iconic from here.”
The angels are returning to the runway on Oct. 15, but why was the show canceled for five years? Here's what to know about the controversy surrounding the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at the end of the 2010s.
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When was the last Victoria's Secret Fashion Show?
The Victoria's Secret Fashion show began in 1995, and by 1998, models like Banks were walking down the runway in angel wings, according to WWD.
As the show's production value increased, it began broadcasting on national television and expanding internationally in the 2000s, leading models like Adriana Lima, Miranda Kerr, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and more to becoming household names.
Heidi Klum walked down the runway as her then-husband Seal performed in 2005, and as each year's iteration went on, the show appeared try to top itself with larger wings, more expensive lingerie and bigger performers.
Over the years, artists like Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, Maroon 5 and more performed on the runway alongside the models strutting down the catwalk.
But by 2018, the show had the worst ratings in its history, NBC News reported, falling from more than 10 million viewers in 2010 to just over 3 million in 2018.
Victoria's Secret announced it would be canceling the show in November 2019 so it could “evolve the messaging of (the company),” Stuart Burgdoerfer, chief financial officer of Victoria’s Secret parent company L Brands, said on an earnings call at the time, according to Fortune.
“We will be communicating to customers, but nothing similar in magnitude to the fashion show,” Burgdoerfer said.
What was controversial about the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show?
The announcement of the cancelation of the fashion show came as Victoria's Secret was facing a slew of controversies as a brand.
In 2018, Ed Razek, then-chief marketing officer for L Brands, faced backlash for saying in an interview with Vogue that he did not think "transsexuals" should be included in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
“Why not? Because the show is a fantasy,” he told Vogue. “It’s a 42-minute entertainment special. That’s what it is.”
Razek later apologized, calling his remarks “insensitive.”
“To be clear, we absolutely would cast a transgender model for the show,” he said in a statement posted on the Victoria’s Secret Twitter account, according to NBC News. “We’ve had transgender models come to the castings ... And like many others, they didn’t make it ... But it was never about gender.”
Razek announced he would be stepping down in August 2019, the same month the brand hired its first openly transgender model, Valentina Sampaio.
Les Wexner, former chief executive officer for L Brands, also stepped down from his position in 2021 following years of controversy for his alleged past ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial for federal sex trafficking charges.
According to CNBC, Wexner met Epstein in the mid-1980s through mutual friends.
“Being taken advantage of by someone who is ... so depraved is something I’m embarrassed I’m even close to,” Wexner said in September 2019, CNBC reported.
“We are all betrayed by friends,” he added. “At the end of the day, people have secret lives because ... they’re so good at hiding those secrets.”
L Brands called Epstein's alleged crimes "abhorrent" in July 2019, according to CNBC, adding that the company had cut ties with Epstein over a decade ago and does not believe he “was ever employed by nor served as an authorized representative of the company." It also said it had hired outside counsel to conduct a review.
In 2020, The New York Times published an investigation that reported an alleged culture of misogyny, bullying and harassment at the company, and included interviews with more than 30 current and former executives, employees, contractors and models.
A spokesperson for L Brands, the former parent company of Victoria’s Secret, told the Times in a statement it was “'intensely focused’ on corporate governance, workplace and compliance practices and that it had ‘made significant strides.’”
Victoria's Secret split from L Brands in 2021 and became a public company. Since then, the brand has overhauled its image in an attempt to reach more women, including more diverse, plus-size and body-positive models and messaging in its campaigns.
In 2023, the brand also launched a revamped version of a fashion show on Amazon Prime Video called "Victoria's Secret World Tour," featuring models like Gigi Hadid and Candice Swanepoel, and performers like Doja Cat and Sabrina Carpenter.
When is the 2024 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show?
The 2024 Victoria's Secret Fashion show is returning to New York City on Oct. 15 and will feature performances from its first all-women lineup: Cher, Grammy-winner Tyla and K-pop star Lisa.
While the full casting of models has not been revealed, two of the company's biggest stars are set to be returning: Banks and Hadid.
In an August Instagram post from Victoria's Secret, Hadid walked through New York's Plaza Hotel to pick up a golden invite from Banks.
"Sorry, couldn’t write a caption, we were too busy picking up our jaws off the floor at @tyrabanks and @gigihadid delivering VSFS invites," the brand wrote in the caption. "You understand."
The runway show will be available to stream starting at 7 p.m. on Oct. 15 on Amazon Live and Prime Video. Victoria's Secret will also be streaming the show on its Instagram, YouTube and TikTok accounts.
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Elton John turns the saga of televangelist Tammy Faye into song for Broadway
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NEW YORK (AP) — When Elton John was on tour in America during the 1970s, there was someone on TV who caught his eye. She was an over-the-top, heavy makeup-wearing performer who wore her heart on her sleeve and seemed in on the joke, televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. John has put her story to song with the stage musical “Tammy Faye” and the latest iteration lands on Broadway this month, championing what he calls “a gladiator on her own terms.” The musical has been retooled from a run in London in 2022 and comes at a time when the culture is reconsidering stories of women lost amid crisis.
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Chicago, IL – October 15, 2024 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Goldman Sachs GS, Bank of America BAC, LVMH LVMUY and ASML ASML.
Here are highlights from Monday’s Analyst Blog:
Q3 Earnings Season Picks Up: Global Week Ahead
In the Global Week Ahead?
· Mainland China's Q3 GDP, trade and FDI figures
· Fresh U.S. retail sales data for SEP, and
· A rate cut decision by the European Central Bank (ECB) happens, while
· U.K. markets get nervous, ahead of their new government's 1st budget
All of this, as Q3-24 earning seasons get underway, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Next are Reuters' five world market themes, reordered for equity traders—
(1) On Thursday, U.S. Retail Data Comes Out. Plus, Major U.S. Bank Reports.
Markets get another reading on the health of the U.S. consumer on Thursday, with investors hoping retail sales data will offer further insight into an economy that is turning out to be far more resilient than many had expected.
Stronger-than-expected recent labor market data spurred a recalibration of bets on how deeply the Fed will need to cut rates in coming months, lifting Treasury yields and bolstering the U.S. dollar.
A robust retail sales number could further amplify that trend, offering evidence of strength in an important pocket of the world's largest economy.
With Q3 S&P 500 earnings season under way, results from big banks including Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, both reporting on Tuesday, could offer further insight on how consumers are faring.
(2) Major Q3 European Earnings Reports Are Due, Too.
LVMHandASML — two of Europe's biggest companies — are due to report results in the coming week, kicking off earnings season on the continent.
While the Eurozone economy struggles to muster any sort of growth, corporate earnings are seen growing for a second straight quarter for the first time since Q1 2023, according to LSEG Data.
That makes for a high bar to hurdle, but as earnings expectations have been lowered coming into reporting season, analysts are still optimistic that Europe Inc. will clear it.
With the STOXX 600 index less than 2% from its all-time high, a more robust earnings picture could bring fresh peaks, as seen in the U.S. in recent days.
(3) Important Mainland China Macro Data Releases.
China's Q3-24 growth figures, due Oct. 18th, are headlining a busy week scattered with data releases from the world's second-largest economy.
Policymakers have said they are "fully confident" of achieving their full-year growth target of around +5.0% — a somewhat bold statement considering Q2's dismal number, and with Q3 unlikely to fare much better.
But investors may look past the pessimism, given Beijing only recently unveiled aggressive stimulus measures in a move that sent mainland stocks scaling fresh highs.
Some of that excitement has since faded, but any further details of fiscal support could drive the next leg of the market rally.
Alongside GDP data, China will release figures on trade, house prices and retail sales, giving policymakers a clue on how much work they have cut out for them before year-end.
(4) On Thursday, Expect the European Central Bank (ECB) to Cut Another 25 bps.
The ECB is set to deliver another quarter-point rate cut on Thursday, a move policymakers were reluctant to flag and traders gave less than a 25% chance to when the bank met a month ago.
But September Eurozone business activity unexpectedly contracting stoked worries the ECB may be cutting rates too slowly as the bloc's economy wobbles.
Inflation has slowed sharply, dropping below the ECB's 2% target in September, shifting the focus for policymakers now onto growth risks.
Economists reckon Thursday's move could kick off back-to-back rate cuts. But rate setters, once burnt twice shy, are unlikely to jump on the bandwagon just yet.
But a more explicit shift may come soon, perhaps in December when the bank releases new forecasts.
Even top hawk Isabel Schnabel has dropped her long-standing warning about the difficulty of taming inflation.
(5) A First U.K. Labour Party Budget Due.
Britain's lenders in international bond markets are getting nervous ahead of the new Labour government's first budget on Oct. 30th. September inflation data, out Wednesday, could make them feel even worse.
Ten-year gilt yields are around their highest since early July after investors sold off in part due to concerns about finance minister Rachel Reeves relaxing borrowing rules to fund public investments. Anxiety about extra debt sales has coincided with uncertainty about whether inflation has been tamed.
The annual rate of UK consumer price increases held steady at 2.2% overall in August, but accelerated to 5.6% in the dominant services sector. Recent data showed rising grocery inflation and retail spending.
Traders widely expect a second Bank of England rate cut in November, but Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey and Chief Economist Huw Pill have given mixed signals about what happens after that.
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Italian PM tells Netanyahu Israel’s strike on UN peacekeepers unacceptable
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(MENAFN) Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni described the recent attack on UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) troops by Israeli forces as "unacceptable" during a phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a statement from her office, Meloni emphasized that UNIFIL operates under the authority of the UN Security Council (UNSC) and plays a vital role in contributing to regional stability. She stressed the critical need to ensure the safety of UNIFIL personnel at all times, highlighting the importance of protecting those involved in peacekeeping efforts.
During their discussion, Meloni reiterated Italy's commitment to stabilizing the Israel-Lebanon border by fully implementing UNSC Resolution 1701, which aims to facilitate the return of displaced individuals to their homes. The prime minister conveyed the urgency of de-escalating tensions in the region and reaffirmed Italy's willingness to collaborate on this front, especially as her country assumes the presidency of the G7 for the seventh time.
The situation escalated on Sunday when UNIFIL reported that two Israeli tanks had destroyed the gate of their peacekeeping site in Ramyah, southern Lebanon. Earlier in the week, Israeli forces shelled an observation post belonging to UNIFIL at its headquarters in Naqoura, resulting in injuries to two peacekeepers from the Sri Lankan contingent. Italy, which has approximately 1,000 soldiers involved in the UNIFIL mission, expressed strong disapproval after Israel targeted several of the mission's bases and observation towers.
In response to these incidents, Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto summoned Israel's Ambassador to Rome on Thursday to issue a stern warning regarding the situation in southern Lebanon. Established in March 1978, UNIFIL was created to confirm Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon and assist the Lebanese government in restoring authority in the region. Over the years, its mandate has expanded, particularly following the 2006 war, to include monitoring cease-fires and facilitating humanitarian aid.
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The mysterious veil of the Treasury monument in Petra, Jordan, has been lifted once again.
Beneath the ancient rock-cut building, archaeologists have uncovered a hidden tomb containing 12 relatively well-preserved human skeletons along with an extensive array of grave offerings.
The discovery comes more than two decades after similar tombs were found on the other side of the famed Treasury, also known as Al Khazneh, which is one of the Seven Wonders of the World as well as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
A team of researchers received permission from Jordanian authorities early this year to undertake a week of remote sensing in and around the Treasury, which was the center of a city hand-carved into the walls of a desert canyon by the people of the Nabatean Kingdom.
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“There was always the thought that there might be more tombs, but none had ever been found that still contained burials,” Richard Bates, a geophysicist and professor at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, told NBC News in an email. “The hope was to find a tomb that was intact.”
Using ground-penetrating radar, the joint Jordanian and American team, which also included the Jordanian Department of Antiquities and the American Center of Research, a nonprofit based in Amman, detected a void and pinpointed its location and depth. Instead of digging straight down, which would have meant cutting through solid rock and damaging part of the building, they dug carefully from the outside toward the void by hand, Bates said.
Inside were 12 human skeletons at their original burial site, including one grasping the top part of a broken jug that most likely dates to the first century BC.
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The remains most likely include both men and women and range in age from children to adults, Bates said, though that has yet to be confirmed.
The discovery could provide new insight into the Treasury, whose purpose remains unknown, as well as the Nabatean people.
“Since no complete burials has ever been found here before, it is likely that we will learn a great deal more about the Nabatean kingdom from this find,” Bates said.
The Treasury, which receives more than a million visitors a year, is the most famous of Petra’s iconic monuments. It appeared in Steven Spielberg’s 1989 film “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” as the cinematic resting place of the Holy Grail.
The excavation of the newly revealed tomb was featured in a two-part episode of the American reality television series “Expedition Unknown” that aired on Discovery Channel.
Bates said there were indications of other voids in the area that could also be tombs.
“It is highly likely that there are more to be found,” he said, “and so we need the funding to get back and continue the studies.”
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MANCHESTER – 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.
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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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The cinema chain operator's reported consolidated net loss of Rs 11.8 crore in Q2 FY25 as against net profit of Rs 166.3 crore recorded in Q2 FY24.
Revenue from operations declined 18.89% year on year (YoY) to Rs 1,622.1 crore in the quarter ended 30 September 2024.Total income in Q2 FY25 was at Rs 1,663.9 crore, down 17.77% as against Rs 2,023.7 crore posted in same quarter last year.
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The firm reported a pre-tax loss of Rs 14.7 crore in the Q2 FY25 as compared with profit before tax of Rs 221.7 crore reported in Q2 FY24.
EBITDA dropped by 28.68% YoY to Rs 521.1 crore during the period under review. The EBITDA margin decreased to 31.3% in Q2 FY25, compared to 36.1% posted in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal year.
The companys revenue from movie exhibition stood at Rs 1578.6 crore (down 19.86% YoY) while revenue from movie production and distribution stood at Rs 108.5 crore (up 78.16% YoY), during the quarter.
In Q2 FY25, the company recorded 38.8 million admissions with an average ticket price (ATP) of Rs 257 and spend per head (SPH) stood at Rs 136 as compared with 48.4 million admissions with an ATP of Rs 276 and SPH of Rs 136 in the same period last year.
The company is highly focused on executing its strategy to drive free cash flow generation, improve return metrics, and reduce debt. Despite a relatively soft first half in FY25, the company generated positive free cash flow and reduced net debt by Rs 1,409 million.
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On half-year basis, the firm reported consolidated net loss of Rs 190.5 crore in H1 FY25 as against net profit of Rs 84.7 crore posted in H1 FY24. Total income declined by 14.02% YoY to Rs 2,883.3 in H1 FY25.
Ajay Bijli, managing director, PVR INOX, said, "The performance in this quarter, highlights the enduring appeal of cinema and the power of compelling content. Our strategy of combining fresh blockbusters with nostalgic rereleases has resonated strongly with audiences, reinforcing our position as a leader in the multiplex industry.
Till date, in the current financial year, the company has opened 71 new screens and closed 42 underperforming screens, resulting in a net addition of 29 screens. Its current screen portfolio includes 1,747 screens across 356 cinemas in 111 cities in India and Sri Lanka.
PVR INOX is engaged in the business of movie exhibition & production and operates largest cinema circuit across India. The company earns revenue from sale of movie tickets, in-cinema advertisements/product displays and sale of food and beverages and restaurant business.
The scrip advanced 2.21% to currently trade at Rs 1,621.85 on the BSE.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Whenever Anton has free time after work, he sits at his kitchen table and spends a few hours assembling drones that will be sent to the front line.
“Our army needs a lot of them,” says Anton, a 35-year-old software developer, who declined to give his last name to avoid being targeted by Russia for his kitchen-top weapon-making. “People need to use factories in their own kitchens to assemble more and more drones.”
Ukraine has dramatically amped up domestic production of both attack and reconnaissance drones since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. This year, the Ukrainian government allocated $2 billion to produce at least 1 million first-person-view, or FPV, drones, which are equipped with cameras that transmit video to remote pilots. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told foreign arms manufacturers earlier this month that the country had already surpassed that, contracting 1.5 million drones in the first three quarters of this year. He added that Ukraine is now capable of producing 4 million drones annually. The government, military, private companies and regular citizens are all involved.
“When we started doing this, it was only three people. We were doing everything ourselves,” said Serhiy Pirohov, who in the summer of 2022 co-founded the volunteer drone-assembly network Social Drone UA, though he now works independently. “It was the goal from day zero to bring in more people and educate them so the goal is that everyone in the country should be able to assemble some kind of drone.”
Ukraine even opened a new armed forces' branch dedicated to drone warfare, which the Ukrainian Defense Ministry says is the first of its kind. Vadym Sukharevsky, the commander of this branch, known officially as the Unmanned Systems Forces, compared it to the creation of an air force. Russia may have more drones, he told the Economist magazine in July, “but qualitatively we are keeping them at parity.” Sukharevsky told a recent military tech conference in Kyiv that when the branch is fully structured, “we will be operating at sea, we will be operating on land and air ... plus we will be working on research and development.”
Ihor Lutsenko, a former Ukrainian lawmaker now in the Ukrainian military, is also pushing for the creation of an all-female drone unit because “we do not have enough soldiers at the front, and it’s time to include women,” he told NPR.
Meanwhile, more than 200 drone-producing companies have opened in Ukraine since 2022, including Skyassist, which has its offices in a no-frills neighborhood of Kyiv. Co-founder Ihor Krynychko points to a reconnaissance drone.
“This is the prototype,” he says. “Literally made in the kitchen.”
Skyassist produces hundreds of drones every month. Krynychko, a jolly engineer from Kharkiv, says Ukrainians are producing state-of-the-art drones because “we paid for this knowledge in blood, with our soldiers’ lives.”
“I remember being at a military exhibition in Poland last year and seeing beautiful-looking weapons by Lockheed Martin, Boeing and others and thinking ‘they’re beautiful but none of them would work in war for various reasons,’ ” he says. “It’s not because our engineers are necessarily smarter. We are at war and we know better than anyone else what’s needed at the front.”
Ukraine’s navy has used sea drones to drive Russian warships out of the Black Sea. More recently, last month, the government unveiled the Palianytsia, which has been described as both a missile drone and a rocket drone which can be used against targets far into Russian territory. The Ukrainian military is already using domestically produced long-range attack drones to hit ammunition depots deep inside Russia.
The biggest barrier to expansion, though, is money. Ukraine’s government and private sector are producing more drones than the state can afford to acquire. Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and former Strategic Industries Minister Oleksandr Kamyshin have urged other countries to help by buying Ukrainian drones.
Keeping up drone production helps Ukraine defend itself, says Krynychko, the co-founder of the drone-manufacturing company Skyassist.
“We have so many ideas for new drones,” he said. “We need time and resources to bring them to life.”
Hanna Palamarenko and Polina Lytvynova contributed reporting from Kyiv.
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Rajasthan will become new destination for global companies: CM
Munich, Oct 15 (IANS) Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma-led high-level delegation of the government of Rajasthan on Tuesday participated in the ‘Rising Rajasthan’ Investor Roadshow in Munich (Germany) and invited German innovators and investors to set up units in the Rajasthan on the second day of its Germany visit.
Calling for investments in Rajasthan’s different sectors like automobile, ESDM, supply chain and logistics, tourism, petroleum, mines and minerals, renewable energy, defence, packaging etc., Chief Minister Sharma said that his government’s efforts to make Rajasthan an ideal investment destination has started to yield positive outcomes and investment MoUs worth over INR 15 lakh rupees have been signed within two months of announcement of ‘Rising Rajasthan’ Global Investment Summit 2024.
Addressing the German investor community during the ‘Rising Rajasthan’ Investor Roadshow, Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma said, “I invite you all to invest in Rajasthan and join us in building a prosperous future. I want to assure every entrepreneur investing in the state that our government stands with them at every step. We want to strengthen our partnership with a developed country like Germany, which is a potent symbol of scientific innovations, technological prowess, prosperity and development. Rajasthan’s strategic location, robust infrastructure, abundant resources and business-friendly policies make us an ideal business destination for the German companies.”
He also said that India is being looked at as a new supply chain destination for global companies and Rajasthan is ready to become the trusted partner of these companies in India due to its pro-active and growth-oriented policies. The Rajasthan government is with you at every step to make your investments prosperous and secure.
Inviting the German investors to look at the renewable energy sector of the state as their potential destination, the Chief Minister also said that Rajasthan will be expanding its renewable power generation capacity to 115 GW by 2031-32 from the present level of 28 GW, which shall require investment of over INR 5.4 lakh crore.
At the investor roadshow held here, the government of Rajasthan signed investment MoUs with several German firms, including Albatross Projects, Flixbus, Partex NV, Veauli Techniks GmbH & Ingo Schmitz etc.
The investment MoUs were signed in the sectors like defence, mobility, Artificial Intelligence (AI), automobile, and skill development sectors. Moreover, the CM-led delegation interacted with German investors, business groups and innovators during the ‘Rising Rajasthan’ investor roadshow and showcased Rajasthan as one of the most prominent investment destinations in India.
Besides the investor roadshow, the CM-led delegation also met with officials of several leading German firms like MULTIVAC Sepp Haggenmüller SE & Co. KG (packaging), HAWE Hydraulik GmbH (engineering), Albatross Projects (defence), Brainlab (healthcare), Yunex Traffic (urban transport) etc. and invited them for making investments in Rajasthan. Moreover, the delegation will also be meeting several other German firms later in the day (Munich time), including Knauf Engineering GmbH, Horizon Group, Veauli Technik GmbH, Roedl & Partner, Partex etc.
During the meeting with MULTIVAC Sepp Haggenmüller SE & Co. KG, company officials showed interest in expanding their presence in Rajasthan, including in establishing an IT hub in the state, scaling up their operations and tapping into the vast opportunities Rajasthan offers. The company, which is a global leader in integrated processing and packaging solutions for industries such as food, life sciences, healthcare, and industrial goods, already has a production site in the Ghiloth industrial area of the state.
The Chief Minister-led delegation will also partake in a special ‘Rising Rajasthan’ Tourism Meet to showcase the immense potential and growth opportunities in Rajasthan’s tourism sector and exhort the German investors from the hospitality and real estate sectors to set up tourism units in the state.
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Meta’s Oversight Board says viral video left on Facebook threatened LGBTQ+ people in Nigeria
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Meta’s oversight board has expressed serious concern over the company’s failure to take down a viral graphic video showing two men bleeding after they were apparently beaten up for being allegedly gay. The video was posted in Nigeria where homosexuality is criminalized by laws that garner broad public support despite constitutional guarantees of freedoms. The report said the damage done by the video, which was viewed more than 3.6 million times between December 2023 and February this year, was “immediate and impossible to undo.” The company admitted two errors regarding the said video, the panel said, including the identification of the language used.
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Snake slithers through Dodgers dugout during NLCS loss to Mets
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A snake slithered through the Los Angeles Dodgers dugout during Game 2 of the National League Championship Series. The reptile appeared in the top of the fifth inning of the Dodgers’ 7-3 loss to the New York Mets on Monday. It wasn’t big enough to put a scare into anyone. Reliever Brent Honeywell says he was hoping it was a rally snake and that it would spur the Dodgers to victory. That didn’t happen. The snake was eventually wrapped in a towel by a member of the grounds crew and removed from the dugout.
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Family of Tennessee employee who died in Hurricane Helene flooding files wrongful death lawsuit
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The family of a Tennessee employee who was killed by catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Helene has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. According to the lawsuit filed against the company, workers were forced to stay at their posts even when managers knew conditions were becoming dangerous. Johnny Peterson was among the Impact Plastics employees who died Sept. 27 after Hurricane Helene’s flooding hit Erwin, a small, rural town in eastern Tennessee. The raging waters swept 11 people away, and only five were rescued. The suit names Impact Plastics and company owner Gerald O’Connor as defendants. O’Connor’s attorney did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment Tuesday.
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Workers at Ubisoft in France start 3-day strike over home working policies
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(MENAFN) Workers at Ubisoft, the renowned video game company, commenced three days of strike action in France on Tuesday, driven by ongoing disputes over home working policies and pay. This strike occurs at a challenging time for Ubisoft, which is already grappling with disappointing sales and a significant drop in share prices. Several anticipated titles, including "Star Wars Outlaws," "Skull and Bones," and a new installment of "Prince of Persia," have failed to resonate with audiences. Additionally, the company caused concern among investors by postponing the latest release in the "Assassin's Creed" franchise until next year.
Since the beginning of the year, Ubisoft's stock value has plummeted by more than 40%, reaching its lowest point in a decade as of September. The current strike was prompted by a management message from September that mandated a return to in-office work for three days a week for all employees globally. This decision followed a previous walkout in February, where hundreds of workers in France protested over pay issues. Unions indicated that they received no feedback regarding the grievances raised during the February strike and characterized the recent management directive as "the straw that broke the camel's back."
Clement Montigny, a representative from the STJV union, highlighted that the shift back to in-person work undermined promises made to staff and disrupted their personal lives. In response to the push for a return to the office, Ubisoft management communicated to employees via email that such a move is essential for fostering creativity within the company. They assured workers that ample time would be provided to adjust to this transition.
As the strike unfolded, around 50 employees were observed on a picket line in Montpellier, with similar disruptions anticipated at Ubisoft offices in Annecy, Lyon, and Paris. The situation underscores the growing tension between management and employees over working conditions, particularly in an industry that has increasingly embraced flexible and remote work arrangements.
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LONDON – 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.
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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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Nifty Realty index ended up 2.05% at 1079.05 today. The index has gained 2.00% over last one month. Among the constituents, Raymond Ltd rose 5.42%, Sobha Ltd gained 5.11% and Brigade Enterprises Ltd jumped 3.59%. The Nifty Realty index has soared 77.00% over last one year compared to the 26.99% increase in benchmark Nifty 50 index. In other indices, Nifty Metal index has dropped 1.44% and Nifty Auto index is down 0.83% on the day. In broad markets, the Nifty 50 is down 0.28% to close at 25057.35 while the SENSEX has slid 0.19% to close at 81820.12 today.
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Frankfurt book fair displays literary diversity in Italian controversy
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(MENAFN) The Frankfurt Book Fair, set to commence this Wednesday, promises to showcase an eclectic mix of topics, ranging from controversies surrounding an Italian mafia author to the rising interest in quirky literary subgenres and the role of AI in publishing. As the world’s largest book fair, this event brings together authors, publishers, and industry stakeholders in a five-day celebration of literature in the western German city.
Among the prominent figures participating are Israeli author and historian Yuval Noah Harari, renowned for his book "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind," along with American writer Anne Applebaum and British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak. However, the lead-up to the fair has been overshadowed by a significant controversy involving Italy, this year's guest of honor—a designation that aims to highlight the literary contributions of a partner country.
Tensions escalated after the initial selection of authors proposed by Italy notably excluded Roberto Saviano, the acclaimed writer of the mafia bestseller "Gomorrah." Saviano, who faced a conviction and fine last year for defaming Italy’s far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, criticized the Italian government on social media, labeling it "the most ignorant government in the history of Italy." Ultimately, he has confirmed his attendance at the fair, albeit at the invitation of his German publisher.
This incident has sparked concerns about the deteriorating climate for freedom of expression in Italy. A group of 41 authors responded with an open letter, decrying what they view as "increasingly suffocating political interference in cultural spaces." In defense of the fair’s programming, the Italian Publishers Association asserted its commitment to ensuring that no external influence would affect the selection process for the event, themed "Roots in the Future." Fair director Juergen Boos defended Italy's status as guest of honor, stating that it is crucial to reflect on the current dynamics within Italy's cultural and political landscape.
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CAIRO — (AP) — The Grand Egyptian Museum will partially open its main galleries on Wednesday, including 12 halls that exhibit aspects of ancient Egypt, as part of a trial run, officials said Tuesday.
The museum, a mega-project near the famed Giza Pyramids which has cost well over $1 billion so far, will open the halls for 4,000 visitors as a trial run until the official opening date, which is yet to be announced, according to Al-Tayeb Abbas, assistant to the minister of antiquities.
The opening of the museum, which has been under construction for more than a decade, has been repeatedly delayed for various reasons, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
More than 100,000 artifacts of Egypt's ancient treasures will be displayed in the world's largest archaeological museum, according to the Egyptian state information website.
Abbas told the AP that the trial run starting Wednesday would help prepare for the full opening by providing a deeper understanding of issues related to operations such as identifying overcrowded areas across the museum.
The displays across the 12 halls tap into issues related to society, religion, and doctrine in ancient Egypt, he added. All open-style halls have been classified by dynasty and historical order, and each will showcase at least 15,000 artifacts.
Eras that will be exhibited in the main galleries include the Third Intermediate Period (about 1070-664 B.C.), Late Period (664-332 B.C.), Graeco-Roman Period (332 B.C.-395 A.D.), New Kingdom (1550-1070 B.C.), Middle Kingdom (2030-1650 B.C.), and Old Kingdom (2649-2130 B.C.). One of the halls displays statues of “Elite of the King,” members of the royal family and high-ranking officials who worked in the army, priesthood, and the government.
Parts of the site have already been open for limited tours since late 2022 to test visitors’ experience and the museum’s operational preparedness.
Aude Porcedde, a Canadian tourist who visited several sections, told the AP she was amazed by the museum, adding that Egyptian civilization is important for her and for the world to know more about.
“There is a lot of history and a lot of things we are not aware of, especially coming from the other side of the world, and seeing everything here and learning from the locals has been great,” said Costa Rican tourist Jorge Licano.
The grand staircase, six stories high and with a view of the pyramids, and the commercial area are open to the public, showcasing monuments and artifacts that include sarcophagi and statues. Other parts of the museum, including the King Tutankhamun treasure collection, are set to open at later dates.
All halls are equipped with advanced technology and feature multimedia presentations to explain the lives of the ancient Egyptians, including its kings, according to Eissa Zidan, Director-General of the Preliminary Restoration and Antiquities Transfer at the museum.
One of the halls will use virtual reality to explain the history of burial and its development throughout ancient Egypt.
“The museum is not only a place to display antiquities, but it also aims to attract children to learn about ancient Egyptian history ... The museum is a gift to all the world,” Zidan told the AP.
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Walgreens plans to close 1,200 stores over the next three years, the pharmacy chain said on Tuesday. It's part of the company's plan for a turnaround, as it faces retail competition and lower prescription payouts.
Chief Executive Tim Wentworth said about a quarter of the company’s stores are unprofitable. Walgreens has been on a $1-billion cost-cutting spree. It's already been shutting some stores, shaking up leadership and renegotiating its deals with insurers.
Walgreens, which also owns the British drugstore chain Boots, reported a net loss of $3 billion in the latest quarter. This was actually better than expected, with sales growing 6%.
Walgreens isn't the only big pharmacy chain attempting a turnaround. Rite Aid last month emerged from bankruptcy; CVS has also closed stores and reportedly weighs a breakup to undo its mergers with the insurance company Aetna and with Caremark, a pharmacy benefits manager.
The convenience-store part of pharmacy chains has been losing shoppers to Amazon, Walmart, Costco, grocery stores and dollar stores. Many of those rivals also fill prescriptions, competing for pharmacy customers, too.
Pharmacy chains have over-expanded to thousands of locations over the years, signing long-term leases for pricey corner locations. But many shoppers have criticized the quality of the stores, complaining about understaffing and the inaccessibility of items that are locked up to prevent theft. Pharmacies, for their part, have complained about shrinking profits for filling prescriptions, citing dramatic declines in reimbursement rates.
In light of these challenges, CVS and Walgreens have looked for profits elsewhere. They've tried to add primary-care clinics, a project that costs a lot of time and money. The chains have also proposed new payout structures for prescriptions, with Walgreens on Tuesday warning that it would be "willing to walk away from a line of business, if it doesn't make sense."
"I'm very confident that over a two- to three-year period we will have reset the framework for reimbursement discussions," Walgreens CEO Wentworth told investors on Tuesday.
He also added that Walgreens is focusing on adding more store-brand products to its chain. That tactic has been successful for Boots in Britain, though it has not done as well in the U.S. so far. Wentworth also said the chain would work to re-hire workers from stores that will close and added that overall, "Many of our actions across this turnaround will take time."
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Red alert: Public holiday declared in Chennai, adjoining districts for Wednesday
Chennai, Oct 15 (IANS) In view of the heavy to extremely heavy rains and the red alert announced by the Regional Meteorological Centre, the Tamil Nadu government has declared a public holiday on Wednesday for Chennai and adjoining districts of the state.
A holiday has been declared for government offices and PSUs in Kancheepuram, Chengalpattu, and Tiruvallur districts on Wednesday.
However, essential services of key government departments in these districts will continue to function. Shops and commercial establishments will remain open as per the state government circular.
An advisory has also been issued to private companies to allow their employees to work from home on Wednesday.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has directed officials to declare a holiday for schools and colleges in Chennai and adjoining districts on Wednesday due to the heavy to very heavy rains.
It is worth mentioning that the weather department has predicted 20.9 cm of rainfall in a single day on Wednesday, with a low-pressure system over the Bay of Bengal leading to these heavy to extremely heavy rains.
The Chennai Corporation has already begun operations to drain water from 300 locations affected by waterlogging.
Heavy rains continue in Chennai, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, and Chengalpattu districts.
Several subways have been inundated in Chennai, and of the 22 subways, the Ganespuram Subway, Kilpauk Gengu Reddy Subway, Duraisamy Subway, Madley Subway, and Perambur Subway have been closed due to water stagnation.
Tamil Nadu CM M.K. Stalin, Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, and ministers P.K. Sekhar Babu and Ma Subramanian, along with Chennai Corporation Mayor R. Priya, inspected several areas in the city affected by flooding due to heavy rains.
Udhayanidhi Stalin, while speaking to media personnel, said that the Greater Chennai Corporation had received more than 1,500 complaints regarding rain-related issues, of which 600 have already been resolved.
Chennai Corporation Mayor R. Priya told the media that the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) had already set up 300 relief centres, each capable of accommodating between 50 to 1,000 people.
She also mentioned that 35 community kitchens have been established in Chennai in light of the heavy rains and the potential displacement of residents from their homes.
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New Book ‘Crisis Capable’ Draws Business Lessons From Author’s Precarious Childhood
CHARLESTON, SC, UNITED STATES, October 15, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In the new book Crisis Capable: Building Your Capacity to Survive and Succeed in Every Environment, author Fabiana Lacerca-Allen brings her unusual life story to the business book genre.
The lessons she imparts come not only from her 30 years of business experience but also from her childhood in Argentina in the 1970s. It was a dangerous time, especially for people like her father, a businessman and leading figure in the country who held democratic values that didn’t align with Argentina’s military rule. This meant danger for her family. On one occasion, they had a narrow escape when, just 15 minutes after they left a weekend home, heavily armed masked men burst into the house in search of them.
“Had our family not left the weekend home early,” Lacerca-Allen writes, “the story of that evening and following morning would have had a different ending.”
Crisis Capable, published by Advantage Books, is a mix of memoir and business leadership tutorial. The book relates those harrowing childhood days, the author’s move to the United States, her success in business, and the wisdom she gained from all of those experiences, which she shares with others.
Each chapter ends with “key takeaways,” such as: “Use the information you have at hand to make decisions and be ready to accept the consequences,” or “Pay attention to patterns. Notice details and monitor people’s behaviors and interactions.”
Today, Lacerca-Allen is a C-level compliance executive who has held senior roles at several companies. She writes that others in business can draw on their life experiences to “bring a powerful and diverse voice to the table,” just as she has.
“Today, as I look back on it all, I’m glad I went through what I did,” she writes. “You see, we have choices to make about our circumstances. We can resist change or embrace it. And we can use the challenges we face to become stronger, to build resilience, and to find solutions. I’m convinced that my background helped me become the strong warrior that I am today. When I show up, I come prepared, excited to make a difference, and always looking to lend a hand.”
About Fabiana Lacerca-Allen
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Israel assures US it won’t strike Iranian nuclear or oil sites, US officials say
AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration believes it has won assurances from Israel that it will not hit Iranian nuclear or oil sites as it looks to strike back following Iran’s missile barrage earlier this month, two U.S. officials said Tuesday.
The administration also believes that sending a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel and roughly 100 soldiers to operate it has eased some of Israel’s concerns about possible Iranian retaliation and general security issues.
The Pentagon on Sunday announced the THAAD deployment to help bolster Israel’s air defenses following Iran’s ballistic missile attacks on Israel in April and October, saying it was authorized at the direction of President Joe Biden.
However, the U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private diplomatic discussions, cautioned that the assurance is not ironclad and that circumstances could change. The officials also noted that Israel’s track record on fulfilling assurances in the past is mixed and has often reflected domestic Israeli politics that have upended Washington’s expectations.
The most recent example of that was last month when U.S. officials were told by their Israeli counterparts that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would welcome a U.S.- and French-led temporary cease-fire initiative for Lebanon only to see Israel launch a massive airstrike that killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah two days later.
Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that “we listen to the opinions of the United States, but we will make our final decisions based on our national interests.”
The Middle East has been bracing for an expected response from Israel after Iran launched roughly 180 ballistic missiles on Oct. 1, which the United States helped to fend off. The tit-for-tat strikes and uncertainty about whether Israel might strike strategically important energy and nuclear sites in Iran have raised fears about escalation into an all-out regional war.
Israel’s offensive against Iranian-backed Hamas militants in Gaza has expanded into a ground invasion of Lebanon targeting Hezbollah, another Iranian proxy that has been firing into Israel since the conflict in Gaza started a year ago in solidarity with Hamas.
Biden has said he would not support a retaliatory Israeli strike on sites related to Tehran’s nuclear program and urged Israel to consider alternatives to hitting Iran’s oil sector. Such a strike could affect the global oil market and boost pump prices just ahead of the U.S. presidential election.
Biden and Netanyahu spoke by phone last week for the first time in seven weeks, while Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been speaking regularly with his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant.
The Pentagon said in a readout of a call from Sunday that the U.S. has reaffirmed its support for Israel’s security but urged it to ensure protections for U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, shift from military operations to a diplomatic solution and “raised concern for the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and stressed that steps must be taken soon to address it.”
The White House National Security Council declined to confirm that Netanyahu offered Biden any assurances about targets.
“Our commitment to Israel’s defense is ironclad,” the White House National Security Council said in a statement. “We will not discuss private diplomatic discussions and would refer you to the Israeli government to speak to their own potential military operations.”
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AP reporter Julia Frankel contributed from Jerusalem.
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South Carolina ranked No. 1 in women’s AP Top 25 preseason poll with UConn, USC, Texas and UCLA next
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South Carolina is starting the season where it finished off last year — ranked No. 1 in the AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll.
The Gamecocks received 27 of the 30 first-place votes in the preseason rankings from a national media panel Tuesday. South Carolina returns four starters from the national championship team that went undefeated last year, capping off the historic season over Caitlin Clark and Iowa in the title game.
UConn is No. 2, USC is No. 3 and Texas and UCLA round out the top five.
South Carolina has been No. 1 in the preseason poll four of the past five years. Last season, they started sixth in the preseason before moving up to No. 1 for the remainder of the year.
“We knew we’d have a target on our backs this season as the reigning champions and this preseason ranking just confirms that,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley told the AP. “We appreciate the recognition, but I know our coaching staff and our team are more focused on what we see in the gym every day. And that’s every player working extremely hard to get better individually and as a team.”
UConn received two first-place votes. The Huskies have been ranked in the top 10 in the preseason poll for 30 straight years now. Geno Auriemma’s team went through major injury issues last year but the Huskies look to be healthy for the most part to start this season.
Third-ranked USC is led by phenomenal sophomore guard JuJu Watkins and the team added two talented transfers in Kiki Iriafen and Talia von Oelhoffen. The Trojans, who received the other first place vote, have their highest ranking in the preseason since the 1982 and 1983 squads were No. 1 in the opening poll both years.
Texas welcomes back Rori Harmon, who was sidelined for most of last season with an ACL injury. She and Madison Booker give the Longhorns a solid 1-2 punch on offense. UCLA added its own solid group of transfers to a strong team with Charlisse Leger-Walker and Timea Gardiner joining Lauren Betts and Kiki Rice.
Notre Dame, LSU, Iowa State, North Carolina State and Oklahoma rounded out the first 10 teams in the poll. It’s the second time in three seasons that the Cyclones have started this high in the preseason poll. The Sooners haven’t been ranked this high in the inaugural poll of the season since 2010 when they were also 10th.
Welcome back
No. 24 Alabama is making its first appearance in the rankings since the final poll of 1999. The Crimson Tide haven’t been in the preseason poll since 1998 (No. 9). The team has appeared in consecutive NCAA tournaments behind stars Sarah Ashlee Barker and Aaliyah Nye.
“We’re very thankful for the mention, but want to take care of each day,” Alabama coach Kristy Curry said. “We are excited this season about the group and the way we finished last season.”
End of an era
Stanford is unranked in the preseason for the first time since 1999. Hall of Fame Cardinal coach Tara VanDerveer retired in April and was replaced by longtime assistant Kate Paye. It had been the second-longest active preseason streak behind only UConn.
Conference supremacy
New conference additions Texas and Oklahoma give the SEC seven teams in the Top 25. Joining them are South Carolina, LSU, No. 20 Ole Miss, No. 22 Kentucky and Alabama. The ACC and Big Ten each have six ranked teams while the Big 12 has four. UConn and Creighton give the Big East two teams.
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True Value, a 76-year-old hardware store, revealed Monday it filed for bankruptcy and intends to sell substantially all of its business operations to a rival.
The nationwide retailer, writing in a press release, explained it initiated Chapter 11 proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. As proceedings play out, True Value will "continue its day-to-day operations" in serving its 4,500 stores.
The locations aren't part of the bankruptcy filing as they are independently owned, with the exception of one company-owned store in suburban Palatine, Illinois.
Home improvement rival Do it Best Corp., based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, will acquire the majority of the company's assets.
"True Value's sale process is the next step in a series of actions that the Company has taken in 2024 to better position the business and its iconic brand for the long term, including modernizing its legacy operations, driving greater efficiencies, and investing in additional marketing campaigns," the press release stated.
The sale to Do it Best is projected to be finished by the end of 2024.
"A successful acquisition of True Value assets would represent a strategic milestone for Do it Best and home improvement retailers around the world," said Dan Starr, Do it Best president & chief executive officer, said in the release. "Do it Best has a proven track record of driving profitability through the most efficient operations in the industry. This acquisition, if consummated, would provide True Value and independent hardware stores the strongest opportunities for growth for years to come."
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Updated October 15, 2024 at 12:41 PM ET
For years, singer/songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, refused to write a memoir; she told people she thought her life wasn’t interesting enough to fill a book.
"I think she's had a complicated relationship with existing in the public eye and wanting to connect to people and share her story, but also really not enjoying having attention on her," Lisa Marie's daughter, Riley Keough says.
Eventually, Lisa Marie changed her mind about the memoir. She began making audio recordings about her life and reached out to Keough for help with the project. A month later, in January 2023, Lisa Marie died suddenly, and Keough had to decide whether or not to complete the book.
"I received the tapes. And then I kind of put it off for a while because I was like, why am I doing this to myself?" Keough says. "But the project of the book really felt like a duty to me. ... It felt like just a task that had to be done, so then I think I approached it in that way."
The book, From Here to the Great Unknown, takes its title from a lyric from the song “Where No One Stands Alone,” featured on a 2018 compilation album of Lisa Marie singing duets with archival recordings of her father's favorite gospel songs. In the book, Lisa Marie describes growing up in Graceland and shock of losing her father when she was 9. She also looks back on her three marriages, her battle with addiction and the loss of her son, Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in 2020.
Keough, who is listed as a co-author of the memoir, says she struggled throughout to capture her mother's voice.
"[Lisa Marie] was very complicated and she was very candid and honest and raw and tough and wild and rebellious," Keough says. "But she also had a side to her that was very sort of childlike and naïve as well. And [she was] one of the most loving people I've ever met. But also I don't know if she could ever receive love, which was interesting."
Interview highlights
On Lisa Marie’s relationship to her parents, Elvis and Priscilla
I think that she was so close with her father, like she was a daddy's girl and he was everything to her that the loss of him was so great. And I think that dictated the relationship she had with her mother. …
Priscilla was a very young mother, and obviously my grandmother was living in this world that was totally overwhelming and unusual and she [had] to be Elvis' wife. And I think there was a lot of pressure on her to be perfect and to be the perfect wife and woman that ever lived. … And I think that my mom and her were very different. Like my mother was very wild and unruly and rebellious and radical kind of, and [Priscilla] was very well mannered and perfect, kind of the opposite of my mom, so I think they would butt heads often. … I also think that that had to do with the fact that she was in grief, too, so I think that she was acting out. She was angry at the universe for taking her father away and that everything and everyone was not him.
On Lisa Marie’s account of the day Elvis died in 1977
She always felt protective over that story. I always got the sense that she would never share the details of that day publicly, but then when I got the tapes, I heard that she wanted to share the details of that day. …
She basically came into my grandfather's room and he was in his bathroom and she saw him in there and then somebody grabbed her and brought her out into her room. And the ambulance came. And I think she says she went to smoke a cigarette. She was 9 years old. And then she watched him get brought down the stairs on a gurney. And she kind of says she remembers seeing his shoes or his hand or something like that. And he gets wheeled out of the house. And then a few moments later, his father, Vernon, basically, she hears him yelling and saying, “My baby's gone” … and I think Vernon said, “Your daddy's gone.”
On the family grieving alongside the public
The whole world was grieving her father, and she talks about watching people come through the house and people fainting and having to be carried out and ambulances coming to get people. ... I think it was a very interesting way to grieve. And I think that it kind of maybe didn't leave her a lot of room for her own grief.
On Lisa Marie’s connection to Graceland
She was very happy to be at Graceland. And in general, like if we were in Memphis, she just loved it there. She wanted a house there. And it was where she grew up and had some of her best memories as a child. We always had a lot of fun there. We would have dinners there and Thanksgiving and when the tours were over, obviously we would hang out in the house and they would take the ropes down and it was just like a family home for us. We would hang out in the living rooms and me and my brother would run downstairs and play pool with our cousins. And so we got to experience it as a home growing up. … And her father's room, which has never been part of the tour, her room in her father's room are upstairs in the house, and it's really only been a few people who are allowed up there and just our family. And she kept a key with her, and it was just a place that she went. It was like a place of comfort for her. I think she really felt her father in the room.
On Lisa Marie’s marriage to Michael Jackson being questioned as a publicity stunt
Their love was very genuine and they were in love and they were in a real relationship and slept in bed together and were very normal. But I think that when you're that famous, there's a lot of people around. I think both camps kind of had people in their ears about each other. My mom started to perceive that maybe he was on drugs and he started to maybe get the idea that she was on to him maybe being on drugs. And then I think there was paranoia. I think my grandmother was apprehensive about the marriage and brought that idea up to my mom, and I think it just kind of exploded.
On Riley’s relationship Jackson
I think my mom says something in the book that people might kind of pass over, which is really kind of indicative of the whole thing, which is that like the version of Michael that was in her/our lives or that she was with, was different to, I think, the version that he presented on TV. Even the way he spoke was different. Probably with Elvis, too: There's the version of Elvis Presley for the world and then there's the version at home. And I think my experience with Michael was he felt like a human being and spoke differently. I remember the first time I saw him on TV, his register was higher and that's not how I was used to hearing him. And I remember thinking: That was interesting. So I think that in my life he felt like my mom's husband, like a stepfather.
On Lisa Marie seeing Elvis impersonators at her shows
She used to, before shows, peek out the side of the curtain and and find where they would be so that she wasn't surprised when she went out there and she would just peek around and kind of go, OK, there's one in the back, there's one over there so she wasn't shocked. … It's like some kind of wild fever dream to go out on stage and perform to your dead father, or like someone in costume. It's bizarre. People's relationship to him was as if he was like this sort of like God, you know? And so I don't think there was a lot of humanizing going on with her. It's not that they had ill intentions. I think that they're just fans and just maybe didn't realize how weird that would be for her.
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- Governor Roy Cooper spoke alongside with FEMA and other state officials Tuesday morning to provide an update on North Carolina's recovery from Hurricane Helene.
This comes after officials say FEMA workers paused some operations briefly and adjusted recovery efforts in NC due to threats made over the weekend.
According to the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office, William Parson, 44, was armed with a handgun and rifle, threatening FEMA officials outside a grocery store that is functioning as a storm relief site. He faces a criminal charge of "going armed to the terror of the public."
Misinformation has been a source of contention in the aftermath of Helene.
"If you're participating in spreading this stuff, stop it," Cooper said Tuesday. "Whatever your aim is, the people you are really hurting are those in western North Carolina who need help. The safety of our government and volunteer response workers, including FEMA, remains a top priority. I've directed the Department of Public Safety to coordinate law enforcement assistance for FEMA and other responders who need it to help ensure their safety and security, so people can keep getting the help that they desperately need."
92 people are still unaccounted for in the state, he said.
FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said misinformation about operations "has got to stop."
"Let me be clear, I take these threats seriously, and the safety of these responders is and will remain a priority for me and my team now," Criswell said. "Over the weekend, out of an abundance of caution, we made operational changes to keep FEMA personnel safe, but none of the changes we made impacted ongoing search and rescue or other life safety operations."
FEMA has continued to help those affected by Helene, she added. All normal operations have resumed.
Cooper also gave updates to progress made in western NC:
He also said there are some communities back open and welcoming visitors, which is paramount in getting their economy back up and running.
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XDefiant reportedly shutting down after Season 4
UbisoftXDefiant, once billed as a potential Call of Duty killer and genre behemoth, may be about to head into its final days, as Ubisoft reportedly plans to shut the game down after only four seasons.
In a post on Twitter/X, renowned leaker Shaun Weber posted a categorical tweet stating that the game is “already dead.”
The tweet details internal processes at Ubisoft that could serve as a last throw of the dice for the beleaguered game. Weber details how the research team has called in the play testers for an “in-house test session,” to provide additional feedback. They then conclude by saying that, if they can’t get enough players, Season 4 will be the last.
In the run-up to launch, the game’s stripped-back approach to mechanics appealed to many, in a world of high-octane and complex battle royales like Apex Legends. Initially, it seemed as though it had been successful in capitalizing on that momentum, as Ubisoft ticked off player counts up beyond 12 million.
Unfortunately for the developer, player retention has been a major issue and the game has dropped out of the top 10 in weekly charts across all platforms. As a result, Weber has claimed that Ubisoft will end support for the game after Season 4, if they are unable to generate any more players.
With the game in its second season, there is some time to turn this around. A report from Insider Gaming back in August initially claimed that the game only had until Season 3 to reverse its fortunes, so at the very least this would be an extension of that proposed timeline.
For now, at least, the developer is continuing to actively work on the game, rolling out fixes in response to fan issues. The latest set of changes emerged on October 8, addressing significant problems with movement, combat, and unintended interactions.
After several high profile disappointments at Ubisoft, including the spectacular difficulties of pirate sim Skull and Bones, the developer will be keen to steady the ship with the release of Assassin’s Creed: Shadows.
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Ramirez Player Prop Is Best Look In Game 2 Of ALCS
Guardians vs. Yankees, 7:38 ET
Guardians vs. Yankees, 7:38 ET
I went just 1-1 on the diamond yesterday. In the Dodgers game, I had the under for the first five innings, and it was dead relatively quickly. The Mets didn't allow the Dodgers to keep their scoreless inning streak alive as they jumped out to a lead in the first at-bat of the game, having Francisco Lindor set the tone, as usual, for the team. That series is tied 1-1. Now we have the other Championship Series, this one in the American League, and we have the Guardians facing the Yankees in Game 2.
The Guardians are also looking to tie up the series. Yesterday they lost the opener of the series 5-2. The Guardians offense got very little going. In this first game, they did get six hits, but couldn't muster a lot of them together in any inning. Their nine hitter was the most productive player in the lineup. Brayan Rocchio went 2-for-3 in the game with a solo homer. He is hitting .421 for the playoffs, and has had a hit in every game this postseason. It may be time for him to move up in the lineup. Outside of two innings no one on the Guardians even reached second base. If the Yankees did give up a hit, they were able to limit the damage. Tonight they have Tanner Bibee taking the ball with hopes of evening up the series. Bibee went 12-8 in the regular season with a 3.47 ERA and a 1.12 WHIP with 187 strikeouts. He has made two postseason starts, both of them against the Tigers. He went a total of 8.2 innings in those games and allowed a total of two earned runs in the games. Bibee never faced the Yankees during the regular season, and has only faced them 17 total times. The team is 6-for-17 against him with one homer and one double.
The Yankees are up a game in the series, won the first playoff series, and now have their sights set on getting a commanding lead in this one. Here's the thing, the Yankees actually aren't even playing to their full potential because Aaron Judge is basically an absentee hitter right now. In five playoff games, Judge is just 2-for-15, having virtually nothing offered to him that is truly hittable. He does have six walks, but has matched that with six strikeouts. He only has one extra-base hit for the postseason, and it wasn't a homer. He just drove in his first run of the playoffs. When you are 4-1 in the playoffs, and your best player, the league MVP, has done very little for you, you should count your blessings. If he starts to roll, and Juan Soto and Giancarlo Stanton maintain what they've been doing, the Yankees will easily win the World Series. That is, if their pitching holds up as well. Gerrit Cole, their ace, is taking the hill tonight. He didn't have the best season by his standards, but he had a good enough year with an 8-5 record, 3.41 ERA, and a 1.13 WHIP. He faced the Royals tice in the playoffs this year and went a total of 12 innings, allowing four earned runs. The Yankees won both of his starts. He did face the Guardians earlier in the year and held them to one hit in six scoreless innings. He did issue five walks, but obviously no damage was done.
There aren't a ton of hitters that have done well against Cole in his career. Jose Ramirez is the one Guardian hitter you always need to watch out for, and Cole doesn't really have an edge on him either. Ramirez is 12-for-34 with six extra-base hits against him. I do think he will be able to get some hits today off of the Cole. We cashed a prop on Soto yesterday and I'm going back in Game 2 with over 1.5 total bases from Ramirez at +140.
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A quarter of cybersecurity leaders are ready to quit
A new survey finds that 24 percent of CISOs or IT security decision makers (ITS DMs) are actively looking to leave their position.
The research, commissioned by BlackFog, finds that a further 54 percent, while not actively looking to quit, are open to new opportunities.
The survey of 400 ITS DMs -- 200 in the US and 200 in the UK -- in enterprises of over 500 employees finds that of those considering leaving 93 percent say that the stress and demands of the job are impacting their decision to leave.
Nearly every respondent (98 percent) reports that they work more than their contracted hours. On average, they are clocking up an extra nine hours -- the equivalent of more than one working day -- every week, with 15 percent of all respondents typically working more than 16 hours over their contracted time each week.
"These findings validate the turnover we witness in the market every day, compounded by the lack of resources and tools to combat new AI based threats," says Dr Darren Williams, CEO and founder of BlackFog. "The cost and time involved in replacing senior level security leaders is considerable so it's absolutely essential that organizations address the root cause of stress to reverse the cycle of churn."
The study also finds that 37 percent say that malware and ransomware attacks are the biggest source of stress. As the ransomware attack landscape continues to evolve, 42 percent of respondents also state they're most worried about attackers using AI to launch their assaults whilst data exfiltration, a tactic increasingly used by ransomware attackers, is cited as the top concern by a quarter of respondents.
When asked about how they manage their stress, 86 percent of participants say they allocate time for sport and recognize physical health as important to their overall well being, while 75 percent say they get enough sleep. 82 percent believe that they set clear boundaries between their work and private time. However, in the past 12 months 45 percent say they have at some point used drugs or alcohol to alleviate work pressures and 69 percent have withdrawn from social activities.
The majority of respondents feel that their organization could do more to make them feel supported in their role. This ranges from increasing their budget so they can afford the security tools they need (41 percent) to having more time to focus on the problems that matter (40 percent).
There's an infographic summary of the findings below.
Image credit: stevanovicigor/depositphotos.com
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Trump, asked if he would replace Powell, didn't offer a hint and instead responded: "I think I'm better than he would be. I think I'm better than most people in that position."
On changing rates, he did concede that he couldn't dictate them: "I don't think I should be allowed to order it. I should have the right to make comments."
Also on the Fed, he said: "It's the greatest job in government. You show up to the office once a month and you say, 'Let's see, flip a coin,' and everybody talks about you like you're a God."
Note, the Fed meets every 6-7 weeks, not monthly.
I know he makes a great deal of noise about the Fed and the media likes to sensationalize it but I don't ever see him in a position to really influence Fed policy.
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Sales rise 14.50% to Rs 28338.00 crore
Net profit of Reliance Jio Infocomm rose 23.19% to Rs 6231.00 crore in the quarter ended September 2024 as against Rs 5058.00 crore during the previous quarter ended September 2023. Sales rose 14.50% to Rs 28338.00 crore in the quarter ended September 2024 as against Rs 24750.00 crore during the previous quarter ended September 2023. ParticularsQuarter EndedSep. 2024Sep. 2023% Var.Sales28338.0024750.00 14 OPM %53.0652.34 -PBDT14103.0012051.00 17 PBT8369.006793.00 23 NP6231.005058.00 23Powered by Capital Market - Live News
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North Korea detonates sections of 2 significant roads linking to South
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(MENAFN) North Korea detonated sections of two significant roads that once linked it to South Korea on Tuesday, according to a statement from Seoul's military, which also reported conducting a "counter-fire" operation in response to the actions taken by Pyongyang. This escalation follows North Korea's recent commitment to permanently seal its southern border after months of preparations, including laying mines and constructing anti-tank barriers, in light of leader Kim Jong Un's declaration of the South as his country's "principal enemy."
In addition to these developments, North Korea has accused South Korea of deploying drones to distribute anti-regime propaganda leaflets over the capital, Pyongyang. In reaction, Kim convened a security meeting to devise a plan for "immediate military action," according to state media reports. The Joint Chiefs of Staff in South Korea confirmed that North Korea had detonated parts of the Gyeongui and Donghae roads, which are crucial pieces of inter-Korean infrastructure located north of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL). Fortunately, South Korean military personnel reported no damage to their forces and noted that they had engaged in counter-fire in areas south of the MDL.
Though these roads have been closed for some time, their destruction signals Kim's unwillingness to engage in negotiations with the South, as observed by experts. Yang Moo-jin, president of the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, remarked that this action reflects a practical military measure concerning the hostile dual-state system frequently referenced by North Korea. Yang speculated that the North might be preparing to construct additional physical barriers along the border, indicating that the detonations could be part of broader preparatory efforts.
The South Korean military shared video footage showing North Korean soldiers in uniform moments before the massive explosions, which produced thick clouds of smoke as sections of the Gyeongui road were destroyed. Additional footage, reportedly taken after the blasts, depicted excavators at work as soldiers coordinated with large red trucks arriving on the scene. The Seoul military also released separate video evidence of North Korea demolishing a portion of the Donghae road, located along the east coast.
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NEW YORK — (AP) — When Elton John was on tour in America in the 1970s, there was someone on TV who caught his eye. She was an over-the-top, heavy makeup-wearing performer who wore her heart on her sleeve and yet seemed in on the joke — televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. You could say game was recognizing game.
John — who back then toured in bedazzled hats, cartoonish outfits and sported enough sequins to choke an elephant — was drawn to a woman with caked-on makeup, an ability to connect with fans and the skill to return after a gut-punch of betrayal.
“She fascinated the hell out of me,” John tells The Associated Press. “I love people who come back from the dead, more or less. She was completely outlawed and banished, and she fought through that because of her goodness and kindness and her belief and her faith. It’s an amazing story, Shakespearean in a way."
John has put this Shakespearian heroine's story to song with the stage musical "Tammy Faye" and the latest iteration lands on Broadway this month, championing what he calls "a gladiator on her own terms."
“She comes from absolute nothing — complete poverty — getting all the fame and the wealth and then losing it all in a world of men,” says book writer James Graham. “There is a universality to that story.”
Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker rose to prominence as the husband-and-wife televangelist hosts of TV's Praise the Lord Club from 1974 through 1987. They preached the prosperity gospel, a belief that God wants his followers to be wealthy and healthy.
The Bakkers were embroiled in a scandal when Jim Bakker was accused of sexual assault and financial fraud involving hush money paid to his alleged victim. After divorcing Bakker in 1992, Tammy Faye would go on to marry Roe Messner, who was himself convicted of bankruptcy fraud in 1996.
The musical has been retooled from a run in London in 2022, with two songs out and two added. The project has the blessing of her second husband, and her son Jay Bakker, has attended rehearsals.
The creative team — John, Graham, director Rupert Goold and lyricist Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters — is largely British, except for Shears, so they say they were careful coming to America telling the story of an American icon.
“Most of the music is joyous because it’s set in the South and it’s gospel-orientated,” says John. “I consider her to be joyous and so it was quite easy to write the joyous songs. I love that kind of music. I’m basically a born-again Southern person. It just appealed to me.”
Audiences will see a woman — two-time Olivier Award-winner Katie Brayben reprises her West End Tammy Faye — surrounded by men, including portrayals of Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Swaggart, Pat Robertson and Marvin Gorman.
“She is the one that no one was really paying attention to. Everyone went, ‘Oh, that silly woman with the hair and the eyes.’ She’s the one who’s lasted and now has a musical on Broadway. And I think that’s great,” says Graham.
The musical comes at a time when the culture is reconsidering stories of women lost amid crisis, like Sinéad O'Connor, Janet Jackson and Monica Lewinsky. But the look at Tammy Faye is not entirely sympathetic, pointing out that she turned a blind eye to the vast riches coming into her church.
“We celebrate her values and what she represented and her kookiness and her humor. She got into some stuff as well, though, and we have to hold her accountable for,” says Graham. “We have to test her and push her a bit as well, giving her a prosecution and a defense.”
This is not the first time the story of Tammy Faye Messner, who died of cancer in 2007 at 65, has been explored. RuPaul narrated the documentary "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," which was turned into a Hollywood movie that snagged Jessica Chastain her first Oscar opposite Andrew Garfield.
John has had smashing success on Broadway — like with "The Lion King," "Aida" and "Billy Elliot: The Musical." He sees a few connections between "Billy Elliot" from 2005 with "Tammy Faye." Both lampoon conservatives — Margaret Thatcher in "Billy Elliot" and evangelicals in "Tammy Faye" — and both examine traditional gender roles amid culture wars.
Graham hopes a younger audience can connect even without having lived through the time when Messner warbled gospel songs on TV or cried so much her mascara dripped down her cheeks.
“Way before reality television and cancel culture and social media, in a way, she and her family were the very first reality TV family,” he says. “For a younger audience, it's also all about how you celebrate your individual idiosyncrasies and your identity and not apologize for them.”
In the soulful ballad "Empty Hands" that closes Act 1, Brayben as Tammy Faye sings to her husband: "Here I am/Trying to stand/With faithless mercy/Empty hands/I want to forgive you/ But I don't think I can/With faithless mercy and empty hands."
Messner gained lasting affection for stepping out of the strict evangelical, anti-gay doctrine of the time to show compassion and empathy with Steve Pieters, a gay minister living with HIV and AIDS.
“What she represented even 30 or 40 years ago was a desire to reach across those divides and nothing about her faith contradicted that,” says Graham.
“I think what she represents — that goodness and decency — is something we all, particularly in this election year, need to remind ourselves. We’re not divided by these things. That’s weaponized by people to divide us.”
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Updated October 15, 2024 at 12:41 PM ET
For years, singer/songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, refused to write a memoir; she told people she thought her life wasn’t interesting enough to fill a book.
"I think she's had a complicated relationship with existing in the public eye and wanting to connect to people and share her story, but also really not enjoying having attention on her," Lisa Marie's daughter, Riley Keough says.
Eventually, Lisa Marie changed her mind about the memoir. She began making audio recordings about her life and reached out to Keough for help with the project. A month later, in January 2023, Lisa Marie died suddenly, and Keough had to decide whether or not to complete the book.
"I received the tapes. And then I kind of put it off for a while because I was like, why am I doing this to myself?" Keough says. "But the project of the book really felt like a duty to me. ... It felt like just a task that had to be done, so then I think I approached it in that way."
The book, From Here to the Great Unknown, takes its title from a lyric from the song “Where No One Stands Alone,” featured on a 2018 compilation album of Lisa Marie singing duets with archival recordings of her father's favorite gospel songs. In the book, Lisa Marie describes growing up in Graceland and shock of losing her father when she was 9. She also looks back on her three marriages, her battle with addiction and the loss of her son, Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in 2020.
Keough, who is listed as a co-author of the memoir, says she struggled throughout to capture her mother's voice.
"[Lisa Marie] was very complicated and she was very candid and honest and raw and tough and wild and rebellious," Keough says. "But she also had a side to her that was very sort of childlike and naïve as well. And [she was] one of the most loving people I've ever met. But also I don't know if she could ever receive love, which was interesting."
Interview highlights
On Lisa Marie’s relationship to her parents, Elvis and Priscilla
I think that she was so close with her father, like she was a daddy's girl and he was everything to her that the loss of him was so great. And I think that dictated the relationship she had with her mother. …
Priscilla was a very young mother, and obviously my grandmother was living in this world that was totally overwhelming and unusual and she [had] to be Elvis' wife. And I think there was a lot of pressure on her to be perfect and to be the perfect wife and woman that ever lived. … And I think that my mom and her were very different. Like my mother was very wild and unruly and rebellious and radical kind of, and [Priscilla] was very well mannered and perfect, kind of the opposite of my mom, so I think they would butt heads often. … I also think that that had to do with the fact that she was in grief, too, so I think that she was acting out. She was angry at the universe for taking her father away and that everything and everyone was not him.
On Lisa Marie’s account of the day Elvis died in 1977
She always felt protective over that story. I always got the sense that she would never share the details of that day publicly, but then when I got the tapes, I heard that she wanted to share the details of that day. …
She basically came into my grandfather's room and he was in his bathroom and she saw him in there and then somebody grabbed her and brought her out into her room. And the ambulance came. And I think she says she went to smoke a cigarette. She was 9 years old. And then she watched him get brought down the stairs on a gurney. And she kind of says she remembers seeing his shoes or his hand or something like that. And he gets wheeled out of the house. And then a few moments later, his father, Vernon, basically, she hears him yelling and saying, “My baby's gone” … and I think Vernon said, “Your daddy's gone.”
On the family grieving alongside the public
The whole world was grieving her father, and she talks about watching people come through the house and people fainting and having to be carried out and ambulances coming to get people. ... I think it was a very interesting way to grieve. And I think that it kind of maybe didn't leave her a lot of room for her own grief.
On Lisa Marie’s connection to Graceland
She was very happy to be at Graceland. And in general, like if we were in Memphis, she just loved it there. She wanted a house there. And it was where she grew up and had some of her best memories as a child. We always had a lot of fun there. We would have dinners there and Thanksgiving and when the tours were over, obviously we would hang out in the house and they would take the ropes down and it was just like a family home for us. We would hang out in the living rooms and me and my brother would run downstairs and play pool with our cousins. And so we got to experience it as a home growing up. … And her father's room, which has never been part of the tour, her room in her father's room are upstairs in the house, and it's really only been a few people who are allowed up there and just our family. And she kept a key with her, and it was just a place that she went. It was like a place of comfort for her. I think she really felt her father in the room.
On Lisa Marie’s marriage to Michael Jackson being questioned as a publicity stunt
Their love was very genuine and they were in love and they were in a real relationship and slept in bed together and were very normal. But I think that when you're that famous, there's a lot of people around. I think both camps kind of had people in their ears about each other. My mom started to perceive that maybe he was on drugs and he started to maybe get the idea that she was on to him maybe being on drugs. And then I think there was paranoia. I think my grandmother was apprehensive about the marriage and brought that idea up to my mom, and I think it just kind of exploded.
On Riley’s relationship Jackson
I think my mom says something in the book that people might kind of pass over, which is really kind of indicative of the whole thing, which is that like the version of Michael that was in her/our lives or that she was with, was different to, I think, the version that he presented on TV. Even the way he spoke was different. Probably with Elvis, too: There's the version of Elvis Presley for the world and then there's the version at home. And I think my experience with Michael was he felt like a human being and spoke differently. I remember the first time I saw him on TV, his register was higher and that's not how I was used to hearing him. And I remember thinking: That was interesting. So I think that in my life he felt like my mom's husband, like a stepfather.
On Lisa Marie seeing Elvis impersonators at her shows
She used to, before shows, peek out the side of the curtain and and find where they would be so that she wasn't surprised when she went out there and she would just peek around and kind of go, OK, there's one in the back, there's one over there so she wasn't shocked. … It's like some kind of wild fever dream to go out on stage and perform to your dead father, or like someone in costume. It's bizarre. People's relationship to him was as if he was like this sort of like God, you know? And so I don't think there was a lot of humanizing going on with her. It's not that they had ill intentions. I think that they're just fans and just maybe didn't realize how weird that would be for her.
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Samsung workers call off 37-day strike at Sriperumbudur factory after reconciliation talks
Chennai, Oct 15 (IANS) The workers of Samsung India, who have been agitating against the management at the Sriperumbudur plant in Tamil Nadu, on Tuesday called off the 37-day strike that commenced on September 9, the state Labour Department announced.
The Labour Department, in a statement, said: "Both parties have accepted this advice. The workers have informed that they will call off the strike immediately and return to work. Thus, the strike at the Samsung factory has come to an end, and all the workers are resuming work."
The strike was called off on Tuesday after multiple rounds of talks at the Tamil Nadu Secretariat, involving the state government, CITU leaders, and Samsung India management.
Sources said that the breakthrough came after senior DMK leader and state minister, E.V. Velu, took the initiative and joined the negotiations.
According to company sources, the agreement includes a hike in wages (which had already been agreed upon earlier) and no disciplinary action against the agitating employees.
However, the main issue raised by the CPI-M-backed Central Trade Union Centre (CITU) regarding the registration of its union is not part of the agreement.
The management stated in discussions with Tamil Nadu ministers that the matter is already before the Madras High Court, and a decision will be taken after the court’s verdict.
A consensus was reached between the workers and management that the registration of the union could be pursued based on the legal outcome.
The CITU, however, agreed to call off the strike after the Tamil Nadu government expressed its support for registering the union within the company. Representatives from both the management and the striking workers agreed that all workers would immediately call off the strike and return to work. According to sources within CITU, Samsung India management confirmed that upon returning, workers involved in the strike would not face any victimisation. The workers also agreed to fully cooperate with the management and refrain from any actions prejudicial to the management’s interests upon their return to work.
The management, according to CITU, will also issue a written response to the charter of demands submitted by the workers to the conciliation officer.
The trade union body, however, stated that the strike would be officially called off on Wednesday after a general body meeting of the Samsung India Workers’ Union. CITU leaders confirmed to media persons that all their demands had been accepted by both the government and the company, and hence the strike was being called off.
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Meta’s Oversight Board says viral video left on Facebook threatened LGBTQ+ people in Nigeria
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Meta’s oversight board has expressed serious concern over the company’s failure to take down a viral graphic video showing two men bleeding after they were apparently beaten up for being allegedly gay. The video was posted in Nigeria where homosexuality is criminalized by laws that garner broad public support despite constitutional guarantees of freedoms. The report said the damage done by the video, which was viewed more than 3.6 million times between December 2023 and February this year, was “immediate and impossible to undo.” The company admitted two errors regarding the said video, the panel said, including the identification of the language used.
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Trump emphasizes hypermasculinity as he and Harris pursue male voters
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The candidates for U.S. president and their allies want men to believe their vote says big things about their masculinity. Republican Donald Trump suggests men are weak and a “beta male” unless they choose him. Democrat Kamala Harris’ supporters argue that real men vote for a woman. Hypermasculine put-downs, curse words and “bro” slang have become part of the 2024 political lexicon. It’s all part of a surgical campaign-within-the-campaign for the votes of millions of American men who might not have been politically active, or are on the fence, across the battleground states that will decide the election.
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Ravens Fan Attack Situation Takes Unexpected Turn, But Footage Can't Be Erased From The Internet
The Instagram account that shared footage of a Ravens fan attacking two Commanders fans has been nuked.
The attack sparked national outrage on social media due to the pure brutality of it. A man in a Lamar Jackson jersey head hunted two small and defenseless men.
One was knocked out cold, and could have died if he fell and hit his head the wrong way. Baltimore police are now hunting for the attacker, but wouldn't comment much past that to OutKick when pushed for specifics on the case.
For those of you who haven't seen the video, you can watch it below. It's sickening.
Man who shared Ravens attack video deletes Instagram account.
The video was first shared on an Instagram account with the handle @dooba__. It's unclear if the person running the account was also the same person who filmed the video seemingly encouraging the attack to happen and then celebrated it afterwards.
As of Monday night, the account was still live, and even featured a line in the bio section about how people shouldn't follow because of the video.
Well, that's no longer the case. With the police investigation mounting, national scrutiny rising and unconfirmed rumors about whom the attacker might be, the account was deleted at some point late Monday night or early Tuesday morning.
Below is a screenshot of what visitors now see when trying to see the page or watch the video.
Unfortunately for the person running the account, deleting the Instagram page where the video originated from isn't likely going to save anyone when it comes to backlash and potential consequences.
How do we know that to be true? Because two different tweets featuring the video have more than 84 million combined views on X, and it's been trending since Monday with no signs of slowing down.
Not only has it been trending, but the national press is now all over it. It's a classic lesson in the internet being forever. You can delete something after realizing what the fallout might be, but there's nothing that can be done to scrub the horrible video from the internet.
And to be clear, that's a good thing. The guy in the Baltimore jersey wanted to make a scene and have a lot of attention on him. Good for him. He got exactly what he asked for, and I have a feeling he won't like how this story ends - whether the Instagram account is up or not.
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Walgreens plans to close 1,200 stores over the next three years, the pharmacy chain said on Tuesday. It's part of the company's plan for a turnaround, as it faces retail competition and lower prescription payouts.
Chief Executive Tim Wentworth said about a quarter of the company’s stores are unprofitable. Walgreens has been on a $1-billion cost-cutting spree. It's already been shutting some stores, shaking up leadership and renegotiating its deals with insurers.
Walgreens, which also owns the British drugstore chain Boots, reported a net loss of $3 billion in the latest quarter. This was actually better than expected, with sales growing 6%.
Walgreens isn't the only big pharmacy chain attempting a turnaround. Rite Aid last month emerged from bankruptcy; CVS has also closed stores and reportedly weighs a breakup to undo its mergers with the insurance company Aetna and with Caremark, a pharmacy benefits manager.
The convenience-store part of pharmacy chains has been losing shoppers to Amazon, Walmart, Costco, grocery stores and dollar stores. Many of those rivals also fill prescriptions, competing for pharmacy customers, too.
Pharmacy chains have over-expanded to thousands of locations over the years, signing long-term leases for pricey corner locations. But many shoppers have criticized the quality of the stores, complaining about understaffing and the inaccessibility of items that are locked up to prevent theft. Pharmacies, for their part, have complained about shrinking profits for filling prescriptions, citing dramatic declines in reimbursement rates.
In light of these challenges, CVS and Walgreens have looked for profits elsewhere. They've tried to add primary-care clinics, a project that costs a lot of time and money. The chains have also proposed new payout structures for prescriptions, with Walgreens on Tuesday warning that it would be "willing to walk away from a line of business, if it doesn't make sense."
"I'm very confident that over a two- to three-year period we will have reset the framework for reimbursement discussions," Walgreens CEO Wentworth told investors on Tuesday.
He also added that Walgreens is focusing on adding more store-brand products to its chain. That tactic has been successful for Boots in Britain, though it has not done as well in the U.S. so far. Wentworth also said the chain would work to re-hire workers from stores that will close and added that overall, "Many of our actions across this turnaround will take time."
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G2 set to replace two key players after LoL Worlds 2024 failure
Colin Young-Wolff/Riot GamesG2 had a rough draw at Worlds 2024, resulting in them exiting the international event earlier than expected. Despite some solid showings against the best teams from the LCK and LPL, two players on the roster are set to be replaced.
This news came just one day after G2’s elimination from Worlds 2024, with both Yike and Mikyx reportedly being allowed to look for options on other teams, no contract buyout attached according to Sheep Esports.
Considering the organization could have held a buyout against the players to keep them locked into their contracts, they aren’t leaving on the worst of terms. According to this report, Yike and Mikyx will both be allowed to explore options unrestricted, and they’ll no doubt be valued free agents if this comes to fruition.
However, it’s a surprising change after G2 dominated the LEC for most of the year and won all three Playoffs domestically along with the Season Final. There was no team better than them. Domestically, at least.
Therein lies the problem, though. The team dominated Europe and still failed to reach the Quarterfinals at Worlds. Even with G2 having arguably the hardest draw of teams possible in front of them to make it to the next stage, they would have had to beat teams of this caliber to win the event, anyway.
So, G2 are set to make changes. But who will be replacing their jungler and support?
Who’s replacing Mikyx and Yike on G2’s LoL roster?
Team Heretics coach Peter Dun speculated that SkewMond and Labrov will be the ones joining G2 after some roster moves from Team BDS that seemed bizarre in the moment.
Dun claimed he’s “80-90%” sure SkewMond would be the replacement G2 goes with in the jungle, with him also being convinced Labrov would have stuck with Team BDS in any other circumstance.
Labrov is a known quantity for many LEC fans considering he’s been a key part of Team BDS success, but who is SkewMond?
Rudy ‘SkewMond’ Semaan has been playing competitively for a few years across a number of amateur rosters, ultimately landing with Team BDS Academy and had a great year with the organization.
He quickly adapted to the mage jungler meta when Brand and Zyra suddenly became LoL’s best junglers, but he was still able to play hard engage as well when the situation arose. He’s shown himself to be a flexible jungler, and he’s got the potential to be a rookie G2 can invest in like Yike once was.
Team BDS Academy had a spectacular year in the LFL, with Reeker reportedly taking Nisqy’s place on SK Gaming and Parus moving up to the team’s main LEC roster in Labrov’s absence.
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Apple unveils new iPad mini with A17 Pro chip and Apple Pencil Pro support
Apple has introduced its latest iPad mini, featuring the A17 Pro chip and support for Apple Intelligence, a system designed to provide helpful and relevant information while maintaining user privacy. The new iPad mini keeps its familiar 8.3-inch Liquid Retina display and ultraportable design, available in four finishes, including blue and purple.
The A17 Pro chip brings performance improvements, with Apple claiming a 30 percent boost in CPU performance and a 25 percent increase in GPU capabilities compared to the previous model. This chip also supports hardware-accelerated ray tracing, enabling enhanced gaming experiences. Users can also expect more from apps utilizing the new power, from photo editing to immersive augmented reality.
The iPad mini also supports Apple Pencil Pro, which adds advanced functionality for tasks like sketching and note-taking. With an updated 12MP rear camera and Smart HDR 4, the device offers improved photography and document scanning capabilities.
Apple has upgraded the device’s connectivity with Wi-Fi 6E for faster wireless performance and introduced eSIM support for cellular models. The iPad mini retains its all-day battery life and starts at $499 for the Wi-Fi model with 128GB of storage.
Pre-orders are available now, with the iPad mini arriving in stores on October 23.
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- A growing number of Americans with auto loans owe more than their vehicles are worth, according to a report Tuesday from Edmunds.com.
- The average amount owed on upside-down loans climbed to an all-time high of $6,458 during the third quarter, according to the company.
- Upside-down car loans are not necessarily dire on their own, but a growing number of consumers being underwater is another indication of pressure on American consumers.
DETROIT — A growing number of Americans with auto loans owe more than their vehicles are worth, according to a report Tuesday from Edmunds.com.
The auto data and consumer research company reports the average amount owed on so-called upside-down loans climbed to an all-time high of $6,458 during the third quarter. That compares to $6,255 in the prior quarter and $5,808 a year earlier.
Upside-down car loans are not necessarily dire on their own, but a growing number of consumers being underwater is another indication of pressure on American consumers.
A sign of that strain came last month, when the Federal Reserve reported delinquency rates on auto loans rose substantially above pre-Covid pandemic levels to end 2023. They had fallen to historical lows during the global health crisis.
"Consumers owing a grand or two more than their cars are worth isn't the end of the world, but seeing such a notable share of individuals affected at the $10,000 or even $15,000 level is nothing short of alarming," Jessica Caldwell, Edmunds' head of insights, said in a release.
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Edmunds reports more than 1 in 5 consumers with negative equity owe more than $10,000 on their auto loans. That includes 22% of vehicle owners with negative equity who owed $10,000 or more, while 7.5% have negative equity of more than $15,000.
Consumers can counter upside-down car loans by holding onto the vehicles for longer periods. They also should ensure regular maintenance is done to avoid additional drops in value and costs, according to Edmunds.
"With prices and interest rates being as high as they are, it's critical for consumers to think beyond the monthly payment and be honest with themselves about their ownership habits," Ivan Drury, Edmunds' director of insights, said. "A seven-year auto loan is a one-way ticket to negative equity if you know you're not the type of person to keep a vehicle for that long."
The current situation with upside-down loans is largely a result of consumers who purchased new vehicles in 2021 and 2022 amid a lack of inventory due to the Covid-19 pandemic and parts shortages. Many then paid full price or more, with their vehicles depreciating faster than expected as the auto industry and inventories normalized.
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SEBI has updated position limits for the derivatives segment. Trading members can now hold positions of up to Rs 7,500 crore or 15% of total market open interest in index futures/options. New monitoring framework is based on previous days open interest. SEBI noted that no penalties for passive breaches until April 1, 2025.
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I hadn't even started yet with tariffs yet in first termMexico auto plants will be the end of MichiganOur country is being threatened by MexicoTrump is at 58% on Polymarket.
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Sri Lanka apprehends more than 230 Chinese nationals during cybercrime raids
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(MENAFN) Sri Lankan police have detained over 230 Chinese nationals suspected of orchestrating online scams targeting international banks, according to a statement from the foreign minister on Tuesday. The arrests were made with assistance from security officials dispatched by Beijing, highlighting the collaborative effort to address this issue. Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath noted that recent police operations have also resulted in the confiscation of 250 computers and 500 mobile phones believed to have been utilized in these scams, with investigations ongoing to determine the total amount of money that may have been stolen.
Herath indicated that the criminal gangs primarily focused on foreign banks and financial institutions during their fraudulent activities. The Chinese embassy in Colombo confirmed the deployment of a "working group" of security officials who are conducting "special operations" alongside Sri Lankan police forces. The embassy stated that a significant number of criminal suspects have been apprehended and that processes for repatriation and other legal measures are currently in progress.
The most extensive raid occurred on Saturday, resulting in the arrest of 126 Chinese individuals, as well as two Vietnamese, one Thai, and one Filipino national. Sri Lanka's robust telecommunications infrastructure, which notably included the rollout of a 5G network in April 2019—three years prior to the country's financial crisis—has facilitated these cyber activities. The Chinese embassy's statement also suggested that China's intensified crackdown on cybercriminals domestically may have prompted some to seek illegal opportunities abroad, reinforcing the need for international cooperation in law enforcement.
In a related development, Sri Lankan police had previously arrested around 200 suspects in June, primarily of Indian nationality, who were also linked to online financial scams. This ongoing situation reflects a broader issue of cross-border cybercrime and the complexities involved in addressing it through international collaboration.
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Now that the threat of Hurricanes Helene and Milton has receded, millions of homeowners and business-owners across Florida and the Southeastern U.S. are faced with traversing the often long and laborious process of using insurance to rebuild their lives.
“You’re just traumatized when you have these losses. At some point, you’re just glad you’re alive,” said Don Hornstein, an insurance law expert at the University of North Carolina. “And then you have to turn to the business side of this. It’s tough.”
Helene was a Category 4 storm that first struck Florida's Gulf Coast on September 26, dumped trillions of gallons of rain and left a trail of destruction for hundreds of miles across several states. At least 246 people have died in what is now the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland U.S. since Katrina, according to statistics from the National Hurricane Center.
Two weeks later, Hurricane Milton swept across Florida, killing at least 11 people. The Category 3 storm destroyed coastal communities, tore apart homes, filled streets with mud and spawned a barrage of deadly tornadoes.
The combined private insured losses from the two hurricanes could reach $55 billion, according to risk management firm Moody’s RMS.
Immediately after disasters like these, property insurance is likely not top of mind as people secure their safety and basic needs, but insurance claims are part of the process of resetting. Many buy the policies in hope they can help protect them when disaster strikes. But oftentimes insurance doesn't cover what the policy holder thinks it does — or thinks it should.
Rhoda Moehring, who turns 86 this month, says she doesn’t have a lot of faith that insurance companies will help her salvage the flooded rental homes she owns in the river town of Steinhatchee in Florida’s Big Bend.
“I usually get zip with these things,” Moehring said. ”‘Was I insured for that?’ ‘No, sorry, you weren’t.’ And it goes on and on. So I don’t put a whole lot of confidence in it.”
Moehring said she wasn’t sure about the details of her insurance policies and she’ll be relying on her son to help her navigate the claims process.
Here are some steps home and business owners should keep in mind when filing an insurance claim after a natural disaster.
After the immediate emergency response, the first thing a homeowner or business owner should do is call their insurance agent or broker. The deadline to file a claim is generally about 60 days from the date of loss.
There are different types of policies that insure against damage. In the initial call, first focus on thoroughly understanding your policy, including coverage limits, deductibles and exclusions, so that you can do a rough calculation of what is covered and what deductibles are at play to decide if you should file a claim, experts said.
Many policies have payouts in complicated percentage formulas. For example, if your roof is damaged, your policy may spell out different deductibles depending on the roofing material, the age of the roof and even the wind speed from the damage event, and the percentage paid out may be based on the insured value versus the cost of replacement, said Amy Bach, executive director of the consumer advocacy group United Policyholders.
Homeowners should weigh their options, as a minor payout may not be worth the long-term ding on your claims history. That’s especially true if you don’t have flood insurance, as the average home insurance policy covers wind damage but generally doesn’t cover flood damage.
While Helene was primarily a flood event, there may be disputes over what is or isn’t “wind-driven rain” from Milton. Hornstein said the line between wind and water is a thin but very clear line that technical experts can determine. Should there be a proverbial tie, the law favors the insurance company.
“If the house was simultaneously destroyed by flood and, concurrently (by) wind, it’s not covered by private insurance,” Hornstein said.
Business owners should also check to see if they have business income or business interruption insurance, which covers the loss of income and other costs like expenses, salaries, or rent when a business is forced to close.
To file a claim, keep track of and document everything. Before and after photos and videos are ideal to jog your memory of what's been lost and for proof to help bolster settlement claims. For business owners, keeping a record of costs that are incurred after the hurricane is important too.
“You may have evacuation costs, you may have business shut down interruption costs, you may have housing costs, you may have additional expenses that are unusual to your business," said Steve Powell, executive vice president of property and catastrophe for claims management firm Sedgwick.
Once a claim is filed, the insurance company’s adjuster will come to survey the damage, typically within a few days if conditions allow. Be responsive to adjusters and make sure they see (and document) the damage that you see.
While it’s easy to get frustrated, adjusters are likely stressed too, said Lawrence White, an economics professor at the NYU Stern School of Business.
“To the maximum extent possible, try not come across as angry. Try to come across as reasonable,” White said.
If there’s disagreement or concern about the accuracy or fairness of the adjuster’s report from the insurance company, property owners can consider hiring a public adjuster for a second opinion. Their own adjuster can then lead the negotiations with the insurance company. First, however, owners should be aware of the fees the public adjuster charges and check their references.
“The insurance companies have totally the upper hand and when there’s a public adjuster, it does level the playing field a lot for the consumer having someone who speaks insurance and speaks damage," Bach said.
Be aware of the deadlines for accepting a payment offer or filing an appeal with the insurance company.
Once you agree to an insurance payout, know that you can update the claim if more damage is discovered during the repairs though there may be deadlines for how long a homeowner has to reopen a claim.
If the back-and-forth with the insurance company drags on, you may consider hiring an attorney to reach a settlement as a last resort. A dispute that ends up in arbitration could stretch out for a year or more.
About 90% of all insurance claims are settled without escalating into a court fight, said Charles Nyce, a professor of risk management and insurance at Florida State University’s College of Business.
For those with little or no insurance, there are government programs that can assist. The application process is similar to insurance claims: Contact the agency, determine eligibility and file an application.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency offers grants for home repair or replacement for applicants who meet certain conditions. The Department of Housing and Urban Development also offers certain grants that are available for hurricane survivors. And the Small Business Administration offers low-interest loans to renters, homeowners, business owners, and non-profits that suffered losses due to disasters. However, the government has warned that the SBA is running out of money to fund these loans unless its coffers are replenished by Congress.
For more details about these programs visit https://www.disasterassistance.gov.
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Associated Press reporter Kate Payne contributed from Tallahassee, Fla.
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The Breast Cancer Foundation is asking Bay of Plenty residents to think pink and give generously to the Pink Ribbon Street Appeal taking place on Friday and Saturday.
More than 400 volunteers will be hitting the streets to raise funds for breast cancer research, education and patient support programmes.
Foundation chief executive Ah-Leen Rayner said the charity could not carry out its vital work without the generosity of Kiwis.
“As a charity that doesn’t receive any Government funding, it’s the goodwill of wonderful New Zealanders that powers our mission to stop deaths from breast cancer.
“We’re asking the people of Bay of Plenty to contribute whatever they can to the Pink Ribbon Street Appeal. The funds raised will make a real difference in making sure breast cancer patients can get the support they need, New Zealanders can learn about the importance of early detection, and research is carried out to find better treatments.”
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112 Minigames. 22 playable characters. 7 boards. 5 unique multiplayer modes and an exclusively single-player adventure to boot.
Super Mario Party Jamboree is stacked like no other game in the decades-old series. It’s not as consistent as its last title, Superstars, but it’s an appropriately extravagant celebration of the franchise’s rapidly-closing Nintendo Switch era.
Controlled chaos
Mario Party might be a digital board game about rolling dice, collecting coins, and racing to buy stars, but it's always lived and died by its minigames. Jamboree’s collection ranges from satisfying to mediocre — better than 2018’s Super Mario Party but falling short of 2021’s Mario Party Superstars. Many of its worst minigames are motion-controlled, but they’re thankfully few and there’s an option to exclude them.
The most extensive (often best) minigames occur when you collide with a “Jamboree buddy” while running around the board. These allies parachute in from the main cast and challenge players to a special competition. Yoshi has you run a footrace, Waluigi has you play pinball, Donkey Kong has you drum to a beat — and so on.
Win and you’ll recruit the buddy, gaining access to their unique power and the ability to double some normal actions — allowing you to buy two stars instead of one, for example. These allies are so powerful that, unlike their equivalents in 2018’s Super Mario Party, they’ll only stick around for a few turns, and ditch you to join other players that pass you on the board.
Other revisions hearken back to earlier titles or streamline old annoyances. Stars again cost 20 coins, not 10, pushing you to hoard money and minigame victories. Bowser spaces have returned — land on one and a giant “Imposter Bowser” will steal from you or launch a “Bowser Revolution” to equalize everyone’s coin totals. The game also has a swifter tempo, with snappy animations you can fast-forward through. Finally, optional “Pro Rules” rein in the randomness — trading hilarious upsets for tighter tactics.
Party favors
Jamboree bursts with other diversions aside from this main event. You can cooperate through rhythm challenges in a fantastical cooking show. You can tilt motion controls to slide items around a factory. You can even exhaust yourself with “Paratroopa Flight School” — where you’ll literally flap your arms to soar through the skies.
If you’ve got a Nintendo Online subscription, you can jump into the co-operative “Bowser Kaboom Squad” or cutthroat “Koopathlon” modes, which feature their own unique minigames for eight to 20 players (sadly, each participant needs their own Switch). Conversely, if you wish to party alone, there’s a surprisingly involved single-player mode called “Party-Planner Trek.”
Many activities quickly wear out their novelty. “Paratroopa Flight School” is difficult to maneuver, leaving me literally sore. “Toad’s Item Factory” requires patience and teamwork at odds with the game's typically frenetic pace. “Koopathlon” feels like Nintendo’s version of Fall Guys: blisteringly fun when you’re at the top of the pack and terribly demoralizing when you’ve fallen behind.
But in this overbearing variety, Jamboree lives up to its name. Even if it’s not the classic that Mario Party Superstars proved to be, I can already tell that its approachable gameplay and goofy chaos will make it a family staple for years to come.
Copyright 2024 NPR
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Samsung workers call off 37-day strike at Sriperumbudur factory after reconciliation talks (Lead)
Chennai, Oct 15 (IANS) The workers of Samsung India, who have been agitating against the management at the Sriperumbudur plant in Tamil Nadu, on Tuesday called off the 37-day strike that commenced on September 9, the state Labour Department announced.
The Labour Department, in a statement, said: "Both parties have accepted this advice. The workers have informed that they will call off the strike immediately and return to work. Thus, the strike at the Samsung factory has come to an end, and all the workers are resuming work."
“Samsung India welcomes CITU’s decision to call off the illegal strike. We thank the government of Tamil Nadu for its support and welcome our workers who have decided to return to work unconditionally. We will not take action against workers who merely participated in the illegal strike. We are committed to work closely with our workers to make the Chennai factory a great place to work,” a Samsung India spokesperson said.
The strike was called off on Tuesday after multiple rounds of talks at the Tamil Nadu Secretariat, involving the state government, CITU leaders, and Samsung India management.
Sources said that the breakthrough came after senior DMK leader and state minister, E.V. Velu, took the initiative and joined the negotiations.
According to company sources, the agreement includes a hike in wages (which had already been agreed upon earlier) and no disciplinary action against the agitating employees.
However, the main issue raised by the CPI-M-backed Central Trade Union Centre (CITU) regarding the registration of its union is not part of the agreement.
The management stated in discussions with Tamil Nadu ministers that the matter is already before the Madras High Court, and a decision will be taken after the court’s verdict.
A consensus was reached between the workers and management that the registration of the union could be pursued based on the legal outcome.
The CITU, however, agreed to call off the strike after the Tamil Nadu government expressed its support for registering the union within the company. Representatives from both the management and the striking workers agreed that all workers would immediately call off the strike and return to work. According to sources within CITU, Samsung India management confirmed that upon returning, workers involved in the strike would not face any victimisation. The workers also agreed to fully cooperate with the management and refrain from any actions prejudicial to the management’s interests upon their return to work.
The management, according to CITU, will also issue a written response to the charter of demands submitted by the workers to the conciliation officer.
The trade union body, however, stated that the strike would be officially called off on Wednesday after a general body meeting of the Samsung India Workers’ Union. CITU leaders confirmed to media persons that all their demands had been accepted by both the government and the company, and hence the strike was being called off.
Disclaimer: This story has not been edited by the Sakshi Post team and is auto-generated from syndicated feed.
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Russian Olympic Committee president to step down. Neutral athletes competed at Paris Games
The president of the suspended Russian Olympic Committee plans to step down after six years in charge. Stanislav Pozdnyakov’s statement comes just over two months after a delegation of 15 Russians competed at the Paris Olympics as “Individual Neutral Athletes” without the national flag or anthem. The athletes did not represent the ROC and Pozdnyakov had been sharply critical of the neutral rules. Pozdnyakov says a board meeting next month is expected to set a date to elect his replacement.
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Read to Reef book club returns to the National Aquarium
The National Aquarium, in partnership with the Enoch Pratt Free Library, is celebrating the return of the Read to Reef book club for its fall 2024 season, inviting Baltimore’s young readers to explore the connection between their love of reading and the ocean’s wonders.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/video/read-to-reef-book-club-returns-to-the-national-aquarium/
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Pistons' Coach Looking To Improve Team's Culture By Banning Hoodies At Practice
The Detroit Pistons have been the laughingstock of the NBA for a half-decade now, having won 23 or fewer games in each of the last five seasons. That 23-win season came during the 2021-22 campaign, and while it's hard to fathom the franchise has taken a step backward since then, it has, having won 17 and 14 games over the last two seasons, respectively.
After the Pistons' 14-win campaign a year ago that didn't see the team win its fifth game until past the halfway point of the season, it understandably parted ways with head coach Monty Williams. The franchise went out and signed J.B. Bickerstaff to be the next head coach, and he's pulling out all the stops to turn things around in the Motor City.
This includes implementing a dress code for Pistons players during practice.
While players can wear team-issued hoodies during practice, their hoods must stay down. While it may sound odd for players to practice in hoodies with their hood up, it's relatively common, but it won't be in Detroit this season.
"Just the last shred of that old-school mentality," Bickerstaff told The Athletic in regard to his new no-hoodie policy. "Just growing up with my dad, you don’t wear anything on your head during the game. You don’t wear jewelry. You practice how you play."
Cade Cunningham, the face of the Pistons' franchise, is on board with the new dress code.
"You know, in school classrooms a lot of times, teachers say, ‘Take your hood off.’ So it’s all the same thing," Cunningham explained. "It’s just about being professional and being ready to play."
When you're the worst team in the NBA by a large margin and have been for many years in a row, there is nothing to lose if you're Bickerstaff and the Pistons. If not wearing a hood gets the Pistons out of the league's basement, well, that's certainly an easy trade-off.
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Overwatch 2 tank mains fear one Season 13 change will ruin the role
BlizzardSeason 13 of Overwatch 2 is implementing a game-changing hero swap feature, but experts are concerned that it’ll ruin the tank role.
Counterswapping has been a huge issue in Overwatch 2, with players, primarily tanks, constantly switching heroes to get an advantage over their opponents.
In an effort to fight back against this problem, the devs announced a new change in Season 13 that will make it so that when a player changes heroes, their new selection won’t show up on the scoreboard for fifteen seconds.
As the developers explained: “This change adds more friction to counterswapping, especially in the extreme case where two players on opposite teams are both sitting in spawn with the scoreboard open and rapidly switch their heroes in response to each other’s choices.”
However, top-level players and analysts are not too fond of this update and fear it could make the flow of the game much worse or even hurt the ever-important tank role even more.
Top 500 tank main and streamer Flats was adamant that this change wouldn’t be effective at combating hero swaps, claiming it’s an “insane” decision.
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“Instead of fixing the counterswap issue, they just said ‘f**k it, you won’t know what they’re swapping to, so you can’t counterswap back.’ Holy sh*t. That is the most insane change I’ve seen in a long time. That is the biggest bandaid. It’s now gonna be a mind game.”
According to Flats, tank players are just going to end up playing a game of chicken when it comes to who they’re swapping to. This wasn’t the only issue the community had with this change.
“It’s going to feel so weird when the information provided to you via scoreboard doesn’t align with a new hero showing up in front of you,” former pro Reinforce said. “Hopefully this doesn’t reduce team fight quality too much with scoreboard not preparing you accordingly.”
OW2 pro Durpee also chimed in, noting that this change will be powerful for players who make a quick swap to Widowmaker: “Won’t know enemy went Widow until one of your teammates get headshot.”
Others felt that this change only aids counterswapping and doesn’t do anything to actually address the issue.
“Exceptionally funny that they straight up buffed counterswaping and claimed it’s a nerf,” another said.
doesn't this just make counterswapping better as well LOL
— beepcheap (@beepcheap) October 14, 2024
“Doesn’t this just make counterswapping better as well LOL,” echoed someone else.
We’ll have to see how this new gameplay mechanic impacts Overwatch 2 when Season 13 goes live and if players’ fears are warranted, but, if it causes more harm than good, expect to see it modified a touch in a future update.
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Everything Jeff Lebby Said About Freshman QB Michael Van Buren
Mississippi State football may not have much to celebrate, but the play of its true freshman quarterback has been worthy of celebration.
Michael Van Buren was named the SEC Freshman of the Week for his 3-touchdown, 300-yard passing day against No. 5 Georgia.
On Monday, coach Jeff Lebby talked about Van Buren at his weekly press conference. Here’s what he had to say:
On Michael Van Buren being named SEC Freshman of the Week…
I think I talked a little bit postgame I was proud of how he answered uh the bell and answered the challenges that happened inside the game. I think if you talk to Mike today he's going to be incredibly aware of how much better we need to play at the quarterback position and he did some great things. He played with toughness, he found ways to get himself out of some bad positions after having a really really bad start and to then put together some drives to give us a chance to get back in the game. So, proud of how resilient he was but again, the message is we have to play better, we've got to play cleaner, we've got to start faster to give ourselves a chance. Nobody understands that right now more than Mike does.
On Michael Van Buren and other freshman turning into big contributors…
Their daily process. Their every everyday commitment to trying to get better and then when they have the ability to make the play, making the play. I think those are the things that you see out of these guys, non-stop finding ways to just get better.
On what sparked Van Buren’s improved second half performance against Georgia…
On that fifth series he’s able to connect on the big play with [Mario Craver] and then he makes a good play to Kelly for the touchdown right there to make it 13-10. You know that big completion was one that kind of got him going and gave him some confidence.
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https://www.si.com/college/mississippistate/football/mississippi-state-jeff-lebby-van-buren
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Crypto payments company Ripple has revealed its preliminary exchange and market maker partners for the launch of its dollar-pegged stablecoin Ripple USD (RLUSD).
The exchange partners are Bitstamp, Bitso, Bullish, CoinMENA, Independent Reserve, MoonPay, and Uphold. In addition, B2C2 and fellow market maker Keyrock will provide liquidity support for RLUSD.
Advisory Appointments
“With our initial exchange partners, clear utility and demand for RLUSD, and a strong focus on regulatory compliance, Ripple’s stablecoin is poised to become the gold standard for enterprise-grade stablecoins,” Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said during the announcement.
He added that its payment solutions will leverage RLUSD for faster and more reliable cross-border transactions.
The firm also appointed former FDIC chair Sheila Bair and ex-Centre CEO David Puth to its stablecoin advisory board to guide the rollout of its product to the market.
Bair and Puth believe that stablecoins will play a crucial role in modernizing the financial system. The former emphasized the importance of responsible innovation to ensure consumer protection and financial stability as the industry grows.
Additionally, by offering stability and efficiency through blockchain technology, Puth believes these assets are important in bridging the gap between traditional finance and the crypto market.
Cross-Border Payments and Tokenization
The digital payment company is still awaiting final regulatory approval from the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) before the public release of RLUSD.
Monica Long, President of Ripple Labs, confirmed in an interview with CoinDesk that it is prepared to launch as soon as this is granted. “From our side, we are operationally ready,” she said.
According to her, the new offering will build on Ripple’s established role in payments and act as a key bridge for tokenizing real-world assets.
“For RLUSD and stablecoins generally, we definitely have validated the utility of them with payments,” Long explained. She added that they also believe in the wider trend of real-world assets tokenization.
The announcement follows earlier plans this year to launch its product in the rapidly expanding $170 billion stablecoin market. Each RLUSD token is designed for enterprise use cases and will be fully backed by U.S. dollar deposits, government bonds, and cash equivalents.
The offering is currently in a testing phase on both the XRP Ledger and Ethereum networks. Ripple plans to issue monthly attestations on RLUSD’s reserves. BPM, a San Francisco-based accounting firm, will conduct independent audits.
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