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NEW YORK (AP) — The Brad Pitt action film “Bullet Train” led all movies in ticket sales for a second straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, while a quiet spell in theaters and incredible staying power allowed “Top Gun: Maverick” to rocket back into third place in its 12th week of release.
After launching the previous weekend with about $30 million at the box office, “Bullet Train” pulled in $13.4 million in its second go-around. David Leitch’s assassin-crowded film, made for $90 million, has grossed $54.4 million in two weeks for Sony Pictures. Globally, “Bullet Train” has grossed $114.5 million.
Three new films went into wide release but none cracked the top five films. The slowdown — an expected but still acute late-summer downturn in big releases — gave plenty of airspace for the year’s biggest movie, “Maverick,” to make another fly-by in theaters.
Nearly three months after opening in May, Paramount Pictures put the “Top Gun” sequel back on a number of large-format screens and increased its theater count from 2,760 to 3,181. It came away with $7.2 million, bringing its cumulative total to $673.8 million. Paramount’s biggest smash ever, “Maverick” sits at seventh all-time in domestic box office, not accounting for inflation, right above “Titanic” and just below “Avengers: Infinity War.”
The uncommonly long run for “Top Gun: Maverick” is even rarer at a time when studios have shrunk theatrical windows, typically sending movies to streaming services after about 45 days in theaters.
“Top Gun: Maverick” was very narrowly edged for second place by Warner Bros.’ “DC League of Super-Pets.” Warner Bros. estimated Sunday that its animated movie took in $7.17 million in its third week of release, just a nose above the $7.15 million for “Maverick.” Final figures Monday should break the near-tie.
But while “Top Gun: Maverick” has been a boon to theaters recovering from the pandemic, the thinly scheduled dog days of August — and potentially a chunk of September — will pose a test to the industry. This weekend, the biggest new film in nationwide theaters was A24’s “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” a Gen Z horror comedy that expanded to 1,269 locations after last week’s opening in limited release. It came in eighth with $3.3 million.
Lionsgate’s “The Fall,” about two friends stranded atop a 2,000-foot radio tower, debuted with $2.5 million. Diane Keaton’s body-swap comedy “Mack & Rita” opened with just $1 million in ticket sales for Gravitas Ventures.
In overall sales it was the lowest ticket-selling weekend of the summer. With few new wide releases on tap — including two Idris Elba titles: the safari thriller “Beast” (Aug. 19) and George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing” (Aug. 26) — moviegoing is likely to slow further in the coming weeks.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Bullet Train,” $13.4 million.
2. “DC League of Super-Pets,” $7.2 million
3. “Top Gun: Maverick,” $7.2 million.
4. “Thor: Love and Thunder,” $5.3 million.
5. “Nope,” $5.3 million.
6. “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” $4.9 million.
7. “Where the Crawdads Sing,” $4 million.
8. “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” $3.3 million.
9. “Elvis,” $2.6 million.
10. “Fall,” $2.5 million.
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8 bricks of suspected cocaine found washed up on beach
Published: Aug. 15, 2022 at 7:58 AM MST|Updated: 1 hour ago
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX/Gray News) – A simple beach cleanup in Mississippi led to a startling discovery this weekend.
Volunteers with SFS Keesler Air Force Base Chapter 652 found eight bricks of suspected cocaine on a beach in Biloxi near the White House Hotel, WLOX reported.
Biloxi police confirmed the bricks were found but are waiting for further testing to say for certain if the bricks contain cocaine.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a more enjoyable pacifier and teething ring option to soothe and distract fussy babies," said an inventor, from Charlotte, N.C., "so I invented the YUMMIE GUMMIES. My design enables a baby to safely enjoy different flavors at an earlier age."
The invention provides an improved line of pacifiers and teething rings for babies. In doing so, it offers an alternative to traditional or neutral-flavored pacifiers and teethers. As a result, it could make sucking or chewing on a pacifier/teething ring more enjoyable and it could help to soothe a baby. The invention features a unique design that is easy to use so it is ideal for parents with babies and toddlers. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Charlotte sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CNC-725, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The CPSC announces today the following recall is posted in cooperation with the firm listed below. Recalls can be viewed at www.cpsc.gov.
4moms Recalls More than 2 Million MamaRoo and RockaRoo Infant Swings and Rockers Due to Entanglement and Strangulation Hazards; One Death Reported
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About the U.S. CPSC
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risk of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product-related incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products has contributed to a decline in the rate of injuries associated with consumer products over the past 50 years.
Federal law prohibits any person from selling products subject to a Commission ordered recall or a voluntary recall undertaken in consultation with the CPSC.
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SWIFT 1.2 deeper automation, visibility, mobility
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RackWare, a leading provider of Hybrid Cloud Mobility solutions, announced SWIFT™ for Microsoft Azure, a comprehensive solution for migrating and protecting stateful containerized workloads running on the Microsoft Azure. SWIFT is a converged disaster recovery (DR), backup and migration solution for Kubernetes and OpenShift that spans all platforms, clouds, and versions, meaning it can move and protect any Kubernetes or OpenShift deployment from any source to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Moving and protecting stateful containerized workloads can be challenging, time consuming and costly. RackWare SWIFT v1.2 fully automates and manages the migration and protection of these workloads to reduce costs, time, and risk with flexible protection, simplified mobility, single pane of glass management, and support for a range of new capabilities.
RackWare SWIFT delivers unmatched flexibility in the handling of stateful containerized workloads, as part of any migration or DR transformation to AKS, any source storage type for containers can be transitioned to any of the AKS storage types, including Azure Disk Storage, and Azure File Share. This solution provides better security; simple, effective checkpoints; hybrid model support; simple, application-neutral migration, backup, and DR, and ability to migrate from any cloud to Azure quickly and simply.
"We are very excited to offer this solution to migrate and protect stateful containerized workloads with AKS," said Bryan Gobbett, CEO, RackWare. "Our strong Azure integration continues to deliver unmatched value to our joint Azure customers."
"The RackWare SWIFT solution integration with Microsoft storage options helps expand customer value for production scale stateful workloads on Azure," said Aung Oo, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Storage.
For more details, see the solution description at https://www.rackwareinc.com/rackware-swift-microsoft-azure.
About RackWare
RackWare makes data and applications mobile and secure. We empower our customers to run their applications and store their data in any cloud of their choice. Seamless mobility allows our customers to take advantage of cutting-edge services or reduced costs as they become available throughout the cloud universe. And if disaster strikes, whether that be of the natural or cyber-criminality type, our proprietary replication and sync technology has our customers protected. RackWare is based in Silicon Valley with offices in Salt Lake City, Philadelphia, London and Pune, India.
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A federal judge on Monday said U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham must testify before a special grand jury in Atlanta that is investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies broke any laws while trying to overturn his narrow 2020 general election loss in the state.
Attorneys for Graham, R-S.C., had argued that his position as a U.S. senator provided him immunity from having to appear before the investigative panel and asked the judge to quash his subpoena. But U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May wrote in an order Monday that immunities related to his role as a senator do not protect him from having to testify. Graham's subpoena instructs him to appear before the special grand jury on Aug. 23, but he is expected to appeal the judge's ruling.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened the investigation last year, and a special grand jury with subpoena power was seated in May at her request. Last month she filed petitions seeking to compel testimony from seven Trump advisers and associates.
Prosecutors have indicated they want to ask Graham about phone calls they say he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff in the weeks following Trump's election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
Graham had argued that a provision of the Constitution provides absolute protection against a senator being questioned about legislative acts. But the judge found there are “considerable areas of potential grand jury inquiry” that fall outside that provision’s scope. The judge also rejected Graham’s argument that the principle of “sovereign immunity” protects a senator from being summoned by a state prosecutor.
Graham also argued that Willis, a Democrat, had not demonstrated extraordinary circumstances necessary to compel testimony from a high-ranking official. But the judge disagreed, finding that Willis has shown “extraordinary circumstances and a special need” for Graham’s testimony on issues related to alleged attempt to influence or disrupt the election in Georgia.
May, the judge, last month rejected a similar attempt by U.S. Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., to avoid testifying before the special grand jury. Former New York mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani had argued he couldn't travel to Atlanta to testify because of health issues, but Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who's overseeing the special grand jury, instructed him to appear on Wednesday.
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A Graham spokesperson, Kevin Bishop, said Monday the senator had no comment but referred to what Graham said when asked about the probe last week. During a news conference in Columbia, S.C., Graham said, “We will take this as far as we need to take it” when asked about his efforts to fight his subpoena.
“I was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and had to vote on certifying an election,” Graham told reporters. “This is ridiculous. This weaponization of the law needs to stop. So I will use the courts. We will go as far as we need to go and do whatever needs to be done to make sure that people like me can do their jobs without fear of some county prosecutor coming after you.”
In calls made shortly after the 2020 general election, Graham “questioned Secretary Raffensperger and his staff about reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia in order to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump,” Willis wrote in a petition.
Graham also “made reference to allegations of widespread voter fraud in the November 2020 election in Georgia, consistent with public statements made by known affiliates of the Trump Campaign,” she wrote.
Republican and Democratic state election officials across the country, courts and even Trump's attorney general found there was no evidence of any voter fraud sufficient to affect the outcome of his 2020 presidential election loss.
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This list of performers is nothing short of first-class.
Jack Harlow, Lizzo, BLACKPINK and Måneskin are all set to grace the main stage at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, Aug. 28. The award-winning artists have been confirmed to join an already action-packed list of performers confirmed for the ceremony including Anitta, J Balvin, Marshmello, Khalid and Panic! At The Disco.
Lizzo is returning to the stage just a few years after her show-stopping VMAs debut back in 2019, where she performed her two massive singles, "Good as Hell" and "Truth Hurts." This year, she'll showcase her newest single, "2 Be Loved." But in addition to taking the stage as a performer she may also grace it as a winner, as she's up for four trophies this year, including Artist of the Year.
As far as Lizzo's competition in the Artist of the Year category goes, (among other performers) she's going up against none other than Jack Harlow.
The rapper—who performed at the 2021 VMAs with Lil Nas X—will also take the stage for his first ever solo performance at the awards show. Like Lizzo, Jack is also up for quite a few awards this year, seven to be exact, including Video of the Year for "Industry Baby."
However, Lizzo and Jack Harlow aren't the only ones who will be in the area: K-Pop group BLACKPINK will also make their U.S. award show debut with a performance of their single, "Pink Venom." In 2020, the super-popular musicians made history as the first K-Pop girl group to take home a Moon Person for Song of the Summer.
After rocking the stage at the 2021 MTV EMAs, rock group Måneskin is also set to hit the stage for their VMA debut this year to perform their hit, "SUPERMODEL." The Italian-based rock band is also up for two of the night's awards including, Best New Artist and Best Alternative.
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(NewsNation) — Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are developing a nasal spray that can prevent and treat COVID-19, with early data showing it could be a game changer in the fight against the virus.
While the vaccines developed have largely targeted the spike protein on the outside of the virus, the nasal spray focuses on the heart of the virus instead. Data from the first sets of tests show the spray appears to work against all current variants and future variants.
Professor Anders Naar, one of the lead researchers, explained that’s because the spray targets the virus’ RNA in an attempt to block the virus from duplicating in human cells.
“The virus is basically like a trojan horse,” Naar said Sunday on “NewsNation Prime.” “It injects RNA into a cell … and turns into its personal copy machine.”
The science behind the nasal spray works to incapacitate that copy machine.
The hope, Naar said, is that a nasal spray can make major headway in COVID-19 prevention efforts because it is easy to manufacture, ship and store. Unlike vaccines that have to be stored at cold temperatures, a nasal spray would be able to survive at room temperature.
“You can basically get this to people where there is no refrigeration or freezing capacity,” Naar said.
It might also appeal to the vaccine-hesitant population because of its easy application.
Tests have been conducted on mice and hamsters, and no adverse effects have been identified, Naar said. The next phase of research is animal trials and then human trials.
“We’re probably a year or two away from actually having this deployed if everything goes well,” Naar said.
The most ambitious timeline would be deployment by fall 2023. In order to achieve that, Naar said they need funding and “we need some muscle behind it, if you will, some people putting their shoulder to the effort, like big pharma or big biotech … the [Food and Drug Administration] has to be on-board, ideally the U.S. government.”
Testing has also shown that the spray can also reduce symptoms for those already infected with the coronavirus. For Naar and his fellow researchers, they say it could be a game changer “if everything pans out the way we envision.”
One doctor following the developments is Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center.
“On paper, it seems great. I’m very excited about it moving onto the next level,” Chin-Hong said. “I’m very hopeful about it, in terms of it not being spike-protein dependent, portable and easy-to-scale globally and being easy to administer. Not having human studies yet gives me some pause, but if I were an investor, I’d want to invest in it. It checks all the boxes, except how it performs in humans, that remains to be seen.” | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/covid-19-nasal-spray-could-be-game-changer-researcher-says/ | 2022-08-15T16:18:16Z | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/covid-19-nasal-spray-could-be-game-changer-researcher-says/ | true |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At least three Ukrainian civilians have been killed and nearly 20 others wounded in the latest artillery barrages from the Russian military, Ukrainian officials said Monday.
The eastern region of Donetsk, one of the two provinces making up the country’s industrial heartland of Donbas that has been the focus of a Russian offensive, has faced the most intense shelling.
Regional officials said at least three people died and another 13 were wounded by Russian shelling that hit numerous towns and villages in the Donetsk region during the last 24 hours. The barrage has damaged dozens of residential buildings and civilian infrastructure.
In the country’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, five civilians were wounded in the latest Russian shelling early Monday, according to the city's mayor, Ihor Terekhov.
The Russian forces also struck several other regions of Ukraine with rockets and artillery.
For their part, the Ukrainian military claimed to have destroyed more than 10 Russian warehouses with ammunition and military equipment in the past week.
In other developments Monday:
__ Lawyers for American basketball star Brittney Griner filed an appeal against her nine-year Russian prison sentence for drug possession, Russian news agencies reported. Griner, a center for the Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was convicted on Aug. 4. She was arrested in February at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport after vape canisters containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage.
__ The Ukrainian parliament, Verkhovna Rada, extended martial law and the country's general mobilization for another 90 days.
“Ukraine has always longed and longs for peace and many times in various negotiation formats has offered the Russian leadership to end the war and free Ukrainian land from occupation,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video late Sunday. “But so far, Russia believes in terror, remains in the grip of its propaganda illusions and still hopes that it can supposedly achieve something through various forms of blackmail. It won’t.”
He emphasized that “we must defend ourselves,” adding that “the stronger Ukraine will be, the weaker Russia will be, and therefore, the less time this war will last.”
__ Zelenskyy dismissed the heads of three regional branches of Ukraine’s top security agency, SBU, in the Kyiv, Lviv and Tarnopil regions. Zelenskyy’s office didn’t elaborate on the reasons behind the move. Last month, he dismissed SBU chief Ivan Bakanov and a chief prosecutor, saying their departments had too many people who faced accusations of collaborating with the Russians.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s killing told a judge Monday that they have rejected plea deals that would have resulted in three-year prison sentences, setting the stage for trial in October.
Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death. They and Thomas Lane were working with Derek Chauvin when he pinned Floyd’s neck with his...
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s killing told a judge Monday that they have rejected plea deals that would have resulted in three-year prison sentences, setting the stage for trial in October.
Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death. They and Thomas Lane were working with Derek Chauvin when he pinned Floyd’s neck with his knee for more than nine minutes as the 46-year-old Black man said he couldn’t breathe and eventually grew still.
The killing, captured in bystander video, sparked protests worldwide and a reckoning on racial injustice. Chauvin, who is white, was convicted of second-degree murder last year and sentenced to 22 1/2 years on the state charge.
Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill had set a limited window for accepting a plea deal ahead of trial, and Monday’s brief hearing served to formalize the ex-officers’ rejections of the state’s offers.
“It would be lying for me to accept any plea offer,” said Thou, who held back concerned bystanders as Chauvin pinned Floyd.
Thao, Kueng and Lane were convicted in federal court in February of violating Floyd’s civil rights. Lane, who held Floyd’s legs and twice asked if he should be turned on his side, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years. Thao was sentenced to 3 1/2 years. Kueng, who pinned Floyd’s back, was sentenced to 3 years.
Assistant Attorney General Matt Frank said plea negotiations began in earnest in May and continued into June. The offers would have dropped the charge of aiding and abetting murder, and the officers’ state time would have run concurrently with the federal sentences.
The trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 24, with opening statements Nov. 7.
Lane avoided a state trial by pleading guilty in May to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in a deal that calls for a three-year sentence. His sentencing is Sept. 21.
Chauvin was sentenced to 21 years on the federal civil rights charge. He remains in the state’s maximum security prison at Oak Park Heights pending his transfer to federal prison. The other three remain free on bail.
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Associated Press writer Amy Forliti contributed to this story.
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Man City star Benjamin Mendy's 'fixer' friend 'met women as young as 18 in Chinawhite' then took them to 'isolated' £1.7m mansion where footballer got victims drunk and raped them after lying 'I just want to see you naked'
- Benjamin Mendy thought women 'were disposable things to be used for sex'
- Mendy, 28, denies ten charges, including eight counts of rape from 2018 to 2021
- Premier League star standing trial along with co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie
- Matturie- known as Saha- denies eight rape counts rape and four sexual assaults
- Jury were told the pair 'turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game'
Man City footballer Benjamin Mendy's fixer procured young women in Manchester nightclub Chinawhite before taking them back to the star's Cheshire mansion to be raped by them, a court heard today.
Louis Saha Matturie - who is being referred to as Saha in the trial - spirited the girls back to Mendy's £1.7million home The Spinney.
Some of the victims had their phones taken off them when they visited the sprawling and isolated mansion. Others said they were locked in 'panic rooms' where they were attacked.
Two of the 13 complainants said Mendy used the same line on them, insisting 'I just want to see you naked'. They say he went beyond that and then assaulted them.
Mendy, 28, is accused of being a 'predator' who showed 'callous indifference' and denies charges of eight counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault.
Saha, 40, has also entered not guilty pleas to all charges he faces which include eight counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault.
Prosecutor Timothy Cray QC said: 'One of the things Saha wanted to do was to get attractive women to The Spinney so Mendy could have a go with them.'
The court heard today:
- Two complainants said they were held in 'panic rooms' where they were attacked
- Mendy and Saha viewed women as 'disposable things to be used for sex'
- Court heard the pair 'turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game'
- One alleged victim told friend to find her but got blocked by Mendy's friends
- Many of the women were much younger than the accuse, one just 17-years-old
- Court heard Mendy attacked one woman, 19, declaring 'Don't move, don't move'
- A second, who was also 19, woke up to find the footballer raping her
- Both Mendy and Saha have denied all charges and say all sex consensual
Mendy, 28, arrives at court today accused of ten charges, including eight counts of rape. He denies them all.
Mendy will go on trial along with his co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie, 40, (pictured today) who has also entered not guilty pleas to all charges he faces
Benjamin Mendy plays for Manchester City against Tottenham Hotspur in North London on August 15, 2021
Manchester City Footballer Benjamin Mendy and his co-accused Louis Saha Matturie are seen in a court drawing
One woman from Chinawhite in Manchester went back to the house on July 23 last year where she said she was raped by Mendy.
Mr Cray added: 'He led her downstairs to the cinema room, she told her friend 'If I am not back in five or ten minutes please come looking for me'.
'Her friend tried to get downstairs but two of Mendy's associates she did not know was blocking the stairs.'
Another two women, both 19 and who had been to the club went to Mendy's house, where they were both allegedly raped.
As Mendy attacked one he declared 'Don't move, don't move' while the second woke up to find the footballer raping her.
Mendy and his co-accused's court case was earlier told they 'turned the pursuit of victims for sex into a game', crossing the line of consent 'over and over again'.
The Spinney is the centre of many of the sexual assault allegations faced by the defendants
Manchester City Footballer Benjamin Mendy is seen in a court drawing during the trial today
Louis Saha Matturie is seen in a court drawing during a trial at Chester Crown Court today
Louis Matturie arrives for the first day of his trial at Chester Crown Court this morning
The opening of the case was told today it was one of 'men who rape and sexually assault women, because they think they are powerful, and because they think they can get away with it'.
At lunchtime the jury was shown a walkthrough video of The Spinney mansion, complete with a swimming pool and Jaws-style mural and gym with paintings of Mendy and his name plastered all over the walls.
Opening the case Mr Cray QC had told the jury: 'The case is simple. Actually, this case has little to do with football. It is another chapter in a very old story: men who rape and sexually assault women, because they think they are powerful, and because they think they can get away with it.
'They knew very well what they were doing. They turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game. They were prepared to cross that line over and over again. That was the effect of their game.
'To them these women were disposable things to be used for sex and thrown to one side.
'Central to the case is Mendy's home at the time. We say Mendy's house is part and parcel of how the defendants gained control of the victims.
'It's a mansion. But more importantly, it was isolated, as so many of the victims thought.
'On occasions when they got there, the victims had their phone taken from them. Some of the complainants were taken to rooms which were locked.'
Mr Cray told jurors that Saha, of Eccles, Salford, was Mendy's friend and fixer, and one of his jobs was 'to find young women and to create the situations where those young women could be raped and sexually assaulted'.
The prosecutor said Mendy was a 'reasonably famous football player' who 'because of his wealth and status, others were prepared to help him to get what he wanted'.
He added: 'Our case is that the defendants' pursuit of these 13 women turned them into predators, who were prepared to commit serious sexual offences.'
He said 'the fact they would not take 'no' for an answer' would be something the jurors will 'hear time and time again'.
The prosecutor said Mendy and Saha say in 'broad terms' that all the women consented to sex, willingly with only a couple of allegations where there is a denial that anything sexual happened.
Timothy Cray added there are no 'big disputes' about times or places and the 'what happened' is not controversial.
But a central question is whether the women consented to sex.
Mr Cray added: 'Ultimately, these cases are about where the line is drawn.
You will be able to weigh up whether, in each case, the defendants crossed those lines because this is central, readily understandable life experience - you will know where the truth is after having heard the women concerned, the challenges to them and the other evidence that is relevant to the allegations in the charges.'
Last week, the names of Raheem Sterling, Jack Grealish, Kyle Walker, Riyad Mahrez and John Stones, all either current or ex- Manchester City players, were read to jurors ahead of the trial.
His Honour Judge Everett wanted to make sure no jurors had any personal connection to anyone who could be referred to during the trial, or be called as a witness.
Judge Everett, who is Recorder of Chester, told the jury last week: 'Maybe you have heard their names. Some of you will be aware of the fact Mr Mendy is a professional footballer who plays football for Manchester City.'
Both defendants are on bail and the trial is expected to last up to 15 weeks.
None of the women who have made the allegations involved can be identified and reporting restrictions apply ahead of the trial.
Timothy Cray QC opened the case for the prosecution before the jury at Chester Crown Court today.
Eight men and six women were sworn in to serve on the jury, including two jurors who will be discharged after the opening of the case.
Mendy has played for Manchester City since 2017, when he joined from Monaco for a reported £52 million. He was suspended by the club after being charged by police.
Judge Everett also told the jury: 'There are 22 counts or charges, if you are feeling overwhelmed by that I can assure you that you will be having a lot of assistance on how you will approach that.
'Don't feel daunted or overwhelmed by that. This trial could go through to November.'
Jurors were asked if they knew Raheem Sterling, Jack Grealish , Kyle Walker, Riyad Mahrez or John Stones
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New industry-leading direct invoicing option streamlines booking and billing process for corporate travelers
ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH) is making the process for business travelers booking rooms at more than 5,000 domestic properties easier than ever through its new Choice Direct Pay program. With this new comprehensive offering, corporate customers can now make reservations for their employees and guests at multiple Choice hotels, with their company being billed directly through a single, centralized invoice.
In addition to simplifying the billing process system-wide, the Choice Direct Pay program notably enables business travelers to:
- Make a single payment for all stays, at all hotels through weekly consolidated invoicing.
- Download and manage their invoice data through their dedicated portal.
- Add project costs and department codes to bills to further simplify their reconciliation process.
- Contact centralized customer support to help with their enrollment process, check the status of payments and invoices, and resolve any issues with charges.
- Maintain access to their existing negotiated and chainwide rates by entering their Choice issued CID.
- Search for participating hotels and book through their preferred channel including choicehotels.com, the Choice Hotels mobile app, Choice Contact Centers, and the GDS.
- Offer the flexibility for guests to adjust stay dates on property.
"From the flagship Comfort brand and the upscale Cambria Hotels, beloved by modern travelers, to our growing lineup of extended stay offerings, ensuring today's business travelers have access to the right accommodations in the right markets for their corporate travel is key," said Chad Fletcher, vice president, global sales at Choice Hotels. "Fundamental to this approach is equipping travel managers with the tools and resources they need to better serve these corporate clients. Choice Direct Pay streamlines what has traditionally been an onerous process across the industry, further underscoring Choice's commitment to building on its leading value proposition for guests and corporate customers alike."
To participate in Choice Direct Pay, corporate customers will need to sign up at info.choicehotels.com/direct-pay, after which users will receive customized enrollment links through TreviPay, a leader in the payment solution industry facilitating this program.
Choice Direct Pay builds on several innovations and investments made by the company to bolster its technology solutions to meet owners and customers' corporate travel needs, including Virtual Pay and the Group Management Platform. Virtual Pay allows travel managers to quickly and effortlessly book stays for their guests without needing a personal credit card, and Group Management Platform is an online reservation solution that makes planning and booking group travel easier.
Corporate travel managers attending the 2022 GBTA Convention who would like to learn more about the Choice Direct Pay program can visit Choice Hotels Booth #2737.
About Choice Hotels®
Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH) is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world. With more than 7,500 hotels representing approximately 650,000 rooms in 46 countries and territories as of August 11, 2022, the Choice® family of hotel brands provide business and leisure travelers with a range of high-quality lodging options from limited service to full-service hotels in the upscale, midscale, extended-stay and economy segments. The award-winning Choice Privileges® loyalty program offers members a faster way to rewards, with personalized benefits starting on day one. For more information, visit www.choicehotels.com.
© 2022 Choice Hotels International, Inc. All rights reserved.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a way to increase protection and improve breathing while wearing a PPE face covering all day," said an inventor, from Hilliard, Ohio, "so I invented the D K B PPE HOOD. My design would eliminate the need to breathe in exhaled air trapped within a mask and it will not interfere with the face area."
The invention provides an improved PPE mask covering for the entire head. In doing so, it prevents the covering from interfering with the face area for use all day. It also ensures that the user has a fresh filtered air supply and it provides added protection and peace of mind. The invention features a practical design that is easy to wear and use so it is ideal for individuals who wear PPE face masks for longer durations. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Cincinnati sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CCT-4664, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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New Vacation-Booking Service Built in Partnership With DH Enterprise & Associates
Klarna to Serve as Official "Travel Now, Pay Later" Sponsor
NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cosmopolitan, the world's largest women's media brand, announced today the launch of CosmoTrips, a bespoke travel-booking service. The new offering delivers a unique opportunity for the brand's Gen Z and millennial audience to "travel like an editor" through instantly bookable, curated vacation experiences in top cities across the U.S.
A new business venture for Cosmopolitan, CosmoTrips—designed and built in partnership with tech-first travel industry leaders DH Enterprise & Associates (DH)—launched today with a collection of two- and three-night itineraries in four U.S. cities: New York, Austin, Charleston, and West Hollywood. Each itinerary offers best places to stay, eat, and play—plus exclusive perks and insider access—all vetted by the Cosmo editorial team and secured in collaboration with experience provider Travel Curious. Cosmo will continue to expand the destination offerings and city-specific itineraries—including New Orleans, Miami, and Las Vegas—in the coming months.
With the launch of CosmoTrips, Cosmopolitan is further solidifying its commitment to its audience of travel enthusiasts by leveraging its editorial influence and expertise to create experiences that bring the brand to life and inspire discovery. According to a recent Avail survey, 71% of both Gen Zers and millennials are planning to travel more, or the same amount, in 2022 than they did pre-pandemic, and many in those demographics are either already planning or are considering splurging on a big trip. The CosmoTrips business is designed to serve young Americans' appetite for travel while saving them time by providing one-click access to Cosmo-approved vacation itineraries.
"Our audience of Gen Zers and millennials are considered the golden generation for travel, and research shows that they prioritize experiences over things," said Nancy Berger, SVP/publishing director and chief revenue officer of Hearst Youth + Wellness Group. "CosmoTrips travel packages are specifically curated for this demographic, vetted by our editors, and include perks and surprise and delight moments, many of which are exclusive to our offering. Cosmo is such a trusted resource on so many aspects of their lives; creating a travel experience they will love, making it easy to book, and guaranteeing them a fun time was a natural brand extension for us."
Over the past year, Cosmo has invested in travel coverage, delivering more content than ever before, including travel features in every print issue and a robust digital channel anchored by The Must-Visit List. Issue 5, the Travel Issue—on newsstands nationwide on August 23—will be entirely dedicated to travel, exploring the hottest places to travel right now, the best places to stay, where to dine, what to wear, and things to check out while you're there. The issue will also include a special CosmoTrips feature spotlighting the four launch destinations.
"Our editors love to travel—and so does our audience. CosmoTrips not only takes out the stress of planning their next vacation, but travelers are guaranteed an experience that passes our editors' pickiness test, all without lifting a finger," said Jessica Giles, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan. "With the coolest destinations, chicest restaurants, and the secret spots only locals know about, these are the extremely curated trips that our audience deserves."
As Cosmopolitan further establishes its editorial position in the travel space, it has also attracted new print and digital advertising partners in the category, including Air New Zealand, Sandals, and Texas Tourism as well as CosmoTrips launch destinations Explore Charleston and Visit West Hollywood. To celebrate the launch of the new venture, Cosmo will host an invitation-only event in West Hollywood next month.
Among the sponsors supporting the launch of CosmoTrips, Klarna serves as the official "travel now, pay later" partner, making it easy for consumers to budget their travel plans. The payment platform is fully integrated into the CosmoTrips booking website, and CosmoTrips will be featured in a variety of premium placement formats across Klarna's app and website as well as promoted through Klarna's influencer network.
"We are excited to be partnering with Cosmopolitan on their new travel proposition, CosmoTrips," said David Sandstrom, chief marketing officer of Klarna. "Together, we are looking forward to giving readers the opportunity to explore new cities whilst spreading the cost of their experience."
"We are thrilled to partner with an iconic brand like Cosmopolitan. The pairing of DH's bespoke travel technology platform and Cosmo's travel-passionate audience is an unbeatable combination," said Ben Block, CEO of DH Enterprise & Associates. "We are leveraging the best of both companies and we couldn't be more excited to grow the CosmoTrips business together."
The CosmoTrips booking site is open now. For more information or to book a CosmoTrips travel experience, visit CosmoTrips.com and follow along on Instagram and Twitter @Cosmopolitan, #CosmoTrips
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MIAMI, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PairSoft, a leader in integrated AP and procurement automation, today announced its payment processing partnership with fintech giant Finexio.
PairSoft Pay, powered by Finexio, will further solidify the high performance of AP and procurement teams using PairSoft's comprehensive solutions. The new payment offering is a crucial element of PairSoft's vision for a harmonized, non-siloed spend management cycle that will save customers time and money through seamless automation and the elimination of fraud-prone paper checks. Additionally, the PairSoft customer experience will be amplified by one-click payments, increased security and control, high-touch supplier enablement, and multiple payment options for vendors.
This entry into the payments space rounds out PairSoft's robust automation solutions, which the Finexio-powered payment platform will be embedded into. Pairsoft Pay covers a variety of payment types and channels, including payment methods like virtual cards, ACH, wire transfer, and paper checks per user needs. The ability to deliver faster electronic payments will boost the cash flows and streamline the workflows of large and small businesses alike, while the reduction of manual errors and PairSoft's end-to-end encryption will bolster fraud protection.
"We are excited and ready to jump into payments. This is the next great step in our mission to lead the procure-to-pay market, and we couldn't have chosen a better teammate than Finexio," said Matt Cotter, PairSoft CEO. "Innovation and strategy are at the heart of everything we do, and this product is the latest proof point."
Ernest Rolfson, CEO and Founder of Finexio, agreed: "We are thrilled to begin this partnership with a future-forward organization like PairSoft, and we're ready to elevate their user experience through a seamless payments-as-a-service solution. Finexio exists to embed integrated payments into leading AP and Procurement software platforms serving mid-market needs, and Pairsoft is a leading example of a platform driving exemplary results in digital business transformation for end users. Putting the 'Pay' into 'Procure to Pay' is a natural evolution of the service offering."
As PairSoft begins rolling out its Finexio-powered payment system, it's recommended that existing customers who are interested in this upgraded functionality continue communicating with their account managers. New organizations interested in leveraging payments as well as other automated solutions with PairSoft can get in touch today.
PairSoft is a leading provider of procure-to-pay solutions that directly integrate with Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle NetSuite, Blackbaud, Oracle, and Sage Intacct as well as various other ERPs. Our mission is to be the solution of choice for mid-market financial services departments that are taking control of their procure-to-pay processes. We bring enterprise-style capability to B2B transactions, including full process visibility and control, and support sustainability with automation and analytics. Learn more about PairSoft on our website or follow us on LinkedIn.
Finexio, the leading AP Payments-as-a-Service company focused on providing end-to-end payment capabilities embedded within Procurement, AP Software Platforms, and Financial Institutions. This embedded electronic payments solution represents a powerful disruption to traditional, disjointed manual-based AP processes. Finexio's modern, efficient service model, robust API, SSO capabilities, and total payment solutions translate to high-margin revenue streams and a strong competitive position for partners. Learn more about Finexio on their website or follow them on LinkedIn.
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Drinking enough water is one of the absolute best things you can do for your health. H2O is essential to pretty much every function the human body carries out, from regulating your body temperature to lubricating your joints. It makes sense, since 60% of the human adult body is water. But hitting your daily hydration goals becomes a whole lot easier when you’ve got a high-quality water bottle to keep your drink nice and cold.
Made for easy drinking, the Hydro Flask Wide Mouth Bottle with Flex Cap (starting at $32.95 for a 20-ounce bottle, with many colors on sale right now) has received more than 24,300 five-star reviews on Amazon. Reviews praise it for having a wide-mouth opening (which makes putting ice in easy!) and keeping water ice cold.
The Hydro Flask comes in a nice selection of different colors like pineapple, clementine, alpine and cobalt. Color Last technology keeps the bottle slip free and helps it retain its vibrant colors.
At the Amazon listing above, you can purchase a couple of Hydro Flask’s new colors, introduced earlier this month as noted on Facebook:
The Hydro Flask also comes in four different sizes: 20 ounces, 32 ounces, 40 ounces and 64 ounces.
This particular Hydro Flask ranks as a bestseller across a few categories, including No. 11 in Sports & Outdoors, No. 4 in Water Bottles and No. 5 in insulated bottles. Other Hydro Flask models are highly rated in these categories as well.
“Water stays perfectly cool and fresh, and plenty of it for a good 5-hour hike or so on a hot day,” reviewer Cristina said. She also points out that the deep and wide bottle is easy to clean and the lid can be dismantled for a thorough wash. A flex strap on the lid makes the hydro flask easy to carry.
“I use mine every day and ice remains in the bottle overnight and throughout the day,” reviewer Kellie Nesto said.
The secret to keeping beverages so cold, according to the Hydro Flask company, is TempShield technology that provides double wall vacuum insulation. It can keep beverages cold for up to 24 hours and hot for 12 hours. The manufacturer also says the bottle is made with a pro-grade stainless steel that ensures durability and a pure, non-metallic taste. The bottle is also BPA-free and dishwasher-safe, making it easy to care for.
Several reviews also mention that the leakproof quality of the hydro flask sets it apart from other bottles they’ve tried.
“I can throw this in my backpack with my laptop and feel confident that it won’t soak everything,” a review by Sam Manring says.
Oh, and one more thing: The maker of these water bottles love the national parks as much as its adventurous customers. Hydro Flask’s Parks For All program supports nonprofit organizations focused on building, maintaining, restoring, and providing more equitable access to parks. The company has donated more than $2.5 million to do things like restore West Coast redwood forests and maintain East Coast trail systems.
It announced the program over social media in 2017:
Excited to partner w/ @AT_Conservancy, @PCTAssociation & @ORStateParksFdn for our new Parks For All giving program! Pic: @markomcinnis pic.twitter.com/CMSr18pqaQ
— Hydro Flask (@HydroFlask) January 26, 2017
And don’t forget, if you’re not into these colors, you can always design your own Hydro Flask at the company’s website.
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SBI raises benchmark lending rates by up to 50 basis points
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State Bank of India (SBI) on Monday raised its benchmark lending rates by up to 50 basis points (or 0.5%), a move that will lead to an increase in EMIs for borrowers.
The increase in lending rate comes days after the Reserve Bank of India hiked its benchmark lending rate by 50 basis points to tame inflation.
External Benchmark based Lending Rate (EBLR) and Repo-Linked Lending Rate (RLLR) have been raised by 50 basis points while the hike in Marginal Cost of funds-based Lending Rate (MCLR) is 20 basis points across all tenure.
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The revised rates are effective from August 15, as per the information posted on SBI website.
SBI's EBLR rose to 8.05% and RLLR% increased by similar 50 basis points to 7.65%.
Banks add Credit Risk Premium (CRP) over the EBLR and RLLR while giving any kind of loan, including housing and auto loans.
With the revision, one-year MCLR has increased to 7.70%, from the earlier 7.50%, while for two years it rose to 7.90% and for three years to 8%.
Most of the loans are linked to the one-year MCLR rate.
With the increase in lending rate, EMIs will go up for those borrowers who have availed loans on MCLR, EBLR or RLLR.
From October 1, 2019, all banks including SBI have migrated to an interest rate linked to an external benchmark such as RBI's repo rate or Treasury Bill yield. As a result, monetary policy transmission by banks has gained traction.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 15, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
1041 AM CDT Mon Aug 15 2022
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 AM CDT THIS
MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WEBB COUNTY...
At 1041 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 2 and 5 inches of rain
have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up to 2 inches are possible
in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor
drainage and low-lying areas.
Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Laredo, Rio Bravo, El Cenizo, United South High School, St
Augustine High School South Laredo, Laredo International Airport,
Texas A&M, Laredo Community College, Laredo Country Club, Doctors
Hospital Of Laredo and Ranchitos Las Lomas.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An Iranian government official denied on Monday that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie, though he justified the stabbing in remarks that represented the Islamic Republic's first public comments on the attack.
The comments by Nasser Kanaani, the spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry, came more than two days after the attack on Rushdie in New York. The writer has now been taken off a ventilator and is “on the road to recovery,” according to his agent.
However, Iran has denied carrying out other operations abroad targeting dissidents in the years since the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution, despite prosecutors and Western governments attributing such attacks back to Tehran. And while Iran hasn't focused on the writer in recent years, a decades-old fatwa demanding his killing still stands.
“Regarding the attack against Salman Rushdie in America, we don’t consider anyone deserving reproach, blame or even condemnation, except for (Rushdie) himself and his supporters,” Kanaani said.
“In this regard, no one can blame the Islamic Republic of Iran," he added. “We believe that the insults made and the support he received was an insult against followers of all religions.”
Rushdie, 75, was stabbed Friday while attending an event in western New York. He suffered a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye, his agent Andrew Wylie said. Rushdie was likely to lose the injured eye.
His assailant, 24-year-old Hadi Matar, has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the attack through his lawyer.
Rushdie has for more than 30 years faced death threats for “The Satanic Verses.” Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had issued a fatwa, or Islamic edict, demanding his death. A semiofficial Iranian foundation had put up a bounty of over $3 million for the author, though it has yet to offer any comment on the attack.
Police in New York have offered no motive yet for the attack, though District Attorney Jason Schmidt alluded to the bounty on Rushdie in arguing against bail during a hearing Saturday.
“Even if this court were to set a million dollars bail, we stand a risk that bail could be met,” Schmidt said.
Matar was born in the United States to parents who emigrated from Yaroun in southern Lebanon near the Israeli border, according to the village's mayor. Flags of the Iranian-backed Shiite militant group Hezbollah, along with portraits of Hezbollah and Iranian leaders, hang across the village. Israel also has bombarded Hezbollah positions near there in the past.
In Yaroun, village records show Matar holds Lebanese citizenship and is identified as a Shiite, an official there said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns, said Matar’s father still lives there but has been in seclusion since the attack.
In his remarks Monday, Kanaani added that Iran did not "have any other information more than what the American media has reported.” He also implied that Rushdie brought the attack on himself.
“Salman Rushdie exposed himself to popular anger and fury through insulting the sacredness of Islam and crossing the red lines of over 1.5 billion Muslims and also red lines of followers of all divine religions,” Kanaani said.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, while not directly blaming Tehran for the attack on Rushdie, made a point to mention Iran in a statement early Monday praising the writer's efforts in supporting freedom of expression and religion.
“Iranian state institutions have incited violence against Rushdie for generations, and state-affiliated media recently gloated about the attempt on his life,” Blinken said. “This is despicable.”
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul condemned the attack on Rushdie at a lecture Sunday, saying that “a man with a knife cannot silence a man with a pen.”
Khomeini, in poor health in the last year of his life after the grinding, stalemated 1980s Iran-Iraq war had decimated the country’s economy, issued the fatwa on Rushdie in 1989. The Islamic edict came amid a violent uproar in the Muslim world over the novel, which some viewed as blasphemously making suggestions about the Prophet Muhammad’s life.
While fatwas can be revised or revoked, Iran’s current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — who took over after Khomeini — has never done so. As recently as February 2017, Khamenei said: “The decree is as Imam Khomeini issued.”
Since 1979, Iran has targeted dissidents abroad in attacks. Tensions with the West — particularly the United States — have spiked since then-President Donald Trump unilaterally pulled America out of Iran's nuclear deal with world powers in 2018.
A Trump-ordered drone strike killed a top Iranian Revolutionary Guard general in 2020, further fueling those tensions.
Last week, the U.S. charged a Guard member in absentia for allegedly plotting to kill one-time Trump adviser and Iran hawk John Bolton. Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and an aide are under 24-hour security over alleged threats from Iran.
Meanwhile, U.S. prosecutors say Iran tried to kidnap in 2021 an Iranian opposition activist and writer living in New York. In recent days, a man with an assault rifle was arrested near her home.
Other denials from the Foreign Ministry have included Tehran's transfer of weapons to Yemen's Houthi rebels amid that country's long civil war. Independent experts, Western nations and U.N. experts have traced weapon components back to Iran.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 15, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in Corpus Christi has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Southwestern La Salle County in south central Texas...
Central Webb County in south central Texas...
* Until 1230 PM CDT.
* At 1028 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 2 and 5 inches of rain
have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up to 3 inches are
possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected
to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Laredo, Encinal, Callaghan, Botines, Unitec Industrial Park and
Orvil.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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Motorcyclist killed in crash in Northumberland County
Milton, Pa. — A motorcyclist was killed in a crash Thursday night in Northumberland County when he lost control of his motorcycle and hit a ditch.
Anthony S. Snyder, 40, of Milton, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash shortly after 11:30 p.m. Aug. 11, according to state police at Milton.
Snyder was traveling north on Mt. Zion Road in West Chillisquaque Township when he lost control on a right curve in the roadway. Snyder's Harley Davidson motorcycle then traveled off the west side of the roadway and hit a drainage ditch. Trooper Steven Geiger said Snyder was thrown off the motorcycle.
Geiger said Snyder was not wearing a helmet.
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Woman Injured Following Two-Vehicle Crash in Brockway Borough
BROCKWAY BOROUGH, Pa. (EYT) – A 61-year-old passenger was treated for a minor injury following a vehicle vs. tractor trailer crash in Brockway Borough. According to DuBois-based State Police, the crash occurred around 5:00 p.m. on Friday, August 12, at the intersection of Main Street (State Route 28) and Oak Street, in Brockway Borough, Jefferson County.
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Police: Vehicle Strikes Brockway Woman’s Car Before Fleeing Scene
WASHINGTON TWP., Pa. (EYT) – Police have released information concerning a hit-and-run that occurred in Washington Township on Saturday. According to DuBois-based State Police, the crash occurred around 9:31 a.m. on Saturday, August 13, as a 2010 Buick Enclave driven by 19-year-old Elizabeth R. Palmer, of Brockway, was traveling east on Allens Mills Road in Washington Township, Jefferson County.
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Police Seeking Information on Theft from Motor Vehicle in Bell Township
BELL TWP., Pa. (EYT) – Police are asking for the public’s help with information related to a theft from a motor vehicle in Bell Township. According to Punxsutawney-based State Police, the incident occurred at a residential property along Forest Lane in Bell Township, Jefferson County, sometime between 9:30 p.m. on Friday, August 5, and 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 6.
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Motorcyclist drives into ditch, dies in crash
WEST CHILLISQAQUE TOWNSHIP, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— State police announced the death of a motorcyclist in Northumberland County on August 11. Officials said Anthony Snyder, 40, Milton, was driving north on Mount Zion Road in West Chillisqaque Township when he drove into a drainage ditch on the side of the road. Investigators say Snyder was thrown […]
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Coroner called Sunday to motorcycle crash on Route 36, dispatch says
According to Jefferson County dispatch, a fatal motorcycle crash occurred Sunday morning in Eldred Township. Dispatch says the crash occurred at 6:17 a.m. on Route 36 at Carls Lane and involved a single motorcycle. Dispatch has confirmed that the coroner was called to the scene, but no further details of...
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ATV Crash in Sherman Lands Pennsylvania Man in Hospital
A man from central Pennsylvania was hospitalized with serious injuries suffered in an ATV crash Saturday afternoon in the Town of Sherman. Chautauqua County Sheriff's deputies and Sherman Fire responded to an address on French Creek Road at about 3:15 PM. An investigation found that 25-year-old Eli Laramie of Boalsburg, Pennsylvania was operating the ATV on private property when the incident occurred. Laramie was flown by STAT MedEvac to the Hamot Medical Center in Erie. No charges were filed.
19-year-old electrocuted in bucket truck accident
Centre County, Pa. — A 19-year-old man was electrocuted to death on Aug. 10 as he worked on a bucket truck near the 100 block of Tressler Lane in Gregg Township.
Alexander Fries perished when investigators said his bucket touched live electrical wires. Fries was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a release from the Centre County Coroner Scott Sayers.
“An autopsy showed Fries died as a result of electrocution and manner of death is accidental,” Sayers wrote.
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BLAIR COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ)– A disturbance at a nursing home before getting a truck stuck in someone’s yard, all while being drunk, has led to charges for an Altoona man, according to police. Tyrone Borough police were called to Epworth Manor along Washington Avenue at 3:15 a.m. on Friday morning for a report of a […]
Teen accused of burning Snyder County man’s barn
WEST BEAVER TOWNSHIP, SNYDER COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— Pennsylvania State Police arrested a teen accused of burning down a man’s barn in Snyder County. On August 2, the Bannervile Fire Company said they responded to a barn fire on the 1000 block of Fairview Road in West Beaver Township. There were no injuries reported to state police […]
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State police arrest man after Parks Township resident accuses him of burglary, knife threat
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Johnstown man jailed after shootings, high-speed chase
CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — A Johnstown man is sitting in jail after multiple alleged incidents — two shootings in Johnstown and a police pursuit in Altoona. Devine Steven Andre Edwards, 28, is accused of stirring up trouble this year starting in June when Johnstown police were told he shot at an unknown man who […]
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Man wanted in connection with Clarion County theft
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — State police say they are looking for a man wanted in connection with a theft in Clarion County.Police say the man approached the victim outside the Walmart in Monroe Township and told them there was a tack in his tire.When the person got out to look, another man went into the car and stole the victim's wallet. The two men then used the victim's ATM card to withdraw $1,000, police said. Anyone with information can call the state police at 814-226-171.
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Police Respond to One-Vehicle Crash on Interstate 80
SANDY TWP., Pa. (EYT) – Police have released information surrounding a one-vehicle crash along Interstate 80 on Tuesday. According to DuBois-based State Police, the crash occurred around 2:19 p.m. on Tuesday, August 9, along Interstate 80 in Sandy Township, Clearfield County. Police say a 2004 Ford Mustang operated by...
Police: One dead following electrocution in Centre County
CENTRE COUNTY, Pa (WTAJ) — A Centre County corners office member was called to the scene after an individual was electrocuted Wednesday. UPDATE: Pennsylvania State Police announced Thursday that one man has died due to being electrocuted. In their release, they said the male victim was working at the residence when he was electrocuted. The […]
PSP: Man forms ‘intimate relationship’ with unknown suspect, loses $110K in scam
WOODWARD TOWNSHIP, LYCOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— State police announced a man from Lycoming County lost $110,000 over the course of four months in a cryptocurrency scam. Officials said a 42-year-old man in Woodward Township was contacted by an unknown suspect on April 12 and over four months built an “intimate relationship” with the suspect. The victim […]
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Police Release Details of Two-Vehicle Crash on Route 322
ASHLAND TWP., Pa. (EYT) – Police have released the details of a two-vehicle crash that occurred on U.S. Route 322 last Thursday afternoon. According to Clarion-based State Police, the crash happened around 4:23 p.m. on Thursday, August 4, in front of a residence on U.S. Route 322 in Ashland Township, Clarion County.
Route 15 closed in Kelly Township, Union County
Motorists are advised that Route 15 northbound and southbound are closed between Route 1018 (William Penn Drive) and Ziegler Road in Kelly Township, Union County, for a multi-vehicle crash.
A detour using William Penn Drive, Route 1007 (JPM Road), and Ziegler Road is in place.
Motorists should be alert, slow down, watch for slow or stopped vehicles, expect delays in travel, and drive with caution.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — After last-minute chaos that could foreshadow a court challenge, Kenya’s electoral commission chairman on Monday declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of the close presidential election over five-time contender Raila Odinga, a triumph for the man who shook up politics by appealing to struggling Kenyans on economic terms and not on traditional ethnic ones.
Ruto received 50.49% of the votes with more than 7.1 million, the chairman said, while Odinga received 48.85% with more than 6.9 million in last Tuesday’s peaceful election. But just before the declaration, four of the seven electoral commissioners told journalists they could not support the “opaque nature” of the final phase of the vote-verification process.
“We cannot take ownership of the result that is going to be announced,” vice chair Juliana Cherera said, without giving details. At the declaration venue, police surged to impose calm amid shouting and scuffles before electoral commission chair Wafula Chebukati announced the official results — and said the two commissioners still with him had been injured.
The bizarre scene played out as a choir at the venue continued to sing.
The sudden split in the commission came minutes after Odinga’s chief agent said they could not verify the results and made allegations of “electoral offenses” without giving details or evidence. Odinga didn’t come to the venue.
Now Kenyans wait to see whether Odinga will again go to court to contest the election results in a country crucial to regional stability. This is likely the final try for the 77-year-old longtime opposition figure backed this time by former rival and outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta, who fell out with his deputy, Ruto, years ago.
“ANY results IEBC Chairman Wafuka Chebukati announces are INVALID because he had no quorum of commissioners to hold a plenary and make such a weighty decision. The ongoing process at Bomas is now ILLEGAL,” Odinga spokesman Makau Mutua asserted in a tweet. “It is not over until it is over,” Odinga’s running mate Martha Karua, a former justice minister, tweeted.
Candidates or others have seven days to file any challenge over the election results. The Supreme Court will have 14 days to rule.
Streets across Kenya that were already crowded with expectant supporters exploded, in places with jubilation, in others with anger. Shouting “No Raila, no peace,” Odinga supporters burned tires in the crowded Nairobi neighborhood of Kibera as night fell.
The 55-year-old Ruto, despite being sidelined by the president, had fought back and told voters that the election was between “hustlers” like him from modest backgrounds and the “dynasties” of Kenyatta and Odinga, whose fathers were Kenya’s first president and vice president. Odinga has sought the presidency for a quarter-century.
Ruto in his acceptance speech thanked Odinga and emphasized an election that focused on issues and not ethnic divisions, saying that “gratitude goes to millions of Kenyans who refused to be boxed into tribal cocoons.” He added that people who had acted against his campaign “have nothing to fear … There is no room for vengeance.”
Turnout in this election dropped to 65%, reflecting the weariness of Kenyans seeing the same longtime political figures on the ballot and frustration with poor economic conditions in East Africa’s economic hub. At the top, Kenyan politics are often marked less by ideological platforms than by alliances that create a path to power and the wealth that can come with it.
Some Kenyans also appeared wary after the Supreme Court earlier this year blocked an attempt by Kenyatta to make major changes to the constitution to, among other things, create a prime minister post that some feared Kenyatta would fill if Odinga won.
Odinga, famous for his yearslong detention while fighting for multiparty democracy decades ago and for supporting Kenya’s groundbreaking 2010 constitution, now appeared to many Kenyans as part of the establishment for backing the proposed constitutional changes.
Ruto, meanwhile, portrayed himself as the brash outsider and played up his chicken-selling childhood despite his current post and wealth. Both men’s careers were fundamentally marked by former President Daniel Arap Moi, who mentored a young Ruto and ruled over a one-party system that Odinga fought against.
The electoral commission improved its transparency in this election, practically inviting Kenyans to do the tallying themselves by posting online the more than 46,000 results forms from around the country. For the first time, the public could follow the election as sometimes skittish local media houses and even individuals compiled and shared findings as a check on the official process. Such counts showed Ruto ahead.
As Kenyans waited for almost a week for official results, both Odinga and Ruto appealed for peace, echoing calls by police, civil society groups and religious leaders in a country where past elections have been marked by political violence.
After the 2007 vote, more than 1,000 people were killed after Odinga claimed victory had been stolen from him in an election widely seen as compromised. Ruto, then Odinga’s ally, was indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity for his role in the violence, but the case was terminated amid allegations of witness intimidation.
After the 2017 election results were overturned by the high court for irregularities, a first in Africa, Odinga boycotted the fresh vote that Kenyatta won and declared himself the “people’s president” in a ceremony that led to accusations of treason. Following unrest in which dozens were killed, Odinga and Kenyatta publicly shook hands to establish calm.
Kenyans want that calm to continue. “Leaders are there to come and go,” Richard Osiolo, a resident of the western Nyanza region, said over the weekend, dismissing the need to fight because rival candidates in the end make peace. “I should stay alive and see you lead, bad or good, and then I have another chance to choose another leader.”
Both candidates vowed to help Kenya’s poor. Odinga promised government cash handouts to families under the poverty line, and Ruto promised government spending of more than $1 billion a year to increase job opportunities in a country where more than a third of young Kenyans are unemployed.
Social media was not blocked during the election. Kenya is seen as a relatively democratic and stable country in a region where longtime leaders such as Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Rwandan President Paul Kagame are widely accused of overseeing votes that are not free and fair.
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Fiber internet provider holds Meet & Greet in Altus
Published: Aug. 15, 2022 at 11:12 AM CDT|Updated: 24 minutes ago
ALTUS, Okla. (KSWO) - Bluepeak, a new fiber internet provider in the area, will hold a Meet & Greet for residents to learn more about the company’s expansion in Altus.
Officials with Bluepeak will be on-hand to discuss the construction and communication process involved in their $9 million expansion, and also give a demonstration of their TV streaming solutions.
The Meet & Greet will take place at Southwest Technology Center in Altus on Monday, August 15, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m..
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SWIFT 1.2 deeper automation, visibility, mobility
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RackWare, a leading provider of Hybrid Cloud Mobility solutions, announced SWIFT™ for Microsoft Azure, a comprehensive solution for migrating and protecting stateful containerized workloads running on the Microsoft Azure. SWIFT is a converged disaster recovery (DR), backup and migration solution for Kubernetes and OpenShift that spans all platforms, clouds, and versions, meaning it can move and protect any Kubernetes or OpenShift deployment from any source to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Moving and protecting stateful containerized workloads can be challenging, time consuming and costly. RackWare SWIFT v1.2 fully automates and manages the migration and protection of these workloads to reduce costs, time, and risk with flexible protection, simplified mobility, single pane of glass management, and support for a range of new capabilities.
RackWare SWIFT delivers unmatched flexibility in the handling of stateful containerized workloads, as part of any migration or DR transformation to AKS, any source storage type for containers can be transitioned to any of the AKS storage types, including Azure Disk Storage, and Azure File Share. This solution provides better security; simple, effective checkpoints; hybrid model support; simple, application-neutral migration, backup, and DR, and ability to migrate from any cloud to Azure quickly and simply.
"We are very excited to offer this solution to migrate and protect stateful containerized workloads with AKS," said Bryan Gobbett, CEO, RackWare. "Our strong Azure integration continues to deliver unmatched value to our joint Azure customers."
"The RackWare SWIFT solution integration with Microsoft storage options helps expand customer value for production scale stateful workloads on Azure," said Aung Oo, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Storage.
For more details, see the solution description at https://www.rackwareinc.com/rackware-swift-microsoft-azure.
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Sadiq Khan tells Londoners to prepare for risk of flash flooding from heavy rain
Sadiq Khan has told Londoners to prepare for flash flooding in the event that heavy rain and thunderstorms hit the capital this week.
The Met Office has issued a yellow thunderstorm warning for most of the UK on Monday and Tuesday as conditions could cause flash flooding, transport disruption and power cuts in areas hit by heavy rain.
The weather warning will stay in place for southern England on Wednesday, where communities could be cut off by flooded roads, and the chance of fast-flowing or deep flood water could cause danger to life.
We learned a lot from last year in July when there was flash flooding caused by a huge amount of rain
Experts warned that city drainage systems may not be able to cope if a sudden downpour hits as water would likely run off land that has dried up over weeks of little rain and hot weather.
The National Drought Group on Friday moved parts of the South West, parts of southern and central England, and the East of England into official drought status, while six water companies have imposed or announced plans to impose hosepipe restrictions.
Speaking to PA on Monday, the Mayor of London said: “We learned a lot from last year in July when there was flash flooding caused by a huge amount of rain – two months’ worth of rain – in just a couple of hours and people’s homes businesses and public transport was flooded.
“Speaking to the Met Office, the Environment Agency and many others, we are concerned that over the next few days we could see a huge amount of rain in a short period of time which could lead to flash flooding.
“I have written to tens of thousands of Londoners who live in homes that could be affected by flash flooding.
“My message to Londoners is to please contact Floodline, go to your local authority’s website to see what you can do to reduce the chances of you being flooded but also to minimise the consequences on you,” he said, recommending people also check they are insured and what those details are as well as preparing a grab bag.
Mr Khan said: “[We are] working closely with the water companies, the fire brigade, Transport for London, local councils and other partners making sure we are as ready as we can be, but the bad news is there could well be flash floods if there’s heavy rain during a short period of time.”
The mayor also called on the Government to do more to tackle climate change as well as adapt the capital to deal with its consequences in light of the recent surge in fires and now the potential for flash floods.
“I’m really concerned about the ability not just of the fire brigade but our city to deal with what is now becoming a regular event of heatwaves, droughts and flash flooding,” Mr Khan said.
He also said he is “really worried about all forms of life in London,” including public transport systems not being as effective when temperatures exceed 35-40C and that homes and workplaces need to be adapted as well.
“I don’t want Londoners to be lulled into a false sense of security because we’ll still be living in a situation where the grass isn’t green so there’s still the possibility, even though there may be heavy rainfall, of grass fires, of open fires, of the drought carrying on in the foreseeable future with the hosepipe ban – even though it may rain later this week,” he added.
Water tends to find the lowest pathway... that is why it is of concern to the Tube and underground car parks
Prof Hannah Cloke, an expert in hydrology at the University of Reading, earlier explained why surface area floods are dangerous in cities.
“If you get a heavy rain in a city, the drainage system can cope up to a point, but if there is really heavy rain it can overwhelm the system – the rain cannot run away quick enough,” Prof Cloke said.
She also explained that if parks are “really really dry” there is no where for the water to run.
“Water tends to find the lowest pathway – that is why it is so dangerous for cities with these surface area floods. That is why it is of concern to the Tube and underground car parks and things like that.”
On why heavy rain would not alleviate these drought-hit areas, she said: “It’s a drop in the ocean really. It is not soaking into the soil which is how we really need it. We need it back into the system where it can be stored.
“We really need a long winter of rain to replenish this.”
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NEW YORK — The Grizzlies are in line to be part of the NBA's Christmas Day showcase for the first time. The reported matchups for the slate certainly do not lack fire power.
Ja Morant and the Grizzlies will face Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and the rest of the reigning NBA champion Golden State Warriors on Dec. 25 in San Francisco, according to a person with knowledge of the league’s scheduling plans. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Monday because the league is not planning to release the season's full schedule until later this week.
Given that the league has not announced the final 1,230-game season slate, it is still possible that the Christmas schedule could change — though such a move is unlikely.
The Grizzlies were one of two current NBA franchises yet to have a game on Dec. 25. The Charlotte Hornets are now the only club still waiting for its first Christmas schedule invite.
The rest of the Christmas schedule, the person said, will have Philadelphia facing the New York Knicks, Milwaukee meeting Boston, the Los Angeles Lakers playing against Dallas and Phoenix going up against two-time reigning MVP Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets.
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If the Lakers’ LeBron James — the all-time Christmas scoring leader, who enters the season 1,325 points behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the most in NBA history — appears in that Dec. 25 game against the Mavericks, it’ll be his 17th time playing on the holiday. That would break a tie with Lakers great Kobe Bryant for the most ever.
Golden State and Memphis met in the second round of last season’s playoffs, as did Milwaukee and Boston.
This will mark the fifth consecutive year that Christmas — again, barring a late change — does not feature a rematch of the NBA Finals. Golden State topped Boston for this past season’s championship; there hasn’t been a finals rematch on Dec. 25 since the Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers played in the 2017-18 season, on their way to a fourth consecutive meeting in the title series.
Noticeably absent from the Christmas schedule: Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets. Durant told the Nets in June that he wants a trade elsewhere, reiterating that request earlier this month.
Dallas will play host to a Christmas game for the second time. The other was in 2011, after the Mavericks topped the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals the previous season. James and the Heat spoiled that season opener for the Mavericks, winning 105-94.
The Lakers will be playing on Christmas for the 24th consecutive year, by far the longest stretch in the league. Golden State will make its 10th consecutive Christmas appearance, Boston its seventh in a row and Milwaukee its fifth straight on Dec. 25.
New York is playing on Christmas for the 55th time, extending its record.
Of the eight teams that made the conference semifinals this past season, seven appear on this year’s Christmas schedule. The exception is Miami, the No. 1 seed in the East last season that fell to Boston in seven games in the Eastern Conference finals.
With Memphis now getting a Dec. 25 game, the longest Christmas droughts besides Charlotte now belong to Sacramento (last Christmas game in 2003), Indiana (2004), Detroit (2005) and Orlando (2011).
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 15, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
1041 AM CDT Mon Aug 15 2022
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 AM CDT THIS
MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WEBB COUNTY...
At 1041 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 2 and 5 inches of rain
have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up to 2 inches are possible
in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor
drainage and low-lying areas.
Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Laredo, Rio Bravo, El Cenizo, United South High School, St
Augustine High School South Laredo, Laredo International Airport,
Texas A&M, Laredo Community College, Laredo Country Club, Doctors
Hospital Of Laredo and Ranchitos Las Lomas.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 15, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
1053 AM CDT Mon Aug 15 2022
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 AM CDT THIS
MORNING FOR WESTERN DUVAL, SOUTHEASTERN LA SALLE AND EASTERN WEBB
COUNTIES...
At 1053 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 4 and 8.5 inches of rain
have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up to 3 inches are possible
in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor
drainage and low-lying areas.
Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Bruni, Realitos, Fort Ewell Site and Ramirez.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Keep children away from storm drains, culverts, creeks and streams.
Water levels can rise rapidly and sweep children away.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
The National Weather Service in Corpus Christi has extended the
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Western Duval County in south central Texas...
Southeastern La Salle County in south central Texas...
Eastern Webb County in south central Texas...
* Until 1245 PM CDT.
* At 1055 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 4 and 8.5 inches of
rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up to 3 inches are
possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected
to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 15, 2022
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TORNADO WARNING
The National Weather Service in Corpus Christi has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
Northwestern Duval County in south central Texas...
* Until 1045 AM CDT.
* At 1000 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a
tornado was located near Freer, moving north at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed.
Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree
damage is likely.
* This dangerous storm will be near...
Freer around 1010 AM CDT.
This includes US Highway 59 between mile markers 770 and 776.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! Move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest
floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a
mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter
and protect yourself from flying debris.
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New Vacation-Booking Service Built in Partnership With DH Enterprise & Associates
Klarna to Serve as Official "Travel Now, Pay Later" Sponsor
NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cosmopolitan, the world's largest women's media brand, announced today the launch of CosmoTrips, a bespoke travel-booking service. The new offering delivers a unique opportunity for the brand's Gen Z and millennial audience to "travel like an editor" through instantly bookable, curated vacation experiences in top cities across the U.S.
A new business venture for Cosmopolitan, CosmoTrips—designed and built in partnership with tech-first travel industry leaders DH Enterprise & Associates (DH)—launched today with a collection of two- and three-night itineraries in four U.S. cities: New York, Austin, Charleston, and West Hollywood. Each itinerary offers best places to stay, eat, and play—plus exclusive perks and insider access—all vetted by the Cosmo editorial team and secured in collaboration with experience provider Travel Curious. Cosmo will continue to expand the destination offerings and city-specific itineraries—including New Orleans, Miami, and Las Vegas—in the coming months.
With the launch of CosmoTrips, Cosmopolitan is further solidifying its commitment to its audience of travel enthusiasts by leveraging its editorial influence and expertise to create experiences that bring the brand to life and inspire discovery. According to a recent Avail survey, 71% of both Gen Zers and millennials are planning to travel more, or the same amount, in 2022 than they did pre-pandemic, and many in those demographics are either already planning or are considering splurging on a big trip. The CosmoTrips business is designed to serve young Americans' appetite for travel while saving them time by providing one-click access to Cosmo-approved vacation itineraries.
"Our audience of Gen Zers and millennials are considered the golden generation for travel, and research shows that they prioritize experiences over things," said Nancy Berger, SVP/publishing director and chief revenue officer of Hearst Youth + Wellness Group. "CosmoTrips travel packages are specifically curated for this demographic, vetted by our editors, and include perks and surprise and delight moments, many of which are exclusive to our offering. Cosmo is such a trusted resource on so many aspects of their lives; creating a travel experience they will love, making it easy to book, and guaranteeing them a fun time was a natural brand extension for us."
Over the past year, Cosmo has invested in travel coverage, delivering more content than ever before, including travel features in every print issue and a robust digital channel anchored by The Must-Visit List. Issue 5, the Travel Issue—on newsstands nationwide on August 23—will be entirely dedicated to travel, exploring the hottest places to travel right now, the best places to stay, where to dine, what to wear, and things to check out while you're there. The issue will also include a special CosmoTrips feature spotlighting the four launch destinations.
"Our editors love to travel—and so does our audience. CosmoTrips not only takes out the stress of planning their next vacation, but travelers are guaranteed an experience that passes our editors' pickiness test, all without lifting a finger," said Jessica Giles, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan. "With the coolest destinations, chicest restaurants, and the secret spots only locals know about, these are the extremely curated trips that our audience deserves."
As Cosmopolitan further establishes its editorial position in the travel space, it has also attracted new print and digital advertising partners in the category, including Air New Zealand, Sandals, and Texas Tourism as well as CosmoTrips launch destinations Explore Charleston and Visit West Hollywood. To celebrate the launch of the new venture, Cosmo will host an invitation-only event in West Hollywood next month.
Among the sponsors supporting the launch of CosmoTrips, Klarna serves as the official "travel now, pay later" partner, making it easy for consumers to budget their travel plans. The payment platform is fully integrated into the CosmoTrips booking website, and CosmoTrips will be featured in a variety of premium placement formats across Klarna's app and website as well as promoted through Klarna's influencer network.
"We are excited to be partnering with Cosmopolitan on their new travel proposition, CosmoTrips," said David Sandstrom, chief marketing officer of Klarna. "Together, we are looking forward to giving readers the opportunity to explore new cities whilst spreading the cost of their experience."
"We are thrilled to partner with an iconic brand like Cosmopolitan. The pairing of DH's bespoke travel technology platform and Cosmo's travel-passionate audience is an unbeatable combination," said Ben Block, CEO of DH Enterprise & Associates. "We are leveraging the best of both companies and we couldn't be more excited to grow the CosmoTrips business together."
The CosmoTrips booking site is open now. For more information or to book a CosmoTrips travel experience, visit CosmoTrips.com and follow along on Instagram and Twitter @Cosmopolitan, #CosmoTrips
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French military: Last group of soldiers has left Mali
NICE, France (AP) — The French military says the last group of its soldiers has left Mali, nine years after they were deployed in the West African country to oust Islamic extremists from power. A statement from the French armed forces says the last military unit present on Malian territory crossed into neighboring Niger on Monday afternoon. With that, France’s military completed the withdrawal from Mali six months after President Emmanuel Macron announced the army pull out following tensions with the country’s ruling junta that has invited Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group to fight Islamic extremists. They have regrouped and now control large swaths of territory in Mali. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/08/15/french-military-last-group-of-soldiers-has-left-mali/ | 2022-08-15T16:48:04Z | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/08/15/french-military-last-group-of-soldiers-has-left-mali/ | false |
Leveraging the brand's German engineering and design heritage, KRESS will introduce commercial-grade OPE in the U.S. and Canada.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kress brand, with its deep-rooted heritage in German engineering and design, is coming to North America with commercial outdoor power equipment (OPE) for lawn care and landscape professionals. As a part of the well-established Positec family of leading brands, Kress Commercial is introducing advances that will, for the first time, offer commercial OPE professionals in North America the opportunity to transition away from gas-powered products, a transformation that will change the OPE industry forever.
Don Gao, CEO of Positec Group, said, "For decades, Kress has demonstrated its quality, durability and innovation in the European markets. It is very exciting to bring this storied brand to the North American professional landscaper as the Kress brand launches new commercial-grade OPE in the US and Canada."
Built upon a reputation for innovation and pushing the boundaries in engineering and manufacturing excellence, Kress is well-established throughout Europe as a top-tier, professional-grade equipment manufacturer. As early as 1966, Kress introduced to the European craftsmen clean, quiet, professional-grade tools. Today, with the brand's introduction to North America, Kress's proprietary technologies will now be available to commercial landscapers in the US and Canada and will dramatically impact the gasoline-dependent lawn care industry.
Kress will launch in North America in Q4 2022 in conjunction with the International Equip Exposition (formerly GIE). Kress is positioned to become a powerhouse in professional-grade outdoor equipment in partnership with leading equipment dealers in the United States and Canada.
North American-based dealers interested in learning more about the Kress brand launch should visit Kress.com
In 1966, Kress launched a quiet revolution. While others were focused on loud, smelly combustion engines, Kress perfected clean, quiet, tough-as-nails electric tools with zero emissions. Positec Group has acquired the Kress brand and is further positioning Kress as a powerhouse in producing professional-grade outdoor power equipment (OPE) valued by lawn care and landscape professionals. Many benefits of Kress's technologies have never before been available in OPE in North America. Kress will sell its products at select dealer locations in the United States and Canada beginning with the 2023 season. Join the quiet revolution. Visit Kress.com
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 15, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
1053 AM CDT Mon Aug 15 2022
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 AM CDT THIS
MORNING FOR WESTERN DUVAL, SOUTHEASTERN LA SALLE AND EASTERN WEBB
COUNTIES...
At 1053 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 4 and 8.5 inches of rain
have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up to 3 inches are possible
in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor
drainage and low-lying areas.
Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Bruni, Realitos, Fort Ewell Site and Ramirez.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Keep children away from storm drains, culverts, creeks and streams.
Water levels can rise rapidly and sweep children away.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
The National Weather Service in Corpus Christi has extended the
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Western Duval County in south central Texas...
Southeastern La Salle County in south central Texas...
Eastern Webb County in south central Texas...
* Until 1245 PM CDT.
* At 1055 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 4 and 8.5 inches of
rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up to 3 inches are
possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected
to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
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SWIFT 1.2 deeper automation, visibility, mobility
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RackWare, a leading provider of Hybrid Cloud Mobility solutions, announced SWIFT™ for Microsoft Azure, a comprehensive solution for migrating and protecting stateful containerized workloads running on the Microsoft Azure. SWIFT is a converged disaster recovery (DR), backup and migration solution for Kubernetes and OpenShift that spans all platforms, clouds, and versions, meaning it can move and protect any Kubernetes or OpenShift deployment from any source to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Moving and protecting stateful containerized workloads can be challenging, time consuming and costly. RackWare SWIFT v1.2 fully automates and manages the migration and protection of these workloads to reduce costs, time, and risk with flexible protection, simplified mobility, single pane of glass management, and support for a range of new capabilities.
RackWare SWIFT delivers unmatched flexibility in the handling of stateful containerized workloads, as part of any migration or DR transformation to AKS, any source storage type for containers can be transitioned to any of the AKS storage types, including Azure Disk Storage, and Azure File Share. This solution provides better security; simple, effective checkpoints; hybrid model support; simple, application-neutral migration, backup, and DR, and ability to migrate from any cloud to Azure quickly and simply.
"We are very excited to offer this solution to migrate and protect stateful containerized workloads with AKS," said Bryan Gobbett, CEO, RackWare. "Our strong Azure integration continues to deliver unmatched value to our joint Azure customers."
"The RackWare SWIFT solution integration with Microsoft storage options helps expand customer value for production scale stateful workloads on Azure," said Aung Oo, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Storage.
For more details, see the solution description at https://www.rackwareinc.com/rackware-swift-microsoft-azure.
About RackWare
RackWare makes data and applications mobile and secure. We empower our customers to run their applications and store their data in any cloud of their choice. Seamless mobility allows our customers to take advantage of cutting-edge services or reduced costs as they become available throughout the cloud universe. And if disaster strikes, whether that be of the natural or cyber-criminality type, our proprietary replication and sync technology has our customers protected. RackWare is based in Silicon Valley with offices in Salt Lake City, Philadelphia, London and Pune, India.
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Dhinakaran rules out joining hands with Palaniswami
AMMK chief says he will think about patching up with EPS, if the latter realises his mistakes
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Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam founder T.T.V. Dhinakaran on Monday ruled out reconciliation with AIADMK interim general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami.
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Notwithstanding the recent electoral setbacks, he said the AMMK will become the force that would reclaim the sanctity of [AIADMK’s] two-leaves symbol.
Speaking at the party’s general body meeting in Vanagaram in Chennai, Mr. Dhinakaran said the AMMK would show its strength across Tamil Nadu in the forthcoming elections. “Today, 2,000 people may be controlling the party [AIADMK] and going away from Amma’s [Jayalalithaa] path. Once we win the elections, the AIADMK will automatically come to us. The AIADMK belongs to every supporter of Puratchi Thalaivar (M G Ramachandran) and Puratchi Thalaivi,” he said.
Asked whether he would have any truck with Mr. Palaniswami or deposed AIADMK leader O Panneerselvam, who was the first to rebel against his aunt V.K. Sasikala and him, Mr. Dhinakaran was soft on the latter.
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“OPS [Panneerselvam] has realised his mistakes. But EPS [Palaniswami] continues to betray the party again and again. He betrayed Chinnamma [Sasikala] after he became the CM. When 18 MLAs said he should not continue as CM, EPS betrayed them. Then, when OPS extended an olive branch for him to continue as CM, EPS betrayed him too. Today, EPS betrayed Amma by becoming the general secretary,” he said.
Mr. Dhinakaran said that he would think about joining hands with Mr Palaniswami only if he realised his mistakes. “But, I don’t think he will realise his mistakes and stop his betrayals. In future, they (EPS and his supporters) will face punishment for what they did,” he said.
AMMK’s strength
He claimed that the AIADMK won in the last Assembly elections only in specific regions like a ‘caste party’. “While AMMK didn’t win, it prevented AIADMK from winning (in many areas). I told our well-wishers [alluding to BJP leaders] from New Delhi…that EPS should not continue as CM candidate as it would be difficult to prevent DMK from coming back to power. I said we have very good candidates in 40-50 constituencies than AIADMK. I also said I didn’t want to contest in Assembly elections,” he said.
Mr. Dhinakaran criticised the ruling DMK for not keeping its election promises and charged that they were only focussed on pursuing their family business.
“We have to form an alliance with either the BJP or the Congress. There is a possibility that the State Government could be dismissed going by the deterioration in law and order in the State. State Assembly elections could be held along with Lok Sabha elections,” he said.
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Jailed Russian politician Navalny says he's in punishment cell
Aug 15 (Reuters) - Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said on Monday that prison authorities had thrown him into a punishment cell for a minor rules infraction after he tried to encourage fellow inmates to form a trade union.
Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most vocal critic inside Russia, is serving an 11-1/2 year sentence after being found guilty of parole violations and fraud and contempt of court charges. He says all the charges were fabricated as a pretext to jail him in order to thwart his political ambitions.
The 46-year-old, who returned to Russia in 2021 from Germany where he had been treated for what Western laboratory tests showed was an attempt to poison him in Siberia with a Soviet-era nerve agent, was moved in June to a high-security penal colony farther from Moscow. Russia denies trying to kill him.
On Monday, he said on Twitter in a post organised via his lawyers and supporters that he had been put in a punishment cell, initially for three days, for regularly failing to button the top button of his prison uniform which he said was several sizes too small for him.
Navalny is reported to be at the IK-6 penal colony at Melekhovo near Vladimir, about 250 km (155 miles) east of Moscow.
There was no immediate comment from the prison authorities.
"The solitary confinement cell is a 2.5 x 3 metre concrete kennel. Most of the time it's unbearable in there because it's cold and damp. There´s water on the floor. I got the beach version - it's very hot and there's almost no air," Navalny wrote.
"The window is tiny, but the walls are too thick for any air flow - even the cobwebs don't move. There's no ventilation. At night you lie there and feel like a fish on the shore. At 5 a.m. they take away your mattress and pillow ... and raise your bunk. At 9 p.m. the bunk is lowered again and the mattress is returned. There's an iron table, an iron bench, a sink, a hole in the floor and two cameras on the ceiling."
Navalny said he was due a visit in September from his relatives, but that no such visits were allowed for people in solitary confinement.
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Denise Dowse, director and 'Beverly Hills, 90210' actress, dies at 64
Updated: 10:35 AM EDT Aug 15, 2022
Actress and director Denise Dowse, whose prolific career featured roles in "Beverly Hills, 90210," "Insecure" and "Ray," has died, her family confirmed to CNN Sunday. She was 64."With a heavy heart I have to announce her passing away," the actress' sister Tracey Dowse said in a statement.She also announced her sister's death on the actress' Instagram account, remembering her as an advocate for African American theater who was also dedicated to sharing the profession with children. Dowse acted and directed for the Negro Ensemble Company and directed plays for the Amazing Grace Conservatory, an inner-city youth theatrical training program.Dowse was well known for her role as Mrs. Yvonne Teasley in the hit series "Beverly Hills, 90210" and recently appeared in the HBO comedy series "Insecure" as Molly Carter's (Yvonne Orji) therapist. In addition to acting roles in dozens of movies and TV series, Dowse also directed film, including "Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story," which premiered in April at the Pan African Film Festival. "I am so proud to have been her sister," Tracey Dowse told CNN. "She lit up the stage and screen. She knew how to dance in life and see the joy. Something we can all learn from."Dowse's manager, Sandra Siegal from Siegal Company, remembered her client and friend in a statement Sunday."I am heartbroken at the loss of our brilliantly talented, beautiful, elegant, eloquent and loving Denise, who've I've had the joy and blessing of managing and collaborating on her career for over 25 years, as well as a personal friendship. I am at a loss, but have gained so much from knowing her. Denise's legacy and memory will live on forever for she has truly touched so many," Siegal said.Throughout her decades-long career, Dowse appeared in several TV series, including "Charmed," "Girlfriends," "The West Wing" and "Law and Order." She also held roles in movies including "Pleasantville" and "Requiem for a Dream," according to her IMDB profile.
Actress and director Denise Dowse, whose prolific career featured roles in "Beverly Hills, 90210," "Insecure" and "Ray," has died, her family confirmed to CNN Sunday. She was 64.
"With a heavy heart I have to announce her passing away," the actress' sister Tracey Dowse said in a statement.
She also announced her sister's death on the actress' Instagram account, remembering her as an advocate for African American theater who was also dedicated to sharing the profession with children. Dowse acted and directed for the Negro Ensemble Company and directed plays for the Amazing Grace Conservatory, an inner-city youth theatrical training program.
Dowse was well known for her role as Mrs. Yvonne Teasley in the hit series "Beverly Hills, 90210" and recently appeared in the HBO comedy series "Insecure" as Molly Carter's (Yvonne Orji) therapist. In addition to acting roles in dozens of movies and TV series, Dowse also directed film, including "Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story," which premiered in April at the Pan African Film Festival.
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Denise Dowse as Lorraine Simms in "Grey’s Anatomy," alongside Kevin McKidd as Dr. Owen Hunt, Jesse Williams as Dr. Jackson Avery and Greg Germann as Dr. Thomas Koracick.
"I am so proud to have been her sister," Tracey Dowse told CNN. "She lit up the stage and screen. She knew how to dance in life and see the joy. Something we can all learn from."
Dowse's manager, Sandra Siegal from Siegal Company, remembered her client and friend in a statement Sunday.
"I am heartbroken at the loss of our brilliantly talented, beautiful, elegant, eloquent and loving Denise, who've I've had the joy and blessing of managing and collaborating on her career for over 25 years, as well as a personal friendship. I am at a loss, but have gained so much from knowing her. Denise's legacy and memory will live on forever for she has truly touched so many," Siegal said.
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Actress and Director Denise Dowse attends the Wendy Raquel Robinson And Amazing Grace Conservatory’s "There’s No Place Like Home" 20th AnniverSoiree at HNYPT on Nov. 5, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Creatd, Inc. (Nasdaq CM: CRTD) ("Creatd" or the "Company"), today announced that, following last week's successful wide release of the Vocal mobile app for iOS, the Company will roll out the app to Android users in mid-September, ahead of previous expectations.
Commented Creatd's founder and COO Justin Maury, "The driving force behind releasing the new Vocal app is part of a broader effort to widen the distribution of our creators' stories and improve the experience for content consumers. By making the Vocal app available for Android users next month, we will be able to further widen our delivery of this enhanced Vocal experience to a significantly larger international audience."
The long-awaited first version of the Vocal app was designed to exponentially enhance the reach of Vocal creators, with a range of exclusive features that work to improve reader experience by enabling easy discovery of curated stories, and opening up new monetization opportunities for creators. The introduction of the app presents partnering brands with yet another outlet to Vocal's rapidly-growing audience by providing them with a scalable and unique platform to introduce products and services that are aligned with Creatd's vision. As part of the app's product roadmap, users will be able to access future premium resources and features, such as Vocal Coins—a new payment system within Vocal, which is part of the Company's broader token economics initiative.
Currently, users can download the Vocal app for iOS on the Apple App Store, here.
About Creatd
Creatd, Inc. (Nasdaq CM: CRTD) is a company with a mission to provide economic opportunities to creators and brands by multiplying the impact of platforms, people, and technology. The Company has four main business segments, or 'pillars': Creatd Labs, Creatd Partners, Creatd Ventures, and Creatd Studios. Each pillar is characterized by a distinct revenue model, while operating on a shared-services structure and proprietary data collected from our multiple technology platforms. Creatd's pillars work together to create a flywheel effect, supporting our core vision of creating a viable and safe ecosystem for all stakeholders in the creator economy.
Creatd: https://creatd.com;
Creatd IR: https://investors.creatd.com;
Vocal Platform: https://vocal.media;
Investor Relations Contact: ir@creatd.com
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BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TransMedia Group to promote former convict William Steel now starring in new breakout reality TV series "Inmate to Roommate" to debut 10 PM EST Thursday, August 18 on A&E Network.
"We're so pleased to promote a guy just called "Bill' on the new TV series all about his amazing transition from bad to good as today he's an author of two books and now knocking on the door of celebrityhood that's about to swing open," said TransMedia Group CEO Tom Madden
Steel is a former prolific jewel and art thief who spent 18 years in prison for non-violent crimes, and today is a rising true crime author appearing on A&E network's groundbreaking docuseries.
TransMedia said it plans to include in publicity how grateful Steel is to Donald Trump's attorney Peter Ticktin and Francis Mota of The Ticktin Law Group for representing him and helping him to turn his life around.
Publicity program to also underscore how Steel today is a crime victim advocate who, along with his fiancée Dr. Mary Bass, advocates for those wrongfully convicted.
Madden said the PR campaign will focus on the true crime books Steel has written including the blockbuster insiders exposé of his unfortunate relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell titled "Ghislaine: Sensational and Impure" and how Steel has become a prolific true crime podcaster at OfficialWilliamSteel on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram across all social media.
TransMedia to alert media that Steel is available for interviews and speaking engagements about his reformed life and how he believes this A&E series will "shed light on the challenges newly released prisoners have finding an appropriate place to live and work," also how privileged and humbled he is to an example of going straight.
The documentary series, "Inmate to Roommate," follows recently released inmates as they re-enter society and move in with everyday people who are welcoming them into their homes. This practice has been the subject of re-entry programs aimed at stopping recidivism. America has one of the world's highest recidivism rates with approximately 76% of released prisoners being re-arrested after 5 years. One of the most significant factors in reducing recidivism rates is access to housing.
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Wayde Lekay has stopped training with Kaizer Chiefs. Image: @SunSportSA / Twitter
Former Kaizer Chiefs and Royal AM trialist Wayde Lekay has found a new home in the PSL after weeks of trying to secure a move.
Wayde Lekay has stopped training with Kaizer Chiefs. Image: @SunSportSA / Twitter
Former Kaizer Chiefs and Royal AM trialist Wayde Lekay has found a new home in the PSL after weeks of trying to secure a move.
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According to FarPost, Lekay has put pen to paper with Cape Town City, and he is expected to be unveiled by the Citizens in the near future.
As a result, Cape Town City beat Maritzburg United to Lekay’s signature after the striker had spent some time training with them in an effort to earn a deal.
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“He’s just joined us and should be unveiled soon,” an official known to the publication said.
The 25-year-old didn’t only start at Maritzburg United after being offloaded by TS Galaxy at the end of last season.
Lekay tried his luck with Chiefs for over a week but they decided against signing him before he resurfaced at Royal AM who also rejected him.
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Pelosi says America stands with Taiwan...gets it surrounded and violated, like SUPER violated 🥴
Biden: Military say a Pelosi Taiwan trip 'not a good idea' National Security Council spokesman John Kirby "We have said that we do not support Taiwan independence", Pelosi sneaks in after being too scared to include Taiwan in itinerary with real countries, propagandists -> "this was a great idea and well planned, our own military definitely didn't say otherwise and we have no idea why Taiwan is treated so differently from real countries 🙃"
Pelosi only cares about her legacy, but photo op is meaningless. China will extract a steep price in security and Pelosi's self aggrandizing is going to provide the excuse. Diaoyu Islands or SCS Islands, playing games has only resulted in a defacto situation heavily tilted for China and Taiwan island won't be different. Imagine the strait getting swarmed on a permanent basis because an old lady wanted selfies and trying to pass it off as a better than before for Taiwan. Taiwan left out of US gov press release Even if she goes, USA literally acting like a voyeur in the bushes. Apparently 'supporting Taiwan' is done under cover of darkness like a coward. Stand for it or don't even bother. Shameful. 🤡
So how's that 'revolution of our time' going? - people chuckling at the thought of it for years now 🤡
Don't hype over fantasy, China's been waiting almost 10 years for US to follow through on rhetoric over SCS construction. US lost in Taiwan conflict war games. China hit moving ship in SCS with ballistic missiles in 2020 from Qinghai and Zhejiang.
the world is ignoring the western boy who cried wolf for 5 years and counting. Nobody who matters believes any of this. Last time a fake push unfortunately coincided with discovering mass graves at "schools" for Native Americans. Latest push has the sad timing with a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school. Ironic how the West's own atrocious human rights record, especially with children, keeps stealing the spotlight from their own disinformation.
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During the show's nine seasons, he captivated viewers with stories from the hundreds of murder cases he solved throughout his 23-year-long career. But now, three cases that kept him up at night will finally be put to rest as he returns to the screen for three theatrical-length "Homicide Hunter" specials.
Lt. Kenda joined us to share one of the cases that plagued him for years with the first two-hour special focused on the investigation of a 20-year-old female soldier whose killer was a shadow in the night for decades.
The show premiers this Wednesday, August 17. For more information, visit the show's website here. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/morning-blend/homicide-hunter-never-give-up-premiers-wednesday | 2022-08-15T17:06:59Z | https://www.abcactionnews.com/morning-blend/homicide-hunter-never-give-up-premiers-wednesday | true |
Jury hears from key informant in Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot
(AP) - A crucial informant is on the witness stand in the trial of two men charged with scheming to kidnap the Michigan governor in 2020.
In a recording, jurors heard Adam Fox declare, “That’s it!” when he drove past Gretchen Whitmer’s vacation home in 2020.
Dan Chappel was driving the pickup truck and secretly recording conversations.
Fox and Barry Croft Jr. are on trial for the second time on conspiracy charges.
A jury in federal court in western Michigan couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict last April but acquitted two other men.
Fox, Croft and four other men were arrested in October 2020, just weeks before the presidential election.
The government said they were making plans to get money for an explosive.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Verdicts in the Dutch trial in absentia of three Russians and a Ukrainian charged with involvement in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 are expected to be delivered on Nov. 17, the court announced Monday.
The court said the date is “provisional” and that reading the verdict will likely take half a day.
The marathon trial opened on March 9, 2020, at a top-security courtroom near Amsterdam’s Schiphol, the airport the doomed Kuala Lumpur-bound flight set off from on July 17, 2014. It was shot down over war-torn eastern Ukraine hours later, killing all 298 passengers and crew.
An international team of investigators and prosecutors named four suspects in the downing: Russians Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy and Oleg Pulatov as well as Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko. They are charged with murdering all those who died.
None of the suspects has been arrested or sent to the Netherlands, so their trial went ahead in their absence. Only Pulatov is represented by a team of defense lawyers, who say he insists he is innocent.
Prosecutors in December urged the judges to sentence all four men to life imprisonment.
The trial is being held in the Netherlands because about two-thirds of those killed were Dutch.
Prosecutors say the Buk missile system that destroyed the Boeing 777 was transported into Ukraine from the Russian 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade’s base in Kursk, and after a missile was fired the launching system was then returned to Russia. Russia has denied involvement in the downing of the plane.
“The crew of the Telar pressed the button, but according to the indictment it was Girkin, Dubinskiy, Pulatov and Kharchenko who directed the employment of this weapon in order to serve their own interests,” prosecutor Ward Ferdinandusse told judges as the trial opened. | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/dutch-court-expects-november-verdicts-in-mh17-downing-trial/ | 2022-08-15T17:10:19Z | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/dutch-court-expects-november-verdicts-in-mh17-downing-trial/ | true |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. imposed sanctions Monday on three high-ranking Liberian government officials for engaging in alleged public corruption.
President George Weah’s chief of staff, the nation’s chief prosecutor and the current managing director of the national port authority have been designated by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control for sanctions.
Liberia was battered by back-to-back civil wars that left 200,000 people dead and displaced half of the country’s population. Public corruption has been a persistent problem, which has prevented economic development in an otherwise resourceful country of more than 5 million people.
A Treasury Department statement reads that the U.S. is “committed to working with the people and Government of Liberia to elevate countering corruption as a priority, including by bolstering public sector anti-corruption capacity.”
Sanctioned individuals are Nathaniel McGill, chief of staff to President Weah; Sayma Syrenius Cephus, Liberia’s chief prosecutor; and Bill Twehway, the current managing director of the National Port Authority.
The sanctions are authorized under an executive order signed during Donald Trump’s presidency, which implements the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and targets perpetrators of human rights abuse and corruption around the world.
“Through their corruption these officials have undermined democracy in Liberia for their own personal benefit,” said Brian E. Nelson, Treasury’s Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence in a statement.
“Treasury’s designations today demonstrate that the United States remains committed to holding corrupt actors accountable and to the continued support of the Liberian people,” he said.
At the State Department, spokesman Ned Price said, “All three of these individuals have contributed to Liberia’s worsening corruption. These designations reflect our commitment to implementing the United States Strategy on Countering Corruption and to partnering with the Liberian government and people to help the country chart a better course forward.”
The sanctions come after the U.S. government sanctioned Liberia’s ex-warlord and current senator Prince Yormie Johnson for alleged corruption in December also under the Global Magnitsky Act. | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/senior-liberian-officials-hit-with-u-s-financial-sanctions/ | 2022-08-15T17:10:48Z | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/senior-liberian-officials-hit-with-u-s-financial-sanctions/ | false |
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BEIRUT (AP) — The first grain ship to leave Ukraine under a wartime deal has had its cargo resold several times and there is now no information about its location and cargo destination, the Ukrainian embassy in Beirut said Monday.
The Sierra Leone-flagged ship Razoni, which left Odesa on Aug. 1, and moved through the Black Sea carrying Ukrainian corn, later passed inspection in Turkey. It was initially heading for Lebanon with 26,000 metric tons of corn for chicken feed. The corn’s buyer in Lebanon later refused to accept the cargo, since it was delivered much later than agreed.
The Razoni hasn’t had its tracker on for the last three days and it appeared off the east coast of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus at last transmission.
It was not clear if the Razoni had its tracker off because it was heading to a port in Syria, a strong ally of Russia that Ukraine had accused of importing grain stolen from Ukraine.
Syria is also under Western sanctions because of the 11-year conflict there that has killed hundreds of thousands. Syrian port officials could not be immediately reached for comment.
“Our task has been to reopen seaports for grain cargo and it has been done,” Ukraine’s embassy in Beirut said in a statement in English, adding that to date, 16 vessels have left Ukraine carrying more than 450,000 tons of agricultural products since a breakthrough agreement was brokered by Turkey and the United Nations with Russia and Ukraine.
The embassy said the Razoni was the first vessel that left Ukraine under the agreement and later successfully passed inspection in Istanbul before moving toward its destination.
“We don’t have any information about (the) position of the vessel and cargo destination,” it said. “We have also information that cargo has been resold a few times after that.”
The embassy said: “We are not responsible for (the) vessel and cargo, especially when it left Ukraine, moreover after vessel’s departure from foreign port.”
The Black Sea region is dubbed the world’s breadbasket, with Ukraine and Russia key global suppliers of wheat, corn, barley and sunflower oil that millions of impoverished people in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia rely on for survival.
An estimated 20 million tons of grain — most of it said to be destined for livestock — has been stuck in Ukraine since the start of the 6-month-old war. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Location-of-1st-ship-to-leave-Ukraine-carrying-17374265.php | 2022-08-15T17:12:40Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Location-of-1st-ship-to-leave-Ukraine-carrying-17374265.php | false |
Govt. extending all possible aid to flood-hit Konaseema: Housing Minister
District still to recover fully from the impact, says Jogi Ramesh
Housing Minister and District In-Charge Jogi Ramesh on Monday said that Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Konaseema district was still to recover fully from the Godavari floods in July.
Mr. Ramesh hoisted the national flag here during the 76 th Independence Day celebrations.
“About 36,435 families have been affected. All the islands of the Godavari river were badly hit by the July flood. The State government is extending every support to restore normal life in the region,” said Mr. Ramesh. Within two weeks of the flash flood, the district was facing another flood threat.
“The Chief Minister himself has inspected the flood fury in the Konaseema region and promised timely support to compensate the loss in every way. A sum of ₹7 crore is being spent to restore drinking water and roads,” said Mr. Ramesh.
District Collector Himanshu Shukla and other officials were present.
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The voting has come to a close for the Clifton Mount Rushmore - and the results are in.
After one week the voting came to a close on Monday afternoon, and the results of the poll can be found here. Click this link and see the Clifton Mount Rushmore representatives as selected by the readers and also NJ.com.
For the Mount Rushmore series, we dove into the archives to find the best coaches and athletes in Clifton’s history, and let you the reader decide which four were the best of the best.
This was the sixth segment of six in our popular summer series.
A big thank you to all who presented nominations and to those who took the time to vote. Also, congratulations to every nominee on this exclusive list of athletes and coaches.
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UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — Alyssa Thomas scored 16 points and her key bucket and rebound helped Connecticut hold off Minnesota 90-83 on Sunday in the final WNBA game for Lynx and league legend Sylvia Fowles.
Fowles, the 2017 league MVP and four-time defensive player of the year, had her league-best 192 career double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds.
She is the only player to lead two franchises (Minnesota and Chicago) in career rebounding and she is the only WNBA player to reach 4,000 career rebounds. Fowles checked out of the game for the last time to a long standing ovation, and hugged her coaches and teammates.
The Sun led 78-62 with 7:08 remaining before Minnesota went on a 14-2 run during which Fowles and Aerial Powers scored five points each. Leading jus 80-76, Thomas hit a jumper in the lane for Connecticut and her rebound on the other end helped set up Courtney Williams’s 15-footer for an eight-point lead.
Natisha Hiedeman and Brionna Jones scored 15 points each for Connecticut. Jonquel Jones scored 12 points and Williams had 10. Thomas added seven rebounds and five assists.
Lindsay Allen, who entered with a scoring average of 4.3 points pre game, made 6 of 7 3-pointers and led the Lynx with 26 points. She added six assists. Powers had 22 points and eight rebounds.
A 9-0 run late in the first quarter helped the Sun take a 28-14 lead into the second period and they would go on to lead 71-54 heading to the fourth.
Connecticut was already assured of the No. 3 playoff spot and will open at home against No. 6 Dallas on Thursday. Minnesota missed the playoffs.
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This story has been corrected to show that Fowles ended her career with 4,000 rebounds, not 6,000.
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In November 2021, the Association announced a groundbreaking decision to award college scholarships to high school juniors instead of seniors to earlier reach students on their educational journeys
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Inc., a nonprofit educational organization honoring the achievements of remarkable individuals and encouraging youth to pursue their dreams through higher education, today announced the inaugural class of 105 high school juniors who are the recipients of its esteemed 2023 Horatio Alger National Scholarship. Since the establishment of its scholarship programs in 1984, the Association has awarded its National Scholarship of $25,000 to high school seniors.
In 2021, the Association announced a restructuring of its scholarship programs to award students one year earlier in support of early intervention by providing resources throughout the college selection and application process. The Scholars will have access to a multitude of services throughout their senior year and during their college tenure, including:
- Financial aid counseling
- College selection advising
- Online college success seminars discussing financial literacy and budgeting, time management, health and wellness and other issues affecting college students
- 24/7 mental health support available via phone and online
- Emergency funding to assist students experiencing food insecurity, homelessness and medical emergencies
"As college enrollment continues to decline, we are more committed than ever to determining the factors preventing students from pursuing their educational dreams," said James F. Dicke II, chairman of the Horatio Alger Association and 2015 Horatio Alger Award recipient. "We understand cost plays a critical role in a student's decision to pursue a college degree, and no two students experience the same life circumstances. By reaching them earlier and providing personalized resources extending beyond financial support, our goal is to provide students with the information and counsel needed to make the best decision for them – one that will set them up for long-term success while minimizing the burden of student loan debt."
The Horatio Alger Association was founded in 1947 to dispel the mounting belief among young people that the American Dream was no longer attainable. In the 38 years since its scholarship programs were established, the Association has become the largest privately funded, need-based scholarship provider in the United States and Canada, awarding a total of $253 million in scholarships to more than 35,000 students.
"For nearly four decades, we have witnessed each class of outstanding Scholars pursue their own unique educational goals and career aspirations," said Terrence J. Giroux, executive director of the Association. "Much of what they've achieved is made possible through the free enterprise system and the continued strength of the American Dream – defined as freedom, mutual respect and equality of opportunity. This is the backbone of our mission, and we look forward to witnessing the tremendous impact our scholarships will have on these students as they complete their high school education."
"I've long dreamed of going to college and becoming the prosperous person I've aspired to be but was always discouraged by my family's financial status. After receiving the Horatio Alger Scholarship, my family and I gained back hope – especially because it offers both financial support and college advising, " said Just Love Alabi, a 2023 National Scholar from Silver Spring, Md. "I am very grateful to be one of many who can have their hope restored again because of the Association's dedication to help students who have faced great challenges pursue their dreams through higher education."
The 2023 Horatio Alger National Scholars come from households with an average income of $23,995 per year while maintaining an average GPA of 3.95 Each National Scholarship recipient is awarded $25,000 to apply toward educational costs of the college or university of their choice. For a full list of 2023 Horatio Alger National Scholars, click here.
For more information about Horatio Alger Association, please visit www.horatioalger.org. To engage on social media, follow the organization on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using #HoratioAlgerScholar.
About Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans:
Founded in 1947, the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Inc. is dedicated to the simple but powerful belief that hard work, honesty and determination can conquer all obstacles. The Association honors the achievements of outstanding leaders who have accomplished remarkable successes in spite of adversity by bestowing upon them the Horatio Alger Award and inducting them as lifetime Members. Horatio Alger Members support promising young people with the resources and confidence needed to overcome adversity in pursuit of their dreams through higher education. Through the generosity of its Members and friends, in 2022, the Association is expected to award more than $17 million in undergraduate and graduate need-based scholarships to over 1,700 students across the United States and Canada, and provide college support and mentoring services to its Scholars. Since 1984, the Association has awarded more than $253 million in undergraduate, graduate, military veteran and career and technical education scholarships to more than 35,000 deserving students. For more information, please visit www.horatioalger.org.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 15, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
1108 AM CDT Mon Aug 15 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of west central Duval
County through 1145 AM CDT...
At 1108 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles west of Realitos, or 11 miles north of Hebbronville, moving
north at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Tropical funnel clouds possible. Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of west central Duval
County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 2765 9880 2767 9880 2771 9864 2747 9864
2745 9870
TIME...MOT...LOC 1608Z 163DEG 20KT 2748 9868
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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Jury hears from key informant in Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot
(AP) - A crucial informant is on the witness stand in the trial of two men charged with scheming to kidnap the Michigan governor in 2020.
In a recording, jurors heard Adam Fox declare, “That’s it!” when he drove past Gretchen Whitmer’s vacation home in 2020.
Dan Chappel was driving the pickup truck and secretly recording conversations.
Fox and Barry Croft Jr. are on trial for the second time on conspiracy charges.
A jury in federal court in western Michigan couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict last April but acquitted two other men.
Fox, Croft and four other men were arrested in October 2020, just weeks before the presidential election.
The government said they were making plans to get money for an explosive.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 / PRNewswire/ J.F. Lehman & Company ("JFLCO"), a leading middle-market private equity firm focused exclusively on the aerospace, defense, maritime, government and environmental industries, announced today that investment affiliates have sold Lone Star Disposal ("Lone Star" or the "Company") to Waste Connections, Inc. ("Waste Connections"). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Lone Star is a leading vertically-integrated provider of construction and demolition ("C&D") and municipal solid waste ("MSW") disposal and related environmental services in Houston, TX. The Company's comprehensive service platform utilizes an asset base consisting of a C&D landfill, an MSW transfer station, a C&D recycling facility, and a collection fleet. The Company's highly diversified customer base includes regional and nationwide C&D and MSW haulers and C&D contractors serving the greater Houston metropolitan area.
Since acquiring Lone Star in 2019, JFLCO successfully worked with management to optimize the Company's hauling and disposal operations and enhance the business development function, driving substantial revenue and earnings growth.
"We are proud of the growth we have achieved over the past three years," said Brett Sarver, President of Lone Star. "JFLCO has been instrumental in identifying and supporting critical value creation efforts across our business. We are grateful for JFLCO's support and look forward to continuing this momentum within the Waste Connections family."
Glenn Shor, Chairman of Lone Star and Partner at JFLCO, added, "Our successful partnership with management cemented Lone Star as a clear leader in the Houston market. The sale of Lone Star represents an excellent outcome for our investors, whose support has been essential to our organization's continuing success."
"Today's milestone is a testament to the quality of the business and the strength of the entire Lone Star team," added Dave Thomas, a member of Lone Star's Board of Directors and Managing Director at JFLCO. "We are confident it will prove to be a valuable addition to the Waste Connections platform."
R.W. Baird and Houlihan Lokey served as financial advisors to JFLCO and Shearman & Sterling served as lead legal counsel.
About J.F. Lehman & Company, Inc.
Founded in 1992, J.F. Lehman & Company focuses exclusively on investing in the aerospace, defense, maritime, government and environmental industries. The firm has offices in New York and Washington, D.C.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- King & Spalding announced today that partner Jamie Dycus has joined the firm's Trial and Global Disputes practice group in the New York office. Dycus represents financial institutions and other commercial clients in a variety of complex litigation, regulatory and enforcement matters.
"Jamie is a smart, thoughtful lawyer and strategic thinker whose extensive experience in the financial services industry aligns perfectly with our clients' needs and our strategy to build a top-tier financial services litigation practice in New York," said Andy Bayman, head of King & Spalding's Trial and Global Disputes practice group. "He adds significant depth to our bench of lawyers serving financial institutions and also expands our capabilities in CFPB and other consumer-oriented financial services litigation and regulatory work."
Dycus has handled numerous large class actions and other disputes for banks, broker-dealers, trading firms and other clients subject to claims under banking, antitrust, securities, and consumer protection laws. In his regulatory practice, he represents financial institutions facing supervisory, investigative, and enforcement action by the CFPB and other federal regulators.
Dycus earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He also holds master's degrees from University of Mississippi in secondary education and University of Iowa in creative writing. After law school, he clerked for The Honorable Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and The Honorable Reena Raggi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Dycus joins King & Spalding from WilmerHale. He is the latest in a line of financial services-focused litigation partners to join King & Spalding's New York office, including Matt Biben earlier this month, David Lesser in 2021, and Damien Marshall, Leigh Nathanson and Laura Harris in 2020.
"King & Spalding offers me an amazing opportunity to grow my practice while collaborating with some of the most talented financial services litigators and regulatory lawyers in the business," said Dycus. "The firm has a strong vision and is well on its way to becoming a premier practice in this area. I am excited to contribute to that growth."
Celebrating more than 130 years of service, King & Spalding is an international law firm that represents a broad array of clients, including half of the Fortune Global 100, with 1,200 lawyers in 23 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm has handled matters in over 160 countries on six continents and is consistently recognized for the results it obtains, uncompromising commitment to quality, and dedication to understanding the business and culture of its clients. More information is available at www.kslaw.com.
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The RIA technology and custodial services provider ranked 13th among midsized companies in the Sunshine State.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. and TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TradePMR, a technology and custodial services provider for Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs), has been named as one of Florida's Best Companies to Work For. This is the first time the growing company has been named to the list featured in the August 2022 issue of Florida Trend magazine. TradePMR ranked 13th among mid-sized companies.
"At TradePMR, we keep it fairly simple. We want all of our team members to feel valued, and respected and to have pride in their purpose. From the day I hired my first employee, I wanted each employee to have a place to grow," said Robb Baldwin, Founder, and CEO of TradePMR. "I appreciate all of the team members that voiced their opinions and work to make TradePMR what it is today."
Most recently the company implemented an Education Assistance Program which
provides tuition reimbursement, as well as supports other certification and professional growth programs. In 2021, the firm formalized its employee-led philanthropy program, providing each employee with a dollar-for-dollar match-back program during the height of the pandemic. The monetary program was added to an existing Philanthropy Paid Time Off program that began in 2018.
"I am incredibly proud of our employee-led philanthropy programs at TradePMR," continued Baldwin. "We are clearly a service-led organization – both to our clients and our communities."
In 2020, TradePMR expanded its corporate footprint to the Greater Tampa Bay area to continue to attract and retain top talent in the technology and financial services industries. Since the expansion, the company has grown nearly 30 percent in employee size.
To participate, companies or government entities were required to have at least 15 workers in Florida and to be in operation for at least one year. Companies that chose to participate underwent an evaluation of their workplace policies, practices, philosophy, systems, and demographics. The process also included a survey to measure employee satisfaction. The combined scores determined the top companies and the final ranking.
The Best Companies To Work For In Florida program is managed by Florida Trend and Workforce Research Group and is endorsed by the HR Florida State Council. Workforce Research Group managed the registration, survey and analysis and determined the final rankings. For a list of the 100 Best Companies To Work For In Florida, go to FloridaTrend.com/BestCompanies.
For more information about beginning your career at TradePMR visit TradePMR.com/careers. Resumes are accepted at hr@tradepmr.com.
For more than two decades, TradePMR has worked with growth-minded independent registered investment advisors (RIAs), providing innovative technology tools and support designed to transform their businesses. The privately-held brokerage and custodian services provider (Member FINRA/SIPC), based in Gainesville, Fla., works to streamline fee-only investment advisors' operations through comprehensive custodial, operational, and trading support. For more information, visit www.TradePMR.com.
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Urban combat and beyond: Ukrainian recruits get UK training
A British Army Base, England – A few weeks ago, Serhiy was a business analyst at an IT company. Zakhar was a civil engineer. Now they are soldiers, training to liberate Ukraine from Russia’s invasion – but doing it more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away in Britain.
They are among several hundred Ukrainian recruits pounding through an intense form of infantry training at an army base in southeast England. One batch of the 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers that the British military has pledged to train within 120 days, they are spending several weeks learning skills including marksmanship, battlefield first aid and –- crucially for their country’s future – urban warfare.
More:Events in the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Monday, August 15, 2022
As the Ukrainians practice house-clearing amid the rattle of gunfire and pall from smoke grenades on a mock-townscape where British soldiers once trained for operations in Northern Ireland, they think about driving Russian troops from the streets of their own cities..
“The most important part is urban training, because it’s the most dangerous combat, in cities,” said Serhiy, who like the other Ukrainians did not want his full named used because of security concerns. “The British instructors have a lot of experience, from Iraq, Afghanistan. We can adapt all this knowledge to the Ukrainian situation and use it to liberate our country from Russian invasion.”
British trainers are putting the Ukrainian troops through a condensed version of the British Army’s infantry training, covering weapons handling, first aid, patrol tactics and the law of conflict. The aim is to turn raw recruits into battle-ready soldiers in a matter of weeks. The first batch arrived last month and have already been sent back to replenish depleted Ukrainian units.
“We are running a basic infantry course, which takes Ukrainian recruits and teaches them to shoot well, to move and communicate well within any tactical environment, and to medicate well,” said Maj. Craig Hutton, a Scots Guards officer helping to oversee the training.
Hutton says many of the Ukrainian troops have little military experience but “they are so motivated. They have a fantastic will to learn, and they just want to practice, practice and practice more.”
More than 1,000 U.K. personnel are involved in the training mission, taking place at four bases around the U.K. Other countries are also sending trainers, including Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the Nordic nations.
Britain is sending the Ukrainians home with new uniforms, body armor, helmets and other gear, part of 2.3 billion pounds’ ($2.8 billion) worth of U.K. military aid to the country that also includes anti-tank missiles and sophisticated rocket-launch systems.
Zakhar, the former engineer, said it was hard to be away from Ukraine as fighting rages in the eastern Donbas region and in the south.
“I left my parents. I left my brothers and sisters, my relatives, to gain knowledge and experience that will help me … free our territory from occupiers and invaders,” he said through an interpreter.
Serhiy, the onetime IT worker, has been in uniform for less than a month and is equally determined.
“I know that Ukrainian soldiers are dying to protect our homes right now. So it’s hard to know that I am not with them,” he said. “But the Ukrainian army needs only professional soldiers, so I am ready to train as hard as possible to be ready for the battle ahead.”
Brigadier Justin Stenhouse, who is in charge of the training as commander of the 11th Security Assistance Brigade, said seeing the motivation of the Ukrainians is “humbling.”
But he acknowledged that preparing for the chaos of urban combat is “almost impossible to do in training.” The goal of the mission, he said, is to “train them so they can adapt to survive in those early weeks of combat.”
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XGIMI's HORIZON series and Halo+ projectors are now available through specialty retailer B&H
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- XGIMI Limited, the leading global projection equipment manufacturer today announced the availability of their highly lauded Halo+ and HORIZON series of 4K & FHD projectors on B&H. XGIMI has enjoyed meteoric overseas market growth by over 40% year-over-year from 2021 to 2022, due to its user-centric product designs that deliver right-out-of-the-box performance with smartphone-like ease of use. The move to expand its distribution to new channels will give consumers more choices for purchasing XGIMI products from one of the most respected brands in high end consumer electronics retail, B&H.
B&H will carry the much praised HORIZON series, of which the 4K version won a coveted Best Buy award from EISA last year. Created to fit into family spaces, rather than conference rooms, the XGIMI HORIZON series is the smarter all-in-one entertainment choice for those wanting to enjoy more than just movies from the comfort of home. Offering users crisp images and powerful sound quality, the XGIMI HORIZON series enables consumers to build their own home theaters in any room they choose. XGIMI's Intelligent Screen Adaption (ISA) technology offers users the ability to set up their XGIMI device from almost any angle and in almost any environment with ease. Hassle-free functionality, for quick, plug and play set up, makes the XGIMI HORIZON series truly the premium home entertainment projector must-have.
The ultra-portable battery powered Halo+ boasts industry-leading native 1080p FHD and HDR10+ image quality, and its 900 ANSI lumens brightness combined with a hyper-focused LED, delivers lightning-fast image focusing and brightness adjustments to provide best-in-class picture quality with low latency image processing capabilities. Halo+ adds a low-latency gaming mode that drops lag to an imperceptible 26ms, taking gaming on Halo+ to the next level. A more powerful battery that lasts long enough for a full movie means users can enjoy their favorite content, wire-free, anywhere they go. Both Halo+ and HORIZON series have two purpose-built Harman Kardon speakers that pump out crystal clear sound that remains crisp all the way up to high volumes for the ultimate theater experience.
"B&H is the first national retailer that XGIMI anchored in the U.S market and could serve as our strategic channels to offer the best-in-class smart projectors to a broader base of local customers," says Tex Yang, VP of XGIMI's Global Business Unit.
For a limited time the HORIZON Pro will be discounted from $1899 to $1615, and Halo+ will be dropped from $849 to $749. For additional information, visit XGIMI's website, or connect with them on Facebook.
ABOUT XGIMI
Trusted by more than 1.5 million users, XGIMI designs and manufactures high-performance multi-functional smart projectors and laser TV" and is determined to improve viewers' audio-visual experience. XGIMI has created a series of game-changing giant screen projection products with critical partners like Harman/Kardon, Google, Texas Instruments. By constantly recreating its products, XGIMI optimizes its portfolio and provides the most technologically advanced and user-first experience for consumers. The small, compact devices are incredibly powerful to create an outstanding immersive home theater experience. In recent years, XGIMI has won international awards such as CES Best Innovation Award, iF Design Awards, Red Dot Design Award, EISA Best Buy Projector and Good Design Award 38 times
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DALLAS, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NexPoint, a multibillion-dollar alternative investment firm, announced today the addition of four new sales and marketing professionals. The new hires, who joined the firm throughout the month of July, are part of an ongoing expansion of the firm's distribution capabilities in real estate and other alternative investment offerings. NexPoint has added six new hires to its distribution team in the first half of 2022.
"The recent addition of these experienced team members across our sales and national accounts functions will allow us to continue to support NexPoint's strong firmwide growth," said Kirby Noel, NexPoint's managing director and national sales manager. "We are honored to have such incredible talent join our team."
Among the new hires is Katie Shook, who joins NexPoint as national accounts director. Shook was previously a national accounts strategy team lead at Clir Capital, where she managed the firm's broker-dealer partnerships and developed new opportunities. Before Clir she was with CNL Securities for seven years, where she was associate vice president of key accounts. Shook holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses.
NexPoint has also added multiple sales directors in the last month:
Tracy Mousner joined NexPoint as regional sales director for Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. Previously, he was vice president of capital markets at Peachtree Hotel Group (PHG). Prior to joining PHG, Mr. Mousner spent over 13 years as an independent broker-dealer wholesaler specializing in alternative investments and portfolio growth. He holds FINRA Series 22, 62, and 63 licenses.
James Rea joined NexPoint as regional sales director for Florida and Georgia. He has over 20 years of experience overseeing sales, research, and marketing for a broad array of financial products with firms such as GE Capital, CNL, Bourne Seniors Housing, and Red Oak Capital Holdings. Mr. Rea holds FINRA Series 7, 22, and 63 licenses and a Florida Real Estate Sales Associate license. He has completed all courses 101-104 for his CCIM designation.
Dan Thomas joined NexPoint as regional sales director for Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. He has over two decades of experience wholesaling mutual funds, ETFs, SMAs, annuities, and alternative investments to independent brokers, banks, and RIA channels. Mr. Thomas began his career in financial services in 1994 as a broker with Charles Schwab. He holds FINRA Series 7, 63, and 66 licenses.
About NexPoint
NexPoint is a multibillion-dollar alternative investment firm comprised of a group of investment advisers and sponsors, a broker-dealer, and a suite of related investment vehicles. NexPoint provides differentiated access to alternatives through a range of investment solutions, including public and private real estate investment trusts, tax-advantaged real estate vehicles, merger arbitrage and event driven strategies, other private real estate investments, closed-end funds, interval funds, and a business development company. NexPoint is based in Dallas, Texas and is part of a network of affiliates with expertise across the asset management and financial services spaces. For more information visit nexpoint.com.
NexPoint Securities, Inc., member FINRA/SIPC, is the dealer manager for the NexPoint product offerings.
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CVN Provides Support to the Military Community as They Manage the Mental Health Impacts of Their Service
STAMFORD, Conn. , Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As August marks one year since the end of the War in Afghanistan, an entire generation of veterans and military families are faced with managing the lasting mental health impacts, and common transition challenges associated with their service. That's where Cohen Veterans Network (CVN) comes in, helping post-9/11 veterans, service members and their families get #BackToBetter with high-quality, accessible mental health services.
Over 3.7 million veterans have served in the post-9/11 era. Some mental health challenges experienced by this population include anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with PTSD impacting 11-20% of Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans. Meanwhile, each year approximately 200,000 men and women transition out of U.S. military service and return to life as civilians. About half of post-9/11 veterans report it was somewhat (32%) or very (16%) difficult for them to readjust to civilian life after their military service.
"As we mark one year since the withdrawal from Afghanistan, this may be a challenging time for some in our veteran community as they're reminded of, and reflect on, their time in the military," says Cohen Veterans Network President & CEO Dr. Anthony Hassan. "We want to encourage anyone struggling to reach out for help today, tomorrow or at any point in their journey as they manage the mental health impacts associated with their service. It's important for people to understand that treatment works, and it can truly help them get back to better."
Since its inception in April 2016, CVN has provided mental health services to over 32,000 individuals. Care is available to post-9/11 veterans, service members and military family members through the network's 21 Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinics across the country. Clients are treated for a wide variety of mental health challenges including PTSD, depression, anxiety, adjustment issues, anger, grief and loss, family issues, transition challenges, relationship problems, and children's behavioral problems. The network's Evidence-Based Practices are built on the best current research and are proven to work. Treatment is available in person or via CVN Telehealth, face-to-face video therapy.
Hear from veterans and military family members as they share stories of hope and success after seeking mental health treatment through CVN at cohenveteransnetwork.org/backtobetter.
Cohen Veterans Network (CVN) is a 501(c)(3) national not-for-profit philanthropic organization for post-9/11 veterans, active duty service members and their families. CVN focuses on improving mental health outcomes, operating a network of outpatient mental health clinics in high-need communities, in which trained clinicians deliver holistic evidence-based care to treat mental health conditions. It was established in 2016 by philanthropist Steven A. Cohen with a commitment of $275 million to build the network. Learn more about CVN here.
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Zac Zaki was an interpreter for the United States Marines in Afghanistan. The memories of bloody battle are still with him:
“Sounds like whistling by your ear and the minefield that you’re walking through on it. You lost your friend, your partners,” he says. “You saw the pieces of people’s bodies.”
Tom Schueman was his commander.
“We were headed towards the village and Zac was monitoring the radio. And he could hear what the Taliban were saying and they said, ‘We’re going to start the ambush in just a minute.’ But we were in a minefield,” Schueman says.
Today, On Point: Zac Zaki and Tom Schueman joins us to talk about the friendship they forged in Afghanistan, and what it took to get Zaki out of Kabul.
Guests
Zainullah “Zac” Zaki, former interpreter with the Third Battalion, Fifth Marines during the war in Afghanistan. Co-author of Always Faithful: A Story of the War in Afghanistan, the Fall of Kabul, and the Unshakable Bond Between a Marine and an Interpreter. (@ZainullahhZaki)
Major Tom Schueman, active duty Marine. Co-author of Always Faithful: A Story of the War in Afghanistan, the Fall of Kabul, and the Unshakable Bond Between a Marine and an Interpreter. (@t_schue)
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MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: One year ago today, Kabul fell to the Taliban. It marked the chaotic end to 20 years of war and American occupation of Afghanistan, the longest war the United States has ever fought. Zainullah Zaki. He goes by Zac for short. He and Tom Schueman formed a lasting friendship over 16 months of the deadliest fighting of that entire war.
Zac was an Afghan interpreter for the U.S. military. Tom, a platoon commander with the third Battalion, fifth Marines. Together, they’ve just published a new book. It’s called Always Faithful. And Zac joins us today from San Antonio, Texas. Zainullah Zaki, welcome to On Point.
ZAC ZAKI: Thanks for having me.
CHAKRABARTI: And Major Tom Schueman with us from Chicago, Illinois. Major Schueman, welcome to you.
TOM SCHUEMAN: Thank you.
CHAKRABARTI: Tom, can you first tell us the story of the first time you and Zac actually met each other in Afghanistan?
SCHUEMAN: Sure. It was October, beginning of October 2010. We were headed out on a patrol. Up to that point, I’d had a few other interpreters. Most of them were quitting because of how dangerous it was in Afghanistan at the time. And the only ones who were left usually either didn’t speak English, or didn’t speak the local dialect of Pashto.
So right off the bat I saw Zac. Healthy, young, fit guy who clearly had a solid command of English and knew the local dialect. And so we immediately connected just based on his competency or proficiency at being a translator. That was kind of the initial connection there. I was just happy to have someone who would go out on patrol, could interpret. And I wouldn’t have to worry about him becoming a liability. So that was the initial impression.
CHAKRABARTI: And what were the conditions like in the location you were deployed to at the time? In terms of the intensity of the fighting, or the number of times you needed to be in contact with locals? Tell us a little bit more about what you were experiencing and the kinds of things you were there for. You knew that your interpreter might experience.
SCHUEMAN: Sure. It was the most violent, kinetic, deadly place in the world at that time. Helmand Province, second district, Afghanistan. The IED threat, improvised explosive device, you can think of a mine, was intense. Every time you took a step, you thought maybe this would be the last time I put this foot down. Best case scenario, if I put this foot down, I won’t have a leg. Likely scenario, I won’t be alive. And that’s what we were thinking every time we were patrolling and fighting through minefields with the enemy ambushing us every time we went out.
And so it was extremely violent, extremely kinetic. But we also had a responsibility to provide security for the local people there. And so we would go out and engage with the villagers. I was also working with the Afghan army. So that’s where the interpreter comes in each day, is to help me understand what’s going on in the village. He also helps me to read the human terrain. He helps me understand the cultural nuances.
And so when I’m going into a village, Zac’s able to see things that I wouldn’t see from my perspective, based on his cultural understanding from being from the country. So he’s there to actually literally translate, but also he provided a lot more depth than just simply translating.
CHAKRABARTI: Well, Zac, let me ask you, what made you decide to want to become a translator for the United States military?
ZAKI: First when an American landed in Afghanistan in 2001 after 9-11, they come to our province where I’m living. And when they landed there was a FOB next to our house. And they started helping people, and they started making government buildings, the government offices, and start building the schools. And start giving books, notebooks, pens to the children in the streets, on the roads, and they throw it … to the kids, so they can go to school.
That’s why I decided to go to school, and learn English and help our partners. … And that’s why I decided to go to help them, so they can help us better than they can do right now. They needed a language linguist, translator, and that’s why I decided to work side by side with them, and just also for the future of my country.
CHAKRABARTI: Zac, In 2001, late 2001, early 2002, when the United States first went into Afghanistan. How old were you?
ZAKI: I was 11 years old when the American come. And as I said, there was a FOB next to our house. When after school we come from school, we help American. I was a translator. I learned at that time, and I go there and help them out whatever they need. … And whatever they need, they call us and we just provide whatever they need.
We bring it to them. … And after, like in 2010, there was examination for the interpreters to hire some interpreters. … And I went … and just joined that examination and I get passed.
CHAKRABARTI: I see. So you were what, 18, 19 years old at the time?
ZAKI: Yeah, at the time I was 18, almost 18 year old when I took that examination and I get passed and … deployed to Helmand.
CHAKRABARTI: I asked that Zac because many of us here in the United States have sort of lost contact or lost a sense of perspective of how long the U.S. military was involved in Afghanistan. So hearing that you were 11 when the military first arrived and that you were 18, 19 when you took that examination to become a translator, we’re talking about, you know, half your life already. And so then when you were sent to Helmand Province, was Major Schueman the first Marine you worked with?
ZAKI: Yeah. When they sent me there was a big camp, it’s called Leatherneck and they took us there, then another FOB in second district. … And then they said, there is a team … and it doesn’t have an interpreter. At that time, some of the interpreter quit because of the dangerous place, that the place was too dangerous with IED and ambushes. And the interpreter there can not stay to put their life in the risk. So they send me … and I went there and met Tom Schueman.
CHAKRABARTI: So Zac, you know how I asked Major Schueman what he thought of you when he first met you? What did you think of him when you first met?
ZAKI: … When I saw him, he looked very good behavior, and looks very nice person. And I just get happy. So some of the commanders and the platoon commanders, they were very, very like angry people and pissed off all the time. And so when I see him, he was very good, a smile on the face and very nice person. And I like it. That’s why I stay in very danger. And accept everything for my team, for my platoon commander. And I stayed along.
CHAKRABARTI: So you know the reason why I asked you both that same sort of first impression question is that it seems to me, at the bedrock of a successful relationship between any member of the U.S. military and an interpreter, especially in a place like Afghanistan, is trust. Like Major Schueman, you had to be able to trust Zac.
And Zac also had to be able to trust you, especially given the circumstances under which this deployment was taking place. Major Schueman, as you described, I mean, your battalion, if I remember correctly, lost more people than any other during the entire 20 year war.
SCHUEMAN: Correct. It was the bloodiest battle. I would also offer that we killed more Taliban than any other battalion. But you know, when it comes to trust, I think trust is the oxygen for any relationship to grow or prosper. And it becomes particularly important to have that trust when it’s a life or death situation. So, yes, trust is always essential for relationships. It’s particularly important when you’re in combat.
CHAKRABARTI: So can you tell me a little bit more about the kind of situation that you and Zac were in? We’ve just unfortunately got about 30 seconds before the first break, so I’ll let you get started. But I understand that what Zac had been with the first platoon for just four days, there had already been several firefights.
SCHUEMAN: In the first 100 days, we were in 100 firefights. So every single day we went outside, we were fighting.
CHAKRABARTI: Okay. Well, we’re going to hear more about some specific instances within those first 100 days when we come back.
CHAKRABARTI: Zac, in the book, there’s a story about one of your first encounters with danger, as you’re sort of out in the field with the platoon. When I believe there’s a firefight of some kind going on and everyone dropped to the ground except you. You had stood there. You were frozen momentarily. Can you tell us that story.
ZAKI: Before this job, I’d been with one of the construction companies in my province, and they were in a very dangerous place … in Kunar province. And the Taliban come very close. … And, by the way, the Afghan National Army … we were very familiar with the gunshots, fire and bombs.
And these things, RPGs. So when I get there, when I get to the Helmand and join … somebody attacked us from a distance. Our team, all the members just lay down on the ground, and I was looking for the person who did it. … Just looking for the enemy to show to my team and just target him.
CHAKRABARTI: Well, what did you learn in that moment then?
ZAKI: When it happened, our team doctor, the medic, he just grabbed me and in my body armor from the back and said, Lay down, man, you’re going [to die]. And then I learned, when after we get ambushed … I learned to keep myself there.
CHAKRABARTI: Yeah. Well, Major Schueman, there’s another story in the book, because you had talked a moment ago about how many IEDs and mines there were in almost every place that you went. And you write in the book about how there was a moment where I think the platoon was heading, was moving forward in a particular direction. But there was a detection of some Taliban communications, radio communications, in preparation for an ambush of your platoon. Can you tell us that story?
SCHUEMAN: Sure. The platoon was moving from farm fields that were patrolling through towards the village. The village, it’s difficult, I think, to kind of picture what these villages look like. Because they’re just a cluster of 10 to 12 mud huts. But, you know, maybe 50 to 100 people living in one of these villages. As we were approaching the village, we were maybe 100 meters from the village, and we were monitoring the Taliban’s radio traffic.
Zac had a little radio that he could hear what they were saying, and as we approached the village, he could hear them saying, Start the ambush, get ready to start the ambush. And he turned to me and said, they’re saying they’re setting up the ambush, and you need to hurry up because they haven’t got everybody in place yet. So if you hurry up, you can stop them. But the issue is that you’ve got, you know, this young Marine, this 18 year old Marine out in front of the patrol who is walking through that minefield at the front. And so we all walk in single file line, behind that person to mitigate the threat.
And that person up front has a mine detector, a metal detector that they’re sweeping. It actually wasn’t very effective. That’s part of the reason we hit so many of those. But you can’t ask that person who’s proofing a minefield to go faster. And Zac, I told Zac, I said I can’t make him go any faster than he is. He’s already, you know, very dangerous job. And Zac took it out on his own initiative and said, We can’t wait any longer. They’re going to start the ambush.
And he sprinted through this area that was an uncleared minefield, that we knew that there were several dozen more IEDs and mines in this area. And he sprints through that field into the village, and he’s able to correlate where the traffic was coming from, where the command and control was coming from. And he enters the compound that he knew the Taliban commander was directing the ambush, and is able to tackle and detain that guy. As the rest of the platoon follows him into the village.
CHAKRABARTI: And Major Schueman, what did you think when Zac did that? When he made that sprint?
SCHUEMAN: We thought he was crazy. But I think it was one of many examples where it was clear that Zac was there to do so much more than just translate. That he was there to fight alongside us. And he went from someone who, you know, worked for the platoon to kind of just becoming another member of the platoon. And it was clear that he was willing to share the same risks, the same danger, and at times even more so than the rest of the platoon there. And so he was fighting for his country, too. And and it was clear, and that kind of courage really gained our respect, our appreciation. And he ultimately became one of us.
CHAKRABARTI: Well, Zac, you didn’t have to do that, right? As a translator, you did not have to sprint ahead of the sort of mine detecting equipment and tackle a Taliban radio operator. So what were you thinking when you did that? How did you make that decision, in that split second, to take that risk?
ZAKI: … I accept the risk because they killing our people, they killing our partners, the U.S. troops, they come to help us and rebuild our country. And I stand up to go and fight against them. So, you know, everywhere they kill innocent people. They drop bomb on the street … on the roads. And … in the cities. … That’s why I served our risk, to fight against them, and to make a peaceful Afghanistan, especially for the whole world, make a peace and bring peace to the world. That’s why I accept the risk.
CHAKRABARTI: The book, Always Faithful, is full of so many of these very detailed moments. When the two of you and the platoon had to make those kinds of decisions in a split second. Tom, there’s another story about, again, just the massive presence of those IEDs. You had actually been knocked out by one, and Zac stayed with you. Can you tell us that story?
SCHUEMAN: Sure. It was November 9th. It was a day that started with Robert Kelly, a friend of mine, being killed, a great Marine and great man. And one of my Marines had been injured, and some of us went out to go help. And when we went to go alleviate some pressure with the squad that had the injured Marine, we got them back to base. But when we started to go back to base, we got ambushed. And during that ambush, my squad leader … stopped an IED and it blew up my platoon sergeant Tim Hanley and myself.
So all three of us kind of were in the same blast. And when I regained consciousness, I see Zac is there holding security. Trying to make sure to protect me. And then I look up and I saw my squad leader who was missing his leg. And then I saw my platoon sergeant was extremely concussed, couldn’t stand up. I noticed that Corporal Leahy had stepped up and taken command of the control, and control of the squad seamlessly.
And it was one of the worst moments of my life, that two guys who I loved, my sergeant, my squad leader, my platoon sergeant, were both injured. But it’s also one of those moments where you see the worst in combat. You see the horrors and the maiming of these young guys. But then as we’re carrying Sergeant Humphrey off the battlefield, Zac’s helping us carry the stretcher, I’m carrying the structure, and he keeps turning towards me and saying, Sir, I know I’m heavy. You could put me down.
And he keeps encouraging the people that are carrying the stretcher with him to put him down. And he’s saying, you guys need a rest. Sergeant Humphrey would go on to die on the helicopter and need to be resuscitated. He died twice in flight. And to think that in the moments preceding his death, his thoughts were with everyone else. They weren’t with him. And this is what this book, Always Faithful, this is where examples like this, this title comes from. You know, Semper Fidelis.
It’s people who always put others before themselves. And where else, you see the horrors, but you also see these glimpses of heaven. These glimpses of what true love can can mean. And true love is saying, put me down so you can rest. You’re my brothers. And in the moments preceding your death, you’re only thinking about other people. And so that day, it was a tough one. And Zac, like every other day, was right there when I regained consciousness, and he was right there looking out after me.
CHAKRABARTI: Well, Zac, can you tell us what you experienced that day from your point of view? Because obviously, you saw the IED go off.
ZAKI: … When I saw my friends, our unit members, like all of the soldier get injured or blew up. We all didn’t feel well … for a long time. I still remember that shooting when I get up in the morning and the whistling of the bullets, in my mind, in the morning, early in the morning. And whenever I remind that our people [were] killed, my friends. It makes me cry, you know?
CHAKRABARTI: And when you say our people, you mean your fellow members of the platoon.
ZAKI: Exactly. And all of the Afghans. Thousands of Afghans are killed and still no peace. They don’t have food. They don’t have government. Everything is gone. We lost everything.
CHAKRABARTI: I was going to wait until later to ask this question, Zac, but I hope you can forgive me if I ask it now. You’re exactly right about the current situation in Afghanistan. There’s a famine. Do you think your efforts, Major Schueman’s efforts, the lives of the Marines that we just talked about, of the Afghans we just talked about. Was it all worth it?
ZAKI: Yes, it is. You know, we made a lot of sacrifices, both American and Afghan. American troops, Afghan National Army, Afghan police. We hope we get to make a brighter Afghanistan, a peaceful Afghanistan. But now it’s just gone.
… I don’t know how I feel about that. The people, the senior people who are involved in this war and the mission of Afghanistan, it’s, I don’t know. I don’t have an answer for that. What was it?
CHAKRABARTI: You know, Zac, I think that’s actually the most eloquent answer I’ve heard to that question. That you don’t have an answer to that.
ZAKI: Exactly. Exactly.
CHAKRABARTI: Major Schueman, what would you say to that?
SCHUEMAN: I think Zac, you know, he initially said yes. And for a moment in time, girls were in school. For a moment in time, there were some governance. There was some security for people who had never had those opportunities. I think that question, was it worth it, was answered in form by the men who laid their lives and limbs on that battlefield. That yes, in that moment it was worth it to them. Their answers have a permanence.
Their answer echoes for eternity. And so I think the question has to be reframed to a different audience. Because clearly we went there. We fought and we bled. And we did what our countries asked us to do. And that’s what Marines, that’s what our allies have always done, is we’ve gone where our nation has sent us. And we fought and we won the battles. Was it worth it? is a collective question for the American public to answer.
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For the third year in succession, the All-Ireland Ladies Junior title has gone to the beaten finalists from the previous year.
Antrim ended a 10-year wait for an All-Ireland crown at the grade by powering past Fermanagh by 13-points at a sun-kissed Athletic Grounds in Saturday evening’s replay.
The Erne County won the title back in 2020 after losing out to Louth in the decider in 2019.
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Wicklow lost to Fermanagh in 2020, but went one better by beating Antrim in Croke Park.
The Saffrons have repeated that feat by securing their first All-Ireland title since 2012 and manager Emma Kelly, who played in the 2012 win over Louth, said the thought of losing another decider helped spur her side to victory.
“I think the hurt - even of two weeks ago when they felt like they had lost - gave the want and will to push on.” said Kelly.
“Fermanagh lost a lot of their girls, especially the Kinawley girls, so they are rebuilding and will be back next year and we will meet them in Division Four next year.
“Fifth time lucky we get over the line and get the trophy up the road.
“You want to get out of Division Four and play the better teams, same as Intermediate, and it helps you get stronger and develop. You don't want to be a yo-yo team - you want to step up, complete and get better.
“We knew Down and Sligo in Junior will make it hard to get out next year so we got our goal this year.”
In the drawn encounter at Croke Park a fortnight ago, Antrim needed a last-gasp free from Orlaith Prenter to secure a replay after the sides finished with 1-13 apiece.
On Saturday, they had much too much firepower for Fermanagh as first half goals from Lara Dahunsi and captain Cathy Cathy (penalty) gave the Saffrons a five-point cushion at the break.
The game had already slipped beyond Fermanagh’s reach by the time Cathy rifled in her second major of the day following a delightful pass from Bronach Devlin.
The anticipated fightback from the Erne County never materialised as Antrim ran out comfortable winners.
“With six minutes to go, Kyla (Trainor, Antrim assistant manager) was saying to get the subs on but I was saying no as goals can come fast in ladies football and with Eimear Smyth and Bláithín Bogue, you just don't know,” added Kelly.
“When we got another few scores on the board, we knew there was no way back for them.
“It's great for the likes of Cathy(Carey) and 'Tubs' (Aine Tubridy) who are the only two who played 10 years ago with me.”
The Antrim boss insists her side won’t be resting on their laurels for long as their thought quickly turn to next year’s targets.
“Division Four will be our target now - girls are looking breaks, but trials start in November and that's it.” stated the All-Ireland-winning manager.
“We have good minors stepping out now and they will be looking to push on to senior so next year's squad could be completely different.
“That's a good thing as it pushes the rest and makes the whole team better.
“As I said after the last day, we were going home to do shooting and we did that.
“It paid off, but it's just great to see the crowd there loving it and hopefully will inspire more to come up.”
Fermanagh manager James Daly, meanwhile, insists he was baffled by the decision to award Antrim a penalty in the first half.
After midfielder Dahunsi has plundered a fortuitous opening goal for Antrim, Roisin Gleeson make a save to deny Maria O’Neill from point-blank range.
However, the ball hit the Fermanagh ’keeper in the face, resulting in a stoppage for treatment.
When Gleeson got to her feet, she was quickly into action again as referee Lorraine O’Sullivan awarded Antrim a penalty for an infringement after Gleeson had made the save.
However, Daly is adamant that the penalty shouldn’t have been given.
“I had my own people watching it live. I messaged them at half-time and they said it was no penalty,” stated Daly.
“We thought it was a free out because Eimear Keenan was fouled but the next thing she (the referee) is standing on the 14 metre line with her arms out. We were shocked.
“We went in at half-time five points down and that was basically the two goals. We always felt we were in the game, but we needed more.
“We needed to look after the ball more, and look after the football better. And we didn’t look after the football at all. And that’s usually a strong part of this team, where we work in pods and work in groups working the ball up the field.
“But we lost the run of ourselves a wee bit. It was a hot day and it was unusually warm. But my girls battled to the very end and I am nothing but proud of them.”
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PITTSBURGH — More than two million infant swings and 220,000 infant rockers are being recalled after reports that one baby died and another was hurt after getting tangled in hanging straps.
Pittsburgh-based 4moms is recalling about two million MamaRoo swings and 220,000 RockaRoo rockers in the U.S, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Monday. Another 70,000 of the products are being recalled in Canada.
The recall notice said restraint straps on the swing and rocker can hang down when not in use. Infants crawling under the seat can then get tangled in the straps and potentially be strangled.
4moms received two reports of infants getting caught in the hanging strap under the MamaRoo infant swing. One, a 10-month-old, died from asphyxiation. Another 10-month-old "suffered bruising to his neck before being rescued by a caregiver," the recall stated. No injuries or deaths were reported from the rocker.
According to the recall notice, the swings and rockers were sold at BuyBuy Baby and Target stores nationwide from January 2010 through August 2022 for between $160 and $250. They were also sold online on 4moms.com and Amazon.
Which products are being recalled?
The MamaRoo is a baby swing with different motions, speeds and sounds controlled by buttons on the base.
"This recall includes only MamaRoo models that use a 3-point harness: versions 1.0 and 2.0 (model number 4M-005), version 3.0 (model number 1026), and version 4.0 (model number 1037)," the notice said.
The MamaRoo model with a 5-point harness (Model 1046) isn't being recalled.
Model numbers are located on the bottom of the swings.
The RockaRoo is a baby rocker with "front to back gliding motion" controlled by a knob and power button on the base. The model number, 4M-012, is located on the bottom of the rocker.
What should I do if I have this product?
According to the recall notice, customers with crawling babies should stop using the recalled swings and rockers right away and put them somewhere out of reach.
Customers can contact 4moms "immediately" to get a free strap fastener that the company said will keep straps from hanging.
The recall notice said customers can call 4moms toll-free at 877-870-7390 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Monday through Friday, by email at safetyandrecall@4moms.com or online at https://www.4momsrecall.expertinquiry.com.
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Atarraya's "plug and play" shrimp farming technology delivers up to 10X the ROI of traditional poultry or swine farming, creating new opportunities for farmers — even in landlocked, highly populated cities
INDIANAPOLIS and MEXICO CITY, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Atarraya, creator of Shrimpbox, the first sustainable 'plug-and-play' shrimp farming technology and the aquaculture equivalent to agriculture's vertical farming, today announced its U.S. launch. Housed in traditional cargo containers that can be located anywhere — even in landlocked, urban areas — a Shrimpbox farm can be moved or scaled up according to production needs. Shrimpbox's AI-powered automated system remotely monitors water quality, regulates temperature and oxygenation and feeds the shrimp. Shrimpbox offers farmers a viable new revenue source that delivers up to 10 times the ROI of poultry or swine farming, and overcomes many of the challenges associated with traditional farming, including cost and environmental impact. View a short video of Atarraya's Shrimpbox technology here.
"We've spent the past 10 years diligently working to bring Shrimpbox to market and are now ready to begin rolling it out at industry-level scale," said Daniel Russek, CEO and founder of Atarraya. "Our proprietary technology decreases the environmental impact and cost of traditional shrimp farming or trawling. It allows for the production of fresh, sustainable and local shrimp farms to be set up anywhere in the world as a vertical aquaculture farm that generates nearly 10X the return on investment to farmers."
Shrimpbox integrates the best biotechnology, software and hardware to produce fresh shrimp sustainably:
- Biotechnology: Shrimpbox utilizes biofloc technology that emulates how shrimp grow in the oceans. Biofloc nourishes a microbial ecosystem that provides an environment in which the shrimp are protected and able to mature — with minimal need for water discharge. The biofloc system eliminates the risk of disease and the need for antibiotics and other harmful chemicals, creating better genetics that enables the shrimp farming industry to become vertical aquaculture farming.
- Software: Allows for remote management of production units without the need for specialized personnel. All relevant workflows can be mapped to deal with data complexity. The use of software also enables consistency, remote control of the network and makes it easy to train and perform farming tasks and operations.
- Engineering and Automation: Designed to ensure consistent production and economic viability, even in countries with high labor costs. Enables fast reaction times, tighter controls and minimizes labor costs. Automated systems make it possible to remotely monitor water quality, regulate temperature and oxygenation and feed the shrimp. AI-powered, plug-and-play technology allows anyone — even those with no prior farming or aquaculture experience — to become a shrimp farmer.
The first Shrimpbox prototypes, assembled in the coastal community of Guapinole, Oaxaca, Mexico, are already in operation. A Shrimpbox farm for training and demo purposes is also slated to open later this year in partnership with the State of Indiana's IEDC (Indiana Economic Development Corporation).
Shrimp sales volume increased from 275 to 415m pounds in the past five years. Unfortunately, the staggering demand for shrimp has a downside: environmental impact and labor issues. Trawling for shrimp in the ocean degrades or destroys delicate seabeds, which take years to recover. Existing shrimp farms require enough water for a city of 500K and often contaminate groundwater. Work conditions for shrimpers in many countries are harrowing. Atarraya converts shrimping's outdated production and business model with an eye to environmental balance, while also ensuring consumers have a consistent source for sustainable, locally produced, fresh shrimp.
Atarraya recently raised a $3.9M Series A funding round at a post-Series A valuation of $41M. The Series A funding was led by Jeffrey Horing and other angel investors, including Mark K. Gormley, Geoffry Kalish, Robert Stavis, and Robert Goodman, and brings Atarraya's total funding to date to $10 million. Atarraya will use the new funds to scale its proprietary Shrimpbox technology globally and to launch its U.S. headquarters in Indianapolis.
"Atarraya has figured out how to grow animal protein in a natural, scalable, sustainable way," said Gabriel Tolchinsky, Atarraya investor. "The science, engineering and technology that Atarraya has developed to grow shrimp in its Shrimpboxes, near population centers and away from oceans, is potentially revolutionary. The Shrimpbox mimics the wild habitat of shrimp and produces shrimp that taste great and consumers will crave; producing shrimp near big cities will also mean that consumers gain access to fresh, never frozen shrimp - truly game-changing."
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a safe, convenient and fun place to keep my lit cigar/cigarette on the golf cart when taking my golf shot," said one of two inventors, from St. Charles, Ill., "so we invented THE WEDGIE. Our design would ensure that the cigar/cigarette remains safe, clean and out of harm's way until you return to the golf cart."
The invention provides a unique holder for a cigar/cigarette. In doing so, it ensures that the cigar remains safe and lit. It also could enhance fun and style and it can be attached to most surfaces. The invention features a versatile and portable design that is easy to apply, position and use so it is ideal for individuals who smoke cigars/cigarettes, golfers, sports enthusiasts, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Chicago sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CHK-114, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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"How Long?" campaign highlights the desperate need for research to help millions who suffer
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Solve M.E. has released the first nationwide public service announcement (PSA) campaign titled "How Long?" to broaden awareness of Long Covid and highlight the need for more research to adequately help the many patients affected by this debilitating disease, which could last a lifetime.
Up to 30% of those infected with COVID-19 will go on to develop Long Covid and experience a broad range of symptoms, such as crippling fatigue, brain fog, severe exhaustion after mild exertion, shortness of breath, and heart issues. Over 20 million Americans are suffering from Long Covid, and Long Covid could account for 15% of the nation's unfilled jobs. However, there are no simple tests to diagnose the disease, and no approved treatments. Research funding to date has largely gone towards characterizing the condition, rather than finding treatments.
The "How Long?" campaign will evolve to be an umbrella effort that includes other related post-infection diseases, such as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), and Lyme disease. "How Long?" should become a battle cry for the desperate need for research into all of these under-studied conditions.
"Solve M.E. has served as a catalyst for critical research into post-infection diseases for decades. We know that learning more about Long Covid will deepen our broader understanding of these diseases – ultimately helping to point us to treatments for Long Covid and associated conditions," said Oved Amitay, president and CEO, Solve M.E. "Our hope is that through this public awareness campaign, we can create empathy for those who suffer and drive stronger public and private investment in research, education, and care for complex, chronic diseases."
The PSA campaign was created in collaboration with the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), a unique non-profit that leverages the powerful voice of the entertainment industry to develop and enhance programs on the local, national and global level that facilitate positive social change. Through this partnership the campaign is expected to be supported by millions of dollars in donated airtime. The EIF has been instrumental in developing and promoting many important healthcare initiatives, such as Stand Up to Cancer.
In April 2020, Solve M.E. began calling on Congress to have immediate response measures due to the anticipated long-term debilitating outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic, eventually forming the Solve Long Covid Initiative. The launch of the PSA campaign marks another milestone for the Initiative, which has successfully advocated on Capitol Hill for a $1.25 billion budget to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for Long Covid research, co-founded the Long Covid Alliance to bring together over 1,000 voices in the space, launched a Long Covid Registry to help patients track symptoms to inform research, and continues to fund early-career researchers to study the disease.
Visit solvelongcovid.org to spread the word about the "How Long?" campaign, support our work to solve Long Covid and associated conditions, learn more about participating in research, and join our advocacy efforts.
About Solve ME/CFS Initiative (Solve M.E.)
The Solve ME/CFS Initiative (Solve M.E.) is a non-profit organization that serves as a catalyst for critical research into diagnostics, treatments, and cures for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), Long Covid, and other post-infection diseases. Our work with the scientific, medical, and pharmaceutical communities, advocacy with government agencies, and alliances with patient groups around the world is laying the foundation for breakthroughs that can improve the lives of millions who suffer from various "long haul" diseases.
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Bekah Birdsall: First Alert Weather Day in place for possible severe storms Monday afternoon/evening
High temperatures will stay in the mid-80s with partly sunny skies.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - After a round of morning showers and storms, more unsettled weather is on the way, with storms likely today.
- First Alert Weather Day: Storms likely this afternoon/evening, severe weather possible
- Tuesday: Few showers, cloudy and cool
- Temperatures stay cool through the week with daily rain chances
As a cold front moves in, today will bring an enhanced risk for storms in the afternoon through the late evening across the region with all modes of severe weather possible. Primary threats include heavy rainfall at times, damaging winds, hail, and a possible isolated tornado. High temperatures will stay in the mid-80s with partly sunny skies.
Tuesday morning, temperatures will start off in the mid-60s with areas of fog developing. Due to the clouds, high temperatures will stay cool in the upper 70s with a few showers throughout the day.
While temperatures continue to stay cool in the upper 70s, rain chances go up with scattered showers throughout Wednesday and Thursday.
Friday into the weekend will see greater rain chances in the area with high temperatures warming into the low 80s.
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Stay safe and dry!
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NFL Blitz Legends Pre-Orders Begin Today;
Game Arrives this NFL Season, Exclusively on Arcade1Up's Home Arcade Machine
MIAMI, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcade1Up, the leader in at-home retro gaming entertainment, today announced NFL Blitz Legends, remastered versions of the legendary games that captured the attention of millions of fans during their heyday in the 90's. Returning after 25 years, the iconic NFL Blitz franchise aims to score big with today's NFL fans and gamers, while also invoking a sense of nostalgia. In a first for the NFL Blitz franchise, Arcade1Up has created a unique arcade machine for the home featuring three of the most popular titles - NFL Blitz, NFL Blitz '99 and NFL Blitz 2000: Gold Edition. NFL Blitz Legends is available for pre-order on Arcade1Up.com, BestBuy.com and Walmart.com beginning today and will be available at retail stores this upcoming NFL season.
"We could not be more excited to bring NFL Blitz Legends to fans who have been waiting years for the return of this iconic game," said Scott Bachrach, CEO, Arcade1Up. "Our team spent the better part of the last two years making sure we both honored the games' past while bringing it up to today's modern standards with AAA development efforts in partnership with the NFL and FGA, and I think we've achieved that in an unbelievable feat of fun, exciting, action-packed gameplay while reengineering the original game."
To bring an authentic NFL Blitz Legends experience into the homes of football fans and gamers alike, Arcade1Up partnered with the National Football League (NFL) and the IMG-managed Football Greats Alliance (FGA) to ensure that hundreds of the game's legends are featured including Dan Marino (Miami Dolphins), Jerry Rice (San Francisco 49ers), Deion Sanders (Denver Broncos), Brett Favre (Green Bay Packers), Jerome Bettis (Pittsburgh Steelers), Terrell Davis (Denver Broncos) and Cris Carter (Minnesota Vikings).
NFL Blitz Legends gets straight to the fun with easy-to-understand gameplay that highlights the best parts of the game including Hail Mary's, interceptions, game-changing tackles, and touchdowns. To support the NFL's current Player Health & Safety initiatives, a specific set of tackles and after-the-whistle hits were removed or edited in the remastered versions of NFL Blitz, NFL Blitz '99 and NFL Blitz 2000: Gold Edition while maintaining the level of excitement in the original games. And, for the first time in the Blitz franchise, players can play on a home arcade machine and compete online with Wi-Fi multiplayer and leaderboards.
"I've always thought Blitz was one of the best games made and the fans loved it too," said Jerry Rice, NFL Legend. "I like how Arcade1Up took the time to reflect today's NFL game while celebrating the game's greatest legends and uniforms from back in the day. Every play is still a game-changing play and I love that. I can easily see this becoming a favorite pastime."
"This has been an amazing partnership and team effort between the NFL, Arcade1Up and the FGA across development, strategy and activation," said Brett Weiss, Associate Vice President of Licensing at IMG and its FGA business, which manages the collective licensing, sponsorship & marketing rights of retired NFL players. "NFL Blitz remains one of the most iconic video games of all time and was a staple in arcades and homes in the 90's. We could not be more excited to revive it this fall and introduce it to a new generation."
Built to resemble the iconic NFL Blitz found at retro arcades, NFL Blitz Legends is a five-foot-tall arcade machine featuring NFL legends on the sides of the cabinet. The artwork and gameplay also feature retro team logos and uniforms, adding to the authenticity of the gaming experience. In addition to Wi-Fi multiplayer and leaderboards, the arcade machine has a 49-way joystick and 17-inch screen with a light-up marquee, and branded riser.
NFL Blitz Legends is the third iconic retro sports title that Arcade1Up has released this year along with NBA JAM: SHAQ EDITION and Golden Tee 3D making it the leading player in at-home retro sports arcade machines. The company's other sports titles include Ridge Racer™, Outrun™, Big Buck Hunter® and Pong®.
Pre-orders for NFL Blitz Legends begin today on Arcade1Up.com, BestBuy.com and Walmart.com and the machine will be available this fall – just in time for at-home football gatherings – for $599.99. Branded stools representing every team in the NFL today are available for $79.99. The first 1,000 consumers to pre-order the machine from Arcade1Up.com will receive a limited-edition NFL Blitz Legends hat as a gift with the purchase.
The Arcade1Up team will be hosting a livestream at NOON ET today, August 15, on YouTube. Gameplay and lifestyle assets can be downloaded via the online press kit. For media inquiries please contact: media@arcade1up.com.
It's time to play again! Home entertainment titan Tastemakers presents Arcade1Up, a line of award-winning, innovative ¾ scale home arcade and pinball machines featuring licensed retro games from the golden age of arcades. Arcade1Up's classic titles include NFL Blitz Legends, NBA JAM™: SHAQ EDITION, Golden Tee 3D, Terminator 2, Tron™, Street Fighter™, X-Men, Mortal Kombat®, Atari, Pong®, PAC-MAN™, Star Wars™, Marvel Super Heroes ™, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™, and more. Arcade1Up allows people to play in the comfort of their homes, with an authentic retro arcade experience at an accessible price. For more information, check out Arcade1Up.com and on social: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube.
IMG is a global leader in sports, fashion, events and media. The company manages some of the world's greatest athletes and fashion icons; owns and operates hundreds of live events annually; and is a leading independent producer and distributor of sports and entertainment media. IMG also specializes in licensing, sports training and league development. IMG is a subsidiary of Endeavor, a global sports and entertainment company.
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(The Hill) — Former national security adviser John Bolton said in a new interview that former President Donald Trump’s defense after the FBI allegedly found classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate “shows a real level of desperation.”
“When somebody begins to concoct lies like this, it shows a real level of desperation,” Bolton, who was appointed by Trump, told The New York Times.
The now-unsealed search warrant and property receipt indicate the FBI seized 11 sets of classified documents from the Florida estate, including one set labeled as “various classified/TS/SCI documents,” meaning top secret/sensitive compartmentalized information that is required to be viewed in secure facilities.
Trump has said he unilaterally declassified the documents using his presidential authority. Other Trump officials have publicly said the former president had a standing order that any documents taken from the Oval Office to the residence were immediately declassified.
However, Bolton told the Times he had never been told of such an order during his time in the White House or afterward.
“I was never briefed on any such order, procedure, policy when I came in,” Bolton said.
“If he were to say something like that, you would have to memorialize that, so that people would know it existed,” Bolton added.
Authorities said the FBI’s search, which has attracted significant scrutiny and criticism from Trump and his allies, was in connection with its investigation into whether Trump violated the Espionage Act, unlawfully concealed or removed public records or obstructed an investigation.
Bolton told the Times that officials had set up secure facilities at Mar-a-Lago and a property in Bedminster, N.J., both of which Trump regularly visited while president, to view sensitive material, meaning the documents could be viewed while remaining classified. | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/bolton-trump-explanations-on-classified-documents-show-real-level-of-desperation/ | 2022-08-15T17:55:00Z | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/bolton-trump-explanations-on-classified-documents-show-real-level-of-desperation/ | false |
From long beans to mint and everything in between, this space is designed to help beginners learn farming and the industry and business behind it.
“We’re here at Global Greens farm,” Zachary Couture, the land and production supervisor at the Lutheran Services in Iowa’s Global Greens Program, said. “There's 20 beginning farmers out here who are scaling up, trying to start a living farming in Iowa.”
This is just one part of the larger Global Greens program, a program through Lutheran Services of Iowa that helps recommend former refugee farmers with the land as they build their lives in the U.S.
“We have 300 community gardeners, 20 beginning farmers, and 11 graduates and we support each of them in different capacities,” Couture said.
“I’m farming and work at Walmart,” Hakizimana Francois, a participant in the program, said. “This program means a lot to me.”
Francois and his wife are part of this program, learning new skills while he works his current job.
“She’s a big helper because right now she’s the one following this program and I’m helping her because I still keep my job,” Francois said.
Farming is a skill they already have, but this program helps them learn more about running a farm in America.
“It’s not just language barriers and cultural barriers,” Couture said.
Couture and other team members help them with things like technology, tools, business plans, and land rentals, too.
On a 12-acre leased lot down the road near Des Moines, Iowa, three program graduates grow a number of vegetables.
On this specific day, Couture was checking in to see what they needed to succeed. One of his team members, also from the East African country of Burundi where this group is from, helped translate.
“These farmers are very happy because they used to be in the Global Greens program for, I think, three years to five,” Firmin Ntakimazi said. “They are making some money to support the family.”
For them, land means opportunity.
“When they start talking about their families, their connection with their ancestors, they remember being on a farm with their grandparents and parents before they had to flee the country,” Couture said.
Couture said it’s a win-win situation all around. The program provides more local food to communities, gives refugees the chance to use their growing skills, and diversifies the types of vegetables being grown.
“It’s around a million pounds of vegetables a year between the community gardens and the graduates and the folks here,” Couture said.
“Next step, I wish to have to own big land so I can produce more food,” Francois said. | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/program-teaches-refugee-farmers-the-business-behind-running-a-farm-in-the-u-s | 2022-08-15T17:55:29Z | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/program-teaches-refugee-farmers-the-business-behind-running-a-farm-in-the-u-s | true |
- SK Inc. and SK Innovation become a large investor in TerraPower, a next-generation SMR developer, founded by Bill Gates
- SMR has become a safe and economically viable option in the carbon-free energy mix
- The investment comes after SK's yearlong search for partnership opportunities to support SK Group's pledge to contribute to achieving the global carbon emission reduction target; The partnership is set to take SK a step closer to the completion of its green energy portfolio
- TerraPower also has technologies to produce medical radioisotopes, which have potential synergies with SK's biotech business
NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SK Inc. and SK Innovation (collectively, "SK") invested in a next-generation small modular reactor (SMR) developer, stepping up their efforts to reduce global carbon emissions. The investment is likely to provide a boost to SK Group's strategy for the early achievement of net-zero emissions as well as group-wide efforts to build a green energy portfolio in an initiative proposed by SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won.
SK announced on August 16 that SK and Bill Gates co-led $750 million in fundraising for TerraPower, a US-based SMR developer. With the close of a $250 million investment, SK has become a large shareholder of TerraPower, founded by Bill Gates. The equity investment will enable SK to join TerraPower's nuclear reactor commercialization projects in Korea and Southeast Asia and supply carbon-free power, spearheading the shift to carbon neutrality.
Founded in 2008 by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, TerraPower is a leading nuclear innovation company with the capability to design sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), a type of advanced nuclear reactors.
TerraPower's Natrium™ SFR technology transfers the heat released from nuclear fission caused by high-speed neutrons to liquid sodium coolant, during which steam is generated and used to produce electricity. The Natrium SFR, a fourth-generation nuclear energy technology, offers significant improvements in safety and economic performance compared to the previous generation of reactors, which are currently in use. Natrium also employs molten salt energy storage, allowing the reactor to quickly change its power, thus making it ideal for operating with renewable generation sources. TerraPower is recognized as a leader in the advanced SMR sector with technologies to dramatically reduce nuclear waste and secure a high level of safety. In addition, TerraPower is building a demonstration reactor in the United States, partially funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP), with a goal to begin operation in 2028.
The transaction represents one of the largest-ever investments in a single company in the advanced nuclear power industry and will accelerate TerraPower's development of innovative technologies and ongoing projects.
SK's investment in TerraPower comes after a yearlong search for partners, since SK Group pledged to achieve a net-zero footprint as part of the global initiative to address climate change. In 2021, SK Group vowed to reduce 200 million tons of carbon emissions by 2030, which accounts for 1% of the global target, and has highlighted SMR as a competitive, safe, and carbon-free energy source. The longstanding commitment to carbon emission reduction and continued search for partnership opportunities have led to investments in a global energy pioneer, taking SK a step closer to completing its green energy portfolio.
Aside from SMR, TerraPower also has technologies to produce the medical radioisotope actinium-225 (Ac-225). Ac-225 is one of the most promising radionuclide raw materials that is being incorporated into investigational products by drug developers for targeted alpha therapy (TAT), which can kill targeted cancer cells while sparing normal cells. SK is set to identify a wide range of business opportunities in the bio pharmaceutical sector from drug discovery to contract manufacturing organization (CMO) by leveraging synergies with biotech firms that it has invested in.
"SK intends to amplify the synergies with TerraPower by bringing together TerraPower's innovative, next-generation nuclear technology and production capability for therapeutic radioisotopes with SK's diverse energy and biotech portfolios," said an SK spokesperson. Along with its investments in TerraPower, SK plans to continue its business innovation and technology development to contribute to reducing global carbon emissions.
Moohwan Kim, Executive Vice President and Head of Green Investment Center at SK Inc. noted that, "SK is excited to expand our energy, technology and bioscience investments with leading companies in the U.S. We are committed to supporting TerraPower's global deployment of game changing products. We see important synergies in our businesses and this investment reinforces our strategic global carbon reduction goals."
"TerraPower is committed to solving some of the toughest challenges that face this generation through innovation," said TerraPower President and CEO Chris Levesque. "Whether it's addressing climate change with carbon-free advanced nuclear energy, or fighting cancer with nuclear isotopes, our team is deploying technology solutions and investors across the world are taking note."
*Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP acted as outside corporate and nuclear regulatory counsel to SK.
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Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex will visit UK and Germany in September
Updated: 12:45 PM EDT Aug 15, 2022
Video above: Royals attend church service for queen's jubileeHarry and Meghan will visit the UK and Germany in the first week of September, according to a spokesperson."Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are delighted to visit with several charities close to their hearts in early September," a spokesperson for the couple said Monday.The couple is expected to attend the One Young World 2022 Manchester Summit on Sept. 5 and the Invictus Games Düsseldorf 2023 One Year to Go in Germany on Sept. 6, before flying back to the UK for the WellChild Awards 2022 on Sept. 8, according to the spokesperson.The pair, who moved to the United States in 2020, were last in the UK for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee in June, when the monarch met their daughter, Lilibet, for the first time.However, the Sussexes were not invited to join the Queen on the Buckingham Palace balcony, as only royals carrying out official duties were included. Harry and Meghan split from the royal family in 2020 and no longer take part in royal duties.They flew in from the U.S. for the jubilee celebrations and were warmly welcomed by the crowd, arriving to cheers.Ahead of the event, there was much speculation in the British press over how the couple would be received following their decision to step back from the royal family and move to California.
Video above: Royals attend church service for queen's jubilee
Harry and Meghan will visit the UK and Germany in the first week of September, according to a spokesperson.
"Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are delighted to visit with several charities close to their hearts in early September," a spokesperson for the couple said Monday.
The couple is expected to attend the One Young World 2022 Manchester Summit on Sept. 5 and the Invictus Games Düsseldorf 2023 One Year to Go in Germany on Sept. 6, before flying back to the UK for the WellChild Awards 2022 on Sept. 8, according to the spokesperson.
The pair, who moved to the United States in 2020, were last in the UK for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee in June, when the monarch met their daughter, Lilibet, for the first time.
However, the Sussexes were not invited to join the Queen on the Buckingham Palace balcony, as only royals carrying out official duties were included. Harry and Meghan split from the royal family in 2020 and no longer take part in royal duties.
They flew in from the U.S. for the jubilee celebrations and were warmly welcomed by the crowd, arriving to cheers.
Ahead of the event, there was much speculation in the British press over how the couple would be received following their decision to step back from the royal family and move to California. | https://www.wpbf.com/article/prince-harry-and-meghan-duchess-of-sussex-will-visit-uk-september/40898150 | 2022-08-15T17:59:45Z | https://www.wpbf.com/article/prince-harry-and-meghan-duchess-of-sussex-will-visit-uk-september/40898150 | true |
Intratumoral treatment of Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC) - first-in-class cancer therapy
OSLO, Norway, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The CMD is a live event, open for physical attendance at Hotel Continental in Oslo, Norway, as well as a live webcast. It starts at 14.00 CET, and is expected to last approximately two hours, including Q&A.
Speakers will be:
- Øystein Rekdal, CEO of Lytix
- Ted White, CEO of Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.
- Gary Goldenberg, CMO of Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.
- Aurelien Marabelle, visiting professor at Stanford University
Registration, for physical or virtual attendance, before May 31, 2022, at 14.00 CET:
https://www.lytixbiopharma.com/news/events/register-for-event.html
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Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a Nasdaq-listed dermatology therapeutics company, headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, developing medications for skin diseases requiring medical interventions. In August 2020, Lytix Biopharma announced that it entered into a license agreement with Verrica to develop and commercialize LTX-315 for all malignant and pre-malignant dermatological indications (skin cancer). Verrica intends to focus initially on basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma as the lead indications for development for LTX-315. The American Cancer Society has estimated that about 5.4 million basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) are diagnosed in the US annually. With about 80% of these skin cancers being BCC there is a significant potential for new treatment options.
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Ted White, CEO of Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. has served as Verrica Pharmaceuticals' President and CEO since 2017, and as a member of Verrica's Board of Directors since May 2018. Previously, he was President and General Manager at Almirall, a global pharmaceutical company, and the parent company of Aqua Pharmaceuticals, based in Spain, with a focus on Medical Dermatology. Prior to his time at Aqua Pharmaceuticals, Mr. White was at Novartis, where he served in a number of roles, including as Managing Director. He holds a MBA from St. Joseph's University and a BA in General Arts from Villanova University.
Gary Goldenberg, CMO of Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. has served as CMO of Verrica since 2020. He was a member of Verrica's Board of Directors from 2018 to 2020. He is a Medical and Cosmetic Dermatologist at Goldenberg Dermatology PC, which he cofounded in April 2017. Dr. Goldenberg has also served as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City since 2009, and was an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine from 2007 to 2009. He holds a MD from the Temple University School of Medicine and a BA in Biology from La Salle University. He completed his residency in Dermatology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and his Dermatopathology Fellowship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
Prof. Aurélien Marabelle, visiting professor at Stanford University is a physician-scientist with expertise in oncology (MD) and immunology (PhD). His clinical practice is dedicated to early phase clinical trials of cancer immunotherapies within the Drug Development Department (DITEP) of Gustave Roussy Cancer Center in France. He leads a translational research laboratory (LRTI) within the INSERM unit of Prof Laurence Zitvogel with a focus on mechanisms of action of immune targeted therapies. He is also the director of the Clinical Investigation Center BIOTHERIS dedicated to intratumoral immunotherapies (INSERM CIC1428). He is a full professor of Clinical Immunology at the University of Paris Saclay.
Øystein Rekdal, CEO of Lytix Biopharma is co-founder of Lytix Biopharma and has extensive research background within tumor immunology, oncolytic peptides and their abilities to induce potent tumor specific immune responses. Dr. Rekdal's postdoctoral forms the basis of Lytix' oncolytic molecule platform. Dr. Rekdal has initiated the collaboration with several distinguished researchers and institutions to further explore the unique ability of oncolytic molecules to reprogram non-inflamed or suppressive tumor microenvironment in experimental models and in cancer patients.
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Ole Peter Nordby, Head of IR & Communication Manager
Email: ole.peter.nordby@lytixbiopharma.com
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SOLON, Ohio, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A worldwide leader in sustainable and innovative flooring solutions, Tarkett North America has refreshed and expanded its iQ® Granit™ collection and introduced the coordinating iQ® Eminent™ collection within their high-performance homogeneous vinyl sheet and tile products. Designed with healthcare spaces in mind, Tarkett's iQ products are low-maintenance, durable enough to maintain their performance under high-traffic wear and contribute to healthy, rejuvenating indoor environments.
"Created in Ronneby, Sweden, iQ Granit and iQ Eminent embody the very best of Scandinavian design," said Janette Murray, senior design manager for Tarkett North America. "Every detail has a purpose, from superior infection control and softened acoustics options, to state-of-the-art technology that promises zero refinishing for the life of the floor. With organic patterns and a warm color palette, the collection is continually restored with a simple dry buffing—so your floor, your space and your people can maintain top performance."
iQ Granit's soft, tonal chip designs are inspired by the beauty and resilience of natural stone. The 43 available colorways from iQ Granit and iQ Granit Sense flow together for a palette that helps us retreat, reflect, and recharge. iQ Granit Sense is more tonal, while iQ Granit offers more color variation in its visual accents.
iQ Granit Acoustic adds impact sound reduction, further enhancing spaces where quiet reflection and peaceful healing are desired.
"According to research, quieter healthcare settings have been shown to improve clinical efficiency, diminish stress, and support the healing process," said Margaret Bartholomew, healthcare segment manager, Tarkett North America. "In addition to contributing to better indoor air quality, iQ Granit Acoustic reduces impact sound by 16 dB. These aren't just floors—they're the essential foundation to creating spaces for holistic wellness."
"At a time when indoor air quality is of the utmost importance, prioritizing a healthy indoor environment should be top of mind," said Dr. John McKeon, CEO of Allergy Standards Ltd. "Healthcare facilities are investing more and more in going 'beyond code,' to optimize healthier indoor air and healthy buildings. Tarkett's dedication to prioritizing a holistic approach to health and wellbeing, not only of the indoor space, but also the people occupying that space, is very much aligned with our values of ESG and Scientific Excellence. We value Tarkett's dedication to improving indoor air quality, and ultimately helping to improve lives."
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 15, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
1154 AM CDT Mon Aug 15 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south Texas, including the following county,
Webb.
* WHEN...Until 100 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1154 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 3 and 5 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Laredo, Texas A&M, Laredo International Airport, Laredo
Country Club, Doctors Hospital Of Laredo, St Augustine High
School South Laredo, United South High School and Laredo
Community College.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT NOON CDT TODAY FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL WEBB COUNTY...
The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
threat. A Flood Advisory has replaced the warning over and near
Laredo. Please continue to heed remaining road closures.
A Flood Watch remains in effect until 700 PM CDT Monday for a
portion of south Texas.
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Was Gal Gadot in the military? How the Israeli star went from serving in the IDF to playing 'Wonder Woman'
Gadot has served in the Israeli Defense Forces, been crowned Miss Israel, played a superhero and acted in Netflix's most watched movie
Gal Gadot was born in Israel where she had a career as an actress and model. In 2004, the future "Wonder Woman" star was crowned Miss Israel.
Before pursuing a career in the entertainment industry, Gadot served in the Israel Defense Forces as is mandatory for Israeli citizens.
In February 2022, Deadline confirmed that Gadot's 2022 movie "Death on the Nile" wouldn't be shown in Lebanon and Kuwait due to her connection with the Israeli military. Lebanon also banned Gadot's movies "Wonder Woman" and "Wonder Woman 1984."
Is Gal Gadot married?
GAL GADOT SLAMMED AFTER CALLING FOR UNITY FOR ISREAL AND ‘NEIGHBORS’ IN GAZA AMID ONGOING CONFLICTS
Gadot is married to Yaron Varsano who works in real estate back. The couple got married in 2008 and the actress spoke to Glamour in 2016 about how she met her husband.
"Oh, he's the best man," she said. "We met nearly 10 years ago through mutual friends at this very strange party in the Israeli desert. It was all about yoga, chakras, and eating healthy-we didn't exactly find ourselves there, but we found each other."
The two share three daughters: Alma, Maya and Daniella. Alma, their oldest was born in November 2021. Maya was born in March 2017 and the newest addition to their family, Daniella was born in June 2021.
What made Gal Gadot famous?
Gadot's breakout role came in 2009 when she played Gisele in the "Fast & Furious" franchise with Vin Diesel and the late Paul Walker. She also played the role in "Fast Five" and "Furious 6."
‘JUSTICE LEAGUE’ STAR GAL GADOT SAYS SHE WAS ‘SHOCKED’ BY THE WAY JOSS WHEDON SPOKE TO HER ON SET
In 2016, she first appeared in the role that she would be widely known for today, Wonder Woman. Gadot first played Wonder Woman in "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice." In 2017, she reprised the role in a feature film "Wonder Woman" which grossed more than $820 million at the worldwide box office.
Gadot played the role in "Justice League" alongside Ben Affleck who played Batman, Jason Momoa who played Aquaman and Henry Cavill who played Superman in the movie. The newest "Wonder Woman" movie starring Gadot was "Wonder Woman 1984" which came out in 2020.
In 2021, Gadot starred in the Netflix movie, "Red Notice" with Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds. The movie still stands as the platforms most watched movie with over 364 million hours watched in its first month. Reports have come out saying that there are additional "Red Notice" movies to come.
In 2022, Gadot played Linnet Doyle in the mystery movie "Death of the Nile." Gadot also has many upcoming movies that have been announced. She will be playing the Evil Queen in the live action "Snow White" movie with a 2023 and is set to play Cleopatra in a movie based off the Egyptian leader's life.
Will there be a "Wonder Woman 3" with Gal Gadot?
There has been a third "Wonder Woman" movie announced with Gadot reprising the leading role, but it looks like it won't hit theaters for quite a while.
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The first "Wonder Woman" movie came out in 2017 and the second, "Wonder Woman 1984" came out a few years later in 2020. Both movies starred Gadot as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman and Chris Pine as Steve Trevor.
Right after "Wonder Woman 1984" released, a third movie was announced.
"As fans around the world continue to embrace Diana Prince, driving the strong opening weekend performance of ‘Wonder Woman 1984,' we are excited to be able to continue her story with our real life Wonder Women – Gal and Patty – who will return to conclude the long-planned theatrical trilogy," Warner Bros. chairman Toby Emmerich said at the time.
Even though movie number three was announced very quickly after the release of the second, not much has been released since then. The plot, release date and full cast for the movie still hasn't been announced. | https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/was-gal-gadot-military-how-israeli-star-went-serving-idf-playing-wonder-woman | 2022-08-15T18:08:10Z | https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/was-gal-gadot-military-how-israeli-star-went-serving-idf-playing-wonder-woman | false |
Investigation links New Mexico fire to power lines downed by tree
New Mexico homeowners have filed two lawsuits against a public service company and contractor who they claim are involved
An investigation has determined that a tree falling in power lines started a fatal fire that also destroyed more than 200 homes in the Ruidoso area four months ago, according to a newspaper.
The Albuquerque Journal said a report issued by the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department states that wind gusts of up to 80 mph toppled a 49-foot-tall drought-stressed tree on April 12, causing electrical lines to arc and ignite the fire.
The following day, authorities reported finding the remains of an elderly couple who died while trying to evacuate their burning home.
WEST NILE VIRUS DETECTED IN NEW MEXICO MOSQUITOES
PENNSYLVANIA TEEN SAVES NEIGHBORS TRAPPED IN APARTMENT FIRE WITH TRAMPOLINE
The fire has spawned two lawsuits filed on behalf of dozens of Ruidoso property owners.
The suit alleges that Public Service Company of New Mexico and a contractor caused the fire by failing to properly maintain trees and vegetation near its power lines.
ELMO FIRE IN MONTANA BURNS OVER 21,000 ACRES, IS 55% CONTAINED
PNM has denied any fault or wrongdoing, saying the tree that struck the electrical lines was located outside of the company’s right-of-way. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/investigation-links-new-mexico-fire-power-lines-downed-tree | 2022-08-15T18:09:17Z | https://www.foxnews.com/us/investigation-links-new-mexico-fire-power-lines-downed-tree | true |
Christina Aguilera looks elegant in a black pantsuit as she enjoys a dinner date with her longtime partner Matthew Rutler in Los Angeles
Christina Aguilera looked elegant as she and her partner stepped out for dinner Sunday evening in Los Angeles.
The 41-year-old crooner stunned in black pantsuit with a knee length coat and a green floral top with simple high heel sandals.
The Beautiful singer styled her long blonde locks straight and and wore dark sunglasses as she entered and exited the restaurant in the Brentwood area.
Elegant: Christina Aguilera looked elegant in a black pantsuit with knee length coat as she went to dinner in Los Angeles Sunday
The Grammy winner's beau, Matthew Rutler, 47, looked dapper in gray jeans and jacket, a black t-shirt and gray sneakers.
The couple have been engaged since Valentine's Day 2014, but seem to be in no hurry to tie the knot.
The Lady Marmalade singer recently completed a summer series of concerts in the Europe where she performed at the Monte Carlo Summer Festival and in London, Liverpool, Brighton and Scarborough, England.
Shades: The Beautiful singer styled her long blonde locks straight and and wore dark sunglasses as she entered and exited the restaurant in the Brentwood area
Many of her fans sang along with the Reflection artist during her sold out shows, including the Spanish language songs.
The four-octave singer released the video for Suéltame, featuring Tini while on her European tour. The song was included on her Aguilera album, which was released in late May.
Christina is the mother of two adorable kids. She shares her oldest, Max, 14, with ex-husband Jordan Bratman. She and Matthew are parents to seven-year-old Summer.
European concerts: The Lady Marmalade singer recently completed a series of concerts in the Europe at the Monte Carlo Summer Festival and in London, Liverpool, Brighton and Scarborough, England
The Dirrty singer doesn't share much of her personal life on social media, but chooses to focus on business instead.
In a July interview with Rolling Stone about her Master Class on How to Elevate Your Singing & Stage Presence, the Santo singer addressed her less is more approach.
'Given that I also grew up in a generation where privacy is valued to the fullest, and not overly sharing on social media or putting out too much content, they know that when I do speak up or release something, it’s something I value and believe in fully.'
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JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli military court on Monday rejected an appeal for release by a Palestinian prisoner whose health is deteriorating as he continues a 165-day hunger strike to protest being held without charge or trial, his lawyer said.
Khalil Awawdeh is one of several Palestinian detainees who have gone on prolonged hunger strikes over the years in protest of what is known as administrative detention. Israel says the 40-year-old father of four is a militant, an allegation Awawdeh denies through his lawyer.
The Islamic Jihad militant group demanded his release as part of an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire ending three days of heavy fighting in the Gaza Strip earlier this month but did not identify him as a member.
Israel says administrative detention is needed to keep dangerous militants off the streets and to hold suspects without divulging sensitive intelligence. Critics say the form of detention, which is almost exclusively used for Palestinians, denies them due process. Administrative detainees can be held for months or years without charge or trial.
Ahlam Haddad, a lawyer for Awawdeh, confirmed that the military court had rejected his appeal for release. He has not eaten during the strike, except for a 10-day period in which he received vitamin injections, according to his family.
Israel's Shin Bet internal security service has not commented on his case.
Dr. Lina Qasem-Hassan, of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, visited him on Thursday at the hospital where he was transferred after his condition worsened. She said he weighed 42 kilograms (around 90 pounds), was handcuffed to a bed and surrounded by guards.
“He suffers from severe neurological symptoms and cognitive impairment, which might be irreversible,” the rights group said in a statement. “His life is in immediate danger.”
Israel is currently holding some 4,400 Palestinian prisoners, including militants who have carried out deadly attacks, as well as people arrested at protests or for throwing stones. Around 670 Palestinians are currently being held in administrative detention, a number that jumped in March as Israel began near-nightly arrest raids in the occupied West Bank following a spate of deadly attacks against Israelis.
Israel says it provides due process and largely imprisons those who threaten its security, though a small number are held for petty crimes.
Palestinians and human rights groups say the system is designed to quash opposition to Israel's 55-year military occupation of lands the Palestinians want for a future state, which shows no sign of ending. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Israel-rejects-appeal-to-release-Palestinian-17374536.php | 2022-08-15T18:13:45Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Israel-rejects-appeal-to-release-Palestinian-17374536.php | false |
A development team is pitching the first Chicago-area development of multiple homes built from shipping containers, for a site in Greater Grand Crossing on the South Side.
Individual homes have been built from shipping containers in St. Charles, Westmont and a few other places. The new pitch is for a first phase of a dozen houses, with a possible second phase of eight. | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/shipping-container-homes-pitched-chicagos-south-side | 2022-08-15T18:13:48Z | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/shipping-container-homes-pitched-chicagos-south-side | true |
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Baseball fans got a touching surprise during the 2022 “Field of Dreams” baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds on Aug. 11.
Fox Sports and organizers of the game paid tribute to late actor Ray Liotta, who starred as “Shoeless” Joe Jackson in the 1989 film. The video tribute was narrated by Liotta’s co-star in the film, Kevin Costner, who played Ray Kinsella.
“‘Field of Dreams’ is about belief and those rare moments where magic becomes real. And it doesn’t work unless Shoeless Joe is worth the wait, unless he’s special. And Ray Liotta was special,” Costner said in the video. “When Ray died back in May, I reminisced about how our batting practice moment together was not a stunt. It was real, and it happened as you saw it. I said that God gave us that stunt that night, and now God has Ray.”
You can watch the full tribute below in a video posted to Twitter by Fox Sports:
"That's the beauty of baseball and a movie like 'Field of Dreams.' He gets to live forever in our hearts."
Earlier his year, Ray Liotta sadly passed away at the age of 67. Kevin Costner looks back at his time on set with Liotta and honors the life of his former colleague. pic.twitter.com/HRQ681OgbZ
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) August 11, 2022
Costner appeared at the first “Field of Dreams” game as well, which was held in 2021 after being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Aug. 11 game saw the Cubs play the Reds on the farm in Dyersville, Iowa, where the movie was filmed. Days before this year’s game, Costner shared photos from the film on Twitter, writing that he wanted to share some memories from the movie and honor his late co-star, Liotta.
“‘Shoeless Joe Jackson’ will be out there with all of us for a great night of baseball in the fields of Iowa,” he wrote.
In honor of @MLB at Field of Dreams this week, I wanted to share some memories from the movie but more importantly remember the amazing Ray Liotta. ‘Shoeless Joe Jackson’ will be out there will all of us for a great night of baseball in the fields of Iowa. pic.twitter.com/U6ADN8iQxM
— Kevin Costner & MW (@modernwest) August 9, 2022
Costner was also one of the many celebrities to honor Liotta on Twitter back in May, sharing a clip from “Field of Dreams” and a tender message.
“Devastated to hear the news of @rayliotta’s passing. While he leaves an incredible legacy, he’ll always be Shoeless Joe Jackson in my heart.”
Devastated to hear the news of Ray Liotta’s passing. While he leaves an incredible legacy, he’ll always be “Shoeless Joe Jackson” in my heart. What happened that moment in the film was real. God gave us that stunt. Now God has Ray. pic.twitter.com/JQmk1PsuSK
— Kevin Costner & MW (@modernwest) May 26, 2022
If you haven’t seen “Field of Dreams,” the film centers around Costner’s character, who builds a ballpark in the cornfield at his home after hearing a voice that says, “If you build it, they will come.”
Once the ballpark is built, the ghosts of Liotta’s character and his team, the 1919 White Sox, appear in the field to play baseball.
You can rent “Field of Dreams” on Amazon Prime or buy the DVD at Walmart or Target for $5.
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Victorian treaty bill set for final vote
A landmark bill to create an independent authority to oversee Victoria's treaty negotiations is poised to be put to a final vote as state parliament returns.
The Treaty Authority and Other Treaty Elements Bill 2022 passed the lower house in late June with the support of all but one MP and will be debated in the upper house this week.
A final vote could come as early as Tuesday evening, with the legislation all but certain to pass with bi-partisan support from the major parties.
Under the bill, the body will be given legal powers to oversee treaty talks and resolve any disputes between the state government and First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria.
It will sit outside the usual state bureaucracy, won't report to a minister, have its funding safeguarded and be led by First Nations People.
An agreement between the assembly and Victorian government on the form of the treaty authority was reached in June and the democratically-elected representative body's co-chair Marcus Stewart said politicians have listened.
"They've been willing to make some space and to concede some power. This is what decolonisation looks like," the Nira illim bulluk man said in a statement.
The next steps for Victoria's treaty process will be setting the ground rules for negotiations, with the assembly hopeful an agreement can be struck in coming months.
Time is running out before the Victorian government enters caretaker mode on November 1, ahead of a state election later in the month. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11113775/Victorian-treaty-bill-set-final-vote.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-15T18:17:19Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11113775/Victorian-treaty-bill-set-final-vote.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
TORONTO, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Leafythings, a thought leader in the cannabis industry and award-winning cannabis directory platform and mobile application, proposes a supplementary independent cannabis supply chain in Ontario.
The Leafythings platform is a digital aggregation of independent and regulated brands and retailers across the cannabis retail market. Leafythings uses Google and open-source solutions to compile all of its retailers and brands. Independent cannabis supply chains represent roughly a $3 billion marketplace in Canada, equal to the size of the regulated supply chain. Given the size of this market and the feedback Leafythings and industry leaders have received within the field, the company has a profound understanding of the Canadian cannabis consumer as well as existing operational gaps that can potentially translate to widespread industry issues.
"It is disastrous," said Nima Derak of Leafythings. "Local Canadian cannabis growers and farmers have made up the independent supply chain for 40+ years. They have worked to prove the medical and recreational benefits of cannabis through evidence-based research and development methods. These individuals have worked tirelessly with legislators to advocate for cannabis businesses and consumers, and to facilitate the legalization of consumption and possession of marijuana. They are members of the public, they are Canadians, and they have been neglected and removed from the current process. Canada is to marijuana cultivation as Belgium is to chocolate. Over-regulation and financial barriers coupled with monopolization of the cannabis supply chain in Ontario is causing major distress to independent Canadian growers and retailers and is locking them out from operating successfully.
Last week, The Ontario Cannabis Store has had to halt all deliveries to its retail partners due to an alleged hacking incident that crippled its third party logistics handlers.
"The role of Government should be held to regulating cannabis, not creating an unnecessary role as the distribution middle man. Delivery is a basic function of today's society. Could you imagine if the liquor store stopped delivering to its retail partners? This doesn't happen. It never happens within the logistics of our independent distributed food supply chain. It doesn't happen to tobacco products at the thousands of convenience stores and it doesn't happen in any other industry in Canada.."
Leafythings wishes to work together with our partners in cannabis at the OCS, to create a better and improved model now that Cannabis has been legalized for over three years. The independent supply chain has expressed substantial interest in working with regulators and contributing to the Canadian economy.
"It is not in the benefit of the Canadian tax payer to take an industry that already existed, ignore it, and put a new system in place that ignores the other 50% of consumers. Let's call it as it is: the OCS as the sole monopoly distributor and online store has acted only as another broken and redundant arm of the government," Derak states. He goes on to shed light on a logical solution to this issue.
"The $3 billion independent cannabis industry and the $3 billion regulated industry have to reconcile. It is absolutely insane to continue on the path we are on. We are making a clear and logical proposal to the Ontario Cannabis Store. The regulation and cannabis supply chains within Ontario can be managed exactly like food is. There are no mandated organic food certification companies within the food supply chain, but there are third parties who follow the principals of the Canadian Organic Standards, to certify organic food. We can create transparent Independent Cannabis Standards that support Health Canada's objectives.
Government can take on a more regulatory role. We propose the creation of an agency similar to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. This agency's role would be to maintain samples and certificates of analysis from anyone who selling into the independent supply chain for the purposes of product recalls. There are hundreds of laboratories within the cannabis space, and these independent facilities can be leveraged for this capacity by independent producers. Due to the proven safe nature of cannabis, we propose no THC limits on independently produced cannabis goods. Independent producers must comply with the Federal Cannabis Act's guidelines on packaging, Says Derak, "There is no way to put this in a politically correct fashion - cannabis is proven to be safer than many non-regulated household goods and medications, and it is time we start acknowledging this."
What would this proposal mean for cannabis retailers? These companies would be able to order directly from independent manufacturers as well as the regulated supply chain, much like a grocer carrying traditional and organic foods. Some goods come directly from the manufacturer while others come from various food terminals. This would allow retailers the ability to differentiate themselves and cater to their local consumers more appropriately - and ultimately - it is the consumer that dictates the success of the retailer.
"Access to cannabis is very important to millions of people across Canada. With the recent service disruption experienced by the OCS here in Ontario, so many will have that access interrupted," states local cannabis consumer Kunal Vora. Allowing retailers diversity in their product sourcing would help ease the mind of the consumer, while managing to retain their trust in the event of another widespread industry issue.
Leafythings proposes a sensible, solutions-based approach for an economic engine like Ontario to help alleviate the burdens of supply chain management and to support the objectives of legalization.
Leafythings is empowered by a mission to help bridge the gap between consumers and businesses while supporting public health initiatives. Leafythings helps consumers find and access quality cannabis products in Canada through highly localized strategies and public education in efforts to collaboratively shatter social equity barriers in the market and improve public perception of the industry.
About Leafythings:
Since 2019, Leafythings has taken a cannabis consumer centric approach to helping Canadians find affordable and quality cannabis anywhere in Canada. Leafythings operates as a web platform, mobile application, and advertising medium. Through a series of event partnerships, advertising initiative, and grassroots marketing programs, Leafythings has developed the largest cannabis consumer database in Canada.
Leafythings is actively working with brands and retailers through partnerships and social initiatives to help drive industry credibility and reinforce the trust between consumers and their cannabis. Leafythings is committed to working with organizations, brands, retailers, and public health officials to create a better cannabis industry.
To read more about Leafythings, head to www.Leafythings.com
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Ardec Funding, LawCash®, and Momentum Funding® will now do business under a new unified brand, Cartiga.1
NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cartiga looks to improve the product offering and customer service provided by three industry-leading legal funding companies. The company's goal is to transform the legal industry with groundbreaking funding, marketing, and technology solutions focused on speed, transparency, and excellent customer experience.
Cartiga provides consumer legal funding, attorney working capital, and is developing data and technology products that it hopes will change how law firms currently operate. Its mission is to map the way to a better future with fair and innovative solutions that help law firms, and their clients navigate challenges, identify opportunities, and optimize litigation outcomes.
"We think the legal industry isn't nearly as efficient as it can be." Says CEO Charlie Platt. "Lawyers work very hard to provide great results for their clients, but we think they could do better if they had better access to technology, analytics, and capital. If we can create large enough pools of information for lawyers to draw statistically reliable samples from, we can better help lawyers understand what cases to bring into their firm and what resources to allocate to them."
By using technology and historical aggregate data, Cartiga looks to help lawyers and their clients better understand the value of their claims at the beginning of cases, while delivering insights into optimal times to settle and whether or not to take them to trial.
Cartiga combines deep legal experience and expertise to provide industry-leading products for perennial needs like funding, as well as data-driven solutions that help law firms build stronger, more profitable business.
1 Consumer legal funding in Illinois will continue to be offered under Momentum Funding until further notice.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Monday that Berlin would not back several fellow European countries that have called for an EU-wide move to stop issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens.
The nations backing such a ban say that Russians should not be able to take vacations in Europe while Moscow wages war in Ukraine. Finland and Denmark want an EU decision and some EU countries bordering Russia already no longer issue visas to Russians.
“This is not the war of the Russian people. It is (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's war and we have to be very clear on that topic,” Scholz said.
“It is important to us to understand that there are a lot of people fleeing from Russia because they are disagreeing with the Russian regime,” he told a press conference on the sidelines of a one-day meeting of the five Nordic leaders in Oslo to which the German chancellor was invited.
“All the decisions we make (within the EU) should not make it more complicated to go for freedom, to leave the country," Scholz said.
The visa issue is expected to be raised at an informal meeting of European Union foreign ministers on Aug. 31.
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin who backs a ban, said that it was an issue that “we need to discuss.”
“It is not a black or white question, there are shades of grey,” she said at the same press conference.
The EU banned air travel from Russia after Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine. But Russians can still travel by land to neighboring EU countries and apparently are then taking flights to other European destinations.
Visas, issued in Europe’s travel zone, known as the “Schengen area,” can be used in the zone's 26 countries, including 22 EU nations plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Normally, people and goods move freely between these countries without border checks. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Germany-won-t-back-call-to-end-Russian-tourist-17374456.php | 2022-08-15T18:21:40Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Germany-won-t-back-call-to-end-Russian-tourist-17374456.php | true |
2 ex-cops charged in George Floyd killing reject plea deals
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Two former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd's killing told a judge Monday that they have rejected plea deals that would have resulted in three-year sentences, setting the stage for trial in October.
Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd´s death. They and Thomas Lane were working with Derek Chauvin when he pinned Floyd´s neck with his knee for more than nine minutes as the 46-year-old Black man said he couldn´t breathe and eventually grew still.
The killing, captured on bystander video, sparked protests worldwide and a reckoning on racial injustice. Chauvin, who is white, was convicted of second-degree murder last year and sentenced to 22 1/2 years on the state charge.
Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill had set a limited window for accepting a plea deal ahead of trial, and Monday's brief hearing served to formalize the two ex-officers' rejections of the state's offers.
"It would be lying for me to accept any plea offer," said Thou, who held back concerned bystanders as Chauvin pinned Floyd. Kueng did not give his reasons for rejecting the state's offer.
Thao, Kueng and Lane were convicted in federal court in February of violating Floyd's civil rights. Lane, who is white, held Floyd's legs and twice asked if he should be turned on his side, and was sentenced to 2 1/2 years. Thao, who is Hmong American, was sentenced to 3 1/2 years. Kueng, who is Black, pinned Floyd's back, and was sentenced to 3 years. Thao and Kueng are appealing their federal convictions.
FILE - Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao, left, and his attorney Robert Paule arrive for sentencing for violating George Floyd's civil rights outside the Federal Courthouse Wednesday, July 27, 2022, in St. Paul, Minn. A judge has scheduled a hearing for Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, on the status of plea negotiations in the case of the two remaining officers awaiting trial on state charges in the murder of George Floyd. Thao and J. Alexander Kueng face a late October trial. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP, File)
In rejecting the plea agreements, Thao and Keung are risking state sentences that could be significantly longer than their federal sentences if they're convicted on both counts. Assistant Attorney General Matt Frank pointed out in the hearing that the state´s sentencing guidelines recommend sentences of 12 1/2 years on the murder count and 4 years on the manslaughter count, but that prosecutors have already said they´ll seek longer sentences if they get convictions.
In Minnesota, assuming good behavior, defendants typically serve two-thirds of their sentences in prison and one-third on parole.
Frank said plea negotiations began in earnest in May and continued into June. The offers would have dropped the most serious charge of aiding and abetting murder, and the officers' state time would have run concurrently with the federal sentences. Both defendants confirmed that they understood that the state has now withdrawn its offers.
"It´s a standard best practice to make a record in court when the State offers a plea agreement, in order to ensure the defendant´s decision is freely and knowingly made," Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement afterward. "The defendants have a right to decline the offer and proceed to trial. The State is ready for trial."
During the hearing, Kueng's attorney, Thomas Plunkett, said that Ellison at one, unspecified point in the negotiations, offered Kueng a deal that would have resulted in 2 years in prison. Kueng confirmed that Plunkett had told him about the offer, and that they rejected it. Frank did not comment about the purported offer.
Thao's attorney, Robert Paule, said that they, at an unspecified point, proposed a deal for 2 years, but that the state rejected it. Frank said that wasn't how he recalled the discussions, and that his recollection was that Thao's offer had included dropping the charges. Neither side elaborated on the discrepancies.
The trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 24, with opening statements Nov. 7.
Lane avoided a state trial by pleading guilty in May to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in a deal that calls for a three-year sentence. His sentencing is Sept. 21.
Chauvin was sentenced to 21 years on the federal civil rights charge. He remains in the state's maximum security prison at Oak Park Heights pending his transfer to federal prison. The other three remain free on bail.
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Associated Press writer Amy Forliti contributed to this story.
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FILE - Former Minneapolis police officer J. Alexander Kueng, left, and his attorney Thomas Plunkett arrive for sentencing for violating George Floyd's civil rights outside the Federal Courthouse Wednesday, July 27, 2022 in St. Paul, Minn. A judge has scheduled a hearing for Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, on the status of plea negotiations in the case of the two remaining officers awaiting trial on state charges in the murder of George Floyd. Tou Thao and Kueng face a late October trial. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP, File) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11113719/Thao-Kueng-say-rejected-plea-deal-Floyd-killing.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-15T18:23:14Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11113719/Thao-Kueng-say-rejected-plea-deal-Floyd-killing.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Wanted man drives excavator, leads deputies on chase in ‘world’s slowest pursuit’
HILLSBORO, Ore. - No dramatic high-speed pursuit. No officers running through the streets. Instead, deputies were able to catch a wanted man by simply walking behind him as he tried to drive away in a slow-moving excavator.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon said 39-year-old Jesse Shaw was wanted for stealing a car and had three warrants out for his arrest related to a drug delivery and parole violation.
They located him over the weekend at a property near Banks, Oregon.
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Authorities said Shaw was driving his excavator but ignored commands to stop and kept driving.
"Shaw drove the excavator over half a mile with deputies following on foot until he stopped," deputies posted on Twitter along with a video of the "chase".
Sgt. Danny DiPietro told FOX Television Stations it was the "world’s slowest pursuit."
All jokes aside, authorities said Shaw is now charged with attempting to elude police.
This story was reported from Los Angeles. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/wanted-man-drives-excavator-leads-deputies-on-chase-in-worlds-slowest-pursuit | 2022-08-15T18:25:30Z | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/wanted-man-drives-excavator-leads-deputies-on-chase-in-worlds-slowest-pursuit | true |
North Dakota cannabis petition approved for November ballot
FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - North Dakota voters will be deciding whether or not to legalize cannabis in the upcoming November election. A sponsoring committee submitted thousands more signatures than needed and the Secretary of State has approved majority of the petition signatures.
A sponsoring committee delivered petitions to the Secretary of State on July 11 and after review of the petition signatures, Secretary of State Al Jaeger says the measure will appear on the November 8, 2022 ballot.
Based on the last federal census, 15,582 signatures were needed. The sponsoring committee submitted 26,048 signatures and 23,368 were accepted as being qualified. 2,680 signatures were rejected, but the committee still had 7,786 signatures above the required amount.
The referendum, which will be titled “Initiated Statutory Measure No. 1,” will be the only voter initiative to appear on North Dakotans’ ballot this year. Campaign Manager David Owen says the proposal is largely based on language from a legislative cannabis legalization proposal, House Bill 1420, which was approved by the North Dakota House of Representatives in 2021. If enacted by voters this year, Measure 1 will:
- Permit adults 21 and older to possess up to one ounce of cannabis and small quantities of cannabis products, such as concentrates and infused products;
- Allow adults to cultivate up to three cannabis plants in a secured location on their property;
- Establish a comprehensive regulatory system for registered cannabis businesses that may produce and sell cannabis to adults;
- Require cannabis products to be tested by state-approved laboratories; and
- Prohibit the public consumption of cannabis.
You can read the full language of the petition HERE. You can learn more about the initiative “Yes on 1″ by clicking HERE.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hagens Berman urges Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA) investors who suffered significant losses to submit your losses now.
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The investigation focuses on Avaya's repeated claims to have made significant progress in its business model transformation to a cloud and SaaS business model.
On June 27, 2022, Avaya announced $600 million in aggregate financing commitments, including $350 million of new Senior Secured Term Loans and $250 million of Exchangeable Senior Secured Notes. Management claimed "[t]his funding supports and accelerates our business model transformation."
A month later, on July 28, 2022, Avaya announced its board fired CEO James M. Chirico, Jr. The company also announced disastrous preliminary Q3 2022 financial results that included expected revenues and adjusted EBITDA well below previously given guidance and an unquantified but "significant" impairment charge. In addition, the company withdrew its 2022 guidance. This news sent the price of Avaya shares crashing 57% lower the next day.
Then, on Aug. 9, 2022, Avaya announced: (1) it determined there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern; (2) it would not timely file its financial statements for the quarter ended June 30, 2022; (3) its Audit Committee commenced internal investigations into circumstances surrounding the company's financial results for the quarter; and, (4) the Committee also commenced an investigation into matters raised by a whistleblower. This news sent the price of Avaya shares crashing 45% lower that day.
"We're focused on investors' losses and whether Avaya lied about progress towards becoming a cloud and SaaS business," said Reed Kathrein, the Hagens Berman partner leading the investigation.
If you invested in Avaya and have significant losses, or have knowledge that may assist the firm's investigation, click here to discuss your legal rights with Hagens Berman.
Whistleblowers: Persons with non-public information regarding Avaya should consider their options to help in the investigation or take advantage of the SEC Whistleblower program. Under the new program, whistleblowers who provide original information may receive rewards totaling up to 30 percent of any successful recovery made by the SEC. For more information, call Reed Kathrein at 844-916-0895 or email mailto: AVYA@hbsslaw.com.
Hagens Berman is a global plaintiffs' rights complex litigation law firm focusing on corporate accountability through class-action law. The firm is home to a robust securities litigation practice and represents investors as well as whistleblowers, workers, consumers and others in cases achieving real results for those harmed by corporate negligence and fraud. More about the firm and its successes can be found at hbsslaw.com. Follow the firm for updates and news at @ClassActionLaw.
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Donetsk separatist court charges 5 foreigners as mercenaries, says 3 face death penalty - Russian media
Aug 15 (Reuters) - A Russian-backed separatist court in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk charged five foreign nationals captured fighting with Ukrainian forces with being mercenaries on Monday, saying three could face the death penalty, Russian media reported.
U.K. national John Harding, Croatian Vjekoslav Prebeg and Swedish citizen Mathias Gustafsson, who were captured in and around the port city of Mariupol, face a possible death sentence, Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported.
TASS cited the judge as saying that the trial would resume in early October. (Reporting by Reuters)
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Lurie LLP, an entrepreneurial firm of 200+ professionals, proudly joins EisnerAmper
NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global business advisory firm EisnerAmper announced that the partners and colleagues of Minneapolis-based accounting and advisory firm Lurie LLP will be joining EisnerAmper in a transaction anticipated to close in September of 2022.
With more than 200 employees, 24 partners, and offices in Minnesota and Florida, Lurie serves clients across the United States and globally, in a wide variety of industries, providing solutions in accounting, audit, tax planning and wealth management, serving business leaders in healthcare, professional services, technology, manufacturing, real estate, and more.
"We are thrilled to join EisnerAmper," said Beth Kieffer Leonard, Lurie Managing Partner. "We see the world the same way – in how we serve clients, provide opportunities for our people and how we give back to our community. Additionally, our culture of innovation and our values align perfectly. This combination will provide our clients and the business community that we serve with greater resources that accelerate growth and opportunity, today and into the future."
Founded in 1940, Lurie is a different kind of accounting firm, made great by exceptional talent and fueled by an entrepreneurial spirit driven to serve its community. Lurie was named to the "Best of the Best" firm list for 2021 and "Regional Leader" 2022 by INSIDE Public Accounting, establishing Lurie as one of the 50 highest-performing public accounting firms in North America. Other notable recognitions include "Best CPA Firms for Equity Leadership" and "Best CPA Firms for Women" by the Accounting MOVE Project, "Best of Accounting" Client Satisfaction for 2022, and many more.
Allan D. Koltin, CEO of Koltin Consulting Group, who advised both firms, commented, "The joining of these two forward-thinking firms creates a powerful combination. EisnerAmper has traditionally been known as a powerhouse on the east coast and, with the addition of Lurie, takes a huge step toward establishing a flagship presence in the Midwest."
"We have respected Lurie for many years now," said Jay Weinstein, EisnerAmper Vice Chair of Industries and Markets. "By supporting startups, accelerators, and organizations that support underserved groups, they don't just get involved in their communities, they get invested. Adding these talented professionals to our cause is a real win for EisnerAmper, and an even bigger win for our clients. We warmly welcome Team Lurie to EisnerAmper."
About EisnerAmper
EisnerAmper, one of the largest business consulting firms in the world, is comprised of EisnerAmper LLP, a licensed independent CPA firm that provides client attest services; and Eisner Advisory Group LLC, an alternative practice structure that provides business advisory and non-attest services in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations, standards and codes of conduct. Clients are in all business sectors and leverage a complete menu of service offerings. Our combined entities include approximately 250 partners and 2,750-plus employees. For more information, please visit eisneramper.com, and be sure to follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Lurie LLP
Lurie was founded by entrepreneurs who sought to serve their community as a partner for growth. With more than 200 employees and offices in Minnesota and Florida, the firm provides fresh thinking and collaborative solutions in accounting, advisory, audit, tax, and wealth management. Lurie is a leading CPA and advisory firm in various industries, including healthcare, startups, technology and more. In joining with EisnerAmper, Lurie continues its 80+ year commitment to helping businesses thrive from startup through succession.
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Lawrence UniversityAPPLETON — Jeremy Bruton of Twin Lakes received two awards at Lawrence University’s 2022 Honors Awards ceremony. Bruton was the recipient of the William A. Mcconagha Prize, awarded to the student who best exhibits excellence in the study of economics and the Iden Charles Champion Award in Commerce & Industry, presented each year to an outstanding student in the department of economics. Bruton graduated with a double major in economics and government.
Marissa Polzin of Sturtevant was also honored at Lawrence University’s 2022 Honors Awards ceremony. Polzin was the recipient of the First-year Chemistry Achievement Award, given in recognition of outstanding performance in the introductory chemistry courses. Polzin was also one of four students to receive a Henry Merritt Wriston Scholarship, awarded to students for academic excellence and displaying wide-ranging academic interests.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Chick-fil-A has teamed up with the University of Alabama’s and Auburn University’s football teams to help raise money for patients at Children’s of Alabama hospital.
With every interception recorded by the Crimson Tide’s and Tiger’s defenses this season, Chick-fil-A will donate $2,000 to the Charity League Hearing and Speech Clinic at the hospital. It will be a continuation of the fast-food chain’s Picks for Kids initiative.
You can find more information on the fundraiser and keep track of the pick totals by clicking here. | https://www.cbs42.com/sports/alabama/how-every-interception-by-alabama-auburn-this-season-will-help-pediatric-patients/ | 2022-08-15T18:30:29Z | https://www.cbs42.com/sports/alabama/how-every-interception-by-alabama-auburn-this-season-will-help-pediatric-patients/ | true |
Indiana state officials are warning Hoosiers about scams related to the automatic taxpayer refund and inflation relief payments.
Last year, the state triggered its automatic taxpayer refund law because of unusually large revenue collections. That ultimately meant sending $125 to every Hoosier who filed a tax return last year. And state lawmakers recently approved an inflation relief package that will mean another $200 each to taxpayers.
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But with those payments also comes concerns about scams. The money will only come in the form of a direct deposit or a paper check. The state is telling Hoosiers to ignore any texts, emails or phone calls related to the taxpayer refund or inflation relief payments. That’s especially true if the messages contain links or request personal or financial information such as Social Security or bank account numbers.
If you receive one of these messages, you can report it to the Indiana attorney general’s office. You can do so online, by filing a complaint with the office’s consumer protection division.
Contact reporter Brandon at bsmith@ipbs.org or follow him on Twitter at @brandonjsmith5. | https://www.wbaa.org/2022-08-15/state-officials-warn-hoosiers-of-scams-on-tax-refund-inflation-relief-payments | 2022-08-15T18:32:47Z | https://www.wbaa.org/2022-08-15/state-officials-warn-hoosiers-of-scams-on-tax-refund-inflation-relief-payments | true |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
9-1-8
(nine, one, eight)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
9-1-8
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SALT LAKE CITY — The loud boom residents across northern Utah reported hearing early Saturday morning may have been caused by a meteor, officials say.
The sound was heard and felt just before 8:30 a.m., with reports coming in from people who say their homes shook following the boom.
People reported hearing the noise from areas from Roy to Bluffdale and everywhere in between.
Seismologists confirmed that the event was not an earthquake.
“I have experienced many earthquakes," said Luz Hernandez, who lived in Puerto Rico for years. "So because everything shakes, in the house, the walls, definitely it was not that case here — just a big sound."
Many also theorized that the noise was a sonic boom produced from aircraft nearby, possibly from Hill Air Force Base. However, in a tweet sent later Saturday, Gov. Spencer Cox said the noise was not from military aircraft.
Heard this while out on a run in SLC. We have confirmed it was not seismic/earthquake and not related to our military instillations. This is likely the best theory. https://t.co/mEGfjtveNE
— Spencer Cox (@SpencerJCox) August 13, 2022
Officials say a meteor caused the sound.
The National Weather Service shared a radar image showing the meteor's trail.
Bolstering the meteor theory for this morning's #boom in #Utah, the two reddish pixels shown over Davis and Morgan counties are from the GOES-17 Lightning Mapper, but not associated with evidence of thunderstorm activity in satellite or radar. Likely the meteor trail/flash #utwx pic.twitter.com/qRO2Rsfca7
— NWS Salt Lake City (@NWSSaltLakeCity) August 13, 2022
Robert Lunsford with the American Meteor Society said it’s rare to hear the sound created by a meteor.
“Your normal meteor is only the size of a pea or a small pebble. This particular object was probably the size of a beachball,” Lunsford said.
“You’ve got a big chunk of rock flying through space, and sometimes they even break up," added Duke Johnson with the Clark Planetarium. "And then you can get multiple booms, and I saw that the Weather Service did have two different blimps on the radar from this thing, so it appears that it may have broken up.
That’s why when the meteor came through the earth’s atmosphere, it pushed on the sound waves, resulting in the boom.
“Anything that surpasses the speed of sound, where the air is thick enough to carry sound waves, can create a sonic boom," Lunsford said. "And the only thing that really does that is lightning, a supersonic jet, and meteors."
Mandi Arrington, who lives in West Jordan, got her trees trimmed on Friday and thought a branch fell.
“I actually thought part of my tree had broken off and hit my house, so that’s why I went out and I started looking around, and I was completely confused,” she said. “It was a relief to find out that it was something else.”
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Couple finds out they own a road by getting $18,000 power bill for streetlights
MAILI, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow/Gray News) - A couple in Hawaii recently learned in a costly manner that they were the owners of a road they had bought a home on.
Halemaluhia Place in Maili, Hawaii, was built in the 1990s.
Resident David Carona said he wanted a street light fixed in front of his home and was told he needed to contact the owner of the road, according to HawaiiNewsNow.
“This street light was out so I called the city to have it repaired or have it corrected, and they told me that the street itself was private, and I had to contact the owner of the street to have it replaced and fixed,” he said.
It turned out the owners were Desha-Ann and Rashaan Kealoha, although they didn’t know it yet.
“When we first moved in, our other neighbor told us that we own the street,” Desha-Ann Kealoha said. “And we kinda just laughed it up because we thought, ‘We’re the new neighbor.’”
Carona did some research and then discovered that the road wasn’t conveyed to the city when the subdivision was completed. But he wasn’t able to find the original developer to find out why.
HawaiiNewsNow also tried to find out who the developer was, without success.
“Somehow, the original developer or owners of the lot that were supposed to dedicate it, conveyed it to the original owner of the property the Kealohas own now,” Carona said.
The Kealohas didn’t take it seriously until they got a letter from Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) asking for $18,000 for 20 years of streetlight use.
“As soon as I got it, I panicked,” Desha-Ann Kealoha said. “So, I started making all the phone calls necessary to find out why I should be held liable for it.”
The issue came before the Honolulu City Council on Wednesday.
HECO member Judy Hirashima said they’re not expecting the family to pay up.
“The intention I just want to share was not to collect the past due bill for over 20 years of electricity for the street lights,” Hirashima told the council. “That wasn’t the intention when we reached out.”
HECO said it just wants to determine who will pay the bill going forward, but couldn’t say why it took so long to discover the unpaid bill.
Councilmember Andria Tupola sponsored a resolution for the city to take possession of Halemaluhia Place and the responsibility for the light bill. Councilmembers adopted the resolution and Desha-Ann Kealoha testified in support of the measure.
“We definitely have an inside joke about this street being ours,” Kealoha said. “But you know, at the end of the day, I don’t want it to be ours.”
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Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex will visit UK and Germany in September
Updated: 12:45 PM EDT Aug 15, 2022
Video above: Royals attend church service for queen's jubileeHarry and Meghan will visit the UK and Germany in the first week of September, according to a spokesperson."Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are delighted to visit with several charities close to their hearts in early September," a spokesperson for the couple said Monday.The couple is expected to attend the One Young World 2022 Manchester Summit on Sept. 5 and the Invictus Games Düsseldorf 2023 One Year to Go in Germany on Sept. 6, before flying back to the UK for the WellChild Awards 2022 on Sept. 8, according to the spokesperson.The pair, who moved to the United States in 2020, were last in the UK for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee in June, when the monarch met their daughter, Lilibet, for the first time.However, the Sussexes were not invited to join the Queen on the Buckingham Palace balcony, as only royals carrying out official duties were included. Harry and Meghan split from the royal family in 2020 and no longer take part in royal duties.They flew in from the U.S. for the jubilee celebrations and were warmly welcomed by the crowd, arriving to cheers.Ahead of the event, there was much speculation in the British press over how the couple would be received following their decision to step back from the royal family and move to California.
Video above: Royals attend church service for queen's jubilee
Harry and Meghan will visit the UK and Germany in the first week of September, according to a spokesperson.
"Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are delighted to visit with several charities close to their hearts in early September," a spokesperson for the couple said Monday.
The couple is expected to attend the One Young World 2022 Manchester Summit on Sept. 5 and the Invictus Games Düsseldorf 2023 One Year to Go in Germany on Sept. 6, before flying back to the UK for the WellChild Awards 2022 on Sept. 8, according to the spokesperson.
The pair, who moved to the United States in 2020, were last in the UK for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee in June, when the monarch met their daughter, Lilibet, for the first time.
However, the Sussexes were not invited to join the Queen on the Buckingham Palace balcony, as only royals carrying out official duties were included. Harry and Meghan split from the royal family in 2020 and no longer take part in royal duties.
They flew in from the U.S. for the jubilee celebrations and were warmly welcomed by the crowd, arriving to cheers.
Ahead of the event, there was much speculation in the British press over how the couple would be received following their decision to step back from the royal family and move to California. | https://www.wlwt.com/article/prince-harry-and-meghan-duchess-of-sussex-will-visit-uk-september/40898150 | 2022-08-15T18:40:15Z | https://www.wlwt.com/article/prince-harry-and-meghan-duchess-of-sussex-will-visit-uk-september/40898150 | false |
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