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As Iraqi protesters rally, political deadlock leaves families without cash
By Amina Ismail
BAGHDAD, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Sabreen Khalil lost her husband to COVID last year, leaving her to raise seven children alone, but Iraqi government funding to help her and hundreds of thousands of families in poverty is blocked by political stalemate.
With politicians deadlocked over forming a new government since an election in October, rival Shi'ite Muslim factions in Baghdad on Friday continued their weeks-long protests which have prevented parliament from meeting.
The standoff has raised fears of renewed unrest in a country where militias wield significant power and is already taking a toll on the most vulnerable.
"I am a woman and all of a sudden I had to take the responsibility of seven children alone...it broke my back," Khalil said, speaking of the impact of her husband's death.
Sitting on the floor in her one-bedroom brick house in the village of Saada on the outskirts of Baghdad, she said she cannot afford treatment for her chronic illness and that her children have to skip some meals as food prices soar.
Nine months after applying for a government pension, she has received nothing from the ministry of labour and social affairs. "Every time we go they tell us 'We are waiting for a budget'," she said.
An official at the ministry said Khalil qualifies for support but confirmed there is no funding to provide it. "Our hands are tied because there is no budget," the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters.
Her family is one of about 370,000 families who qualify for the pension but are not receiving it because of the political deadlock, the official said.
ATTEMPT AT DIALOGUE
Iraq's 10-month standoff since the election is the longest stretch without a fully functioning government in the nearly two decades since Saddam Hussein was overthrown in a U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Rival Shi'ite groups want to see a new government formed, but disagree on the steps to achieve it.
Supporters of the powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who fought U.S. occupation forces before emerging as the main opponent of Iran-backed Shi'ite militias and their political leaders, has demanded fresh elections.
Sadr was the biggest winner of last year's election but was unable to form a government along with Kurdish and Sunni Muslim Arab parties, excluding his Iran-backed Shi'ite rivals.
Those rivals, known collectively as the Coordination Framework, say an election can only take place after a government is formed to lead a transition period during which legislation including a new election law should be passed.
"There is consensus over dissolving parliament and holding early elections, the issue is with the mechanism," a source in the caretaker government said, adding that talks were ongoing.
On Wednesday, caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa Kadhimi met political leaders and called on Sadr's supporters to join a national dialogue. He also called on all sides to suspend any political escalation.
Sadr did not attend the meeting, and his supporters have shown little public enthusiasm for the initiative.
"These dialogues do not serve the interest of the country... They serve your interests and your parties' interests and to keep you in power," an imam told hundreds of Sadr's followers who gathered to protest outside parliament on Friday.
Some carried portraits of Sadr and his late father, also a prominent cleric, as well as Iraqi flags.
Dozens of supporters of the Coordination Framework also protested outside the heavily protected Green Zone.
Hamdi Malik, an associate fellow at the Washington Institute and a specialist on Iraq's Shi'ite militias, said that despite some efforts to bridge the differences there appeared to be little prospect of swift results.
"The division is so wide that I can't see any solution and the possibility of clashes is actually increasing," Malik said.
Parliament did pass an emergency bill in June allocating billions of dollars to buy wheat, rice and gas and to pay salaries, but other government business has stalled.
A prominent Iraqi rights activist said the political factions were all responsible for the deadlock and ordinary Iraqis were paying the price.
"Anger is rising up among the people. Economic conditions have worsened and unemployment is on the rise," said Hanaa Edwar. Leaders are "holding dialogues to redistribute the spoils amongst politicians", she said.
Khalil meanwhile is still waiting in Saada, which means "happiness" in Arabic, for the government to come to her aid. She said the political process was not working.
"They say it's wrong if we don't vote," she said. "But elections didn't change anything." (Additional reporting by Maher Nazih in Baghdad; Writing by Dominic Evans; Editing by Nick Macfie) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11127737/As-Iraqi-protesters-rally-political-deadlock-leaves-families-without-cash.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-19T16:07:23Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11127737/As-Iraqi-protesters-rally-political-deadlock-leaves-families-without-cash.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Enel writes down Russian unit's value pending sale completion
MILAN, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Italy's biggest utility Enel has written down the value of its main Russian subsidiary by 527 million euros ($530 million) as it waits for the sale of Enel Russia to be approved by Moscow, the group said in its half-year financial statement.
Enel announced in June it had reached a deal with Russia's Lukoil and investment fund Gazprombank-Frezia to sell its 56.43% stake in Enel Russia for around 137 million euros, which will be paid at closing.
Following the agreement, the stake was classified as "held for sale" in the financial statement at end-June. The value of the net assets of the unit has been adjusted to reflect the expected sale price.
When the sale is completed, "a further charge of about 1 billion euros (as of June 30, 2022) will be recognised", Enel said in its interim financial statement, adding this was mainly due to the release of currency reserves. ($1 = 0.9955 euros) (Reporting by Francesca Landini; Editing by Richard Chang) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11127797/Enel-writes-Russian-units-value-pending-sale-completion.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-19T16:08:02Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11127797/Enel-writes-Russian-units-value-pending-sale-completion.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
2-6-4, FIREBALL: 2
(two, six, four; FIREBALL: two)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
2-6-4, FIREBALL: 2
(two, six, four; FIREBALL: two) | https://www.middletownpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Morning-game-17384334.php | 2022-08-19T16:10:22Z | https://www.middletownpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Morning-game-17384334.php | true |
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Keegan Bradley hasn’t been to the FedEx Cup finale in four years, and he started the BMW Championship on Thursday like he was in a hurry to get back.
Bradley matched a career low with a 29 on the front nine at Wilmington Country Club and finished with a 7-under 64 to take a one-shot lead over Adam Scott.
Bradley is at No. 44 in the FedEx Cup and likely needs a top 10 — he hasn’t had one since the U.S. Open — to be among the 30 players who advance to the Tour Championship in Atlanta to chase the $18 million prize.
He isn’t willing to consider the scenarios until it matters, which is Sunday. Until then, it’s all about try to do win a tournament, just like any week.
“My plan is I’m going to go home and see my kids no matter what on Sunday night,” Bradley said. “I’d love to go to Atlanta. That’s everyone’s goal to start the year.”
Scott started the postseason at No. 77 and tied for fifth in the playoff opener last week just to make it to the second stage. Now he’s at No. 45, giving him a chance. It also meant being paired with Bradley, and they put on quite a show. They combined for 15 birdies.
“He played beautifully today, and I was really just trying to follow his lead,” Scott said. “He kind of had everything going the way he wanted, and most of the time he was teeing off first and I was just trying to follow.”
PGA champion Justin Thomas put a different putter in the bag and responded with a 66 to leave him in the group with former British Open champion Shane Lowry and Harold Varner III.
Xander Schauffele and Collin Morikawa led the group at 67.
Rory McIlroy was the only player from the afternoon who looked to challenge Bradley, and he was doing just that at 6 under with four holes to play. But then he was between clubs on the par-3 15th, tried to hit a soft cut with a 5-iron and put his tee shot into he water. He took three putts from just short of the green, missing a 3-footer, and made triple bogey.
McIlroy was in the group at 68 that included Jordan Spieth and Patrick Cantlay, who won the BMW Championship last year an hour down the road at Caves Valley on his way to capturing the FedEx Cup.
McIlroy was able to accept one bad swing that cost him three shots, especially having missed the cut last week in the FedEx St. Jude Championship.
“Overall the rest of it was pretty good,” he said. “I knew once I got here last weekend, I knew it was a golf course that was going to suit me better than last week. … Pleased with my game. Disappointed with how I finished, but encouraged with the rest of it.”
The course is new to everyone — Delaware has never hosted a PGA Tour event — though Bradley has reason to feel right at home. He won the BMW Championship in 2018 some 20 miles away at Aronimink when he was No. 52 in the FedEx Cup, sending him to Atlanta.
The courses are nothing alike. If anything, Wilmington reminds several players of a “big brother” to Caves Valley, about the same length (7,534 yards) except playing to a par 71.
Find the fairway, fire at the flag. Miss the fairway, and it’s all about trying to get into position. It doesn’t always work out that way, and Schauffele is thankful for that.
He pulled his tee shot so far left on the par-5 14th that he was in shaggy round just in front of the on No. 3. He could see a portion of the green between a television tower, some video equipment and the trees. Schauffele got line-of-sight relief, and his drop happened to be on one of the forward tees. He belted a 3-wood onto the green for birdie.
Will Zalatoris won his first PGA Tour title last week at an ideal time, moving to the top of the FedEx Cup standings. Three holes into the BMW Championship, he went bunker to rough to bunker and then three-putted for a double bogey.
He rallied with four birdies on the back and escaped with a 70. Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world coming off a missed cut, still felt scrappy but holed enough putts for a 69.
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(NewsNation) — Two people who were reported missing after not coming home from a Nevada music and car show have been found dead, authorities said.
Juan Almanza Zavala, 36, and Janette Pantoja, 29 were coming home from a music and car show in Reno, Nevada, on Aug. 6, a local TV station reported. The two, who dated for years and still maintained a good relationship according to their families, were last seen driving a blue Ford Explorer.
Nevada County Sheriff’s Office confirmed a man and a woman were found after a man called 911 saying he spotted a vehicle down an embankment Wednesday night. Both bodies were found outside the car.
“Due to the nature of injuries, the male can only be tentatively identified as 36-year-old Juan Almanza Zavala,” Nevada County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook. “The female was confirmed to be 29-year-old Janette Pantoja.”
The car was not visible from the highway. Investigators had been searching rural areas nearby for the last two weeks. California Highway Patrol is conducting a vehicle accident investigation. | https://phl17.com/nmw/missing-former-couple-found-dead-after-music-and-car-show/ | 2022-08-19T16:15:35Z | https://phl17.com/nmw/missing-former-couple-found-dead-after-music-and-car-show/ | false |
Unity Christian scored more points than any 11-man football team in Michigan high school history last season.
The Crusaders went undefeated in the regular season for the second consecutive year and finished 13-1, with their only loss going to Chelsea, 55-52 in the Division 4 state championship game at Ford Field in Detroit. Other than the loss, no opponent finished within 26 points of the Crusaders all season. | https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2022/08/hudsonville-unity-christian-starting-over-after-record-breaking-2021.html | 2022-08-19T16:16:08Z | https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2022/08/hudsonville-unity-christian-starting-over-after-record-breaking-2021.html | true |
Marcell Ozuna arrested for DUI in Georgia originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
Atlanta Braves outfielder Marcell Ozuna was arrested for driving under the influence early Friday morning.
Norcross Police said Ozuna was pulled over for failing to maintain the proper lane and later booked at Gwinnett County Jail for DUI.
Ozuna, who was arrested in May 2021 on charges of felony assault after Sandy Springs police say they witnessed him choke his wife, is a two-time MLB All-Star and a two-time Silver Slugger Award winner.
The outfielder-turned-designated hitter led the majors in home runs during the shortened 2020 MLB season and was also the league leader in RBIs that year -- his first with Atlanta.
Following that 2020 campaign with the Braves, he signed a four-year, $65 million deal to stay in Atlanta.
The Braves put him on administrative leave in September 2021 following the domestic violence that took place in Sandy Springs, Ga. Atlanta went on to win the 2021 World Series without Ozuna on its postseason roster.
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He returned to the Braves for the 2022 MLB season after serving a 20-game suspension.
How many games has Marcell Ozuna played in 2022?
Ozuna, 31, has played 107 games in his 10th season in the major leagues.
How is Marcell Ozuna batting this season?
Marcell Ozuna's stats have tanked in 2022. His batting average is .214 -- bordering on a career low. His on-base percentage isn't any better at .263, which is the lowest of his career.
Ozuna's .393 slugging percentage is also good for second-lowest of his career. His only worst season was 2021.
How many home runs has Marcell Ozuna hit in 2022?
The Braves slugger has hit 20 home runs this season and has 46 RBIs on 89 hits.
He has scored 50 times so far during the 2022 MLB season. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/marcell-ozuna-arrested-for-dui-in-georgia/3831528/ | 2022-08-19T16:18:46Z | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/marcell-ozuna-arrested-for-dui-in-georgia/3831528/ | false |
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Attention St. Louis foodies: If you’ve ever wondered where to find some of the best Indian cuisine the region has to offer, then we’ve got you covered.
On Friday’s St. Louis on the Air, Sauce Magazine Executive Editor Meera Nagarajan will dish about her favorite spots to chow down on the best chana masala, aloo gobi, and garlic naan as reviewed in her latest feature, “Gateway to India.”
Have a question or comment about Indian cuisine in St. Louis? Tweet us (@STLonAir), send an email to talk@stlpr.org or share your thoughts via our St. Louis on the Air Facebook group, and help inform our coverage.
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- Maurice Butler brings nearly 30 years of banking experience to the position
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simmons Bank announced today the addition of veteran banker Maurice Butler as SVP, director of community Development. Butler will oversee the delivery of the bank's CRA plan that encompasses community affairs and the development of financial products and solutions designed to support the needs of low-and moderate-income communities. In addition, Butler will oversee the bank's Community Affairs Officers, a team focused on aiding underserved and emerging communities across the bank's six-state footprint. In this role, Butler will also work closely with Martie North, Simmons' SVP, Community Impact and CRA Strategy.
"Maurice has a wealth of experience in the banking industry," said Joe DiNicolantonio, EVP head of consumer and business banking. "His connections to the region, paired with his track record, make him an exciting addition to the Simmons' team. We look forward to Maurice taking the lead and connecting communities to the products and services offered by Simmons Bank."
With nearly 30 years of experience in the financial industry, Butler most recently served as the SVP, market manager of West Tennessee for a regional bank in Tennessee. Butler received a bachelor's degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is a graduate of the Consumer Banking Association Executive Bank School at Furman University in South Carolina. He also completed the Management Development Program for Executive Education at Georgia State University.
Simmons Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Simmons First National Corporation (NASDAQ: SFNC), a Mid-South based financial holding company that has paid cash dividends for 113 consecutive years. Simmons Bank operates more than 230 branches in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. Founded in 1903, Simmons Bank offers comprehensive financial solutions delivered with a client-centric approach. Simmons Bank was named to Forbes list of "America's Best Banks" for the second consecutive year and was recently named to Forbes list of "World's Best Banks" for the third consecutive year. Additional information about Simmons Bank can be found on our website at simmonsbank.com, by following @Simmons_Bank on Twitter or by visiting our newsroom.
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LEHI, Utah, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SocialClimb, the leading provider of healthcare marketing software that connects physicians with high-value patients, announces it is now offering Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) survey collection and submission solutions, including OAS CAHPS, HCAHPS, and CG-CAHPS.
SocialClimb's healthcare marketing platform now enables customers to collect and submit CAHPS surveys effortlessly. The HIPAA-compliant data collection process is enabled via multiple partners and the SocialClimb platform provides access to comprehensive reporting. Survey results are properly submitted to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) for compliance.
CAHPS surveys are designed to assess and support quality improvement and a better patient experience with medical facilities and healthcare providers. The standardized survey questions and data from the CAHPS surveys help consumers make informed comparisons among providers. CAHPS surveys show that healthcare organizations are concerned about the quality of patient care through efforts to improve their CAHPS survey scores.
"As practices look to the SocialClimb platform to attract patients and improve patient experience, we are excited to round out our suite of survey offerings with CAHPS data collection,'' said Ty Allen, SocialClimb CEO. "It's our mission to help healthcare organizations grow and improve their patient experience."
For more information about SocialClimb's healthcare marketing platform and automating your practice growth, visit https://socialclimb.com.
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Thousands of people across Scotland will be receiving Cost of Living payments as energy prices rise.
Those who are on DWP benefits will be getting £650, paid in two instalments, to help with the rising cost of living. However, not everyone is entitled to the financial support.
While everyone will have an energy discount applied, experts warn millions will struggling as the energy price cap is expected to hit £3,576 per year in October. It is then forecasted to jump to £4,704 next January and £5,856 in April.
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For those who will not receive the Cost of Living Payments, as per the Daily Record, they may still be able to access extra financial help and checking could only take a few minutes using an online benefits calculator.
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What is an online benefits calculator?
Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis is urging every household who earns less than £30,000 to use a benefits calculator just in case they are entitled to extra support. You can see the one on moneysavingexpert.com here.
Online benefit calculators only take up to ten minutes and can help work out if you are missing out on any benefits. They are also completely free, independent and confidential to use.
To use it, you just need to enter details about yourself, your residential status, employment status and any savings you have.
You can use an independent benefits calculator to find out:
- What benefits you could get
- How to claim
- How your benefits will be affected if you start work
Where to find support if you can't pay your energy bill
If you are struggling to pay your energy bill, independent charities can offer advice and support and supply benefit calculators.
Advice Direct Scotland's benefit calculator provides a free and impartial assessment of entitlement to a range of benefits. It is an online tool that is the first to fully integrate devolved benefits, including the Scottish Child Payment. They offer information on Universal Credit, crisis grants and support payments.
Turn2us offers information on income-related benefits, Tax Credits, Council Tax Reduction, Carer’s Allowance, Universal Credit and how your benefits will be affected if you start work or change your working hours.
They can offer impartial advice relating to income-related benefits, Tax Credits, contribution-based benefits, Council Tax Reduction, Carer’s Allowance, Universal Credit. They can also explain how these are calculated and how your benefits will be affected if you start work or change your working hours.
Information on income-related benefits, Tax Credits, contribution-based benefits, Council Tax Reduction, Carer’s Allowance, Universal Credit and how your benefits will be affected if you start work.
What you will need
When using a benefits calculator you will need certain information to hand. You will need to disclose any savings you have, your household income, existing benefits and pensions (including anyone living with you), outgoings such as rent, mortgage, childcare payments, and the latest council tax bill.
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Lintz joins G FUEL's roster of content creators as part of a long-term agreement
NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- G FUEL – The Official Energy Drink of Esports® – is pleased to announce that actor Matt Lintz (Marvel Studios' Ms. Marvel, AMC's The Walking Dead) has joined the brand's elite roster of content creators.
"Becoming a member of the G FUEL team is a dream come true," said Lintz. "Growing up, playing games was a part of who I was, and who I still am today. To have the opportunity to be a part of a company who values gaming as much as I do is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I can't wait to represent what it means to be a G FUEL partner!"
Lintz recently starred as Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel's best friend Bruno Carrelli in the critically acclaimed Marvel Studios series Ms. Marvel on Disney+. A longtime G FUEL fan and gamer, the 21-year-old regularly plays such games as Valorant, Apex Legends and MLB The Show 22, but Fortnite remains his all-time favorite title.
"When it comes to G FUEL partners, excitement and authenticity are incredibly important, and Matt Lintz brings both of those qualities to everything he does," said G FUEL Founder and CEO Cliff Morgan. "We're thrilled to welcome Matt into our passionate community of creators."
Lintz's partnership includes custom G FUEL content on his social media platforms as well as in-person appearances at retailers and fan events, including the following conventions:
- Aug. 19 - 21 – Colorado Springs Comic Con, Denver CO
- Sept. 30. - Oct 1 – SiouxperCon, Sioux Falls, SD
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- Dec. 3 - 4 – Wales Comic Con, Wales, UK
Now at GFUEL.com, fans can save 30% on their next order by entering Code "LINTZ" at checkout.
Keep your eyes on G FUEL and Lintz's social media platforms for updates on this exciting partnership!
As The Official Energy Drink of Esports®, G FUEL provides gamers with a performance-driven alternative to standard energy drink products. With an ever-expanding, sugar-free product lineup that includes a powdered Energy Formula, ready-to-drink cans, powdered Hydration Formula and Sparkling Hydration bottles, G FUEL has firmly established itself as the market leader in the gamer energy drink industry.
With over 340,000 5-star Shopper Approved Ratings, a shipping network that spans over 125 countries, a nationwide retail campaign, and a global social media footprint of over 1 billion followers, G FUEL maintains the industry's largest and most passionate community of fans, customers, content creators, and partners including the likes of Ninja, Sentinels Esports, Logic, NoisyButters, Luminosity Gaming, PewDiePie, Mikal Bridges, Summit1G, xQc, Ghost Gaming, Activision, SEGA of America, Capcom®, Bethesda Game Studios, Warner Bros., Disney, Lucasfilm, Sony Pictures, The Tetris Company, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc., RESPAWN Products, SteelSeries, and Digital Storm.
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Matt Lintz possesses range atypical from other actors his age. Being raised in an acting family of five he gained on set Film/Television experience early on in his life. Besides his recent Ms. Marvel television gig, Matt has been a regular on the Emmy-nominated drama The Alienist and AMC's The Walking Dead. Some of his film credits are Free State of Jones with Matthew McConaughey and Sony's Pixels with Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Peter Dinklage.
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Islamic State cell member sentenced to life in prison in U.S. for beheadings
U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis sentenced El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, during a hearing in a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia
A member of an Islamic State cell found guilty in April for his role in a hostage-taking plot that led to the beheadings of American journalists and aid workers was sentenced to life in prison by a U.S. federal court on August 19, 2022.
U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis sentenced El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, during a hearing in a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia.
Four months ago a jury found the former British citizen guilty of charges that included lethal hostage-taking and conspiracy to commit murder.
After a six-week trial in April and hours of deliberation, the jury concluded that Elsheikh was part of an Islamic State cell, nicknamed "The Beatles" for their English accents, that beheaded American hostages in Iraq and Syria.
Elsheikh, who was born in Sudan and raised in London, was accused of conspiring to kill four American hostages: James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller.
Foley and Sotloff, both journalists, and Kassig, an aid worker, were killed in videotaped beheadings. Mueller was raped repeatedly by the group’s leader at the time, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, before her death in Syria, U.S. officials have said.
The deaths of Foley, Sotloff and Kassig were confirmed in 2014; Mueller's death was confirmed in early 2015.
The charges against Elsheikh, whose British citizenship was withdrawn in 2018, carried a potential death sentence, but U.S. prosecutors had previously advised British officials that they would not seek the death penalty.
Another cell member, Alexanda Kotey, was sentenced to life in prison by a U.S. judge earlier this year. Kotey was held in Iraq by the U.S. military before being flown to the United States to face trial. He pleaded guilty last September to the murders of Foley, Sotloff, Kassig and Mueller.
A third member of the group, Mohammed Emwazi, died in a U.S.-British missile strike in Syria in 2015.
Some former hostages, released by the cell after protracted negotiations, testified during trials about the torture they endured. Family members of those killed also testified.
At the peak of its power from 2014-2017, Islamic State ruled over millions of people and claimed responsibility for or inspired attacks in dozens of cities around the world.
Its leader, al-Baghdadi, declared a caliphate over a quarter of Iraq and Syria in 2014, before he was killed in a raid by U.S. special forces in Syria in 2019 as the group's rule collapsed.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
2-6-4, FIREBALL: 2
(two, six, four; FIREBALL: two)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
2-6-4, FIREBALL: 2
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Andhra Pradesh: Gandhi’s ideals more relevant today, says Justice Ramana
CJI releases book written by his ‘close friend’ Bhumana Karunakar Reddy
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‘Satyasodhana’ (My Experiments with Truth), the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, dwells on the transformation of a common man into a noble-hearted legend, and is hence more relevant in today’s turbulent times, observed Chief Justice of India Justice N.V. Ramana.
Speaking after releasing the latest Telugu version of the book brought out by Tirupati MLA and literary activist Bhumana Karunakar Reddy on Friday, he called the Mahatma’s autobiography a time-tested account of contemporary situations which would make for a relevant read at any point of time.
Calling it ‘a moment of pride’ to be the successors of Gandhi, he wanted every Indian to carry forward the cherished ideals of the Mahatma. “Gandhi is not just about the freedom movement and patriotism, he stands as an epitome of values and ethics, which everyone of us should practise in our daily lives,” he said.
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Recalling the visit of the Mahatma twice to Tirupati during the struggle for independence, Justice Ramana appealed to Mr. Karunakar Reddy to reprint Gandhiji’s other books in Telugu to bring him and his idea of India back into the public realm.
“This is necessary at a time when the Indian youth are forgetting his ideals,” he observed.
Referring to Mr. Karunakar Reddy as a ‘close friend’, the CJI recalled the former’s affinity towards revolutionary ideas during their college days and appreciated him for admitting the same in public, without paying heed to political consequences.
Mr. Karunakar Reddy recalled that it was Gouthu Latchanna who had gifted him a copy of Gandhiji’s book for the first time. “I apologise for having opposed Gandhi’s ideals during my association with the revolutionary movement in college days,” he said.
TTD Executive Officer A.V. Dharma Reddy received a copy of the book, along with litterateurs Sakam Nagaraja and C. Saila Kumar.
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HC directs UIDAI to disclose Aadhaar details of 12 Bangladeshi nationals to NIA
The investigation agency is probing fabrication of documents to secure Aadhaar for illegal immigrants from that country
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The High Court of Karnataka has directed the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to furnish information and documents submitted for securing Aadhaar by 12 Bangladesh nationals, some of whom are already convicted in a gang rape case, and some are facing trial in human trafficking and illegal immigration cases before a trial court in the city.
Justice Krishna S. Dixit issued the directions to the UIDAI while allowing a petition filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Confidentiality clause
The NIA had approached the court as UIDAI had declined to provide the information and documents sought for, as Section 33 mandates that confidential information/ authentication documents, which are prohibited from being revealed, can be disclosed in certain cases only by an order of the court not inferior to a judge of the High Court.
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While directing UIDAI to hand over all the documents and information, the court also directed NIA not use such details for any purpose alien to investigation of the offences and prosecution of the offenders.
The NIA had sought details of Ashraful Mondal alias Ashraful Islam, Sobuj Shaik, Hridoy Babo alias Rifadul Islam Ruda, Rakibul Islam Sagar , Mohammad Babu, Rafsan Mondal alias Alami Hussain, Samit alias Dailm Ahamed Jillion, Mohammad Azim Choryor, Mohammad Jamal, Raihan Shaik, Rasul Khan, and Rocky Khan.
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They were arrested in June last year from a rented house in Ramamurthynagar police station limits after a video of gang-rape of a Bangladeshi woman went viral in Bangladesh and in Assam.
While a sessions court convicted some of them in May 2022 for gang rape based on the chargesheet filed by the city police, NIA, which took over the investigation on human trafficking and illegal immigration, filed a chargesheet against all of them.
The NIA, which expanded the scope of investigation to a larger conspiracy, sought information and documents from UIDIA for ascertaining the genuineness of the information and documents that led to generation of Aadhaar.
Cross-border trafficking
The High Court said that UIDAI was required to provide the details as NIA was probing the case that related to cross-border human trafficking and forcing vulnerable women from Bangladesh to prostitution in India by creating fake identification documents.
The court also pointed out that the Aadhaar Act, 2016, only mandated the court to hear the UIDAI before granting permission to provide confidential details; and there was no such compulsion in the Act to hear the persons concerned whose information was sought. “Insisting upon consent of the persons whose information is sought for, can be metaphorically equated to mosquitoes insisting upon consent for combat against malaria,” the court observed.
All 12 Bangladesh nationals are at present lodged in Bengaluru Central Prison but they did not respond to the court’s notice.
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Sally Handlon welcomes Dr. Kristann Heinz, a family medicine doctor practicing functional and integrative medicine, to share insight on “the power of food.”
Dr. Heinz has undertaken a research project this summer on “food deserts” and how to seek out nutritional options in these areas of limited fresh food. Listen in to hear the research results and gain some insight on the role of functional medicine.
Wellness Lehigh Valley takes a look at the many different elements and factors which can help people live healthy and fulfilling lives. New episodes air on alternating third Thursdays of the month from 6:00 to 6:30 PM following All Things Considered.
(Original air-date: 8/18/22) | https://www.wdiy.org/podcast/wellness-lehigh-valley/2022-08-19/nutrition-functional-medicine-and-the-power-of-food-with-dr-kristann-heinz-wellness-lehigh-valley | 2022-08-19T16:48:40Z | https://www.wdiy.org/podcast/wellness-lehigh-valley/2022-08-19/nutrition-functional-medicine-and-the-power-of-food-with-dr-kristann-heinz-wellness-lehigh-valley | false |
Apple disclosed serious security vulnerabilities for iPhones, iPads and Macs that could potentially allow attackers to take complete control of these devices.
Apple released two security reports about the issue on Wednesday, although they didn’t receive wide attention outside of tech publications.
Apple’s explanation of the vulnerability means a hacker could get “full admin access” to the device. That would allow intruders to impersonate the device’s owner and subsequently run any software in their name, said Rachel Tobac, CEO of SocialProof Security.
Security experts have advised users to update affected devices — the iPhone6S and later models; several models of the iPad, including the 5th generation and later, all iPad Pro models and the iPad Air 2; and Mac computers running MacOS Monterey. The flaw also affects some iPod models.
Apple did not say in the reports how, where or by whom the vulnerabilities were discovered. In all cases, it cited an anonymous researcher.
Commercial spyware companies such as Israel’s NSO Group are known for identifying and taking advantage of such flaws, exploiting them in malware that surreptitiously infects targets’ smartphones, siphons their contents and surveils the targets in real time.
NSO Group has been blacklisted by the U.S. Commerce Department. Its spyware is known to have been used in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America against journalists, dissidents and human rights activists.
Security researcher Will Strafach said he had seen no technical analysis of the vulnerabilities that Apple has just patched. The company has previously acknowledged similarly serious flaws and, in what Strafach estimated to be perhaps a dozen occasions, has noted that it was aware of reports that such security holes had been exploited. | https://www.capitalgazette.com/business/ct-biz-apple-security-flaw-ap-20220819-nlhb5mb56vhcrisbaz2jk75xlm-story.html | 2022-08-19T16:52:34Z | https://www.capitalgazette.com/business/ct-biz-apple-security-flaw-ap-20220819-nlhb5mb56vhcrisbaz2jk75xlm-story.html | false |
Karua : We shall accept court's ruling on presidential election petition
Azimio La Umoja running mate Martha Karua has announced that the coalition is willing to accept final decision of the Supreme Court on a presidential election petition challenging results announced by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission on Monday.
IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati declared Kenya Kwanza presidential candidate William Ruto as the President-elect at Bomas of Kenya, where the Azimio top leadership was a no-show.
A day later, the coalition led by presidential candidate Raila Odinga held a press conference rejecting the results, and announced their next move to seek legal recourse in challenging Dr Ruto's win. | https://nation.africa/kenya/videos/news/karua-we-shall-accept-court-s-ruling-on-presidential-election-petition-3919860 | 2022-08-19T16:57:19Z | https://nation.africa/kenya/videos/news/karua-we-shall-accept-court-s-ruling-on-presidential-election-petition-3919860 | true |
Food safety expert shares tips on protecting school lunches from foodborne illnesses
(CNN) - Everyone knows healthy meals are important, but as students return to school and lunches are being packed, parents need to protect against foodborne illnesses.
Many times, lunchboxes sit around for hours at school before kids eat.
A healthy meal is well balanced with members of all the food groups, but even a good lunch can go bad if it’s not properly packed.
“These children’s lunches aren’t going to be in a refrigerator,” said Karen Hunter, a U.S. Department of Agriculture food safety expert. “They won’t be able to pull them out right before they eat.”
Hunter said two of the most important back-to-school items you can buy are an insulated lunchbox and something to keep your child’s lunch cold.
She also recommended having two cold sources packed.
“One of those can be a re-freezable gel pack that you can use every day. And a second option would be to freeze their juice box or water bottle and put that in in the morning,” she said. “And that way, by the time lunchtime comes around that beverage is ready to drink, but it’s also served the purpose of keeping those lunch contents below 40 degrees Fahrenheit.”
As you prepare lunches, keep hands and surfaces clean to avoid cross-contamination.
If you pack lunches the night before, it’s recommended to leave the tops open when you put them in the refrigerator to allow the cold air to circulate and then add gel packs in the morning.
Make sure your child doesn’t open the insulated bag before lunch when items need to stay cold, or after lunch to eat things they didn’t finish.
“For example, if you have a meat sandwich that was cold at lunchtime, it probably won’t still be cold and in that safe temperature range by the time after school comes around,” Hunter said.
The USDA said if parents aren’t sure whether their child’s food is cold enough, they should do a trial run on the weekend. They can pack the bag as if it’s for a school day, place an appliance thermometer into the lunchbox and check it at lunchtime
For more information on temperatures to keep different foods safe, you can also check out foodsafety.gov.
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ROCK & AWE: Barnsdall gridders flex skills for success
A year ago, Kylee Sweeney tried to peer through a crop of question marks as thick as a cornfield.
Twelve months later, the Barnsdall High football coach has seen those squiggly uncertainties ripen into giant exclamation points.
Small wonder the veteran Panther skipper is eager to get into the season — and get there healthy.
Barnsdall will experience its lone scrimmage experience Friday evening at Wesleyan Christian School in Bartlesville.
The eight-man team varsity action begins at 6:30 p.m. at White Field located along Silver Lake Road.
Barnsdall is bolstered by an impressive roster of 25 players — although a couple have been out this week due to illness.
“We’re trying to manage the kids now,” Sweeney said two days prior to the scrimmage.
At this time in 2021, Sweeney relied heavily on freshmen to fill key roles, including Maverick Lanphear at quarterback, Easton Malone at running bak and Braden Byars at receiver.
Even though they’re still only sophomore, they received an extra helping of seasoning last year during a 5-5 campaign while competing in one of the toughest Class B district.
Lanphear, Malone and Byars “I think are the core guys that will lead us” on offense, Sweeney said.
He’s also sold on his defense, which includes a trio of rugged gladiators at linebacker, Nate harper, Cooper Hill and Christian Hernandez.
Harper and Hill are set to make college visits next week at Southern Nazarene, Sweeney noted.
Sweeney also looks forward to the return of a powerful lineman that has sat out the past couple of years.
“We’re hoping things have started clicking back with him,” Sweeney said.
Following Friday’s abbreviated scrimmage at Wesleyan Christian, Barnsdall will open the season on Aug. 26 against another area rival, Copan. | https://www.examiner-enterprise.com/story/sports/local/2022/08/19/barnsdall-to-depend-heavily-on-returning-experience-to-lead-way/65408682007/ | 2022-08-19T16:59:16Z | https://www.examiner-enterprise.com/story/sports/local/2022/08/19/barnsdall-to-depend-heavily-on-returning-experience-to-lead-way/65408682007/ | false |
The Slatington Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing and endangered man, a news release says.
Joby Bauer, who is balding, 6 feet 1 inch tall and 160 pounds, was last see in the 1300 block of West Court Street in Allentown and is known to visit Lehigh Parkway, police said. Bauer, who has several tattoos, was wearing grey gym shorts, a white tank top and sneakers, police said.
Anyone who knows where Bauer might be is asked to call police at 610-437-5252 and reference incident number SP-220814-1253, the news release said.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple disclosed serious security vulnerabilities for iPhones, iPads and Macs that could potentially allow attackers to take complete control of these devices.
Apple released two security reports about the issue on Wednesday, although they didn't receive wide attention outside of tech publications.
Apple's explanation of the vulnerability means a hacker could get "full admin access" to the device. That would allow intruders to impersonate the device's owner and subsequently run any software in their name, said Rachel Tobac, CEO of SocialProof Security.
Security experts have advised users to update affected devices — the iPhone6S and later models; several models of the iPad, including the 5th generation and later, all iPad Pro models and the iPad Air 2; and Mac computers running MacOS Monterey. The flaw also affects some iPod models.
Apple did not say in the reports how, where or by whom the vulnerabilities were discovered. In all cases, it cited an anonymous researcher.
Commercial spyware companies such as Israel's NSO Group are known for identifying and taking advantage of such flaws, exploiting them in malware that surreptitiously infects targets' smartphones, siphons their contents and surveils the targets in real time.
NSO Group has been blacklisted by the U.S. Commerce Department. Its spyware is known to have been used in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America against journalists, dissidents and human rights activists.
Security researcher Will Strafach said he had seen no technical analysis of the vulnerabilities that Apple has just patched. The company has previously acknowledged similarly serious flaws and, in what Strafach estimated to be perhaps a dozen occasions, has noted that it was aware of reports that such security holes had been exploited.
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Utah’s ban on transgender kids in youth sports put on hold
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Transgender kids in Utah will be not be subjected to sports participation limits at the start of the upcoming school year after a judge delayed the implementation of a statewide ban passed earlier this year.
Judge Keith Kelly’s decision Friday to put the law on hold until a legal challenges is resolved came after he recently rejected a request by Utah state attorneys to dismiss the case. Most Utah schools students head back to classes this month.
Attorneys representing the families of three transgender student-athletes filed the lawsuit challenging the ban last May, contending it violates the Utah Constitution’s guarantees of equal rights and due process.
Similar cases are underway in states such as Idaho, West Virginia and Indiana.
The issue of whether transgender girls should be allowed to participate in female sports has become flashpoint across the U.S. with Republican lawmakers passing legislation to block them based on the premise it gives them an unfair competitive advantage.
Transgender rights advocates counter that the rules aren’t just about sports but another way to demean and attack transgender youth.
As of March, the Utah High School Activities Association knew of only one transgender girl playing in K-12 sports who would be affected by the ban.
The association, which organizes leagues for 85,000 students, has said there have been no publicly made allegations of competitive advantage concerning any of the state’s four transgender youth athletes.
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EL DORADO, Ark. (KTVE/KARD)–The location has changed for an annual school supply giveaway that was set to take place at Mattock’s Park.
Veronica Bailey, founder and chief executive officer of Meet Me at the Court, announced the Sharion Bailey Whitlock Backpack and School Supply Giveaway: “From Court to Class” is still scheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday, August 20, but the location has changed due to rain. It will be held at the Frank Hash Tailgate Pavilion behind the TAC House, located at 1101 N. West Ave.
This is the ninth year Meet Me at the Court is providing area parents and children with supplies ahead of the school year. Bailey said this giveaway is in honor of her late sister, Sharion Bailey Whitlock, who was a school teacher.
“Each year gets more exciting! We want to help release burdens on our local parents. With inflation, this is such a big help,” explains Bailey.
The school supply giveaway will be a drive-through event, Bailey said.
Items parents can expect:
- Backpacks
- School Supplies
- Lunch Carriers
Bailey explains other activities will still go as planned.
There will be free food and drinks, as well as drawings for children to win a bicycle. Tickets will be issued to children and the winners will be selected based on their ticket numbers.
MMC and The Bailey Family teamed up with the Sugar Town Riders motorcycle club to host the giveaway.
As of Friday morning, Meet me at the Court is still accepting additional donations.
If anyone is interested in donating to the giveaway or has additional questions, contact Veronica Bailey at 870-310-0391. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/top-stories/meet-me-at-the-courts-annual-back-to-school-giveaway-moved-to-frank-hash-pavillion/ | 2022-08-19T17:08:01Z | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/top-stories/meet-me-at-the-courts-annual-back-to-school-giveaway-moved-to-frank-hash-pavillion/ | true |
Meteorologists are monitoring a tropical wave that on Friday was pushing northwest over the Bay of Campeche in the southern Gulf of Mexico.
This comes as the tropics have been eerily quiet thus far this season — though there are hints the basin could start to awaken. While it’s unlikely the tropical wave will become anything more than a low-end tropical storm, it’s the first sign of peak season’s swift approach as September nears.
Weather models are also simulating the development of more robust tropical waves set to roll off the coast of Africa in coming weeks. It’s impossible to diagnose what will transpire with any of them, but conditions could prove favorable for development as more time passes.
System to watch approaching Gulf
On Friday morning, a tropical wave was located over the Bay of Campeche and dubbed “Invest 94L,” a designation that suggests the potential for tropical development. The Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters will be dispatching a crew Friday afternoon to fly into the nascent system in an effort to obtain additional data for forecasting and modeling.
Aug 19th 1055 AM EDT: A special Tropical Weather Outlook has been issued, raising the probability of tropical cyclone formation to 60% within the next two days for the disturbance in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. More info: https://t.co/tW4KeFW0gB #99L pic.twitter.com/5NZWGXZh0X
— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) August 19, 2022
The Hurricane Hunters specified their mission was that of low-level reconnaissance, meaning they’d spend their time flying below 10,000 feet altitude in an effort to locate any potential low-level center.
Thunderstorms were blossoming around the tropical wave Friday morning. Convection, or shower and thunderstorm activity, was visible spouting over the Bay of Campeche. Other areas of storminess were occurring in Belize, northern Guatemala and the Montes Azules National Park region of Mexico.
As the system continues northwest, it will likely strengthen some.
There are questions regarding where the center of the roiling cloud mass is, assuming one exists. A farther east center would likely support better chances of development, since more of the system would be over the warm waters of the southwestern Gulf. That trajectory would also give the system a longer time to mature before eventually moving ashore Sunday in the northern Mexico state of Tamaulipas or perhaps southern Texas.
Weather models indicate some consolidation of the tropical disturbance is possible in the next 48 hours as it feeds off favorable gulf water temperatures in the lower- to mid-80s. Also of note is the prominent outflow, or high-altitude exhaust, evidenced on satellite. The more air a storm exhales in the upper atmosphere, the more warm, humid air it’s able to ingest as fuel near the surface.
There’s a decent chance that the system could fringe South Texas with heavy rainfall sometime late Sunday or early next week, but uncertainty abounds.
The season as a whole
All told, the Atlantic Ocean has been surprisingly quiet. No hurricane has formed in the Atlantic basin so far this year — an impressive 317-day drought. This year has now entered into the top 10 years with the longest dearth of hurricanes in the satellite record.
It defies predictions of an above-average season, which is still possible, and according to forecasts probable. Technically speaking, mid-September is the climatological peak to hurricane season. That’s when activity is statistically favored to reach a crescendo. But it’s not uncommon for most of August to be quiet, as if the ocean is lying in wait. This year, however, we’re now to the point of being behind.
On average, a season’s fourth named storm will form by Aug. 22 and the fifth by Aug. 29. It’s unlikely that we will get there by those dates this year. One hurricane should have already formed in an average year, as well, and we’d be about a week out from our second. Neither looks to be the case.
There have been three named storms so far this season, two of which were fleeting disturbances with poorly organized, disheveled structures.
Instead the Atlantic Ocean is quiet — perhaps due to disruptive wind shear (a change of wind speed and/or direction with height), or broad subsidence or sinking of air. Wind shear can tear apart fledgling storms and inhibit their organization.
ACE, or Accumulated Cyclone Energy — a measure of how much oceanic heat energy storms churn up and transform into strong winds — is also at rock bottom. This point in a typical season would have already netted 18 ACE units. This season’s total stands at 2.8.
However, in the coming two weeks it appears wind shear should slacken a good deal, making it easier for storms to form.
CSU has issued 2-week Atlantic #hurricane forecast (Aug. 18-31) and gives highest odds for near-normal activity (70%) with below-normal & above-normal both given 15% chances. Tropical cyclone activity is likely to increase later in the period:https://t.co/8GXmlarsze pic.twitter.com/ID9ZEHYIfG
— Philip Klotzbach (@philklotzbach) August 18, 2022
Around that same time, long-range weather models indicate the potential for a few tropical waves to fan off the coast of Africa and begin their westward trek. These waves could help instigate what could be named storms.
Researchers at Colorado State University are calling for a 70 percent chance of near-normal activity in the next two weeks, with a 15 percent odds for above-average and an equal chance for below-average.
They emphasize that “this period typically marks the real ramp-up for Atlantic tropical cyclone activity.”
It’s also important to note that there may still be major impact on people regardless of whether a season is above or below average. A jam-packed season might feature storms developing at a breakneck pace, but if storms avoid land, there’s often little consequential result. Likewise, 1992 yielded meteorological radio silence until mid to late August, when the calamitous Hurricane Andrew razed much of South Florida.
With only seven named storms, that season was far below average — but the biggest storm it produced was among the most costly and destructive in generations. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/19/tropics-storm-atlantic-hurricane/ | 2022-08-19T17:11:01Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/19/tropics-storm-atlantic-hurricane/ | false |
Dr. Terry Dubrow's life in plastic (surgery) is so fantastic that Heather Dubrow never wants him to stop.
The Real Housewives of Orange County star recently revealed that she has no intentions of letting her Botched co-host hubby quit the plastic surgery game any time soon.
"See, I won't let Terry retire," Heather told her guest, comedian Ms. Pat, on the August 19 episode of her Heather Dubrow's World podcast. "He's a surgeon. He's gonna die with a scalpel. He's gonna keel over one day."
While she has nothing but love for her longtime partner—with whom she tied the knot with in 1999—Heather certainly enjoys her alone time, as she joked, "He can't retire. He cannot be home. That's not gonna be a thing."
Luckily, Terry won't be leaving the operating room anytime soon, as Botched was renewed for an eighth season on E! in July. Teasing the upcoming season in an Instagram post on July 20, Terry's co-star, Dr. Paul Nassif, said, "Gonna have great new patients, incredible surgeries and a lot more bromance."
Heather is booked and busy herself, as she will likely return for RHOC's upcoming season 17, though Bravo has yet to announce the official cast lineup.
With 23 years of marriage and four kids—Max, 18, Nicholas, 18, Katarina, 15, and Collette, 11—under their belt, the two know how to make a relationship in the entertainment industry work. Terry even spilled some of his best relationship advice on the Feb. 14 episode of E! News' Daily Pop.
"The real key is to learn how to fight properly," he said. "When you're in the heat of the moment, don't say it. You know you want to say it, but don't say it. Wait until there are calmer minds and then say what you want to say later."
Catch up on past seasons of The Real Housewives of Orange County and Botched now on Peacock.
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Vanessa Bryant takes witness stand in suit over helicopter crash scene photos
By Cheri Mossburg, CNN
Vanessa Bryant, widow of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, took the witness stand Friday in her federal lawsuit against Los Angeles County over photos taken and shared by first responders of the scene of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed her husband, their teenage daughter and seven others.
Along with Chris Chester, whose wife and daughter also died in the crash, Vanessa Bryant filed a federal civil lawsuit alleging Los Angeles County invaded their privacy and inflicted emotional distress by not properly containing the spread of the photos which, according to witness testimony, show not just helicopter wreckage but the mangled bodies of the victims.
The trial has so far seen testimony by several law enforcement personnel, including a deputy who testified he showed graphic images from the scene while at a bar, another deputy who said he shared photos while playing a video game, a deputy who sent dozens of photos to someone he didn’t know, and a fire official who showed the images to other personnel during an awards ceremony cocktail hour.
Chester testified on Thursday, saying he lives in fear that the graphic photos taken of his loved ones’ bodies may resurface one day.
Chester took the stand after several days of testimony from the law enforcement officials — some of whom offered apologies, detailed the graphic nature of the photos, and explained why they were taken and shared and why orders were given to delete them.
Vanessa Bryant has been in the courtroom listening to the testimony of every witness except the coroner. She walked out of the courtroom abruptly as a bartender testified about seeing photos.
As the final witness for the prosecution, Bryant’s testimony is expected to last around three hours.
If time allows, the defense is expected to call LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva as its first witness, to be followed by LA County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone.
Kobe Bryant, 41, and Gianna Bryant, 13, were among nine people killed in the January 26, 2020, helicopter crash on a hillside in Calabasas, California.
They were flying to a girls basketball game at Bryant’s Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks when the helicopter went down, leaving no survivors.
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NORTH WILDWOOD – Surf fishermen with a penchant for competition should prepare their rods and reels as the North Wildwood Recreation Department revs up for their annual surf fishing competition Sept. 9-11 here.
Anglers are invited to register at the gazebo at Third Avenue and JFK Boulevard in North Wildwood. The registration fee includes a parking pass for tournament hours. Fishing hours are 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9 and Saturday, Sept. 10, and 7 to 11 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 11.
Prizes will be awarded at noon on Sunday for adult and youth divisions. For more information, call 609-522-2955 or visit NorthWildwood.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell in afternoon trading on Wall Street Friday, putting major indexes on track for losses that will end a solid run of weekly gains.
The S&P 500 fell 1.3% as of 12:04 p.m. Eastern. The benchmark index is now on track to break a four-week winning streak. The Nasdaq fell 2% and is also set to end four weeks of gains.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 283 points, or 0.8%, to 33,717 and is slightly in the red for the week.
Technology stocks had some of the biggest losses and the sector’s dip weighed heavily on the broader market. Microsoft fell 1.3%.
Retailers, banks and industrial firms also fell sharply amid the broad slide.
Meme stock Bed Bath & Beyond sank 37.7% after the high-profile activist investor Ryan Cohen confirmed that he’s sold his stake in the company.
Bitcoin fell 7.7%, to $21,453, dragging the rest of the crypto market down with it.
Bright spots included General Motors, which rose 1.9% after reinstating its dividend. Foot Locker soared 21.6% after replacing its CEO and reporting earnings that beat Wall Street’s estimates.
Trading has been choppy throughout the week as investors reviewed the latest batch of earnings from retailers and updates on spending, home sales and the employment market.
Big retailers including Walmart and Target have warned investors that inflation is crimping consumer spending. Department store owner Macy’s will report its results next week.
A report on retail sales this week showed that spending remains resilient as gasoline prices fall and help ease some pressure from inflation.
Wall Street is trying to determine how stubbornly hot inflation is affecting businesses and consumers and whether the economy can remain resilient and avoid a recession.
The data from government and corporate reports is also being closely watched as investors try to determine how the Federal Reserve will continue with its plan to fight inflation by raising interest rates. The goal is to raise rates and slow down economic growth to cool inflation. But, the central bank is threading a fine line between taming inflation in an already slowing economy and hitting the brakes too hard and veering the economy into a recession.
Minutes of the Fed’s July meeting released this week said inflation is still is too high and made clear the central bank will keep raising interest rates. The central bank has raised interest rates twice this year by 0.75 percentage points, triple its usual margin. Forecasters currently expect a hike of a half-percentage point at the board’s next meeting. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/business/asian-markets-mixed-after-wall-st-gains-on-jobs-data/ | 2022-08-19T17:20:58Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/business/asian-markets-mixed-after-wall-st-gains-on-jobs-data/ | true |
(NEXSTAR) – The AMC theater chain is hoping you’ll spend one of your summer nights watching “Grease” on the big screen.
Adam Aron, the CEO of AMC Theatres, announced on Twitter that “Grease” will return to theaters in honor of Olivia Newton-John, who passed earlier this month at 73.
Aron added that the showings will be part of the theater chain’s “$5 Fan Faves” movie deal, meaning the screenings will cost only $5 plus tax. Some of the proceeds will also be donated to charity.
“An inexpensive $5 admission price, and through our charity AMC Cares we will donate $1 per sold ticket to breast cancer research,” Aron added.
Aron did not specify how many theaters would be participating, but said “many” of the chain’s locations would be hosting “Grease” screenings this weekend. Specific showtimes and participating theaters can be found at AMC’s official website.
Newton-John, who passed away on Aug. 8, had first been diagnosed with breast caner in the early 1990s. Throughout the following years, she became an advocate for breast cancer awareness and championed research initiatives and charities. She also helped to create the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre in Melbourne, Australia. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/grease-returns-to-theaters-for-5-in-honor-of-olivia-newton-john-amc-to-donate-to-breast-cancer-research/ | 2022-08-19T17:23:19Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/grease-returns-to-theaters-for-5-in-honor-of-olivia-newton-john-amc-to-donate-to-breast-cancer-research/ | false |
(NEXSTAR) — With two months of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season already over with, it might seem like activity in the tropics has been pretty quiet. But is it unusual?
By this time in the year, there are typically about four named storms, according to the National Hurricane Center. So far, there have been only three named storms (Alex, Bonnie and Colin), so activity is only slightly below average. More on that below.
Chief Meteorologist David Yeomans with KXAN News in Austin says there are a variety of reasons why the past two months have been a bit sluggish.
Here’s what’s causing slower activity in the tropics:
- The high pressure system normally found over Bermuda this time of year is farther north. This clockwise circulation, near the Azores west of Europe, is dragging dry air down from Europe. Chief Meteorologist Jeff Berardelli of WFLA in Tampa says this area is experiencing multiple heat waves and is in the midst of its worst drought in centuries — conditions which create very dry air that travels over the ocean and inhibits tropical formation.
- Saharan dust. According to Yeomans, some dust is still present in the main development region of the tropics. While there’s less than there was a month ago, the dry and windy air it causes is also inhibiting storm formation.
- High winds across the Atlantic basin.
Despite these factors, Yeomans says storm activity is expected to ratchet up in the coming weeks.
“Over the next 1 to 2 weeks, we expect the dust and wind shear over the Atlantic to lessen/lighten and expect more rising air to develop in that area (instead of sinking),” said Yeomans. “All of these should lead to an uptick in activity.”
He notes, however, that while it’s been quiet, the season isn’t all that unique, adding that most Atlantic tropical storm/hurricane activity usually happens after August 20. The peak of the season comes around September 10.
There’s another reason why this season may seem slower — recent hurricane seasons have been so much more active than average. WFLA reported that by August 1, 2021, there had already been five named storms. In 2020, there were eight between May and July. So while this season may be a little lightweight so far, it’s too soon to tell if it’ll ultimately be considered “slow.”
But could this slightly slow start to the hurricane season impact severity? Yeomans answered simply: “There’s no correlation between a slower start of hurricane season and how the rest of it plays out.”
The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season ends Nov. 30.
Tropical systems explained
While it may be confusing to understand the differences between types of tropical weather events, Yeomans broke down how they’re classified:
- Tropical depression: Weaker systems with winds of 38 miles per hour or less
- Tropical storm: Winds reach 39 mph or higher, at which point the storm is officially named
- Hurricane: Winds reach 74 mph or higher. Hurricanes keep the same names they earned when they reached “tropical storm” status
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — An invasive insect that could affect Hoosier grape growers and honeybee producers has migrated to northern Indiana, one year after being first spotted in the state's southeastern corner.
Purdue University said Thursday that the spotted lanternfly was detected in July in Huntington County in northeastern Indiana. That comes a year after the pest was first reported in Indiana in Switzerland County, an Ohio River county in the state's far southeastern corner.
Infestations of the insect, which boasts spotted, bright red wings, have been reported in 13 states, mostly on the East Coast.
Purdue entomology professor Cliff Sadof said the swift migration of the insect in Indiana poses a significant agricultural threat to wine grape growers and honeybee and walnut tree producers.
While the insect feeds on over 100 different types of plants, he said it can reproduce only when feeding on walnut trees, grape vines or the tree of heaven.
Purdue experts said the insect feeds on wine grape vines and can either severely reduce the vines’ winter hardiness or kill the crop all together. Honeydew produced by the insects that bees later collect can also taint honey.
Both grape growers and beekeepers are advised to avoid moving equipment that could allow the insect to hitch a ride to other parts of Indiana.
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A part of a human foot found in a shoe floating in a hot spring in the southern part of Yellowstone National Park earlier this week is believed to be linked to a July 31 death, park officials said Friday.
While the investigation continues, foul play is not suspected.
The shoe was recovered from Abyss Pool on Tuesday, park officials reported. News of that discovery led a man from Maryland to contact the National Park Service to report that he and his family had spotted a shoe, floating sole up, in the hot spring on the morning of Aug. 11.
Chris Quinn of Pasadena, Maryland, said he sent a photo of the shoe to the park service.
While the park service did not confirm it was the same type of shoe found Tuesday, Quinn said he would be surprised if it's not related to the same incident.
Abyss Pool, located west of the West Thumb of Yellowstone Lake, is 53 feet (16 meters) deep and the temperature is about 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 Celsius), park officials said.
At least 22 people are known to have died from hot spring-related injuries in and around the 3,471-square-mile (9,000 square kilometer) national park since 1890, park officials said.
The most recent occurred in June 2016 when Colin Nathaniel Scott, 23, of Portland, Oregon, left a boardwalk in the Norris Geyser Basin, slipped on some gravel and into a boiling, acidic spring. No significant human remains were left to recover.
The nation's first national park has drawn more than 4 million visitors over the past several years, with the exception of 2020, when it was briefly closed due to the pandemic. The park had closures in June due to historic flooding. It's northern entrance at Gardiner and its northwestern entrance near Cooke City remain closed to vehicles.
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Woman celebrating 100th birthday still raises and sells cattle
SALINA, Kan. (KWCH/Gray News) – Age is no factor for 100-year-old Ethel Diehl. She still prefers to work, raising and selling cattle.
“I prefer working to just doing nothing, watching TV, you know, or reading books,” she told KWCH. “I want to do my work first and then I have my evenings for that.”
Diehl turned 100 on Aug. 4 but was treated to another birthday celebration this week while selling her cattle in Kansas.
Having lived on a dairy farm as a child, Diehl has been around livestock most of her life, and she’s been raising cattle for the better part of a century.
“I’ve always done it since I got married in 1944,” Diehl said. “Because I lived on a farm, married a farmer, always had cattle, still do.”
She said staying active helps her manage the farm, even after her husband’s death.
“Because I worked and got in and out of four-wheel-drive trucks and things like that, I had the muscular ability to continue,” she said. “Never spent a day where I didn’t work, unless I was ill.”
The working mentality is also what Diehl believes the younger generations should adopt to have long and prosperous lives.
“Work. It’s a great benefit,” she said. “You need to be active, be a participant in what you’re doing. And really, you have to enjoy it. There’s all kinds of jobs, and what suits one does not suit another.”
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Panel rules Justice improperly withheld memo in Russia probe
The Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr improperly withheld portions of an internal memorandum Barr cited in publicly announcing that then-President Donald Trump had not committed obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation, a federal appeals panel said Friday.
The department had argued that the 2019 memo represented the private deliberations of its own lawyers before any decision had been formalized, and was therefore exempt from disclosure. A federal judge previously disagreed, ordering the Justice Department to provide it to a government transparency group that had sued for it, prompting an appeal last year by the Biden administration to a higher court.
Attorneys for the Justice Department didn’t immediately respond to an email message seeking comment on the ruling. The department can appeal the ruling to the full court.
At issue in the case is a March 24, 2019, memorandum from the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, or OLC, and another senior department official that was prepared for Barr to evaluate whether evidence in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation could support an obstruction of justice prosecution of the president.
Barr has said that he looked to that opinion in concluding that Trump did not illegally obstruct the Russia probe.
The Justice Department turned over other documents to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington as part of the group’s lawsuit, but declined to give it the memo. Government lawyers said they were entitled under public records law to withhold the memo because it reflected internal deliberations among lawyers before any formal decision had been reached on what Mueller’s evidence showed.
But U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said last year that those arguments were disingenuous because the memo was prepared for Barr at about the same time as a separate Justice Department letter informing Congress and the public that Barr and other senior department leaders concluded that Trump had not obstructed justice.
She said the memo could therefore not have been “predecisional” in nature if the Justice Department had already decided that there would be no obstruction case.
The government said it had indeed already concluded that there would be no obstruction prosecution since Justice Department legal opinions say a sitting president cannot be indicted. But it said the memo concerned a separate issue: whether the evidence Mueller had collected could support a conclusion that Trump had obstructed justice.
In its ruling Friday, the appellate panel wrote that, had Justice Department officials made clear to the court that the memo related to Barr’s decision on making a public statement about the report, rulings in the case may have been different.
“Because the Department did not tie the memorandum to deliberations about the relevant decision, the Department failed to justify its reliance on the deliberative-process privilege,” according to the ruling, by an unsigned panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Barr and other senior officials concluded that Trump’s actions didn’t amount to obstruction, and the attorney general shared that assessment with Congress soon after the memo was complete. Mueller’s team did not reach a conclusion on whether Trump had obstructed justice.
Appellate judges also noted that their ruling was “narrow,” saying that it should not be interpreted to “call into question any of our precedents permitting agencies to withhold draft documents related to public messaging.”
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 19, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
1111 AM CDT Fri Aug 19 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1215 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast Texas, including the following
counties, Austin, Fort Bend and Wharton.
* WHEN...Until 1215 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways. Ponding of water in urban or other areas is
occurring or is imminent.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1110 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small stream
flooding. Between 1.5 and 2 inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Rosenberg, Richmond, East Bernard, Wallis, Fulshear, Pleak,
Simonton, Beasley, Kendleton, Orchard, Weston Lakes and
Cumings.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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“Today, around 4:00 a.m., we managed to put an end to all the outbreaks of fires across the country," except for one in Skikda that is contained but not fully out, Farouk Achour, the communications director at Algeria's civil protection service, said Friday on national radio. He listed more than 50 scattered fires.
In El Tarf, residents still in shock took stock of the damage.
“People died and nobody came," said Hakim Bouachiha, a security worker at the Berabtia Zoo, describing a three-hour wait for emergency crews.
The death toll included a family of five found in their home, tourists visiting the coast and eight people on a public bus that was surprised by flames in a mountainous region.
El Tarf resident Mohamed Gefaifia described seeing a woman next to the bus “who had protected her children by covering them with her body, but she ended up dying, poor thing.”
Forensic experts are working to identify the dead and combing fire-afflicted areas to check if there are any more victims, civil protection officials said.
Friday’s weather was cooler but special end-of-summer concerts and cultural activities have been canceled because of the fires.
Algerians from elsewhere sent trucks loaded with food, medicines, blankets and clothes to El Tarf, and world leaders called Algeria's president to offer their support.
The Justice Ministry has set up a commission to investigate the source of the fires.
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A man watches a charred van in a village of the region of El Tarf, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
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A man watches a charred van in a village of the region of El Tarf, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
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Residents walk past a charred truck in El Kala, in the El Tarf region, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
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Residents walk past a charred truck in El Kala, in the El Tarf region, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
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Credit: Mohamed Ali
A man walks past a charred car in a village of the region of El Tarf, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
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A man walks past a charred car in a village of the region of El Tarf, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
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Credit: Mohamed Ali
Residents watch the caarcass of a dead animal in El Kala, in the El Tarf region, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
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Residents watch the caarcass of a dead animal in El Kala, in the El Tarf region, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
Credit: Mohamed Ali
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Residents watch the charred vegetation in El Kala, in the El Tarf region, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
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Residents watch the charred vegetation in El Kala, in the El Tarf region, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
Credit: Mohamed Ali
Credit: Mohamed Ali
A charred van is photographed in the region of El Tarf, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
Credit: Mohamed Ali
A charred van is photographed in the region of El Tarf, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
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Credit: Mohamed Ali
A charred tree is photographed after a wildfire in the region of El Tarf, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
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A charred tree is photographed after a wildfire in the region of El Tarf, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
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Men watch a charred van in a village of the region of El Tarf, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
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Men watch a charred van in a village of the region of El Tarf, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
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Algerian Prime Minister Aimene Benabderrahmane, center, visits a village after a wildfire in the region of El Tarf, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
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Algerian Prime Minister Aimene Benabderrahmane, center, visits a village after a wildfire in the region of El Tarf, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, Thursday, Aug.18, 2022. Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 26 people, according to a "provisional report" by the north African country's interior minister. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali)
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If it is most later and you may they are on the settee close to you and tilting in personal, place your hands to the their shoulder. Here is what I phone call the newest “marker” touch. The senior school football mentor throws a hands on your neck when he supplies you with with the video game. Your dad leaves a hand on your own shoulder when you’re 12 and you will they are launching you to individuals. When earlier in the day men was basically having bad weeks, We lay my hand on their shoulder – a great paternal-impression motion one to checks out, “I had you, I’m here, it should be Ok.”
sixteen. He requires what sort of porno your check out.
It may sound for example a homosexual porno circumstance by itself, however, many “straight-to-gay” knowledge occurs more porn. You observe they with your buddies, then you certainly are usually jacking away from together.
When a straight pal is homosexual-curious, I do not suggest Kink’s 30 minutes regarding Torture, punch fisting, otherwise gorgeous electro clips which have worst submissives screaming during the pain. I head him to in which we-all come – Xtube or other homosexual porno pipe webpages which have ridiculous pop-ups and you will malware risks – and you may help him explore for himself. In the event the the guy desires a certain and polite testimonial, We publish him back at my individual favourite – Appreciate Isle Mass media (spunk dumps, anon plenty, class orgies, oh my personal!). It is a booty-pirate’s lives for my situation. | https://philadelphiaweekly.com/ten-he-pays-attention-attentively-once-you-mention/ | 2022-08-19T17:33:45Z | https://philadelphiaweekly.com/ten-he-pays-attention-attentively-once-you-mention/ | true |
With Aaron Rodgers voicing a bit of concern this week about his receivers, Green Bay Packers WR Randall Cobb laid down the law. He doled out some advice to the young wide receivers trying to make their name in Green Bay.
When asked about his thoughts on Aaron Rodgers' criticism of the receiving corps this week, Cobb told reporters:
"It doesn't matter if they appreciate [Rodgers' criticism] or not. This is the way that we do things here. So, it's either you get with it or you get out the room and we'll find somebody else that's gonna get on board with what we're trying to accomplish."
While the Green Bay Packers are seemingly all-in on a Super Bowl hunt, the Packers' offense is still taking shape after the departure of Davante Adams.
Adams racked up nearly thrice as many receiving yards as any other receiver on the roster last year, with just over 34 percent of the team's receiving yards. He was traded to the Las Vegas Raiders this offseason, leaving the Packers a little light on offensive weapons.
With Adams' departure, Rodgers now has a mixed group of veterans and young players to fill the void.
Aaron Rodgers goes in on Green Bay's receiving corps
Earlier this week, Aaron Rodgers was asked about the state of Green Bay's offense, with the league MVP telling reporters:
"The young guys, especially young receivers, we've got to be way more consistent. A lot of drops, a lot of bad route decisions, running the wrong route. We've got to get better in that area."
Rookie Romeo Doubs has been the talk of the town in Green Bay, generating a healthy amount of training camp buzz. Doubs, however, is a rookie, and the NFL hasn't been particularly productive for WRs in their rookie seasons.
Aaron Rodgers, however, didn't point the finger specifically at Doubs, who dropped what the shot-caller said was his best pass in practice.
"You keep dropping the ball, you're not going to be out there. It's going to be the most reliable guys that are out there. If you're going out there and dropping the ball and somebody else behind you is in the right spot all the time and catching the ball, that guy's going to play."
Cobb himself said he was high on Doubs after a training session, noting that nobody knows what the rookie WR's ceiling is yet.
“He has a lot of tangibles, a lot of special gifts. That’s potential. We all know potential is one thing…it’s going to take a little bit of time to figure out how good he is going to be. But he has the pieces. We never want to set too high of expectations for people, but he’s shown some flashes.”
The Packers may not be the favorites for the Super Bowl with the likes of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Kansas City Chiefs, and Los Angeles Rams in the mix. But with back-to-back NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers calling the shots fresh off an ayahuasca retreat, the Packers will always be in the conversation for the Holy Grail. | https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-this-things-here-packers-star-randall-cobb-comes-aaron-rodgers-defense-following-qb-s-criticism-young-wrs | 2022-08-19T17:34:43Z | https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-this-things-here-packers-star-randall-cobb-comes-aaron-rodgers-defense-following-qb-s-criticism-young-wrs | false |
Texas family of 5 expecting ‘1 more child’ surprised with quadruplets
HOUSTON (KHOU) – A Texas family of five was in for the surprise of a lifetime when they found out they would be adding quadruplets to the family.
After trying for just “one more child,” Gaby and Patrick Hagler discovered they would be having four.
The couple got married in 2018, each bringing in a child of their own from previous marriages, Paxton and Kalleigh. It didn’t take long to become a family of five with Sammy, their now almost-3-year-old son.
While Gaby Hagler said, “Life was already hectic,” the couple decided their family would feel complete with one more child.
She got pregnant but suffered a miscarriage. After healing from that loss, they wanted to try again.
With the help of fertility medication, Gaby Hagler got pregnant again. But at her 12-week ultrasound, they were shocked to find out she was carrying quadruplets.
For the next several months, the Haglers navigated the high-risk pregnancy.
“It became this beautiful group effort where everyone believed these boys could make it to that day, and we did,” Gaby Hagler said.
On June 22, at 34 weeks, Gaby Hagler gave birth to four sons – Adam, Bennett, Coby and Dane. Three weeks after their birth, they were able to head home.
“There are moments of chaos, but it’s not what I expected,” Gaby Hagler said. “The love in this house now is tangible.”
The family of nine is finally complete and ready for the journey ahead.
“We’re looking forward to what life has in store for these guys,” Patrick Hagler said.
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Turkish lira slips toward record low in post-rate-cut selloff
By Ezgi Erkoyun and Nevzat Devranoglu
ISTANBUL, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Turkey's lira slid towards an all-time low on Friday as traders continued selling the currency after the previous day's surprise central bank interest rate cut in the face of near 80% inflation.
Analysts and bankers said Thursday's cut to 13% from 14% was the central bank leaping on booming and potentially record tourist revenue, and also suited President Tayyip Erdogan's long-term drive for lower borrowing costs.
Worries the cut will just feed more inflation resulted in a decline of 1% in the lira on Thursday to 18.15 against the dollar.
It stood at 18.0870 at 1553 GMT on Friday, leaving it just above a record low of 18.40 per dollar which it had hit in December during the last major meltdown. That had been a brief "intraday" low, though, and the currency set a record closing low of 18.089 on Thursday.
"In our view, more important than the rate cut was the signal provided by the central bank that it was uncomfortable with the recent softening in loan growth and wished to pivot back towards boosting short-term growth," Deutsche Bank's Fatih Akcelik said.
He added that if that should prove right, it was likely to widen the country's current account deficit and send the lira lower in the coming months.
"We still expect sharp lira depreciation to lead the CBT (central bank) to hike its policy rate in the last quarter of this year," Akcelik said.
The central bank's cut on Thursday had lowered its key rate by 100 basis points and was its first move of the year.
There had been no signal beforehand that it had been coming although the country's badly depleted foreign reserves have nearly tripled since early July to $15.7 billion as tourists locked down by COVID-19 over the last two years have flooded back.
"It is important to evaluate rate cut decisions together with the increase in forex reserves in the last couple of weeks. Tourism is very strong and forex income through exporters is high. Apart from that there is an inflow from Russia of around $5-$6 billion," a senior banker said.
"The central bank could be thinking the reserves will increase further. I want to think they took the rate cut risk with guaranteed foreign financing flow," added the banker, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
ERDOGAN'S WAY
Rather than tackling the highest inflation in 24 years with rate rises, as is the approach of other central banks, Turkey's bank is driving Erdogan's economic programme of policy stimulus to promote exports, investment and economic growth.
Exports, boosted by targeted low lending rates, have in turn risen. Adding to foreign inflows, Turkey's tourism season is on pace to nearly match pre-pandemic numbers. Traders also speculate that a funding deal has been reached with Russia, though authorities have not commented.
JPMorgan analysts called the rate hike "opportunistic (and) driven by the fact that net and gross FX reserves have increased ... likely due to a combination of tourism revenues that have reduced the CA deficit ... and USD deposits from Russian Rosatom for a nuclear power plant project."
In a sign of market stress, Turkey's 5-year credit default swaps rose to 792 basis points from 656 a week ago. Yet in a reminder of how investors have fled Turkey in recent years, volatility gauges rose only slightly.
The central bank had slashed rates by 500 basis points towards the end of last year, sparking a currency crisis in December that sent inflation soaring. The lira has lost more than 27% against the greenback so far this year and over 90% over the last decade.
The bank's policy-setting committee said it needed to act because leading indicators pointed to a loss of economic momentum in the third quarter and the new policy rate was "adequate under the current outlook".
Goldman Sachs analysts said in a note that Turkey's macroeconomic policy mix had become more unsustainable with the latest decision and forecast annualised inflation to rise to more than 90%.
Credit rating agency Fitch, which has downgraded Turkey multiple times in recent years, said the negative outlook it still has on the country's rating reflects the risks of focusing on growth despite the worsening environment.
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AMC re-releases ‘Grease’ in tribute to Olivia Newton-John
Published: Aug. 19, 2022 at 12:18 PM CDT|Updated: 20 minutes ago
(CNN) - Following Olivia Newton-John’s death earlier this month, AMC Theaters is re-releasing the classic film “Grease,” in which she starred with John Travolta.
This weekend, 135 theaters will show the 1978 film adaptation of the musical, with tickets costing just $5, and $1 from each ticket will go to breast cancer research.
Newton-John died Aug. 8 after several bouts with cancers over the years.
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DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Death Valley National Park's most popular sites will reopen to the public on Saturday, two weeks after massive flash-flooding, but the National Park Service cautioned visitors to expect delays and continuing road closures.
Locations that will reopen include the Furnace Creek Visitor Center, Badwater Basin, Zabriskie Point, and Mesquite Sand Dunes, according to the park's Facebook page.
Access to the park will be limited to State Route 190 and Panamint Valley Road.
Visitors were warned to plan ahead and not rely on GPS because all other paved roads will remain closed for repairs, and backcountry roads are still being assessed.
On Aug. 5, Death Valley was hit by historic downpours from monsoonal thunderstorms that caused millions of dollars in damage to roads and facilities.
This summer's very active monsoon has also damaged roads elsewhere in California's deserts, including Mojave National Preserve and the south side of Joshua Tree National Park.
Joshua Tree urged visitors to drive carefully and keep an eye out for desert tortoises because the water encourages them to emerge, and they can be mistaken for rocks on roadways.
The National Weather Service's San Diego office said another surge of monsoonal moisture will increase the chance for mountain and desert thunderstorms through the weekend. Another surge is expected in the middle of next week. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Flood-damaged-Death-Valley-to-reopen-popular-17384602.php | 2022-08-19T17:39:16Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Flood-damaged-Death-Valley-to-reopen-popular-17384602.php | false |
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona voter initiative that would expand voting access and roll back tightened election laws passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed by GOP Gov. Doug Ducey was teetering on the edge of failure Friday after a judge disqualified tens of thousands of signatures backers turned in to qualify it for the November ballot.
An attorney representing opponents of the Free and Fair Elections measure said his analysis shows the measure now falling about 10,000 signatures short. Meanwhile, the backers' attorney said they were still analyzing the complicated ruling and that it wasn't clear if enough signatures survived. The secretary of state was awaiting final verification of signatures by county recorders.
The ruling released late Thursday night is the third handed down this week in legal challenges to voter initiatives filed in July. The two previous rulings rejected challenges to a measure limiting so-called predatory debt collection and for one that would require people who fund political campaigns through nonprofit groups to be identified.
Opponents of those initiatives are appealing directly to the Arizona Supreme Court which faces an Aug. 25 deadline to issue rulings so election officials can get ballots to the printers. The secretary of state and recorders says signature reviews show the debt measure will make the ballot, while reviews on the other two measures are due next week.
Attorney Korey Langhofer, who represents the pro-business Arizona Free Enterprise Club in the challenge to the election measure, said appeals are likely by his group and the initiative's backers to Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Joseph Mikitish's ruling.
Mikitish weighed challenges in 32 different areas of registrations, paperwork and eligibility of paid circulators who gathered an estimated 475,000 signatures. The secretary of state rejected about 75,000 of them, leaving nearly 400,000 for a review by county recorders.
The Free Enterprise Club's challenge has apparently disqualified enough of those for the measure to fall below the nearly 238,000 needed to make the ballot, according to Langhofer's estimate. But he said he’ll likely appeal some aspects of the ruling allowing some signatures to be counted, and expects the measure’s proponents to appeal the disqualification of some of the petition circulators.
The Free and Fair Elections measure changes a slew of election laws. It specifically blocks the Legislature from overturning the results of presidential elections, an avenue some Republicans explored after former President Donald Trump's loss in the state in 2020. It also guarantees ballot privacy and bars handing election materials or ballots over to outside groups like the state Senate did after 2020, expands voting access, mandates that all voters can go to any polling site, extends early voting and limits lobbyists ability to wine and dine lawmakers.
The measure also would eliminate the “strict compliance” legal standard that led Mikitish to disqualify many of the petition sheets. The GOP-controlled Legislature required that standard for initiatives in 2017, making it easier to throw them out for relatively minor paperwork errors. That's because, as Mikitish noted in his ruling, it “requires nearly perfect compliance with constitutional and statutory mandates.” | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Ruling-puts-Arizona-voting-access-initiative-on-17384605.php | 2022-08-19T17:40:23Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Ruling-puts-Arizona-voting-access-initiative-on-17384605.php | false |
Actor Chuck Norris is promoting a tool that Texas leaders are leaning on to prevent the next school shooting.
With students headed back to class across Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott rolled out a public service campaign for iWatch Texas that featured the Walker, Texas Ranger star.
In the new PSA, Norris — who starred in the TV series from 1993 to 2001 — said he loves “bringing bad guys to justice.”
The reporting system allows anyone to anonymously report suspicious activities or behaviors that could indicate criminal, terrorism, or school safety-related threats.
The iWatch system was put in place after a shooting at Santa Fe High School outside Houston in 2018.
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The singer-songwriter is known for his intensely autobiographical writing. When Wainwright turned 75 recently, he decided to make an album about trying — and mostly failing — to age gracefully.
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The singer-songwriter is known for his intensely autobiographical writing. When Wainwright turned 75 recently, he decided to make an album about trying — and mostly failing — to age gracefully.
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CARY, N.C. (AP) — Former major leaguer Mark DeRosa has been named Team USA manager for the 2023 World Baseball Classic.
USA Baseball, based in Cary, North Carolina, announced the appointment Friday. DeRosa’s professional coaching debut puts him in charge of the defending world champions next spring.
He is currently a co-host of MLB Network’s daily morning program, MLB Central.
“Mark DeRosa brings a lifetime of baseball knowledge to the dugout for Team USA,” general manager Tony Reagins said. “(DeRosa) is well-respected both on and off the field and his experience and leadership as a player in the 2009 Classic will be a valued asset as we navigate this process.”
The U.S. won the title in 2017, beating Puerto Rico 8-0 in the title game at Dodger Stadium.
The 47-year-old DeRosa played for eight teams during 16 years in the majors, batting .268 with 100 homers and 494 RBIs in 1,241 games. He made his major league debut with Atlanta in 1998 and played in his last game with Toronto in 2013.
DeRosa, who won the 2010 World Series with San Francisco, first joined MLB Network as a guest analyst during the 2011 and 2013 postseasons.
Next year’s tournament will be played from March 8-21. Games will be held in Phoenix, Miami, Taichung, Taiwan, and the Tokyo Dome in Japan. The semifinals and title game will be at loanDepot park in Miami from March 19-21.
USA Baseball will announce the full coaching staff next week.
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Yellowstone says foot in hot spring linked to July 31 death
Published: Aug. 19, 2022 at 11:26 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Officials in Yellowstone National Park say part of a foot found in a hot spring in the southern part of the park earlier this week is believed to be linked to a July 31 death.
Park officials don’t believe foul play was involved.
The park reported that an employee found part of a human foot in a shoe floating in Abyss Pool on Tuesday.
News of that discovery led a man from Maryland to come forward and report that he and his family had spotted a shoe, floating sole up, in the hot spring on Aug. 11.
Abyss Pool is a 53-foot-deep hot spring west of the West Thumb of Yellowstone Lake.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — British national El Shafee Elsheikh was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role in an Islamic State scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners hostage a decade ago.
Elsheikh's hostages gave him a somewhat whimsical nickname — he was dubbed a “Beatle” along with other English-accented captors — but the moniker belied the viciousness of his conduct.
“This prosecution unmasked the vicious and sadistic ISIS Beatles,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Raj Parekh, noting that Elsheikh and the other Beatles always wore masks when they appeared in front of their hostages.
He is the most notorious and highest-ranking member of the Islamic State group to ever be convicted in a U.S. Court, prosecutors said Friday at his sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. The life sentence was a foregone conclusion after a jury convicted him of hostage taking resulting in death and other crimes earlier this year.
The convictions revolved around the deaths of four American hostages: James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig, and Kayla Mueller. All but Mueller were executed in videotaped beheadings circulated online. Mueller was forced into slavery and raped multiple times by Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi before she was killed.
They were among 26 hostages taken captive between 2012 and 2015, when the Islamic State group controlled large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
The convictions carried a mandatory life sentence. The U.S. agreed not to pursue death sentence as part of a deal that ensured extradition of Elsheikh and his friend, Alexanda Kotey, who has already been sentenced to life.
Parekh said it was difficult to convey the brutality of Elsheikh's actions. “We lack the vocabulary of such pain,” he said, paraphrasing Dante's Inferno.
Still, victims of Elsheikh and the Beatles testified at Friday's hearing and gave voice to what they experienced. Danish photographer Daniel Rye Ottosen, who was released after paying a ransom, said the worst moments were times of silence during and after captivity when he was alone with his thoughts.
He said when Elsheikh and the Beatles beat him up, it was almost a relief.
“Now I knew I could only concentrate on my pain, which is much easier than being alone with your thoughts,” he said.
Ottosen was particularly close to Foley, and memorized a goodbye letter that Foley wrote to his family so he could dictate it to Foley's parents when he was released.
Foley's mother, Diane Foley, said holding Elsheikh accountable at trial sends a message of deterrence to other would-be hostage takers.
“Hatred truly overwhelmed your humanity,” she told Elsheikh on Friday, which was the eighth anniversary of James Foley's beheading.
At trial, surviving hostages testified that they dreaded the Beatles’ appearance at the various prisons to which they were constantly shuttled and relocated. Elsheikh and the other Beatles played a key role in the hostage negotiations, getting hostages to email their families with demands for payments.
They also routinely beat and tortured the hostages, forcing them to fight each other to the point of passing out, threatening them with waterboarding and forcing them view images of slain hostages.
Elsheikh did not speak during Friday's hearing. His lawyer, Zachary Deubler, said Elsheikh will appeal his conviction. Elsheikh's lawyers had argued that his confessions should have been ruled inadmissible because of alleged mistreatment after he was captured by Kurdish-led Syrian Defense Forces in 2018.
At Friday's hearing, Deubler confined his arguments to a request that Elsheikh not be sent to the supermax prison facility in Florence, Colorado, where he would face solitary confinement for the rest of his life. Deubler said a designation to Florence is almost a certainty unless the judge recommends otherwise.
Judge T.S. Ellis III declined to make any recommendation to the Bureau of Prisons.
“The behavior of this defendant and his co-defendant can only be described as horrific, barbaric, brutal, callous and, of course, criminal,” Ellis said. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/British-fighter-gets-life-for-Islamic-State-17384510.php | 2022-08-19T17:48:37Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/British-fighter-gets-life-for-Islamic-State-17384510.php | true |
All of the Air Force's F-35A Lightning IIs have returned to service, roughly three weeks after concerns over faulty ejection seats grounded most of them, the service said.
Air Combat Command made the shutdown decision in late July amid similar moves by other services in response to problems with cartridge-actuated devices in the ejection seats. A CAD is an explosive component used to launch the seat out of the cockpit in cases of emergency.
There was "little to no impact" on F-35 operations during the shutdown, Alexi Worley, an Air Combat Command spokeswoman, told Stars and Stripes on Tuesday.
The Air Force inspected 706 cartridges, which came from 349 F-35s as well as additional supply, Worley said Monday, according to Air Force Times. Four cartridges were found to be suspect and replaced, she said.
The first military to ground planes over the ejection seat issue was Britain's. On July 22, the Royal Air Force halted flights involving Red Arrows and Typhoon fighter jets, U.K. news agencies reported.
The shutdown for the U.S. began July 27, when the Navy and the Marine Corps started grounding several planes that use U.K. ejection seats manufactured by the British company Martin-Baker.
The 19th Air Force's Air Education and Training command followed suit shortly thereafter, grounding nearly 300 of its training planes, which also use Martin-Baker's CADs in their ejection seats. The command has since returned to flying the planes following inspections.
Steve Roberts, Martin-Baker's head of business development, told news website The Aviationist last month that an anomaly had been discovered in an F-35 cartridge at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, in April.
It was traced back to a "gap in the manufacturing process, which was addressed and changed," Roberts told The Aviationist. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/military/air-force-has-full-f-35-fleet-back-in-service-following-part-problem-in-ejection/article_99cbbf6b-db00-53a1-b380-5c51fdd6ca48.html | 2022-08-19T17:49:22Z | https://www.unionleader.com/news/military/air-force-has-full-f-35-fleet-back-in-service-following-part-problem-in-ejection/article_99cbbf6b-db00-53a1-b380-5c51fdd6ca48.html | false |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana taxpayers have until Oct. 6 to claim millions in state income tax refunds before they become unclaimed property.
The Louisiana Department of Revenue sent letters to 20,400 people and business taxpayers advising them to claim their refunds before they are transferred by law to the Unclaimed Property Division of the state treasurer’s office. More than $36 million in unclaimed refunds is due for transfer if not claimed, the department said in a news release.
To claim a refund, complete and return to the revenue department the voucher in the Notice of Unclaimed Property letter dated Aug. 18. The department will issue paper checks to all taxpayers submitting completed vouchers by the October deadline.
Any refund not claimed by the deadline remains the property of the taxpayer, and can be retrieved from the Unclaimed Property Division. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Louisiana-tax-refunds-may-be-going-to-unclaimed-17384572.php | 2022-08-19T17:49:50Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Louisiana-tax-refunds-may-be-going-to-unclaimed-17384572.php | true |
NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
IN RE PIVOTAL SOFTWARE, INC. SECURITIES LITIGATION
Lead Case No. CGC-19-576750
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a hearing will be held on DECEMBER 1, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. before the Honorable Andrew Y.S. Cheng in Department 613, Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, 400 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA 94102, to determine whether: (1) the proposed Settlement as set forth in the Amended Stipulation of Settlement dated April 15, 2022 ("Stipulation") of the above-captioned action ("Action") for $2,750,000 in cash should be approved by the Court as fair, reasonable, and adequate; (2) the Plan of Allocation should be approved by the Court, as fair, reasonable, and adequate; (3) to award Plaintiffs' Counsel attorneys' fees and expenses out of the Settlement Fund (as defined in the Notice of Proposed Settlement of Class Action ("Notice"), which is discussed below), and if so in what amount; (4) to reimburse Plaintiffs for their time and expense in representing the Class, and if so in what amount; and (5) to enter the Judgment as provided under the Stipulation.
This Action1 is a securities class action brought on behalf of those Persons or Entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Pivotal Software, Inc. ("Pivotal") common stock pursuant or traceable to the registration statement and prospectus (the "Offering Documents") issued in connection with Pivotal's April 20, 2018 Initial Public Offering ("IPO"), and against Pivotal, Dell Technologies, Inc. ("Dell"), certain Pivotal officers and directors, and the underwriters of Pivotal's IPO, for allegedly making materially untrue or misleading statements in the Offering Documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") in connection with the IPO, which allegedly damaged Class Members. Defendants deny all of Plaintiffs' allegations. Persons or Entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Pivotal common stock before October 17, 2018 (the date upon which the lockup period expired) shall be presumed as being able to trace their purchases to the Offering.
IF YOU PURCHASED OR ACQUIRED PIVOTAL COMMON STOCK PURSUANT OR TRACEABLE TO THE OFFERING DOCUMENTS ISSUED IN CONNECTION WITH PIVOTAL'S IPO, YOUR RIGHTS WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE SETTLEMENT OF THIS ACTION.
To share in the distribution of the Net Settlement Fund, you must establish your rights by submitting a Proof of Claim and Release ("Proof of Claim") by mail (postmarked no later than NOVEMBER 7, 2022) or submitted electronically at www.pivotalshareholdersettlement.com no later than NOVEMBER 7, 2022. Your failure to submit your Proof of Claim by NOVEMBER 7, 2022, will subject your claim to rejection and preclude you from receiving any of the recovery in connection with the Settlement of this Action. If you are a Member of the Class and do not request exclusion, you will be bound by the Settlement and any judgment and release entered in the Action, including, but not limited to, the Judgment, whether or not you submit a Proof of Claim. Plaintiffs' Counsel represents you and other Members of the Class. If you want to be represented by your own lawyer, you may hire one at your own expense. To the extent you file a Proof of Claim and a Request for Exclusion, the Claims Administrator shall communicate with you in writing to give you an opportunity to cure the conflicting requests submitted and to advise the Claims Administrator whether you are seeking to be part of the Class and, thus, be eligible for their pro rata share of the recovery, or, alternatively, whether you wish to be excluded as a member of the settlement class.
Distributions will be made to Authorized Claimants by the Claims Administrator after all claims have been processed and after the Court has finally approved the Settlement. Authorized Claimants will have ninety (90) days to cash their checks. For Authorized Claimants whose checks are returned as undeliverable, the Claims Administrator will endeavor to locate new addresses for the recipient. Where a new address is located, the Claims Administrator will update the database accordingly and re-issue a distribution check to the Authorized Claimant at the new address. In the event the Authorized Claimant loses or damages his, her, or its check, or otherwise requires a new check, the Claims Administrator will issue replacements only upon written instructions from the Authorized Claimant, provided that the Authorized Claimant returns the previous check where appropriate. For all checks, the Claims Administrator will void the initial payment prior to reissuing a payment. Authorized Claimants requesting re-issuance of checks will be informed that, if they do not cash their Initial Distribution checks within 30 days of the mailing of such reissued check, their check will lapse, their entitlement to recovery will be irrevocably forfeited, and the funds will be re-allocated to other Authorized Claimants. Reissue requests for lost or damaged checks will be granted after the void date on the checks, however, void dates on such reissues will be adjusted so as not to delay future re-distributions.
If you have not received a copy of the Notice, which more completely describes the Settlement and your rights thereunder (including your right to object to the Settlement or exclude yourself from the Class), and a Proof of Claim form, you may obtain these documents, as well as a copy of the Stipulation (which, among other things, contains definitions for the defined terms used in this Summary Notice) and other Settlement documents, online at www.pivotalshareholdersettlement.com, or by writing to:
Pivotal Shareholder Litigation Settlement
Claims Administrator
c/o A.B. Data Ltd.
P.O. Box 173081
Milwaukee, WI 53217
Phone: 877-829-4296
www.pivotalshareholdersettlement.com
Inquiries may also be made to a representative of Plaintiffs' Counsel:
HEDIN HALL LLP
David W. Hall
Four Embarcadero Center, Suite 1400
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: 415-766-3534
SCOTT+SCOTT ATTORNEYS AT LAW LLP
Thomas L. Laughlin, IV
230 Park Avenue, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10169
Phone: 212-419-3171
HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP
Reed R. Kathrein
715 Hearst Avenue, Suite 202
Berkeley, CA 94710
Phone: 510-725-3000
Inquiries should NOT be directed to Defendants, the Court, or the Clerk of the Court.
TO BE EXCLUDED FROM THE CLASS, YOU MUST SUBMIT A WRITTEN REQUEST FOR EXCLUSION BY SENDING A SIGNED LETTER IN THE MAIL TO THE CLAIMS ADMINISTRATOR THAT IT IS POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 1, 2022. SUCH A REQUEST FOR EXCLUSION MUST INCLUDE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, E-MAIL ADDRESS, TELEPHONE NUMBER, AND THE DATE, PRICE AND NUMBER OF SHARES OF PIVOTAL COMMON STOCK PURCHASED OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRED PURSUANT OR TRACEABLE TO THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND PROSPECTUS ISSUED IN CONNECTION WITH PIVOTAL'S APRIL 2018 IPO. ALL MEMBERS OF THE CLASS WHO HAVE NOT REQUESTED EXCLUSION FROM THE CLASS WILL BE BOUND BY THE SETTLEMENT ENTERED IN THE LITIGATION EVEN IF THEY DO NOT FILE A TIMELY PROOF OF CLAIM.
IF YOU ARE A CLASS MEMBER, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE SETTLEMENT, THE PLAN OF ALLOCATION, AND/OR THE REQUEST BY PLAINTIFFS' COUNSEL FOR AN AWARD OF ATTORNEYS' FEES AND EXPENSES. IN ORDER FOR ANY OBJECTION TO BE CONSIDERED, YOU MUST SEND A WRITTEN STATEMENT, ACCOMPANIED BY PROOF OF CLASS MEMBERSHIP, TO THE CLAIMS ADMINISTRATOR SUCH THAT IS IT POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 1, 2022.
ATTENDANCE AT THE SETTLEMENT FAIRNESS HEARING IS NOT NECESSARY. IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION IN ORDER TO APPEAR AT THE SETTLEMENT FAIRNESS HEARING TO PRESENT YOUR OBJECTION TO THE COURT.
DATED: AUGUST 19, 2022
1 You can view this Action's full docket on the Court's website (https://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/online-services) free of charge by inputting the case number (CGC-19-576750).
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Menomonie’s ‘Mullet Boy’ is in 2nd place on the final day of voting
MENOMONIE, Wis. (WMTV) - On the final day of voting, a Wisconsin boy stands on the cusp of proving he has America’s best mullet. Emmitt Bailey, the aptly nicknamed ‘Mullet Boy,’ currently sits in second place in the kids’ division of the USA Mullet Championship.
Emmitt currently holds a big lead over the boy who’s in third place, but the Menomonie boy will need some help to make an ‘epic’ comeback to claim the top slot from the current leader: Epic Orta.
Voting will end at 10:59 p.m. CDT. Click here to vote on the contest’s website.
“It’s extremely fun to watch the votes, so it started out at, I think there was 600 kids that made the Facebook cut,” Emmitt’s dad Eric Bailey explained in an interview shortly after the finalists were announced. “Then they went to 100 and then all of the sudden we were watching the votes and he kept climbing, and climbing, and climbing, and then it went to the 25.”
Mullet Boy isn’t the only Wisconsin kid who is all business in the front and party in the back. Brillion’s Axel Wenzel is just a few hundred votes from claiming the bronze.
All in all, though, Wisconsin’s two top mullet-rockin’ kids will likely finish in the top five of the approximately two dozen finalists. No other state has two kids ranked that highly. You’d have to drop down to the seventh and eighth spots to find two boys from the same state (Arkansas).
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia on Friday said it is attempting to aid foreigners who have been victimized by human traffickers, after Taiwan said it is seeking to free more than 300 of its citizens who were lured to the Southeast Asian nation by organized crime groups.
The mostly well-educated young people were promised high wages for tech jobs, but then were forced to work in call centers, scamming mainly mainland Chinese into making payments for non-existent government fees or investment opportunities.
Interior Minister Sar Kheng said his ministry is launching a nationwide check of all foreigners living in Cambodia, aside from embassy personnel. He said it will search especially for foreigners who have been victimized by human traffickers.
He said police in two provinces, Kandal and Preah Sihanoukville, on Thursday checked the status of foreigners residing or working at hotels, rented properties and casinos.
Sar Kheng said several people were arrested on suspicion of organizing human trafficking and some apparent victims were taken into protection. Police were still trying to determine whether those who said they were victims were telling the truth, he said.
Sar Kheng did not specify how many people were rounded up or what their nationalities were, but confirmed that some foreigners told police that they had been attracted by what was portrayed as lawful jobs offering high salaries.
Upon arriving in Cambodia, however, they were forced to work illegally in jobs that were “not what they had agreed to," Sar Kheng said.
Separately, Deputy National Police chief Gen. Chhay Sinarith said in recent years Cambodian authorities have uncovered numerous illegal online schemes that lured illegal workers, and have arrested hundreds of people from China and Taiwan for involvement.
Scammers, mainly from China, have used Cambodia as a base for extorting money, Chhay Sinarith said.
Taiwan’s government on Friday said 333 of its citizens were stuck in Cambodia after being lured by crime groups promising high wages for tech jobs, based on reports from families asking for help. The situation is complicated further because Cambodia is a close ally of China and refuses to recognize Taiwan or have any official contacts with the government in Taipei.
Taiwanese media have been reporting extensively on the plight of those trapped by the networks. Police at Taiwan's main Taoyuan International Airport have been patrolling with signs warning of the dangers of bogus offers of high salaries in Southeast Asia.
Taiwanese authorities have also been reaching out to travel agencies to uncover the scams, and more than a dozen people have been arrested over recruitment schemes that aimed to dupe young people into jobs advertised as high-paying positions in computer engineering and similar fields.
It has also become a political issue, with the minority Nationalist Party accusing the governing Democratic Progressive Party of inaction on the matter. Premier Su Tseng-chang has called for diplomatic outreach and a crackdown on local criminal groups organizing the scams.
Nationalist Deputy Secretary General Lee Yen-hsiu said more public outreach is necessary to deal with the phony job offers. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/cambodia-human-trafficking/507-0ea36ad2-a4b7-4fbf-a077-0c55c5a1aa7c | 2022-08-19T17:52:26Z | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/cambodia-human-trafficking/507-0ea36ad2-a4b7-4fbf-a077-0c55c5a1aa7c | false |
Firm Renews Participation in Mansfield Rule Certification Process
CHICAGO, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Katten announced today that the firm has joined more than 180 large law firms in participating in the Mansfield Rule 6.0 certification process aimed at diversifying leadership in the legal profession.
"Katten has participated in the Mansfield Rule initiative every year since its inception because we are deeply committed to removing any barriers and achieving greater progress for underrepresented attorneys, particularly in the leadership ranks," said Chief Diversity Partner Leslie Minier. "We strongly believe that diversity at all levels can drive innovation, improve client service and result in a more inclusive culture and supportive workplace.
"Engagement in Mansfield also affords us an opportunity to think strategically about succession planning so we can better prepare the next generation of firm leaders while continuing to deliver exceptional client service," Minier added.
The Mansfield Rule is a winning idea offered in 2016 during Diversity Lab's Women in Law Hackathon and was named after Arabella Mansfield, the first woman admitted to practice law in the United States.
Since launching five years ago, the program's leaders have expanded its parameters to consider at least 30 percent women, attorneys of color, LGBTQ+ attorneys and attorneys with disabilities when choosing candidates for top leadership roles as well as critical pipeline activities, such as pitch teams and senior-level lateral hiring.
The newest version of the program requires law firms to include in pools of candidates for leadership roles and equity partnership, among a dozen other activities that focus on the path to leadership, at least 30 percent historically underrepresented attorneys from all four groups. Firms must also consider 30 percent underrepresented talent for C-suite roles, create and publish job descriptions for leadership roles, and continue to meet routine check-in, data-collection and reporting milestones. Firms are asked to share lessons learned through monthly knowledge-sharing forums.
Last year, Katten achieved Mansfield Rule 4.0 Certification Plus status, indicating the firm actually achieved diversity in leadership, not just considered it. Results of the Mansfield Rule 5.0 certification process are expected in the fall.
Coinciding with Katten's participation in the Mansfield Rule 6.0 certification process, the firm recently marked the completion of this summer's diversity summit offered to diverse attorneys and summer associates in various firm offices. The summit, focused on connectedness and resilience, was designed to provide attorneys with insight into ways to navigate their careers, identify and overcome obstacles, and build successful relationships.
This year, Katten expanded its Kattalyst sponsorship program to a yearlong professional development curriculum, pairing senior associates and income partners as protégés with firm leaders and senior-level partners as sponsors, who use their insights and business relationships to open more doors to opportunities for underrepresented attorneys.
Katten is a full-service law firm with approximately 700 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai. Clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services turn to Katten for counsel locally, nationally and internationally. The firm's core areas of practice include corporate, financial markets and funds, insolvency and restructuring, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, structured finance and securitization, transactional tax planning, private credit and private wealth. Katten represents public and private companies in numerous industries, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals.
For more information, visit katten.com.
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Transgender sexual assault claims at Brevard Public Schools could bring new state rules
Amid hotly disputed claims that a transgender student sexually assaulted a girl in women's restroom at Johnson Middle School, and an investigation of another incident where a girl claimed she was groped in different school restroom by a transgender girl that led to no charges being pressed, Brevard Public Schools is braced for new potential regulations of bathroom access by transgender students.
Conservative news outlet The Daily Wire reported Thursday evening that in response to allegations at Brevard Public Schools, the Florida Department of Education would require schools to notify parents when school policy allows transgender students to access bathrooms and locker rooms. Current BPS practice allows transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms of the opposite sex, though no specific bathroom policy exists.
As of Friday morning, BPS had not received word about this from the Florida Department of Education, and the state had not yet responded to a query from FLORIDA TODAY.
School Board member Matt Susin said he has been in daily contact with the Florida Department of Education about an investigation into the allegations which became public last week when State Rep. Randy Fine sent a letter to Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz, Jr., repeating the claims of the transgender bathroom assault over the summer at Johnson Middle School.
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BPS spokesman Russell Bruhn and Superintendent Mark Mullins have vehemently and categorically denied any such assault took place at Johnson, saying students at Johnson Middle were escorted to the bathroom by staff over the summer when the incident supposedly took place due to ongoing construction, and no witnesses have come forward to the district.
In a Monday letter to Diaz, Mullins said the district had no evidence to support Fine’s claims.
“The restrooms are small, and any disruptive noises would be easily heard by the staff member outside the door,” Mullins wrote. “At no time were staff members witness to, made aware of, or heard any comments related to any actions involving students in a restroom, student physical conflicts, or any related misconduct or action.”
At the time Fine made the Johnson Middle School allegations, Melbourne Police Department said it had no information about such an incident. But the department has since opened an investigation and said Friday morning it is still investigating the allegations.
As those claims were being argued over, the Brevard County Sheriff's Office released a report in response to a public records request of an investigation into an incident in June when a female student accused a transgender student of grabbing her breasts in the bathroom.
The accused student denied grabbing the girl’s breast, and the case was closed for lack of evidence and conflicting statements, according to the BCSO report. Another student was present in the bathroom but said she did not see the alleged touching.
It’s not clear whether a rumor grapevine transformed the alleged sexual assault at Space Coast Jr./Sr. High School into a rape at Johnson Middle School, or if the reports are separate. Fine said Thursday that the parents who brought the allegations at Johnson Middle School to his attention remain convinced that something did happen at that school.
Fine shared the BSCO investigation report about the high school incident to his Facebook page Thursday morning, calling it proof that a transgender student sexually assaulted another student in a bathroom. He further accused BPS of “gaslighting” the public because the district did not reveal the incident when asked about Johnson Middle School. Gaslighting is a manipulation tactic wherein the abuser manipulates the victim to question their own reality.
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“We should be able to trust Brevard Government Schools to put our children first,” Fine wrote. “To not hide criminal activity that hurts our children. Brevard Government Schools should have openly and transparently addressed the concerns of these parents.”
State law requires schools to report certain crimes, including sexual assault, to the state through the School Environmental Safety Incident Reporting System (SESIR). Bruhn said the district does not report unsubstantiated crime reports to the state. The district did report the Space Coast Jr./Sr. High incident to BCSO, the Florida Department of Children and Families and a third party Title IX organization.
“All three of them said that there's nothing to move forward with,” Bruhn said. “We don't report that to the state, and that's not required.”
School Board member Matt Susin contends that he wasn’t informed about the incident when it occurred, as is the district’s common practice. But other school board members, including Jennifer Jenkins, Katye Campbell and chair Misty Belford said Mullins called them to tell them about it the same day it was reported to the sheriff's office.
Bruhn said the district also did not bring up the Space Coast incident when asked about Johnson Middle School because the allegations of that case were different — the Johnson Middle School incident was said to be a rape case. The district also wanted to safeguard student privacy, Bruhn said.
“It wasn't necessary to start outing other incidents when our goal is to protect our students and make sure that they're safe,” Bruhn said. “The Johnson Middle School claim was, and still is, so outrageous and unfair, that we wanted to make sure that the public knew that it was grossly incorrect.”
Breaking news reporter Finch Walker contributed to this report.
Bailey Gallion is the education reporter for FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Gallion at 321-242-3786 or bgallion@floridatoday.com. | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2022/08/19/transgender-sexual-assault-report-bathroom-brevard-randy-fine-fdoe-could-bring-new-state-rules/10356216002/ | 2022-08-19T17:58:03Z | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2022/08/19/transgender-sexual-assault-report-bathroom-brevard-randy-fine-fdoe-could-bring-new-state-rules/10356216002/ | true |
NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Outset Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: OM) between September 15, 2020 and June 13, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important September 6, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Outset Medical securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Outset Medical class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6976 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 6, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) defendants had "continuously made improvements and updates to Tablo over time since its original clearance" that required an additional 510(k) application; (2) as a result, Outset Medical could not conduct a human factors study on a cleared device in accordance with FDA protocols; (3) Outset Medical's inability to conduct the human factors study subjected Outset Medical to the likelihood of the FDA imposing a "shipment hold" and marketing suspension, leaving the Company unable to sell Tablo for home use; and (4) as a result, defendants' positive statements about Outset Medical's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Outset Medical class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6976 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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The demonstration research project will produce hydrogen from renewable natural gas for fuel cell buses to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today announced the official groundbreaking on construction of a first-of-its-kind advanced hydrogen generation system at SunLine Transit Agency in Thousand Palms, California. The project, called H2 SilverSTARS, will produce hydrogen from renewable natural gas (RNG) and help fuel SunLine's fleet of 17 hydrogen fuel cell electric buses. At scale, this demonstration project has the potential to provide clean hydrogen at any location adjacent to a natural gas pipeline, which will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate California's climate and clean air goals.
The demonstration will test STARS' technology, which was developed at the Pacific Northwest National Lab. The technology uses a combustion free process, so that it produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions compared to a conventional steam methane reforming process. Since the compact system is based on low-cost 12x1-inch, 3D-printed reactor disks and heat exchangers, it can be easily installed at fueling stations to help meet the demand while advancing climate and clean air goals. After its installation, the first STARS system will produce up to 80 kilograms of clean hydrogen a day, that's enough to fuel three of SunLine's zero-emission buses per day.
"We've been anticipating for this day to arrive and I'm excited construction has begun. Californians will need access to hydrogen and this demonstration project will provide insight during this energy transition," said Glenn Miller City of Indio Councilmember and SunLine Chair. "Once widely adopted, this project will help meet our state's climate goals."
"SunLine has been pioneering hydrogen technologies for nearly three decades and partnering with SoCalGas on this project continues the momentum necessary to make hydrogen fueling accessible to the public," said Lauren Skiver, CEO/General Manager of SunLine Transit Agency. "Producing clean hydrogen is the future of fuel, and this system will play a pivotal role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions."
"For several years now, the high cost of transporting hydrogen has been the big problem with rolling out fuel cell vehicles in California," said Robert Wegeng, President of STARS Technology Corporation. "This demonstration elegantly solves the problem with a compact, mass-produced hydrogen generator that can be placed on the gas grid in close proximity to filling stations and other places where cheap hydrogen is useful. Better yet, the hydrogen can meet the new Federal "Clean Hydrogen Standard" for regional hydrogen hubs since it can be produced from renewable natural gas."
"This is the kind of demonstration project we love to see in California and we're excited construction has started. SoCalGas will use the knowledge gained from this project to help accelerate the adoption of clean hydrogen," said Neil Navin, SoCalGas vice president of clean energy innovations. "Adopting clean technologies and working with SunLine and STARS will help SoCalGas and California reach our shared air quality and climate goals much faster."
Earlier this year, SoCalGas announced a proposal to develop Angeles Link, a dedicated green hydrogen energy infrastructure system that could deliver clean, reliable energy to the Los Angeles basin to provide a path to decarbonize hard-to electrify sectors such as electric generation, industries that require clean fuels and cannot currently be electrified, and heavy-duty transportation.
Clean fuel vehicles are expected to play an important role in meeting the state's climate and clean air goals. In California, Governor Newsom's executive order requires that all new cars sold in the state be zero-emissions by 2035. Californians having access to clean hydrogen generation systems, like H2 SilverSTARS, could be part of the clean energy transition.
SunLine Transit Agency has been at the forefront of providing environmentally conscious public transportation since 1993, when the Agency pursued an aggressive strategy for incorporating clean technologies into its operations.
The SunLine Transit Agency is on track to be fully transitioned to zero emissions by 2035 – five years ahead of the deadline set in the state's ICT Regulation (2040). In addition to SunLine's PEM Hydrogen Electrolyzer – the largest clean hydrogen-producing station in the country for transportation – its Liquid Hydrogen Station project has been funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC) and will expand the Agency's hydrogen fueling capacity for the existing fueling infrastructure.
SunLine Transit Agency recently received a California Energy Commission award for the construction of a 15,000 – 18,000-gallon liquid hydrogen fueling station. This station will create fueling resiliency for the agency and is the first liquid hydrogen project in SunLine's thirty-year history. This liquid station is yet another element in the creation of a zero-emission blueprint for transit and fleet operators across the nation.
For more information about SoCalGas' hydrogen innovation, visit http://socalgas.com/hydrogen.
Photos and video of construction, SunLine buses, and a diagram of the STARS technology are available here.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, SoCalGas® is the largest gas distribution utility in the United States. SoCalGas delivers affordable, reliable, and increasingly renewable gas service to 21.8 million consumers across 24,000 square miles of Central and Southern California. Gas delivered through the company's pipelines will continue to play a key role in California's clean energy transition—providing electric grid reliability and supporting wind and solar energy deployment.
SoCalGas' mission is to build the cleanest, safest and most innovative energy company in America. In support of that mission, SoCalGas aspires to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its operations and delivery of energy by 2045 and to replacing 20 percent of its traditional natural gas supply to core customers with renewable natural gas (RNG) by 2030. Renewable natural gas is made from waste created by landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. SoCalGas is also committed to investing in its gas delivery infrastructure while keeping bills affordable for customers. SoCalGas is a subsidiary of Sempra (NYSE: SRE), an energy services holding company based in San Diego.
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The singer-songwriter is known for his intensely autobiographical writing. When Wainwright turned 75 recently, he decided to make an album about trying — and mostly failing — to age gracefully.
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Derbyshire PC and former officer charged with misconduct in public office
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A Derbyshire Police officer and an ex-PC have been charged with misconduct.
Daniel Nash, 40, who has resigned, faces 13 counts of misconduct in public office over claims he "initiated and pursued sexual relationships" with women through the course of his duties.
Matthew Longmate, 46 and currently suspended, is charged with one count alleging he "engaged in sexual acts" during the course of duties in 2015.
Both are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 20 September.
The charges follow an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which referred the cases to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
The IOPC said the charges faced by Mr Nash related to the period between January 2015 and December 2020.
The allegation against Mr Longmate is joined to one of those faced by his former colleague.
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LIBERTY, N.Y. (WTEN) – A fire Tuesday evening engulfed a building at the site of the long-abandoned Grossinger’s Hotel, once among the most glamorous resorts in the Catskills region of New York.
In its heyday, the property drew hundreds of thousands of vacationers a year, catering mostly to Jewish clientele. It has also been cited as an inspiration for the film “Dirty Dancing.”
The blaze broke out in a three-and-a-half story building on the old hotel property. Firefighters who responded to the scene had to cut through a gate, and were hampered by overgrown bushes and concrete barriers. Fire trucks were forced to stop nearly 1,000 feet from the blaze, the Liberty Fire Department said on Facebook. Long hoses were snaked through the grass and vines and up to the burning building — a white house with signs of disrepair.
It took crews six hours to put out the fire, the cause of which is under investigation.
An excavator knocked down the building after the blaze was out, according to the fire department.
Many of the other structures on the property had already been demolished. It was not clear what the burned building had previously been used for.
Grossinger’s, along with other famed Catskills resorts, was the inspiration for the fictional Kellerman’s resort in “Dirty Dancing.” The film’s screenwriter, Eleanor Bergstein, was inspired in part by her family’s summer vacations at Grossinger’s specifically, according to the Center for Jewish History.
The movie, however, was not shot in the Catskills, but Virginia for budgetary reasons. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/fire-engulfs-part-of-hotel-that-inspired-dirty-dancing/ | 2022-08-19T18:06:24Z | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/fire-engulfs-part-of-hotel-that-inspired-dirty-dancing/ | false |
York: Anti-terror bollards to be installed in 'vulnerable' city in April
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Anti-terror bollards costing £3.5m will be installed in York after councillors were told its narrow streets make it particularly vulnerable to attack.
The barriers, to be installed in April, are designed to stop vehicles driving in some parts of the city centre.
York had an "obvious vulnerability", with many pavement cafes as "ideal targets", counter terrorism advisor Shaun Tunstall told councillors.
The permanent barriers were approved by the council despite spiralling costs.
Councillors previously blamed inflation and the increased price of steel and concrete for the cost of their installation rising to £3.5m since the plans were first agreed in 2018.
Initially with a price tag of half that amount, the barriers will be paid for from future highways budgets.
Mr Tunstall told councillors that installing the devices would be a "good move" against possible terror attacks.
"The terrorist threat is becoming more unpredictable. Before we know it, something will happen," he warned.
"It's something that is needed in York, more so than I've seen in most other cities I've dealt with."
Supt Mark Khan, from North Yorkshire Police, told the meeting that the city's narrow streets made it difficult for people to "jump out of the way or escape from a vehicle".
He said: "We have at times many people in a very small area, so that would make an attack far more successful for someone who would want to carry it out."
According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, earlier in the meeting, disability rights campaigner Flick Williams argued the anti-terror measures were not proportionate,
She said: "We, the taxpayers, don't even get to properly interrogate these decisions because it is shrouded in secrecy, hidden behind walls of intelligence and national security obfuscation."
But City of York Council leader Keith Aspden said: "It has become a fact of life that terrorists can strike at any time and any place without warning.
"Not having proactive measures in place is an unacceptable risk".
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Mel Tucker’s first head coaching job came at Colorado in 2019.
Now heading into his third season at Michigan State, Tucker’s new conference is adding a pair of teams from his old one.
The Big Ten in June announced the addition of Pac-12 schools USC and UCLA, starting in 2024. And on Thursday, the conference unveiled a new media rights deal reportedly worth more than $7 billion.
“I think it’s huge, it’s positive,” Tucker said Thursday during an appearance on the Jim Rome Show. “It’s great exposure for Michigan State and our conference.”
Tucker and his staff already recruit coast to coast and have been landing higher-rated prospects recently. The Spartans have 13 players committed to their 2023 recruiting class so far and 10 are four-star prospects. Tucker believes the addition of two Los Angeles schools will only benefit the program in attracting talent.
“We recruit nationally,” he said. “We’ve got players on our team from the West Coast. We’ve got players on our team from 22 different states. We have over 600,000 living alumni across the country and worldwide so our brand is all over the country. This just magnifies what we’re doing. It enhances our exposure in recruiting. It’s a bigger stage. I think it’s a great thing. We embrace it.”
The addition of USC and UCLA means the Big Ten’s 16-school footprint stretches from New Jersey to Southern California. That will complicate travel for teams but Tucker isn’t concerned.
“There’s going to be some challenges that come with it,” Tucker said. “I think they’re all going to be challenges that we can attack. It remains to be seen how this is going to be but in my mind right now, the bigger the better.”
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida utility has been fined $500,000 and placed on three years’ probation for a 2017 deadly explosion at a coal-fired power plant that killed five workers.
The U.S. Justice Department said in a news release Friday that Tampa Electric Co. also must adhere to a new safety compliance plan. The fine is the maximum allowed for willful Occupational Safety and Health Administration workplace rules violations such as this.
The explosion at TECO’s Big Bend plant near Tampa happened when an effort was made using high-pressure water to clear a slag byproduct that accumulates in tanks under the coal-fired furnaces. The workers died and several more were injured when they were sprayed with molten slag that came loose.
The sentencing came after TECO reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in which the utility admitted it did not conduct any briefings for employees about the work, including the potential hazards and necessary safety precautions, prosecutors said.
“The department takes this conduct very seriously, and accordingly pursued the maximum remedy available under the law,” said Todd Kim, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.
The agreement also notes that the company previously reached confidential civil settlements with the families of the victims and others injured by the explosion. | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/florida-utility-gets-500k-fine-probation-for-fatal-blast/ | 2022-08-19T18:10:46Z | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/florida-utility-gets-500k-fine-probation-for-fatal-blast/ | true |
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MONROE, La. (KTVE/KARD) — The Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to Nelson Road on January 1, 2022, in reference to an investigation. According to deputies, the complainant advised when they arrived home, their daughter showed them messages she received from a friend who mentioned they were sexually battered and afraid.
In the messages, the victim advised the complainant’s daughter that the victim’s father, then 39-year-old Charles Kent Brown, allegedly slapped the victim on her buttocks and pinched her breast. The complainant also stated when they were driving home that night they observed Brown allegedly fondling the victim’s breast in the middle of the yard at Brown’s residence.
Deputies then arrived at the residence and made contact with the victim who appeared to be emotional and upset. According to the victim, Brown was intoxicated and wanted her to call his friends to talk trash to them.
When the victim refused to call the individuals, Brown allegedly pinched her breast. The victim also mentioned that Brown slaps her buttocks when he drinks. She also advised deputies that he also touches her inner and upper thigh when drinks.
Deputies were able to get video surveillance of the incident and discovered that Brown was extremely intoxicated and fondling the victim’s breast. The surveillance correlated with the victim’s testimony.
On Friday, August 19, 2022, Brown was placed under arrest and transported to the Ouachita Correctional Center. He was charged with Misdemeanor Sexual Battery. | https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/monroe-man-arrested-after-investigation-accused-of-committing-sexual-battery-on-daughter/ | 2022-08-19T18:11:38Z | https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/monroe-man-arrested-after-investigation-accused-of-committing-sexual-battery-on-daughter/ | false |
SLIDELL, La. (WGNO)— A student who reportedly brought a loaded gun to school has been arrested, Slidell Police announced on Thursday.
The police department says that shortly after 8 a.m., officers received an alert from Salmen High School, claiming the 15-year-old was waving a 9mm pistol on campus.
SPD reports the student was quickly taken into custody shortly after police discovered the firearm in the teenager’s waistband. No one was injured in the incident.
The student was booked into the Florida Parishes Juvenile Detention Center in Covington where he faces a single charge of Illegal Carrying of a Weapon on School Property. | https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/slidell-pd-student-arrested-after-bringing-loaded-gun-to-school/ | 2022-08-19T18:11:50Z | https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/slidell-pd-student-arrested-after-bringing-loaded-gun-to-school/ | false |
MACON — Macon Speedway hosts the annual Camfield Memorial presented by Chevrolet Hall of Fame Museum on Saturday and will continue the traditions of honoring an iconic Illinois racing family while also welcoming of the Lucas Oil POWRi National Midget League for the final time of the season.
Lubbock, Texas, driver Brenham Crouch leads the POWRi standings by over 500 over Bixby, Oklahoma, competitor Cannon McIntosh. McIntosh has claimed seven features but finds himself in second, missing four of the events on the schedule. Taylor Reimer, Bryant Wiedeman and Chase McDermand round out the top five.
Sherman driver John Barnard leads the current standings in the micros. He and Hayden Harvey are the top two in standings for the series and are both locals and regular competitors in the Macon Speedway weekly class as well. Willie Urish, Branigan Roark and Joe B. Miller are currently in the top five.
Rodney Standerfer of Summerfield leads the modifieds into Saturday’s event. Standerfer has claimed four wins this season and has a 30-point lead on Guy Taylor. Alan Crowder, Tim Luttrell and Clint Martin.
Taylor, who is second in the Modified points, has a commanding lead in the pro mod standings over his nephew, Zach Taylor. Kevin Crowder, Maxx Emerson and Dean Holt round out the top five in points.
Decatur driver Tristin Quinlan won his first career feature last Saturday night and will lead the hornet class into town on Saturday. Quinlan is followed by Billy Mason, Brady Reed, Taryn Page and Jeremy Reed.
Pit gates open Saturday at 3 p.m., grandstands at 5 p.m., hot laps are at 6 p.m. and racing is at 7 p.m. Grandstand admission is $20, while kids 11 and under are free.
The event is all part of a huge weekend of racing that begins Friday night at Lincoln Speedway featuring MOWA Sprint Cars. Then on Saturday afternoon the USAC Silver Crown and sportsman at the Illinois State Fairgrounds will race. On Sunday afternoon, the ARCA and sportsman race at the Illinois State Fair.
Photos: Check out the race cars that were on display at the Macon Speedway Car Show at Hickory Point Mall
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Lawyers for two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called investigators to the witness stand Friday to try to raise questions about their tactics in 2020 and highlight scornful attitudes.
The defense rested its case on the ninth day of trial. Closing arguments were scheduled for Monday in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. declined to testify. They are on trial for a second time after a jury in April couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict but acquitted two other men.
John Penrod, a Delaware state trooper who worked on the case with the FBI, was confronted with text messages in which he called Croft a “coward” and other pejoratives.
What about “moron?” asked attorney Joshua Blanchard.
“It could be Mr. Croft or it could be anyone in the group,” Penrod replied.
Blanchard also played audio of FBI agent Hank Impola telling an informant, “A saying we have in my office is, ‘Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story.'”
But on cross-examination, agent Corey Baumgardner agreed with a prosecutor who said Impola’s remark two months after the arrests was actually a reference to how Croft and Fox would spin the kidnapping allegations.
The defense argues that Fox and Croft were entrapped by agents and informants who fed their wild anti-government views. Prosecutors say the group wanted to trigger a national revolt and was furious over COVID-19 restrictions imposed by Whitmer during the early stages of the pandemic.
Croft, 46, is from Bear, Delaware. Fox, 39, was living in the basement of a vacuum shop in the Grand Rapids area.
U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker gave instructions to jurors before sending them home for the weekend. He said the pair could be found guilty of conspiracy if jurors believe “there was a mutual understanding” to commit a kidnapping, among other factors, even if one wasn’t carried out.
But entrapment could apply if the jury believes agents and informants persuaded Fox and Croft to commit a crime that they weren’t willing to do before engaging them, the judge said.
“Ask yourself what the evidence shows about the defendants’ character and reputation. … Let these things marinate in your own minds,” Jonker said.
Whitmer, a Democrat, has blamed then-President Donald Trump for stoking mistrust and fomenting anger over coronavirus restrictions and refusing to condemn hate groups and right-wing extremists like those charged in the plot.
Trump recently called the kidnapping plan a “fake deal.”
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad expects Malaysia’s graft-tainted ruling party will hold general elections in coming months — and could win big — but the nonagenarian reformer vowed Friday that he would fight “even a losing battle” on principle.
In an wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, Mahathir described President Joe Biden as “ineffective” and “anti-Islam” for supporting Israel, accused the U.S. of trying to provoke a war in Taiwan and slammed Europe for provoking Ukraine to fight.
Mahathir said the ruling United Malays National Organization will most likely “win big” in the event of snap polls. He believes that many rural Malay voters have returned to UMNO because they were offered money and other incentives.
“I think they will want to have the general elections this year. If possible, maybe as soon as two or three months from now because they feel that at this moment, the public still look up at them, and the opposition is broken up, disorganized,” he said.
Elections are not due until September 2023, but some UMNO members, including ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak and party president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who are both fighting graft charges, have been rallying for an earlier vote.
Mahathir was an UMNO prime minister for 22 years until his retirement in 2003. Inspired to return to politics by the massive looting of the 1MDB state fund during Najib’s term in office, Mahathir rode a wave of public anger and led the opposition to the historic victory in 2018 polls that ousted Najib’s government.
Mahathir became the world’s oldest head of government at 93, but his reformist alliance collapsed in less than two years due to defections. UMNO returned to power and now leads a new coalition government.
Now 97, Mahathir has formed a new party Pejuang and a Malay alliance to contest 120 Malay-dominated parliamentary seats. He said his mission remained the same: to “clean-up” the country and form a graft-free government.
“I dont know about being prime minister candidate, but if I am strong enough, if I am healthy enough, if they want me to contest, I will contest,” he told AP.
“I will fight, even if it is a losing battle,” he said. “I will fight because I believe in principle. It’s not what happens to me. I believe in principle. I believe that this is a great country which can become a developed country, but under the crooks you will never become.”
Najib has maintained his innocence. With his final appeal against his 12-year-jail sentence in the first of several trials ongoing in the country’s top court, he will not be allowed to run in the event of an early election.
Mahathir said he believes Najib is hoping to make a political comeback with an UMNO win.
“In the elections, if UMNO wins, he expects an UMNO government to ask for a pardon for him and when he gets a pardon, (and is ) cleared completely, he can then become prime minister,” Mahathir said. “He will do it. Believe me, he will do it.”
Mahathir has been known for decades as a critic of the West and its geopolitics.
He said Biden was an “ineffective” leader. “In a way, he’s very anti-Islam, he’s not being fair. He allows Israel to commit all kinds of crime, genocide, and he does nothing. He supports them,” Mahathir said.
He warned the U.S. was antagonizing China through recent delegation visits to Taiwan by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others. China considers Taiwan as its territory and regard such visits as meddling in its affairs.
“If (China) wanted to invade, they could have invaded. They didn’t. But America is provoking so that they can be a war, so that the Chinese will make the mistake of trying to occupy Taiwan. Then there is an excuse…for U.S. to help Taiwan, even fight against China and sell a lot of arms to Taiwan,” Mahathir said.
He also railed against the European Union over the Russian war on Ukraine.
“What the NATO is doing, the EU is doing is to provoke some more and asking the Ukrainians to fight,” he said. “They promised to accept Ukraine (into NATO) but they didn’t.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/mahathir-expects-early-polls-ruling-party-gains-in-malaysia/ | 2022-08-19T18:13:38Z | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/mahathir-expects-early-polls-ruling-party-gains-in-malaysia/ | false |
YouTuber finds mummified body in abandoned building while filming video
MILWAUKEE (WTMJ) – Police in Milwaukee are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man whose body was found in an abandoned building last week.
Authorities said most of the body was mummified.
Investigators said a YouTuber found the body while filming a video in the building.
Amy Michalak, the lead forensic investigator at the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office, said the body had no identification on it.
“We’d like to be able to provide some type of closure to that family that we have here. We have found their loved one,” Michalak said.
Michalak said the person appears to be a Black male based on the features discovered in the autopsy. The body also had tattoos and five rings on the fingers.
One of the tattoos on the left arm says “king” and another on the right arm has the letters “S-A-V-A.” The body had further tattoos but were too hard for investigators to distinguish.
The man was also wearing a red allergy bracelet commonly used in hospitals. According to officials, the man had on multiple layers of clothing, including athletic pants and long underwear. He was also wearing what appeared to be two jackets.
According to the autopsy report, from what they could tell, the person did not appear to have any injuries, and there was no sign of drug use.
Investigators said they hope someone recognizes these features and helps solve the mystery.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Department of Education presented an emergency proposal that they believe could potentially help solve the state's teacher shortage.
However, lawmakers weren't entirely convinced that the ADE's plan would work.
The proposed emergency rules would allow school districts to immediately hire qualified teachers who hold a provisional license.
Education leaders have emphasized the severity of the teacher shortage.
"The emergency that the state is suffering from is a severe teacher shortage," said Lori Freno, general counsel for the Arkansas Department of Education.
In the executive subcommittee meeting on Thursday, Freno opened with the proposed emergency rules, which would allow candidates an up to 3-year provisional license.
Those who don't pass the state-mandated test would need a bachelor's degree and a minimum of 18 hours of college credit in the area they desire to teach.
Lawmakers on the legislative council, such as Senator Jimmy Hickey, pressed for more data and analysis.
"Give me the number. You said there's a severe teacher shortage, tell me where those are at and what those are across the state," Senator Hickey said.
ADE was unable to provide the definitive numbers requested, but Secretary Key explained that every district has its own human resources system.
He added that ADE also doesn't usually get information about staffing at schools until the school year ends.
"A lot of data they were asking for was real-time [and] right now and we don't don't have a system that collects that," Key explained.
While the department said the proposal could solve the ongoing issue of a teacher shortage, lawmakers closely examined the idea of allowing teachers to obtain a temporary license to teach.
"We got an individual who can't pass a test that we are going to put in the classroom and we require our students to pass a test before they can continue on," Senator Hickey said.
After much scrutiny, ADE ultimately pulled its proposed emergency rule on Thursday.
Leaders said that they will work on a permanent promulgation process where questions can be addressed.
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DALLAS (AP) — Labor unions are pressuring U.S. airlines not to buy back their own stock but instead spend the money on hiring more workers and fixing problems that caused widespread flight delays and cancellations this summer.
The unions said Thursday that the four largest U.S. airlines spent more than $39 billion on stock buybacks from 2014 through 2019 rather than making investments to help employees and passengers.
The airlines are currently barred from buying back their own shares as a condition of $54 billion in federal pandemic aid, but that prohibition ends after Sept. 30. Union officials worry that buybacks will come back now that most U.S. airlines have returned to profitability after huge losses in 2020 and 2021.
The unions, which represent pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, baggage handlers and other workers, launched a campaign and petition drive that portrays buyouts as a giveaway to Wall Street and a tool for airline executives to boost their own stock-based compensation.
“We paused the greed in aviation for a little while,” said Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants. She blamed “greed that ran rampant before COVID” with leaving airlines understaffed.
The unions asked airlines to pledge to forgo buybacks until until airlines fix their “operational meltdowns” and reach new labor contracts — unions are seeking substantial wage increases.
A union representative said Thursday that none of the airlines immediately agreed to the pledge.
The chief financial officer of American Airlines, Derek Kerr, said in a recent interview that buybacks are not on the table.
“There is no plan to do any share repurchases. All of our excess liquidity will go to pay off debt,” Kerr said. A spokesman said Thursday that is still American’s position.
United Airlines said that it is not currently seeking buybacks. “Our highest financial priorities right now are restoring our balance sheet and investing in our employees and customers,” a spokeswoman said.
Asked about share repurchases last month, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian did not answer directly because of the prohibition, but he said the airline has a responsibility to customers, employees, “and importantly to our owners.” A Delta spokesman said Thursday that the company has raised base pay 4% and made profit-sharing payments to employees.
A Southwest Airlines spokesman said only that the airline has not announced any plans for buybacks.
Airlines could be tempted to repurchase stock because the shares might appear cheap. The Arca index of airline stocks is down 21% this year and 41% since the start of 2020. Most U.S. airlines reported second-quarter profits, however, and revenue is surging on strong ticket sales.
Stock buybacks are a favorite target of unions and Democratic lawmakers, who often see them as widening inequality between workers and wealthier investors. The climate, health care and tax bill that President Joe Biden signed this week includes a new 1% excise tax on them beginning next year.
Corporations view buybacks as a way to reward shareholders by reducing the number of shares and making the remaining ones more valuable. Investors often prefer them over dividends, which are treated as ordinary income and taxed at up to 37%. If buybacks boost a stock’s value, investors who hold the shares long enough pay a lower capital-gains tax on the profit when they sell — no more than 20%.
“There is nothing inherently wrong with a buyback. It just gives shareholders a return on their investment,” said Charles Elson, founding director of a corporate-governance center at the University of Delaware.
Elson, however, said there are pitfalls. Companies might pay too much for the stock, wasting money. And executives with stock options benefit from buybacks but not from dividends, a problem that he said can be fixed by giving the executives restricted stock units instead of options.
Charles Tharp, a Boston University management professor who advises corporate boards on compensation, said that raising employee pay and buying back stock are separate decisions.
When companies approve buybacks, “it does look like I’m choosing to serve shareholders instead of employees,” he said, “but that assumes you would give the raise to employees if you didn’t buy back shares, which probably isn’t the case.”
Tharp said if companies believe they need to raise pay to be competitive, they will make that decision regardless of whether they buy back shares.
In 2020, the labor unions provided key support for giving taxpayer money to the airlines, which were warning they faced disaster from a plunge in travel during the early days of the pandemic. Union officials and Democratic lawmakers insisted that the aid be tied to a ban on buybacks and limits on executive compensation.
Airlines were barred from furloughing employees during the pandemic, but they were allowed to pay incentives that led tens of thousands of workers to quit. The airlines were understaffed when air travel bounced back this spring and summer, contributing to about 45,000 canceled flights and 472,000 delays since June 1.
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Jaclyn Hill is trying to take it one day at a time.
More than a week after her ex-husband, Jon Hill, passed away, the YouTuber, 32, is getting candid about how difficult dealing with his death has been, especially doing it in the public eye.
"I'm at the point in my grieving process where I just have to trust it, and see what happens every day," Jaclyn shared in a video message posted on her Instagram Stories Aug. 18. "Right now, I'm just kind of done sharing this with millions of people, and I just kind of need some privacy on this subject."
The cosmetics mogul added that although her business is run through her social media, she says she "can't keep putting myself out there, because grieving that loss is something I can't explain to you."
Jaclyn noted that while she and Jon split in May 2018, they "still kept in touch and talked."
"Ugh, it's so much you guys," she added while getting emotional. "Trying to go through it publicly is just making it so much harder for me. I'm just trusting this process."
On Aug. 11, Jaclyn released a statement announcing that Jon had sadly passed away the day before, calling his death a "sudden tragedy" and asking for privacy for the musician's family. His cause of death has not been revealed.
Following his passing, the makeup entrepreneur shared a touching tribute to her ex-husband—who often opened up about how his past struggles with drugs affected their marriage.
"Jon, you were the most kind & compassionate person I've ever known," she wrote in an Aug. 13 Instagram post. "You looked people in the eyes & you truly listened & cared about what they had to say. You had so much talent you didn't even know what to do with it. You turned your pain into art & touched so many people with your honesty in your music."
Jaclyn added, "I know we ended our marriage but we never stopped loving & caring for each other. All I ever wanted was for you to find your happiness & be free from your struggles. My heart is broken knowing that you are gone but my spirit knows that you are finally free." | https://www.eonline.com/news/1342715/jaclyn-hill-shares-heartbreaking-message-on-how-she-s-grieving-death-of-ex-husband?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | 2022-08-19T18:17:44Z | https://www.eonline.com/news/1342715/jaclyn-hill-shares-heartbreaking-message-on-how-she-s-grieving-death-of-ex-husband?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | false |
Savannah Guthrie has penned a heartfelt note to her NBC News colleague Richard Engel and his wife Mary following the death of their 6-year-old son Henry.
Reflecting on their son's battle with Rett syndrome, Savannah called Richard and Mary "amazing warriors for Henry" who'd been "pouring your love and care into him and fighting for him every day with everything you've got."
"To me, you are the personification of what it means to be a parent," the Today host wrote in an Aug. 18 Instagram post, "to love, adore, and delight in your child, and bring every ounce of your beings to their flourishing. You're my heroes."
She then shared a message to Henry. "My dear Henry, you will be missed," Savannah continued. "I will always remember the twinkle in your eye. We will keep fighting for you."
The anchor also called for donations to keep the research into Rett syndrome going in Henry's honor, noting "much progress has been made because of him" and "others can and will be helped."
Along with her message, Savannah shared a series of throwback photos of Richard, Mary and Henry at the Today show, including one of her holding the child.
Henry, who was born in 2015, passed away on Aug. 9, according to a memorial page set up for him on the website for Texas Children's Hospital's Duncan Neurological Research Institute where he'd been receiving care. His parents announced his passing in a statement on Twitter Aug. 18.
"He had the softest blue eyes, an easy smile and a contagious giggle," a tweet shared to Richard's account read. "We always surrounded him with love and he returned it, and so much more."
In a reflection of Henry's life, the Duncan NRI memorial page shared that he was diagnosed with Rett syndrome after undergoing a series of medical tests when his parents noticed he was not reaching developmental milestones.
"A genetic test ultimately provided the answer: Henry had a mutation in his MECP2 gene," the memorial page said. "MECP2 mutations cause Rett syndrome, a disorder that typically affects girls after their first birthday, robbing them of learned skills and leaving them with cognitive deficits, loss of speech, and a variety of motor difficulties."
Today reported that Henry's Rett syndrome diagnosis came in 2017, when he was just 2 years old. During his time at Texas Children's Hospital, he received care from Dr. Huda Zoghbi, who studied his genetic mutation.
In May, Richard announced that Henry's condition had "taken a turn for the worse."
"His condition progressed and he's developed dystonia: uncontrolled shaking/ stiffness," the NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent tweeted at the time. "He was in the hospital for 6 weeks, but is now home and getting love from brother Theo."
The hospital noted Dr. Huda and her team are continuing to try and find treatments for Rett syndrome, noting "they already are making significant progress with Henry's own cells." And Henry will always hold a special place in their hearts.
"Henry was special in so many ways," Dr. Huda said in a statement shared on the hospital's page. "His loving and endearing smile, and the way he connected with his eyes, stole my heart from the time I met him. His quiet fight against this terrible disease was incredible. What is most amazing, however, is the impact Henry had on so many of us at the Duncan NRI and on our Rett research. We will continue to push as hard as possible to develop treatments. This is how we will honor his life."
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Face tattoos? Cardi B likes it like that.
The "Bodak Yellow" rapper was seen getting inked by tattoo artist Robinson De Los Santos, who shared the footage in a recent Instagram video on his page. The brief clip shows him working on her jawline as Cardi covers her face with a blue towel. Although it's unclear what exactly the singer's tattoo says, it seems to be in red ink.
Robinson captioned the Aug. 14 clip, "Trabajo de hoy cardi B," which translates to "Work today Cardi B."
In another snap the tattoo artist posted on his page, Cardi and Robinson are seen posing together for a selfie.
Her new tattoo comes a month after the mom celebrated her daughter—whom she shares with husband Offset—Kulture Kiari Cephus' 4-year-old birthday party.
For the happy occasion, the family threw her a lavish mermaid-themed bash at their house, which she documented through many pictures on Instagram.
And Cardi B isn't the only celebrity who debuted new ink on their face recently. Last week, Drake posted a snap of his face tattoo dedicated to his mom, Sandra "Sandi" Graham.
The "God's Plan" rapper paid tribute to his mom with a tattoo of her initials, SG. He captioned the Aug. 11 post, "Sandra Gale," and added a pink heart emoji. | https://www.eonline.com/news/1342764/you-have-to-see-cardi-b-s-face-tattoo?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | 2022-08-19T18:18:48Z | https://www.eonline.com/news/1342764/you-have-to-see-cardi-b-s-face-tattoo?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | false |
BEREA, Ohio (AP) — The franchise quarterback who brought baggage and Super Bowl dreams to Cleveland won’t play for two months.
It’s always something with the Browns, who have a well-chronicled history of missteps.
Deshaun Watson’s acceptance of an 11-game suspension and $5 million fine in a settlement with the NFL over alleged sexual misconduct has left the Browns wondering what will become of a season they believed could be special.
Watson won’t be back until December, at the earliest, and only then if the three-time Pro Bowler satisfies the league’s requirements that he undergo an evaluation by behavioral experts and follows their treatment program.
The Browns knew there was a strong possibility they’d be without Watson for an extended period. They signed him for five years despite the lawsuits brought by two dozen women in Texas.
And now that they know exactly the time frame for his absence, the question becomes can they survive until Watson is eligible to return on Dec. 4 — against, of all teams, the Texans.
“We still have 17 games to play,” Browns general manager Andrew Berry said Thursday, shortly after Watson’s punishment became public. “We think we have a number of talented players and coaches who are in that locker room. Our expectation is still to have a competitive team and go and try to win every game.”
Jacoby Brissett is Cleveland’s new starting quarterback, and the 29-year-old has a track record of being a capable replacement. He’s done it with New England, Indianapolis and Miami while posting a 14-23 record as a starter.
Not nearly as flashy or dynamic as Watson, he’s more of a game manager. His experience is a huge plus — on and off the field. Brissett is a leader, and by all accounts well-liked and respected by his teammates and coaches.
“A pro’s pro, somebody who is going to lead from out in front, works very hard at his craft and just is an outstanding teammate,” coach Kevin Stefanski said, essentially repeating comments he’s made about Brissett throughout training camp.
Stefanski believes the Browns, who have had a league-high 32 starting quarterbacks since 1999, can still accomplish their goals with Brissett.
“The guys have trust in each other, and I know they have trust in Jacoby,” he said. “Ultimately, this is the best team game there is.”
Brissett began getting the majority of the snaps with Cleveland’s first-team offense earlier this week as the Browns enacted their plan with Watson’s suspension imminent.
Brissett threw mostly short passes during the Browns’ practice against the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday, and he’ll get more work against them Friday before sitting out Sunday’s exhibition game between the teams.
Stefanski plans to treat next week’s final preseason game against Chicago as a dress rehearsal for the Sept. 11 opener against Carolina — and probably former Browns starting QB Baker Mayfield.
It might also be something of a final audition for Brissett to prove he’s ready to take the reins in the regular season.
With a somewhat soft early schedule, the Browns felt comfortable Brissett could handle subbing for Watson for six games or even eight, if that had been the resolution. But 11 might be asking a lot of him.
In signing Watson for $230 million and fully guaranteeing his contract, Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam have shown they’re willing to do whatever’s necessary to win, even at the expense of tarnishing their reputations and their team’s image.
This Watson move was risky and to this point hasn’t paid off.
Now that they know he’ll miss 11 games, the Browns could be tempted to make a run at Jimmy Garoppolo, a QB they’ve considered before and who might be available via trade or when San Francisco waives him later this month.
Garoppolo is appealing on several levels for the Browns. He’s 33-14 as a starter and has the playoff experience Brissett lacks. He’s also looking to restart his career following offseason shoulder surgery and being displaced as the 49ers starter by Trey Lance.
In the Browns, Garoppolo would be joining a team with a well-rounded roster.
For now, Berry’s sold on Brissett.
“We feel very good about Jacoby,” Berry said. “We like what we have seen throughout the spring and we have liked what we have seen throughout the summer so we have a high degree of confidence in him.
“No different than any other position on the roster, we will continue to evaluate our team over the course of the camp, but really pleased with Jacoby.”
NOTES: All-Pro Myles Garrett missed his fourth consecutive practice to be with an ill family member. Stefanski said he expects Garrett back “soon.” … The Eagles and Browns were well-behaved during the practice in which there was no tackling to the ground.
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This story is part of CNBC Make It's Millennial Money series, which details how people around the world earn, spend and save their money.
Moses Lin never thought he'd make any money as a musician. Once, early in his career in 2016, he played a coffee shop for three hours and got $3 in tips.
"I was so discouraged, I literally I went home and I cried," Lin says. "I was like, I'm never going to make a living performing music. This is never going to work out. And I almost just threw it all away."
By 2021, though, Lin was working full-time as a destination wedding guitarist. He played around 40 to 50 weddings that year and brought in about $175,000 before tips.
His work takes him to all corners of the U.S., from New York to Hawaii, and even Cancun, Mexico.
The best part: Playing weddings "doesn't even feel like working. We're just partying."
In the last two years, Lin has invested the bulk of his wedding income into real estate. He's currently the landlord for four properties in Little Rock, Arkansas. He also bought his own home in Anaheim, California, this spring.
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In 2021, he brought in $42,000 in rental income and $28,000 in other income.
Here's how Lin went from college dropout to wedding guitarist, real estate investor and homeowner bringing in $245,000 a year.
A college dropout gets a call from Disney
Lin grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and spent much of his childhood at church, where his dad was the pastor and his mom was the pianist. He started playing piano at age 3 and, by high school, picked up guitar. In 2011, Lin the joined the U.S. Marine Corps to pay for college and earned a spot to play guitar in the Marine Corps band.
"My parents didn't have any money set aside for my college," Lin says. "I knew that if I went to college and took a traditional route, I'd be hundreds of thousands in debt. And I just didn't want to start my life that way."
After his enlistment ended in 2014, Lin attended the Vanguard University of Southern California. He started a YouTube channel, where he posted acoustic covers of pop songs, and also began teaching guitar lessons for money. By his senior year in the spring of 2017, Lin decided to quit school with just one semester left and give a full-time music career a shot.
He gave himself the summer to put up more YouTube videos, take on more students and play more gigs. Though the money was unstable, and he at times relied on unemployment insurance and food stamps, Lin felt good about how he was spending his time.
By the end of summer, he got a call from Disney. They'd seen his YouTube videos and wanted to hire him to play throughout Disneyland's hotels and restaurants. Lin took the job and decided he was never going back to college.
Weddings are 'where people pay for music'
Lin played his first wedding as a favor to a friend in June 2017. He was instantly hooked.
"I showed up and it was the funnest thing ever," he says. "At a wedding, everyone's drunk, everyone's having the time of their lives. It's incredible."
Lin decided to try it again and make money from it, charging $250 for his first wedding booking — "ridiculously cheap" in hindsight because he based it on the going rate for restaurant gigs.
He realized his mistake after asking another wedding musician how much they made for playing cocktail hour, "and they said $1,200," Lin recalls. "I went home and doubled my pricing immediately, and I started booking more." Even as he raised his rates, the client requests kept coming.
Lin now charges $4,000 to $6,000 per wedding, depending on when the couple wants him to play. His clients pay for his travel and generally tip around $50 to $100. Lin also pays an assistant around $250 per gig to film his performances for social media.
He says a big misconception of making a career in music means putting songs on Spotify or booking shows at venues, "but that's not how you make money. The big secret is weddings. That's where people pay for music."
How he spends his money
Here's how Lin spent his money in June 2022:
- Housing: $4,980, including $4,755 for a mortgage on his 3-bedroom house and $225 on utilities
- Discretionary: $1,000 on home improvement, shopping and hobbies
- Food: $398. Lin actually spends roughly $800 on food per month, but about half is on business meals with clients or networking, which he can expense.
- Gas: $223. Lin writes off his monthly car payment as a business expense, but covers gas out of pocket.
- Insurance: $154 for home and car insurance. He gets free health insurance through the VA.
- Phone: $50
Lin bought his primary residence in Anaheim in the spring of 2022 for $901,000 and put about $30,000 down.
He says he takes "a detailed approach" to his finances, working hard to keep his personal versus music versus real estate finances separate.
Lin's personal budget is pretty straightforward and includes bills for his housing, utilities, gas, insurance and his phone. In June, he spent about $1,400 on food and entertainment and uses an app called Dollarbird to track his spending.
Lin doesn't have any personal savings, brokerage accounts or a retirement fund. He panicked during the pandemic dip in early 2020 and withdrew everything he'd shored up, incurring penalty fees and losing out on market swings. He's also wary of cryptocurrency.
Instead, he takes the roughly $10,000 in profit he earns from weddings per month and funnels it into an account earmarked for buying another investment property. Lin estimates roughly 80% to 90% of his net worth is tied up in real estate.
Long-distance landlord
Lin became interested in real estate investing in 2014 and bought his first property in May 2020 as a "pandemic pivot" when Covid restrictions slowed his wedding gigs. He did some research and landed on Little Rock, a tertiary market where he sees a lot of potential: "The rents are solid, the property values are low, so there's a lot of cash flow to made."
Lin found a 4-bedroom house online for $120,000 and put down 20%, plus another $10,000 to renovate it. All told, including closing costs and other fees, Lin spent about $40,000 to buy his first Little Rock property, which he paid for using his wedding earnings.
He put the house on the rental market charging $1,425 per month and quickly found a tenant.
He enjoyed the process so much he decided to buy a second property before the end of the year.
Today, Lin owns and rents out four properties in Little Rock. He bought and renovated them sight unseen and visited for the first time in May after booking a wedding in the area. Lin didn't turn a profit on his rental properties in 2021, but is in it for the long haul.
Lin pays a property manager to handle things on the ground "so I'm able to focus 100% of my attention on weddings [and] on music, and real estate just makes money on the side. My whole master business plan is make money in weddings, dump it into real estate and let that grow itself."
Lin aims to buy roughly two properties a year. He waits until he's saved up the $50,000 to $60,000 for upfront costs before he fires up Zillow, "otherwise, you get FOMO," he says. "You look at a property and think it's perfect, but you can't afford it. You don't want to be in a place where you're overstretching yourself to invest."
He currently has about $30,000 saved to go toward his next property, though he's waiting to see how the economy fares before making any moves.
Millionaire by 30
Lin's next big goal is to have a net worth of $1 million by the time he's 30.
His end game in real estate is to get to the point where the passive income from his rentals pays for all of his bills. He figures at his current pace he'll reach that in the next three to four years.
Then, Lin says he'll use all his wedding earnings to fund his lifestyle. He eventually wants to hit $200,000 of wedding income in a year.
"There's hundreds and hundreds — millions — of weddings every year, and there's billions of dollars spent in this industry," he says. "There's so much money out there for me to take out."
He also hopes to go international: "I'd love to do a wedding in Italy or Greece."
Lin has no plans to return to college. "There has never been a moment where I regretted dropping out of college," he says. "It is by far the best move I've ever made in my entire life."
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Stocks tumbled on Friday as Wall Street's summer rally appeared to falter and rate hike fears resurfaced, putting the major averages on pace to potentially end the week on a sour note.
The S&P 500 fell 1.1%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 227 points, or 0.67%. The Nasdaq Composite slid 1.9%.
For the week, the S&P 500 was last down 1.1%, while the Dow was marginally higher. The tech-heavy Nasdaq is currently down more than 2.5% for the week.
The halt in Wall Street's summer rally came as minutes from the Federal Reserve's July meeting and comments from St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard indicated that the central bank would likely continue hiking rates in the near term, putting a damper on investors' hopes of a slowdown.
Not everyone is convinced this week's moves spell the end of the market's recent rebound.
"I wouldn't expect a complete reversal going back to the June lows or something like that, however, the choppiness we're seeing today and this week does reflect a lot of the bear case that's out there," said FBB Capital Partners' Mike Bailey. "I think seeing the market trade sideways or seeing a bit of a pause in that rally definitely makes sense based on some of the facts that we're seeing out there."
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In other news, Bed Bath & Beyond shares cratered after Ryan Cohen dumped his entire stake in the retailer. The move seemed to sour sentiment among meme stock traders who have bet big on the stock in recent months.
Meanwhile, about a $2 trillion notional value worth of options contracts are set to expire on Friday, which could lead to increased volatility in the market as some holders may be forced to move into their positions.
Market volatility could pick up thanks to options expiration
There could be some big swings before the close Friday.
Options worth roughly $2 trillion in notional value are set to expire, meaning holders either have to roll into their positions or open up a new one. These events tend to bring about sharp market swings, especially heading into the close.
The majority of those options leaned on the calls side, meaning investors were betting on upside to the market, said Quincy Krosby of LPL Financial. "The issue is whether or not we will see perhaps a more bearish tilt going into this next month or is it going to remain filled with calls," she said.
The moves could offer further clues into where the market could be headed going forward, Krosby added.
— Samantha Subin
Dollar set for biggest weekly gain since April 2020
The dollar index surged again on Friday and was on pace to post its biggest weekly gain since April 2020.
Meanwhile, the euro was last down 0.54% to $1.0034 against the dollar, which put it back near parity with the greenback.
The dollar also hit its highest level since July 15, with the index last up nearly 2.4%.
— Samantha Subin
June bottom should stick but market is overbought, Cresset Capital's Ablin says
Cresset Capital's Jack Ablin believes that the bottom created in June should hold even as market conditions remain overbought.
The rally staged in recent weeks should continue to trend higher in the foreseeable future, Ablin said, but the market also needs to "wring out" some of the speculative areas that have trended higher as of late.
"The smaller speculative growth, tech names, I think got ahead of themselves," Ablin said. "The Fed is still removing liquidity and speculation from the market and it just seems like an odd backdrop to be able to invest in speculative ideas right now."
— Samantha Subin
Tech shares slide, leading the Nasdaq lower
Tech stocks tumbled on Friday as investors shied away from growth stocks and the Nasdaq Composite was on track to end the week in negative territory.
Shares of technology giants Amazon and Alphabet slid more than 2%, with Meta Platforms and Netflix down more than 3% each. Apple and Microsoft also slipped about 1% each, while semiconductor stocks Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices tumbled more than 4%.
The moves dragged down the S&P 500's information technology, consumer discretionary and communication services sectors by 2% each.
— Samantha Subin
The market's higher P/E may depend on Powell speech at Jackson Hole, Credit Suisse says
The stock market's 16% rally from the June lows has depended on investors' desire to pay more for future earnings as bond yields declined, Credit Suisse strategist Andrew Garthwaite said in a research bulletin from London Friday.
The forward price-to-earnings multiple had climbed to 18.3 times today from a low of 15.4 in June, he said. Meanwhile, earnings estimates have fallen since the end of June, by 1.5% for 2022 and 3.5% for 2023.
As a result, Fed Chairman Jay Powell's remarks next week at the annual central bank confab in Jackson Hole, Wyoming take on critical importance for the stock market's autumn performance.
Looking ahead, if Powell tries "to re-tighten financial conditions...or acknowledges the resilience of large chunks of the U.S. economy, the one driver of the rally we are witnessing – multiple expansion driven by lower yields – could prove precarious, as we move into a phase in which better news for the economy could be bad news for the market," Credit Suisse said.
— Scott Schnipper
Cruise lines are among the top losers in the S&P 500
Cruise operators' shares dipped in morning trading on Friday, dragging down the S&P 500. The broad market index is now on course to snap its four-week win streak.
Shares of Carnival, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings and Royal Caribbean slid more than 5%.
The decline in shares came days after Carnival announced increasing booking activity. Carnival said earlier this week that its booking activity for Monday, Aug. 15 was nearly twice the level of a comparable day in 2019. The company also loosened its Covid protocols on the heels of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relaxing its guidelines.
Airlines also suffered. American Airlines and Delta each fell more than 3%.
— Darla Mercado
All the major averages on track for weekly losses
All the major averages are on pace to end the week lower. The Dow Industrial Average was last down 0.12% for the week, while the S&P 500 was 1% lower. The Nasdaq Composite has fallen 2.24% since the week began.
— Samantha Subin
U.S. Treasury yields climb higher as investors digest jobless claims data
U.S. Treasury yields climbed higher on Friday as investors digested the previous day's data release, which showed jobless claims edging lower, below expectations.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was up 9 basis points at 2.972% at 9:45 a.m. ET, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond traded up 7.5 basis points to 3.216%. Yields move inversely to prices, and a basis point is equal to 0.01%.
Markets and monetary policy officials are watching the job market closely, as rate increases aim to cool a labor market and 40-year high inflation. Jobless claims counted at 250,000 for the week ending Aug. 13, down 2,000 from the prior week.
The Fed is considering another large rate hike in September, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said Thursday, adding that he can't say for sure that inflation has peaked.
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— Natasha Turak
Decliners handily outpacing advancers at NYSE
Market breadth was downbeat in early trading Friday, with 10 New York Stock Exchange-listed stocks declining for every advancer, FactSet data shows. Breadth wasn't much better at the Nasdaq exchange either, with six stocks declining for every advancer.
—Fred Imbert
Stocks open lower Friday
Stocks fell on Friday, putting the S&P 500 on track to break its 4-week win streak. The S&P was last down 0.69%, while the Dow Industrial Average tumbled 158 points, or 0.47%. The Nasdaq Composite plunged 1.12%.
— Samantha Subin
Madison Square Garden Entertainment pops on potential spinoff news
Madison Square Garden Entertainment is looking into a potential spinoff of its live entertainment business, the company announced Thursday.
The move would create a separately traded company comprised of its live entertainment business. That includes New York City venue Madison Square Garden, along with MSG Networks and the Radio City Rockettes' "Christmas Spectacular" show.
— Samantha Subin, Jack Stebbins
Bitcoin falls below $22,000 — a more than three-week low
Bitcoin dropped below the $22,000 level, to its lowest level in more than three weeks, on the back of a broader crypto sell-off.
The digital token fell below $21,500 at 2:30 a.m. ET, before recovering somewhat to under $22,000, according to CoinDesk data. It was last down 8.4% to $21,532.50 as of 8:47 a.m. ET.
Other cryptocurrencies also declined, including Binance Coin, Cardano and Solana. The reason for the drop was unclear.
Earlier this month, Bitcoin topped the $25,000 level for the first time since June.
— Sarah Min
Wayfair cuts 870 jobs, shares slump more than 7%
Wayfair shares tumbled more than 7% in the premarket after the company said it's cutting 870 jobs, or roughly 5% of its global workforce and about 10% of its corporate team.
The furniture retailer said it expects the cost of the cut to range between $30 million and $40 million. Wayfair expects those costs — which will mainly come from severance and benefits expenses — to hit in the third quarter.
— Samantha Subin
General Motors reinstates quarterly dividend it suspended in April 2020
General Motors is reinstating the quarterly cash dividend it cut during the early period of the Covid-19 pandemic, the automaker said Friday.
The first quarterly dividend is expected to be paid out to shareholders on Sept. 15. at a rate of 9 cents per share, down about 76% from the previous 38 cents issued in April 2020.
The car company also said it's upping its share repurchases to $5 billion of common stock.
Shares of General Motors rose about 2% in the premarket.
— Samantha Subin, Michael Wayland
Deere slip 4% on earnings miss, guidance cut
Deere shares slipped 4% in the premarket after the heavy equipment maker missed earnings estimates by 53 cents in the recent quarter as it faces higher costs and supply chain issues. The heavy equipment maker also cut its full-year guidance.
— Samantha Subin
Foot Locker pops 20%, retailer announces new CEO
Shares of Foot Locker jumped more than 20% in the premarket after topping earnings estimates in the recent quarter by 31 cents a share. At the same time, the company announced that former Ulta Beauty CEO Mary Dillon would step in as CEO beginning Sept. 1.
— Samantha Subin
HP Inc. falls after Wells Fargo downgrade
Shares of HP Inc. fell more than 3% in the premarket after analysts at Wells Fargo downgraded the PC maker to underweight from equal weight.
"While we maintain a positive view on HP Inc.'s strong FCF and continued execution on driving toward a richer portfolio mix (commercial PCs, consumer premium / gaming, and peripherals), we see deteriorating PC fundamentals and macroeconomic sensitivity in HP's printer results," Wells Fargo analyst Aaron Rakers wrote in a note Friday.
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—Fred Imbert, Michelle Fox
CNBC Pro: Investment pro says 'don't be a hero' in markets
Market veteran Nancy Tengler says talk of a new bull market is premature, as she names the "reliable" stocks she likes right now.
"I think this rally has been excellent," Tengler, who is CEO and chief investment officer of Laffer Tengler Investments, told CNBC "Squawk Box Asia" last week. "But I don't think we're off and running in a new bull market."
She named several tech stocks that she thinks are "more reliable growers" — companies with a proven track record of growing earnings and dividends.
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— Zavier Ong
CNBC Pro: Veteran strategist David Roche shares his views on the market rally
U.S. markets have picked up from their mid-June lows in recent weeks, but strategist David Roche believes current support for the market is set to run out.
Speaking to CNBC earlier this week, Roche, head of research firm Independent Strategy, said he thought the rally was "probably 75% over now."
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— Jenni Reid
Bed Bath & Beyond plunges after Cohen dumps his stake
Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond are down more than 40% in extended trading after activist investor Ryan Cohen revealed that he had exited his position in the company.
Cohen had said in a filing earlier this week that his firm RC Ventures intended to sell all of its shares and call options of the struggling retail chain.
Bed Bath & Beyond had surged in recent weeks amid increased interest and trading activity from retail investors.
— Jesse Pound
Applied Materials, Bill.com rise after earnings
Earnings season is winding down, but investors received two encouraging reports on Thursday evening.
Shares of Applied Materials rose about 2% in extended trading after the company beat estimates on the top and bottom lines for its fiscal third quarter. The semiconductor equipment company also gave upbeat guidance for its fourth quarter, with revenue and earnings projections coming in higher than expected.
Meanwhile, shares of bill payment software firm Bill.com surged 19% after its own better-than-expected report. The company also said it plans to be profitable on an adjusted basis in the upcoming fiscal year.
— Jesse Pound
S&P 500, Dow hold slight gains for the week
With one day left in the trading week, here's where the major averages stand:
The Dow:
- Up 0.71% for the week, on track for its fourth positive week in five
- Down 7.99% from its record high
The S&P 500:
- Up 0.08% for the week, on track for its fifth-straight winning week
- Down 11.10% from its record higher
The Nasdaq Composite
- Down 0.63% for the week, on pace to snap a four-week winning streak
- Down 20.03% from its record high
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(WXIN) – McDonald’s is taking its beloved Big Mac into new territory by switching out the two all-beef patties for chicken.
The Chicken Big Mac, made with “crispy tempura chicken patties” instead of beef, will be test launched in Miami for a limited time, McDonald’s confirmed.
The sandwich already made its debut February in the United Kingdom and Ireland to much fanfare — and significant sales. McDonald’s U.K. announced the limited-edition offering had “sold out almost everywhere” after a little over the week on the menu. It eventually returned for a limited time.
The Chicken Big Mac appears identical to the original Big Mac aside from its chicken patties, and comes with cheese, lettuce, pickles and special sauce, McDonald’s said. The version sold in the U.K. did not come with chopped onions; McDonald’s did not list this component among the ingredients in the U.S. version, either.
If the testing goes well, it’s possible the Chicken Big Mac could expand to additional regions or even the nationwide menu, though it’s not guaranteed.
“While not everything we test makes it on our U.S. menus, we’ll use this time to gather feedback from both customers and restaurant crew as we consider opportunities to offer more delicious options in the future,” McDonald’s wrote in a statement shared with Nexstar.
McDonald’s currently offers several chicken sandwiches on the U.S. menu, including its McChicken and multiple variations of its Crispy Chicken Sandwich, which debuted in 2021. At the time, McDonald’s Vice President of Menu Innovation Linda VanGosen said the new sandwiches came in response to customer demand for chicken items.
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DESOTO, Texas — An Amarillo man was arrested in the Dallas area on Thursday after police said he shot and killed his ex-girlfriend in her home.
The Amarillo Police Department said officers responded at approximately 5:11 a.m. Thursday to the 7200 block of Athens Street near Amarillo for a call about a woman with gunshot wounds. When police arrived, they found 36-year-old Shereena Ann Webster dead at the scene.
Police identified Webster's ex-boyfriend, 32-year-old Erik Mitchell Rivas, as the suspect and said he had left town. Amarillo police then issued a BOLO (be on the lookout) for Rivas to other law enforcement agencies.
Police later found Rivas in the Dallas area and arrested him. Rivas was taken to the Wise County jail on a murder charge, online records show. His bond was set at $500,000.
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurelis and Little Angels Service Dogs are proud to present the "Barks 'n Blues Music & More" concert for epilepsy awareness at the Quartyard, 1301 Market St., San Diego, Thursday, Aug. 25 at 5 p.m. PT. Featured performers include five-time San Diego Music Award winner, Whitney Shay, San Diego Music Award nominee, Ron Houston & The Berry Pickers, and former American Idol finalist, Jessica Meuse.
The event kicks off a two-year partnership between Neurelis and Little Angels. Neurelis is sponsoring two puppies who will undergo extensive training to become seizure-response dogs that live and assist a person with epilepsy. Throughout their training process the puppies will appear at epilepsy-related events like Barks 'n Blues to drive awareness about the disorder along with the critical role of seizure management.
"Our partnership with Little Angels is an extension of our mission to improve the lives of people with epilepsy and empower them to effectively treat their seizures, return back to their daily lives, and reduce worry about when the next seizure will occur," said Craig Chambliss, CEO, and President. "We are committed to working with Little Angels to reduce fear and stigma associated with epilepsy and educate people with epilepsy and their care partners about the importance of having a seizure action plan in place."
Little Angels Executive Director Josh Drew, "Our partnership with Neurelis at the Barks 'n Blues concert is a great opportunity to educate the public about the critical role service dogs play in alerting and assisting people at the onset of, during, and after seizure episodes. We hope to improve the potential for positive outcomes for people with epilepsy, one seizure response dog at a time."
Barks 'n Blues will include service dog demonstrations, food and refreshments, and a silent auction featuring attractions, dining, trips, sports tickets, memorabilia, and a chance to meet and name a litter of future service dogs. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $25 on Eventbrite through Aug. 24, or for $30 on Aug. 25, based on availability.
Little Angels Service Dogs, with locations in Jamul, CA and Bartlett, NH, is an Assistance Dog International (ADI) accredited organization that specializes in training service dogs for mobility assistance, seizure alert, autism assistance, hearing alert, diabetic alert and psychiatric assistance for children and adults of all ages.
For more information, to buy tickets, or to find "Barks 'n Blues Music & More" on Eventbrite or Facebook, visit www.littleangelssd.org/events, or call 603-374-5156, option 4.
Neurelis, Inc., is a commercial-stage neuroscience company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics for the treatment of epilepsy and orphan neurologic disorders characterized by high unmet medical need. In 2020, the FDA approved Neurelis's VALTOCO® (diazepam nasal spray) CIV as an acute treatment of intermittent, stereotypic episodes of frequent seizure activity (i.e., seizure clusters, acute repetitive seizures) that are distinct from an individual's usual seizure pattern in adult and pediatric patients 6 years of age and older. VALTOCO is a proprietary formulation of diazepam incorporating the science of INTRAVAIL®. Intravail's transmucosal absorption enhancement technology enables the noninvasive delivery of a broad range of protein, peptide and small-molecule drugs. In its approval of VALTOCO, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration also granted Neurelis Orphan Drug Exclusivity and recognized VALTOCO's intranasal route of administration as a clinically superior contribution to patient care over the previously approved standard-of-care treatment (a rectal gel formulation of diazepam). For more information on VALTOCO, please visit www.valtoco.com. In addition to VALTOCO, Neurelis is developing NRL-2 for intermittent use to control acute panic attacks, NRL-3 as a noninvasive acute therapy to stop seizures that have progressed to status epilepticus, and NRL-4 as a noninvasive rescue therapy to address the escalation of acute agitation symptoms associated with schizophrenia and bipolar 1 mania in adults. In addition, Neurelis is developing NRL-1049 (previously known as BA-1049), an investigational, pre-clinical stage small molecule Rho kinase (ROCK) inhibitor, for the treatment of cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMS), a rare disorder of the central nervous system (CNS). For more information on Neurelis, please visit www.neurelis.com. For the latest scientific information on VALTOCO, please visit www.neurelismedicalaffairs.com.
Indication
VALTOCO® (diazepam nasal spray) is indicated for the acute treatment of intermittent, stereotypic episodes of frequent seizure activity (i.e, seizure clusters, acute repetitive seizures) that are distinct from a patient's usual seizure pattern in patients with epilepsy 6 years of age and older.
WARNING: RISKS FROM CONCOMITANT USE WITH OPIOIDS; ABUSE, MISUSE, AND ADDICTION; and DEPENDENCE AND WITHDRAWAL REACTIONS
- Concomitant use of benzodiazepines and opioids may result in profound sedation, respiratory depression, coma, and death. Reserve concomitant prescribing of these drugs for patients for whom alternative treatment options are inadequate. Limit dosages and durations to the minimum required. Follow patients for signs and symptoms of respiratory depression and sedation.
- The use of benzodiazepines, including VALTOCO, exposes users to risks of abuse, misuse, and addiction, which can lead to overdose or death. Abuse and misuse of benzodiazepines commonly involve concomitant use of other medications, alcohol, and/or illicit substances, which is associated with an increased frequency of serious adverse outcomes. Before prescribing VALTOCO and throughout treatment, assess each patient's risk for abuse, misuse, and addiction.
- The continued use of benzodiazepines may lead to clinically significant physical dependence. The risks of dependence and withdrawal increase with longer treatment duration and higher daily dose. Although VALTOCO is indicated only for intermittent use, if used more frequently than recommended, abrupt discontinuation or rapid dosage reduction of VALTOCO may precipitate acute withdrawal reactions, which can be life-threatening. For patients using VALTOCO more frequently than recommended, to reduce the risk of withdrawal reactions, use a gradual taper to discontinue VALTOCO.
Contraindications: VALTOCO is contraindicated in patients with:
- Hypersensitivity to diazepam
- Acute narrow-angle glaucoma
Central Nervous System (CNS) Depression
Benzodiazepines, including VALTOCO, may produce CNS depression. Caution patients against engaging in hazardous activities requiring mental alertness, such as operating machinery, driving a motor vehicle, or riding a bicycle, until the effects of the drug, such as drowsiness, have subsided, and as their medical condition permits.
The potential for a synergistic CNS-depressant effect when VALTOCO is used with alcohol or other CNS depressants must be considered, and appropriate recommendations made to the patient and/or care partner.
Suicidal Behavior and Ideation
Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), including VALTOCO, increase the risk of suicidal ideation and behavior. Patients treated with any AED for any indication should be monitored for the emergence or worsening of depression, suicidal thoughts or behavior, and/or unusual changes in mood or behavior.
Glaucoma
Benzodiazepines, including VALTOCO, can increase intraocular pressure in patients with glaucoma. VALTOCO may only be used in patients with open-angle glaucoma only if they are receiving appropriate therapy. VALTOCO is contraindicated in patients with narrow-angle glaucoma.
Risk of Serious Adverse Reactions in Infants due to Benzyl Alcohol Preservative
VALTOCO is not approved for use in neonates or infants. Serious and fatal adverse reactions, including "gasping syndrome," can occur in neonates and low-birth-weight infants treated with benzyl alcohol-preserved drugs, including VALTOCO. The "gasping syndrome" is characterized by central nervous system depression, metabolic acidosis, and gasping respirations. The minimum amount of benzyl alcohol at which serious adverse reactions may occur is not known.
Adverse Reactions
The most common adverse reactions (at least 4%) were somnolence, headache, and nasal discomfort.
Diazepam, the active ingredient in VALTOCO, is a Schedule IV controlled substance.
To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact Neurelis, Inc. at 1-866-696-3873 or FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 (www.fda.gov/medwatch).
Please read full Prescribing Information, including Boxed Warning, for additional important safety information.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rally House was introduced to Louisville earlier this year, and the company is proud to announce another new location in the area - Rally House Paddock Shops. Now, nearby fans have another trusted source of locally driven merchandise and sports apparel northeast of the downtown metro. Customers will find everything from a friendly staff to an expansive assortment of high-quality apparel, accessories, and gifts at this new Rally House store.
Louisville happily welcomed Rally House when the first store arrived, and now this connection can continue to blossom with Rally House Paddock Shops. "The team is pumped to open our doors to even more enthusiastic fans around Louisville," describes District Manager Teri Hauenschild. "And we're confident these customers will be equally excited to shop one of the best selections of team gear and localized products around the city!"
Kentucky is home to many successful pro and college teams, many of which are available at Rally House Paddock Shops. For instance, visitors can shop team gear for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Bengals, and several other clubs. Plus, all these team collections include the industry's most respected brand names, like New Era, Nike, and Mitchell & Ness, to name a few.
Rally House Paddock Shops is also here to help residents and tourists express their love for the city and state. With an ever-growing assortment of stylish and high-grade local merch, especially from the famous RALLY Brand™, patrons will have no trouble finding products to rep area icons and prominent Louisville themes.
The team working at this new Rally House store delivers unparalleled customer service for an out-of-this-world shopping experience. For added convenience, there are also numerous products that can be shipped to any state available online at www.rallyhouse.com.
Customers hoping to stay on top of store news can visit www.rallyhouse.com/rally-house-paddock-shops or follow the store on Facebook (@RallyPaddockShops) and Instagram (@rallypaddockshops).
Rally House and Sampler Stores Inc. is a family-owned specialty boutique that offers a large selection of apparel, hats, gifts and home décor representing local NCAA, NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and MLS teams in addition to locally inspired apparel, gifts and food. Proudly based in Lenexa, Kansas, Rally House operates 125+ locations across 13 states.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 19, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
102 PM CDT Fri Aug 19 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Lake Livingston
through 130 PM CDT...
At 101 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Point Blank, or 14 miles west of Livingston, moving east at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
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For many years, the Black Thought solo album felt like an imaginary object, long rumored yet never revealed. It went by several names — Masterpiece Theatre, The Talented Mr. Trotter — and had many soft launches. The Philly rapper born Tariq Trotter had of course already displayed his otherworldly dexterity as frontman and co-founder of The Roots, and, beginning in 2018, emerged as a willing and capable soloist with a series of freewheeling mini-releases. But for most rappers, a proper debut album is a statement of artistic purpose. For a rapper in a group, it is also a chance to establish a fully independent identity. Even as Black Thought the solo artist steadily took shape, his album — the album — remained elusive.
Cheat Codes, Trotter's new collaboration with the producer Danger Mouse, is that quintessential Black Thought album, the one long awaited by diehards, the first of his recent projects to transcend his supreme skill as a rhymer and define his music beyond his intense technique. As a soloist, Trotter has tended to write like a world traveler, making offhand references to the chupacabra or Bach, Amon-Ra or the hajj, his raps crowded but fluid as if he were sloshing on foot through a quagmire. Here, he finally locates himself within his songs: as a hometown hero who brought rap game theory to national TV yet remains cognizant of the Black struggle, who is trying to reconcile the world he's entered with the one he's from. If there are two Americas, Trotter has straddled both, and Cheat Codes shares lessons learned during his travels, with a clear frame of mind that is new ground even for one of rap's peerless performers.
As the voice of the legendary Roots crew, Trotter is both representative and accessory. The group is built around his indelible lyricism, but he has always been deferential to the collective, its ideas and organization. The Roots is also a live band, and moving through those arrangements requires a specific potency and stamina. Books on rapping have lauded his gifts as a performer: In How to Rap, Kool G Rap champions Trotter's breath control and execution in a Roots staging of his song "Men at Work." Watching the clip, you are immediately struck by the physicality of his recitation, how forcefully and consistently he rattles off phrases, like a boxer working a speed bag. Yet that asset can also be a strange kind of liability in hip-hop. "Sometimes MCs' flows can so dominate their styles that they overshadow other elements of craft," Adam Bradley writes of Trotter in Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip-Hop. "Set within the complex soundscapes offered up by the rest of the group, Black Thought's liquid flow at times nearly washes away his meaning."
The Roots released their last album in 2014 and followed Jimmy Fallon to The Tonight Show the same year, and a sense emerged that rapping might have become a secondary concern for Black Thought, admittedly a less ferocious presence at the head of a late-night house band. When Funk Flex invited him to participate in his ongoing freestyle series on Hot 97 in 2017, the rapper seemed to take the opportunity as a challenge — a way to reassert himself as not only an ambassador of the culture but a lethal technician. The performance was a viral moment that renewed conversations about barring out, and within the epic polemic were hints of a coming return: "Them brothers said, 'Don't go from written bars filled with rage / To primetime television and your gilded cage / Then forget there's people in the world still enslaved.'
Six months later came Streams of Thought Vol. 1, the first of a trio of single-producer collections that diverge sharply from The Roots' live instrumentation and conceptual arcs. As far back as 2001, Trotter seemed to already understand how he wanted his solo work to function: "The difference between a Black Thought album and a Roots album is the texture," he told MTV News, promising that his eventual debut would stick to samples. Streams of Thought delivered that vision via esteemed beatmakers 9th Wonder, Salaam Remi and Sean C, but mainly as a sparring exercise: Trotter's presence on them is raw and loose, and they're better understood as small monuments to his talent than for their substance.
There is immediately a greater focus and intent to Cheat Codes, beginning with the production. The flips are simple and elegant, the drums understated. There is enough space within the loops for Trotter's voice to probe through. Where Sean C compared the beats he made for Streams of Thought Vol. 3 to the '70s feel of Jay-Z's American Gangster, Cheat Codes curates soul, psych rock and funk samples from the same era into a weirder, more warped palette. Danger Mouse constructed these beats with Black Thought and his skill set specifically in mind, and the rapper moves through them deliberately, without compromising what are some of his most writerly verses. Together, the two cohere around a mission to build a classicist album fit for the form's elder statesmen.
Relentless motion is clearly in Trotter's DNA, a trait he traces back to childhood: "My birthplace taught me not to stop / I'm more advanced than my classmates / I came into the game on a fast break," he raps on "No Gold Teeth." Many songs on Cheat Codes are built around a single extended verse, though compared to his knotty Hot 97 filibuster they're compact and restrained, there to be not merely heeded but understood. Take the wavy "Identical Deaths," in which Black Thought is interviewed by God and keeps his cool, making gentle swoops from bar to bar as if trying to carefully pen a letter in cursive. On the title track, he works through the mindset of the "young gunners" running stickups in Philly, only to zoom out at the end and account for the larger systems that created them, using the mic like a bullhorn.
Virtuosity is too often presented as a shorthand for lyricism, and though some rappers have earned notoriety from the former, beneath the surface their verses are often empty. Trotter isn't immune to using technical hyper-proficiency to mask bombast, but even his most ill-defined rhymes carry a certain gravitas in their momentum, the deeply alliterative wordplay generating its own mystique. However, none of his previous releases have matched this novelistic charm with attentive storytelling the way Cheat Codes does. With "Because," he paints a vivid picture of the limited options that lead many into the carceral system. The winding verses of "Sometimes" and "Violas & Lupitas" are packed with little vignettes, and sometimes a bar will contain an entire scene: "Juke joint party lights lit the Harlem nights / Peas and rice made a Judas out of Garveyites."
There is still plenty of rapping about how great he is at rapping, but the verses more often turn on nuggets of personal discovery ("Richard Wright, Black Boy that grew into a Blacker man") and accumulated wisdom. Where Vol. 3 of Streams of Thought often felt aimlessly political, a concept record without a real agenda, the perspective here is tighter and more self-affirming. On "The Darkest Part," he mulls injustice, freedom, and the weight of the soul ("I came to take back that other two-fifths of a man"). Later, on "Saltwater," he distinguishes himself as a seasoned OG, not a lecturer; his rapping is surly but not disillusioned, observant but not sanctimonious. Even the songs that do fixate on the rap game as a sporting arena do so astutely: In the elongated verse of "Close to Famous," he measures the extent of his influence and the skill and experience gap between him as a veteran and rap's overnight sensations. Much of his case, like the album overall, is constructed around the idea that he can read any room and speak its language.
Trotter is not our only rapper-scholar, but his position in the culture is close to unique. "Bring the Cambridge, the Websters, the Oxfords ... Product of the Last Poets and the Watts Prophets," he raps on "Belize," presenting his career as a bridge between street intellectuals and academic authorities, rap as cipher and rap as literature. The notion of a full-length collaboration between Black Thought and Danger Mouse long predates his years on network television or the dynamic if arguably vain showcase of Streams of Thought, but the results are nonetheless a culmination of that history. Listening now, it can feel like all those years the album went unmade are what made it possible.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — It all began 20 years ago, when China loaned Sri Lanka more than $1 billion to build a fancy new port — what would become its second-largest — on its southern coast.
The Hambantota port, with its strategic location near busy Indian Ocean shipping routes, was touted as good for Sri Lankan commerce. But it wasn't profitable, and the government defaulted on those Chinese loans.
Then China foreclosed, taking over the port's operations in 2017 on a 99-year lease.
Beijing's critics have long offered up Hambantota as the classic example of what they call a Chinese debt trap. Now, with Sri Lanka bankrupt and politically unstable, they're flagging it as a worrying example of how China might use that infrastructure for military purposes.
Their fears grew this week, when a Chinese survey ship docked at Hambantota. Sri Lanka and China call it a scientific research vessel, which will stay through Aug. 22 to resupply. But foreign security experts call it a Chinese naval ship that's been used in the past to track satellites and missiles.
The ship's arrival on Tuesday set off alarm bells in the West and in neighboring India, which has tense relations with Beijing. Critics say whatever China does in Hambantota with this ship may signal what it eventually plans to do with all the ports, highways, bridges and other infrastructure it's built around the world in recent decades — in one of the biggest construction efforts in human history. They fear this colossal network of infrastructure could be converted into an unprecedented network of military bases, occupying parts of countries where China has never had overseas army bases before.
Sri Lanka has been transformed by Chinese construction
Chinese companies, most of them state-owned, have built ports, power stations, an airport — even a giant lotus-shaped tourist tower — across Sri Lanka.
At first, these projects were hailed as symbols of Sri Lanka's development, says Shreen Sarour, a human rights activist. Many of the projects now look like "white elephants," she says — useless to the now-bankrupt Sri Lankan government, but possibly useful to China. They could be used to interfere with or control global trade, or possibly even as launchpads for military aggression, Sarour believes.
Sri Lanka has been one of the countries hardest hit by inflation and rising energy prices this year. In May, the government defaulted on foreign debt payments. By July, inflation had shot up to 60%. There are rolling blackouts, food shortages and fuel rationing.
The economic crisis sparked a political one: Protesters filled the streets, calling for the ouster of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Last month, he fled the country and resigned. A new president is now in his place.
Many Sri Lankans accuse Rajapaksa and his brother, another former president, of running the economy into the ground. Protesters are calling for scrutiny of everything they did. One of the biggest things they did was to sign opaque investment deals with China, including oversight of the Chinese construction at Hambantota.
"This is economic colonialism," says W. Jude Namal Fernando, a Sri Lankan fisherman turned activist who successfully lobbied a Chinese construction company to compensate fishermen whose land was eroded because of Chinese dredging north of Colombo. "China exploits our country, but it's our leaders who let them do it."
China says its ship is on a scientific mission, not a military one
China and Sri Lanka have both sought to allay concerns of those like Fernando and Sarour, as well as foreign governments like India's, who worry this Chinese ship's arrival could signal the start of the militarization of Chinese infrastructure in Sri Lanka.
"I would like to reiterate that the marine scientific research conducted by the research ship Yuan Wang 5 conforms to international law and international common practice, and will not affect the security and economic interests of any country," China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said a briefing Monday.
When the ship docked Tuesday, the Chinese Embassy threw a welcome ceremony. Workers stood at attention, waving Chinese and Sri Lankan flags, and the Chinese ambassador extolled the two countries "outstanding friendship."
But Indian media reported that some senior Sri Lankan officials boycotted the ceremony.
The Chinese ship's arrival in Hambantota was reportedly delayed amid objections from India, which shares a more than 2,000-mile disputed border with China, where soldiers clashed two years ago.
On Tuesday, a Sri Lankan government spokesperson, Bandula Gunawardana, told reporters that lots of international ships dock in Sri Lanka and insisted this one is no different — but emphasized that the government is working to ensure there's no "friction" with friendly nations.
Worries about the fight for economic influence over Sri Lanka
On Monday, as the Chinese ship neared Hambantota, India donated a maritime reconnaissance aircraft to Sri Lanka.
As relations fray between China and the world's democracies, including India, Sri Lankans feel caught in the middle, says Sarour.
"People are very worried whether we will be the battlefield between and China's and India's tensions — whether Sri Lanka will be the point where the war will start," she says.
If not a war with weapons, Sarour says, then a war for economic influence.
China is one of Sri Lanka's biggest creditors. Most of the country's debt, however, is held by private banks in the United States and Europe.
India has also been a big lender. Over the past decade, it has extended nearly $2 billion in credit lines to its southern neighbor. But India can't afford to do more. It's dealing with its own inflation crisis.
So Sri Lanka is asking the International Monetary Fund for a bailout. The IMF has said the country's political instability could prolong its delivery.
"Meanwhile, we need money to survive. We need about $800 million per month. Somebody will have to finance it," says W.A. Wijewardena, former deputy governor of Sri Lanka's central bank. "Earlier, that somebody was the European Union, the USA, Japan or India — which has its own problems. So now that somebody? China."
China has deep pockets and is often willing to lend faster than the IMF, with fewer questions asked, Wijewardena says. He predicts his country will take out more Chinese loans and go deeper into debt to Beijing in order to stay afloat until an IMF bailout comes through — likely in January.
Learning Mandarin in Colombo
Not everyone in Sri Lanka sees China's presence as negative.
"The Chinese market is expanding in Sri Lanka! Like, hugely expanding," says Chamath Geethan Perera, a 27-year-old businessman in Colombo.
Perera is learning Mandarin and received a scholarship from the Chinese government to study for a master's degree in Chongquing. After three years there, he landed a job at a Chinese construction company in Colombo.
Sri Lankans need to learn how to communicate with Chinese officials, Perera says.
"If they develop our country with the port city or [other projects], we need to have a clear mind about what they are going to do," he says, referring to Port City Colombo, a Chinese-built complex in the capital. "So we don't need to blame anyone other than ourselves."
Perera says it's easy to blame China or the Rajapaksa brothers for all of Sri Lanka's current problems. It may be harder, he says, for the country's new leaders to avoid the same mistakes.
Susitha Fernando contributed to this story from Colombo.
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At least two people are wounded in Swedish mall shooting as 'gunman opens fire': Armed police arrest suspect after 'gang-related fight' at Malmo shopping centre
- Swedish police have cordoned off Emporia shopping centre in Malmo
- Local newspaper reports that two people have been injured
- Police have arrested a suspect and the incident is not thought to be ongoing
At least two people have been wounded in a shooting at a Swedish shopping mall today, police have said.
The Emporia shopping centre in Malmo was surrounded by armed officers at around 5pm local time and police say they have now arrested a suspect.
The building was evacuated and partly cordoned off as panicked witnesses described scenes of chaos.
Police officers cordon off an area outside the Emporia shopping centre in Malmo, Sweden
The incident occurred around 5pm local time, with armed police descending on the scene
Unconfirmed reports suggest that the shooting was part of a gang-related fight.
'Shots have been fired at the Emporia shopping centre in Malmo,' police said in a statement.
'The police are at the scene with a large amount of resources and the location has been cordoned off.'
Emergency services surrounded the area as shoppers fled the mall.
Malmo shooting: Gunman 'opens fire' at shopping mall in city of Malmo, which was evacuated by police
Shoppers were evacuated from the Emporia mall on Friday amid reports of a gunman in the area
Armed police at the scene of the mall shooting, in which two people are believed to have been injured
The statement gave no further information.
Local daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter quoted police spokesman Jimmy Modin as saying that two people had been injured in the incident.
'This is no longer an ongoing incident,' the paper quoted him saying.
Modin said he had no information on the seriousness of the injuries the two people had sustained in the shooting.
The police could not immediately be reached for comment.
Police spokesman Jimmy Modin has been quoted as saying that two people had been injured in the incident
A suspect has now been arrested in what unconfirmed reports suggest was a 'gang-related' fight
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Research Solutions to Present and Host Investor Meetings at the 13th Annual Midwest IDEAS Investor Conference on August 25th
HENDERSON, Nev., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS), a pioneer in providing cloud-based workflow solutions for R&D driven organizations, today announced Roy W. Olivier, President & Chief Executive Officer & Bill Nurthen, Chief Financial Officer, will attend and host investor meetings during the Midwest IDEAS Investor Conference on August 25, 2022. The Company's presentation is scheduled at 11:15 am ET and will be webcast and may be accessed through the conference host's main website: https://www.threepartadvisors.com/midwest.
Qualified investors interested in attending or learning more about the IDEAS conferences, please contact Steven Hooser at (214) 872-2710 or shooser@threepa.com.
About Research Solutions
Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS) provides cloud-based technologies to streamline the process of obtaining, managing, and creating intellectual property. Founded in 2006 as Reprints Desk, the company was a pioneer in developing solutions to serve researchers. Today, more than 70 percent of the top pharmaceutical companies, prestigious universities, and emerging businesses rely on Article Galaxy, the company's SaaS research platform, to streamline access to the latest scientific research and data with 24/7 customer support. For more information and details, please visit www.researchsolutions.com.
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New Laundry Solution Delivers Exceptional User Experiences with Space-efficient and Practical Design, Built-in Artificial Intelligence and User-centric Features
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics has unveiled its new WashTower™ Compact vertical laundry solution at IFA 2022. The new WashTower™ is a fully integrated model that combines a separate washer and dryer, all-in-one control panel and advanced AI in a single, space-efficient unit to deliver greater convenience.
Providing more flexibility for limited spaces, LG's newest WashTower™ offers a compact design that is ideal for a one or two-member household. Compared to the larger 2020 WashTower™, the width and depth on the new compact model have been reduced. However, the washer and dryer still boast large capacities. The WashTower™ Compact also features a lower height that allows for comfortable and convenient access to the dryer, easier filter management, and the ability to install the unit in rooms with lower ceilings. Requiring less installation space than a stackable or side-by-side washer and dryer pair of the same capacity, the relatively small model frees up space in the kitchen or laundry room to conveniently store detergents, fabric softeners, and linen.
With a sleek design that brings a subtle, minimalist aesthetic, LG's new all-in-one WashTower™ Compact can integrate seamlessly with any type of décor in the home. The Center Control™ located on the front of the unit in between the washer and dryer, lets users easily manage all settings and functions from one convenient place, providing an optimal laundry experience.
What's more, the new WashTower™ model takes the user experience – and laundry results – to the next level with LG's advanced laundry technologies. Employing the Artificial Intelligence Direct Drive™ (AI DD™), the washer is able to identify the most suitable washing pattern (drum motions, water temperature and wash cycle time) for each load, reducing fabric damage to help clothing last longer. Meanwhile, the Smart Pairing™ feature syncs the dryer with the washer and automatically selects the best drying cycle based on the washer load settings, saving users time and offering the ultimate convenience. An excellent performer all-around, the LG WashTower™ Compact helps cut down on washing times with TurboWash™ 360, offering an effortless laundry experience.
"Boasting a more compact, streamlined design that offers more flexibility for small spaces, along with LG's latest AI-based laundry technologies, the WashTower™ Compact delivers an exceptionally convenient user experience," said Lyu Jae-cheol, president of LG Electronics Home Appliance & Air Solution Company. "We will continue to listen to consumers and meet their diverse and evolving needs by developing smart tech and design-forward appliances for a better life at home."
LG will be showcasing its latest innovations, including the new WashTower™ Compact at its exhibition booth (Hall 18, Messe Berlin) during IFA 2022 (September 2-6) in Berlin, Germany.
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The LG Home Appliance & Air Solution Company is a global leader in home appliances, smart home solutions, air solutions as well as visionary products featuring LG ThinQ AI. The company is creating various solutions with its industry leading core technologies and is committed to making life better and healthier for consumers by developing thoughtfully designed kitchen appliances, living appliances, HVAC and air purification solutions. Together, these products deliver enhanced convenience, superb performance, efficient operation and compelling health benefits. For more news on LG, visit www.LGnewsroom.com.
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Richard Sandoval Hospitality Brings Legendary Santo Domingo Restaurant Jalao to New York City's Newest Hotel - Radio Hotel and Tower - in Washington Heights
NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Jalao NYC opens its doors at the new Radio Hotel and Tower in New York City'sWashington Heights neighborhood. Leading restaurant group Richard Sandoval Hospitality teamed up with Antonio Espaillat, founder of the iconic Santo Domingo restaurant Jalao, to open the first US outpost.
Jalao NYC's culinary program is led by Jalao Santo Domingo's Executive Chef, Noemi Guzman, who is working in collaboration with Jalao NYC Executive Chef Harold Breton to interpolate Jalao's renowned menu with some new dishes made exclusively for the New York market enriching it with fresh, local ingredients and nuanced flavors.
"It's every Dominican's dream to come to New York," says, Chef Guzman. "I'm beyond grateful to be working with Executive Chef Harold Breton to tell the story of migration evolution via food, similar to the story of many Dominicans coming to this country while remaining true to their heritage."
A destination unto itself, the New York outpost of Jalao provides diners the opportunity to taste and enjoy an authentic Dominican culinary experience, transporting them to the Zona Colonial (Colonial Zone in Santo Domingo). Paying homage to its original location, Jalao NYC will offer an ongoing series of live musical performances in the restaurant and courtyard, creating an atmosphere and space that reflects the Dominican Republic – vibrant, joyful, and full of flavor.
Jalao NYC's menu includes favorite items from the popular Santo Domingo restaurant as well as options that are unique to this location. The menu includes classic Dominican appetizers, or "bocaditos," including chicharrón & casabe (marinaded crispy pork), croquetas de chivo (braised goat croquets), bombones de yuca (cheddar yucca croquets) and Latin American favorites including Caribbean-style ceviche and guacamole.
The restaurant can seat 90 and also features a large 8,000 sq ft space for outdoor seating in an interior courtyard, which will act as the center of activity for the hotel and restaurant, featuring ongoing entertainment programming. Local and regional bands will provide live music while dance instructors will get the party going with merengue and bachata dancing. The restaurant is also available for private events and bookings.
Jalao NYC is located at the new Radio Hotel and Tower at 2420 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY between 180th and 181st streets. Food service is available Sunday to Thursday from 5:00pm to 10:00pm extending to 11:00pm on Fridays and Saturdays, with courtyard seating available until midnight.
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Led by the internationally recognized contemporary Latin restaurant group, Richard Sandoval Hospitality, and located in Washington Height's first-ever full-service boutique hotel, the Radio Hotel, Jalao NYC Jalao NYC is part of the Orgullo Dominicano, and pays homage to its predecessor, Jalao Santo Domingo, which has been serving traditional Dominican food with a modern twist in La Zona Colonial since 2016.
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'It was an off-game for us': Ben Stokes is eager to move on quickly from South Africa hammering as England lose first Test inside three days but insists no 'toys will be thrown out of the pram'
- Ben Stokes has asked his England side to move on quickly from today's defeat
- England lost the first Test to South Africa by an innings and 12 runs at Lord's
- South Africa were in fine form and blew England away well inside three days
- Stokes branded the defeat 'an off-game' and tasked his side to win the series 2-1
- Former England captain Andrew Strauss was critical of England's approach
Ben Stokes insisted there would be no ‘toys thrown out of the pram’ after England slipped to their first Test defeat of the new era, losing to South Africa by an innings and 12 at Lord’s.
After leading his side to four memorable wins over New Zealand and India, the England captain admitted his side had been outplayed in a game that was done and dusted in the equivalent of under two days.
But he said his players had to move on quickly to avoid taking any baggage to next week’s second Test at Old Trafford. And he urged them to reflect on whether they had been true to the style of play that had produced a quartet of stirring run-chases earlier in the summer.
England captain Ben Stokes saw England suffer defeat for the first time under his leadership
Anrich Nortje (right) took three wickets in the second innings to help South Africa to victory
‘Whatever we threw at South Africa, they seemed to counteract that,’ said Stokes. ‘You’ve got to give them a lot of credit. It was an off-game for us, and that’s absolutely fine. It’s not something I’m going to be throwing our toys out of the pram over.
‘The message for me and Baz [Brendon McCullum] upstairs will be, did we commit to everything the way we committed to the first four Tests of the summer?
‘If everyone can say, yes, 100%, we just didn’t execute our skills, then things are good. We’ll move on to the next Test match, and go out there and try and win. We’ve got two games left in the series, and our goal is to win 2-1.’
All-rounder Stokes has backed his side to bounce back quickly and win the series 2-1
Former England captain Andrew Strauss was critical of England's approach after the defeat
But England’s second-innings collapse for 149 in just 37.4 overs, following their first-innings surrender of 165 in 45, did not go down well with former captain Andrew Strauss, who earlier in the day had insisted there was no reason why a team as well-resourced as England should not be ranked No 1 in the world.
‘I think we’re all pretty startled to see England fold as quickly as they did,’ he told Sky Sports. ‘There was some excellent bowling but it just looked like it all happened like a deck of cards. There certainly wasn’t any digging in and trying to find a way of gradually wrestling the momentum.
‘For all England’s brilliance so far this summer, it’s high-risk cricket. Sometimes, when you play high-risk cricket, the odds conspire against you, and it can look quite ugly when it doesn't work out.
‘You can give England the benefit of the doubt in the first innings. Today, I’m just scratching my head. It was just too easy for me.’ | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-11128099/Ben-Stokes-eager-quickly-South-Africa-hammering-England-lose-Test-inside.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-19T18:46:35Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-11128099/Ben-Stokes-eager-quickly-South-Africa-hammering-England-lose-Test-inside.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Rocker Travis Barker has COVID-19 just months after hospitalization for pancreatitis
Drummer Travis Barker has COVID-19, contracting the virus nearly two months after he was hospitalized for pancreatitis.
The Blink-182 rocker shared the news Thursday on Instagram, posting an artsy throwback photo of him handling drumsticks with a caption that said: “Covid sucks🤬 I’d rather be playing drums.”
Barker, 46, didn’t share any additional details about his condition and it’s unclear whether he is vaccinated against COVID-19. A representative for the musician did not immediately respond Friday to The Times’ request for comment and a representative for his wife, reality star Kourtney Kardashian, declined to comment.
As of Thursday, California has averaged 10,668 new COVID-19 cases per week, a decrease of 39.8% compared to two weeks ago, according to The Times’ coronavirus tracker. At 324, weekly deaths have increased by 10.2%, but overall hospitalizations are down statewide over that same two-week period.
Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and wife Kourtney Kardashian reveal how they spent Fourth of July after he was released from the hospital last week.
Barker had been touring with pal Machine Gun Kelly on the latter’s Mainstream Sellout Tour, which wrapped its North American leg in Cleveland, Ohio, over the weekend. Barker made a guest appearance at Kelly’s L.A. show in July and posted a behind-the-scenes clip of the two of them backstage on his Instagram account this week.
TMZ reported that the rocker was seen at a music studio in L.A. earlier this week too.
Barker made global headlines in late June after he was rushed to the hospital for an unknown medical emergency. After few official updates from his family and plenty of speculation about his health, the drummer revealed that he was “much better” after a bout with “severe life-threatening pancreatitis” and had previously been in “excruciating pain” from the inflammation.
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Jags waiting to see something incredible from their ‘Hulk’
By MARK LONG
AP Pro Football Writer
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jacksonville Jaguars receiver Laviska Shenault is scheduled to make his preseason debut against Pittsburgh Saturday night. It might also serve as an audition for the rest of league. That’s because Shenault is fighting for a roster spot. A second-round draft pick in 2020, Shenault has 121 receptions for 1,219 yards and five touchdowns in two seasons. But the Colorado standout nicknamed “Hulk Viska” is in a position battle that’s down to four guys vying for two spots. Shenault, Jeff Cotton, Tim Jones and Laquon Treadwell are trying to make the team behind Christian Kirk, Zay Jones and Marvin Jones. | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/19/jags-waiting-to-see-something-incredible-from-their-hulk/ | 2022-08-19T18:53:15Z | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/19/jags-waiting-to-see-something-incredible-from-their-hulk/ | false |
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