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BOSTON (AP) — An authenticated Apple-1 Computer prototype from the mid-1970s has sold at auction for nearly $700,000.
The prototype was used by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 1976 to demonstrate the Apple-1 to Paul Terrell, owner of The Byte Shop in Mountain View, California, one of the first personal computer stores in the world, Boston-based RR Auction said in a statement.
A Bay Area collector who wishes to remain anonymous made the winning $677,196 bid on Thursday, the auctioneeer said.
“There is no Apple-1 without this board — it’s the holy grail of Steve Jobs and Apple memorabilia,” said Bobby Livingston, RR's executive vice president.
The board has been matched to Polaroid photographs taken by Terrell in 1976, showing the prototype in use. It was also examined and authenticated by Apple-1 expert Corey Cohen, whose notarized 13-page report accompanied the sale.
The prototype resided on the Apple Garage property for many years before being given by Jobs to the seller about 30 years ago. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Jobs-Apple-1-computer-prototype-sells-for-more-17384808.php | 2022-08-19T18:55:19Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Jobs-Apple-1-computer-prototype-sells-for-more-17384808.php | false |
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld the conviction and sentence of a Wichita woman accused of beheading her ex-boyfriend’s mother.
Rachael Hilyard, 40, was convicted in 2020 of first-degree murder in the killing 63-year-old Micki Davis three years earlier. She was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 50 years.
Prosecutors said Davis was killed after she and her grandson went to Hilyard’s home in Wichita to collect some of her son's belongings. She was attacked as the 9-year-old boy ran for help. Police found Davis decapitated in the garage.
Hilyard testified during her trial that she did not remember the attack. She said she decapitated Davis because "her soul needed to get out so she could go to heaven.”
In her appeal, Hilyard claimed she was convicted based on insufficient evidence, incorrect jury instruction, prosecutorial error, ineffective counsel and abuse of discretion by the Sedgwick County District Court.
The Supreme Court on Friday announced it had found no error in the trial or sentencing. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Court-rejects-appeal-of-Wichita-woman-convicted-17384669.php | 2022-08-19T18:56:22Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Court-rejects-appeal-of-Wichita-woman-convicted-17384669.php | true |
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a firefighter working a blaze in Josephine County, Oregon, has died.
The Oregon Department of Forestry and Bureau of Land Management confirmed the Thursday death in a Facebook post.
KOIN reports the identity of the firefighter is being withheld until the family is notified. An investigation is underway to determine the cause.
Last week, a firefighter from Colorado, 27-year-old Collin Hagan, died while fighting a wildfire in Douglas County, Oregon. Hagan was seriously hurt by a falling tree before he succumbed to his injuries, according to officials. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Firefighter-dies-in-Josephine-County-Oregon-17384833.php | 2022-08-19T18:56:52Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Firefighter-dies-in-Josephine-County-Oregon-17384833.php | true |
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CANNES, France (AP) — George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing” spans millennia, but it can often feel longer waiting in between films from the “Mad Max” director.
Seven years after Miller’s “Fury Road” blazed its way across movie screens, the 77-year-old filmmaker is finally back with a movie two decades in the works, and with a lot on its mind about what’s temporary and what’s eternal.
In “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” which opens in theaters Aug. 26, Tilda Swinton plays an academic named Alithea, a “narratologist” specializing in stories about stories, who encounters a wish-granting djinn (Idris Elba) who emerges from an old glass bottle bought in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. When no wish comes to her mind, he tells her 3,000 years worth of stories that hurtle the film through time and that ultimately bring Alithea and the djinn closer. If “Fury Road” beat a ferocious, straightforward narrative line, “Three Thousand Years,” adapted from an A.S. Byatt short story, ruminatively skips through time. It’s an intimate chamber piece sculpted in epic proportions.
“Big cinema,” Swinton called it as she, Elba and Miller assembled earlier this year in a hotel room in Cannes, France, shortly before “The Thousand Years of Longing” made its red-carpet premiere and while Miller’s “Fury Road” follow-up, “Furiosa,” was ramping up production back in Australia.
In the discussion that followed, the trio were clearly enthralled to be together again after shooting the film through the pandemic, and still animated by the movie’s ideas and its widescreen ambitions. “The faith to throw oneself over the highest bar,” Swinton said of Miller’s long-gesticulating endeavor. “Who better to jump that bar?”
Remarks have been edited for length and clarity.
AP: The film opens with wonder and enchantment as something like endangered species in a modern digital world. Is that a feeling you three connect with?
SWINTON: I’m really happy to hear you use the word “enchantment.” It is about enchantment. It’s about faith. It’s about the willingness to take a leap and essentially be open to change. It’s not that it’s necessarily threatened but it can get obscured. Reality is overrated.
ELBA: As an actor, you sometimes live in this weird space of reality. It’s a bit like the djinn. People see me and they go, “Oh my God. Can you give me something?” It’s a picture or a signature or whatever. I find myself wondering what am I, really? Who am I? But I realize my role in my life or in society as a storyteller and someone who makes people believe something is incredibly important. To get to sit in a room with the master, himself (gestures toward Miller), and to be able to tell a story about storytelling is incredible. Enchantment is an incredible word. I don’t think it will ever get lost.
MILLER: What’s really interesting to me, despite all these technological advances, is that we remain definitely hardwired for story. You could argue there are more stories being told today than ever before. I was really struck by the fact that Napoleon had read every single book that existed at his time. Now it’s impossible to read every book, see every TV show, every movie. I don’t think stories are replaced. I think they just continuously evolve. There was a British census where people were asked what their religion was and a very high percentage put in Jedi. It’s replacing one form of mythology for the other. I think the more bewildering the world becomes, the more we tend to fall into story. Sometimes those stories can be toxic.
SWINTON: We’ve now had a very sharp reminder that it’s possible for an entire nation, an entire culture to be told a story and believe it, to the exclusion of any other story. Maybe what we’re talking about is a kind of porousness of stories, so it’s possible to be open to many stories. Maybe that’s the mentally healthy and spiritually healthy thing to propose.
AP: You’re refencing Russia’s war in Ukraine but when you began “Three Thousand Years” were your thoughts on moments that storytelling shaped your own lives?
ELBA: My father started off his stories “I’ll tell you something for nothing.” This is my late dad.
SWINTON: Do you tell those stories to your son?
ELBA: If we’re driving to school and I try to avoid the phone. The only way to keep him looking interested with me is by telling a story. I’ll be like: “Well, today, I’m working in this plane. And you wouldn’t believe it. This plane, they took the wings off.” And I’m in. In that magic moment of him listening, questioning is the rich stuff.
AP: George, as a myth-maker who can conjure worlds, you’re not so unlike the djinn. Why were you drawn toward a movie that digs into the nature of storytelling?
MILLER: One of my favorite quotes about story is the Swahili storyteller who end their story by saying: “The story has been told. If it was bad, it was my fault because I’m the storyteller. If it was good, then it belongs to everybody.” There’s absolutely no question that stories, once told, get traction or not and they mean something to people in one way or the other. So you can’t think about them lightly. I’ve known people who can beguile you with their stories. I know that I struggle with that. I can’t get up and spontaneously tell a story well. But I can do it in the ultra-slow motion of telling a movie where I think about every nuance, every rhythm of it, and it’s finally there. After all, it’s just 100 minutes.
AP: Tilda and Idris, does making a movie like this prompt you to reflect on what compels you as actors to tell stories?
SWINTON: I’ve never made anything quite like this. Even though in a funny way the film is about one of my favorite things — inarticulacy — or rather the effort that we go to communicate with one another. Knowing that it’s almost impossible to understand each other, we still try, and that really touches me. It’s certainly one of the things that keeps me making films. It always feels very difficult to get something out of your head and convey it to someone else. But the fact that one makes the gesture is very moving. This film is about that but it’s very articulately made. To actually shoot with George and to understand how he constructs the architecture of the film even if the film is about something quite amorphous and quite tender, that’s a masterclass. Keeping that center soft was something we talked a lot about.
ELBA: I’m a bit like George. I’d be fascinated with my dad telling stories but I was never good at that. I remember when I went to a boy’s school. I was one of the funny boys. In the drama class, those kids couldn’t do it. They couldn’t make believe. I never forget the teacher’s phrase “make believe” and how it resonated with me. Suddenly, I could tell you the best story in the world because I was making you believe I could. I was really aware of the irony of working with George and Tilda and I’m playing a guy who has to tell stories honestly to get his freedom. I was Idris acting his socks off playing a man who was not allowed to act his socks off but had to tell these honest, engaging stories.
AP: George, you first encountered the short story this is based on in the late 1990s. Why do you think that this film stuck with you for so long?
MILLER: There’s lots of stories that I had. It’s a bit Darwinian. Some of them insist on themselves. I felt it was a very potent story. It’s like a metal detector or a Geiger counter, when something really activates it. You go: “Oh, there’s a rich seam in here somewhere.” You don’t know where it will go. You can sort of vaguely sense where it will go when you read the richness of scene. Time will tell. You hope the story belongs to everybody.
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(The HIll) – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday predicted that Republicans have a better chance of flipping the House than the Senate, citing candidate quality, again taming expectations for the upper chamber less than three months out from the midterm elections.
“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different — they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome,” McConnell said when asked about his expectations for the midterms during an event in Kentucky, according to NBC News.
“Right now, we have a 50-50 Senate and a 50-50 country, but I think when all is said and done this fall, we’re likely to have an extremely close Senate, either our side up slightly or their side up slightly,” he added.
McConnell’s comments come less than three months out from the midterm elections, which Republicans have eyed as their opportunity to take control of the House and Senate.
McConnell previously said the November midterms would be “very good” for Republicans, pointing in-part to President Biden’s poor approval. Historically speaking, the party not in power in the White House — in this case, Republicans — have gained control of Congress.
But the Senate leader has since changed his tone, taming expectations as the outlook dampens for Republicans. The shift in perspective came after a number of Trump-backed Senate candidates who believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen received the GOP nomination.
J.D. Vance in Ohio, Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania and Herschel Walker in Georgia are all trailing their opponents in FiveThirtyEight’s average of latest polls.
On Thursday, the Cook Political Report switched its rating for the Pennsylvania race from “toss up” to “lean Democrat.”
According to FiveThirtyEight, Democrats are favored to win the Senate, 64 percent to 36 percent, while Republicans hold an edge on Democrats when it comes to the House, 77 percent to 23 percent.
Earlier this month, McConnell said he thinks control of the Senate will be “very tight” after the November races.
“I think it’s going to be very tight. We have a 50-50 nation. And I think when this Senate race smoke clears, we’re likely to have a very, very close Senate still, with us up slightly or the Democrats up slightly,” he said.
On Thursday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that the Senate Leadership Fund, which has connections to McConnell, took out a $28 million ad campaign in Ohio to bolster Vance. | https://www.wfla.com/hill-politics/mcconnell-says-house-more-likely-to-flip-than-senate-cites-candidate-quality/ | 2022-08-19T18:58:23Z | https://www.wfla.com/hill-politics/mcconnell-says-house-more-likely-to-flip-than-senate-cites-candidate-quality/ | true |
- Bitcoin price follows technicals forecasted three weeks in advance.
- At current time, the BTC price has fallen 8% since the catalyst marker was issued.
- Traders in profit should apply cautionary measures. Weekend liquidity hunts should not be ruled out.(read below)
No FUD Fridays
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Bitcoin price is in profit
Bitcoin price has validated the bearish trade setup forecasted throughout the week. The BTC price is halfway towards its first target but cautionary measures should be applied.
BTC Trade Setup
]Since August 1, the Bitcoin price has been coiling within a wedge-like formation. Two weeks ago, while BTC price traded $22,800, many news headlines started calling for an imminent sell-off. A warning was issued to FX subscribers not to participate in the FUD as higher liquidity levels at $24,800 and potentially $25,400 stood a high chance at getting breached.
“Bitcoin price currently auctions at 23,905. There is a clear bearish divergence on the daily chart, prompting the sellers to aim for lower targets consistently. Still, the liquidity levels at $24,800 and $26,950 have not been breached. An ideal bearish scenario would be a breach into these levels….”
How To Trap A Hungry Bear Thesis
Bitcoin price managed to tag the first target at $24,800 and in doing so revealed more of the strength of its character for future price targets. A forecast was issued on August 18 calling for an end of the uptrend if and when $23,125 where to get breached,
“The safest way to approach this short will be a daily close below the level followed by a pullback into the breached trendline. If the bears can accomplish two attempts at $23,125 in said manner, a plummet of up to 20% will be on the cards, targeting $18,600.”
NO FUD Just Charts Thesis
The following day an updated analysis provided justification for opening the anticipated short position as momentum and divergence provided more confidence in taking the trade.
“The last marker BTC price will need to justify opening a short position is a breach below $23,125 (as mentioned in previous outlooks). Invalidation of the downtrend scenario (providing that $23,125) is a breach above $26,800.”
BTC/USDT 1-Hour Chart
On-chain Analysis
The most noteable on-chain analysis, which confounded the current sell-off, was spotted seven days in advance on August 12.
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"Additionally, Santiment’s Active Transactions Indicator BTC price has shown a considerable uptick in daily transactions. On May 4, May 14, and June 24, the indicator showed a similar sporadic upswing, each time followed by a minimum 20% plummet in the Bitcoin price shortly after.”
Whats to come?
Because the weekend approaches a wider stop was issued to avoid being tagged by smart money operatives. Bitcoin price can still rally once more into the $25,000 to collect liquidity so it is best to either take profit now or at most near $18,900. Traders can also move the profitable trade into break even, or accept holding a very risky position over the weekend. For now traders who partook in the trade setup are currently in profit 0.5x times their initial risk capital and counting.
BTC/USDT 1-Hour Chart
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Conventional wisdom would tell you the Miami Dolphins should treat the second exhibition of the three-game preseason slate as the dress rehearsal, especially after resting most starters in the preseason opener.
Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, though, is not one to conform to conventional norms.
As McDaniel said last week in Tampa, responding to an unrelated question: “I’m willing to do anything at any moment at any time.”
And McDaniel is once again mum on whether he will play his starters and quarterback Tua Tagovailoa ahead of the Dolphins’ preseason game against the Las Vegas Raiders, a 7 p.m. kickoff Saturday night at Hard Rock Stadium.
McDaniel sat nearly all his starters in last week’s exhibition at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, with a few exceptions, such as tight end Mike Gesicki and outside linebacker Jaelan Phillips. With the Bucs taking the same approach, Dolphins third-string rookie quarterback Skylar Thompson had his time to shine in the 26-24 win. McDaniel’s strategy Saturday will likely remain under wraps until 90 minutes before kickoff, when the team announces which players won’t dress.
“I’m still working through it,” McDaniel said Wednesday, the last time he spoke to reporters and before Wednesday and Thursday’s practices. “I don’t like to shortchange individual practices. I think that deciding everyone’s playing time based upon where they’re at for this team, for our young team, I think that doesn’t do right or justice to the individual practices.”
McDaniel has also previously said he’d be “surprised” if he didn’t get Tagovailoa any preseason snaps. It would make sense if those came on Saturday, with fans getting their first taste of the 2022 Dolphins at Hard Rock Stadium.
Tagovailoa’s training camp success leading up the Tampa game played a role in McDaniel’s comfort in allowing him to rest. While producing a number of solid throws this week, Tagovailoa tossed six interceptions in three practices. It could be great timing for Tagovailoa to produce a few sound first-half drives in a game-like setting against the Raiders.
On Tagovailoa’s end, he’s a gamer.
“I always want to play,” he said on Wednesday. “I wanted to play last week too, at least a couple of snaps, but Mike decided that then wasn’t the time. Hopefully, he gives the first offense an opportunity to go out there, hopefully get some plays in, understand some situations, knowing how to manage the game and get back into the groove of things.”
If that is the case, the Dolphins may still not run out their whole first-team offense. Second-year wide receiver Jaylen Waddle didn’t practice all week in what McDaniel called a preventative measure for a minor undisclosed injury. Veteran, three-time Pro Bowl left tackle Terron Armstead, did not participate in Wednesday’s team drills and missed Thursday’s practice entirely — this after ramping up his practice workload recently as he progresses from offseason knee surgery.
Assuming Armstead doesn’t play, Saturday will offer another look at the Dolphins’ backup tackle situation. If Austin Jackson is to be kept at right tackle, 2021 seventh-round pick Larnel Coleman will get extended preseason snaps again, as fellow reserve tackle Greg Little hasn’t returned to practice from undisclosed injury. The Dolphins also have the option of playing second-year lineman Liam Eichenberg back at left tackle, as he did most of his rookie season, while inserting Robert Jones at left guard. Or Michael Deiter can come in to play center while sliding Connor Williams to his natural left guard spot. Williams, at center, needs to show he can keep his shotgun snaps under control in a preseason game.
Onlookers will want to keep an eye on how reserve defensive backs perform on Saturday. Cornerback Xavien Howard should see limited snaps, if he plays at all, but you know what you’re getting out of the All-Pro. The same goes for second-year safety Jevon Holland, who had four of the practice interceptions of Tagovailoa this week.
With cornerback Byron Jones still on the physically-unable-to-perform list, it’s important at least two cornerbacks beyond Howard and Nik Needham show they can fill in — especially since Trill Williams was lost to a season-ending knee injury this week and six-year veteran Mackensie Alexander was signed.
Then, there are a slew of others who can build off a strong preseason opener in pursuit of a roster spot. Wide receiver Lynn Bowden, defensive back Elijah Campbell, outside linebacker Darius Hodge and versatile linebacker Sam Eguavoen were among those that made plays against the Bucs — Eguavoen with a fumble return for a touchdown, redeeming himself from a tough drive earlier that saw a key missed tackle.
These are the opportunities for players on the edge of the roster cutoff line to make their lasting impressions.
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You might brush it off as fiction when I say this—but once in the late 20th century, about 50 years ago, the United States of America began a crazy love affair with soccer. (Yes, soccer.)
The North American Soccer League, known affectionately as the NASL for short, opened play in 1968, with the grand goal of taking the world’s most popular sport and making it big—finally—in the world’s biggest sports market, America.
To live up to such a lofty goal, the league quickly established clubs from coast to coast, from Atlanta to Los Angeles, and in Chicago, Boston and smaller outposts like Rochester, New York. Teams were stocked with the world’s best players, such as England captain Bobby Moore, German superstar Gerd Müller, and longtime Manchester United goal machine George Best, to name a few.
The New York Cosmos, the NASL’s crown jewel, piled on legends Franz Beckenbauer and the mighty Pelé of Brazil.
American sports fans responded. Washington, D.C., Seattle and Minnesota saw soccer crowds over 50,000, with the Cosmos hauling in over 77,000 fans during a 1977 playoff game against a team from Fort Lauderdale, no less. Soon, the NASL became the destination of the world’s most exciting players. Tickets were selling. Things were looking up.
CBS carried NASL games from the league’s inception to the end of the 1976 season. Later, the NASL secured a follow-up TV deal with ABC in 1978, after broadcasting Pelé’s final game as a special feature on ABC's Wide World of Sports, on October 1, 1977.
But one problem would surface. Live soccer did not translate as well to the television as it did to the insides of a loud stadium. By 1981, pro soccer was thwarted by network television and was fighting just for time on new cable channels ESPN and USA.
Meanwhile, the NASL shrunk from 21 teams to 14. And by 1984, league missteps and a nationwide economic recession would force the NASL’s increasingly cash-poor teams to shut down operations.
A 2006 ESPN/Miramax documentary called Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos, narrated by Matt Dillon, covered the leagues highs and lows. While the film points out that no one factor killed America’s first fling with what Pelé called “the beautiful game,” it hinted strongly that a lack of television success likely did soccer in.
But soccer was not the only once-popular sport to go under after TV interest dried up. Even in football, arguably America’s true national pastime, new leagues find it difficult to last.
The XFL, founded in 1999 by World Wrestling Entertainment
It remains to be seen whether the newer versions of the USFL, which just concluded its first return season July 3, and the XFL, set to start in 2023, will take hold. Another spring football league called the Alliance of American Football (AAF), kicked off in 2019, lasting barely three months before going bankrupt, unable to pay player salaries.
Perhaps one thing that the AAF, USFL, XFL and NASL did not have were backing partners with seemingly endless amounts of cash—and ample patience. LIV Golf, founded last year by Golf Hall of Famer Greg Norman, seems to have both, at least for now.
LIV Golf (pronounced like the first name of the actress Liv Tyler) takes its name from the Roman numeral for 54, the number of total holes played in its events. So far, LIV Golf has been bankrolled by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. And just like the other aforementioned sports leagues, LIV Golf does not disappoint, fielding teams with interesting names like Fireball GC and Crusher GC.
But LIV Golf has yet establish a long-term television deal and streams its events at the moment from its website and via YouTube. Forbes staff writer Mike Ozanian argued in a recent column that it’s early and he thinks LIV is here to stay, assuming it gets its eventual TV business sorted.
Surprisingly however, LIV Golf does not yet have a mobile app available for potential viewers with smartphones. Both the PGA Tour and Golf Channel have widely used mobile apps, as do individual event organizers such as the U.S. Open, the Ryder Cup and The Masters.
On top of that, we’ve heard about the enormous salaries doled out to well-known players who have come aboard in 2022.
It’s been reported that former world No. 1 Dustin Johnson was offered somewhere between $125 million to $150 million to cut ties with the PGA Tour and the Ryder Cup and become a LIV Golf regular. Johnson said in a public statement that he had to “think long and hard” about his move.
Others signed away from the PGA Tour with eight- and nine-figure deals include majors winners Patrick Reed and Bryson DeChambeau, plus former world No. 1 Brooks Koepka, and golf legend Phil Mickelson. Adding to the overall package, LIV Golf recently signed golf broadcast legend David Feherty to commentate. And to no avail, the league has tried to gain interest from Tiger Woods.
LIV Golf, a private concern, has not made public extensive financials or specifics regarding how it plans to proceed in future years.
Greg Norman: ‘Street smarts’ at work?
Over the last two years, I’ve covered golf along with a number of other sports, and have gotten to interview LIV Golf’s CEO and commissioner Greg Norman three times, once in person, prior to LIV’s launch.
Norman, who has had great success as an entrepreneur with his own namesake apparel line and wineries, has also had global success in golf course design. It’s fair to assume his design ventures, which have developed courses on six continents, has led the Australian two-time British Open winner to establish meaningful business relationships all over the world.
When asked about business, Norman often names the late Jack Welch, his longtime friend and General Electric
The last time I spoke with Norman, the morning of January 6, 2021, he reiterated his admiration for Welch in all things, from the boardroom to the green.
“Jack was so street smart, and that’s what he instilled in me all the time,” Norman said about Welch, who passed away in March 2020 at the age of 84.
“Even every time we played golf, he broke it down into playing golf street smart like business. How did a guy like Jack Welch beat Greg Norman, (when I was) number one golfer in the world? It’s because he was methodical. He just got it done.”
So, it begs the question: Is creating a controversy with the PGA Tour part of Greg Norman’s “street smart” plan as LIV Golf CEO and commissioner?
Golf podcaster and enthusiast Kris McEwen thinks that Norman is relishing his well-known role as the sport’s biggest maverick and a new one as a bit of a golf anarchist. McEwen, who co-hosts That Range Life: A Show Sometimes About Golf with golf blogger Bill Bush, hints that the normal things that come into play when starting a sports league are not as important here.
“The Saudi investors in LIV Golf are not under the same financial pressures to succeed in the short-term as other sports leagues,” McEwen said. “They don’t really need to turn a profit. And Norman is just enjoying being a disrupter and sticking it to the Tour.”
But McEwen wonders if Saudi Arabia’s new undertaking is anything more than a flirtation.
“To me, if the Saudis truly wanted a long-term golf business, they would have approached some way to align with the Tour, and more importantly, the majors,” McEwen said. “I don’t know what that would have looked like, but getting your players banned from The Masters and The Open isn’t great for your new golf business.”
McEwen also adds that the PGA Tour hasn’t exactly handled the matter as competently as they could.
Golf... by firestorm?
Since the launch of LIV Golf earlier this year, it seems that instead of street smarts street fighting mentality is at work. After all, LIV Golf bills itself as “Golf, but louder.”
LIV Golf has not eased any concerns about poaching PGA Tour players or that it is making tour pros take sides. And up to this point, Norman and LIV Golf have brushed off public concerns that their associations with Saudi Arabia and former president Donald Trump are problematic.
In 2018, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia caught fire after the disappearance and murder of Saudi-born American resident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Middle East Eye and The Washington Post. And shortly after the January 6, 2021 attacks on the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump rioters, both the PGA of America and the The Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews issued a public rebuke of the then-outgoing president, essentially cutting ties with him and his clubs for the foreseeable future.
In contrast, LIV Golf has embraced Trump, booking two 2022 LIV Golf events at Trump Organization golf courses. In October, the league will hold its final 2022 competition at Trump National Doral in South Florida.
Meanwhile, Norman himself has bashed the PGA Tour, calling its organizers “hypocritical” while insinuating that Khashoggi’s murder was simply a “mistake” and one that the Saudis could “learn from.”
While it’s not exactly unusual for pro golf events to host politicians as guests, Trump remains arguably a most divisive member of America’s political class.
As a result, all of it has gotten high-level PGA Tour players like Rory McIlroy plus golf legends like Fred Couples and Davis Love III to criticize Norman and his new league for essentially politicizing golf.
Upping the ante, a handful of players and others associated with LIV Golf have filed suit against the PGA Tour. And just this week LIV Golf member Patrick Reed filed a defamation lawsuit against the Golf Channel and golf commentator Brandel Chamblee.
Taking it all in, another fair question to ask: Is LIV’s golf by firestorm sustainable?
“I’ve talked to some friends about the sustainability of the LIV Tour,” McEwen adds. “The fact of the matter is the Saudis or Norman may not really care about that.”
Even if that's not the case, how will LIV Golf survive financially long-term, with massive salaries offered to each PGA Tour defector? Another question remains as to whether LIV Golf will be able attract very necessary corporate sponsor partners, should their adversarial approach not temper down the road.
But if we take the USFL, XFL and NASL as examples—recent history shows us that sport leagues without rock solid TV network backing don’t last over time.
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Bengaluru-based pharmaceutical company Micro Labs Limited on Friday termed allegations that it had gifted freebies worth Rs 1,000 crore to doctors to promote its Dolo-650 tablets as "baseless and incorrect".
The company claimed that the brand had done a business of just Rs 350 crore when Covid was at its peak and it was simply unviable for it to promote the drug by spending a much larger amount.
"It is impossible for any company to spend Rs 1,000 crore on the marketing of a brand which did 350 crore in the Covid year. That too when Dolo 650 comes under NLEM (price control)," said Jayaraj Govindaraju, Executive Vice President, Marketing and Communication, Micro Labs Limited while speaking to ANI.
He also claimed that it was not just Dolo tablets but several other products of the company that were used widely due to the Covid onslaught. "It was not just Dolo 650, even other COVID protocol drugs like Vitamin C and Vitamin combinations also did very well during COVID," he added.
The Supreme Court on Thursday described the matter pertaining to the allegation that the manufacturer of Dolo 650 had distributed freebies worth Rs 1,000 crore as a "serious issue".
An NGO, based on some findings of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), had raised the issue related to freebies being used to encourage doctors to prescribe drugs.
The Supreme Court asked the Centre to file its response within 10 days on the PIL seeking directions to make pharmaceutical companies liable for giving freebies to doctors as an incentive. A bench of Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice AS Bopanna was informed that makers of Dolo-650 mg tablet had invested Rs 1,000 crore in freebies to have its anti-fever drug prescribed to patients.
The CBDT has accused makers of the Dolo-650 tablet of distributing freebies worth Rs 1,000 crore to doctors as consideration for prescribing the tablet, said senior advocate Sanjay Parikh, appearing for the Federation of Medical and Sales Representatives Association of India.
Justice DY Chandrachud remarked that it is a "serious issue" and said that even he was prescribed the same tablet during Covid.
According to Dr Chandra Gulati, Editor, Monthly Index of Medical Specialities (MIMS), not only drugs formulations but their molecules should also come under price control to avoid such activities.
"My views are that there are about 2,000 molecules in India and out of that not even one-third are under control and companies can price them the way they want. The problem is that the basic salt isn't under price control. What is under price control is the formulation, for example, if paracetamol is 500, 600, or 125 miligram. Now, if the paracetamol is under price control then the problem is over, but it's not like that."
"The problem is certain formulations of a paracetamol are under price control like 500 mgm is under control, but 650 mgm paracetamol isn't. So they can sell the drug at higher prices." he said.
A Delhi based drug distributor, Kanav Nangia, said the price of Crocin and Dolo 650 is similar but the distribution commission is more in Dolo 650. "Still the demand for the medicine is high because of the viral fever and Covid," the distributor said.
When asked about these aspects, Mr Govindraju claimed that the Dolo-650 manufacturer had reduced the distribution rate as well.
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767-page book on Jhargram dist's history & other aspects published
kolkata: A unique book titled 'Aranyasundari Jhargram' has been published by the district administration.
The 767-page book, which is the-first-of-its-kind with such graphic details, has been edited by Babulal Mahato, Sub Divisional Officer of Jhargram. Mahato, a doctorate in Agricultural Science, is a researcher and has edited the book that contains detailed information about the district. The book will be of immense help to the administrative officers, who will work in the district.
Scholars have written articles on the history of all the eight blocks, namely, Jhargram, Jambuni, BinpurI and Binpur II, Gopiballav I and II and Sankrael that constitute the district.
Jhargram was a disturbed area during the Left Front regime with the Maoist activities reaching its height. After coming to power in 2011, Mamata Banerjee helped the people to regain their lost confidence and restored peace in the area. Infrastructure was constructed and a superspecialty hospital was set up. Tourism in Jhargram is in high demand now. There are articles on various festivals that are held in the district throughout the year.
There are write-ups on the possibility of industrial development in the district. The book contains details on various projects that have been taken up by the state government like Swasthya Sathi, Kanyashri, Rupashree, Samabyathi, Sabuj Sathi, among others. It contains the names of the folk artistes, who have been covered under Lokprasar Prakalpa.
It contains detailed information about the flora and fauna of the district and various population groups.
It mentions about the tourist spots along with their photographs. Not many know that there is a statue of Jain Tirthankar Parshvanath at Nepura in Lalgaph. One gets details of the temples like the Kanak Durga mandir in Chilkigarh in Jambani, Guptamani temples. Jhargram has several 'Rajbaris' which had been constructed by the local zamindars. One gets photos of all the Rajbaris and their history. These are coming up as major tourist attractions.Mahato, editor of the book, said it is a comprehensive book on the district and is going to benefit all cross-sections of people from the officials to those who are eager to know about
the district.
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Man charged with killing children convicted in jail escape attempt
OUTAGAMIE COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY) - A man accused of killing his children in Kaukauna has been found guilty of attempting to escape from jail.
On Aug. 18, Matthew Beyer, 38, pleaded no contest to charges of Taking Hostages/Release w/o Bodily Harm and Attempted Escape- Criminal Arrest.
Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 24.
Also, new trial dates have been set for Beyer on two charges of 1st Degree Intentional Homicide in the 2020 killing of his children, 5-year-old William Beyer and 3-year-old Danielle Beyer.
Initially, Beyer was scheduled to stand trial in late 2021, but the trial was pushed back to September 2022. In March, Beyer was expected to take a plea agreement, but the defense announced they would instead go to trial. Beyer’s lawyers said they were having trouble getting evidence that prosecutors have. The prosecution said one person at the crime lab was doing a “significant amount of work on the case” and working with new technology.
On Thursday, the court set aside 12 days for a jury trial starting Dec. 1, 2022.
The children were found dead in their mother’s home in Kaukauna on February 17, 2020. According to the criminal complaint obtained by Action 2 News, the children were found in their bedroom with injuries to their necks, which one officer described as “almost a hole.” Autopsies found William and Danielle suffered five to eight sharp force injuries to their necks. William also had two shallow cuts to his hands, which prosecutors say indicates the boy put up a fight.
A witness told police that a week after the children were murdered, Beyer described in detail how he would have killed the children so they couldn’t scream out and alert anyone. The witness said Beyer didn’t believe he was their father and was upset about having to pay child support when the mother wouldn’t let him see the children.
On Thursday, Beyer pleaded no contest and was found guilty of trying to escape from the Outagamie County Jail in June of 2020. A criminal complaint says Beyer provided another inmate, Demetrius Williams, with a piece of cardboard inmates use as a privacy shield when using the bathroom. Williams hid behind the cardboard in the dayroom and surprised an officer when she came to make sure inmates were in their cells.
Williams restrained the guard and threatened her with a pointed pencil. He insisted that Beyer was coming with him and ordered her to open Beyer’s cell. The guard agreed but pressed the button to open a different cell door instead, distracting Williams just long enough to get out of his reach and run down the hallway and yell for help.
Williams was later sent to prison for 45 years for killing a three-year-old girl and trying to kill her pregnant mother in Appleton.
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NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — A pair of 270-foot (82.3-meter) U.S. Coast Guard vessels involved in search-and-rescue operations, military exercises and maritime law enforcement are now based in Rhode Island, authorities said Friday.
The cutters Tahoma and Campbell, each with a crew of about 100, were welcomed to Naval Station Newport at a ceremony attended by Democratic U.S. Sen. Senator Jack Reed, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan and other dignitaries.
“Saving lives, stopping drug smugglers, supporting national security missions overseas, and keeping commerce flowing across the waves are all in a day’s work for the Coast Guard, and we are grateful for the unwavering dedication and professionalism of our Coast Guard members,” Reed said in a statement. “The Coast Guard has an active presence here in Rhode Island, and we’re pleased to see it grow even stronger."
Both cutters had previously been based at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire.
The medium-endurance cutters are part of the Famous-class of vessels that began service in the late 1980s. Both are are equipped with sophisticated communication and navigation equipment and armed with a 76mm deck gun and carry an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter.
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CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — For tiny Moldova, an impoverished, landlocked nation that borders war-torn Ukraine but isn’t in the European Union or NATO, it’s been another week plagued by bomb threats.
On an overcast day outside the international airport serving Moldova’s capital of Chisinau, hundreds of people lined up this week as bomb-sniffing dogs examined the vicinity. That’s now a common scene in Europe’s poorest nation as it battles what observers believe are attempts to destabilize the former Soviet republic amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Since the beginning of July, Moldova has received nearly 60 bomb threats — with more than 15 reported so far this week — at locations ranging from the capital’s city hall, to the airport, the supreme court, shopping malls and hospitals.
While no one has yet been charged for the bomb threats, most of which have arrived via email and all of which have turned out to be false, officials say they have traced computer addresses to Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
“It is part of the disinformation war against Moldova, which is ongoing,” said Valeriu Pasa, an analyst at the Chisinau think tank Watchdog.md. “It could be part of the Russian effort to destabilize Moldova, as they use many different methods to do so.”
Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Moldova, which has a population of 2.6 million people, has faced a multitude of crises. It has received more Ukrainian refugees per capita than any other country; tensions have soared in the country’s Russia-backed breakaway region; it is dealing with an acute energy crisis; and like much of Europe it is battling skyrocketing inflation.
The frequent bomb threats are only adding pressure to the country’s already overstretched authorities.
“It blocks a lot of the resources — police, investigators, technical services — it’s a type of bullying I would say, or harassment, of Moldovan state systems and public services,” Pasa said.
Maxim Motinga, a prosecutor from Moldova’s Office for Combating Organized Crime, told The Associated Press that since the bomb threats started “practically every day we open criminal cases.”
“At the moment, all criminal investigations are ongoing,” he said, adding that requests have been made for official assistance from Russia and Ukraine if “certain tracks leading to the respective countries were established.”
“I hope we get some answers from those countries,” he said.
For Veaceslav Belbas, a 43-year-old Moldovan businessman returning from Turkey to Chisinau on Monday, a bomb threat left him frightened as his plane circled the capital’s airport for 30 minutes. After that, the plane did a U-turn and went back to Turkey.
“We prayed a lot and finally landed,” he said. “For me, it was such a big shock that I told my wife that this is my last flight.”
Tensions in Moldova soared in April after a series of actual explosions occurred in the Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria, where Russia bases about 1,500 troops in a so-called frozen conflict zone. It raised fears that non-NATO, militarily neutral Moldova could get dragged into Russia’s war orbit. At least one Russian official has spoken openly of snatching enough land in southern Ukraine to link up Russian-controlled areas from the mainland to Transnistria.
Observers pointed out that the blasts came as Moldova — which has historically close ties with Moscow — showed a growing Western orientation and after it had applied to join the EU, which it did shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine. It was granted EU candidate status in late June, shortly before the bomb threats started.
Since Moldova gained independence in 1991, it has been plagued by organized crime and official corruption. After an election in 2019, a local oligarch attempted to seize power, which triggered mass protests before he fled the country. In 2014, several politicians and oligarchs had alleged ties to a scam in which $1 billion vanished from local banks. No one has yet been convicted in that case.
Galina Gheorghes was returning to England from Moldova last month after attending a family get-together when a bomb threat canceled her flight. She says she is angry that no one has yet been caught.
“It is very bad what’s happening … unfortunately, the ordinary people suffer,” the 35-year-old Gheorghes said.
Amid a seemingly endless pattern of disruptive and costly threats, Moldova’s Internal Ministry said it wants to toughen punishments for anyone convicted of false bomb alerts by ramping up fines and handing out lengthier prison sentences.
Chisinau Airport has been hit by dozens of bomb threats since July and has bolstered security in response. Radu Zanoaga, head of border police at the airport, says a specialist unit has been established to save security officials the trouble of traveling in from the city center each time a bomb threat is made.
“At the moment, we are dealing with the situation in cooperation with other (state) bodies and institutions that operate within the airport,” he said. “There have been bomb alerts before — but not as many and not as frequent as now.”
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Stephen McGrath reported from Sighisoara, Romania.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities on Friday raised to 71 the number of migrants aboard a sailboat that reached the southern island of Kythera a day earlier, the third crammed vessel to do so in two days.
The boat, a sailing catamaran, was located in the early hours of Thursday off Kythera’s western coastline. The coast guard said seven women and 12 minors were among the 71 people aboard. Nine were from Iran and the rest from Iraq. On Thursday, the coast guard had said initial indications were that the boat had been carrying 67 people.
Some 170 people, the vast majority from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran, had arrived to Kythera on another two sailing boats on Wednesday.
The coast guard said five people were arrested on suspicion of migrant smuggling – three Turkish nationals who had been on board the first vessel, and two Russian nationals on the second.
Located off the southern tip of the Peloponnese, Kythera isn’t a target destination for the thousands of people fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Most attempting to make it into the European Union cross from the Turkish coast to nearby Greece’s eastern Aegean islands.
But with Greek authorities increasing patrols in the area and facing persistent reports of push-backs – summary and illegal deportations of new arrivals back to Turkey without allowing them to apply for asylum – more people are attempting a much longer and more dangerous route directly to Italy.
Greek authorities deny they carry out pushbacks.
On Friday, Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi said on Greece’s Skai radio that migration flows into Greece were at their lowest in a decade last year, with 8,500 people arriving in the country in 2021. Skai radio quoted him as saying that 2022 was expected to see the second-lowest number of arrivals in the past 10 years, with around 7,000 people having arrived so far.
Greece has been widely criticized by aid groups, asylum seekers and some European politicians for using heavy-handed tactics, particularly pushbacks, to keep arrival numbers down.
“Humanitarianism is very important, but the people who wish to come to the EU due to the inequalities that exist in the world are hundreds of millions,” Skai quoted Mitarachi as saying. “We’re not speaking of a closed Europe, but nor of a Europe in which traffickers decide who gets in.”
Mitarachi repeated that a 38-kilometer (24 mile) fence along Greece’s northeastern land border with Turkey would be extended by another 80 kilometers (50 miles).
Greek authorities came under withering criticism last week over a group of mainly Syrians who had been trapped for days on an islet in the Evros river that runs along the Greek-Turkish border in Greece’s northeast. Greek officials insist the islet is on the Turkish side of the border.
Police on Monday said they found 38 people on the Greek side of the border, away from the river. The group told authorities a 5-year-old girl had died of a scorpion sting on the islet during the ordeal. Mitarachi said earlier this week that Greece would work with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent for the recovery of the child’s body. | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/greece-71-migrants-aboard-boat-reaching-southern-island/ | 2022-08-19T19:12:24Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/greece-71-migrants-aboard-boat-reaching-southern-island/ | false |
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WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Three people were killed after two small planes collided in Northern California while trying to land at a rural airport, authorities said Friday.
The names of those killed after their planes crashed Thursday at the Watsonville Municipal Airport will be released once their families have been notified, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
There were two people aboard a twin-engine Cessna 340 and only the pilot aboard a single-engine Cessna 152 during the crash, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The city-owned airport does not have a control tower to direct aircraft landing and taking off. The airport accounts for about 40% of all general aviation activities in the Monterey Bay area, according to the City of Watsonville’s website.
Watsonville, an agricultural town near Monterey Bay, is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of San Francisco.
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Olga and Sasha are two Ukrainian sisters. Olga is 34 years old and is working in a wine shop in Paris, where she has been living for seven years. Her younger sister Sasha is 33 years old and lives in Kyiv like her mother and partner, Viktor. Sasha has a new job in communications for a French marketing company. Since the beginning of the conflict, the two sisters have agreed to keep a diary for Le Monde's M magazine.
Tuesday, August 9
Olga: The weather is rather wet, and here in Kyiv, it's raining. But this doesn't at all influence my mood. I spend the morning and afternoon at my grandmother's house. It seems to me that time is passing so fast... and I have so little time. I help my grandmother to do some major cleaning. She's tired but what a character she is! She always manages to tell me what to do and how to do it. It gives me hope and makes me happy.
I remember one day while we were talking on the phone when the rachists [contraction of "Russian" and "fascist"] were near Kyiv and a military plane flew over her building. In a few seconds, she changed. I sensed that she was really very afraid. She had told me: "Rockets are the worst." We were on video and it was the first time I'd seen so much fear in her eyes. I realized that my grandmother, so strong and so brave, had been severely traumatized by World War II. And now this one?
My dad calls and comes over. I thought the reunion would be much more emotional, but all I feel is joy and I don't cry. I think my psyche has really gotten used to seeing my loved ones on video.
With dad, we go together to my uncle O's house. During dinner, we drink a few shots of gorilka – a homemade spirit. We toast to victory. Frankly, it feels like I'm in an old-fashioned war movie. Afterwards, I go home to my little Sasha. It's the third day that she has played me Ukrainian music from the 1970-1980s. I love these moments with my sister, when she shares the things she enjoys. I recognize a lot of songs I heard as a child that I never really paid attention to. Sasha is particularly fond of Volodymyr Ivassiouk. This musician was killed by the KGB [in 1979], along with many other dissidents and members of the Ukrainian cultural elite.
Sasha: The week with Olga continues. Even if she's at grandma's, with mom, dad or her friends, I feel "complete" when my sister isn't far away. I've lost that feeling of distance between us, and I'm happy to be able to share the good moments, as well as the bad ones. With so much emotion and strain, we've had both. But we manage things and enjoy the time we have.
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KWANONGOMA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s ethnic Zulu nation is preparing to host a coronation event for its new traditional king amid internal divisions that have threatened to tear the royal family apart.
King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini, a son of the late King Goodwill Zwelithini who died in March last year, will on Saturday undergo the traditional ritual known as ukungena esibayeni (entering the royal village) to mark his installation as the new leader of the Zulu nation.
The Zulu ethnic group is South Africa’s largest with more than 12 million people who are mainly located in the coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal.
The Zulu nation is historically recognized as having waged fierce resistance to British colonialism under King Shaka Zulu from 1816 to 1828.
The ceremony is expected to be attended by thousands of Zulu people including members of the royal family, traditional leaders of other ethnic groups and members of the Zulu nation.
It will proceed despite challenges from some members of the royal family who insist that Misuzulu is not the rightful heir to the throne.
Misuzulu is the eldest son of Zwelithini with his third wife Queen Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu, who is said to enjoy an elevated status among his six wives as she was born from the royal house of Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland), the last remaining absolute monarchy in Africa.
Queen Dlamini-Zulu held the title of Regent of the Zulu nation after her husband’s death but died about a month later, naming her eldest son Misuzulu as the successor in her will.
However, some members of the royal family are opposed to Misuzulu as the successor, recognizing his eldest brother, Simagade Zulu ka Zwelithini, as the rightful heir instead.
Last weekend, the rival family faction held the ukungena esibayeni ceremony for Simagade even though it was not recognized by the rest of the royal family’s elders who support Misuzulu as the rightful king.
To further confuse the situation, on Thursday Zwelithini’s three brothers held a press conference in Johannesburg where they announced another of their brothers, Buzabazi kaZwelithini, as their preferred heir to the throne.
The late king reportedly fathered 28 children with his six wives.
The South African government recognizes Misuzulu as the rightful heir to the throne and is set to award him a recognition certificate at a date still to be determined.
The position of King of the Zulu nation is an influential one in KwaZulu-Natal province as a custodian of the ethnic group’s traditional customs.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia ended the 2022 fiscal year with a $3.2 billion cash surplus, a sign of both a healthy economy and some overtaxation, GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Friday as he presented lawmakers with a review of the state's finances.
In an interview and in remarks to the General Assembly's money committees, the governor celebrated the state's financial position and reiterated calls for additional tax cuts beyond the approximately $4 billion he signed into law earlier this year. Youngkin announced he planned to propose setting nearly $400 million of the surplus aside as a starting point for tax relief in the next budget cycle.
“Our balance sheet is in a strong position, and our substantial reserve funds have grown sharply from their pre-pandemic levels. Together we are lowering tax burdens and making the critical investments needed to strengthen Virginia,” he said in his speech.
The fiscal-year-end surplus was the result of $2 billion in unplanned revenues and about $1.2 billion in unspent appropriations, Youngkin said. The compromise budget lawmakers passed in June anticipated some of that surplus, so some will be reallocated and some directed to a constitutionally mandated reserve deposit, Youngkin said. That will put the state on track to having nearly $4.3 billion in total reserves by fiscal year 2024.
Youngkin said that still leaves about $400 million that he wants set aside as a tax cut “down payment.” His administration is still working out all the elements of the amendments to the 2022-2024 spending plan he will formally propose in mid-December for General Assembly consideration, he said.
The governor said despite the bright spots in Friday's report, he was concerned that Virginia has yet to recover 119,000 of the jobs shed early in the pandemic, and he condemned federal policies he said have “created” the current inflationary environment.
“I think we’re strong enough to weather it. But there are storm clouds on the horizon we need to be aware of,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press ahead of his address.
Youngkin also used his approximately 25-minute speech to herald accomplishments of his first seven months in office, and he offered a preview of three policy areas he said his administration was committed to tackling: rising violent crime and housing costs, and unmet Chesapeake Bay cleanup goals.
Democratic Sen. Janet Howell, chair of the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee, said this year's financial report was the best she'd received in her 30 years in the General Assembly. But she said she was concerned that Youngkin's calls for additional tax relief may be premature, given the nation's current economic uncertainty.
“We don’t know what it’s going to be like in several months. Hopefully we’ll be able to do some tax relief, but it’s not necessarily in the bag,” she told reporters after the meeting.
Howell also praised the tone of Youngkin's speech, saying he indicated a willingness to work across party lines with the politically divided General Assembly.
“I respect him for that,” she said.
Other Democrats criticized Youngkin on Friday, suggesting the $400 million the governor wants for tax relief would be better off reinvested into core government services. And some turned to the issue of abortion, warning that if lawmakers pass a 15-week abortion ban, something Youngkin backs, it would harm the state's business prospects.
“What major employer wants to relocate to a state that outlaws women’s healthcare choices?” tweeted Democratic Del. Eileen Filler-Corn.
In the interview, Youngkin ruled out the prospect of lawmakers taking up abortion legislation any sooner than the start of the 2023 regular session in January. Some abortion rights groups have recently raised concerns that lawmakers might consider a ban as soon as a Sept. 7 reconvened session.
Youngkin has tapped a group of lawmakers, all Republicans, who he said he expected would work this fall in a “bipartisan” way to arrive at legislation that has a chance of passing both the GOP-controlled House and the Senate, which Democrats control by the narrowest possible margin.
“I have strongly encouraged them to work towards a 15-week bill. I think that that is a a good place for Virginia to land," he said.
Youngkin, who is increasingly mentioned as a possible 2024 presidential contender, has been recently been ramping up travel across the country to meet with donors and campaign with other GOP candidates for governor.
He said Friday his itinerary hasn't been mapped out beyond an upcoming trip to stump with Tudor Dixon, the Republican nominee for Michigan governor.
As for a potential presidential bid, he said: “My family and I have really not discussed anything to do with that. I’m really focused on the big job that I have at hand." | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/With-state-finances-strong-Youngkin-wants-more-17384879.php | 2022-08-19T19:13:40Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/With-state-finances-strong-Youngkin-wants-more-17384879.php | false |
The AMC show “Better Call Saul” found its own voice outside of “Breaking Bad.” But the spin-off wrapped up this week with its last episode drawing an average 1.8 million viewers.
With “Better Caul Saul” ending and AMC’s other big show “The Walking Dead” nearing its final season, what’s next for the network? Here & Now‘s Scott Tong asks NPR TV critic Eric Deggans.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Clean-up continues after tanker truck overturned in Rainsville resulting in hazmat spill
Evacuation of the area of central Rainsville within 1,000 feet of a hazmat spill Thursday was canceled Friday morning and people were able to return to the area around the intersection of Alabama Highway 35 and Alabama Highway 75, according to the DeKalb County Emergency Management Agency.
A tanker truck overturned Thursday morning at the intersection, resulting in a spill of peracetic acid, an organic peroxide.
The City of Rainsville asked for voluntary evacuation and traffic was detoured from the area through the night, as specialists needed for the cleanup came in from Atlanta and Nashville.
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By midmorning Friday, DCEMA said traffic routes had returned to normal in all but the immediate area of the crossing at the traffic light. Authorities continued to urge caution Friday when approaching the intersection because crews continued the remediation process.
Peracetic acid can be a severe irritant to the skin, eyes, and respiratory system. It is used as an antimicrobial in agriculture, food establishments, medical facilities, and other areas. Such organic peroxides create hazards including explosion if heated or contaminated; igniting combustibles or igniting from sparks or flame; and rapid burning with flare-burning effect.
DCEMA officials said a number of agencies assisted in securing the site and in the response and clean-up effort.
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Max George and Maisie Smith were spotted holding hands as they took his bulldog Albert for a walk in London this week.
The hot new couple, who recently enjoyed a romantic holiday with one another, looked totally at ease in one another's company as they went for a stroll.
Former EastEnders actress Maisie was dressed in a dark baggy hoody and matching jogging bottoms which she teamed with a bright pink beanie hat and a pair of Crocs.
Max, 33, opted for the same footwear and paired his with a cream-coloured hoody and some rather snazzy trousers.
As Albert the dog walked ahead of them, Max held on to 21-year-old Maisie's hand.
Last week it was revealed that Maisie and Max, who met on Strictly Come Dancing in 2020, have been secretly dating for weeks.
They headed to Portugal with friends and then enjoyed a trip to Mallorca shortly after.
In Mallorca they were spotted snogging in the £1000 a night hotel.
Then to top it off, the pair then holidayed in Crete where Maisie joked that a "wild ginger in the sun" was a "deadly mix".
They stayed in a five star resort in the stunning Greek island.
Maisie shared their holiday photos days after Max's ex Stacey Giggs, 43, branded him a "lying dog".
Stacey recently dumped Max, who she had dated since 2018, after allegedly accusing the singer of cheating on her.
The Sun claims Stacey confided in a pal, saying: "I asked him about her but he denied anything had happened.
"He said he was like an uncle to Maisie."
Now Stacey has reportedly told friends that seeing them enjoy a romantic break together is like a “dagger to the heart”.
Stacey is said to have told pals: “After everything I’ve done for him, I cannot believe he would be so rude and disrespectful. He’s a lying dog. I feel betrayed.”
The friend went on to claim Stacey doesn't "recognise the person" Max has become and feels her ex-boyfriend "has become obsessed with fame".
A source told The Sun recently that Max has been pretty open about his feelings for Maisie.
"This isn’t a flash in the pan," they said.
“Max has told people that he is falling in love with Maisie.”
Since returning home she has started rehearsals for Strictly Ballroom The Musical.
Meanwhile, it's been reported that Max turned down £160,000 to go on Celebs Go Dating to go on holiday with Maisie. | https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/max-george-maisie-smith-hold-27786290 | 2022-08-19T19:22:02Z | https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/max-george-maisie-smith-hold-27786290 | false |
WILMOT -- Crowds packed the grandstands and lined up along the center of the fairgrounds with their phones ready to record the combine demolition derby Thursday night.
After the announcer finished his countdown, the combines, each decked out in paint jobs ranging from unicorn-themed decorations to an imitation Tonka trunk, stepped on the gas to start knocking each other out of the competition.
In the first round of the demolition derby, 10 of the 17 combines competing were knocked out of the competition and dragged away to make room for the next and final round of competition.
After lining up once again, the combines ruthlessly went after each other. Amidst a pileup of around three combines, a red and yellow combine with the name “Adam” written on the front was declared the “last man standing” by the announcer.
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Edward Simionescu and Alex Broyles, both of whom are Lake County residents, said they enjoyed the show. Thursday night was Broyles’ first time at the demolition derby, and Simionescu’s second time.
“I’ve never seen anything like this in my life,” Broyles said. “Just shock and awe.”
They heard about the demolition derby from a friend who was part of the event.
Prior to the derby, spectators flocked to the grandstands and center ring of the track to watch the truck and tractor pulls.
Participants from the state of Wisconsin and parts of Illinois came to show off their truck or tractor’s capability to pull a weighted trailer across 300 feet of dirt track.
Some of the categories within the competition included street-legal diesel trucks, altered stock trucks, 9,500 pound farm stock tractors, semis, PI Hot Farm tractors and PI Pro Farm tractors.
Mike and Julie Berthold of Hoffman Estates, Ill., sat to watch the tractor and truck pulls for the first time along with their friend Deborah Harris of Des Plaines, Ill., who invited them out to the event.
“I want to see what the truck pulls are all about and learn more about that, “ Julie said.
Harris was most excited about the combine demolition derby, which was what initially piqued their interest.
“That’s what got them started,” Harris said. “They said, ‘Oh, I’ve never seen that! Let’s go!’”
Mark Olszewski, of Kenosha, and Nicole and Charlotte Olszewski, of Wilmot, claimed a spot on the grandstand well before the tractor pulls started to watch Nicole’s husband and son in the tractor parade.
Nicole said her family usually attends tractor pulls in Kenosha and Walworth counties.
“We usually go to the tractor pulls… here and in Walworth County,” she said. “It’s like our family tradition.”
Mark said he enjoys going and seeing people have a good time.
“I just like to see all the people having a good time,” he said. “And (I like) to be able to come out and enjoy it and not be concerned with everything going on in the world.” | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/watch-now-farigoers-flock-to-the-truck-and-tractor-pulls-and-stay-for-combine-demo/article_fbfbba3a-1fbe-11ed-9198-bb1b1a433e58.html | 2022-08-19T19:26:26Z | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/watch-now-farigoers-flock-to-the-truck-and-tractor-pulls-and-stay-for-combine-demo/article_fbfbba3a-1fbe-11ed-9198-bb1b1a433e58.html | true |
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Certain industry reports, articles, websites, and speakers are making false claims that "missed subrogation is costing insurers $15B annually and 32% of recoverable claims are not pursued." These groups are falsely using the name of NASP (National Association of Subrogation Professionals) without permission and erroneously citing NASP as the source. The claims are untrue. The data is false and does not represent true metrics of the subrogation industry.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 19, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
100 PM CDT Fri Aug 19 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern
Victoria County through 130 PM CDT...
At 1259 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Inez, or 12 miles east of Victoria. This storm was nearly stationary.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Victoria, Victoria Colony Creek Country Club, Victoria College,
Brentwood Subdivision, Wood Hi, Inez, Victoria Regional Airport and
Telferner.
This includes the following highways...
US Highway 59 between mile markers 622 and 636.
US Highway 87 near mile marker 810.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 2899 9682 2892 9679 2892 9678 2890 9676
2889 9673 2886 9672 2885 9670 2884 9672
2882 9672 2879 9669 2877 9670 2876 9667
2874 9666 2868 9671 2881 9702 2901 9684
TIME...MOT...LOC 1759Z 119DEG 1KT 2884 9678
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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PHOENIX — Editor's Note: The above video is from an earlier broadcast.
The Phoenix Veteran Affairs Health Care System says it has resumed conducting surgeries in a facility that had been infested with rodents.
The VA was forced to halt surgeries and relocate a number of patients at its Community Living Center earlier this month after staff discovered ceiling damage that had been caused by rats.
A VA spokesperson said Friday that 11 days have passed without any sign of rodents in the facility's operating room, thus prompting the VA to resume scheduling surgeries.
But patients will not be moved back into the CLC area since two rodents were caught Wednesday on the facility's second floor, the spokesperson said.
The VA has not observed any new rodent activity in other parts of the facility. Staff is continuing to station cameras in strategic locations, utilize extensive trapping, and seal all possible entry points in the building.
The Phoenix VA has been the subject of national scrutiny over the last decade after whistleblowers revealed in 2014 that veterans were dying because they waited too long to receive medical care.
An Arizona veteran was awarded $2.5 million by a judge in 2017 after proving his terminal cancer could have been cured if the Phoenix VA had diagnosed it sooner.
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Two Philadelphia residents backed by a conservative law firm sued the city and Mayor Jim Kenney this week, claiming a planned six-figure donation to an abortion fund violates state law.
The plaintiffs, Charles and Theresa Kuhar, asked a Court of Common Pleas judge to halt the city’s plans to donate $500,000 to the Abortion Liberation Fund of PA, which helps patients pay for an abortion if they cannot use insurance to cover the procedure or can’t otherwise afford it.
Kenney’s administration announced earlier this month that the city would disburse the donation to ALF-PA, and the cash would come from the taxpayer-funded general fund. He said in a statement that the donation was one way the city could “support Philadelphians in their fundamental right to bodily autonomy.”
Pennsylvania law has long prohibited the use of state funds — or federal funds allocated by the state — for abortion care, with exceptions for rape, incest, or in cases when the pregnancy could lead to death. The city does not have a municipal ordinance banning such uses of taxpayer dollars.
The plaintiffs argue that in using cash from its general fund, Philadelphia can’t prove it didn’t use state or state-appropriated federal funds to make the donation, said Thomas Breth, a western Pennsylvania attorney representing the plaintiffs. Breth is a special counsel for the Chicago-based Thomas More Society, a Catholic law firm that takes cases involving cultural issues like abortion and same-sex marriage.
A city spokesperson declined to answer questions, saying the city does not generally comment on pending litigation.
» READ MORE: Philly is donating half-a-million dollars to a group that helps patients pay for abortions
Common Pleas Judge Joshua Roberts scheduled a hearing for Aug. 31. He wrote the plaintiffs must be prepared to prove the funds in question were state or federal funds.
Kenney’s announcement of the donation came about six weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade, ending a nationwide constitutional right to an abortion. The ruling did not change the law in Pennsylvania, where the procedure remains legal through about 24 weeks into a pregnancy.
ALF-PA, which is part of a national network, was founded in 1985 after the General Assembly voted to ban the use of Medicaid funding for abortions.
The group estimates that out-of-pocket costs for an abortion can range from $400 to $3,000. It says it’s provided financial assistance to more than 35,000 people since it was created, including 3,200 people seeking abortions in Pennsylvania over the course of the last fiscal year. | https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/philadelphia-sued-over-donation-to-abortion-fund-20220819.html | 2022-08-19T19:44:38Z | https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/philadelphia-sued-over-donation-to-abortion-fund-20220819.html | true |
Multi-Level Car Parking facility lacks promotion in Visakhapatnam
Many people still parking their vehicle beside footpaths
After years of wait, the Multi Level Car Parking (MLCP) project of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) was thrown open to public this year, at Jagadamba Junction, here. However due to lack of promotion, the ₹9.7 crore worth Smart City facility is yet to be utilised fully.
The GVMC has initiated groundwork for the project during the year 2019 and the G+5 MLCP project was taken up by a Pune-based private company. Though the project was supposed to be completed during the year 2020, it was delayed for about two years due to COVID-19 and was started during the end of the year 2021. The computerised and mechanical facility can accommodate about 100 cars.
As on today, on a daily basis, at least 40 to 60 cars are being parked in the facility. The GVMC is charging ₹30 for the first two hours as basic charge. As the hours increase, additional ₹10 is being charged per hour.
According to a supervisor of the MLCP Salman, on Wednesday, 42 cars were parked. There are days when the occupancy ratio has touched over 80%, he says.
“Since it’s in a prime area of the city, people coming to shopping malls, church, mosque, temples, hospitals or to attend marriage/functions in the nearby function halls and tourists are utilising the facility. This apart locals who are leaving for some vacations are also parking their vehicles here,” Mr. Salman said.
The GVMC has failed to create awareness among the citizens about the facility. Located in the interior road opposite Jagadamba theatre, not many are aware of this project, including the locals. Still, several people are parking their four-wheelers on the side of a road or nearby footpaths.
There are no visible signboards arranged in the surroundings of Jagadamba or the nearest areas like Ram Nagar, where a number of hospitals are located or either nearby Dwaraka Bus Terminal, Judge Court, which regularly receives scores of public. It was learnt that somedays, the staff of the MLCP go to the nearest areas and and appeal to people to utilise the facility.
Executive Engineer of GVMC (Smart City Works) K. Sudhakar said that there are information boards about the MLCP, but small ones. “We would arrange larger boards in the surroundings and major areas in the vicinity. We would also seek police help soon in creating awareness about the MLCP among the visitors to clear traffic as well as parking woes in that area,” Mr. Sudhakar said.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
8-4-8
(eight, four, eight)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
8-4-8
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Jollibee's much-anticipated arrival at "the crossroads of the world" on Thursday, August 18 was met with more than 2,500 customers eagerly lining up for their iconic Chickenjoy fried chicken, Chicken Sandwiches and Peach Mango Pie.
WEST COVINA, Calif., Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday, August 18, global restaurant sensation, Jollibee, officially took its place at "the crossroads of the world" with the grand opening of its new flagship store in the heart of Times Square. The much-anticipated opening day celebration, just steps away from the iconic ball drop location, drew more than 2,500 customers – from local New Yorkers to visiting tourists – who wanted to be among the first in Times Square to get their hands on Jollibee's iconic Chickenjoy, Chicken Sandwiches and Peach Mango Pie in addition to the brand-new lineup of salads and sides. Located at 1500 Broadway in the center of Times Square's famed pedestrian plaza, the new restaurant not only marks Jollibee's 84th location in North America, but also symbolizes its arrival to the global stage alongside some of the world's most recognized brands.
"Opening the doors to welcome our excited, first customers, who waited for hours for this moment, today was truly a dream come true!", remarked Maribeth Dela Cruz, President, Jollibee Group North America, Philippine Brands. "We are so passionate about our mission to spread joy through great tasting food and are so lucky that we have fans and customers that are just as excited and dedicated as we are. This signified a huge milestone for us, and we cannot wait to introduce the joy and taste of Jollibee to more and more of New York and its visitors in this landmark location."
Jollibee's biggest fans began showing up at 1500 Broadway around 8:30PM Wednesday evening, where they camped out over 12 hours to be among the first in line for Thursday's 9AM grand opening. Among them was New York City resident and devoted Jollibee fan, Ernie Aguinaldo, who secured the coveted spot of being the store's first official customer.
"The brand has always had a special place in my heart," noted Aguinaldo. "My first job was at Jollibee in the Philippines, and they have the best fried chicken in the world. I love their passion to spread joy through food and I hope to do the same in my life. I even aspire to open my very own franchise store one day!"
By the early morning, the line snaked several times in front of the store and down Broadway and continued to grow as anticipation for the doors opening became even greater. Crowds continued to flock to the store and eagerly await their meals throughout the day as the beloved Jollibee mascot kept customers and newcomers energized, jolly and satisfied.
"We got the original Chickenjoy and oh my god! I was expecting good chicken, but this is just so flavorful, so juicy and so crunchy!" noted Jollibee first-timers Alexandra and Alison Port. "It's hard to get the right balance of all that with fried chicken and Jollibee hits it spot on."
By the time the doors finally closed at midnight, Jollibee Times Square had served up thousands of its signature menu items to hungry fans who came from near and far to be part of the brand's momentous grand-opening milestone.
"I tried the spicy chicken sandwich, and it is so delicious!" remarked first time Jollibee customer, Kiki. "It's really good. It's spicy, it's tasty. I can taste all the flavors"
For those who plan to visit Jollibee's new Times Square flagship location, here's what you need to know:
- Address: 1500 Broadway, New York, NY 10036 (between W. 43rd & W. 44th Streets)
- Hours of Operation: 9AM – 12AM, seven days a week.
- How To Order: At this time, the store is offering dine-in and take-out options only; online ordering/delivery channels will be available in the coming weeks.
- Must-try Menu Items:
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Jollibee has more than 1,500 restaurants across 17 countries and is quickly expanding across North America. Follow Jollibee at @jollibeeus on Facebook, @jollibeeus on Instagram, and @jollibeeusa on TikTok to get updates on Jollibee's upcoming store openings and other exciting announcements and events, including new product launches and special promotions.
Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC, also known as Jollibee Group) is one of the fastest-growing restaurant companies in the world. It operates in 34 countries, with over 6,200 stores globally with branches in the Philippines, United States, Canada, the People's Republic of China, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Panama, Malaysia, South Korea, India, and Australia.
Jollibee Group has eight wholly owned brands (Jollibee, Chowking, Greenwich, Red Ribbon, Mang Inasal, Yonghe King, Hong Zhuang Yuan, Smashburger); six franchised brands (Burger King, Panda Express, PHO24, and Yoshinoya in the Philippines; Dunkin' and Tim Ho Wan in certain territories in China); 80% ownership of The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf; 60% ownership in the SuperFoods Group that owns Highlands Coffee and PHO24; and 51% ownership of Milksha, a popular Taiwanese bubble tea brand.
Jollibee Group, through its subsidiary Jollibee Worldwide Pte. Ltd. (JWPL) owns 90% participating interest in Titan Dining LP, a private equity fund that ultimately owns the Tim Ho Wan brand. It also has a joint venture with the THW Group to open and operate THW restaurants in Mainland China. Jollibee Group also has a business venture with award-winning Chef Rick Bayless for Tortazo, a Mexican fast-casual restaurant business in the United States.
Jollibee Group was named the Philippines' most admired company by the Asian Wall Street Journal for ten years. It was also honored as one of Asia's Fab 50 Companies and among the World's Best Employers and World's Top Female-Friendly Companies by Forbes. In 2020, Gallup awarded the Jollibee Group with the Exceptional Workplace Award, making it the first Philippine-based company to receive the distinction.
Jollibee Group has grown brands that bring delightful dining experiences to its customers worldwide, thus spreading the joy of eating to everyone. To learn more about Jollibee Group, visit www.jollibeegroup.com.
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Vanessa Bryant, widow of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, testified Friday that she experiences panic attacks and anxiety over the possibility of seeing photos from the 2020 helicopter crash that killed her husband, their teenage daughter and seven others.
On the witness stand in her federal lawsuit against Los Angeles County, Vanessa Bryant recalled being at home with her family, breastfeeding her 7-month-old daughter Capri, when she learned of a Los Angeles Times report about county sheriff's deputies sharing the graphic photos.
"I just remember not wanting to react cause the girls were in the room," she testified, her voice rising with emotion. "I said, 'I can't do this." ... And I bolted out of the house and I ran to the side of the house so the girls couldn't see me. I wanted to run... down the block and just scream. I can't escape my body. I can't escape what I feel."
Along with Chris Chester, whose wife and daughter also died in the crash, 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. | https://www.phillytrib.com/news/across_america/vanessa-bryant-testifies-that-she-suffers-panic-attacks-anxiety-since-learning-of-shared-crash-scene/article_f2eeafa9-c117-518d-9aa7-f13429f78140.html | 2022-08-19T20:00:21Z | https://www.phillytrib.com/news/across_america/vanessa-bryant-testifies-that-she-suffers-panic-attacks-anxiety-since-learning-of-shared-crash-scene/article_f2eeafa9-c117-518d-9aa7-f13429f78140.html | true |
The abortion rights battle between conservative states and their liberal cities has claimed another casualty, after Louisiana state officials delayed storm aid to New Orleans even as the city faced a flood advisory and predictions of an above-average hurricane season.
“The officials in New Orleans took an oath of office to support and enforce the laws of our State, yet they have decided that some laws are not worthy of enforcement,” Landry said in a statement posted on Facebook, condemning “the city’s open defiance of the will of the people of Louisiana” and calling the vote, “another step toward ensuring the parishes and municipalities of our State comply with the laws of our State.” Landry’s office declined further comment Friday, instead highlighting his past comments.
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell remains defiant.
“I am disappointed, but not surprised, by the manufactured crisis of the attorney general, who has once again delayed critical infrastructure funding in the middle of hurricane season,” Cantrell said in a statement. “I will continue to prioritize necessary improvements to our city’s aging infrastructure, while fighting for the reproductive rights of all women.”
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, Louisiana enacted one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans: outlawing abortion after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy without exceptions for rape and incest; allowing the procedure only when a pregnant person’s life is in danger. Opponents legally challenged the measure, passed in 2006 in anticipation of the Supreme Court ruling. It was initially blocked in court, but ultimately allowed to take effect last month.
As legal challenges failed, and the state’s three abortion clinics announced plans to close and relocate out of state, the New Orleans mayor, city council, sheriff and district attorney vowed to oppose the ban. The city council passed a resolution directing officials — including police and prosecutors — not to use city funds to enforce it. New Orleans police directed officers not to issue summonses or make arrests under the law. Similar actions have been taken by other Democratic cities in predominantly Republican states.
“Equal access to abortion care is essential for social and economic equality and reproductive autonomy,” the council’s resolution said, emphasizing its “commitment to protecting the rights of its residents to make reproductive health decisions, including abortion care.”
Landry — who is considered a likely candidate for governor next year — said he considered the council’s action a direct challenge to state authority. He serves on the commission, and when it first considered the city’s flood funding last month, his proxy opposed it, delaying a vote.
At Thursday’s meeting, Landry gave the New Orleans council an ultimatum: enforce the ban or lose the flood aid.
“If they want this project to move forward, rescind the resolution,” Landry said.
Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat who opposes abortion, had supported the city’s flood funding, and his representatives on the board voted for it.
“The idea that you seek to punish all the people living in a certain area because you are at odds with some of their elected officials, that's not a reasonable approach,” Edwards said when the vote was delayed last month.
On Thursday, Edwards’s executive counsel, Matthew Block, appeared on his behalf as a member of the commission and argued before the vote that the city’s position was moot since it does not have the power to prosecute those violating the ban and the state’s abortion clinics had closed.
“There are no abortions being performed in Louisiana, much less in Orleans Parish, right now,” Block said. “So this idea that because there were statements made and a resolution passed that, somehow in the future, there might not be enforcement of the law — that’s not happening right now.”
Block said the legislature should decide whether city projects receive state financing, as it had in approving New Orleans’ officials’ request for flood aid, not the bond commission.
Republican state Sen. Bret Allain, who serves on the commission, told members it was “problematic” for the state board to target New Orleans over its abortion stance.
But Landry disagreed, saying: “We should not defer the ability to use the tools at our disposal to bring them to heel.”
Jimmy Harris, a Democratic state senator from New Orleans serving as a proxy on the commission, told its members the power station project is expected to help protect about 384,000 people. Harris said he had just received a text about a storm underway that had prompted a flood advisory for the city.
“That’s what we’re dealing with. That’s what this particular project is attempting to help us, to where we don’t have to drown,” Harris said.
The historic peak of hurricane season is mid-September, with the busiest stretch from late August to mid-October. A given season averages 14 named storms, seven of which might be hurricanes, but this year forecasters have predicted 14 to 20 named storms, including three to five major hurricanes.
Paul Rainwater, a lobbyist for the city of New Orleans who is a Republican, advised Landry and other members of his party at Thursday’s meeting not to link the abortion fight to flooding in New Orleans. Rainwater was part of Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal’s response and recovery after Hurricane Katrina, which lead to the deaths of nearly 2,000 people. He reminded the commission that New Orleans represents 25 percent of the state’s economy, home to iconic sites like the Superdome, the National World War II Museum and Audubon Park.
Rainwater said the city’s latest flood response project would update power for pumps that ensure drinking water and sewer drainage amid storms. If funded, the project was on track to be completed by 2024.
“The situation the city has been through every hurricane season is a little bit stressful in that you’re constantly testing the turbines,” of the power system, Rainwater said after the vote. “These aren’t things that are nonessential.”
Rainwater said he plans to bring the issue back before the commission when they next meet Sept. 15.
“It’s not like they ignored the law — there’s no law that’s been broken. The city council expressed an opinion,” he said. “The city has a very strong view on this.”
It was not immediately clear whether New Orleans officials would be invited to appear at next month’s commission meeting. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/19/abortion-new-orleans-flood-hurricane/ | 2022-08-19T20:00:45Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/19/abortion-new-orleans-flood-hurricane/ | false |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's unemployment rate fell to 3.9% in July, the lowest point since 1976 as employers in the the nation's most populous state continued to defy expectations by adding 84,800 new jobs.
Record-high inflation coupled with a cool-down in the housing market have prompted warnings of an economic slowdown as consumers react to high prices for goods from groceries to gasoline.
But new numbers released Friday by California's Employment Development Department show its labor market has so far been immune from those issues, as the state has had month-over-month job growth in 17 out of the last 18 months.
Nationwide, unemployment rates dropped in 14 states in July, rose in three states and stayed the same in 33 states, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. California now has a slightly lower unemployment rate than Texas, but is higher than Florida and Alabama — all Republican-led states whose leaders California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has feuded with in recent months.
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Ten of California's 11 industry sectors had job growth in July, led by big gains in computer systems design, advertising, security services and health care. While California makes up 11.7% of the nation's civilian labor force, the state accounted for 16.1% of all new jobs in the U.S. last month.
That job gain is despite job postings declining in the state and sales of single-family homes — a major driver of California's economy — slowing 14.4% in July compared to June and down 31.1% from a year ago, according to the California Association of Realtors. California's housing market reflects an overall slowdown in home sales nationally, which declined in July for the sixth straight month.
“It's certainly surprising,” former EDD Director Michael Bernick said of California's job gains. “It goes against all the other economic indicators.”
California lost more than 2.7 million jobs in just two months at the start of the pandemic in 2020, when Newsom issued the nation's first statewide stay-at-home order that forced many businesses to close.
It has taken more than two years for California to get most of those jobs back. July's job growth means the state has recovered 97.3% of those pandemic job losses.
The biggest reason for the decline in the unemployment rate is large number of new jobs added in July. But another factor is 23,400 people stopped looking for work in July, reducing the state's labor force. Some industries are continuing to see a labor shortage, mostly in restaurants and hotels, according to Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at Loyola Marymount University.
“I think the labor force will go up in the future because people need to earn extra income to beat inflation," he said. “We are already seeing so-called gig employment rising because some people are holding two or three jobs. The fear of an oncoming recession, if we are not in one already, will cause people to look for work.”
Bernick, now an attorney with the Duane Morris law firm who closely tracks California's labor market, said he suspects the state is still being propped up by billions of dollars from federal stimulus spending and the state's budget surplus. The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act in Congress will send more money to the state, lowering some prescription drug costs while helping millions pay their monthly health insurance premiums.
“That is not going to continue forever,” he said.
California's budget includes $9.5 billion in refunds to about 23 million people, something Newsom touted Friday when boasting about the state's low unemployment rate.
“We have historic reserves and we’re putting money back in peoples’ pockets as we continue to lead the nation’s economic recovery," Newsom said in a news release. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/california-sets-new-low-unemployment-record-in-july/article_e6462266-eb4d-51fb-b3fb-5590c9473379.html | 2022-08-19T20:04:09Z | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/california-sets-new-low-unemployment-record-in-july/article_e6462266-eb4d-51fb-b3fb-5590c9473379.html | false |
Jobs’ Apple-1 computer prototype auctioned for nearly $700K
BOSTON (AP) — An authenticated Apple-1 Computer prototype from the mid-1970s has sold at auction for nearly $700,000.
The prototype was used by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 1976 to demonstrate the Apple-1 to Paul Terrell, owner of The Byte Shop in Mountain View, California, one of the first personal computer stores in the world, Boston-based RR Auction said in a statement.
A Bay Area collector who wishes to remain anonymous made the winning $677,196 bid on Thursday, the auctioneer said.
“There is no Apple-1 without this board — it’s the holy grail of Steve Jobs and Apple memorabilia,” said Bobby Livingston, RR’s executive vice president.
The board has been matched to Polaroid photographs taken by Terrell in 1976, showing the prototype in use. It was also examined and authenticated by Apple-1 expert Corey Cohen, whose notarized 13-page report accompanied the sale.
The prototype resided on the Apple Garage property for many years before being given by Jobs to the seller about 30 years ago.
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- Digi Communications N.V.: Announces an Amendment to the Financial Calendar for 2021
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- Digi Communications N.V. announces: the Supreme Court of Hungary dismissed the Company’s appeal related to the 5G Tender procedure
- Customer Data Platform Industry to Reach $1.5 Billion in 2021: CDP Institute Report
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- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Q1 2020 Financial Results
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- Digi Communications NV announces Investors Call on the Financial Results for Q1 2020
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 13 – 17 Apr 2020
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- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V.: Exercise of stock option by a Non-Executive Director of the Company
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- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in February 2020 or in other period but effective in February 2020, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
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- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Preliminary Financial Results for year ended 31 December 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 10 – 14 Feb 2020
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- Digi Communications N.V.: Independent Limited Assurance Report issued by the external auditor on 30 Jan 2020 regarding the information included in the current reports under Law 24/2017 (Article 82) and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
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- Digi Communications N.V.: (i) launch of an offering by RCS & RDS S.A. of senior secured notes; (ii) issuance of a notice of conditional full redemption of all outstanding €550.0m 5.0% senior secured notes due 2023 issued by the Company and (iii) restatement by the Company of its unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements for the 9-month period ended 30 Sep 2019
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- Digi Communications N.V. Announces the publishing of the Financial Calendar for 2020
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- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in November 2019 or in other period but effective in November 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 30 Sep – 4 Oct 2019
- Il noto Brand di Prodotti Promozionali Personalizzati National Pen lancia il Nuovo Sito Italiano
- Un nouveau look pour Universal Pen relançant son site Web de produits de marque promotionnels
- First non-melanoma skin cancer patients treated with the Rhenium-SCT® in Germany
- Finalyse welcomes Dublin as a new entity to the Group
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 23-27 September 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 16-20 Sep 2019
- VIAJES: LOS 5 DESTINOS MÁS BARATOS PARA ESCAPADAS URBANAS
- TRAVEL NEWS: Malaga tops the list of best value city break destinations in Spain
- Dr. Kurt Lauk, prominent business leader, former chairman of Economic Council in Germany (Wirtschaftsrat), former advisor to Angela Merkel, joins Tachyum
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 9-13 Sep 2019
- DIGI Communications N.V.: Decision regarding the participation to the auction procedure related to wireless broadband services supporting the introduction of 5G in Hungary
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in August 2019 or in other period but effective in August 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Fight To Fame Expands Its Search for the Next Action Film Star to Europe
- Digi Communications N.V. Announces the availability of Investor’s presentation on the company’s website
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 19 – 23 August 2019
- All occasion personalised pens produced by specialist company Camaloon
- Nicht nur für Messen: Werbemittel Kugelschreiber
- Stylos personnalisés : Camaloon pense à tout
- Camaloon: una Penna da personalizzare per ogni occasione
- Experterna på tryck erbjuder profilerande bläckpennor för varje tillfälle
- Gepersonaliseerde pennen kiezen voor al uw behoeften
- MÁS DE 20 MILLONES DE PRODUCTOS DE PAPELERÍA SON COMPRADOS CADA DÍA
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 12 -16 August 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 12 -16 August 2019
- XPAND K.K. will exhibit at the IFA 2019 as a Japanese cutting-edge IT company
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in July 2019 or in other period but effective in July 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Digi Communications N.V. Announces the availability of H1 2019 Financial Report (for the six month period ended 30 June 2019)
- PDA Announces Six Regulatory Authorities Speaking at Biomanufacturing in Munich
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 5 and 9 August 2019
- Digi Communications NV Announces Investor Call on the Financial Results for the Half-year ended 30 June 2019
- Customer Data Platform Industry Grew 71% in One Year; Will Reach $1 Billion Revenue in 2019
- Central European Online Travel Agency Group Szallas.hu PLC. further strengthens its international presence
- With The Lure Of High Threadcount Sheets After A Day Trekking, Luxury Travel Blogger THE BOUTIQUE ADVENTURER Champions Chic Solo Explorations
- Digi Communications N.V. announces Syndicated facility agreement concluded between the Digi Group and a syndicate of banks
- LA SCULPTURE DE CEDRIC KOUKJIAN, « LIAISON », SERA EXPOSÉ EN PUBLIC PAR LA COMMISSION CULTURELLE DE COLOGNY, EN SUISSE
- CEDRIC KOUKJIAN’S SCULPTURE, “LIAISON” TO BE EXHIBITED IN PUBLIC BY CULTURAL COMMISSION OF COLOGNY IN SWITZERLAND
- Digi Communications N.V.: Independent Limited Assurance Report issued by the external auditor regarding the information included in the current reports under Law 24/2017 (Article 82) and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Il 18° tour del lago Qinghai si conclude con la celebrazione della "maggiore età"
- La 18ª Vuelta al Lago Qinghai concluye con la celebración de su “mayoría de edad”
- 18e ‘Tour of Qinghai Lake’ wordt afgesloten met een ‘coming-of-age’-viering
- Digi Communications N.V.: Rectification of reports published on 15 Feb, 15 Mar, 15 Apr, 15 May and 14 Jun 2019 regarding legal documents in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 22 and 26 July 2019
- GEANGO at ENSO ANGO - Summer Culture Retreat in Kyoto 2019
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol (15-19 July 2019)
- Nanto Cleantech Inc victorious in BYK-Altana patent opposition lawsuit
- Mono Solutions Joins Bauer Media Group to Strengthen SME Marketing Services Across the Globe
- UK Investors File Lawsuit in the Canaries Against Blue Explorers for Misleading Shareholders
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 8 – 12 July 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces Share transaction made by an executive director of the Company with class B shares on 11 July 2019
- OFERTA de casas vacacionales de lujo para menos de €25 por persona por noche este verano
- Noticias de Turismo: este verano sacarás más partido de tu presupuesto vacacional encontrando precios más competitivos
- TRAVEL NEWS: Your holiday spending money stretches even further this summer in Spain
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 1 – 5 July 2019, under the class B shares buy-back program approved by the GSM from 30 April 2019 and the duration of this program
- Global Software Innovator, AnyDesk, Announces Record 100 Million Downloads
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 24 and 28 June 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the launch by RCS & RDS S.A., its subsidiary in Romania, of the Digi Mobil 5G Smart service
- Tauschen Sie Ihren Dripper aus und verändern Sie den Geschmack Ihres Kaffees! HARIO veröffentlicht den Double Mesh Metal Dripper.
- Change your dripper and change the flavor of your coffee! HARIO launches the Double Mesh Metal Dripper
- Matvil Corp. противостоит беспределу судебных властей Молдовы
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 17 – 21 June 2019
- Matvil Corp. Fights the Illegal Actions of the Legal System of Moldova
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 10 and 14 June 2019
- Digi Communications N.V.: Reporting of legal documents concluded by the company in May 2019 in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions occurred under DIGI symbol between 3 – 7 June 2019
- PDA Explores the Transformation of Healthcare at 4th Annual European Meeting
- ASI President John Cross Named AGMA Chairman
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 27 – 31 May 2019
- Breakthrough on laser powder bed fusion technology brings effective production of larger componentscloser to mainstream
- PDA Announces All-Star Speaker Lineup for Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products Conference
- Digi Communications N.V.: Exercise of stock options by the Executive Directors of the Company
- Digi Communications N.V. announces DIGI Kft., the Hungarian subsidiary of the Company, launches mobile telephony services in Hungary
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 21 and 24 May 2019
- ZYXEL READY WITH 5G SAMPLES IN AUGUST 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the initiation of the share buy-back program as authorized by the Company’s GSM on 30 April 2019
- Digi Communications N.V Q1 2019 Financial Report and the report regarding legal documents for April 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 released
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the new date of the Conference Call for the presentation of the Q1 2019 Financial Report. Update to the Company’s 2019 Financial Calendar.
- Rhenium-SCT® (SCT= Skin Cancer Therapy) now being offered in Hanau, Germany
- Project consortium aims at driving the adoption of selective laser melting (SLM) for large scale metal parts printing
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the availability of the instructions on the 2018 share dividend payment
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 29 April 2019 – 1 May 2019, under the class B shares buy-back program
- Biodiversity Report Is Urgent Call to Action Beyond Fixes; Geneva Global Initiative Calls on World Community to Focus on Concrete Actions
- Digi Communications N.V.’s general Shareholders’ meeting resolutions from 30 Apr 2019 approving, amongst others, the 2018 Annual Accounts and the availability of the adopted Annual Financial Report for the year ended Dec 31, 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions occurred under DIGI symbol, 22 – 26 April 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 15 April 2019 – 19 April 2019s
- XPAND Code was successfully scanned from 200 meters/700 feet at Olympics stadium
- Wasser eingießen, Warten und Einschalten
- Digi Communications N.V.: Reporting of legal documents concluded by the company in March 2019 in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 8 and 12 April 2019
- Snowman releases new EP
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 1 – 5 April 2019
- Streamlining adoption of high-speed and high-resolution surface texturing delivered with the Prometheus project
- Customer Data Platform Institute Launches RealCDP to Reduce CDP Confusion
- ASI Technologies Focuses on the future as ASI Drives, and New AGV Pallet Robot, FRED2500
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 25 March 2019 – 29 March 2019
- Towards a Europe of Stakeholder Nations
- Associazione Veneta Lotta alla Talassemia (AVLT) and the UK Thalassaemia Society (UKTS) Clarification on European Regulatory Status of LENTIGLOBIN™
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 19 March 2019 – 22 March 2019
- A new flagship project on Additive Manufacturing skills aims to maintain Europe leading position in industrial competitiveness
- Consultancy Partnership Revolutionizes Agile Project Management
- Jeroen Schouten Named Regional Manager, Europe of AeroGo, Inc.
- Digi Communications N.V. Convocation of the Company’s general shareholders meeting for 30 April 2019 for the approval of, among others, the 2018 Annual Report and of the 2018 Financial Statements
- España arrasa con la competencia y es nombrado como el país ideal para estudiar en el extranjero
- Xverify targets European Email Verification market with local data processing, Dublin office
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the resignation by Mr. Sambor Ryszka from his position as non-executive director of the Company
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 11 and 15 March 2019
- Digi Communications N.V.: Reporting of legal documents concluded by the company in February 2019 in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- New Services Larry Hurt income Tax Services
- Admission of Digi Communications N.V. €200,000,000 5.0% additional senior secured notes due 2023 to the listing on the Official List and trading on Irish Stock Exchange’s Main Securities Market
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the appointment of Dan Ioniță as a non-executive director of RCS & RDS S.A., the Romanian subsidiary of the Company
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 4 and 8 March 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces share transaction made by an executive director of the Company with class B shares on 4 march 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 25 February – 1 March 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces share transaction made by an executive director of the Company with class B shares on 1 march 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 18 and 22 February 2019
- Digi Communications N.V.: finalization and registration by the Company of the conversion of 1,200,000 A shares into an equal number of class B shares
- Digi Communications N.V.: Exercise of stock options by a PDMR in accordance with the stock option plan for the Group’s Romanian employees
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 11 and 15 February 2019
- Dearly Beloved, The Latest Single By Alternative Urbane Artist Expands Up-And-Coming ADN Lewis's Global Fan Base
- Report of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in January 2019 or in other period but effective in January 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces Availability of Preliminary Financial Report for the year ended December 31, 2018 for Digi Communications N.V. Group
- Mono Solutions launches a new interface to drive the ultimate do-it-with-me (DIWM) experience
- Digi Communications NV Announces Investor Call on the Preliminary Financial Results for the year ended 31 December 2018
- Digi Communications NV: New date of the Conference Call for the 2018 Preliminary financial results; Update to the 2019 Company’s Financial Calendar
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 4 and 8 February 2019
- R.W. Chelsea Holdings Ltd Starts To Hold Fixed Income Investor Meetings In Vienna, Zurich, Geneva and London
- Digi Communications N.V. successfully increased and priced its Offering at €200,000,000 5.0% additional senior secured notes due 2023
- Digi Communications N.V. to offer additional €125,000,000 5.0% senior secured notes due 2023; new notes will be consolidated and treated as its existing €350,000,000; adjustment on interim unaudited consolidated financial statements for the nine-month period ending September 30, 2018
- World's largest superhero statue to be built in Central Europe
- The resignation of Mr. Bendei Ioan – VP and executive director of RCS&RDS S.A., DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V.’s subsidiary in Romania
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 28 January 2019 – 1 February 2019
- RCH Group to Showcase Integrated Selling Solutions at EuroCIS
- Mono and bfound partner to expand digital offerings for small businesses in the Middle East
- Digi Communications N.V. publishes the Independent Limited Assurance Report in accordance with Law 24/2017 (Article 82) and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- ERRATA of the reports dated 15 Jan 2019 and 15 Oct 2018 regarding the legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in Dec 2018 and Sep 2018
- REVEALED: Experts reveal the best dates to book your summer holiday in Spain
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 21 – 25 January 2019
- Céline Dion visite son premier concept store de vêtements CELINUNUNU à Paris
- Anytime, anywhere tailored learning opportunities for welding professionals and apprentices alike
- i5invest открива офис в България
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 14 - 18 January 2019
- Mono helps Fonecta strengthen their digital presence offering for SMBs
- The Bucharest Tribunal’s decision regarding the investigation conducted by the Romanian National Anti-corruption Directorate with respect to RCS & RDS S.A., Integrasoft S.R.L. and certain of their directors
- Digi Communications N.V.: Exercise of stock options by a PDMR in accordance with the stock option plan approved by the Company for the Romanian employees of the Group in 2017
- Report of legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in accordance with Romanian Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 for December 2018
- Digi Communications N.V.: resolution of the Board of Directors to convert class 1,200,000 A shares into an equal number of class B shares for the purpose of the ongoing employees and directors stock option plans
- CELINUNUNU OUVRE SON PREMIER POP-UP À PARIS
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 07 – 11 January 2019
- Digi Communications NV: Announcement of the Conference Call for the 2018 Preliminary financial results. Update to the 2019 Company’s Financial Calendar
- A new Government Emergency Ordinance imposing additional corporate taxes with impact on the telecommunications sector in Romania
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 31 December 2018-04 January 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 24-28 Dec 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 17-21 Dec 2018
- US Customer Data Platform authority David Raab to Host First CDP Workshop in Belgium
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 10-14 Dec 2018
- US-amerikanischer Customer-Data-Platform-Experte David M. Raab leitet ersten gemeinsamen CDP-Workshop mit b.telligent in München
- Arriva Designflows, la prima competizione di mobile design in Italia
- BWW 2018 – Best Wine Critics of World have been selected – Jancis Robinson MW is the Winner!
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 3-7 December 2018
- Farming by Satellite Prize is won by Teagasc from Ireland
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 26-30 Nov 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: Digi Communications N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 19-23 November 2018
- First Non-Melanocytic Skin Cancer Patients treated with Rhenium-SCT® in South Africa
- Notification shares buy-back: Digi Communications N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 12-16 November 2018
- Base Element and Cognigy Announce Strategic Partnership
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the Hungarian Competition Council’s decision to formally withdraw and reassess the Invitel merger decision on certain limited aspects
- Amerikaanse Customer Data Platform authoriteit David M. Raab leidt eerste CDP Workshop in Nederland
- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Q3 2018 Financial Results
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 5-9 November 2018
- Cobots and RPA Gain Centerstage in Automotive Robotics Space; Labor Issues Prevail as a Key Challenge
- Digi Communications NV announces Investor Call on the Financial Results for Q3 2018
- Food Waste Recycling Machine Sales to Reach 10,890 units in 2018 on the Back of Growing Investments in Sustainable Solutions
- SMEs Accounted for Nearly 60% Share of SAP Cloud Platform Services Market in 2017, Finds New Fact.MR Study
- China’s Dominance of Pneumatic Rollers Production and Demand Continues, Finds Fact.MR Study
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 29 October-2 November 2018
- ILC Dover to Open New Production Facility in Blarney, Ireland for Added Capabilities, Capacity and Jobs
- OEMs Hold 90% Share of Automotive Switches Sales Channel, Finds Fact.MR
- US$ 3 Billion RF Power Amplifiers Market Driven by Growing Cellular Applications, Finds Fact.MR Study
- Kidney Stone Management Device Sales to Surpass 340,000 Units in 2018 with Lithotripsy Devices Leading the Rally, Finds Fact.MR
- Fact.MR Study Finds Contractor Preference Shifting from Skid Steers to Compact Track Loaders in Lucrative Markets
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 22-26 October 2018
- DB CyberTech Launches into the European Market
- Hungarian coding bootcamp opens in Prague in order to train career changers looking to enter the IT industry
- Gasoline Vehicles Accounted for 8 in 10 Automotive Fuel Injector Sales in 2018, finds Fact.MR Study
- Fact.MR Study Finds Global Demand for Crawler Cranes to Reach 3,648 Units in 2018, Greater China Leads with 30% Share
- Surplus Supply Reflects Growing Avidity in the Europe Cocoa Market – Fact.MR Study
- Fact.MR Study Shows Declining Demand for Tilapia in US Offset by Encouraging Gains in Domestic Markets
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 15-19 October 2018
- Europe Home Diagnostics Market Driven by Burgeoning Glucose Monitoring Device Sales, Consumer Demand for Non-Invasive Kits Largely Unmet – Fact.MR Study
- Europe Bicycle Parking Racks Market Driven by Consumer Focus on Sustainability and Carbon Consciousness
- Halloumi Cheese Popularity Soars in Europe as UK Maintains its Lead as the Largest Market – Fact.MR Study
- Vehicle Interior Air Quality (VIAQ) Takes Centerstage in US$ 6.5 Million Europe Automotive Headliners Market
- Report of legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in accordance with Romanian Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 for September 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 8-12 Oct 2018
- Europe Emulsifier and Co-Emulsifier Market Witnessing a Shift Towards Bio-based Variants – Fact.MR Study
- Fact.MR Study on IBM Watson Services Market Lists Business Agility and Customer Service Transformation as Key Motivations to Adoption
- Europe Non-Dairy Toppings Market Riding on the Coattails of Growing Vegan Revolution, Finds a New Fact.MR Study
- Blockchain Cyber-security Firm Privus Raises $635k in Late Stage Seed Funding
- Smart Scale Co. Unveils World's First IoT Smart Scale Container, Stashaweigh™, at New West Summit
- ‘Sustainability’, ‘Functionality’ and ‘Cost-Effectiveness’ Among Key Expectations of European Consumers from Automotive Tow Bars Industry
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 1-5 Oct 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 24-28 Sept 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 17-21 Sept 2018
- New Study Reconfirms Effectiveness and Safety of Fotona Dynamis Laser Treatment for Minimally-Invasive Urinary Incontinence
- New study reveals that hate speech is becoming the ‘new normal’ on social media
- The launch of fixed broadband and fixed telephony services by Digi Communication N.V.’s subsidiary in Spain
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 10-14 Sept 2018
- coMakeIT appoints Durga Prakash Kone as Head of Global Sales
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 3-7 Sept 2018
- 80% Satisfaction Rate in Europe for Customer Data Platform Early Adopters
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 27-31 Aug 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 20-24 Aug 2018
- DB CyberTech Launches GDPR Continuous Monitoring Solution with the First to Market Advanced Data Classification
- DATA4 Brings Pioneering Payment Systems to Kiosk Summit 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 13-17 Aug 2018
- Zuuse to acquire GCPay, a leading North American provider of construction payment applications software
- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Q2 2018 Financial Results
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 6-10 August 2018
- Plus Ultra strongly denies the fraud allegations bought against them in the Spanish class action lawsuit
- Digi Communications NV announces Investor Call on the Financial Results for H1 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 30 July-3 August 2018
- Europe’s largest battery and H/EV event moves to manufacturing hub for e-mobility
- Mono Solutions announce a new partnership with PA DIGITAL, the leading provider of digital services for small businesses in Spain
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 23-27 July 2018
- Digi Communications N.V. publishes report of legal acts concluded by the company in accordance with Romanian Law, FSA Regulation as well as the Independent Limited Assurance Report
- Spahn & Rose Named to ProSales 100 List
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 16-20 July 2018
- RCH Europe Brings New Innovative Selling Solutions to FAFGA 2018
- Lanzamiento de un nuevo sitio web de comparación financiera
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 9-13 July 2018
- European Customer Data Platform Vendors Lead Industry in New Direction
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 2-6 July 2018
- iBwave Design Helps MTS Deliver Superior Fan Experience During the 2018 Soccer Games in Russia
- Get Ahead Of Your Business Competition with Customized Advertising Campaigns by Manesta Programmatic Agency
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the publishing of ANCOM approval for RCS & RDS S.A. to continue to apply a surcharge for certain roaming services provided in the EEA for a renewed period of 12 months
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 25-29 June 2018
- Euro Staff Solution: First 2 Employees are on Us
- Press conference: Illegal sales of Schengen and Medical Visa Scandal involving Maltese PM’s Office
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 18-22 June 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol (June 11-15, 2018)
- Settlement of litigations between RCS & RDS S.A. and Antena Group entities
- Dr. Christina Marrongelli to lead World Congress on Pharmacology & Chemistry of Natural Compounds
- Report of legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in accordance with Romanian Law no. 24/2017 and Rule no. 1/2006 of CNVM – May 2018
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- Mit der Eröffnung eines neuen Büros in Spanien stärkt IN-GRY seine Präsenz in Europa
- Con la inauguración de una nueva sede en España, INRGY reforzará su presencia en Europa
- With the opening of a new office in Spain, IN-RGY strengthens its business presence in Europe
- Avec l’ouverture d’un nouveau bureau en Espagne, IN-RGY renforce sa présence commerciale en Europe
- Revealed: Top Tips for Sunseekers on a Shoestring in Spain
- Qoobo, a Pillow That Wags Its Tail to Your Touch, Is Coming to CEBIT
- Digi Communications NV: The initiation by the Company of the share buy-back program as authorized by the Company’s GSM from 2 May 2018
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- NIKITA ONLINE lance un nouveau jeu «Panic Room 2: Jeu de cache-cache»!
- NIKITA ONLINE launches a new game, «Panic Room 2: Hide and Seek»!
- Nagarro sets up technical center in Malta to focus on growing iGaming clientele
- Digi Communications NV: The closing of the acquisition by the Company’s Hungarian subsidiary, DIGI Távközlési és Szolgáltató Kft., of the Hungarian telecommunications operator Invitel Távközlési Zrt.
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- Digi Communications NV Stock option plan meant for the employees and officers of Digi Spain S.L.U. and conditional stock options granted to certain Romanian directors and employees
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A fake charter school poll that was posted on the Wyoming Department of Education's Twitter account last weekend was the result of the account being "hacked," a department spokesperson said.
"We didn't create the survey," spokesperson Linda Finnerty told the Star-Tribune.
The poll was on the department's Twitter page for "a couple days" before it was deleted on Sunday, by which time it had one comment, two shares and one like, according to Finnerty. She said the account's password has since been changed.
The incident was first reported on Wednesday by the Jackson Hole News and Guide, which shared a link to the poll that had been taken directly from the Twitter post.
The poll asks participants to rate how much they favor or oppose "giving parents more options when choosing a public school," "allowing schools to make quick, effective changes to improve student achievement," "giving schools and teachers more flexibility" around curriculum and teaching methods, and other questions that seem angled in favor of charter schools.
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The state of Wyoming, the University of Wyoming and the Wyoming School-University Partnership retweeted the post, according to the Jackson Hole News and Guide.
On Thursday, the Wyoming School-University Partnership posted an apology about the survey on Twitter.
"We apologize for any confusion that this survey may have caused and we have since deleted the phony survey from our social media posts," it says.
We apologize for any confusion that this survey may have caused and we have since deleted the phony survey from our social media posts. https://t.co/njCDU1YuSa#WyomingEducation #WyoEdChat
— Wyoming School-University Partnership (@WyoSUP) August 18, 2022
Finnerty said the education department's IT team doesn't have further information right now about who might have posted the survey, although she asserted that it was not posted by someone who had authorized access to the Twitter account. Only two people have authorized access, according to Finnerty. She said that neither of them are top-level department administrators.
The department's IT team is looking into where else the poll might have been shared, according to Finnerty. She said the department recommends people not to engage with the survey if they come across it.
Charter schools have been a topic of some contention in Wyoming.
The state hasn't historically been too welcoming to charter schools. There are five of them in the state right now. But last year, the Legislature passed a bill that allows the State Loan and Investment Board to approve charters for schools. Before, only school districts could do that.
The new law opened the door for three potential schools — Prairie View Community School in Chugwater, Wyoming Classical Academy in Mills and Cheyenne Classical Academy — to apply for charters through the new approval process.
While some welcome the charter schools as an expansion of options for students who learn better in different ways, others are concerned that they could siphon funding from traditional public schools.
And there are people who are concerned about the potential religious overtones of some charter schools. The proposed charter schools in Mills and Cheyenne are based on a “classical” model of education that was developed by Hillsdale College, a private Christian college in Michigan. The college’s Barney Charter School Initiative has opened charter schools across the country, including three in neighboring Colorado.
Others say that, because charter schools are still public schools, they will be held to the same secular standards as traditional public schools. | https://trib.com/news/local/education/education-departments-twitter-account-was-hacked-to-post-fake-charter-school-survey/article_e4bf29ec-1f3c-11ed-91e1-d7aeea0dcd7a.html | 2022-08-19T20:09:29Z | https://trib.com/news/local/education/education-departments-twitter-account-was-hacked-to-post-fake-charter-school-survey/article_e4bf29ec-1f3c-11ed-91e1-d7aeea0dcd7a.html | false |
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A close aide of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan who was recently arrested on treason charges for alleged anti-military remarks was hospitalized this week after complaining of breathing difficulties, officials said Friday.
Shahbaz Gill, who is also the chief of staff at Khan’s opposition Tehreek-e-Insaf party, was arrested after appearing earlier this month on private ARY TV in the southern port city of Karachi, when he allegedly incited troops and officers to mutiny.
During the broadcast, Gill, a known critic of the military, said soldiers and officers should refuse to obey “illegal orders” from the military leadership. He implied that the rank and file in the military overwhelmingly supports Khan, who was ousted in a no-confidence vote in Parliament in April.
After the TV interview, Gill was arrested and charged with treason, which under Pakistani law carries the death penalty. ARY TV was taken off air and its broadcasting license was subsequently revoked. The station’s new director Ammad Yousaf was briefly arrested but was later released.
According to security officials, Gill was taken from his jail cell to hospital on Wednesday after telling the guards that he had difficulty breathing. The officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss Gill’s situation.
Khan had accused the police of “torture and abuse” but they deny mistreating Gill, insisting that Khan’s aide was unwell because he suffers from chronic asthma, according to reports in local media.
The police later released a statement on Gill’s medical condition, saying he is medically fit to be questioned.
Khan has called his supporters to rally in Islamabad on Saturday to denounce Gill’s arrest.
On Friday, Gill appeared briefly before a court in Islamabad, in a wheelchair and using an oxygen tank, after police demanded they be allowed to question him further. The court, however, ordered that Gill remain in hospital till Monday, when his medical documents would be again reviewed.
In Pakistan, police cannot question detained suspects while they are in hospital, even though they remain in custody.
Khan came to power in 2018, promising to break the pattern of family rule in Pakistan, but his opponents said he was elected with help from the powerful military, which has ruled the country for half of its 75-year history.
After his ouster in April, Khan claimed the military took part in an alleged U.S. plot to oust him. Washington, the Pakistani military and the government of Khan’s successor, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, have denied the charge. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/detained-aide-of-pakistans-former-pm-imran-khan-in-hospital/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-08-19T20:11:27Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/detained-aide-of-pakistans-former-pm-imran-khan-in-hospital/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | true |
To the tune of "I never get Maggie Alone"
I never see Hunter alone
Hunter dear, you don't go out alone
Seems that you have a FBI chaperone
When you go out no matter where you’re bound
There ‘s always somebody around
You bring your father, your mother
Your uncle and one other,
I never see Hunter alone
We got his laptop. His emails
And photos of his females
But we never see Hunter alone
There were the Chinese, the Ukrainians
And even some Albanians,
People are also reading…
But we never see Hunter alone
There was the “big guy”, his mother
His uncle and one other
But we never see Hunter alone.
The FBI revised it, the media hides it
And Big Joe, he denies it.
So we never get Hunter alone
Because of his father, his mother
.His uncle and one other.
We can never, see Hunter alone
His taxes were unpaid, the IRS made a raid
His taxes were repaid
By the big guy, his mother,
His uncle and one other
Still we never see Hunter alone
THOMAS MCGORRAY
Northwest side
Disclaimer: As submitted to the Arizona Daily Star. | https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/letter-i-never-see-hunter-alone/article_5e6fed4e-1e66-11ed-bb7b-37c740d45bac.html | 2022-08-19T20:14:29Z | https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/letter-i-never-see-hunter-alone/article_5e6fed4e-1e66-11ed-bb7b-37c740d45bac.html | true |
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart, the nation's largest employer, is expanding its abortion coverage for employees after staying largely mum on the issue for months following the Supreme Court ruling that scrapped a nationwide right to abortion.
In a memo sent to employees on Friday, the company said its health care plans will now cover abortion for employees "when there is a health risk to the mother, rape or incest, ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage or lack of fetal viability."
The new policy will also offer "travel support" for workers and dependents covered under their health care plans so they can access services that are not available within 100 miles of their locations, Donna Morris, the retailer's chief people officer, said in the memo.
Walmart employs nearly 1.6 million people in the U.S. In Arkansas, where the company is based, abortion is banned under all circumstances unless the procedure is needed to protect the life of the mother in a medical emergency. There are no exceptions for rape or incest.
A Walmart spokesperson did not immediately reply for a request for comment on whether the company's health plan — or travel support — will cover elective abortions.
Previously, the company's benefits plan had covered abortion only in cases "when the health of the mother would be in danger if the fetus were carried to term, the fetus could not survive the birthing process, or death would be imminent after birth," according to a copy of the policy viewed by The Associated Press but not confirmed by Walmart.
Many companies — including Meta, American Express and Bank of America — have said they will cover travel costs for their employees in the aftermath of the high court ruling that tossed out Roe v. Wade. But dozens of others corporations, and organizations that represent some of the nation's most powerful companies. have continued to stay quiet. | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/walmart-expands-abortion-coverage-for-employees | 2022-08-19T20:17:52Z | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/walmart-expands-abortion-coverage-for-employees | false |
Noted trial lawyer earns repeat Best Lawyers in America honors for personal injury litigation
DALLAS, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trial lawyer Jeffrey Rasansky of the Rasansky Law Firm has been selected by Best Lawyers in America as the Dallas-Fort Worth medical malpractice law plaintiff' Lawyer of the Year for 2023. Additionally, Mr. Rasansky was honored by Best Lawyers for his work on behalf of plaintiffs in the area of personal injury litigation for a sixth consecutive year.
Only one attorney from a metropolitan area in each legal practice area earns the prestigious Lawyer of the Year designation annually. Best Lawyers is the oldest and among the most respected legal guides in the United States.
Known for his aggressive, creative approach to litigation, Mr. Rasansky has earned a reputation among the leading personal injury attorneys in the country. He focuses his practice on catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases, including those involving vehicle crashes, medical malpractice, birth injuries and defective products.
In addition to Best Lawyers, his work on behalf of plaintiffs across the country against some of the world's largest insurance companies and businesses has been recognized in the annual D Magazine Best Lawyers in Dallas listing. He has also earned Texas Super Lawyers, Texas Lawyer, and Lawdragon 500 honors.
Best Lawyers honors are selected through extensive surveys of lawyers who provide feedback on the abilities of their peers. The 2023 edition is based on 12.2 million evaluations recognizing more than 71,000 attorneys.
About The Rasansky Law Firm
The Rasansky Law Firm has built a national reputation for excellence by providing quality representation and the highest level of personal service with an award-winning team of experienced attorneys. The trial lawyers at The Rasansky Law Firm are committed to making a difference in their clients' lives and improving the safety of our community at large.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Investigative documents show all three of the Orange County residents accused of illegally voting in the 2020 elections, this week, thought their right to vote had been restored.
Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., announced the charges against 20 Florida residents on Thursday.
He claimed they had been convicted of violent felonies in the past, such as murder and sexual assault, and they did not have the right to vote restored under Amendment 4.
Florida voters passed Amendment 4 in 2018, which granted voting rights to people who had been convicted of felony crimes. Later legislation whittled that down, prohibiting those who had been convicted of violent crimes while requiring the rest to pay all court fees and fines before their voting rights could be restored.
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On Wednesday, three Orange County residents were arrested and charged with false affirmation and voting as an unqualified elector.
Both charges are third-degree felonies.
Jerry Foster, 72, of Orlando, served prison time for sexual battery on a child in 2009.
According to his arrest report on Wednesday, Foster told investigators he registered to vote in September of 2020.
“Foster heard on the news in 2020 that Gov. DeSantis ‘blessed’ all convicted felons the right to vote except for convicted murderers and sexual offenders,” the report reads. “Foster called the Orange County Sheriff’s Office resident deputy assigned to sexual offenders and inquired about voting and the deputy reportedly told him that he could vote.”
Michelle Stribling, 52, of Eatonville, served prison time for second-degree murder.
According to her arrest report on Wednesday, Stribling told investigators she could not read or write very well and did not understand the question on the voter registration application.
“Stribling asked a representative that offered the voter registration applications for assistance with completing the application and the individual would not assist her,” the report read.
She said she checked the statement that indicated she was not a convicted felon.
Peter Washington, 59, or Orlando, served 10 years in prison for attempted sexual battery.
He said he attended assimilation classes as he approached his release date, where he was told by an unknown probation officer that his civil rights would be automatically restored upon his release.
Nine years passed before Washington registered to vote in Orange County after he received an application in the mail from the Orange County Supervisor of Elections.
According to his arrest report, he received a voter registration card, and he also reported for jury duty three times after receiving summons.
“Washington and his wife went to their precinct polling location and voted during the 2020 general election,” the report read. “Washington advised he truly believed his civil rights had been restored.”
If convicted, all three face a maximum of five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/08/19/3-arrested-for-voter-fraud-in-orange-county-believed-their-voting-rights-had-been-restored/ | 2022-08-19T20:24:24Z | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/08/19/3-arrested-for-voter-fraud-in-orange-county-believed-their-voting-rights-had-been-restored/ | true |
Linda Evangelista stars on new Vogue cover, opening up about disfiguring cosmetic procedure
Oscar Holland, CNN
Former supermodel Linda Evangelista has opened up about the mental health toll of her disfiguring cosmetic procedure, telling British Vogue that she struggled with depression and at one point even stopped eating. The 57-year-old also revealed she had been influenced by repeated TV commercials, saying she would have refused the fat-freezing treatment if she had known that “side effects may include losing your livelihood and (ending) up so depressed that you hate yourself.”
Evangelista’s comments come one year after she filed a $50-million lawsuit against US firm Zeltiq Aesthetics over its CoolSculpting body-contouring procedure, which she said left her “brutally disfigured.” The Canadian model claimed that she was not made aware of a rare side effect, called paradoxical adipose hyperplasia, that causes swelling and the thickening of fatty tissue.
In July, she announced that she had settled the suit but did not reveal the terms of the agreement.
The model was unveiled as the star of British Vogue’s forthcoming September issue on Thursday, marking her first appearance on the UK edition’s cover in almost 24 years. The feature is accompanied by a series of glossy photos of Evangelista, who has rarely been seen in public during five years spent in “hiding” in New York.
“Am I cured mentally? Absolutely not,” she is quoted as saying, later adding: “I’m trying to love myself as I am.”
‘I was losing my mind’
In a wide-ranging interview, Evangelista discussed various attempts she has made to reverse the damage, including undergoing two liposuction treatments and wearing compression garments. “I’ve had my entire body tightly girdled for eight weeks — nothing helped,” she said.
The model also revealed that she was so depressed and “embarrassed” that she stopped eating entirely.
“I’d just spent all this money and the only way I could think of to fix it was zero calories, and so I just drank water. Or sometimes I would have a stick of celery or one apple,” she said, adding: “I was losing my mind.” A mainstay of 1980s and 90s fashion alongside fellow supermodels Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington, Evangelista said she had been persuaded to undergo body-contouring by advertisements.
“Those CoolSculpting commercials were on all the time, on CNN, on MSNBC, over and over, and they would ask, ‘Do you like what you see in the mirror?’ They were speaking to me. It was about stubborn fat in areas that wouldn’t budge. It said no downtime, no surgery and… I drank the magic potion, and I would because I’m a little vain. So I went for it — and it backfired.”
Zeltiq Aesthetics’ parent company, Allergan Aesthetics, did not respond to CNN’s request for comment at the time of the settlement. But a Zeltiq representative told Vogue in a statement that the company is “pleased to have resolved this matter with Ms. Evangelista,” adding: “Our focus continues to be on empowering confidence by providing safe, reliable aesthetics products and services backed by science. CoolSculpting is an FDA-cleared, non-invasive treatment for visible fat bulges in nine areas of the body.”
Gradual return to the spotlight
After years without modeling work, Evangelista took part in a high-profile campaign with Italian label Fendi in July. But the model admitted that it will be “difficult to find jobs with things protruding from me; without retouching, or squeezing into things, or taping things or compressing or tricking.”
“You’re not going to see me in a swimsuit, that’s for sure,” she said. For the newly published Vogue photos, in which Evangelista appears mostly covered, celebrity make-up artist Pat McGrath “gently drew her face, jaw and neck back with tape and elastics,” the magazine wrote. British Vogue’s editor in chief, Edward Enninful, welcomed Evangalista’s return to the spotlight.
“There was a point in fashion when it didn’t matter how successful you’d been, you got popped in the (trash can) once your sell-by date was up,” he wrote in his editor’s note, adding that her generation of supermodels is still “loved” by the magazine’s readers. “I don’t stand for that and lots of others don’t either now. So, for many reasons, I have felt Linda’s absence keenly.”
Elsewhere in the interview, the model discussed recounted travelling to Japan in the early 1980s, aged 16, where an agency pressured her to remove her clothes.
“They wanted me naked and it wasn’t a ‘Would you do nudes?’ conversation, it was a ‘You will do nudes,'” she recalled. “I left and called my mother and she said, ‘Get out now and get to the embassy.’ So that’s what I did, and they got me home.”
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Tags: calculus, trigonometry, physics\nThere it was (link)! So far the solution is for motion relative the ground; this means one might be off from actual spear or slack distance because of angle, etc -- so is one off more with the longer bow due not being to actual? This was probably too hard already and is an insurgnt attack. The question can change the length too! Here too though since speeds are relatively slower but force may also drop: City gets grant for Toyota project
GREENSBORO — The city got a matching $100,000 federal grant to study what’s needed along part of the U.S. 421 corridor to support economic development spurred by the new Toyota battery plant.
The Economic Adjustment Assistance grant will be paired with money from the city to conduct the land-use study.
The project will determine the availability of infrastructure and other resources needed to support economic development spurred by Toyota’s plans to build a battery plant at the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite in Randolph County.
The study also will identify sites in the area suitable for supply and support businesses to the megasite.
Reward offered in shooting of deputy
RALEIGH — A $100,000 reward is being offered in the case of a sheriff’s deputy found fatally shot in rural Wake County last week.
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“Horrified” by a string of shootings that have injured and killed several deputies across the state in recent weeks, the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association announced the reward on Monday.
Wake County Sheriff’s Deputy Ned Byrd, a 48-year-old K-9 officer, had been with the office for 13 years. He was fatally shot late last week on a dark section of rural road, but it was not immediately clear why he stopped there. Earlier in the night, Byrd had responded to a domestic call less than a mile away.
There was no radio traffic to indicate that Byrd was making a traffic stop, but it appears something caught his attention along the road, since his vehicle was positioned as if to illuminate something. After several failed attempts to contact Byrd, another deputy found the officer shot outside his vehicle with his K-9 still inside the car.
“I’ll spend every single second left bringing this person to justice,” Sheriff Gerald Baker said. “That I promise.”
Dog stolen in Nebraska found in North Carolina
HALLSBORO — A Yorkie dog stolen in Nebraska has been recovered more than 1,300 miles east — in rural North Carolina.
Authorities say two suspects are in custody: a 37-year-old man and 35-year-old woman. They’re also accused of stealing a significant amount of silver.
The dog, Gus, is staying with Animal Protective Services until his owners “can travel from Nebraska to pick him up,” Columbus County officials said.
Deputies found the dog inside a camper in Hallsboro, a small community in Columbus County.
It’s not clear what led them there.
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CINCINNATI, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cincinnati Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: CINF) announced that at today's regular meeting, the board of directors declared a 69-cents-per-share regular quarterly cash dividend. The dividend is payable October 14, 2022, to shareholders of record as of September 16, 2022.
Steven J. Johnston, chairman and chief executive officer, commented, "The payment of this dividend in October will complete our 62nd year of increasing annual cash dividends. Cincinnati Financial's excellent financial strength and proven ability to operate successfully over the long term supports regular dividends, our preferred way of returning capital to shareholders."
About Cincinnati Financial
Cincinnati Financial Corporation offers primarily business, home and auto insurance through The Cincinnati Insurance Company and its two standard market property casualty companies. The same local independent insurance agencies that market those policies may offer products of our other subsidiaries, including life insurance, fixed annuities and surplus lines property and casualty insurance. For additional information about the company, please visit cinfin.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This is our "Safe Harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Our business is subject to certain risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements in this report. Some of those risks and uncertainties are discussed in our 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K, Item 1A, Risk Factors, Page 32.
Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to:
- Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that could affect results for reasons such as:
- Ongoing developments concerning business interruption insurance claims and litigation related to the COVID-19 pandemic that affect our estimates of losses and loss adjustment expenses or our ability to reasonably estimate such losses, such as:
- Unusually high levels of catastrophe losses due to risk concentrations, changes in weather patterns (whether as a result of global climate change or otherwise), environmental events, war or political unrest, terrorism incidents, cyberattacks, civil unrest or other causes
- Increased frequency and/or severity of claims or development of claims that are unforeseen at the time of policy issuance, due to inflationary trends or other causes
- Inadequate estimates or assumptions, or reliance on third-party data used for critical accounting estimates
- Declines in overall stock market values negatively affecting our equity portfolio and book value
- Prolonged low interest rate environment or other factors that limit our ability to generate growth in investment income or interest rate fluctuations that result in declining values of fixed-maturity investments, including declines in accounts in which we hold bank-owned life insurance contract assets
- Domestic and global events, such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine, resulting in capital market or credit market uncertainty, followed by prolonged periods of economic instability or recession, that lead to:
- Our inability to manage Cincinnati Global or other subsidiaries to produce related business opportunities and growth prospects for our ongoing operations
- Recession, prolonged elevated inflation or other economic conditions resulting in lower demand for insurance products or increased payment delinquencies
- Ineffective information technology systems or discontinuing to develop and implement improvements in technology may impact our success and profitability
- Difficulties with technology or data security breaches, including cyberattacks, that could negatively affect our or our agents' ability to conduct business; disrupt our relationships with agents, policyholders and others; cause reputational damage, mitigation expenses and data loss and expose us to liability under federal and state laws
- Difficulties with our operations and technology that may negatively impact our ability to conduct business, including cloud-based data information storage, data security, cyberattacks, remote working capabilities, and/or outsourcing relationships and third-party operations and data security
- Disruption of the insurance market caused by technology innovations such as driverless cars that could decrease consumer demand for insurance products
- Delays, inadequate data developed internally or from third parties, or performance inadequacies from ongoing development and implementation of underwriting and pricing methods, including telematics and other usage-based insurance methods, or technology projects and enhancements expected to increase our pricing accuracy, underwriting profit and competitiveness
- Intense competition, and the impact of innovation, technological change and changing customer preferences on the insurance industry and the markets in which we operate, could harm our ability to maintain or increase our ability to maintain or increase our business volumes and profitability
- Changing consumer insurance-buying habits and consolidation of independent insurance agencies could alter our competitive advantages
- Inability to obtain adequate ceded reinsurance on acceptable terms, amount of reinsurance coverage purchased, financial strength of reinsurers and the potential for nonpayment or delay in payment by reinsurers
- Inability to defer policy acquisition costs for any business segment if pricing and loss trends would lead management to conclude that segment could not achieve sustainable profitability
- Inability of our subsidiaries to pay dividends consistent with current or past levels
- Events or conditions that could weaken or harm our relationships with our independent agencies and hamper opportunities to add new agencies, resulting in limitations on our opportunities for growth, such as:
- Actions of insurance departments, state attorneys general or other regulatory agencies, including a change to a federal system of regulation from a state-based system, that:
- Adverse outcomes from litigation or administrative proceedings, including effects of social inflation on the size of litigation awards
- Events or actions, including unauthorized intentional circumvention of controls, that reduce our future ability to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
- Unforeseen departure of certain executive officers or other key employees due to retirement, health or other causes that could interrupt progress toward important strategic goals or diminish the effectiveness of certain longstanding relationships with insurance agents and others
- Our inability, or the inability of our independent agents, to attract and retain personnel in a competitive labor market, impacting the customer experience and altering our competitive advantages
- Events, such as an epidemic, natural catastrophe or terrorism, that could hamper our ability to assemble our workforce at our headquarters location or work effectively in a remote environment
Further, our insurance businesses are subject to the effects of changing social, global, economic and regulatory environments. Public and regulatory initiatives have included efforts to adversely influence and restrict premium rates, restrict the ability to cancel policies, impose underwriting standards and expand overall regulation. We also are subject to public and regulatory initiatives that can affect the market value for our common stock, such as measures affecting corporate financial reporting and governance. The ultimate changes and eventual effects, if any, of these initiatives are uncertain.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — A political action committee backing Democratic candidates filed a complaint Friday alleging that Nevada Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt violated campaign finance laws by using an annual GOP cookout to promote his campaign while he was president of the PAC that organized it.
The Basque Fry is run by the Morning in Nevada PAC, which Laxalt was the president of until August 2021, when his candidacy for U.S. Senate was announced. By allegedly controlling a state PAC as a federal candidate, he violated Federal Election Commission guidelines, said End Citizens United in its complaint.
Laxalt’s campaign says he had “nothing to do with the PAC” after he announced his candidacy a day after last year’s event.
The cookout, which includes live music, an inflatable rodeo ride and Basque cuisine, is modeled after Adam Laxalt’s grandfather and former Nevada Gov. Paul Laxalt’s cookouts. The elder Laxalt was the son of Basque immigrants.
It has become a yearly tradition attended by Nevada GOP brass and national headliners, including Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Trump administration counsellor Kellyanne Conway.
In Nevada, state political action committees are allowed to take unlimited contributions, unlike PACs that fall under federal election rules, which have a maximum contribution of $5,000 per donor each year.
The Democratic group said in its report filed with the Federal Election Commission that Laxalt violated federal campaign finance laws by raising and spending well over the $5,000 limit for in-kind contributions from the Morning in Nevada PAC after he became a federal candidate for office. It argues since Laxalt's campaign was touted at both events, it should be recorded as a contribution.
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton announced Laxalt was running at the 2021 Basque Fry on Aug 14, which “triggered federal candidacy,” the complaint alleges. Laxalt filed paperwork announcing his candidacy the following day, on Aug 15. According to the complaint, his name appeared on Morning in Nevada's state registration until Aug 31.
“Adam, I guess he’s not supposed to say that he’s going to be your next United States senator. There’s some campaign finance rules against it,” Cotton said at the 2021 Basque Fry. “But what do I care about some stupid rules like that? Adam Laxalt is going to the United States Senate for the Battle Born state in 2022.”
End Citizens United argues Laxalt violated the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 by controlling a “soft money organization” — typically a PAC that falls outside federal spending limits — as a federal candidate. And he received “excessive, unreported, and potentially prohibited in-kind contributions” from the Basque Fry. In-kind contributions are non-monetary goods and services.
It also alleges that Laxalt’s speaking slot at this year’s Basque Fry, which was used to promote his campaign, should count as an in-kind contribution. Laxalt has not reported any contributions from the Morning in Nevada PAC during his campaign.
“He was an invited speaker to this year’s Basque Fry, along with a number of other federal and state elected officials and candidates,” Laxalt spokesperson Courtney Holland said in an email. “His attendance at the event was certainly permissible, despite the frivolous claims of a leftist, dark money group" that backs his opponent, incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, Holland said.
One of Laxalt's longstanding advisers, Robert Uithoven, is the new president of Morning in Nevada. Laxalt for Senate has reported paying Uithoven and his political consulting firm nearly $330,000 to date. In an email, Uithoven called the complaint “meritless.”
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KEENE, N.H., Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- North European Oil Royalty Trust (NYSE-NRT) reported the net income for the third quarter of fiscal 2022 which appears below compared with the third quarter of fiscal 2021. Total royalty income for the third quarter of fiscal 2022 increased from the third quarter of fiscal 2021 as detailed in the July 29, 2022 distribution press release. This increase resulted from the effect of higher gas prices under both the Mobil and OEG Royalty Agreements. Total royalty income includes any adjustments made by the operating companies based upon their corrected royalty calculations for prior periods as well as any Mobil sulfur royalties. There were no prior period adjustments in the third quarters of fiscal 2022 and 2021. Total royalty income was increased by Mobil sulfur royalties of $101,221 and $50,184 in the third quarters of fiscal 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Trust expenses for the third quarter of fiscal 2022 increased 28.24%, or $33,189, to $150,693 in comparison to $117,504 for the third quarter of fiscal 2021. The increase in expenses reflects higher Trustee fees as specified by the provisions of the Trust Agreement.
Total royalty income received during the first nine months of fiscal 2022 increased in comparison to fiscal 2021 due to higher gas prices under both the Mobil and OEG Agreements during the first nine months of fiscal 2022. The comparison of the relevant periods is shown below.
The previously declared distribution of 46 cents per unit will be paid on August 31, 2022 to owners of record as of August 19, 2022. For further information, contact John R. Van Kirk, Managing Director, at (732) 741-4008 or via e-mail at jvankirk@neort.com. The Trust's press releases and other pertinent information are available on the Trust's website: www.neort.com. The Trust's 10-Q filing will be available through the SEC or on the Trust's website, www.neort.com, on or about August 31, 2022.
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MIAMI (AP) — Practice ended at Florida International on a steamy Friday morning, and coach Mike MacIntyre gathered the team to go over the plan for the rest of the day.
When he was finished, there was one last order of business.
“Let’s have a prayer,” MacIntyre said. “A prayer for Luke’s family.”
Football resumed at FIU two days after 22-year-old linebacker Luke Knox — the brother of Buffalo Bills tight end Dawson Knox — died in a Miami hospital. The cause of death still has not been announced, though police have said foul play is not believed to have been involved.
MacIntyre has been close with Knox’s family for decades. He’s known David Knox, Luke Knox’s father, for more than 40 years. MacIntyre went to Brentwood Academy in Tennessee, the same prep school that many in the Knox family attended.
He coached Luke Knox at Mississippi, and MacIntyre taking over at FIU after last season is part of the reason why Knox transferred there.
MacIntyre and his team spent Thursday off the field grieving, snacking on pizza and chicken sandwiches, trying to watch a movie, telling stories about Knox, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing, often hugging. On Friday, they got back to football.
“There’s no perfect formula, but you love the kids, you’re with them, you’re listening to what they say,” MacIntyre said. “And like I told every one of them, and our coaches reiterated it multiple times, everybody grieves differently. You don’t know when it’s going to hit you. So, we allowed our kids to say, ‘I want to practice, I don’t want to practice,’ and I think that they’ve you handled it the best they can.”
Most players chose to practice Friday. Some asked to be excused, instead spending time with counselors and psychologists.
Luke Knox was unresponsive Wednesday night when found in his dorm room there by a teammate, police said. Police officers administered CPR upon arrival, and county rescue personnel took over when they came to transport Knox to a nearby hospital.
MacIntyre spent hours there, hoping for a miracle. He then went to the airport to pick up Knox’s parents in the wee hours of Thursday morning.
“We’re in the process of working through this,” MacIntyre said.
He has had to deal with something similar before, at Georgia Tech in the late 1980s, when one of his teammates, tight end Chris Caudle, drowned in a boating mishap. MacIntyre said he also had been getting calls from other coaches who have lost a player.
Lane Kiffin, who coached Knox at Ole Miss, said he was thankful for having known him.
“Really neat kid,” Kiffin said. “Got to spend a lot of 1-on-1 time with him. I’m fortunate for that. Sometimes you don’t because you’ve got so many players. Just happened to with him. It’s very unfortunate. ... He impacted a lot of people. Probably more than he imagined, and you can see that from the reaction from so many people hurt.”
Some of that hurt has been turned to good.
Dawson Knox has helped raise funds for the P.U.N.T. Pediatric Cancer Collaborative in the Buffalo area during his time with the Bills. In a span of about 24 hours following the announcement of Luke Knox’s death, the organization received more than $100,000 in donations.
Most of those donations were for exactly $16.88. The 16 signifies Luke Knox’s jersey number at FIU, the 88 signifying Dawson Knox’s number with the Bills.
Funeral arrangements have not been made public. FIU is also deciding how it wants to honor Knox throughout this season, with MacIntyre saying he would leave that primarily up to the leaders on the team.
The first of their many tributes came Friday, after the post-practice prayer. Their final chant as they broke the huddle was “1, 2, 3, Luke.”
“I thought that was very fitting,” MacIntyre said.
And when he said that, he was no longer able to hold back his tears.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ largest bank, Bank of Cyprus, said Friday it has rejected three successive cash bids over the last three months by LSF XI Investments LLC to buy all its share capital on the grounds that they “fundamentally undervalue” the financial institution.
In a statement, the bank's Board said the first bid was made on May 5 at a price of 1.25 euros ($1.26) per share, followed by a second 15 days later at 1.31 euros ($1.32) per share.
The third bid by the Dallas-based, Cayman Island’s registered LSF XI Investments — also known as Lone Star — was made July 8 at a price of 1.51 euros ($1.52) per share.
The Board said it “unequivocally” rejected the bids because apart from undervaluing the company and its future prospects, they were “not in the best interests of the company.”
It added that the Lone Star buyout attempt also doesn’t “adequately address the complexities of completing a transaction to acquire Bank of Cyprus, given its strategic importance to Cyprus.”
The Bank of Cyprus has been weighed down by bad loans since a 2013 financial crisis that forced a nearly bankrupt Cyprus to secure a multibillion-euro rescue deal from its eurozone partners. It also resulted in the seizure of hundreds of millions in uninsured savings in the Bank of Cyprus and the closure of its second-largest lender, Laiki Bank.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2019, there were five high school graduates for every housing unit permitted in the state of California.[1] As housing supply fails to adjust to California's growing population, home prices have risen to $900,000 as of May.[2] This is driving young adults back into their parents' homes, with 40% of Californians ages 18 to 34 living with their parents.[3]
To help local policymakers and homeowners deal with this crisis, the American Enterprise Institute is holding a series of conferences throughout California promoting "Light Touch Density". These conferences bring together the best minds in housing across a wide swath of the industry to help cities deal with their housing shortages. Academics, policymakers, lawyers, developers, and activists are coming together, bringing their expertise and proposing solutions.
The burden of California's inability to build enough housing has fallen disproportionally on younger generations. The AEI Housing Center's work shows that six of the biggest markets in California—San Jose, San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Diego—all rank among the most unaffordable cities for first-time homebuyers.
Light Touch Density is a tested solution that has provided more affordable housing in Palisades Park, NJ; Charlotte, NC; and Houston, TX. Increasing housing diversity, even for single-family detached homes, can dramatically increase housing supply and create more affordable new homes, according to a new study of 200 metros released by the AEI's Housing Center.
The lack of affordable housing is holding back younger Californians from moving up the economic ladder and accessing homeownership. If you are interested in solving this problem, please join AEI the week of September 19th.
Registration is open for 6 California free conferences to be held the week of September 19, 2022.
These conferences are free and open to all—please forward to anyone else who might have an interest. Each conference will be packed with information and presentations to help to tackle the most pressing housing issues facing Californians.
Visit aei.org/california-housing-conference to register
Conference dates, times, and locations
[1] EdSource, FRED
[2] The Sacramento Bee
[3] Census Bureau
Media Contact Details:
Arthur Gailes
American Enterprise Institute Housing Center
Washington, DC
aei.org/california-housing-conference
Arthur.gailes@aei.org
804-662-0874
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 19, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
331 PM EDT Fri Aug 19 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of east central
Washington, northern Bennington and northwestern Windham Counties
through 415 PM EDT...
At 331 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Dorset, or 7 miles northeast of Salem, moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Londonderry, Manchester, Dorset, Manchester Center, Porter, Rupert,
Peru, Stratton Valley, Beartown, Bondville, Peru Town Center,
Stratton Acres, Rawsonville, Intervale, East Hebron, Tiplady,
Barnumville, Freedleyville, West Rupert and Stratton Mountain.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 4309 7281 4322 7339 4333 7339 4331 7324
4330 7299 4329 7298 4330 7297 4330 7282
4326 7282 4325 7280
TIME...MOT...LOC 1931Z 273DEG 16KT 4325 7321
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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AIR QUALITY ALERT
Air Quality Alert Message
Relayed by National Weather Service New York NY
326 PM EDT Fri Aug 19 2022
...AIR QUALITY ALERT IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 11 PM EDT SATURDAY...
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has
issued an Air Quality Health Advisory for the following counties:
New York, Bronx, Kings, Queens, Richmond, Nassau, Suffolk,
Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam.
from 11 AM to 11 PM EDT Saturday.
Air quality levels in outdoor air are predicted to be greater than
an Air Quality Index value of 100 for the pollutant of Ground Level
Ozone. The Air Quality Index, or AQI, was created as an easy way to
correlate levels of different pollutants to one scale. The higher
the AQI value, the greater the health concern.
When pollution levels are elevated, the New York State Department of
Health recommends that individuals consider limiting strenuous
outdoor physical activity to reduce the risk of adverse health
effects. People who may be especially sensitive to the effects of
elevated levels of pollutants include the very young, and those with
preexisting respiratory problems such as asthma or heart disease.
Those with symptoms should consider consulting their personal
physician.
A toll free air quality hotline has been established so New York
residents can stay informed on the air quality situation. The toll
free number is 1 800 5 3 5, 1 3 4 5.
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KEENE, N.H., Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- North European Oil Royalty Trust (NYSE-NRT) reported the net income for the third quarter of fiscal 2022 which appears below compared with the third quarter of fiscal 2021. Total royalty income for the third quarter of fiscal 2022 increased from the third quarter of fiscal 2021 as detailed in the July 29, 2022 distribution press release. This increase resulted from the effect of higher gas prices under both the Mobil and OEG Royalty Agreements. Total royalty income includes any adjustments made by the operating companies based upon their corrected royalty calculations for prior periods as well as any Mobil sulfur royalties. There were no prior period adjustments in the third quarters of fiscal 2022 and 2021. Total royalty income was increased by Mobil sulfur royalties of $101,221 and $50,184 in the third quarters of fiscal 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Trust expenses for the third quarter of fiscal 2022 increased 28.24%, or $33,189, to $150,693 in comparison to $117,504 for the third quarter of fiscal 2021. The increase in expenses reflects higher Trustee fees as specified by the provisions of the Trust Agreement.
Total royalty income received during the first nine months of fiscal 2022 increased in comparison to fiscal 2021 due to higher gas prices under both the Mobil and OEG Agreements during the first nine months of fiscal 2022. The comparison of the relevant periods is shown below.
The previously declared distribution of 46 cents per unit will be paid on August 31, 2022 to owners of record as of August 19, 2022. For further information, contact John R. Van Kirk, Managing Director, at (732) 741-4008 or via e-mail at jvankirk@neort.com. The Trust's press releases and other pertinent information are available on the Trust's website: www.neort.com. The Trust's 10-Q filing will be available through the SEC or on the Trust's website, www.neort.com, on or about August 31, 2022.
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The massive Inflation Reduction Act has equally massive consequences for farmers of color who were promised debt relief more than a year ago.
The legislation repeals and replaces a section of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), which provided funding to relieve the debt of farmers of color who have been discriminated against by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Since it passed in March 2021, the funding has fallen into legal limbo due to multiple lawsuits from banks and from white farmers alleging discrimination.
The Inflation Reduction Act passed the House last week and now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature. In its final form, the legislation repeals section 1005 of ARPA, which provided funding for “socially disadvantaged farmers,” defined in the act as farmers who have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice. Instead, the IRA provides $3.1 billion for economically “distressed” farmers – of any race – “whose agricultural operations are at a financial risk.” It also includes $2.2 billion for farmers who have experienced discrimination and can prove it.
“By repealing all that, you're really going back on your word, and breaking the contract between Black and other farmers of color and USDA,” said John Boyd Jr., president of the National Black Farmers Association.
Many farmers have been waiting more than a year for the promised debt relief, unsure of the status of their loans. While farms are protected from foreclosure under a moratorium issued by the Biden administration during the pandemic, some farmers fear losing their farms once the moratorium is lifted.
“(Congress) basically conceded defeat,” said Ebony Woodruff, an agriculture and food attorney based in Louisiana.
Woodruff said vague language in the legislation will increase competition for the funding, and farmers of color might be deemed ineligible if they stopped making loan payments after receiving notice of relief under ARPA.
“They're really in limbo, she said. “We're not really sure what's going to happen.”
Boyd Jr. said debt relief, as it was originally promised, could have saved many Black-owned farms.
“Debt relief can provide a whole new start for a farmer who’s behind on his debts or owes USDA money or operation loans or equipment loans,” he said.
Instead, as it’s written, the act will lead to further loss of Black-owned farmland, Boyd Jr. said.
Black-owned farmland has already declined significantly over the past century. According to a recent study, discriminatory lending practices at the USDA has cost Black farmers about $326 billion worth of farmland, though researchers admit that’s likely a severe undercount. The American Rescue Plan Act aimed to reverse that trend.
“It was this administration’s attempt to rectify some of the past wrongs that Black farmers like myself faced through discrimination,” said Boyd, who farms in Virginia.
For now, Boyd said he hopes Biden will issue a farm foreclosure moratorium.
“That's the least he can do,” he said. “A farmer shouldn't be losing his farm.”
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When Mary Tackitt first took a job as a teaching assistant for students in special education, it seemed like a good opportunity. She enjoyed the time with children — like the little boy who would hold her hand and tap it on the desk to keep rhythm with music. But working with students with severe disabilities was tough. She took them to the bathroom and changed diapers. And she was hurt on occasion by those who struggled to regulate their emotions.
Tackitt, who worked for Indianapolis Public Schools, made just over $15 an hour.
“The more I had to be bit by kids and the more I had to take them to the bathroom and get fecal matter on myself, the more I just kind of realized that it wasn't enough,” Tackitt said.
She resigned this spring, after less than a year in the job.
Teaching aides, or paraprofessionals, play a crucial role in educating students with disabilities. As staff who are not licensed by the state, they are often overlooked in debates and policy fixes around teacher shortages. These aides are the backbone of many classrooms, as they help students with their behavior and school work, and care for children with significant medical needs.
But school administrators across Indiana struggle to keep and hire special education assistants. It’s a nationwide problem that some school leaders say has gotten worse during the pandemic and due to the surging labor market.
“I think we're at an all time high,” said Laurie VanderPloeg, a former director of the Office of Special Education Programs in the U.S. Department of Education. “This is definitely a crisis.”
Federal data on paraprofessional staffing levels is a couple years out of date, so it’s hard to confirm whether the pandemic worsened the chronic problem, VanderPloeg said. Many assistants, however, left the field because their hours were cut or they were furloughed when schools were closed or remote. Then, the competition for workers increased.
“So we are competing with a McDonald's or you know, even some of the local stores that are paying up to $13 or $15 an hour,” she said.
VanderPloeg is now associate executive director for professional affairs of the Council for Exceptional Children, an advocacy organization for education professionals that offers memberships and online training for special education assistants.
A chronic problem with limited data
There is no source of reliable statewide data on the number of special education assistant positions that are vacant in Indiana. But it is likely hundreds. Fort Wayne Community Schools has about 110 vacancies for special education teaching assistants. In the state's southwestern corner, Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation had nearly 20 openings posted online in mid-August. In Marion County, Perry Township Schools has about 30 jobs available, and Indianapolis Public Schools has about 40.
The shortage of special education teaching assistants is persistent in IPS, according to district officials. The school system, which currently has about 170 special education paraprofessionals on staff, had slightly more vacancies last year. The district said it has increased pay for teaching assistants in recent years, and pays higher wages to those who work with students with severe needs, like Tackitt did.
When schools don’t have enough teaching aides, it’s a problem for the whole system. Many school districts are struggling to hire qualified teachers for students with disabilities. Indiana, like almost all states, is facing a shortage of certified special educators. With fewer teachers and teaching assistants, there’s more work for the existing staff members to manage.
“When we face a staffing shortage, we work really hard to do the best we can with the people that we have. And, you know, does that impact what we can do for kids? Likely, yes,” said Angie Balsley, president of the Indiana Council of Administrators of Special Education.
That can lead to legal action against schools because students with disabilities are entitled to special education services. And it makes the job harder for existing special education staff members.
“We are burning out our professionals,” Balsley said. “That's going to just perpetuate the problem, because folks will leave due to the level of stress and workload.”
Challenge for schools and teachers
Jessica Ramirez is a veteran special education teacher at Elkhart Community Schools in northern Indiana. The district has 14 open special education paraprofessional positions.
Ramirez said those missing assistants “greatly affected” the district’s ability to provide services and instruction to students.
“We've already been working on how to do things differently as teachers, because we have lost our [paraprofessionals],” Ramirez said. “Even if there is somebody that could be hired, there's no person who wants to do that, for the limited wages that they do receive.”
Bluffton High School Principal Steve Baker had to hire three special education teaching assistants this summer. That’s nearly half the total number of assistant positions at the rural high school south of Fort Wayne.
To make the job more attractive, the Bluffton-Harrison district substantially raised pay for teaching aides this year to about $15 per hour. Still, Baker had zero applicants in the weeks before the start of school on Aug. 10.
So he did some personal recruiting. “I started calling my best subs,” he said. Then, Baker approached bus drivers to work as teaching assistants between their morning and afternoon routes.
Baker filled the special education assistant vacancies — including with one bus driver who is also working as an aide.
Jeanine Corson, chief human resource officer for New Albany Floyd County Schools, said she tries to woo candidates by telling them about the regular, weekday hours they would work and holidays off.
The 12,000-student district boosted minimum pay to about $14 per hour and increased recruiting. That helped, Corson said. But the school system listed nearly 30 job openings on its website in mid-August.
"Everybody is fighting for the same candidate pool, and you have to compete with Target, who can raise the prices of what they sell to raise the wages for their employees,” Corson said. “We don't get to do that.”
Paraprofessionals in Indiana made an average of $27,000 a year in 2021, according to federal data. Many districts have raised pay over the past couple of years. But wages still remain low.
VanderPloeg of the Council for Exceptional Children said schools received a huge influx of cash from the federal government to support students during the pandemic. School administrators have raised concerns about spending that money on increased salaries, because the funding runs out after a few years.
But VanderPloeg said schools facing shortages should spend some of that money on wage and benefit increases for their special education assistants. Otherwise, students could miss out on necessary services and schools may face legal action, VanderPloeg said.
VanderPloeg believes that if schools invest the money well and improve education for students, federal lawmakers will have an incentive to sustain funding.
“I hear many of the states say, ‘we don't want to use our money on personnel.’ But that's your greatest deficit, is personnel,” she said. “So spend the money. Start developing a system. And then continue to ask for funding for sustainability.”
Why teaching assistants quit
While districts say they cannot afford to raise wages for teaching aides, the low pay and benefits mean many assistants can’t afford to stay on the job.
Sari Lawton was a special education teaching assistant at Hamilton Southeastern Schools — an affluent district in suburban Indianapolis. After close to seven years on the job, she made about $18 per hour.
That’s more than many special education assistants. But because of unpaid summer and school breaks, she had to work side jobs as a nanny and tutor.
Lawton’s biggest problem was health insurance. She was not on the district’s plan because the premiums were too expensive.
Hamilton Southeastern would have charged Lawton almost $425 per pay period for the health plan she thought was best for her and her daughter. That adds up to about $7,190 per year. Teachers in the district pay less than half that cost for the same coverage because of the benefits negotiated in their union contract.
Lawton resigned this spring.
She now works for a financial planning firm where she makes more money and gets affordable health insurance.
“I felt sad leaving. I really didn't want to leave, but I didn't have much of a choice in the matter,” Lawton said. “There's got to be some sort of way to make it better where you can actually make enough money to survive.”
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters said Friday he hopes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will back his close campaign in Arizona, striking a magnanimous tone toward the GOP leader he fiercely criticized during the primary.
“I think he’ll come in and spend. Arizona’s gonna be competitive. It’s gonna be a close race, and I hope he does come in,” Masters told The Associated Press during a brief interview following a roundtable with construction industry leaders outside Phoenix. “And we’ll find a way to work together.”
Masters has softened the harder edges of his confrontational style and moved toward the center on key issues, including abortion and Social Security, since emerging atop a crowded GOP field in this month's primary. He's relying on deep-pocketed donors and national Republicans to make up for a severe financial deficit against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, one of the most prolific fundraisers in the Senate who collected nearly $55 million through the end of June. Masters reported raising $5 million.
The McConnell-controlled Senate Leadership Fund bought $28 million in advertising to boost Republican J.D. Vance in Ohio, a seat many Republicans thought to be safe. Vance, like Masters, won his primary with millions of dollars in support from billionaire Peter Thiel but has lagged his Democratic rival in fundraising.
Masters spoke a day after McConnell suggested that Republican efforts to win control of the Senate could be imperiled by lackluster candidates, a remark widely interpreted to be directed at candidates including Masters.
“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different — they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome,” McConnell told business leaders Thursday in his home state of Kentucky.
Masters said he's “not Mitch McConnell's favorite candidate,” but they'll manage to get along.
“He wants to win Arizona,” Masters said. “I think I’m a much better candidate than Mitch McConnell gives me credit for.”
During the primary, Masters called for McConnell to be replaced as GOP leader, saying he’d support Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri or Tom Cotton of Arkansas for the position. McConnell was a roadblock to enacting parts of former President Donald Trump's agenda, he said.
“I’ll tell Mitch this to his face,” Masters said during a GOP primary debate in June. “He’s not bad at everything. He’s good at judges. He’s good at blocking Democrats. You know what he’s not good at? Legislating.”
On Friday, Masters predicted McConnell will get another term as GOP leader and no Republicans will challenge him.
“I think he’ll be in charge. And I’m not just going to be a senator that falls in line to whatever he says,” Masters told construction company officials. “I’ll hear him out. I’m happy to listen. But my vote doesn’t belong to Mitch McConnell. It doesn’t belong to Donald Trump.” | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Masters-hopeful-for-McConnell-support-in-Arizona-17385056.php | 2022-08-19T20:34:18Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Masters-hopeful-for-McConnell-support-in-Arizona-17385056.php | false |
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BEIRUT (AP) — A rocket attack on a crowded market in a town held by Turkey-backed opposition fighters in northern Syria killed 15 people on Friday and wounded dozens, an opposition war monitor and a paramedic group said.
The attack on the town of al-Bab came days after a Turkish airstrike killed at least 11 Syrian troops and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, blamed Syrian government forces for Friday’s shelling, saying it was in apparent retaliation for the Turkish airstrike.
The Observatory said three children were among the 15 killed, and that there were more than 30 wounded. The opposition’s Syrian Civil Defense, also known as White Helmets, had the same death toll but said 28 people were wounded. The paramedic group said its members evacuated some of the wounded and the dead bodies.
“This is the worst massacre committed by regime forces since the battles stopped between the regime and the opposition,” said the Observatory’s chief Rami Abdurrahman, referring to a cease-fire in March 2020 that ended a wide Syrian government offensive on rebel-held areas.
The U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said in a statement that its fighters did not shell al-Bab. There was no comment from the government.
Turkey has launched three major cross-border operations into Syria since 2016 and controls some Syrian territory in the north.
Although the fighting has waned over the past few years, shelling and airstrikes are not uncommon in northern Syria — the last major rebel stronghold in the country.
Syria’s conflict, which began in March 2011, has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced half the country’s pre-war population of 23 million. President Bashar Assad’s forces have regained control of most parts of Syria over the past few years, with the help of their allies, Russia and Iran.
In other developments, the Observatory and the U.S. military said a drone strike late on Thursday night in northeastern Syria killed four women and wounded several others.
The Observatory blamed Turkey for the strike, saying it targeted a facility where Syrian Kurdish women were doing sports. A female Syrian Kurdish commander with the U.S.-backed forces was visiting at the time of the attack, the Observatory said.
A U.S. military commander, Maj. Gen. John Brennan, condemned the attack and said the drone struck a group of teenage girls playing volleyball under a U.N. education and outreach program.
“Such acts are contrary to the laws of armed conflict, which require the protection of civilians,” Brennan, commander of the Combined Joint Task Force, said in a statement.
Brennan also said the “increase in military hostilities in northern Syria is creating chaos in a fragile region” and called for immediate de-escalation from all sides in the conflict, citing the still-present threat of the Islamic State group in the area. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/market-blast-in-north-syria-kills-15-people-wounds-dozens/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world | 2022-08-19T20:36:55Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/market-blast-in-north-syria-kills-15-people-wounds-dozens/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world | false |
Judge won’t let Graham delay testimony in election probe
ATLANTA (AP) — Sen. Lindsey Graham can’t put off his appearance before a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia, a federal judge said Friday.
Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May ordered Graham to honor his subpoena for the grand jury. Graham’s attorneys appealed that order to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and asked May to stay her ruling while that appeal plays out. May declined that request in her order on Friday.
Graham is currently scheduled to appear on Tuesday. But he still has another motion to stay May’s ruling pending before the 11th Circuit.
Representatives for Graham did not immediately respond to messages on Friday seeking comment.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened the investigation early last year and in July filed petitions seeking to compel testimony from seven Trump advisers and associates, including Graham.
Attorneys for the South Carolina Republican have argued that a provision of the U.S. Constitution provides absolute protection against a senator being questioned about legislative acts. But the judge found there are “considerable areas of potential grand jury inquiry” that fall outside that provision’s scope. The judge also rejected Graham’s argument that the principle of “sovereign immunity” protects a U.S. senator from being summoned by a state prosecutor.
Graham also argued that Willis, a Democrat, had not demonstrated extraordinary circumstances necessary to compel testimony from a high-ranking official. But the judge disagreed, finding that Willis had shown “extraordinary circumstances and a special need” for Graham’s testimony on issues related to an alleged attempt to influence or disrupt the election in Georgia.
Willis and her team have said they want to ask Graham about two phone calls they say he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff shortly after the 2020 general election. During those calls, Graham asked about “reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia in order to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump,” Willis wrote in a petition.
Graham also “made reference to allegations of widespread voter fraud in the November 2020 election in Georgia, consistent with public statements made by known affiliates of the Trump Campaign,” she wrote.
Republican and Democratic state election officials across the country, courts and even Trump’s attorney general found there was no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to affect the outcome of the election.
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Noted trial lawyer earns repeat Best Lawyers in America honors for personal injury litigation
DALLAS, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trial lawyer Jeffrey Rasansky of the Rasansky Law Firm has been selected by Best Lawyers in America as the Dallas-Fort Worth medical malpractice law plaintiff' Lawyer of the Year for 2023. Additionally, Mr. Rasansky was honored by Best Lawyers for his work on behalf of plaintiffs in the area of personal injury litigation for a sixth consecutive year.
Only one attorney from a metropolitan area in each legal practice area earns the prestigious Lawyer of the Year designation annually. Best Lawyers is the oldest and among the most respected legal guides in the United States.
Known for his aggressive, creative approach to litigation, Mr. Rasansky has earned a reputation among the leading personal injury attorneys in the country. He focuses his practice on catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases, including those involving vehicle crashes, medical malpractice, birth injuries and defective products.
In addition to Best Lawyers, his work on behalf of plaintiffs across the country against some of the world's largest insurance companies and businesses has been recognized in the annual D Magazine Best Lawyers in Dallas listing. He has also earned Texas Super Lawyers, Texas Lawyer, and Lawdragon 500 honors.
Best Lawyers honors are selected through extensive surveys of lawyers who provide feedback on the abilities of their peers. The 2023 edition is based on 12.2 million evaluations recognizing more than 71,000 attorneys.
About The Rasansky Law Firm
The Rasansky Law Firm has built a national reputation for excellence by providing quality representation and the highest level of personal service with an award-winning team of experienced attorneys. The trial lawyers at The Rasansky Law Firm are committed to making a difference in their clients' lives and improving the safety of our community at large.
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TikTok Account Predicts What Last Day on Earth Will Look Like Using Grim AI-Generated Photos
A mind-blowing new TikTok account claims to predict what the end of the world will look like.
Using AI technology, @robotoverloards shows off a series of frightening images in one video that claims to reveal what doomsday will look like according to the "last selfie ever taken."
From the hollow eye sockets of AI-generated, zombie-like humans, to the thick plumes of billowing smoke covering what may have once been civilization, the images purport to give a glimpse into our potential future — and boy, is it grisly.
Millions of views can't be wrong — it seems we are all fascinated to see how the world ends. Take a look:
"Me when I take selfies in the dark with flash on," one viewer joked in the comments.
"Well, I will just continue not sleeping," another person wrote, while someone else implored, "What about sharing the best day or something positive?"
While the freaky scenes supposedly predict what the end of the world might look like, fear not: the frightening content is 100 percent fabricated.
The account first shared content on July 7 and aims to share "daily interesting AI generated images," according to its bio.
In just a few short months on the platform, @robotoverloards has already amassed over 252,000 followers.
According to The Mirror, the account uses an AI image generator named DALL-E 2 (named after the Disney-Pixar robot WALL-E) to animate and generate its far-fetched doomsday visuals. | https://newstalk1290.com/tiktok-account-predicts-what-last-day-earth-grim-ai-generated-photos/ | 2022-08-19T20:41:27Z | https://newstalk1290.com/tiktok-account-predicts-what-last-day-earth-grim-ai-generated-photos/ | true |
'House of the Dragon' Sacrifices Subtlety in a Splashily Violent Spectacle: TV Review
By Daniel D'Addario
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - "Game of Thrones" made its reputation by conjuring the politics of an entire world. And for all the grandeur of its spinoff, "House of the Dragon," its creators' most surprising decision may be to start small.
I mean that in a very particular sense. The visuals, here, are certainly grander than those of "Game of Thrones" in its early going; anyone impressed by Daenerys Targaryen's trio of dragons will have plenty to feast on here. And when it comes to the ways in which "Game of Thrones" weaponized HBO's willingness to broadcast the grotesque, "House of the Dragon" goes still further, with sequences of genuinely nauseating violence unlike any this critic can recall. But where the action -- the dragon flights, the carnage -- on HBO's former hit was in service of the intrigue among a group of clans, here we're watching a feud consume a single family. That's the choice that gives "House of the Dragon" its charge, and the one that may allow it to exist outside of the "Thrones" shadow.
And what a shadow it is. "Game of Thrones" was the last decade's defining television hit, one whose 2019 endgame met criticism from some fans, particularly for the character Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) finally making the full shift from robust self-belief to messianic madness. And now "House of the Dragon," co-created by George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal and based on Martin's book "Fire & Blood," examines how she got that way. Set some 200 years before the action of its forerunner series, "House of the Dragon" is certainly concerned with how one becomes king or queen. But the real question the show asks is what it takes to do the job poorly or well.
Discovering that the incumbent is doing a bad job takes a beat; as played by Paddy Considine, King Viserys Targaryen is surprisingly sweet-natured, an appealing trait in just about any job other the one he holds. His accession especially galls Princess Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best) and her husband Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint); Viserys had been elevated to the throne over Rhaenys' more direct claim by dint of his sex. The troubled question of women's right to inherit plays itself out in the next generation, as Viserys' only heir is his headstrong, dragon-riding daughter Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock as a teen and Emma D'Arcy as a young woman).
Other players in this court include the king's brother Daemon (Matt Smith, in full control of his charisma), fearless on the battlefield and heedless in his personal life, and the young, acutely politically-minded Alicent Hightower (Emily Carey, then Olivia Cooke), whose surname suggests just how close to the lofty heart of power she's been since birth. All are frustrated by Viserys' fecklessness; one senses his adversaries would respect him more if he governed with a firmer hand, even if it meant a worse outcome for them.
This sort of dithering is not something we've seen much of in a creative universe where rulers -- virtuous and cruel and everything in between -- rule by might. And it's not merely played well by Considine, who convinces us at every turn that Viserys believes he is doing what is proper, but weaponized effectively within the story. There's a vacuum at the throne that allows various operators to plan for the future or to sin with what they believe is impunity.
The early plotting is well-captured, and -- once she's of age and played by Cooke -- hinges most crucially around Alicent. While I'm reticent to go too far down the road of describing where her character ends up, suffice it to say that she begins the series as a good friend to the king's daughter and is by Episode 6 pitted against her in uncivil war, using Rhaenyra's Targaryen-ish taste for indulgence as a cudgel against her in a whispering court that at least pays lip service to propriety. (The four actors playing Rhaenyra and Alicent are to a one excellent, depicting as they do the shading and evolution of a relationship over time even when the script doesn't always deliver nuance.)
There's much to praise in this show's telling a new story that still chimes familiar themes, a succession drama that's of Westeros but not reheated. (I'd also note that its inclusivity of casting, unfamiliar from "Game of Thrones," is certainly a welcome change.) But the show can, at times, be more easily admired than watched. We are meant to care about the fate of the throne because it is the seat of power of Westeros, future home of Daenerys and Cersei and Jon Snow, and less because the challengers present cases that compel as anything other than academic questions about what is fair. As if to compensate, "House of the Dragon" can feel jaggedly amped-up: We see exposed intestines and a face caved in as a result of various conflagrations. Scenes tend toward the short and pointedly written, giving us much data but only the general contours of characters. And we learn in frank detail about Rhaenyra's and her betrothed's (Theo Nate, then John Macmillan) cravings, with a treatment that "Game of Thrones" used to reserve for the hedonist Lannisters. Both partners want something the other cannot offer; we see the pair address their future together, and the compromises they are willing to make, in a breezy conversation. The veiled allusiveness with which "Thrones" could otherwise address matters of sexuality is gone.
Which is only a bad thing inasmuch as the show seems to be at times straining for effect; Rhaenyra's pull toward a forbidden love is charged and thrilling, while her visit to a brothel is an overstatement that indicates just how clearly we're meant to understand her as a rebel heart. But elsewhere, there is a freshness of approach here that can surprise, given that the show takes place in Westerosi history; the show feels less like olden times than a depiction of when the world was new, before the social order ossified.
In this, the directness of approach -- the "Game of Thrones"-RedZone treatment of episodes as all trysts, killings, or portentous conversation, with little filler -- achieves its purpose. Daenerys Targaryen, after all, viewed herself not merely as a rightful queen in exile but as a catalyst for seismic change. It's fitting that the show depicting her family's history depicts just that: Its characters surf the tides of changing times. History is often moving so rapidly they can't quite keep up. So, too, is HBO evolving its approach to meet viewers -- those who have seen all of "Thrones" and remember the highlights best of all, or just all of us living in an era less apt for subtlety and symbolism -- where they are. This follow-up series is louder, more direct about what it wants to say and how it wants you to respond. It elicits that response, and it will keep you wondering what will happen next to a family about whom, it turns out, there was still more to say. But it's a blunt object, not a honed sword.
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Strong Revenue Momentum with Solid Growth and Global Expansion, Continue Leading the Wellness Ecosystem
HONG KONG, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sisram Medical Ltd (the "Company" or "Sisram", stock code: 1696.HK; together with its subsidiaries collectively referred to as the "Group"), a global consumer wellness group, featuring a first-of-its-kind synergistic ecosystem of business building blocks and consumer-focused branding, ranging from Energy Based Devices, injectables, aesthetics and digital dentistry, personal care and more, today announced its unaudited consolidated interim results for the six months ended June 30, 2022 (the "Reporting Period"). Sisram will host a corresponding conference call at 8:30 p.m. PT / 8:30 a.m. ET on August 22, 2022 (Monday) to discuss the interim results and provide a business update, registration shown as below.
- Revenue was US$174.5 million, representing an increase of 39.3% compared to the six months ended June 30, 2021.
- Profit for the period attributable to owners of the parent company was US$20.6 million, an increase of 25.9% compared to the six months ended June 30, 2021.
- Revenue derived from direct sales for the period represented 64.8% of total revenues, compared to 59.7% for the corresponding period in 2021.
- The Company saw significant growth in all regions, mainly in North America and APAC. North America's revenue accounted for US$69.9 million during the Reporting Period, representing an increase of 42.2% from US$49.1 million for the corresponding period in 2021. Revenue generated from APAC increased by 42.0% to US$47.9 million in the Reporting Period from US$33.7 million for the corresponding period in 2021.
- Consistent investment on R&D, successful introduction of three new products: "Alma TED™," "CBD+ Professional Skincare Solution™" and "LMNT one™".
- Diversified and enriched injectable business lines: Sisram has invested in a company focused on research and development of silk fibroin-sodium hyaluronate composite gels and facial implant thread products. An innovative regenerative material new to the injectable market, silk fibroin and its derivatives are expected to enrich Sisram's comprehensive portfolio and solution offerings for the wellness ecosystem.
- Expansion of aesthetics and digital dentistry business lines: An investment in innovative bio-glass materials, combined with high-end technologies, is enhancing Sisram's product portfolios with computer-aided aesthetic design, restorative products, and non-invasive veneers.
- Established a new direct office in the United Kingdom to support the rapid growth in demand for Sisram products and services on the European continent.
- Enhanced brand awareness and improved customer stickiness: We discussed industry developments and trends with hundreds of physicians, academics, and business partners worldwide at Global Alma Academy Events. Meanwhile, the Company continuously improves the global customer experience, reaches potential customers from multiple channels, achieves a considerable conversion rate, and explores cross-selling opportunities in the wellness ecosystem.
In the first half of 2022, Sisram recorded revenue of US$174.5 million, representing an increase of 39.3% compared to the corresponding period in 2021. The increase is primarily attributable to Sisram's continued expansion of its existing distribution network, the successful introduction of new products, and new B2C activity.
Profit for the period attributable to owners of the parent company was US$20.6 million, increased by 25.9% as compared to the corresponding period in 2021. During the first half of 2022, the Group's gross profit was US$99.6 million compared to US$71.5 million for the corresponding period in 2021, representing an increase of 39.4%, driven by the Company's continued expansion of direct sales and launches of high-profit products into leading markets. During the period, revenue derived from direct sales amounted to 64.8% of total revenues versus 35.2% of the total revenues attributed to sales via distributors.
During the Reporting Period, the Group recorded profit before tax of US$23.1 million and recorded profit for the period of US$20.5 million, representing an increase of 14.6% and 18.2%, respectively, when compared to the corresponding period in 2021. The increase in profit before tax and profit for the period was mainly due to the increase in sales volume and the increase in gross profit.
During the Reporting Period, the Group recorded an adjusted net profit of US$24.9 million, representing an increase of 27.5% when compared with the corresponding period of 2021.
As a multinational entity, Sisram makes significant efforts to adjust operations in its headquarters to local country/state characteristics, while simultaneously building an ecosystem brand experience. During the Reporting Period, revenue in all regions increased substantially, with North America demonstrating an increase of 42.2%, APAC with an increase of 42.0%, Middle East and Africa with an increase of 40.5%, Latin America with an increase of 38.2% and Europe with an increase of 28.9%.
Regarding diversified ecological product portfolio, Sisram will continue introducing innovative technologies and products through on-going R&D investment. With the expansion of direct sales, we can also effectively collect customer feedback to close the loop with R&D and meet the needs from different regions. Eventually enhance the impact of our global brand family.
In the second half of 2022, Sisram intends to follow its constructive disruption strategy by evaluating and implementing near-future technologies, ventures, and synergies to bolster its global position. The Group's efforts throughout 2022 will strategically focus on lean innovation, digitalization, and wellness ecosystem building.
Upholding its corporate vision of "Enhancing Quality of Life," Sisram will continue to establish its global positioning as a one-of-a-kind business group in the greater wellness industry by enhancing global direct operations and exploring untapped direct opportunities in North America, APAC, Europe, and the Middle East. In addition, the Company will expand Energy-Based Device product offerings into greater wellness areas with a leading product focus on global sexual wellness, as well as continue investing in research and development in injectables and aesthetics and digital dentistry business lines in China.
Looking forward, Mr. Liu Yi, Chairman and Executive Director of Sisram, commented: "Sisram has always adhered to customer-centric philosophy, providing consumers and beauty-seekers with effective wellness solutions. Looking back on the first half of the year, Sisram has continued to consolidate its global layout in an orderly manner. Looking forward to the second half of the year, we will stick with the company's mission, promoting the synergy of four business lines and providing customers with diversified and beneficial wellness solutions around the world."
Mr. Lior Dayan, CEO of Sisram and Alma, said: "During the first half of 2022, significant efforts were invested in ramping up production to accommodate the growing global demand. For the second half of the year, we will focus on following our ecosystem's strategic planning by strengthening our R&D capabilities, products portfolio, and distribution channels, to achieve internal organic growth as well as external expansion."
Sisram will host a conference call at 8:30 p.m. PT / 8:30 a.m. ET on August 22, 2022 (Monday) to discuss the interim results and provide a business update. Individuals interested in listening to the conference call may do so by registration using the following link:
https://AlmaLasers.activetrail.biz/Sisram-IR-form.
After registration, you will receive dial-in information immediately. To avoid delays, we encourage participants to dial into the conference call fifteen minutes ahead of the scheduled start time.
A replay will also be available on Sisram Medical's Event's page at:
Sisram Medical Ltd (1696.HK) is a global consumer wellness group, featuring a first-of-its-kind synergistic ecosystem of business building blocks and consumer-focused branding, ranging from Energy Based Devices, injectables, aesthetics and digital dentistry, personal care and more. The company is majority-owned by Fosun Pharma, one of China's leading healthcare groups. On September 19, 2017, Sisram Medical went public, becoming the first Israeli company ever to trade on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Exchange.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Extra Space Storage Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE: EXR) announced today that the Company's board of directors has declared a third quarter 2022 dividend of $1.50 per share on the common stock of the Company. The dividend is payable on September 30, 2022 to stockholders of record at the close of business on September 15, 2022.
About Extra Space Storage Inc.
Extra Space Storage Inc., headquartered in Salt Lake City, is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust, and a member of the S&P 500. As of June 30, 2022, the Company owned and/or operated 2,177 self-storage properties, which comprise approximately 1.6 million units and approximately 168.0 million square feet of rentable storage space offering customers conveniently located and secure storage units across the country, including boat storage, RV storage and business storage. The Company is the second largest owner and/or operator of self-storage properties in the United States and is the largest self-storage management company in the United States.
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Public steps up to adopt all 20 dogs set to be euthanized at Georgia shelter
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. (WGCL/Gray News) – All 20 dogs that were set to be euthanized at a Georgia animal shelter have been adopted, thanks to news coverage and social media sharing.
The Clayton County Animal Shelter said it had more dogs than it could handle and would have to increase its euthanasia rate if relief didn’t come soon.
Although the shelter is often full, the number of dogs filling the cages reached an “unsustainable” level this summer, animal control said.
Twenty dogs were set for euthanasia if they were not adopted or fostered by 1 p.m. Thursday. Many of them have special needs and had been in the shelter for “a large amount of time,” animal control said.
After WGCL reported on the shelter’s desperate plea for adopters, the public stepped up and emptied the cages. All 20 of the dogs found forever homes or foster homes just in time.
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Part of a human foot found in a shoe floating in a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park earlier this week is believed to be linked to the death of a person last month, park officials said Friday.
The July 31 death is being investigated but officials do not suspect foul play, park officials said in a statement. The statement did not disclose details about how the death is believed to have happened, identify the person who died or say why officials do not suspect foul play.
The shoe was recovered from the park’s Abyss Pool on Tuesday after an employee spotted it, park officials said.
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 in an interview that he sent a photo of the shoe to the park service.
Park spokesperson Linda Veress said in an email that officials could not confirm whether the shoe that was found was the same type of shoe in Quinn’s photo.
Abyss Pool, west of the West Thumb area of Yellowstone Lake, is 53 feet (16 meters) deep and the temperature is about 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 Celsius), park officials said.
Park visitors are warned to stay on the boardwalks and trails in thermal areas, where some of the pools and springs have a thin, breakable crust covering the scalding and sometimes acidic water.
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 have said.
The most recent death happened in June 2016 when a man from Portland, Oregon, left a boardwalk in the the park’s Norris Geyser Basin, slipped on gravel and fell into a boiling, acidic spring. No significant human remains were recovered.
The nation’s first national park has drawn more than 4 million visitors annually in recent years, with the exception of 2020, when it was briefly closed due to the pandemic.
Historic flooding forced the closure of the entire park for part of June. The park’s northern and northeastern entrances are still closed to vehicles.
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LONDON • A smaller dose of the monkeypox vaccine appears to still be effective and can be used to stretch the current supply by five times, the European Medicines Agency said Friday, echoing a recommendation made earlier this month by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The EU drug regulator said in a statement that injecting people with just one fifth the regular dose of the smallpox vaccine made by Bavarian Nordic appeared to produce similar levels of antibodies against monkeypox as a full dose.
The approach calls for administering Bavarian Nordic's vaccine with an injection just under the skin rather than into deeper tissue, a practice that may stimulate a better immune response. People still need to get two doses, about four weeks apart.
The EMA said national authorities could decide, "as a temporary measure" to use smaller doses of the vaccine to protect vulnerable people during the ongoing monkeypox outbreak.
EU health commissioner Stella Kyriakides said the decision would allow the vaccination of five times as many people with the continent's current supply.
"This ensures greater access to vaccination for citizens at risk and healthcare workers," she said in a statement.
Earlier this month, the U.S. FDA authorized a similar plan to extend the country's monkeypox vaccine stocks. The technique has previously been used to stretch supplies of vaccines during other outbreaks, including yellow fever and polio.
The unusual recommendations from both regulators acknowledge the extremely limited global supplies of the Jynneos vaccine, originally developed against smallpox. Bavarian Nordic is the only company that makes it and it expects to have about 16 million doses available this year. On Thursday, the U.S. also announced a new agreement with a Michigan manufacturer to help speed production of 5.5 million vaccine vials recently ordered by the government.
The EMA authorized the vaccine in July based on experimental data that suggested it would work; the World Health Organization has estimated the shot is about 85% effective at preventing monkeypox.
Globally, there are more than 40,000 cases of monkeypox, of which about half are in Europe. Earlier this week, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there has been a 20% increase in cases reported in the last two weeks and that nearly all infections have been reported in men who are gay, bisexual or have sex with other men.
Tedros said WHO was in talks with vaccine manufacturers and countries to see if any might be willing to share doses. Africa has reported the highest number of suspected monkeypox deaths and although the disease has been endemic in parts of central and west Africa for decades, it has only a small supply of vaccines being used as part of a research study.
About 98% of monkeypox cases beyond Africa have been reported in men who are gay, bisexual or have sex with other men. WHO said there is no sign of sustained transmission beyond men who have sex with men, although a small number of women and children have also been sickened by the disease.
Monkeypox spreads when people have close, physical contact with an infected person's lesions, their clothing or bedsheets. Most people recover without needing treatment, but the lesions can be extremely painful and more severe cases can result in complications including brain inflammation and death.
In the U.K., which at one point had the biggest outbreak outside Africa, officials said earlier this week they have seen signs the outbreak is slowing down.
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(The Hill) – Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner in his new memoir offers few details about former President Trump’s battle with COVID-19 in 2020, but he did pinpoint a moment when he knew his father-in-law was on the mend.
“I knew he was feeling better when he requested one of his favorite meals: a McDonald’s Big Mac, Filet-o-Fish, fries and a vanilla shake,” Kushner wrote in “Breaking History,” due out Tuesday.
In the book, an advanced copy of which was obtained by The Hill, Kushner does not offer many insights into how serious Trump’s condition was when he contracted the virus in the home stretch of the 2020 campaign, before any COVID-19 vaccines had been authorized.
He mentions then-chief of staff Mark Meadows saying he was “nervous” about Trump’s diagnosis, but otherwise just recounts encouraging Trump to go to Walter Reed Medical Center, which could offer better treatment than remaining at the White House.
“As the president recovered at Walter Reed, we all recognized that the campaign would have to wait until Trump was both physically strong and medically cleared to return to the trail,” Kushner wrote. “In the meantime, he spoke directly to Americans through social media to update them on his recovery.”
Trump contracted the virus days after his first debate with now-President Biden in Cleveland. The White House at the time did not disclose whether he complied with the venue’s testing requirement for both candidates.
Meadows was caught days later attempting to brief reporters anonymously about Trump’s condition at Walter Reed, expressing concern about his oxygen levels. At one point, Trump left isolation in the hospital to take a ride around the block with Secret Service so he could wave at supporters gathered near the hospital.
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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, including a native of Indianapolis.
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.
Peter Kassig was a native of Indianapolis. The former Army Ranger studied political science at Butler University before becoming a humanitarian aid worker in 2012. Kassig was delivering food and medical supplies in Syria when he was kidnapped in October 2013.
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.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) – A Memphis woman who ordered a box of cigars couldn’t believe what she got instead.
She agreed to tell her story about the cigars as long as her identity was kept hidden. She said what happened is just too bizarre.
The woman’s story starts online. She said she ordered cigars from Thompson Cigar Company, which were shipped from their fulfillment center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A box arrived July 27.
“When I lifted it, my first sign was, ‘Wow these are heavy,'” she said. “When I open it, to my surprise it was filled with new blue license plates.”
That’s right: There were no cigards in the box. Instead, she saw 100 Tennessee license plates — an item many in Shelby County are desperate to get.
This year, the state rolled out its new plates, which caused a giant backlog at the county clerk’s office. Some residents had previously told Nexstar’s WREG that they had waited months to get theirs in the mail.
The wait for license plates in Shelby County is so long that there are even calls to bring in the state to take over.
“My own license plate expired in July, but because I have two vehicles, I was in no hurry because I didn’t want to stand in line to get them,” the woman said. “It’s just perplexing to me. Of course, maybe I’m overthinking it.”
Or maybe not.
The woman showed WREG the return address on the box, which shows the cigar company is listed. Even a packaging slip, sealed inside the box and underneath the plates, was from the cigar company.
“So I immediately call the cigar company,” she said. “Tell them what just happened. Of course they tell me that’s not possible. You could not have gotten license plates from our warehouse.”
Thompson Cigar told WREG the same thing. In an emailed statement, the company said it does not have “any affiliation with license plates.”
The woman said she was then told that UPS, the company that delivered the package, would come get the plates. That didn’t happen.
“I thought, ‘Let me call the police.’ Because again, I’m seeing on the news that license plates have been ordered and not showing up,” she said.
A Memphis police spokesperson had yet to find any evidence that a crime was committed, so they told the woman to try UPS again. She ended up driving them over to an outlet.
“When I told them what happened, they looked at me like I had a box of rattlesnakes,” she said.
But UPS told her they can’t help, because “the box has been opened.”
“By then I’m just frustrated. I don’t know what to do,” she said.
WREG reached out to the Tennessee Department of Revenue and the Shelby County Clerk, the latter telling the station that the license plates do not belong in the Shelby County inventory.
Hours later, state agents contacted WREG for the woman’s information. They showed up at her house shortly afterward and eagerly took the plates. The state, however, would not disclose the identity of the intended recipient of the plates, or whether they believed this incident was related to a crime, or simply an accident.
“We are still investigating this issue,” a spokesperson for the state said. “We are now working with our common carrier to help us determine what happened.”
The state added that this incident is “extremely unusual,” and it “will not cause issues or delays.”
UPS wouldn’t answer any of WREG’s other questions. The woman said they were ignoring her questions, too.
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As Ukrainians fight to defend their country from Russia's war at home, others are spreading artistic messages of peace and solidarity abroad.
A group of some 75 Ukrainian musicians, including recent refugees, has spent the last month performing a whirlwind tour of Europe and the U.S. as the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra. The group formed in collaboration with the Polish National Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera, with support from Ukraine's ministries of culture and foreign affairs.
It came about several months into the war, when Canadian-Ukrainian conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson had the idea to bring Ukraine's top musicians together — from inside and outside the country — in what she described as a "proud display of artistic unity."
"This tour is an expression of love for their homeland and to honor those who have died and have suffered so much," Wilson said in a Met news release in April. She herself grew up in Winnipeg, which is home to North America's most concentrated Ukrainian population.
The ensemble is made up of recent refugees, Ukrainian members of European orchestras and top musicians from Ukrainian cities like Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa and Kharkiv, with notable talents including soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska and pianist Anna Fedorova.
It took about four months to gather all of the musicians, tour manager Aleksandra Kula told PBS, since many of them had fled Ukraine and relocated to other parts of Europe.
"That was quite tricky and difficult because it's not a regular orchestra," she explained. "These are like single musicians who are being put together as an orchestra. So most of them ... don't even know each other, and they haven't played with each other before."
Some did know each other beforehand — like cellist Yevgen Dovbysh and violinist Anna Vikhrova, a married couple from Odesa who were separated when the war began and reunited by the orchestra over the summer, as The New York Times reported.
In a show of support for the orchestra's mission, Ukraine's Ministry of Culture and Information Policy is allowing male musicians of fighting age to temporarily put down their weapons and travel abroad.
Oleksandr Tkachenko, Ukraine's minister of culture, said in a statement that culture can be "the 'soft power' that helps heal wounds." There are other tangible benefits — organizers say money raised from the tour will go to support Ukrainian artists, and encourage people to donate to the Ministry of Culture.
"This tour of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra can help not only to raise funds for supporting Ukrainian artists, it will show the world the diversity and uniqueness of Ukrainian music and Ukrainian performers," Tkachenko added.
The group has performed mostly in Europe
After just over a week of intensive rehearsals in Warsaw, the group opened its tour with a concert there at the end of July. It performed a televised performance at the BBC Proms several days later before making its way through Germany, France, Scotland, England, Ireland and Amsterdam.
The orchestra arrived in the U.S. this week for two concerts at New York's Lincoln Center on Thursday and Friday, with a final performance in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
Thursday's performance was attended by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who later wrote on Twitter that the musicians were spreading a powerful message: "the people of Ukraine will not be silenced and will not back down."
While they may be far from home, the musicians aren't leaving their country far behind.
"Our main task as the members of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra is to show we have [a] very brilliant Ukrainian cultural heritage, and it need[s] to be heard and it need[s] to be seen," said flutist Inna Vorobets.
The orchestra's program includes music by Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov and Poland's Frederic Chopin — and notably excludes Russian works. It plays Ukraine's national anthem at each concert, as some performers drape themselves in Ukrainian flags.
In short videos posted to the Met's website, several of the musicians shared why they joined the orchestra and what they hope to accomplish. Many spoke about wanting to return to their country, and in the meantime supporting the people who are defending it.
"I want the whole world to hear through music that we want to live in our beautiful and free country," said viola player Roksolana Kalynets. "My participation in this project will be dedicated to the Ukrainian people, and also to those Ukrainian people who died as a result of the Russian invasion of my land."
The audio for this story was edited by Olivia Hampton.
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CINCINNATI, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cincinnati Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: CINF) announced that at today's regular meeting, the board of directors declared a 69-cents-per-share regular quarterly cash dividend. The dividend is payable October 14, 2022, to shareholders of record as of September 16, 2022.
Steven J. Johnston, chairman and chief executive officer, commented, "The payment of this dividend in October will complete our 62nd year of increasing annual cash dividends. Cincinnati Financial's excellent financial strength and proven ability to operate successfully over the long term supports regular dividends, our preferred way of returning capital to shareholders."
About Cincinnati Financial
Cincinnati Financial Corporation offers primarily business, home and auto insurance through The Cincinnati Insurance Company and its two standard market property casualty companies. The same local independent insurance agencies that market those policies may offer products of our other subsidiaries, including life insurance, fixed annuities and surplus lines property and casualty insurance. For additional information about the company, please visit cinfin.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This is our "Safe Harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Our business is subject to certain risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements in this report. Some of those risks and uncertainties are discussed in our 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K, Item 1A, Risk Factors, Page 32.
Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to:
- Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that could affect results for reasons such as:
- Ongoing developments concerning business interruption insurance claims and litigation related to the COVID-19 pandemic that affect our estimates of losses and loss adjustment expenses or our ability to reasonably estimate such losses, such as:
- Unusually high levels of catastrophe losses due to risk concentrations, changes in weather patterns (whether as a result of global climate change or otherwise), environmental events, war or political unrest, terrorism incidents, cyberattacks, civil unrest or other causes
- Increased frequency and/or severity of claims or development of claims that are unforeseen at the time of policy issuance, due to inflationary trends or other causes
- Inadequate estimates or assumptions, or reliance on third-party data used for critical accounting estimates
- Declines in overall stock market values negatively affecting our equity portfolio and book value
- Prolonged low interest rate environment or other factors that limit our ability to generate growth in investment income or interest rate fluctuations that result in declining values of fixed-maturity investments, including declines in accounts in which we hold bank-owned life insurance contract assets
- Domestic and global events, such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine, resulting in capital market or credit market uncertainty, followed by prolonged periods of economic instability or recession, that lead to:
- Our inability to manage Cincinnati Global or other subsidiaries to produce related business opportunities and growth prospects for our ongoing operations
- Recession, prolonged elevated inflation or other economic conditions resulting in lower demand for insurance products or increased payment delinquencies
- Ineffective information technology systems or discontinuing to develop and implement improvements in technology may impact our success and profitability
- Difficulties with technology or data security breaches, including cyberattacks, that could negatively affect our or our agents' ability to conduct business; disrupt our relationships with agents, policyholders and others; cause reputational damage, mitigation expenses and data loss and expose us to liability under federal and state laws
- Difficulties with our operations and technology that may negatively impact our ability to conduct business, including cloud-based data information storage, data security, cyberattacks, remote working capabilities, and/or outsourcing relationships and third-party operations and data security
- Disruption of the insurance market caused by technology innovations such as driverless cars that could decrease consumer demand for insurance products
- Delays, inadequate data developed internally or from third parties, or performance inadequacies from ongoing development and implementation of underwriting and pricing methods, including telematics and other usage-based insurance methods, or technology projects and enhancements expected to increase our pricing accuracy, underwriting profit and competitiveness
- Intense competition, and the impact of innovation, technological change and changing customer preferences on the insurance industry and the markets in which we operate, could harm our ability to maintain or increase our ability to maintain or increase our business volumes and profitability
- Changing consumer insurance-buying habits and consolidation of independent insurance agencies could alter our competitive advantages
- Inability to obtain adequate ceded reinsurance on acceptable terms, amount of reinsurance coverage purchased, financial strength of reinsurers and the potential for nonpayment or delay in payment by reinsurers
- Inability to defer policy acquisition costs for any business segment if pricing and loss trends would lead management to conclude that segment could not achieve sustainable profitability
- Inability of our subsidiaries to pay dividends consistent with current or past levels
- Events or conditions that could weaken or harm our relationships with our independent agencies and hamper opportunities to add new agencies, resulting in limitations on our opportunities for growth, such as:
- Actions of insurance departments, state attorneys general or other regulatory agencies, including a change to a federal system of regulation from a state-based system, that:
- Adverse outcomes from litigation or administrative proceedings, including effects of social inflation on the size of litigation awards
- Events or actions, including unauthorized intentional circumvention of controls, that reduce our future ability to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
- Unforeseen departure of certain executive officers or other key employees due to retirement, health or other causes that could interrupt progress toward important strategic goals or diminish the effectiveness of certain longstanding relationships with insurance agents and others
- Our inability, or the inability of our independent agents, to attract and retain personnel in a competitive labor market, impacting the customer experience and altering our competitive advantages
- Events, such as an epidemic, natural catastrophe or terrorism, that could hamper our ability to assemble our workforce at our headquarters location or work effectively in a remote environment
Further, our insurance businesses are subject to the effects of changing social, global, economic and regulatory environments. Public and regulatory initiatives have included efforts to adversely influence and restrict premium rates, restrict the ability to cancel policies, impose underwriting standards and expand overall regulation. We also are subject to public and regulatory initiatives that can affect the market value for our common stock, such as measures affecting corporate financial reporting and governance. The ultimate changes and eventual effects, if any, of these initiatives are uncertain.
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Ben Burtt has lived in a galaxy far, far away from the very start.
"I first came out here with a gang led by George Lucas in 1978," Burtt said.
He was hired by George Lucas to record sounds for a movie called "Star Wars." His job was to find the sounds for ships, creatures and lightsabers.
"I was very fortunate to arrive on the scene in sound at a time when a revolution took place," Burtt said. "From a creative standpoint, there was more of a demand for — especially with special effects movies — demand for new material, not just a recycling of sound libraries from the past."
Burtt became a legendary sound designer who makes an appearance the new Disney+ documentary series, "Light & Magic." The six episodes highlight the groundbreaking visual effects in "Star Wars" and many other films.
"Light & Magic” director Larry Kasdan, who also co-wrote “The Empire Strikes Back” and a Han Solo spinoff, says a film just isn’t the same without good sound.
"That's always been the easiest experiment you can do in movies is turn off the sound," Kasdan said. "Suddenly it's just, 'Oh that's an interesting image, but I don't see what got me so excited.' Then you start adding back the sound, and you say, 'Oh, that’s it.'"
Skywalker Ranch is the secluded filmmaker's retreat George Lucas built near San Francisco after the success of "Star Wars." There, Burtt and his team found the perfect place to record a huge library of iconic movie sounds.
"When George Lucas first bought the ranch, this was an empty valley here," Burtt said while walking the grounds. "We had a shooting range right in this area where we are where we did all the guns for 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'" There's a nice redwood forest on that ridge there, and we used to go up in there because of the acoustics were really nice. We even did Luke running through the swamps of Dagobah, jumping, running along with Yoda on his back."
Burtt says that's the magic of sound: You can record it anywhere as long as you get the right kind.
He is now the winner of multiple Academy Awards.
"In a way, whatever [Industrial Light & Magic] does, however spectacular, the illusion is not complete until sound is added," Burtt said. "You always feel like you're part of the ILM team, in a sense. You're part of the film making team, giving a final touch to the illusions."
Burtt has upheld a legendary career, creating old-school sounds that are still helping shape the future of visual effects.
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Judge won’t let Graham delay testimony in election probe
ATLANTA (AP) — Sen. Lindsey Graham can’t put off his appearance before a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia, a federal judge said Friday.
Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May ordered Graham to honor his subpoena for the grand jury. Graham’s attorneys appealed that order to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and asked May to stay her ruling while that appeal plays out. May declined that request in her order on Friday.
Graham is currently scheduled to appear on Tuesday. But he still has another motion to stay May’s ruling pending before the 11th Circuit.
Representatives for Graham did not immediately respond to messages on Friday seeking comment.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened the investigation early last year and in July filed petitions seeking to compel testimony from seven Trump advisers and associates, including Graham.
Attorneys for the South Carolina Republican have argued that a provision of the U.S. Constitution provides absolute protection against a senator being questioned about legislative acts. But the judge found there are “considerable areas of potential grand jury inquiry” that fall outside that provision’s scope. The judge also rejected Graham’s argument that the principle of “sovereign immunity” protects a U.S. senator from being summoned by a state prosecutor.
Graham also argued that Willis, a Democrat, had not demonstrated extraordinary circumstances necessary to compel testimony from a high-ranking official. But the judge disagreed, finding that Willis had shown “extraordinary circumstances and a special need” for Graham’s testimony on issues related to an alleged attempt to influence or disrupt the election in Georgia.
Willis and her team have said they want to ask Graham about two phone calls they say he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff shortly after the 2020 general election. During those calls, Graham asked about “reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia in order to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump,” Willis wrote in a petition.
Graham also “made reference to allegations of widespread voter fraud in the November 2020 election in Georgia, consistent with public statements made by known affiliates of the Trump Campaign,” she wrote.
Republican and Democratic state election officials across the country, courts and even Trump’s attorney general found there was no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to affect the outcome of the election.
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Judge blocks prosecutors from enforcing 1931 abortion ban in Michigan
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HOUSTON, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbital Infrastructure Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: OIG) ("Orbital") today announced a standby equity purchase agreement (SEPA) with Yorkville Advisors Global LP ("Yorkville") that will allow the company to sell up to $50 million of shares of common stock over the next 18 months.
"This equity facility will allow us the flexibility and ability to supplement our cash flow from operations, if necessary, and represents a significant relationship with a new financial partner in Yorkville Advisors," said Jim O'Neil, Vice Chairman and CEO of Orbital. "This SEPA will give us the right, but not the obligation to sell up to $50 million of shares of common stock at our request, subject to the terms and limitations set forth in the agreement."
Spartan Capital Securities LLC acted as the sole placement agent on this transaction.
About Orbital Infrastructure Group, Inc.
Orbital Infrastructure Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: OIG) is a diversified infrastructure services platform, providing engineering, design, construction, and maintenance services to customers in three operating segments; electric power, telecommunications, and renewables.
Beginning in April 2021, Orbital Infrastructure Group transformed its infrastructure strategy with the acquisitions of GTS and Front Line Power Construction, the company's telecommunications and electric power segment platforms, as well as three synergistic "tuck in" acquisitions (IMMCO, Inc, Full Moon Telecom, and Coax Fiber Solutions) and the divestiture of its legacy Orbital Gas Systems business. The Company is now positioned to profitably grow its infrastructure services platform for years to come, organically and through synergistic acquisitions to capitalize on strong multi-year end market drivers in the industries we serve.
Orbital Infrastructure Group is dedicated to maximizing shareholder value, by striving to exceed our customers' expectations, building a diverse workforce, and making a positive difference in the lives of our employees and the communities in which we operate, and contributing to reducing the carbon footprint through the services we provide.
For more information please visit: http://www.orbitalenergygroup.com
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BEIRUT (AP) — A rocket attack on a crowded market in a town held by Turkey-backed opposition fighters in northern Syria killed 15 people on Friday and wounded dozens, an opposition war monitor and a paramedic group said.
The attack on the town of al-Bab came days after a Turkish airstrike killed at least 11 Syrian troops and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, blamed Syrian government forces for Friday's shelling, saying it was in apparent retaliation for the Turkish airstrike.
The Observatory said three children were among the 15 killed, and that there were more than 30 wounded. The opposition’s Syrian Civil Defense, also known as White Helmets, had the same death toll but said 28 people were wounded. The paramedic group said its members evacuated some of the wounded and the dead bodies.
“This is the worst massacre committed by regime forces since the battles stopped between the regime and the opposition,” said the Observatory's chief Rami Abdurrahman, referring to a cease-fire in March 2020 that ended a wide Syrian government offensive on rebel-held areas.
The U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said in a statement that its fighters did not shell al-Bab. There was no comment from the government.
Turkey has launched three major cross-border operations into Syria since 2016 and controls some Syrian territory in the north.
Although the fighting has waned over the past few years, shelling and airstrikes are not uncommon in northern Syria — the last major rebel stronghold in the country.
Syria’s conflict, which began in March 2011, has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced half the country’s pre-war population of 23 million. President Bashar Assad’s forces have regained control of most parts of Syria over the past few years, with the help of their allies, Russia and Iran.
In other developments, the Observatory and the U.S. military said a drone strike late on Thursday night in northeastern Syria killed four women and wounded several others.
The Observatory blamed Turkey for the strike, saying it targeted a facility where Syrian Kurdish women were doing sports. A female Syrian Kurdish commander with the U.S.-backed forces was visiting at the time of the attack, the Observatory said.
A U.S. military commander, Maj. Gen. John Brennan, condemned the attack and said the drone struck a group of teenage girls playing volleyball under a U.N. education and outreach program.
“Such acts are contrary to the laws of armed conflict, which require the protection of civilians,” Brennan, commander of the Combined Joint Task Force, said in a statement.
Brennan also said the “increase in military hostilities in northern Syria is creating chaos in a fragile region" and called for immediate de-escalation from all sides in the conflict, citing the still-present threat of the Islamic State group in the area.
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A woman told police Thursday someone used her credit card to purchase five tickets to Disneyland after she entered her card information on a site she thought was for Amazon, according to a police report.
At about 4:22 p.m., a man and a woman contacted officers at the Denton Police Department’s front desk. The woman said she wanted to file a report.
She said on Wednesday, she received a text message from someone she believed was Amazon saying her account was locked due to a billing issue. She clicked the link she believed was for Amazon and entered her banking and credit card information.
On Thursday at about 3 p.m., her credit card company notified her about fraudulent activity on her card.
Someone had successfully purchased five tickets to Disneyland worth $770. They also tried to make a transaction for tickets to Sea World worth $249 and an unspecified $15 purchase.
The woman canceled her credit card and closed her bank account. She said she would like to pursue charges if a suspect is identified.
Other reports
2900 block of West University Drive — A man who threw rocks at a hotel Thursday failed to comply and reached for his waistband, where he carried a knife, before running from police, according to a police report.
At about 8:08 a.m., police were dispatched to a hotel regarding a disturbance. The caller said a man was throwing rocks at hotel windows and that the hotel wanted the man criminally trespassed.
The report does not specify how dispatchers learned the man’s name, police spokesperson Amy Cunningham said. But they advised police that the 40-year-old man had a warrant out of the Denton Police Department for possession of drug paraphernalia. Dispatchers also told police the man was now running from the hotel and throwing rocks at vehicles in parking lots as he ran.
Police arrived at a parking lot near a different hotel and saw the man. They walked toward him and said he had a warrant. The man said no and started moving backward.
Police asked him to sit on the curb, but the report states he didn’t comply. Throughout his interaction with police, he kept yelling about being followed, and his eyes were darting left and right, according to the report.
They asked him to come closer to them. But the man allegedly reached for his waistband before turning and running away. The report states police were able to grab him, and he fell to the ground. The man had a sheathed knife on his hip, according to the report, which officers removed from him.
Police told him he was under arrest for evading and searched his backpack. Inside, he had three glass pipes that appeared to be used for smoking methamphetamine, according to the report.
Another man in the area said he was walking through a nearby parking lot when he saw the man throw a rock at the windshield of his vehicle. He estimated the damage would cost $250 to repair and said he wanted to pursue charges.
Police went back to the original hotel and spoke with the initial caller. The caller said they heard the man yelling outside and went to see if he was OK. That’s when the man allegedly picked up rocks and threw them at the windows.
There was not any damage to the windows, according to the report, but the caller said the hotel wanted him criminally trespassed from the property.
The man was arrested on charges of criminal mischief between $100 and $750 for the damaged windshield, possession of drug paraphernalia and evading arrest or detention, and on the warrant for possession of drug paraphernalia.
800 block of Frame Street — A man reported Thursday that several hundred dollars’ worth of gaming systems, including a Sega Dreamcast, were stolen from his storage unit, according to a police report.
At about 6:44 p.m., police were dispatched in regard to a burglary. The man said he went to his storage unit and realized his key no longer worked.
He spoke with an employee, who said the door was changed and that it had new locks. When he got the new key and opened the unit, he noticed his belongings had been rummaged through and items were missing.
Missing were a jacket worth $200, an original Xbox worth $100, a Sega Dreamcast worth $193, a Nintendo GameCube worth $170, a Nintendo Wii worth $129 and several video games worth about $400, according to the report.
The last time the man had entered the unit was sometime in April, he said. The report states he wanted to press charges if a suspect can be identified.
Roundup
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XIAMEN, China, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pop Culture Group Co., Ltd ("Pop Culture" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: CPOP), a hip-pop culture company in China, today announced the establishment of Guangzhou Digital Intelligence Communication Culture Co., Ltd. ("DICC"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company created to facilitate the business development of "POPIDEA", the intelligent business sector, among the Company's three core business sectors. DICC is expected to upgrade the Company's conventional business services and strategies to provide clients with the communication solutions it refers to as "Smart Digital ("Smart D")".
Smart D of DICC has a variety of one-stop services, including:
- Providing digital and intelligent communication solutions through integrating data, think tanks, and online and offline communication scenarios.
- Amplifying the effect of integrated marketing by using big data tools and various means of communication.
- Providing creative design and strategy consultations, guided by the think tanks, and providing creative and visionary strategic solutions.
- Organizing events and activities by adopting relevant strategies and allocating valued resources.
The Company expects to continuously work to upgrade all of its core business sectors and it has, accordingly, proposed a strategic plan it refers to as the "POPSPACE" (hereinafter, the "Plan") to accomplish this. Smart D is a critical part of the Plan, as it will provide an important solution to clients' demands for intelligent communication. Centered around the Company's sports business sector, "POPSPORTS", the Plan will also provide services to street dance talents and help them participate in the sporting events. The Company expects to put a new street dance base into operation soon, as another part of the Plan, to facilitate the sports business. "CPOPMETA" is also a part of the Plan, associated with the Company's entertainment business sector, "POPFUN", with products protected by Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), which will be powered by Smart D services.
Mr. Zhuoqin Huang, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pop Culture, commented, "We are excited about the establishment of DICC and providing clients with our unique intelligent communication solution, Smart D. This is not only a reflection of our progress in upgrading our business, but also a milestone of our strategic plan. With the establishment of Shenzhen Jam Box Technology Co., Ltd in 2021 and our continued efforts in promoting street dance vocational education, we have built a solid foundation for the Plan. In the future, we expect to accelerate the development of our three core business sectors and to invest RMB1 billion into the Plan from 2021 to 2025."
About Pop Culture Group Co., Ltd
Headquartered in Xiamen, China, Pop Culture Group Co., Ltd is a hip-hop culture company. The Company aims to promote hip-hop culture and its values of love, peace, unity, respect, and having fun, and to promote cultural exchange with respect to hip-hop between the United States and China. With the values of hip-hop culture at its core and the younger generation as its primary target audience, the Company hosts entertainment events, operates hip-hop related online programs, and provides event planning and execution services and marketing services to corporate clients. The Company has in recent years focused on developing and hosting its own hip-hop events. For more information, visit the Company's website at http://ir.cpop.cn/.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this announcement are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including the further spread of the COVID-19 virus or new variants thereof, or the occurrence of another wave of cases and the impact it may have on the Company's operations and the demand for the Company's services, and are based on current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that the Company believes may affect its financial condition, results of operations, business strategy, and financial needs. Investors can identify these forward-looking statements by words or phrases such as "may," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "aim," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "potential," "continue," "is/are likely to," or other similar expressions. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances, or changes in its expectations, except as may be required by law. Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot assure you that such expectations will turn out to be correct, and the Company cautions investors that actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results and encourages investors to review other factors that may affect its future results in the Company's registration statement and its other filings with the SEC.
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Pop Culture Group Co., Ltd
Investor Relations Department
Email: ir@cpop.cn
Ascent Investors Relations LLC
Tina Xiao
President
Phone: 917-609-0333
Email: tina.xiao@ascent-ir.com
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HOUSTON, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbital Infrastructure Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: OIG) ("Orbital") today announced a standby equity purchase agreement (SEPA) with Yorkville Advisors Global LP ("Yorkville") that will allow the company to sell up to $50 million of shares of common stock over the next 18 months.
"This equity facility will allow us the flexibility and ability to supplement our cash flow from operations, if necessary, and represents a significant relationship with a new financial partner in Yorkville Advisors," said Jim O'Neil, Vice Chairman and CEO of Orbital. "This SEPA will give us the right, but not the obligation to sell up to $50 million of shares of common stock at our request, subject to the terms and limitations set forth in the agreement."
Spartan Capital Securities LLC acted as the sole placement agent on this transaction.
About Orbital Infrastructure Group, Inc.
Orbital Infrastructure Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: OIG) is a diversified infrastructure services platform, providing engineering, design, construction, and maintenance services to customers in three operating segments; electric power, telecommunications, and renewables.
Beginning in April 2021, Orbital Infrastructure Group transformed its infrastructure strategy with the acquisitions of GTS and Front Line Power Construction, the company's telecommunications and electric power segment platforms, as well as three synergistic "tuck in" acquisitions (IMMCO, Inc, Full Moon Telecom, and Coax Fiber Solutions) and the divestiture of its legacy Orbital Gas Systems business. The Company is now positioned to profitably grow its infrastructure services platform for years to come, organically and through synergistic acquisitions to capitalize on strong multi-year end market drivers in the industries we serve.
Orbital Infrastructure Group is dedicated to maximizing shareholder value, by striving to exceed our customers' expectations, building a diverse workforce, and making a positive difference in the lives of our employees and the communities in which we operate, and contributing to reducing the carbon footprint through the services we provide.
For more information please visit: http://www.orbitalenergygroup.com
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, as amended, including those relating to the expected use of proceeds. These statements may be identified by the use of forward-looking expressions, including, but not limited to, "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "estimate," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "would" and similar expressions and the negatives of those terms. These statements relate to future events and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such factors include the risk factors set forth in the Company's filings with the SEC, including, without limitation, its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, its periodic reports on Form 10-Q, and its Current Reports on Form 8-K filed in 2020 and 2021, as well as the risks identified in the shelf registration statement and the prospectus supplement relating to the offering. Prospective investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Orbital undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Investor Relations:
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John Beisler or Steven Hooser
817-310-8776
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Hawala operator arrested for funding LeT, Al-Badr
‘Accused used to divert funds from abroad to terror groups’
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A 48-year-old garment trader, allegedly working as a hawala operator to fund terror outfits Lashkar-e-Taiba and Al Badr, was arrested on Friday, the police said.
The accused, identified as Mohd. Yaseen, was arrested in a joint operation by the police departments of Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir, with assistance from Central agencies.
Yaseen allegedly handed over around ₹10 lakh to a terror operator — Abdul Hamid Mir of J&K — for terror-related activities on Wednesday, the police said. Mir was arrested from a bus stand in Jammu.
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On Thursday, Delhi Police received information from Central agencies and J&K Police regarding Yaseen operating from Meena Bazaar in the city.
A raid was conducted at his shop following which he was arrested, Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) H.G.S. Dhaliwal said.
Flow of funds
Mr. Dhaliwal added that Yaseen worked as a conduit between terror agencies and their funders. He added that Yaseen used to take funds received from sources based abroad and deliver them mostly to Valley-based terror outfits.
According to a senior police officer, Yaseen disclosed that terror funds were also routed to Surat and Mumbai through South Africa. The police said the funds were later transferred to J&K through the hawala channels.
Yaseen is also alleged to have funnelled money from different parts of the country to J&K.
“Recently, Yaseen received ₹24 lakh sent through hawala channels from South Africa. Out of this, he transferred ₹17 lakh through two different couriers to terror operatives in J&K, including Mir who was arrested by the J&K police,” Mr. Dhaliwal said.
The police recovered ₹10 lakh cash from Mir, who was arrested from Jammu on Wednesday. The remaining ₹7 lakh was recovered from his house, Mr. Dhaliwal added.
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Report: ’21-’22 school year saw most gun violence in a decade
(CNN) – A new report shows no school year in nearly a decade in the United States saw as much gunfire as last year.
Everytown for Gun Safety, a non-partisan group that advocates against gun violence, published the report.
It shows there were 193 instances of gunfire between Aug. 1, 2021, and May 31, 2022.
That’s more than double the total from the previous year. No other year going back to 2013-2014 ever had more than 75 incidents of gunfire.
The report said homicides, assaults, suicides and suicide attempts make up nearly 60% of all gun violence at schools.
The authors of the report found most school shootings are carried out by a student or former student at a school, and usually, the guns used come from the student’s home.
Because of this, the authors of the report say most shootings are preventable by keeping guns secured, locking school doors and gates and taking care of students in distress.
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Despite a push by early childhood education advocates, state Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley said Friday proposed new early learning standards for Louisiana's youngest students need more work amid criticism the benchmarks could inject controversial racial topics into classrooms.
The changes, which apply to children from birth to age 5, were approved without dissent by a review committee after a one-year study, and then backed by two other education panels.
Backers are urging the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to approve the standards when BESE tackles the issue on Tuesday.
But controversy is swirling around how teachers, caretakers and others should handle "social and emotional development" for children, including how they interact with each other and adults.
"Social emotional learning is considered by many to be a Trojan horse for critical race theory," Brumley said, a reference to the view that the legacy of White supremacy continues to play a major, negative role in today's society.
"I have shared with individuals who would like to see this pass through that I could not recommend this at this point because of what we are hearing from parents and policymakers alike," he said.
Brumley said the proposed changes include "potentially divisive concepts."
Libbie Sonnier, executive director of the Louisiana Policy Institute for Children and leader of the review committee, disputed the need for any delay on the benchmarks.
"These standards simply have nothing to do with critical race theory and frankly the department leadership knows that," Sonnier said in an email Friday.
"It is unfortunate that these standards have become the target of so much misinformation but it is even more unfortunate that the department leadership seems unwilling to stand by them," she said.
Others who say the benchmarks need more work include the Louisiana Family Forum, which says it represents traditional family values; a statewide group called Save Our Schools and state Reps. Kathy Edmonston, R-Gonzales and a former BESE member and Chuck Owen, R-Leesville, a member of the House Education Committee.
The standards are described as common, developmentally-appropriate expectations for what children should know at various ages, including infants, young toddlers, older toddlers, those 36-48 months old and 48-60 months.
Topics include early literacy, cognitive development, physical development and other areas.
Critics did not cite specific passages that they find objectionable.
The proposed changes are at https://go.boarddocs.com/la/bese/Board.nsf/files/CHCR5E6C4D82/$file/AGII_6.2Handout_0822.pdf.
Jennifer Carignan, who lives in St. Tammany Parish and is president of Save Our Schools, said language in the benchmarks mimics that used by what she called a left-learning non-profit group CASEL that promotes social emotional learning, including issues like gender identity and understanding systematic racism.
"CASEL is tending to push toward the left in a partisan way," Carignan said. "We would not like to have our learning standards linked to that."
CASEL says social and emotional learning is needed throughout a student's schooling.
"SEL can help address various forms of inequity and empower young people and adults to co-create thriving schools and contribute to safe, healthy, and just communities," CASEL says on its website.
The proposed standards for 4- and 5-year-olds say they should "demonstrate prosocial behavior."
Another asks them to "accurately label one's own feelings."
One for 3- and 4-year-olds ask that they "accurately identify basic emotions in others and respond with care and concern."
The benchmarks also say children should be able to separate from trusted adults in familiar settings, understand how their behavior affects others and manage emotions.
In a message to members Friday, Louisiana Family Forum President Gene Mills said the proposed changes need more public input.
"Concerns about the new standards relate to how very young children would be taught to view themselves, their culture and their community have been raised," Mills said.
The review committee worked on the standards for one year, finishing in April of 2022.
The benchmarks have since been endorsed by the Superintendents' Advisory Council and the Early Childhood Care and Education Advisory Council.
Sonnier said the changes were open to public comment, and parents and pediatricians weighed in.
Others noted that Louisiana's new social studies standards initially sparked criticism that they presented an overly dreary view of Louisiana and the nation's racial history and its impact today before BESE approved revised benchmarks in March.
Brumley said at the time that he did not want anything resembling critical race theory in the social studies guidelines.
Owen said he urged his two BESE members -- Holly Boffy, of Lafayette, and Michael Melerine, of Shreveport, -- to delay action on the standards.
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Lawton Police need help identifying woman for child welfare check
Published: Aug. 19, 2022 at 3:07 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - The Lawton Police Department is asking for help identifying a woman from pictures they posted to Facebook early Friday.
Officials can’t release much information, but said they would like to do an emergency welfare check on her children.
If you know who this is, contract the Lawton Police Department.
If you’d like to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 355-INFO.
Crime Stoppers of Southwest Oklahoma full Facebook post below.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The InfraCap MLP ETF (NYSE Arca: AMZA) (the "Fund") has declared a monthly distribution of $0.22 ($2.64 per share on an annualized basis). The distribution will be paid August 30, 2022 to shareholders of record as of the close of business August 23, 2022.
AMZA Cash Distribution:
- Ex-Date: Monday, August 22, 2022
- Record Date: Tuesday, August 23, 2022
- Payable Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2022
The Fund estimates that 100 percent of the distribution, or $0.22 per share, is attributable to return of capital and that 0.00 percent, or $0.00 per share, is attributable to dividend income. Infrastructure Capital Advisors expects to declare future distributions on a monthly basis. Distributions are planned, but not guaranteed, for every month. The next distribution is scheduled to occur in September 2022.
For more information about AMZA's distribution policy, its 2022 distribution calendar, or tax information, please visit the Fund's website at www.virtusetfs.com.
About Virtus ETF Advisers
Virtus ETF Advisers is a New York-based, multi-manager ETF sponsor and affiliate of Virtus Investment Partners. With actively managed and index-based investment capabilities across multiple asset classes, Virtus offers a range of complementary exchange-traded-funds subadvised by select investment managers.
About Infrastructure Capital Advisors
Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC (ICA) is an SEC-registered investment advisor that manages exchange traded funds and a series of hedge funds. The firm was formed in 2012 and is based in New York City. ICA seeks total-return opportunities in key infrastructure sectors, including energy, real estate, transportation, industrials and utilities. It often identifies opportunities in entities that are not taxed at the entity level, such as master limited partnerships ("MLPs") and real estate investment trusts ("REITs"). It also looks for opportunities in credit and related securities, such as preferred stocks. Current income is a primary objective in most, but not all, of the company's investing activities. The focus is generally on asset-intensive companies that generate and distribute substantial streams of free cash flow. For more information, please visit www.infracapfunds.com.
DISCLOSURE
Fund Risks
Exchange Traded Funds: The value of an ETF may be more volatile than the underlying portfolio of securities the ETF is designed to track. The costs of owning the ETF may exceed the cost of investing directly in the underlying securities.
MLP Interest Rates: As yield-based investments, MLPs carry interest rate risk and may underperform in rising interest rate environments. Additionally, when investors have heightened fears about the economy, the risk spread between MLPs and competing investment options can widen, which may have an adverse effect on the stock price of MLPs. Rising interest rates may increase the potential cost of MLPs financing projects or cost of operations, and may affect the demand for MLP investments, either of which may result in lower performance by or distributions from the Fund's MLP investments.
Industry/Sector Concentration: A fund that focuses its investments in a particular industry or sector will be more sensitive to conditions that affect that industry or sector than a non-concentrated fund.
Short Sales: The Fund may engage in short sales, and may experience a loss if the price of a borrowed security increases before the date on which the Fund replaces the security.
Leverage: When a Fund leverages its portfolio, the value of its shares may be more volatile and all other risks may be compounded.
Derivatives: Investments in derivatives such as futures, options, forwards, and swaps may increase volatility or cause a loss greater than the principal investment.
MLPs: Investments in Master Limited Partnerships may be adversely impacted by tax law changes, regulation, or factors affecting underlying assets.
No Guarantee: There is no guarantee that the portfolio will meet its objective.
You should consider the Fund's investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses carefully before investing. Contact VP Distributors LLC at 1-888-383-4184 or visit www.infracapmlp.com to obtain a prospectus which contains this and other information about the Fund. The prospectus should be read carefully before investing.
Virtus ETF Advisers, LLC serves as the investment advisor and Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC serves as the sub-advisor to the Fund.
The Fund is distributed by VP Distributors, LLC, member FINRA and subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners, Inc.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
0-9-1
(zero, nine, one)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
0-9-1
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 19, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in Midland/Odessa has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Southeastern Reagan County in western Texas...
* Until 545 PM CDT.
* At 346 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
mainly rural areas of Southeastern Reagan County
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
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COVID-19 cases continue to rise, but minimal hospitalizations for the virus and “medium” transmission were reported in Clark County this week.
A total of 346 new cases of COVID-19 were reported to the Clark County Combined Health District this week, up from last week’s total of 313.
Clark County Combined Health District assistant health commissioner Chris Cook said during the weekly COVID-19 update that the average number of cases reported daily in August is roughly 52 per day, up from July’s daily average of more than 40 daily cases and June’s total of 30 daily cases. Daily case averages are far lower than the omicron variant’s January peak, which saw roughly 268 cases each day.
For the second week in a row, Clark County has a “medium” community level, determined by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
The CDC recommends that those living in a county with “medium” transmission stay up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccines; get tested if they present symptoms; wear a facemask if they show symptoms, test positive, or are exposed to the virus; and wear face masks on public transportation. Those at high-risk of severe illness should also consider wearing a mask indoors or in public spaces.
The CDC updated its guidelines for COVID-19 last week, recommending that people who test positive for the virus quarantine for five days. On Day 6, if their symptoms have lessened, they can come out of quarantine, but should wear a facemask. they test negative for COVID on the fifth day and again 48 hours later, they can come out of isolation without a face mask.
Locally, 11 new hospitalizations for COVID-19 were reported in Clark County over the last several days. The positivity rate for the virus in Clark County as of Friday was 19%, and the average age of positive testers was 43, Cook said.
The health district continues to administer COVID-19 vaccines at its office. Roughly 51.5% of the county has completed its vaccine series, according to the Ohio Department of Health (ODH).
As of Friday, nearly 39,000 cases of the virus have been reported in Clark County since the pandemic’s start, according to ODH.
Cook also updated the community on monkeypox: roughly14,000 cases have been reported nationally, with 123 being confirmed in Ohio. As of Friday, no cases of monkeypox have been reported in Clark County, but the health district is working with area health care professionals to actively test people for it, Cook said.
Clark County’s health district has ordered monkeypox vaccines, but like other county health departments, will receive a limited supply. The health district will follow the CDC’s guidelines for distributing the vaccines, Cook said.
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GAINESVILLE — Shane Matthews was an unassuming, rawboned Mississippian deep on Florida’s depth chart who would evolve into Steve Spurrier’s first star quarterback.
What Matthews lacked in physical stature and arm strength he made up with football IQ and accuracy, two qualities Spurrier recognized upon his 1990 arrival to begin the greatest run in school history. Radio listeners are sure to appreciate Matthews’ football smarts and on-time delivery, too.
The former Gators’ record-setter will serve as color analyst this season for Florida football games, working alongside new play-by-play broadcaster Sean Kelley.
Matthews will replace Lee McGriff, a Gators’ star receiver in 1970s. McGriff left the position after 27 years in favor of family time, coinciding with the exit of Hall of Fame play-by-play man Mick Hubert.
The new role is custom fit for Mathews.
The 52-year-old coach’s son makes up for a lack of broadcasting training and experience with a keen eye, quick wit and little, if any filter, even when commentating on the Gators.
“We’re not solving the world’s problems,” he said. “It’s just talking football. It’s something I’ve done my whole life.”
Matthews helped put Florida football on the map during Spurrier’s early days.
The 6-foot-3, 180-pound Matthews passed for 9,287 yards and 74 touchdowns, then an SEC record. He was the conference player of the year in 1990 and 1991, finishing fifth in Heisman voting in ‘91 for Spurrier’s first of six SEC champions.
Meanwhile, Matthew’s record broadcasting Florida games is forgettable. With McGriff unavailable last season, Matthews stepped in to call five road games — all Gators losses.
Matthew’s first foray into the booth, an Oct. 3 visit to Kentucky, offered a window into his calm and casual approach to the job.
“I got on the plane, flew there, woke up, went to the game and called it,” Matthews said.
This without practicing a minute alongside Hubert.
Matthews did not bother to listen to the replay but undoubtedly fared better than the Gators, who committed 15 penalties during a 20-13 loss.
In fact, Matthews has never reviewed the tape or self-evaluated his performance.
“I would if somebody told me I needed to,” he said. “I probably should. But I haven’t.”
Yet, Matthews is coachable. After all, his late father Bill coached him at Pascagoula High School.
Back in Mississippi, Matthews learned the game at his father’s knee to set the stage for a decorated college career and another 14 in the NFL, primarily as a backup able to pick up offenses quickly.
Matthews will now bring experience, insight, a love of football and a passion for the Gators to the airwaves for Florida fans, many of whom have known him for decades.
“Watching so much football over my lifetime, watching it on TV, listening to Lee when I wasn’t at the game, I tried to learn from those guys and put my own spin on it,” Matthews said. “Hopefully we can win some damn games.”
Mullen joins ESPN
Former Gators coach Dan Mullen will trade his whistle for a microphone during the fall.
Mullen will become a studio analyst for ESPN, appearing Saturdays on ESPN2 and Thursday and Friday nights on ESPN.
Fired last November into his fourth season in Gainesville, Mullen declined to return to sideline for the first time since he was a tight end at Ursinus College in 1993. Mullen served as a graduate assistant at Wagner the following season and has been a coach ever since.
The 50-year-old, though, decided to take a break from the profession after compiling a 103-61 record as a head coach, including a 34-15 mark with the Gators.
This article first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email Edgar Thompson at egthompson@orlandosentinel.com or follow him on Twitter at @osgators. | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/florida-gators/os-sp-uf-florida-gators-shane-matthews-espn-analyst-0820-20220819-plkgheiax5echiiaiorxit4ozm-story.html | 2022-08-19T21:28:29Z | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/florida-gators/os-sp-uf-florida-gators-shane-matthews-espn-analyst-0820-20220819-plkgheiax5echiiaiorxit4ozm-story.html | false |
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin said he pays no attention to criticism or campaign donations when making decisions about what’s best for West Virginia.
Sounding somewhat exasperated when asked whether the dramatic bump in campaign contributions he’s received from oil and gas interests in recent months influenced his voting, the conservative Democrat said no.
During a roundtable discussion in Charleston on Friday, he said his office’s outsized role in drafting the sprawling economic package signed this week by U.S. President Joe Biden made him the target of the “far left,” environmental activists and the fossil fuel industry all at once.
“Nobody in their right mind would go through what I have gone through with my staff for the last eight months, taking all the crap we’ve taken from everybody in the country” if they weren’t doing what they believe is right, he said.
“I can be the hero and the villain all within a 24-hour shift,” he said. “The bottom line is, I make no excuses for what I think is right. I’ve always said this — If I can explain that, I can vote. I can take the criticism I know that goes with those votes. That’s part of the game.”
Manchin, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, offered a key vote needed to pass the Democrats’ flagship climate and health care bill in the 50-50 Senate. The House used a party-line 220-207 vote to pass the legislation, which Biden signed Tuesday.
The law, which places caps on prescription drug prices for seniors and extends subsidies meant to help Americans pay for health insurance, contains billions in incentives for clean energy. Owing largely to Manchin’s influence, it also offers renewed support for traditional fuel sources such as coal and natural gas with steps such as subsidies for technology that reduces carbon emissions.
“I wasn’t sure that they would ever agree because of my friends on the far left, the environmental community, was totally committed to dispersing and basically eliminating fossil,” Manchin said of the law.
But Manchin said there is “no way you can get rid of fossil in any short period of time.”
“You can use it cleaner as you basically transition, but it’s going to be with us, and you got to do the best you can with it,” he said. “So, I wanted to make sure they understood that.”
On the other side, he said he’s “been criticized by all my friends in the coal industry” because they think the bill doesn’t go far enough to protect their interests.
“(They) for some reason think that this is going to be harmful,” said Manchin, whose family owns Enersystems, a coal brokerage company. “I think it basically is a pathway forward so we can continue to produce industry, provide energy that our country needs.”
Under an agreement with the Democratic leadership, Manchin proposed a separate list of legislation to speed up federal permitting and make energy projects harder to block under federal acts. He also specifically asked that federal agencies “take all necessary actions” to streamline completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a project long opposed by environmental activists.
The 303-mile (487-kilometer) pipeline, now mostly finished, would transport natural gas drilled from the Appalachian Basin through West Virginia and Virginia. Legal battles have delayed completion by nearly four years and doubled the pipeline’s cost, now estimated at $6.6 billion.
This election cycle, Manchin has received more campaign contributions from natural gas pipeline companies than any other member of U.S. Congress — contributions that have increased from $20,000 in 2020 to $331,910 in 2022, according to campaign finance records compiled by Open Secrets.
On Friday, he said his agenda in advocating for the pipeline was to bring down the cost for consumers by increasing the size of the market and creating jobs. He insisted the campaign money had nothing to do with it.
“I understand the cynical part of that. People look at it and they go, ‘Well, they’re just taking care of themselves,'” he said. “I’m sorry people, I have no idea who contributes. I don’t look at that, I don’t go out and advocate that at all.”
He said lawmakers need to “rise above” corporate and party pressure to deliver for their constituents.
“Politics has become a very, very nasty, destructive type of process … both sides are guilty of weaponizing the good of America for the good of the party — both sides, and it’s just not right for our country,” he said. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/manchin-dismisses-critics-embraces-hero-and-villain-role/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-08-19T21:29:43Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/manchin-dismisses-critics-embraces-hero-and-villain-role/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | true |
The Ravens have agreed to a deal with free-agent wide receiver Demarcus Robinson, his agent confirmed Friday on Twitter, addressing potential depth concerns at the position.
Robinson, 27, signed a one-year, $1.2 million deal with the Las Vegas Raiders in March but, in a surprise, was released during the first round of roster cuts Tuesday.
Robinson, a fourth-round pick out of Florida in 2016, spent his first five seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs. His best year came in 2020, when he had 45 catches for 464 yards, both career highs, and three touchdowns. Last season, he had 25 catches on 41 targets for 264 yards and three scores. In a Week 2 loss to the Ravens, he had three catches for 46 yards, including a 33-yard touchdown.
The 6-foot-1, 203-pound Robinson met with the Ravens on Friday, according to the NFL Network, which first reported the deal. Wide receiver James Proche II, a training camp standout, has missed over a week of practice with what coach John Harbaugh called a soft-tissue injury. Tylan Wallace left the Ravens’ preseason opener with a knee sprain. Projected starters Rashod Bateman and Devin Duvernay also missed time in camp.
Terms of Robinson’s deal were not disclosed. The Ravens, who face the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday night, must cut their roster to 80 players by Tuesday and to 53 players by Aug. 30. | https://www.capitalgazette.com/sports/bs-sp-ravens-demarcus-robinson-20220819-guoobluyabhp3hpvpeokpes35i-story.html | 2022-08-19T21:30:21Z | https://www.capitalgazette.com/sports/bs-sp-ravens-demarcus-robinson-20220819-guoobluyabhp3hpvpeokpes35i-story.html | false |
A new wave of monitoring has sparked fear in KPay and Wave Money users. Mobile wallet holders are reporting being asked to show ID cards to agents and are being recorded through secret CCTV cameras.
A factory worker told DVB that transactions – including deposits and withdrawals – in Wave Money require ID starting from Aug. 1.
“We used to transfer or deposit money via Wave Money without ID cards previously, but it won’t work that way starting this month. What will those that do not have IDs do?” the source said.
According to a local who runs an online shop, the agent asked for an ID card when she withdrew money from her account on Aug. 16 and the transaction was recorded on CCTVs.
“I don’t know why the agent needed an ID card as this has not happened before. The worst part is there were three CCTVs – one at the counter where the transaction was made, one at the place to show ID, and one at the entrance door. I felt like I was in a police station,” she said.
An agent who is running mobile wallet services said they have been instructed by authorities to take detailed information such as their name, ID number, a copy of their ID, phone number, address, and the reason for the transaction when conducting transactions.
An agent for Wave Money said installing CCTVs in stores is not a problem but asking for IDs and addresses during transactions has become an issue for agents.
“I was yelled at by a customer who came to my shop to transfer money after I asked him for an ID, address and reason for the transaction. I am lucky that he didn’t hit me,” he said.
The junta backed Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM) issued an announcement on Aug. 15 containing 10 instructions, including installing CCTVs to record people conducting transactions and asking for IDs and addresses to make transactions with KPay and Wave Money mobile wallet services.
This is being done by the military to prevent money laundering and the NUG and PDFs from receiving financial support, a political analyst told DVB.
“It is just like the core concept of the ‘Four Cuts strategy’ that was done back in the era of Nay Win and Than Shwe. The military does not want people to support NUG and PDFs to succeed in the revolution. They think supporters will stop or be weakened by this policy. However, this will definitely hurt ordinary people,” the source said.
According to CBM directives, old users need to show IDs during their transactions with agents, and new users must provide detailed information such as their name, ID card number, copy of IDs, phone numbers and photos when opening up accounts.
Previously, users only needed an ID number and phone number to open a new account and there was no need to show IDs during transactions with agents.
The restrictions come as PDFs and the NUG have been asking for donations for the revolution via mobile wallet services like KPay and Wave Pay.
Donors have been arrested and charged by the military for providing small and large donations to resistance groups. | https://english.dvb.no/new-surveillance-policies-added-on-mobile-wallet-transactions-users-say/ | 2022-08-19T21:40:54Z | https://english.dvb.no/new-surveillance-policies-added-on-mobile-wallet-transactions-users-say/ | true |
SEATTLE (AP) — Geno Smith’s chance to gain an edge over Drew Lock for Seattle’s starting quarterback job was hindered by his team’s sloppy performance.
Smith and the Seahawks were overwhelmed in a 27-11 loss to the Chicago Bears on Thursday night in the second preseason game for both teams, which was mostly a dud from Seattle’s standpoint.
“He did OK,” Seattle coach Pete Carroll said of Smith. “We needed to come through. We needed to help him a little bit. We needed to make the plays around him, too.”
Second-year Bears quarterback Justin Fields made a brief appearance and led a field-goal drive. Backup Trevor Siemian threw a touchdown pass, and Elijah Hicks recovered a muffed punt for a Chicago TD.
“I thought operation was good, his preparation was great. He handled the offense the way we wanted him to,” first-year Chicago coach Matt Eberflus said of Fields. “Had a nice drive and scored the field goal. So I think it’s progress.”
The Seahawks had planned to start Lock but turned to Smith when Lock tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday. That meant another opportunity for Smith, who started last weekend at Pittsburgh, but his uninspired performance suggests Lock still has a chance to win the job.
That may depend on how quickly Lock can return from his illness and if he’ll be ready to play by the preseason finale in Dallas next week. Carroll said Lock was still feeling “really sick.”
“I talked to him this morning and it hit him pretty hard,” Carroll said.
Smith finished 10 of 18 for 112 yards and was hampered by teammates’ mistakes while playing the first half. His only drive where Seattle threatened to score ended when Jason Myers missed a 47-yard field goal attempt.
Smith was slated to play into the third quarter but banged his knee in the first half. He was icing the knee while Jacob Eason took all the snaps after halftime.
“We again just started a little slow, had some self-inflicted wounds. Some things that we can control that really set us back,” Smith said. “And that’s the reason for the preseason is for us to get those things out. Obviously, there’s a ton of room for improvement and a lot of things that we have to improve on very fast.”
The Bears led 24-0 before Seattle finally got on the board on Darwin Thompson’s 8-yard TD run with 2:08 left.
Penalties and dropped passes made the Seahawks’ offense choppy and listless. Rookie first-round pick Charles Cross was flagged four times in the first half at left tackle, three of those for false start. Bo Melton, Freddie Swain and Dareke Young had drops.
Exacerbating Seattle’s offensive troubles was a right ankle injury suffered by starting left guard Damien Lewis early in the second quarter. Lewis was inadvertently rolled up by Bears defensive lineman Angelo Blackson.
Lewis was down for several minutes and eventually had an air splint put on his lower right leg before being loaded on a cart and taken off the field. But Carroll said X-rays were negative and Lewis has an ankle sprain. Still, it’s a hit to Seattle’s interior offensive line, which isn’t the deepest part of the roster.
“We’re very fortunate there. He was upbeat about that a little bit, maybe surprised by the results. We’re thrilled,” Carroll said.
Siemian threw a 1-yard TD pass to Jake Tonges and Hicks corralled Cade Johnson’s muffed punt at the goal line late in the first half to give the Bears a 17-0 lead. Third-stringer Nathan Peterman led a drive in the third quarter that ended with Darrynton Evans’ 1-yard TD run.
FIELDS’ DAY
Fields played one series in the first quarter. He was 5 of 7 for 39 yards and led the Bears to a 35-yard field goal by Cairo Santos.
“I feel like every time I step on the field I can get something out of it,” Fields said.
INJURY CONCERNS
Chicago lost a couple of players to injuries. Linebacker Matt Adams suffered a shoulder injury in the first quarter. He’s been playing in the spot normally occupied by Roquan Smith, who is in a contract dispute with the team. Backup running back Trestan Ebner suffered an ankle injury in the second quarter and didn’t return.
UP NEXT
Bears: At Cleveland on Aug. 27 to end the preseason.
Seahawks: Seattle closes out the preseason on Aug. 26 at Dallas.
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(The Hill) — Tuesday’s primaries in Alaska and Wyoming will help set the tone for November’s general elections, with a number of critical contests at stake.
In Wyoming, Rep. Liz Cheney is in a fight for her political life as she faces Harriet Hageman, who has the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, in the state’s Republican House primary. At the same time, incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski will also face off for the first time against Trump-backed Kelly Tshibaka and other candidates in Alaska’s Republican Senate primary. Tuesday will also test former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) as she seeks to make a comeback to elected office in the state’s special congressional election.
Here are five things to watch ahead of Tuesday’s primaries.
Can Cheney outperform expectations?
Cheney will face a steep climb in Tuesday’s primary against Hageman as polls show the incumbent congresswoman trailing the Trump-backed challenger and as other House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump lose their own primaries.
A Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center poll released last week showed Hageman leading Cheney 57 percent to 28 percent, while a separate Casper Star Tribune poll conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling showed Hageman leading 52 to 30 percent.
On top of that, various House Republicans who voted to impeach the former president, including Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler (Wash.), Peter Meijer (Mich.) and Tom Rice (S.C.), have lost their primaries to Trump-backed primary challengers in recent months.
But while many pundits and strategists are predicting the end of Cheney’s career in Congress for the moment, others say the incumbent congresswoman could do better than the polls suggest, even if she’ll still likely lose. Cheney has led the fundraising race, with outside money pouring in, opening the door to various campaign resources.
Other experts point to the potential impact crossover Democratic voting could have on the race, predicting that it could give her a helpful boost. The New York Times reported in June that registered Democrats in Wyoming were receiving mail from Cheney’s campaign that contained instructions on how to change their party registration so they could cast ballots for her in the primary. Additionally, Cheney has received support from Democratic lawmakers, including Reps. Tom Malinowski (N.J.) and Dean Phillips (Minn.), who cut ads for her in Wyoming.
Will Palin be coming to Congress?
In Alaska, voters will decide whether to send Palin, a 2008 vice presidential candidate and former governor of the state, to Capitol Hill.
Palin is running in the special election for Alaska’s at-large congressional seat, which was previously held by the late Rep. Don Young (R). The former governor is running against fellow Republican Nick Begich III and Democrat Mary Peltola. While Palin has received Trump’s endorsement, it’s unclear how she will perform in Tuesday’s primary as a result of the new ranked-choice voting system. The new system could benefit candidates such as Begich, given that a traditional primary would have brought out a more conservative base that would likely rally around Palin. Additionally, recent polls show Palin trailing Begich and Peltola.
Because of the new system, the winner of the special election won’t be known for days. Significantly, Palin is on Tuesday’s ballot twice: Once for the special election and again for the at-large House primary featuring dozens of candidates. If she advances to the November general election, she could still have a chance to join Congress, even if she loses the special election this week.
Does Alaska’s voting process go off without a hitch?
Alaska’s special election will mark the first race in the state’s history that will use the ranked-choice voting system.
The state adopted the process in 2020 as a result of a ballot measure approved by voters. Supporters of the process argue that it will lead to less partisanship.
In ranked-choice voting, a candidate needs more than 50 percent of the vote to be declared the winner outright. If the front-runner doesn’t have that percentage of the vote, the candidate with the fewest votes that round drops off the ballot, and those who ranked that candidate first will have their votes go to their second choice. The process continues until a candidate has more than 50 percent of the vote.
The state’s special House race election will be the only race with ranked-choice voting on Tuesday, but it will provide a preview of how other candidates running in races such as the state’s Senate election will do in November.
How does Murkowski do in the primary?
Voters will get their first look at how Murkowski performs in a primary against a Trump-backed challenger on Tuesday, but the results may not be indicative of November’s general election results.
Unlike in the special House election, Tuesday’s Senate primary will not involve ranked-choice voting. Tuesday will showcase an all-party primary in which the top four voter-getters will advance to the general election; then, in November, the winner will be declared according to ranked-choice voting. Murkowski is not expected to lead in Tuesday’s primary, because the environment will likely favor more partisan candidates such as Tshibaka. However, experts say that once it’s time for the general election, Murkowski will gain more support from Democratic and independent voters, giving her an advantage over Tshibaka.
Still, Tuesday’s Senate primary will be viewed by some as a test of Trump’s political clout in the state. The former president has made it his mission to work to oust Murkowski from office as a result of her vote to convict him during his second impeachment trial. And while Trump won the state by roughly 10 points, Murkowski enjoys a high approval rating in Alaska. According to data released by Morning Consult, 46 percent of Alaska voters say they approve of Murkowski’s job performance, while 39 percent say they disapprove.
What does voter turnout look like?
Tuesday’s primaries come as recent events have turned up the volume in an already extremely partisan political environment in the country. Last week, the country was rocked by news that the FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, seizing a number of documents that were deemed classified. An unsealed warrant, which was approved by a federal judge, shows the FBI executed the warrant while investigating whether the Espionage Act had been violated.
Republicans, particularly those loyal to Trump, have pounced on the news, criticizing the FBI and Justice Department over the move to search Trump’s property. Conservatives have also used the news to rally their political base, a move that could stand to boost turnout in highly partisan primaries.
On the Democratic side, it’s unclear how President Biden’s recent wins, including the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, will impact the party’s turnout in the primaries or if the prospect of Hageman in Congress will drive Wyoming Democrats to vote for Cheney. Regardless, turnout in Tuesday’s primaries could help read the tea leaves going into November. | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/five-things-to-watch-in-alaska-wyoming-primaries/ | 2022-08-19T21:42:55Z | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/five-things-to-watch-in-alaska-wyoming-primaries/ | false |
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank on Friday, according to his brother, who said he was walking home when a bullet struck him in the head as Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian youths.
In a separate development, Israel approved an additional 1,500 work permits for Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, less than two weeks after the territory’s militant Hamas rulers sat out the latest round of violence.
Salah Sawafta, 58, was shot in the head as he was returning home from dawn prayers in the West Bank village of Tubas, according to his brother, Jehad.
“There were clashes with youths in the area and Salah was shot by a sniper in the head after he bought a bag of bread from a grocery store,” he said.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said he died after being brought to a local hospital in critical condition.
The Israeli military said its troops entered two villages to arrest Palestinians suspected of taking part in or planning attacks. It said Palestinians hurled firebombs and opened fire at the soldiers, who shot back. It said “a hit was identified,” without elaborating.
Israeli forces carry out near-daily raids in the West Bank, including in areas administered by the Palestinian Authority, which often ignite violent confrontations with stone-throwing Palestinians or gunmen.
Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem in the 1967 war, territories the Palestinians want for a future state. Israel withdrew soldiers and settlers from Gaza in 2005, and the Islamic militant group Hamas seized power from the Palestinian Authority two years later.
Since then, Israel and Hamas have fought four wars and several smaller battles, and Israel and Egypt have imposed a crippling blockade on the territory. Israel says the blockade is needed to keep Hamas from re-arming, while critics view it as a form of collective punishment of Gaza’s more than 2 million Palestinian residents.
Israel has taken steps to ease the blockade over the past year as part of understandings with Hamas aimed at preserving calm, including issuing thousands of permits for Palestinian laborers from Gaza to work inside Israel. The latest increase brings the total number of permits to 15,500.
That likely factored into Hamas’ decision to stay out of the most recent fighting, which began when Israel launched a wave of airstrikes against what it said was an imminent threat from Islamic Jihad, a smaller armed group in Gaza.
An Egyptian-brokered cease-fire ended three days of heavy fighting in which Israel carried out waves of airstrikes against what it said were militant targets and Islamic Jihad fired some 1,100 rockets at Israel. The fighting killed at least 49 Palestinians, including 17 children, as well as more than a dozen militants. No Israelis were killed or seriously wounded. | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/world-news/ap-international/palestinians-israeli-troops-shot-killed-man-in-west-bank/ | 2022-08-19T21:49:18Z | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/world-news/ap-international/palestinians-israeli-troops-shot-killed-man-in-west-bank/ | true |
NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (NYSE Arca: PFFA) (the "Fund") has declared a monthly distribution of $0.1625 per share ($1.95 per share on an annualized basis). The distribution will be paid August 30, 2022 to shareholders of record as of the close of business August 23, 2022.
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GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — Spencer's and Spirit Halloween are helping Stockton University bolster both a scholarship fund and its business school with a $250,000 endowment.
The Egg Harbor Township-based chain of novelty gift stores and seasonal Halloween shops is giving Stockton the money as a way to give back to the university, the company said Friday in a statement.
Stockton alumni throughout the years have worked for the retailer, Spencer's said.
More than 100 Stockton graduates and current interns are working at the township offices on the Black Horse Pike, CEO Steven Silverstein said Friday.
“We are proud to support Stockton University’s School of Business through a $250,000 commitment that will support high-quality, affordable education for students in our community,” Silverstein said.
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The remaining $50,000 will support the university's School of Business initiatives, specifically:
- The Summer Entrepreneurship and Business Academy for area high school students
- The Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series
- The Dean’s Excellence Fund
- The Annual School of Business Awards
“This is a financial win for students who need the extra help funding their education, and they provide so many employment opportunities for students and graduates,” Stockton MBA student Michael Cogossi, of Atlantic City, said of Spencer's.
New Jersey’s casinos, horse tracks that offer sports betting and the online partners of both types of gambling outlets won over $480 million in July, an increase of 6.7% from a year ago. But the resort's nine casinos continue to struggle to return to pre-pandemic levels in terms of the amount won from in-person gamblers, with five of them winning less in July 2022 than they did in July 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic began. Figures released Tuesday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show that the casinos collectively won just under $299 million from in-person gamblers.
Rifat Mahmud, of Bellmawr, Camden County, knows firsthand how a scholarship can change lives.
“Stockton University Foundation scholarships allowed me to continue my education in the Master of Business Administration program after earning a bachelor’s in Business Studies in May,” Mahmud said.
Stockton said the donation is an example of its working relationship with Spencer's as a conduit for career opportunities for future students.
“When our students get the opportunity to intern and get jobs at a company like Spencer’s or Spirit Halloween, you have changed their lives, their families’ lives and their futures,” Stockton President Harvey Kesselman said. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/education/spencers-awards-250-000-for-stockton-scholarship-business-school/article_5be75a6c-1fec-11ed-90af-7b37190d3b2b.html | 2022-08-19T21:55:31Z | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/education/spencers-awards-250-000-for-stockton-scholarship-business-school/article_5be75a6c-1fec-11ed-90af-7b37190d3b2b.html | false |
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