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NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Co-Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CODX).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of a class of all persons and entities who purchased the publicly traded securities of Co-Dx during the period of May 12, 2022 through the close of the market on August 11, 2022 (4:00 p.m. ET).
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until October 17, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Co-Diagnostics, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) demand for the Company's Logix Smart™ COVID-19 test had plummeted throughout the quarter ended June 30, 2022, and (ii) as a result, defendants' positive statements about the demand for its Logix Smart™ COVID-19 test lacked a reasonable basis.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Carvana Co. (NYSE: CVNA).
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The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased Carvana between May 6, 2020 and June 24, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until October 3, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Carvana Co. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Carvana faced serious, ongoing issues with documentation, registration, and title with many of its vehicles; (2) as a result, Carvana was issuing unusually frequent temporary plates; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was violating laws and regulations in many existing markets; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana risked its ability to continue business and/or expand its business in existing markets; (5) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was at an increased risk of governmental investigation and action; (6) Carvana was in discussion with state and local authorities regarding the above-stated business tactics and issues; (7) Carvana was facing imminent and ongoing regulatory actions including license suspensions, business cessation, and probation in several states and counties including in Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina; and (8) as a result, Defendants' statements about Carvana's business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As previously communicated Electrolux paused its operations in Russia when the war in Ukraine commenced. Electrolux has now decided to exit Russia and divest the business to local management through a sale of its Russian subsidiary. A capital loss of approximately SEK 350m will be recorded as a non-recurring item affecting the operating income for Business Area Europe in the third quarter 2022.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the following sanctions have made it impossible for Electrolux to continue its business in the country. The decision to divest the Russian business to local management is intended to enable a responsible and controlled exit. The divested company will continue to service appliances previously sold by Electrolux in Russia. Electrolux has no production in Russia and will not supply any appliances to the divested company.
The final operating income and cash flow effects will be determined by the balance sheet and exchange rate on the transaction day.
In 2021 Electrolux sales in Russia accounted for 4% of Business Area Europe sales and for 1.6% of Group sales.
This is information that AB Electrolux is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out above, on 02-09-2022 12:00 CET.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: KRBP).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Kiromic common stock issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 and/or (b) Kiromic common stock between June 25, 2021 and August 13, 2021, both dates inclusive.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until October 4, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
The complaint alleges that the registration statement and prospectus issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 (the "Offering Documents") failed to disclose that the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") had, prior to the filing of these documents, imposed a clinical hold on the Company's Investigational New Drug ("IND") applications for its two new drug candidates. Given that the offering closed on July 2, 2021, more than thirty (30) days after the Company submitted the IND applications for its two immunotherapy product candidates, investors were assured that no clinical hold had been issued and clinical trials would commence.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Molecular Partners AG (NASDAQ: MOLN).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Molecular Partners American Depositary Shares pursuant and/or traceable to certain documents issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering conducted on or about June 16, 2021; and/or (b) Molecular Partners securities between June 16, 2021, and April 26, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until September 12, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Molecular Partners AG issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company's product, ensovibep, was less effective at treating COVID-19 than defendants had led investors to believe; that (ii) accordingly, the the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") was reasonably likely to require an additional Phase 3 study of ensovibep before granting the drug Emergency Use Authorization ("EUA"); (iii) waning global rates of COVID-19 significantly reduced the Company's chances of securing EUA for ensovibep; (iv) another of the Company's product candidates, MP0310, was less attractive to Molecular Partners' collaborator, Amgen, than defendants had led investors to believe; (v) accordingly, there was a significant likelihood that Amgen would return to global rights of MP0310 to Molecular Partners; (vi) as a result of all the foregoing, the clinical and commercial prospects of ensovibep and MP0310 were overstated; and (vii) as a result, documents issues in connection with the Company's initial public offer and defendants' public statements throughout the class period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
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We’re sending people to space, perfecting self-driving vehicles and buying refrigerators with cameras inside them. Meanwhile, the invention of the future that I’ve most longed for is, as far as I know, stalled somewhere in the planning stage.
It’s a customized taste-bud analyzer that would read your tongue to determine your ideal flavor combinations. This is revolutionary, right? Life changing! People would be so happy that wars would cease, we’d all become good samaritans, and peace would reign over the land.
But alas, we just keep sending billionaires into space and get alerts when we’re low on milk.
If this device did exist, I’m pretty certain that the little palate analyzer would tell me that Il Pastaio’s aurora sauce is my taste buds’ perfect food. Il Pastaio is a tiny restaurant in a large, King Soopers-anchored strip mall in Boulder, and I’ve been visiting it for about 20 years, since I lived there for college. Its aurora has all the tang of a tomato sauce but is cut with cream, and I like it best hugging wide, trailing noodles, like pappardelle or fettuccine.
For me, that’s the perfect dish, and I imagine the little taste-bud analyzer lighting up like a Christmas tree when I take a bite.
Il Pastaio opened in July 2000, the same month I got my first boyfriend, the one who would take me to the restaurant for the first time. It was started by owners Giuseppe and Marta Oreamuno, who have an interesting pedigree. Giuseppe is the Italian, whose family comes from Pisa, and Marta is Costa Rican. Their son, Mariano, works the tiny dining room most nights, while Marta runs the business side of things and Giuseppe and daughter Ahagata stay busy in the kitchen.
If you go
Il Pastaio: 3075 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-447-9572; ilpastaioboulder.com. Open 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday; closed Saturday and Sunday.
Stay busy they do; all the pastas and sauces are made in-house at Il Pastaio, and there are a lot of pastas. Each day they roll and cut at least 50 pounds of rigatoni, capellini, linguini, fettuccine, fusilli and more. They stuff ravioli with lamb, mushroom, shrimp, beets, sausage and, well, more fillings than you can shake a stick at, if shaking sticks at ravioli is something you’re into.
I don’t see why you’d order anything besides the pasta with aurora sauce, but if you do, their entrees are pretty great, too. There’s pollo parmigiana, tilapia alla vongole and lasagna. The pollo alla Francese is a beautifully thin, pounded breast in a pool of lemon, butter, white wine and parsley. Oh, and all the entrees come with a side of pasta and sauce (your choice), so you don’t have to choose between protein and carbs.
Il Pastaio’s hand-crafted dishes cost more than you typically pay at a strip mall restaurant (most are $20-$25), but they’re better than you typically get at a fancy downtown spot. Lunch costs less and is served buffet-style, with your pick of entrées, sides, salads and rolls for $15.
But be aware: Il Pastaio is closed on Saturdays and Sundays. So make that date night on a Friday, or skip cooking on a Tuesday and check it out.
At the end of your meal, you’ll be presented with a slip of paper and a pen and asked to enter the nightly wine drawing. This has been going on since day one, which means Il Pastaio has given away thousands of bottles of wine in its 22-year history. Somehow, I have never won, but no matter. I’ve already won by finding my perfect food, the one that the palate analyzer would create for me if only we’d better focus our technological advancement priorities. The one that lights up my taste buds and brings me peace, at least until I finish my plate of noodles.
Editor’s note: This is an installment in our new series, Hidden Gems, in which we take a look at those restaurants you should know about but may not. (They are either tucked away in strip malls or otherwise off the beaten path.) Try them out; if you like what you eat, spread the word. Read the latest in the series: J’s Noodles and New Thai is a hidden gem tucked in a strip mall on Parker Road in Denver
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WAVERLY — A Waverly Game Day event will take place this Saturday on Broad Street in Waverly to celebrate the kickoff of the Fall sports season while enjoying the best of downtown.
To kick off the new school year, this family-friendly event will have several activities available.
“The Waverly swimming team will have a dunk tank, the soccer team will have soccer drills for younger kids, and the volleyball team will have an apparatus available to work on setting,” Waverly High School Athletic Director Rich McIntosh said. “They are all doing things to encourage kids to be active.”
Additionally, the Waverly football team will be doing autograph signings and a parade of athletes will be held. All sports teams will be walking in the parade including recreational, modified, JV, and varsity.
Other items of interest include raffles, mascot photos, team spirit wear, food, live music, and local shops of historic Broad Street.
“The event is a collaboration between the village and local businesses,” said Waverly Superintendent Dr. Eric Knolles.
Several businesses on Broad Street will be open early and Rail House Restaurant will feature a new brunch menu for the public.
Knolles also thanks the Waverly Business Association for assisting in the event.
Choice 102 will be broadcasting live from Rail House with interviews from varsity coaches and coach-selected athletes about the upcoming season.
Members of New York Forward will have a booth in front of Broad Street Records to gather information from the public about their ideas to improve downtown.
Police Chief Dan Gelatt noted that Broad Street between Park Avenue and Pennsylvania Ave will be closed starting at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday.
The night before the event there will be no parking in that section of roadway and all vehicles parked will be towed, Gelatt added.
Around 11 a.m. a portion of Waverly Street between Broad Street and Elizabeth Street will be shut down for the parade of athletes, Gelatt said.
Waverly Mayor Patrick Ayres encourages the public to park underneath the Howard Street overpass and the parking lots behind Broad Street from Loder street up to Fulton Street and to respect the private parking lots that are designated for specific businesses.
The event will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday with a football doubleheader following to kick off the season. Section IX Marlboro vs. Section IV Tioga at 3 p.m. and the Section IX Chester vs. Section IV Waverly at 6 p.m. at Waverly Memorial Stadium.
“I think it’s going to be a great day for the village and a good way to start the season,” said Ayres. “I think the interaction between the younger kids and the older athletes in junior high and high school is going to be fantastic.” | https://www.morning-times.com/news/article_ca85549c-b483-592e-99fe-fdcd263fbc79.html | 2022-09-02T11:07:17Z | https://www.morning-times.com/news/article_ca85549c-b483-592e-99fe-fdcd263fbc79.html | false |
With the price of almost everything up this year, it was inevitable: the cost of America's favorite alcoholic beverage is now going up, too.
As marketing director for a growing craft brewery, MadTree Brewing, Trevor Self has a job many would envy.
"We just won gold at the World Beer Cup," he said, speaking about their Ziegler American Style Amber Lager.
But this year, that dream job has become a bad dream for some brewers struggling with supplier price hikes.
"Ever since 2020, things have been fluctuating and getting higher, so we're always factoring in what could possibly be," Self said.
Prices and shortages start to take a toll
It has been a rough couple of years for the craft brewing industry. Like any of us, when we go to the supermarket, they've been dealing with the same inflationary pressures and shortages on a much bigger scale.
"Some people out there are having a tough time getting their hands on cans, or how much they have to pay for them," he said.
Luckily, he says, MadTree locked in a contract for cans months ago, so [it] has not been hit as hard with price hikes as many other craft brewers.
A report on the enthusiast site Good Beer Hunting.com called "Running on Fumes" lists some of the price hikes brewers are facing in 2022.
- Aluminum cans: Up 20% in a year.
- Malt: Up 30% or more.
- Shipping costs: Up 50%.
- Labor: Up 20%.
But the CO2 -- or carbon dioxide -- shortage is causing the most headaches right now.
Chuck Skypeck with the national Brewers Association says that some smaller craft breweries are curtailing production until later this fall.
"It is a key ingredient," he said. "So, if you don't have carbon dioxide, you don't have [a] beer."
That means some breweries -- especially in New England -- won't be stocking all their usual beers the next few months.'
"They may not see their favorite beer on the shelf if the brewery has encountered those problems," Skypeck said.
The government's Consumer Price Index shows beer prices up 5 percent this year, but Skypeck says that could go higher.
Back at MadTree brewing, Self says they are doing everything possible to keep their taps flowing and their prices reasonable.
"We are always finding creative and strategic ways to save on costs without damaging our product," he said.
That way, that first sip will be crisp and affordable, so you don't waste your money.
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Seven Rohingya people from a group of 65 seized by Myanmar authorities from a boat off the southern coast died of hunger, thirst and exposure, state media said today.
On Monday, authorities detained a vessel near Pyapon township, around 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of commercial hub Yangon, said the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper.
"Four traffickers and 65 smuggled Bengalis were temporarily detained," it said, using the term by which Rohingya are pejoratively referred to by many in Myanmar.
Three men and four women later "died due to the bad weather and lack of food and water", it said.
Six others were still receiving medical treatment, while five men from the group "were detained so that they could be investigated and prosecuted under the law", the newspaper added.
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled a military crackdown in Buddhist-majority Maynmar in 2017, arriving in neighbouring Bangladesh with harrowing stories of murder, rape and arson.
The Rohingya still in Myanmar are widely seen as interlopers from Bangladesh and are largely denied citizenship, many rights and access to healthcare and education.
Each year, hundreds make perilous, months-long boat journeys to other parts of Southeast Asia, often during the November-March period when the sea is safest for the small trawlers used by traffickers.
Malaysia, a Muslim-majority nation, is the favoured destination as it hosts a sizeable Rohingya expatriates.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) | https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/seven-rohingya-die-in-detention-due-to-lack-of-food-water-report-3309920 | 2022-09-02T11:09:37Z | https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/seven-rohingya-die-in-detention-due-to-lack-of-food-water-report-3309920 | false |
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SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter will launch a widely requested edit button for its paid subscribers in the coming weeks, the social media company said Thursday.
For years, Twitter users have demanded the ability to edit their tweets after publishing in order to fix errors like typos. Those requests have led to jokes online that Twitter would rather introduce any other product, such as newsletters, before giving users their top-requested feature.
Subscribers who pay $4.99 per month for Twitter Blue will soon be able to edit their tweets "a few times" within 30 minutes of publication, Twitter said in a blog post.
Nearly every other social media platform, including Meta's Facebook and Instagram, Reddit and Pinterest, have for years offered features allowing users to edit posts.
The San Francisco-based company is embroiled in a legal fight with billionaire Elon Musk, who is trying to back out of a $44-billion agreement to buy Twitter.
In April, on the same day that Musk disclosed a 9% stake in Twitter, he tweeted a poll asking his millions of followers whether they wanted an edit button. Over 70% said yes.
Twitter and its observers have debated whether allowing tweets to be edited could lead to harmful effects, such as the spread of misinformation.
Edited tweets will have an icon and timestamp to display when the post was last edited. Users will be able to click on the label of an edited tweet to view the edit history and previous versions of the post.
Twitter has experimented with versions of an edit button. Subscribers of Twitter Blue, the company's paid subscription product, currently have access to a feature that holds tweets for up to one minute, allowing users to review the tweet and "undo" it before the post is published.
Asked if the edit button would eventually be available for all Twitter users, a spokeswoman said Twitter was testing the feature to "anticipate what might happen if we bring it to everyone." | https://www.ksl.com/article/50467956 | 2022-09-02T11:11:58Z | https://www.ksl.com/article/50467956 | false |
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ATLANTA — Most of us have experienced turbulence while traveling: when your plane flies through clashing bodies of air moving at widely different speeds.
Severe turbulence can put even the most seasoned flier on edge and make five minutes seem like an eternity. Usually it results in nothing more than a bumpy ride, but in the worst cases it can cause damages and injuries.
In nonfatal accidents, turbulence is the leading cause of injuries to flight attendants and passengers, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, and it's one of the most common airline accident types today, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. It costs U.S. airlines — due to injuries, delays and damages — up to $500 million per year, according to the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
"There is a scale for measuring how strong turbulence is," says Paul Williams, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Reading in the U.K. "There's light turbulence, which is a bit of strain against your seat belt, but food service can continue and you can probably walk around the cabin, maybe with some difficulty.
"Then there's moderate turbulence, a definite strain against seat belts, anything that's not secured will be dislodged, and walking is difficult; flight attendants are usually instructed to take their seats.
"The worst kind is severe turbulence: this is stronger than gravity, so it can pin you to your seat and if you're not wearing your seat belt you'll be tossed around inside the cabin. This is the kind of turbulence that causes serious injuries — it's been known to break bones, for example."
Strikes fast and no visual clues
About 65,000 aircraft suffer moderate turbulence every year in the U.S., and about 5,500 run into severe turbulence. These numbers, however, might be destined to grow. Williams believes that climate change is modifying turbulence, and started studying the subject in 2013. "We ran some computer simulations and found that severe turbulence could double or triple in the coming decades," he says.
Planes are not going to start falling out of the sky, because aircraft are built to very high specification and they can withstand the worst turbulence they can ever expect to encounter, even in the future.
–Paul Williams, professor of atmospheric science
The findings, which were later confirmed by observations, highlight a type of turbulence called "clear air turbulence," which isn't connected to any visual clues such as storms or clouds. Unlike regular turbulence, it hits suddenly and is hard to avoid.
According to the NTSB, between 2009 and 2018, the flight crew had no warning in about 28% of turbulence-related accidents. Williams' analysis predicts that clear-air turbulence will increase significantly around the globe by the period 2050-2080, in particular along the busiest flight routes, and the strongest type of turbulence will increase the most.
That doesn't mean, however, that flying will be less safe. "Planes are not going to start falling out of the sky, because aircraft are built to very high specification and they can withstand the worst turbulence they can ever expect to encounter, even in the future," says Williams.
However, the average duration of turbulence will increase. "Typically, on a transatlantic flight, you might expect 10 minutes of turbulence. I think that in a few decades this may increase to 20 minutes or to half an hour. The seat belt sign will be switched on a lot more, unfortunately for passengers."
The seat belt sign is now switched on
Keeping your seat belt fastened at all times while seated is the best way to minimize the risk of injury due to turbulence.
Flight attendants, however, are more exposed to that risk than passengers and sustain approximately 80% of all turbulence-related injuries. "We're the most likely to get hurt because we're up working, pushing 300-pound carts, even when there's some sort of warning," says Sara Nelson, a United flight attendant with 26 years of experience and the president of the Association of Flight Attendants, a union representing 50,000 flight attendants across 20 airlines.
"We have flight attendants who have been thrown into the ceiling and then back down several times, resulting in broken limbs. In the aisle, with unannounced turbulence, we had people who lost toes, or lost the ability to work, or sustained injuries that kept them off the job for years," she adds.
The aviation industry is taking the problem very seriously, Nelson says, but the transition to sustainable fuel must accelerate to tackle the climate crisis, and some regulations need to change. For example, the ability for children under the age of two to fly on their parents' lap.
"That is totally unsafe and our union has been calling for a seat for every person on board," Nelson says. "Not only can a child be thrown around the cabin, but when they come down they can actually hurt someone else, too. When a child is born, you can't leave the hospital unless you have a properly installed car seat. The same standards must be applied to flying."
Calls for stringent new rules
The NTSB held a public meeting about turbulence last year, during which it offered the same recommendation, along with more stringent rules about fastening seat belts for both passengers and flight attendants when the aircraft is flying in the vicinity of thunderstorms and under 20,000 feet, as most injuries occur under these conditions. It also recommended to streamline the systems for collecting and sharing turbulence reports, because that information isn't traveling widely or promptly enough at the moment.
While the effects of climate change on turbulence will take many years to become obvious, Nelson believes some worsening has already occurred.
"This is of course anecdotal, but from Hurricane Katrina forward there seems to have been a pickup in the activity of turbulence, especially turbulence that comes with no warning," she says.
Her worst ever turbulence experience occurred during a flight to Dallas, which was eventually diverted.
"When anything happens on the plane, the passengers look to us, to see if we look concerned," she adds. "I was flying with a very good friend of mine and we were strapped in on the jump seats, facing the back of the aircraft — so there was a lavatory in front of us, instead of passengers.
"Thank goodness, because we were clutching each other and we were getting thrown around in our seats so violently that it felt like our brains were getting scrambled. It went on for a very long time, but luckily we got safely on the ground," she says.
"Typically I'm not scared of turbulence, because it's something that we're taught about in training and we know what to do to protect ourselves. But it is possible to have turbulence so bad and go on for so long that even knowing all of that, my friend and I were praying — and I have to say I was scared for my life." | https://www.ksl.com/article/50467979 | 2022-09-02T11:12:23Z | https://www.ksl.com/article/50467979 | false |
BEIJING, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 31, 2022, Joy Spreader Group Inc. ("Joy Spreader" or the "Company"), a leader in new media performance-based marketing, announced its interim results for 2022. The results show that Joy Spreader achieved revenue of HK$1.367 billion, an increase of 118.91% YoY. Net profit for the first half of 2022 stood at HK$75 million, a slight decline YoY. The significant growth in revenue reflects Joy Spreader's strong capabilities at undertaking actions to reduce risk. With a diversified business portfolio, the company is well positioned for further significant growth.
The rise in Joy Spreader's first-half revenue was mainly attributable to the rapid expansion of the firm's overseas e-commerce business which achieved sales volume of 813,400 orders and sales revenue of HK$1.021 billion during the period.
Joy Spreader recorded a slight decrease in revenue from its domestic business given the impact of the stricter policy for the interactive entertainment sector alongside unfavorable external environments. Nevertheless, thanks to a modification of the business strategy in the second half of 2021 that has strengthened the performance-based marketing business for non-game and literature products, the company effectively reduced the risk of a decline in revenue from the interactive entertainment marketing business. In the first half of this year, the interactive entertainment marketing business achieved revenue of HK$229 million and the domestic short-form videos (SFVs)-based e-commerce marketing service posted turnover of HK$310 million, demonstrating the Group's business resilience and growth potential.
Joy Spreader's new culture business is still at an early stage. The Group has built traffic for the new media marketing business by combining quality IP and content incubation with a mix of professionally generated content from third parties as well as from its own in-house creators. By doing so, the firm has been able to provide customers with customized content and increase the conversion rate while reducing the cost of outsourcing traffic.
Based on its strong advantages in data and model algorithms, the leading mobile new media marketing technology group has expanded its business portfolio to include overseas e-commerce and culture services, which not only created a meaningful hedge against risk but also opened up possibilities for further growth.
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After travellers broke into a Leeds playing field, seemingly trashed portaloos and left a mess, it has cost around £1,900 for the clean up alone.
Leeds City Council was called a "joke" after failing to provide an adequate barrier and/or deterrent to stop travellers from targeting Red Hall Playing Fields, near Shadwell and Scarcroft, which has seen multiple illegal camps. An angry resident called it an "an absolute terrible fiasco".
The travellers eventually left the site on Monday, August 29, after camping there for about a week and half. The wooden barrier was seen sawn through and chucked on the ground.
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After travellers were seen defecating in the bushes, the council provided portaloos which were then seen tipped over and vandalised. A court summons was issued for the camp to leave and a nearby Esso petrol station helped the city council with their enquiries.
A spokesperson for Leeds City Council said: “We are actively looking into measures to strengthen the entrance barrier to the site to help deter future encampments.
“Following the courts granting of the possession order, the bailiffs attend the site to enforce this. The bailiffs have attended on Tuesday and the group have vacated. We have instructed the team who carries out the clean-up operation to start work on this. The team normally attend and complete the work within 2 days.
“The clean-up costs from the previous encampment was £1,900 and we estimate this would be a similar cost. We hope that any further measures to strengthen the point of entry will deter any further disruption and we will continue to act within our legal framework to ensure that encampments are dealt with as swiftly as possible.”
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of LifeStance Health Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LFST).
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According to a filed complaint, LifeStance Health Group, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the number of virtual visits clients were undertaking utilizing LifeStance Health was decreasing as the COVID-19 lockdowns were being lifted, thereby flatlining LifeStance Health's out-patient/virtual revenue growth; (ii) the percentage of in-person visits clients were undertaking utilizing LifeStance Health was increasing as the COVID-19 lockdowns were being lifted, thereby causing LifeStance Health's operating expenses to increase substantially; (iii) LifeStance Health had lost a large number of physicians due to burn-out and, as a result, its physician retention rate had fallen significantly below the 87% highlighted in the initial public offering's registration statement, and LifeStance Health had been expending additional costs to onboard new physicians who were less productive than the outgoing physicians they were replacing; and (iv) as a result, LifeStance Health's business metrics and financial prospects were not as strong as the initial public offering's registration statement represented.
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Micron Technology announces a $15 billion manufacturing plant for Boise, the largest private investment ever in Idaho. CHIPS Act incentives and state help are credited for thousands of new jobs.
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Micron Technology announces a $15 billion manufacturing plant for Boise, the largest private investment ever in Idaho. CHIPS Act incentives and state help are credited for thousands of new jobs.
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Nuclear facilities, like the one Russia controls in Ukraine, should be off limits to warring parties. Russia's seizure of the nuclear plant sets a dangerous precedent.
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Nuclear facilities, like the one Russia controls in Ukraine, should be off limits to warring parties. Russia's seizure of the nuclear plant sets a dangerous precedent.
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San Diego State will open its new 35,000-seat Snapdragon Stadium when it hosts Arizona on Saturday. The new stadium sits just east of where 70,000-seat SDCCU Stadium used to rise in Mission Valley. The $310 million stadium represents SDSU's first true home-field advantage since the Aztecs played on campus decades ago. This will be SDSU's first game in San Diego since 2019. It played the last two seasons at a suburban Los Angeles soccer stadium while the new stadium was being built. Arizona is looking to bounce back from a 1-11 first season under coach Jedd Fisch that included a 38-14 home loss to SDSU.
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From the doorway, Nicole Ogburn's fourth grade classroom looks bright and unassuming.
New, colorful JanSport backpacks hang from small chairs. Blue and white desks with dry erase surfaces sit in clusters around the room. A green bookshelf filled by rows of books is surrounded by beanbag chairs and fuzzy pillows.
This year, as Ogburn prepares her classroom, her first priority is not the decorations she usually spends the summer picking out. Instead, it's buying things to help her students – and herself – feel safer in the classroom.
"I bought a thing that you jam under the door so that they can't open the door. I bought a curtain to pull down so you can't see in my door if something was happening," Ogburn said. "We've just thought of more safety this year than, 'How cute's my room gonna look?'"
Ogburn is preparing for her first year as a teacher at a newly repurposed campus space, dubbed Uvalde Elementary School. For the seven years prior, Ogburn taught at Robb Elementary. The school shut down after the mass shooting in May in which 19 students and two teachers were killed. Ogburn, her co-teacher and her students survived, and escaped through a window of their classroom with the help of law enforcement.
Although the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District and state leaders have announced new security measures, the district has been under pressure from parents and other members of the community to offer more transparency and demonstrate its ability to keep students safe at school.
Ogburn said she felt there had been progress, though improvements are taking time.
"We're working towards being safe, and I think we're gonna be OK the first day of school, but it's not gonna be 100% done," she said. "But, it's in the process."
As she thought about physical security measures, she was also trying to anticipate what it would be like when students returned to the classroom for the first time since the May 24 shooting.
"I think I'm scared for how some of these kids are gonna react when they get here, and if I'm gonna be able to handle that part of it," she said.
This year, she's added one feature to her classroom to try to help her students express and manage their feelings. It's a black poster that asks students to answer one question: How do you feel? Each student has their own cut out marker, and each day Ogburn and her co-teacher plan to encourage students to put their marker next to a corresponding feeling like, "ready to learn," "confused," or "angry."
"I'm thinking, OK what if this happens this day, and the whole class is feeling anxious or upset? There's no way we're gonna teach a lesson," she said. "We've gotta figure out ... how are we gonna calm 'em down, how are we gonna make this better?"
Ogburn is also concerned for herself.
She said she wanted to get through the year "without being a complete emotional wreck," as she works through her grief, particularly the deaths of fellow fourth grade teachers, Eva Mireles and Irma Garcia.
For several years at Robb, Ogburn and her co-teacher Trisha Albarado taught in the classroom next door to Mireles and Garcia.
"It's already been hard not having my two friends here with us, but having my co-teacher with me has helped a lot," she said. "Cause we both said if you don't come back, I'm not coming back. If we're not together, we're gonna fight to be together. Cause we can't do it without each other right now."
Since the shooting, Ogburn said she's been treated for depression, anxiety and PTSD – as have other teachers who survived. She said what she heard and saw that day is something she'll live with for the rest of her life.
"Every day, there can be something that triggers an emotion that I don't want to have that day," she said. "And right now, every day is a constant reminder, cause everywhere I go, it's right in front of my face."
She almost didn't return to the classroom. But she thought about her own children, as well as Uvalde students.
"I thought, I gotta go back and show them first of all, we can't live in fear. I mean, you just never know when something's gonna happen," she said. "So I thought, I have to try not to live in that fear. I have to go forward and show these kids, OK, Ms. Ogburn can go back to school, then so can I."
Gaby Olivares and Yvette Benavides of Texas Public Radio translated this article into Spanish.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Outset Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: OM).
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According to a filed complaint, Outset Medical, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company's flagship product, Tablo Hemodialysis System ("Tablo"), would require an additional 510(k) application to be filed with The United States Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"), as defendants had "continuously made improvements and updates to Tablo over time since its original clearance"; (2) as a result, the Company could not conduct a human factors study on a cleared device in accordance with FDA protocols; (3) the Company's inability to conduct the human factors study subjected the Company to the likelihood of the FDA imposing a "shipment hold" and marketing suspension, leaving the Company unable to sell Tablo for home use; and (4) as a result, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and /or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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Each ton of carbon dioxide that exits a smokestack or tailpipe is doing far more damage than what governments take into account, researchers conclude in a scientific paper published Thursday.
Major hurricanes pack more rain, while extremes of wildfire, drought and downpours are all happening more often and with more intensity due to climate change, causing loss of communities, homes and lives all over the world. But what is the actual cost in dollar terms of the carbon emissions driving climactic change?
That’s what researchers from a variety of fields — science, economics, medicine — are trying to figure out through a metric called the social cost of carbon, a price that represents the total climate damage caused to society through carbon emissions. It’s been used in the past to justify tougher limits on carbon emissions and more spending on climate solutions, like transitioning to renewable energy and natural flood protection.
Currently, the United States government uses a price of $51 per ton of carbon dioxide emitted, but the researchers wrote in the journal Nature that the price should be $185 per ton — 3.6 times higher than the current U.S. standard.
“Our results suggest that we are vastly underestimating the harm from each additional ton of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” said Kevin Rennert, a study author and director of the federal climate policy initiative at Resources for the Future, an environmental nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. “And the implication is that the benefits of government policies and other actions that reduce global warming pollution are greater than has been estimated.”
Rennert and colleagues created an updated model to measure the societal cost of emitting carbon that includes several measures excluded in previous research. They say key additions include a better accounting of the uncertainty of future climate policy, economic growth and environmental phenomena like sea level rise. They also include damages to ecosystems, biodiversity and human health, which previously weren’t accounted for.
The changes come in response to a 2017 report from the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine that said current carbon pricing calculations were inadequate and gave several recommendations for bringing the outdated models up to speed.
Researchers began calculating damages from carbon emissions in the 1980s and before 2017, the last updates to the modelling were in the early to mid 1990s, “when the Counting Crows were still at the top of the charts,” said Max Auffhammer, an author of the 2017 report and professor of international sustainable development at the University of California, Berkeley. Auffhammer, who was not involved in the Nature study, praised the updated model.
“A lot of science has happened,” he said. “A lot of amazing datasets have come online for us to study how environmental change translates into outcomes we care about. So, that’s in there now.”
But not all of the authors of the 2017 report think the updated model presented in Nature is ready for use on the federal level.
“I found it to be …. an interesting academic piece. It offers a lot of food for thought,” said Steven Rose, another author of the 2017 report and a senior research economist at the Electric Power Research Institute. “However, I also thought it’s a long way from what the current administration needs,” he said, noting the new research relied on limited prior damage studies.
In the U.S. federal officials began applying the cost estimate to new regulations more than a decade ago after environmentalists successfully sued the government for not taking greenhouse gas emissions into account when setting vehicle mileage standards.
The $51 per ton estimate under Biden restored a figure used during the Obama administration. The Trump administration had reduced the figure to about $7 or less per ton. The lowered estimate counted only damages felt in the U.S.
Republicans have fought against using estimated future climate damages to steer policy, and officials in 23 states last year joined together on a pair of lawsuits claiming the Biden administration’s use of the social cost of carbon was illegal. Led by the attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri, the states allege the Biden administration wants to use the future costs to justify stringent curbs on energy companies and other polluting industries.
The GOP states won a temporary victory in February when a judge in Louisiana blocked the administration’s use of the $51-per-ton value. That was reversed in March by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which said the states had not shown any specific harm caused by the administration’s consideration of climate damages.
The states are still pressing the lawsuits and in June argued before the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals seeking to again block the administration.
At the core of the legal dispute is how much effect the social cost of carbon will have on industry. That’s likely to be much greater at a higher value of $185 per ton, because as potential future damages become more costly, the benefits from avoiding those damages through more stringent rules grow accordingly.
“It suggests there are many more actions we can take to curb carbon emissions that are going to be on the table that were not on the table before,” said Stanford University economist Marshall Burke.
While the social cost of carbon has been considered in more than a dozen actions under Biden – including tougher fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks and new oil and gas lease sales on public lands – federal officials have said in court briefings that so far it has not been a deciding factor.
The Biden administration was due to release an updated estimate in January, but that was delayed in part by the litigation from states.
The White House said it is still reviewing the best way to price climate damages when making policy decisions. But officials already have determined that the interim price of $51 per ton is too low. In an analysis of the new climate law published last week by the White House Office of Management and Budget, officials wrote that “the interim social cost of carbon estimates are currently significantly underestimated because they do not account for many important climate damage categories, such as ocean acidification.”
An agency spokesperson declined to give a timeline for a new cost estimate.
“This Administration remains committed to accounting for the costs of greenhouse gas emissions as accurately as possible, and we continue to assess how best to account for these costs in regulatory and budgetary contexts in the future,” the Office of Management and Budget said in a statement to The Associated Press.
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Global coffee chain Starbucks has named Indian-born Laxman Narasimhan its next CEO.
Narasimhan, who currently heads health and hygiene company Reckitt, will join Starbucks in October and take over from its iconic interim CEO Howard Shultz in April.
Narasimhan joins the growing ranks of Indian-descent CEOs heading leading US corporate giants such as Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, Shantanu Narayen of Adobe, Punit Renjen of Deloitte and Raj Subramaniam of FedEx. Major former Desi CEOs include Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo and Ajay Banga of Mastercard.
The incoming Starbuck CEO studied mechanical engineering at the University of Pune and then he headed west, picking up Masters in German and International Studies from The Lauder Institute at The University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania.
"Starbucks commitment to uplift humanity through connection and compassion has long distinguished the company, building an unrivaled, globally admired brand that has transformed the way we connect over coffee. I am humbled to be joining this iconic company at such a pivotal time, as the reinvention and investments in the partner and customer experiences position us to meet the changing demands we face today and set us up for an even stronger future," said Narasimhan, adding, "I look forward to working closely with Howard, the Board, and the entire leadership team -- and to listening and learning from Starbucks partners -- as we collectively build on this work to lead the company into its next chapter of growth and impact."
He will relocate to Seattle, Washington, from London and will work closely with Shultz before taking over formally in April.
"Laxman is an inspiring leader. His deep, hands-on experience driving strategic transformations at global consumer-facing businesses makes him the ideal choice to accelerate Starbucks growth and capture the opportunities ahead of us. His understanding of our culture and values, coupled with his expertise as a brand builder, innovation champion, and operational leader will be true differentiators as we position Starbucks for the next 50 years, generating value for all our stakeholders," said Shultz.
Shultz's handpicked successor Kevin Johnson retired in April after five years and Shultz returned to take back control of the company as interim CEO and a search got underway for a long-term head, which ended with Narasimhan being announced on Thursday.
Shultz will remain a member of the Starbucks board, the company said and he will "remain closely involved with the company's reinvention and act as an ongoing advisor to Narasimhan".
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Biden administration awards $1 billion for economic projects
WASHINGTON (AP) — Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is announcing Friday $1 billion worth of federal grants for manufacturing, clean energy, farming, biotech and other sectors that will go to 21 regional partnerships.
The winners were chosen from 529 initial applicants vying for grants that were part of last year’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. The Biden administration has repeatedly laid out a vision for the economy that is more self-sufficient and driven by high-tech manufacturing and the development of renewable energy.
“The whole point of this is we’re not going to let you get left behind as we transition to a more digital economy, to a more technical economy, to a green economy,” Raimondo told The Associated Press. “People want to work where they live. People want to know there is a place for them in the changing economy.”
Unlike much of the pandemic aid that was meant to address immediate needs, the $1 billion in grants is part of a longer-term effort to revitalize parts of the country that have needed an economic jolt for existing industries and capital for new ventures. The mission is personal for Raimondo, whose father lost his job at a watch factory in Rhode Island. She said the grants are the largest ever for local economic development provided by the Commerce Department.
The grants include $65.1 million in California to improve farm production and $25 million for a robotics cluster in Nebraska. Georgia gets $65 million for artificial intelligence. There is $63.7 million for lithium-based battery development in New York. Coal counties in West Virginia would receive $62.8 million to help with the shift to solar power and find new uses for abandoned mines.
Raimondo said the winners were chosen based on merit rather than politics. She estimated that the investments, which will be provided over five years as reimbursements, will result in at least 100,000 jobs.
Solidly Republican states such as Oklahoma and South Dakota received funding, and money also is going ahead of November’s midterm elections toward political battlegrounds that could decide control of Congress. There is $44 million for regenerative medicine in New Hampshire, where Democrat Maggie Hassan is defending her U.S. Senate seat. Pennsylvania, which has an open Senate seat, is set to receive $62.7 million for robotics and artificial intelligence.
The massive amount of coronavirus aid at the start of President Joe Biden’s tenure helped to accelerate job growth as the U.S. recovered from the pandemic. But accompanying the hiring was a burst of inflation that hit a 40-year peak this summer, crushing consumer sentiment and putting the administration on the defensive to show how its policies are helping the economy.
Even as much of the coronavirus money has been disbursed, the administration has said it still needs more money to contain the disease and its variations. Biden unsuccessfully sought to get $22.5 billion from Congress to address and prevent outbreaks, a figure that lawmakers reduced to $10 billion in negotiations. But additional funding was never passed by Congress despite confirmed cases that are now averaging about 90,000 daily.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tried to minimize the lack of funding after the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved modified booster shots of the vaccines. Jean-Pierre said booster shots would be available after the Labor Day holiday as the administration has worked with local partners.
Still, the grants for economic development indicate that the relief package could have a multi-decade impact that goes beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The New Orleans area will receive $50 million to use hydrogen produced by wind power that does not cause carbon emissions, a meaningful change in Louisiana, a state that has long depended on fossil fuels.
“With clean hydrogen, we can remain an energy state — but become an energy state of the future that has less impact on the environment,” said Michael Hecht, president and CEO of Greater New Orleans Inc., an economic development nonprofit. “When money and morality come together, you get stuff done.”
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor on Thursday sued the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, contesting its legal ability to force him to answer questions about it.
The lawsuit filed by Doug Mastriano contends that the committee lacks appointees of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and thus does not comply with House rules for conducting a compelled deposition of witnesses.
A properly appointed ranking minority member is necessary for a witness to have access to protections provided in House rules on deposition authority, the lawsuit says.
Last month, Mastriano cut short a closed-door interview without answering questions from committee members. The committee refused to let Mastriano record the deposition, Mastriano’s lawsuit said, and Mastriano has concerns about how the committee might disseminate excerpts to the public from a closed-door deposition with him, the lawsuit said.
A committee spokesperson declined comment on the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington.
Still, Mastriano’s lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, has said his client is willing to voluntarily testify publicly before the panel and has told the FBI that he didn’t know about a planned insurrection or any coordination behind the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Mastriano, a state senator and retired U.S. Army colonel who won the GOP nomination for governor in May, was in regular communication with Donald Trump as the then-president sought to stay in power despite his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
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Releasing on game consoles today, the multiplayer brawler full of brick-bashing fun takes the platform fighter genre to the next level with unique build-and-brawl customization mechanics
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- September 2, 2022: The new brick-based, team action brawler, LEGO® Brawls, releases today on Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation® 5, PlayStation®4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Steam, and GeForce NOW. The multiplayer platformer is a first for the genre, combining near-infinite brawler customization, unlockable content, and action-packed, competitive gameplay set in the LEGO universe. With cross-platform play (cross-play) and multiple game modes, LEGO Brawls is a family-friendly video game for players of all ages, skill levels, and play preferences. LEGO Brawls is developed and published by the LEGO Group in partnership with Red Games Co., and is being distributed in physical format for consoles by Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc.
"LEGO Brawls showcases LEGO play in a brand new way with its awesome family friendly fun. Customize your minifigure and team up with your friends for some supercharged action, across all your most loved LEGO themes," said Murray Andrews, Head of Publishing at LEGO Games.
The game's build-and-brawl mechanics are an unprecedented evolution of the traditional platform fighter genre. Players build and compete with custom, one-of-a-kind LEGO minifigure brawlers tailored to their personality, strategy, and play style. With more than 77 trillion customization possibilities, players can choose any combination of minifigure parts, accessories, melee weapons, power-ups, emotes, and names to build their winning brawler. Seasonal events and content create even more possibilities.
"In a uniquely LEGO approach to the genre, imagination, self-expression, and zany humor set the stage for the game's true-to-form, light-hearted competition style," said Brian Lovell, CEO of Red Games Co. "LEGO Brawls breaks into new territory that encourages individuality, team collaboration, and pure competitive fun."
The game features iconic LEGO themed levels, from beloved classic themes like Space and Castle, to fan-favorites such as LEGO Jurassic World™, LEGO NINJAGO®, and LEGO Monkie Kid™. Each level offers different game modes, unique challenges, and win conditions. During multiplayer online play, players can compete 4v4 to control the point, gather collectibles in Collect Mode levels, play a battle royale-style game where it's "every-player-for-themself," or have a free-for-brawl where the last player standing wins. In Party Mode, players can play private games with friends locally or online. With cross-platform support, players everywhere can team up and compete, regardless of their game system.
"LEGO Brawls is a distinct spin on the competitive brawler genre and a game the whole family can enjoy," said Savannah Ho, Associate Brand Manager, Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. "The game provides an amazing range of customizable options and game play features, giving players a platform for endless fun as they compete for bragging rights with friends or go for global glory on online leaderboards."
LEGO Brawls is now available via retailers, Nintendo eShop, PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store for Xbox, Steam, Apple Arcade, and GeForce NOW. For more information, please visit www.legobrawlsgame.com.
Red Games Co. is a game development studio based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Los Angeles, California, focused on creating fun, competitive, and family-friendly games. The studio creates original games that players of all ages and abilities can enjoy based on its own internal IP as well as collaborations with longtime partners (including LEGO®, Hasbro, and Crayola). Red Games Co.'s hit games and apps include LEGO Brawls, Crayola Create and Play, Transformers Tactical Arena, Solitaire Stories, Super Mega Mini Party, and Bold Moves. "Our mission is to create games that multigenerational audiences love to play, friends and families can enjoy together, and parents can endorse," says Red Games Co. CEO Brian Lovell. www.redgames.co.
The LEGO Group's mission is to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow through the power of play. The LEGO System in Play, with its foundation in LEGO bricks, allows children and fans to build and rebuild anything they can imagine. The LEGO Group was founded in Billund, Denmark in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen, its name derived from the two Danish words LEg GOdt, meaning "Play Well". Today, the LEGO Group remains a family-owned company headquartered in Billund. However, its products are now sold in more than 130 countries worldwide.
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Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc., part of the Bandai Namco Group, is a leading global publisher and developer of interactive entertainment for major video game consoles, PC, online, and mobile platforms. The company is known for creating many of the industry's beloved classic franchises such as PAC-MAN®, GALAGA®, TEKKEN®, SOULCALIBUR®, and ACE COMBAT®, and publishing the critically acclaimed DARK SOULS™ series and the blockbuster title ELDEN RING™. Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. is also the premier publisher in the Western hemisphere for anime-based video games including GUNDAM™, NARUTO SHIPPUDEN™, DRAGON BALL™, and ONE PIECE®. Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. is headquartered in Irvine, California. More information about the company and its products can be found at http://www.bandainamcoent.com.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Co-Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CODX).
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According to a filed complaint, Co-Diagnostics, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) demand for the Company's Logix Smart™ COVID-19 test had plummeted throughout the quarter ended June 30, 2022, and (ii) as a result, defendants' positive statements about the demand for its Logix Smart™ COVID-19 test lacked a reasonable basis.
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TSXV: OIII | OTCQX: OIIIF - O3 Mining
TORONTO, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - O3 Mining Inc. (TSXV: OIII) (OTCQX: OIIIF) ("O3 Mining" or the "Corporation") is pleased to announce that its common shares (the "Common Shares") are now eligible for electronic clearing and settlement through the Depository Trust Company ("DTC").
DTC is a subsidiary of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, a United States company that manages electronic clearing and settlement for publicly traded companies. Securities that are eligible to be electronically cleared and settled through the DTC are considered to be "DTC Eligible".
DTC eligibility is expected to simplify the process of trading and transferring the Common Shares and to enhance the liquidity of the Common Shares in the United States because of the accelerated settlement period and the expected reduction in costs for investors and brokers, enabling the Common Shares to be traded over a wider selection of brokerage firms.
In addition, the Corporation has entered into an issuer trading services agreement (the "Generation Agreement") with Generation IACP Inc. ("Generation") pursuant to which, among other things, Generation has agreed to provide certain investor relation and market making services to the Corporation in accordance with Policy 3.4 – Investor Relations, Promotional and Market-Making Activities of the TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange").
Generation's engagement is for an initial term of six months (the "Initial Term"). The Generation Agreement shall be automatically renewed for subsequent three-month periods (each a "Renewal Term") unless the Corporation provides written notice of termination to Generation at least 30 days prior to the end of the Initial Term or a Renewal Term, as applicable. Throughout the Initial Term and any Renewal Term, the Corporation shall pay Generation a monthly fee of $7,500, payable quarterly in advance at the direction of Generation. The monthly fee shall automatically increase by 3% on each anniversary of the Generation Agreement.
Generation provides investment advisory services on behalf of institutions across the country. Through Generation's engagement, the Corporation hopes to contribute to market liquidity of the Corporation's common shares.
There are no performance factors contained in the Generation Agreement and Generation will not receive common shares or options as compensation. Further, Generation and the Corporation are unrelated and unaffiliated entities and, at the time of the Generation Agreement, neither Generation nor any of its principals have an interest, directly or indirectly, in the securities of the Corporation.
O3 Mining Inc., an Osisko Group company, is a gold explorer and mine developer on the road to produce from its highly prospective gold camps in Québec, Canada. O3 Mining benefits from the support, previous mine-building success, and expertise of the Osisko team as it grows towards being a gold producer with several multi-million-ounce deposits in Québec.
O3 Mining is well-capitalized and owns a 100% interest in all its properties (66,000 hectares) in Québec. O3 Mining trades on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV: OIII) and OTC Markets (OTCQX: OIIIF). The Corporation is focused on delivering superior returns to its shareholders and long-term benefits to its stakeholders. Further information can be found on our website at https://o3mining.com
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release. No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein.
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MADRID (AP) — Gibraltar authorities said Friday that 80 percent of the diesel from a damaged and partly sunken bulk carrier ship has been removed but that some 180 tons of heavy fuel oil is still on board.
The ship was ordered beached after colliding Monday with another vessel in the bay of the British territory located at the western entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.
A government spokesman said there had been no further seepage of heavy fuel since Thursday and that the situation was under control.
The spokesman, who was not authorized to be named publicly, said the ship had been carrying 250 tons of diesel and still had 183 tons of heavy fuel oil and 27 tons of lubricant oil in its tanks.
The heavy fuel oil is potentially more damaging to the environment and more difficult to extract, raising concerns in Spain and Gibraltar for marine life and tourism in the area.
The spokesman said there may be announcement later Friday as to when salvage will begin working on removing the fuel.
An aerial photo of the stricken ship showed a slick on the outside of the booms placed to contain it. Officials in the nearby Spanish town of La Linea said they would study legal action if the oil reaches the coast.
The environmental impact or the quantity of oil spilled was not immediately clear. Divers sent to the ship have already sealed the source of the leak.
The usually busy port of Gibraltar remains closed, but the neighboring Algeciras port in Spain is fully operational.
The 178-meter (584-foot), Tuvalu-registered OS 35 was carrying a cargo of steel bars.
The LNG carrier with which it collided sustained little damage. No one was injured in the collision.
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With the price of almost everything up this year, it was inevitable: the cost of America's favorite alcoholic beverage is now going up, too.
As marketing director for a growing craft brewery, MadTree Brewing, Trevor Self has a job many would envy.
"We just won gold at the World Beer Cup," he said, speaking about their Ziegler American Style Amber Lager.
But this year, that dream job has become a bad dream for some brewers struggling with supplier price hikes.
"Ever since 2020, things have been fluctuating and getting higher, so we're always factoring in what could possibly be," Self said.
Prices and shortages start to take a toll
It has been a rough couple of years for the craft brewing industry. Like any of us, when we go to the supermarket, they've been dealing with the same inflationary pressures and shortages on a much bigger scale.
"Some people out there are having a tough time getting their hands on cans, or how much they have to pay for them," he said.
Luckily, he said, MadTree locked in a contract for cans months ago, so [it] has not been hit as hard with price hikes as many other craft brewers.
A report on the enthusiast site Good Beer Hunting.com called "Running on Fumes" lists some of the price hikes brewers are facing in 2022.
- Aluminum cans: Up 20% in a year.
- Malt: Up 30% or more.
- Shipping costs: Up 50%.
- Labor: Up 20%.
But the CO2 -- or carbon dioxide -- shortage is causing the most headaches right now.
Chuck Skypeck with the national Brewers Association said that some smaller craft breweries are curtailing production until later this fall.
"It is a key ingredient," he said. "So, if you don't have carbon dioxide, you don't have [a] beer."
That means some breweries -- especially in New England -- won't be stocking all their usual beers in the next few months.
"They may not see their favorite beer on the shelf if the brewery has encountered those problems," Skypeck said.
The government's Consumer Price Index shows beer prices up 5% this year, but Skypeck said that could go higher.
Back at MadTree brewing, Self said they are doing everything possible to keep their taps flowing and their prices reasonable.
"We are always finding creative and strategic ways to save on costs without damaging our product," he said.
That way, that first sip will be crisp and affordable, so you don't waste your money.
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For Olmsted's 200th birthday, a renewed effort to make Boston's parks welcoming to all
On a recent hot summer day, a steady beat sounded throughout Dorchester’s Savin Hill park, as several dozen Black seniors gathered to learn how to play Japanese drums called taiko. It looked like a fairly simple set-up — chairs, drums, an instructor, microphones and loudspeakers — but organizers put a lot of effort in to make the event feel inclusive.
The event was funded by a grant from a coalition of civic, nonprofit and community organizations called Olmsted Now in an effort to change the way people perceive who is welcome in parks. The effort is in honor of the 200th birthday of Frederick Olmsted, who designed Boston’s 7-mile-long Emerald Necklace and thought high quality parks should be open and available to all.
“These grants are meant to disrupt spaces, and break them out of the norm,” said Joëlle Fontaine of the Dorchester-based Design Studio for Social Intervention, which is part of the coalition. “Let's shake up what the system has been thus far and see how far we can push it, because some things need to change in order for us to really think about equity in a very real way."
Public parks make communities healthier, but a recent study by the nonprofit Trust for Public Land has found people of color have far less access to park space than their white counterparts.
“Boston is one of the few cities in the country where there actually is a park within a 10-minute walk of everyone who lives there,” said the Trust’s CEO Diane Regas. “But we look not just at, is there a park? But, is it a quality park? And it's in those places where Boston can continue to improve.”
Many note that one of the ways Boston could improve is by making everyone feel included in these green spaces.
At the Savin Hill event, organizer Karen Young said a neighbor made them feel unwelcome by asking what the group was doing in the park, and saying they should move. Another organizer of an upcoming Olmsted Now event, Kera Washington, said she called an insurance company to get the policy the city requires for a permit, and they asked exactly what kind of music would be played. She is planning a day of interactive African diaspora workshops and performances.
“‘Could it be considered rap?’” Washington recalls them asking. “And I said, ‘Well, why are you asking the question?’ And the response was, ‘Well, because our policy doesn’t cover hip-hop.’ So, that was the end of the conversation right there.”
These are the kinds of hurdles novice event organizers — often people of color — face, that Olmsted Now is trying to identify and slowly eliminate. But there was little diversity at the first meeting that led to the formation of Olmsted Now, in 2020. Jen Mergel was there; she’s director of experience and cultural partnerships at the nonprofit Emerald Necklace Conservancy, which funded Olmsted Now’s grants this summer.
“We looked around the room,” she remembers. “There were 39 people. There were three colleagues of color. And everybody in the room was saying, ‘This is not Boston.’ ”
They were thinking and talking about things like George Floyd’s death, and Christian Cooper in New York City's Central Park being accused by Amy Cooper of threatening her because he was asking her to leash her dog.
“And so we were feeling very compelled by this question of if Olmsted was designing these parks, ‘for all,’ for everyone — that really isn't our reality,” Mergel said. “Because clearly structures are still in place that mean these parks don’t feel like they are for everyone.”
The committee decided on a plan for equitable decision-making, involving all the impacted groups in a Committee of Neighborhoods. For help bringing it together, they turned to Fontaine.
“The gatekeepers who have been at the head for such a very long time have a perception of how things should be and who should be at the forefront of all of these things,” she said. “This was the first time I’ve worked on something like this where the people that the grants are really there to benefit, they were at the forefront to make the decisions.”
The committee put out a call for proposals in April, offering $200,000 in grants. They chose 16 winning projects deemed mostly likely to shift people’s thinking about who is welcome and who can be their full selves in Olmsted’s parks. Many of the resulting exhibits, art pieces and events will debut this month.
They range from salsa dancing and a Day of the Dead celebration, to spoken word performances and processions to honor enslaved African Americans. A member of the Nipmuc tribe will burn an 18-foot tree trunk for a week to create a traditional canoe. In Dorchester’s Fields Corner, Asian American groups are planning a multimedia exhibit to tell the stories of people facing deportation.
“It's about, you know, equity — I mean thinking about this sense of belonging,” said lead artist Ngoc-Tran Vu. “It’s about who belongs here, and who's not welcome.”
And it’s about changing those assumptions, she said. That may happen slowly, so the Olmsted Now Committee of Neighborhoods hopes the grant program will continue. The Emerald Necklace Conservancy is raising funds toward that end in the hopes that, one day, Boston’s parks will come closer to being the equitable places for everyone that Frederick Olmsted hoped they would be.
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WOBURN, Mass., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Azurity Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative dose-forms and formulations of products to serve the needs of overlooked patients, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Konvomep™ (omeprazole and sodium bicarbonate for oral suspension). Konvomep™ is approved for the treatment of active benign gastric ulcer and reduction of risk of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in critically ill patients.
"We are very pleased that patients will soon have access to this FDA-approved oral liquid formulation option of a commonly prescribed proton pump inhibitor1," said Richard Blackburn, CEO of Azurity Pharmaceuticals. "Patients are our priority, and our purpose is to bring them new formulations that help them benefit from established medicines. Konvomep™ may give patients, particularly patients with difficulty swallowing pills or capsules, an option for treatment tailored to their needs."
"Patients who struggle with taking solid oral dosage forms may be overlooked and have historically had limited FDA-approved treatment options available as liquid formulations," said Olga Hilas, PharmD, MPH, BCPS, BCGP, Professor, Clinical Health Professions, St. John's University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Queens, New York.
It is expected that Konvomep™ will become commercially available in pharmacies nationwide in Q1 2023. For full prescribing and additional information, please go to www.konvomep.com.
Azurity Pharmaceuticals is a privately held pharmaceutical company that focuses on innovative products that meet the specific needs of overlooked patients. As an industry leader in providing unique, accessible, and high-quality medications, Azurity leverages its integrated capabilities and vast partner network to continually expand its broad commercial product portfolio and robust late-stage pipeline. The company's products span the cardiovascular, neurology, endocrinology, gastro-intestinal, institutional, and orphan markets, and have benefited millions of patients. For more information, visit www.azurity.com.
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Biden administration awards $1 billion for economic projects
WASHINGTON (AP) — Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is announcing Friday $1 billion worth of federal grants for manufacturing, clean energy, farming, biotech and other sectors that will go to 21 regional partnerships.
The winners were chosen from 529 initial applicants vying for grants that were part of last year’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. The Biden administration has repeatedly laid out a vision for the economy that is more self-sufficient and driven by high-tech manufacturing and the development of renewable energy.
“The whole point of this is we’re not going to let you get left behind as we transition to a more digital economy, to a more technical economy, to a green economy,” Raimondo told The Associated Press. “People want to work where they live. People want to know there is a place for them in the changing economy.”
Unlike much of the pandemic aid that was meant to address immediate needs, the $1 billion in grants is part of a longer-term effort to revitalize parts of the country that have needed an economic jolt for existing industries and capital for new ventures. The mission is personal for Raimondo, whose father lost his job at a watch factory in Rhode Island. She said the grants are the largest ever for local economic development provided by the Commerce Department.
The grants include $65.1 million in California to improve farm production and $25 million for a robotics cluster in Nebraska. Georgia gets $65 million for artificial intelligence. There is $63.7 million for lithium-based battery development in New York. Coal counties in West Virginia would receive $62.8 million to help with the shift to solar power and find new uses for abandoned mines.
Raimondo said the winners were chosen based on merit rather than politics. She estimated that the investments, which will be provided over five years as reimbursements, will result in at least 100,000 jobs.
Solidly Republican states such as Oklahoma and South Dakota received funding, and money also is going ahead of November’s midterm elections toward political battlegrounds that could decide control of Congress. There is $44 million for regenerative medicine in New Hampshire, where Democrat Maggie Hassan is defending her U.S. Senate seat. Pennsylvania, which has an open Senate seat, is set to receive $62.7 million for robotics and artificial intelligence.
The massive amount of coronavirus aid at the start of President Joe Biden’s tenure helped to accelerate job growth as the U.S. recovered from the pandemic. But accompanying the hiring was a burst of inflation that hit a 40-year peak this summer, crushing consumer sentiment and putting the administration on the defensive to show how its policies are helping the economy.
Even as much of the coronavirus money has been disbursed, the administration has said it still needs more money to contain the disease and its variations. Biden unsuccessfully sought to get $22.5 billion from Congress to address and prevent outbreaks, a figure that lawmakers reduced to $10 billion in negotiations. But additional funding was never passed by Congress despite confirmed cases that are now averaging about 90,000 daily.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tried to minimize the lack of funding after the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved modified booster shots of the vaccines. Jean-Pierre said booster shots would be available after the Labor Day holiday as the administration has worked with local partners.
Still, the grants for economic development indicate that the relief package could have a multi-decade impact that goes beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The New Orleans area will receive $50 million to use hydrogen produced by wind power that does not cause carbon emissions, a meaningful change in Louisiana, a state that has long depended on fossil fuels.
“With clean hydrogen, we can remain an energy state — but become an energy state of the future that has less impact on the environment,” said Michael Hecht, president and CEO of Greater New Orleans Inc., an economic development nonprofit. “When money and morality come together, you get stuff done.”
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Fall fanatics are ready to embark on their favorite part of the year. They could be pulling the flannel out of the closet, filling up on everything pumpkin spice, or planning a trip to their local orchard as we speak.
Indiana has plenty of spots celebrated for their fall beauty and activities.
Digital magazine Trips to Discover has made a list titled the Top Town for Fall in Every State.
So what does the list have as the best fall festination in Indiana?
The honor goes to Shipshewana in Lagrange County, about three hours north of Indianapolis.
According to Trips to Discover’s list, the town in the heart of Indiana’s Amish country is a fall destination for its buggy lane tours and the foliage along the Pumpkinvine Trail.
Locally grown pumpkins and gourds are also sold regularly at Shipshewana swap meets.
The town also has a Fall Crafters Fair September 29 – October 1 and an annual circus from October 19 – 23.
You can see the best fall towns in other states here.
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TSXV: OIII | OTCQX: OIIIF - O3 Mining
TORONTO, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - O3 Mining Inc. (TSXV: OIII) (OTCQX: OIIIF) ("O3 Mining" or the "Corporation") is pleased to announce that its common shares (the "Common Shares") are now eligible for electronic clearing and settlement through the Depository Trust Company ("DTC").
DTC is a subsidiary of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, a United States company that manages electronic clearing and settlement for publicly traded companies. Securities that are eligible to be electronically cleared and settled through the DTC are considered to be "DTC Eligible".
DTC eligibility is expected to simplify the process of trading and transferring the Common Shares and to enhance the liquidity of the Common Shares in the United States because of the accelerated settlement period and the expected reduction in costs for investors and brokers, enabling the Common Shares to be traded over a wider selection of brokerage firms.
In addition, the Corporation has entered into an issuer trading services agreement (the "Generation Agreement") with Generation IACP Inc. ("Generation") pursuant to which, among other things, Generation has agreed to provide certain investor relation and market making services to the Corporation in accordance with Policy 3.4 – Investor Relations, Promotional and Market-Making Activities of the TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange").
Generation's engagement is for an initial term of six months (the "Initial Term"). The Generation Agreement shall be automatically renewed for subsequent three-month periods (each a "Renewal Term") unless the Corporation provides written notice of termination to Generation at least 30 days prior to the end of the Initial Term or a Renewal Term, as applicable. Throughout the Initial Term and any Renewal Term, the Corporation shall pay Generation a monthly fee of $7,500, payable quarterly in advance at the direction of Generation. The monthly fee shall automatically increase by 3% on each anniversary of the Generation Agreement.
Generation provides investment advisory services on behalf of institutions across the country. Through Generation's engagement, the Corporation hopes to contribute to market liquidity of the Corporation's common shares.
There are no performance factors contained in the Generation Agreement and Generation will not receive common shares or options as compensation. Further, Generation and the Corporation are unrelated and unaffiliated entities and, at the time of the Generation Agreement, neither Generation nor any of its principals have an interest, directly or indirectly, in the securities of the Corporation.
O3 Mining Inc., an Osisko Group company, is a gold explorer and mine developer on the road to produce from its highly prospective gold camps in Québec, Canada. O3 Mining benefits from the support, previous mine-building success, and expertise of the Osisko team as it grows towards being a gold producer with several multi-million-ounce deposits in Québec.
O3 Mining is well-capitalized and owns a 100% interest in all its properties (66,000 hectares) in Québec. O3 Mining trades on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV: OIII) and OTC Markets (OTCQX: OIIIF). The Corporation is focused on delivering superior returns to its shareholders and long-term benefits to its stakeholders. Further information can be found on our website at https://o3mining.com
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Earlier this year, federal judges found that the congressional district maps adopted in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana failed to provide enough representation for their respective state’s Black populations. In July, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled the state’s district map to be an illegal partisan gerrymander.
Nevertheless, these four maps, all drawn and adopted by Republican politicians, will be in use for the 2022 midterm elections. These racially discriminatory maps and illegal partisan gerrymander are likely to cost Democrats between five and seven seats in the House.
That could matter a lot as the polls continue to show a closer than anticipated race for control of the House in 2023.
As polls tighten and President Joe Biden’s approval rating ticks upward, predictions of GOP gains in the House are falling. The average expected House majority the GOP is anticipated to win has fallen from 21 seats at the end of June to just 11 on Sept. 1, according to FiveThirtyEight. Predicted GOP gains fell from 20-35 pickups to 10-20 in Cook Political’s Aug. 30 election outlook.
If the fight for House control winds up even closer, it may turn out to be that the GOP wins control on the back of these four contentious state maps.
Voting Rights Violations In The South
In Alabama, Republicans drew a new seven-district map that packed a large portion of the state’s Black population into one district favoring Democrats and dispersed the rest across six majority white districts heavily tilted to Republicans. Since Black Alabamans account for 27% of the state’s total population, a seven-seat congressional district map should provide two Black majority seats, according to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
Civil and voting rights groups challenged the map in federal court where a three-judge district court panel, made up of two Donald Trump appointees and one appointed by Bill Clinton, found that the map violated the Voting Rights Act and ordered the state to draw a new map with an additional Black majority district. When Alabama asked the court to lift the injunction on the district map as it appealed its decision, the judges denied it, noting that this was a “straightforward Section Two case,” backed by “an extremely robust body of evidence.”
Similarly, Louisiana Republicans passed a new congressional district map over the veto of Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards with five majority white districts heavily favoring Republicans, and only one majority Black district favoring Democrats despite Black Louisianans accounting for 33% of the state population. A district court judge ordered a new map drawn since the “Black representation under the enacted plan is not proportional to the Black share of population in Louisiana.”
But in both cases, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority stepped in to override the district court orders and allow both states to keep their unrepresentative maps, saying that it was too close to an election to change the maps. The court also said it would hear arguments in its fall session on whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act actually does require states add new minority opportunity districts to reflect minority population growth.
A district court judge in Georgia also found that Republicans in the state should have included a third majority-Black district as Black Georgians make up 33% of the state’s population and grew in number by 500,000 since the 2010 Census. But, following the decision reached by the Supreme Court in Alabama, the judge declined to block the map with only two majority-Black districts from being used in the 2022 election.
“Those are three seats that would have been Democratic seats that aren’t going to be Democratic seats,” said Michael Li, a senior counsel focused on redistricting at the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonprofit that advocates for and litigates on voting rights and nonpartisan redistricting.
Partisan Gerrymandering In Ohio
Up north in Ohio, which lost one House seat following the 2020 Census, state Republicans led the most contentious redistricting process after they refused to abide by a constitutional amendment adopted by Ohioans in 2018 to prevent partisan gerrymandering.
The voter-approved amendment created a redistricting process designed to encourage bipartisan agreement while also banning the adoption of maps that unduly favor one party over the other.
The redistricting process gives the state legislature the first shot at drawing congressional district lines. But they are only adopted if the map is backed by a two-thirds vote of both legislative chambers that includes one-half of the minority party ― in this case, Democrats. If the legislature fails, then a seven-member redistricting commission, made up of five Republicans and two Democrats, gets a turn. If the commission’s map does not receive bipartisan support, then the legislature gets another shot, but their map will only be valid four years, rather than the usual 10.
Twice the Ohio Supreme Court, in 4-3 votes, found that the congressional district maps adopted by Republicans “disfavored the Democratic Party in violation” of the state constitution. But one map went into effect for the state’s primary elections and will remain in effect through the 2024 elections.
That map supposedly gave 10 seats to Republicans and five to Democrats, but three of the Democratic-leaning seats are highly competitive compared to only one of the GOP-favoring seats.
Predictions of the electoral outcomes of this map submitted to the court showed that the most likely best-case scenario for Democrats was to win four congressional seats. That would be just 27% of the state’s congressional delegation despite Democrats winning 47% in recent statewide elections. That is also a best-case scenario. Democrats could win as few as two seats.
That’s a stark difference from the map the Ohio Supreme Court said the state should adopt. That map would give Republicans nine seats and Democrats six.
By adopting the current map, Democrats are likely to lose between two and four seats that they would otherwise win if Ohio politicians followed the direction of the state supreme court.
These four states alone cost Democrats between five and seven seats that they otherwise should be able to win, depending on the overall political climate. That could matter a lot after Election Day if the vote is close. | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/2022-election-redistricting_n_6311009fe4b0fc6bd23986f0 | 2022-09-02T11:37:01Z | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/2022-election-redistricting_n_6311009fe4b0fc6bd23986f0 | false |
EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — A Texas pecan farm nearly the size of Disneyland has become entangled in a turf war between the Biden administration and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over immigration enforcement on the southern border.
Hugo and Magali Urbina, who bought Heavenly Farms in April 2021, at first welcomed the state footing the bill for a new chain-link fence through their property earlier this year as part of Abbott’s multibillion-dollar crackdown on border crossings along the Rio Grande. But then, one day, they found the fence's main gate unexpectedly locked.
The lock was put there, the couple says, by Texas authorities who have spent months arresting thousands of migrants on trespassing charges on private land. But the Urbinas didn’t want the lock and neither did the U.S. Border Patrol, which found it impeded with the agency's own immigration enforcement and had it removed.
Now a single gate on the 1,200-mile Texas border has swung open a new dust-up over how to address near-record levels of migration on America’s southern doorstep, a fight the Urbinas say they want no part of.
“Unbelievable,” Abbott lashed out on social media last month after the lock was removed. “While Texas secures the border, the federal government is enabling illegal immigration.”
The dispute is the latest example of how Texas’ unprecedented challenge to the federal government’s authority on the border has created a clash among agencies working at cross purposes.
The Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass where most of the nearly 470-acre farm is located, is fast becoming the busiest corridor for illegal crossings, with thousands passing each week onto the farm alone. The sector may soon surpass Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, which has been the focus for the last decade.
The Urbinas do not oppose Abbott's massive border mission. But in the case of the lock, they say it went too far. They blamed what they see as a lack of single command in an area saturated with state troopers, Texas National Guard members, U.S. Border Patrol agents and local authorities, all of whom constantly cross paths and often work in tandem.
“They are all doing what they are being told,” Magali Urbina said. “It is really not their fault, but there is nobody running or telling them. There is no boss.”
It isn't an isolated case.
In September 2021, Texas troopers told Border Patrol agents on horseback to block migrants from crossing the river to a camp of nearly 16,000 predominantly Haitians in Del Rio, about an hour's drive north of Eagle Pass. Images of Border Patrol agents twirling reins at overpowered migrants sparked widespread criticism, including from President Joe Biden.
The internal investigation found that agents acted against Border Patrol objectives and “resulted in the unnecessary use of force against migrants who were attempting to reenter the United States with food.” The agents had been “instructed to help where needed” and not told anything more specific about how to respond to requests from another agency.
Abbott, who is seeking a third term, launched his multibillion-dollar “Operation Lone Star” last year, creating an overwhelming presence on the border. The size and cost of the mission has grown in defiance of the Democratic administration in Washington:
— Since July, the state has picked up 5,600 migrants who have entered the country illegally in Texas and returned them to ports of entry on the border, a role that has been reserved for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In Eagle Pass, state buses drop off migrants throughout the day at a border crossing with Piedras Negras, Mexico, as far as they can go. CBP releases them, creating a circular flow.
Since April, Texas has bused more than 7,000 migrants to Washington and New York on free, voluntary trips, attempting to call attention to what it considers Biden's failed policies. This week, Abbott began sending buses to Chicago, with the first arriving Thursday at Union Station. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has called the move a “political ploy."
— Since last year, the state has charged more than 4,800 migrants with trespassing, a misdemeanor that carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail.
The Urbinas' farm, which winds along the river, includes an old house that the couple is restoring for visitors to sample pecans, coffee and wine. They were inspired by Fredericksburg, a town of German heritage near Austin that draws tourists.
The farm of neatly manicured rows of trees had long drawn migrants but was relatively peaceful before the lifelong Eagle Pass resident couple bought it. It is located at the end of a stretch of new border fencing that was built on Abbott's orders, on the edge of the 30,000-resident town that is dotted with warehouses, decaying houses and chain stores.
Agents stopped migrants nearly 50,000 times in the Del Rio sector in July, with Rio Grande Valley a distant second at about 35,000. About 6 of 10 stops in the Del Rio sector were migrants from Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua, who are likely to be released to pursue their immigration cases because poor diplomatic relations with those countries means the U.S. can't send them home.
Migrants cross the river and climb a few feet uphill amidst overgrown Carrizo cane and concertina wire to surrender on the farm's edge, expecting they will be released. U.S. Border Patrol agents, state troopers and journalists are a regular presence.
Border Patrol unlocked the gate and took migrants in for processing, a regular procedure for the federal officials in any situation involving a lock within 25 miles of the border, said Jon Anfinsen, president of the National Border Patrol Council union chapter that includes agents in Eagle Pass.
“The governor is telling everyone, ‘Secure the border.’ I have no doubt that is the intent but the reality of it is that it’s just not that simple,” Anfinsen said. “We’ve been doing this forever and it hasn’t been fixed yet. So it’s a noble attempt, I suppose, but we’re going to have to take these people into custody.”
Border Patrol officials declined comment.
Ericka Miller, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said the agency is accommodating the Urbina's request to have the gate unlocked. She said DPS is also working to have carrizo cane on the property removed but said the Urbinas are allowing concertina wiring to stay on the property.
“All landowner agreements are voluntary and can be eliminated at any time. Again, DPS is there to assist the landowner," Miller said in an email.
The chain-link fence, which rises over the cane intertwined with the razor wire, makes it easier for the Urbinas to pursue trespassing charges against people crossing into their farm. However, they haven't, although they know cattle ranchers who have.
The state and federal governments are each “wanting to pull all the levers” and not working together, Hugo Urbina said. The couple regrets what they see as a disconnect.
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The no-code workflow automation user conference takes place October 20, 2022.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zapier—the leader in no-code automation—announced its annual user conference, ZapConnect, to be held virtually on October 20, 2022.
The free half-day event brings together thousands of Zapier users from marketing, IT, business, and other fields for engaging sessions on building, scaling, and growing with no-code automation.
Headlined by "Atomic Habits" author James Clear, ZapConnect speakers will include Zapier's co-founders, Mike Knoop and Wade Foster, leaders from Georgia Innocence Project, Tech Ladies, and others. Attendees will get the opportunity to network and learn from customers, experts, speakers, and Zapier employees about using workflow automation to help multiply their impact.
"We're excited to share our progress on new automation products and deliver six of our most requested features that will help our customers create and manage their business Zaps," said Mike Knoop, co-founder and President at Zapier. "Last year was our first time bringing our community together for an event, and this year we're expanding that with more tracks and more speakers, all looking to share their knowledge of workflow automation with our customers."
ZapConnect's four tracks cater to different industries and automation skill levels. Tracks include:
- Create - Intro to Zapier: Hands-on building sessions for people new to Zapier and automation, focusing on the basics and providing foundational skills needed to create their automation.
- Expand - Level Up: Hands-on building sessions for people experienced with Zapier and automation, focusing on building more complex and powerful workflow automation systems.
- Empower: Dedicated to helping users bring the power of Zapier to their companies and create more efficient, powerful teams.
- Attract: A track dedicated to popular marketing and sales workflows to help users find, nurture, and win more customers.
To learn more about ZapConnect and register for your free ticket, please visit www.zapier.com/zapconnect.
About: Founded in 2011, Zapier's mission is to make automation work for everyone so that every person and every business can progress at growth speed. A leader in no-code automation, Zapier makes it easier to automate workflows and move data across 5000+ apps. Zapier powers customers from startups to Fortune 100 and has been doing it for over a decade.
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Northwest improved to 2-0 with a 28-0 win over Gabriel Richard on Thursday. It is the Mounties’ first shutout win since beating Western 41-0 on October 22, 2010. It is also the first time since 2013 the Mounties have been 2-0.
Izayiah Hawes followed a strong Week 1 with 120 rushing yards and two touchdowns. Gage Race and JR Morrow also ran for touchdowns as Northwest put up 330 rushing yards as a team.
Colton Mroczka and Adam Haselius each intercepted passes, with Mroczka deflecting three others.
Napoleon 41, East Jackson 12: The Napoleon defense recorded seven sacks in a win over the Trojans.
Aiden Nugent had two sacks. Mason Roth, Connor Atwell and Joey Hamlin also got to the quarterback. Roth also had a 73-yard fumble return for a touchdown and Mikey Humphreys intercepted a pass and returned it 25 yards for a score.
Bart Laretz rushed for 136 yards and three touchdowns for Napoleon.
Austin Tingley was 11-for-19 passing for 120 yards for East Jackson, including a touchdown pass to Braedon Desy. Caleb Weaver had 19 rushes for 148 yards.
Grand Ledge 29, Jackson 28: The Vikings fell in their home opener.
Jackson had 253 yards on the ground in the game.
Reading 26, Grass Lake 14: Reading rallied to beat Grass Lake in a nonconference game.
The Warriors opened the scoring with a 55-yard screen pass to Andrew Stockton before the Ranger took a 12-7 lead on a pair of interceptions returned for scores. A four-yard touchdown run by Stockton put Grass Lake back in front in the third quarter, but Reading scored a pair of touchdowns in the fourth.
Brayden Lape was 15-for-17 passing for 206 yards for Grass Lake. Jack Pine made 12 tackles and had an interception. Jack Riede added an interception. Stockton had 55 rushing yards and 55 receiving yards.
Berrien Springs 35, Hillsdale 28: A 14-point third quarter helped lead Berrien Springs over the Hornets.
Stephen Peterson ran for three first-half touchdowns, including a 69-yard run. He added another score in the fourth quarter. He finished with 16 carries for 143 yards. Kodi Zuver added 10 carries for 96 yards.
Concord 40, Britton Deerfield 30: The Yellowjackets got 256 passing yards from Anthony Evans in a win over Britton Deerfield.
He hit Mekhi Wingfield with touchdown passes of 53, 53 and 27 yards, and found Logan Lamb for a 38-yard touchdown pass and a 15-yard touchdown pass. Collin Thompson added a 61-yard touchdown run.
Thompson had 102 rushing yards. Evans added 85. Wingfield had 10 catches for 194 yards. | https://www.mlive.com/sports/jackson/2022/09/jackson-roundup-northwest-shuts-out-opponent-for-first-time-since-2010.html | 2022-09-02T11:47:55Z | https://www.mlive.com/sports/jackson/2022/09/jackson-roundup-northwest-shuts-out-opponent-for-first-time-since-2010.html | false |
BEIJING, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobio Pharma (1167.HK) announced it has completed first patient dosage of it's in-house R&D drug candidate CD73 monoclonal antibody JAB-BX102 in a Phase I/IIa clinical trial for advanced solid tumour patients.
This is a phase I/IIa multi-center, open-label clinical study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and preliminary evidence of anti-tumor activity of JAB-BX102 monotherapy and combination with Pembrolizumab in adult patients with advanced solid tumors.
JAB-BX102 is Jacobio's first big molecule program entered into the clinical stage. "The landscape of cancer treatment has been more and more complicated, combination therapies between different modalities are needed. Jacobio's pipeline focuses on the unmet clinical needs and aims to bring hope to more patients through the in-house combination therapies. As an important Immune Oncology target, CD73 has the potential to be used in combination with multiple immuno-oncological therapies, such as PD-1/PD-L1 antibody and STING agonist, so as to relieve the immunosuppression of tumor microenvironment, stimulate the proliferation and activation of immune effector cells, enhance tumor immunity and play a synergistic role. Jacobio is developing CD73 STING iADC JAB-X1800." Said Dr. Yinxiang Wang, Chairman and CEO of Jacobio.
JAB-BX102 is a humanized monoclonal antibody, anti-CD73. CD73 is a protein that plays a key role in the adenosine pathway, and its inhibition has broad therapeutic potential for tumors that are reliant on an active adenosine pathway. Combination treatment of JAB-BX102 with immune checkpoint drugs such as PD-(L)1 (anti-PD-1, or anti-PD-L1) antibodies, can result in synergistic anti-tumor efficacy. There are no anti-CD73 antibodies currently approved for cancer therapy. Pre-clinical data suggest that JAB-BX102 has a dose-activity advantage and has the potential to benefit patients with solid tumors.
About Jacobio
Jacobio Pharma (1167.HK) is committed to developing and providing new and innovative products and solutions to improve people's health. Our pipeline revolves around novel molecular targets on six major signalling pathways: KRAS, immune checkpoints, tumor metabolism, P53, RB and MYC. We aim for our key projects to be among the top three in the world. Our vision is to become a global leader recognized for our impact in drug R&D together with our partners. Jacobio has R&D centers in Beijing, Shanghai and Boston with our Induced Allosteric Drug Discovery Platform (IADDP) and our iADC Platform.
Please visit us at www.jacobiopharma.com
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MORGAN COUNTY, Colo., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Westervelt Ecological Services (WES) has received federal approval to improve water quality as well as plant and animal habitat by restoring wetlands on 109 acres in Morgan County, near the banks of the South Platte River just outside the City of Fort Morgan. The project, known as the Front Range Mitigation Bank (FRMB), has been approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide wetland credits in the Middle-South Platte-Sterling (10190012), Pawnee (10190014), Middle-South Platte-Cherry Creek (10190012), Sidney Draw (10190017), Crow (10190009), Upper Lodgepole (10190016), and Bijou (10190011) watersheds for unavoidable impacts to waters of the United States which result from activities authorized under section 404 of the Clean Water Act. The first issue of credits is available now.
FRMB is a multi-benefit project that will restore the environmental functions of wetland flood control, sediment control, groundwater recharge, and water quality. Additional improvements to wildlife habitat will provide enhanced bird viewing opportunities and improved aesthetics in the area. "We are very excited about the wildlife and wetland conservation this Bank site will provide—the restored wetland systems and warm water slough that traverses the site is vital to diverse wildlife in the area." says WES Rocky Mountain Region Director, Tyler Bell.
Environmental regulatory agencies including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Federal Highway Administration must approve a mitigation bank in the State of Colorado before credits can be sold. Mitigation banks provide enhanced environmental benefits over smaller, piece-meal mitigation and retain inherent biological, financial and legal assurances to ensure ecological project success. Economic advantages recognized by public and private sector developers include economies of scale, reduced permitting time and costs, and severance of liability.
To learn more about the site and the credits available, contact Will Duggins at (816) 224-9497 or email wduggins@westervelt.com.
About Westervelt Ecological Services: Providing conservation on a landscape scale is the mission of Westervelt Ecological Services. A division of The Westervelt Company, a 137 year-old land stewardship company based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Westervelt Ecological Services offers mitigation banking solutions for developers and businesses who need to mitigate impacts to wetlands or species across the country. To learn more visit www.wesmitigation.com.
Contact: Tyler Bell (337) 591-6110 or
tbell@westervelt.com (Bank Manager)
Will Duggins (816) 224-9497 or
wduggins@westervelt.com (Credit Sales)
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SYLVANIA, Ohio (AP) — Chinese rookie Ruoning Yin turned her irritation over a bogey into six birdies over his last 10 holes Thursday for a 6-under 65 and a three-way tie for the lead in the Dana Open.
Hye-Jin Choi, who like Yin earned her LPGA Tour card last year for the first time, and Carlota Ciganda of Spain also had 65 at Highland Meadow.
The large group at 66 included Lexi Thompson, Lydia Ko and Leona Maguire of Ireland.
The 19-year-old Yin has been coping with a wrist injury and missed four straight cuts on the LPGA Tour. Her last appearance was in mid-July, though she played two Epson Tour events.
Her one goal was to play bogey-free, and that ended on the par-3 eighth hole.
“I was so mad after that,” she said. “I just tried to make some birdies.”
Choi did most of her work early in the round and was poised to take the lead until the South Korean had to settle for pars on the back-to-back par 5s at Highland Meadow. Ciganda played in the morning and finished her round with a two-putt birdie on the 18th.
Maguire returned to an area that brought good memories. She played some of her best golf at Inverness last summer in leading Europe to victory in the Solheim. Her return to the Toledo area included a new set of irons.
“It’s not like me to change,” said Maguire, who switched the Ping 230s. “I’ve been home for a couple weeks, did some testing while I was home. … They felt good in practice, so figured it was as good a time as any to give them a test go.”
Ko is a two-time winner who has reason to feel she should have three. She had the tournament won two years ago when she gave away a late lead and then chunked a chip that rolled back into the bunker on the 18th, leading to bogey and a runner-up finish.
Still, the Kiwi star has nothing but positive vibes at Highland Meadows.
“It’s always nice to come back to a place that you’ve played well at. I’ve had good finishes outside of winning, so it’s nice to kind of draw back on those memories,” she said.
Her two wins were in 2014 and 2016.
“But at the same time, my game has changed a lot I think over the last few years, so I feel like I’m playing some holes a lot differently,” Ko said. “So just trying to play the best golf I can with how I’m playing right now. ”
U.S. Women’s Open champion Minjee Lee, who leads the Race to the CME Globe, was in the group at 67. Defending champion Nasa Hataoka opened with a 69.
Paula Creamer played her first LPGA Tour event as a mom. In her first competition in more than a year, Creamer opened with a birdie. That was the lone highlight as she posted a 40 on the back nine on her way to a 77.
Another new mom, Azahara Munoz of Spain, opened with a 72. Munoz also has been coping with an autoimmune thyroid issue that she believes is now under control.
Among the three dozen players who shot in the 60s was Lucy Li, who opened with a 68. Li, best known for playing the U.S. Women’s Open when she was 11, already has an LPGA card locked up for next year through the Epson Tour.
Gianna Clemente had a 73. The 14-year-old Ohio native was a Monday qualifier in Canada last week, and she made it through Monday qualifying against for the Dana Open.
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SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., (NYSE: CCO) announced today that Brian Coleman, Chief Financial Officer of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. is scheduled to present at the Deutsche Bank Leveraged Finance Conference on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 9:20 a.m., Mountain Standard Time. The live audio webcast as well as the replay will be available on Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings' investor website at www.investor.clearchannel.com.
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Lincoln Riley’s Oklahoma-imported D-coordinator is a barking grenade of intensity
A few days remain before his defense’s long-awaited debut at USC, but Alex Grinch’s vocal chords have already been through the ringer. What’s left of his voice comes out hoarse and gravelly. By this point in his career — entering Year 20 and his fourth stop as defensive coordinator — testing his vocal limits is such a time-honored tradition that Corbi, Grinch’s 10-year-old daughter, calls out dad’s disappearing voice as a sign the season is near.
“I like to bark. I just do,” Grinch said. “I think anyone can draw lines on a board and call themselves a coach.”
On this subject, USC’s new defensive coordinator is particularly blunt. He knows plenty of coaches say the right things, pontificating on toughness, on physicality, on discipline. Whether they actually do what’s necessary to instill those ideas, he suggests, is sometimes another story.
At USC, where Grinch is the third defensive coordinator in four seasons, those unfulfilled promises are an all-too-familiar tale. But the man now tasked with turning around one of the worst defenses in school history seeks to leave no doubt he means what he says — and not just with the decibels in his delivery. No one who has seen Grinch stalk across a practice field or sprint into a play’s aftermath like a ball-hawking linebacker would question whether he has the stomach to salvage a Trojans defense that swan-dived toward rock bottom last year.
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“He doesn’t just sit back and watch,” says safety Max Williams. “He’s in it.”
Indeed, Grinch is a loose grenade of pure intensity during practice, buzzing back and forth across the field, seemingly ready to burst at any moment. He’s never still for long.
“If we’re asking for energy and focus from the players, it’s important that they feel that from us,” Grinch says, and he means this in the most literal sense. During one drill, Grinch appears to chase the safeties he’s instructing. Each play, each rep, each stretch is often punctuated with some form of roar.
The consistency is the point. Even down to the sore vocal chords. “You try not to be different versions of yourself,” he explains.
“Entitlement doesn’t knock you over the forehead and say it’s here,” he continues. “It creeps in.”
“We have a chip [on our shoulder]. I don’t think it’s big enough yet, quite frankly.”
— Alex Grinch, on USC’s defense
So he maintains the same level of intensity. He keeps barking. He continues to deliver the hard truths USC needs to hear.
“The greatest competitive advantage you can ever have is to admit you don’t have a competitive advantage,” Grinch says. “So we have to create one every single day, every single rep. Why would I not coach during stretch? If I don’t coach during stretch, I’m saying that’s not very important.”
That mentality is what drew Lincoln Riley to Grinch in 2018 in his search for a defensive coordinator at Oklahoma. The Sooners had finished the previous season with one of the worst defenses in all of college football.
It took just one conversation with Grinch to understand they were on the same page, Riley said.
USC coach Lincoln Riley takes the field with transfer-portal-built roster for Trojans’ first practice ready to prove they’re ready for the big time.
“We both believe in culture first,” Riley said. “Our job is obviously to put our guys schematically in the best place we possibly can, but never let scheme or any of that outdo the mentality that you want to play with.”
Grinch’s impact was felt immediately in Norman. In their first season together, Oklahoma’s defense improved from 114th in yards allowed (453.8) to 38th (356.4). A similar leap followed Grinch’s arrival at Washington State, where the Cougars gave up 11 fewer points per game in 2014 compared to the year before, when they ranked among the worst in college football.
It was at Washington State, working under Mike Leach, that Riley took notice of Grinch.
“He obviously has a tremendous track record of coming into new places and guys responding and guys responding in a hurry and putting out high quality defense,” Riley said. “My confidence level that we’ll do it here at SC is as high as it could be.”
Whether his methods have made a similar difference for a USC defense that ranked 103rd in points allowed (31.8) last season won’t be known until well past Saturday’s opener. Grinch certainly isn’t one to pat himself on the back about any potential transformation.
At several points during the past two weeks, in fact, he noted how far his group still had to go.
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“We have a chip [on our shoulder]. I don’t think it’s big enough yet, quite frankly,” Grinch said.
When USC revealed its first depth chart early Thursday morning, just three starters from last year’s defense — defensive end Tuli Tuipulotu, nose tackle Stanley Ta’ufo’ou and safety Calen Bullock — remained. All three of USC’s new first-team linebackers (Shane Lee, Eric Gentry and Romello Height) weren’t on the roster last season. Ten new transfers already have a place in the Trojans defensive two-deep.
There are major questions still to be answered about USC’s pass rush … and its secondary … and its new linebackers, for that matter.
“There’s a lot of unknown because you just haven’t gone to war with them yet,” Grinch said.
So he spent the past week doing what he could to simulate “the fog of war,” he says. Hence the hoarse voice. But until Saturday, he acknowledges, it’s impossible to know how a band of transfers and new faces on defense might respond on the front lines.
However they do, he plans to keep barking as usual.
“We know what we signed up for. We know that championships are the expectation here,” Grinch said. “What we can’t do is fall into the trap of how much fun it is to be a little bit better. Because ultimately, that’s not going to get it done.”
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Thursday put the FIFA World Cup trophy on display for the first time, part of the trophy’s global tour ahead of the tournament that kicks off in neighboring Qatar in November.
The trophy display ceremony was held in Tehran’s Milad Tower hall in the capital, with hundreds of spectators looking on. They included city and football officials, veteran football players, and Dragan Skokic, the head coach of Iran’s national football team.
Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh, who captained Iran’s team in the 1998 World Cup in France, unveiled the trophy.
The trophy tour includes every nation that has qualified for the tournament.
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There are few things everyone can agree on, but one of them is that losing money isn't fun, especially when you're talking about your life's savings. But it happens more often than you might think. You invest your savings in the hope of growing it for your future, then the stock market takes an unexpected turn and you're left uncertain about what to do next. Here are a few tips to help.
1. Don't make any emotional decisions
When you lose money on your investments, you naturally want to find a way to get things back on track as quickly as possible. But making a rash decision, like selling a stock based on a bad quarter, could make things worse for you in the long run.
It's best not to make any decisions at all when you're stressed over recent losses. Step away for an hour or even a day and give yourself time to cool off. Then come back and look at the situation with fresh eyes.
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2. Consider why the loss happened
Sometimes a bad quarter is just a bad quarter. Even large, well-established companies experience setbacks from time to time, and this can affect their share prices. But it's not always a sign of serious trouble brewing.
You always need to keep a stock's long-term growth potential in mind. Companies that are leading their industries today are likely still going to be around in a decade or two because they have strong brand name recognition and competitive advantages, like great customer service and lower prices.
But if you question a company's long-term stability or profitability, that might be a sign that it shouldn't be in your portfolio anymore.
3. Consider what to do next
What's best for your portfolio depends on the results of the previous step. If you believe a company is just having a bad quarter or a short-term setback, you're probably better off holding onto that stock. Hopefully it will recover from the loss and earn you a handsome profit.
But this might take time. You're better off not checking your portfolio daily or even weekly in this case. These short-term changes won't mean very much to you in the long run anyway. When you do check your portfolio, always remind yourself of your long-term focus.
If you decide you do need to sell your shares of a stock, decide whether you plan to sell all of them or only some. Have a plan for what you'll invest your money in instead. Remember, you need to keep your money diversified between several companies and industries to reduce your risk of loss.
If you sell your investments at a loss, make note of this. You may be able to use this at tax time to offset any capital gains you earned from selling other stocks at a profit.
How you handle an investing loss is ultimately up to you, and your reaction may be a little different each time it happens. That's OK. Just make sure you think through the long-term consequences of your decision before you actually go through with it.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House counsel under former President Donald Trump and his top deputy are set to appear Friday before a federal grand jury investigating efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday.
Pat Cipollone was the top White House lawyer at the end of the Trump administration as Trump and outside allies pressed for ways to overturn the results of the election, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Cipollone vigorously resisted efforts to undo the election and has said he did not believe there was sufficient fraud to have affected the outcome of the race won by Democrat Joe Biden.
He and Patrick Philbin, a deputy White House counsel also set to appear before the grand jury, have already cooperated with a separate House committee probe investigating the Jan. 6 attack and attempts to subvert the election.
The person who confirmed their appearance before the grand jury was not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. ABC News was first to report the appearance. Spokespeople for the Justice Department declined to comment.
The scheduled grand jury appearances underscore how Justice Department officials examining schemes to overturn the presidential contest have been seeking the cooperation of senior White House officials and advisers who opposed those efforts.
Federal prosecutors have been especially focused on a scheme by Trump allies to elevate fake electors in key battleground states won by Biden as a way to subvert the vote. They have issued subpoenas in recent weeks to multiple state Republican Party chairmen.
Portions of Cipollone’s private interview to the House Jan. 6 committee were featured prominently in hearings over the summer. Lawmakers aired video clips of him discussing a heated December 2020 meeting at the White House during which outside aides and advisers to Trump discussed a proposed executive order calling for the seizure of voting machines.
“To have the federal government seize voting machines? That’s a terrible idea for the country. That’s not how we do things in the United States,” Cipollone testified, adding, “I don’t understand why we even have to tell you why that’s a bad idea for the country.”
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The agreement will cover Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands and includes a multi-country DWDM rollout, datacentre switching and multiple other areas to increase the Eurofiber Open Network footprint.
The agreement covers all Eurofiber affiliates and “underlines the mutual commitment of the two companies to develop superfast, high-capacity fibre-optic networks in Europe with the highest service standards possible”.
Jan van Tetering, senior vice president of Europe at Nokia said: “Nokia is proud to add Eurofiber as a customer.
“We are determined to serve Eurofiber Group and its affiliates with our strong portfolio and presence in the four countries where they operate and help them expand their Open Networks’ footprint.
“This frame agreement is a solid foundation for our joint growth business ambition in Europe, sharing the same values to operate in an ethical, sustainable and secure way.”
Within Eurofiber France, the first optical networks are already under deployment in the south and north of France.
Next to France, Nokia is deploying a DWDM city network in Germany for the Berlin-based joint venture Vattenfall-Eurofiber.
In Belgium, both firms have agreed to renew the nationwide DWDM network. These networks, Nokia says, will further enhance and expand the more than 60,000km of Eurofiber fibre infrastructure.
“Eurofiber has an ambitious growth agenda in Western Europe,” said Eric Kuisch, COO of Eurofiber Group.
“A fully integrated high capacity DWDM network, and future-proof, highly secure datacentre equipment are main technological enablers to realise these ambitions.
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, September 2, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
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...AREAS OF FOG ACROSS JIM HOGG AND BROOKS COUNTIES THIS
MORNING...
Surface observations show that visibilities in Hebbronville have
fallen to a quarter mile early this morning. Areas of fog are
expected to reduce visibilities to 1 mile or less at times through
the morning across portions of Jim Hogg and Brooks counties. Be
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plenty of space between your vehicle and the vehicle in front of
you if on the roads this morning.
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Worried people living near an old Aldridge off licence where a 'Rambo-style' knife was found fear trouble could return if it's allowed to reopen. An application to open a new off licence and convenience store on Walsall Road is to be considered at a Walsall Council hearing on Tuesday (September 6).
The premises was previously known as Spar but boss Paul Sapra had his permit to sell alcohol revoked in May after licensing bosses heard the store had become a 'hub of violent incidents'. This fresh bid to reopen the store has been made by new applicants Dalvinder Kaur Sall and Sanjeev Singh with opening hours of 8am to 11pm Monday to Saturday and 10am to 11pm on Sundays.
They have already agreed a string of conditions with police including preventing Mr Sapra of holding any position in the shop. In their application they said: "The premises was an off licence and convenience store but we have been informed the licence was revoked due to various issues with the prior owner.
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"We would like to re-open as an off-licence and convenience store again." But while no objections have been raised by police, community protection, fire service and other bodies, two residents have lodged concerns about what the new store might bring.
Hannah Martin said her parents live near the shop and they witnessed people hanging around outside whilst drunk as well as other issues such as litter. She said: "It is causing them great distress at the thought of it re-opening. There is a Tesco Express around the corner - local residents do not need another shop.
"(There is a) risk of anti-social behaviour. Previously it was only allowed to open until 9.30pm. Why can it be open until 11pm? This will cause even more problems than before."
Karen Ward added: "It's encouraging anti-social drinking and unruly behaviour and an attraction for undesirable characters from the area and outside. Late opening (will) attract extreme littering and people urinating in side passage of the adjacent flats."
Other conditions agreed include ensure staff are fully trained in the licensing objectives, fully maintained and operational CCTV, keeping an incident log and operating a Challenge 25 policy.
Back in May, licensing committee members heard how the old Spar shop had become a hotbed for violence, drug use, anti-social behaviour involving school children and weapons being found in and around the store. One of these was described as a "Rambo" style knife which was found behind the counter.
Trading Standards also operated volunteer test purchases where an age restricted vape was sold to a 15-year-old. Mr Sapra had said the problems were down to teenagers and a former member of staff, who was responsible for the knife and cannabis found in the shop for which he later received a court fine.
But the committee agreed with both police and Trading Standards had failed to prevent crime and disorder, prevent public nuisance and protect children safe from harm.
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Mets' lighter workload begins against Nationals
The schedule looks as if it's beginning to lighten up for the New York Mets, who spent most of August battling other contenders.
Still, with a division title far from wrapped up, the Mets know this is no time to take anyone lightly.
The Mets will look to continue their winning ways on Friday when they begin a three-game series against the visiting Washington Nationals.
Left-hander David Peterson (7-3, 3.21 ERA) is slated to take the mound for the Mets against right-hander Josiah Gray (7-8, 4.67).
Both teams earned home wins in the rubber game of a three-game series Thursday afternoon.
Darin Ruf delivered the tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the sixth inning of the Mets' 5-3 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Meanwhile, surging rookie Joey Meneses hit a walk-off, three-run homer in the 10th inning to lift the Nationals past the Oakland Athletics 7-5.
The win over the Dodgers -- who have baseball's best record -- kept the National League East-leading Mets three games ahead of the second-place Atlanta Braves, who beat the Colorado Rockies 3-0. New York increased its lead over the idle St. Louis Cardinals, the NL Central leaders, to 7 1/2 games in the race for the second NL playoff bye.
The Mets also capped a 28-game stretch in which they played 21 games against a quartet of teams currently occupying a playoff spot. New York went 12-9 against the Dodgers, the New York Yankees, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Braves.
The Mets are scheduled to face just two teams with winning records over the final five weeks. New York visits the Milwaukee Brewers from Sept. 19-21 before heading to Atlanta for the penultimate series of the season Sept. 30-Oct. 2.
But with the Braves -- who are 58-24 since June 1 -- on the Mets' heels, closer Edwin Diaz said he and his New York teammates won't find it difficult to take their sub-.500 foes seriously.
"I think this entire month of September would be like a playoff," Diaz said. "That's big for us because we are looking to win the division. Atlanta is close, so we've got to win almost every game."
The Nationals, in the midst of a full rebuild after trading outfielder Juan Soto and on pace for their first 100-loss season since 2009, have been relegated to spoiler status for months.
However, the presence of players such as Meneses has provided a spark for Washington. The 30-year-old first baseman/outfielder played 894 minor league games with four organizations before making his major league debut Aug. 2, the day the Nationals traded Soto to the San Diego Padres. He is hitting .354 with seven homers and 15 RBIs in 99 at-bats.
"All those years of playing in the minor leagues to get to this point and doing it at this moment and on this stage -- it's just something I'm going to enjoy very much," Meneses said.
Peterson earned a win on Saturday when he tossed six scoreless innings as the Mets beat the Rockies 3-0. He is 2-0 with a 2.53 ERA in four career starts against the Nationals, but Washington got him for four runs in 4 2/3 innings during a no-decision on May 30.
Gray had his most recent scheduled start skipped to manage his workload. He hasn't pitched since Aug. 20, when he didn't factor into the decision after allowing one run over five innings in the Nationals' 2-1 loss to the Padres.
Gray is 0-1 with a 12.86 ERA in two starts against the Mets. He lost to New York in his season debut on April 8 after giving up four runs in four-plus innings.
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North Korea calls UN monitor on its rights issue 'puppet' of US
Seoul, South Korea — North Korea called the U.N.’s top expert on the country’s human rights “a puppet” of the United States, warning Friday that it won’t tolerate an American-led plot to use the rights issue to overthrow its political system.
North Korea's government is extremely sensitive to any outside criticism of its rights record, viewing it as an attempt to slander and rattle its authoritarian rule of its 26 million people, most of whom have little access to foreign news.
Its comments come as Elizabeth Salmón, the U.N. special rapporteur on the North’s human rights, is making her first visit to South Korea this week to meet officials, activists and North Korean defectors since her appointment last month.
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry accused Salmón of displaying “ignorance and biased vision" on the North. It also accused Washington of being behind Salmón’s mandate as part of an anti-North Korea scheme.
“The ‘human rights’ racket of the U.S. and other hostile forces ... is nothing but the most politicized hostile means for tarnishing the dignified image of (North Korea),” it said in a statement. “(North Korea) will never pardon the U.S. and its vassal forces’ ‘human rights’ racket ... which is aimed at overthrowing its social system.”
It repeated its earlier position that it will never recognize or deal with any U.N. special rapporteur on its human rights. Salmón’s predecessors were denied access to North Korea, which observers say has made it difficult for them to gather independent and credible information on rights abuses.
During a news conference in Seoul on Friday, Salmón said she was "fully aware that the lack of cooperation in that country is a challenge, no doubts about it."
“But at the same time, you know, I have been reading a lot, studying a lot during this time and there has been 18 years of work. I am new but the mandate is not new,” she said.
Salmón said she will keep trying to engage with North Korea and expressed worries about its economic, food and other hardships amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We should not give up on engagement with (North Korea) because what is at stake are the lives of the North Korean people and their human rights," she said.
In a new report circulated Thursday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said North Korea has increased the repression of the rights and freedoms of its people and the U.N. Security Council should consider referring it to the International Criminal Court for possible crimes against humanity.
Salmón said her first report on North Korea’s rights issue will be presented to the U.N. General Assembly in late October.
North Korea remains under multiple rounds of U.N. sanctions over its nuclear and missile programs. During a meeting in Hawaii on Thursday, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and his South Korean and Japanese counterparts condemned North Korea’s continued development of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while the U.S. reaffirmed its “ironclad alliance commitments” to its two key Asian allies, according to a U.S. statement.
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‘Beast’ movie review: Idris Elba’s survival thriller is enjoyable despite the silly character writing
Though peopled with characters behaving irrationally, this Baltasar Kormákur directorial is enjoyable in an economic, bare-bones way
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There was this mind-blowing creature feature, The Ghost and the Darkness, about the wicked man-eaters of Tsavo who terrorised the workers building the railway line between Uganda and Mombasa in 1898. Michael Douglas as the big game hunter was a hoot, as was Val Kilmer as the military engineer bent on getting the job done on schedule.
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Beast, while not as much fun as the 1996 film, is enjoyable in an economic, bare-bones way. People are rather silly, running out of vehicles and other safe places, despite being repeatedly told to stay put. One loses count of the number of times a character tells another to stay in the car/shelter and is blithely disregarded.
Idris Elba plays a doctor, Nate, who comes to South Africa with his daughters Meredith (Iyana Halley) and Norah (Leah Sava Jeffries). Nate was separated from his wife. Meredith, or Mare as she prefers to be known, bears a king-sized grudge against her father for not being there as her mum passed away of cancer.
The three reach the Mopani Reserve and meet Martin, a wildlife biologist who takes care of the reserve while also waging a violent battle against poachers. Martin was also responsible for bringing Nate and his wife together. The poachers are getting greedy, hunting all kinds of wildlife including lions. When they kill an entire pride, the lone male survivor is left hopping mad and bent on revenge on all mankind. As Martin wisely says, “The lion has gone rogue because they killed his pride.”
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The rest of the movie has Nate, Martin, the girls, the poachers and the lion engaged in a grim battle for survival, learning whatever life lessons available along the way. Last week, we saw Elba as a Djinn entangled in Three Thousand Years of Longing and now we see him deal with an annoyed lion. Shot in South Africa, Beast offers eye candy in the beautiful locations.
The lion is suitably majestic, and Elba and company do all the running, slashing and burning with the right degree of conviction. If you want to watch something that is not a superhero movie, this could be the ticket. And there are always the mean man-eaters of Tsavo…
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A man who recently talked a distressed man down at the side of a bridge in Northumberland has been praised for his caring efforts.
Daniel Wadcock safely pulled over and dialled 999 to report his concerns after seeing a man at the side of a bridge in the Cramlington area.
Emergency services confirmed they were on their way but caring Daniel decided he couldn’t drive off and leave the man alone.
He made his way to the bridge and cautiously approached the lone man, engaging with him. When officers arrived, the man had grown so comfortable with Daniel, he only wanted to talk with him.
And thanks to the patience and empathy of this kind stranger, the man eventually came back to safety and support was arranged.
Chief Superintendent Mark Hall said: “Though we were just minutes away – minutes matter in situations like this.
“Daniel remained calm throughout and his sensible approach, outstanding communication skills and empathy kept the man engaged and ultimately convinced him to come back to safety. I am full of praise for Daniel, he truly is an example of the very best the North East has to offer.”
He added: “Though it’s not always appropriate for a member of the public to intervene, a stranger’s kindness can mean the world to someone during a vulnerable moment, and Daniel did absolutely the right thing. Thank you Daniel for your quick-thinking but most of all, for the kindness you were able to show a person who needed some in that moment.”
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FOXBORO — Jakobi Meyers said Thursday everyone in the wide receivers room has a specific job and role to play in the Patriots’ “new” offense.
Meyers’ job?
That’s not hard to figure out. Even with DeVante Parker added to the mix this year, Nelson Agholor looking much improved and Kendrick Bourne also factoring prominently into the equation, Meyers remains at the head of the class.
That’s because he continues to be Mac Jones’ go-to-guy in a pinch.
He was the team’s leading receiver last year with 83 catches for 866 yards, and the chemistry has only improved between he and Jones, who have become close friends off the field.
Listening to Meyers discuss the relationship, he’s gotten to the point where their communication is largely silent.
He knows what Jones wants him to do, where he needs him to be on every play.
“I just understand what he wants. Sometimes, he doesn’t have to go out there and tell me exactly what he’s thinking,” Meyers said during his podium session ahead of the team’s Sept. 11 opener in Miami. “I just feel like from playing the game, and watching him play, and paying attention to how he plays, I kind of understand where he wants me to be. And I just get there.
“If we need to talk about it, we’ll talk about it. But for the most part, I think I understand where he’s coming from.”
Every quarterback needs that one receiver to rely on in a pinch, to move the sticks on third down. Meyers, the longest tenured receiver in the group, has become that guy for Jones.
It started last year, but was even more evident through training camp and joint practices. He tended to be the chain mover for Jones.
“It takes a lot of trust to get there. And the fact he looks for me in certain situations, I guess I must be doing some things right,” said Meyers. “But that can change really quickly. That’s the NFL. Things change fast. So, it’s something I gotta go out there and keep proving over and over again. It really don’t matter what I did last year. I gotta go out there and win again on third down this year.”
Meyers acknowledges it helps that he was a quarterback before making the switch to receiver. It also helps that he and Jones get along so well. Their bond extends beyond the field and has strengthened over time.
“It’s pretty easy to build a connection with Mac. He’s one of those guys that’s just a great guy,” said Meyers. If you were to meet him outside, you wouldn’t think he was a first-round pick who won this, won that, accomplished this, accomplished that. You would think he was a normal young man who loves life the most he can.
“It’s easy to be around him. That’s me, and all the other guys. We enjoy being around him. We enjoy competing with him, for him … I appreciate him for what he’s brought in the little time we’ve known each other.”
Meyers said the dynamic was different at this point last year. Cam Newton was in the quarterback picture before Jones officially won the job right around cutdown day.
There’s no question now who’s leading the offense.
“We know he’s the guy now. It’s a new offense,” said Meyers. “But at the end of the day, we all know we’re trying to make sure we get on his page.
“He’s definitely taking authority. His leadership has been crazy this year. He’s always in the building. He knows what he wants. It’s been helpful for us. We’re just trying to make sure we’re there for him.”
Meyers has been there. He continues to be Jones’ most reliable and dependable target heading into Year 2. Their chemistry is evident.
While admitting it took awhile to get all the different verbiage and chances with the new offense, Meyers says he’s in a much better place now.
“I’ve been in it, I’ve made my mistakes, I feel like I’ve learned from them, and now, I feel like I’m on the right page,” he said. “I understand what coaches are thinking, I understand what Mac is thinking … I know who the guy is, and I know where he wants me to be.”
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New partnership will focus on Carrier's Abound Ventures™, co-founded by Wilson, and line of air purifiers to sustainably improve indoor air quality
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NFL Super Bowl-winning quarterback Russell Wilson is partnering with Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE:CARR), the leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions, to help launch solutions critical to healthy and sustainable buildings and homes. As health and physical well-being are paramount to Wilson's high-performance career, the Denver Broncos quarterback will partner with Carrier to introduce customers to differentiated offerings for healthy indoor air quality and sustainable solutions.
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As co-founding partner of Abound Ventures, Wilson will focus on Carrier's new Abound platform and its range of air purifiers. Abound is a digital platform that enables healthy indoor air quality and drives reduced carbon emissions from buildings, with a wide range of applications including commercial real estate, education, healthcare, hospitality, retail, and sports and entertainment facilities. Carrier's smart air purifier with HEPA filter includes an air quality monitor and offers a simple, cost-effective way to improve indoor air quality and create a healthier building, room by room, utilizing three different filtration technologies. Carrier's air purifiers are in demand for many applications, from homes to classrooms to coffee shops and dental offices.
"Russell is a remarkable talent and businessman and we are thrilled to partner with him to more broadly introduce world-class solutions to some of the most critical challenges facing people and our planet," said David Gitlin, Chairman & CEO, Carrier. "In addition to having nine Pro Bowl and two Super Bowl appearances, Russell is a deeply passionate visionary of developing solutions that impact the lives of others and the future of our planet. Carrier could not be more excited to partner with him to help grow our digital platform Abound and our room air purifier line – focused on creating healthy and sustainable indoor environments."
"I am excited to partner with Carrier, a company providing real solutions to issues that matter, including the vital role indoor air quality plays in human health and productivity," said Wilson. "As a professional athlete, but more importantly as a father, I am acutely aware of the value of health and wellness. As Ciara and I settle into our new home in Denver with our children, we are incredibly focused on the importance of healthy indoor environments. We have long admired the work Carrier is doing through Abound and its Healthy Buildings Program and are thrilled to do our part to help Carrier inspire confidence in the health of indoor environments, as the future of buildings starts with Abound."
Visit Corporate.Carrier.com to learn more about Carrier's Healthy Buildings and Healthy Homes offerings.
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As the leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions, Carrier Global Corporation is committed to making the world safer, sustainable and more comfortable for generations to come. From the beginning, we've led in inventing new technologies and entirely new industries. Today, we continue to lead because we have a world-class, diverse workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit www.Corporate.Carrier.com or follow us on social media at @Carrier.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MasTec, Inc. (NYSE: MTZ) (the "Company") today announced its amendment of the terms of its private exchange offer to certain Eligible Holders (as defined herein) (the "Exchange Offer") for any and all outstanding 6.625% Senior Notes due August 15, 2029 (the "IEA Existing Notes") issued by IEA Energy Services LLC (the "IEA Issuer"), a subsidiary of Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, Inc. ("IEA"), for up to an aggregate principal amount of $300,000,000 of new 6.625% MasTec Senior Notes due August 15, 2029 issued by the Company (the "MTZ Exchange Notes"). The Company has amended the Exchange Offer (i) to extend the Consent Deadline (as defined herein) and (ii) to extend the Early Tender Date (as defined herein). Except as otherwise described in this press release, the terms and conditions of the Exchange Offer set forth in the Offering Memorandum (as defined herein) remain unchanged.
The Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation are being conducted in connection with, and are conditioned upon the completion of, the previously announced merger in which IEA would become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the "Merger"), which is currently expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2022, subject to customary closing conditions, regulatory approvals and approval by the stockholders of IEA.
As part of the Exchange Offer, the Company is soliciting consents (the "Consent Solicitation") with respect to the IEA Existing Notes, to eliminate or modify certain of the covenants, restrictive provisions and events of default (the "Proposed Amendments") in the indenture, dated as of August 17, 2021, governing the IEA Existing Notes. The Proposed Amendments require the valid consent of the holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of IEA Existing Notes, excluding IEA Existing Notes held by certain affiliated holders of IEA (the "Requisite Consents").
The Company has amended the Early Tender Date to be 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 9, 2022 (such date and time, as the same may be further extended, the "Early Tender Date"). In addition, the Company has amended the Consent Deadline to be the earlier of (i) 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 9, 2022 and (ii) 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date the Requisite Consents are obtained (such date and time, as the same may be further extended, the "Consent Deadline").
Subject to applicable law, the Company expressly reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to amend the Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation in any respect, including to (i) extend the Early Tender Date without extending the Consent Deadline, (ii) extend the Consent Deadline or (iii) provide that the Early Tender Premium (as defined in the Offering Memorandum) will be payable only to Eligible Holders who validly tender and do not validly withdraw IEA Existing Notes at or prior to the Consent Deadline.
At any time before the Expiration Date (as defined herein), if the Company receives the Requisite Consents, the IEA Issuer has agreed that the IEA Issuer, IEA and the trustee of the IEA Existing Notes will execute and deliver a supplemental indenture relating to the Proposed Amendments, which will be effective upon execution on the date the Requisite Consents are obtained but will only become operative upon the settlement date of the Exchange Offer. An Eligible Holder that validly tenders (and does not validly withdraw) its IEA Existing Notes and validly delivers a consent prior to the Consent Deadline, but validly withdraws such IEA Existing Notes after the Consent Deadline but prior to the Expiration Date, will receive the Consent Payment (as defined in the Offering Memorandum), even if such Eligible Holder is no longer the beneficial owner of such IEA Existing Notes at the Expiration Date, but will not receive the Early Tender Premium or the Exchange Consideration (as defined in the Offering Memorandum).
The Company, at its option, may complete the Exchange Offer even if the Requisite Consents are not received. Any amendment or waiver of the terms of or conditions with respect to the Exchange Offer by the Company will automatically amend or waive such terms or conditions with respect to the Consent Solicitation unless expressly stated otherwise.
The Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation are being made pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the offering memorandum, dated August 8, 2022, as amended by the Offering Memorandum Supplement, dated August 22, 2022 (as so amended, the "Offering Memorandum"), as such terms and conditions are amended by this press release, and are conditioned upon the closing of the Merger, which condition may not be waived by the Company, and certain other conditions that may be waived by the Company. The Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time on September 30, 2022, unless extended or terminated (such date and time with respect to the Exchange Offer, as may be extended for such Exchange Offer, the "Expiration Date").
Tenders of IEA Existing Notes may be validly withdrawn by Eligible Holders at any time prior to the Expiration Date; however, a valid withdrawal of tendered IEA Existing Notes before the Expiration Date will not be deemed a valid revocation of the related consent delivered by such Eligible Holder, and such consent will continue to be deemed delivered. Any consents to the Proposed Amendments delivered prior to the Consent Deadline (including any consents delivered prior to the date hereof) may not be revoked.
Documents relating to the Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation will only be distributed to persons who certify that they are (a) a "Qualified Institutional Buyer," as that term is defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or (b) a person that is not a U.S. person (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) (such persons, "Eligible Holders"). The complete terms and conditions of the Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation are described in the Offering Memorandum, copies of which may be obtained by contacting D.F. King & Co., Inc., the exchange agent and information agent in connection with the Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation, by telephone at (800) 549-6864 (U.S. toll-free) or (212) 269-5550 (banks and brokers), or by email at mastec@dfking.com. The eligibility certification may be completed at www.dfking.com/mastec or is also available by contacting D.F. King & Co., Inc. using the information above.
The MTZ Exchange Notes have not been, and will not be, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act, or any state or foreign securities laws. The MTZ Exchange Notes may not be offered or sold in the United States or to any U.S. person except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
This press release is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to sell or purchase, or the solicitation of tenders or consents with respect to, any security. No offer, solicitation, purchase or sale will be made in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. The Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation are being made solely pursuant to the Offering Memorandum and only to such persons and in such jurisdictions as are permitted under applicable law.
MasTec is a leading infrastructure construction company operating mainly throughout North America across a range of industries. MasTec's primary activities include the engineering, building, installation, maintenance and upgrade of communications, energy, utility and other infrastructure, such as: power delivery services, including transmission and distribution, wireless, wireline/fiber and customer fulfillment activities; power generation, primarily from clean energy and renewable sources; pipeline infrastructure, including natural gas pipeline and distribution infrastructure; heavy civil; and industrial infrastructure. MasTec's customers are primarily in these industries. The information contained on the Company's website is not incorporated into this press release.
This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the anticipated results and execution of the Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation and the actions that the Company may take with respect thereto; statements relating to expectations regarding the future financial and operational performance of the Company or IEA; the projected impact and benefits of IEA on the Company's operating or financial results; expectations regarding the Company's or IEA's business or financial outlook; expectations regarding the Company's plans, strategies and opportunities; expectations regarding opportunities, technological developments, competitive positioning, future economic conditions and other trends in particular markets or industries; the potential strategic benefits and synergies expected from the acquisition of IEA; the development of and opportunities with respect to future projects, including renewable and other projects designed to support transition to a carbon-neutral economy; the Company's ability to successfully integrate the operations of IEA; the expected closing of, and financing sources for, the acquisition of IEA; the impact of inflation on the Company's costs and the ability to recover increased costs, as well as other statements reflecting expectations, intentions, assumptions or beliefs about future events and other statements that do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. These statements are based on currently available operating, financial, economic and other information, and are subject to a number of significant risks and uncertainties. A variety of factors in addition to those mentioned above, many of which are beyond our control, could cause actual future results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Other factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to: risks related to completed or potential acquisitions, including the acquisition of Henkels & McCoy Group, Inc., as well as the ability to identify suitable acquisition or strategic investment opportunities, to integrate acquired businesses within expected timeframes and to achieve the revenue, cost savings and earnings levels from such acquisitions at or above the levels projected, including the risk of potential asset impairment charges and write-downs of goodwill; risks related to timely completion, or completion at all, of the Exchange Offer; risks related to the Company's ability to obtain consents under the Consent Solicitation; risks that conditions to the closing of the proposed transaction are not satisfied or waived at all or on the anticipated timeline; risks related to the impact of inflation on costs as well as economic activity, customer demand and interest rates, risks related to adverse effects of health epidemics and pandemics or other outbreaks of communicable diseases, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, including its effect on supply chain or inflationary issues, as well as, the potential effects of related health mandates and recommendations; market conditions, technological developments, regulatory or policy changes, including permitting processes and tax incentives that affect us or our customers' industries; the effect of federal, local, state, foreign or tax legislation and other regulations affecting the industries we serve and related projects and expenditures; the effect on demand for our services of changes in the amount of capital expenditures by our customers due to, among other things, economic conditions, including potential adverse effects of public health issues, such as the COVID-19 pandemic on economic activity generally, the availability and cost of financing, and customer consolidation in the industries we serve; activity in the industries we serve and the impact on our customers' expenditure levels caused by fluctuations in commodity prices, including for oil, natural gas, electricity and other energy sources; our ability to manage projects effectively and in accordance with our estimates, as well as our ability to accurately estimate the costs associated with our fixed price and other contracts, including any material changes in estimates for completion of projects and estimates of the recoverability of change orders; the timing and extent of fluctuations in operational, geographic and weather factors affecting our customers, projects and the industries in which we operate; the highly competitive nature of our industry and the ability of our customers, including our largest customers, to terminate or reduce the amount of work, or in some cases, the prices paid for services, on short or no notice under our contracts, and/or customer disputes related to our performance of services and the resolution of unapproved change orders; our dependence on a limited number of customers and our ability to replace non-recurring projects with new projects; the effect of state and federal regulatory initiatives, including costs of compliance with existing and potential future safety and environmental requirements, including with respect to climate change; risks associated with potential environmental issues and other hazards from our operations; disputes with, or failures of, our subcontractors to deliver agreed-upon supplies or services in a timely fashion, and the risk of being required to pay our subcontractors even if our customers do not pay us; risks related to our strategic arrangements, including our equity investments; any exposure resulting from system or information technology interruptions or data security breaches; any material changes in estimates for legal costs or case settlements or adverse determinations on any claim, lawsuit or proceeding; the adequacy of our insurance, legal and other reserves; the outcome of our plans for future operations, growth and services, including business development efforts, backlog, acquisitions and dispositions; our ability to maintain a workforce based upon current and anticipated workloads; our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel, key management and skilled employees, including from acquired businesses, and our ability to enforce any noncompetition agreements; fluctuations in fuel, maintenance, materials, labor and other costs; risks associated with volatility of our stock price or any dilution or stock price volatility that shareholders may experience in connection with shares we may issue as consideration for earn-out obligations or as purchase consideration in connection with past or future acquisitions, or as a result of other stock issuances; restrictions imposed by our credit facility, senior notes and any future loans or securities; our ability to obtain performance and surety bonds; risks related to our operations that employ a unionized workforce, including labor availability, productivity and relations, as well as risks associated with multiemployer union pension plans, including underfunding and withdrawal liabilities; risks associated with operating in or expanding into additional international markets, including risks from fluctuations in foreign currencies, foreign labor and general business conditions and risks from failure to comply with laws applicable to our foreign activities and/or governmental policy uncertainty; as well as a small number of our existing shareholders have the ability to influence major corporate decisions. We believe these forward-looking statements are reasonable; however, you should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which are based on current expectations. Furthermore, forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. If any of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or if any of our underlying assumptions are incorrect, our actual results may differ significantly from the results that we express in, or imply by, any of our forward-looking statements. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements after the date of this press release to reflect future events or circumstances, except as required by applicable law. We qualify any and all of our forward-looking statements by these cautionary factors.
In connection with the Merger, the Company has filed a Registration Statement on Form S-4 that includes a preliminary proxy statement of IEA with respect to the Merger and also constitutes the Company's prospectus with respect to the shares of its common stock to be issued in the Merger. The Registration Statement on Form S-4 has not yet become effective and the information contained therein is subject to change.
INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION.
These materials (when they are available) and other documents filed with the SEC may be obtained free of charge at the SEC's website, www.sec.gov. Copies of documents filed with the SEC by the Company (when they become available) may be obtained free of charge at MasTec's website at MasTec.com or (305) 406-1815. Copies of documents filed with the SEC by IEA (when they become available) may be obtained free of charge on IEA's website at iea.net or (765) 828-2653.
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Rid your lawn of leaves: Shoppers love this leaf blower for helping tackle messy gardens - and it's on sale for under £50
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If you're looking for a reliable leaf blower to clear your garden over autumn, you're in luck as Amazon's most-reviewed leaf blower is now on sale, just in time for the new season. And it's under £50.
The VonHaus Leaf Blower, which has over 6,000 five-star reviews, is being hailed as an 'excellent purchase' with shoppers loving how it 'makes light work of picking up the leaves'.
Sucking, blowing and mulching all in one, users say it's an easy way to keep your garden looking its best all year round. Not bad for under £50.
The 3-in-1 machine is powered by a 300w motor which makes light work of clearing debris from your garden.
The blower can quickly and powerfully clear debris-strewn areas, but the leaf vacuum means it can also suck up and remove leaves too. It also has an extra long lead to reach your whole garden.
Leaf clearing is a frustrating and often fruitless task - no sooner have you raked up all the leaves, you're bombarded by a new batch of leaves, twigs and other garden gunk.
Thankfully the VonHause Leaf Blower makes clearing your garden a whole lot easier. The 3-in-1 machine can be used all year round, but shoppers hail it a particular lifesaver in the autumn.
If leaves, foliage and twigs are starting to build up on your lawn, patio or walkways, then the VonHaus Leaf Blower could be a clever investment.
Powered by a 300w motor, the blower can quickly and powerfully clear debris-strewn areas, but the leaf vacuum means it can also suck up and remove leaves too.
Shoppers have found how the generous 35-litre bag capacity makes messy piles of leaves a thing of the past, while the extra-long 10-meter cable means you'll reach every part of your garden, including patios, driveways, gutters and lawns.
The VonHaus Leaf Blower is an affordable way to get three appliances in one. The versatile garden gadget allows you to easily switch between blowing, vacuuming and mulching
While leaf blowers can easily fetch up to £400, the VonHaus Leaf Blower is a brilliant solution for those not looking to part with too much money.
One impressed shopper raved: 'This is a brilliant piece of kit, it picks everything up with no effort at all, easy to assemble and nice and lightweight. 10/10.'
Another agreed, adding: 'Great machine. Good suction and blower. Like the idea of not having to change the long nozzles from blower to suction, as can easily be done by turning the switch. Lightweight too compared to my previous one from Black & Decker. Power cable is long too, which is handy.'
A third penned: 'Powerful suction for the price. This is probably the best leaf vacuum/blower in it's price range. No doubt about it.
'It seemed to deal with all types of leave in my garden. Oak leaves, sycamore, willow. The bag isnt the biggest, but if it was bigger it would be considerably heavy once full. This mulches all leaves up nicely, and I managed to clear my garden (150ft long) in a few hours.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11168687/Shoppers-love-leaf-blower-helping-tackle-messy-gardens-sale-50.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-02T12:39:44Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11168687/Shoppers-love-leaf-blower-helping-tackle-messy-gardens-sale-50.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Hainan Airlines and Bohai Leasing SPV sign debt and lease restructuring agreement on 8 aircraft
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NEW YORK (AP) — Rafael Nadal cut himself on the bridge of his nose with his own racket when it ricocheted off the court on the follow-through from a shot, leaving himself bloodied and dizzy during his second-round victory at the U.S. Open.
Play was delayed for about five minutes during a medical timeout in the fourth set of what would become a 2-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-1 win against Fabio Fognini at Arthur Ashe Stadium in a match that began Thursday night and finished after midnight on Friday.
It made for a bizarre, and briefly scary, scene, as Nadal immediately grimaced, dropped his racket, put a palm to his face and then placed both hands on his head. He said at his post-match news conference he thought right away that he might have broken his nose, which kept swelling.
He said it was a “shock” when it happened and he felt “a little bit out of the world.”
Still, Nadal managed to joke about it all. Asked during his on-court interview whether he’d ever had that happen before, he mustered a chuckle and replied: “With a golf club but not with a tennis racket.”
How was he feeling?
“Well, just a little bit dizzy at the beginning,” said Nadal, who has won four of his 22 Grand Slam titles at the U.S. Open, most recently in 2019, the last time he entered the hard-court tournament. “A little bit painful.”
The episode came on the first point of the game with Nadal leading 3-0 in the fourth set and clearly in command after ceding the opening set for the second match in a row this week.
The 36-year-old from Spain was moving to his right when he hit a backhand. After making contact with the ball, his racket deflected off the ground and smacked him on the nose.
He went over to the sideline and layed down, waiting for the trainer, and Fognini went over to check on Nadal.
“He told me everything was OK,” Fognini said later. “I hope it’s nothing serious.”
After having a bandage put on his nose, Nadal resumed play. He would lose that game, but not another, improving to 21-0 in Grand Slam matches in 2022.
Nadal won the Australian Open in January and the French Open in June for his 14th title there, then made it to the Wimbledon semifinals in July before the abdominal issue forced him to withdraw (which does not go into the books as a loss).
The match against Fognini, who beat him at the 2015 U.S. Open, did not begin auspiciously for Nadal. His shots were off and he quickly fell behind.
“For more than one hour and a half, I was not competing,” Nadal said. “One of the worst starts, probably, ever.”
The second set was hardly a thing of beauty for either man, filled with poor play by both: They combined for 39 unforced errors and merely nine winners, seven service breaks and only three holds.
“I was lucky, honestly, that Fabio made some mistakes in that second set,” Nadal acknowledged.
When Nadal dumped a backhand into the net, Fognini broke to lead 3-2, then went ahead 4-2. But from there, it was Fognini who faltered, missing four shots in a row to get broken at love as part of a four-game run by Nadal to make it a set apiece.
“With Nadal, you can’t mess around,” Fognini said. “I let him back in the match and he kept getting better from there.”
In the third, Nadal came up with one particularly perfect shot — a forehand on the run that redirected an overhead by Fognini and sent it down the line for a winner to break for 4-2. Nadal’s momentum carried him right to the edge of the stands, where thousands were on their feet, and he punched the air and yelled, “Vamos!”
Not long after, that set belong to Nadal, too, and he would collect 16 of the last 19 games.
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The scene was one of total bedlam, the noise akin to that which normally accompanies a title decider or cup final winner.
Wherever you looked there were sights to behold. Fabio Carvalho sliding on his knees in front of the away end while Joel Matip was beating the ground in delight on the sideline. V-signs and middle fingers. Jurgen Klopp pulling in Andy Robertson for the tightest of hugs as Ibrahima Konate terrified BT Sport’s pitchside reporter Des Kelly. Darwin Nunez standing tallest of all in the Main Stand, waving his arms and sending a few Spanish expletives towards the Newcastle bench.
Eddie Howe’s coaching staff, in fairness, responded in kind. At least two of them threw something in the direction of their joyous Liverpool counterparts - or perhaps the fourth official. The rest looked ready to go 12 rounds if needed. For every winner there is always a loser, after all.
Has an August goal ever been celebrated with such abandon at Anfield? Certainly not in this correspondent’s lifetime. This was chaos, but the good kind. The kind which makes you feel alive and the kind you remember, no matter what comes next.
“A perfect moment,” was how Klopp described Carvalho’s late, late winner on Wednesday night. It may ‘only’ have secured three points for the Reds - and from a game they would have expected to win in any case - but the youngster’s 98th-minute strike could do so much more in terms of lifting the mood around the club, after a difficult and fractious start to the season.
Klopp’s fist pumps - seven of them - in front of the Kop said plenty. The manager knows his side are still miles from their best but at least they’re rediscovering that winning habit, and the manner of this victory will have pleased him just as much as the fact it lifts Liverpool up into fifth place in the embryonic Premier League table.
It is undeniable, despite the wins over Bournemouth and Newcastle, that there has been something missing with the Reds so far this season. Results, yes, but something else besides, something deeper.
Happiness, perhaps? A bit of confidence, for sure. The feeling that everything is going to be alright, even if hamstrings twang, minds wander and key midfield targets choose to go elsewhere.
Klopp’s side is renowned for its intensity, but Liverpool have looked different at the start of this campaign, as if the disappointment of May, when they missed out narrowly on a historic quadruple, is still weighing on their minds. They’re still trying to do all the things that make them who they are but it just isn’t happening as naturally or as often as it has done. Key players are hunting for form, others are injured, and the general vibes among the fanbase have been remarkably downbeat, even by modern standards.
And so a win like Wednesday, a gnarly, angry, dirty triumph against stubborn and in-form opposition, must be used, as fuel and as power, and as a template for the coming weeks.
You can still do it, and look how it feels when you do.
It may yet prove a false dawn, but it felt as if something returned to Liverpool as they chased the game in the second half against Newcastle. The anger - the good kind - was back in their play, the frustration from the fans transmitting itself to the pitch and prompting an increase in tempo, urgency and purpose.
Intensity rediscovered and rewarded - eventually.
Such skills, and such mentality, will be needed for Liverpool’s next game, as they make the short hop across Stanley Park to play neighbours Everton at Goodison on Saturday.
“I’m not sure we should think too much about playing football,” Klopp said, not even half-joking, in his press conference on Wednesday night. “It will be a proper fight, and we have to be ready for that.”
He has some decisions to make regarding selection, with Jordan Henderson to miss out with a hamstring issue. James Milner is the natural replacement for the stricken captain, but Carvalho’s impact off the bench has surely put him in the frame for inclusion. Curtis Jones was back on the bench against Newcastle, while a loan deal to bring Brazilian international Arthur Melo is expected to be completed on transfer deadline day.
And then there’s Nunez, who has served his three-game suspension and will be desperate to start atoning for his moment of madness against Crystal Palace, when he landed an ill-advised headbutt on Joachim Andersen?
Can Klopp trust the Uruguayan in the heat of a Goodison derby, where wily campaigners like Conor Coady and James Tarkowski will look to prod and provoke, where every challenge will be greeted with howls of derision from the home fans, and where the hyperactive Jordan Pickford will do whatever he can to take centre stage?
It seems unlikely that Nunez will start, especially with Roberto Firmino finding some form in the last week, but he should offer a more-than-useful substitute option, and judging by his reaction in the stands on Wednesday night, he has lost none of his competitive edge or will to win while suspended.
Liverpool could well need all of that on Saturday, with Everton yet to win this season and likely to set up to frustrate and rattle, playing for counter-attacks and set-pieces. Fulham, Crystal Palace and Manchester United all had success with that kind of approach, and Everton will surely have noted Newcastle’s Atletico Madrid-style theatrics and delaying tactics too. Frank Lampard’s side, remember, deployed similar methods when beaten 2-0 at Anfield back in April.
Whether on from the start or emerging from the bench, Nunez, like his team-mates, must keep his composure amid the hostility, the pressure and the noise. “Fire in the belly, ice in the veins,” as the old saying goes.
Against Newcastle, Liverpool showed just how useful that approach can be. The Reds got angry, good angry, and they looked all the better for it.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Supreme Court granted bail on Friday to a prominent human rights activist and lawyer who has spearheaded a campaign to hold officials responsible for deadly 2002 anti-Muslim riots, more than two months after she was detained on allegations of fabricating evidence.
Teesta Setalvad was arrested by western Gujarat state police in June for allegedly coaching witnesses and forging documents in cases related to the riots, in which more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed. She has denied the allegations and hasn’t been formally charged.
The top court's decision came a day after it heard Setalvad's petition for bail. It said there is “no offense in this case over which bail cannot be granted,” and asked Setalvad to surrender her passport and cooperate with police during the investigation.
Setalvad has long campaigned for justice for victims of the riots. She has also sought for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be found complicit in the riots, though he has never been found guilty.
The riots have long hounded Modi because of allegations that authorities under his watch allowed and even encouraged the bloodshed. Modi, who was the state’s top elected official at the time before becoming prime minister in 2014, has denied the accusations, and the Supreme Court has said it found no evidence to prosecute him.
Rights activists and critics suspect Setalvad is facing retribution for her campaign against Modi, and accuse his administration of using government agencies to intimidate her. Modi’s party denies that.
Setalvad was arrested on June 25, a day after the Supreme Court in a separate case cleared Modi of complicity in the riots after ruling that there was no evidence against him. That decision has effectively closed any further legal challenges to Modi.
Setalvad rose to prominence during her long legal campaign for Zakia Jafri, whose husband, Ehsan Jafri, was burned alive by the Hindu mobs. Ehsan Jafri, a former member of Parliament, was a prominent Muslim politician and had offered refuge to fleeing Muslims during the riots.
Jafri, now 85, has sought to establish that the riots were the result of a high-level conspiracy involving Modi. It was a petition by Jafri challenging a report by a special investigation team that cleared Modi of any complicity that was dismissed by the Supreme Court in June.
Over the years, Setalvad has been investigated by various government agencies for allegedly misappropriating funds meant for riot victims. She has denied any wrongdoing and that case is pending in court.
The shadow of the riots continues to hang over India after nearly 20 years.
Earlier this month, 11 Hindu men who had been jailed for life for gang-raping a Muslim woman during the riots were released on suspended sentences, prompting protests by rights activists.
The survivor, who is now in her 40s, was pregnant when she was brutally raped. Seven members of the woman’s family, including her 3-year-old daughter, were also killed in the violence.
The Associated Press generally doesn’t identify victims of sexual assault.
Officials in Gujarat, where Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party holds power, have said that the men's application for release was granted because they had completed over 14 years in jail.
After the men's release was met with outrage, the Supreme Court last week directed the Gujarat government to look into the issue. | https://www.darientimes.com/news/article/India-s-top-court-grants-bail-to-activist-in-2002-17414898.php | 2022-09-02T12:51:35Z | https://www.darientimes.com/news/article/India-s-top-court-grants-bail-to-activist-in-2002-17414898.php | false |
How long will you live? It could be an inspiring or scary question.
But to a demographer, it’s neither. It’s a key metric that says a lot about the health of a country.
In 1960, the average American’s life expectancy was almost 70 years old, according to the World Bank.
Today the nation has made progress, with an average life expectancy of 77.
But other countries have made greater strides. As of 2020, the U.S. was ranked 61st out of 237 nations.
Why have other countries surged ahead? And how could the U.S. improve?
To answer these questions we're focusing on three countries: the U.S., the richest country in the world, according to the World Bank; Japan, the third richest; and Chile, ranked 43rd.
We spoke to Joseph Chamie. He’s the former director of the United Nations Population Division.
"The U.S. was doing very well right after World War II in 1950, '55, relative to those countries," said Chamie.
During the post-war boom, Americans benefited from medical advances, like penicillin and open heart surgery.
Japanese men had a life expectancy of 24 during the war, thanks in part to combat and food shortages.
"Japan's life expectancy was lower than the U.S. in the early 50s. Of course, they have to rebuild their societies," said Chamie.
The new Japanese government passed 32 health laws between 1946 and 1955 aimed at regulating doctors and nurses, requiring school lunches, reducing pollution and preventing infectious diseases.
Japanese life expectancy shot up 14 years between 1947 and 1955, according to government data.
"In the case of Chile, it was even more remarkable," Chamie said.
Chileans' life expectancy was 54 years old in 1950.
"Chile in particular saw a dramatic increase in life expectancy. They were able to provide health care systems, developing that preventive care, dropping infant mortality rates," Chamie said.
Meanwhile in 1961, Japan established universal health insurance.
The government covered half of everyone’s medical costs.
"But there are many factors in Japan that were contributing to lower mortality. One of them, of course, was diet and obesity. Eating more fish and more vegetables than the American diet," Chamie said.
Americans lived longer as the 20th century progressed, but we also developed some unhealthy habits.
"In the U.S., the diet started increasing with greater and greater reliance on prepared foods, commonly called junk foods, fast foods. More and more people involved in work and doing less exercise."
"In the U.S., many people are lacking health care systems in place, so they are not taking preventive action early enough to deal with illnesses. Especially the last 20, 30 years, drug addiction, opioids have gotten and become an epidemic level proportion. Obesity has also gotten much higher," said Chamie.
"Chile and Japan, they're providing health care systems, and also supporting people so they feel integrated in society," Chamie said. "They did some comparisons of Japanese who went to Hawaii and California. And you find that they changed their diet, increased obesity and also lower life expectancy because of that diet change."
"We're spending a great deal of money on our health care and doing not as well as many other countries, including China, Japan and Chile," he continued. "Individual responsibility is certainly one area. Second, providing health care systems and adequate services to assist people so that they will live to old age."
So many factors determine how long we’ll live. But Chamie says learning from other countries’ successes might help us improve longevity here at home.
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Gang of thugs looted convenience store for sweets and alcohol as they smashed doors and windows before beating woman, 19, as she lay in the street
- Footage shows a young woman being attacked by a group of people in London
- The woman is unable to defend herself as she is assaulted by around 10 people
- The Metropolitan Police said the 19 year-old was taken to hospital afterwards
A group of thugs who beat a woman as she lay in the street had earlier raided a convenience store for sweets and alcohol and smashed doors and windows, a shopkeeper said revealed.
Cameras caught the mob as it surrounded the 19-year-old woman outside a newsagent in South Norwood, London at 10pm on Saturday, August 27.
The gang knocked the woman to the ground where she tried to cover her head as around a dozen people punched and kicked her.
Video shows the woman, seemingly unaccompanied, unable to defend herself as she was attacked from all sides.
She was later taken to hospital and treated for non life-threatening injuries, Met Police confirmed. It remains unclear what sparked the fight.
However, one of the workers at Yogi Newsagents, on Tennison Road, a short walk from the scene of the brawl, explained what they saw shortly before the attack.
The shop worker, who asked not to be named, told MyLondon: 'Around 10 or 15 of them came inside and were stealing sweets, stealing alcohol, trying to get into the back. There were hundreds outside.
'We tried to force them out and put the shutters down and they started breaking things, smashing the doors and windows, they're broken now so it's a lot of damage and we don't know when it will be fixed.
'It was about 15 or 20 minutes until the police arrived and they ran off.'
Shocking footage shows how a large group of thugs viciously beat a woman as she lays in the street as violent crime and disorder surge across the capital
The mob surrounded the woman on Portland Road last Saturday. Police responded to the scene shortly after 10pm.
Footage shows bystanders jumping around the gang and egging them on as the woman was attacked.
The crowd dispersed when police officers arrived, and the woman can be seen being helped unsteadily to her feet.
'Officers attended and it was reported that a 19-year-old woman had been assaulted by another woman,' the force said in a statement issued to Mail Online.
'She was taken to hospital where her injuries were assessed as not life threatening.'
Cameras captured the mob as it surrounded the 19 year-old woman outside a newsagent in South Norwood, London at 10pm on Saturday, August 27
The gang knocked the woman to the ground where she tried to cover her head as around a dozen people savagely punched and kicked her
No arrests have been made in connection to the incident and the Metropolitan Police said it is still trying to establish what happened.
Another incident happened right outside the newsagent shortly after the crowd dispersed, which can be seen in the video, but it is not clear what the cause was.
More police officers arrived at the scene and cleared crowds of people away from the scene and down the street.
'Enquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances,' officials said of the incidents. 'No arrests have been made. Anyone with information is asked to call 101 quoting CAD 7131/28Aug. To remain anonymous contact the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.'
The attack on the 19-year-old is just one of several brazen crimes London officials are currently investigating.
Earlier this week, a thief was caught on video snatching a watch off a man's wrist in broad daylight while he was waiting outside a luxury Mayfair eaterie.
The customer, who has not been identified, was walking into a restaurant in Berkeley Square, London on Tuesday evening when his timepiece was ripped away by the thief in full view of people standing outside.
In the video footage, a person wearing a fedora and dark jacket stalks the man and approaches just as he is about to walk into the venue.
After a brief struggle, he sprints away from the scene with the watch now in his possession while the shocked restaurant-goer pursues him down the street.
Last week a thief dressed as a Deliveroo rider was caught on video smashing a £3million Bugatti Chiron with a hammer in a bid to steal a Kuwaiti playboy's £110,000 Rolex
Video shows a rider stopping in traffic and smashing the sports car's passenger side with a hammer on Hyde Park Corner, Mayfair last week
Earlier this week, a thief was caught on video snatching a watch off a man's wrist in broad daylight while he was waiting outside a luxury Mayfair eaterie. The customer, who has not been identified, was walking into a restaurant in Berkeley Square, London on Tuesday evening when his timepiece was ripped away by the thief in full view of people standing outside
Last week a thief dressed as a Deliveroo rider was caught on video smashing a £3million Bugatti Chiron with a hammer in a bid to steal a Kuwaiti playboy's £110,000 Rolex.
And on the same day in Chelsea, west London, a brave elderly woman armed with a stick was seen confronting masked knifemen who had stolen a £60,000 Rolex from a woman in the street.
The recent crimewave has prompted police chiefs to admit there was an increase in examples of on-street robberies.
Some social media users have squarely pointed the blame at London Mayor Sadiq Khan, accusing the left-wing leader of failing to curb knife crime and street thefts.
A brave elderly woman armed herself with a stick to help confront masked knifemen who had stolen a £60,000 Rolex from a woman in the street in Chelsea, west London
Footballer-turned rapper Takayo Nembhard, 21, was fatally stabbed on Ladbroke Grove under the Westway flyover at 8pm on Monday as thousands lined the west London streets for the Notting Hill Carnival.
Police officers gave him first aid until the arrival of paramedics, before he was taken to an ambulance 'through significant crowds in challenging circumstances.' He died in hospital a short time later.
The Met said there were 'several hundred people in the immediate area' and are likely to have been 'a number of witnesses' to the fatal stabbing.
Shortly after the incident police activated special powers within the area under a Section 60 order which allowed them to stop and search a person without suspicion for 'dangerous instruments and offensive weapons' until 1am.
Takayo Nembhard, 21, was fatally stabbed on Ladbroke Grove under the Westway flyover at 8pm on Monday - the final day of Notting Hill Carnival. Mr Nembhard is pictured with his girlfriend, who is currently pregnant
Police at the scene on Ladbroke Grove in West London Tuesday morning, after a 21-year-old man was stabbed to death on Monday night
Forensics officers comb the scene in Ladbroke Grove, west London, where 21-year-old Takayo Nembhard, a rapper from Bristol, died after being stabbed
Detectives added that there had been 'a number of violent incidents and serious stabbings' at this year's festival.
Ken Marsh, chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents 30,000 officers in the force, on Tuesday demanded that the carnival is moved to a private venue after incidents of violence broke out across the weekend.
The plea came as video footage emerged of a thug brutally punching a woman to the ground as a brawl broke out on the chaotic final day of the carnival.
Another video showed crowds screaming and having to climb over a gate as thousands of people ended up packed in a single road with no space, while footage has also been shared of a topless brawl between two women at the event on Sunday.
A total of 441 people were stopped and searched across the two days, while police also received reports of seven stabbings.
A Notting Hill Carnival fan punched a woman to the ground as a brawl broke out during the final day of the festival, which police say 'always seems to degenerate'
Scotland Yard said officers had made 209 arrests since the start of the carnival as of 12.01am today - including 46 for assault, eight for sexual assault, 36 for possession of drugs, five for criminal damage and 27 for public order.
Police added that there were also ten arrests for possession of psychoactive substances, 33 for possession of an offensive weapon, seven for drink or drug driving, one theft, one robbery and 35 more listed as 'other'.
While the total number of arrests for the whole of this year's carnival has not yet been confirmed, the number at the 2019 festival was significantly higher at 353 - compared to 374 in 2018, 313 in 2017 and 454 in 2016.
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Washington: Researchers working on developing oral insulin tablets as a replacement for daily insulin injections have made a game-changing discovery. The researchers have discovered that insulin from the latest version of their oral tablets is absorbed by rats in the same way that injected insulin is.
"These exciting results show that we are on the right track in developing an insulin formulation that will no longer need to be injected before every meal, improving the quality of life, as well as mental health, of more than nine million Type 1 diabetics around the world." says professor Dr Anubhav Pratap-Singh (he/him), the principal investigator from the faculty of land and food systems.
He explains the inspiration behind the search for non-injectable insulin comes from his diabetic father who has been injecting insulin 3-4 times a day for the past 15 years.
According to Dr Alberto Baldelli (he/him), a senior fellow in Dr Pratap-Singh's lab, they are now seeing nearly 100 per cent of the insulin from their tablets go straight into the liver. In previous attempts to develop drinkable insulin, most of the insulin would accumulate in the stomach.
"Even after two hours of delivery, we did not find any insulin in the stomachs of the rats we tested. It was all in the liver and this is the ideal target for insulin -- it's really what we wanted to see," says Yigong Guo (he/him), first author of the study and a PhD candidate working closely on the project.
Changing the mode of delivery
When it comes to insulin delivery, injections are not the most comfortable or convenient for diabetes patients. But with several other oral insulin alternatives also being tested and developed, the UBC team worked to solve where and how to facilitate a higher absorption rate.
Dr Pratap-Singh's team developed a different kind of tablet that isn't made for swallowing, but instead dissolves when placed between the gum and cheek.
This method makes use of the thin membrane found within the lining of the inner cheek and back of the lips (also known as the buccal mucosa). It delivered all the insulin to the liver without wasting or decomposing any insulin along the way.
"For injected insulin, we usually need 100iu per shot. Other swallowed tablets being developed that go to the stomach might need 500iu of insulin, which is mostly wasted, and that's a major problem we have been trying to work around," Yigong says.
Most swallowed insulin tablets in development tend to release insulin slowly over two to four hours, while fast-release injected insulin can be fully released in 30-120 minutes.
"Similar to the rapid-acting insulin injection, our oral delivery tablet absorbs after half an hour and can last for about two to four hours long," says Dr Baldelli.
Potential broad benefits
The study is yet to go into human trials, and for this to happen Dr Pratap-Singh says they will require more time, funding and collaborators. But beyond the clear potential benefits to diabetics, he says the tablet they are developing could also be more sustainable, cost-effective and accessible.
"More than 300,000 Canadians have to inject insulin multiple times per day," Dr Pratap-Singh says. "That is a lot of environmental waste from the needles and plastic from the syringe that might not be recycled and go to the landfill, which wouldn't be a problem with an oral tablet."
He explains that they hope to reduce the cost of insulin per dose since their oral alternative could be cheaper and easier to make. Transporting the tablets would be easier for diabetics, who currently have to think about keeping their doses cool. | https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/diagnostics/research-for-developing-oral-insulin-tablets-witnesses-breakthrough-results/93952052 | 2022-09-02T13:00:12Z | https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/diagnostics/research-for-developing-oral-insulin-tablets-witnesses-breakthrough-results/93952052 | true |
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A decade ago, the influence of China and Russia was expanding. Authoritarianism appeared to be spreading worldwide. Bulgarian political scientist Evgenii Dainov believes the tide has now turned.
There are different ways of looking at the world. One is to see it as a batch of things arranged in a certain manner. Another is to see it as a cluster of processes that are always on the move, creating what Shakespeare called "tides in the affairs of men."
Back in 2016, there were several authoritarian populist regimes in Europe. In a fit of extraordinary levity, the United Kingdom voted for Brexit, and the US voted for Donald Trump. Further East, Vladimir Putin was tightening his grip on Europe's economy and its elites, while Chinese leader Xi Jinping was quietly increasing his Communist Party's control over everyday life. The future looked distinctly authoritarian.
Tourists watch a Chinese military helicopter flies past Pingtan island, China, ahead of massive military drills off Taiwan following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taipeh
That tide is now beginning to turn. Three almost simultaneous events in recent weeks are clear indicators.
First came Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, which Beijing failed to stop, despite making a great deal of noise about it. Official China was reduced, as the Russian saying goes, to "swinging its fists in the air after the fight has ended" by conducting military exercises around the island. By that point, Pelosi was long gone. Then came the explosions at the Russian military airbase Saky in Crimea. The third event was the FBI's raid on Trump's home in Florida.
No serious observer expected China to start making warlike noises because of an American politician's visit to Taiwan. Even Chinese commentators — insofar as they managed to make themselves heard on the other side of the "bamboo curtain" — seemed flabbergasted by Beijing's haste and rashness. Such behavior is untypical. After all, those in the Forbidden City have a habit of planning generations in advance.
Chinese economic "soft power": China has built much infrastructure around the world, including the Bar-Boljare highway in Montenego, which was constructed by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), the large state-owned Chinese company
Just 10 years ago, while the West was trying not to drown in its financial and sovereign debt crises, China was being painted as the economic "model" of the future. Moreover, its economic "soft power" seemed to be gradually taking over Asia, Africa, Latin America — and even the Balkans.
But any historian worth his or her salt will tell you that dictatorship, economic prosperity and growing international influence cannot exist side by side for long. Either the dictatorship has to go, or the prosperity and influence begin to dwindle. This is what has happened to China. As the dictatorship has grown stronger, the country's prosperity and influence have waned.
Today, China admits to a debt that is over 250% of its GDP (Greece was declared bankrupt at 127%). China experts warn that there is additional hidden debt, which is around 44% of the admitted debt. Add all this up and we are talking about a total debt in the region of 350% of GDP — a completely incredible and totally untenable situation.
China's declining prosperity: security personnel scuffle with demonstrators during a protest over the freezing of deposits by some rural-based banks in Zhengzhou in July
When dozens of provincial banks became unable to serve their customers recently, tanks were sent in to protect the banks from the incensed population.
Xi Jinping wants to be re-elected General Secretary of his party. Yet he cannot afford to stand in that election as the man on whose watch the economy went "belly up," as the Americans say. He has obviously decided to "do a Putin," in other words to mobilize support with belligerent behavior.
We no longer see a China that is confident that the future is hers. We see a failing authoritarian regime on the verge of panic.
The blowing up of the Saky airbase in Crimea tells us something similar — this time about Russia.
Ukraine's air force said on August 10 that nine Russian warplanes were destroyed in a deadly string of explosions at the Saky airbase in Crimea, apparently the result of a Ukrainian attack
Only 10 years ago, while China looked like the great economic power of the future, Russia seemed to be a hegemonic geopolitical power in the making. It had even cobbled together an international alliance called BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China), the stated aim of which was to end global American hegemony in the field of advanced technology. The BRIC states also vowed to undermine the international standing of the US dollar by producing their own BRIC currency. In Europe, Russian hybrid "soft power" was taking over politics, culture and the media.
By 2020, however, it was becoming clear that the BRIC alliance was unable to achieve any of its stated aims. BRIC did not supersede the Americans in the field of advanced technology nor manage to dent the US dollar.
Meanwhile, Russia's version of "soft power" was also beginning to fizzle out. Trump lost the election in the US, and in Europe, authoritarian and populist parties sustained and (in some cases) financed by Putin were rapidly losing ground.
In 2017, Emmanuel Macron won the French presidential elections against Putin ally Marine Le Pen, running on a modern, progressive, non-nationalist platform. In the Bavarian elections of 2018, the far-right AfD party, instead of sweeping the board as expected, was undermined by the Greens, which became the second most powerful party.
Three-time French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2017
In 2019, the Strache scandal decapitated the Austrian far right. In Poland and Hungary, the regimes began losing control of big cities in local elections. Finally, despite much pre-election bombast, the European far right did not win the 2019 elections to the European Parliament.
Europeans were turning Putin's friends out of power, replacing them with centrist-liberal-green coalitions. In 2021, the far-right was thrown out of parliament in Bulgaria, as people elected to power a progressive center-green coalition. Two months previously, Germany had elected a left-green-liberal coalition government.
As he saw his "soft power" taking hits throughout the civilized world, Putin saw that "hard power" was his only remaining option to influence the course of geopolitical events. On February 24, 2022, he used that hard power.
The plan was obvious: Putin expected to subjugate Ukraine in a matter of days, whereupon he would move further West to begin re-drawing the borders of European states. He planned to attain with tanks what he had failed to attain with "hybrid" weapons.
But the Ukrainians did not share Putin's faith in his tanks. By August 2022, Moscow's army had lost the initiative and was reduced to taking up defensive positions. In this context, the explosions in Crimea have demonstrated that Russia's defensive positions are not easily tenable and that Russia is likely to lose this war — and after that, everything. Its "hard power" has become the laughing stock of the world. It no longer has "soft power." It also no longer has a viable economy.
We are witnessing the end of the ideologies of the "Russian world" and of the "Chinese model." It is becoming clear that we in the democratic world are not doomed sooner or later to live under such "models." They are no longer advancing. They are retreating.
The FBI's search of Donald Trump's home, in turn, signals the waning of the threat of authoritarianism within the democratic world.
Documents were seized by the FBI during its search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home in early August
Ten years ago, America, that bastion of democracy, seemed to be teetering on the brink. By 2016 it had elected a president who was openly in awe of dictators around the world. People worried that America was on the road to its own authoritarian "model." Today, Trump is no longer president and instead faces criminal charges.
The nations of Europe have also grasped the connection between authoritarianism, criminality and ultimately, war — as in the case of Putin. Europe today has only two surviving authoritarian regimes, those in Serbia and Hungary. In Serbia, President Vucic is visibly trying to wriggle out of Moscow's embrace and doesn't appear to be on the ascendant at all.
In Hungary, Victor Orban is no longer propagating his model of an "illiberal state" as the future, having been reduced to acting as the foreign sales manager for Gazprom in Europe. That is not a good position for an autocratic strongman to be in, and his nation will turn her back on him, as the Bulgarians did in similar circumstances, abandoning "strongman" Borissov after 12 years.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (left) has maintained close ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin (right)
In any case, nobody looks up to Hungary and Serbia as models of a desirable future. On the contrary, both regimes seem like rusted wreckage from a dark, bygone age.
Against this backdrop, the FBI's raid on Trump's home is a signal not only that the political time of such men (why does it always seem to be men?) has passed, but also that, as their political futures disappear, what awaits them are criminal charges.
People like Putin, Xi Jinping and their imitators will be around for a long time. But theirs is not the future. The "tide in the affairs of men" has turned. Now it is our job to take it "at the flood," securing a future in which government of the people, by the people, for the people remains dominant.
Bulgarian academic, author and political analyst Evgenii Dainov is professor of politics at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia.
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British Prime Minister's RAF Airbus Voyager arrives at CFB Bagotville, Quebec Photograph:( AFP )
The RAF Voyager plane, which took off from Stansted and headed to the Lake District, was previously repainted white in a £900,000 controversial makeover.
A new report has revealed that Boris Johnson's official jet, which is shared by the Royal family was used for a "boozy jolly" by civil servants.
The 91-minute journey over the United Kingdom took place with "usual catering for a flight" as per Sky News.
A "fancy meal with a selection of alcoholic drinks" was served during the 700-mile trip that reportedly cost £50,000 according to 'The Sun'.
The RAF Voyager plane, which took off from Stansted and headed to the Lake District, was previously repainted white in a £900,000 controversial makeover.
"In order to comply with Airbus and aviation industry rules, the aircraft was legally bound to operate a maintenance flight before 4 September or face significant additional storage costs," Sky News quoted the British government as saying.
Following "a recent reconfiguration of the aircraft", the trip was necessary to ensure that it would "still meet ministerial requirements".
"This would be utterly disgraceful behaviour at the best of times, but in the middle of our country's current crisis, it is shameful beyond words," Labour's shadow trade secretary Emily Thornberry told The Sun.
Denouncing the inquiry into Johnson as "a witch-hunt" and "a kangaroo court", Conservatives have claimed it is the result of launching a legal fightback against a Commons inquiry into claims he lied to parliament about partygate scandal.
It is noteworthy that the committee had previously announced it could rule against him even if he did not deliberately mislead members of the British parliament.
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WASHINGTON — It’s been more than a decade since President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, welcomed back George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, for the unveiling of their White House portraits, part of a beloved Washington tradition that for decades managed to transcend partisan politics.
President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, are set to revive that ritual — after an awkward and anomalous gap in the Trump years — when they host the Obamas on Wednesday for the big reveal of their portraits in front of scores of friends, family and staff.
The Obama paintings will not look like any in the White House portrait collection to which they will be added. They were America’s first Black president and first lady.
The ceremony will also mark Michelle Obama’s first visit to the White House since Obama’s presidency ended in January 2017, and only the second visit for Barack Obama. He was at the White House in April to mark the 12th anniversary of the health care law he signed in 2010.
Portrait ceremonies often give past presidents an opportunity to showcase their comedic timing.
“I am pleased that my portrait brings an interesting symmetry to the White House collection. It now starts and ends with a George W,” Bush quipped at his ceremony in 2012.
Bill Clinton joked in 2004 that “most of the time, till you get your picture hung like this, the only artists that draw you are cartoonists.”
Recent tradition, no matter the party affiliation, has had the current president genially hosting his immediate predecessor for the unveiling — as Clinton did for George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush did for Clinton and Obama did for the younger Bush.
Then there was an unexplained pause when Donald Trump did not host Obama.
Two spokespeople for Trump did not respond to emailed requests for comment on the lack of a ceremony for Obama, and whether artists are working on portraits of Trump and former first lady Melania Trump.
The White House portrait collection starts with George Washington, America’s first president. Congress bought his portrait.
Other portraits of early presidents and first ladies often came to the White House as gifts. Since the middle of the last century, the White House Historical Association has paid for the paintings.
The first portraits financed by the association were of Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson, and John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, said Stewart McLaurin, president of the private, nonprofit organization established by first lady Kennedy.
Before presidents and first ladies leave office, the association explains the portrait process. The former president and first lady choose the artist or artists, and offer guidance on how they want to be portrayed.
“It really involves how that president and first lady see themselves,” McLaurin said in an interview with The Associated Press.
The collection includes an iconic, full-length portrait of Washington that adorns the East Room. It is the only item still in the White House that was in the executive mansion in November 1800 when John Adams and Abigail Adams became the first president and first lady to live in the White House.
Years later, first lady Dolley Madison saved Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of Washington from almost certain ruin. She had White House staff take it out of the city before advancing British forces burned the mansion in 1814. The painting was held in storage until the White House was rebuilt.
President and first lady portraits are seen by millions of White House visitors, though not all are on display. Some are undergoing conservation or are in storage.
Those that are on display line hallways and rooms in public areas of the mansion, such as the Ground Floor and its Vermeil and China Rooms, and the State Floor one level above, which has the famous Green, Blue and Red Rooms, the East Room and State Dining Room.
Portraits of Mamie Eisenhower, Pat Nixon, Lady Bird Johnson and Lou Henry Hoover grace the Vermeil Room, along with a full-length image of Jacqueline Kennedy. Michelle Obama’s portrait likely will join Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush along the Ground Floor hallway.
The State Floor hallway one floor above features recent presidents: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Gerald Ford’s portrait and the likeness of Richard Nixon — the only president to resign from office — are on view on the Grand Staircase leading to the private living quarters on the second floor.
Past presidents' images move around the White House, depending on their standing with the current occupants. Ronald Reagan, for example, moved Thomas Jefferson and Harry S. Truman out of the Cabinet Room and swapped in Dwight Eisenhower and Calvin Coolidge.
In the Clinton era, portraits of Richard Nixon and Reagan, idols of the Republican Party, lost their showcase spot in the Grand Foyer and were replaced with pictures of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Truman, heroes of the Democrats. Nancy Reagan temporarily moved Eleanor Roosevelt to a place of prominence in the East Room in 1984 to mark the centennial of her birth.
One of the most prominent spots for a portrait is above the mantle in the State Dining Room and it has been occupied for decades by a painting of a seated Abraham Lincoln, hand supporting his chin. It was placed there by Franklin Roosevelt.
Bill Clinton’s and George W. Bush’s portraits hang on opposing walls in the Grand Foyer.
Clinton’s would be relocated to make room for Barack Obama’s if the White House sticks to tradition and keeps the two most recent Oval Office occupants there, McLaurin said.
“That’s up to the White House, to the curators,” he said.
The association, which is funded through private donations and the sale of books and an annual White House Christmas ornament, keeps the portrait price well below market value because of the “extraordinary honor” an artist derives from having “their work of art hanging perpetually in the White House,” McLaurin said.
Details about the Obamas' portraits will stay under wraps until Wednesday.
Biden will be the rare president to host a former boss for the unveiling; he was Obama’s vice president. George H.W. Bush, who held Ronald Reagan’s ceremony, was Reagan’s No. 2.
Betty Monkman, a former White House curator, said during a 2017 podcast for the White House Historical Association that the ceremony is a “statement of generosity” by the president and first lady. “It’s a very warm, lovely moment.”
The White House portraits are one of two sets of portraits of presidents and first ladies. The National Portrait Gallery, a Smithsonian museum, maintains its own collection and those portraits are unveiled before the White House pair. The Obamas’ unveiled their museum portraits in February 2018.
Linda St. Thomas, chief spokesperson for the Smithsonian Institution, said in an email that a $650,000 donation in July from Save America, Trump’s political action committee, was earmarked for the couple’s museum portraits. Two artists have been commissioned, one for each painting, and work has begun, St. Thomas said. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-to-help-unveil-obama-white-house-portrait/507-5ac99367-4d01-4646-9b97-10a7695b0636 | 2022-09-02T13:04:57Z | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-to-help-unveil-obama-white-house-portrait/507-5ac99367-4d01-4646-9b97-10a7695b0636 | true |
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge Thursday appeared to give a boost to former President Donald Trump’s hopes for appointing an outside legal expert to review government records seized by the FBI, questioning the Justice Department’s arguments that Trump couldn’t make the request and that a special master would needlessly delay its investigation.
“Ultimately, what is the harm” in such an appointment, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon asked department lawyers. But she did not rule on the request, saying she would do so later.
Lawyers for Trump say the appointment of a special master is necessary to ensure an independent inspection of the documents seized by the FBI during the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago.
This kind of review, they say, would allow for “highly personal information” such as diaries or journals to be filtered out from the investigation and returned to Trump, along with any other documents that may be protected by claims of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege.
Chris Kise, a Trump lawyer and former Florida solicitor general, told Cannon that appointing a neutral party would restore public faith in the investigation.
“This is an unprecedented situation. We need to lower the temperature,” Kise said. “We need to take a deep breath.”
The Justice Department has said an appointment is unwarranted because investigators have completed their review of potentially privileged records and already identified “a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information.” The government also says Trump lacks legal grounds to demand the return of presidential documents because they do not belong to him since he no longer occupies the White House.
“He is no longer president, said Jay Bratt, the head of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence section. “He is unlawfully in possession of them.”
The department has also expressed concerns that the appointment could delay the investigation, in part because a special master probably would need to obtain a security clearance to review the records and special authorization from intelligence agencies.
But Cannon, who said she would issue a written ruling at some point, pressed the government on its resistance, asking, “Ultimately what is the harm?”
The request for a special master last week opened the door for the Justice Department to disclose additional information from its investigation that might not otherwise have become public at this point. Late Tuesday, for instance, the department filed a document that cited efforts to obstruct the investigation, saying documents were “likely concealed and removed” from a storage room at Mar-a-Lago.
Cannon had said on Saturday, before the latest arguments in the matter, that her “preliminary intent” was to appoint a special master. It was not clear whether she might make a final determination Thursday or how her view might be affected by the fact that the Justice Department says it has already reviewed potentially privileged documents.
It was also not clear who might be serve as that outside expert. In some past high-profile cases, the role has been filled by a former federal judge.
Cannon was nominated by Trump in 2020 and confirmed by the Senate 56-21 later that year. She is a former assistant U.S. attorney in Florida, handling mainly criminal appeals.
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Tucker reported from Washington.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday that it is phasing out a program that aimed to give at-risk Afghans a quicker pathway to the U.S. through humanitarian relief but was criticized for its bureaucratic barriers and for ultimately leaving people’s lives in legal limbo.
Instead, starting Oct. 1, the U.S. government said it would focus on beefing up efforts to help more Afghans get permanent U.S. residency rather than the temporary legal status of humanitarian parole, which allowed them to stay in the country for just two years.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the administration is adopting a “new model” for Afghans traveling “directly to the communities where they will be moving” instead of having a stopover elsewhere in the country, which was required to get humanitarian parole.
“This is important to us. This has been a priority. And that’s how we’re going to make the process work a little bit better,” she said.
Since the chaotic evacuation of Afghans following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in August 2021, some 86,000 Afghans have arrived in the United States — nearly all through the humanitarian parole process, which has left their future uncertain.
Thousands more remain in Afghanistan and their lives are at risk for aiding American troops. Some have been killed, advocates say.
Others have made their way to neighboring Pakistan but have been stalled by the backlog to process special immigrant visas for Afghans who supported the U.S. government during the war there. Nearly 75,000 such visas are still in the pipeline.
Humanitarian parole was intended originally to be a fast-track way to pull out Afghans who were unable to leave during the evacuation by the U.S. military a year ago. But it has fallen short, advocates said. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services struggled to keep up with the surge in applicants and address the growing backlog.
Since July 2021, the U.S. government has received nearly 50,000 humanitarian parole requests. But the agency has adjudicated fewer than 10,000, denying approximately 95% of them.
“Far too many of our allies remain in harm’s way, and far too many families remain separated by bureaucratic hurdles,” Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, the head of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, a refugee resettlement agency, said in a statement.
Jean-Pierre said the government is working on making things faster so Afghans left behind can get out soon.
“We know that many of our allies and Afghans remain under threat in the country,” she said.
Under the new model, dubbed “Operation Enduring Welcome,” Afghans must have immediate family members in the U.S. or have worked for the U.S. government in Afghanistan or be identified as being among the most vulnerable applicants to the U.S. refugee program.
The administration said providing more Afghans with permanent residency will make it easier for them to restart their lives in the United States and participate in their new communities.
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FRIDAY MORNING: Scattered showers across western Arkansas will gradually move into central Arkansas Friday morning. These will be off and on with partly to mostly cloudy skies. Eastern parts of the state remain partly cloudy and mostly dry. Temperatures will reach the low-80s by midday.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON: A few areas of sunshine may come out at times in the afternoon. But still, scattered showers and storms are likely across the western half of the state. A few pockets of excessive rainfall will be possible. Temperatures reach the mid and upper 80s.
FRIDAY NIGHT & OVERNIGHT: A few storms linger into the evening, some of which may put out some heavy rain and lightning. That said, a few high school football games could be rained out or delayed. That won’t be the case in most situations, though.
SATURDAY & BEYOND: Mostly cloudy skies continue into our weekend with more hit-or-miss showers and storms. These will carry over into Sunday as well. Highs reach the mid and upper 80s. A few storms may linger into your Labor Day.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will travel to Indonesia and Singapore on his first overseas trip since taking office in June to strengthen security ties and discuss problems confronting the region, including strife in Myanmar, officials said Friday.
Marcos Jr. will also fly to the United States to speak at the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 20, Department of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Teresita Daza said in an online news conference.
Marcos Jr. will meet his Indonesian counterpart, Joko Widodo, during a three-day state visit starting Sunday.
The two leaders will witness the signing of a number of agreements, including the renewal of an expired 1997 pact governing defense activities from joint training to cooperation on border security, Daza said.
Philippine Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo, who will accompany the president, will meet separately with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi on Sunday.
Manalo has said that Marcos Jr. intends to raise the case of Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipino housemaid on death row in Indonesia on drug trafficking charges. Arrested in 2010, Veloso has claimed innocence, saying she was duped into carrying a suitcase containing 2.6 kilograms (5.7 pounds) of heroin.
In Singapore, Marcos Jr. will meet Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and President Halimah Yacob during a two-day state visit that starts Tuesday.
He and Lee will witness the signing of accords on counterterrorism and data protection and privacy, Daza said.
The Philippine leader will also meet potential investors in Singapore and Indonesia, she said.
His talks in both countries will include regional issues such as long-unresolved territorial disputes in the South China Sea involving the Philippines, China and four other claimants, and the turmoil in Myanmar, Philippine diplomats said.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- L Catterton Asia Acquisition Corp ("LCAAC" or the "Company") announced that it has appointed Sanford Litvack to its Board of Directors, effective since August 10, 2022, and that John Sculley has stepped down as an independent director of the Company.
With over six decades of commercial litigation and corporate operations experience in both the private and public sectors, Mr. Litvack adds a rare combination of legal acumen and business insights to LCAAC's Board. He is currently a partner of leading boutique trial and arbitration law firm Chaffetz Lindsey as well as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Formerly, Mr. Litvack was senior counsel in the litigation department at global law firm Hogan Lovells and an assistant attorney general in charge of the Department of Justice's antitrust division. Mr. Litvack previously also served as the chief of corporate operations and the vice chairman of the Board of Directors at Disney, where he spearheaded its acquisitions of ABC and ESPN. His boardroom experience also includes a prior directorship at technology company Hewlett Packard.
"We are pleased to welcome Sandy to the Board and look forward to benefitting from his expertise and guidance," said LCAAC chairman Chinta Bhagat. "We also want to take this opportunity to thank John for his invaluable service and contribution to the Company since our establishment."
About L Catterton Asia Acquisition Corp
L Catterton Asia Acquisition Corp is a blank check company incorporated for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. While we may pursue an initial target business in any industry or sector, we intend to focus our search in high-growth, consumer technology sectors across Asia. For more information about the Company, please visit www.lcaac.com.
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'This isn't the club it was. We needed help... and we haven't had it': Brendan Rodgers lays Leicester City's problems bare - and swipes at their owner - as he tops the odds for next manager to be sacked
- Brendan Rodgers has hit out at Leicester City's owner for the club's poor form
- Rodgers, 49, claims he received 'no help' during the summer transfer window
- He lost Wesley Fofana to Chelsea and Kasper Schmeichel to Nice this summer
- Rodgers signed Reims defender Wout Faes but there was little action otherwise
- The manager insists 'Leicester isn't the club that it was a couple of years ago'
Brendan Rodgers has hit out at Leicester City's owner for failing to 'help' recruit new players during the summer transfer window.
Leicester are currently sitting bottom of the Premier League table after picking up just one point from their first five games of the 2022-2023 campaign.
Rodgers said he 'understands the fans' frustration' as 'this isn't the club that it was a couple of years ago' but blames Leicester's recruitment system for their poor form.L
Brendan Rodgers has hit out at Leicester City's owner for failing to 'help' recruit new players
Speaking after Leicester's 1-0 defeat to Manchester United on Thursday evening, Rodgers said: 'This isn't the club that it was a couple of years ago.'
He continued: 'I understand the fans' frustration. They see all their rivals getting players in and we're not getting any. With the greatest respect, we have not had the help in the market this team needed.
Leicester are currently sitting bottom of the Premier League table after losing to Man United
Manchester United beat Leicester 1-0 after Jadon Sancho scored the only goal of the game
'To watch clubs in the top five leagues add players and we haven't been able to do that has been difficult. We needed help and we haven't been able to do that.
'I came to Leicester to compete and initially I was able to do that. You have to add quality but in the last two [transfer] windows we haven't been able to do that.
'I would have loved to have added five or six players but if you can't do that you have to respect it and work with what we have.'
Leicester suffered a 1-0 defeat to Manchester United on Thursday evening after Jadon Sancho scored the only goal of the game in the 23rd minute.
Rodgers and his players were booed off the pitch after the full-time whistle went - having picked up just one point in five Premier League games.
As a result, Rodgers has been tipped as the next manager in the English top-flight to be sacked.
However, Rodgers has blamed Leicester's recruitment system for their poor start to the 2022-2023 campaign - claiming he had 'no help' during the transfer window.
Rodgers managed to hold onto to James Maddison, Harvey Barnes and Youri Tielemans during the summer window but failed to enhance his squad.
The Northern Irish manager also lost Wesley Fofana to Chelsea and Kasper Schmeichel to Nice this summer.
Rodger's is frustrated at owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha for his lack of 'help' this summer
Rodgers lost Wesley Fofana (right) to Chelsea and Kasper Schmeichel to Nice this summer
He did manage to replace Fofana with Reims defender Wout Faes for £15m but fans were left feel frustrated by the club's lack of new recruits.
Rodgers also vented his frustration at Leicester's lack of business in the transfer window.
His rant came shortly after Scott Parker criticised Bournemouth's activity in the transfer market this summer.
Parker insisted his young team were 'underequipped' to take on the challenge of the Premier League after earning promotion last season.
His comments came after Bournemouth's 9-0 defeat to Liverpool.
Parker was fired by the club just three days after his outburst as his relationship with chief executive Neill Blake and technical director Richard Hughes was clearly broken.
Rodgers' rant came after Scott Parker criticised Bournemouth's activity in the transfer market
Rodgers is equally frustrated with his own club - claiming they are not the same team they used to be... and he is quite right.
Leicester won the Premier League in 2016 and then the FA Cup under Rodgers in 2021. However, they have failed to succeed since.
The Foxes have also missed out on Champions League football more than once. They failed to keep hold of their top four spot twice while under the tutelage of Rodgers - dropping out of the race on the final day of the season.
However, Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha has denied claims Leicester's downfall is due to his family and insists they are committed to the club.
In his programme notes, he said: 'The club is as safe in our hands as it has been every day for the last 12 years. It's our commitment to that responsibility that drives every decision we make.
'Sometimes, that commitment means making difficult, short-term decisions that protect the club's long-term interests, such as our approach to this summer's transfer window.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11173125/Brendan-Rodgers-lays-Leicester-Citys-problems-bare-swipes-owner.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-02T13:18:59Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11173125/Brendan-Rodgers-lays-Leicester-Citys-problems-bare-swipes-owner.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Every Indiana high school marching band that made it to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Every year the showrunners for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade get to choose from hundreds of applicants about a dozen marching bands to play at the famous holiday spectacle.
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has its roots starting in 1924, but back then it was called the Macy’s Christmas Parade and was hosted by store employees with the hopes of getting more customers to shop at their stores, according to USA Today.
The parade’s origins didn’t include a lot of the glitz and glam that it is known for today, which also includes celebrating high school marching bands from around the country.
Every year bands, some from high schools and some from universities, are chosen to perform in the annual Thanksgiving Day parade. The high school bands chosen to perform are told about 18 months ahead of the parade.
2023 Macy's day parade:Fishers High School Marching Tiger Band to perform in 2023 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
For the past three years, high schools from Indiana have been chosen to be a part of the parade with Fishers High School marching band being the most recent selected. They will perform during the 2023 Macy’s parade.
The Sound of Brownsburg Marching Band from Brownsburg High School was in the 2021 parade and the Carmel High School Marching Band was selected for this year's parade.
Here is a timeline of which Indiana high schools have gone:
1972: Kokomo High School marching band
According to the Kokomo Tribune, the band practiced eight hours a day in the summer leading up to the event in November.
1974: Concord Community High School 'Minuteman' marching band
According to the South Bend Tribune, on the day that producers from NBC came to view the band practicing for the 1974 parade, it was 24 degrees outside and 4 inches of snow covered the football field where they previewed their performance.
1977: Ben Davis High School marching band
1978: Concord Community High School 'Minuteman' marching band
1979: Winchester Community High School marching band
1980: Wapahani High School marching band
The Wapahani “Imperial Raider” marching band also got to tour Washington D. C. on their way back to Indiana from performing in New York that year, according to the Muncie Star.
1981: Richmond Senior High School 'Red Devil' band
1982: New Castle Chrysler High School 'Trojan' marching band
The 167-member band left New Castle the Tuesday before Thanksgiving with a police escort and members of the community lining the street cheering them as they left, according to the Muncie Star.
1983: Eastbrook High School Spirit marching band
1984: Winchester Community High School marching band
The Muncie Star detailed all of the sight-seeing plans the Winchester Community high school band would get to experience during their time in New York which included a trip to the World Trade Center towers.
1985: Concord Community High School 'Minuteman' marching band
1986: Kokomo High school marching band
1987: Southport High School marching band
Southport High School’s marching band not only got to go to the Macy’s day parade that year but 25 members of the school band also got to have a cameo appearance in the movie “Hoosiers” that came out in 1986, according to the Indianapolis News.
1992: Concord Community High School 'Minuteman' marching band
1996: Owen Valley High School marching band
1997: Concord Community High School 'Minuteman' marching band
2002: Highland High School marching band
2006: Lawrence Central High School marching band
2007: Concord Community High School 'Minuteman' marching band
2011: Carmel High School marching band
Carmel’s band director at the time, Richard Saucedo, decided to go with his own special high-energy arrangement of “Back Home Again in Indiana” for their performance which lasts around one minute and 15 seconds, according to the Indianapolis Star.
2013: Concord Community High School 'Minuteman' marching band
2014: Center Grove High School marching band
2015: Lewis Cass High School marching band
2021: Brownsburg High School marching band
2022: Carmel High School marching band
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Shares of Zebra Technologies Corp. Cl A
ZBRA,
+2.69%
rose 2.69% to $309.74 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
+0.30%
rising 0.30% to 3,966.85 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+0.46%
rising 0.46% to 31,656.42. The stock's rise snapped a four-day losing streak. Zebra Technologies Corp. Cl A closed $305.26 below its 52-week high ($615.00), which the company achieved on December 10th.
The stock outperformed some of its competitors Thursday, as Danaher Corp.
DHR,
+1.46%
rose 1.46% to $273.86, Hitachi Ltd. ADR
HTHIY,
+0.20%
rose 0.20% to $99.82, and HP Inc.
HPQ,
-1.88%
fell 1.88% to $28.17. Trading volume (548,087) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 361,085.
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Banks Battle Back-to-office Fatigue With Ping Pong, Snacks, Indoor Gardens
Finance bosses are offering more incentives, including free meals, ping pong and "contemplative spaces" as they battle to get staff back to the office, while concerns about the cost and value of commuting to work weigh on attendance worldwide.
Hybrid working policies were introduced across the industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, but data seen by Reuters and interviews with finance sector executives showed attendances falling short of expectations globally.
And with expenses like fuel and food rising rapidly, workers accustomed to pocketing commuting costs have further reason to want to stay away, handing employers a challenge to increase the appeal of office working.
"Employers have done a fair amount to make the office more attractive and purposeful," Kathryn Wylde, chief executive officer of the Partnership for New York City, told Reuters, citing a range of perks from free meals to improving social space with ping pong tables.
But a global survey of nearly 80,000 workers conducted by consultancy Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) showed employees are not complying with hybrid working policies.
Where organisations have policies requiring two, two or three, or three days in the office, attendance is respectively 1.1 days, 1.6 days and 2.1 days, AWA found.
"When we came out of lockdown and regulations were relaxed, people tried coming into the office ... and when they got there they found all they were doing was being on Zoom calls" said Andrew Mawson, managing director of AWA.
"The reason people are not going into offices is because they got used to a lifestyle and cost structure that suits them," he said.
Senior managers can be among the most adamant about staying home, said Kelly Beaver, CEO for UK and Ireland of polling firm Ipsos, which is abandoning its two days-a-week hybrid policy in favour of a more flexible approach.
"We find some of them are less tolerant of tiny office frustrations, or they feel travelling to an office is an unnecessary burden ... but they are missing out on networking," she said.
OFFICE AS HOTEL
While younger finance industry staff are mindful how remote working might impact career progress, jobseekers often cite remote working as a preference.
Since the start of August, 80% of people searching for finance jobs on Flexa, a global online platform which lets users search roles based on flexible working preferences, specified a preference for "remote" or "remote-first" roles, a 33% increase since March, a Flexa spokesperson said.
Employees still hold a great deal of sway, said Peter Hogg, cities director at property consultant Arcadis in London.
"It is a high risk strategy for firms to be too directive in terms of telling people what they have to do," Hogg said.
The consultancy is busier now helping companies "retrofit" their offices - making changes like adding more "contemplative space" such as indoor gardens, libraries or informal areas with soft furnishings - than any previous time since the pandemic, he said.
One British-based trading firm has begun providing showers, areas to nap in and laundry facilities for bleary-eyed staff working late on deals, said Leeson Medhurst, director of strategy at Peldon Rose, which designs offices for businesses.
"Our client said 'we're going to view our office as a hotel,' they are catering for the needs of the employee not necessarily the financial needs of the company," he said.
The City of London Corporation - which runs the financial district - said in August that it had hired a "Destination City" programme curator to roll out events including theatre, games and live performances.
Steven Cooper, the chief executive of British bank Aldermore told Reuters his bank was encouraging staff back to the office while not reverting to pre-pandemic norms.
The bank is considering hiring a concierge to help staff manage daily errands like dry cleaning at the office that they would otherwise have more flexibility to do at home, he said.
Those most resistant to returning to the office are people who have relocated to the suburbs and have long commutes, the Partnership for New York City's Wylde said, while younger staff are most likely to turn up.
"Young people are recognising their career advancement is going to depend on relationships in the office," Wylde said.
'LONELY HOME SILOS'
Wall Street's biggest financial firms have been among the most proactive in bringing employees back to the office.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc called its employees back to the office full time in June last year, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan are mostly back, while Citi has a hybrid arrangement.
Jefferies Financial Group said on Thursday it wants staff back in its offices rather than in "lonely home silos", even though it is also working on a hybrid basis.
Goldman and Morgan Stanley have also said they will lift some pandemic-era protocols in early September, including mask-wearing and coronavirus testing at their offices, memos reviewed by Reuters showed.
In March, JPMorgan made masks in its corporate office buildings voluntary and ended mandatory testing for unvaccinated employees. The largest U.S. bank has also rolled back its policy of hiring only vaccinated individuals.
Chris Gardner, co-CEO at London-based property lender Atelier, said Britain's weakening economy and rising energy costs will likely drive those worried about layoffs to the office faster than free snacks or other inducements.
"If as expected things tighten up later this year then presenteeism and being visible in the office will become more important," he said.
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Traffic snarls torment commuters in Tiruchi
Waste produced by ‘Vazakkai mandi’ is dumped on the road
Traffic congestion and muddy roads around the ‘Vazhakkai mandi’, the wholesale banana market, functioning adjacent to Gandhi Market in Tiruchi pose a serious threat to road users.
Inadequate space for the banana market, accumulation of a huge chunk of waste generated by the market, and stationary heavy vehicles encroaching on the road are some of the foremost issues hindering the movement of vehicles.
The Vazhakkai mandi is home to more than 50 wholesale and retail vendors. “Waste produced by the market is indiscriminately dumped on the road, which also adds to the shrinking of the motorable space,” said S. Nagaraj, a commuter.
As the road space is already encroached by the parcel and cargo agencies to park their trucks, the locality around Gandhi Market is witnessing frequent traffic bottlenecks during peak hours.
The road became narrower and traffic snarls have become a common phenomenon, putting the safety of commuters at risk. Motorists invariably have to spend at least 20 minutes to get through the stretch, and they have been facing a testing time. Vehicles could be seen lining up for a long distance.
“It is becoming worse every passing week. It has turned out to be a nightmare since the beginning of the monsoon. The muddy, potholed road also poses a great danger to students as there are two schools in the locality,” said Sudhakar, who owns a shop nearby.
Residents had been suggesting the civic body to relocate the market for almost a decade, but no action had been taken, said R. Kumaresan, a resident of Woraiyur.
“If the civic body properly removes the garbage every day, the pileup of waste will not happen,” he said.
According to a senior official of the Corporation, waste generated by banana vendors is one of the main causes of traffic snarls. “Although the garbage is collected regularly, the traders are not cooperative in managing the waste which results in the accumulation,” he said.
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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday pledged 700 million pounds ($810 million) of government funding for a planned new nuclear power plant as part of a drive to improve the U.K.’s energy security.
Johnson said the spike in global gas prices driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine showed why more nuclear generation capacity was needed in the U.K.
The plant, called Sizewell C, is located on eastern England’s Suffolk coast. French energy company EDF, which will partly fund the project, has said it can generate low-carbon electricity for at least 60 years when the project is complete.
The plant will reportedly cost about 20 billion pounds ($23 billion). Britain’s government gave the greenlight for the plant in July, and talks about how to fund it are ongoing.
“Yes, nuclear always looks relatively expensive to build and to run,” Johnson said in his final major policy speech as prime minister. “But look at what’s happening today, look at the results of Putin’s war. It is certainly cheap by comparison with hydrocarbons today.”
Johnson added: “I say to you, with the prophetic candor and clarity of one who is about to hand over the torch of office, I say go nuclear and go large and go with Sizewell C.”
Johnson will formally leave office on Tuesday, handing power to either Foreign Secretary Liz Truss or former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, the two finalists in the Conservative Party’s leadership race.
Many in Britain are looking to Johnson’s successor to announce urgent measures to help ease the financial pain for millions of people who will struggle to heat their homes this winter as household energy prices go up by 80% from October.
The U.K. wants to reduce its dependence on imported oil and gas and generate cheaper, cleaner power domestically.
The government has said it wants 95% of British electricity to come from low-carbon sources by 2030. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/international/ap-uks-johnson-pledges-millions-to-fund-new-nuclear-plant/ | 2022-09-02T13:32:55Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/international/ap-uks-johnson-pledges-millions-to-fund-new-nuclear-plant/ | true |
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday that it is phasing out a program that aimed to give at-risk Afghans a quicker pathway to the U.S. through humanitarian relief but was criticized for its bureaucratic barriers and for ultimately leaving people’s lives in legal limbo.
Instead, starting Oct. 1, the U.S. government said it would focus on beefing up efforts to help more Afghans get permanent U.S. residency rather than the temporary legal status of humanitarian parole, which allowed them to stay in the country for just two years.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the administration is adopting a “new model” for Afghans traveling “directly to the communities where they will be moving” instead of having a stopover elsewhere in the country, which was required to get humanitarian parole.
“This is important to us. This has been a priority. And that’s how we’re going to make the process work a little bit better,” she said.
Since the chaotic evacuation of Afghans following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in August 2021, some 86,000 Afghans have arrived in the United States — nearly all through the humanitarian parole process, which has left their future uncertain.
Thousands more remain in Afghanistan and their lives are at risk for aiding American troops. Some have been killed, advocates say.
Others have made their way to neighboring Pakistan but have been stalled by the backlog to process special immigrant visas for Afghans who supported the U.S. government during the war there. Nearly 75,000 such visas are still in the pipeline.
Humanitarian parole was intended originally to be a fast-track way to pull out Afghans who were unable to leave during the evacuation by the U.S. military a year ago. But it has fallen short, advocates said. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services struggled to keep up with the surge in applicants and address the growing backlog.
Since July 2021, the U.S. government has received nearly 50,000 humanitarian parole requests. But the agency has adjudicated fewer than 10,000, denying approximately 95% of them.
“Far too many of our allies remain in harm’s way, and far too many families remain separated by bureaucratic hurdles,” Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, the head of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, a refugee resettlement agency, said in a statement.
Jean-Pierre said the government is working on making things faster so Afghans left behind can get out soon.
“We know that many of our allies and Afghans remain under threat in the country,” she said.
Under the new model, dubbed “Operation Enduring Welcome,” Afghans must have immediate family members in the U.S. or have worked for the U.S. government in Afghanistan or be identified as being among the most vulnerable applicants to the U.S. refugee program.
The administration said providing more Afghans with permanent residency will make it easier for them to restart their lives in the United States and participate in their new communities.
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Associated Press writer Chris Megerian in Washington contributed to this report. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-us-changes-focus-to-long-term-residency-for-more-afghans/ | 2022-09-02T13:35:10Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-us-changes-focus-to-long-term-residency-for-more-afghans/ | false |
Ahead of Labor Day Weekend, people in DC sound off on the most annoying things about fellow airline passengers
Babies crying, bumping elbows, having your seat kicked: People share their biggest airplane passenger pet peeves
WASHINGTON, D.C. – People in Washington, D.C., sounded off on the most annoying behaviors of other airline passengers ahead of Labor Day weekend.
"Well, the kids crying, there's always one at least," one woman, Nelly, told Fox News.
Another woman, Alina, agreed: "The children, because they cry, it's true 100%."
This Labor Day weekend will be the busiest in three years, reaching pre-pandemic levels, AAA predicts. Domestic bookings are up 22% and international reservations up 104% compared to last year.
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A woman from London, Dominique, said she gets bothered traveling when passengers "kick the back of my seat." Several others echoed her complaint.
A D.C. tourist, Eva, told Fox News: "I'm bothered by when people start talking to me about weird s--- that I'm not interested in and the flight is 8 hours."
"I'm like okay can I change my seat now?" she added.
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The top domestic destinations for the upcoming holiday are Seattle, Orlando and Las Vegas. Overseas travelers are heading to Italy, Canada and Ireland, according to data by AAA.
"Elbows all over me," a woman named Virginia said. "I know I'm little, but I still like my own space."
Another woman, from Washington, D.C., told Fox News she doesn't like "when people take their shoes off near you."
"Normally their feet have been really sweaty after walking around in an airport all day and they smell and it's really super gross," she said. "I'm not really a fan of that."
The D.C. local also said she hates when people don't cover their mouths while coughing.
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"In the middle of a pandemic, at least cover something," she said. "If you're not going to wear a mask, do something."
Dominque added: "if you're in the aisle, and they nudge you when they walked past you, that's annoying."
Alina also said she gets bothered "when people talk loud when you are trying to sleep." | https://www.foxnews.com/us/ahead-labor-day-weekend-people-dc-sound-off-annoying-things-fellow-airline-passengers | 2022-09-02T13:39:23Z | https://www.foxnews.com/us/ahead-labor-day-weekend-people-dc-sound-off-annoying-things-fellow-airline-passengers | false |
Friday, September 2, 2022 – Controversial Venezuelan National Jose Carmago has been linked heavily to the rigging of the August 9th election in favor of President-elect William Ruto.
In her submission before the court, Raila Odinga’s Lawyer Julie Soweto displayed images of Forms 34A that had the name Jose Camargo on the edges with doctored presidential results.
This raised eyebrows about how several forms could have such with the lawyer arguing that the Forms 34A were doctored by Camargo.
This comes even as the forensic analysis on electronic gadgets found in possession of Camargo and his other Venezuelan friends arrested at the JKIA proved they had the capacity to infiltrate and manipulate figures in the IEBC portal.
During the arrest, police recovered a laptop from Jose Gregorio Camargo Castellano that had key information regarding the August 9, polls.
Forensic analysis showed that the laptop had an IEBC database schematic diagram, IEBC network diagram, IEBC KIEMS kit, IEBC KIEMS kit deployment list, user name and passwords, local IP address configurations, virtual private network (VPN) settings and Smartmatic Mobile device management (MDM).
He was also found with a hard disk, 1TB, which was found with file folders.
The folders had IEBC election system information as follows; IEBC system Network details, IEBC system Network details, IEBC database development credentials, IEBC KIEMS project schedule, travel details of Jose Gregorio, IEBC VPN access credentials, settings for remote access to IEBC server, results in the transmission system, IEBC dashboard users, IEBC system users’ access rights, IEBC intergraded data management system and updates development.
Besides, DCI findings revealed that Camargo was one of the IEBC system administrators and was in a position to remotely access the entire IEBC data.
In essence, the foreigner had the capacity to add, delete, edit or manipulate in any manner the entire IEBC system.
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Pamela Ricard, who teaches math at Fort Riley Middle School, had been suspended for violating the Geary County Schools' Diversity and Inclusion Policy that requires educators to refer to students by their preferred names and pronouns. In the lawsuit, she said she refuses to use the preferred names and pronouns of transgender and nonbinary students because it violates her religious beliefs.
In May, the US District Court for the District of Kansas allowed Ricard's lawsuit to proceed, finding that "she was likely to prevail on her First Amendment free exercise of religion claim, and granted her motion to stop enforcement of the parental communication portion of the district policy," the release said.
With the settlement, the case was dismissed by the court, according to Ricard's representatives, Alliance Defending Freedom and Kriegshauser Ney Law Group.
"No school district should ever force teachers to willfully deceive parents or engage in any speech that violates their deeply held religious beliefs," said Tyson Langhofer, director of the Center for Academic Freedom with Alliance Defending Freedom. "We're pleased to settle this case favorably on behalf of Pam, and we hope that it will encourage school districts across the country to support the constitutionally protected freedom of teachers to teach and communicate honestly with both children and parents."
A spokeswoman for Geary County Schools confirmed a settlement was reached and declined to comment further.
Ricard had argued in the lawsuit her decision not to use preferred names or pronouns does not harm her students. But LGBTQ organizations and medical associations throughout the country have consistently stressed the detrimental consequences of misgendering children and ignoring their preferred names.
"We know from research, long term, very powerful research, that affirming a young person's gender leads to better health and well-being," said Joel Baum, senior director of the nonprofit Gender Spectrum, which supports gender-diverse youth. "This is about the basic rights and dignity of a human being. Your beliefs do not allow you to refuse to acknowledge who a student is."
According to the suit, after one incident of Ricard using a student's birth name instead of their preferred name, then principal Shannon Molt sent an email to all teachers at Fort Riley Middle School, saying: "When we have a student that requests to go by a preferred name that is different than their given name, our district honors the request. Once you are aware of a preferred name, use that name for the student."
Ricard acknowledges in the suit that despite being told that another student who was listed in school records as female preferred to be addressed by a different name, Ricard called the student "Miss [student's last name]." Ricard was reminded multiple times to use the student's preferred name and pronouns, but continued to call the student by their last name only.
In April 2021, the lawsuit says Ricard received a three-day suspension with pay for violations of 11 district policies, including rules on bullying and diversity and inclusion. Multiple appeals were denied by school officials, the lawsuit says.
"Any policy that requires Ms. Ricard to refer to a student by a gendered, non-binary, or plural pronoun (e.g., he/him, she/her, they/them, zhe/zher, etc.) or salutation (Mr., Miss, Ms.) or other gendered language that is different from the student's biological sex actively violates Ms. Ricard's religious beliefs," the lawsuit says.
LGBTQ youth who attend schools where they are not protected by policies preventing discrimination against them "report lower GPAs and are more likely to miss school because they feel unsafe," said Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, executive director of GLSEN, a national organization supporting LGBTQ+ students and educators in K-12 schools.
"Transgender youth are more likely to consider suicide than their peers, and experience other mental health crises which are exacerbated when they face this kind of stigma and erasure in the classroom," she said.
A prisoner overdosing in his cell led to law enforcement uncovering his illegal sexual relationship with a prison supervisor, according to criminal charges filed Monday.
The Justice Department has completed its review of documents seized from Mar-a-Lago and has identified "limited" materials that could contain privileged information.
Houston police say a man evicted from an apartment building set fire to the house to lure out other tenants, then shot three dead and wounded two others.
The U.S. has authorized its first update to COVID-19 vaccines, booster doses that target today's most common omicron strain. Shots could begin within days.
"In those phone calls, Katalinic made specific references as to knowing the victim’s whereabouts, as well as other references regarding the well-being of their shared child," state police said. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/teacher-gets-95-000-to-settle-lawsuit-over-refusal-to-use-students-preferred-name/article_c8891008-8571-57b1-ab36-932e50e98272.html | 2022-09-02T13:43:41Z | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/teacher-gets-95-000-to-settle-lawsuit-over-refusal-to-use-students-preferred-name/article_c8891008-8571-57b1-ab36-932e50e98272.html | true |
Una, SEPTEMBER 1
Industries Minister Bikram Singh Thakur today said that the detailed project report for setting up a bulk drug park, sanctioned by the Centre in Haroli subdivision of Una district, would be formulated by September 10 and forwarded to the Union government. All necessary formalities would be completed by the end of September.
Addressing mediapersons in Una, he said the park would help ease the shortage of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API), biologically active component of medicinal drugs in the country. He said that 90 per cent of the API was currently being imported. Besides the API, the drug park would have several associated ancillary units to manufacture different pharmaceutical items. This would help reduce the cost of medicines in the Indian market.
The minister said that during the Covid pandemic, the Prime Minister had given a vision of self-reliant India by increasing pharma production within the country and gradually decreasing import of these products.
Consequently, Bikram Singh said on March 20, 2020, that the Union Cabinet had decided to set up three bulk drug parks in the country. On October 15 the same year, the state government sent a proposal to the Union government for setting up one such park in Singan village of Haroli subdivision. He said 1,405 acres of land had been identified for the purpose and that an investment of about Rs 10,000 crores was expected on the bulk drug park, giving direct employment to about 20,000 youth.
Chairman of the State Finance Commission Satpal Singh Satti and HPSIDC vice chairman Ram Kumar were also present. | https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/himachal/drug-park-dpr-to-be-ready-by-sept-10-427750 | 2022-09-02T13:46:06Z | https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/himachal/drug-park-dpr-to-be-ready-by-sept-10-427750 | false |
BMW M is developing its first standalone model since the iconic M1 supercar launched four decades ago. This time around it will be an SUV, a model to be called the XM, which BMW previewed last year by the striking Concept XM.
We’ve spotted camouflaged prototypes testing in the wild. Now, leaked images likely provide a first clear look at the design of the production XM, which is due out later this year, likely as a 2023 model.
A member of iX Forums posted the images, which are alleged to be patent drawings for the XM that BMW filed with Japan’s intellectual property office in August. They show a design clearly influenced by the Concept XM, but more importantly they match up with a leaked photo of the production XM that surfaced in May.
Fans of concept car styling will be pleased that most of the Concept XM’s details are present, though critics will be disappointed. The huge kidney grilles, split headlights, and stacked tailpipes are all there, as well as a charging door on the driver’s side front fender.
The XM powertrain will be a plug-in hybrid system utilizing a newly developed twin-turbo 4.4-liter V-8 as the internal-combustion component. Combined output will be in the vicinity of 750 hp and 737 lb-ft of torque, which will make the XM the most powerful BMW road car to date. If the engineers go with BMW’s existing plug-in hybrid design, a single electric motor will be sandwiched between the V-8 and the transmission.
Though it’s yet to be confirmed, a tamer version of the plug-in hybrid setup could be offered in a base XM, with the 750-hp version reserved for something like an XM Competition model.
The XM is closely related to BMW’s X7 SUV, though it will stick to two-row seating, possibly with an option for two bucket seats in the second row.
Production of the XM will take place at BMW Group’s plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and the starting price is expected to exceed $100,000.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VLS Environmental Solutions, LLC ("VLS" or the "Company"), a North American leader in delivering innovative environmental solutions supporting its clients in achieving their sustainability goals and a portfolio company of I Squared Capital, today announced that it has acquired Safety Railway Service ("SRS"). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Based in Victoria, Texas, SRS provides full-service railcar repair and fabrication services at its site in Victoria and eight other key locations across the country. The strategic acquisition expands VLS' nationwide railcar services footprint from three to twelve locations. SRS will operate within the VLS Railcar Cleaning and Repair Services division.
John Magee, VLS CEO, shared his enthusiasm for the additional locations and what they mean for the future of VLS. "This is a tremendous opportunity for us to move from railcar cleaning and light repair work to extensive, full-service cleaning and repair services. This demonstrates our continued commitment to leading ESG practices. We are recognized as an industry leader in customized cleaning solutions, and we will apply those same sustainable practices and principles to our expanded Railcar Cleaning and Repair Services client base."
"It's a game changer, and truly makes us an industry leader in railcar servicing, "said David Carter, VP of Railcar Services. "VLS provides mission-critical, customized waste and specialty cleaning and repair services to a variety of highly regulated industries specializing in highly hazardous chemical cleaning. Together, we can provide clients full repair from top to bottom. Further, this acquisition extends our reach to the national level, enabling us to better serve our customers with the additional locations."
VLS Environmental Solutions is a leader in Railcar Cleaning and Repair services and provides specialty cleaning services for difficult-to-clean products including chemicals, hardened materials, and pressurized gases as well as certified full-service repairs, tank car qualifications, and maintenance using the most environmentally friendly and safe processes in the industry. In addition to Railcar Services, VLS also provides Waste and Marine Services. The Company's Waste Services division provides customized waste processing solutions for non-hazardous industrial commercial waste, including landfill diversion and sustainability programs, solidification of liquid waste, recycling, and wastewater treatment. The Company's Marine Services offers state-of-the-art barge cleaning and repair facilities for a wide variety of chemical solvents and downstream petroleum products. With this acquisition, VLS has over 900 employees in 36 locations across the country. For more information about VLS, visit: www.vlses.com.
I Squared Capital is an independent global infrastructure investment manager with over $36 billion in assets under management focusing on energy, environmental infrastructure, utilities, digital infrastructure, transport and social infrastructure in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Headquartered in Miami, the firm has offices in Hong Kong, London, New Delhi, Singapore, and Taipei.
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BEIJING (AP) — Hours after yet another assessment by outside observers that China’s crackdown in its far-west Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin stepped up to a podium to go on the offensive.
“The so-called assessment you mentioned is orchestrated and produced by the U.S. and some Western forces,” and is a “a political tool” meant to contain China, he said.
It was a tactic long used by Beijing to deflect criticism from its mass detentions of Uyghurs and other largely Muslim ethnic groups in Xinjiang: blame a Western conspiracy.
At home, it’s found a willing audience. But abroad, it’s angered Uyghurs and alienated foreigners. The result has been a splintering of views on Xinjiang in China and the West, a gap that threatens to fracture already-poor relations.
For decades, Beijing has struggled to integrate the Uyghurs, a historically Muslim group with close ethnic and linguistic ties to Turkey, locking the region in a cycle of revolt and repression. After bombings and knifings by a small number of extremist Uyghurs, Chinese leader Xi Jinping launched a crackdown, ensnaring huge numbers of people in a network of camps and prisons.
Since the beginning of the crackdown, the Chinese government has sought to control the narrative. They have done so through secrecy and censorship. But they have also done so by tapping into powerful, deep-rooted anti-Western sentiment, born out of centuries of humiliation at the hands of the West.
Growing up in Xinjiang, Uyghur linguist Abduweli Ayup learned about how European empires marched on China’s capital and burned ancient palaces. He learned about the U.S. colonization of Hawaii and how it took Texas from Mexico.
Even as a Uyghur, Ayup said, this history instilled resentment.
“All our history we learn that China is the victim, and all those countries around us are very bad,” Ayup said, adding that he himself was opposed to the West until well into his adulthood. “Anti-Western sentiment is really strong.”
It wasn’t until his thirties, Ayup said, when he saw how the authorities weaponized historic grievances to deflect blame from themselves. On July 5, 2009, protests demanding justice for lynched Uyghurs turned bloody. Police opened fire, violent demonstrators stoned ethnic majority Han Chinese bystanders and hundreds were killed in the melee.
Beijing blamed the riots on overseas “terrorists” and “separatists” supported by foreign governments. They glossed over long-held Uyghur resentments and suppressed evidence showing that police, too, were in part responsible for the violence.
“I felt it was ridiculous,” Ayup said. “How could these foreign forces manipulate Uyghurs from far away?"
When the government first launched the crackdown, they sought to keep it secret. For months, they denied the existence of the camps.
But as evidence mounted, the state switched tactics and followed the same playbook: They hit back with accusations of a foreign plot.
When the BBC investigated labor practices in Xinjiang’s cotton fields, state media denounced the report as “using the so-called ‘research’ of anti-China scholars” to “concoct rumors.”
When a former Xinjiang resident gathered records on over 10,000 people detained in the region, a state spokesperson said the database was “created by anti-China figures” backed by the U.S. and Australia.
And after Omir Bekali, an ethnic Kazakh and Uyghur who spent eight months in detention, testified about torture inside the camps, he was branded a liar with “stories full of loopholes” by state media, feeding into “anti-China forces’ smears.”
It’s frustrating, Bekali said, because he believes most Han Chinese in China are well intentioned, but have been kept ignorant by the country’s sophisticated censorship apparatus.
“If you want to know the reality, speak to the victims,” he said. “The government controls the media, they keep on saying lies.”
As criticism mounted, Xinjiang authorities also moved quietly to scale down the most visible signs of repression. Though unclear whether it was due to global scrutiny or planned all along, the result was the same: It hid the intensity of the crackdown from outside visitors.
They took down barbed wire, dismantled some of the camps, and ripped out surveillance cameras peering over city streets, bare wires still dangling on poles overhead. They replaced the region’s hard-line leader with one from a wealthy coastal province, known more for developing economies than for brutal policing.
Then, they took journalists to vineyards and banquets, dance shows and historic mosques, with a clear, underlying message: Xinjiang is open for business.
Today, Xinjiang’s tourism industry is booming. Travelers stuck inside China because of its harsh “zero-COVID” policies are flocking to the region’s deserts, mountains and bazaars, lured by what they see as its exotic, Islam-infused character.
Though hundreds of thousands still languish in prison on secret charges, they’re tucked away in facilities behind forests and desert dunes, far from city centers and prying eyes. Voices that cut against the party line are silenced, with fear and sometimes with prison sentences.
As a result, ex-camp detainee Bekali said, “people inside China, they don’t know what’s really going on.”
With the latest report on abuses in Xinjiang, there’s been a change from the usual pattern: The assessment didn’t come from the U.S. State Department, or a rights group, or from Uyghurs in exile.
Instead, it came from the human rights office of the United Nations, an organization that China’s own leaders have repeatedly praised as the “core” of the international system. As a result, Beijing finds itself in an awkward spot, as the report threatens to puncture the party line.
Still, with independent information censored, the authorities have been largely successful in shaping the narrative within China’s borders. On Chinese social media, response to the report has been muted. And with Western sanctions and rhetoric aimed at China, resentment against the West has only grown stronger.
Today, from executives pacing downtown Beijing to teachers lecturing in lush Guangxi province, many Chinese wonder what all the fuss about Xinjiang is about.
“People in Xinjiang live happy lives. All my friends living there are doing just fine,” said Ge Qing, a Han Chinese born and raised in Xinjiang who now runs a restaurant serving Uyghur cuisine. “I think foreign media are super biased against Xinjiang, they just can’t leave it alone.” | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Beijing-taps-into-anti-West-resentment-to-counter-17414957.php | 2022-09-02T13:53:30Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Beijing-taps-into-anti-West-resentment-to-counter-17414957.php | true |
Motor racing-Dutch Grand Prix expects Max mania to stay family friendly
By Bart H. Meijer
ZANDVOORT, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Organisers of the Dutch Formula One Grand Prix on Friday said reigning world champion Max Verstappen would get a massive welcome home party and they were not expecting the misbehaviour from fans that marred some races earlier in the season.
The picturesque seaside circuit of Zandvoort, 25 kilometres (15 miles) west of Amsterdam, turned orange hours before the first practice for this weekend's Grand Prix, as over 100,000 Dutch fans gathered to cheer on their local hero.
Zandvoort made a return to Formula One after a 36-year absence last year, when Verstappen's victory on a sunny weekend was celebrated amid a frenzy of orange flags and flares.
That win put him in pole position for his and the Netherlands' first world championship.
The image of the 'Orange Army', however, was tainted at the Austrian and Hungarian Grands Prix in July.
Reports of sexist, racist and homophobic abuse by Dutch fans in Austria led Formula One to launch a 'Drive It Out' initiative to tackle such misbehaviour, while Verstappen slammed some of his fans for burning Lewis Hamilton-branded merchandise in Hungary.
Yet Dutch GP spokesman Simon Keijzer told Reuters these incidents had not led to any changes being made for Zandvoort.
"We didn´t see any of this kind of behaviour last year. This really is a family event," Keijzer said.
"I can´t speculate on what happened in Austria of course, but here we see many people bringing their kids. The composition of groups that travel further for races might be different."
Keijzer said an emergency telephone number that people could use to report unsafe situations would be advertised widely in all areas surrounding the track.
"We also had that number last year, but that yielded nothing similar to what we heard from Austria," he said. "Also in Belgium last week no misbehaviour was reported." (Reporting by Bart Meijer Editing by Toby Davis) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11173445/Motor-racing-Dutch-Grand-Prix-expects-Max-mania-stay-family-friendly.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-02T13:53:36Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11173445/Motor-racing-Dutch-Grand-Prix-expects-Max-mania-stay-family-friendly.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has proposed legislation that would transfer the country’s nominally civilian National Guard to total military authority, completing a dramatic shift for a politician who earlier in his career called for soldiers to return to the barracks.
In addition to the dizzying political evolution the change would mark, the proposal is almost certain to face constitutional challenges.
López Obrador created the National Guard in 2019, arguing that Mexico’s federal police were hopelessly corrupt and incapable of confronting Mexico’s powerful drug cartels. He enshrined it in the constitution, putting it under the authority of the civilian public security apparatus.
Critics argue that reforms to enabling legislation responsible for the National Guard is not sufficient to shift its constitutionally established civilian authority to the military.
“It is very clear in Article 21 of the Mexican Constitution that establishes first that the National Guard is a body of civilian character and under the authority of the Security and Citizen Protection Secretary,” said analyst Ana Lorena Delgadillo, director of the Justice Foundation. “So any change that you want to make to move the National Guard to (the defense ministry) would have to pass first though a constitutional reform.”
She added that even if they tried for a constitutional reform lawmakers would need to evaluate if putting the National Guard under military command would be in line with the spirit of civilian security that governs the constitution.
López Obrador no longer appears to have the votes in Congress for a constitutional reform.
In his proposal, López Obrador makes a multi-pronged argument: civilian police forces have failed to secure the country; the military is Mexico’s most trusted institution; and, the National Guard is already essentially a military institution.
Of the more than 110,000 members of the National Guard, more than 80% came from the army and the navy, the president notes. The National Guard is only functioning because of the military leadership that organized it and the military’s extensive logistics capabilities.
Much of López Obrador’s proposal reads as an ode to the military as a central pillar in Mexican society. The tone is one Mexicans will recognize. The president has given the military more responsibilities than any Mexican leader in recent memory putting them in charge of not only battling drug cartels, but also fuel theft. He had them build a new airport for the capital and a tourist train on the Yucatan Peninsula. They build bank branches in rural areas and were key in the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The transfer of operational and administrative control of the National Guard to (the defense ministry) responds to the immediate necessity to overcome administrative obstacles and the availability of resources,” López Obrador wrote, going on to argue that it is the only way to match the geographic breadth, logistical capabilities and firepower of organized crime.
In his state-of-the-nation address Thursday, López Obrador said, “The goal isn’t to militarize or become authoritarian, but rather to entrust to the oversight of the Defense Department the growth of what should be the country’s main public safety force.”
The military has been in the streets in a critical security role for years, well before López Obrador took office. It has been accused of human rights abuses and the United Nations has long called for it to be taken out of policing.
Neither the National Guard nor the military have been able to lower the insecurity in the country, however. Last month, organized crime groups rampaged in four states in a week’s time, burning businesses and killing bystanders.
Critics say the National Guard lacks the investigative and intelligence capacities of a police force. They are a visible presence on patrols and respond to violence, but do little to prevent it.
Sen. Emilio Álvarez Icaza, an independent politician, said that last year, the National Guard reported making 14 arrests product of its own investigations — there were many other arrests in cases where they caught people in illegal acts. They reported turning over 50 people accused of organized crime to prosecutors.
“The National Guard has 115,000 members; it is a disaster in its own numbers,” he said.
“They believe that by being there it fixes things and nothing happens,” Álvarez said. “They believe that doing nothing is best. They believe that their presence inhibits and that is absurd.”
López Obrador’s proposal does not address the question of how the military is the correct institution to lead what he continues to call a national police force. The president speaks often of the impunity that plagues the country, but it remains unclear how a security force composed of and lead by the military will be able to perform the work of law enforcement necessary to bring criminals to justice.
The package of reforms was submitted to Congress ahead of the start of its new legislative session Thursday.
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Associated Press writers Fabiola Sánchez and Mark Stevenson contributed to this report. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-mexico-president-proposes-reforms-to-national-guard/ | 2022-09-02T13:53:39Z | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-mexico-president-proposes-reforms-to-national-guard/ | false |
WASHINGTON — America’s employers slowed their hiring in August in the face of rising interest rates, high inflation and sluggish consumer spending, all of which weakened the outlook for the economy.
The government reported Friday that the economy added 315,000 jobs last month, down from 526,000 in July and below the average gain of the previous three months. The unemployment rate rose to 3.7%, from a half-century low of 3.5% in July, as more Americans came off the sidelines to look for jobs.
The smaller August gain will likely be welcomed by the Federal Reserve. The Fed is rapidly raising interest rates to try to cool hiring and wage growth, which have been consistently strong. Businesses typically pass the cost of higher wages on to their customers through higher prices, thereby fueling inflation.
Fed officials hope that by raising borrowing costs across the economy, they can reduce inflation from a near-40-year high. Some economists fear, though, that the Fed is tightening credit so aggressively that it will eventually tip the economy into recession.
The government was expected to report that employers added 300,000 jobs last month, according to a survey of economists by the data provider FactSet. That would be down from a blockbuster gain of 528,000 in July and an average of about 440,000 over the past three months. The unemployment rate is expected to remain at 3.5%, FactSet says, matching a half-century low.
A weaker pace of hiring should help moderate wage increases and lift hopes that inflation pressures are starting to ease. That, in turn, would help the Fed make progress toward its goal of conquering high inflation, which is near a four-decade high.
Many companies pass along their higher labor costs to customers through price increases. Conversely, when wages rise more slowly, businesses have less need to raise prices.
Chair Jerome Powell and other Fed officials have increasingly stressed their determination to tame inflation even at the cost of damaging the economy. In a major speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming last week, Powell underscored the Fed's tight focus on curbing inflation and said he was prepared to continue raising short-term interest rates and keep them elevated to achieve that goal. He warned that the Fed's inflation fight would likely cause pain for Americans in the form of a weaker economy and job losses.
The stock market has fallen every day since that speech as fears that the Fed may cause a recession have escalated.
Powell also said the job market is “clearly out of balance,” with demand for workers “substantially exceeding” the available supply. Indeed, the government reported this week that the number of available jobs rose in July to a near-record high, after three months of declines. There are roughly two open jobs for every unemployed worker, a sign that many companies are still desperate to hire and may keep raising wages to do so.
“I don’t think the Fed is rooting for a poor jobs report, but they are certainly not rooting for a repeat of July,” when hiring accelerated and wage increases were strong, said Gregory Daco, chief economist at Parthenon-EY. “They are going to want to see some moderation.”
The central bank has raised its short-term rate to a range of 2.25% to 2.5% this year, after the fastest series of increases since it began using its short-term rate to influence the economy in the early 1990s. It has projected that its key rate will reach a range of 3.25% to 3.5% by year's end. Those rate hikes have made borrowing and spending steadily more expensive for individuals and businesses. The housing market, in particular, has been weakened by higher loan rates.
The jobs figures will also help fill out the economic backdrop as this fall's congressional elections intensify. Republicans have pointed to high inflation to try to pummel Democrats in midterm campaigns. The Biden administration has pushed back and claimed credit for a robust pace of job growth.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, told reporters this week that “we’re expecting job numbers to cool off a bit.” The administration has been saying for months that it expects the economy to move to slower but still-steady growth after a swift economic rebound from the pandemic that came with a burst of inflation.
Wages are rising at the fastest pace in decades as employers scramble to fill jobs at a time when fewer Americans are working or seeking work in the aftermath of the pandemic. Average hourly pay jumped 5.2% in July from a year earlier. Still, that was less than the 5.6% year-over-year in March, which was the largest annual increase in 15 years of records outside of the spring of 2020, when the pandemic struck.
Higher wages aren't necessarily inflationary if they are accompanied by greater efficiencies — if, for example, workers use machines or technology to produce more output. But worker efficiency, or productivity, has tumbled in the past year.
Loretta Mester, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said Wednesday that “current wage increases are not consistent with inflation returning to our 2% goal” and that she thought with worker productivity so low, wage growth would have to slow to 3.5% or so to reduce inflation.
Yet some skeptics warn that the Fed may be focusing excessively on the strength of the job market when other indicators indicate that the economy is noticeably weakening. Consumer spending, for example, and manufacturing have slowed. The central bank might raise rates too far as a result, to the point where it causes a deeper recession than might be needed to conquer inflation.
“They run a risk of not realizing how much those rate hikes are restraining economic growth, if they’re just looking at the really strong employment gains,” said Jonathan Pingle, chief U.S. economist at Swiss bank UBS. “You could end up risking over tightening or moving too fast, too soon.”
The economic picture is highly uncertain, with the healthy pace of hiring and low unemployment at odds with the government's estimate that the economy shrank in the first six months of this year, which is one informal definition of a recession.
Yet a related measure of the economy's growth, which focuses on incomes, shows that it is still expanding, if at a weak pace.
So far, the Fed's rate hikes have severely dented the housing market. With the average rate on a thirty-year mortgage reaching 5.66% last week — double the level of a year ago — sales of existing homes have fallen for six straight months.
Consumers have moderated their spending in the face of much higher prices, though they spent more in July even after adjusting for inflation. But companies' investment in new equipment has slowed, indicating they have an increasingly cautious outlook on the economy.
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AP Writer Josh Boak contributed to this report. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/us-hiring-slows/507-682ddcae-a895-4768-9697-34151b2731cd | 2022-09-02T13:53:58Z | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/us-hiring-slows/507-682ddcae-a895-4768-9697-34151b2731cd | true |
The Baltimore Ravens and New York Jets will start their season from MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on September 11. The game will start at 1:00 p.m. ET and air on CBS.
The Ravens are coming off an 8-9 season and lost their final six games to fall short of a playoff spot. Baltimore was without Lamar Jackson for the final four games, but the former NFL MVP is back in what will be a massive year for him as he looks for a new contract.
The Jets have not made the playoffs in more than a decade, and they went 4-13 last season as they head into the second year of Robert Saleh in New York. Zach Wilson injured his knee during the preseason, and it remains to be seen whether he will be available for Week 1.
DraftKings Sportsbook posted opening odds during the offseason for every matchup on the 2022 NFL regular season calendar. Below, we take a look at the offseason opening odds and where they sit heading into game week. That’s followed by a pick to open the week.
Ravens vs. Jets
September 1
Point spread: Ravens -7
Point total: 44.5
Moneyline: Ravens -320, Jets +265
May 13
Opening point spread: Ravens -4.5
Opening point total: 45
Opening moneyline: Ravens -195, Jets +165
Early pick: Jets +7
New York has all sorts of value with this number jumping to seven over the last few months. Even before sitting out with an injury down the stretch last season, Jackson did not play well as a passer with a 16:13 touchdown-to-interception ratio. The Jets quarterback situation is quite the question mark with a potentially injured Wilson and Flacco, who has seen limited regular season snaps over the last few years. Still, getting a full touchdown before the game kicks off gives the edge toward New York in the season opener.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Thursday put the FIFA World Cup trophy on display for the first time, part of the trophy’s global tour ahead of the tournament that kicks off in neighboring Qatar in November.
The trophy display ceremony was held in Tehran’s Milad Tower hall in the capital, with hundreds of spectators looking on. They included city and football officials, veteran football players, and Dragan Skokic, the head coach of Iran’s national football team.
Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh, who captained Iran’s team in the 1998 World Cup in France, unveiled the trophy.
The trophy tour includes every nation that has qualified for the tournament.
Iran, the earliest qualifier, will start the World Cup as an underdog with both England and the USA ranked higher by FIFA. It will be the sixth time that Iran is present in the World Cup in the nation’s history. | https://www.wtrf.com/news/international/ap-iran-puts-fifa-world-cup-trophy-on-display-for-1st-time/ | 2022-09-02T13:59:47Z | https://www.wtrf.com/news/international/ap-iran-puts-fifa-world-cup-trophy-on-display-for-1st-time/ | false |
The biggest weekend for fantasy football drafts kicks off tonight and that means you’re probably here to check out the tight end rankings. As usual, you can’t go wrong with the Top 5, but after that things get hairy and/or dicey.
Personally, I’m high on the Vikings tight end Irv Smith Jr., but I’m also not sold enough to not grab another tight end in the draft as long as there are ample benches. If you have short benches, don’t worry much, because it’s pretty easy to grab prospect tight ends off the waiver wire. Mo Alie-Cox, Jonnu Smith, Gerald Everett, Robert Tonyan, and David Njoku are all guys I’d like to pair with Smith
In the end, there’s a good chance you’ll need the waiver wire to help you out at tight end and there is nothing wrong with that. I’m all for streaming tight ends week-to-week while holding onto your best bet at the position. Most tight ends are just too volatile to just set them in your lineup and then forget them.
Tight end PPR rankings
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Police use mega drone during idol procession in Vellore
The unmanned vehicle was able to monitor sensitive lanes and streets easily
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The district police used a mega drone for covering and monitoring sensitive routes and narrow lanes during the Vinayaka Chaturthi idol procession in Vellore on Friday.
Officials said that the unmanned vehicle, known as peregrine, could record footage up to three hours after which it needs to be recharged. It can cover a radius of 15 km from a range of 20 metre to 200 metre height, when compared to small drones that can cover only up to a radius of 2 km. Further, the mega drone could carry loads up to 3 kg such as lifeguard, loudspeakers, and sprayers, when compared to small drones that can carry weight up to 100 grams.
“We are using the mega drone only in Vellore town for the idol procession, taking the sensitivity of the neighbourhood into account,” Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police In-charge, Vellore range, M. Sathyapriya told The Hindu.
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Accompanied by Vellore SP, S. Rajesh Kannan, Ms. Sathyapriya monitored the working of the mega drone on the narrow streets and key intersections, including the Collectorate roundabout. Sensitive routes such as Sathuvachari, Arcot Road, Saidapet, Long Bazzaar, Mango mandi, Konnavatam and Shenbakkam were earmarked for the mega drone coverage. Loudspeakers were also attached with the drone to clear obstructions on the routes.
As the idol procession is being held after a COVID-19 pandemic-induced gap of two years, the police had roped in the Chennai-based UCAL Technologies, which operates the mega drone. Also, as the town has narrow streets with many overhead cables, the mega drone was able to negotiate these lanes and recorded footage with clarity. “Unlike small drones, the Peregrine can be operated from one km away. This helps in identifying trouble spots and obstructions on the routes more easily,” said R. Manivannan, deputy manager, UCAL Technologies.
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CAIRO (AP) — Seven people have been killed in tribal clashes that erupted in a restive province of Sudan, state-run media reported Friday, the latest episode of violence in a country plagued with political turmoil since a military coup last year.
The fighting, in which another 23 people were wounded, began Thursday in the town of Roseires in the Blue Nile Province, according to a local government statement cited by the SUNA news agency.
A nightly curfew was imposed and gatherings were banned in the areas where clashes erupted. A joint military-police commission was appointed to investigate the incident, authorities said.
Authorities did not mention what sparked the fighting or which tribes were involved. In July, the province saw heavy fighting between the Hausa and Birta ethnic groups that left 105 people dead and hundreds wounded.
Sudan, home to several long-running ethnic conflicts, was plunged into further chaos last October when the military seized power from a transitional government that had been set up after the overthrow of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir in April 2019.
The coup upended the country’s transition to democracy and raised questions about military leaders’ ability to bring security to Sudan’s far-flung provinces. In April, tribal clashes killed over 200 people in war-wrecked Darfur.
Thousands have been taking to the streets in near-daily protests demanding an end to military rule. A fierce crackdown by authorities has killed 117 people since the coup, according to a medical group that tracks protest casualties. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Sudan-says-7-killed-in-tribal-clashes-in-restive-17414926.php | 2022-09-02T14:05:54Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Sudan-says-7-killed-in-tribal-clashes-in-restive-17414926.php | false |
Advocate turns his home into a library in Vizianagaram
Only reading can pave the way for a civilised society, says S.S.S.S.V.R.M. Raju
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An advocate from the Fort City, who has a treasure trove of books — some of them quite rare — has decided to turn his residence into a library in order to help rekindle a love for reading among the younger generations.
S.S.S.S.V.R.M. Raju, who is a former Bar Association president of Vizianagaram, embarked on his journey of collecting books right from the 1970s. He is now the proud owner of many old books such as the ‘Brahma Sutralu’, written by Vavilala Venkata Shiva Avadhanulu in 1916, as well as a book on Sanskrit written in 1871.
“I live on the ground floor and have converted the first floor of my house into a library. Only reading can help pave the way for a civilised society,” said Mr. Raju.
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Mr. Raju is a writer himself, and has authored books such as ‘Gaganamlo Naa Tara’, ‘Prakruti Matladithe Vinalanunda’, ‘Ramayanamlo Animutyalu’ and others. He has penned books on freedom fighters Alluri Sitarama Raju, Pasumarti Veerabhadra Swamy, MANSAS founder P.V.G. Raju and others. Mr. Raju started writing books from 1979 onwards when he was a law student.
He has also ensured publication of nearly 200 books by other writers in the last four decades. Booklets on mythology, biographies of great personalities and moral stories are being published and distributed to students on various occasions. “We need to inculcate a love of reading among the students and wean them away from gadgets. I request parents also to read books when they are at home so that children will follow suit,” Mr. Raju told The Hindu.
“I am encouraging budding writers by publishing their books. We are identifying and encouraging young and talented writers so that they will write more books in the future,” Mr. Raju said.
“The rich cultural history of Vizianagaram should be taught to the younger generations. It will be possibly only through the publication of such books,” said Mr. Raju, who is the president of several literary outfits based in Vizianagaram.
Also a legal expert, Mr. Raju’s knowledge of the litigation surrounding the Kotia hamlets along the Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) region is now helping the A.P. government fight the cases in court against Odisha.
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For the second year in a row, Mike Morse Law Firm has provided roughly 100 backpacks to the Detroit Youth Choir
DETROIT, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, Mike Morse Law Firm joined Detroit Youth Choir students and staff for a back-to-school celebration at Marygrove College. The firm donated more than 100 backpacks to the choir students. This is the second year in a row that the firm has partnered with the Detroit Youth Choir to set the students up for a successful school year through the Project Backpack program.
Students were able to grab a backpack provided by Mike Morse Law Firm and fill it up with various school supplies. New choir students were welcomed at the event and choir placements for the upcoming school year were unveiled.
"This partnership with Mike Morse Law Firm is great for us, we love it," Anthony White, director of the Detroit Youth Choir said. "We care about education and want our students to be prepared when they go back to school."
To date, the Mike Morse Law Firm has donated more than 250,000 backpacks through the Project Backpack program. Project Backpack has been providing backpacks filled with school supplies to local students for the past nine years.
"The talent these students have is unbelievable," Mike Morse said. "I was fortunate enough to see them perform last year and I am so glad we were able to come back for a second year. We are so excited to be able to help them get ready for a great school year ahead."
Since 1995, the Mike Morse Law Firm has been protecting the rights of Michigan auto accident and injury victims. They are Michigan's largest personal injury firm, specializing in auto, truck, pedestrian, and motorcycle accidents as well as Social Security disability claims. They are experts in Michigan's No-Fault Act. Since opening their doors in 1995, the firm has won over one billion dollars for its clients. Mike Morse Law Firm handles cases throughout the state of Michigan, with a main office in Southfield. To learn more, call (855) 645-3946 or visit www.855mikewins.com.
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United Cajun Navy assisting flood victims in Mississippi; Here’s how you can help
JACKSON, Miss. (WAFB) - Members of the United Cajun Navy were deployed to Jackson, Miss. to help flood victims.
Some of Jackson’s residents do not have running water and the group is helping to get resources to those in need.
The city of Jackson was forced to cut water production at its main treatment plant due to flooding from the Pearl River earlier in the week.
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In a Facebook post, both Cajun Navy 2016 and the United Cajun Navy have announced their crews are in Mississippi helping with recovery efforts.
The United Cajun Navy is asking for help from a business or organization that can assist in delivering donations like bottled water.
To get in touch with the Cajun Navy you can dial (844) 482-6289 or send them an email at: inquiries@thecajunnavy.org.
Head Football Coach at Jackson State University, Deion Sanders, posted a video on Instagram describing the conditions in the area, stating without water, football players did not have air conditioning, water to flush toilets or to drink, placing a burden on the Jackson State football program.
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