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NPR's A Martinez talks to political strategists Dan Sena and Scott Jennings about President Biden's 'battle for the soul of the nation' message ahead of the midterm elections.
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NPR's A Martinez talks to political strategists Dan Sena and Scott Jennings about President Biden's 'battle for the soul of the nation' message ahead of the midterm elections.
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Smoked salmon recalled due to listeria risk
Published: Sep. 5, 2022 at 7:52 AM EDT|Updated: 43 minutes ago
(CNN) - Seafood fans may want to take a close look inside the fridge.
Miami-based St. James Smokehouse issued a voluntary recall of its smoked salmon.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the food may be tainted with listeria. Listeria can cause serious and possibly fatal infections in children, elderly adults and people with weakened immune systems.
The salmon was sold by distributors between February and June of this year. The product was distributed to stores located in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Washington, Virginia and Wisconsin.
As of last week, no related illnesses have been reported.
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LONDON (AP) — As a child, Liz Truss marched in demonstrations against Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. As an adult, she came to admire Britain’s first female leader — and now she is about to enter No. 10 Downing St. with a Thatcherite zeal to transform the U.K.
Truss, Britain’s foreign secretary, was named winner Monday in the contest to replace the scandal-plagued Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and the country’s prime minister. The party said Truss won the votes of around 57% of Conservative members, compared with about 43% for ex-Treasury chief Rishi Sunak.
Truss, 47, will become Britain’s third female prime minister, after Thatcher, who governed from 1979 to 1990, and Theresa May, who held office from 2016 to 2019.
Conservative Party members have embraced Truss’ vows to slash taxes and red tape and keep up Britain’s staunch support for Ukraine. Some see echoes of the Iron Lady — as Thatcher was known — in Truss’ vision of a “network of liberty” binding democracies around the world.
To critics, Truss is an inflexible ideologue whose right-wing policies won’t help Britain weather the economic turmoil set off by the pandemic, Brexit and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mark Littlewood, a libertarian commentator who has known Truss since their university days, said Britain’s new leader is less a conservative than a “radical,” who — like Thatcher — wants to “roll back the intervention of the state” in people’s lives.
“I’m expecting a lot of fireworks and a lot of controversy and a lot of action,” he said.
Born in Oxford in 1975, Mary Elizabeth Truss is the daughter of a math professor and a nurse, who took her on anti-nuclear and anti-Thatcher protests as a child, where she recalled shouting: “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie — out, out, out!”
In a 2018 speech, she said she began developing her own political views early, “arguing against my socialist parents in our left-wing household.”
The family lived in Paisley, Scotland, before moving to Leeds in northern England, where Truss attended a public high school — something that sets her apart from her many privately educated Conservative colleagues.
During the leadership campaign, Truss emphasized her relatively modest background. But she riled some former classmates and teachers when she said students at her school were “let down by low expectations, poor educational standards and a lack of opportunity.” The school’s alumni include academics, judges and several other members of Parliament.
Truss went on to Oxford University, where she studied philosophy, politics and economics — the degree of choice for many aspiring politicians — and was president of the university branch of the Liberal Democratic Party. The economically centrist Lib Dems back constitutional reform and civil liberties, and Truss was an enthusiastic member, putting up “Free the Weed” posters that called for decriminalization of marijuana and arguing in a speech for the abolition of the monarchy.
Littlewood, who was a fellow member of the Oxford Lib Dems and now heads the Institute for Economic Affairs, a free market think tank, remembers Truss as “headstrong and determined and outspoken.”
“You were never in any doubt where she stood on an issue or a person,” he said.
After Oxford, Truss joined the Conservative Party — “when it was distinctly unfashionable,” she later said.
She worked as an economist for energy company Shell and telecommunications firm Cable and Wireless, and for a right-of-center think tank while becoming involved in Conservative politics and espousing free market Thatcherite views. She served as a local councilor in London and ran unsuccessfully for Parliament twice before being elected to represent the eastern England seat of Southwest Norfolk in 2010.
She won the safely Conservative seat after a bump on the way — some local Conservatives were outraged when it was revealed she had had an affair with another MP when both were married to other people. Truss won over her critics, and her marriage survived. She and husband Hugh O’Leary, an accountant, have two teenage daughters.
She founded the Free Enterprise group of Thatcherite Tory lawmakers who produced “Britannia Unchained,” a political treatise that notoriously included the claim that British workers are “among the worst idlers in the world.”
David Laws, a former Cabinet minister who worked with Truss in government a decade ago, recalled her as energetic and “mind-bogglingly ambitious,” comparing her in his memoir to “a young Margaret Thatcher on speed.”
Truss got her first Cabinet job as food and environment secretary in 2014, making her biggest impression with a much-mocked speech in which she thundered that it was “a disgrace” that Britain imports two-thirds of its cheese.
In Britain’s 2016 referendum on whether to leave the European Union, Truss backed the losing “remain” side, though she says she was always a natural euroskeptic. Since the vote, she has won over Brexiteers with her uncompromising approach to the EU.
She became justice secretary, but she was demoted to a more junior role in the Treasury by May in 2017. When May was toppled by her repeated failure to break a political deadlock over Brexit, Truss was an early backer of Boris Johnson to replace her. When he won, Johnson made Truss trade secretary, a role in which she Instagrammed her way around the world signing post-Brexit trade deals and raising her profile.
In September 2021, she was appointed foreign secretary, Britain’s top diplomat. Her performance has drawn mixed reviews. Many praise her firm response to the invasion of Ukraine, and she secured the release of two British citizens jailed in Iran, where her predecessors had failed.
But EU leaders and officials who hoped she would bring a softer tone to Britain’s relations with the bloc have been disappointed. Amid trade wrangling, Truss introduced legislation to rip up parts of the binding U.K.-EU divorce agreement signed by both sides. The 27-nation bloc is taking legal action against Britain in return.
Truss has sometimes suggested the frequent comparisons to Thatcher are sexist, but at other times she has encouraged them. She has posed in a British Army tank in Eastern Europe, evoking an image of Thatcher during the Cold War. In a televised leadership debate, Truss sported a pussy-bow blouse just like one Thatcher used to wear.
By stressing her modest background, she is evoking comparisons to grocer’s daughter Thatcher, said Victoria Honeyman, associate professor of British politics at the University of Leeds — “the working-class girl done good.”
Truss’ own personality is hidden behind a stern public persona. Friends say she has a fun-loving side rarely glimpsed in public, and enjoys karaoke and blasting out tunes by Taylor Swift, Whitney Houston and Destiny’s Child.
Truss’ perceived loyalty to Johnson, who remains popular with many Tories, also helped her win. Many party members cited Sunak’s decision to quit Johnson’s Cabinet in July as a mark against him. Truss didn’t resign, saying she was a “loyal person” — though she had been courting party members for months at “fizz with Liz” events to build support for a potential leadership bid.
Conservatives have embraced Truss’ optimistic message of liberation through less government, which is reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s “morning in America” boosterism.
The wider British electorate is likely to prove a harder audience to win over. Times are tough and getting tougher as inflation soars and Britain’s cost-of-living crisis worsens. Truss’ focus on stimulating the economy through tax cuts is unlikely to provide much short-term relief.
Left-of-center commentator Will Hutton, writing in The Observer newspaper, said Truss’ economic ideas were “ruinous nonsense … persistently anti-Europe, obsessed with tax cuts, buying into the faith that nameless regulations are shackling business.”
Truss doesn’t have long to persuade voters that she is on the right track. The next national election must be held in two years.
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Updated September 5, 2022 at 7:45 AM ET
Liz Truss will be the U.K.'s new prime minister, after the Conservative Party named her as its next leader on Monday, replacing the outgoing Boris Johnson.
Truss, who currently serves as the foreign minister, has spent the summer campaigning against her opponent for the party leadership, the U.K.'s former finance minister, Rishi Sunak. The contest has been decided by the votes of less than 200,000 grassroots party members, rather than a national electorate.
The new prime minister will be formally appointed by Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday, after Johnson meets with the monarch in Scotland to tender his resignation. Johnson, who has acted as a caretaker for the past few months, was laid low by a succession of scandals that crescendoed in the first half of this year. He lost the support of many fellow conservative legislators, and indeed many ministers in his own government, which forced him to resign.
The new leader will enter 10 Downing Street later Tuesday, and will immediately face responsibility for a rapidly escalating energy crisis in Britain, with both consumers and companies facing record high gas and electricity costs thanks to the war in Ukraine, and the corresponding rise in inflation threatening to tip the country into a major recession.
Truss, who has been dubbed "PM in waiting" by one British newspaper, said in an interview with the BBC this weekend that she will formulate proposals to combat this economic challenge within days, and is aiming to "act immediately."
Earlier in the leadership contest she did not command as much support among fellow Conservative legislators as her opponent Sunak, and even though he has promised to support a new government even if he is not leader, political analysts have said it will be difficult for her to unify her divided Conservatives, who still enjoy a sizeable majority in the country's parliament — thanks, ironically, to Johnson's huge success as a campaigner during the last national elections.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Weeknd suddenly ended his sold-out concert in Southern California after losing his voice during a mid-song performance.
The four-time Grammy winner was performing his third song “Can’t Feel My Face” before he abruptly stopped his show Saturday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. He then walked off stage, eventually returned and told the audience he lost his voice.
While onstage, the Weeknd apologized for canceling the show and promised the audience a refund.
“I’m going to make sure everyone is good, you’ll get your money back,” he told the crowd. “But I’ll do a show real soon for you guys.”
The singer added: “I can’t give you what I want to give you.”
The Weeknd went on social media to explain that he’s devastated after his “voice went out” during the first song.
“Felt it go and my heart dropped,” he wrote. “My deepest apologies to my fans here. I promise I’ll make it up to you with a new date.”
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VIENNA (AP) — A man killed a woman with an ax in the German capital on Sunday morning before being shot dead by police, officials said.
Police said that they were called to an apartment in Berlin’s Lichtenberg neighborhood shortly before 8 a.m. As they arrived, they saw a man striking a woman with an ax.
Officers shot and killed the suspect, according to a police statement. The victim died on the scene of her injuries.
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CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tyra Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: TYRA), a precision oncology company focused on developing purpose-built therapies to overcome tumor resistance and improve outcomes for patients with cancer, today announced that the Company will be presenting preclinical data on TYRA-300 during a poster session at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) 2022 Congress, being held in person September 9-13, 2022 in Paris, France.
"We believe the preclinical results being presented at the ESMO Congress showcase the enhanced anti-tumor activity and selectivity of TYRA-300 as compared to other agents in the class," said Todd Harris, CEO of TYRA. "These encouraging data support the advancement of TYRA-300 into the clinic, and we look forward to initiating our SURF301 Phase 1/2 study in the near term."
Details of the poster presentation are as follows:
Title: TYRA-300: FGFR3 selective and gatekeeper agnostic
Presenter: Jacqueline Starrett
Date: Monday, September 12, 2022
Session: Developmental therapeutics
Presentation Number: 462P
Regular abstracts will be published on the ESMO website on September 5, 2022. The poster presentation on TYRA-300 will be made available on the TYRA website under the "For Investors" section on September 12, 2022.
About TYRA-300
TYRA-300 is the Company's lead precision oncology program generated from TYRA's proprietary SNÅP drug discovery platform. TYRA-300 is an FGFR3-selective inhibitor designed to be agnostic to the gatekeeper mutation and has demonstrated less hyperphosphatemia mediated by FGFR1 inhibition than pan-FGFR inhibitors in preclinical models. In July 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared TYRA to proceed with its Phase 1/2 SURF301 clinical study of TYRA-300 under its Investigational New Drug application (IND), in patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma of the bladder and urinary tract. SURF301 is a two-part study designed to determine the optimal and maximum tolerated doses (MTD) and the recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D) of TYRA-300.
About Tyra Biosciences
Tyra Biosciences, Inc. is a precision oncology company focused on developing purpose-built therapies to overcome tumor resistance and improve outcomes for patients with cancer. TYRA's proprietary in-house discovery platform, SNÅP, enables the rapid and precise refinement of structural design through iterative molecular SNÅPshots that help predict genetic alterations most likely to cause acquired resistance to existing therapies. Leveraging SNÅP, TYRA is developing a pipeline of selective inhibitors of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors (FGFR), which are altered in approximately 7% of all cancers. TYRA-300 is an FGFR3 selective inhibitor for oncology. TYRA-200 is an FGFR2 inhibitor that TYRA is developing initially in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. TYRA is also targeting achondroplasia and other FGFR3-related skeletal dysplasias, FGFR4-related cancers, and REarranged during Transfection kinase (RET). TYRA is based in Carlsbad, CA. For more information about our science, pipeline and people, please visit www.tyra.bio and engage with us on LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
TYRA cautions you that statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements are based on our current beliefs and expectations and include, but are not limited to: the potential to develop purpose-built therapies that improve clinical outcomes; and the expected timing of initiating the SURF301 Phase 1/2 trial. Actual results may differ from those set forth in this press release due to the risks and uncertainties inherent in our business, including, without limitation: we are early in our development efforts, have not tested any of our product candidates in clinical trials and the approach we are taking to discover and develop drugs based on our SNÅP platform is novel and unproven and it may never lead to product candidates that are successful in clinical development or approved products of commercial value; potential delays in the commencement, enrollment, and completion of clinical trials; our dependence on third parties in connection with manufacturing, research and preclinical testing; our ability to maintain undisrupted business operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including delaying or disrupting our preclinical studies, manufacturing, and supply chain; regulatory developments in the United States and foreign countries; and other risks described in our prior filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including under the heading "Risk Factors" in our annual report on Form 10-K and any subsequent filings with the SEC. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof, and we undertake no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date hereof. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, which is made under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Contact:
Amy Conrad
aconrad@tyra.bio
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Amber Heard left Eve Barlow with 'blackeye' during hotel fight in Israel: report
CCTV footage allegedly showed the moment the actress dragged her rumoured girlfriend back to their room.
Amber Heard is being accused of domestic violence over reports that she left her rumoured girlfriend, Eve Barlow, bruised following a physical altercation in a hotel in Israel.
The "Aquaman" actress has been keeping a low profile as of late after she lost in her defamation case against her ex-husband Johnny Depp in May. She has not updated her social media accounts, although netizens constantly share updates on her whereabouts on Twitter.
In August, photos emerged on the platform of her and Barlow, a Jewish activist, vacationing in Tel Aviv. Twitter user @LiliaMachado14 claimed to have heard from a friend that the two women had a huge fight while in the country that ended badly for one of them.
The user tweeted, "I've heard from a friend that Amber and Eve had a fight in the hotel room in Israel. There were noise like a fight happening in the room where Amber and Eve were in."
@LiliaMachado14 said that the camera in the hallway captured them fighting and that Barlow "left the hotel with a black eye." Heard's daughter, Oonagh Paige, was reportedly not there with them.
It is unclear if the reported "fight" actually happened since there is no valid proof to back up the user's claim. It is said that during the "blowout fight," Heard had dragged Barlow back into their hotel room.
A still photo from the alleged hallway video has also made the rounds online, but it is too blurry to identify the two people in it. But claims that Heard landed a blow on Barlow strikes a chord especially since she is accused of being the physical aggressor during her short-lived marriage with Depp.
Interestingly though, the actress was also recently accused of "renting" her baby daughter for photo ops. It is said that she does not really have a child at all, and that she used Oonagh, born out of a surrogate, as a ploy to gain sympathy during her trial with Depp. The "Rum Diary" actress was also pictured in Israel pushing around an empty stroller.
As for the alleged fight, it is unclear when it occurred, and if it did happen at all. Barlow seemed to hint that there was no physical altercation in a hotel room in Israel because she continues to defend and stand by Heard on social media.
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Red wave crashing? GOP momentum slips as fall sprint begins
NEW YORK (AP) — The possibility of a great red wave still looms.
But as the 2022 midterm elections enter their final two-month sprint, leading Republicans concede that their party’s advantage may be slipping even as Democrats confront their president’s weak standing, deep voter pessimism and the weight of history this fall.
The political landscape, while still in flux, follows a string of President Joe Biden’s legislative victories on climate, health care and gun violence, just as Donald Trump’s hand-picked candidates in electoral battlegrounds like Arizona, Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania struggle to broaden their appeal. But nothing has undermined the GOP’s momentum more than the Supreme Court’s stunning decision in June to end abortion protections, which triggered a swift backlash even in the reddest of red states.
“This midterm looks and feels significantly different than it did six months ago,” said veteran Republican pollster Neil Newhouse. The abortion ruling “has energized some segments, especially the Democratic constituency, and it has thrown a wrench, at least to some extent, into the hopes of winning a ton of seats.”
History suggests Republicans should dominate the November elections.
In the modern era, the party that holds the White House has lost congressional seats in virtually every first-term president’s first midterm election. Ronald Reagan lost 26 House seats, Bill Clinton lost 52, Barack Obama 63 and Trump 40. Only George W. Bush’s Republican Party enjoyed a modest eight-seat gain in his first midterm, coming after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Nine weeks before Election Day, leading operatives in both parties expect Republicans to pick up roughly 10 to 20 House seats, which would give the GOP a narrow majority in the chamber in November and break up Democrats’ control of the federal government. But many Republicans are losing confidence in the high-stakes fight for the Senate majority and key governorships across the nation.
In Pennsylvania, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro argues that his focus on public safety, education, the economy and freedom is driving his momentum but concedes that his opponent is also a major factor.
“Folks trust me to get it done,” Shapiro, the state attorney general, told The Associated Press. “And in fairness, in part, it’s because I’m running against the guy who’s by far the most extreme and dangerous candidate in the nation.”
In one of the nation’s most important swing states, Republicans nominated Doug Mastriano as their nominee for governor, even after learning about his leading role in Trump’s push to overturn the 2020 election.
The state senator and retired military officer helped organize the state’s effort to submit fake presidential electors beholden to Trump and was seen outside the Capitol as pro-Trump demonstrators attacked police on Jan. 6, 2021. He has also alienated moderate voters and even some Republicans with divisive positions on several issues, including abortion, which he opposes in all circumstances.
Mastriano’s campaign didn’t respond to an interview request for this story.
Shapiro will launch his first TV ad of the fall campaign on Tuesday, casting Mastriano’s fierce opposition to abortion rights and gay marriage as a threat to Pennsylvania’s economy. The ad is the first spot in a $16.9 million television advertising investment the campaign reserved for the nine weeks leading up to Election Day.
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel acknowledged that the GOP must sharpen its message on abortion given the Democrats’ apparent momentum.
“We can’t allow them to control the narrative,” McDaniel said in an interview.
She emphasized Republican leaders’ record of supporting exceptions for abortion in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother, sidestepping questions about candidates like Mastriano, Georgia Senate nominee Herschel Walker and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who oppose such exceptions.
“I’m not going to speak about every candidate and where they’re at,” McDaniel said. “But the past four Republican presidents since Roe believe in the exception, and that is where I think a lot of the American people are, according to polling. But they also believe in limitations, and Democrats have shown no inclination to have any limitation.”
On the Republican Party’s broader midterm outlook, McDaniel said top races were always likely to tighten, despite the conventional wisdom that a massive red wave was building.
“Many of these states are battleground states,” she said. “It’s going to be tight.”
On paper, Republicans continue to enjoy tremendous advantages.
Beyond the weight of history, Democrats are saddled with Biden’s low favorability ratings as roughly 7 in 10 voters believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. Democratic strategists acknowledge serious political headwinds as inflation and pessimism surge, but they note gas prices have ticked down, pandemic worries have waned and Biden has won major legislative victories on several key issues.
“Republicans haven’t taken advantage of the bad political environment. And they punted on having any agenda or getting anything done,” said Biden pollster John Anzalone, who was far less confident about the midterm outlook at the beginning of the summer.
“Historically, this should be a 30- or 40-seat win by Republicans,” he added. “The entire Republican Party has been one big mistake for the past four or five months.”
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has blamed GOP “candidate quality” for why his party was more likely to win the House than the Senate.
Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who leads the Senate GOP campaign arm, sees it differently.
“He and I clearly have a disagreement on this. I think we’ve got great candidates,” Scott told the AP, citing opportunities to challenge Democrats in blue states like Colorado and Washington state. “I think we’re doing fine.”
Scott did acknowledge some uncertainty involving Trump’s role in the coming weeks.
The former president helped his loyalists, most of whom embraced his conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, win primary elections across the country throughout the spring and summer. But it’s unclear how Trump will help them, if at all, as the election moves into the fall.
“He’s got a choice about what he wants to do. He clearly has some candidates that he wanted to get through the primaries and they did,” Scott said. “He’ll make his own decision on what he wants to do.”
At the same time, a disproportionate number of women are registering to vote. And if recent voting patterns hold, that’s good news for Democrats.
In at least seven states, women made up a higher share of newly registered voters following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to an AP analysis of voter data from L2, a nonpartisan data provider.
In the five weeks after the court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, women made up 64% of new Kansas registrations. Then, on Aug. 2, Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have let state lawmakers impose new restrictions on abortions.
Trump-backed Republicans who oppose abortion rights are fighting for momentum in several swing states.
A leading Republican Senate super PAC recently canceled television ad reservations in Arizona, where Blake Masters is running, while committing $28 million to help Trump loyalist JD Vance in Ohio, a state Trump carried by 8 points in the last election. In Pennsylvania, there are concerns that Mastriano is dragging down the rest of the Republican ticket, while Trump-endorsed GOP Senate nominee Mehmet Oz is struggling with residency questions. And in Georgia, Walker is facing difficult questions about his past and his opposition to abortion in all cases.
Rep. Tom Emmer, the Minnesota Republican who leads the House GOP campaign arm, warned his party against taking anything for granted.
He noted that most of the seats Republicans are targeting this fall are set in districts Biden carried, a contrast from past elections where Republicans found success in GOP-leaning districts.
“Don’t be measuring the drapes,” Emmer told the AP in a message to Republican colleagues. “This isn’t the typical midterm that we’re talking about.”
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Associated Press writers Aaron Kessler, Hannah Fingerhut and Zeke Miller in Washington and Bill Barrow in Atlanta contributed to this report.
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Pregnant Women Caught In Pakistan Floods Desperate For Aid
With a swollen belly, aching feet and her four-year-old daughter in tow, Fahmidah Bibi keeps an eye out for a doctor who is rumoured to be due a visit at the campsite she now calls home, after being forced to flee her village because of flooding.
The camp, in the grounds of a small railway station on the outskirts of Fazilpur in Pakistan's Punjab province, is the only high ground in a landscape of water, and accommodates around 500 people.
They include Fahmidah, 40, who arrived with her five children just over a week ago, along with her husband's relatives.
"I need a doctor or a midwife. What if something happens to my child?" Fahmidah -- nine months pregnant and due any day -- told AFP at the weekend.
More than 33 million people in Pakistan have been affected by the flooding, brought on by record monsoon rains that have also caused at least 1,300 deaths, according to government data.
The United Nations Population Fund said Saturday at least 128,000 pregnant women in flood-hit areas urgently need care -- with 42,000 expected to give birth in the next three months.
Fahmidah's last visit to a doctor was a month ago, and according to her report -- which she keeps close along with a prescription for medicine she cannot afford -- her baby is in breech position.
She sleeps in the open, sharing a traditional wooden charpoy bed with her five children, aged four to 12.
The sprawling makeshift station campsite is home to at least five other pregnant women.
They all complain of a lack of women doctors and midwives to help them.
Most of the women have resisted being examined by volunteer male doctors who have visited with aid convoys. In conservative Pakistan, it is often deemed inappropriate for women to consult male doctors, especially for gynaecological issues.
Desperate for attention, Fahmidah tried striking out across flooded fields to reach the city for help, but slipped and fell multiple times and eventually gave up.
She pales at the thought of giving birth at the campsite, where stranded villagers and their livestock live side-by-side without sanitation.
The buzzing of flies and mosquitoes is incessant, as is the stench from the surrounding murky brown water, filled with rotting vegetation and excrement.
"I have nothing prepared for when the baby comes," Fahmidah said.
"I don't even have swaddling clothes. It was all washed away in the flood."
Like Fahmidah, five-months pregnant Saira Bibi is desperate for a doctor -- she has been experiencing shooting pain along the side of her belly.
Just 25 years old, Saira already has four daughters, but is under pressure from her husband and his family to produce a son. He has threatened to get another wife if she fails him again.
"I had a son after four daughters, but he died," she told AFP, adding that she subsequently underwent fertility treatment for ten months to get pregnant again.
Now, her desperate situation has put her chances of carrying this pregnancy to term in jeopardy.
While Saira prays to successfully deliver a healthy boy, Fahmidah already knows she will be giving birth to a son.
She has decided to name him Ali Raza, and hopes that he will grow up to be an important government officer and take her on a pilgrimage.
"I know he will take his mother to Mecca," she says.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A train collided with a vehicle on a railroad crossing in southern Hungary early Monday, killing seven people, authorities said.
Police said the crash occurred at a dirt road crossing around 6:45 a.m. near the village of Kunfeherto. Early police reports indicated that five people had died in the collision, but authorities later updated their figure, saying the driver of the vehicle and all six of its passengers had died at the scene.
Passengers on the train weren't injured, but the train's driver was transported to a hospital with minor injuries, according to a police statement.
There was no gate or electric signal at the rural railroad crossing, Hungary's state railway company said, adding that the affected section of the railway line has been closed to train traffic.
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BOLTON, Mass. (AP) — Dustin Johnson gave LIV Golf its first big moment Sunday when he made a 35-foot eagle putt on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to win the LIV Golf Invitational-Boston for his first victory in 19 months.
Johnson’s putt on the par-5 18th was going so fast it might have rolled some 6 feet past the hole. But it hit the back of the cup and dropped down near the front of the cup to beat Joaquin Niemann and Anirban Lahiri.
He raised his arm and dropped it for a slow-motion uppercut, instead slapping hands with Austin Johnson, his brother and caddie. The win was worth $4 million for Johnson. With his team winning again, he now has made $9,962,500 in four events.
“It was going a little fast, but it was a good line,” Johnson said with a big smile. “I got some unlucky breaks (on No. 18) the first time around. It owed me one and I got it.”
The first playoff in four LIV Golf events capped an otherwise sloppy finish by so many others who had a chance.
Johnson, who closed with a 5-under 65, needed a birdie on the par-5 18th. His drive bounced into the right rough, his iron to lay up went into the trees well to the left and he had to scramble for par to join Lahiri (64) and Niemann (66) at 15-under 265.
Lahiri hit a fairway metal to 5 feet on the 18th in regulation, and his eagle putt that would have won it rolled around the right edge of the cup.
Lee Westwood finished one shot out of a playoff after a 62 that included bogeys on two of his last three holes. He was poised to win when he bounced back from a bogey on No. 1 in the shotgun start with a short birdie on the par-3 second.
He finished on No. 3, a 352-yard hole and great birdie opportunity. Westwood hit a lob wedge that was so fat it came up some 40 feet short of the pin and into a bunker. He blasted out weakly and missed the 18-foot par putt.
“The lob wedge was a little fat,” Westwood said. “Make 3 and I win the tournament and I make 5. It’s a sickening way to finish.”
British Open champion Cameron Smith, among six players who recently signed with the Saudi-funded league, had a 63. He also was tied for the lead until hitting his tee shot into the trees on No. 1, his 17th hole, and having to pitch out sideways. He made bogey.
Smith tied for fourth with Westwood. Each made just over $1 million.
Johnson had not won since the Saudi International on Feb. 7, 2021, when it was part of the European tour schedule. The player who has been No. 1 longer than anyone since Tiger Woods slipped out of the top 15 in the world when he signed with LIV Golf.
He was part of the rival league from the start in early June outside London, and he has finished in the top 10 in all of them.
“I’ve had a chance to win every one,” he said. “That’s three in a row for the team, and for me to get my first, I’m feeling good.”
He walked off the 18th green holding a phone in a video call to his two sons.
Lahiri and Niemann each made just over $1.8 million for losing in the playoff. They were among six players who signed with LIV Golf after the PGA Tour season end.
The next LIV Golf Invitational series is in two weeks in the Chicago suburbs at Rich Harvest Farms, best known for hosting the Solheim Cup in 2009.
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The Miami Heat on Wednesday formally released the Classic Edition jerseys they will wear this season.
The Heat initially wore the uniform style from the franchise’s 1988 inception through 1999. The Heat also brought the jersey style back for the 2015-16 season.
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Germany to publish results of energy ‘stress test’
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s government plans to publish the results of a highly anticipated study into how the country’s energy sector will cope with possible shortages in the coming months. The outcome of the so-called stress test to be published on Monday could determine whether Germany delays the planned shutdown of its last three nuclear power plants at the end of the year. Germany is scrambling to ensure the lights stay on and homes stay warm this winter despite an expected shortage of natural gas due to supply cuts from Russia. The government has announced numerous measures to import gas from other sources and reactivate mothballed coal- and oil-fueled power plants. It has also urged citizens to conserve as much energy as possible. | https://kion546.com/news/2022/09/05/germany-to-publish-results-of-energy-stress-test-2/ | 2022-09-05T13:13:30Z | https://kion546.com/news/2022/09/05/germany-to-publish-results-of-energy-stress-test-2/ | false |
Philadelphia Phillies trying to hold on, end lengthy postseason drought
PHILADELPHIA - Nothing has come easy this year for the Philadelphia Phillies, who are trying to reach the postseason for the first time in over a decade.
They started poorly, going 22-29 before manager Joe Girardi was fired. New skipper Rob Thompson won his first eight games, but not long after that, Bryce Harper went down with a broken thumb. While he was out, the Phillies played well enough that they were in the National League's second wild-card spot when he returned late last month, but now they've dropped six of seven.
Philadelphia hasn't made the playoffs since 2011, the second-longest drought in the majors. The Phillies are overshadowed somewhat by Seattle, which is in good shape to make the postseason for the first time since 2001, but a playoff appearance would also be a key step for Philadelphia, now in its fourth season since signing Harper.
After losing 5-3 to San Francisco on Sunday on a ninth-inning homer by Wilmer Flores, the Phillies are 2 1/2 games ahead of Milwaukee for the final NL wild card. They were swept three straight by the Giants after dropping two of three at Arizona.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Founded in 2012, Affirm is one of the largest “buy now, pay later” companies in the U.S. It is also the only U.S.-based buy now, pay later company that is publicly traded.
Affirm’s stock has lost nearly 80% of its value this year as soaring inflation made investors doubt the future of buy now, pay later services. This week the company forecast revenue for next year that was worse than analysts expected, kicking the stock lower again.
Founder Max Levchin was part of the team that helped launch PayPal in 1998. Levchin recently spoke with The Associated Press about the health of Affirm's borrowers and its increasing number of competitors. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Q: One thing notable in your earnings is the increased usage of your product. Customers have on average three loans with you, up from two. Why is this frequency going up?
A: I think it really showcases that we are hitting an unmet need and developing loyalty with customers. We’re now available in roughly 60% of e-commerce retailers, as well as places like Shopify and Amazon. We’re finding that once you’ve used Affirm once, you’ll do it again and again. We expect that frequency figure to keep growing.
Q: There have been some signs of consumers getting financially stressed by inflation. How is it impacting your borrowers?
A: I would not call it a sort of preamble to a potential downturn, but it’s not the same kind of a smooth sailing it’s been for the last 11 years. We have seen some stress (among those with the lowest credit scores), and those are starting to have a hard time.
Q: So, is this impacting your ability to make loans?
A: Not at all. We have taken a much more conservative approach, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t making loans. We can estimate a borrower’s cash flow, and hypothetically, make a loan if the borrower makes a bigger down payment, for example. Meanwhile a number of our competitors that used to be traditionally indifferent to underwriting are starting to slam the brakes. They were building a business model of no price too low, underwriting loans with happy abandon because growth is important. They are starting to really taper their growth very, very aggressively. So, we’re trying to take market share from them, underwrite better loans and build a better experience for customers.
Q: There have been some new competitors in the buy now, pay later industry, most notably Apple. How is this impacting your business?
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli military probe finds soldier likely killed veteran Al Jazeera journalist in errant fire; no charges planned.
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Referees ‘made to look foolish’ by Premier League’s usage of VAR
Referees are being “hung out to dry” over a series of high-profile VAR controversies in the Premier League this weekend due to a lack of leadership, according to former top-flight referees’ boss Keith Hackett.
West Ham and Newcastle had goals controversially disallowed on Saturday following VAR checks.
Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) has acknowledged errors were made in those matches and is understood to be co-operating with the Premier League after it called for the incidents to be reviewed.
Hackett, a former general manager of PGMOL, criticised current incumbent Mike Riley, who will be succeeded before the end of the year by 2010 World Cup final referee Howard Webb.
“We’re in our fourth season of VAR and we’re not operating it well,” Hackett told the PA news agency.
“These officials don’t get to the Premier League without being good referees. In some ways they have been made to look foolish this weekend by what has happened. They must feel that they’ve been let down.
“They have been hung out to dry because there’s no leadership. There’s no guidance, there’s no coaching.
They see the walk from (making) the decision to the pitchside monitor as the walk of shame.
“That ultimately has to come down to the person running the organisation (Riley). The interaction between the referee and the VAR is suspect.
“One of the reasons for that is you’ve got current referees who might referee on a Saturday suddenly becoming a VAR on a Sunday. I don’t think that’s conducive to good officiating.”
Hackett says PGMOL should move to create a panel of individuals whose sole job is to serve as VARs and called for them to operate as teams with a referee and his or her assistants to improve communication.
He also believes VARs should be situated within the stadium, or very close by, rather than at the Stockley Park headquarters, which he likened to an “ivory tower”.
West Ham had an equaliser ruled out against Chelsea after VAR Jarred Gillett advised onfield referee Andrew Madley to review a possible foul by West Ham’s Jarrod Bowen on Blues goalkeeper Edouard Mendy.
Newcastle were denied a winner against Crystal Palace after VAR Lee Mason recommended a check by Michael Salisbury on a collision between the Magpies’ Joe Willock and Palace goalkeeper Vicente Guaita.
A foul was given, even though replays suggested the collision was caused by Palace’s Tyrick Mitchell shoving Willock towards Guaita.
Hackett said officials are “conditioned” to change their mind if a VAR suggests they should review an incident.
“They see the walk from (making) the decision to the pitchside monitor as the walk of shame,” he added.
“We need to get them in a room and say ‘guys, ultimately what we want is the correct decision. Have the courage of your convictions, because you will be supported either way’.
He also felt VAR was being used too forensically, rather than just for clear and obvious errors.
“The PGMOL said at the beginning of the season that they had raised the bar (for interventions). They have clearly forgotten to tell the VAR operators,” he said.
The referee and VAR appointments for the coming weekend’s matches will be made at 4pm on Monday, and there will naturally be close attention paid to how, or even if, the likes of Mason and Gillett feature.
Asked if the officials involved should face consequences, Hackett added: “They need operational advice. They need to understand this error. Everybody needs to understand why that error was made. It’s not about putting a guy up to a post and saying ‘we’re gonna shoot you’.
“This is about education, this is about accountability. It’s about saying ‘let’s take time out’ – maybe a week off for that individual to get his head around the error that he’s made.”
Meanwhile, the English Football League is “incredibly frustrated” by the failure of goal-line technology during Sunday’s Sky Bet Championship match between Huddersfield and Blackpool.
The Terriers were denied an equaliser when Yuta Nakayama’s effort crossed the line, but GLT failed to detect it and the on-field officials did not spot it either.
The EFL said the incident “overshadowed” a fantastic weekend of action and that GLT “failing in such a manner…is a matter of great concern”.
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BOCA CHITA KEY, Fla. (AP) — Four people suffered critical injuries when a boat hit a channel marker near Boca Chita Key and capsized, officials said.
Eleven of the 14 people on the boat were injured in the crash that happened just before 7 p.m. Sunday, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said in a news release.
The agency sent more than 10 units to the scene and worked alongside Miami-Dade Police marine patrol units, the U.S....
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BOCA CHITA KEY, Fla. (AP) — Four people suffered critical injuries when a boat hit a channel marker near Boca Chita Key and capsized, officials said.
Eleven of the 14 people on the boat were injured in the crash that happened just before 7 p.m. Sunday, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said in a news release.
The agency sent more than 10 units to the scene and worked alongside Miami-Dade Police marine patrol units, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to clear the scene.
Officials said 14 people were on the boat. Seven suffered minor injuries, fire rescue officials said. There was no additional update on the conditions of the injured.
The critically injured were airlifted to a hospital in Miami.
Boca Chica Key is within Biscayne National Park offshore of Miami-Dade County.
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- Lunit to present five posters at ESMO 2022 featuring the company's AI-biomarker platform
- Studies corroborate the capability of Lunit SCOPE suite to address an expanding set of clinical and research questions based on world-leading digital pathology AI
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lunit (KRX: 328130.KQ) today announced the presentation of five abstracts highlighting the effectiveness of its AI-biomarker platform - Lunit SCOPE - at the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2022, held in Paris from September 9 to 13.
ESMO is a professional organization for medical oncology, with more than 25,000 members representing oncology professionals from over 160 countries worldwide.
One of Lunit's abstracts focuses on the assessment of tumor purity directly from H&E whole slide images by using Lunit SCOPE AI technology (AI-P) and concordance between AI-P and variant allele frequency (VAF)[1] as determined by next-generation sequencing (NGS). The study showed a strong correlation between the assessment of tumor purity using Lunit SCOPE and VAF across 23 cancer types. The result validates the effectiveness of Lunit SCOPE as a valuable tool to assess tumor purity easily and quickly from H&E slides.
Another study conducted with Dr. SooYoun Cho, Dr. EunYoon Cho and Dr. SangYong Song of Samsung Medical Center, evaluates the performance of Lunit SCOPE HER2 in pathological practices for breast cancer patients. This joint study showed that Lunit's HER2 scoring and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) analysis solution supports the prediction of clinical response for HER2-positive early breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC).
In addition, Lunit will also present clinical findings that demonstrate the accuracy of Lunit SCOPE PD-L1 CPS. After classifying PD-L1 Combined Positive Score (CPS) levels in 543 urothelial carcinoma (UC) cases, the AI-powered CPS analyzer showed an equivalent level of accuracy to that of pathologists.
Another study from Lunit reveals the capability of the AI-powered TIL and PD-L1 CPS analysis solution to be utilized as a predictive biomarker for immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) response in neuroendocrine neoplasms (NEN).
The last study shows that Lunit SCOPE can discover novel targets for antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) by precisely analyzing linked NGS and IHC data in tumors, highlighting the potential of multimodal analysis linking molecular and visual methods.
Meet the Lunit team in person at ESMO at booth #249.
"Through these studies, Lunit has validated that the Lunit SCOPE suite can expand its range of impact across more types of cancer, to address an expanding number of clinical and research questions," said Brandon Suh, CEO of Lunit. "We intend to continue our research activities and present groundbreaking studies at global cancer congresses every year."
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42Gears customers can continue to manage their upgraded Android devices using its MDM suite
BENGALURU, India, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With the recent release of Google's Android 13, 42Gears has modified its offering so IT admins using SureMDM, 42Gears' flagship mobile device management solution, can continue to secure, monitor, and manage newly-updated Android devices easily.
The latest Android version, also called Android Tiramisu, comes with significant refinements following Android 12's big redesign. The source code is available on AOSP, so developers can now make their builds compatible with the most recent version of Android.
"Most of our products, including SureMDM, SureLock, SureFox, and SureVideo are fully compatible with Android 13. We've also introduced some changes in them while upgrading our products to support the new Android version," said Prakash Gupta, co-founder and COO of 42Gears Mobility Systems.
According to 42Gears, businesses that decide to upgrade to Android 13 will find that:
- Android 13 requires users to allow runtime permissions for sending notifications from any app; notifications won't be allowed by default. The same holds true while using the 42Gears Android MDM app too.
- Bluetooth Manager will no longer work for device administrator as Google has deprecated a few APIs for the same. It will only work for Device Owner mode, and 42Gears has already updated those APIs so its customers can continue to work with the Bluetooth Manager.
"Given that businesses are adopting either fully remote or hybrid work environments, they need to invest in a robust and reliable device management tool now more than ever. By providing support for Android 13 early on, our objective is to make our MDM platform extremely practical and compatible - one that can take the pain out of Android device management," reiterated Prakash.
To learn more about 42Gears' zero-day support for Android 13, please click here.
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42Gears is a leading UEM solution provider, offering SaaS and on-premise solutions to secure, monitor, and manage business endpoints built on Android, iOS, iPadOS, Windows, macOS, Wear OS, VR, IoT, and Linux platforms. 42Gears products are used in various industries and trusted by over 18,000 customers in more than 115 countries. For more information, please visit https://www.42gears.com.
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Grievance meeting held in Coimbatore
The weekly grievance redressal meeting was held at the Collectorate on Monday. Residents submitted petitions to the District Collector G.S Sameeran, Revenue Officer P.S. Leela Alex, Pollachi Sub-Collector Thakare Shubham Dnyandeorao, and other officials.
A total of 257 petitions — 82 requested land patta, 33 sought free housing, 20 for employment, and 122 for other demands like old-age allowance, land transfer, and new family card - were submitted.
The National Federation for the Blind (NFB), Coimbatore branch, demanded that the district administration request the State government to increase the monthly assistance from ₹1,000 to ₹3,000.
Coimbatore district coordinator of NFB T Sadasivam said they have been repeatedly asking for hike for all the unemployed differently-abled persons since 2012.
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The Hindustan Makkal Seva Iyakkam staged a demonstration with members in chains in front of the Collector's office. They submitted a petition urging the Tamil Nadu government to not release certain convicted prisoners on former Chief Minister C.N. Annadurai's birth anniversary on September 15.
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(THE CONVERSATION) With Americans having fewer children and the nation’s labor force getting older, many employers in manufacturing, aviation and other industries are having trouble finding enough workers.
The gap between the demand for labor and its supply was already forming in 2017. By 2018, the U.S. economy had increasingly more job openings than unemployed workers. That gap has widened during the COVID-19 pandemic as more people have died, retired early or simply dropped out of the job market.
By July 2022, as the pandemic’s effects on the workplace were easing, the U.S. had 11.2 million job openings but only 5.7 million unemployed workers who might fill them.
I’m a scholar of immigration and economics who researches a trend that’s driving labor shortages: declining numbers of immigrants allowed to legally work in the U.S. When I study these numbers, I see an important opportunity to resolve labor shortages that are wreaking economic havoc.
Work visas
An estimated 45 million people living in the United States, roughly 14% of the population, were born elsewhere. About one in six U.S. workers is an immigrant.
Some of these foreign-born workers are legally employed on a temporary basis with an array of visas that make it possible to obtain jobs that run the gamut from software designers to apple pickers.
In some cases, these employees can obtain legal permanent residency – often called “a green card.” Some temporary work visas last longer than 12 months, so the number of workers with authorization is higher than the number of visas issued in that year. H-1B visas, which require a high level of education for fields like computer programming, last three years and can be renewed for another three.
The government issued a record 813,330 temporary employment-based visas in 2019. The total fell by about a third to 566,000 in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic got underway, and the numbers were basically flat in 2021 at 566,001 – the first year of Joe Biden’s presidency.
Of course it’s important that the government not issue visas in such a way that foreign workers depress wages or lead to the dismissal of gainfully employed Americans.
These lower wages could occur in the short run, but most empirical studies show there are long-term benefits in terms of what native-born people earn when immigration rises.
Taking a bite out of the economy
The sharp reduction in the number of temporary visas for foreign-born workers in 2020 and 2021 harmed the U.S. economy. Based on my own calculations, the total cost was around 0.4% per year of total gross domestic product – at least $82 billion per year in 2020 and 2021.
Immigration restrictions affected far more people, however, including those who were unable to obtain a green card because of the closure of embassies and consulates. All told, these policies resulted in an estimated 2 million fewer working-age immigrants in the U.S. in 2020 and 2021.
Including those additional losses nearly triples the economic cost of U.S. immigration restrictions to about 1.1% per year of U.S. GDP.
Unless the U.S. reverses course and issues more work-related visas, I estimate that the worker shortage will double to over 4 million by 2030. My calculations also suggest this will shave about 4.3% off of GDP, on average, annually for the next eight years. Adding that all up, that would amount to about $9 trillion in lost economic output.
Labor shortages
Labor shortages are especially severe today in certain industries that rely heavily on immigrants as employees.
For example, in 2020 foreign-born workers accounted for 39% of the farming, fishing and forestry workforce, 30% of all people employed in construction and extraction, 26% of everyone working in computer science and mathematics and 22% in health care support.
As a result, these industries are facing unprecedented challenges in trying to find workers to fill open jobs.
If these labor shortages continue, I’m certain that they will keep hurting job markets, supply chains and productivity as companies have to pay their employees more and then increase prices due in part to those higher labor costs.
The labor force participation rate, which measures the number of people in the job market as a percentage of the total working-age population, has been hovering around the lowest levels seen since the 1970s as more U.S. workers drop out of the job market. After plunging to 60% in 2020, it bounced back partially. The rate stood at 62.2% in July 2022.
Feasible fix
Of course, there are other factors besides a lack of foreign-born visas issued that are responsible for the shortage of workers.
But none are easy to resolve. It’s hard for the government to increase the share of adults who are working, and there’s little that can be done in the short term about the country’s aging workforce – the result of a long-term fertility decline.
Even if the political hurdles can be high, I believe boosting the number of immigrants allowed to legally work in the United States is an important way that the authorities can ease labor shortages.
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BEAVERTON, Ore. — A Beaverton police officer pulled a 34-year-old man from a vehicle that caught fire after a crash early Tuesday morning. The Beaverton Police Department (BPD) shared police body-cam footage with KGW showing the rescue unfold.
Beaverton police officers and deputies with the Washington County Sheriff's Office responded to a roll-over crash around 2:30 a.m. on Aug. 30 near Southwest Hocken Avenue and Southwest Jenkins Road. The vehicle was on its side and flames were shooting high into the air when law enforcement arrived to the scene.
Police body-cam footage shows the Beaverton police officer break the vehicle's sunroof, and he can be heard instructing the driver to escape.
Small explosions from the vehicle pushed the officer back, BPD said, and the driver was unresponsive to the officer's commands. Video shows the police officer attempt to grab the driver by the arm multiple times before he's eventually able to pull him out of the vehicle through the sunroof.
BPD has not identified the officer and said he declined to comment.
Officers "saw evidence of impairment, which is believed to have contributed to the crash," BPD said.
The driver was taken to the hospital and treated for non-life threatening injuries. He was released and cited for DUII and reckless driving. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/national/beaverton-fiery-car-crash-rescue/283-d2a9cf7d-742b-41bb-8750-51d29d53d3c0 | 2022-09-05T13:26:41Z | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/national/beaverton-fiery-car-crash-rescue/283-d2a9cf7d-742b-41bb-8750-51d29d53d3c0 | false |
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A pregnant Black activist serving four years in prison for her behavior at racial justice protests will have her sentence reconsidered as she struggles to reach her due date behind bars.
Raising questions about free speech and equal justice, Brittany Martin, 34, was found guilty this spring of breaching the peace in a high and aggravated manner over comments she made to police. Her lawyers have been pushing for a lesser sentence amid increasing concerns about her health and that of her baby, due in November.
Advocates with Black Voters Matter have been circulating a petition calling for her release. Civil rights attorney and former state lawmaker Bakari Sellers will tell the judge on Sept. 12 that the punishment is unjust.
“She’s in jail because she talked in America,” said Sybil Dione Rosado, her trial attorney. “She’s a dark-skinned Black woman who is unapologetically Black and radical.”
Martin moved with her four younger children to Sumter, South Carolina, from Iowa in spring 2020 and was “ready to go and protest” after the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd sparked a nationwide movement that year, her sister said.
But Martin also had someone else on her mind: In 2016, Sumter police fatally shot her brother-in-law 19 times when officers said he fired a gun after a chase in a stolen car. When she took to the streets, she carried grief over her family’s past.
In court, prosecutors presented police body camera recordings including snippets of those demonstrations. Shared with the AP, they don’t show her laying hands on any officers. Videos from May 31, 2020 show Martin chanting “No justice, no peace,” in an officer’s face. Police donned riot gear and discussed using tear gas before letting the crowd disperse.
Martin used stronger language days later.
“Some of us gon’ be hurting. And some of y’all gon’ be hurting,” Martin told officers. “We ready to die for this. We tired of it. You better be ready to die for the blue. I’m ready to die for the Black.”
The jury acquitted Martin of inciting a riot and reached no verdict on whether she threatened officers’ lives. Her legal team was “elated” when jurors found her guilty only of breaching the peace, punishable by no more than a $500 fine and 30 days in jail, investigator Tony Kennedy recalled.
State law defines breachers of the peace as any disturbers, “dangerous and disorderly persons” or people who utter “menaces or threatening speeches.” But prosecutors presented the charge as a “high and aggravated” crime, which carries up to 10 years imprisonment. Rosado said Judge Kirk Griffin did not allow her to explain the distinction, and the possibility of a much stiffer penalty, to the jury.
Prosecutors did not respond to interview requests. Sumter police said it would be inappropriate to comment, given the potential for additional action.
Sellers called the sentence “beyond the pale.”
“The fact is you have people who stormed the Capitol, who led to the death of law enforcement, who tried to overturn an election and fracture democracy. And they’re getting two months, three months, six months,” Sellers said. “And Brittany Martin gets four years.”
Of the roughly 850 people charged with federal crimes related to the Jan. 6 insurrection, more than 330 have pleaded guilty to receive lesser sentences, mostly misdemeanors punishable by no more than a year.
In a court filing, Sellers points to others convicted under the same charge who had their sentences reduced. A more high-profile case involved an intoxicated University of Alabama football fan who punched a University of South Carolina fan unconscious after the Gamecocks upset the Crimson Tide. The man was pronounced dead after a motorist unknowingly drove over his body. The fan got three years in prison, the rest of his 10-year sentence suspended.
Martin said her body “can’t get comfortable with the baby” and as of July, she lost 12 pounds while incarcerated, despite the pregnancy. She was taken twice by ambulance to a hospital that month, once after experiencing contractions and again after entering preterm labor at 25 weeks, according to her sister Whitney Martin and Rosado. Martin’s prison report shows she went to eight outside medical appointments throughout July and August.
Martin recently got sent to solitary confinement for refusing to cut her dreads, a violation of a policy Rosado called “racially biased.” According to the grooming policy, which seeks to “promote safety,” the prison allows neatly braided, corn-rowed hair only when worn straight back and individual braids but not dreadlocks or twists.
Martin said she’s been verbally harassed by guards and injured by inmates. Rosado reported seeing scratches on Martin’s face and a bloody right eye during a recent visit. Martin’s prison report shows she was sent to detention for 35 days on June 5 over threatening to inflict harm on an employee and again for 22 days on July 28 over refusing or failing to obey orders.
National Racial Justice Network President Dr. Candace Brewer wants to ensure Martin “does not end up where Sandra Bland” did, referring to the Black Chicago woman who died in a Texas jail after a trooper said she failed to signal a lane change.
A lot changed during the two years since the protests.
In November 2020, Martin received 7 years probation for willful intent to injure and leaving a crime scene in Iowa, where in August 2019, her teenage son had accused her of purposely hitting him with her SUV and driving away. Iowa court documents allege that Martin told her son -- who wound up hospitalized with minor injuries -- that she hoped he would die. Rosado said the South Carolina judge -- who did not respond to an interview request -- did not mention the Iowa conviction in his sentencing decision.
In 2021, Martin co-founded Mixed Sistaz United, a local group that served meals for homeless people, organized voter registration drives and hosted a Juneteenth celebration.
This January, Martin’s 18-year-old son was shot and killed in his car outside a Waterloo, Iowa convenience store -- a loss Martin and her family are still mourning.
Martin’s sister has been caring for the younger children, who she said are “missing their mom.” The 5-year-old hasn’t sounded like his happy self on the phone, Martin said.
“It’s been times in this prison where I have started giving up for a second, mentally and emotionally,” Martin said. “It seemed like the Holy Spirit just put that spoon in my mouth, like ‘Come on, you’ve got to eat. You’ve got to get up.’”
“I had to think about my babies. I had to think about my love for them, which is why I’m even in this situation,” she said.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chris Chen, a former captain in Taiwan’s military, spent a lot of time waiting during his weeklong training for reservists in June. Waiting for assembly, waiting for lunch, waiting for training, he said.
The course, part of Taiwan’s efforts to deter a Chinese invasion, was jam-packed with 200 reservists to one instructor.
“It just became all listening, there was very little time to actually carry out the instructions,” Chen said.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has underscored the importance of mobilizing civilians when under attack, as Ukraine’s reserve forces helped fend off the invaders. Nearly halfway around the world, it has highlighted Taiwan’s weaknesses on that front, chiefly in two areas: its reserves and civilian defense force.
While an invasion doesn’t appear imminent, China’s recent large-scale military exercises in response to a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan have made the government in Taipei more aware than ever of the hard power behind Beijing’s rhetoric about bringing the self-ruled island under its control.
Experts said that civilian defense and reserve forces have an important deterrent effect, showing a potential aggressor that the risks of invasion are high. Even before the invasion of Ukraine in March, Taiwan was working on reforming both. The question is whether it will be enough.
Taiwan’s reserves are meant to back up its 188,000-person military, which is 90% volunteers and 10% men doing their four months of compulsory military service. On paper, the 2.3 million reservists enable Taiwan to match China’s 2 million-strong military.
Yet, the reserve system has long been criticized. Many, like Chen, felt the seven days of training for the mostly former soldiers was a waste of time that did not prepare them well enough.
The number of combat-ready reservists — those who could immediately join front-line battles — is only about 300,000, said Wang Ting-yu, a lawmaker from the governing Democratic Progressive Party who serves on the defense committee in the legislature.
“In Ukraine, if in the first three days of the war it had fallen apart, no matter how strong your military is, you wouldn’t have been able to fight the war,” Wang said. “A resilient society can meet this challenge. So that when you are met with disasters and war, you will not fall apart.”
Taiwan reorganized its reserve system in January, now coordinated by a new body called the All Out Defense Mobilization Agency, which will also take over the civil defense system in an emergency.
One major change was the pilot launch of a more intensive, two-week training instead of the standard one week, which will eventually be expanded to the 300,000 combat-ready reservists. The remaining reservists can play a more defensive role, such as defending bridges, Wang said.
Dennis Shi joined the revamped training for two weeks in May at an abandoned building site on Taiwan’s northern coast. Half the time it was raining, he said. The rest, it was baking hot. The training coincided with the peak of a COVID-19 outbreak. Wearing raincoats and face masks, the reservists dug trenches and practiced firing mortars and marching.
“Your whole body was covered in mud, and even in your boots there was mud,” Shi said.
Still, he said he got more firing time than during his mandatory four months of service three years ago and felt motivated because senior officers carried out the drills with them.
“The main thing is when it’s time to serve your country, then you have to do it,” he said.
There are plans to reform the civil defense force too, said Wang, though much of the discussion has not been widely publicized yet.
The Civil Defense Force, which falls under the National Police Agency, is a leftover from an era of authoritarian rule before Taiwan transitioned to democracy in the 1980s and 1990s. Its members are mostly people who are too old to qualify as reservists but still want to serve.
“It hasn’t followed the passage of the times and hasn’t kept pace with our fighting ability,” Wang said.
Planned changes include a requirement to include security guards employed by some of Taiwan’s largest companies in the force, and the incorporation of women, who are not required to serve in the military.
About 73% of Taiwanese say they would be willing to fight for Taiwan if China were to invade, according to surveys by Kuan-chen Lee at the Defense Ministry-affiliated Institute for National Defense and Security Research, a number that has remained consistent.
The Ukraine war, at least initially, shook some people’s confidence in the willingness of America to come to Taiwan’s assistance in the event of an attack. Whereas 57% said last September they believed the U.S. would “definitely or probably” send troops if China invaded, that dropped to 40% in March.
The U.S. policy of strategic ambiguity leaves it murky as to whether the U.S. would intervene militarily. Pelosi said during her visit that she wants to help the island defend itself.
Outside of government efforts, some civilians have been inspired to do more on their own.
Last week, the founder of Taiwanese chipmaker United Microelectronics, Robert Tsao, announced he would donate 1 billion New Taiwan Dollars ($32.8 million) to fund the training of a 3 million-person defense force made up of civilians.
More than 1,000 people have attended lectures on civil defense with Open Knowledge Taiwan, according to T.H. Schee, a tech entrepreneur who gives lectures and organizes civil defense courses with the volunteer group, which aims to make specialized knowledge accessible to the public.
Others have signed up for first aid training, and some for firearms courses, though with air guns as Taiwan’s laws do not allow widespread gun ownership.
These efforts need government coordination, said Martin Yang, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Military and Police Tactical Research and Development Association, a group of former police officers and soldiers interested in Taiwan’s defense.
“The civil sector has this idea and they’re using their energy, but I think the government needs to come out and coordinate this, so the energy doesn’t get wasted,” he said.
Yang is critical of the government’s civil defense drills, citing annual exercises in which civilians practice taking shelter.
“When you do this exercise, you want to consider that people will hide in the subway, they need water and food, and may have medical needs. You will possibly have hundreds or thousands of people hiding there,” Yang said. “But were does the water and food come from?”
In July, the New Taipei city government organized a large-scale drill with its disaster services and the Defense Ministry. Included for the first time was urban warfare, such as how first responders would react to an attack on a train station or a port.
The drills had the feeling of a carnival rather than serious preparation for an invasion. An MC excitedly welcomed guests as Korean pop music blared. Recruiters for the military, the coast guard and the military police set up booths to entice visitors, offering tchotchkes such as toy grenade keychains.
Chang Chia-rong guided VIP guests to their seats. The 20-year-old expressed a willingness to defend Taiwan, though she hadn’t felt very worried about a Chinese invasion.
“If there’s a volunteer squad, I hope that I can join and defend my country,” she said. “If there’s a need, I would be very willing to join.” | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-military-reserves-civil-defense-worry-taiwan-as-china-looms/ | 2022-09-05T13:33:16Z | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-military-reserves-civil-defense-worry-taiwan-as-china-looms/ | true |
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Albert Pujols collected home run No. 695 in the eighth inning and Miles Mikolas tossed eight shutout innings to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 2-0 win over the Chicago Cubs on Sunday.
Pujols drilled the two-run, pinch-hit shot off reliever Brandon Hughes (2-2).
A probable future Hall of Famer, Pujols trails only Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755), Babe Ruth (714) and Alex Rodriguez (696) on the all-time home run list.
Pujols has seven pinch-hit homers in his career, including two this season. He has homered against 451 different pitchera, an all-time record.
The 42-year-old jumped on an 0-1 offering.
“It’s just pretty special to be able to do that,” Pujols said. “There’s some nights that you’re going to come through and some nights that you don’t. The nights that you do, you just enjoy it. And that’s what I’m going to enjoy tonight.”
Tommy Edman started the rally with a one-out double.
“I was 100% confident that he was going to find a way to drive me in,” Edman said. “As crazy as it is, we just expect that to happen now. He’s the best right-handed hitter of our generation.”
Pujols, in his last season, has found a way to come through in dramatic fashion all season long.
“There’s times in this game where you take a step back from being locked into the game and you get to be a fan for a minute, and experience it the way everyone else is,” St. Louis manager Oliver Marmol said. “That was one of them. You take it all in because what he’s doing is absolutely incredible.”
Pujols hit his 130th career home run on Sundays, the most of any day.
Chicago manager David Ross indicated that he would have walked Pujols if Hughes got behind in the count.
“You’ve got to trust your guys,” Ross said. “Wanted to attack Albert. He just left one over the middle.”
St. Louis has won four in a row, 18 of its last 20 home games and is a season-best 24 games over .500 at 79-55. It was the Cardinals’ eighth series sweep of the season.
Chicago has lost seven of eight.
Mikolas (11-10) gave up two hits. He struck out three and walked one. Ryan Helsley earned his 13th save in 17 chances.
Chicago starter Marcus Stroman allowed four hits in seven shutout innings. He struck out five and did not walk a batter in a 98-pitch stint.
The start of the game was delayed 1 hour, 28 minutes by rain.
HOMETOWN HERO
Boston Celtics standout Jayson Tatum, a St. Louis native, threw out the first pitch. Tatum played high school basketball at Chaminade College Prep, located 14 miles from Busch Stadium.
QUICK GETAWAY
The Cardinals have scored 91 runs in the first inning, second to the Los Angeles Dodgers with 95.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cubs: C Willson Contreras missed the game with a sore left foot. He suffered the injury Tuesday against Toronto.
Cardinals: LHP Steven Matz will make a rehab start on Tuesday at Double-A Springfield. He has been out since Aug. 8 with a left knee sprain.
UP NEXT
Cubs: LHP Wade Miley (1-0, 2.84 ERA) will start on Tuesday as the Cubs begin a six-game homestand by hosting Cincinnati. Miley has been out since June 11 with a left shoulder strain. RHP Justin Dunn (1-2, 4.63) will start for the Reds.
Cardinals: RHP Jack Flaherty (0-0, 5.63) will face Washington RHP Anibal Sanchez (1-5, 5.05) in the first of a four-game series on Monday afternoon in St. Louis. Flaherty has been out since June 27 with a right shoulder strain. He made five rehab starts in the minors.
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Liz Truss: An heir to Thatcher intent on shaking up Britain
LONDON (AP) - As a child, Liz Truss marched in demonstrations against Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. As an adult, she came to admire Britain´s first female leader - and now she is about to enter No. 10 Downing St. with a Thatcherite zeal to transform the U.K.
Truss, Britain´s foreign secretary, was named winner Monday in the contest to replace the scandal-plagued Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and the country's prime minister. The party said Truss won the votes of around 57% of Conservative members, compared with about 43% for ex-Treasury chief Rishi Sunak.
Truss, 47, will become Britain's third female prime minister, after Thatcher, who governed from 1979 to 1990, and Theresa May, who held office from 2016 to 2019.
Conservative Party members have embraced Truss´ vows to slash taxes and red tape and keep up Britain´s staunch support for Ukraine. Some see echoes of the Iron Lady - as Thatcher was known - in Truss' vision of a "network of liberty" binding democracies around the world.
To critics, Truss is an inflexible ideologue whose right-wing policies won´t help Britain weather the economic turmoil set off by the pandemic, Brexit and Russia´s invasion of Ukraine.
Mark Littlewood, a libertarian commentator who has known Truss since their university days, said Britain´s new leader is less a conservative than a "radical," who - like Thatcher - wants to "roll back the intervention of the state" in people´s lives.
FILE - British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. Britain's new leader, Liz Truss, is the child of left-wing parents who grew up to be an admirer of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Now she is taking the helm as prime minister herself, with a Thatcherite zeal to transform the U.K. One colleague who has known Truss since university says she is "a radical" who wants to "roll back the intervention of the state" in people's lives, just as Thatcher once did. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
"I´m expecting a lot of fireworks and a lot of controversy and a lot of action," he said.
Born in Oxford in 1975, Mary Elizabeth Truss is the daughter of a math professor and a nurse, who took her on anti-nuclear and anti-Thatcher protests as a child, where she recalled shouting: "Maggie, Maggie, Maggie - out, out, out!"
In a 2018 speech, she said she began developing her own political views early, "arguing against my socialist parents in our left-wing household."
The family lived in Paisley, Scotland, before moving to Leeds in northern England, where Truss attended a public high school - something that sets her apart from her many privately educated Conservative colleagues.
During the leadership campaign, Truss emphasized her relatively modest background. But she riled some former classmates and teachers when she said students at her school were "let down by low expectations, poor educational standards and a lack of opportunity." The school´s alumni include academics, judges and several other members of Parliament.
Truss went on to Oxford University, where she studied philosophy, politics and economics - the degree of choice for many aspiring politicians - and was president of the university branch of the Liberal Democratic Party. The economically centrist Lib Dems back constitutional reform and civil liberties, and Truss was an enthusiastic member, putting up "Free the Weed" posters that called for decriminalization of marijuana and arguing in a speech for the abolition of the monarchy.
Littlewood, who was a fellow member of the Oxford Lib Dems and now heads the Institute for Economic Affairs, a free market think tank, remembers Truss as "headstrong and determined and outspoken."
"You were never in any doubt where she stood on an issue or a person," he said.
After Oxford, Truss joined the Conservative Party - "when it was distinctly unfashionable," she later said.
She worked as an economist for energy company Shell and telecommunications firm Cable and Wireless, and for a right-of-center think tank while becoming involved in Conservative politics and espousing free market Thatcherite views. She served as a local councilor in London and ran unsuccessfully for Parliament twice before being elected to represent the eastern England seat of Southwest Norfolk in 2010.
She won the safely Conservative seat after a bump on the way - some local Conservatives were outraged when it was revealed she had had an affair with another MP when both were married to other people. Truss won over her critics, and her marriage survived. She and husband Hugh O´Leary, an accountant, have two teenage daughters.
She founded the Free Enterprise group of Thatcherite Tory lawmakers who produced "Britannia Unchained," a political treatise that notoriously included the claim that British workers are "among the worst idlers in the world."
David Laws, a former Cabinet minister who worked with Truss in government a decade ago, recalled her as energetic and "mind-bogglingly ambitious," comparing her in his memoir to "a young Margaret Thatcher on speed."
Truss got her first Cabinet job as food and environment secretary in 2014, making her biggest impression with a much-mocked speech in which she thundered that it was "a disgrace" that Britain imports two-thirds of its cheese.
In Britain´s 2016 referendum on whether to leave the European Union, Truss backed the losing "remain" side, though she says she was always a natural euroskeptic. Since the vote, she has won over Brexiteers with her uncompromising approach to the EU.
She became justice secretary, but she was demoted to a more junior role in the Treasury by May in 2017. When May was toppled by her repeated failure to break a political deadlock over Brexit, Truss was an early backer of Boris Johnson to replace her. When he won, Johnson made Truss trade secretary, a role in which she Instagrammed her way around the world signing post-Brexit trade deals and raising her profile.
In September 2021, she was appointed foreign secretary, Britain´s top diplomat. Her performance has drawn mixed reviews. Many praise her firm response to the invasion of Ukraine, and she secured the release of two British citizens jailed in Iran, where her predecessors had failed.
But EU leaders and officials who hoped she would bring a softer tone to Britain's relations with the bloc have been disappointed. Amid trade wrangling, Truss introduced legislation to rip up parts of the binding U.K.-EU divorce agreement signed by both sides. The 27-nation bloc is taking legal action against Britain in return.
Truss has sometimes suggested the frequent comparisons to Thatcher are sexist, but at other times she has encouraged them. She has posed in a British Army tank in Eastern Europe, evoking an image of Thatcher during the Cold War. In a televised leadership debate, Truss sported a pussy-bow blouse just like one Thatcher used to wear.
By stressing her modest background, she is evoking comparisons to grocer's daughter Thatcher, said Victoria Honeyman, associate professor of British politics at the University of Leeds - "the working-class girl done good."
Truss' own personality is hidden behind a stern public persona. Friends say she has a fun-loving side rarely glimpsed in public, and enjoys karaoke and blasting out tunes by Taylor Swift, Whitney Houston and Destiny´s Child.
Truss´ perceived loyalty to Johnson, who remains popular with many Tories, also helped her win. Many party members cited Sunak´s decision to quit Johnson´s Cabinet in July as a mark against him. Truss didn't resign, saying she was a "loyal person" - though she had been courting party members for months at "fizz with Liz" events to build support for a potential leadership bid.
Conservatives have embraced Truss' optimistic message of liberation through less government, which is reminiscent of Ronald Reagan´s "morning in America" boosterism.
The wider British electorate is likely to prove a harder audience to win over. Times are tough and getting tougher as inflation soars and Britain´s cost-of-living crisis worsens. Truss´ focus on stimulating the economy through tax cuts is unlikely to provide much short-term relief.
Left-of-center commentator Will Hutton, writing in The Observer newspaper, said Truss´ economic ideas were "ruinous nonsense ... persistently anti-Europe, obsessed with tax cuts, buying into the faith that nameless regulations are shackling business."
Truss doesn't have long to persuade voters that she is on the right track. The next national election must be held in two years.
"Is Liz going to be able to say in 2024, `Are you richer now than you were when I became prime minister?´ Possibly," Littlewood said. "But it´s not an obvious slam dunk."
FILE - Britain's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss attends the Wreath Laying Ceremony commemorating ANZAC Day at the Cenotaph, London, Monday, April 25, 2022. Britain's new leader, Liz Truss, is the child of left-wing parents who grew up to be an admirer of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Now she is taking the helm as prime minister herself, with a Thatcherite zeal to transform the U.K. One colleague who has known Truss since university says she is "a radical" who wants to "roll back the intervention of the state" in people's lives, just as Thatcher once did. (Toby Melville/Pool Photo via AP, File)
File - Conservative Parliamentary candidate for South West Norfolk Elizabeth Truss, canvasses in the village of West Walton, in Norfolk, during the 2010 General Election campaign, April 29, 2010. Britain's new leader, Liz Truss, is the child of left-wing parents who grew up to be an admirer of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Now she is taking the helm as prime minister herself, with a Thatcherite zeal to transform the U.K. One colleague who has known Truss since university says she is "a radical" who wants to "roll back the intervention of the state" in people's lives, just as Thatcher once did. (Chris Radburn/PA via AP, File)
FILE - Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve speaks at the launch Reform's Lawful Society report on the nature of crime and the incentives in the criminal justice system in London, with Elizabeth Truss, Deputy Director of Reform looking on, Sept. 1, 2008. Britain's new leader, Liz Truss, is the child of left-wing parents who grew up to be an admirer of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Now she is taking the helm as prime minister herself, with a Thatcherite zeal to transform the U.K. One colleague who has known Truss since university says she is "a radical" who wants to "roll back the intervention of the state" in people's lives, just as Thatcher once did. (Fiona Hanson/PA via AP, File)
FILE - British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss attends talks with members of Bosnian presidency Sefik Dzaferovic, Zeljko Komsic and Milorad Dodikin Sarajevo, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Thursday, May 26, 2022. Britain's new leader, Liz Truss, is the child of left-wing parents who grew up to be an admirer of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Now she is taking the helm as prime minister herself, with a Thatcherite zeal to transform the U.K. One colleague who has known Truss since university says she is "a radical" who wants to "roll back the intervention of the state" in people's lives, just as Thatcher once did. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut, File)
FILE - Liz Truss, Britain's Foreign Secretary leaves a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Britain's new leader, Liz Truss, is the child of left-wing parents who grew up to be an admirer of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Now she is taking the helm as prime minister herself, with a Thatcherite zeal to transform the U.K. One colleague who has known Truss since university says she is "a radical" who wants to "roll back the intervention of the state" in people's lives, just as Thatcher once did. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
FILE - In this photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss attend a joint news conference following their talks in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. Britain's new leader, Liz Truss, is the child of left-wing parents who grew up to be an admirer of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Now she is taking the helm as prime minister herself, with a Thatcherite zeal to transform the U.K. One colleague who has known Truss since university says she is "a radical" who wants to "roll back the intervention of the state" in people's lives, just as Thatcher once did. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
FILE - British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, left, arrives for the NATO summit in Madrid, Spain on Wednesday, June 29, 2022. Britain's new leader, Liz Truss, is the child of left-wing parents who grew up to be an admirer of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Now she is taking the helm as prime minister herself, with a Thatcherite zeal to transform the U.K. One colleague who has known Truss since university says she is "a radical" who wants to "roll back the intervention of the state" in people's lives, just as Thatcher once did. (AP Photo/Paul White, File)
FILE - Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, Liz Truss, speaks during the launch of her campaign to be Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister, in Westminster, in London, Thursday, July 14, 2022. Britain's new leader, Liz Truss, is the child of left-wing parents who grew up to be an admirer of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Now she is taking the helm as prime minister herself, with a Thatcherite zeal to transform the U.K. One colleague who has known Truss since university says she is "a radical" who wants to "roll back the intervention of the state" in people's lives, just as Thatcher once did. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
FILE - British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss meets supporters as she arrives to attend a Conservative leadership election hustings at the NEC, Birmingham, England, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Britain's new leader, Liz Truss, is the child of left-wing parents who grew up to be an admirer of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Now she is taking the helm as prime minister herself, with a Thatcherite zeal to transform the U.K. One colleague who has known Truss since university says she is "a radical" who wants to "roll back the intervention of the state" in people's lives, just as Thatcher once did. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira, File)
FILE - Liz Truss reacts during a hustings event in Darlington, County Durham, England, Aug. 9, 2022. Britain's new leader, Liz Truss, is the child of left-wing parents who grew up to be an admirer of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Now she is taking the helm as prime minister herself, with a Thatcherite zeal to transform the U.K. One colleague who has known Truss since university says she is "a radical" who wants to "roll back the intervention of the state" in people's lives, just as Thatcher once did. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP, File)
FILE - Liz Truss, right, waves, and Rishi Sunak stands next to her on stage after a Conservative leadership election hustings at Wembley Arena in London, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Britain's new leader, Liz Truss, is the child of left-wing parents who grew up to be an admirer of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Now she is taking the helm as prime minister herself, with a Thatcherite zeal to transform the U.K. One colleague who has known Truss since university says she is "a radical" who wants to "roll back the intervention of the state" in people's lives, just as Thatcher once did. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11181447/Liz-Truss-An-heir-Thatcher-intent-shaking-Britain.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-05T13:38:45Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11181447/Liz-Truss-An-heir-Thatcher-intent-shaking-Britain.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Guests to Include Charles Barkley, Sean Payton, and Other Notable Figures from Sports and Entertainment
NEW YORK, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kay Adams is back! Grab your coffee and join "Up and Adams" – FanDuel TV's flagship daily morning show.
The hour-long show airs Monday through Friday live from Los Angeles at 11am ET. Expect guests from across the sports and entertainment universe, plus NFL game and fantasy breakdowns you won't get anywhere else. The daily studio program will be available on YouTube and other social media platforms.
"I love an adventure and couldn't be more excited to be a part of a team that's leading the way into the future of sports," said Adams. "Breaking news. Good vibes. You. Me. Guests! Let's go already!"
On the guest roster are former professional basketball player and television analyst, Charles Barkley, Super Bowl winning head coach Sean Payton, Super Bowl Champion Eric Weddle, Darius Butler and FanDuel partner Dr. Disrespect, to name a few.
"Kay has a certain electric energy about her and her approachable presence creates an authentic connection with her fans that is rooted in trust," said Mike Raffensperger, Chief Commercial Officer, FanDuel. "We think that makes her a unique personality in sports media and we're beyond excited for her to bring that magic to the set of 'Up and Adams' and showcase her signature flair to FanDuel TV audiences."
FanDuel Group, the premier online gaming company in North America, launched FanDuel TV and its new OTT platform to be known as FanDuel+ today. Both FanDuel TV and FanDuel+ are the first linear/digital network dedicated to sports wagering content and delivering more live sports programming than any other network in America, including becoming the new home of international basketball in the U.S. as part of a licensing agreement with Sportradar. As part of the launch, the company announced that FanDuel+ will be free to download for existing FanDuel customers with accounts on any of its sportsbook, casino, horse racing or daily fantasy platforms.
Come celebrate the start of the season with Adams on September 6 at 11am ET!
About FanDuel Group
FanDuel Group is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in the United States, FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states with approximately 17 million customers and nearly 30 retail locations. The company is based in New York with offices in California, New Jersey, Florida, Oregon, Georgia, Portugal, Romania and Scotland. It's network FanDuel TV and FanDuel+ are broadly distributed on linear cable television and through its relationships with leading direct-to-consumer OTT platforms. FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and a constituent of the FTSE 100 index of the London Stock Exchange.
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BAODING, China, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 26, the brand new pickup Shanhai POER (for the Chinese Market), developed by GWM POER, debuted at the Chengdu Motor Show 2022, attracting much attention.
"The model (Shanhai POER) fills the gap of Chinese brands in the market of large-size and high-performance pickups and lets the world know the creativity of Chinese brands in the pickup field," commented PCAUTO, a leading Chinese automotive media.
The vehicle is designed with numerous rugged details. The front design adopts a wide grille consisting of multiple horizontal chrome trims. The robust front bumper and the potent body line design create a strong impulsive force, which makes the vehicle look very powerful.
The rear box of this new model adopts a three-door space layout, and the partition of the rear box can be adjusted and removed if needed. It also has several anchors reserved, leaving more possibilities for users to modify it depending on different needs. Particularly, the two choices of side-to-side or flat opened tailgate can provide convenience in various circumstances.
In terms of power performance, the model on display is equipped with a high-performance 3.0T V6 engine, matched with the 9AT gearbox. It is fitted with a BorgWarner 4A+LOCK four-wheel-drive system, which can further enhance off-road performance.
"Shanhai POER (for the Chinese Market) has made the product layout of GWM POER more refined, which will cater to more diversified consumer demands," commented Autohome, a well-known automotive website in China.
At the show, GWM POER also exhibited several special models to the audience, including Jingang POER New Farmer Edition (for the Chinese Market) and Huodan (for the Chinese Market).
GWM POER has been sold in more than 50 countries worldwide and has won well-known awards in many markets. Just one month after its launch in Chile, GWM POER won the "Best Pickup of the Year" awarded by MT Online, a local professional automotive media.
GWM POER attaches importance to users' demands and integrates the full-scenario lifestyle endorsed by the brand with local culture. This brand has sponsored many famous sporting events across the world, such as IRONMAN in Australia, One-Mile Beach Running in South Africa, and OXFORD Cycling in Chile.
The sales data released by the company in July shows that the cumulative global sales of GWM POER from January to June this year grew by 14% compared with last year.
"GWM POER has ushered in the brand 2.0 era and started an all-round upgrading. Our global product layout will achieve full line-up and full scenarios coverage soon," said Haobao Zhang, CEO of GWM PICKUP.
The company plans to launch two brand-new models, POER off-road edition and Jingang POER (for the Chinese Market), to the global market by the end of this year. Shanhai POER (for the Chinese Market) will also be promoted in various markets.
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CHENGDU, China, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vernalis Research ("Vernalis"), a fully owned subsidiary of HitGen Inc., and Unison Medicines Inc. ("Unison") are pleased to announce a research collaboration on an undisclosed bacterial target.
Under the terms of the agreement, Vernalis will use its expertise in drug discovery to design small molecules against this particularly challenging target, which has long been considered to be undruggable. Unison will finance all activities at Vernalis and Vernalis will be entitled to receive downstream milestones and royalties should the compounds from the collaboration progress further into development and commercialization. As part of the agreement, Vernalis has also invested in Unison's first round of financing.
Dr. Mike Wood, Managing Director of Vernalis, said: "We are extremely pleased to work with Unison on this promising and difficult bacterial target. This collaboration demonstrates once again that Vernalis is an attractive partner for biotech and pharma companies facing challenges in drug discovery. And the investment in Unison's financing round demonstrates the flexibility of our business model and the willingness to share the risk with our partners. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration with Unison."
Doug Witt, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Unison, said: "We are delighted to begin our collaboration with Vernalis. The team at Vernalis has an unmatched track record against difficult targets and we are confident that together we are positioned for success. The investment in this project by Vernalis and others demonstrates the opportunity we see in tackling the Anti-Microbial Resistance problem with highly innovative approaches."
Dr. Jin Li, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of HitGen Inc., commented: "I am very pleased to see Vernalis and Unison enter this collaboration, which reflects Vernalis' deep expertise and experience in FBDD/SBDD field to solve challenging problems in drug discovery research. Since Vernalis became part of HitGen at the end of 2020, the research teams from Vernalis and HitGen Chengdu have been working closely to advance the synergistic opportunities of the DEL and FBDD/SBDD technology platforms. I believe that the collaboration between Vernalis and Unison will mark important progress in our concerted efforts, and I wish the collaboration every success in this very important area of healthcare."
About Unison
Unison Medicines, Inc. is a discovery stage pharmaceutical company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. In 2022, Unison closed its first round of financing led by industry veterans and institutions. Unison is focused exclusively on the development of small molecule medicines against novel targets that provide a radically different approach to treating bacterial infection.
About Vernalis
For information about Vernalis visit: www.vernalis.com
About HitGen Inc.
HitGen Inc. (SSE: 688222.SH), founded in 2012, is headquartered in Chengdu, China, with subsidiaries in Cambridge, UK and Houston, USA. HitGen is committed to building a world-class innovative biopharmaceutical enterprise and contributing to the better life and health of mankind. Engaged in the discovery and optimization of small molecules and nucleic acid drugs, HitGen dedicates itself to cultivating an internationally leading drug discovery and optimization system centered on four key technology platforms, including DNA-encoded library technology (including DEL design, synthesis and screening, and application expansion), fragment-based drug discovery and structure-based drug design technologies (FBDD/SBDD), synthetic therapeutic oligonucleotide technology (STO), and targeted protein degradation technology (TPD). It provides new molecular entities (NMEs) at different stages of research and development for the pharmaceutical industry, through its diversified business models including research and development services, out-licensing of projects at different R&D stages, and new drug launches in the long term, with an aim to address unmet clinical needs with innovative therapeutic solutions. As a leader in the field of DEL technology, HitGen has been committed to the development, application and improvement of DEL technology since its establishment. By June 30, 2022, HitGen's DELs contains more than 1.2 trillion novel, diverse, drug-like small molecules and macrocyclic compounds. These compounds are members of DELs synthesized from many thousands of distinct chemical scaffolds, designed with tractable chemistry, and have yielded proven results for the discovery of small molecule leads against precedented and unprecedented classes of biological targets. Through systematic DEL compound design, HitGen DELs has involved the use of more than 6000 different types of chemical scaffolds, which includes most of the core scaffolds of currently approved small-molecule drugs and many privileged scaffolds of small-molecules in clinical trials, and the approximately 40,000 different building blocks. HitGen has approximately 20 in-house drug discovery projects at different stages of research and development, among which 4 have obtained IND approvals and entered into clinical trials. HitGen is in collaboration with pharmaceutical, biotech and chemical companies, foundations and research institutes in the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Oceania.
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Arsenal have already sold 40,000 tickets for Super League derby with Tottenham
Arsenal have sold more tickets for their Women’s Super League clash with rivals Tottenham than the combined total of their four matches at the Emirates Stadium last season.
Over 40,000 supporters have already purchased their seat for the north London derby, which takes place on September 24.
Jonas Eidevall’s side could be cheered by a record WSL crowd against their neighbours at the Emirates, with the current best set at 38,200 for the reverse fixture at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in 2019.
Arsenal manager Jonas Eidevall led his side to victory in both WSL matches at the Emirates Stadium last season (Bradley Collyer/PA)
England captain Leah Williamson is likely to be involved and it is the achievements of the Lionesses that has driven up interest in the WSL, with clubs capitalising by moving a number of fixtures to the stadiums which usually host their male counterparts.
The 2022/23 WSL campaign begins this weekend and sees Spurs welcome Manchester United to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as reigning champions Chelsea open their season at Stamford Bridge against West Ham.
Arsenal beat Tottenham and Chelsea in WSL matches at the Emirates last season, as well as hosting Champions League clashes against Barcelona and Wolfsburg.
The cumulative total of those gates was 39,393 and – with that number set to be eclipsed on one afternoon – Arsenal chief executive Vinai Venkatesham is hoping to welcome a host of new fans.
“Our supporters have really tapped into the excitement and momentum created during the summer and we are delighted with the phenomenal demand for tickets for this match,” he told the PA news agency.
“We know a whole new group of supporters has been switched on to the women’s game which has been a such a big part of our club for more than 30 years.
“This is the first of at least six matches our women’s first team will play at Emirates Stadium this season and with a record Women’s Super League crowd in attendance, this north London derby promises to be a memorable occasion.”
Arsenal finished just one point behind champions Chelsea last year and start their league season with a tricky trip to Manchester City on Sunday. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11181443/Arsenal-sold-40-000-tickets-Super-League-derby-Tottenham.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-05T13:40:22Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11181443/Arsenal-sold-40-000-tickets-Super-League-derby-Tottenham.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
BEIJING (AP) — China on Monday accused Washington of breaking into computers at a university that U.S. officials say does military research, adding to complaints by both governments of rampant online spying against each other.
Northwestern Polytechnical University reported computer break-ins in June, the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center announced. It said the center, working with a commercial security provider, Qihoo 360 Technology Co., traced the attacks to the National Security Agency but didn’t say how that was done.
China and the United States are, along with Russia, regarded as global leaders in cyberwarfare research.
China accuses the United States of spying on universities, energy and internet companies and other targets. Washington accuses Beijing of stealing commercial secrets and has announced criminal charges against Chinese military officers.
The U.S. actions “seriously endanger China’s national security,” said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning. She also accused Washington of eavesdropping on Chinese mobile phones and stealing text messages.
“China strongly condemns it,” Mao said. “The United States should immediately stop using its advantages to steal secrets and attack other countries.”
The American Embassy in Beijing didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Security experts say the ruling Communist Party’s military wing, the People’s Liberation Army, and the Ministry of State Security also sponsor hackers outside the government.
Northwestern Polytechnical University, in the western city of Xi’an, is on a U.S. government “entity list” that limits its access to American technology. Washington says the university helps the PLA develop aerial and underwater drones and missile technology.
Monday’s announcement accused the United States of taking information about the university’s network management and other “core technologies.” It said Chinese analysts found 41 “network attack” tools that it said were traced to the NSA.
Last year, a Chinese man, Shuren Qin, was sentenced to two years in prison by a federal court in Boston after he pleaded guilty to exporting underwater and marine technology to Northwestern Polytechnical University without required licenses.
The NSA, part of the Department of Defense, is responsible for “signals intelligence,” or obtaining communications and other data.
The Computer Virus Emergency Response Center, set up in 1996 by the police department of the eastern city of Tianjin, describes itself as the Chinese agency responsible for inspection and testing of anti-computer virus products.
A report by Qihoo 360 in 2020 said hacking tools used in attacks on Chinese companies and government agencies in 2008-19 were traced to the Central Intelligence Agency by comparing them with code in CIA tools disclosed by the Wikileaks group.
The virus center accused the NSA of carrying out other “malicious network attacks” in China but gave no details. It said 13 people involved in the attacks had been identified.
The hackers targeted a “zero day,” or previously unreported, vulnerability in the school’s security, the statement said. It said the break-ins were conducted from servers in 17 countries including Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Poland, Ukraine and Colombia.
The statement described what it said were NSA software tools with names such as “Second Date” and “Drinking Tea” but didn’t say which might have been used at the university. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/tech-news/ap-technology/ap-china-accuses-washington-of-cyber-spying-on-university/ | 2022-09-05T13:41:22Z | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/tech-news/ap-technology/ap-china-accuses-washington-of-cyber-spying-on-university/ | false |
Taking on 'orthodoxy', Britain's new PM Truss wants to act fast
By Elizabeth Piper and Andrew MacAskill
LONDON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Britain's Liz Truss comes to power on a promise to challenge the so-called "orthodoxy", demanding faster, radical action to tackle a cost of living crisis and shake the country out of what she says are years of sluggish growth.
The newly elected leader of the governing Conservative Party, who will be appointed prime minister on Tuesday, will inherit one of the toughest challenges of any new leader, and knows she cannot sit on her hands.
Britain faces runaway inflation, a long recession, the biggest hit to living standards in decades and the threat of strikes by millions of workers, while her party has shown it is prepared to bring down any leader who fails to deliver.
So far Truss has said she will challenge convention by cutting taxes and scrapping some planned rises despite warnings it will inflame inflation, while suggesting she will also immediately offer help to those struggling to pay energy bills.
That, plus a pledge to review the remit of the Bank of England, has cheered party supporters but rattled financial markets, prompting foreign investors to dump the pound and government bonds for fear of what is to come.
"I'm not somebody who takes no for an answer. I keep pushing and I keep pushing until I get things done," Truss told Conservative Party members during the campaign, referring to her role in drafting a bill that unilaterally changes trade rules agreed as part of Britain's departure from the European Union.
Those who have worked with her in the foreign office support her description, with two officials telling Reuters she has a laser-like focus on certain issues, tries to find creative solutions early on and then presses ahead, ignoring any doubts.
Truss will not be the first leader to try to take on what Conservative lawmakers call the orthodoxy - the establishment - or more disparagingly the "blob": public servants or advisers who are accused of a "stale groupthink".
Her approach to an early mini-budget may indicate how she intends to govern. While government normally works with the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to set new fiscal rules, Truss planned a "fiscal event" without securing the watchdog's input on how it would affect public finances.
The OBR has since said it will have forecasts ready for September.
CONTINUITY JOHNSON?
In many ways, Truss is a continuation of Johnson, who she served under as foreign minister and who also sought to revolutionise the so-called machinery of government during his three turbulent years in power.
Johnson clashed with the Treasury over his "levelling up" plans to spend more to try to reduce regional inequalities, and Truss has singled out the powerful department for change, accusing it of being slow to take advantage of Brexit.
She regards the Treasury as too risk-averse and traces its stance back to Gordon Brown, the opposition Labour politician who was finance minister for a decade before becoming prime minister from 2007 until 2010. She also questions whether higher taxes mean more income, or whether handouts are effective.
Instead, Truss says she will rely on cutting taxes to spur economic growth, a strategy that economists and Rishi Sunak, the former finance minister whom she defeated in the party leadership contest, have warned will aggravate Britain's soaring inflation rate of 10.1%.
"Liz Truss has said that she will confront the Treasury orthodoxy that has generated feeble economic growth and is likely to fuel long-term stagflation of '70s proportions," Conservative former minister David Jones told Reuters.
"We need a heavyweight ... to take on the mandarins," he said, referring to her appointment of a finance minister.
Party sources say that could be Kwasi Kwarteng, business minister, though Jones and some other Conservative members of parliament would prefer John Redwood, a veteran eurosceptic lawmaker who first entered parliament in 1987.
Whoever becomes chancellor will get a long to-do list from Truss, including moves to ditch corporation tax increases, plus regulatory and tax reform.
"This is not just about challenging the Treasury orthodoxy, but challenging the Whitehall orthodoxy to get things done," she said on the campaign trail, referring to an area in Westminster that is often used to describe the civil service.
Other sectors to face action include energy. She has pledged to push through fracking when communities agree, make more use of the reserves in the North Sea and deliver small modular nuclear reactors as well as nuclear power stations.
Though she campaigned for Britain to stay in the EU at the 2016 referendum, she is now a firm believer in Brexit and has pledged to deliver on its benefits.
Like Johnson, she has been a vocal supporter of Ukraine since Russia's invasion and has said she will increase defence spending to 3% by 2030. Kyiv is expected to be one of her first foreign visits.
Truss' to-do list will be costly, and several economists said it cannot be implemented without big cuts being made elsewhere. Sources close to her said some of those could land on the civil service, on a case-by-case basis.
"The new prime minister must realise ... if she comes for our hard-working members' jobs and working conditions, she'll face opposition every step of the way," said Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS public service trade union. (Reporting by Elizabeth Piper and Andrew MacAskill, additional reporting by Kate Holton, editing by Kate Holton and Hugh Lawson) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11181481/Taking-orthodoxy-Britains-new-PM-Truss-wants-act-fast.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-05T13:44:22Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11181481/Taking-orthodoxy-Britains-new-PM-Truss-wants-act-fast.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
- InPedILD Phase III trial showed encouraging results for both primary endpoints. Full data were published in the European Respiratory Journal and presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Barcelona, Spain
- If approved, nintedanib would become the first approved treatment for pediatric patients with fibrosing interstitial lung disease, addressing a high unmet need
- Findings supplement the long-term and established clinical efficacy of nintedanib in adults, supporting Boehringer Ingelheim's leadership in pulmonary fibrosis and determination to transform lives for generations
RIDGEFIELD, Conn. and INGELHEIM, Germany, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Boehringer Ingelheim announced Phase III data from the InPedILD trial, which assessed the pharmacokinetics (dosing) and safety profile of nintedanib (OFEV®) in children and adolescents between 6 and 17 years old with clinically significant fibrosing interstitial lung disease (ILD). The trial showed encouraging data for both primary endpoints and results were published in the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ) and presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
"Based on the nintedanib mode of action, preclinical evidence and the clinical benefit in adults, there was a compelling rationale for examining its effect in children living with interstitial lung disease," said the coordinating investigator, Prof. Robin Deterding, M.D., Director of the Breathing Institute, Children's Hospital Colorado. "This trial supports its potential use as a treatment with an acceptable safety profile for children and adolescents, for whom no approved evidence-based therapies exist."
The InPedILD results showed that the weight-based dosing regimen of nintedanib in children and adolescents with fibrosing ILD resulted in comparable exposure to that observed in adult patients with fibrosing ILD. In addition, nintedanib had an acceptable safety and tolerability profile with no new safety signals observed when compared to adult patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), other progressive fibrosing interstitial lung disease (PF-ILD), and systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD). Based on these findings, regulatory applications will be submitted to the European Medicines Agency and U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
"While childhood interstitial lung diseases are very rare, their impact on children, teenagers and their loved ones can be devastating," said Dr. Susanne Stowasser, Associate Head of Medicine Pulmonology at Boehringer Ingelheim. "The findings from InPedILD help meet the urgent need for well-characterized therapies for these children and adolescents living with ILD. These data further support Boehringer Ingelheim's ongoing commitment to address unmet needs and advance research for people across all generations living with pulmonary fibrosis."
Childhood interstitial lung disease (chILD) includes more than 200 rare disorders with debilitating symptoms that can include cough, difficulty breathing and rapid breathing. Its exact prevalence is unknown, but it can be considered very rare with a reported incidence ranging from 1.5 to 3.8 per million. Pulmonary fibrosis within chILD is even less frequent, with no known global prevalence estimates, and no international studies prior to InPedILD. chILD is associated with significant mortality and morbidity. When their condition deteriorates, many pediatric patients will need oxygen to go about their daily lives and require lung transplants. There are no established diagnostic criteria and few management guidelines. The current standard of care involves off-label use of treatments including steroids and steroid-sparing immunosuppressants, which have known adverse events and limited evidence for their use.
- InPedILD (NCT04093024) is a Phase III double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial assessing dose exposure and safety of nintedanib on top of standard of care for 24 weeks, followed by open-label treatment with nintedanib of variable duration in children and adolescents aged 6-17 years with clinically significant fibrosing ILD. It is one of the first randomized controlled clinical trials focused on childhood interstitial lung diseases.
- The pharmacokinetic results demonstrated that the exposure to nintedanib in children was within the variability of that observed in adults treated with the approved dose, supporting the use of a weight-based dosing regimen in the pediatric population.
- The safety endpoint was based on the proportion of patients with treatment-emergent adverse events at Week 24. As in adults, the most common adverse event associated with nintedanib in the InPedILD trial was diarrhea. All reported diarrhea adverse effects could be resolved without premature discontinuation of trial medication.
OFEV is already approved in the U.S. and more than 80 countries for the treatment of patients living with IPF. In September 2019, OFEV was approved in the U.S. to slow the rate of decline in pulmonary function in patients with SSc-ILD, and then in March 2020 to treat patients with chronic fibrosing ILDs with a progressive phenotype.
What is OFEV?
- OFEV is a prescription medicine used:
- It is not known if OFEV is safe and effective in children.
What is the most important information I should know about OFEV?
OFEV can cause harm, birth defects, or death to an unborn baby. Women should not become pregnant while taking OFEV. Women who are able to become pregnant should have a pregnancy test before starting treatment and should use highly effective birth control at the start of treatment, during treatment, and for at least 3 months after your last dose. Talk with your doctor about what birth control method is right for you during this time. Birth control pills may not work as well in women having vomiting, diarrhea, or other problems reducing the drug absorption. If you have any of these problems, talk with your doctor about what highly effective birth control method is right for you. If you become pregnant or think you are pregnant while taking OFEV, tell your doctor right away.
What should I tell my doctor before using OFEV?
Before you take OFEV, tell your doctor about all of your medical conditions, including if you have:
- liver problems.
- heart problems.
- a history of blood clots.
- a bleeding problem or a family history of a bleeding problem.
- had recent surgery in your stomach (abdominal) area.
Tell your doctor if you:
- are pregnant or plan to become pregnant.
- are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. It is not known if OFEV passes into your breast milk.
You should not breastfeed while taking OFEV. - are a smoker. You should stop smoking prior to taking OFEV and avoid smoking during treatment.
Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements such as St. John's wort.
What are the possible side effects of OFEV?
OFEV may cause serious side effects.
TELL YOUR DOCTOR RIGHT AWAY if you are experiencing any side effects, including:
- Liver problems. Unexplained symptoms may include yellowing of your skin or the white part of your eyes (jaundice), dark or brown (tea-colored) urine, pain on the upper right side of your stomach area (abdomen), bleeding or bruising more easily than normal, feeling tired, or loss of appetite. Your doctor will do blood tests to check how well your liver is working before starting and during your treatment with OFEV.
- Diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting. Your doctor may recommend that you drink fluids or take medicine to treat these side effects. Tell your doctor if you have these symptoms, if they do not go away, or get worse, and if you are taking over-the-counter laxatives, stool softeners, and other medicines or dietary supplements.
- Heart attack. Symptoms of a heart problem may include chest pain or pressure, pain in your arms, back, neck, or jaw, or shortness of breath.
- Stroke. Symptoms of a stroke may include numbness or weakness on one side of your body, trouble talking, headache, or dizziness.
- Bleeding problems. OFEV may increase your chances of having bleeding problems. Tell your doctor if you have unusual bleeding, bruising, wounds that do not heal, and/or if you are taking a blood thinner, including prescription blood thinners and over-the-counter aspirin.
- Tear in your stomach or intestinal wall (perforation). OFEV may increase your chances of having a tear in your stomach or intestinal wall. Tell your doctor if you have pain or swelling in your stomach area.
- Increased protein in your urine (proteinuria). OFEV may increase your chances of having protein in your urine. Tell your doctor if you have any signs and symptoms of protein in the urine such as foamy urine, swelling, including in your hands, arms, legs, or feet, or sudden weight gain.
The most common side effects of OFEV are diarrhea, nausea, stomach pain, vomiting, liver problems, decreased appetite, headache, weight loss, and high blood pressure.
These are not all the possible side effects of OFEV. For more information, ask your doctor or pharmacist. You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
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Boehringer Ingelheim is working on breakthrough therapies that improve the lives of humans and animals. As a leading research-driven biopharmaceutical company, the company creates value through innovation in areas of high unmet medical need. Founded in 1885 and family-owned ever since, Boehringer Ingelheim takes a long-term perspective. Around 52,000 employees serve more than 130 markets in the three business areas, Human Pharma, Animal Health, and Biopharmaceutical Contract Manufacturing.
Learn more at www.boehringer-ingelheim.us
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Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Name: Kerry Wycislo
Human Pharma Communications, Corporate Affairs
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LIPOWER launched new product MARS-1000 PRO on August 15th, which has attracted widespread attention in the industry.
Compared with the MARS-1000, the charging speed, battery lifespan, safety guarantee, and user experience have been greatly improved. MARS-1000 PRO is compatible with 90% of electronic devices, providing safer and more durable power for indoor and outdoor.
Long-lasting and long-life battery
The MARS-1000 PRO features the same LiFePO4 battery packs as Mercedes-Benz, Tesla and other car brands, which safely passes special tests such as short circuit, overcharge, extrusion, acupuncture, etc.
The MARS-1000 PRO lasts for an astonishing 3500 cycles. This gives the battery about 7 times the lifespan of those found in most other power stations. If you fully drain and charge the MARS-1000 PRO once per day, the power station will last for more than 10 years.
Intelligent Cooling System
LIPOWER's system combines an extremely efficient large-area heat dissipation module with metal heat conduction brackets to ensure the device dissipates heat quickly. The result is a constant cooling system that ensures the MARS-1000 PRO is never in danger of overheating.
Green and Endless Power Supply
If you spend time camping and traveling in an RV, MARS-1000 PRO can be a cost-effective, environmentally friendly, and convenient way to use electricity on the go.
MARS-1000 PRO takes the utmost 240W solar input and 200W AC input. When charging with 2 solar panels, it will get a full capacity within 5-6 hours. For RV or camping enthusiasts, It can realize daily circulating power supply. MARS-1000 PRO solar battery also supports AC + USB-C PD 60W Bi-directional charging and takes only 4–5 hours to be fully charged.
MARS-1000 PRO provides a 4-year long-term warranty after sale. Compared with the general 2-year warranty period in the industry, LIPOWER provides you with longer-term protection.
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94-year-old WWII veteran volunteers at children’s hospital, handing out smiles
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) – A World War II hero is still serving his community but in a very different way.
At 94 years old, Carl Hall is a hero to kids at Shriners Children’s Hospital in St. Louis. The veteran has seemingly seen it all in his lifetime.
“I got over to Europe at the end of the war, Going to the South Pole, the Berlin Airlift. I was in Iran when they still had a king,” he explained.
Since retiring in 1990, Hall has dedicated his life to a different kind of service. For the past 32 years, Hall has handed out smiles to everyone who walked through the door.
“Carl treats us all like we’re a part of his family,” said Pauline Mopkins, a nurse at the hospital.
“It’s really helpful to your physical and mental health because you’re helping kids get better,” Hall explained. “I’ve seen kids come in here that couldn’t even walk or do anything. When they leave, they’re like a regular kid. It’s just amazing.”
In addition to the happiness he brings into the hospital, Hall has worked with a number of church groups and community organizations over the years and has raised more than $270,000 in donations for the facility.
“People give me money to bring in, and I bring it in,” Hall said. “I’ve seen some, what I saw as babies, coming in now with their babies. That gives you a good feeling because you know that somebody is here to help.”
Hall plans to continue manning his post at the hospital for as long as he can.
“I have no idea how long that will be,” he said. “As long as God helps me, I’ll do it.”
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- Lunit to present five posters at ESMO 2022 featuring the company's AI-biomarker platform
- Studies corroborate the capability of Lunit SCOPE suite to address an expanding set of clinical and research questions based on world-leading digital pathology AI
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lunit (KRX: 328130.KQ) today announced the presentation of five abstracts highlighting the effectiveness of its AI-biomarker platform - Lunit SCOPE - at the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2022, held in Paris from September 9 to 13.
ESMO is a professional organization for medical oncology, with more than 25,000 members representing oncology professionals from over 160 countries worldwide.
One of Lunit's abstracts focuses on the assessment of tumor purity directly from H&E whole slide images by using Lunit SCOPE AI technology (AI-P) and concordance between AI-P and variant allele frequency (VAF)[1] as determined by next-generation sequencing (NGS). The study showed a strong correlation between the assessment of tumor purity using Lunit SCOPE and VAF across 23 cancer types. The result validates the effectiveness of Lunit SCOPE as a valuable tool to assess tumor purity easily and quickly from H&E slides.
Another study conducted with Dr. SooYoun Cho, Dr. EunYoon Cho and Dr. SangYong Song of Samsung Medical Center, evaluates the performance of Lunit SCOPE HER2 in pathological practices for breast cancer patients. This joint study showed that Lunit's HER2 scoring and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) analysis solution supports the prediction of clinical response for HER2-positive early breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC).
In addition, Lunit will also present clinical findings that demonstrate the accuracy of Lunit SCOPE PD-L1 CPS. After classifying PD-L1 Combined Positive Score (CPS) levels in 543 urothelial carcinoma (UC) cases, the AI-powered CPS analyzer showed an equivalent level of accuracy to that of pathologists.
Another study from Lunit reveals the capability of the AI-powered TIL and PD-L1 CPS analysis solution to be utilized as a predictive biomarker for immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) response in neuroendocrine neoplasms (NEN).
The last study shows that Lunit SCOPE can discover novel targets for antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) by precisely analyzing linked NGS and IHC data in tumors, highlighting the potential of multimodal analysis linking molecular and visual methods.
Meet the Lunit team in person at ESMO at booth #249.
"Through these studies, Lunit has validated that the Lunit SCOPE suite can expand its range of impact across more types of cancer, to address an expanding number of clinical and research questions," said Brandon Suh, CEO of Lunit. "We intend to continue our research activities and present groundbreaking studies at global cancer congresses every year."
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CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tyra Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: TYRA), a precision oncology company focused on developing purpose-built therapies to overcome tumor resistance and improve outcomes for patients with cancer, today announced that the Company will be presenting preclinical data on TYRA-300 during a poster session at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) 2022 Congress, being held in person September 9-13, 2022 in Paris, France.
"We believe the preclinical results being presented at the ESMO Congress showcase the enhanced anti-tumor activity and selectivity of TYRA-300 as compared to other agents in the class," said Todd Harris, CEO of TYRA. "These encouraging data support the advancement of TYRA-300 into the clinic, and we look forward to initiating our SURF301 Phase 1/2 study in the near term."
Details of the poster presentation are as follows:
Title: TYRA-300: FGFR3 selective and gatekeeper agnostic
Presenter: Jacqueline Starrett
Date: Monday, September 12, 2022
Session: Developmental therapeutics
Presentation Number: 462P
Regular abstracts will be published on the ESMO website on September 5, 2022. The poster presentation on TYRA-300 will be made available on the TYRA website under the "For Investors" section on September 12, 2022.
About TYRA-300
TYRA-300 is the Company's lead precision oncology program generated from TYRA's proprietary SNÅP drug discovery platform. TYRA-300 is an FGFR3-selective inhibitor designed to be agnostic to the gatekeeper mutation and has demonstrated less hyperphosphatemia mediated by FGFR1 inhibition than pan-FGFR inhibitors in preclinical models. In July 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared TYRA to proceed with its Phase 1/2 SURF301 clinical study of TYRA-300 under its Investigational New Drug application (IND), in patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma of the bladder and urinary tract. SURF301 is a two-part study designed to determine the optimal and maximum tolerated doses (MTD) and the recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D) of TYRA-300.
About Tyra Biosciences
Tyra Biosciences, Inc. is a precision oncology company focused on developing purpose-built therapies to overcome tumor resistance and improve outcomes for patients with cancer. TYRA's proprietary in-house discovery platform, SNÅP, enables the rapid and precise refinement of structural design through iterative molecular SNÅPshots that help predict genetic alterations most likely to cause acquired resistance to existing therapies. Leveraging SNÅP, TYRA is developing a pipeline of selective inhibitors of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors (FGFR), which are altered in approximately 7% of all cancers. TYRA-300 is an FGFR3 selective inhibitor for oncology. TYRA-200 is an FGFR2 inhibitor that TYRA is developing initially in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. TYRA is also targeting achondroplasia and other FGFR3-related skeletal dysplasias, FGFR4-related cancers, and REarranged during Transfection kinase (RET). TYRA is based in Carlsbad, CA. For more information about our science, pipeline and people, please visit www.tyra.bio and engage with us on LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
TYRA cautions you that statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements are based on our current beliefs and expectations and include, but are not limited to: the potential to develop purpose-built therapies that improve clinical outcomes; and the expected timing of initiating the SURF301 Phase 1/2 trial. Actual results may differ from those set forth in this press release due to the risks and uncertainties inherent in our business, including, without limitation: we are early in our development efforts, have not tested any of our product candidates in clinical trials and the approach we are taking to discover and develop drugs based on our SNÅP platform is novel and unproven and it may never lead to product candidates that are successful in clinical development or approved products of commercial value; potential delays in the commencement, enrollment, and completion of clinical trials; our dependence on third parties in connection with manufacturing, research and preclinical testing; our ability to maintain undisrupted business operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including delaying or disrupting our preclinical studies, manufacturing, and supply chain; regulatory developments in the United States and foreign countries; and other risks described in our prior filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including under the heading "Risk Factors" in our annual report on Form 10-K and any subsequent filings with the SEC. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof, and we undertake no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date hereof. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, which is made under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
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Amy Conrad
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Law enforcement warns parents about increase in reported sextortion cases of teens
CIBOLO, Texas (KWTX/Gray News) – A police department in Texas is warning parents about cases of sextortion targeting teens and young adults.
The Cibolo Police Department said in a post on Facebook it has seen an increase in reported cases where people are being threatened, coerced or blackmailed into sending money or explicit images online through social media or games.
According to authorities, sextortion most often occurs on Snapchat and Instagram, but can also happen on children’s games like Roblox or Minecraft.
“The victim often believes they are communicating with someone their own age who is interested in a relationship. The victim is asked to send a revealing or nude photo of themselves oftentimes after first receiving a revealing or nude photo from the suspect,” the police said.
After the person has one or more pictures of the target, they will threaten or blackmail them saying they will put the explicit images on the social media site if they don’t send money.
Cibolo PD and the FBI recommend that all parents with children who have access to online content talk to their kids about the potential dangers of the internet.
The FBI recommends the following:
1. Be selective about what you share online. If your social media accounts are open to everyone, a predator may be able to figure out a lot of information about you.
2. Be wary of anyone you encounter for the first time online. Block or ignore messages from strangers.
3. Be aware that people can pretend to be anything or anyone online. Videos and photos are not proof that people are who they claim to be. Images can be altered or stolen. In some cases, predators have even taken over the social media accounts of their victims.
4. Be suspicious if you meet someone on one game or app and this person asks you to start talking on a different platform.
5. Be in the know. Any content you create online—whether it is a text message, photo, or video—can be made public. And nothing actually “disappears” online. Once you send something, you don’t have any control over where it goes next.
6. Be willing to ask for help. If you are getting messages or requests online that don’t seem right, block the sender, report the behavior to the site administrator or go to an adult. If you have been victimized online, tell someone.
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As a child, Liz Truss marched in demonstrations against Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. As an adult, she came to admire Britain’s first female leader — and now she is about to enter No. 10 Downing St. with a Thatcherite zeal to transform the U.K.
Truss, Britain’s foreign secretary, was named winner Monday in the contest to replace the scandal-plagued Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and the country's prime minister. The party said Truss won the votes of around 57% of Conservative members, compared with about 43% for ex-Treasury chief Rishi Sunak.
Truss, 47, will become Britain's third female prime minister, after Thatcher, who governed from 1979 to 1990, and Theresa May, who held office from 2016 to 2019.
Conservative Party members have embraced Truss’ vows to slash taxes and red tape and keep up Britain’s staunch support for Ukraine. Some see echoes of the Iron Lady — as Thatcher was known — in Truss' vision of a “network of liberty” binding democracies around the world.
To critics, Truss is an inflexible ideologue whose right-wing policies won’t help Britain weather the economic turmoil set off by the pandemic, Brexit and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mark Littlewood, a libertarian commentator who has known Truss since their university days, said Britain’s new leader is less a conservative than a “radical,” who — like Thatcher — wants to “roll back the intervention of the state” in people’s lives.
“I’m expecting a lot of fireworks and a lot of controversy and a lot of action,” he said.
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Born in Oxford in 1975, Mary Elizabeth Truss is the daughter of a math professor and a nurse, who took her on anti-nuclear and anti-Thatcher protests as a child, where she recalled shouting: “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie — out, out, out!”
In a 2018 speech, she said she began developing her own political views early, “arguing against my socialist parents in our left-wing household.”
The family lived in Paisley, Scotland, before moving to Leeds in northern England, where Truss attended a public high school — something that sets her apart from her many privately educated Conservative colleagues.
During the leadership campaign, Truss emphasized her relatively modest background. But she riled some former classmates and teachers when she said students at her school were “let down by low expectations, poor educational standards and a lack of opportunity.” The school’s alumni include academics, judges and several other members of Parliament.
Truss went on to Oxford University, where she studied philosophy, politics and economics — the degree of choice for many aspiring politicians — and was president of the university branch of the Liberal Democratic Party. The economically centrist Lib Dems back constitutional reform and civil liberties, and Truss was an enthusiastic member, putting up “Free the Weed” posters that called for decriminalization of marijuana and arguing in a speech for the abolition of the monarchy.
Littlewood, who was a fellow member of the Oxford Lib Dems and now heads the Institute for Economic Affairs, a free market think tank, remembers Truss as “headstrong and determined and outspoken.”
“You were never in any doubt where she stood on an issue or a person,” he said.
After Oxford, Truss joined the Conservative Party — “when it was distinctly unfashionable,” she later said.
She worked as an economist for energy company Shell and telecommunications firm Cable and Wireless, and for a right-of-center think tank while becoming involved in Conservative politics and espousing free market Thatcherite views. She served as a local councilor in London and ran unsuccessfully for Parliament twice before being elected to represent the eastern England seat of Southwest Norfolk in 2010.
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She won the safely Conservative seat after a bump on the way — some local Conservatives were outraged when it was revealed she had had an affair with another MP when both were married to other people. Truss won over her critics, and her marriage survived. She and husband Hugh O’Leary, an accountant, have two teenage daughters.
She founded the Free Enterprise group of Thatcherite Tory lawmakers who produced “Britannia Unchained,” a political treatise that notoriously included the claim that British workers are “among the worst idlers in the world.”
David Laws, a former Cabinet minister who worked with Truss in government a decade ago, recalled her as energetic and “mind-bogglingly ambitious,” comparing her in his memoir to “a young Margaret Thatcher on speed.”
Truss got her first Cabinet job as food and environment secretary in 2014, making her biggest impression with a much-mocked speech in which she thundered that it was “a disgrace” that Britain imports two-thirds of its cheese.
In Britain’s 2016 referendum on whether to leave the European Union, Truss backed the losing “remain” side, though she says she was always a natural euroskeptic. Since the vote, she has won over Brexiteers with her uncompromising approach to the EU.
She became justice secretary, but she was demoted to a more junior role in the Treasury by May in 2017. When May was toppled by her repeated failure to break a political deadlock over Brexit, Truss was an early backer of Boris Johnson to replace her. When he won, Johnson made Truss trade secretary, a role in which she Instagrammed her way around the world signing post-Brexit trade deals and raising her profile.
In September 2021, she was appointed foreign secretary, Britain’s top diplomat. Her performance has drawn mixed reviews. Many praise her firm response to the invasion of Ukraine, and she secured the release of two British citizens jailed in Iran, where her predecessors had failed.
But EU leaders and officials who hoped she would bring a softer tone to Britain's relations with the bloc have been disappointed. Amid trade wrangling, Truss introduced legislation to rip up parts of the binding U.K.-EU divorce agreement signed by both sides. The 27-nation bloc is taking legal action against Britain in return.
Truss has sometimes suggested the frequent comparisons to Thatcher are sexist, but at other times she has encouraged them. She has posed in a British Army tank in Eastern Europe, evoking an image of Thatcher during the Cold War. In a televised leadership debate, Truss sported a pussy-bow blouse just like one Thatcher used to wear.
By stressing her modest background, she is evoking comparisons to grocer's daughter Thatcher, said Victoria Honeyman, associate professor of British politics at the University of Leeds — "the working-class girl done good.”
Truss' own personality is hidden behind a stern public persona. Friends say she has a fun-loving side rarely glimpsed in public, and enjoys karaoke and blasting out tunes by Taylor Swift, Whitney Houston and Destiny’s Child.
Truss’ perceived loyalty to Johnson, who remains popular with many Tories, also helped her win. Many party members cited Sunak’s decision to quit Johnson’s Cabinet in July as a mark against him. Truss didn't resign, saying she was a “loyal person” — though she had been courting party members for months at “fizz with Liz” events to build support for a potential leadership bid.
Conservatives have embraced Truss' optimistic message of liberation through less government, which is reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s “morning in America” boosterism.
The wider British electorate is likely to prove a harder audience to win over. Times are tough and getting tougher as inflation soars and Britain’s cost-of-living crisis worsens. Truss’ focus on stimulating the economy through tax cuts is unlikely to provide much short-term relief.
Left-of-center commentator Will Hutton, writing in The Observer newspaper, said Truss’ economic ideas were “ruinous nonsense ... persistently anti-Europe, obsessed with tax cuts, buying into the faith that nameless regulations are shackling business.”
Truss doesn't have long to persuade voters that she is on the right track. The next national election must be held in two years.
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SUGAR LAND, Texas, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Reference is made to the voluntary public share exchange offer (the "Exchange Offer") by Noble Corporation plc ("Topco") to acquire the entire share capital (excluding any treasury shares) in The Drilling Company of 1972 A/S ("Maersk Drilling") in connection with the business combination of Noble Corporation ("Noble") and Maersk Drilling.
The offer document, setting out the full terms and conditions to the Exchange Offer (the "Offer Document") was approved by the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority on 8 August 2022 and published by Topco on the same day. Pursuant to the Offer Document, the Exchange Offer became valid as of 10 August 2022 and expires on 8 September 2022 at 23:59 (CEST) (the "Offer Period"). The Exchange Offer is recommended by the board of directors of Maersk Drilling.
Topco would like to remind all shareholders of Maersk Drilling ("Maersk Drilling Shareholders") who have not yet tendered their shares in Maersk Drilling ("Maersk Drilling Shares"), of the expiry of the Offer Period on 8 September 2022 at 23:59 (CEST) and encourage all Maersk Drilling Shareholders, who have not yet tendered their Maersk Drilling Shares to do so in advance of the expiry of the Offer Period.
Shareholders who want to accept the Exchange Offer are referred to the Offer Document, which sets forth the terms and conditions of the Exchange Offer, including the procedures for acceptance and settlement hereof. Maersk Drilling Shareholders are requested to note that they must communicate their acceptance of the Exchange Offer to their account holding institution in due time to allow their account holding institution to process and communicate such acceptance to Topco prior to the expiration of the Offer Period.
The full terms, conditions and essential elements of the Exchange Offer are contained within the Offer Document, which is available for download via Topco's website www.noblecorp.com, subject to regulatory restrictions in certain jurisdictions. The Maersk Drilling Shareholders are also urged to read the exemption document prepared in accordance with the exemptions in Articles 1(4)(f) and 1(5)(e) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017, as amended, (the "Prospectus Regulation") and in compliance with the requirements set out in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/528 of 16 December 2020 (the "Exemption Document") setting out other relevant information, a description of the business combination and its impact on Noble and Maersk Drilling. The Exemption Document is appended to the Offer Document and is also available for download via Topco's website www.noblecorp.com, subject to regulatory restrictions in certain jurisdictions.
This announcement has been prepared both in English and Danish. In the event of any discrepancies between the English and Danish version, the Danish version shall prevail. Capitalised terms used but not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Exemption Document.
For further information:
For additional information, visit www.noblecorp.com or email investors@noblecorp.com.
About Topco
Topco is a public limited company formed under the laws of England and Wales and is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Noble. To date, Topco does not own any material business assets or operate any business. Upon consummation of the business combination with Maersk Drilling, Topco will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Copenhagen A/S, and Topco will own the businesses of Noble, Maersk Drilling and their respective subsidiaries. For additional information on Topco, visit www.noblecorp.com.
About Noble
Noble (NYSE: NE) is a leading offshore drilling contractor for the oil and gas industry. Noble owns and operates one of the most modern, versatile, and technically advanced fleets in the offshore drilling industry. Noble and its predecessors have been engaged in the contract drilling of oil and gas wells since 1921. Currently, Noble performs, through its subsidiaries, contract drilling services focused largely on ultra-deepwater and high-specification jackup drilling opportunities in both established and emerging regions worldwide. Additional information on Noble is available at www.noblecorp.com.
About Maersk Drilling
With 50 years of experience operating in the most challenging offshore environments, Maersk Drilling (CSE:DRLCO) provides responsible drilling services to energy companies worldwide. Headquartered in Denmark, Maersk Drilling owns and operates a fleet of offshore drilling rigs and specialises in harsh environment and deepwater operations. For more information about Maersk Drilling, visit www.maerskdrilling.com.
Additional Information and Where to Find It
In connection with the proposed business combination, Topco has filed a registration statement on Form S-4 (the "Registration Statement") with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") that includes (i) a proxy statement of Noble that also constitutes a prospectus (the "Prospectus") for Topco and (ii) an offering prospectus of Topco to be used in connection with Topco's offer to exchange shares in Maersk Drilling for Topco Shares. The Registration Statement, as amended, was declared effective by the SEC on 11 April 2022. In addition, on 8 August 2022, the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority approved the publication of the Exemption Document and the Offer Document in connection with the Exchange Offer. Topco published the Exemption Document and the Offer Document on 8 August 2022.
INVESTORS AND SHAREHOLDERS ARE URGED TO CAREFULLY READ THE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS, THE EXEMPTION DOCUMENT AND THE OFFER DOCUMENT RELATING TO THE PROPOSED BUSINESS COMBINATION IN THEIR ENTIRETY, AS WELL AS ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN OR WILL BE FILED BY EACH OF TOPCO, MAERSK DRILLING, AND NOBLE WITH THE SEC OR THE DANISH FINANCIAL SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY OR PUBLISHED ON TOPCO'S WEBSITE AT WWW.NOBLECORP.COM IN CONNECTION WITH THE BUSINESS COMBINATION OR INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE THEREIN BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT TOPCO, MAERSK DRILLING AND NOBLE, THE PROPOSED BUSINESS COMBINATION AND RELATED MATTERS.
Investors and shareholders can obtain free copies of the proxy statement/prospectus and all other documents filed with the SEC by Topco and Noble through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov. In addition, investors and shareholders are able to obtain free copies of the proxy statement/prospectus and other documents related thereto on Maersk Drilling's website at www.maerskdrilling.com or Noble's website at www.noblecorp.com, or by written request to Noble at Noble Corporation, Attn: Richard B. Barker, 13135 Dairy Ashford, Suite 800, Sugar Land, Texas 77478.
Important Notice
This announcement is for information purposes only and does not constitute or contain any invitation, solicitation, recommendation, offer or advice to any person to subscribe for or otherwise acquire or dispose of any securities of Noble, Maersk Drilling or Topco. Final terms and further provisions regarding the Exchange Offer are disclosed in the Offer Document, the Exemption Document and in documents filed or that will be filed with the SEC.
Unless required by mandatory law, no action has been or will be taken in any jurisdiction other than Denmark and the United States that would permit a public offering of shares in Topco, the Topco Offer Shares, the Acceptance Shares or Cash Acceptance Shares, or permit possession or distribution of the Offer Document and/or the Exemption Document or any advertising material relating to the shares in Topco, the Topco Offer Shares the Acceptance Shares or Cash Acceptance Shares, except as described in the Offer Document or the Exemption Document.
NEITHER THE U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION NOR ANY U.S. STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION OR REGULATORY AUTHORITY HAS APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED OF THE SECURITIES TO BE ISSUED IN CONNECTION WITH THE BUSINESS COMBINATION BETWEEN NOBLE AND MAERSK DRILLING OR PASSED UPON THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THE EXEMPTION DOCUMENT, THE OFFER DOCUMENT OR ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE EXCHANGE OFFER. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE UNDER U.S. LAW.
In any member state of the European Economic Area other than Denmark (each a "Relevant State"), this announcement, including any attachments hereto, is only addressed to, and is only directed at Maersk Drilling Shareholders in that Relevant State that fulfil the criteria for exemption from the obligation to publish a prospectus, including qualified investors, within the meaning of the Prospectus Regulation.
This announcement, including any attachments hereto, has been prepared on the basis that all offers of Topco Offer Shares, Acceptance Shares and Cash Acceptance Shares offered in the Exchange Offer, other than the offer contemplated in Denmark, will be made pursuant to an exemption under the Prospectus Regulation from the requirement to produce a prospectus for offers of Topco Offer Shares, Acceptance Shares and Cash Acceptance Shares. Accordingly, any person making or intending to make any offer within a Relevant State of Topco Offer Shares, Acceptance Shares or Cash Acceptance may only do so in circumstances in which no obligation arises for Topco to produce a prospectus for such offer. Topco has not authorised, and Topco will not authorise, the making of any offer of Topco Offer Shares, Acceptance Shares or Cash Acceptance Shares through any financial intermediary, other than offers made by Topco which constitute the final offer of Topco Offer Shares, Acceptance Shares and Cash Acceptance Shares as contemplated through the Exchange Offer.
The Topco Offer Shares, the Acceptance Shares and the Cash Acceptance Shares offered in the Exchange Offer have not been, and will not be, offered to the public in any Relevant State. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an offering of the Topco Offer Shares, the Acceptance Shares and the Cash Acceptance Shares offered in the Exchange Offer may be made in a Relevant State: (i) to any qualified investor as defined in the Prospectus Regulation; (ii) to fewer than 150 natural or legal persons per Relevant State (other than qualified investors as defined in the Prospectus Regulation); (iii) to investors who acquire Topco Offer Shares, Acceptance Shares and Cash Acceptance Shares for a total consideration of at least EUR 100,000 per investor, for each separate offer; and (iv) in any other circumstances falling within Article 1(4) of the Prospectus Regulation, subject to obtaining the prior consent of Topco and provided that no such offer of Topco Offer Shares, Acceptance Shares or Cash Acceptance Shares shall result in a requirement for the publication by Topco of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Regulation or a supplementary prospectus pursuant to Article 23 of the Prospectus Regulation.
For the purposes of the foregoing paragraph, the expression an "offer to the public" in relation to any Topco Offer Shares, Acceptance Shares or Cash Acceptance Shares in any Relevant State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the Exchange Offer as to enable an investor to decide to participate in the Exchange Offer.
In the United Kingdom, this announcement, including any attachments hereto, is only addressed to and directed at persons who are (a) both "qualified investors" (within the meaning of the UK version of the Prospectus Regulation as it forms part of UK law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, and either (i) persons who have professional experience in matters relating to investments falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, as amended (the "FSMA Order"); or (ii) persons who are high net worth entities falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the FSMA Order; and/or (b) persons to whom it may otherwise lawfully be communicated to, including under the FSMA Order (all such persons (a) and (b) together being referred to as "U.K. Relevant Persons"). Any investment activity to which this announcement, including any attachments hereto, is only available to U.K. Relevant Persons. Any person who is not a U.K. Relevant Person should not act on or rely on this announcement, including any attachments hereto, or any of its contents.
The Exchange Offer and this announcement, including any attachments hereto, are subject to the laws of Denmark. The Exchange Offer relates to the securities of a Danish company and is subject to the disclosure requirements applicable under Danish law, which may be different in material aspects from those applicable in the United States, the United Kingdom or any other applicable jurisdiction.
The Exchange Offer is being made in the U.S. pursuant to Section 14(e) of, and Regulation 14E promulgated under, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), subject to the exemptions provided by Rule 14d-1(c) under the Exchange Act and otherwise in accordance with the requirements of Danish law. The Exchange Offer is not subject to Section 14(d)(1) of, or Regulation 14D promulgated under, the Exchange Act. Maersk Drilling is not currently subject to the periodic reporting requirements under the Exchange Act and is not required to, and does not, file any reports with the SEC thereunder.
The Exchange Offer is made to Maersk Drilling Shareholders who are residing in the United States, or who are U.K. Relevant Persons residing in the United Kingdom, on the same terms and conditions as those made to all other Maersk Drilling Shareholders to whom the Exchange Offer is made. Any information documents are being disseminated to Maersk Drilling Shareholders who are resident in the United States, or who are U.K. Relevant Persons residing in the United Kingdom, on a basis reasonably comparable to the method that such documents are provided to the other Maersk Drilling Shareholders.
In addition, the procedures for the tender of Maersk Drilling Shares and settlement of the consideration due to each Maersk Drilling Shareholder who accepts the Exchange Offer will be carried out in accordance with the rules applicable in Denmark, which may differ in material aspects from the rules and procedures applicable to a tender offer for the securities of a domestic company in the United States or the United Kingdom, in particular with respect to withdrawal rights, offer timetable, settlement procedures and the payment date of the securities.
This announcement, including any attachments hereto, does not comprise a prospectus for the purposes of the U.K. Prospectus Regulation and has not been approved by or filed with the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom.
If Topco obtains the requisite number of Maersk Drilling Shares, each Maersk Drilling Shareholder residing in the United Kingdom who is not a U.K. Relevant Person may have their Maersk Drilling Shares compulsorily purchased under the compulsory purchase provisions of the Danish Companies Act.
The Exchange Offer is not being made, and the Maersk Drilling Shares will not be accepted for purchase from or on behalf of persons, in any jurisdiction in which the making or acceptance thereof would not be in compliance with the securities laws or other laws, rules or regulations of such jurisdiction or would require any registration, approval or filing with any regulatory authority not expressly contemplated by the Offer Document and/or the Exemption Document. Persons obtaining the Offer Document and/or the Exemption Document and/or into whose possession the Offer Document and/or the Exemption Document comes are required to take due note and observe all such restrictions and obtain any necessary authorisations, approvals or consents. Neither Topco nor any of its advisors accept any liability for any violation by any person of any such restriction. Any person (including, without limitation, custodians, nominees and trustees) who intends to forward the Offer Document and/or the Exemption Document or any related document to any jurisdiction outside Denmark should inform themselves of the laws of the relevant jurisdiction and should also carefully read the information contained in the Offer Document and the Exemption Document, before taking any action. The distribution of the Offer Document and/or the Exemption Document in jurisdictions other than Denmark may be restricted by law, and, therefore, persons who come into possession of the Offer Document and/or the Exemption Document should inform themselves about and observe such restrictions. Any failure to comply with any such restrictions may constitute a violation of the securities laws and regulations of any such jurisdiction.
Any failure to comply with these restrictions may constitute a violation of applicable securities laws. It is the responsibility of all persons obtaining the Offer Document, the Acceptance Form included as Appendix 1 in the Offer Document, the Exemption Document and/or other documents relating to the Offer Document and/or the Exemption Document or to the Exchange Offer or into whose possession such documents otherwise come, to inform themselves of and observe all such restrictions. Any recipient of the Offer Document and/or the Exemption Document who is in any doubt in relation to these restrictions should consult its, his or her professional advisors in the relevant jurisdiction. Neither Topco nor the financial advisors to Noble accept or assume any responsibility or liability for any violation by any person whomsoever of any such restriction.
In accordance with customary Danish practice and subject to the requirements of Danish law, rules and regulations, Topco or any entity acting in concert with Topco and any of their respective nominees or brokers (acting as agents or in a similar capacity), may from time to time make certain purchases of, or arrangements to purchase, Maersk Drilling Shares or securities that are convertible into, exchangeable for or exercisable for Maersk Drilling Shares outside the Exchange Offer, before or during the period in which the Exchange Offer remains open for acceptance. These purchases may occur either in the open market at prevailing prices or in private transactions at negotiated prices, in each case to the extent permissible under law (include Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act). Any information about such purchases will be announced through Nasdaq Copenhagen A/S and relevant electronic media if, and to the extent, such announcement is required under applicable Danish law, rules or regulations. In addition, in the ordinary course of business, the financial advisors to Topco, Noble, any entity acting in concert with Topco, or Danske Bank A/S as the settlement agent, and their respective affiliates, may make or hold a broad array of investments including serving as counterparties to certain derivative and hedging arrangements and actively trade debt and equity financial instruments (or related derivative financial instruments) and other types of financial instruments (including bank loans) for their own account and for the accounts of their customers, and such investment and financial instrument activities may involve securities and/or instruments of Maersk Drilling.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
Certain statements in this announcement, including any attachments hereto, may constitute forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements are statements (other than statements of historical fact) relating to future events and Noble and its subsidiaries (collectively, the "Noble Group"), Maersk Drilling and its subsidiaries (the "Maersk Drilling Group") and the combined Noble Group and Maersk Drilling Group following completion of the transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement entered into by and between Noble and Maersk Drilling to combine (the "Combined Group") anticipated or planned financial and operational performance. The words "targets", "believes", "continues", "expects", "aims", "intends", "plans", "seeks", "will", "may", "might", "anticipates", "would", "could", "should", "estimates", "projects", "potentially" or similar expressions or the negatives thereof, identify certain of these forward-looking statements. The absence of these words, however, does not mean that the statements are not forward-looking. Other forward-looking statements can be identified in the context in which the statements are made.
Although Topco believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable as of the date of this announcement, such forward-looking statements are based on Topco's current expectations, estimates, forecasts, assumptions and projections about the Noble Group's, the Maersk Drilling Group's and the Combined Group's business and the industry in which the Noble Group and the Maersk Drilling Group operate as well as on information which Topco has received from the Maersk Drilling Group (including with respect to forecasts prepared by Noble's management with respect to expected future financial and operating performance of Maersk Drilling) and/or which has been extracted from publications, reports and other documents prepared by the Maersk Drilling Group and/or the Noble Group and are not guarantees of future performance or development and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors beyond the Noble Group's, the Maersk Drilling Group's or the Combined Group's control that could cause the Noble Group's, the Maersk Drilling Group's and/or the Combined Group's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialise, or should any underlying assumptions prove to be incorrect, the Noble Group's, the Maersk Drilling Group's and/or the Combined Group's actual financial condition, cash flow or results of operations could differ materially from what is described in the Exemption Document and the Offer Document, including any attachment thereto, as anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. Topco urges the Maersk Drilling Shareholders to read the Offer Document and the Exemption Document in their entirety for a more complete discussion of the factors that could affect the Combined Group's future performance and the market in which it operates.
Any forward-looking statements included in this announcement, including any attachment hereto, speak only as of today.
Topco does not intend, and does not assume, any obligations to update any forward-looking statements contained herein, except as may be required by law or the rules of the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq Copenhagen. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to Topco or to persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements referred to above and contained in this announcement, including any attachment hereto.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Aaron Judge led off the game with his major league-leading 53rd homer and the New York Yankees stopped the Tampa Bay Rays 2-1 Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep.
Judge set a career high for homers, topping the 52 he hit as a rookie in 2017. He also doubled, singled and scored both New York runs.
“We were focused on today,” Judge said. “We really didn’t focus on the past two days, and I think that’s what helped us go out there and get this one today.”
Frankie Montas (5-11) allowed one hit over five shutout innings as the AL East-leading Yankees increased their lead to five games over Tampa Bay. The Rays trailed by 15 1/2 games on July 10.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone, who watched the final half of the game after being ejected, greeted players outside the clubhouse entrance after the important victory.
“It’s way more nerve-wrecking up here,” Boone said. “My pacemaker was kicking into overdrive.”
Down 2-0, Tampa Bay tried to rally in the ninth against Clay Holmes, the fourth Yankees reliever. David Peralta led off with his second double of the game and scored on a one-out single by pinch-hitter Francisco Mejia.
Jonathan Aranda doubled with two outs before Holmes struck out Yandy Díaz looking at a 3-2 pitch for his 18th save. Díaz had already tossed his bat aside and was headed toward first base when plate umpire Vic Carapazza called strike three. Díaz slammed his batting helmet to the ground.
Holmes’ final pitch was 101.7 mph, his fastest ever. His only other career triple-digit offering came earlier season also against Díaz.
“Yandy thought the ball was down,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said. “Was it down? A strike? I’m not sure. … It’s a close pitch, there’s no doubt about it.”
Boone was tossed in the fifth inning by Carapazza for arguing after Tampa Bay’s Taylor Walls reached on catcher’s interference.
The benches briefly emptied when Josh Donaldson took issue after a 3-0 pitch from Rays opener Shawn Armstrong was up-and-in leading off the second. Donaldson barked at the right-hander, but there were no significant incidents.
“It gets your attention,” Boone said. “Look, he’s just saying get it down. That’s just heat of the moment competition.”
Judge connected on the second pitch of the game from Armstrong (2-2), sending a drive into the left-field stands. The slugger, who had a ninth-inning homer in Saturday’s 2-1 loss to the Rays, flied out to the edge of the warning track in center with two on to end the eighth.
Judge opened the seventh with a double, advanced to third on DJ LeMahieu’s groundout and scored to make it 2-0 on a sacrifice fly by Oswaldo Cabrera.
“Special player, he’s having an MVP season,” Cash said. “He’s really tough to pitch to,”
Montas (5-11), who struck out seven without a walk, was pulled after making 93 pitches. The right-hander, 0-2 with a 7.01 ERA in his first five starts since being acquired from Oakland, had two outings earlier this season against the Rays while with the Athletics and has limited them to one earned run over 18 1/3 innings.
Tampa Bay loaded the bases with two out in the seventh before Jonathan Loaisiga retired Díaz on broken-bat grounder.
With runners on first and second with one out in the fifth, LeMahieu hit a foul that was caught by catcher Christian Bethancourt at the screen. Boone argued the ball gazed the netting, but the call stood after a video review.
Later in the fifth, struggling Giancarlo Stanton flied out to deep right with the base loaded to end the inning. He went 0 for 5, and has four hits in 35 at-bats since returning from an Achilles injury.
TURNOUT
The announced crowd was a sellout at 25,025. The series average was 21,555, well above the Rays’ home season average of 14,023.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: Boone said OF Andrew Benintendi, hurt on a swing Friday, will have surgery to repair a broken hook of the right hamate bone. Boone said he didn’t know if it was a season-ending injury. … Boone is hopeful that 1B Anthony Rizzo (lower back) will resume baseball activities Monday.
Rays: LHP Shane McClanahan (left shoulder impingement) threw at 75 feet. … 2B Brandon Lowe (bruised right elbow) is taking batting practice.
UP NEXT
Yankees: RHP Jameson Taillon (12-4) and Minnesota RHP Chris Archer (2-7) are Monday’s starters in New York. Taillon was hit in the right forearm by a batted ball Tuesday.
Rays: Will face Boston RHP Michael Wacha (10-1) on Monday.
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Mohegan theater artist Madeline Sayet’s solo show “Where We Belong” takes a skeptical view of Shakespeare. In 2019, it premiered at Shakespeare’s Globe in London.
“I was like, ‘Oh my god, they’re going to kill me. I’m going to get thrown off stage,’” Sayet said.
But Sayet, who’s based in Phoenix, where she’s a clinical assistant professor in Arizona State University’s English department, found receptive audiences with her tale of moving to the UK in 2015 to pursue a doctorate in Shakespeare. Grappling with the legacy of colonialism that continues to reverberate and her questions of identity as a Native person, “Where We Belong” launched a national tour, produced by Washington, D.C.-based Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, earlier this year.
Written and performed by Sayet, “Where We Belong” opens at Seattle Rep on Sept. 14, with previews beginning Sept. 9. As part of the tour, Sayet developed an accountability rider that theaters must agree to in order to host the show, with requirements that include a commitment to present work by local Native artists and to never employ redface again. Seattle Rep began providing free tickets to Native individuals a few seasons ago, which is one of Sayet’s requirements, and in 2021, the theater launched a Native artist-in-residence program.
We spoke with Sayet about how her perspective on the show has changed and her thoughts on canceling Shakespeare. Excerpts of the conversation, edited for length and clarity, follow.
What is the experience like performing such a personal piece for an extended period? Do you feel like you’re gaining some distance the more you do it, or does it just get more personal?
I think at the very beginning when I first started performing, it was very close to all of the events in the piece, and so I was carrying a lot of pain. Over time, I had to create a little bit of distance from it.
I keep thinking about this thing someone told me one time about the way memory works, and that every time you recall a memory, your brain has to reconstruct it. And because I was going through the exact same events over and over and over and over and over again, it just hit a point where something switched in my brain from actually reexperiencing the experience to doing the scene.
There’s never full distance because no matter what, there’ll always be something going on with my family or my tribal nation or the politics of the world that is making a certain thing resonate even stronger.
When you were conceiving “Where We Belong,” did you always consider it as a solo show?
Originally when I wrote this, I did not expect to be performing. I kind of wrote it like a stream of consciousness journal entry. At the moment, I was really struggling with having just moved back from the UK and what it meant as a Mohegan person to be missing England, and the fact that for the first time ever, I felt a little bit up in the air. I felt like a bird. I felt like I needed to confess that. [But] I did not think that I would perform it for lots of strangers in public. I did not think that I would then do that a bunch of times.
What have you noticed about touring the show and performing it for different audiences?
In the Northeast, [the play is] very much about there. So there’s a duality to that: There is both the poignancy of the present erasure that goes on in the Northeastern Woodlands in terms of Indigenous representation, but there is also the presence of the extremely strong colonial viewpoints that still exist there. There’s both real poignancy of the text and then also certain resistance to the text, depending on which audiences you get.
I am curious what it’s going to be like in Seattle because [there aren’t] the same erasure politics as in the Northeast. I feel like the Native nations are much more present and visible in a very different way. Like our [Mohegan] language is working really hard to try and be revitalized. A lot of the languages out there have never been lost and still have speakers.
What about differences performing it in the UK versus the US?
In the UK, it was 2019, and then once it started performances in the states, it was 2021. I feel like a lot changed during that time. Obviously, there was a pandemic. [But] politically, there was a lot that changed. So I was able to shift things in the play to be quite a bit more direct.
I think that the play used to exist a little bit more in the space between ‘I love Shakespeare’ and ‘I love my Mohegan culture’ — and why am I being forced to choose? And now I feel like it exists a little bit more in the space of ‘I have to find myself in Shakespeare because this other thing was taken away from me.’
What’s your perspective on the future of Shakespeare?
There were like 14 articles last year where the conservative British papers were trying to make it sound like I was trying to cancel Shakespeare, and I was like, ‘He’s not going anywhere.’ I never said he doesn’t contribute anything, [but] I think treating anything like it’s a god is problematic, especially if we’re deifying something that carries the politics from years ago and treating it as if it’s neutral. That means your politics are 400-year-old politics.
But I still have a passionate relationship to the plays. I’m still interested in, you know, certain moments in them. I still direct them and engage with them. But I do think that they aren’t perfect and that teaching them as if they are some sort of like, perfect thing that cannot be questioned is a little bit creepy. | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/theater/theater-artist-madeline-sayet-wrestles-with-shakespeare-and-native-american-identity/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-09-05T14:08:59Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/theater/theater-artist-madeline-sayet-wrestles-with-shakespeare-and-native-american-identity/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | true |
SYDNEY, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarity Pharmaceuticals (ASX: CU6) ("Clarity"), a clinical stage radiopharmaceutical company with a mission to develop next-generation products that improve treatment outcomes for children and adults with cancer, is pleased to announce that the US-based diagnostic 64Cu SAR-Bombesin trial (SABRE NCT05407311)[1] for patients with PSMA-negative prostate cancer is open for recruitment.
SABRE (Copper-64 SAR-BisPSMA in Biochemical Recurrence of prostate cancer) is a Phase II Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging trial of participants with PSMA-negative biochemical recurrence (BCR) of prostate cancer following definitive therapy. It is a multi-centre, single arm, non-randomised, open-label trial of 64Cu-labelled SAR-Bombesin in 50 participants. The primary objectives of the trial are to investigate safety and tolerability of the product as well as its ability to correctly detect recurrence of prostate cancer.
Dr Andrei Iagaru, Lead Principal Investigator in the SABRE trial, commented, "We are very excited to initiate patient accrual for the SABRE trial which will explore and validate the clinical benefits associated with the novel SAR-Bombesin agent. We have been investigating Bombesin for many years and believe it is an agent with high diagnostic and therapeutic potential. We hope this trial will inform us on the role of SAR-Bombesin in diagnosing disease in PSMA-negative prostate cancer patients by imaging patients on day of injection and at ~24 hours after injection, with the delayed imaging being a novel feature enabled by 64Cu. In addition to investigating the clinical benefits of the product, we also look forward to leveraging centralised manufacture and on-demand delivery advantages of copper-based products. These features have potential to facilitate universal access to SAR-Bombesin and enhance accessibility to treatment facilities throughout the US.
"We look forward to expanding the trial sites and generating data for this next-generation product which could ensure both ease of access and improved treatment outcomes for BCR prostate cancer patients," said Dr Iagaru.
The SABRE trial was developed in response to strong demand from clinicians with prostate cancer patients whose cancer was not visible with currently approved PSMA diagnostic agents or conventional imaging (such as CT or MRI). It builds on the data generated in PSMA-negative prostate cancer patients at St Vincent's Hospital imaged under the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) Special Access Scheme (SAS).[2] This data has demonstrated diagnostic imaging potential in PSMA-negative prostate cancer and highlighted potential utility of the product as a theranostic agent. SABRE also builds on a pilot diagnostic trial of SAR-Bombesin in breast cancer patients, the C-BOBCAT trial, which was recently presented at the prestigious American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2022 Annual Meeting.[3]
Clarity's Executive Chairman, Dr Alan Taylor, commented, "We are excited to commence recruitment into the SABRE trial, having only received our Study May Proceed letter from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in June. SABRE reinforces our commitment to running Clarity's clinical trials for first approvals in the US under clinical protocols which have been reviewed by the US FDA. Subject to the outcomes of this Phase II trial, we will look to progress this diagnostic product into Phase III trials in the US as soon as possible.
"Given the promising data to date, indicating potential diagnostic and therapeutic benefits of SAR-Bombesin, we are committed to continuing generating data on the product with the SABRE trial following in quick succession from the BOP investigator-initiated trial in PSMA-negative prostate cancer participants that commenced at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney earlier this month. In parallel, we are also preparing a submission to the US FDA for an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for a therapeutic clinical trial with the product later this year.
"We look forward to recruiting and imaging participants in the SABRE trial and gathering further evidence of clinical, environmental and logistical benefits of SAR-Bombesin, hoping that it will provide a large patient population with accurate and precise detection and treatment of PSMA-negative prostate cancer," said Dr Taylor.
About SAR-Bombesin
SAR-Bombesin is a highly targeted pan-cancer radiopharmaceutical with broad cancer application. It targets the gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRPr) present on cells of a range of cancers, including but not limited to prostate, breast and ovarian cancers. GRPr is found in approximately 75-100% of prostate cancers, including prostate cancers that don't express PSMA (PSMA-negative)[4-8]. The product utilises Clarity's proprietary sarcophagine (SAR) technology that securely holds copper isotopes inside a cage-like structure, called a chelator. Unlike other commercially available chelators, the SAR technology prevents copper leakage into the body. SAR-Bombesin is a Targeted Copper Theranostic (TCT) that can be used with isotopes of copper-64 (Cu-64 or 64Cu) for imaging and copper-67 (Cu-67 or 67Cu for therapy).
About Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer diagnosed in men globally and the fifth leading cause of cancer death worldwide[9]. The National Cancer Institute estimates in 2022 there will be 268,490 new cases of prostate cancer in the US and around 34,500 deaths from the disease[10].
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From drought to flooding: NJ ends Labor Day Weekend with ‘too much’ rain
What's Up?
After a hot, dry summer and a mainly gorgeous Labor Day Weekend so far, a pattern shift is going to lead to New Jersey's biggest rain chance in months. Multiple inches of rain is just what "the drought doctor" ordered. However, this deluge could bring too much rain too quickly, raising flash flooding concerns on Tuesday.
A slow-moving cold front will inch toward New Jersey on this Labor Day Monday. That frontal boundary will serve as a highway for a couple pieces of energy, which will eventually drive rain through the entire state. Given the slow forward speed, our moisture-rich air mass, and the likelihood of training (backbuilding) thunderstorms, we have to ring alarm bells for flooding potential.
When?
—Monday daytime... Most of New Jersey stays dry, with mostly cloudy skies and highs in the 80s. The exception will be northern NJ — approximately north of Interstate 78 — where showers will become more and more prominent through the afternoon and evening hours.
—Monday evening... Starting around sunset (7 p.m.), rain will become steadier and more widespread. The southern coast of New Jersey will be the last to get wet, as raindrops may hold off until early Tuesday morning.
—Tuesday morning... The post-holiday-weekend back-to-work commute looks very wet, with ponding (big puddles) possible. (Especially to the north, where it will have been raining for on-and-off for over 12 hours at this point.) Parts of NJ may catch a lull in rainfall through the late morning hours, as we end up "in between" storm systems.
—Tuesday midday through early evening... Rain round two. This one looks less steady (i.e. not raining everywhere at any given time). But rainfall is expected to become quite heavy in pockets, as "juicy" air contributes to downpours. The axis of heaviest rain will likely shift toward central and southern New Jersey at this time.
—Tuesday night... Rain dials back. The flooding threat will subside, although scattered showers and thunderstorms may still contribute to wet roads and low visibility.
—Wednesday... Showers will linger through at least the morning hours along the coast. Some models keep conditions damp and dreary right through Wednesday late afternoon.
How Much?
All of New Jersey is expected to pick up a half-inch to an inch of rainfall. That is not enough to cause problems.
However, it looks like a wide area of the Garden State will see 1 to 3 inches of total rainfall by Wednesday. For some, that's more rain than we've seen in over two months. Plus, much of that storm total will come from 1-2" per hour downpours, contributing to the flash flooding concerns.
The worst-case scenario is even more concerning. Over the last several runs, several forecast models have pumped out a narrow swath of 3 to 6 inch rainfall over New Jersey. That is very concerning. (Again, especially considering the downpour potential.) Clearly enough to inundate storm drains and streets. Possibly enough to swamp cars and basements.
So What?
One saving grace here is our recent drought. Rivers, streams, and creeks are all running low, which means they will take longer to reach flood stage and overflow. Plus, the ground will take a while to become fully saturated. (Although I have heard that dry ground can repel heavy rain and cause ponding and flooding just as easily.)
All things considered, it is likely that someone in New Jersey sees serious flooding over the next 36 to 48 hours. Will it be Ida/Floyd level flooding? No way. But for the reasons I have laid out, this batch of very wet weather will likely go beyond "typical summertime thunderstorm" expectations.
The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Watch for 18 of New Jersey's 21 counties:
—5 p.m. Monday to Noon Tuesday... Northwestern New Jersey... Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, and Warren counties.
—5 p.m. Monday to 5 p.m. Tuesday... Northeastern New Jersey... Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, and Union counties.
—6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday... Central and Southwestern New Jersey... Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer, Midlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Salem counties.
—No Flood Watch at this time... Southeastern New Jersey... Atlantic, Cape May, and Cumberland counties.
Note: These thunderstorms present only a flooding threat. Severe weather (wind, hail, tornadoes) is unlikely.
Questions?
You may notice I have given very little geographical detail about where in the Garden State the heaviest totals are likely to fall. That is deliberate — it is unclear whether northern New Jersey (round one) or central New Jersey (round two) or even eastern Pennsylvania has the greatest potential to pick up 3+ inch rainfall. It has to do with the timing and orientation of the juicest air, leading to the strongest thunderstorm cells.
That's why we have such a widespread flood watch by NWS. Although it is not a slam dunk forecast, everyone in New Jersey needs to stay vigilant as the soaking begins.
In addition, I am curious to see how the super-dry antecedent ground condition will play with heavy rain and contribute to flooding. Such a hydrologic concern is a bit beyond the scope of my meteorological expertise and training — I am not a soil scientist.
Finally, it is unclear how long rain will linger into Wednesday. It is clear the flooding threat will be over. But will we see damp and dreary conditions all day? Or clearing skies by lunchtime?
What's Next?
A strong cold front on Wednesday will sweep "the junk" out to sea. And we'll be left with delightful, seasonable September weather for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Our next chance of rain comes into view in the Sunday-Monday time frame.
Be smart and stay safe out there. We'll be with you on-air and online all day Tuesday with your latest news, traffic, and weather updates.
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NJ retail executive falls to death from skyscraper
UNION TOWNSHIP (Union) — The chief financial officer of a New Jersey-based national retail chain facing financial troubles has died.
On Sunday, Bed Bath & Beyond said Gustavo Arnal had died on Friday.
According to the New York City Police Department, police found the 52-year-old unconscious with injuries showing he fell from a building in Manhattan.
The New York Post reported that he had fallen from the residential Tribeca neighborhood building known as the "Jenga Tower." The Post said the official had been facing a $1.2 billion stock fraud lawsuit.
He was pronounced dead in the scene and the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the cause of death. Police said an investigation was ongoing.
Arnal joined the company in May 2020 after previous stints at Avon, Walgreens Boots Alliance and Procter & Gamble.
"Gustavo will be remembered by all he worked with for his leadership, talent and stewardship of our Company. I am proud to have been his colleague, and he will be truly missed by all of us at Bed Bath & Beyond and everyone who had the pleasure of knowing him,” said Harriet Edelman, independent chair of the company's board, in Sunday's statement.
Bed Bath & Beyond has faced turbulence recently: Its shares made a monstrous run from $5.77 to $23.08 over a little more than two weeks in August, in trading reminiscent of last year’s meme-stock craze, when out-of-favor companies suddenly became darlings of smaller-pocketed investors.
On Wednesday, the company said it would shutter stores and lay off workers in a bid to turn around its beleaguered business.
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Law enforcement warns parents about increase in reported sextortion cases of teens
CIBOLO, Texas (KWTX/Gray News) – A police department in Texas is warning parents about cases of sextortion targeting teens and young adults.
The Cibolo Police Department said in a post on Facebook it has seen an increase in reported cases where people are being threatened, coerced or blackmailed into sending money or explicit images online through social media or games.
According to authorities, sextortion most often occurs on Snapchat and Instagram, but can also happen on children’s games like Roblox or Minecraft.
“The victim often believes they are communicating with someone their own age who is interested in a relationship. The victim is asked to send a revealing or nude photo of themselves oftentimes after first receiving a revealing or nude photo from the suspect,” the police said.
After the person has one or more pictures of the target, they will threaten or blackmail them saying they will put the explicit images on the social media site if they don’t send money.
Cibolo PD and the FBI recommend that all parents with children who have access to online content talk to their kids about the potential dangers of the internet.
The FBI recommends the following:
1. Be selective about what you share online. If your social media accounts are open to everyone, a predator may be able to figure out a lot of information about you.
2. Be wary of anyone you encounter for the first time online. Block or ignore messages from strangers.
3. Be aware that people can pretend to be anything or anyone online. Videos and photos are not proof that people are who they claim to be. Images can be altered or stolen. In some cases, predators have even taken over the social media accounts of their victims.
4. Be suspicious if you meet someone on one game or app and this person asks you to start talking on a different platform.
5. Be in the know. Any content you create online—whether it is a text message, photo, or video—can be made public. And nothing actually “disappears” online. Once you send something, you don’t have any control over where it goes next.
6. Be willing to ask for help. If you are getting messages or requests online that don’t seem right, block the sender, report the behavior to the site administrator or go to an adult. If you have been victimized online, tell someone.
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Referees ‘made to look foolish’ by Premier League’s usage of VAR
Referees are being “hung out to dry” over a series of high-profile VAR controversies in the Premier League this weekend due to a lack of leadership, according to former top-flight referees’ boss Keith Hackett.
West Ham and Newcastle had goals controversially disallowed on Saturday following VAR checks.
Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) has acknowledged errors were made in those matches and is understood to be co-operating with the Premier League after it called for the incidents to be reviewed.
"The goalkeeper spills it and it comes too far off him to recover it. Jarrod jumps over him and his trailing foot is there, but the goalkeeper could never get the ball."— West Ham United (@WestHam) September 3, 2022
Hackett, a former general manager of PGMOL, criticised current incumbent Mike Riley, who will be succeeded before the end of the year by 2010 World Cup final referee Howard Webb.
“We’re in our fourth season of VAR and we’re not operating it well,” Hackett told the PA news agency.
“These officials don’t get to the Premier League without being good referees. In some ways they have been made to look foolish this weekend by what has happened. They must feel that they’ve been let down.
“They have been hung out to dry because there’s no leadership. There’s no guidance, there’s no coaching.
“That ultimately has to come down to the person running the organisation (Riley). The interaction between the referee and the VAR is suspect.
“One of the reasons for that is you’ve got current referees who might referee on a Saturday suddenly becoming a VAR on a Sunday. I don’t think that’s conducive to good officiating.”
Hackett says PGMOL should move to create a panel of individuals whose sole job is to serve as VARs and called for them to operate as teams with a referee and his or her assistants to improve communication.
He also believes VARs should be situated within the stadium, or very close by, rather than at the Stockley Park headquarters, which he likened to an “ivory tower”.
West Ham had an equaliser ruled out against Chelsea after VAR Jarred Gillett advised onfield referee Andrew Madley to review a possible foul by West Ham’s Jarrod Bowen on Blues goalkeeper Edouard Mendy.
Newcastle were denied a winner against Crystal Palace after VAR Lee Mason recommended a check by Michael Salisbury on a collision between the Magpies’ Joe Willock and Palace goalkeeper Vicente Guaita.
A foul was given, even though replays suggested the collision was caused by Palace’s Tyrick Mitchell shoving Willock towards Guaita.
Hackett said officials are “conditioned” to change their mind if a VAR suggests they should review an incident.
🗣 "I don't think it should have been disallowed."— Newcastle United FC (@NUFC) September 3, 2022
“They see the walk from (making) the decision to the pitchside monitor as the walk of shame,” he added.
“We need to get them in a room and say ‘guys, ultimately what we want is the correct decision. Have the courage of your convictions, because you will be supported either way’.
He also felt VAR was being used too forensically, rather than just for clear and obvious errors.
“The PGMOL said at the beginning of the season that they had raised the bar (for interventions). They have clearly forgotten to tell the VAR operators,” he said.
The referee and VAR appointments for the coming weekend’s matches will be made at 4pm on Monday, and there will naturally be close attention paid to how, or even if, the likes of Mason and Gillett feature.
Asked if the officials involved should face consequences, Hackett added: “They need operational advice. They need to understand this error. Everybody needs to understand why that error was made. It’s not about putting a guy up to a post and saying ‘we’re gonna shoot you’.
“This is about education, this is about accountability. It’s about saying ‘let’s take time out’ – maybe a week off for that individual to get his head around the error that he’s made.”
EFL Statement: Huddersfield Town v Blackpool#EFLhttps://t.co/FclweeV8qF— EFL Communications (@EFL_Comms) September 5, 2022
Meanwhile, the English Football League is “incredibly frustrated” by the failure of goal-line technology during Sunday’s Sky Bet Championship match between Huddersfield and Blackpool.
The Terriers were denied an equaliser when Yuta Nakayama’s effort crossed the line, but GLT failed to detect it and the on-field officials did not spot it either.
The EFL said the incident “overshadowed” a fantastic weekend of action and that GLT “failing in such a manner…is a matter of great concern”.
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The latest market survey reports predict that the global Waterproof Sealants market will display excellent growth and record an admirable CAGR during the forecast period of the study i.e. 2022 to 2032. Here we have outlined the Waterproof Sealants Market based on extensive research regarding the major trends in the world. These industries are the highest-earning worldwide and grow quickly. In the next few years, this market has the potential to scale up by billions of dollars. One of the primary drivers expected to drive Waterproof Sealants market growth is the increased demand for Waterproof Sealants among businesses.
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4. Market Dynamics [Drivers of Restraint and Opportunities]
5. Market Statistics and Figures
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As the world is moving forward to liberalization, privatization, and globalization, international commerce and perhaps corporate activity has grown worldwide. A high degree of competition exists among market players operating in the global Waterproof Sealants market. The market is dominated by a few major players and it is moderately consolidated. As well as new entrants in the Waterproof Sealants market. It focuses on recent mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, collaborations, partnerships, licensing agreements, brand promotions, and product launches. Key manufacturers operating in the global market are:
Henkel
Dow Corning
Avery Dennison
Bostik
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Permabond
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Silicones Waterproof Sealants
PU Waterproof Sealants
Epoxy Waterproof Sealants
Acrylics Waterproof Sealants
Polysulfide Waterproof Sealants
Others
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Building & Construction
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Transportation
Packaging
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Regional Insights
North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico)
Europe (Germany, France, U.K., Italy, Spain, Rest of Europe)
Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, India, Rest of APAC)
South America (Brazil and the Rest of South America)
The Middle East and Africa (UAE, South Africa, Rest of MEA)
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Preface
This segment provides opinions of key participants, an audit of Waterproof Sealants industry, market outlook across key regions, financial services, and various challenges faced by Waterproof Sealants market. It briefly introduces the global Waterproof Sealants market. This section depends on the Scope of the Study and Report Guidance.
Executive Summary
It elaborated market outlook by segmentation in Waterproof Sealants market. In addition, it also represents the market snapshot covered in the report.
Waterproof Sealants Market Dynamics [driving factors +restraining factors + recent trends]
This section comprises current market dynamics in the Waterproof Sealants market. Such as key driving factors, major opportunities areas, restraining factors, & recent trends in Waterproof Sealants market. It also includes SWOT analysis and Porter’s five force analysis. This help to identify the key growth factors and challenges in the Waterproof Sealants market.
Global Waterproof Sealants market Analysis, Opportunity and Forecast
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Geographic Analysis
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Covid-19 Impact
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Pricing Analysis
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Competitive Landscape
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Research Methodology
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– Secondary Research
– Primary Research
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Washington workers are forming unions at the highest rate in years, and Starbucks employees in company hometown Seattle are leading the way, a Seattle Times analysis of federal labor records shows.
Since October, Washington saw the most petitions filed for union representation since unionization hit a record high during the 2008 recession, according to National Labor Relations Board data. In the past year, the federal board recognized the most new unions since at least 2000, meaning organizers have been succeeding at the ballot box during union votes.
Besides Seattle, the highest number of successful pushes to form unions took place in Bellingham, Everett and Tumwater.
The movement is being led by workers at the home-brewed java giant Starbucks.
Across the U.S. and Washington state, Starbucks employees filed the most cases for union representation in 2022. The Pacific Northwest registered the highest number of petitions, and Seattle has emerged as a hot spot.
In fact, increased unionization at Starbucks made Washington one of the top five states registering unionizing activity for the first time on record. Even during the 2008 financial crisis, when more petitions were filed, Washington’s prominence was not as clear as it is now.
In December, Starbucks workers at a store in Buffalo, N.Y., voted to unionize, signaling the revival of a U.S. labor movement that has sputtered for decades. When the organizing push took off in Seattle, organizers said the campaign was transformed.
“At the time, I think Starbucks was still trying to pretend this was a really small thing and it, like, wasn’t in Seattle — like, ‘Oh, it’s just a bunch of people over in Buffalo, it’s not the Starbucks experience,’” said Sarah Pappin, 31, a union organizer and worker at Starbucks on Fifth Avenue and Pike Street, one of the first stores to unionize in Seattle.
When Seattle stores started to unionize, Pappin said it showed that issues are systemic enough to infiltrate even the stores closest to corporate headquarters.
“That sends a really powerful message to the corporate office,” she said. “You can’t pretend that this is just a bunch of people that are not doing their jobs.”
Though the organizing upsurge is real and shows signs of spreading, union membership is still far below levels last recorded in the 1960s, said Barry Eidlin, a professor of sociology at McGill University focused on working-class power in North America, among other topics.
“These numbers are still not high enough to deem this trend a long-term resurgence, but there is a new energy around labor organizing that is having this transformative effect on workers’ sense of what’s possible,” Eidlin said. “This wasn’t the case even five to 10 years ago so these are the beginnings of what you can almost think of as a contagion effect, which is the hallmark of labor upsurges when it spreads throughout the labor market.”
The broadening scope of organizing may have contributed to this shift in sentiment, said economist Jesse Rothstein, a public policy professor at University of California, Berkeley and a former economist at the U.S. Department of Labor.
“There’s a lot more bottom-up organizing,” he said. “And we’re seeing more activity in places where employers are likely going to be opposing it like, say, Starbucks.”
Last week, a new Gallup poll found 71% of Americans approve of labor unions, the highest rate since 1965 and a significant jump from 2009, when the approval rating for unionizing was 48%.
Many attribute the shift to the economic impacts of COVID-19, recent labor shortages and high inflation.
“You can only squeeze people so far, and that’s really where we are at, with inflation soaring and the bosses using that to maximize profits, and the massive pressure of the pandemic on top of that,” said Pappin, who has worked at Starbucks for nine years. “People have just been squeezed on every end.”
She pointed to a recent Bloomberg report that showed U.S. corporations’ profits have now soared to the widest margins since 1950. Wages have not kept up, she said. Months before workers at Pappin’s store filed to unionize, frustrations mounted as they dealt with what she said was poor management, a relentless run of COVID-19 infections and the rising cost of living.
“People don’t have options left,” she said.
Rothstein puts emphasis on the tight labor market to explain the stirring. A shortage of workers — and a surplus of jobs — gave employees the confidence to stand up to management.
“Workers knew their employers needed them, and workers felt empowered to make some demands,” he said.
While the volume of union cases filed is high, the average number of Starbucks employees on each petition for representation is about 26 workers, far below the 2022 average of 60 workers petitions for union recognition, showing what else has changed about this push.
The largest representation petition filed during the year came from Amazon employees in New York, where 5,500 employees would’ve been included in the bargaining unit had the petition, which was ultimately withdrawn, gone forward. In 2021, nearly 10,000 AT&T employees in Atlanta put forward a case for representation; in 2020, over 15,000 employees in Cleveland unsuccessfully attempted to organize.
The smaller size of these Starbucks petitions is directly linked to their success over the larger organizing efforts, Eidlin said.
“It’s counterintuitive to the history of the labor movement, since typically it has been that larger companies with a larger combined workforce had greater success in organizing but it’s working,” Eidlin said
Pappin added that the pandemic work culture that normalized Zoom meetings and online social networking aided Starbucks organizers.
“Union organizing can be very old-school, even in this century,” she said. “There’s a lot of in-person activities like door knocking that people recommend we do, but the pandemic gave us an opportunity to take out some of these barriers.”
Workers in Seattle did most of their organizing remotely, Pappin said, while coordinating with a Starbucks Workers United union employee in Philadelphia.
The smaller size of these unions may however prove to be a challenge during contract bargaining and negotiations for real organizing outcomes, Rothstein said.
Pappin agreed this is the real challenge in Starbucks unionizing efforts.
“By design these big companies can take a long time with contract bargaining,” she said. “Starbucks hasn’t really meaningfully engaged in the bargaining process in anywhere but three stores out of the over 200 that now have a union.”
Meanwhile the threat of store closures in the middle of negotiations looms overhead. Since March, the company has closed 16 stores across the U.S. — including five in Seattle and one in Everett — citing safety concerns. About 30% of the stores that are closing were unionized, organizing or petitioning to form a union, according to Starbucks Workers United.
The company has said the changes are in response to crises around “personal safety, racism, lack of access to health care, a growing mental health crisis, rising drug use and more” that play out at Starbucks stores.
Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz said in June he doesn’t think a “third party” should come between workers.
Cultural shift
NLRB records show that retail workers at other large corporations like Safeway and Costco are organizing in unprecedented numbers.
Eidlin links this to the 2008 recession. “We have this generation of young people that entered this labor market of downward mobility — they did all the right things but ended up in jobs that don’t necessarily use what they went to college for,” he said. “This mismatch of expectations that has stoked a desire like, ‘Well, if we’re gonna be working these jobs, we need to make them more livable.’”
Typically, organizing in the retail sector has been regarded skeptically owing to its high turnover rate and young workforce. “There’s a lot of assumptions which are not wrong — it’s definitely an issue,” Pappin said. “But there are plenty of people like me who are not the norm, who have been working in the industry for 5-10 years.”
Many believe younger workers’ desire for societal change is a catalyst for this upswing in the labor movement.
“We just grew up in this world that was on fire, it’s just this horrific mess and the more you learn, the more you know how much wrong there is and as an individual, I feel powerless,” Papplin said. “When I started organizing, it was the first time in my life I felt like there was something wrong with the world that I could actually take action and change, and I think a lot of young people feel that way.”
And when companies portray themselves as progressive, workers are further driven to unionize, Eidlin said.
“Starbucks, REI, Trader Joe’s, even the Apple store and Amazon to some extent — these are not the steel barons of yore blatantly driven by profit,” Eidlin said. “These companies try to portray themselves as leaders trying to create a better world somehow.”
But how inclusive is this call for workers rights? The labor movement has a dual legacy — some unions push anti-racism and gender equity, others exclude Black workers, women and immigrants from higher-skilled and higher-paid jobs.
“The thing that is both notable and exciting about the organizing that’s happening now is the degree to which it is showcasing the reality of today’s working class,” said Eidlin. “The tendency in the U.S. is to equate the working class with white men but this is completely at odds with the actual data and who you actually see working in the Starbucks shops, the Amazon warehouses and hospitals.”
Pappin believes this is why the labor movement needs to be infused with the ideas of younger workers.
“The labor movement has sort of stagnated in the last several decades — organizing has declined and union membership has dropped and I think that has created these very stagnant power structures,” she said. “The labor movement knows it needs this injection of fresh energy and ideas and I’m hopeful to see it so enthusiastically embraced.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/why-is-union-organizing-at-a-modern-peak-in-wa-starbucks-workers/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2022-09-05T14:30:11Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/why-is-union-organizing-at-a-modern-peak-in-wa-starbucks-workers/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | true |
The first week of September was neither fish nor meat; nevertheless, Cardano emerged as the clear winner. The Input Output project's native token, ADA, managed to show growth of 13%, outperforming all competitors in CoinMarketCap's top 10 by market capitalization.
Moreover, Cardano (ADA) became the sixth most profitable cryptocurrency among all the coins in the top 100, behind only other fundamentally strong coins such as Cosmos (ATOM) and Chainlink (LINK).
The excellent growth shown by Cardano during the week allowed the cryptocurrency to overtake its eternal neighbor at the top, XRP. The capitalization gap between the two projects is $470 million, where Cardano has a capitalization of $16.7 billion.
Above Cardano at the moment are stablecoins and three unshakable giants represented by BNB, ETH and BTC. Putting this trinity out of brackets, such high capitalizations of "crypto dollars" eloquently reflect the current mood of the crypto market. When you do not want to get under the paws of a bear, it is better to sit on the fence.
What will happen to the price of Cardano (ADA) next?
According to an official statement from Cardano parent company Input Ouput, the long-awaited Vasil hard fork is set to take place on Sept. 22. The event is extremely fundamental for the Cardano ecosystem and should help it reach the next level. At the same time, the ADA price is in the middle of the $0.4-$0.6 price corridor where it has been moving for the past four months.
Will the Vasil update be able to push Cardano quotes to the top? Possibly, but a bearish crypto market may not allow such an opportunity. Is it possible to go at least to the upper limit of the range on the expectation of Vasil? This might be more likely.
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Fraser was attending the world premiere of The Whale, a movie in which he plays the lead character Charlie, an English teacher reconnecting with his teenage daughter.
Fraser was preparing to exit the stage when audience members and people onstage alongside him began a round of applause. He appeared to be in tears at the response.
The standing ovation for #TheWhale was so enthusiastic, Brendan Fraser tried to leave the theater but the crowd’s applause made him stay. #Venezia79 pic.twitter.com/ZZ0vbFX7Rl
— Ramin Setoodeh (@RaminSetoodeh) September 4, 2022
Fraser had breakout roles in George of the Jungle (1997) and The Mummy (1999). He continued to star in sequels The Mummy Returns (2001) and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008).
The Mummy movies took a great physical toll on him, and he received multiple surgeries as a result of stunt work he did for the franchise. He underwent a laminectomy (a procedure to remove vertebrae from the spine), a partial knee replacement and vocal cord repair, he told GQ in 2018.
Fraser also said he wondered if he had been blacklisted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization that hosts the Golden Globes, after he alleged that a former HFPA president had groped him in 2003.
As video of the standing ovation circulated, Fraser received an outpouring of support online.
"Man this makes me so happy to see this beautiful ovation for Brendan," Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson tweeted. "He supported me coming into his Mummy Returns franchise for my first ever role, which kicked off my Hollywood career."
Man this makes me so happy to see this beautiful ovation for Brendan. He supported me coming into his Mummy Returns franchise for my first ever role, which kicked off my Hollywood career. Rooting for all your success brother and congrats to my bud Darren Aronofsky. #TheWhale 👏🏾 https://t.co/SNBLPHHmEZ
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) September 4, 2022
"I wish him to be *showered* with praise, and I've a feeling he won't take it for granted for an instant," another tweeter said. "Welcome back Brendan Fraser. We've missed you."
"He deserves all the love in the world. Dude had a super unfair shake in Hollywood, but now it's (hopefully) coming around and he's going to get his due," one user said.
Fraser has several upcoming roles, including a role alongside Glenn Close and Peter Dinklage in Brothers; in the Martin Scorsese-directed Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) alongside Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio; and Behind the Curtain of Night, according to IMDB.
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(NEXSTAR) – Between high prices and high interest rates, there hasn’t been much good news for would-be homebuyers lately. But new data from CoreLogic, a financial analytics company that tracks real estate markets around the country, has a glimmer of hope for those looking to buy in 10 U.S. cities.
Real estate has been red-hot the past year. CoreLogic found in its most recent analysis that prices jumped more than 18% nationwide from June 2021 to June 2022. And some states saw prices jump by even more — Tennessee saw an increase of 25.8%, and Florida saw whopping 31.8% year-over-year price growth.
CoreLogic expects a much cooler year ahead, forecasting prices around the country to go up about 4% by June of next year.
“Though annual appreciation was still strong, it slowed from the previous month for the second consecutive month, reflecting reduced buyer demand in part due to higher mortgage rates and worries about a slowing economy,” the report reads.
In some areas, the analysts are actually expecting prices to fall. CoreLogic told Nexstar it expects the below 10 metro areas to see price drops over the next year. (The list is ranked with the highest risk of price drops at the top — not necessarily the largest drops.)
- Bend-Redmond, Oregon
- Longview, Washington
- Bremerton-Silverdale, Washington
- Bellingham, Washington
- Boise, Idaho
- Mount Vernon-Anacortes, Washington
- Grants Pass, Oregon
- Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
- Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, Florida
- Olympia-Tumwater, Washington
Northwestern states dominate the list, with several areas in Oregon, Washington and Idaho ranking in the top 10.
The only non-Northwestern locale included in the top 10 is the Florida panhandle metro area including Crestview, Fort Walton and Destin. The median home price in the city of Destin is $655,000, according to Zillow data. But if CoreLogic’s forecast pans out, a beachside home there could soon be just a bit cheaper. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/these-10-housing-markets-are-overdue-for-a-price-drop-analysts-say/ | 2022-09-05T14:40:56Z | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/these-10-housing-markets-are-overdue-for-a-price-drop-analysts-say/ | true |
BOSTON (AP) — The Texas Rangers designated left-hander Dallas Keuchel for assignment before Sunday’s series finale against the Boston Red Sox.
The 34-year-old Keuchel was 0-2 with a 12.60 ERA in two starts for the Rangers, including taking the loss in Friday’s game when he allowed seven runs in 4 2/3 innings. He’s 2-9 with a 9.20 ERA in 14 combined starts with the White Sox, Arizona and Texas this season.
“I felt I pitched a whole lot better than the line read,” Keuchel said after the game. “It felt like I was making pitches and they were battling, like the classic Red Sox game at Fenway Park. I established all my pitches, but this year is what it is. We’re working toward an end goal of putting up some zeroes.”
Keuchel, the 2015 AL Cy Young Award winner, joined the Rangers as a free agent on July 26.
They recalled lefty John King from Triple-A Round Rock to take his spot on the roster.
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The series provides users with a comfortable noise-free experience when using electricity outdoors
NINGBO, China, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GONEO, an international brand owned by Gongniu Group, a Chinese manufacturer of consumer-demand oriented electrical products, has made its new Silent series portable power stations available on Amazon.com. With a sufficient and stable power supply that powers electrical devices outdoors, the Silent series features a noise-free design that allows users to immerse themselves in nature while camping, delivering a quiet and comfortable experience when using electricity.
By using GONEO's unique outdoor power cooling technology, the fan that is a necessary component of traditional outdoor energy storage products is eliminated, bringing the noise level down to below 5dB. The fanless Silent series significantly enhances the camping experience for campers and outdoors enthusiasts by addressing the noise problem they may face when charging electrical products in the wild.
- When fishing lakeside, or from a kayak or canoe in quiet waters, the Silent series can provide power to electronic devices without making noise that may disturb and scare away the fish.
- When used in combination with a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine for an overnight retreat at the campground, the Silent Series soundlessly provides uninterrupted power to the machine so that the campers can sleep undisturbed.
- When camping out with the whole family, the power station can charge everyone's devices overnight without making any noise, creating a quieter and more comfortable sleeping environment for both children and adults.
The Goneo Silent series includes 300W/303Wh, 600W/607Wh and 1000W/1016Wh models with 3 different power outputs and battery capacities that meet the expectations of campers and outdoors enthusiasts who need to charge outdoor appliances with different power outputs in various camping scenarios.
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Pudumai Penn Thittam launched in Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts
Collector K.Shanthi launched the Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammayar Higher Education Assurance Scheme named as Pudumai Penn Thittam here on Monday.
The scheme with the stated slogan of “Save the girl child – Educate the girl child” entails higher education assistance of ₹1,000 to girls, who have studied in government schools from class VI to XII and pursue higher education in the form of graduation and postgraduation in government colleges and private colleges.
Under the Scheme, 4,170 college going girls will receive monthly education assistance of ₹1,000.
Launching the scheme, Collector said the scheme was a blessing particularly for Dharmapuri district. The significance of uninterrupted education for girls is acutely felt in the district due to child marriages, school drop out of girl children, early marriages, multiple pregnancies and preference for the male child. Girl’s education and continued education especially higher education was singularly essential to curb these social ills.
She urged the students to use the money for education and education related activities and not recreation.
On Monday, 625 girls received the financial assistance.
In Krishnagiri, Collector V.Jayachandra Bhanu Reddy launched the scheme.. As many as 667 students from nine colleges were issued ATM cards to avail the assistance.
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'AAP are like tourists': Gujarat, Himachal polls to be 'Congress vs BJP fight'
'AAP are like tourists': Gujarat, Himachal polls to be 'Congress vs BJP fight'
New Delhi: The Congress is trying to project the coming assembly polls in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh as a fight between the BJP and the grand old party while discounting the presence of a third front in the form of AAP.
“Parties like AAP woo the voters with promises and then forget about them. They are like tourists and will go back after the polls. Our main fight is with the BJP, which has not done anything over the past five years,” AICC Secretary in charge of Himachal Pradesh Tajinder Pal Singh Bittu told ETV Bharat.
“The AAP is in Gujarat as the B team of BJP to divide opposition votes. There is no third front. The main contest is between Congress and BJP,” AICC in-charge of Gujarat Raghu Sharma said. In the previous 2017 assembly polls, there was no AAP in Gujarat and Himachal but their entry in 2022 has made the contest three-sided. Though the AAP is claiming big support from the locals, the party lacks popular faces and an organizational structure in the two poll-bound states.
Therefore, the AAP has been forced to run its campaigns in the two states in the name of party convenor and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who came to power in 2013 riding on the popularity of the anti-corruption movement started by activist Anna Hazare in 2012 against the then Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government led by PM Manmohan Singh.
The AAP defeated then Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit, who had ruled for 15 years, in 2013 and the UPA was defeated by the BJP in 2014. Though the Congress claims it will win both Gujarat and Himachal, party insiders said the stand to discount the third front is a strategy to retain the slot of the main opposition, in case the results are not favourable.
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The AAP, which eyes the same vote banks as that of the Congress, had dented the grand old party in the Punjab assembly polls this year, and is now hopeful of making gains in neighbouring Himachal Pradesh as well as in the western state of Gujarat.
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has been campaigning in both the states aggressively and promising to take his Delhi model, including better government schools, free power up to a limit and local clinics, to the two BJP-ruled states. Over the past few days, he has announced a lot of freebies as well.
The Congress, which has been out of power in Gujarat for 27 years and in Himachal for 5 years, is desperate to stage a comeback. While the Congress is banking on huge anti-incumbency against the BJP in Gujarat, in Himachal the grand old party is highlighting corruption and lack of development under the BJP rule.
However, the grand old party had been suffering from infighting in both the poll-bound states and has lost several leaders to the BJP over the past few years. There is also a concern that the AAP’s push could divide the anti-BJP votes and dent into the Congress support base, which is more or less similar.
In 2017, the Congress had won 77 seats and had come close to the halfway mark of 92 in the 182-member Gujarat assembly. The BJP had won 99. The Congress has lost 14 MLA since then. Yet, the grand old party claims it will outperform the saffron party this time. Rahul Gandhi, who recently welcomed the 10 guarantees announced by the party in Himachal, listed eight promises for Gujarat on Monday.
These include free treatment up to Rs 10 lakh, farm loan waiver up to Rs 3 lakh, Rs 5 per litre subsidy to milk-cooperatives, Rs 4 lakh assistance to 3 lakh families of Covid victims, strict anti-corruption laws and scrutiny of corruption over past 27 years, including jail to guilty, hiring for 5 lakh government jobs and ending contract system within one year of getting elected, additional 5 lakh jobs in 2 year and 10 lakh jobs by 2024, with 5 lakh jobs reserved for women and an unemployment allowance of Rs 2000 per head for the youth.
The promises are being offered as “Rahul’s guarantees” to the voters of Gujarat, which the Congress alleges, is actually lagging in several social welfare indicators. “Gujarat is a state of businesspeople. They have suffered under the BJP rule for 27 years and now want a change. The condition of the poor including the tribals is the same. There are no good roads, schools, and hospitals in the villages,” said Raghu Sharma.
To highlight what the Congress did when it ruled Gujarat, a separate campaign is being run by the local leaders to flag the projects completed earlier. These include key educational institutions like IIMs, cooperatives like Amul and the Narmada Sagar dam.
The guarantees in Himachal include revival of the old pension scheme, free power up to 300 units, 5 lakh jobs, Rs 1500 per woman, Rs 680 crore startup fund, mobile clinics, English-medium schools besides fair prices for fruit growers, buying 10 liter of milk per day from cattle owners and purchasing cow dung from them at Rs 2 per kg.
Noting that the guarantees were to end the woes of the hill state, Rahul had urged the people to read the document carefully and then vote for the development of Himachal Pradesh. | https://www.etvbharat.com/english/national/bharat/congress-versus-bjp-in-gujarat-no-aap-or-third-front/na20220905175015709709630 | 2022-09-05T14:44:47Z | https://www.etvbharat.com/english/national/bharat/congress-versus-bjp-in-gujarat-no-aap-or-third-front/na20220905175015709709630 | false |
Ahead of Deepavali, special teams to inspect fireworks units
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With Deepavali festival round the corner, Virudhunagar District Collector J. Meghanath Reddy has formed four teams to inspect fireworks units for compliance with Supreme Court guidelines and to check illegal manufacturing of fireworks at houses.
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Each team is led by an officer in the rank of Tahsildar. It has an official from the Industrial Safety and Health, one from Station Fire Officer, and a Special Sub-Inspector. The teams have been instructed to ensure that the fireworks units scrupulously followed the Supreme Court's directives banning production, storing, sale and bursting of garland crackers and usage of barium nitrate in manufacturing of fireworks.
One team each would conduct the inspection of fireworks units in Sivakasi taluk and Sattur taluk. One team would take care of Virudhunagar and Aruppukottai and the fourth team would inspect Vembakottai, Rajapalayam and Srivilliputtur Taluks. Besides, conducting inspection of fireworks units, each team should make surprise visit to at least one village known for illegal production of fireworks in houses. The teams should also take up night inspections for violations.
The Collector has instructed the teams to initiate criminal action through police against those who were illegally making fireworks or allied materials. He has also warned that such people would be detained under the Goondas Act.
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The teams have to submit their daily inspection reports in the evening to the Collector.
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Lack of buses is leading to footboard travel: CPI (M)
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Lack of adequate number of buses during school/college hours and lack of schools with good infrastructure in smaller towns and villages were posing danger to students who are forced to make footboard travel, said Communist Party of India (Marxist) Madurai district secretary, M. Ganesan.
Speaking at a protest organised by the party here on Monday, Mr. Ganesan said that while adequate number of buses were not plying to connect students from far off places to their schools and colleges during mornings and evening hours, the situation was aggravated due to the audacity of some bus crew who failed to halt at bus stops.
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Besides, worn out buses with broken seats were being operated in the mornings thus forcing many students to stand all the way.
“Besides, police should regulate the students and awareness programmes should be conducted in schools regarding safe travel in the buses,” Mr. Ganesan said.
Another major problem was that many students from far off villages and townswere coming to the city to study as many schools in villages lack infrastructure and teaching staff.
"If schools have better infrastructure, including laboratories, why would students travel long distances to study in schools located in the city. Thousands of students are seen running behind buses near Panangal Road, North Veli Street and other locations," he added.
Death of a Class IX student after a fall from a TNSTC bus last week had led to the protest by the CPI (M).
Party leaders, R. Vijayarajan, Stalin and Sudha were present.
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By MITCH STACY
COLUMBUS — Coach Ryan Day had no apologies for No. 2 Ohio State’s low-scoring, “clunky” win over No. 5 Notre Dame.
The underwhelming, 21-10 victory Sept. 3 was less about the Buckeyes showing off their sleek, high-scoring offense and more about grinding it out in the second half just to survive a difficult season opener.
With No. 1 receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba on the bench early with an injury, heavily favored Ohio State banged away with their running backs, who averaged nearly five yards per carry. The defense, so maligned last season, made stop after stop in the second half.
The performance wasn’t flashy — much of it was quite the opposite — but Day couldn’t have been prouder.
“That’s was something we spent a lot of time in the off-season saying — we have to be able to win ugly on offense,” Day said.
“If we can continue to win games like that, then that’s how we’ll win games. If you can win in different ways, I think it says a lot about your team as well. And I think this game is going to pay dividends down the road.”
Day pointed to the performance of quarterback C.J. Stroud, a Heisman Trophy favorite who many expected would pick up right where he left off with last year’s astronomical passing numbers.
Stroud was often fleeing the Irish pass rush Sept. 3 but managed a 31-yard touchdown pass to Emeka Egbuka for the Buckeyes’ only first half score. Notre Dame led 10-7 at the half.
But the Ohio State defense, engineered by new coordinator Jim Knowles, forced punts on Notre Dame’s last two possessions in the first half and all four in the second.
“We had a play here or there that we gave up, but what I’m most pleased with is the fact that they never flinched,” Knowles said. “They’ve bought into everything that I’ve been asking them to do.”
Meanwhile, TreVeyon Henderson and Miyan Williams chewed up ground, Stroud made clutch throws to move the chains and, with a blitz descending, threw a 24-yard TD strike to former walk-on Xavier Johnson in the third quarter.
“(Stroud) was the happiest guy out there,” Day said. “And maybe it wasn’t the perfect night, and everyone want’s to talk about the Heisman Trophy and all that (but) he just wants to go 1-0, and he did. He made some big-time throws.”
Stroud was 24 for 34 for 223 yards. Modest numbers considering he averaged nearly 370 a game last season.
“The defense was ballin’,” Stroud said. “They won this game, but I do think in the passing game, when we really needed it, we were efficient. We were struggling early on just trying to get a connection, trying to build that rhythm. But towards the end we kept going, we started to start clicking more.”
Egbuka had nine catches for 90 yards.
“It’s not always pretty, but it’s only Week 1,” Egbuka said. “But we’re going to build from here, and we’re going to be something special.”
Ohio State will get its chance to tune up in the next two weeks against Arkansas State, a Sunbelt Conference team that finished 2-10 last year, and then Toledo.
There was no immediate word on Smith-Njigba, who limped off the field after a hard hit early in the game and came back for only a few plays after that. Day would only say that “we hope to get him back this week.”
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By MICHAEL GOLDBERG
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — When John Tierre launched his restaurant in Jackson’s neglected Farish Street Historic District, he was drawn by the neighborhood’s past as an economically independent cultural hub for Black Mississippians, and the prospect of helping usher in an era of renewed prosperity.
This week he sat on the empty, sun-drenched patio of Johnny T’s Bistro and Blues and lamented all the business he has lost as tainted water flows through his pipes — just like other users in the majority Black city of 150,000, if they were lucky enough to have any pressure at all. The revival he and others envisioned seems very much in doubt.
“The numbers are very low for lunch,” Tierre told The Associated Press. “They’re probably taking their business to the outskirts where they don’t have water woes.”
Torrential rains and flooding of the Pearl River in late August exacerbated problems at one of Jackson’s two treatment plants, leading to a drop in pressure throughout the city, where residents were already under a boil-water order due to poor quality.
Officials said Sunday that most of Jackson should have running water, though residents are still advised not to drink straight from the tap. The city remains under a boil water notice. Officials also said future repairs leave potential for fluctuations in water pressure.
The water crisis has compounded the financial strain caused by an ongoing labor shortage and high inflation. And the flow of consumer dollars from Jackson and its crumbling infrastructure to the city’s outskirts hits Black-owned businesses hardest, the owners say.
Another Black entrepreneur who has taken a hit is Bobbie Fairley, 59, who has lived in Jackson her entire life and owns Magic Hands Hair Design on the city’s south side.
She canceled five appointments Wednesday because she needs high water pressure to rinse her clients’ hair of treatment chemicals. She also has had to purchase water to shampoo hair to try fit and in whatever appointments she can. When customers aren’t coming in, she’s losing money.
“That’s a big burden,” she said. “I can’t afford that. I can’t afford that at all.”
Jackson can’t afford to fix its water problems. The tax base has eroded over the past few decades as the population decreased, the result of primarily white flight to suburbs that began about a decade after public schools integrated in 1970. Today the city is more than 80% black, and 25% of its residents live in poverty.
Some say the uncertainty facing Black businesses fits into a pattern of adversity stemming from both natural disasters and policy decisions.
“It’s punishment for Jackson because it was open to the idea that people should be able to attend public schools and that people should have access to public areas without abuse,” said Maati Jone Primm, who owns Marshall’s Music and Bookstore up the block from Johnny T’s. “As a result of that, we have people who ran away to the suburbs.”
Primm thinks Jackson’s longstanding water woes — which some trace to the 1970s when federal spending on water utilities peaked, according to a 2018 Congressional Budget Office report — have been made worse by inaction from Mississippi’s mostly white, conservative-dominated Legislature.
“For decades this has been a malignant attack, not benign. And it’s been purposeful,” Primm said.
Political leaders have not always been on the same page. Jackson’s Democratic mayor, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, has blamed the water problems on decades of deferred maintenance, while Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has said they stem from mismanagement at the city level.
Last Monday the governor held a news conference about the crisis, and the mayor was not invited. Another was held later in the week where they both appeared, but Primm said it’s clear that the two are not in concert.
“The lack of cooperation speaks to the continued punishment that Jackson must endure,” she said.
Under normal circumstances, Labor Day weekend is a bustling time at Johnny T’s. The college football season brings out devoted Jackson State fans who watch away games on the bistro’s TVs or mosey over from the stadium after home games. But this weekend many regulars were busy stocking up on bottled water to drink or boiling tap water to cook.
Even as revenue plummeted, Tierre’s expenses increased. He has been spending $300 to $500 per day on ice and bottled water, not to mention canned soft drinks, tonic water and everything else that would typically be served out of a soda gun. He brings staff in a few hours earlier than usual so they can get a head start on boiling water to wash dishes and stacking the extra soda cans.
In total, Tierre estimated, he’s forking over an added $3,500 per week. Customers pay the price.
“You have to pass some of this off to the consumer,” Tierre said. “Now your Coke is $3, and there are no refills.”
At a water distribution site in south Jackson this week, area resident Lisa Jones brought empty paint buckets to fill up so her family could bathe. In a city with crumbling infrastructure, Jones said she felt trapped.
“Everybody can’t move right now. Everyone can’t go to Madison, Flowood, Canton and all these other places,” she said, naming three more affluent suburbs. “If we could, trust me, it would be a dark sight: Houses would be boarded up street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood.”
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Michael Goldberg is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/mikergoldberg.
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The Red Sox are on a roll. They completed a four-game sweep of the Rangers on Sunday, and are on a five-game winning streak. However, the team they now face the first three days of this week is also cruising.
The Rays had won five straight before losing to the Yankees on Sunday, and have seven victories in their last 10 games. Tampa has trimmed the Yankees’ lead in the AL East standings to five games after trailing by as much as 15.5 games in July.
Monday’s late-afternoon game features Michael Wacha as Boston’s starting pitcher.
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RED SOX (67-68): TBA
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Pitching: RHP Michael Wacha (10-1, 2.56 ERA)
RAYS (74-58): TBA
Pitching: RHP Luis Patiño (1-1, 3.95 ERA)
Time: 4:10 p.m.
TV, radio: NESN, WEEI-FM 93.7
Red Sox vs. Patiño: Xander Bogaerts 2-6, Franchy Cordero 1-2, Rafael Devers 1-5, Kiké Hernández 0-3, J.D. Martinez 1-6, Reese McGuire 1-3, Kevin Plawecki 0-2, Trevor Story 1-1, Alex Verdugo 2-3
Rays vs. Wacha: Randy Arozarena 1-8, Yu Chang 0-1, Ji-Man Choi 1-3, Yandy Díaz 3-4, Manuel Margot 4-13, Francisco Mejía 0-3, David Peralta 1-13, Harold Ramírez 2-6, Jose Siri 1-3, Taylor Walls 0-2
Stat of the day: The Rays are 20-9 since Aug. 3
Notes: Tampa Bay holds the AL’s second wild-card spot and has a one-game lead over the Blue Jays, who visit the Orioles for a doubleheader on Monday to open a four-game series. Tampa Bay went 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position and struck out 12 times in Sunday’s loss. ... The Red Sox are on their first five-game winning streak since a seven-game winning streak back in June. ... Boston enters its final series with the Rays 7 1/2 games behind Toronto for the final wild-card spot while also trailing the Orioles, Twins, Guardians and White Sox. ... During its winning streak, Boston has scored 34 runs. ... Patiño is 1-0 with a 3.86 ERA in two career starts against the Red Sox. ... Wacha is 7-0 with a 2.65 ERA in his past nine starts and 2-3 with a 6.75 ERA in five career starts against the Rays.
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RTIs pending with Cooperation Ministry since 2021, say activists
The Union Ministry of Cooperation, set up in July 2021, is responsible for multi-State cooperative societies
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Right to Information (RTI) activists and lawyers, who have filed queries with the Union Ministry of Cooperation, say requests filed as far back as November 2021 have not been answered, with the same status being shown on the online portal — “RTI request received”.
The Ministry was set up via a gazette notification on July 6, 2021 and Home Minister Amit Shah was given the additional portfolio of Cooperation. A Delhi-based lawyer and RTI activist, Madan Mohan Priye, said he filed an RTI with the Ministry on November 17, 2021, which was given the serial number of one on the online filing portal. As of Monday, the portal still showed the status of the query as “RTI request received”, though the RTI Act provides for a reply within 30 days.
He said he had filed an application with the Department of Personnel and Training through the government’s grievance portal on August 23 about the delay and the Ministry had not designated a Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) and First Appellate Authority (FAA) to process the queries under the RTI. He then received the copy of an office order by the Cooperation Ministry appointing the CPIOs and FAAs on April 29 this year.
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“Though the Ministry was set up in July 2021, the CPIOs and FAAs were appointed in April 2022. We have not received replies for queries filed months ago. The Ministry is responsible for multi-State cooperative societies that have huge amounts of the public’s money. Not replying to RTIs for so many months is anti-democratic,” he said.
Another RTI activist, Patna-based Praveen Chandra Roy, said his query filed in December 2021, as well as one filed in July this year, had not received replies, and both showed the same status of “RTI request received”. Mr. Roy said that before the Cooperation Ministry was created, the subject was under the Agriculture Ministry and responses were received for RTI queries on time.
“When the Cooperation Ministry was created, there was confusion as to who would answer RTIs on what subject, and the Agriculture Ministry was not transferring the applications. Other Ministries respond to RTIs, or if they don’t, there is the first appeal,” he said.
The Cooperation Ministry did not respond to requests for comment.
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Tanushri beats Sachi
Tanushrei Pandey battled past sixth seed Sachi Sharma 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-3 in the first round of the Rs.100,000 AITA women’s tennis tournament at the Joygaon Academy in Jhajjar on Monday.
In another match, qualifier Rchita Talwar breezed past fifth seed Lakshmi Gowda 6-4, 6-2.
The results (first round):
Kashish Bhatia bt Jostna Jayprakash 6-2, 6-0; Bhumika Rohilla bt Rithika Rajasekhar 6-3, 6-3; Shireen Ahamed bt Kriti Tomar 4-3 (conc.); Kavya Khirwar bt Kanupriya Rajawat 6-3, 6-4; Sahira Singh bt Gurleen Singh 6-2, 3-1 (retd.); Gnana Ashwitha Boyanapalli bt Shilpi Swarupa Das 6-2, 6-2; Abhilasha bt Mehar Kohli 6-2, 6-2; Riya Uboveja bt Shefali Arora 7-5, 6-1; Tanushri Pandey bt Sachi Sharma 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-3; Shimreen Ahamed bt Kanika Rapria 6-0, 6-0; Ananya Dhankhar bt Jjasmine Rawat 6-2, 6-1; Hitakamya Singh Narwal bt Ritu Rai 6-2, 6-1; Rachita Talwar bt Lakshmi Gowda 6-4, 6-2; Sanjami Arora bt Radhika Yadav 6-1, 6-4; Riya Sachdeva bt Sharanya Shetty 6-1, 6-1; Vanshika Choudhary bt Divya Bhardwaj 6-1, 4-6, 6-4.
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Heavy rainfall at Bengaluru airport impacts flight services
The airport receives 109 mm rainfall between 11.30 p.m and 4 a.m
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Inclement weather conditions at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) disrupted several flight services.
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Six flights coming to Bengaluru were diverted to the Chennai airport.
A spokesperson of Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), operator of KIA, said that two international flights, an Air France one arriving from Paris and an Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt, were also diverted to Chennai.
Four domestic flights of Indigo and Go First from Delhi, Mumbai, and Pune were also diverted.
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Poor weather conditions have resulted in delayed departures. A total of nine flights, including six international flights, were delayed.
The spokesperson said that flights to Bangkok, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Qatar were delayed for an average of 25 minutes. Three domestic flights to Pune and Ahmedabad were also delayed.
The airport received 109 mm of rainfall between 11.30 p.m and 4 a.m.
“Due to heavy rain and lightning, six flights were diverted to Chennai airport. The poor weather conditions also impacted operations of nine flights that were scheduled to leave Bengaluru at midnight and early morning,” said the spokesperson.
Passengers complained about rainwater stagnating at the vehicle parking areas outside the terminal. A video of an inundated parking bay near the terminal area has gone viral.
Passengers also complained about flooding on roads leading to the airport, especially on the service road of Ballari Road, where the metro work is in progress.
On flooding of the parking areas, the spokesperson said: “Due to heavy rainfall, the water stagnated for some time. The drainage system is working well and water receded within a short time”.
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Steps initiated to fill all vacancies in government schools: CM
U.T. committed to provide free, quality education at school-level: Rangasamy
The government has taken steps to fill all existing vacancies in government schools, Chief Minister N. Rangasamy said here on Monday.
Participating in the Teachers’ Day celebrations along with Lt. Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan at Kamarajar Manimandapam, the Chief Minister said the government was committed to provide free, quality education at school-level in the Union Territory. The government has initiated the process to start recruitment of teachers so that there are no vacancies left to be filled in schools, he said.
“We are providing all infrastructure facilities in schools. The government school teachers are in no way inferior to the staff in private institutes. But, I wonder why even people who cannot afford to pay huge fees are fighting for admission in private schools for their wards,” the Chief Minister said.
The Chief Minister appealed to the teaching faculty to work hard to gain the confidence of parents. “Parents should have the confidence to send their children to government schools. For that, you should work hard. The government will take care of the service matters of the staff, “ the Chief Minister said.
Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan in her address said teachers have a huge responsibility in shaping the character and career of students. In that way, teaching is one of the noblest professions, she added
Without referring to the incident where a Class VIII student allegedly died due to poisoning by his classmate’s mother in Karaikal, the Lt. Governor said “there is nothing worse than taking the life of a child due to competition.” Appealing to teachers to imbibe good qualities in students, the Lt. Governor said teachers should create an atmosphere in school so that students learn out of desire. There should not be any scope for competition,“ she said.
At the event, the Lt. Governor and Chief Minister felicitated around 20 government school teachers for their meritorious service. Speaker R. Selvam, Minister for Civil Supplies A. K. Sai J. Saravanan Kumar, legislators PML Kalyanasundaram and A. John Kumar, District Collector E. Vallavan and Director of Education P. T. Rudra Goud were present.
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VENICE, Italy (AP) — Harry Styles already has an enviable acting resume for a newcomer, from Christopher Nolan's “Dunkirk” to the upcoming “Don’t Worry Darling” and “My Policeman.” But the pop star said Monday at the Venice International Film Festival that, with acting, he often feels as if he has “no idea what I’m doing.”
Styles’ arrival on the Lido, where “Don’t Worry Darling” is having its world premiere Monday night, has been one of the most anticipated events of a festival full of stars. At a press conference before the premiere, Styles was peppered with questions about his fans, his career and whether or not he would work with director Olivia Wilde again — neither of which he answered.
In “Don’t Worry Darling,” Styles plays Jack, who works for the mysterious Victory Project, run by Chris Pine’s charismatic cult-like leader, in a mid-century-styled experimental community. Florence Pugh plays Jack’s wife Alice, who gets every comfort in the world in exchange for not asking questions. But soon, she starts to see cracks in the veneer.
“I think it’s fun to get to play in worlds that aren’t necessarily your own. This world that is supposedly so perfect, it’s really fun to play pretend in there,” Styles said. “There wasn’t too much acting.”
Styles took several days off from his Madison Square Garden appearances to attend the “ Don’t Worry Darling ” premiere in Venice, with Wilde and co-stars Pine and Gemma Chan. But though he juggles two high-profile careers in the arts, he said he doesn’t see many parallels between music and acting.
“Personally I find them to be kind of opposite in a lot of ways. I think making music is a really personal thing,” Styles said. “There’s aspects of acting where you’re drawing from experiences you’ve had but for the most part you’re pretending to play someone else. I think that’s what I find the most fun about it: playing pretend.”
He added: “I think the fun part is you never know what you’re doing. Music I’ve done for longer, but what I like about acting is I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing.”
Fans were already gathering in front of the theater early Monday to get a prime perch in front of the red carpet for the premiere, hours in advance. Many had personal stories about how Styles’ music impacted their lives.
“I’m incredibly grateful to the people who’ve supported me in my life and the fans in particular have always provided me with a place to be myself and feel comfortable doing so and express myself,” he said about what it’s like to mean so much to so many people. “I would like to hope I can give that space back to them.”
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'Mama's night out': Leona Lewis wows in a plunging gold crop top as she enjoys date with husband Dennis Jauch one month after giving birth
She welcomed had first child, a daughter named Carmel on July 22.
And a month on from the birth, Leona Lewis, 37, enjoyed a date night with her choreographer husband Dennis Jauch, 34.
The new parents headed to The Weeknd's concert at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California on Saturday night, with Leona wowing in a bold gold crop top.
Mama's night out: Leona Lewis dressed to impress for a date night with her husband Dennis Jauch on Saturday, one month after welcoming her first child
The new mum shared snaps of her 'mama's night out' on her Instagram page, posing up a storm in her plunging crop top.
She layered the glam top under a matching gold jacket and added high-waisted black trousers.
A statement necklace and a coordinating metallic bag were the finishing touches for the date night look.
Leona looked excited to be out on the town, cosying up to her husband as they danced at the gig.
Stunning: The new parents headed to The Weeknd's concert at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California on Saturday night, with Leona wowing in a bold gold crop top
Looking fab: The new mum shared snaps of her 'mama's night out' on her Instagram page, posing up a storm in her plunging crop top
Night out: The singer playfully ate a cherry as the couple grabbed drinks before the gig
The date night came to an abrupt end though after The Weeknd stopped the gig, telling fans he wouldn't be able to continue after losing his voice.
The 32-year-old hitmaker was met with loud boos from the jam-packed arena, which holds 70,000 people, as he profusely apologised on stage for the sudden ailment.
Leona candidly showed the morning after effects of her date night with another Insta snap, capturing her nap in the back of a car.
The singer revealed the happy news of the birth of her daughter via her Instagram page, posting an adorable snap showing a partial view of her new bundle of joy after welcoming her into the world.
Just the two of us: Leona looked excited to be out on the town, cosying up to her husband as they danced at the gig
All the details: A statement necklace and a coordinating metallic bag were the finishing touches for the date night look
Late one? Leona candidly showed the morning after effects of her date night with another Insta snap, capturing her nap in the back of a car
Leona wrote alongside the photo: 'And then there were three. Our little Carmel Allegra arrived 22.7.22.'
The songbird and her husband - who married in 2019 after nearly 10 years of dating - announced they were expecting a baby via Instagram in March.
'Can't wait to meet you in the Summer,' Leona wrote as she shared a first look at her baby bump.
The X Factor winner married Dennis in a lavish ceremony in Tuscany, Italy, in 2019 after 10 years of dating.
'And then there were three': The Bleeding Love singer revealed the happy news of the birth via her Instagram page, posting an adorable snap of her newborn
In November 2018, notoriously private Leona revealed she was engaged to her long-term love by sharing a picture of her eye-catching diamond ring while on holiday in San Juan.
One year after tying the knot, Leona revealed she wanted children and would like to adopt because of her mother's experience growing up in a children's home.
She told Stella magazine: 'I do want children, but Dennis and I have also talked about adopting.
'My mum grew up in a children's home. No one adopted her as a child, and I would very much like to adopt.
'But I'm still figuring things out. If it was up to my husband, we would have had kids yesterday.'
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A senior Ukrainian official says the government is still waiting for a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency on the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and has suggested the IAEA mission is "ineffective."
"We do not understand whether everything is normal there in terms of safety, cooling of the reactors, with the personnel, whether they understand the algorithms by which they work. We did not see all this in the report, and this proves that international institutions, unfortunately, are completely ineffective," Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the Head of the President's Office of President of Ukraine, told Ukrainian television Monday.
Podolyak said there should be a "nuclear audit" the plant, which included "a certain number of people who know nuclear physics and engineering technologies" working next to Ukrainian staff.
While occupied by Russian forces, the plant is run largely by Ukrainian technicians.
"There are Russian troops who do not understand what is happening there, they do not assess the risks correctly. But there is a certain number of our workers there who need some kind of protection, to have people from the international community standing next to them," Podolyak said.
The weekend appears to have passed relatively quietly in the area around the plant, which has seen persistent shelling for weeks, some of which has damaged the plant's infrastructure, according to the IAEA.
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At least 10 shot, 1 killed outside Ohio bar, police say
Published: Sep. 5, 2022 at 10:41 AM EDT|Updated: 33 minutes ago
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - One person was killed and at least 10 others injured in a shooting outside a bar early Monday morning, WOIO reported.
East Cleveland police said at 2:53 a.m. they received multiple calls reporting shots fired outside the Just Us Lounge & Deli.
When officers arrived, several victims were taken to various hospitals.
One person has died from their injuries, but no information on the victim has been released at this time.
There is also no other information on the surviving victims.
Agents with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation have also been called to the scene to help with the investigation.
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At least 10 shot, 1 killed outside Ohio bar, police say
Published: Sep. 5, 2022 at 9:41 AM CDT|Updated: 34 minutes ago
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - One person was killed and at least 10 others injured in a shooting outside a bar early Monday morning, WOIO reported.
East Cleveland police said at 2:53 a.m. they received multiple calls reporting shots fired outside the Just Us Lounge & Deli.
When officers arrived, several victims were taken to various hospitals.
One person has died from their injuries, but no information on the victim has been released at this time.
There is also no other information on the surviving victims.
Agents with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation have also been called to the scene to help with the investigation.
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RADNOR, Pa., Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP (www.ktmc.com) informs investors that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed in the against MINISO Group Holding Limited ("MINISO ") (NYSE: MNSO). The action charges MINISO with violations of the federal securities laws, including omissions and fraudulent misrepresentations relating to the company's business, operations, and prospects. As a result of MINISO's materially misleading statements and omissions to the public, MINISO investors have suffered significant losses.
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On July 26, 2022, market researcher Blue Orca Capital published a report on MINISO which alleged several alarming issues with MINISO, including that: 1) many MINISO stores are secretly owned by MINISO executives or insiders closely connected to the chairman; 2) MINISO misleads the market about its core business; and 3) based on Blue Orca's analysis, MINISO's Chinese corporate filings indicate that the chairman siphoned hundreds of millions from the public company through opaque Caribbean jurisdictions as the middleman in a crooked headquarters deal.
As of July 27, 2022, MINISO ADSs closed at $5.66 per ADS, representing more than a 70% decline from the $20.00 IPO price.
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PORSGRUNN, Norway, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HydrogenPro AS (OSE: HYPRO) hereby announces that an extraordinary general meeting (the "EGM") was held today at Henrik Ibsens gate 100, 0255 Oslo, Norway at 10:00 CEST on 5 September 2022.
The EGM resolved, inter alia, to convert the company from a private limited liability company (AS) to a public limited liability company (ASA) in connection with the contemplated up-listing to Oslo Stock Exchange's main list from Euronext Growth Oslo. Other items rquired or deemed necessary in connection with the contemplated up-listing were also resolved.
Minutes from the EGM meeting is attached hereto.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The death toll from a measles outbreak in Zimbabwe has risen to almost 700 children, the country’s health ministry has said.
Some are calling for the enactment of legislation to make vaccination mandatory in a country where anti-modern medicine religious sects hold sway on large swathes of the population of 15 million people.
The southern African country’s health ministry announced at the weekend that 698 children have died from measles since the outbreak started in April.
The ministry said 37 of the deaths occurred on a single day on Sept.1. The health ministry said it had recorded 6,291 cases by Sept. 4.
The latest figures are more than four-times the number of deaths announced about two weeks ago when the ministry said 157 children, most of whom were unvaccinated due to their family’s religious beliefs, had succumbed to the disease.
Dr. Johannes Marisa, the president of the Medical and Dental Private Practitioners of Zimbabwe Association, told The Associated Press on Monday that the government should escalate an ongoing mass vaccination campaign and embark on awareness programs targeted especially at anti-vaccine religious groups.
“Because of the resistance, education may not be enough so the government should also consider using coercive measures to ensure that no one is allowed to refuse vaccination for their children,” said Marisa. He urged the government to “consider enacting legislation that makes vaccination against killer diseases such as measles mandatory.”
UNICEF on Monday said it “is deeply concerned” with the number of cases and deaths among children due to measles. The agency said it is assisting the government to combat the outbreak through immunization programs.
The measles outbreak was first reported in the eastern Manicaland province in early April and has since spread to all parts of the country.
Many of the deaths have been of children who were not vaccinated, Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said in August.
Zimbabwe’s Cabinet has invoked a law used to respond to disasters to deal with the outbreak.
The government has embarked on a mass vaccination campaign targeting children aged between 6 months and 15 years old and is engaging traditional and faith leaders to support the drive.
Zimbabwe continued vaccinating children against measles even during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, but the drive has been hampered by religious groups that preach against vaccines.
The Christian sects are against modern medicine and tell their members to rely on self-proclaimed prophets for healing.
Church gatherings that have resumed following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions have “led to the spread of measles to previously unaffected areas,” said the health ministry in a statement last week.
Measles is among the most infectious diseases in the world and mostly spreads in the air by coughing, sneezing or close contact.
Symptoms include coughing, fever and a skin rash, while the risk of severe measles or dying from complications is high among unvaccinated children.
Outbreaks in unvaccinated and malnourished populations have been known to kill thousands. Scientists estimate that more than 90% of the population needs to be immunized to prevent measles outbreaks.
The World Health Organization in April warned of an increase in measles in vulnerable countries as a result of a disruption of services due to COVID-19.
In July, the United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, said about 25 million children worldwide have missed out on routine immunizations against common childhood diseases, calling it a “red alert” for child health. | https://www.yourbasin.com/health-2/ap-health/ap-zimbabwe-says-measles-outbreak-has-killed-700-children/ | 2022-09-05T15:29:40Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/health-2/ap-health/ap-zimbabwe-says-measles-outbreak-has-killed-700-children/ | true |
Fix your MacBook yourself from the comfort of your home
For anyone who’s needed to repair an electronic device, running out to a store to get assistance can feel like a big waste of time. However, Apple is expanding its Self-Service Repair Program so MacBook owners can repair their laptops themselves.
The service is still relatively new, and many users have questions about it. With the recent expansion introducing MacBook support, now is a great time to consider getting one if you want the option of fixing your laptop yourself if one day something isn’t working right. In this article: MacBook Air 13.3-inch, MacBook Pro 14.2-inch and MacBook Pro 16.2 inch.
What to know about the Self-Service Repair program
It started with the iPhone
The Apple Self-Service Repair program launched in April 2022 and lets iPhone owners repair their phones themselves. The program supports the most recent models in the iPhone 12 and 13 series and is intended to help tech-savvy iPhone owners avoid going to the Apple Store for repair services.
Introducing MacBook repairs
Apple expanded the program on August 23 to allow MacBook owners to use the service to repair their laptops. However, not all MacBooks are supported, but those with one of the following four models can look into fixing their notebook themselves should anything go awry:
- 2020 MacBook Air M1
- 2020 MacBook Pro 13-inch M1
- 2021 MacBook Pro 14-inch
- 2021 MacBook Pro 16-inch
Can you fix a laptop yourself?
Before looking into the Apple Self-Service Program, it’s best to ask yourself if you have the skills, knowledge and time to fix a laptop, as the program is intended for those with experience repairing electronic devices.
Although it may not seem overly complicated based on the instructions, it can be overwhelming if you’ve never done it before. Also, while you’ll save yourself a trip to the Apple Store, you may spend more time investigating your laptop’s issue, and it may take longer than you’d like to fix it yourself.
How the Apple Self-Service Program Works
Find the correct repair manual
If you’ve decided you want to fix your MacBook yourself, you first need to get the correct manual for your laptop, which you can find on Apple’s website. Read through the manual to identify what needs repairing and which parts and tools you’ll need to fix it.
Order the necessary parts and tools
Once you know what needs fixing on your MacBook, you’ll need to get the genuine parts, tools and materials directly from the Self-Service Repair Store to repair it. You’ll need the manual ID, your device’s serial number or International Mobile Equipment Identity to order parts and tools.
Fix your MacBook
After you receive the tools and parts in the mail, you can start repairing your MacBook. It’s crucial to follow the manual’s instructions closely to ensure a successful repair and, if necessary, initiate a system configuration at the end.
Return tools and replaced parts
Rather than tossing any replaced and damaged parts in the trash, it’s best to dispose of them by sending them back to Apple along with any rented tools or parts, where they can be recycled or refurbished. Also, Apple sometimes credits customers for returning certain replaced or damaged parts, but you’ll have to contact the Self-Service Repair Store for more information about your repair.
FAQ
Q. How does it cost to rent tools?
A. A rental kit costs $49 and lets users hold onto them for one week. Also, there are no additional shipping fees.
Q. Are there any penalty fees if a rental kit isn’t returned?
A. You could potentially be charged up to $1,000 for an active authorized fee of up to $1,000 if you don’t return the kit or if you send it back with any missing parts or tools.
Best Apple notebooks and accessories
Best MacBook Air notebooks
The MacBook Air with a 13.3-inch retina display is Apple’s most portable notebook and offers 18 hours of battery life. It has a fanless design for silent operation, a high-performance 8-core CPU and a 7-core GPU for super-fast integrated graphics.
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This MacBook Air has a slightly larger screen than the base model but has an even thinner and lightweight build. It has an M2 chip that significantly boosts speed and power efficiency over the M1 chip.
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Best MacBook Pro notebooks
This MacBook has a more robust build than the MacBook Air but offers improved battery life, lasting up to 20 hours on a full charge. It supports 24GB of unified memory and has an active cooling system for maintaining high performance.
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This MacBook has a stunning 14.2-inch liquid retina XDR display and is loaded with a fast M1 Pro or M1 Max chip. It offers advanced graphics performance up to 13 times faster than the 13-inch MacBook Pro.
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This high-end laptop lasts up to 21 hours on a full charge and is designed to run high-powered software with elite performance and speed. It has a 10-core CPU and a 16-core GPU offering four times faster performance for graphics-intensive programs.
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Best MacBook accessories
35W Dual USB-C Port Compact Power Adapter
This compact power adapter has folding prongs and lets you charge two devices simultaneously. It works best with the MacBook Air but can also be used to power up an iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and AirPods.
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This wireless mouse has a smooth multi-touch surface that lets you swipe back and forth effortlessly between web pages and scroll through documents. It comes with a USB-C to Lightning charging cable, and the battery lasts up to a month on a full charge.
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LaCie Rugged Mini 2TB Portable External Hard Drive
This external hard drive is excellent for those looking for an affordable storage upgrade. It has built-in password protection and a rugged build that offers shock protection up to four feet and dust and water resistance.
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Flood watch posted for eastern, southern New Hampshire as heavy rain moves through
Some communities could see 3+ inches of rainfall
Some communities could see 3+ inches of rainfall
Some communities could see 3+ inches of rainfall
A flood watch is in effect for southern and eastern parts of New Hampshire as steady rain falls on Labor Day.
Highs cooled into just the 60s on Monday as a slow-moving system approaches the state, locking clouds and showers in place.
Initial periods of rain will give way to heavier rain in the afternoon and evening, especially in southern New Hampshire.
Northern spots might not see heavy rain throughout the day, but damp and cool conditions are still expected there.
Rain could fall heavily, at times, through early Tuesday, with about 1-2 inches of rain likely across southern New Hampshire. Some communities that see more of the heavy rain bands could finish with 3 inches of rain or more.
Lingering showers persist into Tuesday for southern New Hampshire before a building high-pressure area will mark a return of fair skies and warmer air for late in the week.
Be weather aware! Download the WMUR app for Apple or Android devices and turn on push notifications. You can choose to receive weather alerts for your geolocation and/or up to three ZIP codes. In addition, you can receive word when precipitation is coming to your area.
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Police in Kwale rescue five 'stolen'children, teenage girl being held
Police In Kwale County are holding a teenage girl who is suspected to have stolen five children from Mombasa.
According to Kinango Sub County Police Commander Fred Ombaka, the 17-year-old teenager (name withheld) was arrested on Friday in Taru Trading Centre with two boys and three girls ages 10, nine, six, three and one-year-old.
“The members of the public raised alarm when she claimed that the children were her siblings. Our interrogations have established that the girl had taken the children from the streets in Mombasa promising to take them to Nairobi,” he said.
He added that the suspected trafficker who may have lied about her age claimed that she was going to help the children, but raised questions on what kind of assistance she would be giving them.
According to Mr Ombaka, the girl and the children had boarded the bus heading to Nairobi but were dropped off at Taru area in Kinango Sub County, along the Mombasa-Nairobi highway because they lacked bus fare.
He explained that the police have established that the children, originally from Bofu in Kwale, were begging in Mombasa streets since their mother is an illicit brewer.
Rescue centre
The suspect is expected at Mariakani Magistrate Court today (Monday).
Meanwhile, the children are currently in a rescue centre in Mackinnon Road, where they are expected to be released when the said mother presents documents to prove their identity.
“She has to confirm that the children are all hers by producing birth certificates. That is when we will release them,” said Mr Ombaka.
He added that the court and a children’s officer will also determine whether the mother will have the children back, since she is expected to confirm whether she is in a position to take care of them. | https://nation.africa/kenya/counties/kwale/police-in-kwale-rescue-five-stolen-children-teenage-girl-being-held-3937270 | 2022-09-05T15:34:19Z | https://nation.africa/kenya/counties/kwale/police-in-kwale-rescue-five-stolen-children-teenage-girl-being-held-3937270 | false |
(WFRV) – There’s a new dining options for vegetarians in the Fox cities or if you just want to try authentic South Indian Food.
The family behind Madras Café joined Local 5 Live with a closer look at the regional specialties available like medhu vada (a savory, donut-shaped fritter made from black lentils), dosa (a lentil and rice crepe, often filled) and idli (a steamed rice cake). They also serve rice, chutneys and sambar, a lentil and vegetable soup.
Madras Café is located at 819 W. Wisconsin Avenue in Appleton.
See the full menu on their Facebook page. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/local5live/authentic-south-indian-cuisine-at-madras-cafe-in-appleton/ | 2022-09-05T15:34:43Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/local5live/authentic-south-indian-cuisine-at-madras-cafe-in-appleton/ | true |
Updated September 5, 2022 at 9:56 AM ET
Chile spent the past two years writing a progressive new constitution, but the document was so soundly spurned by voters on Sunday that the result was clear less than two hours after the polls closed.
Nearly 62% of Chileans rejected the draft Magna Carta that was designed to replace the current one written during the country's military dictatorship while just 38% voted to accept it, according to official returns.
Although nearly every public opinion survey suggested the draft constitution was in trouble, Sunday's results were shockingly lopsided and a huge blow for President Gabriel Boric, a leftist elected last year largely on his pledge to shepherd through passage of a new constitution.
"As president I receive this message with a lot of humility," Boric, who is 36 and is Latin America's youngest president, said in a TV address Sunday night. "You have to listen to the voice of the people."
News that the "rejection" vote had prevailed sparked celebrations in Santiago, the capital, where lines of drivers honked their car horns and people gathered outside to chant and toast victory.
"We're happy because, really, we all want a new constitution, but one that is done right and this one didn't fulfill the expectations of the majority," Lorena Cornejo, 34, told the Associated Press, as she waved a Chilean flag. "Now we have to work for a new one that unites us. This one didn't represent us and that was clear in the vote."
The proposed constitution was considered too liberal for a conservative country
In a traditionally conservative country — married couples couldn't get divorced in Chile until 2004 — many voters considered the new constitution too liberal. It was written by an elected special assembly dominated by leftists and progressives while only about one-third of the 155 delegates were conservatives.
The text called for legalized abortion, gender parity in government offices, the abolition of Chile's senate and the establishment of autonomous Indigenous territories. It included vast new protections for the environment that, according to critics, could have put the brakes on the country's lucrative copper mining industry. It also called for universal health care and the right to decent housing, education and pensions, which would have required steep tax increases.
"We don't have the financial capacity to pay for all of these things," said Mitzi Rojas, an architect in Santiago who voted against the constitution.
The effort to remake Chile's governing guidelines stems from a deep political crisis. For decades the country was viewed as an economic powerhouse and a Latin American success story. But frustration over inequality and the high cost of health care, education and public transportation sparked violent protests in 2019 that nearly brought down Chile's right-wing government.
To address protesters' concerns and convince them to call off their demonstrations, Boric — who was then an opposition congressman — helped cut a deal to begin the long, complicated process of writing a new constitution.
A new constitution is considered long overdue
The current one was written in 1980 under dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile for 17 years and calls for private sector involvement in education, pensions and health care. Democracy was restored in 1990. But even though most nations that undergo momentous political transformations write new constitutions to reflect these new realities, Chile never got around to it.
"The original sin of the current constitution is that it was written during the dictatorship," said Rodrigo Espinoza, a political science professor at Diego Portales University in Santiago. "It has gone through reforms but is still seen as illegitimate."
In a 2020 referendum nearly 80% of Chileans voted to draft a new one.
However, experts say the best constitutions are usually short and to the point. By contrast, the document produced by Chile's special assembly was a confusing collection of 388 articles, said Claudio Fuentes, a Santiago political analyst. Another problem, he said, was a vast disinformation campaign that spread lies — including claims that under the new constitution the government would disarm the police and confiscate people's homes.
Boric acknowledged these problems in his TV address but he also vowed to lead a new constitutional rewrite process.
"I commit to put my all my energies into building a new constitutional process alongside congress and civil society," said Boric, who plans to meet with the heads of political parties and both houses of congress on Monday.
Boric added that whoever drafts the next version — whether its Congress or a special assembly — they will have to produce a constitution that unites Chileans rather than divides them.
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Alias: Alfalfa leafcutter bee. Unlike honeybees, this bee prefers to work alone. They are solitary insects that lay eggs in crevasses and hollow areas of dried reeds, stuffing leaves and pollen between each egg. They look like a typical bee, with a little black fuzzy body and they vary in color from yellow to white. Males live for only a few weeks. Females die at the end of summer after their eggs are laid.
Crimes: This bee tears a large chunk from leaves, leaving unsightly damage. They don’t make any honey at all.
Redeeming Qualities: While honeybees usually get all the credit for being the only pollinator out there, these bees contribute much more to our local economy in eastern Idaho. They are the primary pollinator for alfalfa and they are a necessary pollinator for many other crops. They are used extensively by humans and they make habitats out of bound hollow twigs or a simple board with holes drilled into it. These little homes are placed out in alfalfa seed fields where they can pollinate to their hearts’ content. They are not aggressive and are usually referred to as gentle or even shy.
Sentence: This bee merits a full pardon. They are struggling with issues that come from nesting them in high density, which makes them susceptible to outbreaks from fungal diseases, parasitoid wasps, and a wide array of predators. In an effort to help these beneficial insects, try to avoid using any carbaryl or pyrethroid insecticides when leafcutter bees are present. Always read the label instructions of pesticides to verify any precautions that should be taken pertaining to bees.
For more information on dangerous and beneficial bugs, call UI Extension educator Joseph Sagers at 208-270-4031 or email jsagers@uidaho.edu. | https://www.postregister.com/farmandranch/columnists/bug_box/the-bug-box-alfalfa-leafcutter-bee/article_cb017a10-2d23-11ed-9452-e3c8eb1bc87f.html | 2022-09-05T15:35:55Z | https://www.postregister.com/farmandranch/columnists/bug_box/the-bug-box-alfalfa-leafcutter-bee/article_cb017a10-2d23-11ed-9452-e3c8eb1bc87f.html | false |
Russia sanctions 25 more Americans, including Sean Penn, Ben Stiller
(AP) - Russia imposed personal sanctions Monday on 25 Americans, including actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller, in response to U.S. sanctions against Russians stemming from the conflict in Ukraine.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was on the new sanctions list, as were several American senators: Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Rick Scott of Florida and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the group, which also included business leaders, academics and government officials, would be banned permanently from entering Russia.
Previous rounds of Russian sanctions against Americans have included President Joe Biden and members of his family, as well as lawmakers and business leaders. The U.S. has sanctioned numerous Russians, including government officials and business people.
Penn and Stiller have been outspoken critics of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Penn is an activist involved in relief work, among other causes. Stiller is a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
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...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY
MORNING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
* WHERE...Portions of New Jersey...and Pennsylvania...including the
following areas...in New Jersey...Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset,
Sussex, and Warren. In Pennsylvania...Berks, Carbon, Lehigh,
Monroe, Northampton, Upper Bucks, and Western Montgomery.
* WHEN...From this afternoon through Tuesday morning.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas. Storm drains
and ditches may become clogged with debris.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Heavy rain and a few thunderstorms are expected to develop
across the watch area from early this evening through tonight
and persisting into Tuesday morning. Rainfall rates of 1 to 2
inches per hour are possible. This may result in flash
flooding of urbanized and low lying areas despite recently
dry conditions across the area.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action
should Flash Flood Warnings be issued.
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This is the vision: At the western end of downtown Miami, a dense, walkable, transit-centered and family-friendly high-rise district would bloom over eight city blocks.
Rents for thousands of apartments would fall within reach of the average Miamian. Children would walk to neighborhood schools, check out books at a new public library and explore Miami’s colorful history at an alluring new museum. Neighbors could gather at a new park, dine and shop nearby, or work out at an up-to-date wellness center.
Residents could comfortably walk to work or commute on myriad transit options just a few steps from home — Metrobus, Tri-Rail, Metrorail or Metromover — or easily hop onto I-95. To go on vacation, families could stroll over to a fast Brightline train to Disney World or Tampa’s Florida Aquarium, or ride Metrorail directly to Miami International Airport and, beyond that, fly to almost anywhere in the world.
Read more at our news partner, the Miami Herald. | https://www.wlrn.org/local-news/2022-09-05/10-billlion-metrocenter-plan-aims-to-transform-downtown-miami | 2022-09-05T15:43:16Z | https://www.wlrn.org/local-news/2022-09-05/10-billlion-metrocenter-plan-aims-to-transform-downtown-miami | false |
Arsenic found in water at New York housing complex
NEW YORK (WCBS) - Arsenic has been detected in the tap water at a major New York City Housing Authority complex.
City health officials are scrambling to address the problem that affects thousands of people in the East Village.
Loading up on water from stands right outside the Jacob Riis Houses, tenants are being urged to cook and bathe with the bottled water instead of what’s in their apartment.
“Everybody is worried. The whole development is worried,” resident Mary Cannon said.
Stacey Jones said she felt something was wrong on Aug. 2.
She noticed how cloudy the water was while cleaning her fish tank, and as soon as she put the fish back in it, it died.
She said she also noticed her and her children’s skin have been irritated.
“On my stomach, around my neck and my foot was really irritated and red, like patches and red spots,” Jones said.
She called New York City Housing Authority. A rep came out, but she said they told her the water was fine.
On Saturday, a month later, Mayor Eric Adams said the housing authority started testing immediately after getting multiple complaints of cloudy water in early August.
“It’s affecting the whole development because nobody has any real answers for us, and we don’t know what’s going on.” Mary Cannon said.
A spokesperson from the mayor’s office says additional testing on Friday showed arsenic levels higher than the federal standard for drinking water.
There’s concern damage may have already been done.
“The question is how long have the people at Riis houses been bathing and drinking arsenic-based water.” public advocate Jumaane Williams said.
The mayor’s office says the issue is only limited to Jacob Riis Houses and that it is safe for New York City at large to continue drinking tap water.
Free bottled water is being provided to residents until the problem is resolved.
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SUMMERVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Flood watches were in effect in the U.S. southeast early Monday as forecasters warn of the possibility of torrential downpours on Labor Day across already saturated ground.
Among the hardest-hit areas in this weekend’s storms was northwest Georgia, where 12 inches (30 centimeters) of rain fell in some spots, forecasters said.
The flooding knocked out water service to parts of Georgia's Chattooga County, authorities said.
“Our main thrust right now is getting our water situation back in hand,” said Earle Rainwater, who owns Rainwater Funeral Home in Summerville and serves as the Chattooga County coroner.
“Without water, you can’t do anything,” he said Monday. “We don’t have water except for bottled water and what’s in the creeks.”
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Sunday declared a state of emergency in Chattooga and Floyd counties. That directed all state resources to help with “preparation, response and recovery activities.”
In Chattooga County, several people had to be rescued from their homes on Sunday, especially in lower-lying areas of the county, Rainwater said. “They used Jon Boats, they used kayaks, they used anything that would float."
Waves of showers and storms were expected to develop Monday in the region, as moisture from the Gulf of Mexico continues to stream across the South, the National Weather Service said. Some training storms — storms that drop several inches of rain as they move over the same areas like train cars — were also possible, the weather service said.
Parts of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia were under flash flood watches through Monday evening. The chance for flash flooding also extended to the northeast, into Pennsylvania and parts of southern New England, the weather service said.
Church pastors and volunteers planned to distribute water on Monday in the small towns of Summerville and Trion, according to the Chattooga County Emergency Management Agency.
Chattooga County, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of Atlanta, is home to about 25,000 people.
“We’re just country folks and trying to help each other,” Rainwater said.
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Associated Press writer Jeff Martin contributed from Woodstock, Georgia. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Flood-threat-continues-in-Georgia-other-southern-17420156.php | 2022-09-05T15:53:14Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Flood-threat-continues-in-Georgia-other-southern-17420156.php | true |
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California heat wave: A closer look at the dangerous temperatures expected on Labor Day
Find a full forecast, cooling centers and how to prepare for the heat below
Find a full forecast, cooling centers and how to prepare for the heat below
Find a full forecast, cooling centers and how to prepare for the heat below
Dangerous heat is expected to hit Northern California on Labor Day and beyond as thousands across the region experience record-high temperatures.
The forecast high for Monday is 112 degrees, well above the average for this time of year of 92 degrees.
These temperatures will shatter the previous record of 108 degrees set in 1988.
The morning is the best time to go and do anything outside safely, according to KCRA 3 meteorologist Tamara Berg.
"You really want to try to avoid outdoor strenuous activity between the hours of 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. both today and tomorrow. It does not look like this record heat is going to go anywhere," Berg said.
By 10 a.m. Monday, temperatures will be in the mid-80s, then it starts to really warm up, hitting 112 degrees sometime between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Tuesday has the possibility of bringing even hotter temperatures.
"I think [Tuesday] could actually be the worst of it, as highs can trend 113 to 114 range," Berg said.
KCRA 3's weather team says that it likely won't be until Saturday or Sunday that we see temperatures noticeably drop.
"Hang tight, it's going to be a pretty long, hot week ahead and we're kicking it off with this labor day, again, those temperatures above 110," Berg said.
Scroll through for the forecast below:
KCRA 3’s weather team is calling Monday and Tuesday heat impact days. That means people should plan around the heat in the afternoons.
Make use of the cooler morning hours for any strenuous activities and try to limit your outdoor exposure between 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
| VIDEO BELOW | What to know about heat-related illnesses
Increased Fire Risk
The hot weather will dry fuels, meaning fires can start quickly and spread faster.
If you are going to be camping this weekend, be very careful with any campfires and do not leave them unattended.
Be aware of your surroundings and be ready to move if you see or smell smoke.
Fire officials across the region are worried that the high heat, paired with the dry conditions, will spread fires easier. Sacramento Metro Fire Captain Parker Wilbourn said that it is especially concerning with many people expected to grill outside, including in the wildland areas, during the holiday weekend.
"With the conditions being so hot, we are on edge," Wilbourn said. "Sometimes it just takes that small spark, whether it be from a barbecue or a chain hitting the ground from a trailer or any open flame at a campsite, a small spark can create a very large wildfire that threatens our communities and threatens our homes.”
KCRA's Fire Threat Index
KCRA 3’s weather team has developed a tool the team will be using to keep you informed as fire conditions change. It’s called the Fire Threat Index. This will give you an idea of the fire risk on any given day in different areas of our coverage region so you can plan ahead.
Toggle below to see the Fire Threat Index for different parts of Northern California over the next few days:
Fire Threat Index: Valley
Fire Threat Index: Sierra
Fire Threat Index: Foothills
Fire Threat Index: Coastal Hills
The Fire Index will stay in the High category until cooler weather arrives next week.
| Weather Resources | Important numbers for outages, more
Here's how to find NorCal cooling centers
Cooling centers across Northern California are open to allow some residents to get a break from the forecasted week of triple-digit heat.
| Read More | Here are the cooling centers opening Thursday amid forecast triple digits in NorCal
Flex Alert extended: California residents urged to ease power usage
California's grid operator is asking people to conserve power for the sixth day in a row as it extended its Flex Alert into Monday. Residents are urged to conserve electricity from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m.
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District, or SMUD, is also asking customers to conserve electricity from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
This week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order meant to ramp up the state's energy supply temporarily.
| MORE | Flex Alert issued for Californians amid forecasted triple-digit temperatures
Customers can help ease pressure on the grid by easing power usage during the afternoon and evening:
- Set the thermostat at 78 degrees or higher, if health permits
- Avoid using major appliances
- Turn off unnecessary lights
- Use fans for cooling
- Unplug unused items
| Video Below | California residents asked to ease power usage as temperatures rise in coming week
Sacramento County officials recommend canceling outdoor events
The Sacramento County Division of Public Health and Office of Emergency Services in a release Wednesday that it recommends outdoor events between noon to 8 p.m. from Saturday to Tuesday be canceled.
This includes youth sports, community gatherings, parades, marches or any events that could involve children, older adults, or any people with compromised immune systems that may be sensitive to the heat.
| VIDEO BELOW | Event organizers make changes to account for weekend heat
What is a heat dome and why is it popping up on social media?
As the name suggests, a heat dome is a region of very warm or hot air that can linger in the same general location for several days to a couple of weeks. This is a fairly common weather pattern in the U.S. West during the summer months.
The "dome" effect is created when a strong area of high pressure lingers over an area for an extended period of time. The stronger the high, the more likely it is to trap air underneath it.
The longer that air remains trapped in place, the more the sun works to heat the air, producing gradual warming day after day.
Any area of high pressure, whether a "heat dome" or not, forces air to slowly sink. Sinking air compresses as it reaches the ground and that forces the air to warm up even more.
Air also gets drier as it sinks. Drier air can heat more dramatically than air that is moister, so this can even further amplify warming.
| Read More | What is a heat dome and how is it impacting Northern California heat?
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| VIDEO BELOW | What to know about Labor Day Weekend heat records | https://www.kcra.com/article/heat-wave-sacramento-valley-sept-5/41082791 | 2022-09-05T15:57:24Z | https://www.kcra.com/article/heat-wave-sacramento-valley-sept-5/41082791 | true |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Just days after being insulted on television by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, country music star Maren Morris has managed to turn the insult into some big bucks for transgender organizations.
The clash began after Morris criticized commentsmade by country singer Jason Aldean’s wife, Brittany Kerr Aldean, regarding gender-affirming care for trans children.
Days after his wife’s comments, the country singer was dropped by his longtime PR firm, although the firm declined to specify why Aldean was dropped.
While discussing the exchange on his television show “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the Fox News host labeled Morris as a “lunatic country music person.”
Morris made light of the situation on her social media, and shortly after announced that she would be selling T-shirts with Carlson’s quote on the front, alongside the Peer Support and Crisis Hotline for trans youth, to give back to the transgender community.
“All proceeds will be split between TransLifeline and the GLAAD Transgender Media Program,” said Morris in a tweet.
Just 24 hours after announcing that the shirts were on sale, Morris posted that over $100,000 worth of the T-shirts had been purchased.
“Over $100K raised,” said Morris in a tweet, “Have a great Labor Day weekend, lunatics.” | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/country-singer-maren-morris-uses-tucker-carlson-insult-to-raise-100k-for-trans-youth/ | 2022-09-05T16:01:05Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/country-singer-maren-morris-uses-tucker-carlson-insult-to-raise-100k-for-trans-youth/ | false |
MANVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A woman was killed during weekend flash flooding in rural southeastern Indiana that damaged numerous homes and washed away several roads, officials said.
Normally small creeks were overwhelmed as perhaps eight inches of rain fell Saturday night in parts of Jefferson and Switzerland counties. The Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency said one woman was found dead, along with two homes destroyed and more than 20 buildings damaged around the rural community of Manville.
Resident Kim Schultz told WDRB-TV that a friend tried to get the woman to leave her house before it was swept away, but she didn’t want to go.
The fast-rising waters swept away several vehicles and uprooted trees. Jefferson County officials said at least two damaged bridges were closed indefinitely, while the state highway department closed a bridge for Indiana 250 in Switzerland County for repairs.
Jefferson County road department worker Chad Backus told WLKY-TV that it expected it would be several weeks before all roads would be reopened in the area about midway between Louisville, Kentucky, and Cincinnati.
The identity of the woman who died wasn’t immediately released and no other injuries were reported. | https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/Flash-flooding-in-southern-Indiana-kills-1-17420266.php | 2022-09-05T16:01:30Z | https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/Flash-flooding-in-southern-Indiana-kills-1-17420266.php | false |
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A man has been arrested and charged with kidnapping a woman who was jogging early Friday morning in Memphis, Tennessee.
Cleotha Abston, 38, was charged on Saturday with aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence.
Eliza Fletcher has still not been located, police said.
Police say a video shows Fletcher being forced into a vehicle when she was out for a run around 4:30 a.m. on Friday. Her husband reported her missing after she didn't return home.
The family is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to Fletcher's safe return.
She was last seen wearing purple shorts and a pink top.
Her water bottle and phone were found in front of a house that is owned by the University of Memphis.
According to an affidavit obtained by NBC News, police said Abston refused to provide any information about Fletcher's possible whereabouts.
Authorities believe she suffered serious injuries during the abduction because there was blood in Abston's vehicle, NBC News reported.
Anyone with information about Fletcher's disappearance is asked to call 911 or dial 1-800-TBI-FIND. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/man-charged-with-kidnapping-missing-memphis-jogger | 2022-09-05T16:03:22Z | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/man-charged-with-kidnapping-missing-memphis-jogger | true |
Sausage roll chic! Greggs x Primark clothing collection becomes a surprise hit with social media users - as Nadia Sawalha channels Kate Beckinsale by posing in the £8 branded bodysuit
- Nadia Sawalha, 57, posed up in an £8 Greggs x Primark bodysuit on Saturday
- Kate Beckinsale, 49, shared a sizzling snap of herself in the same look last week
- But they aren't the only ones who are fans of the food chain's clothing range
- Britons have filled Instagram with ensembles featuring the branded clothing
Nadia Sawalha posed up in an £8 Greggs x Primark bodysuit on Saturday while wolfing down a pasty - after Kate Beckinsale shared a sizzling snap of herself in the look last week.
But the British famous faces aren't the only ones who are fans of the food chain's clothing range - with the collection having become an unlikely hit on social media.
Britons have this summer filled Instagram with ensembles featuring the branded clothing from the collaboration - from eye-catching swimsuits to patterned shorts.
Released in June, the 21-piece Greggs x Primark collection includes £6 slingback clogs, a £5 tote bag and even £9 men's underpants.
It followed the sell-out success of the fashion giant and bakery chain's first-of-its-kind limited edition 11-piece collection, which was launched back in early February and sold out within days, only to appear on eBay for seven times the price.
The hype around the eccentric collection was so hugely popular that in places such as Newcastle and Hull, shoppers queued around the street and wiped the aisles clean within 24 hours.
Here, FEMAIL shares a selection of the best outfits shared online that feature at least one of the products from the range...
Nadia Sawalha (right) copied Kate Beckinsale (left) wearing an £8 Greggs bodysuit as part of a cheeky Instagram post this weekend
Britons have this summer filled Instagram with ensembles featuring the branded clothing from the collaboration - from eye-catching swimsuits to patterned shorts. Pictured, one woman wearing a whole outfit from the range
Released in June, the 21-piece Greggs x Primark collection includes £6 slingback clogs, a £5 tote bag and even £9 men's underpants. Pictured, a man hikes the Lake District wearing items from the collection
Looking good! A beaming bride celebrates her hen do by wearing a Greggs X Primark vest top
Fashion! A pregnant woman showcases her growing baby bump while sporting shorts and a hoodie from the range
This collection follows the sell-out success of the fashion giant and bakery chain's first-of-its-kind limited edition 11-piece range, which was launched back in early February and sold out within days, only to appear on eBay for seven times the price. Pictured, a man wearing a T-shirt from the collection
Strike a pose! A group of women showcase their shared sense of style by sporting branded outfits while on holiday together
Posing up a storm: A man shows off his Greggs X Primark vest stop on Instagram while on holiday
Stylish! A woman sits on some steps in Lincoln while showcasing her ensemble, which includes a hat from the collection
The hype around the first eccentric collection was so hugely popular that in places such as Newcastle and Hull, shoppers queued around the street and wiped the aisles clean within 24 hours. Pictured, a woman sports socks and a hat from the range
Standing out! One runner made sure he commanded attention in a Greggs X Primark vest top
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Is PBF Energy (PBF) a Great Value Stock Right Now?
While the proven Zacks Rank places an emphasis on earnings estimates and estimate revisions to find strong stocks, we also know that investors tend to develop their own individual strategies. With this in mind, we are always looking at value, growth, and momentum trends to discover great companies.
Of these, perhaps no stock market trend is more popular than value investing, which is a strategy that has proven to be successful in all sorts of market environments. Value investors rely on traditional forms of analysis on key valuation metrics to find stocks that they believe are undervalued, leaving room for profits.
Zacks has developed the innovative Style Scores system to highlight stocks with specific traits. For example, value investors will be interested in stocks with great grades in the "Value" category. When paired with a high Zacks Rank, "A" grades in the Value category are among the strongest value stocks on the market today.
One company value investors might notice is PBF Energy (PBF). PBF is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #1 (Strong Buy), as well as an A grade for Value. The stock is trading with P/E ratio of 3.03 right now. For comparison, its industry sports an average P/E of 5.65. Over the past 52 weeks, PBF's Forward P/E has been as high as 48.60 and as low as -103.69, with a median of 7.05.
Another valuation metric that we should highlight is PBF's P/B ratio of 1.02. The P/B ratio pits a stock's market value against its book value, which is defined as total assets minus total liabilities. This company's current P/B looks solid when compared to its industry's average P/B of 1.93. PBF's P/B has been as high as 2.09 and as low as 0.51, with a median of 0.89, over the past year.
Value investors also use the P/S ratio. The P/S ratio is is calculated as price divided by sales. This is a popular metric because sales are harder to manipulate on an income statement, so they are often considered a better performance indicator. PBF has a P/S ratio of 0.11. This compares to its industry's average P/S of 0.31.
Finally, investors will want to recognize that PBF has a P/CF ratio of 2.10. This metric takes into account a company's operating cash flow and can be used to find stocks that are undervalued based on their solid cash outlook. PBF's P/CF compares to its industry's average P/CF of 4.73. PBF's P/CF has been as high as 7.13 and as low as -12, with a median of 4.07, all within the past year.
If you're looking for another solid Oil and Gas - Refining and Marketing value stock, take a look at Valero Energy (VLO). VLO is a # 1 (Strong Buy) stock with a Value score of A.
Valero Energy is currently trading with a Forward P/E ratio of 5.62 while its PEG ratio sits at 0.94. Both of the company's metrics compare favorably to its industry's average P/E of 5.65 and average PEG ratio of 0.21.
VLO's Forward P/E has been as high as 57.89 and as low as 4.97, with a median of 11.80. During the same time period, its PEG ratio has been as high as 12.91, as low as 0.83, with a median of 2.04.
Valero Energy sports a P/B ratio of 1.92 as well; this compares to its industry's price-to-book ratio of 1.93. In the past 52 weeks, VLO's P/B has been as high as 2.90, as low as 1.38, with a median of 1.80.
These are only a few of the key metrics included in PBF Energy and Valero Energy strong Value grade, but they help show that the stocks are likely undervalued right now. When factoring in the strength of its earnings outlook, PBF and VLO look like an impressive value stock at the moment.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A car crash sent a sedan from a side street through a barrier and onto a precarious ledge on the side of an interstate in Richmond, Virginia, on Sunday afternoon.
Virginia State Police said officers attempted to stop a 2018 Acura MDX sedan in the area of St. James Street and W. Baker Street in around 4:30 p.m.
According to police, the driver of the car quickly accelerated, lost control, overcorrected and went through a fence. The car then rolled onto the shoulder of northbound I-95.
The driver, an 18-year-old woman from Richmond, was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. State police said she will be charged with felony eluding a police officer and unauthorized use of a vehicle.
There were two additional teenagers inside the vehicle at the time of the crash who were uninjured. State police said the crash remains under investigation. | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/woman-charged-after-car-crashes-nearly-falls-onto-interstate/ | 2022-09-05T16:07:01Z | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/woman-charged-after-car-crashes-nearly-falls-onto-interstate/ | true |
Celtic’s Kyogo Furuhashi fit to face Real Madrid but Carl Starfelt misses out
Celtic striker Kyogo Furuhashi is available for Tuesday’s Champions League clash with Real Madrid but Carl Starfelt will miss out.
Japan forward Furuhashi went off five minutes into Celtic’s 4-0 win over Rangers on Saturday after hurting his shoulder in a challenge with John Lundstram.
However, he was back on the training pitch at Lennoxtown on Monday morning and will compete with his replacement on Saturday, Giorgos Giakoumakis, for a place in the starting line-up.
✨We never stop! #UCL | #CelticFC🍀 pic.twitter.com/SjlwezD7Lw— Celtic Football Club (@CelticFC) September 5, 2022
Celtic boss Ange Postecoglou said: “Kyogo hurt his shoulder and trained this morning. He looked OK so he is available.
“I haven’t made a decision on whether he will play or not but, in terms of him training and doing everything in training, he was fine.”
Starfelt went off with a knee problem early in the second half of Saturday’s derby. Moritz Jenz replaced the Sweden centre-back to make his fifth appearance of the season.
Postecoglou added: “We haven’t had an exact diagnosis. It’s nothing too serious but it will probably keep him out for a couple of weeks.”
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Banking system healthy enough to withstand external headwinds: Shaktikanta Das
RBI governor cites measures taken by government, central bank to ensure the health of country’s lenders
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The banking system is healthy enough to withstand any negative spillovers from external headwinds emanating from the Jackson Hole speech by the U.S. Fed, Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Monday.
Addressing the annual gathering of the Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India (Fimmda), Mr. Das said, the central bank and government had taken enough measures, such as maintaining high forex reserves ($561 billion as of August 26) and other steps to keep the banking system healthy enough to withstand any external headwinds.
Since the Jackson Hole summit last week, markets all over the world have become extremely volatile and uncertain with highly destabilising effects on emerging markets, Mr. Das said but pointed out that these aforementioned measures have ensured that the health of our banking system is sound enough to weather any negative spillovers from external headwinds.
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Also Read | Economy is an island of macroeconomic and financial stability, says RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das
The governor also forecast better days on the inflation front, saying he expected the price index to cool off from the second half and moderate further from the fourth quarter.
On the rupee, which has weathered the storm since the U.S. started raising rates and has been one of the best performing emerging market units, he assured that the central bank was there in the market every day so as to prevent excess volatility in the rupee and also to anchor expectations around its depreciation.
The rupee has lost only 4.5% against the dollar, while all other currencies lost much higher, he said.
On the monetary policy, he said going forward the policy would be watchful, nimble-footed and calibrated.
Asking Fimmda to work towards being future-ready, Mr. Das said the RBI’s regulatory model was to adapt to the fast-changing market conditions and one such response was to introduce G-Secs with 2, 5, 10, 13, 14, 30 and 40-year tenors in 2021.
The governor also said the central bank and the government were working on issuing sovereign green bonds.
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Police investigate claims Chesterfield player linked to assault on Oldham’s Hope
Police are investigating claims an unnamed Chesterfield player was involved in a “vicious assault” which left Oldham forward Hallam Hope with “serious injuries”.
Hope was attacked in the staff car park outside Boundary Park following Saturday’s Vanarama National League match between the two clubs.
The 28-year-old required hospital treatment and will be sidelined for “some weeks”.
Club Statement: Hallam Hope #oafchttps://t.co/9IceaL7yDg— Oldham Athletic (@OfficialOAFC) September 5, 2022
Oldham have reported the matter to Greater Manchester Police and provided CCTV footage of the assault.
Chesterfield later said they were aware of an allegation relating to one of their players and that the club were assisting police enquiries.
“Oldham Athletic is sorry to have to report that our player, Hallam Hope, was the victim of a vicious assault on Saturday evening,” read an Oldham statement, released on Monday.
“Hallam sustained serious injuries which required hospital treatment and he will be out of action for some weeks.
“The club is supporting Hallam and will continue to do so. We wish him a speedy recovery from a dreadful experience.”
Hope played all 90 minutes of the weekend fixture, which his side lost 2-0.
A Chesterfield statement read: “Following an incident which took place after Saturday’s game at Oldham Athletic, we are aware of an allegation relating to an unnamed Chesterfield player.
“As this is an ongoing investigation, no further comment will be made at this stage.”
Barbados international Hope came through Everton’s academy system and had permanent spells with Bury, Carlisle and Swindon before joining the Latics last summer.
The Manchester-born player represented England up to under-19 level.”
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Onam revelry enlivens Kochi’s suburban towns
After a two-year pandemic-induced lull, beaches and parks in Vypeen, Thrikkakara and other locales in the city suburbs have turned alive with Onam celebrations, with people thronging the locations in large numbers to be part of different contests and with the beginning of a host of cultural programmes.
Revellers have been thronging the popular Kuzhipilly beach in Vypeen since Saturday, as ‘Aarppo 2022’ tourism mela kicked off. The beachfront has turned the venue for beach judo and tug-of-war contests and several traditional art forms. A poets’ meet presented by Greater Kochi Cultural Forum saw 94 Onam-related poems being rendered.
Vypeen was selected as the sole venue in the district to host ‘Vasanthotsavam’ of Bharat Bhavan. The festivities, which include a food fest hosted by the Kudumbashree, will conclude on Wednesday, with 85 artistes from five States presenting their ethnic art forms on the beach. “Such gatherings are relevant at a time when cultural gatherings are becoming a rarity,” said K.N. Unnikrishnan, the MLA representing the region.
Onam events hosted by the Thrikkakara Samskarika Kendram will be held till Monday (September 12) at the Onam park. A fusion show, folk songs, Kathaprasangam, karaoke ganamela and a debate are among the events lined up.
In the city, Durbar Hall Ground will be the venue of the week-long ‘Lavanyam 2022’ programme, organised jointly by District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC), Tourism Department and district administration, from Tuesday. Industries Minister P. Rajeeve will inaugurate the event. The trial run of a hot-air balloon, a joint initiative of the DTPC and Kerala Adventure Tourism Promotion Society (KATPS), that was scheduled for the day has been postponed in view of the orange alert issued in the district.
On Thursday, Thiruvonam day, the ground will witness a Thiruvathira by differently abled children and a musical evening. A mega show will be held on Friday.
Art and cultural events will also be staged in various venues in Fort Kochi, Kadambrayar, Bhothathankettu, Piravom, Perumbavoor, Thirumaradi and Pambakuda.
The main venue of events at Kadambrayar will be Infopark, where an Onam rally, Pulikkali, ethnic songs, stand-up comedy, DJ music and one-man show will be held, from Tuesday noon onwards. The Pallathu Raman Centre in Veli, Fort Kochi, will host among other daily events, a mega comedy show on Saturday.
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PORSGRUNN, Norway, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HydrogenPro AS (OSE: HYPRO) hereby announces that an extraordinary general meeting (the "EGM") was held today at Henrik Ibsens gate 100, 0255 Oslo, Norway at 10:00 CEST on 5 September 2022.
The EGM resolved, inter alia, to convert the company from a private limited liability company (AS) to a public limited liability company (ASA) in connection with the contemplated up-listing to Oslo Stock Exchange's main list from Euronext Growth Oslo. Other items rquired or deemed necessary in connection with the contemplated up-listing were also resolved.
Minutes from the EGM meeting is attached hereto.
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