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HARLAN, Iowa — Our game of the week will feature ADM and Harlan in what you can call a 'good-on-good' matchup.
These two teams are tied for second in the AP's Class 3A rankings.
Harlan's only loss this season came to Lewis Central in the first week, and it was a narrow loss at that.
The Tigers have some big time playmakers that Harlan will have to account for, like quarterback Aiden Flora and running back Brevin Doll.
"Both sides are gonna prepare really tough and they have a fantastic coaching staff and they got some really special players over there so you know, I think it's gonna be a battle and it's gonna be a tightly contested one," said Todd Bladt, head coach at Harlan.
But the Cyclones' speed on offense and defense present plenty of challenges for their opponents.
"Harlan's the standard of excellence in the state of Iowa, right? So I mean, anytime you get to go over and measure yourself against them, you're excited about that opportunity," said ADM head coach Garrison Carter. "You know they're gonna be well-coached. You know they're gonna have some explosive plays on offense. You know they're gonna be sound on defense."
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NEWTON, Iowa — Over the past six weeks, the Newton High School football team has quietly built up a 6-0 record for the first time since 2017.
Despite their undefeated record, they've been flying under the radar as a top contender in class 4A, but they don't seem to mind that too much.
Just a couple years ago, the Cardinals had an 0-8 season.
"Past couple years before this were a bit of a rough patch," said Brody Bauer, senior quarterback. "There's a lot of guys who battled injuries. The team overall battled some injuries half the time so it's super cool to see the hard work pay dividends. We put a lot of time to help turn things around and it's finally starting to show."
While their success may be surprising may be surprising to those on the outside, for this group it's not surprising at all.
"We consider Newton kind of one of the premier historical programs in the state and we've done it here before. We can do it again," said Andy Swedenhjelm, head football coach. "Our kids are excited about it. We kind of like flying under the radar. I think it's a lot of fun."
Playing with that chip on their shoulder has given the team an extra edge.
"We knew people didn't expect much out of us but we expected a lot out of ourselves," Bauer said. "I think that's been the recipe for success is knowing we have a lot to prove and going out on Friday nights trying to prove that."
One of the main ingredients in that recipe: trust.
"We trust our coaches just as far as schemes and technique and everything as far as the way we play, but I think we all trust each other," said Cody Klein, junior running back. "We all love each other. We all play for each other. It's not really a whole lot more than that."
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Veteran actor Arun Bali dies in Mumbai. He was 79
Veteran actor Arun Bali, who has made appearances in several Bollywood movies passed away on Friday. He was 79 when he breathed his last in Mumbai. Bali was not keeping well for a while. The actor had a rare neuromuscular disease called myasthenia gravis. Earlier this year, he was admitted to the city's Hiranandani Hospital for the disease. May he rest in peace.
Bali has two daughters (both reside in the US) and a son. It's reported that they will land in India on Saturday, after which the actor's last rites will be performed. His demise was announced by his son Ankush. Speaking to PTI, Ankush said his father was responding well to the treatment all these days but passed away at around 4:30 am on Friday.
"My father left us. He was suffering from myasthenia gravis," Ankush was quoted as saying by PTI. "He had mood swings for two-three days. He told the caretaker he wanted to go to the washroom and after coming out he told him he wanted to sit down and he never got up then," Ankush said while announcing the news of his father's demise.
Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disorder. It occurs when the immune system starts to attack healthy tissues. Bali was last seen in the recently released film Laal Singh Chaddha, co-starring Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan. Ankush had said in an interview with Hindustan Times, "I want him to work till his last breath as acting is his passion and gives him joy."
The National Award-winning producer is known for his roles in movies including 3 Idiots, Kedarnath, Panipat, Dand Nayak, Ready, Zameen, Policewala Gunda, Phool Aur Angaar, and Raam Jane, to name a few. His role as King Porus in the television series Chanakya is a well-known one. He also appeared in the multi-lingual film Hey Ram, which received critical acclaim. | https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/entertainment/actor-arun-bali-dies-aged-79-in-mumbai/story | 2022-10-07T05:17:34 | en | 0.993516 |
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5 souvenirs that boast Sweden's rich culture and traditions
Sweden is famed for multiple attractions and experiences that everyone enjoys. One of these is its bustling shopping scene, a hot spot for tourists. And why wouldn't it be, especially when one can score souvenirs that help them reminisce about their #SwedenDiaries for years? Well, here are five things you must bring back home from your trip to Sweden.
Dala horse is among the best-known Swedish artifacts that are popular as souvenirs too. It is originally carved out of wood and then hand-painted in Sweden's Dalarna. Usually, it features a color combination of black and red, boasting beautiful handmade patterns that make it a Swedish trademark. You may even find this wooden souvenir in blue and white, however, they aren't as traditional.
Sweden also garners a lot of love and attention for its candy canes as it's not only enjoyed by kids but also by adults. These delicious treats are called Polkagrisar in the local dialect and are available all year round. Their original flavors include peppermint, strawberry, and caramel. However, you can also buy some licorice, raspberry, and violet-flavored candy canes.
Silver is a very common metal in Sweden and is used to make a lot of bold, chunky, and elegant jewelry pieces. In fact, a majority of locals prefer it over gold as they feel that the latter is a little ostentatious to wear. With that in mind, you can buy silver accessories including bangles, rings, earrings, neckpieces, bracelets, anklets, and more.
There's an age-old tradition in Sweden to carve out utensils from wood. So chances are, that you will spot a lot of wooden items like furniture, plates, jars, serving spoons, bowls, and salt and pepper shakers across markets. Wooden butter knives are very popular, so you can get your hands on them too. Some of the common softwood used are birch, pine, and spruce.
Owing to Sweden's freezing temperatures and gusty winds, you can find a host of cozy woolen garbs here. Most of the woolen clothes are hand-woven in a traditional Swedish style, which makes for the perfect souvenirs to take home. You can buy socks, mittens, hats, scarves, pullovers, and cardigans that are easily available. Pillowcases and blankets are also pretty popular. | https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/lifestyle/5-souvenirs-from-sweden/story | 2022-10-07T05:17:40 | en | 0.968664 |
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Free Fire MAX codes for October 7: How to redeem?
Free Fire MAX, a battle royale game from Garena, is enjoying tremendous success in India's Android market. The game's captivating plot, improved graphics, and regular updates all contribute to its popularity with players. The developers of the game also regularly add redeemable codes, enabling players to accumulate a variety of in-game items at no cost. Here is how you can redeem them.
- Free Fire MAX continues to be one of the most downloaded games on the Google Play Store.
- The game's rewards redemption system keeps players hooked by enabling them to amass resources like diamonds, royale vouchers, protective equipment, and more for free.
- Players can improve their performance on the battlefield by using these in-game items and climb leaderboard rankings.
Players need to follow some basic rules to redeem Free Fire MAX codes. An individual can redeem multiple codes but every code is redeemable only once per player. The 12-digit codes are accessible only via the rewards redemption page. Also, only the players using the Indian servers can redeem them. The alphanumeric codes should be redeemed within 12-18 hours.
The Free Fire MAX codes for today i.e. October 7 are listed below. Use them to earn in-game items for free. B61Y-CTNH-4PV3, FFBC-AC83-6MAC, FFBC-LY4L-NC4B, WOJJ-AFV3-TU5E FFBC-LLP5-98AW, 4ST1-ZTBE-2RP9, WLSG-JXS5-KFYR, FFPL-FMSJ-DKEL FFTI-LM65-9NZB, 3IBB-MSL7-AK8G, FFPL-NZUW-MALS, YXY3-EGTL-HGJX FFDB-GQWP-NHJX, HHNA-T6VK-Q9R7, WD2A-TK3Z-EA55, HFNS-J6W7-4Z48 2FG9-4YCW-9VMV
Head over to the Free Fire MAX's rewards redemption website (https://reward.ff.garena.com/en). Log in to your account using your Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple ID, Huawei, or VK credentials. Copy and paste any of the redeemable codes in the box and tap on "Confirm." In case of a successful redemption, you can collect the reward from your game's mailbox within 24 hours. | https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/redeem-garena-free-fire-max-s-october-7-codes/story | 2022-10-07T05:17:47 | en | 0.864132 |
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UN: India abstains from voting on China's 'Uyghur Muslims' oppression
India abstained from voting on a draft resolution led by the West at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Thursday for a debate on the alleged human rights violations in China's Xinjiang region against Uyghur Muslims. The motion was rejected as of the total 47 members, 19 voted against it, including China, Nepal, and Pakistan, 17 voted for it, and 11 abstained.
- For years, China has been facing allegations of cracking down on the Uyghurs — a Turkic ethnic minority considered a native of the autonomous resource-rich Xinjiang region in the country's north-western part.
- In an attempt to corner China, which is challenging its global dominance, the West has propped up reports of Chinese internment camps for Uyghurs, indoctrination disguised as re-education, torture, and forced labor.
#HRC51 | Draft resolution A/HRC/51/L.6 on holding a debate on the situation of human rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of #China, was REJECTED. pic.twitter.com/ITbWnqQaKe
— UN Human Rights Council 📍 #HRC51 (@UN_HRC) October 6, 2022
The resolution was presented by Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the UK, and the US, and was sponsored by a host of countries including Turkey. This comes after former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet's report on the purported gross human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims. Muslim countries such as Indonesia, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates voted against the resolution.
India did not explain its position on the vote. Reports said that traditionally, India has voted against or abstained from voting on resolutions on country-specific issues. Apart from India, the countries which abstained from voting were Argentina, Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Gambia, Libya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico and Ukraine. Except Somalia, all the African member countries voted against the motion showing support to China.
A week ago, a Netherlands-based group — the European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS) raised the issue of the Uyghurs at the UNHRC in an attempt to hold the Chinese government accountable. Speaking about the report on Uyghurs, Aaron Magunna, research analyst at EFSAS, was disappointed about the report saying the evidence was inconclusive to establish the human rights violations as state-sponsored. | https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/world/india-abstains-on-unhrc-resolution-on-china-s-xinjiang/story | 2022-10-07T05:17:54 | en | 0.961826 |
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Lambert, now defensive coordinator at Wake Forest, said the decision to put the young pass rusher on scholarship was a no-brainer.
"That was an easy one for me," Lambert said. "He's such a hard worker. We just wanted to reward him. He was one of the better players on our team and he earned it and deserved it. It was a pretty cool moment for me to bring a guy in and give him a scholarship. I know how appreciative he was of it and how hard he had worked to earn it. He's such a hard worker and such a great guy, that was an easy one."
But it didn't happen for everyone.
Charlotte had a number of young hopefuls on its roster, so many, in fact, they had to have their own locker room because the upstart program didn't have enough space in its main locker room to fit them all.
"He was so unknown," Lambert recalled. "We let him walk on the team and we didn't really know. We were like, 'OK, we'll see what he can do.' He just made himself into a player. We transitioned him down and I think it was the last game before that spring, the guy in front of him had gotten hurt. We went to UTSA and he got to start that game and just played unbelievable for us. That was kind of the culmination of it all.
"To see what he did and how he changed not only his body, but how he approached the game, he really did a phenomenal job. He and I laugh all the time, because out of that group of walk-ons, he was really the only who made it out, and he's in the NFL. We were a startup program. At the time, our locker room wasn't big enough for everybody, so I had to put all of the walk-ons in another locker room. I tell him all the time, 'You're the only guy that made it out of there.' It's kind of crazy, now look at him. It's just a testament to who he is, his family and how hard he worked."
Lambert didn't get an opportunity to see how it all worked out in person. He wasn't retained as head coach after the 2018 season. But he has continued to keep a close eye on Highsmith and stayed in touch. In fact, in subsequent coaching stops at Marshall, Purdue and now Wake Forest, he uses Highsmith as an example to his players of what can happen when a player works hard. | https://www.steelers.com/news/highsmith-working-hard-to-prove-himself | 2022-10-07T05:18:26 | en | 0.997308 |
Sheriff: Killing of kidnapped California family ‘pure evil’
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The suspect in the kidnapping and killing of an 8-month-old baby, as well as her parents and uncle, had once worked for the family’s trucking business and had a longstanding feud with them that culminated in an act of “pure evil,” a sheriff said Thursday.
The slayings left relatives mourning worldwide as investigators prepared a case against the suspect — a convicted felon who tried to kill himself a day after the kidnappings — and sought a person of interest believed to be his accomplice.
“Right now, I’ve got hundreds of people in a community that are grieving the loss of two families, and this is worldwide. These families are across different continents,” Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke told The Associated Press. “We’ve got to show them that we can give them justice.”
The suspect, 48-year-old Jesus Salgado, was released from the hospital and booked into the county jail Thursday night on suspicion of kidnapping and murder, the Sheriff’s Office said. It wasn’t clear if he had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.
Earlier, Warnke called for prosecutors to seek the death penalty. The sheriff called it one of the worst crimes he has seen over his 43 years in law enforcement and pleaded for Salgado’s accomplice to turn himself in.
“There’s some things you’ll take to the grave. This to me was pure evil,” he said in an interview Thursday.
The city of Merced, where the family’s trucking business was located, will hold evening vigils in their memory Thursday through Sunday in the San Joaquin Valley, California’s agricultural heartland.
The bodies of 8-month-old Aroohi Dheri; her mother Jasleen Kaur, 27; father Jasdeep Singh, 36; and uncle Amandeep Singh, 39, were found by a farm worker late Wednesday in an almond orchard in a remote area near the town of Dos Palos, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Merced.
Warnke on Thursday would not discuss the condition of the adults’ remains in the orchard but said it was unclear how the baby died. Warnke said the child had no visible trauma and an autopsy will be conducted.
Salgado was previously convicted of first-degree robbery with the use of a firearm in Merced County, attempted false imprisonment and an attempt to prevent or dissuade a victim or witness. Sentenced to 11 years in state prison in that case, he was released in 2015 and discharged from parole three years later, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He also has a conviction for possession of a controlled substance, the department said.
Relatives of Salgado contacted authorities and told them he had admitted to them his involvement in the kidnapping, Warnke told KFSN-TV on Tuesday. Salgado tried to take his own life before police arrived at a home in Atwater — where an ATM card belonging to one of the victims was used after the kidnapping — about 9 miles (14 kilometers) north of Merced. Efforts to reach Salgado’s family were unsuccessful Thursday.
The victims were Punjabi Sikhs, a community in central California that has a significant presence in the trucking business with many of them driving trucks, owning trucking companies or other businesses associated with trucking.
Public records show the family owns Unison Trucking Inc. and relatives said they had opened an office in the last few weeks in a parking lot the Singh brothers also operated. The feud with Salgado dated back a year, the sheriff said, and “got pretty nasty” in text messages or emails. Other details about Salgado’s employment and the nature of the dispute were not immediately available.
Warnke said he believes the family was killed within an hour of the Monday morning kidnapping, when they were taken at gunpoint from their business.
Surveillance video showed the suspect — later identified as Salgado — leading the Singh brothers, who had their hands zip-tied behind their backs, into the back seat of Amandeep Singh’s pickup truck. He drove the brothers away and returned several minutes later.
The suspect then went back to the trailer that served as the business office and led Jasleen Kaur, who was carrying her baby in her arms, out and into the truck before the suspect drove them away shortly before 9:30 a.m.
Hours later, firefighters on Monday found Amandeep Singh’s truck on fire in the town of Winton, 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Merced. Police officers went to Amandeep Singh’s home, where a family member tried to reach him and the couple. When they were not able to reach their family members, they called the sheriff’s to report them missing.
They were likely already dead.
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Dazio reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writer Robert Jablon in Los Angeles and News Researcher Jennifer Farrar in New York contributed to this report.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Night" game were:
01-06-07-09-10-11-15-18-19-21-22-24
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A day after she allegedly hit a co-passenger and a woman police personnel aboard a Thane-Panvel local train after an argument over a seat escalated, a 27-year-old woman was arrested on Thursday by the Vashi Government Railway Police (GRP) in Navi Mumbai.
The woman, identified as Arzoo Khan, will be produced in the railway court at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus on Friday, a police official said.
Videos of the incident show the co-passenger and the woman police personnel being assaulted even as other commuters try to intervene.
According to Senior Police Inspector Sambhaji Katare of the Vashi Railway Police Station, at 7.45 pm on Wednesday, three family members in the ladies’ compartment of a Thane-Panvel local train got into an argument over a seat with another passenger. The argument escalated and one of the three started hitting the co-passenger.
A family travelling in Thane-Panvel train had an argument with another Female passenger over seat. She was badly beaten up&abused by this family. The aggression was so much that she got injured. Cop who intervened also badly beaten up. One arrested @ie_mumbai pic.twitter.com/VvGLp4MyqT
— Sweety (@AdimulamSweety) October 6, 2022
“The trio started the argument when another lady passenger occupied the vacant seat next to them. They had a heated argument and after that, one of them hit the other female co-passengers despite other commuters intervening,” a senior police official said. “When the train reached Nerul station, a woman police personnel tried to settle the argument after which they kept quiet. But as soon as the train left the platform, the trio started arguing again. One of them, Khan, continued to hit the passengers. This time, she also hit the woman police personnel Sharada Ugale (35),” the official added.
A case was registered and all three passengers were sent for a medical examination on Wednesday, Katare said. “Since it was night, they were not arrested. On Thursday, Khan was arrested and on Friday she will be produced in railway court at CSMT,” he added. | https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/navi-mumbai-woman-arrested-hitting-co-passenger-cop-fight-train-seat-8194792/ | 2022-10-07T05:20:25 | en | 0.975448 |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
01-04-08-10-13
(one, four, eight, ten, thirteen)
Estimated jackpot: $25,000
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
01-04-08-10-13
(one, four, eight, ten, thirteen)
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Deepika Padukone, who was recently attending the much-hyped Paris fashion week, was recently clicked with her parents, Prakash Padukone and Ujjala Padukone, in Paris after the Louis Vuitton fashion show. Fans were elated to see the Gehraiyaan star making her parents proud.
One of the fans wrote in the comments section that they loved watching her with her parents at an international platform. The comment read, “Just loving watching her in international events with her parents ❤️must be so proud ❤️❤️.” Another fan wrote, “So elegant and thoughtful 😍❤️ love her sharing these successful moments with her parents.”
While Deepika was dressed for the fashion show, her mother was dressed pretty chic as well and fans were quick to compliment her. “I mean ofc Deepika is Deepika but her mom is looking soo cool,” read one comment. “Mama Padukone is so chic,” read another comment.
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While in Paris spoke to Brand of Fashion’s digital magazine where she spoke about racial stereotypes in the West. “You are the scientist. You are the computer geek. You are the taxi driver. You are the therapist. You are the owner of a convenience store. I’ve had my fans ask me why I’ve not done more [global] movies. But that’s not what I’m settling for, because I am — and we are — so much more than that. It would upset me every time I went to the US. Some of the things that are said and some of the things that are done just [make it] so obvious that people don’t know the world outside of the world that they live in.”
She recalled that once at a Vanity Fair party, a Hollywood actor said that she spoke English really well. She recalled, “I didn’t even realise what that meant. And when I came back I said, ‘What do you mean you speak English really well?’ Did he have this notion that we don’t speak English?’”
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
0-4-2-9, FIREBALL: 5
(zero, four, two, nine; FIREBALL: five)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
0-4-2-9, FIREBALL: 5
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Three more bodies were recovered from the site of an avalanche here, taking the death toll to 19, the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering said on Friday.
Two Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopters took off from Harsil in Uttarakhand to help in the search operations, officials said.
The avalanche occurred at a height of 17,000 feet on Tuesday when a team of the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) was returning after summiting Draupadi Ka Danda II peak.
Uttarkashi avalanche | Rescue operations delayed for Draupadi’s Danda-2 peak with currently prevailing bad weather conditions pic.twitter.com/YIgLXPWnho
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) October 7, 2022
Three more bodies were recovered from the avalanche site late on Thursday evening, taking the total number of bodies retrieved so far to 19, the NIM said.
While 17 of these bodies are of trainee mountaineers, two are of their instructors, it said.
According to the NIM, 10 trainees are still missing.
Army, IAF, NIM, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, High Altitude Warfare School (Jammu and Kashmir) and State Disaster Response Force along with the district administration are conducting the search operations that were launched hours after the avalanche struck on Tuesday.
The mountaineers who went missing after the avalanche were part of a team selected by the NIM for an advanced training course. | https://indianexpress.com/article/india/uttarkashi-avalanche-more-bodies-recovered-toll-climbs-8194716/ | 2022-10-07T05:20:37 | en | 0.961553 |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
6-6-0
(six, six, zero)
¶ Top Prize $500
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
6-6-0
(six, six, zero)
¶ Top Prize $500 | https://www.theheraldreview.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17492926.php | 2022-10-07T05:20:42 | en | 0.923903 |
Two weeks before the T20 World Cup, New Zealand suffered a major injury blow. World Cup New Zealand all-rounder Daryl Mitchell has been ruled out of the T20 Tri-Series in Christchurch after fracturing his hand during training on Friday.
“The all-rounder sustained a blow to his right-hand while batting in the nets, with an X-Ray later revealing a fracture to his fifth metacarpal (pinkie finger),” New Zealand cricket said in a statement.
New Zealand team’s physio Theo Kapakoulakis confirmed Mitchell’s hand had been placed in a cast which would need to remain on for at least two weeks.
Next stop, the T20I Tri-Series in @Christchurch_NZ! It all starts this Friday at Hagley Oval. #NZTriSeries #NZvBAN #NZvPAK pic.twitter.com/Vg64aLM9tl
— BLACKCAPS (@BLACKCAPS) October 5, 2022
Coach Gary Stead said some time was needed to consider a decision on Mitchell’s availability for the ICC T20 World Cup, with the squad set to depart for Australia on October 15.
“It’s a real shame for Daryl to suffer this injury on the eve of an exciting period of cricket for the side,” Stead said.
“Daryl’s become a really important player to our T20 unit and we’re certainly going to miss his all-round skills and versatility in the Tri-Series.
“With our first game of the World Cup in just over two weeks we need to take some to consider Daryl’s recovery timeline and his potential involvement in the tournament.”
Mitchell’s replacement is yet to be announced.
New Zealand will play thier first game og the tri-Series against Pakistan at Hagley Oval on Saturday. The other team in the series is Bangladesh. | https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/daryl-mitchell-ruled-out-of-t20-tri-series-with-fractured-hand-8194789/ | 2022-10-07T05:20:43 | en | 0.966554 |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
7-3-8, FIREBALL: 3
(seven, three, eight; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
7-3-8, FIREBALL: 3
(seven, three, eight; FIREBALL: three) | https://www.theheraldreview.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Night-game-17492913.php | 2022-10-07T05:20:48 | en | 0.902145 |
President Joe Biden faces a dicey choice following the decision by the world’s oil giants to slash production just weeks before critical midterm elections that could turn on the price of gasoline: Should he stick with his policy of wooing Saudi Arabia or take measures to retaliate?
The announcement by the Saudi-led OPEC+ energy cartel that it would pump 2 million fewer barrels a day was widely seen in Washington as a stab in the back of Biden, who just three months ago jettisoned his vow to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah” and traveled there to court the kingdom’s autocratic crown prince.
The question now confronting Biden is what to do about this seeming betrayal. In intentionally bland comments, he told reporters Thursday only that he was “disappointed” and considering unspecified “alternatives.” But fellow Democrats, frustrated by what they see as the president’s excessive deference to the Saudis and eager to demonstrate toughness before their constituents head to the polls, increased pressure on Biden to punish Riyadh.
“He should just start withdrawing stuff,” Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., said in an interview, referring to the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia. “That would get their attention. Action for action. Call their bluff. Do they really think they can trade their American security partner for a Russian security partner or a Chinese security partner? They know they can’t do that.”
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader, said Saudi Arabia’s decision to ally with President Vladimir Putin’s Russia to shore up oil prices was a grave mistake.
“What Saudi Arabia did to help Putin continue to wage his despicable, vicious war against Ukraine will long be remembered by Americans,” he said. “We are looking at all the legislative tools to best deal with this appalling and deeply cynical action.”
Biden gave little indication of how far he would go.
Asked about the production cut Thursday, Biden said that “we are looking at alternatives” to oil from OPEC+ countries. “We haven’t made up our minds yet,” he said.
His administration counseled caution, holding out hope that at the end of the day, the cut in daily production would in reality amount to maybe half of the 2 million barrel goal because some oil producers were already not meeting their targets. Rather than penalizing Saudi Arabia, Biden aides appeared focused more on countering its move by releasing more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and possibly seeking rapprochement with oil-pumping Venezuela.
The administration also appeared to be considering moves to pressure domestic energy companies to reduce retail prices, possibly including limits on the export of petroleum products. “We’re not announcing any steps on that front, but there are measures that we will continue to assess,” Brian Deese, the president’s national economic adviser, told reporters.
The OPEC+ decision could hardly have come at a worse time politically for Biden, who had staked his argument for the midterm campaign in part on falling gas prices. Ron Klain, the White House chief of staff, has methodically tracked the price at the pump for months as it has declined, and Democrats felt renewed momentum as a result.
But gas prices had already begun inching back up even before the Saudi-led move, in part because of refinery issues on the West Coast and in the Midwest. The national average rose by 7 cents to $3.86 since Monday as demand increased and stocks fell, although it remained far below the peak topping $5 a gallon in June.
The Saudis maintain that the production cut was not meant as a shot at Biden and have sent papers and charts to administration officials justifying it. With the price of oil falling just below $80 a barrel in recent days, the Saudis told U.S. officials that they worried it would slide further into the $70s and possibly the $60s, making their own energy-dependent budget unsustainable.
Biden administration officials fear the real crisis might come in December when a price cap organized by the United States to restrict Russian oil profits goes into effect and a European Union ban on the purchase of Russian crude is set to begin.
Biden’s options to counter the production cut are limited and carry trade-offs. He has already ordered more oil to be released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, but since the reserve is now at its lowest level in four decades, that risks shortages in case of war or a natural disaster like another hurricane.
He could push to limit exports of processed fuels like gasoline and diesel, which would expand supplies and lower prices domestically. But that would harm trading partners, particularly the European allies attempting to wean themselves off Russian energy and amplify global inflationary pressures.
The administration could open more federal lands and waters to drilling and soften regulations on drilling, exploration and pipeline laying to increase domestic production, although that could incite a backlash among environmentalists.
“They need to loosen regulations, they need to release all those permits sitting on someone’s desk for drilling on federal lands, and they need to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to come down to deliver the Canadian oil sands to American consumers,” said Darlene Wallace, a board member of the Oklahoma Energy Producers Alliance. “And the president needs to encourage investors to invest in the oil business.”
Easing sanctions on Iran and Venezuela could free up more than 1 million barrels of oil a day, which would help lower prices and potentially replace some of the Russian barrels now sold to Chinese and Indian refineries. But nuclear talks with Iran have stalled with scant hope of a breakthrough, and the prospects of a deal with Venezuela are murky.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that the Biden administration was preparing to scale down sanctions to allow Chevron to resume pumping in exchange for a move toward elections in 2024. But in a statement, the White House emphasized that “there are no plans to change our sanctions policy without constructive steps from the Maduro regime.”
In brief comments to reporters Thursday, Biden did not deny a possible change toward Venezuela. “There’s a lot of alternatives,” he said. “We haven’t made up our mind yet.” Asked what Venezuela would have to do to persuade the United States to ease sanctions, Biden said, “a lot.”
The president defended his decision to travel in July to Saudi Arabia, where he exchanged a fist bump with its de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, despite a campaign pledge to isolate the kingdom for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and U.S. resident killed on what the CIA said were Crown Prince Mohammed’s orders.
While not formally announced, U.S. officials said privately at the time that they had an understanding that Saudi Arabia and other energy powers would ramp up production by fall.
But Biden insisted again Thursday that he had other goals in going to Saudi Arabia, such as encouraging diplomatic relations with Israel.
“The trip was not essentially for oil,” the president said. “The trip was about the Middle East and about Israel and rationalization of positions.”
“But it is a disappointment,” he added about the production cut, “and it says that there are problems.”
Malinowski and other Democrats said the president should go further than just expressing disappointment. He introduced a bill with Reps. Sean Casten, D-Ill., and Susan Wild, D-Pa., requiring the removal of U.S. troops and defensive systems from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The bill was more a statement than anything else since Congress is out of session until the election, but Malinowski said he patterned it after a similar measure introduced by Republicans in 2020 and used by President Donald Trump to pressure Saudi Arabia to decrease production at a time when low oil prices were a concern.
Malinowski said Biden should similarly use the legislation to push the Saudis. “The point of our bill is to give him the ammunition he needs. I hope he uses it,” Malinowski said. “He took a risk. He put himself out there for this relationship, and this is not how a friend should respond. So maybe they should find some new friends.”
Written by Peter Baker. This article originally appeared in The New York Times. | https://indianexpress.com/article/world/bidens-choice-opec-cuts-woo-saudi-arabia-or-retaliate-8194717/ | 2022-10-07T05:20:49 | en | 0.97166 |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 3" game were:
6-8-7
(six, eight, seven)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 3" game were:
6-8-7
(six, eight, seven) | https://www.theheraldreview.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-game-17492921.php | 2022-10-07T05:20:54 | en | 0.907898 |
Written by John Ismay
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Pentagon officials have sent the Ukrainian military an array of equipment totaling billions of dollars. But one powerful weapon, called the Army Tactical Missile System, has become part of a debate about the limits of U.S. support for its ally.
The long-range missile — known as ATACMS and pronounced like “attack ’ems” — can strike targets 190 miles away with a warhead containing about 375 pounds of explosives. It can be fired from the HIMARS mobile launchers that the United States has provided Ukraine, as well as from older M270 launchers sent from Britain and Germany.
Ukrainian officials say the missile could help them regain Crimea, a part of the country that Russia seized in 2014. But Pentagon officials insist they are already giving Ukraine the weapons it most needs: Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems, or GMLRS.
And this week, a senior Pentagon official said that the guided rockets, which the United States has sent Ukrainian forces by the thousands, can reach most of their targets, even in Crimea.
Why has this weapon been such a sensitive issue?
It comes down to this: concern in the White House that Ukraine could use the long-range missile to strike targets deep inside Russia, and that President Vladimir Putin might respond by escalating the war, possibly by invading a neighboring NATO country.
“We’re trying to avoid World War III,” President Joe Biden has said.
But President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine says the weapon is crucial to his country’s ability to launch a wider counteroffensive after its recent advances. He has also insisted that he has no plans to strike Russian cities or target civilians.
What is this thing?
The missile was developed in the 1980s to destroy high-value Soviet targets deep behind enemy lines. It was built as a rare guided weapon at a time when the United States mainly relied on “dumb bombs” and other unguided munitions for attacking targets on the ground.
A spokesperson for Lockheed Martin said that the company has built 60,000 GMLRS and 4,000 ATACMS to date, some of which have been sold to foreign allies. A senior defense official told The New York Times that the United States can more easily part with the less expensive guided rockets, given that the Pentagon’s tactical missiles are all reserved for top secret war plans in places such as the Korean Peninsula.
Because ATACMS is the U.S. Army’s longest-range surface-fired weapon, it has traditionally been used in missions approved by three-star generals for the highest-priority targets on a battlefield. Lower-ranking officers are allowed to launch guided rockets as needed in combat.
What was ATACMS built for?
The missile was originally designed to destroy enemy surface-to-air missile defense weapons by blanketing them with hundreds of individual bomblets.
Today, the Pentagon has two versions of the ATACMS in its inventory — the cluster weapon and one that carries a single explosive charge.
Because of the high dud rate of the bomblets carried in the cluster weapon version, the Pentagon would probably provide allies with only the variant containing a single high-explosive charge.
ATACMS is also the Army’s oldest surface-launched missile currently in service, and a prototype of its replacement is being test-fired at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. That weapon, called the Precision Strike Missile, will fly to ranges previously barred by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Since the Trump administration chose to exit that pact in early 2019, the Pentagon has accelerated development of the Precision Strike Missile, which is smaller and can fly much farther than its predecessor. Two can fit into the same size container that carries a single tactical missile.
Has the U.S. used them in combat?
Yes. The U.S. military fired about 30 ATACMS in 1991 during Operation Desert Storm, according to government records. They were used to strike Iraq’s medium-range ballistic missile launchers and surface-to-air missile sites.
Those first-generation cluster munition versions could fly about 100 miles. Once over their targets, they released 950 bomblets.
The Pentagon later restricted the use of cluster munitions because they often failed, littering battlefields with hazardous duds that killed and wounded friendly and enemy soldiers as well as civilians after combat ended. The Army refurbished many of the early ATACMS in the 2000s and replaced the bomblets with a single explosive warhead.
The Army fired more than 400 of the bomblet-carrying tactical missiles in Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to government records, most notably in the early hours of the 2003 invasion.
The U.S. Navy considered adopting the tactical missiles for use on submarines and warships — and even test-fired one from an armored launch vehicle on the flight deck of an amphibious ship off the coast of San Diego in 1995 — but ultimately decided against purchasing it.
Occasionally, U.S. military leaders fire a tactical missile from South Korea into the ocean after North Korea test-fires its own missiles, as in June.
Why does Ukraine want it?
One word: range. And given that it is the Army’s longest-range ground-fired missile, and that the United States does not have very many of them, providing it to Ukraine could be seen as a sign of America’s commitment to Kyiv.
But there are trade-offs in terms of capabilities.
Compared with the GMLRS, the version of the ATACMS that Ukraine wants carries an explosive warhead that is about 50% larger and can strike targets more than three times as far.
The tactical missile is much larger though, about 13 feet long and 2 feet wide, and weighs about 3,000 pounds. As a result, a mobile launcher like the M142 HIMARS can carry six guided rockets but only one tactical missile at a time.
Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Ukrainians need the guided rockets more than they need to be able to attack at longer ranges.
“Volume matters,” Milley told reporters in July. He said that both weapons were “very effective,” but that right now the GMLRS are “really fulfilling their need.” | https://indianexpress.com/article/world/missile-ukraine-wants-one-us-says-doesnt-need-atacms-8194786/ | 2022-10-07T05:20:55 | en | 0.967603 |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
8-7-5-2
(eight, seven, five, two)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
8-7-5-2
(eight, seven, five, two) | https://www.theheraldreview.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Evening-game-17492916.php | 2022-10-07T05:21:00 | en | 0.916524 |
Ranbir Kapoor kisses
Alia Bhatt
at baby shower
After the guests at the intimate baby shower, the mom-to-be Alia Bhatt herself treated us with some inside photos from the event.
(Photo: Alia Bhatt/Instagram)
Alia Bhatt shared a series of photos and we see the dad-to-be Ranbir Kapoor by her side.
(Photo: Alia Bhatt/Instagram)
Alia Bhatt is all smiles with her family.
(Photo: Alia Bhatt/Instagram)
Alia Bhatt captioned her post, "just … love 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛."
(Photo: Alia Bhatt/Instagram)
Not just family, but Alia also had her girl gang by her side on her special day.
(Photo: Alia Bhatt/Instagram)
Alia and Ranbir were seen seeking blessings.
(Photo: Alia Bhatt/Instagram)
These photos have got a massive number of likes on Instagram
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
6-5-5-8
(six, five, five, eight)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
6-5-5-8
(six, five, five, eight) | https://www.theheraldreview.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-game-17492917.php | 2022-10-07T05:21:06 | en | 0.936703 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
2-6-2-3-9
(two, six, two, three, nine)
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Quick Draw Evening" game were:
04-05-07-19-23-24-30-32-39-41-42-44-45-48-51-54-59-65-70-77, BE: 65
(four, five, seven, nineteen, twenty-three, twenty-four, thirty, thirty-two, thirty-nine, forty-one, forty-two, forty-four, forty-five, forty-eight, fifty-one, fifty-four, fifty-nine, sixty-five, seventy, seventy-seven; BE: sixty-five) | https://www.theheraldreview.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Quick-Draw-Evening-game-17492919.php | 2022-10-07T05:21:19 | en | 0.854201 |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Roadrunner Cash" game were:
11-18-21-33-35
(eleven, eighteen, twenty-one, thirty-three, thirty-five)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Roadrunner Cash" game were:
11-18-21-33-35
(eleven, eighteen, twenty-one, thirty-three, thirty-five) | https://www.theheraldreview.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Roadrunner-Cash-game-17492925.php | 2022-10-07T05:21:25 | en | 0.875659 |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Two Step" game were:
12-18-19-24, Bonus: 24
(twelve, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-four; Bonus: twenty-four)
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LA COLOMA, Cuba (AP) — Soldiers fix roofs and raise power poles under a blazing sun, while teachers salvage wet school books and residents cook over wood fires in La Coloma, a fishing and industrial town on Cuba’s coast that took the brunt of Hurricane Ian.
Ten days after the storm left still unquantified devastation across western Cuba, and knocked out the power grid nationwide, many Cubans are still without electricity, water or basic goods. The destruction from Ian has piled onto the hardship of people who had already been suffering through scarcity and shortages in recent years.
“The ceiling was damaged, the mattress got wet,” said homemaker Yaneysi Polier, who looked scared as she stirred a pot with pressed ham and lard cooking over coals on the floor of the patio of her house. Her still-wet mattress was in the sun drying.
“The refrigerator was found in the mud by our neighbor’s house. We set up something to sleep on. The water was up to our chests,” she said.
Only 15% of western Pinar del Río province has electricity and no one has their power back in La Coloma, a town of some 7,000 people 125 miles (200 kilometers) southwest of Havana.
Repeated blackouts on Cuba’s already fragile electric grid were among the causes of the island’s largest social protests in decades in July 2021. Thousands of people, weary of power failures and shortages of goods exacerbated by the pandemic and U.S. sanctions, turned out in cities across the island to vent their anger and some also lashed out at the government. Hundreds were arrested and prosecuted, prompting harsh criticism of the administration of President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
The recent arrival of Ian caused three deaths and in Pinar del Rio province damaged 63,000 homes, thousands of which were destroyed. Cuba had a deficit of about 800,000 houses even before the hurricane struck.
La Coloma is home to the state Industrial Fishing Combine, which processes 40% of the lobster caught on the island, most of which is exported. It also processes bonito and snapper fish, and residents say it was high season when Ian struck. Twelve fishing boats were damaged, some sunk.
Maribel Rodríguez is staying in an emergency shelter in a primary school along with her pregnant daughter-in-law, who is about to give birth. She said they will name the baby Ian.
“This hurricane took everything from me,” Rodríguez said. “My house was not good, but it had many things of value — a refrigerator, a television, living room furniture, beds and kitchenware — and I had earned those with my sacrifice. This is very painful.”
Both Rodríguez and her son work in the fishing plant complex and they worry about it shutting down in the middle of lobster season.
“Here, the only place to work is the combine and I have been there for many years. You have to make a living,” she said.
Ian hit Cuba with winds of more than 125 mph (200 kph) on Sept. 27. It not only affected Pinar de Rio, but also the provinces of Artemisa, Mayabeque and Havana More than 30,000 people were evacuated ahead of the hurricane’s arrival.
Besides the damage to houses, the power infrastructure and industry, the Ministry of Agriculture estimated that Ian damaged 8,583 hectares (21,210 acres) of crops in the three provinces, especially bananas, cassava, sweet potatoes, corn, rice and tomatoes.
Cuba’s gross domestic product fell 11% in 2020 amid the pandemic and only rose 2% in 2021. Tourism has not recovered from the COVID-19 travel paralysis and U.S. sanctions pressing for political change in the island continue to squeeze its economy. Authorities expect the damage from Ian to further batter the economy.
Along with La Coloma, one of the hardest hit municipalities was nearby San Luis, a region that produces some of the best tobacco in the world.
Tobacco grower Hiroshi Robaina, looking at his devastated drying houses and seedbeds, thinks that this year he will have to plant his fields with beans.
“I doubt very much there can be any tobacco production this year because there is no infrastructure,” he said. “The damage to the nurseries was monstrous.”
Robaina, whose plantation is so important it has its own brand, said, “A miracle has to happen.”
He said at least 100 small tobacco farmers suffered losses of 100% and called for the government to subsidize reconstruction. Pinar del Río contributes 80% of the tobacco that Cuba produces.
“Tobacco, although it is not something that is going to save the Cuban economy, is an export item,” said Ricardo Torres, a Cuban economist and researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies at American University in Washington. “In Cuba, with what little there is, what is lost is very bad news.”
“This is a country that at this time does not have resources,” Torres said.
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Andrea Rodríguez on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ARodriguezAP | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/10-days-later-Cubans-still-recovering-from-17492935.php | 2022-10-07T05:21:37 | en | 0.975344 |
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4of 17 A teacher dries out books at a school that was heavily damaged by Hurricane Ian in La Coloma, in the province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Ramon Espinosa/AP Show More Show Less
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8of 17 A demonstrator hols a sign that reads in Spanish "Good cop = dead cop" during a march in remembrance of the Tlatelolco student massacre, in Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2021. On October 2, 1968, in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City, the Mexican Armed Forces opened fire on a group of unarmed civilians in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas who were protesting the upcoming 1968 Summer Olympics. Marco Ugarte/AP Show More Show Less 9of 17
10of 17 Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is running for president, shakes hands with a supporter as he campaigns a day ahead of the country's general election, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Victor R. Caivano/AP Show More Show Less
11of 17 A couple embraces during a cold and windy night on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, late Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. Brazil's general elections are scheduled for Oct. 2. Matias Delacroix/AP Show More Show Less 12of 17
13of 17 Patrick of Brazil's Sao Paulo, right, remonstrates with goalkeeper Wellington Ramirez of Ecuador's Independiente del Valle during a Copa Sudamericana final soccer match at the Mario Alberto Kempes stadium in Cordoba, Argentina, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Nicolas Aguilera/AP Show More Show Less
14of 17 A protester carries a piece of wood simulating a weapon during a protest demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, in the Petion-Ville area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. Odelyn Joseph/AP Show More Show Less 15of 17
16of 17 An amateur bullfighter is cornered by a bull during the Our Lady of the Rosary festival in the Andean village of Huarina, Bolivia, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. A group of amateur bullfighters performed a parody of the Spanish bullfight, but without sacrificing the bulls. Juan Karita/AP Show More Show Less 17of 17
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WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — For a decade, the parents and siblings of people killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have been tormented and harassed by people who believe the mass shooting was a hoax.
How do you put a price tag on their suffering?
That's part of the task faced by a Connecticut jury that has been asked to decide how much Infowars host Alex Jones and his company should pay for spreading a conspiracy theory that the massacre never happened.
The six jurors deliberated for less than an hour Thursday before breaking for the evening. Their work was set to resume Friday.
Jones now acknowledges his conspiracy theories about the shooting were wrong, but says he isn't to blame for the actions of people who harassed the families. His lawyers also say the 15 plaintiffs have exaggerated stories about being subjected to threats and abuse.
Here are some questions and answers about the deliberations.
COULD THE JURY DECIDE THAT WHAT JONES DID IS PROTECTED BY THE FIRST AMENDMENT?
No. A judge has already ruled that Jones is liable for defamation, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and violating Connecticut's unfair trade practices law. The jury’s job is to decide how much he owes for harming the people who sued him over his lies.
HOW MUCH COULD JONES PAY?
Jones, who lives in Austin, Texas, could be ordered to pay as little as $1 to each plaintiff or potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to them. The decision will be based on whether the jury determines the harm to the families was minimal or extensive.
Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said the jury should award the plaintiffs at least $550 million. Jones' lawyer, Norm Pattis, says any damages awarded should be minimal.
HOW DOES THE JURY COME UP WITH THE DOLLAR FIGURES?
In her instructions to the jury, Judge Barbara Bellis said there are no mathematical formulas for determining dollar amounts. Jurors, she said, should use their life experiences and common sense to award damages that are “fair, just and reasonable.”
The jury, however, heard evidence and testimony that Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, made millions of dollars from selling nutritional supplements, survival gear and other items. A company representative testified it has made at least $100 million in the past decade.
WHAT KIND OF DAMAGES ARE THE JURY CONSIDERING?
Jurors could award both compensatory and punitive damages.
Compensatory damages are often meant to reimburse people for actual costs such as medical bills and income loss, but they also include compensation for emotional distress than can reach into the millions of dollars.
Punitive damages are meant to punish a person for their conduct. If the jury decides Jones should pay punitive damages, the judge would determine the amount.
DOES CONNECTICUT CAP DAMAGES?
No, and yes. The state does not limit compensatory damages, while punitive damages are limited in many cases to attorney's fees and costs. So if the jury says Jones should pay punitive damages, he would potentially have to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Sandy Hook families' lawyers' costs.
IS THIS THE FIRST TIME JONES HAS FACED A VERDICT LIKE THIS?
No. At a similar trial in Texas in August, a jury ordered Jones to pay nearly $50 million to the parents of one of the children killed in the school shooting for pushing the hoax lie on his Infowars show.
But legal experts say Jones probably won't pay the full amount. In most civil cases, Texas law limits how much defendants have to pay in “exemplary,” or punitive, damages to twice the “economic damages” plus up to $750,000. But jurors are not told about this cap. Eye-popping verdicts are often hacked down by judges.
A third trial in Texas involving the parents of another child slain at Sandy Hook is expected to begin near the end of the year. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/EXPLAINER-Jurors-weigh-cost-of-Alex-Jones-Sandy-17492971.php | 2022-10-07T05:21:56 | en | 0.971557 |
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NEW YORK (AP) — The graphic surveillance video shows a man on a sidewalk suddenly punching someone in the head, knocking them to the ground.
With muted screams and gunshots in the background, the video stitches together other surveillance clips of shootings and punching on streets and subway trains as a voiceover says, “You’re looking at actual violent crimes caught on camera in Kathy Hochul’s New York.”
That’s not exactly true.
The ad from Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican challenging New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in next month's election, included video of an assault in California. Some of the footage depicted crimes that took place before Hochul took office last year. While acknowledging a mistake, Zeldin's campaign defended the ad and said the message was clear: violent crime is out of control.
That's a theme GOP candidates across the U.S. are sounding in the final month of the critical midterm elections. The issue of crime is dominating advertising in some of the most competitive Senate races, including those in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Nevada, along with scores of House and governors campaigns such as the one in New York.
The rhetoric is sometimes alarmist or of questionable veracity, closely echoing the language of former President Donald Trump, who honed a late-stage argument during the 2020 campaign that Democratic-led cities were out of control. That didn't help Trump avoid defeat, but experts say Democrats would be wrong to ignore the potency of the attacks.
“When violence is going up, people are concerned, and that’s when we tend to see it gain some traction as a political issue,” said Lisa L. Miller, professor of political science at Rutgers University, who focuses on crime as a political issue in countries across the world.
The FBI released annual data this week that found violent crime rates didn't increase substantially last year, though they remained above pre-pandemic levels. The report presents an incomplete picture, in part because it doesn't include some of the nation's largest police departments.
More broadly, rates of violent crime and killings have increased around the U.S. since the pandemic, in some places spiking after hitting historic lows. Non-violent crime decreased during the pandemic, but the murder rate grew nearly 30% in 2020, rising in cities and rural areas alike, according to an analysis of crime data by The Brennan Center for Justice. The rate of assaults went up 10%, the analysis found.
The rise defies easy explanation. Experts have pointed to a number of potential causes from worries about the economy and historically high inflation rates to intense stress and the pandemic that has killed more than 1 million people in the U.S.
There is a history of candidates relying on racist tropes when warning of rising crime rates. During the 1988 presidential campaign, supporters of George H.W. Bush released the so-called Willie Horton ad that has become one of the most prominent examples of race-baiting in politics.
In this year's elections, Republicans often blame crime on criminal justice reforms adopted after George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police, including changes to bail laws that critics had long contended disproportionately impacted communities of color, along with accusations that Democrats have not been sufficiently supportive of law enforcement.
Some GOP candidates are trying to make their case in communities of color. Zeldin, for instance, has delivered his anti-crime message while speaking at buildings and bodegas in diverse New York City neighborhoods.
In Pennsylvania, the Republican nominee for Senate, heart surgeon-turned-TV talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz, has toured the state holding “safe streets” forums in Black communities.
Asked by a reporter about his focus on crime, Oz pointed to a conversation he had with Black Republican ward leaders in Philadelphia that turned from economic issues to struggling Black-owned businesses.
“The African Americans in the group said, ‘Well, the deep problem is ... people don’t feel safe," Oz said in an interview.
Malcolm Kenyatta, a Democratic state lawmaker from Philadelphia, said Oz is using crime victims to get votes but rejects steps like limiting the availability of firearms that would reduce gun violence.
“Oz does not live in a community that is struggling with this kind of crime and nobody, nobody believes that he actually cares and would actively advance policy solutions that would help deal with this problem,” Kenyatta said.
Despite the GOP messaging, it's not clear that crime is a top priority for voters.
In an AP-NORC poll conducted in June that allowed U.S. adults to name up to five issues they consider most important for the government to be working on in the next year, 11% named crime or violence, unchanged since December and well below the percentage naming many of the other top issues for Americans. A September Fox News poll asking people to name one issue motivating them to vote this year found just 1% named crime, even as most said they were very concerned about crime when asked directly.
Still, Democrats are responding to Republican efforts to portray them as soft on crime.
Hochul in recent days announced the endorsement of several law enforcement unions and released her own ad with a public safety message titled, “Focused on it,” to remind voters that she toughened the state’s gun laws.
During a debate last week in Colorado, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis responded to his Republican opponent Heidi Ganahl, who has repeatedly portrayed him as soft on crime, by suggesting her plan to cut taxes would “defund the police” by cutting prison and police budgets.
Ganahl denied that, calling herself a “law-and-order girl,” and blamed Polis for rising crime rates.
In Oregon, the Republican candidate for governor is making crime a top issue in a three-person race, where an independent candidate who is a former Democratic state lawmaker could take enough votes from the Democratic nominee to help the GOP win the top office in a blue state.
Democrat Tina Kotek has joined her opponents in pledging to increase police funding but has also backed tougher gun laws as part of a plan to tackle crime.
That approach is one embraced by gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund, which is spending $2.4 million combined on ads in Wisconsin and Georgia to convince voters that Republicans who don’t support tougher gun laws are actually the ones “soft” on crime.
“We can reset this narrative and neutralize the GOP’s, what I would call, artificial advantage on the issue,” said Charlie Kelly, a senior political advisor to Everytown.
In some states, candidates are raising alarm about crime rates that remain relatively low or have even fallen.
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, a Democrat, said in a recent debate as he runs for reelection that the state’s crime is “going down despite some of the fearmongering you hear.”
State data shows violent crime rates in Connecticut dropped 9% in 2021 from 2020, which Lamont pointed out in a recent debate with his Republican challenger, Bob Stefanowski, who has made “out of control” crime a central plank of his campaign.
When asked how he can keep making the argument that crime is on the rise when the numbers tell a different story, Stefanowski said people are afraid of rising crime, but he denied stoking those fears.
“If we weren’t highlighting this, we wouldn’t be doing our job. I can tell you when we’re out there, people are afraid. I’m not trying to make them afraid,” he said. “They’re coming to me afraid and saying, ‘What are you going to do about it?’”
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Bedayn reported from Denver, Colorado. Associated Press writers Sara Burnett in Chicago, Gabe Stern in Reno, Nevada, Marc Levy in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed to this report. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/GOP-steps-up-crime-message-in-midterm-s-final-17492962.php | 2022-10-07T05:22:02 | en | 0.971711 |
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Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Tuesday's results
Lethbridge 3 Saskatoon 1
Wednesday's results
Regina 3 Brandon 1
Prince Albert 3 Lethbridge 0
Moose Jaw 3 Saskatoon 1
Kelowna 3 Victoria 0
Friday's results
Saskatoon at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Regina, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Seattle at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Prince George at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Swift Current at Regina, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Portland, 6 p.m.
Winnipeg at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Edmonton at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Victoria at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Sunday's games
Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 4 p.m.
Portland at Spokane, 5:05 p.m.
Monday's games
Brandon at Calgary, 1 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Edmonton at Portland, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Seattle, 7:05 p.m. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17492930.php | 2022-10-07T05:22:08 | en | 0.88931 |
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Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Tuesday's results
Lethbridge 3 Saskatoon 1
Wednesday's results
Regina 3 Brandon 1
Prince Albert 3 Lethbridge 0
Moose Jaw 3 Saskatoon 1
Kelowna 3 Victoria 0
Friday's results
Saskatoon at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Regina, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Seattle at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Prince George at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Swift Current at Regina, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Portland, 6 p.m.
Winnipeg at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Edmonton at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Victoria at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Sunday's games
Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 4 p.m.
Portland at Spokane, 5:05 p.m.
Monday's games
Brandon at Calgary, 1 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Edmonton at Portland, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Seattle, 7:05 p.m. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17492949.php | 2022-10-07T05:22:14 | en | 0.88931 |
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B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Tuesday's results
Lethbridge 3 Saskatoon 1
Wednesday's results
Regina 3 Brandon 1
Prince Albert 3 Lethbridge 0
Moose Jaw 3 Saskatoon 1
Kelowna 3 Victoria 0
Friday's results
Saskatoon at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Regina, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Seattle at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Prince George at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Swift Current at Regina, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Portland, 6 p.m.
Winnipeg at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Edmonton at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Victoria at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Sunday's games
Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 4 p.m.
Portland at Spokane, 5:05 p.m.
Monday's games
Brandon at Calgary, 1 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Edmonton at Portland, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Seattle, 7:05 p.m. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17492974.php | 2022-10-07T05:22:21 | en | 0.88931 |
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NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) — Christine Barrett was inside her family’s North Port home during Hurricane Ian when one of her children started yelling that water was coming up from the shower.
Then it started coming in from outside the house. Eventually the family was forced to climb on top of their kitchen cabinets — they put water wings on their 1-year-old — and were rescued the next day by boat.
After the floodwaters had finally gone down Barrett and her family were cleaning out the damp and muddy house. On the front lawn lay chairs, a dresser, couch cushions, flooring planks and a pile of damp drywall. Similar scenes played out across the block as residents tried to clear out the soggy mess before mold set in.
North Port is about 5 miles (8 kilometers) inland and the Barretts - like many of its residents - live in areas where flood insurance isn’t required and therefore, don’t have it. Now many wonder how they’ll afford much-needed repairs.
“Nobody in this neighborhood has flood insurance because we are a nonflooding area,” she said. “But we got 14 inches of water in our house.”
Many people associate hurricanes with wind damage — downed power lines, shingles or roofing materials ripped off, trees blown over into homes or windows smashed by flying objects, and Hurricane Ian's 150-mph (241-kph) winds certainly caused widespread damage.
But hurricanes can also pack a massive storm surge as Ian did in places like Naples or Fort Myers Beach.
Heavy rains from hurricanes can also cause widespread flooding far from the beach. Ian dumped rain for hours as it lumbered across the state, sending waterways spilling over their banks and into homes and businesses far inland from where Ian made landfall. People were using kayaks to evacuate their flooded homes, and floodwaters in some areas have still not gone down a week after landfall.
“This is such a big storm, brought so much water, that you’re having basically what’s been a 500-year flood event,” said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
But flooding is not covered by a homeowner’s insurance policy.
It must be purchased separately — usually from the federal government. Although most people have the option of purchasing flood insurance, it is required only on government-backed mortgages that sit in areas that the Federal Emergency Management Agency deems highest risk. Many banks require it in high-risk zones, too. But some homeowners who pay off their mortgage drop their flood insurance once it’s not required. Or if they purchase a house or mobile home with cash they may not opt for it at all. And flooding can and does happen outside those high risk areas where flood insurance is required.
There have long been concerns that not enough people have flood insurance especially at a time when climate change is making strong hurricanes even stronger and making storms in general wetter, slower and more prone to intensifying rapidly. According to the Insurance Information Institute, only about 4% of homeowners nationwide have flood insurance although 90% of catastrophes in the U.S. involve flooding. In Florida that number is only about 18%.
“We have experienced catastrophic flood events across the U.S. this year, including in Kentucky and Missouri, where virtually no one had flood insurance," said the Institute's Mark Friedlander.
Hurricane Ian caused extensive flooding in areas outside of the high-risk zones. According to the consulting firm Milliman, roughly 18.5% of homes in counties that were under an evacuation order had federally issued flood insurance. In areas under an evacuation order that were outside of high-risk zones, 9.4% of homes had a policy.
Last year, FEMA updated its pricing system for flood insurance to more accurately reflect risk called Risk Rating 2.0. The old system considered a home’s elevation and whether it was in a high-risk flood zone. Risk Rating 2.0 looks at the risk that an individual property will flood, considering factors like its distance to water. The new pricing system raises rates for about three-quarters of policyholders and offers price decreases for the first time.
FEMA has long said the new ratings would attract new policyholders. However, a FEMA report to the treasury secretary and a handful of congressional leaders last year said far fewer people would buy flood insurance as prices rise. Since the new rating system has gone into effect in Florida, the number of polices in the state has dropped by roughly 50,000 since August 2021.
After a federally declared disaster, homeowners with flood insurance are likely to receive more money, more quickly, to recover and rebuild than the uninsured.
After major flooding in Louisiana in 2016, for example, the average payment to a flood insurance policyholder was $86,500, according to FEMA. Uninsured homeowners could get individual assistance payments for needs like temporary housing and property damage, but they averaged roughly $9,150.
Congress sometimes provides additional aid after major disasters although that can take months to years to arrive.
“Unless you have flood insurance, the federal government is not going to give you enough assistance to rebuild your home," said Rob Moore, water and climate team director at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
In the North Port neighborhood that was cleaning up from Ian, Ron Audette wasn't sure whether he would get flood insurance going forward because of the cost. The retired U.S. Navy sailor was cleaning up his one-story home on a corner lot after floodwaters buckled the laminate flooring, swelled wood furniture and left the leather reclining sofa where he watched Patriots games a muddy, watery mess.
“I don’t think we could live here if we had to buy flood insurance,” he said.
But down the street, his neighbor Barrett was definitely planning to get it.
“Get flood insurance even if it’s not required,” she advised. “Because we definitely will now.”
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Phillis reported from St. Louis, Missouri.
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UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — Friends hugged sobbing family members struggling with staggering loss Friday in a rural northeastern Thailand community mourning the children and other victims slain by a fired police officer in the nation's deadliest shooting rampage.
At least 24 of the 36 people killed in the assault Thursday in the small town of Uthai Sawan were children.
On Friday morning, royal and government representatives in white, military-style coats stood in lines to lay wreaths at ceremonial tables in front of the Young Children’s Development Center’s main door. They were followed by weeping family members, who gathered their hands in prayer before laying white flowers on the wooden floor.
“I cried until I had no more tears coming out of my eyes. They are running through my heart," said Seksan Sriraj, 28, whose pregnant wife was a teacher at the center and was due to give birth this month. “My wife and my child have gone to a peaceful place. I am alive and will have to live. If I can’t go on, my wife and my child will be worried about me, and they won’t be reborn in the next life. That’s about it.”
Many relatives were gathered in front of the child care center to start the process of claiming compensation and psychologists were also sent to the site to help them. Seven of the 10 people who were wounded were still hospitalized Friday.
Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida were expected later Friday to visit two hospitals treating the wounded, and Prime Minster Prayuth Chan-ocha was expected to visit the daycare center and the hospitals.
When asked whether he thought the child care center was secure enough, Seksan noted the attacker had been a police officer. "He came to do what he had in his mind and was determined to do it. I think everyone did the best they could.”
Police speculated the gunman targeted the center because it was near his home. They identified him as Panya Kamrap, 34, a former police sergeant fired earlier this year because of a drug charge involving methamphetamine. He had been due to appear in court Friday.
Witnesses said the attacker got out of a car and shot a man eating lunch before pausing to reload. Staff at the child care center locked the door, but the gunman shot his way through it. The children, mainly 2- and 3-year-olds, had been taking an afternoon nap, and photos taken by first responders showed their tiny bodies still lying on blankets.
Panya took his own life after killing his wife and child at home.
Nopparat Langkapin, a local official in Uthai Sawan, said the victims were “all children of our community."
“Relatives, families and close friends are deeply saddened by this incident. And we all felt this across the community very quickly. Most of us are feeling depressed and sad because they are our children," he said.
The attack took place in Nongbua Lamphu province, one of the country’s poorest regions.
A video taken by a first responder arriving at the scene showed rescuers rushing into the single-story building past a shattered glass front door, with drops of blood visible on the ground in the entryway. Photos showed slashes to the victims' faces and gunshots to their heads.
In footage posted online after the attack, frantic family members wept outside the building. The floor was smeared with blood, and pictures of the alphabet and other colorful decorations adorned the walls.
Mass shootings are rare but not unheard of in Thailand, which has one of the highest civilian gun ownership rates in Asia, with 15.1 weapons per 100 population compared to only 0.3 in Singapore and 0.25 in Japan. That’s still far lower than the U.S. rate of 120.5 per 100 people, according to a 2017 survey by Australia’s GunPolicy.org nonprofit organization.
The U.S. and Australia expressed sympathy and solidarity. "All Australians send their love and condolences," Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese tweeted. “This violence is both senseless and heartbreaking,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.
Thailand's previous worst mass shooting involved a disgruntled soldier who opened fire in and around a mall in the northeastern city of Nakhon Ratchasima in 2020, killing 29 people and holding off security forces for some 16 hours before eventually being killed by them.
Nearly 60 others were wounded in that attack. Its death toll surpassed that of the previously worst attack on civilians, a 2015 bombing at a shrine in Bangkok that killed 20 people. It was allegedly carried out by human traffickers in retaliation for a crackdown on their network.
Last month, a clerk shot co-workers at Thailand’s Army War College in Bangkok, killing two and wounding another before he was arrested.
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Rising reported from Bangkok. Associated Press writers Chalida Ekvitthayavechnukul, Elaine Kurtenbach and Grant Peck in Bangkok contributed to this report.
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Today in History
Today is Friday, Oct. 7, the 280th day of 2022. There are 85 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Oct. 7, 1991, University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments when she worked for him; Thomas denied Hill’s allegations and would go on to win Senate confirmation.
On this date:
In 1765, the Stamp Act Congress convened in New York to draw up colonial grievances against England.
In 1916, in the most lopsided victory in college football history, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222-0 in Atlanta.
In 1949, the Republic of East Germany was formed.
In 1982, the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical “Cats” opened on Broadway. (The show closed Sept. 10, 2000, after a record 7,485 performances.)
In 1985, Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro (ah-KEE’-leh LOW’-roh) in the Mediterranean. (The hijackers shot and killed Leon Klinghoffer, a Jewish-American tourist in a wheelchair, and pushed him overboard, before surrendering on Oct. 9.)
In 1989, Hungary’s Communist Party renounced Marxism in favor of democratic socialism during a party congress in Budapest.
In 1992, trade representatives of the United States, Canada and Mexico initialed the North American Free Trade Agreement during a ceremony in San Antonio, Texas, in the presence of President George H.W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (muhl-ROO’-nee) and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
In 1996, Fox News Channel made its debut.
In 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was beaten and left tied to a wooden fencepost outside of Laramie, Wyoming; he died five days later. (Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney are serving life sentences for Shepard’s murder.)
In 2001, the war in Afghanistan started as the United States and Britain launched air attacks against military targets and Osama bin Laden’s training camps in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
In 2003, California voters recalled Gov. Gray Davis and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger their new governor.
In 2020, President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office for the first time since he was diagnosed with COVID-19; he credited an experimental drug treatment with helping his recovery. Debating from behind plexiglass shields, Vice President Mike Pence and Democrat Kamala Harris zeroed in on Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with Harris labeling it “the greatest failure of any presidential administration” while Pence defended the overall response.
Ten years ago: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won re-election for the third time. (Chavez died in March 2013 at age 58 after a two-year battle with cancer; he was succeeded by Vice President Nicolas Maduro.)
Five years ago: Country music star Jason Aldean, who had been on stage at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas less than a week earlier when a gunman opened fire on the crowd, paid tribute to the victims and to the late Tom Petty by opening “Saturday Night Live” with Petty’s song, “I Won’t Back Down.” Protesters rallied across Russia in a challenge to President Vladimir Putin on his 65th birthday; heeding calls from opposition leader Alexei Navalny to pressure authorities into letting him enter the presidential race.
One year ago: Abortions quickly resumed in at least six Texas clinics after a federal judge halted the most restrictive abortion law in the nation. (A federal appeals court would allow the law to go back into effect the following day.) The Senate dodged a U.S. debt disaster, voting to extend the government’s borrowing authority into December and temporarily avert an unprecedented federal default. (The House would approve the extension days later.) Google said it would crack down on digital ads promoting false claims about climate change, in hopes of limiting revenue for climate change deniers and stopping the spread of misinformation.
Today’s Birthdays: Author Thomas Keneally is 87. Comedian and talk-show host Joy Behar is 80. Former National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver North (ret.) is 79. Rock musician Kevin Godley (10cc) is 77. Actor Jill Larson is 75. Country singer Kieran Kane is 73. Singer John Mellencamp is 71. Rock musician Ricky Phillips is 71. Russian President Vladimir Putin is 70. Actor Mary Badham (Film: “To Kill a Mockingbird”) is 70. Rock musician Tico Torres (Bon Jovi) is 69. Actor Christopher Norris is 67. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is 67. Gospel singer Michael W. Smith is 65. Olympic gold medal ice dancer Jayne Torvill is 65. Actor Dylan Baker is 64. Actor Judy Landers is 64. Recording executive and TV personality Simon Cowell is 63. Actor Paula Newsome is 61. Country singer Dale Watson is 60. Pop singer Ann Curless (Expose) is 59. R&B singer Toni Braxton is 55. Rock singer-musician Thom Yorke (Radiohead) is 54. Rock musician-dancer Leeroy Thornhill is 53. Actor Nicole Ari Parker is 52. Actor Allison Munn is 48. Rock singer-musician Damian Kulash (KOO’-lahsh) is 47. Singer Taylor Hicks is 46. Actor Omar Miller is 44. Neo-soul singer Nathaniel Rateliff (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats) is 44. Actor Shawn Ashmore is 43. Actor Jake McLaughlin is 40. Electronic musician Flying Lotus (AKA Steve Ellison) is 39. MLB player Evan Longoria is 37. Actor Holland Roden is 36. Actor Amber Stevens is 36. MLB outfielder Mookie Betts is 30. Actor Lulu Wilson is 17. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Today-in-History-October-7-Fox-News-Channel-s-17466817.php | 2022-10-07T05:22:39 | en | 0.933209 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The piping-hot U.S. job market may be cooling off, if only slightly.
But what business managers, policymakers, investors and economists want to know is this: How cool would be cool enough for the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve to begin to ease their aggressive interest rate hikes?
The government’s jobs report for September, coming Friday morning, is expected to show that employers added 250,000 jobs last month, according to a survey of economists by the data firm FactSet. That would be the lowest monthly gain since December 2020 and would mark a drop from an average of 438,000 from January through August. Yet by any historical standard, it would still amount to a healthy total.
Forecasters also expect the unemployment rate to stay at an extraordinarily low 3.7%.
The Fed is engaged in an epic battle to rein in inflation, which was running at a 40-year high in June and has eased only slightly since. The Fed has raised its benchmark interest rate five times this year. It is aiming to slow economic growth enough to reduce annual price increases back toward its 2% target.
It has a long way to go. In August, one key measure of year-over-year inflation, the consumer price index, amounted to 8.3%.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has warned bluntly that the inflation fight would “bring some pain," notably in the form of layoffs and higher unemployment. Some economists remain hopeful that despite the persistent inflation pressures, the Fed will still manage to achieve a so-called soft landing: Slowing growth enough to tame inflation, without going so far as to tip the economy into recession.
It’s a tricky task. And the Fed is trying to accomplish it at a perilous time. The global economy, weakened by food shortages and surging energy prices resulting from Russia's war against Ukraine, may be on the brink of recession. Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, warned Thursday that the IMF is downgrading its estimates for world economic growth by $4 trillion through 2026 and that “things are more likely to get worse before it gets better.’’
Public anger over high prices and fear over the prospect of recession also carry political consequences as President Joe Biden’s Democratic Party struggles to maintain control over Congress in November’s midterm elections.
Meantime, the Fed is closely monitoring the job market. Many employers have failed over the past couple of years to fill all the jobs they need, and they’ve bid up wages to try to attract or keep workers. Those higher wages are feeding inflation as companies raise prices to offset their higher labor costs.
Powell and his colleagues on the Fed’s policymaking committee want to see signs that the abundance of available jobs — there are now 1.7 openings for every unemployed American — will steadily decline. Many economists viewed the pace of hiring in August, when employers added 315,000 jobs, as a Goldilocks achievement: Warm but not so warm as to alarm the Fed and force it to jack up borrowing rates even more aggressively.
Some encouraging news came this week, when the Labor Department reported that job openings fell by 1.1 million in August to 10.1 million, the fewest since June 2021.
Nick Bunker, head of economic research at the Indeed Hiring Lab, suggested that among the items on “the soft landing flight checklist’’ is “a decline in job openings without a spike in the unemployment rate, and that’s what we’ve seen the last few months."
On the other hand, by the standard of history, openings remain extraordinarily high: In records dating to 2000, they had never topped 10 million in a month until last year.
“There are still 10.1 million jobs open,’’ noted Michelle Reisdorf, who oversees operations for the human resources consulting firm Robert Half in Illinois and Indiana. “Candidates still have options. It’s not like they have one job to look at.’’
Economist Daniel Zhou of the jobs website Glassdoor argued that a single-minded focus on the job market might be overdone. Regardless of what happens with jobs and wages, Zhou suggested, the Fed's policymakers won’t likely relent on their rate-hike campaign until they see proof that they’re actually hitting their target.
“They want to see inflation slowing down," he said. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/US-hiring-likely-slowed-last-month-which-may-be-17492929.php | 2022-10-07T05:22:45 | en | 0.965591 |
The Enfield High girls volleyball team was looking to generate momentum as it began the final stretch of its regular season schedule Thursday night.
Elektra Bourassa helped the Eagles do just that.
The junior finished with four kills, four digs and two aces to lead the host Eagles to a 3-0 over Windsor in a CCC interdivisional win. Game scores were unavailable.
The win snaps a three-match losing streak for the Eagles (2-9).
Kelsey Higgins added three kills for Enfield. Sydney Smith had 10 kills, 12 digs and an ace to pace Windsor (8-4). Tahjae Daley added five kills and five blocks.
Enfield entertains E.O. Smith tonight while welcomes Haddam-Killingworth Monday.
BRISTOL CENTRAL 3, S. WINDSOR 0. Maddie Lodovico tallied eight kills, 11 digs and four aces as the Rams won a CCC interdivisional match in South Windsor. Game scores were 25-20, 25-17, 25-12.
Alex Rivera added 22 assists, nine digs, four aces, and four kills for Bristol Central (8-3).
Blossom Iweka paced the Bobcats (6-7) with five kills and two aces while Kailie Girard had four kills and three digs.
South Windsor entertains Suffield Saturday.
ROCKVILLE 3, WINDHAM TECH 0. Olivia Mistretta had five kills, five digs and seven service points to lead the visiting Rams to a non-conference sweep in Windham Wednesday night. Game scores were 25-7, 25-22 and 25-9.
Kennedy Gidarakos added six kills, eight digs and four aces for Rockville (6-6), which entertains Wethersfield today. Windham Tech is 0-12. | https://www.journalinquirer.com/sports/high_school/bourassa-enfield-sweep-windsor/article_cd2c8a36-45ed-11ed-8f0b-f35becd5a845.html | 2022-10-07T05:22:49 | en | 0.93897 |
Vedanta's BALCO Medical Centre (BMC), one of India's leading cancer hospitals, and Anuva, a genomics biotech company with a centre in India and backed by a UK-based hub, on Thursday jointly announced a strategic collaboration to build a Cancer Genomics Biobank for cancer research in India.
Anuva and BMC aim to use this cancer bio/data bank for clinical research to identify relevant insights for precision medicine application for cancer in India.
Leveraging strengths
The companies said the collaboration leverages the strengths of both organisations – the clinical expertise of BALCO Medical Centre and Anuva’s biobanking and genomic expertise.
"This is another milestone in the journey of BALCO Medical Centre towards becoming India’s cancer care destination,” said Jyoti Agarwal, Chairperson of BALCO Medical Centre.
"Our collaboration with Anuva will bring together the best of knowledge, technology and research to serve the people of India better, through precision medicine and targeted treatment,” she said.
The memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed by Dr Jonathan Picker, CEO of Anuva, and Dr Bhawna Sirohi, Medical Director of BMC, at the BALCO Medical Centre at Naya Raipur in Chhattisgarh.
"I am tremendously excited to embark on this endeavour with BALCO Medical Centre. Despite all the research, cancer still remains the third leading cause of death. As a genetic disease, the research needs to be personalized to the affected populations,” said Dr Picker.
"This partnership will provide us a bridge to support "bench to bedside" research, driving our efforts to accelerate progress in treating cancer and also help patients with cancer live longer with better quality of life,” added Dr Sirohi.
Headquartered in Singapore with presence in India, Dubai, Boston and the United Kingdom, Anuva descibes itself as a translational research company with a mission to create the most diverse genomic bio/data bank of Asian populations, which is being utilised for research and development. In addition, it says its cohorts and biorepository allows for follow-on clinical and translational studies, which greatly empower drug development opportunities.
BMC marks the initiative of the Vedanta Medical Research Foundation (VMRF), a non-profit organisation of Vedanta Resources and Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (BALCO), to contribute towards prevention of cancer. | https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/vedantas-medical-arm-ties-up-with-anuva-for-cancer-research-in-india/article65976113.ece | 2022-10-07T05:22:51 | en | 0.937936 |
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — At least one person died while police clashed with soccer fans trying to push into an Argentine league match Thursday night, and the referee stopped the game as clouds of tear gas spread inside the stadium.
Authorities and witnesses said fans of the home team, Gimnasia y Esgrima, struggled to enter an already full stadium, and police fired rubber bullets and tear gas trying to get the crowd to retreat.
The incident came less than a week after the use of tear gas outside a soccer match in Indonesia set off a stampede that left 131 people dead.
Nine minutes into Thursday night's match between Gimnasia and Boca Juniors, referee Hernán Mastrángelo suspended play. The league said on Twitter that he acted because of the lack of security.
Players retreated to their changing rooms, and many spectators flooded onto the field trying to escape the tear gas.
“Unfortunately there is one person dead. He died of a heart problem,” Sergio Berni, security minister of the province, told Todo Noticias.
Berni gave no details about the circumstances in which that person died.
Only Gimnasia fans were in Juan Carmelo Zerillo stadium in La Plata, since Buenos Aires province banned supporters of visiting teams from games in 2013 amid frequent outbreaks of violence
The Argentine Football Association said in a tweet that it "expresses its commitment to continue working to eradicate this kind of episode that tarnish the football party.”
No new date was announced for resuming the game.
Some fans claimed there had been overselling of tickets amid excitement over the match between two teams fighting for the league title, saying people likely became anger when they could not get into the stadium.
In its security protocols, FIFA advises against the use of tear gas in or around stadiums in order to avoid risky situations such as in La Plata or in the Indonesian city of Malanga last Saturday, when many of the dead were crushed to death during the stampede of fans.
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Associated Press writer Débora Rey contributed to this report. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/sports/article/1-dead-as-police-fans-clash-outside-Argentine-17492922.php | 2022-10-07T05:22:52 | en | 0.96662 |
The RHAM High boys soccer team allowed three goals in a draw with Windsor Tuesday.
Two days later, the Raptors defense bounced back with one of its strongest performances of the season.
Truman Brodeur hit the back of the net at the 9:25 mark of the first half and RHAM’s defense posted a shutout as the host Raptors earned a 1-0 victory over Enfield Thursday in CCC East play.
Cooper Halotek was credited the assist for the Raptors (4-2-3). Goalie Erik Buden made 10 saves.
Lucas Wachtel finished with nine stops for the Eagles (3-3-3).
Both teams return to action Tuesday. RHAM visits South Windsor, while Enfield hosts Lewis Mills.
MANCHESTER 2, NW CATHOLIC 0. Juan Solis and Brenden Norris scored a goal apiece to lead host Manchester to a CCC interdivisional victory.
Goalies Patrick O’Conner and Nicholas Carvalho combined to make five saves for the Lions (0-7-0).
Joey Rose made five saves for the Red Hawks (3-5-1), who visit Somers Saturday.
EAST HARTFORD 2, CONARD 2. Julius McNeil had a goal and an assist as the Hornets and the Red Wolves tied in a CCC interdivisional game in West Hartford.
Alex Alvarez opened the scoring for the Hornets (5-2-2) 7:22 into the game following a pass from McNeil.
McNeil put the visitors up 2-0 1:02 later, a lead the Hornets would take into the locker room. Alex Martinez had the assist.
Kevin Rivas cut Conard’s deficit to one 7:56 into the second half with a free kick from outside the penalty area. Teammate Anthony Catanzaro connected on a penalty kick with 4:43 left to tie it for the Red Wolves (3-2-4).
Lesly Pinthiere stopped six shots for the Hornets while Benjamin Hammond made five saves for Conard
East Hartford travels to Storrs Tuesday for a date with E.O. Smith.
WINDSOR 2, NEW BRITAIN 2. Sophomore Micah Gregory made 21 saves in goal as the Warriors played the Golden Hurricanes to a tie in a CCC North game at Jack O’Brien Stadium.
It’s the third straight tie for the Warriors (3-3-3).
After a scoreless first half, Jayveon Young opened the scoring for the hosts 10 minutes into the second. Luis Paniagua tied it for New Britain (2-5-2) with 22 minutes to play following a Windsor red card.
Ryan Stillman put the Warriors back in front when he converted a penalty kick 10 minutes later, but Jesus Vega tied it with seven minutes to play.
Maximilian Szczepanik had eight saves for New Britain.
Windsor entertains Plainville on Tuesday.
TOLLAND 3, E.O. SMITH 1. Senior Vince Cassarino scored twice to lead the visiting Eagles to a CCC East victory in Storrs.
The game concludes a three-game road trip for Tolland (4-2-2). The Eagles went 2-1-0 in those games.
Tolland built a 2-1 lead after 40 minutes of play Thursday. Junior Cole Anderson added the other goal for the visitors. Sam Baldwin, a senior, scored the lone goal for the Panthers (3-6-0).
The Eagles outshot E.O. Smith 12-6 in the game. Tolland goalie Noah Hill stopped three shots. His counterpart, Garrett Ballou, made seven saves.
Tolland returns to the field Saturday when it entertains Rocky Hill.
COVENTRY 0, SOMERS 0. Somers goalie Owen Clark made six saves as the visiting Spartans played Coventry to a scoreless tie in NCCC play.
Somers (3-3-2) recorded five shots. The Spartans host Manchester Saturday.
Coventry (4-3-2) posted 14 shots. Justin Foran made two saves. The Patriots visit Rockville Tuesday. | https://www.journalinquirer.com/sports/high_school/brodeur-scores-the-game-winner-for-rham/article_49178c5e-45ee-11ed-adc1-1bd770382c08.html | 2022-10-07T05:22:55 | en | 0.916572 |
The ₹500 crore IPO of Electronic Marts India was subscribed 7.57 times on the second day of the subscription process. The IPO will close for subscription today.
The initial public offering came out with a fixed price band of ₹56 to ₹59 a share and a market lot of 254 shares.
While the qualified institutional buyers’ portion was subscribed 4 times, retail investors and non-institutional quota received bids for 7.81 times and 11.74 times, respectively.
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Electronics Mart IPO subscribed 1.69 times on first day of offer
The category for Retail Individual Investors (RIIs) received 1.98 times subscription, while that of Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs) got subscribed 1.68 timesUtility of funds
Money raised through the IPO will be utilised towards capital expenditures like opening new stores and warehouses, working capital, debt payment, and general corporate purposes.
The retailer on October 3 mopped up ₹150 crore from anchor investors as it decided to allocate 2.54 crore equity shares to anchor investors at ₹59 per share, as per the filing with the exchanges.
Anchor investors
Among the 20 anchor investors included Nippon Life India, HDFC Trustee, Pinebridge Global Funds, Motilal Oswal MF, Tata MF, Sundaram MF, Whiteoak Capital, Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance, Abakkus Emerging Opportunities Fund, Societe Generale, and Mirae Asset.
Electronics Mart India offers a range of products, including air conditioners, TVs, washing machines, refrigerators, mobiles, small appliances, and IT products. The company offers product categories from more than 70 consumer durable and electronic brands. It operates across retail, wholesale, and e-commerce channels. | https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/markets/electronic-marts-issue-closes-today/article65979110.ece | 2022-10-07T05:22:57 | en | 0.926216 |
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DENVER (AP) — Stephon Gilmore batted away Russell Wilson’s pass to Courtland Sutton in the end zone on fourth-and-1 from the 5 to give the Indianapolis Colts a 12-9 overtime victory over the Denver Broncos on Thursday night.
Gilmore also intercepted Wilson's pass in the fourth quarter to help set up Chase McLauglin’s tying field goal.
McLauglin connected from 47 yards 4:10 into overtime to give the Colts (2-2-1) the lead in the first game in NFL history that pitted quarterbacks with at least four Pro Bowl appearances each, but it featured zero touchdowns.
The Broncos (2-3) decided against a tying chip-shot field goal by Brandon McManus, and Wilson lined up in the shotgun next to running back Melvin Gordon, then threw incomplete over the middle.
Matt Ryan grinded out the victory despite throwing two interceptions into the hands of safety Caden Sterns, fumbling for the 10th time this season and getting sacked six times, giving him 21 so far.
McLaughlin sent it to overtime with a 31-yarder with 5 seconds left in regulation after Gilmore intercepted Wilson's pass to Jerry Jeudy in the end zone on third-and-4 from the 13.
That kick capped the Colts' longest drive of the night, 68 yards in 10 plays.
The Colts won the overtime coin toss and Ryan drove them into field-goal range again.
Many fans were wondering if this game would be one of revenge — Phillip Lindsay returning to his hometown to beat the Broncos — or redemption — Gordon atoning for his big fumble Sunday that was returned 68 yards for a touchdown by the Raiders.
It turned out to be neither.
Lindsay ran for 40 yards on 11 carries ad Gordon had 54 yards on 15 carries, but he was flipped by safety Rodney McLoyd Jr. at the 6e on his way to the end zone when it appeared he had an open path to the winning touchdown.
Sterns picked off two of Ryan's passes, the second one leading to a 45-yard field goal and a 9-6 lead with 3:19 left in the third quarter. But the boobirds were out again at Empower Field after Andrew Beck dropped a touchdown pass two plays after Sterns’ second interception.
The prime-time game was a streaming snooze-fest pitting veteran quarterbacks struggling with their new teams, both of whom were missing their best running back and several key defenders.
It looked like neither team practiced much during the week because neither team did as they worked in new running backs and replaced key defenders on a short work week.
And as is common on Thursday nights, there was a rash of injuries with the most serious to Indy’s Kwity Payne (leg) and Denver’s Garett Bolles (right knee), both of whom were carted oft.
The only scoring before halftime came on field goals of 33 and 44 yards by McManus and a 52-yarder by McLaughlin with 12 seconds left before the break.
McLaughlin’s 51-yarder tied it in the third quarter, and Grover Stewart preserved the tie by blocking McManus’ attempt from 34 yards after Courtland Sutton’s 51-yard catch in which he wrested the ball from teammate Montrell Washington.
With reigning NFL champion Jonathan Taylor (ankle, toe) out for Indy and the Broncos lamenting the loss of Javonte Williams to a shredded right knee, the grind-it-out nature of the game was entirely expected.
The Colts came in averaging 14.3 points a game, the lowest in Ryan’s 16-year career, and the Broncos entered the night avearging 16.5 points, the worst in Wilson’s 11-year career.
Nyheim Hines got the start for Indy, but he went out with a head injury after his third snap when D.J. Jones knocked him down and Hines’ helmet bounced on the ground. He wobbled as he tried to leave the field on his own and had to be guided to the sideline, where he was evaluated for a concussion.
INJURIES
Paye was carted off in the fourth quarterback with a leg injury. He was injured on Rodney Thomas II’s 35-yard interception return. When Hines wobbled after getting to his feet, the medical personnel rushed onto the field and helped him to the sideline, taking no chances of a repeat of what happened to Tua Tagovailoa and Cameron Brate last week. Starting C Ryan Kelly left with a hip injury in the second quarter. WR Austin Dulin (foot) left in the third quarter.
The Broncos lost two starting defenders to knee injuries just before halftime, ILB Josey Jewell and CB Ronald Darby. Wilson was evaluated for a head injury after his interception but was cleared and didn’t miss any snaps. DE Dre’Mont Jones also was evaluated for a concussion in the fourth quarter. LB Baron Browning injured a wrist in the fourth quarter, as well, before Bolles was carted off with a leg injury.
UP NEXT
The Colts host the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, Oct. 16, and the Broncos visit the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday night, Oct. 17.
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Equity benchmark indices fell in early trade on Friday amid a weak trend in global equity markets.
The 30-share BSE Sensex declined 236.59 points to 57,985.51 after a weak start. The broader NSE Nifty dipped 69.95 points to 17,261.85.
Among the 30-share Sensex pack, IndusInd Bank, Tata Steel, ICICI Bank, Mahindra & Mahindra, State Bank of India, HDFC Bank, Bajaj Finance and ITC were the major laggards in early trade.
On the other hand, Titan, Maruti, HCL Technologies and Reliance Industries were the winners.
Elsewhere in Asia, markets in Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong were quoting lower, while Seoul was in the green.
The US markets ended lower on Thursday.
"Equity markets could exhibit a cautious trend with a negative bias in Friday trade owing to weakness across the global indices. The US September jobs report to be released later today would be keenly watched by investors the world over, as this would set the market direction for the near term," said Prashanth Tapse - Research Analyst, Senior VP (Research), Mehta Equities Ltd.
The BSE benchmark had gained 156.63 points or 0.27 per cent to settle at 58,222.10 on Thursday. The Nifty advanced 57.50 points or 0.33 per cent to end at 17,331.80 in the previous trade.
Meanwhile, the international oil benchmark Brent crude futures dipped 0.07 per cent to $94.35 per barrel.
Foreign institutional investors were net buyers as they bought shares worth Rs 279.01 crore on Thursday, according to data available with BSE.
"An important data which can influence markets globally is the US jobs data expected tonight. The fact that FIIs have stopped selling and have turned buyers, though in small quantities, is positive for markets," said V. K. Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Financial Services. | https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/markets/markets-fall-in-early-trade-on-weak-global-cues/article65979272.ece | 2022-10-07T05:23:03 | en | 0.95914 |
Domestic markets are expected to open on a weak note on Friday, amid weak global cues. As US stocks again succumbed to inflation and rate-hike fears on Thursday, equities across Asia-Pacific region opened on negative note, albeit marginally.
According to George Thomas, Fund Manager, Quantum AMC, the declining trend in global markets continued amidst fears pertaining to multi-decadal high inflation and aggressive monetary tightening by global central banks.
Asia-Pacific stocks down
SGX Nifty at 17,270 indicates a gap down opening of 55 points as Nifty futures on Thursday closed at 17,325. Among the Asia-Pacific stocks, Nikkei and Australian slipped 0.5 per cent each, while Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong markets are down by one per cent; Korean and New Zealand stocks are down just marginally.
Analysts said markets are likely to see a range-bound movement until big-ticket results are out next week.
Siddhartha Khemka, Head - Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd, said with earning season about to begin and pre-quarterly updates coming in, "we expect stock specific action to continue in the markets".
Globally, investors would track U.S. jobs data, which is crucial in the current environment of rising interest rates, he added.
Ajit Mishra, VP - Research, Religare Broking Ltd, said, "Markets are still in a range and rotational buying across sectors is helping the index to hold strong amid mixed global cues. Since all the sectors, barring IT, are contributing to the move, the focus should be more on stock selection."
India’s macros
In India, macro indicators are reasonably placed despite global uncertainties.
"GST collections remained above ₹1.4 trillion for the 7th consecutive month. The Manufacturing Purchasing Manager’s Index, published by S & P Global, remained in expansion territory at 55.1 for September. A robust addition in jobs is reflected in the reduction of the unemployment rate across urban and rural areas. Business updates published by leading banks for the September quarter indicate a healthy loan growth trend," added George Thomas. | https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/markets/markets-to-see-a-range-bound-movement-with-downward-bias/article65979098.ece | 2022-10-07T05:23:09 | en | 0.927654 |
Bharti Airtel on Thursday said its 5G services have gone live in eight cities -- Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Siliguri, Nagpur and Varanasi. Customers availing of the 5G services will have to pay as per their existing 4G plan, it said.
Prashant Kumar has been appointed the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of YES Bank for a period of three years. The Reserve Bank of India on October 6 approved the appointment of Kumar with effect from today. The appointment will, however, be subject to shareholder approval.
Britannia Industries has acquired a controlling stake in Kenya-based Kenafric Biscuits, a move which will help the company set up a manufacturing base and expand sales in African markets. Britannia and Associates (Dubai) Pvt Company Ltd (BADCO), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Britannia, has acquired a 51 per cent equity stake in Kenafric Biscuits Ltd (KBL) for a cash consideration of 13.87 crore Kenyan Shillings (₹9.2 crore), a regulatory filing by the company said.
Norican Group, parent group company of DISA India Ltd has acquired Simpson Technologies, which is engaged in sand mixing, cooling, handling, reclamation and analysis.
Cosmetics and fashion retailer Fsn E-Commerce Ventures ( Nykaa) on Thursday entered a strategic alliance with Dubai-based fashion and lifestyle retail conglomerate Apparel Group to expand in Gulf countries. Nykaa will hold a 55 per cent stake in the entity and Apparel Group the rest. However, the companies did not disclose financial details of the agreement.
GE Gas Power and NTPC will collaborate on the feasibility to reduce the carbon intensity at NTPC’s Kawas gas power plant in Gujarat, which is powered by four GE 9E gas turbines.
Themis Medicare Ltd has submitted an IND (Investigational New Drug) application for a Phase II/ III clinical trial to the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), the National Regulatory Authority of India (NRA). India has approximately 267 million smokers, and their options for smoking cessation are limited. Once the study is approved, the clinical trial will be conducted in India, targeting 334 smokers. The cost of the process, from submission to completion of the study, will be carried out by Themis Medicare.
HR solutions company Quess Corp Ltd will divest its stake in the digital risk and compliance services company Simpliance Technologies Private Ltd (Simpliance) to Aparajitha Corporate Services (Aparajitha), an HR compliance services company, and its affiliates. The deal is valued at an enterprise value of ₹120 crore on a cash and debt-free basis, subject to closing adjustments and fulfilment of conditions set out in the transaction document. | https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/markets/stocks-that-will-see-action-today-oct-7/article65979100.ece | 2022-10-07T05:23:15 | en | 0.940692 |
The Department of Consumer Affairs has said it will refer pending consumer cases to the National Lok Adalat, slated to be held on November 12 across the country, for speedier disposal through settlement.
DoCA said it is in the process of collaborating with the National Legal Service Authority (NALSA) for inclusion of pending consumer cases in the National Lok Adalat.
“Groundwork for this exercise has been initiated and all the consumer commissions have been intimated to identify cases that have an element of settlement, and prepare a list of cases that can be referred to the Lok Adalat,” it said in an official statement.
Currently, there are about 6,07,996 consumers cases pending across various commissions. The NCDRC has about 22,250 cases pending. “Uttar Pradesh with 28,318 pending cases, Maharashtra (18,093), Delhi (15,450), Madhya Pradesh (10,319), and Karnataka (9,615) are among the states with the highest pendency,” it added.
The Ministry said it is also reaching out to consumers, companies, and organisations through SMS and emails. It has also done a video conference with Consumer Commissions, which have more than 200 pending cases.
“Data analytics has also been used to arrive at sector-wise distribution of pendency -- banking has a total of 71,379 pending cases, insurance (1,68,827), e-commerce (1,247), electricity (33,919), and railways (2,316), and efforts are on to settle these consumer cases on priority,” the Ministry added. | https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/consumer-affairs-ministry-to-refer-pending-cases-to-national-lok-adalat/article65977159.ece | 2022-10-07T05:23:22 | en | 0.958789 |
A Russian cosmonaut who caught a US lift to the International Space Station arrived at her new home Thursday for a five-month stay, accompanied by a Japanese astronaut and two from NASA, including the first Native American woman in space.
The SpaceX capsule pulled up to the station a day after launching into orbit. The linkup occurred 260 miles (420 km) above the Atlantic, just off the west coast of Africa.
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Cosmonaut Anna Kikina joins two Russians already at the orbiting outpost. She'll live and work on the Russian side until March, before returning to Earth in the same SpaceX capsule.
Riding along with Kikina: Marine Col Nicole Mann, a member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in California, Navy Capt Josh Cassada and Japan's Koichi Wakata, the only experienced space flier of the bunch with five missions.
As the capsule closed in, the space station residents promised the new arrivals that their bunks were ready and the outside light was on.
“You guys are the best,” replied Mann, the capsule's commander.
Mann and her crew will replace three Americans and one Italian who will return in their own SpaceX capsule next week after almost half a year up there. Until then, 11 people will share the orbiting lab.
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio arrived two weeks ago. He launched on a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan, kicking off the cash-free crew swapping between NASA and the Russian Space Agency. They agreed to the plan last summer in order to always have an American and Russian at the station.
Until Elon Musk's SpaceX started launching astronauts two years ago, NASA was forced to spend tens of millions of dollars every time an astronaut flew up on a Soyuz. | https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/science/spacex-delivers-russian-native-american-women-to-station/article65979128.ece | 2022-10-07T05:23:28 | en | 0.941288 |
Below-par death bowling coupled with ordinary fielding and batting, except for Sanju Samson and Shreyas Iyer, hurt a second-string Indian team as it slumped to a nine-run defeat against South Africa in the rain-truncated first ODI of the three-match series on Thursday.
Opting to bowl in the rain-hit 40-over-a-side game, India started on the right note reducing South Africa to 110 for 4 in 22.4 overs before David Miller and Heinrich Klaasen hit strokeful half-centuries to guide South Africa to 249 for 4.
Down at 110 for four, Miller (75 not out off 63 balls) and Klaasen (74 not out off 65 balls) added 139 runs for the unbroken fifth wicket to take the visitors to close to 250-run mark.
India’s struggle
Shardul Thakur was the pick of the bowlers for India with figures of 2/35 from eight overs.
The Indian bowlers struggled in the death overs, conceding 54 runs in the last five overs.
If that was not enough, the Indian fielders dropped as many as four catches in the outfield to help South Africa's cause.
Chasing a stiff target of 250, Samson (86 not out off 63 balls) and Iyer (50 off 37 balls) struck fifties, while Shardul Thakur (33 off 31 balls) used the long handle to good effect towards the end but it was not enough in the end.
India endured a disastrous start to their chase, losing both Shubman Gill (3) and skipper Shikhar Dhawan (4) cheaply to be reduced to 8 for 2 inside six overs.
While Kagiso Rabada cleaned up Gill in the third over, Dhawan inside-edged one on to his stumps from a Wayne Parnell delivery in the sixth over.
Keeping India in the hunt
Ishan Kishan and debutant, Ruturaj Gaikwad then tried to stabilise the innings with a 48-run partnership for the third wicket before the latter was stumped by Quinton de Kock off the bowling of Tabraiz Shamsi as India slumped to 48 for 3 in 16.4 overs.
In the reserves for the T20 World Cup squad, Iyer helped his cause with a 37-ball 50 and together with Sanju Samson shared 67 runs for the fifth wicket to keep India in the hunt.
Iyer decorated his innings with eight hits to the fence before handing a simple catch to Rabada at mid-on off Lungi Ngidi's bowling.
But Samson and Thakur kept India in the hunt with an attacking 93-run partnership of just 64 balls for the sixth wicket.
With India needing 45 off the last three overs, Ngidi struck twin blows, dismissing Thakur and Kuldeep Yadav in successive balls to hand South Africa the upper hand. Needing 30 off the last over, Samson tried his best, smashing one six and three fours but to no avail.
South Africa’s slow start
Earlier sent into bat, South Africa made a relatively slow start, reaching 41 for no loss after 10 overs.
India skipper, Shikhar Dhawan's decision to bowl was justified by new ball bowlers Mohammed Siraj and Avesh Khan.
Siraj, in particular, was brilliant as he swung the ball both ways to trouble the Proteas batters initially but without any luck.
Fighting chances
Dhawan introduced Shardul Thakur in the ninth over and in two balls the pacer gave his team the first chance, inducing an edge from Janneman Malan but Shubman Gill dropped a sitter at the first slip.
But Shardul got his man four overs later as Malan flicked one straight to Shreyas Iyer at short midwicket.
Leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi was taken to task by South Africa skipper, Temba Bavuma (8) as he conceded 31 runs from his first three overs.
Bavuma, who was struggling for runs in the preceding T20I series, reverse-swept and drove Bishnoi for two boundaries in the 14th over.
But Bavuma's short and attacking innings was cut short by Thakur, who went through his defence as the batter registered another single digit score in the tour.
Kuldeep Yadav gave India another breakthrough soon, cleaning up Aiden Markram for a duck with a sharp leg-spin.
Quinton de Kock went about his business in quiet fashion and held one end together before perishing in the 23rd over.
De Kock scored 48 off 54 balls with the help of five boundaries before he was trapped in front of the wicket by Bishnoi as South Africa slumped to 110 for 4 in the 23rd over.
Two overs later, Miller effortlessly struck the visitors' first six of the innings, straight over long-on boundary off the bowling of Bishnoi.
Miller and Klaasen then took the attack to the opposition. Miller played sensibly and dispatched the loose balls to the boundary to record his 18th half-century off 50 balls with the help of four boundaries and one hit over the fence.
Klaasen soon followed suit and registered his fourth ODI fifty in 52 balls.
Death over bowling continued to haunt India as Miller and Klaasen brought up their century partnership in just 84 balls.
To add to that, India dropped as many as four catches, displaying poor outfield fielding standards. | https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/sports/samsons-unbeaten-86-in-vain-as-india-lose-to-sa-by-9-runs-in-1st-odi/article65979121.ece | 2022-10-07T05:23:34 | en | 0.964328 |
A former policeman burst into a daycare centre in northeastern Thailand, on Thursday, killing dozens of children and teachers and then firing on more people as he fled in the deadliest rampage in the nation's history.
The assailant, Panya Kamrap was fired from the force earlier this year because of a drug offence, took his own life after killing his own wife and child at home, authorities said.
A witness said staff at the daycare locked the door when they saw the assailant approaching with a gun, but he shot his way in.
At least 37 people were killed in the attack, according to a police spokesman.Another 12 people were wounded. At least 24 of the dead were children, mostly preschoolers.
“The teacher who died, she had a child in her arms,” a witness, whose name wasn't given, told Thailand's Kom Chad Luek television at the scene. “I didn't think he would kill children, but he shot at the door and shot right through it.”
In the attack he used multiple weapons, including a handgun, a shotgun, and a knife, Police Maj Gen Paisal Luesomboon said.
Local police chief Damrongsak Kittiprapha told reporters that the suspect was a sergeant on the force before he was fired, and that the main weapon he used was a 9mm pistol that he had purchased himself.
“We are still investigating all of this and have to learn from it,” he said. “Today is the first day and we don't have all the details.” Police have not given a full breakdown of the death toll, but they have said at least 22 children and two adults were killed at the daycare in the northeastern Thai town of Nongbua Lamphu.
Firearm-related deaths
Firearm-related deaths in Thailand are much lower than in countries like the United States and Brazil, but higher than in countries like Japan and Singapore that have strict gun control laws.
The rate of firearms-related deaths in 2019 was about 4 per 100,000, compared with about 11 per 100,000 in the US and nearly 23 per 100,000 in Brazil.
Last month, a clerk shot co-workers at Thailand's Army War College in Bangkok, killing two and wounding another before he was arrested.
The country's previous worst mass shooting involved a disgruntled soldier who opened fire in and around a mall in the northeastern city of Nakhon Ratchasima in 2020, killing 29 people and holding off security forces for some 16 hours before eventually being killed by them.
Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, who was to travel to the town on Friday, told reporters that initial reports were that the former officer was having personal problems.
“This shouldn't happen,” he said. “I feel deep sadness toward the victims and their relatives.” | https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/world/37-dead-mostly-preschoolers-in-thai-daycare-rampage/article65979122.ece | 2022-10-07T05:23:40 | en | 0.990661 |
One among the few other fundamental factors built into the business models of Indian IT services companies for sustained profitability and growth is a depreciating rupee. In an ideal world scenario for Indian IT, ceteris paribus, a one per cent depreciation in the rupee translating into a 1 per cent increase in revenue, would end up having a greater than 1 per cent increase in profits. This is because the bottom line benefits from operating leverage.
While revenue increases due to currency benefits, and a good percentage of costs are fixed in rupees, a good chunk of the currency gain due to sales denominated in foreign currency like the US dollar, directly flows to the bottom line. For simplistic understanding, if revenue was entirely denominated in US dollars, and costs entirely in rupees, and the IT company had 20 per cent profit margins, a 1 per cent depreciation in the rupee against the US dollar with the entire gain flowing into the bottom line will increase profits by 5 per cent (21/20). However, this is not the way it actually works in the real world due to multiple factors (costs in other currencies, forex hedging costs) attached to the business model. However directionally this is how it typically plays out.
The twist in plot
During June quarter of 2022, the rupee depreciated against the USD by 4.2 per cent. In the one year up to June 30, 2022, the decline is around 6.5 per cent. This reflects sizable depreciation in just a single quarter and even on a yearly basis. But did the Indian IT services companies benefit from it? A simple analysis of the quarterly performance in constant currency revenue growth and rupee revenue growth (actual realised growth in domestic currency) will help give a perspective on this.
Constant currency revenue growth indicates how the performance would have been if currency/exchange rates had remained constant. It hence is primarily a reflection of business volume growth and leaves out exchange rate impact. Typically, the exchange rate prevailing in the period (for example: same quarter previous year) to which current performance is compared with, is used as the exchange rate. The table below compares the constant currency revenue growth of the top four Indian IT services companies versus the rupee revenue growth
The data indicates the companies have not been beneficiaries of the outsized rupee depreciation versus the USD that was witnessed in the one year into June 2022. Ideally the realised growth in rupee should have been much better. The twist in plot here is due to what is called cross-currency headwinds. These headwinds emanate from the rupee’s outperformance over many other global currencies over the last year. Recent times have witnessed unprecedented volatility in many international currencies versus the USD, especially in the case of the British Pound (GBP) and Euro which have hit multi decade lows. The rupee’s outperformance against these currencies is turning this into a headwind offsetting the dollar strength.
For example, Wipro’sQ1 results presentation indicates that while 62 per cent of IT services revenue is in USD, 10 per cent is in GBP, 9 per cent in Euro and 5 per cent in AUD. In the one year into September 2022, the rupee had appreciated by 9 per cent against the GBP and by over 7 per cent against the Euro. Thus the impact of these headwinds will play out for IT companies across the board. Thus any optimistic view on the IT services companies due to dollar strength against the rupee will require a second look. The ultimate impact of these cross-currency movements will depend on each companies’ geographic exposure/ billing currency and also how their hedges play out. Investors must watch out for that In Q2 results.
Besides cross-currency headwinds, INR growth not being much higher than constant currency revenue growth amidst dollar strength can also happen in case benefits of the depreciation are passed on to clients. But that does not appear to be the case that played out in Q1 as managements have spoken of how they have pricing lever (ie improve billing rates) with clients that can help them deal with the cost pressures due to higher cost of talent/high attrition.
Overall the Q2 results for IT services is going to be an interesting watch with economic slowdown in key client geographies (US and Europe), margin pressures, and cross currency headwinds. | https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/portfolio/stock-fundamental-analysis-india/it-services-will-the-res-10-per-cent-annual-decline-versus-usd-aid-results-of-it-companies/article65976105.ece | 2022-10-07T05:23:46 | en | 0.953583 |
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Japan's Toyota finds wheel, airbag fixes for recalled EVs
Japan's top automaker Toyota said Thursday that it has identified how to fix its 2023 model year bZ4X crossover electric vehicles after recalling 2,700 of them in June out of concern wheel bolts might become loose, risking a crash.
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The fix will enable Toyota Motor Corp. to resume making and selling the EVs, a key model in the company's effort to strengthen its electric lineup. Toyota officials said they hoped the fix would help restore the company's reputation for quality.
The maker of the Prius hybrid and Lexus luxury models has scored great success with its hybrids and fuel cells, but it has at times been seen as a straggler in electric vehicles. The "bZ" in the model's name stands for a "beyond zero" series, referring to its being free of emissions.
Toyota said new bolt parts needed to fix the problem with the bZ4X will become available for all global customers by November. The company said hub bolts and wheels of all vehicles in the recall will be replaced at no cost to customers.
Since issuing the global safety recall, Toyota has been investigating the cause of the problem. It said that if the hub bolts attaching the wheels to the cars became loose, the wheels might loosen and cause a crash. The company showed a diagram illustrating that an extra part could be added to the bolt to secure it in place.
Among the vehicles subject to the latest recall, about 2,200 were destined for Europe, 270 for North America, 112 for Japan, and 60 for the rest of Asia, according to Toyota. They were produced between March and June.
No crashes have been reported, according to a statement on the transport ministry's website.
Toyota also announced a fix for a strap on the curtain-shield airbag in the same vehicles under recall. The faulty strap could injure the driver when the airbag deploys, the automaker said. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/japans-toyota-finds-wheel-airbag-fixes-recalled-evs/41551369 | 2022-10-07T05:25:35 | en | 0.96447 |
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