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Hopkins’s Move to Create a Police Force Raises Concerns
Johns Hopkins is facing backlash for plans to develop a private police force. Critics are especially worried about the university’s close partnership with the Baltimore Police Department.
After a two-plus-year pause, Johns Hopkins University is moving ahead with plans to establish a private, armed police force. This week it released a draft of its memorandum of understanding with the Baltimore Police Department, laying out the framework for their division of duties.
The two police departments will share the authority to patrol the “campus area,” which includes any buildings owned, operated, leased or controlled by Hopkins within the three Baltimore campuses: the main Homewood campus, the Peabody Institute campus and the medical campus in East Baltimore. The area also includes any public sidewalks, streets, parking areas and thoroughfares immediately adjacent to the campuses.
According to the MOU, released Monday, the Johns Hopkins Police Department will respond to incidents within those regions and the BPD will lead investigations of more serious crimes, such as rape or murder.
Hopkins has invited community members to give feedback on the draft at a series of town hall meetings in the coming weeks. But some opponents of the new police force, including JHU students, university and medical employees, and members of the larger Baltimore community, are objecting to the town halls.
“Some might wonder—why are we are [sic] calling for a shutdown of what appears to be JHU seeking community feedback?” the Coalition Against Police by Hopkins, a collective of over a dozen community and university organizations pushing Hopkins to cancel its policing plans, wrote in a Twitter thread.
“Over the last year+, meeting after draining meeting, Hopkins has failed to adequately respond to or address community concerns,” the thread read. “We refuse to waste our time and energy on those who have no intention of listening. Instead, Hopkins needs to stop its charade of caring about community input. And it needs to put an end to this violent project.”
Opponents worry that the force, which is slated to be made up of about 100 officers, will lead to overpolicing, racial profiling and possibly even police brutality against Hopkins students and employees, as well as members of the surrounding communities.
Hopkins began laying the groundwork to establish its own police force in 2018 but temporarily halted those plans in 2020 amid the nationwide protests against police brutality following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. Hopkins officials said they planned to use the break to allow legislators to pass statewide police reforms, as well as to update their existing campus safety measures and improve the university’s partnership with the city.
Protesters argued that the institution should do away with its plans for a police force altogether, rather than simply take a break.
Now the MOU has ignited new worries.
Jayla Scott, president of Hopkins’s Black Student Union, expressed concern about the police force’s close partnership with BPD because of the city department’s reputation for corruption and impropriety.
“The MOU also reveals that BPD will still heavily be involved in processes on campus including crime scene processing, evidence storage” and taking the lead on major crimes, she told Inside Higher Ed in an email. “If JHPD is suppose(d) to be this superior police force that is setting the standard for police accountability across the country, how can they do that while heavily being involved with one of the most corrupt police forces in the nation(?)”
The Baltimore department was home to the Gun Trace Task Force, a group of officers who were found to have who used their authority to steal drugs and money, among other crimes. After an African American man named Freddie Gray died in Baltimore police custody in 2015, six cops were charged but none were convicted. Officers within the department have been convicted of assault, reckless endangerment, falsifying records and more.
A spokeswoman for the BPD, Lindsey Eldridge, declined to comment on Hopkins community members’ concerns about the partnership between BPD and JHPD, stating that inquiries about the MOU should be directed to Hopkins.
Dr. Zackary Berger, a Hopkins physician and associate professor, noted that allowing JHPD to patrol surrounding streets and sidewalks is “pretty astonishing, considering multiple neighborhood associations, at least three, voted against Hopkins police.” Community associations representing Harwood, Abell and Remington, all located near the Hopkins Homewood campus, each voted internally to oppose the formation of the police department back in 2019, when the Maryland General Assembly was considering the Community Safety and Strengthening Act, the bill that allowed Hopkins to have a private police force.
Beyond the content of the agreement, some JHPD opponents have complained that the MOU was released too quickly for community members to read it ahead of the first feedback session, slated for tonight. They also noted that locating two out of the three town halls on Hopkins campuses makes it more difficult for community members to take part; the third will be virtual.
Hopkins spokesperson Megan Christin pointed out that according to the Community Safety and Strengthening Act, public forums need to be on or near either Hopkins’s Homewood campus or the East Baltimore campus. She also said the MOU was published as early as possible.
“This process has been going on for years,” Dr. Berger said. “Hopkins engineers very closed and stage-managed town halls and does not execute any changes based on these town halls.”
Branville Bard Jr., Hopkins’s vice president for public safety, who will oversee the JHPD, disagreed that the institution has failed to consider community members’ feedback in the past.
“I can speak to my levels of engagement,” he said. “Since I’ve been here, during the year, I’ve been in hundreds of meetings with all of our stakeholders, whether it be staff, the students, the neighborhood association, so I’ve done a lot by way of listening and learning from the community and taking what they said and trying to use it to incorporate it into the eventual JHPD and to impact and improve public safety over all at Johns Hopkins.”
The institution already employs about 1,000 unarmed security personnel.
The town halls will be narrowly focused on the MOU, whose final draft Bard said he expects to be significantly influenced by the input sessions and a feedback form available online.
Still, many critics—including Natalie Wang, a JHU junior studying neuroscience and medicine, science and the humanities—believe that by launching the police department after more than two years, Hopkins is ignoring feedback and trying to minimize students’ voices.
Before the pandemic, in 2019, students staged a long-term occupation of a campus administration building, Garland Hall, to protest the creation of a campus police force. But many of those students have moved on.
“Basically, Hopkins waited for those people to graduate,” Wang said.
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Bill Would Make Colleges Pay for Defaults
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, wants universities to pay for student loans in default and the Congress to make other changes to the Higher Education Act of 1965 as part of a new bill introduced Wednesday.
Under the Make the Universities Pay Act, a university would have to pay 50 percent of its students’ loan balances in default. The colleges and universities also would be barred from raising tuition to cover this expense, “unless there is an equivalent percentage decrease in administrative expenses at the institution.”
The six-page bill also would allow student loan debt to be discharged in bankruptcy and require higher education institutions to report mean and median earnings of graduates and loan default rates, disaggregated by degree or program. The U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard already has much of that information.
The bill’s introduction comes nearly a month after President Biden announced a plan to forgive up to $10,000 in student loans for borrowers currently making less than $125,000. Hawley’s office in a news release said the plan usurps Congress’s authority and lacks what the senator says are “much-needed reforms.”
“For decades, universities have amassed billion-dollar endowments while teaching nonsense like men can get pregnant. All while charging extortionary tuition,” Hawley said in the release. “Now Joe Biden wants to give away another $1 trillion to prop up the system. That’s wrong. Instead, it’s time to put universities on the hook and give students the information they need to make informed decisions.”
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Fairfield Announces New Campus Focused on 2-Year Degrees
Fairfield University, in partnership with the Diocese of Bridgeport, will open a new campus in the fall of 2023 in the nearby city of Bridgeport, Conn., offering a two-year associate degree program. The announcement of a new campus comes amid opposition from some locals who have concerns about zoning issues, traffic congestion and a possible negative effect on property values.
Fairfield, a private Catholic university, will establish its new Bridgeport campus on the site of the former St. Ambrose School, a private Catholic institution that closed roughly a decade ago.
Fairfield officials previously told Inside Higher Ed that the university aims to launch the new campus with 100 students in the first cohort before growing that population to 200 the following year. The new Fairfield campus in Bridgeport will focus its efforts on low-income students.
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First-Year VMI Enrollment Plunges
Enrollment of first-year students at Virginia Military Institute, the oldest military college in the country, dropped 25 percent this fall, The Washington Post reported.
VMI welcomed 375 freshmen last month, down from 496 freshmen in 2021 and 522 in 2020, which was a record for the college, according to data from the institution.
Cedric T. Wins, the superintendent of VMI and a retired Army major general, said at a Board of Visitors meeting Tuesday that college officials had hoped to enroll 520 new cadets.
VMI has struggled with criticism and internal divisions in recent years over reported racism and sexism at the institution. Former governor of Virginia Dr. Ralph Northam initiated an investigation into systemic racism at VMI in 2020 in response to reports from Black students and alumni.
In his presentation to the board, Wins shared a slide that listed various potential reasons for the freshman enrollment decline, including “VMI brand reputation tarnished in various media outlets” and “ideological differences among a divided alumni base.” He also mentioned national trends such as declining birth rates and enrollments across the country, the Post reported.
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No.46 Petra Martic advanced to the quarterfinals of the Toray Pan Pacific Open with a 6-3, 6-4 win over No.6 seed Karolina Pliskova.
Into her fourth quarterfinal of the season, Martic will face Zhang Shuai next.
In a match that saw Martic play the big points better, the Croatian snapped her two-match losing streak to Pliskova and move ahead 4-3 in their tour-level head-to-head.
"I'm really happy with today's match. Karolina is a great player, beat me quite a few times in the past," Martic said. "I expected a tough match and I'm just happy to win it."
Petra making angles like origami!! 📄#TorayPPO pic.twitter.com/LRye0a1tcc
— wta (@WTA) September 22, 2022
Martic saved 9 of 10 break points in the match, including four in the fifth game of the second set. Beguiling the Czech with backhand slice and court coverage, Martic broke serve four times to make her first Tokyo quarterfinal after 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Pliskova finished the match with 23 winners to 25 unforced errors, while Martic hit 17 winners to 22 unforced errors. But it was the missed opportunities for the former champion that ultimately decided the match.
No.30 Liudmila Samsonova followed Martic into the quarterfinals later in the day, defeating Wang Xinyu 7-6(5), 6-3. Samsonova, who has now won 15 of her last 16 matches, will face No.3 seed Garbiñe Muguruza next.
With the roof closed due to the rain, Samsonova fired 13 aces and faced just two break points in the match.
"It's not easy to play indoor when you prepare the match outdoors," Samsonova said. "So it was a little bit different conditions. She was playing amazing, I think she's a great player already. My serve today was hopefully good enough to maintain my game."
15 wins in her last 16 matches 🥵@LiudaSamsonova is heating up again – defeating Wang Xinyu 7-6(5), 6-3 in Tokyo!
— wta (@WTA) September 22, 2022
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How Federal and State Policies Judge College ‘Value’: Key Podcast
As recently as a decade ago, the concept of value rarely found its way into discussions about federal and state policy making about higher education. Now it’s unusual to hear a meaningful conversation that doesn’t raise the issue.
This week’s episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed’s news and analysis podcast, examines how politicians and policy makers are responding to growing public doubt about the value of colleges and credentials by defining and trying to measure whether individual institutions and academic programs are benefiting consumers.
Guests include Clare McCann, who until last month was a key member of the Biden administration’s higher education policy team and is now higher education fellow at Arnold Ventures; Will Doyle, a professor of higher education at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, who studies the government’s role in higher education; and Ernest Ezeugo, a federal policy strategy officer at Lumina Foundation who previously worked at Young Invincibles and the State Higher Education Executive Officers association.
Listen to the episode here (or in the player below) or find out more about The Key here.
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Doug Lederman is editor and co-founder of Inside Higher Ed. He helps lead the news organization's editorial operations, overseeing news content, opinion pieces, career advice, blogs and other features. Doug speaks widely about higher education, including on C-Span and National Public Radio and at meetings and on campuses around the country, and his work has appeared in The New York Times and USA Today, among other publications. Doug was managing editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education from 1999 to 2003. Before that, Doug had worked at The Chronicle since 1986 in a variety of roles, first as an athletics reporter and editor. He has won three National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, including one in 2009 for a series of Inside Higher Ed articles he co-wrote on college rankings. He began his career as a news clerk at The New York Times. He grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and graduated in 1984 from Princeton University. Doug lives with his wife, Kate Scharff, in Bethesda, Md.
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Michigan State Distinguished Professors Back President
Nearly 100 distinguished, endowed chair and distinguished professors emeriti are the latest to publicly voice support for Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr. as president of Michigan State University, The Lansing State Journal reported. They issued a joint letter with their view.
“As distinguished professors at the university, and emeriti faculty who care deeply about MSU, we value an environment that allows us to produce our best work,” the professors wrote. “Continued recognition at national and international levels enhances our reputation as an institution, which in turn allows us to attract talented faculty, students, staff, and administrators to join MSU. Reputational damage threatens those efforts. We are grateful to President Stanley for improving campus culture during his three years here and moving us towards a safer and more productive space, conducive to enhancing our academic strengths. We are also indebted to him for his leadership throughout the COVID pandemic, which resulted in a safe community during these last two years. His commitment to excellence in every university endeavor is clear and greatly appreciated. We strongly support the consistent actions President Stanley has taken since arriving at MSU to protect the health and safety of all members of the MSU community. We look forward to President Stanley’s continued leadership of MSU.”
Some Michigan State trustees are trying to push the president out for reasons that remain unclear.
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Report: Lists to Find Students Are ‘Structurally Racist’
A series of new reports from the Institute for College Access & Success argue that the lists that colleges and universities purchase to identify prospective students “are structurally racist and classist.”
TICAS partnered with a team of researchers to analyze the student lists purchased by dozens of universities from 2016 to 2020 that were obtained via the Freedom of Information Act. A forthcoming report in the series will provide policy options to regulate the student list business.
Ozan Jaquette, lead researcher for the project and an associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles; University of Arizona assistant professor Karina Salazar; and data scientist Crystal Han used public records requests to get a glimpse into the decisions public universities made about student lists.
The research team requested records related to student lists from all public universities in California, Illinois, Minnesota and Texas. The final report doesn’t report results by individual universities.
The requests focused on lists bought from the College Board, ACT and the National Research Center for College and University Admissions.
The first report in the series is a primer on the student list industry, while the second report focuses on lists produced by the College Board and the search filters used. Common filters used by universities, including GPAs, SAT scores, states of residence, ZIP codes and student race or ethnicity, can exclude low-income communities and students of color, researchers said in the report.
A College Board spokesperson disputed the report’s findings in a statement, saying that the lists benefit students, particularly those from underrepresented groups, who are more likely to apply to college when contacted by a college or university.
“Colleges, universities, and scholarship programs that use Search agree to strict usage policies that stipulate they cannot discriminate against any group of students, and Search can only be used to share information about educational opportunities,” the statement says.
TICAS president Sameer Gadkaree said in the release that the report raises questions about student privacy and what information should be used in college recruitment and admissions.
“The fact that colleges and universities can [home] in on prospective students in ways that could worsen racial and economic divides should raise alarms for students and families, as well as policy makers,” Gadkaree said.
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Right-Wing Posts Target Trans Health Clinic at Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Clinic for Transgender Health is the latest trans health-care provider to be targeted by right-wing activists.
On Monday night, Matt Walsh, a conservative pundit and contributor to The Daily Wire, released the results of what he called an “investigation” into the clinic to his over one million Twitter followers. Among other things, the Twitter thread asserts that VUMC established the clinic in 2018 because gender-affirming surgeries were highly profitable, that the center threatened “consequences” for staff who declined to provide gender-affirming care and that it “enforced compliance” by parents who might be hesitant to consent to care for their minor children.
In a statement issued yesterday morning, Vanderbilt University Medical Center said Walsh’s social media posts “misrepresent facts about the care the Medical Center provides to transgender patients.”
“VUMC began its Transgender Health Clinic because transgender individuals are a high-risk population for mental and physical health issues and have been consistently underserved by the U.S. health system,” the statement read. “We have been and will continue to be committed to providing family-centered care to all adolescents in compliance with state law and in line with professional practice standards and guidance.”
Walsh’s posts have prompted calls for an investigation into the Nashville clinic by Republican state lawmakers in Tennessee, including Governor Bill Lee.
Walsh has targeted a slew of other trans health-care providers in the past, particularly those that offer care to trans youth. He has said best medical practices for pediatric gender care are akin to “molestation and rape” and has called gender-affirming surgery “mutilation.”
In August, another right-wing social media figure, Chaya Raichik, who runs the controversial social media account Libs of TikTok, targeted the Boston Children’s Hospital’s Center for Gender Surgery, making similar allegations about their pediatric gender-affirming care. As a result, BCH staff members have, for the past two months, received a barrage of harassment and death threats—and the hospital has been the target of a bomb threat.
Members of the Vanderbilt clinic’s staff contacted by Inside Higher Ed declined to comment, as did a VUMC spokesperson. But it appears the medical center has taken some proactive measures: as of Tuesday morning, it had taken down the transgender health clinic’s webpage.
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Williams Offers Reimbursement for Abortion Travel, Lodging
Williams College announced that it will now allow employees to be reimbursed for travel and lodging expenses associated with accessing an abortion under certain circumstances.
Coverage is available to any employee who is located in a state that restricts abortion access and needs to travel over 100 miles to receive that care from a qualified provider. The reimbursements will be provided through the college’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield health plans. The policy is retroactive to the beginning of June.
Massachusetts, where Williams is located, allows abortions up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, with certain circumstances allowing terminations after 24 weeks; the benefit could apply to the college's few out-of-state employees who commute or work remotely, as well as employees on sabbaticals, leaves or travel, according to university spokesperson Jim Reische.
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When to Move the Annual Meeting
As discriminatory state laws proliferate, higher ed associations need policies to guide decisions on whether to relocate the annual meeting, Erin Hennessy writes.
As bills hostile to LGBTQ communities, people of color and women continue to proliferate, associations will increasingly face challenges as they navigate the legislative landscape. The uptick in these discriminatory laws at the state level flies in the face of the values and missions of many higher education organizations. Deciding where to host an annual national conference—and if or when to relocate—has become a much weightier and costlier decision, and one that is going to continue to surface for associations.
This is not a new issue for higher education groups. NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education grappled with moving its 98th annual conference out of Indianapolis after Indiana’s passage of the discriminatory Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 2015 but ultimately honored the contract after an amendment from the state and the passage of a citywide ordinance prohibiting discrimination. In 2016, the National Collegiate Athletic Association pulled championship games from North Carolina in protest of the discriminatory transgender bathroom law HB2, which was eventually repealed. (In the wake of Indiana’s passage of legislation eliminating abortion access in the state, the NCAA has remained silent as of this writing on whether or not it will relocate its headquarters out of Indiana—a larger and perhaps more complicated conversation than this one related to meeting locations.) More recently, the Association of College and University Housing Officers–International pulled its 2022 conference and expo from Florida following passage of legislation that explicitly targets and discriminates against transgender youth.
How much to directly call out specific states or legislation in these locations poses numerous challenges, particularly for national organizations. Much of the legislation around LGBTQ issues and the recent legislative push targeting abortion access are happening in Southern and Midwestern states, but associations are still serving members in those states. In withholding or moving meetings, there is the risk of imposing additional travel challenges and costs for members in the South and Midwest. It’s also reasonable that these members want their associations to come to their states to stand up for values that organizations and members hold and consider other ways to protest, push back or dissent. Simply pulling out can feel like an organization is walking away from confronting the issues at stake.
But it can be hard for values-driven associations to shoulder the financial and moral burden of supporting those state economies with discriminatory legislation. Consider California’s Prohibition on State-Funded and State-Sponsored Travel to States with Discriminatory Laws, which does not allow state employees to use public funds to travel to certain locations (currently 22 states) precisely because of their laws. Associations must balance how to serve members who might be in Louisiana or Texas or Florida and those from California, a state so big that decisions on where to host may wall off a huge swath of members who cannot attend because of state restrictions.
Adding to the difficulty is the timeline and its associated costs; these conferences and annual meetings are usually booked multiple years out and can have large economic impacts on the host cities. A state that isn’t currently contemplating legislation that conflicts with an association’s values, vision and mission statement upon securing a location could have a very different environment three years later. It is an enormous financial move to make a change in location, particularly if contracts have already been signed with hotels and other vendors.
It is critical for associations to have site-selection policies in place that provide guidance for the organization when they are considering locations for future meetings. Most associations at this point likely have policies to draw on, but now is a time to revisit language to ensure decisions can be made within and backstopped by the parameters of the site selection policy. The language of such policies should not be so specific nor so vague that it would prohibit changes from being made if that ultimately is the best move for an organization. When possible, contracts should include language that allows for cancellation based on the passage of discriminatory legislation between the signing date and planned meeting date.
When an organization does have policies in place and decides to relocate an event, executing the change and communicating about the pivot poses additional challenges. These steps should begin as early as possible and preferably should involve a board vote to support the decision. Communications should be transparent and provide consideration for attendees, particularly when a decision to relocate is made close to a meeting date, through extended registration deadlines, registration discounts or a virtual option. But importantly, communicating why the conference location is being changed is always easier if there has been consistent communication regarding what an organization’s mission, vision and values are.
For some organizations—especially those tied to human rights, social service and education—mission, vision and values are top of mind and actively taken into account with site-selection policy language. Considering the members these organizations serve and whom those members in turn serve, it’s not surprising that these types of organizations are very comfortable talking about values as they relate to their work and are quick to flag violations of those values.
For organizations that have not yet gotten there, now is clearly the time to start having these conversations. But it’s important that these conversations and decisions are not based solely on the thoughts or preferences of organizational leadership; rather, there needs to be grounding in a larger conversation with membership about what the organization stands for. It’s an opportunity to reach out to members or those who attend their meetings to gauge what are pressing issues for them and to the audiences they serve.
Being prepared for continuing shifts in the legislative landscape around human rights and getting these policies and procedures in place is a smart move for any organization so that they can start to have these conversations before there are potentially millions of dollars on the line.
Erin Hennessy is executive vice president of TVP Communications, a national communications agency solely focused on higher education.
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MEXICO CITY — A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck Mexico early Thursday, causing buildings to sway and leaving at least one person dead in the nation's capital.
The earthquake struck shortly after 1 a.m., just three days after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake shook western and central Mexico, killing two.
The U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday's earthquake, like Monday's, was centered in the western state of Michoacan near the Pacific coast. The epicenter was about 29 miles (46 kilometers) south-southwest of Aguililla, Michoacan, at a depth of about 15 miles (24.1 kilometers).
Michoacan's state government said the quake was felt throughout the state. It reported damage to a building in the city of Uruapan and some landslides on the highway that connects Michoacan and Guerrero with the coast.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said via Twitter that it was an aftershock from Monday's quake and was also felt in the states of Colima, Jalisco and Guerrero.
Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said via Twitter that one woman died in a central neighborhood when she fell down the stairs of her home. Residents were huddled in streets as seismic alarms blared.
The earthquake rattled an already jittery country. Monday's more powerful quake was the third major earthquake to strike on Sept. 19 — in 1985, 2017 and now 2022. The 2017 and 2022 Sept. 19 quakes came very shortly after the annual earthquake drill conducted every Sept. 19 to commemorate the devastating 1985 temblor that killed some 9,500 people.
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NPR Top Stories Morning news brief Published September 22, 2022 at 2:04 AM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email The DOJ wins an appeal to continue the Trump probe. The Federal Reserve hiked interest rates again. And, Iranian women protest the death of a woman who arrested by the morality police. Copyright 2022 NPR
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NPR's A Martinez talks to retired Col. Mark Cancian about what Putin's partial mobilization of the Russian military and attempts to annex Ukrainian territory tell us about the next phase of the war.
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NPR's A Martinez talks to retired Col. Mark Cancian about what Putin's partial mobilization of the Russian military and attempts to annex Ukrainian territory tell us about the next phase of the war.
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WEST MICHIGAN — The forecast from FOX 17 Meteorologist Candace Monacelli: Happy Fall y’all! The Autumn Equinox, known more commonly as the first official day of fall, is today! Fall officially arrives at 9:03 P.M. The winds will be strong from the north-northwest on today, which will deliver high wave heights and generate some lake effect rain showers. Lake effect rain showers will be most likely along and west of U.S. 131. Lake Michigan has a HIGH Beach Hazard Risk and a Small Craft Advisory in effect through this evening, as wave heights could reach up to 8 feet. Please stay off the piers and out of the water! Temperatures sharply cool off, with a day-time high temperature of 61 degrees. The remainder of our 7-day forecast will feature high temperatures in the 60s. Friday brings some sunshine, with the chance of showers on Saturday and Sunday and even into next week. Stay up to date with the latest forecast by downloading our FOX 17 Weather App!
TODAY: Happy Astronomical Fall! Partly sunny to mostly cloudy and cold with a few lake effect rain showers possible, especially along/west of U.S. 131. Waterspouts are possible on Lake Michigan! Highs only in the lower 60s. Winds north-northwest at 10 to 20 mph. Patchy frost possible overnight. HIGH BEACH HAZARD risk and SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES continue.
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy to mostly clear. Patchy frost possible. North winds around 5 mph. Lows around 40 degrees.
FRIDAY: Partly cloudy to partly sunny skies. Highs in the lower 60s.
SATURDAY: Partly cloudy with a chance for pop-up showers. Highs in the middle 60s.
SUNDAY: Partly to mostly cloudy with chance of showers. Highs in the lower 60s.
MONDAY: Mostly cloudy with chance of showers. Highs in the lower 60s.
TUESDAY: Mostly cloudy with chance of showers. Highs in the upper 50s.
For the latest details on the weather in West Michigan, head to the FOX 17 Weather page.
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Top news and notes from around Northern Virginia and beyond.
5. Dog saved, man injured
A man suffered possibly life-threatening burns early Wednesday as he coaxed the family dog from their burning Lake Ridge home. Fire officials say the dog is in good condition.
4. Jobs rebound
Northern Virginia accounts for nearly 38 percent of the jobs in the commonwealth but only was responsible for 30 percent of the statewide rebound in employment over the past year, according to new data.
3. Breezy day
After a mostly cloudy morning, skies will gradually clear and temperatures will rise to a high of about 84 degrees. It will breezy, too, with wind gusts up to 23 mph. Click here for a detailed forecast by ZIP code.
2. Gang initiation
Police have charged a second teenager in double murder this spring in Woodbridge, and detectives say the crime was an initiation into the Bloods criminal street gang.
1. Pick-up line mayhem
A Warrenton woman was arrested Wednesday on drunken driving charges after a crash in the parent pick-up line at P.B. Smith Elementary, according to the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office.
InsideOut
The Manassas Latino Festival takes places at the Harris Pavilion, 9201 Center St., Manassas, on Sept. 24. Celebrate the cultural heritage and contributions of the Latin American community with live music, dance performances, diverse foods and more. Click here for details.
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The Yorktown Patriots finished second in the Liberty District standings with a 5-1 record. The Langley Saxons were first at 6-0.
In the final day of regular-season high-school play in a four-team nine-hole match at Washington Golf & Country Club course in Arlington, Yorktown had a 146 team score to defeat district rival McLean (166) and non-league foe Robinson (156), but lose to Langley, which shot an 8-under 132. Four Langley players shot under par.
Yorktown finished the regular season with an 8-1 overall record.
Leading the Patriots with the lowest individual score in that nine-hole four-team match was Charlie Lamb with a 2-under 33. He made two birdies and seven pars. Trevor McAndrews shot 37, Tony Newell and Benjamin Newfield each had 38s, Cole Ransom had a 40 and Kyle Langley 43.
Yorktown was In second place behind Langley after the first round of the 36-hole Liberty District tournament. The Patriots finished second to Langley last season.
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In a harsh warning, President Vladimir Putin declared that he won't hesitate to use nuclear weapons to protect Russian territory, a threat that comes as Moscow is poised to annex swaths of Ukraine that Moscow has taken over after hastily called referendums there.
While the West has heard such rhetoric from him before, the circumstances are starkly different.
The Kremlin has orchestrated referendums in the occupied areas of Ukraine that are set to start Friday. Residents will be asked whether they want to become part of Russia - a vote that is certain to go Moscow's way. That means Russia could absorb those lands as early as next week.
Putin then raised the stakes by a nnouncing a partial mobilization and vowed to use “all available means” to deter future attacks against Russia - a reference to Russia's nuclear arsenal in a chilling new round of brinkmanship.
Some observers see Putin’s move to annex Ukrainian territory along with the mobilization and renewed nuclear threats as a last-ditch attempt to force Ukraine and its Western backers into accepting the current status quo after a successful Ukrainian counteroffensive earlier this month.
Tatiana Stanovaya, an independent political expert who follows the Kremlin’s decision-making, described Putin's rushed moves on the referendums as a pretext for upping the ante.
“This is a blunt Russian ultimatum to Ukraine and the West: Ukraine must back off or there will be a nuclear war,” Stanovaya said. “For Putin, the annexation would legitimize the right to resort to nuclear threats to protect the Russian territory.”
In a televised address to the nation Wednesday, Putin said Moscow's nuclear arsenal is more modern than NATO's and declared his readiness to use them.
"This is not a bluff,” Putin added somberly in an apparent reference to those in the West who described his earlier nuclear threats as a blustery attempt to weaken the international support for Ukraine.
Russian military doctrine envisages the use of atomic weapons in response to a nuclear attack or aggression involving conventional weapons that “threatens the very existence of the state,” vague wording that offers ample room for interpretation.
In his brief speech, Putin accused the U.S. and its allies of arming and training Ukraine's military and encouraging Kyiv to attack Russian territory. He seemed to push the threshold for using nuclear weapons even lower.
“In the event of a threat to the territorial integrity of our country and to defend Russia and our people, we will certainly use all means available to us,” he said.
In recent weeks, Russian officials have repeatedly warned Washington that supplies of longer-range missiles to Ukraine would effectively make the U.S. a party to the conflict.
U.S.-supplied HIMARS rocket launchers and other Western weapons played an important role in the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region that represented Moscow's biggest military defeat since it was forced to withdraw its troops from Kyiv after a botched attempt to seize the Ukrainian capital early in the war. It raised the prospect of more battlefield successes for Ukraine, which has vowed to reclaim control over all Russian-occupied territories, including the Crimean Peninsula that Moscow annexed in 2014.
Ukraine's success has been a humiliating blow to Putin, who has cast the campaign as a “special military operation” and has tried to win it with a limited contingent of volunteer troops. Western estimates put Russia's invading force at about 200,000 at the start of the war, and it has suffered heavy losses in seven months of fighting. British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace recently put Russian losses at over 25,000 dead.
While Ukraine has declared a sweeping mobilization with a goal of forming a 1 million-member military, the Kremlin so far has tried to avoid the unpopular move, recruiting volunteer soldiers and even prisoners. Hawkish circles in Moscow long have pushed for a mobilization, arguing it's impossible to fend off Ukraine's assaults along a 1,000-kilometer (over 500-mile) front line with the currently outnumbered Russian force.
The mobilization that Putin declared Wednesday is the first such move in Russia since World War II. The Soviet Union used a draft to fight its 10-year war in Afghanistan, and Russia also relied on conscripts during the two wars in Chechnya in the 1990s and early 2000s.
While Putin and his defense minister promised only a partial mobilization aimed at calling up about 300,000 reservists with previous military service, analysts say the move will severely strain the corrupt and inefficient government system and fuel instability that would threaten Putin's hold on power.
The mobilization order immediately triggered protests in Moscow and other cities that were quickly disbanded by police who detained hundreds of demonstrators.
Kirill Rogov, an independent political analyst, described the mobilization order as an “explosive mixture of madness, incompetence and despair.” He noted that Putin risks losing support from the bulk of the Russian public that until now has seen the war as a “distant and limited development.”
Alexander Baunov of the Carnegie Endowment noted the mobilization has broken Putin’s pact with his political base that expected him to deliver stability and a vision of Russian grandeur without the need for personal sacrifice.
“Now sacrifice is required, and it’s a violation of the past unwritten agreements that would trigger more repressions,” Baunov wrote.
He noted that Putin’s move to annex Russia-controlled regions amounts to a warning: “You dared to fight us in Ukraine, now try to fight us in Russia, or more precisely, what we call such.”
In a Feb. 24 speech announcing the invasion, Putin already brandished the nuclear sword, threatening any foreign country attempting to interfere with “consequences you have never seen.”
The latest threat underlined the Russian leader's dogged determination to safeguard Russian gains even at the risk of a nuclear escalation.
Putin's previous statements about all-out nuclear conflict have been delivered with frightening nonchalance.
Talking about Russian strategy at a 2018 meeting of international foreign policy experts, Putin acknowledged that a nuclear exchange "would naturally mean a global catastrophe,” but he promised that Russia will not strike first.
And he added with a smirk: “We would be victims of an aggression and would get to heaven as martyrs and they will just croak and not even have time to repent.”
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Forecast Updated on Thursday, September 22, 2022, at 3:30am by WBOC Meteorologist Mike Lichniak
Today: Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and storms possible. Windy. Highs: 82-88. Winds: SW-NW 5-25+ mph.
Tonight: Chance of a shower or storm early. Otherwise, it turns mostly clear by morning and windy. Lows: 48-56. Winds: NW 15-40+ mph.
Friday: Mostly sunny and windy. Highs: 68-74. Winds: NW 15-35+ mph.
Friday Night: Clear and chilly as the wind calms overnight. Lows: 38-50. Winds: NW 5-20+ mph.
Saturday: Sunny. Highs: 68-74. Winds: NW-W 5-20+ mph.
Sunday: Increasing clouds throughout the day with a chance of showers by the late evening hours. Highs: 75-83. Winds: W-SW 5-20+ mph.
A stronger cold front will be pushing into our region by this afternoon bringing our best chance of some showers and storms over the next 7 days. These showers and storms could pack a punch if we get more sunshine earlier in the day on Thursday with the biggest concerns being gusty winds, very heavy rain, and lots of lightning. As the front clears this evening, the wind turns out of the north and west and the wind will stay up all night long and linger into Friday.
This is the only hiccup for Firefly weekend as the forecast looks fantastic for all weekend plans. Lots of sunshine and cooler temperatures as high pressure from Canada settles into control of the forecast. High temperatures will be in the 60s and 70s on Friday and Saturday with morning temperatures on Saturday morning in the 40s and our coolest communities could fall into the upper 30s…nice and crisp. Another shot of showers and storms are going to be possible late Sunday evening and Sunday night into early Monday with another cold front arriving.
Fiona is doing a number on the islands in the Caribbean this morning. This storm will turn to the north over the next few days. It will not reach the mainland US, but it will come close enough to us that the swell will be significantly kicked up heading toward the weekend and waves will be massive at our beaches starting today and continuing through the weekend. This will also drive our rip current up heading into the weekend. Also, watching a second system that is going to develop in the Caribbean over the weekend as there are some big indications that the lower 48 will need to keep an eye on this developing storm. Stay tuned…
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Thursday: Small Craft Advisory until 5pm. Gale Warning from 5pm. SW 15-30 knots. Seas: 4-6 feet.
Friday: Gale Warning until 7am. Small Craft Advisory. NW 20-30+ knots. Seas: 7-11 feet.
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Thursday: Small Craft Advisory through 6pm. Gale Watch for the evening. W-NW 10-20 knots. Waves: 1-3 feet.
Friday: Gale Watch for the morning. Small Craft Advisory. NW 15-30 knots. Waves: 2-5 feet.
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Thursday: Small Craft Advisory until 6pm. Gale Watch for the evening. SW-NW 10-25 knots. Seas: 1-3 feet.
Friday: Gale Watch for the morning. Small Craft Advisory. NW 15-25 knots. Seas: 2-4 feet.
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The number of rich people in the world rose at a rapid pace last year, boosted by gains in the stock market and house prices.
As many as 5.2 million people became millionaires last year, with nearly half in the United States alone, according to Credit Suisse's latest annual wealth report.
"This is the largest increase in millionaire numbers recorded for any country in any year this century," it said.
Worldwide, the total number of millionaires stood at 62.5 million at the end of 2021, Credit Suisse estimated.
The report, which was released Tuesday, found that aggregate global wealth totaled $463.6 trillion at the end of last year, jumping 9.8%.
Unsurprisingly, the top two economies — the United States and China — saw the biggest gains in household wealth, followed by Canada, India, and Australia.
Each country was likely helped by significant rises in economic output in 2021, combined with "vigorous" activity in their respective housing or stock markets, the bank said.
This once again exacerbated global inequality, which has already worsened significantly throughout the pandemic.
2020 saw a historic setback in the fight against global poverty, with the number of the world's poorest rising for the first time in over 20 years, according to the World Bank.
While overall poverty has since slid down slightly again, the institution estimates that tens of millions more people could still be living in extreme poverty this year than previously thought, "due to the lingering effects of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and rising inflation."
That stands in sharp contrast to the world's most fortunate, even if they aren't immune to those factors.
Last year, the wealth share of the top 1% "rose for a second year running," Credit Suisse said in its report. Those individuals accounted for 45.6% of the world's wealth in 2021.
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Bitcoin is losing 2% over the past 24 hours, hovering near $18.7K at the time of writing. Attempts at intraday gains have been shattered by the adverse market reaction following the Fed's forecasts and comments. BTCUSD has been declining for eight of the last nine days.
Total crypto market capitalisation is down 2% to $900bn for the day. Ethereum remains worse than the market, losing 5.5% in the last 24 hours, while the top altcoins are changing in a range of -2.2% (DogeCoin) to +3.5% (XRP).
Below current levels, Bitcoin has traded for just 17 hours in June, and on a sustained basis, it has not been lower since last November. Barring potentially very minor levels at $17K and $16K, on the chart, there are no meaningful consolidation areas for the first cryptocurrency down to $12K. Going down there looks like a very ambitious task for the bears, even with the current market.
News background
A US court has ordered Tether, the issuer of USDT, to provide USD reserves data, including account statements from banks and other institutions.
Meanwhile, a new bill has been introduced in the US Congress that proposes to ban the creation of algorithmic stablecoins like TerraUSD for two years.
The XRP token has risen 22% in the past six days amid a possible SEC court case against Ripple Labs on an expedited basis. Both sides have petitioned the court to do so.
"White Hacker" received 400 ETH (about $531k) from Arbitrum for identifying a vulnerability in Arbitrum's protocol code that could have resulted in millions of dollars in lost cash.
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It's turning out to be a wild week in markets as the post-Fed reaction has been anything but straightforward. After the BOJ stood pat earlier today, Japanese officials have hit the panic button as they intervened to buy up the yen against the dollar for the first time since June 1998.
That is seeing some negative spillovers for the dollar after having seen USD/JPY fall from 145.80 to a low of 140.66 moments ago. The pair is now back up to 141.55 in highly volatile trading at the moment.
EUR/USD is now up 0.5% to 0.9885 while GBP/USD is up 0.5% to 1.1330 on the day. Both the euro and pound looked set for sharper declines against the greenback earlier but have salvaged some pride for the time being. The latter remains a focus point with the BOE coming up as noted here.
Meanwhile, USD/CHF remains up 0.8% after the SNB policy decision but has fallen from a high of 0.9800 to 0.9470 at the moment. The commodity currencies are also slightly higher against the dollar with risk sentiment picking up after a stuttering start earlier today. USD/CAD is down 0.2% to 1.3430 while AUD/USD is up 0.4% to 0.6655 currently.
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It's a landmark moment in financial markets but symbolism isn't enough to cut it if Japanese authorities really want to arrest the decline in the yen currency. History is filled with stories of intervention by central banks and one thing is for certain. When these sort of things are conducted in isolated fashion or rather with poor coordination i.e. repeated attempts with bad timing and/or meagre amounts, they tend to not work out too well - especially in the big picture.
That is not to say that the Japanese government and BOJ are amateurs in this matter but the situation at hand is rather tricky. I shared some of my thoughts earlier:
"I would be remiss not to question the effectiveness of such a move (yen intervention). There is no doubt that this is a big moment in financial markets but it comes at a rather bad time honestly for Japan. Let's take stock of the situation.
"For one, officials are only intervening after a 26% drop in the currency this year. Meanwhile, the BOJ remains at odds with the Fed in terms of monetary policy - in fact they couldn't be at more opposite ends of the spectrum. That fact alone is enough to also make the yen less alluring as a safe haven currency as compared to the dollar amid widening rate differentials.
"And unless this is Japan signalling that they are ready to put a stop to the policy divergence, which is odd because the timing comes right after the BOJ said that they would maintain its policy stance as it is appropriate amid current economic circumstances, then officials are still fighting an uphill battle in terms of intervention. And that isn't really ideal."
There has to be an end goal in mind in conducting such a move and if the fundamental play of policy divergence remains, it is hard to see how this is not going to be a painful exercise for Japan.
As much as this is a major signal to markets that they are indeed ready to take action, it could just prove to be short-lived as traders start to slowly push that boulder towards the 145.00 hill again. If that takes place at let's say in December, will Japan want to step in again then? Or is it just all about pacing out the decline in the yen? I guess time will tell.
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Search interest in abortion falls as the border rises
Americans' Google searches and story interactions around crime and immigration are eclipsing abortion and the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, according to the Axios midterms dashboard powered by Google Trends, as well as new data from NewsWhip.
Why it matters: With elections seven weeks away, some topics more likely to favor Democrats have been losing ground to those that may favor Republicans.
The big picture: Democrats have been laser focused on abortion as a winning issue, but the new data shows a waning interest nationally after the initial surge that followed the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade. It remains high in some states and districts, including Indiana, which passed a near total ban last month.
- Meanwhile, searches related to immigration and the border vaulted into the top 10 last week, as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis grabbed national attention by flying asylum seekers to Martha's Vineyard.
- Crime has continued to hover around the top 10 as an issue many voters have been paying close attention to.
- Search interest in inflation and generally about the economy has been rising again.
- One positive trend for Democrats: Declining interest in "gas prices," after the topic landed in the top 3 in early June. That decline tracked with falling prices at the pump.
Zoom in: Stories about the busing and flying of migrants to other parts of the country captured significant social media attention over the past week, according to data from NewsWhip.
- Interactions on stories about DeSantis flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard far outnumbered those on the stories about abortion or the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago during that same time period, for example.
Of note: Jobs, taxes and wages have without fail remained at or near the top of the search hierarchy over the past several months. It tracks with polls that show voters care most about economic issues.
- Firearms dropped out of the top 5 for only the second time since Axios has been recording the data.
- Ukraine is back again in the top 5, after several weeks of falling interest as the conflict stagnated.
- The Google Trends data compares weekly data from the period of May 23-August 8 and September 8 to September 20.
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High-profile units on Edinburgh's George Street snapped up in multi-million-pound deal
Three prominent retail and office buildings on Edinburgh’s George Street have been sold in a multi-million-pound deal described as showing faith in the city’s shopping sector, and defying the “gloom” recently associated with retail overall.
Broadlands Properties has acquired 86, 88, and 90-92 George Street from a client of CBRE Investment Management, with the transaction brokered between commercial property consultancy Knight Frank and agency CuthbertWhite. While the sale price was not confirmed, the properties were marketed for around £15 million.
Hackett, outdoor clothing company Rohan, menswear retailer Xile, The White Company, and Gant operate from the ground floor units, totalling more than 17,800 square feet of retail space, with the offices above occupied by architecture practice Kettle Collective, private investment group Grayling Capital, and fintech firm Praemium among others.
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The deal also includes two adjoining buildings, 72 and 74 Rose Street North Lane, which were marketed for redevelopment. The former is currently vacant, while the latter is partially occupied by a firm of solicitors.
Knight Frank believes interest in George Street has defied concerns about the health of retail, with eight of the 11 leases recently made available there taken up by occupiers. Earlier this year, the consultancy found that, before the opening of the St James Quarter, Edinburgh had the most productive retail space of any UK city outside London.
Euan Kelly, partner at Knight Frank, said: “There was a high level of interest in the George Street assets, despite the well-publicised challenges the retail sector has faced in recent years. They were originally marketed as four separate properties, but it says a lot about the buyer’s confidence in Edinburgh retail that they have decided to acquire all of them together.
“Edinburgh city centre has strong fundamentals from both a retail and office perspective, with limited supply and a sustained high level of demand… George Street in particular has held up better than many people would have thought.”
Stephen Kay of CuthbertWhite said: “Broadland Properties Ltd is a family-run office with existing holdings on George St. The company sees long-term value in this location and is planning a comprehensive refurbishment of the asset… Many of the current retail occupiers have been in occupation for in excess of 25 years, and will be assisting with the ongoing letting strategy of the soon-to-be refurbished office accommodation.”
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Edinburgh Airbnbs: Scottish Government rejects MSP's plea for delay to short-term let licensing scheme
Calls for the launch of a licensing system for Airbnb style short-term lets in Scotland to be postponed have been rejected by the Scottish Government.
Let us know what you think and join the conversation at the bottom of this article.
Lothian Tory MSP Miles Briggs urged the delay to allow the sector to recover from Covid and the cost of living crisis.
But Housing and Local Government Secretary Shona Robison said the licensing scheme – due to come into effect on October 1 – would ensure safety standards were met and allow councils to set additional conditions to address concerns in their own area.
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Ms Robison told the Scottish Parliament: "Many short-term lets already comply with those conditions. For those that do not, it is important those conditions are met as soon as possible to ensure a level playing field and safety across Scotland.
“We will continue to work with local authorities and, in the summer of 2023, we will review levels of short-term let activity in hotspot areas to assess how the actions that we are taking are working and to ensure that there are no unintended consequences.”
Under the new system, from October 1, new short-term let owners must obtain a licence from their local authority before they can operate as a short-term let.
While existing hosts have until April 1, 2023 to apply for a licence and can continue operating while their application is being determined. Legislation also requires short-term let accommodation to have planning permission for change of use.
Mr Briggs said there was confusion about guest houses and bed and breakfasts, with some councils including them in the scheme but, he claimed, the Deputy First Minister telling guest houses in his constituency they were exempt.
The Lothian MSP said: “Does the cabinet secretary not realise now that the legislation is a mess and that there needs to be a pause for councils to implement it properly?”
Ms Robison said the legislation was clear that hotels were excluded from the scheme, but guest houses were not and would require a licence to operate.
And she rejected his description of the legislation. She said: “We have had numerous consultations on it; parliament has had ample time to scrutinise it; and widespread consultation has taken place, as well as there being stakeholder input through the stakeholder implementation group.
"Local communities have told us over many years about their safety concerns and the impact that the concentration of short-term lets can have on communities and housing availability. Licensing will allow councils and communities to take action to manage issues more effectively without unduly curtailing some of the benefits of short-term lets for hosting visitors and for the Scottish economy.”
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Somerset County unveils 'nation's first' preservation plan of its kind. Here are details
MONTGOMERY – Somerset County unveiled a new Preservation Plan this week, saying it’s the first such county plan in the nation to integrate open space, farmland and historic preservation into a single document.
The goal, according to county officials, is to continue and expand management and acquisition of new properties not only for the environmental benefits but also in support of tourism and economic development in Somerset County.
“Thanks to bipartisan efforts over many decades, Somerset County has more than 24,000 acres of preserved land, with even more in the hands of local governments and nonprofits,” said Commissioner Director Shanel Robinson. “This new Preservation Plan works to integrate these great results with enhanced management, additional acquisitions and new marketing campaigns to tell the world about the open space, agricultural and historic gems that make Somerset County a great place to live, work, play … and visit.”
The county’s open space inventory is approaching 15,000 acres with a new goal of 24,000 and has close to 9,000 acres of farmland preserved with a new goal of 16,000.
“There are far more benefits to preserving farms than just restricting development,” said Commissioner Paul Drake. “Farmers markets provide healthy, local foods for residents and are also a draw for tourists who come for apple or pumpkin picking, specialty produce available only at their stands, or even family fun like summer hayrides, complex corn mazes and Halloween scare fests.”
As part of the comprehensive new plan, Somerset County is now supporting nonprofits in preserving properties for recreation and conservation using its dedicated Open Space, Farmland and Historic Preservation Trust Fund. The first funding partnership under this new program is the True Farmstead in Montgomery, co-owned by the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum and Sourland Conservancy.
“The combination of strategies to preserve our precious environmental and recreational resources through acquisition of open space and farmland makes this Preservation Plan special,” said Commissioner Deputy Director Melonie Marano. “But when we integrate historic preservation into the county’s preservations efforts, this Preservation Plan becomes unique in the nation. The combination will help Somerset County to attract tourists, employers and residents to visit, grow our economy and raise their families.”
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The 5-acre True Farmstead property was originally owned by a Black Union army veteran who worked it as a farm after the Civil War. In 1899, Spencer and Corinda Trueheart donated some of the land to create the Mount Zion AME Church, recently restored by the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum. The Somerset County Historic Preservation grant program provided partial funding for the restoration.
The historic component of the plan also ensures there is a comprehensive understanding of the county’s existing resources with the update to the 1989 County Cultural Resource Survey, and a strategic assessment of the needs of the county-owned historic resources.
The integrated Preservation Plan was developed by Somerset County’s Office of Planning, Policy and Economic Development with the input from government, corporate and nonprofit partners, as well as hundreds of individuals committed to preserving and enhancing Somerset County’s environmental, agricultural and historic assets. The plan contains sections focused on stewardship for all currently preserved properties, ensuring continued funding for future acquisitions, conducting issues and needs assessments to drive decision making and the integration of climate change mitigation strategies, economic development and tourism efforts into the preservation process.
The Preservation Plan is accessible at soconj.gov/preservation.
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Shuttered Lord & Taylor at center of major downtown Westfield redevelopment plan
WESTFIELD – The shuttered Lord & Taylor on North Avenue and several town-owned parcels are slated for redevelopment as part of a mixed-use project that will include flexible office space, street-level retail, various types of housing as well as parking garages for more than 450 vehicles.
The One Westfield Place plan was presented at Tuesday's Town Council meeting by HBC, the parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue and the Hudson's Bay Company stores, through its real estate development arm Streetworks Development.
The project is intended to reinvigorate Westfield's downtown, repurpose underutilized buildings and properties, increase parking, create new housing and commercial spaces and improve pedestrian connectivity between residential neighborhoods and the downtown.
Richard Baker, HBC governor, executive chairman and CEO, said HBC has more than 350 years of experience in reinvention and revitalization and understands the responsibility to repurpose and bring life back to the former Lord & Taylor site in Westfield. The landmark luxury store closed in 2020.
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“One Westfield Place, will be welcoming, distinct, and authentic, with increased walkability, pedestrian access to open spaces, tree-lined sidewalks, picturesque main streets, and buildings expertly designed to complement the unique charm and character of the town. The revitalization of Downtown Westfield will serve as a model of suburban downtowns for years to come,” Baker said in a news release from HBC.
HBC/Streetworks is the largest commercial landowner and taxpayer in downtown Westfield.
The 731,000-square-foot One Westfield Place plan includes 100,000 square feet of flexible office space by adapting the former Lord & Taylor building, a building along South Avenue that offers 210,000 square feet of office and amenities to benefit employees and 27,000 square feet of street-level retail throughout the development.
The housing component includes 154 residential apartments and townhomes targeted to residents 55 and older, 69 apartments catering to families and young professionals, as well as affordable housing units planned in accordance with both state and town housing requirements.
The housing component is projected to have a negligible impact on the Westfield school district, the developer said.
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There also are plans for two new parking garages for more than 450 vehicles on North Avenue and South Avenue near the NJ Transit train station, and landscaped Town Green and Town Square spaces north and south of the train station to be revitalized public spaces with seasonal planters, water features and improved pedestrian and vehicular access.
Also planned are streetscape and sidewalk improvements including the beautification of Quimby Street and a mobility hub connecting the north and south sides of the train station to improve access to alternative modes of transportation, such as ride sharing, bike stations, storage and pickup/drop-off service locations.
HBC/Streetworks, in concert with the Downtown Westfield Corporation, also plans to collaborate with Dan Biederman, president of Biederman Redevelopment Ventures, the experts behind New York’s Bryant Park, to develop a comprehensive plan to strategically activate and program events and activities in public spaces and gathering areas.
“Driven by our Master Plan, and with a commitment to maintaining Westfield’s historical character, HBC | Streetworks Development is proposing a downtown for the future – one that is more people-centric than car-centric – with a focus on sustainability, safe streets, and improved infrastructure,” said Westfield Mayor Shelley Brindle in the news release. “This innovative proposal presents us with a unique opportunity to address our long-standing traffic, parking, and congestion challenges; provide much-needed spaces for community gathering, art, and events; and bring in unprecedented new sources of tax revenue to the town that will mitigate the tax burden of our residents for generations to come.”
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The project as envisioned is expected to generate several million dollars per year to Westfield for a total of more than $200 million in additional revenues over 30 years through a proposed PILOT (Payment in Lieu of Taxes) agreement, which would help to stabilize taxes, fund public improvements and support other municipal priorities, according to town officials and the developer.
Brindle said that funding will help with several town initiatives such as building a long overdue new firehouse and repurposing the existing historic one into a community space, building new playing fields and upgrading parks and providing assistance to town schools to support priority capital projects.
The project is anticipated to create more than 2,900 jobs during construction, as well as 1,700 jobs once operational, according to town officials.
Residents can learn more about One Westfield Place next month when a preview center is scheduled to open at 76 Elm St., or by visiting www.onewestfieldplace.com.
The project is subject to approval by the Westfield Town Council, which may take months following public input.
Email: srussell@gannettnj.com
Suzanne Russell is a breaking news reporter for MyCentralJersey.com covering crime, courts and other mayhem. To get unlimited access, please subscribe or activate your digital account today.
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SINGAPORE, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Volare jumped into the blockchain-gaming market by creating the Volare Game Arcade within Whisper MSG, a blockchain wallet & messenger app with more than a million downloads. The Volare Arcade started with 9 games, all of which are Play-to-Rank (P2R). Volare distributes token rewards to daily top ranking winners of those games. JG Lee, a leader of the Volare Project emphasized that "P2R games should and will replace Play-to-Earn games, because P2E games are more work than play."
When the wave of blockchain spread to the gaming industry, game developers invented a new genre called Play-to-Earn. The first notable P2E game was "Cryptokitties" in 2017, where players competed to create and breed unique kittens to sell but gamers grew bored with the repetition of trying to create a unique kitty, and Cryptokitties was quickly forgotten. The craze was succeeded by "Axie Infinity", a P2E blockchain game with an added showdown element. Similar to Cryptokitties, gamers also got tired of the repetitive "grinding" to breed Axies.
Most gamers soon realized two immutable principles behind P2E games: First, a P2E gamer can earn money only by selling game items to other gamers. Therefore, if new gamers are not joining, existing gamers can no longer earn money. Second, as soon as a game's focus goes from "fun" to "money", the game turns into just sheer labor and the players become miners. P2E games left a salutary lesson that gaming to earn money is no longer gaming.
Contrary to P2E games, P2R games allow gamers to focus on the game itself. Also, P2R games add "rewards" on the achievement by gamers which is usually quantified as "Ranking". The P2R system has already been adopted by many e-sports. Gamers who gladly pay to watch incredible plays by star players of e-sport cheer in excitement and thrill when they get rewarded as the best rankers in P2R games. JG Lee added, "Volare Network will create a P2R game ecosystem that challenges gamers which in turn will motivate developers who are inspired by the gamers."
About EQBR Holdings:
Founded in 2020, EQBR has engaged with various businesses as a solutions provider with blockchain engine, Equilibrium, blockchain-based messenger Whisper, a low-code developer tool EQ Hub and a NFT minting platform, My Flex.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Stitch Fix, Inc. ("Stitch Fix" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SFIX) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Stitch Fix investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of purchasers of Stitch Fix Class A common stock between December 8, 2020, and March 8, 2022, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
SFIX investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: According to the filed complaint, Stitch Fix made numerous false and misleading statements to investors concerning the synergy between the Company's Fix and Freestyle programs, and repeatedly denied claims that the Freestyle program could cannibalize the Company's legacy Fix business. Specifically, Stitch Fix repeatedly assured investors that the Company's Freestyle business was "an additive experience" and "complementary" to the Fix business, that "the combination of those two things will allow us to address many more types of clients," and that "we see solid growth in both sides of the business." In truth, Stitch Fix concealed that these programs were not complementary or additive. Stitch Fix knew that the Freestyle program would be much preferred to the Company's original Fix model and that the Freestyle program would inevitably cannibalize the Company's legacy Fix business.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Stitch Fix during the relevant time frame, you have until October 25, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate Armed Services Committee has reached an agreement aimed at advancing Pentagon nominees who would oversee acquisitions and defense industrial-base policy following controversy over a road in an Alaskan mining district.
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, blocked three Pentagon nominees from advancing out of the committee in July in protest over the Interior Department’s decision to stall his state’s Ambler Mining District industrial access road. Sullivan argued the department’s move would inhibit the mining of critical minerals — a market where China’s domination has created several vulnerabilities in the U.S. defense supply chain.
Sullivan told Defense News on Tuesday he received an update on the issue from the Biden administration last week but that the Interior Department has done nothing to address his concerns. However, he noted that he would allow two nominees to advance out of committee by voice vote in the near future as “a showing of good faith” to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I.
“We are making sure that Sen. Sullivan has access and discussions with critical people because he’s trying to do his job for the people of Alaska,” Reed told Defense News on Tuesday. “Then at some point though, we’re going to have to take a vote.”
The two nominations that are slated to receive voice votes out of committee in the upcoming weeks are Laura Taylor-Kale as assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy and Brendan Owens as assistant secretary of defense for energy, installations and environment.
However, the committee will also have to convene a quorum to conduct a recorded vote on Radha Plumb to serve as deputy undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment.
“There’s no question about the quality of these people and also the need for them over at [the Defense Department],” Reed said. “Every time we have a hearing, someone will say our industrial base needs revamping.”
Congress has advanced legislation in recent months to bolster the domestic supply of critical minerals for the defense-industrial base in order to lessen Washington’s reliance on the supply chains of potential adversaries, such as China and Russia.
Sullivan argues that allowing the construction of the industrial access road to the Ambler Mining District would increase the U.S. critical minerals supply. He and fellow Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski made the case to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in a letter obtained by Defense News.
They wrote that blocking access to the mine by failing to approve the access road would “jeopardize U.S. economic and national security by prolonging our reliance on foreign adversaries for needed minerals and metals.”
The Ambler Mining District contains large reserves of copper, silver, gold, lead and zinc.
“The area has been characterized as one of the world’s largest undeveloped copper-zinc mineral belts, which is particularly crucial in light of recent forecasts of shortfalls in global copper supply,” Sullivan and Murkowski wrote. “These minerals are necessary for the manufacture of electric vehicles, renewable energy sources and are crucial to most modern defense systems.”
A 2020 report from the U.S. Geological Survey noted the United States is the world’s fourth-largest producer of refined copper, after China, Chile and Japan. Copper is alloyed with the critical mineral beryllium for a wide array of aerospace and defense applications, such as radar, telecommunications satellites and infrared target acquisition systems.
The Trump administration approved construction of the access road in 2020 after the Bureau of Land Management issued its final environmental impact statement. But the Biden administration in February asked a U.S. District Court for a voluntary remand on the project, which it received in May.
Sullivan and Murkowski have asked the Interior Department for a concrete time frame in which it will complete its review of the project. They’ve also asked that the department allow baseline scientific data gathering and design work to proceed, as well as for the approval of geotechnical drilling.
The Interior Department declined to comment.
Nonetheless, the critical minerals supply chain is one that Plumb and Taylor-Kale will have to contend with should the Senate approve their nominations.
Even after the nominees clear the committee, any senator — including Sullivan and Murkowski — can delay their nomination on the Senate floor.
Nine other Pentagon nominees remain stalled on the Senate floor as a result of Sen. Josh Hawley’s yearlong, blanket hold on all Defense Department nominations in protest of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Hawley, R-Mo., initially demanded the resignations of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in exchange for ending his blockade on Pentagon nominees. But he has since scaled back his demand to a public hearing on last year’s Abbey Gate attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport that killed 13 American service members and approximately 170 Afghan civilians.
Bryant Harris is the Congress reporter for Defense News. He has covered U.S. foreign policy, national security, international affairs and politics in Washington since 2014. He has also written for Foreign Policy, Al-Monitor, Al Jazeera English and IPS News.
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The Library of Congress awarded Ebsco Information Services a contract to implement an open-source IT platform that it said will revolutionize how its vast physical and digital collections are managed and made accessible for the public, Congress, government employees and other institutions.
The first phase of the platform’s development will cost $10.4 million over three years to meet the scale and complexity of the Library’s operations, with options to invest in additional components that could be developed by other vendors and may extend beyond the contract timeframe, the Library said in a statement.
The Library Collections Access Platform software application will serve as the heart of collections management, connecting stand-alone IT systems into a one-stop shop for the acquisition, description, inventory and discovery. Ebsco, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, will tailor FOLIO, a community-developed open-source software, to provide an IT platform that meets the needs of the Library and its users, it said.
“This is a milestone in our journey to implement a user-centered approach to connecting more people to the Library’s collections,” said Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, in the statement. “We are grateful for Congress’ generous investment in this next-generation system that is essential to the Library’s digital-forward strategy, which harnesses technology to bridge geographical divides, expand our reach and enhance our services.”
The platform will replace several legacy IT systems and provide Library staff with new, more efficient tools and workflows to manage continuously growing physical and digital collections at scale. It will offer researchers a streamlined discovery experience and new ways to access high quality metadata, and will enable the use of BIBFRAME, a bibliographic description standard being developed with partner organizations that uses a linked data model to make information more useful both within and outside the library community.
When the platform is fully operational, it will enable users to perform comprehensive searches of the extensive collections of the library, it said. The system will have more advanced IT security controls and will accommodate evolving technology and growing digital content.
“The Library of Congress has long played a pivotal role in developing open formats and standards for the library community,” said Kate Zwaard, associate librarian for discovery and preservation services, in the statement. “An open-source solution that supports linked open data will have benefits beyond just the Library’s workforce and users, supporting other institutions nationwide.”
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The Library of Congress was founded in 1800, making it the oldest federal cultural institution in the U.S. On August 24, 1814, British troops burned the Capitol building where the Library was housed at the time and destroyed its core collection of 3,000 volumes. On January 30, 1815, Congress approved the purchase of Thomas Jefferson’s personal library of 6,487 books for $23,950 to start rebuilding is collection. The Library moved into its own building across the street from the Capitol in 1897.
Today, the Library of Congress is the largest library in the world with more than 173 million items, including tweets.
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The following is a question submitted by a Federal Times readers about retirement and other issues facing the federal workforce. It is answered by Reg Jones, a charter member of the senior executive service and a Federal Times columnist since 1995.
Question: If I retain my FEHB upon retirement, what is the advantage to signing up for Medicare Part B? Medicare Part A is essentially free. However, there is a cost to Medicare Part B. Need I sign up?
Reg’s Response: No, you don’t have to sign up for Medicare Part B. In fact, NARFE (the National Association for Active and Retired Federal Employees) has pointed out that most employees covered by the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) won’t need it.
However, just because you don’t need those additional benefits now doesn’t mean that you won’t need them later. Among other things you should do before making up your mind is to review your own family’s health history to see if there are any health conditions that you are likely to have inherited. Then check those against the two forms of coverage to see if there’s anything in Part B that would make the additional cost worth it in the future.
Keep in mind that if you delay enrolling in Part B until you need that coverage, the premiums you pay will have increased with every year you weren’t enrolled.
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Veterans Affairs’ switchover to a new electronic health records system may be demoralizing staff members and convincing some to quit, department leaders warned lawmakers on Wednesday.
“It was something I personally observed in my visit to Columbus,” said Dr. Shareef Elnahal, VA’s undersecretary for health, during testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee. “Staff told me that this system was stressful to use and leadership told me that folks are leaving, in part because of the difficulty of the workflows.”
Despite that, VA officials said they are hopeful they can turn around the tumultuous rollout of the new Oracle Cerner records system, a $16 billion project that was once hailed as a way to provide seamless, improved medical care for troops and veterans.
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“We couldn’t be more frustrated,” said VA Deputy Secretary Donald Remy at the hearing. “That’s why we are holding [Oracle Cerner] and ourselves accountable. That’s why we are applying lessons learned from every deployment to continue to improve. That’s why we have pause on all future go-lives until 2023 to get this right.
“Make no mistake, we will get this right.”
VA has already committed about $7 billion to the project, which began in early 2018 under President Donald Trump. The transition was originally predicted to take 10 years to complete.
But repeated delays have called that schedule into question. In June, VA officials delayed all future deployments of the records system to new medical sites after acknowledging numerous reports of patient harm at initial sites using the software.
It followed several stops and starts with the system over the past 18 months, with VA employees reporting poor training and frequent outages with the system.
Elnahal was confirmed to his post in late July. In recent visits to medical sites using the new system, he said, he heard complaints from staff that they lack confidence the new software is recording their records updates, either because of flaws in the workflows or outages with the system.
He did not offer any specific numbers on staff turnover or frustration, but emphasized that “right now, I see folks struggling with the system deeply.”
Mike Sicilia, executive vice president for Oracle, said that officials are making improvements to the system and are working closely on a new deployment schedule to get the project back on track.
“We’ll be ready whenever VA wishes to resume,” he told senators, noting that he feels the 2028 end date for the project is still a realistic goal.
But VA leaders have already said they won’t add any new sites until early 2023, and only if they have confidence that medical and technical staff are ready for the change.
“We’re looking closely at our schedule and realizing that there are issues that still need to be resolved,” Remy said. “The schedule would have us go to the next installation in January or February. If we have to push that back, we will push that back.”
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Similar to comments made by House lawmakers over the summer, the Senate appropriators warned VA leaders that they need to show progress on efforts soon or risk having the entire program scrapped.
“I don’t want anything implemented before it’s ready for prime time. By the same token, we’ve got an investment in a program that needs to start delivering at some time,” said Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee and a member of the chamber’s appropriations panel.
“It’s going to be five years in May, and we haven’t done a damn thing. It has been a train wreck.”
Leo covers Congress, Veterans Affairs and the White House for Military Times. He has covered Washington, D.C. since 2004, focusing on military personnel and veterans policies. His work has earned numerous honors, including a 2009 Polk award, a 2010 National Headliner Award, the IAVA Leadership in Journalism award and the VFW News Media award.
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A 90-year-old man has been spared jail for stabbing his blind and ailing wife of more than 60 years. Retired butcher Edward Turpin got a carving knife from the kitchen and attacked Joan Turpin in bed at their home in Orpington, Kent, on September 22 last year.
Afterwards, he called 999 and told the operator: “I don’t want to stop the bleeding. We want to die.” While refusing to take direction over the phone, he urged emergency services to “hurry up”, the Old Bailey was told.
Jurors heard Mrs Turpin, who has lost her eyesight, suffers diabetes and needs a catheter, had become increasingly dependent on her husband’s help before the attack. Giving evidence, Turpin said the “last thing” he wanted was to harm his wife.
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He was cleared of attempted murder but found guilty of a lesser offence of wounding on the basis he was reckless as to the injuries she might sustain. The pensioner was not in court for the verdicts, having become ill after giving his evidence in August.
On Wednesday, he was sentenced in his absence after being admitted to hospital with a chest infection and pneumonia. Mrs Turpin, who is also 90, has been in a care home since the knife attack and is only able to speak to her husband over the telephone.
Prosecutor Alistair Richardson read out a statement prepared by a care worker on her behalf. He said that while Mrs Turpin’s injuries had healed well, the “psychological impact is huge” and “her whole life has been turned upside down”.
He said: “Joan is very wary of strangers after being attacked with a knife and needs constant reassurance from people she knows. Joan had been extremely stressed and anxious as the trial approached.
“She is fully aware Edward broke the law and what has happened since is a consequence of his actions.” Mr Richardson said Turpin’s culpability was high, having inflicted multiple injuries to his “extremely vulnerable” wife.
One of the wounds caused Mrs Turpin’s lung to collapse and it was “a matter of luck” it was not fatal, he said. Mitigating, Simon Gledhill told the court that Turpin had “overwhelming regret” about what happened.
The defence barrister said: “He has expressed on more than one occasion a strong desire to give his wife a hug and tell her he is sorry.” Judge Alexia Durran handed Turpin two years’ custody suspended for two years.
She said the couple had a happy marriage of nearly 70 years and Turpin was simply “too proud” to ask extended family for help to care for his wife. Turpin was “overcome by the stress and the responsibility of looking after his wife” at the time of the attack, she said.
Judge Durran added: “Mr Turpin will never be allowed to live independently with his wife again.” Addressing the defendant in his absence, she said: “You are a man of impeccable good character. You were a butcher in Smithfield market for 30 years.
“Police investigations have supported Mrs Turpin’s assertion that you have never raised a hand to her in all your years of marriage.” While she noted his “strong personal mitigation”, she said: “Your actions though cannot go without punishment. What happened that September morning should never have happened.”
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The highly anticipated German Doner Kebab restaurant has now opened its doors at St James Retail & Leisure Park in Dover. The gourmet kebab chain is the latest in the retail outlet's food offering following the opening of Taco Bell at the beginning of September.
German Doner Kebab prides itself on serving up 'game-changing gourmet kebabs' made from quality ingredients that are exclusive to Doner Kebab restaurants. They say that the great taste comes from their 'secret sauces' and is what sets them apart from the competition.
Dover residents will be spoilt for choice as the menu is extensive and includes The Original German Doner Kebab, Doner Wrap, Veggie Kebab, Doner Krunch Burger to name a few. They will also be featuring the brand's all-new Coco and Kiki kebabs, the UK's first pink kebabs.
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These new products are to be served up on fluffy pink coconut-infused waffle bread, in two different sizes; Coco and Kiki. Combined with doner meats, fresh lettuce, tomato, onion, red cabbage, the result is a balance of nutty sweetness and GDK’s signature savoury flavours.
Not only has this new opening brought a fresh and exciting foodie option to Dover, it has also brought around 40 new jobs to the area. Customers can dine inside or order online for click and collect.
Daniel Bunce, GDK Global COO, said: "We’re delighted to officially announce plans to bring the German Doner Kebab experience to Dover. Our game-changing kebabs are revolutionising the kebab in the UK and we are excited to be bringing a new fast-casual dining experience to the area, offering great tasting fresh food in a relaxed and modern setting."
Further details about German Doner Kebab can be found HERE.
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NEW YORK , Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Abbott Laboratories ("Abbott" or the "Company") (NYSE: ABT) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Abbott investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired shares of Abbott common stock during the period from February 19, 2021, to June 8, 2022, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
ABT investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: According to the filed complaint, defendants touted the strength of Abbott's infant formula brands and their contribution to the Company's sales and revenue growth, despite knowing that the facility that manufactured those products was in flagrant violations of United States Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") health, safety, and manufacturing regulations. The complaint further alleges that defendants willfully or recklessly concealed these violations from investors, even though the violations put Abbott's infant formula business in dire jeopardy and left the Company exposed to a risk of severe regulatory action, including the recall of its products and closure of the Sturgis facility. Indeed, according to the complaint, defendants received direct warnings, communications, FDA inspection reports, and consumer complaints identifying in detail the safety and regulatory violations that were rampant at the Sturgis facility.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Abbott during the relevant time frame, you have until October 31, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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Russian-Ukraine: Detainees Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin among five Britons released by Russia
Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin are among five British nationals set to be returned home after being released by Russian-backed forces.
Prime Minister Liz Truss confirmed on Wednesday that five Britons captured since the war in Ukraine began were being released.
The names of those released have not been confirmed by the Government, while few details are yet known about how their release was secured, along with five other people.
The Foreign Office had been working for months to support those detained, while it is believed that Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman was involved in helping to free the British nationals.
Ms Truss, who is visiting New York for a UN summit where world leaders are discussing the ongoing war in Ukraine, tweeted: "Hugely welcome news that five British nationals held by Russian-backed proxies in eastern Ukraine are being safely returned, ending months of uncertainty and suffering for them and their families."
She thanked Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky "for his efforts to secure the release of detainees, and Saudi Arabia for their assistance".
"Russia must end the ruthless exploitation of prisoners of war and civilian detainees for political ends," Ms Truss added.
Mr Aslin was one of those released, according to his local MP Robert Jenrick.
A video later emerged of two men sitting inside an airliner, in which Mr Aslin introduced himself and Mr Pinner, adding: "We just want to let everyone know that we're now out of the danger zone and we're on our way home to our families."
Mr Pinner interjected: "By the skin of our teeth", as Mr Aslin continued: "We just want everyone to know the good news etc, so thanks to everyone that's been supporting us and whatnot, so it's really muchly appreciated."
Mr Pinner added: "Thanks to everybody."
A court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic had sentenced Mr Aslin to death alongside fellow British detainee Mr Pinner in July.
The BBC reported that Mr Pinner, from Bedfordshire, was also among the group of five set to come home, and had been photographed with Mr Aslin, while it said the Saudi Press Agency had released pictures which also showed a third British man, John Harding.
Mr Harding, along with Britons Andrew Hill and Dylan Healy, went on trial last month in the city of Donetsk, Russian media reported.
The three, along with Swede Matthias Gustafsson and Croat Vjekoslav Prebeg, all pleaded not guilty to charges of mercenarism and "undergoing training to seize power by force", according to Russian media.
The next court hearing in their case was scheduled for October, the Interfax news agency reported, citing a statement by the separatists' court.
Associated Press said the 10 prisoners included citizens of Sweden, Croatia and Morocco, as well as two US military veterans, Alex Drueke, 40, and Andy Huynh, 27.
Mr Jenrick said he was "deeply grateful" to the Ukrainian government, as well as the Saudi Crown Prince and the Foreign Office, for securing the release.
He added: "Aiden's return brings to an end months of agonising uncertainty for Aiden's loving family in Newark who suffered every day of Aiden's sham trial but never lost hope. As they are united as a family once more, they can finally be at peace."
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the release "brings to an end many months of uncertainty and suffering, including the threat of the death penalty, for them and their families, at the hands of Russia".
"Tragically that was not the case for one of those detained and our thoughts remain with the family of Paul Urey."
The British aid volunteer died earlier this year while being detained by Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine.
"I would like to express my gratitude to President Zelensky and his team for their efforts to secure their release, and to HRH Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman and his team, for their assistance," the Foreign Secretary said in a statement.
"I continue to call on Russia to comply with International Humanitarian Law and not exploit prisoners of war and civilian detainees for political purposes."
Allan Hogarth, from Amnesty International UK, called it a "huge relief after a "sham judicial process apparently designed to exert diplomatic pressure on the UK".
"The Donetsk authorities and their counterparts in Russia are still believed to be unlawfully holding thousands of other detainees amid horrifying reports of torture, and we call on them to immediately release all such detainees."
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New Premier League rules revealed: Doing these things in a football ground could lead to automatic ban
Premier League clubs voted on the change to clamp down on anti-social and criminal behaviour inside stadiums.
Premier League clubs have agreed to impose automatic minimum bans in a bid to clamp down on anti-social and criminal behaviour at football grounds.
All participating members of the English top division voted on the matter at a stakeholder meeting in July.
It was decided on Wednesday, September 21 that fans will face a minimum club ban of one year.
The Football Association (FA) has also agreed to tougher sanctions for clubs, including working to improve searches for individuals, increased use of sniffer dogs at football grounds and removal of social media videos showcasing illegal fan behaviour.
The English Football League will also introduce these measures to tackle fan behaviour issues.
Why has the Premier League introduced new automatic bans?
Action was taken following a sharp rise in anti-social and criminal behaviour in football grounds.
High profile incidents include Aston Villa goalkeeper Robin Olsen being assaulted at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium during the last day of the 2021/2022 Premier League campaign.
While a Nottingham Forest fan was jailed after headbutting Sheffield United’s captain Billy Sharp following the play-off semi-final last season.
In a statement issued during yesterday’s meeting, a Premier League spokesperson said: “Clubs unanimously agreed to introduce minimum-length bans for supporters who take part in anti-social and criminal behaviour at league stadiums.
“These bans could be extended to accompanying parents or guardians of children who take part in such activities.”
Here is everything you need to know about the change in the Premier League’s approach to tackling fan behavioural issues.
When will minimum bans be enforced in the Premier League?
Premier League and EFL football supporters will not need to wait long for these measures to be introduced at grounds across the country.
The change will come into effect immediately and will be applied to home and away matches.
The crimes and anti-social behaviour that could land you with Premier League ban
The minimum-length one year bans in the Premier League and EFL will be put into effect to limit the following anti-social and criminal behaviour:
- Pitch invasions / supporters entering the field of play
- Use of flares, smoke bombs and other pyrotechnics
- Throwing objects on the field of play, at footballers or other fans
- Discriminatory behaviour
- Taking illegal drugs
Premier League CEO, Richard Masters said: “Everyone should feel safe and able to enjoy a football match. Together, with clubs and partners across football, we are making clear the type of incidents we saw last season must stop. If we don’t take collective and sustained action, it may only be a matter of time before someone is seriously injured, or worse.
"These new measures are a strong response to a significant increase in fan behaviour issues, but we know it is the minority who have behaved unacceptably and unlawfully. Premier League football should be a fantastic experience for everyone and we don’t want matches to be marred by these sorts of events in the future.”
For more information and to view the official Premier League statement and information, visit the Premier League website.
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CHARLESTON, S.C., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EverGlade Consulting ("EverGlade"), a national consulting firm, with employees in locations across the country, will play a key supporting role at PharmSci 360, a conference convened by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists ("AAPS").
AAPS is the convener of the pharmaceutical science community, bringing together thousands of scientists from across the world and the drug development process. For them, PharmSci 360 combines all the energy of a large scientific conference with the intimacy of a small niche meeting because of its unique programming structure. Steve Morris and Andrew Stiles will both discuss how to successfully seek non-dilutive funding from the federal government.
"This session brings the type of information to PharmSci 360 that scientists need to navigate the business and entrepreneurial landscape," AAPS Executive Director Tina Morris, Ph.D., said. "It's so important that scientists are equipped with an understanding of how markets and access to funding affect their work and their plans. AAPS' next president, Patrick Sinko, Ph.D., is thrilled to moderate this session and ensure we all walk out of the room with a better grasp of what is really happening in the economy right now."
"In the wake of the pandemic, global capital markets are being transformed by a number of interrelated forces," commented Eric Jia-Sobota, Founder and National Leader of the Consulting Practice. "Steve and Andrew will explore the current markets and discuss considerations that innovators, founders, and partners need to be aware of when seeking funding through the federal government," he concluded.
About EverGlade Consulting:
EverGlade Consulting is a national consulting firm that helps clients navigate the federal landscape. We are inspired by technology-driven companies whose focus is to secure non-dilutive funding from the federal government. We offer services ranging from opportunity identification and proposal support through post-award contract management and the implementation of systems to comply with federal regulations at agencies including ASPR, BARDA, NIH, CDC, DHS, FEMA, JPEO, DTRA, DLA, and DARPA.
Since its inception, EverGlade has quickly grown into one of the leading service providers for the life sciences industry, helping dozens of clients identify and secure federal funding.
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The Scotsman Sessions #332: Lizzie Reid
Welcome to the Scotsman Sessions. With the performing arts sector still impacted by the pandemic, we are commissioning a series of short video performances from artists all around the country and releasing them on scotsman.com, with introductions from our critics. Here, singer/songwriter Lizzie Reid performs the song Bible, which appears on her Scottish Album of the Year Award shortlisted EP Cubicle
Love, excitement, anxiety. The three words Lizzie Reid volunteers to describe her new EP Mooching – which she in turn refers to as her “second child”. Her first child – the Cubicle EP – touched on similar sentiments. The title track was so called after her habit of locking herself in cubicles when she was struggling with anxiety and the full EP was inspired by a break-up.
Recorded just before the first Covid lockdown and released early in 2021, it went on to make the shortlist for last year’s Scottish Album of the Year Award, a significant vote of confidence for this young singer/songwriter who initially cut her teeth playing in bands around Glasgow before going solo and acoustic, exercising her love of Stevie Nicks, PJ Harvey and Laura Marling and racking up support slots with Paolo Nutini and Arlo Parks, and recent appearances at the Latitude and Connect festivals.
While her musical prospects are bright, Reid has had a turbulent ride with her mental health. “Lockdown was a tumultuous period, to say the least,” she says. “Generally it was incredibly difficult for artists and musicians. Our purpose in life was stripped away from us, not to mention the financial burden it brought on those of us who relied on live music to earn a living.
“For me, lockdown, along with other contributing factors, caused a slow but steady downward spiral. The isolation provided too much time and space for my brain to latch on to things I hadn’t given much thought to prior to this point in my life. These troubling thoughts intensified until I reached breaking point. I had a panic attack, which quickly lead to another, and another, and another. It was relentless, and I still can’t believe it took me so long to seek help and figure out there was something inside of me that needed some attention.”
Reid has since been diagnosed with OCD and confronts her mental health issues on Mooching’s five songs. “I can express feelings of fear and anxiety in a way that’s hard to do in real life,” she says. “Soda Pop Stream is an example. It’s written about what it’s like to have a panic attack at a dinner table and it actually works to make me feel empowered and even jovial about these moments!”
Elsewhere on the EP, How Do I Show My Love, written on piano rather than her usual guitar, addresses the effects of her panic attacks on relationships, while Warpaint, co-written with Andy Monaghan (Frightened Rabbit), is about dancing away the heartache of seeing an old crush with a new flame. Her Scotsman Sessions selection, Bible, is another EP track, filmed up close and personal in the kitchen of her parents’ flat in Glasgow.
“I wrote it at a time in my life that I now look back on with such warmth and longing,” says Reid. “It was written at the start of lockdown, when staying indoors was a novelty, there was still an air of hopefulness and we were naïve about what was in store for us. It breaks my heart a little thinking back on it.”
The Mooching EP is out now on sevenfoursevensix. Lizzie Reid plays The Caves, Edinburgh on 25 October, and Oran Mor, Glasgow on 10 December, https://orcd.co/mooching
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In August, the U.S. median rental price ($1,771) accounted for a higher share of a typical household's budget compared to one year ago (26.4% vs. 25.7%)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- August data shows renters are feeling the strain of higher costs, as Americans spent more than one-quarter (26.4%) of their monthly budgets on rents in August, on average, according to the Realtor.com® Monthly Rental Report released today. Among the 50 largest U.S. metros, coastal areas topped August's list of least affordable rental markets, with rents accounting for the highest shares of household incomes in Miami (46.5%), Los Angeles (40.7%) and San Diego (37.1%).
"Our analysis underscores the very real rental affordability challenges that many Americans face today. Rents are significantly higher than in previous years and are taking up a substantial portion of incomes, which are growing at a slower pace than inflation," said Realtor.com® Chief Economist Danielle Hale. "Still, there are some bright spots for renters as of late. Based on the general rule of thumb that you should keep housing costs to under 30% of your paycheck, renters were able to follow best practice in the majority of large metros in August. Plus, as rent growth continued to cool, national rents didn't hit a new record-high for the first time in nine months.1 If these trends and typical seasonal cooling persist, renters may be better able to keep housing costs to a relatively manageable portion of their budgets in the months ahead."
Hale added, the U.S. median rental price declined for the first time since November 2021 in August, to $1,771 from $1,781 in July.1 Additionally, rent growth continued moderating on a year-over-year basis, down to a single-digit increase (+9.8%) after 13 straight months at a double-digit pace. However, national rents remained more than 20% higher than in August 2020 overall (+22.8%) and across all unit sizes: Studios at a median $1,489 (+21.2%), one-beds at a median $1,653 (22.6%), and two-beds at a median $1,964 (+23.2%).
August 2022 Rental Metrics – National
Despite the cooldown in annual rent growth, August data indicates that rental affordability issues are rising. Nationally, rents accounted for a higher share of renters' incomes in August compared to last year (26.4% vs. 25.7%, on average). Among the 50 largest U.S. metros, nine had a rent-to-income share that was higher than 30%, with coastal markets dominating the top 10 list of least affordable metros in August (see table below).
August 2022 Rental Metrics – Top 10 Least Affordable Markets, by Rent-to-Income Share
Rental affordability did vary by location in August, with renters putting a relatively lower share of their paychecks towards rents in the vast majority of the largest metros. In fact, compared to the national rent-to-income share, rents were significantly more affordable in many markets in Middle America. Nevertheless, even in these areas, affordability has declined over the past year, with rental costs accounting for a higher share of incomes than in August 2021 in seven of the top 10 most affordable markets (see table below).
August 2022 Rental Metrics – Top 10 Most Affordable Markets, by Rent-to-Income Share
With higher rents leaving less money in renters' pockets each month, more than half (60%) of renters report that higher rents and household expenses are their biggest cause of financial strain, according to a recent survey from Avail (a part of Realtor.com®). Through September 25th, renters who are struggling with higher costs can enter Realtor.com®'s Free Rent Sweepstakes for a chance to win a $2,500 cash prize to put toward their monthly rent.
August 2022 Rental Metrics – 50 Largest U.S. Metro Areas
*Unit-specific metrics for New Orleans and Providence, R.I. excluded while rental data is under review.
Rental data as of August 2022 for units advertised as for-rent on Realtor.com®. Rental units include apartment communities as well as private rentals (condos, townhomes, single-family homes). All units were studio, 1-bedroom, or 2-bedroom units. National rents were calculated by averaging the medians of the 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, as defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Realtor.com® began publishing regular monthly rental trends reports in October 2020 with data history going back to March 2019.
Rental affordability analysis: The affordable monthly rent is calculated by applying the 30% rule to the estimated 2022 monthly median household income nationwide ($6,716 across the 50 largest U.S. metros, on average) and in each metro. The monthly median household income is derived from the annual median household income data sourced from Claritas. Due to the methodology changes noted below, Realtor.com has made historical revisions to its prior affordability analyses. For our most recently published affordability analysis on February 2022 data published in March 2022, the national rent-to-income share has been updated to 25.0%.
Note on new methodology: With the release of its August 2022 Monthly Rental Report, Realtor.com® incorporated a new and improved methodology for capturing and reporting rental listing trends and metrics. As a result of these changes, the rental data released since September 2022 will not be directly comparable with previous releases, but future data releases, including historical data, will consistently apply the new methodology. See more details here.
Realtor.com® is an open real estate marketplace built for everyone. Realtor.com® pioneered the world of digital real estate more than 25 years ago. Today, through its website and mobile apps, Realtor.com® is a trusted guide for consumers, empowering more people to find their way home by breaking down barriers, helping them make the right connections, and creating confidence through expert insights and guidance. For professionals, Realtor.com® is a trusted partner for business growth, offering consumer connections and branding solutions that help them succeed in today's on-demand world. Realtor.com® is operated by News Corp [Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA] [ASX: NWS, NWSLV] subsidiary Move, Inc. For more information, visit Realtor.com®.
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Industry veteran Jenifer Boyd Harmon is leading agency spinoff as executive vice president and will advise QSR, fast-casual and casual brands on how to tap into additional growth potential
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- St. John, one of the largest independent agencies in the Southeast, announced today the formation of a new restaurant consultancy, Store by Store (SxS). Well known for successfully growing restaurant and retail brands for nearly 40 years, St. John is channeling its industry experience through SxS to help QSR, fast-casual and casual brands drive rapid growth store by store.
SxS mines store-level data to simplify planning, tap into unique insights to grow menu dayparts, increase average checks, monitor local preferences, determine best-use occasions and inform decisions around the right message, right offer and right time for each store's unique profile.
SxS is led by restaurant-industry veteran Jenifer Boyd Harmon. Harmon's career spans work on both the client- and agency-side of the business and includes a track record of successful growth rooted in optimizing store and market opportunities. In her role as EVP at SxS, she'll manage a team of data scientists, analysts and experienced restaurant strategists to provide rapid and actionable plans for growth.
Jenifer understands the opportunities and challenges facing today's restaurant CMOs. Most recently, she served as CMO of Ruby Tuesday. Prior to her role at Ruby Tuesday, Harmon served as an executive vice president and account group director at St. John, where for 14 years she oversaw the agency's fast-casual restaurant account, Zaxby's. Her previous experience also includes Denny's restaurants, where she was a senior director of advertising; and EP+Co, where she headed the Firehouse Subs account team.
"Restaurant brands have so much data available to them; however, few concepts look to the store-level data for growth opportunities unique to each store," said Harmon. "We use a proprietary approach to drive growth from the local-store level, making it simple for the brand team to embrace the planning on a store, co-op or systemwide basis."
Joining Harmon is Jeff Day, director of marketing analytics. Day brings more than a decade of experience in data-driven industries, such as transportation, logistics and insurance. Jeff has taken his work in data modeling and operational excellence to benefit marketing, organizing and mining media and sales for insights and strategies to optimize growth and return on advertising investment. He is a published writer and frequently consulted on identifying key performance indicators for executive leadership across the nation.
"Store By Store was created to answer a need in the restaurant category," said Jeff McCurry, president and COO of St. John. "Helping brands focus on the business-driving insights embedded in store-level data will translate into rapid, actionable growth plans."
Store by Store (SxS) helps QSR, fast-casual and casual brands drive rapid growth store by store. SxS mines store-level data to simplify planning, tapping into unique insights to grow menu dayparts, increase average checks, monitor local preferences, determine best-use occasions, and inform decisions around the right message, right offer, and right time for each store's unique profile. For more information about SxS, visit www.storebystore.com.
St. John is an independent strategy, content and media company headquartered in Jacksonville, FL. The agency inspires growth by helping brands create the relevance, utility and visibility required to earn attention in highly competitive categories. Clients include AbbVie, Florida Prepaid College Savings Plans, Metro Diner, NASCAR, Rooms To Go and Winn-Dixie. St. John is a member of the MAGNET Global Network, composed of 50 independent advertising agencies in North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific Rim; and 4A's, the national trade association for U.S. advertising agencies. For more information about St. John, visit www.sjp.com.
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Thanks to double digit kill nights from both Aubrey Hamilton and Hattie Bray, YOUR #19 ranked Marquette Golden Eagles are now in FIRST PLACE in the Big East at 1-0 after defeated DePaul 3-0 (25-15, 25-20, 25-15) on Wednesday night at the Al McGuire Center. Marquette is now 10-1 on the year overall, have won eight straight matches, and are undefeated at home this year.
Is Marquette in first place because no one else plays a Big East match until Friday? Yes, but alone in first place is still alone in first place, stop asking questions and arguing.
A standard issue back and forth start to the match ended when Marquette ripped off four straight points capped by a kill from Hamilton to go up 11-6 in the first set. They then traded points with the Blue Demons before throwing together a 6-0 run to stake themselves to a 23-13 lead and then just carry it home from there. That’s what happens when you hit .464 and hold your opponent to just .114.
Hattie Bray closes out set one for MU with the kill!#WeAreMarquette pic.twitter.com/mJoYfB0Bta
— Marquette Volleyball (@MarquetteVB) September 22, 2022
Marquette kept that hot streak going into the second set, jumping out to a 7-2 lead on a kill by Hamilton in the early going. The margin eventually grew to seven on, again, a kill from Hamilton, but then DePaul started edging back into this thing. Just a couple of points here and a couple of points there, but eventually a service error by MU’s Ella Foti was backed up by two kills from the Blue Demons, and it was a two point game, 21-19. Head coach Ryan Theis took a timeout there to rally the troops, and they responded with a 4-1 burst to close the set out, this time with Carsen Murray providing the fireworks.
DePaul had the early advantage in the third set, going up 6-4 on Marquette after an attacking error by Ella Holmstrom. MU seemingly didn’t appreciate that, and scored 10 of the next 12 points capped off with a kill from Jenna Reitsma. That made it 14-8 Marquette, and the stretch eventually turned into an 18-5 run that put the Golden Eagles up 22-11. Theis started emptying his bench after that, which led to not the cleanest volleyball in the world and DePaul snagged a few extra points before Reitsma wrapped up MU’s first Big East win of the season.
Jenna Reitsma with a monster kill to earn the Golden Eagles the sweep over the Blue Demons in their BIG EAST opener! #WeAreMarquette pic.twitter.com/wUhlFWemBy
— Marquette Volleyball (@MarquetteVB) September 22, 2022
Aubrey Hamilton had 14 kills on the night while hitting .444 to help the Golden Eagles hit .402 as a team against the Blue Demons, while Hattie Bray added 10 kills on 15 swings from the middle. Yadhira Anchante had 35 assist in just three sets while just missing a double-double with nine digs. Hamilton did get to that double-double with 10 digs, but Carly Skrabak got the honors for the match high total with 11.
How about some highlights, courtesy of GoMarquette.com and FloSports?
Up Next: Marquette still has three more matches on their 10 game homestand coming up, and the next one will be on Saturday night. That will be Butler coming to town for a 6pm start, less than 24 hours after they play DePaul on Friday. The Bulldogs are 6-6 on the year right now and are currently on a three match losing streak.
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Gragson Is Waffling On His Xfinity Successes
By Deb Williams | Senior Writer
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Noah Gragson and his JR Motorsports team don’t head to a fancy restaurant to celebrate a NASCAR Xfinity Series victory; instead, they look for the nearest Waffle House.
The team celebrated two weeks ago at a Darlington Waffle House, then found one in Bristol following its third straight victory Friday night. However, the tradition of celebrating a victory at Waffle House actually started for Gragson when he competed in the K&N Series.
“It was my third K&N race on the West Coast, and we finished 1-2-3 as a team,” Gragson recalled Tuesday during Xfinity Series playoffs media day at the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
“We were kind of the underdogs. So, we went to the Waffle House in Tucson, Ariz., just kind of as a team.”
There also have been some visits to a Waffle House after a few late Charlotte nights and then earlier this year after arriving home about 4 a.m. from Phoenix. However, Darlington and Bristol this month have been quite special for those at Waffle House when the team arrived for its victory celebration.
“We pulled the hauler up to Waffle House (in Darlington),” Gragson said. “That was super cool. We got all the cooks … to be out there taking pictures. We played music on the jukebox and told them to turn it all the way up.”
After last Friday’s Bristol victory, Gragson said they had two Waffle Houses to pick from since there was one 5.6 miles from the track and another 7.2 miles away. One of Gragson’s crew members told everyone the Waffle House where they should congregate. When the team arrived 70 to100 people wearing Noah Gragson shirts were waiting on them.
“That was really cool to be able to party with the fans, have some waffles and just get some vitamins back in my body,” Gragson said. “We took the hauler there, too. We took selfies in front of the hauler and in front of Waffle House. We just like to have fun.”
Gragson doesn’t believe another team would want to celebrate at Waffle House or if they did, the owner probably wouldn’t allow it.
“Luckily, we have a great team and a great organization that allows us to kind of have free rein and celebrate however we want,” Gragson said. “I think they (team owners Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kelley Earnhardt Miller) are laid back and racers that like to have fun. They enjoy it just as much as we do.”
Gragson said Monday at the race shop they were shooting everyone with water guns when they were trying to do beer toasts.
“It’s a lot of fun,” he continued. “Everybody enjoys ourselves. It’s pretty light-hearted. It doesn’t feel like a very corporate race team. Some race teams are very, very corporate. They’re very laid back and kind of like the polar opposite. It feels like home for me and where I can best be myself.”
Gragson is in his final full-time Xfinity Series season with JR Motorsports. He moves to Petty GMS next year, a team that provides the same feeling for Gragson that he finds at JR Motorsports.
“They have a similar approach on how they run their organization,” Gragson said about Petty GMS. “They’ve got dogs walking around in the shops and the offices. That’s how JR Motorsports is. They’re pretty laid back.”
With six victories this season, Gragson enters the NASCAR Xfinity Series playoffs at Texas Motor Speedway as the point leader, 13 ahead of Ty Gibbs, who recorded five wins this year.
The Andy’s Frozen Custard 300 is scheduled for Saturday at 3:30 p.m. on USA Network.
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Fall starts at 9 p.m. ET Thursday, a day officially known as the autumn equinox.
Both equinoxes and solstices only happen twice a year — the first days of fall and spring are equinoxes, while the first days of summer and winter are solstices.
How are they different?
What is an equinox?
On the day of an equinox, the Earth is tilting neither toward or away from the sun, and therefore receives almost an equal amount of daylight and darkness, according to the National Weather Service.
At places along the equator, the sun is directly overhead at about noon on these days. Day and night appear to be equal due to the bending of the sun's rays, which makes the sun appear above the horizon when it is actually below it.
During an equinox, days are slightly longer in places with higher latitudes. At the equator, daylight may last for about 12 hours and seven minutes. But at a place with 60 degrees of latitude, such as the North Pole, a day is about 12 hours and 16 minutes.
What is a solstice?
On the day of a solstice, the Earth is at its maximum tilt, 23.5 degrees, either toward or away from the sun.
During a summer solstice, the sun is directly above the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere and is tilting toward the sun, causing the longest day of the year. It is winter in the Southern Hemisphere, where the Earth is tilting away from the sun.
Likewise, a winter solstice happens in the Northern Hemisphere when the hemisphere is tilting away from the sun, making it the day with the least amount of sunlight. The sun is above the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere, making it summer there.
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“Inflation, school, coronavirus.” That’s what 18-year-old Sye Chatam said when he was asked to describe the country today in three words. “All of it worries us young people.”
Chatman, in track shorts and a clean white hoodie, was about to get on an escalator at Ward Parkway Center in Kansas City, Missouri. He stopped to answer questions for a KCUR reporter after a recent poll from the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School suggested people in Chatman’s age group will have an increasing impact on elections in 2024.
His comments reflected the feelings of many Americans in the 18-to-29-year-old slice of the electorate: They’re voting, but they’re uncertain their voice matters.
Chatman, who just graduated from Central High School in Kansas City, Missouri, is working at a Walmart and said he would soon take a job as a customer service representative at a bank. He played football at Central but spent three of his four high school years in the pandemic, unclear each fall how many games there would be in the season.
Among his concerns were the high costs of gas and food. He said he worries about the young families in his community and how he will achieve his ultimate goal of becoming a firefighter.
But his parents always vote, he said, and so will he.
“I voted already this year and I’m going to vote in November,” he said. “I mean, I’ll vote whenever I need to vote. Does my vote really matter? Everybody says (it) does, so I do vote.”
This, despite three more words he had for the country's political climate: “Corrupt, secretive and very difficult.”
This sentiment also tracks with what pollsters are saying about other young voters, who turned out in record numbers for the last two elections but are not happy about the state of the world.
They’re disillusioned by the partisan bickering, a lack of empathy and concern that politicians don’t care about issues that matter to them. Authors of the Harvard study say young voters will continue to be engaged, and to vote, but “their contempt for a system that favors the elite and is overwhelmingly partisan is clear.”
Washburn University political scientist Bob Beatty said there’s an old adage that speaks to this issue.
“There’s a reason you don’t mess with Social Security: because you won’t win elections. But you don’t have to raise the minimum wage,” he said.
Beatty has been studying electoral politics for more than 25 years. Historically, he said, the youth vote is unreliable. They may turn out in record numbers for one election and stay home the next. They’re often difficult to organize.
“But these are definitions of youth,” Beatty said with a chuckle. “And because of these things, there can be this vicious cycle where elected officials don’t pay much attention to their concerns because there is no electoral incentive to do so.”
Intolerance for inauthenticity
Elijah Adams, a 22-year-old business major from Topeka, was at Kansas City, Kansas Community College checking out course offerings.
Dressed in a snappy blue suit and tie, the self-described Independent said he is committed to participating in elections but won’t vote for someone he doesn’t believe in.
He didn’t vote in 2020, he said, because he didn’t like presidential candidates Biden or Trump. Since Biden’s election, Adams said, he sees no evidence the president has addressed the toxic partisan rhetoric or economic disparities he promised he’d work on during the campaign.
His elected officials don’t show up in the communities they represent, Adams said, “except to give a little speech, then leave.” They don’t see the impact of inflation, the lack of affordable housing and social services on low-income families, he added.
“They don’t have a lot of experience or face-to-face knowledge of what we’re dealing with on a daily basis,” Adams said. “It’s like having a boss that never worked there before trying to tell you what to do. “
If he finds candidates he can believe in, who “uplift their communities,” he said he plans to vote in November.
Anna Ringel, 19, and Evin Berry, 18, were walking hand-in-hand on a sidewalk outside one of the college buildings.
Their three words to the current political climate: “Out of hand,” said Ringel. “Greedy, selfish, manipulative,” Berry said.
Ringel and Berry both said they don’t talk about politics in their group of friends because conversations can quickly turn nasty.
“We’re divided but defensive, too,” Berry said. “Confirmation bias is a thing. We don’t talk about politics because it starts arguments. It’s taboo.”
The two said they try to stay informed on the issues, but it’s difficult to know what to believe when it’s so hard to have informed conversations.
Like most young people, they consume most of their news online and on social media. Ringel said not enough politicians share information on platforms where young people hang out, so she finds it hard to educate herself on where they stand.
“For me, there are a lot of things I don’t know about,” she said. “So how am I supposed to vote if I don’t know what’s happening, what the truth is?
Pockets of optimism
The first word that popped into Manny Jaime’s head was “progressive.”
“There’s still a lot of work to be done,” said the 19-year-old from Kansas City, Missouri, who was heading to work out at a gym in south Kansas City’s Red Bridge Shopping Center. “But we have a new generation of people in a progressive mindset.”
In baggy track pants and a heavily worn 2008 Final Four T-Shirt, Jaime, a Latino and registered Democrat, said he avoids the vitriol on the news and social media. He tries to set an example by engaging in civil conversation.
“If somebody comes up to me and starts talking to me about their Republican views, I’ll hear them out,” he said. “I’m not gonna completely shut them out just because I have my values. I can take stuff in from both sides.”
Young people might be skeptical and distrust the current political system, but Jaime said when he turned 18 and started to think about voting, he realized the stuff he was hearing on the news – student loan forgiveness, immigration restrictions – would directly affect his life.
“I’ve seen how important it is,” he said. “So next election, yeah, definitely I’ll vote.”
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Mercer’s QB/WR duo leads the FCS in touchdowns
Ty James is second in recieving yards in the FCS.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Mercer football team has one of the FCS’s highest-scoring quarterback/wide receiver duos.
Quarterback Fred Payton and wide receiver Ty James have connected for five touchdowns this season, which leads the FCS.
James also has the second-highest receiving yards in the FCS, with 372. Last season, James had 611 receiving yards, and just through three games this season, he is already on pace to smash that mark.
When asked about his relationship with Payton, James remarked on how their off-field camaraderie translates to on-field production.
“A receiver and quarterback, you know we are always like best friends, but me and Fred are real close. He even cuts my hair, so shoutout to Fred for the haircut. But just having him, you know he’s a cool guy, and I’m a cool guy. We get along really well off the field too, so that’s what kind of helps us off the field,” said James.
The Payton and James duo will look to extend their touchdown mark as the Bears face Gardner-Webb on the road this Saturday.
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The End Zone Game of the Week Preview: Perry vs. Howard, Pt. 2
The End Zone Game of the Week is scheduled for Friday, September 23, at 7:30 p.m. at Herb St. John Stadium.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The End Zone Game of the Week for week six features a region battle between the Perry Panthers and the Howard Huskies.
Howard went 3-7 last season but has already opened up this season with a 4-0 record.
The Huskies only had 37 players last year, and now, they have 80, which could be a huge factor in the team’s early success.
Head coach Paul Carroll spoke on why he believes more students have committed to his team this season.
“The past two years, we’ve been dealing with COVID. A lot of these kids, they’d come to practice, and then the next week we wouldn’t be practicing because we’d be shut down. It takes a special person to come out here in 90-something degree weather with an extra 15 to 20 pounds on in this heat, and some of those kids just didn’t want to do it because they felt like every game was going to be shut down,” said Carroll.
The End Zone Game of the Week is scheduled for Friday, September 23, at 7:30 p.m. at Herb St. John Stadium.
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(Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for Democratic judicial candidates. This is intended to help introduce the candidates and their experiences to my readers. This year it’s mostly incumbents running for re-election, so it’s an opportunity to hear that talk about what they have accomplished. I am running these responses in the order that I receive them from the candidates. For more information about these and other Democratic candidates, including links to interviews and Q&As from the primary and runoff, see the Erik Manning spreadsheet.)
1. Who are you and in which court do you preside?
Judge LaShawn A. Williams, Harris County Civil Court at Law No. 3
2. What kind of cases does this court hear?
These courts share jurisdiction with the district courts up to $250,000. Also, a county civil court at law in Harris County has jurisdiction over all civil matters and causes, original and appellate, prescribed by law for county courts, but does not have the jurisdiction of a probate court.
A county civil court at law has jurisdiction in appeals of civil cases from justice courts in Harris County. A county civil court at law also-regardless of the amount in controversy-has jurisdiction in statutory eminent domain proceedings and exclusive jurisdiction over inverse condemnation suits.
In addition to other jurisdiction provided by law, a county civil court at law has jurisdiction to:
1. decide the issue of title to real or personal property;
2. hear a suit to recover damages for slander or defamation of character;
3. hear a suit for the enforcement of a lien on real property;
4. hear a suit for the forfeiture of a corporate charter;
5. hear a suit for the trial of the right to property valued at $200 or more that has been levied on under a writ of execution, sequestration, or attachment; and
6. hear a suit for the recovery of real property.
3. What have been your main accomplishments during your time on this bench?
We are protecting seniors and others from losing their homes after years of investment and sacrifice. We’ve helped and continue to help those who are burdened by collections and who just need a hand up. And for renters on the threshold of eviction, we’ve engaged volunteer lawyers and rent relief programs to help them keep the roof over their heads, while helping landlords stay in business. And along with all of those kept promises I am proud to say that we helped taxpayers save lots of money and made our positive mark on the climate by going paperless.
During this pandemic, our court has worked hard to successfully move the dockets avoiding backlog. We collaborated with Houston Volunteer lawyers and the law schools to provide legal representation to folks facing eviction. We provide oral hearings in proceedings for self represented litigants providing them opportunity to conference with the opposition in a fair and safe manner. When it was safe to do so, we opened the court back to in person trials enforcing CDC and local guidelines. We did this because I believe fair and equal access to the courts requires engagement and confrontation without the impediments of technology in a remote proceeding. Certain evidence, particular demeanor and credibility evidence, require testing, objection and consideration without internet interruption or other interferences.
4. What do you hope to accomplish in your courtroom going forward?
I intend to continue using this platform to educate the public, bring more young lawyers into the judicial pipeline, and support groups that do the same. This Court will continue to advance and ensure equal access to justice. We intend to further advance our technological advances by making it easier for parties to receive notices about the status of their case via email. We went paperless in 2019 and then Covid hit. While this interrupted much of our work, we are excited to get back to things like providing improved forms and templates online for self-represented litigants and others.
We will continue working on making legal representation available in eviction cases as a matter of law, rather than just in the face of Covid. When the pandemic is gone, we plan to move forward with what we’ve learned and gained – like legal representation for tenants in eviction cases. We will also move forward in keeping some remote dockets, like bench trials and motions hearings.
I am really excited about being able to further engage and educate the community on equal access to justice and the Rule of Law by holding community events and safe places for real conversations with the judiciary.
5. Why is this race important?
It seems our democracy is moving at the speed of light. Now more than ever it is important that we all understand how our democracy works…that we have three branches of government, and each are equally important. Each affect our lives daily. Who we put into office in these three branches of government has serious implications. How safe we are, whether our children return home safe; our health care; women’s healthcare; gun safety; our elections and our right to vote. It seems all those things most important to us hang in the balance. This race is important because citizens should be confident in and trust our courts now like never before. We see how decisions, creating precedent, resound for decades. It matters today how a court decides, whether the Rule of Law if followed, whether justice is equal.
6. Why should people vote for you in November?
I have run the court successfully over the past 3.5 years and intend to continue improving upon the administration of equal justice and access to the courts. I am tuned into the heart of the people of this diverse county. Each day I see their need and concerns in court – what’s important to them and how they are hurting; and how they are prospering! I take my seat on this bench as a call to service. I enjoy it and find it an honor to serve in this way. I am committed to ensuring the Rule of Law applies equally to everyone and that the administration of justice is fair. This county needs judges that are relatable, competent and who understand what is at stake. I have proven that I am qualified and can do the job. I want to continue serving this great county and our communities.
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Harris County has revamped its method for assessing the public’s risk for contracting COVID-19, replacing the threat level system that has been in place since early in the pandemic with a community level system that places a greater emphasis on new cases.
The change was made due to a “decoupling” of the relationship between new cases and new hospitalizations during the most recent wave of COVID-19 fueled by the BA.5 subvariant of omicron, Judge Lina Hildalgo said during a news conference Thursday. Harris County did not see a spike in hospitalizations as COVID-19 cases surged this summer, she said.
The new system will allow the public to make their own decisions about the level of risk they are comfortable with taking, knowing that the chance of being hospitalized with a severe illness is relatively low if they have been vaccinated and boosted, Hidalgo said.
“We’re turning a page on a phase of this virus, and I’m very hopeful that we won’t have to go back to a time when surge hampered the entirety of the community,” Hidalgo said.
Hidalgo said the threat level system had been an important tool for gauging risk throughout the pandemic. It had been updated before, but this week’s changes represent a “wholesale redesign,” she said.
The new system uses a trio of color-coded community levels that indicate the risk for contracting COVID-19. Low is green, medium is yellow and high is orange. Harris County is currently yellow, but Hidalgo anticipated the community level could rise to orange with the risk for transmission increasing with children back in school.
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The Harris County Public Health website offers guidance for each of the three threat levels, including recommendations for wearing a mask, traveling and social gatherings when the county is green, yellow or orange. The site will continue to offer other pertinent information, such as wastewater monitoring data and the percentage of county residents who have been vaccinated and boosted.
I had to find the appropriate webpage for this on my own – click the embedded image to get there. The old threat level webpage now gives a 404 error. This new system seems fine and reasonable. The main concern is about what might come next.
Q: So how are we doing these days? The numbers certainly look better than they did.
A: They are falling, no doubt about it. But we have to keep in mind that we don’t have a lot of details about the real number of cases. Most of us are getting diagnosed at home using home testing kits. The numbers were always underestimating by a factor of four or five. Now it’s probably seven to 10. So you have to have to look trends.
Numbers are going down. But here are numbers I keep reminding people of: We’re still losing 400 or 500 Americans a day to COVID, which makes it the third or fourth leading cause of death on a daily basis in the United States. There’s still a lot of terrible messaging. People say we don’t have as many hospitalizations. Or that everybody has been infected or vaccinated or vaccinated with breakthrough. All of that is true. On a population level, it has had mitigating effects. But that doesn’t help you make an individual health decision.
People conflate that with individual health decisions. If you’re unvaccinated, there’s still a possibility you could lose your life to COVID. Even if you’re vaccinated and not boosted, there’s that possibility. And we’re seeing the boosters aren’t holding up as well as we’d hoped. That’s one of the reasons I’m strongly encouraging people to get this new booster, which has the mRNA for the original lineage and an added one against BA.5. After four or five months, there’s risk again for being hospitalized. The coverage declines from 80 percent to 50 percent protection against hospitalization.
Then this BA.5, even though it’s going down, it’s a long, slow tail. It’ll be around well into the fall. And the toughest thing to get people to understand is what’s going to happen in the winter. Obviously there’s no way to predict. But I think it’s still quite likely that we’re going to see a new variant just like we have the last two winters. Last winter it was omicron, BA.1. The winter before that we saw alpha. And new variants are arising because we’ve done such a poor job vaccinating low and middle-income countries.
We don’t know what a next variant could look like. More like the original lineage? Or something more like BA.5? The advantage of the new combined booster is that it gives you two shots on goal. It’s more likely to cross-protect against what’s coming down the pike. That’s no guarantee. But we’ve never done this before in terms of what the FDA does. We’ve never vaccinated against something that might be lurking out there. It’s a paradigm shift. What’s happening, and I don’t think the FDA will phrase it this way, but we’re creeping toward a universal coronavirus vaccine.
That’s from a Q&A with Dr. Peter Hotez, who knows better than I do. But I do know enough to say that you should get the omicron booster. And I also know enough to say that political stunts that endanger public health are bad. I think that about covers it.
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The Texas Progressive Alliance stands with the people of Ukraine as it brings you this week’s roundup.
Off the Kuff has another poll to dig into.
SocraticGadfly offers up a number of thoughts on the death of Ken Starr.
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And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Reform Austin would like to dial down the rhetoric about which cities are “dangerous”.
The Texas Signal lists all the ways that having a Democratic Attorney General would make things better.
In The Pink Texas is ready to start reading all of Matt Krause’s banned books.
Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje counts the ways that Texas fails its kids.
Jessica Shortall resorted to quoting Sid Miller to rebut Greg Abbott’s nonsense about the border.
Amanda Marcotte explores the deeply racist roots of shipping migrants to other states under false pretenses.
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I’m venturing a little from the core mission of covering Texas politics, but this was too irresistible, and there is a Texas connection.
Three Venezuelan migrants flown from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard last week filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Florida officials Tuesday after the firebrand Republican’s move to transport migrants to a Democrat-controlled state sparked national controversy and a criminal investigation.
The lawsuit alleges the migrants were tricked into traveling on the airplane with false promises of money, work, housing and food.
DeSantis and other officials “designed and executed a premeditated, fraudulent, and illegal scheme centered on exploiting this vulnerability for the sole purpose of advancing their own personal, financial and political interests,” the suit claims.
DeSantis sent the planes to Martha’s Vineyard last week, mimicking Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s monthslong practice of busing migrants to Democrat-led cities.
The suit alleges an elaborate scheme of unidentified individuals who lured migrants to travel on the planes. This included providing hotel rooms, McDonald’s gift cards, hundreds of dollars in cash and false promises of their ultimate destination. Migrants on the flight last week said a woman going by the name of Perla approached them outside San Antonio’s Migrant Resource Center and promised them jobs and shelter. Some said they were told they were going to Boston. But they arrived in Martha’s Vineyard, where local officials were caught off guard.
Republicans frequently refer to those taking the trips as “illegal immigrants,” but many of them are asylum-seekers who have been allowed to enter the country pending the outcome of their legal cases.
The suit says the unidentified individuals identified and targeted the migrants “by trolling streets outside of a migrant shelter in Texas and other similar locales, pretending to be good Samaritans offering humanitarian assistance.”
The migrants are asking to be awarded damages, as well as an injunction blocking DeSantis and the state from coercing immigrants to travel by “fraud and misrepresentation.”
See here for a bit of background. To really appreciate the absurdity of all this, as well as to highlight the Texas connection, here’s Josh Marshall:
This new video of Ron DeSantis’s 10th explanation of who he was funding in Texas really has to be seen to be believed. (Video below.) He says that he can’t ship migrants from Florida, as the state legislature authorized money to do, because there aren’t enough migrants coming into the state. There’s no “mass movement”. It’s just one or two people at a time driving to Florida. There’s no way to deal with that efficiently because there aren’t enough people. (Needless to say, however people are entering the state, if the state is overrun you just pick them up locally.) But, he says, he has “intelligence” operatives in Texas and they have learned that from “30% to 40%” of migrants in Texas intend to come to Florida.
In other words, there’s a tidal wave of people apparently about to come. Just not yet. Follow? Good.
So what to do? The most efficient way to deal with this is to go to Texas, profile people who seem likely to later come to Florida and fly them to states run by Democrats. That means “the chance they end up in Florida is much less.”
I guess if you want to be really, really generous you might say that people might be less willing to get bamboozled into being flown north if they’re already in Florida where they want to be as opposed to in Texas. But I think it goes without saying that the cost and inefficiency of the DeSantis plan is great enough to eliminate any benefit. And also: if you hoodwink migrants into going to Boston they can also just get on a bus to go to Florida. San Antonio to Miami is almost as far as Boston to Miami.
The barbarity of DeSantis’s actions should not obscure the hilarity of what is clearly an after the fact explanation of what happened and why? We can be pretty confident that the reason he’s resorting to this explanation is because he really, really doesn’t want to discuss who he’s working with in Texas. What individuals? What activist groups? Again, the explanation is absurd on its face. There’s no mass migration of migrants into Florida. So to move them at scale you need to get them in Texas and send them north.
As Marshall put it on Twitter, the “logical next step for DeSantis is to lure people in Caracas on to planes &ship them to Boston to truly prevent them from getting to Florida.” We truly live in amazing times.
Do I think this is likely to ever see the inside of a courtroom, let alone get to a trial or settlement? No, I seriously doubt it will survive a motion to dismiss. But it at least has accomplished the task of putting some focus on just how deranged and inhumane this stunt was. And maybe, the more DeSantis talks, the better it will be for Sheriff Salazar’s investigation. Daily Kos and Vice News have more.
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The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar on Thursday, announced the demise of his long-time aid, Barrister Abdullahi Nyako.
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Atiku mourns death of long-time aide, Abdullahi Nyako
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The minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige, has said that the ruling of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria in Abuja, on Wednesday, asking the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resume work does not mean that negotiations between the union and government had ended.
Ngige said this when he hosted the Nigerian Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA) in Abuja.
In his words, “The ruling is in the best interest of the nation. It is a win-win situation for all of us- government, students, lecturers- all Nigerians indeed. I have just gotten the order of the court asking ASUU to go back to work. It is a sound judgment. It is no victor, no vanquished. You doctors in academics are for now members of ASUU, but, you are here, even though you have dissociated yourself and you are working. We want to thank you for working and teaching your students.
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- Court ruling doesn’t prevent further negotiation with ASUU, says NGIGE
- Court ruling doesn’t prevent further negotiation with ASUU, says NGIGE
“The court ruling does not preclude us from going on with further negotiation and consultations. The pro-chancellors met Mr. President and made some demands, such as topping up government offer and seeing whether there could be some bailout. Mr. President said he is considering it, he will consult stakeholders. So, he is going to consult everybody.”
The minister further said he welcomed the intervention of the House of Representatives in the ASUU imbroglio, saying he was happy that the speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila said they were going to meet the president.
He added the intervention was timely considering that the president must have also consulted some stakeholders, adding that whatever money to be put in would go into the 2023 appropriation where the National Assembly comes in.
“If they have shown interest now, it is good and wonderful. When they bring that proposal, the executive will not have any problem. ASUU should also know that this is a step in the right direction. And all these things have been promised them by the minister of education at their last meeting with him. For me, they should do the needful and get back to classroom.”
He said the government would order the vice chancellors to reopen the universities in compliance with the order of court.
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President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke has said the union is not bothered about the judgment of the industrial court judgment, noting that it has a right to appeal.
Speaking on a Channels Television programme, on Wednesday evening, Osodeke said the union awaits advice from its lawyer to know the next step to take.
He, however, wondered if the judgment will resolve the issues that informed the strike, especially as it concerns the non-implementation of several agreements and addressing the substandard in the affairs of the nation’s universities.
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Osodeke particularly chided the minister of labour, Dr. Chris Ngige for taking the union to court when negotiation and collective bargaining between the two parties had not failed. Not minding the legal angle to the impasse, Osodeke said it was more hopeful that the National Assembly will see through its agreement to meet the president to bring the strike to an end.
Speaking, Osodeke said: “We are a union of intellectuals. They have given the judgment, which is the first step; we have two more steps to go. So, we are not bothered; we are not emotional. The judge has a right to give a judgment and we have a right to appeal.
“The union had agreements in 2009, 2017, 2020, and 2022 thrown away and all the issues neglected. Are we happy with the state of our universities? Why are those who have money taking their children away from this country?
“Will this judgment solve the issues for which we embarked on strike?
Even the National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS) called the judgment black market judgment.
“Let’s leave that judgment. Our very renowned lawyer will look at it and advise us on what to do.
Everybody has a right to appeal the judgment. The judgment of the Industrial Court is not final. Our lawyer will advise us appropriately and we will take the next step.
“You go to court when your collective bargaining has broken down. We don’t have a broken-down negotiation with the government.
“As we speak, the National Assembly is handling the issue and reached an understanding on how to ensure Nigerian students go back to university in peace. We reached an understanding that they will go back to the president and if they agree, the strike is called off.”
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Public opposition to a school policy called “student gender identity” was voiced at the Lockport Board of Education meeting on Wednesday night.
The policy was adopted by the school in May and was revised for the Sept. 21 meeting to be read and reviewed by the board. The agenda item, however, was noticed by two parents in the district who told the board in no uncertain terms that they were not alone in their opposition and if gender identity was part of the curriculum “there would be trouble.”
The policy was not up for action and there was no discussion amongst board members, but Scott Bartel of Lockport gave a statement to the press.
“Schools are no place for kids to learn teacher’s political beliefs,” he said. “No place for questioning many views on gender. It’s a place to learn, not a place for kids to be confused on what they are and who they should be.”
Bartel expressed that he did not want his daughters to be in the same locker room as a transgender woman, “just because this board says OK.”
BOE President Leslie Tobin did not speak publicly on the matter but after the meeting responded to questions.
“Some policy we can write from scratch and some policy we can change,” Tobin said. “But some policy is required by New York state or federal law.”
In this case, the policy was revised under the Gender Recognition Act and Tobin said it had nothing to do with “instruction” or “curriculum.”
Interim Superintendent Mike Bonnewell said that the policy had to do with “names and pronouns” and explained that “in some part of New York state, this was considered necessary,” but that in other parts it was not and is opposed.
He said that there are other issues that he feels differently than what New York state dictates, such as teacher evaluation forms, but there is little he can do. He noted that New York State School Boards Association helps voice those opinions back to the lawmakers that he sometimes disagrees with.
“NYSSBA passes back our opinions and concerns to influence state legislation,” Bonnewell said.
Tobin reiterated that the policy is not about teaching students about gender identities, but the district will respect a student’s name and chosen pronouns.
“We accept all of our students and community, but this is not a policy on curriculum,” she said.
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The owner of one Niagara County radio station is about to become the owner of a second station here.
Bill Yuhnke, the owner of Kenmore Broadcasting Communications, which currently operates WEBR AM 1440 (formerly WJJL AM), has announced that he has purchased Culver Communications Corp., the owner of Lockport-based WLVL 1340 AM and 105.3 FM. Details of the sale were not released and the sale is pending final approval by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Yuhnke said FCC approval is expected sometime in the next few weeks.
“I’ve learned a lot about Niagara County through (WEBR),” Yuhnke said. “And now we’re going to be able to serve both Niagara Falls and Lockport.”
Culver is owned by long-time Western New York broadcaster Dick Greene who has owned WLVL since 1981. He’s been a part of the local radio landscape since 1968.
Yuhnke is the long-time owner of Buffalo-based Liberty/Yellow Taxi, which he continues to operate, in addition to his radio ventures. After purchasing Niagara Falls licensed WJJL, he rechristened the station with the call letters of WEBR.
WEBR had been a legendary Buffalo radio station from the 1920s through 2012, when it was sold to Crawford Broadcasting, a Christian broadcaster, who changed its call letters.
After renaming WJJL to WEBR, Yuhnke changed its format from an “oldies music” station to an “adult standards (music) and talk format.” Yuhnke also began streaming the WEBR signal on multiple internet platforms.
“Right now WLVL streams only on their own website,” Yuhnke said, “but we will be putting them on other platforms. Innovation is the key to success.”
Greene, who is 78, is exiting the radio business after beginning his career at WYSL AM/WPHD FM, before moving on to WGR AM and WEBN AM. He also put WGMM FM Elmira/Corning on the air and owned and operated WECK AM.
“I’ve been talking to Bill (Yuhnke) for some time about selling and the talks got serious last January,” Greene said. “We finally signed a purchase agreement on Sept. 9 and are now awaiting FCC approval.”
Greene sold WECK AM to Radio One Buffalo in 2017.
WLVL is estimated to serve 20,000 and 25,000 listeners a week, with a mix of news, talk and community radio programming.
“It has served the people well over all these years,” Greene said. “I think that kind of radio is still valued by many people in our market.”
Yuhnke said he does not anticipate a format change after the ownership transfer.
“We’re a Niagara County station and we need to serve the people here,” Yuhnke said. “We tried to keep the sales talks low key we didn’t want the staff to be worried. Before the sale was announced, Dick and I met with the staff and I told them they were all safe and we were gonna keep the (current) format.”
In addition to expanding WLVL’s streaming platforms, Yuhnke said he expects to invest in new equipment and a new transmitter for the station. He said he also expects to increase his promotion of the station’s lineup of FOX Sports on the weekend and the broadcast of New York Yankees baseball games.
“I think Dick needs to be commended for what he’s done in Lockport.” Yuhnke said.
Greene said he hopes to use his retirement to travel and spend time with his adult children.
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I had a busy day yesterday. Well, busy for a guy like myself. I only had one job on the docket, but it threw a wrench in my plans for the perfect day. Kathie had asked me to pick up a dirty sweatshirt that I dropped on the bedroom floor. I told her I’d pencil it in for a 10 a.m. assignment. Coffee, giving my body parts the chance to answer roll call, and getting my brain cells on the same page are priorities one through three when I first get up. Especially before doing anything as physical as bending over to lift something off the floor. I exaggerate … sometimes. Who cares, right?
Anyhow, it was close to 9:30 and I had a half-an-hour to kill before I had to address the situation. So I decided to take advantage of my few moments of dwindling freedom. A few days earlier, I’d gotten a new TV; I bought a so-called Smart TV. I had just enough time to see how smart it was.
I’d been forewarned by my buddy, Butch, who already owned one, that they aren’t as smart as they’re cracked up to be. Once he got his home, he said, he asked it to unpack itself … and nothing happened. I explained to him that didn’t necessarily mean it was stupid, maybe it was just saying “Fat chance, do it yourself, ya big lug.”
Anyhow, I only watch cable TV, it’s simpler. And, if truth be told, we already have a Smart TV in the living room. My wife keeps it on and kind-of listens to it as she goes about her daily business. I seldom, if ever, watch it. and I’ve never attempted to investigate its potential because that would encompass using skills more suited to someone not so comfortably stuck in their geriatric habit of immutable routine such as I.
Not to mention my storage capacity for knowledge is limited and I’m afraid that if I try to cram more “know-how” in there, it might push out something that’s vital to the delicate balance of my very existence. I’d hate to lose something I might need a little later on down the road — like my name, a birthday or anniversary, if you get my drift.
But now, things have changed. I have my own Smart TV, which will replace an older TV. That one is in a barn out back where my wood-working shop / chill haven is. That’s where I watch sports and whatever it is that suits my fancy. and with Kathie watching what she wants inside, it makes for the perfect marriage. Depending upon, of course, your definition of “perfect.”
OK, so now here I am, stepping out of my comfort zone and delving into a Smart TV’s capabilities. This takes concentration. I flipped the remote on and recognized the same menu that I’ve seen on Kathie’s TV — the TV I’ve ignored in the past. I pressed the Roku button, and beyond, and was faced with more options than you’d see in the cereal aisle at a Price Chopper.
It was like trying to count the number of stars on a summer night. There was no end to the litany of shows. And, of course, I started to free fall into the oblivion of variety. I zoomed past every mediocre and bad show since the invention of television. “My Mother the Popcorn Machine”? When the hell was that on?
Before I knew it, it was 10 o’clock. The finger on my hand had cramped into a locked position and the futility of finding an acceptable landing spot was as exhausting as it was frustrating. Now I’m thinking one thing: Nap time.
Digression alert — and before I forget: A guy once offered me a 50-inch flat screen TV for 10 bucks. He said the volume button didn’t work. I bought it anyway. Hey, I couldn’t turn it down.
Anyhow, back to my story. With sheer willpower, I resisted the nap, I had a job to do. I marched into the house and picked up the shirt. What a full day it already had been! and it was only 10:02 a.m. I had enough time before lunch to go back to the man cave (I hate that term!) and learn why I need two remote controls to operate one TV.
In the process of experimenting with more buttons than you’d see on the dashboard of a Saturn moon rocket, I accidentally came across “The Three Stooges.” Perfect. I thought that would be just the ticket; I could sit back and watch something other than the Queen’s funeral and her boring-beyond-belief family play dress up and actually look sadder than usual. (Which, by the way, is pretty much an impossibility.)
Unfortunately, some idiot thought that colorizing the black and white, Stooge classics would be a good idea. Wrong! It was unwatchable. To me, art, in any form, should never be tampered with just to modernize it. Should we let someone repaint Christ and the Apostles with shorter haircuts and wearing Air Jordans in DaVinci’s “Last Supper” simply to update their looks? I think not. So be it with Moe, Larry and Curly. I decided to binge on something else.
Have you ever seen “My Mother the Popcorn Machine”? Whatever.
Anyhow, that’s the way it looks from the Valley.
Thanks again, Susan. I’ll catch you next week. Tvalley@Rochester.RR.com
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NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. ("Kiromic" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: KRBP) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Kiromic investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Kiromic common stock issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 and/or (b) Kiromic common stock between June 25, 2021 and August 13, 2021, both dates inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
KRBP investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The complaint alleges that the registration statement and prospectus issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 (the "Offering Documents") failed to disclose that the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") had, prior to the filing of these documents, imposed a clinical hold on the Company's Investigational New Drug ("IND") applications for its two new drug candidates. Given that the offering closed on July 2, 2021, more than thirty (30) days after the Company submitted the IND applications for its two immunotherapy product candidates, investors were assured that no clinical hold had been issued and clinical trials would commence.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Kiromic during the relevant time frame, you have until October 4, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Latch, Inc. f/k/a TS Innovation Acquisitions Corp. ("Latch" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: LTCH) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Latch investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between May 13, 2021 and August 25, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
LTCH investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) there were unreported sales arrangements related to hardware devices; (2) as a result, the Company had improperly recognized revenue throughout fiscal 2021 and first quarter 2022; (3) there were material weaknesses in Latch's internal control over financial reporting related to revenue recognition; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Latch would restate financial statements for fiscal 2021 and first quarter 2022; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Latch during the relevant time frame, you have until October 31, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Palantir Technologies Inc. ("Palantir" or the "Company") (NYSE: PLTR) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Palantir investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between November 9, 2021 and May 6, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
PLTR investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) Palantir's investments in marketable securities were having a significant negative impact on the Company's earnings per share ("EPS") results; (ii) Palantir overstated the sustainability of its government segment's growth and revenues; (iii) Palantir was experiencing a significant slowdown in revenue growth, particularly among its government customers, despite ongoing global conflicts and market disruptions; (iv) as a result of all the foregoing, the Company was likely to miss consensus estimates for its first quarter 2022 EPS and second quarter 2022 sales outlook; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Palantir during the relevant time frame, you have until November 14, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
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“You’re going to be good, brother,” Warner told Lance. “We’re good baby, we got your back. We got your back. It’s all love baby.”
Kyle Shanahan provides injury updates as George Kittle starts week active
“Kyle Shanahan confirmed Wednesday that Lance is done for the year — and that there’s no chance for him to return — but expects him back healthy for next season.”
Jimmy Garoppolo getting quick chemistry lesson with 49ers’ new receivers (paywall)
“Last week, Kurt Benkert was a fantasy football manager whose lineup included Deebo Samuel and the 49ers defense. On Wednesday he was sharing a locker room with Samuel and the 49ers defense. (He’s two lockers down from Javon Kinlaw).”
Branch: Interior design: 49ers’ unproven linemen off to strong start (paywall)
“[Al Woods] is a very big individual,” Burford said. “I asked him how much he weighed during the game. And he said a pretty hefty number. I’m not going to put his business out there like that, but, yeah, he’s a big human being.”
49ers guard Aaron Banks doing ‘a hell of a job,’ says Kyle Shanahan
“I’ve been real happy with him these first two weeks,” head coach Kyle Shanahan said of Banks. “I think he took a step up in Week 1 from the preseason. And I think he even took a greater step up in Week 2 compared to Week 1. I thought he had one of [his] better games on offense. He did a hell of a job.”
What Kyle Juszczyk said about the 49ers’ transition from Trey Lance
“I just want to start with I don’t want to downplay how much we feel for Trey,” fullback Kyle Juszczyk said in the locker room before Wednesday’s practice. “That was our guy. We wish he was still out here doing his thing, but it’s been a good transition. And granted, it’s been like two days, so from what we’ve experienced so far, it’s been good and seamless. I mean, Jimmy’s been our quarterback here. This is like his sixth year, so you would expect him to be familiar and know what we’re doing.”
Silver: How 49ers QB Jimmy Garoppolo went from powerless to powerful (paywall)
“Garoppolo, who already has plenty of money, would be in line for a lot more. And for the first time, thanks to a recently restructured deal, he’d have the power.”
Improbably, 49ers QB Jimmy Garoppolo finds himself in best situation of his career (paywall)
“It looks as good as we could have hoped,” ElAttrache said. “The tissue is healed. His range of motion is there. Any part of measurable strength that I can do has all returned to normal.”
49ers’ Jeff Wilson: Trey Lance was ready to prove critics wrong
“He was already a general on the field,” running back Jeff Wilson told KNBR’s Brian Murphy and Markus Boucher. “He already had the respect of everybody. So none of that was ever the problem. It hurts to see because you can tell—you know how you can tell that somebody is really becoming comfortable, like feels good in their own skin?
“You could that moment was coming that everybody knew he was capable of. It was right around the corner. Shoot, it probably would have even been that game. So that’s why it’s so tough because you can just—like even in the huddle—you could just see it in his eyes.”
Branch: Good news for 49ers in high-decibel Denver: Jimmy Garoppolo is a loudmouth (paywall)
“Brendel said Garoppolo can project like an “opera singer.”
49ers place Trey Lance on injured reserve, bring back familiar face in series of moves
“The San Francisco 49ers today announced they have promoted RB Marlon Mack to the active roster from the team’s practice squad. In order to make room on the roster, the team placed QB Trey Lance on the Injured Reserve List. The team also signed QB Kurt Benkert and RB Tevin Coleman to the team’s practice squad and released CB Kary Vincent Jr.”
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If you’ve been keeping up with Project Rough‘s progress over the past few months, you’ll know I dialed in the suspension with the help of Frank at Tuner Concept and the team at GKTech, learned how to do a proper wheel alignment at home, and then set about maximizing the potential of the Shibatire Revimax R23 performance tires I fitted.
I then took Project Rough to Sports Land Yamanashi to put it through its paces, and everything went better than I could ever have imagined. Your boy was on cloud nine.
For a few days at least…
Following my time at the track, the high pressure line on the power steering pump decided to leak. A lot.
It wasn’t the sort of catastrophic failure where you make a few turns and the pump jettisons the entire reservoir, but a somewhat steady drip was enough for me to park my ER34 Nissan Skyline (yet again) and try to sort things out.
No worries though, as I was able to find a used replacement fairly quick on Yahoo! Auctions for a decent price. ‘Skyline Power Steering hose C34 ER34 C35 Laurel’ read the listing. Cue foreshadowing…
Before getting stuck in, I decided to look over the replacement and make sure it was indeed a direct fit, as I had an odd feeling that something was not right. Sure enough, the replacement was for an RB20, not an RB25. Sh*t. I partially dodged a bullet by checking, but I still needed a fix. I dropped by my local Nissan dealership and they quoted a little under ¥50,000 (approx US$350) for just the high pressure line and ¥30,000 (roughly US$210) for the other one.
In the midst of preparing a sob story for my wife on why I needed to spend a whole lot of money on ‘some hoses’ to fix Project Rough, I remembered that while visiting R31 House’s parts yard a few years back, they had a few R34s in stock. Fingers crossed, I sent Shibata-san a message asking if he still had the Skylines, and if so whether they’d have the parts I needed.
Shibata-san’s reply was not the one I wanted to hear: “I don’t have any R34s, Ron.”
I didn’t have to dwell on that bad news long though, because no less than a couple of hours later, my phone rung. It was Shiba-san, this time with some great news.
“I found them!” he exclaimed. “They [the R34s] should have the part you’re looking for. If you’re OK with the part being used, then you can have it. In fact, you can come and take any parts that you like for your car!”
‘Are you sure?’ I asked, gobsmacked. “Of course, just come to the shop and you can take whatever you like!”
It was at this point that the gears in my head started to turn…
Seeing that it had been a few years since we last paid R31 House a visit, I figured an update story was due. I knew trying to cram everything into one day was going to be impossible, so Shibata-san and I decided to set aside an entire weekend.
I didn’t expect Shibata-san to have the power steering hoses removed for me, so I put together a list of tools that I would need to grab those and any other removal/refit work I could possibly do in the R31 House yard.
It all fit rather nicely in this oversized picnic basket.
With Project Rough loaded up, I hit the expressway with the navigation set to R31 House in Gifu.
On a trip like this, I would normally take the backroads and touges as the expressway can be a bit dreary (not to mention expensive), but since Project Rough was still leaking power steering fluid I didn’t want to risk something happening in the middle of nowhere. I just wanted to get to R31 House as soon as possible.
To my surprise though, the route there was actually pretty stunning. With my coilovers set to ‘soft’ and my air conditioner blowing ice cold, it was quite an enjoyable cruise.
If you ever need to take a break while driving on Japanese expressways, the many service areas along the way are an absolute treat. The smaller ones will at least usually have a convenience store inside, but the larger ones have food courts and spaces dedicated to selling omiyage – the act of buying a gift (usually some form of snack) for friends, co-workers or family members.
Shockingly, I arrived at R31 House without any drama. Camera in hand, I was ready to hit the ground running to maximize the weekend.
It was immediately clear that a lot had changed since our last visit, but before I could begin, Shibata-san had one more surprise for me.
“Remember that thing I promised you five years ago at Tokyo Auto Salon, Ron?” Stay tuned for Part 2 of this story…
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HILO-- It was an unnerving day in the courts on the Big Island and a big reason behind that has to do with a recent State Supreme Court decision.
Duncan Mahi is a repeat offender, according to court documents, having already been twice convicted of felony terroristic threatening in 2018.
Nonetheless, 52 year old Duncan Mahi appeared to face the charges of kidnapping, terroristic threats, sexual assault and meth trafficking.
In Kona, Mahi appeared before a judge for a preliminary hearing, where law enforcement personnel described arriving at Anaehoomalu Beach where Mikella Debina's boyfriend had been restrained with tape and zip ties.
Meanwhile in Hilo, an 11 count Grand Jury indictment was returned against Mahi. Why the 2 court procedures at the same time? On September 8th of this month, the Hawaii state supreme court, as deputy prosecutor Thomas Brady of the Honolulu office explained, made a controversial 3-2 ruling. .
"It's an important decision. What it basically did is it invalidated our way of charging cases by way of prelim hearings. And this was based on 40 years of practice that allowed us to go to prelim hearings," Brady explained, "So the net result is we have 168 felony cases is already charged in the system, that currently are invalidated and what we have to do is rush to go to grand jury to take care of these matters so that nobody is released."
And the release of Duncan Mahi, the Hawaii county prosecutor on the Big Island told KITV, was a matter they did not want to risk falling through the cracks.
So the two court procedures were held simultaneously. With168 felony cases in Honolulu county now in jeopardy, the Big Island has 220 felony cases that may need to be reindicted.
Thomas Brady is asking the state Legislature to hold a special session and draft a new law that would address the procedural restrictions of the Supreme court ruling, in what is known as the Obrerro case. Otherwise, alleged felons could be released if cases are not reindicted accordingly.
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- Prior 1.75%
- Bank rate vote 9-0* vs 9-0 expected (*Haskel, Mann, Ramsden voted for 75 bps, Dhingra voted for 25 bps)
- Sterling has depreciated materially since August
- Uncertainty around the outlook for UK retail energy prices has fallen after government's energy support plan
- Consumer spending is likely to have peaked in this quarter
- Peak inflation is now likely to be lower than projected in August, at just under 11% in October
- Policy is not on a pre-set path
- Should the outlook suggest more persistent inflationary pressures, including from stronger demand, BOE will respond forcefully, as necessary
- Full statement
There's a bit of give and take in the latest policy decision by the BOE here. The split in votes obviously don't help to give markets a sense of confidence on their resolve to tighten aggressively. Add that to the fact that market pricing had considered a 75 bps rate hike but we only got 50 bps, as per what economists expected.
But the good news comes from the fact that the BOE is offering up a more optimistic outlook on inflation. As for economic activity, they see Q3 GDP as being -0.1% q/q and that will infer a technical recession in the UK. But on the balance of things, the brighter inflation outlook perhaps matters more as they view peak inflation to be lower now.
Besides that, there is a subtle change to the forward guidance, which I would perceive to be offering them flexibility to act less aggressively i.e. move back to 25 bps rate hikes. In August, they noted that:
"The Committee will be particularly alert to indications of more persistent inflationary pressures, and will if necessary act forcefully in response."
Today, the statement reads:
"Should the outlook suggest more persistent inflationary pressures, including from stronger demand, the Committee will respond forcefully, as necessary."
It ties to their peak inflation
Inflation
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Read this Term view coming lower and while it's no major change in policy stance, it is a subtle one as the words should and suggest do give them some leeway to work with moving forward.
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Kansas Republicans want to give the Legislature more power over Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly through what’s known as a legislative veto. The veto would allow it to override Kelly's policy decisions on the environment, social services and many other matters. Kansas News Service reporter Dylan Lysen spoke with editor Stephen Koranda about a proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot and how it could change the way the state is governed.
Polls show millennial and Gen Z voters will turn out in high numbers for the upcoming general election, even though they are disillusioned with what they see as divisive political rhetoric and inauthenticity among politicians. KCUR's Laura Ziegler brings us the voices of young people across Kansas City.
Contact the show at news@kcur.org. Follow KCUR on Twitter and Facebook for the latest news.
Kansas City Today is hosted by Nomin Ujiyediin. It is produced by Byron Love, Trevor Grandin, and KCUR Studios and edited by Gabe Rosenberg and Lisa Rodriguez.
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Rescue crews in Puerto Rico struggle to reach residents cut off by Fiona
President Biden approved a major disaster declaration for Puerto Rico and ordered federal aid to assist with recovery efforts in the areas affected by deadly Hurricane Fiona, the White House announced Wednesday evening.
Driving the news: Local officials told AP Wednesday they were having difficulty trying to reach stranded residents days after Fiona swept through, cutting off areas in "at least six municipalities" after triggering heavy rains, mudslides and flooding that destroyed bridges, roads and property.
The big picture: Fiona knocked out power to the entire island, and Gov. Pedro Pierluisi requested the major disaster declaration on Tuesday.
- Pierluisi tweeted his thanks to Biden and Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Deanne Criswell for the declaration, which he said would ensure towns had additional FEMA help to assist in storm damage recovery.
By the numbers: Over a million people were still without power and more than 450,000 had no running water or only intermittent service in the U.S. territory on Wednesday, according to government data.
What they're saying: Criswell said at a briefing in Puerto Rico on Wednesday after visiting affected areas that initial recovery efforts were about "stabilizing the incident and bringing the communities to a level that they can function."
- Then officials would look at moving into rebuilding infrastructure to be more resilient "so that they can withstand future impacts."
Editor's note: This article has been updated with new details throughout.
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Living — and checking your mail — in style
You can take the "penthouse-style" views and quartz countertops at 51 N. High St. all the way to the bank.
- Well, former bank that is.
Up for sale: A two-bedroom, two-bathroom, 1,175-square-foot condo in the former Citizens Savings and Trust Company building for $482,500.
- The 63-unit condominium features a rooftop lounge along with a restaurant, cocktail bar and coffee shop on the first floor.
Details: The eight-story building was constructed in 1917 on the corner of High and Gay Streets, described by the Akron Beacon Journal at the time as "the most prominent business location of the capital city."
- It proved to be an inauspicious year for the bank, as a bookkeeper was sentenced to the nearby state reformatory for embezzling thousands of dollars, a Mansfield newspaper reported.
The intrigue: Residents won't find bags of cash lying around these days, but the mail room is located in the bank's old vault.
- Developer Jeff Edwards tried to keep original architectural elements while rehabbing the property, listing agent Pat Perkins of RE/MAX Affiliates tells Axios.
- His preservation work earned special praise from the Columbus Landmarks group in 2018.
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CEOs on how Denver can supercharge its tech hub status
Denver's sudden, pandemic-fueled status as a magnet for white-collar workers means salaries are growing at a rapid pace and startups are drawing billions in investment dollars.
Yes, but: The city still has room to grow to compete with tech hubs like San Francisco and Seattle, say those with hiring power and the ability to draw investments to Denver.
What they're saying: Local executives at a panel during Denver Startup Week had some insights on how Denver can mature and attract the best and the brightest.
- Dianne Myles, CEO of Dope Mom Life, a creative consulting agency, was born and raised in Colorado. She said companies must support their communities by ensuring job and training opportunities are available to retain skilled tech workers. "What does it look like to develop the talent here? Get them in front of people they need to be in front of," Myles said.
- Similarly, Niji Sabharwal, co-founder of AgentSync, which relocated to Denver in 2020, said he would like to see more talent develop locally, instead of bringing people from outside the state.
- Lee Mayer, CEO of Havenly, an interior design firm, said the city needs to improve its consumer-facing tech. She noted Denver doesn't have legacy tech businesses that people immediately associate with the city, the way Microsoft is linked to Seattle. "While we have an incredible amount of talent going to a ton of other companies, I think that's one sector of tech that we just haven't really cornered."
- Velocity Global CEO Ben Wright, who launched his remote workforce management company in Denver, said he wants state lawmakers to better support the local startup community.
Between the lines: "Young talent wants to be here … they want to be able to experience everything Colorado has to offer," said Kevin Riddleberger, chief strategy officer at DispatchHealth, a health care delivery system.
- Mark Frank, CEO of online therapy service SonderMind, noted access to capital is different now than 10 years ago, adding the city's "on the map now in a very real way."
- Frank and other panelists noted what the data suggests: It's a lot easier to convince venture capital firms to invest in Denver companies.
By the numbers: The Denver-Aurora-Lakewood metro area added 14,477 tech workers from 2015 to 2020 — a 6.6% increase — while Boulder added 2,167 tech workers during the same time span.
What's next: Denver Startup Week will host its closing bash Thursday night at X Denver.
- The event is free and starts at 6pm.
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‘Tis the season to eat pumpkin baked goods in Detroit
👋 Annalise here. I adore pumpkin baked goods, ranging back to the days when my dad would make several loaves of pumpkin bread at a time. I'd nab big hunks for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert … second dessert …
So here are some Detroit businesses where I — and you, dear readers — can sate those cravings this fall.
- Maybe these pair well with pumpkin beer?
Chene Modern Bakery: Pumpkin pie, cake rolls and pound cake.
- 17041 W. Warren Ave.
Yellow Light Coffee and Donuts: Pumpkin spice donuts with vanilla glaze and sprinkles are the special flavor for this week only, so time's a-wasting.
- 14447 E Jefferson Ave.
Milano Bakery: Pumpkin muffins, rolls and pumpkin spice cookies.
- 3500 Russell St.
Give Thanks Bakery: Muffins and pumpkin swirl pound cake.
- 3800 Woodward Ave.
On the Rise Bakery and Café: Pumpkin rolls with cream cheese.
- 1780 Mount Elliott St.
Of note: Some places tell us they're planning to roll out pumpkin offerings later this fall, so stay tuned.
📬 Tell us: This is not an exhaustive list, so email [email protected] to let me know what I missed!
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When to expect peak fall foliage in Philadelphia
Leaf-peepers in the region can expect fall colors to start appearing early next month, with the peak set for mid- to late-October.
Driving the news: That's according to a recently released 2022 interactive Fall Foliage Prediction Map from SmokyMountains.com, which offers data-informed forecasts on leaf changes across the country.
Zoom in: Most of Philly's suburbs and central New Jersey will see their colors peak first during the week of Oct. 17.
- Philly and South Jersey will follow a week later.
Don't miss out: Fall foliage in the region will be past its peak by Halloween.
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Russia's military is divided over how best to counter Ukraine's unexpected battlefield advances this month, according to multiple sources familiar with US intelligence, as Moscow has found itself on the defensive in both the east and the south.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is himself giving directions directly to generals in the field, two sources familiar with US and western intelligence said-- a highly unusual management tactic in a modern military that these sources said hints at the dysfunctional command structure that has plagued Russia's war from the beginning.
Intelligence intercepts have captured Russian officers arguing among themselves and complaining to friends and relatives back home about decision-making from Moscow, one of these sources told CNN.
And there are significant disagreements on strategy with military leaders struggling to agree on where to focus their efforts to shore up defensive lines, multiple sources familiar with US intelligence said.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has claimed that it is redeploying forces toward Kharkiv in the northeast -- where Ukraine has made the most dramatic gains -- but US and western sources say the bulk of Russian troops still remain in the south, where Ukraine has also mounted offensive operations around Kherson.
Putin announced a partial mobilization on Wednesday that is expected to include the call-up of up to 300,000 reservists. He has for months resisted taking that step and Biden administration officials said Wednesday that the fact he has moved to do so now highlights the severity of Russia's manpower shortages and signals a growing desperation.
It's not clear that the mobilization will make any operational difference on the battlefield, or merely prolong the length of the war without changing the outcome, according to Russian military analysts.
Blame game
And while Russia flails on the battlefield, officials in Moscow have scrambled to assign blame for Russia's abrupt turn in fortunes, a senior NATO official said.
"Kremlin officials and state media pundits have been feverishly discussing the reasons for the failure in Kharkiv and in typical fashion, the Kremlin seems to be attempting to deflect the blame away from Putin and onto the Russian military," this person said.
Already, there has been a reshuffling of military leadership in response to the battlefield failures -- leaving Russia's command structure even more jumbled than it was before, sources say. The commander who oversaw the majority of the units around the Kharkiv region had been in the post only 15 days and has now been relieved of duty, the NATO official said.
Russia has sent "a small number" of troops into eastern Ukraine -- some of whom had fled amid Ukraine's battlefield advances last week, according to two US defense officials -- an effort to shore up its weakened defensive lines.
But even if Russia is able to coalesce around a plan, US and western officials believe Russia is limited in its ability to mount a strategically significant response to Ukraine's counteroffensive operations that in recent days, sources say, has swung the momentum in Kyiv's favor. Even after the announcement of the partial mobilization, officials are skeptical that Russia is capable of quickly deploying large numbers of troops into Ukraine given its ongoing problems with supply lines, communications and morale.
The "small scale" of the Russian redeployment is a signal of its inability to mount any serious operations, the senior defense official told CNN.
So far, Russia has responded to Ukraine's advances by launching attacks against critical infrastructure like dams and power plants -- attacks that the US sees as largely "revenge" attacks rather than operationally significant salvos, this person said.
Absent more manpower that, right now, it simply doesn't have, sources said Russia has few other options to penalize or push back Ukrainian forces. Putin is "struggling," National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby said in an appearance on CNN on Wednesday. Russia's military has "poor unit cohesion, desertions in the ranks, soldiers not wanting to fight," Kirby said.
"He has terrible morale, unit cohesion on the battlefield, command and control has still not been solved. He's got desertion problems and he's forcing the wounded back into the fight. So clearly, manpower is a problem for him," Kirby said. "He feels like he's on his back foot, particularly in that northeast area of the Donbass."
Mobilization order a sign Putin's plan isn't working
Putin's mobilization order is significant because it is a direct acknowledgment that Moscow's "special military operation" wasn't working and needed to be adjusted, military analysts said.
But for now, there are more questions than answers about its precise operational impact. It's the first such order handed down in Russia since World War II, offering military analysts limited modern data on which to base their predictions.
Even if Moscow can grow its number of soldiers -- both by preventing existing contract service members from leaving service and by mobilizing reservists -- it will struggle to train, equip and integrate these troops into existing units, said Michael Kofman, the director of the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses. And even if that solves some near-term manpower problems, these will likely not be high-quality recruits, Kofman and others noted.
Even in the best-case scenario, it will also take Moscow some time to field fresh troops.
"I think it's reasonable to say that partial mobilization probably will not reflect itself on the battlefield for several months at the earliest, and could expand Russia's ability to sustain this war, but not alter its outcome," Kofman said.
Russia's longstanding failures in planning, communications and logistics have been compounded by punishing losses in its retreat from around Kharkiv, sources said. Russia left behind "a lot" of equipment in its retreat, according to the NATO official. And at least one storied unit, from the First Guards Tank Army, has been "decimated," this person said.
"With its northern axis all but collapsed, this will make it harder for Russian forces to slow the Ukrainian advance, as well as to provide cover for the retreating Russian troops," the official said. "We think it will also severely impair Russia's plans to occupy the entirety of the Donbas."
The wild card remains, as always, the Russian President. Putin on Wednesday once again threatened the use of nuclear weapons, a threat the US officials have said they are taking "seriously" but have seen no immediate indication he is planning on following through on.
Pro-Russian authorities in some eastern occupied regions of Ukraine have also announced their intention to hold political referendums on joining Russia, a maneuver some analysts say Russia could use as a pretext for military action.
But, the senior NATO official said, "Overall, Russia now finds itself on the defensive. Ukraine has the initiative, forcing Russia to take stopgap measures simply to avoid further losses."
"If Ukraine succeeds in undertaking sustained defensive operations, this could even further undermine the sustainability of Russian defenses," this person said.
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Man admits to killing 18-year-old after political dispute, court docs allege
MCHENRY, N.D. (KVLY/Gray News) - A North Dakota man is facing multiple charges after a hit-and-run that killed an 18-year-old man. The suspect reportedly told deputies he hit the man with his car because the two had a political argument.
Foster County deputies were called to a hit-and-run that happened in an alleyway in McHenry, North Dakota. The crash killed an 18-year-old man from Grace City, identified as Cayler Ellingson on GoFundMe.
Court documents say 41-year-old Shannon Brandt called 911 at 2:35 a.m. Sunday to report that he had hit a pedestrian because he was threatening him. Brandt told State Radio that the pedestrian was part of a Republican extremist group and that he was afraid they were “coming to get him.”
After visiting the crash site, deputies went to Brandt’s house in Glenfield, about 12 minutes from the scene, KVLY reports.
Brandt allegedly admitted to deputies he had consumed alcohol before the incident and stated he hit Ellingson with his car because he had a political argument with him. Brandt also allegedly admitted that he initially left the crash scene, returned to call 911, then left again before deputies could arrive.
Court documents said just before the crash, Ellingson called his mom and asked if they knew who Brandt was. She said yes and told her son she was on her way to pick him up.
A short time later, court documents say Ellingson called his mom again to say that “he” or “they” were chasing him. It was after that second call that the 18-year-old could not be reached again.
Ellingson was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
Brandt has been charged with criminal vehicular homicide and driving while intoxicated. Court records show a judge set bail at $50,000.
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Thieves key on hack that leaves Hyundai, Kia cars vulnerable
DETROIT (AP) — Some Hyundai and Kia cars and SUVs are missing a “key” anti-theft device, and thieves know.
An insurance industry group says these cars are stolen at nearly twice the rate of the rest of the auto industry because their keys lack computer chips for theft “immobilizer” systems.
The thefts apparently started in the Milwaukee area two years ago and spread to multiple Midwest cities and as far away as Colorado and New Mexico after instructional videos appeared on social media.
The Highway Loss Data Institute, a unit of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, found that Hyundais and Kias without immobilizers had a vehicle theft claim rate of 2.18 per 1,000 insured vehicle years. The rest of the industry combined had a rate of 1.21. An insured vehicle year is equal to one vehicle insured for one year.
The institute, which issued its findings on Thursday, compared vehicles from the 2015 through 2019 model years. It studied vehicle theft claims from 2021.
Chip keys, which started to show up in the 1990s, communicate with another chip in the ignition switch. If they match, the engines will start. If they don’t match, a thief can’t start the engine.
Keys don’t have an immobilizer system in several lower-priced versions of vehicles from the two South Korean automakers such as the Kia Rio and Sportage and the Hyundai Accent, the institute said.
“Our earlier studies show that vehicle theft losses plunged after immobilizers were introduced,” said Matt Moore, senior vice president of the institute. “Unfortunately, Hyundai and Kia have lagged behind other automakers in making them standard equipment.”
In the 2015 model year, immobilizers were standard on 96% of other manufacturers’ models, the institute said. But they were standard on only 26% of Hyundai and Kia models. The carmakers haven’t explained their decision to not include immobilizers on some models.
Videos show thieves prying the ignition cover off the Hyundai and Kia vehicles, then using a screwdriver or USB cable to start them and drive away.
Last year in Milwaukee, 66% of the 10,476 stolen vehicles were Hyundais or Kias, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper. The number of thefts has slowed in the city so far this year. Through Sept. 12, 6,048 vehicles were taken, but 58% of them were Hyundais or Kias, Milwaukee police said Thursday.
One 17-year-old theft suspect in a viral video about Kia thefts was arrested after police used the video and an anonymous tip to track him down, the Journal Sentinel reported. He could face up to 22 years in prison.
Hyundai and Kia both conceded in statements that thieves are stealing some of their vehicles and said they meet federal safety standards. “It is unfortunate that criminals are using social media to target vehicles without engine immobilizers in a coordinated effort,” Kia said.
All 2022 Kias got immobilizers either at the start of or during the model year. Hyundai said all models produced after Nov. 1, 2021 have immobilizers as standard equipment.
Kia says it’s working to provide steering wheel locks at no cost to authorities in affected areas to deter thefts. Hyundai said it’s also providing the locks to police, and that in October, it will start selling a security kit that targets the thieves’ methods.
The institute’s Moore said the vulnerable Hyundais and Kias rank among the 20 most popular vehicles with thieves, a distinction normally reserved for high-powered or expensive vehicles, or pickup trucks. The Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat had the highest rate of theft claims.
Many of the vulnerable Hyundais and Kias are often bought by lower-income people. “These are relatively inexpensive vehicles when purchased new,” Moore said. Owners of some of the models may have dropped comprehensive insurance to save money, and may have had to replace the cars on their own, he said.
To help prevent theft, owners should roll up windows, lock doors and take the key or fob with them, the National Insurance Crime Bureau says. They should park in well-lighted areas or a garage. If they have to park outdoors, owners should consider installing motion-sensor lights.
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Bill Would Require Public Information About Transfers
September 22, 2022
A bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Democrat, would require colleges to release more information about transfer policies, The Texas Tribune reported.
The bill would require two-year and four-year colleges to post information about transfer deadlines for admissions and financial aid, as well as a list of all the colleges from which a student's credits are guaranteed to be accepted.
Castro said the bill would help students "save valuable time and money" as they pursue degrees.
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Advertisement feature Discover and support new talent with Classeek Classeek has announced its 2022-23 concert season as it continues its Ambassador Programme, supporting some of the most promising classical talents. Classeek welcomes a host of up-and-coming classical artists to its 2022-23 Ambassador Programme. Each season, the programme gives a selection of musicians, nominated by Classeek’s ambassadors, the opportunity to enhance their career. This year eight exceptional young musicians will perform in concerts broadcast live and in high definition from the stunning setting of Classeek’s private recital hall in Aubonne, Switzerland. This year, for the first time since the inception of the programme, there will be one musician admitted via an application process (which took place over the summer), open to all promising young artists. The final artist and concert will be announced shortly. Concerts commence on 29 September 2022 and will be live-streamed free on Classeek's social media channels and website here. Let's take a look at what’s coming up: 29 September, 2022 Avery Gagliano Ambassador: András Schiff Nominated by Sir András Schiff, 21-year-old pianist Avery Gagliano performs a programme of Bach, Chopin and Szymanowski. Gagliano has recently made her Carnegie Hall debut and released her debut album “Reflections” on the Steinway & Sons label. She gained international acclaim as the First Prize and Best Concerto Prize winner of the 10th National Chopin Piano Competition and was the only American semifinalist at the 18th International Chopin Competition in 2021. 23 November, 2022 Paul Zientara Ambassador: Renaud Capuçon Nominated by Renaud Capuçon, violist Paul Zientara performs alongside pianist Arthur Hinnewinkel in a programme of Brahms, Enesco and Prokofiev. 22-year-old Zientara began studying the viola at the age of seven at the Music school of Yerres in Yves Pruvot's class. In 2015, he joined the CRR (Regional Conservatory) of Paris in Françoise Gnéri's class. He regularly participates in international academies and masterclasses including the Kronberg Academy Festival. 14 December, 2022 Jeein You Ambassador: Gautier Capuçon Nominated by Gautier Capuçon, cellist Jeein You performs in a duo with pianist Gabriel Durliat, in a programme of Granados, Rachmaninov and Bizet. 20-year-old You were born in South Korea in 2002 and began studying cello at five. When she was seven she joined the Korea National University Of Arts Preschool under her tutor Chung Myung-Wha. Her ambassador Capuçon says, “Jeein is such a talented cellist and a very sensitive musician with an incredible ability to carry her emotions through music." 18 January, 2023 Julia Hamos Ambassador: András Schiff Nominated by Sir András Schiff, pianist Julia Hamos performs a programme of Bach, Bartók and Schumann. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, Hamos currently studies with Sir András Schiff at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin and at the Kronberg Academy. In 2021 she worked with Daniel Barenboim in a succession of filmed masterclasses on Beethoven's solo piano and string sonatas. 19 March, 2023 Bilal Alnemr Ambassador: Sonia Simmenauer Nominated by Sonia Simmenauer, violinist Bilal Alnemr performs in a duo with pianist Giuseppe Mentuccian in a programme of Schumann, Fauré, Solhi al-Wadi. 25-year-old Bilal was born in Damascus. At the age of eight, he began to study violin at the Solhi-AL-WADI Conservatory. In 2007, he won the first prize in the national competition for young Syrian talents. His mentor Sonia Simmenauer says, “I was stricken when I met with Bilal the first time and his seriousness about being a musician. I admire his courage and dedication to music.” 13 April, 2023 Giorgi Gigashvili Ambassador: Sonia Simmenauer Nominated by Sonia Simmenauer, 22-year-old Gigashvili is a frequent soloist and chamber musician working with various orchestras and taking part in festivals and masterclasses all over the world. He has always been passionate about music and was trained by famous Georgian pianist and teacher Revaz Tavadze where he continued his formal musical training at the Paliashvili Central Music School for Gifted Children. Gigashvili’s programme includes Scarlatti, Sonata in C major K487, Scarlatti, Sonata in D major K29, Brahms, Three Intermezzi, Op. 117 and Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor, S 178. 10 May, 2023 Alberto Navarra Ambassador: Emmanuel Pahud Nominated by Emmanuel Pahud, 24-year-old flautist Alberto Navarra performs in a chamber recital including pianist Martina Consonni. Navarra began his studies under Maurizio Valentini at the Ghedini Conservatory in Cuneo. His ambassador Emmanuel Pahud says, “Alberto Navarra is a leading talent of his generation.” Alberto is also a laureate of the Severino Gazzelloni International Flute Competition and the Carl Nielsen Flute Competition. 21 June, 2023 Tom Borrow Ambassador: András Schiff Nominated by Sir András Schiff, 21-year-old pianist Tom Borrow performs in a programme by Franck, Dutilleux and Schumann. Borrow began playing the piano at the age of 5 and has performed as a soloist with many native orchestras of his country, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Symphony Orchestra. Watch the concerts for free here and discover more about Classeek’s artists and ambassadors here.
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ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Darden Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE:DRI) today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended August 28, 2022.
First Quarter 2023 Financial Highlights
- Total sales increased 6.1% to $2.4 billion driven by a blended same-restaurant sales increase of 4.2% and sales from 34 net new restaurants
- Same-restaurant sales:
- Reported diluted net earnings per share was $1.56 as compared to last year's reported diluted net earnings per share of $1.76
- The Company repurchased $199 million of its outstanding common stock
"I am pleased with the performance of all our brands in what remains a challenging inflationary and uncertain macroeconomic environment," said Darden President & CEO Rick Cardenas. "We had a solid quarter and we saw more normal seasonality return to our business, which we did not experience last year. Darden's strategy, together with the breadth of our brand portfolio, our team members' passion to serve, and the strength of our balance sheet, gives me confidence in our ability to continue to win."
Segment Performance
Segment profit represents sales, less costs for food and beverage, restaurant labor, restaurant expenses and marketing expenses. Segment profit excludes non-cash real estate related expenses.
Dividend Declared
Darden's Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.21 per share on the Company's outstanding common stock. The dividend is payable on November 1, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on October 10, 2022.
Share Repurchase Program
During the quarter, the Company repurchased approximately 1.7 million shares of its common stock for a total cost of approximately $199 million. As of the end of the fiscal first quarter, the Company had approximately $912 million remaining under the current $1 billion repurchase authorization.
Fiscal 2023 Financial Outlook
The company reaffirmed all aspects of its financial outlook:
- Total sales of $10.2 to $10.4 billion
- Same-restaurant sales growth of 4% to 6%
- 55 to 60 new restaurant openings
- Total capital spending of $500 to $550 million
- Total inflation of approximately 6%
- An effective tax rate of approximately 13.5%
- Diluted net earnings per share from continuing operations of $7.40 to $8.00
- Approximately 124 million weighted average diluted shares outstanding
Investor Conference Call
The Company will host a conference call and slide presentation on Thursday, September 22, 2022 at 8:30 am ET to review its recent financial performance. To listen to the call live, please go to https://app.webinar.net/DQdyamwLRkP at least fifteen minutes early to register, download, and install any necessary audio software. Prior to the call, a slide presentation will be posted on the Investor Relations section of our website at: www.darden.com. For those who cannot access the Internet, please dial 1-800-458-4121 and enter passcode 9557965. For those who cannot listen to the live broadcast, a replay will be available shortly after the call.
About Darden
Darden is a restaurant company featuring a portfolio of differentiated brands that include Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen, Yard House, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Bahama Breeze and Eddie V's. For more information, please visit www.darden.com.
Information About Forward-Looking Statements
Forward-looking statements in this communication regarding our expected earnings performance and all other statements that are not historical facts, including without limitation statements concerning our future economic performance, are made under the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which such statements are first made, and we undertake no obligation to update such statements to reflect events or circumstances arising after such date. We wish to caution investors not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to materially differ from those anticipated in the statements. The most significant of these uncertainties are described in Darden's Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and Form 8-K reports. These risks and uncertainties include: the impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on our business and the global economy, a failure to address cost pressures and a failure to effectively deliver cost management activities, economic factors and their impacts on the restaurant industry and general macroeconomic factors including unemployment, energy prices and interest rates, the inability to hire, train, reward and retain restaurant team members, a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders, labor and insurance costs, health concerns including food-related pandemics or outbreaks of flu or other viruses, food safety and food-borne illness concerns, technology failures including failure to maintain a secure cyber network, compliance with privacy and data protection laws and risks of failures or breaches of our data protection systems, risks relating to public policy changes and federal, state and local regulation of our business, intense competition, changing consumer preferences, an inability or failure to manage the accelerated impact of social media, a failure to execute innovative marketing and guest relationship tactics, climate change, adverse weather conditions and natural disasters, long-term and non-cancelable property leases, failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster, shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products and services, failure to drive profitable sales growth, a lack of availability of suitable locations for new restaurants, higher-than-anticipated costs to open, close, relocate or remodel restaurants, risks of doing business with franchisees, licensees and vendors in foreign markets, volatility in the market value of derivatives, volatility leading to the inability to hedge equity compensation market exposure, failure to protect our intellectual property, litigation, unfavorable publicity, disruptions in the financial markets, impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets, changes in tax laws or unanticipated tax liabilities, failure of our internal controls over financial reporting and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HCI Equity Partners ("HCI"), a leading lower middle-market private equity firm, is pleased to announce that Justin Boyles has joined the firm as an Associate within the firm's investment team. Mr. Boyles will be responsible for evaluating, analyzing and monitoring investments made by the firm.
Previously, Mr. Boyles served as an Investment Banking Analyst at Fidus Partners, where he executed middle-market mergers and acquisitions transactions for industrial manufacturing companies. He also specialized in middle-market transactions in the Strategy & Transactions group at Grant Thornton, where he began his career. Mr. Boyles received his Master of Science in accounting, with a concentration in financial transaction services from Wake Forest University and received his Bachelor of Arts in economics with a minor in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"We are very pleased to welcome Justin to our investment team," said HCI's Doug McCormick, Managing Partner. "HCI takes pride in building great teams inside the firm and at our portfolio companies, and Justin's financial and transaction expertise will be a great addition to our talented team."
HCI Equity Partners is a lower market private equity firm focused on partnering with family and founder-owned distribution, manufacturing and service companies. HCI is headquartered in Washington, DC. For more information, please visit www.hciequity.com.
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- The appointment of the new Chief Business Officer strengthens the ability to execute the company's global strategy
- Dr. Mundra is passionate about medical research and is poised to accelerate MEDSIR's rapid growth as she brings extensive business and scientific experience
BARCELONA, Spain, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MEDSIR, an international company specialized in the strategic design of clinical trials is pleased to announce the appointment of Jyoti Mundra, PhD, as Chief Business Officer.
In her role, Jyoti will help accelerate the growth of MEDSIR while enhancing MEDSIR's presence and business in North America. She will be leading global business and marketing team to provide clinical solutions to biopharma companies and build a network with hospitals and institutions.
"Jyoti's scientific background paired with her track record of high sales performance makes her great addition to our team and bolsters our presence in North America," says María Campos, Chief Executive Officer of the company.
"MEDSIR is building the market leading solutions for investigator lead clinical trials and provide strategic clinical solutions to biopharma companies. I am excited about the growth of MEDSIR and expansion in the North American market," said Jyoti Mundra.
About Jyoti Mundra
Jyoti has worked at various full service CRO's helping biopharma companies to advance their drug pipeline. Prior to joining MEDSIR, Jyoti served as a Director of Business Development at Sinclair Research and helped achieve hypergrowth leading to an acquisition by Altasciences. She also held similar roles at Champions Oncology and Covance to improve the productivity of drug development. Jyoti received her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Rutgers University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the NYU Langone Medical Center.
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Polish senior leaders standby before U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors fly alongside Polish Air Force F-16s over the Westerplatte Monument in Gdańsk, Poland during a ceremony to commemorate the beginning of World War II on Sept. 1, 1939. Westerplatte honors the courage and patriotism of those who resisted the German invasion 83 years ago. Today, Poland is one of the U.S.’s strongest Allies and we share a commitment to freedom and stability throughout the European theater. (Polish Air Force photo by Kapral Wojciech Król, Operational Center of the Ministry of National Defence)
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Energy experts have taken a look at how much it will cost to run an electric blanket this winter. This comes as UK households search for cheaper ways of keeping themselves warm amid the rising cost of living.
As a smaller item that doesn't require the whole house to be heated, electric blankets can be far more energy efficient. However, the experts at Sleepseeker have given some key advice on the best ways to run an electric blanket and keep your energy bills low.
After energy costs go up in October, the cost per pence/kWh of electricity will be approximately 52p. An electric blanket usually runs at 100W or 0.1kW, so it will cost you around 5p per hour or 42p per night (assuming eight hours of sleep). This is far cheaper than running central heating overnight and the cost can be reduced even further if using a blanket with smaller power level (50W or 60W).
Read more: DWP announces that income support, ESA and other payments all set to be delayed today
When using an electric blanket, Sleepseeker lists some of the ways you can keep your energy usage low, Wales Online reports.
Timer - many electric blankets come with a timer, which is a great way to save energy. You can simply set it to turn off after a set period, so you don’t have to leave it running all night.
Variable power and heat settings - it may not be a surprise, but using a higher heat setting will up your energy consumption. If you have a variable temperature setting, you can use just enough to stay warm and increase it or decrease it as needed.
Dual controls for larger blankets - only warm the parts of the blanket that need it! For a single blanket, this could mean the ability to warm just your feet or just your body. For a double electric blanket, it could mean only warming one side of the blanket.
Prepare in advance: preheat it - rather than blasting it on a high heat before you get into bed, simply put it on a low heat further in advance, this way you won’t use so much power.
Stay low and add heat when you need it - Start using your electric blanket on low heat. And, if you need a little extra oomph, you can up it for a short period of time.
Hayley Thistleton at SleepSeeker also provided a list of ways to keep your blanket clean and running well, as this will also increase energy efficiency.
1. Wash semi-regularly
“You should wash your electric blanket approximately every few weeks - once a month or whenever the blanket gets dirty.
Firstly, you should check the tag to see the manufacturer's cleaning advice and follow this. If the washing machine safe symbol is listed, you should ensure the blanket is unplugged and wash on a gentle cycle in cool to warm water using a mild detergent. Let the machine run for a few minutes before turning it off and leaving the electric blanket to soak in the soapy water for about 15 minutes, and then skip to the rinse and spin cycle.
2. Dry gently
“Most electric blankets can be machine dried, but again check the tag for advice. Set the dryer to a low heat setting for around 10-15 minutes before taking it out and evenly hanging on a drying rack to finish drying. If your dryer does not have a low heat setting, skip this step and simply air dry the blanket from the start as high temperatures can damage the electric wiring inside the blanket. Additionally, you should never dry clean an electric blanket as the chemicals used in the dry cleaning process can damage the blanket's wiring and heating system.
3. How to store
“During the summer months, electric blankets are usually stored away till the weather gets cold again. Before storing, wash and dry the blanket, ensuring it is completely dry before storing. You should then roll, not fold, the blanket, making sure there are no harsh folds as this can damage the inner wires. Pack away in a cool, dry place with the controls and cords unplugged.
4. How to remove stains
“To spot clean an electric blanket, unplug before blotting with a damp cloth and using a butter knife or anything with a thin blunt edge to carefully scrape and remove any food or drink from the fabric. For a more stubborn stain, rub a mild laundry detergent on the area to lift it, before removing with a damp cloth. Air dry before use.
5. Safety
“Electric blankets are designed to create a warm and cosy environment when getting into bed, however, they are not recommended for overnight use and should be turned off when getting into bed or set on a timer to turn off within a short while. Make sure to also use your electric blanket as the top layer, above any other blankets or duvets and do not lie or sit on it.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Talos Energy Inc. ("Talos" or the "Company") (NYSE: TALO) today announced the execution of definitive agreements to acquire EnVen Energy Corporation ("EnVen"), a private operator in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico, for $1.1 billion1. The strategic transaction expands Talos's Gulf of Mexico operations with high margin, oil-weighted assets, is accretive to Talos shareholders on 2023E Free Cash Flow per Share2 and is immediately de-leveraging.
Consideration for the transaction consists of 43.8 million Talos shares and $212.5 million in cash, plus the assumption of EnVen's net debt upon closing, currently estimated at approximately $50.0 million at year-end 2022. Following the transaction, Talos shareholders will own approximately 66% of the pro forma company and EnVen's equity holders will own the remaining 34%. The transaction has been unanimously approved by each company's Board of Directors. Closing is expected by year end 2022, subject to customary closing conditions.
- Adds ~24 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day ("MBoe/d") of production (>80% oil, >90% operated).
- Increases production by 40% and gross acreage by 35%, significantly increasing operational scale and diversity.
- Doubles Talos's operated deepwater facility footprint, adding key infrastructure in existing Talos operating areas.
- ~$460 million of 2022E Adj. EBITDA (~$630 million unhedged) and ~$170 million of 2022E Free Cash Flow.
- >13% accretive to Talos shareholders on 2023E Free Cash Flow per Share.
- Implied enterprise value representing 2.4x 2022E hedged Adj. EBITDA (1.7x unhedged), a discount to Talos's current metrics.
- Immediately de-leveraging, with estimated year-end pro forma net debt ratio3 of less than 0.8x.
- At least $30 million in expected annual run-rate synergies to be achieved in 2023.
- Reduces Talos's GHG Emissions Intensity with deepwater operating footprint.
- Enhances Board of Directors with 7 fully independent directors plus Talos CEO.
- Talos will introduce a proposal to eliminate its classified election structure such that all directors are elected annually.
Talos President and Chief Executive Officer Timothy S. Duncan commented: "This transaction adds significant scale and diversity to our business through logical, in-basin expansion with an excellent strategic fit. EnVen's high-margin, oil-weighted assets in key deepwater regions, operated infrastructure and significant overlapping acreage footprint will enhance our ability to accelerate shareholder value creation. The acquisition is financially attractive, expanding our operating margins and increasing Free Cash Flow per Share while immediately improving our credit profile before accounting for significant expected cost synergies. The enhanced cash flow profile will provide us with increased capital allocation optionality, including additional high-impact subsea tie-back opportunities, opportunistic acquisitions, accelerating our low-carbon initiatives and positioning Talos for a potential shareholder return of capital program in the future. We are excited for the numerous benefits that this transaction provides and look forward to closing around year end."
- Attractive Asset Base Aligned with Talos Strategy: EnVen currently produces approximately 24 MBoe/d in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico that is more than 80% oil-weighted, more than 90% operated and more than 95% from deepwater regions. EnVen operates numerous platforms, including five major deepwater facilities with significant open capacity and holds an acreage footprint of approximately 420,000 gross acres in core deepwater areas for future infrastructure-led development, exploitation and exploration opportunities. EnVen's infrastructure is backed by >$160 million in restricted cash and receivables reserved against future abandonment obligations.
The transaction is well-aligned with Talos's strategy focused on value creation through the acquisition and development of conventional resources in close proximity to under-utilized infrastructure applying Talos's vast seismic inventory and advanced reprocessing. EnVen's assets add material scale and diversity to Talos's footprint, already a leading public offshore independent in the U.S. On a pro forma basis, Talos expects to be more than 70% oil-weighted, more than 75% operated and more than 80% focused in deepwater regions. - Compelling Financial Metrics and Credit Profile: Consideration implies a valuation of approximately 2.4x 2022 estimated hedged Adjusted EBITDA and the transaction is more than 13% accretive to Talos shareholders on 2023E Free Cash Flow per Share. Talos expects the transaction to be immediately de-leveraging at closing, with year-end 2022 leverage of less than 0.8x. Additionally, Talos will have no near-term maturities. The Company expects to provide 2023 financial guidance after closing.
- Material Synergies: Talos expects to generate at least $30 million in annual run-rate synergies from the transaction, primarily consisting of general and administrative cost reductions. The Company believes run-rate savings can be achieved in 2023 and expects additional synergies from operational cost optimization, capital high-grading and other improvements over time.
- Improved Positioning for Future Growth: With greater scale and diversity, an enhanced cash flow generation profile and improved leverage profile, Talos believes it is well-positioned to accelerate organic, value-creating activities through its Upstream and CCS business segments as well as business development activities going forward. The increased scale and free cash flow generation also allows Talos to continue its evaluation for a potential shareholder return program in the future.
There are no anticipated changes to Talos senior management resulting from the transaction. Tim Duncan will remain Chief Executive Officer and will retain one seat on the expanded Board of Directors, which will include six Talos directors (CEO and five independents) and two independents from the EnVen Board of Directors, Shandell Szabo and Richard Sherrill. The Board of Directors will have no private equity representatives post-closing. Robert Tichio, the appointed Riverstone Holdings representative currently on Talos's Board of Directors, will resign from the Board simultaneous with closing of the transaction. Riverstone Holdings (~10% pro forma ownership) and EnVen's top two equity holders (~20% pro forma combined) will enter lock-up agreements at closing.
Shandell Szabo is currently an independent director of EnVen and previously spent 19 years with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, most recently as the Vice President of U.S. Exploration. She has technical expertise in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and other key basins. Richard Sherrill is also currently an independent director of EnVen and is the President of Clean Aire Partners, a private energy transition company. He was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Duke Energy Corporation.
Talos also intends to facilitate a shareholder vote on elimination of the Company's current classified director structure, which would require that all directors be elected every year going forward, as compared to the current staggered 3-year terms.
The transaction, which is expected to close around year end 2022, is subject to customary closing conditions, including the expiration or termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 and the approval of Talos and EnVen shareholders. Riverstone Holdings, which currently owns ~15% of Talos, has executed a Support Agreement in favor of the transaction. A majority of EnVen shareholders have agreed to provide their written consents in favor of the transaction. Both Talos and EnVen Boards of Directors have unanimously approved the transaction.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC is serving as lead financial advisor to Talos and has provided a fairness opinion. KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. also served as a financial advisor to Talos. Vinson & Elkins L.L.P is serving as legal advisor to Talos. Intrepid Partners, LLC is serving as financial advisor to EnVen and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is serving as legal advisor to EnVen.
Talos will host a conference call, which will be broadcast live over the internet, on Thursday, September 22, 2022 at 9:00 AM Eastern Time (8:00 AM Central Time). Listeners can access the conference call through a webcast link on the Company's website at: https://www.talosenergy.com/investor-relations/events-calendar/. Alternatively, the conference call can be accessed by dialing (888) 348-8927 (U.S. toll free), (855) 669-9657 (Canada toll-free) or (412) 902-4263 (international). Please dial in approximately 15 minutes before the teleconference is scheduled to begin and ask to be joined into the Talos Energy call. A replay of the call will be available one hour after the conclusion of the conference until September 29, 2022 and can be accessed by dialing (877) 344-7529 and using access code 3219304.
Talos Energy (NYSE: TALO) is a technically driven independent exploration and production company focused on safely and efficiently maximizing long-term value through its operations, currently in the United States and offshore Mexico, both through upstream oil and gas exploration and production and the development of carbon capture and sequestration opportunities. As one of the Gulf of Mexico's largest public independent producers, we leverage decades of technical and offshore operational expertise towards the acquisition, exploration and development of assets in key geological trends that are present in many offshore basins around the world. With a focus on environmental stewardship, we are also utilizing our expertise to explore opportunities to reduce industrial emissions through our carbon capture and sequestration initiatives along the U.S. Gulf Coast and Gulf of Mexico. For more information, visit www.talosenergy.com.
Sergio Maiworm
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This communication may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements, other than statements of historical fact included in this communication, regarding the proposed transaction with EnVen, including our ability to satisfy the conditions to closing and the expected timing and benefits of the transaction, our strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. When used in this communication, the words "will," "could," "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "expect," "project," "forecast," "may," "objective," "plan" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain such identifying words. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and assumptions about future events and are based on currently available information as to the outcome and timing of future events.
We caution you that these forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control. These risks include, but are not limited to, commodity price volatility due to the continued impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 ("COVID-19"), including any new strains or variants, and governmental measures related thereto on global demand for oil and natural gas and on the operations of our business; the ability or willingness of OPEC and other state-controlled oil companies ("OPEC Plus"), such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, to set and maintain oil production levels; the impact of any such actions; the lack of a resolution to the war in Ukraine and its impact on certain commodity markets; lack of transportation and storage capacity as a result of oversupply, government and regulations; lack of availability of drilling and production equipment and services; adverse weather events, including tropical storms, hurricanes and winter storms; cybersecurity threats; sustained inflation and the impact of central bank policy in response thereto; environmental risks; failure to find, acquire or gain access to other discoveries and prospects or to successfully develop and produce from our current discoveries and prospects; geologic risk; drilling and other operating risks; well control risk; regulatory changes; the uncertainty inherent in estimating reserves and in projecting future rates of production; cash flow and access to capital; the timing of development expenditures; potential adverse reactions or competitive responses to our acquisitions and other transactions, including the proposed transaction with EnVen; the possibility that the anticipated benefits of our acquisitions, including the proposed transaction with EnVen, are not realized when expected or at all, including as a result of the impact of, or problems arising from, the integration of acquired assets and operations, our ability to satisfy the conditions to closing to the proposed EnVen transaction and the other risks discussed in Part I, Item 1A. "Risk Factors" of Talos Energy Inc.'s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on February 25, 2022 and Part II, Item 1A. "Risk Factors" of Talos Energy Inc's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2022, filed with the SEC on August 4, 2022. Should one or more of the risks or uncertainties described herein occur, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, our actual results and plans could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements, expressed or implied, included in this communication are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. This cautionary statement should also be considered in connection with any subsequent written or oral forward-looking statements that we or persons acting on our behalf may issue. Except as otherwise required by applicable law, we disclaim any duty to update any forward-looking statements, all of which are expressly qualified by the statements in this section, to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this communication.
Estimates for our future production volumes are based on assumptions of capital expenditure levels and the assumption that market demand and prices for oil and gas will continue at levels that allow for economic production of these products. The production, transportation, marketing and storage of oil and gas are subject to disruption due to transportation, processing and storage availability, mechanical failure, human error, hurricanes and numerous other factors. Our estimates are based on certain other assumptions, such as well performance, which may vary significantly from those assumed. Therefore, we can give no assurance that our future production volumes will be as estimated.
This communication does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or a solicitation of any vote or approval.
In connection with the proposed Merger, Talos will file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a registration statement on Form S-4, which will include a proxy statement/prospectus of Talos and a consent solicitation statement of EnVen. Talos also plans to file other documents with the SEC regarding the proposed transaction. After the registration statement has been declared effective by the SEC, a definitive proxy statement/prospectus will be mailed to Talos shareholders and a definitive consent solicitation statement will be mailed to EnVen shareholders. INVESTORS AND SHAREHOLDERS OF TALOS ARE URGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS (INCLUDING ALL AMENDMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE PROPOSED MERGER THAT WILL BE FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED MERGER. Investors and shareholders will be able to obtain free copies of the proxy statement/prospectus /consent solicitation statement and other documents containing important information about Talos and EnVen once such documents are filed with the SEC, through the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov.
Talos, EnVen and their respective directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from Talos shareholders in connection with the proposed transaction. Information about the directors and executive officers of Talos is set forth in Talos's Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A for its 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which was filed with the SEC on April 6, 2022. Other information regarding the participants in the proxy solicitation and a description of their direct and indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, will be contained in the proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation and other relevant materials to be filed with the SEC when they become available.
This communication does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, or a solicitation of any vote or approval, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offering of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
This communication includes the use of certain measures that have not been calculated in accordance with U.S. generally acceptable accounting principles (GAAP), including Adjusted EBITDA, Net Debt, Free Cash Flow and Leverage. Non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP.
This communication contains projections, including production volumes, capital expenditures, Adjusted EBITDA, Free Cash Flow and cost-savings via synergies. Our independent auditors have not audited, reviewed, compiled, or performed any procedures with respect to the projections for the purpose of their inclusion in this communication, and accordingly, have not expressed an opinion or provided any other form of assurance with respect thereto for the purpose of this communication. These projections are for illustrative purposes only and should not be relied upon as being indicative of future results. The assumptions and estimates underlying the projected information are inherently uncertain and are subject to a wide variety of significant business, economic and competitive risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the projected information. Even if our assumptions and estimates are correct, projections are inherently uncertain due to a number of factors outside our control. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that the projected results are indicative of our future performance after completion of the transaction or that actual results will not differ materially from those presented in the projected information. Inclusion of the projected information in this communication should not be regarded as a representation by any person that the results contained in the projected information will be achieved.
1 Enterprise Value based on Talos share price as of September 21, 2022 and EnVen estimated capital structure at December 31, 2022.
2 Free Cash Flow per Share presented before changes in working capital; accretion inclusive of $30 million in expected annual synergies.
3 Year-End Net Debt ratio defined as estimated pro forma net debt at December 31, 2022 divided by last twelve months pro forma Adjusted EBITDA.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On the occasion of National Women's Business Day, Women Business Collaborative (WBC), Ascend, C200 and Catalyst have released the third annual report highlighting women CEOs in America! In Summer of 2022, 8.8% of CEOs are women and today women are 9% of CEOs in the Fortune 500.
"The Women CEOs in America Report offers much more than just data related to women leading the country's major corporations," said Edie Fraser, CEO of WBC. "It goes beyond the numbers to provide insight into what's happening and why, adding depth and breadth to the data and helps to position the numbers in the context of not just corporate America but our society as a whole."
While the numbers rise in the Fortune 500, the promotion of women of color lag across the indices which include the Fortune, S&P 500 and Private companies.
There is still significant progress to be made to seat more diverse CEOs at the head of America's largest companies. " There is tremendous growth in the number of women starting businesses. Research estimates that women own 40% of all companies in America, with Black and Latina founders starting businesses in record numbers. We share this report to hold companies accountable for ensuring women, especially women of color, have equitable access to leadership opportunities and networks for advancement." --Kimber Maderazzo, Chair, C200
The five key takeaways from this year's report:
- Change is happening. While the numbers show slow progress in the C-Suite of the country's leading companies, key indicators of gender equity are moving in a positive direction.
- Tolerance and Inclusion. Younger workers are bringing a strong desire for greater tolerance and inclusion previously unseen.
- Change must start at the top. CEOs and boards need to take more action to demonstrate that diversity and inclusion are a necessity, not a nicety.
- Mentors and Sponsors Matter. Women remain at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to mentors, networks, and sponsors. Corporate leaders, both male and female, must step up and serve as mentors and sponsors to early and mid-career women.
- Diverse leadership is linked to performance. Women CEOs and leaders in government tangibly demonstrate the talents, skills, and contributions that women bring to their companies and their communities.
This report provides a comprehensive breakdown of women running Fortune 500, Fortune 1000, Russell 3000, S&P 500, Private Companies over $1 billion, and women entrepreneurs over $500 million. The report insights and analysis outline the 10 accelerators business and society can do to ensure that the number of women CEOs rise.
We are more than ready and will bring to the positions not only multicultural and multi-faceted perspectives, experiences, and wisdom, but the fortitude and resilience from having had to forge through multiple barriers and glass ceilings along the way — all strengths that will help our companies thrive in an increasingly complex and interconnected world!" states Anna Mok, President & Chair, Ascend
"This year the numbers of CEOS hit a record high of 44 and this report highlights what we've long known about women's advancement to the top job in the C-suite: The progress is slow, but it is possible" states Lorraine Hariton, President and CEO, Catalyst
The report was highlighted on Day Two of the WBC Action For Impact Annual Summit. For more information and to download a copy of the report, visit www.wbcollaborative.org.
Women Business Collaborative (WBC) is an unprecedented alliance of 75+ women's business organizations and hundreds of business leaders building a movement to achieve equal position, pay, and power for all women in business. Through collaboration, advocacy, action, and accountability, we mobilize thousands of diverse professional women and men, business organizations, public and private companies to accelerate change.
Ascend is the largest Pan-Asian business professional membership organization in North America dedicated to driving workplace and societal impact by developing and elevating all Asian and Pacific Islander (API) business leaders and empowering them to become catalysts for change.
C200 is a women's business leadership organization whose mission is to educate, inspire, support, and advance women in business. Its community includes the most successful women entrepreneurs and corporate business leaders who have joined together to change the face of business leadership
Catalyst is a global nonprofit supported by many of the world's most powerful CEOs and leading companies to help build workplaces that work for women. Founded in 1962, Catalyst drives change with preeminent thought leadership, actionable solutions, and a galvanized community of multinational corporations to accelerate and advance women into leadership—because progress for women is progress for everyone.
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Antique Appraisal Fair set for Saturday in Brownstown Township
BROWNSTOWN TOWNSHIP – The annual Antique Appraisal Fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Brownstown Community Center, 21311 Telegraph Rd.
The fair is sponsored by the Brownstown Downtown Development Authority and the Woodhaven-Brownstown Rotary Club.“This is the fourth time the Brownstown DDA and the Woodhaven-Brownstown Rotary have joined together to have an Antique Appraisal Fair. It has always been a great fundraiser for the Rotary and very well-received by the public,” Sue Trussell, director of the DDA, said. “This has been such a fun event. The best part is to watch what others bring in and see what they are worth. It’s just like watching the PBS show ‘Antique Roadshow.’”
As in the past, a professional appraiser from DuMouchelles of Detroit will give verbal appraisals of the items.
The cost is $10 an item, with a three-item limit. Checks, check and credit cards will be accepted. All the proceeds will benefit the Rotary’s local projects, including Coats for Kids.
The Antique Appraisal Fair will run during another Brownstown DDA event, the vintage baseball game. The game will take place at 1 p.m. on the Brownstown Soccer Fields. Festivities begin at noon and include food trucks and vendors selling vintage and baseball items.
For more information, contact Trussell at strussell@brownstown-mi.org or call (734) 675-5911.
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Hunter Brucks to headline Oaks of Righteousness benefit concert
Hunter Brucks is hosting a second benefit concert for Oaks of Righteousness.
Tickets are still on sale for “Miracles Still Happen on Second Street,” to be held at 7 p.m. Sept. 29 at Meyer Theater, La-Z-Boy Center at Monroe County Community College, 1555 S. Raisinville Rd. Doors will open at 6.
Brucks from the Hunter Brucks Band hosted the first benefit concert for Oaks in 2016. The first concert was held at the River Raisin Centre for the Arts and also featured Brucks’ bandmate and friend, the late Gunner Ross.
"We planned to make it an annual event, but then COVID (and other issues) changed all our plans," Brucks, a Maybee native, said.
But, this year, his band and special guest Top Shelf Music have teamed up for a second concert. All proceeds will benefit Oaks.
Top Shelf Music is a local band with members from Monroe and Toledo, Randy Richardville, executive director for Oaks Village, said.
"They will play for a half-hour, 45 minutes and are a good lead ito the Hunter Brucks Band," Richardville said.
The six-member Hunter Brucks Band will play a variety of music.
“A few cover songs, my songs, good rock ‘n roll and R&B,” Brucks said. “It will be a fun night. We want people to celebrate the fact that charity begins at home. With all the craziness in the world right now, we see the good in people. We want to give back, and that starts at home. We always support things the best we can."
Brucks has been working as a music producer and is building an amphitheater in Ohio, but he continues to perform with his band.
"We don't play as much as I'd like to anymore, but we do play. We do it right," Brucks said. "All the guys have been with me for several years. They are great players, all studio musicians."
In his career, Brucks has sold close to 5 million records and has raised more than $4 million for charities. His band has received the Detroit Music Award. He wrote the song "Second Chance" for the University of Michigan's Transplant Center.
"They still play 'Second Chance' at the Rose Bowl," Brucks said.
Also offered Sept. 29 will be 50/50 raffles, cocktails and more. New Oaks T-shirts will be sold.
"We received a Thrivent grant to make these shirts, so this is 100 percent donation," Oaks said.
Tickets are $20 in advance and $30 at the door. For advance tickets, visit www.oaksvillage.net.
Ten years ago, Pastor Heather Boone started Oaks of Righteousness Church. Six years ago, she ran a campaign called “Miracle on Second Street” and quickly raised more than $300,000 to purchase the former St. Joseph’s Catholic Church property. The first concert was part of that campaign.
Today, donations are continuously needed to help Oaks maintain its services, which include a shelter, free children’s center, free medical clinic, food pantry and non-profit grocery store.
"Money raised at the concert will be used to fund these ministries," Richardville said.
“Every single day, we see prayers being answered, and that is worth celebrating. People are being fed, clothed, housed and lives are truly being changed. God has not forgotten us, and we can’t forget Him. Miracles are still happening on Second Street,” Pastor Boone said. “So to commemorate what God is still doing for us daily, Hunter Brucks will be performing another fundraiser concert. And once again, we are looking for 1,000 people who will give $300 to help us continue this miraculous ongoing work.”
Residents who want to attend the concert but cannot afford the cost should call Oaks at (734) 241-5590.
The concert is sponsored by Monroe Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram Superstore and the DTE Foundation.
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Wings and Wheels show returns to Custer Airport
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The second-annual Wings and Wheels car show wil take place at 2 p.m. Sunday at Monroe's Custer Airport, 2800 N. Custer Rd.
Also offered will be music by Doug Gilson of the Back Street Cruisers, food trucks, a classic car and vintage vehicle show, World War II planes, 50/50 raffles and more.
The World War II-era plane the "Yankee Lady," a B-17 Flying Fortress, will fly-over at 2:30 p.m.
Other sponsors are the Port of Monroe and the Yankee Air Museum. Proceeds will benefit the Yankee Air Museum. For more informaiton, contatct Dan Diesing, airport manager, at (734) 777-9169 or (734) 755-9922.
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Greg Pitoniak of Michigan Works earns leadership award
Greg Pitoniak, CEO of the SEMCA Michigan Works, which serves Monroe and Wayne Counties, recently received the Christine Quinn Excellence in Leadership Award by the Michigan Works Association.
“Greg’s experience has been critical to the workforce system as he has provided valuable political and legislative insight as well as using his considerable connections to advocate for the system and provide direct access to decision makers,” Ryan Hundt, Michigan Works Association CEO, said. “His leadership and dedication to Michigan Works are unmatched and we are extremely proud to recognize his work with this award.”
“Pitoniak leads SEMCA Michigan Works, one of the most successful Michigan Works agencies. SEMCA regularly leads the way in performance measures, and Greg encourages staff to be bold, engaged and good partners. He is a strong leader who believes every team member plays a vital role in the system’s collective success,” Michigan Works said.
Pitoniak also serves on the Michigan Works Association board, leadership committee and has been recognized for his accomplishments on behalf of the system both locally and nationally.
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'Promote the Vote': IHM sisters host rally to change election laws
In an effort to Promote the Vote, a small crowd, holding signs and waving to passing motorists, gathered on the lawn of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Motherhouse, 610 W. Elm Ave.
At the hour-long event, held Tuesday, which was National Voter Registration Day, Sister Nancy Ayotte served as moderator for the program that featured guest speakers Sharon McNeil and Rita Turner-Sheerin, representatives from Voters Not Politicians, a Michigan-based advocacy group.
The women addressed Proposal 2 and encouraged those in attendance to vote “yes.”
Voters will decide in the upcoming November election whether to implement changes to the state election procedure when they consider the proposal.
A “yes” vote will include several changes including nine days of early in-person voting, continuing registered voters the right to verify identity with photo identification or a signed statement, and provide the voter the right to a single application to vote absentee in all elections.
A “no” vote will reject the proposed changes and keep existing election procedures.
McNeil, a Monroe resident and Voters Not Politicians team leader, welcomed the crowd and discussed the importance of being registered to vote.
“It’s so important that we vote. It’s our democracy in action,” McNeil said. “We are here today because we support and promote voting. We support free, fair, safe and secure elections for all registered voters.”
McNeil addressed recent voter intimidation and interference in predominantly African American cities in the 2020 U.S. General Election in an attempt to suppress votes. She spoke of the 85,000 fraudulent robocalls made in an effort to scare people from voting by mail.
“We need to secure our voting rights in the Michigan Constitution for these issues we now face and for any future attack on voting rights that could surface later on,” she said.
McNeil said most Americans, regardless of political party affiliation, agree that every eligible citizen has the right to vote in safe, fair and secure elections.
Rita Turner-Sheerin of Ann Arbor, Voters Not Politicians field coordinator, said the elements of Proposal 2 provide greater accessibility for all registered voters, and protects the integrity of elections which includes the right to vote and for the vote to be counted.
“The proposal will ensure fundamental protection to voters' rights and assure fair, safe and secure elections,” Sheerin said. “It will modernize Michigan elections to fit the realities of today’s families and those of future generations.”
Included in the program was prayer, reflection, and song. Following the presentations, those in attendance were encouraged to share what they had learned.
“The first thing that touched me today is that the education of Proposal 2 was excellent and how important it is to vote.” said Esther LeDuc of Monroe. “Everyone needs to vote their conscience, but it is important to say, ‘yes,’ because we can’t afford anyone to be deprived of voting.”
Sister Kate O’Brien said she was glad to be able to support the citizens’ effort to strengthen democracy by promoting Proposal 2.
“It is a very important proposal for us to stand behind as a whole state,” O’Brien said.
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What is it about the combination of pasta and cheese that makes it so irresistible? Is it the way it makes us feel connected with our childhood? The ooey-gooey cheese that clings when you raise the fork to your mouth? Maybe it’s the fact that macaroni and cheese is simply classic comfort food. In the end, it really doesn’t matter.
Sometimes, though, we want a more grown-up version of this dish. Or maybe something a little healthier. That’s why this four-cheese pasta recipe from Cooking Light is worth adding to your must-try dinner list!
This is not your kids’ fluorescent yellow version of macaroni and cheese. It has a rich sauce made with four kinds of cheeses plus spinach for a nutritional punch that gives the dish some texture and color.
This recipe proves that you can have something decadent like four-cheese pasta — but with healthier alternative ingredients to suit your needs. Cooking Light recognizes that enjoying what you put on your plate is an important part of any successful diet.
In this version of four-cheese pasta, Cooking Light opted for gluten-free pasta. You can choose from chickpea pasta, like Banza, another gluten-free grain such as quinoa or a veggie-based pasta. However, if gluten is not a concern for you, then a traditional wheat-based pasta will work in this recipe just as well.
This recipe for four-cheese pasta from Cooking Light calls for uncooked pasta, olive oil, baby spinach, shredded fontina cheese, low-fat ricotta cheese, reduced-fat cream cheese, grated Parmesan cheese, kosher salt, chopped garlic, and cayenne pepper.
If you buy the cheese already shredded, you’ll cut down on an already short prep time for this recipe. According to the directions, you only need a total of 15 minutes to throw this dish together. You could serve it with some salad for a complete meal.
This four-cheese pasta dish might just be the perfect meal for a busy family who needs something quick and tasty!
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