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CLEVELAND (AP) — For the first time since 2004, Ben Roethlisberger isn’t part of the Steelers-Browns rivalry, a matchup the Ohio-born-and-bred quarterback dominated for 18 seasons and will now watch with everyone else.
On Thursday night, Mitch Trubisky makes his debut in one of the NFL’s fiercest feuds.
A second appearance isn’t guaranteed.
Struggling to connect with Pittsburgh’s receivers, Trubisky, chosen as the starter in training camp over rookie quarterback-in-waiting Kenny Pickens, may look to take some deep shots downfield when the Steelers (1-1) visit a Browns team still reeling from an epic collapse in their home opener on Sunday.
Trubisky is ranked 32nd in yards per attempt, one of several troubling stats for him after just two games and perhaps a reflection on the 28-year-old being more of a game manager than game changer.
Still, Trubisky, who grew up in Northeast Ohio but was never particularly keen on the Browns (1-1), is confident he’ll soon begin hooking up with Pittsburgh’s talented, but to this point underused, receivers.
“I’ve just got to get these playmakers the football,” he said. “Whatever we’re out there running, I’ve just got to get them the ball. It really comes down to me making better decisions, being aggressive and putting ourselves in that position.”
On the flip side, the Browns have been out of position.
Of the many unforgivable sins — clock mismanagement, a missed PAT, not recovering an onside kick among them — committed by Cleveland in the final 1:55 of its 31-30 loss to the New York Jets, letting wide receiver Corey Davis run uncovered to catch a 66-yard TD pass with 1:22 left, was at the top of the what-not-to-do list.
Either Pro Bowl cornerback Denzel Ward or safety Grant Delpit blew their assignment, but neither was willing to put their name on a play that can’t happen.
Making matters worse, the Browns did the same exact thing a week earlier at Carolina, giving up a couple of long passes, including a 75-yard TD to aid the Panthers’ fourth-quarter rally.
“I’m not going to get into the responsibilities and those type of things because I just don’t see that as productive,” Browns coach Kevin Stefanski said this week when pressed about the gaffes. “The bottom line is that should never happen. We have to be able to defend the pass in those obvious passing situations.”
The Browns insist they’ll clean things up, but until they do, teams will look to exploit an obvious weakness.
It’s Trubisky’s turn to try.
END GAME
The Browns’ pass rush won’t be as potent with defensive end Jadveon Clowney out after spraining his ankle in the second half against New York. There’s no timetable on the edge rusher’s return.
Clowney’s absence made things even tougher on All-Pro Myles Garrett, who was consistently double-teamed by the Jets in the game’s late stages. Garrett, who is one sack from becoming Cleveland’s career leader, missed practice Tuesday with a neck issue but will play.
The Steelers are very familiar with Garrett’s ability to ruin a play and need to keep him off Trubisky.
The Browns activated end Isaac Rochell from the practice squad for added depth and rookies Alex Wright, Isaiah Thomas and Perrion Winfrey (out due to discipline last week) could get more playing time.
HI, GEORGE?
The Steelers selected 6-foot-3 wide receiver George Pickens in the second round to essentially replace JuJu Smith-Schuster, who left in free agency. Pickens looked every bit the downfield playmaker Pittsburgh needs during the preseason.
Through two games, however, he’s been an afterthought with two catches for 23 yards.
Pickens is trying to stay patient. It’s a long season and while he thinks there’s a chance to get going against a Cleveland secondary that gave up four touchdown passes to Joe Flacco on Sunday, he’s not getting ahead of himself.
“I’m thinking it’s like a new video game, you know? I’m like, ′Ooh, yeah, (going deep) is going to work,” Pickens said. “ But (the veterans here) played (the Browns) before, you know … their guys are savvy. They’re going to try to mess (us) up.”
JACK WELCOMED BACK
Cleveland’s offensive line is finally at full strength with two-time All-Pro Jack Conklin expected to play for the first time since undergoing season-ending knee surgery in December.
Conklin’s return makes the Browns’ potent ground game (401 yards in two games) more dangerous. Although he was close to playing in the first two games, the Browns chose to make him inactive. Now he’ll have extra time with the next game not until Oct. 2.
FRIEND NOW FOE
Steelers defensive tackle Larry Ogunjobi spent the first four years of his career in Cleveland from 2017-20, memorably shoving Pittsburgh quarterback (now teammate) Mason Rudolph in the back during a melee late in a bruising Thursday night victory over the Steelers in 2019.
“Yeah, I don’t expect anything like that to happen,” Ogunjobi said with a wry smile. “I am just excited for the next opportunity and next challenge.”
Ogunjobi signed a one-year deal with the Steelers after a pact with the Chicago Bears was voided because of a foot injury he suffered in the playoffs last winter playing for Cincinnati. The 28-year-old is part of Pittsburgh’s plan to fortify a run defense that finished last in the league in 2021, though the Steelers were successful against the Browns, holding them under 100 yards in each of the two meetings on their way to sweeping the season series.
There has been modest improvement so far, though New England was able to burn the final 6:33 of the fourth quarter on Sunday to seal a victory while working almost exclusively on the ground.
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AP Sports Writer Will Graves in Pittsburgh contributed.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs and Chargers were locked in a tie game early in the fourth quarter last Thursday, and Kansas City was facing fourth-and-goal with an opportunity to take its first lead of the game.
Rather than go for it, Chiefs coach Andy Reid sent in his field-goal unit.
Everything worked out in the end: The Chiefs took the lead on the chip-shot by fill-in kicker Matt Ammendola, rookie cornerback Jaylen Watson returned an interception 99 yards for a touchdown on the ensuing drive, and Kansas City held on for a 27-24 victory in an important early season AFC West showdown.
Yet the conservative decision on the goal line left some head scratching inside Arrowhead Stadium, unless you consider what had transpired in the first three quarters.
One of the league’s prolific offenses, led by quarterback Patrick Mahomes, had faced third-and-short situations five times and converted just once.
“We can do better in that area,” Reid acknowledged ahead of a visit to Indianapolis on Sunday.
The question is how.
The Chiefs spent plenty of time working on short-yardage scenarios during training camp in St. Joseph, Missouri, and they dedicate time during practice each Thursday to them.
So it’s not as if Reid, whose penchant for throwing the ball all over the field is well known, has neglected a situation that seemingly demands old-school, smash-mouth football.
Perhaps it’s an attitude thing. Or poor play calls. Or the defense simply got ’em on those plays.
“You try to see what went wrong, first of all,” Reid said, “whether it’s the call — whether I sent in the wrong thing at the wrong time — or there’s a mistake somewhere. We had a couple of mistakes in there. And then one of them where we didn’t have a mistake, the defense still had pretty good leverage on it.”
The only third-and-short the Chiefs converted last Sunday was their first, and they did it in the most blasé way possible, running 5-foot-11, 242-pound fullback Michael Burton up the middle for a first down.
It’s when the Chiefs got a little more exotic that things went haywire.
Isiah Pacheco was stopped on the next opportunity. Mahomes threw an incompletion on the next. And then Mahomes threw an underneath shovel-pass to Travis Kelce on third-and-goal — the play Reid referred to that was executed correctly but still failed, leading to the go-ahead field goal on fourth-and-goal.
Why not just run a tried-and-true sneak for those first downs?
That goes back to 2019 and a game in Denver, when Mahomes dislocated his knee cap plowing into the pile. Reid has been shooting down his quarterback whenever Mahomes asks to sneak the ball ever since.
“The hardest I’ve ever lobbied for it was the playoffs: We’re here now, I want that first down,” Mahomes said. ”I’ve only technically not got (the conversion) one time, and I still think I was in the end zone against the Chargers a couple of years back. I’m still pretty good at the quarterback sneak. I’ll keep that on his radar.”
What makes the Chiefs’ failures on third-and-short even more vexing is the fact that they averaged nearly 8 yards per play on first down. Some of that was inflated by a 52-yard run by Clyde Edwards-Helaire late in the game, but removing that big play, the Chiefs still averaged about 5.3 yards on every first-down snap.
Yet the Chiefs couldn’t get a yard or two when it would have kept a drive alive.
In fact, they were so woeful on third-and-short Sunday that they would have been better off in third-and-long: Whereas they were 1 for 5 in those situations, they were 4 for 8 when they needed to gain at least 4 yards.
That’s more in line with how the Chiefs traditionally fare on third down. They were far-and-away the best in the league last year, converting at a 53.1% clip, and are still in the top 10 this season at 45% despite their short-yardage woes.
“Coach Reid has a great track record of getting first downs in short-yardage situations,” Mahomes said. “We didn’t have a great week in a short week, little misses here and there. And I think as we get back into a more normal flow of the season, we’ll get back to being great at those short-yardage situations.”
NOTES: K Harrison Butker (sprained ankle) remained out of practice Wednesday, raising expectations that Ammendola will kick again Sunday in Indianapolis. … DE Mike Danna (calf) also did not practice Wednesday. … CB Jaylen Watson was AFC defensive player of the week after his 99-yard interception return for a touchdown against the Chargers. “I’ve just muted my phone the past five days,” he said. … The Chiefs signed DE Benton Whitley from the Rams practice squad.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Tom Kim can be excused for his mistake Wednesday. The Presidents Cup is new for the 20-year-old South Korean, just like it is for seven other players on the International team that face a daunting task at Quail Hollow.
Only this was more a math mistake than a rookie mistake.
“We’re on 12 today, and he makes a mistake doing simple math there,” said Camilo Villegas of Colombia, one of the assistant captains for the International team. “So I look at the kid and said, ‘Tom, is that college math?’ He looks at me and goes, ’Dude, I didn’t even graduate from high school.'”
Kim ticks about every box when it comes to the fresh faces at this Presidents Cup, which starts Thursday, only looks are deceiving.
Yes, at age 20 he is the youngest player to play for the International team since Ryo Ishikawa of Japan was 18 in 2009 at Harding Park. Kim also has won more tournaments this year than anyone on his team. And he brings as much personality as he does game.
He likes to laugh and talk trash. The team has players from seven countries who speak four languages. That’s not a problem. Kim speaks three languages.
Captain Trevor Immelman was asked earlier in the week who would be his starting five if they were playing basketball. He had Kim penciled in as his point guard because of his size and his “fast mouth.”
Kim’s given name is Joohyung. As a boy, he was so smitten with Thomas the Tank Engine that he wanted that for his name, and eventually it was shortened to Tom.
Born in South Korea, his family moved to Australia when he was a child. He picked up golf at age 6 and when the cost of living became too high, his parents decided to move to the Philippines. Kim’s golf thrived even more.
As for the high school math? As he said in a first-person account for Golf Digest, “College scouts weren’t coming after me, and my goal was always to turn pro, so I decided to do it early.” He was 15.
Kim worked his way through developmental tours in Asia. His path was slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and he spent the last two years on the Korean tour, winning twice.
He ended last year at No. 131 in the world, and then quickly made himself known. He won the Singapore International to start the year (and was runner-up in the Singapore Open a week later). He received a sponsor exemption to the Scottish Open — Korea-based Genesis is the title sponsor — and finished third.
That sent him on his way toward a PGA Tour card and he nailed that a few weeks later by winning the Wyndham Championship, where he started the tournament with a quadruple-bogey 8.
There is very little dull about Thomas the Tank.
Kim was invited to the Saudi International in February and shared a table at the press conference with LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman to talk about Saudi money going to the Asian Tour. But the kid left little doubt where he always wanted to play.
He was overjoyed at getting his PGA Tour card, and he’s even more amped up about the Presidents Cup, a chance to hand the mighty American team its first loss since 1998, before Kim was even born.
“I’ve dreamt of this as a kid. For me to be able to represent the international team is an absolute honor. So I’m super pumped,” he said. “I can’t wait for Thursday to come. I’ve always dreamt of doing crazy fist bumps because it’s match play. So I’m really looking forward to it.”
He won’t have to wait long. Kim is playing with K.H. Lee of South Korea in the third of five matches Thursday in the opening session of fourballs. They face two-time major champion Collin Morikawa and big-hitting Cameron Young, five times a runner-up in his rookie season on the PGA Tour.
The Americans have all 12 players ranked among the top 25 in the world, and they are going for their ninth consecutive victory, playing before a home crowd at Quail Hollow. They are heavily favored.
Kim is among four South Koreans on the team, a record for a golf nation more known for the major champions and No. 1 players the women have produced. Kim joins Lee, Sungjae Im and Siwoo Kim. International team assistant K.J. Choi could not be prouder.
Choi is intrigued by Kim, describing him with terms like “very fun” and “cute” and “many talking.”
“First 15 years, not much coming for the younger players, the Koreans. But now more than seven, nine, 10,” Choi said. “I’m starting in America 30 years old, it’s very difficult English. But younger guy is already out of the country and experienced in English. That’s why the more friendship, comfortable in the play, everything.”
All that’s left is to see how it translate. Tom Kim is full of laughter and void of fear. Thomas the Tank is on the fast track, and the stage has never been bigger for him.
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The Arlington Electoral Board has approved 63 new election officers, but not all of them will get the chance to work the Nov. 8 election.
There will be a need for about 550 election officers spread across precincts during election season and “we have a much longer list of appointments, actually, than we have of assignments,” Registrar Gretchen Reinemeyer told Electoral Board members on Sept. 10, as logistics were detailed for the election season that formally begins Sept. 23 with the start of early voting.
The latest crop of applicants who were appointed are those who have applied since February. Those selected to work the polls receive a stipend for their efforts.
Some years, election-office officials flag the names of some applicants based on a variety of concerns, but this time, “there’s been no issue,” Electoral Board chair Kim Phillip said.
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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.
From August 2021 to August 2022, the local region picked up a net 35,700 new jobs to stand at 1,533,700, according to figures reported Sept. 16 by the Virginia Employment Commission.
That 2.4-percent rate of growth compares to a statewide jobs rebound of 118,100 during the same period, up 3 percent to 4,085,300.
That below-average rate of growth could be due at least in part to the region’s being less impacted by the initial blast of unemployment that hit with COVID’s arrival in the spring of 2020, and a relatively quick comeback in the jobs market in ensuing months.
Among Virginia’s 10 metropolitan areas, the year-over-year percentage change in employment was higher across the board, with rates ranging from 0.8 percent (Roanoke) to 4.8 percent (Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford).
Figures represent seasonally adjusted non-farm employment across Virginia. Private-sector employment in August stood at 3,361,900, up 3.4 percent, or 110,600 jobs, from a year before. Public-sector employment stood at 723,400, up 1 percent, or 7,500 jobs, from a year before. Of that segment, state government saw a year-over-year rebound of 3,000 jobs, with local governments reporting 3,400 more workers and the federal government’s employment ranks among Virginians up 1,100.
Among various private-sector industry areas, leisure/hospitality – the most impacted by COVID – continued its year-over-year rebound, adding 41,900 jobs (11.4%) to stand at 410,300, although the July-to-August period saw a 2,400-job decline in that segment.
Statewide, August’s labor-participation rate, counting those age 16 and older who are employed, stood at 63.7 percent, down slightly from a month before.
Jobless rates for Virginia’s 133 cities and counties will be reported around Sept. 28.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Malaysian defense contractor nicknamed “Fat Leonard” who orchestrated one of the largest bribery scandals in U.S. military history has been arrested in Venezuela after fleeing before his sentencing, authorities said Wednesday.
The international manhunt for Leonard Glenn Francis ended with his arrest by Venezuelan authorities Tuesday morning at the Caracas airport as he was about to board an airplane for another country, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
Interpol Venezuela Director General Carlos Garate Rondon said in a statement posted on Instagram that Francis came to Venezuela from Mexico. Rondon said he was headed to Russia.
The arrest came on the eve of his scheduled sentencing in a federal court in California for a bribery scheme that lasted more than a decade and involved dozens of U.S. Navy officers.
There was no immediate word on when he might be extradited to the United States.
Francis was under home arrest in San Diego when he cut off his GPS ankle bracelet and escaped on Sept. 4. Ten U.S. agencies searched for Francis and authorities issued a $40,000 reward for his arrest.
U.S. authorities also issued a red notice, which asks law enforcement worldwide to provisionally arrest someone with the possibility of extradition. Malaysia and Singapore both have extradition agreements with the United States.
Francis pleaded guilty in 2015 to offering prostitution services, luxury hotels, cigars, gourmet meals and more than $500,000 in bribes to Navy officials and others to help his Singapore-based ship servicing company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd. or GDMA. Prosecutors said the company overcharged the Navy by at least $35 million for servicing ships, many of which were routed to ports he controlled in the Pacific.
Francis had been allowed to remain in home confinement to receive medical care while he cooperated with the prosecution. With his help, prosecutors secured convictions of 33 of 34 defendants, including more than two dozen Navy officers.
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It’s a common occurrence that event officials during the annual multi-race Monroe Park Invitational high-school cross country meet at Burke Lake Park become annoyed with spectators potentially getting in the way of runners and impeding their progress.
When that happens, one or two sometimes loudly yell at those to get out of the way. That happens more than once every year, as the meet includes multiple girls and boys varsity and junior varsity races.
Knowing this, on one section of the course on the final uphill trek near the finish line, some spectators try to become clever and hide from race officials in an attempt to get a closer view of the runners to take a photo or offer encouragement to the race participants or one particular runner.
So some will attempt to hide in the woods behind trees or bushes, or sneak behind sheds or small buildings in that same area. Anything to stay out of the view of race officials.
On many high-school cross country courses there are no, or few, ropes, yellow tape or other barriers to restrict and contain the movement of spectators. So it’s an unwritten rule that those on site watching have to know to stay out of the way of the runners, and most do that just fine.
Race officials, though, still keep an eye out for those who might get in the way, and, if so, they aren’t shy about yelling and telling them to move. That’s a part of their responsibility regarding the safety of the runners. Coalitions between runners and spectators during high-school cross country races are not uncommon.
If that happens, the outcome of a race, and certainly a runners’ performances, can be effected.
Preventing that from occurring is an ongoing challenge, worry and headache for the race officials, as well as keeping those clever ones from sneaking off and watching from off limits hideouts somewhere in the woods.
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- Prior week 213K revised to 208K (lowest since the end of May)
- initial jobless claims 213K vs estimate of 218K
- 4 week moving average of initial jobless claims 216.75K vs 222.75K last week
- continuing claims 1.379M vs. estimate of 1.400M
- 4 week moving average of continuing claims 1.404M vs. 1.413M last week
- The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending September 10 were in Indiana (+738), Arkansas (+217), Iowa (+149), North Dakota (+28), and Maine (+15),
- The largest decreases were in California (-3,064), New York (-2,905), Texas (-2,493), Oklahoma (-1,729), and Pennsylvania (-1,355).
The initial claims data corresponds with the survey week for the BLS employment report scheduled for release in the 1st week of October. As such, it supports another good number. The job market remains tight. What that means for the Fed is that they will keep the pedal to the metal as they are concerned about a strong job market leading to increased 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. . The NASDAQ index has moved into the negative territory. The S&P is near unchanged. The NASDAQ NASDAQ The Nasdaq Stock Market or NASDAQ is an American stock exchange. It trails only the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in market capitalization and is part of a network of stock markets and options exchanges.Launched back in 1971, NASDAQ is the acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. Since then it is known simply as NASDAQ and has become one of the most influential exchanges worldwide.The NASDAQ was the world’s first electronic stock market, and has since assumed the majority of major trades that had been executed by the over-the-counter (OTC) system of trading.What Makes Up the NASDAQ?In particular, the exchange also features the NASDAQ Composite, which includes almost all stocks listed on the NASDAQ stock market. Along with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA) and S&P 500 Index, this is one of the three most-followed stock market indices in the United States.Overall, the NASDAQ stock market has three different market tiers. This includes the Capital Market, or an equity market for companies that have relatively small levels of market capitalization. The listing requirements for small cap companies are less stringent than for other Nasdaq markets that list larger companies with significantly higher market capitalization.Additionally, the Global Market is made up of stocks that represent the Nasdaq Global Market. The Global Market consists of 1,450 stocks that meet the exchange’s financial and liquidity requirements, and corporate governance standards.Finally, the Global Select Market is a market capitalization-weighted index made up of 1,200 US-based and international stocks that represent the Global Select Market Composite. The Nasdaq Stock Market or NASDAQ is an American stock exchange. It trails only the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in market capitalization and is part of a network of stock markets and options exchanges.Launched back in 1971, NASDAQ is the acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. Since then it is known simply as NASDAQ and has become one of the most influential exchanges worldwide.The NASDAQ was the world’s first electronic stock market, and has since assumed the majority of major trades that had been executed by the over-the-counter (OTC) system of trading.What Makes Up the NASDAQ?In particular, the exchange also features the NASDAQ Composite, which includes almost all stocks listed on the NASDAQ stock market. Along with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA) and S&P 500 Index, this is one of the three most-followed stock market indices in the United States.Overall, the NASDAQ stock market has three different market tiers. This includes the Capital Market, or an equity market for companies that have relatively small levels of market capitalization. The listing requirements for small cap companies are less stringent than for other Nasdaq markets that list larger companies with significantly higher market capitalization.Additionally, the Global Market is made up of stocks that represent the Nasdaq Global Market. The Global Market consists of 1,450 stocks that meet the exchange’s financial and liquidity requirements, and corporate governance standards.Finally, the Global Select Market is a market capitalization-weighted index made up of 1,200 US-based and international stocks that represent the Global Select Market Composite. index is trading down -20 points
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Texas bans more books than any other state
It's Banned Books Week and a new report from writers' group PEN America shows Texas has banned more books than any other state.
- The PEN America report found that 1,648 individual book titles were banned nationwide in 2,532 decisions from July 2021 to June 2022.
- Texas' total number of bans during that period was 801 in 22 school districts, far outpacing No. 2 Florida, which banned 566 books in 21 districts.
Catch up quick: Pressure from Republican leaders, activist groups and some parents have pushed school districts to review or remove books they've deemed inappropriate in Texas and across the country.
Zoom in: The report mentions bans in 32 states, including the 22 districts in Texas.
- The analysis includes suburban Leander ISD, where district officials banned at least 11 books from classrooms, including "The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel" and "V for Vendetta."
- Plus, Fredericksburg ISD saw 42 instances of books banned in libraries and classrooms or in instances where a title was removed during an investigation to determine whether or not to restrict it.
- North East ISD, near San Antonio, had the most bans with 435, followed by Granbury ISD with 133.
Yes, but: The analysis details only bans reported to PEN America or challenges that made the news.
Details: Some of the banned books were on our high school English reading lists, including classics "Of Mice and Men" and "The Bluest Eye," the latter ranking eighth among the most-challenged books in 2021.
Of note: While the publicity surrounding book bans has led to an increase in sales, some authors fear their books won't be read by students who can solely access library books.
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How the Inflation Reduction Act could impact Houston
The Inflation Reduction Act is incentivizing energy companies to be greener, and Houston could be the center of the transition.
The big picture: Houston is the "energy capital of the world." The city's economic fate is not completely dependent on oil and gas anymore, thanks to industry diversification, but if Houston wants to keep that title and reap the economic benefits of it, it has to lean into sustainability and clean energy.
State of play: The IRA is essentially a big payday for clean energy. The $370 billion of funding represents the largest federal effort to decarbonize the U.S. economy.
- Texas' clean energy sector is expected to be one of the largest beneficiaries, receiving $66.5 billion in investment over the next eight years through an expansion of wind, solar and other sources of clean energy, according to White House estimates.
What they're saying: Many local energy companies already had interest in carbon capture, but the IRA can accelerate the work, said Amy Chronis, Deloitte's oil, gas and chemicals leader.
- "We're going through a lot of projects that were on the fence due to the economics and these enhancements could be enough to push projects forward," Chronis said.
The other side: The IRA, which imposes higher royalty rates and methane emission fines, is not helping oil and gas companies that want the status quo to remain the same, and some industry leaders fear a decline in development.
Yes, but: Many local energy companies that have a stake in the transition see the positive implications and support the IRA, the Houston Business Journal reports.
- "This is very good for our industry," Vicki Hollub, president and CEO of Occidental Petroleum, said during an investor call.
The bottom line: It will take years for Houston to see the impact. But if oil and gas companies leverage the incentives, such as carbon sequestration and hydrogen tax credits, it could help the local economy and job market long term.
Go deeper: How the Inflation Reduction Act might help the Texas power grid.
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Texas is seeing a rise in deadly car crashes
The number of deadly wrecks across Texas continues to rise, according to preliminary data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Threat level: The state recorded 1,014 traffic deaths from January 2021 to March 2021. During the same time period this year, 1,063 people died in traffic crashes — a 4.8% increase.
Yes, but: Harris County appears to have fewer deaths so far this year, according to data from the Texas Department of Transportation.
- In Harris County, 335 roadway fatalities occurred in the first eight months of 2022.
- That's slightly lower than the 360 deaths in the same period in 2021.
The bottom line: Please drive safe, folks.
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80-year-old woman killed during home invasion; 2 people arrested
ROXBORO, N.C. (WTVD) - Two people are in custody in connection to a home invasion in North Carolina that left a woman dead.
The body of 80-year-old Nancy Horton was discovered in her home Tuesday night. The Person County Sheriff’s Office said she was killed during a home invasion.
“Well, uh, broken,” Pastor Mike Whitt said, describing the mood at the New Life Independent Baptist Church Wednesday night. “All of our people, because we loved her.”
It was a tough Wednesday for Whitt as the church changed a revival night to a somber service in honor of Horton.
“We found out right after our service, and people were just weeping and broken,” Whitt said.
There were many words to describe Horton, also known as “Nan.”
Whitt talked about how much she loved her family.
“She loves her grandbabies,” he said. “Oh my goodness, the time she spent with them, carrying them places back and forth to the beach, and things like that.”
Her neighbor, Phillip Reams, remembered how active she was around the house.
“You see her out there mowing grass, blowing leaves,” Reams said. “A lot of people are going to miss her. It’s going to be strange to ride by there and not see her in the yard, you know. I always waved to her.”
Horton’s family found her place ransacked and her car stolen, but it was retrieved not too far from the house.
“They’re broken and so we’ve been trying to love on them, comfort them and be there for them and encourage them that there is hope after this,” Whitt said. “But we need to get them to have some strength at this time.”
For Person County residents, the rise in break-ins has become concerning.
“It’s going on, and it’s getting worse and need to get stopped best we can,” Reams said.
Authorities reported two people, a 39-year-old man identified as Letroy Wilkerson and a juvenile, were arrested in the case.
Wilkerson was already out on bond for another offense, according to authorities.
He’s now been charged with murder, and juvenile petitions have been filed on the other suspect.
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Having feelings for someone is beautiful, but it is even more beautiful when the person likes you back. It’s true that it’s not safe to assume that someone likes you back. However, there are signs that can guide you to this truth.
Not everyone is lucky to have someone they like who likes them back. There are people who have suffered hurt and heartbreak. Why? Someone that they liked didn’t feel the same about them. And the reason this often hurts the most is that they have dwelt so much on this feeling, They have imagined and explored reasons in their thoughts why the person they like ought to like them back. They’ve given themselves to optimism without leaving the slightest room for when things don’t go as they imagined. Then when the worst, that they never prepared for, happens, they begin to feel bad and get hurt.
Liking someone back is not a compulsory thing, and there is no hard and fast rule for liking someone back. Human beings are so complex, and it’s hard to understand what they think, how they feel, and why they behave the way they do. However, there are signs to look out for. What do you do with these signs? Remember, they are signs, and not exactly proof. You cannot force anyone to like you back. However, here are the signs to look out for.
Signs that someone likes you back
1. They find excuses to interact with you
One of the signs that someone likes you back is that they find excuses to interact with you, at every opportunity that they get. They create opportunities to interact if these opportunities don’t come naturally. When they like to reach out to you often, through phone calls, texts, video calls, or in person, then that’s one sign that you are on the same page at least. Other times, they call you or reach out to you to talk about things that are minute and are not so important. They intentionally prolong discussions, no matter how trivial they might seem, just to have an excuse to spend time with you.
They tell you simple things that you don’t need to know about but want you to be aware of, or they come by your house to tell you something they could have said over a call or a text. They just find excuses to be with you.
They give you access to information about them that they would not tell some random person. They just make sure that the conversation is going.
2. They pass compliments at every chance they get
This is more inclined to someone who is attracted to you; sexually attracted to you. They give compliments at every chance they get. They talk often about how you smell (if you actually smell nice), how you dress, how you eat, how you walk, how you sit, and your personality in general. They would do all of that to make you feel good and smile.
3. They put in efforts to look good in front of you
This right here is a sign that that person you like likes you back. When you notice that they put in more effort to look good whenever they have to meet you, then that could be one of the signs to look out for. Most of the time, whenever they believe or sense that they will bump into you, they will not go out with a normal look. And when they do, they tell you with a smile that they knew that your paths would cross.
4. They ask your friends about you
One sign that someone likes you back is that they ask people that are close to you about where you are, and how you are doing. They make sure to indirectly pass a message to you through your friends and those whom they know are close to you.
They try to pass the message in order for you to keep them in your thoughts. They want you to know that they care.
5. There is sexual tension between both of you
This is a huge sign that they are clearly interested in you. That moment when you are both alone, and you both can literally feel your hearts beating fast, there’s unease, and the tension is so palpable.
6. You have inside jokes
The looks, the playful interactions, teasing, and lots more others around you cannot relate to. You have code words so that anyone who hears them would be left with only guesses and little or no clues.
Above all, remember that there is no hard and fast rule regarding this. It’s cool to look out for these signs, however, be open-minded while you are looking out.
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50 years ago this week, two of the most memorable programs of the Seventies – or any decade – debuted on CBS: the “All in the Family” spinoff “Maude”; and the TV show based on a book and movie called “M*A*S*H.”
M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors was written by Richard Hooker and featured the characters of Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce, “Trapper” John McIntyre, Walter “Radar” O’Reilly, Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan, Father Francis “Dago Red” Mulcahy, Frank “Ferret Face” Burns, and their commanding officer, Henry Blake.
Two of the greatest writer-producers of all time, Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds, shepherded the show to air. Signed on to star were Alan Alda as Hawkeye, Wayne Rogers as Trapper, McLean Stevenson as Henry, William Christopher as Fr. Mulcahy, Jamie Farr as Klinger, Gary Burghoff as Radar, Larry Linville as Frank, and Loretta Swit as Margaret.
The first season of “M*A*S*H” was shaggy and irreverent. Trapper and Hawkeye were mischievous womanizers, Frank and Margaret were in collusion (and in lust), and Col. Blake was their feckless leader. Very little of the drama that came later was evident in that first season, which tended to focus more on hijinks at the front. The shows are side-splittingly funny, but one episode late in the first season stands out as its best, because it handled a real-life situation so well.
The episode “Sometimes You Hear the Bullet” features Hawkeye’s reporter friend who visits Korea on a journalistic mission. The episode is hilarious, as expected, until the end of the episode, when Hawkeye’s friend is brought into the OR, mortally wounded, and dies on the operating table. Episodes such as this began to make these characters more human as they dealt with the futility of war.
The shocking final episode of the third season threw viewers for an unexpected loop: major character Henry Blake was discharged and allowed to return home. He never made it and was shot down before he could even leave the war zone. Today, such a development is commonplace when an actor leaves a show, but back in the mid-1970s it was unheard of, and therefore “Abyssinia, Henry” stands alone as the first time a sitcom was brave enough to kill off a main character.
Although I enjoy the first three seasons, beginning with its fourth year “M*A*S*H” really came into its own as a dramedy that added Harry Morgan as Col. Potter, Mike Farrell as BJ Hunnicutt, and David Ogden Stiers as Charles Emerson Winchester III. This cast, and the production crew during those later years, put forward some of the most thoughtful comedy and drama that has ever aired on television, period.
Some great episodes come to mind, many written by legendary teams such as Everett Greenbaum & Jim Fritzell; Elias Davis & David Pollock; Jay Folb & Ronny Graham; Thad Munford & Dan Wilcox; and especially Ken Levine & David Isaacs.
Personal favorites include Point of View, where the viewer is brought into the 4077th as a patient; The Interview, a black and white episode in which reporter Clete Roberts asks the staff to describe their wartime experiences and includes the definitive line of the series – from Father Mulcahy – describing what war is really like; The Winchester Tapes, a showcase for Stiers as he dictates his horrid new life at the 4077th into a tape recorder; Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler?, in which an injured serviceman convinces everyone he’s Jesus – an episode that also features bonus characters Col. Flagg and Dr. Freedman; Period of Adjustment, with the rawest emotion ever displayed by a male on American television as Mike Farrell’s BJ is devastated by news from home; Old Soldiers, featuring a powerhouse performance from Harry Morgan as Col. Potter as he toasts his departed World War I mates; The Bus, where our crew is stuck in enemy territory on a broken-down bus; Dear Sigmund, experienced as a letter to Sigmund Freud about the MASH staff written by psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman (perhaps the best episode of the entire series); Mulcahy’s War, an episode where Fr. Mulcahy decides to head to the front lines and sees more action than he bargained for; Morale Victory, in which pianist loses his right hand – but classical music-loving Maj. Winchester introduces him to music written for left hand only; Mail Call Again, an episode in which we get to see some movies from home – sweetly ending with Radar mouthing the words “I love you” to a film of his mother; The Billfold Syndrome,about a soldier so traumatized by seeing his brother get killed in action that he is in a trancelike state; and probably a hundred more that are certifiable classics worth watching again and again.
Seriously. While I am thinking of these top ten shows, I also fondly remember Blood Brothers, 5 O’Clock Charlie, Life Time, Dear Sis, Bug Out, April Fool’s Day, Adam’s Ribs, O.R., Dear Mildred, and any episode with Col. Flagg or Dr. Freedman. Whenever some message board has opinions about the bests and worsts of this series, I always say that the magic period of the show is seasons three through eight – they were the near-perfect combination of drama and comedy and the characters were probably the right ages for their parts. The Korean War lasted three years; M*A*S*H lasted for eleven!
So, I’ve seen them all now, several times. I’ve laughed and cried. Often within the same episode. If somebody pinned me down and asked what the greatest series of all time was, I’d have to answer with “M*A*S*H.” It was created with care, and even after 106 million people gathered to watch the 256th and final episode in 1983, the program has never left the air and continues in reruns on MeTV, TVLand, and other cable channels as well as streaming on Hulu.
They say that we are living in a golden age of television. That may be true, but for this viewer, I don’t know that anything will ever live up to the greatness found within a group of doctors performing meatball surgery somewhere in Korea, “a hundred years ago.”
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Regenerative Travel Is the Next Phase of Responsible Tourism
It’s like sustainable tourism 2.0—with a focus on leaving destinations better than we found them.
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From far-flung expeditions to deep fireside chats, travel has the power to change us. When done well, it can also positively change the places we visit—a fact I learned during a recent safari in southern Tanzania.
As a wildlife enthusiast, I often plan my trips around local fauna. Sure, I follow responsible wildlife tourism guidelines, but cruising around in a safari Jeep doesn’t necessarily help the animals, or ecosystems, I’ve come to admire. Getting my hands dirty installing camera traps to assist researchers studying wildlife in an uncharted and once highly hunted stretch of southern Tanzania? That’s a bit more like it.
And this, it turns out, is part of a growing trend of the 2020s: regenerative travel. The idea is to go beyond sustainability, which focuses on minimizing negative impact, and instead have a net positive impact on the place you’re visiting.
During my trip to southern Tanzania’s new Usangu Expedition Camp by safari company Asilia, this meant installing and monitoring camera traps and snapping then uploading animal photos to citizen-science database iNaturalist to help researchers benchmark and monitor local wildlife populations; guests can also assist with collaring programs to track the movements of big cats. These experiences felt even more enriching than a traditional Jeep safari, and they contributed to Usangu’s goal: helping conservationists from partner organizations, such as the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, better protect this under-studied ecosystem.
Usangu is one of a growing number of experiences allowing globe-trotters to leave a positive footprint. Given community and environmental strains from the last decade of uncapped (and largely uncontrolled) tourism growth, plus a jet-setting resurgence after the pandemic, this shift couldn’t come at a better time.
“Tourism took a bad [hit] during Covid from a reputation point of view; regenerative travel is a way to rebuild the brand of tourism,” says African Leadership University’s School of Wildlife Conservation research director Sue Snyman, noting this is particularly important for engaging local residents. Years of negative tourism impacts have left some communities wondering why they’d want tourism to begin with. “If communities see travelers having a genuine positive impact, they’ll understand [what tourism can do].”
An Urgent Need
With overtourism pressures mounting in Moab, Sedona, and Big Sur—just to name a few—more of us are understanding the complex impact of too many visitors on beloved environments.
In June 2020, six responsible-travel groups, including the Center for Responsible Travel and the Global Sustainable Tourism Council, joined forces to reshape tourism for the better. The result: the Future of Tourism Coalition, which calls on industry organizations to follow 13 guiding principles.
Some of these guidelines follow a more traditional sustainability model, like reducing emissions. Others align with the regenerative ethos, such as demanding that local communities receive fair income from tourism, and creating experiences that support artists, farmers, guides, and chefs working to preserve and protect their local culture.
When The New York Times first reported on the regenerative travel trend in August 2020, around 20 travel groups had pledged to support these principles. Now, more than 600 organizations have signed on; the coalition is also co-hosting its first in-person summit this fall.
While exciting, this shift toward more equitable and responsible excursions is long overdue. According to Planeterra, a nonprofit that aids community-based initiatives around the world, the tourism industry generates some $8 trillion globally, yet local communities hardly receive a fraction, if any, of it.
The Future of Tourism Coalition principles benefit the community and the jet-setter, says Planeterra president Jamie Sweeting. “When you help empower local people to run their own enterprises, where they’re the ones hosting you in their village or community, you feel like you’re part of something bigger than just ‘I’m here having a great holiday.’”
The concept makes sense, but let’s be clear: we have a long way to go—especially after the economic blow of the pandemic. “Most tourism businesses had to really struggle for a couple of years. They have to be judicious about how they’re spending their money,” says Sweeting. For many travel companies, regenerative experiences aren’t the top priority. “But the consumer has way more power than they’ve ever had in the travel sector. Travel businesses will do what the travelers want, so if you want to make a difference, start asking for this kind of tourism.”
Regenerative Travel for Communities
All too often, travel is consumptive, or in Sweeting’s words, “parasitic.” Visitors often take from communities—be it consuming resources (water use, for example, is a major tourism issue in Hawai’i), snapping photos for social media, or worsening crowds and congestion.
Advocates of responsible tourism have long encouraged globe trotters to hire community guides or stay in locally owned hotels instead of chains. The regenerative travel trend paves the way for even more positive impact.
Planeterra, founded in 2003, aids community enterprises through mentorship, networking, grants, and education. It works with G Adventures to connect travelers directly to businesses that need their support; examples include booking community-owned culinary experiences on trips to southern Africa and touring a women’s weaving co-op in Peru before trekking the Inca Trail.
“It’s all about equity and empowerment, and enabling communities to tell their stories, their history, and share their environment in their way,” says Sweeting, noting that in recent years, this model has led to some substantial local gains: employment opportunities for women, increased education access for youth, and revenue staying within communities. (Planeterra wants community businesses to generate $1 billion from global tourism by 2030.)
Other regenerative initiatives that have sprouted up include Mountain Homestays, a network that offers accommodations from Kenya to India largely owned and operated by Indigenous female entrepreneurs. One particularly unique spin-off, Astrostays, takes the Indigenous-owned accommodation further, with experiences centered on stargazing and culture in the Indian Himalayas. Astrostays launched in summer 2019; it’s already generated enough revenue to install greenhouses and solar-powered water heaters in local villages.
According to Snyman, who’s studied community-based tourism for decades, this approach can work, but it’s not foolproof. “Tourism is one of the most complex businesses in terms of business management, and yet, you’re expecting this community to now be a partner with the private sector who’s done it for 30 years,” she says, noting true capacity building within the community is critical. “People talk about equity partnerships, but for me, there’s nothing equitable in them when the power balance is skewed. There are good examples [of community tourism], but there’s still work to be done in the space of equitably engaging communities.”
One community-based tourism model that’s impressed Snyman is Namibia’s Damaraland Camp. It came to fruition when travel outfitter Wilderness Safaris launched a joint venture with the local community in Damaraland, located in the Huab River Valley, in 1996. At the time, unemployment here had reached nearly 100 percent and human-wildlife conflict was raging. This venture led to the creation of the 869,000-square-acre Torra Conservancy, a community-based program in which the local people own and operate Damaraland Camp. Wilderness Safaris and the conservancy share in both the benefits and risks. The initiative has also helped the local people view wildlife as a resource to protect, not poach.
Support Communities, Advance Conservation
Damaraland Camp highlights the full potential of regenerative travel; by supporting local people, travelers also support conservation. Minnesota-based nonprofit Indifly shows how the principle can apply to other types of tourism, such as angling.
Indifly helps Indigenous communities around the world create equitable ecotourism initiatives centered on fly fishing and conservation; all projects are 100 percent community-owned and operated. One of its latest projects, a community-owned eco lodge on Wyoming’s 2.2 million acre Wind River Indian Reservation, will generate critical economic opportunity for the Indigenous Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho communities, where unemployment hovers around 70 percent.
The idea: build a sustainable economy where Indigenous communities both benefit from fly-fishing tourism and manage how visitors enjoy, and respect, these precious resources.
“[The waterways] will stay pristine as long as they’re protected. The minute you start overdoing it, you’re going to hurt them. The tribes, we do have the ability to protect that,” Darren Calhoun, an enrolled Northern Arapaho Tribe member, said in a film about the project by Indifly partner Yeti. In 1992, Calhoun and his father founded the 100 percent Native-owned outfitter Wind River Canyon Whitewater and Fly Fishing.
One reason fly fishing works so well? It’s lucrative. According to a 2021 report from the American Sportfishing Association, the U.S. fishing community alone generates an economic output of nearly $40 billion per year. “Anglers tend to spend more money than [many] other types of outdoor pursuits, and they’re willing to pay to travel to places that people don’t typically go,” said Matt Shilling, Indifly’s executive director.
“The challenge for us as a community is let’s [build upon this interest], but let’s make sure we’re the beneficiary,” Calhoun said in the Yeti film. “Let’s put our kids to work, let’s create businesses for our community.”
Increasingly, regenerative travel experiences are available for all types of outdoor activities. Scuba certified? Try trash diving or coral restoration. More into terrestrial excursions? Book a Sierra Club trip to help with trail maintenance or native species restoration in some of the country’s most scenic getaways.
Even small actions can have a big impact, especially in our increasingly visited national parks. According to Brittany Conklin of the Grand Canyon Conservancy, spending in GCC-run retail stores or participating in the park’s Field Institute classes directly fund trail updates, wildlife conservation, and habitat restoration.
Lasting Impact
The idea of regenerative travel may seem a bit Pollyanna-ish, or like traveling with rose-colored glasses, but Snyman says it can and does work. The key factor is how positive impact spreads beyond direct tourist activity or spending. When local workers receive fair payment, or community enterprises generate revenue, the community’s whole economic ecosystem can flourish.
“Often governments look specifically at the number of tourists and what they spend [as a sign of success], but one of the biggest benefits of staff getting paid is they can go into their communities and spend money,” says Snyman. “They employ other people to look after their children. They work in startup businesses and spend their money in the villages. That, to me, is regenerative.”
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Best Korean Drama TV series on Netflix: The 10 most highly rated K-dramas on Netflix, ranked by Rotten Tomatoes
These are 10 of the most highly ranked Korean TV shows – or K-dramas - currently streaming on Netflix UK.
With such an abundance of choice on Netflix, finding your next binge-athon can be tough.
However, based on Rotten Tomatoes reviews, Netflix’s excellent list of Korean dramas may just be the way to go when it comes to finding your next binge-athon.
Alongside their numerous zombie hits, the streaming platform has found huge success in bringing a horde of Korean content to the attention of their subscribers, with the likes of Squid Game and Hellbound proving to be some of Netflix’s most critically acclaimed TV shows every made.
Though, with a list of k-dramas as long as you’re arm, it can be a little tough deciding which is the best to plump for, but fear not, as we took a deep dive in respected review site Rotten Tomatoes, to see which shows rank the highest.
Here are the top 10 most highly rated K-dramas currently streaming on Netflix.
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Sept. 19-23 is SepticSmart Week! When my husband and I bought our home in Vienna in 2001, we had never previously considered that we would ever own a home with a septic system. We were a bit apprehensive but took the plunge and have never looked back.
To some, the idea of purchasing a home with a well or septic system can seem overwhelming, but many attractive Washington-area homes have one or the other, and sometimes both! Wells and septic systems are far more common than you would think in the greater Washington suburbs.
What is a septic system? A septic system is a way to dispose of household wastes on an individual level. Over the course of the life of a septic system (about 40 years) the cost can often be far less than paying a monthly or quarterly sewage bill. Replacing a gravity system costs about $10,000, while an alternative system can cost up to $85,000 to replace. If you take certain precautions, you will have few to no issues with your septic system. Here are some quick septic reminders:
- Every home’s pumping schedule is different. Usually, a septic tank will need to be pumped every three to five years. However, pumping frequency depends on a variety of factors, including tank size, usage and age of the system. The county will usually send you a reminder when it’s due.
- You can’t flush everything. Flushing items that are not biodegradable will lead to big problems in your septic system. This includes dental floss, feminine products and pet waste, as well as baby wipes. These items can interfere with your system’s ability to break down waste.
- Your system involves more than toilets. Every sink, tub and pipe in your house will drain into your septic system, including your kitchen sink! Unlike homes on a sewer, food items should not go down the sink. Composting food waste is a great way to help your septic system -- and your garden! Other items that should not go down the drain include oils, grease, chemicals, paint and medications.
- Proper maintenance extends its lifespan. Just like any other appliance in your home, your septic system will break down eventually. However, by sticking to a routine pumping and maintenance schedule, you can extend the lifespan of your system. Make sure to maintain plants and vegetation near the system to ensure roots do not block the drains. Keep cars and heavy vehicles parked away from the drain field and tank. Prevent system freezing during cold weather by inspecting and insulating vulnerable system parts.
I clearly remember drinking a glass of well water from the tap for the first time at the home of a good friend. It tasted amazing -- pure, clean groundwater, not contaminated or chlorinated.
One-fifth of Virginia’s population depends on wells, or about 1.6 million Virginians. Because Virginia is a buyer-beware state, there are no requirements on the seller’s end to disclose any known problems or defects. Laws concerning wells have been in place only since 1990, so if the house you are looking to purchase was built before then, you might consider having a Private Well and/or Septic Addendum added to your contract.
As with anything home related, it's important to take care of your well. Well maintenance is similar to having your annual physical at the doctor. It is recommended by the CDC and Well Owner that your well and well water be inspected annually. Water testing looks for harmful bacteria and hard substances like total coliform bacteria, nitrates, total dissolved solids and pH levels. Any defects that are found can be treated or remediated by an expert.
Now that you know a little more about wells and septic systems, in your next home search don't automatically discount a home for this reason. A home with a well or septic system has a well or septic because they have land and with land comes beauty. A good Realtor can help answer your questions and advise you on the next best steps.
Jean Beatty is a licensed real estate agent in VA, MD, and DC with McEnearney Associates Realtors® in McLean, VA. If you would like more information on selling or buying in today's complex market, contact Jean at 301-641-4149 or visit her website JeanBeatty.com.
If you would like a question answered in our weekly column or to set up an appointment with one of our Associates, please email: InsideNoVa@mcenearney.com or call 703.549.9292.
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First-year head coach Steve Casner expected an adjustment period.
Not only was Quantico High School fielding its first football team since 2019. But the Warriors were doing so playing an eight-man version of the sport with mostly inexperienced underclassmen.
So Saturday’s 52-50 come-from-behind victory over visiting Richmond Christian was a welcome sight. After starting the season 0-3, including being outscored 105-16 in its past two games against more physically imposing teams, the Warriors remained resilient.
With under two minutes left Sept. 17, Quantico tied the game at 50 on Camden Roberts’ 5-yard touchdown run. Roberts set up the score with a 50-yard run. He also recorded the game-winning two-point conversion.
The Warriors (1-3) then held on for the win and celebrated en masse afterward.
“There were a lot of those ‘I love you, man’ type of moments like from the old [Bud Light] commercials,” Casner said. “We had a fairly good number of fans and they made a tunnel for the players after the game. It was a love fest.”
Casner also got a chuckle hearing comments from Quantico-based students who are able to attend nearby Potomac, the base’s zoned public high school.
“They told me they were coming back,” Casner said.
Casner credited Richmond Christian for never giving up. Richmond Christian had only 12 players due to injuries.
“They played their hearts out,” Casner said. “Some of these teams we’ve played have been pretty huge.”
Quantico has about 24 players, including six eighth-graders and only three seniors. The Warriors’ leading tackler is freshman Brock Knapp. He tallied 10 tackles, a sack and a pass deflection against Richmond Christian.
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For safety reasons, Casner said he rarely uses the eighth-graders in games unless it's for spot duty. Those players are more in training preparing for future seasons.
Roberts’ arrival over the summer boosted Quantico’s offense and experience level in a format where higher scores are expected with fewer players on the field. He’s among a handful of players on the roster with any previous varsity experience. The junior played at White Oak High School in Jacksonville (N.C.) before his father was assigned to Marine Corps Base Quantico.
Roberts made an immediate impression, rushing for 108 yards on 18 carries in the Warriors’ 24-14 season-opening loss to Southampton.
Against Richmond Christian, he totaled 366 rushing yards on 29 carries and accounted for six of Quantico’s eight touchdowns (five rushing and one on a kickoff return).
“Having him there gives us confidence,” Casner said.
Casner said the biggest challenge remains with how the players respond to hits.
“The hardest part is getting comfortable with contact and their feet stop,” Casner said. “This is all new.”
Another challenge is dealing with injuries with limited numbers. Quantico has yet to start the same players more than once.
Due to the pandemic and low numbers caused by small enrollment, Quantico did not have football teams for the 2020 and 2021 seasons.
There was interest in fielding a team this fall. But with turnout still small and so many kids new to varsity play, the school believed it was best to compete in eight-man football.
Quantico always deals with constant turnover because of families being transferred in and out of the base.
“We’re just happy to have a program,” Casner said. “It’s always going to be different here.”
As he does every weekend after a game, Casner compiles the stats and posts them online so the players can see them. It’s a time-consuming endeavor, but Saturday’s victory sped things along.
“It makes it easier after a win,” Casner said.
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Loch Ness Monster: Swimming with Nessie sounds like a good way to find out if its real – Scotsman comment
Loch Ness, so large that it reportedly contains more water as all the lakes in England and Wales combined, is a magical place.
It’s the sort of place that attracts special individuals like Ross Edgley, the extreme adventurer who once swam round the whole of Great Britain – without touching land – in 157 days.
Edgley yesterday began a 48-hour non-stop swim in Loch Ness, which may sound like a doddle compared to his earlier feat but, apparently, is not.
At sea, he encountered “huge gentle swells that can be predictable”, whereas the wind can whip up four-metre waves on the 37km-long Loch Ness.
The cold is another real issue. When he first arrived, Edgley discovered he was unable to stay in the water for more than two hours. This problem was solved after some scientists told him “you just need to get fat” and he started eating 10,000 calories a day.
“People have asked me, ‘Is this going to be harder or easier than swimming around Great Britain?’ And I’m like, I don’t know. I think it’s just different,” he said.
There is, of course, another special individual associated with Loch Ness.
And Edgely’s feat comes hot on the heels of the latest sighting – of “giant, eel-like shapes” caught on camera, no less – among more than 1,000 eye-witness accounts and unexplained phenomena that some say is proof that a ‘monster’ lurks beneath those cold waves.
Could it truly be Nessie? Will the mystery ever be solved? The best way to find out is surely to get into the water and, so we wait, with bated breath, for Edgley to emerge.
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Ex-Rangers striker Kyle Lafferty under investigation by Kilmarnock over alleged sectarian language
Kilmarnock have launched an investigation into allegations striker Kyle Lafferty used sectarian language.
The former Rangers frontman could face disciplinary action from the Scottish Premiership club after social media footage emerged appearing to show the 35-year-old using a derogatory term in reference to Celtic supporters.
Lafferty, who has 85 caps for Northern Ireland, rejoined Kilmarnock for a second time in January after a spell with Cypriot club Anorthosis Famagusta.
He has also spent two spells at Rangers, winning three Scottish Premiership titles, and has also played for Hearts, Sunderland, Burnley and Norwich as well as playing spells in Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and Italy.
A club statement read: "Kilmarnock Football Club are aware of a video circulating online which appears to show a member of our playing staff using language of a sectarian nature.
"The club finds all forms of discriminatory behaviour completely unacceptable. The matter will be investigated by the club."
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BEIJING, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dreametech, a fast-growing company leading in smart home cleaning appliances, announced the launch of the all-new flagship DreameBot L10s Ultra. The DreameBot L10s Ultra features many of the company's latest industry-leading innovations in smart cleaning. With the launch of the L10s Ultra, Dreametech US will seek more possibilities in the high-end market of robot vacuum products to offer more options and a better experience to US consumers.
DreameBot L10s Ultra is a fully-automatic robot vacuum and mop, which features Dreametech's most advanced technology. L10s Ultra is a perfect combination of popular robotic cleaning technologies, such as a hands-free emptying system and automatic mop cleaning -- working together to deliver an impressive, effortless cleaning experience. Additionally, automatic dust collection, mop-cleaning, mop-drying, water-refilling, solution-adding, fast mapping, and path-planning come together to make fully automated home cleaning a reality.
DreameBot L10s Ultra features the latest AI-powered navigation with Dreametech's exclusive AI Action. L10s Ultra's advanced AI ensures your whole home is cleaned efficiently and effectively, to avoid missing spots, repeated cleaning, getting lost, or getting stuck. The advanced AI Action utilizes an advanced RGB camera and 3D structured light to learn your home, tailor cleaning strategies, and auto-generate paths according to the type of obstacle, flooring, and room.
"We have equipped DreameBot L10s Ultra with 24 sensors to adapt to the diverse nature of home environments. It's like building a mini-autopilot system," said Dreametech Product Manager. "DreameBot L10s Ultra can distinguish obstacles in real-world scenes within more than 30 types of home environments and identifies six main categories of obstacles to determine how best to deal with them. It will be much easier to avoid getting caught or stopped by obstacles such as socks, slippers, and data cables."
The dedicated Dreamehome app allows you to customize your cleaning settings to perfectly meet your needs. In the cleaning settings, you can set L10s Ultra to vacuum only, mop only, or vacuum and mop according to the environment. Set the auto-empty or automatic mop-washing precisely the way you want.
Integrates With Alexa and Google Assistant
With the mobile app (available for Android and iPhone), and integration with Alexa and Google Assistant, initiating a cleaning session is as simple as tapping a smartphone screen or saying a voice command.
DreameBot L10s Ultra will hit markets in North America on September 25, 2022 and will be available for $1,399. Buyers can benefit from an early-access $200 discount leading up to and during the launch period.
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HUDSONVILLE, Mich. — Over 200 vendors are ready and waiting for you at the Fall 2022 Farmgirl Flea Market. This year promises your fair-food favorites, plus live music, beer and wine.
The market happens at the Hudsonville Fair Grounds Friday, September 23rd, 4-8 p.m. and Saturday, September 24th, 8 a.m. — 4 p.m.
The two-day vintage and hand-made extravaganza promises everything from campers to clothes and furniture to food.
Jake Hoult & Band will be there Friday, while Saturday features music from the Crooked Root Band and Mike Mclain.
Tickets are required to get in. Early shoppers can pay $15 for tickets to both days, while at the gate tickets can be bought for $5 Saturday.
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Tags: perluipluspod\n2/4 - CMD Line Help and Paged Window Help files can use perl-config() [Coding Standards Issued: May -2004 (828/MOUS) to January +2008 and May +5, respectively.[[issue\n-2 CWD - The Perl-config File] CAPYA - January +++5 [[ issue2 +55/01 (NORM]] Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization of reservists Wednesday to bolster his forces in Ukraine, a deeply unpopular move that sparked rare protests across the country and led to almost 1,200 arrests.
The risky order follows humiliating setbacks for Putin’s troops nearly seven months after they invaded Ukraine. The first such call-up in Russia since World War II heightened tensions with Ukraine’s Western backers, who derided it as an act of weakness and desperation.
The move also sent some Russians scrambling to buy plane tickets to flee the country.
In his 14-minute nationally televised address, Putin also warned the West that he isn’t bluffing about using everything at his disposal to protect Russia — an apparent reference to his nuclear arsenal. He has previously rebuked NATO countries for supplying weapons to Ukraine.
Confronted with steep battlefield losses, expanding front lines and a conflict that has raged longer than expected, the Kremlin has struggled to replenish its troops in Ukraine, reportedly even resorting to widespread recruitment in prisons.
The total number of reservists to be called up could be as high as 300,000, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said. However, Putin's decree authorizing the partial mobilization, which took effect immediately, offered few details, raising suspicions that the draft could be broadened at any moment. Notably, one clause was kept secret.
Despite Russia’s harsh laws against criticizing the military and the war, protesters outraged by the mobilization overcame their fear of arrest to stage protests in cities across the country. Nearly 1,200 Russians were arrested in anti-war demonstrations in cities including Moscow and St. Petersburg, according to the independent Russian human rights group OVD-Info.
Associated Press journalists in Moscow witnessed at least a dozen arrests in the first 15 minutes of a nighttime protest in the capital, with police in heavy body armor tackling demonstrators in front of shops, hauling some away as they chanted, “No to war!”
“I’m not afraid of anything. The most valuable thing that they can take from us is the life of our children. I won’t give them life of my child," said one Muscovite, who declined to give her name.
Asked whether protesting would help, she said: “It won’t help, but it’s my civic duty to express my stance. No to war!”
In Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-largest city, police hauled onto buses some of the 40 protesters who were detained at an anti-war rally. One woman in a wheelchair shouted, referring to the Russian president: “Goddamn bald-headed ‘nut job’. He’s going to drop a bomb on us, and we’re all still protecting him. I’ve said enough.”
The Vesna opposition movement called for protests, saying: “Thousands of Russian men — our fathers, brothers and husbands — will be thrown into the meat grinder of the war. What will they be dying for? What will mothers and children be crying for?”
The Moscow prosecutor’s office warned that organizing or participating in protests could lead to up to 15 years in prison. Authorities have issued similar warnings ahead of other protests. Wednesday's were the first nationwide anti-war protests since the fighting began in late February.
Other Russians responded by trying to leave the country, and flights out quickly became booked.
In Armenia, Sergey arrived with his 17-year-old son, saying they had prepared for such a scenario. Another Russian, Valery, said his wife’s family lives in Kyiv, and mobilization is out of the question for him “just for the moral aspect alone.” Both men declined to give their last names.
The state communication watchdog Roskomnadzor warned media that access to their websites would be blocked for transmitting “false information” about the mobilization.
Residents in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, appeared despondent about the mobilization as they watched emergency workers clear debris from Russian rocket attacks on two apartment buildings.
“You just don’t know what to expect from him,” said Kharkiv resident Olena Milevska, 66. “But you do understand that it’s something personal for him.”
In calling for the mobilization, Putin cited the length of the front line, which he said exceeds 1,000 kilometers (more than 620 miles). He also said Russia is effectively fighting the combined military might of Western countries.
Western leaders said the mobilization was in response to Russia's recent battlefield losses.
President Joe Biden told the U.N. General Assembly that Putin’s new nuclear threats showed “reckless disregard” for Russia’s responsibilities as a signer of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapon
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CHICAGO, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Liberty Advisor Group (Liberty), a premier management consulting firm that helps clients tackle their toughest business and IT challenges, has been named one of the 2022 Best Places to Work in Chicago. Crain's Chicago Business partnered with Best Companies Group on this survey and awards program to identify companies that have excelled in creating quality workplaces for employees.
"It is an honor to be recognized as a Best Place to Work in Chicago by Crain's Chicago Business for the third year," said Chad Smith, CEO, Liberty Advisor Group. "This award is an incredible testament to our people and culture. We have created a strong culture that fosters a supportive work environment and empowers our people to deliver world-class results to our clients."
Liberty is dedicated to firm culture and works hard to build a sense of family amongst everyone with team outings and activities. We are a flat organization with high-performing, self-motivated entrepreneurs that have fun while delivering client value. Most recently, Liberty was recognized as one of the Best Small and Medium Workplaces in Chicago by Fortune Magazine.
Determining the Best Places to Work in Chicago involved a two-step process. The first step consisted of evaluating each participating company's workplace policies, practices, and demographics. This part of the process was worth approximately 25% of the total evaluation. The second part consisted of employee surveys aimed at assessing the experiences and attitudes of individual employees with respect to their workplace. This part was worth approximately 75% of the total evaluation. The combined scores determined the best companies and the final ranking. The full list of Best Places to Work in Chicago is featured in Crain's Chicago Business and is available online here.
Liberty Advisor Group is a goal-oriented, client-focused, and results-driven consulting firm. Founded in 2008, Liberty's world-class team has added an impressive $1 billion to our clients' operating incomes over the years, and has been involved in 1000+ mergers, acquisitions, and carve-out projects. The company aims to drive future growth by continuing to align with our clients on their toughest business and IT challenges; further strengthening our collaborative, problem-solving culture; and building genuine and trusting relationships both inside and outside of the firm. In short, we will continue to grow, evolve, and improve.
Crain's Chicago Business is the top source of news, analysis and information on business in metropolitan Chicago for decision-makers in the private and public sectors.
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Expansion of test coverage includes custom scan discovery, custom test scripts and custom test data for REST APIs, enabling developers to leave no paths untouched
DENVER, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- StackHawk, the company making application security testing part of software delivery, today announced its Deeper API Security Test Coverage release. This expands StackHawk's solution to help developers scan the entire API layer to uncover potential vulnerabilities. Today's application architectures require different approaches to security testing, and legacy security testing tools result in untested parts of the application, or require tedious manual testing and are too slow for most modern release schedules. With this release. StackHawk provides developers the ability to test APIs deeper and faster, so organizations can be confident every build they release is secure.
The API layer presents the highest level of security risk for software companies. Yet API discovery can be a challenge for many security teams. StackHawk's Deeper API Security Test Coverage release allows teams to leverage existing automated testing tools, such as Postman or Cypress, to guide discovery of the paths and endpoints, provide custom test data to be used during scans and cover proprietary use cases for security testing.
"Modern API and application security requires tooling that integrates into existing engineering workflows and provides thorough test coverage for today's application architectures," said Scott Gerlach, StackHawk co-founder and chief security officer. "With our recent release of Deeper API Security Test features, StackHawk continues to lead the market in depth and accuracy of real API security testing, all while remaining true to our developer-first security approach."
Engineering teams have sophisticated automated test suites in CI/CD to ensure that quality is maintained as they push software changes to production, and security testing should be no different. By integrating into existing testing workflows, StackHawk provides developers with security testing in a familiar way, shifting security left.
StackHawk's comprehensive scan functionalities have expanded to address several key issues, including:
- Custom Test Data for REST APIs: The ability to use realistic required variables for paths, query, or request body, is something DAST tools historically have struggled with as the use of incorrectly formatted data can prevent the scan from reaching critical logic in the application.
- Custom Scan Discovery: The ability to use test scripts and data from devtools such as Postman or Cypress for guiding the scanner, resulting in a more comprehensive, thorough test without the need for API docs.
- Custom Test Scripts: The ability to test for specific use cases like business logic, privacy laws, and sensitive data requires custom scripts. This functionality also addresses the issue of tenancy checks, the top vulnerability in the OWASP Top 10, and testing for Broken Function Level Authorization, which are test cases not covered with the ZAP library.
Those interested in learning more about StackHawk's Deeper API Security Testing can see the functionality in action by registering here for the webinar at 10 AM PT on Wednesday, September 28.
StackHawk is making application security testing part of software delivery. The StackHawk platform empowers engineers to easily find and fix application security bugs at any stage of software development. With a strong founding team that has deep experience in security and DevOps, and some of the best venture investors in the business, StackHawk is putting application security testing into the hands of engineers. Learn more and sign up for a free trial at www.stackhawk.com.
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(Our Auto Expert) — Have you ever seen a Chevrolet Geo Metro? It was a three-cylinder car that had 67 horsepower. A top speed of about 100 miles an hour cost about eight thousand dollars when it came to the market in 1995. Let’s jump forward to today, 27 years later, Toyota has the Corolla GR.
This vehicle also has three cylinders but has 300 horsepower. It has a top speed of 142 miles an hour, and Toyota says this vehicle has well over 100,000 hand-raisers–people who want and indicated they would like to buy the vehicle. The vehicle also has over a million views on YouTube. I can’t say I ever really wanted a Geo Metro. I can say this vehicle would look great in my garage.
While lockdown was underway, Toyota was working to build a family of new and exciting members that allowed unconventional fun. Not what you’d come to expect from the world’s number-one automaker.
The GR family starts with three vehicles. The first up, the GI 86, the special 10th-anniversary edition, will be limited to eight hundred and sixty units with a special cat back exhaust.
GR Supra, after three years of development, Toyota has a manual and says the GR supra can get zero to sixty in just four seconds. That’s faster than you can put on your seatbelt.
The GR Corolla is the newest sibling in the GR family and the hottest hatch produced by Toyota. From the outside, it looks ready to fly. Akio Toyoda sent this vehicle back to the designers and engineers because he wanted it lower and wider several times. When it came back, it was Perfect. This vehicle has functions everywhere. All of the intakes are useful to keep this car aerodynamic on track.
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(The Hill) — Pfizer announced on Thursday it has reached an agreement to supply up to six million courses of its COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid to the Global Fund to get treatment to low and middle-income countries.
This supply agreement was made as part of the Global Fund’s COVID19 Response Mechanism (C19RM), Pfizer said in a statement provided to The Hill.
“The C19RM has been the primary channel for providing grant support to low- and middle-income countries to purchase COVID-19 tests, treatments, personal protective equipment and critical elements of health systems strengthening,” Pfizer said.
“PAXLOVID treatment courses will be available for procurement through this mechanism, subject to local regulatory approval or authorization, by the 132 grant-eligible countries determined by Global Fund based on income classification and disease burden.”
The company said it expects the supply of Paxlovid to become available sometime this year. The Paxlovid courses will be sold according to Pfizer’s tiered pricing model, with low-income countries paying not-for-profit prices and upper-middle-income countries paying according to the tiered approach.
“After so much disruption and loss due to COVID-19, we must continue to accelerate access to PAXLOVID as a safe and effective treatment option for high-risk patients in all regions of the world along with test and treat programs that help get treatment quickly to those in need,” Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said.
Access to coronavirus therapeutics like Paxlovid, which must be administered within five days of symptom-onset, has been limited for poorer countries. Efforts to provide access to these treatments to poorer countries have been since they were authorized..
Earlier this month, Pfizer donated 100,000 courses of Paxlovid to the Covid Treatment Quick Start Consortium, a newer organization created with the goal of helping countries set up test-and-treat programmes.
When asked about the possibility of similarly supplying the bivalent COVID-19 booster dose to low and middle-income countries, a representative for Pfizer said, “As it has been the case since the very beginning of this pandemic, we are in regular discussions with many countries — of all income levels — as well as supranational organizations on the supply of our COVID-19 vaccine.”
“We also remain in communication with a number of global health stakeholders, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank to discuss their views and ideas on access in LICs/LMICs. Of note, of the more than 3.7 billion doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine shipped to date, more than 1.5 billion have reached low- and middle-income countries,” they said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart and Target plan to begin offering deals and price matching offers earlier this year to keep up with Americans pressed by soaring inflation and looking for ways to ease the potential sting of holiday shopping.
Inflation that is hovering near four-decade highs, experts believe, could push families to get an earlier start on shopping with hopes of avoiding even higher prices later.
The holiday sales strategies, announced on Thursday, come amid what is expected to be slower holiday sales growth compared with a year ago. AlixPartners, the global consulting firm, forecasts that holiday sales will be up anywhere from 4% to 7%, far below last year’s growth of 16%. The current inflation rate of 8.3% means retailers would see a decrease in real sales.
Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, is also expanding the window for returns by more than a month. Gift returns will now be accepted between Oct. 1 and Jan. 31, compared with last year’s return window of Nov. 1 to Jan. 24, the company said.
Walmart, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, is offering a wider assortment of items this year with more new brands and more Walmart exclusives than a year ago, according to Tom Ward, the company’s chief e-commerce officer. The company is deepening discounts on such items as toys, home goods, electronics and beauty. It said that more than half the toys on Walmart’s list of expected hot holiday toys are under $50 – with many under $25 — and nearly all of the toys are available to shop now or through pre-order on walmart.com.
Target, based in Minneapolis, said will begin offering holiday deals between Oct. 6 and Oct. 8, a few days earlier than a year ago and it will begin price matching then, also a couple days early.
Target has one of the most generous price-matching offers in retail, countering offers from more than two dozen other stores. That also applies to purchases at Target.com.
Target plans to hire up to 100,000 seasonal employees in stores and distribution centers this holiday season, in line with a year ago.
Walmart is taking a more cautious hiring approach this year, saying this week that it would hire 40,000 U.S. workers for the holidays, a majority of them seasonal workers.
Last year, Walmart said it would hire roughly 150,000 new U.S. store workers, most of them permanent, full-time positions, on top of 20,000 permanent distribution and warehouse workers as the pandemic disrupted supply chains.
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Two days after a magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico’s central Pacific coast, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook the same region early Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Thursday’s earthquake was centered near Michoacan. Unlike Monday’s earthquake, no tsunamis were reported following Thursday’s quake.
Despite being hundreds of miles from the epicenter, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum reported two fatalities associated with Thursday’s earthquake.
She reported one of the fatalities was from a woman who fell in a staircase during the earthquake. A second fatality was reportedly from a police officer who experienced a fatal heart attack during the shaking.
In addition to the two major earthquakes this week, dozens of moderate aftershocks have been felt in the region.
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GUANGZHOU, China, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With 8 years' effort of XAG to promote smart agriculture, drones flying above the field to perform farm works have been gradually adopted in many regions. To meet farmer's need for a large-capacity drone, XAG officially makes its P100 Agricultural Drone available for sales globally. This fully autonomous drone has multiple uses around the farm, such as spraying pesticides, spreading fertilizers and broadcasting seeds, to boost yield and lower costs.
As one of the fast-growing markets for agricultural drone, Vietnam becomes the first to witness the rising force of XAG P100. With the payload upgraded to 40 kg, the drone can serve larger fields more effectively to address labor shortage. In the meantime, drone pilot is seen as the new favored career for rural youth, who can harness technology to make a good fortune.
The new rising force to grow rice yields
Nhan, a farmer who owns a 70-hectare rice field in the Bac Ninh Province of Vietnam, used to suffer from unstable yield and profit decline. He was not content with the performance of manual spraying that was costly and inefficient. As the cost of hiring workers had posed great pressure on his livelihood, he ordered services from KPT Fly Team to help him cultivate rice with XAG's drone.
"Before approaching us, Nhan hired 20 to 25 workers to spray pesticides manually, but this often led to uneven spraying and waste of chemicals. Now because we have the tool of preventing pests more effectively, our team becomes his first option to reap harvest," said by 30-year-old Khuong, KPT's co-founder.
"With two XAG P100 agricultural drones, two small teams consisting of only 4 to 6 people can finish the fieldwork much faster and easier. While the drone sprays evenly and penetrate the rice crops more quickly, it can also spread seeds and fertilizers. Our service has helped him reduce labor cost and improve the yields."
According to the World Bank, employment in agriculture in Vietnam has fallen from 65% to 36 % over the last two decades. Such labor outflow is also speeding up in many other major agricultural countries. Young people in rural areas move to the city for a more decent job, and in face of rural aging, farmers complain that it is getting more difficult to hire workers to manage their rice fields.
The introduction of agricultural drone has changed the tune of young generation on rural development. It provides a decent work opportunity for rural youth who can build a new type of business like the KPT Fly Team or join as a drone pilot. They have become the new rising force to fuel the transformation towards sustainable agriculture.
The key to win farmers' trust
The KPT Fly Team was established in 2021 by a group of young engineers with experience in rice cultivation. They provide services to farmers in the Mekong River delta, using XAG's drones to handle pests, sow seeds, and spread fertilizers.
Seeing the great potential of drone business in Vietnam farming is the main reason why Mr. Khuong and his counterparts established KPT. The shortage of manual labor, the high price of hiring workers, as well as the increasing cost of fertilizers and pesticide have prevented rice farmers from improving productivity. The output is unstable, and the profits farmers can receive seem to depend on luck.
The ideal income has also been attracting young people to step into this new career. According to Mr. Khuong, during the busy farming season, a drone pilot can earn 20.4-23.8 million VND monthly, far higher than the average salary in countryside and even in city.
Since started, the KPT has grown to a team with 4 founders and 16 operating pilots and served over 5,000 hectares of rice fields. "The XAG P100 drone makes us more confident in our effectiveness. Its 40kg payload enables operation at a larger scale. Simply setting parameters on the mobile app, the drone can do its work autonomously with minimal human intervention," said Mr. Khuong.
However, promoting agricultural drone to the farmers has never been easy. Most farmers are used to spraying with a large amount of water and they doubted that drone was more effective in protecting crops with less water. To dispel farmers' misgiving, the pilot team would carry out test flight and prove the efficiency of drone compared to manual operation. Calculations are made to show farmers the benefits of reducing waste and how this can save money for them.
"We commit to farmers that when our drones spray according to the amount of water we recommend, and if it is not effective, they will be compensated," Mr. Khuong said. As the results do not fail their expectation, the KPT team is gaining more trust as well as increasing customers.
XAG P100 Agricultural Drone is well credited for the level of its automation and precision, but what impresses farmers the most is the company's smart agricultural ecosystem. From remote sensing drone, unmanned ground vehicle to autopilot console, XAG has also developed multiple types of products to focus on farmer's various needs. More technologies will be applied on farm to yield a bright future.
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Chef/General Manager/Partner, Sarah Bleich from Howie’s stopped by “The Rhode Show” on Thursday morning to make Bacon Fat Refried Beans.
2 12oz cans of pinto beans
1 pound bacon, cut into ½-inch pieces
1 medium onion, diced
2 jalapenos, roasted and peeled, seeded and chopped, or 1 7oz can green chilies
1 15oz can fire roasted tomatoes
Salt and pepper
¼ teaspoon coriander
¼ teaspoon cumin
2-3 cups meat stock
1-2 oz of vinegar
1. Fry the bacon in a medium-size skillet over medium-low heat, until all the fat is rendered, about 10 minutes. Add the onion and chiles and cook until the onion is translucent, about 5-6 minutes. Stir in the tomato and beans and cover with stock. Add the rest of the ingredients, cover and turn on low.
2. Simmer, stirring occasionally, for 20 to 30 minutes, to blend the flavors. If the beans are very soupy, uncover, raise the heat and simmer away the excess liquid. Taste for salt and season accordingly. Once cooled enough to blend, put in a food processor or blender and blend to your desired consistency. If you like it chunky or smooth there is no wrong way!
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this morning on The Rhode Home we welcomed NIROPE – Ron and Pete Cardi – along with Lloyd Felix from Arctic Playhouse. From terrific local furniture options available at Cardi’s Furniture & Mattresses to the latest and upcoming events at Arctic Playhouse in West Warwick, we covered it all.
For a closer look at all they have to offer at Cardi’s, head to: https://www.cardis.com/
For additional information and upcoming shows at Arctic Playhouse, visit: https://www.thearcticplayhouse.com/
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Andor’s Fiona Shaw on Why She Enjoys the ‘Reckoning,’ Too
After months of first-look images and trailers, the first three episodes of Andor are finally available to stream on Disney+. Set five years before the events of Rogue One, Andor follows the rise of Cassian Andor (Diego Luna). Once a lowly thief, Cassian eventually becomes a top rebel in the fight against the Empire. Speaking of rebellion, the third episode features a memorable appearance by Maarva Andor (Fiona Shaw), Cassian’s adopted mother.
When Syril (Kyle Soller) searches for Cassian in the streets of Ferrix, the people bang on metal in unison. This is to warn Cassian of the impending danger. In response to the unity, Maarva says,” That’s what a reckoning sounds like.” That line seems to have caught on among the show’s fans. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Shaw elaborated on why she enjoyed the line too.
“I enjoyed that because what was also written in it is this feeling that Maarva has been in these moments before, the same way somebody might remember the 1960s and when the revolution died,” said Shaw. “She is somebody who remembers previous turbulence. Her family had been punished quite unfairly by the Empire, and I think she really does enjoy what a reckoning sounds like.”
RELATED: Adria Arjona Reveals How Morbius and Andor Share the Same Fans
Why did Maarva adopt Cassian? Shaw believes if her character hadn’t, he would have died.
“I mean, she adopted him because she found him,” explained Shaw. “He would’ve definitely died if she hadn’t taken him home. Her husband says, “Are you crazy?” And she says, “I’m not going to leave him here to die.” So I think that’s it.”
The first three episodes of Andor are on Disney+ now. The fourth episode of Andor will premiere on Wednesday, September 28.
What are your thoughts on the first three episodes? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
Recommended Reading: Star Wars Year By Year New Edition
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Richard Harmon Cast As Captain Boomerang In The Flash Season 9
There’s a new villain coming to the Arrowverse. Via Deadline, Richard Harmon has joined the cast of The Flash season 9 as Owen Mercer, the second Captain Boomerang. Harmon will recur throughout the season in multiple episodes.
The previous Captain Boomerang, Digger Harkness, was portrayed by Nick E. Tarabay in Arrow as one of the Suicide Squad. Despite his comic book origins as a Flash supervillain, Digger only encountered Barry Allen once before he was killed off in the fifth season finale of Arrow. Regardless, there is a direct link between Digger and Owen. In the comics, Owen was the illegitimate son of Digger Harkness and Meloni Thawne. Through Meloni, Owen inherited a limited super-speed ability.
While Owen’s comic book counterpart occasionally teamed with the heroes, it doesn’t sound like the same will be true of his new incarnation. According to The CW’s description, Owen “has recently been released from Iron Heights with a chip on his shoulder. But the twinkle in his eye disguises a dangerous and violent threat to Central City.”
RELATED: Grant Gustin Reacts To The Flash’s Final Season Announcement
This is a homecoming of sorts for Harmon, who starred in The CW’s sci-fi series, The 100, for seven seasons. His other genre credits include Van Helsing, Intruders, The Secret Circle, and Continuum.
For the ninth and final season, Grant Gustin is headlining the cast as Barry Allen/The Flash, with Candace Patton as Iris West-Allen, Danielle Panabaker as Caitlin Snow, Danielle Nicolet as Cecile Horton, Kayla Compton as Allegra Garcia, and Brandon McKnight as Chester P. Runk.
The Flash season 9 will premiere on The CW in 2023.
Are you intrigued to see Richard Harmon as the new Captain Boomerang ? Let us know in the comment section below!
Photo Credits: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images/DC Comics
Recommended Reading: The Flash by Mark Waid Book 1
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Firm Holds Second Annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Conference
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new Edward Jones survey of its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Conference qualifiers, 74% said seeking out a mentor is the most impactful area for diverse associates to focus on early in their careers.
Edward Jones, which kicked off its second annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Conference on Wednesday, surveyed conference qualifiers, including financial advisors, branch team support members, and home office associates, who said the most impactful way financial services firms can attract more diverse associates is by creating a place of belonging (35%) and offering greater networking/development opportunities (18%).
"In order for DEI initiatives to be successful they must be embedded throughout the entire enterprise," said Edward Jones' Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Jennifer Kingston. "First and foremost diverse associates need to feel like they belong. Individuals, regardless of their background, demographics or circumstance, must be respected, valued and met with the necessary resources to reach their individual potential."
With changing demographics in America, conference qualifiers said that offering different models or ways to serve their clients is the top way Edward Jones can ensure it attracts and serves more diverse clients or under-represented groups (34%). Branch-facing qualifiers (financial advisors and branch team support members) noted that word of mouth/referrals from existing clients (92%) and educational events/webinars (46%) remain primary strategies to attract clients and grow their own practices. This finding comes as branch-facing qualifiers acknowledged that challenging market conditions (58%), including inflation and geopolitical uncertainty, remain uncertainties in growing their practices in 2022.
"The diverse perspectives of our nearly 19,000 financial advisors enable us to serve our eight million clients and one another," added Kingston. "Our firm is built on relationships, and we invest deeply in them – leading with empathy to create truly meaningful experiences every day. Combine that with our hyperlocal reach in more than 3,000 communities across North America, and we feel we have something no other firm can offer – a place where our clients and branch teams truly belong."
The firm's DEI conference brings together financial advisors, branch team support members, and home office associates to further their knowledge and understanding of cutting-edge DEI topics. The second annual event includes interactive panel discussions, presentations, workshops and networking sessions where qualifiers gain insights, tools and resources to strengthen their DEI acumen and create a place of belonging for all.
The nearly 300 attendees qualified based on their DEI volunteerism and allyship in firm Business Resource Groups, WINGS and BRIDGE programs and other initiatives. To learn more about Edward Jones' commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion, read the firm's latest Purpose, Inclusion and Citizenship report.
The 2022 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Survey was conducted via an online poll of Edward Jones DEI Conference qualifiers. 195 financial advisors, branch team support members and home office associates participated in the survey and attended the 2022 conference held September 21-23, 2022.
Edward Jones, a Fortune 500 firm, provides financial services in the U.S. and through its affiliate in Canada. The firm's nearly 19,000 financial advisors serve more than 8 million clients with a total of $1.6 trillion in client assets under care. Edward Jones' purpose is to partner for positive impact to improve the lives of its clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. Through the dedication of the firm's 50,000 associates and our branch presence in 68 percent of U.S. counties, the firm is committed to helping more people achieve financially what is most important to them. The Edward Jones website is at www.edwardjones.com, and its recruiting website is www.careers.edwardjones.com. Member SIPC.
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Company to Record a Net Gain of Approximately $46 Million in the Fourth Quarter
NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Safehold Inc. (NYSE: SAFE), the leader of the modern ground lease industry, announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell a ground lease in an East Coast market for $136 million. The transaction is expected to generate a net book gain for Safehold of approximately $46 million. After paying closing costs, establishing reserves and returning the original $77 million cost basis to Safehold, the remaining proceeds will be distributed approximately 83% to Safehold and approximately 17% to the minority Caret unitholders, comprised of management as well as private institutional and family office investors.
The sale is scheduled to close in the fourth quarter, subject to customary closing conditions.
About Safehold:
Safehold Inc. (NYSE: SAFE) is revolutionizing real estate ownership by providing a new and better way for owners to unlock the value of the land beneath their buildings. Having created the modern ground lease industry in 2017, Safehold continues to help owners of high quality multifamily, office, industrial, hospitality, life science and mixed-use properties generate higher returns with less risk. The Company, which is taxed as a real estate investment trust (REIT) and is managed by its largest shareholder, iStar Inc., seeks to deliver safe, growing income and long-term capital appreciation to its shareholders. Additional information on Safehold is available on its website at www.safeholdinc.com.
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In connection with the announced proposed transactions between Safehold Inc. ("SAFE") and iStar Inc. ("STAR"), STAR will file with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-4 that will include a joint proxy statement of STAR and SAFE and that also will constitute a prospectus for the shares of STAR Common Stock being issued to SAFE's stockholders in the proposed Merger. In addition, SpinCo will file with the SEC a Form 10 registration statement that will register its common shares. STAR, SAFE and SpinCo also may file other documents with the SEC regarding the proposed transactions. This document is not a substitute for the joint proxy statement/prospectus or Form 10 registration statement or any other document which STAR, SAFE and SpinCo may file with the SEC. INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS OF STAR AND SAFE, AS APPLICABLE, ARE URGED TO READ THE JOINT PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS, THE FORM 10 REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT ARE FILED OR WILL BE FILED WITH THE SEC, AS WELL AS ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS TO THESE DOCUMENTS, CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN OR WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED TRANSACTIONS AND RELATED MATTERS. Investors and security holders may obtain free copies of the joint proxy statement/prospectus and the Form 10 registration statement (when available) and other documents filed with the SEC by STAR, SAFE and SpinCo through the web site maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov or by contacting the investor relations departments of STAR or SAFE at the following:
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The military processions of the last week befitted the final send-off for Her Majesty The Queen, our sovereign of 70 years. 4,000 military personnel flooded central London to participate in the processions leading the Queen's coffin to Westminster Hall, Westminster Abbey and finally to Windsor, to her final resting place in St George's Chapel.
Marching with precision honed by months of training - by the time the regiments began marching, feet were already sore from days of drills and practise by night - the nation was left in awe of the pageantry. A military glamour that only Britain can pull off. Onlookers are likely not to have seen so many magnificently specific uniforms in their lifetimes. Where did the golden helmets come from? How easy is it to balance a bearskin? Who gets to lead the goat?
Each regiment has its own uniform, but what they all have in common is rigorous maintenance. This is something that must be ‘scrupulously obeyed’, according to the army dress regulations commanded by Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington, so as to not risk ‘Her Majesty’s displeasure’. But what is it really like to march in such finery? Tatler investigates.
How do the uniforms feel?
As the Grenadier Guards made their sombre march around the capital in their thick woollen jackets and bearskin hats, one couldn't help but consider the weight of the uniform.
One guard told Tatler: ‘It’s unbelievably hot. The officers’ tunics weigh about seven kilograms because of all the gold on the sleeves, back and collar.'
Add to that the bearskins, which are said to weigh around one kilogram. ‘You come off [duty] hot and sweaty […] it’s seriously tiring. All you can do is move your toes around to keep blood circulating, I had sweat dripping down my face,' he says.
A former officer from the Light Dragoons Regiment, who wear black jackets and red hats with gold buttons, said: ‘It’s great to wear [the uniform] but it’s uncomfortable […] it’s incredibly heavy because of the chainmail on the shoulders.'
Despite it all, guarding the Queen's coffin is considered the highest of honours. ‘It’s pretty nerve-racking but also an unforgettable experience,’ says the Grenadier Guard. ‘When you know the cameras are on and realise the enormity of the occasion, you just have to focus on job at hand, stand completely still and not be distracted.'
How are the uniforms kept?
Maintaining uniforms, says one Light Dragoon officer, is time consuming. 'You spend hours dedicated to them. You get up at five o'clock in the morning to polish two different uniforms for the day. You go through each and every crease on your uniform, making sure you've polished everything with exacting standards.'
And best not scrimp on the attention to detail. Every time the uniform is worn, officers are incredibly thoroughly inspected by a senior. It turns out that falling short is not an option. ‘If you have the privilege to be a commissioned officer, then you should respect the rank that you have and you should always be turned out to the highest standard,’ says the Light Dragoon officer.
The power of these uniforms lies in their historical continuity. As formally laid out in section two of the Army Dress Regulations handbook, published by the Ministry of Defence: ‘In over 300 years it has acquired a fine and much-admired heritage … and like the British constitution, the field of uniforms and insignia has unwritten conventions without which such things become meaningless and, at the very least, lose their prestige.’
Key military units involved in the procession included, the Royal Marines, the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, the Royal Regiment of Artillery, the Household Cavalry, the Life Guards, the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons), the Household Cavalry, the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards, the Scots Guards, the Irish Guards, and the Welsh Guards. Each wore a different uniform.
Much of the detail of the uniforms has remained the same for centuries. In the Light Dragoon's uniform for example, the cross belt, which goes from the left shoulder to the right of the head, is representative of what a soldier would have kept cartridges in 200 years ago.
Guards officers wear special, taller bearskins taken from a different part of the bear, which are apparently in short supply. Bearskins originate from the cloth caps worn by the original grenadiers in European armies during the 17th century, when their headgear was trimmed with fur. Made from the fur of the Canadian black bear, the British Army purchased hats from British hatmakers. British hatmakers reportedly purchase between 50 and 100 black bear skins each year at a cost of about £650 each.
There are two different colours of sash for officers: one is crimson with white sword loops which attach onto the sword, and the other is crimson and gold with gold loops, which are worn only when members of the Royal Family are in attendance.
Members of the Household Cavalry wear shiny silver Albert helmets (introduced to the military by Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert) and have a rich selection of four or five kinds of uniforms - and they have to purchase them themselves at a cost of up to £10,000. In contrast, the Light Dragoons only need to buy two. 'Anything that's worth a lot of money, including bearskins, crossbelts, breastplates, is often passed down from generation to generation,' says a former officer.
Where are they made and kept?
Herbert and Johnson is responsible for making the ‘beautiful headdresses’ - nearly every regiment patronises the store for dress caps, khaki caps and berets. Gieves & Hawkes on Saville Row is responsible for embroidering intricate gold onto the uniforms. Officers buy their uniforms from Quarter Master stores around the country, run by a Quarter Master or 'QM'. 'It's like Aladdin's cave, it’s extraordinary, it really is', says a former officer.
After official engagements, Grenadier Guards hand back their tunics and bearskins to be swapped with the regiments ‘on the line’. The Regimental Headquarters in Wellington Barracks hold stores of all the Home Service Clothing. When leaving the army all uniform is given back so there’s a supply of old tunics if ‘people need them quickly and can’t be fitted in time’, says the Grenadier Guard.
Who is the goat?
Among the golden medallions, silver hats sprouting red fluff and the tallest beefeater hats you ever will see, one thing stood out. A goat, identified as Shenkin IV, was spotted in the Welsh procession, draped in finery.
The regimental mascot of the 3rd Battalion The Royal Welsh is a direct descendant of the original Shenkin, a Kashmiri from the Royal Herd at the Great Orme, Llandudno. King Charles III met Shenkin V, who died in 2017 - at which point a letter was sent to the Queen, informing her of the death and asking permission for the regiment to select a new goat. 'He was a legend,' said handler of the Kashmiri, Sgt Jackson. ‘He loved a crowd and was a total poser.’
Shenkin IV was selected in 2018 and went through six months of training at the Maindy Barracks in Cardiff. After his performance for the Queen's funeral, he has surely gained the respect of his ancestors.
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Tennis fans need not mourn the loss of tennis-playing icon, Roger Federer, for long. No sooner was the Grand-Slam champion due to lay down his racket, than he declared that he was tempted to return to the Championships as a commentator.
‘Funnily enough, I always thought I’ll never go on to the journalist side and that commentary would never be a thing for me. But six months ago, or maybe more, I was thinking, “Oh you know what? Commentating the odd match or giving back in this way, I guess I could imagine it.” I was like, "What? I can’t even believe I’m saying that,”' Federer told reporters at the O2 Arena ahead of this weekend's Laver Cup - his final tournament.
Federer has already told Swiss media he can imagine himself working on Wimbledon. The BBC will most likely be on the hunt for commentators to replace both Boris Becker and Sue Barker. Becker was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail for hiding assets in his bankruptcy proceedings and is serving out his sentence at HMP Huntercombe in Oxfordshire, while Barker has retired.
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45 years on from her death, Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller remains a source of enduring fascination. A model turned photographer and war correspondent, her remarkable life traversed the glamour of 1920s New York and Paris before witnessing the harrowing Nazi concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dachau. Now, she’s set to be immortalised on screen, played by Kate Winslet in a new film, Lee.
Directed by Ellen Kuras (best known for her cinematography on films and documentaries including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Pretend It’s a City), the star-studded cast also includes Jude Law as Roland Penrose, Miller’s husband (a respected artist, historian and poet in his own right) and The Crown’s Josh O’Connor as their son, Anthony Penrose, with a script adapted from Penrose’s biography of his late mother.
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Queen Letizia of Spain and Jill Biden have been united twice this week, firstly at Queen Elizabeth II's funeral at Westminster Abbey and most recently during an appearance in New York. The pair visited Columbia University's new Irving Medical Centre on Tuesday, where they gave speeches ahead of World Cancer Research Day.
The women appeared beside one another looking chic in white ensembles. The First Lady wore a stylish white Gabriella Hearst dress, which she had previously worn during a Harper's Bazaar shoot in August. She teamed the look with nude heels, simple jewellery and her signature layered bob. The royal opted for an off-white ensemble by Ralph Lauren which she paired with simple brown stilettos and a bouncy blow dry.
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Princess Astrid, the younger sister of King Philippe of Belgium, has always had a keen eye for fashion, remaining flawlessly elegant at 60 today. On the day of her wedding, 22 September 1984, she embraced the exuberant style of the era in a bold puffball-sleeved gown, taking centre stage beside her dapper new husband, Archduke Lorenz of Austria-Este.
Royal Wedding Throwback: Revisiting Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz of Belgium’s fabulously Eighties nuptials
Born in 1962 and named after her grandmother, Astrid of Sweden (who became Queen of the Belgians as the first wife of King Leopold III), Princess Astrid is the only daughter of King Albert II and Queen Paola of Belgium (although Albert, who has now abdicated in favour of his son, has another daughter, Princess Delphine, from an extra-marital relationship).
Astrid married the aristocratic Archduke Lorenz, eldest son of Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este and Princess Margherita of Savoy-Aosta, at the Church of Our Blessed Lady of the Sablon in Brussels. The bride’s magnificent taffeta gown was the work of local couturier Louis Mies, which she accessorised with an antique Ruffo di Calabria veil (dating back to Queen Paola’s grandmother, Laura Mosselman du Chenoy), and a pretty floral crown.
European royals flocked to the Belgian capital for the joyful occasion, with King Olav V of Norway, Queen Sofía of Spain, Marie-José of Belgium (the last Queen of Italy), Queen Anne of Romania, Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and Britain’s Duke and Duchess of Gloucester among the notable guests.
After the ceremony, the couple waved to members of the public from a balcony, looking every inch the smitten newlyweds as they beamed and whispered in each other’s ears, much to the delight of the crowds below.
Princess Astrid’s husband was later created Prince of Belgium by Royal Decree in 1995 and the couple have five children together: Prince Amedeo, Princess Maria Laura, Prince Joachim, Princess Luisa Maria, and Princess Laetitia Maria. They are now also grandparents, after their son, Amedeo, welcomed two children of his own.
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Beyond Transfer
Building common ground and shared will for accelerated change
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Early Transfer, a Warning Signal
When transfer rates indicate a problem rather than a success
Community colleges provide critical access points into higher education. Nearly 80% of community college students express an intent to earn a bachelor’s degree. So surely, whenever a community college student transfers to a university, we should treat it as a success. I used to think so too, but then I met Ryan.
Ryan attended community college before transferring to the state’s flagship university. Ryan loved the community college; he thrived in the small classes and individualized professors. But he had a transfer experience that should cause us all pause.
“I developed friendships and enjoyed my classes” he told me. “But something strange happened as I approached the final few courses. I noticed that many of my classmates were no longer there. I heard that a few had transferred; but I wanted to finish my associate’s degree first.”
Ryan made the decision to stay and finished out the program. What should we make of Ryan’s decision to stay and finish and his friends to transfer early? Many of my community college colleagues would say Ryan’s friends transfer should be seen as a success. They had achieved what they needed and successfully made the jump. When colleges calculate their completion rates (that ever-critical measure for our institutions), should they count Ryan’s friends as having “completed”? In the state where I work, transfer from a community college is treated as a completion for purposes of performance funding allocations. But Ryan’s decision seems equally appropriate as well. Community college is more affordable, more accessible, and gets you a degree in case something comes up and you need to step away. So, to many of my colleagues both should be treated as success.
But after Ryan transferred, on the first day of class, the professor assigned a project using a technique Ryan had never heard of. As Ryan glanced hopelessly around the room for other baffled students he found his old classmates, those who had transferred early, doing the assignment with apparent ease. After class, frustrated and confused, he pulled aside a former community college classmate. The classmate explained that the community college program didn’t teach the same techniques as the university. He had transferred early to take the last few lower-division courses at the university. This is where everyone had gone in those last few courses. They hadn’t simply left but had inside knowledge that their time would be better spent transferring early.
Ryan ended up having to drop the course and go take the same courses I had done at the community college at the university. “Why didn’t the institutions talk to each other,” he asked, “it cost me thousands of dollars, but more importantly, added months to my ability to graduate.”
The prevailing theory among community colleges was (and largely still is) that transfer from a community college should be treated as a “completion” as far as institutional performance is concerned. Organizations such as the Voluntary Framework for Accountability and the IPEDS outcomes measures provide “transfer rates” as a success measure parallel to that of completion.
But Ryan’s story left me questioning this. Some students transfer not because they want to, but because the higher education system fails them. In Ryan’s case, early transfer (i.e., transfer prior to completing an associate’s degree) was a warning sign. Some students had figured out that completing the associate’s degree was not in their interest. They skipped the last course or two and transferred directly to the university. How could the institutions and the state system they are a part of not see this problem more clearly?
Organizations like the National Student Clearinghouse, the Community College Research Center, the U.S. Department of Education, the National Community College Benchmarking Project, and the American Association of Community Colleges have all produced frameworks (or at least some metrics) for measuring transfer. These frameworks advocate for transfer to be measured irrespective to the associate degree award or the ability to translate that degree into a bachelor’s degree. This way of thinking will continue to miss ways in which transfer rates indicate a problem rather than a success.
In 2016 the Community College Research Center released its “Track Transfer” framework for measuring institutional and state effectiveness in transfer. The report recommended five metrics: three community college metrics, one university metric, and a final combined metric. The National Student Clearinghouse picked up the report and produces an annual snapshot of transfer using these metrics. Institutions can purchase their metrics from the NSC. These reports are foundational and fill a huge gap in the field on how to effectively measure transfer success. Unfortunately, they also left some big gaps.
Space does not allow for a full review of all five metrics, but none of them measure the student’s ability to convert an associate’s degree into a bachelor’s degree. They focus instead on transfer out rates, transfer-in rates, and bachelor’s completion: but ignore whether an associate’s degree helps, hinders, or is part of the student experience. They do measure a “transfer with award” rate, but don’t track that group through to bachelor’s completion. The framework leaves out the essential value proposition of community colleges across America, the value that Ryan thought we had: an affordable, flexible, quality associate degree that fit nicely into a bachelor’s degree.
Clearly in some (perhaps even most) cases early transfer is not indicative of a severe problem like Ryan experienced. But my experience suggests that unless you have built out robust relationships between the college and university faculty, these types of discrepancies will continually creep into the transfer experience. Early transfer may not always be a problem, but it is rarely the optimized outcome. Two-year colleges strive to provide robust programs of study that prepare students academically and socially for the university experience that follows. When students transfer prior to completing the program of study, they may be telling us (the institutions and systems that serve them) that something isn’t right. This process failed Ryan (and the students who transferred early). Better transfer metrics would account for the value of associate degrees and measure a student’s ability to convert that into a bachelor’s degree efficiently.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine announced a high-profile prisoner swap early Thursday that culminated months of efforts to free many of the Ukrainian fighters who defended a steel plant in Mariupol during a long Russian siege. In exchange, Ukraine gave up an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
President Volodymr Zelenskky said his government had won freedom from Russian custody for 215 Ukrainian and foreign citizens. He said many were soldiers and officers who had faced the death penalty in Russian-occupied territory.
Russia officials didn’t immediately confirm or otherwise comment on the swap.
Of the total, 200 Ukrainians were exchanged for just one man — pro-Russian opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk, who is Ukrainian. The 68-year-old oligarch escaped from house arrest in Ukraine several days before Russia’s invasion Feb. 24 but was recaptured in April. He faced up to life in prison on charges of treason and aiding and abetting a terrorist organization for mediating coal purchases for the separatist, Russia-backed Donetsk republic in eastern Ukraine.
Putin is believed to be the godfather of Medvedchuk’s youngest daughter. His detention sparked a heated exchange between officials in Moscow and Kyiv. Medvedchuk is the head of the political council of Ukraine’s pro-Russian Opposition Platform-For Life party, the largest opposition group in Ukraine’s parliament. The government has suspended the party’s activity.
“It is not a pity to give up Medvedchuk for real warriors,” Zelenskyy said in a post on his website. “He has passed all the investigative actions provided by law. Ukraine has received from him everything necessary to establish the truth in the framework of criminal proceedings.”
In another swap, Ukraine gained the release of five more citizens in exchange for 55 Russian prisoners it was holding, Zelenskyy said.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the exchanges, calling them “no small feat,” but adding that “much more remains to be done to ease the suffering caused by the war in Ukraine,” his spokesman said. The U.N. chief reiterates the need to respect international law on the treatment of prisoners and will continue to support further prisoner exchanges, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
According to Zelenskyy, many of those freed belonged to Ukraine’s Azov regiment, whom he called heroes. More than 2,000 defenders, many in the Azov unit, marched out of the Azovstal steel plant’s twisted wreckage into Russian captivity in mid-May, ending a nearly three-month siege of the port city of Mariupol. Five of the released Azov commanders are now living in Turkey, according to a post on Zelenskyy’s website.
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HOBART, Australia (AP) — Wildlife experts on Thursday rescued 32 of the 230 whales that were found stranded on the wild and remote west coast of Australia’s island state of Tasmania a day earlier.
Half the pod of pilot whales found stranded in Macquarie Harbour were presumed to still be alive on Wednesday, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania said.
But only 35 had survived the pounding surf overnight, Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service manager Brendon Clark said.
“Of the 35 that were remaining alive this morning, we’ve managed to refloat, rescue and release … 32 of those animals, and so that’s a terrific result,” Clark told reporters late Thursday at nearby Strahan.
“We still have three alive on the far northern end of Ocean Beach, but because of access restrictions, predominantly tidal influences, we just haven’t been able to access those three animals safely today. But they’ll be our priority in the morning,” Clark added.
The whales beached two years to the day after the largest mass-stranding in Australia’s history was discovered in the same harbor.
About 470 long-finned pilot whales were found on Sept. 21, 2020, stuck on sandbars. After a weeklong effort, 111 of those whales were rescued but the rest died.
The entrance to the harbor is a notoriously shallow and dangerous channel known as Hell’s Gate.
Marine Conservation Program biologist Kris Carlyon said the dead whales would be tested to see if there were toxins in their systems that might explain the disaster.
“These mass stranding events are typically the result of accidental sort of coming to shore, and that’s through a whole host of reasons,” Carlyon said.
Local salmon farmer Linton Kringle helped in the 2020 rescue effort and said Thursday’s challenge was more difficult because the whales were in shallower and more exposed waters.
Fourteen sperm whales were discovered Monday afternoon beached on King Island in Bass Strait between the Australian mainland and Tasmania.
Griffith University marine scientist Olaf Meynecke said it’s unusual for sperm whales to wash ashore. He said that warmer temperatures could also be changing the ocean currents and moving the whales’ traditional food.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego Padres manager Bob Melvin was getting nervous about Blake Snell’s pitch count in the seventh inning when Albert Pujols helped the skipper avoid what could have been an unpopular decision.
Snell held St. Louis hitless until Pujols beat the shift for a single with two outs in the seventh and the San Diego Padres beat the NL Central-leading Cardinals 1-0 on Wednesday night.
Snell (8-9) allowed two hits in seven innings on 117 pitches and struck out 13 to tie his career high. The left-hander’s brilliant effort carried the Padres to their fifth straight win and extended the rotation’s scoreless streak to 27 2/3 innings.
“I don’t want to say I’m glad somebody got a hit but I’m not going to let him throw 135 pitches this time of year and that’s probably what it would have taken to get through it,” Melvin said.
“You want a guy to be able to try to get a no-hitter but pitch-count wise he just wasn’t going to be able to make it at that point,” Melvin said. “There was a second hit and now you’ve got first and second and all of a sudden a base hit can tie the game. Look, everybody was pulling for Blake to do great things. I just don’t know that he would have had the pitches to actually do it.”
Snell said he was more excited about hitting 99 mph and wanted to talk to reliever Adrian Morejon, a hard-throwing lefty.
“In the sixth inning I was like, ‘Oh wow I’ve got a no-no going’ but I was so hyped up about 99,” Snell said. “The ball just felt really good tonight. It was just coming out.
“Morejon always talks about how he has all this velo and I finally hit 99 in front of him so I’m pumped,” the lefty said. “I was really pumped about the 99. Really pumped. Whatever happened, that was the highlight.”
Snell, the 2018 AL Cy Young Award winner while with Tampa Bay, said this performance “was up there” among his best games. “It was good one. But we’ll continue to try to top it.”
The Padres have shut out the Cardinals in the first two games of the three-game series, keeping Pujols at 698 career homers.
San Diego stayed 1 1/2 games ahead of Philadelphia for the NL’s second wild-card spot.
The left-handed Snell had shut down Pujols and the Cardinals into the seventh, retiring the slugger twice and issuing just two walks. But with the Padres shifting the right-handed Pujols, the 42-year-old slugger drove a ball through the wide-open right side of the infield for an easy hit on a 3-1 pitch, Snell’s 107th of the game.
“He’s a good hitter,” Snell said.
“I thought if I got a quick inning there I might have gotten into the eighth,” he added. “Who knows. It’s just tough; 13 strikeouts, like it’s going to be really tough going nine without throwing like 140, 150 (pitches).”
Juan Yepez followed with a single before Snell struck out Paul DeJong for No. 13.
Josh Hader pitched a perfect ninth for his 34th save.
The Padres took a 1-0 lead when Austin Nola singled in Kim Ha-seong with two outs in the second against Miles Mikolas. Josh Bell was thrown out earlier in the inning trying to score on a grounder to shortstop.
Mikolas (11-13) allowed an unearned run on three hits in six innings, struck out six and walked two.
SOTO’S WALKS
San Diego’s Juan Soto walked leading off the eighth, becoming the first player since 1906 to walk 500 times before turning 24.
UP NEXT
Cardinals RHP Jack Flaherty (0-1, 5.09 ERA) and Padres RHP Joe Musgrove (10-7, 3.16) are scheduled to start in the series finale Thursday afternoon.
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“The Nightmare Before Christmas” came out nearly 30 years ago in 1993, but it’s just as popular at Halloween as it ever has been, if not more. Dressing up like Jack, Sally and other “Nightmare” characters is a delightful way to celebrate. And while there are loads of adorably spooky children’s Halloween costumes, grown-ups can get in on the fun with a Jack Skellington costume (discounted right now) or a classic Sally costume. Don’t worry, there’s something for the little ones, as well!
Adult Jack Skellington Costume ($18.69)
This officially licensed Jack Skellington costume lets you become the Pumpkin King for Halloween, at a costume party, or anytime. The 100% polyester costume includes four pieces:
- A black and white striped jacket with “ripped” tails.
- A white ascot.
- A bat bow tie.
- A full mask that covers your entire head.
The costume has 4.3 stars and customers who reviewed it say it fits well and that the mask looks great.
Reviewer Luis Nunez said, “This was perfect for the money.”
This Jack Skellington costume is on sale right now for $21.99, with an additional $3.30 coupon available on the product page that brings the price down to $18.69.
Pair it with your favorite black pants and some white gloves, and you’re all set to be the most popular dude in Halloween Town. Or go all out with these Jack Skellington gloves ($16.48).
The one-size-fits-all polyester gloves have extra-long, spindly fingers that will take your Jack Skellington costume to the next level.
The Nightmare Before Christmas Sally Classic Costume ($32.08-$36.78)
Every Jack needs a Sally, and this officially licensed costume will allow you and your partner to be the perfect Halloween pair. The 100% polyester costume includes a dress with a patchwork-printed front (the back is solid pink), a red yarn wig and light blue sleeve-length fingerless gloves.
This match for the Jack Skellington costume has more than 1,200 ratings and 4.2 stars. Customers who reviewed the Sally costume say it’s a whimsical outfit that fits true to size. However, it’s worth noting that many reviewers say the fabric is relatively thin, so you may want to size up if you need to wear layers underneath for chilly temperatures.
The Sally costume is currently available in select sizes between 7-9 and 22-24. The limited sizes are currently discounted, with prices ranging from $34.02 to $36.78, depending on size.
The Nightmare Before Christmas Classic Zero Toddler Costume ($25)
If you have a young child, you can outfit the entire family in “The Nightmare Before Christmas” costumes with this adorable Zero costume. The costume for Jack Skellington’s ghost dog consists of a white polyester cape and a headpiece with Zero’s pumpkin nose that lights up. This one’s great because your little one can wear a warm, comfortable outfit while trick-or-treating; all you need to do is put on the cape and headpiece.
This Zero costume currently comes in sizes small (2T), medium (3T-4T) and large (4-6). It is discounted right now and costs $25.
This is Halloween! So get ready for lots of spooky fun with these “The Nightmare Before Christmas” costumes.
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TAMPA, Fla — Thanks to another federal interest rate hike, it's now even more expensive to borrow money or carry certain debt in America.
Florida Gulf Coast University Economist Victor Claar said the Federal Reserve is working to rein in that demand and to stop the "runaway inflation" we've seen — even if it means temporary financial pain for many Americans.
"It's not good over the shorter term, but over the longer term, it might very well be a price worth paying because nobody wants to live in a country with runaway inflation," he said.
And that pain extends far beyond things like housing and credit card debt and into areas like transportation.
"If prices are high right now, the Fed is convinced that demand is too strong," Claar said.
Buying a new car will run you almost $5,000 more than it did a year ago, according to Kelley Blue Book.
Increased costs and interest rates mean that car payments are also up for those who are financing.
Edmunds found that in June, almost 13% of car buyers had payments over $1,000.
"It feels like if you're trying to find affordable, reliable, serviceable cars right now, you're getting hit two times," Claar said. "You're getting hit with higher interest rates and also getting hit with higher prices, whether it's new or used for those vehicles."
Claar said that in all areas, relief for most is a ways off as the Federal Reserve stated that it would keep raising rates over the next few years in an effort to drop inflation from where it sits at 8.3% nationwide to 2%.
This article was written by Rochelle Alleyne for WFTS.
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Two days after a magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico’s central Pacific coast, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook the same region early Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Thursday’s earthquake was centered near Michoacan. Unlike Monday’s earthquake, no tsunamis were reported following Thursday’s quake.
Despite being hundreds of miles from the epicenter, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum reported two fatalities associated with Thursday’s earthquake.
She reported one of the fatalities was from a woman who fell in a staircase during the earthquake. A second fatality was reportedly from a police officer who experienced a fatal heart attack during the shaking.
In addition to the two major earthquakes this week, dozens of moderate aftershocks have been felt in the region.
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Influence Media Partners announced that they acquired Atlanta artist Future’s music catalogue from 2004 to 2020. According to sources, the deal was in the high eight figures.
From 2004 to 2020, Future has made over 600 songs, and most of them have been an important part of the music culture. The artist has been known as one of the most influential since starting his career, with anthems that cover trap, romance, and toxicity.
Though Future has parted with most of his catalogue, there are some songs that have a permanent stamp in the music world and can’t be forgotten.
March Madness
The funny thing is that this song was not released in March, but the way people come together in clubs or events when it comes on is a sight to see. “March Madness” was released in August 2015 as the lead single of his mixtape 56 nights. The song is popular in any month, but when college basketball playoffs start, that’s when you hear it the most. This song is considered a universal anthem amongst the masses.
Codeine Crazy
“Codeine Crazy” is from Future’s 2014 mixtape Monster and served as the outro for the project. In this song, Future opens up about his drug addiction and gives the listeners a soothing beat in the background as well. The artist was coming into his own around this period and was dishing out hit after hit on his mixtapes.
Mask Off
Future continued to have an impact on the music industry with “Mask Off,” and the catchiness of the chorus is what gets most listeners excited. Along with the chorus, the flute samples in the background give the song an extra boost. The song was well received by many, and certified platinum eight times by the RIAA, and even Kendrick Lamar had to hop on the remix.
Turn on the Lights
This song is special in Future’s catalogue because it was his first song that went platinum. He also teamed up with Mike WiLL Made It, who was one of the most well-known producers around that time. Before Future was considered the toxic king, he produced music like this that had a romantic, pop feel.
Jumpman
Every time Future and Drake get together on a song, nothing but good things happen. In 2015, the two artists were probably the biggest in the rap game and made the collaboration album What A Time To Be Alive, with “Jumpman” being the clear hit single from the project. This is another song that gets people hyped and dancing.
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Carolina Gaitan, Adassa, Diane Guerro and Mauro Castillo sang their way into our hearts in the Disney animated film Encanto. The cast opens up about the importance of the film and what makes Disney magical.
Carolina Gaitan, Adassa, Diane Guerro and Mauro Castillo sang their way into our hearts in the Disney animated film Encanto. The cast opens up about the importance of the film and what makes Disney magical.
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Apple is back again with another update, but this time with more diverse and ethnic features for every iPhone user. Before Sept. 7, users began to receive news that an update was on the way. Many also experienced that their iPhone devices began to move somewhat slower.
You can always tell when a new update or iPhone about to come out, phones start tripping. Mine moving slow and glitching.
— 🅱️ran™ 🤘🏾 (@iamBRAN_3) June 10, 2022
Soon as I updated to iPhone 16 update my phone been moving slow
— ZA’PAC ZHAKUR 🇭🇹 (@WHYYOUSOUGLY) September 15, 2022
Although this has been denied by Apple, some iPhone customers believe that the slowing of devices is a tactic to make people update their phones or even purchase the newest iPhone, which was released on Sept. 16.
The iPhone 14 which also includes the iOS 16 update will provide several long-awaited updates with a little something for everyone. As far as the memojis, iPhone users can expect more sticker poses, contact stickers, and also more hairstyles, headwear, and features such as nose and lip colors to suit more ethnic audiences.
The most shocking update happened to be the hair bonnet feature catering to the Black community. As this seems like a nice gesture, iPhone users are still waiting for the Black family emoji.
Other surprising features from the update will include editing text messages and undoing send for up to two minutes, adding a call hang-up feature where you can verbally tell Siri to hang up the call, and even recovering deleted messages.
Many took to social media to share their opinions.
Which Black Apple employee submitted the bonnet as a new Memoji headpiece??? We see you and appreciate you lol #iOS16 pic.twitter.com/GCqfkkkhE3
— Dr. Corrine, LPC (@Doctor_Corrine) September 13, 2022
I’m so hype apple gave us a bonnet option for our Memoji pic.twitter.com/bKw0hM3751
— Riski Da (homoflexible) Living Legend👑 (@itsmeroyal1) September 21, 2022
The fact that Black people are PROUD of the Bonnet Memoji has me in a chokehold 🥴…
— Deja’ Swinton 🇺🇸 (@RealDejaSwinton) September 21, 2022
Why did we get a bonnet Memoji but we can’t get a black family emoji…where are your priorities @Apple ?
— THIQUE (@BRITTANYbelAIR_) September 21, 2022
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Rapper Erica Banks rose to fame in 2020 after her song “Buss It” gained a lot of traction on TikTok. The song hit a time when the pandemic was at its peak and most of the world was on lockdown. Dance challenges on TikTok were the new pastime, and people everywhere jumped on the “Buss It” dance challenge.
Now, as a Texas native, she is not shy about her voluptuous figure and prefers that the crew she runs with is thick too. Signed to 1501 Certified Entertainment and now Warner Records, she has dropped three mixtapes and also reissued “Buss It.”
Recently, she received some backlash after her Instagram close friends story was leaked which stated her preference on which physical attributes women needed to have to party with her. She made it clear that skinny, badly dressed, and even women with bad hair can’t sit with her in the club. It appears that it’s all about the looks with Banks.
“If she ain’t thick enough? Nope. Hair not did good enough? Nope … Skinny? Nope. I don’t feel like I’m discriminating … but if she don’t look the part, I don’t want her to come.”
— Erica Banks speaks on what girls with her should look like at the club.pic.twitter.com/On3WSX8dFI
— DFG (@dramaforthegirl) September 20, 2022
The revelation disappointed fans and caused an uproar on social media. People posted their opinion on women only hanging with or partying with women that look a certain way and failing to make genuine connections. Although, Banks made it clear that we do not know her and can’t bully her despite her superficial conditions to exclude others.
“Can’t bully me on the internet lol. It never works. I’ve been through much worse than opinions from people I don’t know, literally lmao.”
See how people reacted below.
Erica Banks when it’s time to go to the club…. pic.twitter.com/klJcuSMe38
— Juju (@JuJuBreauxD) September 20, 2022
Erica Banks is a perfect example of how people prioritize aesthetically pleasing friendships over real friendships. you want to surround yourself with people who look good instead of people who care about you and that’s why these “friendships” never last.
— SLIM. (@_slimarella_) September 20, 2022
Erica Banks saying she only wants to go out with women who look a certain way is not surprising to me. A lot of women feel that way. That’s why y’all don’t be having real friends just an aesthetic lol.
— Yung M (@nottewmuch) September 20, 2022
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Electrical vehicles are continuing to become more popular as time goes on, and the GMC Hummer EV is just another example of where the world is heading with electrical vehicles.
The Hummer EV is the world’s first and only all-electric super truck, with amazing on-road performance, combined with authentic off-road capability.
A new addition to the EV is the Ultium Platform, a dedicated, electric vehicle architecture that consists of interchangeable combinations of batteries and drive units. With a focus on delivering its customers more range at a lower cost, it is flexible enough to power everything from compact cars to trucks. The Ultium battery pack offers a range of 329 miles to get you to your destination.
Just like every other Hummer, they are built for off-road driving, which includes four-wheel-steering, up to 32 inches of water fording, and five skid plates and rock slides.
As far as technology, the Hummer EV offers a range of exciting features, such as Super Cruise with Automatic Lane Change, ultra vision with 18 camera views, including an underbody camera.
The interior of the Hummer offers two lunar experiences, which are considered shadow and horizon. The lunar shadow interior is a jet black and taupe color, complimented by tech bronze accents. The lunar horizon-themed interior still offers jet black and tech bronze features, but includes a light gray color.
For someone that’s looking to drive in a big-body SUV and is going into the lane of sustainability and efficiency, the Hummer EV is the vehicle that delivers.
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Tiffany Haddish currently doesn’t have a job to her name due to the molestation lawsuit that was filed against her, but has now been dismissed.
In a lawsuit obtained by “TMZ” on Sept. 1, comedians Tiffany Haddish and Aries Spears were being accused of grooming a then-14-year-old girl and her then-seven-year-old brother and coercing them to film explicit skits.
Identified as Jane and John Doe in the lawsuit, the two siblings claim that they had been traumatized for life, and the brother claims he was molested by both Haddish and Spears.
Since then, Jane Doe asked the Los Angeles County judge to dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning that she cannot file the same lawsuit ever again.
Haddish was stopped at LAX by a “TMZ” reporter on Sept. 21, and was asked if she thought there could be damage still done to her career in the long run. “I lost everything,” Haddish said. “All my gigs are gone. I don’t have no job.”
Another reporter asked her how she was feeling after the lawsuit was dismissed, in which Haddish said she was “relieved.” The comedian also pointed out that she doesn’t speak or deal with Aries Spears, as he was a part of the lawsuit as well.
“I was more concerned about the kids and making sure they were okay,” Haddish said when asked what was the worst part of the situation. “I’m pretty sure nobody else is going to be coming after me anytime soon, and if there is, that s— is fake.”
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NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Certified Origins, a European-based company specializing in fresh and authentic extra virgin olive oil and traditional food products, has recently signed a partnership with the Future Food Institute (FFI). As part of this partnership, Certified Origins will be sponsoring both in-person and digital bootcamps to the next generation of climate shapers, define hackathon challenges, and support the growing regenerative agriculture ecosystem.
FFI is a non-profit organization at the center of an ecosystem of individuals and companies aiming to make exponential positive change in global food systems, to sustainably improve life on earth, through education and innovation. They do this by partnering with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) in training the next generation of change-makers, empowering communities, and engaging government and industry in actionable innovation, catalyzing progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
"The Cilento area, and the city of Pollica (SA, Italy) which hosted the boot camp is the perfect campus where to be inspired by a UNESCO emblematic community for Mediterranean Diet, with its regeneration processes. ..Certified Origins is the ideal traveling companion, in this context, and I am proud to have initiated this alliance, from which mutually beneficial synergies and positive impacts are already emerging, not only for our organizations, but for all the beneficiaries of our climate actions, starting with the regeneration of agri-food systems," says FFI President, Sara Roversi.
Certified Origins has a history of supporting "glocal" food systems, promoting food traditions and cultures that both support local communities and foster health and happiness. They are leaders in working with some of the best European producers to select and export great tasting Geographical Indication (GI), Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), and Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) certified Extra Virgin Olive Oil and other food products.
"We are excited to start this journey with the FFI. By joining their ecosystem of bright individuals and forward-thinking teams, we want to do our part in advancing the global discourse on the future of food to a more sustainable future for the next generations." Exclaims Giovanni Quaratesi, Sales & Business Development Certified Origins Director in the United States. "At Certified Origins, land, health and sustainable food systems are at the core of our ethos, and we want to continue to lead and innovate in this space."
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NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLC, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
SharpLink Gaming Ltd. (NASDAQ: SBET)'s merger with SportsHub Games Network, Inc. If you are a SharpLink shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
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Sesen Bio, Inc. (NASDAQ: SESN)'s merger with Carisma Therapeutics Inc. Pre-merger Sesen Bio shareholders are expected to own approximately 41.7% of the combined company. If you are a Sesen Bio shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Halper Sadeh LLC may seek increased consideration for shareholders, additional disclosures and information concerning the proposed transaction, or other relief and benefits on behalf of shareholders.
Shareholders are encouraged to contact the firm free of charge to discuss their legal rights and options. Please call Daniel Sadeh or Zachary Halper at (212) 763-0060 or email sadeh@halpersadeh.com or zhalper@halpersadeh.com.
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Stephenson County's COVID cases fall 12.3%; Illinois cases plummet 11.8%
Illinois reported far fewer coronavirus cases in the week ending Sunday, adding 17,584 new cases. That's down 11.8% from the previous week's tally of 19,933 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19.
Illinois ranked 21st among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the latest week coronavirus cases in the United States decreased 7.7% from the week before, with 436,694 cases reported. With 3.81% of the country's population, Illinois had 4.03% of the country's cases in the last week. Across the country, 24 states had more cases in the latest week than they did in the week before.
Stephenson County reported 71 cases and zero deaths in the latest week. A week earlier, it had reported 81 cases and zero deaths. Throughout the pandemic it has reported 13,559 cases and 171 deaths.
Across Illinois, cases fell in 72 counties, with the best declines in DuPage County, with 885 cases from 1,418 a week earlier; in Champaign County, with 442 cases from 837; and in Lake County, with 930 cases from 1,115.
>> See how your community has fared with recent coronavirus cases
Within Illinois, the worst weekly outbreaks on a per-person basis were in Calhoun County with 338 cases per 100,000 per week; Edgar County with 286; and Jackson County with 278. The Centers for Disease Control says high levels of community transmission begin at 100 cases per 100,000 per week.
Adding the most new cases overall were Cook County, with 6,659 cases; Will County, with 1,118 cases; and Lake County, with 930. Weekly case counts rose in 26 counties from the previous week. The worst increases from the prior week's pace were in Cook, Winnebago and McDonough counties.
In Illinois, 91
people were reported dead of COVID-19 in the week ending Sunday. In the week before that, 75 people were reported dead.A total of 3,733,902 people in Illinois have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began, and 39,536 people have died from the disease, Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the United States 95,658,236 people have tested positive and 1,053,419 people have died.
>> Track coronavirus cases across the United States
Illinois's COVID-19 hospital admissions staying flat
USA TODAY analyzed federal hospital data as of Sunday, Sept. 18. Likely COVID patients admitted in the state:
- Last week: 2,965
- The week before that: 3,013
- Four weeks ago: 3,294
Likely COVID patients admitted in the nation:
- Last week: 57,618
- The week before that: 58,248
- Four weeks ago: 66,210
Hospitals in 15 states reported more COVID-19 patients than a week earlier, while hospitals in 14 states had more COVID-19 patients in intensive-care beds. Hospitals in 22 states admitted more COVID-19 patients in the latest week than a week prior, the USA TODAY analysis of U.S. Health and Human Services data shows.
The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Johns Hopkins University and the Centers for Disease Control. If you have questions about the data or the story, contact Mike Stucka at mstucka@gannett.com.
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Microsoft expands Microsoft Viva platform to connect employees to company culture, business goals and one another
REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday, Microsoft Corp. released a Work Trend Index Pulse report, "Hybrid Work Is Just Work. Are We Doing It Wrong?" The company also announced new capabilities in Microsoft Viva, its employee experience platform, designed to help empower and energize employees in a time of economic uncertainty.
The data makes clear that hybrid work has created a growing disconnect between employees and leaders. They're at odds about what constitutes productivity, how to maintain autonomy while ensuring accountability, the benefits of flexibility and the role of the office. To bridge this gap, a new approach is needed that recognizes work is no longer just a place but an experience that needs to transcend time and space so employees can stay engaged and connected no matter where they are working.
"Thriving employees are what will give organizations a competitive advantage in today's dynamic economic environment," said Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO, Microsoft. "Today, we're announcing new innovations across our employee experience platform Microsoft Viva to help leaders end productivity paranoia, rebuild social capital, and re-recruit and re-energize their employees."
To help leaders navigate the new realities of work, the Work Trend Index Pulse report1 points to three urgent pivots every leader should make:
- End productivity paranoia: 87% of employees report they are productive at work, but 85% of leaders say the shift to hybrid work has made it challenging to have confidence their employees are being productive. Leaders need to create clarity and alignment around company goals, eliminate busywork that doesn't support those goals and listen to their people — 57% of companies are rarely, if ever, collecting employee feedback.
- Embrace that people come in for each other: 73% of employees say they need a better reason to go into the office besides company expectations — but they would be motivated to go in if they could socialize with co-workers (84%) or rebuild team bonds (85%). Digital communication will be crucial to keep people connected inside and out the office — both employees and leaders rank communication as the No. 1 most critical skill needed to be successful in their roles this year.
- Re-skill to re-recruit your employees: 55% of employees say the best way to develop their skills is to change companies. However, they also say they would stay longer at their company if it was easier to change jobs internally (68%) or if they could benefit more from learning and development support (76%).
To address these challenges, Microsoft is expanding its employee experience platform Microsoft Viva to help companies deliver an employee experience optimized for the way people now work. Today, Microsoft is announcing several new and enhanced capabilities coming to Viva:
- Viva Pulse is a new app that will enable managers and team leads to seek regular and confidential feedback on their team's experience. Viva Pulse uses smart templates and research-backed questions to help managers pinpoint what's working well and where to focus, and also provides suggested learning and actions to address team needs.
- Viva Amplify is a new app that will empower leaders and communicators to elevate their message and reach employees where they are with consistency and impact. The app centralizes communications campaigns, offers writing guidance to improve message resonance, enables publishing across multiple channels and distribution groups in Microsoft 365, and provides metrics for improvement.
- Answers in Viva is a new capability that will use AI to match employee questions to answers and experts across the organization to help put collective knowledge to work for all employees.
- People in Viva is a new capability that will use AI to create rich profile cards with details on an employee's interests, knowledge and team goals to help colleagues easily discover connections, experts and insights across the organization. These insights will be available through Microsoft 365 profile cards and as a new app.
- Microsoft recently launched Viva Engage, which fosters digital community building through conversations and self-expression tools with stories and storylines. Leadership Corner is coming to Viva Engage as a space to invite employees to interact directly with leadership, share ideas and perspectives, participate in organization initiatives, and more.
- Viva Goals helps organizations align employee work to business outcomes. New integrations in Viva Goals will bring goals into the flow of work including a richer integration with Microsoft Teams to check in on OKRs, an extension in Azure DevOps to complete work items, a connection to Power BI datasets to track KPIs and Key Results, and integrations with Microsoft Planner and Microsoft Project for automatic project management updates.
- Enhanced integrations between Viva Learning and LinkedIn Learning will make it even easier for people to access content from LinkedIn Learning Hub right in the flow of work in Teams. Learners will see all their LinkedIn Learning Hub content synced, including custom content, curated learning paths and the courses they have already completed, all reflected directly within Viva. And administrators will be able to set the integration up directly within their settings on LinkedIn Learning Hub — no APIs needed.
- Viva Sales, the first role-based experience app in the platform, will be generally available Oct. 3. Viva Sales brings together a seller's CRM with Microsoft 365 and Teams to provide a more streamlined and AI-powered selling experience — right in the tools they're using every day to connect with customers and close deals. Microsoft is announcing a partnership with Seismic to personalize and scale customer engagements through AI-generated content recommendations.
- To streamline access to Viva and help employees start their day on track, a new home experience in Viva Connections will bring all the Viva apps together in one place, and updates to the Viva briefing email will provide more personalized productivity recommendations to help employees catch up on work, meetings and learning.
The new Viva capabilities will begin rolling out to customers in early 2023.
To learn more, visit the Official Microsoft Blog, Microsoft 365 Blog and the new Work Trend Index Pulse report.
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
1 The Work Trend Index Pulse report is based on an external study of 20,000 people in 11 countries, along with analysis of trillions of Microsoft 365 productivity signals, LinkedIn labor trends and Glint People Science insights.
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TAMPA, Fla — Thanks to another federal interest rate hike, it's now even more expensive to borrow money or carry certain debt in America.
Florida Gulf Coast University Economist Victor Claar said the Federal Reserve is working to rein in that demand and to stop the "runaway inflation" we've seen — even if it means temporary financial pain for many Americans.
"It's not good over the shorter term, but over the longer term, it might very well be a price worth paying because nobody wants to live in a country with runaway inflation," he said.
And that pain extends far beyond things like housing and credit card debt and into areas like transportation.
"If prices are high right now, the Fed is convinced that demand is too strong," Claar said.
Buying a new car will run you almost $5,000 more than it did a year ago, according to Kelley Blue Book.
Increased costs and interest rates mean that car payments are also up for those who are financing.
Edmunds found that in June, almost 13% of car buyers had payments over $1,000.
"It feels like if you're trying to find affordable, reliable, serviceable cars right now, you're getting hit two times," Claar said. "You're getting hit with higher interest rates and also getting hit with higher prices, whether it's new or used for those vehicles."
Claar said that in all areas, relief for most is a ways off as the Federal Reserve stated that it would keep raising rates over the next few years in an effort to drop inflation from where it sits at 8.3% nationwide to 2%.
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Experience the expanded Neopets Universe, enter exclusive giveaways, meet a Faerie Queen, and MORE!
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - From October 6th to October 9th, Neopets is bringing New York Comic Con (NYCC) attendees a celebration of all things Neopian, including the upcoming Neopets: Faerie's Hope mobile Match 3 game, the unveiling of the Neopets Official Cookbook, a showcase of the Neopets Metaverse, and much more!
To round out the entire experience, there will be an astounding variety of Neopets swag as well as a meet and greet with Neopet's very own Queen Fyora, all located at Booth #1324 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center!
At its last major event of the calendar year, Neopets plans to offer fans a true infusion of "Neostalgia'' with this amazing array of engagements, giveaways and sneak peeks for all who visit the NYCC booth.
"We saw a tremendous turnout of Neopets fans at San Diego Comic-Con and are excited to bring Neopets to fans in New York City," says Jim Czulewicz, CEO, JumpStart Games. "Seeing fans' faces light up when they see their beloved Neopets at the show is irreplaceable. We can't wait to share all the new initiatives that the Neopets team has been working on."
With a plethora of exciting news and activities, here is what fans can expect at the Neopets booth:
- Giveaways:
- Neopets Metaverse Shoyru Holographic Sticker
- Faerie's Hope Fyora Holographic Sticker
- Jhudora Holographic Sticker
- Interactions:
With all these new experiences and products to enjoy, the Neopets community can expect increasingly innovative ways to rediscover and enjoy the game that they have loved for decades. Continue the Neopets journey and keep up to date on the latest news by following our social channels:
- Facebook: @Neopets
- Instagram: @NeopetsOfficialAccount
- Twitter: @Neopets
- TikTok: @OfficialNeopets
JumpStart® Games is the leader in creating interactive family experiences that enrich, entertain and educate. For over 20 years, Jumpstart Games has produced high quality products that are engaging, social, creative, and most importantly, fun! JumpStart builds mobile, web and console games and experiences under its flagship brands - JumpStart®, Jumpstart Academy®, School of Dragons®, Neopets® and Math Blaster®. JumpStarts' dedication to providing positive, safe and enriching experiences, has earned it the trust of millions of teachers, parents, and respected organizations such as Common Sense Media and The National Parenting Center.
JumpStart is a subsidiary of NetDragon, a global leader in building internet communities, and is based in Los Angeles, California. For more information, please visit www.jumpstart.com.
NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (HKSE: 0777) is a global leader in building internet communities with a long track record of developing and scaling multiple internet and mobile platforms that impact hundreds of millions of users. These include China's number one online gaming portal, 17173.com, and China's most influential smartphone app store platform, 91 Wireless, which was sold to Baidu for US$1.9 billion in 2013 as the largest Internet M&A transaction in China. Established in 1999, NetDragon is one of the most reputable and well-known online game developers in China with a history of successful game titles including Eudemons Online, Heroes Evolved and Conquer Online. In recent years, NetDragon has also started to scale its online education business on the back of management's vision to create the largest global online learning community, and to bring the "classroom of the future" to every school around the world. For more information, please visit www.netdragon.com.
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Yakima County Sheriff's deputies attempting to contact a wanted suspect led to a pursuit and officer-involved shooting in Wapato around 3:30 Thursday morning.
According to Lieutenant Robert Tucker with the YCSO, the male suspect fled from the 500 block of North Mckinley Road in Wapato, ramming a YCSO car as he did so.
The suspect drove the wrong way down Highway 97 and the YCSO stopped its pursuit for safety reasons.
Spike strips were employed to stop the suspect's car. The car crashed and the suspect tried to run into a nearby cornfield.
According to the YCSO a K9 unit was used to try and track the suspect, shortly after an officer-involved shooting happened and the suspect was shot.
Deputies performed CPR, but the suspect died at the scene.
This investigation has now been turned over to the Yakima Valley Special Investigations Unit (SIU).
This is a developing story, which means information could change. We are working to report timely and accurate information as we get it.
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The major US stock indices are trading modestly lower at the start of trading for the day. The Dow industrial average is trading above and below unchanged. The NASDAQ index is leading the way to the downside with a somewhat modest -0.35% decline. The major indices all fell yesterday after the Federal Reserve raised rates by 75 basis points and indicated that rates at the end of the year would be higher than the markets expectations.
A snapshot of the market 4 minutes after the opening bell is showing:
- Dow industrial average -6.76 points or -0.02% at 30177.03
- S&P index -4.77 points or -0.13% at 3785.17
- NASDAQ index -29.64 points or -0.26% at 11190.56
- Russell 2000-5.77 points at -0.33% 1756.38
In the US debt market,
- 2 year yield is back above the 4% at 4.097%
- The 10 year yield has reached a new high going back to February 2011 at 3.654%. The next target comes in at 3.75%.
In other markets:
- spot gold is trading up $4.08 or 0.29% $1677.60
- Silver is up $0.09 or 0.5% $19.64
- WTI crude oil for November is trading at $85.79 up 3.39%
- Bitcoin is trading at $19,059
In the European equity markets:
- UK FTSE is down -0.15%
- German DAX is down -1.0%
- France's CAC is down -0.93%
The USD has started to move back to the upside. The GBPUSD - after moving higher ahead of the BOE decision and retesting key swing area between 1.1350 and 1.13568 and the falling 100 hour moving average 1.13696 (see blue line in the chart below) - found willing sellers against the resistance targets, and has resumed its downward bias. The pair trades at 1.12596 currently. Sellers remain in control below the aforementioned resistance levels.
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People have been issued an urgent warning to check their energy meters before prices rise again. From October 1 the average household will pay up to £2,500 on their bills due to the new price cap introduced by Prime Minister Liz Truss.
This is around £1,000 less than was originally earmarked but it is still a huge leap in price compared to the same time last year. People are being urged to do a manual reading the day before the price hike so energy companies know exactly how much you used before the new rates were introduced to prevent you from being overcharged.
The deadline to check before the price hike is September 30. To send a meter reading, record the first five numbers shown from left to right to your energy supplier. You can do this over the phone, online or through an app, Liverpool Echo reports.
Read more: Bagshot Park: The £30m Grade II mansion home to Prince Edward and Sophie Countess of Wessex
Digital meters will show five numbers in black and white, followed by one or more red numbers. The red numbers can be ignored.
Under the "Energy Price Guarantee" - also referred to as the October Price Freeze - which starts from October 1, a typical household will pay an average of £2,500 a year on their energy bills, frozen until 2024. Some households may pay less than this, while others will pay more.
Martin Lewis gave the same advice in April this year before the spring price cap. Speaking on his ITV show the financial guru said: "That way you draw a line in the sand that says to your energy firm, I've only used this amount at the cheaper rate."
The energy price cap was expected to reach £3,549 by October. This is a massive rise of around 80% on top of a 54% increase in April.
Liz Truss announced that a typical household in Britain will pay no more than £2,500 a year and the cap will remain in place until 2024. The price is currently £1,971 and a £400 bill rebate is due to be applied in instalments over the coming months.
The policy means the average family could save an average £1,000 this year. Experts have estimated the cost for the Treasury to be as much as £150billion.
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A three-year-old girl was left needing stitches after a reported dog attack in Ramsgate. Police say the girl was riding her scooter near Ramsgate Tunnels at 10am on Tuesday, September 13.
She was then approached and bitten by a dog which was off the lead. Officers say the dog's bite left the girl needing facial stitches.
She has since been discharged from hospital. The dog's breed is not known.
Officers say it was being walked by a woman. She is described as being of large build and in her 50s.
Anyone who witnessed the attack is asked to contact Kent Police on 01843 222289 quoting reference 46/179343/22. Alternatively, contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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NewsThe land, property, farms and buildings in Kent now owned by King Charles IIIProperties and land in Kent formerly owned by The Queen have now transferred to the new monarchkentliveShareCommentsNewsBySteven Oldham15:02, 22 SEP 2022King Charles III, shown at his proclamation, now owns large part of Kent's coastline (Image: Jonathan Brady - WPA Pool/Getty Images)Group 28Get the latest property market news straight to your inboxInvalid emailSomething went wrong, please try again later.Sign UpNo thanks, closeWe use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More infoGroup 28Thank you for subscribing!We have more newslettersShow MeNo thanks, closeSee our Privacy NoticeOne of the lesser-known changes to King Charles III's life now that he is monarch is the amount of property he now owns across the length and breadth of the country. This list includes several properties and strips of land across Kent. As the transition from Queen to King continues, Charles has immediately been transferred ownership of those properties formerly owned by his mother. The most high-profile properties include Buckingham Palace, Sandringham and Balmoral, where The Queen passed away two weeks ago. In Kent, Charles now holds the keys to over 100 properties and pieces of land as varied as South Aylesford Retail Park and farms in Dartford, Old Romney and Ivychurch. The monarch also owns the foreshore - the stretch of land covered between low and high tide - of the county's coastlines in locations such as Dover, Folkestone and Ramsgate. Read more:Bagshot Park: The £30m Grade II mansion home to Prince Edward and Sophie Countess of Wessex Other residences such as Windsor Castle and Royal Parks are under the jurisdiction of the Crown as part of the The Crown Estate. This means the monarch of the time owns them during their reign but they are not their personal property - and these properties cannot be sold or any revenues retained, with this defaulting to the Treasury. Occupied Royal Palaces are maintained by the Royal Household Property Section, unoccupied palaces are the responsibility of Historic Royal Palaces, and the Royal Parks are managed by the Royal Parks charity on behalf of the Government. King Charles III owns part of Dover Harbour (Image: Getty Images) Data from The Crown Estate shows part of Dover Harbour and land to the east of Neats Court Car Terminal in Sheerness are also part of Charles' new property portfolio. The monarch also has claims to the vast majority of the nation's seabed. Naturally occurring gold and silver in the UK, collectively known as "Mines Royal", are managed by the Crown Estate. The Estate also owns mineral rights across around 115,000 hectares where it does not own the surface land. The full list of what the King owns in Kent 4 Court Lodge Road, Appledore, Ashford (TN26 2DD) Bakers Cheyne, Court Lane, Ivychurch Baynham Farm, Old Romney (TN29 9TP) Bean Farm, Bean Lane, Bean, Dartford Beggars Bush Farm, Eighteen Acre Lane and Land on the north side of Yoakes Lane, Old Romney, Romney Marsh Bourne Field, Moor Lane, Brenzett Brann's Farm and part of New Buildings Farm, Brookland, Ivychurch Brenzett Place Farm, Brenzett, Ivychurch Chapel Bank, Ebony, Court Lodge, 11 Court Lodge Road, 58, 60 and 62 The Street, Appledore, and adjoining land and buildings Cuttersbridge Farm, Old Romney, Lydd foreshore and bed at Shell Ness, Graveney foreshore and bed of the Great Stour, Fordwich foreshore and bed of The Great Stour, Upstreet, Canterbury foreshore and bed of the River Great Stour and the River Little Stour, Stourmouth, Canterbury foreshore and bed of the River Great Stour, Upstreet, Canterbury foreshore and bed of the River Medway, Aylesford foreshore and bed of the River Medway, Burntwick Island, Queenborough, Sheerness foreshore and bed of the River Medway, Cuxton, Rochester foreshore and bed of the River Medway, Larkfield, Aylesford Foreshore and bed of the River Medway, Maidstone foreshore and bed of the River Medway, Sheerness foreshore and bed of the River Stour, Ash, Canterbury foreshore and bed of the River Stour, Ash, Canterbury foreshore and bed of the River Stour, Minster, Ramsgate foreshore and bed of the River Stour, Richborough, Sandwich foreshore and bed of the River Stour, Sandwich foreshore and bed of the River Stour, Sandwich foreshore and bed of The River Stour, Stourmouth, Canterbury foreshore and bed of The Swale, Conyer, Sittingbourne foreshore and bed of The Swale, Sittingbourne foreshore and bed of The Swale, Sittingbourne foreshore at Capel Le Ferne foreshore at Deal foreshore at Dover foreshore at Dymchurch foreshore at Dymchurch foreshore at Eastchurch, Sheerness foreshore at Folkestone foreshore at Great Stour, Hersden, Canterbury foreshore at Greatstone, New Romney foreshore at Hythe foreshore at Kingsdown, Deal foreshore at Leysdown on Sea foreshore at Leysdown on Sea foreshore at Ramsgate foreshore at Reculver, Herne Bay foreshore at St Margarets Bay, Dover foreshore at St Marys Bay, Romney Marsh foreshore at Swalecliffe, Whitstable foreshore bed and land at The River Medway, Sheerness foreshore Folkestone foreshore, land and bed of the River Medway, Sheerness Docks, Sheerness Home Farm, Ashford Road, Ivychurch, Romney Marsh (TN29 0AL) Hope Field, Midley, Romney Marsh, Old Romney land at Coldharbour Farm, Washington Lane, Old Romney, Romney Marsh land at Court-at-Wick, Snave, Brenzett land at Fairfield, Brookland, Romney Marsh land at Garrison Point, Sheerness land at Ivychurch, Romney Marsh land at Neats Court Marshes, Queenborough land at Old Romney land at Romney Marsh, Brenzett, Brookland and Ivychurch land at Romney Sands, Greatstone, New Romney land at Salter's Lane, Brookland, New Romney land at Sheppey Way, Queenborough land forming part of the River Wantsum, Sarre, Birchington land in Walland Marsh on the south east side of Guldeford Lane, East Guldeford, Rye land lying to the east of Barn Fleet, Midley Land lying to the east of Five Vents Lane and land lying to the north and the south of a road leading from Old Romney to New Romney land lying to the east of Military Road, Stone-Cum-Ebony, Romney Marsh land lying to the East of Wenham's Lane, Ivychurch land lying to the north and south of King Street, Brookland land lying to the north east of the road leading from Ashford to New Romney, Ivychurch land lying to the north-west of Puddock, Snargate land lying to the south east of Appledore Bridge, Appledore Land lying to the south east of Boarman's Lane and land lying on the south side of Hook Lane, Romney Marsh Land lying to the South East of Brenzett Sewer, Brenzett land lying to the south east of Melon Lane, Newchurch land lying to the South side of Beaconsfield Fleet, Ivychurch land lying to the south west of a road leading from Lydd to Appledore, Snargate land lying to the South West of Wenhams Lane, Ivychurch Land lying to the South-East of Straight Lane, Brookland, Romney Marsh land lying to the West side of the road leading from Brenzett to Hamstreet, Brenzett Land to the East and West sides of Barnhouse Lane, Ivychurch and Old Romney land on the East side of Ashentree Lane, Old Romney Land on the east side of Neats Court Car Terminal, Queenborough Road, Minster On Sea, Sheerness land on the north side of Ivychurch Road, Brenzett land on the North West and South East sides of Tillery Lane, Ivychurch Land on the north west side of Guldeford Road, Brookland land on the north-east side of Queenborough Road, Queenborough Land on the south east side of Guldeford Lane, Wychurch land on the south east side of The Royal Military Canal, Stone Cum Ebony, Tenterden land on the south side of a road from Brenzett to Ivychurch, Iyvchurch Land on the south side of and land lying to south of Wey Street, Snare, Ashford land on the south side of Newchurch Lane, Ivychurch land on the south side of Queenborough Road, Queenborough land on the south side of the road from Brookland to Lydd, Old Romney land on the south west side of a road leading from Fairfield to Brenzett, Brookland land on the South West side of Hook Lane, Brookland land on the South-East side of Moor Lane, Ivychurch, Romney Marsh land on the west side of Ashentree Lane, New Romney land south west sides of Boarmans Lane, Brookland, Romney Marsh Marsh Farm, Ivychurch, Romney Marsh Nest Cottage and land adjoining and land on the west side of Ham Mill Lane, Warehorne, Brenzett on the East side of Ashentree Lane, Old Romney part of Dover Harbour, Dover part of Dover Harbour, Dover Part of The Pinnocks, Brenzett Green, Brenzett, Romney Marsh Pearson land adjoining Five Watering Sewer, Willow House Farm Plot 2, Brewers Hill Farm, Harty Ferry Road, Leysdown On Sea, Sheerness Rheewall Farm, Brenzett, Romney Marsh (TN29 9TU) Scotts Marsh, Midley South Aylesford Retail Park, Aylesford (ME20 7TP) The Carter Land, Pipers Land and The Midley Poor Houses, Old Romney The Cheyne Court Lands, Ivychurch and Old Romney The Commissioners' Field, Stone-Cum-Ebony The Dering Land, being on the north east side of Narrow Bush Lane, and the south west side of Mountain Lane, Old Romney The Duck Pits, Ashentree Lane, Old Romney The Missing Land, Old Romney The Russell Land, Tillery Lane, Brookland Read next: Frogmore Cottage: The stunning Grade II listed UK home of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Man tried to disguise £20,000 cash as baguettes while travelling through Eurotunnel Kent facing twin threat of 'rising flu cases and reemergence of COVID this winter' Tributes pour in for 'amazing' Snodland man Jay Carr, 20, after tragic body discovery Dame Kelly Holmes waited over eleven hours in Queen queue with 90-year-old ex serviceman Follow KentLiveFacebookTwitterCommentMore 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Alessia Russo will receive a gold plaque at childhood club Bearsted FC in Maidstone to celebrate her success for the Lionesses at this summer's Women's European Championships. Russo began her career playing for Bearsted's under 10s.
Each member of the history-making squad will receive a plaque in a place that is special to them. Nationwide Building Society have partnered with England on the "Where Greatness Begins" campaign and the plaques will honour the squad's achievement.
The 23-year-old scored four goals across the tournament against Norway, Northern Ireland and Sweden. Now playing for Manchester United in the Women's Super League, she has previously played for Chelsea and Brighton & Hove Albion.
Read more:Women’s football 'growing massively in Kent before Euro 2022 win'
She has scored ten times in 15 games for her country after debuting in 2020. Russo and her teammates became the first England side - male or female - to win the European Championships by beating Germany at Wembley in July.
Sarina Wiegman's side have since booked their place at next year's World Cup in Australia & New Zealand. England didn't drop a point in qualifying and will head in to the tournament as one of the teams to beat.
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Lots of central bank action as they go wild with policy signal. The action sends currency rates around.
- The Federal Reserve raised rates by 75 basis points yesterday
- The Bank of Japan kept rates unchanged but intervene in the currency markets
- The Swiss National Bank raise rates by 75 basis points and the threaten to intervene in the currency market
- The Bank of England raise rates by 50 basis points with some dissenters looking for a higher 75 basis point hike
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Eighty open cases of child abuse and neglect sat on Matt Cordova’s desk in 2017 during the height of the “hole I found myself buried in,” he remembers.
Twenty open cases would have been a lot to handle; 80 was impossible.
An investigator at Missouri’s child welfare department for two years, Cordova was tasked with following up on reports made to the child abuse and neglect hotline. Investigators make home visits to any child allegedly abused or neglected to assure their safety within a set timeframe.
For Cordova, who worked in a rural circuit spanning four counties, that could mean hours on the road each day, sometimes driving hundreds of miles.
Stretched thin in part because of high staff turnover rates at Missouri’s Children’s Division, Cordova found himself triaging. He only had time to establish the “bare minimum” safety requirements were met in each case before he would need to move on to the next.
It was what Cordova calls “an endless cycle of trying to keep up” that left little time for building close relationships to help struggling families avoid falling even further.
He was on-call for one week each month and could be summoned at any point, day or night, to investigate a hotline tip. The most urgent calls required a three-hour response time, often leaving him scrambling for childcare.
“You could spend your entire weekend or all night going out and looking for kids,” he said.
He was paid $35,000 a year.
For Cordova, like many of his fellow Children’s Division colleagues, the job became too much. He left in 2018.
“It’s so easy to get burnt out,” he said, “so easy to get overwhelmed and you start to lose your grasp on that passion to help children.
“I don’t think they see the correlation between burnout and treatment of children.”
Since Cordova left, the situation in Missouri’s Children’s Division has only gotten worse.
The Independent over the last two months has spoken with current and former employees of Missouri’s Children’s Division who, like Cordova, experienced the effects of high turnover rates and low morale — as well as with advocates, researchers and attorneys concerned about the system’s far-reaching effect on children and families.
For the agency tasked with handling child abuse and neglect investigations, and overseeing the state’s foster care system, the ramifications can be severe.
Foster children are missing visits with their parents and languishing in care of the state for longer than they should be, according to several of those interviewed. Some foster children’s cases outlast their caseworkers’ tenure at Children’s Division and are handed off to a new caseworker, which lowers children’s chances of reunifying with their families.
On the investigation side, some worry with such high caseloads and the loss of veteran workers, mistakes could be made which, at either extreme — needlessly removing a child, or overlooking signs of abuse and neglect — would be life altering for the child and family. At the margins, the investigators don’t have the time to connect with lower-risk families in ways that might prevent future allegations of abuse or neglect.
Children’s Division Director Darrell Missey, who was appointed to the job in January, has been candid about the issues facing his division and has committed to solving them.
Last month he acknowledged the staffing issues as a “crisis.”
“We need to work to stabilize the (work)force.” he said. “Then, we’ve got to get enough people so that they can actually have a number of cases they can manage. And we have to work on prevention.”
Missey said the system has long trended toward the “reactive” over “proactive,” and is “driven by our fear of what might happen later, (which) results in a lot of kids in foster care.” Now, the state is faced with a dual crisis: Too few staff to oversee far too many children.
‘Families get put on the back burner’
Missouri’s Department of Social Services, which oversees the Children’s Division, has long faced staffing issues, budget cuts and high turnover. But in recent years, the challenges have been especially severe.
DSS, which includes three other program divisions plus the Children’s Division, had an overall staff turnover rate of 35% last fiscal year, ranking second among state agencies of its size after only the Department of Mental Health.
In the Children’s Division, it’s even worse. Among frontline Children’s Division staff — including child abuse and neglect investigators and foster care case managers — the turnover rate last year was 55%, according to data provided by DSS. That means more than half of the frontline staff working at Children’s Division across the state at the start of the last fiscal year had left by the end of the year.
Turnover is highest in the metro areas. In Kansas City earlier this year, the rate was 88%.
The agency has struggled to hire in pace with the departures. There were 228 full-time equivalent front-line vacancies in Children’s Division staff as of Aug. 31, according to DSS’s spokesperson.
Turnover leads to higher workloads for those who remain, which begets more turnover.
“Families get put on the back burner,” said Mike Herrin, a Kansas City child welfare attorney. “We sometimes have months where kids don’t get to see their parents.”
Staff turnover and high caseloads are linked to worse outcomes for children in foster care, in terms of their likelihood to reach reunification or adoption, studies have found. Once a case was handed off to a new caseworker, a Wisconsin-based study found, the chances of a child reunifying with their families within a year dropped from roughly 75% to 18%.
Staffing challenges have been compounded by Missouri’s historically high rate of children in foster care.
In terms of its rate of removing children from their homes, “Missouri has been an outlier for decades,” said Richard Wexler, executive director of the nonprofit National Coalition for Child Protective Reform.
Some, like Wexler, argue the deeper issue is that Missouri needs to shift funding away from bringing so many kids into foster care, which is often traumatic for children, and toward funding preventative measures which would also reduce the need for so many staff to manage them.
“My real concern is something terrible is going to happen, and that is the history of child welfare: Reform comes with terrible cases of children getting harmed, or families being broken up unnecessarily.”Clark Peters, associate professor of social work at the University of Missouri.
When the population of children in poverty is taken into consideration, Missouri ranks 13th for the rate of removing children from their homes, the National Coalition for Child Protective Reform found. The state removes children at a rate 50% higher than average, NCCPR found.
There are currently almost 14,000 children in foster care, an umbrella term which refers to several ways the state can serve as the stand-in parent for the child. States generally prioritize placing children in temporary care with relatives — half the kids in Missouri’s foster care system are in placements with relatives. Roughly one third are in traditional foster families with strangers, and under one tenth are in group facilities.
DSS does dedicate some resources to preventative work, though Missey and others argue it’s far from enough.
Family Centered Service workers are called in when the state has concerns that don’t rise to the level of removing the child. Those workers are also stretched thin, though: Cordova, the former investigator who once had 80 cases, remembers there were only one or two Family Centered Services workers covering his four counties.
The number of open Family Centered Service cases has dropped over the last five years, according to DSS’s annual reports. Other DSS services to prevent families from being separated, like the privately-contracted Intensive In-Home Services, have fewer openings than demand, resulting in children each year going directly into foster care who can’t get the services. Last year, 19 children entered foster care who were denied Intensive In-Home Services due to availability.
Once children are in foster care, the state has consistently failed to meet the federal timeliness standard for placing children in a permanent home, through reunification or adoption. The national standard is 42.7% of children finding a permanent home within a year of entering custody. In Missouri, the rate last year was just over 30%.
Long in the making
The strain on staff has been long in the making.
Over the last two decades, the number of full-time personnel at DSS shrunk by a third. In fiscal year 2003, there were more than 9,000 employees at DSS.
Today, there are fewer than 6,000.
In the Children’s Division, there are 558 fewer full-time staff as of Aug. 31 than there were in July 2009, a reduction of almost 25%. In its highest ranks, the last decade has seen nine different Children’s Division directors. Missey is the sixth director of the division under Gov. Mike Parson.
A 2003 study of Missouri by the National Coalition for Child Protective Reform diagnosed the system as “so overwhelmed with children who don’t need to be in it, that workers do not have the time to find all the children who do.”
By 2014, the state had created a recruitment and retention initiative which eventually resulted in “hiring blitzes” to conduct on-the-spot hiring and expanding acceptable degree types for hiring.
Shelly Stillman worked at Children’s Division in St. Charles County, starting in 2006, first as a caseworker and then a Children’s Service specialist for three years training new workers.
For most of her time with the department, Stillman investigated abuse and neglect allegations that came in through the state hotline.
Stillman said she typically received up to 35 new reports a week on top of the reports already piling up on her desk. When state-level supervisors complained about the backlog, she wondered why they didn’t realize “this job is impossible.”
She recalls working long nights when she was eight months pregnant with her second child, “and you’re getting paid $35,000.”
Over the three years she worked as a trainer for the agency, she trained 55 workers.
“When I left,” she said, “three were (still) there.”
Most, she said, didn’t make it over four months. Such frequent turnover meant many workers lacked the experience necessary to, for instance, properly discern abuse-inflicted injuries, she said. That knowledge could take years to build.
She left in 2019 to work as a counselor for a private company. After 11 years with the Children’s Division, her salary only reached $39,000.
Samantha Lame joined the Children’s Division in March 2014 and left four years later. She spent time working on both foster care and investigations.
In alternative care, “I think I had up to 35 cases at one point in time,” she said, “which was just extremely unmanageable. Because you’re talking about 30, 35 kids where you have to do monthly visits, plus their parents, and on top of that, court hearings.”
The work was rewarding, she said, especially when parents succeeded and got to reunite with their children, or when adoption cases were finalized.
“That was a driving force,” she said.
But it wasn’t enough to stay.
She left the state in 2018 to work for a community health center. The hours were shorter, and she got “almost a $15,000 (pay) increase.”
2020 cuts
Staffing challenges were bad during Stillman’s time, but intensified over COVID.
In 2020, Parson targeted social services with staffing cuts, citing a COVID-related drop in state revenue. He cut 300 jobs statewide that had been previously filled, 200 of which were in DSS. Of those, 96 jobs were from the Children’s Division — mostly supervisors and mid-level management.
For Dan Johnston, a Children’s Division supervisor in Jasper County, Parson’s cuts stood out as a “blow to morale.”
“I lost my supervisor and she became my peer overnight,” he said.
Candice Hastings experienced the challenges of being new to the job in a moment of mass exodus.
She accepted an entry-level position at Missouri’s child welfare agency last December without hesitation, excited to “make children’s lives better.”
She worked at the Children’s Division office in St. Joseph, training for two months to become a child abuse and neglect investigator.
Panic set in for Hastings once she was on her own. As she’d knock on strangers’ doors to investigate hotline calls of abuse and neglect, Hastings would imagine all the scenarios she might encounter when the doors would swing open, and how clueless she would be to respond to them.
The gulf between her level of responsibility and her skill set, she felt, was enormous.
“I wasn’t adequately equipped to do my job as they expected me to,” she said she felt at the time.
Herrin, the child welfare attorney in Kansas City, said since COVID he has seen instances where in a six-month span there have been as many as six new workers on a child’s case.
“It’s very difficult to keep clients moving forward,” he said. “Sometimes it causes the parents to almost start from scratch, proving to the new worker that the child can return home.”
The case manager’s role is to facilitate and to help make sure the parents are getting the services they need to work toward reunification, as the court ordered, such as helping set up drug testing and treatment.
When they’re focused on other cases though, Herrin said, “some things will slip through the cracks,” and the caseworker might not have the time to ensure the parents get all the services they need. Some contracted services like parents aides, who provide weekly visits, and counselors are in short supply, too, he said.
“What we end up seeing is a lot of the families get put on the backburner with getting services put in place, visitation with their children,” Herrin said.
That can all delay reunification prospects, prolonging the child’s stay in foster care.
On the abuse and neglect investigation side, some worry that trying to move as quickly as possible will cause a caseworker to make a mistake, be it on the side of overlooking abuse or neglect or removing a child prematurely from their home.
“My real concern is something terrible is going to happen, and that is the history of child welfare: Reform comes with terrible cases of children getting harmed, or families being broken up unnecessarily,” said Clark Peters, associate professor of social work at the University of Missouri.
Solutions
Robert Knodell took over as acting Department of Social Services director in October 2021. Soon after, Missey stepped down as a circuit judge in Jefferson County to become head of the Children’s Division.
Both acknowledge staffing as a major issue and emphasize wages as a potential solution.
Missouri state employees are among the lowest paid in the nation. Two years ago, lawmakers approved a targeted pay increase for the Children’s Division that was vetoed by the governor. This year, a 2% cost of living pay hike for all state workers was built into the budget.
But Knodell and Missey say more is needed.
“We have quite a bit of a ways to go in making our pay more competitive,” Knodell said at a briefing last month.
DSS’s director of human resources, Karen Meyer, said last month they are also continuing to host “hiring blitzes” across the state for same-day hiring, and are “focused on training” so workers “can get out into the field sooner.”
Missey has consistently discussed shifting the system to be more preventative, but the immediate crises have dominated his time so far.
When Missey first arrived on the job, he said last month, he was “very excited” about making the state’s welfare system more “proactive,” which would result in fewer kids in foster care. But “then I walked in and discovered we’ve got crises going on” — one being staffing issues, the other being “too many kids and not enough placements for them.”
“We need to put a lot of work into prevention that we’re not able to do right now because we have to have the offense,” Missey said in a hearing last April. “The family centered service work, the prevention work, goes on the backburner … and that’s where I think the real work is done.”
Because of staffing issues, workers “can’t spend time referring someone to services they need, establishing relationships,” he said.
Even if they could fill all the gaps, Missey said in the April hearing he suspects their allotted staffing numbers might still be too low.
Rep. Sarah Unsicker, D-Shrewsbury, agrees that the state should be focused on prevention services, including bolstering the social safety net.
“That would be a good start,” she said, “helping with the needs that result in what Children’s Division calls neglect, like housing needs and food.”
The Family First Prevention Services Act, enacted by Congress in 2018, set out to provide federal funds focused on prevention resources, and to reduce the use of congregate homes for foster youth, also called residential treatment facilities. Missouri’s plan is still awaiting approval from the federal government, after DSS says the federal government required revisions in 2021 and 2022.
The state has spent $140,141 of the $9.9 million it was allotted in 2020 to help transition to the program, and they say they will use the funds for pilot site implementation once their plan is approved. The transition funds can be used through fiscal year 2025.
Johnston, the supervisor for workers who oversee foster care cases, said pay raises and reduced case counts should be prioritized.
Many of the workers put in more than 45 hours per week, he said, and they often have second jobs to supplement their DSS income and are already run ragged by their high case counts.
Shortly before an interview with The Independent last month, Johnston had just finished donating plasma “to make ends meet.”
“You don’t have the time to walk the biological parents through the system to get their kids back,” he said. “It’s something we have to overcome.”
This story was originally published on the Missouri Independent.
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NASHVILLE (WSMV) -- Narcotics police dogs sniffed out a suitcase containing drugs at Nashville International Airport early Tuesday morning.
According the arrest affidavit, American Airlines flight #1292 arrived just after midnight on Tuesday from Los Angeles and a police dog picked up the odor of narcotics in a black suitcase.
Plain clothes detectives observed 30-year-old Bianca DeShea Thomas intercept the suitcase from a man off the baggage carousel and begin walking toward the exit doors.
Detectives prevented Thomas from leaving and questioned her about the contents of her luggage. Thomas said she didn’t know what was inside and the suitcase didn’t belong to her, the affidavit states.
After obtaining a search warrant for the suitcase around 2:15 a.m., detectives discovered it to contain pillows, shirts and blankets that were hiding 14 large vacuum-sealed bags wrapped in cellophane. Each bag contained “a crystalline substance consistent with crystal methamphetamine.” The 14 bags of crystal combined to weigh 31.4 pounds.
Thomas was arrested and charged with felony delivery of a controlled substance. She remains in custody on $100,000 bond.
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San Francisco pizzerias crack top 50 list
👋 Nick here. Pizza is often on my mind — but especially with the new "Chef's Table" season dedicated to our sacred slices.
What's happening: No San Francisco spots are highlighted on the Netflix series' pizza season, but a handful of local joints made this list of the top 50 pizzerias in the U.S.
Details: Top 50 Pizza put the list together and said the final ranking was the "fruit of a long and painstaking work by [its] inspectors who, for an entire year … examined an enormous number of pizzerias spread around the entire country."
- The group said it took into consideration "the quality of the dough and raw materials used for the toppings."
- It factored in a restaurant's service and its wine and beverage list, as well.
San Francisco had an impressive showing on the top 50 list, which included:
- 2: Tony's Pizza Napoletana
- 15: Doppio Zero
- 26: A 16
- 29: Del Popolo
- 36: Flour + Water Pizzeria
💭 My thought bubble: Rankings like this are always wonky and sure to spark controversy.
- All these spots in San Francisco are good, but Tony's as No. 2 in the entire country? I'm not even sure it's the second best in the city.
- My favorite pizza here — Pizzetta 211 — didn't make the list, but that's OK. It can be my (and now your) little secret.
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Where (and when) to enjoy fall foliage in Washington state
Sure, Washington is the Evergreen State. But one of my favorite months in Seattle is October, when the leaves of our (non-evergreen) trees turn rich shades of red, orange and ochre.
What's happening: Early October provides the best opportunities for enjoying fall foliage in the Seattle area, according to a much-viewed fall leaf map from David Angotti.
- The week of Oct. 3 is when deciduous trees in King and Snohomish counties will hit their autumnal color peak, the map predicts.
- Then, the week of Oct. 10 is when leaves in other counties in central and western Washington will be their most vibrant, per the map.
- Trees in Eastern Washington are projected to reach their color peak a little later in the month.
The bottom line: If we're lucky, we'll be able to enjoy a few weeks of spectacular fall foliage — before Seattle's inevitable onslaught of rain and wind knocks it to the ground.
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SOUTH PASS CITY — A harsh climate and remote perch at more than 7,000 feet help keep crowds at bay in this once-booming gold-mining town that long ago went bust. With fewer than 10 full-time residents, human traffic is typically light, even on sunny August days like this one.
A pair of hikers ambles up, and makes use of the bench in front of the visitor center. Soon after that, two British cyclists roll down the road, coated in trail dust and weathered by the hundreds of miles behind them. They are followed by a man astride a dual-sport motorcycle, who makes a brief stop-in at the visitors’ center before roaring on.
South Pass City sits directly on several cross-country routes — among them the 3,100-mile Continental Divide National Scenic Trail, the 2,696-mile Great Divide Mountain Bike Route and the newly established Wyoming Backcountry Discovery Route. Come summertime, a steady trickle of thru-hikers, cyclists and other overland travelers pass through here and the nearby outpost of Atlantic City, five miles down the dirt road.
The trickle grows by the year, and enterprising residents are capitalizing by adapting businesses to serve these specific travelers’ needs. The result is an unlikely symbiosis that is shaping the tiny communities’ economies.
Many thru-hikers who pop off the trail in South Pass head to Wild Bill’s.
An avid hunter and home builder by trade, Bill “Wild Bill” Moore has embraced an unexpected calling in his retirement: bed and breakfast proprietor in windy Atlantic City.
Moore discovered the hamlet more than 20 years ago while hunting in the area, he said. He later bought a piece of land sight unseen, figuring he would build a hunting cabin on it.
“I started digging on the land here, and it ended up being more than a cabin,” Moore said while sitting on the second-story porch of what is now his home and business. “So I decided to retire and just move out here.”
When Moore and his wife, Carmela, relocated from Nebraska, they opened a gun shop in the home.
Thru-hikers
The couple weren’t much aware of thru-hikers until people started calling to ask if they could rent out a room on their way through. They declined due to the gun business, but it got them thinking, he said.
Later he used the money from the sale of a cabin he built to construct two more, which he plunked down on his property and offered up to rent. Wild Bill’s Bed and Breakfast was born.
A decade on, Wild Bill’s enterprise has expanded to four cabins, a showerhouse, a hot tub, meal service and the historic Miner’s Delight Inn across the way. They can house up to 26 guests. “Whatever it takes, you know, to keep everybody going,” Moore said.
Moore, who sports a white beard befitting of his grizzled nickname, runs a tight ship. No drinking, no drugs, no loitering. If you are looking for a party, go elsewhere.
When people emerge from “the basin” — the great expanse of Red Desert between Rawlins and South Pass — “we’re basically it,” Moore said of Atlantic City. “They come out of there and they’re looking for a shower. They want a bed. They want internet. And then they want food.”
Moore has stories of driving miles across the desert to look for folks who are lost or hurt. It sometimes means late nights and unplanned trips to the hospital 30 miles down the highway.
Biking
About an hour after rolling into South Pass City, the two British cyclists stand near their bikes outside the Miner’s Grubstake and Dredge Saloon in Atlantic City, stuffing packaged honey buns and other calorie-dense foods into their panniers and pockets. They just put down a big lunch inside and are gearing up to head into the basin.
“Just packing as much food and calories as we can into our bodies and preparing to cross over to Rawlins,” said Mark Beaumont.
Beaumont and his companion Tim Fowler started their Great Divide Mountain Bike journey weeks ago in Canada; their destination is Mexico. The travelers appreciate places like the Grubstake, they said.
“And these guys kind of don’t even flinch when they see people like us,” Beaumont said. “I mean, they’re like, ‘northbound or southbound?’’
“Just part of the business I’d think,” Fowler said.
Owners Laurel Nelson and Dale Anderson have adapted their business repeatedly over 14 years to make their restaurant and bar friendlier to thru-travelers, Nelson said.
With a wide smile, she’s posted up at her usual spot behind the bar. Nelson runs the front of the house; Anderson mans the kitchen. Western decor and taxidermied animals adorn the walls; “Branded” plays on a television in the corner. Customers eat burgers and drink Bud Light at the bar.
The couple also happened across Atlantic City by chance — they rode Harleys through en route to the Sturgis rally one year. She was a nurse in California, he was an electrician. They decided to take a leap, went to a beverage management course, bought the restaurant and remodeled it.
At first, Nelson said, she didn’t understand that thru-hikers and backcountry travelers would be a significant portion of their business. Both have increased in prevalence, and now the cross-country travelers probably account for a good half of their summer customer base, she said. They’ve tweaked accordingly.
Thru-travelers are fond of the restaurant’s stuffed burgers and hearty breakfasts, and she said they’ve added vegan and vegetarian options — like Beyond Meat burgers — to accommodate different diets.
She likes meeting the travelers, who sign registry logs, tell her about their journeys and occasionally send postcards from around the world. The former nurse is also known to assess injuries and help patch people back up.
“I guess we do it all,” she said, recounting how she recently had a hiker in the restaurant expecting a package, which promised to contain a coveted pair of fresh socks. He finally gave up on waiting, she said, and when Anderson checked the mail soon thereafter the socks had arrived.
“I hopped in the truck and I headed out to the desert,” Nelson said. When she saw him, she recalls, “I went ‘Special delivery! Your socks!
“He called it a trail miracle,” she said, laughing. “Really it was just me taking the time to race out and get them to him, you know.”
South Pass City
Even in South Pass City, a state historic site, the employees do what they can to aid the far-flung travelers. They hold mail for free, offer the Wi-Fi password, allow travelers to fill water bottles or root through a hiker box for free treats, said Ashley Kiernan, visitor services and gift shop manager.
“And we do let them camp over in our parking lot in a grassy area,” she said.
Kiernan, who is in her fifth season at SPC, said thru-traffic has been growing. “It’s definitely picked up.” By mid-August, more than 400 thru-hikers had signed the registry.
The Continental Divide Trail Coalition expected about 400 thru-hikers total in 2021. That was up from 220 in 2017 and 80 in 2014.
The pastime’s growing profile spurred Lander to recently apply for CDT gateway status from the coalition. Because they aren’t incorporated, South Pass and Atlantic City aren’t qualified for the status on their own. But South Pass got tacked on to Lander’s designation.
Helen Wilson, executive director of Wind River Visitors Council, said the hope of the status is to benefit the entire region — even communities that didn’t make it into the marquee:
“There’s room for everybody to benefit.”
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SWEETWAATER COUNTY – Following the Primary Election on Aug. 16, the candidates running for Sweetwater County sheriff in the General Election on Nov. 8 are incumbent sheriff John Grossnickle and Chris Sutton.
Grossnickle is running as a Republican and Sutton is running as an Independent.
Sutton said that if he is elected, he plans to be active in the community.
“I will also be present in all of the meetings that I will be going to. I’ve been talking to department heads all over the county. Something that is really important on my list is mental health,” Sutton said. “We have a concern with officers’ mental health, that maybe we brought them back too soon after a critical incident.
“Also, mental health in our community. We may not know about something that someone is struggling with. And yet, we approach them in full gear. We may say something that could trigger them. It then could turn into a negative situation and we have to do better at that.”
Overall, Sutton said that he decided to run as an Independent because he believes that a sheriff should not be a politician.
“I don’t think a sheriff or a chief of police anywhere in our nation should be involved in politics. It was important for me to run independently. I have been a Republican for 34 years,” Sutton said. “I chose to run independently because I don’t want my personal opinions to ever come into play with my passion and care for all people.”
As far as campaigns go, Sutton said that he does not think that Grossnickle fulfilled the campaign promises he made during the first time he ran.
“Primarily, it would be that the campaign promises weren’t met. He talked a lot about being in town halls on a regular basis,” Sutton said. “I’ve been all over the county during this campaign and I've talked to a lot of folks at town halls; those that actually run the town halls. I’ve been to Bairoil. I’ve got almost exact numbers. Since John’s been in office, in Bairoil, there’s been 90 town halls.
“John hasn’t been to a single one. I went to Superior town halls. There have been 48 Superior town halls because they have theirs just once a month. In John’s four-year term, he’s been to zero. I was recently at Wamsutter’s. It’s the same thing. We’re seeing a pattern that is discouraging.”
Sutton also said that he didn’t agree with the amount of time Grossnickle has spent at the Sweetwater County Detention Center.
“The folks in the jail have seen John maybe once or twice in four years. I think that’s a shame. It's sad. We must spend time with our people,” Sutton said. “I talked to a handful of deputies that work in the detention center about a week ago. I asked them when the last time was that they had a one-on-one with the sheriff.”
Grossnickle provided a rebuttal to Sutton’s claims.
“I haven’t personally been to those communities but I have spoken with them. We have worked with the mayor of Bairoil. They were having issues so we were having deputies go there,” Grossnickle said. “I’ve spoken to the city council in Wamsutter. In fact, I recently spoke to one of the council members from Granger and we spoke about the presence of the sheriff’s office in those communities.
“One of the big things was establishing relationships because this is such a big community as far as land mass. We can’t be everywhere at one time. With those relationships, they let us know when things are happening and when we need to go there. If you look at the research and data, that’s how law enforcement is most effective.”
Grossnickle also provided a response to Sutton’s claim concerning his presence at the detention center.
“Pre-COVID, I would go there on a daily basis. When COVID came around, we didn’t want people back there that didn’t have to go back there,” Grossnickle said. “Since then, I’m making more of a presence than during COVID; not as much as before but there is a lot going on. It’s not an excuse but I do go back to the detention center as much as I possibly can.”
For Grossnickle, he said that he agrees with the tenants of Sutton’s campaign platform.
“I’ve heard Chris talk about the importance of mental health and establishing relationships within the community. That’s one of my first platforms that we started enacting. As far as the mental health aspect, we’re expanding on that to make it more comprehensive,” Sutton said. “We’re making it more comprehensive.
“Instead of just peer support and focusing just on mental health, we’re going to have financial assistance, as far as how to deal with finances. We want to make it all encompassing.”
Grossnickle brought into question the statement that he said he has heard Sutton give about focusing on the 90% of the good people in the community.
“I think that I understand that he wants to build relationships with those people. However, when that 10% of the population is committing crime, that’s where our main focus is to deal with those people. Yes, we want to deal with the 90% but we can’t ignore the fact that 10% of the population commits the crime.”
Grossnickle said that over the time of his campaign, the sheriff’s office has been able to implement a program that prioritizes the safety of children in and out of school.
“We’ve been working on it since the end of the last school year but we have implemented it this school year. It’s called the Guardian Program,” Grossnickle said. “There’s a deputy assigned to each school within Sweetwater County School District No. 1. Our other two are in Sweetwater County School District No. 2.
“They’re able to go into the schools, see what’s going on and talk with the administration and the students. They’re not necessarily a school resource officer that is there all the time. However, they’re assigned to a specific school and when they go in, the kids know who they are and so does the administration. We keep that relationship going.”
Overall, Grossnickle said that he has qualities that make him the better candidate for sheriff over Sutton.
“You look at experience. I have 26 years of experience. I have an undergraduate degree in criminal justice with an emphasis in law enforcement and a master’s degree in criminal justice/law enforcement administration,” Grossnickle said. “I’ve grown up in the sheriff’s office; from patrol deputy to detective to sergeant to lieutenant to sheriff.
“The education and experience, there’s a big gap right there. With that education and experience, I think you can see with the sheriff’s office, we’re forward thinking. That’s huge in law enforcement as far as I’m concerned.”
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GREEN RIVER – The students had the opportunity to celebrate during a surprise assembly at Washington Elementary School in Green River on Monday, Sept. 19.
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona recognized Washington Elementary as one of the 297 National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2022.
Principal Anne-Marie Covey explained to the pupils that “it’s a very exciting award for the teachers and staff and something we’ll remember for a long time.”
“All of you worked so hard to make this happen. We couldn’t do it without your amazing families too," Covey told the students and staff.
The recognition is based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups.
With its 39th cohort, the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program has bestowed approximately 10,000 awards to more than 9,000 schools. The National Blue Ribbon School award affirms and validates the hard work of students, educators, families, and communities in striving for – and attaining – exemplary achievement.
National Blue Ribbon Schools serve as models of effective school practices for state and district educators and other schools throughout the nation. A National Blue Ribbon School flag gracing a school’s entryway or on a flagpole is a widely recognized symbol of exemplary teaching and learning.
The Department recognizes all schools in one of two performance categories, based on all student scores, subgroup student scores and graduation rates:
-Exemplary High-Performing Schools are among their state’s highest performing schools as measured by state assessments or nationally normed tests.
-Exemplary Achievement Gap-Closing Schools are among their state’s highest performing schools in closing achievement gaps between a school’s student groups and all students.
Washington Elementary School educator Breeun Palmer-Bieber expressed how proud she is to the students.
“This is the most exciting news in all my 17 years of teaching,” said Palmer-Bieber. “This is a big deal because not a lot of Wyoming schools have won this.”
Henry A. Coffeen Elementary School in Sheridan is a 2022 Blue Ribbon Elementary School.
Kendall Valenciano, PTO member, spoke to the children as well.
“This award means the world to me,” Valenciano expressed. “I’m so thankful to be with so many amazing people. This fills me with pride.”
As “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” by Justin Timberlake blasted through the gymnasium, a slideshow of candid photos was presented to the students and staff.
Attendees were briefly spooked by sounds of confetti poppers before parting ways to classrooms.
Craig Barringer, Sweetwater County School District No. 2 superintendent, was present during the announcement.
“It’s a remarkable achievement,” said Barringer. “It’s a testament to the work the teachers do and how the parents help them. As you walk in here, you can just feel the positive vibe.”
Trying to hold back the tears, Covey said, “I am just overwhelmed with such pride. It’s an honor to be recognized with this amazing group of people – from our big people to our little people to our families - once again, this is not a one-person show. This is truly a community of learners and it starts with the relationships of caring for one another.
“The parents support us 100% and we can’t ask anything more. They’re the foundation of where we are now. This is a tremendous amount of people who work very hard. I think to be recognized on the national level is something that validates the work we do here. I hope when the kids are older, they will look back and say, ‘That was my elementary school and I was a part of that.’”
Up to 420 schools may be nominated each year. The Department invites nominations for the National Blue Ribbon Schools award from the top education official in all states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, the Department of Defense Education Activity, and the Bureau of Indian Education. Private schools are nominated by the Council for American Private Education.
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The government is set to announce billions of pounds in tax breaks. But what does the National Insurance cut mean and how could it help you.
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is expected to unveil a package of tax cuts costing an estimated £30 billion in a "mini-budget" tomorrow, September 22. The National Insurance rise was brought in by former Chancellor Rishi Sunak in April to tackle the Covid backlog in the NHS and increase funding for social care.
Prime Minister Liz Truss is expecting to cut the rate of National Insurance. But the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) think tank warned that scrapping the 1.25 per cent NI rise would benefit wealthier households and do little to help the poorest workers.
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It is predicted that the lowest paid workers may only be 63p better off each month while the richest Brits get back £150. Tom Waters, senior research economist at the IFS, said: "Reversing the recent NICs rise would tend to benefit richer households more than poorer ones, even as a share of their income; the richest 10th, for example, would gain about £1,800 per year, or 1.7% of their income, and the poorest tenth about £7 per year, less than 0.1% of their income.
This means people earning £100,000 a year will save £1,800 a year. Meanwhile, households on just £12,000 will save £7.66. The cut is expected to take effect in November payslips.
Tom continued: “That’s partly just a natural consequence of the existing tax system: those towards the bottom of the income distribution don’t pay much in direct taxes, and so it’s hard to cut taxes in a way that makes a big difference to them. That said, there are more progressive ways to cut tax — raising the income tax personal allowance, for example, which is currently due to be frozen in cash terms until March 2025. Tax cuts along these lines, including a NICs cut, would of course strengthen incentives for people to move into work.”
Liz Truss promised to cut taxes during her leadership campaign bid. Among her pledge is to reduce the cost of the energy price cap at a cost of £150billion to the treasury, funded by the taxpayer.
She has also vowed to cancel the former Chancellor Rishi Sunak's planned rise in corporation tax from 19 per cent to 25 per cent in April 2023 - costing the Treasury billions. Another pledge from the new Prime Minister involved scrapping the green energy levy on bills in an attempt to bring down the costs for struggling households.
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is weighing up scrapping a cap on huge bonuses. At the moment bosses are not allowed to award more than twice an employee's salary.
Reports suggest the mini-Budget will announce "special investment zones" in up to 12 UK areas. There is speculation the areas will be able to cut personal taxes, tear up affordable housing quotas, and even water down environmental pledges to get firms building.
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First-time buyers could benefit from a potential stamp duty cut rumoured to be announced tomorrow (September 23). Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is expected to announce a great swathe of announcements to tackle the cost of living crisis.
It is expected that Liz Truss and the chancellor will announce a cut to stamp duty cut. This is an attempt to get more people on the property ladder, The Times reports.
It comes a year after the last stamp duty holiday was brought to boost the property market after the economic fallout of lockdown. It was introduced back in July 2020 by former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and ended in September 2021, Birmingham Live reports.
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Stamp duty is a tax levied on property and land purchases above a certain price in England and Northern Ireland (different levies apply in Scotland and Wales). It is paid by buyers when they purchase property or land valued at over the stamp duty threshold.
Buyers pay stamp duty when purchasing freehold property and new or existing leaseholds, as well as shared ownership schemes and when they are transferred land or property in exchange for payment. This includes taking on a mortgage and buying a share in a house.
The stamp duty threshold for residential properties currently stands at £125,000. If you purchase a property above this threshold, you may be subject to stamp duty - but if the property you buy is worth less than £125,000, you won’t have to pay it.
There is a different stamp duty threshold for non-residential land and property. For these purchases, stamp duty starts to be levied at £150,000.
First-time buyers in England and Northern Ireland do not pay stamp duty on the first £300,000 of a main residential property if the property is valued at £500,000 or less. To be considered a first-time buyer, you must not have previously owned an interest in a residential property either in the UK or abroad.
According to The Times, Whitehall sources said the planned stamp duty was the “rabbit” in Kwarteng’s hat for this week’s mini-budget. The government reportedly believes that cutting stamp duty will loosen the property market and enable more first-time buyers to purchase homes.
But the move has already caused considerable controversy. Opponents warn that cutting stamp duty will simply benefit existing homeowners by boosting house prices, making homes even more unaffordable for those struggling to save up a decent deposit.
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A health boss has defended GPs that shut their surgeries for lunch amid calls to keep practices open. It comes as thousands of Kent patients have been left “seriously disadvantaged” in contacting their doctors, councillors heard this week.
Around 16 per cent of GP surgeries in Kent closed for lunch from April 2020 to March 2021. There are a total of 192 GP practices in the county, including Medway. It comes amid fears over long wait times for patients to book appointments.
Kent County Council’s (KCC) public health committee reviewed the situation yesterday as NHS England introduced local integrated care boards – to improve healthcare and replace the former clinical commissioning groups.
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Swanley county councillor Perry Cole (Con) said more than 256,000 Kent residents are “seriously disadvantaged” in contacting their GPs due to the shutdowns. Describing the closures as a “major bug bear” for his residents, he said: “I am sure it is a hive of industry and there are things going on behind the scenes.
“However it is an observation that 84% of surgeries can function throughout the working day and 16 per cent have chosen to shut their doors to the public facing aspect of their work.” KCC’s public health chairman, Cllr Andrew Kennedy (Con), described the lunchtime closures as a “major concern” to residents in his Tonbridge division.
Kent NHS representatives told the County Hall panel that “efficient” solutions to the shutdowns were being looked into. Matt Capper, who is the Kent and Medway ICB’s director of transition, gave assurances that staff working in the practices were not simply having lunch.
He said: “I can ensure you, they are not sitting there having their sandwiches. There is an awful lot of work that goes into the background of organising the afternoon session.
“If they are shut, and not defending them as there are more efficient ways of doing them, I can assure you they are not sitting there having their lunch.”
Asked whether the new NHS board will have “enhanced” powers to persuade GP surgeries to stay open at lunch, Mr Capper said they were not able to intervene, but revealed two new GP representatives are on the board to provide expert advice.
Kent and Medway’s next ICB public meeting is scheduled for November 1 at 10am.
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Akwa Ibom celebrates 35 years of state creation, declares Friday public holiday
Akwa Ibom State Government has declared Friday, September 23, 2022, a work-free day to mark the 35th anniversary of the state’s creation.
The state Governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel, who declared the holiday said government offices and other public places in the state are to remain closed to observe the holiday.
The holiday was announced through a release by the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Comrade Ini Ememobong, and made available to Tribune Online in Uyo on Thursday.
“This declaration is made in the spirit of the celebration of the 35th Anniversary of the creation of our state.
“The Governor wishes all Citizens and residents happy celebrations,” the release stated.
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At 526 Fletcher Drive
WARRENTON, Va., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BenchMark Physical Therapy opened an outpatient clinic today at 526 Fletcher Drive.
The clinic is open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday. To make an appointment, call 540-340-3690 or visit benchmarkpt.com.
BenchMark offers in-clinic and telehealth options for outpatient orthopedic physical therapy, including manual therapy, injury prevention, return to performance, total joint replacement, concussion management and vestibular rehabilitation programs.
Clinic director Trina Monty is a doctor of physical therapy with more than 15 years of outpatient orthopedic experience. She is certified in dry needling and vestibular rehabilitation and is a specialist in instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization and performance movement taping.
Monty specializes in the treatment of orthopedic conditions, sports injuries, vestibular rehabilitation, neurological and autoimmune disorders, and pre-and post-operative conditions.
BenchMark, part of the Upstream Rehabilitation family of clinical care, offers access to care within 24 hours and works with all insurance types.
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Another Way to Dress Your Salad in Good Taste
BRENHAM, Texas, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BRIANNAS Fine Salad Dressings continues to shake up the world of salad dressings with the release of their most recent home style flavor, Garlic Vinaigrette. Like all the flavors produced by BRIANNAS, Garlic Vinaigrette is made in small batches using premium ingredients to produce consistently great taste in every bottle.
Garlic Vinaigrette is a sweet and savory blend of garlic, oil, and cracked black pepper. It pairs nicely with green salads or pasta salads, and it doubles as a tasty marinade on your favorite meats and vegetables.
In addition to being drawn to the unique flavor combinations and iconic labels from BRIANNAS, customers appreciate the dietary accommodations as well. Garlic Vinaigrette is gluten free, Kosher, and vegan. It doesn't contain soy, MSG, high fructose corn syrup, nuts, eggs, or dairy.
"We know people are looking for delicious and versatile dressings and condiments to make their food taste better," says Jenny Van Dorf, BRIANNAS Director of Marketing and Communications. "For over 40 years our customers have grown to love and expect amazing flavor from BRIANNAS, and we do not think they will be disappointed with our new Garlic Vinaigrette!"
BRIANNAS Garlic Vinaigrette Dressing is available for purchase at BRIANNAS.com and Amazon starting today and coming soon to retailers.
About BRIANNAS® Fine Salad Dressings
Since 1982, BRIANNAS premium salad dressings have served retailers and distributors throughout the US and the world and celebrates their 40th anniversary this year! Produced in Brenham, Texas, the gourmet dressings continue to grow in popularity among consumers who value great tasting food made in small batches with premium ingredients. BRIANNAS produces 17 home style flavors, 5 organic dressings, and 3 with avocado oil. None of the dressings contain high-fructose corn syrup or trans fats, 23 are gluten-free, 18 are certified Kosher and five, GMO-free.
BRIANNAS delectable dressings have won numerous first place awards for their spectacular taste and have been featured in Real Simple, Southern Living, Food & Wine, Women's Health and on NBC's "The Today Show." For more information, visit BRIANNAS.com or find BRIANNAS on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.
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Insa To Open Ten Florida Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in 2022
TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Insa, Inc., an independent, Massachusetts-based medical and adult-use cannabis company opened its first medical cannabis dispensary in Tampa, Florida. Committed to offering the highest-quality and broadest selection of crafted, premium cannabis products, Insa is uncompromising about the quality of its products and dedicated to the best-in-the-industry staff training. The first of ten planned medical marijuana retail store experiences in 2022, Insa's new location at 5115 S Dale Mabry Highway welcomes Florida medical marijuana certified patients with the purpose of furthering education about cannabis and helping more people have better days more often. The location is open to patients from 8:00am to 9:00pm seven days a week.
"Insa is focused on leading the field and advancing cannabis for everyone. As our Company continues to expand down the East Coast, the Insa team remains committed to combining a passion for the best possible ingredients and products with cutting edge science and innovation," said Peter Gallagher, Insa Co-Founder. "Our team's passion for what we do allows Insa to compete in this new market against the larger, corporate cannabis producers; we are excited to expand our footprint into Florida and to serve patients in this growing market."
Insa will host a grand opening experience on Saturday, October 8, 2022 offering patients the opportunity to learn about the Insa brand, its commitment to the craft and quality of its flower and products, as well as its focus on customer service.
"Shopping at dispensaries can feel intimidating and create a barrier for people to learn about cannabis and how it can make their day better. Insa puts customer service first by focusing on in-store education and by creating a retail experience that is easy to navigate for patients with all levels of cannabis experience," said Sara Sullivan, Director of Retail Development & Experience. "At Insa, we are reconfiguring how cannabis patients shop at retail to make it an easy, informative, and customized experience. We have invested in a unique and welcoming design to give patients the opportunity to learn, explore and get the products they need every time they step into an Insa location."
Insa has plans to open a total of ten dispensaries across the state of Florida by the end of 2022 and will employ approximately 120 people at its locations. Insa offers a wide array of products and accessories including flower strains featuring new and exclusively grown cultivars, pre-rolls, vapes, concentrates, and hands-down the best chocolate.
Insa is a vertically integrated, independent cannabis company. Founded in 2013, the Company was started in Springfield, MA – home to its co-founders (and best buds), Pete Gallagher and Pat Gottschlicht. Dedicated to making its patients' good days even better (through cannabis), Insa was recently named the most awarded brand in the HighTimes MA Cannabis Cup. The Company specializes in every step of the cannabis process, from sourcing to growing to creating and dispensing meticulously crafted products that suit everyone's unique needs. Insa offers a cannabis experience that's trustworthy and effective, personal and handcrafted. Insa has retail stores in Massachusetts and Florida. The Company is developing an additional twelve new locations in FL, PA and OH in 2022. Insa has wide distribution through wholesale partners across PA and MA. To learn more about Insa please visit www.insa.com.
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Award recognizes the safe handling of hazardous materials
ATLANTA, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) today announced that 48 of its customers have earned the 2021 Thoroughbred Chemical Safety Award for safely handling products regulated as hazardous materials. Individually, the 43 corporate chemical manufacturers and five plants safely transported or originated 100% of their shipments over Norfolk Southern's rail network without a single incident in 2021. The award comes as the railroad industry highlights Rail Safety Week September 19 – 25.
The Chemical Safety Award celebrates and promotes safe rail-shipping practices. For more than 25 years, Norfolk Southern has recognized chemical manufacturers and plants who safely handle products that are vital to U.S. consumers and businesses, but also are regulated as hazardous materials.
"The winners of the Thoroughbred Chemical Safety Award differentiated themselves by transporting or originating 100% of their shipments over Norfolk Southern's network in 2021," said Norfolk Southern Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Ed Elkins. "Transporting hazardous materials requires strong working relationships between Norfolk Southern and our customers, which is why they are at the center of everything we do. Together, we are dedicated to safely transporting the materials that move our nation's economy."
Rail is one of the safest ways to transport hazardous material with more than 99% of carloads reaching their destinations without incident. Typically, these products move in tank cars owned or leased by customers, who are responsible for maintaining the cars and ensuring that they are properly secured for transit. Norfolk Southern transports them as a common carrier under federal law.
Norfolk Southern works closely with customers to enhance the environmental, health, safety, and security performance of chemical transport by rail. Participating in the American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care® Partner Program since 1996, Norfolk Southern observes strict standards to identify, reduce, and manage safety risks in chemical transport.
Norfolk Southern congratulates the following customers for earning the 2021 Thoroughbred Chemical Safety Corporate Award:
Norfolk Southern also congratulates the following customers for earning the 2021 Thoroughbred Chemical Safety Plant Award:
Marathon Petroleum – Canton, OH
Nutrien – White Springs, FL
Delaware City Refining – Delaware City, DE
Toledo Refining Company – Toledo, OH
Poet Biorefining – North Manchester, IL
About Norfolk Southern
Since 1827, Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) and its predecessor companies have safely moved the goods and materials that drive the U.S. economy. Today, it operates a customer-centric and operations-driven freight transportation network. Committed to furthering sustainability, Norfolk Southern helps its customers avoid 15 million tons of yearly carbon emissions by shipping via rail. Its dedicated team members deliver more than 7 million carloads annually, from agriculture to consumer goods, and is the largest rail shipper of auto products and metals in North America. Norfolk Southern also has the most extensive intermodal network in the eastern U.S., serving a majority of the country's population and manufacturing base, with connections to every major container port on the Atlantic coast as well as the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes. Learn more by visiting www.NorfolkSouthern.com.
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Local Sports: Ida's Schmitz reaches 100; Huron upsets state-ranked foe
HILLSDALE – Evan Schmitz has reached the century mark.
The Ida senior reached 100 career goals as he collected two goals and an assist in a 3-0 win over Hillsdale Wednesday.
“We could not be more proud of him as coaches,” Ida coach Tim Allen said. “He shares the ball very nicely and is a great teammate. He is our leading goal scorer and leading assist player as well.”
Jaxon Bolster had the other goal and Dylan Holycross recorded two assists as Ida pushed its record to 12-0.
“We are missing some players due to injury at the moment,” Allen said. “It was evident tonight in our midfield.”
PREP SOCCER
Huron roars back
NEW BOSTON – New Boston Huron came roaring back from a 2-0 halftime deficit to upset No. 8 Grosse Ile 3-2 Wednesday.
“This was Huron’s first win over Grosse Ile in this recent era and this group had a lot of support from all their peers,” Huron coach Matt Lividini said. “Great win, great time, great student section.”
Aidan Dolencic started the comeback with a goal off an assist from Jordan Stasak. Tyler Toth netted the next two goals, one coming off Ayden Shannon’s assist.
Seniors Ibrahim Muhammad, Abdul Ahmad, Brady Fleszar, Drew Slane, and Toth stood out on Senior Night.
Smith, McComas net two
CARLETON – Mitchell Smith scored two goals for Flat Rock and Brandon McComas did the same for Airport as the teams played to a 3-3 tie Wednesday.
Brady McBride had the other Flat Rock goal, and freshman Nolan Sanders found the back of the net for the 3-7-1 Jets.
“Hats off to Flat Rock for playing with the passion that we lacked today,” Airport coach Goran Cepo said. “We will keep working hard at practice and get back on track.”
Carlson falls short
GIBRALTAR – Gibraltar Carlson (8-5-1) was tied at halftime thanks to a Zack Walder goal off a Tyler Ostrowski assist, but Dearborn Edsel Ford scored in the second half for a 2-1 win Wednesday.
PREP VOLLEYBALL
SMCC wins Teal Attack
St. Mary Catholic Central’s annual Teal Attack volleyball game against Airport was a convincing win for the Kestrels.
SMCC moved to 14-4 overall and 4-0 in the Huron League with a 25-13, 25-8, 25-13 win over Airport.
Leah DeSarbo racked up 27 assists and 3 aces, Jessica Costlow was credited with 15 kills and 11 digs, and Mckenna Payne contributed 10 assists and 7 kills.
Other standouts were Raelyn Turner, Madeline Dettling, Lauren Conant, and Ava Villereal.
Airport (8-13 overall, 2-2 in Huron League) was led by Joelle Shrewsbury (14 digs, 4 assists), Jade Mittendorf (10 digs), Peyton Zajac (8 assists), and Savannah Barkley (4 kills).
Milan bounces back
Milan (8-3-4) rebounded from Monday’s loss to St. Mary Catholic Central with a 25-8, 25-22, 25-14 victory over Jefferson Wednesday.
“We came out with great energy and controlled the match,” Milan coach Kathy Bradshaw said. “The second set got a little close but my girls pulled it out. It was a loud gym and my girls could have let that get to them but they hung on to win.”
Milan’s leaders were Malea Wourman (13 kills), Amanda Gregorio (20 digs), Hailey Knox (5 aces), and Madison Slack (30 assists).
Huron wins in three
GROSSE ILE – New Boston Huron pulled out close wins in the first two sets, then controlled the third for a 25-19, 25-22, 25-14 win over Grosse Ile Wednesday.
Huron got strong performances from Ellen Town (4 aces, 6 kills, 10 digs), Gabby Cumbo (8 kills, 6 assists), Quinn Drysdale (11 assists), Miranda Jasinski (9 digs) and Allison Hollingshead (8 digs).
PREP GOLF
Huron defeats Flat Rock
NEW BOSTON − New Boston Huron posted five of the top six scores to defeat Flat Rock 231-263 Wednesday at Willow Metropark Golf Course.
Huron's AJ Skene was medalist with a 52, followed by teammates Gia Dean (56), Mira Lazenby (61), Addison Bozynski (62), and Brooklyn Burke (62).
Flat Rock's Amanda Page shot a 60.
State power tops SMCC
Last year's state runner-up Grosse Ile dispatched St, Mary Catholic Central 191-222 Wednesday at Monroe Golf & Country Club.
Grosse Ile's Lily Bargamian carried the day, shooting a 1-under 35 to pace the field.
Gracie Gentry (50) and Emily Bellino (55) led the Kestrels.
Sophomores lead Airport
RIVERVIEW −Three sophomores had a strong day for Airport, but it was not enough to lift the Jets to victory Wednesday as Riverview won 196-223 at Riverview Highlands Golf Course.
Sophie Bucki had a 51, and Hannah Roof and Ava Giese both added a 53 for the Jets. Riverview's Megan Rogers was medalist with 39.
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Gardner gets new job
CONWAY, S.C. – Summerfield graduate Michelle (Bolster) Gardner has been hired as the associate head coach for Coastal Carolina.
"I am thrilled to welcome Coach Gardner to our program and feel so fortunate to be bringing in someone with a vast amount of knowledge and experience," head coach Kelley Green said. "Our student-athletes will love the energy she brings every day and I think she's the perfect fit to help elevate our program to the next level."
Most recently, Gardner served as the pitching coach for the Israel National Team. Gardner served as the head coach at Indiana from 2008-17 eclipsing 380 career wins.
Before then she made stops at the University of Nevada (head coach), Arizona State University (assistant coach), Florida State University (assistant coach), and Bowling Green (assistant coach). She played at Michigan where she was an All-American and Big Ten Player of the Year.
AUTO RACING
Berry, Sawalich win
TOLEDO – Trevor Berry and 15 year-old rising star William Sawalich captured victories in Saturday’s 100-lap features in the Glass City 200 at Toledo Speedway.
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Further Establishes National Network of Leading Specialty and Emergency Veterinary Care Providers
TINTON FALLS, N.J., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Veritas Veterinary Partners ("Veritas"), a national network of over 100 leading specialty and emergency veterinary care providers, announced today the acquisition of Veterinary Surgical Specialists ("VSS"). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Veritas partners with high-quality specialty and emergency veterinary hospitals throughout the United States and supports the growth and success of industry-leading veterinarians and professionals. Investing in veterinary teams is at the core of its focus, offering recruiting resources, leading compensation and benefit programs for employees, equity opportunities for doctors, continuing education benefits, capital for new facilities and equipment and infrastructure for growth.
Veterinary Surgical Specialists is headed by a team of experienced and technologically advanced board-certified veterinary surgeons specializing in orthopedic, neurologic, oncologic and cardiothoracic procedures. These best-in-class surgeons utilize progressive techniques in a state-of-the-art facility enabling them to deliver the highest level of patient care. Known for their compassion, VSS has established itself as one the leading veterinary specialty practices in Southern California. VSS's partnership with Veritas will facilitate the expansion of its service offerings, including additional specialties.
"We could not be more excited to welcome the VSS team to the Veritas family as we continue our mission to bring the highest quality emergency and specialty services to communities throughout the country," said Dr. Thomas Scavelli, Founder and CEO of Veritas. "VSS has an outstanding reputation throughout Orange County and Southern California for its dedication to exceptional patient care. Veritas is committed to investing in and supporting veterinarians, and we look forward to partnering with the VSS team as they continue to grow their business and expand their offerings to meet the growing veterinary care needs of the communities in Southern California."
About Veritas Veterinary Partners
Veritas Veterinary Partners is a national network of leading specialty and emergency veterinary care hospitals. Built around the principles of truth and trust, Veritas is a mission- and values-driven entity with a network of like-minded partners. By offering extensive resources and access to a national network of leading providers, Veritas enhances growth, recruitment, professional development, and internal culture for its employees. For more information on partnership and career opportunities, please visit www.veritasvetpartners.com.
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Passport Canada offers an easy, digital option for parking payments
AYLMER, ON, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Catfish Creek Conservation Authority (CCCA), located in southwestern Ontario, is now offering the Passport Canada parking application for its conservation and campground visitors. The app is powered by Passport, a leading mobility software and payments company that manages cities' parking and mobility infrastructures through its platform.
With Passport Canada, paying to park is convenient and simple. After downloading the free Passport Canada parking app (available for Android or iOS), users create an account and then enter the zone number marked on nearby signage along with their license plate number. Once users enter the duration of their stay, they can manage their sessions remotely as well as view parking history and receipts. Parkers visiting the Springwater Conservation Area can purchase day passes through the app.
"Whether it's camping, hiking trails or year-round special events, there is something for everyone to enjoy in our Springwater Conservation Area," says Brittany Bell, Catfish Creek Conservation Authority customer support contact. "Passport's technology makes parking effortless for our visitors and streamlines parking management from an operations standpoint."
Passport's platform helps cities manage mobile pay parking, parking enforcement, digital permitting, payment services and more. The Company has helped more than 800 municipalities, universities and private operators streamline processes and use mobility data to increase revenue, decrease costs, easily integrate with other technologies and provide better user experiences.
"With Passport Canada, the Authority is able to offer ease in payment for parking to its visitors, reduce overall operational costs and improve their experiences so they can enjoy what these beautiful Conservation Areas have to offer," says Corey Norrell, Passport account executive. "We are excited for this partnership with CCCA and what it offers for its community and visitors."
The Passport Canada app is free to download from the App Store and Google Play. Users can also manage their parking online at passportca.com/park/.
Passport is a mobility software and payments company that builds solutions to centrally manage complexities at the curb. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Passport is trusted by more than 800 cities, universities and agencies, including Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles and Miami. Passport's mobility management platform helps cities manage parking and mobility infrastructure, creating more livable, equitable communities. One of the fastest-growing companies on the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 lists, Passport was also the 2021 Fintech category winner for the NC Tech Association's Industry Driven award.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) today announced that it has named Philip Dawson Jr. as Director of College and University Relations. In this newly created position, Dawson is responsible for growing degree-level CFP® Registered Programs to increase the number of CFP® certificants coming from those programs, including those from underrepresented groups.
CFP Board Registered Programs are financial planning education programs at regionally accredited colleges or universities. These programs have been approved by CFP Board to deliver curriculum covering the 8 Principle Knowledge Domains and 70 Principal Knowledge Topics that students must learn to fulfill the coursework requirement and sit for the CFP® exam.
Based in CFP Board's Washington, D.C. headquarters, Dawson will partner with Registered Programs to help increase enrollment and graduation rates in financial planning degree programs, cultivate relationships with colleges and universities for participation in Registered Programs, identify growth opportunities in educational institutions for alignment with the CFP® certification, and support key higher education institutions in the successful completion of CFP® certification among baccalaureate students. He will report directly to Chief Operating Officer Elizabeth Stewart, Esq.
"With his financial acumen and his extensive experience in delivering university-level business curriculum, Phil is a natural fit to lead our relations with the higher education community," said CFP Board CEO Kevin R. Keller, CAE. "We welcome Phil's fresh perspective as he helps strengthen our academic alliances and seeks opportunities for growth of CFP Board Registered Programs."
Dawson joins CFP Board after more than 10 years with Post University, where he most recently served as Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the Malcolm Baldridge School of Business. In this role, he managed a staff of program chairpersons as well as over 120 faculty members. Prior to that, Dawson served as a Financial Advisor for Morgan Stanley, where he provided investment management and financial planning strategies to high-net-worth individuals. He also previously served as Assistant Vice President in the risk consulting division of Marsh & McLennan, Inc.
Dawson earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Connecticut College. He holds an MBA with concentrations in finance and marketing from the University of Connecticut.
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. is the professional body for personal financial planners in the U.S. CFP Board sets standards for financial planning and administers the prestigious CFP® certification – one of the most respected certifications in financial services – so that the public has access to and benefits from competent and ethical financial planning. CFP Board, along with its Center for Financial Planning, is committed to increasing the public's awareness of CFP® certification and access to a diverse, ethical and competent financial planning workforce. Widely recognized by the public, advisors and firms as the standard for financial planning, CFP® certification is held by more than 93,000 people in the United States.
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The Flash Producer Announces the Score Has Been Completed
Over the past year, news surrounding The Flash has been anything but positive. With Ezra Miller embroiled in legal disputes and controversies, talks of delaying the release or cancelling the film continue to gain traction as new allegations surface. However, post-production on The Flash continues to progress. In fact, producer Bárbara Muschietti shared news of the completed score on her Instagram page.
In the post, Muschietti announced Benjamin Wallfisch, The Flash’s composer, recently finished the score. Muschietti called Wallfisch a “hero,” and thanked him for his “precious friendship.” You can read the entire message below.
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RELATED: Warner Bros Develops The Flash Movie Contingency Plans
Since its development announcement in 2013, The Flash has been somewhat of a troubled film due to its many directorial and screenwriting changes. Seth Grahame-Smith, Rick Famuyiwa, and the duo of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein all signed on to direct. And they all eventually left due to creative differences. The current director, Andy Muschietti, and screenwriter, Christina Hodson, joined the project in 2019.
The film will be DC’s entry into the multiverse as Miller’s Barry Allen goes back in time to prevent the murder of his mother. Sasha Calle also stars in the film as Supergirl, alongside Ron Livingston as Henry Allen, Kiersey Clemons as Iris West, Michael Shannon as General Zod, and Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman. Previous characters from alternate universes will also show up, including Michael Keaton’s Bruce Wayne from Tim Burton’s Batman.
The Flash is scheduled to be released on June 23, 2023.
Are you excited to see Barry Allen’s solo film in the DCEU? Leave your thoughts in the comments below!
Recommended Reading: Flash: The Haunting of Barry Allen
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Sandman’s Neil Gaiman Explains Why Show Hasn’t Been Renewed Yet
Ever since its streaming debut on August 5, The Sandman has been one of the most-watched series on Netflix. According to the Netflix Top 10 list, the series debuted at number one on the global top 10 with over 69 million hours viewed. With strong viewership numbers, it may surprise some to learn that the series has not been renewed for season 2. However, Neil Gaiman, the co-creator of the original comic and one of the driving forces behind the show, explained the lack of renewal in a recent Twitter post. Sandman’s Neil Gaiman.
Gaiman noted that the “date harvesting” on the series just finished. According to Gaiman, fans watching the episodes at their own pace made it harder for Netflix to collect data. Additionally, Gaiman even told fans to stop pestering Netflix to renew the series.
You can read Gaiman’s entire message below.
Sandman Season 1 dropped Aug 5th. The data harvesting has only just finished – and is complicated by a lot of people not binge-watching it, but spreading it out, letting episodes sink in before watching the next. Telling @netflix to hurry up won’t make decisions s happen faster. https://t.co/T69cV45r7W
— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) September 21, 2022
RELATED: Netflix Drops a Bonus Episode of The Sandman
Netflix’s adaptation stars Tom Sturridge as Morpheus/Dream, the personification of dreams. In captivity for over 100 years, Dream eventually escapes and sets out to bring back order to his realm, The Dreaming. In addition to Sturridge, Boyd Holbrook co-stars as the Corinthian, with Vivienne Acheampong as Lucienne, and Patton Oswalt as the voice of Matthew the Raven.
The Sandman‘s first season is now streaming on Netflix.
If you want to see a second season, then leave your answer in the comments below!
Recommended Reading: The Sandman Book One
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Award recognizes the safe handling of hazardous materials
ATLANTA, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) today announced that 48 of its customers have earned the 2021 Thoroughbred Chemical Safety Award for safely handling products regulated as hazardous materials. Individually, the 43 corporate chemical manufacturers and five plants safely transported or originated 100% of their shipments over Norfolk Southern's rail network without a single incident in 2021. The award comes as the railroad industry highlights Rail Safety Week September 19 – 25.
The Chemical Safety Award celebrates and promotes safe rail-shipping practices. For more than 25 years, Norfolk Southern has recognized chemical manufacturers and plants who safely handle products that are vital to U.S. consumers and businesses, but also are regulated as hazardous materials.
"The winners of the Thoroughbred Chemical Safety Award differentiated themselves by transporting or originating 100% of their shipments over Norfolk Southern's network in 2021," said Norfolk Southern Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Ed Elkins. "Transporting hazardous materials requires strong working relationships between Norfolk Southern and our customers, which is why they are at the center of everything we do. Together, we are dedicated to safely transporting the materials that move our nation's economy."
Rail is one of the safest ways to transport hazardous material with more than 99% of carloads reaching their destinations without incident. Typically, these products move in tank cars owned or leased by customers, who are responsible for maintaining the cars and ensuring that they are properly secured for transit. Norfolk Southern transports them as a common carrier under federal law.
Norfolk Southern works closely with customers to enhance the environmental, health, safety, and security performance of chemical transport by rail. Participating in the American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care® Partner Program since 1996, Norfolk Southern observes strict standards to identify, reduce, and manage safety risks in chemical transport.
Norfolk Southern congratulates the following customers for earning the 2021 Thoroughbred Chemical Safety Corporate Award:
Norfolk Southern also congratulates the following customers for earning the 2021 Thoroughbred Chemical Safety Plant Award:
Marathon Petroleum – Canton, OH
Nutrien – White Springs, FL
Delaware City Refining – Delaware City, DE
Toledo Refining Company – Toledo, OH
Poet Biorefining – North Manchester, IL
About Norfolk Southern
Since 1827, Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) and its predecessor companies have safely moved the goods and materials that drive the U.S. economy. Today, it operates a customer-centric and operations-driven freight transportation network. Committed to furthering sustainability, Norfolk Southern helps its customers avoid 15 million tons of yearly carbon emissions by shipping via rail. Its dedicated team members deliver more than 7 million carloads annually, from agriculture to consumer goods, and is the largest rail shipper of auto products and metals in North America. Norfolk Southern also has the most extensive intermodal network in the eastern U.S., serving a majority of the country's population and manufacturing base, with connections to every major container port on the Atlantic coast as well as the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes. Learn more by visiting www.NorfolkSouthern.com.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for RCL, RIO, MA, CRM, and CVX.
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The day after his 8-month-old baby died, Kingsley Raspe opened the mail and found he had been sent to collections for her care.
That notice from the collections agency involved a paltry sum, $26.50 — absurd really, given he'd previously been told he owed $2.5 million for treatment of his newborn's congenital heart defect and other disorders.
Raspe and his wife, Maddie, had endured watching doctors crack open the chest of their pigtailed daughter, Sterling, whom they called "sweet Sterly gurl." The health team performed so many procedures. But they couldn't keep her — or her parents' dreams for her — alive.
The bills lived on for the Raspes, as they do for many other families of premature and very sick infants who don't survive.
"What a lasting tribute to the entire experience," Kingsley said angrily. "The process was just so heartless."
More than 300,000 U.S. families have infants who require advanced medical attention in the newborn intensive care units every year. Some babies stay for months, quickly generating astronomical fees for highly specialized surgeries and round-the-clock care. The services are delivered, and in U.S. health care, billing follows. But for the smaller fraction of families whose children die, the burden can be too much to bear.
A patchwork of convoluted Medicaid-qualification rules seek to defray these kinds of bills for very sick children. But policies differ in each state, and many parents — especially those, like the Raspes, who have commercial insurance — don't know to apply or think they won't qualify.
Also, because many crises that befall premature or very sick babies are in-the-moment emergencies, there may not be time for the preapprovals that insurers often require for expensive interventions. That leaves parents in crisis — or in mourning — tasked with fighting with insurers to have treatment covered.
Three families detailed for KHN how medical bills compounded their suffering during a time when they were just trying to process their loss.
Bennett Markow needed a $71,000 'out-of-network' emergency flight
As the hospital in Reno, Nev., was converting a parking garage into a COVID-19 unit in November 2020, Bennett Markow came into the world four months early. He weighed less than a pound. His care team loved to sing "Bennie and the Jets" to him as a nod to the jet ventilator keeping his tiny lungs working.
On Jan. 20, 2021, when he was 2 months old, Bennett's parents were told he needed to go to UC Davis Children's Hospital in Sacramento, Calif., for specialized care that could keep him from going blind. The transfer team would be there in an hour. And the Nevada care team said that because it was an emergency, the family needn't worry about their insurance or the method of transportation.
Bennett's eye problem ended up being less severe than the doctors had feared. And Crissa Markow and her husband, A.J., were billed for the plane ride from REACH Air Medical Services, which turned out to be out-of-network. Jason Sorrick, vice president of government relations for REACH's parent company, Global Medical Response, said the ride happened during a "lapse" in Bennett's Medicaid coverage.
The Markows said there was no lapse. They hadn't applied for Medicaid yet because they thought they wouldn't qualify — the family is middle-class, and Bennett was on Crissa's insurance. They did not know they should apply until a social worker at UC Davis gave them more information — after the flight.
Crissa Markow said her heart dropped to her toes when she realized she was being billed more than $71,000 — that's more than she makes in a year as a social worker. (The federal No Surprises Act, which aims to eliminate surprise billing, could have prevented some of the family's headaches — but Bennett was born before the law went into effect this year.)
Although Crissa was used to working toward solutions, the billing quagmires she found herself in were overwhelming as she juggled her job, caring for Bennett and her other son and the travel logistics required to stay with Bennett, who was now getting care about 2½ hours away from her home. Crissa estimates she spent six to eight hours a week dealing with medical bills to keep them from being sent to collections — which still happened.
Bennett died that July after doctors said his lungs could not fight anymore. The Markows spent their bereavement leave battling with insurers and other billing agencies.
Finally, Crissa called REACH, the air transport company, and said: "Look, my son died. I just want to be able to grieve, I want to focus on that. Dealing with this bill is traumatic. It's a reminder every day I shouldn't have to be fighting this."
By October, the Markows had settled the bill with REACH on the condition that they not disclose the terms. Sorrick said that the company reaches agreements based on the financial and personal situations of each patient and their family and that the company's patient advocates had talked to Crissa Markow 17 times.
"If every settlement amount was disclosed publicly, then those rates become the expectation of all patients and insurance providers," Sorrick said. "Ultimately, that would lead to all patients wanting to pay below-cost, making our services unsustainable."
Crissa Markow's employer-provided insurance paid $6.5 million for Bennett's care, not including what was covered by Medicaid. The Markows paid roughly $6,500 out-of-pocket to hospitals and doctors on top of their REACH settlement. But it was not those amounts — which the couple would have happily paid to save their son — but the endless harassment and the hours spent on the phone that haunt them.
"I just wanted to be with Bennett; that's all I wanted to do," Crissa Markow said. "And I just spent hours on these phone calls."
Jack Shickel lived 35 days. His medical bill was $3.4 million
Jack Shickel was born with stunning silver hair and hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Even though he was surrounded by wires and tubes, the nurses at UVA Children's Hospital would whisper to Jessica and her husband, Isaac, that they had a truly "cute" baby.
But his congenital disorder meant the left side of his heart never fully developed. Each year in the U.S., over a thousand babies are born with the syndrome.
After two surgeries, Jack's heart could not pump enough blood on its own. He made it 35 days.
Weeks after his death, when the Shickels were trying to muddle through life without him in Harrisonburg, Va., they called the hospital billing department about two confusing bills. They were then told the full cost of his care was $3.4 million.
"I laughed and then cried," Jessica said. "He was worth every penny to us, but that's basically $100,000 a day."
Bills from out-of-network labs and other prior approval notifications continued to overwhelm their mailbox. Eventually, they figured out how to get Medicaid. The Shickels ended up paying only $470.26.
Jessica got the final bills in March, seven months after Jack's death.
She noted that all of this was happening as the University of Virginia Health System said it was rolling back its aggressive billing practices — after a KHN investigation found the prestigious university hospital was putting liens on people's homes to recoup medical debt.
When KHN reached out to UVA Health for comment on the Shickel case, a spokesperson, Eric Swensen, expressed condolences to the Shickel family, and added that the health system works to help patients navigate the "complex process" of evaluating financial assistance, including Medicaid coverage.
The Shickels also got a call from UVA after that, saying that the hospital was refunding their payment.
The hospital care team had given the family a pamphlet about what to do when grieving, but a more useful one, Jessica said, would have been titled "How Do You Deal With Medical Bills After Your Child Has Died?"
Sterling Raspe's parents considered bankruptcy to pay their bills
Kingsley Raspe likes to say his daughter Sterling was "one special little lady" — not only did she have the same congenital heart defect as Jack Shickel, but she was also diagnosed with Kabuki syndrome, a rare disorder that can severely affect development. Sterling also had hearing loss, spinal cord issues and a compromised immune system.
An explanation of benefits from the Raspes' commercial insurance indicated the couple would need to pay $2.5 million for Sterling's care — an amount so large the numbers didn't all fit in the column. Even Kingsley's suspicion that the $2.5 million charge was likely erroneous — in large part or in whole — didn't erase the sheer panic he felt when he saw the number.
As a computer programmer making $90,000 a year, Kingsley had decent insurance. He frantically Googled "medical bankruptcy."
Sterling had been denied Medicaid, which is available to children with complex medical problems in some states. In rejecting the application, Indiana cited an income threshold and other technical reasons.
Everyone kept telling Kingsley and Maddie to get divorced — just so Sterling would qualify for Medicaid. But that wasn't an option for Kingsley, a British citizen who is in the U.S. on a green card tied to his marriage.
Ultimately, Kingsley's health insurer revised the faulty notice that he owed $2.5 million. The family was told the mistake had occurred because Sterling's initial hospital stay and surgeries had not been preapproved, although Kingsley said the heart defect was discovered halfway through the pregnancy, making surgery inevitable.
Throughout Sterling's eight months of life, Kingsley did his programming job remotely — usually from his daughter's bedside in her hospital room. Using his web-developer skills, he created visualizations that break down Sterling's expensive care — it helped him make sense of it all. Then, and in the months afterward, he and his wife compiled advice for other families navigating long NICU stays with their babies.
Kingsley cries when he remembers those days.
He hates that Sterling's life has been reduced to a 2-inch stack of printed-out medical bills and the still-frequent phone calls he endures from errant billers.
Despite receiving a plethora of other bills in the tens of thousands of dollars, he and his wife eventually only had to pay their $4,000 deductible, and a smattering of smaller charges and fees for equipment rentals that weren't covered. In April, Maddie gave birth to a son, Wren. Kingsley said he knows Sterling served as her brother's guardian angel.
"My daughter passed away. I'm not unscathed, but I'm not in financial ruin. The same can't be said for every family," he said. "How lucky am I? I went through the worst thing imaginable, and I consider myself lucky — what kind of weird, messed-up logic is that?"
KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a nonprofit, editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation that produces in-depth journalism about health issues.
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Four senators, including Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., are asking the Departments of Defense and Education for answers after a July report from the New York Times revealed a pattern of sexual misconduct among Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) instructors.
The Times report found at least 33 JROTC instructors who had been criminally charged with sexual misconduct involving high school students over a five year period, as well as other instructors who were accused of misconduct but never charged. While the Defense and Education Departments are supposed to have shared oversight over the JROTC program, the Times report showed little oversight over instructors and allegations against them.
The senators want to know how many reports the departments have received with allegations of instructors sexually abusing or harassing students and what kind of guidance and oversight they provide to schools on the instructor hiring process.
"The JROTC program can provide a significant benefit to students, but it is clear that students have suffered incredible harm because ED and DoD currently lack the necessary oversight to prevent it from becoming a hunting ground," they wrote in letters addressed to Gilbert Cisneros, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.
Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, have also signed onto the letters. And the House Oversight Committee sent similar questions to DoD officials last month.
The letter points out data from the Times report that shows that arrest rates for JROTC instructors are far higher than rates of other teacher-student sexual misconduct cases.
"These troubling data clearly reveal that this program may be at higher risk for abuse and needs enhanced oversight from the military services and DoD," the senators' letter says.
The senators also point out that many JROTC host schools are often located in areas that are economically disadvantaged, and have higher populations of people of color.
The questions from lawmakers come as all military branches are struggling with meeting their recruiting goals.
In a Wednesday Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Stephanie Miller, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for military personnel policy, responded to questions from Warren about the Times report.
"We completely agree that additional oversight is necessary," Miller said. "We also think that we need to take a hard look at our current background investigation process ... we need to look even beyond our traditional background investigation to see if there's other tools that we need to add to that, such as potentially social media checks."
Lt. Gen. Caroline Miller, the deputy chief of staff for manpower, personnel and services of the U.S. Air Force, said there is "very little oversight" in the Air Force among JROTC programs.
"We're looking at putting Guard and reserve members into some of those programs to provide additional oversight," Miller said.
The senators have given the departments until Oct. 14 to respond to their questions.
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The night before opposing coaches play the 49ers, the thing keeps them awake in their beds isn’t Jimmy Garoppolo, Trey Lance, or even Kyle Shanahan’s scheme. The thing that steals shut-eye from even the most sleep-deprived coaches is the defense. Just listen to how Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett described that side of the ball yesterday.
“Their front seven is dynamic. The whole group is very, very good. They’re very sound, they’re a penetrating front. They’re dynamic. When you’ve got so many good, electric players on a front, it’s always going to cause issues. They’re playing at a very high level. They’ve been in that system now for quite a while so they’re comfortable. They know it.
You take 54, he’s spectacular. He’s such a good player. He’s someone that you always have to be aware of, but you also have to be aware of a bunch of other guys, too.
They’re very simple, but they’re very effective. They understand all the different route concepts they can get. They understand the runs they can get, and they are able to play fast. I think they continually show that and they make you have to be perfect on every single play.”
Opposing coaches typically lay on the puffery during conference calls with the opponent’s press corps, but in this case it’s all true.
49ers defensive ranks through the first two weeks of the season
— Jordan Elliott (@splash_cousin) September 21, 2022
Passing defense - 1st
Rushing defense - 2nd
Total defense - 1st
Points allowed - 3rd pic.twitter.com/s8DxtJsjjS
Yes the sample size may be small, but it is all the data we have to go on right now. We thought going into the season that DeMeco Ryans’ defense was going to be legit, and it has been. Last week the Niners pressured Seattle 18 times on 33 dropbacks. On the season, the 49ers’ four man rush has generated a pressure rate of 45% - best in the league thus far. That is complete and utter dominance.
While Russell Wilson may always haunt the dreams of the Faithful, perhaps on Sunday Nick Bosa and company can finally return the favor.
Hear more about this and other stories in today’s 49ers in Five podcast. Our five minute daily update gives you the latest news, best audio clips, and everything else you need to know about the team. Subscribe to the Niners Nation Podcast Network today so you don’t miss an episode!
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49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo came in cold off the bench in Week 2 and led the 49ers to a 54% success rate, with 46% of Jimmy's throws going for a first down. That's ideal. The hope is that now Garoppolo is the starter and will take all of the reps during the week, and the 49ers' offense will excel under the veteran.
The Ringer's Steven Ruiz updates the quarterbacks around the NFL weekly. They rank everything from accuracy to arm talent. And while Garoppolo's EPA per play and success rate rank near the top, his completion percentage over expectation ranks 23rd. Here's Ruiz's breakdown of Jimmy:
BREAKDOWN
You always know what you’re going to get from Jimmy G. In some ways, that’s a good thing—if a coach wants to run a play-action-heavy offense that requires the quarterback to make brave throws over the middle of the field, Garoppolo is the man for the job. But just know: Jimmy will throw that pass whether there’s a defender in the way or not, and that can be a problem. (If only an “are you sure you want to make this throw?” message popped up in front of him before every throw!)
Garoppolo has a more-than-capable arm and a lightning-quick release. That combination makes him awfully useful to a coach like Kyle Shanahan, who doesn’t need a brain surgeon at quarterback to score points. Clearly, though, Shanahan wanted more than a paint-by-numbers passer—that’s why the Niners gave up all those picks to draft Trey Lance—and Garoppolo just doesn’t have the play-making gene.
BIGGEST STRENGTH: ARM TALENT
Garoppolo won’t make plays like Mahomes or Allen, but when the pocket is clean and the receiver is open, nobody throws a prettier ball. Even his mechanics are handsome.
BIGGEST WEAKNESS: CREATIVITY
If Garoppolo played football while sitting in a chair in the pocket, I’m not sure his game would change at all.
The line about Garoppolo lacking a playmaking gene is why the 49ers moved on. This is the most talented group of weapons Jimmy has had in his Niner tenure. This would be the season if there was ever a time for him to prove he was a playmaker.
Garoppolo ranks 23rd in the QB ranking, behind Tua, Tannehill, Mac Jones, Marcus Mariota, and Geno Smith. Here's a look at his attributes:
OVERALL GRADE - 74
Accuracy - 76
Arm Talent - 84
Creativity - 64
Decision-Making - 74
Pocket Presence - 68
Pre-snap - 65
In the video above, I highlighted some of the issues Garoppolo had in the pocket last week. Before halftime, it looked like he was playing pick-up ball where nobody runs plays, and you go out there and hoop. After halftime, Jimmy looked like a player who was forced to play within the structure of the offense again, and that hurt his production.
Garoppolo looked comfortable and confident, attacking all areas of the field early on. For this team to reach its ceiling, he'll need to do that for four quarters and not two. We know teams will sell out to stop the 49ers' running game, but that opens up throwing lanes in turn.
Between the ranking or attributes, which one do you disagree with the most?
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The 49ers offense travels to Broncos Country with a tough test against a Denver defense that has allowed only 26 points through two games. With key players like Justin Simmons out and Pat Surtain potentially out in the secondary, the Broncos will rely heavily on their pass rush group that features Bradley Chubb and Randy Gregory.
With a familiar face back under center, here are five 49ers to watch against the Broncos Sunday night:
QB Jimmy Garoppolo
The more things change, the more they stay the same. So despite an off-season full of rumors and rumblings and a quarterback change here, we stand with Jimmy Garoppolo as the starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. Garoppolo stepped in against Seattle last week after Trey Lance went down with a season-ending ankle injury and threw for 154 yards and a touchdown on 21 attempts while adding a win to that all-important quarterback win stat.
RB Marlon Mack and RB Jordan Mason
Quarterback isn’t the only position with the next man-up mentality on the 49ers offense. Of the six (including fullback Kyle Juszcyzk) running backs on the initial 53-man roster, the 49ers have just three ready for Sunday night in Denver.
With Tyrion Davis-Price out the next several weeks with a high ankle sprain, the 49ers signed veteran Marlon Mack from their practice squad. Jeff Wilson will get the majority of the carries but will Kyle Shanahan use Mack, who has been with the team for a couple of weeks, or Jordan Mason, who has been active the first two weeks but has yet to see an offensive snap, to be the spell back behind Wilson?
WR Danny Gray
When the 49ers drafted Gray with the 105th pick in April, the thought was he’d be used to stretch the field vertically for Trey Lance’s big arm. Now with Garoppolo as the starter, the vertical game will likely be used less, so where does that leave Gray? After a Week 1 healthy scratch, Gray was targeted twice on only seven offensive snaps. Both targets came with Jimmy Garoppolo at quarterback, including a shot about 40 yards downfield. Gray might not see the most snaps on Sunday, but if he does see some, how will he be used in an offense that will now see the majority of its passes be in the short and intermediate ranges?
LG Aaron Banks
Banks has been solid at the left guard this season, where he was a bit of an unknown entering the second season of his career. After allowing two pressures in Week 1 against Chicago, Banks allowed only one pressure against Seattle. His three pressures allowed match the likes of All-Pro guards Joel Bitonio and Quenton Nelson, and while it’s a small sample size of just two games, it’s a good group to be tied with. With so many questions surrounding the 49ers' offensive line, specifically, the interior, Banks’ good play early on has been an encouraging sign for the offense.
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TAMPA, Fla — Thanks to another federal interest rate hike, it's now even more expensive to borrow money or carry certain debt in America.
Florida Gulf Coast University Economist Victor Claar said the Federal Reserve is working to rein in that demand and to stop the "runaway inflation" we've seen — even if it means temporary financial pain for many Americans.
"It's not good over the shorter term, but over the longer term, it might very well be a price worth paying because nobody wants to live in a country with runaway inflation," he said.
And that pain extends far beyond things like housing and credit card debt and into areas like transportation.
"If prices are high right now, the Fed is convinced that demand is too strong," Claar said.
Buying a new car will run you almost $5,000 more than it did a year ago, according to Kelley Blue Book.
Increased costs and interest rates mean that car payments are also up for those who are financing.
Edmunds found that in June, almost 13% of car buyers had payments over $1,000.
"It feels like if you're trying to find affordable, reliable, serviceable cars right now, you're getting hit two times," Claar said. "You're getting hit with higher interest rates and also getting hit with higher prices, whether it's new or used for those vehicles."
Claar said that in all areas, relief for most is a ways off as the Federal Reserve stated that it would keep raising rates over the next few years in an effort to drop inflation from where it sits at 8.3% nationwide to 2%.
This article was written by Rochelle Alleyne for WFTS.
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With less than two months to the midterms and election signs and mailers already abundant, Orange County’s former registrar has launched a new national campaign to ensure the safety of election workers and voters in an increasingly volatile and partisan environment.
The Committee for Safe and Secure Elections – chaired by Neal Kelley, who retired in March, and supported by the New York-based Brennan Center for Justice – includes experts in law enforcement and election administration from around the country. Its short-term goal is to connect local law enforcement and election officials to address threats and violence against election workers and voters. Long-term, the group will look to recommend policies and legislation to address the problem more broadly.
Earlier this year, a Georgia election worker and her mother testified to Congress that they had to move to new homes and were afraid of being recognized in public after former President Donald Trump and his supporters accused them publicly of meddling with local election results.
A survey done this year by the Brennan Center found one in six election workers said they’ve personally received threats, and some election offices have reportedly installed surveillance cameras, hired private security and offered active shooter training after an influx of threats of violence.
“There was a collective feeling among a lot of election officials across the country that the threats were increasing, the agitation was increasing as we’re heading into (2022, 2024),” Kelley said. “Some elections officials don’t know what to do, don’t know how they’ll be protected.”
A new concern
Kelley, who ran Orange County’s elections from 2005 until earlier this year, said he got indirect comments on the job such as “There’s going to be blood on your hands if you certify this election,” but some members of his new committee have been targeted with protests in front of their homes and death threats.
It’s a new issue for the workers who check voters in, answer their questions and count ballots. Rick Hasen, a professor of election law at UCLA who has researched threats to election officials, said it stems from the 2020 election.
“I think we’re still dealing with the aftermath of that, because Trump is still claiming that the election was stolen and people are running on platforms of election denialism,” Hasen said.
No one has produced credible evidence of widespread election fraud in 2020 or since, but some candidates have alleged cheating or fraud even before their elections were held. That strategy could potentially undermine democracy by persuading people elections aren’t fair, Hasen said, and “if voters don’t believe that, the whole system can fall apart.”
State Sen. Josh Newman, D-Fullerton, considered safety of election workers enough of a problem that he wrote a bill to allow them to keep their home address private via existing state programs that protect law enforcement officials and domestic abuse survivors. The bill was later expanded to cover other public employees and is awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature.
Election workers “have found themselves sort of caught in this vortex of partisanship and acrimony,” and sometimes have been subjected to threats and physical altercations, Newman said.
He cited a 2021 national poll of more than 230 electioon workers that found one in three of those surveyed “were concerned about feeling unsafe or being harassed” while doing their job.
Newman said a man called in during public comments in a committee hearing to oppose his bill and “said something like, ‘You can try to hide from us, but we have friends in the post office and we’re going to find you.’”
Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan, who’s been an election administrator for more than 30 years, said his office works closely with law enforcement and encourages poll workers to speak up if they have any concerns.
Incidents like what happened to the Georgia poll workers are “extremely worrisome,” because they could discourage people from wanting to volunteer or take jobs running local elections, Logan said. “Does that also then filter down to increasing voter cynicism where people don’t want to participate in an election or they’re not comfortable going to a polling place?”
Addressing the problem
Kelley’s bipartisan committee is working on products, services and training that local election and law enforcement officials can use, including a video that covers what to do when election officials receive a threat and what a successful outcome of an incident should look like.
He previously created a pocket guide for police, who may not be clear on whether a threat at a polling place is a civil or criminal matter; the committee is updating the guide with information and laws specific to each state. There’s also a checklist of steps for election officials with information on how to report threats and tabletop exercises they can do in cooperation with law enforcement.
Kelley, Logan and current Orange County Registrar Bob Page agreed that another important part of addressing the issue is transparency with voters and anyone with questions or concerns about the election process.
Page, who also spent nearly four years as San Bernardino County’s registrar, said he’s focusing on extra training for everyone who works with voters. While the county already has “a really robust” program for people who want to observe ballot counting and verification, he expects even more interest in November – and people are now asking to see other parts of the process, like when ballots are picked up at drop boxes.
He focuses on communicating what his office does and what systems are in place to ensure elections are accurate and secure.
“I can just control explaining honestly what we do,” Page said. “It’s definitely up to the other person how they take that information and what they do with it.”
Logan said in his outreach to voters, he tries to stress that the election process really belongs to the public, and it’s important for them to take part in it.
“There’s an argument to be made that the intent of all this is to discourage people from participating in the election,” he said. “The best defense against those efforts is to participate.”
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Neptune and its rings haven’t looked this good in decades.
NASA released new glamour shots of our solar system’s outermost planet Wednesday taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The pictures taken in July show not only Neptune’s thin rings, but its faint dust bands, never before observed in the infrared, as well as seven of its 14 known moons.
Webb showed Jupiter at its best in a series of fresh photos released last month.
Launched less than a year ago, the $10 billion Webb is spending most of its time peering much deeper into the universe. Astronomers hope to see back to almost the beginning of time when the first stars and galaxies were forming.
NASA’s Voyager 2 was the first spacecraft to see Neptune in all its gaseous glory, during a 1989 flyby. No other spacecraft have visited the icy, blue planet. So it’s been three decades since astronomers last saw these rings with such detail and clarity, said the Space Science Institute’s Heidi Hammel, a planetary astronomer working with Webb.
Hammel tweeted that she wept when she saw the rings, yelling and making “my kids, my mom, even my cats look.”
Webb is the world’s biggest, most powerful telescope, operating 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth. It rocketed into space last December.
The observatory is in good health, according to NASA, except for one item.
NASA reported this week that a mechanism on one of Webb’s instruments showed signs of increased friction late last month in one of four observing modes. Observations are on hold in this one particular observing track, as a review board decides on a path forward.
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(NewsNation) — Ahead of the midterm elections, TikTok is creating more requirements for politicians and political accounts, including that they be verified.
In a blog post, Blake Chandlee, TikTok’s president of Global Business Solutions, said the aim of doing this is to build on the platform’s efforts to keep “harmful misinformation” off of TikTok and give its community “authoritative information” about elections.
Many political accounts, Chandlee said, already have a verification badge on their profile, which lets people know an account is genuinely from a certain politician, party or government official.
Starting Wednesday, though, TikTok will be “trialing” mandatory verification for these accounts through the 2022 midterm elections.
“We don’t proactively encourage politicians or political parties to join TikTok, but we welcome those that have chosen to and want to ensure our community knows the source is authentic when watching that content,” Chandlee wrote. “Verification lets our community know an account is authentic and belongs to the user it represents, which is a way to build trust between high-profile creators and their community.”
As TikTok has become more popular in recent years, a number of politicians have found followers on the app, including Florida Senate candidate Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla, and Florida Democratic congressional candidate Ken Russell.
Over the coming weeks, Chandlee said, TikTok will also stop allowing campaign fundraising.
Additionally, although political advertising is already not allowed, accounts belonging to politicians and political parties on TikTok will automatically have their advertising features turned off now. They are also getting cut off from accessing other monetization features such as gifting, tipping and e-commerce.
“By prohibiting campaign fundraising and limiting access to our monetization features and verifying accounts, we’re aiming to strike a balance between enabling people to discuss the issues that are relevant to their lives while also protecting the creative, entertaining platform that our community wants,” Chandlee said.
TikTok, like other social media in recent years, has struggled to contain misinformation on its platform.
Just this month, a new study came out by NewsGuard that found that one in five search results on TikTok contains misinformation. A TikTok spokesperson told CNN in response that it removes misinformation from the app, and partners with credible voices to “to elevate authoritative content on topics related to public health, and partner with independent fact-checkers who help us to assess the accuracy of content.”
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