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THE news was terrific: in what was apparently the biggest singular cocaine seizure in its history as Nigeria’s premier anti-narcotics agency, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) busted a major warehouse in a secluded estate in Ikorodu area of Lagos where 1.8 tonnes (1,855 kilogrammes) of the illicit drug conservatively vàlued at $278, 250,000 (N194, 775,000,000) were seized. Four drug barons, including a Jamaican and the warehouse manager, were arrested in the well-coordinated and intelligence-led operation that lasted two days across different locations in the Centre of Excellence. The suspects, members of an international drug syndicate on the NDLEA radar since 2018, include Messrs Soji Jibril, an indigene of Ibadan, Oyo State; Anambra-born Emmanuel Chukwu; Oyo State born-Wasiu Akinade; Sunday Oguntelure of Okitipupa, Ondo State origin and Kelvin Smith, a native of Kingston, Jamaica. The astounding discovery, the product of solid intelligence and hard work, thrilled President Muhammadu Buhari, who told the NDLEA boss, Buba Marwa: “You have demonstrated over and again that choosing you to lead this fight against wicked merchants of death whose sole aim is to endanger and truncate the future of our youth is a very good choice. Please keep up the good work.”
Actually, Marwas is no new entrant into the national consciousness. If Area Boys, the ubiquitous thugs who make life a nightmare for many, can still be found in Nigeria’s Centre of Excellence, it is because democracy came undoing certain steps of statecraft by khakimen. In the 1990s when you traversed Ikorodu, Lagos Island and virtually every part of Lagos, the boys, present as the sun, were a gory spectre of the landscape. Their job, when they were not mauling the peace of night, was mendicancy. It did not matter if you weren’t overly wealthy: the slightest sign of well-being was enough to court flattery, especially if you rode in a car: “Ah! Step over me, Baba! Mistakenly born in Nigeria! Breakfast in Washington, lunch in Aso Rock! O tun se kini? O tunjeun ale ni Dangote! (And he did what? He ate breakfast at Dangote!). Baba o!” Naturally, with such super praise, you had to part with something, unless you wanted dinner with the devil.
The boys loved parties, and in fact the climate of violence witnessed in gigs troubled many, including Musibau Alani, the musician of the streets. An exasperated Alani sang: “Ka ma i fa gbolohun aso, won lo y’adayobe, o tojusu mi l’Ekoile, e dakun e nasurusi o!” (At the slightest sign of an argument, they bring out machetes and knives. I’m tired of this violence in Lagos. Please let’s exercise patience!). The violence apart, there was also the unceasing ferment of the annulment of June 12. Lagos, thanks to Afenifere and NADECO, was the national capital of dissent, and Area Boys latched unto the opportunity to perpetrate crime. Enter Marwa, the Fulani soldier from Adamawa who was, against all odds, to calm the storm.
On assuming office in 1996, Marwa wanted to solve a puzzle: which of the boys ravaging the streets were just there (on the streets) on account of unemployment, and which of them were there as full-time criminals? He decided to address the unemployment question and then see what would come up. Declaring the Area Boys to be “good boys” who only needed guidance, mentorship and, best of all, good jobs, Marwa unleashed a project of skills acquisition training in various vocations, following which the boys were assisted to establish small-scale businesses. Indeed, many were engaged by the state’s direct labour agency and worked on road reconstruction. Gainfully employed, most of the Area Boys disappeared from the streets, and with that, their trouble. But then there were the unrepentant criminals, including trans-border robbers, to deal with. The answer: Operation Sweep, a no-nonsense military outfit that took the battle to criminals. But beyond soldier’s bullets, Marwa, his gaze firmly fixed on the future, wanted to leverage on technology.
Tasked with rolling out innovative technology to address the festering crime rate, the increasingly beloved MILAD set up an office located in Alausa, the State Secretariat, which unfolded the Vehicle Tracking System. Once a motorist subscribed, their vehicle was safe anywhere in Lagos State. If a vehicle was stolen or snatched at gunpoint, all that the victim had to do was to send a code to that office, and the vehicle was immediately demobilized. The government told car owners to obey the armed carjackers while surreptitiously contacting the office: the vehicle would be demobilised, and then men of Operation Sweep, who occupied the ground below at the office near the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, would move in to recover the car. There was also Alarm Network, an anti-burglary facility that homeowners pressed through remote control and alerted the office when under threat. Naturally, the system was not perfect—Operation Sweep was sometimes accused of excesses—but even the staunchest critics admitted that Lagos had been made safe.
Beloved as MILAD, Marwa had little trouble gaining entrance into the residence of Basorun MKO Abiola following his death in July 1998. MKO was suspected to have been killed and the crowd, opposed to the Sani Abacha-led junta with venom, vowed that no soldier would come in on a condolence visit. But then, Marwa came calling. And the people relaxed their decree, singing: “Marwa o, o se wo ni, awa o je gba soja laye, Marwa o, o se wo ni.” (Marwa, this is because you are the one involved. We admit no soldiers in; Marwa, this is because you are the one involved.)
Of course, now in 2022, Marwa no longer has the agility of youth, but his passion for excellence remains seems to have increased with age. Intending to make a change at the NDLEA when President Buhari tapped him for the top job, Marwa, reliving his experience of bitter conflicts with Chadian rebels when he was Borno governor and the battles of Lagos, now devised mechanisms for a different kind of war. The problem at the NDLEA, he discovered, was principally about morale. And so he boosted the morale and confidence of the agency’s officers and men by addressing their welfare and career stagnation issues. Then he attracted international support (donation of operational equipment and technical assistance by the UNODC and the European Union, etc), fostered partnerships with drug law enforcement agencies in foreign jurisdictions through MoUs and intelligence sharing, then launched an onslaught on drug cartels across the country. So far, the agency has arrested close to 9,000 drug traffickers and, by last year, five major drug barons; secured over 1,630 convictions, and made cash and drug seizures valued at over N294 billion, taking the latest seizure into consideration.
But as we learn in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, justice is not served by punishment alone. The character Angelo, who makes a powerful case for justice without mercy, saying “We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep one shape till custom make it their perch and not their terror,” eventually loses the argument. For as Escalus, his fellow deputy, argues: “Let us be keen, and rather cut a little / Than fall and bruise to death.” Marwa’s NDLEA has followed this dictum: nearly 4,300 addicts have been counseled, rehabilitated and reintegrated back into the Nigerian society.
Nigerians do not agree with Buhari on many things, but they agree firmly on the NDLEA and its drug war, realizing that the seemingly intractable insecurity challenges in the country have a root in drug abuse. Speaking in Ogidi, Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State during the Ogidi Yam Festival in June last year, Marwa himself lamented: “What is most heartbreaking is that majority of them are young people who are initiated into cannabis use around the age of 19. There is also increasing use of other psychotropic drugs, especially heroin by a growing number of young people who are mostly initiated at the age of 22 years.”
Drug abuse, as a look at the novel Trainspotting by the Scottish writer Irvine Welsh would show, is a cancerous affliction. Welsh’s novel probes the underbelly of Scottish society with drugs, prostitution, theft and violence and shows how deadly the struggle to break free of drug addiction is. In Meth, a poem by the American writer Brandon LeVangie, we read of the inner struggles of a drug addict: “I struggle removing/temptation and sorrow/ for a better tomorrow./Life is confusing…/Distorted perception,/thoughts of deception,/ memories that are haunting/ of the drug I’m still wanting.” Beyond the pages of poems, plays and novels, a visit to Nigerian streets easily would spotlight the pangs of addiction. Mental sanity is called to question and violence and crime are routine as addicts get ruled by their muscles rather than their brains. And so when Marwa’s NDLEA goes after the merchants of death who live by the drug trade, giving no quarter to even super cops, it’s all in the bid to save lives.
But the agency, like Marwa, has its own share of human foibles, and here attention is needed even if the raised performance bar has drowned the voices of naysayers. It is alleged on social media that some NDLEA men are forcefully seizing and searching people’s phones. That must be addressed even while the agency continues to soar in what looks like something much more than the glory days of NAFDAC relived once again.
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THE Joint National Association of Persons With Disabilities (JONAPWD), Osun State chapter, has called on the state government to sign disability bill forwarded to it into law.
JONAPWD, comprising three different groups, made the call during a press conference at the NUJ Press Centre, Osogbo, the state capital.
The groups stated that it will be appreciated if the copy of the bill currently with the state Ministry of Justice is submitted to Governor Gboyega Oyetola for ascent with the aim of advancing the rights of the underprivileged.
The groups also decried how members had been denied access to fund from banks, hospital facilities, while those who are in school cannot access the necessary equipment to aid their learnings, among others.
Speaking at the programme, the Executive Director for Community Advancement Initiative for Self-reliance, Mrs. Eni Ayeni, said that if the bill was signed into law, it would make People Living With Disability to be fully involved in the societal scheme of things.
Ayeni emphasised that her Initiative mission was to champion the cause of women, children and persons with disabilities through innovative programmes to ensure protection and promotion of human rights and attainment of their full potential.
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Farmers in Niagara County have been growing more concerned about wild animal encroachment in recent years, especially by deer. The local deer population has been encroaching more often than usual in areas where they traditionally haven’t been seen.
“In populated areas there’s been more notice of deer in residential areas, and even in urban areas,” said Cornell Cooperative Extension Horticulture Educator John Farfaglia. “It’s probably due to a couple of things, like the loss of habitat over many years, and the growing deer population trends.”
Farfaglia linked some of this deer displacement to development in the area.
“There’s not as much in the way of undisturbed woodlands and pastures. A lot of this land has gone into farming and development, and the animals get crowded out of what used to be their common habitat,” he said. “They have to go where they can, and sometimes that’s where the people are.”
Deer have always been an issue for farmers, but some say their crops are being damaged or eaten by deer more frequently now.
At Bittner Singer Orchards in Appleton, Jim Bittner said deer pose the greatest threat to younger fruit trees, whose shoots — the newer, smaller and softer branches — are tastiest. When the shoots are nipped off regularly, a tree’s growth is hindered and it may eventually die.
“If a deer goes and eats a new shoot and messes up the tree, then you might have to cut that tree down and start all over again,” said Bittner.
When deer feed at fruit trees they’re also able to spread fire blight, an incurable fruit blight, he added.
“I lost a pretty good orchard here six years ago, mainly from the deer spreading the fire blight up the row,” Bittner said. “If it’s in a tree they’re nibbling on, they will spread the virus to the next one they nibble on.”
Bucks pose a threat to fruit trees as well, in late summer when they’re shedding the velvet on their racks by rubbing the rack on trees. That can strip the bark off a tree, and Bittner said it’s especially damaging to smaller trees like peach and cherry.
“If they rub the bark off of one side, the tree is dead. You’ll have to pull it up and plant another one,” he said.
Melinda Vizcarra, owner-operator of Becker Farms in Gasport, said deer have been getting into the crops there as well. This year’s pumpkin crop was already smaller than usual and now deer are eating the pumpkins that survived, along with corn and apples.
Other consequences of deer encroachment include more collisions of deer and motor vehicles, and damage to landscapes and property.
The local deer population is a suspected source of E. coli contamination of Lake Ontario at Olcott, where multiple temporary beach closures were ordered by the Niagara County health department over the summer. The bacteria came from ruminant feces, which implies grazing animals were the source. Testing seemed to rule out cattle, leaving deer as the most likely culprit, according to environmental health division director Paul Dicky.
“Deer have always been suspect, but honestly it’s always been a bit difficult to get our head around how this is all happening,” said Dicky. “We still have questions of how their feces would be able to contaminate the water to a significant degree where it makes it not meet swimming quality.”
For individual property owners, fencing off vulnerable areas is an option but there’s no other quick fix in sight. According to Farfaglia, the bigger-picture options include creating wildlife reserves and loosening restrictions on hunting.
Farm land owners can obtain a nuisance permit to hunt deer on their property when deer hunting season is closed. Bittner has one, but he says it’s not a cure-all. Only deer without antlers — females and young males — can be taken and hunting guidelines still apply.
Solutions to this problem beyond just fencing off property are also slim. Farfaglia said that the few options that do exist would be to create more wildlife reserves, or ease hunting restrictions by lengthening the season, or authorizing more
“They don’t want people out shooting trophies,” said Bittner. “That was a problem once, but it’s not the purpose of these permits. The purpose is to reduce population.”
Reduced interest in hunting locally, and generally, contributes to deer encroachment, Bittner believes.
“The hunters who are really serious about it tend to go down to the southern tier where the deer tend to be larger,” he said. “If you asked the Department of Environmental Conservation, then they’ll probably say that there’s fewer hunters than there used to be.”
Observers note the current environment in Niagara County is ideal for deer. They live in brush more than forests, and there’s plenty of brush now due to deforestation and property abandonment.
“Nature has the bigger factor here,” Farfaglia said. “The population is more determined by the conditions available which are favorable for their population.”
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Investment office of Scots entrepreneur Sir Brian Souter seals Canadian disposal
Souter Investments, the private family investment office of Stagecoach Group co-founder and Scottish entrepreneur Sir Brian Souter – is offloading an IT firm to a Canadian peer.
The private equity-focused firm has inked an agreement to sell Stone Technologies Group, which specialises in “circular” IT, to Toronto Stock Exchange-listed Converge Technology Solutions Corp., a software-enabled IT and cloud services provider. The transaction, terms of which were not disclosed, remains subject to regulatory approval.
Stone is described as having served the UK’s public and private sectors for more than 30 years, helping thousands of organisations to adapt and thrive in a changing technology landscape, including the delivery of personalised services, and providing “reliable” IT support. It aims to make a “true and lasting” impact on the way technology is sold, providing a full circular procurement cycle for clients for the good of the environment and future generations.
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Souter, which says it has invested more than £500 million in 70-plus unquoted companies, acquired a majority stake in Stone in 2019, investing alongside its management team and a syndicate of investors managed by private equity house RJD Partners.
It added that since acquisition, Stone has flourished and expanded its range of products, services, and solutions, including the rollout of the Stone 360 IT recycling app, which is billed as making management of end-of-life technology simple, ensuring responsible e-waste disposal, and allowing customers to make progress towards their sustainability goals.
Lincoln International is acting as financial adviser for Stone’s shareholders. Dickson Minto is legal adviser for Souter Investments and RJD Partners, with Freeths representing management.
Stone chief executive Simon Harbridge commented: “In 2019 we were looking for the right partner to support the next stage of Stone’s development. It has been a pleasure to work with Sir Brian, John, and the Souter team as well as David MacLellan and RJD Partners.
"The emergence of Covid on the heels of Souter’s investment confirmed our decision to partner with them, with pragmatic advice and considered support the norm, allowing us to focus on our successful growth and transformation strategy. We look forward to continuing our exciting journey as part of the Converge family of businesses.”
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John Berthinussen, managing director at Souter Investments, said: “We have really enjoyed working alongside Simon and his team, who have shown real market leadership and a true commitment to sustainability and tackling the problem of e-waste.
"Stone has grown very strongly, marrying a focus on providing truly innovative and market leading products, services, and solutions with outstanding customer service, all things that resonate with its clients. We look forward to seeing that continue in partnership with Converge, and wish Simon and his team every success in the future.”
The deal follows Souter’s recent sale of Duke Street-backed specialist care provider Voyage Care to infrastructure investment manager Wren House, as well as the stock market flotation of Ashtead Technologies, a co-investment with Buckthorn Partners, which provides subsea equipment rental services, high-end technologies, and support services to the global offshore energy sector.
In addition, Souter has added Leader, a Bulgarian producer of e-bikes, and international higher education student recruitment specialist SI-UK to its portfolio. Last year it announced the sale of Pet Network International alongside the completion of three new investments, and in 2019 it sold two New Zealand bus firms, for example.
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220921-N-TT639-2118 PHILIPPINE SEA (Sept. 21, 2022) – USS Tripoli Sailors rise an MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 262 (Reinforced) from the flight deck to the flight deck Sept. 21, 2022. Tripoli is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and maintain stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Christopher Sypert)
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES OF ALL HAWAIIAN
ISLANDS...
.A long-period south-southwest swell continues to bring elevated
surf heights along south facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
The swell is expected slowly lower through Friday.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT HST TONIGHT...
* WHAT...Surf of 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Until midnight HST tonight.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming
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PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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Japan is finally lifting travel restrictions for the first time since the start of the pandemic and at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, many travelers can't wait.
Erin Taniyama says her family had planned to go to Japan this year as a graduation present for her son, but that was put on hold because of the restrictions.
She's hoping to finally take her children, including daughter Karly, to learn about their heritage.
"It was supposed to be his graduation present. You know we planned this for years and the day came and we just couldn't go," she said. "We cancelled. We stopped planning, but now we can start talking about it again, getting excited."
After being sidelined for almost three years, travel agencies are also looking forward to getting back to business when restrictions are lifted Oct. 11.
"We couldn't be happier. We're excited. We're ready to go," said Gene Miyake, managing director at Non-stop Travel. "It's a whole new era. It's time to get caught up on your vacation bucket list. It's truly a relief. And for a lot of people who want to travel, now's your chance."
But they're expecting airlines will be running short on seats as they try to ramp up to meet demand. Non-Stop Travel has booked more than 800 people to Japan in the next three months alone.
"You just can't crank up more flights, more schedules, you know, more and more capacity just overnight," Miyake said. "It'll take them at least two, three months."
Tourism officials expect more Japanese visitors to gradually return at the end of the year.
"So this is great news all the way around because there's going to be a situation where it's going to be mutually beneficial," said Mufi Hannemann, president and CEO of the Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association.
"It's time to cross over and get going with life and start moving forward," said traveler Chantelle Bautista. "There's definitely pent-up demand for travel," added Victor Bautista. "We gotta go for sushi."
Japan's Hawaii's top foreign market and extremely important to the full recovery of the tourism industry.
Kristen joined KITV4 in March 2021 after working for the past two decades as a newspaper reporter. Kristen's goal is to produce meaningful journalism that educates, enlightens and inspires to affect positive change in society.
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES OF ALL HAWAIIAN
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* WHAT...Surf of 7 to 10 feet.
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* WHEN...Until midnight HST tonight.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming
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PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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ocean safety officials and exercise caution.
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WAIANAE, Hawaii (KITV4)-- Kingsley Toloke Sr. has been illegally excavating the land around his house for a few years now, with the purpose to sell the mined landscaping rocks.
His actions have deeply frustrated the Waianae community, leaving them fearful damage will be done to their homes and potentially destroy state conservation lands.
"I worry about everybody and especially our children. Our children. They can be sleeping. Anybody can be sleeping and to find water, mud, dirt you name it rocks coming down" shares resident Georgiana Navarro.
Toloke's excavating is weakening the foundation of the mountain and many are worried boulders will fall down on their houses if he doesn't stop. His neighbors fear heavy rainfall in the area will lead to downhill runoff, erosion, and landslides as a result of Toloke's actions.
"That means that there is some concern that the people that live below be safe. Because frankly were afraid that mountain will come down. The stones that have been holding it up you might say have been removed. Lots of loose dirt. Big rains means wash out" shares community member, Lynette Cruz.
Community members are asking the question: "What are local agencies doing to stop Toloke from continuing this?"
Well, many residents have not received answers to their ongoing question.
Although the Department of Planning and permitting has fined Toloke for $300,000 - public records show he has yet to pay.
Residents are asking the City and County of Honolulu to obtain a court order to have Toloke cease and desist. They are also asking the state of Hawaii to assess the property damage to the state lands and illegal activity.
"What I hope is going to happen is that if we need to get petitions, we'll get petitions. Today we had about 50 people here at the kupuna council. Everybody's in agreement," shares Waianae Moku Kupuna spokesperson Lena Spainsuzuki.
Residents are also urging HPD to take action and enforce Toloke to end his illegal activity.
Encouraging elected officials to take action for the sake of their community is also a top priority for frustrated residents.
"It is taking back the community, bottom line. And if we don't stop this now lives are involved. And we have to protect them," shares Navarro.
Other agencies residents have reached out to are the Environmental Protection Agency. They filed a complaint to EPA reporting environmental damage with potential risk to the community.
Lastly, residents reached out to the FBI to file a complaint based on residents report that property owner is involved in illegal gambling.
Do you have a story idea? Email news tips to news@kitv.com
Chloe Marklay joined the KITV Island News team as a reporter/MMJ in September 2022. She comes from WTHI in Indiana where she worked as a reporter, producer, and fill-in anchor.
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As the world becomes a smaller community post-Covid pandemic, the need for entrepreneurs to access opportunities outside their local territory becomes a necessity and more challenging; this is the reason RIF Trust, an arm of the Latitude Group, one of the leading international residency and citizenship advisory firms, is empowering African entrepreneurs with global access worldwide through second Citizenship and Residency by Investment.
The programme evolved based on the realisation that some entrepreneurs only do business in their country of origin and businesses, especially in the post-pandemic period set out to trade internationally but are handicapped because it comes with various potential difficulties regarding laws, taxes, and borders.
And according to RIF Trust, this is the reason many African entrepreneurs have applied for dual citizenship and reaped significant benefits, adding that “our goal at is to enhance the opportunities and access African entrepreneurs have to do business on a global scale.
Speaking on the project, Ranny Muasher, B2B Regional Director and Managing Director of RIF Trust Nigeria stated that, “we strive to provide African entrepreneurs many reasons to S.M.I.L.E. (Security and Safety, Mobility, Investment opportunities, Lifestyle, Employment and Education) as we believe they can take on the world with their businesses and innovations.”
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He added that any African entrepreneur doing business in multiple countries should consider dual citizenship as a way to expand and get a foothold in multiple countries as a second passport provides access to not just one but potentially many new markets facilitating trading and scaling-up opportunities.
“For savvy entrepreneurs, the global economy is ripe with opportunities for growth and expansion into new and exciting markets. Yet, for some entrepreneurs, their country of origin and current citizenship status can place certain limitations on these opportunities. Hence, RIF Trust simplifies the process of legally obtaining a second citizenship or residency permit through investment and offers a comprehensive service from the pre-application stage to post-landing for African entrepreneurs,’ he explained.
“Citizenship or Residency by Investment programmes grant second citizenship or residency in return for an investment into the government or country offering the programme. This is often done by investing in local real estate, or by a non-refundable contribution directly to the government.
“While preserving connections to home countries, Citizenship and Residency by Investment programmes can offer entrepreneurs visa-free travel to over 140 countries, first-class education, high-quality healthcare, efficient tax regimes, and greater security – bolstering prospects for African entrepreneurs. In addition, the qualifying real estate investment options in these programmes can double as potentially rewarding financial investments as part of a larger wealth diversification strategy,” the company said.
According to Zuberu Kadiri, Country Manager of RIF Trust Nigeria, “having a second passport as an entrepreneur means direct access to millions of new customers and new business relationships. Citizenship in a second country provides the potential for better business relationships and access across the globe. As every entrepreneur knows, a passport can either be an obstacle or the key to global trading. The opportunities dual citizenship delivers are far-reaching and so is the possibility to expand across a truly global market.
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Why is uncertainty so tough? Because we are a community of people who have built our careers on eliminating it through planning. This is an extremely uncomfortable space for us control freaks who just want everything to settle down already.
The bad news is, things are not going to settle. In addition to all the factors we are dealing with — the exponential acceleration of technology, policy and regulation around climate change, a highly divided political environment, increased costs, lowered budgets, and supply chain and workforce shortages, to name a few — there is plenty of research showing that humanity is collectively different in response to the impacts of the past two years. We changed as a people figuring out how to operate in a changed world.
There is a lot that we can’t know, but there are two things that we do know: 1) there will be more uncertainty; and 2) those who embrace it — or at least get more comfortable with it — will be better positioned to survive and thrive. Here are five tips to get you started.
1. Develop a deep understanding of your event’s health. Everyone knows that regular checkups are important to maintaining your health. When is the last time you did a diagnostic workup on your event? What patterns were you seeing pre-2020? Have those become more pronounced as you are returning to in-person? What are your audience’s new pain points? How is your event health compared to that of your competitors? Looking at your event through this lens can help uncover new big and small opportunities.
2. Budget for a rainy-day fund. Most of us know this advice: Put aside a certain amount of money in case of emergency. This is a necessity when planning during periods of great uncertainty. Designate a part of the event budget to cover attrition fees and unexpected cost increases. Creating this breathing room is important, and helps you understand how to prioritize the other event expenses. It’s an opportunity to get creative as well. I have heard of suppliers willing to contribute to an emergency fund to cover attrition or other fees a group may face instead of buying a booth, in exchange for apppointments with five to 10 potential valuable clients.
3. Be proactive with your crisis communications. Numerous recent consumer research studies point to a behavioral shift: People are taking their personal values into account when making purchases, and event attendance is no exception. I have had numerous recent conversations with association CEOs and event leaders about audiences demanding an event be moved or canceled due to local politics in the host destination. Associations, which have traditionally remained politically neutral, are being called on to make statements or make changes. A proactive crisis communications plan positions you for a measured and informed response to a situation.
4. Designate a risk calibration and mitigation lead. Risk is not one-size-fits-all, and different groups will need to assess risk differently as it applies to their events and organizations. It is important to calibrate risk over various factors, including control over safety, financial impact, public reputation, and others. Create a list of the impending issues that could affect your event. Then, designate a lead to monitor the issues and provide updates on a weekly basis. Ideally, this person is also able to provide risk mitigation recommendations including milestones for decision-gating and specific actions to take should a certain issue emerge.
5. Overcommunicate. This is no time to stress in silence. Make your senior leadership aware of the situations at hand and what you are doing to monitor and mitigate challenges. Discuss your concerns and budget issues with your vendor partners so they can work with you on creative solutions. Reach out to your planner communities to share what’s working and ask questions to understand how others are dealing with similar situations.
We’ve got a long, tough road ahead of us. But know that you are not alone. There are thousands of others in our events community who are struggling with the same uncertainty. Ask for help when you need it. Offer help when you can. Remember, the one thing that lessens the impact of uncertainty is support.
Beth Surmont, CMP, FASAE, CAE, is vice president of event strategy and design for marketing, strategy, and experience agency 360 Live Media.
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Creating new and engaging experiences for your team is key when it comes to event planning. Perhaps your team’s last conference in Greater Lansing was perfect, and you want to return. But how do you keep things fresh? Here are four Greater Lansing properties, new or just around the corner, sure to excite teams with their eyes on the future:
Available Now
One of downtown Lansing’s newest hotels, is the Courtyard Marriot, just blocks from event hotspots like the Michigan State Capitol’s Heritage Hall, the riverfront Lansing Center, Jackson Field stadium and more. And with 1,689 feet of flexible meeting space, the hotel is always prepared to serve your team’s event needs.
And in East Lansing, one of the newest hotel properties is the Graduate, just steps from the campus of Michigan State University (MSU), one of the city’s prime locations for teams meeting in Greater Lansing. Mixing classic style with touches of campus spirit, this hotel features a rooftop bar with incredible views and more than 6,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor meeting space for groups of up to 380.
New in 2023
Greater Lansing continues to grow and evolve, and new lodging and event options are always around the corner. A new dual-branded AC and Hyatt House hotel structure with 5,000 square feet of meeting space is in the works at the exciting Red Cedar mixed-use development, halfway between the State Capitol and MSU. And the Radisson Hotel Lansing, connected by a pedway over the Grand River to the Lansing Center, will transition in 2023 to an all-new Doubletree Hotel following renovations.
Ready for something new? The Greater Lansing Convention & Visitors Bureau (GLCVB) is on hand to provide teams with complimentary, dedicated support. Contact GLCVB today for help taking your team’s event to the next level.
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Connection is what meetings are all about. It sparks new ideas, new partnerships, new ways forward. As planners, it’s at the heart of what we do. So how do you encourage something that is sometimes fleeting and often intangible? You set the scene for it. And choosing the right host city can make all the difference.
In Indianapolis, smart city-wide infrastructure planning has made it home to the most connected convention district in the country, boasting 13 hotels and 4,700 rooms all linked together with the Indiana Convention Center by climate-controlled skywalks. When attendees stay on a walkable campus like this, you avoid the scatter effect that happens when hotels are spread across a large area. The result is organic networking between sessions and after hours. These conversations held in hallways, in line for coffee, or over a cocktail at a bar are often the most impactful part of the meeting experience.
There are also plenty of off-site entertainment options that are just as easily accessible for your attendees. The Indiana Convention Center is also connected to Lucas Oil Stadium (home of the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts) by an underground walkway, and Gainbridge Fieldhouse (home of the NBA Pacers and WNBA Fever) by a three-block pedestrian promenade known as Georgia Street, which also offers plenty of options for attendees who want to grab an impromptu bite to eat.
But it’s not just hotels and venues that are walkable in Indy. Attendees will love to get some fresh air as well as a little exercise on the newly expanded Indianapolis Cultural Trail, an 8-mile walking and biking trail that runs right outside the convention center and connects to vibrant neighborhoods such as Mass Ave Cultural Arts District, eclectic Fountain Square, and downtown’s historic Indiana Avenue. It’s also easy to make it a team effort by inviting your group to take in the sites a bit further, with Monument Circle, the Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis campus and White River State Park all accessible via the scenic trail.
Creating these opportunities for connection ultimately opens up a greater possibility for the type of chance encounters that result in business deals and new professional relationships. And dynamic, intentionally designed cities like Indianapolis make that easy to do. For planners and, perhaps more importantly, attendees, this is incredibly valuable. After all, when it comes to meetings, connection is everything.
Are you ready to inspire connection and engagement at your next event? The team of meeting experts at Visit Indy is here to help bring your vision to life. For more information, please visit VisitIndy.com/Meet or call 317.262.3000.
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We get it, you’re busy. So, the Convene editors have curated the latest tips and trends in the world of work for you. Take a look at what caught our eye this past week.
How LinkedIn Evolved From Being the Place We Only Show Our ‘Work’ Selves to Our ‘Whole’ Selves
LinkedIn has long been the place we present the most professional version of ourselves. But after two years of work and home life bleeding together, the way we present our online professional network has changed. LinkedIn executives say they’ve noticed the change and are supporting it, according to WorkLife, with new features big and small to encourage posters to share their “full selves” on the platform.
What Comes After Ambition?
Hustle culture is dead. Did American women’s drive go away, or has it morphed into something new — and maybe better? ELLE takes a deep dive into the midst of a revolutionary reckoning with women’sambitions.
How to Figure Out What You Want Out of Life
Among life’s many chapters and milestones, Americans have come to see some events — like college, marriage, homeownership, child-rearing, and career success — as achievements they must fulfill in order to maintain the status quo. But, as Vox explains, what society expects of you and what you actually want in life can be different things.
Remote Workers Returning to the Office Are Feeling the Pain of Pricey Commutes and Lunches
Thanks to inflation, it’s even more expensive for workers to make the trek back into offices or physical workspaces. In fact, in-person work costs workers approximately $45 per day when accounting for commuting and meals, according to survey data reported on by Fast Company.
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Troy Armour is CEO of Northern Ireland-based entertainment, media, and tech company Patral Group, as well as CEO of the consultancy Trojan Technologies. Oh, and he also has a side hustle: Since 2010, he has been the founder and CEO of Junk Kouture, a global competition that challenges students aged 13-18 to create high-end wearable fashion made from 100-percent recycled materials — everyday junk — that would otherwise have ended up in landfills.
It’s easy enough to trace the start-up’s origins — he came across a dance teacher who was creating fashion out of trash and running small shows in Northern Ireland. “I saw there was something more in it and that it could be so much bigger,” Armour told Convene via Zoom from his home in Londonderry. The two worked together for five years until Armour took the project over on his own.
But getting at why Junk Kouture became such a passion project for Armour took some doing — and required a box of tissues in a lecture hall at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts — to coax out. As he tells the story, 2018 was his “annus horribilis, disaster of a year,” when he had the realization that Junk Kouture was stalling because of his own inability to expand the concept to teens beyond Ireland. Never thinking that he would be accepted, Armour, who is a member of Entrepreneurs’ Organization, applied for a master’s in leadership and entrepreneurship at MIT, an annual program the nonprofit runs for a cohort of 60 participants. He made the cut.
At a night lecture, the facilitator brought out a box of tissues and said, “We’re going to need this tonight because you’re all going to cry.” Armour couldn’t figure out what he meant by that. When it was his turn to share, the facilitator said to him, “‘So, why this Junk Kouture thing?’” Armour gave a stock answer — he just loved creativity and fashion. But the facilitator kept at him. “Every answer I gave, he just said, ‘But why?’” he recalled.
“After eight or nine times, you’re in a corner. Your cohorts are looking at you and you’re starting to cry. And I remember saying, ‘Because every one of those kids was me. They’re me.’
“I’d never told anybody that before, but that’s the realization that happened.”
The Creative Kid
Growing up in rural Northern Ireland with very little money, Armour said his creative outlet was to make art out of “rubbish” — like painting empty cornflakes boxes or sewing a karate suit for his brother using his mother’s old dusters. But the downside to being a creative kid, he said, is you rarely fit in. “School wants you to be academic. And then in the yard, it was all about sports. And, of course, I was that kid last picked for every sports team. You’re going through rejection by your peers every single day,” Armour said. “What people don’t realize is that there’s so much social capital got through sport.”
After his breakthrough moment at MIT, he began thinking of Junk Kouture as “the sport for creative kids. Why do they have to play soccer or American football or rugby? They’re cool at doing this stuff,” Armour said. “And they can compete with their peers because sport, at the end of day, is where two or more people compete using skill or talent.”
He challenged his team: “There are creative kids in every classroom in the world and they don’t have this. Wouldn’t it be cool if they did? How do we build this as a global thing?” They turned to the Formula 1 model, where participants race in cars that they built, translating that to “building outfits” and then “rocking them down a catwalk. And then what does Formula 1 look like? It’s a big event every two or three weeks,” he said. “That was the genesis of Junk Kouture as we know it now.”
The COVID shutdown gave his team a break from hosting events to approach sponsors, do a seed investment round to raise funds, and polish a 21-week masterclass program for teachers and students on designing Junk Kouture outfits.
The competition now takes place in six cities each year, with an additional four cities planned to be added within the next two years, with the goal of touring in 13 cities across six continents. And on Jan. 11, 2023, those competitions will culminate in the inaugural Junk Kouture World Final at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, where 60 designers and their teams from secondary schools across the globe will compete for awards, including the Junk Kouture World Designer of the Year.
It will be “the Eurovision of fashion — a celebration of creativity and color and diversity and no privilege and sustainability,” Armour said. “And for those kids involved — whether they’re from Sao Paulo, Mumbai, New York, or Sydney — it will be free to enter. Their transportation to world finals and all will be free.”
The fashion competitions give participating teens a sense of confidence, by getting on stage and showing off their work to an audience, Armour said. “When you compete, people start to recognize your skills being celebrated and all of a sudden, you’ve become somebody. You were always that person, but it’s the recognition. It’s so important.” .
Superseding Sustainability
Sustainability, Junk Kouture’s Troy Armour said, isn’t the No. 1 aspect of the program that potential sponsors respond to when pitched on the concept. “We think it will be when we approach them,” he said. “But it’s more about young people being celebrated, the diversity and inclusivity of it. Sustainability is obviously a driver in there, but more of the questions we get are around education — experiential education, not rote learning.”
In terms of his efforts to make Junk Kouture’s competitions more environmentally responsible, Armour said they encourage audience members to come via public transport, plastic water bottles are banned, and they vet the venues — host venues use renewable energy.
“It’s a mindset. Some of the things you can do, some of the things you can’t,” Armour said. “There’s not a solution for everything at the moment, but we’ve moved away from things that create waste, that have other repercussions.”
As far as what becomes of the Junk Kouture outfits themselves, some of them are made out of organic materials that get planted, Armour said, and some stay on display as “museum pieces” at the schools that offer the program. The afterlife of their creations is something student participants are required to be intentional about — it’s part of the competition criteria.
Armour said Junk Kouture’s impact “stretches far beyond just the kids that take part and the empowerment they get.” What they learn over the course of the nine-month program is how to become “circular engineers,” he said, because they say to themselves, “Well, if I turned Coca-Cola cans into this, then can I reuse other things” — that whatever comes in the door is reused in some way, and not going back out in the trash. “Because going back out,” he said, “just means you’re passing the problem to somebody else to solve for you.”
Michelle Russell is editor in chief of Convene.
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Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where.
Michelle Bradley
Michelle Bradley has been appointed director of sales and marketing at the Candler Hotel Atlanta, Curio Collection by Hilton — a Highgate Hotels property. Bradley has been with Highgate for more than seven years and acted as senior sales manager and director with DoubleTree by Hilton, Wyndham Hotels, and Marriott. Before joining the team at the Candler Hotel, she ws the senior sales account manager at the Crowne Plaza Times Square.
Jackie MacPherson
MCI USA’s conference division has named Jackie MacPherson as senior director, client experience. She is an industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience. MacPherson joins the team after serving as vice president, client success and sales at CompuSystems. Prior to that, she spent nine years as senior vice president, client relations at onPeak and eight years as convention manager at SmithBucklin.
Angeles Moreno
AIM Spain has appointed Angeles Moreno as country manager. Moreno will manage the business in Spain with focus on relaunching AIM’s activities in the market and developing three strategic business lines of the company: congress, corporate events, and DMC. Moreno is the author of “The Time Is Now” and a global keynote speaker who discusses corporate event strategy best practices.
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Much more than a theme park, the seemingly endless options of Universal Orlando Resort offer everything meeting planners need to bring their visions, both large and small, to life. Below are a just a few of the exciting features that make Universal Orlando Resort a meeting destination like no other:
Ease and Convenience
The meeting experience at Universal Orlando is designed with the creative planner in mind. Our passionate industry experts prioritize ease from start to finish and pull out all the stops to execute meetings and events that exceed your team’s expectations. With a comprehensive collection of lodging, food and entertainment options, and a variety of meeting spaces all within close proximity, there is seemingly no end to the experiences you can create to meet your team’s tastes. Plus, established expertise from two brands at the top of their industries, Universal Orlando and Loews Hotels & Co., ensures your team receives top-notch service before, during and after your event.
Event Properties for Every Occasion
A variety of options are available: 8 uniquely-themed hotels with 9,000 guest rooms, three world-class theme parks, an unparalleled Universal CityWalk dining and entertainment complex and more than 295,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor meeting spaces. A prime meeting location is The Loews Meeting Complex at Universal Orlando, connecting two beautiful properties, the Loews Sapphire Falls Resort and Loews Royal Pacific Resort, offering a combined 247,000 square feet of meeting space and 2,000 guest rooms. No matter the need, every property delivers on the awe-inspiring, immersive theming Universal Orlando is famous for.
Learn more about how Universal Orlando Meetings & Events can help you plan your one-of-a-kind meeting.
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Aaron Judge’s chase for the AL home run record is a one-man race.
His pursuit of the AL Triple Crown is more complicated, thanks to a race for the batting title that includes one player who will share the field with Judge all weekend at Yankee Stadium.
Judge went 0-for-2 with three walks in Thursday’s 5-4, 10-inning win over Boston, but his pitching staff and defense helped make sure he preserved his lead for the batting title by holding Red Sox star shortstop Xander Bogaerts hitless in five at-bats. After Thursday’s action, with 13 games left for both teams, Judge was batting .31589 (169-for-535) while Bogaerts was batting .31358 (164-for-523). Twins utilityman Luis Arraez, who led the race for much of the season, was lurking behind at .31262 (161-for-515).
While all eyes — including those of commissioner Rob Manfred, who was in attendance Thursday — were on Judge going for home runs Nos. 61 and 62 to tie and break Roger Maris’ record, his batting title battle with Bogaerts figured to serve as an intriguing sideshow as the Yankees slugger hunted down a possible Triple Crown. It would be only the second in the last 55 years, joining Miguel Cabrera, who captured it in 2012.
“They’re both larger than life, face-of-the-franchise guys, so it’s only fitting, right?” said Red Sox outfielder Rob Refsnyder, who came up through the Yankees’ system with Judge and has been Bogaerts’ teammate all season. “And it’s only fitting that [Judge] is chasing it playing us. I think it’s great for baseball, great for the fans.”
Yankees pitchers had a more important goal this weekend of throwing well to help the club get closer to securing a division title. But retiring Bogaerts, the Red Sox’s No. 3 hitter, also figured to serve as an extra challenge to help their teammate’s historic season take on yet another layer of accomplishment.
Everything to know about Aaron Judge and his chase for the home run record:
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“[Bogaerts] is a great hitter who we gotta try to figure out a way to keep at bay and neutralize,” manager Aaron Boone said before the game.
Having called Yankee Stadium home for parts of three seasons, Refsnyder figured the crowd this weekend might root against Bogaerts a little more than usual, knowing what was at stake for Judge. Bogaerts predicted as much earlier this week, when he told the Boston Globe, “They’d hate me even more [in New York]” if he were to deny Judge the Triple Crown.
But Refsnyder had some appreciation and perspective for the race, especially after playing with Arraez last year in Minnesota to give him insight into the top three contenders.
“[Judge] is just a hit machine,” Refsnyder said. “It’s crazy to watch. It’s pretty special. But Bogey’s been on quite a run, too. It’s crazy he’s kind of standing in the way and then there’s obviously Arraez, who can put up 10 hits in a series real fast. It’s going to be cool.”
Judge was hitting .274 with 31 home runs on July 15. But a dominant second half — he was hitting .388 with 29 home runs and a 1.405 OPS over his last 57 games entering Thursday — has vaulted him into the batting title conversation, which is the only leg of the Triple Crown that was still close. Judge’s 60 home runs led the AL by 23 (over the Astros’ Yordan Alvarez) and his 128 RBIs led the Guardians’ Jose Ramirez by 13.
As a baseball fan, Refsnyder hoped the batting title race would come down to the last day of the regular season. But as he stood in the visiting clubhouse at Yankee Stadium on Thursday, he knew how he had to handicap the race.
“I’d have to pull for Bogaerts just because he’s a crazy great teammate that kind of embodies what you want as a franchise [player],” Refsnyder said. “You hear things playing against someone and then you play with them and you’re like, ‘Wow. He lives up to the billing.’ Great teammate like Aaron. So obviously Bogey, but if Bogey doesn’t get it and Judge can do the home run thing and the Triple Crown, [is] that the top offensive season ever?”
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ELLENSBURG, Wash. - The Ellensburg Police Department is asking for information regarding a hit-and-run from just before 3 a.m. on September 18. It says the collision happened around the 300 block of W 15th Avenue.
The car, pictured, likely has damage to the left side, according to EPD. The back left wheel and front side window might be damaged.
Anyone who recognizes the car should contact EPD at 509-962-7280.
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GRANDVIEW — Snapping a two-game scoreless streak in a big way on the road Thursday night, Grandview edged Ellensburg 3-2 in CWAC girls soccer.
Brandi Martinez scored the first half's lone goal and Amalia Carranza and Larissa Gonzalez added scores in the second half. Jamison Philip's late second goal wasn't quite enough for the Bulldogs thanks to three saves by Grandview goalkeeper Anessa Olivarez.
Selah will be the next opponent for both teams, first at Ellensburg (1-1 CWAC, 2-2 overall) on Saturday and then in Selah against Grandview (1-2, 4-2-1) next Tuesday.
First half: 1, Grandview, Brandi Martinez, 16:00.
Second half: 2, Ellensburg, Jamison Philip, 42:00; 3, Grandview, Amalia Carranza, 44:00; 4, Grandview, Larissa Gonzalez, 67:00; 5, Ellensburg, Philip, 79:00.
Saves: Anessa Olivarez (G) 3; Reagan Messner (#) 6.
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EAST VALLEY 4, OTHELLO 0: At Othello, East Valley stayed unbeaten thanks in part to a goal and two assists from Shannah Mellick, the Yakima Valley's scoring leader. Ariana Lopez also scored twice for East Valley, which will host Ephrata Saturday.
First half: 1, EV, Ariana Lopez (Shannah Mellick), 6:00; 2, EV, Jada Mendoza (Eveyanna Townsend), 22:00; 3, EV, Mellick, 40:00.
Second half: 4, EV, Lopez (Mellick), 77:00.
Saves: Giselle Uriostegui (EV) 1, Madison Morrison (EV) 3; Emi Pruneda (O) 8.
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SELAH 3, PROSSER 0: At Selah, Kennedy Cobb scored all three goals for the Vikings to end a two-game losing streak. Lexi Grenz and Sarah Russell made two saves each to preserve the shutout for Selah, which will play at Ellensburg while Prosser hosts Othello on Saturday.
First half: 1, Selah, Kennedy Cobb (Madison Huri), 21:00; 2, Selah, Cobb (Allison Moultray), 33:00.
Second half: 3, Selah, Cobb (Janea Hall), 46:00.
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TOPPENISH 2, LA SALLE 1: At La Salle, Sandra Martinez scored two second-half goals for the Wildcats, who will host Wahluke while La Salle plays at Zillah next Tuesday.
First half: No goals.
Second half: 1, Toppenish, Sandra Martinez, 46:00; 2, Toppenish, Sandra Martinez, 69:00.
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HIGHLAND 5, MABTON 1: At Highland, Maricza Mendoza scored twice and Rachael Keller assisted three goals for the Scotties, who improved to 4-0 in league play and will host Warden next Tuesday, when Mabton is set to host Burbank.
In other EWAC games, Cle Elum beat Warden 5-0 and Goldendale topped White Swan 15-0.
First half: 1, Highland, Anahi Lamas (Rachael Keller), 18:00; 2, Mabton, Deniz Reyna, 20:00; 3, Highland, Maricza Mendoza (Keller), 21:00.
Second half: 4, Highland, Anahi Garcia (Keller), 48:00; 5, Highland, Mendoza (Aylin Aguilera), 65:00; 6, Highland, Aguilera (Garcia), 78:00.
Saves: Kenia Morales (M) 15; Ashlee McIlrath (H) 1.
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First half: 1, Granger, Kamila Herrera, 2:00; 2, Granger, Eveny Lazcano, 8:00; 3, Granger, Joana Jaramillo, 16:00; 4, Granger, Jaramillo (Jasaideze Castro-Rosas), 32:00.
Saves: G. Beatriz Ramirez (G) 0; Burbank 8.
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NACHES VALLEY 3, COLLEGE PLACE 1: At Naches, Jayda Gooler, Bella Rowe and Kaitlyn VanAmburg all scored goals for the Rangers. Goalkeepers Maddy Jewett and Abby Longbottom combined for 15 saves for Naches Valley, which will travel to Kiona-Benton on Saturday.
Saves: Maddy Jewett (NV) 9, Abby Longbottom (NV) 6.
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SELAH 3, EAST VALLAY 0: At East Valley, WIAA athlete of the week Jacey Scott was 11-for-11 serving with 13 digs and six perfect passes to help the Vikings sweep 25-11, 25-5, 25-8 and lift their league mark to 2-0.
Selah highlights: Jacey Scott 11-11 serving, 6 pp, 13 digs; Madi McNett 2 kills, 1 block; Emily Hutchinson 5-5 serving, 2 aces, block, 9 kills, 11 digs; Taylor Kieser 14-14 serving, 3 aces, block, 15 kills, 9 assists, 4 digs; Maddy Miller 3 digs; Ana Hrle 5-5 serving, 2 blocks, 4 kills, 2 digs; Madilynn Shurtleff 24-24 serving, 1 ace, 6 kills, 6 digs; Emilee Nelson-Hawkins 5 digs, 1 ace, 25 assists.
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ELLENSBURG 3, GRANDVIEW 0: At Grandview, the Bulldogs served 10 aces and Leah Drexler collected 12 digs and the Bulldogs won 25-10, 25-10, 25-10 to push their league record to 2-0. In other CWAC play, Ephrata bested Othello 3-2.
Ellensburg highlights: Abby Harrell 13 kills, 4 digs, 2 blocks; Olivia Anderson 4 kills, 4 blocks; Parker Lyyski 3 kills, 1 block; Alana Marrs 6 kills, 3 blocks; Leah Drexler 2 aces, 12 digs, 4 assists; Lilly Button 9 assists, 6 digs;
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LA SALLE 3, TOPPENISH 2: At La Salle, Kailey Wheeler pounded out 30 kills as the Lightning opened league play with a marathon, winning 27-25, 14-25, 26-24, 20-25, 15-13.
La Salle highlights: Kailey Wheeler 30 kills, 2 aces, 3 blocks, 8 digs; Tatum Marang 15 kills, 5 aces, 1 block, 9 digs; Anelisa Ramirez 1 block, 1 kill; Malia Wheeler 51 assists, 1 ace, 4 digs; Natalia Valladares 1 ace, 2 digs; Angeles Torres 2 aces, 10 digs; Violet Tunstall 2 digs; Natalie Overby 1 block, 5 kills.
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ZILLAH 3, WAPATO 0: At Wapato, Emma Flood served five aces and had 24 digs as the Leopards prevailed 25-19, 25-23, 25-19 in their conference opener.
Zillah highlights: Alaina Garza 3 kills, 2 digs; Emily Greene 15-15 serving, 3 aces, 6 digs; Emma Flood 14-17 serving, 5 aces, 24 digs; Jacelyn Yearout 10-11 serving, 3 aces, 1 kill, 23 assists, 11 digs; Kya Gonzales 14-14 serving, 2 aces, 7 kills, 19 digs; Liz Walle 8-8 serving, 2 aces, 6 kills; Mia Hicks 7-8 serving, 1 ace, 11 kills, 15 digs.
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GOLDENDALE 3, MABTON 0: At Goldendale, Gwen Gilliam had 10 digs and four aces and Brylee Mulrony had five aces on 29-for-29 serving as the Timberwolves improved to 4-0 in the West with a 25-13, 25-13, 25-7 sweep.
Goldendale highlights: Gwen Gilliam 12-12 serving, 4 aces, 10 digs, 3 kills; Taryn Rising 3 aces, 6 digs, 11 kills; Emily Tindall 20 assists, 2 kills; Brook Blain 8 kills; Lexi Molnar 9-9 serving, 6 digs; Ada Garner 8-8 serving, 4 digs, 2 kills; Brylee Mulrony 29-29 serving, 5 aces, 8 pp; Lydia Hanning 3 blocks, 3 kills.
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GRANGER 3, KITTITAS 0: At Kittitas, Marian Alaniz had five aces on 20-for-20 serving and the Spartans lifted their league record to 2-1 with a 25-6, 25-9, 25-17 sweep. In other league play, White Swan topped Highland 3-1.
Granger highlights: Jaylin Golob 12-13 serving, 2 aces, 4 kills, 17 assists, 6 digs, 6 pp; Eliana Rios 7-7 serving, 1 ace, 1 kill, 3 assists, 8 digs, 14 pp; Alyssa Roman 9-10 serving, 2 aces, 2 assists, 6 digs, 5 pp; Jasmin Vasquez 13-14 serving, 3 aces, 2 kills, 4 digs, 5 pp; Marian Alaniz 20-20 serving, 5 aces, 4 kills, 3 digs, 4 pp; Amy Torres 9-11 serving, 1 ace, 7 kills, 7 digs, 4 pp; Stacey Cruz 1 kill, 6 digs, 2 pp; Estrella Valencia 4 kills, 1 block.
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At Lakeview GC
BOYS
Team scores: Ellensburg 44, Selah 58, Ephrata 73, East Valley 104, Prosser 141, Grandview 145, Othello 156.
Top 10: Hayden Roberts (Eph) 16:24 (5K), Nathan Shipley (Se) 17:00, Nicolas Spencer (Se) 17:02, Eric Swedin (Se) 17:02, Hayden Malone (Eph) 17:12, Chase Perez (Ell) 17:25, Brody Michael (Ell) 17:26, Mac Steele (Ell) 17:38, Ethan Smith (EV) 17:48, Zeus Montano (G) 18:02.
GIRLS
Team scores: Ellensburg 25, Ephrata 65, Selah 66, East Valley 76, Othello 111.
Top 10: June Nemrow (Ell) 20:25, Alexa Laughlin (Eph) 20:30, Camdyn Cox (Eph) 20:51, Rylee Leishman (Ell) 21:10, Holly Fromherz (Ell) 21:28, Yutong Liang (Ell) 21:52, Mackenzie Malmberg (EV) 22:15, Hayden Ostrander (EV) 22:15, Brooke Seim (Ell) 22:16, Kieryann Mattson (Se) 22:32.
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WEST VALLEY 20-20, SUNNYSIDE 0-1: At West Valley, Linnea Butler homered in her fourth straight game and finished with three hits and four RBI in the opener and Bella Lindstrom was 3-for-3 with three runs and two RBI in the second game as the Rams moved to 8-0. WV will play at Pasco on Tuesday.
WV highlights — Game 1: Linnea Butler 3-3, HR, 3 runs, 4 RBI; Kenidee Holden 2-3, 2b, run, RBI; Samantha Ostriem 2-3, 2b, 2 RBI; Maris Barbee 1-2, 2b, 2 RBI; Haley Betterton 2-2, 3 runs; Alexys Soptich 1-2, run, 2 RBI; Evka Ball 2-2, run, 2 RBI; Hannah Betterton 3 IP, 0 hits, 5 K. Game 2: Kenidee Holden 2-3, 2b, 2 runs, 2 RBI; Bella Lindstrom 3-3, 2b, 3 runs, 2 RBI; Danika Gaethle 2-3, 2 runs, 2 RBI; Haley Betterton 2-2, 2 runs, RBI; Abigail Zeller 2-3, run, 2 RBI; Ryder Prather 3-3, run, 2 RBI, 3 IP, 4 K.
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At Eastmont
Team scores: Eisenhower 95, Davis 56; Eastmont 149, Davis 27; Eastmont 146, Eisenhower 36.
Local highlights
200 medley relay: Eisenhower 2:19.62. 200 free: Amalia Pham (D) 2:23.41. 200 IM: Adelaide Loeser (E) 2:31.39. 50 free: Isabelle Ehlis (D) 29.89. Diving: Lizette Zacarias (D) 94.75. 100 fly: Adelaide Loeser (E) 1:06.55. 100 free: Kellynn Scott (D) 1:08.56. 500 free: Evangeline Knerr (E) 6:37.44. 200 free relay: Davis 2:17.35. 100 back: Amalia Pham (D) 1:12.90. 100 breast: Kellynn Scott (D) 1:26.04. 400 free relay: Eisenhower 4:39.79.
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Nightmares Could Signal Future Risk of Dementia, Research Shows
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An average person in 2022 spends about six years of their entire life dreaming. Dreams mystify us as much as they become reflections of us; we don’t understand how we dream or why, but “good dreams,” “bad dreams,” and in some cases, “no dreams” still determine our well-being to a great extent. For people in their middle age or older years, nightmares can be particularly revelatory, for they may signal a future risk of developing dementia, according to new research.
“We’ve demonstrated for the first time that distressing dreams, or nightmares, can be linked to dementia risk and cognitive decline among healthy adults in the general population,” said Abidemi Otaiku, of the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Human Brain Health, in a press release.
Dementia is a baffling disease: it presents itself only when it’s late, fundamentally meddling with one’s memory, thinking, and cognitive abilities. As many as 4.4 million people in India are expected to be living with dementia, and this number comprises mostly the elderly.
Finding ways to identify dementia early is key, allowing for better care and treatment where applicable. Otaiku and the team looked at dreams for answers, with their work published in the Lancet’s eClinical Medicine journal. Their study involved almost 600 participants between the ages of 35 and 64, and another cohort with 2,600 participants 90 and older. Between 2002 and 2012, the participants were asked to fill out a range of questionnaires, one of them tracking how often individuals experienced bad dreams.
The results were such: middle-aged people between 35 and 64 who experienced nightmares weekly were four times more likely to experience a decline in their cognitive abilities over the next 10 years. For the other cohort (above 90 years), increased nightmares meant they were twice as likely to be diagnosed with dementia. To put it simply: nightmares can signal memory loss and thinking impairments years, even decades, before they become apparent.
“[O]ur dreams can reveal a surprising amount of information about our brain health,” Otaiku wrote in The Conversation. “This is important because there are very few risk indicators for dementia that can be identified as early as middle age.” There is a high prevalence of delayed or missed diagnosis for dementia; people were mostly unaware, had scarce resources, and cases were only identified after a caregiver raised concerns.
Related on The Swaddle:
In India, Dementia Care Is Draining Families’ Resources, Stamina
The link between dementia and dreaming is a little hazy. One explanation has something to do with how the brain controls emotions. Plausibly, middle-aged people in earlier stages of dementia may have some form of neuro-degeneration in some brain regions, which means the brain may not be able to regulate fear or stress or negative emotions while dreaming. “This may manifest in nightmares and depression in the years leading up to a dementia diagnosis.” Interestingly, the link between cognitive decline and future risk of dementia was more commonly observed in men than in women.
Another explanation is that bad dreams and poor sleep quality could be a causative factor behind dementia itself. Previous research has linked vivid dreaming, sleep disorders, restless legs syndrome, and nightmares with Lewy body dementia (the second most common type of dementia after Alzheimer’s) — one type of cognitive decline.
In 2021, researchers looking at the link between sleep and dementia wrote: “It had always been a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem when trying to interpret the relationship between poor sleep and dementia. Was it really poor sleep that caused dementia, or just early dementia symptoms causing poor sleep?” There was some resolution, in that their study showed that in some people as young as age 50, poor sleep increased the risk of developing dementia 25 years or later in the future. Fragmented sleep and nightmares are pieces that fit in some corner of this puzzle.
But this knowledge offers hope. Otaiku agrees that the association demands more work and more research, but “bad dreams could be a useful way to identify individuals at high risk of developing dementia, and put in place strategies to slow down the onset of disease.”
For instance, bad dreams are preventable and even treatable in some cases. And previous experiments showed that when nightmares reduced, there was a boost in people’s memory and thinking skills. In some cases, treatment for nightmares also decreased the prevalence of a protein that was linked to Alzheimer’s disease, another form of dementia.
Dementia care and treatment are as much about finding a cure as it is about slowing cognitive decline in people. And looking at bad dreams, the dreams that terrify us and unsettle us, could indeed hold some answers.
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- Germany DAX -0.2%
- France CAC 40 -0.2%
- UK FTSE -0.1%
- Spain IBEX -0.2%
Equities are staying on the defensive with US futures also pushing lower to start European morning trade. S&P 500 futures are now down 18 points, or 0.5%, as stocks brace for back-to-back weekly declines. Of note, the DAX is coming close to test support from its March and July lows around the 12,390 to 12,438 region and that will be a big level to watch. A break below that will bring in a test of the 50.0 Fib retracement level next:
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Deadly Hurricane Fiona lashes Bermuda ahead of expected Canada hit
Hurricane Fiona's powerful winds and heavy rains were pummeling Bermuda morning as the Category 4 storm brushed close to the Atlantic island en route to northeastern Canada on Friday morning.
Threat level: Some 8,000 customers were without power in Bermuda as Fiona swept near the British territory, the island's Royal Gazette reports. The Canadian Hurricane Centre (CHC) tweeted at 3am Friday that warnings were "in effect for what looks to be a historic storm for eastern Canada."
- Hurricane watches and warnings were in effect over much of coastal Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island, with the CHC warning of a "severe event for Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec."
Meanwhile, hurricane conditions were expected to continue in Bermuda for several hours.
The big picture: Fiona has been linked to at least five deaths, including two in Puerto Rico after the storm caused widespread destruction as it flooded the U.S. territory, knocking out power to the entire island on Sunday. Just under 1 million customers were still without power on Friday morning.
- President Biden has declared a major disaster in Puerto Rico and announced Thursday that the federal government will cover 100% of costs for the next month to help with recovery efforts.
- The storm was also blamed for two deaths in the Dominican Republic and one in the French island of Guadeloupe — both of which also experienced widespread power outages as Fiona swept through.
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Scotland Street Volume 16, Chapter 20: Lunch with a dental hygienist
Shelley McElhose was a woman of thirty-one, a dental hygienist who had qualified at Glasgow Caledonian University, and who had practised in Inverness and Fort William for several years before taking a job in Edinburgh. She was the eldest of the three children of a Mallaig fishing trawler owner, Robbie McElhose, a man whose prosperity had blossomed when he had inherited a second trawler and the fish quotas attached to it.
He had been unstintingly supportive of his daughters’ education, and had sent all three of them to Kilgraston School in Bridge of Earn, where their academic abilities had been assiduously encouraged. After leaving the school laden with academic honours, Shelley enrolled for a degree in oral health, while her sister, Flora, went on to study law at Dundee. To complete the picture of academic achievement, the youngest of the three, Julie, had completed a master’s degree in Mandarin at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She was now employed in a department of an Edinburgh investment firm, where she wrote reports on the Chinese iron and steel sector.
Robbie was particularly pleased with Shelley’s achievements, and had wept with pride when he and his wife attended her graduation in Glasgow.
“And she can do something useful,” he said. “Dental hygiene is the way forward for Scotland, make no mistake. Those boys up in Mallaig . . .” These were his fellow fishermen, known as “the boys” – “some of them have frightful problems with their teeth. They could do with a bit of this dental hygiene from Glasgow Caledonian, I can tell you.”
When Shelley took up with Iain, Robbie’s reaction was lukewarm, at best. “I’m sure he’s a nice enough fellow,” he said, “but I know some of those people who work on the rigs, and I was hoping that you’d do a bit better, if you see my meaning, Shelley.”
She had been careful not to hurt his feelings, but she was not going to pay any attention to this. Parents were like that – they often wanted something slightly better for their children, without realising that the only question a parent of a daughter should ask about her partner was: is he kind? That was enough. Nothing more was needed.
In fact, in Shelley’s case it was a bit more complicated than that. What Robbie felt – but was not expressing – was a doubt that Iain was his daughter’s intellectual equal. And that doubt was perhaps well-founded. Iain was nowhere near as bright as Shelley, as was apparent from the one-sided conversation that was the norm between them. Shelley would make a comment and wait for a reaction from Iain, who would often simply grunt in a non-committal way. It was far from being an equal relationship in matters of the mind.
Shortly after Matthew left to drive into work that morning, Elspeth found herself standing by the telephone, poised to dial Shelley’s number. She found that her hand was shaking as she picked up the receiver. What she was doing was something that Matthew had very specifically asked her not to do. But he had not discussed it with her before he more or less forbade her – and that was the general tenor of the language he used, even if he had not used the word forbid. A husband had no right to do that any longer: you could not tell your spouse what to do. You could ask for something not be done, but you could not say “I forbid you”.
And so, in a spirit of principled resistance, she decided that she would call Shelley and arrange to see her. And Shelley, it transpired, was only too eager to meet for lunch. “I really like to get out in the lunch hour,” she said, “but I often have nowhere to go. I don’t like to sit by myself in some café somewhere. So I’m really pleased that you phoned. We need to catch up. You heard that Auntie Elsie died?”
Elspeth had. “She was a real character,” she said.
“She had awful teeth,” said Shelley.
“Oh well, she made it to eighty-nine.”
They agreed to meet at the Canny Man’s in Morningside, which would not involve too long a drive for Elspeth and where they could have a light lunch before Shelley went back to her dental studio.
After a brief catch-up on news of the extended family, much of it to do with cousins whom Elspeth had never met and indeed, in some cases, never heard of, Elspeth said, “I need to speak to you about something very difficult, Shelley. Woman to woman.”
Shelley gasped. “Oh my God,” she said. “You too?”
Elspeth looked blank.
“I mean, you’re having matrimonial problems,” explained Shelley. “Same as so many people you meet.”
Elspeth laughed nervously. “Oh no, everything’s fine between Matthew and me. It’s just that . . .” She hesitated, and then she told Shelley exactly what Matthew had said to her. Then she waited for the reaction.
Shelley sighed. “Men,” she said.
Elspeth waited. Men was an eloquent comment, but a little bit more detail would be required.
“It’s true,” said Shelley. “Iain first spoke to me about it a few weeks ago. He told me that there’s this man who works on the rigs with him – an electrician, he said – who’s really got it in for Fat Bob. He said this man – the electrician – told him that he knows that Fat Bob had an affair with his wife. Had. Past tense. But he hasn’t forgiven him and he said that he has seen Fat Bob with another woman down in Leith. He said he’s seen them together three or four times – even after Fat Bob became engaged to Big Lou. He says it goes to show what sort of man Fat Bob really is. He’s quite happy to two-time right up to the wedding – and afterwards, apparently.”
Elspeth absorbed this in silence. Then she said, “And he’s sure this is still going on?”
“That’s what he said.”
Elspeth shook her head. “That’s awful. We all thought he was so nice.”
“Yes,” said Shelley. “But we all love Big Lou. It really hurts to hear this sort of thing. But I suppose there’s not much one can do about it.”
“Should we tell her?” asked Elspeth. “Should we warn her?”
Shelley looked up at the ceiling of the café. “I think that if we left it, it’s always possible he might stop seeing this other woman and he and Lou might sort things out. But if we interfere at this stage, then it could bring everything crashing down. At least not doing anything means there’s a chance.”
“A very small one,” said Elspeth.
“But still a chance.”
Elspeth looked doubtful, but decided that Shelley probably had a point. “I suppose so,” she said.
© Alexander McCall Smith, 2022. Love in a Time of Bertie (Scotland Street Volume 15) is in bookshops now. The Enigma of Garlic will be published in November by Polygon, price £17.99
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John McGinn opens up on being Scotland's talisman as he reveals his best moment in national shirt
It isn’t difficult to see why John McGinn has become the darling of the Tartan Army. The Aston Villa midfielder gives absolutely everything in the cause of Scotland, and doing so means absolutely everything to him.
More grounded than a rebellious teenager, the adoration he elicits from the support feels akin to the adolescent-crush variety. It can appear as if he is a one man national team in the eyes of the faithful owing to the Super John McGinn ditty having become the soundtrack for all Scotland’s internationals. It was again on Wednesday night at Hampden before a ball was kicked. Before he moved within one game of 50 Scotland caps in typically stand-out fashion. A product of nudging up to joint-ninth in the all-time scoring list alongside Mo Johnston courtesy of a 14th strike with lion rampant on chest that paved the way for the 27-year-old to captain Steve Clarke’s men to an intoxicating 3-0 Nations League victory over Ukraine.
McGinn betrays no faux modesty or affectation over his status. He is simply chuffed to bits by it. Even if he seeks to explain it both rationally and daftly. “Obviously it helps when you score most of the goals…” said the Aston Villa captain with a grin. “And the song is a wee bit catchier and easier to learn than some of the others, so I don’t know if it’s that. But it certainly makes me feel ten feet tall, and as someone who experienced many, many nights watching Scotland, you always dreamed about the fans singing your name. It doesn’t get boring, and I hope I’ve still got another 50 games to come with them singing my name.”
The endearing nature of McGinn’s character perhaps is summed up by his response to being asked what it is like to have assumed the role of talisman for the national team. Were he a French scholar you can bet he would have reached for the phrase ‘noblesse oblige’, his reply amounting to much the same. “It’s good when it’s good, but it’s bad when it’s bad,” he said. “There’s obviously a bit of responsibility and pressure. There have been times where I’ve missed big chances or missed opportunities and the team have looked and thought ‘right, come on John, give us a goal’. But it just makes nights like Wednesday night even sweeter. And I’m more than happy to take that little bit of responsibility onto my shoulders and try to provide for the team, whether that’s assists or goals or even just a bit of energy and work-rate.”
McGinn just wants the best for Scotland, and to be the best he can for his country. Still three weeks away from turning 28, that best should be in front of him. He is honest enough to admit that he considered the whirling dervish ways of his younger days might preclude any sort of international career.
“I think when I first came into the Scotland squad I was very raw,” he said of his introduction to the scene six-and-a-half years ago. “I was basically a rabbit in the headlights still, doing a lot of good things but doing a lot of bad things. I just feel with the games and the standard of games I’ve been playing in, I’ve tried to become cleaner. I’m certainly not as clean as I want to be, but I’m trying the best I can to make better decisions. With experience, decision making comes with that, you get used to playing in a pressured environment, making better decisions and just playing what you see basically. I feel as if I’ve got a lot more to offer, I’m still fit, I still feel strong, and I’ve certainly got more to come. Definitely.”
More has already come from McGinn in an international context. He feels comfortable taking the armband any time he steps into the role in the absence - as is currently the case - of Andy Robertson. Likewise in being one of the experienced players the younger squad members “look up to - I think”. Some elements never alter, though.
“The night of my first cap was surreal,” he said of the Denmark friendly loss of March 2016. “Growing up a Celtic fan, playing alongside Broony [Scott Brown] was just invaluable. The way he spoke through the game. I remember for the first time in my career I was really, really nervous because I thought if I didn’t play well it might be my last-ever game – not in football but for Scotland. Certainly, that game made me feel hungry for more. I remember the feeling walking off the pitch, waving to my family. I thought: ‘Right, this is a bit of me.’ Thankfully, from then I managed to become a mainstay. But the feeling has never changed, whether it’s cap one or - hopefully - cap 50 on Saturday. It’s always a proud moment looking up and seeing the family there.”
How McGinn is binded by those bonds. Bonds furthered with his becoming an uncle again on Wednesday thanks to the birth of a son Liam to brother Stephen - “I hope he’s a left-pegger like Paul’s son Jack”. It says everything about the Villa attacker that it is Paul, now with Motherwell, who immediately springs to mind for the Scotland experience he treasures above all others, which came away to Austria last September. “From my 49 caps, the one clear highlight was when Paul came on then,” he said. “No matter how many caps I will be able to get, no matter how many goals I score, playing for your country with your brother is something unrivalled. He might mention that as well. He was brilliant that night, but we knew it might only be one [time] and it might be the only opportunity for that to happen. Qualifying for the Euros is certainly up there, but if I had to choose a moment that stands out, it would be playing with Paul against Austria.” Enough said.
McDonald’s Fun Football ambassador John McGinn was speaking at one of 20 new locations opening this Autumn. Fun Football is the UK’s largest free grassroots football participation programme and will give one million children access to coaching over the next four years. Sign up to attend a session near you at mcdonalds.co.uk/football
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Nigerians sue over Sh1.4bn Flutterwave cash frozen in Safaricom, banks
Friday September 23 2022More than 2,000 Nigerian investors have petitioned the Kenyan courts to unfreeze Sh1.4 billion locked in Safaricom and four banks, saying they were swindled in transactions involving Africa-focused payments giant Flutterwave.
The Nigerians said in a petition that they were swindled of billions of shillings through a sports betting platform that used Flutterwave to process the payments.
The 2,468 West Africans now want Sh1.44 billion ($12,040,208) separated from the Sh6.6 billion frozen in July in 62 bank accounts at Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), Equity Bank, Ecobank and UBA Bank and in 19 Safaricom paybill numbers under Kenya’s anti-money laundering laws.
ALSO READ: Court freezes another Sh400.6m in banks, M-Pesa linked to Flutterwave
The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) obtained orders freezing Sh5.17 billion in 29 accounts at GTB and the rest in Equity and Ecobank in Kenya shillings, US dollars, euros and Sterling pounds.
The billions are believed to be proceeds of theft, card fraud and money laundering wired in the guise of payments for goods and services.
Morris Ebitimi Joseph, one of the investors, said he and other alleged victims have lodged another case in Nigeria, seeking to recover their money. They have opposed the bid to forfeit the money to the Kenya government, saying part of it belongs to them.
“I believe that the issuance of an order compelling Guaranty Trust Bank, Equity Bank and Ecobank to deposit the sums excluded in the bank account of our advocates, justice shall be served to the 2,468 interested parties who were swindled of their hard-earned money through the scheme,” he said.
The Nigerian says they invested in sports betting through a platform known as 86 football technology.
It was also known as 86FB, 86Z and 86W and the merchants were duly registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria.
The investors, he said, made deposits in the investment scheme with a promise of better returns from the betting business, which never came to pass. They reckon all was well for about six months when the payments stopped.
Mr Ebitimi says he has done research and discovered that it was a dubious operation and wants to join the case and assist the court in resolving the matter.
He has asked the court to issue an order directing Access Bank, Safaricom and United Bank of Africa to deposit the excluded amount in the account of his lawyers under the supervision of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK)—which in July said Flutterwave is not licensed in Kenya.
ALSO READ: Flutterwave now says it applied for CBK licence in 2019
“The claim made by the applicant/intended interested party represents the interest of 2,468 persons, thus occasioning monumental public interest. Failure to expeditiously determine whether the application is in like fashion constitutes substantive and irreparable injustice,” he says.
He argues that besides the 2,468 persons seeking to be enjoined, there is a likelihood that there are more persons who hold interest in the funds. The Nigerian firm, founded in 2016 by Olugbenga Agboola and Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, specialises in individual and consumer transfers.
It is one of several fintech firms facilitating and capitalising on Africa’s booming payments market.
The court heard that Flutterwave received Sh12.4 billion between November 2020 and this year in a single account at Equity Bank, reflecting the outsized payments handled by the start-up.
The funds from the Equity account were later transferred to Rem X Ltd, which is owned by Nehikhare Eghosasere and Demuren Olufemi Olukunmi. Rem X Ltd is at the centre of a separate money laundering suit, which saw the court freeze Sh5.6 billion in accounts in April.
“I have sufficient reason to believe that 86 Football Technology Limited was a fraudulent scheme looking to default unsuspecting investors and traders,” Adebayo Abiodemi, one of 2, 468 investors, said.
He said more people might be interested in the case and petitioned the court to order an advertisement to be placed in the newspapers and online.
Evidence presented in court showed that the funds were deposited through several platforms, including Marakwe and Sons Ltd, Marasoft Digital Technologies Ltd, also known as Marasoftpay, Hadsol Global Investment Service Ltd, Monotechnologies Nig. Ltd and Wildcat Global.
“That I verily believe that the joinder is significant in assisting the court in the just and fair resolution of issues raised, for effectual and complete adjudication of all questions and will provide protection and security for the rights and interest of the applicant/intended interested party who will otherwise be adversely affected by the eventual issuance of forfeiture orders,” Mr Adebayo said.
ALSO READ: CBK orders banks to close Flutterwave, Chipper Cash accounts
The CBK warned banks in July that Flutterwave was not licensed to operate in Kenya but the firm later said it made a licence application to the regulator in 2019, three years before its current predicament.
“We have been in constant engagement with the Central Bank of Kenya to ensure that we provide all the requirements and we look forward to receiving our licence,” the firm said in a statement.
Justice Esther Maina declined to issue the orders sought and directed the case to be heard on October 4.
“That the 1st Respondent’s (Flutterwave) bank accounts received billions in a suspected scheme of money laundering and the same deposited in different bank accounts in an attempt to conceal or disguise the nature, source, location, disposition or movement of the said funds,” said the ARA.
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- Valour's Bitcoin Carbon Neutral ETP becomes the 11th ETP offered by Valour
- Valour Bitcoin Carbon Neutral offers investors exposure to Bitcoin and presents a trusted investment method that benefits the environment and aligns with ESG goals by funding certified carbon removal and offset initiatives in order to neutralise the associated Bitcoin carbon footprint.
- Starting today, September 23, investors in Germany will be able to purchase the Bitcoin Carbon Neutral ETP (ISIN: CH1149139706) with a low management fee of 1.49% on Börse Frankfurt, the largest exchange in Germany.
TORONTO, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Valour Inc. (the "Company" or "Valour") (NEO: DEFI) (GR: RMJR) (OTC: DEFTF), a technology company and the first and only publicly traded company that bridges the gap between traditional capital markets, Web3 and decentralised finance, announced that it will debut its new Carbon Neutral Bitcoin Exchange Traded product ("ETP") on Börse Frankfurt. Trading of these ETPs begins today, September 23, 2022.
Valour Bitcoin Carbon Neutral ETP (ISIN: CH1149139706) provides investors with sustainable and climate-friendly exposure to Bitcoin with a low management fee of 1.49%. The ETP presents a trusted investment method that benefits the environment and aligns with ESG goals by funding certified carbon removal and offset initiatives in order to neutralise the associated Bitcoin carbon footprint.
Valour has partnered with leading climate action infrastructure provider, Patch, in the structuring of the ETP. When investments are made in the Valour BTC Carbon Neutral ETP, all carbon emissions linked to the investment will be automatically targeted to achieve carbon neutral output using Patch's API-based solution, which takes into account various inputs, such as the efficiency of mining equipment, distribution of hash power, and nation level carbon emission data, to estimate the amount of carbon emissions the Valour portfolio has.
To offset these emissions, Patch only selects high integrity projects that prevent, remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Patch carefully selects projects, and ensures they have been vetted by qualified and recognized organisations and standards, including; Gold Standard, Climate Action Reserve, Verified Carbon Standard, BCarbon, American Carbon Registry and Puro.Earth. The criteria Patch uses to ensure projects deliver the highest impact are: additionality, real and verifiable permanence, and negativity.
"Valour strives to ensure that its offerings promote sustainable practices and contribute to efforts to build a carbon neutral crypto industry", said Russell Starr, CEO of Valour. "As a proud signatory on the Crypto Climate Accord, Valour takes its ESG obligations seriously. We want to give retail and institutional investors, alike, the tools to partake in the exciting digital asset ecosystem and we are very proud to offer our first carbon neutral product."
Valour offers fully hedged digital asset ETPs with low to zero management fees, with product listings across four European exchanges. In addition to Bitcoin Carbon Zero, Valour's existing product range includes Valour Binance (BNB), Valour Uniswap (UNI), Cardano (ADA), Polkadot (DOT), Solana (SOL), Avalanche (AVAX), Cosmos (ATOM) and Enjin (ENJ) ETPs, as well as Valour's flagship Bitcoin Zero and Valour Ethereum Zero products, the first fully hedged, passive investment products with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) as underlyings which are completely fee-free.
Learn more about Valour at https://valour.com/
Valour Inc. is a technology company and the first and only publicly traded company that bridges the gap between traditional capital markets and decentralised finance. Founded in 2019, Valour is backed by an acclaimed and pioneering team with decades of experience in financial markets and digital assets. Valour's mission is to expand investor access to industry-leading Web3 and decentralised technologies. This allows investors to access the future of finance via regulated equity exchanges using their traditional bank account and access, visit https://valour.com
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CAMBRIDGE, Md. - The old and dilapidated Hearn Building remains on Race St. with no known future plans.
Community members, business owners, and city leaders are frustrated with the state of the Hearn Building. The building has been unused since 2010. And in 2015, the building suffered a collapse of a wall.
Commissioner Lajan Cephas wrote a letter to NCALL on Sept.19. In the letter Cephas wrote, "We understand that a subsidiary of NCALL called Hearn Ownership LLC has owned this property for more than three years." Commissioner Cephas wrote on behalf of her colleagues to achieve an acceptable plan from NCALL.
Frustration comes from the condition of the building and how long it's been. Support beams spider out toward buttresses. The building is windowless. And, the sidewalk is blocked. This causes people to walk into the busy street.
Business owners like Henry Vandyke, who own Lil' Bitta Bull, want a change. Vandyke's restaurant is right across the street. He says, it doesn't make the city look good. "It says that we don't take care of our community. It says that we are putting our resources into other things and new projects and not taking care of what we already have. If we are going to keep this building, then we need to focus on repairing it and making it look presentable," says Vandyke.
Not only was the letter sent because of frustration, but city leaders say it was also because meetings were unable to be set up.
City Manager, Tom Carroll, says "We had fulfilled our part of an interim agreement and we hadn't seen them fulfill their part of setting up a meeting. When you are an out of town landlord and you do not say what you're going to do, that's a big concern for a city."
"We certainly understand their frustration. It has taken a while. This process is one that does indeed take a while. So, we are working. We have a sales agreement on the property and we are working with the developer to redevelop that property," says NCALL's Loan Fund Director Dave Callahan.
NCALL said they have not responded to the letter, yet. But, they are setting up a meeting to meet the first week of Oct.
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Bogoro Local Government Area of Bauchi State has inaugurated a new livestock market with a call to residents of the area to patronise the market in order to boost commercial and economic activities.
Speaking during the inauguration ceremony, chairman of the local government area, Mr Iliya Habila, said the council has potential in livestock with over 400,000 herds of cattle, goats, sheep and other ruminants.
He said that the livestock market would boost internally generated revenue for both the people of the council, economic growth, among other social benefits, as people from outside the council will be coming to transact business regularly.
The council chairman further disclosed that the new market was equipped with required facilities such as functional borehole, stalls, livestock area, worship centres and space for traders of livestock products or feeds.
Habila enjoined residents to join hands with the council and ensure peaceful coexistence among themselves and welcome visitors who are willing to engage in genuine business.
He advised that people should be vigilant and watchful against bad elements that would want to use the market as an avenue to commit crimes, adding that anyone caught will not be spared.
The chairman said that the market will be running on every Monday of the week, just as he called on traditional rulers to guard against infiltration of strangers with questionable characters coming into the area.
While speaking, Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Jidauna Tula Mbami, who inaugurated the project, appreciated efforts of the council chairman, saying the market will further open up the area to the outside world.
Mbami stated that the livestock market is a welcome development and will go a long way in proffering solutions to unemployment, as new businesses will pick up steadily.
The member representing Bogoro in the state’s House of Assembly, Hon Musa Wakili Nakwada described the establishment of the livestock market as a right step in the right direction, as it will cushion the hardships experienced by cattle dealers in the area.
The state’s chairman of Miyetti Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) in Mangu and Kanke Local Government Areas of Plateau State, as well as dignitaries across the state commended the new development.
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WASHINGTON D.C./HONOLULU (KITV4) -- A group of military families who ingested contaminated water from the Red Hill jet fuel storage facility leak met with Congressional leaders and staff in Washington D.C. Thursday.
The families urged lawmakers to hold the Navy accountable for the spill, its impacts on their health, and the poor handling of the crisis following their complaints.
"Six thousand individuals went to Hawaii emergency rooms in late November 2021, before the Navy acknowledged that thousands of gallons of jet fuel leaked into their water source," shared Erin Powers, a lawyer for the families. "Hundreds of civilians and military family members reported seizures, gastrointestinal disorders, neurological issues, burns, rashes, lesions, thyroid abnormalities, migraines, neurobehavioral challenges, and other maladies, the law-suit asserts. Many families were evacuated from their contaminated homes in Hawaii. They were forced to move back into those homes, only to get sick again, and now reside elsewhere, according to a federal- court lawsuit filed by the four families last month."
The DC meetings with lawmakers focused on how the military families believed the Navy lacked transparency about the incidents, medical treatment, and military housing issues -- and how these impacts are still ongoing for many families. Several families left Oahu following their illnesses.
The lawsuit accuses the Navy of releasing thousands of gallons of jet fuel and other contaminants directly into the families’ drinking water at least twice in 2021, but failing to warn residents of the contamination.
Four families named in the lawsuit continue to suffer from multiple medical conditions, but the Navy still has not fully disclosed the scope of the contamination, recognized that affected families are still sick, or provided appropriate medical care, the lawsuit asserts.
After the filing of the lawsuit, the Navy admitted that it destroyed thousands of Red Hill water test results. Other test results are still missing, according to the law firms.
Do you have a story idea? Email news tips to news@kitv.com
Kathryn spent the last decade in the Bay Area working in nonprofits, education, and communications consulting. She has a B.A. in English from St. Mary's College of CA and an M.A. in Public Affairs and Politics from the University of San Francisco.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Domestic violence calls are among the most dangerous that law enforcement respond to. For the victims that come forward, reporting the abuse and going through the legal system can be traumatizing.
"We need to believe victims, that's not to say that there isn't a burden of proof that has to be established," said Spokane District Court Judge Aimee Maruer, who is seeking reelection. "But, at the end of the day, our job is to make sure that justice is done and also that our communities are safe."
On Thursday night, judges, prosecutors and sheriff candidates were invited to speak at a forum put on by several groups that provide help to sexual assault and domestic violence survivors.
Eric Dooyema is running for Spokane District Court Judge and says the courts need to maintain a strong relationship with law enforcement so that victims are protected outside of the courtroom.
"It's been a little bit easier for us now to follow up with the gun surrenders and it ever has been in the past and that's always been something I've been worried about," Dooyema said. "We sign the order, we tell folks to surrender weapons and then you don't know what happens next."
Andrew Biviano is also running for district court judge. He talked about how he's already helped survivors as a private attorney.
"The biggest service I provide is that I can both help them learn what the law is and how to go about it, but also how to present their case," Biviano said. "They come to me with a story and it's very long and complex and there's all sorts of things that have happened and they are traumatized and they are not sure how to put it forward in a way that will get through to the judge."
Candidates agreed that more can be done to help survivors, especially minority populations.
"Spokane is getting more and more diverse. We need to accommodate the refugees coming through to Spokane," said District Court Judge candidate Jenny Zappone. "We need to accommodate our diverse population because they are victims as well and they are entering a system where they have no idea what is going on."
Undocumented immigrants can be less likely to report abuse. Spokane County Sheriff candidate John Nowles was asked how he would support them if elected sheriff.
"They are victims of crimes," Nowles said. "Their immigration status shouldn't even come up in the investigation frankly and I know why it does. There's a significant amount of fear by people who may be undocumented and in this country, they are worried that because they are a victim that they may be further victimized and deported."
Knowles went on to say that undocumented immigrants who are victims of a crime can receive what's called a U Visa.
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Kochi: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday made it clear he will fight for the party's president post and said irrespective of the outcome, it is necessary to work in a united manner and ensure the party emerges as a strong opposition.
Any call on his successor to head the Rajasthan government will be taken by party interim President Sonia Gandhi and Congress' Rajasthan in-charge, Ajay Maken, he told reporters here.
"I will fix the date (to submit the nomination papers) after going (back to Rajasthan), but I have decided that I will have to contest. It is a question of democracy and let us make a new start," he said.
With speculations rife that Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor is likely to jump into the fray, Gehlot said other "Congress friends" may also contest but what matters is unity and the need to strengthen the organisation at all levels.
"There are Congress friends. Even if they contest, there is no issue. After the results, we should work together to strengthen the Congress at the block, village, district levels and also move forward making our (Congress) thought process as the base so that we emerge as a strong opposition," he added.
Considering the present situation in the country, there is a need for a strong opposition, the veteran Congress leader said.
Responding to a question on Rahul Gandhi's 'one-man, one-post' statement made in the context of the Congress leadership role and asked for his comment on a possible successor if he wins the party election, Gehlot said Rajasthan state in-charge Ajay Maken and Sonia Gandhi would decide on the matter.
He was also asked if he would have a say in the matter.
"I can't say that standing from Kochi. Our general secretary in charge Mr Ajay Maken and Congress president Sonia Gandhi will decide" on the related developments in Rajasthan and when it is to be done, he added.
The Congress had on Thursday issued notification for the party president post.
The party is likely to be headed by a non-Gandhi leader for the first time in decades, with Rahul Gandhi indicating he is not going to vie for the top post.
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Kochi: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday made it clear he will fight for the party's president post and said irrespective of the outcome, it is necessary to work in a united manner and ensure the party emerges as a strong opposition.
Any call on his successor to head the Rajasthan government will be taken by party interim President Sonia Gandhi and Congress' Rajasthan in-charge, Ajay Maken, he told reporters here.
"I will fix the date (to submit the nomination papers) after going (back to Rajasthan), but I have decided that I will have to contest. It is a question of democracy and let us make a new start," he said.
With speculations rife that Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor is likely to jump into the fray, Gehlot said other "Congress friends" may also contest but what matters is unity and the need to strengthen the organisation at all levels.
"There are Congress friends. Even if they contest, there is no issue. After the results, we should work together to strengthen the Congress at the block, village, district levels and also move forward making our (Congress) thought process as the base so that we emerge as a strong opposition," he added.
Considering the present situation in the country, there is a need for a strong opposition, the veteran Congress leader said.
Responding to a question on Rahul Gandhi's 'one-man, one-post' statement made in the context of the Congress leadership role and asked for his comment on a possible successor if he wins the party election, Gehlot said Rajasthan state in-charge Ajay Maken and Sonia Gandhi would decide on the matter.
He was also asked if he would have a say in the matter.
"I can't say that standing from Kochi. Our general secretary in charge Mr Ajay Maken and Congress president Sonia Gandhi will decide" on the related developments in Rajasthan and when it is to be done, he added.
The Congress had on Thursday issued notification for the party president post.
The party is likely to be headed by a non-Gandhi leader for the first time in decades, with Rahul Gandhi indicating he is not going to vie for the top post.
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Thiruvananthapuram: Several incidents of violence were reported during the state-wide hartal organised by the Popular Front of India (PFI) on Friday.
The strike, protesting against the countrywide raid and arrests by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), will be observed from 6 am to 6 pm.
The Kerala High Court on Friday took a case against PFI suo moto for the hartal for violating its ruling.The court said hartal was banned by it earlier and the destruction of the public property cannot be accepted.
The court also asked the state administration to take stern action against those who violate the court order banning hartals.
It asked the government to use all possible means to stop any form of violence.Incidents of violence, including stone pelting were reported across the state on Friday.
A petrol bomb was hurled at a vehicle distributing newspapers in Narayanpara, Kannur.
In Alappuzha, the windshields of two Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) buses and two lorries were destroyed.
Stones were also hurled at vehicles in Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Ernakulam, Kozhikode and Wayanad districts.
A KSRTC driver suffered eye injury near Kozhikode Civil Station when stones were hurled at the bus he was driving. He has been taken to the General Hospital.
Another KSRTC driver was injured in the stone pelting which took place on the National Highway near Cheruvannur steel complex in Kozhikode. The driver, Siji, was admitted to a privae hospital nearby.
KSRTC buses were damaged in stone pelting incidents on Chingavanam-Changanassery bus route in Kottayam. Stone pelting was also reported in Thekkumgopuram, Ayemenem, Kodimatha and Kurichi regions of Kottayam. The police lathi-charged at protestors in Erattupetta after an agitation escalated here.
In Thiruvananthapuram's Pothencode, a group of 15 agitators vandalised shops. One person was taken into custody by the police after the incident. Vehicles plying on roads were stopped by protestors in Kattakada of Thiruvananthapuram.
In Kollam's Palimukku, a group of protesters hit the policemen on duty with a bike after the former hurled abuses at commuters. Senior Civil Police Officer Antony, CPO Nikhil were injured.
Strict action against offenders: Police
The Kerala Police has said action will be taken on those who attempt to close shops by use of force during the hartal. They will be arrested immediately, the police said in a release.
State police chief Anil Kant has directed district chiefs to prohibit gathering of hartal supporters in public places and to go for preventive custody if needed.
The entire police force will be pressed into action to prevent untoward incidents during the 12-hour hartal, the Kerala Police media cell informed.
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Thiruvananthapuram: Several incidents of violence were reported during the state-wide hartal organised by the Popular Front of India (PFI) on Friday.
The strike, protesting against the countrywide raid and arrests by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), will be observed from 6 am to 6 pm.
The Kerala High Court on Friday took a case against PFI suo moto for the hartal for violating its ruling.The court said hartal was banned by it earlier and the destruction of the public property cannot be accepted.
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Stone pelting at KSRTC bus in Kochi's Karumaloor. Though protestors blocked Aluva-Paravur road at two places the police removed the stones.
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The court also asked the state administration to take stern action against those who violate the court order banning hartals.
It asked the government to use all possible means to stop any form of violence.Incidents of violence, including stone pelting were reported across the state on Friday.
A petrol bomb was hurled at a vehicle distributing newspapers in Narayanpara, Kannur.
In Alappuzha, the windshields of two Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) buses and two lorries were destroyed.
Stones were also hurled at vehicles in Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Ernakulam, Kozhikode and Wayanad districts.
A KSRTC driver suffered eye injury near Kozhikode Civil Station when stones were hurled at the bus he was driving. He has been taken to the General Hospital.
Another KSRTC driver was injured in the stone pelting which took place on the National Highway near Cheruvannur steel complex in Kozhikode. The driver, Siji, was admitted to a privae hospital nearby.
KSRTC buses were damaged in stone pelting incidents on Chingavanam-Changanassery bus route in Kottayam. Stone pelting was also reported in Thekkumgopuram, Ayemenem, Kodimatha and Kurichi regions of Kottayam. The police lathi-charged at protestors in Erattupetta after an agitation escalated here.
In Thiruvananthapuram's Pothencode, a group of 15 agitators vandalised shops. One person was taken into custody by the police after the incident. Vehicles plying on roads were stopped by protestors in Kattakada of Thiruvananthapuram.
In Kollam's Palimukku, a group of protesters hit the policemen on duty with a bike after the former hurled abuses at commuters. Senior Civil Police Officer Antony, CPO Nikhil were injured.
Strict action against offenders: Police
The Kerala Police has said action will be taken on those who attempt to close shops by use of force during the hartal. They will be arrested immediately, the police said in a release.
State police chief Anil Kant has directed district chiefs to prohibit gathering of hartal supporters in public places and to go for preventive custody if needed.
The entire police force will be pressed into action to prevent untoward incidents during the 12-hour hartal, the Kerala Police media cell informed.
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CONLEY, Ga. (WHNT) — Several ready-to-eat vegetable products are being recalled over the possibility of listeria contamination, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday.
The GHGA company is recalling various products, including diced veggies, salsa, and dips after the firm was notified that a single sample of a product tested positive for the bacteria on Sept. 16.
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that can cause listeriosis, a serious infection. It can also cause common food poisoning symptoms.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says around 1,600 people get listeriosis every year, resulting in about 260 deaths. It is most likely to sicken pregnant women and their newborns, adults 65 and older, and people with weakened immune systems.
The FDA says the products were sold primarily in Kroger locations across Alabama, South Carolina, and Georgia.
All of the following products are affected by the recall:
- Asparagus Saute 9.5oz, UPC: 8 26766 19027 0, Sell-by: 9/17/2022, Lot: GHGA 254
- Diced Bell Pepper and White Onion 7oz, UPC: 8 26766 19004 1, Sell-by: 9/15/2022, Lot: GHGA 254
- Diced Red Onion 10oz, UPC: 8 26766 18100 1, Sell-by: 9/19/2022, Lot: GHGA 254
- Fajita Mix 9.5oz, UPC: 8 26766 19031 7, Sell-by: 9/17/2022, Lot: GHGA 254
- Fiesta Corn 10oz, UPC: 8 26766 18462 0, Sell-by: 9/17/2022, Lot: GHGA 254
- Hamburger Fixins 10oz, UPC: 8 26766 19028 7, Sell-by: 9/17/2022, Lot: GHGA 254
- Hatch Chile Guacamole Blender 9oz, UPC: 8 26766 14452 5, Sell-by: 9/17/2022, Lot: GHGA 254
- Large Medium Salsa 13oz, UPC: 8 26766 19071 3, Sell-by: 9/18/2022, Lot: GHGA 254
- Large Mild Chunky Guacamole 13oz, UPC: 8 26766 19053 9, Sell-by: 9/17/2022, Lot: GHGA 254
- Large Mild Salsa 13oz, UPC: 8 26766 19069 0, Sell-by: 9/18/2022, Lot: GHGA 263
- Mango Habanero Blender 9oz, UPC: 8 26766 19044 7, Sell-by: 9/17/202, Lot: GHGA 264
- Medium Hatch Salsa 13oz, UPC: 8 26766 19076 8, Sell-by: 9/18/2022, Lot: GHGA 265
- Mexican Style Layered Bean Dip 20oz, UPC: 8 26766 14510 2, Sell-by: 9/17/2022, Lot: GHGA 266
- Mild Guacamole Blender 13oz, UPC: 8 26766 19045 4, Sell-by: 9/17/2022, Lot: GHGA 267
- Mild Guacamole Blender 9oz, UPC: 8 26766 14434 1, Sell-by: 9/17/2022, Lot: GHGA 268
- Mushroom Stir Fry Blend 9oz, UPC: 8 26766 19010 2, Sell-by: 9/17/2022, Lot: GHGA 269
- Seasoned Squash Onion & Dill 10.5oz, UPC: 8 26766 19036 2, Sell-by: 9/17/2022, Lot: GHGA 270
- Small Medium Hatch Chile Pico de Gallo 9oz, UPC: 8 26766 19062 1, Sell-by: 9/18/2022, Lot: GHGA 271
- Small Ranch Tray with Dip 21.0oz, UPC: 8 26766 19087 4, Sell-by: 9/15/2022, Lot: GHGA 272
- Snacking Peppers 12oz, UPC: 8 26766 19037 9, Sell-by: 9/17/2022, Lot: GHGA 273
- Spicy Guacamole Blender 9oz, UPC: 8 26766 14436 5, Sell-by: 9/17/2022, Lot: GHGA 274
- Steak Topper 7.5oz, UPC: 8 26766 19026 3, Sell-by: 9/17/2022, Lot: GHGA 275
- 3 Skewer Veggie Kabobs 22oz, UPC: 8 26766 19008 9, Sell-by: 9/17/2022, Lot: GHGA 276
- Tri Pepper Blend 7oz, UPC: 8 26766 19003 4, Sell-by: 9/15/2022, Lot: GHGA 277
- Vegetable Bowl 42oz, UPC: 8 26766 18468 2, Sell-by: 9/17/2022, Lot: GHGA 278
According to the FDA, the products were sold to Kroger and distributed to retail stores on Sept. 11. Officials say the “sell-by” date has expired and products have been removed from store shelves, but they are warning anyone who might still have the items to throw them away or return them to the place of purchase for a full refund.
The products were packaged in clear plastic containers with sell-by dates and lot numbers listed on the top primary label of each item.
For more information on the items included in the recall, including pictures of the products, or for questions or concerns, contact the company or visit the FDA’s website.
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HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BEST Inc. ("BEST" or the "Company") (NYSE: BEST), a leading integrated smart supply chain solutions and logistics services provider in China and Southeast Asia ("SEA"), today announced that it will hold its 2022 annual general meeting of shareholders at 5th Floor, Block A, Huaxing Modern Industry Park, No. 18 Tangmiao Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China at 10:00 a.m. (Beijing time) on November 9, 2022.
No proposal will be submitted for shareholder approval at the annual general meeting. Instead, the annual general meeting will serve as an open forum for shareholders to discuss Company affairs with management. The chairman of the AGM will conduct and lead the AGM and may accept questions from shareholders at his sole and absolute discretion.
The board of directors of the Company has fixed the close of business on October 7, 2022 (Eastern Daylight Time) as the record date (the "Record Date") for determining the shareholders entitled to receive notice of and attend the annual general meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof. Holders of record of the Company's ordinary shares at the close of business on the Record Date are entitled to attend the annual general meeting and any adjournment or postponement thereof in person.
BEST has filed its annual report on Form 20-F (the "Annual Report"), which includes the Company's audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). BEST's Annual Report can be accessed on the investor relations section of its website at http://ir.best-inc.com or on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov.
Holders of the Company's ordinary shares may obtain a hard copy of the Annual Report, free of charge, by writing to:
BEST Inc.
c/o 5th Floor, Block A, Huaxing Modern Industry Park
No. 18 Tangmiao Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou
Zhejiang Province 310013
People's Republic of China
Attention: IR Department
ABOUT BEST INC.
BEST Inc. (NYSE: BEST) is a leading integrated smart supply chain solutions and logistics services provider in China and Southeast Asia. Through its proprietary technology platform and extensive networks, BEST offers a comprehensive set of logistics and value-added services, including freight delivery, supply chain management, and global logistics services. BEST's mission is to empower business and enrich life by leveraging technology and business model innovation to create a smarter, more efficient supply chain. For more information, please visit: http://www.best-inc.com/en/.
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LAS VEGAS, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Last week, BLUETTI showed off its latest innovations at IFA, Berlin, including the AC500+B300S combo, AC200 series, and most importantly, the long-rumored solar system-EP600+B500, which is a three-phase system that features a 6kVA inverter and maximum 79kWh LFP battery capacity.
Ever since the launch of AC300+B300 system in 2021, BLUETTI has started to make their premium solar power systems modular, bringing extraordinary versatility and flexibility. The latest EP600 and B500 inherit this fine tradition.
What is the EP600 solar battery system?
The modular design of EP600 significantly shrinks the overall weight and size. It is packed with a whopping 6000VA bi-directional inverter for AC input and output, providing 230/400V AC power to easily run almost any household electric appliances. Besides, the EP600 also supports up to 6000W solar input from 150V to 500V range. With a 99.9% MPPT solar efficiency, all the hungry devices can be topped up with the sunshine from a solar panel array!
As an expansion battery, B500 features 4,960Wh ultra-durable LFP battery cells. Every EP600 supports up to 16 battery modules for a total 79.3kWh capacity, which can cover all power needs at home or off-the-grid for days or even a week! Whenever power is needed, the BLUETTI EP600 system is ready to help.
Why's the battery so important?
Solar panels capture sunlight and convert it into storable electricity in batteries for later use, making it possible to use solar energy even after sunset or on cloudy days.
So whether getting rid of high electricity bills or preparing for any unexpected power outages or natural disasters, this EP600 energy storage system will be that solid backup power source that can be always depended on.
What makes the EP600 system outstanding?
Compared to other existing solar generators in the market, EP600 comes with a hybrid inverter system within the belly, which means plugging solar panels into the solar generator is quite enough for solar charging. No more solar inverter or MPPT controller is required.
Availability & Pricing
BLUETTI claims that the EP600 and B500 system will be available in Europe, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The pre-order will start before November. Users may subscribe here to get early bird deals and stay up to date with BLUETTI's new solar power system.
For the pricing, though it's not finally decided, a EP600+2*B500 combo, has everything a consumer could possibly need, will cost less than €9,500, revealed by James Ray, the marketing director of BLUETTI.
About BLUETTI
With over 10 years of industry experience, BLUETTI has tried to stay true to a sustainable future through green energy storage solutions for both indoor and outdoor use while delivering an exceptional eco-friendly experience for everyone and the world. BLUETTI is making its presence in 70+ countries and is trusted by millions of customers across the globe. For more information, please visit BLUETTI online at https://www.bluettipower.com/.
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Watchung Hills football erupts in the second half for big win
BRIDGEWATER – In a flash, Bridgewater-Raritan High School’s football team had a 14-7 lead late in the first half of Thursday night’s game with Watchung Hills. Then in the little time remaining – about a minute to go in the half – Watchung Hills took the game over.
Watchung’s run was the start of what turned out to be a 38-14 triumph in a Big Central Conference inter-division game as the Warriors (3-2) stopped a two-game losing streak.
Bridgewater-Raritan (2-3) was held to about 15 yards of offense, before scoring its first touchdown on a 67-yard TD pass from Joe Spirra to Matt Macioiek.
The Panthers then came right back to go ahead on Colin Kurdyla’s long interception return that set up Drew Davis’ 8-yard TD. Kurdyla followed with a conversion reception from Spirra for a 14-7 Panthers lead with 1:14 left in the half.
Watchung Hills rebounded quickly with a long pass from quarterback Dylan Kelly to Jack Clintook that set up Kelly’s TD sneak that tied the game.
Kicker Ryan McCann followed his extra point that tied the game at 14-14 with an onside kick that he recovered.
Watchung took the lead for good at 17-14 on McCann’s 40-yard field goal with two seconds left in the first half.
The second half was all Watchung Hills.
“We won the line of scrimmage,” Watchung Hills’ center/nose Hunter Seubert said.
“I challenged our guys up front,” said Warriors coach Rich Seubert, Hunter’s father. “I told them that this would be the best defense we saw this year. We just played a little better tonight.”
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Five different players scored TDs for Watchung Hills –David Labib, Dylan Kelly, Brendan Fahs, Nirio Garcia and David Dubas.
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Garcia ran for 87 yards and a TD on 17 carries. The Warriors ran 39 times for 171 yards.
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Watchung Hills coach Rich Seubert told his team after the game, “We played physical tonight. We played the kind of football we want you to play. Fast, physical and fun.”
What’s next
Both teams resume division play next week. Watchung Hills plays at Montgomery in a Big Central Liberty Silver game. Bridgewater-Raritan plays host to Ridge next Friday in a Big Central American Silver game.
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A Missouri mother will finally be able to lay her son to rest after draining the pond where his slain body was dumped seven years ago.
Connie Goodwin and her grandson Gage Goodwin recovered the remains of Edward Goodwin, Gage’s father, from the bottom of a pond in Poplar Bluff Saturday, the local publication Riverfront Times reported.
Edward Goodwin’s partial remains had been sitting underneath the murky water since he was killed by two former friends in the summer of 2015.
His killers Eldred Smith and Ricky Hurt — who are each serving time for the murder — tied cinder blocks to the 32-year-old’s body and tossed it into the unnamed pond off County Road 572, according to the Butler County Sheriff’s Department.
The motive was an alleged drug deal gone wrong that led to a grudge between the parties, the Daily American Republic reported at the time.
Two years after the murder, in November 2017, the sheriff department drained a portion of the pound and spotted partial remains they were able to identify as Edward Goodwin’s.
Investigators recovered a pelvis and femurs, which were enough to try Smith and Hurt for murder.
Connie Goodwin, 57, said the sheriff’s department promised they would return and finish the job to collect the rest of her son, but years passed with new excuses each time, she told the Riverfront Times.
“There was always a reason. Either because of other crimes going on or the weather,” she said.
Last fall, sheriff deputies returned to the pond to continue draining efforts, but were unable to remove enough water to find the rest of Edward Goodwin.
Over the weekend, Connie and Gage Goodwin — unable to get closure knowing his remains were still in the pond — decided to continue the recovery effort themselves.
They rented a sump pump and started pumping water out of the pond — which had exponentially shrunk in size from prior efforts.
Two hours into the job, they spotted what appeared to be bones sticking up from the mud and gave the local coroner a call.
Gage Goodwin, who was 15 at the time of his dad’s murder, ran out to the center of the muddy swamp to collect his father’s remains.
“The next thing you know, my grandson, he’s tall and slender-built, took off in a running stance through that mud,” Connie Goodwin said. “It was up to his knees.”
The now 22-year-old and Butler County Coroner Jim Akers worked to carefully remove the skeletal remains from the mud and placed them in a kayak to safely return them to shore.
The discovery was bittersweet but helped bring some closure to the family.
“It was a sad day. It was a joyful day, too, because we could bring our son home,” Connie Goodwin said.
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Edinburgh crime: Balaclava-clad thieves steal war medals and jewellery during house break-in
A family is said to be shocked and upset after thieves in balaclavas broke into an Edinburgh property and stole a safe containing various items of sentimental value – including jewellery and war medals.
Between 10pm and midnight on Saturday (September 17), three people dressed in dark clothing forced entry to a house in Napier Road, before leaving the scene in a car.
Officers have been carrying out door-to-door enquiries and are reviewing any relevant CCTV from the surrounding area for any additional information on the suspects.
Enquiries carried out so far have established the suspects broke into the rear of the property and left by the front door, getting into a dark coloured car, which drove off towards Colinton Road.
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Detective Constable Scott Lynas said: “The medals and jewellery are of great sentimental value and family members are shocked and upset that the items have been stolen.
“I am appealing to anyone who has any information to get in touch.
“I would also ask people to contact us if they become aware of anyone trying to sell or pass on items of jewellery or medals.
“No matter how insignificant your information may seem to you, please do pass it on, your information could be the link that helps us identify the suspects and enable us to return the items to their rightful owners.”
Anyone with information is asked to call Police Scotland via 101, quoting incident number 1226 of 18 September, 2022.
Alternatively, you can pass information confidentially to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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Following the death of Britain's longest-serving monarch Queen Elizabeth II, people in India and in Africa have called for the return of its colonial-era possessions, including the Koh-i-Noor diamond on the Imperial State Crown and the Great Star of Africa, a huge diamond set in the Sovereign’s sceptre.
Over the past few weeks, audiences have been dazzled by images of the crown which sat upon the Queen’s coffin. It consists of 2,868 diamonds, 273 pearls, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, four rubies, 269 pearls and has an estimated value of between three and five billion pounds.
The crown was originally made for the coronation of King George VI in 1937 by Garrard and Company. The late queen wore the crown following her coronation 16 years later in 1953 and her son, now King Charles III is expected to wear it at his coronation, which is likely to take place next year.
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The 105.6-carat oval-shaped Koh-i-Noor - which means ‘Mountain of Light’ in Persian - is believed to have been found centuries ago in the Kollur mine of India during the Kakatiya dynasty rule. It had changed hands over the years until being ceded to Queen Victoria under the British colonial empire and following the annexation of the Punjab.
It is now on display under armed guard in the Tower of London. A petition has been started by the founder and managing partner Monta Vista Capital Venktesh Shukla who is calling for Britain to return the diamond to India.
It has collected almost 8,000 signatures and reads: “It is no longer morally defensible for the UK to hold on to this loot. The honourable thing to do is to return to where they took it away from - to India. It is good for the UK as well as this act of voluntarily handing over Koh-i-Noor will go some way in washing away the sins of its colonial past.
“The UK wants to be seen as an honourable country that does good in the world. Let us give them this opportunity to come good.”
Activists in South Africa started a similar petition, asking for the Cullinan Diamond, also known as the Great Star of Africa, to be returned. Set up by Ndumiso Ngwenya, the petition reads: “On 26 January 1905, the Cullinan Diamond, weighing 3,106.75 carats worth $2 billion, was discovered at the Premier No.2 mine in Cullinan, South Africa. The mine was named after its owner Thomas Cullinan.
“In April 1905, the diamond was brought to London where it was mounted on the Sovereign’s Sceptre with a cross. As South African, we would like our diamonds returned and displayed in a South African museum.”
More than 7,500 people have signed it as more former colonies of the British Empire are now asking for reparation. There have always been demands for these precious diamonds to be returned to their rightful owners but the Queen’s death led to fresh calls and conversation over the legacy of the British Empire.
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Olivia Newton-John honoured by TidalWave Comics after death for her birthday - when is it out, how to buy
Legendary ‘Grease’ actress to be honoured with a comic biography.
Late Olivia Newton-John is to be honoured with a comic by TidalWave comics to commemorate her life.
The comic, which is released now in time forwhat would be the actress’ 74th birthday on 26 September, is a biography as part of their Tribute series.
Olivia Newton-John passed away earlier this year at the age of 73 after a long battle with cancer, with which she had battled three times in her life.
The British-Australian actress and musician, most well known for her role as Sandy Olsson in the 1978 musical Grease, found fame in every aspect of entertainment. And aside from acting she released several platinum albums and sold more than 100 million copies.
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TidalWave’s Olivia Newton-John comic
The comic is written by Sandra C. Ruckdeschel and illustrated by Alessandro Miracolo and Pablo Martinena. An epilogue has been written by Michael Frizel.
Newton-John collaborated with TidalWave for a comic book years ago, and TidalWave Comics publisher Darren G. Davis has said: "[She] gave us her insight and exclusive info which we have used in this issue as well.
"She was amazing and inspiring to work with."
“The Tribute line of comic books tells the stories of the classic entertainers that have passed on. It is a way for us to honor these people who have made a difference in the world.”
Writer Sandra C. Ruckdeschel said: “Writing this comic book about Olivia Newton-John was a dream come true for me! I grew up idolizing Olivia as a child and I still do as adult! She is the epitome of grace, kindness, and love. Researching her life story for this comic was not even work, it was pure joy! And having the opportunity to create a story and images to express who she is to the world was an honor.”
The comic book is available as a softback and a hardcover as well as digitally, and there are two different covers available at Comic Flea Market. And parts of the profits from the comic book will be donated to global medicine research foundation ONJ Foundation.
TidalWave Comics are not new to tributes, and has previously released several comic series on major celebrities; such as Stevie Nicks, Dolly Parton and Prince.
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HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BEST Inc. (NYSE: BEST) ("BEST" or the "Company"), a leading integrated smart supply chain solutions and logistics services provider in China and Southeast Asia ("SEA"), today announced that it is notifying holders of its 1.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2024 (CUSIP Nos. 08653CAB2 & G11056AA9) (the "Notes") that pursuant to the Indenture dated as of September 17, 2019 (the "Indenture") relating to the Notes by and between the Company and Citicorp International Limited, as trustee, each holder has the right, at the option of such holder, to require the Company to repurchase all of such holder's Notes or any portion thereof that is an integral multiple of US$1,000 principal amount for cash on September 30, 2022 (the "Repurchase Right"). The Repurchase Right expires at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Friday, September 30, 2022.
The Repurchase Right entitles each holder of the Notes to require the Company to repurchase all of such holder's Notes or any portion thereof that is an integral multiple of US$1,000 principal amount. The repurchase price for such Notes will be equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be repurchased, plus any accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, September 30, 2022, which is the date specified for repurchase in the Indenture (the "Repurchase Date"), subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture and the Notes. October 1, 2022 is an interest payment date under the terms of the Indenture and the Notes. Accordingly, on October 1, 2022, the Company will pay accrued and unpaid interest on all of the Notes through September 30, 2022 to all holders who were holders of record as of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Thursday, September 15, 2022, regardless of whether the Repurchase Right is exercised with respect to such Notes. As of August 31, 2022, there was US$105,160,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Notes outstanding. If all outstanding Notes are surrendered for repurchase through the exercise of the Repurchase Right, the aggregate cash purchase price will be US$105,160,000.
The opportunity for holders of the Notes to exercise the Repurchase Right commences at 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on Thursday, September 1, 2022, and will terminate at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. In order to exercise the Repurchase Right, a holder must follow the procedures set forth in the Company's Notice of Optional Repurchase Right to holders (the "Repurchase Right Notice"), which is available through Citicorp International Limited. Holders may withdraw any previously surrendered Notes pursuant to the terms of the Repurchase Right Notice at any time prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, or as otherwise provided by applicable law.
This press release is for information only and is not an offer to purchase, a solicitation of an offer to purchase or a solicitation of an offer to sell the Notes or any other securities of the Company. The Notes may be repurchased only in accordance with the Company's Repurchase Right Notice and related documents. None of the Company, its board of directors or its employees has made or is making any representation or recommendation to any holder as to whether to exercise or refrain from exercising the Repurchase Right.
Holders of the Notes should refer to the Indenture for a complete description of repurchase procedures.
HOLDERS OF NOTES AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES ARE URGED TO READ THE COMPANY'S REPURCHASE RIGHT NOTICE BECAUSE IT CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE REPURCHASE RIGHT.
ABOUT BEST INC.
BEST Inc. (NYSE: BEST) is a leading integrated smart supply chain solutions and logistics services provider in China and Southeast Asia. Through its proprietary technology platform and extensive networks, BEST offers a comprehensive set of logistics and value-added services, including freight delivery, supply chain management and global logistics services. BEST's mission is to empower business and enrich life by leveraging technology and business model innovation to create a smarter, more efficient supply chain. For more information, please visit: http://www.best-inc.com/en/.
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates" and similar statements. Among other things, the business outlook and quotations from management in this announcement, as well as BEST's strategic and operational plans, contain forward-looking statements. BEST may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about BEST's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: BEST's goals and strategies; BEST's future business development, results of operations and financial condition; BEST's ability to maintain and enhance its ecosystem; BEST's ability to compete effectively; BEST's ability to continue to innovate, meet evolving market trends, adapt to changing customer demands and maintain its culture of innovation; fluctuations in general economic and business conditions in China and other countries in which BEST operates, and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in BEST's filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of this press release, and BEST does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
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LONDON , Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FintechCashier's new banking business model and future services are promising. Yes, you heard right, FintechCashier is to release its first "Lite Label" Banking-As-A-Service subscription that allows it to manage the Merchants/ Affiliates/ Customers/ Acquirers and Prepaid issuing all from Backend solution.
The whole covid-19 pandemic is over and FintechCashier came out of it stronger than ever. This cutting-edge technology research and development phase is at their fingertips now from launching their newest service. The London-based FintechCashier proudly announces opening up the complete range of digital banking possibilities to its customers via a significant subscription model in response to a huge increase in demand for BaaS services throughout the world.
"The "Lite Label" Banking-As-A-Service delivers creative and innovative Fintech Solutions to our new clients of all sizes and industries to improve their business tremendously." states Shalom Dodoun, CEO and Founder of FintechCashier.
It has never been more competitive among the firms competing to offer the infrastructure for banking that will be needed in the future digital banking landscape as smartphone penetration and mobile internet grow tremendously. People are hungry for technology updates, simplified and fast solutions. Brand loyalty is gone, the market is tough and companies are battling.
FintechCashier is keeping up with these developments that led to the emergence of a new player in the digital banking industry. Our brand-new BaaS platform is modular, cloud-based, and completely integrated with top financial services providers. Users of BaaS will have access to everything they require to supply services like Onboarding Rules Engine and core money management technology.
What exactly is Lite Label Banking As A Service?
Take advantages of:
- Fully branded solution
- Automated onboarding for their clients
- Usage of our Onboarding Rules Engine to analyse any corporate application submitted to the platform
- API access
- Frontend design for corporate and Individual accounts
- Draft management for corporate account to manage their finances
- Processing enabled solutions for account top-up and merchant services
FintechCashier state of the art system allows us to manage onboarding process automatically and assign the best service provider to each potential client, after years of activity and serving only direct clients we have decided to open our platform to selected partners and allow them to enjoy the wide range of management tools and services and give them the ability to market the solutions to their clients.
Read more about our platform here.
What next?
FintechCashier's next push is to expand BaaS globally, further improving their turnkey solution by offering a multicurrency IBAN supporting 27 currencies and several payment networks such as SEPA, SWIFT, CHAPS, BACS and Faster Payments. In addition they are expanding their banking partners to provide a wide range of IBANs issued in the UK, Luxembourg, US and Switzerland. With their new plans to expand into the BaaS market many additional features and integrations to partners in the regtech, automated KYC, AML and onboarding space have been added to the roadmap. FintechCashier continues to build upon a network of financial partners and banks that help SMEs, Family Offices and next-generation companies to reach the world. They look to service 150 countries, offer 35 processing currencies and 20 settlement currencies, and partner with over 100 banks all accessible via 1 gateway.
About FintechCashier
FintechCashier Group is a payment gateway and solution provider that empowers businesses to discover new markets, disrupt traditional industries, and innovate freely. The company's driving mission and purpose is to facilitate growth by offering clients a centralised, streamlined financial services platform that can adapt to virtually any industry. Vision FintechCashier continues to build upon a network of financial partners and banks that help SMEs, Family Offices and next-generation companies to reach the world. They look to service 150 countries, offer 35 processing currencies and 20 settlement currencies, and partner with over 100 banks all accessible via 1 gateway. https://www.fintechcashier.com/
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Scores from Thursday’s CIF Southern Section and L.A. City Section football games.
THURSDAY’S RESULTS
CIF SOUTHERN SECTION
GOLDEN LEAGUE
Antelope Valley 58, Eastside 6
ORANGE COAST LEAGUE
Calvary Chapel 31, Saddleback 7
NONLEAGUE
Aquinas 44, Riverside Notre Dame 12
Calabasas 57, Crescenta Valley 20
Covina 31, Sierra Vista 12
El Dorado 35, Chino 14
Santiago 32, Anaheim 6
Norco 47, Corona Santiago 7
Rio Hondo Prep 53, Savanna 20
Western 34, Garden Grove 7
Banning 28, Pacifica 14
L.A. CITY SECTION
NONLEAGUE
Carson 55, Cleveland 12
Hawkins 30, University Pathways 24 (OT)
8-MAN
Chadwick 55, Rolling Hills Prep 0
Desert Chapel 58, Noli Indian 0
Flintridge Prep 34, Thacher 0
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AUD/USD is trading to fresh lows since May 2020 as price is starting to chase a firm break below key technical support on the charts. The trendline support (white line) has been a holding level for buyers over the past few months but is finally cracking and that sets out the potential for a much steeper drop in AUD/USD moving forward.
The dollar is continuing to run a rampage in the major currencies space as the post-Fed gains continue to build momentum. Add that to struggling equities and a weaker Chinese yuan, that's pretty much a disaster for the aussie.
As things stand, the 0.6500 level is on the cards next with the 61.8 Fib retracement level at 0.6461 also in play. But break below that and we will start talking about the return of the Pacific peso with 0.6000 in the horizon.
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- Prior 49.8
- Manufacturing PMI 48.5 vs 48.7 expected
- Prior 49.6
- Composite PMI 48.2 vs 48.2 expected
- Prior 48.9
The euro area economic contraction deepened in September with the services reading coming in at a 19-month low, manufacturing at a 27-month low, and composite at a 20-month low. The rate of decline, if you exclude the pandemic lockdowns, was the steepest since 2013. Ouch. S&P Global notes that:
“A eurozone recession is on the cards as companies report worsening business conditions and intensifying price pressures linked to soaring energy costs.
“The early PMI readings indicate an economic contraction of 0.1% in the third quarter, with the rate of decline having accelerated through the three months to September to signal the worst economic performance since 2013, excluding pandemic lockdown months.
“Germany is facing the toughest conditions, with the economy deteriorating at a rate not seen outside of the pandemic since the global financial crisis.
“With demand slumping and companies growing increasingly pessimistic about the outlook, the survey’s forward-looking indicators point to a steepening economic decline for the eurozone in the fourth quarter, adding to the likelihood of the region falling into recession.
“Although there were some signs of supply chain constraints easing, the focus of concern has clearly shifted away from supply chains to energy and the rising cost of living, which is not only hitting demand but also limiting manufacturing production and service sector activity in some cases.
“The surge in energy costs has meanwhile reignited inflationary pressures which, having shown some signs of cooling in prior months amid easing supply shortages, have reaccelerated.
“The challenge facing policymakers of taming inflation
Inflation
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Read this Term while avoiding a hard landing for the economy is therefore becoming increasingly difficult.”
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USD/JPY intervention aside, the dollar is scaling to fresh highs against the rest of the major currencies bloc as we look towards the end of the week with the euro and pound looking among the worst performers - if you go by the charts.
With the euro slumping to fresh 20-year lows, the quid is down to its lowest since 1985 against the dollar as the post-Fed reaction continues to play out. The BOE raised the bank rate by 50 bps yesterday but 75 bps was priced in and less hawkish undertones also saw markets pull back on future pricing across the curve moving forward.
The policy divergence alone continues to remain a major force driving the downside pressure in cable at the moment. I've been repeating this message ever since cable was treading water near 1.2000 (strikethrough change for current levels):
"Considering that both central banks (Fed and BOE) already gave a formal message that we are in the second-half of the tightening cycle, the trade for cable is very much a case of 'who folds first'? The Fed or the BOE? In this instance, it looks very much like the latter.
As such, the path of least resistance is for the pair to move lower - all else being equal. Now, with the dollar picking up steam across the board, the next test is 1.1800 and the year's lows near 1.1759 psychological support near 1.1000 potentially."
The lows in 1985 touched around 1.0520-45 but before we get there, I reckon cable sellers will have to do a bit more to drive price below 1.1000. After that, parity will come into the conversation surely.
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PITTSBURGH — I’d crossed the street, looking for a chalk drawing. “It’s a creative piece of sidewalk art,” a man on the opposite sidewalk had called to me. I found instead an apparently human feces with a little white flag in it saying “TrumpDump.” About five feet farther on was a flattened feces, the bootprint clear, with a little white flag saying “Dr. Oz.”
The message: Donald Trump is a piece of (word I can’t use here): a useless, foul, toxic, disease-spreading substance that remains when everything good and useful has been removed. Someone normal people will despise and flush away from human society as fast as they can.
He is not that. Nor is Oz. Nor are his followers.
No one is completely toxic and foul and fit only for disposal. Every human being is human, however bad at being human he may be. That is a truth way too many people, right-wing and left-wing haters both, deny. That only makes the world more hateful. Dehumanizing your political enemies does nothing to stop them from doing what you don’t want them to do.
Everyone can see how wrong it is to reject the humanity of others. Just look at the people other people dehumanize, whose humanity you see.
Like the “criminals” Oz’s commercials demean to try to scare you into voting against John Fetterman. Or people on death row, who may look too monstrous to live, until you learn something about their lives. The great number, for example, who were victims of horrific childhood abuse, or mental struggles, or lives that pushed them into violent crime the way a child can be pushed down a slide.
You see they are human. They are deserving of pity, sympathy and care. More, they are us in crucial ways. As the saying goes, there but for the grace of God (or luck) go you. They must not be flushed away from human society. If that’s true for people whose humanity you see when others don’t, it’s also true of those whose humanity you don’t see but others do.
As one of our most important writers and cultural observers said: “I’m convinced that I’m a child of God. That’s wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I’m convinced that everybody is a child of God. The brutes and bigots. The batterers and the bastards are also children of God.”
Not a comfortable conviction. She continued: “And that’s where the onerous burden comes in for me, as a practicing Christian, to try to keep that in mind and not grit my teeth until they break off into little stubs.”
That was Maya Angelou, author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” among many other deeply humane and humanistic works. She suffered much more from human wickedness than I have, or have many of you. Yet she set herself to remember, as hard as it must have been to do, that even the stupid snarling hateful little racist, the kind of person called the dregs of society, or a piece of (substance), was as much a child of God as she was. As human as she was.
Observant Christians and Jews have divine reason to believe in every human being’s humanity. Their founding stories of creation — God making man in his image and declaring the first people good — tell them this. Other religions say something roughly the same. But even a general belief in humanism requires belief in everyone else’s fundamental humanity.
I’m not (previous experience has shown me I have to say) an admirer of Trump’s. Judged by normal human standards, he’s an awful human being. But he isn’t what the sidewalk art said he is. Nor is Oz. Nor are his followers.
The disturbing truth is that you and I look more like Donald Trump than anyone wants to believe: too concerned for ourselves and what we can get, too restricted in the people we care for, too likely to treat others as instruments and objects, and too careless with the truth. A kind of cultural neon sign, he makes the universal human failings disturbingly obvious. And one of the failings it makes obvious is speaking of people as if they weren’t human.
The best, the most useful, response to Trump is to work at being less like him. Caring more for others and less for yourself, expanding the number of people to whom you give your special friendship, trying harder to see others as fellow human beings and not things, and telling the truth when lying will better get you what you want and telling the truth will cost you.
And refuse to dehumanize others.
Fight him with every political tool available. But don’t treat him like a feces on the sidewalk. We have too little belief in humanity as it is.
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The Balrog appears to have been born again in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
This entity is one of the most memorable monsters from The Lord of the Rings, a gargantuan fire-demon who loomed over the wizard Gandalf as he defiantly bellowed: “You shall not PASS!” It’s the reason the mines of Moria were abandoned, becoming merely a black pit beneath the Misty Mountains. When the dwarves who built the intricate subterranean metropolis of Khazad-dûm mined “too greedily and too deep,” as J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, they unleashed this colossal terror. Then they fled from it.
The latest episode of The Rings of Power, set long before those events, just introduced a new “creation myth” for the Balrog—as well as an otherworldly explanation for the luminous mithril element that drives the dwarves into their mining frenzy.
“Are you familiar with The Song of the Roots of Hithaeglir,” the elven High King Gil-Galad asks Elrond. Hithaeglir is the elvish word for the Misty Mountains. The younger elf replies that this story is “an obscure legend, regarded by most to be apocryphal.”
This is a clever out for showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, since this particular tale seems to be wholly invented and doesn’t appear in any of Tolkien’s notes or texts. Referring to it as possibly made-up gives the series cover with Lord of the Rings purists who might object to any deviation from the professor’s own histories of Middle-earth.
Elrond goes on to recount the story: “It speaks of a battle high among the peaks of the Misty Mountains—not over honor or duty, but over a tree within which some claim was hidden the last of the lost Silmarils.”
The Silmarils, for those who need a refresher, were three otherworldly gems, forged from the light of the mystical two trees that predated the creation of Middle-earth and ultimately became the sun and the moon. (This was all referenced in the first episode of the series.)
In Tolkien’s histories, one Silmaril became a star in the night sky, another was plunged into lava to become one with the land, and the other was cast into the ocean—consigning them to the three elements of wind, earth, and water.
The Rings of Power presents an alternate mythology—not necessarily, as Elrond notes, an official one, but intriguing in its own way. This story involves one of the Silmarils (presumably the one that becomes part of the earth) being hidden in this mountaintop tree that becomes the site of a fierce battle.
“On one side fought an elven warrior with a heart as pure as Manwë,” Elrond says. (Manwë is the king of the Valar, basically God—or Zeus.) “He poured all his light into the tree to protect it. On the other side a Balrog of Morgoth channeled all his hatred into the tree to destroy it. Amidst their duel unending, lightning ensared the tree, forging of their conflict a power …"
“A power as pure in light as good; as strong and unyielding as evil,” Gil-Galad concludes.
Onscreen, we then see the threads of lightning seeping into the rock and penetrating down through the mountain, leaving behind veins of mithril.
But what becomes of the elven warrior and his Balrog foe? Are they destroyed? Or is the demon transferred into the rock as well?
We know for certain that there is a Balrog deep within the Misty Mountains, and it is released by the dwarves determination to scrape out every last bit of mithril. They later named the creature “Durin's Bane,” because it killed their king (During VI, not this show's Durin IV.)
Did the same lightning strike that forged the precious metal mithril also entomb that Balrog deep down in the rock?
Maybe. Then again, maybe it is all apocryphal after all.
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A Fijian firewalker demonstrates his determination during the closing ceremony festivities for Exercise Cartwheel at Blackrock Training Camp, Fiji, September 23, 2022. Exercise Cartwheel is a multilateral military-to-military training exercise with the U.S., Republic of Fiji Military, Australian, New Zealand, and British forces that builds expeditionary readiness and interoperability by increasing the capacity to face a crisis and contingencies by developing and stressing units at the highest training levels.
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Commodore Humphrey Tawake, Republic of Fiji Military Forces deputy commander makes remarks during the closing ceremony for Exercise Cartwheel at Blackrock Training Camp, Fiji, September 23, 2022. Exercise Cartwheel is a multilateral military-to-military training exercise with the U.S., Republic of Fiji Military, Australian, New Zealand, and British forces that builds expeditionary readiness and interoperability by increasing the capacity to face a crisis and contingencies by developing and stressing units at the highest training levels.
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On a humid Tuesday morning in the last week of August, artist Kirsten Taylor drove to the trailhead near the marina at Shawnee Mission Park, the largest park in Johnson County, Kansas.
A few bicyclists rode the paved trails on the way to the wooded trails, popular with hikers, mountain bikers and birdwatchers.
“I've been traveling up to Shawnee Mission Park about two times a week,” Taylor said, “spending about four hours, a little more some days, each day.”
Taylor, a graduate student in ceramics at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, was selected as the county Park and Recreation District’s first artist in residence. In August, she embedded with the natural resources team to focus on forest health and the impact of invasive species.
Since then, Taylor's work has been part of an effort to bring attention to Johnson County's work weeding out plants like the bush honeysuckle, which thrives in the Midwest. The art she creates will respond to years of conservation.
“My work focuses on humans and our relationship with nature,” she said, so an arts residency at a park seemed like a natural fit.
“I think about how we can be a part of the natural world around us and have a more beneficial relationship with the places we find ourselves,” she said.
Bush honeysuckle, a Eurasian shrub, was introduced to the United States in the 1890s as an ornamental for city landscapes. By the 1980s, scientists realized this exotic plant was highly invasive.
“Bush honeysuckle has been lurking for decades in the Kansas City area,” said the district’s field biologist, Matt Garrett.
These large, spreading shrubs have flowers that change from white to yellow as they age. Birds and small animals eat the red berries, and drop the seeds.
“It really, in Johnson County, took a stranglehold on a lot of our woodland ecosystems in the 1980s,” Garrett said, “and it just kind of accelerated through the 1990s.”
Bush honeysuckle, he said, crowds out native plants with its thick, tangled growth, and that makes it difficult for bikers or hikers on a trail. It also means the next generation of trees doesn’t receive enough light.
To date, about 500 acres of bush honeysuckle have been removed from the parks — smaller plants are pulled from the ground, and stumps are treated with herbicide. For larger areas, a prescribed burn is used to control it.
In 2019, a natural resources plan for the district added more funding to target the invasive species. At the same time, a master plan for the district’s public art program was also in the works, with the goal of inspiring a deeper connection to Johnson County and its landscape.
So, Garrett said, the two joined forces to create an art and natural resources residency. The first four or five years of the program will focus on land restoration, and educating the public about different threats to the park.
“It made sense to see if we could kind of tell our natural resource story with art in a unique way,” Garrett said.
During the residency, Taylor took photographs and short videos, collected plants, made natural inks from American pokeweed berries and walnuts, and harvested wild clay in a quarry, all with an eye on proposing a temporary project in September. She also worked closely with the natural resources team as they restored prairie, woodlands and other habitats.
Taylor spent hours exploring the park’s trails, including the popular Orange Loop, a 2.78-mile trailwhere her temporary artwork will be installed. It’s a trail that, until recent restoration efforts, was a tunnel of bush honeysuckle.
“In thinking about this complex web of people, animals, and plants in the park as a community, I was really struck by a symbol of a table,” she said — providing a seat at the table, having a voice, and the table as a site of nourishment.
Her proposal: a series of triangular tables topped with ceramic tiles with impressions of plants — a timeline, of sorts.
“And the plants will represent through time what species have gotten to thrive in this place where the park is now,” she described. “We’ll start with prairie plants, and then trees will come in. And then, of course, the honeysuckle will start to take over.”
Taylor’s temporary sculpture will be placed on a spot along the Orange Loop trail where it can be viewed from several angles.
“Art hits people differently than just interpretive signage or, you know, Facebook posts,” said the district’s biologist, Matt Garrett. “I think it’s really creative and unique to be able to tell the story of the positive changes we’re making through art.”
Over the years, his team has taken aggressive steps to remove the bush honeysuckle, though there are about 2,500 acres of forest in the parks still to tackle. Garrett said the work will continue with a larger natural resources budget, more staff and conservation contractors, and working closely with nonprofit partners.
“So we’re just kind of getting started,” he said.
Kirsten Taylor’s work will be installed along Shawnee Mission Park’s Orange Loop tThursday, Sept. 29. She'll host a community drawing session with her natural inks on Saturday, Oct. 22 at Shawnee Mission Park, 7900 Renner Road, Shawnee, Kansas 66219.
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Last fall, at school board meetings across the country, parents who were upset about COVID-19 precautions began to speak out about another grievance — school library books. In the St. Louis region, groups of parents went to board meetings to read aloud passages they said were sexually explicit, calling the books “criminal.”
St. Louis Public Radio has now confirmed they were also calling the police and in one local high school in the Wentzville School District, after receiving angry voicemails, a police officer responded. He went to the library to talk to the librarian about the books in her collection after callers accused her of giving pornography to kids. This happened not once, but twice during the 2021-22 school year.
While the visits did not lead to any action against the librarian or cause any materials to be removed from the collection, the presence of the police officer highlights the potential stakes under Missouri’s new law that makes it a crime to give sexually explicit material to minors. The law is a new tool for parents who want the backing of law enforcement in their fight to force schools to teach what they find appropriate. In the Wentzville district alone, the law has resulted in more than 200 books being pulled from shelves for review.
The encounters between the librarian and the officer also illustrate how police and prosecutors may be ill-equipped or disinclined to respond to complaints about what amounts to a subjective law, and how that means the law’s impact will come down to individual situations.
Two police visits
Jeffrey Cook, watch commander for the O’Fallon Police Department, said officer Scott Young, who was working at Liberty High School, went to speak to the librarian in separate incidents months apart after receiving voicemails from parents who complained about books at the library.
“His follow-up with the school librarian was for his own understanding of what the books were that the parents were making the complaints about,” Cook told St. Louis Public Radio in an email. “This was not a police matter at the time and is not a topic that our department intends on becoming involved in.”
Wentzville School District spokesperson Brynne Cramer described the visits as “informal conversations” between two coworkers. Young is a resource officer employed by both the O’Fallon Police Department and the Wentzville School District.
But the librarian felt differently about the encounters. She didn’t want to be named for this story because she is worried about her safety. Throughout the last school year, angry parents were showing up at board meetings, filing official book challenges and records requests and doing what they could to force the district to follow their wishes.
The librarian told St. Louis Public Radio that while the discussions with Young were casual, it felt “scary” and “surreal” to have a police officer walk into her library because someone accused her of giving pornography to kids.
The O’Fallon Police Department took no further action and did not file a report. The department said that from now on, the school district will handle complaints about library books.
Cook also sent a statement from St. Charles Prosecuting Attorney Tim Lohmar, who said, “it’s unlikely for law enforcement and prosecutors to get involved in cases that touch on this issue, primarily because the matter is subjective by its nature, and we’re not in the business of filing charges against school districts.”
When asked about that quote, Lohmar’s office said it was shared without permission.
Instead, the public information officer for Lohmar’s office sent a statement suggesting it could consider cases under this new law. The spokesperson said the office will review a case individually if law enforcement brings one to it.
“As with any alleged violation of criminal law, we can respond only to those cases that are formally presented to us by the appropriate law enforcement agency,” the statement said. “When that happens, we’ll review each case on its own merits. It’s nearly impossible to establish internal policies and bright-line rules until we examine the facts of each case and apply those facts to the laws in question.”
Missouri’s new law
The new Missouri law makes it illegal to provide students with visual depictions of things considered sexually explicit, including genitals and sex acts. The law took effect almost a year after the officer’s first visit. Teachers, librarians or other school officials found guilty of violating it could face up to a year in jail or a $2,000 fine.
There was already a Missouri law against providing pornography to minors, but this law specifically criminalizes this issue in schools.
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Since the law was approved, librarians across Missouri have been going through books page by page, looking for anything that could get them in trouble. In the St. Louis area this school year, at least seven school districts have removed almost 40 titles so far. The majority are graphic novels or comic books, because the law is focused on visuals.
Other school districts said they are still evaluating the law to see if anything needs to be taken from library shelves. In the Wentzville School District, an internal list shows more than 200 books have been temporarily removed for further review because of the new law.
Some titles have been removed in multiple districts, including the graphic novel versions of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Gender Queer,” “Flamer,” and “Watchmen.” The Rockwood School District has removed 22 books, more than any other district that has reported the materials that have been pulled.
While many districts received formal requests to remove books last year, most districts ultimately didn’t pull any materials. Some local school boards went further, voting to keep the books on library shelves.
But the Wentzville School District removed multiple titles last year, either temporarily or permanently. It was enough that the ACLU of Missouri sued the district on behalf of students over the book removals, saying they violated the students’ First Amendment rights. A judge recently denied a motion to temporarily halt Wentzville’s book removal policy.
In a statement, the ACLU of Missouri said school districts should not preemptively remove books because of Missouri’s new law.
“The new statute defines ‘explicit sexual material’ narrowly and includes broad exceptions that require materials to be considered as a whole,” wrote Tom Bastian, deputy director for communications for the ACLU of Missouri. “Furthermore, it does not criminalize materials that are currently in school libraries, as school districts already follow nationally well-established standards for selecting appropriate materials.”
Librarians said they still felt confused about what materials the law covered and worried about its implications, according to Melissa Corey, president of the Missouri Association of School Librarians.
“We do stand for intellectual freedom,” Corey said. “We do stand for the freedom to read.”
The law exempts scientific or anthropological depictions of sex-related material. And not all school districts resorted to pulling books. Both the Maplewood Richmond Heights School District and St. Louis Public Schools said they have not pulled any books.
“We don’t censor anything at this point,” said Maplewood Richmond Heights Superintendent Bonita Jamison. “We are not changing what we do for kids because we know what they need. They are going out into a diverse society.”
Corey said school librarians receive training to make sure their collections offer age-appropriate and relevant books that represent diverse viewpoints.
“Reading is the most important way to develop empathy for others,” Corey said. “We have books being published by individuals that even 20 to 30 years ago would not have been published.”
Books about identity
Books about or written by LGBTQ people or people of color represent more than half the books that school districts pulled off shelves, according to an analysis of the titles. Many are about people coming to terms with their identities. Advocates for the new law denied that their movement targeted specific groups.
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“I don't care about sexual identity or sexual orientation,” said Andy Wells. “For me, that is not a factor.”
Wells is president of the Missouri chapter of No Left Turn in Education, a national group that has a rating system for books it considers inappropriate.
State Sen. Rick Brattin, R-Harrisonville, said he proposed the legislation because “we definitely saw a need to protect the innocence of children.”
Brattin said that parents were furious about this issue and that it has led them to support “school choice,” the political movement to divert public school funding to other school options.
“That's why you see such a movement of parents to want school choice and want to allow them to be able to take their money they're paying in taxes to be able to go elsewhere when this sort of nonsense is happening in the public school system,” Brattin said. “...I think that's the greatest way you can really right the ship on this is if you have a mass exodus of people moving out of these school districts that are doing this sort of thing.”
Wells spoke with Brattin about the new law before it was passed. Next, he wants the Missouri legislature to go further than just visuals, with a law against written text he thinks is explicit.
“This is the first, I hope, of more legislation that will get graphic information out of children's hands,” Wells said.
Follow Kate on Twitter: @KGrumke
This article was produced in partnership with the Midwest Newsroom, an investigative journalism collaboration including St. Louis Public Radio, KCUR, Iowa Public Radio, Nebraska Public Media and NPR.
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Last fall, at school board meetings across the country, parents who were upset about COVID-19 precautions began airing a different grievance, this one over school library books. In the St. Louis region, groups of parents went to board meetings to read aloud passages they said were sexually explicit, calling the books “criminal.” As St. Louis Public Radio's Kate Grumke tells us, they even got police involved.
Emporia State University has laid off 33 employees, including tenured faculty, in response to declining enrollment. Kansas News Service reporter Suzanne Perez spoke with editor Stephen Koranda about the cuts, how that’s stirred a revolt on campus and what the implications are for other state schools.
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Eastern Idaho native and conservation leader Kim Trotter has been appointed Executive Director of Teton Regional Land Trust, whose mission is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern Idaho for this and future generations.
For nearly three decades, Trotter has dedicated her career to conserving agricultural lands, fish and wildlife habitat, and sustainable communities in the Northern Rockies. Her extensive background includes biodiversity conservation, environmental policy, wildlife and large landscape ecology, land and water transactions, and ecological connectivity and restoration.
Trotter’s passion for protecting the area’s natural and agricultural resources dates back to her early career experience negotiating many of eastern Idaho’s early conservation easements as a Land Protection Specialist with Teton Regional Land Trust. This included safeguarding miles of habitat along the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River and procuring Idaho’s first Farm and Ranchland Protection Program grant to work with private landowners in the Sand Creek wildlife corridor.
“Twenty-three years ago, Kim started with the Land Trust as an intern and then continued as a Land Protection Specialist,” said Arantza Zabala, President of the Teton Regional Land Trust Board of Directors. “We are so excited to have one of our own come back to lead the organization.”
Trotter’s recent experience includes serving as U.S. Program Director for the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y), where she led collaborative efforts to reconnect wildlife habitat through large landscape conservation. These projects included building wildlife-friendly roads and fences, increasing access to human-wildlife conflict reduction tools and programs, safeguarding key private lands, and ensuring the long-term protection of public lands.
Previously, she was Executive Director of the Community Foundation of Teton Valley, providing financial and strategic support to more than 50 local nonprofit organizations. She has also served as the Director of Trout Unlimited’s Idaho Water Project, working with landowners, water users, and state and federal agencies to promote protection and restoration of Idaho’s native and wild fisheries. During her tenure, she was appointed by Governor Otter to represent fish and wildlife interests on a committee tasked to resolve water shortages associated with the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer in southern Idaho.
“The work of the Teton Regional Land Trust is essential in order to preserve the natural landscapes and agricultural character of our communities in eastern Idaho,” Trotter said. “The mission has always been dear to me, and I’m excited to continue to strategically protect this unique ecosystem and lead the Land Trust forward.”
Trotter has presented regionally and internationally on wildlife and large landscape conservation, endangered species protection and recovery, and conservation partnerships. In 2019, she co-authored a chapter on the environmental politics and policy of Western public lands. Through her work to restore bull trout in central Idaho, she received the Forest Service’s most prestigious acknowledgement for partnership, the “Rise to the Future” award. For the last nine years, she served as a volunteer board member with the Idaho Conservation League. And in August, she and her family completed a year-long journey around the US and western Canada.
Trotter received her Master of Environmental Management in resource ecology from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Puget Sound.
She assumed her responsibilities as Executive Director of Teton Regional Land Trust on September 22, 2022.
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The Teton Springs Foundation (TSF) announces that their 2022 Grant Cycle is now open. Applications are due by 5pm December 15, 2022.
TSF makes grants to Teton Valley-based non-profits to serve and strengthen the community through charitable giving. The Foundation’s cumulative giving through a competitive application process totals $1.21 million dollars awarded since 2001. Last year, TSF awarded $40,000 in grant funding to eleven local nonprofit organizations in support of a wide range of community projects and programs.
This year, the Foundation introduces a revised application process and a new category of available funding. We encourage potential applicants to carefully review the updated application guidelines and instructions, which are now available on the Teton Springs Foundation website, tetonspringsfoundation.org.
Funds are available for projects taking place in calendar year 2023 and now fall into two categories. Applicant organizations may choose one category to request support:
• Category A, or “Community Grants,” will award multiple organizations up to $5,000 each in support of high-impact projects and community needs, in a process similar to the previous granting cycles.
• New in 2022 is Category B, or “Impact Grants,” which will provide up to $25,000 in support of a single project addressing an urgent community-wide need or emerging opportunity with potentially high impact and time-sensitive goals.
Applicants for both Category A and Category B grants should submit an application according to the new, simplified guidelines available on the Foundation’s website.
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New Iberia has long been known as the "Queen City of the Teche". Nearly 250 years after it's founding, downtown New Iberia is still the centerpiece of the city.
For Freddie DeCourt, it means so much more. DeCourt says, "I've been very blessed to own businesses here since I was in my 20s, and my family has had some businesses downtown since the 1850s." It was his world when he was a kid. He says he rode his bike all over the place and just had a good time. Today, he's the Mayor. DeCourt adding, "How I got elected Mayor, I'm still not positive!"
It probably helps that Mayor DeCourt's business background, skills, and community connections are exactly what the city needs. Even though he has dozens of projects in his head, Bouligny Plaza's renovations include a new tourist information center, renovations to the gazebo, and the completion of the Veteran's Memorial. But downtown is the center of it all.
DeCourt says, "It's the flagship to our entire community, our entire town. And downtown is where everything happens!"
New Iberia's 243 year history is quite the story, and now it's told every day. But it also is a way to drive in tourism dollars. DeCourt adding, "These kiosks give you these stories, give you the beginnings so you understand what makes our community. And from here, I hope to keep you downtown with the attractions we're building. With the things we have now, we want you to stay for the day. We want you to have lunch."
That's not all. Renovations to the Steamboat Warehouse are in the plans. The new New Iberia signage is new too. But the real centerpiece is the Bayou Teche's new designation as a National Paddle Trail.
"The National Waterway is huge and we want to take full advantage of it." says DeCourt. "The bayou is what got us here. It was our main highway and main commerce for 150 years, and then we just turned our back on it."
Exciting additions have been added so people can enjoy Bayou Teche. DeCourt saying, "We have a new kayak dock, a new marina behind the George Rodrigue Park. And we have the contract for the new marina behind City Hall. That will be our largest marina. We're taking any opportunity of any property the city has to enhance it any way we can to make the bayou more attractive."
And Freddie has more time. He says, "There's no end to it, we have all the potential in the world, and over the next six years, if I'm lucky enough to get one more term. Five or six years from now we'll really be on a path that there's no turning back after that.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away.
A spacecraft named Dart will zero in on the asteroid Monday, intent on slamming it head-on at 14,000 mph (22,500 kph). The impact should be just enough to nudge the asteroid into a slightly tighter orbit around its companion space rock - demonstrating that if a killer asteroid ever heads our way, we’d stand a fighting chance of diverting it.
“This is stuff of science-fiction books and really corny episodes of “StarTrek” from when I was a kid, and now it's real,” NASA program scientist Tom Statler said Thursday.
Cameras and telescopes will watch the crash, but it will take days or even weeks to find out if it actually changed the orbit.
The $325 million planetary defense test began with Dart’s launch last fall.
ASTEROID TARGET
The asteroid with the bull’s-eye on it is Dimorphos, about 7 million miles (9.6 million kilometers) from Earth. It is actually the puny sidekick of a 2,500-foot (780-meter) asteroid named Didymos, Greek for twin. Discovered in 1996, Didymos is spinning so fast that scientists believe it flung off material that eventually formed a moonlet. Dimorphos - roughly 525 feet (160 meters) across - orbits its parent body at a distance of less than a mile (1.2 kilometers).
“This really is about asteroid deflection, not disruption," said Nancy Chabot, a planetary scientist and mission team leader at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, which is managing the effort. "This isn’t going to blow up the asteroid. It isn’t going to put it into lots of pieces.” Rather, the impact will dig out a crater tens of yards (meters) in size and hurl some 2 million pounds (1 million kilograms) of rocks and dirt into space.
NASA insists there’s a zero chance either asteroid will threaten Earth - now or in the future. That’s why the pair was picked.
DART, THE IMPACTOR
The Johns Hopkins lab took a minimalist approach in developing Dart - short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test - given that it’s essentially a battering ram and faces sure destruction. It has a single instrument: a camera used for navigating, targeting and chronicling the final action. Believed to be essentially a rubble pile, Dimorphos will emerge as a point of light an hour before impact, looming larger and larger in the camera images beamed back to Earth. Managers are confident Dart won’t smash into the larger Didymos by mistake. The spacecraft’s navigation is designed to distinguish between the two asteroids and, in the final 50 minutes, target the smaller one.
The size of a small vending machine at 1,260 pounds (570 kilograms), the spacecraft will slam into roughly 11 billion pounds (5 billion kilograms) of asteroid. “Sometimes we describe it as running a golf cart into a Great Pyramid,” said Chabot.
Unless Dart misses - NASA puts the odds of that happening at less than 10% - it will be the end of the road for Dart. If it goes screaming past both space rocks, it will encounter them again in a couple years for Take 2.
SAVING EARTH
Little Dimorphos completes a lap around big Didymos every 11 hours and 55 minutes. The impact by Dart should shave about 10 minutes off that. Although the strike itself should be immediately apparent, it could take a few weeks or more to verify the moonlet’s tweaked orbit. Cameras on Dart and a mini tagalong satellite will capture the collision up close. Telescopes on all seven continents, along with the Hubble and Webb space telescopes and NASA’s asteroid-hunting Lucy spacecraft, may see a bright flash as Dart smacks Dimorphos and sends streams of rock and dirt cascading into space. The observatories will track the pair of asteroids as they circle the sun, to see if Dart altered Dimorphos’ orbit. In 2024, a European spacecraft named Hera will retrace Dart’s journey to measure the impact results.
Although the intended nudge should change the moonlet’s position only slightly, that will add up to a major shift over time, according to Chabot. "So if you were going to do this for planetary defense, you would do it five, 10, 15, 20 years in advance in order for this technique to work,” she said. Even if Dart misses, the experiment still will provide valuable insight, said NASA program executive Andrea Riley. “This is why we test. We want to do it now rather than when there’s an actual need,” she said.
ASTEROID MISSIONS GALORE
Planet Earth is on an asteroid-chasing roll. NASA has close to a pound (450 grams) of rubble collected from asteroid Bennu headed to Earth. The stash should arrive next September. Japan was the first to retrieve asteroid samples, accomplishing the feat twice. China hopes to follow suit with a mission launching in 2025. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, meanwhile, is headed to asteroids near Jupiter, after launching last year. Another spacecraft, Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, is loaded into NASA’s new moon rocket awaiting liftoff; it will use a solar sail to fly past a space rock that’s less than 60 feet (18 meters) next year. In the next few years, NASA also plans to launch a census-taking telescope to identify hard-to-find asteroids that could pose risks. One asteroid mission is grounded while an independent review board weighs its future. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft should have launched this year to a metal-rich asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, but the team couldn’t test the flight software in time.
HOLLYWOOD’S TAKE
Hollywood has churned out dozens of killer-space-rock movies over the decades, including 1998′s “Armageddon” which brought Bruce Willis to Cape Canaveral for filming, and last year's “Don’t Look Up” with Leonardo DiCaprio leading an all-star cast. NASA’s planetary defense officer, Lindley Johnson, figures he’s seen them all since 1979′s “Meteor,” his personal favorite “since Sean Connery played me.” While some of the sci-fi films are more accurate than others, he noted, entertainment always wins out. The good news is that the coast seems clear for the next century, with no known threats. Otherwise, “it would be like the movies, right?” said NASA’s science mission chief Thomas Zurbuchen. What’s worrisome, though, are the unknown threats. Fewer than half of the 460-foot (140-meter) objects have been confirmed, with millions of smaller but still-dangerous objects zooming around. “These threats are real, and what makes this time special, is we can do something about it,” Zurbuchen said. Not by blowing up an asteroid as Willis’ character did - that would be a last, last-minute resort - or by begging government leaders to take action as DiCaprio’s character did in vain. If time allows, the best tactic could be to nudge the menacing asteroid out of our way, like Dart.
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Forecast Updated on Friday, September 23, 2022, at 3:50am by WBOC Meteorologist Mike Lichniak
Today: Mostly sunny and windy. Highs: 65-72. Winds: NW 15-35+ mph.
Tonight: Clear and chilly as the wind calms overnight. Lows: 38-50. Winds: NW 5-20+ mph.
Saturday: Sunny. Highs: 68-74. Winds: NW-W 5-20+ mph.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear to partly cloudy. Lows: 50-62. Winds: W 5-15 mph.
Sunday: Increasing clouds throughout the day with a chance of showers by the late afternoon and evening hours. Highs: 75-83. Winds: W-SW 5-20+ mph.
Monday: A few lingering showers early possible. Otherwise, it will be partly cloudy and windy. Highs: 72-78. Winds: W-NW 10-25+ mph.
The cold front has cleared and the wind has been up for much of the night and ushering in the much colder air just in time for the first full day of fall. Temperatures today will climb up into the 60s and a few low 70s this afternoon as the wind will still be the story of the day. The wind should get a little stronger this morning as the sun finally mixes down even colder air from high up in the atmosphere. We could see some wind gusts this morning and this afternoon as high as 30-40+ mph all across Delmarva before things start to settle down into the evening hours.
Firefly weekend looks fantastic for all weekend plans. Lots of sunshine and cooler temperatures as high pressure from Canada settles into control of the forecast. High temperatures will be in the 60s and 70s on Saturday with morning temperatures on Saturday morning in the 40s and our coolest communities could fall into the upper 30s…nice and crisp. Another shot of showers and storms are going to be possible Sunday evening and Sunday night with another cold front arriving. This may put a damper on the acts in the evening hours of Sunday, but still a pretty good weekend for the entire weekend of the festival.
Fiona is now passing by to our east this morning and that has the swell kicked up heading toward the weekend and waves will be massive at our beaches today and continuing through the weekend. This will also drive our rip current up heading into the weekend. Also, watching a second system that is going to develop in the Caribbean over the weekend as there are some big indications that the lower 48 will need to keep an eye on this developing storm. Stay tuned…
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Friday: Gale Warning until 1pm. Small Craft Advisory. NW 20-30+ knots. Seas: 7-12 feet.
Saturday: Small Craft Advisory. NW 10-25 knots. Seas: 4-8 feet.
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Friday: Gale Warning until 11am. Small Craft Advisory. NW 15-35 knots. Waves: 2-5 feet.
Saturday: W 5-15 knots. Waves: 1-2 feet.
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Friday: Gale Warning until 2pm. Small Craft Advisory. NW 15-35 knots. Seas: 2-4 feet.
Saturday: NW 10-15 knots. Seas: 1-2 feet.
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Working to break down apprenticeship barriers for care experienced young people - Paul Carberry
Care experienced young people face an array of challenges throughout their lives that their non-care experienced peers do not and, while there are various support structures available to help address this, many are still being let down.
Action for Children has a long history of working with care experienced young people to allow them the chance to find a positive destination in adulthood. One area we have identified as needing significant investment and change is with apprenticeships, and we are working to break down the barriers that are preventing these young people from attaining and finishing apprenticeships.
The difficulties care experienced young people face go far beyond the lack of traditional family support structures. That alone is a significant disadvantage but, with far higher rates of mental health issues, trauma and unstable living arrangements, this group of young people have a steep uphill battle in their efforts to fulfil their potential.
Overcoming this start in life is hugely challenging in light of the disparity in educational attainment between care experienced young people and their non-care experienced counterparts. Government figures show that 73 per cent of care experienced young people leave school before the age of 16 compared to just 27 per cent of all other school leavers.
Action for Children has programmes and services throughout Scotland designed to give those from care experienced backgrounds the support they need to undertake new learning opportunities in adulthood. We are present in secondary schools across Scotland and we work to bridge the gap between school and adulthood for young people from these backgrounds.
One such project is our Stay service which works with more than 800 young people at colleges in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The service aims to ensure they can fulfil their potential while at college with comprehensive help and advice with mental wellness, financial support, housing and more both on and outside the college campuses.
For many, apprenticeships are a particularly interesting alternative to college. There have been some promising developments in this area with year-on-year increases in the uptake of apprenticeships by care experienced young people, however, Skills Development Scotland has reported a significant gap of 13.5 per cent in the completion rate between those with and without care experience.
This is unsurprising given many care experience young people moving into adulthood have to be self-sufficient and manage entire household costs, all without any wider family support networks. Bursaries help address this challenge for those with college or university places but not for apprenticeships.
To address this issue Action for Children has recently begun working with the Scottish Apprenticeship Advisory Board (SAAB) – a group of business leaders and experts who provide ‘the employer voice’ on apprenticeships. They have been investigating the access, uptake and completion rates among care experienced young people in apprenticeships. Action for Children’s National Lead for Employability, Tony Scally, is chairing a SAAB-commissioned Working Group on Care Experience young people. Already, the group, which also includes Skills Development Scotland and Barnardo’s, has identified barriers to entry and is developing initial recommendations that can bring about solutions.
Employers can make a huge difference in levelling the playing field in this area. Recruitment practices can be evolved to prevent young people from being automatically ruled out for previous offences and to recognise transferable skills over competency-based interviews or qualifications. Other aspects present in further education may also be applicable to apprenticeships such as flexibility around entry qualifications for those from deprived backgrounds and mentoring programmes to support them throughout their journey.
The responsibility does not fall to employers alone, however. The financial support akin to that for college and university in the form of bursaries requires government backing, and Action for Children has made this clear in recent meetings with key players and experts from the government including representatives from Young Person’s Guarantee (YPG) The Promise. Ultimately, this work is about improving policy in this area and making sure it is accompanied by meaningful action that will break down the barriers preventing care experienced young people from having the same opportunities as everyone else.
Paul Carberry, Action for Children Director for Scotland
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Scotsman obituaries: Pat Liney, goalkeeping ever-present in Dundee’s title-winning team
Pat Liney, footballer. Born: 14 July, 1936 in Paisley. Died: 10 August, 2022 in Broughty Ferry, aged 86
Pat Liney was a top-class Scottish goalkeeper whose 16-year-long career highlight was as the ever present Dundee FC custodian in their old First Division title winning 1961/2 season, the only time in their history the Dark Blues have won the top tier league. In a nailbiting finish they beat Rangers to the title, having earlier in the season declared their intent by defeating the Glasgow giants 5-1 in their own backyard at Ibrox on a fog-shrouded evening.
Although not the highest profile player in a team that included internationalists like Alex Hamilton, Ian Ure, Gordon Smith and Alan Gilzean, Liney certainly played his part and was highly appreciated by teammates for his consistency and ability to rise to the occasion.
Later Pat joined boyhood heroes St Mirren before crossing the Border to play for now defunct Bradford Park Avenue and Bradford City, achieving a career total of over 350 senior matches. At 5ft 10in he was not tall for a goalkeeper by current standards but was very acrobatic and an excellent shot stopper.
In addition to his football prowess he was a talented singer who performed professionally in clubs for a number of years, particularly during his spell down south when he was often billed as ‘The Singing Goalkeeper’. An extremely likeable gent who was excellent company and a gifted raconteur, he was popular with everyone.
Patrick Liney was born in Linwood, Paisley where he was brought up along with his siblings. He attended the local St. Mirin’s Academy playing football outfield till one day the team’s goalkeeper was injured and Pat stepped in, launching his career between the posts.
Initially he played for youth team Linwood Thistle before joining Junior side Dalry Thistle. From a young age he was an enthusiastic St Mirren fan attending all their home games usually with his father, although he recalled in an interview that if his dad was working he would go on his own aged eight or nine and be first in the ground as soon as the turnstiles opened.
Early football progress was interrupted by National Service in the Army in the mid 1950s. Keen to travel as opposed to being based at Aldershot to play Army football, he contrived to avoid selection for the team by playing a trial as a midfielder but despite that he was picked. After explaining his ruse the authorities agreed to send him to West Germany for most of his service.
Once discharged he was given the opportunity of a trial with St Mirren but an injury sustained with Dalry Thistle meant he had to withdraw. After reportedly saving five penalties for Thistle in a Junior cup tie Liney attracted Dundee’s attention and was signed in 1957 by manager Willie Thornton, the former Rangers and Scotland player.
At first he was second string to Bill Brown the Scotland internationalist, replacing him because of illness for his debut on 10 May, 1958 against Rangers at Ibrox in a 1-0 win. After Brown’s transfer to Spurs in June 1959, Pat became the regular number one.
By then manager Bob Shankly, brother of the better known Bill, was beginning to assemble a team combining youth and experience to challenge for honours which culminated on 28th April 1962 with Dundee clinching the old First Division title, defeating St Johnstone 3-0 at Muirton Park, Perth. Pat did well to keep a clean sheet but three days earlier had made a crucial contribution to the team’s success by saving a St Mirren penalty at Dens Park to secure a vital win and edge ahead of Rangers with one game remaining.
Later he recalled "being probably the coolest guy in the packed ground” facing the penalty taken by Jim Clunie as Pat’s father had tipped him off beforehand where he would place it, helping him pull off a marvellous save. After full time he was mobbed by celebrating fans and needed a police escort to reach the dressing room.
His role in the title win was highlighted by Alan Gilzean’s tribute: “Pat Liney’s contribution to Dundee’s championship season should never be underestimated and the fact he was an ever present speaks for itself. He was rock solid and never let us down.”
That summer he played in all five Dundee games in the international New York tournament but the following season, surprisingly and disappointingly, was displaced by new keeper Bert Slater, missing the club reaching the European Cup semi-final and only played twice more before his transfer to St Mirren in 1964.
He described being “as proud as punch” to pull on a Saints jersey for the first time before going on to play over 60 times for them.
In 1966 he was transferred to Bradford Park Avenue and a year later joined Bradford City, where he remained till 1972 when he returned to Park Avenue for a final season. Pat regularly sang at the Edwardian Club next to City’s ground and at working mens’clubs around Burnley.
Later after his return north he was a popular matchday hospitality host at Dens Park while in 2011 he was inducted into the club’s Hall of Fame and given a Legend’s Award. He was also appointed Honorary Club President whose duties he took seriously, entailing his regular presence at the ground and often travelling on the team coach to away matches.
In 1960 in Fife he married wife Ruby with whom he had a long happy marriage during which they had two sons Kevin and Derek. They survive him along with four grandchildren and a great granddaughter.
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IN the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Almighty Allah declares in Holy Qur’an, Rum, 30:9: “Do they not travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those before them? They were superior to them in strength. They tilled the soil and populated it in greater numbers than these have done. There came to them their apostles with clear (Signs), (which they rejected to their own destruction). It was not God who wronged them, but they wronged their own souls.”
A discussion and examination of the holy flight of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) from Makkah to Madinah in 622 AD in the heat of persecution by idolaters, humiliation and near-death actually demonstrates Islam as a religion of peace and never a religion of terrorism as being falsely presented in the media. Almighty Allah attests in Holy Qur’an, 9:100: “The vanguard (of Islam)—the first of those who forsook (their homes) and of those who gave them aid, and (also) those who follow them in (all) good deeds—well-pleased is God with them, as are they with Him. For them hath He prepared Gardens under which rivers flow, to dwell therein forever. That is the supreme felicity.”
But beyond the holy flight from his birthplace, Makkah to Madinah with his lieutenants, Prophet Muhammad (SAW) notes that the best Hijrah is flight from sins, i.e., to eschew what God forbids and embrace what He commands.
More so, Qur’an 3:110 says:, “Ye are the best of peoples evolved for mankind enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong and believing in God. If only the People of the Book had faith, it was best for them. Among them are some who have faith but most of them are perverted transgressors.”
Abdullah ibn Amr reported: A man asked: “O Messenger of Allah, which emigration is best?” The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “To emigrate away from that which Allah disapproves. Emigration is of two kinds: the emigration of the resident and the Bedouin. As for the emigration of the Bedouin, he responds when he is called and he obeys when he is commanded. As for the emigration of the resident, its trial is more severe and its reward is greater.”
Also, a Muslim is someone who spares people the harm of his tongue and hand and a migrator is someone who migrates from what God has forbidden (Al-Bukhari and Muslim).
This Hadith further admonishes us to abstain from committers of sins, the places of sins and purveyors of sins through backbiting, gossips, curses, abuses, spying and the likes. The Holy Qur’an, Hujurat, 47:11-12, says: “O ye who believe! Let not some men among you laugh at others. It may be that the (latter) are better than the (former). Nor let some women laugh at others. It may be that the (latter) are better than the (former). Nor defame nor be sarcastic to each other, nor call each other by (offensive) nicknames. Ill-seeming is a name connoting wickedness (to be used of one) after he has believed. And those who do not desist are (indeed) doing wrong. O ye who believe! Avoid suspicion as much (as possible) for suspicion in some cases is a sin. And spy not on each other, nor speak ill of each other behind their backs. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Nay, ye would abhor it … But fear God. For God is Oft-Returning, Most Merciful.”
The Hijrah also teaches us to have holy flights from what may not be favourable to us in our work, and embrace a better career where necessary. The Holy Qur’an, Jum’a, 62:10, says: “And when the prayer is finished, then may ye disperse through the land, and seek of the bounty of God and celebrate the praises of God often (and without stint) that ye may prosper.”
Moreover, the Hijrah teaches us to have holy flight from our places of abode or places of origin and seek the bounties of God in unknown regions, especially when we are not appreciated by our own people or being made to denounce Islam. This is what the Emigrants (Muhajiruns) did with Prophet Muhammad (SAW) on Hijrah day from Makkah to Madinah.
The Emigrants are given the highest honour and praise for having made a great sacrifice in the cause of God. Allah says in Holy Qur’an 16:41: “And those who emigrated for [the cause of] God after they had been wronged, We will surely settle them in this world in a good place but the reward of the Hereafter is greater if only they could know.”
Even the ultimate reward awaits such emigrants in this life and in the Hereafter. Qur’an 9:20-22 says: “The ones who have believed, emigrated and striven in the cause of God with their wealth and their lives are greater in rank in the sight of God. And it is those who are the attainers [of success]. Their Lord gives them good tidings of mercy from Him and approval and of gardens for them wherein is enduring pleasure. [They will be] abiding therein forever. Indeed, God has with Him a great reward. O you who have believed, do not take your fathers or your brothers as allies if they have preferred disbelief over belief. And whoever does so among you, then it is those who are the wrongdoers.”
God also promises mercy and forgiveness to those who suffered hardships and exile and fought in His cause with patience and constancy. God Almighty says in Qur’an 2:218: “Those who believed and those who suffered exile and fought (and strove and struggled) in the path of God, they have the hope of the Mercy of God. And God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful. And “Then, indeed your Lord, to those who emigrated after they had been compelled [to renounce their religion] and thereafter fought [for the cause of God] and were patient – indeed, your Lord, after that, is Forgiving and Merciful” (Quran 16:110).
The promise of provisions and paradise is another grant to those who migrated for God’s cause. Almighty Allah says in Qur’an 22:58-59: “And those who emigrated for the cause of God and then were killed or died – God will surely provide for them a good provision. And indeed, it is God who is the best of providers. He will surely cause them to enter an entrance with which they will be pleased, and indeed, God is Knowing and Forbearing.”
God encourages Muslims to migrate for comfort and prosperity. God says in Qur’an 4:100: “And whoever emigrates for the cause of God will find on the earth many [alternative] locations and abundance. And whoever leaves his home as an emigrant to God and His Messenger and then death overtakes him – his reward has already become incumbent upon God. And God is ever Forgiving and Merciful.”
God praises the people of Madinah who accepted Islam and who took in the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and the emigrants who came to them as refugees. They did not welcome the refugees as a duty; but their generous hospitality was out of devotion, affection and love. God says in Qur’an 59:9: “And [also for] those who were settled in al-Madinah and [adopted] the faith before them. They love those who emigrated to them and find not any want in their breasts of what the emigrants were given but give [them] preference over themselves, even though they are in privation. And whoever is protected from the stinginess of his soul – it is those who will be the successful.”
However, if we are being persecuted and oppressed in our places of origin, and we refused to emigrate by forsaking our home and brethren, and died in such oppression, God promised to punish such in the Hereafter. The Holy Qur’an 4:97says: “When angels take the souls of those who die in sin against their souls, they say: ‘In what [condition] were you?’ They will say, ‘We were oppressed in the land’. The angels will say, ‘Was not the earth of God spacious [enough] for you to emigrate therein?’ For those, their refuge is Hell – and evil it is as a destination.”
The Qur’an does not only mention the term ‘hijra’ and its derivatives in reference to the physical hijra of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and his followers. It goes beyond this to the metaphorical scope of the concept of hijra. God Almighty orders men to suspend sexual relations with their wives as a means of punishment to disobedient wives. God says in Qur’an 4:34, “Men are in charge of women by [right of] what God has given one over the other and what they spend [for maintenance] from their wealth. So righteous women are devoutly obedient, guarding in [the husband’s] absence what God would have them guard. But those [wives] from whom you fear arrogance – [first] advise them; [then if they persist], forsake them in bed; and [finally], strike them. But if they obey you [once more], seek no means against them. Indeed, God is ever Exalted and Grand.”
A similar meaning is found in the next verse wherein the Prophet Abraham’s father rejects his message and invitation to truth. The spiritual lesson from this is that even if the father rejects the light, the son will never do so even if has to forfeit his father’s love and renounce his home. There is no sanctity associated with a particular place just because it is the place of one’s birth. The most important thing is religion and the freedom to practise it. Qur’an 19:46 states: “[His father] said, ‘Have you no desire for my gods, O Abraham? If you do not desist, I will surely stone you, so avoid me a prolonged time.”
Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) was instructed to put spiritual and emotional distance between him and the disbelievers, though he must not do so grudgingly. He must, at all times deal with them kindly and with mercy, and dissociate himself from them in a dignified manner. God tells him, “And have patience with what they say, and leave them with noble (dignity)” (Qur’an 73:10).
May Almighty Allah continue to guide us aright in our journey of life. Ameen.
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The Edo State police, on Thursday, killed a suspected kidnapper at the small community of Obadan along the Benin-Auchi Road.
The Edo State police deputy spokesperson, Jennifer Iwegbu, who disclosed this Friday in Benin explained that two victims; one Samson Osegbowa, 65 and Stanley Peters, 38 who were abducted while working on their farmland at Ago-Orio, Uhunmwonde local government area were rescued by the police.
Iwegbu explained that the police waded in following a distress call from the locals at Ago-Orio community while on patrol along Obadan community off Benin-Auchi road.
She said that a four-man armed gang suspected to be kidnappers had taken two persons, Osegbowa and Peters while working on their farmland.
According to her, on receipt of the information, the team of police operatives in collaboration with the community’s local vigilantes immediately swung into action, moved to the scene and embarked on intensive bush combing.
Iwegbu added that during the rescue operation, both victims were rescued unhurt and have since been reunited with their family members, noting, however, that one of the kidnappers was gunned down during the operation.
Items recovered from the hoodlums at the scene of the crime, included one wooden gun, three cutlasses, a torchlight, and a pair of operational shoes.
The image maker said that intensive bush combing of the area is still ongoing for possible arrest of the other fleeing gang members.
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Lawmakers grilled the CEOs of some of the country's biggest banks this week, on everything from cryptocurrencies to overdraft fees to their business relationships with China.
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Lawmakers grilled the CEOs of some of the country's biggest banks this week, on everything from cryptocurrencies to overdraft fees to their business relationships with China.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Professor Nahid Siamdoust of the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Middle Eastern Studies about large popular protests in Iran.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Professor Nahid Siamdoust of the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Middle Eastern Studies about large popular protests in Iran.
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The Food and Drug Administration listed more than a dozen factors contributing to the national baby formula shortage earlier this year, but stopped short of attributing blame to a specific individual or agency.
An internal review of how the agency handled the crisis cited a lack of training and outdated information technology as two of the 15 reasons behind the critical baby formula shortage. The report said it couldn't find a "single action" to explain why the formula crisis occurred.
The internal review was conducted by Steven M. Solomon, director of the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, who said in a statement that he identified five major areas of need in his review: upgraded information technology to exchange data during an emergency; updated staffing, training and equipment; updated emergency response systems; an assessment of the infant formula industry; and a better scientific understanding of cronobacter — the bacteria that caused the shortage.
There were other factors that led to the formula crisis, Solomon said — such as the limited number of formula manufacturers and issues with the ingredient supply chain and product distribution — that need to be addressed outside of the FDA.
"Simply put, if the FDA is expected to do more, it needs more," Solomon said in a statement. "As the agency evaluates its workforce needs related to infant formula regulation and oversight, we recommend that it utilize the appropriations process to help secure the authorities and resources needed."
Last February, baby formula manufacturer Abbott initiated a voluntary recall after consumers reported cases of cronobacter, a bacterial infection especially dangerous for infants, in products manufactured at a facility in Sturgis, Mich. The shortage forced parents to hunt for formula, as markets and retail stores struggled to keep up with demand.
Abbott said in an August news release that it had restarted production at the Sturgis facility, and that products should begin shipping in late September or early October.
The FDA also admitted in its findings that it — and other federal agencies — "do not have the authority, expertise, or resources to manage supply chain issues and shortages of critical food products." In order to address this, Solomon recommends the government work with federal agencies to establish roles and responsibilities for managing critical food product supply chains.
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The DWP has confirmed delays in handing out the £150 cost of living payment for disabilities. The Department for Work and Pensions said people would start receiving payments from September 20 but it confirmed to MoneySavingExpert that operational issues have caused delays.
The DWP said the operational problems meant it has so far been able to send out a limited number of payments. MSE founder Martin Lewis received nearly 5,000 messages from people on Twitter claiming they haven't received a payment yet. Also, 1,700 people on Facebook said the same thing.
MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis said: "A few days, before the then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced his energy package back in May, he called me to get some rough feedback on what he had planned.
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"In that conversation I raised the need for specific help for people with disabilities, many of whom by necessity have far increased energy usage. On the back of that he agreed to do something, though caveated that it wouldn't be much as it was interlinked with the £650 payment for those on benefits.
"I believe that is when the £150 payment was born. It's not a huge amount, but for many struggling, everything counts right now.
"That was four months ago. Many people have been eagerly, needily, waiting for it. We were told the payments would start on Tuesday. Yet when I asked on social media yesterday, among thousands of responses not a soul had received it. Of course the promise is it will be paid by October, so that hasn't been breached.
"Yet for people in a desperate situation, expectation management is crucial and so I'd call on the DWP to give better information on exactly when people can expect the money in their bank account."
Fewer payments than unusual have been made this week due to the Queen's funeral, which was a national bank holiday, a DWP spokesperson told the MEN. Last week the DWP confirmed that many benefit payments would be made earlier than usual due to the occasion.
People who usually receive their benefits and credits on Monday were instead paid on Friday, September 16, the last working day before the funeral.
A DWP spokesman said people will be paid by the start of October. They added: "If you are eligible for the £150 disability cost of living payment, you do not need to contact us as payments are made automatically. The vast majority of payments will be made by early October."
The £150 cost of living payment was announced in May. It is intended to help disabled people with the ongoing economic crisis and the higher costs they face for care and mobility needs.
It comes on top of other cost-of-living payments totalling £650 for disabled people on low incomes, announced as part of a £37 billion package of support to help people with rising costs. Today the chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is expected to announce updates to DWP payments as part of a mini-budget.
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People claiming benefits may be eligible for a loan to help pay for essential products or services. Those on income support, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, Income-related Employment and Support Allowance or Pension Credit for at least six months may be eligible for a Budgeting Loan.
To be eligible, people will have had to claim the benefits for at least six months and they are not available to those on Universal Credit. However, those on UC could be eligible for the Budgeting Allowance.
If anyone moves from UC to Pension Credit then the DWP will add the time they were getting the benefit to the six months, Daily Record reports. Below we have listed the full guide of how to get the loan which could be vital for those struggling during the cost of living crisis.
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What is a Budgeting Loan?
A Budgeting Loan is money people who have been claiming the benefits mentioned earlier for at least six months can apply for financial help from the DWP. It is important to be aware that because it is a loan, the money must be paid back and is done so through benefit payments.
Who cannot apply for a Budgeting Loan?
People claiming these benefits cannot apply:
- New Style Jobseeker’s Allowance
- New Style Employment and Support Allowance
- If you have a job and are currently involved in a trade dispute, you cannot get a Budgeting Loan.
- If you owe more than £1,500 from another Budgeting Loan or Crisis Loan, you cannot get a new Budgeting Loan.
- Universal Credit
What can a Budgeting Loan be used for?
The loan is to help pay for essential things or services. This might include:
- Furniture in your home
- Household white goods such as a washing machine, cooker, hoover or fridge
- Clothing or footwear
- Rent you have to pay in advance
- Any moving house costs such as a removal van
- Essential work needed on your home, including maintenance
- Security for your home, such as new keys or locks
- Some travelling costs in the UK
- Things that will help you get a new job, such as a suit for interviews or taxi fares to get to an interview
- Costs due to pregnancy and childbirth
- Costs for a funeral
How much you could get
The lowest amount you can borrow is £100. You could get up to:
- £348 if you’re single
- £464 if you have a partner
- £812 if you or your partner claim Child Benefit
How much you could get depends on whether you:
- Can pay the loan back
- Have savings of more than £1,000 (£2,000 if you or your partner are 63 or over)
- Are paying back an existing Budgeting Loan or Crisis Loan
- Paying the Budgeting Loan back
The money is paid back in full to the DWP at 0% interest within two years. When the DWP pays your benefit, it will take an amount off to help pay your loan off.
The amount taken depends on your total income, which includes any benefits you get and what you can afford. If you stop getting benefits, the rest of your Budgeting Loan must still be repaid. If you can get a loan, the DWP will also tell you how much your weekly repayments will be from your benefits and if you accept, your weekly repayments from your benefit will start straight away.
How to apply
You can apply for a Budgeting Loan online or by post, however, the DWP guidance states: “You will get a quicker decision on your Budgeting Loan by applying online.”
What happens after an application is made?
The DWP will either send you an email, text or letter letting you know whether or not you can get a Budgeting Loan - you must request which method of notification when you apply. But it’s worth noting if you requested a decision by email or text message, you will get this within seven days. If you asked for a decision by letter, it will be sent within 21 days.
How to accept a loan
If you can get a Budgeting Loan, you need to ‘accept’ the decision before you get the money. How you ‘accept’ your decision depends on how you applied.
You will get the money into your account in seven days if you accept the offer online or 21 days if you accept the loan by post. If you gave the DWP your mobile number then they will send you a text when they pay the money in.
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Thousands of workers could see their benefits cuts if they don't look for more work. Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is planning a crackdown on the number of hours people have to work before they can stop "actively" seeking work.
The current threshold for part-time workers is nine hours a week on the national living wage but it will rise to 12 hours from Monday. The government are also proposing another raise in January to 15 hours a week.
People will risk having their benefits sanctioned if they fail to take active steps to boost their earnings and meet more regularly with a work coach. It is part of Mr Kwarteng's mini-budget which comes amid plans for tax cutting which some economists have warned could benefit higher earners, The Mirror reports.
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Around 120,000 claimants will be affected by the changes. But the government claim it is a way to fill 1.2million job vacancies across the country.
Under the changes, claimants aged over 50 will also get extra support from work coaches, while the newly unemployed will receive nine months of targeted sessions. The Treasury believes that rising economic inactivity among the over-50s is contributing to a shortage in the jobs market, driving up inflation and limiting growth.
Mr Kwarteng said: "Our jobs market is remarkably resilient, but it is not perfect. While unemployment is at its lowest rate for nearly 50 years, the high number of vacancies that still exist and inactivity in the labour market is limiting economic growth.
"We must get Britain working again. These gradual changes focus on getting people back into work and maximising the hours people take on to help grow the economy and raise living standards for all.
"It's a win-win. It boosts incomes for families and helps businesses get the domestic workers they need, all while supporting economic growth."
It comes after record numbers of Brits had their Universal Credit cut or stopped after the number of sanctions exploded. The number of claimants subject to a sanction rose from 3,827 in May 2021 to 109,506 in May 2022.
Tory ministers forced claimants to look for jobs outside their expertise after four weeks - instead of three months - to get 500,000 into work by June. Sanctions also skyrocketed after face-to-face Jobcentre appointments restarted last summer.
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Calls have been made in Kent to “unite in opposition” to the controversial resumption of fracking in the UK. Hydraulic fracturing – fracking – is a technique which involves drilling into the earth in order to release the gas from shale rock; with the intention of improving energy security and lowering fuel prices.
Environmentalists have argued against the process because of the harm to the planet. Water pollution, fires and earthquake tremors have been recorded at some sites, such as Lancashire in 2019.
Despite this, a ban was lifted by the government yesterday (September 22). Kent County Council (KCC), which has historically opposed fracking, is now reviewing its stance. Some councillors have raised objections.
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KCC’s cabinet member for economic development, Cllr Derek Murphy (Con), described the government changes as a “concern” during a debate at County Hall, Maidstone. He told a panel of county councillors: “We are looking at this very carefully and it is an issue of concern.”
Potential fracking sites in Kent include KCC land near the A256 at Woodnesborough. Green county councillor Mark Hood described the return of fracking as “massively regrettable”.
It comes amid an energy crisis, which will see a typical UK household’s bill rise from £1,971 a year to £2,500, from October 1, for gas and electricity. New Prime Minister Liz Truss this week announced a two-year relief package to limit costs soaring further.
'Will not solve energy crisis'
At KCC’s economic development committee meeting yesterday, Cllr Hood said: “We know that bringing fracking forward now will not solve the energy crisis. We know the geology of Kent is not conducive to fracking because we rely on groundwater.”
Cllr Hood added: “I hope members will be united in our opposition to fracking.”
The comments come hours after Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg spoke about the return of fracking amid a heated talk in the House of Commons. Mr Mogg told MPs fracking is necessary to improve energy security in the country. He spoke of potential financial compensation being given to affected communities.
In 2018, KCC rejected government proposals to introduce non-hydraulic fracking as the plans were deemed “contrary to local democracy” and “frustrating to local communities”.
At a KCC debate, Labour county councillor Mel Dawkins questioned the latest position of the county council on fracking, given its historical opposition. She said: “If we are going to change it, will that be going to properly to council for members to vote on?”
In response, Cllr Murphy said he will “look into” how best to move it forward as he engages in talks with KCC officers.
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Hope they’re all voters, because it’s very clear who is on their side and who is against them.
More Texans would benefit from President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt than residents of nearly any other state — and 1.6 million would have their balances completely cleared — according to new White House estimates released as Republicans call it an unconstitutional giveaway to the elite and seek to derail it.
More than 3.3 million Texans would be eligible to have at least $10,000 forgiven and most people in that group, 2.3 million, would have $20,000 forgiven. Texas is second only to California in the number of residents that would benefit from the debt forgiveness plan, according to the estimates, which were compiled by the U.S. Department of Education.
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Officials have said they plan to have applications available early next month, but the plan is likely to face a long legal battle.
Texas is among the red states looking for ways to stop it from becoming a reality. Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a recent interview on Fox News that Texas is “definitely looking at a strategy.”
It is the first time a president has sought to unilaterally cancel swaths of student debt and whether the administration has the authority to do so has been the point of heated debate. The administration says it can, citing a 2003 law that grants the secretary of education authority to offer loan relief during times of war or national emergencies.
But Republicans say Biden is going too far.
“The reality is, I don’t actually think Joe Biden thinks he can do this,” Paxton said. “We are absolutely looking at something we can do to protect the American people from a president that is just making up his own rules as he goes along.”
Republicans argue the plan is unfair to those who have already paid off their debt, as well as the vast majority of American adults who do not have student loans. They say the plan will cost too much — with some estimates as high as $600 billion — and will help those who need it the least.
“College may not be the right decision for every American, but for the students who took out loans, it was their decision: able adults and willing borrowers who knowingly agreed to the terms of the loan and consented to taking on debt in exchange for taking classes,” Gov. Greg Abbott wrote in a letter to Biden with other Republican governors last week. “For many borrowers, they worked hard, made sacrifices, and paid off their debt. For many others, they chose hard work and a paycheck rather than more school and a loan. Americans who did not choose to take out student loans themselves should certainly not be forced to pay for the student loans of others.”
Paxton and Abbott are gonna do what they’re gonna do, and we’ll have to deal with it as we always do. There are absolutely root-cause issues here that are not addressed, but one of the big ones is the underfunding of state universities, which is why they’re so much more expensive now than they were even 20 years ago. Remember tuition deregulation, which the Lege did under Tom Craddick back in 2003 as an exercise in budget-cutting? Not much the President can do about that, and I don’t see Greg Abbott lining up to offer solutions. Anyway, policies that offer a lot of people a tangible benefit are usually good, and certainly attractive from a vote-getting perspective. I hope everyone involved in this remembers that.
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Combined U.S. and U.K. forces fired upon and sunk the decommissioned ex-USS Boone (FFG 28), Sept. 7 during Atlantic Thunder 22, a sinking exercise (SINKEX) to gain proficiency in tactics, targeting and live firing against a surface target at sea. Prior to being transported for participation in a sinking exercise, each vessel undergoes a rigorous cleaning process for environmental safety. Aligned with U.K. Ministry of Defense environmental policy, robust monitoring was conducted above and below the sea’s surface with trained personnel using specialized equipment to reduce the overall risk of inadvertently impacting the marine environment and marine mammals during the SINKEX. For over 80 years, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-U.S. Naval Forces Africa (NAVEUR-NAVAF) has forged strategic relationships with allies and partners, leveraging a foundation of shared values to preserve security and stability.
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The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has cautioned Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of government against the appointment of consultants and concessionaires to collect taxes due to the Federal Government or any of its agencies.
The action was borne out of the fact that the FIRS is the sole agency of government saddled with the responsibility of tax collection, and any infringement is punishable, and upon conviction, with fine, imprisonment or both under Section 68(6) of the Act.
In a public notice issued on Thursday in Abuja and signed by its Executive Chairman, Muhammad Nami, the FIRS accused some MDAs of including functions of assessment, collection, accounting and enforcement of taxes and levies in their agreements with concessionaires and consultants.
Mr Nami said, “It has come to the notice of the Federal Inland Revenue Service that some Ministries, Departments and Agencies of Government (MDAs) are appointing concessionaires or consultants for the assessment, collection, accounting or enforcement of taxes and levies due to the Federal Government or any of its agencies.
“Some MDAs include such functions in their agreements with concessionaires or consultants.”
Citing Section 68(2) of its Establishment Act, the FIRS highlighted that by law it is “the primary agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria responsible for the administration, assessment, collection, accounting and enforcement of taxes and levies due to the Federal Government or any of its agencies, except as may be authorised by the Minister responsible for Finance by regulation as approved by the National assembly.”
He also stated that while Section 12(4) of the FIRS Establishment Act provided that the service may engage consultants, accountants or other agents to carry out certain functions on its behalf, the law expressly prohibited the carrying out of assessing and collecting tax by consultants.
The law provides that, “The service may appoint and employ such consultants, including tax consultants or accountants and agents to transact any business or to do any act required to be transacted or done in the execution of its functions under this act, provided that such consultants shall not carry out duties of assessing and collecting tax or routine responsibilities of tax officials,” he explained.
According to him, going by “the above provisions of the law, it is clear that the duty of administration, assessment, collection, accounting or enforcement of taxes and levies due to the Federal Government or any of its agencies is that of the Federal Inland Revenue Service and its tax officials. No part of these responsibilities can be contracted to a private enterprise by any other MDA.”
The Executive Chairman FIRS further cautioned MDAs who were in the business of appointing consultants for tax assessment and collection that they were not just acting against the letters of the law, but were committing offences that were punishable under the FIRS Establishment Act as amended.
He stated, “Furthermore, appointment or authorisation of any person, other than by the Federal Inland Revenue Service, to assess, collect, enforce or account for taxes constitutes an offence under Section 68(3) of the FIRSEA. Such appointment or authorisation is punishable, upon conviction, with fine, imprisonment or both under Section 68(6) of the Act.
“In view of the foregoing, where any person, individual or corporate, has any information or assistance that may be of use to the Service for the purpose of administration, assessment, collection, accounting or enforcement of taxes and levies due to the Federal Government or any of its agencies or for the performance of its duties under the FIRSEA, such person should approach the Service directly with such useful information.”
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Following the lingering rivalry between periwinkles and fish sellers at the Koko community market, the Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State has called for amicable settlement.
In a meeting with some members of the market at the council secretariat, chairman of the local government area, Smart Asekutu, represented by his vice, Solomon Mikie, appealed to the sellers to work in harmony to ensure smooth operations for the council’s interest.
He called on them to eschew divisions in its entirety and embrace unity, adding that it is only through peaceful coexistence that businesses can thrive.
“These issues are minor, because they can be resolved through collective understanding by working together to achieve a common front,” the council boss said.
Mikie further said that the council would not relent in its efforts at ensuring that the issue is finally resolved.
The meeting had in attendance the secretary to the local government, Samuel Meyiwa Khalil, senior council officials and heads of security agencies in the local government area.
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itcoin has gained 3.8% in the last 24 hours to $19.4K. Quotes have stabilised near the lower bound of the three-month range. Ethereum gained temporary support after falling below $1300 and is up 6.7% in 24 hours.
XRP jumped 28% overnight and 66% over the week to $0.54, posting the highest gain among top-100 cryptocurrencies. There are rumours that crypto whales have switched from ETH to XRP after the SEC and Ripple Labs asked the court to speed up hearings for their case.
Other top altcoins are rising between 4.5% (BNB) and 7.1% (DogeCoin).
Despite this upward move, the technical picture does not yet point to a break in the downtrend, and widespread monetary policy tightening leads us to expect further pressure on markets.
On the other hand, we see precious metal prices rising with a 5% increase in crypto market capitalisation over the past 24 hours. This could be the start of a new trend, where investors are looking at alternatives as a safe haven for capital due to concerns over the solvency of countries.
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Changpeng Zhao, CEO of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance, said bearish trends are common and healthy for the crypto market. He said the crypto industry still has room to grow, while inflation and rising energy prices have drawn attention to cryptocurrencies.
According to Oklink, the recent drop in Ethereum resulted from miners' activation. Mining pools have dropped almost 17,000 ETH in the last seven days alone.
The final version of the European Draft Crypto Asset Markets Act (MiCA) equates NFTs with securities. Technically, the MiCA is still open for amendments, but other reports suggest that the European Union has finalised the bill's full text.
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Maternal Complications, Suicide Among Top Reasons For Sex Workers’ Deaths: Study
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A new multi-country study identifies maternity-related complications, and suicide, as the biggest mortality drivers among female sex workers. Published in Lancet eClinical Medicine, the research focuses on low and middle-income countries (LMICs), like India, Bangladesh, and South Africa. The scientists highlight that there is hardly any existing global research on sex worker mortality causes in these nations. In many of these countries, the researchers write, “civil registry and vital statistics data are often incomplete and (female sex workers) may not be identified as such in official registries”, hence “identifying causes of mortality…has proven challenging.”
Take the example of a sex worker from Andhra Pradesh, whose death from an accident went uninvestigated and unrecorded because a post-mortem doctor refused to come to office on a holiday. “When you’re a single woman and a sex worker who dies … nobody cares,” Priya*, a sex worker who was acquainted with the deceased, told The Swaddle.
It’s this systemic indifference that’s killing women like her — and a lack of any official record on the phenomenon belies any possibility of care or support, further pushing the epidemic into a shroud of silence.
To address these hurdles, the researchers adopted a method known as the Community Knowledge Approach (CKA). In cases where official data is incomplete or inadequate, CKA relies on information provided by community elders and other representatives who can provide a fuller, more detailed picture of the situation. Some earlier cases where researchers adopted CKA include assessing child drowning mortality in the Sundarbans, and estimating maternal mortality in rural Bangladesh.
On collating their data obtained through conversations and other CKA methods across eight countries and 2,112 female sex workers, the researchers observed that abortion was the single biggest cause of mortality, causing 33.5% of total deaths between 2014 and 2019. Further, other maternity-related complications resulted in 16.6% additional deaths. As a whole, then, maternity-related complications were responsible for more than half of the total deaths recorded by the researchers. Suicide, contributing to 13.6% of deaths, was the next biggest factor, followed by murder at 12.5%. HIV/AIDS caused 7.9% of deaths, while accidents made up for 3.2%. Causes for the remaining 11.6% of deaths remain unclassified.
Female sex workers (FSW) are among the most vulnerable population groups anywhere in the world. In most places, their work remains unrecognized and criminalized, leaving them susceptible to exploitation and harassment by their employers, clientele, and regulatory authorities; without much legal recourse. Since in several countries the profession remains taboo, they also remain socially ostracized. All of these factors also result in quality healthcare often being out of their reach.
As a result of social neglect, public health policies overlook them, and the lack of enough research leads to incorrect policies even when they may are centered around sex workers. For instance, sex workers are only recognized under the ambit of public health — or even as people — through the lens of AIDS control. But with the stats showing that HIV/AIDS is superseded by maternal mortality among female sex workers, it shows how sex workers’ rights as citizens are undermined due to the gaze with which the state views them. As such, there remain very few policies adequately address their healthcare needs correctly. The current study aims to guide public health officials and NGOs to properly identify mortality causes among sex workers so that they can meet their healthcare requirements.
The researchers in their study state that most existing data and studies on female sex worker health deal only with morbidity — or illnesses — and not mortality. “The findings of this study address a knowledge gap about causes of mortality among FSW and underscores the urgent need for country-specific programs to prevent FSW deaths,” they explain. Without an adequate idea about the causes of mortality, healthcare policies aimed at addressing female sex workers will remain incomplete and will fail to reduce mortality risks for this vulnerable population group.
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Why Advocates Favor Decriminalization, Not Legalization, of Sex Work
Among LMICs, a 2016 study on female sex workers in three Cambodian cities also observed abortion as the biggest reason for death in sex workers, causing 40% of the total mortality. Low bargaining power makes unintended pregnancies an almost inevitable outcome of sex work, as sex workers have disclosed. This, coupled with stigma and a lack of access to health services, leads to unsafe practices to induce abortions — with sometimes fatal consequences. The current study’s findings, then, emphasize how female sex workers in LMICs may suffer from similar issues across countries.
There are systemic exclusions at play. For instance, in India, most sex workers lack necessary documents like Aadhar, voter IDs, and ration cards. Without these documents, they can neither access social security schemes that they are in need of nor exercise their rights as equal citizens of the nation. This also prevents them from seeking quality affordable healthcare. When they are finally able to access healthcare avenues, they are either sexually violated by those in charge of protecting them, or they are turned away because of the stigma they carry due to their perceived association with HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections.
These injustices understandably also affect their mental health. A 2014 study on female sex workers in Goa observed that 19% of sex workers in the state had tried to die by suicide in that year. Intimate partner violence, violence by regular customers and others, and an overall deteriorating mental health were identified as key reasons driving them to attempt to die by suicide. In Israel, a study last year found that almost one-third of the sex workers in the country had attempted suicide, with close to 50% admitting to dealing with post-traumatic stress and other mental disorders. The current study’s findings also identify suicide and murder as the second and third largest drivers of mortality, highlighting the need for greater attention in recognizing the violence and social stigma that these professionals face.
The researchers identified some limitations to their study. They highlight, for instance, that their study was only conducted in some cities in eight countries. With a large, more diverse sample, some of the figures they arrived at could change. Further, they acknowledge that they could not cross-check or verify information obtained through CKA — carrying certain memory and recency biases — with either door-to-door individual surveys or with official data. The researchers, however, reiterate their confidence in the reliability of the CKA method as an economical, time-saving method to conduct large-scale, multi-country studies like theirs.
Moreover, the study points to mortality trends among cis women sex workers alone. But the sex worker community is vast and amorphously defined — it consists of trans women, men who have sex with men (MSMs), and other marginalized individuals who aren’t cis women. The focus on maternal mortality is significant and shows that there can be no homogenous approach to addressing the needs of the sex worker community — but there still remains a vacuum where trans sex workers’ reproductive health is concerned.
Nevertheless, the results of the study highlight the important role that safe sex practices and access to contraceptives can play a role in preventing mortality, especially in a vulnerable population group that may not be able to access the best healthcare and treatment opportunities. It emphasizes the need to have more conversations and for better education on contraceptives and safe sex among populations in these countries.
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Deciding on the best trading platform for you is an important first step in your trading career.
This could be achieved by finding the answer to technical questions such as: do you need a trading platform that offers the ability to place conditional orders such as a trailing stop loss order?
There are many trading platforms available, the most common being MT4 & MT5.
Whilst these are considered staple trading platforms, they can be considered quite clunky and difficult to use and thus, not a good idea for those just starting out.
Using the brokers’ in-house trading platform (clients can only trade via spread betting and CFDs) is a great way to start when that particular platform offers the key ingredients that many experienced traders look for.
These are the top 3 questions every trader should ask themselves before choosing a trading platform:
1 - What is the main device I use to trade on and do I only trade at home or also on the go?
Sometimes we’ll be trading on our laptops, other times we’ll be out and need to make a trade on the mobile phone or tablet. Using the MT4 mobile trading app is certainly far less visually pleasing than most in-house trading platforms.
It’s important that the graphs you see are easy to use. For example, we don’t want to be adding trend lines to a chart, only to find them jumping across the screen without your consent.
If you are a trader who often looks at the markets on your mobile phone, make sure to pick a trading platform that offers great charting abilities. It’s also important that the mobile app offers just as many functions as the desktop or web version.
Depending on your preference, you may prefer to trade on a web version or a desktop version.
There are pros and cons to both.
A web version can be accessed from anywhere and is useful to those often out and about but a desktop version can be left open 24/7 allowing you the opportunity to use copy trading tools or automated trading tools and manage the account from a remote desktop computer for uninterrupted usage.
2 - Does my trading platform offer advanced charting tools?
If you’re simply trading once every 6 months, perhaps a basic charting tool is all you need. But for those trading several times a week or even several times a day, advanced charting tools can become essential.
So, you should ask yourself the following questions if you do trade often:
- Can I add indicators such as Fibonacci Retracement, RSI or MACD to my GBP/USD trade?
- Can I use the profit and loss tool (Fig. 1) on my EUR/USD trade?
- - Can I use the measuring tool (Fig. 2) to work out how many pips there are in a candlestick?
- Can I check the Highs, Lows, Open and Close prices of an individual candlestick with ease?
- Can I drop down from the Daily charts to see the price movements of the 8 hour, 4 hour, 1 hour, 30 minutes, 5 minutes, 1 minute and even ticks (seconds) charts?
- If I’m a fundamental news trader, how quickly can I switch from a USD/CAD chart to GBP/JPY without any delays or interruptions and quick loading speed?
- Can I add text, boxes or pictures to my charts?
- Can I switch between candle charting, area/line charting or even lesser used graphs like Renko?
If the trading platform you choose has ticked most of the above, you’re off to a good start. If you’ve found that the charting software is quite limited, it’s perfectly fine to use too. It’s all dependent on your trading style and how the platform suits you.
3 - What type of orders can you place?
For beginners, market and limit pending orders are all you may need. But when you start investing time and money into a particular strategy, you may have found that using conditional orders could be the way to go.
The most common conditional order types are:
- OCO Orders
- Stop Order
- Trailing Stop Loss
What is an OCO Order?
Placing an OCO order involves placing two limit orders in opposite directions.
You’re going long and short at the same time. When the price reaches either one of your positions, the opposite position is closed and the one that was just hit gets triggered. This is useful for example when trading during highly volatile periods.
It’s just that much quicker than placing two limit orders.
Stop orders are another useful form of trading. Stop orders, different to limit orders, are orders placed, only when the price has moved through a specific target price point you’ve set.
Trailing Stop Loss orders could be a way to increase profits. It can however decrease them as well. It’s therefore important to test a trailing stop loss before implementing it into your strategy.
A trailing stop loss happens when you’re in a trade and in profit. Once the price has reached your first target, you can set a trailing stop loss that only closes your position when the price suddenly reverses.
Otherwise, if the price continues upwards, your trailing stop loss is moved higher and thus your minimum profit increases.
Can I copy trade or use automated trading?
If you haven’t yet thought this far ahead, it might be something to look out for.
Having the option to copy trade is great for those short on time.
You can rely on others to trade on your behalf at the click of a button. If the platform offers this, it may be an advantage to you.
Automated trading is a more complex feature whereby the trading platform places the trades automatically on your behalf based on a set of rules (or coding) that you’ve given it. In MT4 and MT5 these are known as EAs (Expert Advisors).
You can write or have code written for you and install the EAs to allow for automated trading.
These mechanical trades are advantageous in that they eliminate the emotional decisions that human traders make.
Summary
It’s important to choose the right trading platform that suits your trading styles.
The better trading platforms will offer advanced charting tools which are useful for intraday traders.
In order to ensure you’ve chosen the right trading platform, ask yourself what type of trader you are.
Once you’ve figured that out, open up a demo account with the trading platform of your choice and place some trades before opening up a live, funded account.
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What Makes Women‑Led Protests Different From Others?
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The ethnographer Saidiya Hartman in her essay Venus in Two Acts talks about what it means when we know of marginalized experiences — in this case, two enslaved girls making the trans-Atlantic journey and dying en route — only through the documentation of the oppressors. “[T]he stories that exist are not about them, but rather about the violence, excess, mendacity, and reason that seized hold of their lives, trans-formed them into commodities and corpses… The archive is, in this case, a death sentence, a tomb, a display of the violated body, an inventory of property, a medical treatise on gonorrhea, a few lines about a whore’s life, an asterisk in the grand narrative of history.”
This is the narrative of many women who, in the course of history, in the name of culture, and in furtherance of society, have been indelibly marked — either through death, assault, violence, or erasure. It’s what happened to Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman from Iran, who is said to have died in police custody for improperly wearing a hijab. Her life’s end would have been recorded in the state’s words, wherein future historians would have known her as nothing but a person recorded in police archives.
But Iranian women chose to prevent this from happening — over the past few weeks, they broke out into fierce protests against the authoritarian dictatorship that killed a young woman for, literally, having a hair out of place. And in doing so, they began to rewrite Amini’s story.
The ongoing protests in Iran speak to a more powerful impulse behind women-led protests worldwide. When women rise up as a force, it is often with a specific intent that set these protests apart from others: reclaiming not only space, but the body itself. In claiming ownership of their own bodies — as a collective — women’s protests blur the arbitrarily imposed line between the public and the private. More specifically, the public, as a site of politics, and the private, as a site of domesticity. By resisting what happens to women’s bodies in private, women-led protests show that there’s no such thing as the public-private divide — it’s public policies that operate in the private, both colluding to confine women to a sphere of silence and compliance.
Related on The Swaddle:
A Brief History of Indian Women Protesting Gender Inequality
Take this statement by the organizers of #NiUnaMenos (“not one woman less”), a series of protests against femicide that erupted across Latin America: “We are declaring that we do not renounce sovereignty over our bodies-territories and therefore, we do not recognize their power to represent us and legislate over and against us…We want ourselves alive, free, without debt, and desiring.” They emphatically proclaimed “the rapist is you” — pointing to the president, the military, and the state itself, as figurative rapists.
Argentinian anthropologist Rita Segato calls this the “masculine mandate” which creates the public-private binary — one that, through public consensus, enacts violence against women in private.
It’s when women begin to recognize this and speak, that the state visibly shows its anxiety. In China, feminists protested domestic violence through their “bloody brides” demonstration in 2012. Over time, this grew into resistance against a larger culture of sexual harassment — one that led to the detention of five women, known as China’s “feminist five”, charged with “subverting state power.” The writing on the wall is clear: drawing attention to the ways that patriarchy violates women in private, subverts the state’s interest in relegating these issues as “not public,” and keeping the subjugation intact.
Pakistan’s Aurat Marches — especially in the wake of Qandeel Baloch’s murder — touched upon similar ideas. What does it mean for a community’s honor to be confined in the body of a person? Can a woman retain a sense of personhood when representing a community’s purity? The consequences of resisting an imposed honor were devastating, showing how when women claim their bodies in real life, they’re forcibly separated from them through murder. Baloch’s murderer was acquitted, leading to this year’s Aurat March Lahore theme being “Reimagining Justice” that demands nothing short of a complete overhaul of existing institutions.
In Turkey, women took to the streets earlier this year to protest President Erdogan’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, which was designed to legislate and prevent gender-based violence — especially domestic violence. Two years earlier, a “wall of shoes” in Istanbul represented the consequences of gender-based violence: showing, visually, an absence of bodies to fill the shoes. The absence is by design — these are disappeared bodies, the shoes representing an emptiness where there should have been life.
Related on The Swaddle:
In Shaheen Bagh, Muslim Women Redefine Carework as Resistance
Then, an Indian woman’s death in Ireland, after being refused life-saving medical care due to strict abortion laws, once again turned into a watershed moment, one that eventually led to the overturning of the law itself. Soon after, what was once a right was overturned in America, creating a cyclical pattern of bodily violence across the world.
Even way back in 1972, Italy’s ‘Wages For Housework’ campaign stressed the injustices waged in private — as women’s bodies were put to work under an arbitrary notion of care, replenishing individuals in the home while themselves being depleted, in the process. One of the campaign’s founders, Silvia Federici, noted that “its power resided in the fact that it gave us great comprehension of society and the mechanisms of exploitation, and at the same time it touched the most personal aspects of our lives, while enabling us to connect to all other women with a new sense of solidarity.” In other words, it disturbed the public-private binary — and through acts of protest embodied in song, slogans, writing, and joy expressed in public, indicted capitalist patriarchy for perpetuating it.
Indigenous women represent the infinite loop of violence that the masculine mandate subjects them to. Amid revelations of mass graves of indigenous children in Canadian school sites, women rose up in protest against the institutional violence that, to date, continues to kill and disappear indigenous women.
“What we’re living through now isn’t any different from what we’ve always faced when it comes to this extermination effort. We’ve seen centuries of violence, spilled blood, rape and enslavement – and now all of this is being officially professed by the government,” said one indigenous woman who protested Brazil’s destruction of forest lands — pointing to a much more primordial struggle. Indigenous populations are feminized populations — regarded as dispensable, outside public considerations of “development.” Their connect with nature is key — when nature is seen as a resource to be invaded, occupied, plundered, and settled on, it assumes the form of a feminized entity.
The devaluation, violence, and degradation that women resist in protests, then, is as old as time — and is a global pattern of subordination that takes different forms. At every turn in women’s protests is the body as a political site — one that’s never been considered a political entity by the state. Whether it be cis, trans, Muslim, Hindu, indigenous, or poor women, bodies emerge as a frontier for oppression and liberation, both. It’s a quiet rage that’s been burning, centuries in the making. Whether it’s for the right to wear a hijab or the right not to wear one, the struggle remains one predicated upon what society does to women while relegating their concerns, bodies, and entire existence to the “private.” And in Iran, the rage manifested in a singular act of bodily defiance: a woman, sitting on a platform before a crowd, chopping off her hair in an instant — daring anyone to stop her.
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Most UK traders will prefer to spread bet over using CFDs (Contracts for Difference). This is simply because spread betting is by U.K. law, considered gambling and is, therefore, free of Capital Gains Tax (CGT) whereas CFD trading is taxable. If, however, you did lose more than you made against the markets whilst trading CFDs, you are entitled to claim those losses against your tax bill. Tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and can change or may differ in a jurisdiction other than the UK.
In terms of placing orders, closing trades, opening trades and the market movements themselves, there is no real noticeable difference to the individual retail trader between trading CFDs and spread betting .
The gritty definitions of spread betting and CFDs Spread betting by definition is the speculation on the price movement of a particular financial instrument such as but not limited to, stocks, forex or commodities. Therefore, you are not purchasing the underlying asset and owning said stocks or currencies, you are merely betting on which way the price will go.
CFDs are tradeable securities, a legally binding contract between two parties, in this case, the trader and the broker. CFDs use margin for leverage.
Fig. 1 – Chart showing a CFD purchase and sale.
Is it better to spread bet or CFD trade? Spread betting is only available to UK residents and is governed by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Any broker that wishes to offer spread betting to UK residents must be registered with the FCA. For example, when you search for an FCA registered broker’s FCA number on the website https://register.fca.org.uk/s/search you will see that they comply with the strict rules that the FCA set and confirm that they are regulated.
Your eligible deposits with CMC Markets are protected up to a total of £85,000 by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).
For example, if you have £500 in your account and a trade slipped so drastically that the broker closed your position at a loss greater than your account value, say negative £100, a regulatory protection in place means the broker will set the balance on your account to zero.
The risks are difficulty in withdrawing your deposit and earnings, open to scams, trading against the broker instead of your trades going out to market, lack of liquidity causing slippage
Slippage
In terms of trading, slippage refers to the difference in price between the price an order was intended or expected to be filled with the actual price an order was filled. Retail traders are consistently at odds with slippage, as this is a highly sensitive issue that can lead to many problems with brokers. For example, many traders view levels of slippage at brokers as a key determinant for their business.For example, when trading forex, if a trader places a trade intending to enter a buy on the EUR/USD at 1.1160, but they only get into the market at a price of 1.1158, the slippage here would be two pips. Ultimately, there will always be a time delay between the trader buying or selling any asset. The time that the broker is able to execute the order, even if it’s only a few milliseconds, will ensure a delay is still there.The problem of slippage can be particularly troublesome during highly volatile markets. This is made worse with certain assets such as the forex, as prices can and do change within milliseconds, causing the order to be executed at a different price to what was originally requested. Different Types of SlippageSlippage can take one of two different forms. Negative slippage occurs when a trader enters the market at an inferior position to what they requested.By contrast, positive slippage happens if a trader enters the market at a superior position to what they requested, which theoretically can happen.For example, if a forex trader places a trade on their broker for buying the USD/JPY at 113.05, but the broker fills the order at 113.08, it means the slippage here is a positive slippage of 3 pips.Overall, slippage is much more common in forex trading during economic news releases. During this time, a price can wildly fluctuate in either direction, making it virtually impossible to enter a trade at the intended price. Slippage can also occur due to lack of liquidity, especially on large orders, where there might be an inadequate amount of interest from the other party. This happens due to orders only being filled at the requested price if there are enough buyers or sellers at the intended price and size of order.To help reduce slippage, many traders rely on limit orders rather than market orders. A limit order only fills at the price you want, or better. Unlike a market order, it won't fill at a worse price.
In terms of trading, slippage refers to the difference in price between the price an order was intended or expected to be filled with the actual price an order was filled. Retail traders are consistently at odds with slippage, as this is a highly sensitive issue that can lead to many problems with brokers. For example, many traders view levels of slippage at brokers as a key determinant for their business.For example, when trading forex, if a trader places a trade intending to enter a buy on the EUR/USD at 1.1160, but they only get into the market at a price of 1.1158, the slippage here would be two pips. Ultimately, there will always be a time delay between the trader buying or selling any asset. The time that the broker is able to execute the order, even if it’s only a few milliseconds, will ensure a delay is still there.The problem of slippage can be particularly troublesome during highly volatile markets. This is made worse with certain assets such as the forex, as prices can and do change within milliseconds, causing the order to be executed at a different price to what was originally requested. Different Types of SlippageSlippage can take one of two different forms. Negative slippage occurs when a trader enters the market at an inferior position to what they requested.By contrast, positive slippage happens if a trader enters the market at a superior position to what they requested, which theoretically can happen.For example, if a forex trader places a trade on their broker for buying the USD/JPY at 113.05, but the broker fills the order at 113.08, it means the slippage here is a positive slippage of 3 pips.Overall, slippage is much more common in forex trading during economic news releases. During this time, a price can wildly fluctuate in either direction, making it virtually impossible to enter a trade at the intended price. Slippage can also occur due to lack of liquidity, especially on large orders, where there might be an inadequate amount of interest from the other party. This happens due to orders only being filled at the requested price if there are enough buyers or sellers at the intended price and size of order.To help reduce slippage, many traders rely on limit orders rather than market orders. A limit order only fills at the price you want, or better. Unlike a market order, it won't fill at a worse price.
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The disadvantage of choosing a spread betting account governed by the FCA as a retail trader is that the leverage that you are offered is limited by law to 30:1.
Typically, spread betting brokers will offer easy to calculate costs by having all the costs joined into one fee, the fixed ‘spread’. Spread is the difference in cost between the buy and sell price. This is how the broker takes their cut for sending your orders off to the market. Brokers typically will charge 1-1.5 pips for the major currency pairs for opening and closing a trade.
When CFD trading, you may find that the fees are not collated and is, therefore, harder to understand how the costs are calculated. For example, there may be swap fees, commission fees, variable spread fees, opening fees and closing fees.
According to the FCA website, the leverage that is limited varies depending on the financial instrument you trade. These are as follows:
30:1 for major currency pairs; 20:1 for non-major currency pairs, gold and major indices; 10:1 for commodities other than gold and non-major equity indices; 5:1 for individual equities and other reference values; Spread bets and CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage
Leverage
In terms of trading, leverage can be characterized as a loan, supplied by a broker, which allows a trader to be able to control a relatively large amount of money with a significantly lesser initial investment. As such, leverage effectively allows traders to make a much higher return on investment compared to trading without any leverage. Traders use leverage to make a profit from smaller movements in certain assets, such as stocks and foreign exchange.Given such small movements in these instruments at times, trading without any leverage could potentially diminish profits. As a result, traders routinely rely on leverage to make financial trading viable. As a rule of thumb, the higher the fluctuation of an instrument, the larger the potential leverage offered by brokers. The most common market where leverage is utilized is in the forex market, as most currency fluctuations are relatively tiny and encompass fractions of units. How to Trade with LeverageThere is also a lot of variation with trading leverage in each account, which can often vary from 1:50 to 1:200 on most forex brokers. However, many brokers can offer up to 1:500 leverage, meaning for every 1 unit of currency deposited by the trader, they can control up to 500 units of that same currency. As an example, if a trader was to deposit $1000 into a forex broker offering 500:1 leverage, it would mean the trader could control up to five hundred times their initial outlay, i.e. half a million dollars. By extension, if an investor using a 1:200 leveraged account, was trading with $2000, it means they would be actually controlling $400,000, i.e. borrowing an additional $398,000 from the broker. Assuming this investment rises to $402,000 and the trader closes their trade, it means they would have achieved a 100% ROI by pocketing $2000. Using leverage, the potential for profit is clear to see. However, leverage also opens up the possibility of losing a much greater amount of their capital. If the value of the asset turned against the trader, they could have lost their entire investment and more.
In terms of trading, leverage can be characterized as a loan, supplied by a broker, which allows a trader to be able to control a relatively large amount of money with a significantly lesser initial investment. As such, leverage effectively allows traders to make a much higher return on investment compared to trading without any leverage. Traders use leverage to make a profit from smaller movements in certain assets, such as stocks and foreign exchange.Given such small movements in these instruments at times, trading without any leverage could potentially diminish profits. As a result, traders routinely rely on leverage to make financial trading viable. As a rule of thumb, the higher the fluctuation of an instrument, the larger the potential leverage offered by brokers. The most common market where leverage is utilized is in the forex market, as most currency fluctuations are relatively tiny and encompass fractions of units. How to Trade with LeverageThere is also a lot of variation with trading leverage in each account, which can often vary from 1:50 to 1:200 on most forex brokers. However, many brokers can offer up to 1:500 leverage, meaning for every 1 unit of currency deposited by the trader, they can control up to 500 units of that same currency. As an example, if a trader was to deposit $1000 into a forex broker offering 500:1 leverage, it would mean the trader could control up to five hundred times their initial outlay, i.e. half a million dollars. By extension, if an investor using a 1:200 leveraged account, was trading with $2000, it means they would be actually controlling $400,000, i.e. borrowing an additional $398,000 from the broker. Assuming this investment rises to $402,000 and the trader closes their trade, it means they would have achieved a 100% ROI by pocketing $2000. Using leverage, the potential for profit is clear to see. However, leverage also opens up the possibility of losing a much greater amount of their capital. If the value of the asset turned against the trader, they could have lost their entire investment and more.
Read this Term . The vast majority of retail client accounts lose money when spread betting and/or trading CFDs. You should consider whether you understand how spread bets and CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.
Marketing for CFDs and spread betting is not intended for US citizens as prohibited under US regulation.
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Mumbai: Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan's daughter Ira Khan got engaged to her boyfriend Nupur Shikahre.
Ira, who has been dating Nupur for over two years now, took to Instagram where she shared a video from a cycling event. In the clip, Ira is seen standing at the stands. Nupur, dressed in cycling gear, comes up to her, goes down on his knees and pulls out a ring.
Nupur asks Ira: "Will you marry me?", to which she happily responds "Yes!." The two seal the deal with a kiss, while her friends and the crowd cheer for the couple.
Ira is Aamir's daughter from his first wife Reena Dutt, with whom he got separated in 2002. They also have a son named Junaid together.
Ira Khan's birthday bash with her parents had gone viral a few months ago, though some had attacked her on social media for wearing a bikini. Ira who turned 25 this year had hit back at the trolls by posting more bikini photos on her social media handles.
Her father Aamir, mother Reena Dutta, Aamir's ex-wife Kiran Rao and Ira's boyfriend Nupur had participated in the function.
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A deadly hurricane that battered multiple island nations in the Caribbean this week is now impacting Bermuda before crashing into Canada this weekend, where residents are being warned to prepare for dangerously high winds and heavy rainfall.
Officials in Bermuda as well as Canada's Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island are urging those in the storm's path to be on high alert and prepare for the impact of Hurricane Fiona, which has already claimed the lives of at least five people and shut off power for millions this week.
"Fiona is projected to be a significant and historical weather event for Nova Scotia," said John Lohr, the minister responsible for the provincial Emergency Management Office.
"It has the potential to be very dangerous. Impacts are projected to be felt across the province. Every Nova Scotian should be preparing today," Lohr added during an official update Thursday.
Residents should brace for damaging winds, high waves, coastal storm surge and heavy rainfall that may lead to prolonged power outages, Lohr said. Emergency officials have encouraged people to secure outdoor items, trim trees, charge cell phones and create a 72-hour emergency kit.
Fiona is a powerful Category 4 storm but is on track to weaken slightly to a strong Category 3 as it passes near Bermuda during the overnight hours into Friday, CNN Meteorologist Robert Shackelford said.
"Once Fiona passes by Bermuda, the storm is forecast to impact Nova Scotia by Saturday afternoon. Fiona will become extratropical before impact, but this will do little to hinder the damage that Fiona will cause," Shackelford explained.
Across Atlantic Canada, winds could be around 100 mph (160 kph) as Fiona makes landfall on Nova Scotia, Shackelford said.
The storm was packing sustained winds of 130 mph early Friday and was about 185 miles west of Bermuda and 1,000 miles south-southwest of Nova Scotia, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Bermuda, which is under a hurricane warning, closed schools and government offices Friday in preparation for the storm, according to Michael Weeks, the island's minister of national security.
In Canada, hurricane warnings are in place for Nova Scotia from Hubbards to Brule and in Newfoundland from Parson's Pond to Francois. Prince Edward Island and Isle-de-la-Madeleine are also under warning.
Prince Edward Island officials are imploring residents to prepare for the worst and hope for the best as the storm looms.
Tanya Mullally, who serves as the province's head of emergency management, said one of the most pressing concerns with Fiona is the historic storm surge it's expected to unleash.
"Storm surge is certainly going to be significant. ... Flooding that we have not seen nor can we measure against," Mullally said Thursday during an update.
She added the northern portion of the island stands to bear the brunt of the storm due to the direction of the winds, which will likely cause property damage and coastal flooding.
Fiona's power outages continue
Earlier this week, Fiona damaged homes and upended critical power and water infrastructure for millions of people across Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Turks and Caicos.
Days after Puerto Rico experienced an island-wide blackout as Fiona made landfall Sunday, only 38% of customers had their power restored Thursday, according to power grid operator LUMA Energy.
The mass power outage is happening as much of Puerto Rico endures extreme heat, which caused temperatures to feel as hot as 112 degrees Thursday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.
Daniel Hernández, director of renewable projects at LUMA, explained critical places including hospitals will be prioritized before repairs can begin on an individual level.
"This is a normal process. The important thing is that everyone is calm ... we are working to ensure that 100% of customers have service as soon as possible," Hernández said.
Nearly 360,000 customers were experiencing intermittent water service or no service at all as of Thursday evening, according to the government's emergency portal system.
As of Wednesday, more than 800 people were housed in dozens of shelters across the island, according to Puerto Rico's housing secretary, William Rodriguez.
President Joe Biden has approved a major disaster declaration for the US territory, FEMA said. The move allows residents to access grants for temporary housing and home repairs as well as low-interest loans to cover uninsured property losses.
In the Dominican Republic, Fiona affected 8,708 households and destroyed 2,262 homes, according to the nation's head of emergency operations, Maj. Gen. Juan Méndez García.
He said more than 210,000 homes and businesses were still in the dark Thursday morning, and another 725,246 customers were without running water.
"This was something incredible that we've never seen before," Ramona Santana in Higüey, Dominican Republic, told CNN en Español this week. "We're in the streets with nothing, no food, no shoes, clothes, just what's on your back. ... We don't have anything. We have God, and the hope help will come."
Fiona also menaced parts of the Turks and Caicos Tuesday, and areas of the British territory were still without power earlier this week, namely on Grand Turk, South Caicos, Salt Cay, North Caicos and Middle Caicos, said Anya Williams, acting governor of the islands.
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Japan, one of the world's last major holdouts during the pandemic, is dissolving its Covid-19 restrictions and opening the door back up to mass tourism.
Beloved for its unique mix of vibrant urban culture and natural beauty, the country is lifting its tight regulations on foreign tourists, according to a tweet Thursday from Taro Kono, Japan's minister of digital affairs.
"Finally, Japan will reopen the border," the tweet said. "Visa waiver is back, no daily limit and free individual visits."
The new policies start on October 11.
"We will lift the ceiling of the number of entrants into Japan, lift the ban on individual travel and lift the ban over visa-less travel," Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Thursday at a news conference in New York City, where he was attending the UN General Assembly meeting.
Elaborating on the lifting of restrictions, Kishida said that "on the same day, we plan to launch a campaign to offer domestic travel discounts and event discounts to residents of Japan and hope that many citizens will take advantage of the offer to support the hotel, travel and entertainment sectors that have suffered enormous blows during the pandemic."
The move marks a major policy shift after nearly 2 1/2 years of strict Covid-19 restrictions on who could enter the country and under what circumstances.
Those restrictions have included caps on the daily number of arrivals allowed, tight testing rules for the coronavirus and requirements to join tour groups to visit.
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Schimmel Fitness celebrating 25 years — with no plans of slowing down
ZANESVILLE — Bill Schimmel has spent most of his adult life using sports psychology and exercise science to make activity a way of life for his clients.
The 1985 John Glenn graduate started his path into personal training while attending graduate school at Miami University in 1990, where he worked part time at Bally's in Cincinnati. It was there he customized individual fitness programs for more than 1,000 people, from children to the elderly.
He eventually earned his master's degree and returned to Zanesville, where he opened his own gym, Schimmel Fitness, in 1997. Almost three decades later, he's still serving the community.
Schimmel Fitness, located at 35 N. Fourth Street, is currently celebrating its 25th year in business. It remains unique in a city not short on fitness facilities. It specializes in the same thing that Schimmel did back in his younger days — tailor workouts for clients with fellow personal trainers Jason Brock and Karen Hoppstock Svab.
Schimmel purchased the former Henneberg Furniture building across from the former Masonic Temple. Over time, he transformed it into a multifaceted fitness center, one whose humble beginnings started with a treadmill and few weights.
Now it offers anything from free weights and traditional workout machines to spinning, massages and a golf practice facility. Locker rooms are spacious and geared to professionals who might need to hang up a suit while slipping in an afternoon workout.
The trio of trainers bring their own niche.
Schimmel, with a master's degree in sports performance and behavior, focuses on the mental aspects of training. He began working with golfers, then trained the Ohio State women's soccer team.
"Exercise is a behavioral change," Schimmel said. "It's no different than quitting smoking, or stopping drinking or anything else. It's not about stopping, it's about changing your behavior. Exercise is the same thing. I focus more on that."
Svab, from the Akron area, is a certified athletic trainer and physical therapy assistant, while also holding certification from the Titleist Performance Institute. She is also a spinning instructor and Level 1 Functional Movement Screen.
Brock, who was a track athletes at Heidelberg, is an accomplished powerlifter and certified Olympic lift instructor and personal trainer who helps train local athletes. He also trains older clients in the gym.
"I've got people in here that I've had for almost 20 years now," Brock said. "I've got like six to eight people who are 15 years in. Those are the people I see every week. This is not work. I love it. I love balancing sports and hobbies, and building these relationships."
Schimmel said they all work with patients for pre- and post-rehabilitation from surgeries, such as joint replacements.
"That's the thing a lot of people don't realize about joint replacement. It's equally important to get that joint in as good of shape as you can before you go in, because once you go out, you're going to lose something. If you lose everything it's really going to be tough," Schimmel said.
The three have worked together for 20 years. The experience along the way has been critical in finding programs that work.
"I know the mistakes I've made with wearing out my joints and the same with Karen and Jason — we didn't come to this late," Schimmel said. "This is what we have always done. We've worked with so many generations of people. We've got a group of 12-year-olds that come in with Jason.
"We've got people in their 90s that come in, a bunch in their 80s," Schimmel added. "It's about being able to get your body to perform as well as you can get it to perform, whether it's out on the soccer field getting in and out of a chair. We all want to keep independent as we age. I see it a lot more on the back end where people's quality of life can be so much better if you don't have to ask for help. When you start doing that your quality of life starts to slide a little bit."
Their membership never exceeds 100, something Schimmel said is by design. Unlike most national chains, its personalized training and individual focus is the bread and butter that keeps the business profitable.
Coupled with the fact that the gym is rarely crowded, and Schimmel has found a niche that remains effective. It's all about building the relationships and knowing what makes people tick, he said. That's where the 1-on-1 training works its magic.
The business' journey hasn't come without bumps in the road. Gyms were among those that suffered the most from the state-mandated shutdowns during the early stages of COVID-19 in 2020. While some business were allowed to re-open, gyms were among the last to get clearance — 10 weeks after the original date of closure.
Like many businesses, he used federal PPP and disaster loans to help stay afloat. That was only part of the battle, however. With many of his clients being elderly and considered high risk of major complications from COVID, many elected to stay home until vaccines were available. Strict mask mandates that he supported drove some customers away.
The Masonic Temple catching fire was another obstacle that threw him a curveball, though he admits his business escaped a far worse outcome than those who lost everything in the Temple.
Schimmel called it "a rough couple of years."
"Fifty percent of your new business comes in January and (the fire) was in January," Schimmel said. "We were closed most of January. It was almost four weeks by the time they got things cleaned up. That was almost worst than COVID, because at least you got some (federal) help from the COVID side. But compared to what those folks went through — we're just lucky the wind wasn't blowing this way. They said if there wasn't snow on the roofs that a lot of buildings in downtown would have burned down."
Despite the struggles, Schimmel has no plans of doing anything else.
"I don't see any reason to ever quit," Schimmel said. "It's not that hard to come down here, and hang out with my friends and talk to them, and give advice. I just encourage them along the way."
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Local News Briefs
Baldwin earns scholarship
BEREA − Matthew Baldwin of Zanesville recently received the $21,000 president's scholarship from Baldwin Wallace University for outstanding academic achievements in high school. The graduate of Zanesville High School is majoring in music education.
Roseville to hold holiday parade
ROSEVILLE − The second annual Roseville Fire Department Christmas Parade and Toy Giveaway will be at 4:30 p.m. Dec. 11. Parade lineup is at 4 p.m. at Roseville Village Park. The route is south on Zanesville Road to Main Street, then south on Main Street to First Street, making a right and finishing at the fire department.
There will be best float and best decorated side by side contests. There is no entry fee for the parade, but donation of new, unwrapped toys are asked for. There will be one Santa who will be passing out toys to youth along the parade route with the RFD.
Toy donation can be dropped off at Treadway Honda on Maysville Pike during regular business hours and 7 p.m. Wednesdays at the Roseville Fire Department.
Shred day planned
ZANESVILLE − Good Deeds Arbor of Gleaner Life Insurance Society and Matson Retirement Planning are partnering to offer a community shred day from 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 29 in the parking lot of Matson Retirement Planning, 1166 Military Road. Work will be done by Allshred Services.
Giddy Up and Joe Coffee Truck will be on site selling coffee and those shredding who make a donation will receive a free doughnut from Donald's Donuts while supplies last.
For more information, contact Tracy at 740-454-7646 or e-mail stephen.matson@cfdinvestments.com.
New doctor joins Genesis
ZANESVILLE − Dr. Trevor Ellison has joined Genesis Heart and Vascular Group, specializing in cardiothoracic surgery.
He earned his doctor of medicine degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Ellison completed his general surgery residency and a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery in general surgery and by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery in cardiothoracic surgery.
Ellison is located in the Genesis Heart and Vascular Institute, 955 Bethesda Drive. For more information call 740-454-0804.
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Public Records: Muskingum County Real Estate Transfers
Sept. 6
1513 Anthony Saad to John Mears, 131 Galligher St., Zanesville, $62,500
1514 Walter Huber to Joseph Griffin, 22 Garfield Ave., New Concord, $210,000
1515 Anna Castleberry to Ohio Network for Innovation Inc., 1055 Richey Road, Zanesville, $219,000
1516 Leon and Ashley Draughn to Sally Smith, 792 Larzelere Ave., Zanesville, $129,000
1517 DR Investment Trust to Misty Lote, 6915 Cannon St., East Fultonham, $140,000
Sept. 7
1518 David and Connie Schroder to A Plus Gutter & Drain LLC, 809 Market St., Zanesville, $57,200
1519 Christina Newell to K Bar J Properties LLC, 1546 Wheeling Ave., Zanesville, $25,000
1520 Dustin and Josie Daniels to Shane and Jane Shreve, 2860 Ridge Road, Zanesville, $160,000
1521 Warren Hurley to Dustin and Kaylee Calihan, Lot 14, Pt Lot 35, Walnut Hills II, Walnut Hills Drive, Zanesville, $10,700
1522 Red Door Professional Solutions LLC to Microse Properties LLC, 511 Echo Ave., Zanesville, $37,000
1523 Deborah Lynn to Dustin and Kaylee Calihan, 385 Walnut Hills Drive, Zanesville, $244,500
1524 Patrick Renaud to Steven Walton and Jalene Walker, 2705 Lisakim Lane, Nashport, $230,000
Sept. 8
1525 Samantha Reisig to Britney Swingle, 2128 Wilmer St., Zanesville, $140,000
1526 Henry and Janet Mumpower to Brett Bell and Samantha Desser, 1188 Pfeiffer Drive, Zanesville, $185,000
1527 Burl Shreve to John Saxton, Part Lot 38, Buckingham Terrace, 0.0855 acre, Parker Drive, Zanesville, $4,900
1528 Stephen Bowman to Fin Properties LLC, 1682 Linden Ave., Zanesville, $55,000
1529 John Antonetz to Leon Draughn, 2132 Hoge Ave., Zanesville, $36,500
1530 Carole Noll to Troy and Erica Parks, 1058 Terrace Court, Zanesville, $251,700
Sept. 9
1531 Paula and Mason Lorentz to Fredrick Wolfinbarger, 166 East Main St., Zanesville, $262,900
1532 Waveline Coleman to Mary Daniels, 255 Main St., Philo, $39,000
1533 Tristan and Ciara Gebhart to Brad and Brittany Willey, 2850 Arthur Circle, Zanesville, $199,900
1534 Jonathan Shomber (Rowe) and Amber Bugglin (Rowe) to Timothy Ford, 127 Front St., Philo, $190,000
1535 William and Patricia Glaze to Keya and Michael Roberts, Lots 48-49, Walnut Hills III, 530 Walnut Hills Drive, Zanesville, $234,000
1536 Brad Blair to Branson and Lauren Ross, 503 Westview Drive, Zanesville, $163,000
1537 Richard Longaberger to Matthew and Brittany West, 10792 Mitchell Hill Drive, Dresden, $252,600
1538 Tiffany Pritz-Tantarelli to ABK Investors LLC, 39.637, 12.603, Plainfield Road, New Concord, $115,000
1539 Robert and Ida Lewis to Andrew Wamsley and Mary Border, 318 Third St., Frazeysburg, $204,000
1540 Helen Schmelzer to William Isch, 1635 South Cove Lane, Norwich, $25,000
1541 Microse Properties LLC to Mary Baker, 2105 Wilmer St., Zanesville, $175,000
1542 Donald Hiscock to Jordyn Hendershot, 2678 West Ridgewood Circle, Zanesville, $195,000
1543 PNC Bank (Citizens National Bank) to MDLSB LLC, 1719 and 1731 Maysville Pike, Zanesville, $275,000
1544 Devin and Kelli Israel to Jason Mohler, 47 S. Pembroke Ave., Zanesville, $169,500
1545 Evelyn Lyall to Chad Lewis, 3740 East Darlington Road, Zanesville, $140,000
Property Transfers Exempt from Conveyance Fees
Sept. 6
E1154 Ronald Ross to Kathy Ross, 1050 Raiders Road, Dresden
Sept. 7
E1155 Ami Schreiber to Matthew Schreiber, 11.19 acres, Pleasant Valley Road, Hopewell
E1156 Kimberlie Welsh to Federal National Mortgage Association, 651 McIntire Ave., Zanesville
E1157 Pamela Bradley to Thomas and Misty Fraley, 171 Front St., Philo
Sept. 8
E1158 Helen Reed to Timothy Reed, 5281 North River Road, Zanesville
E1159 Joanna Bricker to Andrew Bricker, 11550 Zane Trace Road, Norwich
E1160 Craig Mock to Craig and Britni Mock, 2945 Deerpath Drive, Duncan Falls
E1161 Craig Mock to Craig and Britni Mock, 6350 Sugargrove Road, Chandlersville
E1162 Betty Lighthizer to Donna Teetz, 7735 Lakeview Drive, Nashport
E1163 Frederick Noll to Carole Noll, 1058 Terrace Court, Zanesville
E1164 Donald, Anna and Alice McCoy to Jordan Fisher, 5.0 acre split, Rustic Ridge Road, Zanesville
Sept. 9
E1165 Frederick Kennedy to Rosalind Kennedy, 3054 Malibu Lane, Zanesville
E1166 Donetta Hart to Simpkins Limited Partnership, 7615 Clay Pike, 29.727 and 10.14 acres, Chandlersville
E1167 Brittney Davis to Trevor Barlow and Leonora Di Sensi, 873 South Hopewell Road, Hopewell
E1168 William Fortner to William and Roberta Fortner, 21 Summit Drive, Zanesville
E1169 Jennifer Kimble to Korey Kimble, 2010 Andrews Court, Dresden
E1170 Lionel Watiker to Lionel and Polly Watiker, 2370 Kimes Road, Zanesville
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HS Roundup: New Lex rolls past Tornadoes
FALLS TOWNSHIP — Jerilynn Koehler and Abby Wilson combined for 19 kills and seven blocks to lead visiting New Lexington past West Muskingum 25-13, 25-12, 25-14 in Thursday's Muskingum Valley League Small School Division contest.
Koehler collected a team-high 12 kills with three blocks, Wilson tallied seven kills and a team-best four blocks and Lizzie Ellis passed out 23 assists to lead the New Lex offense. Gracie Newlon served five aces with five digs, Trinity Cook had five kills and four digs, Nora DuPerow and Chloe Dick hit four kills and Jorja Burkhart had seven assists in the winning effort.
Leaders were not available for the Tornadoes.
Sheridan 25, 25, 25, River View 22, 14, 17: Jamisyn Stinson tallied 19 kills and Alyssa Ward 12 as the Generals (12-2, 6-1 MVL-Big) earned a convincing MVL-Big School win at Luther Stover Gymnasium.
Stinson also served up three aces and collected seven digs, while Alexis Bradley had 22 assists with nine digs and two aces and Peyton Powell 17 assists with two aces and three digs.
Bailey Laudick had nine kills and Kayla Dulgar, Haley Balo and Alivia Spaulding six each for River View. Dulgar also had 13 assists, two blocks and 12 digs; Cayla Shrimplin had six assists and six digs and Spaulding also had six digs.
Sheridan won the reserve match 25-17, 25-10. Emma Doherty had eight kills and Josie Ramey six for Sheridan; Shaelyn Yoder and Riah Fox had three points for River View.
Tri-Valley 25, 25, 25, Maysville 12, 10, 7: Lexi Howe went 15-of-15 with four aces and Kenzie Albertson was 16-of-17 with a pair of aces in the Scotties' sweep of the Panthers.
Ingrid Dittmar passed out 29 assists, Eva Dittmar hit 17 kills, Howe added 12 kills and Caity Journey made 10 digs for Tri-Valley.
Rachel Jarvis totaled four kills and four digs, Bekah Scott made six digs, Olivia McPeek had 12 assists with a team-high nine digs and Bella Pfeifer added three kills and four digs to lead the Panthers.
Tri-Valley reserves won 25-9, 25-16. No leaders were available for the Scotties, while Kaitlyn Clark had five digs and two assists, Laikyn Clark chipped in three kills, two digs and two aces for Maysville.
Tri-Valley took the freshman match 25-8, 25-13. Chesney Carter had four kills and two digs and Clarie El Hakour added a kill for the Maysville freshman.
Coshocton 25, 25, 25, Morgan 23, 15, 16: The Lady 'Skins (9-4, 7-3) were led by Jalynn West, who dished out 38 assists and picked up five kills to lead the offensive attack in a MVL Small School Division win.
The outside hitter tandem of Lindsey Bryant and Kenidi Jackson recorded double-digit kills with 14 and 11, respectively, for the winners, while Lacey Guthrie and Saige Abbott each added four. The defense was anchored by Miyah Davis as she led all defenders with 21 digs. Jackson added nine and West six for the victors.
For the Raiders (4-10), Jensen Peyton had five kills while Evelyn Newton had four. Chloe Baker led the visitors in both digs and assists with 11 and nine.
In the reserve contest, Morgan (9-5) earned a 25-19, 25-12 victory. For the 'Skins (5-8), Sophia McFadden had five kills and Jaeli Tiedit had seven assists and two aces. Morgan was led by Paige Lanning's 12 assists and Haven Cook's five kills.
Meadowbrook 25, 25, 25, Crooksville 4, 6, 8: The host Colts swept the Ceramics to improve to 11-2 overall and 10-0 in the MVL.
No leaders were reported for the Colts.
Maelee Collins made nine digs to highlight the Crooksville effort, while Brynn Lundell had four digs, Khirra Wilson went 5-of-5 serving, Paige Frame had two kills and two digs, Julianna Locke was 5-of-6 serving with two digs and Taisia Riggs had two assists.
Crooksville reserves fell 25-17, 26-24, as Grace Myers had seven kills and seven digs and Erica Flood added 13 assists and nine digs with 8-of-8 serving to lead the Ceramics. Kamdyn Hall added 15 digs, Morgan Stickdorn six digs, Mylee Davis four kills and Alexia Van Meter four digs, two kills and 7-of-8 serving.
John Glenn 25, 25, 25 Philo 13, 17, 14: Kara Fields hit seven kills and Lauren Blair contributed 19 assists with nine digs, three kills and two aces to lead the Muskies (6-8, 5-5) past the Electrics in a Big School Division contest.
Emma Briggs added six kills, four aces and seven digs, Hannah DeMattio chipped in four kills, Aleea Musselman had four kills and four digs, Emma Dolan had three kills and four aces and Graceann Hitchcock made six digs for the winners.
Aleigha Busse tallied five kills and six digs to pace the Electrics, while Brooklyn Ferrell had four kills and three digs, Addyson Khune five assists and three digs, Olivia Winland seven digs and Briannah Wolfe three kills and six digs.
Philo reserves won 19-25, 25-16, 25-18, as Olivia Fink tallied five kills, seven digs and two aces, Halli Harris 12 assists, seven digs and four aces, Parker Hina five kills and nine digs, Lauren Morehouse 13 digs, Elise Spiker eight digs and two aces with 100% serving and Makenna Staker 10 digs and six kills. Alaiah Johnson made 17 digs, Hannah Chrisman added six kills, two aces and five digs, Raelynn Harding chipped in eight digs and Brelynn Barr had 10 assists and three aces for John Glenn (6-8, 5-5).
John Glenn freshmen (5-3, 5-2) won 25-16, 25-10, as Addi Babcock had three kills and 10 aces, Delaney Woodard five kills and five aces, Lily Jefferis three assists and three aces and Faith Hayes three kills.
Girls Soccer
Sheridan 2, Coshocton 1: Madeline Winders' goal from the top of the box midway through the second half proved to be the difference for the host Generals, who held on for an MVL win.
Mikenna Schiele scored in the first half for Sheridan, which led 1-0 at halftime. It stayed a one-goal game until Winders slipped one past the keeper from a scrum to extend the lead. That came seconds after Sheridan goalie Kendall Harter made a key save one-on-one.
Coshocton got within a goal with 10 minutes left but failed to get the equalizer.
River View 8, Morgan 1: Alyssa Fox kicked in four goals to lead the Lady Bears (6-4-1) past the host Raiders in league action.
Kylie Miller and Kam McGinnis added two goals apiece for the winners.
John Glenn 9, Maysville 0: Marina Nicolozakes knocked in three goals and Riley Zamensky added two goals and two assists to pace the Muskies (6-3-2, 5-0-1).
Nicolozakes staked John Glenn to a 2-0 lead on assists by Bella Eubanks (31:31) and Zamensky (26:53). Kira Kaiser then scored on a Marissa Saki assist (13:08), followed by Zamensky finding Eubanks (7:43) and Olivia Perrin assisting Estelle Matheney's goal (1:32) to make it 5-0 at the half.
Zamensky had her goals in the second half on assists by Kaiser and Eubanks, while Matheney added her second goal and Nicolozakes completed her hat trick on an Eubanks assist.
Faith Lemon, who made no saves, and Bean Sowers, who had two saves, combined on the shutout, while Maysville keeper Josalynn Milatovich made 17 saves.
West Muskingum 13, New Lex 0: Allison Latier scored four goals and assisted two more and Claire Smith also had a hat trick in the Tornadoes' rout of the Panthers.
Gracie Settles posted the shutout in the goal, while Debra Allen chipped in two goals and two assists, Jayden Thornton two goals and an assist, Zoie Settles and Laney Johnson a goal and two assists apiece and Katlynn Foster an assist for the winners.
Tri-Valley 12, Philo 0: The host Scotties scored six goals in each half to down the Electrics. No other information was available.
Boys Soccer
Philo 13, Union Local 0: Blake Bernard scored four times and Brent McManes and Cody Serrell each had three goals in the Electrics' shutout.
Coy Howard, Wes Lafollette and Andrew Van Meter each added a goal and an assist, McManes, Gage Wickham and A. Lyons had assists and Hunter Wallace posted the shutout in goal.
St. Clairsville 2, West Muskingum 0: The visiting Red Devils scored twice in the second half to knock off the Tornadoes. No other information was available.
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Week 6 preview: Zanesville welcomes Valley in LCL clash
ZANESVILLE — The second half of the season is upon us, and several area football teams find themselves in the playoff mix going into Week 6.
The top 16 teams qualify for the postseason after Week 10.
In Division III, Region 11, Tri-Valley (4-1, 1-0 MVL Big) sits atop the region after last week's win over New Lexington, while Sheridan (4-1, 1-0) is fifth and Zanesville 13th (3-2), while New Lex (4-1, 1-0 Small) is fourth, Morgan (4-1, 1-0) eighth, River View (3-2, 1-0) 11th and Philo 16th (2-3, 0-1) in Division IV, Region 15.
West Muskingum (3-2, 0-1) is 10th in Division V, Region 19, and Rosecrans (1-4) is tied for 16th in Division VII, Region 27.
This week features several key divisional and crossovers in the MVL. Tri-Valley welcomes Morgan, Sheridan entertains River View, New Lex travels to Coshocton (0-5, 0-1), Maysville (3-2, 0-1) visits West M, Meadowbrook (1-4, 1-0) hosts John Glenn (1-4, 0-1) and Philo heads to Crooksville (0-5, 0-1).
The Blue Devils welcome Licking Valley (3-2) in a Licking County League-Buckeye Division contest, and Rosecrans hits the road to face Grove City Christian (3-2) in Mid-State League Cardinal Division play.
Licking Valley at Zanesville
A spirited second half last week put Zanesville above .500 with a 22-11 win over Heath. Drew Doyle guided the comeback from an 11-0 halftime deficit, using his feet to gain more than 150 yards and score three TDs over the final two quarters.
The Panthers come to Sulsberger Stadium off a 41-0 rout of Lakewood. They opened the season with a 35-28 loss to Sheridan before beating Heath 28-15 in Week 2. After a 56-14 loss to undefeated West Holmes, Valley topped Johnstown 42-28.
A defense relying on some youth is starting to shine for the Panthers. Titan Priest made two sacks, and Matthew Lehman, Theo Walsh and Tom Schneider added a sack each against Lakewood, which was held to 99 yards and kept out of the end zone twice after trips inside the 5-yard line.
Hayden Rodgers leads the Valley offense. He tossed three TDs and added another on the ground last week, while Ayden Stalnaker, Colton Carr, Gavin Bragg and Walsh are among the other weapons for the Panthers.
Morgan at Tri-Valley
The Raiders have not beaten the Scotties since a 42-0 victory in 2005 and will see if they can end that drought at Jack Anderson Stadium.
Last week, Morgan rebounded from its first loss by shutting out Coshocton 31-0 and holding the Redskins to 119 total yards.
Logan Niceswanger was 4-of-6 passing for 95 yards, including a 44-yard touchdown strike to Kyle Campbell in the first quarter to spot his team a 7-0 lead in that win. Carson Copeland and Aden Weaver, who had a pair of TDs, combined for 138 yards on 25 carries.
The Scotties trailed New Lex 12-7 at the half, but held the Panthers to just 62 second-half yards. Ashton Sensibaugh remains the main target for Max Lyall after hauling in five passes for 148 yards with a pair of TDs in the victory.
The important matchup will be on the lines. Tri-Valley and Morgan each have a combination of size and experience up front, so the team that controls the line of scrimmage will likely walk out of Jack Anderson with a win.
River View at Sheridan
Jamal Watts delivered a huge performance to help the Black Bears make it three wins in a row with a 250-yard, three-TD effort against Meadowbrook.
The River View offense will face a stiffer defense as the Generals have only allowed 27 points over the last three weeks in wins over Logan, Morgan and John Glenn. Sheridan has given up 1,228 total yards, including 609 on the ground through five games.
Sheridan relied on big plays last week in a 21-7 victory over the Muskies. Justin Munyan and Caden Sheridan had scoring runs 56 and 63 yards, respectively, while Alex Poirier and Reid Packer continue to lead the running game. Packer has a team-best 364 yards on the ground, to go with 354 passing yards, while Poirier has 347 and Munyan 209.
Drew Holden and AJ Winders are the leading receivers for the Generals, combining for 22 catches, 359 yards and three scores.
Both teams have solid defenses so the team that makes the key or big plays on offense should remain unbeaten in the MVL Big School Division.
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Puerto Rico's intersecting crises
Even after several years of political and legal battles over how to revive its economy and fix its basic utilities, Puerto Rico continues to careen from crisis to crisis.
Why it matters: The territory and its 3 million residents are caught in a quagmire of financial and infrastructure challenges with a steep human cost — including including a 41% poverty rate last year.
Driving the news: Puerto Rico's entire power grid — which has been in bankruptcy for the last half decade — went down after Hurricane Fiona ripped through on Sunday. It's another humanitarian crisis for an island that was supposed to be keeping the lights on by now.
- Only about 32% of Puerto Rico residents had power restored as of Thursday, while about 3 in 4 were still without clean water, according to Jubilee USA Network, an organization that has advocated for debt relief for Puerto Rico.
- "Even relatively minor storms can shut down the power grid on the island," Jubilee executive director Eric LeCompte tells Axios. And "the water supply is dependent in many parts of the island on the electrical grid."
The big picture: Debt reduction has helped Puerto Rico by freeing up cash to spend on basic services, but numerous troubles continue to dog the island, including a history of corruption, insufficient revenue and the ongoing dispute over the prospect of statehood.
- "It's not just the electrical grid — it’s also the sewers, it’s also the streets, highways, bridges, schools," University of Puerto Rico economist José Caraballo-Cueto tells Axios. "Almost every area of the government infrastructure is needing renovation."
Context: Puerto Rico exited the largest municipal bankruptcy restructuring in U.S. history earlier this year — a five-year process that resulted in the commonwealth shedding 79% of its debts.
- But the island's public utility, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), remains mired in bankruptcy. The island's federal oversight board said days ago that it's reached an impasse with bondholders over how to restructure the entity's debt.
Flashback: When Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Irma devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, causing tens of billions of dollars in damages, the territory's ability to provide electricity to its residents collapsed.
- It took months to restore power, illustrating the depths of PREPA's problems, including accusations of sweetheart deals.
- In 2021, operational control of the island's grid was transferred to a private operator called LUMA Energy in hopes of improving the dilapidated system.
- LUMA "has failed miserably," Caraballo-Cueto says, noting that it's led to rate spikes and more blackouts.
- Critics — such as Sen. Chuck Schumer, the U.S. Senate's Democratic majority leader — have blasted LUMA and island leaders for failing to put billions of dollars in federal aid to use in reconstructing the system.
- Local officials are now re-examining the deal, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
The other side: LUMA did not respond to a request seeking comment.
- But LUMA public safety manager Abner Gómez said Thursday in a public statement that the company "continues to conduct damage assessments, reenergization efforts and power restoration across Puerto Rico" and "will not stop until every customer in Puerto Rico has their power restored."
The big question: Would statehood solve the island's problems?
- Debate persists — both in Washington and in Puerto Rico — over whether the island would be better off if it were a state or if it were on its own.
- "If we really want to see permanent or sustained economic growth, a change in the nature of the political relationship with the United States will be necessary," says Caraballo-Cueto, who is currently immersed in a study over the potential effects of such a change on Puerto Rico's economy.
💭 Our thought bubble: Puerto Rico's financial crisis is sure to continue as long as its population continues to decline. The island has lost hundreds of thousands of residents in recent years — most of them moving to the mainland in pursuit of a better life.
- When they leave, they take their tax dollars with them — and that means less money for the island to pay its debts and invest in public services, continuing its destructive cycle.
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🍦 Soft serve worth every penny
👋 Mary Jane here. Looking for a new ice cream spot around town? You're in luck. Whenever a new one opens, I'll be there to investigate.
Driving the news: I have an affinity for ice cream. I used to work for Jeni's and have eaten my share over the years.
- There's nothing like a locally owned ice cream shop where everything is homemade.
What's happening: Little Ladies has the best soft serve ice cream I've ever had.
- Sometimes soft serve can be over mixed, making it less flavorful and not very dense. At Little Ladies, every bite is creamy and luscious.
Details: The sundaes have names like Thelma, Luella and Aggie. You can pick which flavor you want with any sundae or you can customize menu items with any flavor to make your own.
- They offer a special sundae every so often.
- The store is clean and bright with fun wallpaper designs throughout.
What I ate: The Penny, with pumpkin cake, chai, cardamom caramel sauce and some corn puff brittle ($7.50).
- No ingredient was overpowering, with the flavors singing together in perfect harmony.
- I could have eaten two of them.
If you go: noon-9pm Tuesday-Thursday, noon-10pm Friday-Saturday and 1-9pm Sunday. Closed Monday. 673 Worthington Rd.
🚚 Of note: Catch their truck around town during warmer months or rent it for your private event.
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Your weekend guide: Philly festivals, spooky fun and a scavenger hunt
It's officially fall in Philly, and it shows in this weekend's lineup of things to do around the city. Check out these fun and frightening events:
- Get spooked at Eastern State Penitentiary's "Halloween Nights," which opens for the season Friday. The festival includes five haunted houses, live entertainment, immersive bars, and tours. Tickets: $34.
- Philly Fashion Week wraps up this weekend with runway shows Friday and Saturday in Center City. Tickets: $45-$165.
- Catch an opera during Opera Philadelphia's Festival O, which runs through Oct. 2. The festival across several venues features new productions and debuts. Ticket prices vary.
- Head on down to the Navy Yards for Philly Arts & Music Festival Saturday, from 1-8pm. Enjoy food trucks, browse vendors and listen to live music, including from Grammy winner Trombone Shorty. Tickets: $35-$60.
- Fishtown FestivALE will take over a stretch of Frankford Avenue from noon to 8pm on Saturday. The free festival includes more than 50 local art and retail vendors, food, carnival games and music.
- Bring your bike to the kid-friendly scavenger hunt in Fairmount Park starting at 10am on Saturday at Lloyd Hall. Teams compete to find items in the park using a smartphone app. Tickets: $20.
- Plus: Don't forget to stop by the Cosmic Cafe's Ciderhouse for a post-hunt party and prize ceremony.
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Hot homes: 5 D.C.-area homes for sale starting at $639k
This week's hot homes roundup features five family-friendly properties between $639,990 and $3.99 million.
8302 Woodmont Ave. #402 - $639,990
Why we love it: This condo is conveniently located across the street from a Harris Teeter and Starbucks and is just steps away from the Battery Lane Urban Park and the Bethesda Trolley Trail.
- Neighborhood: Bethesda
- Specs: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 784 square feet
- Listed by: Delilah Dane at Redfin
- Features: Garage parking, hardwood flooring, in-unit washer/dryer.
4449 S. Dakota Ave. NE - $889,000
Why we love it: This single-family home features a fully finished walkout basement, complete with a full bathroom and kitchenette.
- Neighborhood: North Michigan Park
- Specs: 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,131 square feet
- Listed by: Chelsea Traylor at Redfin
- Features: Two-car garage, fenced-in backyard, hardwood flooring
3411 3rd St. N. - $1.32 million
Why we love it: This single-family colonial boasts a partially finished basement/multi-purpose room with recessed lighting and a fireplace.
- Neighborhood: Arlington
- Specs: 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,527 square feet
- Listed by: Patricia Ammann at Redfin
- Features: Two fireplaces, central A/C, one-car garage
4215 49th St. NW - $1.79 million
Why we love it: Residents of this single-family detached home will have a simple commute to downtown D.C., Bethesda, and Northern Virginia and a short walk to Spring Valley shopping, dining, and the Metro.
- Neighborhood: Spring Valley
- Specs: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, 2,437 square feet
- Listed by: Chelsea Traylor at Redfin
- Features: One-car garage, hardwood flooring, fireplace, fully finished basement
4332 Garfield St. NW - $3.99 million
Why we love it: This spacious colonial comes with a private backyard and garden.
- Neighborhood: Wesley Heights
- Specs: 6 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms, 4,800 square feet
- Listed by: Robert Hryniewicki, Adam Rackliffe, and Christopher Leary of HRL Partners at Washington Fine Properties.
- Features: Two fireplaces, fenced-in backyard, white oak hardwood flooring.
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(Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for Democratic judicial candidates. This is intended to help introduce the candidates and their experiences to my readers. This year it’s mostly incumbents running for re-election, so it’s an opportunity to hear that talk about what they have accomplished. I am running these responses in the order that I receive them from the candidates. For more information about these and other Democratic candidates, including links to interviews and Q&As from the primary and runoff, see the Erik Manning spreadsheet.)
1. Who are you and in which court do you preside?
I am Lori Chambers Gray, the presiding Judge of the 262nd District Court.
2. What kind of cases does this court hear?
The 262nd District Court has jurisdiction over felony criminal cases ranging from state jail felony to capital murder.
3. What have been your main accomplishments during your time on this bench?
One accomplishment during my time on this bench has been being elected by my fellow judges to serve as presiding judge over the mental health competency restoration docket. Serving in this position has been especially rewarding because it has allowed me to serve some of our communities most vulnerable, those suffering with mental illness. Through programs in place, persons with mental illness are connected to services and community resources. This docket has long history of persons successfully completing the programs and going on to living productive lives.
4. What do you hope to accomplish in your courtroom going forward?
I want to help speed up the process of resolving cases in a fair and equitable manner. I want to make the court is even more efficient. In the appropriate cases where individuals are not incarcerated I want to insure that we provide reasonable alternatives to incarceration. In cases where individuals are placed on probation I want to insure that the conditions are strict, meaningful and appropriate for that offense.
5. Why is this race important?
This election is important because judges affect citizens lives in so many ways. In the criminal justice system in many ways judges are the backbone of the criminal justice system. Judges have a duty to insure that every accused citizen has a fair process and a fair trial, if they want one. At the same time, a judge must make sure that the community is safe. A number of judicial races are on the November mid term ballot and the peoples vote will decide who will serve as judge in these courts.
6. Why should people vote for you in November?
I have had the pleasure to serve as the presiding judge of the 262nd district court for the last 3 1/2 years. In my time as a judge I have strived to insure that all people are treated fairly regardless of background. I practiced law for 29 years before being elected in 2018 and built a successful criminal law practice handling cases in Harris and surrounding counties.
I was born and raised in Houston and have strong ties with my community through volunteer organizations that I have served in the past and present. I understand the unique challenges and concerns of the citizens of Harris County and have the desire to make a positive difference for all. It is my hope that the voters keep me on the bench so that we can continue in our efforts to insure justice for all.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Medtronic common stock between June 8, 2019, and May 25, 2022, inclusive.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until November 7, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Medtronic plc issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Medtronic's product quality control systems were inadequate; (2) Medtronic had failed to comply with numerous regulations regarding risk assessment, corrective and preventive action, complaint handling, device recalls, and reporting of adverse events; (3) these failures increased the risk of regulatory investigation and action; (4) as a result of the Company's misconduct, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would delay the approval of additional Medtronic MiniMed devices, including the MiniMed 780G; (5) these delays in product approvals, as well as the Company's need to improve its quality control systems, would negatively affect the Company's financial performance and cause Medtronic to fall further behind its competitors; and (6) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects lacked a reasonable basis.
Jakubowitz Law is vigorous in pursuit of justice for shareholders who have been the victim of securities fraud. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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By Ephorus. May 5 and is a Permanent General Licensor’ A’ and licen 9(2-I(7-II/March21,,iI.9-M609-.i47-,‘.. ..990/-t2~’t11’~,:o1r20)i .~ ..9-‘.\nsue 53885 or ATC J Debbie Wright loves searching for vacation cabins in the mountains.
But she hates when she clicks, and the price jumps.
"The fees were ridiculous," she said.
Wright's been looking for an inexpensive cabin on her favorite rental site, Vrbo.
But she says fees -- that don't show up until the booking page -- can add hundreds of dollars to the price of that rental.
"It says $158 a night," she said. "But next thing we know we are looking at $200 a night."
What's behind the extra fees?
Fees are definitely the new norm when it comes to booking any vacation rental.
But what exactly is it you're paying for?
We checked for mountain cabins, and found a rental that listed for:
- $2,700 for the week for the house.
- But then comes a cleaning fee of $326.
- And a Vrbo service fee of $428.
- That brings it to $3,400 for the week, before tax.
Sally French, a travel expert for NerdWallet.com, says high cleaning fees especially catch a lot of people off guard.
The problem is that they don't show up on the front page.
"It's not until they actually click into the listing that they're able to see what the cleaning fee is," she said.
"What's unfortunate," she said, "is someone who says their budget's $100. They might overlook the nice rental that's $110 with no cleaning fee."
She says make sure you account for fees when setting your vacation budget.
Or, she said, look for rentals without a cleaning fee, even if the nightly rate is higher.
Also, she says, never book a property with a high cleaning fee if you're only staying for one or two nights: a hotel may make more sense.
Vrbo tells us the company is only responsible for setting the service fee which it says "covers the cost of secure transactions, product development, and customer service."
Other fees, such as the cleaning fee and pet fees, are set by the host.
Debbie Wright says she will never fall in love with a rental again, until she sees the price after fees.
"It gets frustrating, it gets really really frustrating," she said.
So check the fees before you decide that is the rental home for you, so you don't waste your money.
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Kansas soccer was unable to find the net despite a lot of good looks in its first Big 12 Conference matchup against Oklahoma State, dropping the game 2-0.
Kansas had an opportunity to score in the tenth minute following a foul by Oklahoma State. Junior defender Kate Dreyer lined up for a free kick, but she missed high.
The Jayhawk defense was able to stifle back-to-back corner kicks by the Cowgirls in the 16th minute.
The Jayhawks’ defense was a highlight of most of the first half. They did not allow a shot until the 28th minute, which was blocked.
This led to a major shot advantage in the first half for Kansas, nine to three.
Despite the shot advantage, Oklahoma State got on the board first in the 35th minute after a goal from freshman midfielder Chloe Wright, assisted by senior wingback Blythe Beldner.
Oklahoma State also held an advantage on corners, four to zero.
The Cowgirls took a 1-0 lead into the half as Kansas could not convert on any of its scoring opportunities.
In the second half, Kansas freshman forward Maree Shinkle had a shot on goal in the 50th minute, but it was saved by Cowgirl freshman goalkeeper Jordan Nytes
The Jayhawks had another scoring opportunity in the 52nd minute from freshman forward Lexi Watts, but this shot was also saved by Nytes.
Nytes finished the game with 12 saves. “You gotta give their keeper credit,” head coach Mark Francis said. “I mean, she played out of her skin. She made a couple of very good saves that denied us opportunities.”
Kansas lined up for its first corner kick in the 59th minute following shots by senior defender Lia Beyer and super-senior midfielder Rylan Childers. However, they were not able to convert the goal.
Oklahoma State extended its lead to 2-0 after a shot by senior wideback Megan Haines was deflected into the goal.
The lead proved to be insurmountable for the Jayhawks as they dropped the game 2-0. Despite taking 23 shot attempts, they were not able to find the net as they were shutout for the second time this year.
Despite the loss, Francis was encouraged by the Jayhawks' performance. “It’s kind of weird to lose two-nothing and completely dominate the game,” Francis said. “We had some really good looks.”
“You’ve got to come away from that going we were the better team on the day,” Francis also said.
The loss dropped the Jayhawks' record to 7-4 and 0-1 in conference play.
The Jayhawks will be back in action Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. to take on the No. 12 ranked TCU Horned Frogs at Rock Chalk Park. The game will be broadcasted on ESPNU.
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CPT Kara, Dreflak Utley, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Chaplain, Major Jono Holland, JP, Ph.D., opened with the Hawaiian “Oli Aloha” benediction during the Multilateral field service on, September 18, 2022, at Exercise Cartwheel 2022. Military-to-military training with RFMF forces increases readiness and the ability to respond quickly; working together effectively in a crisis, such as natural disasters, improves response capabilities to situations threatening public health and safety.
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