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Good morning, Hubsters. MK Flynn here with today’s Wire.
Happy Monday. I’ve just returned from a few days in Vermont and Massachusetts, where I enjoyed the New England scenery and ate a lot of fresh blueberries and maple syrup. I hope you had a good weekend too!
On the dealmaking front this morning, a couple of transactions caught our attention, one involving baby formula and the other involving property management services.
We’ve also got a look inside a PE deal that involves technology to help identify people at risk for loneliness, a growing problem in the US.
Let’s start with today’s deals.
Baby formula
Juggernaut Capital Partners has sold Nature’s One, a Lewis Center, Ohio-based pediatric nutrition company, to Bobbie Bay, which specializes in European style organic baby formula, as Iris Dorbian reports.
Juggernaut and Nature’s One founder Jay Highman will continue as substantial shareholders of Bobbie Bay.
“Nature’s One is a true pioneer in the pediatric nutrition space,” said John Shulman, managing partner of Juggernaut in a statement. “Juggernaut partnered with founder, Jay Highman, to accelerate product development and vertical integration initiatives. Over the past five years, the company completed the first FDA-approved clinical feeding study of an organic infant formula and designed and constructed the first newly built infant formula facility in the U.S. in 35 years.”
Multifamily dwellings
The RMR Group has agreed to acquire 100 percent of the equity interests in MPC Partnership Holdings, doing business as CARROLL, a provider of management services to multifamily properties, in an all-cash transaction for $80 million, subject to customary purchase price adjustments, with the potential for incremental earnout consideration up to $20 million based on the deployment of future capital.
Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Atlanta, CARROLL provides asset and property management services to 81 multifamily properties with more than 28,000 units, primarily located across the Sunbelt markets of the US.
“Importantly, the CARROLL platform is uniquely positioned to continue benefitting from favorable demographic tailwinds in high-growth Sunbelt markets,” said Adam Portnoy, president and CEO the RMR Group. “Additionally, this acquisition will advance RMR’s private capital growth strategy with high-quality global institutional investors and drive continued growth across the combined platform with the potential to make in excess of $3 billion of additional multifamily investments.”
Predictive model
The US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recently warned of a loneliness epidemic hitting the country.
TT Capital Partners, a Bloomington, Minnesota-based private equity firm is stepping up to the table with a recent majority investment in Pyx Health, a Tucson, Arizona-based provider of technology and support that reduces loneliness.
Obey spoke with Dawn Owens, TTCP partner and CEO, on what enticed the firm to invest in this space. “We appreciate both the importance of addressing the issue [of loneliness] and what it does for healthcare quality, costs and access,” she said. “It’s an opportunity for people to have the best health they can achieve, and we have seen how difficult it can be to do those things.”
Founded in 2017, the company serves more than six million people in more than 70 markets across nearly 30 states covered under nearly all major payers, as well as government, employer and community health plans, according to Pyx.
Owens said the company uses app-based technology, paired with timely human interventions, to help those identified as lonely from their data.
Pyx has “a science-based solution that looks at primarily health plan data to identify characteristics and profiles of individuals who are likely struggling with loneliness,” she said. “The company has a predictive model that helps them identify people who likely need intervention and support.”
But the process of solving loneliness brings to the fore the need to ensure that the healthcare system is accessible to those who need it, she added.
“We thought this is a business that can help with accessibility and make our healthcare system better for a population of individuals who are underserved by it,” she said, adding that severe loneliness was not new prior to covid, although the pandemic put a spotlight on the issue and the downstream impacts.
“The marketplace has started to recognize that loneliness and self-isolation can be a gateway to addressing additional needs. People are more likely to ask for help with loneliness, and in the course of helping them you discover the other needs that they have, which can be other social determinants.”
For growth, Pyx will take a combination of both organic and inorganic strategies. For M&A, Owens said Pyx will look for businesses with complementary services that will accelerate their vision.
That’s all for today. I’ll be back with more tomorrow. In the meantime, I’d love to hear from you at my new email address: mk.flynn@pei.group
See you tomorrow,
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He also spent 12 years at Jennison Associates where he was head of institutional sales and client service
Founded in 2000, Stafford has $7.9 billion in assets under management
Stafford Capital Partners has named Joe Carrabes as head of client solutions in North America.
Prior to Stafford, Carrabes was responsible for managing some of the largest institutional relationships at Amundi US. He also spent 12 years at Jennison Associates where he was head of institutional sales and client service and was responsible for managing the institutional distribution efforts.
On the appointment, Stafford’s Global Head of Client Solutions Valentina Abbott said in a statement, “We are delighted to welcome Joe to the team. He is an impressive executive with an incredible track record in capital raising and is highly regarded for his ability to build strategic partnerships with institutional investors.
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Pacific 72-67 on Monday night to close the round-robin Rainbow Classic.
After Jeremiah Bailey hit a 3-pointer to pull the Tigers within one, a foul and a technical foul sent Stansberry to the line for a pair of free throws for a 70-67 lead. Then it was Buggs with the clinchers.
Neither team led by more than eight points. Pacific was up that many with under four minutes to go when Stansberry and Samuta Avea drained 3-pointers and then Stansberry’s four-point play with 1:37 to go put the Rainbows up 64-62. Justin Moore tied it with two free throws but Zigmars Raimo made a layup and then Stansberry made two free throws with 20 seconds to play.
Stansberry, who was 7-of-10 shooting with four 3-pointers, had 17 points in the second half. The Rainbow Warriors (2-1) went 10 of 23 from distance.
Amari McCray led Pacific (2-2) with 16 points and Moore had 14. The Tigers were outscored by 10 at the foul line.
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Arnold, CA–Motorists and residents in Arnold are advised of an upcoming road improvement project that will result in temporary closures on Moran Road. The road closures are scheduled from Tuesday, August 1st to Friday, August 4th, between 7:00 AM and 4:30 PM each day, with the road re-opening to local traffic after 4:30 PM.
The closure areas on Moran Road will be as follows:
On August 1st and August 2nd, the road will be closed between Segale Road and Love Creek Road.
On August 3rd and August 4th, the closure will be between Love Creek Road and Lightning Lane.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Clippers shooting guard Amir Coffey was arrested early Sunday on a firearms misdemeanor in Hollywood, authorities said.
Coffey, 26, was a passenger in a vehicle that police pulled over for speeding shortly before 2 a.m., according to Los Angeles Police Officer Tony Im, a department spokesperson.
Coffey was cited for carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle, Im said. He was released on his own recognizance from a county jail on $10,000 bail.
He is scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 24, jail records show.
The driver was cited for speeding, and another passenger received a misdemeanor for possession of marijuana, Im said.
Coffey has been with the Clippers for four seasons.
“We’re aware of a legal situation involving Amir Coffey and are looking into it,” the team said in a statement on Monday.
It’s possible that Coffey could face sanctions from the NBA. The league typically reviews all matters of personal and criminal conduct and can issue a fine or suspension when it deems appropriate.
The 6-foot-7 guard/forward has been primarily a bench player and is averaging 5.5 points per game.
He played in 50 games last season, including nine starts, and averaged 3.4 points per game. His best season came in 2021-22, when he played in 69 games with 30 starts and averaged 9.0 points and 2.9 rebounds per game.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds acquired reliever Sam Moll in a trade with the Oakland Athletics on Monday.
The addition of Moll puts another left-hander in Cincinnati’s bullpen as it tries to become the first team to win a division after losing at least 100 games in the previous season. The Reds led the NL Central by a half-game over Milwaukee heading into play on Monday.
Moll, a third-round pick in the 2013 amateur draft, is 0-3 with a 4.54 ERA in 45 appearances this year. He has held lefty hitters to a .197 batting average.
The Reds got Moll and international cap space from Oakland for minor league right-hander Joe Boyle. The 6-foot-7 Boyle was selected by Cincinnati in the fifth round of the 2020 amateur draft.
To make room for Moll on the 40-man roster, the Reds transferred right-hander Hunter Greene to the 60-day injured list. Greene is coming back from right hip pain.
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PEARL, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man was sentenced Monday to 40 years in state prison for breaking out of a correctional facility and holding two people at gunpoint last year, just months before he was to have completed a seven-year sentence.
Shunekndrick Huffman, 21, pleaded guilty to two counts of kidnapping and a circuit court judge sentenced him to 40 years in state prison, Rankin County District Attorney Bubba Bramlett said Monday.
Huffman, who escaped from the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in August 2022, had nearly completed the seven-year sentence for aggravated assault with an expected release date in December of that year.
After Huffman fled the prison, he broke into a nearby home and held three people at gunpoint for hours, according to authorities. They said Huffman then stole a car from one of those held hostage before crashing it and fleeing on foot. He was later found hiding in a trash can and captured two miles (3.2 kilometers) from the prison, WLBT-TV reported.
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A one-time millionaire real estate developer with past ties to corrupt Connecticut politicians was sentenced to more than five years in prison on Monday for fraud involving a failed hotel-condominium project in Florida and properties elsewhere.
Robert Matthews requested a prison sentence of no more than 27 months, but instead got 65 months from Judge Victor Bolden during a hearing in federal court in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Prosecutors said Matthews, of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and formerly of the Connecticut town of Washington, scammed foreign investors out of millions of dollars from 2012 to 2018 while trying to develop the Palm House Hotel in Palm Beach. More than 60 investors contributed at least $500,000 apiece, officials said.
Matthews made attractive but false assertions that celebrities and politicians — including former Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton — would be involved in the project, authorities said. Matthews and his co-defendants used investors’ money to buy a yacht, open restaurants and pay off loans, among other personal expenses, prosecutors said.
During Monday’s court hearing, Matthews apologized to those he defrauded and admitted he used investors’ money to maintain his wealthy lifestyle, Hearst Connecticut Media reported.
According to court documents, Matthews went broke after having overseen multimillion-dollar real estate projects, largely because of the 2008 real estate market crash. He had a 12,000-square-foot (1,115-square-meter) mansion in Palm Beach, a 150-foot (45-meter) yacht and an island vacation home in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Matthews pleaded guilty in 2019 to conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, making illegal monetary transactions and tax evasion. Three co-defendants in the case, including his ex-wife and brother, also have pleaded guilty and await sentencing.
Prosecutors said the fraud also involved properties in Connecticut and Nantucket.
Law enforcement officials previously showed interest in Matthews in connection with two corrupt Connecticut politicians, but Matthews wasn’t charged in either case.
In a 2004 criminal case, a defendant who pleaded guilty said he was the front man for Matthews when Matthews bought a Washington, D.C., condo from former Gov. John Rowland for more than twice the going rate. Rowland resigned in 2004 amid a corruption scandal that sent him to prison.
In the early 1990s, authorities questioned Matthews about a $25,000 payment to Waterbury Mayor Joseph Santopietro, who also was convicted of corruption and served prison time.
In 2000, Matthews and an antiques dealer obtained an original copy of the Bill of Rights that was stolen from North Carolina’s Capitol at the close of the Civil War, possibly by a Union soldier. The document was returned to North Carolina after the FBI seized it during a sting and Matthews lost a lawsuit in a bid to keep it.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Japan held the ball far less against Spain than it did in its first two Women’s World Cup matches and yet kept right on scoring.
Japan switched tactics in its final Group C match, moving from a possession-oriented style to quick counterattacks. The result was a 4-0 trouncing of the sixth-ranked team in the world, a first-place finish in the group, and a display of versatility that makes Japan look like a serious title contender.
Playing in a stadium dominated by their fans, the Japanese time and again swarmed the Spanish offense, stole the ball, and moved up the pitch as aggressively as possible. Japanese forward Hinata Miyazawa scored twice and said she “never imagined” such offensive power.
“Achieving the result is something that is a great pleasure for me,” she said. “It’s everybody’s goal together, not just me.”
Miyazawa’s performance against Spain was the latest in a run that’s elevated her to one of the tournament’s best forwards. She has four goals and an assist in three games.
It’s a remarkable turnaround from Japan’s 2019 performance at the Women’s World Cup, when the entire team scored three goals in four games.
Japan’s aggressive play was noticeably different from Spain’s approach. The Spanish took their time in possession, moved the ball around and tried to poke holes in the Japanese backline. It didn’t work and Japan claimed its third shutout through three games at the tournament.
The Japanese were an unyielding block on defense, which forced Spain toward the edges of the pitch. while the Japanese flooded the box to avoid giving up a goal from a cross. La Roja had just one shot on goal in the first half, which goalkeeper Ayaka Yamashita comfortably saved.
“We passed the ball many times, but horizontally, and it was not what we were looking for,” Spanish coach Jorge Vilda said through a translator. “What we always look for is to reach the opponent’s goal. We were not able to achieve this.”
Japan’s counter-attacking style was far different from its previous matches. Against Zambia and Costa Rica, Japan held the majority of possession. Against Spain, Japan only controlled possession 24% of the time.
“The first and the second game, we had more time for us to be able to work with the ball and be able to be careful on their counterattack,” Japan manager Futoshi Ikeda said.
Futoshi prepared his team to spend the majority of the game against Spain on defense and then “take advantage of whatever opportunity” they had.
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A federal appeals court is allowing Kentucky to enforce a recently enacted ban on gender-affirming care for young transgender people while the issue is being litigated.
The 2-1 decision Monday from the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati is not unexpected. The same three-judge panel ruled the same way earlier this month on a similar case in Tennessee.
The Kentucky law, enacted this year over the veto of Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, prevents transgender minors from accessing puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
At least 20 states have now enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. Most of those states face lawsuits. A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ ban as unconstitutional. In other states, judges have issued disparate rulings on whether the laws can be enforced while the cases are being litigated.
In Kentucky, U.S. District Judge David Hale had initially blocked Kentucky from enforcing the ban. But he lifted that injunction July 14, after the Sixth Circuit issued its ruling in the Tennessee case.
Seven transgender children and their parents have sued to block the Kentucky law. They argue that it violates their constitutional rights and interferes with parental rights to seek established medical treatment for their children.
In Monday’s ruling, judges Jeffrey Sutton, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, and Amul Thapar, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, said that the issues in the Kentucky case are essentially identical to those in Tennessee.
In the Tennessee case, the judges wrote that decisions on emerging policy issues like transgender care are generally better left to legislatures rather than judges. They offered a similar rationale Monday in the Kentucky case.
“The people of Kentucky enacted the ban through their legislature,” the judges wrote. “That body — not the officials who disagree with the ban — sets the Commonwealth’s policies.”
The dissenting judge, Helene White, noted that Kentucky’s ban does not include a grace period for patients who are already receiving care to continue treatment, as Tennessee’s law did.
As a result, White said the need for an injunction blocking the ban in Kentucky is even greater than it was in Tennessee.
“It seems obvious that there is a tremendous difference between a statute like Tennessee’s that allows flexibility regarding treatment decisions and time to explore alternatives and one like Kentucky’s that forces doctors to either discontinue treatment immediately or risk losing their license,” wrote White, who was first nominated by former President Bill Clinton and later nominated by Bush.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Indian-American engineer says he was fired last year from his long-time job with a missile defense contractor’s Alabama office after he was heard speaking Hindi on a video call, according to a federal lawsuit he filed against the company.
Anil Varshney, 78, filed a civil rights lawsuit in the Northern District of Alabama against Parsons Corporation and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin, whose department oversees the United States Missile Defense Agency, AL.com reported Monday.
“This case arises out of Defendants’ intentional acts to end Mr. Varshney’s highly distinguished engineering career because he is a 78-year-old Indian American,” the lawsuit reads. “Defendants abruptly terminated Mr. Varshney after one of his white colleagues overheard him speaking Hindi to his dying brother-in-law in India and falsely reported him for a violation of ‘security regulations.’ ”
Sharon L. Miller, an attorney representing the Virginia-based defense contractor, did not immediately respond to a phone message and email requesting comment. In a response filed with the court, Parsons denied wrongdoing and asked for the lawsuit’s dismissal.
The lawsuit goes on to say that Varshney, who worked at Parsons’ Huntsville office from July 2011 to October 2022, accepted a video call from his brother-in-law in an empty cubicle and spoke to him for about two minutes. The company then said he committed a security violation by using the Facetime application at the classified worksite and fired him. He claims there was no policy prohibiting the call he accepted.
The firing blackballed him from future work with the Missile Defense Agency, the lawsuit alleges. He first began working for the federal agency in 2002 and continued in tandem with his employment at Parsons until 2022. In doing so, he achieved the American Dream, the lawsuit says.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A brightly flashing “X” sign has been removed from the San Francisco headquarters of the company formerly known as Twitter just days after it was installed.
The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection said Monday it received 24 complaints about the unpermitted structure over the weekend. Complaints included concerns about its structural safety and illumination.
The Elon Musk-owned company, which has been rebranded as X, had removed the Twitter sign and iconic blue bird logo from the building last week. That work was temporarily paused because the company did not have the necessary permits. For a time, the “er” at the end of “Twitter” remained up due to the abrupt halt of the sign takedown.
The city of San Francisco had opened a complaint and launched an investigation into the giant “X” sign, which was installed Friday on top of the downtown building as Musk continues his rebrand of the social media platform.
The chaotic rebrand of Twitter’s building signage is similar to the haphazard way in which the Twitter platform is being turned into X. While the X logo has replaced Twitter on many parts of the site and app, remnants of Twitter remain.
Representatives for X did not immediately respond to a message for comment Monday.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group of parents, faith leaders and a public education nonprofit sued Monday to stop Oklahoma from establishing and funding what would be the nation’s first religious public charter school.
The lawsuit filed in Oklahoma County District Court seeks to stop taxpayer funds from going to the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School. The Statewide Virtual Charter School Board voted 3-2 last month to approve the application by the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City to establish the school, and the board and its members are among those listed as defendants.
The vote came despite a warning from Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general that such a school would violate both state law and the Oklahoma Constitution.
The Rev. Lori Walke, senior minister at Mayflower Congregational Church in Oklahoma City and one of the plaintiffs in the case, said she joined the lawsuit because she believes strongly in religious freedom.
“Creating a religious public charter school is not religious freedom,” Walke said. “Our churches already have the religious freedom to start our own schools if we choose to do so. And parents already have the freedom to send their children to those religious schools. But when we entangle religious schools to the government … we endanger religious freedom for all of us.”
The approval of a publicly funded religious school is the latest in a series of actions taken by conservative-led states that include efforts to teach the Bible in public schools, and to ban books and lessons about race, sexual orientation and gender identity, said Rachel Laser, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which is among several groups representing the plaintiffs in the case.
“We are witnessing a full-on assault of church-state separation and public education, and religious public charter schools are the next frontier,” Laser said.
Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt earlier this year signed a bill that would give parents in the state a tax incentive to send their children to private schools, including religious schools.
The Archdiocese of Oklahoma said in its application to run the charter school: “The Catholic school participates in the evangelizing mission of the Church and is the privileged environment in which Christian education is carried out.”
Rebecca Wilkinson, the executive director of the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board, said in an email to The Associated Press that the board hadn’t been formally notified of the lawsuit Monday afternoon and that the agency would not comment on pending litigation.
A legal challenge to the board’s application approval was expected, said Brett Farley, the executive director of the Catholic Conference of Oklahoma.
“News of a suit from these organizations comes as no surprise since they have indicated early in this process their intentions to litigate,” Farley said in a text message to the AP. “We remain confident that the Oklahoma court will ultimately agree with the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion in favor of religious liberty.”
Stitt, who previously praised the board’s decision as a “win for religious liberty and education freedom,” reiterated that position on Monday.
“To unlock more school options, I’m supportive of that,” Stitt said.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Giants acquired outfielder AJ Pollock and utility player Mark Mathias from the Seattle Mariners on Monday in exchange for a player to be named or cash.
Pollock has struggled in his only season with the Mariners, hitting .173 with five homers and 15 RBIs in 49 games. Pollock was signed to be part of a platoon in left field with Jarred Kelenic. But Pollock never found consistent playing time after Kelenic’s hot start to the season.
Pollock, 35, is on the 10-day injured list with a strained left hamstring but is eligible to be activated Tuesday. The .273 career hitter has spent most of his career in the National League West with Arizona and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Mathias was playing for Triple-A Tacoma after being claimed off waivers from Pittsburgh earlier this month. He was designated for assignment by the Pirates in late June. Mathias appeared in 22 games for the Pirates and hit .231.
Mathias was optioned to Triple-A Sacramento.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana asked the state’s high court Monday to keep Indiana’s near-total abortion ban on hold while it pursues a narrower preliminary injunction in a trial court to address the scope of the ban’s exemption allowing women facing serious health risks to obtain abortions.
The petition seeking a rehearing will delay the ban from taking effect as soon as Tuesday while the Indiana Supreme Court considers the matter. The ACLU of Indiana’s request comes after the high court ruled on June 30 that Indiana’s Republican-backed ban doesn’t violate the state constitution.
The ACLU of Indiana, representing Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinic operators, had challenged the constitutionality of the ban. A county judge later ruled that the ban likely violated the state constitution’s privacy protections.
But in its June ruling, the high court struck down the county judge’s injunction that has blocked a 2022 law’s restrictions banning the vast majority of abortions in the state since September.
In its decision, the court said that while the state constitution’s liberty clause “protects a woman’s right to an abortion that is necessary to protect her life or to protect her from a serious health risk, the provision does not protect a fundamental right to abortion in all circumstances.”
An exemption under the ban states that it is limited to circumstances in which an abortion is necessary “to prevent death or a serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.”
In Monday’s petition for rehearing, the ACLU of Indiana wrote that the high court’s ruling had “left open the possibility that this constitutionally protected right ‘may be broader than the current statutory exception.’”
Gavin Rose, senior staff attorney for the ACLU of Indiana, said the group is asking the high court to pause its order striking down the trial court’s preliminary injunction to give it time to file a motion with the trial court seeking “a more limited injunction targeted to the breadth of the serious health risk exemption.”
The rehearing petition suggests that the court keep the previous injunction on hold for 60 to 90 days.
The ACLU of Indiana filed its petition for a rehearing on behalf of abortion providers hours before Monday’s deadline for it to do so.
Rebecca Gibron, CEO of the Planned Parenthood division that includes Indiana, said in a statement about the rehearing request that the state’s ban “will prevent pregnant Hoosiers from making decisions about their own bodies, and prevent their providers from giving them the care they need.”
Following the court’s June ruling, Indiana’s abortion ban was expected to take effect as soon as Tuesday — or within days afterward once the ruling is certified and entered into the court docket — if no party sought a review by Monday’s deadline.
Now that the ACLU of Indiana has filed a petition for review, that means the court’s decision cannot be certified while the justices consider whether to grant or deny that petition, “thus considering the case or disposing of the rehearing petition,” said Kathryn Dolan, a court spokesperson.
It’s unclear how long it may take the high court to decide the matter, but after rehearing petitions are filed, the opposing party — in this case the state’s attorneys — have 15 days to file a response to that request.
Indiana became the first state to enact tighter abortion restrictions after the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated federal protections by overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
The state’s ban will eliminate the licenses for all seven abortion clinics in the state and ban most abortions, even in the earliest stages of a pregnancy. It includes exceptions allowing abortions at hospitals in cases of rape or incest before 10 weeks post-fertilization. It also allows abortions up to 20 weeks to protect the life and physical health of the mother or if a fetus is diagnosed with a lethal anomaly.
Current Indiana laws generally prohibit abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy and tightly restrict it after the 13th week.
Indiana’s abortion ban also faces a separate court challenge over claims it violates the state’s 2015 religious freedom law signed by GOP then-Gov. Mike Pence. The state’s intermediate Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments in that case Dec. 6.
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The number of migrants crossing Panama's dangerous, jungle-clad Darien Gap has swelled to almost 250,000 in the first seven months of 2023, surpassing the
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PANAMA CITY (AP) — The number of migrants crossing Panama’s dangerous, jungle-clad Darien Gap swelled to almost 250,000 in the first seven months of 2023, surpassing the number that crossed in all of 2022, officials said Friday.
It is a record pace of migration through the gap, which connects South America to Central America. The surge comes despite an agreement announced in April between the United States, Colombia and Panama to offer alternatives to migration.
The United Nations projects that if the pace keeps up, as many as 400,000 may cross the gap by the year’s end. Experts say it would be hard to crack down on the smuggling gangs that operate the route.
Panama’s National Immigration service said 248,901 migrants had made the trip through July 31, and that 21% of those crossing were children or adolescents.
Security Minister Juan Manuel Pino confirmed that was higher than last year’s total.
Migrants from South America — mainly Venezuelans — use the Darien Gap to travel be land through Central America and to the U.S. southwestern border. But a host of people from other places, including Africa and Asia, travel to South America to use the gap as well.
In April, The United States, Panama and Colombia said in a joint statement said the countries will use “new lawful and flexible pathways for tens of thousands of migrants and refugees as an alternative to irregular migration.”
The also involved investment to reduce poverty and create jobs in the Colombian and Panamanian border communities, presumably so fewer people work at smuggling migrants.
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The Cubs were originally expected to be sellers at MLB's trade deadline, but a recent eight-game winning streak seems to have changed their plans.
The team made a splash on Monday by acquiring third baseman Jeimer Candelario from the Nationals in exchange for two minor-league prospects.
Candelario is in the midst of an impressive 2023 campaign after joining Washington as a free agent this offseason. The 29-year-old actually began his professional career with the Cubs and made his major league debut with the team in 2016.
Candelario spent most of his career with the Tigers. He established himself as a solid hitter and reliable third baseman while playing in Detroit from 2018 to 2022.
The acquisition of Candelario will be a boost to the Cubs' burgeoning postseason hopes. They currently sit in third place in the NL Central at 53-52, just three and a half games out of a wild card spot.
Here is everything you need to know about the deal that sent Jeimer Candelario to the Windy City:
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Jeimer Candelario trade details
Cubs get: 3B Jeimer Candelario
3B Jeimer Candelario National get: LHP DJ Herz, SS Kevin Made
Candelario returns to the Cubs after 99 games with the Nationals in 2023. He is in the midst of an impressive season at the plate, with a .258/.342/.481 slash line and 16 home runs so far this year.
In return, Chicago sent the young duo of DJ Herz and Kevin Made to Washington.
Herz is a lefthanded pitcher who was ranked by MLB Pipeline as the No. 16 prospect in the Cubs' farm system. He posted 80 strikeouts to go with a 3.97 ERA in 59 innings this season for the Double-A Tennessee Smokies.
Made was ranked as the No. 14 Cubs prospect by MLB Pipeline. He is a solid defensive shortstop who has struggled in the batter's box at times during his young career. He posted a .241 batting average this season with three home runs and 63 hits for South Bend at the high-A level.
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Latrell Mitchell's return from injury coincided with a return to the winners' circle for the Rabbitohs last weekend - but there's one man not sold on the side's premiership credentials.
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Latrell Mitchell's return from injury coincided with a return to the winners' circle for the Rabbitohs last weekend - but there's one man not sold on the side's premiership credentials.
The superstar fullback was impressive in his long-awaited comeback from a calf injury against the Tigers, running for a game-high 171 metres and making 11 tackle breaks in South Sydney's crucial victory.
Mitchell was in red-hot form early in the year for the Bunnies, helping them to the top of the table, before his two months spent on the sidelines saw the premiership contenders drop out of the top-eight for a brief period.
With a mixed run home that will likely see them miss out on a second chance come finals time, Souths will need to become the first team in the NRL era to win the premiership from outside the top-four.
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Phil Gould questions Latrell Mitchell, Rabbitohs title credentials
While many are tipping the Rabbitohs to make a huge splash in September, rugby league expert Phil Gould has questioned whether or not the side - and in particular their star fullback - have what it takes on the big stage.
“I don’t think they built any momentum the other night, I thought the Tigers were the better side and very unlucky to lose that game," he said on 100% Footy.
"Latrell is good and when the ball falls Latrell’s way, he is a powerful runner and makes people miss, he’s got some trick shots, he’s got some long passes.
"Latrell hasn’t done it at the business-end of the season and Souths haven’t done it at the business-end of the season. I don’t think they are anywhere near being in premiership-winning form at the moment – not even close, not even in the same postcode.
"He’s got these brilliant individual moments… it’s all great, but put him on the big stage in front of 50,000 in a preliminary final and he hasn’t done it yet. That’s where he’s got to do it, he’s still got to do that part of it and he hasn’t done it yet.
"He’s got to get into the grind on the big day against the best teams when they are having their best day… that’s the test of winning premierships."
Gould's comments may seem somewhat fair on the surface, with the Rabbitohs yet to win a title since Mitchell's arrival in 2020 and their only grand final appearance in that timeframe coming while he was unavailable.
But earlier in his career, Mitchell starred in back-to-back premiership triumphs for the Roosters, dominating against both Melbourne and Canberra, as well as becoming a revelation in the representative arena for NSW and Australia.
Sharks legend Paul Gallen believes the X-factor and confidence Mitchell brings to the Bunnies is undeniable.
“He’s a special player – probably the most special player in the competition," Gallen said.
"He is probably the one guy in the competition that can create something from absolutely nothing… he is the triple X-factor without a doubt.
"I think with Latrell back in the side, it gives everybody in the side confidence and his X-factor alone can help them win games."
Latrell Mitchell 2023 NRL stats
Games 13 Tries 9 Try Assists 9 Linebreak Assists 14 Linebreaks 3 Tackle Breaks 72 Offloads 14 Avg. Run Metres 125m
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Pat McAfee has received plenty of attention during his career as an NFL punter and media analyst, but he is receiving the wrong type of publicity for a tweet that he sent out on Sunday.
"The Pat McAfee Show" host and ESPN talent found himself in hot water after sending a six-word tweet that evoked the name of disgraced doctor and serial predator Larry Nassar in an attempted joke.
McAfee faced plenty of criticism for his tweet. Nonetheless, he defended the message on his podcast and doubled down on his decision to fire it off.
Here's everything to know about McAfee's Larry Nassar tweet, including what ESPN has said about it.
MORE: ESPN lands Pat McAfee following host's FanDuel contract departure
Pat McAfee's Larry Nassar tweet
McAfee evoked Nassar's name in a reply tweet to a post by Michigan State fan Eric Fox, who works alongside McAfee on "The Pat McAfee Show."
Fox lamented that Michigan State had added a redesigned uniform to its football team's rotation in recent seasons. In a reply, McAfee joked that Nassar — who was sentenced to 40-175 years for numerous sexual assault and child pornography charges — was part of the team that created those jerseys.
I think Nassar was in on the design team actually — Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) July 30, 2023
Naturally, McAfee's tweet sparked immediate outrage. Many called upon him to delete it as it was disrespectful to the victims that had endured Nassar's abuse during his two decades at Michigan State and USA Gymnastics.
When I prayed on Pat McAfee’s downfall I didn’t expect it to come from a “joke” about sexual assault on 265 women including kids https://t.co/zhy3PMhzis — Molly (@FSUmollz) July 30, 2023
This is a really shameful and disgusting comment to make. No reason to bring that name up and try for laughs that way. — Ashley Colley (@ashleycolley) July 30, 2023
I cannot fathom in what universe this remark could be anything other than extremely poor taste and insensitive. It isn’t funny. It’s pointless and unnecessary.
This is who Pat McAfee is, a man who uses the pain of athletes as a punchline. https://t.co/2apGYQ1vFx — 𝕁𝕖𝕟𝕟𝕪 𝕕𝕦 𝕁𝕠𝕦𝕣 (@jensplain) July 31, 2023
Actually mind blowing this still hasn't been deleted. — Nate Morris (@SpartanNate08) July 30, 2023
Society has progressed past the need for Pat McAfee — Hux (@AdamHux2) July 31, 2023
McAfee instead doubled down on his tweet. He tweeted a GIF that he implied he wouldn't delete the original message and later retweeted his joke to spread it to his 2.8 million followers.
MORE: Why is Pat McAfee going to ESPN?
What Pat McAfee said about his Larry Nassar tweet
On Monday's "Pat McAfee Show," McAfee addressed the incident and tried to brush it off. The host explained that the tweet was a joke and that he was "simply talking s— to my friend" with the message.
There is an all-out onslaught against me right now for simply linking one terrible thing from a school with the most terrible thing from a school to a friend in a reply tweet; talking s— to a friend in a reply tweet. I do apologize if some people took that in a different way and spun it into their own narrative to offend a bunch of other people and kinda did that whole thing. I was simply talking s— to my friend.
After his non-apology apology, McAfee sarcastically quipped that Michigan State alumni were "trying to silence some media whenever they acknowledge that Larry Nassar." To his credit, the host did also condemn the disgraced doctor, referring to him as "one of the most horrible humans ever."
However, he still acknowledged that he was going to leave his tweet up and didn't understand why he was being called upon to apologize.
"People were like, 'You need to delete this and apologize.' And I'm like, 'Why?'" McAfee said. "I'm talking s— to my friend about something that definitely happened at his school, and I said this guy is on a design team. If he was — this guy has done the worst imaginable. So if he did design these terrible jerseys that Michigan State had as well, that wouldn't even be mentioned in the Larry Nassar entire thing."
McAfee also reiterated his stance on Nassar before also claiming that his show covered the allegations against him "more than probably anyone."
"I want everyone to know who's coming after me, we believe Larry Nassar is a terrible human," McAfee said. "Worst human. Disgusting human. I would like to say that this show covered that more than probably anybody."
He also further explained that he believed "talking s—" about Nassar was a way to point out that there had been some "terrible people in the sports world" in recent history.
He felt like evoking Nassar's name wasn't really disrespectful to the victims either.
"So, I do apologize to everybody that just took my six-word tweet and said that I was disrespecting this and not thinking about the victims," McAfee said. "What? I think we're thinking about the victims, future victims and everything by reminding people that this motherf—er had a lot of power at Michigan State for a long time while being a terrible human being. And I'm just s—-talking a friend."
To see McAfee's full comments on the matter, click here.
Clearly, McAfee feels like he did no wrong with his joke. That said, it's worth wondering exactly what ESPN thinks about his attempted joke and his response to the criticism he received.
MORE: How much is Pat McAfee's ESPN contract worth?
What has ESPN said about Pat McAfee's Larry Nassar tweet?
ESPN has yet to comment on McAfee's tweet since it has been posted. It isn't clear if they will offer a statement given that McAfee's comments didn't occur on ESPN airwaves and that the show isn't expected to join ESPN's lineup until the fall.
At the same time, McAfee is an ESPN talent, so the company may either offer a statement on the matter. ESPN could also discuss with the host expectations for his on-air behavior when he does join the network's regular lineup of programming.
McAfee signed a multi-year contract to have his show join ESPN in the Fall of 2023. McAfee is also expected to continue in his role as an analyst on "College Gameday" while hosting alternate broadcasts for some of the network's college football telecasts.
Pat McAfee net worth
According to Celebrity Net Worth, McAfee has a net worth of about $30 million. A large portion of his worth stems from his career as a media personality as opposed to his NFL earnings as a punter.
McAfee took home $15,040,044 in salary over eight seasons with the Colts, according to Spotrac. As a media personality, he signed an $85 million deal with FanDuel and now has signed what is reportedly a deal of an equivalent nature with ESPN.
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The Toronto Blue Jays have played their way back into an AL playoff spot, but they may have suffered another setback Monday.
In the third inning of a bout against the Orioles, shortstop Bo Bichette came up lame after rounding first base in the third inning. He was looked at by Blue Jays manager John Schneider and the training staff before being replaced by Santiago Espinal.
Bichette is hitting .321/.352/.494 this season with 17 home runs. He has been one of the Jays' most reliable bats while also being strong defensively.
Bo Bichette has left the game with an apparent leg injury after rounding first base. pic.twitter.com/rFsZWMxvZ3 — Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) August 1, 2023
The injury couldn't come at a more inopportune time. At the trade deadline, the Jays have committed to buying to a degree, having traded for Jordan Hicks. They may have to make a move to replace Bichette on the infield if this injury is long-term.
MORE: Tracking all of the deals and rumors ahead of MLB trade deadline
Bo Bichette injury updates
Bichette suffered a non-contact injury rounding first base against the Orioles Monday night.
The injury occurred in the third inning and he was subsequently replaced by infielder Santiago Espinal. It will take tests to determine how serious the injury is, but the early prognosis from the Blue Jays seems optimistic, with the team referring to it as "right knee discomfort."
This section will be updated as more information becomes available.
Blue Jays shortstop trade targets
Should the injury be a serious one, the Blue Jays may have to look to the trade market to consider a replacement.
The infield trade market is a smolder this season, but there are a few options potentially available. The most obvious is the Cardinals' Paul DeJong, who has enjoyed a resurgence on the ailing Cardinals this season.
Tim Anderson of the White Sox could also be an option, although he has trended in the opposite direction. Nevertheless, if the Blue Jays think a change of scenery could benefit Anderson, they may look for him as a (slightly) less expensive option.
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Toronto Blue Jays shortstop and American League batting leader Bo Bichette left Monday’s game against the Baltimore Orioles in the third inning with an apparent right knee injury.
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TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Blue Jays shortstop and American League batting leader Bo Bichette left Monday’s game against the Baltimore Orioles in the third inning with an apparent right knee injury.
Bichette hit a two-out single to right field off Orioles right-hander Kyle Gibson and made the turn for second, but started to slow up as he saw Anthony Santander throwing the ball to the infield. Bichette then stopped running and reached for his knee. Shortstop Jorge Mateo came over and tagged Bichette to end the inning.
Bichette leads the AL with a .321 batting average. He reached on an infield single in the first and leads the AL with 144 hits. The son of former slugger Dante Bichette has 17 home runs and 59 RBIs in 106 games this season.
A two-time All-Star, the younger Bichette led the AL in hits in 2022 and 2021.
Santiago Espinal replaced Bichette at shortstop in the fourth.
Toronto entered play Monday at 59-47, tied with Houston in the wild-card race. The Blue Jays came in 5 1/2 games behind the AL East-leading Orioles.
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Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O'Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” has died. He was 25.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O'Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” has died. He was 25.
Cloud's publicist, Cait Bailey, said Cloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given.
In a statement, Cloud's family said goodbye to “an artist, a friend, a brother and a son.”
“Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss,” the family said. “The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend. Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence.”
“We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone,” his family added.
Cloud hadn’t acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting scout Eléonore Hendricks noticed him. Cloud was resistant at first, suspecting a scam. Then casting director Jennifer Venditti met with him and series creator Sam Levinson eventually made him a co-star in the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.
To some, Cloud seemed so natural as Fez that they suspected he was identical to the character — a notion that Cloud pushed back against.
“It does bother me when people are like, ‘It must be so easy! You get to go in and be yourself.’ I’m like, ‘Why don’t you go and do that?’ It’s not that simple," Cloud told Variety. "I brought a lot to the character. You can believe what you want. It ain’t got nothing to do with me.”
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television. He was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6.”
“We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud,” HBO said in a statement. “He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and ‘Euphoria’ family. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family during this difficult time.”
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A woman who was struck by a falling tree branch in Trinity Bellwoods Park last week has died of her injuries, according to a friend who confirmed the tragic incident to CTV News Toronto.
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A woman who was struck by a falling tree branch in Trinity Bellwoods Park last week has died of her injuries, according to a friend who confirmed the tragic incident to CTV News Toronto.
Pari Nadhimi, a 71-year-old owner of an art gallery blocks away from Trinity Bellwoods Park, was there last Tuesday, the day after a storm swept through Toronto, says Madeleine Donahue.
“She was an extraordinary sister to her siblings and her nephew, and a leader in contemporary art. She will be completely missed by the art community, by her friends. We have lost an incredible person who was a warm compassionate person and it’s a total tragedy,” Donahue said in an interview with CTV News Toronto.
Nadhimi loved running and walking and was likely enjoying the park when the branch fell, Donahue said. She was rushed to St. Michael’s Hospital.
“The doctors confirmed it was a massive brain injury. There was no chance of recovery. She was gone,” Donahue said.
“The family is completely devastated and is coming to grips with everything that has happened with this tragedy.”
Nadhimi runs the Pari Nadhimi Art Gallery, which describes itself as a gallery that showcases “significant artists whose work is ambitious, challenging and intellectually motivated.”
It’s not the first time a tree branch has fallen and killed someone in Trinity Bellwoods Park.
In 2016, a French man shielded his wife when the bough of a Siberian Elm suddenly fell. He died and she survived. At the time, police said it was a freak accident.
Police cordoned off the park last week and the City of Toronto said it would look further at the tree.
Donahue says she’s not sure what to say yet about any safety issues the trees may present. She says she’s focused on the funeral.
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Metro says perishable food that could be sold from 27 of its closed grocery stores as result of the ongoing labour dispute has been transferred to other stores, and food that can’t be sold but is still good to eat will be donated to food banks, however some local organizations fear they won’t benefit.
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Metro says perishable food that could be sold from 27 of its closed grocery stores as result of the ongoing labour dispute has been transferred to other stores, and food that can’t be sold but is still good to eat will be donated to food banks, however some local organizations fear they won’t benefit.
Meryl Wharton, president of the Allan Gardens Food Bank told CTV News Toronto on Monday that her food bank is feeding 1,100 people on Thursday and Friday, and it would welcome donations from Metro.
Wharton said she never received donations from Metro in past, and hasn’t heard from any closed Metro stores since the strike began, but is willing to accept any food, anytime.
She described the for families right now as “desperate,” and said her food bank is being forced to spilt items like pasta, rice, cereal and eggs between people because it doesn’t have enough for everyone.
In Thorncliffe Park, food security coordinator with TNO Food Collaborative, Nosheen Khan, said their food bank feeds 600 families every two weeks and the need keeps growing.
“I think the perishable food if it can be given to us, would be really helpful, there’s definitely a lot of food waste in our city as it is,” said Khan. “We would totally jump on, and I think all food banks would benefit.”
Khan said based on past experience, it seems complicated and a lot of work for grocery stores to give donations, but if things are different during this strike TNO Food Collaborative would take more food to help families in a heartbeat.
Khan said they are funded by the Daily Bread Food Bank, but it’s always looking for more as it can’t offer everyone the same quantity or quality of food.
“We have a great relationship with Metro so I feel for everybody right now,” said Samantha Cooke, the Daily Bread Food Bank’s Vice-President of Philanthropy. “We also have this fantastic really scary need in the city.”
Cooke said before the pandemic, it had 65,000 client visits a month. It’s now up to 266,000 client visits.
Cooke said the Daily Bread is working with Metro to get strike related donations.
“Because of this situation we were in contact with them very quickly, and arranging pickups for as early as tomorrow for food.”
CTV News visited one Metro store in Don Mills. Grocery workers on strike said the produce near the front of the store was gone by the time they showed up for their afternoon shift on the picket line and could see managers clearing the bakery department next.
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Frasers boosted its stake in the fast fashion brand- which counts Paris Hilton (pictured) as an ambassador - from 6.78% to just over 7.8%.
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Mike Ashley’s retail empire has once more increased its slice of Boohoo.
Frasers, the owner of Flannels and Sports Direct, boosted its stake in the fast fashion brand from 6.78 per cent to just over 7.8 per cent yesterday.
The group previously increased its holding in the online retailer, from 5 per cent to 6.78 per cent, last week.
Holding: Frasers Group has boosted its stake in Boohoo - which counts Paris Hilton (pictured) as an ambassador - from 6.78% to just over 7.8%
Frasers, which is run by Ashley’s son-in-law Michael Murray, first snapped up a holding in Boohoo in mid June.
Boohoo was an appealing proposition owing to its ‘laser focus on young female consumers’, Frasers said at the time.
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Aston Martin has unveiled plans to raise another £210million of funding to help speed up efforts to cut down its debt pile.
The cash call is backed by the luxury car maker’s largest investors, including the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund and Chinese rival Geely.
Aston announced the share placing had already secured £115million of its total from major shareholders, with its biggest investor the Yew Tree consortium, led by executive chairman and Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll, having agreed to provide a £44million cash injection.
The Saudi Public Investment Fund, meanwhile, will stump up £37million with Geely providing £15million and German giant Mercedes-Benz another £19million.
Aston said the proceeds would allow it to pay back some of its debts early as well as provide more support to its efforts to develop electric cars.
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Shipbuilding company Harland & Wolff - which was founded in 1861 - has landed a deal to upgrade a large craft for an as yet unnamed client.
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Belfast docks were boosted after Harland & Wolff won a vessel refurbishment contract worth up to £70million.
The shipbuilding company – which was founded in 1861 – has landed a deal to upgrade a large craft for an as yet unnamed client.
It is expected to be in the dry dock in Belfast for five months, through to early 2024.
Harland & Wolff’s drydock in Belfast is the biggest in the UK.
As part of the project, £5million is being made available to the company to start work before the craft arrives.
Full ahead: Shipbuilding company Harland & Wolff - which was founded in 1861 - has landed a deal to upgrade a large craft for an as yet unnamed client
In July, Harland & Wolff won a contract from the Ministry of Defence on behalf of the Lithuanian Defence Materiel Agency worth £55million to regenerate a former Royal Navy mine-hunting ship.
And in April, the Belfast shipyard delivered its first completed vessel in more than two decades when a barge was delivered to London-based waste management firm Cory.
The shipyard’s iconic yellow cranes are known by the locals as Samson & Goliath, a symbol of Belfast’s once-mighty shipbuilding industry.
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Heineken - which is traded on the Amsterdam stock exchange - pushed up prices to offset a slump in volumes in the first six months of the year.
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London-listed drinks giants lost their fizz after Heineken lowered its profit forecasts in a sign that customers were shunning pricier pints.
Coca-Cola HBC fell 2.7 per cent, or 63p, to 2292p, CNC Group sank 3.5 per cent or 5p to 138p and Diageo slid 1.1 per cent, or 36p, to 3397.5p after the Dutch brewer warned profits would come in below forecasts.
Heineken – which is traded on the Amsterdam stock exchange and dropped 8 per cent – pushed up prices to offset a slump in volumes in the first six months of the year.
That helped its revenue rise 6.6 per cent to £12.44billion (€14.5billion). But the brewer, which also makes Strongbow, Amstel and Birra Moretti, reported an 8.8 per cent slump in profit to £1.63billion (€1.9billion) as trading weakened in its key Asia Pacific region.
As a result, Heineken said profit across the group for 2023 should increase by up to 5 per cent – below its previous forecast of 9 per cent.
Profits slump: Heineken – which is traded on the Amsterdam stock exchange and dropped 7.2% – pushed up prices to offset a slump in volumes in the first six months of the year
Aarin Chiekrie, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: ‘Where things move from here will depend on how well consumers can stomach further price hikes for their favourite beer brands.’
There are now fears among analysts that companies such as Diageo – which owns Guinness and Johnnie Walker – could also suffer the same fate.
But the FTSE 100 was upbeat, rising 0.07 per cent, or 5.14p, to 7699.41 and the FTSE 250 gaining 0.1 per cent, or 19.62 points, to 19143.76.
Shares in Marshalls fell 2.8 per cent, or 7.6p, to 268.6p after the patios and driveways specialist warned its tough start to the year had shown little signs of improving amid ongoing pressures in the housing market.
The FTSE 250 landscaping group said its revenue in the six months to the end of June was 13 per cent below the same period a year ago.
And it is likely to make around £33million of profit, down from £45million the year before.
In a bid to lower costs, Marshalls has closed one of its factories and planned to cut 250 jobs.
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The company also said its results for 2023 are expected to be lower than previously thought.
Heading in the other direction was Dr Martens.
The bootmaker made gains following reports from Sky News that the activist investor Sparta Capital had built up a stake in the London-listed firm.
Dr Martens last month insisted it was getting a handle on its US warehousing fiasco that has led to a series of profit warnings.
Shares gained 4.5 per cent, or 6.5p, to 152.6p yesterday.
Engineering group Senior saw its revenue and profit increase by a fifth in the first six months of the year and flagged increased demand for new aircrafts.
But the group, which supplies products for the likes of Airbus, Boeing and Rolls-Royce (down 4.4 per cent, or 8.45p, to 184.85p), warned of ongoing supply chain issues within its aerospace division.
The engineer’s shares fell 2.2 per cent, or 3.8p, to 166.6p.
Flying high was British Airways owner IAG after Barclays lifted its target price on the stock to 245p from 230p following a strong performance across the group’s North and South Atlantic markets. Shares rose 3.6 per cent, or 5.95p, to 171.1p.
Property website Rightmove made gains on the back of target price upgrades from Citigroup and Morgan Stanley. Shares added 2.1 per cent, or 11.6p, to 570.4p.
Mining giant Glencore has agreed to take full control of a copper project in Argentina by buying the remaining stake for £369million ($475million).
The company already owned 43.75 per cent of the scheme and will purchase the remaining 56.26 per cent from Pan American, which will also be paid a small royalty.
Glencore shares rose 1.5 per cent, or 7.1p, to 473.55p.
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Britain has immense vision and ambition for big projects to drive higher productivity and a better economic future.
But the ability of government, regulators and managers to deliver is feeble.
Advocates of HS2 cannot but be appalled by the way that public confidence in a transforming infrastructure project is being undermined by leadership upheavals, budget over-runs and internecine wars over the Euston terminal in London.
The scheme has only become ‘unachievable,’ in the words of the Infrastructure & Projects Authority, because those responsible for the system became bogged down in planning disputes and ballooning costs.
The benefits of high-speed travel and the fast growing economic zones which follow are evident across the globe from Japan to France.
World leader: The UK, with its world class research universities, needs to be a key player sucking in skills from across the globe
The Great British Nuclear project could suffer a similar fate. As former Rolls-Royce boss Sir John Rose told the Mail on Sunday, it is self-defeating for the Government to be putting out the contract for Small Modular Reactors (SMR) to tender.
The UK has already committed £200million to the project and Rolls-Royce has pioneering technology.
Overseas electrical giants GEC and Hitachi stand ready to eat the UK’s cake. Former Business Secretary Greg Clark, now chairing a Commons science and technology committee, argues the UK’s plan to deliver 24-gigawats of nuclear energy by 2050 requires investment three times our current capacity.
Beyond Hinkley Point 3 in Somerset, where EDF is delivering, plans are so nebulous as to be almost worthless.
Then there is Horizon. The Windsor Framework signalled that the UK could re-join the EU’s flagship £82billion science project.
The UK, with its world class research universities, needs to be a key player sucking in skills from across the globe. Instead, Britain’s participation is being held up by pettifogging disputes over the fiscal contribution.
The UK’s life sciences firms and universities are desperate to prevent a brain drain of talent and facilities.
With willpower, Britain is capable of amazing engineering. Users of the Elizabeth Line could provide testimony to that. The Thames Tideway is moving towards completion.
There is much unfinished infrastructure work, including the third runway at Heathrow. The bounce back in the skies this year makes it clear that the UK will need a new runway in the face of Continental and Gulf competition.
Unless Britain is bold and starts delivering, using our science and engineering prowess, the country will slip further down the output-per-capita G7 league table.
Fibre optics
BT chairman Adam Crozier and the BT board lost no time in choosing a chief executive to replace Philip Jansen.
The selection of non-executive director Allison Kirkby, with a track record at Sweden’s telecommunications giant Telia, looks sensible.
Her appointment means that BT and Vodafone, Britain’s underperforming telecoms giants, will have women at the controls. Margherita Della Valle moved in the ‘C suite’ at Vodafone in April.
Kirkby’s first task is execution. BT is on a promise to deliver full-fibre broadband to the whole of the UK by 2026 and has committed £12billion to the project.
The importance of connecting up Britain should not be under-estimated. Faster growing economies, such as South Korea and Spain, managed to get there first.
Jansen recognised this had to be done and won £5billion or so of support from government. But he has been frustrated by the inability to turn around a sagging share price.
Among the less compelling tasks for Kirkby will be to dismantle the 55,000 army of technicians rolling out the fast fibre.
As if that isn’t enough she also is saddled with the Patrick Drahi overhang. The Swiss-Israeli billionaire – who has been building a stake in BT – may not be done yet.
Tobacco road
BAT rightly is not in the mood to give up a London listing dating back to 1912.
This is in spite of the urgings of US-based investor GQG. The tobacco group’s recently appointed Brazilian chief executive Tadeu Marroco notes that Wall Street has full access to BAT equity through American depositary receipts (ADRs).
Moreover, BAT might, for ethical reasons, have difficulty landing in a US index.
In resisting a shift, BAT follows the lead of two other FTSE giants, HSBC and Unilever.
When they explored the height of the fences, they eventually pulled up. Another defeat for the City’s detractors.
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BT announced that Kirkby (pictured), the current head of Swedish telecoms giant Telia, will take over by the end of January next year.
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BT has appointed a female boss for the first time in its history.
In a surprise move, the telecoms giant announced that Allison Kirkby, who has served on the BT board as a non-executive director since 2019, will take over from Philip Jansen by the end of January next year.
Her swift appointment wrong-footed many industry observers, with Marc Allera, the head of BT’s consumer arm, having been widely tipped as the most likely successor.
Kirkby’s impending arrival restores some much-needed female leadership to the FTSE 100.
Alison Rose quit as NatWest boss last week after being caught up in the fallout after former Ukip leader Nigel Farage’s account was closed by private bank Coutts, owned by NatWest.
Called up: BT announced that Allison Kirkby (pictured), the current head of Swedish telecoms giant Telia, will take over as chief exec by the end of January next year
It means that for the first time, the UK’s two biggest telecoms firms will be run by women, with rival Vodafone appointing Margherita Della Valle to the top job earlier this year.
Women also have a strong presence in the boardrooms of the UK’s top water, defence and insurance companies.
Anita Frew is chairman at Rolls-Royce, Cressida Hogg holds the same position at defence group BAE Systems and Ruth Cairnie at engineering giant Babcock.
In the insurance sector, Amanda Blanc runs Aviva, and Milena Mondini de Focatiis is chief executive at Admiral.
Kirkby, 56, who has headed Swedish telecoms group Telia since 2020, will be paid a base salary of £1.1million on her appointment as BT’s chief executive but will also be eligible for an annual bonus and share awards that could quadruple the figure.
‘I’m incredibly honoured to have been appointed,’ she said.
‘Our products and services have never been more important to how our customers live and work, and thanks to the significant investment BT is putting into digital infrastructure and in the modernisation of its services, I see us playing an even more important role going forward.’
BT chairman Adam Crozier added: ‘The board is delighted to have appointed Allison as our new chief executive.
‘She is a proven leader, with deep sector experience and a history of having transformed businesses.’
Kirkby’s appointment followed news this month that 56-year-old Jansen would be leaving the business early next year.
He will remain available to the company until March to support the hand over, after which BT said he planned to ‘retire from executive life’.
But Kirkby potentially faces a frosty reception from some of BT’s investors after 12 per cent voted against her re-appointment to the board at the firm’s AGM earlier this month amid concerns she held too many positions.
Aside from her non-executive role at BT – Britain’s biggest telecoms group which also owns the EE mobile network – and being the boss of Telia, Kirkby also serves as a non-executive director of Canadian asset manager Brookfield.
Many analysts predict she will continue to push ahead with the strategy drawn up by her predecessor, which is aiming to rapidly expand BT’s fibre broadband network across the UK while also cutting up to 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade.
BT plays a pivotal and high-profile role in the upgrading of the UK’s digital infrastructure. This has resulted in pressure from the Government, the regulator, customers and competitors.
The FTSE 100 group has been hit by the rising costs of labour, energy and construction.
Karen Egan at Enders Analysis said Kirkby would be ‘more of a continuity candidate’ which ‘made sense as BT is mainly trying to stay the course.’
This was echoed by Paolo Pescatore at PP Foresight, who said the appointment ‘suggests the strategy is unlikely to change.’
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Pearson said it was on track to meet targets as profits surged 24% to £236m, while sales were up 5% to £1.8bn in the six months to the end of June.
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Pearson posted healthy profits as it tried to reassure investors over the threat of artificial intelligence.
The educational resources group said profits surged 24 per cent to £236million, and sales increased 5 per cent to £1.8billion in the six months to the end of June.
Chief executive Andy Bird told shareholders that the group was making progress in its ‘long-standing AI capabilities’ – hoping to calm previous fears that the technology was a threat to its business model.
Almost £1billion was wiped off the stock market value of the FTSE 100 firm earlier this year after a US rival admitted that the rise of ChatGPT – which creates human-like content using generative AI – was hurting business.
California-based online learning service Chegg largely blamed the chat bot for its 5 per cent drop in subscribers in May – sending Pearson shares down as much as 15 per cent in one day as a result.
Top marks: Educational resources group said profits surged 24%, while sales were up 5% six months to the end of June
But in a bid to lift spirits, Bird said yesterday that several AI businesses had already expressed interest in using Pearson’s educational content to train their large language models.
Pearson has been using AI-based features in their English Language Learning product for years but recently added a generative AI tool to Pearson+, a learning hub that offers online study tools.
There have been concerns among teachers and educators that AI could be used by students to cheat on exams or plagiarise essays.
But Pearson said AI was ‘embedded’ into its operations and that it would be exploring more ways to utilise the tech.
Steve Clayton, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said Pearson was one of the many firms jumping on the ‘AI bandwagon’.
‘Pearson at least has the advantage of being a knowledge-led business with a long history of deploying leading technologies in its field,’ he said.
The company has also been working on reframing itself as a technology firm, exploring how it can incorporate the so-called metaverse and virtual reality into its teaching.
Pearson said it was on track to meet full-year targets, boosted by booming demand for English language learning in the first half of 2023.
Assessment and qualifications were a bright spot, with sales up 7 per cent, alongside English language learning and tests sales, which were up 44 per cent on the same time last year.
Analysts at JP Morgan had previously backed Pearson’s ability to ride out the AI boom.
They said they did not regard ChatGPT as an alternative to Pearson’s resources, adding: ‘The difference is that Pearson provides the content and sets the questions whereas Chegg and ChatGPT provide answers to those questions.’
Earlier this year the group said demand for English language learning courses skyrocketed because of loosening travel restrictions enabling more people to take the company’s English tests.
But virtual learning sales fell by 15 per cent and higher education revenues dipped 2 per cent, a stark shift from their boom during the pandemic.
A spokesman said: ‘Our excellent performance in the first half of 2023 means we are confident of achieving our full year expectations.’
Pearson shares dropped 0.6 per cent yesterday and are down nearly 10 per cent in the year to date.
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Official figures flagged in the final quarter of last year showed government debt stood at 101% of GDP, well ahead of the pre-pandemic period.
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The UK’s national debt is among the lowest in the G7 group of nations as a percentage of economic output, data has revealed.
Official figures flagged that in the final quarter of last year, government debt stood at 101 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), well ahead of the pre-pandemic period when government debt was just 84.4 per cent of GDP in the first quarter of 2020 before Covid-19 firmly took hold.
But the Office for National Statistics (ONS) highlighted that the balance sheet was in better shape than most of the other members of the G7, which includes Canada, the US, France, Japan, Germany and Italy.
Germany was the only country in the group to have a smaller burden at 66.5 per cent of GDP for the final quarter of last year.
Outstripping them all was Japan, where government debt was a whopping 261 per cent of GDP.
Debt pile: Official figures flagged in the final quarter of last year showed Britain’s government debt stood at 101% of gross domestic product
The ONS data also noted the UK’s £2.5 trillion debt pile had improved in the first three months of this year, falling slightly to 100.5 per cent of GDP.
But the soaring amount of debt after the pandemic is likely to become a growing problem for the Government as the Bank of England is expected to raise interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point later this week, despite signs of cooling inflation.
Economists are predicting the central bank’s rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will increase rates to at least 5.25 per cent from 5 per cent on Thursday, the highest level since 2008.
The projected rise is lower than the 0.5 per cent hike the Bank imposed last month.
Recent data showing a fall in inflation to 7.9 per cent in June from 8.7 per cent in May has soothed nerves and sparked hopes rates will peak at lower levels than expected.
This would potentially provide relief for mortgage holders who have been increasingly squeezed by higher interest payments.
Markets are pricing in that interest rates could peak at around 6pc but could remain high well into next year.
Some are even wondering if a 0.25 per cent hike this week is certain, with predictions that the MPC could push ahead with another 0.5 per cent hike to crush price rises quicker.
Matthew Ryan, head of market strategy at financial services firm Ebury, predicted the nine-member MPC could experience a ‘three-way split vote’ on interest rates, with some backing a 0.5 per cent hike, some 0.25 per cent and others keeping rates at their current 5 per cent level.
There are also fears that raising rates too high could tip the economy into recession.
Some are encouraging the Bank of England to follow the lead of its counterparts in the US and the eurozone who have paused or slowed their own rate hikes.
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Two thirds of Britons are still managing to put money into savings despite rising costs, research from the Money and Pensions Service shows.
Most said they were saving up for unexpected expenses, while others were putting money away for special occasions, holidays and day trips.
Putting away small, regular and affordable amounts can help people get into the savings habit and build financial security.
However, one in six people are still unable to save anything, and and have no past savings to draw on.
Saving up: A third of Britons are managing to save for unexpected expenses, holidays and special occasions, new research from the Money and Pensions Service reveals
Many Britons have been left struggling to afford their mortgage and basic necessities in the ongoing rate rise crisis.
Mortgage lenders have been hiking their rates, with the average two-year fixed rate now approaching 7 per cent, meanwhile inflation is also still worryingly high at 7.9 per cent.
What are people saving for?
A survey of over 2,000 adults showed two thirds (65 per cent) said they'd been putting money into savings in the past six months.
Of those who were able to save, more than a third (36 per cent) said unexpected expenses were the reason they were putting money away, and just under a third (30 per cent) said they were stashing cash for holidays and day trips. One in five (19 per cent) said the money was for special occasions, while 16 per cent said it was for something else.
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Those aged 18 to 24 were more likely to say they had been putting money aside than any other age group, with four in five saying they had done so in the past six months.
Responding to the findings, the Money and Pensions Service said that having a savings buffer can help people prepare for unexpected expenses.
Saving small, regular and affordable amounts is often more effective than saving a larger lump sum now and again as it helps people get into the savings habit.
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How to start a savings pot
The Money and Pensions Service has a resource called MoneyHelper. It offers a range of help and guidance, including free online tools and guides that cover the basics of saving, like how to get started and get into the habit.
The Government saving initiative Help to Save can also help people on certain benefits get into the habit, by giving them a bonus of 50p for every £1 saved up to £50 a month, with up to £1,200 available over four years.
Those who have turned 18-years-old since September 2020 and haven't done so already should trace their Child Trust Fund, which will give them a ready-made savings pot.
Here's how to track down a Child Trust Fund.
Jackie Spencer, senior policy manager at the Money and Pensions Service, said: 'Having a savings buffer can help you deal with unexpected costs, so it's great to see so many people are still managing to put money aside.
'Getting into the savings habit might seem daunting, but our budget planner and guides can help you get on the right track.
'However, not everyone is able to put money away and millions are living without a financial safety net. This can leave them vulnerable to sudden expenses, like a boiler breaking down or problems with their car, with a potentially devastating impact if their budget is already tight.
'If you're struggling financially, or things are heading that way, you can turn to us free and in confidence at any time. I'd urge you to get in touch for help and guidance as soon as you think you need it.'
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In a bid to boost Britain's energy independence, Rishi Sunak (pictured) said the first new licenses would be issued in the autumn.
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Oil and gas stocks rose on Monday as the Prime Minister promised to grant hundreds of licences in the North Sea.
In a bid to boost Britain's energy independence, Rishi Sunak said the first new licences would be issued in the autumn.
Two carbon capture projects in Scotland and northern England will also be supported under the new energy initiatives, Sunak said.
The update sent shares flying, with Serica, Harbour, Energean, Tullow and Ithaca making significant gains yesterday.
British Gas-owner Centrica, engineer Weir, energy supplier SSE and power generator Drax also climbed, with the latter being a major beneficiary of the carbon capture programme.
Oil pledge: In a bid to boost Britain's energy independence, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (pictured) promised to grant hundreds of new licenses in the North Sea
Sunak also revealed that the Government would be reviewing the tax regime for these companies, which includes a 35 per cent 'energy profits levy' on the profits made from the North Sea, as well as a 40 per cent headline rate of tax.
Although the Treasury has already committed to keeping the tax in place until March 2028 as companies cashed in on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, ministers have launched a call for evidence seeking views on the 'evolving context for taxes' on the sector.
The windfall tax has been hugely unpopular for the oil sector, which argues that it discourages investment in the UK.
Harbour Energy, the largest oil producer in the North Sea, said its profits last year were 'all but wiped out' by the windfall tax.
French giant TotalEnergies has also slashed its North Sea investment plans by £100million for 2023.
London-listed group EnQuest has decided to halt drilling activity at its Kraken oilfield as a result of the levy.
Trade bodies such as Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) and the International Association of Drilling Contractor have criticised the levy and its impact on UK innovation.
Commenting on yesterday's announcement, Maxwell Marlow, director of research at think-tank Adam Smith Institute, said: 'It is right that the Government is seeking to reform this opportunistic tax at a time when it is important for the industry to lead in alternative fuels whilst creating a safe bridge with less-polluting natural gas.'
Andy Mayer, energy analyst at the Institute of Economic Affairs, said: 'The Government's commitment to 'max out' North Sea oil and gas production is a welcome step towards energy security.
'But the announcement of licences for largely already committed projects will do little to encourage future investors frightened away by windfall taxes and the militant net zero consensus in Parliament.'
Serica surged 6.8 per cent, Harbour rose 5.4 per cent, Energean gained 3.4 per cent, Tullow grew by 3.7 per cent and Ithaca added yesterday. Meanwhile,
Centrica increased by 2.9 per cent, Weir lifted 2.5 per cent, SSE inched up 0.8 per cent and Drax edged higher by 1.1 per cent.
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Moriarty (pictured) will take over as the chief exec of the Financial Reporting Council after spending five years as the boss of Britain's aviation regulator.
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Top job: Richard Moriarty (pictured) has been named as the new chief exec of the Financial Reporting Council
The accounting watchdog has named its new boss. Richard Moriarty will take over from Sir Jon Thompson at the Financial Reporting Council after five years running the Civil Aviation Authority.
But he inherits the role at a time when the FRC is undergoing a major transformation to prevent repeats of scandals such as the collapses of the outsourcer Carillion and retailer BHS.
The watchdog is set to become the Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority, which will have more powers to hold directors to account.
Moriarty has over 20 years of board level experience, but some have questioned his experience in accounting.
Bob Lyddon at Lyddon Consulting said it was an example of the FRC hiring a ‘regulator-crat’ rather than an expert in the field.
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It was a parent's worst nightmare, and a major mistake by the Frisco Police Department in North Texas. On July 23, an Arkansas family visiting the Dallas area for a basketball tournament was pulled over by the police.
Frisco police believed they had found a stolen vehicle — as a result they shut down the busy highway, pulled their guns and ordered the family out of the car. But one of their officers made an error — entering the wrong state from the license plate into their computer system.
The mother in the vehicle posted about the incident online saying seeing her child in cuffs "hurt me to my core."
"It’s not okay. And I thank god that we were not physically injured, but we have suffered a lot of mental and emotional trauma from this. I've cried so much today I don't know if I have any more tears to cry. Every time I see the video of my baby, I just can't believe it. I feel like this is a very bad dream," Demi Janale said on TikTok.
Police in Aurora, Colorado made a similar mistake in 2021, handcuffing 4 minors and laying them on the pavement for what police believed was a stolen vehicle.
While the Aurora police chief ultimately apologized for the incident, the family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit and one of the officers involved was suspended.
In a statement, Frisco police apologized for the July incident and said it planned to run an "incident review."
For now, no lawsuit has been filed by the family involved.
SEE MORE: NYC to settle $13M for George Floyd protest arrests, police beatings
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Android phones will now get the same unknown tracker alerts that iPhone users get when an Apple AirTag is near them.
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Google announced that Android phone users should expect to get unknown tracker alerts like iPhone users get when there is a tracker they don't know about near them.
The technology has already been a tool for iPhone users, who are alerted when a device like an Apple AirTag is tracking them.
SEE MORE: How to clear cookies from your smartphone
The move is a product of cooperative work done between Google and Apple and was announced at at 2023 Google conference. While the alerts will work only with AirTags at first, there are talks with other tracker companies like Tile and Chipolo to widen the field on which trackers will also be included.
Google said in a press release that users will be able to tap on the notification and learn more about the tracker and view it on a map. There will also be a feature to select "play sound" to make the tracker play a noise so users can find it.
Google said there will also be a manual scan feature to allow users to press a button and scan their surroundings for trackers even before they receive any notifications.
New find my device features are also expected to be unveiled and available on Android by this summer, the company said.
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The Nueces County Juvenile Justice Center said they've seen an increase of court cases involving minors over the past few years. However, it's not just petty crimes that kids are being accused of.
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The Nueces County Juvenile Justice Center said they've seen an increase of court cases involving minors over the past few years. However, it's not just petty crimes that kids are being accused of. According to the Juvenile Justice Center's records, minors are being accused of much more serious offenses like aggravated assault and drugs.
It was right before the Covid-19 pandemic that Miles Toren, the Justice Center's Facility Administrator, said he saw the drastic increase.
"It changes a little bit year to year, but over the last couple of years, the assaults have gone drastically up," Toren said,"I think that’s about a 65% increase of assaults alone and drugs. It’s not just your marijuana, but you see a lot of the kids doing vape pens.”
The higher number of cases has led to a 90-day backlog of minors who are waiting to be transferred to a state facility. Toren added it's not during the summer when kids get in the most trouble. Surprisingly, as kids head back to school, that's when the crimes start going up.
“Once they get around each other, they see each other. You have kids with mental health issues, you have kids who are being bullied. Last year, between July and July, we’re probably looking at 1,200 new cases and we’re not even through the year yet," Toren said.
Juveniles in the detention center get access to mental health therapy, which can be beneficial in their transformation. Some of the mental issues they have are blamed on the changes the world experienced during the global shutdown of the pandemic.
The Juvenile Center's Mental Health Supervisor, Dr. Claudia Iconomopoulos said many children witnessed death for the first time in 2020, while many of them also were also isolated from they're typical friend groups, teachers and resources.
"They don’t even know what to do with those feelings. They didn’t have their social groups to connect with. They had to figure out what to do with it on their own. How do we come back from that? What is it that we need to be doing in order to help these kids process what they’ve been through the last two and a half years," Iconomopoulos said.
However, the pandemic can't take all the blame. There are other factors that contribute to the changes of children's behavior. Iconomopoulos mentioned that it's a combination of their community environment, their family systems and the rise in children dropping out of school. She added if more school districts worked on keeping kids in the classroom and teaching them the fundamentals of social skills, it could help keep the dropout numbers low, while also teaching them how to navigate their peers, life challenges, and what's to come as they continue learning and growing.
According to the Nueces County Juvenile Justice Center, there are several warning signs that parents can look out for. Those include a change in their child's behavior or if they spend a lot of time alone. Drug use is a definite red flag. Another warning sign is if your child suddenly cuts off ties with their regular circle of friends and hangs out with other kids who may be a bad influence. The bottom line is parents need to intervene at home so their kids don't end up at their area detention center.
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A lack of precipitation coupled with extreme heat has contributed to major stress on the iconic saguaro cactuses.
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Record high temperatures in many parts of the United States have contributed to major stress on plants, animals and humans. The extreme heat, coupled with a lack of rainfall, has caused problems with Arizona's iconic saguaro cacti.
SEE MORE: Extreme heat expected to be costly, especially in Texas
The Desert Botanical Garden in Arizona said that the condition of its cacti have been affected because of the lack of precipitation and record high sustained heat conditions.
Temperatures in Phoenix have held above 100 degrees Fahrenheit for weeks. On Monday night temperatures calmed down, hovering in the 80s after much needed rain visited the area.
Experts say the high heat puts excessive stress on the cacti, despite their ability to survive in desert climates. While they might experience some respite during the night in the cooler desert air, extreme heat during the day can tend to suffocate the cacti, experts say.
The saguaro cactus is native to the Sonoran Desert and are considered giants among cactus species.
The area's Tohono O’odham nation considers the iconic cactus not as plants, but as respected members of their group, the National Parks Service writes.
They can grow at altitudes of up to 4,000 feet above sea level. "Saguaro forests" are seen in more abundance around the Ajo Mountain Drive area of Arizona.
But experts say that continued hikes in heat over time could cause new generations of the cactus giants not to be able to grow at all.
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Yellow Corp., one of the largest freight companies in the U.S., said it was closing operations and filing for bankruptcy on Monday.
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One of the largest trucking companies in the country shut down over the weekend, leaving tens of thousands of people without jobs at the start of the work week.
The Teamsters Union said Monday that Yellow Corp. informed them the 99-year-old company was shuttering operations and filing for bankruptcy, despite receiving a $700 million pandemic loan just three years ago.
Scripps News reached out to Yellow to confirm but did not hear back. No bankruptcy filings have gone live yet.
Yellow employs 30,000 people nationwide including 22,000 union workers. But one worker in Nashville says he arrived at work without hearing anything about the status of his job.
"They haven't told us they're out of business yet, they haven't told us what they're doing, filing bankruptcy or whatever," said Danny Smallridge. "I'm in pretty good shape myself and I know I'll be taken care of but a lot of my union brothers and sisters — they're not in the same boat as I am and that's heartbreaking. Shame on the company."
Another worker went viral over the weekend after a video showed his emotional reaction to learning he'd leave Yellow with no pension despite spending 30 years on the job.
In a statement, Teamsters president Sean O'Brien called the news "unfortunate but not surprising." He added Yellow "has historically proven that it could not manage itself despite billions of dollars in worker concessions and hundreds of millions in bailout funding from the federal government. This is a sad day for workers and the American freight industry,”
SEE MORE: Lumber prices could surge again due to too few lumber workers
Yellow is the nation's third largest carrier of small freight, earning $5 billion in revenue a year, according to its website, serving major customers like Walmart and Home Depot.
But after a series of failed cost-cutting measures to stay afloat, Yellow saw customers leave in droves. According to the Associated Press, the company is now $1.5 billion in debt with $729.2 million owed to the federal government.
This, despite the government handing Yellow a $700 million pandemic loan just three years ago.
Mike Regan, the co-founder of TranzAct technologies, which helps companies manage their supply chains, says Yellow used most of that money to round out pension plans and extend the life of its equipment.
But in June, a congressional investigation found the Treasury and Defense departments "made missteps" in giving Yellow the loan, with auditors calling the handout "reactive at best" and saying it "may not be the best course of action to protect taxpayer funds."
Regan says Yellow's problems arose decades ago after the company acquired rival companies and put them under one roof.
"When they bought Roadway, it was like having the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears come together to form a football team. You had basically people that competed against each other, were enemies, then you brought them together and said 'we're going to play nice,'" he said. "If you don't have your culture synchronized, I don't care what your strategy is, it's not going to work because you have disparate parties."
SEE MORE: Wage and salary increases in the US slowed down
He added that problems worsened when Yellow tried to reduce its debt and eliminate financial redundancies by shutttering 24 of its 300 truck terminals.
Regan says that considering some of the locations were as valuable as $80 million, it could've helped the company with some of its money troubles. But Teamsters, which was angered by the course of action, said the move would lead to unnecessary job cuts.
Regan says Yellow's latest setback came from the threat of a union strike over health care benefits when the company missed a $50 million welfare and pension fund payment. Teamsters said they'd strike if Yellow didn't make the payment.
"That basically was the death knell for Yellow because if you're a shipper, one of the things that you don't want to do is have freight trapped in a system when the carrier's not operating," said Regan.
The shutdown could mean shipping delays for consumer because many shippers relied solely on Yellow's vast terminal network to move is products.
"In the LTL (Less-than-truckload) industry, your capacity is driven by your terminal network, the amount of doors that you have available to clear freight," said Regan. "The reason this is a big deal for shippers is because some shippers had Yellow [as their] one carrier. Well, they may take three or four carriers now to replace that Yellow volume because of the network."
Regan says more carriers sharing doors could mean greater delays, leading to price increases to make up for the gap.
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A Japanese man spent $14,000 to become a Border Collie.
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Don't be fooled by the furry exterior: Some dogs aren't all what they seem. In fact, one isn't even a dog at all.
It's a conundrum making the rounds online after a Japanese man wearing a hyper-realistic Border Collie outfit took a stroll outdoors and posted a YouTube video of the excursion, garnering more than 4.6 million views in the 10 days it's been online.
The footage was filmed last year for an interview with a German TV station according to the video description, and the dog/man, identified only as Toco, released it to the public this month after getting permission to post it.
The video under the account name "I want to be an animal" shows Toco getting pets around town while walking on four legs in the costume.
In a video posted last year, Toco said he had "a vague dream of becoming an animal" ever since he was a child and that he chose to become a collie because it's his favorite breed and is larger in size, comparable to a human.
This childhood dream prompted him to spend around $14,000 to have specialist costume company Zeppet create the outfit in 2022. The Japanese company is known for creating models and suits for films and commercials, but this was a custom, personal order, according to its website.
Zeppet's site also lists personal comments Toco made during and after the 40-day building process.
"I suppose creating a four-legged model for a two-legged human is extremely tricky, as our skeletal structure is quite different from canines," Toco said upon completion of the project. "I was therefore naturally worried about how it would turn out. After various trials and errors of the studio, however, the final result was brilliant and very satisfactory."
But despite the long-lived goal and its online virality, Toco still hopes to remain anonymous behind his animal persona.
In an interview with the Mirror, he said, "I rarely tell my friends because I am afraid they will think I am weird. My friends and family seemed very surprised to learn I became an animal."
And comments on the recent YouTube video seem to echo his fears. While some users were curious and supportive, others were concerned, with one user saying "I've worked with animals for 15 years now and this is the creepiest animal related thing I've ever seen."
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U.S. national team cyclist Magnus White was training for the mountain bike world championships when he was struck by a vehicle near his home.
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A 17-year-old American cyclist was killed Saturday when a car hit him as he was training.
Magnus White, who was deemed a "rising star" in the sport, was cycling on the shoulder of a highway in his hometown of Boulder, Colorado, Sunday when he was struck by a car, USA Cycling said.
The national team athlete had been in final training preparations for his first Junior Men's Mountain Bike Cross-Country World Championships, which is set for Aug. 10 in Glasgow, Scotland.
White was an avid cyclist from an early age and had a knack for off-road cycling.
He specialized in cyclocross, which is a cross between road cycling, mountain biking and steeplechase, and won the junior national championship in the sport in 2021. He went on to complete a season with the USA Cycling National Team and competed in two cyclocross world championships: one in 2022 in Fayeteville, Arkansas, and another in January in Hoogerheide, Netherlands.
"We offer our heartfelt condolences to the White family, his teammates, friends, and the Boulder community during this incredibly difficult time. We ride for Magnus," USA Cycling said in a statement.
White is survived by his parents and a brother. Friends of the family have organized a GoFundMe in his memory.
SEE MORE: Man travels across the country by bike with cat
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WASHINGTON – Seeking to lengthen their lineup and add versatility without mortgaging the future, the Milwaukee Brewers acquired veteran outfielder Mark Canha and cash from the New York Mets on Monday night in exchange for minor-league pitcher Justin Jarvis.
The right-handed-hitting Canha batted .245 with six home runs and 29 runs batted in with an OPS of .725 in 89 games for the Mets while playing both corner outfield spots.
He's in the second year of a two-year, $26.5 million contract that includes an $11.5 million team option for 2024 with a $2 million buyout.
"Mark brings a productive veteran bat and versatility to the roster as he can play both corner outfield spots and first base," general manager Matt Arnold said. "He has valuable postseason experience, and we look forward to him being a major contributor for us down the stretch."
Mark Canha's playing time has decreased this season
Canha, 34, hit at least 13 homers and drove in at least 52 runs in four of his previous five seasons but saw his playing time curtailed this year in New York after playing 141 in 2021 and 140 games in 2022.
"We see some signs here with this guy where we think there are certainly areas for growth for him in the second half," Arnold said.
His best season came in 2019 with the Oakland A's, when he hit .273/26/58/.913 in 126 games.
Canha's best asset has been his discipline as a hitter; his strikeout and chase rates are both in the 80th percentile in the major leagues and his walk rate is in the 77th percentile. He also has 66th percentile speed.
For his career, Canha has logged a .348 on-base percentage. A big part of that figure has been Canha's uncanny ability to be hit by pitches – he led the majors in that category in both 2021 (27 times) and 2022 (28).
How does Mark Canha fit with the Brewers?
Canha's ability to play right field should enable Sal Frelick to see more time in center. By playing him in left, manager Craig Counsell can afford to give Christian Yelich a few extra days off his feet while serving as designated hitter.
He also provides another option at first base beyond Carlos Santana, who was acquired at the outset of Milwaukee's current road trip, and Rowdy Tellez, who is still several weeks away from returning from the injured list.
"(Right) is probably the most likely," Arnold said. "But he has experience at all three. He's even played third base in the past. But I think honestly, it's mostly going to be outfield, first base and DH."
Canha does bring postseason experience with him (2018, 2019 and 2020 with Oakland and 2022 with New York). He is also a .364 hitter with runners in scoring position and two outs and .385 in the ninth inning.
According to a report, the Brewers will only be on the hook for the major-league minimum portion of Canha's salary.
What did the Brewers give up in the trade?
Jarvis, 23, was a fifth-round pick of the Brewers in 2018. In 17 starts between Class AA Biloxi and Class AAA Nashville this season, the right-hander went 6-6 with a 4.33 earned run average and WHIP of 1.42.
He also struck out 102 in 87 ⅓ innings.
Jarvis was considered a second-tier prospect in the Brewers' system but one that nevertheless has flashed this year.
"We like Justin a lot," said Arnold. "He's still young and has a really, really good arm. Same thing we talked about when we when we did the deal with (Jhonny) Severino for Santana -- you always have to give up something to get something here."
Reds, Cubs also make moves
There were roughly 24 hours to go before the trading deadline passed when the Brewers made the move for Canha.
The Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs -- also jockeying with the Brewers in the National League Central Division -- acquired pitching and hitting help with trades for left-hander Sam Moll and right-hander José Cuas and infielder Jeimer Candelario, respectively.
"It's hard to make a deal," Arnold said. "I think as the market is beginning to loosen up a little bit as as we get closer to the deadline, there could be potentially some more activity. Certainly we're going to be involved, but anytime you're trying to talk to a small number of of selling teams, it makes it that much harder to make a deal -- especially when you're looking to acquire players."
In another move, right-hander Jake Cousins was claimed off waivers by the Houston Astros.
Cousins pitched in four games for the Brewers this season but was never able to recapture the promise he showed in 2021 when he struck out 44 in 30 innings after making his major-league debut near mid-season.
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HOUSTON, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stellus Capital Investment Corporation (NYSE: SCM) will release its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023 on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, after the close of the stock market.
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Stellus Capital Investment Corporation will host a conference call to discuss these results on Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 10:00 AM, Central Time. The conference call will be led by Robert T. Ladd, Chief Executive Officer, and W. Todd Huskinson, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary.
Conference Call Details
Via Phone: Dial 888-506-0062 (domestic). Use passcode 810825. Starting approximately two hours after the conclusion of the call, a replay will be available through Thursday, August 24, 2023 by dialing 877-481-4010 and entering passcode 48865.
Via Live Webcast: Connect via the Public Company (SCIC) section of our website at www.stelluscapital.com, under the Events tab. A replay of the conference will be available on our website for approximately 90 days.
About Stellus Capital Investment Corporation
The Company is an externally-managed, closed-end, non-diversified investment management company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Company's investment objective is to maximize the total return to its stockholders in the form of current income and capital appreciation by investing primarily in private middle-market companies (typically those with $5.0 million to $50.0 million of EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization)) through first lien, second lien, unitranche and mezzanine debt financing, and corresponding equity investments. The Company's investment activities are managed by its investment adviser, Stellus Capital Management, LLC. To learn more about Stellus Capital Investment Corporation, visit www.stelluscapital.com under the Stellus Capital Investment Corporation link.
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Statements included herein may contain "forward-looking statements" which relate to future performance or financial condition. Statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, which change over time. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in any forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement made herein. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release.
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W. Todd Huskinson, (713) 292-5414
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SHANGHAI, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Everest Medicines (HKEX 1952.HK, "Everest", or the "Company"), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, manufacturing and commercialization of innovative medicines and vaccines, announced today the completion of patient enrollment for the China open-label extension (cOLE) of the Phase 3 NefIgArd study. The cOLE study offers an additional 9 months of treatment with Nefecon® to all qualifying patients who have completed the NefIgArd study and will evaluate the efficacy and safety of extended and repeated Nefecon® treatment in patients with IgA Nephropathy (IgAN).
The Phase 3 NefIgArd clinical trial is a randomized, double-blind, multicenter study which assessed the efficacy and safety of Nefecon® versus placebo on a background of optimized RAS inhibitor therapy. The study met its primary endpoint, with Nefecon® demonstrating a highly statistically significant benefit over placebo (p value < 0.0001) in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) over the two-year period of 9-months of treatment with Nefecon® or placebo and 15-months of off drug follow-up. Patients in the cOLE study will continue on RAS inhibitor therapy (ACEs and/or ARBs) and be treated for 9 months with Nefecon® at 16mg/day. At the end of the treatment period, change in eGFR and urine protein to creatinine ratio (UPCR) will be evaluated.
"The results of the cOLE study will offer insight into the value of extended and repeated use of Nefecon® and provide very important guidance for doctors in clinical practice," said Rogers Yongqing Luo, Chief Executive Officer of Everest Medicines.
The China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) accepted Everest's New Drug Application (NDA) for Nefecon® for the treatment of IgAN in November 2022. The NMPA has also granted Nefecon® break-through therapy designation and NDA priority review. Nefecon® was the first non-oncology drug to receive break-through therapy designation in China.
About Nefecon®
Nefecon® is a patented oral, delayed release formulation of budesonide, a corticosteroid with potent glucocorticoid activity and weak mineralocorticoid activity that undergoes substantial first pass metabolism. The formulation is designed as a delayed release capsule that is enteric coated so that it remains intact until it releases budesonide to the distal ileum. Each capsule contains coated beads of budesonide that target mucosal B-cells present in the ileum where the disease originates, as per the predominant pathogenesis models.
In June 2019, Everest Medicines entered into an exclusive, royalty-bearing license agreement with Calliditas, which gives Everest Medicines exclusive rights to develop and commercialize Nefecon® in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Singapore. The agreement was extended in March 2022 to include South Korea as part of Everest Medicine's territories.
Nefecon® was approved in the United States under accelerated approval based on a reduction in proteinuria. Recently announced topline results from the global, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 3 clinical trial NefIgArd demonstrated a statistically significant benefit for Nefecon® over placebo in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), a measure of renal function.
About Everest Medicines
Everest Medicines is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing, manufacturing and commercializing transformative pharmaceutical products and vaccines that address critical unmet medical needs for patients in Asian markets. The management team of Everest Medicines has deep expertise and an extensive track record from both leading global pharmaceutical companies and local Chinese pharmaceutical companies in high-quality discovery, clinical development, regulatory affairs, CMC, business development and operations. Everest Medicines has built a portfolio of potentially global first-in-class or best-in-class molecules, many of which are in late-stage clinical development. The Company's therapeutic areas of interest include renal diseases, infectious diseases, mRNA platform and autoimmune disorders. For more information, please visit its website at www.everestmedicines.com.
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The Elon Musk-owned company, which has been rebranded as X, had removed the Twitter sign and iconic blue bird logo from the building last week.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A brightly flashing “X” sign has been removed from the San Francisco headquarters of the company formerly known as Twitter just days after it was installed.
The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection said Monday it received 24 complaints about the unpermitted structure over the weekend. Complaints included concerns about its structural safety and illumination.
The Elon Musk-owned company, which has been rebranded as X, had removed the Twitter sign and iconic blue bird logo from the building last week. That work was temporarily paused because the company did not have the necessary permits. For a time, the “er” at the end of “Twitter” remained up due to the abrupt halt of the sign takedown.
The city of San Francisco had opened a complaint and launched an investigation into the giant “X” sign, which was installed Friday on top of the downtown building as Musk continues his rebrand of the social media platform.
The chaotic rebrand of Twitter’s building signage is similar to the haphazard way in which the Twitter platform is being turned into X. While the X logo has replaced Twitter on many parts of the site and app, remnants of Twitter remain.
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The Makers of WHOLLY® AVOCADO are Giving 10 Fans a Chance to Win One Year's Supply of products - and more - for National Avocado Day
The Makers of WHOLLY® AVOCADO are Giving 10 Fans a Chance to Win One Year's Supply of products - and more - for National Avocado Day
America's No.1 refrigerated guacamole and avocado brand also taps beloved Olympian, Shawn Johnson East, to spotlight versatility and convenience of WHOLLY® AVOCADO products
ORANGE, Calif., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of National Avocado Day, the makers of WHOLLY® AVOCADO are celebrating by giving 10 lucky fans a year's supply of WHOLLY® AVOCADO products — made with real ingredients and hand-scooped Hass avocados — and a $350 gift card.
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"National Avocado Day is one of our fans' favorite times of the year, and we wanted to make it extra fun for people everywhere with this incredible giveaway that will have them celebrating all year long," said Chris Monahan, brand manager of WHOLLY® products. "Our refrigerated avocado products are always ripe and always ready, and they make everyday snacking simpler and more convenient for our valued fans."
To amp up the fun, the makers of WHOLLY® AVOCADO are partnering with Olympic gold medalist and mother of two Shawn Johnson East to spotlight the versatility and convenience of WHOLLY® AVOCADO products. Johnson East will be helping current and new brand aficionados get involved in the sweepstakes via content on her Instagram page.
Fans may register for one of 10 chances to win a year's supply of free WHOLLY® products and a $350 gift card by following the brand on Instagram (@eatWHOLLY), liking Shawn Johnson East's WHOLLY® AVOCADO reel, and tagging @eatwholly and @shawnjohnson in your own "not my hands" challenge attempts using WHOLLY® AVOCADO products. Contest rules and information here.
Finally, fans can indulge in a number of easy and tasty recipes while they're celebrating National Avocado Day. For example:
Avocado Sushi Roll : The perfect recipe for an at-home sushi night. This recipe is super easy, kid-friendly and a total crowd-pleaser.
Burrata Avocado Pizza : Who doesn't love an easy pizza recipe? This vegetarian pizza has avocado, burrata and tomatoes. Vegetarian lunch or dinner in just 20 minutes.
Avocado-Chickpea Mediterranean Salad : Fast, delicious and filled with robust flavor, this chickpea salad will have you buying the same ingredients every week.
Chicken-Avocado Rollups : These easy chicken-avocado rollups are fantastic for lunch, a midday snack or an appetizer for groups. With creamy avocado and a little bit of Greek yogurt and lime juice, they have the perfect balance of satisfying ingredients and zesty flavor.
Avocado Pudding : With less than five ingredients and in just five minutes, you can whip up this thick and creamy avocado pudding, a fun and delicious dessert you can even serve as an after-school snack.
Too busy to prep a dish? The WHOLLY® brand line features ready-to-serve avocado in three varieties: diced, smashed and chunky. All products are gluten-free, non-GMO, kosher, keto-friendly and contain no added preservatives. Available in 4-ounce trays, as well as convenient 2-ounce single-serve minis, WHOLLY® AVOCADO can be used as a salad topper, in poke bowls, on avocado toast, as a sandwich spread or as a dip.
WHOLLY® products are available at retailers throughout the United States. For more information, visit www.eatwholly.com.
ABOUT THE WHOLLY® BRAND
The WHOLLY® brand, leader in ready-to-eat avocado innovation, is best known for WHOLLY® GUACAMOLE, America's No. 1 refrigerated guacamole, and WHOLLY® AVOCADO. Known for food safety and quality, all WHOLLY® products are made with hand-scooped Hass avocados and are gluten free with no preservatives added. High-pressure technology (HPT) is used to help extend the shelf life of the products and maintain the avocado's delicious flavors and nutrients, while eliminating potentially harmful bacteria. The WHOLLY® brand is part of MegaMex Foods, one of the fastest growing Mexican food companies in the U.S. focused on re-imagining Mexican flavor. For more information and recipe ideas, visit www.eatwholly.com, and follow the brand on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.
ABOUT MEGAMEX FOODS, LLC.
MegaMex Foods, one of the fastest growing Mexican food companies in the U.S., is focused on re-imagining Mexican flavor in restaurants and home kitchens across the country. MegaMex Foods is proudly committed to authentic ingredients and providing a real solution for achieving true Mexican flavors with trusted products, including WHOLLY®, LA VICTORIA®, HERDEZ®, EMBASA® , DOÑA MARÍA®, BÚFALO® and DON MIGUEL® brands. Founded by Herdez del Fuerte and Hormel Foods (NYSE: HRL), MegaMex Foods is headquartered in Orange, California, with facilities in Texas and Mexico. MegaMex Foods has two operating plants, numerous manufacturing partners and over 4,000 employees. For more information, visit www.megamexfoods.com and www.mmxfoodservice.com.
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DAYTONA BEACH, FL. (Gray News) - An Amber Alert has been issued for a 14-year-old who was last seen in Daytona Beach, Florida.
According to the alert, Barbora Zdanska, 14, was last seen in the area of the 100th block of Boynton Boulevard in Daytona Beach.
Zdanska is 5′5, weighs about 136 pounds, and has blonde hair and blue eyes.
She was last seen wearing a black Adidas sweatshirt with white stripes on the sleeves and black jean shorts.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - The end of July marks the start of a summer getaway for Tennessee basketball. The Vols loaded the buses from Thompson-Boling Arena on Monday afternoon to begin their nine-hour journey to Italy.
This trip marks the program’s seventh even Foreign Tour and just the second under Coach Rick Barnes.
While abroad the team will play a trio of games. First, they’ll face the Lithuanian U21 National Team on consecutive days followed by an Italian Club Team A.S. Stella Azzura, which is their No. 2 professional league in Italy.
This vacation could prove vital when you consider the number of transfers, freshmen and redshirts that will see the court for the first time this upcoming season.
Four-star transfer Dalton Knecht there are plenty of benefits to this outing.
”Just like I said, being with the team traveling with them, and building chemistry. I mean to go to Italy, that’ll be my first time, so it’s going to be fun,” said Knecht.
Associate head coach, Justin Gainey added to the importance of the team bonding that’ll take place on their 10-day trip.
“You know it’s one thing on campus and they see each other in practice, but on those foreign tours, you’re together. You’re together a lot. And you get to learn a lot about each other, you’re on the bus rides, the hotels. And also just seeing everybody together playing against somebody else. You kind of run that course where you’ve practiced so much you’re like, ‘Alright we need to someone else.’ It’ll be great to play different competitions, get that on film so we can teach guys, talk to guys about what we see.”
Coach Gainey also mentioned he’s looking forward to the delicious food in Italy, adding his favorite is, “Oh straight margherita pizza. Margherita right, mozzarella, little basil on there. I’m good, that’s it.”
The Vols will visit sites like Lake Como, the Duomo, and the Trevi Fountain.
List of games:
Aug. 4 vs. Lithuania U21 (1 p.m. ET)
Aug. 5 vs. Lithuania U21 (1 p.m. ET)
Aug. 7 vs. Stella Azzurra (1:30 p.m. ET)
All games stream live on @FloHoops through a month’s subscription.
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MEXICO CITY, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FIBRA Prologis (BMV:FIBRAPL 14), a leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico, today announced that after having served as a member of the Technical Committee for the past years, Gimena Peña Malcampo, will step down as an independent member.
"We appreciate the time and effort that Gimena put on our Technical Committee meetings. Her perspective, in particular on the ESG initiatives, was highly valued," said Luis Gutiérrez, CEO, Prologis Property Mexico.
"Serving on the FIBRA Prologis Technical Committee has been a rewarding experience. I have always admired the company's commitment to innovation and sustainability, and I'm particularly proud of the progress that has been made toward advancing our sustainability-centered goals. It has been my privileged to serve as a board member of this impactful organization," said Mrs. Peña Malcampo.
FIBRA Prologis Manager will announce a replacement to Gimena Peña Malcampo as an independent member of the Technical Committee.
ABOUT FIBRA PROLOGIS
FIBRA Prologis is a leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico. As of June 30, 2023, FIBRA Prologis was comprised of 228 logistics and manufacturing facilities in six industrial markets in Mexico totaling 44.2 million square feet (4.1 million square meters) of gross leasable area.
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The statements in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the industry and markets in which FIBRA Prologis operates, management's beliefs and assumptions made by management. Such statements involve uncertainties that could significantly impact FIBRA Prologis financial results. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements, which generally are not historical in nature. All statements that address operating performance, events or developments that we expect or anticipate will occur in the future — including statements relating to rent and occupancy growth, acquisition activity, development activity, disposition activity, general conditions in the geographic areas where we operate, our debt and financial position, are forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Although we believe the expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be attained and therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements. Some of the factors that may affect outcomes and results include, but are not limited to: (i) national, international, regional and local economic climates, (ii) changes in financial markets, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, (iii) increased or unanticipated competition for our properties, (iv) risks associated with acquisitions, dispositions and development of properties, (v) maintenance of real estate investment trust ("FIBRA") status and tax structuring, (vi) availability of financing and capital, the levels of debt that we maintain and our credit ratings, (vii) risks related to our investments (viii) environmental uncertainties, including risks of natural disasters, (ix) risks related to the coronavirus pandemic, and (x) those additional factors discussed in reports filed with the "Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores" and the Mexican Stock Exchange by FIBRA Prologis under the heading "Risk Factors." FIBRA Prologis undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements appearing in this release.
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Heiress, businesswoman, first lady and now, style icon.
Akshata Murty is more than just British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's wife.
The 43-year-old Indian-born fashion designer has been serving style goals since she was thrust into the spotlight when Sunak was made PM in October 2022.
Murty is a fan of bold, bright colours and we're loving her fashion choices so far.
And it seems even the harshest critics agree, with Tatler magazine recently naming Murty Britain's best-dressed person.
Murty has even been compared to Jackie Onassis thanks to her chic fashion sense.
We can't think of a better reason to take a deep dive into Murty's timeless style.
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The Logies red carpet always delivers on fashion moments – but the hair and makeup are worth a closer look, too.
Keep reading to see some of the most striking beauty looks from the 2023 ceremony.
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LOS ANGELES – As John Wilson gears up to premiere the third and final season of his cult documentary series, "How To With John Wilson," the filmmaker reflected on how a video camera changes people's behavior – and how he exploits that for his show.
Each episode of the Emmy-nominated series starts off as a kind of "how to" video, but inevitably devolves into a hilariously bizarre and shocking portrait of humanity.
Wilson shares how his style of cinematography was influenced by his time working for a private investigator, as well as his thoughts on how artificial intelligence will affect the future of filmmaking.
Season three of "How To" premiered Friday on HBO and Max. The interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
How are you feeling going into this final season?
I cannot wait for it to come out. I have been sitting on this for a few months now, and there's just so much I want to talk about with it. I think it's the best season yet. I can't wait.
I used to be a videographer and I covered breaking news for AP for a long time. The whole idea of that job is I'm coming into a situation with a camera trying to document it and I'm trying to not change it. But I've thought a lot about the ways that taking a camera into a situation inherently does change it. I'm curious about the ways you've thought about that.
I've spent a lot of time in the documentary world and reading interviews and talking to people and studying what people do. And I just find it so weird when people try to ignore the fact that the presence of a camera does fundamentally change the energy in a room. And so rather than trying to disguise that, I really like to lean into that instead, because the tension that a cameraperson creates, I find really interesting. And being able to have that be an element that makes something more dramatic is something I'm surprised more people don't do.
So you're saying you like to exploit that?
Yeah. I personally try to remove as much artifice as I can within the work and that's a huge part of it. It's kind of funny. Sometimes I'll interview someone and they already know the show and they may have even seen it. But other times, I'll get through an entire interview with someone, and they'll ask, 'So who's the host of this show?' And I'll be like, 'Oh, it's me.' And they'll be like, 'Why don't you have a cameraperson? Can you not afford one?' And I'm just like, 'Oh, no, I prefer this.' And in their eyes, they just think that I'm like a really talkative cameraperson that's about to lose his job because I keep interrupting the shot.
Do you go through each episode chronologically when you're making it, or is it like you have all these different threads that you're balancing at once?
Everything is happening at the same time. I'll have six different episode titles in my head. And maybe I'll see someone underneath scaffolding, for example, and I'll maybe start talking to them about scaffolding and maybe they don't have a very interesting take on it. So then I cycle through five episodes worth of questions because maybe I can still use them for something. And I have other people to help, other producers and stuff. And then it doesn't really begin to congeal or take any shape until we're in the edit. But I'm always shooting and editing with the editor simultaneously, and I have to tell them exactly what everything is for. So everything is happening at the same time. That's the only way it can really happen.
In light of conversations about AI that are obviously big right now, I'm curious about your thoughts on the future of filmmaking as it relates to that.
I feel like AI is this unstoppable thing in a way. And I think it's up to the the filmmakers and the people creating this stuff moving forward to deliberately make human work. And I think people respond really well to that for a reason. I feel like there is eventually going to be some kind of division about what we choose to consume. And that may mean that the human stuff is made for no money because nobody wants to make it anymore. But that's just the choice that creators will have to make.
I know this is going back kind of far, but I was curious about how you got the job for the private investigator after film school.
I found it on the etc. section of Craigslist classifieds, the place where they put work that can't be categorized into any other area. It was for a video editor. And I went in and interviewed and I got the job and then when I asked what the company even was, they told me it was a private investigation agency. And that's when I realized I wanted to stay.
And you feel like that experience informs how you think about and do your work now?
Yeah. I mean, it made me kind of want to shoot everything in a similar style or from a certain distance. There was just something really electrifying about watching people from a certain perspective that I wanted to mimic somehow.
You and "How To" executive producer Nathan Fielder seem like you have very similar personalities. Did you guys hit it off immediately?
Yeah, Nathan and I have similar personalities. I think we connected on the kind of stuff that inspires us and the kind of media we consume and stuff like that. And I was obviously a huge fan of his show. It took me a minute to figure out who he really was because I had this idea from watching his show and and it just took me a moment to kind of separate that from who Nathan actually is. He's very smart and sensitive and has a very good work ethic and just does not settle. The intensity he brings to a project is really cool and the show would have been a mess if I was the only person at the head of it. Together, we set what the rules were for the show and that was a really cool thing to understand what our value systems were and pairing those together.
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Art enthusiasts can enjoy two new public murals in the ever-expanding outdoor picture gallery that now includes 18 works under the aegis of Downtown Little Rock Partnership.
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During their Aug. 1 meeting, City Commissioners will consider the final plat of West Ridge phase 10. In mid-July, the city planning board reviewed the request and recommended that commissioner approve the final plat, with certain conditions. The property is 12.62 acres located along 42nd Avenue Northeast between the Thaniel Addition and 4th Street Northeast.…
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During their Aug. 1 meeting, City Commissioners will consider the final plat of West Ridge phase 10.
In mid-July, the city planning board reviewed the request and recommended that commissioner approve the final plat, with certain conditions.
The property is 12.62 acres located along 42nd Avenue Northeast between the Thaniel Addition and 4th Street Northeast.
The phase 10 subdivision is part of a planned 11-phase development that is being platted over a number of years.
Commissioners approved the annexation of the entire property in 2015 and assigned R-3 single0family high density zoning.
In 2017, the developer asked to change the zoning to planned unit development so they could build two-unit townhomes.
City Commission holding public hearing on next West Ridge phase [2022]
In October of 2022, commissioner amended the PUD to allow the developer to construct four-plex multi-family units.
The preliminary plat was approved in the fall and since that time, the developer received permits to initiate construction of public utilities and the street network.
Now the developer is ready to file the final plat and start selling lots for development, according to the staff report.
Phase 10 of the West Ridge development will include single family homes, two-unit townhomes and four-plex multi-family units.
City board recommends approval of next West Ridge housing phase [2022]
This phase will create 40 new lots with 70 total dwelling units, according to city staff.
The lots range from 8,417 to 8,445-square feet for the two-unit townhomes; 10,650 to 11,005-square feet for the single family lots, all of which are located on 42nd Avenue Northeast between 2nd and 4th Street Northeast; the four-plex lots west of 2nd Street Northeast range from 13,473 to 13,709-square feet.
The new phase will include the connection to existing city streets through the extension of 2nd Street Northeast and 4th Street Northeast; and the construction of 42nd Street Northeast. The project also includes sidewalks that will be constructed as lots are sold and connect to existing sidewalks.
Next West Ridge phase advancing with plans for 18 lots, including townhomes [2017]
One of those conditions is that the West Ridge developers are responsible for the permanent stormwater facility that will be privately owned and maintained.
The improvement agreement between the West Ridge developers and the city outlines the developer’s stormwater requirements and envisions the construction of a regional stormwater facility on a separate parcel with a shared cost arrangement between West Ridge, Thaniel and the city.
As the West Ridge developers planned the previous phase, they asked the city to build a permanent stormwater detention pond onsite that would be a private facility to treat just West Ridge. That request was approved in 2021 and the developer is constructing that facility now.
NWGF’s Thaniel Addition project shrinking slightly in favor of plans for new project south of city [2018]
The property has already been annexed and services are already being provided by the city and an increase in lots adds to the city’s tax base, according to the staff report.
Per the 2015 annexation agreement, the city has invested more than $1.4 million toward a sewer lift station and force main that serves the West Ridge and Thaniel subdivisions. Under the agreement, the developers will reimburse the city as lots are brought to the market, according to the staff report, and for the remaining phases of West Ridge, the developer is required to reimburse the city for those sewer improvements on a per acre basis. The West Ridge developers are also to continue their park in lieu of payments to the city Park and Recreation Department.
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City Commissioners told staff to move forward with remodeling the Missouri Room in the Civic Center for Municipal Court during a July work session and during their Aug. 1 meeting, they'll consider a design contract for the project. Commissioners will be asked to approve a $321,950 contract for a design contract with Cushing Terrell, which…
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City Commissioners told staff to move forward with remodeling the Missouri Room in the Civic Center for Municipal Court during a July work session and during their Aug. 1 meeting, they’ll consider a design contract for the project.
Commissioners will be asked to approve a $321,950 contract for a design contract with Cushing Terrell, which already provided preliminary designs.
The contract will be funded by with American Rescue Plan Act funds, according to city staff.
City Commission OKs moving forward with Missouri Room renovation for courtrooms
Cushing Terrell provided preliminary designs for the Missouri Room that commissioners reviewed in April.
They provided updated designs during a July work session.
“Through months of consultation with interested parties, the project team and the City Commission decided that the best option for the city court needs was to move the court to the second floor of the Civic Center, where the Missouri Room is currently,” according to the staff report.
City continuing discussion of turning Missouri Room into court space
Commissioners identified the court remodel or relocation project as a top tier project for American Rescue Plan Act funds during an April 2022 meeting.
The city set aside $3.5 million for the project.
Historic preservation board opposes use of Missouri Room for court space
The Municipal Court is currently located in the Civic Center basement where it’s running out of space for existing staff, doesn’t have much room to add a second court for the new judge and has frequent water issues, according to court staff.
Members of the joint city-county Historic Preservation Advisory Commission opposed the use of the Missouri Room and asked commissioners to consider other options.
City considering remodeling Missouri Room for court space
City officials have looked at multiple options to relocate the court over the last decade, “but a viable opportunity to do so never materialized, due to space or budget constraints,” according to the staff report.
The design contract includes the necessary architectural, mechanical and electrical construction documents to enable construction bidding, as well as allowances for asbestos testing, consulting with a sound engineer, construction administration and some preliminary design options for the basement layout once the court moves upstairs.
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These small urban farms across the city are making fresh produce more accessible and teaching Oaklanders how to grow their own food.
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In backyards, vacant lots, parks, and on rooftops, Oakland farmers are working to increase access to healthy food in the city’s most food-insecure neighborhoods.
City-specific data on food security is limited because Oakland doesn’t have its own public health department. But what we do know is that affording a healthy and well-balanced diet can be challenging for many working-class people in Oakland.
Research from the Alameda County Food Bank shows that it takes a family of four $92,267 annually to meet their basic household needs in the Oakland metro area, while 65% of their clients have incomes less than $28,290.
According to the nonprofit Healthy Alameda County, neighborhoods in West and East Oakland demonstrated the highest need. And Elizabeth Esparza, co-director of the nonprofit organization Hope Collaborative, told The Oaklandside that her organization estimated the food insecurity rates in 2019 to be somewhere between 35-60% in West Oakland, and 20-40% percent in East Oakland. By comparison, they found the rates to be 12-20% in the Oakland hills.
Esparza, who leads the Hope Collaborative’s food justice work, believes that urban farming can help address the problem. This is why the group is currently working to help Oakland residents establish home gardens.
“One thing we could definitely use is more spaces to grow,” she said.
The four farms profiled below are doing more than just feeding Oakland’s residents—members are invoking Oakland’s history of radical food justice work, spearheaded by the Black Panther Party in the late ‘60s, by rethinking conventional food systems and returning land to marginalized communities.
This is not an exhaustive list of farms in Oakland, but rather a representation of just a few that are working to feed, educate, and unite Oaklanders through plants.
Freedom Farm
Kenyata Dibiase, farm educator, at Homies Empowerment’s Freedom Farm in East Oakland on July 26, 2023. Credit: Florence Middleton
Near the foothills of deep East Oakland, seven and eight-foot tall sunflowers hang over a steel fence along 106th and MacArthur Boulevard. While cars whizz by, a sense of calm resides within the boundaries of the Homies Empowerment Freedom Farm.
Kenyata Dibiase, the farm educator, rides his bike five blocks every morning from his house to the farm to tend to over 20 garden boxes full of kale, spinach, tomato, onion, and more.
Dibiase says that farming isn’t a big part of the culture in his neighborhood, so he and other employees at Homies Empowerment, a grassroots, community-led organization, use the Freedom Farm as a tool to increase access to healthy food and set an example of what kinds of foods can be grown and how.
“Not only do we give away free food, but we love to give away the knowledge of how to grow food really cheaply, where to find it, and why it’s good for them,” Dibiase said.
In response to high rates of food insecurity in East Oakland, Homies Empowerment, which provides social services to youth, started the farm a little more than a year ago in May. The farm has 28 wooden boxes that anyone can use to grow food, and can provide soil, seeds, and water. The lot has a fire pit and an outdoor classroom, and an outdoor kitchen is in the works.
At separate locations in East Oakland, Homies also operates a care center that offers clothes and other household items, and the Freedom store, which distributes food, including produce from the farm. The Freedom School, an independent high school designed for youth affected by systemic oppression, opens this September.
Two long rows of boxes are tended by families from Central America who use the space to grow culturally relevant plants. Florentina Mendoza, who works for Homies Empowerment and is part of the indigenous Mam community from Guatemala, uses her boxes to grow corn, chayote, and other plants native to her country.
“We have a lot of people who are recent immigrants,” Dibiase said. “They see the box as a total benefit and want to come immediately and use them.”
But most of the boxes are currently being planted by Homies employees and others who don’t live in the neighborhood. Dibiase said it’s been difficult to attract members of the East Oakland community, which is a USDA-designated food desert, to use the boxes.
“This is a really big part of food justice,” Dibiase said. “How do you get people to know that they need some justice?”
He hopes that the large sunflowers will attract folks from the neighborhood into the garden, which was a vacant lot for 20 some years before Homies leased the land from the city.
“I think if we just keep displaying a really nice place to come and hang out,” he said, “they will eventually come.”
Florentina Mendoza smells leaves from a plant native to her home country of Guatemala that is growing at Freedom Farm on July 26, 2023. Credit: Florence Middleton
Acta Non Verba
Founder and Executive Director Kelly Carlise started Acta Non Verba in 2010 to address high crime, drop-out rates and food insecurity in Oakland. The organization operates four farms—two in East Oakland and two in West—with the hopes of educating the city’s youth about food systems, getting kids outside, and increasing access to healthy food.
According to the organization, 99% of students at two of the schools where Acta Non Verba has programs—Acorn Woodland and Encompass Academy—qualify for free or reduced lunches.
“I recently learned that…I too could grow food with just my hands,” Carlisle said. “I started Acta Non Verba so kids could feel the same level of excitement, like ‘Oh shit, I grew something!’”
Acta Non Verba operates a six-week summer day camp, and while it’s designed for kids ages five to 15, people of any age are welcome. The organization also runs an after school program, a leadership program for middle and high-schoolers, and open farm days for anyone to volunteer.
The group’s farms in East Oakland’s Tassafaronga Park and another in West Oakland that it shares with City Slicker Farms, are open to the public Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Aaron De La Cerda, Acta Non Verba’s deputy director, said they are looking for more consistent volunteers, especially at Tassafaronga Farm. They also run Wild Farm, a one-eighth acre plot next to the West Oakland BART station, and another plot of similar size at the Oakland Coliseum.
All farms are open for harvesting by the public on a “take what you need, leave what you can” basis.
While the farms operate as classrooms and models for how to grow food, De La Cerda emphasizes the need to use them as efficient engines of food production.
“We definitely differentiate between urban farms and community gardens,” De La Cerda said. “We’re not doing this for leisure, we’re pursuing a mission to educate and feed.”
Canticle Farm
Inside of Canticle Farm, an urban garden and educational center in the Fruitvale neighborhood in Oakland, Calif. on Jul 28, 2023. Credit: Amir Aziz
On a quiet block in Fruitvale, residents at the intentional community, Canticle Farm, are expressing their own unique pursuit to educate and feed.
Beyond a small wooden fence, wild lettuce and elderberry share space with patches of Swiss chard flourishing near fig trees. A sign labeled “community offerings” hangs above a basket full of green beans.
Canticle Farm, which lies in the middle of ten houses, is as intentional as it is wild. Oona Valle, one of some 40 residents who call the farm home, says Canticle celebrates itself as a place for people to engage in their own “soul work.” Valle, a Latina gardener and herbalist who has lived on the property on and off since 2019, describes her soul work as “building bridges and welcoming newcomers.”
Valle uses Canticle to coordinate a sanctuary program for new immigrants and asylum seekers looking for support in their transition—offering retreats on the land to heal from the migratory process, English classes, and more. She connects her work with migrants to her role as a gardener and herbalist at Canticle by transforming ideologies around invasive species.
“In terms of land tending, a lot of what I do is welcoming newcomers,” Valle said. “Supporting people who are also coming from diaspora or people who are not native to these lands, and supporting us to be in a deeper reckoning of what it is to come from settler lineages.”
Instead of removing weeds or spraying pesticides, she runs a monthly workshop, “Transforming Invasives,” centered around learning the story of non-native plants and how they can be useful to the community. Valle gave the example of wild lettuce, a plant with unknown origins that grows everywhere from people’s backyards to the cracks in a sidewalk, as a species not commonly recognized as medicinal.
“Wild lettuce is a medicine that is really good for supporting sleep and chronic pain,” Valle said. “Harriet Tubman leaned heavily on that plant when she was liberating formerly enslaved people from the south.”
Valle describes the whole property as an apothecary. In addition to wild lettuce, they cultivate a vast array of medicinal plants including elderberry, which is known to support immunity, comfrey, which has been used to treat bruises, burns, and inflammation, and mullein, which is associated with skin health. Canticle distributes herbal medicine to members of the community upon request for no charge.
Elderberry is one of the medicinal plants growing at Canticle farm. Credit: Amir Aziz
Canticle also distributes food that would otherwise be in the waste stream every Thursday, in addition to giving away excess foods from the property, like oranges, tomatoes, and plums.
In addition to cultivating food, medicine, and community, one of the main goals at Canticle is to acknowledge trauma associated with farming and to decolonize relationships to land.
“A lot of first-gen folks coming from Latin America, from Haiti, from different parts of the world, from East Asia, are subjected to working in the fields in an extremely extractive environment that is based off and still replicating the model of slavery that is the foundation of the system in this country,” Valle said. “Having the opportunity to grow and interact with land in a way that’s not extractive…I think that’s going to bring so much healing.”
Rooftop Medicine Farm
Farmer Zee Husain at Rooftop Medicine Farm in Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood on July 26, 2023. Credit: Florence Middleton
Atop a Rockridge apartment building with a Whole Foods on the first floor, the nonprofit organization Deep Medicine Circle is operating Oakland’s largest rooftop farm under a similar framework as Canticle—to de-commodify and decolonize food systems by empowering Black, Indigenous, and Latinx farmers, and making nutritional produce available to all.
The Rooftop Medicine Farm is part of a greater project they call “farming as medicine,” which addresses health disparities among BIPOC communities by growing organic food in biodiverse soil. Rupa Marya, the organization’s founder, said that growing food from an agro-ecological framework can help address injustice.
“If we want a food system that works for the people, we want one that creates a healthy climate, a healthy environment, creates clean air, clean water, and clean soil,” Marya said. “That is agro-ecology.”
Marya is also a physician at the UCSF Parnassus campus and co-author of the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice with Raj Patel.
The Rooftop Medicine Farm provides food to several different organizations, including POOR Magazine in deep East Oakland, which distributes free food every Thursday at noon, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, and The People’s House in West Oakland, which is run by the Anti-Police Terror Project.
Last year, the farm grew and gave away 18,000 pounds of food, and this year, they expect to give away between 20,000 and 25,000 thousand pounds. They grow around 50 different types of culturally specific crops, all requested by the communities they serve, including fenugreek, bok choy, okra, and several varieties of squash from different countries.
Vic Chavez, left, and Sonny Parasimo cover some of the plants growing at Rooftop Medicine Farm on July 26, 2023, to protect them from birds and create a warm environment for growing. Credit: Florence Middleton
Marya believes that the city of Oakland should prioritize urban farming as a tool to address high rates of food insecurity, and she recommended daylighting water bodies like Temescal Creek to support a system of farms.
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Oakland residents are invited to give input on the qualities they’d like to see in the next chief of police.
The Police Commission is hosting four upcoming in-person forums in North Oakland, Fruitvale, East Oakland, and West Oakland, plus a virtual Zoom forum.
August 5, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. at the Golden Gate Branch Library, 5606 San Pablo Avenue
August 5, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. at the César E. Chávez Branch Library, E. 12th Street, Suite 271
August 9, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Zoom meeting. Link: https://us02web.zoom. us/j/87660938438 or dial in: +1 669 444 9171Webinar ID: 876 6093 8438
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August 12 , 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. at the West Oakland Branch Library, 1801 Adeline Street
The commission is also seeking feedback through an online survey in English, Spanish, or Chinese.
Under the City Charter, Oakland’s Police Commission has the job of selecting four candidates for the job of police chief, and forwarding this list to the mayor, who will make the final selection.
Oakland has been without a police chief since February when Mayor Sheng Thao fired LeRonne Armstrong after an independent investigation found he was grossly derelict in his duty to hold subordinate officers accountable for misconduct. Since then, the department has been run in an interim capacity by Darren Allison.
Earlier this month, the Police Commission hired a recruitment consulting firm to help it identify potential candidates for the job.
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I was born and grew up in the East Bay. We have seen a lot of change in the last 10 years. A lot of great new places have opened, but we have also lost so many beloved establishments.
What I covet most are the big, spacious cafes where you could sit for hours and work or do nothing — or a little of both.
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HONG KONG (AP) — The discovery of a whale carcass in Hong Kong waters Monday sparked an outpouring of grief on social media, with many comments blaming the mammal's death on sightseers.
Many residents speculated that the dead mammal was the same whale that had been attracting groups of sightseers since it was first spotted in the city’s waters in mid-July.
Compass Chan, scientific officer of Ocean Park Conservation Foundation Hong Kong, didn't confirm whether it was the same whale. But he said an initial check of the dead whale found a new wound on its back, in addition to two old wounds.
“It's a pity," Chan said at a media briefing. "I think it’s a good opportunity for everyone to think seriously about how we should get along with other species in nature.”
The whale's cause of death would have to be confirmed by a necropsy, he said.
The carcass was in found in the waters in Sai Kung — a district known for its hiking trails, beaches and islands. Many residents blamed the death on sightseers who have flocked to those waters since a whale was spotted there about two weeks ago. Some posted a Canto-pop song whose title translates as “Whale Eater."
The foundation had released a statement last week saying that crowds of people had been seen approaching the animal, which was believed to be a Bryde's whale of about seven meters (23 feet) long. The foundation said at the time that the whale had propeller wounds and that nearby human activity could cause it stress and have life-threatening consequences.
The government said Monday night that the necropsy might take several days and that its results could help shape future policy for how to deal with whales in Hong Kong waters.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A brightly flashing "X" sign has been removed from the San Francisco headquarters of the company formerly known as Twitter just days after it was installed.
The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection said Monday it received 24 complaints about the unpermitted structure over the weekend. Complaints included concerns about its structural safety and illumination.
The Elon Musk-owned company, which has been rebranded as X, had removed the Twitter sign and iconic blue bird logo from the building last week. That work was temporarily paused because the company did not have the necessary permits. For a time, the “er” at the end of “Twitter” remained up due to the abrupt halt of the sign takedown.
The city of San Francisco had opened a complaint and launched an investigation into the giant "X" sign, which was installed Friday on top of the downtown building as Musk continues his rebrand of the social media platform.
The chaotic rebrand of Twitter's building signage is similar to the haphazard way in which the Twitter platform is being turned into X. While the X logo has replaced Twitter on many parts of the site and app, remnants of Twitter remain.
Representatives for X did not immediately respond to a message for comment Monday.
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PHOENIX (AP) — A record string of daily highs over 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) in Phoenix ended Monday as the dangerous heat wave that suffocated the Southwest throughout July receded slightly with cooling monsoon rains.
The historic heat began blasting the region in June, stretching from Texas across New Mexico and Arizona and into California's desert. Phoenix and its suburbs sweltered more and longer than most, with several records including the 31 consecutive days of 110 degrees Fahrenheit-plus (43.4 degrees Celsius) weather. The previous record was 18 straight days, set in 1974.
The streak was finally broken Monday, when the high topped out at 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42.2 Celsius) at 3:10 p.m.
“The high temperature for Phoenix today is 108 degrees,” Jessica Leffel, meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said at 5 p.m.
“The record streak of 31 straight days of 110+ degree temperatures has ended.,” the weather service said on social media. “The high temperature at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport reached 108 degrees this afternoon, which is only 2 degrees above normal.”
The reprieve was expected to be brief, with the forecast calling for highs again above 110 for several days later in the week. And National Weather Service meteorologist Matthew Hirsch said August could be even hotter than July.
But residents and visitors were taking what they could get.
“It’s not going to last more than a couple of days, but I’m enjoying this break,” said Christine Bertaux, 76, who was cooling off Monday at a downtown day center for older people who are homeless.
“It has been REALLY hot here!” said Jeffrey Sharpe, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, who was in town for a long weekend that on Monday included watching his son’s two poodles frolic in a grassy dog park. “But today it was about 85 degrees, more like Wisconsin.”
Phoenix also sweated through a record 16 consecutive days when overnight lows didn't dip below 90 degrees (32.2 degrees Celsius), making it hard for people to cool off after the sun went down.
In California, Death Valley, long considered the hottest place on Earth, flirted in July with some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded, reaching 125.6 degrees Fahrenheit (52.5 Celsius) on July 16 at the aptly named Furnace Creek.
The planet's hottest recorded temperature ever was 134 F (56.67 C) in July 1913 at Furnace Creek, according to the World Meteorological Organization, the body recognized as keeper of world records.
And in Nevada, also on July 16, Las Vegas briefly reached 116 degrees (46.6 degrees Celsius) to tie the record for that date set in 1998.
The heat in Phoenix began to ease slightly last week with the city's first major storm since the monsoon season began June 15.
The Southwest heat wave was just one kind of extreme weather events that hit the U.S. in July. Fatal flash floods swept people and cars away in Pennsylvania, and days of flooding led to dangerous mudslides in the Northeast.
At several points during the month, as many as a third of Americans were under some type of heat advisory, watch or warning. While not as visually dramatic as other natural disasters, experts say heat waves are deadlier — heat in parts of the South and Midwest killed more than a dozen people in June.
Rudy Soliz, who manages the center where Bertaux was cooling off, said those who visit to get a meal and cool off out of the sun “have been having a very hard time this summer.”
“Older people have a harder time with the heat, there are a lot of diabetics, people who take medicines,” he said.
“The heat has been pretty bad this summer. We’ve made at least five 911 calls from here this July for people who got heat stroke,” said Soliz. “They’ve found a couple of bodies around here this month but it’s not clear yet if they died from the heat.”
Maricopa County, Arizona's most populous and home to Phoenix, reported 25 heat-related deaths this year as of July 21. Another 249 deaths are listed as under investigation, and results from toxicological tests that can take weeks or months after an autopsy could lead to many being confirmed as heat-related.
Maricopa County reported 425 heat-associated deaths in all of 2022, with more than half in July.
R. Glenn Williamson, a businessman who was born in Canada but has lived in Phoenix for years, said he really noticed a temperature difference Monday morning as he washed his car in his driveway.
“Now we have to get rid of the humidity!” Williamson said. “But honestly, I’d rather have this heat than a Montreal winter.”
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Greece’s prime minister said Monday that his government wants to take full advantage of a developing positive political climate with neighboring Turkey in order to improve bilateral relations despite a string of decades-old disputes.
But Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that doesn’t mean Turkey has “substantially changed” its stance on key differences between the two countries and needs to “decisively abandon its aggressive and unlawful conduct” against Greece’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Turkey and Greece remain at odds over maritime boundaries in the eastern Mediterranean, a dispute that affects irregular migration into the European Union, mineral rights and the projection of military power.
Mitsotakis said that he agreed with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11-12 to initiate new “lines of communication” and to maintain “a period of calm.”
High-level talks between the the two countries are expected to take place in the Greek city of Thessaloniki later this year.
However, the Greek prime minister said that Erdogan’s outreach to the EU can't come at the expense of efforts to heal Cyprus’ nearly half-century ethnic division.
Speaking after talks with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides, Mitsotakis said that he told Erdogan that improved European-Turkish ties can’t exclude a Cyprus peace accord and that the issue can't be “left by the wayside.”
Turkey and the breakaway Turkish Cypriots have insisted on a two-state solution since July 2017 when the most recent round of U.N.-facilitated peace talks collapsed.
That position overturned a long-standing agreement sanctioned by the U.N. Security Council in numerous resolutions that any peace deal would aim for a reunified Cyprus as a federation made up of Greek and Turkish speaking zones.
Cyprus was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded following a coup by supporters of union with Greece. Only Turkey recognizes a Turkish Cypriot declaration of independence in the island’s northern third, where more than 35,000 Turkish troops are stationed.
On Friday, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar repeated that peace talks could resume only if Greek Cypriots recognize the Turkish Cypriots’ “sovereign equality.”
Christodoulides said Monday that any improvement in European-Turkish relations should be based on reciprocal action by Turkey, adding that the EU prioritizes a Cyprus peace deal in line with U.N. resolutions.
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A Waynesville man has been arrested and charged with entering the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6 riot.
Dean Robert Harshman, 36, was charged in federal court in a complaint filed in the District of Columbia with obstruction or impeding an official proceeding, a felony, as well as knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or ground;, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building, all misdemeanors, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia in a release.
Harshman was arrested Monday and made his first appearance in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
According to court documents, Harshman traveled to Washington D.C. on Jan 6, 2021 to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally before walking to the Capitol building and joining the rioters, finally entering the broken Senate Wing door, walking through the building, entering and filming inside an office near the Capitol Crypt and finally leaving the building through the door he came in through.
Documents also said that Harshman recorded much of his actions on his cellphone.
While outside of the building, a video shows him shouting “This is the stuff they ain’t gonna show you on TV!” as rioters move past security barriers near the Peace Circle area and the Pennsylvania Walkway, according to court documents.
The documents said that Harshman then made his way to the Upper West Plaza, where he stood near a line of police officers and talked with other rioters about the officers and the need to push past law enforcement.
According to the release, this case is being investigated by the FBI’s Cincinnati and Washington Field Offices with the assistance of the U.S. Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police Department. The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Department of Justice National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section with the help of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio.
Harshman is one of more than a dozen people connected to the greater Dayton area who have been charged in the Jan. 6 riot.
This includes Jessica Watkins and Donovan Crowl of Champaign County; Brandon and Stephanie Miller of Bradford; Bennie and Sandra Parker of Morrow; David Mehaffie of Kettering; Jared Samuel Kastner of Beavercreek; Kenneth Duncan Massie, who was arrested in Dayton; Terry Lindsey of Piqua; Timothy Hart of Huber Heights; Walter Messer of Englewood; and Therese Borgerding of Piqua.
Nationwide, more than 1,069 people have been arrested on crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capital, the release said, including more than 350 who were charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Known for smart, savvy moves to improve their roster, the Guardians pulled off a puzzling one on Monday.
The Rays made one out of desperation.
In the midst of a tight playoff race, Cleveland traded Aaron Civale, the club's hottest pitcher and one of baseball's best over the past month, to Tampa Bay for minor league prospect Kyle Manzardo, currently sidelined with a shoulder injury.
Despite being neck and neck with Minnesota in the AL Central, the Guardians dealt Civale, who can help them defend their division title, for the 23-year-old Manzardo with no proven major league record.
"This was a really tough trade to make,” said Chris Antonetti, the club's president of baseball operations. “But we did feel it was a unique opportunity to acquire someone like Kyle. It came at a steep cost, but we do feel we have some options to turn to.”
Civale's name has been thrown around in trade speculation for weeks, which has coincided with the 28-year-old right-hander pitching as well as he has in several seasons. Civale went 3-0 with a 1.45 ERA in six July starts and worked six scoreless innings Sunday in a win over the Chicago White Sox to improve to 5-2.
The Rays have had their share of pitching problems this season, and Civale gives them another solid starter for the playoff push. Tampa Bay entered the week 1 1/2 games behind first-place Baltimore in the AL East and leading the wild-card standings by four games.
“He's got some postseason experience. And he knows how to win. I think that's what helps,” Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash said in New York.
Civale is expected to join the Rays at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday and make his Tampa Bay debut Saturday in Detroit. He will replace rookie Taj Bradley in the rotation. Bradley was optioned to Triple-A Durham on Monday, and the Rays recalled right-handed reliever Ryan Thompson.
“This was the most obvious need that we had,” Tampa Bay president of baseball operations Erik Neander said on a Zoom call. “This was the big item for us. If we’re going to pay a big price it makes sense to do it for someone you have a chance to keep around for more than a few months.”
The Rays have been short on starters with Jeffrey Springs and Drew Rasmussen suffering season-ending injuries, and Shane McClanahan and Tyler Glasnow missing time.
Civale slots into a rotation that includes McClanahan, Glasnow and Zach Eflin, who had an MRI on his left knee last week but remains on track to pitch Tuesday against the Yankees.
"I’ve seen his name on ESPN recently about a pretty good month of July, so that makes me excited," Rays second baseman Brandon Lowe said before the opener of a three-game series against the Yankees. “Hopefully he comes in and doesn’t miss a beat and keeps doing exactly what he’s been doing. No more pressure than what he’s been dealing with over in Cleveland."
Tampa Bay's starters have been effective — their collective 3.75 ERA ranks second in the majors behind the Padres — but they’ve also left a lot of work for the bullpen by working just 509 innings, 26th in the majors entering this week.
“I feel like our pitching has done a really good job to date, and we just added another one that's good,” Cash said. “If we can keep him healthy along with the other guys, we should be OK.”
The Guardians have dealt with injuries to their rotation all season and are currently missing ace Shane Bieber, Triston McKenzie and Cal Quantrill. While the move with Civale creates a major pitching void for Cleveland, president of baseball operations Chris Antonetti said getting a player of Manzardo's stature was more important.
Antonetti said it's possible the Guardians could make more trades before Tuesday's deadline to address their pitching issues. The team has leaned on rookies Tanner Bibee, Logan Allen and Gavin Williams for much of the season, but all are nearing inning limits in their first major league seasons.
Noah Syndergaard, acquired last week in a trade with the Dodgers, could help. The oft-injured right-hander is making his debut for the Guardians on Monday in Houston.
Manzardo, 23, was named Tampa Bay's top minor leaguer in 2022 after hitting .327 with 22 homers and 81 RBIs in 93 games between Class A and Double-A. Antonetti expects Manzardo to be playing in minor league games by the end of the season.
Cleveland has been in the market for a young power hitter for some time. The team is hoping Manzardo can end that search.
“The industry holds Kyle in high regard and we think he can develop into a really good offensive player and he’s a guy that’s near or close to the major leagues at some point in the next few seasons,” Antonetti said. “Those guys are not easy to acquire and so we made the choice in this case as we surveyed the landscape, but this is the right path forward for us.”
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe's economy has grown modestly after months of stagnation, but higher interest rates designed to fight inflation are casting a shadow as they make it more expensive for households and businesses to borrow, invest and spend.
The 20 countries that use the euro currency and their 346 million people saw 0.3% growth in the April-to-June period, compared with the first three months of the year, the EU statistics agency Eurostat reported Monday.
That's an improvement over zero growth in the first quarter and a slight decline in fourth quarter of last year — but not by much. Plus, one-time factors and an outsized bump from Ireland made things look better than they really were.
The eurozone got a boost by 0.5% growth in France and 0.4% in Spain, where lower inflation has helped lift consumer spending power.
Yet the French figure was increased by the delivery of one very large manufactured item — a cruise ship. That statistical quirk flattered French growth but does little to disguise weak demand for goods in the eurozone’s second-largest economy.
Ireland's growth of 3.3%, largest in the eurozone, also distorted the overall picture. Its growth figures often show large swings due to major international companies housing their headquarters there, including tech giants like Meta, Google and Apple.
Without Ireland, euro-area growth would have been only 0.1%, said Franziska Palmas, senior Europe economist at Capital Economics.
The overall figure “was driven by a few country idiosyncrasies and masks an underlying momentum that is likely much closer to stagnation,” said Marc de Muizon, senior European analyst at Deutsche Bank Research.
Europe's largest economy, Germany, struggled in the second quarter, recording zero growth after two straight quarters of falling output as it grappled with high energy costs tied to Russia's war in Ukraine. Italy, the No. 3 economy, shrank by 0.3%.
The eurozone growth figures for the first quarter were revised from a decline of 0.1%, statistically erasing what had been two straight quarters of contraction — one definition of recession.
Inflation in the eurozone, meanwhile, continued its gradual decline, falling to 5.3% in July from 5.5% in June.
Europe is still struggling with the aftershocks of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including Moscow cutting off most of its natural gas to the continent that sharply raised prices for the fuel and the electricity it generates.
In Germany, Europe’s manufacturing powerhouse, Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck has proposed capping energy prices for industry with government help.
The worst of the price spike is over, but costs are still higher than before the war began. Energy has faded as a main driver of inflation, but price rises are hitting Europeans when they shop for groceries, clothes and more, and the rebound for services companies — such as hotels and restaurants that suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic — has mostly run its course.
Food prices rose 10.8% in July from a year earlier, an improvement from June and previous months but still a pain point for households. Energy, meanwhile, kept dropping, falling 6.1%. Stripping out volatile food and energy prices, core inflation held steady at 5.5% — a key indicator that has not fallen as much as central bankers want.
In a bright spot for Europe, rebounding travel, especially in the Mediterranean countries that heavily rely on tourism, is expected to support growth in the upcoming third quarter as people flock to the beach for their summer holidays in Greece, Spain and Italy, despite recent heat waves and wildfires.
Other than that, prospects for the rest of the year are muted. Another drag on the economy is the rapid series of interest rate increases that the European Central Bank has unleashed to knock down inflation.
The ECB made its ninth straight hike Thursday, bringing its key deposit rate from minus 0.5% to 3.75% in just one year, a record pace since the creation of the euro in 1999. The result has been higher mortgage rates and canceled construction plans due to expensive or unavailable credit.
The central bank’s lending survey shows the lowest level of business loans and credit lines since the statistics started in 2003.
Bank President Christine Lagarde left open whether the bank will keep hiking rates at its next meeting on Sept. 14, saying the decision will depend on incoming inflation data.
Since the rate hikes began, inflation has steadily fallen from a peak of 10.6% in October, but July's figure of 5.3% is still well above the ECB’s 2% target.
Bank officials say tough action now will spare even more painful restriction of credit later if inflation gets completely out of control.
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Poor track conditions that should have been flagged by a freight railroad company's inspectors caused the derailment of an Amtrak train in Montana that killed three people and injured 49 others in 2021, federal investigators said Thursday in a final report.
The severity of the injuries were made worse by the Amtrak train’s lack of seatbelts and windows that weren’t strong enough to keep passengers from being ejected when the train derailed, the National Transportation Safety Board found.
Amtrak’s Empire Builder derailed Sept. 25, 2021, in northern Montana while it was en route from Chicago to Seattle and Portland, Oregon, with 165 people on board, including its crew. It was traveling on tracks owned by BNSF Railway.
Six people were ejected from the train's observation car, which has larger windows and was one of three cars that ended up on its side. One person who had been riding in the observation car died, as did two people who were in the vestibule between the observation car and the car behind it, the NTSB said.
Had the combination of wear and damage to the railroad track been noticed by BNSF Railway inspectors, the railroad would have been able to address the issue before the derailment occurred, the report found. Investigators also found that a train inspector’s workload likely prevented him from doing a timely walking inspection of the area before the derailment.
That inspector had worked an average of 13 hours a day in the four weeks prior to the incident, and the last walking inspection of the area had been done two years before the derailment, the report found.
The inspector had noticed problems with the joints on the tracks during a riding inspection two days before the derailment, but he and a manager didn’t stop to check out the joints. BNSF had also ordered trains to go no faster than 50 mph in that area seven times in the two months before the derailment — a period in which it was replacing railroad ties.
The poor track conditions included a worn rail, vertical track deflection, misalignment and instability in the rail bed, the report found. The NTSB said BNSF’s lack of action indicated “a shortcoming in its safety culture.”
“This tragedy is a powerful reminder that there’s no substitute for robust track inspection practices, which can prevent derailments by identifying track conditions that may deteriorate over time,” said NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy.
BNSF railroad spokesperson Lena Kent defended the company's inspection record and touted its use of advanced technology that alerts personnel to dangerous track conditions.
“We are committed to timely maintenance, repair and replacement whenever issues or potential issues are detected,” Kent said in an emailed statement.
Marc Magliari, a spokesperson for Amtrak, said in a statement that “Amtrak appreciates the opportunity to participate in the investigation and we will review the recommendations. Amtrak will continue to work with all stakeholders to improve rail safety for the traveling public.”
Attorney Kristofer Riddle and the Clifford Law Firm represent a number of passengers who were on the train. Riddle said he was unsurprised by the report’s findings because damaged tracks are well-known safety concerns.
What continues to outrage him, he said, is that the same safety concerns arise after passenger train accidents without any changes. One of his clients, Justin Ruddell, was in a train car restroom when it derailed near the small town of Joplin, whipping the door open and pouring dirt and gravel atop him as he clung for dear life.
“The thing here that’s particularly egregious is this is the story that you hear after derailments time and time again,” Riddle said.
Railroad safety expert Dave Clarke, a former director of the Center for Transportation Research at the University of Tennessee, said it probably wasn’t practical for the inspector to regularly walk the track because he had such a large area to cover each day, but that walking inspections aren’t typically done all that often.
Also, it would have been hard for the inspector to identify that this combination of problems might cause a derailment because none of these issues were severe enough to be considered a defect by the Federal Railroad Administration, which regulates railroad safety. He said it would have been a judgment call for the inspector to say this combination of factors was dangerous.
“If you’ve got 50 or 60 miles to cover in a day, you’re not going to walk the track other than in specific spots where you need to cover something,” Clarke said.
Investigators also found that if a locomotive equipped with an automated vehicle-track interaction monitoring system had traveled over the area, it might have detected the deteriorating track conditions and BNSF would have had an opportunity to make repairs, or at least issue a warning to train crews to travel slowly through the area. The NTSB is recommending that all trains be equipped with that technology.
Thursday's finding follows what was revealed earlier this year in the agency's investigative documents. Investigators identified a deteriorating track based on video footage from three eastbound trains, including another Amtrak train, that traveled through the area in the hours before the westbound Amtrak train's derailment.
The problem got worse as the trains traveled over the area before the crash, the report said.
An image from video captured by the derailed train showed a nearly 3-inch (23-centimeter) misalignment in the rails, the report said.
Killed in the accident were Margie and Don Varnadoe, a Georgia couple on a cross-country trip to mark their 50th wedding anniversary, and Zachariah Schneider, 28, a software developer from Illinois.
Families of those who were killed and injured passengers have filed lawsuits against BSNF and against Amtrak.
BNSF is owned by Warren Buffett’s Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate.
Railroad unions have expressed concerns that the lean operating model all the major freight railroads have adopted has made railroads riskier because employees are spread so thin and some workers have to take care of such large territories that it's hard to keep up with preventative maintenance.
The railroads have defended their practices and don't believe they have sacrificed safety when they streamlined operations.
Railroad safety has become a hot topic this year in the wake of a fiery Ohio derailment in February and several other crashes that prompted regulators and members of Congress to propose a series of reforms.
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This story has been updated to correct spelling of Margie and Don Varnadoe, not Varnado.
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This story has been corrected to say that attorney Kristofer Riddle and his firm, Clifford Law Office represent a number of passengers who were onboard the Amtrak train.
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Metz reported from Salt Lake City. Associated Press writer Josh Funk contributed to this report from Omaha, Nebraska.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Attorneys for Nima Momeni, the tech consultant charged in the death of Cash App founder Bob Lee, said Monday that the two men had a cordial relationship and the defendant had no reason to kill him.
The comments from Momeni's lawyers came during a preliminary hearing, where the prosecution presents its evidence and a judge decides if there is enough to move ahead to trial. The hearing will continue Tuesday, when Momeni's defense is expected to lay out more of their arguments.
Prosecutors have said that Momeni, 38, planned the April 4 attack that left Lee dying on a desolate San Francisco street. They said he drove Lee to a secluded spot and stabbed him three times after a dispute related to Momeni's sister, Khazar.
But Tony Brass, one of four defense attorneys present Monday, said it was not Lee but another man whom Momeni suspected of acting inappropriately with his younger sister.
“What you see is cordial, a cordial relationship between Nima Momeni and Bob Lee,” Brass said to reporters after the hearing. “They’re in a car together. Those are not two men who have murderous rage between them.”
A friend of Lee told homicide investigators they had been hanging out and drinking with Momeni’s sister the day before the stabbing, prosecutors said previously in court documents. The friend said Momeni later questioned Lee about whether his sister was doing drugs or otherwise engaging in inappropriate behavior, and Lee said she had not.
But Saam Zangeneh, one of Momeni's lawyers, said he asked those questions of Lee in regards to the man whose apartment they had been drinking at.
Zangeneh said in court he needed to dispute the idea of an “honor killing" committed to protect a sister.
Prosecutors have not spelled out a motive, but previously offered a timeline in a case that has drawn outsize media attention, partly due to Lee's status in the tech world. Lee created Cash App, a mobile payment service, and was the chief product officer of the cryptocurrency MobileCoin.
Momeni, who has been in jail since his arrest April 13, has pleaded not guilty. He faces 26 years to life if convicted. His arrest came more than a week after Lee, 43, was found bleeding in the early morning hours of April 4. He later died at a hospital.
On Monday, Assistant District Attorney Omid Talai formally introduced evidence for his case, including photos of a knife that prosecutors say Momeni used to stab Lee, a trail of blood left by Lee as he staggered for help, and video footage showing the two men leave Momeni's sister's condo building before the stabbing.
Talai said at a May hearing that the weapon was part of a unique kitchen set belonging to Momeni's sister and that analysis showed Momeni’s DNA on the weapon's handle and Lee’s DNA on the bloody blade. Police recovered a knife with a 4-inch (10-centimeter) blade at the scene.
Zangeneh questioned why the rubber handle of the knife was tested for only DNA and not fingerprints. SFPD crime scene investigator Rosalyn Check said that it is difficult to get prints off rubber.
"When you want to see if someone’s touching something, you do fingerprint analysis, right?" he said to reporters. “And they weren’t done on the handle, which is the most important, relevant portion of who, if any, was handling that item.”
Surveillance video of Lee's final night shows him entering the posh Millennium Tower downtown, where Momeni’s sister lives with her husband, a prominent San Francisco plastic surgeon.
Video footage then shows Lee and Momeni leaving the building together shortly after 2 a.m. and driving off in Momeni’s car. Lee was found shortly after 2:30 a.m. in the Rincon Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, which has tech offices and condominiums but little activity in the early morning hours.
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BEIRUT (AP) — The Organization for Islamic Cooperation urged its member nations Monday to take action against countries that permit public burning or desecration of the Quran, including the recalling of ambassadors.
The Saudi Arabia-based group made the call in a statement following an emergency online meeting of its foreign ministers to discuss recent incidents in which the Islamic holy book was burned or otherwise defaced at officially permitted protests in Sweden and Denmark.
The organization's 57 member countries should “consider taking any necessary decisions and actions that they deem appropriate in their relations" with Sweden, Denmark, and other countries that allow such incidents, including recalling their ambassadors, the statement said.
It encouraged civil society organizations in the member states to work with counterparts in countries where the Quran has been burned or desecrated to file local lawsuits “before taking their cases to international judicial bodies, where applicable.”
It also called for more efforts at outreach to combat Islamophobia, praising Kuwait for commissioning the printing of 100,000 copies of the Quran translated into Swedish for distribution in Sweden.
Many of the points in the final statement echoed recommendations made by Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein, who also called on the United Nations to “take measures to prevent these incidents.”
Ahead of the meeting, two men who had previously burned a copy of the Quran in Sweden did so once again, in front of a crowd of a few dozen onlookers and about 20 counter-protesters.
In both Sweden and Denmark, t here is no law against blasphemy, and freedom of expression is generally held in high regard.
But as the recent Quran burnings have sparked angry demonstrations and diplomatic backlash in Muslim countries, officials in the Scandinavian countries have begun to consider whether there should be curbs on public defacement of holy books or other religious symbols.
Denmark's foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, said Sunday in an interview with Danish public broadcaster DR that the government is seeking a "legal tool" to prohibit such inflammatory acts without compromising freedom of expression.
In Sweden, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Sunday on Instagram that his government is analyzing the legal situation regarding desecration of the Quran and other holy books, given the animosity such acts are stirring up against Sweden.
Before Monday's meeting, the OIC had already suspended the status of Sweden's special envoy over the Quran burnings.
Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said in a statement that he spoke in recent days with counterparts in OIC countries to explain how Sweden's freedom of expression works and that police make independent decisions on protest applications. He added that “the government is very clear in its distance from the Islamophobic acts carried out by individuals at demonstrations in Sweden.”
The Danish foreign minister said his “government condemned and denounced the insult” to the Quran and “that it is studying this issue with great interest.”
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The cosmos is offering up a double feature in August: a pair of supermoons culminating in a rare blue moon.
Catch the first show Tuesday evening as the full moon rises in the southeast, appearing slightly brighter and bigger than normal. That’s because it will be closer than usual, just 222,159 miles (357,530 kilometers) away, thus the supermoon label.
The moon will be even closer the night of Aug. 30 — a scant 222,043 miles (357,344 kilometers) distant. Because it’s the second full moon in the same month, it will be what's called a blue moon.
“Warm summer nights are the ideal time to watch the full moon rise in the eastern sky within minutes of sunset. And it happens twice in August,” said retired NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak, dubbed Mr. Eclipse for his eclipse-chasing expertise.
The last time two full supermoons graced the sky in the same month was in 2018. It won’t happen again until 2037, according to Italian astronomer Gianluca Masi, founder of the Virtual Telescope Project.
Masi will provide a live webcast of Tuesday evening's supermoon, as it rises over the Coliseum in Rome.
“My plans are to capture the beauty of this ... hopefully bringing the emotion of the show to our viewers,” Masi said in an email.
“The supermoon offers us a great opportunity to look up and discover the sky,” he added.
This year’s first supermoon was in July. The fourth and last will be in September. The two in August will be closer than either of those.
Provided clear skies, binoculars or backyard telescopes can enhance the experience, Espenak said, revealing such features as lunar maria — the dark plains formed by ancient volcanic lava flows — and rays emanating from lunar craters.
According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the August full moon is traditionally known as the sturgeon moon. That’s because of the abundance of that fish in the Great Lakes in August, hundreds of years ago.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos braced themselves for a second straight season without their steadiest wide receiver and locker room leader after Tim Patrick was carted off the field with a left Achilles tendon injury Monday — almost a year after tearing his right ACL at training camp.
"It's a tough break for us as a team when you see something like that, a great player, a great leader," cornerback Patrick Surtain II said. "We wish him the best and just go on from there."
With an energized crowd of 3,000 looking on as the Broncos practiced in full pads for the first time, Patrick hit the ground in pain just as he came out of his cut on a short route during a seven-on-seven passing drill. He threw his helmet as teammates including Courtland Sutton and Russell Wilson rushed to his side.
The injury happened right in front of head coach Sean Payton, who was watching Patrick make an adjustment from a previous route.
“It's always difficult, especially a guy like that's a leader who's coming off an entire year of rehabilitation,” Payton said. ”It's difficult for his teammates, for all of us. So, maybe, hopefully we get some good news. But it appears it's his left Achilles."
After being carted off, Patrick entered the Broncos facility on crutches, keeping weight off his left leg.
Patrick is known for his strong work ethic and no-nonsense approach. He was one of the more notable finds by the Broncos in recent years.
Undrafted out of Utah in 2017, Patrick bounced around the Ravens' and 49ers' practice squads before arriving in Denver later that year. He became a contributor in 2018 and '19 before posting back-to-back productive seasons that earned him a three-year, $34.5 million contract extension in November 2021.
He was the team's No. 1 receiver going into last season when he tore his right ACL in a noncontact drill on Aug. 2. Two months later the Broncos lost their top running back when Javonte Williams suffered a knee injury and Denver's offense never recovered from the one-two punch, averaging a league-worst 16.9 points a game in Wilson's first year in Denver.
Like Williams, Patrick was looking for a big comeback in 2023 atop the receiver rotation alongside Sutton and Jerry Jeudy.
“When I got hired here, he was one of the guys I saw every day because he was rehabbing last year's injury,” Payton said. “So, that's what makes it more difficult.”
The Broncos do appear to be in better position to weather the loss of Patrick this year if the injury proves to be as serious as suspected.
They bolstered their receiver room, chiefly by drafting speedster Marvin Mims Jr. out of Oklahoma in the second round and signing veterans Marquez Callaway and Lil'Jordan Humphrey in free agency.
“We've just got great guys all around the receiving room, so obviously next man up situation,” Surtain said. “But Tim is a big loss, a big blow, because he brings such a presence out there on the field that many people can't compare to.”
Mims pulled a hamstring in June and suffered a setback before camp, but Monday marked his first practice of camp and Payton was encouraged: "He's feeling good. You're going to see him more and more this week. He's ramping up and we're encouraged.”
However, another receiver, KJ Hamler, who is on the mend from a torn chest muscle, was released Monday when the Broncos signed guard Yasir Durant. Hamler was releasd with a non-football illness designation. Earlier in the day, he posted on Instagram that he was diagnosed with the heart condition pericarditis "after feeling some chest pains while working out on the break before camp started." He vowed to return to the field as soon as he could "better and stronger than ever."
Notes: Payton had no comment about Aaron Rodgers' spirited defense of Jets OC Nathaniel Hackett after Payton ripped him last week for his poor head coaching job in Denver last year. "No, we're past it," said Payton, who did a mea culpa last week, saying he regretted criticizing Hackett, the Jets and members of the Broncos' front office in trying to spread the blame for Wilson's career-worst season in 2022 during an interview with USA Today.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds acquired reliever Sam Moll in a trade with the Oakland Athletics on Monday.
The addition of Moll puts another left-hander in Cincinnati's bullpen as it tries to become the first team to win a division after losing at least 100 games in the previous season. The Reds led the NL Central by a half-game over Milwaukee heading into play on Monday.
Moll, a third-round pick in the 2013 amateur draft, is 0-3 with a 4.54 ERA in 45 appearances this year. He has held lefty hitters to a .197 batting average.
The Reds got Moll and international cap space from Oakland for minor league right-hander Joe Boyle. The 6-foot-7 Boyle was selected by Cincinnati in the fifth round of the 2020 amateur draft.
To make room for Moll on the 40-man roster, the Reds transferred right-hander Hunter Greene to the 60-day injured list. Greene is coming back from right hip pain.
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A New Hampshire nurse, who has reportedly been kidnapped in Haiti, has described Haitians as “resilient people” in a video about her work for a nonprofit Christian ministry in the country.
"They're full of joy, and life and love. I'm so blessed to know so many amazing Haitians," Alix Dorsainil says in a video on the website of the ministry she works for, El Roi Haiti.
Dorsainvil and her daughter were kidnapped Thursday, the organization said in a statement over the weekend. El Roi Haiti, which runs a school and ministry in Port au Prince, said the two were taken from campus. Dorsainvil is the wife of the program’s director, Sandro Dorsainvil.
That happened the same day that the U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel advisory” in the country and ordered nonemergency personnel to leave there amid growing security concerns.
“Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family,” El Roi president and co-founder Jason Brown said in the statement. “Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus.”
A State Department spokesperson said in a statement Saturday is it “aware of reports of the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Haiti,” adding, “We are in regular contact with Haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our U.S. government interagency partners.”
The department has not issued any updates since then. Alix Dorainvil's father, Steven Comeau, reached in New Hampshire, said he could not talk.
Dorsainvil graduated from Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, which has a program to support nursing education in Haiti. Before that, she went to Cornerstone Christian Academy in Ossipee, New Hampshire.
"Pray that God would keep her safe, be with her through this trial, and deliver her from her captors," the school posted on its Facebook page.
In its advisory Thursday, the State Department said that "kidnapping is widespread, and victims regularly include U.S. citizens."
It said kidnappings often involve ransom negotiations and U.S. citizen victims have been physically harmed.
Earlier this month, the National Human Rights Defense Network issued a report warning about an upsurge in killings and kidnappings and the U.N. Security Council met to discuss Haiti's worsening situation.
In December 2021, an unidentified person paid a ransom that freed three missionaries kidnapped by a gang in Haiti under an agreement that was supposed to have led to the release of all 15 remaining captives, t heir Ohio-based organization confirmed.
The person who made the payment was not affiliated with Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries, and the workers say they don’t know who the individual is or how much was paid to the gang, which initially demanded $1 million per person. Internal conflicts in the gang, they say, led it to renege on a pledge to release all the hostages, freeing just three of them instead on Dec. 5.
The accounts from former hostages and other Christian Aid Ministries staffers, in recent recorded talks to church groups and others, were the first public acknowledgement from the organization that ransom was paid at any point following the Oct. 16 kidnapping of 16 Americans and a Canadian affiliated with CAM.
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World Wrestling Entertainment will stage its marquee mid-year event this Saturday as SummerSlam takes place at Ford Field, home of the NFL’s Detroit Lions. After WrestleMania, SummerSlam is the second-biggest show WWE produces in a calendar year and this year’s card is typically strong from top to bottom.
Brock Lesnar, who has headlined nine previous SummerSlams, faces Cody Rhodes in a match that figures to finish their trilogy, Logan Paul is back to square off with Ricochet after a series of viral moments between the two and Roman Reigns continues to battle with his own family, putting both his Universal Championship and the title of “Tribal Chief” up against his cousin Jey Uso.
Here’s everything you need to know about this year’s SummerSlam:
WWE SummerSlam ‘go-home’ Monday Night Raw
• Brock Lesnar appears • Logan Paul appears • Maxxine Dupri vs. Valhalla • Seth Rollins and Sami Zayn vs. Damian Priest and Dominik Mysterio
WWE SummerSlam 2023
Date: Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023Time: 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT (Pre-show starts at 7 p.m. ET)Site: Ford Field in Detroit
How to watch SummerSlam 2023 in the US
How to watch WWE SummerSlam outside the US:
SummerSlam 2023 match card
• Logan Paul vs. Ricochet• Ronda Rousey vs. Shayna Baszler• Brock Lesnar vs. Cody Rhodes• SummerSlam Battle Royal (Sheamus, LA Knight, TBA)• Intercontinental Championship: Gunther (c) vs. Drew McIntyre• Women's Championship: Asuka (c) vs. Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte Flair• World Heavyweight Championship: Seth Rollins (c) vs. Finn Bálor• Undisputed Universal Championship: Roman Reigns (c) vs. Jey Uso
WWE SummerSlam ‘go-home’ SmackDown card
Friday, Aug. 4 | 8 p.m. ET on Fox from the Nutter Center in Dayton, Ohio
The only announced segment for Smackdown is a singles match between the only two confirmed competitors in the SummerSlam battle royal, LA Knight and Sheamus.
• LA Knight vs. Sheamus
Storylines for WWE SummerSlam
Logan Paul vs. RicochetThese two first crossed paths in January's Royal Rumble match, staging an incredible spot with each spring-boarding halfway across the ring and clotheslining each other in mid-air.
Then, last month at the Money in the Bank ladder match, they went for another high spot that didn’t quite come off as smooth as Ricochet attempted a Spanish Fly from the top rope and put Paul through two tables. Ever since, the two have traded barbs on social media and in an in-ring segment setting up the SummerSlam blow-off.
Well, at least now he know how we all felt when he was added to the match 🤷🏽♂️ https://t.co/8S5vmRBOHF — Ricochet (@KingRicochet) July 8, 2023
Ronda Rousey vs. Shayna BaszlerBaszler, who got Rousey into the professional wrestling world to begin with, turned on her longtime friend during a women's tag team title defense at Money in the Bank, costing them the belts. When Rousey demanded an explanation two days later on Monday Night Raw, Baszler delivered a blistering promo in which she (correctly) pointed out that Rousey has had championship opportunities handed to her since she set foot in the WWE, while Baszler has had to work for every spot she's ever had. This feud has felt a bit rushed, likely because of Rousey's reported "hard out" date to exit the company.
Brock Lesnar vs. Cody RhodesLess than 24 hours after failing to capture the undisputed Universal championship from Roman Reigns at WrestleMania, Cody Rhodes was set to team with Brock Lesnar to face Reigns and Solo Sikoa on Raw. Before that match began, Lesnar attacked Rhodes and pummeled him for nearly 10 minutes until the show went off the air. Rhodes got a narrow win the following month at Backlash and then Lesnar (storyline) broke Cody's left arm during an attack on the May 22 episode of Raw. Five days later Lesnar beat Rhodes by technical submission after working over the arm most of the match. Rhodes has since spent weeks trying to get a third match and finally got it on the July 17 episode of Raw when Lesnar accepted and proceeded to pummel Cody in front of his family at ringside.
Intercontinental Championship: Gunther (c) vs. Drew McIntyreAt WrestleMania, Gunther retained the Intercontinental title in a triple-threat match against McIntyre and Sheamus in one of the best matches of the weekend. Following another successful defense over Matt Riddle at Money in the Bank, Gunther was confronted by a returning McIntyre, who hadn't been seen on TV since that WrestleMania match. Gunther formally accepted McIntyre's challenge on the July 24 episode of Raw.
Women's Championship: Asuka (c) vs. Bianca Belair vs. Charlotte FlairAsuka unsuccessfully challenged Belair for the title at WrestleMania but managed to win it at Night of Champions on May 27 thanks to a rather creative application of the blue mist. On the June 9 episode of Smackdown, Flair returned for the first time since WrestleMania to challenge Asuka, enraging Belair, who was in line for a rematch. The Flair-Asuka title match took place on June 30, with Belair interfering and laying both other women out. To resolve the issue a triple-threat was set for SummerSlam.
World Heavyweight Championship: Seth Rollins (c) vs. Finn BálorRollins won the newly introduced World Heavyweight Championship in a tournament final over AJ Styles. Soon thereafter Bálor began to stalk Rollins and demand a title match. There is history here as Bálor won the inaugural Universal Championship over Rollins at SummerSlam 2016, only to have to surrender it the next night on Raw due to an injury he suffered during the match. In promos to hype this match, Bálor has continually brought up that chapter as his motivation for targeting Rollins at this year's SummerSlam.
Undisputed Universal Championship: Roman Reigns (c) vs. Jey UsoThe Bloodline story involving members of the real-life Anoa'i wrestling family has been unfolding for more than three years at this point and has never been hotter. Since their tag-team championship loss at WrestleMania, Reigns has bullied and belittled his cousins, causing the Usos to turn on the "Tribal Chief" on the June 16 episode of SmackDown. In a tag-team match at Money in the Bank, Jey became the first person to pin Reigns in nearly three years to win the match and set up a singles encounter for the undisputed Universal Championship at SummerSlam.
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Bull shark: A bull shark tried to take a bite out of the back of a boat as fishermen attempted to catch cobia. (Joseph Prezioso/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Well, it is Shark Week.
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A fisherman said he was “shaking like an earthquake” when a bull shark recently attacked his boat in the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of Florida, USA Today reported.
Joshua Jorgensen, who hosts the BlacktipH Fishing show on YouTube from Palm Beach Gardens, used a drone to capture aerial footage of the shark bashing into the back of boat. The agitated shark thumped the boat of Jorgensen’s friend, Carl Torresson, at least eight times, Fox News reported.
Jorgensen filmed two large cobia swimming with a bull shark circling nearby, the news outlet reported. The video that Jorgensen posted to Instagram shows the fishermen casting their lines into the water -- and then the shark became aggressive.
“I was flying my drone at the beach and spotted two huge cobia swimming with a bull shark. Cobia is one of the best-tasting fish in the ocean,” Jorgensen said in the video. “So I called my buddy Carl, and he raced over to try (to) catch them.
“I was following his boat with my drone and then all of a sudden the shark attacked his engines.”
Jorgensen added that the shark initially attacked the boat five times and “then came back for more.”
The shark attacked the boats a total of eight times, Jorgensen said, according to USA Today.
“We’re thinking, you know, maybe he grabbed the propeller,” Torresson said in the video. “We weren’t expecting the damage that we had when we got back to the dock, and it was just astronomical. The whole middle of the engine’s completely ripped out. The trim tab’s broken.
“And I didn’t think a shark could actually shake a boat like that. The boat was shaking like a bag of popcorn. Like literally, I was shaking like an earthquake. I was like, what’s going on? I went back there and I noticed it was a shark doing it. I’m like, are you kidding me? This is like a ride from Universal Studios.”
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL: APR 23 Notre Dame Spring Game SOUTH BEND, IN - APRIL 23: A detail view of a Notre Dame Fighting Irish helmet is seen during the Notre Dame Blue-Gold Spring Football Game on April 23, 2022 at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, IN. (Photo by Robin Alam/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) (Icon Sportswire/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
The richest apparel deal in college athletics belongs to the Golden Dome.
Notre Dame and Under Armour are extending their relationship, agreeing to a new 10-year contract that puts the Irish at the top of college sports with a price tag of more than $10 million annually in cash and gear, sources told Yahoo Sports.
Notre Dame and Under Armour officials declined to comment.
Notre Dame, in the final year of its previous 10-year contract with Under Armour, hit the open market this spring after the expiration of the exclusive negotiating window with UA. Under Armour won a bidding war against the other top two apparel brands in the country, Adidas and Nike.
A win for UA founder and chairman Kevin Plank, UA lands one of the country’s most valuable brands again. The school and apparel brand have been partners since 2014, when UA replaced Adidas as Notre Dame’s apparel outfit in what was at the time believed to be the most lucrative apparel contract in college athletics history, a deal thought to be around $90 million.
This one exceeds that amount and vaults the Irish to the top of college sports, alongside the likes of Texas (Nike), Kansas (Adidas), Louisville (Adidas), Ohio State (Nike), Nebraska (Adidas) and Michigan (Nike) — all schools with deals believed to range from $8-$10 million a year.
Financial details of apparel contracts are not always clear. Some are not publicized and others were impacted by the COVID pandemic. But the Irish’s deal is expected to exceed all others in the market.
Apparel deals are revenue-generating giants for some of the most elite college athletic departments. In normal cases, apparel companies pay an annual licensing fee ranging from $5-10 million in cash for some of the powerhouses in college football and men’s basketball. In some deals, the school receives a cut of royalties from merchandise sales (usually 10-15%). Most agreements require the company to outfit that school’s athletic teams with $2-5 million in gear each year, as well as discounts in merchandise purchases.
Over the last several years, Under Armour has withdrawn from being a major player in college athletics. The Baltimore-based outlet has canceled deals with UCLA, Cal, Hawaii and Cincinnati, and Boston College ended its relationship with the company by signing with New Balance and Adidas.
Despite the past setbacks, Under Armour recently released figures that show its 2023 fiscal year revenue is up 3 percent to $5.9 billion. The company continues to outfit a handful of major college programs, including Auburn, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Utah and Texas Tech. But its crown jewel is Notre Dame.
Like its independence within the sport and exclusive television contract with NBC, Notre Dame officials enjoy being the apparel company’s most valuable and featured brand. But the final determination in the decision was price, and Under Armour well outpaced the other offers, sources told Yahoo Sports.
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There is skill to reading a room, and not everyone is good at it. But it doesn't take a Harvey Specter-level ability at reading people and situations (thanks, Netflix) to realize that making sexist and demeaning jokes toward a female reporter, on the air, as a member of the Washington Commanders' flagship radio station, a week after a new ownership group came in with a mandate to clean up the toxic environment around the team, is an epically dumb idea.
And yet, here we are.
While broadcasting from Commanders training camp on Thursday, sports radio host Don Geronimo (real name Michael Sorce) called out to reporter Sharla McBride by referring to her as "Barbie girl" and later as "that chick." He also assumed the reporter was a cheerleader instead of a woman trying to do her job for WUSA-9, the CBS affiliate in Washington. Geronimo and Young were initially told not to come back to camp, and after a quick "internal review," iHeart Media D.C., which owns WBIG, fired Geronimo, who had recently announced a new contract that was to take him through 2026.
McBride has blond hair and is pretty, and Barbie is definitely having a moment this summer thanks to the blockbuster movie. But McBride is a career journalist who has been in the Washington market for three years and was awarded an Emmy last month for her work at WUSA. She was at Commanders camp to do her job: deliver the news of the day to viewers.
Washington's new ownership group, led by Josh Harris, took over little more than a week before Geronimo's comments. A big part of the reason the Commanders were even available to buy is because of the bravery of dozens of women who stepped forward to tell their stories, and what the NFL deemed gross mistreatment those women faced while employed in team offices during the megalomaniacal reign of Dan Snyder. Their courage led to two league-mandated outside investigations as well as the eyes of Congress. It ultimately led to Snyder's exit from the NFL owners' club, a group he appeared to care deeply about being part of.
With that as a backdrop, how could iHeart D.C., likely with pressure from the Commanders, not have fired him? Sending Geronimo packing was an easy win for Harris — and one that Geronimo basically gift-wrapped for them.
Some of his longtime fans are bemoaning the decision, crying that everyone is too sensitive these days because they won't accept that being openly derisive toward a woman while on-air is unacceptable now, and really has been for years. It never should have been acceptable, but thankfully there has been some level of growth in this country that means in many corners women are expected to be treated with a basic level of respect.
This is Geronimo’s schtick, incapable of offering listeners anything more than tired, boorish "jokes." Incapable of reading the room, he gave the new ownership group a near-immediate chance to show the team's fans that they were different from Snyder. Just as Snyder finally had to face the music for his misdeeds, Geronimo was made to pay for his.
Harris and Co. will likely have a long honeymoon with Commanders fans simply because they are not the Snyders. Dan Snyder dragged the franchise through the mud with his litigious — and, according to the NFL's final report on him, lascivious — ways, his nearly 25 years of ownership producing little more than chaos and negative headlines.
There are questions about how successful the Commanders will be on the field this season, but it didn't take long for Harris to get his first win off it, one that was almost embarrassingly easy to claim.
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Adrian Street: Pro wrestler Adrian Street, left, posed with his coal miner father in 1974. "Too dark down there, I was born for the spotlight," Street said about the coal mines. (Dennis Hutchinson/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)
“Exotic” Adrian Street, a flamboyant professional wrestler who dressed like a glam rocker but exhibited the toughness of his Welsh roots as the son of a coal miner, died July 24, his family confirmed. He was 82.
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Street had recently undergone brain surgery, the BBC reported.
Born on Dec. 5, 1940, in Brynmawr, Wales, Street was known for his androgynous appearance and claimed to have wrestled in more than 12,000 bouts during his seven-decade career, according to The Guardian.
A genre-bending pioneer whose larger-than-life presence and ruthlessness between the ropes changed the wrestling world forever. Honored to have called Adrian Street a friend.
My thoughts are with Miss Linda and the family, friends and fans of Adrian Street. pic.twitter.com/fQrbWPem8p — Triple H (@TripleH) July 31, 2023
“His flamboyant style entertained audiences and reimagined what was possible in sports-entertainment,” WWE said in a statement.
Street would enter the ring with his longtime manager and future wife, Miss Linda, garbed in pastels and glitter, wearing lipstick and sporting brightly dyed hair while wearing a feather boa, The Guardian reported.
Street was “the kindest, most loving man you could ever meet,” his wife told the BBC on Sunday. “The total opposite to how he behaved on stage.”
He refused to follow in the footsteps of his father, who worked in the coal mines of Wales, according to the BBC.
“Too dark down there, I was born for the spotlight,” Street once confessed in an interview.
WWE is saddened to learn that Adrian Street has passed away.
WWE extends its condolences to Street’s family, friends, and fans.https://t.co/DjCT1ESCnE pic.twitter.com/2cUspIV58i — WWE (@WWE) July 31, 2023
Former WWE wrestler Paul “Triple H” Levesque, who is currently an executive with the wrestling promotion, called Street “a genre-bending pioneer whose larger-than-life presence and ruthlessness between the ropes changed the wrestling world forever.”
As a teenager, Street ran away from home and began wrestling in London, billed as “Kid Tarzan Jonathan,” the BBC reported.
I’m deeply saddened to hear of the passing of my friend and truly a one off talent Adrian Street. My deepest condolences to Linda and Adrian’s family. Rest well.x — William Regal (@RealKingRegal) July 31, 2023
Later returning to his real name, Street became a wrestling “heel,” antagonizing fans with his appearance and rough tactics. He further infuriated fans with his flamboyant costumes that was a precursor to glam rockers like David Bowie, Marc Bolan and Gary Glitter, according to The Guardian.
Street ignored the catcalls, skipping around the ring and planting lipstick kisses on his opponents’ foreheads before smashing them into the canvas, the BBC reported.
Street later moved to Florida, where he and his wife started a costume-making business called The Bizarre Bizarre, the news outlet reported. He also founded a wrestling school, the Skull Krushers Academy.
Street was featured in a 2019 biopic, “You May Be Pretty, But I Am Beautiful,” The Guardian reported.
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(NewsNation) — As in decades past, the question of whether aliens exist continues to captivate Americans. Following Wednesday’s widely-watched Congressional hearing on UAPs and UFOs, people flocked to social media — many proclaiming the government confirmed aliens exist.
But that’s not actually what happened at the hearing. While witnesses and lawmakers discussed the issue of UFOs, the government has not issued any official confirmation of alien life and what was said at the hearing, by witnesses and even a lawmaker, remains unverified.
As lawmakers continue to probe the issue, join NewsNation’s Brian Entin at 9 p.m. ET Sunday night for a two-hour special report on the hearing, including analysis from UFO experts. Find out how to tune in to NewsNation on your local channel lineup.
Here’s what we do (and don’t) know after the hearing:
Whistleblower David Grusch largely recounted second-hand testimony and provided no evidence to support his claims. Grusch is a former member of the UAP Task Force.
Former Navy Commander and pilot David Fravor recounted a first-hand experience with the so-called Tic Tac UFO but said he was never briefed on the object or its potential origins.
Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves, who founded the Americans for Safe Aerospace, also recounted an encounter he had with an object he described as a black sphere floating inside a clear cube. Graves indicated such encounters were extremely common among pilots. There was no evidence presented to support this claim.
While lawmakers seemed largely accepting of the witness testimony, only Rep. Matt Gaetz, R.-Fla., said he had seen any evidence of alien life firsthand.
Grusch was unable to answer a number of inquiries regarding specific evidence or proof in an open setting, though he indicated he would be willing to say more in a secure, classified briefing.
All three witnesses agreed these unidentified objects constituted a potential national security threat.
Official government bodies, including the White House, Pentagon, and NASA have all stated they have no reason to believe unexplained objects are extraterrestrial in nature.
National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby said after the hearing there are “no hard and fast” answers to the question but that the administration is taking it seriously.
This wasn’t the first time the U.S. government undertook investigations to address the question of UFOs, nor is it the first time the official response was that there was nothing “alien” going on.
However, at the heart of Grusch’s whistleblower complaint is his claim that the government, specifically the Department of Defense, is operating programs to retrieve material from crashes that are extraterrestrial in nature and are keeping those programs secret from the public while also operating without appropriate Congressional oversight.
Grusch spoke exclusively to NewsNation regarding his experiences, which he said include the U.S. government recovering the “non-human” pilots of downed craft.
In light of his claims, lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee have vowed to continue to hold more hearings, including classified briefings where Grusch could speak more freely. Members have also vowed to seek the power to subpoena documents and images that Grusch says back up his claims.
Lawmakers have also called for a centralized reporting system for both military and civilian reports of UFOs, to better analyze and understand the possible threat.
There is also the possibility of the creation of a new committee to specifically investigate UAPs/UFOs. It’s not entirely clear how Congress could compel the DoD or military to release information on any secret programs, should they exist, though, in the past, lawmakers have attempted to work UFO reporting into funding requirements for the Pentagon.
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CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio (WCMH) — Newly-obtained records from the Circleville Police Department shine light on how it handled the K-9 bite that grabbed national headlines. The July 4 incident unfolded when Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers chased a truck driver, Jadarrius Rose, who didn’t pull over for an inspection for a missing mud flap. The chase […]
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CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio (WCMH) — Newly-obtained records from the Circleville Police Department shine light on how it handled the K-9 bite that grabbed national headlines.
The July 4 incident unfolded when Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers chased a truck driver, Jadarrius Rose, who didn’t pull over for an inspection for a missing mud flap.
The chase stretched about 30 miles across three counties. It ended in Circleville after troopers used spikes to pop one of Rose’s tires. That’s where Circleville K-9 Officer Ryan Speakman joined the response, releasing his dog as Rose was surrendering to troopers.
Speakman was fired three weeks later, but the Circleville records show he was not let go because of anything he did on that scene. Footage from Speakman’s body-worn camera show the officer shouted commands before he fully exited his vehicle.
“Get on the (expletive) ground or I’m going to send the dog!” he shouted at Rose while he was emerging from his vehicle.
“Come to me!” a trooper shouted, in a command conflicting with Speakman’s.
Over the next 20 seconds, Speakman commands Rose twice more to get on the ground to avoid a dog bite, then releases the dog.
Rose is seen kneeling to the ground with his hands up as the dog, named Serg, approaches him.
Serg was latched onto Rose’s left arm 30 seconds after arriving on the scene. The dog had to be pulled off after Speakman commanded the animal to release Rose.
In Speakman’s report on the incident, he wrote that Rose “refused to comply with all my attempts to get him to surrender.”
After the bite, Speakman wrote, “the suspect still continued to resist,” and that Rose was “reaching for his waist area.”
Another Circleville officer gives a similar account on the incident report.
Speakman’s video shows Rose struggling with the dog latched to his arm as he bends toward the ground, but there is no view of him reaching for his waist.
As other law enforcement officers placed handcuffs on Rose and bandaged his arm, Speakman was heard approaching different people on the scene to discuss his own conduct.
“I don’t know why they seem pissed off at me,” Speakman told another Circleville officer. “He wasn’t complying. I mean, am I wrong?”
Several minutes after the bite, Speakman approached Rose, who was seated on the ground in handcuffs. This exchange was heard between the two of them:
“… Y’all let a dog bite me,” Rose said.
“What do you mean? I gave you three warnings,” Speakman said.
“Bro, you just pulled up. I ain’t trying to hear that,” Rose replied.
“Did I not say–” the officer started to say.
“I was listening to the people who were talking to me,” Rose interjected.
“Did I not say, ‘Final warning, you’re gonna get bit by the dog?’ Yes or no?” Speakman asked.
“It don’t matter, bro,” Rose replied.
After the exchange, Speakman continued discussing his conduct, and said “I think it’s a justifiable bite.”
He then walked to a trooper and muted the audio on his camera as they talked.
According to a memo from Circleville Police Chief Shawn Baer, a use of force review board reviewed the incident two days later and found that “all personnel involved acted within departmental policy.”
The memo, dated Friday, July 25, 2023, (July 25 was a Tuesday, and Baer did not respond to NBC4’s messages.) was meant to serve as a summary of another investigation into Speakman that began on July 19.
“I spoke with Ryan Speakman about reports I received that he was crying and talking with other employees about being stressed over the July 4, 2023, K-9 deployment,” the chief wrote. “I ordered Ryan Speakman to stop his conduct and explained to him that if he was confident that he had followed his training and policy that there was no reason to act this way.”
Over the course of three days, Baer would learn of more people with whom Speakman had discussed the incident. The list of people included fellow officers, dispatchers, the city’s Director of Public Safety with another employee present, and family members (including Speakman’s in-laws).
Although Speakman’s conduct at the scene had been “cleared” by the use of force review board, which included Serg’s trainer in Pennsylvania, Speakman and Serg were scheduled for evaluation and additional training at the Pennsylvania kennel the week of July 31. In his memo, Baer indicated the board would issue its final report on the K-9 bite when the evaluation was complete at the end of that week.
“Upon completion the investigation is public record but prior to it being completed Ryan Speakman discussed so much information with so many people it had immense potential to impact the board’s ability to provide an accurate review,” Baer wrote.
The memo does not explicitly mention terminating Speakman’s employment.
A second memo, written by Detective Eric Nicholson and dated July 25, describes following instructions from the deputy chief to “deliver a sealed letter to Officer Speakman at his residence” on the 24th.
A press release from Baer dated July 24 said Speakman had been placed on paid administrative leave.
The memo states Nicholson and another detective instructed to deliver the letter “did not know what the letter stated.”
The two detectives met Speakman in the front yard and gave him the letter with instructions to open it inside his home, but the memo indicates that he opened it outside.
“Officer Speakman opened the letter and was visibly upset,” it says. “Officer Speakman then walked toward the house.”
Circleville Police confirmed on July 26 that Speakman had been fired.
Speakman filed a grievance for wrongful termination. The union representing him has not responded to requests for comment and neither has Baer as of Monday.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Between the food, sustainable cleanup, and animal health, there are many people working behind the scenes at the Ohio State Fair to make sure everything goes smoothly. Over the roughly two weeks of the fair, more than 20,000 livestock animals are brought to the fairgrounds by exhibitors, according to the Ohio […]
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Between the food, sustainable cleanup, and animal health, there are many people working behind the scenes at the Ohio State Fair to make sure everything goes smoothly.
Over the roughly two weeks of the fair, more than 20,000 livestock animals are brought to the fairgrounds by exhibitors, according to the Ohio State Fair. Exhibitors are making sure they are healthy with the help of veterinary medical officers from the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA).
“We are fairly involved in not only our state fair but also our county fairs,” ODA field veterinarian Dr. Angela Rospert said.
There are field veterinarians like Rospert at the fair at all times. In addition to drug testing for competition animals, the doctors also walk through the barns making sure all the animals are healthy.
“Just to visually inspect all of the animals here,” Rospert said. “We’re mostly looking for clinical signs of different diseases that may be of concern whether they would be ones that would be contagious to the other animals here or whether they could be contagious to the people and animals.”
There’s also work you might see that’s gone on by the Taste of Ohio Cafe. Zero Waste Event Productions was set up at the cafe for six days, working to keep as much waste as possible out of the landfill. That work includes sorting through food scraps, empty cans, utensils, and more.
“A lot of people think it’s dirty work; we love it, though. It’s fantastic,” Zero Waste Chief Sustainability Officer Shannon Pratt-Harrington said.
Throughout the organization’s six days at the fair, more than 1,700 pounds of compost was diverted from the landfill and more than 500 pounds of recycling was collected.
“It’s really important and I think it’s interesting to be doing this at the Ohio State Fair, where so much is related to agriculture and farming, to be taking something that is essentially a resource, which is compostable service ware and food scraps, sending it to a facility, and it’s going to be turned into something new like a soil product, which is very agriculture,” Pratt-Harrington said.
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DENVER (KDVR) — Country artist Luke Bryan invited a Denver-area girl backstage after he heard her story.
Mary Stegmueller, 7, has been battling terminal brain cancer since she was 4 years old. She’s a serious Luke Bryan fan, and she really wanted to see his show in Denver on Saturday.
But she is immunocompromised and cannot stand for long durations, so her family thought the concert was off the table until an anonymous donor gave them a private suite for the show.
Her family said they’re unbelievably grateful to the anonymous donor.
Mary got a quick hug from the country star back in 2021 after a concert, but this time, she was hoping for another chance to have a conversation with him.
Country artist Luke Bryan invited a local girl backstage after he heard her story. (Kristin Stegmueller)
Country artist Luke Bryan invited a local girl backstage after he heard her story. (Kristin Stegmueller)
Country artist Luke Bryan invited a local girl backstage after he heard her story. (Kristin Stegmueller)
After Bryan saw FOX31’s story about her wanting to meet him, the family said he invited her backstage for a meet and greet before the show. Photos show Mary hanging out with her country idol, who gave her a hug as they posed for the camera.
Mary begins her 43rd round of radiation on Monday.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” has died. He was 25. Cloud’s publicist, Cait Bailey, said Cloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given. In a statement, Cloud’s family said goodbye […]
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” has died. He was 25.
Cloud’s publicist, Cait Bailey, said Cloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given.
In a statement, Cloud’s family said goodbye to “an artist, a friend, a brother and a son.”
“Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss,” the family said. “The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend. Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence.”
“We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone,” his family added.
Cloud hadn’t acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting scout Eléonore Hendricks noticed him. Cloud was resistant at first, suspecting a scam. Then casting director Jennifer Venditti met with him and series creator Sam Levinson eventually made him a co-star in the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.
To some, Cloud seemed so natural as Fez that they suspected he was identical to the character — a notion that Cloud pushed back against.
“It does bother me when people are like, ‘It must be so easy! You get to go in and be yourself.’ I’m like, ‘Why don’t you go and do that?’ It’s not that simple,” Cloud told Variety. “I brought a lot to the character. You can believe what you want. It ain’t got nothing to do with me.”
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television.
“We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud,” HBO said in a statement. “He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and ‘Euphoria’ family. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family during this difficult time.”
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Democrats and Republicans are offering clashing interpretations of the significance of former Hunter Biden business associate Devon Archer’s closed-door testimony, which lawmakers said included assertions that Hunter Biden was selling the “illusion of access” to his father and that Hunter Biden sometimes put President Biden on speakerphone to talk to his business associates. The revelations […]
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Democrats and Republicans are offering clashing interpretations of the significance of former Hunter Biden business associate Devon Archer’s closed-door testimony, which lawmakers said included assertions that Hunter Biden was selling the “illusion of access” to his father and that Hunter Biden sometimes put President Biden on speakerphone to talk to his business associates.
The revelations are fueling Republican attempts to link the president to his son’s business dealings. Republicans, including Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) and House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (Ky.), say the testimony shows that President Biden “lied” when he made campaign trail statements that he had never talked to his son about his foreign business dealings.
But Democrats say Archer’s testimony to the House Oversight Committee on Monday actually shows the president was not involved in Hunter Biden’s foreign business affairs.
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), who attended the hours-long transcribed interview, said Archer testified that because Hunter Biden was under pressure from Ukrainian energy company Burisma, “he had to give the illusion — and he used that term, the illusion — of access to his father, and he tried to get credit for things that he — that Mr. Archer testified Hunter had nothing to do with, such as when Vice President Biden went to Ukraine on his own.”
Lawmakers clash over whether testimony implicates president
Archer was on the board of Burisma with Hunter Biden. Republicans have said then-Vice President Biden’s call to remove Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, whose office was investigating Burisma, was directly related to his son’s involvement with, and sizable payments from, the company.
But the investigation in Burisma had been opened before Shokin took the position, and Shokin was widely criticized for failure to prosecute corruption, with his ouster supported by numerous U.S. officials.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement that Archer testified that “President Biden was not involved in his son’s business affairs, and that President Biden was never asked to, nor did he, take any official actions in relation to those business matters.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said last week that the president “was never in business with his son.”
On the other end of the partisan spectrum, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), who also attended the transcribed interview, said he thought Archer’s testimony “implicate[s] the president.”
Reading from his notes of the transcribed interview, Biggs said Archer testified that “Burisma would have gone out of business sooner if the Biden brand had not been invoked. People would be intimidated to legally mess with Burisma because of the Biden family brand.”
According to Biggs, Archer said the Biden “brand” referred to President Biden. But Goldman later said that Archer clarified the “brand” was based on a “D.C. brand based on his own experience in lobbying” and “in conjunction with the fact that his last name was Biden.”
Burisma bribery allegations
Both Biggs and Goldman said that Archer had no knowledge of an alleged $5 million payment to Biden from Burisma, an allegation relayed by a confidential FBI source in a form released by Republicans earlier in June.
Goldman argued that Archer’s testimony undercut the premise of the Biden-Burisma bribery allegations.
“Even though it was perceived by Burisma that they had the Prosecutor General Shokin ‘under control,’ quote unquote, that Joe Biden advocated for his firing — which of course, was not coveted or desired by Burisma, and would potentially be bad for Burisma,” Goldman said.
Raskin said that Republicans appeared to be “chasing” the bribery allegations, and pointed to a recent letter to Comer from Lev Parnas, who was involved in an effort to dig up dirt about the Bidens in Ukraine ahead of the 2020 election, urging Comer to abandon efforts to chase the “conspiracy theories.”
Comer, on the other hand, took issue with Hunter Biden’s work with Burisma.
“When Burisma’s owner was facing pressure from the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the company for corruption, Archer testified that Burisma executives asked Hunter to ‘call D.C.’ after a Burisma board meeting in Dubai,” he said in a statement, which a press release said raised concerns that Hunter Biden was in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Phone calls with the president
Archer’s testimony did appear to partially back up Comer’s statement to the New York Post last week that he expected Archer to discuss the times he witnessed Hunter Biden’s putting then-Vice President Biden on speakerphone with foreign business partners.
Democrats downplayed that concern.
“The witness indicated that Hunter spoke to his father every day, and approximately 20 times over the course of a 10-year relationship. Hunter may have put his father on the phone with any number of different people, and they never once spoke about any business dealings,” Goldman said.
“As he described it, it was all casual conversation, niceties, the weather, ‘What’s going on?’” Goldman said, adding that “there wasn’t a single conversation about any of the business dealings that Hunter had.”
Democrats also stressed that there were especially frequent conversations between Hunter Biden and his father after his brother, Beau Biden, died from brain cancer in 2015.
Biggs pushed back on Goldman’s characterization.
“He probably forgot to tell you that Devon Archer himself said that was an implication of who the ‘big guy’ is,” Biggs said, referring to communications drawn from a laptop hard drive that purportedly belonged to Hunter Biden.
The House Oversight GOP also said in a tweet that President Biden attended a 2014 dinner with Hunter Biden and some of his foreign business associates at Cafe Milano in Washington, D.C.
White House slams GOP after ‘much-hyped witness’ testimony
Ian Sams, White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, also argued that the Archer interview poked holes in the GOP attempts to directly link President Biden to his family’s foreign business dealings.
“It appears that the House Republicans’ own much-hyped witness today testified that he never heard of President Biden discussing business with his son or his son’s associates, or doing anything wrong,” Sams said. “House Republicans keep promising bombshell evidence to support their ridiculous attacks against the President, but time after time, they keep failing to produce any. In fact, even their own witnesses appear to be debunking their allegations.”
Raskin said that the Biden family investigation is a “desperate effort to distract everyone from former President Donald Trump’s mounting criminal indictments and deepening legal morass.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who was also in the interview, told reporters that Archer had revealed new information, but declined to elaborate further.
Abbe Lowell, counsel for Hunter Biden, said in a statement that House Republicans “keep swinging and keep striking out in their obsessive pursuit of the President through his son, Hunter.”
“Mr. Archer confirmed one more time that Hunter Biden did not involve his father in, nor did his father assist him in, his business. It’s well known that Hunter and his father speak daily, and what Mr. Archer confirmed today was that when those calls occurred during Hunter’s business meetings, if there was any interaction between his father and his business associates, it was simply to exchange small talk,” Lowell said.
“Like the relatives of Donald Trump, Senators Ron Johnson and Ted Cruz, Rep. Lauren Boebert, and many others, family members of elected representatives meet people and may get opportunities because of those connections,” he continued. “Congress would be busy investigating many of their own if that’s their idea of an offense.”
Archer did not answer shouted questions when entering or leaving the transcribed interview, and his attorney declined to take a side in the debate over his testimony.
“We are aware that all sides are claiming victory following Mr. Archer’s voluntary interview today. But all Devon Archer did was exactly what we said he would: show up and answer the questions put to him honestly and completely. Mr. Archer shared the truth with the Committee, and we will leave to them and others to decide what to do with it,” said Matthew L. Schwartz, a managing partner of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP.
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The United States has started operations on its first new nuclear reactor in seven years, in a development hailed as having a positive impact on the climate as it releases no greenhouse gas emissions
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The United States has started operations on its first new nuclear reactor in seven years, in a development hailed as having a positive impact on the climate as it releases no greenhouse gas emissions.
The Waynesboro, Georgia-based Unit 3 reactor at Plant Vogtle began delivering power to the grid on Monday after having successfully completed tests this spring.
The Westinghouse AP1000 commercial reactor is now generating some 1,110 megawatts of energy to power around half a million homes and businesses, according to its grid operator, Georgia Power, as reported by CNBC. The reactor will be able to operate at this level for as long as eight decades.
The nuclear milestone is the first new reactor to be put into operation since 2016, in Tennessee.
The debate continues over whether nuclear power is a friend or foe to the climate.
The anti-nuclear lobby feels that nuclear energy is not a legitimate element of the renewable transition, citing meltdown risks and dangerous storage of nuclear waste fuel.
Proponents, on the other hand, argue that there have been major advancements in the treatment and storage of nuclear waste fuel, and that the U.S. has a clean track record in terms of dangerous accidents.
Another hurdle is American dependence on Russia for uranium to power nuclear reactors. The U.S. imported some 14% of its uranium and 28% of all enrichment services from Russia in 2021 and is actively pursuing alternatives for uranium as a nuclear fuel.
Russia is home to one of the world’s largest uranium resources with an estimated 486,000 tons of uranium, the equivalent of 8% of global supply. It also houses the biggest uranium enrichment complex in the world, accounting for nearly half of the global capacity.
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Major oil companies are facing mounting pressure to decarbonize, despite having shown resistance to ambitious transition targets and a paradoxical demand for increased hydrocarbon production.
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Last year, Big Oil made record profits that got stuck in the throats of governments, activist organizations, and international bodies such as the UN and the IEA.
Yet those same governments practically encouraged these profits by subsidizing fuels to avoid even higher inflation and all the problems that such a development would have produced.
In 2022, with demand for energy roaring back after the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the consequent gas supply squeeze, and fears of a similar oil squeeze, the target that Big Oil had painted on its back temporarily disappeared. Energy security temporarily became more important than decarbonization.
That era is over, according to some analysts. Now, the pressure on Big Oil to decarbonize is going to increase.
All Big Oil majors except BP reported weaker profits for the second quarter because of the decline in oil and gas prices. BP, which reports on Tuesday, is also expected to book slimmer profits for this year’s second quarter than last year’s. The time of plenty seems to be over.
According to the Financial Times, this means that the supply squeeze threat has passed, and now the governments that subsidized diesel and gasoline will once again increase the pressure on the oil industry to go green.
In fact, the pressure has never decreased, even when oil was trading above $100 a barrel last year. And despite that pressure, Big Oil has signaled a retreat from earlier ambitious transition targets.
It seems everyone got a reality check last year. Only Big Oil came out with different outtakes from that check than the governments that slapped windfall profit taxes on the industry and then worried it would stop investing in more production.
The pressure is working: European supermajors have been splashing on various low-carbon projects, from wind and solar capacity to EV chargers. But that was before 2022. This year, BP and Shell basically walked back their decarbonization pledges to the frustration of their activist investors.
Those same investors, by the way, received much lower support for their climate-related resolutions at this year’s AGMs than in previous years. The rest of the shareholders must have liked the share repurchase programs and the fatter dividends.
Meanwhile, the American supermajors, who have generally steered clear of things like wind and solar, are venturing into raw transition materials: Exxon and Chevron both announced forays into lithium mining this year, signaling the potential direction their decarbonization drive would take.
The two are also busy expanding their carbon capture capabilities. Exxon, for one, sees a future in which its decarbonization business could one day outgrow its core oil and gas business.
In Europe, BP and TotalEnergies just won a tender for offshore wind capacity in Germany, essentially beating the wind industry on its own turf. Just because the leadership of these companies has signaled it will go easy on the whole decarbonization affair doesn’t mean it will pass on opportunities to benefit from generous government funding for wind and solar.
Big Oil has been under the microscope for years now, with governments, regulators, and activists all watching the industry closely for any suggestion they might want to expand their core business.
Yet when they did do that, activists protested last year as expected, but governments didn’t. Governments in Europe spent billions on fuel subsidies contributing to Big Oil’s massive profits. In the U.S., President Biden and his energy secretary pleaded with Big Oil to boost oil production after actively working to make boosting oil production as difficult as possible.
Now, decarbonization is back on the table as a top concern amid a ramp-up in the climate emergency talk from officials such as the UN’s Antonio Guterres. But the perception that the supply squeeze threat is over, as suggested by the Financial Times last week, may well be wrong.
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Oil and gas prices are palpably lower now than they were this time last year, but they are on the climb. And the reason they are on the climb is that fears are growing that demand for oil will soon exceed supply thanks to OPEC+ efforts to prop up prices and unrelenting demand growth, despite price movements.
The current situation is somewhat paradoxical: national and international government officials are calling for the decarbonization of the hydrocarbons industry. At the same time, they are forecasting higher demand for these same hydrocarbons and, in the case of the IEA, warning that this higher demand would result in a deficit.
It would be reasonable to suggest that this means decarbonization efforts are not exactly going as planned. The reason for this is that the need for energy is immediate and pressing. People need energy right now and not in five years. And Big Oil is happy to help while it invests in that new energy capacity that will be up and running in five years thanks to government subsidies.
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In this article, I will update the general trends now being observed with daily production out of the Permian basin. In past articles, I’ve discussed the fact that it was clear that the quality of Permian acreage remaining to drill was on the decline. As this basin is the only major oil producer continuing to add barrels of daily output, this has broad implications for supply and prices. In the June 2023 edition of the EIA-914, the monthly forecast on oil and gas output, the Permian is shown with a slight decline for the July/August time period. This is the first time since Feb of 2021 this has occurred during the Snowmageddon of 2021.
Whatever you think about the longevity of this basin, one thing is absolutely undeniable. We are currently extracting nearly 2 bn BOE annually from it. Over the last five years we've withdrawn more than 6 bn BOE. Since we began fracking about 15 years ago, we've pumped out ~14 bn BOE. We’ve been climbing the hill in Hubbert’s Peak, and soon the descent will begin.
We will also discuss one way to play the information I will present here. In the coming quarters, we believe there will be an increasingly sharp demarcation between winners and losers. Already there are companies exhibiting signs of landing in the former category. Please read on for a top pick in the shale category.
Hubbert’s Peak in the Permian
Natural Resources analyst firm, Goerhring & Rosenscwajg-G&R, has modeled production trends that suggest that "Hubbert's Peak" for the Permian will hit late next year. Hubbert was a geologist who theorized that once half a basin's reserves had been recovered, it would have essentially “peaked.” The graph below, taken from a G&R report highlights their expectations. G&R could be of some, but the point remains, there is an inflection point coming that will tilt the slope downward. The firm estimates using their models that about 20 bn barrels of commercially recoverable oil remain in the basin. At current production rates, that’s about 11 years of output.
That’s a good bit less than some other estimates, including the one put out by the Enervus, an energy analyst firm, which uses data from the U.S. Geophysical Survey-USGS, projects another 50 bn barrels could be produced. Time will tell as to what the final tallies will be, but the data coming in now supports G&R’s analysis regarding a midpoint that will come late next year.
Acreage quality
One indicator is that much of the best acreage has been drilled. This is a point I've made many times in past articles. During the low-price era from 2017-2020, many companies pulled forward their Tier I- "geological parameters such as thickness, thermal maturity, organic content, oil in place, porosity, and permeability to make accurate well-quality predictions," acreage for it to meet investment thresholds and payout requirements. When prices are low, you develop your best assets.
In their report G&R put their finger on this aspect of the aging of Permian potential.
“We turned to advanced methods, including machine learning and neural networks, and achieved surprising results. Instead of improved drilling techniques, we concluded that two-thirds of the improved productivity between 2013-2018 came from favoring the best drilling locations. In 2013, 22% of Midland wells were Tier 1. By 2018, Tier 1 represented 50% of all wells. Since a Tier 1 well is nearly twice as productive as a Tier 2 well, the migration from lower to higher quality areas drove a massive amount of the improved well productivity.”
Technology impact
In a recent Special Report for OilPrice, The Future of Oil and Gas, we discussed how technology was extending the economics and productivity of new wells in shale reservoirs. By virtue of longer horizontal intervals, increased completion intensity, and a better understanding of optimal spacing to minimize interface between wells among other things, the output from shale reservoirs has been increased. But, there is no free lunch, and technology proves to have limits in its ability to generate increasing amounts of oil and gas per foot of interval.
The graph below from the G&R report we’ve been discussing highlights this decline in productivity. Productivity per foot of interval is dropping.
Parent well, child-well relationships are in play here. As G&R notes in their commentary, “Child” wells-which are wells subsequent to and often “side-tracked” from an original borehole, are not as prolific typically as the “Parent,” well.
“In the early days of shale development, producers would often drill a single horizontal well to test different parts of the basin and satisfy lease obligations that often require drilling a well within an allotted period. Later, the developer returns to the best areas and drills several more wells from a single pad to develop the resource economically. Producers now realize that the so-called “child” wells produce between 5 and 20% less oil than expected. In 2012 we estimate that only 30% of wells drilled in the three significant shale basins were “children.” By 2022, that figure had reached 85%. In Tier 1 areas, effectively, all current wells are children, with lower-than-expected productivity.”
In short, as parent wells water out and are plugged, there will be a more rapid decline than we have seen thus far as the active well count consists more and more of child wells.
Your takeaway
What all of this means when considering investing in a shale producer, the quality of the rock, and the blockiness of their surface acreage, which drives inventory, are two key features that will form our long-term investing thesis. I have always maintained that Devon Energy, (NYSE:DVN) would be in the top tier of shale producers for these reasons. Clay Gaspar, President of Devon comments on their latest 6-well pad development in Lea County, New Mexico-
“Individual wells at Exotic Cat flowed at rates over 7,200 BOE per day and well -- per well recoveries from this pad are on track to exceed two million barrels of oil equivalent. The flow rate from this activity rank among the very best projects Devon has ever brought online in the basin.”
Using simple math, with six wells online producing 7,200 BOEPD, Exotic Cat Raider should return its ~$60-70 mm capital cost in about 2-3 months. In this scenario, at the 2-month period, approximately 2.59 mm BOE have been produced, leaving another 9.41 mm BOE to be produced. Natural declines will impact this calculation in reality, extending the payout time somewhat, but the simple math looks pretty good. No wonder Mr. Gaspar was so enthusiastic.
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The next metric we need to review is inventory depth. At their current rate of development, ~250 Delaware wells per year, there remains a 12-year Risked inventory. As drilling continues and more is learned from the data collected, additional “DeRisking” will add another couple of thousand Top-Tier drilling locations to the total and extend the asset life to ~20 years.
Finally, Devon has proven to be a shrewd inventory consolidator with its acquisition of WPX Energy in 2021. It has also made major inventory additions in other basins. Notably Validus Energy in the Eagle Ford basin in 2022, and RimRock in the Williston basin.
G&R closes out their commentary on shale thusly-
“Based on current drilling activity, the average publicly traded Permian company will run out of Tier 1 drilling locations within 3.7 years. We firmly believe that as the market realizes how little Tier 1 acreage remains, those with the best inventory will be treated as valuable assets. If we are correct, the age of shale growth is now behind us, and the reality of Hubbert’s Peak is at hand. The immense growth of the shales over the past decade has blinded many analysts to the declining trends in global conventional production. That luxury is about to end.”
With all of that in mind, we believe that Devon Energy, trading at <5X EV/EBITDA and $59K per flowing barrel, is substantially undervalued by the market. We also think a near-term trading opportunity will emerge when the company reports on August 2nd, 2023. There is a good chance if Q-2 earnings are missed by the Super Majors, ExxonMobil, (NYSE: XOM), and Chevron, (NYSE: CVX) are any guide, there will be a short-term down draft in shares of DVN. We view this as a buying opportunity below $50 per share.
By David Messler for Oilprice.com
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — As war rages on between Russia and Ukraine, Ukrainian citizens struggle to access important resources like education. One Midlands student is working to help Ukrainian schoolchildren access in-person school for the first time in years.
Alaina Cutler is a student at Hammond in Columbia.
Cutler is using her Bat Mitzvah, a celebration and tradition for Jewish children entering adulthood, to help a community she’s never met.
“During COVID, it took a huge toll on a lot of people’s mental health,” Cutler said. “And it must be a lot worse for kids who have to worry about being bombed.”
Cutler is raising money for 95 kids at a school in Ukraine, who haven’t gone to school in person for years. They’re just sixteen miles from an active war zone, and the area is so dangerous that volunteers can’t currently enter.
According to the Ukrainian Minister of Education and Science, over 7.5 million kids in Ukraine are facing similar situations, with over 300 schools destroyed so far.
“The children in Ukraine can identify what missile is which missile,” said Ana Sazonov.” And if the missiles are far away, close, if it's ours, do they have to run to shelter, if it's a drone."
Cutler decided she wanted to help and her rabbi at Tree of Life Congregation connected her with Ana Sazonov, a Ukraine native and former Columbia resident doing humanitarian work on the ground.
“And she said I want to help people and kids my age,” Sazonov said. “Because it doesn't make sense that I have the ability and the privilege to sit in a in a great classroom with AC and all the facilities and there's kids in other places around the world that cannot have this, cannot have this opportunity to have a normal life.”
With Sazonov’s help, Cutler has set up a fundraiser to help buy a furnished bomb shelter, as well as a tent and projector for summer classes.
So far, she’s raised more than $88,000.
“That meant a lot to me because I felt like I was part of something bigger than myself,” Cutler said. “I was connected to these people who were halfway across the world.”
Cutler hopes to raise $10,000 to send to the school.
"That would feel amazing because I knew that I was able to make such a difference in these people's lives," Cutler said. "They've been isolated, not been able to see their friends for four years, and then they're able to do it because of something that I helped do.”
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Cloud's family said he had “intensely struggled” with the recent loss of his father.
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WASHINGTON — Actor Angus Cloud, known for his role in HBO's "Euphoria," has died. He was 25.
Cloud's publicist, Cait Bailey, said Cloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given. TMZ first reported the news.
“It is with the heaviest heart that we had to say goodbye to an incredible human today,” Cloud’s family said in a statement. “As an artist, a friend, a brother and a son, Angus was special to all of us in so many ways. Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss. The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend. Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence."
The actor's death comes shortly after his father's death. Cloud had recently posted a picture of his father on Instagram with the caption "Miss you breh."
“We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone,” his family added.
"We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud," the post read. "He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and Euphoria family. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family during this difficult time."
Cloud hadn’t acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting scout Eléonore Hendricks noticed him. Cloud was resistant at first, suspecting a scam. Then casting director Jennifer Venditti met with him and series creator Sam Levinson eventually made him a co-star in the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television. He was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6." The third season of “Euphoria” hasn't yet begun filming.
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