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Eddie Stevens is a retired vet whose unique works of art have caught the attention of many passing by his property on Lorick Road in Blythewood.
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The horses along the fence of his property are all hand made by Stevens using steel, aluminum and fiberglass.
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BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. — Eddie Stevens is a retired vet whose unique works of art have caught the attention of many passing by his property on Lorick Road in Blythewood.
Stevens started creating sculptures over five years ago and since then, he has grown his horse collection to ten sculptures.
The horses along the fence of his property are all hand made by Stevens using steel, aluminum and fiberglass.
"Well, I think when they come down through here, they see the horses there," Stevens said. "Horses to me are peaceful, calming, giving the calming effect and therefore I think it kind of hopefully brightens their day."
Stevens says that in his retirement he believes that creating his masterpieces is a form of therapy and seems to bring joy to the community.
"I do it just for the love of doing it, and it's a real treat," said Stevens. "It's like therapy."
His neighbor, John Metts, has lived across the street from the Stevens' since they moved in and says that the sculptures have been a nice attraction for the neighborhood.
"Last week, a guy pulled up almost right into the ditch and he and his family got out here," said Metts. "They just looked, stayed outside the fence, taking pictures and ... to me it's a great addition to the community. I get to see it every day, too."
Stevens' wife Jewel treasures the joy her husband receives in creating the sculptures.
"He's a Vietnam veteran," said Jewel "It's just the satisfaction, the therapy, the joy that it brings to him, it just brings a smile to my face to see something that he is so excited about it and it brings him so much joy."
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It’s the first school year that South Carolina elementary and special education teachers will have 30-minute uninterrupted breaks.
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From guaranteed breaks to allowing sunscreen in schools, several new state laws make some changes in public schools.
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MANNING, S.C. — A new school year means some new laws affecting South Carolina public schools.
Clarendon County School District welcomed students back to the classroom on Monday.
“Every first day is just as exciting as the year before,” said Principal Allison Goff.
Goff said this year’s focus is teaching and learning.
“We have moved several teachers to different subject areas, we have also grouped our students based on ability so that we can use small groups to focus on those students who may be struggling a little more and need a little extra help,” said Goff.
Sixth graders Makaylyn Chiam and Aubrey Degonova are considered the ‘Seniors of the school’.
“I’m a little bit nervous, me too, but I’m very very excited,” said Degenova. “You’re in a different grade level, you’re meeting new teachers and the work gets a little bit harder
It’s also the first school year that South Carolina elementary and special education teachers will have 30-minute uninterrupted breaks.
Gov. Henry McMaster signed the law in 2022, but districts had one year to implement it.
“That 30 minutes is for them to enjoy their lunch alone. We have pulled our extra people to watch our students in the cafeteria so our teachers are able to get 30 minutes of free time,” said Goff.
Other new laws include:
H4122: Adds Narcan to the list to the list of life-saving medications in schools
S256: Allows students to bring sunscreen to school
H3908: Provides six weeks of paid family leave for teachers
A proviso in the budget bans schools from using meal debt-shaming practices.
Goff said paid family leave will make a positive impact on education.
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A man has been arrested kidnapping a family member overnight at the Brickyard Village Condominiums in the Covenant Crossing area of Forest Acres.
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FOREST ACRES, S.C. — A man has been arrested kidnapping a family member overnight at the Brickyard Village Condominiums in the Covenant Crossing area of Forest Acres. Police say the man was armed at the time of the kidnapping.
29-year-old Claudio DeGregario is now facing six charges, including kidnapping/abduction, burglary, breaking and entering and weapons violations.
Police say they received a 911 call for help around 5:20 a.m. Monday morning, The caller told police they were asked to call the police after being flagged down by a man who said he had an armed family member threatening to kill another family member at the condominium complex on Bethel Church Road.
Upon their arrival on the scene, police say they found the suspect outside and armed with a rifle standing with the victim by a truck. Police say the suspect was wearing a camouflaged ballistic vest with a string of shotgun shells strung across his torso.
Officers say they exited their vehicles with guns drawn and shouted a number of commands for the suspect to drop his weapon. The suspect continued to ignore the commands, according to police, and shouted back several times, "Y'all are gonna have to shoot me." The suspect then grabbed the victim and forced her into the truck, according to police.
At that time, police say they were able to TASER the suspect from behind, which incapacitated him, allowing offers to free the victim and arrest the suspect.
"Officer Warren utilized cover to make his way around the scene without the suspect seeing him, which allowed him to TASER the suspect from behind and end the standoff -- without a single shot being fired," Forest Acres Police Chief Don Robinson said. "There was a tremendous amount of restraint shown by all three officers, and bravery on behalf of Officer Warren, a rookie who graduated from the academy in May. We believe this shows our community our commitment to advanced training methods and hiring the very best officers to protect and sereve the citizens of Forest Acres."
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Alice Drive Baptist Church organized the school prayer walk, where dozens of people visited every public, private and charter school in Sumter and Lee Counties
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Alice Drive Baptist Church organized the school prayer walk, where dozens of people visited every public, private and charter school in Sumter and Lee Counties.
SUMTER, S.C. — Just three days away from the first day of school in Sumter County, and residents gathered today to pray while walking through the halls of schools in Sumter and Lee county.
"We know that's not an easy job. And kids are going through a lot," Kristen McCaskill explains about why she helped organize the school prayer walk.
"I think it's important because I think teachers need to know that what they do matters. They spend more time with kids sometimes even than their parents get the chance to do and they leave such an impact on children," McCaskill says.
Dozens of people gathered at Alice Drive Baptist Church on Monday morning to pick up prayer cards and leave them for faculty and staff at schools.
"I was a teacher before I stepped into ministry and so I can remember saving those notes," McCaskill, the church's kids' minister, says. "And on the day that it was a rough day looking at it going, ‘Okay, I'm prayed for, I'm cared for, I'm seen."
From public to private to charter, McCaskill tells me visitors went to every school in both counties.
"So we get to pray for the teachers, their classrooms, but we know that we're praying for the kids that are represented by those classrooms because we know in just a couple of days, we're gonna be full of kids and they're all bringing in something unique," McCaskill says. "So we want to just bathe those children in prayer as well."
It's impacting parents like Shannon Shanks
"It makes me feel good," Shanks shares.
Shanks has a rising third and rising sixth grader, and says she likes knowing her children and their teachers are being cared for.
"I think it matters to me because, I mean, it just shows that the community cares about what's going on around here," Shanks says. "I think it says that they care a lot about the kids that go around the schools and the teachers."
It's a sentiment shared by educators.
"We were super welcomed by every school. People were like, ‘Yes, please come in and pray for us.’ Like because it's, you know, it's a hard job that happens in those schools," McCaskill details. "I think it shows that we, we really care for each other, meaning we were able to host it here, but it's for our entire community. We know of at least four other churches that partnered and participated with us today. So it's just a way of saying like, ‘Hey, we really love our community. And we really believe that our community matters to God."
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Valentino adds his team still trains to respond in the high heat indexes, but that they work in the shade or train inside during the hotter parts of the day.
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Sloane Valentino, the Irmo Fire District assistant chief of operations, explains it's typical for a firefighter to drink a gallon or more of water every day.
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IRMO, S.C. — Ice cold waters and fighting fires. That's summertime in the Columbia area for the Irmo Fire District.
"It really pushes you to your limits. You really find out who you are," Dominick Boyce, Irmo Fire captain said.
During the hot summer months here in Columbia, once firefighters are finished responding to a call, they take off all their heavy gear and equipment including their helmet and immediately will start hydrating.
Sloane Valentino is the assistant chief of operations. He explains the key is lots of water constantly, adding that it's typical for a firefighter to drink a gallon or more of water per day this time of year.
Irmo Fire District's exhaustion rate is higher in the thick of the summer, so more firefighters are needed to fight a fire.
Captain Dominick Boyce tells News 19 his team knows each others' highs and lows.
"We're like family, so we know when we're operating at our pinnacle, the highest point, so recognizing when a guy, he's starting to get that gazing stare, profusely sweating, how often are they going to use the bathroom," Boyce said.
"The problem that we experience is when we come out of the structure fire and we take our gear off, it's much more challenging for us to cool off in the summertime. So what we do in the summertime is we have cold towels. We'll keep them on ice, we'll use ice packs, try to rapidly cool our bodies down," Valentino said.
Valentino adds his team still trains to respond in the high heat indexes, but that they work in the shade or train inside during the hotter parts of the day.
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White was a rising multidisciplinary star, winning a junior national championship in cyclocross in 2021 and earning a place on the U.S. national team.
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17-year-old American cyclist Magnus White was on one of his final training rides before the junior world mountain bike championships when the accident occurred.
BOULDER, Colo. — Seventeen-year-old American cyclist Magnus White, who was scheduled to race at the upcoming world championships in Scotland, was killed Saturday when he was struck by a vehicle on a training ride near his home in Boulder, Colorado.
USA Cycling announced his death in a statement Sunday.
White was a rising multidisciplinary star, winning a junior national championship in cyclocross in 2021 and earning a place on the U.S. national team. He competed with the team in Europe ahead of last year's cyclocross world championships, and he was picked to represent the U.S. again at this year's cyclocross worlds in the Netherlands.
White began to dabble in road cycling and mountain biking this season. He was on one of his final training rides before the junior world mountain bike championships in Glasgow, Scotland, when the accident occurred.
He is survived by his parents, Michael and Jill, and his brother, Eero.
"He was a rising star in the off-road cycling scene and his passion for cycling was evident through his racing and camaraderie with his teammates and local community," USA Cycling said in a statement. "We offer our heartfelt condolences to the White family, his teammates, friends, and the Boulder community during this incredibly difficult time."
It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share the news that 17-year-old Magnus White has passed away in a training accident.
Please read USA Cycling's statement in Memory of Magnus White: https://t.co/vZryL710K8 pic.twitter.com/q8CCkJnYdL — USA Cycling (@usacycling) July 30, 2023
A GoFundMe set up for White had raised over $60,000 as of Monday morning.
The incident marks the latest death in a recent flurry of crashes involving young cyclists.
Just last week, 17-year-old Italian cyclist Jacopo Venzo died after a crash during a race in Austria, the BBC reported. Earlier this month, a teen cyclist was killed in a crash at a ski resort in British Columbia, Canada, the CBC reported.
In June, Swiss cyclist Gino Mäder died after crashing and falling down a ravine during a descent at the Tour de Suisse.
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A small plane carrying only the pilot crashed in the water off a South Carolina beach popular among tourists, officials said.
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The single-engine monoplane had been flying a banner before falling into the ocean near Myrtle Beach around 11:30 a.m. on Monday.
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — A small plane carrying only the pilot crashed in the water off a South Carolina beach popular among tourists, officials said.
The single-engine monoplane was flying a banner before falling into the ocean near Myrtle Beach around 11:30 a.m. on Monday, according to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration. A local hospital treated the pilot for non-life-threatening injuries, Corporal Chris Starling of the Myrtle Beach Police Department told The Associated Press.
An eyewitness posted on Facebook that the pilot was conscious and speaking after being taken to shore.
The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the incident. Local police were coordinating Tuesday afternoon with the U.S. Coast Guard, FAA and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources to remove the plane from the sea, Starling said.
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SCHP says the vehicle of interest is a 1992-2002 Chevrolet Silverado that is light in color and could have damage to the front.
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SUMTER, S.C. — Struck and killed by a vehicle that then drove off, a Sumter County man's family is hoping answers wiill come in his death. The South Carolina Highway Patrol (SCHP) is investigating and looking for tips from anyone who might have information about the hit and run.
"It was so all of a sudden. Something I never expected to happen," Amber Rogers explains about the news that her father had passed away.
When Rogers found out her dad, Lee Parker, had been killed in a hit and run accident on July 14, she tells me she couldn’t believe it.
"You hear about it all of the time on the news but you never think it’s going to happen to one of your family members," Rogers tells News 19.
South Carolina Highway Patrol says Parker was riding his moped on Highway 15 near Seddon Drive in Sumter County where he was struck by a vehicle around 9:30 p.m.
Rogers says Parker was on his way to visit a friend.
New information released from SCHP shows a picture from surveillance footage showing the car investigators are looking for and an example of the vehicle.
"It’s definitely hard. Whoever it is, they're initially getting away with it for the time being," Rogers shares. "I don't understand how someone could be so heartless to not stop and call police and at least be like I hit someone."
The vehicle of interest is a 1992-2002 Chevrolet Silverado. Investigators say it is light in color and might have damage to the front end, the windshield and/or the hood area. The truck also had an additional lighting mounted above the rear bumper at the time of the incident.
While Rogers and her family are still looking for answers about Parker’s death, she’s remembering her dad as loving, passionate and an attentive grandfather to her two daughters.
"He always played with them. He would be on the floor with my oldest and he would do anything she told him to do he would do," Rogers laughs. "Even to rolling around on the floor, he would do it."
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Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag explained the lesson that Omari Forson had to learn after substituting him against Borussia Dortmund.
The young winger played 37 minutes before being replaced by Antony before half-time. Forson, 19, had been involved in a heated exchange with Dortmund forward Karim Adeyemi, which saw both players receiving a yellow card, after clashing with full-back Julian Ryerson.
The academy star was included in United’s pre-season squad after scoring eight goals in Premier League 2 last season, being included in the starting XI for the club’s first friendly with Leeds United in Oslo. However, Forson’s second start did not go to plan and Ten Hag admitted why he couldn’t wait until the interval to make the change.
READ: Manchester United open to making more signings after Rasmus Hojlund transfer
"When there's VAR, he could be sent off. He played a good game. The opponent got annoyed at him," Ten Hag said to MUTV when asked about Forson. "But don't take it into your own hands, you can't be the judge. You have to play football. You have to beat your opponent and that's the best way to react."
After making the change, the United boss took time to speak with Forson at length on the sideline to explain his thinking, ending with a pat on the back. Forson’s teammates were also quick to console the teenager, who was clearly disappointed, with Christain Eriksen and Scott McTominay both ensuring they spoke to the winger before he left the pitch.
This support network continued when Forson took his place on the bench. Lisandro Martinez shook Forson’s hand and was filmed talking to the winger in the dugout, seemingly attempting to raise the youngster’s spirits and giving him some advice, as he sat down next to the 19-year-old.
The United squad have already demonstrated that they have a key role to play as the winger looks to overcome this early setback in his professional career. Forson will hope to show that he has taken all those instructions on board as United prepare for their final two pre-season games with Lens and Athletic Club.
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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.
According to the alert, Zdanska may be traveling in a 2014, blue Dodge Caravan with a Florida tag number CZ8613. The vehicle has a butterfly sticker in the top right rear window and a University of Florida “F” sticker in the top left rear window.
Zdanska may also be traveling with a companion who is unknown at this time.
Anyone who may have seen Zdanska should call 9-1-1.
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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.
Representatives for X did not immediately respond to a message for comment Monday.
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England have denied snubbing the Australian side after failing to participate in a traditional end-of-series drink in London, claiming it was a misunderstanding.
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England and Australia have failed to have a traditional post-series drink after the home team locked the door to their dressing room.
An England spokesman claimed it was a “misunderstanding” and that England were “shocked” when they went to invite the Australians in and they had already left the ground.
An Australian team spokesman declined to comment, but sources close to the team, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, claimed they knocked on the England dressing room door a number of times and waited for more than an hour.
There was tension between the teams when Jonny Bairstow was stumped during the second Test at Lord’s after walking out of his crease believing it was the end of an over.
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The military power grab in Niger is stoking fears Russia and the Wagner mercenary group could use the coup to their advantage.
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President Mohamed Bazoum at the presidential palace in Niamey, Niger in March. Credit: AP The US, United Nations, European Union and France have all refused to recognise the power grab, with some ending significant financial aid. Why does the coup matter for Africa’s security? Bazoum was elected in 2021. His ascendancy was Niger’s first democratic power transition since its independence from France in 1960 and four military coups that followed. Niger was one of the last countries to co-operate with the West in Africa’s Sahel, a region long plagued with instability amid rising Islamic extremist movements, insurgencies and coups.
“Niger is the latest domino to fall in a series of coups across the southern Saharan region,” Matthew Sussex, adjunct associate professor at Griffith University’s Griffith Asia Institute, told this masthead. “Russia’s Wagner group already has a strong presence in Africa, and has been implicated in supporting the overthrow of Western-friendly governments. A photo of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin purportedly appearing on the sidelines of Putin’s Russia-Africa summit last week. Credit: Twitter “This latest coup is a blow to US influence in the region - Niger had hosted US special forces and drones - as well as other players, like France.” In a corridor spanning 5600 kilometres, from Sudan on the east coast to Guinea on the west, there are now six countries in Africa under military rule, exposing a vacuum Russia has shown it is eager to fill.
The leader of the Russian mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin was quick to throw his support behind the coup, hailing it as an uprising of African people against “former colonisers ... filling these countries with terrorists and various bandit formations.” Is Wagner involved? Whether Wagner will insert itself, as it has in other coups throughout the Sahel region, remains to be seen. However, more than a month after he led a rebellion to march on Moscow, Prigozhin has indicated he was ready to increase Wagner’s presence in Africa, claiming his troops could restore order and destroy terrorist groups. La Trobe University PhD candidate Isabella Currie said that there was “no evidence to suggest that the [Niger] coup is linked to Russia’s expanding interests in Africa”.
“What we have seen are images of protesters waving Russian flags at the front of the French embassy in Niger, which is something we have previously seen in coup activity in both Mali and Burkina Faso.” Thousands of coup supporters marched through the streets of Niger’s capital at the weekend denouncing France, the country’s former colonial power. Supporters of mutinous soldiers hold a Russian flag. Credit: AP Following a Russia-Africa Summit held in St Petersburg last week, “concerns about Russia’s increasing influence in Africa are justified, but shouldn’t be overstated”, Currie said. The event was seen as Putin reinforcing Russia’s ties with the region. While Russia released a statement calling for the release of President Bazoum, images of Russian flags in the hands of pro-coup demonstrators have been seen as evidence of the Kremlin’s growing status across swaths of Africa.
Instability in Niger paves the way for even greater Russian influence in the Sahel region, where 1000 Wagner mercenaries replaced 5000 French troops that left neighbouring Mali last year. Wagner also commands a powerful presence in the Central African Republic. What’s in it for Wagner and Russia? Wagner, for example, is suspected of having diverted gold from a mine it controls in Sudan, to Moscow in 2022, the year the Kremlin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Western analysts fear that Wagner can provide funding that evades sanctions, even as it expands Putin’s footprint in a volatile, and, until recently, overlooked region in the world. “The natural resource and mining programs that are connected to ‘private’ actors closely associated with the Putin-regime are shrouded in secrecy,” Currie said, so it’s too tenuous “at this stage to directly link resource extraction to the funding of the war effort in Ukraine”.
Yet, figures from Russia suggest a steady flow of the precious metal. Loading Despite significant sanctions put on Russia since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, “Russian gold reserves have increased substantially,” Currie said. Niger is the world’s seventh-biggest producer of uranium. Snatching a cut of mineral wealth that can be funnelled back to the war effort in Ukraine is also a likely Russian objective. So, this isn’t just about African politics?
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Review Eating outChippendale This Korean fried chicken spot serves finger-lickin’ chicken with fine-dining finesse that’s a pure joy to eat Loyal fans visit Joy Korean Fried Chicken’s cheap and cheerful shopfront for its delicious flavours, including sweet and spicy, honey soy, lemon and parsley, turmeric and coconut and bulgogi. Plus a hot and zingy number for true chilli lovers. Lenny Ann Low August 1, 2023 Save Log in , register or subscribe to save recipes for later. You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Save this article for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Got it Share
1 / 6 Locals, tradies, uni students and office workers frequent Joy Korean Fried Chicken. Brook Mitchell 2 / 6 Go-to dish: A Joy Burger Box with bulgogi burger, sweet and spicy chicken piece, coleslaw, pickles, hot chips and drink. Brook Mitchell 3 / 6 Brook Mitchell 4 / 6 Brook Mitchell 5 / 6 Brook Mitchell 6 / 6 Brook Mitchell Previous Slide Next Slide Korean$$$ Joy Korean Fried Chicken is so named because biting into good, crunchy, deep-fried poultry is, for meat-eaters, something akin to bliss. “It’s just joy,” says Kay Hwang, owner of this 10-month-old corner restaurant beside busy Abercrombie Street. He spent months experimenting and perfecting a precise fried chicken recipe and cooking technique before settling on a meticulous combination of spices, timing, heat and quality oil.
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Go-to dish: A Joy Burger Box with bulgogi burger, sweet and spicy chicken piece, coleslaw, pickles, hot chips and drink. Brook Mitchell After marinating the chicken for three days in spices including ginger, white pepper, cinnamon and rock salt, Hwang uses a batter that is thinner and more liquid than the thick coatings used elsewhere. “What I’m doing is very old-fashioned,” he says. “Some restaurants still do it but it’s kind of disappeared. With thicker batter I feel like I’m eating the batter not the chicken. With thin batter you’re actually eating chicken.” Fried chicken, or chikin, is a staple in South Korea, different from American-style fried chicken because of a crispy, spicy crust and far less grease. Hwang says if you pull the fried batter off most US-style fried chicken and squeeze it, oil drips out.
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“Mine, no,” he says. “Our chicken is very, very lean. I cook it three times. At the end, I cook it on the very high temperature. High temperature moves the oil very fast. So the oil is not staying in the batter.” Not to say the batter is unnoticeable. Each Joy KFC piece is a golden meteorite of crunch, tongue-jiggling seasoning and tender plump meat. Served as individual pieces or in fat, bulging burgers with complementary house-made coleslaw and pickles, chicken flavours include original crispy, sweet and spicy, honey soy, lemon and parsley, turmeric and coconut and bulgogi. A wasabi special is available now. Hwang doesn’t stint on ingredients. The coconut and turmeric is steeped in nutty, earthy sweetness and the honey soy whoops with tang and fruity crystallised crunch. Hwang doesn’t stint on ingredients. The coconut and turmeric is steeped in nutty, earthy sweetness and the honey soy whoops with tang and fruity crystallised crunch.
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Sweet and spicy, the most popular item, kicks with chilli but the star is bulgogi, a deep, garlicky soy flavour peppered with sesame seeds. Hwang, a hot food fan, also offers Fire Joy Chicken, so ferociously red it resembles crumpled orbs of glowing lava. Eat it in a burger layered with house-made coleslaw and feel your beating heart inside your eyes. Joy KFC could be described as cheap and cheerful but Hwang’s nuanced cooking and love for greeting customers lift it higher. Loyal fans – locals, tradies, uni students and office workers – teem in for lunch and dinner. Takeaway is popular but many dine in, sitting amid pot plants, pastel blue and green walls (painted by Hwang), South Korean posters and wide windows decorated with fairy lights and metal chicken ornaments. Photo: Brook Mitchell
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“On Friday and Saturday we are slammed,” Kwang says, adding that he learnt English in restaurant kitchens after coming to Australia in 2003. He has worked in various high-end restaurants, including working for award-winning chef Sean Connolly. After spotting the premises last year Hwang signed the lease almost immediately, passionate to run his own business. His wife, a sommelier, had dreamt of a different kind of restaurant. She was, initially, furious. “She didn’t talk to me for days,” Hwang says. “But she is very supportive now.” Everything at Joy KFC has been created by Hwang. He built the kitchen and pulled down an internal wall to open it up to chat with customers and show his cooking process.
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Photo: Brook Mitchell “I have nothing to hide,” he says. “Clean cooking is very important. The deep-friers are cleaned three times a day.” Connecting with customers is paramount. One older woman, a regular fan of Hwang’s chicken, was less comfortable on the wooden stool seating. Hwang understood and bought padded chairs with arm rests for every table. She was delighted. He even caters for pets, with bags of dehydrated chicken wings, and is regularly visited by mixed martial arts fighters who are keen to shed kilos to reach perfect match weight.
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“You would think, it’s crazy,” Hwang says. “Fried chicken and losing kilos? But, I eat five or six pieces every day and I keep losing weight. “It’s OK to eat sometimes. It’s joy.” The low-down Vibe: Korean-style fried chicken cooked with passion, precision and innovative spice and flavour mixes. Order Fire of the Joy chicken for a true chilli sojourn. Go-to dish: A Joy Burger Box with bulgogi burger, sweet and spicy chicken piece, coleslaw, pickles, hot chips and drink.
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The Australian middle-distance runner was the victim of a botched investigation by anti-doping authorities.
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Australian middle-distance runner Peter Bol was winding down for the day in the tiny independent principality of Andorra in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain when he received the most important phone call of his life.
Having completed a gruelling day of training at altitude, he was told by his US-based lawyer Paul Greene that Sports Integrity Australia was abandoning its investigation into whether Bol had used the banned substance EPO.
Greene advised him that SIA was about to release a statement on its website. Seven minutes later, the lengthy release appeared and Bol was officially set free.
So, after provisionally suspending Bol in January, then lifting it in February, but leaving an ongoing investigation hanging over his head for months as wild speculation stirred about his innocence, the federal government’s anti-doping body casually dropped a statement just after dawn on Tuesday AEST, drawing a line under the matter that cast the 29-year-old as an alleged drug cheat.
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Rio Tinto has teamed up with the world’s largest copper producer to explore a major new tenement in Chile’s remote Atacama region.
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Rio Tinto has teamed up with the world’s largest copper producer to explore a major new tenement in Chile’s remote Atacama region as it races to meet soaring demand for a mineral that will help power the globe’s transition to renewable energy.
The mining giant will acquire Pan American Silver’s 58 per cent operating stake in Chile’s Agua de la Falda prospect for $45 million. The company will also purchase another nearby concession, Meridian Property, for $550,000.
Rio Tinto chief executive Jakob Stausholm has the miner focused on producing “future-facing” minerals like copper and nickel. Credit: Bloomberg
Both transactions are on the basis of Rio providing new smelter royalties.
The remaining 42 per cent of Agua de la Falda is controlled by state-owned Codelco, the world’s largest producer of copper, which is a key ingredient in the wind turbines, transmission lines and electric cars that will help arrest global warming and enable the world to reach its net-zero emissions goals.
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Review Eating outChippendale This Korean fried chicken spot serves finger-lickin’ chicken with fine-dining finesse that’s a pure joy to eat Loyal fans visit Joy Korean Fried Chicken’s cheap and cheerful shopfront for its delicious flavours, including sweet and spicy, honey soy, lemon and parsley, turmeric and coconut and bulgogi. Plus a hot and zingy number for true chilli lovers. Lenny Ann Low August 1, 2023 Save Log in , register or subscribe to save recipes for later. You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Save this article for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Got it Share
1 / 6 Locals, tradies, uni students and office workers frequent Joy Korean Fried Chicken. Brook Mitchell 2 / 6 Go-to dish: A Joy Burger Box with bulgogi burger, sweet and spicy chicken piece, coleslaw, pickles, hot chips and drink. Brook Mitchell 3 / 6 Brook Mitchell 4 / 6 Brook Mitchell 5 / 6 Brook Mitchell 6 / 6 Brook Mitchell Previous Slide Next Slide Korean$$$ Joy Korean Fried Chicken is so named because biting into good, crunchy, deep-fried poultry is, for meat-eaters, something akin to bliss. “It’s just joy,” says Kay Hwang, owner of this 10-month-old corner restaurant beside busy Abercrombie Street. He spent months experimenting and perfecting a precise fried chicken recipe and cooking technique before settling on a meticulous combination of spices, timing, heat and quality oil.
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Go-to dish: A Joy Burger Box with bulgogi burger, sweet and spicy chicken piece, coleslaw, pickles, hot chips and drink. Brook Mitchell After marinating the chicken for three days in spices including ginger, white pepper, cinnamon and rock salt, Hwang uses a batter that is thinner and more liquid than the thick coatings used elsewhere. “What I’m doing is very old-fashioned,” he says. “Some restaurants still do it but it’s kind of disappeared. With thicker batter I feel like I’m eating the batter not the chicken. With thin batter you’re actually eating chicken.” Fried chicken, or chikin, is a staple in South Korea, different from American-style fried chicken because of a crispy, spicy crust and far less grease. Hwang says if you pull the fried batter off most US-style fried chicken and squeeze it, oil drips out.
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“Mine, no,” he says. “Our chicken is very, very lean. I cook it three times. At the end, I cook it on the very high temperature. High temperature moves the oil very fast. So the oil is not staying in the batter.” Not to say the batter is unnoticeable. Each Joy KFC piece is a golden meteorite of crunch, tongue-jiggling seasoning and tender plump meat. Served as individual pieces or in fat, bulging burgers with complementary house-made coleslaw and pickles, chicken flavours include original crispy, sweet and spicy, honey soy, lemon and parsley, turmeric and coconut and bulgogi. A wasabi special is available now. Hwang doesn’t stint on ingredients. The coconut and turmeric is steeped in nutty, earthy sweetness and the honey soy whoops with tang and fruity crystallised crunch. Hwang doesn’t stint on ingredients. The coconut and turmeric is steeped in nutty, earthy sweetness and the honey soy whoops with tang and fruity crystallised crunch.
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Sweet and spicy, the most popular item, kicks with chilli but the star is bulgogi, a deep, garlicky soy flavour peppered with sesame seeds. Hwang, a hot food fan, also offers Fire Joy Chicken, so ferociously red it resembles crumpled orbs of glowing lava. Eat it in a burger layered with house-made coleslaw and feel your beating heart inside your eyes. Joy KFC could be described as cheap and cheerful but Hwang’s nuanced cooking and love for greeting customers lift it higher. Loyal fans – locals, tradies, uni students and office workers – teem in for lunch and dinner. Takeaway is popular but many dine in, sitting amid pot plants, pastel blue and green walls (painted by Hwang), South Korean posters and wide windows decorated with fairy lights and metal chicken ornaments. Photo: Brook Mitchell
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“On Friday and Saturday we are slammed,” Kwang says, adding that he learnt English in restaurant kitchens after coming to Australia in 2003. He has worked in various high-end restaurants, including working for award-winning chef Sean Connolly. After spotting the premises last year Hwang signed the lease almost immediately, passionate to run his own business. His wife, a sommelier, had dreamt of a different kind of restaurant. She was, initially, furious. “She didn’t talk to me for days,” Hwang says. “But she is very supportive now.” Everything at Joy KFC has been created by Hwang. He built the kitchen and pulled down an internal wall to open it up to chat with customers and show his cooking process.
Advertisement
Photo: Brook Mitchell “I have nothing to hide,” he says. “Clean cooking is very important. The deep-friers are cleaned three times a day.” Connecting with customers is paramount. One older woman, a regular fan of Hwang’s chicken, was less comfortable on the wooden stool seating. Hwang understood and bought padded chairs with arm rests for every table. She was delighted. He even caters for pets, with bags of dehydrated chicken wings, and is regularly visited by mixed martial arts fighters who are keen to shed kilos to reach perfect match weight.
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“You would think, it’s crazy,” Hwang says. “Fried chicken and losing kilos? But, I eat five or six pieces every day and I keep losing weight. “It’s OK to eat sometimes. It’s joy.” The low-down Vibe: Korean-style fried chicken cooked with passion, precision and innovative spice and flavour mixes. Order Fire of the Joy chicken for a true chilli sojourn. Go-to dish: A Joy Burger Box with bulgogi burger, sweet and spicy chicken piece, coleslaw, pickles, hot chips and drink.
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Former Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission boss Robert Redlich insists the premier sought to “conceal and disguise” the findings of a report handed down in April.
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Victoria’s former anti-corruption boss has doubled down on his assertion that Premier Daniel Andrews concealed the true nature of a corruption report, as Labor MPs refuse to engage with the former judge’s suggestions for improving integrity.
Robert Redlich, the most recent commissioner of the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC), went on ABC radio on Tuesday morning to insist the premier had sought to “conceal and disguise” findings handed down in April.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews won’t appear at the first sitting of state parliament after the winter break. Credit: Wayne Taylor
Operation Daintree found the Andrews government improperly awarded a Labor-affiliated union a $1.2 million contract on the eve of the 2018 election to deliver a training program for hospital staff.
Andrews sought to downplay the report after it was tabled in parliament, insisting the report was “educational” and stressing there were no findings against anyone.
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Australian middle-distance runner Peter Bol was winding down for the day in the tiny independent principality of Andorra in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain when he received the most important phone call of his life.
Having completed a gruelling day of training at altitude, he was told by his US-based lawyer Paul Greene that Sports Integrity Australia was abandoning its investigation into whether Bol had used the banned substance EPO.
Greene advised him that SIA was about to release a statement on its website. Seven minutes later, the lengthy release appeared and Bol was officially set free.
So, after provisionally suspending Bol in January, then lifting it in February, but leaving an ongoing investigation hanging over his head for months as wild speculation stirred about his innocence, the federal government’s anti-doping body casually dropped a statement just after dawn on Tuesday AEST, drawing a line under the matter that cast the 29-year-old as an alleged drug cheat.
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The military power grab in Niger is stoking fears Russia and the Wagner mercenary group could use the coup to their advantage.
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President Mohamed Bazoum at the presidential palace in Niamey, Niger in March. Credit: AP The US, United Nations, European Union and France have all refused to recognise the power grab, with some ending significant financial aid. Why does the coup matter for Africa’s security? Bazoum was elected in 2021. His ascendancy was Niger’s first democratic power transition since its independence from France in 1960 and four military coups that followed. Niger was one of the last countries to co-operate with the West in Africa’s Sahel, a region long plagued with instability amid rising Islamic extremist movements, insurgencies and coups.
“Niger is the latest domino to fall in a series of coups across the southern Saharan region,” Matthew Sussex, adjunct associate professor at Griffith University’s Griffith Asia Institute, told this masthead. “Russia’s Wagner group already has a strong presence in Africa, and has been implicated in supporting the overthrow of Western-friendly governments. A photo of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin purportedly appearing on the sidelines of Putin’s Russia-Africa summit last week. Credit: Twitter “This latest coup is a blow to US influence in the region - Niger had hosted US special forces and drones - as well as other players, like France.” In a corridor spanning 5600 kilometres, from Sudan on the east coast to Guinea on the west, there are now six countries in Africa under military rule, exposing a vacuum Russia has shown it is eager to fill.
The leader of the Russian mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin was quick to throw his support behind the coup, hailing it as an uprising of African people against “former colonisers ... filling these countries with terrorists and various bandit formations.” Is Wagner involved? Whether Wagner will insert itself, as it has in other coups throughout the Sahel region, remains to be seen. However, more than a month after he led a rebellion to march on Moscow, Prigozhin has indicated he was ready to increase Wagner’s presence in Africa, claiming his troops could restore order and destroy terrorist groups. La Trobe University PhD candidate Isabella Currie said that there was “no evidence to suggest that the [Niger] coup is linked to Russia’s expanding interests in Africa”.
“What we have seen are images of protesters waving Russian flags at the front of the French embassy in Niger, which is something we have previously seen in coup activity in both Mali and Burkina Faso.” Thousands of coup supporters marched through the streets of Niger’s capital at the weekend denouncing France, the country’s former colonial power. Supporters of mutinous soldiers hold a Russian flag. Credit: AP Following a Russia-Africa Summit held in St Petersburg last week, “concerns about Russia’s increasing influence in Africa are justified, but shouldn’t be overstated”, Currie said. The event was seen as Putin reinforcing Russia’s ties with the region. While Russia released a statement calling for the release of President Bazoum, images of Russian flags in the hands of pro-coup demonstrators have been seen as evidence of the Kremlin’s growing status across swaths of Africa.
Instability in Niger paves the way for even greater Russian influence in the Sahel region, where 1000 Wagner mercenaries replaced 5000 French troops that left neighbouring Mali last year. Wagner also commands a powerful presence in the Central African Republic. What’s in it for Wagner and Russia? Wagner, for example, is suspected of having diverted gold from a mine it controls in Sudan, to Moscow in 2022, the year the Kremlin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Western analysts fear that Wagner can provide funding that evades sanctions, even as it expands Putin’s footprint in a volatile, and, until recently, overlooked region in the world. “The natural resource and mining programs that are connected to ‘private’ actors closely associated with the Putin-regime are shrouded in secrecy,” Currie said, so it’s too tenuous “at this stage to directly link resource extraction to the funding of the war effort in Ukraine”.
Yet, figures from Russia suggest a steady flow of the precious metal. Loading Despite significant sanctions put on Russia since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, “Russian gold reserves have increased substantially,” Currie said. Niger is the world’s seventh-biggest producer of uranium. Snatching a cut of mineral wealth that can be funnelled back to the war effort in Ukraine is also a likely Russian objective. So, this isn’t just about African politics?
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Rio Tinto has teamed up with the world’s largest copper producer to explore a major new tenement in Chile’s remote Atacama region.
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Rio Tinto has teamed up with the world’s largest copper producer to explore a major new tenement in Chile’s remote Atacama region as it races to meet soaring demand for a mineral that will help power the globe’s transition to renewable energy.
The mining giant will acquire Pan American Silver’s 58 per cent operating stake in Chile’s Agua de la Falda prospect for $45 million. The company will also purchase another nearby concession, Meridian Property, for $550,000.
Rio Tinto chief executive Jakob Stausholm has the miner focused on producing “future-facing” minerals like copper and nickel. Credit: Bloomberg
Both transactions are on the basis of Rio providing new smelter royalties.
The remaining 42 per cent of Agua de la Falda is controlled by state-owned Codelco, the world’s largest producer of copper, which is a key ingredient in the wind turbines, transmission lines and electric cars that will help arrest global warming and enable the world to reach its net-zero emissions goals.
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England have denied snubbing the Australian side after failing to participate in a traditional end-of-series drink in London, claiming it was a misunderstanding.
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England and Australia have failed to have a traditional post-series drink after the home team locked the door to their dressing room.
An England spokesman claimed it was a “misunderstanding” and that England were “shocked” when they went to invite the Australians in and they had already left the ground.
An Australian team spokesman declined to comment, but sources close to the team, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, claimed they knocked on the England dressing room door a number of times and waited for more than an hour.
There was tension between the teams when Jonny Bairstow was stumped during the second Test at Lord’s after walking out of his crease believing it was the end of an over.
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A former childcare worker has been charged with 1623 child abuse offences, including 136 counts of rape, Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Justine Gough said.
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More than 91 children have allegedly been sexually abused by a former childcare worker who worked in centres across Queensland and NSW.
The former worker has been charged with 1623 child abuse offences, including 136 counts of rape, Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Justine Gough said.
Gough said she knew the news would be deeply distressing for many in the community.
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Australian middle-distance runner Peter Bol was winding down for the day in the tiny independent principality of Andorra in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain when he received the most important phone call of his life.
Having completed a gruelling day of training at altitude, he was told by his US-based lawyer Paul Greene that Sports Integrity Australia was abandoning its investigation into whether Bol had used the banned substance EPO.
Greene advised him that SIA was about to release a statement on its website. Seven minutes later, the lengthy release appeared and Bol was officially set free.
So, after provisionally suspending Bol in January, then lifting it in February, but leaving an ongoing investigation hanging over his head for months as wild speculation stirred about his innocence, the federal government’s anti-doping body casually dropped a statement just after dawn on Tuesday AEST, drawing a line under the matter that cast the 29-year-old as an alleged drug cheat.
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England and Australia have failed to have a traditional post-series drink after the home team locked the door to their dressing room.
An England spokesman claimed it was a “misunderstanding” and that England were “shocked” when they went to invite the Australians in and they had already left the ground.
An Australian team spokesman declined to comment, but sources close to the team, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, claimed they knocked on the England dressing room door a number of times and waited for more than an hour.
There was tension between the teams when Jonny Bairstow was stumped during the second Test at Lord’s after walking out of his crease believing it was the end of an over.
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A man who fraudulently obtained money from members of the public claiming to be preparing for the burial of a son of former Narok Governor Samuel ole Tunai has been charged.
In the burial saga, Enock Kipng'etich Lang'at was charged by Milimani magistrate Susan Shitubi with fraudulently obtaining money.
Prosecutors said Lang'at defrauded Joseph Kibere Njoroge of Sh120, 000 claiming it was his contribution to the burial of the former county chief's son, who had allegedly died in a road accident.
Ms Shitubi heard that the accused received the money between April 21 and 30 at an undisclosed location in the Republic of Kenya.
Lang'at, who was arrested on July 28, 2023, applied for bail pending the determination of the criminal case against him.
The prosecution did not oppose the suspect's release on bail.
Ms Shitubi released the suspect on a cash bail of Sh30,000 or a bond of Sh100,000 with one surety.
Ms Shitubi directed the prosecution to provide the accused with witness statements before the case comes up for hearing on 14 August 2023.
Defrauding flour miller
At the same time, a director of a private company, Abdi Mohamed Ali, was charged with defrauding a flour miller of maize flour worth Sh8.6 million.
Ali was accused of receiving the maize from Wakulima Floor Millers Limited on various dates between 29 November 2022 and 11 January 2023 under the pretext that he was in a position to pay for the flour grains.
He is alleged to have on 29 November 2022 and 11 January 2023 at Mega Wholesalers in Eastleigh in Nairobi County with intent to defraud obtained maize meal to the value of Sh8,657,507 from Wakulima Flour Millers Limited by falsely representing that he would pay at a later date which he knew to be false.
Applying for the suspect's release on bail, a defence lawyer told the court that the criminal case stemmed from another case that is still pending.
He added that negotiations were underway to settle the matter out of court.
The defence added that they had paid Sh1 million to the Wakulima Millers.
They said if the civil dispute is settled, it will also end this criminal case. They pleaded with the court to postpone the trial until the civil case is settled.
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The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has hit back at claims by a parliamentary committee that it was being used by forces in government to target certain individuals with investigations to settle political scores.
This came as the EACC Deputy CEO, Mr Abdi Mohamud, while appearing before the National Assembly Committee on Constitutional Oversight and Implementation (CIOC), denied the allegations, saying the commission was conducting its work in a professional manner with the necessary checks and balances.
Mr Mohamud also told the committee, chaired by Githunguri MP Ms Gathoni Wamuchomba, that the commission was investigating civil servants who used fake academic qualifications to gain employment in government with a view to recovering funds paid to them in salaries and other benefits over the past 10 years.
But even as Mr Mohamud made his case, Ms Wamuchomba and committee members Jessica Mbalu (Kibwezi East) and Gitonga Mukunji (Manyatta) put the commission on the spot, saying it had been militarised for political reasons.
Also Read: Government moves to tackle graft in parastatals
The MPs said the use of force had the effect of scaring away potential whistleblowers with "critical" information on corruption that could help the commission carry out its mandate.
"Your commission has militarised the arrests and politically persecuted people. You have really degraded the people you arrest. Is this your style?" Ms Wamuchomba asked in reference to former Murang'a County governor Mwangi Wa Iria, whom she said had been humiliated.
Mr Wa Iria was arrested by EACC detectives after he refused invitations to record a statement with the commission.
President William Ruto has consistently spoken out against the use of state agencies to hunt down individuals whose views differ from those of the government of the day.
Yesterday, Ms Wamuchomba did not hesitate to remind the committee of the President's commitment.
"We wanted to understand the President's pronouncement against the weaponisation of state institutions."
Ms Mbalu noted that "the way you treat those you arrest... we are even afraid for ourselves", while Mr Mukunji said the public had lost confidence in the commission.
"If you are not politically correct, you are in trouble. Is this the same EACC we hear about? This commission must give us the Kenya we want," said Mr Mukunji.
But Mr Mohamud, who was the commission's head of investigations for more than 10 years before being appointed deputy CEO, dismissed the allegations, saying the commission had well-trained people who acted professionally.
Also Read: Vihiga County officials on EACC radar over Sh27m properties in Nairobi
"We try to be as civil as possible but there are isolated situations where a little bit of force is needed," Mr Mohamud said, adding, "The law allows the commissioners to supervise the commission's secretariat, including investigating officers who act unprofessionally."
Ms Wamuchomba told the commission that the use of fake academic records to gain employment in the public service has become an international menace, noting that Kenya is one of the countries in the world with the highest number of people with questionable academic records, which Mr Mohamud acknowledged as a matter under investigation.
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ICT Cabinet Secretary Eliud Owalo said his ministry is targeting the installation of 25, 000 hotspots across the country that will provide free Wi-Fi hotspots to members of the public.
The CS said the move to provide free public Wi-Fi was necessitated by the demand of Kenyans who said they wanted to see the cost of data go down in President William Ruto's government.
"Kenyans told us they'd like to see the cost of data go down. Our target was to have two Wi-Fi hotspots per county. As we speak, we have over 420 hotspots in the country, mostly in markets and bus stops," said Mr Owalo while briefing the media on the areas his ministry has focused on since he took over from his predecessor Joe Mucheru in October last year.
He added that they have done 192 Wi-Fi connections and through ICTA they are operationalising 55 more, which could be done in two years time as opposed to the five-year plan previously communicated.
A total of 14,690 public Wi-Fi hotspots have been identified across the country in close collaboration between the ministry and county governments.
Also Read: Chiloba flees as youths storm event demanding audience with Owalo
Digitised services
According to the CS, the Ministry has exceeded its target of digitising 5,000 government services.
As of 30 June, the ministry had fully digitised 5,084 services and another 2,555 services are partially digitised.
"When we took over, eCitizen had only 350 services. We've targeted KRA, Lands, Transport, Education, Border Control, Cities and Services and Cabinet," he said.
The ICT ministry has also partnered with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) in a Sh600 million contract for postal services.
Mr Owalo also clarified that the recent glitch in eCitizen was the result of an attempt to hack the website, which was not successful.
"The platform was not hacked. It was an attempt to tamper with the system. I want to assure Kenyans that their data is safe. We have now returned to optimal capacity utilisation and we have sufficient risk mitigation against these future attacks," he added.
Cabinet services have also been digitised under the Kenya Kwanza administration, which will facilitate the delivery of quality services to Cabinet and other government agencies, and improve efficiency and effectiveness through the use of technology.
On the proposed digital identification, the CS said that no Kenyan will be forced to apply for it.
Data Protection
While reiterating that no data was lost during the recent attempted hack of eCitizen, the CS said the government has taken the necessary steps to ratify the African Union Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection (the Malabo Convention).
"Under the auspices of the African Union, the Malabo Convention envisages Africa as a single entity for the purposes of data protection and privacy. It calls for a harmonised, independent and robust continental legal framework that will protect all peoples of Africa and people in Africa from data processors and data controllers," Mr Owalo said.
He added that the Office of the Data Commissioner has also been established and operationalised, and that a multi-agency government team has been set up to deal with cyber security, which includes representatives from the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Home Affairs and National Administration, NIS, Ministry of Information, Communication and the Digital Economy, the Communications Authority and the National Computer and Cybercrime Coordination Committee (NC4).
In terms of digital skills, the ministry has secured 23,000 devices through donations to be used to equip Kenyans with skills.
"We've deployed 6700 in 77 TVET institutions, 400 in three universities and we've also supported county governments. We've created 109 digital jobs and trained 336 youth in digital skills through the Ajira and Jitume programmes," Mr Owalo said.
Further, in a bid to deliver on the President's promise of cheaper smartphones for Kenyans, the CS said they have partnered with the private sector to assemble smartphones that will start selling for no less than Sh5,0000 from next month.
He announced that the tendering process for the development of a Sh170 million national addressing system is underway and that the government is procuring a Sh120 million OB van for the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), a partnership with the Spanish government that will see KBC broadcast rugby matches.
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Only four countries -- Brazil, Mauritius, the Netherlands and Turkey -- have adopted all the anti-tobacco measures recommended in the fight against the "deadly scourge" of smoking, the World Health Organization said Monday.
In a fresh report, the UN health agency urged countries to scale up their use of recognised measures to reduce tobacco use, including enforcing advertising bans, plastering health warnings on cigarette packages, raising tobacco taxes and providing assistance to those who want to quit.
It said Mauritius and the Netherlands had now joined Brazil and Turkey in implementing all of its recommended measures.
WHO said 5.6 billion people, or 71 percent of the world's population, were now protected by at least one tobacco control measure -- five times more than in 2007.
The health agency said the global rate of the prevalence of smoking had dropped from 22.8 percent in 2007 to 17.0 percent in 2021.
Without this decline, there would have been 300 million additional smokers now, the WHO said.
"Slowly but surely, more and more people are being protected from the harms of tobacco," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, adding that his organisation was eager to support national efforts to "protect their people from this deadly scourge".
8.7 million annual deaths
Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death, killing 8.7 million people each year, including 1.3 million who die from inhaling second-hand smoke.
According to the organisation, eight countries are one policy step away from joining the leaders in tobacco control: Ethiopia, Iran, Ireland, Jordan, Madagascar, Mexico, New Zealand and Spain.
However, 2.3 billion people in 44 countries remain unprotected by any WHO anti-tobacco measures.
And a full 53 states still do not have complete smoking bans in healthcare facilities -- something Ruediger Krech, the WHO's health promotion director, called "completely unacceptable".
The WHO report also decried far too little regulation of e-cigarettes.
Globally, 121 countries have adopted some measure addressing e-cigarettes.
But 74 countries -- home to almost one third of the global population -- have no regulations in place addressing such products, meaning no bans on use in public places, no labelling requirements and no bans on advertising.
"Astonishingly, very few countries have measures in place to protect children," the report said, noting that 88 countries, covering 2.3 billion people, have no minimum age for buying e-cigarettes.
E-cigarettes and lobbying
Some companies are out to "hook our children onto e-cigarettes and vaping instead to make them nicotine-dependent", said Krech.
Mauritius Health Minister Kailesh Jagutpal said it was better to try to get the tobacco industry onside before changing the law.
"Otherwise, the industry is going to have developed all tactics to come up and fight you," he told reporters.
Krech said the tobacco firms were "insidiously making their way to policymaking tables", decrying "whitewashing tactics where they try to be 'part' of the solution".
"The tobacco industry is a powerful and resourceful industry which even today continues to grow in terms of profit and influence," he said.
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The use of polythene bags was adopted in the early 1960s as a solution for packaging goods in various places. However, after some decades, it became a disaster due to poor and careless disposal by users, leading to contamination of water sources. That resulted in risking the aquatic ecosystem and also the general environment.
Careless disposal of used polythene bags by burning resulted in dark smoke causing environmental pollution. It interfered with the Ozone layer (O3), letting ultraviolet rays, which damage the skin and cause global warming.
Dumping of the used bags clogged waterways and ended up in the stomachs of animals and even humans, killing them. Therefore, by 2017, the use of polythene bags was banned in a bid to stop the massive environmental damage observed then. By 2022, Kenya and Rwanda were lauded as among the cleanest nations.
My worry is, we have taken too long to celebrate the historic feat. That has seen us reverse the gains back to the ‘60s. The widespread use of polythene bags wrappers is back. Various marketplaces, sugar companies, bakers and others still use polythene to pack their products. So, what happened? Was the ban lifted?
Environmental agencies, starting with the National Environment Management Authority (Nema), must up their game, not only by words but also by action to counter the effects of environmental degradation that leads to adverse climate change impacts.
Advocate personal integrity. If all of us can observe that, hence personal responsibility, environmental conservation will be achieved because it will be out of passion and interest in ending environmental pollution.
Lastly, it’s all about knowing what we want as a nation. If it’s to conserve the environment, let all do so. It should not be that while some conserve the environment others pollute it. Let’s make Kenya green together.
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Three lawyers have sued the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) over appointment of magistrate Clarence Awuor Otieno as the new Registrar of the High Court.
Lawyers Omwanza Ombati, Robinson Kigen and Brian Ochieng' Saka claim that the last month's appointment of Ms Otieno was irregular and unlawful since she was not among the persons shortlisted by JSC for interviews during the recruitment process.
In the petition filed at the High Court in Milimani Nairobi, the lawyers claim that Ms Otieno was handpicked in an opaque process to fill the influential position.
The applicants publicly shortlisted for interviews were magistrates Ann Wanjiru, Pauline Wangari, Dennis Kipkirui, Fredrick Momanyi, Elizabeth Juma and Elizabeth Tanui.
"The petitioners are reasonably aggrieved with the appointment (of Ms Otieno), as it wouldn’t be expected that a person who had never been shortlisted would be the successful candidate," said the lawyers in the court papers.
Accusing the Commission of lack of transparency and accountability, the lawyers add that "the JSC's action reeks of impunity, corruption and a wanton defilement of the Constitution. It is not only discriminative but it is also a great disservice to candidates who invested their time and resources to apply for a position, got shortlisted, attended interviews".
The petitioners further argue that Ms Otieno having not been listed for interviews, it is questionable whether she had applied for the job or she was even interviewed.
"In view of the circumstance, the petitioners are entitled to draw an inference or conclude that Ms Otieno either never applied for the position, or that her candidacy was rejected by the Commission at the shortlisting stage. Either of the two inferences is damning to the JSC’s decision to appoint her," said the petitioners.
According to them, shortlisting of candidates is an important step in the recruitment process, and the JSC having shortlisted six candidates, and omitted Ms Otieno from the shortlist, it was expected that the Appointee would have been chosen from the shortlist.
The lawyers also argue that in a previous case in court, JSC agreed that shortlisting of candidates plays a key role in sieving out non-compliant applications.
"The JSC's own Human Resource Manual states that only shortlisted candidates may be subjected to an interview. Moreover, Ms Otieno, not having been shortlisted and invited for an interview in the Commission’s communique, without any fresh and publicized recruitment process, could not possibly have been a candidate for appointment," they said.
The petition pleads that it was "unreasonable and irrational that JSC could call for applications for appointment, receive 24 applications, shortlist six candidates (from its own organization), interview them, then turn around and handpick somebody else, who was not shortlisted or called for the interview!"
They claim that the Commission, which is chaired by Chief Justice Martha Koome, violated national values and principles of governance as set out in Article 10 of the Constitution. They principles are the rule of law, equity, non-discrimination, good governance, integrity, transparency and accountability.
"JSC, in acting as it did, violated each and every value and principle highlighted above, to the detriment of not just the six applicant candidates, but also, the general public. The action to hand-pick a person, who was not shortlisted is not only capricious, inequitable, opaque and discriminative. It is contra the very Constitution the JSC Commissioners are sworn to uphold, defend and protect," they said.
Additionally, that JSC violated provisions of Public Service (Values and Principles) Act, 2015, which require public institutions to ensure that public officers are appointed and promoted on the basis of fair competition and merit.
"In so far as the JSC resorted to handpicking Ms Otieno from outside its own closed shortlist, the JSC violated the above provisions of the Public Service (Values and Principles) Act. In addition, the JSC was neither transparent, accountable or fair in its dispute action," the lawyers pleaded.
They also hold that though the Judicial Service Act and the Third Schedule of the said Act grant the Commission the discretion, ‘in the public interest’ to consider a ‘special procedure’ when making appointments, promotion, transfer, and secondment, the process should comply with national values and principles.
"A holistic reading of the Constitution and other relevant statute cannot arrive at an interpretation permitting the JSC to oust the national values and principles and the principles of public service or act as it did in the instant case," they argued.
Stating that they do not have any reservations on Ms Otieno’s competence and qualifications, the lawyers said to act as the JSC did "is to entrench cronyism, patronage, horse-trading and all other vices synonymous with pre-2010 judicial appointments in judicial service".
On the strength of their arguments, they want court to quash appointment of Ms Otieno and also declare that, in making judicial appointments, the JSC is bound to recruit competitively and based on merit. The petition is pending hearing.
Until her appointment, Ms Otieno was holding the position of the High Court Registrar in acting capacity from May 31, 2023 -the day the six shortlisted candidates were scheduled for interviews by JSC. The position was declared vacant in January 2023.
Initially she was a Senior Principal Magistrate based in Ruiru law courts.
According to JSC, Ms Otieno is a long serving judicial officer having joined the Judiciary in 2008 as a Resident Magistrate and at the time of her promotion to the position of Registrar she was a Senior Principal Magistrate based at Ruiru law courts. She also serves in the Committee of Alternative Justice systems and the specialized Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) Courts.
Duties and responsibilities of the Registrar High Court include the day-to-day administration and management of the High Court and overseeing of support services in the court including the planning, development and the organization of staff.
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The Raila Odinga-led Azimio la Umoja One Kenya has officially unveiled the names of its five negotiators with Kenya Kwanza.
The Opposition team will be led by Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka in talks with President William Ruto’s side to address the stalemate occasioned by weeks of anti-government protests.
Other members of the team include former Defence Cabinet Secretary and DAP-Kenya leader Eugene Wamalwa, National Assembly Minority Leader Opiyo Wandayi, Malindi MP Amina Mnyazi and Nyamira Senator Okong’o Omogeni.
The team had been agreed upon by the coalition during a meeting at Mr Odinga’s Karen residence on Sunday, July 30, attended by Azimio council chairman and former President Uhuru Kenyatta.
“Our position remains that no party to these negotiations can claim a right to determine for the other what to raise and what not to raise. Azimio will respect Kenya Kwanza's right to bring all its issues to the table. We expect Kenya Kwanza to do the same with our issues,” reads the coalition’s statement in part.
It added: “The issues, which the team has instructions to put on the table are: High Cost of Living, Audit of 2022 elections, Bipartisan Reconstitution of IEBC, Inclusivity in national affairs and Respect for Political Parties in line with the constitution.”
The coalition says it is keen on “a time bound program of talks that should take one month beginning August 1, 2023.”
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Corrupt police • The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) should crack down on graft among traffic police, says John Wambugu. “The EACC should deploy officers to secretly board matatus plying the Nyeri-Othaya route and witness the traffic police brazenly pocketing Sh50 notes from every vehicle, not caring about those overloaded or unroadworthy.” His contact is [email protected].
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Hypocrisy • Let’s clean up our politics first, says Mwangi Wanjohi, lamenting that gullible Kenyans have been needlessly divided down the middle over who is actually to blame for the current high cost of living. “Our selfish and corrupt politicians often change clothes, move to the other side and start pointing fingers at those they have left behind on this side.” His contact is [email protected]
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School of money • A primary school in Laikipia North, Stephenson Wahome reports, is notorious for sending pupils away to extort money from parents. “There is Sh300 for the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA), Sh400 for tuition, Sh400 for exams and Sh500 per parent. The head teacher also rakes in thousands from trees cut down in the school compound.” His contact is [email protected]
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Extortion tests • In Kisumu County, claims Damson Opiyo Onger, KCPE exam candidates are being sent home over a Sh1,000 fee to sit regional assessment tests and just end up staying away from school for up to three days as their poor parents struggle to raise the money. “This is quite common in Koru and Muhoroni. Can Education CS Ezekiel Machogu stop it?” His contact is [email protected]
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Selfishness • As most Kenyans reel under the high cost of living, a few leaders and officials are enjoying themselves, moans John Mukiri. “This leaves bitterness in me. It’s saddening to find that state corporations allocate Sh53 million to induct new board members and the Senate has voted for Sh150 million for foreign travels. What kind of society have we moulded?” His contact is [email protected].
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The security guard who was beaten to death during an altercation outside a popular nightclub in Hollywood has been identified as Daniel Sandifer, a young father of two children from Compton. The incident occurred in the early morning hours on Sunday outside the Dragonfly club near Santa Monica Boulevard and Wilcox Avenue.
According to investigators, Sandifer was working as a security guard at the nightclub when he was confronted by a group of up to 11 people. Witnesses reported that the confrontation turned violent when the group began to beat and stomp on Sandifer after he fell to the ground. He was rushed to the hospital but later succumbed to his injuries.
Sandifer’s father, who visited the growing memorial near the crime scene, described his son as his first-born and did not wish to speak on-camera. Friends of Sandifer expressed their shock and disbelief at the brutal nature of the incident. They described him as a good guy and a family-oriented man who didn’t deserve such a fate.
Homicide detectives are now urging anyone who may have witnessed or recorded the incident to come forward. They believe that videos or photos taken by bystanders could provide valuable evidence in bringing justice to Sandifer’s family. LAPD’s West Bureau Homicide can be contacted at 213-382-9470 with any information.
No arrests have been made so far, and the motive behind the violent confrontation has not been disclosed. The incident has left the community in shock and mourning. Sandifer’s tragic death serves as a reminder of the dangers faced by security personnel who work to maintain safety in public spaces.
As the investigation continues, friends and family of Sandifer are left to grieve the loss of a loved one who was taken away too soon. The senseless violence that claimed his life serves as a sobering reminder of the importance of promoting peace and unity within our communities..
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Magnus White, a promising junior cyclist from Boulder, Colorado, tragically lost his life in a devastating motorcycle accident. The news of his untimely passing has been reported by various news outlets, but it is important to note that this is still a developing story and the details have not been officially confirmed or validated.
Magnus was known for his incredible talent and passion for cycling. At such a young age, he had already made a significant impact in the cycling community and showed great potential for a successful future in the sport. His dedication and hard work made him a role model for many aspiring cyclists.
Born and raised in Boulder, Magnus embraced the vibrant cycling culture of the city. He was often seen exploring the scenic mountain trails and participating in local races. His love for cycling was infectious, and he inspired many of his peers to pursue their own cycling dreams.
Magnus’s tragic accident serves as a heartbreaking reminder of the importance of safety on the road. It is a devastating loss for his family, friends, and the entire cycling community. During this difficult time, it is crucial to respect the privacy of Magnus’s loved ones and allow them the space to grieve.
As more information becomes available, it is our hope that the memory of Magnus White’s incredible talent and vibrant spirit will continue to live on. His legacy as a junior cyclist will undoubtedly inspire future generations to pursue their passions and embrace the joy of cycling.
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Last week, emergency responders were called to a bus stop on Fifth Street in Eureka in response to a medical emergency. Unfortunately, the individual, identified as 58-year-old Raymond Thomas Volmer, was declared dead at the scene. The Eureka Police Department (EPD) and Humboldt Bay Fire were called in to investigate the situation.
According to Brittany Powell, spokesperson for EPD, witnesses reported that Volmer suddenly collapsed at the bus stop. Foul play was not initially suspected, and the EPD was called in to assist the Humboldt Bay Fire Department. The man was officially pronounced dead at 7:02pm, as confirmed by the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO).
An autopsy was conducted on Friday, and the initial results did not reveal any evidence of foul play. However, the cause and manner of death are still pending the results of a toxicology screening. Typically, it takes several weeks to obtain the results of toxicology screenings.
The EPD received the initial call at 6:43pm, and they are currently investigating other circumstances surrounding Volmer’s death. The police department has not provided any further details regarding these circumstances.
This unfortunate incident serves as a reminder of the importance of prompt medical attention in emergency situations. It also highlights the collaborative efforts of emergency responders, such as the EPD and Humboldt Bay Fire, in handling such incidents.
If anyone has any information regarding this incident or wishes to provide additional details to assist with the investigation, they are encouraged to contact Sage Alexander at 707-441-0504.
As the investigation continues, the community mourns the loss of Raymond Thomas Volmer and offers condolences to his family and loved ones during this difficult time..
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The Oklahoma City Police Department (OCPD) has provided more information regarding the arrest of a man following an Endangered Missing Advisory on Saturday. The incident occurred when OCPD received a call about a domestic disturbance at a residence located near S.W. 104th St. and S. May Ave.
Upon arrival at the scene, officers discovered the lifeless body of 31-year-old Samantha Ainsworth inside the home. The authorities quickly identified the suspect as Samantha’s former spouse, Chase Ainsworth. It was also revealed that Chase had left the residence with one of their children.
An alert was immediately issued, and the police swiftly located Chase and the child at a different home in the vicinity of S.W. 119th St. and S. Rockwell Ave. Officers entered the premises and found the child unharmed. Chase was promptly taken into custody.
Following the arrest, Chase was booked into the Oklahoma County Detention Center on charges of first-degree murder and child stealing. The investigation into the tragic incident is ongoing.
This shocking incident highlights the importance of addressing domestic disturbances promptly and effectively. The OCPD’s swift response and successful apprehension of the suspect demonstrate their commitment to ensuring the safety and well-being of all residents.
Cases of domestic violence can have devastating consequences, leading to loss of life and significant emotional trauma. It is crucial for individuals experiencing or witnessing such situations to reach out for help and support from law enforcement agencies and domestic violence helplines.
Efforts must also be made to educate the public about recognizing the signs of domestic violence and providing resources for victims to seek assistance. By raising awareness and promoting a zero-tolerance approach towards domestic violence, communities can work together to prevent these tragic events from occurring.
In conclusion, the Oklahoma City Police Department’s swift response and successful arrest of a suspect following a domestic disturbance serve as a reminder of the importance of addressing such incidents promptly. It is crucial for communities to work together to prevent domestic violence and provide support to victims in need..
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Brendon Gutgsell, a talented tennis player and student at Forest Park High School, tragically lost his life in a devastating accident. The news of his untimely passing has been reported by several news articles; however, the details surrounding the incident are still being investigated.
Brendon was known for his outstanding skills on the tennis court and his dedication to the sport. As a member of the Forest Park High School tennis team, he consistently demonstrated his passion and commitment, leaving a lasting impact on his coaches, teammates, and friends.
Beyond his athletic achievements, Brendon was also a beloved member of the school community. Known for his warm personality and genuine kindness, he had a remarkable ability to bring people together and make everyone feel included. His infectious smile and positive attitude will be deeply missed by all who had the privilege of knowing him.
The loss of Brendon Gutgsell has left a void in the hearts of his family and friends. As the news of his passing continues to unfold, the community mourns the loss of such a bright and promising young individual. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and loved ones during this difficult time.
While the circumstances surrounding Brendon’s death have yet to be confirmed or validated, it is essential for the community to come together and support one another in the face of this tragedy. As we remember Brendon, let us cherish the memories we shared with him and honor his legacy by embracing the values he embodied – kindness, determination, and a passion for life.
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A 20-year-old Milwaukee man, Triston Brown, is facing criminal charges for allegedly shooting and killing a man near Washington Park on July 25. Brown now faces charges of first-degree intentional homicide and strangulation & suffocation.
According to the criminal complaint, police received a ShotSpotter notification of possible gunshots in the area of Washington Park. When officers arrived at the scene, they found the victim, Naquon Henry, who had been shot near the playground. Officers also spotted a person near the shooting scene who provided a description of the shooter and indicated that he had fled eastbound on Lisbon Avenue.
Shortly after, an officer spotted a person matching the description of the shooter walking east on Lisbon near 34th Street. When the officer attempted to make contact, the person started running. The officer observed the person holding a firearm. Police set up a containment perimeter and eventually located a black bag containing a phone, box of 9mm bullets, and identifiers for Triston Brown.
During the investigation, officers learned that Brown had been involved with a girl who provided information linking him to the homicide. The girl stated that Brown had made threats towards her and that he had strangled her, punched her, and pointed a gun at her before forcing her to go to Washington Park. Brown allegedly used the girl’s phone to lure Henry to the park and shot him multiple times.
During an interview with police, Brown admitted to the recovered gun being his and admitted to getting into a fight with the girl and shooting Henry. However, he claimed to have blacked out and couldn’t recall the number of shots fired.
Brown appeared in Milwaukee County court on July 30, and a cash bond of $250,000 was set.
This incident adds to the growing tally of violence in Milwaukee, where community members are expressing concern and calling for action to address the issue. The tragic events highlight the need for increased efforts to combat gun violence and provide support to communities affected by such incidents..
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Paul Reubens, the beloved American actor and comedian best known for his iconic character Pee-wee Herman, has reportedly passed away at the age of 70. While multiple news articles have published this information, it is important to note that this is still a developing story, and the news of his untimely demise has not been officially confirmed or validated.
Reubens gained widespread fame and a dedicated fanbase with his quirky and childlike alter ego, Pee-wee Herman. His unique blend of humor, wit, and physical comedy endeared him to audiences of all ages. Pee-wee Herman first appeared in The Pee-wee Herman Show, a stage production that later became a hit television series, Pee-wee’s Playhouse.
Reubens’ comedic talent extended beyond Pee-wee Herman, as he also had notable roles in movies such as “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” and “Big Top Pee-wee.” He was recognized for his exceptional ability to bring laughter and joy to countless people throughout his career.
The cause of Reubens’ death has not been disclosed at this time. As fans and the entertainment industry mourn the potential loss of this comedic genius, it is important to await official confirmation and respect the privacy of his loved ones during this difficult time. Paul Reubens’ contributions to the world of entertainment will undoubtedly be remembered and cherished for years to come.
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When a beloved food cart finally goes brick-and-mortar, the opening is usually surrounded by a great deal of fanfare and a Christmaslike countdown clock.
Not so for Chicken and Guns.
The Cartopia pod staple in Southeast Portland very quietly launched its first full-service restaurant this past spring, and did so in Gales Creek, a town of less than 700 people at the edge of the Coast Range, miles away from any of its regulars.
Smokehouse Chicken and Guns is a roadhouse-style diner that began serving customers on March 24 at 55660 NW Wilson River Highway—also known as Highway 6, which winds its way through the Tillamook State Forest.
Two members of the leadership team—Matt Mirpourian, owner of Pacific Northpress, and Chicken and Guns and Bottle Rocket owner Dustin Knox—have connections to the area. (John Stewart, owner of Meat Cheese Bread and BEER, is also an owner).
Mirpourian was born just a few miles down the road from the restaurant, which used to be Coleman’s 9N Shady Rest until it permanently closed in 2020 during the pandemic. Meanwhile, Knox has long recreated in the surrounding forest—enjoying everything from camping to riding dirt bikes. The aesthetic for the 4,000-square-foot space—”rustic-psychedelic vintage”—was inspired by his 1970s childhood.
“I had a vision for the location as a wonderful destination stop on the highway with plenty of character and delicious food,” Knox tells WW.
The menu features the cart’s lineup of wood-fired birds, crispy potatoes and sauces like Peruvian aji and chimichurri in addition to a number of new offerings, including burgers, locally grown vegetable-based sides and weekend brunch.
Smokehouse Chicken and Guns Photo courtesy of Smokehouse Chicken and Guns.
Smokehouse Chicken and Guns originally opened with limited hours, which have since been expanded. The restaurant currently operates from 9 am to 9 pm Friday through Sunday, but Knox says they’re about to launch Wednesday and Thursday service. There is live music every Friday and Saturday and more events are expected to be added to the calendar.
Despite its relatively rural location, so far a mix of longtime cart customers and newcomers have shown up.
“We have a great mix of both Portland food cart fans and locals,” Knox adds. “Surprisingly a lot of the locals were familiar with the cart in Portland. We love being out here and seeing such a diverse mix of people frequent the venue.”
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When Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Shoplifters was up for the 2018 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, even its most ardent fans knew that it would lose to its more famous rival, Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma.
Nevertheless, the ethereally beautiful and breathtakingly sincere Shoplifters remains one of the most significant films of the young century. And on Friday, Aug. 4, audiences will be able to experience it at the Clinton Street Theater as part of the venue’s Hanabi Japanese Film Festival.
When Shoplifters was released, Kore-eda had long been one of the most acclaimed filmmakers in Japan, having directed tender and piercing dramas like Still Walking (2008) and Our Little Sister (2015).
Still, Shoplifters marked a new high for the director and stars Lily Franky and Ando Sakura, who play, respectively, Osamu and Nobuyo, the patriarch and matriarch of a family of thieves struggling to survive in contemporary Tokyo.
While a less imaginative director might have molded Shoplifters into a ruthless crime saga, Kore-eda has little interest in banal violence. He simply savors the feel of the characters’ lives, whether they’re snacking on gluten cake, building a snowman, or leaping into the air during a blissful day at the beach.
What makes the film both wondrous and devastating is that, while Osamu and Nobuyo have built a family to facilitate their cons, their love for their adopted children is palpably real. By the time a heartbroken Osamu is racing after the bus carrying his son away from him, not even the most hardened cynic could deny their bond.
Kore-eda, who works fast, clearly has more masterpieces up his sleeve. But Shoplifters is likely to be his defining film—and if you love movies, you should do yourself a favor and see it on the big screen.
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After closing its downtown shop during the pandemic, Spella Caffè is doing something unusual for a business that shuttered in the city’s core: reopening in the same neighborhood.
Founder Andrea Spella tells WW that the new outpost will be located in the former Moonstruck Chocolate store at 608 SW Alder St. That’s in the Selling building, which is owned by the Schlesinger family, who’ve partnered with Spella on this project. The Portland Business Journal first reported the news.
The 17-year-old company had been operating out of a shop on Southwest 5th Avenue and Alder Street. Spella says that location became unsafe once COVID emptied the surrounding office buildings of their workers (and potential customers), then drug-related activity took off on relatively empty blocks.
“This particular block feels much safer. There’s more traffic on it, both foot and car,” Spella says. “Closer to Pioneer Square and all the hotels; it just feels right.”
The new shop takes its inspiration from a classic Italian cafe without alcohol. Spella describes the space as “light and airy with tall ceilings,” and there will be a soothing soundtrack of jazz and classical music to accompany your jolt of caffeine.
Spella promises a tight menu of beverage staples, like espressos, macchiatos, cappuccinos, lattes and cold brew. The shop will also serve chai, which is made with the brand’s own recipe. Customers can also buy beans and chocolate to take home.
The new location has actually long been on Spella’s radar. When he moved to Portland 22 years ago, he had aspirations of opening an authentic Italian cafe there if it ever became available to lease. Moving there not only fulfills that wish, the company founder gets to support downtown—a part of Portland he cares about deeply.
“I have always been committed to downtown, I live here too! Right by PSU on the Park Blocks,” Spella tells WW. “I consider it a community just like everywhere else in Portland; people live and work here and want fine services just as much as the rest of the city. Someone has to keep the faith and keep the energy downtown going strong, to help us recover.”
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Nicole Combs' sister threw her an elaborate baby sprinkle to celebrate the impending arrival of the next Luke Combs baby.
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Luke Combs and his wife Nicole are very close to having a family of four. With Baby Combs No. 2's due date rapidly approaching, Nicole's sister threw her an elaborate "baby sprinkle" to celebrate.
"Yesterday @jennahocking threw me the nicest baby sprinkle for baby combs #2," Nicole writes on social media, sharing several photos from the event.
"Missing a few important people in these pics, but feeling unbelievably loved & blessed in this journey. Counting down the days!!"
Snaps included in the carousel of photos: Nicole looking ravishing in a white dress featuring an ornate neckline with dozens of pearl strings wrapping around her shoulders and arms. She added a few shots of her family and friends, too, along with the restaurant at which the sprinkle took place.
The menu included gluten-free Nashville hot chicken and waffles, buttermilk biscuits and gravy, plus a farmers' hash with plenty of veggies and a horseradish sauce. It sounds like Nicole may be craving spicy food during this pregnancy, her second.
Also seen in the pictures: Mrs. Combs sitting behind a white tiered cake with blue icing on the bottom and a few delicate flowers cascading down the side. A sign reading "Baby Combs" is staked into the middle.
The Combs family first announced they were expecting a second child in March with a post on social media. They also revealed it would be their second son in the caption — the two welcomed their first son, Tex, now 1, in June 2022.
"Joining the 2 under 2 club! Baby boy #2 coming this September!!" the "5 Leaf Clover" singer shared at the time.
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Tracy Lawrence has memorialized a few icons in the form of an arm tattoo: The Mt. Rushmore of Country Music, if you will.
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Tracy Lawrence is a country music legend in his own right — he has charted more than forty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including eight songs that reached No. 1!
But he respects those who paved the way for him, and has even memorialized a few icons in the form of an arm tattoo.
On Instagram, Lawrence gave fans a peek at his new 'Mt. Rushmore of Country Music' tattoo, which he says is almost finished. In the social media video, the "Paint Me a Birmingham" singer introduces his tattoo artist, Travis Harper. They appear to be on Lawrence's bus, where he's getting his ink done.
The country singer points to his forearm and names the people whose faces appear permanently on his skin: George Strait, George Jones, Keith Whitley and Merle Haggard.
"So we have been working on this all day and are getting real close to being done," Lawrence says.
Naturally, the comments section weighed in with differing opinions about which artists should appear on a country music Mt. Rushmore:
@Hayden.clain003 writes: "What about Cash and Waylon? And Alan Jackson? And eventually Jason Aldean at the end of his career too."
@blessedmama writes: "You need Conway Twitty on there."
User @maccdall1 had some positivity to spread below Lawrence's video, writing, "Love it Tracy, by the way I have all your CDs and have seen you at least 6-8 times and would think long and hard about putting you up on the wall as well."
Tracy Lawrence is currently touring, with no plans to stop — he has shows booked all the way through 2024.
Evan Paul is the host of Taste of Country Nights, a syndicated radio show heard on more than 120 country radio stations nationwide, every night from 7PM to midnight. He plays the best new country music and interviews today's top stars, like Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert, Dan + Shay, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Chris Stapleton, Lady A, Morgan Wallen + more!
The Best Tracy Lawrence Song? Here Are His Top 20 Hits and Deep Cuts Tracy Lawrence has been a pure country hitmaker for 30 years. Here are his best songs, including many of his eight No. 1 hits, plus his CMA and ACM Award-winning collaborations and so many more from his deep catalog.
64 Artists Not in the Country Music Hall of Fame Which county singer is most deserving of a Country Music Hall of Fame induction? Here are 64 artists that don't have a medallion yet, with some thoughts on when each is eligible and if their fans can expect that nod soon.
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Tyler Childers' immersive, emotional music video for "In Your Love" — which follows the love story between two male coal miners in 1950s-era rural Appalachia — is making an impact as a profound statement of allyship at a time when country music's bitter sociopolitical divides feel as cavernous as ever.
The video stars openly gay Hollywood stars Colton Haynes and James Scully as two miners who fall in love, ultimately moving away from working for the coal mine companies to working for themselves as sustenance farmers. Themes of Appalachian life predominate in the video. Though the two men live with the fear of homophobic violence from members of their community, their joy is also represented in scenes where the couple go for romantic picnics, host a dinner party and spend time working their land.
Eventually, tragedy befalls the couple when one man falls ill with black lung disease, aka coal miner's pneumoconiosis, a common and often fatal affliction among coal miners. The man dies on his front porch, cradled by his partner, who lives out the rest of his life as a widower who finds comfort in friendships with animals such as his donkey.
Childers collaborated with his fellow Kentuckian, author Silas House, to create the "In Your Love" music video, which arrived on Thursday (July 27). House — who is the current Poet Laureate of Kentucky — wrote and provided creative direction for the treatment, along with his husband, Jason Kyle Howard. Bryan Schlam directed the video.
When the video first came out, House wrote on Instagram that it was, "One of the greatest honors of my life" to help create it, adding that "to our knowledge, it is the first-ever country music video with a gay storyline to be released by a major label."
The magnitude of telling a story of gay, Appalachian love was personal to Childers, too. In an interview with NPR about the song, he explained that "my cousin growing up, who's like my big brother, is gay."
"And he graduated from Northern Kentucky, went to Chicago and never came back," the singer continues. "He taught me so much about singing; he was my first tough critic. And just thinking about him not having a music video on CMT that spoke to him."
Since "In Your Love"'s release date, many listeners have contrasted it to Jason Aldean's "Try That in a Small Town" — the country star's polarizing and aggressive new single, denounced by critics as racist dog-whistling and a glorification of gun-based vigilante justice. Both music videos came out within a few weeks of each other; both share strong sociopolitical commentary based around rural and small town life.
"Tyler Childers is a country singer who grew up in Appalachia & his father worked in the coal mines. Now he uses his platform to amplify queer stories," one Twitter user writes. "Jason Aldean is a country singer who grew up in a metropolis & went to private school. Now he uses his platform to be racist."
"Jason said 'Try that in a small town' and Tyler said 'I f--king will,'" another adds.
But others disapprove of Childers' message, or wish he'd keep politics out of his music.
"Another great one lost to the Rainbow coalition," one Twitter user laments. "Why can't we have great artists that just don't make things provocative and political, and just write and sing good songs??"
Yet another group of listeners felt both Aldean and Childers have a right to express their opinions in their songs and music videos without backlash.
"I didn't get offended about Jason Aldean using his platform/talent to stand for something he believes in. I also am not offended at Tyler Childers using his platform/talent to stand for something he believes in. The lack of consistency y'all possess never ceases to amaze me," one listener writes.
The two videos cast two starkly different portrayals of rural life, and fans continue to pick sides, find common ground or submit their own ideas of what it means to live in a small town.
Meanwhile, streaming and sales numbers for both Aldean's and Childers' songs reflect two starkly opposed concepts, each making a powerful impact.
As of Friday (July 28), Childers' "In Your Love" — then 24 hours old — had already jumped to the No. 15 spot on iTunes and was inside the Top 100 on Spotify and Apple Music, according to Hits Daily Double. Its video had amassed 1.2 million YouTube views in its first day online (by Monday (July 31), that number had climbed to 2.6 million).
As of Sunday (July 30), the video of "In Your Love" was No. 1 on Apple Music's All-Genre Videos chart — Aldean's "Try That in a Small Town Video" sat at No. 4. YouTube's "music" trending page listed the "In Your Love" video in the No. 3 spot on Monday (July 31); "Try That in a Small Town" sat at No. 5. The "Try That in a Small Town" video has racked up 23 million views since it dropped on July 14, making it the most-viewed video on YouTube's Top 5 "music" trending videos — though at two weeks old, it's also had more time to be viewed than any of the other videos in the Top 5.
Childers — who supported the Black Lives Matter movement and spoke to Appalachia's complicated history with racism in his Long Violent History album, and grappled with religion and religious freedom in his next project, Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? — has always spoken to his audience as someone who grew up rurally, living off the land and immersed in a small-town Appalachian community.
He hasn't commented on Aldean's song and music video. However, speaking to NPR, the singer shares some complicated feelings about the expression of small-town life in mainstream country music lyrics and the Nashville songwriting industry.
"Nashville is an extremely necessary town; everybody's got to meet somewhere, and this is a heck of a meeting place. But there's this hard disconnect," he opines. "The writers didn't necessarily grow up in a rural setting, but the nostalgia for that way of life resonates with them in some way. So they're working within these stereotypes of this nostalgia that they might not even have any reference point to understand."
Childers also says that he hopes his "In Your Love" video will help make "real conversations possible," and perhaps lead some people to cut through the stereotypes they might have in their mind about gay love.
"This is a story of two people sharing their love and living a life together and experiencing loss. Once you take away the flash card phrases and, like, the knee-jerk reactions, how does that make you feel?" he says. "How are you going to feel when you get to those points in your life? And what are you going to need when you're going through loss? Are you going to need people to be hateful with you, when your partner in this world dies and you're alone?"
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Nothing can keep Luke Bryan down in this feel-good new video for 'But I Got a Beer in My Hand.'
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Luke Bryan's "But I Got a Beer in My Hand" music video brushes off life's everyday inconveniences and misfortunes with a wink, a smile and a drink raised up high.
The visual treatment pairs with the lyrics of the single, in which Bryan admits he was more than ready to be heartbroken after a breakup — but much to his surprise, after the hammer falls, he's feeling no pain.
"Feelin' this high wasn't part of my plan / Wasn't even gonna try / But I got a beer in my hand," he concludes in his playful, summer-ready song.
It's a breakdown — not a breakup — that befalls the country singer in the music video for "But I Got a Beer in My Hand." After his truck leaves him stranded on a back road in the middle of nowhere, Bryan catches a lucky break when another pickup pulls up and gestures at him to hop into the bed of the truck.
From there, he hitches a ride to a barn party, joins the band onstage and rubs elbows with a room full of partiers who are feeling just as good as he is.
Bryan's luck doesn't change all that much over the course of the video — he loses a poker game in the middle of his night out — but that doesn't get his mood down any. Rather, he cracks open a can of his very own Two Lane Beer and kicks back with a cigar.
With the party scene filmed as a one-take shot, Bryan brings the camera to the front row of his good time, performing directly to the audience throughout his come-back, feel-good night out.
Bryan is currently in the midst of his Country On Tour, which extends through October.
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• IoT devices are extremely prone to cybersecurity threats. • The FCC has announced a Cyber Trust mark to set standards for IoT cyber-resilience. • Many
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• IoT devices are extremely prone to cybersecurity threats.
• The FCC has announced a Cyber Trust mark to set standards for IoT cyber-resilience.
• Many leading players in the industry have already signed up.
Safety, efficiency, and process certification marks are nothing new – from the Energy Star on your washing machine or refrigerator to the USDA Organic mark on your family’s carrots, to the R rating on the movies you don’t show your kids, they’re an understood reality: marks that prove that X product has met Y standards before being sold to the public. But there is, now, a new kid on this old block, and it’s one that aims to tackle the cybersecurity threats that attack consumers in their homes and lives.
The Biden administration, through the auspices of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), announced the launch of the “Cyber Trust” mark in July, 2023, and it’s expected to come into force in 2024. Companies will be able to voluntarily sign up for the Cyber Trust mark, and, assuming their products pass the tests – being resilient against cybersecurity threats – will be able to display the mark on those products to show that not only are their products resilient, but that the company “cares” about the cyber-resilience of the products they sell to their customers.
READ NEXT The rising hack threat to IoT devices
Certification marks have a habit of evolving into de facto “rules,” with the entire buying chain abandoning individual assessment of risks and ratings – if a product has the “mark” on it, it’s usually judged to be good enough, at the bare minimum, for use without worry.
In the case of the Cyber Trust mark, there’s an interesting add-on, compared to most previous certification marks, though. Because cybersecurity threats, and cybersecurity resilience, can change over time, evolving to attack devices that were previously safe, or overwhelming previous patches, the Cyber Trust mark will come in two parts.
Tackling cybersecurity threats on purchase and afterward.
Firstly, as with the Energy Star or the USDA Organic certification, there will be a mark stamped on products that a certificate-issuing authority (in this case the FCC) is satisfied that when it was sold, the product met the necessary standards and achieves the required cyber-resilience to qualify for certification.
But because the IoT and IIoT market – and the nature of cybersecurity threats – is distinctly different from, for instance, the market for makers of Energy Star products, there will be a second part to the Cyber Trust mark. The second part will be a scannable QR code, which will allow users to check whether their product is still cyber-resilient at a later date, potentially prompting users to download the latest available security patches.
While the Cyber trust mark itself will most likely come with a range of cybersecurity threat-resilience information for the particular product to which it’s attached, the QR code will allow buyers to access significantly more information, like what kind of data is collected by the device, where and how it’s stored, and even the manufacturer’s policy on sharing any collected data. That could allow for a relative data practice meritocracy to emerge in the IoT and IIoT markets over time.
YOU MIGHT LIKE IOT Mitigating the rising hack threat to IoT devices
Keeping your connected devices safe from cybersecurity threats.
In the first place, almost everything these days can be a connected device – from your toothbrush to your washing machine, your refrigerator to your meat thermometer, your smartphone to your medication monitor to your “share control” butt plug.
Anything that’s a connected device on your domestic network can be a point of entry for would-be hackers, who can use that weak point in the system to move laterally and take control of other parts of the system, such as your data-rich laptop.
Such cybersecurity threats in a home network might take some time to die out as the Cyber Trust mark becomes a more significant part of day-to-day reality, but ultimately, having an industry standard on cybersecurity threats and resilience in smart devices can only be a positive development.
But if nothing else, having devices stamped with the Cyber Trust mark might well work to educate the wider public about the volume and nature of cybersecurity threats to which they have been, and could be vulnerable through the omnipresent world of connected devices in which they live.
The potential for expansion.
While in its current form, the Cyber Trust mark is intended to cover only domestic connected devices (with an already existing option to expand to cover fitness trackers, which commonly connect to multiple networks, rather than only the domestic one), the idea could at least theoretically be expanded over time to IIoT devices in commercial supply chains.
Every warehouse, every office building, every place of work in the developed world is guaranteed to be filled with IIoT devices, and just like the unsecured toothbrush in a domestic setting, any one of them could be a weak point in the security of a whole network.
The idea of whole supply chains, and whole industries suddenly having the capacity to choose only Cyber Trust marked IIoT devices is likely to create a similar circle of virtue as companies strive to not only protect their own systems, but gain the ability to show other players in their supply chain that they take cybersecurity threats seriously.
Assuming the Cyber Trust mark proves effective in reducing the number and/or effectiveness of cybersecurity threats in the domestic world of connected devices, there’s no reason beyond the sheer logistical challenge of the move why a commercial version shouldn’t be rolled out eventually.
Some of the connected device industry’s biggest players have already voluntarily signed up to the Cyber Trust mark initiative, including Google, Samsung, Logitech, Amazon, Best Buy, and the Connectivity Standards Alliance.
READ NEXT Here’s how hackers exploit IoT device vulnerabilities to invade hardware
In fact, that’s the single issue that makes the Cyber Trust mark potentially controversial. While it’s arguable that the imposition of a standard to combat cybersecurity threats in IoT devices can only make the industry and those who use its products safer and better, there’s also an argument to be made that such a mark will tend to concentrate the market into a relative monopoly, with only the more prolific players able to afford the testing, hardware and software upgrades to meet potential annual recertification requirements.
The sheer force of numbers of IoT and IIoT devices in the world (approximately 15.4 billion in 2023, just over twice the number of human beings) means the likelihood is that significant change due to the development of the Cyber Trust mark will be slow.
But as a move in a more conscious direction towards protecting individuals and households – and eventually, potentially whole supply chains and industries from cybersecurity threats, it probably has to be applauded, monopoly concerns or not.
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More firms are getting the chance to safely explore what generative AI can do for business thanks to out-of-the-box tools.
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It was feared that the economics of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) trained on vast amounts of data gathered from the web and requiring thousands of GPUs could limit the rewards to just a few tech pioneers. But that scenario is changing. More firms are asking what generative AI can do for their business, and the specialist skills that were necessary at the beginning of the boom are being codified to help companies more widely.
AI systems capable of showing the right ads to the right people and enabling more powerful web searches are hugely valuable, which explains why tech giants such as Google, Meta and Microsoft have assigned multi-million dollar budgets to projects in these domains. But that activity barely scratches the surface in terms of potential use cases. And providers are showing that the rise of AI doesn’t just have to benefit massive tech firms with large in-house resources.
Democratizing AI access
Andrew Ng – a famous figure in the success of deep learning – is aware that customization requirements can present a hurdle when it comes to realizing AI’s full potential across the long tail of applications. In principle, vision systems for textile firms and food preparation companies – to give just a couple of use cases – could help millions of workers.
Ng’s vision is that simple-to-use platforms that take the heavy lifting out of building an AI model will empower vast numbers of businesses that have, until now, been unable to reap the benefits. Ng’s team has developed a platform dubbed LandingLens that ‘makes computer vision super easy’. And users can quickly educate the system to automate defect detection, improving product quality and dramatically reducing the need for time-consuming manual inspection.
Considering other streamlining options, generative AI and LLMs, to quote Google, represent the pinnacle of information retrieval technology. And while implementing these models may be child’s play for tech giants, how can other companies – for example, firms without large IT teams and working outside of the tech sector – leverage these huge search gains for their own businesses?
Considering what generative AI can do for business, it’s worth noting that LLMs enable powerful summarization features to complement enterprise search. And search queries can be not just conversational text, but also include images to provide so-called multi-modal capabilities.
Google has launched what it dubs Gen App Builder to make generative AI and LLM capabilities more widely available to developers. The product is in early access and promises to give users an out-of-the-box dev experience, accessed via the Google Cloud console.
How to build an AI-powered search engine for your business
The Gen App Builder can create search engines based on web content, by inputting a series of URLs, or users can specify structured data – for example, files in JSON format or BigQuery sources. And if you’re wanting to rapidly search through hundreds of reports, the platform can handle that too – thanks to an unstructured data option, which can be fed with PDFs.
Once created, these custom generative AI search engines can be integrated into applications using API calls and code snippets such as HTML widgets, which users can embed in their websites. What’s more, the Gen App Builder comes with analytics capabilities that provide a wide range of per-session search metrics.
The power of AI-based search for enterprise comes to light when you consider the differences between how traditional databases index information and the way that deep learning models file their data. Rather than tabulate various attributes, AI systems typically employ embeddings as their data structures. And this is a game changer.
Embedding space – mapping the meaning of content
“Once lined with specific content like text, images, tweets, or anything, AI creates a space called embedding space, which is essentially a map of the contents’ meaning,” explains Kaz Sato, a Developer Advocate at Google.
For example, you could represent a document that contained 20% financial information, 50% technical data, and 30% marketing content as a 3D coordinate (0.2, 0.5, 0.3) in embedding space. And it would then follow that a file with the coordinates (0.18, 0.49, 0.33) may be related based on the similarity of those two sets of numbers.
What’s more, real-life systems can represent a vast number of signals across many more coordinates. “In reality, embedding space may have hundreds or thousands of dimensions that can represent millions of different categories of the content,” said Sato.
One way of picturing deep learning is to imagine a process that maps high-dimension raw data onto coordinates, which provides meaning and captures the semantics of the inputs. For example, Google itself uses the approach to organize millions of websites, videos, and apps. And, once populated, the semantically related embeddings can be used to recommend related content.
Google’s embedding projector has various examples of how data can appear compressed into three dimensions. And it’s fascinating to see how sentences, despite being written in different languages, populate similar locations when they share the same meaning.
When users key their search queries into Google, the search engine giant converts that sentence into an embedding that allows a fast vector comparison of that intention with pre-transformed web pages. And the technology gives a performance boost over using keywords alone to match search queries with results.
Enterprise search 2.0
Similarly, companies can use embeddings to represent their products and other internal data, which again highlights what generative AI can do for business. Imagine applying the power of a Google search to company data and making that functionality available internally to staff.
It opens the door way beyond searching a product database, which may be out of date or contain errors. Instead, employees could also query multiple PDF catalogs, product images, and a wide variety of company content, all within a single enterprise search.
As mentioned, tools bring synopsis capabilities to enterprises, but based on company information. And this means that staff can attribute a trusted source to the business data, compared with using ChatGPT, which is decidedly more hit-and-miss.
On TechHQ, we’ve written about how the power of generative AI and LLMs is improving legal front door operations. Firms can use these tools to build advanced chatbots ingested with company data to reply to common staff queries, freeing up legal teams, and other experts to handle new requests from the business.
And platforms such as Grammarly Go are bringing generative AI and LLMs to enterprises, SME’s, and any professionals that work in a team. The recently updated app gives workers the ability to not just autocomplete documents, but include bespoke project terminology and definitions.
Picking up again on the power of semantic search, generative AI and LLMs can dramatically streamline large-scale document preparation. For example, imagine having to respond to an information request that requires removing sensitive details such as PII or unrelated company activity from hundreds of individual documents, spreadsheets, emails, instant messages, and PDFs.
With the right AI system, enterprises can streamline their operations to the point that document preparation is just a few-click process. And there’s a growing number of customizable AI model providers that have solutions designed specifically around the needs of companies.
Today we announced the expansion of our collaboration with @awscloud to extend the availability of our foundational AI models to Amazon Bedrock – a fully managed service that makes pre-trained foundation models accessible via an API.https://t.co/ndeRJCWpan — cohere (@cohere) July 26, 2023
SambaNova Systems, based in Palo Alto, US, was founded to help business customers thrive in a new era of AI. And its platform is – according to the firm – specifically optimized for enterprises and government organizations. Also, customers retain ownership of models that have been adapted with their data, which points to the importance of AI security and keeping enterprise information in safe hands.
Many firms, worried about company operations being leaked, are telling employees not to use public chatbots at work. External moderators have access to prompts entered into free services such as OpenAI’s hugely popular ChatGPT to monitor that public systems aren’t being manipulated by bad actors. And even if model responses are kept private, the text prompts alone could still reveal much about what businesses were up to if linked to a company email address.
Private LLMs extend what generative AI can do for business
Given concerns about inadvertently distributing business intelligence, it’s no surprise to see a raft of vendors offering private LLMs, fine-tuned on company data and gated for internal use only. The NVIDIA NeMo service is badged as being able to help enterprises combine LLMs with their proprietary data to improve chatbots, customer service operations, and other business functions.
And not only can companies better protect their data using custom services, they can set guardrails so that AI applications don’t go rogue and offer advice beyond the boundary of their digital training foundations.
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As consumers interact with more sophisticated technology, it raises the bar for what they expect from customer support. Discover the benefits of augmenting your support agents with AI-powered solutions.
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Consumer technology is growing increasingly advanced, partially thanks to the huge leaps forward made in artificial intelligence (AI). While developments in this technology have been brewing under the surface for years, many are now becoming more aware of its power, particularly since the recent release of ChatGPT and other generative AI.
As we interact with more sophisticated devices and software, it raises the bar for what customers come to expect from their digital experiences with brands. That includes interactions with support agents.
But meeting these heightened expectations is not always straightforward.
Digital contact center services are constantly being updated to help businesses keep up with their customers’ rising standards. However, trying to integrate all the latest must-have features and communication channels can lead to a disjointed system, which impacts the effectiveness of interactions and overall customer experience (CX).
If you offer different channels for chats, emails, social media, and voice calls, customers are at risk of being exposed to varying approaches and levels of context from agents. They can also be deflected from one channel to another, losing the interaction history in the process. Customers may have to repeat their details and get frustrated, leaving them with a negative experience.
An excessive number of channels also makes it difficult for the agent they are speaking with to provide a personalized experience. This should be a priority, as 71 percent of consumers expect tailored interactions from companies. Having to navigate multiple platforms to piece together the customer’s journey will hinder the agent’s ability to deliver efficient and customized support, lowering their conversion rates.
Having all these channels and features can pose a different set of issues for managers. Each additional workflow – which is continuously becoming more advanced through software updates – results in more, and larger, pools of data to sift through when needing to make informed decisions. This data overload also poses challenges in storage, processing, and extracting actionable intelligence without comprehensive strategies and tools in place.
Is AI the Answer?
To cater to customers’ heightened expectations for personalized experiences, as well as the increasing amount of data that contact center services collect, providers must harness the power of AI.
A popular way of doing so is to hastily add a generative AI chatbot to the website, but this is a risky strategy. The technology is still prone to inaccuracies and bias, which can reflect poorly on the brand responsible for implementing it.
So, rather than letting a chatbot loose with customers, TechHQ looks at more sophisticated ways companies can utilize AI to improve their customer and employee experience and grow their business as a result.
Call summaries improve agent efficiency
Rather than the agent manually having to take notes during or after a call, AI can autogenerate a call summary as soon as the customer puts the phone down. It turns data collected during the call into action items and next steps, which can be used to compose follow-up emails. Not only does this allow agents to be more efficient, but they can also more easily provide a personalized CX. This is because customers will only receive the necessary information, and will maintain a seamless conversation across channels.
Deep call analytics enhance customer experience
New algorithms can take note of metrics that a person could not, such as words spoken per minute, instances of callers and agents talking over each other, and talking-to-listening ratio. By analyzing this data, an AI can identify subtle trends that contribute to agent success. This valuable insight can be used to optimize training, improve call-handling processes, and ultimately enhance the overall CX.
Suggestions for improvement close the skills gap
According to a report from Cresta Insights, the employee attrition rate at customer call centers that focus on support is about 1.3 times higher than the US average. This high turnover rate leads to a skills gap, as the new staff need to have the appropriate training or experience to deal with complex customer inquiries. However, integrating AI into your contact center can offer a solution.
Algorithms can automatically generate suggestions for improvement based on deep call analysis, coaching the agent without the need for constant managerial input. The newer staff can then improve quickly, closing the skills gap and reducing the attrition rate in the long run.
Sentiment analysis allows for fast issue resolution
Sentiment analysis accurately identifies voice tone and context, providing crucial insights into customer interactions. It allows agents to adapt their approach so they can address concerns more promptly, while also enabling managers to identify areas for improvement in customer service. Moreover, sentiment analysis helps managers and agents prioritize high-priority or at-risk interactions, allowing them to allocate resources effectively and ensure proactive issue resolution.
Accurate transcription speeds up call reviews
AI technology can allow for more accurate transcription and call recording. This makes for an easier post-call reviewing process, leading to the swift identification of opportunities for agent improvement. Supervisors benefit from this too, as they can gain a deeper understanding of calls and incidents taking place within the business without needing to listen to every conversation. This enhanced efficiency in reviewing and analyzing calls saves time while empowering supervisors to provide targeted feedback to agents. Their performance will ultimately be improved, as will the overall quality of customer interactions.
To keep up with the increasing digital demands of customers, there has never been a more important time to add AI into your support arsenal. Learn more about how net2phone can leverage AI-driven Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions.
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A medida que los consumidores interactúan con tecnología más sofisticada, se eleva el nivel de lo que esperan de la atención al cliente. Descubra los beneficios de aumentar sus agentes de soporte con soluciones impulsadas por IA.
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Kids with special needs ran their own version of the Junior Bix on Wednesday. They did it outside the Genesis Outpatient Pediatric Therapy Center in Bettendorf. The kids in Wednesday’s race are all patients there and a lot of them have mobility issues. The Bix 7’s director said she is moved by the determination the […]
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Kids with special needs ran their own version of the Junior Bix on Wednesday.
They did it outside the Genesis Outpatient Pediatric Therapy Center in Bettendorf.
The kids in Wednesday’s race are all patients there and a lot of them have mobility issues.
The Bix 7’s director said she is moved by the determination the kids show for the race.
“It is heartwarming, it is inspiring,” Michelle Juehring said. “If a parent or adult watches this, I can’t see how you could not be inspired. These kids are amazing doing what they are doing.”
Each racer got a Junior Bix medal and a t-shirt.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ar. (KNWA/KFTA) – The Arkansas football team is gearing up for fall camp which officially begins on Friday. This whole week, the Pig Trail Nation team is answering what you want to know leading into Fall Camp about this year’s team. On Monday, Alyssa Orange, Mike Irwin and Courtney Mims discuss if KJ will […]
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ar. (KNWA/KFTA) – The Arkansas football team is gearing up for fall camp which officially begins on Friday.
This whole week, the Pig Trail Nation team is answering what you want to know leading into Fall Camp about this year’s team.
On Monday, Alyssa Orange, Mike Irwin and Courtney Mims discuss if KJ will take more snaps under center this season and if the new coordinator hires are better or worse than the previous ones.
You can see the full discussion in the video above.
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Q. With August Camp set to start this week our first question gets right to the point.Pigsfeat wants to know: What does Arkansas football need to do in order to compete for National Championships and do you think it is possible to ever reach that level again? A. My third season here they almost did […]
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Q. With August Camp set to start this week our first question gets right to the point.
Pigsfeat wants to know: What does Arkansas football need to do in order to compete for National Championships and do you think it is possible to ever reach that level again?
A. My third season here they almost did it. A 13-9 loss to Texas was the difference. At the time I was thinking it was just a matter of time. Well that was 46 years ago and they haven’t come close since.
I think the 06 team had the talent to do it but there was too much drama surrounding the team that season.
The expansion of the SEC to 16 teams will make it more difficult. The only hope, in my opinion, is to expand the playoff system beyond the 12 teams that will be included in 2024. Sixteen is the right number to me. Right now the only way Arkansas gets into the playoffs is by winning the SEC championship game or coming out of that that game with one loss. Expansion will allow more teams in with two losses, maybe even three.
The other thing that has to happen is better recruiting. Arkansas is going to have to start landing some five stars. Their recruiting is on the upswing with the two new coordinators. They’re headed in the right direction. But they need to finish consistently in the top five in the SEC.
Coaching is the final factor. That was Frank Broyles’ strength. He hired a great staff, especially the coordinators. I like the way Sam Pittman keeps tinkering with his staff. He’s heading in the right direction.
Q. RazorAlex88 Asks: What are your thoughts on the conference realignment that has taken place in last couple years? It is so weird to think that both USC and UCLA will be in the Big 10 soon.
A. I don’t like any of it. But there’s no way to stop it. College football these days is all about TV money and you get TV money by putting high profile games on every week. The difference between college football and college basketball is simple. All you have to do is look at Arkansas under Eric Musselman. He doesn’t need conference titles to go deep into the playoffs. As I said earlier, the only way to get into the football playoffs is to finish first or maybe second in your conference. Again the answer is to use the basketball model. Expand the playoff. Sixteen or even 32 teams would be awesome IMO. The FCS does it. There’s no reason why the BCS can’t.
Q. Rzrbck wants to know: When does football camp begin and is it open to the public like the good ole days? Have company coming to town and doing entertainment planning…
A. I hope you and your company have fun but it won’t be watching football practices. Fall practices have rarely been open to the public. Certainly not these days. The media gets to watch most days for 15 or 20 minutes and that’s it.
Q. bkjacks asks: What are your thoughts on the freshman QB Singleton? I think he will get some major minutes this year.
A. Malachi Singleton really impressed me this past spring. I knew he was a good running quarterback but he’s got a good arm and makes good decisions. He throws the ball effectively on the run. But major minutes? The only way that happens is if KJ Jefferson gets hurt and Jacolby Criswell is ineffective. Hopefully none of that happens. Singleton will probably redshirt. He might get some playing time against Western Carolina, Kent State and Florida International.
Q. codeHog wants to know: How does the football field look? Do we have new grass?
A. No. You’re probably thinking about the soccer field. They just got new grass put down. A couple of years ago there was a concert at Reynolds Razorback Stadium. Garth Brooks announced they he would pay for new grass since a stage was set up on the field and there were fans all over the field. After it was over it was determined that no damage had been done so the grass was not replaced. But it looks good. Arkansas has really good grass people working for the physical plant. They keep all of the grass fields looking great.
Q. redleg says: In 2011 Joe Adams won the first annual Jet Award as the nation’s best return specialist. In 2012, the Jet Award began presenting trophies retroactively to past return specialists. They have yet to give out their award for 1964…
…..which, in my opinion should absolutely go to Ken Hatfield! What are your thoughts on this, and is there any way the UA could lobby for Hatfield to get this honor?
A. The sports information department usually lobbies for this kind of stuff so absolutely they could. When the award for the ’64 season comes up I’ll try to find out what Arkansas’ athletic department has planned. There is no question Hatfield was the best punt returner in 64. He certainly deserves that honor.
Q. robs4516 says: Coach Pittman and Kennedy have the reputation of being two of the best O Line coaches in college football. What do you think it is about their coaching that gained that distinction?
A. Pittman already had a reputation before he came to Arkansas. By the time he left for Georgia he was already considered one of the best O-line coaches in college football. But it was at Georgia where he really rose to the top which was the main reason why he got the head coaching job at Arkansas. Cody Kennedy started his career as a DII O-line coach and ended up as a grad assistant under Pittman at Georgia. He then went to Tulane and Southern Miss before ending up back with Pittman, this time at Arkansas. He was a semi-finalist for the Broyles award in 2021. Last season Arkansas had just over 3,000 yards rushing, the highest total since 2007, Darren Mc Fadden’s junior year.
What about their coaching gained distinction? They get results.
Q. HangTenHog says: We don’t really hear a lot about him these days, but I’ve always felt that Gary Anderson was a special talent at running back. Any interesting memories of his playing days?
A. The ’81 Texas-Arkansas game. Anderson played a key role in Arkansas 42-11 win over the number one Longhorns. He was a speed back, one of those guys who rarely turned the afterburners completely on but when he did it was mind blowing how fast he was.
John McDonnell talked Anderson into running in an indoor track meet just to see what he could do. Anderson took the baton on the third leg of a relay. Arkansas was dead last. He went up the high banked first turn and coming down on the backstretch he blew by everybody in the blink of an eye.
McDonnell was astonished.
Q.Brad Hodges asks: Will the wide receiver room be SEC good this season?
A. The hype is good. Isaiah Sategna has blazing speed and good hands. Andrew Armstrong, a transfer from Texas A&M Commerce, Is 6-4 with speed. Caught over a thousand yards in passes last season with 13 touchdowns.
Another transfer, Isaac TeSlaa, he’s also 6-4 with great hands. He had 1,300 yards in catches last season also with 13 touchdowns.
But these guys are all unproven in the SEC. This is one of the things I’ll be checking out the most when August camp starts. All three looked okay in the spring but Arkansas defense limited them somewhat from what I was able to see.
Q. Hogdogger says: We’ve been lucky enough to have great sportscasters. Paul Eells. Chuck Barrett. Both of these are Razorback icons but do you remember Bud Campbell? I’m pretty old so you may not have been around during those days.
A. I missed Bud Campbell by one year. He was killed in a traffic accident in 1974, ’75 was my first year covering the Hogs. However in the ’72 season I was in the Army at Ft. Rucker, living in a trailer house in a little town named Daleville. My buddy who is a Razorback fan came to visit me. It was late October and Arkansas was playing North Texas State. We had both gone to college there so we wanted to listen to the game on the radio. We figured we were out of luck being that far from Arkansas but somehow we found the game on my car radio. Bud Campbell was the announcer. Arkansas won in a blow out like 42 to something. So I am familiar with his work. He was from the golden age of play-by-play radio announcers. Those guys were so good, you felt like you were at the game watching.
Q: G-off says: I enjoyed your five part series on Dave Jorn. I’m guessing you had fun putting it together. What was the best part?
A. The sit down interview session with Jorn, Norm DeBriyn and Dave Van Horn. It was really funny. Lot’s of stories were told.
Q. Mousetown says: I saw this photo on Facebook this week taken at the Rangers Double A stadium in Frisco, Texas. Notice the cupholders. Why can’t they do something like this at Baum-Walker Stadium? Tired of holding my Diet Coke in my lap.
A. The first think I noticed about this photo is the width between the seat rows. There is more space than at Baum-Walker. That’s the only way cup holders on the backs of seats will work. As I said in a question several weeks ago about the absence of cup holders at Baum Walker, Frank Broyles had the seating from first base to third base constructed as tight as possible to get the maximum amount of noise coming from the fans. He had done this with Walton Arena and it worked. There are 19,200 seats in a space than normally seats 15,500. The only way to add cupholders at Baum-Walker would be to take out the seats and install new ones with the cupholders on the armrests. This would result in reduced seating which would change the noise level coming from the stands.
Q. Marty Byrde’s proxy asks: Which of the coaches were least and best composed after a frustrating loss? Stories?
A. I don’t know that Arkansas has had a coach in my time that lost his composure after a loss. Some, like Lou Holtz, Houston Nutt and Bobby Petrino probably showed more frustration than the others. To me that’s not a bad thing. I don’t think most fans want to see a coach who is cool, calm and collected after a frustrating loss.
What you don’t want is to feel like you’re being played. Chad Morris was the worst, by far, at that. That stuff he said after the Western Kentucky loss where he actually tried to make a case that he would be back the next season? Ridiculous. We knew he was gone. He knew he was gone.
On the other hand there was a guy like Joe Kines. He was very honest after losses. Broke down what went wrong. But you could see how that season was wearing him down. He tried to continue to coach the defense after Jack Crowe was fired while handling all the duties of a head coach and it was too much for him.
I still remember him telling us after his last game, a 30-6 win over LSU, Guys I’m exhausted. I’m going home and get some sleep. I’ll answer your questions later.
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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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(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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DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. (KCAU) — Monday, Tyson Foods employees in Dakota Dunes left their offices for the last time.
It was in October 2022 that Tyson Foods announced it planned to close its Dakota Dunes, S.D., headquarters and relocate members to the Springdale, Ark. world headquarters.
A notice filed under the South Dakota Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act website stated in early June that 262 Tyson Foods employees were to be displaced by the closing. Several others relocated to Arkansas with others having already left the company.
In the original announcement of moving to the world headquarters, Tyson said “the move is intended to enhance team member agility and enable faster decision-making.”
The Tyson Foods facility was originally built in the Two Rivers Business Park in 1997 for meat packer IBP. Tyson bought IBP in 2001.
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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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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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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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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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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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The namesake of the Calgary staple Nick’s Steakhouse & Pizza passed away Sunday at 87 years old after a brief stay in hospice care.
“My dad… he had no regrets at the end,” Mark Petros shared on Monday. “He said: ‘I’ve done everything I can, you know, I’ve led a great life.’ So that gives me a huge amount of comfort.”
While Nick’s table sits empty, the laughter and stories still flow like Nick never left at all.
“He always sat at the round table up front there,” Mark recalled. “So he could be sitting there to greet all the customers.”
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He left the village of Kardiakafti, Greece, as a teenager to build a new life in Calgary, working in restaurants while learning English and building relationships that would one day lead to him opening his namesake business on Crowchild Trail in 1979.
“We opened March 12. My birthday is March 13, so I turned 15 the next day and the whole family forgot my birthday because we were so excited about opening the restaurant,” Mark recalled. “But it was okay because it was beyond my dad’s wildest dreams.”
Of course, you can’t talk about Nick Petros without talking football.
He became infatuated with the game after arriving in Calgary in 1954.
His son, Tim, would go on to play for the family’s beloved Stampeders, while Mark suited up for the University of Calgary Dinos.
The family became well-known for hosting the Stampeders for pre-game meals, and on more than one occasion, the Grey Cup.
Mark says he’s been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support and knows exactly how his dad would like to be honoured.
“My dad loved people to have great food and fine wine and have a celebration,” he said.
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“Come in for a good meal or cook a good meal at home or wherever, have a nice glass of red wine and toast to my father. With all the attention that’s happening right now, he would love it if he would have been alive.
“It’s too bad. I wanted him to be alive to see all this, but hopefully, he’s seeing it somewhere.”
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The city of Lethbridge is hoping to inspire applicants for their boards, commissions, and committees by offering honorariums.
“Without the community involvement on each of these boards, commissions, and committees, we lack the publics engagement, their voice, their feedback and their assistance on many of the projects and initiatives each of these boards, commissions, and committeesdo, and members of city council look to,” said Ryan Westerson, legislative services manager.
The policy that allows members and chairs to receive an honourarium upwards of $25 for their time was adopted by council on June 11.
To be eligible for the honourarium, applicants have to attend at least 50 per cent of meetings and participate at every meeting attended. Honourariums and time commitments vary per positions.
“If you don’t come, we don’t know about that perspective, so I challenge each and every one of you who is thinking of being part of the boards to think about that, makea difference and bring your perspective,” said Coun. Mark Campbell.
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There are approximately 24 positions open, including spots on the Youth Advisory Committee, Galt Museum Board of Directors and the Heart of Our City Committee.
“It gives a great opportunity for you to learn how to experience board at a governance level, it’s an opportunity for you to build some skill sets, in so far as communication, getting the information from the group you represent back to city council,” said Coun. Jenn Schmidt-Rempel.
The city is encouraging those interested to apply to participate in present and future city decisions. Applications are open until Sept. 22. You can apply by contacting the office of the city clerk at 311 or by emailing committee@lethbridge.ca.
An online BCC toolkit, including information on eligibility, length of term and meeting times is included on the city of Lethbridge website
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Travis Lowe talks to the experts from Valley First about the pros and cons of leasing and buying a brand-new car.
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These days, everyone is feeling the pinch at the pump and if you drive an old truck like I do it’s especially tough on the wallet.
That’s why I’m in the market for a new car.
Experts agree that buying a new car is the second-most expensive purchase that most people will make in their life.
So whether or not the price is right, and much like gas, new vehicles aren’t cheap.
A recent price index survey from AutoTrader.ca found that the average price of a new vehicle in Canada is $61,821.
That’s a record high, up from $39,104 in June of 2019; an increase of 58 per cent.
So what is exactly driving these double-digit price increases?
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“I would say that it’s two-fold,” said Rick Wright of Valley Mitsubishi. “One. From a manufacturer’s standpoint, they have to increase their prices just based on the cost of metal. The cost of labour, and everything else has increased
“The other factor is we went through quite a few years where vehicles were heavily discounted because there was a lot of supply. To move the cars, they had to discount them.
“So now we’re in a situation where there are more buyers than there are vehicles and the manufacturers don’t have to discount them. And there is actually a waiting list for most vehicles right now.”
Basic economics: The law of supply and demand times inflation equals no deals on wheels.
And that brings up an important question as to whether you should lease or buy a vehicle.
“It’s a lifestyle decision,” said Curt Reimer of Valley First, a division of First West Credit Union.
“If you prefer having some security, having something you will own at the end of that term, you can finance it, pay it off and own a vehicle.”
Reimer added, though, if “you prefer to have a newer vehicle every so often, a nicer vehicle, a more reliable vehicle, you might want to lease.”
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There are pros and cons to both.
When it comes to leasing, Reimer says it can be great because there’s less structure.
“At the end of that period of time,” said Reimer, “you can either give the vehicle back and take out a new lease four years from now or you could buy out your lease.”
Reimer adds that if you decide to buy out your lease, you might need to finance that lump-sum payment at whatever the rates are four years from now.
Still, leasing does have certain tax benefits that can be realized. And, typically, the monthly payments are less than when financing a new vehicle – which will depreciate the moment you drive it off the parking lot.
“If you have the cash and you need to finance, it’s something that you are now entering into an agreement for a period of time to at the end own this vehicle,” said Reimer.
“You know upfront what the cost is going to be. You can see through a calculator, or the financier can share with you the total cost of borrowing over your term.”
Reimer added “that security alone, at the end of the day, you might have paid a little bit more out of pocket. It’s essentially locking into something you know the outcome of, and for some people getting rid of that risk is a huge benefit.”
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The decision to lease or buy can be as personal as what kind of vehicle you decide to drive.
I’ve decided to buy a plug-in hybrid so I can drive by the gas station and not feel the pinch at the pump.
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Yellow Corp., which owns a Canadian subsidiary employing 128 drivers, has ceased operations and is filing for bankruptcy, according to a U.S. union and multiple media reports.
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The apparent shutdown of one of the biggest trucking companies in the U.S. is having an impact north of the border, with the union for over 100 affiliated Canadian truckers claiming they’ve been told not to report for work.
Yellow Corp., formerly known as YRC Worldwide Inc., has ceased operations and is filing for bankruptcy, according to the Teamsters Union and multiple U.S. media reports, putting roughly 30,000 jobs in jeopardy.
Unifor Local 4209, which represents 128 truckers and linehaul drivers working for Canadian Yellow subsidiary YRC Freight Canada, said in a statement Monday its members were “simply told not to report for work.”
“The news is devastating for our members,” the local’s president Don Lajoie said in the statement, which warned of the human impact of “moving numbers around a page.”
“There are hundreds of families who are left with very little information right now.”
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2:58 Why the uptick in strike action across Canada?
Yellow Corp. did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Global News, and has also not answered similar requests from many other media outlets over the past few days.
No bankruptcy filings had gone live as of Monday, and the company’s website made no mention of a wind-down of operations, although a banner at the top of the homepage directed customers to reach out to its customer care office about shipments in progress.
YRC Freight Canada’s own website directed unionized and non-unionized workers to notices posted to their private employee portals and linked to Yellow’s customer care office, but otherwise showed no indication of a shutdown Monday. A request for comment was also not immediately returned.
Global News has reached out to Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan’s office and Employment and Social Development Canada for a response to the developments and Canadian impacts.
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In a Wednesday statement to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news of Yellow’s impending bankruptcy, the company said it was continuing “to prepare for a range of contingencies.” On Thursday, Yellow said it was in talks with multiple parties about selling its third-party logistics organization.
The Journal reported Yellow ceased operations on Sunday, following the layoffs of hundreds of non-union employees on Friday.
In an announcement early Monday, the Teamsters said that the union received legal notice confirming Yellow was ceasing operations and filing for bankruptcy.
“Today’s news is unfortunate but not surprising. 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,” Teamsters general president Sean O’Brien said in a statement.
“This is a sad day for workers and the American freight industry.”
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The company was the third-biggest U.S. trucker specializing in the less-than-truckload segment that combines shipments from different customers in the same trailer.
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The apparent shutdown came just days after the company narrowly averted a strike by the Teamsters, which represents 22,000 unionized Yellow workers.
The heated dispute reached a boiling point when Yellow sued the union in June after alleging it was “unjustifiably blocking” restructuring plans needed for the company’s survival. The Teamsters called the litigation “baseless,” with O’Brien pointing to Yellow’s “decades of gross mismanagement,” which included exhausting a US$700 million federal government loan.
The strike was averted after a pension fund agreed to extend health benefits for workers at two Yellow Corp. operating companies. That agreement imposed a 30-day deadline on Yellow to pay an outstanding US$50 million in benefit payments to the Central States Health and Welfare Fund, which the Teamsters claimed was due on July 15.
Yellow Corp.’s most recent earnings report in May showed the company saw a net loss of US$54.6 million in the first quarter of this year, about double the loss seen in the same quarter of 2022. Executives cited continued impacts of a series of mergers and transition projects for the poor results. Operating revenue was about US$1.16 billion in the period.
A Wednesday investors note from financial service firm Stephens estimated that Yellow could be burning between US$9 million and $10 million each day.
As of late March, Yellow had an outstanding debt of about US$1.5 billion. Of that, US$729.2 million was owed to the federal government.
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White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein assured in a CNBC interview that the news of Yellow’s bankruptcy “looks like more of a Yellow story than an economy-wide one.”
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
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.
Non-Solicitation - Any securities discussed herein or in the accompanying presentations, if any, have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 or the securities laws of any state and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws. Any such announcement does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities discussed herein or in the presentations, if and as applicable.
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FARGO, N.D. (KMOT) – One vendor’s fundraiser this year became a big success thanks to the donations of fairgoers.
Despite the tip jar being stolen earlier in the week, Gobbler Concessions still crushed their goal in supporting the victims of the Fargo shooting earlier this month. They received a total of $2,800 from tips as well as support from Polar Slush, Flounders and Metalcraft, including a metal sign. Bob Mlynar said he felt that raising the money, and those who donated, did so for the same reason.
“It was the right thing to do to kinda help out in a bad time,” said Mlynar.
Mlynar and Gobbler Concessions successfully dropped off the donations and a sign Monday morning with the Fargo Police Department.
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MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) – The Minot Public Library is in the midst of a big remodeling, specifically the children’s library downstairs.
These regulars were surprised they couldn’t go into the children’s library on this day.
Kaylee Lang, one of its stakeholders, said she thinks it’s being improved.
“They’re building more books,” said Lang.
When Randi Monley, in a burst of inspiration, produced a vision to revitalize the children’s library, she went to the library director, during the time of COVID, with an idea.
“This is my dream, and we talked about it for a couple of years,” said Monley.
The concept is of the forest. Josh Pikka, circulation and technology librarian, has been hard at work moving computers from the children’s area to storage.
“The boring columns are going to be huge, huge trees, and things are just going to come alive as in a storybook,” said Pikka.
Some of the new bookcases will include reading nooks for kids to sit and read.
“There’s going to be, of course, the designated play area with a little slide in there,” said Monley.
Monley said she wanted to incorporate more play since it’s one of the five early literacy development skills.
Instead of building books, they will be moving these children’s books to the downstairs lobby area.
This part of the renovation is expected to be completed in late October.
The entrance to the children’s library will become a 12-foot door with decorative glass and more leaves. That part is expected to finish a month later.
Children’s programming will be canceled in the meantime.
Monley says this library has more than 20 thousand library cardholders, and some have one card for the whole family.
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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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This news release may make statements that constitute forward-looking statements, including descriptions regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of the Company or its officers with respect to the business operations and financial condition of the Company, which can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "confident" and similar statements. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, or other factors, some of which are beyond the control of the Company and are unforeseeable. Therefore, the actual results may differ from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors and assumptions, such as future changes and developments in our business, competitive environment, political, economic, legal and social conditions. The Company or any of its affiliates, directors, officers, advisors or representatives has no obligation and does not undertake to revise forward-looking statements to reflect new information, future events or circumstances after the date of this news release, except as required by law.
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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.
Representatives for X did not immediately respond to a message for comment Monday.
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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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It’s been almost a year since audiences last saw Chennedy Carter play in a WNBA game.
In 2020, Carter was touted as one of the WNBA’s next star point guards. Her ability to get to the rim paired with a dismembering crossover made Carter a walking highlight reel who often lived up to her showtime nickname of “Hollywood.” In 2023, however, after soured stints with two franchises, Carter is not currently a part of any WNBA roster.
Since spectators last saw Carter on the floor as a member of the Los Angeles Sparks in August 2022, the promising talent has spent time overseas, where she led Turkey’s top league in scoring and in Los Angeles, where she’s in the gym almost every day continuing to mold her game.
As the WNBA digs into the second half of the 2023 season, Carter is waiting patiently for her next opportunity. If and when she gets it, she plans to make the most of it.
“I love basketball. I love to play. I’m passionate about it. My time is coming soon,” she said.
“Chennedy Carter is not finished.”
Guards Blake Dietrick (left) and Chennedy Carter (center) of the Atlanta Dream celebrate after winning a game against the Dallas Wings on July 26, 2020, at Feld Entertainment Center in Palmetto, Florida. Ned Dishman/NBAE via Getty Images
As a rookie with the Atlanta Dream, Carter, the No. 4 pick in the 2020 WNBA draft, immediately made her presence felt. She broke the scoring record for a player in their Dream debut, dropping 18 points against the Dallas Wings on July 26, 2020. She later became the first rookie player in franchise history to record 25-plus points in consecutive games. On Aug. 6, 2020, Carter broke the franchise record for most points by a rookie in a single game, scoring 35 points against the Seattle Storm .
The impressive performance made Carter the youngest player in WNBA history with a 30-point game, passing Sue Bird, who had held the record since 2002. Carter’s unique combination of speed, skill and power made her one of the game’s best with the ball in her hands.
“It was almost like at times, for her, you wanted her to simplify, but simple was sometimes boring for her,” said Baylor women’s basketball coach Nicki Collen, who coached the Dream during Carter’s rookie season. “She could do so many things with the basketball and because she didn’t lose it, you kind of had to be good with it.”
Carter ended her first season averaging 17.4 points, then the highest rookie scoring average in Dream franchise history. An ankle injury cut her season short after 16 games, but Carter was named to the All-Rookie team.
“She’s a phenomenal talent. I think everyone understands that and sees that,” said Seattle Storm guard Jewell Loyd. “From a basketball standpoint, I don’t think we’ve seen a player like her in the league when she’s been able to play. You just think of the crazy potential that she has.”
Loyd, a two-time WNBA champion in her ninth career season with the Storm, has been a key figure whom Carter has leaned on during her time away from the league. The two initially connected when Loyd reached out after Carter was drafted in 2020.
The pair have since formed a bond, with Loyd serving as an invested resource for Carter as she navigates her career, from providing feedback to Carter after an overseas game to giving advice about the do’s and don’ts of being a pro athlete.
“I’ve just been trying to help her as much as I can,” Loyd said. “As a pro, it’s hard — you want to be a pro but no one has taught you how to be a pro. The recovery process, what to eat, how to prepare, who to hang out with, all these things are things that I’ve learned from people wanting to teach me. I don’t think that she’s had that consistently and I don’t know if she had really bought into that, too.
“She’s been taking a lot of responsibility herself, saying, ‘Hey, a lot of this is on me, I’ve got to get better.’ That’s awesome.”
Carter credits her time overseas, where she spent five months playing in Turkey’s top women’s basketball league, as an important period for growth she says she’s experienced both on and off the court. Carter, who played for Bursa of the KBSL, said she learned the importance of taking care of her body and how to prepare for game action “the right way,” as she was often logging heavy minutes for her club. This was Carter’s first full season abroad. She had attempted to play in Turkey after her rookie season in the WNBA, but left the team early to be closer to home.
“I was kind of a kid who was homesick a bit at first and just really had to grow up and mature and understand that it is tough over there,” Carter said.
This season for Carter was different. She committed to the experience, forcing herself to accept the discomfort of being alone in another country and adapting to the changes.
“I think you become comfortable with being uncomfortable,” Carter said. “I was in a lot of situations that I had to get comfortable in and I think that’s what made me grow and mature as not only a player but a person as well.”
Atlanta Dream guard Chennedy Carter prepares for a game against the Indiana Fever on Sept. 1, 2020, at Feld Entertainment Center in Palmetto, Florida. Ned Dishman/NBAE via Getty Images
Without any outside distraction, Carter focused on basketball. With Bursa, Carter averaged 24.1 points, 5.5 assists and 4.7 rebounds, according to Eurobasket.com.
“After this season in Turkey, I just think I’m way better,” said Carter, who added that the most improved aspect of her game was her jump shot. “I think my confidence is there. I just think I’ve grown. I just think that there’s a lot of things going on with me that are finally clicking right.”
In a game against Mersin in late January that featured Connecticut Sun forward DeWanna Bonner and Las Vegas Aces point guard Chelsea Gray, Carter scored 36 points (on 50% shooting) and eight assists. Both were game highs. Against a Galatasaray team that featured Sparks forward Azura Stevens, Wings center Teaira McCowan and New York Liberty guard Epiphanny Prince, Carter scored 38 points on 66.7% shooting.
Based on her performance overseas, Carter believed she had dispelled any doubts others might have had about her game. She felt confident that her ability to excel in Turkey made her place in the WNBA undeniable.
“I definitely think just based off of that season, it really settled a lot about me,” Carter said.
The Sparks, under new coach Curt Miller and general manager Karen Bryant, chose to move in another direction and released Carter in mid-March.
“I’m going to stay prepared. I’m motivated,” Carter said. “At the same time, do I agree with the decision? No. Do I think that I could help many teams in the WNBA, including the Sparks? Yes, I do.”
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After being released by the Sparks, Carter cleared waivers and became a free agent. Since her fourth-year rookie scale option had been exercised by former Los Angeles coach and general manager Derek Fisher, Carter’s salary for the 2023 season was guaranteed.
As much as Carter wanted to be on a WNBA roster to start the season, she said, though a “little disappointing,” it wasn’t hard to accept that she wasn’t once the season began. Carter has viewed the time away as an opportunity to rest, get her body together and spend time with her family.
Carter is focused on identifying the best fit for wherever she chooses to play next. As a player who plays with pace, she’d gravitate to a team that gets up and down the floor, but emphasized that she thinks she can fit in anywhere. Carter said it’s important to be in a place where her ability as a player can be fully deployed.
“I’m pretty much in control of whenever I play. I’m in control of that,” Carter said. “I just want to find the best situation for me. I’m a talented player and I want to be utilized the right way.”
According to Carter’s agent Kimberly Davis, a few teams engaged in talks regarding Carter’s availability earlier in the season, but none recently.
Los Angeles Sparks guard Chennedy Carter shoots a free throw against the Chicago Sky on May 6, 2022, at United Center in Chicago. Jeff Haynes/NBAE via Getty Images
Carter’s talent and ability to perform at a high level in the WNBA have never really been in question. The largest barrier to Carter’s return to the league stems from actions off the floor.
In Atlanta, after missing time due to an elbow injury and playing in just 11 games during her second season in 2021, the Dream suspended Carter indefinitely due to conduct “deemed detrimental to the team.” Carter did not play another game for Atlanta that season and was traded to the Sparks in the offseason.
In Los Angeles, Carter was temporarily sidelined by another injury, this time to her knee. Following the exit of general manager and coach Derek Fisher in June, interim coach Fred Williams benched Carter for four of the remaining six games of the season. Carter finished the 2022 season playing 16.4 minutes per game, averaging 8.9 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.9 assists.
Questions have been raised about Carter’s willingness to contribute to a team’s culture. Collen, who speaks with Carter regularly and refers to herself as an “unofficial agent as well as a bit of a parent” to Carter, recalled lessons that she tried to communicate to Carter as a rookie about the importance of team and learning how to channel her competitive fire toward her opponents instead of her teammates.
When asked if Carter’s next opportunity in the WNBA is at all tied to Carter’s proficiency on the court, Collen said without pause — no.
“When you go against Diana Taurasi and she’s talking at you, you want to know that you have 11 people that are going to be behind your back and not going, ‘Hey, Diana hit her, she could use it,’ ” Collen said. “It’s that understanding that it doesn’t matter how talented you are, you need the people around you all the time.”
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Carter plays with a natural chip on her shoulder. Collen theorizes it stems from audiences never viewing her as the best amongst her peers. Carter remembers the names of the five athletes ranked higher than her in high school. It was difficult for Carter to miss out on being named Rookie of the Year in 2020, even after missing much of the season due to injury.
While that quest to prove doubters and evaluators wrong has contributed to what makes Carter so great to watch, Collen wants Carter to push beyond personal achievement. To Collen, if Carter can get on the court, hoop, and win, all of the other noise won’t matter. She calls it a growth opportunity for Carter, who she does believe has matured during her time away.
“I want to see her get to the point where she does understand that people respect her game and what she’s capable of and aren’t trying to put her down,” Collen said. “The longer she plays, the more respect she’s going to get. You’re going to get that from winning. You’re going to get that from leading. You’re going to get that through consistent effort and preparation. It’s not just about can you go get 50.
“I think that’s my hope for her is she finds that maturity in really being great at her craft, but being a winner and truly defining success through helping her team win rather than what is the accolade, what do people think, who are they comparing her to.”
Los Angeles Sparks guard Chennedy Carter (left) and Dallas Wings guard Marina Mabrey (right) talk during a game on Aug. 14, 2022, at Crypto.Com Arena in Los Angeles. Adam Pantozzi/NBAE via Getty Images
Collen recalled a game in 2020 during Carter’s rookie year with the Dream, who were readying to take the floor against the New York Liberty and guard Sabrina Ionescu, the 2020 No. 1 overall pick.
Before the announcement of starting lineups, Collen pulled Carter aside.
“I said, look, this is Atlanta against New York. This is not Sabrina against Chennedy. That’s got to be the mentality,” Collen said. “That doesn’t mean I don’t want you to compete and I don’t want you to believe you’re the better player, but we want to win this basketball game.”
Collen also reminded Carter of her potential to be an all-time great in the league, but that that level of greatness could only be achieved through consistency. Showing up every day. Talent alone would not be enough.
“I told her in that moment, I want to be the person that gives your Hall of Fame speech someday. That’s how talented I think she is,” Collen said. “Here we are three years later and that stretch in Atlanta is probably her best stretch as a WNBA player, which is really sad to me. It is.”
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Collen does believe that Carter will get another chance in the WNBA at some point. Until then, her advice to Carter is to stay ready and when that opportunity comes, don’t squander it.
“You only get so many chances. It’s just the nature of life. And when you get your next chance, are you ready? Are you prepared? Have you learned?” Collen said. “I hope so, because I think she is a unique and special talent. I love that kid.”
Carter said she is open to weighing any opportunities should a team be interested in bringing her in before the close of the 2023 season. She’s confident her next chance is coming and plans to stay prepared until it does, ready to show that her career in the league is only beginning.
When asked if she would have done anything differently, Carter said no. She did, however, say that the version of Carter that audiences will see whenever she does get back in the league will be different from the last version seen in Los Angeles almost a year ago.
“I think there will definitely be a different Hollywood for sure. I also think that there will be changes made to me for myself and my future,” said Carter, who is also currently navigating sneaker free agency, where she has received interest from multiple brands. “Everyone will just have to wait and see.
“I’m ready to go.”
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Hip Hop at 50 is our yearlong look at the people, sound, art, and impact of hip-hop culture on the world.
The year 1998 was part was part of the “Shiny Suit Era” of hip-hop, when the music promoted the wealth, consumption, and success of its artists while also serving as therapy, a celebration of life in the aftermath of the killings of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. That year also marked the launch of Howard University’s Verbal Armageddon, which quickly became the largest college hip-hop tournament in the country.
A particularly memorable battle that first year involved two campus favorites and classmates: Perfecto vs. StarOrion.
Perfecto (Jeffrey Walsh), from Inglewood, California, was Howard rap-famous for a complex, multisyllable style (“compounds,” he called them). He sounded two parts Kurupt (from Tha Dogg Pound), one part Freestyle Fellowship, and all parts original. StarOrion (Charles Coleman) was a pre-law student who rhymed with the characteristic moxie of artists from his native Queens, New York. He sported a mature rapper persona, with a polished stage presence.
While they only traded light barbs, as they were friends who respected one another, their battle gave a taste of the talent and success that Verbal Armageddon would attain in the next few years. That day, StarOrion triumphed by a nose, his command over the crowd proving to be the difference.
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Verbal Armageddon was like many endeavors authored by college students: bold, inventive, and unquestionably a product of the zeitgeist. As important as the Shiny Suit Era was, it also left a void: Hip-hop was not a monolith, and a large fraction of its fan base — even those who embraced the gloss of a music video directed by Hype Williams — yearned for the raw energy of basements and street corners. Hip-hop was entering its second generation, in which the regional signatures had fully emerged. Walking through a Howard dormitory, one could hear Master P, Ma$e, Shakur, and the Wu-Tang Clan thumping from different speakers down a single hallway. All these forces collided on college campuses, especially at events like Verbal Armageddon.
The original concept came from Iman Kennerly, who entered Howard in 1997 eager to learn everything he could about the local hip-hop scene like he had in his native Newark, New Jersey. Kennerly was known for his love of The Roots and freestyle rhymes full of 10-cent words. (“Chillin’ in front of Blackburn [student center]/ lyrics is taciturn.”) As a freshman, he hosted a program on the student radio station and was part of a team that organized a campus talent show featuring a rap battle. Through it all, he thought there was more work to be done.
“I knew a lot of the people who rhymed from various cyphers on campus. But I noticed that when they performed on stage, none of their greatness manifested,” Kennerly said. “They were raw, and needed an opportunity to refine their skills. I thought we needed a forum.”
In the fall semester of his sophomore year, Kennerly asked the Undergraduate Student Assembly to sponsor a competition titled “Verbal Armageddon.” It was designed to address the sorts of debates between college kids that lasted into the morning hours: Who was the best rapper?
To Kennerly, the debates were fun, but too informal. The way he saw it, these questions were empirical, and could be answered in the form of a “rap decathlon.” Sure, you might be able to battle, but if you couldn’t write a cohesive rhyme, then how good were you, really?
Kennerly collaborated with upperclass leaders in the campus music scene: Howard Brown, Shayla Monroe, and Amar Keiller. All mentored Kennerly, and helped to create the first iteration of the event. Keiller in particular was a veteran of the campus hip-hop scene, and helped Kennerly brainstorm and navigate the sometimes tricky path to organizing anything at Howard.
While Kennerly worked with more experienced members of Howard’s music community, it was his conversations with his classmate and best friend, Nelson Bennett, where the spirit of the event coalesced.
“We had a head of steam, but it wasn’t until the late-hour discussions with Nelson that I realized we might have something big here,” he said. “We couldn’t stop talking about it.”
If Kennerly was the strategist, then Bennett was the dreamer. He had participated in the music scene in Detroit as a street teamer, and had front row seats to all of the underground talent in that era. (He told a dinner table full of skeptical Howard students in 1997: “You gotta hear this white kid named Eminem. He is nice.“) He had ambitions for a life in the industry, but feelings of isolation led him to contemplate leaving school one month in.
“I was a loner for a long, long time. I didn’t really connect with very many people,” Bennett recalled. “It was through hip-hop that I made my very first connections.”
At first glance, they were an odd couple: Kennerly, the academic golden child, and Bennett, the kid trying to find his way. But they were both superfans of the art, raised during hip-hop’s golden years between 1988 and 1995. And they saw eye-to-eye with respect to what the campus needed.
The event would combine several elements for a competition in three rounds. Round 1 would contain the “self-definition written” rhyme. “Self-definition” embodied what is arguably hip-hop’s fundamental rhyming topic (if there is one): who you are, why you are great, and what do you care about. Topics might include some permutation of where they were from, how much money they made, how intelligent they were. (Relevant reference points included “I Got it Made,” Special Ed (1989), “Who Am I (What’s My Name)?,” Snoop Doggy Dogg (1993), and “Player’s Ball,” Outkast (1994).)
A panel of judges conducted tryouts to select for the first round, in which 24 rappers would be paired and perform, with the 12 winners (as determined by judges) advancing to the second round. The 12 members of the “losers bracket” would have to complete an “object freestyle,” in which they were given a random object that they had to rhyme about for several minutes. Four contestants from this bracket would advance, for a total of 16 entering the second round. The judging panel included a mix of students, local artists, and Howard professors.
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Round 2 was based on hip-hop’s flagship sport: battle rap. The 16 rappers would be paired based on their seeding and the eight winners would advance to the final round.
The final round highlighted Verbal Armageddon’s multipronged conception of rap excellence. The finalists would have to participate in three different tasks. First, they would perform a “conscious” written rhyme. The definition of consciousness was appropriately broad: the rhyme didn’t need to be positive, but it did need to be topical, reflective, organized, or intellectual. The round was designed to test the rapper’s ability to focus and write coherent rhymes, to take the audience on a ride through their mind. (For example: “Mind Is Playing Tricks on Me,” Geto Boys (1991); “It Was a Good Day,” Ice Cube (1992); “I Gave You Power,” Nas (1996).)
Next, the artists would perform a topical freestyle. They’d pick an object from a box (examples included a pack of Skittles, a do-rag, and a Koran), and improvise-rhyme, on the spot, for several minutes.
Finally, Kennerly & Co. knew their history, and understood that the champion could only be crowned through a battle. The competition climaxed with a “final four,” determined by their scores in the conscious written and object freestyle categories, who would compete in two single-elimination rounds, after which a champion would be crowned.
Getting through the Verbal Armageddon gantlet would take a special talent. Lyrically speaking, the winner would be able to reflect, improvise, inspire, and fight.
The next challenge was recruiting talent at Howard and the surrounding area.
The team built on its social connections on campus and its members’ experience in their hometowns as promoters and street teamers. They attended events and shows in the community, and made friends with counterparts at nearby colleges. Like the sounds from the speakers in the dormitory hallways, the resulting pool of competitors put the diversity of hip-hop in perspective.
Critically, Verbal Armageddon’s inaugural champion, Fong Sai U, was not a Howard student, but an independent artist from the Washington area. This was a triumph of the efforts to make the event inclusive. It might have been held at Howard, but anyone was welcome.
“Keeping it a college thing was never on the table,” Bennett said. “That’s never how hip-hop has ever worked. It was always about being the best. We wanted to bring that to the tournament.”
However, the collection of artists was also defined by the lack of diversity in other dimensions. The event struggled to attract female participants. And like much of hip-hop’s 50-year run, too much of the energy and lyrics were populated with misogyny and the boasts of insecure young men.
“Verbal Armageddon became my central passion. It was almost like this became the reason I was in college. And so the lessons that I learned, relationships, how to manage people, and how to keep your own ego in check.” — Nelson Bennett
Kennerly recalled that “at the start of the event in 1998, I was encouraged by the number of women who came out as spectators to the event, which definitely changed our approach to marketing from the beginning. From early, we realized that Black women were central to the success of the event.”
But, he noted, “We were not intentional enough” in recruiting female performers.
These problems aside, the event single-handedly created a campus hip-hop scene that spilled into other colleges, and the Washington area. Bennett, for instance, would coordinate battles with artists from George Mason University, American University, and others.
Verbal Armageddon was less than a nonprofit. It was a student event whose primary goal was to exist. Any proceeds went to the Undergraduate Student Assembly. But others saw the potential: sponsors on and off campus reached out. The organizers’ reputations and friendship circles grew. Attracted to the talent that Verbal Armageddon cultivated, baby music executives emerged on campus.
Verbal Armageddon’s second year felt different. Bigger. Louder. With higher expectations.
“Entering Year Two, the stakes were higher, and so if things fell through, more people would be disappointed,” Kennerly said. “There were also a lot of egos, a lot of push and pull from many different directions.”
He recalled phone conversations with Black Thought about performing at a Verbal Armageddon event. Other well-known recording artists took a break from album promotion efforts to attend. In Year Two, the battle round took place during the Howard homecoming Yardfest, before an audience in the thousands. This bolstered its claim to being the largest collegiate hip-hop tournament in the country.
The level of competition rose mightily that second year, and story arcs emerged: A rejuvenated Perfecto blitzed through the early rounds and dethroned Fong Sai U in the finals with an electric display of wordplay.
The third year was Kennerly’s last at Howard. He graduated with a degree in international business, and went to work in investment banking, before heading to the NYU Stern School of Business to complete an MBA. He recalls talking about Verbal Armageddon during his job interviews, explaining to the recruiters that hip-hop provided as good a business education as anything else.
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For continuity, it helped that Bennett would remain at Howard, as a change of major added time to his college tenure. For Bennett, Kennerly’s exit was the kick in the butt that he needed in life.
“It was the first time in college that I felt like I had control over anything,” he said. “And it was more than an obligation to do right before the event. I felt like I had an obligation to hip-hop. This could be my contribution to the culture that had given me so much.”
Under his leadership, Verbal Armageddon grew over the next several years, and he became a central figure and tastemaker in the Washington hip-hop community. He eventually graduated and enlisted an entire new staff, led by Tiffany Jackson, who would replace Bennett as the coordinator in Year Six.
Jackson, now an award-winning novelist, recalled the ups and downs of the experience of taking over:
“The best part about doing Verbal Armageddon was living in the moment, on campus. I am very proud to have been a witness,” she said. “But as a woman leader of an event, I was definitely challenged in my decision-making. Of course, this is a characteristic of the industry in general. And so this set me up for knowing the types of challenges that I would face as a woman working in media.”
Eventually, between new faces on campus, and a changing hip-hop scene, the event would fade, ending its annual run after 2003. In 2007 and 2008, Bennett, who lived in the Washington area and was working in the tech industry, advised a short-lived resurrection of Verbal Armageddon.
“By 2007, the landscape of hip-hop had changed to the point where something like Verbal Armageddon didn’t really fit,” Bennett said. “For example, very few artists knew or appreciated the art of freestyle rhyming as compared to the artists a decade earlier.”
So Verbal Armageddon came and went. For all of its successes, there is no formal archive and it mainly lives on in the minds of the people who were there.
And 25 years later, we can ask broadly: What is the lasting memory or message?
For Bennett, the answer is clear: “Verbal Armageddon became my central passion. It was almost like this became the reason I was in college. And so the lessons that I learned, relationships, how to manage people, and how to keep your own ego in check.”
While several participants have gone on to have successful careers as hip-hop artists (Ardamus, iCON the Mic King, Akir, and Edan to name a few), the more intriguing story involves how the participants and student organizers went on to succeed in a wide number of crafts: law, medicine, tech, academia, education, journalism, literature, and the ministry. Ask them today about their time with Verbal Armageddon, and you get smiles, and often much more. They’ll share the bonds, the laughter, and talk about how that event gave them one of the largest stages of their young life.
In that way, the story of Verbal Armageddon isn’t so different from many of the grand lessons that we reflect on in light of hip-hop’s 50 years of existence: the hard work, creativity, and ambition of bands of young people made the culture what it is, was, and always will be.
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HBCU Bands is a monthly look at news and moves being made by bands at historically Black colleges and universities.
As one of the original members of Benedict College’s Marching Tiger Band of Distinction, Ricardo Payton has watched his alma mater’s band triple in size, growing into a 185-member group that rivals the bands at most historically Black colleges and universities.
So you’ll have to excuse Payton if tears of pride stream down his face as he watches some of the children of his classmates give a special performance at halftime of this year’s homecoming game on Oct. 21 to honor the band’s 25th anniversary.
In 1998, the band at Benedict, a small private Division II school in Columbia, South Carolina, with about 2,100 students, worked with what it had to perform. Now the Marching Tiger Band of Distinction has played in major events such as the Honda Battle of the Bands showcase and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2022.
Benedict College’s Marching Tiger Band of Distinction performed in the 2022 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Floyd Ingram
The band’s growth is something Payton never thought he would see.
“I’m most probably gonna shed a tear, no lie. I’m gonna cry ’cause I’ve been there since the beginning. To see where the program has come from to now, I’m most definitely gonna cry,” Payton said. “As far as pride, it’s phenomenal to see. Just to see the growth [over] the years, it’s phenomenal to me. I sit back a lot of times like, ‘We’ve come this far.’ ”
Donell Butler, the band’s media coordinator, said he, too, will be overcome with joy.
“For homecoming this year, when we celebrate that 25th, I’ll probably be red-eyed somewhere with some chin tears just to think of the favor on this program,” Butler said, adding every performance takes him back to his first band camp on Aug. 3, 2003.
Under the direction of H. Wade Johnson, the Marching Tiger Band of Distinction opened its season last week with band camp to begin preparing for its 25th season.
Benedict College’s Sweet Sensation dancers prepare for halftime of a game against Albany State University in 2008. Floyd Ingram
Students and recent alumni call themselves an organism — rather than an organization — because it never dies. That’s how much love they have for the band, where alumni consistently give back as mentors to the program. They, along with Johnson, are the scientists who help make the organism grow.
“We work as one. You know how our bodies work? We have the lung system, the respiratory system, the nervous system,” said Tayania “Tee Tee” Brewer, a 2023 graduate who was band president last season. “It works just like that in the band.”
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Brewer and her bandmates endured the coronavirus pandemic, during which they had to practice over the Zoom platform to stay together.
“Twenty-five years might seem like a small number, but it’s a long time. The alumni paved the way for it to be 25 years,” said Brewer, a saxophonist who also was a section leader last season. “It’s just an honor to continue to be a part of the legacy, continue the legacy and to watch the legacy continue to grow.”
That’s everything Sean Daniels envisioned when he took over the band program in 1997.
Benedict College’s Marching Tiger Band of Distinction performs during halftime of a game against South Carolina State University in 2008. Floyd Ingram
During his first football game as director, Daniels learned he would be leading a drum and bugle corps. Soon afterward, Benedict’s president summoned Daniels and told him he had been brought on board to run a marching band.
Daniels began by adding early-season drills that a marching band would do, eventually incorporating them into performances. By homecoming the band was marching.
In the 1998 season, everything changed. Daniels named the band, a student artist drew its logo and Daniels called the band members the first dynasty. He insisted band members be disciplined, respectful and good students. Daniels always held band members to a high standard, particularly on the field where he also demanded a great sound on the field.
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It was the foundation of the band that stands today, which makes Daniels proud.
“They’re aligned from the first year to the 25th. They are aligned all the way through,” Daniels said. “It’s through the students who march in the band, not us who directed it. There are people from the first dynasty who still have some connection with somebody on the 25th. To me, it meant maybe we did what we said we were going to do.”
Benedict College drum majors salute during halftime of a game against Albany State University in 2010. Floyd Ingram
That connection is what keeps the band strong today.
Janae McCloud, a 2023 graduate who was a drum major in 2022, said the band includes people from all over the country and the Bahamas. That’s part of what makes it special.
“We’re a smaller band compared to a lot of the other recognized HBCU bands in the nation, so it’s definitely a huge family, though we all come from different backgrounds,” said McCloud, who is now working on her doctorate in medical research at the Medical University of South Carolina.
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“So it’s being able to take that and kind of put it all inside of a melting pot, if you will. That is kind of what keeps our culture stirred up, because we take in the ideas, we take in the stuff that we’re getting from people around the world, and we’re allowing that to fuel what we put out there.”
For Leon Frazier, one of Daniels’ first students, the band’s 25th anniversary also represents growth – and consistency.
In previous years while recruiting for the band, Benedict had to sell itself over larger band programs. Now the program is getting students from the best high school programs in South Carolina and discovering Benedict is their first choice.
Benedict College’s Sweet Sensation dancers pose during a game against Morris Brown College in 2000. Floyd Ingram
“In my early recruiting days, there were a lot of remarkable programs that were vibrant and have not been able to maintain that consistency and growth for many different reasons,” said Frazier, now head of Benedict’s alumni association and recruiting.
“So it’s really special when you look around the landscape to see what is happening to a number of remarkable programs and to see that our program over that period of time [has] weathered many storms to where we are today and where we’re growing.”
Johnson is getting the Marching Tiger Band of Distinction ready for its special moment this fall. Rest assured, preparation starts now.
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There will be something for everybody to embrace at homecoming from the song selections and culture on campus 25 years ago, including old-school dances and dress, Johnson said.
“Of course, we still have to cater to our students now. I guess I call them not just the hip-hop generation but the microwave babies, so to speak, is what I call the kids nowadays,” Johnson said.
It’s the least he can do to pay homage to Daniels, who started the band, and the other alumni who have paved the way and supported his students.
Benedict College’s band marches in during a game against Fayetteville State University in 2001. Floyd Ingram
“Our alumni have been absolutely phenomenal,” Johnson said. “Through the years, we have had alumni coming, and it’s so many in terms of numbers [and] the support. They love their HBCU bands.”
That’s what makes his program work. While his leadership team works with band members during their time at Benedict, it’s their bond that solidifies the culture the band has built over the past 25 years.
“We deal with the students who are there during the academic years and whatnot,” Johnson said. “But the appreciation that really comes from our alumni after they leave because many of them don’t leave salty, so to speak. You gain lifelong friends [from] the experiences that you deal with, not just being in the band program, but the culture itself.”
Seeing the fruits of his labor is what will render Daniels speechless when the band takes the field during homecoming.
“I can’t even [imagine] just seeing that 25th year … seeing them come out there,” Daniels said. “I got excited when they just marched down the street at Macy’s.
“I had a goal. I was trying to do it, work with the kids, work with the faculty to do it, and it’s been taken from me to somewhere I couldn’t have predicted.”
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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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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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BURRILLVILLE, R.I. (WPRI) — Police are investigating after a motorcyclist was killed in a crash in Burrillville Monday evening.
Burrillville Police Col. Stephen Lynch said the crash happened at the intersection of Broncos Highway and Lapham Farm Road.
Lynch said the crash involved a car and a motorcycle, and the motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation at this time.
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More than a dozen people have died waiting for the bigger flats promised to them, says one of the protestors | FPJ
Mumbai: Chembur Gymkhana witnessed a unique protest on Sunday when several people stormed the venue of a “monsoon run” event and protested against the sponsor Tridhaatu Realty & Infra Pvt Ltd, who failed to complete the redevelopment project. The protestors were promised possession in July 2012.
Talking to The FPJ, one of the aggrieved, NA Ayyappan, on Monday said that more than a dozen people have died waiting for the bigger flats promised to them. “Several representations were made to the builder, but in vain. What is worse is that the company stopped paying rent in February 2020, which hit many of us very badly because we are retired persons,” he added.
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In 2009, Swathi Cooperative Housing Society, Govandi, had signed a redevelopment agreement with Tridhaatu, which was represented by its directors Krishnan Muthukumar, Dhananjay Sandu and Pritam Chivukula. The society consisted of four buildings occupied by 78 members. Of them, 30 lived in one BHK flats and 48 owned one room kitchen units. About 100% extra space was to be given to each of the members apart from a corpus of Rs8 lakh for each of the bigger flats and Rs5 lakh for the smaller ones. Also, monthly rents of Rs30,000 and Rs20,000 were to be paid to 1BHK and 1RK members, respectively. Apart from the original members, 123 others, who had booked flats in the free sale component of the project, have also been affected. One of them, Deepa Sridhar, said “We have waited for several years. How much longer do we wait?”
When this newspaper contacted Krishnan Muthukumar aka Govind, he acknowledged the delay, but blamed the authorities for the same. He said several problems with regard to environment clearance, development control rules, etc cropped up and the company had to move the courts to get due permissions. He further said the funding was coming from HDFC Ltd and certain issues cropped up because of the merger of HDFC Bank and HDFC Ltd. These problems were finally resolved on Monday.
Claiming that rents were being paid until about three months ago, Govind underlined that work on two wings of the project was completed and the remaining project will be finished soon. “We have informed MahaRERA that we will give possession by December 2023,” he added. However, the members are sceptical about the prospect. They want the developer to prove its bonafide by first clearing the rent arrears.
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In ancient Indian literature and also in the west, the king was a father figure to his subjects and he was not supposed to discriminate between his own subjects. In today’s world, there are neither kingdoms nor kings. The 20th century is the century of democracy. The world, especially after the Second World War, has realised that despite all its shortcomings there is no alternative to democracy. In a democracy, at least one is sure that however powerful the leader may be, they can be replaced by another. Such leaders can be tyrants but they are aware that people have the power to depose them. Nonetheless a few leaders forget and behave as if they are here to stay in the saddle for eternity. The crisis in Manipur is a pointer that there is no dearth of delusional leaders — like the chief minister in the state — who not only behave like a king but also discriminate between their subjects.
Read Also Manipur Violence: State Govt Says Spreading Fake News Will Be Treated As Sedition
Manipur is a classic example of how delusional leaders are a menace to society and if they are not replaced sooner rather than later, then not only will democracy not survive but the people at large will also continue to suffer untold misery. Manipur is a blot on Indian civilisation; it will trouble our conscience for years like Gujarat does and history will not be kind to those who had the responsibility to govern but chose not to govern. What is more unfortunate is that instead of learning any lesson, there is an attempt to justify the unjustifiable. There is an attempt to shift blame on to others. There is an attempt to build a narrative that Manipur is the creation of foreign forces and a few in India have collaborated actively. There is an attempt to create a narrative that like Gujarat, Manipur will also help the ruling dispensation electorally.
Unfortunately, we live in an era in which politics has been just reduced to winning and losing elections. Those who win, feel that their all sins have been washed away and they are no longer accountable to any universal values. Today, Parliamentary consensus, which earlier was a common thread between the government and the Opposition, has broken down. There was an unwritten Laxman Rekha that was not to be crossed, come what may. There was a Parliamentary consensus that despite the acrimonious differences between leaders and parties, heated debates on the floor of the House, and outside, the relationship between the government and the Opposition nonetheless would not turn into enmity; leaders would meet and greet, would crack a few jokes with each other and the parliamentary harmony would continue to define the relationship.
Read Also Editorial: Restoring trust in Manipur probe
It is so bizarre that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is seen hugging every Tom, Dick and Harry on foreign soil, mysteriously, in India, does not let any leader come close to him who can dare to hug him. When Rahul Gandhi had tried to hug him inside the Parliament, then the ruling regime had ridiculed him and it was not taken in good spirit. The prime minister has hugged every world leader. Rather, it will be better to say that he flaunts hugging all the heads of the governments and states and it is marketed as a part of his popularity in the global fora, which helps India further its national interests. Modi to not be seen hugging any leader in India is a deliberate ploy to package him as one that no one can aspire to be equal to. It’s a smart political strategy to build a cult around him as an unparalleled leader. It can safely be said in the west, the ploy is used to attain equality with the world leaders, but within the country, the equality with others is undermined deliberately.
There is contempt for the Opposition which smacks of disrespect for institutions, which converts every conflict between the government and the Opposition into a gladiatorial war, in which defeat is death. Since 2014 the government has refused to concede any demand from the Opposition and neither is the Opposition consulted on any matter of national significance. All-party meets that earlier used to be a regular feature, are now few and far between, and even in these meetings, no suggestion from the Opposition is welcomed. These meetings are more of optics, which lack any substance. The prime minister is rarely seen in Parliament, and replies to Opposition questions even more rarely. The Rahul Gandhi episode is an example. When Rahul Gandhi questioned the prime minister and asked him to clarify the government’s relationship with the Adani group, not only was his speech brutally expunged and mutilated but he was also stripped of his membership of Parliament.
It is the same with the Manipur issue, too. The Opposition has been demanding a debate on the subject but the government is refusing to concede. There is a civil-war-like situation in the state. Two communities — Kuki and Meitei — are killing each other. Women are being paraded naked and being gang raped. Thousands of homes have been burnt. Every village has dug bunkers which hints that the local population no longer trusts the police and central forces. The armoury has been looted. More than 4,000 guns and lakhs of bullets are missing. And a shameless and incompetent government is requesting militants to deposit guns in drop boxes! Almost three months have passed but there is no sign of normalcy returning to the state. Instead of the chief minister being asked to resign and President’s rule being imposed, an absurd argument is being put forward that if the CM is removed now then the situation might deteriorate further. One can ask how many months of lawlessness and total anarchy is needed and how many more deaths are required for the centre to believe that the chief minister is incompetent, and that he can’t be trusted with solutions when he himself is part of the problem.
Now a new counter-narrative is being woven that the crisis is being fueled by foreign forces who are supplying arms to narco terrorists. It is also said that there is a legacy issue too. The question that needs to be asked is, what was the BJP government doing in the state till now? What did the state government do to stop the arms supply from across the border? When a government is so incompetent that it can’t protect its own armoury, then can it be trusted to run the administration, and fight insurgency and narco terrorism? If the state government is to be blamed then the central government too can’t absolve itself of responsibility. The prime minister should know that at times silence is more dangerous. When our own people are killed then silence is not the answer. Which father will sit idle if his sons and daughters are massacred?
The writer is Editor, SatyaHindi.com, and author of Hindu Rashtra. He tweets at @ashutosh83B
Read Also Mehbooba Mufti Slams Centre Over Manipur Situation, Invokes Reservation For Sikhs
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There is no easy or simple way to define forgiveness. Forgiveness is an attitude of compassion and understanding with which we choose to react to the world. Forgiveness is not a one-off action – it is a process by which we evolve towards tolerance and acceptance. Forgiveness is not a series of incidents – it is a way of life that we choose. Forgiveness is self-restraint, self-control, self-discipline, through which we transcend our lower selves. Above all, forgiveness is an effort on our part to bring out the divine that is in all of us.
Forgiveness – kshama – is indeed a divine virtue. It exists in all of us. What we need to do is to allow it to unfold and express itself in deeds of daily living.
Here are few tips for putting forgiveness into practice:
1. Forget the past. Someone has said, “More difficult than forgiving others is to forgive oneself.” As we forgive others, let us learn to forgive ourselves. Learn your lessons from the mistakes of the past – and forget the mistakes themselves.
2. Empty your mind of all negative emotions. Get rid of fear, hatred, envy, and bitterness systematically, when you sit down in silence and reflection.
3. Let goodwill flow out of you towards everything and everyone.
4. It takes guts to forgive. Cultivate the determination and strength of mind required for forgiveness, so that you can forgive without strain.
5. Be aware of your own mistakes. When we consider our own weaknesses, it is easier for us to understand others’ shortcomings.
6. Develop positive thoughts about the other person. Speak kindly about him.
7. It helps to write a letter or a note of goodwill to the other person. This reinforces your positive feelings, puts them on record, as it were.
8. Forgive in the Name of the Lord. Forgive others even as He forgives us all for our many failings. Draw your strength and courage from Him, who is the source of all mercy.
So, let us forgive one another while there is yet time: for the day cometh when the opportunity to forgive will be taken away from us.
(August 2, Birthday of Rev Dada JP Vaswani, is celebrated as “Global Forgiveness Day”.)
Dada J P Vaswani is a humanitarian, philosopher, educator, acclaimed writer, powerful orator, messiah of ahimsa, and non-sectarian spiritual leader
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There is no easy or simple way to define forgiveness. Forgiveness is an attitude of compassion and understanding with which we choose to react to the world.Forgiveness is not a one-off action – it is a process by which we evolve towards tolerance and acceptance. Forgiveness is not a series of incidents – it is a way of life that we choose. Forgiveness is self-restraint, self-control, self-discipline, through which we transcend our lower selves. Above all, forgiveness is an effort on our part to bring out the divine that is in all of us.
Forgiveness – kshama – is indeed a divine virtue. It exists in all of us. What we need to do is to allow it to unfold and express itself in deeds of daily living.
Read Also Guiding Light by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Antidote to Jealousy
Here are few tips for putting forgiveness into practice:
1. Forget the past. Someone has said, “More difficult than forgiving others is to forgive oneself.” As we forgive others, let us learn to forgive ourselves. Learn your lessons from the mistakes of the past – and forget the mistakes themselves.
2. Empty your mind of all negative emotions. Get rid of fear, hatred, envy, and bitterness systematically, when you sit down in silence and reflection.
3. Let goodwill flow out of you towards everything and everyone.
4. It takes guts to forgive. Cultivate the determination and strength of mind required for forgiveness, so that you can forgive without strain.
5. Be aware of your own mistakes. When we consider our own weaknesses, it is easier for us to understand others’ shortcomings.
6. Develop positive thoughts about the other person. Speak kindly about him.
7. It helps to write a letter or a note of goodwill to the other person. This reinforces your positive feelings, puts them on record, as it were.
8. Forgive in the Name of the Lord. Forgive others even as He forgives us all for our many failings. Draw your strength and courage from Him, who is the source of all mercy.
So, let us forgive one another while there is yet time: for the day cometh when the opportunity to forgive will be taken away from us.
(August 2, Birthday of Rev Dada JP Vaswani, is celebrated as “Global Forgiveness Day”.)
Dada J P Vaswani is a humanitarian, philosopher, educator, acclaimed writer, powerful orator, messiah of ahimsa, and non-sectarian spiritual leader
Read Also Guiding Light: Antidote To Jealousy
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Mumbai: Accepting a friend request from a stranger on Facebook proved costly for a 43-year old-woman. The woman was befriended by a man claiming to be a pilot from the UK. The fraudster on the pretext of sending gifts to the victim, induced her to pay over Rs 88 lakh in over 20 transactions.
According to the police, the victim is a resident of Mulund. On May 08, the victim had received a friend request from a person who claimed to be a pilot and staying in London. The two initially chatted over Facebook and later exchanged their mobile numbers and began chatting.
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After a few days, the fraudster proposed to marry the victim and the latter accepted his proposal. On May 22, the fraudster told the victim that he would be sending a gift parcel for her, containing gold necklace, diamond necklace, iPhone, laptop, watch and UK pounds and asked for the victim's residential address. He also told the victim that he would soon visit Mumbai to meet her family.
On May 24, when the victim was at her workplace, she received a phone call from an unknown person, who claimed to be a Delhi customs official. The victim was informed about her gift parcel and thereon money was being demanded from her on various pretexts such as taxes and charges to claim her parcel.
From May 24 till June 22, the victim ended up paying Rs 88.54 lakh in 21 transactions in various bank accounts. However, even after paying so much money, the victim did not receive her parcel. Later she received a call from the fraudster, who asked for financial help from her to meet his 'medical expenditure'.
The victim got suspicious of the entire episode and discussed the issue with one of her friends. She then told the victim that she has been duped as such frauds are rampant on social media. The victim then approached the police and got an offence registered in the matter last week. She has also provided beneficiary bank account details and mobile numbers used by the fraudsters.
The police have registered a case under sections 66C (identity theft) and 66D (cheating by personation by using computer resource) of the Information Technology Act.
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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.
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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.
Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, on Friday, July 28, 2023. San Francisco has launched an investigation into the sign as city officials say replacing letters or symbols on buildings, or erecting a sign on top of one, requires a permit. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/Noah Berger
Representatives for X did not immediately respond to a message for comment Monday.
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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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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Clippers shooting guard Amir Coffey was arrested early Sunday on a firearms misdemeanor in Hollywood, authorities said.
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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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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Nearly two weeks after Don Coryell died in 2010 at age 85, an impressive lineup of Hall of Famers gathered to remember the innovative coach whose "Air Coryell" offense produced some of the most dynamic passing attacks in NFL history.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Nearly two weeks after Don Coryell died in 2010 at age 85, an impressive lineup of Hall of Famers gathered to remember the innovative coach whose “Air Coryell” offense produced some of the most dynamic passing attacks in NFL history.
John Madden, Dan Fouts and Joe Gibbs sat in the front row. Kellen Winslow and Charlie Joiner were also there.
They had either played for or coached under Coryell, and while remembering the coach’s genius and genuineness, the overwhelming sentiments were sadness and bewilderment that Coryell had yet to join them in Canton, Ohio.
It was enough to make Madden choke up as he began his eulogy.
“You know, I’m sitting down there in front, and next to me is Joe Gibbs, and next to him is Dan Fouts, and the three of us are in the Hall of Fame because of Don Coryell,” Madden said, his voice cracking. “There’s something missing.”
What many people have long considered a snub will be rectified Saturday when Coryell is enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
“It’s wonderful because it’s so deserving,” said Fouts, the quarterback who made Air Coryell fly with the San Diego Chargers in the late 1970s and early 80s. “Unfortunately, it took this long, but it did. But he’s in and he’s going to be in forever and that’s the important thing.”
Fouts, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1993, thinks Coryell kept missing the cut for Canton until now because of the lack of Super Bowls on his resume.
Coryell went 111-83-1 combined in five seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals and nine seasons in San Diego. The Chargers made it to the AFC championship game in consecutive seasons but lost both times, to the rival Oakland Raiders after the 1980 season and then to the Cincinnati Bengals in the infamous “Ice Bowl” the following season.
But his influence on the game remains unmistakable.
“You can just see when it changed and how it changed,” Fouts said. “I think Kellen Winslow put it best: Look at the television contracts.”
During the Air Coryell years, Fouts and the Chargers — who wore lightning bolts on their helmets, jerseys and pants — set records and led the NFL in passing almost every season while revolutionizing the game and thrilling fans.
“He made it fun,” Fouts said from his Oregon home. “Obviously when you’re having success, it’s fun. The system gave us success and knowing that, he was willing to be creative and innovative and trust his players. He let us give input and once you give a player input, that player plays harder to make that input work. He recognized that and he was so honest.”
At the height of Air Coryell, Fouts led the NFL in yards passing for four straight seasons and touchdown passes in consecutive seasons. Coryell would split Winslow, the tight end, and running backs out wide. Coryell’s schemes stretched the field and used motion, forcing defenses to play catch-up.
In 1979, Fouts, Winslow and John Jefferson posed for a Nike poster wearing bomber jackets, with footballs raining from the sky and the headline “Bombs Away.”
“Don once said, ‘If we’re asking Kellen to block a defensive end and not catch passes, I’m not a very good coach,’ ” former running back and special teams star Hank Bauer once recalled.
One of the lasting images of the Coryell years was an exhausted Winslow being helped off the field by two teammates after the Chargers’ epic 41-38 overtime victory in the playoffs over the Miami Dolphins on Jan. 2, 1982. Despite cramping up in the heat and humidity, Winslow caught 13 passes for 166 yards and a touchdown, and also blocked a potential game-winning field goal.
As an example of how Coryell’s passing innovations eventually spread throughout what had been a run-first NFL, Fouts pointed out that the 1972 Miami Dolphins clinched the only perfect season in NFL history by beating Washington in the Super Bowl with Bob Griese throwing just 11 passes, completing eight for 88 yards. The Dolphins were otherwise powered by running backs Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick and Mercury Morris. Twelve seasons later, Miami’s Dan Marino became the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for 5,000 yards.
“So the thing is, Coryell believed in the passing game and he led the revolution,” Fouts said.
Coryell coached at San Diego State from 1961-72 and went 104-19-2. Gibbs played under Coryell and was on his staff with Madden for three years. Coryell left the Aztecs for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1973. With Jim Hart at quarterback, the Cardinals won division titles in 1974 and ’75 under Coryell.
Gibbs coached the Washington Redskins to three Super Bowl titles and reached a fourth, while Madden, who died in 2021, won one Super Bowl with the Oakland Raiders.
The Chargers hired Coryell on Sept. 25, 1978, the same day a Pacific Southwest Airlines jet crashed into San Diego’s North Park neighborhood after colliding with a small plane, killing all 137 people on the two planes and seven people on the ground.
“You know what a horrible day that was for everybody,” said Fouts, who remembers seeing debris and smoke from the crash while driving from a radio appearance to the stadium that morning for the first team meeting with Coryell. “The day before was just a miserable game against the Packers and we were 1-3. So anyway, it turned out OK for the players.
“It was like this breath of fresh air came into the room and made everybody feel good,” Fouts said.
Alex Spanos, who bought the Chargers in 1984, fired Coryell midway through the 1986 season after a 1-7 start.
Coryell never coached again.
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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.
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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.”
Denver Broncos wide receiver Tim Patrick takes part in drills during NFL football training camp at the team's headquarters, Thursday, July 27, 2023, in Centennial Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/David Zalubowski
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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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.
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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 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.
Representatives for X did not immediately respond to a message for comment Monday.
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On Monday, Tom Murphy (.700 slugging percentage in past 10 games, including three home runs) and the Seattle Mariners face the Boston Red Sox, whose starting pitcher will be Nick Pivetta. First pitch is at 9:40 PM ET.
He hit a home run while going 1-for-3 in his most recent game against the Diamondbacks.
Tom Murphy Game Info & Props vs. the Red Sox
Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
Monday, July 31, 2023 Game Time: 9:40 PM ET
9:40 PM ET Stadium: T-Mobile Park
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Watch this game on Fubo! Red Sox Starter: Nick Pivetta
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ROOT Sports NW Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -139)
Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -139) Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +400)
Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +400) RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +220)
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Tom Murphy At The Plate
Murphy is batting .285 with 12 doubles, eight home runs and eight walks.
Murphy enters this game on a four-game hitting streak. In his last games, he's hitting .353 with two homers.
In 24 of 40 games this year (60.0%) Murphy has picked up a hit, and in 10 of those games he had more than one (25.0%).
In eight games this season, he has hit a long ball (20.0%, and 5.9% of his trips to the dish).
Murphy has picked up an RBI in 10 games this year (25.0%), with more than one RBI in five of them (12.5%).
He has scored in 14 of 40 games (35.0%), including multiple runs twice.
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Tom Murphy Home/Away Batting Splits
Home Away 21 GP 19 .274 AVG .295 .348 OBP .308 .597 SLG .557 10 XBH 10 5 HR 3 7 RBI 9 21/6 K/BB 17/2 0 SB 0
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An intoxicated Carol Stream man led police on a high-speed chase and seriously injured another motorist after threatening a person with a gun, according to prosecutors.
On Sunday, Carol Stream police responded to a call of a man threatening a person with a gun around 7:30 p.m. The caller said the man was driving a Mercedes C300.
Prosecutors say an officer located the vehicle and tried to pull it over, but the driver sped away at speeds of more than 75 mph.
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The driver blew through a red light at West Elk Trail and Gary Avenue and collided with a vehicle carrying a man and 27-year-old woman, prosecutors said. He exited his Mercedes and fled on foot.
After a brief chase, he was taken into custody and identified as 43-year-old Alvin Thompson Jr. of Carol Stream.
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Officers smelled a strong odor of alcohol on Thompson's breath and observed his eyes were glassy, prosecutors said. Police also recovered a loaded handgun in his vehicle.
"The allegations that Mr. Thompson fled police at a high rate of speed in a residential neighborhood while under the influence of alcohol and armed with a loaded gun he was not legally authorized to possess, are extremely aggravating. Unfortunately, as a result of Mr. Thompson’s alleged actions, an innocent motorist minding her own business was seriously injured," DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin said.
Thompson's bond was set at $2 million. He's been charged with two counts of Aggravated Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol, three counts of Aggravated Fleeing and Eluding, one count of Unlawful Use of as Weapon by Felon, and one count of Aggravated Unlawful Use of a weapon — all felonies.
He's also been hit with multiple Misdemeanor and petty traffic offenses, including Resisting Arrest.
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The Wirtz Family and the Chicago Blackhawks announced plans Monday for the public to honor late Chairman W. Rockwell "Rocky" Wirtz.
Wirtz died last week at the age of 70.
He became chairman in 2007 when his father, Bill Wirtz, passed away. Wirtz was also half-owner of the United Center with Chicago Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf.
Under Wirtz's leadership, the Blackhawks won three Stanley Cup championships in six years. Wirtz was behind televising the Blackhawks' home games, which began a new era and brought new energy to the team and organization.
An event honoring Wirtz is set to take place at the United Center Wednesday, Aug. 9 at 11 a.m.
Chicago Blackhawks chairman Rocky Wirtz answers questions as they introduce Kyle Davidson as their new general manager at the United Center on March 1, 2022, in Chicago. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
It will be first-come, first-served seating.
Following the formal program, the United Center will remain open through 3 p.m. for anyone wishing to pay their respects.
Guests should enter the United Center through gates six and seven on the south side of the building which will open at 9:30 a.m.
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Free parking will be available in Lot K with overflow lots to be opened as needed.
In lieu of flowers, the Wirtz family is requesting that donations be made to the Chicago Blackhawks Foundation , the team's official charitable arm.
A separate, private service for Wirtz's family and Wirtz's family friends will take place on Aug. 8.
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A 78-year-old man was not the intended target when he was shot Monday on Chicago's South Side.
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A 78-year-old man was not the intended target when he was shot Monday on Chicago's South Side.
Around 5:30 p.m., police say two vehicles were traveling eastbound on 69th St. when someone inside a black Jeep fired shots at a green Camaro.
The male victim was crossing the street in the 6900 block of S. Lafayette Ave. when he was struck by the gunfire. He was shot in the back and taken to University of Chicago Hospital in good condition.
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Nobody was reported in custody.
The investigation is ongoing.
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The Chicago Cubs bolstered their lineup on Monday, reacquiring Jeimer Candelario in a trade with the Washington Nationals.
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Looking for some help for their lineup, the Chicago Cubs turned to a familiar face.
Chicago reacquired Jeimer Candelario in a trade with the Washington Nationals on Monday, signaling a change in philosophy for the Cubs after it looked as if they had stumbled out of the playoff race.
Candelario, one of the top hitters on the market ahead of Tuesday’s trade deadline, is batting .258 with 16 homers and 53 RBIs in 99 games in a resurgent performance. He was non-tendered by Detroit in November and then signed a $5 million, one-year contract with Washington.
Candelario, 29, signed with Chicago in 2010 and made his big league debut with the Cubs in 2016. He was traded to Detroit with fellow infielder Isaac Paredes for catcher Alex Avila and reliever Justin Wilson at the 2017 deadline.
The Cubs got Candelario and cash from Washington for minor league left-hander DJ Herz and infielder Kevin Made.
Herz, 22, an eighth-round pick in the 2019 amateur draft, is 1-1 with a 3.97 ERA in 14 starts for Double-A Tennessee this season. Made, 20, hit .241 with three homers and 25 RBIs in 70 games for High-A South Bend.
Last-place Washington is likely heading for its fourth consecutive losing season. It also could move outfielder Lane Thomas and closer Kyle Finnegan ahead of the deadline.
It looked as if Chicago was going to be a seller as late as July 17, when it lost 7-5 to Washington to drop to 43-50. But it responded with a 10-2 stretch to get back into the playoff race.
The Cubs opened a four-game series against Cincinnati on Monday night.
Candelario, a New York City native who moved to the Dominican Republic when he was 5, is a .243 hitter with 82 homers and 301 RBIs in 705 career games. He likely will see time at third base and designated hitter with Chicago.
Candelario had his best season with Detroit in 2021, batting .271 with 16 homers and a career-best 67 RBIs. He also tied for the major league lead with 42 doubles.
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