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Bucks' MarJon Beauchamp reacts to playing in CrawsOver Pro-Am (The Rookie Wire)

Beauchamp was among several NBA players that hit the court in the CrawsOver Pro-Am in Seattle over the weekend.

Earlier in the summer, Beauchamp [bought his mother a brand new house](https://therookiewire.usatoday.com/2022/07/22/bucks-marjon-beauchamp-mother-house/). [that hit the court](https://therookiewire.usatoday.com/2022/08/21/crawsover-pro-am-paolo-banchero-chet-holmgren-lebron-james/) in the event, which was founded by Jamal Crawford. Afterward, he thanked Crawford for hosting him, which was the second time he has played in the event. [including a recent back-to-school giveaway](https://twitter.com/LukeTScribe/status/1561037909205008384?s=20&t=5_rJawSQzMyowV-s0tWQZA). In addition to Beauchamp, [Los Angeles Lakers](https://therookiewire.usatoday.com/tag/los-angeles-lakers) forward [LeBron James](https://lebronwire.usatoday.com/), [Boston Celtics](https://celticswire.usatoday.com/) guard [Jayson Tatum](https://therookiewire.usatoday.com/tag/) and [Orlando Magic](https://therookiewire.usatoday.com/tag/orlando-magic) rookie [Paolo Banchero](https://therookiewire.usatoday.com/tag/paolo-banchero) were on hand. [teamed with James, Tatum and others](https://youtu.be/A2UhAY0nAD0), and had a few highlights from the competition.

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Why Jordan Peele rewrote 'Nope' script for Fil-Am Puerto Rican ... (Interaksyon)

Acclaimed filmmaker Jordan Peele tweaked the script of his latest horror thriller “Nope” for Filipino-American Puerto Rican actor, Brandon Perea. Perea,

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AM Best Assigns Performance Assessment to Delta International ... (Business Wire)

AM Best has assigned a Performance Assessment of PA-2 (Excellent) to Delta Insurance New Zealand Limited (New Zealand), Delta Underwriting Private Lim.

AM Best would expect the quality and quantity of Delta’s staff to develop and increase appropriately as the organization continues to grow. The longer-term ability of Delta to retain and sustain relationships has opportunity for advancement and development. [Guide to Best’s Performance Assessments for Delegated Underwriting Authority Enterprises](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww3.ambest.com%2Fambv%2Fratingmethodology%2FOpenPDF.aspx%3Frc%3D316128&esheet=52822649&newsitemid=20220822005632&lan=en-US&anchor=Guide+to+Best%26%238217%3Bs+Performance+Assessments+for+Delegated+Underwriting+Authority+Enterprises&index=1&md5=5f4b0894783557ae1e1cf714fb9bd7c7). Headquartered in the United States, the company does business in over 100 countries with regional offices in London, Amsterdam, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mexico City. For additional information regarding the use and limitations of Performance Assessments, please view Delta has shown a record of profitable operations since inception, with stable income sources and continued positive net worth. AM Best considers Delta’s governance and internal controls to be excellent. Delta has a well-developed technology base that provides insurance services that has allowed the organization to advance its gross premium writings annually and expand coverage options. Delta has implemented a sophisticated framework for selection for capacity providers, which elevates the products and coverage it can provide to its policyholders. In AM Best’s view, these three affiliated companies exhibit a number of commonalities with one another and are regarded as strategically and financially important to Delta, providing access to business in certain geographic jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific region. Since launching in 2014, Delta has recorded profitable underwriting results across a variety of liability lines in the Asia Pacific region, along with property coverage only in New Zealand. The companies are assessed on a consolidated basis under their parent, Delta International Limited (Delta).

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'Am I going to get shot?' Comedy's wild pranksters on their most ... (The Guardian)

“The best stunts or pranks are where you are inserting your comedy into a very serious area,” he says now. “And what is more serious than politics? What is more ...

“Mind you,” he adds, “most of the people who’re worth pranking couldn’t care less about what the world thinks of them. For The Revolution Will Be Televised, a code of ethics known as “the Revolution protocols” were drawn up with the BBC, recalls Rubinstein. “The idea being,” he says, “to have a bit of fun with passengers thinking, very momentarily, they’ve landed at the wrong airport.” ( None of that diminishes, in Rubinstein’s eyes, the importance of pranking – in its political variety, at least – to the health of the nation. If you were pranking people who cared what other people thought of them, they probably wouldn’t be worth pranking in the first place.” In 2012, for example, two Australian DJs made a call to the Duchess of Cambridge’s hospital ward, pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles. (Brodkin: “Stop trying to get me cancelled, Brian!”) A reason for that gender bias may lie in the language its exponents use to describe the art form. In the moment, the perpetrator experiences high anxiety and “the person having the stunt done to them,” says Brodkin, “generally isn’t seeing the funny side.” Fosh adds: “While I was setting up a massive tarpaulin in a field, I wasn’t sure it was going to be particularly funny.” Or the “made-up drug” cake, touted by Chris Morris on [Brass Eye](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jan/30/brass-eye-at-20-still-chris-morris-at-his-hysterical-gobsmacking-best). “I try to stay away from the word prank,” he tells me. Jolyon Rubinstein can match that: “We had frequent run-ins with the secret service attaches to the PM and deputy PM,” he says. [served with a P45](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/oct/04/the-cough-the-p45-the-falling-f-theresa-mays-speech-calamity) at Tory conference; Donald Trump, on whose behalf he [distributed Nazi golf balls](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/feb/01/why-i-threw-swastika-golfballs-at-donald-trump-prankster-simon-brodkin-lee-nelson) at the then-presidential nominee’s Turnberry course in 2016; and Fifa president Sepp Blatter, [showered in dollars by Brodkin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pqO6tK8_Wg) at a 2015 news conference.

Deteriorating economic environment driving large unrealised losses ... (Reinsurance News)

As European insurers report their 2022 mid-year results, it is becoming apparent that large unrealised losses have been incurred on their investment.

In many cases, solvency ratios even increased over the first half of the year. The stability indicates effective asset and liability management (ALM) and enterprise risk management (ERM) programmes, which have successfully managed insurers’ profiles at an enterprise level through this current shock. If economic conditions continue to deteriorate, insurers’ investment portfolios may see further losses.

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