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Google picks former Modi think-tank official as India policy head: Report
Alphabet Inc's Google has hired a new public policy head in India, Archana Gulati, who previously worked at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's federal think-tank and the country's antitrust watchdog, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
A number of Indian government officials have been hired by Big Tech companies which are battling tighter data and privacy regulation, as well as competition law scrutiny, under Modi's federal government.
Gulati is a long-term Indian government employee, having worked until March 2021 as a joint secretary for digital communications at Modi's federal think tank, Niti Aayog, a body that is critical to government's policy making across sectors.
Before that, between 2014 and 2016, she worked as a senior official at India's antitrust body, the Competition Commission of India, according to her LinkedIn profile.
A Google India spokesperson confirmed the development to Reuters, but did not elaborate. Gulati did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The source declined to be named as the hiring decision was not public.
India's antitrust watchdog is currently looking into Google's business conduct in the market of smart TVs, its Android operating system as well as its in-app payments system.
Last year, Meta Platforms Inc hired Rajiv Aggarwal - who spent years working in India's federal and state governments - as its head of policy.
Another former Indian antitrust and federal government official, Anand Jha, in 2019 joined Walmart as India public policy officer. He currently manages government relations for Blackstone in India. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/google-picks-former-modi-think-tank-official-as-india-policy-head-report-101651670277583.html | 2022-05-04T14:45:36Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/google-picks-former-modi-think-tank-official-as-india-policy-head-report-101651670277583.html | true | 17 |
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Lovemore Nyabeze was a Zimbabwean coach and footballer. Nyabeze was also a musician.
Background
Nyabeze left behind his wife Beauty and two children.[1]
Career
As a musician, Lovemore Nyabeze performed on the Bulawayo circuit for a while, in the evenings.[1]
Football
In the early 1970s, Nyabeze played as a right-winger for Mangula United. He also played for a Bulawayo side known as Eastlands.
Coaching
Nyabeze coached the CAPS United team that triumphed against Zimbabwe Saints Football Club in a replayed Chibuku Trophy final in 1979. The club went on to win the Northern Region and a national league play-off against Zimbabwe Saints in the same year.
After a few years with CAPS United and the national Under-20 team, Nyabeze moved to Bata Power, enticing Machona Sibanda and Samson Phiri, among many players from his Under-20 side. They teamed up with former Southern Region and Black Horrors striker Onias Musana, Ted Ncube and Reuben Tsengwa.
Lovemore Nyabeze later moved to Chapungu Football Club and coached Bekezela Moyo, Bampton Nchengela, Nkulumo Donga, Jonah Murewa, Toddy Chirwa, Abel Muteji, Cain Muteji and Maxwell Dube. After his time at Chapungu, Nyabeze worked with several clubs in Masvingo and Midlands provinces.
He coached national teams at Under-20, Under-23 and senior national team levels.[1] In 1995, Nyabeze coached the Zimbabwe National Under-23 men's team that beat the Namibia Senior National team 2-1 to lift the Walvis Trophy.[2]
Shabanie Mine fired Lovemore Nyabeze, a few months after he saved them from Premiership relegation.
Nyabeze's contract with the club ended on December 31 2005, and the executive appointed John Phiri as the caretaker coach during the pre-season preparations.[3]
In 2005, Lovemore Nyabeze was fired by Botswana club BMC for poor results, but claimed that his efforts were undermined by player power and hostility from BMC officials.[4]
Death
Nyabeze, according to his wife Beauty, collapsed while conducting a training session for his Eastern Region Division One side, Masvingo United on 1 April 2010. Lovemore Nyabeze was pronounced dead on arrival at a Masvingo hospital.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Coach Lovemore Nyabeze collapses, dies, Nehanda Radio, Published: April 2, 2010, Retrieved: May 4, 2022
- ↑ Alois Bunjira, ‘l miss the naughty players’, B-Metro, Published: December 14, 2018, Retrieved: May 4, 2022
- ↑ Zimbabwe: Shabanie Fire Nyabeze, allAfrica, Published: January 7, 2006, Retrieved: May 4, 2022
- ↑ Botswana: Nyabeze Fires Broadsides At BMC, allAfrica, Published: May 24, 2005, Retrieved: May 4, 2022 | https://www.pindula.co.zw/index.php?title=Lovemore_Nyabeze&diff=117146&oldid=117144 | 2022-05-04T14:49:34Z | https://www.pindula.co.zw/index.php?title=Lovemore_Nyabeze&diff=117146&oldid=117144 | false | 1 |
Calls have been made to crackdown on empty homes in Mid Devon. Councillor Frank Letch (Lawrence, Liberal Democrat) put a question to cabinet member for housing and property, Councillor Stuart Penny (Yeo, Conservative) at Mid Devon’s meeting on Wednesday, April 27, saying he was concerned about voids.
He said: “Over the last few months I've been walking around in Crediton. Since October, five properties have become void; two from deaths, one from moving away, another one I don't know why and another one just down the road because we bought the property back. As far as I know, only one of those properties has been re-let and that was about six weeks ago to a friend of mine, but there was no jiggery pokery, believe it or not.
“Would it be possible for the cabinet member to ask the void department if all members could have a list of the dates from September 2021 when a property has become void and when it has become re-let. We're losing money, and several people have come up to me locally and said, for example, she was sofa surfing with her baby, and I can see that there are properties that have been stood empty for a long time.
“I know that we have problems with materials and code and so on, but I think five or six months being void really does rather stretch the imagination. I can remember being at one meeting where we looked at targets and we tried to reduce the voids from 16 days down to 14 days. That's days not weeks.”
Cllr Penny responded saying: “I think it's very important that ward members receive as much information as possible regarding voids in their wards, and they should know what's going on. I will ask for a report to be produced and circulated to all members. In addition to that, it has been arranged for me to have a monthly void update from our voids department, and I will use that document to provide as much information as I possibly can.”
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Two people in the UK are now £1 million richer after the Premium Bond winners for May were announced. The first winner - holding 50,000 - the maximum amount possible in Premium Bonds is from Greater Manchester.
They purchased the winning Bond 281HY160082 in September 2016. The second £1million winner is from Wandsworth with the Bond number 092QC393046, the Mirror reports.
This person has £49,000 invested in Premium Bonds and purchased their winning Bond in June 2003. In the May 2022 prize draw, a total of 3,415,068 prizes worth £98,183,175 will be paid out and there were 117,819,813,615 Bond numbers eligible for the draw.
Read more: Martin Lewis' urgent passport warning to anyone due to go abroad this year
Since the first draw in June 1957, NS&I's electronic random number indicator equipment known as ERNIE, has drawn 562 million prizes with a total value of £22.9billion. Premium Bonds is an investment product issued by National Savings & Investment.
But instead of earning interest, you are entered into a monthly prize draw where you can win between £25 and £1million tax-free. This means your chance of winning is completely down to chance - and you may not win anything at all.
Whenever you want to you can get all your money back from NS&I, though it may take a few days. The minimum amount you can have invested in Premium Bonds is £25, and the maximum is £50,000.
How to check if you're a winner
Customers can use the nsandi.com prize checker tool and prize checker app to see if they have won. If you have an Amazon Alexa, you can also ask it to tell you the latest winning numbers.
To see if you've won, you will need to enter your Premium Bonds holders’ number. Those who have chosen to have prizes paid to their bank account, or have their prizes reinvested, will be informed whether they have won by email or text message.
At the moment the odds of a bond winning each month are 34,500 to 1 for every £1 Bond you have invested. The vast majority of the prizes released each month are for £25.
Customers can choose to have their prizes paid straight into their bank account, or to have them automatically reinvested into new Premium Bonds. More than nine in ten prizes are now paid straight into winner’s bank accounts or automatically reinvested into more Premium Bonds.
The Mirror has previously spoken to the so-called "Agent Million" whose job is to tell the £1milllion Premium Bond winners that they've won the top prize. "Agent Million" revealed how winners find out the good news, how they react - and how much they get paid.
She said the agents have seen a range of reactions from whooping and cheering to crying and even complete silence. Winners are always advised by agents that they can call the office to verify information. | https://www.lancs.live/news/uk-world-news/nsi-premium-bond-winners-announced-23862587 | 2022-05-04T14:50:56Z | https://www.lancs.live/news/uk-world-news/nsi-premium-bond-winners-announced-23862587 | false | 1 |
Una Healy’s ex-boyfriend David Breen appears to announce he is set to become a dad.
The Limerick hurler dated the Saturday’s singer at the end of 2018 before they split up in February 2020.
They went public with their relationship at the end of 2018 after Una separated from her then-husband Ben Foden in July 2018.
The hurler went Instagram official in 2021 with a new woman as he shared pictures of them on holiday in Greece.
The woman named Emma Farquharson is a physiotherapy lecturer at Brunel University London, where she also works as a Doctoral Researcher with the UK's Ministry of Defence.
Now David appears to reveal he is set to become a dad for the first time as he shared a series of pictures on his Instagram of Emma, who is pregnant.
Una has previously opened up about her relationship with David and why the couple couldn’t make it work.
She said that David wasn't her “forever guy” and that they possibly got together too soon after her divorce.
The two of them were on and off again for a while when they were dating, and she advised those who were in a similar relationship that “stopping and starting again” is confusing.
Una has since been romantically linked to a Dublin based Garda, but the pair never went public with their relationship.
READ MORE: Maura Higgins stuns in backless dress as she returns home for red carpet | https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/una-healys-ex-boyfriend-david-26871690 | 2022-05-04T14:56:00Z | https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/una-healys-ex-boyfriend-david-26871690 | true | 1 |
NEW YORK (AP) — The company behind the TurboTax tax-filing program will pay $141 million to customers across the United States who were deceived by misleading promises of free tax-filing services, New York's attorney general announced Wednesday.
Under the terms of a settlement signed by the attorneys general of all 50 states, Mountain View, California-based Intuit Inc. will suspend TurboTax’s “free, free, free” ad campaign and pay restitution to nearly 4.4 million taxpayers, New York Attorney General Letitia James said.
James said her investigation into Intuit was sparked by a 2019 ProPublica report that found the company was using deceptive tactics to steer low-income tax filers away from the federally supported free services for which they qualified — and toward its own commercial products, instead.
"For years, Intuit misled the most vulnerable among us to make a profit. Today, every state in the nation is holding Intuit accountable for scamming millions of taxpayers, and we’re putting millions of dollars back into the pockets of impacted Americans," James said in a statement. "This agreement should serve as a reminder to companies large and small that engaging in these deceptive marketing ploys is illegal."
A message seeking comment was left with Intuit.
Intuit has offered two free versions of TurboTax. One was through its participation in the Internal Revenue Service's Free File Program, geared toward taxpayers earning roughly $34,000 and members of the military. Intuit withdrew from the program in July 2021. The company also offers a commercial product called “TurboTax Free Edition” that is only for taxpayers with “simple returns,” as defined by Intuit.
According to documents obtained by ProPublica, Intuit executives knew they were deceiving customers by advertising free services that were not in fact free to everyone.
“The website lists Free, Free, Free and the customers are assuming their return will be free,” an internal company PowerPoint presentation said. “Customers are getting upset.”
Under the agreement, Intuit will provide restitution to consumers who started using the commercial TurboTax Free Edition for tax years 2016 through 2018 and were told that they had to pay to file even though they were eligible for the version of TurboTax offered as part of the IRS Free File program.
Consumers are expected to receive a direct payment of approximately $30 for each year that they were deceived into paying for filing services, James said. They will automatically receive notices and checks by mail.
“We empower our customers to take control of their financial lives, which includes being in charge of their own tax preparation,” an Intuit spokesperson told ProPublica in a statement in 2019.
The spokesperson added that a “government-run pre-filled tax preparation system that makes the tax collector (who is also the investigator, auditor and enforcer) the tax preparer is fraught with conflicts of interest.” | https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/Intuit-to-pay-141M-settlement-over-free-17147103.php | 2022-05-04T14:56:33Z | https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/Intuit-to-pay-141M-settlement-over-free-17147103.php | false | 22 |
PAINESVILLE, Ohio -- A remarkable dispute between Lake County’s clerk of courts and five Common Pleas judges over the clerk’s treatment of her employees has reached the Ohio Supreme Court.
The judges cited an unprecedented exodus of staff amid allegations that Clerk of Courts Faith Andrews verbally attacked employees and made discriminatory comments to justify barring Andrews from her office for all but one day a month.
Andrews, who was elected to the clerk position in November 2020, initially stated in a March email to the judges that she would comply with the order. However, Andrews last month filed a lawsuit in the state’s high court, asking it to throw out the judges’ order and allow her to return to her office.
The suit names Administrative Judge Eugene Lucci, Presiding Judge John P. O’Donnell and judges Patrick Condon, Vincent Culotta and Colleen Falkowski. All five judges, like Andrews, are Republicans.
Andrews’ suit said the allegations are “false and defamatory” and that the judges unlawfully wrested from her the ability to do the job voters elected her to do. The judges contend that Ohio law says that a county’s clerk of courts is under the direction of the common pleas court, and, therefore, Andrews must follow their orders.
Andrews, a political newcomer, unseated former longtime Clerk of Courts Maureen Kelly, a Democrat, after campaigning to modernize the clerk’s office and find ways to cut costs. She also cited her support of former President Donald Trump.
Privately, however, the judges contend that Andrews has run the office in such a chaotic and paranoid manner that she has left longtime staff demoralized and in mental and physical distress. Andrews’ behavior has also put the county at risk of being sued by former employees, the judges said.
The county’s board of commissioners voted last month to pay for private attorneys to represent Andrews because Lake County Prosecutor Charles Coulson, who is legally the county’s civil attorney, is representing the judges.
Andrews is represented by Porter Wright attorneys Edmund Searby and Kevin Kelley, the former Cleveland City Council president and current candidate for Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court judge. Commissioners will pay Searby $250 per hour and Kelley $200 to represent Andrews.
Cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer have reached out to Andrews, Lucci and Coulson for comment.
The origin
Andrews’ lawsuit says that the dispute began last year after she delayed a previously agreed upon payment of more than $260,000 from her office’s budget for software for the judges. Andrews’ predecessor agreed to the deal before leaving office.
Andrews believed she was acting responsibly and reasonably in questioning the funding source of the project.
In October, Lucci sent Andrews a letter signed by the judges that said the court had concerns about the way that her office was handling the project and that she was not properly categorizing court filings that were electronically filed using a different, new software.
The next month, Lucci sent a proposed journal entry that spelled out those concerns and ordered her office to split the cost of two IT employees who would report to the judges to help implement the software. The first proposed journal entry said that Andrews had “engaged in conduct unbecoming of her office” that included swearing in earshot of the public.
Lucci wrote in an email that the judges would not file the journal entry -- and therefore keep it from becoming a public record -- as long as Andrews complied with the terms.
“We cannot tolerate losing good employees and being exposed to claims, complaints, litigation and a loss of public confidence in an institution that our judges have collectively spent almost 70 years cultivating,” Lucci wrote.
Continued disputes
The dispute continued into March, when Lucci sent Andrews a letter that said the judges had “investigated a multitude of claims” against Andrews and determined that the scope of her duties needed to be adjusted.
Attached to the letter was an 11-page journal entry that laid out accusations from unnamed employees who accused Andrews of running the office in a chaotic and paranoid manner.
The journal entry said that Andrews openly spoke of “taking [employees] out back and shooting [them].”
Andrews told her employees that she keeps a “mulligan file” on each staffer separate from their personnel files. It includes examples of bad behavior, and she threatens to use the information if the employees cross her, the order said.
She also has ordered members of her staff to audio record all their interactions with the court’s staff and provide her with the audio. Andrews also seeks copies of any direct emails with the court’s judges.
In addition, Andrews routinely storms around the office delivering obscenity-laced rants that, on at least one occasion, members of the public could hear, according to the order.
Andrews also hired a man with no prior clerking experience at a higher salary than several women who worked in the office for years, the journal entry said. When two of the deputy clerks raised the issue with Andrews, she responded that she paid him more because “he is a man,” the entry said.
Andrews then gave the women a raise, the journal entry said.
In addition, Andrews made comments about it being time for older deputy clerks to retire, the order said.
A current deputy clerk who is not identified in the journal entry told the judges that several employees said they were getting sick in the morning on their way into work from the stress of working under Andrews.
“Everyone is always walking around on eggshells or waiting for the other outbursts and hoping they don’t get caught in the crosshairs,” the clerk said, according to the entry.
The judges said that Andrews’ conduct has led to seven of the roughly 50 deputy clerks to resign since she took office and that they have a “bona fide fear” that the remaining employees would stage a mass walkout if Andrews’ behavior is not addressed.
“The judges have determined that the clerk of courts of Lake County, Ohio, is unable to perform the duties of that office, particularly in the management of personnel and is engaging in conduct that threatens and is detrimental to the operation and mission of the court,” the journal entry said.
“The clerk is interfering with the constitutional duty of the court, and the judges are required and have the inherent duty and concomitant authority to protect the existence and functioning of the court.”
The judges sought to place a litany of restrictions on Andrews that she contends make it impossible to do the job she was elected to do. The judges ordered her to work remotely on all but the first business day of each month. When she is in her office, a sheriff’s deputy is to be stationed close by. The judges also ordered that security cameras be installed outside the door to her office.
The judges also stripped Andrews of her ability to hire or fire employees to her office.
The judges signed the journal entry but did not file it. Lucci told Andrews in emails that the judges would not file the entry so long as Andrews complied with the terms of the entry.
Once the order was filed, the judges could enforce it by holding Andrews in contempt of a court order if she violated it. That could result in up to 30 days in jail and a fine.
The judges acknowledged that one way to address Andrews’ behavior was through a recall election, which would require more than 14,000 Lake County voters to sign a petition to get the issue on a ballot, a process that would take months.
“Such a removal action would take more time than what the current situation allows,” the journal entry said.
The lawsuit
Andrews’ lawsuit says that the judges “engaged in a gross abuse of discretion and have acted in callous disregard for Ohio law, including Ohio constitutional requirements” by stripping Andrews of the ability to do her job.
The suit also accused the judges of bypassing the recall process that would be the proper way to do what the jurists said in their order was necessary.
The judges, according to the lawsuit, also violated her right to due process because they did not hold a formal or informal hearing to give Andrews the chance to respond to the allegations and defend herself and her ability to run her office. | https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2022/05/feud-between-lake-county-judges-clerk-of-courts-winds-up-in-ohio-supreme-court.html | 2022-05-04T15:03:42Z | https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2022/05/feud-between-lake-county-judges-clerk-of-courts-winds-up-in-ohio-supreme-court.html | false | 1 |
Challenge APAC series ready for first round
Tokyo, 4 March 2016 - With great anticipation, the Prancing Horse marque will make its return to the Suzuka Circuit at the Ferrari Racing Days Suzuka 2016. This 5.807 km circuit boasts a famous figure eight layout and holds a close connection within Ferrari’s racing history. When the circuit became the new home for Formula 1 in 1987, the first race here proved propitious for Ferrari, with Gerhard Berger taking the win in the F1-87. Ferrari Racing Days is one of the biggest events organised by Ferrari Japan every year with an impressive number of Ferraris expected to arrive with many Ferrari owners and tifosi. Together they will enter the fabulous world of Ferrari and kick off an entire weekend of festivities.
Another debut for the queen. The highlight of this event will be the debut of the Ferrari FXX K on a Japanese race track, which has just won the
Gold Award at the 2016 IF Design Awards ceremony in Munich. This laboratory car, based on Ferrari’s first hybrid model the LaFerrari, was officially unveiled in December 2014 during Finali Mondiali in Abu Dhabi and boasts extreme performance, total system output of 1,050 hp, and a maximum torque in excess of 900 Nm. The K in FXX K stands for KERS, Kinetic Energy Recovery System, used to maximize performance on the track.
Glorious singleseaters. F1 Clienti track activity of Formula1 cars F2001B (2001), F2003-GA (2003), and F10 (2010) will also be making an appearance. In addition, other track-only models, such as the FXX and 599XX will also be making demonstration runs, only available for viewing at this event. These programs are organised by Corse Clienti, the department that coordinates all the sporting activity involving Ferrari owners. The event will also feature supercar drives including LaFerraris, the iconic model of the Prancing Horse, as well as a display of exclusive Ferrari Classiche cars. The owners will enjoy various track sessions and experience their cars’ ultimate potential.
Challenge APAC ready to start. Ferrari Racing Days Suzuka 2016 will also host the first round of the world’s popular one-make racing series, the Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli Asia Pacific. This season is expected to be exhilarating, with 34 of the best drivers to date set to participate including a record number of 9 Japanese drivers. All the champions of 2015 and new entries including Florian Merckx, third in Trofeo Pirelli 2015 in Europe, will put on a true racing spectacle on the fantastic track amidst a grandstand full of fans enthusiastically watching the intense races. Follow all the action as Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli APAC Race 1 of the weekend starts at 14.10 local time on Saturday and Race 2 will start at 13.00 local time on Sunday.
Social contest. To share the excitement of the event, #FerrariRacingDays SNS photo contest will be held. Participating is easy: just take a photo/video which describes your passion for “Ferrari Racing Days 2016”, and post on your Facebook, Twitter and Instagram with the hashtag #FerrariRacingDays. Five pairs will be chosen as winners and they will obtain ultimate prizes such as 2016 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix pair ticket. This action-packed weekend will be open to everyone including current owners and Ferrari fans to experience the world of Ferrari. | https://www.ferrari.com/en-US/corse-clienti/articles/ferrari-racing-days-suzuka-2016 | 2022-05-04T15:03:51Z | https://www.ferrari.com/en-US/corse-clienti/articles/ferrari-racing-days-suzuka-2016 | true | 4 |
NASA is planning its first-ever mission to bring dirt and rocks from Mars back to Earth — but before that momentous event happens, the space agency needs to figure out exactly how to protect our home planet from any alien microbes that might hitch a ride.
This week, the agency is holding public meetings and looking for feedback on its plan to land a spacecraft carrying Martian specimens at a U.S. Air Force testing range in Utah in the early 2030s.
"Maybe this is the most important environmental assessment that humans have ever done," says Peter Doran, a geologist at Louisiana State University who studies life in extreme environments.
"I think that it's a very low probability that there's anything living at the surface of Mars," says Doran, who also serves on an international committee devoted to planetary protection. "But there is a possibility."
Having a rock sample from Mars here on Earth would let scientists run exhaustive lab tests to look for evidence of whether this cold, harsh, rocky world was once habitable and maybe even inhabited.
For scientists, this is a long-held dream
Talk of such a mission has gone on for decades, and it will cost billions of dollars to accomplish. Still, Doran says no one has thought through exactly how to handle Martian specimens. Questions like how to contain any potential microbes? Or what specific features are needed for the secure lab (or labs) that will house the rocks?
"Until recently, there hasn't been a lot of focus on the details of the sample return facility and all that," he explains, "because we didn't think it was going to happen."
Now, though, the effort appears to be on a fast track, with NASA officials collaborating with the European Space Agency and making plans to launch a set of retrieval spacecraft as soon as 2027 and 2028. To get ready, NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars last year, has been drilling cylindrical samples of rock and sealing them inside metal tubes.
"We've got eight samples on board the rover now," says Jim Bell, a planetary scientist at Arizona State University who is part of the Perseverance rover team.
He explains that the rover has been exploring an ancient crater on Mars that seems to have once had water. Occasionally, the rover drills out a cylindrical core of rock about the size of a dry-erase marker. The core then gets hermetically sealed into one of the rover's 42 metal sample tubes.
Bell says a long-running joke among planetary scientists is that "Mars sample return has always been 10 years off." But at long last, it truly does seem to be 10 years off, he says.
"I'm optimistic, right? We're caching them, and we're getting them ready to be picked up," says Bell. "And so that is farther than the planetary science community has ever come before."
Critics say Martian rocks come with risks
NASA officials are hashing out a plan to safely collect the samples: A spacecraft would land on Mars and launch a container full of the previously collected rock samples into orbit around the planet. Once in orbit, this container could be engulfed by another container — like a big fish eating a little fish — to keep anything that had touched Mars inside.
It would then be sealed, and the seal would be heat-sterilized, says Brian Clement, a planetary protection expert with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who is working on the mission.
"We're applying very high heat. It's going to be in excess of 900 degrees Fahrenheit," he says. "We want to be able to break apart any biomolecules that might have activity of any concern."
This is technically challenging, however, because scientists also want to keep the rock samples cold, as they were on Mars. "I liken this to welding your metal lunchbox shut while trying to keep your lunch nice and cold inside," says Clement.
The sanitized container would then go into yet another container, which would also be sealed and put into the Earth-entry vehicle, which is what would eventually land in the Utah desert, without a parachute.
"We like to refer to it as a 90-mile-an-hour fastball, where the landing site is the mitt," says Clement. "That 90-mile-an-hour landing, just like with a baseball, is well within the Earth-entry system's capabilities."
Still, some observers find this proposal disturbing.
"We're just going to bring it back and have it come back to the Utah desert, much like the Genesis solar-sample return mission, which, of course, broke up, broke open on impact," says Barry DiGregorio, a science writer with a group called the International Committee Against Mars Sample Return, which has long opposed plans to bring Martian rocks directly to Earth.
"You could imagine what would happen if you have pathogenic organisms from another planet and you had that sort of event take place," says DiGregorio.
But Clement says that multiple panels of scientific experts have weighed in on the risk of Mars sample return over the years and that "those panels have all agreed that the potential hazard is very, very low."
Even so, he says, NASA is taking a conservative approach. "Anything that has contacted Mars directly will be contained or sterilized before it is returned," says Clement.
And Bell says he's not worried about the possibility that any Martian germs mixed in with the rocks might escape into the environment and cause problems or disease, "despite the fact that many science fiction fans out there are probably concerned about that."
Any life on Mars would be ill-suited to survive on Earth, says Bell, as it would have evolved in a separate biosphere, or environment that supports life. "We're talking about a completely different ecosystem, a completely different potential biosphere," he says. "And, of course, we don't know if there is or was a biosphere on Mars at all."
In his view, the main danger of a rupture or leak would be contaminating the precious Martian samples with Earth material. That's why the samples will likely need to be opened in high-tech facilities that can replicate the environment and atmosphere of Mars, Bell says.
Public reaction to a special delivery from Mars
While the surface of Mars is currently dry, very cold and blasted with harsh ultraviolet radiation, LSU's Doran says it's still possible that microbes could eke out an existence in shielded cavities and holes or under the dust.
"The possibility is not zero," says Doran, although he thinks it's "highly unlikely."
"We definitely have to take this stance of protecting Earth, at least in the early missions, until we know what's there," he says.
One of the few efforts to ascertain what the public thinks about bringing home Martian rocks was carried out back in the 1990s. That study found that "public perception of biological hazards associated with a Mars sample return mission is not seen as a large risk relative to other technological and environmental risks and hazards, such as nuclear technologies, food risks, and ozone depletion."
But public perceptions might be different now, in part because of the coronavirus pandemic, says Margaret Race, one of the researchers involved in that 1990s study, who has worked on planetary protection with the SETI Institute.
"What we're talking about is bringing it down in Utah in a great big desert and then you pick it up and you bring it to someplace else, a lab," says Race, pointing out that people will want to know where that lab will be and exactly what protections will be in place.
"I can expect there will be lots of questions," she says.
Even with many details left to be worked out, the prospect of a Martian rock being brought to Earth is just thrilling for scientists like ASU's Bell, who has studied Mars for years.
"I just want to see this stuff with my own eyes," says Bell. "We've been looking at this world through robotic eyes for so long, and I want to see that famous red dust and I want to see the insides of some of these rocks and little grains that may have formed in a watery environment 3 or 4 billion years ago."
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SG Americas Securities LLC trimmed its stake in shares of Signature Bank (NASDAQ:SBNY – Get Rating) by 7.6% during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 5,242 shares of the bank’s stock after selling 429 shares during the quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC’s holdings in Signature Bank were worth $1,696,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of SBNY. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. grew its position in Signature Bank by 103.8% during the 4th quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 161 shares of the bank’s stock worth $52,000 after acquiring an additional 82 shares during the last quarter. JTC Employer Solutions Trustee Ltd bought a new position in Signature Bank during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $53,000. Trust Co. of Vermont bought a new position in Signature Bank during the 4th quarter worth approximately $65,000. First Horizon Advisors Inc. grew its position in shares of Signature Bank by 180.5% in the 3rd quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. now owns 1,310 shares of the bank’s stock worth $69,000 after buying an additional 843 shares during the last quarter. Finally, O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC grew its position in shares of Signature Bank by 61.3% in the 3rd quarter. O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC now owns 263 shares of the bank’s stock worth $72,000 after buying an additional 100 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 96.17% of the company’s stock.
Shares of NASDAQ:SBNY opened at $253.11 on Wednesday. Signature Bank has a 12-month low of $223.96 and a 12-month high of $374.76. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $290.55 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $312.27. The company has a current ratio of 0.85, a quick ratio of 0.84 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.37. The stock has a market capitalization of $15.35 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.81, a PEG ratio of 1.19 and a beta of 1.77.
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, May 13th. Stockholders of record on Friday, April 29th will be paid a $0.56 dividend. This represents a $2.24 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.88%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, April 28th. Signature Bank’s dividend payout ratio is currently 13.11%.
SBNY has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Raymond James cut their price objective on Signature Bank from $430.00 to $400.00 and set a “strong-buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, April 20th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted their price objective on Signature Bank from $440.00 to $460.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, April 20th. StockNews.com initiated coverage on Signature Bank in a research report on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a “hold” rating on the stock. Janney Montgomery Scott upgraded Signature Bank from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, January 19th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company cut their price objective on Signature Bank from $435.00 to $408.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, April 20th. One analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating, thirteen have given a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $381.08.
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Signature Bank provides commercial banking products and services. It accepts various deposit products, including checking accounts, money market accounts, escrow deposit accounts, cash concentration accounts, certificates of deposit, and other cash management products. The company provides various lending products comprising commercial and industrial loans, real estate loans, and letters of credit.
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Wednesday Stream: Swalwell Going Insane, JD Vance Win, and More Swalwell cancels Clarence Thomas as JD Vance notches a win. | https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20220504/14654694/Wednesday-Stream-Swalwell-Going-Insane-JD-Vance-Win.htm | 2022-05-04T15:08:05Z | https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20220504/14654694/Wednesday-Stream-Swalwell-Going-Insane-JD-Vance-Win.htm | true | null |
POINT PLEASANT BEACH — The borough council held a public hearing Tuesday night on the proposed 2022 municipal budget .
The appropriation total proposed is $17,744,242, which compared to the 2021 total of $15,896,154 is an increase of $1,848,087. Grants make up $999,658 of the increase, said Christine Riehl, the municipality’s chief financial officer.
The total tax levy is $9,316,997 and the tax rate per $100 assessed will be .455, which is a 1.6 cent increase over last year.
An average assessed house in the municipality will see an annual municipal tax bill increase of $90.77.
The capital budget includes $3,750,000 in funding for the revitalization of Channel Drive.
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FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — An escaped Alabama inmate had a “special relationship” with the jail official authorities believe assisted in his escape, a sheriff’s office said Tuesday.
A manhunt was underway for Casey White, who was awaiting trial on a capital murder case, and Vicky White, a jail official, after the pair vanished after leaving the Lauderdale County Detention Center on Friday morning. The two are not related, authorities said.
“Investigators received information from inmates at the Lauderdale County Detention Center over the weekend that there was a special relationship between Director White and inmate Casey White. That relationship has now been confirmed through our investigation by independent sources and means,” the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement to news outlets. The office did not elaborate on the nature of that relationship.
On Friday morning, Vicky White, 56, told coworkers the 38-year-old inmate needed to go to the courthouse for a mental health evaluation. She was escorting the inmate alone, which the sheriff said is a violation of department policy. That afternoon, when she was not answering the phone, authorities discovered the two were missing, and no such evaluation had been scheduled. Her patrol car was found abandoned in the parking lot of a shopping center.
A warrant was issued Monday for Vicky White’s arrest on charges of assisting in an escape.
Family members and colleagues said they are bewildered by the involvement of Vicky White, who had worked for the sheriff’s office for 16 years, with the inmate who was already serving a 75-year prison sentence for attempted murder and other crimes.
“I just can’t picture Vicky running off with that man,” her former mother-in-law, Frances White, said in a telephone interview. She remained fond of her daughter-in-law decades after she divorced her son in 1991. He died earlier this year.
She said her former daughter-in-law was kind and always wanted to help others, but added that she was sometimes private. “Vicky was a person who kept all of her thoughts and troubles to herself,” she said.
Vicky White had no children, her former-mother-in-law said, and had recently sold her house, a sprawling property of 4 acres (1.6 hectares) she had originally bought to be close to her parents. The property, which included a trailer and barn, was “really too big” for one person, Frances White said.
WAAYreported Vicky White sold her home for $95,500 just 12 days before disappearing. The purchase price was below the market value for the area, the station reported.
Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said Monday that Vicky White had announced plans to retire and the day she disappeared would have been her last day at work.
“This is not the Vicky White we know, by any stretch of the imagination,” Singleton said Monday.
The U.S. Marshals Service on Tuesday said the pair might be traveling in a 2007 orange or copper colored Ford Edge with minor damage on the rear left bumper.
Authorities have said Casey White, who stands 6 feet, 9 inches (2.06 meters) tall, should be recognizable by his size. Authorities warned that anyone seeing the pair should not approach them.
“The subjects should be considered dangerous and may be armed with an AR-15 rifle, handguns and a shotgun,” the Marshals Service said in the bulletin.
Casey White was serving time for a string of crimes that included attempted murder, robbery and burglary. While in prison, he had confessed to the 2015 stabbing death of a 58-year-old woman, authorities said, which caused him to be brought to the Lauderdale County jail for court proceedings. The sheriff said they believe White plotted an earlier escape from the jail in 2020 when they found a makeshift knife. | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/escaped-inmate-jail-official-had-special-relationship/ | 2022-05-04T15:09:21Z | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/escaped-inmate-jail-official-had-special-relationship/ | true | 35 |
Movie review
“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" had all the ingredients to be a mediocre cog in the ever-more-massive Marvel machine.
It's a sequel to three separate Marvel stories at once, chiefly 2016's meh "Doctor Strange," and it's directed by Sam Raimi, who hasn't made a superhero movie since the widely hated "Spider-Man 3" 15 years ago.
But Raimi didn’t just deliver a sequel that will satisfy hardcore Marvel fans. Leaning into the sideshow kitsch of a superhero movie about a flying magician in an anthropomorphic cape, Raimi — in a marvelous act of movie prestidigitation — has pulled a cute rabbit from the old Disney hat.
The biggest flaw: You really do need to be a Marvel fan with a Disney+ login to understand what’s going on here. This is a sequel to the “WandaVision” TV show as much as it is the first “Doctor Strange,” and it will help if you’ve seen all four “Avengers” movies, too, which of course require you to watch dozens of other movies to understand them.
In light of this, the first act is a bit stiff and takes a while to start moving smoothly. I’ll try to describe it without spoiling it.
Benedict Cumberbatch is the sorcerer of the title, who loves his spell-flinging superpowers but enjoys his love life less as he attends the wedding of his once-lover (Rachel McAdams — one testament to how forgettable the first "Doctor Strange" was; I forgot she was even in it). Enter America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), a young girl with the power to punch through universes, who is being chased by demons.
Demons = witchcraft, so Strange seeks help from the Scarlet Witch, Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen). But Maximoff is struggling with her own demons in the aftermath of “WandaVision” and she’s begun to flirt with black magic that threatens to overtake her.
Cumberbatch didn’t have much to work with here; Strange is essentially a less-sympathetic Iron Man with magic, down to the weird goatee. The script by Michael Waldron (“Loki”) injects some personal stakes via alternate reality mirrors of Strange, and an unintrusive, blink-and-you-miss-it trauma plot, but it wouldn't work without Olsen, who is ironically the real star. She’s been forced to play a manipulated, damaged, then grief-stricken character for multiple movies and a TV show, but in this one she finally gets to have fun being overtaken by dark magic.
So does Raimi. His camera stalks like in 1981's "Evil Dead"; his effects, though stretched at moments, can be effortlessly bone-chilling; he eschews the understated tone Marvel’s become known for and embraces the melodrama he’s always been good at. Plus, superhero scoring king Danny Elfman has created easily the most memorable soundtrack the Marvel Cinematic Universe has seen to date.
So sure, it's a Marvel movie, but it's more a Raimi movie. | https://www.union-bulletin.com/seattle_times/doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness-review-director-sam-raimi-works-his-magic/article_71dd8e61-ed9b-5f47-a425-4ed8b4e9becc.html | 2022-05-04T15:10:16Z | https://www.union-bulletin.com/seattle_times/doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness-review-director-sam-raimi-works-his-magic/article_71dd8e61-ed9b-5f47-a425-4ed8b4e9becc.html | false | 2 |
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appellate court judge on Tuesday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to halt his $10,000-a-day fine, keeping the former president’s meter running for now as he fights a lower-court decision penalizing him for failing to turn over documents in a state civil investigation.
Judge Tanya Kennedy, of the appellate division of the state’s trial court, denied Trump’s interim application to pause the fine pending his appeal. The court’s full bench will weigh in on Trump’s motion to stay the fine later this month, Kennedy said.
Trump’s attorney Alina Habba requested the stay Monday, a week after Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron fined Trump for failing to comply with a subpoena issued in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ probe of his business dealings.
Habba wrote in a court filing that Engoron’s ruling was “unconscionable and indefensible.” The judge found that Trump, who is appealing the ruling, and his lawyers had failed to show they conducted a proper search for subpoenaed records.
In asking the appellate court to pause his fine, Trump sought to stop it from accruing while he seeks to overturn Engoron’s ruling — potentially saving him hundreds of thousands of dollars if the appellate court ultimately upholds the contempt finding.
Trump is also appealing Engoron’s Feb. 17 ruling requiring him to answer questions under oath. Oral arguments in that appeal are scheduled for May 11. No arguments have been scheduled in Trump’s contempt challenge.
In a written statement Tuesday, Trump, a Republican, lashed out at James and the state’s court system. He called the attorney general, who is a Black Democrat, “racist,” said the courts were “biased, unyielding, and totally unfair” and claimed to have turned over “millions of pages of documents, perhaps more than any person or entity has ever given before.”
“This is a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in history, and it should not be allowed to continue,” Trump said. “The good news is, I have done nothing wrong!”
A message seeking comment was left with Habba.
James, a Democrat, asked Engoron to hold Trump in contempt after he failed to produce any documents to satisfy a March 31 deadline to meet the terms of the subpoena. She has said her investigation has found evidence that Trump may have misstated the value of assets like skyscrapers and golf courses on financial statements for over a decade.
Habba told Engoron that she met with Trump to ensure he had no records and there were none to be found. On Friday, she submitted additional documents explaining the document search, including an affidavit in which Trump claimed he has no documents. Engoron criticized the affidavit as lacking in detail.
In seeking to halt the fine, Habba said Trump and his representatives had performed a “diligent, thorough and comprehensive search” for everything sought in the subpoena and provided complete and accurate responses to the attorney general. She said the additional submissions last week amounted to “extraordinary efforts to comply.”
“Given these circumstances, it is unconscionable and indefensible for Appellant to be held in contempt in any manner, must less at the inordinate expense of $10,000 per day,” she said.
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Associated Press reporter Larry Neumeister contributed to this report. | https://www.keloland.com/news/politics/court-wont-pause-trumps-10k-a-day-fine-while-he-appeals/ | 2022-05-04T15:12:31Z | https://www.keloland.com/news/politics/court-wont-pause-trumps-10k-a-day-fine-while-he-appeals/ | true | 82 |
Progress is being made at last on the Horton baseball field project, as the City Commission voted at the last meeting to approve bids for construction on the project.
The group discussed options of netting backstops versus chain link, eventually voting to tap TS Fence Company for the chain link backstop with red shale infield mixture for the second field, along with an alternate option for a chain link backstop on the second field, as well.
The selected bid came in at $389,535.80 and is contingent upon submission of CDBG documents. The City will consider going forward whether to apply for another CDBG grant in October or to attempt to raise funds for the completion of the fields.
In other business, the Commission agreed to purcahse a 2003 Ford F-550 for $24,900 from Rusty’s Auto Sales for the street department. It was also noted that the fire department is in need of a motor brush truck and pump system replacement, but that they recently received an anonymous donation from “2 Grateful Souls” for $4,895.00 to replace the pump system.
Police Chief Jon Boller commended the members of the fire department that responded to a rollover accident on April 7th, saying that their quick response saved the man involved from losing his arm or his life. Boller also said that the recent round of Code Enforcement letters that have been disbursed are striking a nerve, and eight Notice to Appears have been sent out.
The Commission voted to approved Quit Claim Deeds for 316 West 9th Street and 320 East 7th Street, and also agreed to waive any special assessments on the property at 112 East 11th Street if it is sold ot the adjacent property owner. The group discussed purchasing cards for city employees, as well as vacancies on the Library Board, and repairs to the basketball court backboards at the tennis court. Also approved was a dock install request from Tim Christopher.
A previous conversation about residents who show no water usage going through meters. Commissioner Nigh stated that there are four residents in town who pay the minimum water usage fee, but show now water usage through their meter. City Attorney Kevin Hill said that the police department can inspect the homes because the city codes specifies that occupied residences must have adequate plumbing facilities in working condition, and that an an administrative search warrant can be issued if the residents refuse access. | https://www.hiawathaworldonline.com/news/bids-approved-for-horton-ballfield-project/article_c0155c04-cbb0-11ec-a2ea-fb8bfc1df817.html | 2022-05-04T15:16:24Z | https://www.hiawathaworldonline.com/news/bids-approved-for-horton-ballfield-project/article_c0155c04-cbb0-11ec-a2ea-fb8bfc1df817.html | false | 1 |
Crying an “unprecedented anti-Russian campaign” led by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s administration, Moscow has blacklisted 63 Japanese officials and public figures banning them from entering Russia, after Japan restricted its use of Russian coal and oil last month.
Japan’s foreign minister, minister of defense, finance and justice ministers are among the blacklisted officials. The list also includes senior officials from the Yomiuri Shimbun Group and Nikkei Group, the owners of two leading Japanese newspapers.
Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida is also on the list of sanctioned persons issued by Russia’s Foreign Ministry today.
In its official release, Russin foreign ministry blames Tokyo for “unacceptable rhetoric towards the Russian Federation, including defamation and direct threats,” which are “repeated by public figures, experts and representatives of the Japanese media, and completely subjected to the Western bias” towards Russia.
Japan and its G-7 allies have imposed sanctions on Russia after its unprovoked aggression against neighboring Ukraine.
On April 8, Kishida announced that Japan would ban Russian coal imports and that it had expelled eight Russian diplomats.
Tokyo government also froze all assets owned by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s daughters and 398 other Russians.
In March, Russia ended an arrangement dating back to 1991 that allowed Japanese citizens to visit Russian-occupied Kuril Islands without a visa and has broken off talks with Japan on formally ending the Second World War, citing Tokyo’s “openly unfriendly” conduct.
Russia and Japan never formally concluded a peace treaty after WWII, due to the dispute over the four southernmost Japanese islands in the Kuril chain, annexed and occupied by Russia at the end of WWII, which Japan refers to as its “Northern Territories.” | https://eturbonews.com/3068307/russia-bans-prime-minister-of-japan-other-japanese-officials/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russia-bans-prime-minister-of-japan-other-japanese-officials | 2022-05-04T15:16:40Z | https://eturbonews.com/3068307/russia-bans-prime-minister-of-japan-other-japanese-officials/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russia-bans-prime-minister-of-japan-other-japanese-officials | false | 2 |
Rally for abortion rights held in Newburgh
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A crowd gathered for a rally, Abortion is Healthcare, at the Newburgh Courthouse on Broadway on Tuesday, after a leaked draft document indicated that the Supreme Court may vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. | https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/2022/05/04/abortion-rights-rally-newburgh-roe-wade-supreme-court-leak/9629509002/ | 2022-05-04T15:21:33Z | https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/2022/05/04/abortion-rights-rally-newburgh-roe-wade-supreme-court-leak/9629509002/ | false | null |
A North Arlington man has filed a lawsuit against PSE&G and local police arguing he was seriously injured when he fell into an unguarded excavation trench the utility company dug in front of his home.
Emanuele Gugliuzza, 52, says in court papers he “encountered and fell into the open trench” in front of his home on Aster Avenue on Feb. 16, 2021.
A portion of the road had been excavated as part of a project PSE&G was working on at the time, according to the suit filed March 18 in Superior Court of Bergen County.
PSE&G dug the trench in a portion of the avenue that abuts Gugliuzza’s home. The work was part of a maintenance, repair and construction project, according to the suit.
The hole was “unguarded and unbarricaded” and alleges that the utility company and local police were negligent in preventing people from falling in the trench, according to the suit.
Gugliuzza suffered serious injuries in the fall and has had significant medical expenses, according to the suit.
A spokeswoman for PSE&G said the company does not comment on pending litigation.
North Arlington on April 20 filed an answer to the suit, stating that Gugliuzza’s attorneys have failed to provide sufficient information about the accident and that any injuries are the responsibility of a third party not connected to the borough.
Attorneys for North Arlington have asked the judge to drop the borough from the lawsuit, court papers state.
Anthony G. Attrino may be reached at tattrino@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @TonyAttrino. Find NJ.com on Facebook. | https://www.nj.com/bergen/2022/05/nj-man-sues-pseg-after-falling-into-unguarded-excavation-trench.html | 2022-05-04T15:22:21Z | https://www.nj.com/bergen/2022/05/nj-man-sues-pseg-after-falling-into-unguarded-excavation-trench.html | true | 1 |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comedian Dave Chappelle was tackled during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday night. Security guards chased and overpowered the attacker, and Chappelle was able to continue his performance while the man was taken away in an ambulance.
The assailant was carrying a replica handgun with a knife blade inside, authorities said.
Isaiah Lee, 23, was detained and arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, said Officer Alba Mendez, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson.
Lee was treated by medical staff for an unspecified injury and was booked into the Hollywood Division jail at 3:36 a.m. Wednesday and held in lieu of $30,000 bail, Mendez said. It was not immediately known if he had retained a lawyer.
Mendez said a “famous comedian was performing” when Lee jumped onto the stage, tackled the celebrity and produced the replica handgun containing a knife blade. Mendez said the department did not name the celebrity because it does not confirm victim names.
Chappelle was performing his standup routine at the amphitheater as part of the “Netflix Is a Joke” festival when the man rushed on stage and tackled him. Jamie Foxx was in the wings of the stage and Chappelle thanked him for responding to the attack. Chris Rock was there as well, and jokingly asked if the attacker was Will Smith.
Chappelle was attacked as he was wrapping up a routine in which he talked about how comedians have to worry more about their personal security in the wake of this year's Academy Awards ceremony where the Oscar-winning actor slapped Rock on live television in reaction to a joke about his wife.
“The comedian had literally just said he now has more security because of all the uproar from his jokes about the Trans community,” tweeted Buzzfeed News reporter Brianna Sacks, who attended the show. She tweeted that “while the attacker was getting beat up,” Chappelle "made a joke about him probably being a Trans man.” | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/entertainment/article/Dave-Chapelle-tackled-during-Hollywood-Bowl-17146753.php | 2022-05-04T15:22:27Z | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/entertainment/article/Dave-Chapelle-tackled-during-Hollywood-Bowl-17146753.php | false | 30 |
BUTTE - With increased wildfires in Montana, and around the country, air quality is becoming a major health issue. That’s why health officials in Butte want to be proactive in preparing people for the wildfire season.
“It’s going to be a public health issue that we’re going to be facing and most likely we’re going to be facing it early in the year and just a longer season,” said Butte Environmental Health Director John Rolich.
The Butte Health Department, along with the EPA, is putting together an informational plan that people will soon be able to access at Airnbow.gov to get updates on air quality and what they can do to protect themselves.
“In the plan is actually how to set up a clean indoor air space and that’s like using air purifiers, how to do it, and also just how to protect yourself when you’re out,” said Rolich.
With hotter, dryer weather wildfires have increased substantially in recent years, with more than 7 million acres burned in wildfires last year in the United States. Over 900,000 acres were burnt in wildfires in Montana last year.
“We can be affected by wildfires in other states and can cause us to have really poor air quality also,” said Rolich.
I’m inside the air monitoring station located in the Greeley neighborhood here in Butte and these are the machines that measure the amount of particulates that are in the air, which can be dangerous to people's health.
“And that particulate will go deep into your lungs and to your respiratory system and cause some very adverse health effects, especially to people who are very young, the elderly,” he said. | https://www.ktvq.com/news/montana-news/butte-health-officials-create-plan-in-prep-for-smoky-wildfire-season | 2022-05-04T15:25:33Z | https://www.ktvq.com/news/montana-news/butte-health-officials-create-plan-in-prep-for-smoky-wildfire-season | false | 4 |
The USDJPY has gone sideways.
After moving up nearly 1620 pips from the February 24 low to the high last Thursday (44 trading days), and 1780 pips from the 2022 low reached on January 24, the price range this week is only 86 pips. The market is taking a breather in this pair as trader ponder if it went too far too fast. It is also awaiting the FOMC rate decision at 2 PM ET for bias clues going forward (and honestly the markets reaction in treasury rates, etc).
Looking at the hourly chart below, the consolidation has flattened and now tilted the direction of the 100 hour MA (blue line) to the downside. That MA is currently at 130.192. Traders will be using the 100 hour MA as a short term barometer for bullish and bearish bias. Stay below is bearish. Move above is bullish.
On more downside momentum, the next target is at the 38.2% of the last move higher from the April 27 low at 129.59. That 38.2% retracement is also the low from Monday.
Move below that level, and the 129.39 area is home to the old swing high from April 20 before the surge above that high last week. The price corrected toward that level on Friday, but found support buyers near the level.
The rising 200 hour MA (green line) at 129.21 would be another key target to get to and through, if the sellers are to take back more control. Absent those moves, and the buyers would still hold more control in the intermediate term (although the short term would be in the sellers favor).
Conversely, a move back above the 100 hour MA at 130.192 would tilt the short term bias (and keep the intermediate term bias) back in the buyers direction.
The high for the week at 130.49 would be the next target. That high is joined by a swing high from Friday as well (see red numbered circles). Move above those levels, and traders will be looking toward the cycle high at 131.246. That high was also the highest level since 2002 (20 year high). Trading above 20 year highs is hard to ignore. For you guy, the high price from 2002 reached 135.16. As a result any new high above 131.246 would still be a 20 year high for the pair until 135.16.
A catalyst for the strength in the USDJPY has been the yield spread between US and JPY rates. Looking at the 10 year yield spread, the spread has reached the highest level since December 2018 at 278 basis points. That is still below the 2018 high at 312 basis points but up sharply from the 2020 low at 49 basis points and the 2022 low at 146 basis points. | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/usdjpy-remains-in-consolidation-range-ahead-of-the-fomc-decision-20220504/ | 2022-05-04T15:25:58Z | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/usdjpy-remains-in-consolidation-range-ahead-of-the-fomc-decision-20220504/ | false | 1 |
BAGHDAD (AP) — A retired British geologist accused in Iraq with collecting small archaeological fragments had no criminal intent, his family said, expressing hopes the charges — potentially punishable by death — could be avoided.
Jim Fitton, 66, was arrested last month at Baghdad airport after Iraqi customs officials found him and a German citizen in possession of pottery fragments taken from an ancient site in southern Iraq.
The German citizen has not been identified and his status was not immediately clear. The German Embassy in Baghdad did not respond to messages seeking comment.
Fitton was charged based on the country’s opaque antiquities laws and could theoretically face the death penalty. He is currently waiting for a date to appear in court.
It's unlikely he will receive the death penalty, officials and legal representatives familiar with the case said. But the potential for Iran-backed Shiite militias to exploit the situation to shape public opinion against the British government has concerned some.
Fitton's family is urging the British government to help close the case before he goes to trial based on a proposal drafted by Fitton’s Baghdad lawyer. A trial date was expected to be set next week.
“It’s a very politically charged issue for us. We are keen to make sure the Iraqi public understands the nuance around the case,” said Sam Taskar, Fitton’s son-in-law in a phone call with The Associated Press on Tuesday. “Anybody with common sense … will understand it’s quite clearly an error.”
Fitton’s family grew worried when he did not arrive on a scheduled flight back to Kuala Lumpur, where he resides with his wife, on March 20. They later learned that Fitton, a well-traveled geologist for oil and gas companies, had been taken to an airport holding cell where he is still being detained, Taskar and Fitton's daughter Leila told AP.
The case garnered attention when, frustrated by perceived inaction on the part of the British Foreign Office to intervene and assist in Fitton’s case, his family started a petition that has garnered over 100,000 signatures. The British diplomatic mission in Baghdad has not commented on its involvement in the case.
In total, 12 fragments of pottery and other shards were found in Fitton’s possession by Iraqi authorities, all of them collected as souvenirs, Fitton's family says, during a group tourism expedition to Eridu, an ancient Mesopotamian site in what is now Dhi Qar province.
Concerns grew shortly after Fitton’s arrest when Shiite militia groups published posts on social media that included his passport details and accused the British government of attempting to intervene with Iraqi judicial procedures.
In these posts, photos of Fitton were accompanied by images of artifacts and sculptures, depictions the family fears will lead the Iraqi public to misinterpret the value of the shards in Fitton’s possession.
Photos of the site shared by Fitton on the day of the trip show a vast desert landscape scattered with debris and broken pieces of pottery and stones. The tour group was accompanied by a representative from the Culture Ministry who did not state the items were valuable and gave them permission to take them as mementos, Taskar said.
Fitton’s Baghdad lawyer has already drafted a proposal under Iraqi law to have the case closed before a trial takes place but it requires the assistance of the Foreign Office to present it to the public prosecutor in Iraq.
The proposal makes an argument for Fitton’s lack of criminality in the case and makes the claim that he was a victim of poor guidance. “This is the hope,” Taskar said.
If the case is not thrown out, Fitton will likely stand trial. A key element of his sentencing would be to establish the value of the goods found in his possession. As written, the law proscribes death as a penalty for items deemed valuable. Iraqi and British officials say the outcome will depend on the findings of an antiquities committee set up to study the shards.
For now, Fitton’s family has no choice but to wait, and hope.
“It’s tough to say the least, we are very stressed,” said daughter Leila. “My mom is keeping faith, praying a lot, and we are just keeping faith.” | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/British-man-found-with-ancient-shards-could-be-17147211.php | 2022-05-04T15:26:34Z | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/British-man-found-with-ancient-shards-could-be-17147211.php | true | 14 |
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The pine-green tourist train slowed in Shelburne, pulled off the main line onto a siding and came to a stop with a gentle, squeaky jerk.
Word quickly spread among the passengers — including 11 members of the Vermont House Transportation Committee — that the highlight of their unusual excursion was fast approaching from the south.
The state lawmakers — on a tour last week of upgrades to the 68-mile stretch of rail line between Rutland and Burlington — were about to see what tens of millions of dollars buy in the rail business.
The group filed toward the rear of the train, crowded onto the small balcony and peered south down the tracks.
"There it is!" Rep. Becca White (D-Hartford) announced, pointing her cellphone's camera toward the approaching headlight.
"Look how fast it's going!" Rep. Mollie Burke (P/D-Brattleboro) marveled, as the sleek blue-and-gray locomotive barreled toward them.
With several sharp horn blasts, the Amtrak passenger train blew past the group in a blur, and the lawmakers erupted in awe and delight.
After a 69-year absence, passenger rail service between Burlington and New York is set to return this summer, and rail advocates are giddy with anticipation. The effort to restore service began in earnest in the late 1990s, and trains are making final trial runs.
"I'm thrilled," said Rep. Curt McCormack (D-Burlington), former chair of the House Transportation Committee and an admitted train fanatic. "I've been waiting for this for 26 years."
Amtrak is extending the existing Ethan Allen Express route north from its current terminus in Rutland. It will end what is likely the longest gap in passenger rail service in United States history, said Carl Fowler, a member of the Vermont Rail Advisory Council.
Burlington hasn't had a passenger rail link to the outside world since June 26, 1953, when the Rutland Railroad ended passenger service after workers went on strike. The company restored freight service a few weeks later, but the passenger trains stayed sidelined, unable to compete with the rise of American car culture, Fowler said.
Passenger service returned to Castleton and Rutland in 1996 via Whitehall, N.Y., thanks to the creation of Amtrak's Ethan Allen Express service. But an effort to extend the train to the Queen City has been a royal pain.
"For a great variety of reasons, this has sort of dragged out forever and ever," Fowler said.
Previous attempts to return passenger rail service to the line faltered.
After $18 million in startup costs, the Champlain Flyer ran between Charlotte and Burlington from late 2000 to 2003. But ridership on that 13-mile route never materialized, and the effort is alternately remembered as a bold experiment and a boondoggle. An even shorter-lived enterprise called the Centennial Celebration Train operated on the line in 1976 but didn't even make it to the end of summer, Fowler recalled.
But these efforts — as well as the Green Mountain Railroad's summer dinner trains that currently run from Burlington to Middlebury — were not true passenger services with connections to regional rail networks. That will change when Amtrak extends north of Rutland, with stops in Middlebury and Vergennes before reaching the end of the line in Burlington. It will allow direct service not only to New York City, but, along the way, to Albany, where passengers can switch to national rail routes, Fowler said.
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Amtrak has yet to announce its scheduled arrival and departure times because track tests are still under way. But Fowler said the distance, number of new stops and the line's speed limit of 59 mph makes them reasonably easy to estimate.
The trip from Burlington to Penn Station will take about seven and a half hours. That's a long haul but faster than the nine-plus hours it takes the state's other Amtrak train, the Vermonter, to reach New York City from Essex Junction, through Massachusetts and Connecticut.
On the new Burlington line, one train will leave Burlington's Union Station daily, probably between 10:15 and 10:30 a.m., Fowler estimates, and will arrive at Penn Station at around 5:45 p.m. A daily northbound train, which currently leaves Manhattan at 2:20 p.m., will likely pull in to Burlington around 9:55 p.m., he said.
Convincing state and federal officials to extend the line has been something of a crusade for McCormack. As a state representative serving Rutland in the 1980s and 1990s, he helped get the Ethan Allen Express service up and running in 1996 and continued making the case that it ought to be extended north.
"Burlington just had to be the anchor for this train," McCormack said.
Linking the line to a city of nearly 45,000 people with a large college population should boost ridership and protect the line from cuts the next time the chronically underfunded Amtrak — or the state —looks to trim costs, he said. Vermont currently pays Amtrak nearly $9 million per year to keep the Ethan Allen Express and the Vermonter running.
While gratified to see his goal within reach, McCormack laments that the country can't seem to make a firm commitment to rail.
"I feel great, but it is a bit disillusioning that it took this long," McCormack said.
The extended service is expected to be in high demand, said Dan Delabruere, the director of the state's rail and aviation bureau at the Vermont Agency of Transportation. Before the pandemic, the line ending in Rutland carried around 50,000 passengers per year. Amtrak estimates the Burlington extension could add another 30,000 passengers, said Amy Tatko, a VTrans spokesperson.
"It just makes sense for the largest city in Vermont to be linked to the largest destination point for our trains, which is New York City," Delabruere said.
The Big Apple will be a major draw, predicted Rep. Gabrielle Stebbins (D-Burlington), who said she hoped to ride it with her daughter to go see Hamilton on Broadway as soon as possible.
Rail travel within the state is also important, Fowler said. It's key for young people, said the 27-year-old White, who remembers being a college kid in Burlington and yearning for better transit options.
"I would have loved to have been able to pop down to Middlebury without having to take a bus or deal with some complicated carpool situation," White said.
Seeing the rail upgrades that her committee authorized was gratifying, she said.
"To be able to stand on the back of that historic train and then watch the modern Amtrak train come speeding by on one of its test rides, that was a full-circle moment for me," she said.
The first stop on the lawmakers' tour after boarding at the Middlebury platform was the new concrete tunnel punched through the heart of the city. The ambitious project cost an estimated $70 million and took two and a half years of often disruptive work.
The tunnel, which replaced two aging bridges and allows larger, wider trains to pass, also upended freight operations of Vermont Rail System. The company runs hundreds of trains a year between Rutland and Burlington, transporting mostly fuel, feed and gravel.
The construction limited trains to reduced operating hours for more than a year, then detoured them 100 miles onto a competitor's rail line during the 12 main weeks of tunnel construction, explained Shane Filskov, the system's general manager.
After the train carrying the lawmakers emerged from that new concrete tunnel, it stopped at a newly updated train station in Vergennes. Lawmakers toured the platform and the renovated, circa-1850 depot, which had been moved 1,000 feet across Route 22A from its original spot to a new park-and-ride lot.
Due to limited parking in Burlington, Fowler said, a lot of people who live in the Champlain Valley may drive or take buses to Vergennes to pick up the train.
Rep. Diane Lanpher (D-Vergennes) said what impressed her most about the rail upgrade was the craftsmanship on display at every turn, from the design elements of the tunnel to the architectural preservation at work in the new Vergennes station.
"This is more than just a travel train. These are Vermont landmarks," said Lanpher, who chairs the House Transportation Committee.
A historic brick station in New Haven had to be moved because it was less than 12 feet from the tracks — too close for the newer, faster Amtrak trains.
There have been so many elements of the project over so many years that VTrans hasn't tallied the total cost yet, but it will before the start of service, Delabruere said.
While many of the biggest hurdles have been cleared, significant work remains. Platform upgrades are continuing in Burlington, and workers closed King Street last weekend to finish work on the waterfront railyard where the Ethan Allen Express will spend the night between runs.
The original plan to park the trains at the station overnight drew criticism from business owners and residents. They worried about noise and fumes from the diesel locomotives, which Filskov said will need to idle overnight in frigid weather.
Most of the work that remains, however, is education. Amtrak trains run faster and are quieter than their freight counterparts, and people are still getting used to the renewed presence of speeding trains. "We've had some close calls," Filskov said.
These include a group of schoolchildren walking on the tracks in Shelburne, people walking their dogs along the line and even a surprised farmer trying to cross the rails on his tractor as an Amtrak test train zipped past, he said.
The upgraded rails are made of continuously welded steel with smoother seams that are quieter than the older tracks. A program called Operation Lifesaver is trying to get the word out about rail safety, said Selden Houghton, president of Vermont Rail System.
Ticket prices have not been set, but Fowler thinks they'll likely be comparable to fares between Essex Junction and New York, which recently stood at roughly $75 each way, though prices vary based on time of purchase and demand.
Rep. John Bartholomew (D-Hartland) said he'd take the train to New York if traveling solo but could see how ticket prices might spur a family of four to travel by car instead, even with current high gas prices.
White worries that costs to the consumer could dampen demand and hamper future investments. While the Ethan Allen Express will not go north of Burlington anytime soon, the state's long-term goal is for the Vermonter's route to be extended from St. Albans to Montréal in coming years, Delabruere said.
While it can be discouraging to see how long such projects take, last week's ride impressed upon White that some things are worth the wait.
"Whenever I get to travel by rail, it just makes me fall in love with Vermont all over again," she said. | https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/amtrak-set-to-restore-passenger-rail-to-burlington-this-summer/Content?oid=35490764 | 2022-05-04T15:30:31Z | https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/amtrak-set-to-restore-passenger-rail-to-burlington-this-summer/Content?oid=35490764 | false | 1 |
Dear Reverend,
I've never been particularly promiscuous, but in my twenties, I had a summer fling with a younger guy that ended when he moved away for college. Shortly after, I had a brief encounter with one of his friends. I wound up pregnant and didn't know who the father was.
I was incredibly ashamed of the whole situation, and I had an abortion without telling either one of them. Even though it was the right choice for me, I feel bad that I never told them. They both live far away and have families, and I haven't talked to either one since then. Should I let them know or just keep it a secret forever?
Double Trouble (female, 49)
Dear Double Trouble,
If you'd kept the child, it would be worth getting in touch after all these years to figure out who the biological father was. It would be beneficial to the kid (well, adult, at this point) and decent to let the guy know. Since that's not the case, I don't see what good fessing up now would do.
You weren't in a committed relationship with either of these fellas, but even if you had been, there was no legal or medical reason for you to tell them about the abortion. It was completely your decision to make and, as you said, the right one for you at the time.
Although you have nothing to be ashamed of, I can only imagine what a burden keeping a secret like that must be. You don't have to tell the men who were involved, but it might feel good to get it off your chest. Is there a friend you could talk to about what happened? A therapist?
Barring that, you could write a letter. Get down everything you felt then — and since — on paper. Then set it on fire and let any guilt or regret float away with the smoke.
Good luck and God bless,
The Reverend
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Mistee Lemons faced an impossible choice during her recovery from opioid addiction.
It was 2018, and Lemons had spent almost two years making a daily three-mile pilgrimage to a methadone clinic in South Burlington, catching buses when she had money, walking when she didn't.
After several years of living in tents and motels, Lemons had made progress in her life: She'd gotten a job prepping ingredients at a chain burrito joint and was able to move into a South Burlington basement apartment. But her shift began shortly after the Chittenden Clinic opened, and though she arrived before sunrise most days to get her medication, she was repeatedly late for work.
Her boss eventually put her on notice. "It was either leave the clinic, work and keep a home; or leave work and keep the clinic," Lemons, who has battled addiction for her entire adult life, said last week. Memories of cold nights in a tent still fresh in her mind, Lemons decided to leave the clinic.
But before she could break the news to her therapist, he informed her of a third option: a new program that would allow her to take home a supply of medication. She signed up immediately.
Lemons received an electronic medication "wheel" programmed to unlock just a single dose of methadone each day. A cellphone app allowed her to record herself swallowing the pills before sending the video to the clinic as proof that she had. Suddenly, she had hours of her life back. She felt liberated — and, more importantly, she stayed clean.
"I would have been back to using," said Lemons, 43, who is now in her fifth year of recovery. "And I'd probably be dead."
While the take-home program ended in late 2019 when funds ran out, U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) helped steer nearly $1.2 million in federal money to Vermont that will allow the state to resume and expand it. Within the next year, some 400 people in treatment across Vermont could have a methadone-dispensing device of their own, something advocates say will improve — and possibly save — their lives.
"The past two years have been challenging for so many people, with anxiety and stress levels so high," said Simone Rueschemeyer, codirector of Vermont Care Partners, which oversees the state's substance-use treatment centers. "We should be doing anything we can do to ease the burden of recovery in Vermont."
Vermont's model for treating substance-use disorders has become a national standard, and the state now has more people enrolled in medication-assisted treatment programs per capita than almost anywhere else in the world. But access to methadone, a highly regulated medication to ease people off opioids, remains a challenge.
Strict federal regulations prevent many people from receiving more than a single dose at a time, and the eight clinics that dispense the drug in Vermont run on hours that don't fit every schedule. The state's rural nature adds another obstacle; reliable transportation can be the difference between staying sober and relapsing.
That's why some see so much promise in the wheel program. Dr. John Brooklyn, who oversaw the pilot program as medical director at the Chittenden Clinic, noted that 60 percent of rural counties nationwide have no opioid treatment programs, and the stigma of addiction leaves some people reluctant to get help. Making treatment more accessible and confidential could be a "game changer," he said, in Vermont and across the country.
Opioid addiction is most often treated with one of two medications: methadone, which has been used for about 50 years, and buprenorphine, which was approved three decades later.
Both act on the same parts of the brain as other opioids to reduce cravings and eliminate withdrawal. And, when taken as prescribed, neither usually produces a euphoric high in people with a tolerance for opioids. But while buprenorphine has a "ceiling" at which taking more won't increase the effect, methadone does not. Significant doses can produce a high and even cause people to overdose.
For that reason, buprenorphine is considered the safer option — and is regulated as such. Buprenorphine patients can get up to a monthlong prescription from primary care doctors, but, under federal regulations, methadone patients must travel to a clinic daily for at least the first few months of their treatment, and many continue the ritual for far longer.
Both medications have a role in Vermont's "hub-and-spoke" system. Patients who need intensive treatment go to clinics, or "hubs," where the vast majority receive methadone. More stable patients can go to primary care practices — "spokes" — for buprenorphine. Doctors can refer patients back to hubs if they need more daily support.
The state treated roughly 10,700 people for opioid addiction in 2019, according to the most recent data. About two-thirds of those were at spokes, while the rest were at hubs.
The federal government temporarily relaxed its rules surrounding methadone during the pandemic, allowing newer patients to get longer-lasting supplies. But it's unclear whether the changes will be made permanent.
The in-person requirement can be difficult for patients with jobs or other commitments. Six of Vermont's 14 counties have no methadone clinic, and it's not uncommon for patients to live a 40-minute drive from the nearest one.
"Imagine if you're really feeling sick, like you have the flu, and the expectation is that you'll get up in the morning, get in the car and sit in the waiting room where you don't know any people," said Heidi Melbostad, director of the Chittenden Clinic, the South Burlington treatment center that acts as the county's hub.
Lemons, who was living in a homeless encampment along Shelburne Road when she began treatment in 2017, walked to the clinic for the first few months because she could not afford bus fare. The daily trip took four hours, she said.
Some people ultimately revert to drugs. Dr. Saeed Ahmed, medical director of the West Ridge Center in Rutland, told Seven Days that he saw three patients in a single day last month who told him they relapsed because they could not get to the clinic.
Despite these barriers, providers say more people seem to be seeking out methadone. Part of that may be personal preference. Some respond better to it; others find the rigid structure of the clinic visit helpful.
The emergence of fentanyl has also played a role. The powerful synthetic opioid, which is up to 50 times stronger than heroin, has become ubiquitous in the street drug marketplace. Heroin is cut with it, cocaine is laced with it and it's even been found in some pills. Of the 210 people who died from accidental drug overdoses in Vermont last year — the most since the state started tracking the figure — 196 people had fentanyl in their systems.
People who use fentanyl for extended periods of time can develop a tolerance that can be hard to replace with the less-powerful buprenorphine. And bupe, as it is called, also interacts with fentanyl in a way methadone doesn't; by dislodging fentanyl from the brain's opioid receptors without producing the same intoxicating effects, buprenorphine can sometimes usher patients who recently used into an immediate state of withdrawal.
This phenomenon, known as "precipitated withdrawal," can make people feel very sick very fast, with symptoms ranging from anxiety and insomnia to stomach cramps, muscle aches and diarrhea. This undermines the purpose of opioid treatment: to keep people feeling well enough that they don't need to use.
Precipitated withdrawal was less common for users of pure heroin, but fentanyl stays in the body far longer. The American Society of Addiction Medicine recommends waiting a day or two to start people who recently used fentanyl on bupe to lessen the chances of precipitated withdrawal.
Sometimes even that's not enough. "I've seen people who are clean for 72 hours — even four, five days — and are still going in precipitated withdrawal," Ahmed said. That can make it harder for people on buprenorphine to immediately resume their treatment after a relapse.
Researchers are looking for ways to overcome precipitated withdrawal. Ahmed said he has had a lot of success transitioning people to buprenorphine slowly. Such research is still in its early stages, though, and patients remain skeptical. One of Ahmed's patients recently declined buprenorphine — even though she prefers it — because she did not want to risk getting sick. "There's a big reluctance," he said.
As more people seek out methadone, more run into the logistical challenges that almost cost Lemons her sobriety. Brooklyn, at the Chittenden Clinic, has spent years trying to increase methadone access in a way that would reduce travel times and still ensure safety.
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He eventually came across a locked dispenser device that allowed people to bring home larger supplies of buprenorphine. He called the device's manufacturer and learned the company could pair them with an additional security measure — a steel box — that would make it safer for methadone, which is more likely to be misused or sold on the street.
Using federal grants, the Chittenden Clinic purchased about 80 of the devices and subscribed to a mobile app that allowed patients to securely record and send videos. Brooklyn eventually enrolled about 60 people in a three-year study.
The results were promising. Ninety-eight percent of the participants were still in treatment a year later, compared to the South Burlington clinic's typical methadone retention rate of about 55 percent. Half of the patients reported saving at least six hours of travel time and $70 in travel costs each week. Of more than 15,000 videos, only one showed someone intentionally trying to divert the medication.
"What it showed was that you can live far away ... and still do very well in treatment," Brooklyn said.
After the money for the program ran out in late 2019, Brooklyn said he was unable to secure any state funding to continue it. Many participants were able to graduate to take-home methadone doses, though. Lemons, who successfully completed the pilot, now gets a month's supply.
The new federal funding will allow each of the state's eight methadone hubs to distribute 50 devices, for a total of 400 — enough to cover about 10 percent of people who receive treatments at the clinics. Vermont Care Partners, the nonprofit that oversees the state's treatment facilities, will roll out the program and evaluate its success.
It's not yet clear how big the program could become. Staffing at clinics could help decide, since someone still needs to watch the videos each day. (The company that created the recording app, however, is working on an update that would use artificial intelligence to screen the videos and flag those that appear suspicious.)
The technological aspect might also be too much for some patients, especially those who lack reliable internet.
But if the program could convince more people to stay in treatment — or enter it in the first place — it would be a success, Brooklyn said.
Lemons agrees. The easier it is to seek treatment, the more lives will be saved, she said: "People are scared. They're scared of taking the chance and failing."
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For marine biologist, Haitian gangs make work dangerous
By TRENTON DANIEL and PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA
PEPILLO SALCEDO, Dominican Republic (AP) — In a blue bay that spans the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, fishermen from both countries recently aired grievances in a rare face-to-face meeting thanks to the efforts of marine biologist Jean Wiener.
The meeting, overseen by Dominican naval officers with rifles, was no small feat for Wiener, who has been forced to work on conserving this biologically sensitive region from afar — his house in Bethesda, Maryland — because of rampant violence in Haiti, his homeland. Now the prize-winning biologist stood in the steaming Caribbean heat at the mouth of an ominously named spot called the Massacre River, trying to bring together the two sides and find a solution that will not only save their livelihoods but also vital marine resources in a region under extreme pressures from climate change.
“The constant fishing, or overfishing, in these areas has decimated an entire ecosystem,” said Rodolfo Jimenez, director of an agricultural border project in the Dominican Republic.
The Haitian fishermen, standing across from Jimenez on the beach, agreed. But they also said they were not to blame for the damage in the Monte Cristi National Park in northwestern Dominican Republic.
Wiener’s work has grown in significance over the years in large part because of charcoal vendors in Haiti who hack down trees for cooking fuel and, more recently, wade into the country’s mangroves, the tropical vegetation that is a natural barrier against the Caribbean’s increasingly destructive hurricanes. With ocean storms becoming more severe, Haiti’s coastline and its biodiversity are becoming even more vulnerable.
It was the first trip for Wiener, leader of Foundation for the Protection of Marine Biodiversity, since November 2021, his absence largely attributed to the violent gangs that have engulfed the Haitian capital in recent years and reached parts of the countryside. Nominally present already and undermined further with the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise in the bedroom of his home, the government has done little to wrest control from the brazen gangs.
For years, Wiener used to visit Haiti every month or so, but now restricts his trips to only a few times a year while being compelled to work remotely and delegate more responsibility to staff members dispersed throughout the country. Haiti is just too dangerous otherwise. So when he does come, as he did for three weeks in March, he hopscotches the country via puddle-jumper plane; travel by road is too perilous, with major thoroughfares blocked by gangs fond of extortion. Many passengers hide in their cars by lying on the backseat.
It’s a conundrum that bedevils Jean and others like him around the world. As climate change plays a greater role in contributing to conflicts, that in turns makes it more difficult to carry out scientific research and work on environmental projects that seek to offset the effects of climate change. The environmental group Global Witness released a report last year noting that 2020 saw a record number of environmental activists killed around the world; the death toll of 227 was the highest number recorded for a second consecutive year, with Colombia having the highest number of recorded attacks, with 65, and Mexico second, with 30.
“The extent to which failed states make it difficult for scientists and the international scientific community to work on these issues simply means it will be more difficult to solve these problems,” said Peter Gleick, president emeritus and a senior fellow with the Pacific Institute, an Oakland-based research group that focuses on water issues around the world.
Said Jessica Olcott Yllemo, senior fellow for climate security at the American Security Project, a nonpartisan group in Washington, D.C.: “If the temperatures continue to rise and you don’t have basic functions because you don’t have a functioning government, climate sort of just exacerbates all of those different threats and hazards.”
In several reports released in October, the U.S. signaled that climate change would occupy a central role in security strategy, a policy shift that underscores how climatic changes are exacerbating long-standing problems. One of the studies identified 11 countries that were of “greatest concern,” because they were especially vulnerable to climate change and unable to deal with the attendant problems. Haiti was among them.
The Caribbean nation has the highest travel advisory—”Level 4: Do Not Travel”—from the U.S. State Department due to kidnapping, crime and civil unrest. Kidnapping, the State Department says, “is widespread and victims regularly include U.S. citizens.” In a March newsletter, the U.S. Embassy offered U.S. citizens in Haiti a tip sheet on ways to avoid being kidnapped.
The kidnappings have persisted for years, rising significantly after the 2017 departure of a U.N. peacekeeping mission. In October, 16 U.S. citizens, including five children, and one Canadian, were part of a group of missionaries who were abducted by the dreaded 400 Mawozo gang and held for ransom for two months. An untold number of Haitian Americans have also been kidnapped.
This past week, north of the Port-au-Prince capital, fighting between 400 Mawozo and a rival gang led to the displacement of thousands of people and the killing of at least 20, including six children. Officials warned that the main roads leading to Haiti’s northern region could be cut off as a result of the fighting, as has already happened to a thoroughfare heading south.
The March meeting Wiener set up was held at the beach of an estuary meant to be easy to reach for both parties, just a few steps on the Dominican side of the border. It was a Thursday morning, and a white mangrove provided shade to Wiener, the fishermen and their associations, a few environmental officials from the two countries and the Dominican naval officers. On the shore behind them stood a string of wooden posts used to hold seines for catching eels.
A big part of the two sides’ discussion was over the exact location of the border above Hispaniola, the name of the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
“The marine border is not completely north, it is northwest,” Cmdr. Irving Cabrera, of the Dominican Navy, said in the meeting.
The meeting took place at the mouth of a river with a name that harkens back to a bloody episode on the island of Hispaniola: The Massacre River, also the Dajabón River. Though named for an earlier massacre, it’s mostly known for when Dominican soldiers, under the orders of dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1937, executed thousands of Haitian families and Dominicans of Haitian descent. The weapon of choice was a machete.
“I don’t think it was lost on either side of the border,” said Frederick Payton, of AgroFrontera, the Dominican environmental group that worked with Wiener to organize the March meeting. Payton also helped lead the meeting. “The Río Massacre kind of represents both the tension and the integration of the economies in the border region.”
The antipathy toward Haitians persists today, not least with Dominican President Luis Abinader’s newly launched plan to build a multimillion-dollar, 118-mile (190-kilometer) wall along the border. Construction has already begun.
Bereft of the usual tension, let alone animosity, the beach meeting lasted a few hours, with both sides able to voice their concerns as Payton and Wiener served as peacekeepers of sorts in the absence of a strong border state. Both stressed the importance of seeking solutions instead of dwelling on problems.
“We were trying to frame the meeting not just as a session to complain and to point fingers, but to try to look for some possible solutions that will take time,” Payton said. “But will give each side hope and expectation that something will be done in the future.”
Out of the meeting came the idea of creating a boat registration and a licensing for fisheries so Haitian and Dominican authorities know who is in the water and where they’re going.
Perhaps Wiener’s biggest achievement has been creating Haiti’s first protected marine areas, including the Three Bays National Park known for its mangrove forests, coral reefs and seagrass beds, but he concedes that his work has become more difficult working remotely. Josué Celiscar, field operations director for Wiener’s foundation and a graduate student in agronomy, says the same, noting the inevitable delays that accompany projects.
“When you are the director, when you are present, you are executing the project,” Celiscar said. “When you aren’t there, you’re left with the assistant. It’s not going to be the same thing.”
In recent years, Wiener has seen the brother of his assistant director kidnapped and later released and spends considerable time making sure his staff is safe.
Born in Haiti, Wiener and his family fled the Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier regime when he was six months old for Queens, New York. He went back to Haiti at six while Duvalier’s son and successor, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc,” was in power and left again for college, studying biology at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. Haiti came calling once more, and Wiener returned at 23 and, in 1992 started his foundation. Now 57, Wiener is a married father of two children, a boy and a girl.
In the end, the March trip to Haiti proved fortuitously uneventful—though danger wasn’t far away.
When Wiener visited the southwestern part of the country, in the coastal town of Les Cayes, his driver got wind of protesters’ plans to storm the local airport. The attack didn’t happen until after Wiener flew out, a few days later: People ran onto the tarmac and torched a small plane owned by a U.S. missionary group. One person died and five others were injured, including four police officers, according to a police official working at the airport.
One day during his recent visit to northern Haiti, Wiener brought to the beach a group that included game wardens and university students with an interest in the environment. The idea was to get them in the water, make them feel comfortable and learn the basics of snorkeling.
Standing on the sand, Wiener gave a brief lesson on how to use a snorkel, explaining how to expel water from the breathing device. Minutes later they waded into the surf. A pufferfish floated toward them.
One man picked up the blowfish and studied it. Wiener told him to put the fish back in the water, which he did. Inflated like a ball as it bobbed supine, the puffer looked as if it were playing dead.
Wiener sloshed knee-high through the shore’s lucent water, and gently picked up the prickly fish with both hands. He then walked a few steps out, toward the northern horizon, and sent the pufferfish into the ocean.
“We really know that there’s a part, you know, where you can be in a classroom,” Wiener said later from the hotel, where a few security guards patrolled the grounds with rifles. “But it is critically important that people actually get out and touch and see and feel the environment.”
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Associated Press journalist Trenton Daniel reported from New York.
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Amber Heard to take stand in Johnny Depp's libel suit
Actor Amber Heard is expected to take the stand in her own defence Wednesday in a civil suit filed by her ex-husband, Johnny Depp.
Heard's anticipated testimony comes after a psychologist hired by her lawyers testified that Heard suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from multiple acts of abuse, including sexual violence, inflicted on her by Depp.
Depp is suing Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote a December 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post describing herself as "a public figure representing domestic abuse." The article never mentions Depp by name, but Depp's lawyers say he was defamed nevertheless because it clearly referred to accusations she made in 2016 during their divorce proceedings.
Depp spent four days on the stand earlier in the trial, testifying he never struck Heard and that he was the abuse victim. He said he was punched and struck by her on many occasions, and that she threw things at him. He described Heard as having a "need for conflict."
Psychologist Dawn Hughes, in her testimony Tuesday, acknowledged that Heard at times perpetrated physical violence against Depp, but said it paled in comparison to violence she suffered, which left her intimidated and fearful for her safety.
The trial, now in its fourth week, continues to capture public attention. More than 100 people were lined up Wednesday before 7 a.m. -- the proceedings don't begin until 10 a.m. -- outside the courthouse for the 100 seats made available in the courtroom. Most are Depp supporters and fans.
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Executive Board confirms nine members to Board
The Union Executive Board confirmed nine members to join the Board, including a new “Counselor to the President” position.
The Counselor to the President will advise on procedures and projects in the Executive Board. The Counselor to the President role is a special title created by President of the Union Colleen Corrigan ’21.
Club Representative Jake Herman ’23 questioned why Counselor to the President is an official E-Board position rather than an outside counsel position. Corrigan responded that Zapken’s graduation in December made it difficult to grant him one of the current positions, as she wanted the Board to engage with more undergraduate students. However, due to Zapken’s “passion for the Executive Board,” Corrigan still wanted Zapken to feel like a member of the Union. She further added that the Counselor to the President position will be dissolved once Zapken graduates.
Herman then asked why the role will disappear when Zapken leaves the Institute. “I’m doing this because I value [Zapken] as a Board member,” responded Corrigan, “not because I think the position is extremely necessary.” She added that the position's lifespan could be discussed in December if the need for the role became evident.
Abigail Golden ’24 asked Zapken why he loved the Board so much. “Every member, every club—I love the entire premise,” he replied, “I wanted to give back to all the clubs that really helped me [in freshman year].”
The Union Executive Board confirmed the following members: Minh Nguyen ’22 for Vice President for Board Operations, Oleksiy Golub ’23 for Vice President for Club Relations, Abigail Golden ’24 for Vice President for Rules and Special Projects, Matthew Zapken ’21 for Counselor to the President, Dalton Chick-Penland ’24 for Secretary, Brian Anderson ’22 for Business Operations Committee Chair, Natalia Lago ’24 for Club Operations Committee Chair, Sneha Ranjit ’23 for Union Programs and Activities Committee Chair, and Heather Almeida ’23 for Union Annual Report Chair.
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New Delhi-based firm funded anti-JSW protests in Dhinkia!
Abhayachandpur police has started investigation into the funding routes of anti-JSW protestors who were involved in creating unrest in Dhinkia panchayat.
Published: 04th May 2022 06:16 AM | Last Updated: 04th May 2022 06:16 AM | A+A A-
PARADIP: Abhayachandpur police have started an investigation into the funding routes of anti-JSW protestors who were involved in creating unrest in Dhinkia panchayat. The probe was launched after many villagers alleged that they received funds from various organisations to oppose the proposed JSW steel plant in Dhinkia.
Sources said villagers of Dhinkia had formed Jindal Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (JPSS) to oppose the JSW project. After the arrest of anti-JSW leader Debendra Swain, the protests against the steel plant lost steam. Many villagers opposing the project joined hands with pro-JSW leaders and subsequently revealed that they received the money in their bank accounts from several organisations to intensify stir against the steel plant. They claimed that funds were transferred to nearly 200 protestors on various occasions last year when the protests were at its peak.
One Subash Chandra Nayak of Dhinkia alleged that he received `1,250 in his UCO bank account in the last 12-13 months. Similarly, Kabindra Gochhayat also received `1,250 in his account on April 29 last year from an anonymous organisation. Both Nayak and Gochhayat have lodged complaints in the local police station in this regard.
Villagers Nirupama Nayak, Prasant Lenka and Bibekanada Mohapatra also made similar allegations. They claimed that an organisation named Environics Trust was sending money to their bank accounts to trigger anti-JSW protests in Dhinkia. The villagers demanded strong action against the people trying to disrupt the peaceful atmosphere in Dhinkia. Notably, Environics Trust is a non-profit research and community development organisation based in New Delhi.
Abhayachandpur IIC Jibanananda Jena said police have received allegations from villagers regarding the illegal transfer of money to their bank accounts. “We have approached the bank authorities to provide details of the persons and organisations involved in the transfer of the funds. The investigation is underway and police will register a case after obtaining the necessary details from the bank.
Meanwhile, villagers on Tuesday decided to oppose the entry of outsiders into Dhinkia to maintain peace in the area. President of Maa Phulkhai Surakhya Committee Nrusingha Rout said some outsiders are scheduled to visit Dhinkia on Wednesday to mobilise villagers against the JSW project. “We will not allow them to enter the village,” Rout added. | https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/2022/may/04/new-delhi-based-firm-funded-anti-jsw-protests-in-dhinkia-2449574.html | 2022-05-04T15:39:19Z | https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/2022/may/04/new-delhi-based-firm-funded-anti-jsw-protests-in-dhinkia-2449574.html | true | 1 |
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Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:SWKS – Get Rating) announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 3rd, RTT News reports. Investors of record on Tuesday, May 24th will be paid a dividend of 0.56 per share by the semiconductor manufacturer on Tuesday, June 14th. This represents a $2.24 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.87%.
Skyworks Solutions has increased its dividend payment by an average of 14.8% per year over the last three years and has increased its dividend annually for the last 7 consecutive years. Skyworks Solutions has a dividend payout ratio of 17.6% indicating that its dividend is sufficiently covered by earnings. Analysts expect Skyworks Solutions to earn $11.13 per share next year, which means the company should continue to be able to cover its $2.24 annual dividend with an expected future payout ratio of 20.1%.
Shares of SWKS opened at $119.47 on Wednesday. Skyworks Solutions has a fifty-two week low of $111.20 and a fifty-two week high of $197.62. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $127.84 and its 200 day moving average price is $144.64. The company has a quick ratio of 2.97, a current ratio of 4.20 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.41. The company has a market cap of $19.59 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.36, a PEG ratio of 0.88 and a beta of 1.13.
In other Skyworks Solutions news, CEO Liam Griffin sold 10,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, March 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $140.00, for a total transaction of $1,400,000.00. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. 0.31% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in SWKS. Carroll Investors Inc acquired a new position in Skyworks Solutions during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $26,000. Raleigh Capital Management Inc. acquired a new position in Skyworks Solutions during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $34,000. Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC acquired a new position in Skyworks Solutions during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $230,000. Bell Rock Capital LLC acquired a new position in Skyworks Solutions during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $240,000. Finally, Wealthsource Partners LLC lifted its position in Skyworks Solutions by 33.1% during the fourth quarter. Wealthsource Partners LLC now owns 1,619 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock valued at $251,000 after buying an additional 403 shares in the last quarter. 72.09% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Several research analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. Wells Fargo & Company lowered their target price on shares of Skyworks Solutions from $195.00 to $160.00 in a report on Wednesday. StockNews.com began coverage on shares of Skyworks Solutions in a research note on Thursday, March 31st. They set a “hold” rating for the company. Citigroup decreased their price target on shares of Skyworks Solutions from $156.00 to $152.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, March 22nd. Mizuho decreased their price target on shares of Skyworks Solutions from $175.00 to $170.00 in a research note on Wednesday. Finally, UBS Group reduced their target price on shares of Skyworks Solutions from $145.00 to $133.00 in a research note on Wednesday. Fourteen equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $173.00.
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Skyworks Solutions, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets proprietary semiconductor products, including intellectual property in the United States, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and rest of Asia-Pacific. Its product portfolio includes amplifiers, antenna tuners, attenuators, automotive tuners and digital radios, circulators/isolators, DC/DC converters, demodulators, detectors, diodes, wireless analog system on chip products, directional couplers, diversity receive modules, filters, front-end modules, hybrids, light emitting diode drivers, low noise amplifiers, mixers, modulators, optocouplers/optoisolators, phase locked loops, phase shifters, power dividers/combiners, receivers, switches, synthesizers, timing devices, technical ceramics, voltage controlled oscillators/synthesizers, and voltage regulators.
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Intraday bias in GBP/USD remains neutral as consolidation from 1.2410 is extending. In case of stronger recovery, upside should be limited below 1.2999 support turned resistance. On the downside, break of 1.2410 will target 161.8% projection of 1.3641 to 1.2999 from 1.3297 at 1.2258.
In the bigger picture, rise from 1.1409 (2020 low) has completed at 1.4248, ahead of 1.4376 long term resistance (2018 high). Based on current momentum, fall from 1.4248 is probably the start of a long term down trend. The break of 61.8% retracement of 2.1161 to 1.1409 at 1.2493 is affirming this bearish case too. For now, deeper decline would be seen as long as 1.3158 support turned resistance holds. Next target is 1.1409 low. | https://www.actionforex.com/technical-outlook/gbpusd-outlook/442359-gbp-usd-mid-day-outlook-1315/ | 2022-05-04T15:46:50Z | https://www.actionforex.com/technical-outlook/gbpusd-outlook/442359-gbp-usd-mid-day-outlook-1315/ | false | null |
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Netflix might have Tweeted “love is sharing a password” back in 2017, but five years on it has changed its tune. The company has announced that it will crack down on password sharing and is even trialing it in some parts of the world already.
Whether you’ve been using your best friend’s password for years or you’re the one who’s shared your password with others, you might be thinking of trying another provider.
What is the Netflix password crackdown?
According to Netflix, roughly 100 million households are using shared passwords. The password crackdown aims to address this issue, earning the company more revenue.
Rather than freezing accounts using a shared password, the crackdown will give account holders the option of paying an additional fee for additional password users. As you can imagine, this won’t go down well with most account holders.
Who will be affected by Nexflix’s new password rules?
Anyone who has either shared their password with others outside their home or who is using the password of someone they don’t live with will be affected. It’s unclear when the password crackdown will come into force worldwide, but it could take up to a year for it to roll out everywhere.
How much will extra Netflix subs cost?
It’s not yet known how much the fee for additional users will be, but it will be significantly less than the cost of a full subscription. Netflix is currently testing the extra subscription fee for password sharers in Peru, Costa Rica and Chile, where it costs the equivalent of roughly $2-$3 per month.
What are the best streaming services other than Netflix?
No other major streaming service has announced plans to stop password sharing as yet, so you might prefer to switch to another service. For some people, it’s the principle of the thing, while others still want to be able to share their password or split subscription costs with friends. All these options are available on smart TVs and streaming devices.
Hulu
A big name in streaming, Hulu has been around since 2007 and is still going strong. It offers both ad-free subscriptions and cheaper subscriptions that show ads. You’ll find a wide range of original programming and movies, as well as popular shows and movies that Hulu has bought the rights to. Popular shows on Hulu include “Atlanta,” “The Dropout,” and “Pose.”
Disney+
Disney’s streaming platform has only been around since 2019, but it’s already a huge success. You’ll find classic Disney films, such as “The Little Mermaid” and “Alice in Wonderland” and Pixar movies, including “Toy Story” and “Monsters Inc,” plus some titles you might not expect.
The Walt Disney Company owns the rights to the Marvel Universe and the “Star Wars” franchise, so you’ll find films and TV shows relating to these. Since Disney also acquired most of 21st Century Fox’s assets, you’ll find an even greater range of shows and movies than you’d imagine, such as Brit Marling’s indie classic, “Another Earth.”
Prime Video
If you subscribe to Amazon Prime for the free shipping, you’ll also get access to Prime Video with its wide range of movies and shows, including some original programming. Top offerings on this platform include “Mr. Robot,” “Good Omens,” “The Americans” and “The Fall.”
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Although these are three of the most popular streaming services, they aren’t the only ones on offer.
- HBO Max: This is a great choice for fans of HBO shows, such as “Euphoria” or “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
- Apple TV+: While it’s a newcomer and fairly light on top-tier shows, it has some excellent originals, such as “The Morning Show” and “Shining Girls.”
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Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY) went down by -0.50% from its latest closing price compared to the recent 1-year high of $15.10. The company’s stock price has collected -0.08% of loss in the last five trading sessions.
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VLY currently public float of 399.24M and currently shorts hold a 2.61% ratio of that float. Today, the average trading volume of VLY was 2.41M shares.
VLY’s Market Performance
VLY stocks went down by -0.08% for the week, with a monthly drop of -7.98% and a quarterly performance of -13.48%, while its annual performance rate touched -15.97%. The volatility ratio for the week stands at 3.39% while the volatility levels for the past 30 days are set at 2.65% for Valley National Bancorp. The simple moving average for the period of the last 20 days is -3.33% for VLY stocks with a simple moving average of -10.99% for the last 200 days.
Analysts’ Opinion of VLY
Many brokerage firms have already submitted their reports for VLY stocks, with Citigroup repeating the rating for VLY by listing it as a “Neutral.” The predicted price for VLY in the upcoming period, according to Citigroup is $14 based on the research report published on September 24th of the previous year 2021.
VLY Trading at -8.29% from the 50-Day Moving Average
After a stumble in the market that brought VLY to its low price for the period of the last 52 weeks, the company was unable to rebound, for now settling with -20.53% of loss for the given period.
Volatility was left at 2.65%, however, over the last 30 days, the volatility rate increased by 3.39%, as shares sank -6.25% for the moving average over the last 20 days. Over the last 50 days, in opposition, the stock is trading -16.32% lower at present.
During the last 5 trading sessions, VLY fell by -0.08%, which changed the moving average for the period of 200-days by -3.07% in comparison to the 20-day moving average, which settled at $12.37. In addition, Valley National Bancorp saw -12.73% in overturn over a single year, with a tendency to cut further losses.
Insider Trading
Reports are indicating that there were more than several insider trading activities at VLY starting from WILLIAMS SIDNEY S, who purchase 174 shares at the price of $13.80 back on Jun 15. After this action, WILLIAMS SIDNEY S now owns 4,616 shares of Valley National Bancorp, valued at $2,402 using the latest closing price.
Stock Fundamentals for VLY
Current profitability levels for the company are sitting at:
- +44.03 for the present operating margin
The net margin for Valley National Bancorp stands at +31.65. Equity return is now at value 9.80, with 1.10 for asset returns.
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The New Razer Blade 15 is the World’s First 240Hz Laptop with QHD OLED DIsplay Powered by Intel i9/RTX 3070Ti
A new laptop for users looking for powerful devices that mix the best aspects of creative and gaming processes has been announced by Razer. This new version of the Razer Blade 15 will start distribution during the 4th quarter of the year 2022. The new Blade 15 is the first laptop with a QHD OLED 240Hz Display.
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This new iteration of the Razer Blade 15 comes equipped with a 12th Gen Intel i9 12900H processor. It can easily be told that the i9-12900H is a high-end chip and will be one of the fastest laptop CPUs around, if not the fastest of all. This powerful processor features 14 cores (6 P-Cores + 8 E-Cores) and 20 threads. This 14-core configuration is the highest we will get on the Alder Lake-P platform.
The new Blade 15 also comes with a QHD OLED 240Hz display. This never-before-seen panel brings brighter, more vivid colors to life at esports-level speeds like no other laptop today. This display is the perfect pair for the graphics card with the computer, the RTX 3070 Ti. With the graphics card and the powerful processor attached to it, this high-end device brings an easy choice for both gamers and creators alike.
Both games and video content move thanks to the panel’s ultrafast 1ms response time swiftly, freeing users from the decision of color accuracy or speed. The unique new OLED display will reach a typical 400 nits brightness and include up to 100% DCI-P3 colors for a crisp, clear picture. Perfect for various functions, including photo and video editing, watching movies, or playing AAA games.
The laptop also comes packed with 32GB of DDR5 RAM alongside a 1TB SSD, with an additional M.2 slot for extra space. Like the rest of the Blade family, it also features the tried-and-true CNC-milled aluminum chassis, laser-cut speaker grills, and versatile connectivity with Thunderbolt 4, USB-C, USB-A, full-sized SD card reader, and an HDMI port.
The Razer Blade 15 will cost $3,499.99 and will be available for purchase in Q4 2022. Once it becomes available, you'll be able to purchase it through Razer.com, Razer Stores, and authorized retailers such as Newegg, Amazon, and Best Buy.
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He must answer about a massacre in Putumayo, where the military murdered civilians and hid what happened by altering the crime scene and placing weapons on the corpses.
On Tuesday, Green Party Senator Antonio Sanguino denounced that the Colombian Defense Minister Diego Molano eluded the political control debate in the plenary before the Senate, which would analyze his responsibility in the Puerto Leguizamo massacre.
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Molano presented "a justified excuse" alleging that he was carrying out "extraordinary security and defense matters in the Orinoquia zone," said Gregorio Eljach, the Senate plenary secretary.
In this way, the senior official of President Ivan Duque's administration managed to be absent from a meeting scheduled with due anticipation for Tuesday, May 3. However, the plenary debate was rescheduled for Wednesday, May 4. This political maneuver was expected given the seriousness of the accusations against Molano.
Democratic Pole senator Ivan Cepeda announced that he would present to the plenary session new data on "False Positives," a term that refers to the extrajudicial killings of civilians that are presented by the Colombian army as if they were cases of guerrillas killed in combat.
As inéditas confissões de 10 militares nesta semana abriram um novo capítulo no escândalo dos “falsos positivos” – o assassinato de 6.402 civis dados como baixa de guerra pelo Exército durante 2002 e 2008, no governo de Álvaro Uribe.
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The tweet reads, "The unprecedented confessions of 10 soldiers this week opened a new chapter in the 'False Positives' scandal, which refers to the murder of 6,402 civilians reported as guerrillas killed in combat by the Army between 2002 and 2008, during the administration of Alvaro Uribe."
This happened precisely in the "Putumayo Massacre", which occurred between March 28 and 29, in a rural area of Puerto Leguizamo, where the Colombian military carried out an operation against the dissidents of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). As a result of this operation, eleven people were murdered and later presented as "drug traffickers." Among the citizens killed were a minor and an Indigenous authority.
Decent Coalition lawmaker Maria Pizarro denounced that this military operation did not take into account the principles of distinction, precaution, and proportionality in the use of force.
"Indiscriminate attacks against civilians, forced disappearances, torture, and extrajudicial executions were carried out," she said and explained that the military hid what really happened by altering the crime scene, moving the corpses, and placing weapons on them.
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An Oklahoma judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre can proceed, bringing new hope for some measure of justice for three survivors of the deadly racist rampage who are now over 100 years old and were in the courtroom for the decision.
Tulsa County District Court Judge Caroline Wall ruled against a motion to dismiss the suit filed by civil rights attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons in 2020. The Tulsa-based attorney said after Wall announced her ruling that it is critical for living survivors Lessie Benningfield Randle, 107, Viola Fletcher, 107, and Hughes Van Ellis, 101.
"We want them to see justice in their lifetime," he said, choking back tears. "I've seen so many survivors die in my 20-plus years working on this issue. I just don't want to see the last three die without justice. That's why the time is of the essence."
The packed courtroom, which Wall noted may have been over capacity, erupted in cheers and tears after she handed down her ruling.
Solomon-Simmons sued under Oklahoma's public nuisance law, saying the actions of the white mob that killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed what had been the nation's most prosperous Black business district continue to affect the city today. The lawsuit also seeks reparations for descendants of victims of the massacre.
"In public nuisance cases, it is clear either criminal acts or destruction of personal property" constitute a nuisance, said Eric Miller, a Loyola Marymount University law professor working with the plaintiffs. Miller said that racial and economic disparities resulting from the massacre continue to this day.
Chamber of Commerce attorney John Tucker said the massacre was horrible, but the nuisance is not ongoing.
"What happened in 1921 was a really bad deal, and those people did not get a fair shake ... but that was 100 years ago," Tucker said.
Oklahoma sued consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson using the state public nuisance law for its role in the deadly opioid crisis. Initially, a judge ordered the drugmaker to pay the state $465 million in damages. But the Oklahoma Supreme Court overturned the Johnson & Johnson verdict, ruling that the public nuisance law did not apply because the company had no control of the drug after it was sold to pharmacies, hospitals, and physicians' offices and then prescribed by doctors to patients.
Miller said the state court's ruling in the Johnson & Johnson case does not affect the lawsuit.
The massacre happened when an angry white mob descended on a 35-block area in Tulsa's Greenwood District, killing people and looting and burning businesses and homes. Thousands of people were left homeless and living in a hastily constructed internment camp.
The city and insurance companies never compensated victims for their losses, and the massacre ultimately resulted in racial and economic disparities that still exist today, the lawsuit claims. In the years following the massacre, according to the lawsuit, city and county officials actively thwarted the community's effort to rebuild and neglected the Greenwood and predominantly Black north Tulsa community in favor of overwhelmingly white parts of Tulsa.
Other defendants include the Tulsa County Board of County Commissioners, Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission, Tulsa County Sheriff and the Oklahoma Military Department.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified punitive damages and calls for the creation of a hospital in north Tulsa, in addition to mental health and education programs and a Tulsa Massacre Victims Compensation Fund.
The massacre received renewed attention in recent years after then-President Donald Trump selected Tulsa as the location for a 2020 campaign rally amid the ongoing racial reckoning over police brutality and racial violence. Trump moved the date of his June rally to avoid coinciding with a Juneteenth celebration in the city's Greenwood District commemorating the end of slavery.
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Gardai have renewed an appeal for information on the 1998 murder of a drapery shop owner in Co Mayo.
The Garda investigation into the murder of Edward (Eddie) Fitzmaurice has remained ongoing for the last 24 years, with reviews undertaken on an ongoing basis during that time.
Eddie Fitzmaurice was 83 years old and lived alone. He ran his own drapery shop for many years and was known as a very popular member of the community who went about his business in a quiet and gentle manner.
Eddie's body was found in a bedroom of his home at Bellaghy, Charlestown at approximately 6.45pm on May 5 1998, with Gardai establishing a burglary and assault took place between 8.20pm on May 1 and the morning of May 2.
According to Gardai, Eddie was tied up, gagged and left to die over a period of five days.
The investigation into his murder is being coordinated by members of An Garda Síochána from Claremorris Community Engagement and Mayo Crime Functional Areas.
Investigating Gardaí believe that with the passage of time and a change in circumstances, people who have information may now be in a position to come forward.
Gardaí are appealing to anyone with information however insignificant they feel it is to come forward and allow the investigation team to assess it.
The family of Eddie Fitzmaurice are elderly and Gardaí would urge people with information to come forward and bring the Fitzmaurice family closure.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Gardaí at Claremorris at 094 9372080 or email mayo.crime@garda.ie., the Garda Confidential Line 1 800 666 111 or Crimestoppers 1 800 250 025.
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MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia said on Wednesday (May 5) that it has banned entry to several dozen Japanese officials, including Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, after Tokyo joined international sanctions against Moscow over its military campaign in Ukraine.
"The administration of F. Kishida launched an unprecedented anti-Russian campaign (and) allows unacceptable rhetoric against the Russian Federation, including slander and direct threats," Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"It is echoed by public figures, experts, representatives of Japanese media, who are completely engaged by the attitudes of the West towards our country," the ministry added.
It accused Tokyo of taking "practical steps aimed at dismantling good neighbourly ties, damaging the Russian economy and the international prestige of the country".
The ministry said it was "indefinitely" banning from Russia 63 Japanese citizens, including the Prime Minister, Cabinet members, lawmakers, journalists and professors.
Mr Kishida retorted that it was "Russia that brought Japan-Russia relations to this point".
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Elegant Race Day Recipes with the Derby's Preferred Wines; Order Ingredients Online with a Click
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- If you'll be watching the Run for the Roses from home this weekend with a few of your closest friends, you can whip up a menu worthy of the winner's circle with the Derby Day Party Plan from meal inspiration leader eMeals and family-owned wineries Kendall-Jackson and La Crema, the two official Preferred Wines of the Kentucky Derby. With easy-make spins on classic Derby recipes plus complementary wine pairings, the plan provides step-by-step instructions, point-and-click grocery shopping, and a perfect way to enjoy the most exciting two minutes in sports.
And you're off!: Available on the free Derby Day landing page or in the Occasions Plan in the eMeals app for subscribers, the menu serves 10-12 grazing guests. The lineup starts with Smoked Cheddar-Pecan Wafers inspired by Derby cheese straws and Bacon-Pimento Cheese Toasts topped with Roma tomatoes and fresh basil leaves. Entrées are Cream Biscuits stuffed with glazed ham and chow chow (a fresh twist on Derby biscuits and ham), Benedictine Chicken Salad Dip with assorted crackers (a new use of the Derby's staple party dip), and Beef Tenderloin Crostini with Henry Bain sauce and crumbled bleu cheese (featuring the quintessential Kentucky steak sauce). Dessert is a perfect photo finish: Cookie Butter-Banana Pudding Cups layered with whipped cream, sliced bananas, and crumbled cookies.
Raise a glass: To complement that lavish spread, the plan recommends Kendall-Jackson's flagship wine, the Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay, and the La Crema Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir. Kendall-Jackson and La Crema were named the Preferred Wines of the Kentucky Derby last year in a multi-year partnership. The Jackson family's legacy in winemaking runs deep, with many wine enthusiasts recognizing Kendall-Jackson as the makers of America's favorite Chardonnay and La Crema as one of the pioneering wineries in Russian River Valley, yet the family's endeavors in the horse racing world are less well-known. In 2005 they opened Stonestreet Farm, a leading Thoroughbred horse breeding operation based in the famous Bluegrass region of Kentucky. The partnership with the Kentucky Derby is a natural connection, and pairing a Derby-inspired meal with Kendall-Jackson and La Crema is a great way to toast the elite Thoroughbreds striving to earn their place in horse racing history.
Shop less – enjoy more: No need to waste time writing a grocery list or making item-by-item entries in an online shopping cart. Simply select the recipes you want to make from the eMeals mobile app or the Derby Day Party landing page, and eMeals will automatically generate a shopping list you can use to self-shop at your local grocery store or tap for online grocery fulfillment from Amazon, Walmart, Kroger or any of the retailers served by Instacart and Shipt. The wines show up as an option on the list. It's fast, it's easy, and it ensures you won't forget an ingredient.
Beyond the finish line: eMeals' meal planning service isn't just for special occasions. For as little as $5/month, subscribers receive seven dinner menus every week from their choice of 15 dinner plans (Quick and Healthy, Keto, Low Carb, 30 Minute, Kid Friendly, Low Calorie, Plant Based and more), plus Occasions Plans and Bonus Collections that are added regularly. Subscribers can also mix and match menus from any style and substitute favorites from previous weeks. Free 14-day trials are available at www.emeals.com.
eMeals is a meal inspiration, planning and shopping platform that operates the subscription-based eMeals digital meal planning service, the free RecipeBox app enabling home cooks to create personalized digital cookbooks, and the Grocery Connect SDK providing online grocery shopping functionality for third-party apps and websites. eMeals has helped millions of families relieve the daily stress of putting healthy home-cooked meals on the table quickly, easily and affordably since the launch of its digital meal planning service. For more information, visit https://emeals.com and https://recipebox.com.
Kendall-Jackson is one of America's most beloved family-owned and operated wineries. The winery's flagship wine, the Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay, has been America's favorite Chardonnay for over 29 years. Founded by entrepreneur and visionary Jess Jackson in 1982, and now led by his wife Barbara Banke and the Jackson family, Kendall-Jackson is based in Sonoma County and offers a range of acclaimed wines grown on the family's estate vineyards along the coastal ridges of California. Kendall-Jackson is the benchmark for sustainable wine endeavors, setting the precedent for advancement in solar, water, and vineyard practices. Wine Enthusiast Magazine recently named Kendall-Jackson the 2017 American Winery of the Year, one of the wine industry's most distinguished accolades. Recognized as a leader in the industry for more than three decades, Kendall-Jackson has built a reputation centered around consistent, high-quality wines that are available nationwide in national grocery stores, boutique wine retailers, and restaurants. Learn more online at www.kj.com, and follow Kendall-Jackson on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
Beloved artisan winery La Crema was founded in 1979 as La Crema Viñera, meaning "Best of the Vine." For 40 years, the family-owned and operated winery has focused exclusively on cool-climate coastal appellations, where ocean winds and fog allow grapes to ripen slowly on the vine. Winemaker Craig McAllister continues to use boutique, time-intensive techniques to produce distinctively balanced and elegant wines. La Crema combines consistent high quality and elegant flavor with a modern, cosmopolitan personality. For more information, visit www.LaCrema.com, and follow La Crema on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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Netflix Renews SWEET MAGNOLIAS For a Third Season
JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Brooke Elliott, and Heather Headley are set to reprise their roles.
Netflix has renewed Sweet Magnolias for a third season.
Actors JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Brooke Elliott, and Heather Headley are set to reprise their roles.
Sweet Magnolias follows lifelong best friends Maddie (JoAnna Garcia Swisher), Dana Sue (Brooke Elliott), and Helen (Heather Headley) as they juggle relationships, family, and careers in the charming small town of Serenity, SC.
Sweet Magnolias is based on the popular series of novels published by MIRA Books, an imprint of Harlequin, by New York Times best-selling author Sherryl Woods, who also serves as an executive producer on the series.
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Bay Street Theater Announces Four New Teen Camps
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Bay Street Theater has announced the addition of four new week-long teen camps to its summer calendar, focusing on creative writing, character acting, storytelling, and more! Theatre Mash-Up with Angie Harrell is scheduled for July 11-15 from 1 to 4 p.m. each day. Leading the Show: A Character Study Camp with Kayla Matters is scheduled for July 25-29 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each day. Creative Theater Miracles with Stuart Ross is scheduled for August 8-12 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each day. Creating Your Own Work with Cecelia Ticktin is scheduled to take place twice, from August 8-12 and August 22-26 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each day. All camps are $450 for five days. $600 after July 1. For more information, please contact the Box Office by calling 631 725 9500 Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. or 24/7 at boxoffice@baystreet.org.
A Theatre Mash-Up! That's what happens when a group of teens gets together with a published play about friendship, discovering and accepting our true selves, and a little romance along the way! Real life stories from the creative teens in the class, mash-up with themes from an age-old play and culminate in a brand-new script devised by the class through improv, theatre games, and exploration. The new play will be showcased in a staged reading on the final day. Based on the French classic Cyrano de Bergerac, Cherie Bennett's play Cyra and Rocky will lead the ensemble in an exploration of acceptance, tolerance, honesty, and friendship in the modern age! With Angie Harrell. Monday, July 11, through Friday, July 15, from 1 to 4 p.m. each day.
In Leading the Show: A Character Study Camp, students ages 13-17 will choose one character from the history of musical theatre or plays that they are interested in studying, and with the guidance of director Kayla Matters, take a thorough examination of that character's arc and journey throughout their respective show. Students will then begin work on two selected songs, and one scene from their chosen role, to gain a first-hand experience of the work that goes into preparing to play a leading role on any stage, whether it be Broadway, regionally, or elsewhere. Students work one-on-one with director Kayla Matters on scene and character work to deepen their understanding of the text, through song and script analysis. The weeklong camp begins Monday, July 25, and will culminate with the students presenting their choice of the roles, songs, and scenes for family, friends, and members of the community on Friday, July 29.
Creative Theater Miracles with Stuart Ross introduces the process of creating stories, skits, monologues, songs, and parodies to create a new theater experience. Attendees will work together to create a dazzling new show of their own creation based on their lives, thoughts, and what makes them think, feel, and laugh. Over the course of a five-day camp, Stuart will work one-on-one with students to develop storytelling skills through comedy routines, sketches, songs, and monologies, essentially building a personal variety show akin to Saturday Night Live. Each day will include rehearsals, rewrites, and revisions, which will all conclude with an invited presentation of the final work on the last day of the camp. From Monday, August 8, through Friday, August 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each day.
Creating Your Own Work: Learning How To Write And Tell Your Own Story with Cecelia Ticktin is the camp that every actor wishes they attended when they were younger. Using creative writing exercises and movement, campers will get to know each other, get their creative juices flowing, and learn how to give and receive critical feedback. They will then discuss how to decide what a story wants to be: A play? A novel? A song? A poem? Utilizing memoire-writing exercises and peer-to-peer interviews, campers will choose the story they'll be working on for the rest of the week, and will proceed through multiple rounds of critique from their classmates. With their own work as the material, campers will then practice acting and moving through their stories, which can take the form of a monologue, a scene, a poem, an essay, or even a song. The week will culminate in a group share of work. This camp will be held over two weeks, from Monday, August 8, through Friday, August 12, and Monday, August 22, through Friday, August 26, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each day.
Angie Harrell is an actress, director, acting and vocal coach and theatre educator. Acting credits include theatre, film and television. She has an MFA in Acting from The Actors Studio Drama School (formerly at the New School) and currently serves as Assistant Professor-Director in the Theatre Department at Bethel University. Angie is a proud union gal with membership in AEA and SAG-AFTRA.
Kayla Matters is a member of the Bay Street Theater family and is a New York-based actor, singer, and theater educator. She graduated summa cum laude from Rider University in 2018 with a BFA in Musical Theater. As an actor, she has performed professionally both regionally and in New York City.
Stuart Ross is glad to be back at Bay Street Theater having directed four shows there, including Enter Laughing, The Musical. He has spent most of his four decades in the theater creating, adapting, and directing new shows. He is probably best known as the writer and director of the long running musical phenomenon Forever Plaid, which ran in New York for over 2,000 performances. Ross created the Holiday sequel Plaid Tidings, in addition to The Sound Of Plaid, Forever Plaid: The Movie; and for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, a sixteen-player version of Forever Plaid (4 Squared). Mr. Ross directed the show across the US and internationally, including Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Tokyo, London's West End and Toronto, to name a few. Working with Phyllis Newman, Ross adapted and directed the first revival of the musical Subways Are For Sleeping for the York Theatre in New York. He is the book writer and co-lyricist of Radiant Baby, the Keith Haring musical, which was performed to acclaim at The Public Theatre (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel nominations for Best Musical) and in Tokyo. He has worked at some of the country's most prestigious theaters, including Manhattan Theatre Club, San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, Primary Stages, The Alley Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House, Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, and The Walnut Street Theatre.
Cecelia Ticktin is a New Jersey-based actress, writer, and singer-songwriter. She will be returning to Bay Street Theater for their 2022 Mainstage Season to join the cast of the musical Ragtime! Prior to the COVID Shutdown she toured the country with the Broadway Musical Wicked, standing by for the role of Elphaba. Since then, she's been seen in the musical Kismet in Santa Barbara, CA (directed by Lonny Price), and Bay Street's outdoor production of Camelot, which welcomed the residents of Sag Harbor back to the joy of live theater. As a writer, Cecelia has three current projects: A half-hour semi-autobiographical dark comedy series called Chronic that centers on a protagonist living with chronic pain, a half-hour drama/mystery series called Release that examines what unchecked grief can do to a person's psyche, and a full-length play called Pass that examines the question, "What happens when you think you're going to die, and then you live?" (She promises to write an office comedy next.) Cecelia has been teaching her entire adult life, and is thrilled to be working with Sag Harbor's up-and-coming teenage writer-performers this summer.
Bay Street Theater is a fully vaccinated company. All attendance is available via touchless ticketing. For full list of COVID-19-related safety procedures and guidelines for in-person events, please visit us online at baystreet.org.
Bay Street Theater is a year-round, not-for-profit professional theater and community cultural center, which endeavors to innovate, educate, and entertain a diverse community through the practice of the performing arts. It serves as a social and cultural gathering place, an educational resource, and a home for a community of artists. | https://www.broadwayworld.com/long-island/article/Bay-Street-Theater-Announces-Four-New-Teen-Camps-20220504 | 2022-05-04T16:14:12Z | https://www.broadwayworld.com/long-island/article/Bay-Street-Theater-Announces-Four-New-Teen-Camps-20220504 | true | 1 |
We have gathered the thoughts of the drivers who, alongside winners Christian Kinch and Joakim Olander, were protagonists of the spectacular second round of the Coppa Shell.
Enrst Kirchmayr, second place in Coppa Shell: “The first lap was incredible given the numerous accidents. I started from eighth and it seemed that everything was going to go wrong and instead I managed to get on the podium, finishing in second place. I have to be extremely satisfied.”
James Weiland, third place in Coppa Shell: “It was an extremely demanding race. I made a slight mistake on the first lap, when Ernst managed to move from third to second place, but apart from that I have to say that I enjoyed myself on this circuit.”
Willem Van Der Vorm, second place in Coppa Shell Am: “Today's race was very difficult also because of the high temperatures. I didn't get the start I wanted because I had some issues with the car in the morning. I enjoyed racing: the opponents were very fast and they weren’t making any mistakes. I am very happy and now I’m going to celebrate my second place.”
Paolo Scudieri, third place in the Coppa Shell Am: “It was a challenging weekend: yesterday because of the rain and today because of the heat. In the last few laps the tyres gave me some issues because they had reached very high temperatures. It is thanks to the concentration, the will to win and to get onto the podium that I was able to achieve this result.” | https://www.ferrari.com/en-US/corse-clienti/articles/quotes-from-coppa-shell-race-2 | 2022-05-04T16:15:32Z | https://www.ferrari.com/en-US/corse-clienti/articles/quotes-from-coppa-shell-race-2 | true | 4 |
Effects of breccia and water contents on the mechanical properties of fault-core-zone materials
Determining the mechanical properties of fault-core-zone materials is challenging because of the low strength of such materials, which affects field sampling, specimen preparation, and laboratory testing. We overcame this problem by preparing and testing mechanical properties of 132 artificial fault-core-zone specimens consisting of mixtures of breccia, sand, clay, and water. The...
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May 04, 2022
Many older people seemingly need less sleep than they did when they were younger.
But the idea that people need less sleep as they age is a myth, research suggests, even if your parents or grandparents only may be clocking about five hours of sleep a night.
In a new study, scientists calculated the ideal amount of sleep for people over age 40 and the number they came up with was seven hours. That duration was found to be particularly important for cognitive performance and mental health.
"Getting a good night's sleep is important at all stages of life, but particularly as we age," said researcher Barbara Sahakian, of the University of Cambridge in England. "Finding ways to improve sleep for older people could be crucial to helping them maintain good mental health and well-being and avoiding cognitive decline, particularly for patients with psychiatric disorders and dementias."
The study, published Nature Aging, analyzed the sleep patterns and mental health and well-being of almost 500,000 adults ages 38-73 from the United Kingdom. All the participants completed a series of cognitive function tests. Brain imaging and generic data also were used in the calculations.
The study participants who got more or less than seven hours of sleep performed worse on the tests that measured processing speed, visual attention, memory and problem-solving skills. They also exhibited poorer mental health, including symptoms of anxiety and depression.
In addition, the researchers uncovered a link between the amount of sleep a person gets and differences in the brain structures involved in cognitive processing and memory. The largest changes were observed in people who had more or less than seven hours a sleep a night.
This suggests that too little or too much sleep can be an important risk factor for age-related mental decline, researchers said.
"While we can't say conclusively that too little or too much sleep causes cognitive problems, our analysis looking at individuals over a longer period of time appears to support this idea," said researcher Jianfeng Feng, of Fudan University in China. "But the reasons why older people have poorer sleep appear to be complex, influenced by a combination of our genetic makeup and the structure of our brains."
Previous studies have linked sleep duration to brain health, particularly the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and dementia as people age.
One study found that sleep disruption is linked to a variety of chronic health problems, but especially in elderly populations. Lack of sleep contributed to the development of neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
Sleep also affects a person's capacity for learning and for consolidating memories. It enhances attention, problem-solving and creativity. It affects hormones and the immune system.
People go through five cycles of sleep each night. They include both rapid eye movement stages, when dreaming occurs, and non-REM stages. During REM sleep, there is an increased activity in the brain structures that help regulate memory and emotions. There is less activity in the frontal brain structures involved in analytic thinking.
During REM sleep, people may experience strange dreams that combine fragments of events and memories from the day.
The slow wave sleep stage also is important for learning motor skills.
As a part of the natural aging process, people tend to have both less REM and slow wave sleep, which can make memory consolidation more difficult.
Older people are at higher risk for sleep disorders, including sleep apnea. About 20% of older adults have a sleep apnea disorder and about 5% have an insomnia disorder, according to a study in the journal Sleep Science.
The likelihood of having additional medical issues and taking multiple medications, which can affect sleep, increases as people age, too.
There are both non-pharmacological and pharmacological treatments to improve sleep. Exercise, reducing distractions in the bedroom and developing a bedtime routine can all help, according to the Sleep Foundation. | https://www.phillyvoice.com/sleep-amount-seniors-aging-dementia-alzheimers-parkinsons-mental-health/ | 2022-05-04T16:16:56Z | https://www.phillyvoice.com/sleep-amount-seniors-aging-dementia-alzheimers-parkinsons-mental-health/ | false | 1 |
STARTING a garden can get pretty pricey very fast but you might actually be able to save some money if you know the right place to get your supplies.
In fact, a gardening pro has revealed that gardeners and outdoor enthusiasts shouldn't sleep on the Dollar Tree.
A gardening aficionado, who simply goes by The Little Nopales on social media, revealed there are eight things you can get at Dollar Tree that will work just as well as the pricier options.
The expert recommended first getting a cultivator, trowel, and transplanter.
You can use the cultivator for moving soil that's already been broken up, the trowel to dig and remove weeds, and finally, the transplanter to plant seeds and transplant them to a bigger soil bed as they grow.
On top of that, you will want to get shears and pruners, which can be used to trim down different plants.
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Additionally, you should also purchase knee pads and kneeling pads since gardening requires a lot of kneeling and you'll want to be as comfortable as possible.
Lastly, gardening gloves from the Dollar Tree are a must.
Each of these items will only cost you $1.25, which means this entire haul costs less than $12 without tax.
"Best deals for anyone who wants to start gardening," the pro wrote.
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In the comment section, many people swore by their seeds, with one person saying they had "85 percent success rate and their soil also worked well for me."
Previously, blogger, organizational expert, and Dollar Tree fan Kathryn Snearly, who goes by Do It On a Dime on social media, shared "an insider trick you've got to know."
"Lots of the cleaning products come in multiple sizes, so make sure you're getting the biggest bang for your buck," Snearly explained in her YouTube video called New Dollar Tree gems you didn't know existed.
Showing off two different sizes of the same carpet cleaner, she said: "This one is 12 ounces while this is 9.7 ounces, and they're both $1.25."
Of course, you'll want to buy the bigger size.
And before that, she had also revealed the cleaning products you need to buy from the discount store to stop you from scrubbing anything anymore.
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Eastern School of Performing Arts in Stamford raises funds for Disasters Emergency Committee to help Ukraine
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LEARN MOREStudents at a performing arts school came together to raise funds for Ukraine.
After seeing the tragic events unfold in Ukraine, the Eastern School of Performing Arts (ESPA) in Stamford put together an evening of music and dance to raise funds for those affected by the conflict.
The benefit concert on Tuesday last week (April 26) comprised of the performing arts school's extra curricular groups - ESPA voices, Jazz Company and the Panthers Dance Crew.
Principal at ESPA, Kelly-Ann Gordon, said: "It went really well. We were thrilled with the abundance of people who came to watch."
Since the pandemic, the school has been taking every opportunity to hold performances for live audiences after they all had to be held virtually or behind closed doors for almost two years.
Kelly-Ann said: "It was great for them to be able to perform for people and invite them in to raise funds for a worthy cause.
"It really was a wonderful feeling for all of them."
Kelly-Ann alongside her team - Eddie Burton, Louise Durrant and Jess Glendinning - have been planning the evening for six weeks to allow pupils to showcase their performances, which they have been rehearsing for the past term.
However, they recently decided it would be the right opportunity to raise money for a worthy cause, with a number of songs reflective of the crisis.
More than £415 was raised through the benefit concert for the Disasters Emergency Committee to help the Ukraine humanitarian appeal.
"I think students were thrilled to have raised the funds.
"As young people they can feel quite helpless in how they can support those affected in Ukraine. There's not a huge amount of guidance on how to support such causes," said Kelly-Ann. | https://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/news/moving-benefit-concert-raises-funds-for-ukraine-9252571/ | 2022-05-04T16:24:01Z | https://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/news/moving-benefit-concert-raises-funds-for-ukraine-9252571/ | false | 1 |
While it's not yet clear what resemblance the Supreme Court's leaked draft opinion will bear to the final version, its current form suggests Justices may soon reverse federal abortion protections.
And if that does come to pass, at least one Canadian official says Americans who are able to travel across the northern border will be able access the procedure there.
Karina Gould, the minister of families, children and social development, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Tuesday that Canada would allow Americans to obtain abortions.
"I don't see why we would not," she said on the CBC News Network's Power & Politics. "If they, people, come here and need access, certainly, you know, that's a service that would be provided."
A spokesperson for Gould later told the network that Americans accessing health care services in Canada — which has a universal, publicly-funded health care system — would continue to have to pay for the service either out-of-pocket or with their own private insurance, if they're not covered by one of Canada's provincial health plans.
The Detroit Free Press says the move would be possible in theory but more complicated in practice, noting that availability isn't the same as accessibility. Distance from an abortion provider could pose a challenge, as could pandemic precautions at the international border and the additional cost of travel.
Gould also expressed worry about what such a decision could mean for Canadians who would otherwise travel to the U.S. for an abortion.
"One of the concerning factors here is that there are many Canadian women who maybe don't live near a major city in Canada, but will often access these services in the United States," she said. "I'm very concerned about the leak yesterday. I'm very concerned about what this means, particularly for American women, but also for Canadian women."
Thousands of Canadians had abortions in the U.S. in the 1980s, after Roe was first decided but before abortion became legal in Canada, according to the Detroit Free Press. Canada does not currently have a federal law governing abortion, which is legal at all stages of pregnancy, regardless of the reason.
Its National Abortion Federation explains that it is "treated like other medical procedures and regulated through provincial/territorial and professional bodies."
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted on Tuesday about the importance of protecting women's rights, without specifically mentioning the Supreme Court's draft opinion.
"The right to choose is a woman's right and a woman's right alone. Every woman in Canada has a right to a safe and legal abortion," he wrote. "We'll never back down from protecting and promoting women's rights in Canada and around the world."
As Americans find themselves on the cusp of potentially losing federal abortion protections, many other countries are in the process of making it more accessible, as The Associated Press reports.
Argentina, Ireland, Mexico and most recently Colombia are among the countries that have moved to legalize or ease access to abortion in the past few years. Mexico's Supreme Court voted to decriminalize abortion this past September, days after Texas enacted a law banning the procedure after about six weeks of pregnancy.
Paula Avila-Guillen, executive director of the Women's Equality Center, noted at the time that it was legal for people in the border state of Coahuila to terminate their pregnancies through the first trimester, and asked: "Could the safest way for Texan women to have access to a safe, legal abortion soon be to make their way to Mexico?"
This story originally appeared in the Morning Edition live blog.
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Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-7, has responded to the leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion, which as it stands, overturns the 50-year precedent granting a woman’s right to a safe, legal abortion.
“If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, Congress must codify its protections into law. And I believe that the American people will elect a Congressional majority dedicated to doing so," Rep. Malinowski said.
"Overturning Roe would take us back to a time when the government denied women the right to make their health care decisions — a time when many women risked their lives to get black market abortions. This is already beginning to happen in states that have passed abortion bans, some of which include bounty laws that empower even rapists to sue their victims who seek to terminate a pregnancy. In 26 other states, draconian restrictions on a woman’s right to choose will automatically snap back into place if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
"Americans are tired of conflict and division and of having our lives upended. The last thing we need right now is for a radical Supreme Court to suddenly rip up 50 years of settled law that the overwhelming majority of Americans believe should remain in place.
The congressman said that, in January, New Jersey codified Roe v. Wade, which guarantees a woman’s right to a safe, legal abortion.
"But even our law would be eviscerated if a Republican Congress were to pass a nationwide abortion ban, which national Republicans have pledged to do if they regain a majority.
"My likely opponent, Tom Kean Jr., voted against New Jersey’s law, and repeatedly voted to defund family planning services. He has shown time and again that he does not trust women to make their own personal healthcare decisions.
"The stakes this November cannot be higher. I support a woman’s right to choose. Kean Jr. has consistently opposed it. His election would virtually guarantee a House majority that would impose a nationwide abortion ban. The voters of the 7th district can and will prevent that this November,” Malinowski said. | https://www.newjerseyhills.com/hunterdon_review/news/rep-malinowski-responds-to-leaked-scotus-opinion-overturning-roe-v-wade/article_8899e02a-da73-509c-ac4a-bebc0c9d7ec6.html | 2022-05-04T16:25:18Z | https://www.newjerseyhills.com/hunterdon_review/news/rep-malinowski-responds-to-leaked-scotus-opinion-overturning-roe-v-wade/article_8899e02a-da73-509c-ac4a-bebc0c9d7ec6.html | true | 1 |
We met up with the protagonists from the first round of the Trofeo Pirelli who were on the podium alongside winners Niccolò Schirò and Christian Brunsborg.
Thomas Neubauer, second place in Trofeo Pirelli: “I couldn’t find the correct pace throughout the race and only at the end was I able to cut down some of the gap with Schirò but by then it was too late. Now the aim is to be able to set up the car for tomorrow and try to finish in a good position.”
Michelle Gatting, third place in Trofeo Pirelli: “Qualifying went pretty well and starting from the front row was an advantage as it is very difficult to overtake on the Valencia track. I made a good start and, in the middle of the race, I saw Thomas Neubauer was having some difficulties and so I started pushing to try to reach him but, after he made some mistakes and I had some issues with the tyres, so from then on, my only goal became to finish the race. However, I finished ahead of Luca Nurmi and John Wartique. Tomorrow I will try to achieve the pole position.”
Sergio Paulet, second place in Trofeo Pirelli Am: “I would have been happier if I had achieved first place but the racing conditions weren’t favourable for me as I prefer dry conditions. In spite of everything I think I did a good job, but Christian Brunsborg put me under pressure and in the end his pace was faster. However, I am very happy to be on my home circuit and tomorrow I will try to get my revenge.”
Ange Barde, third place in Trofeo Pirelli Am: “I am satisfied with the result because I keep improving more and more, even though I had a few issues in qualifying. It was a positive day for my team-mate too and I hope to replicate it tomorrow.” | https://www.ferrari.com/en-US/corse-clienti/articles/valencia-2021-quotes-from-trofeo-pirelli-race-1 | 2022-05-04T16:25:43Z | https://www.ferrari.com/en-US/corse-clienti/articles/valencia-2021-quotes-from-trofeo-pirelli-race-1 | true | 4 |
Man Utd stars who said they hated Manchester, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Carlos Tevez and Anthony Martial
IF this lot are anything to go by, incoming Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag will have his work cut out convincing new signings to sign for the Red Devils.
The Dutch tactician joins the club in the summer, and will immediately set about reshaping a squad in dire straits for fresh blood.
But, he will have to remember some might not take to living in Manchester, or its surrounding areas.
And some certainly won't enjoy the rainy weather, with Frenkie de Jong reportedly the latest transfer target to question a move to Old Trafford because he wasn't sure about the weather.
Cristiano Ronaldo
The Portuguese superstar can't dislike Manchester too much, after all he's lived in the city twice now.
But when he first arrived in the UK, he voiced his discontent with the weather in comparison to sunny Portugal.
He said back in 2006: "I like to play for Manchester - better than [I like] the weather.
"The weather is very difficult for me because you see snow, every time, and rain.
"It's difficult compared to Portugal, where you see sun every day, which is why it's difficult for me.
"But the club is massive and I'm very happy for staying here."
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Anthony Martial
For French star Martial, it was the English cuisine that didn't quite take his fancy.
Currently on loan at Sevilla, maybe he's getting his culinary fix now.
But when he was asked what he didn't like about Manchester, he told L'Equipe: "Manchester weather, cooking when I’m tired and English cuisine."
And what did he like? "Football," he said.
"It sounds simple but it’s always been the case - I don’t see myself living without playing."
Carlos Tevez
Argentine legend Tevez admitted he was never quite sure about the North West, despite spells at both Manchester clubs.
Amusingly, he said there was nothing for him to do in the sprawling city.
"There is nothing to do in Manchester. The weather, everything. It has nothing and the problem is I am still speaking very poor English," he said on Argentine TV.
"When I finish my contract I will not return to Manchester ever, not even on holiday. Not for anything."
Nemanja Vidic
We never thought tough-guy and uncompromising centre-back Nemanja Vidic would be worried about a bit of rain.
But even the Serbian, who signed from Spartak Moscow, was unsure.
"I struggled with the weather in the beginning," he told FourFourTwo magazine in 2016.
"Moscow is cold in the winter, but you don't have rain - you have sunshine."
"The only thing I had a problem with was the weather. I really enjoyed Manchester, the social life and its people."
Angel Di Maria
The homes of Cheshire surely aren't this bad?
Angel Di Maria thought so, he hated his living arrangements after signing for United.
"It was horrible! All of it was horrible, we went to the house and we were like, 'See you later guys, we’re out of here,'" he said.
"When we left, I said to him, ‘Go to any country – except England!"
Juan Sebastian Veron
Argentine midfielder Veron played for both Man Utd and Chelsea, but admitted he was never happy in our country.
In 2010, he said: "I was never happy in England and my time there made me question my desire to continue playing."
He added: "England has a spectacular Premier League but that's it. They don't train very much and there were no proper warm-ups at Manchester United."
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Meity to train over 85,000 engineers in chip design in next 5 years
"Leapfrogging, Meity now intends to make accessible a centralized chip design infrastructure to be made available at India Chip Centre setup at C-DAC, to train over 85000 B Tech, M Tech and PhD students at 120 academic institutions across the country in chip design area for next 5 years," an official statement said.
The Electronics and IT Ministry aims to train over 85,000 engineers on chip design by expanding the infrastructure available for the technology to 120 academic institutions across the country in the next five years, an official statement said on Wednesday.
"Leapfrogging, Meity now intends to make accessible a centralized chip design infrastructure to be made available at India Chip Centre setup at C-DAC, to train over 85000 B Tech, M Tech and PhD students at 120 academic institutions across the country in chip design area for next 5 years," an official statement said.
For making available the chip design infrastructure at India Chip Centre of C-DAC, leading industry vendors from EDA (Electronic Design Automation), Electronic Computer-Aided Design (ECAD), IP Core and Design solutions Industry are being partnered with.
The minister also said industry players like Dell, Sony as well as ISRO and the Atomic Energy Department are all endorsing and working with the Digital India RISC-V (DIR-V) programme.
"Specific collaborative arrangements are being made available with Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, Siemens EDA, Silvaco and other leading tool vendors, IP & design solution providers and Fab aggregators," the statement said.
As SemiconIndia 2022 concluded successfully last week, most of the global semiconductor leaders like Intel, Micron, Qualcomm, LAM Research etc not only highlighted the contribution of their Indian research and development centres, which are now the biggest centres out of their headquarter locations but also acknowledged the semiconductor design strength in our country, which now makes up for 20 per cent of the world's engineers.
Electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at Semicon India conferernce had highlighted that India's democracy and talent pool sets it apart from other countries fighting for chip sovereignty.
“Qualcomm India Private Limited plans to initiate and conduct the Qualcomm Semiconductor Mentorship Program (‘QSMP’) 2022 for select startups from the semiconductor space in India, with an intent to provide and facilitate mentorship, technical training, and industry outreach,” the chipmaker said in a media statement. | https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/meity-to-train-over-85000-engineers-in-chip-design-in-next-5-years/91321726 | 2022-05-04T16:26:52Z | https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/meity-to-train-over-85000-engineers-in-chip-design-in-next-5-years/91321726 | false | 1 |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Wednesday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to speed up the development of his nuclear weapons “at the fastest possible pace” and threatened to use them against rivals.
The launch, the North’s 14th round of weapons firing this year, also came six days before a new conservative South Korean president takes office for a single five-year term.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the missile was fired from the North’s capital region and flew to the waters off its eastern coast. It called North Korea’s repeated ballistic missile launches “a grave threat” that would undermine international peace and security and a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions banning any ballistic launch by the North.
The statement said that Won In-Choul, the South Korean JCS chief, held a video conference about the launch with Gen. Paul LaCamera, an American general who heads the South Korea-U.S. combined forces command in Seoul, and they agreed to maintain a solid joint defense posture.
Japan also detected the North Korean launch and quickly condemned it.
“North Korea’s series of actions that threatens the peace, safety and stability of the international community are impermissible,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters during his visit to Rome.
Kishida said he’ll discuss the launch when he meets Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi later Wednesday. “Naturally, we will exchange views on the regional situation in the Indo-Pacific and East Asia, and I will thoroughly explain the reality of the region including the North Korean missile launch today, to gain understanding about the pressing situation in the East Asia,” he said.
Japanese Vice Defense Minister Makoto Oniki said that the missile was believed to have landed in waters outside of the Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone. There has been no report of damage or injury reported from vessels and aircraft in the area.
It wasn’t immediately known what missile North Korea launched. South Korea’s military said the missile flew about 470 kilometers (290 miles) at the apogee of 780 kilometers (485 miles), while Oniki of Japan said it traveled about 500 kilometers (310 miles) at the maximum altitude of 800 kilometers (500 miles).
Observers say North Korea’s unusually fast pace in weapons testing this year underscores its dual goal of advancing its missile programs and applying pressure on Washington over a deepening freeze in nuclear negotiations. They say Kim eventually aims to use his expanded arsenal to win an international recognition of North Korea as a nuclear state that he believes would help force the United States to relax international economic sanctions on the North.
One of the North Korean missiles tested recently was an intercontinental ballistic missile potentially capable of reaching the entirety of the American homeland. That missile’s launch broke Kim’s self-imposed 2018 moratorium on big weapons tests.
There are signs that the North is also preparing for a nuclear test at its remote northeastern testing facility. If made, the nuclear bomb test explosion by North Korea would be the seventh of its kind and the first since 2017.
Last week, Kim Jong Un showcased his most powerful nuclear-capable missiles targeting both the United States and its allies during a massive military parade in capital, Pyongyang. During a speech at the parade, Kim said he would develop his arsenal at the “fastest possible pace” and warned that the North would preemptively use its nuclear weaponsif its national interests are threatened.
North Korea has previously unleased harsh rhetoric threatening to attack its rivals with its nuclear weapons. But the fact that Kim made the threat himself and in a detailed manner have caused security jitters among some South Koreans. Taken together with North Korea’s recent tests of short-range nuclear-capable missiles, some experts speculate North Korea’s possibly escalatory nuclear doctrine would allow it to launch preemptive nuclear strikes on South Korea in some cases.
Wednesday’s launch came before the May 10 inauguration of South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol, who has vowed to boost Seoul’s missile capability and solidify its military alliance with Washington to better cope with increasing North Korean nuclear threats.
North Korea has a history of raising animosities with weapons tests when Seoul and Washington inaugurate new governments in an apparent bid to boost its leverage in future negotiations.
Yoon’s power transition office called the latest North Korean launch “a grave provocation” and urged Pyongyang to stop acts that raise tensions and threaten international peace. It said in a statement that the Yoon government will strongly respond to North Korean provocations in close cooperation with the international community.
Some experts say the Biden administration’s passive handling of North Korea as it focuses on Russia’s invasion of Ukraineand an intensifying rivalry with China is allowing more room for the North to expand its military capabilities.
The Biden administration’s actions on North Korea have so far been limited to largely symbolic sanctions and offers of open-ended talks. North Korea has rejected the administration’s offer for talks, saying it must first abandon its “hostile policy,” in an apparent reference to U.S.-led international sanctions and U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises.
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Mari Yamaguchi reported from Tokyo. | https://www.wavy.com/news/world/north-korea-launches-projectile-in-an-apparent-weapon-test/ | 2022-05-04T16:27:13Z | https://www.wavy.com/news/world/north-korea-launches-projectile-in-an-apparent-weapon-test/ | false | 32 |
World will face a food crisis, says Brazilian minister
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SAO PAULO, May 4 (Reuters) - Brazil's Agriculture Minister Marcos Montes said on Wednesday that the world is set to face a food crisis and the country will be increasingly responsible for supplying both domestic and foreign markets with food.
The South American agriculture powerhouse is one of the world's largest producers and exporters of products such as soybean, corn, sugar, coffee and meat.
"Unfortunately, I have no doubt that we will face a global food crisis. And Brazil will have the responsibility of feeding both its people and the world," Montes said during an event.
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ROME (AP) — The European Union plans to sanction the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in its next round of measures to punish Russia's invasion of Ukraine, EU diplomats said Wednesday, opening a new religious front in Europe’s sanctions regime.
The proposal, which must be approved by the 27-member bloc, drew immediate criticism from the Russian Orthodox Church, which also lashed out Wednesday at Pope Francis for his recent comments about Patriarch Kirill.
Kirill, the head of one of the largest and most influential churches in Eastern Orthodoxy, has justified Russia’s invasion on spiritual grounds, describing it as a “metaphysical” battle against the West and its “gay parades.”
Three EU diplomats with direct knowledge of the discussions said negotiations to add Kirill’s name to the EU list of sanctioned individuals were continuing Wednesday. If approved by EU members, Kirill would face travel bans and a freeze of assets, joining 1,093 individuals, including Putin and oligarchs, as well as 80 entities already subject to the punishing measures.
In a statement Wednesday, the Russian Orthodox Church vowed the sanctions would never intimidate Kirill and would just prolong the conflict.
“Patriarch Kirill comes from a family whose members have been subjected to repression for decades for their faith and moral standing during the days of militant communist atheism, and none of them were intimidated by the prospect of imprisonment and repression,” church spokesman Vladimir Legoyda said in a statement on his messaging app channel. “You have to be completely unaware of the history of our church to think that it’s possible to scare its clergy and believers by putting them on some kind of lists.”
He added that the measure would only delay the prospect of peace "for which the Russian Orthodox Church prays on the blessing of His Holiness the Patriarch in every liturgy.”
Kirill has echoed Putin’s unfounded claims that Ukraine was engaged in the “extermination” of Russian loyalists in Donbas, the breakaway eastern region of Ukraine held since 2014 by Russian-backed separatist groups. And in his most recent published remarks, he denied Russia had even launched the invasion.
“We don’t want to fight anyone. Russia has never attacked anyone,” he said Wednesday at the end of a Divine Liturgy at the Archangel Cathedral in Moscow, according to a text of his remarks on the church website. “It is amazing that a great and powerful country never attacked anyone — it only defended its borders.”
The pope has tried to keep a dialogue open with Kirill, given the Vatican’s longstanding efforts to heal relations with Russian Orthodoxy. Francis and Kirill had a videoconference call March 15, and were due to meet for a second time next month in Jerusalem, but the meeting was called off on the advice of Vatican diplomats.
Francis told Italian daily Corriere della Sera in an interview published Tuesday that Kirill spent the first half of their 40-minute videocall reading from a piece of paper justifying the invasion.
““I listened and told him: ‘I don’t understand any of this. Brother, we are not clerics of the state, we cannot use language of politics, but that of Jesus. For this we need to find the paths of peace, to stop the firing of arms.’”
He added that Kirill “cannot turn into Putin’s altar boy,” a dismissive term used by a top U.S. Ukrainian Greek Catholic archbishop.
In a statement Wednesday on its website, the Moscow Patriarchate’s foreign relations office said it was “regrettable” that Francis “chose the wrong tone” to convey the content of the conversation during the interview.
“Such statements are unlikely to contribute to the establishment of a constructive dialogue between the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches, which is especially needed at the present time,” the statement said.
The statement then said that Kirill had used the call to explain the origins of the conflict, citing attacks on Russian speakers in Ukraine dating from 2014 and NATO’s eastward expansion.
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Petrequin reported from Brussels. | https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/Oligarchs-to-patriarchs-EU-eyes-sanctions-for-17147192.php | 2022-05-04T16:31:35Z | https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/Oligarchs-to-patriarchs-EU-eyes-sanctions-for-17147192.php | true | 13 |
A Marsaxlokk fisherman arrested on Monday on his dinghy, was denied bail on Wednesday after being accused of importing four kilograms of cannabis grass with an estimated street value exceeding €100,000.
Gregory Carabott, 32, was arrested by members of the Drug Squad as his dinghy berthed at Delimara. A search yielded the drug which police believe he smuggled from Sicily.
He pleading not guilty to importation of cannabis grass, possession under circumstances indicating that the drug was not intended solely for his personal use as well as recidivism.
Prosecuting Inspector Mark Anthony Mercieca said the suspect had admitted that he occasionally used the drug. Although no cash, jewellery or vehicles were found, financial searches were still ongoing.
A request for bail was objected to in view of the fact that investigations were still ongoing and third parties were still to be identified and possibly prosecuted.
Moreover, civilian witnesses were still to testify and the fear of absconding was also real, argued the prosecutor, insisting that granting bail at this stage would be too premature.
Defence lawyer Charles Mercieca pointed out that the drug, as certified by an expert, was high in CBD and low in THC, arguing that “this is not like marijuana.”
As for the freezing order called for by the prosecution, the lawyer argued that at this stage there was no legal reason for such an order that would “paralyze” the accused.
Investigators had not yet identified any form of illicit gains or property derived through crime, minuted the defence.
“What is the fear that the prosecution is trying to invent?” pressed on the lawyer, as the accused’s mother followed anxiously the proceedings from a seat at the back of the courtroom.
Magistrate Caroline Farrugia Frendo turned down the request for bail and upheld the request for the freezing order over all assets of the accused.
Lawyers Charles Mercieca, Gianluca Caruana Curran and Ana Thomas are defence counsel.
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England have slumped to their worst Test rating for more than a quarter of a century, dropping to No 6 in the ICC rankings after winning just one of their last 17 matches. Their current tally of 88 ranking points is their lowest since 1995 and leaves them sandwiched between Pakistan, who are now fifth on the list, and Sri Lanka. England remain second in both ODI and T20 rankings, led by New Zealand and India respectively, while Australia continue to top the Test charts.
Ben Stokes, who recently replaced Joe Root as England’s Test captain, admitted on Tuesday that he was taking over a team at a low ebb. “What we can do is say there’s only one way to go from here, which is up,” he said. “We know we’ve not played to the standard we know we can. It’s about understanding that and then saying: ‘What can we do to fix it?’ I’m understanding that things don’t just happen overnight. I can’t expect it to just click and all of a sudden we’re No 1 in a year’s time.”
Stokes has been named in the Durham squad to face Worcestershire in the County Championship on Thursday, which would be his first appearance of the English season. Elsewhere Ollie Robinson is due to play for Sussex against Middlesex after recovering from a tooth infection, and should be joined in the team by George Garton, who has not played since making his England debut in a T20 against West Indies in Barbados in January.
Olly Stone’s long-awaited comeback from a stress fracture in his back – the third such injury of the 28-year-old’s career – lasted just seven balls for Warwickshire’s second XI on Tuesday, before he pulled up with a thigh strain. Stone has only made one competitive appearance since he sustained the injury 11 months ago, when he bowled five overs for Barnt Green in their victory against Kenilworth Wardens in the Birmingham Premier League Division One last month.
Mark Wood did some light bowling in training at Durham on Tuesday and is hoping to return to international action with England’s white-ball team when they travel to the Netherlands next month.
The Essex wicketkeeper, Adam Wheater, has announced that he will retire at the end of the season. “It’s been a tough call to make, but the timing feels right and I’m pleased to be going out on my own terms,” the 32-year-old said. “Not many players get the opportunity to play for their boyhood club, so to be able to do that has been a dream, and to be able to win the things we’ve won, I couldn’t have asked for more.” | https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/may/04/england-drop-no-6-test-rankings-lowest-points-tally-since-1995-cricket | 2022-05-04T16:34:15Z | https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/may/04/england-drop-no-6-test-rankings-lowest-points-tally-since-1995-cricket | true | 1 |
Costa Rican President-elect Rodrigo Chaves said Tuesday that his government would not ratify the Escazu Agreement that establishes protection for environmentalists.
The treaty was the first in the world to contain specific measures to protect the human rights of environmental defenders and Costa Rica had been the driving force behind it.
Outgoing President Carlos Alvarado had asked lawmakers to ratify the agreement, but Chaves said the treaty was unnecessary and could harm the economy.
“The private sector should be reassured that the Escazu Agreement is not on the government’s agenda,” the right-wing economist said at a press conference where he also announced several of his future ministers.
“I don’t think it would be beneficial for the country,” added the former World Bank official, who will take office on May 8.
Costa Rica, a regional leader in environmental protection, hosted the signing of the Escazu Agreement in 2018.
In addition to protections for campaigners, the treaty also guarantees public involvement in the environmental decision-making processes, especially those that may impact health.
But with the economy struggling, Chaves termed it “worrying” that the agreement could “delay (investment projects) in an unjustified and possibly arbitrary way.”
The treaty has been signed by 24 countries and ratified by half of them, which guarantees its validity despite Costa Rica’s now-likely lack of ratification.
Chaves also said the treaty was superfluous.
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HUTCHMED (China) (HCM) Loses in Pre-Market Trading for May 4
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The Halo Infinite Eaglestrike armor and its core are new with Season 2, and they give your Spartan a unique, industrial look that’s not really been seen in a Halo game before. Although, you’ve probably noticed that it’s currently unusable and marked as ‘vaulted’ in the Armor Hall. Don’t fret as this isn’t some bug or armor that you’ve missed out on unlocking already during Halo Infinite Season 2 – the armor core isn’t available just yet but will be soon. Here’s what you need to know about the Halo Infinite Eaglestrike armor and core, as well as how it might be unlocked.
How to unlock the Eaglestrike armor
While we don’t know exactly how the Eaglestrike armor will be unlocked, we do know that it’ll only be available to get when the Fracture: Entrenched event comes around. Based on the Halo Infinite Tenrai event and it’s samurai-inspired Yoroi armor from Season 1, it’s highly likely that you’ll have to complete event challenges to level up a separate Fracture: Entrenched event pass – similar to a battle pass – that will award you with the Eaglestrike core and various other armor pieces along the way.
The first Fracture: Entrenched event will run from May 24-30. Fracture events in Halo Infinite last a week but are recurring, so you can expect Entrenched to pop up several times during Season 2, which is set to last until November 7. If you want to know what you’ll be able to get for your Eaglestrike Armor Core, we’ve got all the details below.
All Halo Infinite Eaglestrike armor pieces
These are all the customizable Eaglestrike armor pieces currently visible in Halo Infinite. Currently, these cannot be unlocked or equipped, but we assume that most of these will be unlocked via a Fracture: Entrenched event pass and challenges, but it’s likely that some will be exclusive to the Halo Infinite store. Since the armor belongs to a Fracture event, it’s regarded as “canon-adjacent” and is from an alternate Halo universe. The rugged armor set is inspired by the trench warfare and industrial machinery of the early 20th century.
Armor Coatings:
- Sandgrass Fields
- Carbon Tundra
- Praetorian Zephyr
- Ultramarine Corps
- White Tiger
- Night Witch
Helmets:
- Eaglestrike (+ Earwig Attachment)
- Kerberos (+ Recruiter’s Band Attachment)
- Sky Marshal (+ Cosmocom Attachment)
Visors:
- Poisoned Mire
- Amber Yesterday
- Seaglass Waves
- Night Wisp
- Triplex Aero
Chests:
- Wizard Pockets
- Jacknife
Shoulders:
- Crabshell
- Type-1 Defenders
Gloves:
- Liberty
Wrists:
- Kythera Battlepad
Utilities:
- Soldier’s Friend
Knee Pads:
- Type-52 Splinterguard
- Type-1 Spinterguard
- Bonecaps
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador plans to begin a lightning, five-day tour Thursday to four Central American countries and Cuba to discuss his government’s approach to development and ways it might help alleviate the pressure to migrate.
It will only be the third overseas trip in more than three years for a president fond of saying that the best foreign policy is good domestic policy. The tour is an opportunity for Mexico to reassert itself as a leader in Latin America and will be welcomed by some leaders under pressure from the U.S. government and others for their alleged anti-democratic tendencies.
Both geographically and metaphorically, Mexico finds itself wedged between the United States and the rest of Latin America. López Obrador has deflected criticism dating to the Trump administration that his government is doing Washington’s dirty work in trying to stop migrants before they reach the U.S. border.
López Obrador will be received in Central America, in part, as an emissary of the United States when it comes to migration policy. He and President Joe Biden spoke by phone Friday and their foreign secretaries met in Washington Tuesday.
The U.S. government has been trying to build consensus ahead of the June Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. It hopes to cement a regional approach to managing migration flows, which in recent years have involved large numbers of Central Americans, but also more recently Haitians, Cubans, Venezuelans, Colombians and migrants arriving from other continents who make their way up through the Americas.
“We’re working together closely to deal with what is an unprecedented migration challenge throughout our hemisphere, and for that matter around the world, and the collaboration with Mexico is absolutely vital,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday.
There is agreement between López Obrador and Biden that root causes of migration like a lack of economic opportunity, crime and corruption must be addressed. López Obrador has repeatedly urged Biden to fund an expansion of some of the Mexican leader’s signature social programs to Central America.
One pays farmers to plant trees that eventually would generate income through fruit or timber and incentivizes staying put, a program praised by White House climate envoy John Kerry during a visit last year. Another apprentices young people to companies. Critics say both programs lack accountability.
The foreign ministry in Guatemala, where López Obrador will make his first stop Thursday, said it expected to discuss immigration and the tree planting program.
Ana Vanessa Cardenas, coordinator of the international relations program at Anahuac Mayab University in Merida, said the link between Mexico and U.S. is important to Central American governments under pressure to address the root causes of migration because “Mexico is the facilitator of this help and also a motivator of that aid.”
Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei has been under pressure from the U.S. government for backsliding on the country’s fight against corruption — a campaign central to López Obrador’s image in Mexico.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has faced international condemnation since imposing a state of emergency after a surge in gang killings at the end of March, so a visit from López Obrador, who prefers a “hugs not bullets” approach to security, is good opportunity to show he’s not being isolated. El Salvador’s security forces have arrested more than 22,000 suspected gang members in just over a month and human rights organizations say there have been many arbitrary arrests.
Mexican Sen. Emilio Álvarez Icaza, a former president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, called for López Obrador to suspend the visit to El Salvador last week. “It would set a very serious precedent that the first time a Mexican president is in El Salvador it’s right in the setting of a state of emergency,” he said.
“It speaks badly of Mexican democracy, but for the other country (El Salvador), it has the opposite effect,” Cardenas said. “It endorses that things are being done within a framework of international recognition that Nayib Bukele would be hard pressed to get from another country.”
In Honduras, new President Xiomara Castro has forged a close relationship with the Biden administration. Last month, Honduras extradited former President Juan Orlando Hernández to face drug and weapons charges in the U.S. and Castro campaigned on cracking down on corruption. She is desperate to activate the economy and create jobs, so could be open to López Obrador’s proposals if there is money behind it.
The president’s agenda in Belize is less clear. The tiny country does not have a significant migration problem, but López Obrador did hint at one topic for discussion earlier this week. One of his favorite projects is the construction of a tourist train around the Yucatan Peninsula that neighbord Belize. The Maya Train has been criticized for its environmental impact and lack of feasibility studies, but López Obrador insists it will bring development to impoverished regions.
On Tuesday, López Obrador said the train would benefit Belize and Guatemala by spurring economic activity along Mexico’s southern border.
The president’s final stop in Cuba will be the most symbolic.
Cuba President Miguel Díaz-Canel visited Mexico for its independence celebrations last year. López Obrador has largely governed as a nationalist and populist, but he has positioned himself politically as a a devoted leftist.
“All Mexican presidents in post-revolutionary Cuban history have made a trip to Cuba and obviously (Andrés) Manuel López Obrador, leftist president, could not be the exception,” said Jorge Guajardo, a former Mexican diplomat and senior director at McLarty Associates in Washington.
The visit also is an opportunity to push back against the idea that López Obrador has been too aligned with the United States in helping hold back migration, he said. López Obrador has criticized the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba and he said that he told U.S. officials that no country should be excluded from the Summit of the Americas. The Biden administration has signaled that Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua would not be invited.
“I believe that his trip to Cuba is a message to the most leftist wing of his group,” Guajardo said.
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AP writers María Verza in Mexico City and Sonia Pérez D. in Guatemala City contributed to this report. | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/news/article/Mexican-president-to-talk-development-migration-17147486.php | 2022-05-04T16:39:17Z | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/news/article/Mexican-president-to-talk-development-migration-17147486.php | true | 17 |
Worldwise: Fine Art Photographer Drew Doggett’s Favorite Things
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The portraits are striking—a long-tusked elephant stands imposingly tall, each crevice of its wrinkled skin visible; a pair of wild horses race side by side on Sable Island, off the coast of Canada, their manes highlighted by the sunlight above; Mindisayo, a young woman in Kenya, staring resolutely into the camera’s lens, living on that cusp between child and adulthood.
Drew Doggett’s photographs of the people, places, and animals he encounters on his global travels have the look of high-fashion portraiture.
There’s a reason why they look like they belong as much on the cover of Vogue as National Geographic. It’s because his career began as the apprentice of some of the most celebrated names in fashion, including Annie Leibovitz, Mark Seller, and Steven Klein.
“I didn’t go into the fashion industry thinking that it would be my forever career—it really was my formal education in many respects,” Doggett says. “I think fashion is such a visual language and such a universal language, I tried to apply a lot of that aesthetic and approach to my other subjects that I’m more passionate about.”
Doggett, 38, pivoted toward his passions in 2009 during a solo expedition to Nepal. He captured some of the local community in Humla, one of the most remote regions of the country. He spent a month there, observing the traditions of the community, photographing the nature and daily life that marks the region.
After that, he had a “visceral need…to leave fashion behind and focus on the natural world.” Doggett says it was necessary “to focus on the natural world and also cultures and places that are on the verge of disappearance.”
His mission to use photography to document a natural world that is often under threat brought him to Sable Island, a small island that is southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He’s been one of the few people privileged to document and interact with the population of wild horses that lives on the island. Over nine years he’s been finding new ways to capture the unique beauty of the horses. It’s so difficult to visit, guests require a permit to stay overnight, with only 50 visitors each year allowed to spend multiple days on the island, he says.
Recently, Doggett released a fine art book of this work titled Wild: The Legendary Horses of Sable Island, with a foreword by Jane Goodall.
“The book is really a celebration of all that is wild and free and Sable Island is one of the true last remaining expanses on our planet that is like that,” he says. “My hope is that this body of work encourages people to develop an appreciation for these wild expanses in the hopes they fight to protect them”
Doggett shared a few of his favorite things with Penta.
One thing that gets me up in the morning is…the excitement to see my children. I’ve got two young children: my daughter is 5, her name is Emerson, and my son Graydon is 3 and I never realized before having children how much joy they bring.
One place I’ve traveled that I’d love to revisit is… the Okavango Delta in Botswana. It can be described as a confluence of all walks of life. A few times a year, the Okavango River floods and over a quarter of a million mammals—from lions to giraffes to zebras—converge in this one place. When I return, I would love to have my children by my side almost as if it is an ‘eden,’ a ‘garden of eden,’ a really magical place.
The best book I’ve read recently is… I would say Matthew McConaughey’s Greenlights—I look at the world through the lens of ‘glass half full,’ and I really appreciated his perspective on taking what may seem to be life’s challenges and looking at them through the lens of opportunities and greenlights.
If I could have a drink with anyone it would be… Sebastião Salgado. He’s a photographer, and I would love to ask him or hear stories about the creation of his series titled Genesis, which I first saw at the International Center of Photography several years ago and was taken by what a spectacular mosaic of imagery celebrating our natural world it is, and I would love to hear stories about the creation of that series.
One item in my kitchen that I can’t live without is… my pancake griddle, because for me, it’s symbolic of my Sunday mornings and the time that I get to spend making pancakes with my kids. Every Sunday it’s such a wonderful tradition that I had with my father and I’ve passed on with my children. It’s essential.
If I could buy one piece of art it would be…, Nick Brandt’s Elephant With Exploding Dust, which was part of his On This Earth trilogy.
My favorite neighborhood in the world is… the 6th in Paris. The 6th is the quintessential Parisian neighborhood and I have such fond memories of strolling through the streets, stopping to people watch at a cafe, indulging in a midday glass of wine, or admiring the architectural elements. The city is perfection. I went a lot during my time as an assistant in the fashion industry, I just remember taking all of my time off between shoots just strolling the streets of the 6th and then I also went back many years later and proposed to my wife there. It’s certainly cemented in my mind as a favorite neighborhood.
A passion of mine that others might not know about is… I have a few actually. The first one is pickleball, a pandemic-era passion that I picked up with great friends here in Charleston, S.C. Wakeboarding, I’ve been wakeboarding since I was maybe 10 years old. The last one I would say is gardening, ever since moving from New York City, I have developed a passion for curating layered and tranquil outdoor spaces.
The person who inspired me to do what I do the most is… my mom and dad. They always encouraged me from a very young age to follow my passion, to seek out a career path that fulfilled me and to not settle. My father is an architect so my appreciation for form and design came from him. In a very early sense, I think that is where part of my aesthetic has been derived from. My mom is just incredibly talented. She can create the most comfortable layered environment she’s not a designer by trade she might as well be.
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7 month contract. Listed Mining Group (based in Rosebank) is recruiting an IT BA with 5 years’ IT BA work experience focused on Document/Records Management. Only South African citizens or Permanent Residents with an SA ID number may apply. E-mail CV and payslip to [Email Address Removed]
- Compile business requirements (BRD).
- Business Analysis and process documentation.
- Engage and collaborate with stakeholders during requirements gathering, amend and help with signoff process of documentation.
- Could be involved in User Acceptance Testing phase as well.
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- 5 years’ minimum experience as an IT BA (Document/Records Management).
- Must have at least 3 years’ experience with Document/Records Management.
- Mining industry working experience huge advantage.
- BSc Computer Science, BSc. Information Technology or an undergraduate qualification in a relevant IT Discipline. Industrial Engineering qualification will be an advantage. | https://it-online.co.za/2022/05/04/it-business-analyst-ba-document-records-management-2022_29-tb-at-mediro-ict/ | 2022-05-04T16:40:59Z | https://it-online.co.za/2022/05/04/it-business-analyst-ba-document-records-management-2022_29-tb-at-mediro-ict/ | true | null |
Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides specialised resourcing for client projects.
We are looking for a Senior JAVA Developer to join our financial services client based in Sandton for a 1 year contract role.
What you will be doing:
- We are looking for an exceptional individual to build Java integration services and applications using Company’s Framework.
- Be involved in all aspects of development playing a critical role in design, planning, development and deployment.
- The ideal candidate will not just be an outstanding Java developer, but will bring a mindset of creativity, innovation and balanced bleeding edge technology development with a relentless pursuit of timely product engineering delivery.
- Will work in an Agile (SCRUM) environment and will be allocated and co-located to a small agile development team (squad) – Tribe and Chapter Model.
- Collaborate with team members to understand the problem & define, design, and ship new features through the development lifecycle. This includes brainstorm, contribution to new ideas, conceive innovative strategies, and implement solutions to difficult problems.
- Design, build and run of IBM Websphere Application Server Infrastructure Solutions
- Migration from proprietary Application Servers to WAS
- Performance and troubleshooting of WAS Infrastructure
- Debugging & troubleshooting.
- Write well documented and maintainable code.
What we are looking for:
- Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 10 years Java application programming/development experience
- 8 years JEE-Experience
- 5 years Application Server experience i.e. Websphere Application Server
- 5 years relational database experience (DB2 preferred)
- Strong technical/ software engineering background (‘hands-on’)
- Strong application/software development or programming background in Java
- Good experience in system, application architecture, design, development, implementation and deployment (end-to-end).
- Object oriented Design and MVC-pattern
- Experience on web technologies (Web Development JavaScript Frameworks – preferably Angular 4, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, Etc.)
- Solid experience on J2EE (Servlet, JSP, JDBC, JMS, EJB), Spring Framework, JPA, Hibernate, Open Source Frameworks
- Solid experience with SOA-Architecture with the related integration protocols (e.g. Web Services (SOAP/XML), REST & JSON, and MQ), as well as the related SOA-security requirements/models.
- Solid application database management practices in a high volume Java environment (SQL, DB2, and NoSql – Cassandra/MongoDB).
- Solid JEE/WebSphere Foundation experience, especially on WebSphere Application Server, JBOSS, Linux, Virtualisation technologies and Caching technologies.
- Good experience with integrated system environments
- Practical experience in a high volume banking environment. (E.g. application clustering, scaling, multi-threading, session management, etc.)
- Experience with re-use and standardisation, security considerations, deployment architecture like automated application builds, software configuration management & tools, etc.
- Experience with Application Integration challenges in a big corporate environment with ESB’s e.g. WebSphere MessageBroker, DataPower, MQ-Series, and API-Connect.
Must have working experience on the following tools/IDEs:
- Eclipse
- InteliJ
- Git
- Maven
- Jenkins
- SonarQube
- Nexus
Please note that if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful.
Please note that most of our positions are remote however candidates should be residing within the traveling distance as circumstance of the opportunity can change.
Desired Skills:
- Java
- JEE
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You will find Today in BC podcasts on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart and Google podcasts.
Host Peter McCully chats with singer Cameron Whitcomb, who recently made it to the top 20 on the TV show American Idol. He talks about growing up in Nanaimo, working in Kamloops and the experience of being a contestant on the show.
Cameron’s audition for the 20th season of American Idol was in Texas.
“I just felt like I was watching musicians that had been doing it their entire life get turned away, right away, so I thought I didn’t have a chance,” said Whitcomb. “I actually had this conversation with this guy from Alabama. He was like, ‘man, I promise you, those judges are the same as us, man. They put their pants on the same way we do’. It just seemed like he was fearless. He was like, ‘it does not change anything what those judges think of me.’”
Today in BC asked Cameron about his music selections for the competition.
“I’m really open to hearing what other people listen to,” he said. “I just really love finding new music. That’s where a lot of it came from. My grandma sent me songs, I think my mom picked out the song I was singing in Hawaii, Bad Moon Rising by CCR.”
Whitcomb shares the story of his famous backflips and his brother’s ‘Idol’ tattoo.
We’ll also hear Cameron’s performance of If it Hadn’t Been for Love by the Steel Drivers while competing in Hawaii.
(If it Hadn’t Been for Love/The Steel Drivers)
If you have suggestions or comments, send a voice message to podcast@blackpress.ca you may be part of our audio podcast mailbag segment.
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Charak Shapath row: TN govt reinstates Dean
The Chief Minister felt that the Deans good work during the COVID-19 pandemic should be taken into account and also he has expressed regret over the incident, the Minister said.Further, it would be ensured that there would be no deviation in the practice of taking the Hippocratic oath in Tamil Nadu, he said.Rathnavel was transferred and kept on wait-list on Sunday after a controversy erupted over the first-year students taking the English translation of Sanskrit Maharishi Charak Shapath.
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The Dean of Madurai Medical College A Rathnavel, shunted out and placed on wait-list after a controversy over the college students taking the Maharishi Charak Shapath in English, as against the Hippocratic oath, is back in the post.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Ma Subramanian on Wednesday informed the Assembly that the decision to reinstate the Dean was taken following Chief Minister M K Stalin's intervention. ''The Chief Minister felt that the Dean's good work during the COVID-19 pandemic should be taken into account and also he has expressed regret over the incident,'' the Minister said.
Further, it would be ensured that there would be no deviation in the practice of taking the Hippocratic oath in Tamil Nadu, he said.
Rathnavel was transferred and kept on wait-list on Sunday after a controversy erupted over the first-year students taking the English translation of (Sanskrit) Maharishi Charak Shapath. The Dean had pleaded innocence.
Rathnavel, the Minister said, met him this morning and expressed regret over the ''mistake.'' ''He had said such incident would not happen again,'' the Minister said.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Queen Latifah Only Cares About What’s Next: ‘The Equalizer’ Season 3, Two Netflix Films and Empowering Women
Queen Latifah has thrived in the entertainment business — from music to movies and television into the beauty industry and beyond — for more than 30 years. But the Grammy and Emmy winner and Oscar nominee doesn’t take time to reflect on her successes.
“I’m always looking forward to the next thing,” Latifah says. “I don’t really rest on my laurels. I rarely stop to say, ‘Oh, damn, you did this; you were the first to get that.’ I only realize that when people introduce me for something. And I’m like, ‘Gosh, how long is this intro?’”
On this afternoon, though, it’s not about accolades; instead, she’s driving around town running errands. She’s just wrapped Season 2 of “The Equalizer,” the CBS reboot in which she stars as vigilante Robyn McCall. But as an executive producer on the series (under her Flavor Unit Entertainment banner), she has plenty of work to do before setting off on her annual vacation to an undisclosed beach. The entertainer has been known to take a month off in the summer to recharge and live some of that life a superstar salary can pay for, but her busy schedule doesn’t often afford.
“You have to keep your eye on the prize, but I do definitely try to take that month off, and more if I can have it,” Latifah explains. “I have to fight for it, because everyone wants me to work and they’re always trying to book things. I’m very fortunate to be in that position, but, at the same time, I know that it will take a toll on me.”
The to-do list is almost as overwhelming as those “20-minute introductions” that often prelude her public appearances.
The night before this interview, she was up late streamlining her studio, paring down the equipment so it can travel with her. Making music or listening to it is her favorite way to unwind. “I can work 14 hours in a day, and I can go in the studio afterwards, and that will be my peace,” she says. “I have to just make it so that I can do the things that bring me peace while I’m doing all this work.”
In the studio, Latifah likes to experiment with different styles of music, voices and characters. Some songs are about love; others about the state of the world.
“I am such an interesting brain,” she laughs, describing her songwriting process. “I’m more of a ‘persona.’ You see Queen Latifah the way you see Queen Latifah, but in my mind, I can be anybody I want to be.” Asked to define her current persona: “Winning!“ she exclaims.
“I must say I’m just very, very blessed,” she continues, pausing to take stock of all that’s come and is to come. “I’m in a blessed place. Family’s okay. I’m okay. Work is going fine. I don’t have anything to complain about.”
Thus, Latifah has learned to be truly deliberate about what she says “Yes” to. “There’s always something cooking, but I’m still really working on my ‘No’s,’” she notes, with a knowing laugh. Even this Variety interview required careful consideration, but she ultimately embraced the attention because it aligns with one of her most important values: celebrating women.
“This is important. We’re not often celebrated and affirmed in the way we should be,” she explains. “We need to not only be affirmed, but to support one another, and to show that we support one another.”
Empowering others — especially women — has been a hallmark of Latifah’s career since she burst onto the scene in the late 1980s with her debut album, “All Hail the Queen.” Revered as the first lady of hip-hop, she quickly established herself as a lasting force and the coming year is highlighted by a few hallmark moments.
Latifah’s hit TV series “Living Single” will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2023. Latifah played urban-lifestyle magazine entrepreneur Khadijah James for five seasons, in a storyline that mirrored her and business partner Shakim Compere launching Flavor Unit in their mid-20s. The show has found a new audience via cable and streaming – further solidifying its legacy as one of the most influential shows of the 90s.
“’Living Single’ spoke to our generation. It showed the hustle that we had, the desire to achieve, and entrepreneurship,” she says. “It showed hip-hop being validated, as not this passing fad, but an actual culture that involve many facets.”
Likewise, this December marks 20 years since her Oscar-nominated performance as Mama Morton in “Chicago.” As she sat in the Dolby Theatre as a supporting actress nominee, she cemented her movie-star status, thanks to opening the No. 1 movie in the country that weekend with “Bringing Down the House.”
“What was exciting was the power that comes from being nominated for an Oscar,” Latifah says. “The power wasn’t to become an actor to go do more movies. It was to produce movies. It was now to be able to control movies. So that’s why you saw ‘Just Wright,’ ‘Beauty Shop’ and all the movies that we were able to do.”
Now, Latifah’s focused on a potential third season of “The Equalizer.” “[We’re] digesting what worked and what didn’t work, because we’ve got some serious fans who love the show,” she says. “We want to make sure that we keep them and build on that audience.”
Her top priority is satisfying one of the show’s most avid viewers, her grandmother, NaNa: “I’m still at work making sure she will be right in front of that television watching every Sunday.”
Another “Equalizer” super fan is her “Joyful Noise” co-star Dolly Parton. “Dolly literally wrote me a letter like, ‘You are a badass on that show!’” Latifah says. “I may have to call and ask if she wants to be on.”
Latifah continues to make an impact with “The Equalizer,” which doesn’t shy away from difficult subject matter, such as racism, sexual harassment and police use of excessive force.
“We’re representing people who really need to see some justice met,” she says. “They need to see their stories told, and they need to see the good guys win — and in this case, the good gal.”
Following “The Equalizer,” Latifah has two movies launching on Netflix — “Hustle” with Adam Sandler and her first thriller, “End of the Road.” Latifah says that signing onto “Hustle,” which follows a basketball scout (Sandler) who takes a chance on a streetball player, was a “no-brainer” — and not just because she’s had a crush on her leading man forever. (“Come on, who doesn’t?” she asks.) Latifah and Sandler have known each other for years, and when she filmed her eponymous talk show from 2013-2015, his Happy Madison production company also made its home on the Sony lot, where Sandler and Latifah’s longtime business partner Shakim Compere would play basketball together.
“He is the nicest person in the world. He’s such a sweetheart,” she says of Sandler. “His family’s cool. He rolls with his crew, which I love, which is like me. You roll with the same people, and you’re able to do really cool stuff over and over again with your friends.”
In “End of the Road,” she plays Brenda, a woman who has lost her husband and her job and decides to start over in her hometown of Houston. But as she sets off with her two children and her brother (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges), the family road trip that goes horrifically awry. Also in the works is the animated movie “The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear,” which is based on a children’s book that Latifah brought to the streamer. She partnered with Lisa Henson of the Henson Company for the project, which will be directed by David P. Smith (“Trolls 2: World Tour”).
As much as Latifah has enjoyed diversifying her filmography into new genres, she’d also be open to revisit her rom-com career. There’ve long been discussions about making a sequel to 2010’s “Just Wright” with Common, though the two multi-hyphenates will “probably be 80 when we make the movie again” thanks to their busy schedules.
“I love doing rom-coms; They’re fun and sweet and I’ve enjoyed them,” she says, adding that “’Last Holiday’ is one of my favorite movies out of all the movies I’ve made for many reasons. It reminded me to just live life to the fullest.”
The one movie that’s yet to be made, though, is the Dana Owens story, and Latifah has some interest in crafting that personal project sometime soon.
“I actually have some things I’m cooking up,” she says slyly. “But when you get back to that introduction again, that 20-minute introduction of Queen Latifah, I’ve got to break some of that up [into different projects]. There’s so many stories to tell.”
Behind the scenes, Latifah is leading the fourth installment of her Queen Collective filmmaking program with P&G and Tribeca Studios; and plans to narrate the Audible series “Unity in the Community” as part of Flavor Unit’s deal with the company, which is also based in her hometown of Newark, N.J., where she breaking ground on a multimillion-dollar housing development project last week.
She’s also been supporting the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy, a tuition-free, open-enrollment, public charter high school in Northwest Detroit. Of her desire to give back to the community, Latifah says, “I’m just very inspired by people, by kids and their innocence and their eyes on the world, that they can conquer and they can do anything.” | https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/queen-latifah-the-equalizer-season-3-netflix-movies-1235256525/ | 2022-05-04T16:49:15Z | https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/queen-latifah-the-equalizer-season-3-netflix-movies-1235256525/ | false | 1 |
As We Got This Covered previously reported, there were talks that The Defenders saga, which had recently migrated from Netflix to the Disney Plus platform, would have better quality versions coming “soon.” Now, we can safely confirm that these 4K UHD versions are slowly but surely making themselves available to stream on Disney Plus — starting with Daredevil.
Currently, Daredevil is the only confirmed announcement, but the others, including Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, are surely close behind, especially as Marvel fans anxiously await the upgrades. It was confirmed by users on Reddit that Daredevil is now available in 4K UHD, Dolby Vision, HDR10 on Disney Plus, surely representing the best-quality version of the show to date.
Starring Charlie Cox as Matthew Murdock, Attorney at Law, and Hell’s Kitchen’s resident superhero, Daredevil was sadly canceled after three seasons in November 2018. However, given its new home in the Disney Plus catalog, there can be no ruling out the possibility that Daredevil will be renewed for another season in the near future. Hopefully, someone will dust off the prototype scripts and get to work. If not, the Marvel fans might riot. The Defenders saga has grown exceedingly popular over recent months, and the masses are crying out for renewals left and right.
Only time will tell if those prayers are answered, but in the meantime, fans can catch Charlie Cox’s MCU debut as Matt Murdock, at the very least (the horns, sadly, don’t come out), in Spider-Man: No Way Home, available now via streaming, rental and DVD/Blu-ray. | https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/a-marvel-cult-classic-just-quietly-got-a-4k-uhd-upgrade-on-disney-plus/ | 2022-05-04T16:59:03Z | https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/a-marvel-cult-classic-just-quietly-got-a-4k-uhd-upgrade-on-disney-plus/ | true | 1 |
Ex-TMT fighter slams Floyd Mayweather, urges Gervonta Davis to leave
Former Floyd Mayweather fighter Ishe Smith says Gervonta Davis should take control of his career after fighting on May 28th.
As part of a rant about how Mayweather Promotions handled the situation with Davis, Smith gave his former promoter a verbal reprimand.
The ex-IBF super welterweight ruler went in on Mayweather as he told “Tank” to think hard about his next career move.
Davis will see his contract with Mayweather end as soon as the final bell goes in the mandatory clash with Rolando Romero.
Smith said: “Are you all going to call this man ungrateful and all kinds?
“But I’m speaking facts. I was inside. I know what the kid is going through. I’ve always liked him and told him a while ago before he blew up he had the power I have rarely seen in the gym, and he was special.
“Real sucka [sic, expletive]. But I don’t and wouldn’t expect anything less from that side [Floyd Mayweather]. Keep doing you,, though, young king.
“Hopefully, this is a wake-up call for you to take control of your career.”
As some fans questioned Smith’s motives for going after Mayweather, he responded: “I’m not going back and forth with you all.
GERVONTA DAVIS
“Some of the responses prove my point. Be my guest if you want to sit at the bottom of the table waiting for crumbs.
“But if I accomplished more than you and you follow me. So wtf does that make you? I’m comfortable in my own skin.
“Man, I’m 43, soon to be 44. You all are calling names to a guy that accomplished ten times more than you ever did in your life.
“Young Smith was an a-hole. Old Smith has got three kids in college, soon to be four.
“Keep sitting on the couch dreaming you can fight, criticizing those who did or are fighting.
“It’s good for your ego, I guess. But rest assured, 43, 53, 103, it isn’t none of you all aver joes that can [expletive] with me in that squared circle.
“Now let that sizzle in ya spirit,” he concluded.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER
Floyd Mayweather and his right-hand man Leonard Ellerbe seem confident that Davis will remain with the company after his next fight.
They don’t seem worried about the clock ticking down on a massive contract that could earn all sides millions on Pay Per View.
It’s now down to Davis to clear up his future after hearing what Smith said it was allegedly like for some involved with “The Money Team” in the past.
The views expressed in this article are the opinions of Phil Jay.
WBN Editor Phil has over ten years of boxing news experience. Furthermore, follow WBN us on Twitter @WorldBoxingNews. | https://www.worldboxingnews.net/2022/05/04/gervonta-davis-floyd-mayweather-ishe-leave/ | 2022-05-04T17:01:00Z | https://www.worldboxingnews.net/2022/05/04/gervonta-davis-floyd-mayweather-ishe-leave/ | false | 1 |
Man faces attempted murder charge after shooting in Schaumburg parking lot
Two suburban men are facing charges stemming from a shooting early Monday morning in Schaumburg.
Raza H. Zaidi, 29, of Glendale Heights is charged with four counts of attempted first degree murder and four counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm, Schaumburg police said Wednesday.
Surya Govindhakannan, 19, of Des Plaines is charged with one count of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, police said.
According to police, officers responded at about 2:25 a.m. Monday to reports of gunshots during a dispute involving multiple people in a parking lot on the 1300 block of North Roselle Road.
One officer located and detained a vehicle with two occupants, while a second vehicle with four occupants was located a short time later, police said.
An investigation determined that Zaidi and Govindhakannan had been in the parking lot when Zaidi approached four people standing near a vehicle and started a verbal altercation that escalated into a physical fight, according to police.
Police allege Zaidi battered two people, then got a .380-caliber handgun from his vehicle and fired three shots at one of the victims. One bullet entered a vehicle where multiple victims were seated, authorities said, but police did not report any injuries.
Zaidi and Govindhakannan then left the scene in Govindhakannan's vehicle, which was stopped by police. Officers recovered two handguns from the vehicle, according to police. Neither man had Firearm Owners Identification cards or concealed carry permits, police said.
The suspects and victims did not know each other before this encounter, police said.
Zaidi and Govindhakannan are scheduled to appear in Cook County court this afternoon for a bond hearing. | https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20220504/man-faces-attempted-murder-charge-after-shooting-in-schaumburg-parking-lot | 2022-05-04T17:03:09Z | https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20220504/man-faces-attempted-murder-charge-after-shooting-in-schaumburg-parking-lot | false | 2 |
Patiala, May 3
Over 50 companies offered jobs and another 10 offered internships for more than 106 students of Punjabi University during the placement drive on Tuesday. University authorities said IndiaMart, Executive, Property Pistol, Trident, Dealer Matix, HUL, Larsen and Toubro were among the companies offered jobs for students.
They said a maximum package of Rs 10 lakh was offered for final placement and a maximum stipend of Rs 15,000 per month was also offered for internship.
The selected students have been allowed to join jobs as per the university rules and regulations, they said. They said the 4th phase of placements would start in the month of June.
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Internal Affairs in collaboration with police are hunting for a man suspected of trafficking 38 children and adults from seven different districts.
Agnes Igoye, the deputy national coordinator trafficking in person department at the ministry of internal affairs, has identified the wanted trafficker as Quirish Nsamba, who was keeping the victims in an unfinished building in Luzira, Nakawa division, Kampala.
Nsamba, according to Igoye, hoodwinked the children who include 16 girls and five boys that he was going to equip them with vocational skills. The ministry and police say Nsamba went to various districts claiming he was a hands-on skills trainer as well as a labour exporter.
The unsuspecting parents paid him 380,000 Shillings for each victim while the adults whom he promised to get jobs locally and abroad paid 650,000 Shillings each. But the children and adults were kept in the building for months without any serious training while adults became desperate after failing to get the jobs they had been promised.
It is reported that one of the adults decided to alert the local leaders who also alerted ministry of internal affairs and police which swung into action but Nsamba escaped leaving the victims alone in the unfinished building.
Igoye said during their interaction with the victims who also include girls who had just turned eighteen years and adults over 20 years, they noticed they had been trafficked from the districts of Mityana, Kiboga, Kassanda, Kamwenge, Kisoro, Masindi and Kabale.
Igoye said: “We are investigating a case of Nsamba Quirish. This is somebody who brought children and adults in unfinished building located in Luzira. He used deceit. He is right now on the run. He said he was offering them vocational skills. He removed national IDs and passports for those who had them.”
Lt Gen Joseph Musanyufu, the Permanent Secretary of ministry of internal affairs says there has been too much focus on cross border trafficking yet the biggest number of victims are internal. Musanyufu adds that fighting trafficking isn’t a vice that can be fought by one entity but it requires everyone’s efforts.
Musanyufu said: “We are discovering channels which are being used by traffickers. We need to be more alert. The success is because of a joint effort. No single agency can stop trafficking. It requires joint efforts. We have made achievement in fighting the vice but we still need a lot to do. We have a lot of victims in the country. We have a lot of child labor and sex exploitation.”
At least 1,295 people were trafficked internally and externally in 2021, of which 20 were recovered or repatriated dead. In addition, 175 victims were yet to be recovered by the end of last year.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Reliever Yusmeiro Petit and the San Diego Padres have agreed to a minor league contract.
The 37-year-old right-hander from Venezuela would get a $1.5 million salary while in the major leagues if added to the 40-man roster and would have the chance to earn $500,000 in performance bonuses for games pitched.
Petit spent the past four seasons with Oakland and was 8-3 with a 3.92 ERA in 78 relief appearances last season.
He is 50-44 with a 3.93 ERA in 14 major league seasons that included time with Florida (2006), Arizona (2007-09), San Francisco (2012-15), Washington (2016) and the Los Angeles Angels (2017).
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Bail Project is suing the state of Indiana saying a new law is “unconstitutional” and “discriminates.” 13 Investigates was able to review the lawsuit before it was filed by the ACLU of Indiana.
"We hope that the court will find that this is an unconstitutional law because we are the only folks that are singled out in this law,” said Twyla Carter the Bail Project’s National Director of Legal and Policy. “When again, the judge is who decides if a person can leave the jail or not. And if there's going to be $1 amount that's paid. It does not matter who goes in to pay that bail amount, and the last time we checked, we're using US currency like everyone else."
NOTE: The above video is from a previous report on the Indiana law restricting charitable bail organizations.
The 16-page lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court of Southern Indiana Wednesday morning and names the Commission of the Indiana Department of Insurance as the defendant. The Governor signed a bill into law in March that puts the commissioner in charge of regulating charitable bail organizations.
“This new law singles out charitable bail organizations in Indiana, which for all practical purposes means The Bail Project,” said Ken Falk, legal director of the ACLU of Indiana.
In the lawsuit, the ACLU argues Indiana’s law violates the group’s ability to “protest” the cash bail system. Falk says that’s a violation of the group’s First Amendment rights.
Supporters of the new law argued the Bail Project needed to be regulated like for profit bail bond companies. There were calls to regulate from the police union, lawmakers and victims' families after some clients committed violent crimes while out on bond.
However, the law went a step further than regulation. It also limited charitable bail organizations and only allowed them to assist with a cash bail. It also bans the Bail Project from posting bond for people accused of a "crime of violence." The restriction extends to Hoosiers previously convicted of a "crime of violence.”
"Other folks, grandmothers, churches, the bail bond industry, everyone else would still be able to operate unfettered,” Carter said.
For that reason, the ACLU argues the law is in violation of the "Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment."
The lawsuit also accuses the new law of being "vague and uncertain." It argues the law puts into question if the Bail Project's work in other states may bar it from helping Hoosiers. The lawsuit states, "there is nothing (in the law) that limits this restriction to the activities of a charitable bail organization in Indiana."
The national organization is asking the Court to determine the law is “unconstitutional” and asking for a preliminary injunction while the case moves through the legal process.
The hope is that will allow it to continue to operate in Indianapolis and Gary without facing these new restrictions. The Bail Project says its Indianapolis and Gary branches have helped more than 1,000 low-income Hoosiers and it has helped more than 22,000 people nationwide. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/investigations/13-investigates/the-bail-project-sues-indiana-calls-new-law-unconstitutional-aclue-jail-violent-crime-limit/531-77c29b27-7c8d-4d6f-b607-6c5cfd6c7b5e | 2022-05-04T17:06:43Z | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/investigations/13-investigates/the-bail-project-sues-indiana-calls-new-law-unconstitutional-aclue-jail-violent-crime-limit/531-77c29b27-7c8d-4d6f-b607-6c5cfd6c7b5e | false | 1 |
BOISE, Idaho (KIFI) – Monday was a day of transition and emotion for Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra as she welcomed her 13 Student Advisory Council members for their final quarterly meeting.
“You will always remain with me. You are the reason I do this job,” Superintendent Ybarra told the 13 students, grades 4-12, from across Idaho. “No matter what group comes after you, you were the first. You set the precedent.”
Also on Monday, the application period for next year’s Student Advisory Council opened, launching the process of finding the next statewide group of students to advise the superintendent. The application period begins May 2 and continues through June 24. Get more information and apply online at https://form.jotform.com/IdahoSDE/22-23StudentAdvisoryCouncilApp.
About 60 students, all with great energy and ideas, applied for the council in its inaugural year, and it was very difficult to narrow it down – so hard that the planned 12 members became 13.
“The results have far exceeded my hopes and expectations – and I had pretty high hopes and expectations,” Superintendent Ybarra said. She spoke to several hundred reading teachers midway through Monday’s council meeting, via zoom, with the advisory council members gathered behind her.
“In the council’s first year, these 13 students behind me have suggested and examined key issues, met with the governor, attended education committee meetings and conducted mock legislative sessions,” the superintendent said. “Two of them testified at actual legislative hearings, advocating for bills that are now law.”
Mock legislative debate was part of the council’s final meeting, as students proposed legislation to make it legal for school districts to impose impact fees on new development and another bill to reduce the required majority to pass a school bond from two-thirds (66.66 percent) to three-fifths (60 percent).
The meeting also featured discussions with Idaho’s attorney general and controller, and lively exchanges with State Department of Education experts on mastery-based education and special education. The latter included demonstrations of various assistive technology devices.
Three advisory council members made presentations to their peers – about a student-designed computer game, STEM education (specifically calculus and data science) and “how special it can be to be autistic.”
Near the end of the meeting, Superintendent Ybarra told the council, “I’m really struggling” with having to say goodbye. She said she is excited for the next group of students, but “I want to keep you all. Keep in touch and let me know what you’re doing once in a while.”
She gave each member a Student Advisory Council photo album and a letter of appreciation.She told the students to encourage their peers to apply for next year’s Student Advisory Council and, if they choose, attend next year’s first meeting as mentors.
“Idaho’s students drive everything my department does, and everything we advocated for this legislative session, from increased compensation for teachers and school staff to enhanced civics standards,” Superintendent Ybarra said. “It is essential to hear the feedback from students about their ideas and about the needs in our schools.”
“My only regret about the Student Advisory Council is that I didn’t start it earlier in my tenure as superintendent.”
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Demeritte was scratched from the lineup for Wednesday's game against the Mets due to fatigue, David O'Brien of The Athletic reports.
Bowman notes that Demeritte was seen walking out of the clubhouse earlier Wednesday with a trainer by his side. However, the outfielder was simply fatigued after playing 18 innings during Tuesday's doubleheader, and he'll be available as a pinch hitter. With Demeritte on the bench for the series finale, Guillermo Heredia will start in his place in right field and bat ninth.
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Ismael Borrero: Cuba's Olympic wrestling champion defects
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Wrestling star Ismael Borrero has become the latest Cuban athlete to defect.
Borrero, who won gold in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, abandoned the Cuban delegation while they were in Mexico for the Pan-American Wrestling Championships, a Cuban official said.
Cuban athletes have a long history of defecting while competing abroad.
The Cuban Institute of Sport said his defection was "a serious indiscipline within the Cuban sports system".
His current whereabouts are not known.
The 30-year-old athlete is one of Cuba's top Greco-Roman wrestlers, winning the world championship in 2015 and then again in 2019 - the same year Cubans elected him sports personality of the year.
The Cuban delegation had hoped that Borrero would shine at the championships in Acapulco, Mexico, after a disappointing performance at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, where he lost his second bout after twice contracting Covid.
While defections of Cuban athletes are nothing new, recent months have seen a string of them - coinciding with an economic crisis on the Communist-run island.
In March, sailors Iris Laura Manso and Carlos Miguel Expósito fled to the United States, while long jumper Lester Lescay abandoned his delegation during a competition in Spain.
In July of last year, thousands of Cubans demonstrated across the island to voice anger over food and medicine shortages, price increases and the government's handling of the Covid pandemic.
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Mugshots : Madison County : 05/03/22 – 05/04/22
The people in this gallery were booked into the Madison County Jail between 7 a.m. on 05/03/22 and 7 a.m. on 05/04/22.
Their inclusion only indicates they were booked into the jail and does not indicate guilt.
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New Orleans-based group Tank and the Bangas, fronted by Tarriona “Tank” Ball, are gearing up to release their latest album Red Balloons on May 13th. They recently put on a show locally at Paradise Rock Club on March 14th. Just ahead of the performance, staff writer Breanna Nesbeth sat down with Ball. The two talked about bringing New Orleans to Boston (and beyond), dove deep into songs from the new record, and more.
SO FIRST, WELCOME TO BOSTON! IS THERE ANYTHING IN BOSTON THAT YOU ARE EXCITED TO SEE, OR THAT YOU'VE ALREADY SEEN? ANY TOURISTY THINGS THAT YOU WANTED TO DO?
Tank Ball: Today I went to the thrift shop and that was dope. Which one I went to today— Diversity Consignment. I was able to look around and grab a lot of things, so that was fun. I was happy I did that
WELL, YOU ARE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH TOURING. YOU'RE ALWAYS ON THE ROAD. HOW DO YOU HANDLE THE FREQUENT TRAVEL AND BEING AWAY FROM HOME FOR SUCH LONG PERIODS OF TIME?
TB: Sometimes before tour, I'm like, ‘Oh God, I'm not ready. I’m not.’ But once I’m in it, I’m in it, you know? As long as I got a good pillow, the front row seat to myself, then I can do this. If I don’t got that front row seat to myself, it might be a problem. I need to stretch out these little-bitty legs. You see me rubbing my legs! Girl, my knees be hurting. So, just as long as I’m comfortable.
SO MANY YEARS OF TOURING, SO HOW DO YOU TRY AND STAY CONNECTED TO NEW ORLEANS WHEN YOU ARE THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY FROM HOME?
TB: Instagram helps!
INSTAGRAM?!
TB: Instagram helps a lot, and New Orleans travels with you. The sweetness, the kindness, the openness, the conversations with anybody you can have. It’s just with you, inside of you, so you never feel far from home.
IT'S LIKE THIS SOUTHERN COMFORT THAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT.
TB: Yeah and it's not even just ‘Southern—’ it's people. They really are their own type of tribe. They've got their own dances, movements. And, you know, because these are people from Africa, obviously, and they just have things that just travel with them for years. You could just see it, man. The way that we celebrate the culture, and the bounce, and the people on the street, and our Super Sunday's, and our crawfish; our spices.
When you travel you realize, ‘Damn, I live on an island.’ Nobody calls it that but we are. We have a beach and we are surrounded by water — it’s an island!
I'M FROM FLORIDA, AND I'VE BEEN TO NEW ORLEANS A COUPLE OF TIMES–
TB: What are you doing here [Boston]?!
I JUST GO TO SCHOOL HERE! I DON'T LIKE THE COLD!
TB: I know you don’t like that cold.
BUT IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL, NEW ORLEANS. GOING THERE DOESN’T FEEL LIKE I’M IN THE UNITED STATES
TB: It doesn’t.
IT FEELS LIKE I'M IN A COUNTRY OF ITS OWN.
TB: Yeah, and that's exactly what it feels like. Cause, I've been in other countries and New Orleans feels like another country. You should go to the French Quarter Fest, which is the first festival that Tank and The Bangas will ever headline!
SO I WAS WONDERING IF THERE ARE ANY SPECIFIC MOMENTS OR MUSICAL TECHNIQUES THAT ARE IN YOUR MUSIC THAT DRAW FROM BEING FROM NEW ORLEANS?
TB: Probably just when I get real rowdy, when it's like ‘Getting ready, getting ready, getting ready!’ It’s that bounce culture that just really inspires people to just shake. Shake they ass! Like all of it! Because New Orleans has so many songs that will inspire you no matter what shape you are, you know? I love that!
They got one where they’re like ‘And you know you big and ain’t got no ass,’ like that’s me! ‘Bend it over, buss it over,’ I like that when I go on stage and I inspire the girls to move. That's New Orleans.
THIS IS A BIT NICHE. I WAS WATCHING A COUPLE OF INTERVIEWS OF YOURS AND I HEARD THAT ONE TIME YOU MENTIONED THAT THE SONG “EMPIRE ANTS” BY GORILLAZ WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR THE TITLE OF ONE OF YOUR SONGS.
TB: “Ants,” yup!
ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS OF ALL TIME, “EMPIRE ANTS.” AND IT WAS JUST SO INTERESTING TO ME TO HEAR ABOUT A MUSICAL ARTISTS… MUSIC, YOU KNOW? SO I JUST WANTED TO ASK YOUR PERSONAL MUSIC TASTE. WHAT DO YOU LISTEN TO ON A DAY TO DAY?
TB: Oh my gosh, this could go everywhere. Right now, it's Smokie Norful “I Need You Now,” Daryl Coley “Beyond the Veil,” Erica Banks “Slim Waist,” “Black Folk” by Tank and The Bangas, and “Pass The Courvoisier” by Busta Rhymes.
SO DO THOSE INCLUDE ANYTHING NEW THAT YOU'VE DISCOVERED OR ARE THOSE, LIKE, STAPLES?
TB: Those are mostly old, honestly. The new stuff– Kalisway, I love her. I want to get into her new album HIT’EM WITH THE FUNK, because she has a song, “HIT’EM WITH THE FUNK,” that’s really good. But honestly, it’s been a lot of our own Tank and The Bangas music that’s been on repeat that’s not out, so it’s new to me still. And its just so good and so rich, we spent the whole way driving just listening to it, going through song after song.
THAT MUST BE SO AWESOME TO HEAR YOUR OWN WORK, SOMETHING THAT YOU'VE PUT SO MUCH TIME INTO.
TB: I love hearing my scratch vocals. I love hearing old recordings, I love hearing the songs that I haven't finished yet. I just— there's parts of me that's in love with what I do.
THAT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!
TB: Yeah, for sure. Like ‘I wanna hear what Tank did,’ ‘Ooo, I like that, that was fire!’
ON THAT NOTE, I KNOW THAT YOU'VE SAID A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO THAT WHEN YOU FIRST STARTED MAKING MUSIC, YOU DID IT BECAUSE YOU WANTED SOMETHING TO LISTEN TO YOURSELF. YOU MAKE MUSIC–
TB: Because I wanted to hear my own self!
THIS WAS YEARS AGO. SO WOULD YOU SAY THAT YOU STILL HAVE THIS AS THE SAME MOTIVATOR?
TB: Yeah, you just heard me! I like to listen to my own recordings
I LOVE HOW YOU KIND OF GOT TO THAT ANSWER BEFORE I EVEN HAD TO ASK THAT QUESTION. IT’S SO TRUE TO YOU.
TB: Yes, I love to listen. When we leave the studio, I need a scratch vocal of what we just did immediately so I could drive home and just listen to it over and over.
DO YOU EVER CREATE ANYTHING THAT'S JUST FOR YOU, THAT WILL NEVER MAKE IT TO THE PUBLIC?
TB: Yeah, for sure. Especially poems. But a lot of my poems, they turn into songs.
I HAD A QUESTION FOR YOU ABOUT THAT! I'VE NOTICED THAT YOUR LYRICAL STYLE IS REALLY STREAM OF CONSCIOUS. YOU'RE VERY RAW AND NATURAL IN YOUR DELIVERY, SO MUCH SO THAT IT DOES COME OFF LIKE POETRY. SO BEING A POET, HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT WORDS WILL BECOME A POEM AND WHAT WILL BECOME A SONG?
TB: Mmmm… you really don't. You just write a lot. And then we get a studio and you're looking for something to say you just go through. You know, you just go through it and find it.
I'm telling you that, but I don't even want to reveal the way that I go through my process no more.
SPEAKING OF PROCESS, YOU WORK IN A GROUP. YOU HAVE AN INCREDIBLE GROUP OF FELLOW MUSICIANS TO WORK ALONGSIDE. WHAT DOES THE COLLABORATIVE PROCESS LOOK LIKE? ARE YOU GUYS INDIVIDUALLY BRINGING SOMETHING OR ARE YOU COLLABORATING TO PRODUCE IDEAS THAT THEN BECOME PIECES OF WORK?
TB: It’d be that. It’d be all of it. Yes, it's all of it, plus a bunch of stuff. It's all of it for real, because it’s so many different people, so the process of [what] the song comes to be changes within each song.
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST TAKEAWAY YOU'VE LEARNED FROM BEING WITH SO MANY GREAT, FELLOW BANDMATES? WHAT HAVE THEY TAUGHT YOU?
TB: So much. So much to learn. This is like the first tour where I'm just sharpening up my ear a little more than usual. I want to know what they know. I'm tired of not knowing what they know because they can have so many conversations that just go over my head.
DO YOU THINK THEY THINK THE SAME THING ABOUT YOU?
TB: In what sense?
THEY WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW?
TB: Ha! I don't know, I don't know. I feel… I think that they respect what I do and they think that there's some magic to it that’s straight up from God that they won't ever understand. But me, as far as the musical language, I want to know it. So that I can communicate with them differently.
THAT’S AMAZING. I WANT TO GO A BIT DEEP WITH THIS QUESTION. SO YOUR LATEST SINGLE, “STOLEN FRUIT,” AS YOU'VE COME TO DESCRIBE IT, IS ABOUT THE SLAVE TRADE AND THE CONTINUATION OF A CONCEPT BY BILLIE HOLIDAY'S “STOLEN FRUIT.” SO DO YOU SEE MUSIC AS A TOOL THAT CAN REFLECT THE TIMES AND RECREATE THE TIMES?
TB: Of course! I never really looked at it that way. Like Nina had said, until you do it. One of our first songs, “Mr Bluebell,” is about what's going on right now. It's about teachers in and out of Zoom meetings, talking about how those men stormed the Capitol, and, you know, our government. But it's so catchy, you'd never even know it! You’d never know we were talking about something so serious. But that moment [storming the capitol] made me uncomfortable and I needed to talk about it, and I just didn't understand. Like, wow, that's crazy. No repercussions.
AND ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR LATEST SINGLES, “NO ID,” EXPLORES THE CONCEPT OF BEING PROTECTIVE OF YOUR SPACE, SETTING BOUNDARIES, BEING CONSCIOUS OF SOMEONE'S TRUE INTENTIONS. WHEN DID YOU LEARN THIS LESSON?
TB: I didn't learn it until after I wrote it. Yeah, I wasn't going through nothing. I just wrote it. A lot of my stuff has it’s meaning later on. So I think I learned later on about the meaning of that song, it's crazy. I probably was warning myself.
AND THE LAST QUESTION I HAVE FOR YOU. YOU ARE A POET, A SONGWRITER, A MUSICIAN– IS THERE ANY OTHER ART FORM YOU'RE INTERESTED IN? WHETHER IT BE FOR PERSONAL FULFILLMENT OR CREATING SOMETHING TO POTENTIALLY PUT OUT.
TB: Hm… I don’t know, just getting more into voiceover work and… I don’t know man. I’ve done everything I’ve wanted to do right now, and I do a lot.
AND THAT’S TOTALLY OKAY!
TB: And I’m lazy. Well, I’m not lazy. I like my downtime! Because I have so much uptime. So I don’t know. If I'm being taken care of in all the ways that God knows I love to be taken care of, then I'm fine. Thank God I'm naturally gifted, cause I don’t know what I would be doing!
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(NewsNation) — An out of this world travel experience might be closer than you think.
On Tuesday, Orbital Assembly Corporation announced plans to launch two space station experiences that will allow anyone to take a trip to space.
The “Pioneer Station” will accommodate 28 guests and is set to be ready by 2025. Shortly after, the “Voyager Station” will accommodate up to 400 guests; it’s set to open in 2027.
“For the average person, being in space will be a sci-fi dream experience,” Tim Alatorre, chief operating officer for Orbital Assembly Corp., said in a news release.
“Our vision is to make space a destination people will yearn to visit, with familiar elements provided by the presence of gravity,” Alatorre added.
OAC is the first and only company developing a space-based environment that “will enable humanity to work, play and thrive in the space ecosystem,” according to the news release.
“Once people get to space, it will change their perspective about Earth. Space travel is still in its infancy, and we’re excited to do our part to push it forward to help improve life on Earth,” Alatorre said.
The “Pioneer Station” will feature five spacious modules built around OAC’s rotating “Gravity Ring” architecture.
“We’ve been able to develop a safe, secure, and reliable modular station that will generate revenue and profitability from both the tourist and commercial sectors sooner than our competitors who are adhering to NASA timetables,” Rhonda Stevenson, CEO of Orbital Assembly, said in a news release.
She added, “Multiple revenue streams from commercial, research and tourism markets will enable us to subsidize the travel market for a one- to two-week stay. While launch costs continue to be a barrier, we expect tourists will be motivated to plan shorter, or more frequent, stays as space travel becomes less expensive.”
“Our vision is to make space a destination people will yearn to visit, with familiar elements provided by the presence of gravity.” Pioneer’s gravity experience will enable visitors to move around in weightless environments while eating or drinking out of a cup normally and sleeping without having to be attached to a bed. This is not possible in current space stations,” Alatorre added. | https://www.wtnh.com/news/vacation-in-space-orbiting-hotel-set-to-open-in-2025/ | 2022-05-04T17:17:18Z | https://www.wtnh.com/news/vacation-in-space-orbiting-hotel-set-to-open-in-2025/ | false | 19 |
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On May 2, Politico published the Supreme Court’s initial draft majority opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a Mississippi case on abortion rights that the Supreme Court has not yet decided on. The opinion, as written, would reverse the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established protections for abortion rights in every state in the country, and allow states to enact laws widely banning abortions.
That’s had observers questioning whether a leak of a pending Supreme Court case’s decision has ever happened before. Many commentators and experts said in social media posts with tens of thousands of likes that the leak is “unprecedented.”
Latrelle and other viewers emailed VERIFY to ask if this is the first ever leak from the Supreme Court.
THE QUESTION
Is this the first time a Supreme Court decision has been leaked to the public?
THE SOURCES
- Library of Congress
- Jonathan Peters, Ph.D., a University of Georgia communications law professor and expert in Supreme Court leak history
- Benjamin Barton, a law professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville
- Historical records from TIME and The Washington Post
THE ANSWER
No, this is not the first time a Supreme Court decision has been leaked to the public, but it is the first time the full text of a draft opinion has been leaked.
WHAT WE FOUND
The leak of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion draft, which was written in February, suggests that the Supreme Court voted against maintaining the federal abortion rights protections established in Roe v. Wade.
In a May 3 press release, the Supreme Court confirmed the authenticity of the draft and said it does not reflect a final decision by the court or the final position of any of the court’s members on the case’s issues. The final decision is set to come in June or July.
There has never been a recorded instance where a Supreme Court opinion was leaked to the public before the court had released it. However, there have been rare instances in which Supreme Court votes or decisions were leaked ahead of the court’s announcement.
TIME published the original decision of Roe v. Wade in its weekly magazine hours ahead of the Supreme Court’s official announcement on Jan. 22, 1973. “Last week TIME learned that the Supreme Court has decided to strike down nearly every anti-abortion law in the land,” TIME’s article said. “Such laws, a majority of the Justices believe, represent an unconstitutional invasion of privacy that interferes with a woman's right to control her own body.”
According to a more recent article from TIME, the magazine’s story was supposed to publish after the decision came down, but it instead came out hours before the ruling because the Supreme Court delayed its release of the decision.
Jonathan Peters, Ph.D., a University of Georgia communications law professor and expert in Supreme Court leak history, referred in a Twitter thread to an 1852 case as one of the earliest instances of a Supreme Court decision being leaked.
The New York Daily Tribune reported the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania v. Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company several days before the Supreme Court actually released its decision, according to a Library of Congress clipping of the newspaper.
On June 15, 1986, ABC News Supreme Court correspondent Tim O’Brien reported the Supreme Court would strike down a Congressional budget law the next day. O’Brien reported that the decision would be 7-2, and that Chief Justice Warren Burger would write the opinion. The decision didn’t come on June 16, but when the Supreme Court released its decision the next month. The Washington Post wrote about the leak and noted in a July 8, 1986 article that O’Brien had nailed all the details except for the date.
What makes this leak of Alito’s opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization so unprecedented, experts say, is that it’s a full draft of an opinion from early in the process when much is still subject to change.
“Leaking the outcome, and even a proposed vote tally, is really different than leaking these early versions of the opinion where you're getting the inside voice of the Supreme Court,” said Benjamin Barton, a law professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.
“It's not atypical for justices to join opinions, leave opinions, for majorities to crack — you'll get concurrences [to] grow,” Barton continued. “And again, this document appears to have come from February, so we have no idea where things stand by now.” | https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/verify/scotus-verify/alito-early-draft-opinion-poltico-leak-roe-wade-not-first-ever-leaked-supreme-court-decision/536-65f00c91-523e-4dbc-bd66-dcea75af4bfe | 2022-05-04T17:20:30Z | https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/verify/scotus-verify/alito-early-draft-opinion-poltico-leak-roe-wade-not-first-ever-leaked-supreme-court-decision/536-65f00c91-523e-4dbc-bd66-dcea75af4bfe | false | 11 |
BOSTON (AP) — There was a moment during the Celtics’ series-opening loss to the Bucks when it seemed as if Jaylen Brown would never make a shot.
Early in Game 2, it felt like he might not miss.
Brown scored 25 of his 30 points in the first half, and Boston beat Milwaukee 109-86 on Tuesday night to even the Eastern Conference semifinals at one game apiece.
“It’s the playoffs. That’s it,” Brown said. “We can’t let one game kind of dictate how this series goes. We wanted to be aggressive from the gate.”
Brown shook off a dismal shooting night in Game 1, going 9 for 10 in the first half, including 5 for 5 from the 3-point line. Jayson Tatum added 19 points and eight assists. Grant Williams finished with 21 points. Al Horford had 14 points and 11 rebounds.
“We wanted to come and play like our season was on the line and we did,” Brown said.
The series doesn’t resume until Game 3 on Saturday in Milwaukee.
Boston finished 20 of 43 from beyond the arc and scored 24 points off 16 Milwaukee turnovers.
“We wanted to match their physicality and punch back tonight,” Celtics coach Ime Udoka said. “A big message was show them who we are.”
They did that.
The Celtics played without Defensive Player of the Year Marcus Smart after he was ruled out before the game with a bruised right thigh he sustained in Game 1. Derrick White took his place in the starting lineup, making his first start in a playoff game since 2019 when he was with San Antonio.
“The ship’s got to keep going. Everybody got to do a little bit more,” Tatum said.
Even without Smart, the Celtics clamped down on Giannis Antetokounmpo after his triple-double in the series opener, limiting him to 28 points — mostly in the third quarter — nine rebounds and seven assists. Jrue Holiday added 19 points and seven assists. Bobby Portis chipped in 13 points and eight rebounds.
Antetokounmpo said the Celtics are doing a lot to make it tough for him inside.
“Strong bodies, being active, being physical —- that’s pretty much it,” he said. “It’s gotten tougher to find your teammates.”
With Smart watching in street clothes from the bench, the Celtics scored the game’s first seven points on their way to taking an 18-3 lead and forcing a quick timeout by the Bucks.
Boston scored from a variety of different spots on the court during the run – attacking both at the rim and inside the paint. It also included 12 points from the 3-point line, where the Celtics struggled for most of Game 1.
“It’s not Wilt Chamberlain down there (in the paint),” Udoka said. “We can get downhill and attack.”
Antetokounmpo missed his first six shots before finally getting on the scoreboard via a dunk with less than a minute left in the opening period.
It didn’t stop Boston from banking a 32-21 lead heading into the second quarter, boosted by 17 points from Brown –a career playoff-high for a quarter.
The Celtics continued to share and kept Milwaukee’s defense in chase mode, eventually taking a 65-40 edge into the half.
The Bucks cut into what had been a 26-point Celtics lead in the third quarter. Antetokounmpo keyed the charge with 18 points in the period. A 10-0 Milwaukee run, aided by a more than five-minute Celtics scoring drought, trimmed Boston’s lead to 72-56 late in the third quarter.
Milwaukee kept nibbling away and got it down it to 94-82 on a pair of free throws by Antetokounmpo. But Tatum made a 3-pointer and Boston pulled away again.
TIP-INS
Bucks: Unsuccessfully challenged a loose ball foul on Antetokounmpo in the fourth quarter. … Portis was called for a flagrant 1 foul on Horford in the third quarter. … Antetokounmpo was 2 for 12 from the field in the first half. … Milwaukee had nine turnovers in the first half.
Celtics: Tatum was whistled for a technical for arguing a call in the fourth quarter. … Finished 13 of 20 from 3 in the first half… Were unsuccessful in challenging blocking foul called on White in the second quarter, his third foul. … Boston scored 15 points off Milwaukee’s turnovers in the opening 24 minutes.
JUST A WRAP
Tatum had his left wrist wrapped in black tape afterward. But he said it was simply an “excessive” tape job by a Celtics trainer.
“I just fell, so to keep the swelling down,” Tatum said.
SMART’S STATUS
Udoka said Smart experienced some swelling, pain and restricted movement over the past two days. But the expectation is for him to be ready in time for Game 3.
“With three days off we’re assuming he’ll be OK.”
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday received the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the State House in Abuja.
Buhari’s conversation with Guterres centred on the need to ensure peaceful and democratic elections as well as the robust participation of women and young people in all areas of national life.
He also thanked the UN boss for the visit, stressing that it came at a time when the world is focusing on the Russia/Ukraine crisis. Buhari also believes that the visit underscores the assurance that the world is with Nigeria.
On his part, the UN scribe called for developed nations to ramp up vaccine support to countries in the global north, halt the asymmetrical distribution and reform the global financial system.
Earlier in the day, he visited the UN House in Abuja alongside some top officials and diplomats of the agency.
Guterres is on a two-day official visit to Nigeria – the first of such.
He is expected to perform the wreath-laying ceremony in honour of the August 26, 2011, suicide bomb attack victims. | https://olisa.tv/buhari-receives-un-chief-guterres/ | 2022-05-04T17:22:59Z | https://olisa.tv/buhari-receives-un-chief-guterres/ | true | 1 |
Governor Jared Polis Appoints John W. Stenger to the Rio Grande County Court in the Twelfth Judicial District
DENVER, CO (STL.News) Governor Jared Polis appointed John W. Stenger to the Rio Grande County Court in the 12th Judicial District. The vacancy was created by the resignation of the Honorable Barbara A. Zollars and is effective June 1, 2022.
Mr. Stenger is a Solo Practitioner at John Stenger LLC, a position he has held since 2019. His practice consists of court appointments as Guardian Ad Litem in dependency and neglect and juvenile delinquency cases, and appointments as Respondent Parent Counsel. Previously, Mr. Stenger was a Family Court Facilitator for the 12th Judicial District Court (2020-2021). He earned his B.A. from Queens College, City University of New York in 2001, and his J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law in 2019.
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As COVID-19 infections level off in Greater Lansing, the Ingham County Health Department is ending its regular biweekly coronavirus media briefings.
Despite a slight uptick in COVID-19 infections in the last few weeks, fewer deaths and cases of severe illness have been reported in the county. But Health Officer Linda Vail says COVID is not going away.
“We're going to continue to have COVID and COVID is going to become endemic," Vail explained.
Endemic is a term used to describe a disease that does not cause large outbreaks but is still present among the population.
Nearly 72% of Ingham County residents ages 16 and up have received at least two shots of a COVID-19 vaccine according to data shared Tuesday.
“That's another reason that you probably will not see these mask requirements go back up, we have a large percent of our population vaccinated, and we need to let people make those choices," Vail said.
Since the start of the pandemic, 755 residents of Ingham County have died of COVID-19 as of Tuesday.
Though residents in the age range of 25 and 39 have made up the majority of COVID cases in the county, Vail says infections in younger age groups have gone up recently.
"We saw, compared to earlier phases of the pandemic, we saw case rate climbs in our 5 to 11-year-olds as well as in our 12 to 17-year-olds here, which we had not seen in the early stages of the pandemic, a lot of pediatric cases. So that really changed in 2021, and going into 2022," she said.
Most COVID cases in Ingham County were concentrated in the 48911 and 48910 zip codes.
"Many refugees that we have, who are living in more concentrated housing, multifamily multigenerational close housing, are located in the 48911 zip code," Vail explained.
Data from the county shows unvaccinated people are nearly two times as likely to die from COVID compared with those who are vaccinated.
The health department has held regular media briefings to update the public since the start of the pandemic.
While Tuesday’s briefing was the last one to be regularly scheduled, Vail says the county is staying vigilant for two variants from South Africa to see how they could affect transmission in the area. | https://www.wkar.org/wkar-news/2022-05-04/ingham-county-health-department-ends-regular-covid-19-media-briefings | 2022-05-04T17:28:47Z | https://www.wkar.org/wkar-news/2022-05-04/ingham-county-health-department-ends-regular-covid-19-media-briefings | false | 1 |
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Noblechairs has launched a new Star Wars universe related chair to mark May the 4th, also known as Star Wars Day. The computer seating firm teamed up with Lucasfilm to design and license this special edition release. Sadly it is not available immediately; it's currently pre-order only on Noblechairs' U.K. website and has yet to show up on the U.S. website.
The new Noblechairs Hero Boba Fett Edition takes the Hero Gaming Chair we reviewed in March 2019 and gives it sci-fi-tastic Star Wars styling inspired by the titular armored bounty hunter who first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back.
As for the styling, a picture says a thousand words, and you can check out images of the new Hero edition chair above and make your own judgments. Noblechairs says the front of the chair is based on a Mandalorian armor breastplate, with appropriate colors and embroidered decals, as well as lumbar support for long-term comfort. The back is black and sports a collection of logos and "an impressive rendition of Fett's helmet" — unfortunately (or, perhaps, fortunately?), no rocket pack.
In the Tom's Hardware office, the cushioned side of the chair drew praise for its stylish lines and individual color scheme segmentation. Some felt the back, with the large Boba Fett helmet and logo, looked somewhat childish. However, we might have brushed aside such concerns had there been a rocket pack design on the back, malfunctioning or not.
Moving along to chair specifications, we'll start by mentioning that this is a synthetic leather upholstered chair. Noblechairs offers several finishes for its Hero series (synthetic leather, high-tech faux leather, real leather, and fabric), but the gaming culture tribute designs only come in synthetic leather. Other nerd-inspired Hero chairs designs include Fallout, Doom, Elden Ring, and more.
Key specifications:
- Adjustable 4D armrests
- Recline mechanism up to 125 degrees
- Durable, easy to clean, water-resistant, and breathable cover material
- Adjustable lumbar support and rocking mechanism
- Memory foam headrest removes the need for an additional pillow
- Durable hydraulic gas lift (Class 4)
- Supports up to 150 kg / 330 lbs
- 60mm casters suitable for hard or soft floors
- Two-year warranty
The Noblechairs Hero Boba Fett Edition costs £425 inc VAT in the UK, which is approximately $530 plus tax in the U.S. Check out our regularly-updated guide to the Best Gaming Chairs for more info on the current market, features you can expect at various price points, and the best options for your budget. | https://www.tomshardware.com/news/noblechairs-celebrates-star-wars-day-with-boba-fett-edition-gaming-chair | 2022-05-04T17:33:40Z | https://www.tomshardware.com/news/noblechairs-celebrates-star-wars-day-with-boba-fett-edition-gaming-chair | false | 2 |
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The United Nations said on Tuesday that 101 civilians have been successfully evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol and other areas in a “safe passage operation.”
The UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross coordinated the evacuation.
“The operation started on April 29 and was agreed with the parties to the conflict, following engagements by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during his recent visits to Moscow and Kyiv,” said Osnat Lubrani, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine.
“Thanks to the operation, 101 women, men, children, and older persons could finally leave the bunkers below the Azovstal steelworks and see the daylight after two months.”
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) also said that 3,193 civilians had been killed, including 227 children, and 3,353 people injured since Russia attacked Ukraine on Feb. 24.
“OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, as the receipt of information from some locations where intense hostilities have been going on has been delayed, and many reports are still pending corroboration,” said the rights office.
During the evacuation, another 58 people joined the group in Manhush, a town on the outskirts of Mariupol, and the UN and Red Cross said they had accompanied 127 people on Tuesday to Zaporizhzhia about 230 kilometers (138 miles) northwest of Mariupol.
The evacuees are receiving initial humanitarian assistance, including health and psychological care, from UN agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and humanitarian partners.
Some evacuees had decided not to proceed towards Zaporizhzhia with the convoy, said the UN.
“Over the past days, traveling with the evacuees, I have heard mothers, children, and frail grandparents speak about the trauma of living day after day under unrelenting heavy shelling and the fear of death, and with extreme lack of water, food and sanitation,” said Lubrani.
“They spoke of the hell they have experienced since this war started, seeking refuge in the Azovstal plant, many being separated from family members whose fate they still don’t know.”
Despite bringing people to safety, the UN official said she was worried that there might be more civilians who remain trapped.
“We stand ready to work with ICRC to return to Azovstal to evacuate them and do the same in all other areas experiencing intense and escalating fighting across Ukraine,” said Lubrani.
“The UN will continue to engage with the parties to the conflict for this purpose.”
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The Man Who Discovered Hunter Biden's Laptop Announces Legal Action Against CNN, Adam Schiff and Others
With his livelihood poisoned by the venom of liberal politics, the computer shop owner who found Hunter Biden’s former laptop computer is fighting back against those he says ruined his reputation.
John Paul Mac Isaac is filing suit against Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, CNN, The Daily Beast and Politico, claiming that false statements about him led to the destruction of a business he had worked hard to build, according to the New York Post.
Mac Isaac said he was accused variously of stealing the computer or spewing Russian disinformation.
The accusations came during the heat of the 2020 presidential election when the contents of the computer first became public and when the emails that were on the computer were denounced as false. Since that time, the contents of the laptop have been accepted as authentic — even by media outlets that denounced them as false at the time.
Mac Isaac is seeking “at least $1 million in compensatory damages [and] punitive damages, which will be the much bigger number and will be determined at trial,” according to Brian Della Rocca, Mac Isaac’s attorney.
Mac Isaac received the computer in April 2019 from Hunter Biden, who never returned to pick it up. The FBI was given a copy of the hard drive in December 2019, and when nothing happened, it was shared with Rudy Giuliani, the lawyer for former President Donald Trump. The contents were then made public, leading to a firestorm of criticism against Mac Isaac, who is tired of being a punching bag.
“After fighting to reveal the truth, all I want now is for the rest of the country to know that there was a collective and orchestrated effort by social and mainstream media to block a real story with real consequences for the nation,” he said.
“This was collusion led by 51 former pillars in the intelligence community and backed by words and actions of a politically motivated DOJ and FBI,” he said. “I want this lawsuit to reveal that collusion and more importantly, who gave the marching orders.”
Mac Isaac said attempts to demean him as a way to belittle the significance of the findings were so successful that his business failed.
“Twitter initially labeled my action hacking, so for the first day after my information was leaked, I was bombarded with hate mail and death threats revolving around the idea that I was a hacker, a thief and a criminal,” Mac Isaac said.
Mac Isaac said Schiff lied about him on CNN by saying that everything taking place was orchestrated by Russia.
“Without any intel, the head of the intel committee decided to share with CNN and its viewers a complete and utter lie,” Mac Isaac said. “A lie issued in the protection of a preferred presidential candidate.”
“The fight to get to the bottom of who told everyone this was Russian disinformation is far more important for the nation than me clearing my name,” Mac Isaac said.
The suit said CNN is responsible for ruining his name.
“CNN’s broadcast of the false statement accuses the Plaintiff of committing an infamous crime, i.e., treason by working with the Russians to commit a crime against the United States of America by attempting to undermine American democracy and the 2020 Presidential election,” the suit said.
Mac Isaac has the support of The America Project, founded by retired Army Gen. Michael Flynn and others.
“[We are] honored to sponsor John Paul Mac Isaac in his fight against the injustice that has been done to him when the political elite coordinated with the leftist news media claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation — which was a blatant lie,” the group said.
“The synchronized efforts of these parties to wield their words like weapons are evident through years-long continuous coverage that led to extreme public backlash against JP and the closing of his business.”
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Bottles of beer have urgently been recalled by supermarket giant Lidl - who have warned customers not to drink the product.
The beer contains sulphur dioxide, which isn’t mentioned on the label.
The supermarket has “apologised for any inconvenience caused”.
What is the product?
The product recalled is Starovice Czech Lager 5.0% with a best before date of October 16, 2022.
No other best before dates are affected by the recall.
Anyone with a sensitivity to sulphur dioxide or sulphites is urged not to drink this batch and return it to their closest Lidl store for a full refund instead.
In a notice on its website, the discount supermarket said: “Lidl GB is recalling Starovice Czech Lager 5.0%, 500ml with Best Before Date 16.10.2022 only, due to undeclared sulphur dioxide which is an allergen.
“If you have bought the above product, and have an allergy or intolerance to sulphur dioxide, we advise you not to drink it.
“Instead, return it to a Lidl GB store for a full refund, with or without a receipt. Other Best Before Dates or other Starovice products are not affected by this recall.
“Lidl GB wishes to apologise for any inconvenience caused.”
Any customers who are worried or have any questions are being advised to contact Lidl on 0370 444 1234 or email [email protected].
Do you need a receipt as proof of purchase?
When a supermarket product is recalled, a receipt is not usually required for a return.
But if a recall involves a branded product, the manufacturer would usually have lead responsibility for the recall action.
For all product recalls, you can check the Food Standards Agency and Chartered Trading Standards Institute websites.
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A full coronial inquest hearing into the March 15, 2019 mosque shootings will be held in Christchurch, a coroner has confirmed, and will include a focus for the first time on whether the Australian terrorist was radicalised online as far back as 2014 and whether he was acting as a lone wolf.
The scope of the Christchurch masjid attacks coronial inquiry has finally been revealed by Coroner Brigitte Windley in a 99-page decision released today.
It reveals the exact issues that the coroner will focus on and comes after a three-day hearing in February this year that heard from shooting survivors, grieving families, and other interested parties, who gave submissions on what issues were of most concern.
The inquest, which does not yet have a hearing date but will be held in Christchurch, will look at the causes of death for each of the 51 people killed during the shootings at the city's Masjid Al Noor and Linwood Islamic Centre mosques.
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Advertise with NZME.It will also examine the events of what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called "one of New Zealand's darkest days", from the start of the shooting, through to the "completion of the emergency response" and the terrorist's formal interview by police.
"Issues for investigation within this timeframe will include whether [terrorist Brenton Tarrant] had any help from others on that day, the emergency response efforts, and whether that response may have affected the survivability of the deceased," an information aid document to Coroner Windley's decision says.
A major concern for families has been how the terrorist was able to get a gun licence and while a Royal Commission of Inquiry delved deeply into it, the coroner will also take a look, and also see whether any "identified deficiencies in that process" have now been addressed by legislative amendments or process changes.
Another major question for many families has been the gunman's online and social media activity and to what extent it contributed to his extreme radicalisation.
Investigations by the royal commission, and New Zealand Police, only focused on the two years leading up to the attacks, and had limited success in reconstructing his online movements.
For the first time, Coroner Windley has decided to probe into the mass killer's online activity between 2014 and 2017, and whether he was radicalised much earlier than previously thought.
While the royal commission found that New Zealand's security agencies had deployed "an inappropriate concentration of resources" probing Islamic extremism pre-2019, the coroner has ruled that any missed opportunities by intelligence, counter-terrorism agencies, and other public sector agencies are out of scope and will not be examined citing the security-sensitive nature of key evidence.
"The atrocities of 15 March 2019 were unprecedented in New Zealand, as is the nature and scale of this inquiry," Coroner Windley said.
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"We are pleased it seems to be a meticulous approach to identify the causes and circumstances of March 15," said Abdur Razzaq, chairman of the federation's royal commission submission and follow-up.
"It's the last legal step that we know of that we have to ask a number of the key questions that are still lingering.
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Missouri softball fans go wild after Hatti Moore hits a home run
Different bat, same result: Moore's third homer gives MU softball win over Aggies
Moore drove in six of Missouri's seven runs in the Tigers' win against Texas A&M on Friday.
Different bat, same result: Moore's third homer gives MU softball win over Aggies
Moore drove in six of Missouri's seven runs in the Tigers' win against Texas A&M on Friday.
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Mother’s Day is just a few days away— so if you haven’t started thinking about gifts for the mother figures in your life quite yet, you may want to get a plan in place. Fear not: We’ve rounded up 18 delightful options from multiple retailers that offer fast shipping if you need a gift to arrive quickly Mother’s Day.
If she’s been experimenting with new recipes recently, she may love an all-encompassing cooking appliance like the user-friendly Instant Pot. Or maybe she’s a comfort seeker who would love a new pair of cushy kicks for springtime cleaning. We also have popular, affordable options for the tech loving-Mom or the skin care guru. And of course, you can’t go wrong with a classic bouquet of flowers. Below, our top picks for the best last-minute Mother’s Day gifts.
Best last-minute Mother's Day gifts
We sourced these highly rated gift recommendations based on Select reader interest and included a few picks from our shopping guides. These gift ideas all have rapid shipping options, so they should arrive in time for Mother’s Day — even if you didn’t plan far in advance.
Philips SmartSleep Alarm Clock
The Philips SmartSleep Alarm Clock is designed to help you wake up feeling more refreshed, great for busy moms with too much on their plate. It gradually lights up 30 minutes before a requested wake-up time, mimicking the natural sunrise, before reaching full brightness. Psychotherapist Lindsey Huttner previously told Select that using a sleep tracker, like the one available on the companion Philips SleepMapper app, is the best cure for sleeplessness.
Supergoop! Daily Dose Hydra-Ceramide Boost + SPF 40 Sunscreen Oil
Select writer Michelle Rostamian loves this SPF oil from Supergoop for her dry skin. The dual moisturizer and sunscreen is SPF 40 and has three main ingredients to help combat dry skin: hyaluronic acid — to draw water to the skin — squalene — which acts as a barrier to seal in moisture — and ceramides — which similarly help your skin retain moisture. It’s also a chemical sunscreen rather than a mineral one, so it won't leave behind a white cast, sit on top of the skin or produce a greasy residue,” Rostamian said.
Echo Dot
This smart speaker is one of the best smart home gifts for the bedroom. Featuring a compact design that should easily fit on a nightstand, the Echo Dot can do everything from control your household thermostat to hands-free calling. It’s also compatible with Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, Sirius XM and others so your mom can easily play her favorite songs.
Apple AirTag
The Apple AirTag — which your mom can attach to her purse or wallet, for example — uses a Bluetooth signal to give her the precise location of whatever belongings she may have misplaced. The AirTag also comes in a special Hermes Key Ring, for the more fashionable (yet still absent-minded) mom. It has a 4.7-star average rating from over 40,000 reviews on Amazon.
TOMS Alpargata
These TOMS shoes, one of our favorite eco-friendly sneakers, are comfortable and versatile for any mom who’s sustainability-conscious and always on the go. The shoes are part of the brand’s Earthwise collection, which includes footwear made with chemical-free plant dye, organic cotton, wood pulp and regenerated nylon crafted from recovered fabric scraps, according to the brand. The shoes have an average rating of 4.3 stars from over 50 reviews on Tom’s.
Yeti Rambler 30-Ounce Tumbler
On days when your mom needs to take her coffee to go, this popular 30-ounce tumbler from Yeti can keep her drink hot, according to the brand. The dishwasher-safe tumbler comes in fun colors like Seafoam and Prickly Pear Pink, and you can add customizations on Yeti’s website for a fee, like a monogram or a sweet message.
Slip Silk Pillowcase
Help your mom achieve a more luxurious night’s sleep with this silk pillowcase from Slip. It’s crafted with pure silk and boasts a wrinkle-free design, according to the brand. Board-certified dermatologist Dr. Caren Campbell also previously told us that silk is “less irritating to the skin” compared to other fabrics. It comes in over a dozen colors, including Desert Rose, Silver and Dusk. It has an average rating of 4.5 stars from over 890 reviews on Nordstrom.
Coop Home Good Original Loft Pillow
We recommended this pillow in our guides to pillows and pillows for side sleepers. It has adaptive and removable memory foam fill — all you have to do is unzip the pillow to add or subtract fill, adjusting its loft and feel to your desired level. The pillow has an average rating of 4.5 stars from over 49,000 reviews on Amazon. The company also offers a 30-day return policy.
Gravity Weighted Blanket
The Gravity weighted blanket is one of our favorite weighted blankets. It has a soft, micro-fleece exterior and an interior filled with glass beads that can help your mom relax before bedtime. It has a 4.5-star average rating from over 900 reviews on Amazon.
Fields of Europe Flowers
At the end of the day, nothing beats a bouquet of fresh flowers delivered directly to your mom’s door. This arrangement includes roses, daisies, lilies, carnations and assorted greenery. You can also find more flower delivery options in our Mother's Day flower bouquet shopping guide.
Instant Pot
If your mom loves to make great meals quickly, the Instant Pot may be a good Mother’s Day gift. We discuss several of the brand’s electric pressure cookers models in our Instant Pot buying guide, but recommend this 6-quart version for moms cooking for many or meal prepping for the week. Instant Pot also sells separate accessories for the kitchen appliance, including a steamer basket and a springform cake pan. It has a 4.7-star average rating from over 145,000 reviews on Amazon.
Rituals The Ritual of Sakura Medium Set
This gift set from Rituals can help your mom relax and nourish her skin. It includes the brand’s best selling cherry blossom-scented body scrub, foaming shower gel, body cream and hand wash. All of the products are made with rice milk and jojoba seed oil for softer, more moisturized skin, the brand says.
KeepCup Cork Edition
The KeepCup reusable cup is crafted from durable tempered glass, natural cork and alloy. The thick wall of cork keeps hands safe from burns while sipping and the pop-top closure helps prevent spills while on the go, according to KeepCup.
Kindle Paperwhite
The Kindle Paperwhite is a great gift for any mom who’s a bookworm. It’s IPX8 water-resistant and glare-free and its long-lasting battery (10 weeks on one charge, according to Amazon) and 300-pixel-per-inch resolution make it a joy to read from, whether on a sunny beach or tucked in bed. “I can read whatever I want, wherever and whenever I please,” Select writer Kirsten Akens said. “With a few taps, I can increase or decrease font sizes, line spacing and page margins. I can select different font styles — from serifed options to sans and back again, depending on my mood.” The newest Paperwhites are even larger (6.8 inches vs 6 inches in diameter), while still weighing less than most hardcover or paperback books. This model has a 4.7-star average rating from over 8,000 reviews on Amazon.
Dragon Touch Digital Picture Frame
One of our favorite digital picture frames, this touchscreen frame has 16GB of storage (in other words, the brand says it can store up to 40,000 photos) and an HD resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels. You can flip the frame to switch it from portrait to landscape mode and use the Dragon Touch app, email, an SD card or a USB drive to share photos. It has a 4.6-star average rating from over 8,700 reviews on Amazon.
Gourmet Gift Baskets Champagne and Truffles Gift Basket
One of our favorite chocolate gifts, this Champagne-and-truffles gift basket comes in a faux-leather basket and has Belgian chocolates, chocolate graham crackers, French truffles, key lime coolers and your choice of four sparkling wines: Dom Perignon, La Marca Prosecco, Moët & Chandon Imperial Brut Champagne and Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label.
Cricut Joy
If your mom is a fan of crafting and everything DIY, she might like the popular Cricut Joy machine. She can use the machine to make everything from vinyl decals and labels to custom cards and banners. The machine can cut more than 50 materials, including paper, vinyl and cardstock, the brand says. If your mom is already a Cricut enthusiast, larger versions of the machine — like the Cricut Explore Air 2 — allow for larger or more intricate projects. It has a 4.8-star average rating from over 14,000 reviews on Amazon.
Outdoor Voices Exercise Dress
Fitness apparel brand Outdoor Voices’ popular Exercise Dress includes features like adjustable back straps and two phone-friendly side pockets. The dress has built-in liner shorts for extra coverage during workouts and active outings, plus it comes in fun colors like Kalamata, Pinot and Dusty Blue. It’s available in sizes ranging from XXS to XXXL. The dress has a 4.6-star average rating from over 4,000 reviews on Outdoor Voices.
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